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"Luxury!" DagBot writes: "TW2002 is still alive and can also be played as TCPIP telnet No BBS need to log into. Its called TWGS (Trade Wars Game Server). There is Still TW2002 communities going strong and I run a TWGS server now and have about 40 regular players playing. There is no large time-wasting BBS to log into, but its quick and easy to get into a game and get back to the good old days where you had to know how to read and have quick fingers to play.
There are also 2 TW2002 helpers that will run right out of the box with full telnet and ANSI support along with user-edited and scripts. Both are great programs Attac uses REXX scripts and Swath uses a Java based script for user defined scripts. Both will get you up and playing in a few minutes thinking about the good old days. My TW2002 stand alone server can be found [here] login, play, get a feel for the good old days."
Until everyone has one, it will keep being submitted, and maybe even then. azephrahel writes: "I am sure almost all of Slashdot's readers have drooled over the possibilities that many of the pc-on-a-stick products now offer. You can buy the uCsimm for $300, the matchbox PC for only $1,495, from emj you can get a 386 on a stick for $130 but you have to fit all your os & code & drivers into .9 Megs. Still that is probably the most reasonable, and made by Jumptech. They make fun toys, but there hard to buy peicemeal at a decent price.
Anyway after all that rambling, I just found this companies site, there called i-Button. They sell java computers called TINI, in a 72 pin simm format, and little button shaped devices called i-buttons (yes the thing in the java ring featured on slashdot in March) The important part, they sell peicemeal, reasonably. I just blew $120 bucks on their site and ended up with a java computer on a stick (TINI, complete with an ethernet controller onboard), a javabutton, a tempterature probe, and a project board to hook up and play with these toys on.
I figured that a few others here would like to hear they can get these toys without selling a spleen."
All these things have been mentioned on Slashdot before, but it looks like the era of ubiquitous little tiny parts has arrived, and at a price level sustainable by occasional weekend medical experiments, too.
Fraidja can't see that w'out p'mission, bub. For those of you unhappy with the apparent moves toward censorship in South Australia, Danny Yee writes: "Electronic Frontiers Australia has put online analysis of the South Australian legislation and suggestions for action."
The constitution has a part in it that says that the constitution can be modified. Either by amendment or constitutional conventiom. However once ratified the Bill of Rights became a full fledged member of the constitution.
Australians not only swear a lot, they also drink a lot too. And their ancestors were all criminals.
I really think the US forefathers were enlightened. They made some very strong declarations, that make everyone's absolute rights very clear.
Australia as a society doesn't have the same rights to the letter - but we have a constitution that in a very blurry way; and with thanks to precedents set in court over time, as well as the absolute resposibility of the gov. general - appointed by the prime minister, and the high court of Australia; we have freedom of speech.
IANAL - but I have read our constitution many times, but most people here have not - so we tend to submit more easily to censorship than most countries because we are more politically unaware than, say, the US.
But in any case - I have been to America - your freedoms also have responsibilities associated with them - and I think most Americans do not understand those. That is - you have the absolute right to free speech - but so does the other person next to you. You have no right to retaliate legally to anything said to you that is incorrect or offensive - all you can do is try to reason with the public and expose the populist bollocks that they have said - and hope to god that the population is a)listening, b) understanding, c) actually caring.
Here the laws restrict some speech, but it usually has to go through quite a lot of debate before some idiot looser spreading lies about certain fact can be made to shut the hell up - personally I believe our system is the one I want my kids to grow up in - simply because IMHO most people are too stupid to see through some of these (often very good) liars. Its a choice that our forefathers made - and we all democratically agrees on, and if any US "freedom fighter" tried to change it - we'd die defending it.
The values are self evident, but the implementation of those truths doesn't have to be uniform.
Just my 2c
*All your base are belong to my wife* well my brother wake me at break of the dawn he say we get signal main screen turn on my wife, she done us wrong she set up us the bomb and said all your base are belong to us she spent my last nickel and my only dime you have no chance to survive so make your time she say I am a pig so take off every Zig and all your base are belong to us oh yeah she done me wrong she set up us the bomb and say all your base are belong to us I don't want a scene So please don't make a fuss 'cause all your base are belong to us
this meme is getting so out of hand it makes 'hot grits' look like a fart in a hurricane. can we get "ALL YOUR BASE" added to the lameness filter?
