Finally, after all these years of waiting, we find out what the root department is - Nokia cell phones! Maybe Slashdot is actually funded by a huge, evil conglomeration of cell phone companies? News at 11!
I don't think that's even necessary. Obviously you haven't used Linux; otherwise you would know about www.gnu.org, a huge repository of countless refutations to your wide, sweeping statement. Please familiarize yourself with some non-commercial platform before you tell us how non-commercial programs are worthless, redundant, or uninventive.
Actually, look at this: www.microsoft.com/technet/security/001027.asp .
In it, M$ denies that there was any source stolen and that basically anything happened at all.;P
...they could probably call for a "closed-court" case, where nobody who was in the room would be able to speak of what they saw for like 25 years (or something of the sort(since it IS a trade secret). I, of course, am no lawyer, however.
I would like to register several revolutionary new technologies which I have developed.
Firstly: A system by which a SOUL(tm, already copyrighted, Single-Object-User-Level) can interact in a virtual reality environment of an extremely high grade with the aforesaid environment, as well as other SOULs using this interface, through an organic DNA-computer-driven hardware system (known as a BODY- Biological Object Designed for You). This interface shall be copyrighted under the trademark LIFE - Live Interface For Everything.
Secondly, once SOULs have completed their turn on the time-sharing LIFE interface, they can be sent to the secondary debug interface known as DEATH (tm, Designated-Endlevel-After-Humanstate), from which they shall be booted to one of two tertiary interfaces, HELL or HEAVEN, depending on their "karma"(tm) score while in the top level.
Thirdly, having patented these GUIs, I would like to register the following with the USPTO:
a) The non-GUI sublevel known as the Universe
b) The 'root' superuser account, known as GOD (Infringing uses of this trademark term have already been discovered, notably a in a book claiming that it is the Bible (when that term was already copyrighted as of 10/10/2000) and in a rogue system known as Slashcode).
c) "Everything else" as a trademark protection patent, to prevent malicious hackers from abusing our setup.
When I saw this, I thanked God for the first time in three years. This is the sanest legislature I've seen, since, well, ummm...? Anyways, this just made Clinton's term worth it, IMO.
The reason I care is more because the American population is, as a whole, totally unaware and even mistrustful of technology, which is a deplorable thing indeed. If a lack of sales tax will cause even 1% more of Americans to start using the internet more, I find that a good thing. If it's pricing you're worried about, would adding sales tax repeal S&H? I don't like the idea of S&H either, but a book at Amazon is still cheaper than the same book at most brick-and-mortar bookstores. And if online shopping was really such a horrible thing, would Slashdot have ThinkGeek?
Personally, I've always felt that this sort of taxation is akin to shooting yourself in the foot. One of the biggest incentives ordinary people have for buying online is the absence of taxes, and taxing this would destroy a very good reason for people to be hooked up. This, in turn, promotes a lack of technological literacy. Not such a great move for a few bucks, eh?
Who else is pissed at the US government for axing the SSC? So much could have been learned, but they have to give their money to Defense so that they can develop toys like the Aurora so we can die faster. Sheesh.
I've never understood why it is so important to cosmologists to find dark matter. Why does there need to be enough matter to cause a Big Crunch, anyway? Can anyone help me?
because all the theme-park companies and roller-coaster manufacturers would lose millions. Think of it: Why spend three hundred dollars to go to a theme park if you can get it at home?
It's a paper written by a student for a final. In it, it is explained how since at least two major religions damn all people not members to hell, everybody goes to hell, and thus, either Hell is expanding or growing hotter (because of Boyle's Law). The student explains that since he was told that it would be a cold day in hell before he slept with a particular girl, and since he never had sex with her, hell must be exothermic. It can be found in its entirety at
What about Satan? I bet it's something like 666.666.666.666
I can't believe nobody noticed this before, but...
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This has been around since July 19, 1999 on scifi.ign.com's The Funny Pages (http://scifi.ign.com/feature/2233.html). It's a great page with tons of hilarious stuff like this, such as "Park Wars" and outtakes of Star Trek and Thundercats.
I don't think there's anything wrong with using Jake Lloyd for Ender, besides the infamous "Star Wars Curse".hahaha. I do, however, doubt that someone that young can fight as effectively as did Ender, or portray it accurately. Ender had the fighting instincts of a killing machine, which an urban Westerner simply does not, and frankly, I don't think you could get a ten year old to train in a gym for 15 hours a day seven days a week. Heck, you couldn't get me or anyone I know to put in that much training.
I agree that it will indeed probably suck, but not for the reasons Skyshadow mentioned. IMHO, most movie remakes of books are letdowns to the people that have already read the book. This is, again in my personal opinion, because unlike movies, which are passive enterainment, books, at least the good ones, involve the entertainee and cause him/her to develop their own image of the characters, the setting, etc. I always imagined, for example, the fight with Bonzo as taking place in my high school's locker room shower, and this is not where other people would imagine it. My point is, the best books become idealized to their reader, and acquire a certain intimacy to him/her, and seeing this image of the idealized story being butchered by someone that read it differently is an experience that always leaves a sour taste in the mouth.
