I think cisco makes crappy ass products and deserves to be almost worthless. They should make good networking products like Microsoft, then they could claim that they do something worthwhile.
wait - scratch that...reverse it!!:P
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Just wait - the bottom is going to fall out of the.com industry pretty soon as it's becoming inundated with all kinds of.commie crap. Most companies haven't really made a dime as their too new. I expect that within a couple of year we're going to see people out on the streets with scraps of bread and cheese in their beards holding up signs that read: "Will administer systems for food."
I think i might be one of 'em. Oh well. I'm prepared to move to SF when this all blows over...the housing cost isn't a problem. I live in Denver and we've got people out here with signs that read: "Will give left testicle for rent under $1000 a month"
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I'm sick of this internet BS too...everyone is E-this/E-that. I just want to read a book or something. Even my boss at work seems to be into this whole internet thing...he's always asking me, "Did you restart those webservers?" or "Hey..is that E4500 back up and working yet"/"Damnit, why has our bandwidth dropped?"
Personally, i don't know what he's talking about. I just took this job as a...i think they call me a SysAd or something...because they have a foosball table. Besides - no one has told me why they call the company i work for "Sun" anyway. I mean...it's really not that well lit around here anyways.
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In the interests of saving myself the time of making this argument even more idiotic that you have already made it. this will be my last post...feel free to reply and get the last word if you want.
socialism failed eh? What do you call China? (if you say "communism" then i'm gonna bitch slap you so hard your grandma will hurt). As for capitalism..i knew you were going to go on this rant against all the points I made. THERE IS NO FUCKING INVISIBLE HAND!!! the market doesn't even itself out so that really good products like Netscape and Linux can just float on in. If there is no governmental regulation then companies like M$ and AT&T would gain and keep monopolies and there would be nothing anyone else could do about it (read: words like "leverage") - only idiots and economists think the world would be a much better place if we had a system of unbridled capitalism...thank god we've never given either one their druthers.
Ok..that's it. - I'm done. have fun flaming me...but why don't you do it with your actual login you fucking karma whore! At least i have the balls to take a mod-down as well as a mod up!
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Ahh...this article takes me back to the early 1990's (not all too long ago in my mind) when we would always see these types of similarities in tha' hoods like Silicon Valley or Seattle.
I remember when my friend's laptop died. He was inconsolable for weeks. At the laptop's burial (or being "thrown into the dumpster" as we lino-thugz call it) - my friend took out his 40oz. bottle of Old English and said "peace my little homey!" - he wasted that whole $#(*$ bottle of OE on that laptop. It's hard you know...i see laptops and desktops dying every day in tha muthafuckin' hood. Apple newtons tryin' be frontin'...why some Palm V gots ta start some shit?
Whateva yo. I just be tryin' to keep it real up in this mix - cause i be rollin' in my 3.3.6
Sorry..i have to end this post now..i have to go practice my "gang" signs. ENLIGHTENMENT IN THA' MUTHA-FUCKIN' HAAAOUUUS!!!
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You have some pretty interesting points but your reasons to "Crucify" OSU are alltogether poorly stated. Let's crucify OSU because it had a HUGE crime rate compared to other schools. Let's crucify OSU because, from what i've been reading about this dorm, it was a pretty shitty place to live...internet access aside.
The point is that OSU is coming down WAY too hard on these guys for a little college ingenuity. Most colleges have a mandatory "technology" fee as well as more fees than you can shake a stick at just to live in a dorm (not to mention a shitty one at that). All arguments aside, what these guys did was wrong...but this shouldn't have ever become a national media outcry (or at least a slashdot news item). They should perhaps be fined by the school for the access "taken" without consent or something very minor. This just seems to be another example of a largely non-technical group of individuals persecuting someone(s) because they don't really understand the seriousness (or laughability) of what's going on.
talk about crucifiction...Here's a question...just about every other college i know of provides free ethernet access to most, if not all, of its students. OSU isn't.
Now here's a slashdot poll - because of this news item, who wants to get their CS degree from OSU???
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I'm no linux elitist. In fact I often get flamed for arguing that MS isn't really that bad of an OS. But you make some pretty ridiculous points here my friend:
It's called 'progress'. Perhaps we should go back to steam power? Horse power?
