They can't defeat filters. There is an extremely pain in the ass way to configure your account, but it would keep even this service from reaching you. Set up a whitelist, so that only emails that you approve of reach you. Yep, it would be difficult for someone new to contact you, and there would have to be some way to let people who you hand your email to reach you, but that can be setup (possibly with an alternate email account).
Good idea. I figure I'll do that if they tell me to take mine down (it's here, Oh shit, that was a link wasn't it. Well damn. What are CmdrTaco et al. to do now?), I'll just post all the tarballs I have up (css-auth, LiVid and nist) in various comments. Hmm, I better encrypt them with something like uuencode just to make it a little more difficult...
No it isn't, but in this day and age, most censorship is spawned from prudishness. Labeling CDs, trying to block off the internet en masse. All because some people are afraid of certain words and are afraid of sex.
There is a universe of difference between government censorship and the outright banning of pornography and parents restricting what their minor children can view.
Hmm, do you know what ageism is? While I generally agree with you, Arandir, I was a minor up until about 4 months ago (I'm now 18), and I didn't magically learn to think for myself on my birthday. I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to argue about what anyone is doing to *control* children. Just something to think about as a Libertarian. It isn't an easy thing to work out. Today's cut off ages are a legal kludge, they do amount to stomping all over my freedoms, and they don't work very well, but no one has a better system in mind. My point was that your post seemed to imply that I still don't deserve some rights, even though I am probably more mature and better informed than many ``adults''. However, you are right, there is still a universe of difference between control of children and mass censorship of the 'net.
This whole slashdot topic was about using or no using censorware in a private business. [...] Your accusal of Americans as prudes was very off topic.
Yeah and? Americans are generally really prudish, and this is what is causing this debate in the first place. We have hit one of the roots of the problem. This person isn't finding his new internet/slashdot ultra-pro-freedom morality running up against ``the real world''; he's found that it has run up against his own prudishness and that of his community and coworkers. This is where he finds out what he really believes. Does he give in to his prudish American ideals or does he find that he really believes this anti-censorship stuff and refuse to make the list and explain to everyone why. Based on the technical problems and on the morals of the issue.
Don't think for one second that America isn't prudish. I am american. I've been out of the country once -- that was last Febuary for less than a week. About the only thing that Americans have access to that isn't prudish is the 'net. The mass media has this ``habit'' of portraying the ``bad-girls'' as being open about their sexuality and the ``good-girls'' shunning sex completely. It's easy to go find this pattern. Go watch ``Practical Magic'', for example. I saw this movie the other day, and it is a great example. Sandra Bullock is a ``good girl'' and Nicole Kidman portrays her character very differently.
Now I am going to tear apart the sex-ed courses that we have in the US. They are purely about the physical aspects and the teachers are very much of the opinion that you shouldn't be having sex. But if you are a ``Bad Little Human'' and do it anyway, you should use birth control, but you are a ``bad human''. This is all but written into the curriculum. There is nothing about emotional impacts, what to expect, social aspects of it, what the hell S&M and B&D are.
In General Americans Are Prudes. Get over it. If you don't like it, make it known. I personally am very open about the subject now. *shrug* Knowledge is the key to health in this area, and good information is scarce. I got to learn that the hard way.
Getting an editor with good syntax highlighting, like vim. I find perl regular expressions are really easy to read when the special characters are highlighted differently in a regex. That, and the rest of the syntax is easier to pick out too.
A problem arises though when most of a market is controlled by one company (or many cooperating companies) because they find themselces able to charge higher prices and use more restrictive licenses and the consumers don't have much choice. What you have is something resebling a monopoly by it's nature.
Yes. There is a word for this: Oligopoly, and guess what, it is just as illegal (and morally wrong, IMHO).
Assembly is totally worth learning. Eventually you'll do such things as start to shudder everytime you right `for' or `while' as you realize that everytime you loop, your superscalar processor is going to clear its pipe and drop in performance...
