It's better to present it this way to business than to say 'this is bad for my freedom' cuz (as we know all too well) most businesses care a LOT more about their bottom line than your freedom.
They do, howerver, care about their own freedom. I know at least one business man who is not very happy about what computer records the federal government can demand since septemeber 11th. When it comes down to competitive advantage and secrecy, businesses clammer for their own freedom to use encryption. Do you know anyone who trusts secrets to a M$ OS? Business will work to at least make exceptions to this goofey law for their "business systems" opposed to "consumer devices" It will be in everyone's best interest to show that will not work.
It's nice to see them try, but they just can't see past the $. Jane Black misses the point of free software entirely, and so fails to see many important things. While it's true that the Senator from Disney would outlaw all free software if he could, the social harm is not a lack of consumer choice in how to watch movies. Jane's write up confuses and trivializes the basic freedoms that are being threatened.
The first clue that Black has none is her assertion that "consumer groups, plus makers of PCs and electronics gear" were the first to sound the alarm. That may have been her first notice, but others have been thinking about such things and publishing it for much longer, like this man, back in 1983. The whole free software movement is a reaction to OTHER PEOPLE REMOVING YOUR CONTROL OF YOUR COMPUTER AND MEANS OF PUBLICATION, the reasons for it and the evil things required to accomplish that goal.
Jane then goes right back to things that must be nearer and dearer to her heart, Hollywood profits. She's swallowed the lie, hook and sinker, that this is about entertainment and a eighty billion dollar consumer electronics market.
Though confused and rambling, Jane manages to be smug and insulting. Check this out:
Embedding copyright-protection mechanisms into new PCs and other digital devices would mean inserting pieces of software code that are hidden, or locked down, and couldn't be altered. That would amount to nothing less than an assault on the open-source religion, which advocates sharing, collaboration, and free access to code.
That's all I can stand folks, let me set this ninny straight.
It's about freedom, stupid. I don't care if I can watch a movie on my computer. I don't care that a set top box runs propriatory software. What I do care about is some idiot telling me that I have to have a program installed on all of my computers that effectivly makes OTHER PEOPLE ROOT. THAT GIVES OTHER PEOPLE CONTROL OF MY COMPUTER AND MEANS OF PUBLICATION.
Don't get confused. Telecomunications companies, entertianment companies and your federal government are afraid of freedom. That's why someone else controls the wires that go into your house. It's why a 69 channel TV tunner will only pick up 4 or five stations owned by three or four companies. Hollings stuff, however, has the potential to control ALL forms of publication and must be stopped.
A supposed friend that trivializes your issue and get's it all screwed up is not a good advocate. Thanks for looking into it Jane, but keep digging. There's truth at the end of your quest, but you will have to stay away from entertainment pimps, their attorneys and other people only interested in extracting money from you.
It's head, former Senator Palpatine, engineered several diplomatic crisis and instigated a full-scale war in order to achieve dictatorial powers. He dabbled in the Sith teachings, long abhorred by the galactic public. These are not the actions of a "good guy."
The war against disorder, greed and terrorism have no end. Palpatine used the forces of the Universe to his advantage as any comp^H^H^H^H reasonable man would. "Engineered" a crisis you say? Bah, greedy little men without vision made that crisis, Palpatine simply used it to bring order to the Universe. It is cruel to alow people the freedom to torture each other. Only the power of the force can accomplish unity, benevolence and order.
Your message has been monitored. Consider your ways or you will pay.
Why bother with exotic killers like Hitler, Stalin Potty Pol, Mayo, etc when such good second rate thugs can be found in this hemisphere? Pinochet can best be classed with Castro, Norriaga and others who killed hundreds to thousands, stifled free speech, and made themselves the law. We might consider Pinochet less awful than his political opponents when we consider where we would rather live today, Cuba, Nicaragua or Chile. Chile for me, thanks but no thanks, I'm happier here in the USA.
Remember, it's purpose is to end the destructive conflict and bring order and harmony to the universe. Yes, it's power is awsome, but the laws of the Emperor demand respect.
Some English names for other peace makers are the class of ship known as the "Destroyer", air craft names such as "Vampire", "Mosquito", and "Hellcat". With a little more reflection, you will see the truth and utility of such names.
Remember the destruction of the Death Star killed many innocent sentient beings. Did you know that there was a day care center on the Death Star? No you did not! Nor did you care about all of those innocent children, just like the Oklahoma City bombing. Have you ever considered the environmental consequences destroying the Death Star had? It was a global extinction level event. A whole planet perrished. See what your petty morals get you when you fight law and order?
Feel the power of hatred, let it make you strong and one with the Emperor. Fight for what is orderly and strong.
My favorite quote: He even chopped off his shoulder-length blond hair to fit the role of a blue-collar freeway worker.
This is obviously one artist who does not do much construction work. If he did, he would see all lengths of hair. Caltrans may have some rules, but I doubt it.
