I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed in Menlo Park, California on August 18, 2000.
[Signature]
Jean Wirdzek
Would it be possible to counterattack with a perjury angle? I'm not even close to being a lawyer, but I read this thing and my bullshit detector was pretty much constantly beeping.
... but I rarely pass up a chance to talk about Lynx.
First, your 8-track analogy fails because Lynx can handle HTML like most browsers. 8-tracks players can't play any media that's currently in production.
Second, most web sites that are non-functional under Lynx are so because of the incompetence of the designer. Using javascript when it is not necessary (e.g. for basic navigation) is a sign of being an idiot, not of being up-to-date. Checking the client and refusing anything other than certain versions of certain browsers is also a sign of mental retardation.
Lynx is still a viable option for browsing, and is my preferred option despite the fact that I have others available. Most of the headaches experienced by Lynx users are purely unnecessary and are the result of unskilled web design.
Of course, I'm sure you already know this. I follow the Slashdot troll scene and am somewhat familiar with the tactics. I suggest that when you troll in the future, you do it from a less blatant account. People might take you more seriously.
Some people get a +1 because of high karma, and then end up posting a bunch of extremely mediocre messages at a starting score of 2. For people that browse with a threshold (or highlight threshold) of 2, as I used to do, this means a lot of tripe shows up. This can be annoying to those who keep such a threshold in order to get a collection of high quality comments to read.
People who get the +1 can post a comment without the +1 by checking a box. This is a good thing to do if the message is not particularly informative, insightful, interesting, funny, etc. People who post mediocre comments at a score of 2 deserve to get an "overrated" moderation.
They're not stupid. They know what they're doing is wrong. The problem is that Mattel has an obligation to its shareholders to be evil, money grubbing bastards. If they fail to meet this obligation, then the people who run the company can get sued. What's important is that people who expose the problems with their products are threats to the bottom line, and must therefore be crushed. It's like a law of nature. So maybe we should cut Mattel a little slack and show some understanding. Then again, maybe not.
I come to Slashdot for the refreshing Open Source, Science Fiction, and Heavy Metal articles. In return for these articles I read the banner ads faithfully, even though I'm using Lynx. You seem to assume that because of this I am interested in your post. Let me assure you that I am not. Please stop posting. Thank you.
(Score:-2) by NRLax27 on 7:56 25 February 2000 PST (User Info)
If you follow the link in the glibc-crypt.readme on ftp.gnu.org, it brings you to a site that has a 2.1.3 version of the libcrypt addon. Did they just change the version number to match, or is there really a new version?
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I don't like the fact that some people now seem to have a default score of -2.
The New York Times, like almost all mainstream media outlets, has a serious credibility problem. It has been shown time and time again that the mainstream media are tainted by the following:
Bias away from personal freedom/responsibility, and towards government regulation of private activities,
Bias towards big businesses who provide advertising money, which is necessary for the survival of newspapers.
The NYT/Onion merger would ultimately result in the well-deserved destruction of the NYT, but at least it would become a credible source of news and insightful commentary before its death.
I'd like to take this opportunity to praise TeX. I learned TeX when I was writing my dissertation (nothing else does math worth a damn), and now I can't go back. Whenever I am forced to use something like MS Word (i.e. a wysiwyg editor), I'm always cursing and fighting the interface. And it usually looks like crap. TeX is simply a superior typesetting solution.
WARNING: I'm going to go off-topic. Stop reading now!
I don't get these Kung Fu Fighting Games. They don't appeal to me at all. Can someone who does enjoy them please tell me what the appeal is? I may not really understand what you say, but I'm willing to listen.
Moreover, I don't really get excited about any of the games that have come out in the past several years. I used to be all over games like Joust (all-time favorite), Tempest, Space Invaders, Galaga, etc. In fact I would still play quite a few of the old games if I saw them around (especially Joust). I guess I'm just a bitter old man that can't deal with today's video game world.
Don't try to reason with a mob. Talk to lawyers, local government, members of the media, and small groups of individuals. It may help more. Of course it is important to put in an appearance at forums like the one described in the article.
