to the converted. I doubt anybody here has to be told that open-source is growing. We all know that companies are jumping on the bandwagon. These pieces of info are really not that interesting anymore, maybe we should get this out to the windoze lusers somehow, it serves no purpose to prove to us that we are on the right side allready. Please don't bother me again until something Like Diablo II or Quake 3 or something has been gpl'd. If microcrud decides to open-source w2k - I think you could post it with some kina "major threat -Linux users unite and take up arms!" theme attached. Anything short of that being open sourced, I really am not that interested.
PS. If 8000 people are, just say so, don't flame me because I feel different, I will democratically follow the crowd, no need to waste your napalm.
These scientists took pictures of my brain, and now their putting them on a web-site! FOR THE LAST TIME, IT MAY BE SUBATOMIC BUT I DID NOT GPL MY BRAIN.
I live in South-Africa, where we also have a a telecomunications monopoly leading to highly expensive internet access, and no talk of broadband - ever. They still like to tell us that ISDN is new and high-tech. Around here there are only one free ISP - who doesn't support connections from Linux (you know the adds type) all the others are really pricey, not to mention terrible prices for local calls. I am not sure how I would feel about a not-for-profit ISP, but I do know that it no such entity could exist in this country. It's high-time I think for the people of countries like ours to begin actively battling (and I don't mean violence) the source of all these problems - state appointer telecomunications monopolies. Even if that means boycotting them at our own expense.
Some intriguing replies, including one where somebody appears to feel that the score 5 insightfull which he rightfully stated that particular post would not get (I admit, I was not exactly delving into the dark recesses of genius there, I was merely stating an opinion) was more likely to go to his (less than brilliant) flame.
Now that is Moronic.
Sorry I did not reply sooner, my time is not my own.
Here it is then my answers to most of what was asked:
I did not compare KDE to StarOffice, I compared my KDE configuration (which is hand customized in the source not to have a menu) with the cascading menu system in the Xerox..eh..MacOs..eg..Windows..Eh..Star Office interfaces. Even long time Linux users often can't use my box simply because they can't find out how to launch commands without menu's or bars. I do everything by hitting ALT-F2, and then typing the commands, where this is insufficient I start a terminal. But I like that, and I have no intention of changing it for the rare few times somebody else works on my machine.
To the person who mentioned that a GPL'd SO would be nice because it would not be stuck in an interface and even be theme-able, I think your right, in which case my opinion might change, I'll wait and see, I am open-minded enough not to keep prejudices. At least I like to believe that.
Overall I am surprized so many people agreed on the basic concept, I really thought I was the last guy left who didn't like start button thingies. If my writing style was less well recieved, I appologize, but from that appology I exclude the first Anonymous replyer. If you can't make a point without resorting to childish namecalling, I have little respect for your opinion.
Ok, am I the only one in the world who doesn't like star-office ? Ok, it is pretty functionall, but nonetheless, I am pretty irritated by that windows like interface, I actually hate the windows GUI, I do not agree that it's good, it suxors majorly, KDE (with the 'K' button hidden and a good theme loaded) is about 6000 times nicer to work in. I am not berating the software, just the interface, I wish we could get an open-source office suite with this power, and none of that crappy cascading menu crap.
Sorry I only reply now, had to go to a (useless meeting) I think you misunderstood me. Voice Reconition was deemed impossible by the scientists and tech's of the day, I used to catch every tech publication, radio/tv show etc. I heard it a thousand times "talking and understanding language is something that computers only do in science fiction". In other words, shows like Star Trek, Knight Rider and 2001 were predicting what science at the time deemed undoable, and less than 10 years there-after their fantasies were starting to come true. Remember those old voice-command systems in the win3.1 days, when only the rich and famous even had sound-cards or cd-roms ?
Listen to yourself ? Ever heard of the Einstein/Rosen Bridge efect ? The theory of parallel universes, based on the concept of multiple dimensions was an Einstein theory !
