They don't.. I do... I don't exactly advertise how much hydrogen peroxide I go through in a month.
It's personal.. there isn't much than can be infered by it.. but I don't want someone reading that and discovering my strange querks...
Maybe I clean the house with isopropyl.. do I want some stranger knowing that?
That runs into some basic notions of privacy... I don't care if it never gets me in truble.. I don't want some stranger giggling over my shopping list..
> This is America! You aren't going to be persecuted for harboring seditious ideas.
Study history... 1950s.. the red mennace...
You can be persecuted for the APPERENCE of harboring seditious ideas...
>Well, now, that could be libelous... but again, if you don't acutally publish it, you're perfectly safe.
Not really.. people have sued for similer..
All it has to do is exist.. future publication can be assumed...
>Again, you're being paranoid. If you haven't done anything illegal, you have nothing to hide.
You have a computer and a modem.. you gotta be planning something criminall....
This was the whole basis of an operation where many computers were ceased.
No arrests were made as far as I know but the computers were ceased anyway and the FBI had to be sue before they'd return them.
>Read the Fscking article, man! They did respect the 4th amendment. They had a court order!
The FBI did once cease computers based soly on the fact that they had modems attached. They got warents from judges who were not familure with technology and would issue warents ignorence.
(A judge should NEVER issue a warent if he dosn't understand the request)
After a while of this Lotus and other companys helpped users sue to get equipment back based on the notion that the FBI is holding the cases open just so they can keep the equipment and for no other reason.
As I understand it the FBI was of the addatude that computers should be illegal for individuals as personal computers have no legal function.
On the radio a fedral law enforcment agent accually said he thinks anyone who supports legalising controlled substences (drugs) is clearly a drug addict and should be searched.
Clearly the FBI isn't above passing judgment based on some really flimsy notions...
It shouldn't matter.. The FBI is in the side of gathering proof etc...
On a side note... they got a warent...
I'd like to add that bugging my computer with software isn't much diffrent than stuffing a bug up my butt...
It interfears with my computer and most likely my computer interfears with it...
Solarus advocates clame Linux is easy.. Not for profesionals....
Windows advocates clame Linux is hard... takes an expert to install...
Wrong both times...
Linux is easy to install and has a bit of a learnning curve but it's not that bad.
(Just enough so you honnestly can not call Linux user friendly)
Windows is painful to install but the avrage user never notices becouse Windows comes preinstalled.
Just buy a computer with Linux preinstalled..
A profesional uses the best tool for the job.
That could be Windows or it could be Linux.
Attacking someone becouse they don't do what you'd have them do is unprofesional.
In a day and age when a person can have a 6 pack of certificates and call themselfs an expert.. You are going to have some "experts" who don't know dick.
Once you have some experence you know better than to just attack someone for picking Windows or Linux.
My own personal objection to Windows isn't for the people who pick it for themselfs. Hay good luck enjoy...
It's for the people who pick it for ME...
And hay.. that gose for Linux, Solarus or any operating system.. Don't tell me I gotta run what ever software YOU like. I'll pick my own software ThankYouVeryMuch...
My Slashdot password is:
"The bomb shall be placed in the park"
My Zkey pasword is:
"Assult at noon"
My personal password involves illegal acts of violence apon a female body that are honnestly best left unpublished...
Not really becouse I'm not stupid enough to publish my passwords.. but they'd make quite effective passwords...
They'd also look pritty incriminating on a key logger..
Now wait let me claify.. Can they do this on Linux TODAY..
Can they do this on Linux ever? Hell yes.. Not that hard.
But fedral government agentcys tend to use existing commertal software. For keyboard watching that means Windows. Not Mac, not Linux, Not OS/2, Not Solarus, Not HackMeNowSeeMyKeys Os... It's not how easy it can be done that matters. It's the availability of commertal software to do the job.
That is one reason why there should allways be a subversive operating system. Linux is getting up there so support BSD, BeOS and AtheOs. The more subversives the better. Eventually there WILL be a key sniffer for Linux.. but I don't see one comming for AtheOs any time soon.
