I never really liked this cartoon
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It just seems to play off off whatever the current geek topic is.. It's sort of like a poorly done dilbert.
But hay, We have "artists" local to daytona making money off of the crap they produce too. Someone must think it's funny, or artistic, or somehow homoerotic or something.
All I care about his extreeme detail on eyeballs, bits of brain and skull, rib cage bones, and knee joints as they fly in every direction after killing your enemy.
I do not think that, when they set the rules for publicc access to public records, they knew the internet was coming.
For example, Foreigners able to access our citizens public records just by browsing to their county's public records page.
I live in Volusia County, FL (where all the shark attacks are happening) ANYONE can browse to http://www.clerk.org and put my name in and find out all kind of information about me from my last speeding ticket to the deed on my house. My social security number is included on some of these documents and available for the WORLD to see.
Also, City Officials seem to have some pull on the online database - just look up records to the clerk herself - Diane Matousek - You will find almost all of the documents on her many property purchases to be "missing".
Sure, it says it's a crime to misuse the information... but since when do criminals follow the laws?
Everyone knows that the.gov types never read anything which actual citizens send them. Unless it's a memmo from one of corporate america's finace departments with a check in it, it's tossed in the trash.
I guess the reporter must have been dumpster diving again.
You can spell things out for people and they still won't care. The few people who do care are labeled as fanatics and are read about in the same media outlets that spelled out the injustice in the first place.
It is now impossible to fight this issue as a consumer since Wally World has put all of the Mom&Pop shops out of business already.
I had the opportunity to visit New Zealand for 4 months this year and their version of Wall-Mart (The Warehouse) is now where Wall-Mart was a few years back. Their Mom&Pop shops are at their wits end as the business of 50 years is about to be repossed by the bank. And the consumers see what they think is a bargain and leave their small town suppliers for inferior crap items sold by The Warehouse.
I will say though, Wall-Mart's stuff is a higher quality than the stuff I found in NZ's The Warehouse - EVERYTHING I bought there broke from the Body Glove wet-suit to the fillet knife for the fish I was catching.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Who should be pink-slipped? ( ) CmdrTaco ( ) Hemos ( ) Timothy ( ) CowboyNeal
Certainly this poll (as with most polls) is flawed. Only one choice? Axe the lot of them. Put in their place a hunk of code which takes stories off of The Onion instead. At least when you're reading those you KNOW they're bullshit.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
There are alternatives to IRC and most of them
are smallish and content specific. Personally I
prefer an environment with less people for exactly the reasons you mentioned.
OpenVerse Visual Chat is such an environment. It's desgin limits the mass destruction which can occure on Undernet.
Check it out at http://openverse.org/
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
this is where the major flaw is in their calculations. Children are terribly cruel. I highly doubt that 1 good child per household is a proper base point.
Perhaps we could go by the bible's 144,000 people who will be "called home" during the rapture. Considering only 10% of those people are children, this leaves us with only 14,400 stops.
Add some asbestos sheilding to the reigndeer and I think he could do it. Not to mention most of those 14,400 kids are going to be in the same orphanges.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
And just what do they get if they win their lawsuit? A visit from the unknown comic? Perhaps a beter waste of money would be to name the unkown people and lobby for laws against theirs and other countries from participating. But again, it's all just a waste of money cause these.gov types are above the law.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Question, do you guys find that most IT people like to be specialists, or do they seem to prefer a wide variety of problems to tackle?
I used to think I wanted to code and only code. Then I got a job doing just that. Hell, I didn't even compile the code I wrote! I got bored pretty damn quick and i've just recently quit that job in favor of a 6 month trip to New Zealand for camping and fishing without any work).
I didn't make as much doing it, but it turns out that I much prefered working for a Mom -n- Pop joint where I was responsible for everything from ordering new equipment to coding that CGI with DB2 access for a new web customer. Much less opportunity to become bored with what I was doing.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
I'm trying to hire Router engineers and UNIX hacks, and there is a real genuine shortage out there.
