First thing that came to my mind was SQLite. It's used by FireFox. I have a couple of projects lined up I plan on using it for, when I get the time....
There are, as you probably realize, many ways to approach learning. Sometimes it helps to get an explanation of what the concepts are, that is to say 'what is trying to be accomplished,' before delving in to find out the nitty-gritty How parts.
As one previous poster mentioned above (in probably different terms,) understanding a base point is usually sufficient for building up to the bigger thing and what you'll really remember is the path of logic that gets you there. What is to be developed in this case is an understanding of how to build up from the base, to learn enough of the entirety of the system to grasp the larger concepts. This takes time, and some people don't 'get it' until some trigger of knowledge is learned that sets all the other previously learned bits into alignment. This can happen at any time, early on or much later. Don't give up just because it's not instantly understood!
If you want to learn the Calculus, maybe you should consider learning -about- the Calculus. It has been a few years since I last read it, but David Berlinski wrote a fantastic book called "A Tour of the Calculus" - I recommend it. Amazon link below:
You mentioned Richard Feynman, a fantastic visionary, who attributed much of his success in understanding the concepts and abilities to perform works in the Calculus at a very young age (12 or so, if memory serves) to the education his father instilled upon him. The focus was patterns and behaviors. For example, many of Richard's peers growing up might have learned the names of various species of bird found in the nearby woods, being able to identify them on sight... Richard's father instead would have taught him to study the bird and piece it into it's environment, what is the importance of the call it makes, how does it 'fit in' to it's surroundings to keep itself and it's family safe and well fed, etc. I'm probably doing a horrible injustice to this as I read his book some time ago, but the main point is Feynman had a deep sense of logic and strongly developed problem solving abilities, which served him far better than methodical approaches to learning. He is also likely to have had synesthesia, which is a tremendous leg up on the competition:
Remember also that things you lack a natural talent for can be supplemented by lots of hard work. I believe the Scientific American had an article not so long ago that explained some research that showed 10 years was the approxomate amount of time for nearly anyone to become an expert in almost any field - musicians practice feverishly for a long time before they become talented enough to be recognized, chess grandmasters play the game with intent passion for about as long, so it is with pretty much any field. Yes there are some with natural advantages, but so it is with anything - keep at it and you'll find success!
Having re-read your post, I'm not sure if my reply helps:P
I had thought that SysInternals had something to do this with command line, but was unable to find it. There's this third party tool which claims to be able to change the priority of a running process, but I've never used it to vouch for it: http://www.teamcti.com/pview/prcview.htm
Sorry for the likely helpless quick-post. I should drink coffee either before or after reading, not at the same time!
Recently I purchased and last week received my first new laptop in years. I chose a Lenovo Thinkpad.
Wow is it a nice machine!
I've been pretty much all about Thinkpads for a few years now, the first was given to me as a hand-me-down from a friend. I think a big part of it for me is the trackpoint, or 'nipple', because I really don't like touch pads for input and control. So few laptops have an alternative, and none go solely with a trackpoint or similar that I have seen.
I have no problem buying from a Chinese company as a simple consumer, but as it's already been stated most every other laptop manufacturer already gets at least part of their product made in China anyways. I really don't think this machine would have cost what it did if it wasn't made by Lenovo, Thinkpads are generally more expensive even now but for the specs I had thought they would have charged at least $500 more than they did.
Now, it's only been a week and I haven't picked up an extra 2.5" SATA drive to try and install Gentoo yet, so there's plenty of time for my perception to change - but... so far I'm way impressed!
I can't vouch for VB since I try to avoid it as much as possible, but I worked with Delphi at my last job and recommend it as an excellent rapid GUI development IDE and language.
There are lots of extensions to the component palette which are free (as in beer) and some that are free (gratis) which can be very helpful. I didn't do sockets programming but there are components for that, as well as for graphs. You might be surprised at how quickly you can pick it all up, it's quite intuitive.
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Call me Rip Van Winkle, because I must have taken a nap for too long and missed out on the beginning of perhaps the most annoying, selfish comments to hit blogdom. It's like the freakin' Avon of the Internet on that page with everyone trying to get referrals for their own mini Mac.
Give the man props for his work on his site, don't be a smarmy pissant and use the popularity of his work to increase your chances at winning a Mac mini. If it's so precious and you have to have it, sell your current machine, get a part time job, and actually make the $500 it takes to buy the thing.