The point is, you realize how bad your code really is;) Hopefully, it will make you a better programmer, even if you very rarely use assembly.
Oh yeah, and the line noise code, well let's just say it can win you prizes (see: Obfuscated Perl Contest, and the IOCCC). Not that I'm encouraging this or anything.
I would place money on the fact that Herr Love, our dear CEO has a *lot* of Caldera Stock, or at the very least, plenty of stock options. So, he probably is losing money if the stock tanks. Also, *his* job security depends on the will of the Board of Directors. Which means, his job is basically tied to the stock prices. Mr. Love has to pay a lot of attention to the stock price. If they don't recover, he will very likely get fired.
This world can be an awful place. Society seems to be in tatters. Change is needed, many agree on this, but change comes slowly. We build programs one function, or one object at a time. We break our programming problems into to small chunks and attack a little bit at a time. Eventually, the problem is solved. When I change the strings on my guitar, I first remove each of them one at a time, put each on one at a time and finally tune them one at a time. Small steps.
Remember those people you mentioned, the really decent people. Join their ranks. Start off by changing the bad parts of yourself. You are a small part of the whole, but you will need to be a part of the change if is ever to be complete. Then when you see the people on the road being rude and causing problems, well, pray for them, or hope for them. Doesn't matter how, or to what god or no god -- I'm not preaching religion here. I'm also not singling you out; this is for everyone. This is also the only way I've found that I can deal with the hate and pain in the world. Whether it is possible to fix or not, I've got to try to make the world better, even if it is just spreading a little love in the area I live. The world would be a better place if we all did this, and somebody has to be an early adopter.
I imagine that the "highly paid" statement was referring to the people who actually *profit* from the newspaper... the owners, chairmen, etc.
Which, of course, are the same people who are pushing the reporters to research less and put out the reports that are PR that doesn't look like PR or the sensationalistic bullshit (Lewinski, Jewell, etc). Which validates the original poster's point.
It's ROM. They state in the article you can only write once. Apparently, the thing works because there is extra energy stored in the tape from the manufacturing process, and when the tape is heated, it loses this energy, so when it cools, it has a different refraction index. Just like your good ol' CD-ROMs. TAPE-R's might be possible, but you'd have to make the tape differently.. (now where have I seen taper before... oh yeah, a backup utility).
Oh yeah, and hallelujah for the rant. It is a cool idea though.. think of the use in a James Bond flick...;)
They know what happened. I disagree with the censorship, but I know where some of it comes from. My current understanding, is that many, many Germans still feel very guilty about what happened.
I just wish most Americans knew what we have done in the past, from slavery, to the Native Americans, to Vietnam, to Latin America and even in our own cities. We are *still* in sorry shape.
Basically, they intend to insert banner-ads into the boot up process. Nothing actually useful, and if they fsck up the networking code, well, I don't even want to know what kind of security holes this could present. Ugh.
Ok, I am a long time SuSE user, and when I have to plow through the supplied docs, the german I learned in school is handy at times (simply because the english distrobution still includes the german documentation packages by default).
Now, this has nothing to do with whether or not german->english is harder than english->one of 18 indian languages, but that there is a fsck load of stuff to translate, and it'll be quite a project. Even then, there will more than likely be remnants of the english documentation.
On the other hand, India has a huge population, probably bigger than the US and Europe combined (but I don't know the population of Europe, so I might have just shoved my foot down my throat), which would mean they have plenty of people to support their own Open Source culture, but that doesn't mean we can't all help each other;). So, it is a big project, but they have the man power. What we need to do is make sure our apps are translation friendly.
Give the guys some time. Do you do any programming, or have any vague idea what it is like? I'm not a great coder, but I've had a taste of the work.
What seems to have happened is that Rob has put together slashdot in a rather hackish manner, and as such, the code is relatively undocumented, and with little directory structure. Commenting and cleaning code can take a long time, and with the relative complexity of/., it's taking a little while.
