Maybe you want to think about that next time you make fun of France banning Yahoo! nazi auctions. A lot of the stuff auctioned off could conceivably be worn by people burning down houses simply because they didn't like the skin colour of the people living in them.
So what? If I burn your house down wearing a nun's habit, your house is just as burned down as if I were wearing an SS uniform that I purchased on EBay. I don't see the difference.
Segregation is our past. The KKK, well, you have a better point there, but I don't think it's anywhere near the problem that Europe has with their extremism. I may be uninformed, but let me just say this: if the KKK is all we've got, we're doing pretty good. I mean, they don't seem to do much. Yeah, they advocate an unpopular belief, but beyond the occasional rally, you don't hear much from them. Does anybody suspect that the KKK is mailing Anthrax, or that if they had the capability, they would? These guys are in a different league altogether. They adopt sections of highway, they don't go trying to hurt people. And my point in this post is that their very limited role is, at least in part, due to our free society, where Americans can say, "I disagree with what you're saying, but I support your right to say it." But maybe it's just me.
To all of those people - will you please not talk about things you don't understand? It's very easy to talk about freedom of speech whilst being very far away from the real issues, posting comfortably over your DSL link. Right here, right now, teenagers are being seduced into neo-fascist ideological groups every day. In France alone, there are local governments which have started banning books and newspapers that oppose them
The distinction made between Americans with their first amendment rights have chosen to draw the line at what someone's actions are, not what they say. Advocating crime is one thing, advocating an unpopular belief is quite another.
There isn't much of an extremist problem in the US, is there? Why? Because we, as enlightened citizens, should be free to make informed decisions.
I'm talking about free speech, but I'm also talking about drugs. A popular argument is that drugs wouldn't be abused if they weren't illegal, and so highly stigmatized. In Europe, alcohol doesn't have the social stigma that it does in the US, and alcohol isn't as much of a problem. I'll see if I can make my point more clearly. If your neo-nazi fascists were out in the open, they would be subject to ridicule and severe opposition. It would give a face to the enemy. But by forcing them to hide in the shadows, those who follow them, who believe them, have no balance of counterargument.
In conclusion, There is a gray area, but Americans draw the line at a different point than Europeans. We believe we're right so strongly that we'd die for it. And to ridicule that belief is tantamount to sacrilege.
I bought TTT the day it came out, right alongside my PS2. I waited up all night to get it. I didn't have enough money to buy a memory card, and this was the only game I had (Blockbuster didn't carry PS2 games yet), and I didn't want to have to start over to get the special characters, so I never turned it off. For 3 weeks, I had the same game in there, on 24/7, being played 2 hours a day. I never had a single lock-up, nor have I since. PS2 has never, ever crashed on me. X-Box had better not either.
I have a vivid image of a guy in a striped suit and a white hat. He touches something on his belt, and then, over a loudspeaker, "Offensive personal foul(oul, oul), 15 yards. Defensive personal foul, 15 yards(ards, ards). Penalties offset, First Down!(own, own)"
My central point remains: What Windows needs is a plain-English set of choices, in plain view, one that any novice user can easily find and understand, to tell the computer which program to use to open different kinds of files. There is no good reason under the sun that Microsoft has not provided such an option.
Not only is this guy extremely biased about the point he's making here, he's also wrong. I assume because nobody here who's complaining about MS has actually used XP, nobody here seems to have brought up this point yet:
In Windows XP, it is easier to choose which program opens which file than ever before.
All you gotta do is right click, and choose Open With. All programs that have registered their ability to run the file you've selected will be listed, right there. And if there's a program that didn't register itself for a file type, you can select Choose Program and it'll let you select the one you want. No holding shift, no hunting through menus. Right-click, move mouse, click. Now if you're saying Microsoft is monopolistic because this isn't easy enough, apparently you've not noticed the progression from Windows 3.x to Windows XP. Which means you're uninformed. Which means you shouldn't be writing columns bashing MS. Quit blowing smoke, and admit that you've never even seen XP in action. You call yourself a journalist. I wrote better-researched articles in grade school.