There are some other things our artist might not know about that could cause severe injury or death. How about standard safe work practices? Did our razor wire hopping hero have a lanyard to keep his silly ass from falling into oncoming traffic? Was his scafolding proper? Did this joker use the right metals for his fasteners or will galvanic corosion kill someone one day as his sign rusts off its holder? No amount of money saved is worth life and limb, and this turkey risked his own and others to do this.
Experience here in the computer world does not translate well to the physical world of public trasportation. Stunts played on bridges can kill people. Hacking my computer is useful to me, and may be helpful to other willing users of my code, but it will never physically hurt anyone. In this case, education, training, peer review and all checks were absent. These things are fostered in the free and open software movements. The artist swung his fist, ignorant of the faces he will hit.
I'd like to see him held accountable for the cost of fixing things, just like any other contractor. At the very least, the work must be inspected and verified. He may have improved the signage, but it's doubtful his job is really up to specs and it will likely have to be torn down at the expense of more important work.
...sooner or later they are only going to have paying customers that follow the rules, or aren't heavy enough users to worry about. And then what will they do, besides make money.
Ha, ha, big laugh. Some dumb-ass at the cable company might really think that.
Capping is a relativly new, evil and stupid practice, rivaled only by port blocking. People who want cable modems are the kind of people who want to share their files. The cable companies are going to find that selling cable to EVERYONE is tougher than putting up a few stupid billboards and obnoxious, "if you were using cable this page would be downloaded by now" webpages. If they wanted to stop abusers such as spammers and loosers running warez sites, they could. Instead, they are greedy and lazy. They think that they can stop all the abuse by capping upload rates and make even more money by charging people for "services", like web space on some crappy M$ machine at the central office. BZZZZT! WRONG! They are going to piss off a larger proportion of their customer base then they realize. The endgame is that everyone will jump to the first viable alternative and leave the entertainment pimps in the dust. Sooner or later, they are going to go bankrupt like Excite! did when they started pulling this shit.
The problem is that this software has replaced what was once called "Permanent Records". This is information on students that must be kept basically forever.
It will be more permanent if you print it out and file it before M$ changes their print methods again! Seriously, using propriatory and seceret file formats for records is a bad idea. Microsoft makes it difficult to get the information out, but it can be done. The longer you wait to move to real published formats the harder and more expensive it gets. Converting to text or Post Script outputing your reports to CDs might take care of your record keeping concerns better than paper files. Nothing will be able to help you in five or ten years when you try to read your old Access 98 files and learn that your querries don't work anymore. Oh my.
Just a few links but you can search www.google.com and get an idea of what SOAP really entails.
So what does M$ $oap entail? I seem to remember reading about how their junk was going to do stupid stuff like let others arbitrairily run executables on your machine. With the current poor state of M$ user/permission set up, this is like making an email client that automatically runs attachments. Woops, there they go again.
no-brainer, sounds like IT at work.
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Designing your own protocol takes time, and implementing it for each OS/hardware combo out there takes even more time. Why bother to do that, when you can leverage a protocol (HTTP) and client software (browsers) that are already everywhere?
So, sticking propriatory formats like.DOC and what not on the web is a good idea? Give me a break. This junk only works on M$ platforms and not very well there.
We use this trash at work and it sucks. It's all tied in with M$'s bloated, ever changing formats and "standards". Email has gotten so thick from people mailing power point presentations, and word docs that the poorly perfoming servers are crapping out. Oh yeah, all that goofey mail carries a bandwith cost. Sigh, when a few kilobytes of text will do, it get's sent as a word doc. This might be because the default and only allowed mail client defaults to word as an editor, and plain text gets all screwed up at the recieving end. Really, the software forces you that way. Oh, and the asp bullshit? It's kind of like an evil VB crossed with Access used to put blinky things on people's pages and prevent anything but an M$ encumbered computer from looking at it. The slob in the next cube is forced to deal with it, on his two huge monitors that attempt to make up for a lack of virtual desktops. It's the best M$ scripting ever! "Objects" and tabs and buttons, oh my! It does not always work and when it does, it does not work well. A typical use is to hand you a Word DOC though OLE and a link while pretening to be a "web page". The OLE is quirky enough that Word fails to work correctly, if Word has a correct mode of operation. Other uses I've seen are inferior tables that blink and hand you a couple of forms that may or may not collect information and send you a word DOC. So there you have it. Poor perfomance, high cost, incompatibility and formats that won't work in two years. What else can you want from a "service"?
The person who recomended that junk is going to be fired. It's one thing to get suckered for a few insignificant desktop machines that replaced typewriters and secrataries. I can even forgive the poor joker who thought that M$ file sharing might be useful, and the other poor fool who bought copies of front page. After all that, the rework, the broken formats, the masses of equipment that got obsoleted in four years, the broken prommises and costs that exceeded mainframes by wide margins then doubled, there is no forgiveness. Further folly is willful ignorance.
Now that's a story everyone knows, or will know if they work for a M$ "partner". So ends the rant.
