...is there still room in a company for a quirky 'guru'?
From what I read, while this guy was "quirky", I'd hardly call him a "guru"...
...arrived with his program, thousands of lines of uncommented and convoluted assembly language. Nothing worked; even the simplest tests we constructed failed spectacularly...
Shouldn't one of the prerequisites for guru status be that your stuff actually works? Sounds to me like he was something of a charlatan...
That'd be a plus, especially for the afternoon commute (and other times),like when that asshole cuts you off, then immediately jams on his brakes and signals a left turn (-1) or that idiot that forgot to turn off his cell phone before coming into the theatre (-2) or...
...on second thought high slashdot karma might be considered an indicator of reactionary thinking and be an indicator of a propensity to commit acts of "terrorism" (such as stealing MP3's or DoSing RIAA).
BTW Brad Templeton's sample Larry Ellison card has his mother's maiden name as (unwed)...does that mean he's a bastard in more ways than just his attitude?
Actually I was thinking it might be more apropos to say that Walt Disney is watching them...and spinning in his grave. I imagine he'd be pretty disgusted at how his creation had been turned into a greedy monster if he were still alive.
We'll leave the last, chilling word to Sony Music Entertainment's Steve Heckler: "Once consumers can no longer get free music, they will have to buy the music in the formats we choose to put out." You have been warned.
...or I could simply be satisfied with the music I already have, or start listening to unsigned independent artists, or quit passively listening to the garbage the RIAA has the temerity to call "art" or "music" and start jamming with my friends. Who knows, I may even share it with whoever wants it in a format that I choose. Regardless, there is nothing that says that I have to do anything that involves participating in their greed-inspired, twisted vision of the future.
#In the beginning was the computer.
And God said
:Let there be light!
#You have not signed on yet.
:God.
#Enter user password.
:Omniscient.
#Password Incorrect. Try again!
:Omnipotent.
#Password Incorrect. Try again!
:Technocrat.
#And God signed on 12:01 a.m., Sunday, March 1.
:Let there be light!
#Unrecognizable command. Try again!
:Create light.
#Done.
:Run heaven and earth.
#And God created Day and Night. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:02 a.m., Sunday, March 1.
#Approx. funds remaining: $92.50.
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:Let there be firmament in the midst of the water and
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:Create firmament.
#Done.
:Run firmament.
#And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
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#Approx. funds remaining: $84.60.
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:Let the waters under heaven be gathered together unto one place
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:Create dryland.
#Done!
:Run dryland.
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:Create lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night.
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#Approx. funds remaining: $54:00.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Thursday, March 5.
:Create fish.
#Done.
:Create fowl.
#Done.
:Run fish'nfowl.
#And God created the great seamonsters and every living creature
that creepeth wherewith the waters swarmed after its kind and
every winged fowl after its kind. 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, March 5.
#Approx. funds remaining: $45.00.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Friday, March 6.
:Create cattle.
#Done.
:Create creepy things.
#Done.
:Now let us make man in our image.
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:Create man.
#Done.
:Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it
and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over of the fowl
of the air and over every living thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
#Too many command operands! Try again.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 6 errors.
:Insert breath.
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:Move man to Garden of Eden.
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:Create Gard.En.
#Done.
:Move man to Gard.En.
#O.K.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 4 errors.
:Copy woman from man.
#O.K.
:Run multiplication.
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:Insert woman into man.
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#And God saw man'nwoman being fruitful and multiplying in the Gard.En.
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#And God saw he had created shame.
#Warning: System error in sector E95. Man'nwoman not in Gard.En.
#1 errors.
:Scan Gard.En. for man'nwoman.
#Man'nwoman cannot be located. Try again!
:Search Gard.En. for man'nwoman.
#Search failed.
:Delete shame.
#Shame cannot be deleted once evil has been activated.
:Destroy freewill.
#Freewill an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
:Stop!
#Unrecognizable command. Try again.
