I use it because: I am poor, and it allows me to legally use software without paying for it, and use old hardware without suffering. I enjoy the fact that people like you get so worked up about why I use software. It gives me a lot of control. It takes care of its self. I don't have to worry about using cpu cycles to keep my web browsing from hosing my machine. It's one of the few situations in life where I actually benefit from the investments of huge corporations.
Madam Goodall could study radio active apes, perhaps saving us from Godzilla. Nikolai Newton would levitate apples for us. Alan Crick and Werner Watson could use RNA, traveling along, and changing, and infinitely long strand of DNA to control the path of a ballistic missile.
I peel 'em off with my thumbnail and smudge it a bit with my finger. All gone.
I have to admit, These are all older computers; the newest one I've tried it one was about three when I got it, stickers intact. Have they switched to a more obnoxious sticker system?
I find Moby Dick to be quite a bit of fun. You just have to skip the plot and get into the geekery of whaling and sailing. Oh, and don't worry about accuracy.
Rather than investigate what you've just claimed, I'm going to ask if it makes any kind of sense to have a restrictive policy on disclosing one's user level password, and expect that you'll just turn over a system level password to an unknown number of unknown people.
Of course he shouldn't have had sole administrative access to the network; however, it seems likely that the fastest typist among the authorized, well intentioned people hearing this information would be far outpaced by the hypothetical fastest typist among any hypothetical bad guys.
Assuming youre assertion is correct, it is evidence that the people he worked for were even more incompetent to handle the network than he feared. That doesn't put him on the right side of the law, but it does make his position sound a lot more sane.
I dunno, it seems pretty obvious that he would have been shafted just as hard had he turned over the passwords to a an unknowable number of unauthorized people and anything unpleasant had happened to the network. Especially since it's a government. It seems likely that a violation of the security policy, if that can be made to seem like it's connected to an actually problem, would lead to the same results for Childs.
He was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. At least this way he gets to have been the good guy who stood up for something, instead of the pragmatist whose caving to convenience got him fired and put in prison.
Obviously, there's no certainty that it would have turned ugly, but it wasn't a forgone conclusion that it would turn ugly this way, either.
It's always a little cool and crushing to see someone actually doing the things I talk about. I've actually been thinking that It needs to be a generic 35mm digital back. There ought to be plenty of room for a substantial battery and memory/processing with those two big spaces either side of the area of exposure.
Here's to people who actually follow through on those nifty ideas which seem to float around looking for a patch of fertile motivation.
I think you mean to say that no Americans have been prosecuted by the US governtment for waterboarding accused terrorists in the past decade. People, including Americans have been prosecuted for waterboarding by the US government.
I'll not cite sources, if you can't find 'em, you're not interested.
I don't see any problem with it. I'm no Apple supporteer, but how is this different than MS banning hacked consoles from XBL or Blizzard banning cheaters from their servers.
If you want to use a service, you have to play by that service's rules. Don't like the rules, don't use the service.
I think the better way of putting it is:
If you try to hack the system, don't whine when the system retaliates. You knew it was a risk when you made your choice.
After reading your post, I thought I'd check it out, since I had also said maybe later. Yep, I'm all signed up, with one follower, who seems to only write in spanish or portugese, and following seven people. The people I'm following, I'm actually, mostly interested in, but this follower, never heard of him.
I go to help, and look for a way to kill the buzz. It tells me to sign in and go to my account and click on edit next to the product I want to delete. Buzz is not listed. Buzz also persists in saying that I have one follower, although I just blocked him. When ever I check to see who it is, it tells me I don't have any followers. Then it goes back to saying, in two places on the page, that I have a follower.
Fortunately, there is a little teeny link in the middle of a bunch of other tiny text which offers to turn off Buzz.
I feature compared my last broom purchase a lot more than I did my last computer purchase. Then again, I had a lot more freedom in choosing a price point with a broom. The last computer I bought was before netbooks, and I needed cheap. Buying the most expensive broom hurts a lot less than the second cheapest laptop did back then.
I don't care, for the moment, how this happened. I'd be quite happy to learn how this happened in fifty years, when some dying old man makes the confession that he accidentally shredded the last four pages of a six hundred page schematic. What ever.