Perhaps you aren't looking in the right places (monster.com is a favorite of IT recruiters).
Or maybe, your job just isn't interesting enough to attract the type of people you want or you are in a sub-basement at the town waste treatment center?
Unless you live in a biggish city, people are probably going to have to re-locate to work for you. Expand your search and be willing to pay for them to move. When they get there, be sure to send the guiness deliveryman by three times a week.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
More proof that eventually all conversations twist enough that Hitler and his Nazis are the subject.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
IRC's design is incompatable with today's internet
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When I first got on IRC in 1993, the school I was accessing it from had a 64k connection FOR THE WHOLE SCHOOL. No one really had enough bandwidth to split a server at the time. Still, distributed attacks could take over a channel or boot a user.
IMHO IRC's biggest flaw is the fact that it's servers are networked and all channels rely on that network to function. If one server goes down, you can loose half or more of the channel's users. And servers go down a lot. I t would seem to me the only reason anyone would put up with the flakieness of IRC is because they are either part of the problem, or because they enjoy the thrill of brutal internet strife.
IRCs problems are what prompted me to make something 'different'. A chat program which did not allow channel operators, banning, kicking or any of the things which typically spur DOS attacks on the servers themselves. Each room is an independant server and nicknames need only be unique per room, not per network. (and no network at all to rely on). Servers are linked similar to the Web where it gives an address and port to connect to.
Best of all, it's graphical and it's free.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
When are people going to realize that MP3 is just an audio format. There is absoutly nothing wrong with generating an MP3 file or stream. What is under fire is the generating of Copyrighted Music and then distributing them.
Guilt by association is wrong. Granted people here SHOULD know the difference between an audio format and an criminal act but the way 'the media' touts MP3 as an illegal format in itself sickens me.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Well this sure tops the cake. Now Slashdot is bullying OpenSource ADVOCATES!
Domain Names are first come first serve. I hardly see how an OpenSource advocate who registers a domain name in the org top level to be a squatter when he is using it for related purposes (or any purposes.. he paid for it, he was there first, He took the initative that the SSH group did not.) Big deal! They were caught sleeping.. they loose.
Like it or not (I don't much like it anymore) Slashdot has some power over this OpenSource comunity and this is a clear abuse of that power. The poor guy's web page is being flooded, his email box is being flooded with lamer flames and Slashdot is directly responsible by posting this story.
You've twisted the SSH announcemnt to incite anger among your members, You're using your members as a tool for your own personal attack on a person who was well within their rights to register a domain he felt he could use for his benefit.
Some animals are more equal than others?
PIGS
Today will be the last day I participate in this madness which is called Slashdot. Today is also the day that I buy that Dell computer instead of a VA Linux system.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
I use the mgetty+sendfax package in conjunction with the KDE faxing application. Not only does it let you eaisly send and receive faxes but you can also receive voicemails with a compatable modem (mine is a diamond supra 56k with voice).
Another really nifty feature of this software is that it lets you configure an unlimited number of answering messages, it'll just loop through them all playing a new message for each caller (and thwarting many telephony devices which the telemarketers use).
Also, check your state, city laws. In some areas telemarkets are illegal. In Florida they are required to be licensed and if you have your name on this opt out list, it is illegal for them to call you (and fairly easy to sue them over). I added my name to the opt out list and I have had exactly 0 calls since then.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Hay Taco, If you want to rant about something.. why don't you just rant about something. Sticking it in with a completely unrelated Microsoft post is really really lame man.
On a related note... I think you'll see more and more of MS getting into the Linux game. They have everything to gain and nothing to loose. Anyone with their eyes open can look around and see that there is money in dem dar hills. A fabulous source of NEW money even.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
First off, the thought of Jon Katz kissing me makes me want to vomit.
Granted, it was short as promised but nonetheless he manages to spew garbage as usual... The net is much too diverse to be broken up into any categories so simple as what he has attempted to list above.
