You complain about the supposed content of Hellmouth, and then state that you want to filter out any posts regarding it.
Why should anybody listen to your posts when you aren't even willing to make an informed decision? How can you comment on anything that you don't read or don't want to? Isn't the first step in activism informing yourself?
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Glad somebody called Metallica on their actions. I can't say how disappointed I am at Metallica, a band I had once imagined to be probably the least corporate band in the U.S., taking this stand.
But I guess with the greatest hits albums, b-side collections, symphony appearances, I really shouldn't have been all that surprised.
Everybody who is upset about getting their/. posts quoted in the book are upset because of one of two reasons:
They didn't get their two seconds of fame, because all the posts were stripped of names. Now, nobody in the print world will know of the offended poster's infinite wisdom.
They didn't get their two cents of royalties, because Jon Katz and Rob Malda are actually getting money from publication of the book, even though they are turning over that money to charity.
Jon and Rob are not idiots. If they were to seek permissions for all the posts they chose to include, they would run into the following problems:
Everyone who posted as an AC would be cropping up claiming they had produced the quote. Ensuing battle would take months.
People would be pissed about not making any money off the publication. Ensuing battle would take months.
People would refuse to allow intelligent quotes to appear in the book on the sole basis that they hate Jon Katz. Ensuing idiocy would occur perpetually.
As others have said, a little CGI or HTTP-REFERRER could solve this problem - but that assumes Ticketmaster hires the best people in the business and pays them accordingly.
The reason why they are suing is that they have lawyers who have the expertise to contest the case but not the technical talent to remedy it.
Given their history of strikebreaking in the railway and mining strikes at the end of the 1800's and beginning of the 1900's, how can they be relied upon to conduct this program with an eye to doing anything except reinforcing the status quo?
"If you want someone to listen, why don't you go talk to a wall?"
The possible future of Unix....
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I don't want to get into prediction mode, for every prediction that comes true there are 1000 that never came close.
IMHO, I cannot see UNIX completely dying out, but I can see the UNIX field possibly condensing into distributions/flavors that are supported by corporations. I don't see Sun going anywhere, at least.
I don't think UNIX would disappear unless a company marketing a Linux distribution grew to the same level as Sun or IBM in terms of support services available. Large corporations using critical systems would not consider using a Linux distribution unless they knew they could have 24/7 support falling all over themselves to kiss their asses.
In addition, I don't see a great deal of "embedded" systems (phone switches, from PBX up to Central Offices) switching from UNIX to Linux. At the least, I imagine Lucent will keep on with Unix - they were the guys who came up with it in the first place. While there are NT-based switches available in the PBX and ACD market, the number of telco managers using them greatly declines each week due to them committing suicide when their switch crashes.:-)
Iridium Satellites of Love
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Actually, these satellites were created with just this contingency in mind. Upon the failure of the company, these satellites are programmed to RAIN FIREY DEATH down upon the peoples of the Earth, resulting in THE END OF LIFE as we know it. BWA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!
I stand corrected re: only Open Source. I meant anyone, whether working for profit or not, who develops interesting and meaningful projects. I guess I focused on the Open Source stuff because usually these folks don't get the press the for-profit people do.
Yeah, I know it sounds hokey, but maybe it would be a good idea to have something on/. about the "heroes" of Open Source, the unsung people who really do the interesting and important things, but get no media attention.
Maybe the slashdot effect will help these folks get some well-deserved attention.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! No, seriously, I really think that developments like this are the coolest! I also like to see the involvement of Creative. I love it when another major company gets involved and dispels the FUD that Open Source is going nowhere.
My hat goes off to you, Chris, for identifying the heart of the matter. So long as technical people of any stripe choose to sneer at those less skilled than themselves, the technologies they promote will forever be niche items.
Imagine what it would be like if every time you went to the doctor when you got sick, the doctor ridiculed you for your lack of health awareness. Or when you went to get your taxes done, the accountant laughed at you when you ended up having to pay the government.
Very few people in the Open Source movement are truly visionary - most are masters of a certain skill set, much like a doctor, lawyer, accountant or professional athlete. Yet many feel that this skill set endows them with the right to look down their nose at others less skilled than themselves.
If the goal of the movement is to truly crush the competition, we will have to play the game.
Not that they will listen to you, but here is the contact info for the RIAA.
