On another note, if they really do think this about the open source world, it would explain why they're being so paranoid about us - they seem to think we really are out to get them, however we can.
A friend of my family is a lawyer for Parmount, and this is true. Her view of the open source movement was a bunch of geeks who felt that anything and everything digital should be free, no matter who made it. Ah, but the plot thickens. It turns out this corporate employed lawyer wrote part of the DMCA. In fact, from what I could tell the entire DMCA was written soley by MPAA employees. So now Corporations are passing laws... hmmmmm... time to put Ralph Nader on speed dial. ---
Now, mind you, I like little endian systems they have worked well up until now but, since we would be rewriting the books, what say we switch to big endian i.e.:
org.slashdot
com.geek
That'll really through the suits for a loop. Only problem is that you can't have net, com or org sub-domains. ---
Ditto... even the NT using, non-college graduated, *nixphobe of a sysadmin at my school prefers DOS for important stuff... and BTW, he thinks `edit` is the best editor out there. ---
IMHO, what we need is somewhere like Switzerland is too monetary transactions with the internet. If you could find a country, that had not signed in the the WTO copyright standards with a farely stable democratic government, you could host websites from it, and have completely free speech. Though I doubt this will happen it's just an idea, maybe Switzerland itself could be the center for such a industry/community ---
while [ 1 = 1 ] # Must be manually killed do ping -f www.metallica.com & # the/evil/ part sleep 3000 # Hopefully not enough time to be tracked kill %1 ifdown ppp0 ifdown ppp0 ifup ppp0 done
This sounds like the best form of information sneaking since the microcamera! Imagine it, a roll of scotch tape being passed to an enemy agent by covert operatives, this SCREAMS secret agent! ---
At my school we are all running Win95 + Novell in cooperation with a NT server. As of late 3 or 4 of the Linux users (myself not included) set up a school radio station. We are streaming over the internet and ahve 4 very pitiful computers. A Win95 box to interact with the rest of the school a small Linux box for archiving the days of music, another box w/o a hard-drive running a floppy booting custom distro our guru made and one empty tower used to elevate the 3rd.
We soon learned, having a combined total of 9 functional SourceForge projects, that VALinux has Linux OutReach/Evangelist sections, naturally we were intrigued. We are currently composing a letter asking for there support (maybe a hard-drive or two) and some pamphlets so they can rub shoulders with the faculty.
Our hope is to get a lab of 10-15 GNU/Linux computers or maybe switch the school but to do that we need a working demo box. We tried this on our own but found support in only 2 600Mb hard-drives, which is no way to blow the minds of our comp-sci department.
Well, when summer hits the entire department will be discussing possible OS/Networking switches. I know that an all NT (shudder) system and Windows 2000 (shudder*3) will be proposed along side the latest Novell systems. I have convinced our programming teacher to suggest Linux for several reasons: He has previous *nux Experience He wants to use a good compiler (gcc/g++) He wants to extend the programming department past C And because all Windows C/C++ compilers get past our security system, *all*, this is a major hazard
So any suggestions? We really hope the guys at VA will see the oppurtunity for a new client and to be our personal heros (not that they aren't all ready. ---
My school has just this problem! We are running Win95*cough*Lose95 with Novell software to network us all. However there about 70 computers and mataining all of the software, adding new things keeps our system administator up late. I have been begging them to switch to Linux because, as another side effect of running Lose95, about 1/3 of our computers are crashed, always! ---
IMHO, the internet is a tool of amazing information and learning. Adding things like ".sucks" would only further the idea that the internet is a toy, a form of simple entertainment, much like the Television (not to say there aren't any educational TV programs).
The other thing I think would be important is to keep TLD's simple, ".com", ".org", ".gov" etc. are all easy to remember, how about ".sch" for Search Engine (Tell me if that stands for something else that I don't know about) or ".sc" for science, or similar ideas. Don't get me wrong, I am all for the idea of adding new TLD's, but I think they shouldn't be a joke. ---
Hmmmm.... Does this remind anyone of newspeak from 1984? The limiting of public names to support censorship? In newspeak, there was no word for democracy, so no one could try and form one. Revolution could not be described, so one could not attempt one. Though this is definatly not as severe as 1984, it's a start. Hear no evil...See no evil...Speak no evil...Think no evil ---
This is the perfect suggestion. I have a relative with an MBA who got hired to help out with a small internet/advertising/web_solutions company. Whew! They have tripled in size in the last 6 months and they keep growing. Hard work, sweat and talent will get you only so far, from there you need to know how to grow. ---
To me it seems more like mass producing the keys to a segregated store to allow anyone to buy things there. What some people will say to draw attention away from there own mistakes...sheesh! ---
This is something that I feel is often confusing to most people. Developing ingenuity in the underlying code and functionality is more important!!! You see, it is not a weakness but a different style of program making. Where as Mac and many Windows(a.k.a. Losedows) programs are built first with the interface and then down from there, open source projects for most platforms are designed to be built from the functionality up. This means that there will be better interface, but it is the second concern, the first concern is content and efficiency. This way it may not be flashy but it get's the job done, and well... as opposed to being buggy but looking nice.
