You, you fine fellow, are fucking hilarious. I am in total agreement with you on this subject.
What makes this all better for me is that I married my wife while I was poor and unsuccessful. I know she loves me for me and not for material or superficial reasons.
You can wrap almost any TCP/IP traffic inside of SSH. You can rsync, ftp and even web browse inside of a SSH tunnel.
In fact, that is exactly how I posted this message. I am at work, with an SSH tunnel to my home network which acts a SOCKS proxy to the internet for my work PC. Even my DNS queries go to my internal DNS server on my home LAN.
All my corporate overlords see is a fuck ton of SSH traffic to my home IP on some very unusual ports. All Slashdot sees is a normal web connection from my home IP address. It is all encrypted and all on a single TCP connection to my home network from my work network.
Obviously, it is unencrypted when it leaves my LAN for the wider internet, but if my corporate overlords want to snoop my private home internet, they are breaking federal law while I am merely violating the corporate IT policies.
But we all see those corporate IT policies as challenges, dares if you will, not actual rules to be followed, don't we?
My home IT policies are far more strict and effective than those of my corporate overlords. How does your walled garden grow?
When will people realize that pushing back against morons redefining words to mean random shit that has nothing to do with what they truly mean is living in the real world?
I bet you are the type of fool who is pleased that "funner" is now proper American-English.
This is a product of your type of silliness and you should feel bad about it. -> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/funner
Now, I grew up down the street from a friend of my parents that was a huge BBS user and had thousands of floppy disks full of Apple II programs. About 200 floppies were games.
I learned to love copying the best for my personal collection. There was the "Quick N' Dirty" disk copy that was fast and would copy 100% of normal floppies (data disks) and 90% of commercial games. Most games were cracked and were older games I would never find for sale in a magazine or at the local PC store (a mom-n-pop, this is Iowa we are talking about).
Now, I also bought a ton of games as a kid. It was what I spent 95% of my money on. One of my favorite games was Wasteland (you fucking rock, Electronic Arts)! You couldn't copy the main disk, but you had to copy the B side of the main disk and all of the remainder of the disks as your progress was saved upon them (persistent world). You could grind for XP by replaying certain levels over and over, by playing the zone on a floppy until everything was dead and all the good gear was looted, then leaving the area for an area on another floppy. Then you would quit the game (after saving), make a fresh copy of the disk with the zone you had just looted, restart and, "voila", the area was full of Brotherhood knights again. By doing this 7 times (or was it 6 - I cannot remember the party count) you could give each of your party members a mason cannon, which was a must have energy weapon, but was technically unique.
However, there were some games/disks that I just NEVER could get to copy. The boot disk of Wasteland is an example. I read somewhere about how the copy-protection was done, although I have no idea if it is accurate or not. The source stated that the floppy controller was spun at non-standard speeds for various tracks and was therefore only readable by the custom floppy controller on the disk itself, loaded after bootstrap. The spin rates for the the various tracks (known only to the software developers and those capable of reverse engineering it - not me at the time) led to a disk that could not be read by any of my disk copy utilities.
I am with you about learning hexadecimal to edit save game files with a sector editor. I did that all the time. I remember figuring out the bounds of certain variables through trial and error. It was great to have buses in Road Warrior 2000 with 20 points more armor on each section of the vehicle than the maximum. However, if you went too high the armor would reset to 1.
Oh, Sweet Mother of Fuck, I loved that fucking Alpha microprocessor. A truly beautiful beast if there ever was one. It would have been a dream come true to see that gorgeous hunk of doped silicon gain market share. Imagine where we would be today if it had the R&D and resultant performance gains that the 8086 line did.
You, who cling to your Intel and work-a-likes are to blame. I am talking to you, Microsoft and HP. Shit, fuck, ass! Even Apple uses that fucked instruction set now!
If you know nothing of the Alpha, look up its specs and the specs of the Intel microprocessors at the same time period. Now project its performance if it followed the same performance curve that the 8086 line did (I think you called the x86's "Pentiums" back in the day) and you are not a nerd of you don't weep at what has been lost. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
And I responded to the response challenging the avoidance of Apple with my opinion that this product is an good example of why to avoid Apple products. I am right on topic and replying to the appropriate post.
You go back and re-read, you uncomprehending simpleton you.
Only on slashdot would someone that clearly doesn't understand the thread format of online discussion boards, incorrectly attempt to chastise me, not for something that I did, but for something the chastiser's addled mind had conjured out of the mist. Thick as a brick you are sir.
