I don't normally respond to my own posts but since those that do respond to my posts tend to hide behind being an anonymous coward i though i will this time. is there some reason why every pompous ass on/. has to show his ass to the rest of us on eery fucking comment a person makes? I know that japan is not made up of only one island. I know that there is no island named japan. its a fucking joke. get a fucking life and worry about something more important. pick nits with someone else. all you're telling me is that you've seen a map of the world not that you know anything. and that you lack a sense of fucking humour. for your information asswipe The United States is the name of my country but i don't get my panties in a twist when someone calls it america. (which is kind of like calling france europe) its a minor fucking detail that has little do with the rest of the fucking statement. i expect/. to read it laugh at the funny bit and overlook the fact that i didn't specify a fucking island because not everyone is a fucking geography major with time to waste knowing the names of the four (4) japanese islands. If i had said a specific island name it would have been lost one some trying to figure out what the hell a honshu was. grrrrrrrrarghhh. back to your regular/.
all i really want is roughly four hours alone with my girlfriend and no interuptions. as for letting folks think real hard about what i want. good luck. no one knows me well enough. if i don't tell them what to get me i don't get diddley squat. and i don't know anyone that will accept "just donate to habitat for humanity in my name" aas a serious gift request. because they don't feel thats a real gift. they don't believe thats a gift that would make me happy. so i tell them not to get me anything. anything that i actually want is always too expensive anyway.
the judges decision seems valid as well. he's right there was no conflict but i understand felten and the university wanting to guard against the future. whats the statute of limitations on the dmca anyway? something i just thought of regarding a federal reaction. considering the recent events (sept 11) and the new definitions of hackers (those that break laws not those that code) as terrorists its possible that (IANAL) that felten could theoretically be charged with cyber terrorism by the feds.
if that were to occur i think the simplest defense is this. 1. gillete makes razor blades.
2. terrorists use razor blades to hijack airplanes
3. gillete is not a terrorist for making razor blades
1a. felten breaks SDMI
2a. bad hackers (terrorist) use SDMI to commit copyright infringement
3a. felten is not a bad hacker (terrorist) for making the tool.
at least thats how i would rule if i was the judge in such a case.
if nothing else this might spur NASA into action. I believe that the moon is covered by international law in the same way that antartica is. should someone get there and start mining perhaps an international consortium will be tapped to monitor the mining, which could lead to a permanent outpost on the moon.
for once I'm glad i have 56k and decided against downloading the new kernel just yet. for all those bitching cause their system got hosed. well what did you expect? thats why you wait for the next post on slashdot saying somethings wrong with the new kernel. besides what about 2.4.15 was so necessary that you had to have the latest incremental kernel? I'm rather happy with 2.4.8. unless you're a developer/bug-tester/bleed-freak what reason do you have to upgrade to the very latest kernel?
if the lab is well supported. big if. if the teachers have an understanding. another big if. i know not all teachers are morons but a great majority of them are. as for the interchangability of routine in a program. forget it. in browsers sure it might be doable but spreadsheet programs and word processors bewilder folks enough as it is. just changing the colors on a program is enough to make some folks lose their way. don't put so much faith in the ability of people to do what we can all do so easily. outside the sheltered world of/. most pc users are completely lost. i wish they weren't.
apple put itself in schools and captured a market that is still loyal to them. microsoft then came in and captured a bigger market. this won't go through the same way for Red Hat. reason being that the business world uses microsoft more than linux. and schools are these days more concerned with sedning out good workers that know how to use the software that the business world uses. the schools will refuse the linux software on the basis that is doesn't properly prepare the students. and the teachers don't know how to use linux or teach it.
I just read an insert from best buy thats selling them for 50 bucks. and I'm sure I've seen them at EB. I'm just concerned about getting the thernet adapter. I figure i could use one for my folks. hook up the dremcast as a terminal to my machine so they can read their email which is all they do. And since my mom has really poor eyesight (diabetics stick to your diet you don't want to know what its like in advanced stages) i can hook this up to a larger screen tv thats cheaper than a nice monitor. ooh this is nifty.
since no one that would buy me anything is reading
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my big ol' list
bandwidth (I'd like dsl but verizon isn't moving fast enough and cox isn't either so all i can get it sat which I'm not interested in
tivo so i never miss an episode of buffy
pda (handspring deluxe would be fine)
moped (my driving record is rather shady so i figure i jsut better get a vehicle i don't need a lic. for, plus how geek is that?)
I have to say that I think I have the perfect ending, one that Douglas Adams would appreciate.
If I was the editor it would end thusly in mid-sentence.