I really get ticked of when people try to hide their ignorance behind other peoples genius. Are you aware that Einstein divided by zero in the orriginall theory of relativity, something that was only discovered 30 years later by a 2nd year physics student (sorry, can't remember his name) Einstein acknowledged throughout his life that he is not infallible, and expansions upon his theories had always done him proud. What makes it sacrosanct now ? Here is a litle something else for you, in 1891 Jules Verne (One of the Godfathers of SCI-FI) wrote a story called Paris, which his publisher rejected because "it was too unbelievable" He described Paris in the 20th century as a city where everbody has electric lighting (back then the lightbulb had yet to be invented) and cars (which was a brand new invention). The manuscript made headlines a few years ago when someone decided to publish this, pitty Verne could not live to see it. Get the point ?
Science Fiction has a lot of Science in it. And has been the inspiration for many inventions (more recently voice-recognition software, which in the 80's was considdered completely impossible) And frankly this theory tends to make sense, even to someone who doesn't understand the maths behind it. Yeah, I admit where my knowledge falls short - try it sometime.
PS. I would like to propose the name "Chrighton Efect" I'm sure Michael will be writing a story about this soon, and thereafter make a sucky movie version.
If they get the kina spam I get, knowing the IQ of the average FBI Agent I am guessing a lot of them is gonna be signing up at teenage-bestiality.com I can just imagine the looks on those spamming bastards faces when they see a registration by agent_smith@fbi.gov:-)
Cracking a system without permision is wrong, just plain wrong, regardless what you do in there. Especially since there are many security firms that have systems which you are invited to crack, in order for them to learn the exploits and counter them. For one thing, there is much more phun in breaking into a tightly secured box owned by a security firm than an obscure mail server somewhere in a company. Add to that the fact that you have no risk of meeting your new fiance Spike in prison, and you have a pretty sweet deal. For the cherry on top, many companies will even pay rewards of yup to 3 grand for a successfull crack.
And yet again I get atacked for things I did not say.
First of all, I see that my grammar is under atack, it might do the people who do this a bit of good to keep in mind that grammar rules differ around the world, even spelling, (color is correct in America, but here the correct spelling is considdered colour) in other words with the exception of the occasional typo I miss while previewing, I have yet to use grammar that would not have recieved full marks in my old high-school.
And yet again I repeat, I do not have a problem with anybodies wishes for anonimity, I was trying to point out, that by using my nick, I am identifying myself to a sufficient degree for you to differ from my views, and as seems to be the case with some people, stalk my posts on other topics into infinity with regard to opinions they dissagreed with. In other words, I take the responsibillity and the possible flames, trolls, spams etc. that might result from a controversial view. It has nothing to do with elitism. This whole argument started after someone anonymously cried over the validity of a story I rather enjoyed. I merely stated then that since he did not wish to be in any way associated with his complaint, I had litle reason to take him seriously. My previous post was somewhat angered, I appologize for that, it's not my style. Feel free to post anonymously if you feel such a dire need therefore, but keep in mind that I rarely read nor take seriously the words of someone who does not have enough trust of conviction to be associated with those words.
Perhaps I am not enough of a karma whore, wishing only to be associated with those posts I think will be generally agreed apon, instead I get modded up when I post good posts and down when I don't (the latter in the past having been a very rare occurence)
Anyway I never used the words "1337 nick" that was a description by the AC's whose been flaming to eternall suntandomn, I guess that's a compliment.
I will not be responding to further posts on this topic, nor will I reply to e-mails or in any way allow myself to be bothered as it appears that I have been erronously marked as an enemy of privacy and people appear intent to misinterpret my statements. This debate over AC/nick is hardly anything I wanted to spark, and I have tried severall times to explain my feelings, instead people don't even seem able to understand what those feelings are. Wether I am incapable of explaining it clearly or wether it is misunderstood (delliberately or otherwize) this debate is bringing us nowhere so we might as well cease to waste bandwith on it.
Sounds about right, I doubt there is much chance of this happening, if it does it'll be better than wrestlemania. Thanks, it seems your the only replyer who bothered to read my post before replying to it.
