I am forced to say this: RIAA are terrorists. So bomb them, nuke them and detain them without their rights retained. Stop being such nazis on arabs and realise who the real terrorists on u.s. soil (and elsewhere) are.
I'm sure it'll show in the end that all the planes of 9-11 really were not AlQaeda but RIAA.
it's obvious that this fire was really caused by the RIAA/MPAA terrorists trying to target 'piracy terrorism'. It was only a matter of time before this new pre-emptive strike policy targetted the Really Free World: Western European Universities (The american ones don't count - they are just brands).
there are dead people, they won't tell you though.
RIAA today admitted that they were actually the ones doing the sniping in Washington recently as an ongoing effort to target and terminate the world-wide piracy of shit. The U.S. Senate was unified in their agreement of the rightfulness of the action under the United Kitchen Compliance Usdurping Fad (UKCUF) law.
Also in todays news, William Safire of the NYTimes (blah blah) underlined recent beliefs that McDonalds and KFC are a secret operation under the wings of Al'Qaeda by noting the extreme fat asses of its buyers, an all-telling sign of terrorist activities, according to safire. Several international experts in both nutrition, ergonomics and terrorism denied Safire's allegations, but they were in term named as hoaxes and brainwashed commie europerv saladeaters.
Britney Spears announced today that she, in-fact is not even a virgin but THE Virgin and far more so than Natalie Portman ever was. In retort, George Lucas denied any action taken whatsoever on his part in losing Ms Portmans abilities in that direction.
To end on a good note Our God, George w. Bush learned to walk today, as well as announcing that he with a little technical assistance from the senior staff had cracked the secret codes to the sadamn harem. We at Wierd have learned that the password was, in fact, Jorge.
Tomorrow's forecast for the markets point to a 68% increase in difficulties and with absolute certainty there will be showers of jumpers. So Watch everyone out there tomorrow, and don't forget your gun.
.. is there no one but me who believes this pic in the corner is very much alike scat dog porn? Or perhaps urinating dog. Shame on you lucas. You nasty boy.
For one, I am not at all surprised, considering how much of a sport it has become, a real entertainment actually, to get and spread movies and stuff fast as fiber goes.
Now, there is of course a solution to the (legitimate) problem for the studios : reduce the number of pre-screenings. I mean, how many people do you need sucking-up to. Really? Journalists are a shame to their trade anyhow and just write what you tell them to write. celebrities last fifteen minutes or about as long as they keep their 'virginity'.The fat-walleted studio execs need some work-out and connection with REAL jerk off get jerked off PEOPLE too.
I say let the director, editor and effects teams keep their movie for their own instead of ripping their throats out with scheduling pre-screenings just for changing a sucking ending, or a main sucky movie. It's no big problem to wait for a sucky movie, which all in all it is most of the time. Atleast until Vader gets that whoosh-whoosh thingy going.
and why, just why do the press always point us to the SPY INFESTED crap programs outthere? Get the real big guns, they even come with porn.
And I for one am not gonna download this crappy release by FTF, I'm artsy and gonna wait for the DVDrip. Heard it's gonna be out on monday. Courtesy of the Motion Picture Ripping Association with Lots of Guns.
Of course it's the studio's themselves that leak the releses, it's fab advertising. especially internationally.
... but basically the same problem sphere is Public Archiving, which just as it happens is my current field of temp work as I sleaze my way through university.
Riksarkivet (National Archives of Sweden) is by law required to obtain, store and display for the public all documents and other entities produced by governmental agencies in Sweden, as well as committees and such since 1618 (some older, as well) for all future time. As the latest 30 years or so has seen a large surge in computerized documents/-ation this gives quite a few spectacular and very interesting examples of deliveries from agencies present or extinct with odd hardware requirements and zillions of different software solutions originally used, many homegrown.
Not only is the archive responsible for 'old' data, its is also responsible for migrating non-computerized material onto a computerized from for future public display, which is no easy process since there is a goal of course not to lock the information onto media, hardware or software designs that are extremely short-term. In short, it's an area of a heck of a many problems, lots of questions, few people and little interest from the field (I mean, how interesting can it be to design excel spreadsheets for bank applications? Really?)
As for Vogon International, I'm sure that it's a company full of geniuses, but I would prefer if they answered the calls we make for ordering and requesting features promised in the manual in their software, which we need ASAP! It's no fun being stuck in a dos/windows95 edition of software for the sole reason of not getting replies from a genius/vendor.
Now, I think it's great!
It means that there will atleast be a language differentiality reason for MS Office to fuck up my texts in its dictionary.