I am curious as to how many blog sites have a commenting community with so much self-zeal. I feel sorry for the frequent site visitors, who must find it necessary to wash themselves vigorously with soap and scalding hot water.
Not exactly. It's similar to the LT version where you get a free trial account for 7 days, but then you'll still have to pay. For LT, it's $29.95 for a year, and for NV it's $24.95 [LT and NV]
I purchased this service about a year ago for NV, before the buyout by Google. Their NV version was $10 cheaper than the LT version. I forget the cost at the moment.
I tried them out after hearing they were the service used by the news media (CNN I think) during the latest Iraq war to display the area and mountainous regions where troops were travelling. They may have used the Pro version, which lets you script something like flights over all the data and display it without the interface by exporting it as a movie. I think Pro also lets you hold more of the images cached so you don't have to stream them if you don't need to.
I've also used the NASA software, which is free. The Keyhole one seems to have more data currently, and is all streamed as needed for consumer versions, whereas the NASA software was a more kludgy and came with several large images right away, making for a bigger install. Also, NASA had some problems with their image streaming servers which meant every area you wanted to focus in on with higher granularity you had to download another set of large images for. Granted, it's also nice to have the images on my own machine so I can view them in other applications, I don't think everyone who wants to view the Earth this way wants to download all the images they will view (it's a usability issue.)
The Keyhole software is easy to adapt to, quite powerful in features, hasn't had a problem with their streaming servers for as long as I've used it, has other data layers it can display (districts, crime rates, school zones, etc.) and also has images of Mars. I hope the NASA one picks up the pace a bit, I haven't renewed my Keyhole subscription yet (even though it's cheaper now) because I haven't made as much use of it as of late.
P.S. If either Keyhole or NASA developers are reading this, please include driving directions features as I would want so desparately to use this over Mapquest or Yahoo's services. If the NASA stuff goes OS, perhaps I'll look into helping make that possible (hint, hint!)
I'm opposed to a closed society where information is kept for those who are allowed to view it. It creates fractures in society, where people who have access to information dictates are better off than others and not for reasons like they're smarter or work harder. How are people supposed to raise themselves out of a lower position in society if they don't have the same privileges as those in the higher places have?
Next train of thought...
The executives that wanted to keep him in the confines of their building, along with his laptop, make me want to gag! How proposterous are these people to think of a suggestion like that?! And they run big companies... They definitely don't have the average person in mind in their decision making process.
I do see the drawbacks of an open society, especially one where the nerves of an entire global economy can be shocked with a few choice blows, but the idea of this information is to also protect against this kind of thing from happening. If we don't know where we're vulnerable then we have no chance in protecting ourselves.
In an analogy, sports teams review footage of other teams to see where their weaknesses are, and suredly watch videos of themselves for the same purpose. They use this knowledge to both prepare offensive strategies, and defensive ones. It's a technique that works, and needs to be done! Remember, we're the home team, we're talking defense here.
Last train of thought...
Who knows, maybe this information is exactly the thing needed to kick-start the IT sector. With knowledge that our infrastructure is brittle and not properly prepared for attack, we'd be sure to see companies invest in redundancy and that means more jobs, better structured systems, and more peace of mind! Isn't this exactly what we need?!?
I'm not as sure about this, but I found a link in Google to something that looks reputable... some plasmas exist at temparatures as low as 1,500 degrees. According to this [www.co.san-bernardino.ca.us] water turns to plasma at 1,500 degrees - but unspecified Kelvin, Celsius, or Fahrenheit. If it's Fahrenheit (a farely safe assumption that it's either F or K because it's US,) then 1,500 F = 1088.7055555556 Kelvin, so it's still within reason. If it's Celsius, then 1,500 C = 1773.15 Kelvins, still not so bad...
I was a RatSnack employee once as well. Part of their scheme to get rich was to send out flyers to all of it's patrons. They needed name/address in order to send out flyers, and we were told to say that if anyone was really hesitant to give out their info. ('Course, if you're using a credit card, we had it already.)
I don't remember anything about getting 90% of customers to give info or you're fired, but they did want at least a majority of the customers you dealt with to give their information up.
We were instructed not to pry too much if they said 'No,' and knowing this every time I go to get some rechargables I straight up say "I don't want the flyer." That's good enough, usually. Sometimes they're persistent - these are the salespeople who are trying to make commission sales, they'll always say something about "and you'll need batteries for that!"