Yeah they can slip a chip into the keyboard... I'm not worryed.. I buy $9 keyboards for a reason... Hmm this ones about ready.. no wait.. I think it has a few weeks left in it... maybe a month.. cool... Thats longer than my LAST keyboard...
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> but it's no reason to confuse the two types of software when Free is a more narrow term for this software.
"Free" isn't a term.. it's a word meaning "at no cost" Free Software is software provided at no cost.
MsIE is free software...
The term "Open Source" was created becouse it is far more narrow than other existing terms and better fits what the FSF premotes.
While the FSF prefers the terms "Freeware" "Copyleft"... and "Free Software" I don't...
Corprate enitys are abusing the terminology right now pritty badly...
Sun was charging around $30 shipping and handling for Solarus.. and calling that free...
The publication Freebes (a mag on free stuff) defines free as charging less than $2 for shipping and handling. At $30 Sun dosn't come close to even this rather lose standard.
I however prefer the dictionary deffinition of free.. "At no charg"
> We must bring the Internet back under government control, in the form of a cooperative of nations.
Rember the CDA?
Capitalism is cooperation. But companys quickly find monopolys are more valuable.
In capitalism entitys (people and companys) agree on terms for trade of service for "credits" (Money usually but barter can also play a role).
Monopoly is when an entity dictates terms to the population at larg.
Microsoft and other monopolys cast themselfs as ultimate capitalists. But they are not.
You can make more money faster as a monopolist than you can as a capitalist.
Just as you can solve socal problems easyer as a dictator than you can as a democrocy.
The key isn't to hand control over from a corupted enity to an enity who has yet to be corrupted (but is testing the waters). It is to break the coruption so it dosn't continue.
A public Internet under government control would quickly devolve into a dictatorship.
As far as corprate Internets... At one time the Internet was a collective of networks.. the core network.. The Internet itself.. was the government run network.. the rest were corprate...
However the DOJ isn't seeking to regulate Microsoft but to break it up after the fact.
AT&T and Union Steel were delt with the same hand..
IBM and Microsoft both got a kinder fate. IBM backed down and let others take over. Microsoft however did not learn from it's first run in with the DOJ.
In StarTrek terms.. Microsoft is the Borg.. the DoJ is Q.
I'd much rather not rely on Q to dismantal the Borg.. but having taken the task I'm not going to object...
It was up to Microsoft to defend itself. If Microsoft had argued that this is a dangerous road they might have gotten some support for Slashdot... It is a dangerous road.
Maybe that is what Microsoft ment by protecting innovation. However.. Microsoft itself placed itself as the example for innovation... This akin to a murderer placing himself as an example of humanitarianism. It dosn't fly.
But if Microsoft in making itself the example was trying to say this rulling could sereously injure innovative companys.. I'd agree..
The DoJ botched the job the first time and now it's the for the free market to take over.
Accually I contend had the DoJ left well enough alone Microsoft may not be the monopoly it is today. That consent decree did more harm that good.
From that point forward Windows and Dos were a single product.. the whole point of the consent decree with to prevent that from ever happening...
If Microsoft finds some way to survive a splitup and remain a monopolist power... The DoJ should LAY OFF and LET THE MARKET DO THE WORK.
The DoJ attacked when Microsoft was at it's weakest. When the market itself was allready prying Microsoft appart.
The DoJ created sympathy. Created political allies. The mayter...
In the mean time the DoJ (the Q) eye other busnesses that may need breaking up... hu ho....
If video was regulated by "the radio star" we not only wouldn't have HDTV.. we wouldn't have color TV and I dare say instead of NTSC, PAL and the other video standards that came out we'd be using the video technology I saw in a TV documentry on.. TV... where the picture only displayed a sillowet.
It would.. in the long run.. be restricted to a glorifyed radio and not giving TV much advantage over radio.
I picture the same with Voice over IP...
Voice over IP can allready provide communications in the syle of phone (call a person), CB (open mike and talk to "the world") and you have voice over IP as part of some multiplayer games.
This isn't just telephony anymore...
Geeks In Space is a recorded MP3 file... voice over IP.. done vea a music file format...
RealPlayer talk shows also exist..
Ohh and let's not forget ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/talk-radio/ Internet Talk Radio...
