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I'm a forth generation hacker, cut my teeth on all the 8-bits, mainly a C=64, and I bristle every time someone uses the term in a pejorative sense. Hackers generally just love to code, create, repair, build, and figure things out. They rather like to create, or enhance.

I believe Andrew Burt, founder of nyx.net, one of the free unix shells, coined the term "spider" but that really doesn't work for me. "Crackers" is a more appropriate term.

I think these folks at the U.N need to do less to criminalize a bunch of crackers who are basically tech savy graffiti artists, and go after the real criminals within their own ranks. Do something about that appalling use of depleted uranium by the United States military, for starters.

einstein

http://anarchy.shellprompt.com/
http://rootpassword.com/

Them that gots always seem to want more and more and more, which is probably how they got a lot in the first place and can't call it quits. My sister is the same way. She ownes a huge house filled with tons of stuff, but whenever she comes over you virtually have to nail stuff down to keep her making off with it. I would hardly lament not being carried by AOL.

I imagine that's a huge amount of bandwidth both Myspace and Youtube pay for to shoot his media out across the wire at no charge to him. Lots of little guys would love that kind of exposure for just one day just to get away from ground zero unknown.

einstein
http://rootpassword.com/

I was appalled when I saw how MST3K was made, that they have a group of writers sitting around brainstorming moment by moment what comment to make off the wall, then put it all in sequence to a script, and then rerecord the whole things with the shadow puppets and styrofoam. I was like, you got to be joking...

I do this peanut gallery shit in realtime, the first time, every time, and more often than not my warped sense of snide and slapstick humor makes the MST3K stuff seem lame like a spagetti noodle (sometimes they have their moments now and then and I bust the crap out laughing). I'm sure there are plenty of college students out there that can best or even top me... some really warped redhead girls...

I stopped watch MST3K because its soooo long and boring for the most part. You want to watch good comedy that moves at a pace thats not glacial, go for the AdultSwim mix stuff... Sealab, Drawn Together, Aqua Teen, etc...

MST3K had a good idea, get really corny movies and add a peanut gallery, but frequently the movies just aren't corny enough, or the main problem, they show the WHOLE THING start to finish. Some serious editing needs to be done to cut out a lot of the deadzones and keep the laughter going...

For example, Prince of Space. Prince of Space started out hillarious as hell. But then it just went on and on, like a David Letterman joke, and after a while you were like oh stop already... god this sucks...

einstein
http://rootpassword.com/

Off the exit on I-75 near Warner Robins Airforce base on the Way to Macon, GA, stands (vertically) in a Krystal parking lot, a Titan I missle, erected by the Confederate Airforce (whats that, what? the Confederacy has an airforce? one they lost, two.. airplanes weren't even invented yet) on a plot of ground 10ft by 10ft.

Here's my proposal. NASA dumps a cool 10 million on me (a bargain).... me and my slashdot hacker buddies with get that bird flying again and lob that bitch into space with a monkey on board (any polititians willing to volunteer? lots of free publicity)

I'm going to need several trucks full of highly explosive LOX, a case load of AMD Dualcore X2 boxs to setup mission control in the trailer behind my house, and an armful of Kryon spraypaint from Walmart and some hippies to paint it with plenty of Vietnam era peace logos and flowers. Also, several 1960's era Volkswagen buses for field vehicles.

There's no time to lose. North Korea is about to lob one of their protype nukes at us, we must make a display of force as a country lest the rest of the world realizes the US is really the puffed up pansies we really are. We didn't use a single nuke in Iraq, but yet like complete idiots hurled depleted uranium around the battlefield which did nothing but cause horrible mutations for the next 2000 years in any child born in the area. What kind of country is that. We have to show them we're boss again, like when we dropped those nukes on those slat eyed civilian cities in World War II. Boy them were the good old days. Damn any transplanted American children or women living in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, they should of been back in Kansas where they belonged.

All geeks who want to volunteer to be flight engineers, techie hackers, ground support personell, PR people, mission control specialists, here's your chance. Email me at root@rootpassword.com and lets get the avionics upraded on this multiton flying chunk of rusty steal to the latest linux kernel. I want webcams from every angle on this bird to broadcast live footage across the web to Belarus and every other ruskie state.

Einstein
http://rootpassword.com/

Just taking a look at that list of videos, you have to realize their ranking algorithm is so incredibly broken... I mean there is no way in heck those videos, of all the google videos, can be the most watched... not because they are so incredibly bad, but because they are so incredibly lame...

Just looking at them, I was like, gawd, with that broken situation, anyone can make the top 100 with any kind of lamer video...