To illustrate this point, let me bring the recent "Bicentennial Man". The story, in its original form, was a beautifully moving tale of a robot that was more human than any man. The movie was... a romantic comedy?! I disliked it completely. I felt that it brought in elements which simply did not belong, and made many of the elements which endeared the book to me seem paltry in comparison.
It's all a matter of taste, but I feel that a "movieization", for lack of a better word, ruins any book.
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Finally, after all these years of waiting, we find out what the root department is - Nokia cell phones! Maybe Slashdot is actually funded by a huge, evil conglomeration of cell phone companies? News at 11!
I fully agree with you, but it's sort of funny that your sig completely contradicts your comment. :)
I don't think that's even necessary. Obviously you haven't used Linux; otherwise you would know about www.gnu.org, a huge repository of countless refutations to your wide, sweeping statement. Please familiarize yourself with some non-commercial platform before you tell us how non-commercial programs are worthless, redundant, or uninventive.
Actually, look at this: www.microsoft.com/technet/security/001027.asp . In it, M$ denies that there was any source stolen and that basically anything happened at all. ;P
...they could probably call for a "closed-court" case, where nobody who was in the room would be able to speak of what they saw for like 25 years (or something of the sort(since it IS a trade secret). I, of course, am no lawyer, however.
I would like to register several revolutionary new technologies which I have developed.
Firstly: A system by which a SOUL(tm, already copyrighted, Single-Object-User-Level) can interact in a virtual reality environment of an extremely high grade with the aforesaid environment, as well as other SOULs using this interface, through an organic DNA-computer-driven hardware system (known as a BODY- Biological Object Designed for You). This interface shall be copyrighted under the trademark LIFE - Live Interface For Everything.
Secondly, once SOULs have completed their turn on the time-sharing LIFE interface, they can be sent to the secondary debug interface known as DEATH (tm, Designated-Endlevel-After-Humanstate), from which they shall be booted to one of two tertiary interfaces, HELL or HEAVEN, depending on their "karma"(tm) score while in the top level.
Thirdly, having patented these GUIs, I would like to register the following with the USPTO:
a) The non-GUI sublevel known as the Universe
b) The 'root' superuser account, known as GOD (Infringing uses of this trademark term have already been discovered, notably a in a book claiming that it is the Bible (when that term was already copyrighted as of 10/10/2000) and in a rogue system known as Slashcode).
c) "Everything else" as a trademark protection patent, to prevent malicious hackers from abusing our setup.
Thank you.
When I saw this, I thanked God for the first time in three years. This is the sanest legislature I've seen, since, well, ummm...? Anyways, this just made Clinton's term worth it, IMO.
The reason I care is more because the American population is, as a whole, totally unaware and even mistrustful of technology, which is a deplorable thing indeed. If a lack of sales tax will cause even 1% more of Americans to start using the internet more, I find that a good thing. If it's pricing you're worried about, would adding sales tax repeal S&H? I don't like the idea of S&H either, but a book at Amazon is still cheaper than the same book at most brick-and-mortar bookstores. And if online shopping was really such a horrible thing, would Slashdot have ThinkGeek?
Personally, I've always felt that this sort of taxation is akin to shooting yourself in the foot. One of the biggest incentives ordinary people have for buying online is the absence of taxes, and taxing this would destroy a very good reason for people to be hooked up. This, in turn, promotes a lack of technological literacy. Not such a great move for a few bucks, eh?
Who else is pissed at the US government for axing the SSC? So much could have been learned, but they have to give their money to Defense so that they can develop toys like the Aurora so we can die faster. Sheesh.
I've never understood why it is so important to cosmologists to find dark matter. Why does there need to be enough matter to cause a Big Crunch, anyway? Can anyone help me?
because all the theme-park companies and roller-coaster manufacturers would lose millions. Think of it: Why spend three hundred dollars to go to a theme park if you can get it at home?
What about Satan? I bet it's something like 666.666.666.666
This has been around since July 19, 1999 on scifi.ign.com's The Funny Pages (http://scifi.ign.com/feature/2233.html). It's a great page with tons of hilarious stuff like this, such as "Park Wars" and outtakes of Star Trek and Thundercats.
I don't think there's anything wrong with using Jake Lloyd for Ender, besides the infamous "Star Wars Curse".hahaha. I do, however, doubt that someone that young can fight as effectively as did Ender, or portray it accurately. Ender had the fighting instincts of a killing machine, which an urban Westerner simply does not, and frankly, I don't think you could get a ten year old to train in a gym for 15 hours a day seven days a week. Heck, you couldn't get me or anyone I know to put in that much training.
To illustrate this point, let me bring the recent "Bicentennial Man". The story, in its original form, was a beautifully moving tale of a robot that was more human than any man. The movie was... a romantic comedy?! I disliked it completely. I felt that it brought in elements which simply did not belong, and made many of the elements which endeared the book to me seem paltry in comparison.
It's all a matter of taste, but I feel that a "movieization", for lack of a better word, ruins any book.
Hypocrite that I am, I'm still gonna watch it...