Hmm... Based on your statements I am forced to draw one of three conclusions:
FYI,the War Powers Act of 1917 is considered by most to be a bill which effectively suspends the Consitution during a declared national emergency. There are certainly many who consider it to be unconsitutional, and therefore, illegal.
sigs are a waste of space
Since the TWGS that is up there is most likely .\ then go to my bbs..
telnet://clockworkorangebbs.org
- Xabbu
- Jimbob
Note also that, if I remember correctly, we have not left a state of emergency for something like forty years. I read an article back in the 80's that talked about how every president for the past twenty years or so had extended the state of emergency by either issuing new executive orders or extending the old ones. I don't remember what triggered the original declaration.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit if it were still true.
Are you living in some sort of parallel universe? On the planet I'm from, people have huge wars over religion, often torturing and killing other people because they worship a different god, or worship the same god in a slightly different way. If those are religious teachings, then I want no part of religion. Religious tolerance is a great ideal, but there are plenty of worldwide religions which do not have a history of practicing religious tolerance. You even go on to give examples of religions which are intolerant, so I'm afraid I can't take your argument very seriously.
Also, it is still possible to be religiously tolerant but disagree with a particular religion. For example, I have the freedom of speech to point out that I disagree with the way women are treated in some hard-line Islamic countries. I don't hate Muslims or wish to destroy them, but I will point out my disagreement with their views in some regards. This is a rational viewpoint for me to have IMHO, but one which you would silence in the name of "religious tolerance". Why should I be prevented from speaking just because it makes some people uncomfortable? And what if it turns out that a religion really was wrong about something; won't you feel bad about having prevented me from speaking then?
I disagree on the basis that society is better off when views are expressed and debated openly. I'd much rather have the local Nazis out on street corners where people can point and laugh at them (I'd encourage throwing vegetables too, but that's just me) rather than hiding from the government in some basement plotting to blow up a court house. By suppressing the parts of society that you don't like, you just make them turn their anger inwards and focus it more, becoming even more cancerous and harder to root out. Why risk that, when we can just laugh them out of town today and have it done with?
So what "socially aware" groups don't have the freedom to speak right now? Can you name some? Bonus question: did you mean "socially aware" in the sense of the People's Republic of China from your other post? (I'm still chuckling about that one, btw.) Heck, the last time I checked the communists were free to publish pamphlets, get on Oprah or the evening news, or hold rallies, just the same as the KKK, the NRA, or any other vocal and opinionated group.
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
As others have pointed out the whole Constitutional amendment thing, I won't go into it.
In the same vein as the War Powers Act, though, my understanding (possible urban legend alert) was that President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War and it was never reinstated. This would probably be unconstitutional if true, although good luck fighting off anything like that in wartime. A nation at war is a whole different thing; when the survival of the whole country is at stake, people will give up almost any right that might adversely affect the war effort. That being said, the U.S. is still probably more liberal than some other countries while in the middle of a war, mostly from never having a serious fear of invasion.
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
Farbeit from me to interrupt a good rant, but isn't threatening to repost because you've got extra karma considered "abusing the mod system" :)
But seriously, you've formed your opinion of Americans based on all the scary stories you've seen on /. and Jerry Springer, and somehow the Americans are myopic and intolerant? Lots of countries do dumb stuff and have dumb citizens, and unfortunately megacorporations are a global plague. True, the U.S. military has some issues, but then again, if you were spread all over the globe on a dwindling budget, you might shoot yourself (or the locals) in the foot from time to time as well. Almost any nation, magnified to the same position on the world stage, would have similar issues; probably the last nation to have so benignly controlled so much of the globe (in an economic, cultural, and/or political if not military sense) was Imperial Rome.
Not that that makes it OK, of course, I'm just trying to supply some perspective and exercize my native American argumentativeness (argumentativity?).
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
Any natives or recent vistors care to comment whether there are still clusters of Internet cafes alive and kicking in Australia?
The top Australian newspaper (The Australian) has a weekend magazine lift-out that will print "fuck" unbleeped.
Sex in the City does air on a free-to-air major network, and have aired "cunt" unbleeped.
*shrug*
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
Space for lots of standard memory
Sub $200 price tag
That's my wish list for a linux appliance. There are similar products in existance (The Cobalt Qube springs to mind) but they are overpowered and overpriced for individual use. I've also looked through a fair bit of PC/104 stuff, and found one product that would have done all of the above...for $1200.
When someone does all of the above in a good, high-quality unit, I'll jump in line to buy one.
How ironic. It's been taken down.