The pionear in Internet talk radio.... predating MP3 and RealMedia and.. yes... using Sun Audio as it's primary format it seems this netcast happend during a time when the Internet saw Windows as "Those Dos machines" in much the same way we'd look at a PS2 today.. Neat toy for OTHER PEOPLE...
This dose seem to be the wolf guarding the sheap.
Eventually voice over IP will overtake the phone network.
I myself am using a radio modem... considerably cheapper than a cell phone....
The Red menace of the 1950s (In the United States)
If they are going to gather that much information on everyone they might as well put it all to good use right? Right?
Let's see now... This guy downloads porn.. pervert.. posably a pedophile.. keep an eye on him.
This guy visited an IRC channle called "#Satan" and said "Satan lives.. 666 everyone" and left.. A satanic cultist obveously.. keep an eye on him.
This guy uses Linux and visits Slashdot... Communist... keep taps on this one...
This guy replyed to a post by this idiot 'Felinoid'.. and posted an insightful reply no less.. very smart guy.. arange an accadent... to smart...
> Microsoft treats people like slaves because Microsoft treats people like slaves,
And so they pay them for it... thus we return to the point of qualty vs quanity...
If they'd treat employees better then they wouldn't have to pay them so much...
Ok now back down a tad.. Microsoft dosn't whip employees. That pay is justifyed by the tallent they need to get the job done (produce software that runs in spite of the insain design).
Microsoft treats employees just fine...
But if it ever is a choice between being a wealthy slave or a poor master... I'll be the master.. you be the slave...
Not only am I going to shatter your assertion I'm going down to to shatter the assertion you are attacking..
Larg companys DO care about employees. Not on names or faces. But on tallent. They don't care about say "Jim Bo Bob" they care about "programmer 2561a". But they do care.
The BEST example of this... everyone hold on now... MICROSOFT!! Haha...
Being "in the loop" is not a perk to me.. Thats a stress generator right there.
The truth is the job pay is purely based on how easy it is to get someone to do that job.
If the job requires a lot of skill then it's hard to fill. Pays good money...
If the job is painful very few will tolerate it. Pays good money.
Microsoft pays the most money becouse they need the best tallent... Thats all there is to it...
(and yes I maintain that Windows stinks.. with the best tallent coding it... It's not the programmers it's the original design... Like a building falling down.. you can re-enforce it forever.. it's still falling down)
Something I have observed is the tendency to treat language as a culture.
But it's not a culture it's a tool. The job is to communicate.
Yes it's neat to be able to communicate in many languages and it means your able to gather more information. Many may chouse to learn a language not for the value of information recorded in that language but for the value of the culture.
At first I'd say this is perfictly fine as cultural matereals are recorded in the language of that culture so your better off learnning the language to learn the matereal.
But it bothers me that so many treat language as an ends not a means. That it is a culture not a gateway to it.
Efforts to protect the rights of spanish speaking americans not only nessisary it's vital. Having a vote isn't enough. They need to know what is being said. Canidates can speak poorly of Spanish speaking americans openly and the Spanish speaking croud would not know unless someone told them.
And that can go two ways.. once a person is in a position to tell a larg voting population what is going on he has a strong insentive to bend the truth or present his own spin.
While there isn't much than can be done about the fact that a larg population can only understand Spanish. There is no reason to preserve a Spanish speaking population in the United States. Preserve the rights and do everything that can be done to make them involved in the system.
But the tone I get from the defenders of the Spanish speaking population seem to be of preserving a culture and not of provding access to an English political system...
Unix experence is also in high demand...
And not that many people have the exposure Linus has.. Any employer would have automatic name recognition (This posably being a reason Transmeta hired Linus.. that and having a hand in Linux develupment for Transmetas chips)
Slashdot might hire him:)
or Linux Dot Com may want him on staff....
He'd also fit well with Source Forge or FreshMeat.
There are a number of places Linus would fit well..
Hay... RMS dosn't have an MSCE eather but people pay him good money to be a consultent...
(He dose this only just enough to pay the bills... his primary focuse is on the FSF.. all your domations make it posable for him to STAY focused on the FSF... so donate NOW..)
