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It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

Linus Torvalds is an anagram of SLIT ANUS OR VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.

Richard M. Stallman , spokespervert for the Gaysex is Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of MANS CRAM THRILL AD.

Alan Cox is barely an anagram of ANAL COX which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, [Buy At Amazon] is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for SECONDARY RIM and CORD IN MY ARSE. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for "Felch Male" - a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, "felching" is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into "e-male."

As far as Richard "(cock)Master" Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following:

RMS: "I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance," he says. "It's about being able to question conventional wisdom," he asserts. "I believe in love, but not monogamy," he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about "flaming," who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

"I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in

Update: "Fist Sport" explained. (05/17/01)

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It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

Linus Torvalds is an anagram of SLIT ANUS OR VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.

Richard M. Stallman , spokespervert for the Gaysex is Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of MANS CRAM THRILL AD.

Alan Cox is barely an anagram of ANAL COX which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, [Buy At Amazon] is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for SECONDARY RIM and CORD IN MY ARSE. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for "Felch Male" - a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, "felching" is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into "e-male."

As far as Richard "(cock)Master" Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following:

RMS: "I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance," he says. "It's about being able to question conventional wisdom," he asserts. "I believe in love, but not monogamy," he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about "flaming," who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

"I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in

It's just that sort of question people should be asking! I just wrote an article for Salon about the rhetoric and it was published simultaneously with a response by the EFF.

If you're not a Salon subscriber, you can click the free 'day pass' link for the full articles.

By coincedene, LawMeme also reacted to the pair of articles on Salon.

I'd like to hear more specifics about alternative systems *before* I decide that they're any better.

It's just that sort of question people should be asking! I just wrote an article for Salon about the rhetoric and it was published simultaneously with a response by the EFF.

If you're not a Salon subscriber, you can click the free 'day pass' link for the full articles.

By coincedene, LawMeme also reacted to the pair of articles on Salon.

I'd like to hear more specifics about alternative systems *before* I decide that they're any better.

No. Don't vote Independent; Green; Libertarian. That will only weaken the one party left that can help STOP this madness!

We'll round down the cost of the Iraq war to $150 billion (since some of the above figure is for Afghanistan, which is about something other, and better, than oil).

There are 204 million cars registered in the U.S. (cite), which burn a total of 156 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel each year (cite).

So that's a cost of about $1 per gallon of gas this year. Federal gasoline taxes are 18.4 cents per gallon (cite).

So even if we stopped building roads and bridges, we wouldn't come close to paying that cost with gas taxes.

But I agree, it doesn't look so bad that way. Let's look at it over the next several years: Suppose the cost of being in Iraq drops from $4 billion per month to $2.5 billion over the next year, and we're in there for just 3 more years. That's a total of ($30 billion x 3 = $90 billion + $150 billion) = $240 billion over 4 years. Over that period we'll burn about 600 billion gallons of gas, for a cost of 40 cents per gallon. Now, I'm willing to go without Federal highway spending for one year, but not for 4 years. So rather than applying Federal taxes towards that amount, I think it sounds fair to raise the price of gas by 40 cents per gallon for the next 4 years, don't you?

If you're not a Salon subscriber, you can click the free 'day pass' link for the full articles.

Personally, I'd like to hear more specifics about alternative systems, and less about how the RIAA is the Great Satan.

If you're not a Salon subscriber, you can click the free 'day pass' link for the full articles.

Personally, I'd like to hear more specifics about alternative systems, and less about how the RIAA is the Great Satan.

What does Enterprise have to do with Science Fiction? Spider Robinson is a writer. He's talking about other people's writing. TV, movies, and their various spinoffs are irrelevant.

Slashdot had an article on the subject some time ago (original salon article).

Blogs could be bad for the quality of google's results: because of blogs linking to eachother, the get a bigger pagerank than thy should, and therefore more influence on google than they deserve. I'm afraid that getting more of the unwashed massed to blog would be a bad thing. Ofcourse google could change the way pagerank works so that blogs have a reduced pagerank or something to that extend.

