Why do all these anti-corporate persons still feel a need to smoke? Of all the habits to pick up, you pick one that not only kills you, provides a very mediocre change of brain activity (alcohol is corporatized too, but that doesn't stop its effects), and is available thanks to advertising (corporate brain-washing) and the Tobacco companies, some of the eviliest organizations to have ever existed. What gives !? If you want to create change, don't be an asshole by proving what a rebel you are, do it with your actions and *STOP SMOKING*.
Of *course* there is a reason for this foolish action that will only alienate hard-core fans. Steve Jobs (as probably a lot of people at Apple, peons seems to unconciously follow their leader) is a fucking ego-maniac. Sure, nobody gave a damn that this was known beforehand, they still cheered when the official announcement came. All that happened was Jobs lost some of the hoopla his mind feeds upon. What do expect from a company run by a man like him?
I'm too lazy to go look for myself, but didn't JonKatz do an article on the technolibertarian culture last week? If I remember correctly, he even mentioned this book and gave it a hearty review. Nice job of coordinating news pieces guys...
If he's just going by BugTraq why isn't OpenBSD the greatest OS out there? Or, if you want some sarcastic alternatives; what about BeOS, VMS, Minix, or GNU Hurd? Nevermind of course what he says later in the article (47 'sploits so far this year for Windows *AND* Linux) kind of contradicts his earlier statements that Linux is incredibly insecure. Also ignoring the multitudes of distributions, which increases the count... Of course, I'm justing preaching to the choir here...
Just of curiousity: Does any other country out there have something similar to the Freedom of Information Act? One of the few things that we've done that makes me proud of my country and less sarcastic about the state our 'democracy' is in.
1) Try something they can do for pure hack value, i.e., just something that they can impress other Comp. Sci. people in college with. 2) Go to www.sourceforge.net and let them pick out a project to watch/join in. Nothing is more exhilarating than to know that code your writting is going to real use (even if the project justs rejects it as not good enough - but you as the teacher should help them), not just text-book examples on loops and theory. Just my.02.
Could someone please explain to me Napster Inc.'s idea on how it makes money? All I remember was a memo from their offices a while back making one of their goals 'destruction of current CD distributors, e.g., Tower'. Is this company just so chock-full of idiocy that they jumped into a product with no viable method of making money? Or are they such megalomaniacs that they thought they would be the forefront of a music 'revolution' in which artists would require their services to be heard? P.S. If you're on napster right now, go get the song 'Megalomaniac'. Pretty damn good.
I quite astounded really, JonKatz has actually written a very informative, thought-provoking piece of political apathy of geeks/hackers/whatever. I find the constant libertarian stance taken by editors of both this fine news site, as well as others involved heavily in technology (the editors at hackernews.com seem particularly fond of Ayn Rand) to be quite annoying. Many people call those of socialist/communists/leftist persuasion idealist, just take a look at what the libertarians want! A world dominated (even more so) by gigantic corporations because the 'open markets' would benefit humanity? Bullshit! Haven't you people ever read Animal Farm? Dissolution of government would only create a plutocracy run by those with deep economic pockets. When are people going to realize that the greatest tool for freedom is not the computer/internet/crypto but *democracy*. You geeks want to protect privacy, free speech and all of your other inalienable rights? Get off the keyboard and go take charge of your government and your life.
You are more than the sum of what you consume. You are more than the sum of what you consume.
How do they make the decisions for these kind of tech events? I'd like to have something in my backyard (Northern VA, but Washington DC/Southern Md works too), but all we ever get are crappy expos on new tech for helping the government crunch numbers or spy on us. Northern VA is one of the geekiest places in the nation (second only to Silicon Valley), so when will we get the recognition we deserve?
Do music artists have some sort of orginization that allows them (the artists *NOT* the music barons) to lobby, work, etc. in their benefit? Maybe musicians should team up to begin a digital distribution method like Napster, make sure *THEY* get paid, not the corporations.
