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I don't know about you, but it seems like every company I get hired at goes under.

Hmmm... maybe I should refine my job seach methods a little...

Well, then again, I'm just looking for a job to pay the bills in the little time before I graduate.

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You sir are a fucking moron. Please go read Noam Chomsky and stop regurgitating propaganda and stop employing the mohawk vallery formula. Maybe if you spent less time in church and watching TV you could formulate a human opinion on your own and realize that Alan and the other workers of Amazon are the only real people who have a right to own it.

why dont you use that expensive dsl that your huge geek salary pays for and listen to something valuable, like anything from the noam chomsky archive:
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/multimedia.cfm

or read this:

http://www.mcad.edu/classrooms/POLITPROP/palace/ li brary/mediacontrol.html

"The first trial was one year later, in 1936. There was a major strike, the Bethlehem Steel strike in western Pennsylvania at Johnstown, in the Mohawk Valley. Business tried out a new technique of labor destruction, which worked very well. Not through goon squads and breaking knees. That wasn't working very well any more, but through the more subtle and effective means of propaganda. The idea was to figure out ways to turn the public against the strikers, to present the strikers as disruptive, harmful to the public and against the common interests. The common interests are those of "us," the businessman, the worker, the housewife. That's all "us." We want to be together and have things like harmony and Americanism and working together. Then there's those bad strikers out there who are disruptive and causing trouble and breaking harmony and violating Americanism. We've got to stop them so we can all live together. The corporate executive and the guy who cleans the floors all have the same interests. We can all work together and work for Americanism in harmony, liking each other. That was essentially the message. A huge amount of effort was put into presenting it. This is, after all, the business community, so they control the media and have massive resources. And it worked, very effectively. In fact, it was later called the "Mohawk Valley formula" and applied over and over again to break strikes. They were called "scientific methods of strike breaking," and worked very effectively by mobilizing community opinion in favor of vapid, empty concepts like Americanism. "

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it's sad as hell, but i never remember anyone's phone number anymore, and when my cell phone battery dies, i'm shit out of luck.

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I remember working on our "Oregon Trail" role play thing, and writing down something about supplies, and looking up to see the challenger exploding. I also remember my (4th grade) teachers being very sad. By that time, I was cognizant enough to know something very serious was happening.

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yeah really, you know how long there have been ads in wired for ghost in the shell?
you think lots of "cool kids" pour over the pages of wired and have for years?

wired is another of those things actually, that used to be far cooler when it catered more to real nerds and people with far left political ideas. But now it's owned by conde nast, who has pruned all the valuable (read: radical left) political content, and it's bland and useless now.

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pretty damn amazing. they must be using the spud-server.

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Does it surprise anyone that in america corporate rights come before free speech? oh please.

i dont see why we even post this stuff anymore, america's such a pathetic place. and people don't even care. Remember, this is a place where 45% of the population voted for the son of the head of the cia, a man who passed the first law in over a hunred years to allow concealed handguns into churches and amusement parks.

I can't wait to graduate and move to london...

all that hype about the net creating a more educated, liberal citizenry was just that, hype. What it created was a society even more polarized and stratified, where people can find a whole chat room/discussion board full of other people with the same specific set of beliefs as they have. Just like this one...

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Considering that we don't even have a real photo from a sattelite passing by pluto, it seems like mir is ahead of it's time.

Apparently the world ecomomy thinks that there are far more important things han space exploration/colonization, like buying more rifles.

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it's really sad, although true, that this is the only real linux browser because of the lack of real encryption built in.

as far as i'm concerned, this is the first usable release, because with out the PSM, it's largely useless. I mean, no ecommerce? That's a big part of the web wouldn't you say?

How would you buy your perl shirts from thinkgeek without encryption?!?!!?

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This is so fricken awesome. The advances in robotics and biotech are really creeping up on us...

just like bill joy said here:
http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy. ht ml

to summarize - "Watch out!!!"

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Haven't you ever noticed that all apple computers use standard military voltages?

And did anyone notice the similarity between a performa A/V slide out motherboard and a small square board that could fit easily into one of those lovely video guided trident missles used in desert storm about the same time the performa's came out?