Salon article about blogs and their influence on google

Excerpt:
You'd be hard-pressed to design a system that gave the blogging community a greater impact on Google's results. Because bloggers by definition link far more than your average Web page, and because they also tend to link to each other's sites (most blogs feature a now standard list of comrades in their margins), a page that attracts the attention of a few bloggers will quickly shoot up the Google rankings. Do a search on Larry Lessig's book "The Future of Ideas" -- a hit with the blogging community -- and a review from a blog called Sopsy Digest shows up 15 notches higher than an article from Business Week. (Or at least it did the last time I checked; Google rankings are hardly set in stone.)

Maybe it's that it's too late and I'm not thinking very well.

I totally agree with your "shareware" comment, though. I pay $30/year for Salon.com, $25/year for LiveJournal, $2/month for afraid.org FreeDNS, $9/month for SuicideGirls.com (so sue me, punk girls are hot)... anyway, I don't have to pay for most of these things to get the functionality I want, but I pay anyway because I want to support these particular content providers especially, and also the "free" Internet in general.

or really hate freedom.

This reminds me of A patriot's guide to debating the war on terror for some reason.

I'll tell you what. I won't be happy until they execute spammers by removing all of their organs one at a time live on television. On Fox! (Right after The Simpsons.) I won't be happy even when I eat chocolate or even if John Zorn were to put the entire Tzadik cataloge on emusic.com.

However, there is a difference between having the feds regulate communications, and streamlining the legal system for civil action against commercial entities who abuse the system (and commit fraud) to such an extent that it renders the communication medium useless.

Actually, the fraud alone should be enough. If spammers were just required (and nailed to the wall if they didn't) not to forge their headers so that we could effectively filter then I would be happy.

(But lots of experimental music would help too.)

They must have stopped selling them because Everyone was pirating copies of Light in August, Huck Finn, and Robinson Carusoe. Poor BN couldn't make enough money :(

Don't believe me? The see for yourself!

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(With credits to Tom the Dancing Bug)

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds [microsoft.com] is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman [geocities.com], spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox [microsoft.com] is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual [goatse.cx] propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail [microsoft.com], which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted [salon.com] on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo [comp-u-geek.net] slut [rotten.com]!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual [goatse.cx] perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children [slashdot.org]. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis [rotten.com] in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual [goatse.cx] terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his

> And has he picked up anything by Kim Stanley
> Robinson, Iain Banks, or David Brin lately?

agreed on KSR and IB.

odd that you should mention David Brin, though. he was a promising author who started off with some excellent early novels but quickly developed a severe case of contractual obligation sequilitis. the second Uplift series (especially the last two books) was just plain silly.

but the irony is that Brin has also ranted several times about the trend towards escapist fantasy and black and white Good vs Evil and away from complex moral ambiguity.

see http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15 /brin_main/ for example.

In fact, the first thing i thought when i read spider robinson's op-ed piece was that it was just a simplistic rehashing of david brin's (well-written and argued) rant.

So, when can we throw out the Concord

It's actually just "Concorde", not "the Concord". No definite article necessary

tens of thousands of people were removed, some apparently in error.

Oh no, the felons couldn't vote. Whatever shall we do? Jeebus, I think I know the case in question, and the "some apparently in error" were 2 people with repeatedly rejected appeals. Not pending appeals mind you, flat-out rejections for appeal -- though apparently the felons claimed that was unfair. this is not the sort of election hacking that worries me.

Didn't you read the portion that you copied where it said "tens of thousands of people were removed?" The point isn't that felons couldn't vote, the point is that they used inaccurate lists of felons to purge the voting voting records in Florida. These lists included people who had had their voting rights restored and those who had never been convicted of felonies. This is exactly the kind of election hacking that should worry us all.

1) He is an American who exiled himself to Britain and then subsequently exiled himself back to the US.

Sounds reasonable. I mean, it's common and rational to move to a different country everytime your (current) government pisses you off.

