The release is dedicated to Dr. Jun-ichiro Hagino,
known throughout the Internet community as itojun. He did lots of important work
on the IPv6 protocol through the KAME project, and made many other contributions to the Internet and
BSD communities.
At the very least, the reason not to kill people left and right is that we are all part of a society and we rely on that society for our survival. We function together doing the things that each of us does well to allow us to survive. Therefore we have rules that society has set up to allow it to function and survive. One of those is not killing each other. Another is taking care of children in order to continue as a society.
If you look at everything as one organism trying to survive it all makes perfect sense. You do not need any outside force or outside morals. They are all part of the being. That is simply a metaphor, but it explains why things that you are treating as separate and apart from each other are truly not. There is nothing irrational about caring about poor people, drug abuse, the environment, and war in remote countries, because all of these things DO affect me as part of the larger organism known as the Earth. Sticking to principles that have shown their worthiness, whether or not their direct immediate effect on me has been shown, is a sound strategy for the long term of the world and me.
I have faith in all sorts of things that are not God. I have faith that the elevator I step into will open up again on the floor that I press the button for. I have faith that money is worth something. I have little or no faith in an external being having anything to do with the creation of life. It is not part of my world. It was an explanation that someone came up with years ago when they did not have the tools to observe the interconnected nature of life and needed some unifying force.
There is no inherent need to impose an external God-based set of rules and laws to act morally. If these God-based rules work to further the society then let them be applied. If they do not work, we can change them and ignore the God-enforced stricture. This flexibility is an advantage to listening to one book with one group of people's set of rules that they say they got from a Supernatural entity thousands of years ago. The great part is that the changes that do not work can be changed again if and when they prove non-beneficial. You can't do that with the Bible.
If you haven't noticed, I'm funny and enjoy having fun. Enjoy my site, tell me if you use my projects. Don't take it too seriously though, it's all an act.
If you ask me, he doesn't sound like a real person. He sounds like an alter ego. If you read his page about himself he says:
If you haven't noticed, I'm funny and enjoy having fun. Enjoy my site, tell me if you use my projects. Don't take it too seriously though, it's all an act.
I've created an intense anti-matter beam so powerful that it could evaporate half of New New York if it was accidentally activated. So just remember not to press this big red button!
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"Getting the brain out is the easy part. The hard part is getting the brain out." -Parallel Universe Dr. Hubert Farnsworth
I hope you guys aren't forgetting to put these things in an autoclave before using any method of cable freezing. The audio characteristics of bacteria interacting with the cables causes intensely harsh (or as I like to say "brown") sounds.
> Anyway I'm praying for the US dollar to continue to plummet (and continue to fall against the NZD) so that I can return, should I choose to, with more than I left with.
You didn't have to go all the way to New Zealand. (Though I have been there and think it is a great country). The Canadian dollar now has parity with the US dollar for the first time since 1976, after hitting an all time low of 61.92 cents in 2002. How's that for return on your money?
It would be nice if that were actually true, but Wal-Mart actually forces its suppliers to create cheaper crap by imposing downward pressure on prices. Many suppliers are even forced to supply their goods at a loss just to keep the Wal-Mart business in hopes that they can somehow cut costs and maybe turn a profit in the future. That is how we get things like Chinese supplied poisoned pet food and toothpaste, because constant downward pressure on cost beyond reason forces suppliers to go with less reputable subcontractors that are willing to put lives at danger to make profit. Target is not anywhere near as relentless in their demand for cost savings, and they don't have the scale to make the same difference that Wal-Mart does.
I am so sick and tired of these articles appearing in Slashdot. The titles are always sensationalist. The body is always misleading.
Someone with no understanding of Science seems to get a thrill out of believing something overthrows the order of the Science world, whether it is Cold Fusion, or the speed of light, or quantum theory.
When will it stop?
It is like the monthly news reports in the mainstream media telling us that "surprise surprise" obesity (especially around the belly) leads to heart disease, or wine/coffee is good/bad for you.
On a related note, I also asked Stallman what he thought of the wedding photography industry. For those of you who don't know, typical wedding photographers cost over a thousand dollars, show up at your wedding to take pictures, and then make you pay through the nose for prints. They don't even give you the copyright, if you want more prints you have to go back to the photographer! One must shop around to find a photographer who'll actually give you the digital originals. Anyway, I asked Stallman if he thought this was analogous to what was happening in the software world, and he said no. He thought closed source software was a greater imposition on freedom than holding wedding memories hostage.