I don't think Linus has any worrys...
At worst he could work for a news agentcy as a tech corespondent:)
> man, you are going to be so fucked when all your appreciated, in-the-loop, understood, secure employees leave for a 100% pay rise.
And daily whippings and being chain to desks (litterally) of course...
Not many people want to be Bill Gates... they'd rather be Linus...
Mr Gates isn't appreciated much [Look around Slashdot... one of the most populare web sites... not a whole lot of Bill love goin on here]
But he's wealthy...
Linus how ever... He isn't wealthy but he's much liked...
Would you rather have money or love? And you can't buy love....
It seems this is an old law based on the notion that piracy can not be prevented. So it is infact legal to do so.
A very good recomendation was for HP to pick up and leave. I wish to extend this notion.
No.. EVERYONE should pack up and leave. Microsoft due to lack of effective piracy laws and IoMega for the potental for piracy using the Zip and Jaz drives.
Both sides are hurt by this addatude...
Hardware makers for being tagged negitively and content sources for lack of protection against theft.
Hay let's hit Intel.. they make ROMs that can store data.. and CPUs that can convert that data into music or other such information sources.
Napster, Sony, HP, Intel, Linux, Microsoft it's all one great big conspericy to steal music we can not posably contend with it so we'll just pass some dumpy laws instead.
[Incase anyone was wondering.. Sony sells tape recorders.. My reel to reel tape is a Sony]
I rember how the word "fuck" was banned yet the domain name fuckedcompany.com was allowed.
I might add that this is the Internet and keepping the Internet domains clean of english curse words when web sites are known to contain graphic discriptions of thies curse words.
One often posted website contains a clear example of one curse... something I personally got called a lot when someone didn't get what they wanted. But the domain name is deceptive.. It is quite likely had the domain holder had a choice he would have selected a compleatly discriptive domain name.
Why should the f word be void from Internet domains when in some cases Usenet posts are composed of almost nothing but....
Aren't we being a bit prudish?
On radio and TV I understand the point.. broudcast.. etc. But gezz... Make bind filter the 7 words and then let people reg those domains who don't want kids accessing those web sites....
hay instead of credit card varification require adult sites use a 4 letter word that can then be cut off at bind...
On earth there are a larg number of deity of such the Christian god is only one.
Of deity many clame to be "The one and only" many deity are still folowed today.
The Christian god was not allways in populare folowing. So we can not count on this as proof of validity...
Given a pure statistical analisis what are the odds that the christian god is valid?
Now... is this any way to handle religion? Not really...
But for those who enjoy running around saying "Repent" (such as the poster) well.. ok fine thats funny...
Those who are truely sereous about it... Who stand out infront of mass transit trains (such as BART in California or the Subway in New York..) I have a reply...
Repent now and be saved or Oden shall smite you...
(Please note I'm not an Odenist so it's likely the preveous statment is not consistent with that religion.. I wouldn't know)
I'm being silly here so don't take me too sereously..
Now the bacterea isn't very smart is it?
Wait if the whole colective of bactera is accually a single life force.. Then it could have intelegence. It's not really dependent on any given cluster of cells..
It's not in control of the mutations so occasionally it becomes harmful but the whole idea is to just live peacefully.. So it's not resentful when we kill off thousands of it's cells.
Now.. picture that we are basicly unaware it exists.. becouse it's diffrent etc.
Now picture.. it's just ammused by us and while it would like to say hello it's waiting for us to make first contact. (No crop circles etc)
Now picture it has a sense of hummor and all thies humans are looking for alien life...
Now picture. it's a prankster... a major prankster...
"Look at me.. I'm an alien..." hahahaha...
To be more realistic.. just seems maybe we have a lot of bacterea around the planet.. in the atmosphear etc...
Blasphamy...
You must code.. you must hack perl...
How dare you prefer calculus to perl...
Nooo we must torment you....
Ok my minions.. discover the subject he is weakest on and force him to answer questions in that area...
Torment him when he is wrong.. and and force him to watch evil purple dinos...
Deprive him of his fav Si Fis...
and force him to watch the stupid mockerys of si fi by hacks (writing hacks BTW.. not computer hacks.. in publishing it's an insult)...
