I personally think that the final installment should resolve the question that I've had in my head since I saw the first in '79. Where the hell did these critters *evolve* ferkrissake? What predator types would eat _them_? An adventure on THAT planet would be really cool!
they've floated an onerous licensing scheme.
Anyone remember that period in the 80's when they tried to charge a license fee for their _runtime libraries_?
If you wanted to distribute an app you'd written using one of their compilers, you'd pay up front, then be charged a per unit royalty.
Three guesses how well that boneheaded idea went over with the developer community!
It's called Crimewave, and also involved the Coen Bros.
Most participants disavow any knowledge of this flick, but I really enjoyed seeing all of these guys going at it during their respective larval stages. You can see Joel and Ethan all over it.
My copy proudly announces that it was written by Joel and Ethan Coen, and directed by Sam Raimi.
It's extremely stylised and wierd, but it *definitely* doesn't suck!
It's VERY interesting to see that they scrutinise political scandals even MORE closely than we do, and with ohso much more drama and gravity.
The Encryption bit was far better done than we would see here on Nightline. It tilted towards paranoia, true, but the underlying principles were given far more voice than we would generally see here in the US.
Also...
Hang around for the Afghanistan segment. It's got a bit of bias, but it worked for me. I knew more exiting than when I came in.
An Open Source guy, having found a *severe* set of vulnerabilities in a commercial set of services by that could, potentially, save M$ upwards of many millions of dollars in liability costs, it only makes good economic and political sense that Marc be reimbursed most lavishly for his informed (and thus billable, were he a consultant) insights.
What? You M$ apologists think his efforts should be FREE?
Specify in law that content providers PAY for *all* R&D costs, implementaion costs (think *billions* of instances), legal fees, etc, etc associated with this lame ass idea, and you'll see it die mighty quick.
Since when is Mickey Mouse entitled to a free ride at the expense of the rest of the world?
Might it not make sense that IBM, (now a good open source ally) is now actively, and proactively plugging holes in the anti-open source dike?
After all, we've often discussed on this very site the notion of patenting everything we think of, as a community, as a hedge against the multinationals!
Big Blue could very well be on our side here. God knows.. given all of the support they've supplied, and how severely entrenched we are so far, pissing us off NOW would be a Bad Business Move(tm) on their part. They have everything to lose, and very little to gain if they actually think this patent is truly enforceable.
I vote a Benefit of the Doubt for IBM.
Who's with me?
Play the cd through a nice SAE, Audio Research, Dynaco, or Mark Levinson tube amp, into a sweet set of electrostatic speakers (some old Quads would do quite nicely), mike'm up into some classic Neumanns, dub onto a 70's Revox, Studer, or Nagra reel to reel, and rip from a high resolution digitization of THAT.
The copy would sound MUCH better than the original!
Suck on THAT, RIAA!
I've found that letting your drives run CONTINUOUSLY 24/7 is key to reliability.
IE: Turn OFF all power down power management nonsense on your PC. In doze, you go to display/properties/screensaver and click on the PM button thingie, then set your drives to 'never' spin down.
Since I did that on our doze boxen, and leaving them on 24/7, I haven't had a single drive failure, after RMA'ing 3 out of 5 WD drives in under one year previously, plus 1 Conner.
Two years and counting.
The linux maschinen are always on, too, and are rock solid.
Just wait until YOU have kids, buck-o.
You'll be ASTOUNDED at how much you will find yourself agreeing with her, and damning yourself for making the *severe* mistake of empowering _any_ offspring under the age of 18.
Just wait.. oh yeah.. you'll see how moronic what you just wrote truly is.
Prepare for a life of pain, pal.
Open standards raise all ships, folks, and it's heartening to see these two titans place their imprimatur behind that rather obvious notion.
Kudos all around, gang. Especially to those who raised thoughtful, well reasoned objections. We may have won this one. YAY!
Next stop? The US.GOV and their recent salivations about dining on our constitution.. a document that has served as inspiritation for the oppressed and disenfranchised masses the world over.
Let's not drop the ball on THAT battle, people.
Keep your flameage to a modest level, but call every radio talk show you can find (THAT works far better than *mail) and inform the vast unwashed that THEY and their FAMILIES' security is in jeopardy if the gummint gets its' way, and in any degree dilutes the Oh Most Holy of our first Ten.
We need a Media blitz. A bunch of pissed off geeks can accomplish that, and more, given the hunger to do so.
(gunnery sergeant Hartman)
GET HUNGRY, PEOPLE!
ARE YOU HUNGRY?
Sir, yes sir!
DO YOU WANNIT?
Sir, yes sir!
