Head of Vecna, anyone? In other news, this plus cloning = "cure" for aging? Now if we can just figure out how to take all the skin and tissue on the skull and transplant that... oh wait. Nevermind. Face transplants.
I think this guy saw the writing on the wall regarding the XBone One, and he got the hell out of dodge before the shit storm made landfall. Better to go to a place where you're wanted while you can still leave than be sucking on a "golden parachute" and have no job prospects.
As for the internet others built and you used for (like a parasite), stop complaining, it was never yours in the first place.
You're right. It was meant for everyone. The ultimate expression of democracy, and freedom of information... not parasites like you who are only interested in money and your own selfish desires. But like so many other communication mediums to come before it... it was filled with promise, but ultimately corrupted by people like you. The printing press was supposed to bring education and knowledge to the masses -- and yet the first thing published was the bible. Books filled with knowledge were burned, and the presses themselves subjugated by kings and royals to spread only messages they deemed appropriate. It pushed out corrupted religious texts to support the monarchy. Radio brought culture and news to the world. It was corrupted into endless advertisements and propaganda. Television was promised as a way of showing people more of the world, educating them about it. It was corrupted into rigged competitions, empty entertainment, and yet more sophisticated propaganda.
And now the same fate has befallen the internet. I suppose I can't blame you for throwing yourself in with their lot... they have historical precident on their side. But let us be clear: The inventors wanted none of it. They wanted something new. Such is the beginning of all new communications... and this, is their end. Corrupted by small minded men like you. Destroyed, perverted, corrupted into yet another tool to enslave the masses, restrict access to their own power, their own potential... all in the name of serving the material desires of a handful of people.
Well, forgive me, young king, for although I have precious little hope of changing several thousand years of human slavery into freedom and enlightenment... I believe it's a worthier cause by far than the chance to collect the crumbs the status quo would have me eat in exchange for my services to them.
People deserve better than petty kings like you. They deserve to be kings themselves, to master their own fate. The internet is still the best chance they have at that. Now get the fuck out of my way... there's still work to do.
I'm running FF23 beta on my personal system and NoScript is still working as before.
People seem to be forgetting that javascript can break a lot of accessibility readers. Everything about HTML, CSS, etc., was about separating content from layout. Javascript shits on that entire model, as does Java, ActiveX, and most other plugins.
Web developers should continue to create websites that don't require javascript, and we shouldn't be in such a hurry to move away from that. The promise of the internet was accessibility, the ability to freely share information, and to connect everything together.
This push towards app-ification of the internet, the W3C caving to DRM in HTML5... it's after the very heart and soul of the internet. The internet we built, as hackers, as creatives, as professors, academics, researchers, scientists... it's being gutted. And Firefox, the white horse of the "free" internet, in it's 11th hour of need, chooses this?
Occupy is far from non-violent, in fact it's exceptionally violent. Note the arsons, theft, public and private property destruction and the attempted bombing of a bridge in Ohio.
There were people planning an act of terrorism, the very thing the american public has told the government is its number one priority. The FBI and other law enforcement responded by sacrificing our civil liberties and claiming it was for our own good. And yet, despite this social contract, the FBI saw fit to take no action whatsoever when presented with evidence of it. While in turn, the FBI has arrested hundreds, perhaps thousands of people, for doing the exact same thing. Many tens of thousands more on suspicion of aiding terrorists.
I'm not sure if you're suggesting that if an individual is part of an organization that has caused property damage, the FBI can simply not do it's job when their lives are put at risk by a terrorist plot. I sincerely hope you aren't. I also hope you aren't suggesting that property damage and theft is worth human lives. Because that would make you just like the FBI, and Al-Qaeda:
Both of them are okay with killing americans for political reasons. Both of them are okay with assassinating political figureheads that disagree with them, or through inaction accomplishing the same. And yet, both of them also claim to be on the moral high ground, that such things are necessary... in order to protect land and property.
Maybe I'm out of date. Maybe my "old fashioned" american values don't have a place in the new Amerika that's rising up... but it wasn't that long ago that we taught our children that human life had a value which surpassed property. I suppose those, when we're on track to have 15 billion people on the planet in my lifetime... such thinking will have to change.
waves of continued improvements in the domain name ecosystem.