I don't let it get to me, they're just trying to eek out a living. It's the corporation that needs the anger directed towards it. For example, most items that range for $5 cost the store itself less than a buck to get from the corporate center. They make ungodly profits so long as people keep buying anything. Nothing unusual, I guess, any retailer is like that.
I walk by the shack I used to work at every day at my current job - making so much more money than I used to, and flexing my brain in ways retail sales never could allow for.
Oh, and I never made commission. I even referred people to cheaper places if I knew of any.
If eBay isn't held liable for the music warez being piped through it's site, how can Napster et. al. be held under different responsibilities?
It seems to me that since the music still gets from point A to point B, and the site/service is acting as a medium between the users at sites A and B, that the site/service must be considered doing the same thing no matter how they go about doing it. Therefor eBay is getting away with what Napster isn't, a double-standard that even the Man should be able to see...
Am I flawed in this logic???
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Everything you've just read was poetry and art - no infringement!
(Discordia):: Hail Eris!
In this Boston Herald article there is a definite assertion that the War on Drugs isn't quite working the way the tax-spenders wished it would. I particularly like the line: "Beer is certainly the drug of choice," it's amazing to see how many people still think alcohol isn't a drug just because it's socially accepted.
This quote about the D.A.R.E. program was definitely true for me: "As a sixth-grade child, you think you're not going to use drugs. But when you get older and are put in a different situation, things change." Anyone else??
teeheehee == substance.use(pot, beer);
--
Everything you've just read was poetry and art - no infringement!
(Discordia):: Hail Eris!
It seems to me that Japan took a great jump due to the addition of a few bells and whistles. They had to advance themselves by great technological bounds and go from a very feudal mindset to a more commercially driven one. They kept some of the ideas of feudalism but transferred it from Shoguns to Executives.
--
Everything you've just read was poetry and art - no infringement!
(Discordia):: Hail Eris!
This Boston Herald story speaks of the judge's decision. I can't help but think in all of this, knowing that Boston Herald is more regarded as a right-winged newspaper, where's the other side of journalism when it comes to newspapers like the Herald? It barely even mentions in it that the hackers had a purpose other than allowing all the "smut" to get to the "children's fertile and formative minds"...
How can we increase the awareness of the journalists on issues pressing our rights to learn more about insiduous programs like CP? The people who are in authority over deciding the fate of things like this (like judges and senators) need to be briefed on our issues, and they won't go out to wired.com or slashdot.org to appease a non-existant craving for knowledge on why what they're doing may have a larger ramification than they realize. They'll just stick to the newspapers and columns they read anyways...
My point is, though both sides of the story exist, and we all have our personal beliefs laid out, it doesn't do any justice until our representatives and people of power make decisions for our rights...
Just my 2 centz.
-- BlackHat Linux 6.66 (Discordia):: Hail Eris! Dan Kissam e-mail: teeheehee@yahoo.com
OK, I wasn't near a computer to type this before, but as I'm visiting my friend in Germany, we had an ubercelebration and we had it first here! WOOOOO! Happy New Year's all! -- BlackHat Linux 6.66 (Discordia):: Hail Eris! Dan Kissam e-mail: teeheehee@yahoo.com
What worries me is that they're most likely going to use it to identify the likely problem kids, and then treat those kids like they're the only part of the problem, while ignoring the intolerance, bigotry, ridicule, and bullying that CREATES people like this in the first place. They're not going to use it to find what the REAL problems are.
One reason I suspect why they don't take on the real problems here is because the causes of these problems are easier to manage with pop culture and laws. These same people aren't usually the ones to cause problems like asking questions about why certain laws are passed, why "Big Brother" is a bad idea, where our tax dollars are going, what gets taught in our schools. It's a simple case of the government making their own jobs easier by determining the people who might make their jobs harder and cracking down on them early.
What I still boggle over is the fact that we are moving towards a new paradigm, and with that comes new ways of thinking. If we hunt down the people who are most likely to advance this way of thinking, we hinder our own advancement.
Thanks, feds, if I were still in high school you'd probably know a lot more about me by now!