I was lucky and found a very good wedding photographer that gave us complete rights and High res digital copies of our pictures 1 year after the event. She basically had exclusive rights to make prints for 1 year only. Then we could do whatever we wanted. I thought that was fair. It gave her an opportunity to make some profit, yet she didn't hold our photos hostage.
>As for what they do about Linux? I tell them that I have Windows. I lie my ass off to them. Why? If I tell them that I have a Linux router, a FreeBSD >server, and four Linux workstations, they assume that the problem is with me. If I am calling because the modem has block sync, and is connected just >fine, and that I can ping everything up to their gateway, which is (maybe) responding to one ping packet every *minute* or so, they still say "Well, it >must be your problem." They know *nothing* about networking, which is something that you would think would be required for someone that, well, supports >a network.
When I had service from this godforsaken company, I lied my ass off too. At that point, they were trying to tell me that I couldn't use a router because it was against the EULA or something. They were trying to charge you for every access device that touched their network. Ridiculous, cuz it's just bits to them. Every time I called Technical Support, I had to remove my router, boot into Windows and troubleshoot the problem like I was a complete idiot. If I mentioned pinging or gateways, the person on the other end got flustered.
Once, a slightly clued tech support guy was convinced that I had a router, to which I kept insisting that I had no idea what he was talking about. I had just removed my router 2 minutes before. He was trying to imply that I was stealing service from the company. I just kept playing dumb and had him fix the problem at hand. Then I hooked my router back up. I am pretty sure they stopped trying to enforce their stupid "no router" rule, but still, if you ever need tech support, first remove it, because the complexity will just destroy their ability to troubleshoot anything.
Why did you choose to call them Tech Writers? They are not Technical Writers. By trying not to sully your own already sullied profession, you have insulted another respectable profession that is widely misunderstood and lacks its due respect. I am a Technical writer (or Tech Writer for short) and when I saw this headline, I thought that STC (Society for Technical Communications) had come out against the GPL3. Instead, it is just some bozo. Call them Writers about Tech if you must, but please don't call them Tech Writers.
For one thing, size matters for the manufacturing process. The larger the chip of silicon, the more likely there is a flaw in it. If you increase the size of the silicon chip, you are likely to throw away many more flawed processors, wasting your time and money.
Hear hear! This is exactly what I was going to say. Having lived through Compaq/HPs disastrous decision up close, I can tell you that CxO types were showing us with great certainty how the Itanium was projected to outperform the EV8 (alpha) within 3 years. If they had ever built the EV8 it would undoubtedly be smashing not only the actual results that the Itanium has turned in, but those bogus predictions as well.
Itanium was supposed to become the "Industry Standard" commodity CPU. Instead it is a niche player that had Intel backpedaling to support AMD's extensions to x86. Never trust your CxO when discussing technology. They are swayed by their Marketing buddies that buy them drinks on the golf course more than their own employees.
Microsoft does have a cult. A very large one that contains most technologically illiterate CXOs and a horde of IT professionals that wouldn't have a clue what to do with a shell. Also, I know of plenty of programmers that are passionate about.Net and think Silverlight is the future. Seriously! I can't believe it either, but there are a bunch of them. Just because in your circles no one is in this category doesn't mean they aren't around. I run into them way too often.
My favorite song off of my favorite Talking Heads album (Fear of Music). As good a fake African language as Sid Caesar faking Eastern European languages.
The SEC can seek to bar people from being members of the board of a company if they have broken securities laws. Martha Stewart is banned for 5 years from being a director of a public company. Something similar could conceivably happen to Jobs.
I agree. What has Doubleclick done that is worse than what Google has done already? Doubleclick was just one of the first ones to use cookies to gather information on people, so they are reviled. The spyware canard is bogus.
For real privacy concerns, look to Chase, Citibank, and Bank of America, or data-crunching houses like Acxiom. They all have important financial information on you.
>The reason they keep trying is because they hope to finally find something different from what those theories predict: this will probably open a very exciting period of progress for our understanding of the universe.
I disagree. This is good news because finding the truth is good news. The purpose of Science is to find the truth (or as close an approximation as possible), not to find more Science to do. Whatever the reality of the Universe, discovery of that is what is important. If we find the Higgs boson (for example) right where the Standard Model says it should be, that is not bad news because it could be more interesting for scientists if it weren't true. That is good news because we know one more fact about the Universe.
Have you thought about the fact that Microsoft doesn't just get access to the doubleclick domains, but doubleclick gets access to the microsoft domains. You gonna block all them, go ahead. Not many companies will.