Apparently nobody read my reply the last time you brought this up. And so I will repeat it I believe that everyone has the right to his own opinion, but with that right comes the responsibillity to take ownership for it. If you wish to say something, have the guts not to hide behind AC I am certainly taking a lot of flak for that post, but quite frankly this proves my point, had I been an AC, you would not have been able to respond with your flames etc. I knew when I posted it that there would be those who dissagreed, and those who didn't, I took responsibillity for my views, and that is exactly why I dissaprove of AC's, by implication an anonymous COWARD is too scared to do that. This is not a troll, it is my opinion in truth, that I have every right to, I don't demand that anybody agree, but I have the right to voice it, just as much as you have the right to flame it. I always try to respond to the replies my posts get, but I am not always able to (my bos seems to think I should work ocasionally) and I have never in my life made a first post - or tried to.
PS. If you don't get the Al Bundy analogy, I suggest you hang out on AlfDot instead of slashdot.
I said "regular" as in I keep coming back, in truth I have been reading slashdot for about two years, I never posted anonymously, when I felt I knew the place well enough I got myself a login name and started posting.
And I repeat, I do not have any problem with anonymous posting, it is everbodies right, but I won't take anybody seriously if he want's to critisize the choice of stories, and not have the guts to get a login name first. And I stand by my earlier statement, if you have a username, and you make certain posts anonymous because you don't want to get blamed/flamed if people dissagree, that is textbook cowardice. Now I am sorry if I made people angry, for one thing because nobody bothered to read what I was saying. This is turning into a flame war, I don't think I'll bother to respond to further flames, as has often been said, I have a right to my own opinion, and at least I have the guts to stick my nick next to it. If anybody really want's my e-mail address, he can figure it out by following my URL, but spambots can't
SUN ANNOUNCES NEW SUBSIDIARY; IBM TO PARTNER WITH DENNY'S Sun Microsystems today announced the creation of yet another subsidiary, bringing the total number of Sun wholly-owned subsidiaries to 1,207. After successfully creating SunSoft, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, SunPICS, SunConnect, and a number of other smaller firms, Sun has created SunLHMPPP. SunLHMPPP is tasked with addressing the specific niche market of users that require both left handed mice and a parallel printer port on their workstations. Howard Detwieler, president of SunPR, the public relations subsidiary of Sun, explained the move: "We feel that a growing number of left handed users are moving into the workstation world, and a lot of them have printers with parallel ports. By creating this new company to meet their needs, left handed users with parallel printers can be assured of specific, long term help from Sun." The firm is composed of six employees in an office down the hall from Scott McNealy. The president of SunLHMPPP, Fred Testaverno, is bullish about his target market. "We think that this will be a big, big profit opportunity for Sun. Our initial research indicates that the left handed users with parallel printers market is so big, we have begun the process of creating two sub-subsidiaries, SunLHMPPP-LHM and SunLHMPPP-PPP. That way, we can meet the needs of left handed users WITHOUT parallel printers. And vice versa. Or both." Sun Microsystems is a three billion dollar firm that produces a variety of advanced computing hardware and software. Sun focuses on powerful solutions to the big problems facing companies in the '90s: too many vice presidents, and too few promotion slots in upper management. In a related story, IBM has announced a long-term technology sharing agreement with the Denny's restaurant chain. An IBM spokesman indicated that the move is an indication of IBM's commitment to stay in business through a series of increasingly pathetic consortium attempts. "Frankly, our competitors are eating our lunch in this very competitive marketplace. With Denny's, we can start serving lunch, and maybe stay ahead of the game." Analysts welcome the move, pointing out that both firms mesh nicely. "IBM has never been in the restaurant business, and the only computers at Denny's are the cash registers. The two firms complement each other perfectly. Best of all, both companies can retain the menu driven interfaces to their products without confusing the end user!" The first joint effort between the two companies will be an offering from IBM involving expansion disk drives encased in an edible, pita bread housing. Denny's will begin selling a Grand Slam Workstation, and will offer a free memory upgrade to every customer on their birthday. IBM is a multi-jillion dollar firm that used to sell a large number of computers. They continue to stay in business, even though no one has met a person who has actually purchased an IBM machine in the past five years.
