Man, I can't wait. Since RedHat releases everything THEY write as OpenSource, reverse engineering will be VERY easy! I'll just... READ THE DAMED SOURCE!
Honestly, why do you come to SlashDot when you're allready smoking crack?
I never intended to insinuate that Scully's conceptions were female-like, or that Moulders were male-like. The story might have meant to portray that, but I don't beleive it. If I did, I might never meet my soul-mate: a female Quake III player who can kick my ass to q3tourney1 and back.;)
I like William Gibson. I love his books and I really like his views on technology. I also love FPS style games. I help run a good sized LAN party and have tons of fun playing Quake III and UT. That being said, I also like X-Files. So last night promised to be a spooge-fest for me.
I have never thought that our current technology, nor the budgets used for first-time movies or TV shows could ever meet Gibson's desire. Sometimes I feel that Gibson's flash in Johnny Mnemonic and his X-Files writing escepades have been a horrible product of a lack of translation between what's in Gibson's head and what people hear coming out of his mouth. So when I watched last night, I really expected cheese out the yin-yang. I was not disappointed. So I try to look past that and try to see what the real meat of the episode was.
I think Moulder and Scully are two different people with very different attitudes about what is a game, and what is real. To Scully, picking up a gun and shooting people is a real thing. It can never be a game. It's too attached to reprecusions. Moulder, on the other hand, can detatch from those consequences for a game and enjoy the sheer simple act of blowing up stuff. I don't normally devide the world into two groups, but most people (I think) fall into one or the other. Once you understand what's going on by experiencing both, you start to realize neither party is WRONG, but experiencing the same thing generates diffrent emotions and feelings about what is being done. That's what I saw last night. Maybe it was wrong, who cares.
Until Gibson posts or something and tells us all what was going on, I really think some of it was good old living vicariously through your technology. Nothing more, nothing less.
I never thought it would happen to me! 10,000 stories have finally made me want to pour hot grits down my pants and fondle statues of Nat Portman! I have ARRIVED!
"I think the key word here is "little". I estimate the chances of governments of the world giving up spying on their own citizens and everybody else to be precisely zero."
Translation: We can't convince Nazi's to be peaceful, so why try?
"The cypherpunks way is more to my liking. Encrypt. Encrypt all messages. Tell your friends to encrypt all messages. Laugh at the very expensive hardware collecting a lot of apparently random noise (but keep yourself up to date on the latest crypto techniques)."
Translation: Let's let them have what they want and when the finally get around to banning crypto inside my country, then I'll... look for another way to have my cake and eat it to.
"In short, good luck guys - great tech but you're up against goliath."
Hrm, there's nothing a group of screaming, crying, ranting advocates can't do. You might see `Hydrogen Fuel' from the people who brought you Linux. Guratanteed to leave a confusing, unsettling, slightly odd aftertaste. Also sure to generate plenty of ranting hate mail and flames. Watch out!
This SUCKS. I would love to CRY a f*cking river because someone can't get the FULL use of their DMA/66 controller, but somehow I can't find the tears. Is that reason to compound the Linux community problems? The answer is to get other distros to support hardware, not turn Linux into your proprietary whipping boy for fun and profit.
It's nice to see that even a Linux knowledgable person can be swayed by a "snazzy little explanation." If we're all lucky, ABIT will be swallowed up into the ground.
Mod this up because it's what you'll be hearing from everyone if the distro-mania continues. It's hard enough as it is right now to try and convince people that Slack, Debian, SuSE, RedHat, Caldera, and Turbo Linux are not different OSes. Do we really need more confusion? I had to explain at length to a manager where I work why the versions are so spread out and what it really had to do with the kernel versions. Ugh, a nightmare.
It might not be too long before you hear, "I can't install your Compaq Linux on my IBM", or "Geesh, NT is very generic from company to company, it's easy to hire NT people. But Linux... you have to find someone who knows the distro we run." My second job at an ISP allready only hires RedHat specific people. Is that what we want?
Assuming your switchbox doesn't alter the signal, I don't see any reason why a signal encrypted at the card and decrypted at the monitor would suffer from the use of a switchbox.
I have to ask if this will cause the regioning of video cards and monitors (like DVD). Now monitors made for the US can cost less/more than monitors made for EU consumption, or something similar. It would also mean (probably) more types of video cards and even more kinds of drivers. Blah. This is unwarranted complexities. And it won't keep people from reading your monitor with an antenae. If they want to do something security related, design a way to make monitors not give off any more radiation. It might save some life, too.