ICANN is apparently using a broader definition of "improve"... because to date, very little that they've done has been anything but a cluster fuck of greed, incompetence, and blamestorming. Basically, everything I've come to expect from the committee decision-making process, as overseen by dozens of governments. And this latest "wave" of improvement is basically standardizing that process so that it is easier for corporations and governments to rapidly screw up the internet -- "accountability" in this context is code for "faster domain seizure".
That quote is attributed to Einstein, but you should know by now a great many quotes are attributed to him, but very few can be proven to have been from him. -_-
"There's no such thing as a correct quote citation on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." -- Leonardo da Vinci
"Plurality should not be assumed without necessity." -- William of Ockham, often referred to as Ockham's Razor -- the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Attributed to Einstein
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." -- Albert Einstein (attributed)
"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." -- Issac Newton
"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity." -- Plato
"The greatest ideas are the simplest." -- William Golding, Lord of the Flies
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." -- E.F. Schumacher
"Those guys are all wrong." -- Andrew Binstock, Editor in Chief, Dr. Dobbs
In my minds of the corporate overlords these days, what's good for the goose is good for the goose and the gander can take it or leave it.
She just filed for divorce on the grounds of not having her physical needs satisfied. Apparently he just sat on the couch all day and crowed about his profits, and grew fat and bloated until he couldn't fly, while she worked tirelessly doing volunteer work and helping poor children get access to music and movies that he had removed from the library and put in a video and record store across the street, then campaigned with local politicians to shut down the library because it was hurting his bottom line by taxing him to steal his hard-earned work.
I don't get it... we can't even secure our nuclear power plants, water and waste processing facilities, and other critical public infrastructure from attacks on industrial infrastructure. Why would anyone in their right mind think home automation would be any more secure?
'do development and compete with closed source companies on similar economic terms.'
Or, you know, we just keep doing what we're doing now, which is providing high quality software that's well documented, easily maintained, available to the public for free, and hated by capitalists so much they've sent the IRS after every organization that supports it searching for it's hidden pirate treasure to turn over to the greedy.
Look, let me put it in terms you can understand: If your company is losing market share to a bunch of people who do this for shits and giggles in their spare time, maybe you should be polishing up your resume instead of bemoaning the situation. I mean, that's the free market at work, right? Why are you trying to interfere with the free market Monty?
Stop trying to negotiate with capitalists. They don't undertstand... they're like dinosaurs: They can't see it unless it has a dollar sign on it.
*Lasts for months and gives plenty of warning before it goes out, so no worries there.
Can be defeated by applying a high voltage to the face-plate, thus burning up the solid-state equipment and engaging the relay which releases the door.
, people expected this to be on par with the xbox one or xbox 360 at least.
Well, I guess those expectations were exceeded then; No DRM. Can share games with friends. Doesn't require an internet connection. Doesn't spy on you and send pics to the NSA of you naked walking from the shower to bathroom...
While modded as funny this is tragic that the US government is spying wholesale on it's own citizens, breaking the spirit of the Constitution to the extent that employees of the government feel the need to "blow the whistle" and expose those activities. Then those whistle blowers have to seek asylum in country's that have been known to engage in wholesale repression of anti-government dissent by the citizens of those country's.
I suppose now's a bad time to point out that Hong Kong is technically 'China' now. So he's fled from this country to two countries known for 'repression'. Which I gotta wonder about... has the United States become worse than everyone they claim they're better than? Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, China, North Korea... the list goes on... and none of them are building dozens of massive data centers for the sole purpose of spying wholesale on its own citizens.
Where's the UN condemnation and resolutions about 'human rights' when you need them? Where's the international inspectors for our "free" elections? We've had two major elections now with clear and well-publicized failures and many allegations of voting irregularities. Oh right... forgot. We're "permanent" members of the human rights council. We could be raping our citizens publicly before chopping them up piece by piece on national TV and we'd still have a seat. -_-
See, that's the problem with TOR. It can't hide its exits nodes and blend in with all the other traffic. An exit node shouldn't look any different than any other http(s) request.
See, that's the problem with Internet. It can't hide its gateways and blend in with all the other traffic. A gateway shouldn't look any different than any other.
-_- Dude, this isn't a problem with Tor. It's a problem with certain for-profit companies that hate anonymity. An exit node contains a sampling of all the Tor traffic in aggregate. Sure, the exit nodes are published... but so are your ISP's BGP routes. The difference is that unlike your ISP's traffic, which has your IP address tacked to every request, what comes out of an exit node doesn't.
