I would still have had them clear that up because that mistake can come back to haunt me in some unexpected way.
I never want to think I benefitted from a problem in the system that I will in the next minute be screaming about if it had gone against me. No way man. That's bad ju ju. Just my opinion. ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
We have the evil of privacy-invading, user-tracking banner advertising networks, and we have the other evil, the way too broadly-applied patent system (as it now stands), which threatens to strangle innovation and cause a huge new rash of monopolies.
The devil basically took these two huge evils and pitted them together in a game of Charles Darwin.
May the smarter, better armed evil win. It will go on as the champion, wreaking havoc in our lives at some most likely unexpected point in time.
Well, the patent craze won. Now instead of Doubleclick, we have another monopoly.
Let us assume the best and least likely scenario, where CNET decides to lock up this technology and not let anyone use it. Now we have practically no more banner advertising networks. Hooraaaaah!
NOT!
While you were celebrating the death of banner advertising networks at the hands of that overzealous and excessively broad and vague patent system...
The patent system was birthing a brave new Cyberia in which every commonly used innovation (see: banner click ads) gets locked up by one company's patent. Everything from web email to CD database programs to you name it. Patented. Only one company can dabble in it, everyone else has to pay or get sued out of the scene.
Beware of the 'lesser of two evils'. For it just might really be the 'more clever' of two evils.
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Can you make a Unix systems administrator into a fictional character who people will find compelling?
Sure you can. The problem with the sci-fi / cyberpunk (sciberpunk?) scene is that, with notable exceptions such as Stephenson's Snow Crash, too much emphasis is put on the technology.
It's like those Harlequin novels - it's cyber hokey, the scene generally lacks dimension. The same problem plagues the romantic novel genre, and especially adult entertainment. The same thing can be found in 'action' films. All guns and explosions, and little of anything else. One-dimensional stories suck, no matter what - even sciberpunk stories.
As for the question, well, now that I've provided my own version of a solution, let me give you a scenario as an example of how to apply it (hey I'm starting to sound like a real blowhard here, hehe):
Let's say this sytsem administrator's life revolves around computers. Why not explore what got him into computers? You'd have to look into his heart and see what enamored him to this hobby, people do this in stories all the time, it adds dimension to the character. Maybe he admires the consistent behavior of computers, maybe he is avoiding the treacherous pit of snakes that is what we call the 'modern American social life'. Maybe he's about to learn some social skills and come out of his shell - or maybe he is about to open someone's eyes to the 'romance' and excitement he enjoys in pursuit of his work. Explore that. Or why not make this guy a well-rounded character? Think outside the one-dimensional box. That would grab people's attention.
Why not put this Unix systems administrator in a whole new world that you've built? Or in a version of this world? Paint some elaborate scenery around him - throw in culture, religion, politics, and social issues. Don't just trap him in front of a keyboard and base a story on the premise that he is saving the world in 101 keys or less.
I think Neal Stephenson's writings represent a good example of an affirmative answer to that question. Snow Crash's Hiro Protagonist, and especially his partners in crime Juanita and YT, were multi dimensional characters. Juanita, heck, she was an expert on religion and Sumerian culture.
BTW: Who else besides me was wowed by that Snowcrash line "Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise" ?
(Now all the Neal Stephenson haters are gonna kill me. Hooboy. Fan wars. I'm outta here. Ciao!)
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
In an article from NASA@Today.gov, astronomers are concluding that monstrous black holes weren't simply born big but instead grew on a measured diet of gas and stars controlled by their host galaxies in the early formative years of the universe...
They just figured out that huge black holes aren't born, they're grown?
Oh come on, I have a book in my library, "The Universe And Beyond", by Terence Dickinson, who describes the way in which quasars and large black holes grow in mass by consuming gas and stars. This book was first printed in 1986.
I knew this the moment I knew quasars were thought of as large black holes. It's quite simple and logical.
Over billions of years, monstrous black holes - either the ones at the centers of galaxies, or the quasars found in "emperor" (usually superdence eliptical) galaxies, are fed by the inward spiral of gas, rocks and stars. Quasars are obviously formed by a game of Galactic Darwinism in which one bigger black hole swallows another and adds it to its own mass, and they also feed on stars like crazy, drawing even big or fast moving stars nearby, into a degenerate orbit. Stars and gas.
I knew this ages ago. C'mon. This ain't news:) Although the concrete evidence may be the news here, the concept is not.