When I used to work at computer city, a military freak/mac freak pointed these things out to me.

Also, I had a friend who was in desert storm and he said they used powerbooks with bubble plastic keyboards to keep the sand out.

I think a ton of apple's income comes from military contracts.

Never underestimate the power of a cute little rainbow apple with a bite taken out of it.

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Yeah, here in Miami on January 12 there's a "Pink Slip Party" for all the people laid off from the 210 dot coms that have gone out of business lately.


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doesn't it seem like X comes with crappy documentation for installation?

I tried installing Xf864.0 when it came out a number of times, but i only got it to work by reading an article on some web page. Doesn't it seem like the authors would best know how to install it?

I'm sure there aren't a lack of people with good writing skills, I'm of the opinion that clear code arises from clear linguistic thought. So, whats up there?

But I'd still have to say thanks to the authors for what is arguably the most important part of the os as it exists today....

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holy shit that's funny!!!

LOL

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This is just ESR's usual fare. Pointing to corporate america as the only important thing that matters and should matter.

I don't give a flying f$*k what IBM and microsoft do. The important advancements are happening in linux right here, in the trenches, with the real people.

What makes linux great are not the corporate vultures sweeping in to make a profit off of everyone's passion. It is the passion that has created an entire operating system and platofrm out of nothing.

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Ok, lets think about the feasability of this...

"``The person is not just a passenger, but has to participate,'' Grabosch said. "

yeah right.

see
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts -7 6/factshts/asseltrn.html

"Pilot astronaut applicants must also meet the following requirements prior to submitting an application:

(1) At least 1,000 hours pilot-in-command time in jet aircraft; flight test experience is highly desirable.

(2) Ability to pass a NASA Class I space physical, which is similar to a military or civilian Class I flight physical, and includes the following specific standards for vision: distance visual acuity - 20/50 or better uncorrected, correctable to 20/20, each eye.

(3) Height between 64 and 76 inches.
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Applicants who meet the basic qualifications are evaluated by discipline panels during a week-long process of personal interviews, thorough medical evaluations, and orientation. The panel's recommendations are based on the applicant's education, training, and experience as well as unique qualifications and skills.
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Final selection is based on satisfactory completion of the 1-year program. "

how likely do you think it is that there are a lot of game show contestants who are going to qualify for space travel?

until a few years from now, when we have luxury class space flights, I dont see this happening. All the article says is that some dumb tv company is planning it and putting money towards it. Not that it's going to happen any time soon.

notice:

"the flights, which are to take place between 2002 and 2008."

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a man who would rather punch code than wield a scalpel

Punch code?!?!? What does this guy think we do, put holes in cards?!!??

I'd say, imagining compex data structures and knowledge representation and forseeing their interactions is far more interesting that "sawing bone".

sheesh!

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Ahh... they know what they should be looking for, that's not the problem...

The nature of the technique and the technology available means it is not presently possible to detect Earth-sized planets.

"As a result, searches are picking up all the weird giant planets first," said Dr Chris Tinney of the AAT.

and doesn't he sound like a good old geek saying that!!!
you gotta love it...

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It's probably just a gross mistake by the author. Yet another: "technology will save the world. Let's all pat each other on the backs" book.

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It is no joke that large corporations and government entities hide information from us on a day to day basis.

As Noam Chomsky has said time and time again...
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/audio/pcpm/
...these organizations spend billions upon billions of dollars to make you think what they want you to think. The multi-billion dollar PR industry is very open about the fact that they want to control your minds.

That is what allows them to spend millions of dollars of tax payer money on the military research that creates things like irridium which can be then turned over to the private sector so the wealthy can profit from it.

And of course they're not going to tell you that on top of making you pay for it, the process of tearing it down might kill you.

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oh fuck, i meant to uncheck it, OK?!!?!

heh...


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I wonder why they're even in charge of this. This issue obviously affects their business very little, since they sell access, and spammers need bandwidth and we need bandwidth to download all that spam.