I am treating my audience as members of the third group. Based on the DCMA and its application (so far) to the DeCSS case, it would appear that Big Business (having a monetary advantage) has bought out Government. This places Individuals in a precarious position.
If we are going to be more than defeated worker-consumer-units, we are going to have to find a way to break up the unholy alliance between Big Business and Government.
I'm ashamed to say that I live in the state of one of the major proponents of this bill, Diane "I Wipe My Ass With The Constitution" Feinstein. She really blows.
What time zone are you talking about? Not all of us live in Tierra Del Feugo or wherever it is that you happen to be. Or does it stop at 4pm in _every_ time zone? That would be a neat trick.
Wouldn't we cry foul if MS decided to hold a W2K media-fest the day 2.4 came out?
I wouldn't.
Besides, why would MS do such a thing? Linux kernel releases do not get much attention from the mainstream media. Windows releases, on the other hand, do get a lot of media attention. It makes sense for Linux devotees to piggyback on the hype of the Windows release. There is no (or little) such incentive on the part of Microsoft.
I think this could be a great thing. What I imagine is having mild-mannered people setting up tables from which they can distribute linux distros (supplied by various distributors) and maybe pamphlets about why Linux is so k-k00l.
When I was in high school we didn't have any stinking graphing calculators. We were taught to become graphing calculators. We had a list of things to look at for a given function, and we'd be able to crank out a pretty decent picture by analyzing those things. You kids today have it too easy. What's going to happen when civilization collapses to a point where we can't maintain your calculator, and you have to come up with a graph of e^{-3t} cos(t)? You'll be shit out of luck because you've grown dependent on some thrice-damned hunk of plastic and silicon! Damn whippersnappers.
One thing that should be done is to try to reach every possible IP address through the censor-proxies. And millions of people need to do this. One address after another. Let's see how well the bastards stand up to that.
Too bad The Man (tm), represented by the major studios, would never make such a movie without ripping its heart out, stomping on it, and shoving it down the throat of Arthur Clark.
Why should we explore space when we have so many problems here on earth that need attention? Before we throw our hard-earned money into a vacuum, we should devote our attention to more important things, like providing food, clothing, and shelter to third world children, writing welfare checks to the victims of our cruel capitalist society, funding alternative lifestyles, testing the flow rates of ketchup, maintaining databases of potential deadbeat dads, and building more prisons for the people who violate the increasing number of laws that our legislators write.
No, until our current planet is absolutely perfect in every way, we should stay here. And when our planet is perfect, we won't have any reason to leave anyway. Sounds good to me.
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Since McDonald's is the most popular place for food, shouldn't all food taste like McDonald's burgers?
read up on COINTELPRO and related stuff from the 1960's. The FBI sux.
What I'd like to see is a laptop manufacturer that doesn't install Windows on ANY of its systems.
First, your 8-track analogy fails because Lynx can handle HTML like most browsers. 8-tracks players can't play any media that's currently in production.
Second, most web sites that are non-functional under Lynx are so because of the incompetence of the designer. Using javascript when it is not necessary (e.g. for basic navigation) is a sign of being an idiot, not of being up-to-date. Checking the client and refusing anything other than certain versions of certain browsers is also a sign of mental retardation.
Lynx is still a viable option for browsing, and is my preferred option despite the fact that I have others available. Most of the headaches experienced by Lynx users are purely unnecessary and are the result of unskilled web design.
Of course, I'm sure you already know this. I follow the Slashdot troll scene and am somewhat familiar with the tactics. I suggest that when you troll in the future, you do it from a less blatant account. People might take you more seriously.
Have a nice day.
Some people get a +1 because of high karma, and then end up posting a bunch of extremely mediocre messages at a starting score of 2. For people that browse with a threshold (or highlight threshold) of 2, as I used to do, this means a lot of tripe shows up. This can be annoying to those who keep such a threshold in order to get a collection of high quality comments to read.