... yeah, but the USA has the MPAA... the masters of hypocritical censorship
First there was the ridiculously wrong Aussie accents in Point Break, now we have this headline:
Fraidja can't see that w'out p'mission, bub
I just wanted to point out that noone in Australia calls anyone `bub'.
> Does anyone out there know how to get ANSI graphics working under an xterm/telnet?
If you're speaking about basic VT100 graphics characters (such as box drawing characters) the answer is yes. My xterm installation even supports color, but I'm aware that some old xterms don't.
If you're speaking about VT220 user defined characters (like those that Minitel uses a lot), the answer is no.
> Is linux limited to 7 bit ASCII?
That's just plain stupid. Anything limited to 7 bit in the 21st century must be shutdown, burned and thrown away to the trash.
Maybe the problem is in your network connection. Try doing a stty pass8 or try running telnet with the -8 option.
At the time of this writing, I couldn't resolve olgn.homeip.net, so I can't check it myself.
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Luis González M.
--- Sueños del Sur - a webcomic about four young siblings
Movies aren't legally censored in the US, the movie companies voluntarily use ratings and the theaters voluntarily enforced them. There are no laws about movie censorship.
erm..
who cares, since when was this a competition australia -v- canada?
Censorship is only cultural across federal borders. Within it's always political.
As for the Constitution, bah. The Constitution also says states have rights. But is that what the current system allows? No. If Oklahoma wants to ban movies like the Tin Drum, fine but fucking stay in Oklahoma then.
The message on the other side of this sig is false.
On my reading of the whole article from EFA Australia, the most pervasive issue is the notion that online content should be assessed at stricter levels of censorship than offline content. Or, in other words, if I wanted to publish my personal erotic fantasy writing as an online magazine, I would be subject to stricter censorship than if I published them as a commercial magazine, or as a street 'zine. I would have to tone them down more, I would be subject to stricter fines if I didn't, and after all that, I'd still not be able to publish them without getting them classified.
Strange, really, when you consider that an online provider can place much stricter controls on who gets access to their material than an offline provider. I can certainly remember getting a quick peek at the "naughty" photos in Playboy and Penthouse as a kid. Oddly enough, I seem to have grown up to be a relatively sane and sensible adult - about my only quirk is a deep and thorough dislike of the type of thinking which regards anything sexual as "dirty" or "nasty". But try accessing an online p0rn site without having the right credit card number. Unless you really have superior skills and knowledge, you aren't likely to be able to see even a picture of a woman in full chador.
It's rather scary - just about any restriction on adult rights or priveleges these days can be excused with the note that it's either to protect the children, or that its for the benefit of the children. Makes me wonder how I managed to survive to adulthood, really it does. Obviously I'm just a statistical fluke - as is everyone else of my generation who managed to survive through our non-child-obsequious environment.
Meg Thornton.
Perkin's Postulate: Online tech support is designed to provide everything short of actual help.
Unfortunately other countries are not the same as us.
Hmmmm.... on the whole a top comment, but it seems even an enlightened (US)American is still a (US)American.
Buckets,
pompomtom
Buckets,
pompomtom
"There's an exception to every rule. Except for some rules"
I think internet cafes are mainly a sign of a large number of tourists/travellers/backpackers who want access to their Hotmail accounts.
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.
The Computer Science House at RIT (http://www.csh.rit.edu) uses a tini board as the telnet server for our Drink machine (http://www.csh.rit.edu/projects/drink) and it works very well cheap stable and nice. and the one wire technolgoy and i-buttons have been a huge help in keeping the size/price to a minimum.
This is bullshit. While your Constitution may speak in absolutes, your Courts do not. Americans have freedom of speech unless that speech offends enough people. In that case, the speech is "obscene" and you, as an American, can be arrested.
See, for example, U.S. v. Thomas.
What you say !!
Informative? I'm not sure whether to be amused or offended :)
This just in...
After an exhaustive search of the street corners on my block I am pleased to report that I have found no evidence of gun toting crack dealers.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming
I hate to nitpick, but Good Will Hunting was on network TV this past week.
I want an embedded system. Literally. Embedded into my HEAD!
Something similar has been discussed already on Everything.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Will I retire or break 10K?
I want an embedded system. Literally.
Embedded into my HEAD!
Soemthing about this size could probably be fit to a skullcap, no problem. Add a few buttons say on the palm of my hand, and some kind of retinal projection system, and i'd have a private, personal computer that i could use simultaneously while doing anything, like walking around or watching a movie.
Add a cell phone held in your hand, connected to the wrist USB port, and you have instant internet.
