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"Brand Necrophilia"

"What is the default level on the geek hierarchy that the new trendy nerds enter at?"

Even furries made it on to CSI...

Please get it right.

Please get it right.

Please get it right.

It may be redundant, mateys, but hoist this one aboard ye decks:

The Pirate Keyboard

1. jace's blog entry
2. mmk's blog entry I blog entry II

1. jace's blog entry
2. mmk's blog entry I blog entry II

1. jace's blog entry
2. mmk's blog entry I blog entry II

look at me you juvenile fool

http://romanticboy.livejournal.com/

look at me you juvenile fool

http://romanticboy.livejournal.com/

Well, it seems they're right about that one. Found on jwz's LiveJournal is this company, manufacturers of the LoveLump.

I haven't followed the link myself, because judging from the lj commentary it is definitely NSFW and I'm at the office, but most people seem highly disturbed.

Shamelessly stolen from the Kim Jong Il livejournal

I wouldn't doubt it.

I blogged a short article about this back in October:

http://twid.livejournal.com/72781.html

With the search on "warlock records" now, google gets better results, but actually filters out completely the Warlock Records home page that I used for the demo search! I guess filtering sites that include the phrase in their URL might be a bad idea. :)

Overall, the new results in the search have excluded a few search honeypot sites, but since the new search is now excluding the direct link to the record label, the search results are worse, not better, under the new system.

I generally like alltheweb's results better after a few weeks of using it. I think it's kind of a OSX vs. Windows thing. Since alltheweb isn't the most popular search engine, it isn't targeted by the search engine spammers and thus your results are generally better.

Live Journal, why reinvent the wheel?

you could try them with a MoveableType .. or if not .. try a Livejournal .. They're just the two ideas that would be pretty simple .. oh and hacking up a php or perl site with really really simple input wouldn't be too hard either.

I beg to differ. There are some known Patriot Act abuses. An earlier slashdot article pointed to some, in fact. I've blogged about PATRIOT's effects on on-line education, libraries, Boston legislators, and Oregon police officers. Finally, PATRIOT has turned pipe bombs into weapons of mass destruction and speed into a chemical weapon.

I beg to differ. There are some known Patriot Act abuses. An earlier slashdot article pointed to some, in fact. I've blogged about PATRIOT's effects on on-line education, libraries, Boston legislators, and Oregon police officers. Finally, PATRIOT has turned pipe bombs into weapons of mass destruction and speed into a chemical weapon.

I showed my wife (a non-techie) alternate layout page as I explained it to her and commented "oh, just like Livejournal."

They allow paying users to choose their own skins for their journal, and paying users even get to write their own stylesheets (albeit in the GNU S2 script, not CSS).

I bet if Slashdot offered some features like this they might get a few more subscribers.

I'm reading John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider at the moment, and the DARPA Policy Analysis Market seems eerily similar to Brunner's idea of Delphi boards. Interestingly, in the novel the government manipulates the odds slightly in order to undermine dissent. People checking the Market for (rigged) odds of an event happening might conclude that a vote against the government or a protest against a controversial policy would be pointless.

Linkfest: look here here and here.

Enquiring minds want to know...

Onward to Victory.

JWZ

Bio: I used to be a hacker. Now I run a nightclub.

This is a contributor of some of the code that runs this dump? This is a representative sample of Slashdot's finest? Holy shit, the guy looks like a fucking skull with fake hair glued to the side of his otherwise denuded cranium. And he's holding a teddy bear, for Christ's sake!

No wonder you losers are utterly incapable of relating to normal human beings. Why don't you all pack up your stuff and move to the sewers with this guy as your King. It certainly can't cast you in any worse light.

...a link from the front page of Slashdot the day after they launch audio posting. Glad to see their servers are holding up fine anyway!

Time seems to have scrubbed this article from their on-line archives. Lexis-Nexis also doesn't list it, although they list the Newsweek version of the article, which wasn't co-authored with Bush Sr. This may have to do with the fact that the Time article is a straight excerpt from Bush and Scowcroft's book A World Transformed (1998) and Time didn't secure electronic rights to the excerpt --- or it could be more sinister. You decide.

The FSF is currently looking into it the last I heard.

This was covered on slashdot.

And here too.

is that it leaves us without a really easy to install distro for new users.

I think Mandrake fills that hole to some extent, but they're largely a repackaged RH, and I can't help wondering whether they'll be able to maintain rpm, cygwin, and all the other widely used RH products on their own. Will RH still be employing Cox?

It *is* possible to make money off free software - look at Hans Reiser, or MySQL. For that matter, Slashdot and LiveJournal use totally open source software, even if the software isn't where they make their money.

Why hasn't RH been able to do the same?

Um... you post anonymously here, the exact same post you put in the writeup? What's the point? Everyone is still going to know who to hack.

You copy-and-pasted it off various weblogs and websites, so it doesn't count.

I read LiveJournal and I have noticed this. Anonymous comments with a link to some page I guess they are hoping you will click on out of curiousity. LiveJournal allows you to easily delete such comments but like e-mail spam it is still a hassle. The solution is simple: stop buying what spammers are offering and they will go under soon after.

