Seriously. Harry Knowles has exactly NO
journalistic integrity whatsoever. All these junkets, etc. are avoided by legitimate journalists. Only the swill you see discussed in this article are brainwash victims of Hollywood's PR machine. This group squarely includes Harry Knowles and has included him for a LONG time.
His biggest problem (other than his terminal weight situation) is that any caress of his ego by an actor or director inevitably leads to positive reviews on his site of any POS they release. This effect can also be seen in his tendency not to ever write a bad review of ANYTHING.
Case in point: The studio responsible for Godzilla flew Harry to NYC to watch the premier. The atmosphere was like a rock concert complete with beach balls bouncing around the crowd. Result: Hypnotized Harry came back writing "Godzilla good movie."
Another example: Detroit Rock City makers flew Harry out to see Kiss in LA and see the premiere. Keep in mind that this is a guy who at the age of 26 still lives with his dad and has no job prospects outside his ad banner sales. When rich studios come along dangling trips to LA or NY, this guy is powerless to resist.
How do the big league journalists handle these enticements? Credible reviewers such as Roger Ebert refuse to ever go on junkets. They watch the movies and write about them. Period. When the subject of a review requires that a writer do something that could be considered a gift, the publisher will usually pay the way of the journalist or refuse to send her. An example of this would be if a travel writer has to write about some new concorde flight to Germany. The writer might go on the plane and check it out, but the magazine or newspaper would pay for the ticket.
Please excuse the implied sarcasm of the headline. I actually do mean to complement C.Taco on his correct use of the apostrophe
twice in his editorial introduction of this story. This is the first time in the last two years I've been reading sd that I've seen him get through an entire paragraph without botching this or some other syntax.
This isn't the type of thing intended to protect someone running a web browser from being identified (as your example suggests). This sounds to me like an additional layer of protection. Right now, we've got encryption to protect TCP/IP communication from eavesdropping via packet sniffing. With the type of processing power in the hands of our nation's (the George W. 'led' country) spy organizations as well as foreign powers, there's nothing to really confirm that your 4086 bit encrypted messages aren't being decoded in the 8th level of a building's basement somewhere. And that's by contemporary technology standards. For real spy organizations, it's often essential that encrypted communications NEVER be cracked as even a 10 year old message might comprimise the identity of a long-term mole. Right now, operations like echelon are sifting through packets and flagging suspicious communications. Just because something is encrypted doesn't mean it's ignored. It just gets set aside... saved for future reference. Probably not ALL encrypted transmissions. Just those from origins or to destinations determined to be of interest to the sniffers. The 'future' reference is an anticipated point in the future when technology allows for the unravelling of the message or an exploit is found for the encryption method (microsoft embedded hidden key comprimised... etc.).
Here's a tip for would-be encryption hackers: If you find a weakness in PGP, don't send Phil Zimmerman an e-mail about it.. no matter how densely encrypted it is. Not only will he never receive it, but it's likely to be the last message you'll send.
I'm a proponent of linux and am using it to power a general web / ftp (SuSE) server as well as a seperate Oracle database (Mandrake 7.2). I would have attempted to use the OS as my desktop machine, but while installing the DB on Mandrake, I noticed that I couldn't copy-and-paste between applications. Netscape allowed for c-and-p within itself, but none of the supplied terminal apps or other programs provided this necessary functionaility. How is everyone else getting by? Is KDE the problem? Any tips would be appreciated!
That's exactly what I thought when I read Taco's comments. I was pretty shocked that he didn't even take the time to proof-read his own editorial couple of sentences to recognize that he used 'scaling' when he should have used 'leaping' to describe the effect of the 'single bound'.
Hemos and I are planning on being in Japan for the
Tokyo LinuxWorld in a few weeks, so I'll see you guys there. Bring translators and we can talk about anime;)
In this economy, I'm really surprised VA Linux is sending the slashdot crew to Japan. Perhaps the web logs say otherwise, but judging from the lack of Japanese posts to slashdot, I don't see a lot of traffic from our.jp friends. Having cmdrTaco in a booth at a Japanese trade show isn't likely to catch nearly as much attention as if they were to have him dressed in an ultra-cutesy full-body penguin costume.
Well, Taco, enjoy the boondoggle and try to pretend it's the second half of 99. As for the translators, you might want to bring your own. I don't expect a lot of people in Tokyo are amped up about schooling some unknown American Linux celebrities on Anime.
Not that I think these people are cool or anything, but how about:
Master P:Believe it. A couple years ago, I read that he was in the top fifty list of richest men under 40 from his record label empire that he runs, No Limit. He made 365 million in one year-- that topped Michael Jordan. He turned thirty this year.
Michael Dell: Currently aged 34 years. Started and has run Dell computers through his 20s. Now has 21 billion dollars.
