Doh!
Airconditioning actually adds to global warming, by using more electricity which is mostly generated by burning fossil fuels...
The cleanest method of large scale power generation is nuclear* power - but the greenies, in profound irony, don't like that...
(*Because all you groovy fuckers are going to say this: ObHomer: "That's Nukeular... Nukeular."
I despair about you lot sometimes, I really do.)
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
That's bollocks.
Go back sixty years - when war raged over Europe and the Nazis, who had invaded everywhere but Britain were attempting to systematically eradicate the Jews.
And you're complaining about your freedoms being destroyed?
Suddenly the good ol' days don't sound so good, do they....
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Mad Fundamentalists who are mentally deranged believe that creationism is true.
There are some mad people who are mentally deranged who think that Star Trek is true
There are some mad people who are mentally deranged who believe that hillbillies get anally probed by aliens on a regular basis.
Sane people with a modicum of intelligence believe none of the above.
Creationism and Star Trek have a lot in common. Neither of them is true. Neither of them have any basis in science.
Now just fuck off to the arsehole you crawled out of.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Little open source zealot, living in a dream world all his own...
With a free OS - at least you can try and make some money off technical support. That's the business model of every company pushing Linux these days - whether it actually works as a business model is still moot.
With a game? No way. That model doesn't work with games. It's not like 'the good old days' which weren't actually good at all, when Fred Jones in his bedroom could knock out games. Games of this quality are a business, not a hobby. People put shitloads of money and manpower into developing these things - artists and musicians as well as coders. Who's going to pay all those people?
And why should those people do all that work for nothing?
It ain't going to happen. You go live in the open source ghetto if you please, but I'm going to buy any software I want mate.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
There's a surprising amount in common between Linux fanatics and religious fundamentalists.
Actually, not that surprising, with some people here Linux IS a religion, and anyone who dare not praise it to the highest is a filthy heretic!
Yeah, I agree with you. Microsoft have bugs, so they're crap. Redhat have bugs, but that's to be expected as the distro grows...
Right. Any software above a certain level of complexity is bound to have bugs, no matter who produces it. FACT.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
5. They (SuSE) sponsor UserFriendly.org for one cartoon a month. (Pitr's support in a cartoon probably didn't hurt either. [We put in SuSE or Pitr do evil things to you!])
They do? Damn, and I was quite liking SuSE 7. Might have to switch to something else then if they sponsor that completely unfunny pile of crap by someone who can't draw to save his life.
User Friendly is such utter bollocks it even makes Dilbert (which is also about as funny as a hole in the head) look good...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Yeah, but he's fictional and so doesn't count.
But Queen Victoria, on the other hand, was a bit of a druggie... She was one of the first women to take an anaesthetic in childbirth (in her case, ether, as used much later by Hunter S. Thompson) when The Church condemned the practice as "Women are supposed to suffer for the sin of Eve" blah blah. This shut the old geezers up as they could hardly accuse the leader of the Church of England (i.e., the reigning monarch) of being sinful...!
She was partial to the odd toke throughout her life... Well, it wasn't illegal then, and the Empire was a good source of supply...
(Not forgetting, if it hadn't been for Queen Victoria, Goths wouldn't have such lovely Jet jewellry..)
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Oops - Didn't notice the link between Upside.com and Upside Media... My mistake.
The guy's dad is an arse, then.
Maybe the company could get done over their working conditions. But then that would probably take a geek union - and AFAIK techies aren't unionised much.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Ok - so they're talking about dot-com businesses, some of the most exploitative businesses ever, with some poor guy working ludicrous hours of the day on their computer systems rather than hiring more people to spread out the work.
Is there any wonder people are turning to artificial stimulants somewhat stronger than caffeine?
This guy was working either fourteen hours a day every day of the week - or twenty hour days on weekdays, however you look at it.
If I was working those hours, I'd need speed to keep me going!
Actually, I wouldn't work those hours. Fuck no!
That guy's father should sue the shit out of the company which exploited his son that way.
NOBODY needs to work that much. If you're doing 100 hour weeks, either you're crap at your job and can't get things done in time, or you're being exploited by your employers who should HIRE MORE STAFF.
That company worked that guy into an early grave, to cope with the ludicrous hours he took uppers, then he had to take downers to come down at the end of the day. Vicious circle, in which he was the victim...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Starship Titanic took Adams and 30odd other people two years to produce. In the end it didn't sell enough to recoup costs!
Part of the UK launch included a signing session at the HMV shop on Oxford Street. A representative from ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, The Official Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy Appreciation Society turned up to hand out flyers. In two hours, maybe three people showed up!
It's about fifteen years since the Infocom Guide game came out and people still talk about it. I can't imagine people talking about Starship Titanic in fifteen years, can you?