I'm only talking Palmtop level functionality, so i could read Avantgo stuff in green glowing text in the dark. But tiny, solid state systems are definatly a must... and then we need them funky retina displays.
So you scientist people, there's a free unpatented idea, retinal projection displays. Courtesy of me. Make them and I'll buy.
* We dance where angels fear to tread *
The Bill of Rights are a series of amendments to the Constitution. Legally they have as much force as the Constitution itself. The Bill of Rights is in especially high regard because it's almost considered integral to the Constitution; had the Bill of Rights not been drafted, the Constitution itself would not likely have been ratified.
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The United Kingdom for example has draconian laws outlawing hate-speech, and IRA "terrorists" (freedom fighters) are not allowed to be interviewed on TV.
Sinn Fein/IRA have been allowed access (if it can be called such) to the British (and Irish) airwaves since 1993.
Sinn Fein/IRA were censored for many years but this is no longer the case.
Link pertaining to an Australian discussion in which the Sinn Fein/IRA censorship issue is discussed:
http://jinx.sistm.unsw.edu.au/~greenlft/1993/122/
As for censorship being a cultural issue? Let me assure the original poster that in this case it was most certainly a political issue... else the politicians would not have found it as easy, as convenient, nor as expedient, to remove the "gag" to allow Sinn Fein/IRA to 'begin' to negotiate on the terms of thehttp://www.irelandstory.com/today/good_friday/
In that instance... a political removal of censorship was a precursive move towards "peace".
cheers
front
P.S. I am Irish, resident in Ireland.
pardon my dweebness in regards to html on Slashdot. Mea Culpa.
The links are:
Sinn Fein/IRA censorship Australian article
and
Good Friday agreement
cheers
front
As for things like the 1917 War Powers Act, it's clear that they arn't really enforcable. I was merely pointing out that the laws exist, and are technically in effect. The fact that they woudln't make feasable arguments in a court today is a good thing, but doesn't change the fact that such laws are still around. They represent a threat to free speech, even if the threat is empty.
As for the expiration of the War Powers Act, I'm a little dubious. I've read the bill, and it doesn't itelf provide for an expiration, and I haven't found any evidence that it's been repealed. My guess is that it was simply thrown on the pile of other outdated, unenforced laws. I suppose there is a legal precident for deciding when a law is useless. For instance, in Massachusetts, you are technically required to obtain a license to wear a beard. Fortunatly for the unshaven, if a DA tried to prosecuete unlicenced beard-wearers, they would probably be laughed out of their jobs. No judge in his or her right mind would allow anyone to be procecuted for wearing an unlicensed beard. So, there must be some kind of precident for allowing a law to lapse without an actual legislative act.
Anyway, the way I wrote my origional post made it flamebate anyway. That's what I get for writing under the influence of sleep-deprivation ;-).
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In spite of the suggestions and all the tests that I have made, I have not cavato a spider from the hole.
On the other hand, on such a wetware-embedded system I'd like as much memory/HD as possible. That is one thing where we could all use some augmentation. Of course a FPU for all the boring math would come in handy, but the point is, these beasts are particularly poor in terms of storage capacity.
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Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
A few things wrong with this argument, but before launching into that, let me clear up one point. X-rated material is not illegal in Australia. It is illegal to sell it in most places, but not all, such as Canberra (The seat of Australia's parliament) and the Northern Territory. The X-rated industry is a $50million industry (largely mail-order) in Canberra. But as to your argument for consistency (a) There is no merit in consistency if the law is bad. Censorship is simply evil. I am offended by the idea and embarrassed to live under a government that makes such laws. (b) It ain't consistent. X-rated stuff is *not* illegal in Australia. So, if it's not illegal in video, magazine, book or cd-form then why so on the internet? Explain that.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
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Fuck this place is backward, internet service is $40-50 a month - if you can get it, slow, shit speeds.
4 - 5 month install times, 2x that for repairs.
Medical care is horrible.
The internet cafes smell like the fat american teenage fudgepacking fucks which drip sweat by the gallons onto the keyboards while they play quake 3 with their friends.
Getting a good cup of tea is impossible, the best you'll get is that "stash" shit.
And the people, so fucking rude.
Oh.. forgot, never saw somebody masturbating in a internet cafe here to anime porn in Canada. What the fuck is up with that?
Though taxes and money is better here (gotta admit).
Oh well...