Like replacing R with L.
Of course it's connected to Nordunet. Nordics like speedy games, so it's a damn high priority. Btw, Géant is french for Giant according to Babelfish thingy at Altavista. I don't get it. Baseball?
NORDUnet connected to GÉANT
29th Oct 2001
NORDUnet was connected to the European backbone network for research and education GÉANT on 26th October.
NORDUnet is connected in Stockholm via two local 2.4Gbit/s circuits from NORDUnet's two PoPs to the GÉANT PoP. The GÉANT PoP is again connected to London and Frankfurt via 10 Gbit/s links, and to the R&E networks Baltic states at 34-155 Mbit/s.
The GÉANT connection will replace NORDUnet's current 310 Mbit/s connection to TEN-155 which will terminate on 1 December 2001. The capacity to the GÉANT is roughly tenfold when compared to the current TEN-155 connection.
With GÉANT in operation the Estonian Educational and Research Network EEnet will terminate its direct connection to NORDUnet in Helsinki, and the two networks will communicate via GÉANT in the future.
I'm not surprised, as well as most on slashdot I believe. However, according to this recent stiff: http://se.jupitermmxi.com/xp/se/press/releases/pr_ 102901.xml file-sharing (in europe) has dropped.
So I guess atleast Jupiter MMXI should be suprised. Or should one perhaps interpret it as another bug in the *very reliable* ketchup-effect-curve-induced research performed by these types of companies?:)
Todays news from the world: America sued by Europervs A single male European citizen, here named AC, sued 10 million United States family households yesterday for allegedly hindering AC's By God, Country, State and Darwin right to bear arms in shootup games, look at nude blondes and exercise bad mojo. According to some unnamed sources the figures discussed are 456.2 billion USD in compensation plus an additional 5 billion for each and every quote Fucked Up endquote comment from Households that Gaming is BAD and DEVILISH.
In, thus far, unrelated news the Federal Reserve today will announce an interest rate raise, the reason being the projected heavy losses of income in main american housholds.
United States President George W. Bush recieved a gift of 15 yellow plastic bathing ducks from Swedish Minister of State Anna Lindh at the European Union Stockholm Summit dinner in Sagerska Palatset sunday. Reporters on scene quotes the duck's inscription as "dork-bork-bork-bork" and the President as being "thrilled at the new visions on world politics".
Because this was an american based raid-op.. and americans do not feel like themselves if they can't go around carrying guns, busting doors and shit shouting FREEZE YOU MOOOSEFSCKERS!!!
If it was a russian op they would shoot first and ask afterwards. If it was a swedish op they would start some long-running investigations into whether there would possibly be any side effects on the general population, and specifically the number of bread slices to be had every day..
If it, OTOH was a norwegian op they would say "fuck it, we got oil and dont need penislengthening satellites" and go ski instead..
as usual when it comes to anything losely connected to europe or made in europe the old capitalism vs socialism rant start all over again.
its plain BORING!
Come on! If socialism, or rather 'democratic socialist-based capitalism' was so damn bad, then why is Europe doing pretty good in general?
and yes, the foundation is still capitalism.
Both systems have their upsides and their downsides, but they both work for their participants...more or less
personally, I don't see the downside to an economic model where the State does support its masses as much as it can do and still not interfere too much with personal integrity to do so.
if the state does not support its people, then what is the point of having one?
Perhaps this is why so many in the USA seem to be so hostile towards their government/state.
Both systems work, however. So cut the crap and get back to the topic: News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
IMO the advantage that Europe has in certain techs isn't as big even though it exists. Most importantly: it is based on very few commercial actors [companies].Take for example mobile phones. We have Nokia on one side of the baltic sea and Ericsson on the other. Both companies are so large that they more or less totally dominate the country in which they flourish. If they go down in market cap and profits it will affect so many companies and so much money and people that the technology evolvement for the endusers will be severely slowed down in these local areas, unless the governments take action.
Much of the non-US tech advantage comes from the absolutely ridiculous power-games American companies play. All the IPOcraze, patent frenzy and sue-your-ass mentality should atleast in some ways make room for other players.. like European or Japanese companies. When technology is allowed to develop more freely the results also get there faster now don't they?
Some other points to make:
There's a lot of money coming into the system in Europe now from former government run retirement funds. A lot of that money is put in emerging markets. But it can also be removed as fast as it got in.
There is an extensive advertising campaign being run by the Swedish Department of Commerce which is apparently working quite well in getting media attention to Sweden and in general to Scandinavian/European companies, technology, media, art and design. So don't believe everything you read on the issue.