The best tool for the job? What is iClouds job? Media access or consumer control?
Bullshit Sales Pitch Q: What does iCloud do? A: It gives me easy access to my media.
Wait! If you think that Apple cares about easy of access to your media more than promoting their DRM scheme and locking you into their ecosystem where they take 30% off the top, you need to take those blinders off.
No Bullshit Reality Q: What does iCloud really do? A: It gives Apple more control over your media than they do already. You give up more freedom and thank Apple for taking it from you because they make life easier once you agree to their control. In short, iCloud takes your freedom and makes you like it.
Closed, walled-gardens are the wave of the future. DRM is trendy and cool. Freedom and openess are for losers. You want to be cool don't you?
Sick. Sick that people think that is fun. Sick that there is a whole city that makes a living encouraging people to do something they know is a lost cause (gambling).
You are right on the money. No mod points so a "word up" to you!
Personally, I solved the facebook privacy problem. I cancelled my facbook account, but not before I found about two dozen friends from college that I had lost track of. It was very useful to reestablish contact, but of little use after that.
You easily joke about punching non-violent members of a anti-establishment peace movement because you aren't one and see them as not important. It is only a joke, no big deal.
I mean, I know you are joking, but do you consider how this mindset contributes to dehumanizing your fellow human beings? And dehumanizing them is the first step into your role as monster. Are you going to make racist jokes next? After all, they are only jokes.
Do you know any "hippies" that have been beaten by cops for nothing? I do. Do you hear me? I said, "I FUCKING DO!"
I consider you no different than someone telling racist jokes. You are a bigot and your bigotry is a contributor to violence. You can deny it and refuse to accept it, but that is the case all the same.
To be clear, the movie and the book 'Starship Troopers' have almost nothing in common. There is a war with aliens that look like bugs and Rio gets nuke from space. Besides that, the whole fucking plot is thrown out. Not the same story - AT ALL!
And here is a good bitch about sci-fi book film adaptations. Where is the minority report in the film 'Minority Report'. They fucked the plot so badly the title no longer exists in the film. Asshats!
Also, Gibson's short story from the collection 'Burning Chrome', titled 'New Rose Hotel', was made in into a wonderful film by the same title directed by my all time favorite director, Abel Ferrara. Chris Walken, Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento star.
Interestingly, Ferrara turns an 11 page story (or is it 17 pages - it is prime anyway) with no dialog (not a single quotation mark in the 11 pages) into a film that is solely driven by dialog. Almost no special effects at all. It is simply actors acting and it is beautifully done.
*** WARNING: Ferrara is arty and this film will not please the popcorn crowd. ***
Try the book the article is about. Poetry. Fucking poetry. It is not the laser-guns and spaceship sort of Sci-Fi you are used to (even if there are lasers and spaceships in it).
Other reccomendations for the genre:
Stranger in a Strange Land (unabridged only - don't read the 1961 version)
The Ophiuchi Hotline - one hell of a twisted tale
Anathem - but only if you are a nerd (you better be if you are here)
If Microsoft would quit spreading FUD about Linux, we would quit returning the favor. If Microsoft doesn't like Linux, they should just not use it. But instead they make stuff up about it.
There are some major differences however. I have never been found guilty of violating monopoly law (I am too sneaky when I do it) and I am not a patent troll (more of a patent ogre). I never installed a backdoor in my OS for the NSA (I did it for the former KGB once, but I was only a child at the time). I never paid a huge Microsoft supporter to drop all future support for Microsoft OSes (I did threaten to touch them with a piece of poop on a stick if they didn't, but poo threats a bribes at horses of a different color).
If you cannot tell, we Linux Lovers feel wronged by the convicted criminal organization know as Microsoft (let's not mince words, they broke the law and were found guilty of it). Microsoft fucked with us, continues to fuck with us and will fuck with us in the future. All because we offer for free what it sells as a premium. Well, that and they are fools holding onto the old ideal of pyramidal power structures. Distributed peers for the WIN!
Let me get this straight. He doesn't like wasting pixels. So, he re-imagines a time tested tool that uses MORE pixels to display the same data. Now it does display non-text in the terminal, but why? If you already have a GUI (which you must for this CLI) why not "xdg-open FILENAME" instead of "cat FILENAME"? And it wastes CPU cycles with a pointless java abstraction when it could run on the bare metal.