I don't believe that progress is inherently supposed to make life "easier"..it's supposed to make life better. We're not talking about a cure for AIDS here..we're talking about facilitating the laziness of American culture. Why do you think voter turnout is so low? Why do you think people sue companies because they spilled coffee in their lap and got scalded? Because someone or some company is supposed to do it all for them. I'm not saying we're supposed to be climing trees and fighting bears. I'm just saying we're supposed to be at least somewhat self-reliant here. If you buy a car...you're not expected to know how it was built...but you're damned well expected to know how to drive the damned thing.
Gee...it was probably college graduates who designed said machines. Or did the computers invent themselves? Please explain.
The original post was an allusion to the fact that the world is becoming too concerned about a piece of paper rather than actual performance. I know many people without college degrees who I consider vastly more intelligent and productive than most who have any sort of degree.
translation: despite the booming economy, no one will hire me. As a result, I resent anyone with a job. Pity me, please.
Actually, I have a job that I am very happy at. but I do appreciate the effort you put in on that jab. BTW - you also discuss a little economics in your rant. I find it interesting that you take such a consumptionistic view of things. You make it quite clear that you've never studied economics. Capitalism is good, in moderation. If capitalism ran rampant, we wouldn't have things like Linux, or Netscape, or cheap long distance (if you don't see why...please don't reply to this post). But that's another discussion for another idiot.
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I was recently contacted by Apple Computer, Inc. over my apparent attempt to patent something that they are currently claiming the pattent on. the letter is as follows.
Mr. Rad It has come to Apple Computer, Inc.'s attention that you have applied for a design patent for the design of one "Steaming Pile of ugly Poo." (heretofore referred to as "SPoo"). We wish to inform you Mr. Rad that, upon review of this design, we have noticed an incredible amount of similarities between "Spoo" and the iMac. Being that the iMac looks so similar to a "Steaming Pile of Ugly Poo" you may consider this a notice to cease and desist in your attempts to market/patent your "SPoo"...
The letter continues but you get the gist of it. This is a call to my fellow slashdotters. I need your help to resist big business and it's attempts to supress my patents. Please...send money! Lots of money.
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Isn't it just sad when M$ decides that the difference betwixt a "Pro" and an "Amateur" is 17 "hot keys"...if i buy one of these Internet Keyboard Pro's do i get to be involved in some sort of corporate sponsorship program?
The following is courtesy of ESPN-3, or "The Thrice"
"Hi, my name is FluX. I surf for microsoft!"
angle shot of a keyboard with 17 (count 'em) hot keys, adorned with various manufacturing stickers including a Microsoft logo and a felt patch from "Tommy's Burrito Shack"
cut to shot of FluX surfing Antionline.com
Annoyingly southern-californian anouncer: "Woah bro! Did you see that McDoubleClick...flawless execution."
cut shot of FluX bitch slapping the announcer with his Internet Keyboard Pro (void in Utah, Nevada, and where prohibited).
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this is just another step in the automation of idiocy. People who use AOL, and most of the rest of 'em too, just don't want to do shit. Congratulations to AOL for marketing this. We're approaching a world where everything is automated for ease of use - College graduates can then sit on their asses and buy computers that do their laundry, their dishes, and jack them off...all at the same time. The cool part is that all the dickheads who have BA's in Business Administration (read: "Well, no, Mr. Prospective Employer, I don't know any *nix or networking but i'd like to be a system administrator!") get to do nothing while the REAL geeks of the world get to do all the work.
Thank you AOL...my life is complete! oh...i'm sorry, sir, would you like fries with that?
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Where the fuck was the ACLU when the DeCSS scandal exploded. Or better yet, why weren't they vigorously campaining against UCITA?? It seems the ACLU is like a crappy Robin Hood tale where he breaks into the castle to rescue the princess...but the bitch is already dead!
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merge an automated exoskeleton with the RealDoll and i'll never have to work at getting laid again!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!
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I'm not so sure that this is going to be good for our children. The whole point of legos is to teach our kids about spacial orientation and design. They can have fun while learning basic skills that they will need to physically function as, not just adults, but humans.
Besides - this seems to take the fun out of it all for kids...now they just be like their parents and sit on their asses all day instead in front of a computer. Oh well, i hope this is just a suppliment rather than a replacement for good old fashioned blocks. What's next? Play-do CAD???