Yes I am, I can spell, I just don't care anymore, for the record I got an A+ for english in my senior year, in fact getting the highest score in the history of my school at 98% And I was the first person in 13 years to get distinctions for more than 3 Creative Writing tasks consecutively. As it were however my linguistic ability became poetry as a hobby, and poets have poetic freedomn, in other words I Shell Spall howefer baddddly I wont
You make some valid points, however my reason for encouraging registration has nothing to do with bigotry or statism. I simply feel that one should have sufficient courage (I hope that is the right word) to stand by the statements you make. Untill recently I used my real e-mail address even, so anybody who would like to chalenge me can have a fair chance to do so, offsite if needed, however I found that having my e-mail address publically displayed has but once lead to me recieving an e-mail regarding a post, but did get me spammed, for which I no longer cares. The other matter which I claimed, is that in a comunity your standing is developed over time, and without identity there is no way of doing that. I am an anti-class person, yet interestingly if Linuz Torvalds were to post something here, contradicting and AC post, I think he would be a lot more believable thant the AC even if he happens to be wrong. People begin to asociate your name with the usual quality (or lack thereoff) off your posts. I believe Slashdot should add a feature to block post from certain people, so I can turn beerbrain and penisbird off permanently. Sorry, I do believe that identiy need not imply class distinction, and that it is not class-distinction to reward continous quality with recognition, denying that is borderline socialism.
How can you critisize when Anonymous ? If your not willing to take the (very small) risk involved in registering, by implication you can't complain. Those who register get to moderate posts, and have theirs marked up for their trouble. Anyway you are wrong, slashdot is about what interests the geek comunity period. It is not a news site for open source it is a comunity site for geeks, which is the primary reason why I am a regular. And I (like most geeks I think, at least timothy for one) found this rather intriguing. Slashdot being a comunity, being registered is a litle like a green card, it is what makes you a part of the comunity and therefore gives you the right to complain about it. Right now you are like Al Bundy complaining about the French, your not one of us, and therefore your views don't count. If you are a registered user, who posted that anonymously, then quite frankly sir, you are a coward.
I think the efects (for the moment at least) will be greater on embedded devices, eg. ericson cellphones and the like running embedix or some such. Desktop Linux will eventually follow the market, I for one hope that desktops will be around at least untill wearables are eqaully powerfull, versatile, and most important - user programmable.
I learned this stuff in school, (geo and english being the only subs I stayed awake in) here is what they taught me:
The higher polution efects in cities tend to cause more frequent localised rain - but in small ammounts.
It is nothing strange for the city center to be as much as 10 Degrees (C) warmer than the surrounding suburbs
Cities tend to develop heat "domes" that trap polution, which is why cities often have dark smog clouds over them, while nearby rural areas still have fresh air.
The skyscrapers tend to prevent normal wind-flow from occuring, with the expected resulsts
South-Africa is notorious for it's outdated school system (Read CompSci uses dos) so If I learned this in school, how did it reach a newspaper, and jeez what's it doing getting/.'ed
...not a good thing I know, but anyway I came to the concusion that we should never have told the idiots about the internet. Imagine if it was just geeks:
All pr0n would be free;-)
Things like this would not happen
Spam and Trolls wouldn't exist - that means you beerboy and penisbird
The goverment wouldn't know how to destroy our privacy with it
More slashdot posts would be worth the bandwith they consume.
Microshit would be unable to fsck-up our open protocolls
Thus it is plain, the dumbest thing we ever did was to tell the idiots about the internet !!!
Occasionally, when I hear things like this, I'm fscking happy not to live in America.
My goverment couldn't understand my bank statement even if they did figure out how to hack and get it !
In the end however the primary question is not, is the goverment spying, or does echelon exist...because the answer in both cases is an unqualified yes. Instead we should be asking ourselves how do we stop it. Because I know all too well that sooner or later I will have the same problem I am willing to do my bit towards ending this now - a sign of solidarity
Voting for somoene else won't work, not even the Libertarian Party. All politicians are by default corrupt...keep that in mind and you have a chance. Remember instead your constitutional rights, especially the third and fith amendments - free speech, and carrrying a gun.
Which implies that if you can prove someone was interfering with your rights to say or think whatever the fuck you want - shoot him.