Oh yeah, he still has a life (see this story), and you expect him to post stories all day. There are only 24 hours in a day, and believe it or not, we need sleep and some time to do other things.
To me, one of the coolest thing about palindromes is this: My favorite palindrome is "Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas," which I actually use to remember how to spell oscillate -- a word that I often forget, I have no idea why. I simply spell metallic sonatas backwards: satanos cillatem, and then do a little twiddling of the spaces, and chop off some letters: [satan] oscillate [m]. Cool, no?
Why I posted this is left as an excercise for the reader -- and my apologies for trolling to all those who take a half a second to figure it out...
Ok, not as long as the other guy, but this little budget box is celebrating it's first birthday right about this week. I'm not so anal that I remember the day I put it together
It's a little Celeron 300A (did like the o/c'in, didn't bother trying very hard), BH6, 32MB of RAM, and a 3.2 GB harddrive that is about three months older than the computer itself (I had it in my old computer). It single boots linux.
Oh yeah, it has an old STB Velocity128 (a Riva128 card.. I wish NVidia would just give us the damn spec). Any, it still provides plenty of power for my small monitor:)
Oh yeah, I did tailor the hardware to run Linux, didn't need to do much, but all my hardware is compatible, works fine, and I haven't had any bad experiences with this box.
I bet all those Grrls out there want it all. CmdrTaco, Hemos, et al in speedos next to the best VA has to offer, and money pouring out of the floppy drive. *rowwwrrr*
There are some who blatantly don't understand, but fight for the cause just to be able to have a fight they call "theirs."
There are others who aren't blessed with the ability to debate on a deep philosophical level, so while they understand their belief, the debating comes off less than gracefully. I've squared off against one really good debator in real life, and debates depend more on the skill of the people arguing rather than the actual topic. BSDL and GPL are both equally defensible because of the differences in the basic assumptions of the philosophies (english: different definitions of "free"). That's why you'll see perfectly intelligent guys floundering under the grilling of a skilled debator. Go, look, you'll see a couple that happen like this.
Then there are the good debators, I saw one good post go completely unchallenged on this article that was completely pro-GPL. He only got moderated up to a 2, but that is probably because of the fascist moderators;)
I see examples of all three of these groups from the BSD camp too. That idiot AC who can't come up with anything besides "RMS of Borg, you will be assimilated by the GPV!" That's stupid. Just stupid, and no more helpful than the above AC which sparked this thread. I think most of the pro-GPL guys tend to stay out of the fray though, but that's just my observation. Either that, or I really have overestimated our numbers. It also seems to me that the ones who always get their arguments slashed to pieces are the ones who try to defend the morality aspect of the GPL without attacking the BSD definition of "freedom." I see this a *lot*.
Now that sounded really "us vs. them," which is absolutely not my take on it. Personally, it also looks like now many in the two camps have realized the basic differences in assumptions between the two philosophies and are admitting there's room enough for both, but that is a different tangent altogether.
And then again, I've been awake for the last 32 hours, so I might be completely full of sh*t.
It probably will be in on the 3D support. That is if NVidia continues to release stuff (I just wish they'd put the specs out... the source isn't much good without those... oh well).
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They can't defeat filters. There is an extremely pain in the ass way to configure your account, but it would keep even this service from reaching you. Set up a whitelist, so that only emails that you approve of reach you. Yep, it would be difficult for someone new to contact you, and there would have to be some way to let people who you hand your email to reach you, but that can be setup (possibly with an alternate email account).
Jeff
Jeff
No it isn't, but in this day and age, most censorship is spawned from prudishness. Labeling CDs, trying to block off the internet en masse. All because some people are afraid of certain words and are afraid of sex.
There is a universe of difference between government censorship and the outright banning of pornography and parents restricting what their minor children can view.