I personally used to always send unsolicited emails to abuse@uunet.com and I don't remmeber ever seeing anything come out of it. Those addresses I used to use still get insane amounts of spam. It's ridiculous.

Even my new addresses, which I've only been using for about a month, are already getting spammed. And I only use them for business functions and I'm always careful to not uncheck the "send me more info" buttons.

Obviously, spam is way out of control at this point and needs to be controlled by a different organization.

Maybe someone like internic or icann, at the domain name level, can have enough power to really do something about spammers.


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This movie is a total huge disappointment.

I'm actually an ENFP, so :P

but I've played ad&d for years and years and this movie does nothing but give d&d a really really bad name.

Our only hope is to wait for the hobbit movie, which looks awesome.

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The worst thing about this is the I dont' even think people are still dumb enought o believe in security through obscurity.

What's really happening here is that Microsoft is beefing up their MSN/web presence as much as possible to sell space and eyes to people. So people viewing all those important bug announcements all the time for the many many msft bugs mean more traffic on their site. Actually, in this way, they can make more money by having more bugs! HA!

MSN.com is one of the most visited sites on the internet today because IE defaults to it. Pretty nauseating. And they make very big money on the conent partnerships involved with that site. When I worked at a web tracking company, spidergate.net, they were trying to get us into some kind of detail and sending us big fat glossy three ring binders about all of their current partnerships with big e-commerce houses.

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It's definitely a good idea to look for a small project to get involved in.

Personall, I think the free software community is very elitist. So, probably the only way to get in on something is to get in on something small. Also, realize that at first, you'll probably be fixing bugs for a long time. That's how I got statted at my first proramming job and its a good way to familiarize yourself with the code and catch on to the other programmer's coding styles.

When I was working on Canvas for linux, we tried numerous times to contribute our source back to the WINE community and were rejected numerous times. And I was contributing not only my changes, but changes for my co-workers who have 10 years of coding experience. We submitted our patches as diffs, to the mailing list, and directly to the WINE programmers, but they were never merged into the main branch. And our changes definitely worked, we tested them, we have an entire testing department. Basically, we sent patches in for months that were never accepted.

So, if I were you, I'd lok for a project that only has a few people working on it, who will really appreciate the help.

I think this is really a problem for the free software movement. People need to have more of an activist attitude in trying to get the word out and trying to bring new programmers up to speed.

I'm not looking for flames here, I just passionately care about free software and I've dedicated a lot of time and energy to making it work. I know of course lots and lots of people have, by creating all these wonderful pieces of free software we have. But I think that bringing new programmers onboard should be a high priority.

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but seriously, I think this is just an inevitable result of faster/smaller/better.

it's really just a question of having the hardware for a particular application (storage for mp3's, comm device for wireless) in a small enough form to make it useful in a portable device.

just like the new samsung cell phone/mp3 player. that's a crazy combination too, but soonenough, you can have a full strength computer in your pocket and it'll be redunant to say what it does.

Or better than in your pocket, on an earring. heh, maybe we'll have supercomputer tongue rings you can keep concealed in your mouth. now that's a party. listen to your mp3's and your conversations through your teeth to your skull bone. yeah baby!

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that's absolutely correct. I saw him in an interview and he says it's his worst movie. But come on. Of course it's not as good as the introspective/identity searching/mteaphorical/allegorical mind blowing stuff he does. It was written by somebody else. heh.

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Oh please.

You're talking about David Lynch here. DAVID LYNCH. ( http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lynch,+David )

His adaptation was so far better that it's embarassing. He's a goddamn genius. (see eraserhead, wild at heart, blue velvet, or lost highway or reference)

And I think it's a testament to what a spectacular filmmaker David Lynch is that a movie he made 16 years ago is more believable and has beter special effects than a movie made today with all the digital tools available.

And worse than that, you're saying that this blonde kid's acting was better than Kyle MacLachlan? Please, please, please. The scene where he kills Jamis was so poorly built up, I didn't even care who won. It was extremely poor.

Let me repeat, D-a-v-i-d L-y-n-c-h. One of the greatest filmmakers to ever live. And you're trying to compare a tv mini series to his work?

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