So I made a horrendously low trailer park video of the PSPgurlz last night to test it out... is ranking function really that bad on google?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9178168377 458997459

Einstein
http://rootpassword.com/

I think everybody here on Slashdot that slams Myspace is full of shit. First of all, Myspace is awesome for amateur musicians, who for the most part dominate Myspace. Contrary to the popular Slashdot stereotype of Myspacers, a typical Myspace user is not some teenie bopper teenage girl playing bait the pedophile (a popular sport for sure, and yes there are those, but its just a stereotype, and these are not in the majority by any shot).

Bands dominate myspace. Bands networking with other bands and with people who want to listen to new fresh music. For the most part there are thousands and thousands and thousands of homebrew bands who would never get any kind of exposure at all now able to easily get their music out to the masses so they can listen to something other than censored formulated dribble on the radio.

Myspace is the biggest free for all music extravaganza there ever was, and its a hotbed of creativity... not only music, but graphics, and yes bizarre weird profiles. Myspace makes something like Itunes look like total crap, it even blows past the P2P networks (Limewire, etc) for distributing music around the globe. People don't want to download music, they want to stream it, and move on.

I never made music before in my life, but one day I tried it. And bam, what I did, surprised me. Where did that come from? So I made a little more. Next thing I know, two hundred people every day listen to my music around the globe. They do it for free, and I distribute it for free. Two hundred people a day listening to something you made... just rocks. And I'm just a small fish in a big, big pond.

I'll tell you what is bullshit. The slashdot formula. Its so obvious after a while its a joke. Post topics on the main page that are blatantly wrong and inflamatory, simply to have many people sweep down on it and argue this and that and the other like a bunch of female cackling hens. Its not productive, its not interesting, its rather dumb. Its based on nothing more than chosing articles to post that get peoples gander up to attract more page views and more arguing back and forth and as so many people have stated before, the information is always stupid or wrong or not even interesting from a geek standpoint.

If you want to break the RIAA's back, support Myspace. Or shut up and add music and video uploads to Slashdot. How long has it been since the slashcode has had any major, major features from a user standpoint implmented? Slashdot to me looks like the same Slashdot from 5 years ago...

And on the internet, you stand still, and your traffic dies...

You wouldn't be screaming to high heaven at Myspace if they weren't running circles around you and burning you to dust. Real winners don't whine. They see what's going on on the battlefield, and they respond appropriatly with a counter action. Whining is a sign of envy and a display of ones own inability to adapt and keep pace.

Einstein
50 caliber Fist FK
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HP / Casio ship calculator OS's with no password. So what? Who cares? Ubuntu is like totall insignifigant as an OS.

I tell you what kind of OS is needed, where there is a huge vacuum. A Copilot OS to run on a computer instaled in a car, that is verbally controlled and gives verbal feedback. The market is huge. There is no OS driven that way. You can't operate a computer via keyboard, mouse, or screen while driving a car. I myself am hacking up a box to go in my car, to control the entire cars feedback and control system verbally (as opposed to doing something stupid, like controlling video / mp3 player playback) and its a daunting task...

einstein

http://rootpassword.com/

root@rootpassword.com

This guy has hit the nail on the head... 6 songs in a sea of millions, and the artist makes what? Maybe less than 10 /20 bucks over the lifetime his music is listed? You will starve in less than two days on that. One if you are feeding an entire band.

Apple, on the other hand, makes 35 cents on the whole sea, on ever single song. 35 cents times a million is like what, $350,000. Its obvious, who is the winner here? Band = $15. Apple = $350,000

But even look at the $3350,000. That's not a lot of money at all for a corporation even. Certainly not to support the whole Itunes development. Its a losing model for Apple. Not a lot of money for the biggest player in the downloadable music market. Apple is making its money by playing in its own stock and running it up with the whole exposure Itunes brings them. Otherwise its a loss leader.

When comes back to the main point:

There is no music business. Its a joke and a lie, of everyone trying to fake looking successful, because the illusion of success supposedly breeds success with human lemming behavior. But the reality is, the numbers are not there at all.

50 caliber F FK
http://rootpassword.com/

About 60 cents according to CDbaby.com

Sound like a large percentage? Its not. Say you are dang lucky and sell 10 songs. That's what, $6 bucks? Enough for lunch for several months perhaps to write and record the song.

There is no money in the music business. None, period. Everyone can download as much music as they want for free off of myspcae and limewire. I have yet to sell even a single song. That is why I myself have chosen to give my music away for free. Its just not there. Its the big lie. Anyone who wants to argue otherwise can write their own music and produce it and show me a balance sheet that proves otherwise.

50cFF
http://rootpassword.com/