THEN GET YOUR SOFT, FLABBY GEEK ASSES OUT THERE, AND REDEEM OUR DAMNED CONSTITUTION!
I don't understand why that sort of research should be considered 'ignoble'. IMHO, it's pretty damned interesting, and could provide insight into, oh, Terrorism, and how sustained ideation about a particular topic can 'lock up' the brain. Perhaps a simple drug therapy, deliverable in an aerosol form and sprayed over a wide area, could unknot the neural systems of obsessed nutcases like the Taliban, and restore them to some degree of sanity.
That was...
Beautiful, Man! Really!
(Sniff!)
My hat is off to any and all cold induced aureolar projectiles! Anytime! Anywhere!
Oh gawd.. gotta go.. Bye!
Actually, the proper place for Aeon Flux would be The Pretentious Channel; make sure you call your cable service RIGHT NOW and tell them YOU want The Pretentious Channel!!!
Amen, brother!
While the art work is, certainly good, the animation is well, Japanese. Only a slight improvement over dreck like Dragonball Z, Speed Racer and Clutch Cargo.
The writing's not much better, either. Just a bunch of hackneyed SciFi cliches stitched together.
Bah! Bah say I!
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I don't know if you'll ever see this but I totally agree with you.
I wrote about what actually works. I don't like it. You cannot battle evil without to some degree embracing it so as to understand it.
As a spiritual being, a Warrior, I have no choice.
Warriors always learn things about the opposition. We, in order to understand their motivations, MUST learn to think like *them*.
When we do so, we sometimes actually find some understanding with the enemy. Why they Fight.
*This* enemy has no heart. None. They are as bugs. Insects.
However, we all have bugs living in our homes, invisibly. Some help.. some hinder.
I'm babbling, but I'm trying to say this..
There is nothing recoverable about this enemy. Even the most devout of the Islamic world agree.
Bin Laden and his like are bugs to be squashed, without mercy or a hint of sorrow.
Terror. Sheer and utter terror for Bin Laden personally.
That's the only way to play a game such as this.
Psychology plays a large role. Our intelligence services should be seeking out every even remotely related member of any of the families of the principal players, gathering them up, and building a hostage base thst we can then play from.
Many of Laden's famile live here in the US. As members of his immediate blood line, they are OUR property now. To do with as we see fit.
No, I am NOT kidding.
The arrival of the head of a loved one at your doorstep would give even the most hardened so-called "warrior" (Bin Laden? What a PUSSY!) Pause.
It lets 'him' (a term I use loosely when I comment about bin luser) think about it's luser life and why *I* shouldn't terminate it right now, so as to free up space on the always great Spiritual Server in the Sky, for someone far more deserving.
The First Amendment in this case has a viral, GPL-like quality.
Who, do you think wrote the legislation that makes a corporation possible in the first place, hmmm?
That's right.. CONGRESS!
A court with its' head(s) screwed on correctly could obviate this license restriction in a heartbeat, as it IS unconstitutional.
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I posted something similar to this last night, but left out something rather important.
WARNING: This is a particulary grisly and morally iffy solution to problems of mideast born terrorism, but it has been shown to work in the past.
(NSA? Are you listening?)
Since it seems very likely that the perps in this little drama may well be personally identified by name and nationality, an inside out approach of sheer psychological terror at their end might prove fruitful, and has in the past.
(a) Find all of the members of the now dead perps' families. Kill them one by one. One family at a time. Take polaroids. Mail them all about. Do next family. GOTO 10.
(b) Locate all members of the aforementioned families' extended families. Repeat recursively.
(c) FINALLY.. Take out the leaders. Ship many heads and other anatomical features in boxes and jars to various high profile, carefully chosen recipients.
(d) Go silent. Say nothing. Smirk, maybe, but say nothing.
(e) Oh. I almost forgot.. If there was a way to defile the bodies, or the graves of the ancestors so as to jeopardise their experience in the beyond, or merely inculcate fear in those still living, I would do that too.
Techniques such as above have worked VERY well for Organised crime, and the KGB. They're godawfully realpolitik and amoral, but the body count is very low, and could, in a Duney sorta sense, be the more humane course, as insane as that sounds.
If I were the pres, and someone presented me with such a plan, folks, I'd have to give it some good, hard consideration.
Christ, I'm such a bastard. Maybe I've been reading ASR too long?
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I personally think that the final installment should resolve the question that I've had in my head since I saw the first in '79.
Where the hell did these critters *evolve* ferkrissake? What predator types would eat _them_?
An adventure on THAT planet would be really cool!
It's 'impede', not 'impead'.
Wow.. am I anal or what?
they've floated an onerous licensing scheme.