-- BlackHat Linux 6.66 (Discordia):: Hail Eris! Dan Kissam e-mail: teeheehee@yahoo.com
I recently watched the movie PI, great movie, and I couldn't help but notice a little coincidence in the Transmeta logo and the Golden Spiral, that being a counter-clockwise spiral that can be found virtually anywhere in nature - from the cosmos to cellular life.
All I have to say is: "Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications." -- BlackHat Linux 6.66 (Discordia):: Hail Eris! Dan Kissam e-mail: teeheehee@yahoo.com
pretty nice resource, but i wonder if it would be possible to get a search engine running on it... perhaps since they're opening the information up to the public, the public should respond by making use of the information easier by getting an open source search engine for it...
anyone out there know the good searching code 0necessary for a project like this?!
"But what sent me for a loop was the idea of Malda as part of a staged public relations event. I've met him at previous conferences, and he strikes me as the last person on Earth who would want to spend his time shepherding clueless members of the press around an exhibition floor. Indeed, one of the whole points of Slashdot is to provide a place where people can cut through the hype and find out what is really going on. Slashdot, when it works best, works as a debunker of marketing lies and as a call to arms against FUD and hypocrisy."
i don't know of a more exhaustive way to say to the world: "I AM A BIG FAT PRICK!"
"That's what Gales and thousands of other hardcore computer buffs do every day. By using a risky little trick called overclocking, they can turn a low-end chip into a flamethrower."
wow, really savvy people... (fear) talk about elite! next they'll be saying that hardcore computer buffs can turn the average cd-rom into a multi-purpose cd-rom and coffee-cup holder!:P
Slashdot Mirror
First thing that came to my mind was SQLite. It's used by FireFox. I have a couple of projects lined up I plan on using it for, when I get the time....
There are, as you probably realize, many ways to approach learning. Sometimes it helps to get an explanation of what the concepts are, that is to say 'what is trying to be accomplished,' before delving in to find out the nitty-gritty How parts.
- Berlinski/dp/0679747885/sr=8-1/qid=1160231231/ref= pd_bbs_1/002-9559630-6664847?ie=UTF8&s=books
q =richard+feynman+synesthesia&sourceid=opera&ie=utf -8&oe=utf-8
As one previous poster mentioned above (in probably different terms,) understanding a base point is usually sufficient for building up to the bigger thing and what you'll really remember is the path of logic that gets you there. What is to be developed in this case is an understanding of how to build up from the base, to learn enough of the entirety of the system to grasp the larger concepts. This takes time, and some people don't 'get it' until some trigger of knowledge is learned that sets all the other previously learned bits into alignment. This can happen at any time, early on or much later. Don't give up just because it's not instantly understood!
If you want to learn the Calculus, maybe you should consider learning -about- the Calculus. It has been a few years since I last read it, but David Berlinski wrote a fantastic book called "A Tour of the Calculus" - I recommend it. Amazon link below:
http://www.amazon.com/Tour-Calculus-Vintage-David
You mentioned Richard Feynman, a fantastic visionary, who attributed much of his success in understanding the concepts and abilities to perform works in the Calculus at a very young age (12 or so, if memory serves) to the education his father instilled upon him. The focus was patterns and behaviors. For example, many of Richard's peers growing up might have learned the names of various species of bird found in the nearby woods, being able to identify them on sight... Richard's father instead would have taught him to study the bird and piece it into it's environment, what is the importance of the call it makes, how does it 'fit in' to it's surroundings to keep itself and it's family safe and well fed, etc. I'm probably doing a horrible injustice to this as I read his book some time ago, but the main point is Feynman had a deep sense of logic and strongly developed problem solving abilities, which served him far better than methodical approaches to learning. He is also likely to have had synesthesia, which is a tremendous leg up on the competition:
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&
Remember also that things you lack a natural talent for can be supplemented by lots of hard work. I believe the Scientific American had an article not so long ago that explained some research that showed 10 years was the approxomate amount of time for nearly anyone to become an expert in almost any field - musicians practice feverishly for a long time before they become talented enough to be recognized, chess grandmasters play the game with intent passion for about as long, so it is with pretty much any field. Yes there are some with natural advantages, but so it is with anything - keep at it and you'll find success!
Having re-read your post, I'm not sure if my reply helps :P
I had thought that SysInternals had something to do this with command line, but was unable to find it. There's this third party tool which claims to be able to change the priority of a running process, but I've never used it to vouch for it: http://www.teamcti.com/pview/prcview.htm
Sorry for the likely helpless quick-post. I should drink coffee either before or after reading, not at the same time!