It depends on what you mean by GPL violation.

There are lots of people doing things they shouldn't do, such as selling appliance type things with embedded Linux, and not complying with the GPL in so far as making the source properly available. This happens a lot, and it usually takes someone complaining to the Linux news outlets before they comply.

There's also a couple more obvious major GPL violations that come up from time to time.

Then there's the grey areas. Is taking GPL PHP code that generates HTML/Javascript code, modifying it, and putting it up on your web site considered "distribution"? It is outputting snippets of HTML/JS code that are contained within the GPLed program. The HTML/Javascript code could be considered executable, as much as any other interperted language. This is one of the things the FSF might clarify in newer versions of the GPL, because it's really not something that is clear at all right now.

Anyway, apparently this watermark requires obfuscating the code, in which case it's incompatible with the GPL anyway. The GPL requires distribution of source in the "preferred form for modification", specifically to address code obfuscation.

How about in Latin? [Part 1], [Part 2]

How about in Latin? [Part 1], [Part 2]

Not yet.. working on it. Pictures are at http://www.mindbent.org/coppermine/ and my conversion diary is at http://www.livejournal.com/~mr2ev/

The thing is, cars are so fsking complex, and each individual make/model has so many unique nuances

I went the other route and converted my MR2 to an all electric drivetrain. Everything is simple, some batteries, a 1000amp/192VDC DC controller and a motor. Transmission and brakes are the only stock mechnical componets left. If anything is wrong I can figure it out in a few seconds with a voltmeter, most of the components have warrenties way longer than the body of the car will last.

Best of all the car has at least 50HP more than stock, and 300-400lb/ft of torque at 0 RPM. Blasting Mustang's is fun, but doing it in a silent car is better still. Very geeky..

Livejournal
It's about some guy in aus who uses his blog to vent everything.

Mixaloti equitis

I knew there was a reason I liked LiveJournal. Lots of the fun, not so much of the hassle. (Just some drama-llama stuff now'n then.) I say it's worth the $25/year for a paid account. I gave up on blogs/guestbooks on my websites long ago, because all I'd get was spam; either for the purposes listed in the article, or for some bloody pr0n site or another.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kayfox/33472.html :

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/08/11/trainin g.replacements.ap/
US IT workers being assigned to training their Indian replacements.

http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2 002/08/26/daily56.html
Intel holds job fairs for "Redeployed" employess (continuing massive cuts in the US and massive hireing in India).

So, I guess Indians will be the next market for Intel processors, considering Intel is trying pretty hard on its part to leave nobody in the US that can afford them.

Well, that pretty much goes for the entire US economy, in this recession, workers are being laid off due to a lack of sales, creating a larger group of people that cannot afford their products, or even afford living.

How many times can executives say "its not my problem" until it is their problem?

There's mad lib generators that already do, if this is a top writer.

Of course, he probably isn't.

Are you sure it's not been mentioned anywhere?

I think it has...

Mark

(I don't care if I've been trolled, that was silly fun :)

1. You might be more inclined to use it. My pens are fun and interesting to write with and maintain; I find myself taking more notes in meetings and jotting down more important information in my notebooks, just to have an excuse to use the pen.
2. You might be less inclined to lose it. I misplaced my Pilot and Uniball rollergel pens all the time, because everyone has them, and because I didn't really have any attachment to each of them. A fountain pen is likely to be unique enough to distinguish it (and you!) from your coworkers', and the investment places additional cognitive load on the owner (so you're more likely to notice if you came into a room with it, but don't have it in your pocket when you leave).
3. If you lose it, it's still no big deal. You can get quality refillable models from known manufacturers for $10 or $15, so it won't break the bank to get started. (Note that there is no upper bound on fountain pen prices, especially if you get into vintage models.)
4. Might actually improve your handwriting. The shape of the nib encourages certain orientations and attitudes of the pen; over time, this has informed my penmanship, helping to repair some of the damage done by keyboards and ballpoints.
5. Another cool machine to understand and geek out over. Fountain pens are simple devices, yet they are subtle in construction and style.

[I was recently introduced to the world of fountain pens by my friend Chris, who has written up a wonderful overview of his fascination with pens. Lots of great links to manufacturers, online retailers, and customizers.]

Thanks for reminding me. I was so happy once I forgot about that.

Interesting. I've been learning J2EE this year, and I concluded pretty early on that Entity Beans seemed like a massive waste of time, a good way to increase complexity with very little gain over just encapsulating the SQL. Glad to hear I wasn't missing some fundamental benefit of entity beans.

AFAIU, the DMCA criminalizes the design of circumvention devices, whatever their usage may be. Then, everything is in the definition of 'circumvention' ?

For instance interoperability between a remote controler and a garage door is allowed, but interoperability between an OS and a DVD is not ? What matters is the state of mind of the guy who made the thing one try to deal with ? If I make my DVD standard to be a "protection", then bypassing it is circumvention ? Then the garage trial would have had finished another way if, say, the protocole had been encrypted or something ?

Do we both agree that it's sort of hard/impossible to predict by advance what is and what is not allowed ?