Personally, I really liked "Severed Dreams". Delenn's speech was moving to more than the bad guys.
Of course, then there's G'Kar's voiceover at the end of season three in "Z'ha'dum", which I actually had on my desk at work.
And of course, "Confessions and Lamentations" was the most wrenching episode of anything I have ever seen. The feeling in Delenn when the doors opened to show her there with nobody left alive has haunted me ever since.
No other series has ever had a moment burn itself so deeply into my mind as Babylon 5, and that is why it is significant.
Well, I respectfully disagree with you on the character development, but as I know it, the reason we in the States haven't been able to see it on Sci-Fi is the fact that WB licensed it to TNT to show (and that will expire by the time Sci-Fi is showing it).
Actually, if you consider the fact that almost everyone else in my family is basically extroverted, I come across as extremely deviant. I fit the bill for most of these profiles. Although I was never outwardly aggressive, I am one of those whose eyes betray a calm, calculating mind that apparently is quite frightening to some people (references to certain characters in Gundam Wing may be appropriate).
I now have a BS in chemical engineering, and I work as a whatever (if it is within 50 feet of a computer, it's probably in my job description). Oh, and all that introverted, cold, calculating energy I've always had? I now make free software (if anybody here dual-boots to play SubSpace, I make FACTS, the level editing and everything tool from ss.ClayJar.com -- I could use a hand with a new UI, though, and porting to a cross platform language would be a good step).
As you can see, deviants can be unusually productive members of society. (To use one more cartoon reference: remember the X-Men.)
I agree. It all starts with good intentions (in this case by the schools and parents; probably not by the company). Babylon 5 showed this is amazing detail (for those who experienced the entire series), and as such makes a very good example (and is not in the least bit offtopic, seeing as how it gives a nice example of this very idea).
Be sure to set passive (PASV) mode transfers in WS_FTP. It seems to be necessary for some things with MS Proxy (I should remember, but I'm late for lunch). Of course, I make no guarantees.
Something like this would be an interesting way of passing information deemed "inappropriate" by powerful people. Perhaps there is a way to code up some program to pass the DeCSS code, or the Cyber Patrol hacks, or whatever without actually passing the information.
With the way things are going, how can we know what information will still be "legal" next month. At least for those of us in the US, it might be a good idea to start forming some way of maintaining freedom in spite of the courts and big business.
If we have to choose which book to become, I'll become a fanfic long-form story set in the DBZ universe (I love the author; well, at least what I've read so far).
Given the recent article regarding the new proposals which would in effect make shrinkwrap licenses binding, what would the effect of that be on the market?
Basically, I'd assume that AOL, Microsoft, Bubba Joe Dean Productions (an upstart from the bayou, of course), and anyone else could basically build payloads into their programs. (In a hypothetical case that would obviously be unfortunate) you could be running Windows and, say, BJD Productions' Mudbug Bucket Simulation, and all of the sudden, a window pops up advertising MS Mudbugs, at which point your program crashes and a few important DLLs are corrupted.
Now, since you agreed to a license that says MS isn't liable, you have a problem. Not only that, but every time you try to reload Bubba's sim, it ejects the CD. Of course, that's just because of the new virus-scanning software that installed itself last time you were online (paid for by MS). MS's response is to get the update to Bubba Joe Dean Productions' Mudbug Bucket Simulation (which BJD ends up charging for since it takes so much effort to keep updating it every time MS updates their "warware").
I guess what I'm saying is that we really need to (... must... say... sentence...) help the AOLers out here. We (the people who can see the future possibilities) need to hold the torch to AOL now, while this behavior isn't commonplace (outside MS and others, who are already on the firing line). And we must defeat any legislation that would take away our ability to fiscally hurt companies who financially hurt their customers (MS and AOL have a conscience that only a politician can see).
Help the unenlightened and they will find out and eventually learn to use the source.
I (obviously) have a Linux box between my cable modem and home network (total 4 Pentiums, 1 486). In light of this article, I've been pressed to wonder if there is some way of me "filtering" the content coming in through my Linux box. Is there any way for me to, say, block us from, say, easily downloading things which are, both in my opinion and the collective opinions of my family, wrong?
Is there any way to implement the unanimous wishes of all of my family and locally filter our internet access? Might I be able to use a Squid proxy or something similar to do the filtering?