ZB
note: although I, for one, have actually used Windows XP, I don't like it as much as Windows 2000, whose file associations are much harder (read: have to hold shift button when right-clicking) to change.
I've looked at several of these games, and I can't for the life of me figure out why white (Fontaine) resigned game 8 from the Fontaine matches. Why not just Ne5? Anybody?
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Okay, if a white guy calls a black guy a n*gg*r, and he does it out of hate, that's bad. Sure. But this is different. I live in a pretty much all-white portion of the country(in the mountains in Colorado), and I've never personally dealt with racism, so I don't really have much to say about it. Except this:
I have a friend who grew up in Zaire (I think it was Zaire, might've been another african country), we were talking about American History X, and he told me how much he hated the movie. I figured, you know, the whole scene that landed Edward Norton in jail... Later it came up again and he said he hated it for the shower scene (where Edward Norton gets it in the butt). I mentioned that I thought he meant the earlier scene, and he says, "Nah, I don't care about that stuff..." What does this mean? He's lived in the US for about 4 years, and has never experienced racism. Ever. And since he wasn't raised with the stigma of what most of the black people in this country had growing up -- slavery, and then racism -- he didn't go out looking for people of color being maligned, so he could complain about that. Granted, your experiences may differ, but in general, a lot of percieved racism is probably hypersensitivity. I'm not complaining, it's not like it gets in my way up here in the Rockies, but life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
On topic, however, if you're black, you're black. There's no two ways about it. If you're fat, however, sure it might be due to a glandular problem or something, but what it comes down to is that you eat more than your body needs. If you simply make the decision not to do that, you will not be fat anymore. Or at least, eventually you won't. It's not cool to make fun of people because of the color of their skin, or because of their physical disabilities, but if they're stupid(ignorant stupid, not downsyndrome stupid) or fat, or sporting a mullet, that's a choice they made, and they have to live with the consequences.
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I have to reply, because you got modded up to the point where people believe what you say is true.
1) Seanbaby's site is a part of the Portal of Evil network. Other people also have sites in the Portal of Evil network, most notably Old Man Murray. Fat Chicks In Party Hats(FCIPH) is a member of the POE network. Seanbaby does not write FCIPH, so to say that he is responsible for it's content is akin to saying that I'm responsible for something one of my co-workers does at work. Just because I work with him doesn't mean I supervise him in everything he does.
2) FCIPH is funny for 2 reasons. Reason 1 is that the guy who writes it(Miguel) doesn't speak english worth a damn. He calls people "a big ham" and says stuff that makes no sense. Reason 2 is that these people are really really fat. Miguel likes to catch them eating. Maybe if you're fat it wouldn't be funny, I wouldn't know.
3) If you don't like it, don't read it. What you don't know can't hurt you, right?
4) If it's a medical condition, it *can* be fixed. You can have your stomach stapled (John Popper from Blues Traveler recently had this done, and lost like 100 pounds), you can go on a diet (I'm not talking about a fruit juice diet, I'm talking about a one-steak-per-day, go for a walk every once in awhile, stop buying M&Ms diet. Find somebody skinny and eat what they eat.)
5) Your crusade to end fat-people jokes only alerts people to the fact that fat people hate being called fat, which will only end in more fat-people jokes. Didn't you learn anything during recess at middle school? Fatty.
6) If the last word from 5) upset you, don't complain, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Make a plan, take action. Kick your stomach's ass!
On the act locally front, I stopped buying new CDs when Napster went away, and I strongly urge everyone else to do the same.
Okay, I'm just going to say it, because I've been thinking about it for a long time, and you're all alluding to it here, and it just plain needs to be said:
Boycott the RIAA.