Whether this reflects on how text adventures were more compulsive, or that Adams has completely lost it these days, is another thing...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Oh, the real definition. A word means what I say it means, eh Humpty Dumpty?
Well I'm sorry, but I've read the jargon file, and I don't consider it to be the fount of all knowledge and wisdom thank you very much.
In fact I consider it to be a pile of cliquey self-important toss generated by brainfried hippies and people who think being able to use a computer makes them SOOOOOO important....
I go by the majority definition, which is:-
1. COMPUTING somebody accessing another's computer: somebody who uses computer expertise to gain unauthorized access to a computer system belonging to another, either to learn about the system or to examine its data
I think you'll find that the set of people who have never even heard of the jargon file overrules the set of people who have read it and hang off its every word.
Clinging on to the old jargon file definiton of the word "hacker" is every bit as ludicrous as people who clung on to the old definition of the world "gay"
Get real
Get a life
Get a fucking dictionary
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I thought slashdot was a forum for technology-related news and information.
I never realised it was supposed to be a forum for criminals and the arseholes who romanticise them. My mistake obviously. Perhaps the masthead shoul;d be changed to "Stuff for criminals. Felonies that matter" in that case...
You arse!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
...about hacking. Hackers should be hunted down and locked up and serve the fuckers right if they end up as bubba's love slave.
Emmanual Goldstein. Ooooo! Let's pick an alias that makes me out to be the enemy of Big Brother. Ooo, I'm so fucking anti-establishment. Oooo, I'm such a self-important little twat! Mummy, the nasty man won't let me play with his computer, but I wanna, I wanna, I wanna!!!!
What an utter ARSE!
Hackers are not "necessary". They are engaged in ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
Mr. Corely should get a fucking life.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Henry VIII started the Church of England because he was a randy git who wanted to trade in his wife for a newer model...
I always love the fact that the Church of England was founded to satisfy the sex drive of the monarchy....
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
The trick, you see, isn't to completely scrap any particular system... Take the Russians for example, they've been using Soyuz capsules for HOW long now? And that's a 30-40 y.o. tech right there... When they tried to scrap it to bring out their shuttle (Buran), guess what killed the Russian economy?
Simple phrase. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Apollo got people as far as the moon. Shuttle struggles into lower earth orbit. Hell, the Russians had to LOWER the orbit of MIR so the Shuttle could dock with it!
Perhaps NASA should have built on the Saturn 5, perhaps added some kind of automated return mechanism to make them reusable. There's a site somewhere, I can't remember the URL, which shows us NASA's plans to develop on what they had back in the 60s.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Tell me. How long has Mir been up there?
Now tell me for how long Skylab was up there?
Mir wins, by a long, long way.
Skylab refused to deploy one of its main solar panels on launch, and a rescue mission had to be sent to salvage it by putting up a kind of tarpaulin because there was a bloody great hole in the insulation!...
Skylab, the best the Americans had to offer, was a pile of short-term junk that didn't work from day one.
Mir, however, is solid technology that keeps on working even when you crash a spacecraft into it! Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.
I'm afraid, my American friends, that when it comes to long-term space travel, the Russians have more knowledge in their little fingers than in the whole of NASA.
Lift your glass of vodka and drink a health to the cosmonauts.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
...which is a damn shame as he's crap!
What was that one about mermaids with bicycles again? "Mercycle" - that was it. And "The colour of her panties".
No wonder his stuff is out of print,it's stunning it ever got printed in the first place!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Tell me, oh great one, what have you ever contributed to the advancement of science?
Or the advancement of anything, for that matter?
Bugger all, I bet, so just shut the FUCK up and don't blether mindlessly just because you can, you brainless moronic buffoon!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Re:A shame it's hard to find...
on
Hackers
·
· Score: 1
Most books (in a brief sampling session from my own bookshelves at least) are Copyright
Oh Bollocks!
What I meant to say was that most books are copyright their author - so if the book is out of print and the author can be persuaded to let it go into the public domain, that's the author's prerogative.
Certainly with books of this nature - they get more dated as time goes by - there's a chance that future reprints would be unlikely.
Maybe/. could start a petition to ask Steven Levy to give the text to the community...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Re:A shame it's hard to find...
on
Hackers
·
· Score: 1
I would say in many cases the copywrite is owned by the publisher rather than the author.
Here's an exercise for you. Pick up a book. Any book. Look at the first few pages before the book starts proper.
There you'll find a copyright notice.
Most books (in a brief sampling session from my own bookshelves at least) are Copyright .
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Slashdot Mirror
Doh!
Airconditioning actually adds to global warming, by using more electricity which is mostly generated by burning fossil fuels...
The cleanest method of large scale power generation is nuclear* power - but the greenies, in profound irony, don't like that...