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I say take both tacts. Boycott ISP's that drop users who get DoS'd, and drop the packets from smurf friendly sites.
I am sick and tired of the justifications people come up with for punishing the end user who is being DoS'd.
So what if it's because of an IRC grudge or a fragging usenet argument? Flooding a system and jamming its resources is the greater crime, okay? It's one thing if they gave out their password or something - but punishing a DoS victim because they expressed their VIEWS, or ran an IRC channel someone wanted to take over?
Please. Your agenda is clear. You are in league with the DoSers and you just want an excuse to get rid of people whose speech you disagree with.
Anyone with half a brain knows you never coddle vandals and terrorists. You don't let them succeed, or you'll only cause more to come along. Under your policy the DoS'ers feel they can take anyone offline that they want.
We can't have this net taken over by net terrorists shutting people offline because they disagree with what they have to say. I draw the line early on that one. And I am willing to do whatever it takes to run you out of business if you have a policy of yanking the accounts of DoS victims unless the victims have broken the law themselves.
I may succeed in teaching you a lesson by getting you boycotted, and then again I may not. But I'd like to give it a shot.
Zero tolerance for DoSers. Zero tolerance for the ISP's who give DoS'ers what they want most. Zero tolerance for ISP's who knowingly let themselves be havens for DoSers. Ultimately it is you who will change your ways, because of boycotts and dropped packets.
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I'm all for giving you the worst possible press if you shut down a user who is the victim of DoS cyber terrorist activity, instead of dealing with the terrorist.
If you want to make it easy for script kiddies to remove sites they don't want, by use of DoS attacks, then I have no problem kicking you in the pocketbook until you are forced, by economic pressure, to rethink your policies.
I have experience with MySQL and PHP. Anyone want help putting together an internet blacklist that targets ISP's that shut down DOS victims, for boycotts?
How about also suggesting web hosters who fight the DoS'ers instead of shutting down their victims?
I'm ready to fight. I'll help or totally make the database and the access interface. I can't do graphics worth a crap but I can do the back engine work. Contact me at travoltus@hotmail.com if you've got a project like this up. Sign me up for the fight! ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
needs corrective brain surgery. quick. he's got a heck of a point.
man, where are my moderator points when I need them...I'd have counter moderated this in a heartbeat... ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
the japanese rip US stuff off constantly
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They couldn't sue the makers of Event Horizon. Look how they ripped off Darkman music in the soundtrack for Gundam 0083/CD 2? Shoot, the Japanese are known for doing severe ripoffs in their anime shows and music...hehe...we're safe if we do it to them lol ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
this is why I don't have a cell phone :)
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and also because hackers broadcast intercepted cell phone transmissions on the f'in net and at DEFCON... ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Isn't there a law that says something that is designed for legal activities (the sharing of mp3's, which is not by raw nature illegal), cannot be made illegal on the part of someone using it for illegal (trading copyrighted/commercial music) purposes?
Scuse me? Hello?
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Will todays "Nanny State" become tomorrows "Big Brother"? I hope not.
Gee, what a sexist remark. Why does it have to be 'Big Brother'? Can't it be 'Big Sister', 'Big Nanny', or if you're humanist, "Big Sibling'?
:-)
"At least the dictatorship of the future will be a politically correct one." - me ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Thomas Jefferson was right...
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... about a little revolution here and there being a good thing.
If you wipe the whole slate clean, you can start anew with something better. (But sometimes you wind up with something worse:\)
This is what happened with all those German and Japanese cities we bombed. Heck, the Japanese rebuilt and jumped way ahead of American cities with public transportation - among other things. The Germans wiped us out in the steel industry, and AMD is fighting Intel using their fab in, of all places, Dresden.
What we need is a good wiping of the slate. It's harmful and would cost lives, and I'd rather, for instance, Los Angeles be evacuated, before we have some great slate-wiper-cleaner earthquake or some crap like that, but America needs it bad. We need an even bigger temblor in Washington, DC. Nature made, or more likely, not.
- Travoltus (Hi, NSA! I guess this ruins my White House Dinner appointment...) (Moderators please be merciful:) ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
No wonder people hate the French... No, people don't hate the French. Anymore than they hate any other country. All countries around the world make mistakes. Look at the US. Look at Britain. My god look at the US and our censorship problems! The UK and us have ECHELON, for God's sake. Going on about what country is hated, or deserves being singled out for hate, is bigotry in motion - and it leaves you and your nationality wide open to be judged yourself. (BTW I'm a hard core American.)