Bad Mojo
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Bravo! Bravo!
I suggest we all take a lesson from this post and emulate it in all of our posts!
In the immortal words of PopEye, "I've stands all I cans, and I can't stands no more!" Jon Katz, have you no decency? Each machine comes into this world with no association. No one labels them or forces them to be something they are not. But then the internet comes along and gives them domain names and web content. If that weren't bad enough, you come along and point out different races to belittle and condemn certain poor machines! How DARE you!
Now we'll have boxen with the InfoNet label looking down on the Undernet with disdain. GodNet machines will turn the other way when XNet servers are in trouble.
I submit that all machines are created equal! All computers, be they servers or laptops, be they labored with WinNT or finely clothed in Linux, are at their core, equal. Why you can't see that and must segregate and file these machines into boxes, I will never understand. Next thing we know you'll have them lined up by serial number, shipping them to camps for hosting porn or something. (And for those of you from Usenet, here's where I throw in the hat and lose the argument.) This post form Jon Katz sounds like something Hitler would say!
(Damn that felt good to post on St. Valentines day. Long live Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club!)
And if the MPAA would take advantage of this now, they could be ready to swoop in when the bandwidth hits and make tons of cash. But I really get the feeling they won't do anything except wait until the bandwidth is larger and then say `Well, now we have a case to bust ass because people ARE downloading movies all the time." MP3.com is trying very hard to do just that right now and no one seems to be catching on in the RIAA and MPAA rings.
Mr. Valenti is trying to step on something he doesn't understand. It's not my obligation to understand or appreciate him when it is HE that is being offensive. Why can't the MPAA spend some money (which I know they barely have enough to get by on) to find out what to prosecute, who to persecute, and what to leave alone? His actions and intentions reek of ignorant, random attacks and things he won't spend time to learn about. Is he so old that he can't comprehend anyhting new?
I will not work to help Mr. Valenti change his assumptions when he has the means to help himself. Bad Mojo
This bit on Salon was kinda blah. The rolled over the part of the interview that I think Slashdot readers wanted to hear. About how he doesn't understand DeCSS and is trying to literally turn thousands of MPAA `customers' away from watching DVDs on their computers. While I'm sure many people will enjoy the article about the jolly old MPAA dictator, I found the article to be a token interview to make Salon feel like they are actually hip. Lukewarm == Spat out. Blah.
Are you saying that we shouldn't blame Monkeys for this? Maybe you're hiding monkeys. Protecting them. Maybe you are a human in league with the monkeys to help them build Robotic Monkeys to enslave humans. Did they promise you riches and wealth? A slice of the pie? WHAT?
I can't believe it. When your opponent in a debate can't even participate due to a lack of knowledge, typically you win. But in this case it seems that filter software advocates are getting a free ride on their own ignorance. This frustrates and pisses me off.
I would be more than happy to `educate' any of these people about how censorship software work.
Has it ever occured to you that some people might not agree with everything the EFF stands for? I am a gun owner who wants to be able to purchase and own weapons. But I'm not an NRA member because I don't want my money supporting some of the things they do. I would rather be a public advocate of the things I stand for and give my money to groups I wholy support. Or give money to specific issues.
I can see it, why can't you guys? It's obvious that Slashdot has been singled out as a focal point of harrassment by the legions of Robotic Monkeys! We must destroy WebMonkey! We must stop the Robotic Monkeys at any cost! Who will fight with me?
Wow. It's simple. It's a request. It's not vulgar or inflamatory. Very well written with no spelling errors. It shows respect and yet holds back nothing. This is simply *the* best response to a Jon Katz article I have read. Maybe the best post I have read on slashdot, ever? So zen. And even with a low number of 4th. May we all abide by this post and make it above all other messages.
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Man, I can't wait. Since RedHat releases everything THEY write as OpenSource, reverse engineering will be VERY easy! I'll just ... READ THE DAMED SOURCE!
Honestly, why do you come to SlashDot when you're allready smoking crack?
Bad Mojo
I never intended to insinuate that Scully's conceptions were female-like, or that Moulders were male-like. The story might have meant to portray that, but I don't beleive it. If I did, I might never meet my soul-mate: a female Quake III player who can kick my ass to q3tourney1 and back. ;)
Bad Mojo
Quake III Announcer Voice: "HUMILIATION!"
Bad Mojo
I like William Gibson. I love his books and I really like his views on technology. I also love FPS style games. I help run a good sized LAN party and have tons of fun playing Quake III and UT. That being said, I also like X-Files. So last night promised to be a spooge-fest for me.