Too much of everything spills into everything else. The Internet is the ultimate cosmic people soup. Look at Slashdot for instance.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
The principle occupation [of the MPAA] is to make sure that American movies move freely and unhobbled around the world,"
this statement is utter crap. DVD Is specifically hobbled. They have taken away any ability to USE the product without purchase of another product which can enable playback. IE, the product is disabled/hobbled without a player.
Comparing iCrave to DeCSS and MP3 as well is apples and oranges and strawberries. None have anything to do with the other. iCrave may actually be criminals, MP3 is hardly criminal any way you look at it. it's just a compression method. DeCSS's is not proven to be criminal activity either. Not for nothing but this guilt by association thing upsets me quite a bit.
Overall the article was bland. There is a lot more which any seasoned interviewer would have used to provide a better view of all situations.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Hello Hemos... first off, I love to see posts from the staff at/. Regardless of content it usually gives us some idea what may be going on behind the scenes.
Unfortunatly this message does not.
If the reason is not banner hits, then can you please justify pissing a good portion of your users off several times a week with the innane rantings of a crazed lunatic?
If your reasoning it just to have a crazed lunatic on staff.. then hay, lets put some variety in it! Get some fresh new crazed lunatics and less Katz!
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Now this is what strikes me as most odd... Why would anyone PAY for Katz's/. writings.
If it is just to piss people off enough to post about him and flame him and all that negative energy which surrounds most of katz's "features" then I find this bad.
There is enough negativity in this place without Katz around to salt wounds. Why encourage more.
Oh wait, I forgot, it's all about the money. sorry to bother.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Slashdot Mirror
It just seems to play off off whatever the current geek topic is.. It's sort of like a poorly done dilbert.
But hay, We have "artists" local to daytona making money off of the crap they produce too. Someone must think it's funny, or artistic, or somehow homoerotic or something.
Everyone knows that parents new computer so their kids can play the latest games.
Thats why new computers come with Windows installed.
Who cares about cartoons.
All I care about his extreeme detail on eyeballs, bits of brain and skull, rib cage bones, and knee joints as they fly in every direction after killing your enemy.
Race games are fun too.
I do not think that, when they set the rules for publicc access to public records, they knew the internet was coming.
For example, Foreigners able to access our citizens public records just by browsing to their county's public records page.
I live in Volusia County, FL (where all the shark attacks are happening) ANYONE can browse to http://www.clerk.org and put my name in and find out all kind of information about me from my last speeding ticket to the deed on my house. My social security number is included on some of these documents and available for the WORLD to see.
Also, City Officials seem to have some pull on the online database - just look up records to the clerk herself - Diane Matousek - You will find almost all of the documents on her many property purchases to be "missing".
Sure, it says it's a crime to misuse the information... but since when do criminals follow the laws?
Perhaps it's just bad luck but all of the RECENT AMD mother boards I've gotten were flakey.
Faster than INtell when they worked but still flakey. I could never get that 400+day uptime that I get with intel motherboards.
I still prefer AMD though - it's simply faster.
Thats Great!!!
Just be sure you set up your web cam and give us a URL to watch you doing it.
It just wouldn't be the same without all the fanfare that comes with anything (no matter how stupid) done on the web in front of a web cam.
Everyone knows that the .gov types never read anything which actual citizens send them. Unless it's a memmo from one of corporate america's finace departments with a check in it, it's tossed in the trash.
I guess the reporter must have been dumpster diving again.
You can spell things out for people and they still won't care. The few people who do care are labeled as fanatics and are read about in the same media outlets that spelled out the injustice in the first place.
It is now impossible to fight this issue as a consumer since Wally World has put all of the Mom&Pop shops out of business already.
I had the opportunity to visit New Zealand for 4 months this year and their version of Wall-Mart (The Warehouse) is now where Wall-Mart was a few years back. Their Mom&Pop shops are at their wits end as the business of 50 years is about to be repossed by the bank. And the consumers see what they think is a bargain and leave their small town suppliers for inferior crap items sold by The Warehouse.