2) ChoicePoint was commisioned on a high-ball bid by Katherine Harris working on behalf of Jeb Bush. Remember, Katherine Harris was wearing two hats at the time. The first hat was the supreme impartial jurist of Florida election law. The second hat was the Florida campaign head for Jeb Bush's brother. Even a crackpot neo-con couldn't dismiss a conflict of interest without a chuckle. ChoicePoint was paid a FUCKLOAD of money over their $5700 competitor. You would think that someone would get something in return for that. Is it no wonder that the list came up with 50,000 registered voters who WERE NOT convicted of felonies in florida, and virtually all blacks and democrats.

Its amazing how ignorant people can be. Lets go over this again. DBT (which was later bought by ChoicePointe) was comissioned in 1998 to create the voter "purge" list. Jeb Bush was elected in November of 1998 and sworn into office in 1999. Catherine Harris was elected in 2000. I would have thought even you might have picked this up from the Salon.com Corrections. Was it magic? Did they go back in time to hire DBT?

"In the Salon Politics article "Florida's flawed 'voter-cleansing' program," it was incorrectly stated that Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris hired a company, ChoicePoint, to create a voter "purge" list. The company was hired in 1998 before Harris was elected to her post.

3) Greg Palast spends a fair amount of time railing against the sins of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Blind partisans typically stick to throwing stones at the other sides like the metamorphic chameleonic Rush Limbaugh.

Just like a liberal, he spends all his time complaining about what he doesn't like but never offers any useful solution or contribution. And just to let you know (because you obviously wouldn't be listening), Rush Limbaugh has been extreemely critical of George W. Bush, particularly with regard to the amount of money he his spending.

I saw no reference to the audit MS did in the Philly public schools a few years ago, which forced one of the poorest school districts in the country to shell out cash they really didn't have. What happened? MS wrote off the balance due and called it a donation.

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Sorry it's not a troll, it's truth. Read the book "Opening the Xbox". It states in there plain as day that MS wanted the codename to remain secret for fear of the Japanese finding out and hurting their feelings.

There's also an article on Salon talking about the book, and this very thing.

I'd so some research next time before labeling people as trolls.

How many inner city students will be able to afford Windows XP -- now more expensive than entire computer systems? The same goes for MS Office. Poor kids can probably get now-obsolete-by-market-standards hardware for free. For example, I know of one university with a few hundred P200's sitting in storage. No one wants them, and its expensive to recycle them.

Linux user group(s) in Philadelphia should think about finding old, donated equipment, and offer it along with group Linux lessons and installfests to students of "MS High". Contact the student council. MS isn't running the school, they're only providing the technology & support. The exposure to technology that these kids will get at school may spark their interest, but they could have no money for the expensive proprietary software, and we know what happens when MS software is pirated. With some help, they could learn that great software isn't necessarily expensive.

Wait a minute....Weren't they extorting Philadelphia school system for money a couple of years ago?? No wonder the school system can't afford to build new schools. Now Bill is going to play hero??? Slashdot story Salon

Philadelphia school district is among the poorest funded in the nation. In 1998 Microsoft and the BSA nailed the district to the tune of $4.8 million.

Now, Philadelphia is going to Microsoft and helping them market their products in return for funds to help build a new high school (which is desperately needed). I think Mayor John Street and his team have done a good job in turning that loss in 1998 into a win 5 years later.

Here is an article on that incident. It does force you to wonder what the licensing scheme will be.

Do you have your head up your ass? Each state's Electorial College members are chosen BASED ON POPULAR VOTE in each state. I said nothing about a conspiracy, I said the voting rolls were rigged and this is a documented fact. I also said the Supreme Court ruling was biased and many constitutional and presidental scholars agree. Specifically:

"Many presidential and constitutional scholars believe the court should never have accepted these cases in the first place; that they should have been decided within the state. I hope, also, to hear Justice Quince's reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions to remand the first decision (on extending the hand recount deadline) and, then, the second time around when the Supreme Court issued an injunction that knowingly decided the outcome of the case before receiving evidence and hearing arguments."

So your unqualified claim that the Constitution was not violated is at least debatable and probably wrong. Lastly, our form of government is effectively an oligarchy. Deal with it and spare me your ignorant patronizing comments.