I would never do business with Verizon because years ago, when I canceled my landline phone service to switch to cell only, they gave me 1 week to pay the last bill before they sent a collection agency after me. The agency had the balls to call me AT WORK. I was furious. I will NEVER do any business with Verizon again.
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The release is dedicated to Dr. Jun-ichiro Hagino, known throughout the Internet community as itojun. He did lots of important work on the IPv6 protocol through the KAME project, and made many other contributions to the Internet and BSD communities.
At the very least, the reason not to kill people left and right is that we are all part of a society and we rely on that society for our survival. We function together doing the things that each of us does well to allow us to survive. Therefore we have rules that society has set up to allow it to function and survive. One of those is not killing each other. Another is taking care of children in order to continue as a society. If you look at everything as one organism trying to survive it all makes perfect sense. You do not need any outside force or outside morals. They are all part of the being. That is simply a metaphor, but it explains why things that you are treating as separate and apart from each other are truly not. There is nothing irrational about caring about poor people, drug abuse, the environment, and war in remote countries, because all of these things DO affect me as part of the larger organism known as the Earth. Sticking to principles that have shown their worthiness, whether or not their direct immediate effect on me has been shown, is a sound strategy for the long term of the world and me. I have faith in all sorts of things that are not God. I have faith that the elevator I step into will open up again on the floor that I press the button for. I have faith that money is worth something. I have little or no faith in an external being having anything to do with the creation of life. It is not part of my world. It was an explanation that someone came up with years ago when they did not have the tools to observe the interconnected nature of life and needed some unifying force. There is no inherent need to impose an external God-based set of rules and laws to act morally. If these God-based rules work to further the society then let them be applied. If they do not work, we can change them and ignore the God-enforced stricture. This flexibility is an advantage to listening to one book with one group of people's set of rules that they say they got from a Supernatural entity thousands of years ago. The great part is that the changes that do not work can be changed again if and when they prove non-beneficial. You can't do that with the Bible.
I read this on Friday. Why did it take Slashdot so long to cover this? Oh, and plus, it is incredibly inconsequential news anyway.
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I've created an intense anti-matter beam so powerful that it could evaporate half of New New York if it was accidentally activated. So just remember not to press this big red button!
-------
"Getting the brain out is the easy part. The hard part is getting the brain out."
-Parallel Universe Dr. Hubert Farnsworth
I hope you guys aren't forgetting to put these things in an autoclave before using any method of cable freezing. The audio characteristics of bacteria interacting with the cables causes intensely harsh (or as I like to say "brown") sounds.
> Anyway I'm praying for the US dollar to continue to plummet (and continue to fall against the NZD) so that I can return, should I choose to, with more than I left with. You didn't have to go all the way to New Zealand. (Though I have been there and think it is a great country). The Canadian dollar now has parity with the US dollar for the first time since 1976, after hitting an all time low of 61.92 cents in 2002. How's that for return on your money?
It would be nice if that were actually true, but Wal-Mart actually forces its suppliers to create cheaper crap by imposing downward pressure on prices. Many suppliers are even forced to supply their goods at a loss just to keep the Wal-Mart business in hopes that they can somehow cut costs and maybe turn a profit in the future. That is how we get things like Chinese supplied poisoned pet food and toothpaste, because constant downward pressure on cost beyond reason forces suppliers to go with less reputable subcontractors that are willing to put lives at danger to make profit. Target is not anywhere near as relentless in their demand for cost savings, and they don't have the scale to make the same difference that Wal-Mart does.
I am so sick and tired of these articles appearing in Slashdot. The titles are always sensationalist. The body is always misleading.
Someone with no understanding of Science seems to get a thrill out of believing something overthrows the order of the Science world, whether it is Cold Fusion, or the speed of light, or quantum theory.
When will it stop?
It is like the monthly news reports in the mainstream media telling us that "surprise surprise" obesity (especially around the belly) leads to heart disease, or wine/coffee is good/bad for you.
I was lucky and found a very good wedding photographer that gave us complete rights and High res digital copies of our pictures 1 year after the event. She basically had exclusive rights to make prints for 1 year only. Then we could do whatever we wanted. I thought that was fair. It gave her an opportunity to make some profit, yet she didn't hold our photos hostage.