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Note.. replys not in order... sorry..
> It's a flipping shopping list. Who cares?
They don't.. I do... I don't exactly advertise how much hydrogen peroxide I go through in a month.
It's personal.. there isn't much than can be infered by it.. but I don't want someone reading that and discovering my strange querks...
Maybe I clean the house with isopropyl.. do I want some stranger knowing that?
That runs into some basic notions of privacy... I don't care if it never gets me in truble.. I don't want some stranger giggling over my shopping list..
> This is America! You aren't going to be persecuted for harboring seditious ideas.
Study history... 1950s.. the red mennace...
You can be persecuted for the APPERENCE of harboring seditious ideas...
>Well, now, that could be libelous... but again, if you don't acutally publish it, you're perfectly safe.
Not really.. people have sued for similer..
All it has to do is exist.. future publication can be assumed...
>Again, you're being paranoid. If you haven't done anything illegal, you have nothing to hide.
You have a computer and a modem.. you gotta be planning something criminall....
This was the whole basis of an operation where many computers were ceased.
No arrests were made as far as I know but the computers were ceased anyway and the FBI had to be sue before they'd return them.
>Read the Fscking article, man! They did respect the 4th amendment. They had a court order!
You got him on that one....
> How expensive is it for the FBI to enter your home, place a physical tap on your computer, and monitor it for months?
Very...
> How likely is it that they will be tapping people for no good reason?
Very...
The key words being "good reason" they have plenty of really lame reasons...
They are in the busness of being paranoid... So they get parnaoid..
Thats why it takes a cort order to get a tap...
The FBI did once cease computers based soly on the fact that they had modems attached. They got warents from judges who were not familure with technology and would issue warents ignorence.
(A judge should NEVER issue a warent if he dosn't understand the request)
After a while of this Lotus and other companys helpped users sue to get equipment back based on the notion that the FBI is holding the cases open just so they can keep the equipment and for no other reason.
As I understand it the FBI was of the addatude that computers should be illegal for individuals as personal computers have no legal function.
On the radio a fedral law enforcment agent accually said he thinks anyone who supports legalising controlled substences (drugs) is clearly a drug addict and should be searched.
Clearly the FBI isn't above passing judgment based on some really flimsy notions...
It shouldn't matter.. The FBI is in the side of gathering proof etc...
On a side note... they got a warent...
I'd like to add that bugging my computer with software isn't much diffrent than stuffing a bug up my butt...
It interfears with my computer and most likely my computer interfears with it...
>My grandma can install and use RedHat!
Solarus advocates clame Linux is easy.. Not for profesionals....
Windows advocates clame Linux is hard... takes an expert to install...
Wrong both times...
Linux is easy to install and has a bit of a learnning curve but it's not that bad.
(Just enough so you honnestly can not call Linux user friendly)
Windows is painful to install but the avrage user never notices becouse Windows comes preinstalled.
Just buy a computer with Linux preinstalled..
A profesional uses the best tool for the job.
That could be Windows or it could be Linux.
Attacking someone becouse they don't do what you'd have them do is unprofesional.
In a day and age when a person can have a 6 pack of certificates and call themselfs an expert.. You are going to have some "experts" who don't know dick.
Once you have some experence you know better than to just attack someone for picking Windows or Linux.
My own personal objection to Windows isn't for the people who pick it for themselfs. Hay good luck enjoy...
It's for the people who pick it for ME...
And hay.. that gose for Linux, Solarus or any operating system.. Don't tell me I gotta run what ever software YOU like. I'll pick my own software ThankYouVeryMuch...
My Slashdot password is:
"The bomb shall be placed in the park"
My Zkey pasword is:
"Assult at noon"
My personal password involves illegal acts of violence apon a female body that are honnestly best left unpublished...
Not really becouse I'm not stupid enough to publish my passwords.. but they'd make quite effective passwords...
They'd also look pritty incriminating on a key logger..
Now wait let me claify.. Can they do this on Linux TODAY..
Can they do this on Linux ever? Hell yes.. Not that hard.