I care that a nuclear reactor just a few miles from my home can't go two weeks without ending up in the news over some screwup. They don't know where the pipes are, or what they do; they don't keep up on maintenence, they choose not to fund their decomissioning fund; they can't cool the water they dump in the Connecticut River; they can't always remember where they put spent fuel rods...
The trials in Germany don't behave anything like trials in the US. It's even beyond the Napoleonic system, where precedent isn't as big a deal. They don't do the whole adversarial thing. Basically, people talk until the judge decides s/he knows what actually happened, and produces a ruling.
Obviously, this is all based on on thing I over[mis]heard a while back.
I like to think that he'd read that damn book, look up, and say, "This is bullshit. Where did the idea that value could exist outside the mind which perceives value start?"
But, I've always been a hopeless optimist when it comes to fictional supermen. Zarathustra, now there's a fictional superman whose opinion on this topic I'd like to hear.
Are you talking about Fords and Chevys, made in the US, but American workers, or Toyotas and Hondas, made in the US, by American workers?
Or, about Fords and Chevys, made in Mexico, by Mexican workers, or in Canada, by Canadian workers, and all the same again for the Toyotas and Hondas, and Beemers, Benzes, and VWs?
I think you'll find that it's not as simple as "American factories make junk," or "American workers make junk." The connection between quality and geography is tenuous, and much of the real difference is related to labor costs. But that only really works in a negative way. Companies making cheap shit go to cheap labor markets. Companies making quality feces can consider a greater range of factors when locating manufacturing.
The other great thing about a watch is that I don't look quite as stupid when I look at my watch every time I have to think about time. I look at my watch as a sort of self hypnosis. It signals my brain to think in terms of time, even when the time involved was never registered against my watch, or is on a scale which does not register on my watch.
Truthfully, for a couple of years I wasn't wearing watches, and I'd still look at my wrist to think about time.
Here's why I still have a watch: I sync it to the clock which matters.
"A man with one clock always knows what time it is; a man with two is never sure."
I don't have to worry about which clock is accurate. I know that I only have one clock in my life which is unforgiving. Every other random clock can be either close enough that people running off it will not be inconvenienced by my running off a different clock, or ignored.
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I use it because:
I am poor, and it allows me to legally use software without paying for it, and use old hardware without suffering.
I enjoy the fact that people like you get so worked up about why I use software.
It gives me a lot of control.
It takes care of its self.
I don't have to worry about using cpu cycles to keep my web browsing from hosing my machine.
It's one of the few situations in life where I actually benefit from the investments of huge corporations.
Not in any way important to you. But there it is.
ivan
or defeat the Shadow.
Recombinant researchers are the next big thing!
Madam Goodall could study radio active apes, perhaps saving us from Godzilla.
Nikolai Newton would levitate apples for us.
Alan Crick and Werner Watson could use RNA, traveling along, and changing, and infinitely long strand of DNA to control the path of a ballistic missile.
Truly, we would live in an age of miracles.
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[Internet Explorer]
Forget all the other browsers and
down with the Web 2.0 net police.
a little tid bit from the bottom of the page.
Actually... between the browser endorsement and the Web 2.0 hatred, that should be enough to get a rise out of anyone on Slashdot....
I peel 'em off with my thumbnail and smudge it a bit with my finger. All gone.
I have to admit, These are all older computers; the newest one I've tried it one was about three when I got it, stickers intact. Have they switched to a more obnoxious sticker system?
You mean modern car keys which are "enhanced" to the extent that a new one costs >$50, and the car will only accept a maximum of five keys?
Keys which, should they fail to produce the appropriate secret handshake, can lock the ignition system.
Modern locks are a total PITA.
ivan
the only metric that really matters (amount of sunlight over land per capita)
There are a hell of a lot of people in Africa who think there are some problems with your metric.
ivan
I find Moby Dick to be quite a bit of fun. You just have to skip the plot and get into the geekery of whaling and sailing. Oh, and don't worry about accuracy.
ivan
Rather than investigate what you've just claimed, I'm going to ask if it makes any kind of sense to have a restrictive policy on disclosing one's user level password, and expect that you'll just turn over a system level password to an unknown number of unknown people.
