Before I get slammed as a troll, let me tell you a story:
Back in 1967, my parents bought an old farm with about 100 acres of property and a big house for about 15,000. That was a lot of money at the time. They've remodeled the house, repaired the damage due to old-time stripmining, and other improvements. In addition to this, property values in the are have shot up due to "sprawl." We're very close to Pittsburgh, PA, and to a community that itself was once all farmland, Cranberry. Because they're so close, property values have shot up.
That same property is worth millions now. A 3 acre lot is worth about 100,000 dollars now, without even having a house on it yet.
When it comes time for my siblings and I to inherit this property, the 40 percent tax we'll have to pay on this property will be astronomical. None of us is going to be making enough money to pay this.
Who's going to win here? My parents have fought to keep this property out of the hands of developers. The death tax will end that battle, and my parents will have lost.
Just ask the innocent young baronets who lost their heads during the French Revolution. THEY didn't rape the serfs, but they paid a stiff price for their grandparents' arrogant, insatiable greed.
I wouldn't call everything my parents worked their hearts out for "greed."
I don't even want to sell the property to make money off of it. I just want to preserve farmland, and woodland. My siblings feel the same way. The money means nothing to me in comparison to this.
So who's REALLY helping big business here? Bush, the guy who wants me and mine to keep this? Or Gore, who opposes this? Seems to me that Gore is on the side of all the "yuppie" land developers.
Brin is a brilliant writer. But I think he has some things to learn about politics. Specifically, that this country was not founded, nor became successful on, the politics of socialism and "public wealth." My parents aren't leaving us the Carnegie billions. They're leaving us the farm.
What this is called is a "rider." Addendums like this are often tagged onto bills for one of two reasons:
First, suppose that the Republicans front a bill that the Democrats are rabidly against. Democrats can attach a subsection like this (a "rider") to kill support for the whole bill because no one wants the terms of the rider making it into law. So if the Democrats didn't like the bill, they could tack on a rider that says "All left-handed people will pay a tax of 1000 dollars." Which is ridiculous. So of course the whole bill gets dumped because the Republicans don't want to come off as discriminating agains left-handed people.
Riders can be used another way. Suppose now that the Democrats have a bill which EVERYBODY, including the Republicans want. Now, some Republican attaches a "rider" which contains some provisions that the Democrats would never pass. Because support for the rest of the bill is so overwhelming, it's often passed anyway because the Democrats don't want to sabotage the rest of the bill.
Jon, have you ever been more of an irresponsible idiot as when you posted this article? It's bad enough that I wasn't logged in that I had to see that you had a post at all.
Jon, you have no idea what UNBIASED reporting is. You state later in the article a comment to the effect of "all the candidates are equally this clueless." Well why didn't you call them ALL idiots? I quote:
And to be fair, it isn't just Bush. The high point of the vice-presidential confrontation was when the Republican candidate Richard Cheney berated the Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman for softening his ferocious attacks on the "violent" culture of the young, especially movies, TV shows and videogames.
So why didn't you call them ALL idiots? Why make the headline?
I'll tell you why! You're first and foremost _THE_ Slashdot TROLL. Sorry to Sig11 and Enoch_Root, but you guys got NOTHING on this guy. At least Sig11, etc., are funny to read sometimes. Hell, even OOG the Opensource Caveman had more intelligent reporting to do than you.
What the hell, Slashdot? Why are you guys doing PROMOTING this travesty of journalism? If you have a political opinion, BE SURE THAT YOU CALL IT AN OPINION. Anything else is juvenile and irresponsible.
Can we agree that today's politicians are ignorant of the Internet and what it really means?
Slashdot: If you really cared about trolls you'd drop this sensationalist like a hot rock.
Why are you guys modding this down as a troll? A troll (for you moderators) is a deliberately inflammatory or argument-provoking post, posted only to provoke comment. While some of the language here is not real clean, it's really funny to anyone who's seen the fake Bruce Perens and listened to Eminem.
I'm all for burying trolls, but for goodness sake, have a sense of humor.
As someone who uses Solaris regularly at work, here's my observations:
On an Ultra, you're better off with Solaris. 64-bit architecture o/s designed for the hardware it's running on UltraPenguin just doesn't have the background that the Sun engineers have put into Solaris. Linux runs well here, its just that you already have a very mature o/s to compete with here.
I have been very impressed with the way Linux performs on IPX's and IPC's, etc. This 32-bit Sun architecture really crawls with Solaris. You really notice the difference with Linux, especially with X and X apps. Good Lord, I could go wash my car waiting for CDE or OpenWindows to fire up on an IPX.