You won't all agree, but those that don't agree, just don't do it. When consumers band together to make a statement, we should do it in a manner that companies understand: with our wallets. They don't care if we hate them, as long as we keep paying them $16 for a CD. If we stop doing that, we will be making the strongest statement possible. And we'll change the course of history. Capitalists the world over seem to overlook that they are serving us, the consumer. They've forgotten this because we've forgotten this. If we don't like something, all we have to do is not support it. In the end, we have all the power. We have but to weild it.
Are you an idiot? Do you know nothing about computers? Diligent recovery from this compromise would involve 1) backing up all data on the compromised hard drives, 2) formatting them, 3) reinstalling them from scratch, 4) sanitizing all the backed-up data, 5) and reinstalling all the backed-up data. Assuming a $150/hour sysadmin, three labor hours per machine, and 200 machines, that's a direct recovery cost of $90k.
Then you've got all the people who will be sitting around with their thumbs up their asses while their machines are offline. Assuming an average downtime of 1 week, an average employee salary of $25k/year, and an overhead rate of 100%, that's an indirect recovery cost of $192k.
I was very upset by this comment(the whole post really) at first, but I calmed down a little when I realized that you're obviously just on crack. If my dog pooped on your front lawn, would you send me the bill to have the entire house torn down, ground dug up, new sod laid down, and new house built? And then the bill for the time you spent having all this done? Or would you just make me clean it up (or in this case, make me pay the cost of someone else cleaning it up)? Have you never heard of "Uninstall"? It works really well, trust me. So, like you say: Assuming a $150/hour sysadmin logging in as administrator on 200 machines and un-installing one program, let's say that takes 3 minutes per machine (maybe he's a slow typist!) and then an extra 2 because they're spread out over campus or something. That's 1000 minutes. 2 days. A waste of a $150/hour sysadmin's time, if you ask me. I'd do it for a tenth that. And ya can quote me.
Force people to tell us where they got our address from. IE require them to say "we bought this address from a database owned by yahoo.com". I wouldn't be surprised if the free mail providers themselves sold our addresses for a buck. I started getting spam to addresses I've never even used from yahoo(by registering for a my.yahoo account). We could make them if not responsible, at least accountable.
How is this funny? He was being serious. Think about the possibilities! An entire globe united in peace. Eventually we'd get bored and want to blow something up, so we'd go try and find other lifeforms, and take over their planets! Remember Starship Troopers? Sure, they were Nazis, but they were united Nazis! And the women were all really really hot!
Personally, if there were a site on the internet with my graduate thesis (pretend I already graduated from college) on it, and they were giving it, as well as thousands of others away for free, I wouldn't have a problem with that. I'm proud of my work, and if others are interested in it, then more power to them! What bothers me is that these people are trying to profit from my work. They can act as gratuitous agents in distributing it, that I have no problem with. And if they make some advertising revenue, or attract visitors to other areas where they get revenue from, then good for them! The problem that most/.ers here have is that these people are using OUR work for THEIR gain.
the topic in #gnutella says that it will go open source at version 1. No expected date for that though, and the ops are quiet this morning. It's just in proof-of-concept right now. Don't expect perfection.
The best AOL could do was order a shutdown of the main webpage (gnutella.org). They couldn't stop the project, which is a force on it's own now that it's started. Mirror early, mirror often. Piss off the multinationals!
http://www.allskin.com/gnutella/...it simply moved. I think AOL's going to get snippety with Nullsoft pretty soon. Let's get Justin Frankel lined up for a/. interview! We could all gain some insight there.
My school has about 25,000 people attending, and maybe 10,000 on campus. I haven't checked recently, but as of last year we were at 7% bandwith utilization. I can only assume that we are much higher, maybe 20 or 25%. Still, that's a lot of room to grow. I found yesterday that our school had not banned napster (I don't personally use it, but others do, and they come to me with their problems), but limited the speeds to under 3k/second, where once we would get 100-300k/second. Most of the people here don't like it, but I think this is an excellent solution. It doesn't deny us any "freedoms", we can still download mp3s, but it essentially makes napster ineffective as a means to do so. And if it means more bandwith for me, then I applaud my network administrators. But if they were to ban dialpad.com (or related services), they'd find me at their front door, ready to whoop some ass. Let's just hope it doesn't come to that.