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I've never heard of Samuel Clemens..so i'd bet he's not literature either. You should read something by a good auther like Mark Twain or something! LMAO. - btw, there are a large number of O'reilly books on my bookshelf too (they're the Cisco of tech publishing)
this post was a test to see which moderators can tell the difference between sarcastic humor and plain idiocy
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I truly think that the book is the common denominator. It cannot and SHOULD not change. - It's unfortunate that many "geeks" think that reading a good book is plopping down in front of a computer with the latest O'reilly publication, or maybe they'll spout about how "they read literature too." - the closest i've ever seen some geeks get to "literature" is the Deathgate Cycle (no..despite what you will argue in replies to this comment...it is not literature).
I believe that the book cannot change, because it is the act of reading in itself that is what it's all about. As much as I absolutely love my computer...if I were to be given a choice between the internet and, say, a copy of Slaughterhouse Five in paperback...I say fuck the internet! It's just too unfortunate that most people don't feel the same today...they drivel on about brainless garbage in chat rooms and about the latest "E-product" never stoping too look around at what they're missing. Let me put it this way: There is NO substitute for sitting down on a snowy day next to a fire, with a glass of your favorite book in hand! That experience can be altered, it can be supplimented...but it can NEVER be replaced.
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I've always thought that gnome was evil...this seems to prove it. Gnome is the spawn of a satanic microsoft cult that strives to drive up the cost of RAM so they can make larger, more memory inneffecient window managers, thusly lining their pockets by secretly becoming shareholders in tiwanese RAM manufacturers. You don't believe me? Friday i just signed the papers on a second mortgage so i could buy enought RAM to run Gnome and Star Office together.
We all know those who run Enlightenment are the children of god...and one day we will return to the holy land to run the Cyrus and BlueSteel themes in harmony. With 64Meg of God's own RAM.
Seek ye a window manager that is efficient and useth not much memory. Be not a simple Black Box user, nay, but turn not to the vice and greed of the tempestuous KDE! Instead, findeth yourself a blessed WM, and you shall call it "E". Amen! -From the book of Torvalds 3:18
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This isn't really anything new. To find a job in any field, the key is to demonstrate that you know what you're doing. Open source involvement and having the skills that you're looking to get employed in is of course good. But this article seems to be for the geeks out there who would like to code for 36 hours straight rather than actually develop some social skills as well.
Sorry to burst your bubble - but for most of you looking for a job, there's probably someone at least a qualified. The KEY to finding a job is how well you come off in person. Are you a likeable person...do you work well with others? This is a VERY important aspect of finding the right employee being that the IT industry seems to have a very hight percentage of assholes in it. (read: tech support). Many seem very aloof and overconfident in their skills.
Your resume should speak for your skills/interests, but that's only about %25 of it. Your resume gets you in the door. The interview gets you the job...so concentrate on that.
BTW - As far as the word format on your resume...sorry to burst most Ub3r h4x0rz bubbles, but most companies have lots of management, and management uses Windows...word is still the way to go in a resume, but that doesn't mean you have to like it.
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The one question this brings up, however, is what defines cybersquatting in general? If it's solely the purpose of the name...then sites like Antionline, Freshmeat, and other well known sites could be at risk (these are just top-of-the-head examples) Because their name doesn't implicitly give any indication of what they're all about. I do, however, agree that these must be handled on a case by case basis. I could easily see this turn in to a sort of McDonalds coffee spill type of situation where everybody is suing everybody else for domain rights that they feel they should have.
We should also examine timliness of situations regarding sites on the web. Companies that have been around for aeons shouldn't necessarily have the right to "bully" others off of domains they purchased from Internic quite some time ago just because they had a "wait and see" attitude towards the internet and e-commerce in general. This is definitely a grey area.
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One thing that worries me is the ability of big business to take domain names that have been out there for a while. If i come up with "slashdot" clothing, and it gets popular..do i get to sue Roblimo, et al. for rights to the domain name?? We have to be very mindful of exactly how and why these rules are applied. Additionally - what about.org vs.com or.net - do these rules apply the same. Does a company like sony have the right to take away an "organizations" web site? Just something to run through your gray matter.