Of course he shouldn't have had sole administrative access to the network; however, it seems likely that the fastest typist among the authorized, well intentioned people hearing this information would be far outpaced by the hypothetical fastest typist among any hypothetical bad guys.
Assuming youre assertion is correct, it is evidence that the people he worked for were even more incompetent to handle the network than he feared. That doesn't put him on the right side of the law, but it does make his position sound a lot more sane.
ivan
I dunno, it seems pretty obvious that he would have been shafted just as hard had he turned over the passwords to a an unknowable number of unauthorized people and anything unpleasant had happened to the network. Especially since it's a government. It seems likely that a violation of the security policy, if that can be made to seem like it's connected to an actually problem, would lead to the same results for Childs.
He was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. At least this way he gets to have been the good guy who stood up for something, instead of the pragmatist whose caving to convenience got him fired and put in prison.
Obviously, there's no certainty that it would have turned ugly, but it wasn't a forgone conclusion that it would turn ugly this way, either.
Guy got fucked, and probably would have anyway.
ivan
It's always a little cool and crushing to see someone actually doing the things I talk about. I've actually been thinking that It needs to be a generic 35mm digital back. There ought to be plenty of room for a substantial battery and memory/processing with those two big spaces either side of the area of exposure.
Here's to people who actually follow through on those nifty ideas which seem to float around looking for a patch of fertile motivation.
ivan
* What flavor of Linux would be best for a robot girlfriend? (and, no, you can't use 'GirLinux')
I'd go with Debian. Stability ranks pretty highly with me.
ivan
I'll not cite sources, if you can't find 'em, you're not interested.
ivan
I don't see any problem with it. I'm no Apple supporteer, but how is this different than MS banning hacked consoles from XBL or Blizzard banning cheaters from their servers. If you want to use a service, you have to play by that service's rules. Don't like the rules, don't use the service.
I think the better way of putting it is:
If you try to hack the system, don't whine when the system retaliates. You knew it was a risk when you made your choice.
ivan
I go to help, and look for a way to kill the buzz. It tells me to sign in and go to my account and click on edit next to the product I want to delete. Buzz is not listed. Buzz also persists in saying that I have one follower, although I just blocked him. When ever I check to see who it is, it tells me I don't have any followers. Then it goes back to saying, in two places on the page, that I have a follower.
Fortunately, there is a little teeny link in the middle of a bunch of other tiny text which offers to turn off Buzz.
ivan
ivan
I care that a nuclear reactor just a few miles from my home can't go two weeks without ending up in the news over some screwup. They don't know where the pipes are, or what they do; they don't keep up on maintenence, they choose not to fund their decomissioning fund; they can't cool the water they dump in the Connecticut River; they can't always remember where they put spent fuel rods ...
And they want to up the rates.
You don't think we should all go with Anonymous?
Let's get back to the mead. I've some in the bottle, and some in the works.
ivan
Obviously, this is all based on on thing I over[mis]heard a while back.
What would John Galt do?
I like to think that he'd read that damn book, look up, and say, "This is bullshit. Where did the idea that value could exist outside the mind which perceives value start?"
But, I've always been a hopeless optimist when it comes to fictional supermen. Zarathustra, now there's a fictional superman whose opinion on this topic I'd like to hear.
Or, about Fords and Chevys, made in Mexico, by Mexican workers, or in Canada, by Canadian workers, and all the same again for the Toyotas and Hondas, and Beemers, Benzes, and VWs?
I think you'll find that it's not as simple as "American factories make junk," or "American workers make junk." The connection between quality and geography is tenuous, and much of the real difference is related to labor costs. But that only really works in a negative way. Companies making cheap shit go to cheap labor markets. Companies making quality feces can consider a greater range of factors when locating manufacturing.
Truthfully, for a couple of years I wasn't wearing watches, and I'd still look at my wrist to think about time.
"A man with one clock always knows what time it is; a man with two is never sure."
I don't have to worry about which clock is accurate. I know that I only have one clock in my life which is unforgiving. Every other random clock can be either close enough that people running off it will not be inconvenienced by my running off a different clock, or ignored.
It also featured a little disclaimer at the beginning, distancing the author from the views expressed. I hope we can do better.