The ongoing deregulation of the European telecommunications market
The EU is finally getting its behind out of the wagon in certain areas and taking some decisions good for high-tech, but the forth-coming expansion into eastern Europe might stall the whole process.
WAP is becoming more and more of vapourware..
University areas are still a basis for solid growth in high-tech, and in this the US still leads.
Not many new high-tech wizbang companies besides telco's and phone manufacturers are showing profit, or any tendency of ever getting one.
Japan will IMO most likely be the one who makes the best out of it in the end. It's good though that America, and the US especially is getting aware atleast that there exists a world outside its geographical borders, in tech too....
however, I would think there is some difference between shutting down US internet geographically [US in-out traffic], and shutting down the internet capacity put forward by US based/owned corporations.
IMO the world would be just fine if the shutdown was geographical. But shutdown all corp-owned nets and there would be severe effects, a lot of cabling is owned by US corps. And a lot of connectivity in Europe for example is effectively based on US owned networks, albeit being put in Euro soil. Of course the whole thing would be seized by the various local government entities by the second a shutdown takes place, to guarantee national and intra-national communications, trade and security.
as for lack of content and DNS issues, wouldnt it be great to once again file for ownership of every porn domain under.com you can think of?:)
On the other hand, in places where there is a an attempt to control the media, (eg Soviet Union), people are naturally far less trusting of media, and far more interested in hearing the truth
... or look at ladies in the tv news offices strip their clothes off.
One thing about growing up is that you stop caring so much about what other people think of you and your actions, atleast to a certain threshold. So You Do Your Own Thing, For *You* Isn't this what the discussion is about?
Big companies usually talk a nice line about their social responsibility, but ultimately they are beholden to the stockholders and the bottom-line is paramount. Small companies, especially ones that are privately held, are more tied to an individual's conscience. They're more human.
This difference, which in no doubt exists, is - in my opinion - a result of ordinary people's beliefs. Much of the value in todays stock markets are pension funds [or whatever the term is in american, I'm a europerv and speak oogle-boogle usually].. and most people just want the best growth they can get and dont really think all the line out what the results become: higher income demands on the company, pressure on the workers and sometimes a more reckless environmental handling. Surely there are some devils in the company world.. but put a little egoistic devil in every stockholder and you get a helluva effect. its the same thing with this [already worn-out] environmental issue.. most people dont just give a damn when it comes to their own backyard, if there is some need to take extensive action or lesser return for the self.
In my point of view, companies are an interaface and no worse nor any better than their owners.. which I hope you realise, is you!
Slashdot Mirror
.. about those little worthless things.
give me a linuxpowered a-bomb so I can nuke US out of the earth and thus become a little more safe at home.
open source. open skies.
I am forced to say this:
RIAA are terrorists. So bomb them, nuke them and detain them without their rights retained.
Stop being such nazis on arabs and realise who the real terrorists on u.s. soil (and elsewhere) are.
I'm sure it'll show in the end that all the planes of 9-11 really were not AlQaeda but RIAA.
it's obvious that this fire was really caused by the RIAA/MPAA terrorists trying to target 'piracy terrorism'. It was only a matter of time before this new pre-emptive strike policy targetted the Really Free World: Western European Universities (The american ones don't count - they are just brands).
there are dead people, they won't tell you though.
welcome to the real world.
Elvis Lives!
Also in todays news, William Safire of the NYTimes (blah blah) underlined recent beliefs that McDonalds and KFC are a secret operation under the wings of Al'Qaeda by noting the extreme fat asses of its buyers, an all-telling sign of terrorist activities, according to safire. Several international experts in both nutrition, ergonomics and terrorism denied Safire's allegations, but they were in term named as hoaxes and brainwashed commie europerv saladeaters.
Britney Spears announced today that she, in-fact is not even a virgin but THE Virgin and far more so than Natalie Portman ever was. In retort, George Lucas denied any action taken whatsoever on his part in losing Ms Portmans abilities in that direction.
To end on a good note Our God, George w. Bush learned to walk today, as well as announcing that he with a little technical assistance from the senior staff had cracked the secret codes to the sadamn harem. We at Wierd have learned that the password was, in fact, Jorge.
Tomorrow's forecast for the markets point to a 68% increase in difficulties and with absolute certainty there will be showers of jumpers. So Watch everyone out there tomorrow, and don't forget your gun.
how about strip the padmé ?