:Break
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#ATTENTION ALL USERS ATTENTION ALL USERS: COMPUTER GOING DOWN FOR
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:Create new world.
#You have exceeded your allotted file space. You must destroy
old files before new ones can be created.
:Destroy earth.
#Destroy earth. Please confirm.
:Destroy earth confirmed.
#COMPUTER DOWN. COMPUTER DOWN. SERVICES WILL RESUME ON SUNDAY
MARCH 8 AT 6:00 A.M. YOU MUST SIGN OFF NOW!
#And God signed off at 11:59 p.m., Friday, March 6.
#And God saw he had zero funds remaining.
Age verification systems won't work and here's why: 1) there are a plethora of sites posting passwords/verifications/credit card info/etc that will allow Johnny to view pornographic material on sites that are attempting to implement such a scheme, and 2) There are many sites that are outside the jurisdiction (and reach) of the US (gasps of disbelief from the "soccer moms"!). If they don't want to play along, they won't, and furthermore, those in the US who don't want to play will move elsewhere.
This is nothing more that a political "bone" being tossed at the "soccer moms". Maybe they instead need to be told to stop abdicating their parenting responsibilities to the TV or the Internet and start getting personally involved with raising their kids. You can't legislate well-raised children...it takes personal involvement and WORK!
In the episode, Picard refers to the first contact with Klingons as with the Federation making first contact(when the Klingons attained Warp drive) , and that the Fed. didn't know anything about their culture. He also says that if they had implanted spies like Riker, then first contact would've gone much smoother.
Uhhh...how did the Klingon get to earth then if they don't already have warp? How did they come to be on Rigel in numbers? Have an empire? I think there's already a break in continuity here. The TNG reference to a "first contact with Klingons newly discovering warp drive" apparently didn't happen.
Of course this could simply be "revisionist" history in action. I mean we can't even get straight goods about shit we've done in the last 50 years on our own planet...
Ironic. Heard news about John Ashcroft lumping hackers in together with terrorists in the new anti-terrorism legislation: so the US is now starting its own Corps of Terrorists?
What do you mean starting? Theyve had a terrorist corps for years...it's called the CIA.
You know the drill: They have a bunch of felons at large. Rather than try to serve warrants on them singly, they just send out a mailer. "Congratulations! You'vewon tickets to the Superbowl! Now all you have to do to claim your prize is show up at the stadium on such and such a date and get your picture taken!" And the dumb 'cons' fall for it every time... So go ahead, send them your resumes. Then they'll know where you live and can drag you in for questioning any time they want.
Besides, is this something you want to be supporting?
Under the NMPA settlement proposal, Napster would pay $26m for all previous unauthorised music that has been swapped using its software, as well as a further $10m in down payment on future royalties.
Does this mean that Napster has just agreed to pay the royalties on all the songs I've downloaded? Gee, thanks! What a swell bunch of guys!
After about the 4th day I stopped watching the "news" coverage of the WTC disaster. Basically about the same time the talking heads ran out of things to say. Wake me up when the barrage of pseudoinfo-diarrhoea ceases and they've got something new to say.
We don't even know if the terrorists used encryption. We do know that they used American technology against Americans. Technology manufactured by Boeing...gee, don't hear Boeing engineers wailing about the "ethics" of design features of the 767, do we? Besides, smart people in other countries write encryption all the time...how are you going stop that? What they simply used a seemingly innocuous set of phrases with pre-determined meanings?
This article is nothing more than more of the same pseudoinformation (propaganda?) that the American media has been bombarding us with. The corporate propaganda machine is in full cry, preparing Joe-sixpack for the loss of freedom that is soon to come. Herr Goebbels would have been proud.
What about all the technological advances by the Americans that allow them to exert brutal dominion over other parts of the world? A discussion of ethical concerns and science could prove most embarrasing to America.
In any case, scientists should only concern themselves with "is it possible?" not "should we make it available?"