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I'm not sure that you have read much of your history. Japan was already in the process of surrendering when we dropped the A-bomb. Basically we did it to show the russians, and the rest of the world, what we had. Japan was effectively out of the war...any indication that they would fight untill every last on of them was dead is pure propaganda!
My point still stands - joe schmoe on the street could NEVER had created the A-bomb...so who is responsible for it??? You think roosevelt was in his garage working on it for 4 years? In my experience, scientists seem to have less of a conscience than most people. Their excuse: that they're just doing what they do for the benefit of science. I really don't think these people are asking the important questions. There's no question these guys are smart...but I doubt if they're anywhere near as wise!
BTW - you talk about how countless lives have been saved because of the a-bomb. Millions more would have died in a third world war. Think about it this way: we're in a mexican standoff right now. The whole world's got their finger on the trigger...the question isn't who's gonna pull the trigger, but WHEN???
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Ok...i knew you would come back with all the WWII stuff. I think it's pretty obvious that your conclusions are wrong there (aside from the Russian situation - that WAS the reason we dropped em...basically because we could.)
But you say "well, it was the military who dropped the bombs" - once again...it was the scientists who made em. The actual head of the Manhattan project (his name eludes me) said of the testing in Alamagordo "I am become death." He realized what he had done...a little to late for a lot of japanese unfortunately.
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You seem to be coming back to the fundamental argument that people make. "It's someone elses fault. not the scientists."
The people who built the A-bomb were the only ones smart enough to. You think Hitler or Rommel could have sat around for three weeks and produced one of these. Everyone knew it was wrong they just didn't act on that. If you tell me you're going to make me build something that will kill millions of people or you're going to put a bullet in my head. well then...put a fucking bullet in my head!!!!
No one's making scientists take any responsibility for their own actions. We treat them like super-intelligent children. "Ok now timmy, go in the corner and play with your atoms."
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Super Humans? Genetic Engineering? The new GE oven...it's all so much!!! All i'm saying is we can put a man on the moon but we can't make a realdoll that does laundry?? wtf!!
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I think cisco makes crappy ass products and deserves to be almost worthless. They should make good networking products like Microsoft, then they could claim that they do something worthwhile.
:P
wait - scratch that...reverse it!!
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Just wait - the bottom is going to fall out of the .com industry pretty soon as it's becoming inundated with all kinds of .commie crap. Most companies haven't really made a dime as their too new. I expect that within a couple of year we're going to see people out on the streets with scraps of bread and cheese in their beards holding up signs that read: "Will administer systems for food."
I think i might be one of 'em. Oh well. I'm prepared to move to SF when this all blows over...the housing cost isn't a problem. I live in Denver and we've got people out here with signs that read: "Will give left testicle for rent under $1000 a month"
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I'm sick of this internet BS too...everyone is E-this/E-that. I just want to read a book or something. Even my boss at work seems to be into this whole internet thing...he's always asking me, "Did you restart those webservers?" or "Hey..is that E4500 back up and working yet"/"Damnit, why has our bandwidth dropped?"
Personally, i don't know what he's talking about. I just took this job as a...i think they call me a SysAd or something...because they have a foosball table. Besides - no one has told me why they call the company i work for "Sun" anyway. I mean...it's really not that well lit around here anyways.
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In the interests of saving myself the time of making this argument even more idiotic that you have already made it. this will be my last post...feel free to reply and get the last word if you want.
socialism failed eh? What do you call China? (if you say "communism" then i'm gonna bitch slap you so hard your grandma will hurt). As for capitalism..i knew you were going to go on this rant against all the points I made. THERE IS NO FUCKING INVISIBLE HAND!!! the market doesn't even itself out so that really good products like Netscape and Linux can just float on in. If there is no governmental regulation then companies like M$ and AT&T would gain and keep monopolies and there would be nothing anyone else could do about it (read: words like "leverage") - only idiots and economists think the world would be a much better place if we had a system of unbridled capitalism...thank god we've never given either one their druthers.
Ok..that's it. - I'm done. have fun flaming me...but why don't you do it with your actual login you fucking karma whore! At least i have the balls to take a mod-down as well as a mod up!
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Ahh...this article takes me back to the early 1990's (not all too long ago in my mind) when we would always see these types of similarities in tha' hoods like Silicon Valley or Seattle.