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Gee, I guess my sense of humour was above you - so sorry.
to the converted.
I doubt anybody here has to be told that open-source is growing.
We all know that companies are jumping on the bandwagon.
These pieces of info are really not that interesting anymore, maybe we should get this out to the windoze lusers somehow, it serves no purpose to prove to us that we are on the right side allready.
Please don't bother me again until something Like Diablo II or Quake 3 or something has been gpl'd.
If microcrud decides to open-source w2k - I think you could post it with some kina "major threat -Linux users unite and take up arms!" theme attached.
Anything short of that being open sourced, I really am not that interested.
PS. If 8000 people are, just say so, don't flame me because I feel different, I will democratically follow the crowd, no need to waste your napalm.
These scientists took pictures of my brain, and now their putting them on a web-site!
FOR THE LAST TIME, IT MAY BE SUBATOMIC BUT I DID NOT GPL MY BRAIN.
I live in South-Africa, where we also have a a telecomunications monopoly leading to highly expensive internet access, and no talk of broadband - ever. They still like to tell us that ISDN is new and high-tech. Around here there are only one free ISP - who doesn't support connections from Linux (you know the adds type) all the others are really pricey, not to mention terrible prices for local calls. I am not sure how I would feel about a not-for-profit ISP, but I do know that it no such entity could exist in this country. It's high-time I think for the people of countries like ours to begin actively battling (and I don't mean violence) the source of all these problems - state appointer telecomunications monopolies. Even if that means boycotting them at our own expense.
Some intriguing replies, including one where somebody appears to feel that the score 5 insightfull which he rightfully stated that particular post would not get (I admit, I was not exactly delving into the dark recesses of genius there, I was merely stating an opinion) was more likely to go to his (less than brilliant) flame.
Now that is Moronic.
Sorry I did not reply sooner, my time is not my own.
Here it is then my answers to most of what was asked:
I did not compare KDE to StarOffice, I compared my KDE configuration (which is hand customized in the source not to have a menu) with the cascading menu system in the Xerox..eh..MacOs..eg..Windows..Eh..Star Office interfaces.
Even long time Linux users often can't use my box simply because they can't find out how to launch commands without menu's or bars. I do everything by hitting ALT-F2, and then typing the commands, where this is insufficient I start a terminal.
But I like that, and I have no intention of changing it for the rare few times somebody else works on my machine.
To the person who mentioned that a GPL'd SO would be nice because it would not be stuck in an interface and even be theme-able, I think your right, in which case my opinion might change, I'll wait and see, I am open-minded enough not to keep prejudices. At least I like to believe that.
Overall I am surprized so many people agreed on the basic concept, I really thought I was the last guy left who didn't like start button thingies. If my writing style was less well recieved, I appologize, but from that appology I exclude the first Anonymous replyer. If you can't make a point without resorting to childish namecalling, I have little respect for your opinion.
Ok, am I the only one in the world who doesn't like star-office ?
Ok, it is pretty functionall, but nonetheless, I am pretty irritated by that windows like interface, I actually hate the windows GUI, I do not agree that it's good, it suxors majorly, KDE (with the 'K' button hidden and a good theme loaded) is about 6000 times nicer to work in.
I am not berating the software, just the interface, I wish we could get an open-source office suite with this power, and none of that crappy cascading menu crap.
Sorry I only reply now, had to go to a (useless meeting) I think you misunderstood me. Voice Reconition was deemed impossible by the scientists and tech's of the day, I used to catch every tech publication, radio/tv show etc. I heard it a thousand times "talking and understanding language is something that computers only do in science fiction".
In other words, shows like Star Trek, Knight Rider and 2001 were predicting what science at the time deemed undoable, and less than 10 years there-after their fantasies were starting to come true. Remember those old voice-command systems in the win3.1 days, when only the rich and famous even had sound-cards or cd-roms ?
Oh come on !
Semi mystical garbage ?
Listen to yourself ? Ever heard of the Einstein/Rosen Bridge efect ? The theory of parallel universes, based on the concept of multiple dimensions was an Einstein theory !