(I can go on for quite a while with more example posts, but I won't. Y'all get the point.)
The sad part is this stuff isn't getting marked or replied to as flamebait - at least it wasn't as of my writing this piece of protestdrivel. So where is all the anti-racism now? Speaking of stereotypes, don't y'all think this will reflect badly on slashdot posters as a whole?
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
...is a one-world government. That way there is no such thing as jurisdiction - the whole world is under United Earth Dicta-er, Directorate jurisdiction.
See how efficient that is?
I say we have a no confidence vote for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Who's with me?
- Palpatine ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
RedHat is a company born in the spirit of freedom, to make a big splash in the stock market, get rich overnight, and then give back to the cause of freedom where it counts.
They won't be the last.
Don't dis my rant here, mark my words more Linux friendly companies will prove true to the cause.
This is where the revolution really starts:)
- travoltus, pleased as punch today! ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Linux ---------- Processor: P2-300 Memory: 64 meg Graphics card: 3d accelerator with Glide drivers Sound: Full duplex recommended Controllers: Mouse required, joystick recommended
So what if I have a Creative Annihilator Pro/GeForce 256? It doesn't have Glide drivers....
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
before you find that you need to overclock your RAM:) ======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Jon, I've almost always admired your Distant Early Warning style of activism. Our American forefathers would have called you a visionary, even if they would have argued with you on some opinion you spoke, from sunrise to sunset. (And they did argue like hell over their own compadres' 'visions' for America, you wouldn't be an exception.) Sometimes I get bored with your articles, but I doubt there is one person reading this who can say they wouldn't get tired of reading the rants of our forefathers, if they could even find copies of all their musings which had been published so long ago.
You continue on here on Slashdot, despite being beseiged round about by people who could care less about what political termites are eating away at the very wood of the log cabin that is their basic freedoms. They won't care until it comes crashing down on their heads, and they won't even remember you telling them they had a termite problem. You walk the tightrope between a visionary and Chicken Little, and that is an extremely courageous thing to do. Our country was founded by men who did just that.
However, today, I have to take exception to something you said, which could have the effect of helping to unravel your whole cause. The quote is here:
Corporatism: "The organization of a society into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and exercising some control over persons and activities within their jurisdiction." -- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
It's a word, coined in 1890, that's ripe for twenty-first century re-definition. Here's my suggestion:
Corporatism: "A system in which industrial and professional corporations fund and dominate politics, circumvent government and other forms of regulation, expand globally beyond accountability, alter the nature of work, marginalize individuals, and exercise monopolistic control over technology, culture, information and commerce within their jurisdictions."
Beware! This is a very dangerous tactic you are suggesting. Even though it does look like the right thing to do, and it accurately depicts what is going on today, redefining Corporatism, even using this accurate new definition, is exactly one of the things that George Orwell warned us about in 1984. Specifically, you are suggesting that we resort to Newspeak. This tactic will eventually come back to haunt you, because everyone will want to do it, and justify it. Newspeak tactics is a critical pillar in the kind of oppressive society that you and I both fear.
What am I saying, they already are doing it! Grab yourself an old Webster's dictionary and look up any number of definitions and compare them to some in a modern Webster's dictionary. You won't even recognize the two from each other!
Jon Katz, please take the safe road and place your definition under a new word or conjugation of words. I would suggest Neo Corporatism, or Hyper Corporatism, or Neo-feudalism. But the definition of Corporatism has already been set in stone. Thanks.
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As an employer it is my property, I have a right to monitor what is going on when it is my property.
However, the line gets really gray when they, say, bring the company laptop home. I could argue either way about whether or not it's right to monitor what they do then.
I would say hold off on the monitoring altogether until we resolve that and other fuzzy issues that I could surely bring up.
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
To download Napster and go get me a Metallica song just before I crawled into bed, and let it sit visible to the universe on my mp3 share directory so the corpos could try and nail me overnight.
I slept like a baby, yes I did. And I will tonight when I run Napster again and go hunt me a Dr. Dre song. I'll sleep like a baby until this lame brained attack is smacked down like the redheaded stepchild of brainchilds that it is.
Then I'll probably cry like a baby because I can't help taunt and torment these suicidally crazy people who think they can take out a swarm of locusts with a.44 magnum.
======================== 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
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I would still have had them clear that up because that mistake can come back to haunt me in some unexpected way.