I feel funny defending Facebook, but unless they're blatantly violating their own published privacy policy, they don't sell personally-identifiable information to others. While it's possible they're intentionally violating their policy, I think that's unlikely.
...Says the dude on the internet that apparently didn't read the note above the "Allow" button when he signed up for Farmville.
In Canada at least, Tor is awful. Because others can use your connection as well, if someone looks at child porn from behind your connection, you are guilty of distribution.
...Says the dude on the internet that apparently didn't read the note above the "Allow" button when he signed up for Farmville.
In Canada at least, Tor is awful. Because others can use your connection as well, if someone looks at child porn from behind your connection, you are guilty of distribution.
I suppose if you're dumb enough to disregard the gratuitous warnings on the download page, the application itself, the configuration file, the manual, and every internet site that offers a 'how to', all of which lay out in explicit detail what an exit node is, and why enabling one on your personal home internet connection is very bad, then you deserve a punch in the face. But you won't go to jail over it. Not even in Canada... no more than running an open wifi will. And yes, that's been to court. And yes, the guy shit bricks. But he was found guilty only of criminal stupidity.
The correct way to configure Tor in a way that helps everyone and avoids this problem is to set it up as a relay, thus any traffic that comes and goes through your system is encrypted, there is no way for you (or anyone else) to tell what its contents are, and stays within the Tor network.
But by all means, we should all just give in to having our privacy violated by corporations, governments, and anyone with slightly more technical finesse than this Anonymous Coward does... all because a very tiny fraction of the population wants to look at child porn/terrorist websites/whatever is politically unpopular this week.
I can update my 'do not track' tech even further. It's called Tor, and the more people who use it, the safer it becomes. Bonus: Comes with free tin foil hat, extended digital middle finger to pervasive electronic surveillance.
Captcha: Doesn't work on Slashdot, which hates Tor and has banned all the exit nodes. "Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. service." *cough*
But seriously; if they can't link you to an IP address (which let's face it: with all the DNT in the world, your IP is logged by your ISP and your ISP is only too happy to whore out your realworld identity for a few scheckles, and it's trivial to link all your activity now to you, whether you login or not, use cookies, or all the browser magic in the world.
The only tech that can help you right now is one that mixes in all your traffic into everyone else's so you can't mine the data.
This technology won't be impressive until it can perform general computing tasks. Right now, it's too constrained of a technology to be useful for something as simple as web browsing. Great promise... but that's what it is: A promise.
Yeah, I got a primitive one in my own car. I just opened it up and wired the nvram reset to the ignition. Whenever the car turns off, it fires the reset. It's an amnesiac vehicle now. Of course, not everyone knows how to do this, but hey.
"Assembled with pride in a sweatshop with suicide nets strung around it." Yup... just what we need associated with open source: Exploitative labor practices.
The Hacker Dictionary does not even offer a pretense of objectivity - to suggest that a non-systematic summary of a straw poll on Usenet groups he frequented is sufficient for a 'social anthropologist' to draw sweeping conclusions about Hackers certainly seems like egotism. Generalising his own personal characteristics and views as being the views of all hackers is pretty much par for the course for ESR.
I was going off of the strength of what he's published; Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla, Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, The Art of Unix Programming, etc., all of which have been widely cited by open source proponents. But let's ignore all that, I mean, anyone can publish a book that gets picked up by one of the most respected names in the field: O'Reilly, am I right? Usenet at the time was a good representative sample of the community, in the same way Slashdot up until a few years ago was a representative sample. It is not perfect, of course, but it certainly has more weight to it than an Anonymous Coward posting a handwave.
I would readily tell him so. However you're appealing to authority here. And you completely ignored my question.
Possibly because you were an asshole about it. And "appeal to authority" doesn't mean what you think it does, again probably because you're an asshole; Eric S. Raymond studied hacker culture in detail for several years. He has published several books on the culture and is widely regarded by many as an unofficial spokesperson for the open source movement. He is, by any reasonable measure, an expert on the topic. An appeal to authority argument is only a logical fallacy in cases where the person isn't an expert, where there is no consensus, or where the appeal is based on deductive instead of inductive reasoning.
Slashdot Mirror
Head of Vecna, anyone? In other news, this plus cloning = "cure" for aging? Now if we can just figure out how to take all the skin and tissue on the skull and transplant that... oh wait. Nevermind. Face transplants.