I smell a flame war brewin' . . . read my sig before you post.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
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Cultural relativism is a classic argument that repressive regimes use to try and exempt themselves from international human rights standards. The argument usually holds "social order" over the needs of the individual. How is this "social control" not political?
plutocracy
Government by the wealthy.
A wealthy class that controls a government.
A government or state in which the wealthy rule.
You are right on - America is one of the most backwards, puritan, myopic, intolerant, arrogant, ignorant groups of people on the planet.
They rave about how 'free' they are and how they are the height of democracy - while corporations subvert their democracy (RIAA,MPAA,DMCA,BonoCopyrightextensions etc etc etc), Religious wackos censor libraries (for the children), Political Debate is a McDonalds Commercial, the courts decide elections, their media Corps lie to them (propaganda machines), they put up with legislated morality (drug prohibition, prostitution law, nudity law, gambling law), there military is universally hated & runs wild (kills Japanese high-school kids, invades country after country (Granada, Cuba, DM, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq), meddles in other countries to no end (Cuban blockade and pay for the 'Brothers for Freedom (whatever those assholes in Florida call themselves)' from seized Cuban funds)... etc etc ETC.
They are obese, ignorant and loud. Americans are universally loathed - but Americans keep rambling on about how 'they've got it right' and everyone else is simply jealous.
95% of Americans are fat-trailorpark idiots on Jerry Springer - a Goddamned display of stupidity.
Dont worry moderators - mod me down all you want - this is not flamebait - I am serious... this is not a trolls attempt at eliciting excited responses. If you mod me down - ive got 50 mod points to repost, so don't bother abusing the mod system just because your American-self image has been insulted.
Austrialian bill 1043, passed in 1956, banned pornography and violent material from the media. On several occasions, porno companies have been taken to court, but their cases have been dismissed because bill 1043 doesn't clearly state what is considered pornography. Same thing goes for violent material.
This new bill passed by the Austrialian Government is just a modification of the 1956 bill, defining pornography as "anything whose sole purpose is sexual stimulation", and violent material as "any situation where a person is intentionally harmed by another person."
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The World is Yours.
If it is possible to legislate in regard to a certain matter then that matter is political. Many political matters have a cultural dimension.
You can just about manufacture chips at home. Not directly in sicilon but by using an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) you can effectively create your own chips. They consist of a matrix of logic gates, which can be blown with an EPROM programmer and will make a rather good digital semicinductor. You can use them as finite state machines with either Moore or Mealy models which is ideal for robotics or basic computing applications. And best of all, software is available such as PALASM which can minimise your logic down to fit on the chip without the need for Karnaugh maps!
Log (at September 22, 2012)
Sector 1022 {StarDock, Fedspace, FedSpace Protected}
>Helios warps into the sector
>Helios is powering up weapon systems!
>Helios launches a wave of fighters at you!
>Console reports 1963 points of damage!
>Your ship's shields absorb the brunt of the attack!
>Helios is powering up weapons systems!
>Helios launches a wave of fighters at you!
>Console reports 2015 points of damage!
>Your trusty escape pod is functioning normally.
[This was my sector which he then obliterated with a Photon Missile. The limit was set to 60 seconds.]
>Message from Fighters at 10:25:16 A.M.
>Helios warps into the sector
>Helios is powering up weapons systems!
>Helios destroyed 503 fighters
>Helios warps out of the sector
>Photon Missile detected!
>Helios captures your planet (WHICH HAD A L4 CITADEL ONE DAY AWAY FROM LEVEL 5!!!!)
This happened a while ago, but some of the avid Dallas Semi fans on /. may not have heard yet (Dallas Semiconductors products are a popular among hardware hackers). Maxim will acquire Dallas Semi (based on their product line this looks like a good match). It will be interesting to see what direction they will move after the acquisition.
Luxury, that is...
In my day we had censorship and Mach 7 scramjets raining on our heads.
It seems to me that you could have a very compact and large Beowulf cluster pretty cheap. Just think, six thousand processor cluster in a box the size of your standard tower. Hoo wee.
TW2002 is child's play! You got it easy
with ANSI support and..."scripts." My Empire
game server is running the Empire game
that was originally developed on an
HP2000C in 1973. No scripts, only the
program. No Java! Type you fingers raw!
Telnet or NS/VT protocol only, with
a real session log on. Instructions
at http://198.190.228.6/index.html
See what the good ol'd days were REALLY
like.
Tracy Johnson
Old fashioned text games hosted below:
http://empire.openmpe.com/
BT
To think! An Australian centered link, two of them even.