Yeah, the bit about needing a plug in for every one of the three pages they needlessly choped this article into was annoying. Three clicks of the cancel for x shockwave flash pluggin for one crummy article, it took almost as long to click as to read.
Oh yeah, no mention was made of Portable Net Graphics (PNG) file format and it's lossless compression, or any of the fine free software that utilizes it, GIMP, Electric Eyes, etc.
So what, should people not go to the bathroom? Don't you find the process of bodily excretion to be a tad embarassing? I sure do, and I know many of my female friends would not appreciate being videotaped within the bathrooms without their consent (not that any of them would give it.)
There you go again, smearing legitimate technology with stupid uses. Sure, a cam at the bottom of a toilet is stupid, but it should not be illegal. It's one of those compulsion things that Thomas Jefferson was talking about when he compared people with too many laws (the French) to those with too few (American Indians). He prefered the state of the latter.
To answer your question directly, however, No I'm not embarassed by going to the bathroom.
twitter wipps dick out and urinates on ndogg's feet.
You don't want to ask me about masturbation.
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There must be some confusion (or delusion) about Linux and open-source these days: nobody outside of the "movement" is interested in Stallman (outside of his writing) or Torvalds (outside of his kernel work) or anyone else for that matter.
So why are you here? No interest, move on. Didn't you mom teach you, "If you don't have something good to say, don't say anything."?
Most of us are here because we do care. Stallman and friends care a great deal for our rights. As Thomas Jefferson noted, most honest people are too concerned with the details of their daily lives to be consider larger issues. Every now and then you find someone like RMS willing to quit their job for principles. Occasionally, they suceed. Free software and the four software freedoms will touch everyone just as the Bill of Rights did. Certianly, more of us can name more of both documents than your "average citizen".
It is sad to see that the story is not well told, but it is good that it was captured at all. This is typical of history. Change, especially of ideas, is often slow even inperceptible. When the revolution is over people look around and wonder how anyone could have thought differently. Here, in this film, we have the movers themselves, their words and expressions captured. That's nice for someone like me who will never get a chance to see any of them personally. Linux and other free software will dominate the desktop. People will wonder how anyone ever put up with computers that worked so poorly, cost so much and continuously forced people to redo their work. Licenses that forced the usage of certian software and prohibited critcism under penalty of revocation will bring blank stares. The average citizens will eventually chose or be given free software because it works better. Already, they know things are not as they should be. When the answer is put before them it will be clear, as it was for all of us. They will then be interested in who had such great ideas to begin with. Someone will be able to take this and stick key pieces into a larger documentary that includes insanity like the DCMA, Disney, M$ and Hollings.
You don't have any expectation to privacy when someone else is watching you, duh. If someone sees what you do, it's not a private act. This applies to anyplace, not just your own home. If you don't want to be recorded doing something embarasing, don't do something embarasing OR trust the person you do it with. When we do something, I will remember it and can describe it much better than any video device, forgetting is very difficult.
This proposed law is pure evil, raising expectations of "privacy" where there are none and smearing legitimate technology with violations of trust. Think of the future where tiny cheap recording devices are pervasive. This is a good future, one where witnesses have much much more credibility than they do now and liars will have to be carefull. Truth is good. Video recordings by impartial third parties will settle many misunderstandings and deliberate cheats. This bill seeks to prevent such a future by associating video devices with sneering cads who kiss and tell. Once recording is thought of as a "public" or governmental function and all private persons who record the world around them are treated with scorn, only the government will know and be able to present the truth. Repulsive, Mary, or very short sighted.
No, I don't record myself or others in bed, but I'm not going to tell someone else not to either. There are already perfectly good laws against distributing someone's image without their consent. What someone does with their little screw flicks is none of my business. Those who feel violated by the recording should consider that before they crawl into bed with a stranger.
I'm looking forward to the future of cheap, tiny and pervasive video recording devices. This bill is raising "privacy" expectations where there are none. It's already illegal to publish someone's image without their consent. Making it illegal to create such images in your own home is the thin wedge of outlawing such devices in public places, except for "official" or "impartial" and "privacy protecting" government devices. Fight this now.
Get it straight people, if you don't want to be embarrased of your behavior DONT DO EMBARASSING THINGS! People have memories, video devices are simply memory enhancers. Right now, I can tell anyone I want about the expressions you make on your face and other sensations no video device will ever capture. Telling others makes me a cad, remembering might make me happy, forgetting is impossible.
This might work well in a desert, but the majority of live close to water, hence the ice balls in the no-defrost fridge. So, when you reach for that beer the air gets in and sees the cool bits of your PC. "Ahh," says the air, "that just what I wanted," as it cools off and looses its water. When those little beads of condensation hit your traces, or your 120V power supply, snap crackle pop goes your computer. Chances are you can dry it out and start again, but that's not the kind of chance I like to take. Beer in fridge, good. PC in fridge, bad.