If you check out 'help start' you can see that setting the priority of a process is pretty simple at the time of invocation.
/low 3dsmax.exe' or 'start /low [program.exe]' should work for you.
'start
Recently I purchased and last week received my first new laptop in years. I chose a Lenovo Thinkpad.
Wow is it a nice machine!
I've been pretty much all about Thinkpads for a few years now, the first was given to me as a hand-me-down from a friend. I think a big part of it for me is the trackpoint, or 'nipple', because I really don't like touch pads for input and control. So few laptops have an alternative, and none go solely with a trackpoint or similar that I have seen.
I have no problem buying from a Chinese company as a simple consumer, but as it's already been stated most every other laptop manufacturer already gets at least part of their product made in China anyways. I really don't think this machine would have cost what it did if it wasn't made by Lenovo, Thinkpads are generally more expensive even now but for the specs I had thought they would have charged at least $500 more than they did.
Now, it's only been a week and I haven't picked up an extra 2.5" SATA drive to try and install Gentoo yet, so there's plenty of time for my perception to change - but... so far I'm way impressed!
I can't vouch for VB since I try to avoid it as much as possible, but I worked with Delphi at my last job and recommend it as an excellent rapid GUI development IDE and language.
There are lots of extensions to the component palette which are free (as in beer) and some that are free (gratis) which can be very helpful. I didn't do sockets programming but there are components for that, as well as for graphs. You might be surprised at how quickly you can pick it all up, it's quite intuitive.
Call me Rip Van Winkle, because I must have taken a nap for too long and missed out on the beginning of perhaps the most annoying, selfish comments to hit blogdom. It's like the freakin' Avon of the Internet on that page with everyone trying to get referrals for their own mini Mac.
Give the man props for his work on his site, don't be a smarmy pissant and use the popularity of his work to increase your chances at winning a Mac mini. If it's so precious and you have to have it, sell your current machine, get a part time job, and actually make the $500 it takes to buy the thing.
I am curious as to how many blog sites have a commenting community with so much self-zeal. I feel sorry for the frequent site visitors, who must find it necessary to wash themselves vigorously with soap and scalding hot water.
Not exactly. It's similar to the LT version where you get a free trial account for 7 days, but then you'll still have to pay. For LT, it's $29.95 for a year, and for NV it's $24.95 [LT and NV]
I purchased this service about a year ago for NV, before the buyout by Google. Their NV version was $10 cheaper than the LT version. I forget the cost at the moment.
I tried them out after hearing they were the service used by the news media (CNN I think) during the latest Iraq war to display the area and mountainous regions where troops were travelling. They may have used the Pro version, which lets you script something like flights over all the data and display it without the interface by exporting it as a movie. I think Pro also lets you hold more of the images cached so you don't have to stream them if you don't need to.
I've also used the NASA software, which is free. The Keyhole one seems to have more data currently, and is all streamed as needed for consumer versions, whereas the NASA software was a more kludgy and came with several large images right away, making for a bigger install. Also, NASA had some problems with their image streaming servers which meant every area you wanted to focus in on with higher granularity you had to download another set of large images for. Granted, it's also nice to have the images on my own machine so I can view them in other applications, I don't think everyone who wants to view the Earth this way wants to download all the images they will view (it's a usability issue.)
The Keyhole software is easy to adapt to, quite powerful in features, hasn't had a problem with their streaming servers for as long as I've used it, has other data layers it can display (districts, crime rates, school zones, etc.) and also has images of Mars. I hope the NASA one picks up the pace a bit, I haven't renewed my Keyhole subscription yet (even though it's cheaper now) because I haven't made as much use of it as of late.
P.S. If either Keyhole or NASA developers are reading this, please include driving directions features as I would want so desparately to use this over Mapquest or Yahoo's services. If the NASA stuff goes OS, perhaps I'll look into helping make that possible (hint, hint!)
Technolocaust 2003 - we faught technology and kicked it's ass!
Where to begin?
I'm opposed to a closed society where information is kept for those who are allowed to view it. It creates fractures in society, where people who have access to information dictates are better off than others and not for reasons like they're smarter or work harder. How are people supposed to raise themselves out of a lower position in society if they don't have the same privileges as those in the higher places have?
Next train of thought...