Hmm, do you know what ageism is? While I generally agree with you, Arandir, I was a minor up until about 4 months ago (I'm now 18), and I didn't magically learn to think for myself on my birthday. I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to argue about what anyone is doing to *control* children. Just something to think about as a Libertarian. It isn't an easy thing to work out. Today's cut off ages are a legal kludge, they do amount to stomping all over my freedoms, and they don't work very well, but no one has a better system in mind. My point was that your post seemed to imply that I still don't deserve some rights, even though I am probably more mature and better informed than many ``adults''. However, you are right, there is still a universe of difference between control of children and mass censorship of the 'net.
This whole slashdot topic was about using or no using censorware in a private business. [...] Your accusal of Americans as prudes was very off topic.
Yeah and? Americans are generally really prudish, and this is what is causing this debate in the first place. We have hit one of the roots of the problem. This person isn't finding his new internet/slashdot ultra-pro-freedom morality running up against ``the real world''; he's found that it has run up against his own prudishness and that of his community and coworkers. This is where he finds out what he really believes. Does he give in to his prudish American ideals or does he find that he really believes this anti-censorship stuff and refuse to make the list and explain to everyone why. Based on the technical problems and on the morals of the issue.
Don't think for one second that America isn't prudish. I am american. I've been out of the country once -- that was last Febuary for less than a week. About the only thing that Americans have access to that isn't prudish is the 'net. The mass media has this ``habit'' of portraying the ``bad-girls'' as being open about their sexuality and the ``good-girls'' shunning sex completely. It's easy to go find this pattern. Go watch ``Practical Magic'', for example. I saw this movie the other day, and it is a great example. Sandra Bullock is a ``good girl'' and Nicole Kidman portrays her character very differently.
Now I am going to tear apart the sex-ed courses that we have in the US. They are purely about the physical aspects and the teachers are very much of the opinion that you shouldn't be having sex. But if you are a ``Bad Little Human'' and do it anyway, you should use birth control, but you are a ``bad human''. This is all but written into the curriculum. There is nothing about emotional impacts, what to expect, social aspects of it, what the hell S&M and B&D are.
In General Americans Are Prudes. Get over it. If you don't like it, make it known. I personally am very open about the subject now. *shrug* Knowledge is the key to health in this area, and good information is scarce. I got to learn that the hard way.
Jeff
Jeff
% head --bytes=`ls -l /bits/mp3/Metallica-Ain\'t_My_Bitch | perl -ane 'print $F[4]'` /dev/urandom > /napster-share/Metallica-Ain\'t_My_Bitch
Duh.
Jeff
Jeff
Yes. There is a word for this: Oligopoly, and guess what, it is just as illegal (and morally wrong, IMHO).
Jeff
The point is, you realize how bad your code really is ;) Hopefully, it will make you a better programmer, even if you very rarely use assembly.
Oh yeah, and the line noise code, well let's just say it can win you prizes (see: Obfuscated Perl Contest, and the IOCCC). Not that I'm encouraging this or anything.
Jeff
Jeff
Remember those people you mentioned, the really decent people. Join their ranks. Start off by changing the bad parts of yourself. You are a small part of the whole, but you will need to be a part of the change if is ever to be complete. Then when you see the people on the road being rude and causing problems, well, pray for them, or hope for them. Doesn't matter how, or to what god or no god -- I'm not preaching religion here. I'm also not singling you out; this is for everyone. This is also the only way I've found that I can deal with the hate and pain in the world. Whether it is possible to fix or not, I've got to try to make the world better, even if it is just spreading a little love in the area I live. The world would be a better place if we all did this, and somebody has to be an early adopter.
Jeff
Which, of course, are the same people who are pushing the reporters to research less and put out the reports that are PR that doesn't look like PR or the sensationalistic bullshit (Lewinski, Jewell, etc). Which validates the original poster's point.
Jeff
Jeff
Jeff
Jeff
Oh yeah, and hallelujah for the rant. It is a cool idea though.. think of the use in a James Bond flick... ;)
Jeff
I just wish most Americans knew what we have done in the past, from slavery, to the Native Americans, to Vietnam, to Latin America and even in our own cities. We are *still* in sorry shape.