Corporations own the lines, own the bandwidth, own the routers, own the infrastructure. They've made the investment, the advertising, the sacrifices. Small content providers *can* be heard, but not on large scale through residential quality lines.
Umm, what's inherently inferior about "residential quality" lines? Oh yeah, I forgot the corporate owners of those lines won't let anyone else lay wires on the PUBLIC right of way. Sorry, I just don't have much respect for the quality of service the slave masters so generously restrict me to. Wireless is going to leave those loosers holding a bunch of worthless wires they can strangle till the cows come home. The smart thing to do would be to try to make some money off their assest now.
I know of people who routinely transfer 8-10 Gb per DAY (yes, per day - they max out at around 1000 kilobits second, 60 seconds a minute, 60 minutes an hour, 24 hours a day = 88473600000 bits/per day = ~10.2 gigabytes per day!) of mp3s, warez, movies, spam, etc.
Time Warener is letting all of that blatant copyright piracy go on? Something is just not adding up here.
It might actually be cheaper to go out and buy the CD than download the ISO from Red Hat. All of a sudden RH turns a sale with a cost to them into a sale with profit! That _has_ to be a good thing.
No, I don't see it that way. How am I to contribute to large software projects with these leaches charging me so much to check out? No development, no code, no Red Hat. While distros like Debian are streamlined as is, this will still add costs and trouble to the average user. Cheap people will disable their hits on security.debian.org, and we might just see some breakins on Linux computers. This is all very backward and eliminates the advantages free software has over crappy boxed "products": quick responses to venerabilities, configurabilty and ease of upgrades.
A curse on these asses who wish to return to the bad old days of boxed software, Ma Bell, and all other manner of greedy grabbing oppresion. Ludites all!
So many attacks on free software from so many directions. It is just so depressing. September 11th was bad but what people are making of it is worse.
People running various P2P/FTP/Mail services etc from a traditional 40/month broadband line is simply irresponsible and I am glad they are working to curb it. Yes, broadband is cool and all, but in all reality, the days of offering unlimited bandwidth in the days of mp3s and dvd-quality rips floating are just about over.
Streaming video, music, etc is *nothing* compared to the guy who runs a 100 gb 0-day ftp server from his cable modem. Those people send several gigs a day over the pipe, and its hurts everyone.
Wow, I almost feel angry at those theives that are stealing my bandwith, thanks for pointing out the evils lurking on my local cable net. I'll be sure to phone "r-u-shutup" if I notice any unauthorized port 21 traffic.
Now let's get real and pull apart what you said. Let's start with the purpose of the internet: to share information and computing resources. It was made for "servers". ISPs that don't let you run a server are not Internet Service Providers, but something else like a Browser Provider of Adverts. Now let's think about those 100 Gig/day ftp sites. When was the last day you made 100 Gigs of original content? I hate to admit it, but my ftp site does not see anything like that kind of creativity or traffic. People downloading Warez, movies and other comercial garbage deserve to have their line cut and will. It has NOTHING to do with what is happening here which is a pay per the minute fee for downloading adverts.
What you see is the inevitable result of the death of "broadband" competition. The local Bells feel free to crush their DSL competitors and the cable companies have municipal monopolies in most of their areas of domination. With your coices left to two or fewer providers, is it any supprise that you will pay for the minute? People once tollerated this for phone service and seem destined to put up with it again, even if they decide to re regulate the whole mess.
Attitudes like yours make the local Bell, large publishers and the government happy. None of them want you to publish, and all of them want as much of your money as they can grab. "Shut up and give it up, Bitch" is their song. Why would you want to sing it?
weather.com hasn't actually implemented the product yet. They are still evaluating whether they will do it.
Btw, if you read the article, you will notice that both IE (ayeeee!) and netscape are customizable. The customizable functions are what the bastards are utilizing.
Uhh, no, weather.com is using the Sheckles, or whatever that bozo's daughter is named, program that makes cars and stuff run over the whole page's content. It uses ActiveX and Flash, two things I'll never, ever, freaking ever put on my computers. The new "product" will have a very hard time writing over my init files if my browser runs as "nobody" and only I can write to my preference files. Nice what reading an article and understanding what user accounts is all about, eh?
Nobody actually expects you to read the article, jackass, but this affects Netscape products too.
Well, this is as good a place to respond as any, you silly troll. I was kind of waiting to see a stupid comment like this.
My wife uses Netscape 4.something on Red Hat and is unafected. One of her favorite sites is weather.com, but she has never seen any of the Sheckles problem by UV.
These "products" simply take advantage of underlying M$ security problems like ActiveX, and lack of user accounts. Microsoft made their OS to behve this way, and those who continue to use M$ can expect to suffer for spending money on M$ OS. ActiveX, SOAP, and.NET are the perfect replacement for user controled software. Put M$ on your computer today and own a TV. Thank you, Bill, thank you!
And Thank YOU Mr. AC for giving me this chance to serve.
Although they certainly could have found "volunteers" I don't think I would be very willing to go on a space ride being only advertized as a dummy, I'd like them to have a little more confidence in the life support first!