I never want to think I benefitted from a problem in the system that I will in the next minute be screaming about if it had gone against me. No way man. That's bad ju ju. Just my opinion.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
We have the evil of privacy-invading, user-tracking banner advertising networks, and we have the other evil, the way too broadly-applied patent system (as it now stands), which threatens to strangle innovation and cause a huge new rash of monopolies.
The devil basically took these two huge evils and pitted them together in a game of Charles Darwin.
May the smarter, better armed evil win. It will go on as the champion, wreaking havoc in our lives at some most likely unexpected point in time.
Well, the patent craze won. Now instead of Doubleclick, we have another monopoly.
Let us assume the best and least likely scenario, where CNET decides to lock up this technology and not let anyone use it. Now we have practically no more banner advertising networks. Hooraaaaah!
NOT!
While you were celebrating the death of banner advertising networks at the hands of that overzealous and excessively broad and vague patent system...
The patent system was birthing a brave new Cyberia in which every commonly used innovation (see: banner click ads) gets locked up by one company's patent. Everything from web email to CD database programs to you name it. Patented. Only one company can dabble in it, everyone else has to pay or get sued out of the scene.
Beware of the 'lesser of two evils'. For it just might really be the 'more clever' of two evils.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Sure you can. The problem with the sci-fi / cyberpunk (sciberpunk?) scene is that, with notable exceptions such as Stephenson's Snow Crash, too much emphasis is put on the technology.
It's like those Harlequin novels - it's cyber hokey, the scene generally lacks dimension. The same problem plagues the romantic novel genre, and especially adult entertainment. The same thing can be found in 'action' films. All guns and explosions, and little of anything else. One-dimensional stories suck, no matter what - even sciberpunk stories.
As for the question, well, now that I've provided my own version of a solution, let me give you a scenario as an example of how to apply it (hey I'm starting to sound like a real blowhard here, hehe):
Let's say this sytsem administrator's life revolves around computers. Why not explore what got him into computers? You'd have to look into his heart and see what enamored him to this hobby, people do this in stories all the time, it adds dimension to the character. Maybe he admires the consistent behavior of computers, maybe he is avoiding the treacherous pit of snakes that is what we call the 'modern American social life'. Maybe he's about to learn some social skills and come out of his shell - or maybe he is about to open someone's eyes to the 'romance' and excitement he enjoys in pursuit of his work. Explore that. Or why not make this guy a well-rounded character? Think outside the one-dimensional box. That would grab people's attention.
Why not put this Unix systems administrator in a whole new world that you've built? Or in a version of this world? Paint some elaborate scenery around him - throw in culture, religion, politics, and social issues. Don't just trap him in front of a keyboard and base a story on the premise that he is saving the world in 101 keys or less.
I think Neal Stephenson's writings represent a good example of an affirmative answer to that question. Snow Crash's Hiro Protagonist, and especially his partners in crime Juanita and YT, were multi dimensional characters. Juanita, heck, she was an expert on religion and Sumerian culture.
BTW: Who else besides me was wowed by that Snowcrash line "Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise" ?
(Now all the Neal Stephenson haters are gonna kill me. Hooboy. Fan wars. I'm outta here. Ciao!)
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Oh PLEASE. My moderator points. Dear god my moderator points...
The Mattel story needs to be told seven TIMES seven million times, as a lesson that big corporations can be beaten by the little guys.
And his story is relevant to this thread, because it is about Mattel and their sue happy tactics. They're a bunch of legal terrorists.
I for one throw my lot in with this www.sorehands.com guy. Give 'em hell, dude!
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
They just figured out that huge black holes aren't born, they're grown?
Oh come on, I have a book in my library, "The Universe And Beyond", by Terence Dickinson, who describes the way in which quasars and large black holes grow in mass by consuming gas and stars. This book was first printed in 1986.
I knew this the moment I knew quasars were thought of as large black holes. It's quite simple and logical.
Over billions of years, monstrous black holes - either the ones at the centers of galaxies, or the quasars found in "emperor" (usually superdence eliptical) galaxies, are fed by the inward spiral of gas, rocks and stars. Quasars are obviously formed by a game of Galactic Darwinism in which one bigger black hole swallows another and adds it to its own mass, and they also feed on stars like crazy, drawing even big or fast moving stars nearby, into a degenerate orbit. Stars and gas.
I knew this ages ago. C'mon. This ain't news
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I say take both tacts. Boycott ISP's that drop users who get DoS'd, and drop the packets from smurf friendly sites.