"...sadly the author of this work is now dead and no one knows what the question is."
and then like 42 blank pages. i would laugh my ass off at that I think Douglas would as well.
not really that excited
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I have to say that I'm a pc gamer. I like some console games but there aren't many that make me drool like they do on the pc. sure I might be tied to Windows for games at this time but i just prefer playing games ont he pc. the other thing is that the only game thats on the xbox that i want to play is Halo. that might come to the pc/mac eventually and I'll play it then . if it doesn't then oh well. I'm not shelling that much cash for a system that has one game that I might play. Halo might be cool but its no FF7 or Tekken thsoe are the games that got me to buy a PSone.
well possibly there is something to be learned from the ebook world here. folks like rocket would keep track of which books you've paid for so that you needn't worry should you accidentally delete the book. I figure penny-pages could be around a year into the future if not sooner.
i think the title of the article is off. instead of am i willing to pay it should be "are they ready to roll it out and start charging?" informal polling shows that folks are willing to pay for/. or toms hardware or other geek sites (being a geek those are the only ones I'm interested in) and penny arcade has consistently met their goals for donations. so folks are ready to pay. just get it in gear.
ah I have to disagree here. these guys aren't thrill-seekers to my mind. Instead they aer expanders of frontiers. And i say that if nasa isn't going to open up the frontier to the rest of us the way the west was opened up in the 1800s then we should open it ourselves. also the coast guard responds to rescues of private sailing vessels at sea. these are small ships. thats not thrill seeking? I live in a port community and some of the vessels I've seen leave our waters leave a lot to be desired in terms of seaworthiness. the coast guard can pick them up so why shouldn't they pick up some folks that are trying to make life on earth fun? personally I hope they succeed and have a helluva lot of fun doing it. I just hope they take pictures for the rest of us.
see rob taco likes buffy lots of geeks love buffy. I do not have a weird obsession watching buffy for three hours on tuesdays (buffy on fx 2, buffy on upn 1)
yes but there is always the possibility that the human mind will grow. evolutionarily speaking it just might have no choice but too. after generations of information overload perhaps the mind will increase in capacity to accomodate for later generations. at least. i hope.
well I would agree on the merits of the multiplay alone but thats not all there is. we have as yet to taste the single player experience. Thats what I'm waiting for. I prefer a single player game though i doubt anything is going to bringa candle to the experience of max payne anytime soon.
id has fallen out of favor with me of late. I miss a single player game. and what they've been doing with the last four games has simply been rehashes of doom. I beat doom years ago. why does id keep making me play it?
I've used and love BeOS. I've also used tons of other OSs. I've loved things about all of them. with the exception of Windows almost all of those other systems have been considered niche. Some of those niche OSs have thrived. I'd love to see some air breathed into Be again.
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I don't normally respond to my own posts but since those that do respond to my posts tend to hide behind being an anonymous coward i though i will this time. is there some reason why every pompous ass on /. has to show his ass to the rest of us on eery fucking comment a person makes? I know that japan is not made up of only one island. I know that there is no island named japan. its a fucking joke. get a fucking life and worry about something more important. pick nits with someone else. all you're telling me is that you've seen a map of the world not that you know anything. and that you lack a sense of fucking humour. for your information asswipe The United States is the name of my country but i don't get my panties in a twist when someone calls it america. (which is kind of like calling france europe) its a minor fucking detail that has little do with the rest of the fucking statement. i expect /. to read it laugh at the funny bit and overlook the fact that i didn't specify a fucking island because not everyone is a fucking geography major with time to waste knowing the names of the four (4) japanese islands. If i had said a specific island name it would have been lost one some trying to figure out what the hell a honshu was. grrrrrrrrarghhh. back to your regular /.
Japan today voted to change the official name of the island to "The Island of Dr. Moreau"
all i really want is roughly four hours alone with my girlfriend and no interuptions. as for letting folks think real hard about what i want. good luck. no one knows me well enough. if i don't tell them what to get me i don't get diddley squat. and i don't know anyone that will accept "just donate to habitat for humanity in my name" aas a serious gift request. because they don't feel thats a real gift. they don't believe thats a gift that would make me happy. so i tell them not to get me anything. anything that i actually want is always too expensive anyway.
I'm only now on chapter two of learning python. gonna have to wait till i can do more than just
print "Hello, World"
before i try to learn something else.
wolf 359.
i do believe thats correct. if it is need to get out into the big blue room more often.
as i recall wolf359 was near jupiter.
the judges decision seems valid as well. he's right there was no conflict but i understand felten and the university wanting to guard against the future. whats the statute of limitations on the dmca anyway? something i just thought of regarding a federal reaction. considering the recent events (sept 11) and the new definitions of hackers (those that break laws not those that code) as terrorists its possible that (IANAL) that felten could theoretically be charged with cyber terrorism by the feds.
if that were to occur i think the simplest defense is this. 1. gillete makes razor blades.