But fedral government agentcys tend to use existing commertal software. For keyboard watching that means Windows. Not Mac, not Linux, Not OS/2, Not Solarus, Not HackMeNowSeeMyKeys Os... It's not how easy it can be done that matters. It's the availability of commertal software to do the job.
That is one reason why there should allways be a subversive operating system. Linux is getting up there so support BSD, BeOS and AtheOs. The more subversives the better. Eventually there WILL be a key sniffer for Linux.. but I don't see one comming for AtheOs any time soon.
Yeah they can slip a chip into the keyboard... I'm not worryed.. I buy $9 keyboards for a reason... Hmm this ones about ready.. no wait.. I think it has a few weeks left in it... maybe a month.. cool... Thats longer than my LAST keyboard...
> but it's no reason to confuse the two types of software when Free is a more narrow term for this software.
"Free" isn't a term.. it's a word meaning "at no cost" Free Software is software provided at no cost.
MsIE is free software...
The term "Open Source" was created becouse it is far more narrow than other existing terms and better fits what the FSF premotes.
While the FSF prefers the terms "Freeware" "Copyleft"... and "Free Software" I don't...
Corprate enitys are abusing the terminology right now pritty badly...
Sun was charging around $30 shipping and handling for Solarus.. and calling that free...
The publication Freebes (a mag on free stuff) defines free as charging less than $2 for shipping and handling. At $30 Sun dosn't come close to even this rather lose standard.
I however prefer the dictionary deffinition of free.. "At no charg"
> We must bring the Internet back under government control, in the form of a cooperative of nations.
Rember the CDA?
Capitalism is cooperation. But companys quickly find monopolys are more valuable.
In capitalism entitys (people and companys) agree on terms for trade of service for "credits" (Money usually but barter can also play a role).
Monopoly is when an entity dictates terms to the population at larg.
Microsoft and other monopolys cast themselfs as ultimate capitalists. But they are not.
You can make more money faster as a monopolist than you can as a capitalist.
Just as you can solve socal problems easyer as a dictator than you can as a democrocy.
The key isn't to hand control over from a corupted enity to an enity who has yet to be corrupted (but is testing the waters). It is to break the coruption so it dosn't continue.
A public Internet under government control would quickly devolve into a dictatorship.
As far as corprate Internets... At one time the Internet was a collective of networks.. the core network.. The Internet itself.. was the government run network.. the rest were corprate...
This is an insightful comment...
However the DOJ isn't seeking to regulate Microsoft but to break it up after the fact.
AT&T and Union Steel were delt with the same hand..
IBM and Microsoft both got a kinder fate. IBM backed down and let others take over. Microsoft however did not learn from it's first run in with the DOJ.
In StarTrek terms.. Microsoft is the Borg.. the DoJ is Q.
I'd much rather not rely on Q to dismantal the Borg.. but having taken the task I'm not going to object...
It was up to Microsoft to defend itself. If Microsoft had argued that this is a dangerous road they might have gotten some support for Slashdot... It is a dangerous road.
Maybe that is what Microsoft ment by protecting innovation. However.. Microsoft itself placed itself as the example for innovation... This akin to a murderer placing himself as an example of humanitarianism. It dosn't fly.
But if Microsoft in making itself the example was trying to say this rulling could sereously injure innovative companys.. I'd agree..
The DoJ botched the job the first time and now it's the for the free market to take over.
Accually I contend had the DoJ left well enough alone Microsoft may not be the monopoly it is today. That consent decree did more harm that good.
From that point forward Windows and Dos were a single product.. the whole point of the consent decree with to prevent that from ever happening...
If Microsoft finds some way to survive a splitup and remain a monopolist power... The DoJ should LAY OFF and LET THE MARKET DO THE WORK.
The DoJ attacked when Microsoft was at it's weakest. When the market itself was allready prying Microsoft appart.
The DoJ created sympathy. Created political allies. The mayter...
In the mean time the DoJ (the Q) eye other busnesses that may need breaking up... hu ho....
If video was regulated by "the radio star" we not only wouldn't have HDTV.. we wouldn't have color TV and I dare say instead of NTSC, PAL and the other video standards that came out we'd be using the video technology I saw in a TV documentry on.. TV... where the picture only displayed a sillowet.