Jeff
Basically, they intend to insert banner-ads into the boot up process. Nothing actually useful, and if they fsck up the networking code, well, I don't even want to know what kind of security holes this could present. Ugh.
Jeff
IIRC, the GNUstep team has endorced a very pretty and functional window manager as their ``Official Window Manager,'' WindowMaker.
Jeff
Now, this has nothing to do with whether or not german->english is harder than english->one of 18 indian languages, but that there is a fsck load of stuff to translate, and it'll be quite a project. Even then, there will more than likely be remnants of the english documentation.
On the other hand, India has a huge population, probably bigger than the US and Europe combined (but I don't know the population of Europe, so I might have just shoved my foot down my throat), which would mean they have plenty of people to support their own Open Source culture, but that doesn't mean we can't all help each other ;). So, it is a big project, but they have the man power. What we need to do is make sure our apps are translation friendly.
Jeff
What seems to have happened is that Rob has put together slashdot in a rather hackish manner, and as such, the code is relatively undocumented, and with little directory structure. Commenting and cleaning code can take a long time, and with the relative complexity of /., it's taking a little while.
Oh yeah, he still has a life (see this story), and you expect him to post stories all day. There are only 24 hours in a day, and believe it or not, we need sleep and some time to do other things.
Get over it.
slash v.4 will come. Have a little patience.
Jeff
My favorite palindrome is "Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas," which I actually use to remember how to spell oscillate -- a word that I often forget, I have no idea why. I simply spell metallic sonatas backwards: satanos cillatem, and then do a little twiddling of the spaces, and chop off some letters: [satan] oscillate [m]. Cool, no?
Why I posted this is left as an excercise for the reader -- and my apologies for trolling to all those who take a half a second to figure it out...
Jeff
It's a little Celeron 300A (did like the o/c'in, didn't bother trying very hard), BH6, 32MB of RAM, and a 3.2 GB harddrive that is about three months older than the computer itself (I had it in my old computer). It single boots linux.
Oh yeah, it has an old STB Velocity128 (a Riva128 card.. I wish NVidia would just give us the damn spec). Any, it still provides plenty of power for my small monitor :)
Oh yeah, I did tailor the hardware to run Linux, didn't need to do much, but all my hardware is compatible, works fine, and I haven't had any bad experiences with this box.
Jeff
I'm being a dork. Oh wait, that's my norm..
Jeff
There are others who aren't blessed with the ability to debate on a deep philosophical level, so while they understand their belief, the debating comes off less than gracefully. I've squared off against one really good debator in real life, and debates depend more on the skill of the people arguing rather than the actual topic. BSDL and GPL are both equally defensible because of the differences in the basic assumptions of the philosophies (english: different definitions of "free"). That's why you'll see perfectly intelligent guys floundering under the grilling of a skilled debator. Go, look, you'll see a couple that happen like this.
Then there are the good debators, I saw one good post go completely unchallenged on this article that was completely pro-GPL. He only got moderated up to a 2, but that is probably because of the fascist moderators ;)
I see examples of all three of these groups from the BSD camp too. That idiot AC who can't come up with anything besides "RMS of Borg, you will be assimilated by the GPV!" That's stupid. Just stupid, and no more helpful than the above AC which sparked this thread. I think most of the pro-GPL guys tend to stay out of the fray though, but that's just my observation. Either that, or I really have overestimated our numbers. It also seems to me that the ones who always get their arguments slashed to pieces are the ones who try to defend the morality aspect of the GPL without attacking the BSD definition of "freedom." I see this a *lot*.
Now that sounded really "us vs. them," which is absolutely not my take on it. Personally, it also looks like now many in the two camps have realized the basic differences in assumptions between the two philosophies and are admitting there's room enough for both, but that is a different tangent altogether.
And then again, I've been awake for the last 32 hours, so I might be completely full of sh*t.
Jeff
Jeff