I will say though, Wall-Mart's stuff is a higher quality than the stuff I found in NZ's The Warehouse - EVERYTHING I bought there broke from the Body Glove wet-suit to the fillet knife for the fish I was catching.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Who should be pink-slipped? ( ) CmdrTaco ( ) Hemos ( ) Timothy ( ) CowboyNeal
Certainly this poll (as with most polls) is flawed. Only one choice? Axe the lot of them. Put in their place a hunk of code which takes stories off of The Onion instead. At least when you're reading those you KNOW they're bullshit.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
There are alternatives to IRC and most of them are smallish and content specific. Personally I prefer an environment with less people for exactly the reasons you mentioned. OpenVerse Visual Chat is such an environment. It's desgin limits the mass destruction which can occure on Undernet. Check it out at http://openverse.org/
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
this is where the major flaw is in their calculations. Children are terribly cruel. I highly doubt that 1 good child per household is a proper base point. Perhaps we could go by the bible's 144,000 people who will be "called home" during the rapture. Considering only 10% of those people are children, this leaves us with only 14,400 stops. Add some asbestos sheilding to the reigndeer and I think he could do it. Not to mention most of those 14,400 kids are going to be in the same orphanges.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
And just what do they get if they win their lawsuit? A visit from the unknown comic? Perhaps a beter waste of money would be to name the unkown people and lobby for laws against theirs and other countries from participating. But again, it's all just a waste of money cause these .gov types are above the law.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Question, do you guys find that most IT people like to be specialists, or do they seem to prefer a wide variety of problems to tackle?
I used to think I wanted to code and only code. Then I got a job doing just that. Hell, I didn't even compile the code I wrote! I got bored pretty damn quick and i've just recently quit that job in favor of a 6 month trip to New Zealand for camping and fishing without any work).
I didn't make as much doing it, but it turns out that I much prefered working for a Mom -n- Pop joint where I was responsible for everything from ordering new equipment to coding that CGI with DB2 access for a new web customer. Much less opportunity to become bored with what I was doing.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
I'm trying to hire Router engineers and UNIX hacks, and there is a real genuine shortage out there.
Perhaps you aren't looking in the right places (monster.com is a favorite of IT recruiters).
Or maybe, your job just isn't interesting enough to attract the type of people you want or you are in a sub-basement at the town waste treatment center?
Unless you live in a biggish city, people are probably going to have to re-locate to work for you. Expand your search and be willing to pay for them to move. When they get there, be sure to send the guiness deliveryman by three times a week.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
More proof that eventually all conversations twist enough that Hitler and his Nazis are the subject.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
When I first got on IRC in 1993, the school I was accessing it from had a 64k connection FOR THE WHOLE SCHOOL. No one really had enough bandwidth to split a server at the time. Still, distributed attacks could take over a channel or boot a user.
IMHO IRC's biggest flaw is the fact that it's servers are networked and all channels rely on that network to function. If one server goes down, you can loose half or more of the channel's users. And servers go down a lot. I t would seem to me the only reason anyone would put up with the flakieness of IRC is because they are either part of the problem, or because they enjoy the thrill of brutal internet strife.
IRCs problems are what prompted me to make something 'different'. A chat program which did not allow channel operators, banning, kicking or any of the things which typically spur DOS attacks on the servers themselves. Each room is an independant server and nicknames need only be unique per room, not per network. (and no network at all to rely on). Servers are linked similar to the Web where it gives an address and port to connect to.
Best of all, it's graphical and it's free.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
MP3s are already Kosher.
When are people going to realize that MP3 is just an audio format. There is absoutly nothing wrong with generating an MP3 file or stream. What is under fire is the generating of Copyrighted Music and then distributing them.
Guilt by association is wrong. Granted people here SHOULD know the difference between an audio format and an criminal act but the way 'the media' touts MP3 as an illegal format in itself sickens me.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Well this sure tops the cake. Now Slashdot is bullying OpenSource ADVOCATES!