>As for what they do about Linux? I tell them that I have Windows. I lie my ass off to them. Why? If I tell them that I have a Linux router, a FreeBSD
>server, and four Linux workstations, they assume that the problem is with me. If I am calling because the modem has block sync, and is connected just
>fine, and that I can ping everything up to their gateway, which is (maybe) responding to one ping packet every *minute* or so, they still say "Well, it
>must be your problem." They know *nothing* about networking, which is something that you would think would be required for someone that, well, supports
>a network.
When I had service from this godforsaken company, I lied my ass off too. At that point, they were trying to tell me that I couldn't use a router because it was against the EULA or something. They were trying to charge you for every access device that touched their network. Ridiculous, cuz it's just bits to them. Every time I called Technical Support, I had to remove my router, boot into Windows and troubleshoot the problem like I was a complete idiot. If I mentioned pinging or gateways, the person on the other end got flustered.
Once, a slightly clued tech support guy was convinced that I had a router, to which I kept insisting that I had no idea what he was talking about. I had just removed my router 2 minutes before. He was trying to imply that I was stealing service from the company. I just kept playing dumb and had him fix the problem at hand. Then I hooked my router back up. I am pretty sure they stopped trying to enforce their stupid "no router" rule, but still, if you ever need tech support, first remove it, because the complexity will just destroy their ability to troubleshoot anything.
Why did you choose to call them Tech Writers? They are not Technical Writers. By trying not to sully your own already sullied profession, you have insulted another respectable profession that is widely misunderstood and lacks its due respect. I am a Technical writer (or Tech Writer for short) and when I saw this headline, I thought that STC (Society for Technical Communications) had come out against the GPL3. Instead, it is just some bozo. Call them Writers about Tech if you must, but please don't call them Tech Writers.
Please change the title of this article.
For one thing, size matters for the manufacturing process. The larger the chip of silicon, the more likely there is a flaw in it. If you increase the size of the silicon chip, you are likely to throw away many more flawed processors, wasting your time and money.
Hear hear! This is exactly what I was going to say. Having lived through Compaq/HPs disastrous decision up close, I can tell you that CxO types were showing us with great certainty how the Itanium was projected to outperform the EV8 (alpha) within 3 years. If they had ever built the EV8 it would undoubtedly be smashing not only the actual results that the Itanium has turned in, but those bogus predictions as well.
Itanium was supposed to become the "Industry Standard" commodity CPU. Instead it is a niche player that had Intel backpedaling to support AMD's extensions to x86. Never trust your CxO when discussing technology. They are swayed by their Marketing buddies that buy them drinks on the golf course more than their own employees.
Microsoft does have a cult. A very large one that contains most technologically illiterate CXOs and a horde of IT professionals that wouldn't have a clue what to do with a shell. Also, I know of plenty of programmers that are passionate about .Net and think Silverlight is the future. Seriously! I can't believe it either, but there are a bunch of them. Just because in your circles no one is in this category doesn't mean they aren't around. I run into them way too often.
My favorite song off of my favorite Talking Heads album (Fear of Music). As good a fake African language as Sid Caesar faking Eastern European languages.
The SEC can seek to bar people from being members of the board of a company if they have broken securities laws. Martha Stewart is banned for 5 years from being a director of a public company. Something similar could conceivably happen to Jobs.
I agree. What has Doubleclick done that is worse than what Google has done already? Doubleclick was just one of the first ones to use cookies to gather information on people, so they are reviled. The spyware canard is bogus.
For real privacy concerns, look to Chase, Citibank, and Bank of America, or data-crunching houses like Acxiom. They all have important financial information on you.
>The reason they keep trying is because they hope to finally find something different from what those theories predict: this will probably open a very exciting period of progress for our understanding of the universe.
I disagree. This is good news because finding the truth is good news. The purpose of Science is to find the truth (or as close an approximation as possible), not to find more Science to do. Whatever the reality of the Universe, discovery of that is what is important. If we find the Higgs boson (for example) right where the Standard Model says it should be, that is not bad news because it could be more interesting for scientists if it weren't true. That is good news because we know one more fact about the Universe.
So now you can block all of microsofts servers too, because doubleclick will have access to all of them.
Have you thought about the fact that Microsoft doesn't just get access to the doubleclick domains, but doubleclick gets access to the microsoft domains. You gonna block all them, go ahead. Not many companies will.
Why the hell should Ted Turner pay anything. He doesn't even own Turner Broadcasting any more, you idiot.
I would never do business with Verizon because years ago, when I canceled my landline phone service to switch to cell only, they gave me 1 week to pay the last bill before they sent a collection agency after me. The agency had the balls to call me AT WORK. I was furious. I will NEVER do any business with Verizon again.