I am sick and tired of the justifications people come up with for punishing the end user who is being DoS'd.
So what if it's because of an IRC grudge or a fragging usenet argument? Flooding a system and jamming its resources is the greater crime, okay? It's one thing if they gave out their password or something - but punishing a DoS victim because they expressed their VIEWS, or ran an IRC channel someone wanted to take over?
Please. Your agenda is clear. You are in league with the DoSers and you just want an excuse to get rid of people whose speech you disagree with.
Anyone with half a brain knows you never coddle vandals and terrorists. You don't let them succeed, or you'll only cause more to come along. Under your policy the DoS'ers feel they can take anyone offline that they want.
We can't have this net taken over by net terrorists shutting people offline because they disagree with what they have to say. I draw the line early on that one. And I am willing to do whatever it takes to run you out of business if you have a policy of yanking the accounts of DoS victims unless the victims have broken the law themselves.
I may succeed in teaching you a lesson by getting you boycotted, and then again I may not. But I'd like to give it a shot.
Zero tolerance for DoSers. Zero tolerance for the ISP's who give DoS'ers what they want most. Zero tolerance for ISP's who knowingly let themselves be havens for DoSers. Ultimately it is you who will change your ways, because of boycotts and dropped packets.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Dear ISP owners in this thread:
I'm all for giving you the worst possible press if you shut down a user who is the victim of DoS cyber terrorist activity, instead of dealing with the terrorist.
If you want to make it easy for script kiddies to remove sites they don't want, by use of DoS attacks, then I have no problem kicking you in the pocketbook until you are forced, by economic pressure, to rethink your policies.
I have experience with MySQL and PHP. Anyone want help putting together an internet blacklist that targets ISP's that shut down DOS victims, for boycotts?
How about also suggesting web hosters who fight the DoS'ers instead of shutting down their victims?
I'm ready to fight. I'll help or totally make the database and the access interface. I can't do graphics worth a crap but I can do the back engine work.
Contact me at travoltus@hotmail.com if you've got a project like this up. Sign me up for the fight!
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
This *IS* the wisest, time-tested and proven solution to the problem.
My god, I need my moderator points NOW...
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
needs corrective brain surgery. quick.
he's got a heck of a point.
man, where are my moderator points when I need them...I'd have counter moderated this in a heartbeat...
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
They couldn't sue the makers of Event Horizon. Look how they ripped off Darkman music in the soundtrack for Gundam 0083/CD 2?
Shoot, the Japanese are known for doing severe ripoffs in their anime shows and music...hehe...we're safe if we do it to them lol
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
and also because hackers broadcast intercepted cell phone transmissions on the f'in net and at DEFCON...
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Isn't there a law that says something that is designed for legal activities (the sharing of mp3's, which is not by raw nature illegal), cannot be made illegal on the part of someone using it for illegal (trading copyrighted/commercial music) purposes?
Scuse me? Hello?
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Check out photo #18181!
That one would go great with front of the house!
I think I'll save up for a down payment for that parcel of land.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Will todays "Nanny State" become tomorrows "Big Brother"? I hope not.
:-)
Gee, what a sexist remark. Why does it have to be 'Big Brother'? Can't it be 'Big Sister', 'Big Nanny', or if you're humanist, "Big Sibling'?
"At least the dictatorship of the future will be a politically correct one." - me
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
... about a little revolution here and there being a good thing.
:\)
:)
If you wipe the whole slate clean, you can start anew with something better. (But sometimes you wind up with something worse
This is what happened with all those German and Japanese cities we bombed. Heck, the Japanese rebuilt and jumped way ahead of American cities with public transportation - among other things. The Germans wiped us out in the steel industry, and AMD is fighting Intel using their fab in, of all places, Dresden.
What we need is a good wiping of the slate. It's harmful and would cost lives, and I'd rather, for instance, Los Angeles be evacuated, before we have some great slate-wiper-cleaner earthquake or some crap like that, but America needs it bad. We need an even bigger temblor in Washington, DC. Nature made, or more likely, not.
- Travoltus
(Hi, NSA! I guess this ruins my White House Dinner appointment...)
(Moderators please be merciful
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
No wonder people hate the French...
No, people don't hate the French. Anymore than they hate any other country. All countries around the world make mistakes. Look at the US. Look at Britain. My god look at the US and our censorship problems! The UK and us have ECHELON, for God's sake. Going on about what country is hated, or deserves being singled out for hate, is bigotry in motion - and it leaves you and your nationality wide open to be judged yourself. (BTW I'm a hard core American.)