>to Kevin Mitnick (now being released) and the handful of other renegades who hack
>governmental and corporate computers, spread viruses, or penetrate the systems that run the
>system.
>They are not ignored or dismissed; they're treated like major criminals, rounded up by
>platoons of high-tech federal cops, paraded before reporters, jailed for years. Perhaps
>they signify the teeth behind the unpretentious corporate smile, the warning to the rest of us to behave,
>that things aren't quite as benign as they might appear.
Though I don't know anything about how to crack, an idea just hit my head(ow!:-)). Remember how Etoys(a really big company) sued Etoy(a really small company) and the they were attacked by cr/hackers which sent their stock plummeting...
Well, I realize this is very brute force and unproductive, but maybe this is a way for users to make examples of coporations.
Ok, I realize this seems very stupid and I am going to get flamed like nobodies business, but I hope you don't think I am trying to be a troll, this idea just occured to me.
It adds to my scroll time and I could be doing something productive during that time... like... um... posting compla^H^H^H^H^H^Himportant messages on/.!
I apologize for responding to such a flame, as it is out of character for myself but... why? This has nothing to do with the topic and maybe it should have been filed somewhere else. I understand the difficulties and annoyances of being prodded about projects when you are busy elsewhere and I feel you pain but one of the best things about slashdot is that you can avoid these kinds of messages, but starting another thread about it is like putting up a neon sign saying I feel like forcing people to scroll through spam!.
The hand, though well constructed(:-)) is a very crude touch and I find it insulting both to my sensibilty and to my trust in Slashdot to avoid this kind of sh-t. I have to say this was one of the weaker moments in Slash's history.
Respectfully, mmt
P.S. All you "Anonymous Cowards"... have some respect for Rob and at least sign you responses!
Now, I understand that the numbers may seem deceiving, but you also must remember that this is a communist nation which has a very low income per capita. 20 million people is an extreme change from 0(I know, some people were connected, but I am trying to stress the changes). ---
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A friend of my family is a lawyer for Parmount, and this is true. Her view of the open source movement was a bunch of geeks who felt that anything and everything digital should be free, no matter who made it.
Ah, but the plot thickens. It turns out this corporate employed lawyer wrote part of the DMCA. In fact, from what I could tell the entire DMCA was written soley by MPAA employees. So now Corporations are passing laws... hmmmmm... time to put Ralph Nader on speed dial.
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- org.slashdot
- com.geek
That'll really through the suits for a loop. Only problem is that you can't have net, com or org sub-domains.---
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Ditto... even the NT using, non-college graduated, *nixphobe of a sysadmin at my school prefers DOS for important stuff... and BTW, he thinks `edit` is the best editor out there.
---
IMHO, what we need is somewhere like Switzerland is too monetary transactions with the internet. If you could find a country, that had not signed in the the WTO copyright standards with a farely stable democratic government, you could host websites from it, and have completely free speech. Though I doubt this will happen it's just an idea, maybe Switzerland itself could be the center for such a industry/community
---
while [ 1 = 1 ] # Must be manually killed /evil/ part
do
ping -f www.metallica.com & # the
sleep 3000 # Hopefully not enough time to be tracked
kill %1
ifdown ppp0
ifdown ppp0
ifup ppp0
done
Sorry, I had to say it
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This sounds like the best form of information sneaking since the microcamera! Imagine it, a roll of scotch tape being passed to an enemy agent by covert operatives, this SCREAMS secret agent!
---
At my school we are all running Win95 + Novell in cooperation with a NT server. As of late 3 or 4 of the Linux users (myself not included) set up a school radio station. We are streaming over the internet and ahve 4 very pitiful computers. A Win95 box to interact with the rest of the school a small Linux box for archiving the days of music, another box w/o a hard-drive running a floppy booting custom distro our guru made and one empty tower used to elevate the 3rd.