It's amazing what you can do in a comand economy where you own the press. Convi^H^H^H^H Agent Yu would never know the difference, and what he thinks is unimportant. There is no truth without independent thrird party verification.
To get a brief introduction to such horrors, check out "The Russian Centruy" by Barnes and Noble press. It's so bad that you want to dismiss it as propaganda, but there's so much that you can't. First hand accounts pile up on each other, each more terrible than the next, to support sweeping descriptions of mass murder, incompetence, waste, corruption, greed and indiference. The photos really bring home the scale and horror. Hundreds of cultures, were subsumed and nothing is so depressing as the bits of humanity that shine out from each picture. Smiles and triumphs of the suffering and doomed are more haunting than pictures of ruined churches and dead people.
So as this rocket wizzes overhead, let us remember the horror that launched it. Forced labor, institutionalized atheism, idealology at gunpoint, "universal" education, intense secret police monitoring and all the other hallmarks of Communist super states are at work. You won't really know how bad things are until it's over and even then you will be left wondering. The truth is allways worse than honest people suspect.
If you can afford to spend a few percent of your economy on research, the total PPP is what is most important. The PPP per capita is also important, but its importance issecondary -- it is related to how much your citizens can afford to be taxed, and so is related to the percent of your total PPP which you can afford to allocate towards research.
Spoken like a good party man. GNP, PPP, or whatever you want to call it per capita is paramount. If you don't have enough money to educate your citezens, you won't have science. Sure, you can build up a few elite institutions and educate thousands. If you are really good, you can even beat human nature and load those institutions with your best and brightest. Those efforts still can not compete with oportunities given millions, where the best and brightests can rise by merrit.
There can be no happiness without wisdom. There is no wisdom without free exchage of knowledge. There is no happiness in a state where politics trumps truth. We shall see where the Chinese go with their wealth. Comand economies tend to waste.
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They do, howerver, care about their own freedom. I know at least one business man who is not very happy about what computer records the federal government can demand since septemeber 11th. When it comes down to competitive advantage and secrecy, businesses clammer for their own freedom to use encryption. Do you know anyone who trusts secrets to a M$ OS? Business will work to at least make exceptions to this goofey law for their "business systems" opposed to "consumer devices" It will be in everyone's best interest to show that will not work.
The first clue that Black has none is her assertion that "consumer groups, plus makers of PCs and electronics gear" were the first to sound the alarm. That may have been her first notice, but others have been thinking about such things and publishing it for much longer, like this man, back in 1983. The whole free software movement is a reaction to OTHER PEOPLE REMOVING YOUR CONTROL OF YOUR COMPUTER AND MEANS OF PUBLICATION, the reasons for it and the evil things required to accomplish that goal.
Jane then goes right back to things that must be nearer and dearer to her heart, Hollywood profits. She's swallowed the lie, hook and sinker, that this is about entertainment and a eighty billion dollar consumer electronics market.
Though confused and rambling, Jane manages to be smug and insulting. Check this out:
Embedding copyright-protection mechanisms into new PCs and other digital devices would mean inserting pieces of software code that are hidden, or locked down, and couldn't be altered. That would amount to nothing less than an assault on the open-source religion, which advocates sharing, collaboration, and free access to code.
That's all I can stand folks, let me set this ninny straight.
It's about freedom, stupid. I don't care if I can watch a movie on my computer. I don't care that a set top box runs propriatory software. What I do care about is some idiot telling me that I have to have a program installed on all of my computers that effectivly makes OTHER PEOPLE ROOT. THAT GIVES OTHER PEOPLE CONTROL OF MY COMPUTER AND MEANS OF PUBLICATION.
Don't get confused. Telecomunications companies, entertianment companies and your federal government are afraid of freedom. That's why someone else controls the wires that go into your house. It's why a 69 channel TV tunner will only pick up 4 or five stations owned by three or four companies. Hollings stuff, however, has the potential to control ALL forms of publication and must be stopped.
A supposed friend that trivializes your issue and get's it all screwed up is not a good advocate. Thanks for looking into it Jane, but keep digging. There's truth at the end of your quest, but you will have to stay away from entertainment pimps, their attorneys and other people only interested in extracting money from you.
The war against disorder, greed and terrorism have no end. Palpatine used the forces of the Universe to his advantage as any comp^H^H^H^H reasonable man would. "Engineered" a crisis you say? Bah, greedy little men without vision made that crisis, Palpatine simply used it to bring order to the Universe. It is cruel to alow people the freedom to torture each other. Only the power of the force can accomplish unity, benevolence and order.
Your message has been monitored. Consider your ways or you will pay.
Why bother with exotic killers like Hitler, Stalin Potty Pol, Mayo, etc when such good second rate thugs can be found in this hemisphere? Pinochet can best be classed with Castro, Norriaga and others who killed hundreds to thousands, stifled free speech, and made themselves the law. We might consider Pinochet less awful than his political opponents when we consider where we would rather live today, Cuba, Nicaragua or Chile. Chile for me, thanks but no thanks, I'm happier here in the USA.