Seth Warshavsky: At the helm of the largest online porn entity-- IEG (Internet Entertainment Group) at age 24. He started and has run the company responsible for profitting off the online Dr. Laura nude pics and the Tommy Lee and P. Anderson video. In 1997 it grossed $20 million. Granted, unlike Dell, this guy has some morals and taste.
This topic reminded me of an article I read several years ago in Wired. Fortunately, that site maintains a freely accessible online archive of past issues, so I was able to dig up a link.
The article talks about how great that technology was (is) and how theories exist about how the owner of a delivery truck company leveraged influence with the city managers to get the tube system dismantled so that he could sell delivery trucks to the city.
Coincidentally, Home Depot uses pneumatic tubes to send cash back and forth from the registers to the back office or wherever they're hording it in the building.
No offense to the original poster (xtal), but his repetitious use of parentheticals is indicative of a chronic (pun intended) user of marijuana.
You may have witnessed a stoned individual at a party say something like, "Hey, I wonder if that girl will make out with me." Then he becomes self conscious when he realizes he said it out loud and said girl has probably heard him. In this case, xtal is posting in parentheticals when he doesn't realize he's vocalizing his own thoughts.
I have been trying to build a Mandrake production box for a couple weeks (in my spare time) and have been having a difficult time figuring out how to configure stuff like NFS. Everytime I go to the www.linux-mandrake.com site, I can't find much in the way of online support (knowledge base, how-to's, etc.), but instead find links to other sites for support.
I bought the package at CompUSA, so I have the manuals (which I agree are are pretty good compared to other linux docs), but I'd like to see these online tutorials you're talking about.
the stated goal of compiling information about abortion providers so that in the future if and when abortion becomes illegal they can be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
I can assure you that no twist of reality will result in doctors being charged with crimes for actions they took before a particular law was passed. This is a bogus argument and I think you know it. There's no literal parallel between this issue and the war crime trials. In order to make that comparison, the US government would have to be crushed before these trials could commence. It wasn't a legislative affair that put the nazi commanders on trial. Nazi Germany was destroyed by the allied forces. For the doctors to be tried for crimes against humanity, your anti-abortion forces will need to destroy the US govt. Is that what you're advocating? Because if it is, that's treason and is a different free speech issue altogether.
wont just be a triumph of india, but of every underdog out there who just didnt
accept defeat when the odds were against them, but decided that "I am gonna do it myself ". Isnt this what Torvalds did ?
It's also what Saddam Hussein did when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Should we celebrate destabilization because other nations had applied diplomatic pressure in an attempt to stem hostility? No.
Sure, I'd like to think that India intends to use this newfound ability to improve its economy. I doubt the real intention behind this launch capability is to jumpstart a satellite launching industry in India. How profitable can that possibly be? It usually costs something like a hundred million dollars (US) to get a satellite up in the sky. Insurance on these launches is almost as high as their intended orbits. Can you possibly imagine how much it's going to cost to insure the launch of a satellite by a rookie program like this? Sorry to say, but this is all about intimidating Pakistan.
This is a pretty descent article about what this means to India and Pakistan.
A couple years ago, I think he finished building his third castle here in Austin. It was described on the tv news as having secret passages (like the other two), a mote (sp?), a staircase that disappears into the wall (so people can't get up to the second floor), and a revolving floor in the guest rooms so that when the guests wake up in the morning, they are actually in different rooms than what they went to sleep in.
He doesn't have the halloween or birthday bashes anymore. Some guy told me he was having too many freaks sort of lurking around his property for days afterwards and it weirded him out so he stopped them.
Congress hasn't changed anything. This is a case of GW avoiding the humiliation of having his dyslexic e-mail aired in public by the Freedom Of Information Act requests.
And speaking of dragging heels, I wouldn't exactly call Ronnie and George Sr.'s cooperation with the Iran-Contra investigation 'expedient'.
among the Hollywood Left, Tom Cruise,
Nicole Kidman, John Travolta, etc.
As a card-carrying member of the Hollywood Right, I can tell you that since starring in Top Gun, Tom Cruise has faithfully been attending all of our meetings. He usually sits a few chairs to the right of Tom Selleck, just in front of Bruce Willis, behind Arnold Schwarzenegger, and right next to Charleton Heston.
I like your idea of dealing used arcade games. But you're right; the maintenance / refurbishment of these aging beasts would eat your profits.
Perhaps the most lucrative solution would be to build arcade machines from scratch and equip them with some cheap amd box and a 19 inch tv set and a video-out card. Run ArcadeOS on it and include perhaps one demo ROM and package an actual old card that matches the ROM for legal reasons. Explain to the purchaser how they can install over 2000 of their own ROM files on the hard drive, but never provide these (again, for legal reasons). Make additional money by selling different controller panels with spinners, double (or quadruple) joysticks, trackballs, etc.
I don't agree with your description of seti@home as a worthy application of resources. I suspect that distributed computing projects like seti@home encourage people to leave their computers running unused while they're asleep and at work. The effect is a distributed energy consumption monster.