Linux = Great on non-Ultra
Solaris = Great on Ultra
I have to protest. I also submitted comments to this request, and I do not see my arguments here. While my own submission was not as well-versed as the comments I see here, it was rational, non-ranting, and thought-out.
I think what you're seeing is the JVM taking up room, not the application itself (not totally, anyway.)
The Swing API sure does need some work in the speed department.
However, 3D acceleration works quite well. Using GL4Java or Magician (free libraries that bind Java3D to your OpenGL interface) you get 3D acceleration that works quite well. It's no specially-compiled assembly, but acceptable in performance nonetheless.
For some GOOD examples of what a dedicated java hacker can do, go to:
Actually, Linux DOES support autoplay of cd's. RedHat 6.2 default install puts this in automagically. So, whenever you're in your fancy Gnome shell and you put in the cd, you get a popup asking for the root password, and poof! a GnoRpm tool shows up.
I do agree with most of your points, however.
Dude, get a SB16. It's not a new card, it doesn't have the bells and whistles, but you know, the damn thing works everywhere, under every O/S I've ever tried. Can't help you with the 4 speaker output.
Got off lucky? From what? Walking down the street and wearing questionable clothing? Do you think he was trying to be friends with the police? Who do you think he was protesting against? As far as I can tell, police harrassment was what he was protesting.
Hmmm. Let's think about this. Ok, I wear a tutu and combat boots, shave my head with a Quake 3 symbol, and walk down the street singing "Copacabana." Are people going to look at me? Hahahah.
Ok, now. Do I have the right to do this? Abso-fricken-lutely. Do people have the right to reserve the opinion that I look like a freak? You bet.
Now, do I have the right to FORCE people not to think I look like a freak? HELL NO. So, is it harassment when people don't agree with my opinion? According to you, it is.
If I walk down the sidewalk dressed like Rambo (according to Slashdot types all rednecks do this, and of course all rednecks own guns) screaming "SCREW YOU PIG" I should attract no attention whatsoever from the police.
That's like walking up to a cop, asking him "Guess if I have a gun or not?" and expecting him to walk away. I agree. You really are an idiot.
Protesting is not necessarily making a complete asshole out of yourself, especially to cops who are trying to do a job, and a difficult one at that. If you want to protest, and be an effective protester, you have to target the people you intend to affect directly.
Do you think you're winning any friends in the police department? They think you're a thug. Do you think you're winning any friends from people who live in that area? Heck no. Now the cops are down on them too, because you have to be a jerk.
I'm not entirely certain this isn't troll I'm responding to, but oh well...
You're wailing and railing against "conservatives" who are making all these new laws. Ummmmmm...are you trolling, or just not paying attention?
Is Janet Reno a conservative? Is Bill Clinton a conservative? How about Hillary? And just who is it calling for lots of new police powers and new laws restricting guns, information freedom, a national I.D. system?????
Why it's your friendly neighborhood liberals!
So...instead of putting criminals in jail, and prosecuting them under existing law, your friendly liberals want more laws. I don't think you actually hear what Rush says.
If you're really that concerned about having a DOS shell, go to the "Run" menu, and type "command"...I got a DOS prompt when I did it.
I assume that most of the hubbub here is about the Mac-like interface, that is, no CLI access to anything. Well, it just ain't so.
True, you can't boot to dos mode. I made myself a bootable utilities cd. Asus, the maker of my K7V, has a Windows flash utility now. I've tried it (nervously, I might add) and it worked fine.It has a Win98 command prompt, generic ATAPI cdrom support, and support for lots of SCSI cards. I also have a neat Seagate utility I found on it that can zero out any hard drive, provided you know the number of heads, sectors, and cylinders.
The point is, do you really need a DOS mode? Make one of these cd's. If you need an iso image, I'm sure I could make one available if there were enough demand. I don't know about the legality of distributing such an image, though...
For crying out loud, if the RIAA isn't about greed and money, then why do we pay a frickin' royalty on all recordable media?
Artists complaining about piracy is valid. A large corporation complaining because they no longer monopolize the flow of information (music distribution) is GREED.
You're right on about SA. Take Counter-Strike as an example. I watch people play this game all the time who apparently don't think about what the other team might be doing or thinking. How can I tell?