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Maybe you want to think about that next time you make fun of France banning Yahoo! nazi auctions. A lot of the stuff auctioned off could conceivably be worn by people burning down houses simply because they didn't like the skin colour of the people living in them.
So what? If I burn your house down wearing a nun's habit, your house is just as burned down as if I were wearing an SS uniform that I purchased on EBay. I don't see the difference.
Segregation is our past. The KKK, well, you have a better point there, but I don't think it's anywhere near the problem that Europe has with their extremism. I may be uninformed, but let me just say this: if the KKK is all we've got, we're doing pretty good. I mean, they don't seem to do much. Yeah, they advocate an unpopular belief, but beyond the occasional rally, you don't hear much from them. Does anybody suspect that the KKK is mailing Anthrax, or that if they had the capability, they would? These guys are in a different league altogether. They adopt sections of highway, they don't go trying to hurt people. And my point in this post is that their very limited role is, at least in part, due to our free society, where Americans can say, "I disagree with what you're saying, but I support your right to say it." But maybe it's just me.
..And by extremist problem I mean among those living in the US. Americans. Not, you know...
The distinction made between Americans with their first amendment rights have chosen to draw the line at what someone's actions are, not what they say. Advocating crime is one thing, advocating an unpopular belief is quite another.
There isn't much of an extremist problem in the US, is there? Why? Because we, as enlightened citizens, should be free to make informed decisions.
I'm talking about free speech, but I'm also talking about drugs. A popular argument is that drugs wouldn't be abused if they weren't illegal, and so highly stigmatized. In Europe, alcohol doesn't have the social stigma that it does in the US, and alcohol isn't as much of a problem. I'll see if I can make my point more clearly. If your neo-nazi fascists were out in the open, they would be subject to ridicule and severe opposition. It would give a face to the enemy. But by forcing them to hide in the shadows, those who follow them, who believe them, have no balance of counterargument.
In conclusion, There is a gray area, but Americans draw the line at a different point than Europeans. We believe we're right so strongly that we'd die for it. And to ridicule that belief is tantamount to sacrilege.
Man, what's with the big words tonight?
I bought TTT the day it came out, right alongside my PS2. I waited up all night to get it. I didn't have enough money to buy a memory card, and this was the only game I had (Blockbuster didn't carry PS2 games yet), and I didn't want to have to start over to get the special characters, so I never turned it off. For 3 weeks, I had the same game in there, on 24/7, being played 2 hours a day. I never had a single lock-up, nor have I since. PS2 has never, ever crashed on me. X-Box had better not either.
"The record company is the pimp, the artist is the ho, the stage is the corner, and the audience is the trick."
If only life were more like football.
Not only is this guy extremely biased about the point he's making here, he's also wrong. I assume because nobody here who's complaining about MS has actually used XP, nobody here seems to have brought up this point yet:
In Windows XP, it is easier to choose which program opens which file than ever before.
All you gotta do is right click, and choose Open With. All programs that have registered their ability to run the file you've selected will be listed, right there. And if there's a program that didn't register itself for a file type, you can select Choose Program and it'll let you select the one you want. No holding shift, no hunting through menus. Right-click, move mouse, click. Now if you're saying Microsoft is monopolistic because this isn't easy enough, apparently you've not noticed the progression from Windows 3.x to Windows XP. Which means you're uninformed. Which means you shouldn't be writing columns bashing MS. Quit blowing smoke, and admit that you've never even seen XP in action. You call yourself a journalist. I wrote better-researched articles in grade school.
ZB
note: although I, for one, have actually used Windows XP, I don't like it as much as Windows 2000, whose file associations are much harder (read: have to hold shift button when right-clicking) to change.
I've looked at several of these games, and I can't for the life of me figure out why white (Fontaine) resigned game 8 from the Fontaine matches. Why not just Ne5? Anybody?