I remember when my friend's laptop died. He was inconsolable for weeks. At the laptop's burial (or being "thrown into the dumpster" as we lino-thugz call it) - my friend took out his 40oz. bottle of Old English and said "peace my little homey!" - he wasted that whole $#(*$ bottle of OE on that laptop. It's hard you know...i see laptops and desktops dying every day in tha muthafuckin' hood. Apple newtons tryin' be frontin'...why some Palm V gots ta start some shit?
Whateva yo. I just be tryin' to keep it real up in this mix - cause i be rollin' in my 3.3.6
Sorry..i have to end this post now..i have to go practice my "gang" signs. ENLIGHTENMENT IN THA' MUTHA-FUCKIN' HAAAOUUUS!!!
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You have some pretty interesting points but your reasons to "Crucify" OSU are alltogether poorly stated. Let's crucify OSU because it had a HUGE crime rate compared to other schools. Let's crucify OSU because, from what i've been reading about this dorm, it was a pretty shitty place to live...internet access aside.
The point is that OSU is coming down WAY too hard on these guys for a little college ingenuity. Most colleges have a mandatory "technology" fee as well as more fees than you can shake a stick at just to live in a dorm (not to mention a shitty one at that). All arguments aside, what these guys did was wrong...but this shouldn't have ever become a national media outcry (or at least a slashdot news item). They should perhaps be fined by the school for the access "taken" without consent or something very minor. This just seems to be another example of a largely non-technical group of individuals persecuting someone(s) because they don't really understand the seriousness (or laughability) of what's going on.
talk about crucifiction...Here's a question...just about every other college i know of provides free ethernet access to most, if not all, of its students. OSU isn't.
Now here's a slashdot poll - because of this news item, who wants to get their CS degree from OSU???
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I'm no linux elitist. In fact I often get flamed for arguing that MS isn't really that bad of an OS. But you make some pretty ridiculous points here my friend:
It's called 'progress'. Perhaps we should go back to steam power? Horse power?
I don't believe that progress is inherently supposed to make life "easier"..it's supposed to make life better. We're not talking about a cure for AIDS here..we're talking about facilitating the laziness of American culture. Why do you think voter turnout is so low? Why do you think people sue companies because they spilled coffee in their lap and got scalded? Because someone or some company is supposed to do it all for them. I'm not saying we're supposed to be climing trees and fighting bears. I'm just saying we're supposed to be at least somewhat self-reliant here. If you buy a car...you're not expected to know how it was built...but you're damned well expected to know how to drive the damned thing.
Gee...it was probably college graduates who designed said machines. Or did the computers invent themselves? Please explain.
The original post was an allusion to the fact that the world is becoming too concerned about a piece of paper rather than actual performance. I know many people without college degrees who I consider vastly more intelligent and productive than most who have any sort of degree.
translation: despite the booming economy, no one will hire me. As a result, I resent anyone with a job. Pity me, please.
Actually, I have a job that I am very happy at. but I do appreciate the effort you put in on that jab. BTW - you also discuss a little economics in your rant. I find it interesting that you take such a consumptionistic view of things. You make it quite clear that you've never studied economics. Capitalism is good, in moderation. If capitalism ran rampant, we wouldn't have things like Linux, or Netscape, or cheap long distance (if you don't see why...please don't reply to this post). But that's another discussion for another idiot.
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I was recently contacted by Apple Computer, Inc. over my apparent attempt to patent something that they are currently claiming the pattent on. the letter is as follows.
Mr. Rad
It has come to Apple Computer, Inc.'s attention that you have applied for a design patent for the design of one "Steaming Pile of ugly Poo." (heretofore referred to as "SPoo"). We wish to inform you Mr. Rad that, upon review of this design, we have noticed an incredible amount of similarities between "Spoo" and the iMac. Being that the iMac looks so similar to a "Steaming Pile of Ugly Poo" you may consider this a notice to cease and desist in your attempts to market/patent your "SPoo"...
The letter continues but you get the gist of it. This is a call to my fellow slashdotters. I need your help to resist big business and it's attempts to supress my patents. Please...send money! Lots of money.
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Isn't it just sad when M$ decides that the difference betwixt a "Pro" and an "Amateur" is 17 "hot keys"...if i buy one of these Internet Keyboard Pro's do i get to be involved in some sort of corporate sponsorship program?
