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UK Issues High-tech Stamps
bgood writes: "According to this story on Excite@Home, the UK's Royal Mail has released a series of "interactive" stamps. Included in the series: A scratch-and-sniff stamp, a stamp with a hologram, and another that shows an electrically-charged particle when warmed by finger heat. The stamps commemorate 100 years of the Nobel Prize and Britain's achievements. The Royal Mail describes the stamps here."
What do James Kirk and toilet paper have in common?
They both fight the Klingons...
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in th recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BSD is dying
American Day:
6.00am: Get Up
6.05am: Shower [optional]
6.20am: Clean Teeth, Pick Teeth, Floss teeth [mandatory]
8.00am: Drive to work.
13:00: Clean teeth after lunch. Get donut out from molar
15:00: Clean teeth after chocolate bar binge
20:00: Clean teeth after pizza and coke binge
23:00: Clean teeth to be sure.
Americans are fat cuz we have more food to eat and not crumpets and sheeps balls
that was another funny joke
ok so what did they do, out source this to a sticker maker?
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
You forgot that nobody likes Scots because they smell.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
So? The English are all poofs.
[SCRATCH HERE] for the smell of glass (plastic if using an LCD monitor)
And you can [SCRATCH HERE] for the smell of finger oil.
Lastly, if you really, really [SCRATCH HERE] hard enough you can smell blood!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I live in France. No, that is a bit too close to home - satisfying though the nuke would be. How about I live in Miami?
We don't go on about how insanely ugly your women are!
Mod this up! This is big! I just read the file, its XOR with '168' (why that number?) ! It really is a hidden message! where do we go from here now? how do we prevent this from happening?
Redundant eh? Did anyone else give a web site address with regards to this then?? *looks over the threads..* nope!
Fsuk u, evil moderator. You shall have your day when you are metamodded.
Thanks a bunch for the karma hit.
Flumps.
Those that forget history are condemned to repeat it:
Abraham Lincoln, on his deathbed no less, warned us against corporations having anything to do with government. If I recall correctly he is one to have mentioned the phrase "unseen hands".
These "unseen hands" are busy doing "much seen damage" to US citizens and the world as well.
The Boston Tea party (eventually leading to the Revolutionary War) was caused by *CORPORATIONS* exerting excessive control over the colonies *WITH* "government/dictatorial" power and concent.
I don't know how I can spell out these parallels any clearer. With all the "Going Forward" and "looking tword the future" and other assorted buzzword/market speak *we or more specifically **lawmakers** * are forgetting the past and the history of what makes this country great.
In my cynicism, the term "expert" means to me someone who is never consulted on an important decision until it is too late and FUBAR.
This seems to be the case with the DMCA and now the SSSCA.
I hate to be the first one to say it, but history is repeating itself, and I wonder how long until the next "revolution" of sorts, or blatent *lawbreaking/violent/civil disobedience* protest comes about. Sept. 11 stirred the hornets, but where will then anger go if bin Laden is not found, but the *violations* of our rights continues so we are no better off than those we are pursuing?
Points to ponder, I assure you, think about it.
"...and I think we've seen that movie too.." GnR.
My question is this:
The pressure is building, we are pissing off other great nations at a rate >= the # of allies.
How do we keep ourselves free from "digital slavery" w/o handing over the keys to the first of our enemies that figures out our future "hardware backdoors"? What does the SSSCA accoplish in the first place? The DMCA As well!
Simple question: What *GOOD* have these laws done for the *American People*?!
I've asked the question nobody has asked, what is the answer?
Moose.
The needs of the many outweight the needs of the few, or the one. The public domain is almost empty, folks. Microsoft's future motto will soon be "All your IP/Prior Art are belong to us".
and
The DMCA, not deCSS, is a "Digita Crowbar" that is bludgeoning the rights of the Americans with stunning speed wielded by "unseen hands".
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)