I actually think the liberals are right on this one. Open source should not be mandatory, however neither should Microsoft.
End of the day governements, like all organisations need to use the right product for the right job. It is not a bad idea for government departments to have to investigate open source solutions however to make them mandatory is madness.
Interesting post that sums up all of Walkers posts -
From: Desi (desi@cts.com)
Subject: Did Traitor John Walker post to ATC????
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
View: Complete Thread (6 articles) | Original Format
Date: 2001-12-09 14:02:57 PST
Apparently John Walker posted to usenet as Doodoo@hooked.
net. and Prof J, I wonder if he ever posted here under a
different moniker. ??
E-mails from a Traitor
The young John Walker left an enormous cache of nutty
e-mails. Read them here.
by Richard Starr
FROM AUGUST 1995 to August 1997, John Philip Walker Lindh,
the Marin County jihadist, was a frequent contributor to
Internet newsgroups. As Newsweek reports in its latest
issue, he used the nom de plume "doodoo."
At the outset, he pretended to be a rapper, critiquing the
rhymes of another Internet poseur as "some 13 year old white
kid playing smart," which would actually be a pretty fair
description of himself, then a 14-year-old white kid trying
to pass himself off as black. Two years later, he was "Prof.
J" pontificating on the relationship of Judaism to Zionism
in the newsgroup soc.religion.islam.
In between, he seems to have liquidated his comic books and
video games in order to buy audio equipment. But on July 29,
1996, he suddenly pulls up short: "I've heard recently that
certain musical instruments are forbidden by Islam," he
writes. And by September 21, 1996, he's placing an online
want ad (WTB means "wanted to buy") for recordings of
Malcolm X speeches. He comes across in many places as a
budding totalitarian, though it should be noted that many
15-year-old habitues of newsgroups try to sound imperious.
Not that many sign their e-mails "Br. Mujahid," however.
You can retrieve the online oeuvre of the American Taliban
for yourself by searching for "doodoo@hooked.net" in the
newsgroups archive at Google. Or you can read them below,
reformatted in chronological order. The only editing I've
done is to remove the e-mail addresses of third parties and
the more technical parts of the address headers. The
personal webpage he refers to,
http://www.hooked.net/users/doodoo/index.htm, seems no
longer to exist.
If you read the coverage on Domain Of Games it talks about stealing the internals of a guys computer and ripping the transistors off his motherboard to wreck it. All because he confessed to cheating a few years earlier.
Not the sort of people I would like to hang around with. Can anyone say immature?
Re:I've always wondered how they do that.
on
When A Cable Dies
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· Score: 5
When the cable is in shallow water (several hundred metres) a plow is dragged infront of the cable as it is being layed.
It then lies in a shallow trench which later fills up with sand to offer some protection. Not enough to stop a ships anchor by the looks. Once the water gets deeper though it has to be layed straight on the bottom.
Seriously though there is one major thing wrong with this plan. End of the day spammers normally have to give some kind of website or mailing address that is tied to them. This would give the feds an easy way to track them.
Also they are suddenly not just spammers but cyber terrorists, making it worth the while to track them down. I would like to see spammers try this as they would soon end up in court/jail.
Some American-made gadgets wouldn't fit Russian plugs and chilli sauce had to be used instead of a missing cleaning gel.
Velcro pads stuck to everything they touched, the DVD player's screen was too small and the computer used to report breakdowns broke down.
I would love some of the apollo pioneers to read this and give there opinions on the astronauts of today. Those guys where up there in thin walled tin cans that would have lost pressure if a spec of dust hit them. Now the worst complaint is that the DVD screen is to small?
Card counting is not illegal if you sit at a table and bet solidly through a whole hand. However, to maximise their profits most card counters will hang off to a side and watch a table until 2/3 of the pack is dealed. They will then join for the last 1/3 of the pack and bet heavily. Once the pack is finished they will then go and watch another table until there is only 1/3 of the pack remaining.
I also would still let people do this however it obivously tips the odds against the casinos to much.
Using a cell phone might be dangerous. It might not. Research seems to indicate that it is not dangerous but research has been wrong before. In other words by using a mobile phone you are taking a risk.
You are also taking a risk crossing the road, eating your meals (in case you choke) and performing basically any act in your life. Get over it. I like using a cell phone so I am prepared to take this risk. This reminds me about an email I received today about how Americans (I am American) are not prepared to except the consequences of taking risks anymore and feel that everything is someone elses fault. Enjoy:
(note: I don't take any credit for this)
Let's see if I understand how America works lately . . .
If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her
lap while driving, she blames the restaurant
If your teen-age son kills himself, you blame the rock 'n' roll
music
or musician he liked.
If you smoke three packs a day for 40 years and die of lung cancer,
your family blames the tobacco company.
If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain you
blame the school for poor sex education.
