Ellison has reached a settlement with Critical Path Inc. who will create software that enables Ellison to immediately delete postings of his work on the RemarQ service.
I could barely give a crap about Harlan having ubercancel powers over Supernews's servers, except as it leads to this:
There's a reason that usenet servers almost never respect cancels, and that's frivolous cancelling. It's destroyed froups in the past. Now once Supernews engineers their servers to allow Harlan to cancel any posting he has a personal problem with, there's no reason why others can't also have this power. Universal Music Group will ask for the same thing, followed by all the RIAA. And so on and so forth.
If Critical Path gives it them (and why wouldn't they?), Supernews will turn into a wasteland with as close to 0% binary completion as makes no odds. Harlan has gutted his chosen usenet service.
Next stop for me, Giganews. At least until Harlan gets to them.
"People can rant and rave on the Internet all they want, but when they cross the line of calling people to action to violently overthrow the Constitution of the United States, they have a problem," said McLaughlin.
The point is that the first amendment must have been repealed last year without anyone really noticing, if people can't even SAY the US needs a revolution without being convicted under the Patriot Act.
But that is a side-issue, which has nothing to do with the case (defacing web sites is illegal, duh) or, necessarily, the truth (Mr. McLaughlin is an agent, not a court or lawmaker).
By ignoring the political route and espousing the virtues of a violent overthrow, you have now entered the realm of "terrorist" or "freedom fighter."
The actual issue is that you think by espousing the virtues of a violent overthrow, one becomes a terrorist. For example, Corrosion of Conformity ("Vote with a Bullet") are terrorists, as are Queensryche (Operation: Mindcrime), Robert Shea, and Robert Anton Wilson. Funny thing how, until now, no one considered them such.
Here's the actual fact: once you plan and execute a violent act intended to terrorize the citizens of the USA and overthrow its government, you have entered the realm of "terrorist" and "freedom fighter."
Note how just supporting it doesn't enter the picture. Until recently, that was protected by the Bill of Rights.
Now I've probably been trolled, but there are enough people who really believe what the parent post says that I wanted to put my 2 cents in.
I also use the opencontent license, for short stories, comics, and other arts. I'm no lawyer, but it passed the "sounds like it lays everything out clearly enough so a human being can understand the license" rule for me.
I still think they should choose a less threatening name. DCS1000 is a scary mix of letters and numbers and looks like something that would kill you if you got in its way. "I can't do that, Dave."
I think they should change the name to The Cute Fluffy Bunny.
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Will these books be 'open source' in other words can I re-write the ending if I don't like it ? That would be cool. So many stories have happy endings these days. It would totally rock if we could rewrite them...
These books aren't like that, but it has been done.
All my own stuff on my webpage (stories, music, not nearly as good as any of these guys' stuff) is currently under the Open Content License because, well, it was the closest license I could find to what I wanted. If you want to rewrite a story cause it's crap, knock yourself out.
The adware isn't the problem in deciding whether to upgrade from 3.62 or not. It's the other stuff. 600k more (compressed) for more email (I HAVE an email client), integrated search, and... AN INSTANT MESSAGING CLIENT??? (oops, sorry about screaming, I lost control for a moment)
Looking at the new features list gives me the bad feelings I get when reading Mozilla features.
I wonder why someone out there in Windows-land won't just release a small browser that works? Adding an instant messaging client defintely does not count as an upgrade. It's bug fixing that Opera should be concentrating on.
Well, it's no problem. I still have 3.62 and even after Opera Software is on fucked company I'll have it. --
IMAO, it's not worth getting. While the animation is decent (I've seen lots better), the story will confuse the Hell(tm) out of you.
I found the story pretty simple, actually. It's weird, and I'm not sure I understood it actually WHILE I was watching it (on a spinning high-generation videotape)... I remember ending like... "MAN, that was weird." But after I'd thought about it a little bit, it became clear.
Akira has really a typical science fiction plot. The "out there" stuff was all *style,* where it broke a lot of expectations, but the *story* itself was easy enough, which made the movie comprehensible. Maybe I don't know all the history involved, but in the context of the movie, I don't care. It's out of scope.
I think Akira was a very well-done movie. One of my favorite flicks, and a fascinating treatment of a classic sci-fi theme. It's no A Clockwork Orange, but it's worth getting. --
Not as long as women keep dating Assholes it doesn't. We will start evolving into a more intelligent and nicer species aproximately one generation after women decide not to put up with stupid assholes just because they're good looking or have money.
I don't pretend to understand women's little quirks.
Just one thing I know for sure,
Chicks dig jerks.