All I see is it doing is the exact opposite of its inferred goal of using pixels more efficiently while introducing a GUI/java dependency when there is normally no need of it.
Less flexible, requires a GUI, runs more slowly than native machine code all while doing nothing new. I agree that it looks very nice, but it sacrifices function for the sake of its form.
This appears to me to be a pretty toy and an interesting proof of concept but ultimately a step backwards. Am I missing something?
You do realize your perception of reality and reality quite often are not them same? You see, I wasn't trolling at all.
When Nintendo made the Wii, they knew they were making a last gen system (as far as processing power/ graphics capability is concerned) with a new and unique controller. It is my belief that you and I both would agree this is the case.
commodore64love, when one looks at your comment history, one will sees not posts containing original thoughs or interesting but overlook facts, but criticism after criticism of others. You look for others saying something you disagree with and then verbally abuse them in a very emotional and irrational way. This is a comment from you on May 16th of this year:
I don't listen to people who call me "troll" "ass" "idiot" or "cocksucker". I don't listen to people who lack manners and use teeny-bopperish insults.
Now, I do find this quote very amusing. To name call (teeny-bopper) in a complaint about name calling is a cute little self contradiction (and an intentional one, I suspect). Then two days later, you accuse someone of trolling and say that, to you, they "look like a fucking fool". Who's trolling again?
Meeting you in the flesh sounds like a deeply satifying experience as I suspect you are far more pleasant when you are looking the other person in the eye. I look forward to meeting you and getting to know you better. Would you like to exchange contact information and arrange a face-to-face meeting?
Slashdot Mirror
Do not reply to the AC trolls, please.
Although, your comment was quite damn funny.
You, you fine fellow, are fucking hilarious. I am in total agreement with you on this subject.
What makes this all better for me is that I married my wife while I was poor and unsuccessful. I know she loves me for me and not for material or superficial reasons.
Fuck Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich.
"Stuff Hipsters Hate". Really?
No one give them any play for being shallow people.
The shoe is on the other foot now!
WHOA, WHOA, WHOA!!! I thought it was an English slang word for cigarette!
You can wrap almost any TCP/IP traffic inside of SSH. You can rsync, ftp and even web browse inside of a SSH tunnel.
In fact, that is exactly how I posted this message. I am at work, with an SSH tunnel to my home network which acts a SOCKS proxy to the internet for my work PC. Even my DNS queries go to my internal DNS server on my home LAN.
All my corporate overlords see is a fuck ton of SSH traffic to my home IP on some very unusual ports. All Slashdot sees is a normal web connection from my home IP address. It is all encrypted and all on a single TCP connection to my home network from my work network.
Obviously, it is unencrypted when it leaves my LAN for the wider internet, but if my corporate overlords want to snoop my private home internet, they are breaking federal law while I am merely violating the corporate IT policies.
But we all see those corporate IT policies as challenges, dares if you will, not actual rules to be followed, don't we?
My home IT policies are far more strict and effective than those of my corporate overlords. How does your walled garden grow?
When will people realize that pushing back against morons redefining words to mean random shit that has nothing to do with what they truly mean is living in the real world?
I bet you are the type of fool who is pleased that "funner" is now proper American-English.
This is a product of your type of silliness and you should feel bad about it. -> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/funner
But you don't feel a thing do you?
I don't think that any of these people take themselves as seriously as you take them. Do you take yourself this seriously as well?
Now, I grew up down the street from a friend of my parents that was a huge BBS user and had thousands of floppy disks full of Apple II programs. About 200 floppies were games.
I learned to love copying the best for my personal collection. There was the "Quick N' Dirty" disk copy that was fast and would copy 100% of normal floppies (data disks) and 90% of commercial games. Most games were cracked and were older games I would never find for sale in a magazine or at the local PC store (a mom-n-pop, this is Iowa we are talking about).
Now, I also bought a ton of games as a kid. It was what I spent 95% of my money on. One of my favorite games was Wasteland (you fucking rock, Electronic Arts)! You couldn't copy the main disk, but you had to copy the B side of the main disk and all of the remainder of the disks as your progress was saved upon them (persistent world). You could grind for XP by replaying certain levels over and over, by playing the zone on a floppy until everything was dead and all the good gear was looted, then leaving the area for an area on another floppy. Then you would quit the game (after saving), make a fresh copy of the disk with the zone you had just looted, restart and, "voila", the area was full of Brotherhood knights again. By doing this 7 times (or was it 6 - I cannot remember the party count) you could give each of your party members a mason cannon, which was a must have energy weapon, but was technically unique.