The filtering rules we'd use would be quite loose, and basically be only set up to filter html pages which, for us, are obviously unwanted (i.e., if the meta tags contain "xxx", "sex", and assorted other things I won't post here, don't allow the page through).
I wouldn't think this sort of very loose filter should be too difficult to implement, and since my family is unanimously in favor of the implementation, it is not infringing on anyone's rights (if other people don't filter, fine, but I would like at least loose filtering).
There has been some discussion with the rest of them wanting to use some filtering software, but I don't want to use closed systems, since I know that I know us better than some men in black in a dark room somewhere. (That, and I'd doubt that any filters work effectively in a dual- and triple-boot environment.)
Help appreciated, Nathaniel Klumb (Anyone got a distro the runs off a bootable CD?)
Why must they sell it in squirt guns? I want the powder so I can refill my own semi-automatic water weapons. And imagine the thrill of releasing a little into the skimmer pot of a backyard pool! All of the sudden, glowing water starts shooting out of the return nozzles. I mean, come on, people, a squirt gun is the least of my plans.
I do wonder, though, how expensive the powder would be. It might make it difficult to do anything other than squirt a few cc's of the solution here and there. Still, when it comes to great things for campouts, this takes the bioweaponry cake... for now.
Well, I have no pictures and no movies, but I am a first-hand witness that well-built sparkler bombs do not go FWOOM. They go BANG!!! to the tune of a very real shockwave capable of being quite handily felt several hundred yards away. The crater was over three feet wide and six or eight inches deep (in what was grassy, moist turf). It's all in how you... package... the sparklers.
Of course, unless you are a licensed pyrotechnic and take all safety precautions and file for whatever permits are required, you do NOT want to build one of them (and this one only had a gross and a half of number ten sparklers; less than an AOL CD's diameter).
Anyway, I think I'll build a bunker for my friend's next simulation... and I thnk I'll invest in a bit of Kevlar.
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It was "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", and yes, it was good.
Personally, I really liked "Severed Dreams". Delenn's speech was moving to more than the bad guys.
Of course, then there's G'Kar's voiceover at the end of season three in "Z'ha'dum", which I actually had on my desk at work.
And of course, "Confessions and Lamentations" was the most wrenching episode of anything I have ever seen. The feeling in Delenn when the doors opened to show her there with nobody left alive has haunted me ever since.
No other series has ever had a moment burn itself so deeply into my mind as Babylon 5, and that is why it is significant.
Actually, doesn't Delenn have a Croatian / Yugoslavian accent (born in Zagreb, Croatia, according to Lurker's Guide.
Well, I respectfully disagree with you on the character development, but as I know it, the reason we in the States haven't been able to see it on Sci-Fi is the fact that WB licensed it to TNT to show (and that will expire by the time Sci-Fi is showing it).
Okay, last I heard, B5 was definitely coming to DVD, widescreen was possible (and in discussion), and extra scenes were unlikely.
As of now, though, no DVD's have been released, widescreen or otherwise, and extra scenes are unlikely.
Not much news, but hey.
Actually, if you consider the fact that almost everyone else in my family is basically extroverted, I come across as extremely deviant. I fit the bill for most of these profiles. Although I was never outwardly aggressive, I am one of those whose eyes betray a calm, calculating mind that apparently is quite frightening to some people (references to certain characters in Gundam Wing may be appropriate).
I now have a BS in chemical engineering, and I work as a whatever (if it is within 50 feet of a computer, it's probably in my job description). Oh, and all that introverted, cold, calculating energy I've always had? I now make free software (if anybody here dual-boots to play SubSpace, I make FACTS, the level editing and everything tool from ss.ClayJar.com -- I could use a hand with a new UI, though, and porting to a cross platform language would be a good step).
As you can see, deviants can be unusually productive members of society. (To use one more cartoon reference: remember the X-Men.)
I agree. It all starts with good intentions (in this case by the schools and parents; probably not by the company). Babylon 5 showed this is amazing detail (for those who experienced the entire series), and as such makes a very good example (and is not in the least bit offtopic, seeing as how it gives a nice example of this very idea).
Be sure to set passive (PASV) mode transfers in WS_FTP. It seems to be necessary for some things with MS Proxy (I should remember, but I'm late for lunch). Of course, I make no guarantees.
ftp://ftp.uselinux.org/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2/
They have the ISO's (and since I'm 23% done, it's only going to be about 700 minutes before I've got the rest of mine on this T1).