-- Bill Hicks
Lionhead coded hand gesture recognition technology. You do things by making gestures with your hand/cursor. For example, let's say you wanted to light a village on fire. You would cast the fire spell by doing a certain set of motions. The fireball would come blazing out, severity varying depending on how accurate you did the spell. (For example, if the casting shape was a circle and you made a really bad rounded rectangle, you could expect a very weak spell).
Boy, I am going to suck at this game. And I thought FPSes were too much mousework for me. I can't draw a circle with pen and paper, much less a mouse.
A shame, it sounds like a great concept, since I loved the Populous games (though 1 and 2 were too long for me). But once you throw hand/eye coordination into a strategy game, you knock me out of the story. --
Here is how tasks should be assigned to mice buttons in file managers.
1. select
2. open
3. move
and if you have more...
I agree. I only have three buttons (at home, not at work where they give me a 2 button mouse), so I'll stop here. This is the way I have it set up, with the help of a little windows app that came with my mouse:
1. select/move
2. open
3. context menus
It's great not having to double-click, because even today my crappy motor control occasionally makes me move icons just a little bit when trying to double-click. With 3 buttons, most problems go away, except that I sometimes get the wrong context menu (accidentally drag the icon a bit when clicking...there's got to be a way around that).
Here are answers from Ficus. For more information on Ficus's candidacy, see Ficus's campaign
webpage.
1) War on Drugs Ficus:
2) Minority Religions... Ficus:
3) Why give a tax cut? Ficus:
4) electoral reform Ficus:
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property? Ficus:
6) Encryption.... Ficus:
7) Rising Political Protests Ficus:
8) Asteroid Defenses Ficus:
9) The Future of the Country, and of Humanity Ficus:
As you can see, Ficus's answers are a lot less stupid than any of the other candidates' responses so far. When you go to the polls, vote Ficus. Because you deserve better. --
But they're not banner ads. Look at the samples. They're unobtrusive blue text boxes on the right hand edge, clearly labelled "Sponsored Links".
Exactly. Google's ads are the best in the business. They're either the little box, or a couple lines of text at the top of the screen. They make even slashdot's ad format (which is fairly unobtrusive, even if it takes rather a bit longer to load) look like a pile of puke.
If all companies used google-type ads, I wouldn't be ticked that I can't use junkbuster at work. Websites could get their banner-ad revenue without giving me browser hell. --
But I'll tell you what... here's how I really feel about it: Listen, you toothless dumbass backwoods cracker feebs, the Civil War was a HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO, and YOU LOST. etc, etc.
Maybe I'm just a skeptic, but I can't imagine this actually working. How many legislators read their own mail?
None. For example, take Senator Murkowski from Alaska, the senator responsible for the failed pro-spam bill you'll find quoted at the bottom of much of your spam (this is called being "murked"). Not suprisingly, he got lots of complaints about the bill.
The senator got sick of the outcry against his awful attempt at legislation. Now every single email to him goes into the bitbucket, not even read by staff.
Do you think any other legislators would react differently to complaints about their incompetence? Send them a million emails, and even if they read their email now, they won't any longer. --
Good god this is true. I'm sitting at my desk at a very large consulting firm bored almost to tears everyday. I'm being paid well over $100k per year to sit here and once in a while spend 15 minutes writing a shell script to find out if a process has died.
Damn, I get less than a third of that amount for reading slashdot. Where can I get in on this booming slashdot-boredom-economy?
I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent 'I'm going to patent something obvious'"""" stupid comments on/.
Am I the only person thinking a nice LISP expression would be a bit more efficient here?
Ooo, technology is moving quickly. Signing a contract means you're committed to something. "I can't weasel out of my financial committments.". Wah, wah!
Actually, signing a contract means you get tied to a company that only offers one thing with your service: "We guarantee we will take your money for a year (oh, and we'll probably laugh at you a lot, you moron)."
The review dumps on the install, but that was no big deal. If you've been using Linux for more than a year, and bash doesn't scare you, neither will dbootstrap.
I never understand this. Slink was my first linux install ever. Of the 3 brands I've installed (Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake), it was the best. It was easy, gave me control over the stuff I needed to control, and worked from a small base download.
Now I admit, the networking on the early potato frozen installer was a bit fubared, but it looks, from one of the screen shots, like that's fixed.
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Ellison has reached a settlement with Critical Path Inc. who will create software that enables Ellison to immediately delete postings of his work on the RemarQ service.
I could barely give a crap about Harlan having ubercancel powers over Supernews's servers, except as it leads to this:
There's a reason that usenet servers almost never respect cancels, and that's frivolous cancelling. It's destroyed froups in the past. Now once Supernews engineers their servers to allow Harlan to cancel any posting he has a personal problem with, there's no reason why others can't also have this power. Universal Music Group will ask for the same thing, followed by all the RIAA. And so on and so forth.