... but hang on the first one goes to /. and the second one is using the new 'lets put in http:// twice just to make sure'
Hmmmm perhaps some simple checks?
----- One piece short of Legoland
Ah yes - the old "'America' has free speech" balony. You can't even say fuck on the radio and you have the gall to lecture away about having the right to say anything anytime?
sigh.....
For a Pc on a Stick would be for a robot.
My uncle is Currently building a robot, and is trying to make due with an oopic Chip, but If he could put a 386 on the thing with some miniscule copy of Linux and a programing language running, it would be great.
Can you point to some sites that would be useful? I've always wanted to play with something like that.
Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
afraid your wrong on this one, any goverment anywhere can legislate anything they damn well want too.
Enforcing it is another matter entirly.
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds" - RWE
Don't forget simple microcode designs using eproms, where with a few extra gates and latches, you use parts of the eproms memory and other stuff fed back in to get the next address. Basically like the 'microsequencer' stuff at the heart of many cpu designs.
Censorship. Both Cultural and Political.
Admitedly we Americans have this idea that it is our universal right to tell you, your brother, and everyone else exactly what we think when we think it. It's protected under the First Ammendment we say. And we are right
We start a buisness, make our fortune, become successfull. We fight our way up the social ladder with the tools of innovation and capitalism. We feel it is our right to do so, and we are right.
We value our freedoms, we fight bitterly when our governemnt tries to encroach on them, to take away our right to do something that we value. We expect our government to fear and respect the will of the people. And we are right
But we are not the only country, the only people on earth. We feel it is our right to send tapes of Baywatch to Saudi Arabia. We stop short of recognising the Saudi Government's right of forbiding the use of those tapes. We look at our capitalist system and try to give it to other nations that they may prosper and grow like we did. But we stop short of granting them the right to make their own choice as to weather to accecpt or reject that system.
America has fought hard to get where she is today. Through the lubrication of blood, sweat and tears she has clawed her way to a position of prominance. Of course, now she's got no idea of what to do with herself.
The United States finds itself thrust into the position of the last remaining superpower (some would say global hegemon) with no agenda as per ususal. Yes, we will attempt to impose our system on the rest of the world. Yes we will screw up, yes we will make our mistakes. It's a strange thing, to be a government, responcible for the "free world," with no one, in particular (citizens or otherwise) that wants you around.
This has been another useless post from....
Killfile(TGK)
No trees were killed in the creation of this post. However, many electrons were inconvenienced.
Perhaps not always (but see here for more info), but according to my relatives in the UK, around 30% of police in the greater London area routinely carry firearms in their vehicles. The myth of the British 'Bobby' with his friendly smile and truncheon lives on in the minds of many Americans. The reality is somewhat different.
I expect you think London is permanaently under a thick cloud of fog too ?
As for your speaker's corner comment, that is maybe true, I could not say, but for more information this link to the UK race relations act (1976) should prove unusually informative for slashdot. (It's not a goatse.cx link, trust me :-))
To make it easier for you all, I QUOTE:
The Race Relations Act makes racial discrimination unlawful and gives people the right to bring their complaint before an employment tribunal or a court. Racial discrimination can include harassment and victimisation. Racist incidents ranging from harassment and abuse to physical violence are offences under the criminal law. Inciting racial hatred is also a criminal offence
Don't get me wrong, I think the US could use a law like this, it restricts free speech, but only in so far as it is needed to protect disadvantaged members of society.
As for the IRA, nobody likes a war, but their country was invaded by the British under the Heath administration in the early 1970s, so you can understand why they are acting the way they do (which is not to condone violence in any way).
The constitution is an ancient document of little relavence to todays world. You cannot bring universal human rights into existance simply by saying 'make it so'. This is not Star Trek and you are not Jean-Luc Picard.
The reality is that many cultures far more socially advanced than the US 'Me-first society' consider censorship nescessary. Judaeism, Islam, Christianity developed the concept of Blasphemy to control what was said (as they recognized the dangers of unbridled free speech).
Now I am quite well-travelled and have been to (amongst other places) Iran, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, and the Soviet Union (as was). All these places have something that America lacks, and that is respect for religious and cultural diversity. Which in practice means censorship. We cannot have it both ways. In effect by allowing freedom of speech, our constitution is denying us the right to religious freedom. If someone can denounce my God with no comeback from the state, it just creates an atmosphere of persecution.
Unfortunately other countries are not the same as us. To a greater or lesser degree almost all other countries find it wise to curtail free speech for reasons of social control.