2. terrorists use razor blades to hijack airplanes
3. gillete is not a terrorist for making razor blades
1a. felten breaks SDMI
2a. bad hackers (terrorist) use SDMI to commit copyright infringement
3a. felten is not a bad hacker (terrorist) for making the tool.
at least thats how i would rule if i was the judge in such a case.
if nothing else this might spur NASA into action. I believe that the moon is covered by international law in the same way that antartica is. should someone get there and start mining perhaps an international consortium will be tapped to monitor the mining, which could lead to a permanent outpost on the moon.
for once I'm glad i have 56k and decided against downloading the new kernel just yet. for all those bitching cause their system got hosed. well what did you expect? thats why you wait for the next post on slashdot saying somethings wrong with the new kernel. besides what about 2.4.15 was so necessary that you had to have the latest incremental kernel? I'm rather happy with 2.4.8. unless you're a developer/bug-tester/bleed-freak what reason do you have to upgrade to the very latest kernel?
if the lab is well supported. big if. if the teachers have an understanding. another big if. i know not all teachers are morons but a great majority of them are. as for the interchangability of routine in a program. forget it. in browsers sure it might be doable but spreadsheet programs and word processors bewilder folks enough as it is. just changing the colors on a program is enough to make some folks lose their way. don't put so much faith in the ability of people to do what we can all do so easily. outside the sheltered world of /. most pc users are completely lost. i wish they weren't.
apple put itself in schools and captured a market that is still loyal to them. microsoft then came in and captured a bigger market. this won't go through the same way for Red Hat. reason being that the business world uses microsoft more than linux. and schools are these days more concerned with sedning out good workers that know how to use the software that the business world uses. the schools will refuse the linux software on the basis that is doesn't properly prepare the students. and the teachers don't know how to use linux or teach it.
I just read an insert from best buy thats selling them for 50 bucks. and I'm sure I've seen them at EB. I'm just concerned about getting the thernet adapter. I figure i could use one for my folks. hook up the dremcast as a terminal to my machine so they can read their email which is all they do. And since my mom has really poor eyesight (diabetics stick to your diet you don't want to know what its like in advanced stages) i can hook this up to a larger screen tv thats cheaper than a nice monitor. ooh this is nifty.
my big ol' list
bandwidth (I'd like dsl but verizon isn't moving fast enough and cox isn't either so all i can get it sat which I'm not interested in
tivo so i never miss an episode of buffy
pda (handspring deluxe would be fine)
moped (my driving record is rather shady so i figure i jsut better get a vehicle i don't need a lic. for, plus how geek is that?)
I have to say that I think I have the perfect ending, one that Douglas Adams would appreciate.
If I was the editor it would end thusly in mid-sentence.
"...sadly the author of this work is now dead and no one knows what the question is."
and then like 42 blank pages. i would laugh my ass off at that I think Douglas would as well.
I have to say that I'm a pc gamer. I like some console games but there aren't many that make me drool like they do on the pc. sure I might be tied to Windows for games at this time but i just prefer playing games ont he pc. the other thing is that the only game thats on the xbox that i want to play is Halo. that might come to the pc/mac eventually and I'll play it then . if it doesn't then oh well. I'm not shelling that much cash for a system that has one game that I might play. Halo might be cool but its no FF7 or Tekken thsoe are the games that got me to buy a PSone.
well possibly there is something to be learned from the ebook world here. folks like rocket would keep track of which books you've paid for so that you needn't worry should you accidentally delete the book. I figure penny-pages could be around a year into the future if not sooner.
i think the title of the article is off. instead of am i willing to pay it should be "are they ready to roll it out and start charging?" informal polling shows that folks are willing to pay for /. or toms hardware or other geek sites (being a geek those are the only ones I'm interested in) and penny arcade has consistently met their goals for donations. so folks are ready to pay. just get it in gear.
you seem to forget the court that is in power elected the president that appointed the attorney general.
ah I have to disagree here. these guys aren't thrill-seekers to my mind. Instead they aer expanders of frontiers. And i say that if nasa isn't going to open up the frontier to the rest of us the way the west was opened up in the 1800s then we should open it ourselves. also the coast guard responds to rescues of private sailing vessels at sea. these are small ships. thats not thrill seeking? I live in a port community and some of the vessels I've seen leave our waters leave a lot to be desired in terms of seaworthiness. the coast guard can pick them up so why shouldn't they pick up some folks that are trying to make life on earth fun? personally I hope they succeed and have a helluva lot of fun doing it. I just hope they take pictures for the rest of us.
ahem... some of us are still stuck at 56k. articles like this just tick me off. its not easy living in a poor city. no one wants to sell to you.
see rob taco likes buffy lots of geeks love buffy. I do not have a weird obsession watching buffy for three hours on tuesdays (buffy on fx 2, buffy on upn 1)
btw the musical was just frickin great.
yes but there is always the possibility that the human mind will grow. evolutionarily speaking it just might have no choice but too. after generations of information overload perhaps the mind will increase in capacity to accomodate for later generations. at least. i hope.
we can always get dirk pitt to solve this right? or maybe I've got the wrong acronym. :)
well I would agree on the merits of the multiplay alone but thats not all there is. we have as yet to taste the single player experience. Thats what I'm waiting for. I prefer a single player game though i doubt anything is going to bringa candle to the experience of max payne anytime soon.
id has fallen out of favor with me of late. I miss a single player game. and what they've been doing with the last four games has simply been rehashes of doom. I beat doom years ago. why does id keep making me play it?
I've used and love BeOS. I've also used tons of other OSs. I've loved things about all of them. with the exception of Windows almost all of those other systems have been considered niche. Some of those niche OSs have thrived. I'd love to see some air breathed into Be again.
well I signed the petition. I said i get one and now I will.