If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home drunk, you
blame the bartender.
If your cousin gets AIDS because the needle he used to shoot up with
heroin was dirty, you blame the government for not providing clean
ones.
If your grandchildren are brats without manners, you blame
television.
If a deranged madman shoots your friend, you blame the gun
manufacturer.
And if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and tries to kill the
pilots at 35,000 feet, and the passengers kill him instead, the
mother
of the deceased blames the airline.
Non-Disclosure agreements only go so far. I have swapped between companies that do similar things and while I have not taken a CD of source code with me I can still remember the approaches I took to solve similar problems. This means that I can be more efficent (and there for worth more) then the average programmer. Someone has already paid me to find solutions to these problems and now I am just reapplying these solutions.
This is virtually impossible to prevent in a contract.
No matter what you pay your programmers or how well you treat them someone will always have a better offer for them. Especially if they have an insight into your new gaming engine. Hiring people like this in not just hiring a developer it is also getting alot of R&D that the other company has paid for.
If I was manager at a high profile game company I would go out of the way not to broadcast the identity of my programmers.
Putting these chips in phones sort of kills the idea behind international roaming doesn't it? I can't see the mobile phone service providers being happy with this.
International roaming is one of their highest profit activities.
I remember reading about a similar machine about a year a go that moved itself around your garden catching slugs which is used as energy.
Basically it just had a bait to atract the slugs into the battery and then every few days in would move a 2 or 3 metres into a new area in the hope that there would be more slugs there.
I can't find any links - does anyone else know of this?
A few days ago their was a story on Slashdot about a bug in nokia 9000 series phones where specific SMS messages could crash them. At that point several slashdot readers attacked nokia for, amongst other things, not taking Linux seriously (I didn't see how that related to a communicator crashing).
Do these readers have the balls to say that they where wrong?
Slashdot Mirror
I actually think the liberals are right on this one. Open source should not be mandatory, however neither should Microsoft.
End of the day governements, like all organisations need to use the right product for the right job. It is not a bad idea for government departments to have to investigate open source solutions however to make them mandatory is madness.
How about this one?
What does a mathematician use as a contraception?
Their Personality.
but it would have required me to actually read some spam......
The first posting was announcing the contest, the second was announcing the results.
Not the same thing by a long shot.
Interesting post that sums up all of Walkers posts -
From: Desi (desi@cts.com)
Subject: Did Traitor John Walker post to ATC????
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
View: Complete Thread (6 articles) | Original Format
Date: 2001-12-09 14:02:57 PST
Apparently John Walker posted to usenet as Doodoo@hooked.
net. and Prof J, I wonder if he ever posted here under a
different moniker. ??
E-mails from a Traitor
The young John Walker left an enormous cache of nutty
e-mails. Read them here.
by Richard Starr
FROM AUGUST 1995 to August 1997, John Philip Walker Lindh,
the Marin County jihadist, was a frequent contributor to
Internet newsgroups. As Newsweek reports in its latest
issue, he used the nom de plume "doodoo."
At the outset, he pretended to be a rapper, critiquing the
rhymes of another Internet poseur as "some 13 year old white
kid playing smart," which would actually be a pretty fair
description of himself, then a 14-year-old white kid trying
to pass himself off as black. Two years later, he was "Prof.
J" pontificating on the relationship of Judaism to Zionism
in the newsgroup soc.religion.islam.
In between, he seems to have liquidated his comic books and
video games in order to buy audio equipment. But on July 29,
1996, he suddenly pulls up short: "I've heard recently that
certain musical instruments are forbidden by Islam," he
writes. And by September 21, 1996, he's placing an online
want ad (WTB means "wanted to buy") for recordings of
Malcolm X speeches. He comes across in many places as a
budding totalitarian, though it should be noted that many
15-year-old habitues of newsgroups try to sound imperious.
Not that many sign their e-mails "Br. Mujahid," however.
You can retrieve the online oeuvre of the American Taliban
for yourself by searching for "doodoo@hooked.net" in the
newsgroups archive at Google. Or you can read them below,
reformatted in chronological order. The only editing I've
done is to remove the e-mail addresses of third parties and
the more technical parts of the address headers. The
personal webpage he refers to,
http://www.hooked.net/users/doodoo/index.htm, seems no
longer to exist.
Isn't it good to see Michael reporting it in a unemotional, non-biase style as well?
Well said.
Point taken.
Just quoting the interview. Read it yourself.
If you read the coverage on Domain Of Games it talks about stealing the internals of a guys computer and ripping the transistors off his motherboard to wreck it. All because he confessed to cheating a few years earlier.
Not the sort of people I would like to hang around with. Can anyone say immature?
When the cable is in shallow water (several hundred metres) a plow is dragged infront of the cable as it is being layed.