The United Kingdom for example has draconian laws outlawing hate-speech, and IRA "terrorists" (freedom fighters) are not allowed to be interviewed on TV.
Saudi Arabia beleive it or not banned 'Baywatch' because it was thought it would corrupt their youth.
So I think we can see that we need to be sensitive to other cultures before we go on screaming about censorship. What would be called censorship in the USA would be viewed as responsible government in many countries, especially in Europe, the Middle East, and Singapore/China.
Well, on a related note, how pleased are you w/ thawing relations w/ the North? I know that the gov has used N. Korea as a boogieman excuse for their corruption, control of the press, etc, but they're slowly losing that ability. For awhile they had a legitimate threat w/ N. Korea (world's largest armed border, right?) but nowadays the N. Koreans are having enough problems keeping their people fed. So, I'd say the future is reasonably hopeful, if the N. Koreans don't get themselves branded as a 'rogue nation' by selling rockets, but what do I know? I'm not Korean, so tell me: how do things look out there?
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Can someone tell me what the real uses for a matchbox PC. Or is it only for show right now.
I can understand the uses for a smaller pc but at a matchbook level. I can not see the real business use except in exploration of spaces. Could someone out there give me a helping hand.
Please dont go on about Palm Pilots and the like.
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Fuck you, all beer i.e. VB, XXXX suck. So all the Arabic, Asian, Greek, Italian etc Australians ancestors were criminals heh? Gee lucky the English didn't send criminals to their penal colonies in America LOL.
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What I would like to see (and I have no idea whether this is possible, but this is /., so I am sure someone does) is a small home machne that can be used to manufacture silicon chips to your own design.
Of course, this system would not be very modern - it terms of the feature size on what it produces, which may be 20 years or more out of dat - but it would be pretty cool to be able to design your own computer entirely from scratch.
What I would like to ask is, is this possible?
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If your charter is so damned great, then how did you manage to let your government strip all of your guns?
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I love the cultural arrogance of Americans. Don't confuse freedom of speech as a concept with "a constitutionally protected first amendment guaranteed 'Freedom Of Speech'". They are NOT the same thing. You CAN have one without the other. I can say what I want. I can say whatever I want to whoever I want. Why? Because I HAVE freedom of speech. I don't have a first amendment right to it. I don't need it. It's just there. Americans seem to stupidly assume that without a specific document guaranteeing rights, those rights cannot exist. This is bollocks. Ask and Brit, or any Australian if they're living in a police state. Hell no. Australian governments have already tried to censor the internet. The australian people ignored them. Americans need to stop assuming that their own political/social system is the only possible "right" way. Don't forget those rights you fight for are the same ones that let your children die in schools.
Hah! Spell it how you will. The line between hobby and obsessive fetish is sometimes thin. (And often depends whether you share the hobby in question.) :)
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What a fascinating place... this Canuck had the pleasure of travelling throughout the east coast of Australia last summer and was surprised at how technologically progressive their culture seemed, at least in comparison to Canada. Brisbane, Sydney, and Cairns were brimming with Internet cafes, and even convenience stores had Internet kiosks. (Drifting off-topic: the convenience store kiosks were expensive ($1AUS/5 min.) Win95-based compared to the UN*X-based kiosks ($1AUS/15 min) found in the foyers of public libraries--which allowed even non-residents an hour of free access to their public computers.)
So it seems like everyone gets it, until this piece of legislation comes up. Let's not tar everyone with the same brush, mind; while Southern Australia cracks down on Net obscenity, Queensland allows prosititution (didn't sample any of that--I was with my girlfriend...) and the entire east coast rakes in the bucks on pokies (electronic gambling machines, often found in the back room of a pub).
Many of us would like to know if it's still possible to play LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon). Wow, the memories from playing that game. It was the first time I ever player killed someone. You used to be able to break into the hotel at night, and beat up on the lower level characters. You could also sleep with, and eventually marry, the bartenders daughter. She never stayed your wife for long though.
LORD isn't dead. If you look hard enough, it's still possible to find free telnet-in bbs' running games. One of my old worldgroup favourites just started back up and now I can get my fill of killing and working up to the next item in King Arthur's Weapons, or even flirting with the lovely Violet...
I'm not sure the sysop would appreciate a slashdotting of new accounts, so I'll refrain from posting the URL. But from the number of MUD users on there, I'd imagine it wouldn't be too tough to find something free and cool, especially now that all the old sysops are getting cable modems.