I think this guy saw the writing on the wall regarding the XBone One, and he got the hell out of dodge before the shit storm made landfall. Better to go to a place where you're wanted while you can still leave than be sucking on a "golden parachute" and have no job prospects.
As for the internet others built and you used for (like a parasite), stop complaining, it was never yours in the first place.
You're right. It was meant for everyone. The ultimate expression of democracy, and freedom of information... not parasites like you who are only interested in money and your own selfish desires. But like so many other communication mediums to come before it... it was filled with promise, but ultimately corrupted by people like you. The printing press was supposed to bring education and knowledge to the masses -- and yet the first thing published was the bible. Books filled with knowledge were burned, and the presses themselves subjugated by kings and royals to spread only messages they deemed appropriate. It pushed out corrupted religious texts to support the monarchy. Radio brought culture and news to the world. It was corrupted into endless advertisements and propaganda. Television was promised as a way of showing people more of the world, educating them about it. It was corrupted into rigged competitions, empty entertainment, and yet more sophisticated propaganda.
And now the same fate has befallen the internet. I suppose I can't blame you for throwing yourself in with their lot... they have historical precident on their side. But let us be clear: The inventors wanted none of it. They wanted something new. Such is the beginning of all new communications... and this, is their end. Corrupted by small minded men like you. Destroyed, perverted, corrupted into yet another tool to enslave the masses, restrict access to their own power, their own potential... all in the name of serving the material desires of a handful of people.
Well, forgive me, young king, for although I have precious little hope of changing several thousand years of human slavery into freedom and enlightenment... I believe it's a worthier cause by far than the chance to collect the crumbs the status quo would have me eat in exchange for my services to them.
People deserve better than petty kings like you. They deserve to be kings themselves, to master their own fate. The internet is still the best chance they have at that. Now get the fuck out of my way... there's still work to do.
I'm running FF23 beta on my personal system and NoScript is still working as before.
People seem to be forgetting that javascript can break a lot of accessibility readers. Everything about HTML, CSS, etc., was about separating content from layout. Javascript shits on that entire model, as does Java, ActiveX, and most other plugins.
Web developers should continue to create websites that don't require javascript, and we shouldn't be in such a hurry to move away from that. The promise of the internet was accessibility, the ability to freely share information, and to connect everything together.
This push towards app-ification of the internet, the W3C caving to DRM in HTML5... it's after the very heart and soul of the internet. The internet we built, as hackers, as creatives, as professors, academics, researchers, scientists... it's being gutted. And Firefox, the white horse of the "free" internet, in it's 11th hour of need, chooses this?
They should be ashamed.
Occupy is far from non-violent, in fact it's exceptionally violent. Note the arsons, theft, public and private property destruction and the attempted bombing of a bridge in Ohio.
There were people planning an act of terrorism, the very thing the american public has told the government is its number one priority. The FBI and other law enforcement responded by sacrificing our civil liberties and claiming it was for our own good. And yet, despite this social contract, the FBI saw fit to take no action whatsoever when presented with evidence of it. While in turn, the FBI has arrested hundreds, perhaps thousands of people, for doing the exact same thing. Many tens of thousands more on suspicion of aiding terrorists.
I'm not sure if you're suggesting that if an individual is part of an organization that has caused property damage, the FBI can simply not do it's job when their lives are put at risk by a terrorist plot. I sincerely hope you aren't. I also hope you aren't suggesting that property damage and theft is worth human lives. Because that would make you just like the FBI, and Al-Qaeda:
Both of them are okay with killing americans for political reasons. Both of them are okay with assassinating political figureheads that disagree with them, or through inaction accomplishing the same. And yet, both of them also claim to be on the moral high ground, that such things are necessary... in order to protect land and property.
Maybe I'm out of date. Maybe my "old fashioned" american values don't have a place in the new Amerika that's rising up... but it wasn't that long ago that we taught our children that human life had a value which surpassed property. I suppose those, when we're on track to have 15 billion people on the planet in my lifetime... such thinking will have to change.
waves of continued improvements in the domain name ecosystem.
ICANN is apparently using a broader definition of "improve"... because to date, very little that they've done has been anything but a cluster fuck of greed, incompetence, and blamestorming. Basically, everything I've come to expect from the committee decision-making process, as overseen by dozens of governments. And this latest "wave" of improvement is basically standardizing that process so that it is easier for corporations and governments to rapidly screw up the internet -- "accountability" in this context is code for "faster domain seizure".