If Critical Path gives it them (and why wouldn't they?), Supernews will turn into a wasteland with as close to 0% binary completion as makes no odds. Harlan has gutted his chosen usenet service.
Next stop for me, Giganews. At least until Harlan gets to them.
They also have the bands that I was looking for, even the slightly rare ones like Opeth, and Therion.
And Opeth is very good music. Emusic also has Fates Warning. They seem to be a quality outfit, in the music download arena.
A shame they weren't mentioned.
"People can rant and rave on the Internet all they want, but when they cross the line of calling people to action to violently overthrow the Constitution of the United States, they have a problem," said McLaughlin.
The point is that the first amendment must have been repealed last year without anyone really noticing, if people can't even SAY the US needs a revolution without being convicted under the Patriot Act.
But that is a side-issue, which has nothing to do with the case (defacing web sites is illegal, duh) or, necessarily, the truth (Mr. McLaughlin is an agent, not a court or lawmaker).
By ignoring the political route and espousing the virtues of a violent overthrow, you have now entered the realm of "terrorist" or "freedom fighter."
The actual issue is that you think by espousing the virtues of a violent overthrow, one becomes a terrorist. For example, Corrosion of Conformity ("Vote with a Bullet") are terrorists, as are Queensryche (Operation: Mindcrime), Robert Shea, and Robert Anton Wilson. Funny thing how, until now, no one considered them such.
Here's the actual fact: once you plan and execute a violent act intended to terrorize the citizens of the USA and overthrow its government, you have entered the realm of "terrorist" and "freedom fighter."
Note how just supporting it doesn't enter the picture. Until recently, that was protected by the Bill of Rights.
Now I've probably been trolled, but there are enough people who really believe what the parent post says that I wanted to put my 2 cents in.
I also use the opencontent license, for short stories, comics, and other arts. I'm no lawyer, but it passed the "sounds like it lays everything out clearly enough so a human being can understand the license" rule for me.
I think it's a good license.
I still think they should choose a less threatening name. DCS1000 is a scary mix of letters and numbers and looks like something that would kill you if you got in its way. "I can't do that, Dave."
I think they should change the name to The Cute Fluffy Bunny.
--
Will these books be 'open source' in other words can I re-write the ending if I don't like it ? That would be cool. So many stories have happy endings these days. It would totally rock if we could rewrite them...
These books aren't like that, but it has been done.
All my own stuff on my webpage (stories, music, not nearly as good as any of these guys' stuff) is currently under the Open Content License because, well, it was the closest license I could find to what I wanted. If you want to rewrite a story cause it's crap, knock yourself out.
Now all we need is open sourced good material.
--
The adware isn't the problem in deciding whether to upgrade from 3.62 or not. It's the other stuff. 600k more (compressed) for more email (I HAVE an email client), integrated search, and ... AN INSTANT MESSAGING CLIENT??? (oops, sorry about screaming, I lost control for a moment)
Looking at the new features list gives me the bad feelings I get when reading Mozilla features.
I wonder why someone out there in Windows-land won't just release a small browser that works? Adding an instant messaging client defintely does not count as an upgrade. It's bug fixing that Opera should be concentrating on.
Well, it's no problem. I still have 3.62 and even after Opera Software is on fucked company I'll have it.
--
IMAO, it's not worth getting. While the animation is decent (I've seen lots better), the story will confuse the Hell(tm) out of you.
... I remember ending like ... "MAN, that was weird." But after I'd thought about it a little bit, it became clear.
I found the story pretty simple, actually. It's weird, and I'm not sure I understood it actually WHILE I was watching it (on a spinning high-generation videotape)
Akira has really a typical science fiction plot. The "out there" stuff was all *style,* where it broke a lot of expectations, but the *story* itself was easy enough, which made the movie comprehensible. Maybe I don't know all the history involved, but in the context of the movie, I don't care. It's out of scope.
I think Akira was a very well-done movie. One of my favorite flicks, and a fascinating treatment of a classic sci-fi theme. It's no A Clockwork Orange, but it's worth getting.
--
--
Lionhead coded hand gesture recognition technology. You do things by making gestures with your hand/cursor. For example, let's say you wanted to light a village on fire. You would cast the fire spell by doing a certain set of motions. The fireball would come blazing out, severity varying depending on how accurate you did the spell. (For example, if the casting shape was a circle and you made a really bad rounded rectangle, you could expect a very weak spell).
Boy, I am going to suck at this game. And I thought FPSes were too much mousework for me. I can't draw a circle with pen and paper, much less a mouse.