Some English names for other peace makers are the class of ship known as the "Destroyer", air craft names such as "Vampire", "Mosquito", and "Hellcat". With a little more reflection, you will see the truth and utility of such names.
Remember the destruction of the Death Star killed many innocent sentient beings. Did you know that there was a day care center on the Death Star? No you did not! Nor did you care about all of those innocent children, just like the Oklahoma City bombing. Have you ever considered the environmental consequences destroying the Death Star had? It was a global extinction level event. A whole planet perrished. See what your petty morals get you when you fight law and order?
Feel the power of hatred, let it make you strong and one with the Emperor. Fight for what is orderly and strong.
How about a purlple faced dinosaur?
He even chopped off his shoulder-length blond hair to fit the role of a blue-collar freeway worker.
This is obviously one artist who does not do much construction work. If he did, he would see all lengths of hair. Caltrans may have some rules, but I doubt it.
There are some other things our artist might not know about that could cause severe injury or death. How about standard safe work practices? Did our razor wire hopping hero have a lanyard to keep his silly ass from falling into oncoming traffic? Was his scafolding proper? Did this joker use the right metals for his fasteners or will galvanic corosion kill someone one day as his sign rusts off its holder? No amount of money saved is worth life and limb, and this turkey risked his own and others to do this.
Experience here in the computer world does not translate well to the physical world of public trasportation. Stunts played on bridges can kill people. Hacking my computer is useful to me, and may be helpful to other willing users of my code, but it will never physically hurt anyone. In this case, education, training, peer review and all checks were absent. These things are fostered in the free and open software movements. The artist swung his fist, ignorant of the faces he will hit.
I'd like to see him held accountable for the cost of fixing things, just like any other contractor. At the very least, the work must be inspected and verified. He may have improved the signage, but it's doubtful his job is really up to specs and it will likely have to be torn down at the expense of more important work.
Ha, ha, big laugh. Some dumb-ass at the cable company might really think that.
Capping is a relativly new, evil and stupid practice, rivaled only by port blocking. People who want cable modems are the kind of people who want to share their files. The cable companies are going to find that selling cable to EVERYONE is tougher than putting up a few stupid billboards and obnoxious, "if you were using cable this page would be downloaded by now" webpages. If they wanted to stop abusers such as spammers and loosers running warez sites, they could. Instead, they are greedy and lazy. They think that they can stop all the abuse by capping upload rates and make even more money by charging people for "services", like web space on some crappy M$ machine at the central office. BZZZZT! WRONG! They are going to piss off a larger proportion of their customer base then they realize. The endgame is that everyone will jump to the first viable alternative and leave the entertainment pimps in the dust. Sooner or later, they are going to go bankrupt like Excite! did when they started pulling this shit.
It will be more permanent if you print it out and file it before M$ changes their print methods again! Seriously, using propriatory and seceret file formats for records is a bad idea. Microsoft makes it difficult to get the information out, but it can be done. The longer you wait to move to real published formats the harder and more expensive it gets. Converting to text or Post Script outputing your reports to CDs might take care of your record keeping concerns better than paper files. Nothing will be able to help you in five or ten years when you try to read your old Access 98 files and learn that your querries don't work anymore. Oh my.
So what does M$ $oap entail? I seem to remember reading about how their junk was going to do stupid stuff like let others arbitrairily run executables on your machine. With the current poor state of M$ user/permission set up, this is like making an email client that automatically runs attachments. Woops, there they go again.
So, sticking propriatory formats like .DOC and what not on the web is a good idea? Give me a break. This junk only works on M$ platforms and not very well there.
We use this trash at work and it sucks. It's all tied in with M$'s bloated, ever changing formats and "standards". Email has gotten so thick from people mailing power point presentations, and word docs that the poorly perfoming servers are crapping out. Oh yeah, all that goofey mail carries a bandwith cost. Sigh, when a few kilobytes of text will do, it get's sent as a word doc. This might be because the default and only allowed mail client defaults to word as an editor, and plain text gets all screwed up at the recieving end. Really, the software forces you that way. Oh, and the asp bullshit? It's kind of like an evil VB crossed with Access used to put blinky things on people's pages and prevent anything but an M$ encumbered computer from looking at it. The slob in the next cube is forced to deal with it, on his two huge monitors that attempt to make up for a lack of virtual desktops. It's the best M$ scripting ever! "Objects" and tabs and buttons, oh my! It does not always work and when it does, it does not work well. A typical use is to hand you a Word DOC though OLE and a link while pretening to be a "web page". The OLE is quirky enough that Word fails to work correctly, if Word has a correct mode of operation. Other uses I've seen are inferior tables that blink and hand you a couple of forms that may or may not collect information and send you a word DOC. So there you have it. Poor perfomance, high cost, incompatibility and formats that won't work in two years. What else can you want from a "service"?