I grepped through all the testimony on 2600's website, but I couldn't find any testimony from Touretzky, who apparrently made a big impression on the judge. Anyone know where I can get a copy? You are more than the sum of what you consume.
They didn't mention this, but if you want to read (and soon listen to) transcripts of the trial, point yourself over to www.2600.com. Long and tedious, but straight from the horse's mouth.
Couldn't this one day lead to a gnutella/freenet-like implementation, with the 'piracy' being 'underground' information and web searches, finding the best prices, pertinent information, etc. I for one would step up and help create such a system, after all, information yearns to be free.
It's a given that non-free software reviews and press is generally bought...remember the news media 'reports' that helped hype Windows 95/98? Why are we surprised that a for-profit company wouldn't try and do the same thing?
Man, the world must really be coming to an end. I never thought I'd see the day that *Orrin Hatch* was on the side of good! Confusing though, he helped build and pass DMCA, one of the worst offenders in copyright use and abuse, but now champions the fair use clause? Was there a large letting writing campaign about this that I didn't hear about? Has his office released any press releases about this? I'm really, really stumped here...
There is more security involved, but far less privacy. Now your MAC address is tied to your IPv6 address, making all packets traceable to a certain computer./. ran something about this a while ago, look for that if you want more info.
A replacement for telnet, it encrypts all your transmissions making sniffing of passwords, connection hijacking and all those other tricks impossible (or at least extremely difficult). If you want to get it (and you SHOULD) go to www.openssh.com for those guys from OpenBSD's implemetation. It's free, and has lots of kickass features for us Open Source folks (like all those nasty algorithms that are patented so we can't use 'em removed).
I know to use SSH as a replacement for telnet, but what about ftp? And don't tell me use scp either, as that is essentially a wrapper for ssh that just grabs files that you tell it too, not interactive like ftp. Anyone writing sftp out there?
It says in the article that he is buying the hydrogen based engine components from a company in Flordia that specializes in making high-powered cars and motocycles with those devices. Anyone know where these people are? I'd sure like a hydrogen fuel based engine for my 16th birthday!
While in all honesty, I haven't used NetBSD much, AFAIK, NetBSD has plenty of software for it, since it is just a form of BSD that was written to be portable to multitudes of systems. Plus: Don't most FreeBSD tools come as source code? That'll compile anywhere you install NetBSD with a compiler. Plus it has all sorts of cool emulation tricks (so I've heard).
I would care to disagree. The protocols in their current manner offer less security from censorship and tracking than other protocols. HTTP is done via plain-text communication channels, what's to stop a government entity from searching through that to find keywords (ever heard of ECHELON?), or a company like DoubleClick to carefully track your IP address across requests. Hell, check out this example of what HTTP tells the world about you. Servers give away information, ever heard of http://www.netcraft.com and how they get their statistics? The internet is hardly anonymous, any person with enough determination or resources could eventually trace back IP addresses or email to the sender. As recent articles on/. have shown (sorry, but not linked here), even creations like Gnutella, specifically designed to be free and anonymous, can be easily traced. While BXXP may not have security in mind as other replacements for outdated protocols have (like Secure Shell), it is unlikely a sinister govenment/coporate/communist conspiracy to make the internet less free.
Why are we so intent on replacing newspapers when they are the most effective medium for news? With one glance at the Washington Post while I'm buying coffee at 7-11 and see 6 headlines and comprehend them with a speed and accuracy I could never get with radio, TV, and 'push' content. Newspapers are a perfect example of top-down design: I can then descend into the first paragraph of each article, getting the gist, then down into the nitty-gritty details. This is also ignoring the reprehensible quality of television 'news'....
Another great one is the BSD-specific search engine: http://www.google.com/bsd. I wonder if there are any other special engines like those on google? I can't seem to find a list on the site anywhere. Oh well, KISS.