Anyone remember that period in the 80's when they tried to charge a license fee for their _runtime libraries_?
If you wanted to distribute an app you'd written using one of their compilers, you'd pay up front, then be charged a per unit royalty.
Three guesses how well that boneheaded idea went over with the developer community!
Excellent book. I'm not sure if it's still in print, however.
This stuff should NOT be relegated to a 'back page'! It should be up front and center!
It's called Crimewave, and also involved the Coen Bros.
Most participants disavow any knowledge of this flick, but I really enjoyed seeing all of these guys going at it during their respective larval stages. You can see Joel and Ethan all over it.
My copy proudly announces that it was written by Joel and Ethan Coen, and directed by Sam Raimi.
It's extremely stylised and wierd, but it *definitely* doesn't suck!
It's VERY interesting to see that they scrutinise political scandals even MORE closely than we do, and with ohso much more drama and gravity.
The Encryption bit was far better done than we would see here on Nightline. It tilted towards paranoia, true, but the underlying principles were given far more voice than we would generally see here in the US.
Also...
Hang around for the Afghanistan segment. It's got a bit of bias, but it worked for me. I knew more exiting than when I came in.
Sorry, d00d! .com!
It's landoverbaptist.org , not
An Open Source guy, having found a *severe* set of vulnerabilities in a commercial set of services by that could, potentially, save M$ upwards of many millions of dollars in liability costs, it only makes good economic and political sense that Marc be reimbursed most lavishly for his informed (and thus billable, were he a consultant) insights.
What? You M$ apologists think his efforts should be FREE?
Specify in law that content providers PAY for *all* R&D costs, implementaion costs (think *billions* of instances), legal fees, etc, etc associated with this lame ass idea, and you'll see it die mighty quick.
Since when is Mickey Mouse entitled to a free ride at the expense of the rest of the world?
Might it not make sense that IBM, (now a good open source ally) is now actively, and proactively plugging holes in the anti-open source dike?
After all, we've often discussed on this very site the notion of patenting everything we think of, as a community, as a hedge against the multinationals!
Big Blue could very well be on our side here. God knows.. given all of the support they've supplied, and how severely entrenched we are so far, pissing us off NOW would be a Bad Business Move(tm) on their part. They have everything to lose, and very little to gain if they actually think this patent is truly enforceable.
I vote a Benefit of the Doubt for IBM.
Who's with me?
Play the cd through a nice SAE, Audio Research, Dynaco, or Mark Levinson tube amp, into a sweet set of electrostatic speakers (some old Quads would do quite nicely), mike'm up into some classic Neumanns, dub onto a 70's Revox, Studer, or Nagra reel to reel, and rip from a high resolution digitization of THAT.
The copy would sound MUCH better than the original!
Suck on THAT, RIAA!
I've found that letting your drives run CONTINUOUSLY 24/7 is key to reliability.
IE: Turn OFF all power down power management nonsense on your PC. In doze, you go to display/properties/screensaver and click on the PM button thingie, then set your drives to 'never' spin down.
Since I did that on our doze boxen, and leaving them on 24/7, I haven't had a single drive failure, after RMA'ing 3 out of 5 WD drives in under one year previously, plus 1 Conner.
Two years and counting.
The linux maschinen are always on, too, and are rock solid.
Just wait until YOU have kids, buck-o.
You'll be ASTOUNDED at how much you will find yourself agreeing with her, and damning yourself for making the *severe* mistake of empowering _any_ offspring under the age of 18.
Just wait.. oh yeah.. you'll see how moronic what you just wrote truly is.
Prepare for a life of pain, pal.
Thank you!
I knew ya could :)
This one was a no-starter from the get-go.
Open standards raise all ships, folks, and it's heartening to see these two titans place their imprimatur behind that rather obvious notion.
Kudos all around, gang. Especially to those who raised thoughtful, well reasoned objections. We may have won this one. YAY!
Next stop? The US.GOV and their recent salivations about dining on our constitution.. a document that has served as inspiritation for the oppressed and disenfranchised masses the world over.
Let's not drop the ball on THAT battle, people.
Keep your flameage to a modest level, but call every radio talk show you can find (THAT works far better than *mail) and inform the vast unwashed that THEY and their FAMILIES' security is in jeopardy if the gummint gets its' way, and in any degree dilutes the Oh Most Holy of our first Ten.
We need a Media blitz. A bunch of pissed off geeks can accomplish that, and more, given the hunger to do so.
(gunnery sergeant Hartman)
GET HUNGRY, PEOPLE!
ARE YOU HUNGRY?
Sir, yes sir!
DO YOU WANNIT?