Something like this would be an interesting way of passing information deemed "inappropriate" by powerful people. Perhaps there is a way to code up some program to pass the DeCSS code, or the Cyber Patrol hacks, or whatever without actually passing the information.
With the way things are going, how can we know what information will still be "legal" next month. At least for those of us in the US, it might be a good idea to start forming some way of maintaining freedom in spite of the courts and big business.
If we have to choose which book to become, I'll become a fanfic long-form story set in the DBZ universe (I love the author; well, at least what I've read so far).
-Nathaniel
Call me ignorant, but am I the only one who has never heard of the Iridium Flash effect? Does anyone have a link to follow? (It sounds intriguing.)
Given the recent article regarding the new proposals which would in effect make shrinkwrap licenses binding, what would the effect of that be on the market?
Basically, I'd assume that AOL, Microsoft, Bubba Joe Dean Productions (an upstart from the bayou, of course), and anyone else could basically build payloads into their programs. (In a hypothetical case that would obviously be unfortunate) you could be running Windows and, say, BJD Productions' Mudbug Bucket Simulation, and all of the sudden, a window pops up advertising MS Mudbugs, at which point your program crashes and a few important DLLs are corrupted.
Now, since you agreed to a license that says MS isn't liable, you have a problem. Not only that, but every time you try to reload Bubba's sim, it ejects the CD. Of course, that's just because of the new virus-scanning software that installed itself last time you were online (paid for by MS). MS's response is to get the update to Bubba Joe Dean Productions' Mudbug Bucket Simulation (which BJD ends up charging for since it takes so much effort to keep updating it every time MS updates their "warware").
I guess what I'm saying is that we really need to (... must... say... sentence...) help the AOLers out here. We (the people who can see the future possibilities) need to hold the torch to AOL now, while this behavior isn't commonplace (outside MS and others, who are already on the firing line). And we must defeat any legislation that would take away our ability to fiscally hurt companies who financially hurt their customers (MS and AOL have a conscience that only a politician can see).
Help the unenlightened and they will find out and eventually learn to use the source.
I (obviously) have a Linux box between my cable modem and home network (total 4 Pentiums, 1 486). In light of this article, I've been pressed to wonder if there is some way of me "filtering" the content coming in through my Linux box. Is there any way for me to, say, block us from, say, easily downloading things which are, both in my opinion and the collective opinions of my family, wrong?
Is there any way to implement the unanimous wishes of all of my family and locally filter our internet access? Might I be able to use a Squid proxy or something similar to do the filtering?
The filtering rules we'd use would be quite loose, and basically be only set up to filter html pages which, for us, are obviously unwanted (i.e., if the meta tags contain "xxx", "sex", and assorted other things I won't post here, don't allow the page through).
I wouldn't think this sort of very loose filter should be too difficult to implement, and since my family is unanimously in favor of the implementation, it is not infringing on anyone's rights (if other people don't filter, fine, but I would like at least loose filtering).
There has been some discussion with the rest of them wanting to use some filtering software, but I don't want to use closed systems, since I know that I know us better than some men in black in a dark room somewhere. (That, and I'd doubt that any filters work effectively in a dual- and triple-boot environment.)
Help appreciated,
Nathaniel Klumb
(Anyone got a distro the runs off a bootable CD?)
Why must they sell it in squirt guns? I want the powder so I can refill my own semi-automatic water weapons. And imagine the thrill of releasing a little into the skimmer pot of a backyard pool! All of the sudden, glowing water starts shooting out of the return nozzles. I mean, come on, people, a squirt gun is the least of my plans.
I do wonder, though, how expensive the powder would be. It might make it difficult to do anything other than squirt a few cc's of the solution here and there. Still, when it comes to great things for campouts, this takes the bioweaponry cake... for now.
Well, I have no pictures and no movies, but I am a first-hand witness that well-built sparkler bombs do not go FWOOM. They go BANG!!! to the tune of a very real shockwave capable of being quite handily felt several hundred yards away. The crater was over three feet wide and six or eight inches deep (in what was grassy, moist turf). It's all in how you... package... the sparklers.
Of course, unless you are a licensed pyrotechnic and take all safety precautions and file for whatever permits are required, you do NOT want to build one of them (and this one only had a gross and a half of number ten sparklers; less than an AOL CD's diameter).
Anyway, I think I'll build a bunker for my friend's next simulation... and I thnk I'll invest in a bit of Kevlar.