The following is courtesy of ESPN-3, or "The Thrice"
"Hi, my name is FluX. I surf for microsoft!"
angle shot of a keyboard with 17 (count 'em) hot keys, adorned with various manufacturing stickers including a Microsoft logo and a felt patch from "Tommy's Burrito Shack"
cut to shot of FluX surfing Antionline.com
Annoyingly southern-californian anouncer: "Woah bro! Did you see that McDoubleClick...flawless execution."
cut shot of FluX bitch slapping the announcer with his Internet Keyboard Pro (void in Utah, Nevada, and where prohibited).
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this is just another step in the automation of idiocy. People who use AOL, and most of the rest of 'em too, just don't want to do shit. Congratulations to AOL for marketing this. We're approaching a world where everything is automated for ease of use - College graduates can then sit on their asses and buy computers that do their laundry, their dishes, and jack them off...all at the same time. The cool part is that all the dickheads who have BA's in Business Administration (read: "Well, no, Mr. Prospective Employer, I don't know any *nix or networking but i'd like to be a system administrator!") get to do nothing while the REAL geeks of the world get to do all the work.
Thank you AOL...my life is complete! oh...i'm sorry, sir, would you like fries with that?
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Where the fuck was the ACLU when the DeCSS scandal exploded. Or better yet, why weren't they vigorously campaining against UCITA?? It seems the ACLU is like a crappy Robin Hood tale where he breaks into the castle to rescue the princess...but the bitch is already dead!
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merge an automated exoskeleton with the RealDoll and i'll never have to work at getting laid again!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!
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I'm not so sure that this is going to be good for our children. The whole point of legos is to teach our kids about spacial orientation and design. They can have fun while learning basic skills that they will need to physically function as, not just adults, but humans.
Besides - this seems to take the fun out of it all for kids...now they just be like their parents and sit on their asses all day instead in front of a computer. Oh well, i hope this is just a suppliment rather than a replacement for good old fashioned blocks. What's next? Play-do CAD???
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I've never heard of Samuel Clemens..so i'd bet he's not literature either.
You should read something by a good auther like Mark Twain or something!
LMAO. - btw, there are a large number of O'reilly books on my bookshelf too (they're the Cisco of tech publishing)
this post was a test to see which moderators can tell the difference between sarcastic humor and plain idiocy
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I truly think that the book is the common denominator. It cannot and SHOULD not change. - It's unfortunate that many "geeks" think that reading a good book is plopping down in front of a computer with the latest O'reilly publication, or maybe they'll spout about how "they read literature too." - the closest i've ever seen some geeks get to "literature" is the Deathgate Cycle (no..despite what you will argue in replies to this comment...it is not literature).
I believe that the book cannot change, because it is the act of reading in itself that is what it's all about. As much as I absolutely love my computer...if I were to be given a choice between the internet and, say, a copy of Slaughterhouse Five in paperback...I say fuck the internet! It's just too unfortunate that most people don't feel the same today...they drivel on about brainless garbage in chat rooms and about the latest "E-product" never stoping too look around at what they're missing. Let me put it this way: There is NO substitute for sitting down on a snowy day next to a fire, with a glass of your favorite book in hand! That experience can be altered, it can be supplimented...but it can NEVER be replaced.
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I've always thought that gnome was evil...this seems to prove it. Gnome is the spawn of a satanic microsoft cult that strives to drive up the cost of RAM so they can make larger, more memory inneffecient window managers, thusly lining their pockets by secretly becoming shareholders in tiwanese RAM manufacturers. You don't believe me? Friday i just signed the papers on a second mortgage so i could buy enought RAM to run Gnome and Star Office together.
We all know those who run Enlightenment are the children of god...and one day we will return to the holy land to run the Cyrus and BlueSteel themes in harmony. With 64Meg of God's own RAM.
Seek ye a window manager that is efficient and useth not much memory. Be not a simple Black Box user, nay, but turn not to the vice and greed of the tempestuous KDE! Instead, findeth yourself a blessed WM, and you shall call it "E". Amen!
-From the book of Torvalds 3:18
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Wow! this seems to be really cool! A piece of electronics that can play games, get on the internet, play DVD's/CD's! holy shit!!!
Maybe next we can slap a keyboard and a mouse on it, allow the possibility of a printer and scanner plus other peripherals...and call it a Gateway!