Domain Names are first come first serve. I hardly see how an OpenSource advocate who registers a domain name in the org top level to be a squatter when he is using it for related purposes (or any purposes.. he paid for it, he was there first, He took the initative that the SSH group did not.) Big deal! They were caught sleeping.. they loose.
Like it or not (I don't much like it anymore) Slashdot has some power over this OpenSource comunity and this is a clear abuse of that power. The poor guy's web page is being flooded, his email box is being flooded with lamer flames and Slashdot is directly responsible by posting this story.
You've twisted the SSH announcemnt to incite anger among your members, You're using your members as a tool for your own personal attack on a person who was well within their rights to register a domain he felt he could use for his benefit.
Some animals are more equal than others?
PIGS
Today will be the last day I participate in this madness which is called Slashdot. Today is also the day that I buy that Dell computer instead of a VA Linux system.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
I use the mgetty+sendfax package in conjunction with the KDE faxing application. Not only does it let you eaisly send and receive faxes but you can also receive voicemails with a compatable modem (mine is a diamond supra 56k with voice).
Another really nifty feature of this software is that it lets you configure an unlimited number of answering messages, it'll just loop through them all playing a new message for each caller (and thwarting many telephony devices which the telemarketers use).
Also, check your state, city laws. In some areas telemarkets are illegal. In Florida they are required to be licensed and if you have your name on this opt out list, it is illegal for them to call you (and fairly easy to sue them over). I added my name to the opt out list and I have had exactly 0 calls since then.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Hay Taco, If you want to rant about something.. why don't you just rant about something. Sticking it in with a completely unrelated Microsoft post is really really lame man.
On a related note... I think you'll see more and more of MS getting into the Linux game. They have everything to gain and nothing to loose. Anyone with their eyes open can look around and see that there is money in dem dar hills. A fabulous source of NEW money even.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
First off, the thought of Jon Katz kissing me makes me want to vomit.
Granted, it was short as promised but nonetheless he manages to spew garbage as usual... The net is much too diverse to be broken up into any categories so simple as what he has attempted to list above.
Too much of everything spills into everything else. The Internet is the ultimate cosmic people soup. Look at Slashdot for instance.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
The principle occupation [of the MPAA] is to make sure that American movies move freely and unhobbled around the world,"
this statement is utter crap. DVD Is specifically hobbled. They have taken away any ability to USE the product without purchase of another product which can enable playback. IE, the product is disabled/hobbled without a player.
Comparing iCrave to DeCSS and MP3 as well is apples and oranges and strawberries. None have anything to do with the other. iCrave may actually be criminals, MP3 is hardly criminal any way you look at it. it's just a compression method. DeCSS's is not proven to be criminal activity either. Not for nothing but this guilt by association thing upsets me quite a bit.
Overall the article was bland. There is a lot more which any seasoned interviewer would have used to provide a better view of all situations.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
There is simply _no_ way you can assume to know how the majority of all /. readers feel about Katz.
Sounds like a good idea for a slashdot poll.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
You, sir, don't know of what you speak.
/. Regardless of content it usually gives us some idea what may be going on behind the scenes.
Hello Hemos... first off, I love to see posts from the staff at
Unfortunatly this message does not.
If the reason is not banner hits, then can you please justify pissing a good portion of your users off several times a week with the innane rantings of a crazed lunatic?
If your reasoning it just to have a crazed lunatic on staff.. then hay, lets put some variety in it! Get some fresh new crazed lunatics and less Katz!
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen
Now this is what strikes me as most odd... Why would anyone PAY for Katz's /. writings.
If it is just to piss people off enough to post about him and flame him and all that negative energy which surrounds most of katz's "features" then I find this bad.
There is enough negativity in this place without Katz around to salt wounds. Why encourage more.
Oh wait, I forgot, it's all about the money. sorry to bother.
They are a threat to free speech and must be silenced! - Andrea Chen