That quote is attributed to Einstein, but you should know by now a great many quotes are attributed to him, but very few can be proven to have been from him. -_-
"There's no such thing as a correct quote citation on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
-- Leonardo da Vinci
"Plurality should not be assumed without necessity."
-- William of Ockham, often referred to as Ockham's Razor -- the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-- Attributed to Einstein
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
-- Albert Einstein (attributed)
"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." -- Issac Newton
"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity."
-- Plato
"The greatest ideas are the simplest."
-- William Golding, Lord of the Flies
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
-- E.F. Schumacher
"Those guys are all wrong."
-- Andrew Binstock, Editor in Chief, Dr. Dobbs
Choose well, reader...
In my minds of the corporate overlords these days, what's good for the goose is good for the goose and the gander can take it or leave it.
She just filed for divorce on the grounds of not having her physical needs satisfied. Apparently he just sat on the couch all day and crowed about his profits, and grew fat and bloated until he couldn't fly, while she worked tirelessly doing volunteer work and helping poor children get access to music and movies that he had removed from the library and put in a video and record store across the street, then campaigned with local politicians to shut down the library because it was hurting his bottom line by taxing him to steal his hard-earned work.
I don't get it... we can't even secure our nuclear power plants, water and waste processing facilities, and other critical public infrastructure from attacks on industrial infrastructure. Why would anyone in their right mind think home automation would be any more secure?
'do development and compete with closed source companies on similar economic terms.'
Or, you know, we just keep doing what we're doing now, which is providing high quality software that's well documented, easily maintained, available to the public for free, and hated by capitalists so much they've sent the IRS after every organization that supports it searching for it's hidden pirate treasure to turn over to the greedy.
Look, let me put it in terms you can understand: If your company is losing market share to a bunch of people who do this for shits and giggles in their spare time, maybe you should be polishing up your resume instead of bemoaning the situation. I mean, that's the free market at work, right? Why are you trying to interfere with the free market Monty?
Stop trying to negotiate with capitalists. They don't undertstand... they're like dinosaurs: They can't see it unless it has a dollar sign on it.
*Lasts for months and gives plenty of warning before it goes out, so no worries there.
Can be defeated by applying a high voltage to the face-plate, thus burning up the solid-state equipment and engaging the relay which releases the door.
, people expected this to be on par with the xbox one or xbox 360 at least.
Well, I guess those expectations were exceeded then; No DRM. Can share games with friends. Doesn't require an internet connection. Doesn't spy on you and send pics to the NSA of you naked walking from the shower to bathroom...
While modded as funny this is tragic that the US government is spying wholesale on it's own citizens, breaking the spirit of the Constitution to the extent that employees of the government feel the need to "blow the whistle" and expose those activities. Then those whistle blowers have to seek asylum in country's that have been known to engage in wholesale repression of anti-government dissent by the citizens of those country's.
I suppose now's a bad time to point out that Hong Kong is technically 'China' now. So he's fled from this country to two countries known for 'repression'. Which I gotta wonder about... has the United States become worse than everyone they claim they're better than? Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, China, North Korea... the list goes on... and none of them are building dozens of massive data centers for the sole purpose of spying wholesale on its own citizens.
Where's the UN condemnation and resolutions about 'human rights' when you need them? Where's the international inspectors for our "free" elections? We've had two major elections now with clear and well-publicized failures and many allegations of voting irregularities. Oh right... forgot. We're "permanent" members of the human rights council. We could be raping our citizens publicly before chopping them up piece by piece on national TV and we'd still have a seat. -_-
I guess it will work for all my digital content that I save as raster graphics. Which is...um...none of it.
Meanwhile, at NSA headquarters...
If Findfile(@SYSTEMDIR & "\Fonts\" & "ZXX.tff") Then {
Enhanced_anal_prober();
}
See, that's the problem with TOR. It can't hide its exits nodes and blend in with all the other traffic. An exit node shouldn't look any different than any other http(s) request.
See, that's the problem with Internet. It can't hide its gateways and blend in with all the other traffic. A gateway shouldn't look any different than any other.
-_- Dude, this isn't a problem with Tor. It's a problem with certain for-profit companies that hate anonymity. An exit node contains a sampling of all the Tor traffic in aggregate. Sure, the exit nodes are published... but so are your ISP's BGP routes. The difference is that unlike your ISP's traffic, which has your IP address tacked to every request, what comes out of an exit node doesn't.