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I tried to connect to the tradewars server and was presented with what I think was ANSI graphics. But this time, just like the last, I got only vt100 graphics. Does anyone out there know how to get ANSI graphics working under an xterm/telnet? Is linux limited to 7 bit ASCII?
We've got a filter on sites "unsuitable for University access" and it is lame. For example any URL with the word "sluth" gets blocked because it contains "slut". The BESS software has been shown to be just as bad.
Sure, it sounds nice, and i'd sure like to have a smaller box, but can you pop a 15" monitor or a zipdrive on one of those babies? I know, they're just portable things but even a laptop can do that =) I think i'll keep my pocket filled with useful things (like a wallet and car keys) until I either see the light of teeny tiny pc's with no disk space or I get hit in the head with one hard enough that I loose all common sense and buy one.
I am !amused.
Back in '98, another state (New South Wales) also passed laws to protect it citizens from dirty pictures. They even went so far as to ban dirty pictures travelling through their state. For example, if I were to email a dirty picture from my home in Queensland to my grandmother in Victoria, and that email travelled via NSW (which lies between Qld and Vic), then I would be breaking the law.
The point is, these are nonsense laws, designed to show the voters that the pollies are doing something. The police officers that are charged to enforce these laws haven't a clue what the Internet is about. While being questioned by a cop once, I was asked if my computer had 'one of those Internets' in it'.
Except of course, when by sheer chance they stumble across a case that they can prosecute, then they will make a big show of it. And pity the poor bastard who this happens to.
This is what happens in a country where not one single politician even knows who to use email.
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From the Censorship Act 1996 :
Yes, that does mean that a single member of Parliament can arbitrarily ban a publication. No process of appeal beyond that minister, no guaranteed right to speech.Ever heard of a Sierra game called Seventh Guest? That's illegal here. Heck, even Dreamweb's illegal here. They had to publish a modified (censored) version of Duke Nukem 3D here because the original was classed as 'obscene' and refused classification. I think the Nine Inch Nails Broken video is banned as well, but I confess I'm not sure.
Another little beauty is contained in the Police Act:
What this particular law means that if there's a group of more than two people and the authorities believe that they may "disturb the peace," they can order you to leave. In 1979, two union officials were arrested at a worker's rally for the simple crime of expressing a sentiment that pissed the government off.All sorts of wonderful little things along these lines are buried in West Australian law. For instance, far from having a guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure, police have the right to conduct a full stripsearch of any person on the street. All they have to do is 'suspect' that the person is carrying illicit items, such as drugs, weapons or aerosol cans (you can get done if someone suspects you're a graffiti monkey over here). The grounds for this 'suspicion' need not ever be stated or justified.
And just to think, the national album Australia's children are trained to sing praises us as "young and free." Personally, I think it's disgusting.
The article is right about people wanting to get there hands some of these 'embedded' devices. I have been drooling over the items listed here on LinuxDevices
One of the most interesting ive seen is ZFLinux's MachZ System On a Chip - have a look at the a build of their reference implementation shown at at Linux World (half way down on the right - the thing has a tiny LCD - very cool)
For extra bonus karma-whorific-ness: Look at this: World's Smallest Web Server - Its just plain cool
One thing I found is you are allowed to say swear words on TV. On the evening news they were doing a story about poorly build navy subs. They broadcast the captian of a Sub saying "None of this shit works"
They had Sex in the City on Primetime on a non-cable channel. They say the word fuck several times. It was never bleeped
They also showed Good Will Hunting during primetime. That movie had fuck like every 5th word.
Can't get that in the States basically have to get a Premium channel or pay-per-view or rent it, to watch a movie like Good Will Hunting on TV.
I thing I found odd they get our late night shows, like David Letterman and Jay Leno. Twords were still bleeped out. Think they get those shows with those words bleeped out.
Am I allowed to say these words on Slashdot? Guess I am about to find out....
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Unless electronics and programming make you happy, or you work for someone making webcams, sensors that attach to ethernet, etc., you won't care much.
Dallas has been making the buttons and the TINI for a few ywars now; I remember reading about the TINI in some trash Java mag in Sep 1999, and I know the i-Button has been in production since early 1996 cuz I've had one on my key ring since then..
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On a more personal note, I'm of South Korean descent, and I occasionally hear cultural explanations for South Korea's poor practices of democracy. (Corruption, repression of the press, etc., etc.) I often find those excuses condescending -- you think just because I was born in a different country that I can't understand the Bill of Rights? I'd rather you hate the oppressive leadership in South Korea along with me.
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