Speaking of mirrors, an old girlfriend loved the mirror in my apartment because for some reason it flattered her coloring - she just looked better in the mirror than she actually did. I can see the "magic mirror" playing games of that sort as well - hiding blemishes, slimming the wearer etc.
Well, in Futurama, when Fry goes to buy some underwear and tries it on, the mirror returns an image of a muscular, athletic guy...
(Reposted, account some asshole shithead puritan bush-"voting" yankee "moderator" - more like assholator - shitcanned this as a "troll")
Slashdot and thousands of communities like it still exist today, and there is no sign that they are on the decline. Come to me when they start collapsing.
Coca-Cola is so named because it used to be shipped with a fair amount of cocaine within. But eventually, cocaine got outlawed.
So did marijuana.
Generally, we are clever enough to work around such problems.
Those who are "clever" enough to run around the problem of having cocaine (or marijuana) banned usually end-up as jailed political prisoners.
Never assume that blogs such as/. won't get outlawed, or that the Internet will be gutted by croporations (and their governmental minions).
Slashdot and thousands of communities like it still exist today, and there is no sign that they are on the decline. Come to me when they start collapsing.
Coca-Cola is so named because it used to be shipped with a fair amount of cocaine within. But eventually, cocaine got outlawed.
So did marijuana.
Generally, we are clever enough to work around such problems.
Those who are "clever" enough to run around the problem of having cocaine (or marijuana) banned usually end-up as jailed political prisoners.
Never assume that blogs such as/. won't get outlawed, or that the Internet will be gutted by croporations (and their governmental minions).
(Of course, European newspapers and rags were plastered end-to-end with Lunokhod articles when it happenned)
Here is an interesting tid-bit: to remotely drive the rovers, the russians selected people who did not have driver licences.
The idea was that they would not have driver's reflexes they would have to unlearn in order to drive a vehicle with a 1 second lag in response thanks to the Earth_Moon gap...
As I see it, downloading an MP3 is like shoplifting. No, it isn't a big deal, but it's still breaking the law, and wrong.
You must live in an ass-backward place (say, like the USA) to have such lopsided laws. Up here, downloading MP3s as well as copying music CDs is totally legal when done for private use.
Aggressive blocklists, such as SPEWS, with lots of collateral damage, is the only way to go.
Filtering is a stupid solution; all it does is automatically "press delete". The spam goes to your network, where it gobbles-up CPU cycles, storage and bandwidth.
Aggressive filtering prevents all this waste.
And the collateral damage is mere cannon-fodder to exert pressure on rogue spam-supporting ISPs. We're in a war, after all
If you're collateral damage, though shit; chew harder, or find a non spamhaus ISP.
Hopefully, some day, a mob will flock to Ralsky's house and clobber-him up with baseball bats.
In my opinion, we're less than 100 years away from basically a total lack of "privacy." I'm not entirely sure this is a terrible thing, but it will certainly have interesting ramifications for society.
I'm getting ready for this; I'm always naked when I'm home, and I don't close the blinds; it doesn't bother me at all when the neighbours see me naked or when I sunbathe on the balcony or in a park.
Most barcode readers / magnetic swipe readers work with drivers that simulate keystrokes...
At ${ORKPLACE}-3, following budget cuts, I was put in charge of inventory and production (which was better than being laid-off because your project gets cancelled - also, it enabled the company to fire the old inventory guy who was not doing a good job, and in all the people in the place, I was the only one trusted enough to do it - the most important partner didn't even trust his other partners!!!).
Naturally, this is ++boring for a programmer, so I eventually recoded the inventory application so it could be streamlined for parts reception and assignment. Then, while killing boredom by browsing through the stock room and looking for old junk that while still could be useful would not get bought by anyone at all, I hit the jackpot: an old barcode reader that you "wedge" between the keyboard and the computer.
The thing simply "keyed-in" whatever barcode you scanned, followed by two carriage-returns. I quickly modified the application to accept this as a "cursor-down", which was real handy when you had to enter the serial numbers of 150 freshly-received floppy drives, for example.
I also appropriated an old dot-matrix printer to print stock stickers with barcodes, so parts assignments could be done quickly, too. Within weeks, the inventory was really cleaned-up.
All this speeded-up the boring work so I could spend more time on Slashdot (if you don't want to get caught, just telnet to the mail server and use LYNX)...
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You fucking yankees have your head so far up your arses, it's pathetic. Your only and sole preoccupation is the fucking bottom-line, no matter what is the ethical cost.
And your terminal dumbassness prevents you from seeing that the majority of the planet does not give a flying fuck about your fuckingly repulsive business methods, and are ready to die flying aircraft into buildings.
Looks like Microsoft is taking over the moderation department, so I repost what has been "moderated" as flamebait:
Microsoft always missed the clue-train, for multimedia, for the Internet, etc.
They are of the school of thought that throwing money at a problem is the best way to solve it.
Microsoft is UNABLE to understand open-source, interoperabilit, standards and all what makes Science go. All Microsoft is about money-grubbing, market domineering and the bottom-line.
Microsoft will never understand what Google is about.
Has Microsoft ever had a clue???
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Microsoft always missed the clue-train, for multimedia, for the Internet, etc.
They are of the school of thought that throwing money at a problem is the best way to solve it.
Microsoft is UNABLE to understand open-source, interoperabilit, standards and all what makes Science go. All Microsoft is about money-grubbing, market domineering and the bottom-line.
Microsoft will never understand what Google is about.