Hilary Rosen's bio notes that she is a "veteran lobbyist on Capitol Hill." Interesting that the RIAA is based in Washington DC and not in L.A. where most of the labels are.
Of course, the RIAA will probably send its goons to seize your hard drive if you send them email. But, hey, nobody misses democracy, right?
About two or three months ago, an agent with Canada's Intelligence service (yes, they actually have one) somehow managed to get clearance to take home a bunch of classified documents to study while on vacation. She took them with her in her van while she attended a hockey game in Toronto at the Air Canada Centre. While she was inside, vandals looking for cash broke into the van and walked off with the box of documents. Upon finding out the box only contained papers, they threw them out in a dumpster. When the agent returned to her van, rather than reporting the theft immediately, she waited a week before informing her supervisor, at which point the vandals, while being caught, couldn't remember where they had dumped documents. For more info, follow this link.
Earlier to that, a disk containing a list of informants was left in a phone booth. Someone found it and took it home to discover that, not only was this disk left somewhere, the files on it were not encrypted. Luckily the person who found the disk was honest enough to return it, and it was believed that the identity of the informants was not released to anyone else.
Honestly, sometimes our love of technological advancements scares me. As long as it doesn't come from Microsoft or the government, we think it's cool regardless of the possible cosequences. Do we really want other people, including private corporations, to have the ability to spy on us?
What about these possibilities:
Your landlord takes some snaps every once in a while to see if you're keeping up the property.
You call in sick on a nice sunny day (or you refuse to work seven days in a row, saying you have a family function to go to). Your boss knows you have a pool. How about a flyover to see if you're using it?
Your city government wants to see if your property is in accordance with what it has on records, and if you have made any improvements or changes that require permits or the raising of your tax assessment.
As the technology becomes cheaper, perhaps a crime ring can take a few snaps to see what the patterns are in your neighborhood, and hit all the houses without having to hang around in advance and look suspicious.
We should always consider all the implications of something before we praise it.
I doubt very much that wireless devices will replace desktop PC's. There are still many developments coming out for desktops, plus the full size keyboard is the fastest method of input available without speech recognition. There are comfort issues as well. I know whenever I work off my laptop that I can't wait to get to the nice full screen of my desktop. I know PDA's are cool, but I doubt I'll use them for anything rather than pure functionality. As others have no doubt said, consider the source. Texas Instruments completely missed out on the PC revolution, although they tried to cash in with the horribly misplaced TI-99. The TI-99 was way ahead of its time in proving why a great deal of people don't like using a tiny computer - it's just plain hard to do. I couldn't envision using a handheld device for anything more than using a GPS transceiver to negotiate my way out of a traffic jam, or to jot down an appointment or quick note. I certainly couldn't work on the Great American Novel while listening to Launchcast and downloading porn...I mean, the latest kernel update. "The network will be going down until I can figure out how to put up with all of you."
If you recompile your kernel first thing in the morning, you get "morning wood." Uh huh huh huh......
"President Clinton became a Linux proponent today when, reviewing information and software about Linux's possible competitiveness with Microsoft, he was blessed with a woody." Uh huh huh huh.....
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You complain about the supposed content of Hellmouth, and then state that you want to filter out any posts regarding it.
Why should anybody listen to your posts when you aren't even willing to make an informed decision? How can you comment on anything that you don't read or don't want to? Isn't the first step in activism informing yourself?
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Sign me up!!!!
Honestly, get thee to Segfault.org and submit the story! This is great!
Glad somebody called Metallica on their actions. I can't say how disappointed I am at Metallica, a band I had once imagined to be probably the least corporate band in the U.S., taking this stand.
But I guess with the greatest hits albums, b-side collections, symphony appearances, I really shouldn't have been all that surprised.
Everybody who is upset about getting their /. posts quoted in the book are upset because of one of two reasons:
Jon and Rob are not idiots. If they were to seek permissions for all the posts they chose to include, they would run into the following problems:
Grow up and get a life outside of /.
Are we forgetting that this is the agency who recently lost one probe because they confused metric and imperial measurements, and lost another due to rushing and cutting corners.
I'm not a NASA basher, but do we really want these folks putting things inside our bodies?
I thought the whole damn thing about drivers is that they were different across OS's and it was a lot more complicated than just recompiling.