The executives that wanted to keep him in the confines of their building, along with his laptop, make me want to gag! How proposterous are these people to think of a suggestion like that?! And they run big companies... They definitely don't have the average person in mind in their decision making process.
I do see the drawbacks of an open society, especially one where the nerves of an entire global economy can be shocked with a few choice blows, but the idea of this information is to also protect against this kind of thing from happening. If we don't know where we're vulnerable then we have no chance in protecting ourselves.
In an analogy, sports teams review footage of other teams to see where their weaknesses are, and suredly watch videos of themselves for the same purpose. They use this knowledge to both prepare offensive strategies, and defensive ones. It's a technique that works, and needs to be done! Remember, we're the home team, we're talking defense here.
Last train of thought...
Who knows, maybe this information is exactly the thing needed to kick-start the IT sector. With knowledge that our infrastructure is brittle and not properly prepared for attack, we'd be sure to see companies invest in redundancy and that means more jobs, better structured systems, and more peace of mind! Isn't this exactly what we need?!?
Correction:
15,000 / 50 = 300
50 is completely reasonable here...
I'm not as sure about this, but I found a link in Google to something that looks reputable... some plasmas exist at temparatures as low as 1,500 degrees. According to this [www.co.san-bernardino.ca.us] water turns to plasma at 1,500 degrees - but unspecified Kelvin, Celsius, or Fahrenheit. If it's Fahrenheit (a farely safe assumption that it's either F or K because it's US,) then 1,500 F = 1088.7055555556 Kelvin, so it's still within reason. If it's Celsius, then 1,500 C = 1773.15 Kelvins, still not so bad...
I was a RatSnack employee once as well. Part of their scheme to get rich was to send out flyers to all of it's patrons. They needed name/address in order to send out flyers, and we were told to say that if anyone was really hesitant to give out their info. ('Course, if you're using a credit card, we had it already.)
I don't remember anything about getting 90% of customers to give info or you're fired, but they did want at least a majority of the customers you dealt with to give their information up.
We were instructed not to pry too much if they said 'No,' and knowing this every time I go to get some rechargables I straight up say "I don't want the flyer." That's good enough, usually. Sometimes they're persistent - these are the salespeople who are trying to make commission sales, they'll always say something about "and you'll need batteries for that!"
I don't let it get to me, they're just trying to eek out a living. It's the corporation that needs the anger directed towards it. For example, most items that range for $5 cost the store itself less than a buck to get from the corporate center. They make ungodly profits so long as people keep buying anything. Nothing unusual, I guess, any retailer is like that.
I walk by the shack I used to work at every day at my current job - making so much more money than I used to, and flexing my brain in ways retail sales never could allow for.
Oh, and I never made commission. I even referred people to cheaper places if I knew of any.
If eBay isn't held liable for the music warez being piped through it's site, how can Napster et. al. be held under different responsibilities?
It seems to me that since the music still gets from point A to point B, and the site/service is acting as a medium between the users at sites A and B, that the site/service must be considered doing the same thing no matter how they go about doing it. Therefor eBay is getting away with what Napster isn't, a double-standard that even the Man should be able to see...
Am I flawed in this logic???
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Everything you've just read was poetry and art - no infringement!
(Discordia)
Can we also get ucita-sucks.com or mpaa-blows-chunks.com ???
Just think of the possibilities...! (Too bad I have no money for such fun persuits)
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Everything you've just read was poetry and art - no infringement!
(Discordia)
In this Boston Herald article there is a definite assertion that the War on Drugs isn't quite working the way the tax-spenders wished it would. I particularly like the line: "Beer is certainly the drug of choice," it's amazing to see how many people still think alcohol isn't a drug just because it's socially accepted.
This quote about the D.A.R.E. program was definitely true for me: "As a sixth-grade child, you think you're not going to use drugs. But when you get older and are put in a different situation, things change." Anyone else??
teeheehee == substance.use(pot, beer);
--
Everything you've just read was poetry and art - no infringement!
(Discordia)
It seems to me that Japan took a great jump due to the addition of a few bells and whistles. They had to advance themselves by great technological bounds and go from a very feudal mindset to a more commercially driven one. They kept some of the ideas of feudalism but transferred it from Shoguns to Executives.
--
Everything you've just read was poetry and art - no infringement!