Do you have your head up your ass? Each state's Electorial College members are chosen BASED ON POPULAR VOTE in each state. I said nothing about a conspiracy, I said the voting rolls were rigged and this is a documented fact. I also said the Supreme Court ruling was biased and many constitutional and presidental scholars agree. Specifically:

"Many presidential and constitutional scholars believe the court should never have accepted these cases in the first place; that they should have been decided within the state. I hope, also, to hear Justice Quince's reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions to remand the first decision (on extending the hand recount deadline) and, then, the second time around when the Supreme Court issued an injunction that knowingly decided the outcome of the case before receiving evidence and hearing arguments."

So your unqualified claim that the Constitution was not violated is at least debatable and probably wrong. Lastly, our form of government is effectively an oligarchy. Deal with it and spare me your ignorant patronizing comments.

Previous poster wrote:

Please include Ann Coulter with the people who are trying to silence people...

Black Parrot wrote:

The phenomenon isn't really new; recall the McCarthy Era and Lincoln's high-handed dealings with a wavering Maryland...

The irony here is that the content of "Treason" is a meandering screed in support of the much maligned McCarthy. Coulter sure does know how to pick her heros. *cough* --M

Code generation has its place, but one needs to be ever watchful of the dangers presented by anything that claims to make programming easier. In summary, it risks creating a bunch of code you don't really understand and can't debug. Ellen Ullman's 1998 article "The dumbing-down of programming" is still good reading.

Everything in moderation.

I heard that aspirin factory bombing was ordered by Bill Clinton when he tried to take out Bin Laden.

Buying CDs + going to concerts = profits for artists.

I generally can't stand Courtney Love but she had a pretty good speech and quote about this whole thing: "How can pirates steal money from artists when the record companies have already stolen it all?"

There was an article on Salon about this guy. If anyone wants to read it check it out.

This is also the America where consumers can ignore all of the information pummelled into them, make poor consumer choices, but then amazingly they can turn around and profess a child-like ignorance, actually suing because they should be protected from their own poor judgement.

Quality and security of software is a market feature, and if the public ignores the continual security lapses of some particularly popular software, for instance, and if they accept that there will be X crashes per week, then so be it: The marketplace has spoken. We don't need anyone protecting us from ourselves, and feigning ignorance after the fact is incredibly weak.

Does anyone remember this series of shorts? Heck, I'll bet the author reads or has posted on /. before. I remember stumbling on the link and spending an afternoon clicking through the chapters. I believe it became a book at one point, but is still available at Salon at http://archive.salon.com/21st/follies/about/about. html with just a single banner ad, and is not "Salon Premium" content.

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Silicon Follies is a serial comedy about life, work, love and war in Silicon Valley that follows six characters as they become, or attempt to become, masters of their domains.

The Characters:
Paul Armstrong
Silicon Valley software contractor who, at the ripe age of 28, finds himself burned out, disaffected and haunted by the creeping feeling that a career in the infotech industry may not be much of a life to speak of.

Steve Hall
Paul's childhood friend, master programmer and hacker extraordinaire. Disdains all forms of industrial software development. Believes that all software development should be left to True Hackers and other artists. Revels in taunting "the man," his catch-all nickname for all clueless personnel in commercial computing outfits. Spends his spare time puncturing firewalls.

Liz Toulouse
Recent Stanford University liberal arts graduate, reluctantly employed as a marketing associate in a major Silicon Valley company, infuriated by legions of young male techies earning four times her salary while being unable to deploy verbs properly in a written sentence.

Laurel Waites
Liz's classmate, roommate and confidante. Unwilling to throw her own humanities degree on the bonfire of infotech, she has settled for work as a caterer and waitress in a fashionable Silicon Valley eatery popular with the venture capital/IPO crowd.

Barry Dominic
Megalomaniacal founder and CEO of TeraMemory Inc. Billionaire, workaholic, tyrant, misogynist. Pursues hobbies of extremely expensive and highly visible nature.

Kiki Dominic
Barry's mysterious and estranged wife.