Sir, yes sir!
THEN GET YOUR SOFT, FLABBY GEEK ASSES OUT THERE, AND REDEEM OUR DAMNED CONSTITUTION!
SIR! *YES*! SIR!
Dismissed..
(/gunnery sergeant Hartman)
Is available here. The guy who built the place has one *seriously* twisted sense of humor.... my hat goes off to him!
I don't understand why that sort of research should be considered 'ignoble'. IMHO, it's pretty damned interesting, and could provide insight into, oh, Terrorism, and how sustained ideation about a particular topic can 'lock up' the brain. Perhaps a simple drug therapy, deliverable in an aerosol form and sprayed over a wide area, could unknot the neural systems of obsessed nutcases like the Taliban, and restore them to some degree of sanity.
That was...
Beautiful, Man! Really!
(Sniff!)
My hat is off to any and all cold induced aureolar projectiles! Anytime! Anywhere!
Oh gawd.. gotta go.. Bye!
Actually, the proper place for Aeon Flux would be The Pretentious Channel; make sure you call your cable service RIGHT NOW and tell them YOU want The Pretentious Channel!!!
While the art work is, certainly good, the animation is well, Japanese. Only a slight improvement over dreck like Dragonball Z, Speed Racer and Clutch Cargo.
The writing's not much better, either. Just a bunch of hackneyed SciFi cliches stitched together.
Bah! Bah say I!
I don't know if you'll ever see this but I totally agree with you.
I wrote about what actually works. I don't like it. You cannot battle evil without to some degree embracing it so as to understand it.
As a spiritual being, a Warrior, I have no choice.
Warriors always learn things about the opposition. We, in order to understand their motivations, MUST learn to think like *them*.
When we do so, we sometimes actually find some understanding with the enemy. Why they Fight.
*This* enemy has no heart. None. They are as bugs. Insects.
However, we all have bugs living in our homes, invisibly. Some help.. some hinder.
I'm babbling, but I'm trying to say this..
There is nothing recoverable about this enemy. Even the most devout of the Islamic world agree.
Bin Laden and his like are bugs to be squashed, without mercy or a hint of sorrow.
Do I make myself clear?
Terror. Sheer and utter terror for Bin Laden personally.
That's the only way to play a game such as this.
Psychology plays a large role. Our intelligence services should be seeking out every even remotely related member of any of the families of the principal players, gathering them up, and building a hostage base thst we can then play from.
Many of Laden's famile live here in the US. As members of his immediate blood line, they are OUR property now. To do with as we see fit.
No, I am NOT kidding.
The arrival of the head of a loved one at your doorstep would give even the most hardened so-called "warrior" (Bin Laden? What a PUSSY!) Pause.
It lets 'him' (a term I use loosely when I comment about bin luser) think about it's luser life and why *I* shouldn't terminate it right now, so as to free up space on the always great Spiritual Server in the Sky, for someone far more deserving.
Sorry, fellow geeks
I'm just SO pissed off.. STILL!
The First Amendment in this case has a viral, GPL-like quality.
Who, do you think wrote the legislation that makes a corporation possible in the first place, hmmm?
That's right.. CONGRESS!
A court with its' head(s) screwed on correctly could obviate this license restriction in a heartbeat, as it IS unconstitutional.
I posted something similar to this last night, but left out something rather important.
WARNING: This is a particulary grisly and morally iffy solution to problems of mideast born terrorism, but it has been shown to work in the past.
(NSA? Are you listening?)
Since it seems very likely that the perps in this little drama may well be personally identified by name and nationality, an inside out approach of sheer psychological terror at their end might prove fruitful, and has in the past.
(a) Find all of the members of the now dead perps' families. Kill them one by one. One family at a time. Take polaroids. Mail them all about. Do next family. GOTO 10.
(b) Locate all members of the aforementioned families' extended families. Repeat recursively.
(c) FINALLY.. Take out the leaders. Ship many heads and other anatomical features in boxes and jars to various high profile, carefully chosen recipients.
(d) Go silent. Say nothing. Smirk, maybe, but say nothing.
(e) Oh. I almost forgot.. If there was a way to defile the bodies, or the graves of the ancestors so as to jeopardise their experience in the beyond, or merely inculcate fear in those still living, I would do that too.
Techniques such as above have worked VERY well for Organised crime, and the KGB. They're godawfully realpolitik and amoral, but the body count is very low, and could, in a Duney sorta sense, be the more humane course, as insane as that sounds.
If I were the pres, and someone presented me with such a plan, folks, I'd have to give it some good, hard consideration.
Christ, I'm such a bastard. Maybe I've been reading ASR too long?