.. is there no one but me who believes this pic in the corner is very much alike scat dog porn? Or perhaps urinating dog. Shame on you lucas. You nasty boy.
Now, there is of course a solution to the (legitimate) problem for the studios : reduce the number of pre-screenings. I mean, how many people do you need sucking-up to. Really? Journalists are a shame to their trade anyhow and just write what you tell them to write. celebrities last fifteen minutes or about as long as they keep their 'virginity'.The fat-walleted studio execs need some work-out and connection with REAL jerk off get jerked off PEOPLE too.
I say let the director, editor and effects teams keep their movie for their own instead of ripping their throats out with scheduling pre-screenings just for changing a sucking ending, or a main sucky movie. It's no big problem to wait for a sucky movie, which all in all it is most of the time. Atleast until Vader gets that whoosh-whoosh thingy going.
and why, just why do the press always point us to the SPY INFESTED crap programs outthere? Get the real big guns, they even come with porn.
And I for one am not gonna download this crappy release by FTF, I'm artsy and gonna wait for the DVDrip. Heard it's gonna be out on monday. Courtesy of the Motion Picture Ripping Association with Lots of Guns.
Of course it's the studio's themselves that leak the releses, it's fab advertising. especially internationally.
Riksarkivet (National Archives of Sweden) is by law required to obtain, store and display for the public all documents and other entities produced by governmental agencies in Sweden, as well as committees and such since 1618 (some older, as well) for all future time. As the latest 30 years or so has seen a large surge in computerized documents/-ation this gives quite a few spectacular and very interesting examples of deliveries from agencies present or extinct with odd hardware requirements and zillions of different software solutions originally used, many homegrown.
Not only is the archive responsible for 'old' data, its is also responsible for migrating non-computerized material onto a computerized from for future public display, which is no easy process since there is a goal of course not to lock the information onto media, hardware or software designs that are extremely short-term.
In short, it's an area of a heck of a many problems, lots of questions, few people and little interest from the field (I mean, how interesting can it be to design excel spreadsheets for bank applications? Really?)
As for Vogon International, I'm sure that it's a company full of geniuses, but I would prefer if they answered the calls we make for ordering and requesting features promised in the manual in their software, which we need ASAP! It's no fun being stuck in a dos/windows95 edition of software for the sole reason of not getting replies from a genius/vendor.
Forensics anyone?
Now, I think it's great!
It means that there will atleast be a language differentiality reason for MS Office to fuck up my texts in its dictionary.
Like replacing R with L.
Or Stable with BSOD
suck-up reviews of anything for bandwidth.
Of course it's connected to Nordunet. Nordics like speedy games, so it's a damn high priority. Btw, Géant is french for Giant according to Babelfish thingy at Altavista. I don't get it. Baseball?
NORDUnet connected to GÉANT
29th Oct 2001
NORDUnet was connected to the European backbone network for research and education GÉANT on 26th October.
NORDUnet is connected in Stockholm via two local 2.4Gbit/s circuits from NORDUnet's two PoPs to the GÉANT PoP. The GÉANT PoP is again connected to London and Frankfurt via 10 Gbit/s links, and to the R&E networks Baltic states at 34-155 Mbit/s.
The GÉANT connection will replace NORDUnet's current 310 Mbit/s connection to TEN-155 which will terminate on 1 December 2001. The capacity to the GÉANT is roughly tenfold when compared to the current TEN-155 connection.
With GÉANT in operation the Estonian Educational and Research Network EEnet will terminate its direct connection to NORDUnet in Helsinki, and the two networks will communicate via GÉANT in the future.
I'm not surprised, as well as most on slashdot I believe. However, according to this recent stiff: http://se.jupitermmxi.com/xp/se/press/releases/pr_ 102901.xml file-sharing (in europe) has dropped.
:)
So I guess atleast Jupiter MMXI should be suprised. Or should one perhaps interpret it as another bug in the *very reliable* ketchup-effect-curve-induced research performed by these types of companies?
So it's not THAT bad actually. I mean, it could be M$ that got it, instead.
fuck :(
America sued by Europervs
A single male European citizen, here named AC, sued 10 million United States family households yesterday for allegedly hindering AC's By God, Country, State and Darwin right to bear arms in shootup games, look at nude blondes and exercise bad mojo. According to some unnamed sources the figures discussed are 456.2 billion USD in compensation plus an additional 5 billion for each and every quote Fucked Up endquote comment from Households that Gaming is BAD and DEVILISH.
In, thus far, unrelated news the Federal Reserve today will announce an interest rate raise, the reason being the projected heavy losses of income in main american housholds.