I feel funny defending Facebook, but unless they're blatantly violating their own published privacy policy, they don't sell personally-identifiable information to others. While it's possible they're intentionally violating their policy, I think that's unlikely.
...Says the dude on the internet that apparently didn't read the note above the "Allow" button when he signed up for Farmville.
In Canada at least, Tor is awful. Because others can use your connection as well, if someone looks at child porn from behind your connection, you are guilty of distribution.
...Says the dude on the internet that apparently didn't read the note above the "Allow" button when he signed up for Farmville.
In Canada at least, Tor is awful. Because others can use your connection as well, if someone looks at child porn from behind your connection, you are guilty of distribution.
I suppose if you're dumb enough to disregard the gratuitous warnings on the download page, the application itself, the configuration file, the manual, and every internet site that offers a 'how to', all of which lay out in explicit detail what an exit node is, and why enabling one on your personal home internet connection is very bad, then you deserve a punch in the face. But you won't go to jail over it. Not even in Canada... no more than running an open wifi will. And yes, that's been to court. And yes, the guy shit bricks. But he was found guilty only of criminal stupidity.
The correct way to configure Tor in a way that helps everyone and avoids this problem is to set it up as a relay, thus any traffic that comes and goes through your system is encrypted, there is no way for you (or anyone else) to tell what its contents are, and stays within the Tor network.
But by all means, we should all just give in to having our privacy violated by corporations, governments, and anyone with slightly more technical finesse than this Anonymous Coward does... all because a very tiny fraction of the population wants to look at child porn/terrorist websites/whatever is politically unpopular this week.
I can update my 'do not track' tech even further. It's called Tor, and the more people who use it, the safer it becomes. Bonus: Comes with free tin foil hat, extended digital middle finger to pervasive electronic surveillance.
Captcha: Doesn't work on Slashdot, which hates Tor and has banned all the exit nodes. "Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. service." *cough*
But seriously; if they can't link you to an IP address (which let's face it: with all the DNT in the world, your IP is logged by your ISP and your ISP is only too happy to whore out your realworld identity for a few scheckles, and it's trivial to link all your activity now to you, whether you login or not, use cookies, or all the browser magic in the world.
The only tech that can help you right now is one that mixes in all your traffic into everyone else's so you can't mine the data.
This technology won't be impressive until it can perform general computing tasks. Right now, it's too constrained of a technology to be useful for something as simple as web browsing. Great promise... but that's what it is: A promise.
Yeah, I got a primitive one in my own car. I just opened it up and wired the nvram reset to the ignition. Whenever the car turns off, it fires the reset. It's an amnesiac vehicle now. Of course, not everyone knows how to do this, but hey.
-Sent from my iPhone
"Assembled with pride in a sweatshop with suicide nets strung around it." Yup... just what we need associated with open source: Exploitative labor practices.
The Hacker Dictionary does not even offer a pretense of objectivity - to suggest that a non-systematic summary of a straw poll on Usenet groups he frequented is sufficient for a 'social anthropologist' to draw sweeping conclusions about Hackers certainly seems like egotism. Generalising his own personal characteristics and views as being the views of all hackers is pretty much par for the course for ESR.
I was going off of the strength of what he's published; Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla, Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, The Art of Unix Programming, etc., all of which have been widely cited by open source proponents. But let's ignore all that, I mean, anyone can publish a book that gets picked up by one of the most respected names in the field: O'Reilly, am I right? Usenet at the time was a good representative sample of the community, in the same way Slashdot up until a few years ago was a representative sample. It is not perfect, of course, but it certainly has more weight to it than an Anonymous Coward posting a handwave.
I would readily tell him so. However you're appealing to authority here. And you completely ignored my question.
Possibly because you were an asshole about it. And "appeal to authority" doesn't mean what you think it does, again probably because you're an asshole; Eric S. Raymond studied hacker culture in detail for several years. He has published several books on the culture and is widely regarded by many as an unofficial spokesperson for the open source movement. He is, by any reasonable measure, an expert on the topic. An appeal to authority argument is only a logical fallacy in cases where the person isn't an expert, where there is no consensus, or where the appeal is based on deductive instead of inductive reasoning.
Now sit down, shut up, and drink your ovaltine.