If they have a bunch of translators, doesn't that make the program just HUGE???
Guess that's what they're planning those huge disks for.
As others have said, a little CGI or HTTP-REFERRER could solve this problem - but that assumes Ticketmaster hires the best people in the business and pays them accordingly.
The reason why they are suing is that they have lawyers who have the expertise to contest the case but not the technical talent to remedy it.
Given their history of strikebreaking in the railway and mining strikes at the end of the 1800's and beginning of the 1900's, how can they be relied upon to conduct this program with an eye to doing anything except reinforcing the status quo?
"I had a dream where I was an idiot."
"If you want someone to listen, why don't you go talk to a wall?"
IMHO, I cannot see UNIX completely dying out, but I can see the UNIX field possibly condensing into distributions/flavors that are supported by corporations. I don't see Sun going anywhere, at least.
I don't think UNIX would disappear unless a company marketing a Linux distribution grew to the same level as Sun or IBM in terms of support services available. Large corporations using critical systems would not consider using a Linux distribution unless they knew they could have 24/7 support falling all over themselves to kiss their asses.
In addition, I don't see a great deal of "embedded" systems (phone switches, from PBX up to Central Offices) switching from UNIX to Linux. At the least, I imagine Lucent will keep on with Unix - they were the guys who came up with it in the first place. While there are NT-based switches available in the PBX and ACD market, the number of telco managers using them greatly declines each week due to them committing suicide when their switch crashes. :-)
Either that, or they will become the new Skynet.
Maybe the slashdot effect will help these folks get some well-deserved attention.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! No, seriously, I really think that developments like this are the coolest! I also like to see the involvement of Creative. I love it when another major company gets involved and dispels the FUD that Open Source is going nowhere.
Imagine what it would be like if every time you went to the doctor when you got sick, the doctor ridiculed you for your lack of health awareness. Or when you went to get your taxes done, the accountant laughed at you when you ended up having to pay the government.
Very few people in the Open Source movement are truly visionary - most are masters of a certain skill set, much like a doctor, lawyer, accountant or professional athlete. Yet many feel that this skill set endows them with the right to look down their nose at others less skilled than themselves.
If the goal of the movement is to truly crush the competition, we will have to play the game.
Hilary Rosen's bio notes that she is a "veteran lobbyist on Capitol Hill." Interesting that the RIAA is based in Washington DC and not in L.A. where most of the labels are.
Of course, the RIAA will probably send its goons to seize your hard drive if you send them email. But, hey, nobody misses democracy, right?
Earlier to that, a disk containing a list of informants was left in a phone booth. Someone found it and took it home to discover that, not only was this disk left somewhere, the files on it were not encrypted. Luckily the person who found the disk was honest enough to return it, and it was believed that the identity of the informants was not released to anyone else.
Plus, if they released it everybody would find out it's been programmed in BASIC.
But it would be an interesting reading experience.
What about these possibilities:
We should always consider all the implications of something before we praise it.
I doubt very much that wireless devices will replace desktop PC's. There are still many developments coming out for desktops, plus the full size keyboard is the fastest method of input available without speech recognition. There are comfort issues as well. I know whenever I work off my laptop that I can't wait to get to the nice full screen of my desktop. I know PDA's are cool, but I doubt I'll use them for anything rather than pure functionality. As others have no doubt said, consider the source. Texas Instruments completely missed out on the PC revolution, although they tried to cash in with the horribly misplaced TI-99. The TI-99 was way ahead of its time in proving why a great deal of people don't like using a tiny computer - it's just plain hard to do. I couldn't envision using a handheld device for anything more than using a GPS transceiver to negotiate my way out of a traffic jam, or to jot down an appointment or quick note. I certainly couldn't work on the Great American Novel while listening to Launchcast and downloading porn...I mean, the latest kernel update. "The network will be going down until I can figure out how to put up with all of you."
Too many people had the
Too many people support us
An unlimited amount
Too many outlets in and out
Who?
E-M-I!!!!
If you recompile your kernel first thing in the morning, you get "morning wood." Uh huh huh huh......
"President Clinton became a Linux proponent today when, reviewing information and software about Linux's possible competitiveness with Microsoft, he was blessed with a woody." Uh huh huh huh.....
This is cool......
Shut up, Stewart!