I wish somebody would layoff Katz so we wouldn't have to endure his pontificating. (BTW that's layoff as in terminate employment, not "layoff" as in stop heaping abuse on him)
I don't know what the law says in the States, but in Canada if you are owed wages, the directors of the company are still liable, even after bankruptcy, and the powers that be (Labour Relations etc.) will conduct forensic audits and go after personal assets of the directors to recover your wages. They even have the power examine and negate transfers of property that are done with the express purpose of hiding financial assets. So if your shyster VC had put his property in his kid's name or set up a shell company, it wouldn't "protect" him and you would still get paid. It takes a while and you have to make some noise, but the only way you won't get paid is if there really are no assets left to seize.
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From the article:
Vinyl alcohol, actually a non-inebriating complex organic molecule...
Awww shit! And I was getting all ready to "boldly go"...
...is there still room in a company for a quirky 'guru'?
...arrived with his program, thousands of lines of uncommented and convoluted assembly language. Nothing worked; even the simplest tests we constructed failed spectacularly...
From what I read, while this guy was "quirky", I'd hardly call him a "guru"...
Shouldn't one of the prerequisites for guru status be that your stuff actually works? Sounds to me like he was something of a charlatan...
That'd be a plus, especially for the afternoon commute (and other times),like when that asshole cuts you off, then immediately jams on his brakes and signals a left turn (-1) or that idiot that forgot to turn off his cell phone before coming into the theatre (-2) or...
Huh? Huh? Can I?
...on second thought high slashdot karma might be considered an indicator of reactionary thinking and be an indicator of a propensity to commit acts of "terrorism" (such as stealing MP3's or DoSing RIAA).
BTW Brad Templeton's sample Larry Ellison card has his mother's maiden name as (unwed)...does that mean he's a bastard in more ways than just his attitude?
After MS took over it litterally filled the account with junk mail.
Then every other day you get a message saying that your account is too large...
Didn't Al Bundy do a similar thing when he started the "church of No, Ma'am"?
All kidding aside, these people don't seriously think they can start a religion based on science fiction, can they? Oh, wait a minute...
You bastards!
Actually I was thinking it might be more apropos to say that Walt Disney is watching them...and spinning in his grave. I imagine he'd be pretty disgusted at how his creation had been turned into a greedy monster if he were still alive.
"a format that they choose"
If you mean the recipients then point taken. What I was trying to say was that it wouldn't be a format dictated by the RIAA.
We'll leave the last, chilling word to Sony Music Entertainment's Steve Heckler: "Once consumers can no longer get free music, they will have to buy the music in the formats we choose to put out." You have been warned.
...or I could simply be satisfied with the music I already have, or start listening to unsigned independent artists, or quit passively listening to the garbage the RIAA has the temerity to call "art" or "music" and start jamming with my friends. Who knows, I may even share it with whoever wants it in a format that I choose. Regardless, there is nothing that says that I have to do anything that involves participating in their greed-inspired, twisted vision of the future.
#In the beginning was the computer.
:Let there be light!
:God.
:Omniscient.
:Omnipotent.
:Technocrat.
:Let there be light!
:Create light.
:Run heaven and earth.
:Let there be firmament in the midst of the water and
:Create firmament.
:Run firmament.
:Let the waters under heaven be gathered together unto one place
:Create dryland.
:Run dryland.
:Create lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night.
:Create sunmoonstars.
:Create fish.
:Create fowl.
:Run fish'nfowl.
:Create cattle.
:Create creepy things.
:Now let us make man in our image.
:Create man.
:Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it
:Run multiplication.
:Insert breath.
:Run multiplication.
:Move man to Garden of Eden.
:Create Gard.En.
:Move man to Gard.En.
:Run multiplication.
:Copy woman from man.
:Run multiplication.
:Insert woman into man.
:Insert man into woman.
:Run multiplication.
:Create desire.
:Run multiplication.
:Create freewill.
:Run freewill.
:Undo desire.
:Destroy freewill.
:Help!
:Create Treeofknowledge.
:Create good'nevil.
:Activate evil.