I really get ticked of when people try to hide their ignorance behind other peoples genius. Are you aware that Einstein divided by zero in the orriginall theory of relativity, something that was only discovered 30 years later by a 2nd year physics student (sorry, can't remember his name) Einstein acknowledged throughout his life that he is not infallible, and expansions upon his theories had always done him proud. What makes it sacrosanct now ?
Here is a litle something else for you, in 1891 Jules Verne (One of the Godfathers of SCI-FI) wrote a story called Paris, which his publisher rejected because "it was too unbelievable"
He described Paris in the 20th century as a city where everbody has electric lighting (back then the lightbulb had yet to be invented) and cars (which was a brand new invention). The manuscript made headlines a few years ago when someone decided to publish this, pitty Verne could not live to see it. Get the point ?
Science Fiction has a lot of Science in it. And has been the inspiration for many inventions (more recently voice-recognition software, which in the 80's was considdered completely impossible)
And frankly this theory tends to make sense, even to someone who doesn't understand the maths behind it. Yeah, I admit where my knowledge falls short - try it sometime.
PS. I would like to propose the name "Chrighton Efect" I'm sure Michael will be writing a story about this soon, and thereafter make a sucky movie version.
If they get the kina spam I get, knowing the IQ of the average FBI Agent I am guessing a lot of them is gonna be signing up at :-)
teenage-bestiality.com
I can just imagine the looks on those spamming bastards faces when they see a registration by agent_smith@fbi.gov
we're seeing a story on privacy invasion !
And it's only Tuesday ?
Is it just me or is there a very scary pattern emerging here ?
Duck, Echelon lives !
Cracking a system without permision is wrong, just plain wrong, regardless what you do in there. Especially since there are many security firms that have systems which you are invited to crack, in order for them to learn the exploits and counter them. For one thing, there is much more phun in breaking into a tightly secured box owned by a security firm than an obscure mail server somewhere in a company. Add to that the fact that you have no risk of meeting your new fiance Spike in prison, and you have a pretty sweet deal. For the cherry on top, many companies will even pay rewards of yup to 3 grand for a successfull crack.
There is an incomplete list on this site
And yet again I get atacked for things I did not say.
First of all, I see that my grammar is under atack, it might do the people who do this a bit of good to keep in mind that grammar rules differ around the world, even spelling, (color is correct in America, but here the correct spelling is considdered colour) in other words with the exception of the occasional typo I miss while previewing, I have yet to use grammar that would not have recieved full marks in my old high-school.
And yet again I repeat, I do not have a problem with anybodies wishes for anonimity, I was trying to point out, that by using my nick, I am identifying myself to a sufficient degree for you to differ from my views, and as seems to be the case with some people, stalk my posts on other topics into infinity with regard to opinions they dissagreed with. In other words, I take the responsibillity and the possible flames, trolls, spams etc. that might result from a controversial view. It has nothing to do with elitism. This whole argument started after someone anonymously cried over the validity of a story I rather enjoyed. I merely stated then that since he did not wish to be in any way associated with his complaint, I had litle reason to take him seriously. My previous post was somewhat angered, I appologize for that, it's not my style. Feel free to post anonymously if you feel such a dire need therefore, but keep in mind that I rarely read nor take seriously the words of someone who does not have enough trust of conviction to be associated with those words.
Perhaps I am not enough of a karma whore, wishing only to be associated with those posts I think will be generally agreed apon, instead I get modded up when I post good posts and down when I don't (the latter in the past having been a very rare occurence)
Anyway I never used the words "1337 nick" that was a description by the AC's whose been flaming to eternall suntandomn, I guess that's a compliment.
I will not be responding to further posts on this topic, nor will I reply to e-mails or in any way allow myself to be bothered as it appears that I have been erronously marked as an enemy of privacy and people appear intent to misinterpret my statements. This debate over AC/nick is hardly anything I wanted to spark, and I have tried severall times to explain my feelings, instead people don't even seem able to understand what those feelings are. Wether I am incapable of explaining it clearly or wether it is misunderstood (delliberately or otherwize) this debate is bringing us nowhere so we might as well cease to waste bandwith on it.
Sounds about right, I doubt there is much chance of this happening, if it does it'll be better than wrestlemania. Thanks, it seems your the only replyer who bothered to read my post before replying to it.