Your 'individual liberty' may include such non-concepts as 'freedom from hunger', but its often people who espouse such statements that are the greatest threat to actual liberty - property rights.
What a prime example of a typical head-up-his-ass yankee that is totally incapable of understanding that other cultures can have a totally different viewpoint than the terminally constipated anglo-saxon viewpoint on private property.
Individual liberty and dignity are far more important than property rights. And property rights shall NEVER BE USED to demean human dignity and liberty.
That is, if you use your property to oppress someone else, it is only fair that you'd be deprived of your property.
I USE Outlook 2k3 and have used it's spam filtering. It does work, cutting my spam down to 1/3 to 1/4 of it's volume, and it's simple to use.
What a fucking happy-like-shit loser.
You are a good illustration with what's wrong with the american public: just like a pig, you are bashing in shit and are happy about it because you're too fuckingly stupid to know better.
You're happy with the crapware Microshit has smeared over your computer and you love the little useless bells and whistle and accept like a blind lemming the incessant crashing and general crappyness of your computing installation.
Not only that, but you're blissfully spewing forth your utter cluelessness and lameness for all to see on the Internet.
The hard wake-up call of compatibility, network flexibility, infrastructure simplicity and plain economics has, yet again, taken it's toll on yet another hare-brained surface guided-transportation venture...
The French were right 30 years ago by scrapping the Aerotrain project (pictures, films) in favour of the TGV...
Slashdot Mirror
So did marijuana.
Those who are "clever" enough to run around the problem of having cocaine (or marijuana) banned usually end-up as jailed political prisoners.Never assume that blogs such as /. won't get outlawed, or that the Internet will be gutted by croporations (and their governmental minions).
So did marijuana.
Those who are "clever" enough to run around the problem of having cocaine (or marijuana) banned usually end-up as jailed political prisoners.Never assume that blogs such as /. won't get outlawed, or that the Internet will be gutted by croporations (and their governmental minions).
Operators are standing-by!!!
Here is an interesting tid-bit: to remotely drive the rovers, the russians selected people who did not have driver licences.
The idea was that they would not have driver's reflexes they would have to unlearn in order to drive a vehicle with a 1 second lag in response thanks to the Earth_Moon gap...
Filtering is a stupid solution; all it does is automatically "press delete". The spam goes to your network, where it gobbles-up CPU cycles, storage and bandwidth.
Aggressive filtering prevents all this waste.
And the collateral damage is mere cannon-fodder to exert pressure on rogue spam-supporting ISPs. We're in a war, after all
If you're collateral damage, though shit; chew harder, or find a non spamhaus ISP.
Hopefully, some day, a mob will flock to Ralsky's house and clobber-him up with baseball bats.
Naturally, this is ++boring for a programmer, so I eventually recoded the inventory application so it could be streamlined for parts reception and assignment. Then, while killing boredom by browsing through the stock room and looking for old junk that while still could be useful would not get bought by anyone at all, I hit the jackpot: an old barcode reader that you "wedge" between the keyboard and the computer.
The thing simply "keyed-in" whatever barcode you scanned, followed by two carriage-returns. I quickly modified the application to accept this as a "cursor-down", which was real handy when you had to enter the serial numbers of 150 freshly-received floppy drives, for example.
I also appropriated an old dot-matrix printer to print stock stickers with barcodes, so parts assignments could be done quickly, too. Within weeks, the inventory was really cleaned-up.
All this speeded-up the boring work so I could spend more time on Slashdot (if you don't want to get caught, just telnet to the mail server and use LYNX)...
When you do a google search about "X43", although you get a page in the "Science > Technology > Space > Launch Vehicles" category, the first result is about the bus service between Calne and Marlborough.
So, when can we buy tickets for Mars???
And your terminal dumbassness prevents you from seeing that the majority of the planet does not give a flying fuck about your fuckingly repulsive business methods, and are ready to die flying aircraft into buildings.
Microsoft always missed the clue-train, for multimedia, for the Internet, etc.
They are of the school of thought that throwing money at a problem is the best way to solve it.
Microsoft is UNABLE to understand open-source, interoperabilit, standards and all what makes Science go. All Microsoft is about money-grubbing, market domineering and the bottom-line.
Microsoft will never understand what Google is about.
They are of the school of thought that throwing money at a problem is the best way to solve it.
Microsoft is UNABLE to understand open-source, interoperabilit, standards and all what makes Science go. All Microsoft is about money-grubbing, market domineering and the bottom-line.
Microsoft will never understand what Google is about.
... a beowulf cluster of those. That would turn to be VERY CHEAP!!!!
Individual liberty and dignity are far more important than property rights. And property rights shall NEVER BE USED to demean human dignity and liberty.
That is, if you use your property to oppress someone else, it is only fair that you'd be deprived of your property.
You are a good illustration with what's wrong with the american public: just like a pig, you are bashing in shit and are happy about it because you're too fuckingly stupid to know better.
You're happy with the crapware Microshit has smeared over your computer and you love the little useless bells and whistle and accept like a blind lemming the incessant crashing and general crappyness of your computing installation.
Not only that, but you're blissfully spewing forth your utter cluelessness and lameness for all to see on the Internet.
No more:
I'd like to see a beowulf cluster of those...
At least, you parade around town showing-off yourself in spandex.
ISPs have been removed from SPEWS mere hours after kicking-off spammers.
If you stay listed, that's because you don't take any steps against spammers.
The French were right 30 years ago by scrapping the Aerotrain project (pictures, films) in favour of the TGV...