Easy. If one person is making an effort to walk, not run, to avoid noise...and the other guy is not...well. Example 2: checking well-known hiding (camping?:) spots before charging into an area. 3: LISTEN. You can hear them coming, you know.
quote: There is no reason games can't be both simple and possessed of this depth of consequences- but you can't have that level of inner complexity without some very good design.
CounterStrike has this good design. And, it is absolutely addictive. A thinking man's shooter. Who would have guessed?
Don't forget System Shock 2 and Thief, epecially Thief! What a breath of fresh air that was. If you haven't played this game, you owe it to yourself to play it. Not only was Thief a great game, but people all over the place have developed additional single-player add-on missions, some of which are as good as the originals. Some are even a bit better.
I know now that securing a *nix box isn't a 5 minute explanation. At the time, however, I didn't even know that you could crack a box like that. I was THAT new to unix security. I was at the point where I figured that unless you could snoop the wire (which you couldn't, I was on a switched port) or knew the passwords, you were home free. That's how much I knew about it. Linux distributions at the time (I was using Slackware 2.0) didn't talk much about security either.
Essentially, I didn't even know I had to secure anything. I would have been happy with a decent source of information, but I didn't even get that from PSU security.
The administration did not cause my problems. They merely a mechanism to add problems.
The cracker caused my problems. Did he have to send those emails? Did he care that I'd lose my connection because he wanted to add user accounts no. I hold him solely responsible.
As for who's getting a good laugh, I have had the extreme pleasure of helping 2 sysadmins (buddies of mine) track crackers to prosecution. One is in court presently. It just about gave me a woodie.
I used to be a student as Penn State. One of the benefits to on-campus residence is an ethernet port and a legit IP.
Some time after I moved in, I discovered Linux, and Unix. (Mostly from working on SGI's. I wanted to be able to run ANSYS without going down to the labs.)
VERY soon after I discovered Linux, I discovered what rootkits were. I woke up about 7 in the morning because my cdrom drive (an old noisy Mitsumi) was going nuts. I was certainly no guru at this point, and I had no idea what was going on. I did a ps aux, but I didn't see anything happening, so I just took the cdrom out and went back to bed.
Two days later I noticed that my ethernet connection wasn't working anymore. I called down to the computer center and was informed that my connection had been shut off and that there were charges pending against me for "cracking" attempts on PSU's servers. It took me 3 months to get my connection back.
When I asked PSU for help securing my machine, I was told to use a different operating system.
In addition to my own machine being cracked, my friend who was also running linux for the first time got cracked (probably thru my machine) and had nasty emails sent from his machine to a couple of government agencies. He and I were both in some deep shit for a while, and had done NOTHING.
So, cracking DOES hurt. I'd like to extend a big FUCK YOU to the kind of people who think that getting others in trouble is funny. Another big F*** You to every little clone virus writer who make life for tech support a living hell. You don't advance knowledge. You aren't doing anyone any favors. You prove nothing except that you are the same as vandals with a can a spraypaint. God help you if I ever find one of you.
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Back in 1967, my parents bought an old farm with about 100 acres of property and a big house for about 15,000. That was a lot of money at the time. They've remodeled the house, repaired the damage due to old-time stripmining, and other improvements. In addition to this, property values in the are have shot up due to "sprawl." We're very close to Pittsburgh, PA, and to a community that itself was once all farmland, Cranberry. Because they're so close, property values have shot up.
That same property is worth millions now. A 3 acre lot is worth about 100,000 dollars now, without even having a house on it yet.
When it comes time for my siblings and I to inherit this property, the 40 percent tax we'll have to pay on this property will be astronomical. None of us is going to be making enough money to pay this.
Who's going to win here? My parents have fought to keep this property out of the hands of developers. The death tax will end that battle, and my parents will have lost.
Just ask the innocent young baronets who lost their heads during the French Revolution. THEY didn't rape the serfs, but they paid a stiff price for their grandparents' arrogant, insatiable greed.
I wouldn't call everything my parents worked their hearts out for "greed."
I don't even want to sell the property to make money off of it. I just want to preserve farmland, and woodland. My siblings feel the same way. The money means nothing to me in comparison to this.
So who's REALLY helping big business here? Bush, the guy who wants me and mine to keep this? Or Gore, who opposes this? Seems to me that Gore is on the side of all the "yuppie" land developers.
Brin is a brilliant writer. But I think he has some things to learn about politics. Specifically, that this country was not founded, nor became successful on, the politics of socialism and "public wealth." My parents aren't leaving us the Carnegie billions. They're leaving us the farm.