Psychrist
Cybernetic infiltrator/provocateur/performance artist. The ballistic nature of his work guarantees a large following among Silicon Valley's nerds, techies and otherwise culturally challenged males -- technological demolition derby as conceived by Umberto Eco.

So why do people think video games shouldn't be able to discuss the same topics?

Because they are not considered free speech. In my find, this is a clear case of ignorance against a young medium. Comic books went through the same thing when they were young. We just need to wait a few more years until we're middle aged and still playing games, and our kids are too. Then this irrational fear will hopefully diminish, and we can commence hating and fearing whatever our kids our doing by then ("How dare you re-enact your grandfather's battle in that holodeck!").

"The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free, open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram," she said in a phone interview from her home in Massachusetts. "Because if you can do it like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'" -- Salon

DiDio, you are the BEST analyst 3vah!

See also PJ's Groklaw for another set of DiDio quotes, which are hilarious when we know what code she was probably shown before uttering them. Non-programmers judging code.. *rotfl*

Yes but Unix code in general has been used as examples in operating system programming. One of the big problems SCO has is Unix has been around so long that core features of it have been used in many other places than Unix.

So here are some links with some history and the battle SCO has is to prove that the code they see in Linux didn't come from these sources instead of IBM because if it came from these sources there is nothing SCO gets.

Public Money, Private Code

Quote from above: In 1992, Berkeley released its version of Unix and TCP/IP to the public as open-source code, and the combination quickly became the backbone of a network so vast that people started to call it, simply, "the Internet"

Why Caldera Decided to Release Unix

From that article note that Caldera did release Unix source code on some version and again SCO has to defend against the chance that code came from this source. And though it appears in protected System V it was also present in the release V7 and V32.

Introducing the Caldera OpenLinux Workstation

From thie quote on the above:OpenLinux is Caldera's self-hosted source code Linux distribution that conforms to commercial software release procedures. OpenLinux is based on the most current stable open source technologies, but subjected to rigorous testing procedures similar to those used for proprietary operating systems. How can SCO clain they did not see infected code go into Linux if they had standards that if up to proprietary operating systems would include a check as such.

Berkley Lab Notes
My question here is if you follow the links on this page and understand the history of Unix and how it became freely released can anyone tell me what if anything was left propietary in Unix?????
And maybe that is a question SCO should be answering.

And really this needs to be explored in detail because what does System V have that BSD does not and how does the BSDi vs USL case affect the Unix propietary code.

I know this is redundant it has all been said before but the Q&A is right. Without SCO showing the code in question and that code be compared to so much of the Unix system that legally leaked into the world they have no case.

This Salon article debunks that myth that started with a blackout in New York in 1965 (see page 3).

See also the Snopes article on the 1965 NYC blackout.

This Salon article debunks that myth that started with a blackout in New York in 1965 (see page 3).

See also the Snopes article on the 1965 NYC blackout.

There's a feature on the same topic at salon

It looks like a lot of ISPs could use these book too. ;)

For two downloadable examples, check out this moving short story about a week in the life of an immortal. Note how we can still empathize with the losses immortals must have. (And note that unlike this story, immortality is usually just background in Egan's stories (just like contemporary writing doesn't focus on how our average age is 70).) Or for a great read, download or buy Cory Doctorow's novel 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.' Day to day struggles of people who just happen to be in the starting centuries of immortality.

But what really interests me are the motivations of people who hate the idea of immortality or longevity. Now, if these people were like the Amish ("go on ahead with your tech, but we're going to hang out here for a while") that'd be one thing. But George Bush's chief bioethicist is one of them. Geoge Bush's decisions will be made^hhhInfluenced by someone who has been said to think:

'According to Kass, it is a deeply fundamental aspect of life to suffer and die. When we try to fix this natural order, we lose our soul, our essential humanity.'

I think that given the opportunity for longevity treatments (antibiotics, heart transplants) he'd take them, saying that the particular treatment isn't terrible (like Bennett on gambling). But meanwhile he causes lots of damage, because as treatments are introduced, you cannot easily separate longevity treatments from quality of life treatments. If Kass thinks one of these (longevity /immortality) is ultimately evil, then he might well be willing to sacrifice the other (q of l) in order to prevent the former. To stop reproductive cloning (because delayed twinning is evil, you know?) we also have to stop theraputic cloning, for example.