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Why do all these anti-corporate persons still feel a need to smoke? Of all the habits to pick up, you pick one that not only kills you, provides a very mediocre change of brain activity (alcohol is corporatized too, but that doesn't stop its effects), and is available thanks to advertising (corporate brain-washing) and the Tobacco companies, some of the eviliest organizations to have ever existed. What gives !? If you want to create change, don't be an asshole by proving what a rebel you are, do it with your actions and *STOP SMOKING*.
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
Of *course* there is a reason for this foolish action that will only alienate hard-core fans. Steve Jobs (as probably a lot of people at Apple, peons seems to unconciously follow their leader) is a fucking ego-maniac. Sure, nobody gave a damn that this was known beforehand, they still cheered when the official announcement came. All that happened was Jobs lost some of the hoopla his mind feeds upon. What do expect from a company run by a man like him?
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
I'm too lazy to go look for myself, but didn't JonKatz do an article on the technolibertarian culture last week? If I remember correctly, he even mentioned this book and gave it a hearty review. Nice job of coordinating news pieces guys...
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
If he's just going by BugTraq why isn't OpenBSD the greatest OS out there? Or, if you want some sarcastic alternatives; what about BeOS, VMS, Minix, or GNU Hurd? Nevermind of course what he says later in the article (47 'sploits so far this year for Windows *AND* Linux) kind of contradicts his earlier statements that Linux is incredibly insecure. Also ignoring the multitudes of distributions, which increases the count...
Of course, I'm justing preaching to the choir here...
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
Just of curiousity: Does any other country out there have something similar to the Freedom of Information Act? One of the few things that we've done that makes me proud of my country and less sarcastic about the state our 'democracy' is in.
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
1) Try something they can do for pure hack value, i.e., just something that they can impress other Comp. Sci. people in college with. .02.
2) Go to www.sourceforge.net and let them pick out a project to watch/join in. Nothing is more exhilarating than to know that code your writting is going to real use (even if the project justs rejects it as not good enough - but you as the teacher should help them), not just text-book examples on loops and theory.
Just my
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
Could someone please explain to me Napster Inc.'s idea on how it makes money? All I remember was a memo from their offices a while back making one of their goals 'destruction of current CD distributors, e.g., Tower'. Is this company just so chock-full of idiocy that they jumped into a product with no viable method of making money? Or are they such megalomaniacs that they thought they would be the forefront of a music 'revolution' in which artists would require their services to be heard?
P.S. If you're on napster right now, go get the song 'Megalomaniac'. Pretty damn good.
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
I quite astounded really, JonKatz has actually written a very informative, thought-provoking piece of political apathy of geeks/hackers/whatever. I find the constant libertarian stance taken by editors of both this fine news site, as well as others involved heavily in technology (the editors at hackernews.com seem particularly fond of Ayn Rand) to be quite annoying. Many people call those of socialist/communists/leftist persuasion idealist, just take a look at what the libertarians want! A world dominated (even more so) by gigantic corporations because the 'open markets' would benefit humanity? Bullshit! Haven't you people ever read Animal Farm? Dissolution of government would only create a plutocracy run by those with deep economic pockets. When are people going to realize that the greatest tool for freedom is not the computer/internet/crypto but *democracy*. You geeks want to protect privacy, free speech and all of your other inalienable rights? Get off the keyboard and go take charge of your government and your life.
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
How do they make the decisions for these kind of tech events? I'd like to have something in my backyard (Northern VA, but Washington DC/Southern Md works too), but all we ever get are crappy expos on new tech for helping the government crunch numbers or spy on us. Northern VA is one of the geekiest places in the nation (second only to Silicon Valley), so when will we get the recognition we deserve?
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
Do music artists have some sort of orginization that allows them (the artists *NOT* the music barons) to lobby, work, etc. in their benefit? Maybe musicians should team up to begin a digital distribution method like Napster, make sure *THEY* get paid, not the corporations.
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
I grepped through all the testimony on 2600's website, but I couldn't find any testimony from Touretzky, who apparrently made a big impression on the judge. Anyone know where I can get a copy?