The person who recomended that junk is going to be fired. It's one thing to get suckered for a few insignificant desktop machines that replaced typewriters and secrataries. I can even forgive the poor joker who thought that M$ file sharing might be useful, and the other poor fool who bought copies of front page. After all that, the rework, the broken formats, the masses of equipment that got obsoleted in four years, the broken prommises and costs that exceeded mainframes by wide margins then doubled, there is no forgiveness. Further folly is willful ignorance.
Now that's a story everyone knows, or will know if they work for a M$ "partner". So ends the rant.
Oh yeah, no mention was made of Portable Net Graphics (PNG) file format and it's lossless compression, or any of the fine free software that utilizes it, GIMP, Electric Eyes, etc.
There you go again, smearing legitimate technology with stupid uses. Sure, a cam at the bottom of a toilet is stupid, but it should not be illegal. It's one of those compulsion things that Thomas Jefferson was talking about when he compared people with too many laws (the French) to those with too few (American Indians). He prefered the state of the latter.
To answer your question directly, however, No I'm not embarassed by going to the bathroom.
twitter wipps dick out and urinates on ndogg's feet.
You don't want to ask me about masturbation.
So why are you here? No interest, move on. Didn't you mom teach you, "If you don't have something good to say, don't say anything."?
Most of us are here because we do care. Stallman and friends care a great deal for our rights. As Thomas Jefferson noted, most honest people are too concerned with the details of their daily lives to be consider larger issues. Every now and then you find someone like RMS willing to quit their job for principles. Occasionally, they suceed. Free software and the four software freedoms will touch everyone just as the Bill of Rights did. Certianly, more of us can name more of both documents than your "average citizen".
It is sad to see that the story is not well told, but it is good that it was captured at all. This is typical of history. Change, especially of ideas, is often slow even inperceptible. When the revolution is over people look around and wonder how anyone could have thought differently. Here, in this film, we have the movers themselves, their words and expressions captured. That's nice for someone like me who will never get a chance to see any of them personally. Linux and other free software will dominate the desktop. People will wonder how anyone ever put up with computers that worked so poorly, cost so much and continuously forced people to redo their work. Licenses that forced the usage of certian software and prohibited critcism under penalty of revocation will bring blank stares. The average citizens will eventually chose or be given free software because it works better. Already, they know things are not as they should be. When the answer is put before them it will be clear, as it was for all of us. They will then be interested in who had such great ideas to begin with. Someone will be able to take this and stick key pieces into a larger documentary that includes insanity like the DCMA, Disney, M$ and Hollings.
This proposed law is pure evil, raising expectations of "privacy" where there are none and smearing legitimate technology with violations of trust. Think of the future where tiny cheap recording devices are pervasive. This is a good future, one where witnesses have much much more credibility than they do now and liars will have to be carefull. Truth is good. Video recordings by impartial third parties will settle many misunderstandings and deliberate cheats. This bill seeks to prevent such a future by associating video devices with sneering cads who kiss and tell. Once recording is thought of as a "public" or governmental function and all private persons who record the world around them are treated with scorn, only the government will know and be able to present the truth. Repulsive, Mary, or very short sighted.
No, I don't record myself or others in bed, but I'm not going to tell someone else not to either. There are already perfectly good laws against distributing someone's image without their consent. What someone does with their little screw flicks is none of my business. Those who feel violated by the recording should consider that before they crawl into bed with a stranger.
I'm looking forward to the future of cheap, tiny and pervasive video recording devices. This bill is raising "privacy" expectations where there are none. It's already illegal to publish someone's image without their consent. Making it illegal to create such images in your own home is the thin wedge of outlawing such devices in public places, except for "official" or "impartial" and "privacy protecting" government devices. Fight this now.
Get it straight people, if you don't want to be embarrased of your behavior DONT DO EMBARASSING THINGS! People have memories, video devices are simply memory enhancers. Right now, I can tell anyone I want about the expressions you make on your face and other sensations no video device will ever capture. Telling others makes me a cad, remembering might make me happy, forgetting is impossible.
This might work well in a desert, but the majority of live close to water, hence the ice balls in the no-defrost fridge. So, when you reach for that beer the air gets in and sees the cool bits of your PC. "Ahh," says the air, "that just what I wanted," as it cools off and looses its water. When those little beads of condensation hit your traces, or your 120V power supply, snap crackle pop goes your computer. Chances are you can dry it out and start again, but that's not the kind of chance I like to take. Beer in fridge, good. PC in fridge, bad.
Umm, what's inherently inferior about "residential quality" lines? Oh yeah, I forgot the corporate owners of those lines won't let anyone else lay wires on the PUBLIC right of way. Sorry, I just don't have much respect for the quality of service the slave masters so generously restrict me to. Wireless is going to leave those loosers holding a bunch of worthless wires they can strangle till the cows come home. The smart thing to do would be to try to make some money off their assest now.
Time Warener is letting all of that blatant copyright piracy go on? Something is just not adding up here.