A shame, it sounds like a great concept, since I loved the Populous games (though 1 and 2 were too long for me). But once you throw hand/eye coordination into a strategy game, you knock me out of the story.
--
End double clicking.
...
Here is how tasks should be assigned to mice buttons in file managers.
1. select
2. open
3. move
and if you have more...
I agree. I only have three buttons (at home, not at work where they give me a 2 button mouse), so I'll stop here. This is the way I have it set up, with the help of a little windows app that came with my mouse:
1. select/move
2. open
3. context menus
It's great not having to double-click, because even today my crappy motor control occasionally makes me move icons just a little bit when trying to double-click. With 3 buttons, most problems go away, except that I sometimes get the wrong context menu (accidentally drag the icon a bit when clicking...there's got to be a way around that).
--
Death (naturally ... and Schuldiner is a great guitar player). Atheist (RIP, I think). Believer (what a wacky concept). Cynic (RIP).
--
Here are answers from Ficus. For more information on Ficus's candidacy, see Ficus's campaign
webpage.
1) War on Drugs
Ficus:
2) Minority Religions...
Ficus:
3) Why give a tax cut?
Ficus:
4) electoral reform
Ficus:
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
Ficus:
6) Encryption....
Ficus:
7) Rising Political Protests
Ficus:
8) Asteroid Defenses
Ficus:
9) The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
Ficus:
As you can see, Ficus's answers are a lot less stupid than any of the other candidates' responses so far. When you go to the polls, vote Ficus. Because you deserve better.
--
But they're not banner ads. Look at the samples. They're unobtrusive blue text boxes on the right hand edge, clearly labelled "Sponsored Links".
Exactly. Google's ads are the best in the business. They're either the little box, or a couple lines of text at the top of the screen. They make even slashdot's ad format (which is fairly unobtrusive, even if it takes rather a bit longer to load) look like a pile of puke.
If all companies used google-type ads, I wouldn't be ticked that I can't use junkbuster at work. Websites could get their banner-ad revenue without giving me browser hell.
--
Am I the only one annoyed by "Extreme" this and "Extreme" that?
"Crunch your numbers with the [bad rock starts playing, strobing colored lights] Extreme Processor Platform!!! D00D!!"
Maybe it's just me.
--
Does anybody out there think virtual communities are real?
You're soaking in it.
--
But I'll tell you what... here's how I really feel about it: Listen, you toothless dumbass backwoods cracker feebs, the Civil War was a HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO, and YOU LOST. etc, etc.
Brilliant. That's all I have to say here.
--
Maybe I'm just a skeptic, but I can't imagine this actually working. How many legislators read their own mail?
None. For example, take Senator Murkowski from Alaska, the senator responsible for the failed pro-spam bill you'll find quoted at the bottom of much of your spam (this is called being "murked"). Not suprisingly, he got lots of complaints about the bill.
The senator got sick of the outcry against his awful attempt at legislation. Now every single email to him goes into the bitbucket, not even read by staff.
Do you think any other legislators would react differently to complaints about their incompetence? Send them a million emails, and even if they read their email now, they won't any longer.
--
Good god this is true. I'm sitting at my desk at a very large consulting firm bored almost to tears everyday. I'm being paid well over $100k per year to sit here and once in a while spend 15 minutes writing a shell script to find out if a process has died.
Damn, I get less than a third of that amount for reading slashdot. Where can I get in on this booming slashdot-boredom-economy?
--
I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent 'I'm going to patent something obvious'"""" stupid comments on /.
Am I the only person thinking a nice LISP expression would be a bit more efficient here?
--
How fucking stupid do you have to be to confuse "fastcompany" with "FUCKEDcompany"?
What's so different about 'fuck' and 'fast?' Both concepts seem pretty related to me. I mean, when does it take longer than two minutes to--um...
Nevermind.
--
Ooo, technology is moving quickly. Signing a contract means you're committed to something. "I can't weasel out of my financial committments.". Wah, wah!
Actually, signing a contract means you get tied to a company that only offers one thing with your service: "We guarantee we will take your money for a year (oh, and we'll probably laugh at you a lot, you moron)."
To illustrate.
--
The review dumps on the install, but that was no big deal. If you've been using Linux for more than a year, and bash doesn't scare you, neither will dbootstrap.
I never understand this. Slink was my first linux install ever. Of the 3 brands I've installed (Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake), it was the best. It was easy, gave me control over the stuff I needed to control, and worked from a small base download.
Now I admit, the networking on the early potato frozen installer was a bit fubared, but it looks, from one of the screen shots, like that's fixed.
--
The Rise of Leo DiCaprio
Strange. I see view as icons and view as music, but where's view as text?
Where's the screenshot of the small, fast, uncluttered, and powerful mode?