(*Because all you groovy fuckers are going to say this: ObHomer: "That's Nukeular... Nukeular."
I despair about you lot sometimes, I really do.)
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
That's bollocks.
Go back sixty years - when war raged over Europe and the Nazis, who had invaded everywhere but Britain were attempting to systematically eradicate the Jews.
And you're complaining about your freedoms being destroyed?
Suddenly the good ol' days don't sound so good, do they....
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Mad Fundamentalists who are mentally deranged believe that creationism is true.
There are some mad people who are mentally deranged who think that Star Trek is true
There are some mad people who are mentally deranged who believe that hillbillies get anally probed by aliens on a regular basis.
Sane people with a modicum of intelligence believe none of the above.
Creationism and Star Trek have a lot in common. Neither of them is true. Neither of them have any basis in science.
Now just fuck off to the arsehole you crawled out of.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Little open source zealot, living in a dream world all his own...
With a free OS - at least you can try and make some money off technical support. That's the business model of every company pushing Linux these days - whether it actually works as a business model is still moot.
With a game? No way. That model doesn't work with games. It's not like 'the good old days' which weren't actually good at all, when Fred Jones in his bedroom could knock out games. Games of this quality are a business, not a hobby. People put shitloads of money and manpower into developing these things - artists and musicians as well as coders. Who's going to pay all those people?
And why should those people do all that work for nothing?
It ain't going to happen.
You go live in the open source ghetto if you please, but I'm going to buy any software I want mate.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
There's a thought, was the concept of dying a lot thought about much before video games?
Ask a stand-up comedian... Some of them died every night....
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
There's a surprising amount in common between Linux fanatics and religious fundamentalists.
Actually, not that surprising, with some people here Linux IS a religion, and anyone who dare not praise it to the highest is a filthy heretic!
Yeah, I agree with you. Microsoft have bugs, so they're crap. Redhat have bugs, but that's to be expected as the distro grows...
Right. Any software above a certain level of complexity is bound to have bugs, no matter who produces it. FACT.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
5. They (SuSE) sponsor UserFriendly.org for one cartoon a month. (Pitr's support in a cartoon probably didn't hurt either. [We put in SuSE or Pitr do evil things to you!])
They do? Damn, and I was quite liking SuSE 7. Might have to switch to something else then if they sponsor that completely unfunny pile of crap by someone who can't draw to save his life.
User Friendly is such utter bollocks it even makes Dilbert (which is also about as funny as a hole in the head) look good...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Yeah, but he's fictional and so doesn't count.
But Queen Victoria, on the other hand, was a bit of a druggie... She was one of the first women to take an anaesthetic in childbirth (in her case, ether, as used much later by Hunter S. Thompson) when The Church condemned the practice as "Women are supposed to suffer for the sin of Eve" blah blah. This shut the old geezers up as they could hardly accuse the leader of the Church of England (i.e., the reigning monarch) of being sinful...!
She was partial to the odd toke throughout her life... Well, it wasn't illegal then, and the Empire was a good source of supply...
(Not forgetting, if it hadn't been for Queen Victoria, Goths wouldn't have such lovely Jet jewellry..)
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Oops - Didn't notice the link between Upside.com and Upside Media... My mistake.
The guy's dad is an arse, then.
Maybe the company could get done over their working conditions. But then that would probably take a geek union - and AFAIK techies aren't unionised much.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Ok - so they're talking about dot-com businesses, some of the most exploitative businesses ever, with some poor guy working ludicrous hours of the day on their computer systems rather than hiring more people to spread out the work.
Is there any wonder people are turning to artificial stimulants somewhat stronger than caffeine?
This guy was working either fourteen hours a day every day of the week - or twenty hour days on weekdays, however you look at it.
If I was working those hours, I'd need speed to keep me going!
Actually, I wouldn't work those hours. Fuck no!
That guy's father should sue the shit out of the company which exploited his son that way. NOBODY needs to work that much. If you're doing 100 hour weeks, either you're crap at your job and can't get things done in time, or you're being exploited by your employers who should HIRE MORE STAFF.
That company worked that guy into an early grave, to cope with the ludicrous hours he took uppers, then he had to take downers to come down at the end of the day. Vicious circle, in which he was the victim...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
How many times have you been looking at old code and thought "What were they smoking when they wrote this?"
Every time I use a Unix derivative...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Starship Titanic took Adams and 30odd other people two years to produce. In the end it didn't sell enough to recoup costs!
Part of the UK launch included a signing session at the HMV shop on Oxford Street. A representative from ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, The Official Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy Appreciation Society turned up to hand out flyers. In two hours, maybe three people showed up!
It's about fifteen years since the Infocom Guide game came out and people still talk about it. I can't imagine people talking about Starship Titanic in fifteen years, can you?