:Scan Gard.En. for man'nwoman.
:Search Gard.En. for man'nwoman.
:Delete shame.
:Destroy freewill.
:Stop!
:Break
:Break
:Break
:Create new world.
:Destroy earth.
:Destroy earth confirmed.
And God said
#You have not signed on yet.
#Enter user password.
#Password Incorrect. Try again!
#Password Incorrect. Try again!
#And God signed on 12:01 a.m., Sunday, March 1.
#Unrecognizable command. Try again!
#Done.
#And God created Day and Night. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:02 a.m., Sunday, March 1.
#Approx. funds remaining: $92.50.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Monday, March 2.
#Unrecognizable command! Try again!
#Done.
#And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Monday, March 2.
#Approx. funds remaining: $84.60.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 3.
and let the dry land appear and
#Too many characters in string specification! Try again.
#Done!
#And God created Earth and Seas. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, March 3.
#Approx. funds remaining: $65.00.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 4.
#Unspecified type. Try again!
#And God created Sun, Moon, Stars. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Wednesday, March 4.
#Approx. funds remaining: $54:00.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Thursday, March 5.
#Done.
#Done.
#And God created the great seamonsters and every living creature
that creepeth wherewith the waters swarmed after its kind and
every winged fowl after its kind. 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, March 5.
#Approx. funds remaining: $45.00.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Friday, March 6.
#Done.
#Done.
#Unspecified type! Try again.
#Done.
and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over of the fowl
of the air and over every living thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
#Too many command operands! Try again.
#Execution terminated. 6 errors.
#O.K.
#Execution terminated. 5 errors.
#File Garden of Eden does not exist.
#Done.
#O.K.
#Execution terminated. 4 errors.
#O.K.
#Execution terminated. 3 errors.
#Illegal parameters. Try again!
#O.K.
#Execution terminated. 2 errors.
#Done.
#And God saw man'nwoman being fruitful and multiplying in the Gard.En.
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
#Done.
#And God saw man'nwoman being fruitful and multiplying in the Gard.En.
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
#Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
#Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
#And God saw man'nwoman being fruitful and multiplying in the Gard.En.
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
#Done.
#And God saw he had created shame.
#Warning: System error in sector E95. Man'nwoman not in Gard.En.
#1 errors.
#Man'nwoman cannot be located. Try again!
#Search failed.
#Shame cannot be deleted once evil has been activated.
#Freewill an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Unrecognizable command. Try again.
#ATTENTION ALL USERS ATTENTION ALL USERS: COMPUTER GOING DOWN FOR
REGULAR DAY OF MAINTENANCE AND REST IN FIVE MINUTES. PLEASE
SIGN OFF.
#You have exceeded your allotted file space. You must destroy
old files before new ones can be created.
#Destroy earth. Please confirm.
#COMPUTER DOWN. COMPUTER DOWN. SERVICES WILL RESUME ON SUNDAY
MARCH 8 AT 6:00 A.M. YOU MUST SIGN OFF NOW!
#And God signed off at 11:59 p.m., Friday, March 6.
#And God saw he had zero funds remaining.
Voyeur Dorm's business does not encourage "guys with bloodshot eyes to tromp around the suburbs of Tampa, looking for naked ladies," he said.
Speak for yourself...
WTF is pornagraphy?
Maybe it's what pornography is called when the likes of bin Laden hide messages in scans of Miss July...
Hmmm...that explains her nipples having a slight greenish tinge...
Age verification systems won't work and here's why: 1) there are a plethora of sites posting passwords/verifications/credit card info/etc that will allow Johnny to view pornographic material on sites that are attempting to implement such a scheme, and 2) There are many sites that are outside the jurisdiction (and reach) of the US (gasps of disbelief from the "soccer moms"!). If they don't want to play along, they won't, and furthermore, those in the US who don't want to play will move elsewhere.