I have never thought that our current technology, nor the budgets used for first-time movies or TV shows could ever meet Gibson's desire. Sometimes I feel that Gibson's flash in Johnny Mnemonic and his X-Files writing escepades have been a horrible product of a lack of translation between what's in Gibson's head and what people hear coming out of his mouth. So when I watched last night, I really expected cheese out the yin-yang. I was not disappointed. So I try to look past that and try to see what the real meat of the episode was.
I think Moulder and Scully are two different people with very different attitudes about what is a game, and what is real. To Scully, picking up a gun and shooting people is a real thing. It can never be a game. It's too attached to reprecusions. Moulder, on the other hand, can detatch from those consequences for a game and enjoy the sheer simple act of blowing up stuff. I don't normally devide the world into two groups, but most people (I think) fall into one or the other. Once you understand what's going on by experiencing both, you start to realize neither party is WRONG, but experiencing the same thing generates diffrent emotions and feelings about what is being done. That's what I saw last night. Maybe it was wrong, who cares.
Until Gibson posts or something and tells us all what was going on, I really think some of it was good old living vicariously through your technology. Nothing more, nothing less.
Enough rambling from me.
Bad Mojo
Most content could be published in book format. I know books are so ... old-wave, but they work pretty well.
Bad Mojo
I never thought it would happen to me! 10,000 stories have finally made me want to pour hot grits down my pants and fondle statues of Nat Portman! I have ARRIVED!
Bad Mojo
"I think the key word here is "little". I estimate the chances of governments of the world giving up spying on their own citizens and everybody else to be precisely zero."
... look for another way to have my cake and eat it to.
Translation: We can't convince Nazi's to be peaceful, so why try?
"The cypherpunks way is more to my liking. Encrypt. Encrypt all messages. Tell your friends to encrypt all messages. Laugh at the very expensive hardware collecting a lot of apparently random noise (but keep yourself up to date on the latest crypto techniques)."
Translation: Let's let them have what they want and when the finally get around to banning crypto inside my country, then I'll
Bad Mojo
From the sky comes a scream, as Homer is crashing right into the Capitol. A few footsteps later, he comes running down the stairs.
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles. [unmasks them]
[audience gasps in terror]
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.
[murmurs]
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.
[Kang and Kodos laugh out loud]
[Ross Perot smashes his "Perot 96" hat]
The next day, Kodos announces the result: "All hail, President Kang."
Bad Mojo
"In short, good luck guys - great tech but you're up against goliath."
Hrm, there's nothing a group of screaming, crying, ranting advocates can't do. You might see `Hydrogen Fuel' from the people who brought you Linux. Guratanteed to leave a confusing, unsettling, slightly odd aftertaste. Also sure to generate plenty of ranting hate mail and flames. Watch out!
;)
Bad Mojo
And I'm a Chinese jet pilot.
This SUCKS. I would love to CRY a f*cking river because someone can't get the FULL use of their DMA/66 controller, but somehow I can't find the tears. Is that reason to compound the Linux community problems? The answer is to get other distros to support hardware, not turn Linux into your proprietary whipping boy for fun and profit.
It's nice to see that even a Linux knowledgable person can be swayed by a "snazzy little explanation." If we're all lucky, ABIT will be swallowed up into the ground.
Bad Mojo
Mod this up because it's what you'll be hearing from everyone if the distro-mania continues. It's hard enough as it is right now to try and convince people that Slack, Debian, SuSE, RedHat, Caldera, and Turbo Linux are not different OSes. Do we really need more confusion? I had to explain at length to a manager where I work why the versions are so spread out and what it really had to do with the kernel versions. Ugh, a nightmare.
... you have to find someone who knows the distro we run." My second job at an ISP allready only hires RedHat specific people. Is that what we want?
It might not be too long before you hear, "I can't install your Compaq Linux on my IBM", or "Geesh, NT is very generic from company to company, it's easy to hire NT people. But Linux
Bad Mojo
Assuming your switchbox doesn't alter the signal, I don't see any reason why a signal encrypted at the card and decrypted at the monitor would suffer from the use of a switchbox.
I have to ask if this will cause the regioning of video cards and monitors (like DVD). Now monitors made for the US can cost less/more than monitors made for EU consumption, or something similar. It would also mean (probably) more types of video cards and even more kinds of drivers. Blah. This is unwarranted complexities. And it won't keep people from reading your monitor with an antenae. If they want to do something security related, design a way to make monitors not give off any more radiation. It might save some life, too.
