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chrisd
on from the taking-your-toys-apart-to-see-how-they-work dept.
shaikeiro writes "A fine
article in the Economist about Ed Felten and what he is up to now. Also a good summary of what "freedom to tinker" means. From the article: "Thus, the freedom to tinker ends up being about the freedom of culture."" Are you a member of the EFF yet?
imagine
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Anonymous Coward
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a beowulf cluster of those!
Re:imagine
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Anonymous Coward
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I can never stop laughing at Beowulf Cluster jokes.
Re:Not yet...
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PerryMason
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I'm really hoping you look like Marlon Brando;)
-- "I'm tired of all this 'Aren't humanity great' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes" - Bill Hicks
Cleanin out my server closet
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Anonymous Coward
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Just try to invision witnessing Your momma building beowulf's in the kitchen bitching that someone's always unplugging cables when packets is missing
META: Please be more descriptive
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RobotWisdom
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Not everyone knows that Ed Felten is an anti-DMCA activist, so it would have been helpful to spell this out in the blurb.
Freedom to tinkle
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Anonymous Coward
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Everybody's freeeeeeeeeeee to piss good, to piss good!
this worlds problems
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Anonymous Coward
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in degrading order of importance. 1. Enironmental degradation will take billions of lives (human,animal and plant-lives) 2. famine : 6000 deaths per day. that's TWICE 9/11. 3. the islam and the western world who don't want to listen to the other's views and concerns.
I'll be thinking of the all the effort you do trying to safe the world, while I'm riding in my comfortable air-conditioned SUV getting 8 miles to the gallon munching down greasy Mcdonalds burgers. Yea, you go help some poor Afganistan children or something and catch west nile virus or anthrax in the process.
What I hate...
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Anonymous Coward
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Stories like these that I can't think of any way to karma whore.
I mean come on... Some bleeding heart organization wants more people to give them money. It's not like I've just got all this disposable income lying around. Bah, mod this off as troll or whatever I don't care. I just wish these stupid organizations that always claim to do things in the name of good could find a way to TURN A FUCKING PROFIT like any other business and carry their own damn weight.
All throughout history, people who helped others like Gandi and Mother Teresa were poverty-stricken. If you want to do good, it's a thankless job... Get used to it.
Re:What I hate...
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snatchitup
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You're not only a Karma whore, but a timid one at that. Your post doesn't really deserve negative score. But you were so worried you posted anon.
You've said what many of us feel, "Who gives a shit!"
Ask Slashdot
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Anonymous Coward
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I've got a clear fluid discharge from my rectum. I have never engaged in any homosexual activity. I do not have any medical insurance so I can't go see a doctor, and Google just keeps giving me links to pornographic sites. What can I do?
Re:Ask Slashdot
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Anonymous Coward
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"Translation: '*Please* don't make me click on the link read an article before I am able to post an insightful/funny/whatever comment to/. !!!!' right?"
No, not even close. I'm campaigning against the laziness and selfishness of the blurb-authors who can't be troubled to write an informative blurb, and against the common Slashdot attitude that it's somehow more 3l33t and studly to click on every link, whether you know what it's about or not.
Some people have their own priorities to keep them busy, and well-designed hypertext should make their lives easier not harder.
"rest assured that an article from the Economist is worth your time"
Geez, you're not half-pompous, are you?
Am I a member?
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DarkHelmet
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Are you a member of the EFF yet?
I'm waiting until they start giving Wil Wheaton figurines with every 100 dollar or greater donation.
I'm also waiting on getting an inflatable Love-Gnu for when I donate 100 or more dollars to the Free Software Foundation.
I think I'll be waiting a while on those, so I might have to go commercial and purchase a Nullsoft Love Llama for the time being.
You're right, that sounded bigheaded and dumb. I was in a grumpy, haven't-had-my-coffee-yet, mood.
I guess what I meant is : I (usually) like the Economist, which isn't a particularly valuable piece of information, I admit.:-)
Never mind. Good thing is, modding takes care of all that.
cheers,
Roland
I knew Eddy.
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Yea I saw that kid play at Ames. He was spectacular. Too bad he can't hold his liquor, doesn't know when to quit, and doesn't have enough character to play the big leagues. Eddie Felton??? I thought you meant Felson. nevermind
Slashdot Mirror
a beowulf cluster of those!
I'm really hoping you look like Marlon Brando ;)
"I'm tired of all this 'Aren't humanity great' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes" - Bill Hicks
Just try to invision witnessing
Your momma building beowulf's in the kitchen
bitching that someone's always unplugging cables
when packets is missing
Not everyone knows that Ed Felten is an
anti-DMCA activist, so it would have been
helpful to spell this out in the blurb.
Everybody's freeeeeeeeeeee to piss good, to piss good!
in degrading order of importance.
1. Enironmental degradation will take billions of lives (human,animal and plant-lives)
2. famine : 6000 deaths per day. that's TWICE 9/11.
3. the islam and the western world who don't want to listen to the other's views and concerns.
Stories like these that I can't think of any way to karma whore.
I mean come on... Some bleeding heart organization wants more people to give them money. It's not like I've just got all this disposable income lying around. Bah, mod this off as troll or whatever I don't care. I just wish these stupid organizations that always claim to do things in the name of good could find a way to TURN A FUCKING PROFIT like any other business and carry their own damn weight.
All throughout history, people who helped others like Gandi and Mother Teresa were poverty-stricken. If you want to do good, it's a thankless job... Get used to it.
I've got a clear fluid discharge from my rectum. I have never engaged in any homosexual activity. I do not have any medical insurance so I can't go see a doctor, and Google just keeps giving me links to pornographic sites. What can I do?
No, not even close. I'm campaigning against the laziness and selfishness of the blurb-authors who can't be troubled to write an informative blurb, and against the common Slashdot attitude that it's somehow more 3l33t and studly to click on every link, whether you know what it's about or not.
Some people have their own priorities to keep them busy, and well-designed hypertext should make their lives easier not harder.
"rest assured that an article from the Economist is worth your time"
Geez, you're not half-pompous, are you?
I'm waiting until they start giving Wil Wheaton figurines with every 100 dollar or greater donation.
I'm also waiting on getting an inflatable Love-Gnu for when I donate 100 or more dollars to the Free Software Foundation.
I think I'll be waiting a while on those, so I might have to go commercial and purchase a Nullsoft Love Llama for the time being.
Shame.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
hey, I apologize!
:-)
You're right, that sounded bigheaded and dumb. I was in a grumpy, haven't-had-my-coffee-yet, mood.
I guess what I meant is : I (usually) like the Economist, which isn't a particularly valuable piece of information, I admit.
Never mind. Good thing is, modding takes care of all that.
cheers,
Roland
Yea I saw that kid play at Ames. He was spectacular. Too bad he can't hold his liquor, doesn't know when to quit, and doesn't have enough character to play the big leagues.
Eddie Felton???
I thought you meant Felson.
nevermind
good question