This is nothing more that a political "bone" being tossed at the "soccer moms". Maybe they instead need to be told to stop abdicating their parenting responsibilities to the TV or the Internet and start getting personally involved with raising their kids. You can't legislate well-raised children...it takes personal involvement and WORK!
There are links to many downloadable simulations here, including an Abwehr Enigma sim for Windows. There even appears to be one written for Palm Pilot.
A post about the Hindenburg modded as flamebait???
You guys kill me!
In the episode, Picard refers to the first contact with Klingons as with the Federation making first contact(when the Klingons attained Warp drive) , and that the Fed. didn't know anything about their culture. He also says that if they had implanted spies like Riker, then first contact would've gone much smoother.
Uhhh...how did the Klingon get to earth then if they don't already have warp? How did they come to be on Rigel in numbers? Have an empire? I think there's already a break in continuity here. The TNG reference to a "first contact with Klingons newly discovering warp drive" apparently didn't happen.
Of course this could simply be "revisionist" history in action. I mean we can't even get straight goods about shit we've done in the last 50 years on our own planet...
Ironic. Heard news about John Ashcroft lumping hackers in together with terrorists in the new anti-terrorism legislation: so the US is now starting its own Corps of Terrorists?
What do you mean starting? Theyve had a terrorist corps for years...it's called the CIA.
You know the drill: They have a bunch of felons at large. Rather than try to serve warrants on them singly, they just send out a mailer. "Congratulations! You'vewon tickets to the Superbowl! Now all you have to do to claim your prize is show up at the stadium on such and such a date and get your picture taken!" And the dumb 'cons' fall for it every time... So go ahead, send them your resumes. Then they'll know where you live and can drag you in for questioning any time they want.
Besides, is this something you want to be supporting?
Goatse.cx buying a piece of Delta?
Delta selling the Brooklyn bridge?
Shame! Both of you are going to prison for a very long time!
From the BBC article:
Under the NMPA settlement proposal, Napster would pay $26m for all previous unauthorised music that has been swapped using its software, as well as a further $10m in down payment on future royalties.
Does this mean that Napster has just agreed to pay the royalties on all the songs I've downloaded? Gee, thanks! What a swell bunch of guys!
The Gov'ment wuz rite! All yew Lienucks yewsers ahr theeves and tearerists! They shewd lock yew up aynd fergit abowt yew!
After about the 4th day I stopped watching the "news" coverage of the WTC disaster. Basically about the same time the talking heads ran out of things to say. Wake me up when the barrage of pseudoinfo-diarrhoea ceases and they've got something new to say.
We don't even know if the terrorists used encryption. We do know that they used American technology against Americans. Technology manufactured by Boeing...gee, don't hear Boeing engineers wailing about the "ethics" of design features of the 767, do we? Besides, smart people in other countries write encryption all the time...how are you going stop that? What they simply used a seemingly innocuous set of phrases with pre-determined meanings?
This article is nothing more than more of the same pseudoinformation (propaganda?) that the American media has been bombarding us with. The corporate propaganda machine is in full cry, preparing Joe-sixpack for the loss of freedom that is soon to come. Herr Goebbels would have been proud.
What about all the technological advances by the Americans that allow them to exert brutal dominion over other parts of the world? A discussion of ethical concerns and science could prove most embarrasing to America.
In any case, scientists should only concern themselves with "is it possible?" not "should we make it available?"
I wish somebody would layoff Katz so we wouldn't have to endure his pontificating. (BTW that's layoff as in terminate employment, not "layoff" as in stop heaping abuse on him)
I don't know what the law says in the States, but in Canada if you are owed wages, the directors of the company are still liable, even after bankruptcy, and the powers that be (Labour Relations etc.) will conduct forensic audits and go after personal assets of the directors to recover your wages. They even have the power examine and negate transfers of property that are done with the express purpose of hiding financial assets. So if your shyster VC had put his property in his kid's name or set up a shell company, it wouldn't "protect" him and you would still get paid. It takes a while and you have to make some noise, but the only way you won't get paid is if there really are no assets left to seize.