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This isn't really anything new. To find a job in any field, the key is to demonstrate that you know what you're doing. Open source involvement and having the skills that you're looking to get employed in is of course good. But this article seems to be for the geeks out there who would like to code for 36 hours straight rather than actually develop some social skills as well.
Sorry to burst your bubble - but for most of you looking for a job, there's probably someone at least a qualified. The KEY to finding a job is how well you come off in person. Are you a likeable person...do you work well with others? This is a VERY important aspect of finding the right employee being that the IT industry seems to have a very hight percentage of assholes in it. (read: tech support). Many seem very aloof and overconfident in their skills.
Your resume should speak for your skills/interests, but that's only about %25 of it. Your resume gets you in the door. The interview gets you the job...so concentrate on that.
BTW - As far as the word format on your resume...sorry to burst most Ub3r h4x0rz bubbles, but most companies have lots of management, and management uses Windows...word is still the way to go in a resume, but that doesn't mean you have to like it.
-FluX
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The one question this brings up, however, is what defines cybersquatting in general? If it's solely the purpose of the name...then sites like Antionline, Freshmeat, and other well known sites could be at risk (these are just top-of-the-head examples) Because their name doesn't implicitly give any indication of what they're all about. I do, however, agree that these must be handled on a case by case basis. I could easily see this turn in to a sort of McDonalds coffee spill type of situation where everybody is suing everybody else for domain rights that they feel they should have.
We should also examine timliness of situations regarding sites on the web. Companies that have been around for aeons shouldn't necessarily have the right to "bully" others off of domains they purchased from Internic quite some time ago just because they had a "wait and see" attitude towards the internet and e-commerce in general. This is definitely a grey area.
-FluX
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One thing that worries me is the ability of big business to take domain names that have been out there for a while. If i come up with "slashdot" clothing, and it gets popular..do i get to sue Roblimo, et al. for rights to the domain name?? We have to be very mindful of exactly how and why these rules are applied. Additionally - what about .org vs .com or .net - do these rules apply the same. Does a company like sony have the right to take away an "organizations" web site? Just something to run through your gray matter.
-FluX
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My kid beat up your DNA Stenographer
-FluX
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I'm not sure that you have read much of your history. Japan was already in the process of surrendering when we dropped the A-bomb. Basically we did it to show the russians, and the rest of the world, what we had. Japan was effectively out of the war...any indication that they would fight untill every last on of them was dead is pure propaganda!
My point still stands - joe schmoe on the street could NEVER had created the A-bomb...so who is responsible for it??? You think roosevelt was in his garage working on it for 4 years? In my experience, scientists seem to have less of a conscience than most people. Their excuse: that they're just doing what they do for the benefit of science. I really don't think these people are asking the important questions. There's no question these guys are smart...but I doubt if they're anywhere near as wise!
BTW - you talk about how countless lives have been saved because of the a-bomb. Millions more would have died in a third world war. Think about it this way: we're in a mexican standoff right now. The whole world's got their finger on the trigger...the question isn't who's gonna pull the trigger, but WHEN???
-FluX
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Ok...i knew you would come back with all the WWII stuff. I think it's pretty obvious that your conclusions are wrong there (aside from the Russian situation - that WAS the reason we dropped em...basically because we could.)
But you say "well, it was the military who dropped the bombs" - once again...it was the scientists who made em. The actual head of the Manhattan project (his name eludes me) said of the testing in Alamagordo "I am become death." He realized what he had done...a little to late for a lot of japanese unfortunately.
-FluX
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You seem to be coming back to the fundamental argument that people make. "It's someone elses fault. not the scientists."
The people who built the A-bomb were the only ones smart enough to. You think Hitler or Rommel could have sat around for three weeks and produced one of these. Everyone knew it was wrong they just didn't act on that. If you tell me you're going to make me build something that will kill millions of people or you're going to put a bullet in my head. well then...put a fucking bullet in my head!!!!
No one's making scientists take any responsibility for their own actions. We treat them like super-intelligent children. "Ok now timmy, go in the corner and play with your atoms."
-FluX
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Super Humans? Genetic Engineering? The new GE oven...it's all so much!!! All i'm saying is we can put a man on the moon but we can't make a realdoll that does laundry?? wtf!!
-FluX
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