First, suppose that the Republicans front a bill that the Democrats are rabidly against. Democrats can attach a subsection like this (a "rider") to kill support for the whole bill because no one wants the terms of the rider making it into law. So if the Democrats didn't like the bill, they could tack on a rider that says "All left-handed people will pay a tax of 1000 dollars." Which is ridiculous. So of course the whole bill gets dumped because the Republicans don't want to come off as discriminating agains left-handed people.
Riders can be used another way. Suppose now that the Democrats have a bill which EVERYBODY, including the Republicans want. Now, some Republican attaches a "rider" which contains some provisions that the Democrats would never pass. Because support for the rest of the bill is so overwhelming, it's often passed anyway because the Democrats don't want to sabotage the rest of the bill.
Hope that clears things up.
Jon, you have no idea what UNBIASED reporting is. You state later in the article a comment to the effect of "all the candidates are equally this clueless." Well why didn't you call them ALL idiots? I quote:
And to be fair, it isn't just Bush. The high point of the vice-presidential confrontation was when the Republican candidate Richard Cheney berated the Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman for softening his ferocious attacks on the "violent" culture of the young, especially movies, TV shows and videogames.
So why didn't you call them ALL idiots? Why make the headline?
I'll tell you why! You're first and foremost _THE_ Slashdot TROLL. Sorry to Sig11 and Enoch_Root, but you guys got NOTHING on this guy. At least Sig11, etc., are funny to read sometimes. Hell, even OOG the Opensource Caveman had more intelligent reporting to do than you.
What the hell, Slashdot? Why are you guys doing PROMOTING this travesty of journalism? If you have a political opinion, BE SURE THAT YOU CALL IT AN OPINION. Anything else is juvenile and irresponsible.
Can we agree that today's politicians are ignorant of the Internet and what it really means? Slashdot: If you really cared about trolls you'd drop this sensationalist like a hot rock.
I'm all for burying trolls, but for goodness sake, have a sense of humor.
HAHAHHAHAAHHAAahahahahaha. Thank you, that was great :)
On an Ultra, you're better off with Solaris. 64-bit architecture o/s designed for the hardware it's running on UltraPenguin just doesn't have the background that the Sun engineers have put into Solaris. Linux runs well here, its just that you already have a very mature o/s to compete with here.
I have been very impressed with the way Linux performs on IPX's and IPC's, etc. This 32-bit Sun architecture really crawls with Solaris. You really notice the difference with Linux, especially with X and X apps. Good Lord, I could go wash my car waiting for CDE or OpenWindows to fire up on an IPX.
Linux = Great on non-Ultra
Solaris = Great on Ultra
Why aren't the rest of the comments here?
The Swing API sure does need some work in the speed department.
However, 3D acceleration works quite well. Using GL4Java or Magician (free libraries that bind Java3D to your OpenGL interface) you get 3D acceleration that works quite well. It's no specially-compiled assembly, but acceptable in performance nonetheless.
For some GOOD examples of what a dedicated java hacker can do, go to:
www.komplex.org
These guys do some amazing stuff with java. They have also released a good sound engine for java on Sourceforge.
So, I think that games written in Java can work.
Actually, Linux DOES support autoplay of cd's. RedHat 6.2 default install puts this in automagically. So, whenever you're in your fancy Gnome shell and you put in the cd, you get a popup asking for the root password, and poof! a GnoRpm tool shows up. I do agree with most of your points, however.
I don't use it, so I didn't read it.
See this link:Adbuster Homepage
Dude, get a SB16. It's not a new card, it doesn't have the bells and whistles, but you know, the damn thing works everywhere, under every O/S I've ever tried. Can't help you with the 4 speaker output.
You don't have enough money to make me wear a tutu. :)
Hmmm. Let's think about this. Ok, I wear a tutu and combat boots, shave my head with a Quake 3 symbol, and walk down the street singing "Copacabana." Are people going to look at me? Hahahah.
Ok, now. Do I have the right to do this? Abso-fricken-lutely. Do people have the right to reserve the opinion that I look like a freak? You bet.
Now, do I have the right to FORCE people not to think I look like a freak? HELL NO. So, is it harassment when people don't agree with my opinion? According to you, it is.
If I walk down the sidewalk dressed like Rambo (according to Slashdot types all rednecks do this, and of course all rednecks own guns) screaming "SCREW YOU PIG" I should attract no attention whatsoever from the police.
Riiiiiiight.
Protesting is not necessarily making a complete asshole out of yourself, especially to cops who are trying to do a job, and a difficult one at that. If you want to protest, and be an effective protester, you have to target the people you intend to affect directly.