Okay, if a white guy calls a black guy a n*gg*r, and he does it out of hate, that's bad. Sure. But this is different. I live in a pretty much all-white portion of the country(in the mountains in Colorado), and I've never personally dealt with racism, so I don't really have much to say about it. Except this:
I have a friend who grew up in Zaire (I think it was Zaire, might've been another african country), we were talking about American History X, and he told me how much he hated the movie. I figured, you know, the whole scene that landed Edward Norton in jail... Later it came up again and he said he hated it for the shower scene (where Edward Norton gets it in the butt). I mentioned that I thought he meant the earlier scene, and he says, "Nah, I don't care about that stuff..." What does this mean? He's lived in the US for about 4 years, and has never experienced racism. Ever. And since he wasn't raised with the stigma of what most of the black people in this country had growing up -- slavery, and then racism -- he didn't go out looking for people of color being maligned, so he could complain about that. Granted, your experiences may differ, but in general, a lot of percieved racism is probably hypersensitivity. I'm not complaining, it's not like it gets in my way up here in the Rockies, but life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
On topic, however, if you're black, you're black. There's no two ways about it. If you're fat, however, sure it might be due to a glandular problem or something, but what it comes down to is that you eat more than your body needs. If you simply make the decision not to do that, you will not be fat anymore. Or at least, eventually you won't. It's not cool to make fun of people because of the color of their skin, or because of their physical disabilities, but if they're stupid(ignorant stupid, not downsyndrome stupid) or fat, or sporting a mullet, that's a choice they made, and they have to live with the consequences.
I have to reply, because you got modded up to the point where people believe what you say is true.
1) Seanbaby's site is a part of the Portal of Evil network. Other people also have sites in the Portal of Evil network, most notably Old Man Murray. Fat Chicks In Party Hats(FCIPH) is a member of the POE network. Seanbaby does not write FCIPH, so to say that he is responsible for it's content is akin to saying that I'm responsible for something one of my co-workers does at work. Just because I work with him doesn't mean I supervise him in everything he does.
2) FCIPH is funny for 2 reasons. Reason 1 is that the guy who writes it(Miguel) doesn't speak english worth a damn. He calls people "a big ham" and says stuff that makes no sense. Reason 2 is that these people are really really fat. Miguel likes to catch them eating. Maybe if you're fat it wouldn't be funny, I wouldn't know.
3) If you don't like it, don't read it. What you don't know can't hurt you, right?
4) If it's a medical condition, it *can* be fixed. You can have your stomach stapled (John Popper from Blues Traveler recently had this done, and lost like 100 pounds), you can go on a diet (I'm not talking about a fruit juice diet, I'm talking about a one-steak-per-day, go for a walk every once in awhile, stop buying M&Ms diet. Find somebody skinny and eat what they eat.)
5) Your crusade to end fat-people jokes only alerts people to the fact that fat people hate being called fat, which will only end in more fat-people jokes. Didn't you learn anything during recess at middle school? Fatty.
6) If the last word from 5) upset you, don't complain, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Make a plan, take action. Kick your stomach's ass!
On the act locally front, I stopped buying new CDs when Napster went away, and I strongly urge everyone else to do the same.
Okay, I'm just going to say it, because I've been thinking about it for a long time, and you're all alluding to it here, and it just plain needs to be said:
Boycott the RIAA.
You won't all agree, but those that don't agree, just don't do it. When consumers band together to make a statement, we should do it in a manner that companies understand: with our wallets. They don't care if we hate them, as long as we keep paying them $16 for a CD. If we stop doing that, we will be making the strongest statement possible. And we'll change the course of history. Capitalists the world over seem to overlook that they are serving us, the consumer. They've forgotten this because we've forgotten this. If we don't like something, all we have to do is not support it. In the end, we have all the power. We have but to weild it.