We soon learned, having a combined total of 9 functional SourceForge projects, that VALinux has Linux OutReach/Evangelist sections, naturally we were intrigued. We are currently composing a letter asking for there support (maybe a hard-drive or two) and some pamphlets so they can rub shoulders with the faculty.
Our hope is to get a lab of 10-15 GNU/Linux computers or maybe switch the school but to do that we need a working demo box. We tried this on our own but found support in only 2 600Mb hard-drives, which is no way to blow the minds of our comp-sci department.
Well, when summer hits the entire department will be discussing possible OS/Networking switches. I know that an all NT (shudder) system and Windows 2000 (shudder*3) will be proposed along side the latest Novell systems. I have convinced our programming teacher to suggest Linux for several reasons:
He has previous *nux Experience
He wants to use a good compiler (gcc/g++)
He wants to extend the programming department past C
And because all Windows C/C++ compilers get past our security system, *all*, this is a major hazard
So any suggestions? We really hope the guys at VA will see the oppurtunity for a new client and to be our personal heros (not that they aren't all ready.
---
My school has just this problem! We are running Win95*cough*Lose95 with Novell software to network us all. However there about 70 computers and mataining all of the software, adding new things keeps our system administator up late. I have been begging them to switch to Linux because, as another side effect of running Lose95, about 1/3 of our computers are crashed, always!
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The other thing I think would be important is to keep TLD's simple, ".com", ".org", ".gov" etc. are all easy to remember, how about ".sch" for Search Engine (Tell me if that stands for something else that I don't know about) or ".sc" for science, or similar ideas. Don't get me wrong, I am all for the idea of adding new TLD's, but I think they shouldn't be a joke.
---
Hmmmm.... Does this remind anyone of newspeak from 1984? The limiting of public names to support censorship? In newspeak, there was no word for democracy, so no one could try and form one. Revolution could not be described, so one could not attempt one. Though this is definatly not as severe as 1984, it's a start. Hear no evil...See no evil...Speak no evil...Think no evil
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Whew! Someone had the guts to say it, moderate this man up or we'll look very hypocritical.
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Oh no! Looks like AOL is going to be reduced to a 349 billion dollar conglomo, well, at least it's a start.
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This is the perfect suggestion. I have a relative with an MBA who got hired to help out with a small internet/advertising/web_solutions company. Whew! They have tripled in size in the last 6 months and they keep growing. Hard work, sweat and talent will get you only so far, from there you need to know how to grow.
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To me it seems more like mass producing the keys to a segregated store to allow anyone to buy things there. What some people will say to draw attention away from there own mistakes...sheesh!
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>to Kevin Mitnick (now being released) and the handful of other renegades who hack
>governmental and corporate computers, spread viruses, or penetrate the systems that run the
>system.
>They are not ignored or dismissed; they're treated like major criminals, rounded up by
>platoons of high-tech federal cops, paraded before reporters, jailed for years. Perhaps
>they signify the teeth behind the unpretentious corporate smile, the warning to the rest of us to behave,
>that things aren't quite as benign as they might appear.
Though I don't know anything about how to crack, an idea just hit my head(ow! :-)). Remember how Etoys(a really big company) sued Etoy(a really small company) and the they were attacked by cr/hackers which sent their stock plummeting...
Well, I realize this is very brute force and unproductive, but maybe this is a way for users to make examples of coporations.
Ok, I realize this seems very stupid and I am going to get flamed like nobodies business, but I hope you don't think I am trying to be a troll, this idea just occured to me.
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It adds to my scroll time and I could be doing something productive during that time... like... um... posting compla^H^H^H^H^H^Himportant messages on /.!
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Sorry if I come off as sounding stupid, what I was trying to say is that it was very off topic.
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The hand, though well constructed(:-)) is a very crude touch and I find it insulting both to my sensibilty and to my trust in Slashdot to avoid this kind of sh-t. I have to say this was one of the weaker moments in Slash's history.
Respectfully, mmt
P.S. All you "Anonymous Cowards"... have some respect for Rob and at least sign you responses!
---
Now, I understand that the numbers may seem deceiving, but you also must remember that this is a communist nation which has a very low income per capita. 20 million people is an extreme change from 0(I know, some people were connected, but I am trying to stress the changes).
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