(Discordia)
This Boston Herald story speaks of the judge's decision. I can't help but think in all of this, knowing that Boston Herald is more regarded as a right-winged newspaper, where's the other side of journalism when it comes to newspapers like the Herald? It barely even mentions in it that the hackers had a purpose other than allowing all the "smut" to get to the "children's fertile and formative minds"...
How can we increase the awareness of the journalists on issues pressing our rights to learn more about insiduous programs like CP? The people who are in authority over deciding the fate of things like this (like judges and senators) need to be briefed on our issues, and they won't go out to wired.com or slashdot.org to appease a non-existant craving for knowledge on why what they're doing may have a larger ramification than they realize. They'll just stick to the newspapers and columns they read anyways...
My point is, though both sides of the story exist, and we all have our personal beliefs laid out, it doesn't do any justice until our representatives and people of power make decisions for our rights...
Just my 2 centz.
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BlackHat Linux 6.66 (Discordia)
Dan Kissam e-mail: teeheehee@yahoo.com
I took this quote because I found it to be the most poignant, quick-witted one-liner that brings home the bacon:
Brac Ken - 3/15/2000
Everyone involved up _and_ down the line are fools... Computer Darwanism is taking effect.
Thank you Brac, I now know there is more to you MCSEs out there - and You Know Who You All Are!
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BlackHat Linux 6.66 (Discordia)
Dan Kissam e-mail: teeheehee@yahoo.com
OK, I wasn't near a computer to type this before, but as I'm visiting my friend in Germany, we had an ubercelebration and we had it first here! WOOOOO! Happy New Year's all! :: Hail Eris!
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BlackHat Linux 6.66 (Discordia)
Dan Kissam e-mail: teeheehee@yahoo.com
What worries me is that they're most likely going to use it to identify the likely problem kids, and then treat those kids like they're the only part of the problem, while ignoring the intolerance, bigotry, ridicule, and bullying that CREATES people like this in the first place. They're not going to use it to find what the REAL problems are.
:: Hail Eris!
One reason I suspect why they don't take on the real problems here is because the causes of these problems are easier to manage with pop culture and laws. These same people aren't usually the ones to cause problems like asking questions about why certain laws are passed, why "Big Brother" is a bad idea, where our tax dollars are going, what gets taught in our schools. It's a simple case of the government making their own jobs easier by determining the people who might make their jobs harder and cracking down on them early.
What I still boggle over is the fact that we are moving towards a new paradigm, and with that comes new ways of thinking. If we hunt down the people who are most likely to advance this way of thinking, we hinder our own advancement.
Thanks, feds, if I were still in high school you'd probably know a lot more about me by now!
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BlackHat Linux 6.66 (Discordia)
Dan Kissam e-mail: teeheehee@yahoo.com
I recently watched the movie PI, great movie, and I couldn't help but notice a little coincidence in the Transmeta logo and the Golden Spiral, that being a counter-clockwise spiral that can be found virtually anywhere in nature - from the cosmos to cellular life.
:: Hail Eris!
All I have to say is: "Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications."
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BlackHat Linux 6.66 (Discordia)
Dan Kissam e-mail: teeheehee@yahoo.com
pretty nice resource, but i wonder if it would be possible to get a search engine running on it... perhaps since they're opening the information up to the public, the public should respond by making use of the information easier by getting an open source search engine for it...
anyone out there know the good searching code 0necessary for a project like this?!
"But what sent me for a loop was the idea of Malda as part of a staged public relations event. I've met him at previous conferences, and he strikes me as the last person on Earth who would want to spend his time shepherding clueless members of the press around an exhibition floor. Indeed, one of the whole points of Slashdot is to provide a place where people can cut through the hype and find out what is really going on. Slashdot, when it works best, works as a debunker of marketing lies and as a call to arms against FUD and hypocrisy."
i don't know of a more exhaustive way to say to the world: "I AM A BIG FAT PRICK!"
whatta dick!
woo! not too much longer and we'll be able to check how our jvm-run dishwasher is doing while looking at intense web pages on our palm... wow!
:::::> beam me up!
thbbbbbbt!
:-)
*doot* *doot*
"That's what Gales and thousands of other hardcore computer buffs do every day. By using a risky little trick called overclocking, they can turn a low-end chip into a flamethrower."
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wow, really savvy people... (fear) talk about elite! next they'll be saying that hardcore computer buffs can turn the average cd-rom into a multi-purpose cd-rom and coffee-cup holder!