However, there were some games/disks that I just NEVER could get to copy. The boot disk of Wasteland is an example. I read somewhere about how the copy-protection was done, although I have no idea if it is accurate or not. The source stated that the floppy controller was spun at non-standard speeds for various tracks and was therefore only readable by the custom floppy controller on the disk itself, loaded after bootstrap. The spin rates for the the various tracks (known only to the software developers and those capable of reverse engineering it - not me at the time) led to a disk that could not be read by any of my disk copy utilities.
I am with you about learning hexadecimal to edit save game files with a sector editor. I did that all the time. I remember figuring out the bounds of certain variables through trial and error. It was great to have buses in Road Warrior 2000 with 20 points more armor on each section of the vehicle than the maximum. However, if you went too high the armor would reset to 1.
Fun times, indeed!
[citation needed] (for your citation needed)
You have the funniest sig I have seen in years.
Oh, Sweet Mother of Fuck, I loved that fucking Alpha microprocessor. A truly beautiful beast if there ever was one. It would have been a dream come true to see that gorgeous hunk of doped silicon gain market share. Imagine where we would be today if it had the R&D and resultant performance gains that the 8086 line did.
You, who cling to your Intel and work-a-likes are to blame. I am talking to you, Microsoft and HP. Shit, fuck, ass! Even Apple uses that fucked instruction set now!
If you know nothing of the Alpha, look up its specs and the specs of the Intel microprocessors at the same time period. Now project its performance if it followed the same performance curve that the 8086 line did (I think you called the x86's "Pentiums" back in the day) and you are not a nerd of you don't weep at what has been lost. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
You said it, Hazel. I weep with you.
Haven't you heard of AFT? Acronyms for techies?
And I responded to the response challenging the avoidance of Apple with my opinion that this product is an good example of why to avoid Apple products. I am right on topic and replying to the appropriate post.
You go back and re-read, you uncomprehending simpleton you.
Only on slashdot would someone that clearly doesn't understand the thread format of online discussion boards, incorrectly attempt to chastise me, not for something that I did, but for something the chastiser's addled mind had conjured out of the mist. Thick as a brick you are sir.
The best tool for the job? What is iClouds job? Media access or consumer control?
Bullshit Sales Pitch
Q: What does iCloud do?
A: It gives me easy access to my media.
Wait! If you think that Apple cares about easy of access to your media more than promoting their DRM scheme and locking you into their ecosystem where they take 30% off the top, you need to take those blinders off.
No Bullshit Reality
Q: What does iCloud really do?
A: It gives Apple more control over your media than they do already. You give up more freedom and thank Apple for taking it from you because they make life easier once you agree to their control. In short, iCloud takes your freedom and makes you like it.
Closed, walled-gardens are the wave of the future. DRM is trendy and cool. Freedom and openess are for losers. You want to be cool don't you?
In what sounds like a similar situation, my kid earned the nickname "the-little-fucker-that-needs-to-stop-pissing-in-daddys-face".
I loved playing "1943" in the arcade as a kid (in the 1980's not the 1940's) and instantly knew what it was.
I also know who Steve Wozniak is, why he is more important that Steve Jobs and I can do binary-octal-decimal-hexdecimal conversion in my head.
My lawn, everyone get off it.
Sick. Sick that people think that is fun. Sick that there is a whole city that makes a living encouraging people to do something they know is a lost cause (gambling).
The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.
You are right on the money. No mod points so a "word up" to you!
Personally, I solved the facebook privacy problem. I cancelled my facbook account, but not before I found about two dozen friends from college that I had lost track of. It was very useful to reestablish contact, but of little use after that.
You easily joke about punching non-violent members of a anti-establishment peace movement because you aren't one and see them as not important. It is only a joke, no big deal.
I mean, I know you are joking, but do you consider how this mindset contributes to dehumanizing your fellow human beings?
And dehumanizing them is the first step into your role as monster.
Are you going to make racist jokes next? After all, they are only jokes.
Do you know any "hippies" that have been beaten by cops for nothing?
I do. Do you hear me? I said, "I FUCKING DO!"
I consider you no different than someone telling racist jokes.