No, I don't see it that way. How am I to contribute to large software projects with these leaches charging me so much to check out? No development, no code, no Red Hat. While distros like Debian are streamlined as is, this will still add costs and trouble to the average user. Cheap people will disable their hits on security.debian.org, and we might just see some breakins on Linux computers. This is all very backward and eliminates the advantages free software has over crappy boxed "products": quick responses to venerabilities, configurabilty and ease of upgrades.
A curse on these asses who wish to return to the bad old days of boxed software, Ma Bell, and all other manner of greedy grabbing oppresion. Ludites all!
So many attacks on free software from so many directions. It is just so depressing. September 11th was bad but what people are making of it is worse.
Streaming video, music, etc is *nothing* compared to the guy who runs a 100 gb 0-day ftp server from his cable modem. Those people send several gigs a day over the pipe, and its hurts everyone.
Wow, I almost feel angry at those theives that are stealing my bandwith, thanks for pointing out the evils lurking on my local cable net. I'll be sure to phone "r-u-shutup" if I notice any unauthorized port 21 traffic.
Now let's get real and pull apart what you said. Let's start with the purpose of the internet: to share information and computing resources. It was made for "servers". ISPs that don't let you run a server are not Internet Service Providers, but something else like a Browser Provider of Adverts. Now let's think about those 100 Gig/day ftp sites. When was the last day you made 100 Gigs of original content? I hate to admit it, but my ftp site does not see anything like that kind of creativity or traffic. People downloading Warez, movies and other comercial garbage deserve to have their line cut and will. It has NOTHING to do with what is happening here which is a pay per the minute fee for downloading adverts.
What you see is the inevitable result of the death of "broadband" competition. The local Bells feel free to crush their DSL competitors and the cable companies have municipal monopolies in most of their areas of domination. With your coices left to two or fewer providers, is it any supprise that you will pay for the minute? People once tollerated this for phone service and seem destined to put up with it again, even if they decide to re regulate the whole mess.
Attitudes like yours make the local Bell, large publishers and the government happy. None of them want you to publish, and all of them want as much of your money as they can grab. "Shut up and give it up, Bitch" is their song. Why would you want to sing it?
Btw, if you read the article, you will notice that both IE (ayeeee!) and netscape are customizable. The customizable functions are what the bastards are utilizing.
Uhh, no, weather.com is using the Sheckles, or whatever that bozo's daughter is named, program that makes cars and stuff run over the whole page's content. It uses ActiveX and Flash, two things I'll never, ever, freaking ever put on my computers. The new "product" will have a very hard time writing over my init files if my browser runs as "nobody" and only I can write to my preference files. Nice what reading an article and understanding what user accounts is all about, eh?
Well, this is as good a place to respond as any, you silly troll. I was kind of waiting to see a stupid comment like this.
My wife uses Netscape 4.something on Red Hat and is unafected. One of her favorite sites is weather.com, but she has never seen any of the Sheckles problem by UV.
These "products" simply take advantage of underlying M$ security problems like ActiveX, and lack of user accounts. Microsoft made their OS to behve this way, and those who continue to use M$ can expect to suffer for spending money on M$ OS. ActiveX, SOAP, and .NET are the perfect replacement for user controled software. Put M$ on your computer today and own a TV. Thank you, Bill, thank you!
And Thank YOU Mr. AC for giving me this chance to serve.
It's amazing what you can do in a comand economy where you own the press. Convi^H^H^H^H Agent Yu would never know the difference, and what he thinks is unimportant. There is no truth without independent thrird party verification.
To get a brief introduction to such horrors, check out "The Russian Centruy" by Barnes and Noble press. It's so bad that you want to dismiss it as propaganda, but there's so much that you can't. First hand accounts pile up on each other, each more terrible than the next, to support sweeping descriptions of mass murder, incompetence, waste, corruption, greed and indiference. The photos really bring home the scale and horror. Hundreds of cultures, were subsumed and nothing is so depressing as the bits of humanity that shine out from each picture. Smiles and triumphs of the suffering and doomed are more haunting than pictures of ruined churches and dead people.
So as this rocket wizzes overhead, let us remember the horror that launched it. Forced labor, institutionalized atheism, idealology at gunpoint, "universal" education, intense secret police monitoring and all the other hallmarks of Communist super states are at work. You won't really know how bad things are until it's over and even then you will be left wondering. The truth is allways worse than honest people suspect.
Spoken like a good party man. GNP, PPP, or whatever you want to call it per capita is paramount. If you don't have enough money to educate your citezens, you won't have science. Sure, you can build up a few elite institutions and educate thousands. If you are really good, you can even beat human nature and load those institutions with your best and brightest. Those efforts still can not compete with oportunities given millions, where the best and brightests can rise by merrit.
There can be no happiness without wisdom. There is no wisdom without free exchage of knowledge. There is no happiness in a state where politics trumps truth. We shall see where the Chinese go with their wealth. Comand economies tend to waste.