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
They didn't mention this, but if you want to read (and soon listen to) transcripts of the trial, point yourself over to www.2600.com. Long and tedious, but straight from the horse's mouth.
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
I'm guessing they test on cute 'lil bunnies and use child sweatshops too, right?
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
Couldn't this one day lead to a gnutella/freenet-like implementation, with the 'piracy' being 'underground' information and web searches, finding the best prices, pertinent information, etc. I for one would step up and help create such a system, after all, information yearns to be free.
You are more than the sum of what you consume.
It's a given that non-free software reviews and press is generally bought...remember the news media 'reports' that helped hype Windows 95/98? Why are we surprised that a for-profit company wouldn't try and do the same thing?
Man, the world must really be coming to an end. I never thought I'd see the day that *Orrin Hatch* was on the side of good! Confusing though, he helped build and pass DMCA, one of the worst offenders in copyright use and abuse, but now champions the fair use clause? Was there a large letting writing campaign about this that I didn't hear about? Has his office released any press releases about this? I'm really, really stumped here...
There is more security involved, but far less privacy. Now your MAC address is tied to your IPv6 address, making all packets traceable to a certain computer. /. ran something about this a while ago, look for that if you want more info.
No...I'm not being sarcastic...I always talk like this. It's a speech impediment. Sorry
A replacement for telnet, it encrypts all your transmissions making sniffing of passwords, connection hijacking and all those other tricks impossible (or at least extremely difficult). If you want to get it (and you SHOULD) go to www.openssh.com for those guys from OpenBSD's implemetation. It's free, and has lots of kickass features for us Open Source folks (like all those nasty algorithms that are patented so we can't use 'em removed).
I know to use SSH as a replacement for telnet, but what about ftp? And don't tell me use scp either, as that is essentially a wrapper for ssh that just grabs files that you tell it too, not interactive like ftp. Anyone writing sftp out there?
It says in the article that he is buying the hydrogen based engine components from a company in Flordia that specializes in making high-powered cars and motocycles with those devices. Anyone know where these people are? I'd sure like a hydrogen fuel based engine for my 16th birthday!
While in all honesty, I haven't used NetBSD much, AFAIK, NetBSD has plenty of software for it, since it is just a form of BSD that was written to be portable to multitudes of systems. Plus: Don't most FreeBSD tools come as source code? That'll compile anywhere you install NetBSD with a compiler. Plus it has all sorts of cool emulation tricks (so I've heard).
I would care to disagree. The protocols in their current manner offer less security from censorship and tracking than other protocols. HTTP is done via plain-text communication channels, what's to stop a government entity from searching through that to find keywords (ever heard of ECHELON?), or a company like DoubleClick to carefully track your IP address across requests. Hell, check out this example of what HTTP tells the world about you. Servers give away information, ever heard of http://www.netcraft.com and how they get their statistics? The internet is hardly anonymous, any person with enough determination or resources could eventually trace back IP addresses or email to the sender. As recent articles on /. have shown (sorry, but not linked here), even creations like Gnutella, specifically designed to be free and anonymous, can be easily traced. While BXXP may not have security in mind as other replacements for outdated protocols have (like Secure Shell), it is unlikely a sinister govenment/coporate/communist conspiracy to make the internet less free.
Why are we so intent on replacing newspapers when they are the most effective medium for news? With one glance at the Washington Post while I'm buying coffee at 7-11 and see 6 headlines and comprehend them with a speed and accuracy I could never get with radio, TV, and 'push' content. Newspapers are a perfect example of top-down design: I can then descend into the first paragraph of each article, getting the gist, then down into the nitty-gritty details. This is also ignoring the reprehensible quality of television 'news'....
Another great one is the BSD-specific search engine: http://www.google.com/bsd. I wonder if there are any other special engines like those on google? I can't seem to find a list on the site anywhere. Oh well, KISS.