You are a bigot and your bigotry is a contributor to violence.
You can deny it and refuse to accept it, but that is the case all the same.
To be clear, the movie and the book 'Starship Troopers' have almost nothing in common. There is a war with aliens that look like bugs and Rio gets nuke from space. Besides that, the whole fucking plot is thrown out. Not the same story - AT ALL!
And here is a good bitch about sci-fi book film adaptations. Where is the minority report in the film 'Minority Report'. They fucked the plot so badly the title no longer exists in the film. Asshats!
My vote would have been David Fincher to direct.
Also, Gibson's short story from the collection 'Burning Chrome', titled 'New Rose Hotel', was made in into a wonderful film by the same title directed by my all time favorite director, Abel Ferrara. Chris Walken, Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento star.
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133122/
Interestingly, Ferrara turns an 11 page story (or is it 17 pages - it is prime anyway) with no dialog (not a single quotation mark in the 11 pages) into a film that is solely driven by dialog. Almost no special effects at all. It is simply actors acting and it is beautifully done.
*** WARNING: Ferrara is arty and this film will not please the popcorn crowd. ***
Try the book the article is about. Poetry. Fucking poetry. It is not the laser-guns and spaceship sort of Sci-Fi you are used to (even if there are lasers and spaceships in it).
Other reccomendations for the genre:
Stranger in a Strange Land (unabridged only - don't read the 1961 version)
The Ophiuchi Hotline - one hell of a twisted tale
Anathem - but only if you are a nerd (you better be if you are here)
And Microsoft's FUD about Linux is logical?
If Microsoft would quit spreading FUD about Linux, we would quit returning the favor. If Microsoft doesn't like Linux, they should just not use it. But instead they make stuff up about it.
There are some major differences however. I have never been found guilty of violating monopoly law (I am too sneaky when I do it) and I am not a patent troll (more of a patent ogre). I never installed a backdoor in my OS for the NSA (I did it for the former KGB once, but I was only a child at the time). I never paid a huge Microsoft supporter to drop all future support for Microsoft OSes (I did threaten to touch them with a piece of poop on a stick if they didn't, but poo threats a bribes at horses of a different color).
If you cannot tell, we Linux Lovers feel wronged by the convicted criminal organization know as Microsoft (let's not mince words, they broke the law and were found guilty of it). Microsoft fucked with us, continues to fuck with us and will fuck with us in the future. All because we offer for free what it sells as a premium. Well, that and they are fools holding onto the old ideal of pyramidal power structures. Distributed peers for the WIN!
+1 for you
And it is written in/uses java/javascript?
Let me get this straight. He doesn't like wasting pixels. So, he re-imagines a time tested tool that uses MORE pixels to display the same data. Now it does display non-text in the terminal, but why? If you already have a GUI (which you must for this CLI) why not "xdg-open FILENAME" instead of "cat FILENAME"? And it wastes CPU cycles with a pointless java abstraction when it could run on the bare metal.
All I see is it doing is the exact opposite of its inferred goal of using pixels more efficiently while introducing a GUI/java dependency when there is normally no need of it.
Less flexible, requires a GUI, runs more slowly than native machine code all while doing nothing new. I agree that it looks very nice, but it sacrifices function for the sake of its form.
This appears to me to be a pretty toy and an interesting proof of concept but ultimately a step backwards. Am I missing something?
When Nintendo made the Wii, they knew they were making a last gen system (as far as processing power/ graphics capability is concerned) with a new and unique controller. It is my belief that you and I both would agree this is the case.
commodore64love, when one looks at your comment history, one will sees not posts containing original thoughs or interesting but overlook facts, but criticism after criticism of others. You look for others saying something you disagree with and then verbally abuse them in a very emotional and irrational way. This is a comment from you on May 16th of this year:
I don't listen to people who call me "troll" "ass" "idiot" or "cocksucker". I don't listen to people who lack manners and use teeny-bopperish insults.
Now, I do find this quote very amusing. To name call (teeny-bopper) in a complaint about name calling is a cute little self contradiction (and an intentional one, I suspect). Then two days later, you accuse someone of trolling and say that, to you, they "look like a fucking fool". Who's trolling again?
Meeting you in the flesh sounds like a deeply satifying experience as I suspect you are far more pleasant when you are looking the other person in the eye. I look forward to meeting you and getting to know you better. Would you like to exchange contact information and arrange a face-to-face meeting?