Hell, During WWII 90% of the French people were yellow-bellied German collaborators. The whole stinking EU would be speaking German today if it wasn't for the USA bailing the 'Allies' out TWICE this century. The Euro-Peons deserve each other.
Oh, now this is a great way to express the principles by which we decry the racism of Naziism. By dissing the Europeans like this, and singing the "America is K-Rad 31337 and we Ruulz all over you weak europeans" jingosong, you're showing the world how bigoted you are. In fact, it is remarks like this that make America a hated country!
Of all the evil things Hitler can be blamed for, at least he beat the shit out of the French.
Oh I bet this troll thought that was funny. (Where are the moderators when ya need 'em?) I don't think the sad nature of this remark needs be explained...do you?
(I can go on for quite a while with more example posts, but I won't. Y'all get the point.)
The sad part is this stuff isn't getting marked or replied to as flamebait - at least it wasn't as of my writing this piece of protestdrivel. So where is all the anti-racism now? Speaking of stereotypes, don't y'all think this will reflect badly on slashdot posters as a whole?
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
...is a one-world government. That way there is no such thing as jurisdiction - the whole world is under United Earth Dicta-er, Directorate jurisdiction.
See how efficient that is?
I say we have a no confidence vote for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Who's with me?
- Palpatine
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Check out Super Pimp Soft's fight with the RIAA over their right to include a binary attachment decoder in their news software.
The EFF turned down SuperPimpSoft, but Andover's attorneys came and saved the day.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
RedHat is a company born in the spirit of freedom, to make a big splash in the stock market, get rich overnight, and then give back to the cause of freedom where it counts.
:)
They won't be the last.
Don't dis my rant here, mark my words more Linux friendly companies will prove true to the cause.
This is where the revolution really starts
- travoltus, pleased as punch today!
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
From The Specs Page:
Linux
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Processor: P2-300
Memory: 64 meg
Graphics card: 3d accelerator with Glide drivers
Sound: Full duplex recommended
Controllers: Mouse required, joystick recommended
So what if I have a Creative Annihilator Pro/GeForce 256? It doesn't have Glide drivers....
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ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
if they'd released it near Valentine's Day :)
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
before you find that you need to overclock your RAM :)
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
You continue on here on Slashdot, despite being beseiged round about by people who could care less about what political termites are eating away at the very wood of the log cabin that is their basic freedoms. They won't care until it comes crashing down on their heads, and they won't even remember you telling them they had a termite problem. You walk the tightrope between a visionary and Chicken Little, and that is an extremely courageous thing to do. Our country was founded by men who did just that.
However, today, I have to take exception to something you said, which could have the effect of helping to unravel your whole cause. The quote is here:
Beware! This is a very dangerous tactic you are suggesting. Even though it does look like the right thing to do, and it accurately depicts what is going on today, redefining Corporatism, even using this accurate new definition, is exactly one of the things that George Orwell warned us about in 1984. Specifically, you are suggesting that we resort to Newspeak. This tactic will eventually come back to haunt you, because everyone will want to do it, and justify it. Newspeak tactics is a critical pillar in the kind of oppressive society that you and I both fear.
What am I saying, they already are doing it! Grab yourself an old Webster's dictionary and look up any number of definitions and compare them to some in a modern Webster's dictionary. You won't even recognize the two from each other!
Jon Katz, please take the safe road and place your definition under a new word or conjugation of words. I would suggest Neo Corporatism, or Hyper Corporatism, or Neo-feudalism. But the definition of Corporatism has already been set in stone. Thanks.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
As an employer it is my property, I have a right to monitor what is going on when it is my property.
However, the line gets really gray when they, say, bring the company laptop home. I could argue either way about whether or not it's right to monitor what they do then.
I would say hold off on the monitoring altogether until we resolve that and other fuzzy issues that I could surely bring up.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
To download Napster and go get me a Metallica song just before I crawled into bed, and let it sit visible to the universe on my mp3 share directory so the corpos could try and nail me overnight.
I slept like a baby, yes I did. And I will tonight when I run Napster again and go hunt me a Dr. Dre song. I'll sleep like a baby until this lame brained attack is smacked down like the redheaded stepchild of brainchilds that it is.
Then I'll probably cry like a baby because I can't help taunt and torment these suicidally crazy people who think they can take out a swarm of locusts with a
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,