United States President George W. Bush recieved a gift of 15 yellow plastic bathing ducks from Swedish Minister of State Anna Lindh at the European Union Stockholm Summit dinner in Sagerska Palatset sunday. Reporters on scene quotes the duck's inscription as "dork-bork-bork-bork" and the President as being "thrilled at the new visions on world politics".
Because this was an american based raid-op.. and americans do not feel like themselves if they can't go around carrying guns, busting doors and shit shouting FREEZE YOU MOOOSEFSCKERS!!!
If it was a russian op they would shoot first and ask afterwards. If it was a swedish op they would start some long-running investigations into whether there would possibly be any side effects on the general population, and specifically the number of bread slices to be had every day..
If it, OTOH was a norwegian op they would say "fuck it, we got oil and dont need penislengthening satellites" and go ski instead ..
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~kent/
is this one the right one?
its plain BORING!
Come on! If socialism, or rather 'democratic socialist-based capitalism' was so damn bad, then why is Europe doing pretty good in general?
and yes, the foundation is still capitalism.
Both systems have their upsides and their downsides, but they both work for their participants...more or less
personally, I don't see the downside to an economic model where the State does support its masses as much as it can do and still not interfere too much with personal integrity to do so.
if the state does not support its people, then what is the point of having one?
Perhaps this is why so many in the USA seem to be so hostile towards their government/state.
Both systems work, however. So cut the crap and get back to the topic: News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
No more absolutely FREE USENET SPAM Pr0N for me now. :(
And I just got access to broadband from september.
First my girlfriend dumped me for a gamerboy, and now this.
Life sucks
*pout*
Much of the non-US tech advantage comes from the absolutely ridiculous power-games American companies play. All the IPOcraze, patent frenzy and sue-your-ass mentality should atleast in some ways make room for other players.. like European or Japanese companies. When technology is allowed to develop more freely the results also get there faster now don't they?
Some other points to make:
There's a lot of money coming into the system in Europe now from former government run retirement funds. A lot of that money is put in emerging markets. But it can also be removed as fast as it got in.
There is an extensive advertising campaign being run by the Swedish Department of Commerce which is apparently working quite well in getting media attention to Sweden and in general to Scandinavian/European companies, technology, media, art and design.
So don't believe everything you read on the issue.
The ongoing deregulation of the European telecommunications market
The EU is finally getting its behind out of the wagon in certain areas and taking some decisions good for high-tech, but the forth-coming expansion into eastern Europe might stall the whole process.
WAP is becoming more and more of vapourware..
University areas are still a basis for solid growth in high-tech, and in this the US still leads.
Not many new high-tech wizbang companies besides telco's and phone manufacturers are showing profit, or any tendency of ever getting one.
Japan will IMO most likely be the one who makes the best out of it in the end. It's good though that America, and the US especially is getting aware atleast that there exists a world outside its geographical borders, in tech too....
however, I would think there is some difference between shutting down US internet geographically [US in-out traffic], and shutting down the internet capacity put forward by US based/owned corporations.
IMO the world would be just fine if the shutdown was geographical. But shutdown all corp-owned nets and there would be severe effects, a lot of cabling is owned by US corps.
And a lot of connectivity in Europe for example is effectively based on US owned networks, albeit being put in Euro soil.
Of course the whole thing would be seized by the various local government entities by the second a shutdown takes place, to guarantee national and intra-national communications, trade and security.
as for lack of content and DNS issues, wouldnt it be great to once again file for ownership of every porn domain under .com you can think of? :)
One thing about growing up is that you stop caring so much about what other people think of you and your actions, atleast to a certain threshold.
So You Do Your Own Thing, For *You*
Isn't this what the discussion is about?
.. of course everyone will start speaking moneyiski sooner or later
/anton
It is just a question when and where to get a place for your IPO
This difference, which in no doubt exists, is - in my opinion - a result of ordinary people's beliefs. Much of the value in todays stock markets are pension funds [or whatever the term is in american, I'm a europerv and speak oogle-boogle usually] .. and most people just want the best growth they can get and dont really think all the line out what the results become: higher income demands on the company, pressure on the workers and sometimes a more reckless environmental handling.
Surely there are some devils in the company world.. but put a little egoistic devil in every stockholder and you get a helluva effect.
its the same thing with this [already worn-out] environmental issue.. most people dont just give a damn when it comes to their own backyard, if there is some need to take extensive action or lesser return for the self.
In my point of view, companies are an interaface and no worse nor any better than their owners.. which I hope you realise, is you!