Are you an idiot? Do you know nothing about computers? Diligent recovery from this compromise would involve 1) backing up all data on the compromised hard drives, 2) formatting them, 3) reinstalling them from scratch, 4) sanitizing all the backed-up data, 5) and reinstalling all the backed-up data. Assuming a $150/hour sysadmin, three labor hours per machine, and 200 machines, that's a direct recovery cost of $90k. Then you've got all the people who will be sitting around with their thumbs up their asses while their machines are offline. Assuming an average downtime of 1 week, an average employee salary of $25k/year, and an overhead rate of 100%, that's an indirect recovery cost of $192k.
I was very upset by this comment(the whole post really) at first, but I calmed down a little when I realized that you're obviously just on crack. If my dog pooped on your front lawn, would you send me the bill to have the entire house torn down, ground dug up, new sod laid down, and new house built? And then the bill for the time you spent having all this done? Or would you just make me clean it up (or in this case, make me pay the cost of someone else cleaning it up)?
Have you never heard of "Uninstall"? It works really well, trust me.
So, like you say: Assuming a $150/hour sysadmin logging in as administrator on 200 machines and un-installing one program, let's say that takes 3 minutes per machine (maybe he's a slow typist!) and then an extra 2 because they're spread out over campus or something.
That's 1000 minutes. 2 days. A waste of a $150/hour sysadmin's time, if you ask me. I'd do it for a tenth that.
And ya can quote me.
Force people to tell us where they got our address from. IE require them to say "we bought this address from a database owned by yahoo.com".
I wouldn't be surprised if the free mail providers themselves sold our addresses for a buck. I started getting spam to addresses I've never even used from yahoo(by registering for a my.yahoo account). We could make them if not responsible, at least accountable.
How is this funny? He was being serious. Think about the possibilities! An entire globe united in peace. Eventually we'd get bored and want to blow something up, so we'd go try and find other lifeforms, and take over their planets! Remember Starship Troopers? Sure, they were Nazis, but they were united Nazis! And the women were all really really hot!
Personally, if there were a site on the internet with my graduate thesis (pretend I already graduated from college) on it, and they were giving it, as well as thousands of others away for free, I wouldn't have a problem with that. /.ers here have is that these people are using OUR work for THEIR gain.
I'm proud of my work, and if others are interested in it, then more power to them! What bothers me is that these people are trying to profit from my work. They can act as gratuitous agents in distributing it, that I have no problem with. And if they make some advertising revenue, or attract visitors to other areas where they get revenue from, then good for them! The problem that most
the topic in #gnutella says that it will go open source at version 1. No expected date for that though, and the ops are quiet this morning.
It's just in proof-of-concept right now. Don't expect perfection.
The best AOL could do was order a shutdown of the main webpage (gnutella.org). They couldn't stop the project, which is a force on it's own now that it's started.
Mirror early, mirror often. Piss off the multinationals!
http://www.allskin.com/gnutella/ ...it simply moved. I think AOL's going to get snippety with Nullsoft pretty soon. Let's get Justin Frankel lined up for a /. interview! We could all gain some insight there.
Give this boy a moderation point, he's right! Aah, bandwith, and it's all for me! -a CU student
My school has about 25,000 people attending, and maybe 10,000 on campus. I haven't checked recently, but as of last year we were at 7% bandwith utilization. I can only assume that we are much higher, maybe 20 or 25%. Still, that's a lot of room to grow.
I found yesterday that our school had not banned napster (I don't personally use it, but others do, and they come to me with their problems), but limited the speeds to under 3k/second, where once we would get 100-300k/second.
Most of the people here don't like it, but I think this is an excellent solution. It doesn't deny us any "freedoms", we can still download mp3s, but it essentially makes napster ineffective as a means to do so.
And if it means more bandwith for me, then I applaud my network administrators.
But if they were to ban dialpad.com (or related services), they'd find me at their front door, ready to whoop some ass. Let's just hope it doesn't come to that.
I still make a sound like a dying giraffe when I need to call my friends. Works well. Pretty easy to imitate, if you give it 30 seconds of practice.