It then lies in a shallow trench which later fills up with sand to offer some protection. Not enough to stop a ships anchor by the looks. Once the water gets deeper though it has to be layed straight on the bottom.
How do you know that I'm not a spammer?
Seriously though there is one major thing wrong with this plan. End of the day spammers normally have to give some kind of website or mailing address that is tied to them. This would give the feds an easy way to track them.
Also they are suddenly not just spammers but cyber terrorists, making it worth the while to track them down. I would like to see spammers try this as they would soon end up in court/jail.
Why has no one done this before? Viral Spam. Send a piece of spam to one person and in hours it is all over the internet.
No need to gather mail addresses.
No need to pay for bandwidth.
Excuse me while I get scripting....
Some American-made gadgets wouldn't fit Russian plugs and chilli sauce had to be used instead of a missing cleaning gel.
Velcro pads stuck to everything they touched, the DVD player's screen was too small and the computer used to report breakdowns broke down.
I would love some of the apollo pioneers to read this and give there opinions on the astronauts of today. Those guys where up there in thin walled tin cans that would have lost pressure if a spec of dust hit them. Now the worst complaint is that the DVD screen is to small?
Card counting is not illegal if you sit at a table and bet solidly through a whole hand. However, to maximise their profits most card counters will hang off to a side and watch a table until 2/3 of the pack is dealed. They will then join for the last 1/3 of the pack and bet heavily. Once the pack is finished they will then go and watch another table until there is only 1/3 of the pack remaining.
I also would still let people do this however it obivously tips the odds against the casinos to much.
Using a cell phone might be dangerous. It might not. Research seems to indicate that it is not dangerous but research has been wrong before. In other words by using a mobile phone you are taking a risk.
You are also taking a risk crossing the road, eating your meals (in case you choke) and performing basically any act in your life. Get over it. I like using a cell phone so I am prepared to take this risk. This reminds me about an email I received today about how Americans (I am American) are not prepared to except the consequences of taking risks anymore and feel that everything is someone elses fault. Enjoy:
(note: I don't take any credit for this)
Let's see if I understand how America works lately . . .
If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her
lap while driving, she blames the restaurant
If your teen-age son kills himself, you blame the rock 'n' roll
music
or musician he liked.
If you smoke three packs a day for 40 years and die of lung cancer,
your family blames the tobacco company.
If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain you
blame the school for poor sex education.
If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home drunk, you
blame the bartender.
If your cousin gets AIDS because the needle he used to shoot up with
heroin was dirty, you blame the government for not providing clean
ones.
If your grandchildren are brats without manners, you blame
television.
If a deranged madman shoots your friend, you blame the gun
manufacturer.
And if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and tries to kill the
pilots at 35,000 feet, and the passengers kill him instead, the
mother
of the deceased blames the airline.
Non-Disclosure agreements only go so far. I have swapped between companies that do similar things and while I have not taken a CD of source code with me I can still remember the approaches I took to solve similar problems. This means that I can be more efficent (and there for worth more) then the average programmer. Someone has already paid me to find solutions to these problems and now I am just reapplying these solutions.
This is virtually impossible to prevent in a contract.
No matter what you pay your programmers or how well you treat them someone will always have a better offer for them. Especially if they have an insight into your new gaming engine. Hiring people like this in not just hiring a developer it is also getting alot of R&D that the other company has paid for.
If I was manager at a high profile game company I would go out of the way not to broadcast the identity of my programmers.
Here in Australia, where we have commercials every seven minutes I would do it. Not to see the show a few hours earlier, but to get rid of the ads.
I guess this is what the TV stations are really scared of.
Putting these chips in phones sort of kills the idea behind international roaming doesn't it? I can't see the mobile phone service providers being happy with this.
International roaming is one of their highest profit activities.
I remember reading about a similar machine about a year a go that moved itself around your garden catching slugs which is used as energy.
Basically it just had a bait to atract the slugs into the battery and then every few days in would move a 2 or 3 metres into a new area in the hope that there would be more slugs there.
I can't find any links - does anyone else know of this?
That was the last major barrier stopping me from being an astronaut. Now that it's out of the way I might as well volunteer my services....
I think that is the general approach to programming these days.
Work 70+ hours weeks until you make enough money that you can retire when you have that nervous breakdown.
Thats my play anyway.
Believe it or not but geocities is slashdotted. The error message that it gives is that there is no page at this address.
Just keep reloading. It took me about 3 reloads to see the page.
Kuro5hin is running an article/A& gt; about a geek that did the same thing and he is getting sympathy....
A few days ago their was a story on Slashdot about a bug in nokia 9000 series phones where specific SMS messages could crash them. At that point several slashdot readers attacked nokia for, amongst other things, not taking Linux seriously (I didn't see how that related to a communicator crashing).
Do these readers have the balls to say that they where wrong?