Apparently nobody read my reply the last time you brought this up.
And so I will repeat it
I believe that everyone has the right to his own opinion, but with that right comes the responsibillity to take ownership for it. If you wish to say something, have the guts not to hide behind AC
I am certainly taking a lot of flak for that post, but quite frankly this proves my point, had I been an AC, you would not have been able to respond with your flames etc. I knew when I posted it that there would be those who dissagreed, and those who didn't, I took responsibillity for my views, and that is exactly why I dissaprove of AC's, by implication an anonymous COWARD is too scared to do that.
This is not a troll, it is my opinion in truth, that I have every right to, I don't demand that anybody agree, but I have the right to voice it, just as much as you have the right to flame it.
I always try to respond to the replies my posts get, but I am not always able to (my bos seems to think I should work ocasionally) and I have never in my life made a first post - or tried to.
PS. If you don't get the Al Bundy analogy, I suggest you hang out on AlfDot instead of slashdot.
You might wanna have a look at this thread.
I agree, if your gonna say, have the gut's to stick your name behind it.
I said "regular" as in I keep coming back, in truth I have been reading slashdot for about two years, I never posted anonymously, when I felt I knew the place well enough I got myself a login name and started posting.
And I repeat, I do not have any problem with anonymous posting, it is everbodies right, but I won't take anybody seriously if he want's to critisize the choice of stories, and not have the guts to get a login name first.
And I stand by my earlier statement, if you have a username, and you make certain posts anonymous because you don't want to get blamed/flamed if people dissagree, that is textbook cowardice.
Now I am sorry if I made people angry, for one thing because nobody bothered to read what I was saying. This is turning into a flame war, I don't think I'll bother to respond to further flames, as has often been said, I have a right to my own opinion, and at least I have the guts to stick my nick next to it. If anybody really want's my e-mail address, he can figure it out by following my URL, but spambots can't
SUN ANNOUNCES NEW SUBSIDIARY; IBM TO PARTNER WITH DENNY'S Sun Microsystems today announced the creation of yet another subsidiary, bringing the total number of Sun wholly-owned subsidiaries to 1,207. After successfully creating SunSoft, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, SunPICS, SunConnect, and a number of other smaller firms, Sun has created SunLHMPPP. SunLHMPPP is tasked with addressing the specific niche market of users that require both left handed mice and a parallel printer port on their workstations. Howard Detwieler, president of SunPR, the public relations subsidiary of Sun, explained the move: "We feel that a growing number of left handed users are moving into the workstation world, and a lot of them have printers with parallel ports. By creating this new company to meet their needs, left handed users with parallel printers can be assured of specific, long term help from Sun." The firm is composed of six employees in an office down the hall from Scott McNealy. The president of SunLHMPPP, Fred Testaverno, is bullish about his target market. "We think that this will be a big, big profit opportunity for Sun. Our initial research indicates that the left handed users with parallel printers market is so big, we have begun the process of creating two sub-subsidiaries, SunLHMPPP-LHM and SunLHMPPP-PPP. That way, we can meet the needs of left handed users WITHOUT parallel printers. And vice versa. Or both." Sun Microsystems is a three billion dollar firm that produces a variety of advanced computing hardware and software. Sun focuses on powerful solutions to the big problems facing companies in the '90s: too many vice presidents, and too few promotion slots in upper management. In a related story, IBM has announced a long-term technology sharing agreement with the Denny's restaurant chain. An IBM spokesman indicated that the move is an indication of IBM's commitment to stay in business through a series of increasingly pathetic consortium attempts. "Frankly, our competitors are eating our lunch in this very competitive marketplace. With Denny's, we can start serving lunch, and maybe stay ahead of the game." Analysts welcome the move, pointing out that both firms mesh nicely. "IBM has never been in the restaurant business, and the only computers at Denny's are the cash registers. The two firms complement each other perfectly. Best of all, both companies can retain the menu driven interfaces to their products without confusing the end user!" The first joint effort between the two companies will be an offering from IBM involving expansion disk drives encased in an edible, pita bread housing. Denny's will begin selling a Grand Slam Workstation, and will offer a free memory upgrade to every customer on their birthday. IBM is a multi-jillion dollar firm that used to sell a large number of computers. They continue to stay in business, even though no one has met a person who has actually purchased an IBM machine in the past five years.