Whether this reflects on how text adventures were more compulsive, or that Adams has completely lost it these days, is another thing...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Oh, the real definition. A word means what I say it means, eh Humpty Dumpty?
Well I'm sorry, but I've read the jargon file, and I don't consider it to be the fount of all knowledge and wisdom thank you very much. In fact I consider it to be a pile of cliquey self-important toss generated by brainfried hippies and people who think being able to use a computer makes them SOOOOOO important....
I go by the majority definition, which is:- 1. COMPUTING somebody accessing another's computer: somebody who uses computer expertise to gain unauthorized access to a computer system belonging to another, either to learn about the system or to examine its data
I think you'll find that the set of people who have never even heard of the jargon file overrules the set of people who have read it and hang off its every word.
Clinging on to the old jargon file definiton of the word "hacker" is every bit as ludicrous as people who clung on to the old definition of the world "gay"
Get real
Get a life
Get a fucking dictionary
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I thought slashdot was a forum for technology-related news and information.
I never realised it was supposed to be a forum for criminals and the arseholes who romanticise them. My mistake obviously. Perhaps the masthead shoul;d be changed to "Stuff for criminals. Felonies that matter" in that case...
You arse!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
...about hacking. Hackers should be hunted down and locked up and serve the fuckers right if they end up as bubba's love slave.
Emmanual Goldstein. Ooooo! Let's pick an alias that makes me out to be the enemy of Big Brother. Ooo, I'm so fucking anti-establishment. Oooo, I'm such a self-important little twat! Mummy, the nasty man won't let me play with his computer, but I wanna, I wanna, I wanna!!!! What an utter ARSE! Hackers are not "necessary". They are engaged in ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES. Mr. Corely should get a fucking life.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Get over it, a hacker is a computer criminal, a cracker is something you have with cheese.
And Gay doesn't mean Happy any more, neither.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Don't let them immantenize the eschaton!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Henry VIII started the Church of England because he was a randy git who wanted to trade in his wife for a newer model...
I always love the fact that the Church of England was founded to satisfy the sex drive of the monarchy....
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
The trick, you see, isn't to completely scrap any particular system... Take the Russians for example, they've been using Soyuz capsules for HOW long now? And that's a 30-40 y.o. tech right there... When they tried to scrap it to bring out their shuttle (Buran), guess what killed the Russian economy? Simple phrase. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Apollo got people as far as the moon. Shuttle struggles into lower earth orbit. Hell, the Russians had to LOWER the orbit of MIR so the Shuttle could dock with it!
Perhaps NASA should have built on the Saturn 5, perhaps added some kind of automated return mechanism to make them reusable. There's a site somewhere, I can't remember the URL, which shows us NASA's plans to develop on what they had back in the 60s.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
There are no fucking aliens you fucking moronic piece of slime.
There's no Santa Claus, Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy either.
Just grow up and stop watching crap TV shows before you lose your grip on reality even more...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
So Mir is a piece of junk eh?
Tell me. How long has Mir been up there?
Now tell me for how long Skylab was up there?
Mir wins, by a long, long way.
Skylab refused to deploy one of its main solar panels on launch, and a rescue mission had to be sent to salvage it by putting up a kind of tarpaulin because there was a bloody great hole in the insulation!...
Skylab, the best the Americans had to offer, was a pile of short-term junk that didn't work from day one.
Mir, however, is solid technology that keeps on working even when you crash a spacecraft into it! Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.
I'm afraid, my American friends, that when it comes to long-term space travel, the Russians have more knowledge in their little fingers than in the whole of NASA.
Lift your glass of vodka and drink a health to the cosmonauts.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
...which is a damn shame as he's crap!
What was that one about mermaids with bicycles again? "Mercycle" - that was it. And "The colour of her panties".
No wonder his stuff is out of print,it's stunning it ever got printed in the first place!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Oh, shut your yap you fucking twat!
Tell me, oh great one, what have you ever contributed to the advancement of science?
Or the advancement of anything, for that matter?
Bugger all, I bet, so just shut the FUCK up and don't blether mindlessly just because you can, you brainless moronic buffoon!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Most books (in a brief sampling session from my own bookshelves at least) are Copyright /. could start a petition to ask Steven Levy to give the text to the community...
Oh Bollocks!
What I meant to say was that most books are copyright their author - so if the book is out of print and the author can be persuaded to let it go into the public domain, that's the author's prerogative.
Certainly with books of this nature - they get more dated as time goes by - there's a chance that future reprints would be unlikely.
Maybe
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
I would say in many cases the copywrite is owned by the publisher rather than the author.
Here's an exercise for you. Pick up a book. Any book. Look at the first few pages before the book starts proper.
There you'll find a copyright notice. Most books (in a brief sampling session from my own bookshelves at least) are Copyright .
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems