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You fucking linux bigots are unbelievable. Does it ever occur to you that when you do something like this, it is stealing?
Actually, I'm a forth biggot, but you get that. Chill friend, nobody *really* cares. Doubt NYTIMES do either, if they did they'd actiually put a real password on it.
Notice the "Anonymous Coward thing" on your post. Think hard about that one...... Bah. Trolls suck. I'm ranting so Mod me down I guess.
Sorta.... I don't admit this often, but High School was a friggin
nightmare for me. I kinda confusedly oscilated from hypergeek
to potsmokin dumbass. Being kicked out was the best thing that
ever happened to me. After that, I still oscilated tho. I was
on one hand still the hypergeek , being divorced from at 20 (stupid
to get married young anyway) for 8+hrs a day of IRC and hacking in early
90's. I also was in a punk band and stupidly drug-self-destructive.
Then I went to uni. Lifechange. I actually found a group of ppl
like me , but kinda balanced. I quit the pot and discovered the
joys of being the only comp literate art student in town.
I'd be a fool to claim that uni shaped the more mature version of
me that I am now, but I'd be a writeoff if I didn't do it. But
I'd also be a lesser person if I didn't do the hard lessons before hand.
From the minute you are born your learning real life. Uni gives you
tools to analyse that real life, but you still gotta actually experience it
to have something to analyse.
Just thinkin out loud I guess.
If I remember right, there is or was a 3D windoze version of nibbles (Nibbles was the snake game right?) called BoaBite 3D. Problem is, I think it was full of seriously friggin anoying sound samples from some nobwit who really did think he was funny. It's non-free too, so yeah... A liberated-source 3D nibbles would be fun.
Reminds me of a funny story my mother told me
She was in a local catholic parent group in the 80's and the local priest there who would take songs like Madonna's 'like a virgin' and reinterpret it into being a moral dictate that being catholic is like being 'like the virgin mary'. I think he also decedided that some metal, like sabath was OK, because it provided warnings as to how bad-ass the devil was
Cute, but I'm glad I'm athiest.
I kinda agree, although with some reservation.
I *do* think that it's just nuts to enforce censorship on an adult populus. (Perhaps kiddie porn of the real variety needs to be stomped, but that's best done by identifying the perpetrators and,like, messing the pricks up... NOT by blanket enforcement by censorsoftware. Kiddie porn is evil because of the act of it's production. Consumption encourages production logically) Quite simply whe are missing the point of a democracy by alocating what is acceptable speech and not acceptable to an institution. It's *OUR* job to tell institutions what to and not to do. Call me an anarchist perhaps, but I'd never signed no social contract that stated that.
I also have some reservations about govt enforcing of censorware on kids, principally because (A) In schools, common sense sugests that internet *should* be SUPERVISED. Ie if a kid finds porn, a teacher can promptly nail the connection and then procede to discuss with the kid the issues behind the sexuality involved with a disclaimer to the effect of "Wait till ya grow up kiddo", and (B) Any parent that doesn't supervise their younger kids on the net needs a good but kicking. But not a legislative one.
Kids being as they are will see porn. Far out. Despite my parents best attempts, as a young lad I managed to see porn with high school buddies. Perhaps if my parents explained it a bit more I would of found it all abit less... interesting?
There is some research done however that suggests hard-sexual images (Ie not titties, but the full whackin' action) and particularly hard violence can have mild behavioral implications.
There is a little slogan that I learned in my uni days (studying media), "It's not what media does to you, it's what you do with the media". I'd say it's a priceless little parenting thought.
I gotta admit though coming home and finding my 10 year old lookin at hard porn would kinda disturb me greatly. Perhaps at 16 I'd be less fussed about soft tittie mags. It'd be a great oportunity to discuss some life-lessons on how to treat a lady as she deserves.
Just a thought.
Some users have made comments to the effect that any portscanning is amaturish and more than likely to be used for haXor puroses.
Bunkum!
A portscan of your local net can be a handy tool for instance figuring out wherethefrag the dhcp server is whackin' everyones PC, what services are available on that nutty little net-printer with manglish instructions, whether that net appliance is exposing any unnecesarry services, many thing indeed.
And yes, you can use a scanner to find machines with port 139 exposed on the internet. Don't, that just pisses one off to see lot's of splattered 139 enquirys all over the firewall.
Kids;- It's an old trick. Go invent some new ones....... Or get hardcore, learn forth and like program a toaster or something:)
G'day, I have just read an *excelent* book, "Open Source: The Unauthorized White Papers" (Rosenburg, Donald K - IDG BOOKS Foster City CA 2000) And although being a little biased in favor of Opensource (There wasn't any real discussions about how one avoids the very real pitfalls in converting a software outfit into a Open/Free software outfit, it did get me thinking about certain issues in interfacing different licences and different end-use expectations.
Now, IANAL but it strikes me that there are verry real dangers of misunderstanding the implications of various licences and ending up locked in to an unhappy marriage to a particular licence.
The solution methinks would be to setup a 'modular' licence system wherein a developer could follow a licencing guide and select from various boilerplate terms and conditions to build a licence best suited for the open/free product. For instance a developer may want to do a mostly GPL licence, but allow other developers the right to create closed shiet linked in statically (forbidden in the LGPL), while still maintaining the actual responsibility to be open with the original code. Or perhaps someone may want to do a BSD style licence but fully lock out , for instance, hate organisations from using the software.
The idea here is to allow the developer to fine tune the 'freeness' of the software whether particular community iconoclasts agree or no.
Not really sure how it would work, but it may be quite possible to even generate a little licence generator app, that generates perhaps OSD or alternatively FSF aproved licences customised to the app, and with a hidden feature that drops SKUD missiles on anyone who choses the "Closed source" licence option:):)
The wierd thing about all this, was back in the early early days, Apple had launched what (as far as I can remember) was perhaps one of the first of the look-and-feel lawsuits.
The target...... Micro$oft for its windows thing. Apple managed to extract, I believe, a royalty for the earlier windows thingies.. I might be wrong (Anyone know fershore?)
Apple is paranoic-facist about its prettyness. Seethru clone boxen -- bad. Trashcans -- bad. Aquatheme -- *sigh - gettin boring apple* bad.
I wonder if someone ever told apple that immitation was the best form of flattery.
Goldenboy: Um, Bill, ever since you made us code the new Kernel in Visual basic, Windows has run like a dog. Who's ever heard of a OS kernel running on a buggy interpreter?
BillG: Perhaps kid, but the plan is that we'll make the thing into a self replicating Outlook attachment, and windows will TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Goldenboy: But wouldn't that only work on Outlook on machines running on Windows already?
BillG: Why do you think we are porting office to linux!
Goldenboy: You are a evil clever man boss![Goldenboy Hi-5's BillG]
One of the reasons I believe that there has been a reluctance to port or originate top shelf commercial games on linux is that due to the incompatibilities between wintel and linux API's. The developer hedges his/her bets and goes for the bigger market share. Then *perhaps* the scruffy guy just outa Uni can bake a half arsed linux version between projects.(This ignores the whole Loki thing of course)
By introducing a bootable Linux-cd, (And hey.. maybe even including an integrated VMware to run it under wintel) the developer can choose linux and its cheaper freeer dev tools.
The added beauty of all of this, is that the developer (hopefully) puts some real work into the Open-gl(etc) linux engines and hopefully liberates them into free-software world.
Furthermore, to make it all work, the linux distr would probably want to read the windows registry to hunt down clues on the correct drivers, net configs (for net gaming) and all the rest.
Liberate *that* and you've just introduced the solution for more general linux barrier crossing. Dumb asses don't *need* to know monitor refresh rates and Net card chipsets anymore. Wintel figured it out for them and Linux 'borrowed' the results. Great for 'real' work too!
It reminds me of a comment I heard (don't know who) that after the Jewish Holocaust and the Nuking of Hiroshima all Poetry is inexcusable. Converselly Witgensteins forced himself into the most horrifying war experiences simply to live life intensely to hone his philosiphy (I believe that he felt it was prerequisite to his philosophy at one point). One supposes that Art and Philosophy will always be either a denial or an expose of tragedy. It depends on ones view.
Living in a family with a radical shoulder-licking (yeah it's wierd. get over it) OCD sibling. *Any* research on OCD is mondo welcome. And when it provides a good belly laugh, its even better.
Considering the way I kinda obsessed bigtime over my ex-wife when she left the love/OCD connection is probably spot on:)
This would also keep us in compliance with both of the mandates that God gave us at the creation of life, i.e.
1. Go forth
2. And multiply
Nutter. God didn't give me that commandment. She gave it to you. Sure though, spread your seed if that's what turns you on. Perhaps a connie might help stave off the HIV however.
Word of warning tho. I had a little dog a while back. Jazz-mine. Man she was a Georgeous little bull terrier.
While mucking around with a lazer pointer. I noticed that she liked to chase the dot. Often to the point of trying to attack it. Verry soon after however she developed a thing for shadows. Chasing them incessantly. Throw the ball... dog chases it's shadow. She never stopped and it soon got Mondo anoying having a dog snapping and barking at anyone or anythings shadow.
Believe it or not, the Vet suggested that the dog had a doggy version of Obsessive compulsive disorder and promptly put the dog on Prozac
It worked, although the dog never really seemed the same until onday a car cleaned her up.
I kinda blame the lazer pointer games for triggering this.
Alot of of modern cyber-hype (Particularly some of the earlier Wired tripe) seemed verry hung up on the notion of this big inclusive body-free community
In many senses, one detects a bit of Marshal McCullan's "global village" concept of the 60's. Infact HECK, I believe that became the Gore-aproved buzzword for net-"communities".
The concept seems(d) to be that on these communities, we would be free of our bodies, and the 'coding' associated with them. No more being white or black. Wheelchair? No problem! girl/boy? Take a pick!. blah. Ergo physical 'codes' that structure power relationships in the meat world would disolve
The reality suggests however that while in a Foucaltian sense , these power thingees are closely related to body politic and the like, in a wierd way we sort of take those bodythings, like some wierd hoarded luggage with us online.
Racism, Homophobia, Right... or left.. politics and all the generalised shiet that derives from our lived meat-bot experiences all turn up, often amplified on the net.
I am not sure whatan organic community would really be anymore, but the sicklysweet corporate "comunities" have as much to do with suppressing dissent by denying the vagrancies of body-politic as they do with making money
Actually I was fanging along for ages on a Minix box lynxing away and the like on my old 386.
Now in 133 pentium world
Never got that crazy PDP-11 I was restoring onto the net tho. It was WAY to hard and woulda involved writing some whacko ASM ppp stack or something.
Old machines rock. And *many* of us low-enders are comp-literate.... Oh and the net really is elitist too.
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Oh.. While I'm at it.. I'm not arguing with most of your point. I agree freedom is a precious thing, and yes, I probably am being a little hysterical in my connection of free speech to child abuse.
However, I tend to believe that freedoms beget responsobilities. And as Sartre might put it, freedoms are infact precursors to responsibility.
To suggest that going after child-abusers abrogates free speech, ignores that the Child-pornographer has made an (authentic?) decision, within the context of free speech to abuse a child. To not put responsibility on the person who chose to use their freedom this way is in a sense bad faith(in the Sartre use of the term).
It's perhaps that freedom-until-your-nose thing. It's alright to use your freedom to do what thou shalt, but it's certainly not alright to use that freedom to destroy a childs life
And on that subject , in my IRC days, many moons ago, a favored past time was invading child-porn channels and nuking the crappers out of them.
And that is a positive act of good-faith freedom.
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I understand what your saying bro, but I have a slightly different take on this.
The best way to deal with kiddie porn is with a good f_king deal of violence in my opinion
Ok, now before you think I'm trolling here, let me explain my position. I've worked for years as a technician in the Australian District courts, and unfortunately we tend to get alot of Rock-spider pedophiles through here.
Phuck free speech when it comes to abusing children. I've had to deal with far too many suicides and absolutely horror-trashed lives from evil pricks abusing children
Fact A: When a rock-spider creates child-porn (Free speech?), he(or she) is quite likely screwing up that kid for life.
Fact: Sexual abuse is a No#1 cause of suicide and major lifetime depression
Ergo: Sexual abuse(free speech apparently) causes death.
I'm not getting hysterical here. I've seen it directly too many times.
Agreed VC++ is a pig... So is C Builder. It's not
necessarily the compilers fault, it's that convoluted fuzking API. It Heinious. I've always enjoyed working with Posix type API's. Perhaps it's that at heart I never really got used to the whole pseudo-object orientated API gig.
Of course the smart developer who was short on time, couldn't be stuffed writing contorted GUI code but still needs a powerfull fast compiler will always use Delphi. Well ought to anyway.
Not everyone agrees though. Fair enuff.
Back in my getting-an-education days, we had some
sort of Unix box that I'd be buggered if I can remembered what it was. We'd telnet in to do our dreaded cobol assignments. Ugh.
Out of sheer bordom and somewhat youthfull stupidity, I noticed that when someone was logging on, there TTY would become world readable for about 1 minute. Perhaps to allow some sortof wierd-messed up MOTD daemon run or something.
I wrote this horrid little script then that watches LOGINS, and at the moment of LOGIN, it'd send a BANNER CHUNGA LIVES >/dev/{userstty?} (Wierd Zappa reference in there.
It was hours of fun, but got me in big trouble.
This was on a machine where the root was telnetable into and the password was 'SECRET'. They sure where trusting back in those days.
And perhaps the missing tag makes an interesting example in regards to user interfaces.
The majority of web sites don't require HTML smarts to submit. By default/. does. While it allows a few cool features, it is inconsistent and prone to bend over newbie submitters. Slashdot *could* of been standerd, but that's not cool for hacker-macho no?
Models and metaphors ARE the world. In no way can it be argued that a "real world" exists apart from our models for it. This has been universally conceded in academic circles for decades.
In the post-modern era, discussions like this are a bit pointless. To speak of how "metaphor and model" influence our view of the world is unnecessary when it is realized that we create our world by the metaphors we use to view it.
Boing! Lose a point. Having been in the 'academia' for a while now, I can tell you that your slightly misinterpreting the point here. It is incredibly hard to argue No-real-reality. You exist don't you? ergo Something is real-in the universe.
The point often, but *not* universilly, made is that real-reality is a pig to get at. The world we construct as the term is often used in the left-side of campus, refers to the fact that we create our own internal.. and cultural (lingua).. representations of the world. Some have argued that these often have no baring on reality at all anymore.. witness Baudillare(sp?).
With out an objective medium (which we incidently do not have to understand to use) how do communication channels exist to build the language-culture nexus that shapes our relation to each other and whatever-world.
Verrrry few accademics accept the no-world hypothisis actually.
I am aware of this, as are many in the cultural studies world. It was an arse of a thing to do, but it raised a few questions.
Sokal hhowever missed a larger point here. When critisizing the arts, keep in mind that it *is* the arts. Sokal's prank indeed exposed an occasional lack of rigour in *some* aspects of the Humanities, but ultimately you get the situation of;-
Sokal:Hey why isn't your art's scientific enuf
artsguy:Because it isn't. deal with it. Yout science isn't creative enought
Sokal:deal with it
(end of dialogue). It's understandable sometimes. The arts spend a lot of time talking about perception. And while a few extremists in the French-radical pomo division may make the claim against any sort of objective reality. For the most part the Arts accept it's existance, but question our ability to *truly* percieve reality as it is.
It's interesting you mention this actually, the
concepts of 'models' of historical progress is
becoming increasingly dispopular in the arts/social sciences dimension. It's an Idea associated strongly with the 'post-modernist' movement, although I must admit the term post-modernism shirks me , being associated with a lot of fairly outlandish claims. None the less this is
one claim I agree with.
Take Karl Marx. He proposed a model of historical progress modeled loosely on the Dialectics of the philosopher Hegel, but refocused it on the economic conditions of diffreent social stratum in society. He then proceeded to create a mindblowingly insightfull description of the physical processes inherent in the economics *of the day*. From this he extrapolated a course that he predicted the world will progress. Assuming that no new developments were to occur, chances are he would of been right too, but he missed a few points. A) Parlimentary democracy emerged propper in europe, bringing with it new configurations of outlet for 'class' frusturation. B) The rise of facism and the complete destabilising effect on his 'material progress'... ergo WWII , and C) The information age and the strange effect that owning a computer can actually give the working class 'the means of production'.
The point I'm making, is what was possibly the most accurate prediction of the day ended up *way* off track. The same fate has hit almost all other models of progress.
The model may even be accurate at the time, but it don't say squat about a different future.
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Actually, I'm a forth biggot, but you get that. Chill friend, nobody *really* cares. Doubt NYTIMES do either, if they did they'd actiually put a real password on it.
Notice the "Anonymous Coward thing" on your post. Think hard about that one...... Bah. Trolls suck. I'm ranting so Mod me down I guess.
Sorta.... I don't admit this often, but High School was a friggin nightmare for me. I kinda confusedly oscilated from hypergeek to potsmokin dumbass. Being kicked out was the best thing that ever happened to me. After that, I still oscilated tho. I was on one hand still the hypergeek , being divorced from at 20 (stupid to get married young anyway) for 8+hrs a day of IRC and hacking in early 90's. I also was in a punk band and stupidly drug-self-destructive.
Then I went to uni. Lifechange. I actually found a group of ppl like me , but kinda balanced. I quit the pot and discovered the joys of being the only comp literate art student in town.
I'd be a fool to claim that uni shaped the more mature version of me that I am now, but I'd be a writeoff if I didn't do it. But I'd also be a lesser person if I didn't do the hard lessons before hand.
From the minute you are born your learning real life. Uni gives you tools to analyse that real life, but you still gotta actually experience it to have something to analyse.
Just thinkin out loud I guess.
If I remember right, there is or was a 3D windoze version of nibbles (Nibbles was the snake game right?) called BoaBite 3D. Problem is, I think it was full of seriously friggin anoying sound samples from some nobwit who really did think he was funny. It's non-free too, so yeah... A liberated-source 3D nibbles would be fun.
Reminds me of a funny story my mother told me
She was in a local catholic parent group in the 80's and the local priest there who would take songs like Madonna's 'like a virgin' and reinterpret it into being a moral dictate that being catholic is like being 'like the virgin mary'. I think he also decedided that some metal, like sabath was OK, because it provided warnings as to how bad-ass the devil was
Cute, but I'm glad I'm athiest.
I kinda agree, although with some reservation. ,like, messing the pricks up... NOT by blanket enforcement by censorsoftware. Kiddie porn is evil because of the act of it's production. Consumption encourages production logically) Quite simply whe are missing the point of a democracy by alocating what is acceptable speech and not acceptable to an institution. It's *OUR* job to tell institutions what to and not to do. Call me an anarchist perhaps, but I'd never signed no social contract that stated that.
I *do* think that it's just nuts to enforce censorship on an adult populus. (Perhaps kiddie porn of the real variety needs to be stomped, but that's best done by identifying the perpetrators and
I also have some reservations about govt enforcing of censorware on kids, principally because (A) In schools, common sense sugests that internet *should* be SUPERVISED. Ie if a kid finds porn, a teacher can promptly nail the connection and then procede to discuss with the kid the issues behind the sexuality involved with a disclaimer to the effect of "Wait till ya grow up kiddo", and (B) Any parent that doesn't supervise their younger kids on the net needs a good but kicking. But not a legislative one.
Kids being as they are will see porn. Far out. Despite my parents best attempts, as a young lad I managed to see porn with high school buddies. Perhaps if my parents explained it a bit more I would of found it all abit less... interesting?
There is some research done however that suggests hard-sexual images (Ie not titties, but the full whackin' action) and particularly hard violence can have mild behavioral implications.
There is a little slogan that I learned in my uni days (studying media), "It's not what media does to you, it's what you do with the media". I'd say it's a priceless little parenting thought.
I gotta admit though coming home and finding my 10 year old lookin at hard porn would kinda disturb me greatly. Perhaps at 16 I'd be less fussed about soft tittie mags. It'd be a great oportunity to discuss some life-lessons on how to treat a lady as she deserves.
Just a thought.
Some users have made comments to the effect that any portscanning is amaturish and more than likely to be used for haXor puroses.
Bunkum!
A portscan of your local net can be a handy tool for instance figuring out wherethefrag the dhcp server is whackin' everyones PC, what services are available on that nutty little net-printer with manglish instructions, whether that net appliance is exposing any unnecesarry services, many thing indeed.
And yes, you can use a scanner to find machines with port 139 exposed on the internet. Don't, that just pisses one off to see lot's of splattered 139 enquirys all over the firewall. Kids;- It's an old trick. Go invent some new ones....... Or get hardcore, learn forth and like program a toaster or something:)
Now, IANAL but it strikes me that there are verry real dangers of misunderstanding the implications of various licences and ending up locked in to an unhappy marriage to a particular licence.
The solution methinks would be to setup a 'modular' licence system wherein a developer could follow a licencing guide and select from various boilerplate terms and conditions to build a licence best suited for the open/free product. For instance a developer may want to do a mostly GPL licence, but allow other developers the right to create closed shiet linked in statically (forbidden in the LGPL), while still maintaining the actual responsibility to be open with the original code. Or perhaps someone may want to do a BSD style licence but fully lock out , for instance, hate organisations from using the software.
The idea here is to allow the developer to fine tune the 'freeness' of the software whether particular community iconoclasts agree or no.
Not really sure how it would work, but it may be quite possible to even generate a little licence generator app, that generates perhaps OSD or alternatively FSF aproved licences customised to the app, and with a hidden feature that drops SKUD missiles on anyone who choses the "Closed source" licence option :) :)
Cheers and beers!
Shayne
The target...... Micro$oft for its windows thing. Apple managed to extract, I believe, a royalty for the earlier windows thingies.. I might be wrong (Anyone know fershore?)
Apple is paranoic-facist about its prettyness. Seethru clone boxen -- bad. Trashcans -- bad. Aquatheme -- *sigh - gettin boring apple* bad.
I wonder if someone ever told apple that immitation was the best form of flattery.
Goldenboy: Um, Bill, ever since you made us code the new Kernel in Visual basic, Windows has run like a dog. Who's ever heard of a OS kernel running on a buggy interpreter?
BillG: Perhaps kid, but the plan is that we'll make the thing into a self replicating Outlook attachment, and windows will TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Goldenboy: But wouldn't that only work on Outlook on machines running on Windows already?
BillG: Why do you think we are porting office to linux!
Goldenboy: You are a evil clever man boss![Goldenboy Hi-5's BillG]
BillG: Spank me!
By introducing a bootable Linux-cd, (And hey.. maybe even including an integrated VMware to run it under wintel) the developer can choose linux and its cheaper freeer dev tools.
The added beauty of all of this, is that the developer (hopefully) puts some real work into the Open-gl(etc) linux engines and hopefully liberates them into free-software world.
Furthermore, to make it all work, the linux distr would probably want to read the windows registry to hunt down clues on the correct drivers, net configs (for net gaming) and all the rest.
Liberate *that* and you've just introduced the solution for more general linux barrier crossing. Dumb asses don't *need* to know monitor refresh rates and Net card chipsets anymore. Wintel figured it out for them and Linux 'borrowed' the results. Great for 'real' work too!
It reminds me of a comment I heard (don't know who) that after the Jewish Holocaust and the Nuking of Hiroshima all Poetry is inexcusable. Converselly Witgensteins forced himself into the most horrifying war experiences simply to live life intensely to hone his philosiphy (I believe that he felt it was prerequisite to his philosophy at one point). One supposes that Art and Philosophy will always be either a denial or an expose of tragedy. It depends on ones view.
Living in a family with a radical shoulder-licking (yeah it's wierd. get over it) OCD sibling. *Any* research on OCD is mondo welcome. And when it provides a good belly laugh, its even better.
Considering the way I kinda obsessed bigtime over my ex-wife when she left the love/OCD connection is probably spot on :)
And yeah I'm a sarcastic prick sometimes.
Word of warning tho. I had a little dog a while back. Jazz-mine. Man she was a Georgeous little bull terrier.
While mucking around with a lazer pointer. I noticed that she liked to chase the dot. Often to the point of trying to attack it. Verry soon after however she developed a thing for shadows. Chasing them incessantly. Throw the ball... dog chases it's shadow. She never stopped and it soon got Mondo anoying having a dog snapping and barking at anyone or anythings shadow.
Believe it or not, the Vet suggested that the dog had a doggy version of Obsessive compulsive disorder and promptly put the dog on Prozac
It worked, although the dog never really seemed the same until onday a car cleaned her up.
I kinda blame the lazer pointer games for triggering this.
Alot of of modern cyber-hype (Particularly some of the earlier Wired tripe) seemed verry hung up on the notion of this big inclusive body-free community
In many senses, one detects a bit of Marshal McCullan's "global village" concept of the 60's. Infact HECK, I believe that became the Gore-aproved buzzword for net-"communities".
The concept seems(d) to be that on these communities, we would be free of our bodies, and the 'coding' associated with them. No more being white or black. Wheelchair? No problem! girl/boy? Take a pick!. blah. Ergo physical 'codes' that structure power relationships in the meat world would disolve
The reality suggests however that while in a Foucaltian sense , these power thingees are closely related to body politic and the like, in a wierd way we sort of take those bodythings, like some wierd hoarded luggage with us online.
Racism, Homophobia, Right... or left.. politics and all the generalised shiet that derives from our lived meat-bot experiences all turn up, often amplified on the net.
I am not sure whatan organic community would really be anymore, but the sicklysweet corporate "comunities" have as much to do with suppressing dissent by denying the vagrancies of body-politic as they do with making money
Maybe I'm just rambling. :)
Actually I was fanging along for ages on a Minix box lynxing away and the like on my old 386.
Now in 133 pentium world
Never got that crazy PDP-11 I was restoring onto the net tho. It was WAY to hard and woulda involved writing some whacko ASM ppp stack or something. Old machines rock. And *many* of us low-enders are comp-literate.... Oh and the net really is elitist too.
However, I tend to believe that freedoms beget responsobilities. And as Sartre might put it, freedoms are infact precursors to responsibility.
To suggest that going after child-abusers abrogates free speech, ignores that the Child-pornographer has made an (authentic?) decision, within the context of free speech to abuse a child. To not put responsibility on the person who chose to use their freedom this way is in a sense bad faith(in the Sartre use of the term).
It's perhaps that freedom-until-your-nose thing. It's alright to use your freedom to do what thou shalt, but it's certainly not alright to use that freedom to destroy a childs life
And on that subject , in my IRC days, many moons ago, a favored past time was invading child-porn channels and nuking the crappers out of them.
And that is a positive act of good-faith freedom.
The best way to deal with kiddie porn is with a good f_king deal of violence in my opinion
Ok, now before you think I'm trolling here, let me explain my position. I've worked for years as a technician in the Australian District courts, and unfortunately we tend to get alot of Rock-spider pedophiles through here.
Phuck free speech when it comes to abusing children. I've had to deal with far too many suicides and absolutely horror-trashed lives from evil pricks abusing children
Fact A: When a rock-spider creates child-porn (Free speech?), he(or she) is quite likely screwing up that kid for life.
Fact: Sexual abuse is a No#1 cause of suicide and major lifetime depression
Ergo: Sexual abuse(free speech apparently) causes death.
I'm not getting hysterical here. I've seen it directly too many times.
Agreed VC++ is a pig... So is C Builder. It's not necessarily the compilers fault, it's that convoluted fuzking API. It Heinious. I've always enjoyed working with Posix type API's. Perhaps it's that at heart I never really got used to the whole pseudo-object orientated API gig. Of course the smart developer who was short on time, couldn't be stuffed writing contorted GUI code but still needs a powerfull fast compiler will always use Delphi. Well ought to anyway. Not everyone agrees though. Fair enuff.
Back in my getting-an-education days, we had some sort of Unix box that I'd be buggered if I can remembered what it was. We'd telnet in to do our dreaded cobol assignments. Ugh.
Out of sheer bordom and somewhat youthfull stupidity, I noticed that when someone was logging on, there TTY would become world readable for about 1 minute. Perhaps to allow some sortof wierd-messed up MOTD daemon run or something.
I wrote this horrid little script then that watches LOGINS, and at the moment of LOGIN, it'd send a BANNER CHUNGA LIVES > /dev/{userstty?} (Wierd Zappa reference in there.
It was hours of fun, but got me in big trouble.
This was on a machine where the root was telnetable into and the password was 'SECRET'. They sure where trusting back in those days.
The majority of web sites don't require HTML smarts to submit. By default /. does. While it allows a few cool features, it is inconsistent and prone to bend over newbie submitters. Slashdot *could* of been standerd, but that's not cool for hacker-macho no?
It's a perfect example actually.
The point often, but *not* universilly, made is that real-reality is a pig to get at. The world we construct as the term is often used in the left-side of campus, refers to the fact that we create our own internal.. and cultural (lingua).. representations of the world. Some have argued that these often have no baring on reality at all anymore.. witness Baudillare(sp?).
With out an objective medium (which we incidently do not have to understand to use) how do communication channels exist to build the language-culture nexus that shapes our relation to each other and whatever-world.
Verrrry few accademics accept the no-world hypothisis actually.
Sokal hhowever missed a larger point here. When critisizing the arts, keep in mind that it *is* the arts. Sokal's prank indeed exposed an occasional lack of rigour in *some* aspects of the Humanities, but ultimately you get the situation of;-
Sokal:Hey why isn't your art's scientific enuf
artsguy:Because it isn't. deal with it. Yout science isn't creative enought
Sokal:deal with it
(end of dialogue). It's understandable sometimes. The arts spend a lot of time talking about perception. And while a few extremists in the French-radical pomo division may make the claim against any sort of objective reality. For the most part the Arts accept it's existance, but question our ability to *truly* percieve reality as it is.
Think about it. It's fairly intuitive really.
Take Karl Marx. He proposed a model of historical progress modeled loosely on the Dialectics of the philosopher Hegel, but refocused it on the economic conditions of diffreent social stratum in society. He then proceeded to create a mindblowingly insightfull description of the physical processes inherent in the economics *of the day*. From this he extrapolated a course that he predicted the world will progress. Assuming that no new developments were to occur, chances are he would of been right too, but he missed a few points. A) Parlimentary democracy emerged propper in europe, bringing with it new configurations of outlet for 'class' frusturation. B) The rise of facism and the complete destabilising effect on his 'material progress'... ergo WWII , and C) The information age and the strange effect that owning a computer can actually give the working class 'the means of production'.
The point I'm making, is what was possibly the most accurate prediction of the day ended up *way* off track. The same fate has hit almost all other models of progress.
The model may even be accurate at the time, but it don't say squat about a different future.