Imagine going up to the DJ at your local party/rave and not being limited to his/her personal collection.
I take it the parties you go to have crummy djs.The whole purpose of having a DJ at a party is getting that person's record collection pumping through the speakers. A good DJ has a great vinyl collection and knows how to combine it to create an atmosphere. If people go up to the DJ and say, "Play this" then that interferes with what the DJ is attempting to build. If the DJ sucks, then by all means, wrest control of the turntables away from her--
don't let the party die.
Additionally, if the DJ breaks down and starts playing requests, then the party is no longer benefitting from the DJs enlightened record collection, but is now subjected to the possibly pedestrian taste of the guests. Remember that Philips CDR commercial where there's this great party going on in some small warehouse and this guy shows up and hands the DJ his own music CDR? The music starts and its some crazy indian music and then the CDR burner-guy and some indian chick start dancing together while the rest of the party stands around to watch. Ok. Way to go. Buy a Philips CDR so you can destroy a good party.
Sort of a little back on topic. Have you noticed that those consumer CDR stereo devices ONLY will record to discs that are sold as Audio CDRs? You can't record to any old cheap-o CDR from Korea. They've got to be Audio CDRs. I suspect this is because the manufacturers of these stereo components want to make nice with the RIAA and have royalties for each of the blank CDRs go to the RIAA just like blank cassette tapes. As you might expect, the cost of the 'Audio' CDRs is nowhere near as cheap as regular CDRs.
Just to get the fud going here, I suggest we forever after refer to.NET as the.NET offensive.... As in the
TET offensive during vietnam. Whoops. I forgot who won that thing. Nevermind.
I was on site visiting one of our customers in NY when the luv bug virus broke out. I was helping one of the top admins with our product when everyone rushed around shouting that the e-mail server was down. It was thursday at 4 in the pm.
After a quick survey of the mail server, it was found that it had run out of space. Why? Was it copies of luv bug? No. The director of the IT dept., just before jumping in his car and driving home, had sent an e-mail out to every single alias he could think of warning users to update their virus definitions with the ATTACHED symantec updater. The damn thing was three megs. Because most users were on several different aliases, they all had it copied to their mail boxes as many as eight times. Deleting all those mails from each user's box was a very tedious and time-consuming process, let me tell you.
This was perhaps the most brilliant protection against a virus infection I have ever witnessed.
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There is no causal relationship. Pot is not a necessary conduit to coccaine usage. If marijuana didn't exist, do you think people would never get around to using coccaine? They would. Does everyone who uses pot eventually use coccaine? No. You might also say that alcohol is a gateway to pot and coccaine in that most people who are using those drugs first tried alcohol. Again, not all boozers become potheads or cokeheads.
I apologize for stating the obvious in such a wildly off-topic thread.
I saw a documentary about this. Long. Came in about 17 episodes. Turns out this guy worked for an organization with some VERY proprietary information. The guy one day decides to resign. He seemed upset with the organization, but did not give a reason for his resignation. Next day, he finds that the organization has spirited him off to some remote village where they keep asking him why he left. Here's a poigniant selection of dialogue:
PRISONER:
Where am I?
NUMBER 2:
In The Village.
PRISONER:
What do you want?
NUMBER 2:
Information.
PRISONER:
Whose side are you on?
NUMBER 2:
That would be telling.
We want information... information...information...
PRISONER:
You won't get it.
NUMBER 2:
By hook or by crook we will.
PRISONER:
Who are you?
NUMBER 2:
You are Number Six.
PRISONER:
I AM NOT A NUMBER, I AM A FREE MAN!
No mention of the Yahoo message boards in the documentary, but I'd assume the organization was very concerned about what this fellow might post to the discussion boards about their activities.
You are absolutely right. I forgot about that. Ok. So there isn't so much available software for it (this coming from a SuSE PPC 7.0 user), but still it would be more than webTV or this crazy dreamcast port.
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Imagine going up to the DJ at your local party/rave and not being limited to his/her personal collection.
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I saw a documentary about this. Long. Came in about 17 episodes. Turns out this guy worked for an organization with some VERY proprietary information. The guy one day decides to resign. He seemed upset with the organization, but did not give a reason for his resignation. Next day, he finds that the organization has spirited him off to some remote village where they keep asking him why he left. Here's a poigniant selection of dialogue:
PRISONER: Where am I?
NUMBER 2: In The Village.
PRISONER: What do you want?
NUMBER 2: Information.
PRISONER: Whose side are you on?
NUMBER 2: That would be telling.
We want information... information...information...
PRISONER: You won't get it.
NUMBER 2: By hook or by crook we will.
PRISONER: Who are you?
NUMBER 2: You are Number Six.
PRISONER: I AM NOT A NUMBER, I AM A FREE MAN!
No mention of the Yahoo message boards in the documentary, but I'd assume the organization was very concerned about what this fellow might post to the discussion boards about their activities.
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