People who get the +1 can post a comment without the +1 by checking a box. This is a good thing to do if the message is not particularly informative, insightful, interesting, funny, etc. People who post mediocre comments at a score of 2 deserve to get an "overrated" moderation.
That's my opinion of course.
I come to Slashdot for the refreshing Open Source, Science Fiction, and Heavy Metal articles. In return for these articles I read the banner ads faithfully, even though I'm using Lynx. You seem to assume that because of this I am interested in your post. Let me assure you that I am not. Please stop posting. Thank you.
Re:ann...crypt add-on
(Score:-2)
by NRLax27 on 7:56 25 February 2000 PST
(User Info)
If you follow the link in the glibc-crypt.readme on ftp.gnu.org, it brings you to a site that has a 2.1.3 version of the libcrypt addon. Did they just change the version number to match, or is there really a new version?
END:cut-and-paste
I don't like the fact that some people now seem to have a default score of -2.
- Bias away from personal freedom/responsibility, and towards government regulation of private activities,
- Bias towards big businesses who provide advertising money, which is necessary for the survival of newspapers.
The NYT/Onion merger would ultimately result in the well-deserved destruction of the NYT, but at least it would become a credible source of news and insightful commentary before its death.Bring it on!
I don't get these Kung Fu Fighting Games. They don't appeal to me at all. Can someone who does enjoy them please tell me what the appeal is? I may not really understand what you say, but I'm willing to listen.
Moreover, I don't really get excited about any of the games that have come out in the past several years. I used to be all over games like Joust (all-time favorite), Tempest, Space Invaders, Galaga, etc. In fact I would still play quite a few of the old games if I saw them around (especially Joust). I guess I'm just a bitter old man that can't deal with today's video game world.
Don't try to reason with a mob. Talk to lawyers, local government, members of the media, and small groups of individuals. It may help more. Of course it is important to put in an appearance at forums like the one described in the article.
- Government
- Big Business
- Individuals
I am treating my audience as members of the third group. Based on the DCMA and its application (so far) to the DeCSS case, it would appear that Big Business (having a monetary advantage) has bought out Government. This places Individuals in a precarious position.If we are going to be more than defeated worker-consumer-units, we are going to have to find a way to break up the unholy alliance between Big Business and Government.
People, at least very rich people, will keep clones of themselves hidden away so that they have a source of organs for transplanting.
The IETF has been asked to take a position on the inclusion into IETF standards-track documents of functionality designed to facilitate wiretapping.
This memo explains what the IETF thinks the question means, why its answer is "no", and what that answer means.
That's what I call "style".
Please moderate this post to zero points.
So how exactly do ISP's, portals, and search engines in general find out what pages I bookmark? That sounds like a neat trick.
I wouldn't.
Besides, why would MS do such a thing? Linux kernel releases do not get much attention from the mainstream media. Windows releases, on the other hand, do get a lot of media attention. It makes sense for Linux devotees to piggyback on the hype of the Windows release. There is no (or little) such incentive on the part of Microsoft.
I think this could be a great thing. What I imagine is having mild-mannered people setting up tables from which they can distribute linux distros (supplied by various distributors) and maybe pamphlets about why Linux is so k-k00l.
When I was in high school we didn't have any stinking graphing calculators. We were taught to become graphing calculators. We had a list of things to look at for a given function, and we'd be able to crank out a pretty decent picture by analyzing those things. You kids today have it too easy. What's going to happen when civilization collapses to a point where we can't maintain your calculator, and you have to come up with a graph of e^{-3t} cos(t)? You'll be shit out of luck because you've grown dependent on some thrice-damned hunk of plastic and silicon! Damn whippersnappers.
One thing that should be done is to try to reach every possible IP address through the censor-proxies. And millions of people need to do this. One address after another. Let's see how well the bastards stand up to that.
Too bad The Man (tm), represented by the major studios, would never make such a movie without ripping its heart out, stomping on it, and shoving it down the throat of Arthur Clark.
It would have to be an indie film.
No, until our current planet is absolutely perfect in every way, we should stay here. And when our planet is perfect, we won't have any reason to leave anyway. Sounds good to me.