Yes I am, I can spell, I just don't care anymore, for the record I got an A+ for english in my senior year, in fact getting the highest score in the history of my school at 98%
And I was the first person in 13 years to get distinctions for more than 3 Creative Writing tasks consecutively. As it were however my linguistic ability became poetry as a hobby, and poets have poetic freedomn, in other words I Shell Spall howefer baddddly I wont
You make some valid points, however my reason for encouraging registration has nothing to do with bigotry or statism.
I simply feel that one should have sufficient courage (I hope that is the right word) to stand by the statements you make. Untill recently I used my real e-mail address even, so anybody who would like to chalenge me can have a fair chance to do so, offsite if needed, however I found that having my e-mail address publically displayed has but once lead to me recieving an e-mail regarding a post, but did get me spammed, for which I no longer cares. The other matter which I claimed, is that in a comunity your standing is developed over time, and without identity there is no way of doing that. I am an anti-class person, yet interestingly if Linuz Torvalds were to post something here, contradicting and AC post, I think he would be a lot more believable thant the AC even if he happens to be wrong. People begin to asociate your name with the usual quality (or lack thereoff) off your posts. I believe Slashdot should add a feature to block post from certain people, so I can turn beerbrain and penisbird off permanently.
Sorry, I do believe that identiy need not imply class distinction, and that it is not class-distinction to reward continous quality with recognition, denying that is borderline socialism.
Actually, I am not from Europe, I am from Africa...you see what I mean!
Since when is france a socialist country ?
How can you critisize when Anonymous ? If your not willing to take the (very small) risk involved in registering, by implication you can't complain. Those who register get to moderate posts, and have theirs marked up for their trouble. Anyway you are wrong, slashdot is about what interests the geek comunity period. It is not a news site for open source it is a comunity site for geeks, which is the primary reason why I am a regular. And I (like most geeks I think, at least timothy for one) found this rather intriguing.
Slashdot being a comunity, being registered is a litle like a green card, it is what makes you a part of the comunity and therefore gives you the right to complain about it. Right now you are like Al Bundy complaining about the French, your not one of us, and therefore your views don't count.
If you are a registered user, who posted that anonymously, then quite frankly sir, you are a coward.
I think the efects (for the moment at least) will be greater on embedded devices, eg. ericson cellphones and the like running embedix or some such. Desktop Linux will eventually follow the market, I for one hope that desktops will be around at least untill wearables are eqaully powerfull, versatile, and most important - user programmable.
- The higher polution efects in cities tend to cause more frequent localised rain - but in small ammounts.
- It is nothing strange for the city center to be as much as 10 Degrees (C) warmer than the surrounding suburbs
- Cities tend to develop heat "domes" that trap polution, which is why cities often have dark smog clouds over them, while nearby rural areas still have fresh air.
- The skyscrapers tend to prevent normal wind-flow from occuring, with the expected resulsts
South-Africa is notorious for it's outdated school system (Read CompSci uses dos) so If I learned this in school, how did it reach a newspaper, and jeez what's it doing gettingThus it is plain, the dumbest thing we ever did was to tell the idiots about the internet !!!
Occasionally, when I hear things like this, I'm fscking happy not to live in America.
My goverment couldn't understand my bank statement even if they did figure out how to hack and get it !
In the end however the primary question is not, is the goverment spying, or does echelon exist...because the answer in both cases is an unqualified yes. Instead we should be asking ourselves how do we stop it. Because I know all too well that sooner or later I will have the same problem I am willing to do my bit towards ending this now - a sign of solidarity
Voting for somoene else won't work, not even the Libertarian Party. All politicians are by default corrupt...keep that in mind and you have a chance.
Remember instead your constitutional rights, especially the third and fith amendments - free speech, and carrrying a gun.
Which implies that if you can prove someone was interfering with your rights to say or think whatever the fuck you want - shoot him.