Me, I want both longevity and quality of life. Of course I'd like to try for 160, just like a person who could only expect to make 40 would love to try for 80. But if not, I'd love to have a much better time in my last decades. I don't see the necessity or beauty of strokes, dementia, arthritis... I don't see this virtue of suffering that Kass sees, and I doubt that he voluntarily skips anti-suffering treatments as they become available. However, I think he will work hard to delay when they become available. That's scary.

As a thought experiment, imagine a world where all arts- books, symphonies, photos, movies, plays, scuptures- had an average lifespan of 70 years, then they start to crumble away, 99% gone by 100, all gone by 120 years. So all we knew about Murasaki Shikibu, Michelangelo, W. Shakespeare, and Beethoven were that they existed; and jazz fans were already losing Louis Armstrong's works. Imagine people in that world saying "Its great we lose these works: unless they disappear no new works will be created. It is unethical to try to extend these creations to survive to 140 or 500 years..." Humanity survived our average lifespan going from 25 to 40 and 40 to 75: I think we're perfectly capable of working out the logistics of 120 or 160 or 300.

'Yeah, but are the alternatives any better?'

Why yes, yes they are. All of them. Even Ross Perot and his little vegan hippie clone.

By infinite spectrum, I meant the spectrum was infinitly divisible. Please read the article I was referencing, apparently few people read it. My post was modded from +5 insightful to -1 troll.

"Ham radios are some of the best lasting pieces of equipment around because their owners are usually capable of repairing and maintaining them."

By your logic, since my Apple 1200 baud modem is still working and since I really took good care of it, the government should have made a law preventing my ISP from requiring me to upgrade. I know the technology is different and I know the problem is different, but the results are the same -- I can't use my 1200 baud modem anymore and you might not be able to use your Ham Radio anymore. Big f- deal. This kind of sacrifice is made everyday. It's called Eminent Domain. If we can fit 100 times more people on the same chunk of bandwidth, we're going to do it. It would be insane not to.

The radio spectrum is an infinite spectrum and it really does bother me that some people don't understand that. Personally, I think the spectrum should be reallocated and the regulations should be rewritten from scratch every ten years.

Telemarking created a lot of jobs...jobs which the federal do-not-call lists are jeopardizing. Not sure how I feel about it because the phone never stops ringing at my parents house because of them. Salon.com ran an article about it but the link is broken (provided here in case it gets fixed). Here's the Google cache of it.

On a side note, I use Mail.app in OS X and the Junk filter is pretty damn good. I get 20+ spams a day and it only lets 3 or so in. Sometimes legit mail got lost and I'd have to dig it out of my Junk folder, but not anymore (because it "learns" over time). The updated Mail.app in 10.3 (Panther) is supposed to be even better, too.

Telemarking created a lot of jobs...jobs which the federal do-not-call lists are jeopardizing. Not sure how I feel about it because the phone never stops ringing at my parents house because of them. Salon.com ran an article about it but the link is broken (provided here in case it gets fixed). Here's the Google cache of it.

On a side note, I use Mail.app in OS X and the Junk filter is pretty damn good. I get 20+ spams a day and it only lets 3 or so in. Sometimes legit mail got lost and I'd have to dig it out of my Junk folder, but not anymore (because it "learns" over time). The updated Mail.app in 10.3 (Panther) is supposed to be even better, too.

I've been following this Salon story as well, which seems similar.

Essentially, the web site involved had links to another site. That site had links to a porn site. Since this all involves bishops in the Episcopal Church, people have been getting quite excited about it.

It's getting so that someone has to police not only your own web site, but all of those that you link to. I'm one of the web admins for a healthcare site, so I suppose I have to check through a few thousand web links to make sure there's not a link to a penis enlargement treatment that kills someone.

Man, I knew Salon was in trouble and desperately in need of some money-making ideas, but that's just ridiculous.