Do you think you're winning any friends in the police department? They think you're a thug. Do you think you're winning any friends from people who live in that area? Heck no. Now the cops are down on them too, because you have to be a jerk.
Personally, I think you got off lightly.
You're wailing and railing against "conservatives" who are making all these new laws. Ummmmmm...are you trolling, or just not paying attention?
Is Janet Reno a conservative? Is Bill Clinton a conservative? How about Hillary? And just who is it calling for lots of new police powers and new laws restricting guns, information freedom, a national I.D. system?????
Why it's your friendly neighborhood liberals!
So...instead of putting criminals in jail, and prosecuting them under existing law, your friendly liberals want more laws. I don't think you actually hear what Rush says.
I assume that most of the hubbub here is about the Mac-like interface, that is, no CLI access to anything. Well, it just ain't so.
True, you can't boot to dos mode. I made myself a bootable utilities cd. Asus, the maker of my K7V, has a Windows flash utility now. I've tried it (nervously, I might add) and it worked fine.It has a Win98 command prompt, generic ATAPI cdrom support, and support for lots of SCSI cards. I also have a neat Seagate utility I found on it that can zero out any hard drive, provided you know the number of heads, sectors, and cylinders.
The point is, do you really need a DOS mode? Make one of these cd's. If you need an iso image, I'm sure I could make one available if there were enough demand. I don't know about the legality of distributing such an image, though...
For crying out loud, if the RIAA isn't about greed and money, then why do we pay a frickin' royalty on all recordable media? Artists complaining about piracy is valid. A large corporation complaining because they no longer monopolize the flow of information (music distribution) is GREED.
Easy. If one person is making an effort to walk, not run, to avoid noise...and the other guy is not...well. Example 2: checking well-known hiding (camping? :) spots before charging into an area. 3: LISTEN. You can hear them coming, you know.
quote: There is no reason games can't be both simple and possessed of this depth of consequences- but you can't have that level of inner complexity without some very good design.
CounterStrike has this good design. And, it is absolutely addictive. A thinking man's shooter. Who would have guessed?
Don't forget System Shock 2 and Thief, epecially Thief! What a breath of fresh air that was. If you haven't played this game, you owe it to yourself to play it. Not only was Thief a great game, but people all over the place have developed additional single-player add-on missions, some of which are as good as the originals. Some are even a bit better.
So now I apparently need to filter out Timothy as well. Soon I'll have filtered out all of Slashdot and will only see the slashboxes.
Oh well, the animated DustPuppy image is fun to watch:)
Write the o/s to a bootable cd. THAT is something even VB can't muck up :)
Essentially, I didn't even know I had to secure anything. I would have been happy with a decent source of information, but I didn't even get that from PSU security.
The cracker caused my problems. Did he have to send those emails? Did he care that I'd lose my connection because he wanted to add user accounts no. I hold him solely responsible.
As for who's getting a good laugh, I have had the extreme pleasure of helping 2 sysadmins (buddies of mine) track crackers to prosecution. One is in court presently. It just about gave me a woodie.
"Practice" on your own networks, jerks.
Some time after I moved in, I discovered Linux, and Unix. (Mostly from working on SGI's. I wanted to be able to run ANSYS without going down to the labs.)
VERY soon after I discovered Linux, I discovered what rootkits were. I woke up about 7 in the morning because my cdrom drive (an old noisy Mitsumi) was going nuts. I was certainly no guru at this point, and I had no idea what was going on. I did a ps aux, but I didn't see anything happening, so I just took the cdrom out and went back to bed.
Two days later I noticed that my ethernet connection wasn't working anymore. I called down to the computer center and was informed that my connection had been shut off and that there were charges pending against me for "cracking" attempts on PSU's servers. It took me 3 months to get my connection back.
When I asked PSU for help securing my machine, I was told to use a different operating system.
In addition to my own machine being cracked, my friend who was also running linux for the first time got cracked (probably thru my machine) and had nasty emails sent from his machine to a couple of government agencies. He and I were both in some deep shit for a while, and had done NOTHING.
So, cracking DOES hurt. I'd like to extend a big FUCK YOU to the kind of people who think that getting others in trouble is funny. Another big F*** You to every little clone virus writer who make life for tech support a living hell. You don't advance knowledge. You aren't doing anyone any favors. You prove nothing except that you are the same as vandals with a can a spraypaint. God help you if I ever find one of you.