Bad Mojo
Bravo! Bravo!
I suggest we all take a lesson from this post and emulate it in all of our posts!
Bad Mojo
I need a borg, too. ;)
Bad Mojo
I didn't say water and air made good currency. I said they had intrinsic value. Anything non-essential to life has implied value. 'nuff said.
Bad Mojo
In the immortal words of PopEye, "I've stands all I cans, and I can't stands no more!" Jon Katz, have you no decency? Each machine comes into this world with no association. No one labels them or forces them to be something they are not. But then the internet comes along and gives them domain names and web content. If that weren't bad enough, you come along and point out different races to belittle and condemn certain poor machines! How DARE you!
Now we'll have boxen with the InfoNet label looking down on the Undernet with disdain. GodNet machines will turn the other way when XNet servers are in trouble.
I submit that all machines are created equal! All computers, be they servers or laptops, be they labored with WinNT or finely clothed in Linux, are at their core, equal. Why you can't see that and must segregate and file these machines into boxes, I will never understand. Next thing we know you'll have them lined up by serial number, shipping them to camps for hosting porn or something. (And for those of you from Usenet, here's where I throw in the hat and lose the argument.) This post form Jon Katz sounds like something Hitler would say!
(Damn that felt good to post on St. Valentines day. Long live Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club!)
Bad Mojo
And if the MPAA would take advantage of this now, they could be ready to swoop in when the bandwidth hits and make tons of cash. But I really get the feeling they won't do anything except wait until the bandwidth is larger and then say `Well, now we have a case to bust ass because people ARE downloading movies all the time." MP3.com is trying very hard to do just that right now and no one seems to be catching on in the RIAA and MPAA rings.
Bad Mojo
Mr. Valenti is trying to step on something he doesn't understand. It's not my obligation to understand or appreciate him when it is HE that is being offensive. Why can't the MPAA spend some money (which I know they barely have enough to get by on) to find out what to prosecute, who to persecute, and what to leave alone? His actions and intentions reek of ignorant, random attacks and things he won't spend time to learn about. Is he so old that he can't comprehend anyhting new?
I will not work to help Mr. Valenti change his assumptions when he has the means to help himself.
Bad Mojo
This bit on Salon was kinda blah. The rolled over the part of the interview that I think Slashdot readers wanted to hear. About how he doesn't understand DeCSS and is trying to literally turn thousands of MPAA `customers' away from watching DVDs on their computers. While I'm sure many people will enjoy the article about the jolly old MPAA dictator, I found the article to be a token interview to make Salon feel like they are actually hip. Lukewarm == Spat out. Blah.
Bad Mojo
Gold has no intrinsic value. Oxygen, now THAT has intrinsic value.
Currency systems are only what you make of them.
Bad Mojo
Okay, lets see.. we've blamed
A) Packet Monkeys, Script Kiddies, Crackers
Are you saying that we shouldn't blame Monkeys for this? Maybe you're hiding monkeys. Protecting them. Maybe you are a human in league with the monkeys to help them build Robotic Monkeys to enslave humans. Did they promise you riches and wealth? A slice of the pie? WHAT?
You sicken me!
Bad Mojo
I can't believe it. When your opponent in a debate can't even participate due to a lack of knowledge, typically you win. But in this case it seems that filter software advocates are getting a free ride on their own ignorance. This frustrates and pisses me off.
I would be more than happy to `educate' any of these people about how censorship software work.
Bad Mojo
Has it ever occured to you that some people might not agree with everything the EFF stands for? I am a gun owner who wants to be able to purchase and own weapons. But I'm not an NRA member because I don't want my money supporting some of the things they do. I would rather be a public advocate of the things I stand for and give my money to groups I wholy support. Or give money to specific issues.
Bad Mojo
WebMonkey == Robotic Monkeys!
I can see it, why can't you guys? It's obvious that Slashdot has been singled out as a focal point of harrassment by the legions of Robotic Monkeys! We must destroy WebMonkey! We must stop the Robotic Monkeys at any cost! Who will fight with me?
Bad Mojo
Wow. It's simple. It's a request. It's not vulgar or inflamatory. Very well written with no spelling errors. It shows respect and yet holds back nothing. This is simply *the* best response to a Jon Katz article I have read. Maybe the best post I have read on slashdot, ever? So zen. And even with a low number of 4th. May we all abide by this post and make it above all other messages.
Bad Mojo