It would.. in the long run.. be restricted to a glorifyed radio and not giving TV much advantage over radio.
I picture the same with Voice over IP...
Voice over IP can allready provide communications in the syle of phone (call a person), CB (open mike and talk to "the world") and you have voice over IP as part of some multiplayer games.
This isn't just telephony anymore...
Geeks In Space is a recorded MP3 file... voice over IP.. done vea a music file format...
RealPlayer talk shows also exist..
Ohh and let's not forget ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/talk-radio/ Internet Talk Radio...
The pionear in Internet talk radio.... predating MP3 and RealMedia and.. yes... using Sun Audio as it's primary format it seems this netcast happend during a time when the Internet saw Windows as "Those Dos machines" in much the same way we'd look at a PS2 today.. Neat toy for OTHER PEOPLE...
This dose seem to be the wolf guarding the sheap.
Eventually voice over IP will overtake the phone network.
I myself am using a radio modem... considerably cheapper than a cell phone....
The Red menace of the 1950s (In the United States)
If they are going to gather that much information on everyone they might as well put it all to good use right? Right?
Let's see now... This guy downloads porn.. pervert.. posably a pedophile.. keep an eye on him.
This guy visited an IRC channle called "#Satan" and said "Satan lives.. 666 everyone" and left.. A satanic cultist obveously.. keep an eye on him.
This guy uses Linux and visits Slashdot... Communist... keep taps on this one...
This guy replyed to a post by this idiot 'Felinoid'.. and posted an insightful reply no less.. very smart guy.. arange an accadent... to smart...
> Microsoft treats people like slaves because Microsoft treats people like slaves,
And so they pay them for it... thus we return to the point of qualty vs quanity...
If they'd treat employees better then they wouldn't have to pay them so much...
Ok now back down a tad.. Microsoft dosn't whip employees. That pay is justifyed by the tallent they need to get the job done (produce software that runs in spite of the insain design).
Microsoft treats employees just fine...
But if it ever is a choice between being a wealthy slave or a poor master... I'll be the master.. you be the slave...
Not only am I going to shatter your assertion I'm going down to to shatter the assertion you are attacking..
Larg companys DO care about employees. Not on names or faces. But on tallent. They don't care about say "Jim Bo Bob" they care about "programmer 2561a". But they do care.
The BEST example of this... everyone hold on now... MICROSOFT!! Haha...
Being "in the loop" is not a perk to me.. Thats a stress generator right there.
The truth is the job pay is purely based on how easy it is to get someone to do that job.
If the job requires a lot of skill then it's hard to fill. Pays good money...
If the job is painful very few will tolerate it. Pays good money.
Microsoft pays the most money becouse they need the best tallent... Thats all there is to it...
(and yes I maintain that Windows stinks.. with the best tallent coding it... It's not the programmers it's the original design... Like a building falling down.. you can re-enforce it forever.. it's still falling down)
Something I have observed is the tendency to treat language as a culture.
But it's not a culture it's a tool. The job is to communicate.
Yes it's neat to be able to communicate in many languages and it means your able to gather more information. Many may chouse to learn a language not for the value of information recorded in that language but for the value of the culture.
At first I'd say this is perfictly fine as cultural matereals are recorded in the language of that culture so your better off learnning the language to learn the matereal.
But it bothers me that so many treat language as an ends not a means. That it is a culture not a gateway to it.
Efforts to protect the rights of spanish speaking americans not only nessisary it's vital. Having a vote isn't enough. They need to know what is being said. Canidates can speak poorly of Spanish speaking americans openly and the Spanish speaking croud would not know unless someone told them.
And that can go two ways.. once a person is in a position to tell a larg voting population what is going on he has a strong insentive to bend the truth or present his own spin.
While there isn't much than can be done about the fact that a larg population can only understand Spanish. There is no reason to preserve a Spanish speaking population in the United States. Preserve the rights and do everything that can be done to make them involved in the system.
But the tone I get from the defenders of the Spanish speaking population seem to be of preserving a culture and not of provding access to an English political system...
Language is not a culture.. it is a tool...
Unix experence is also in high demand...
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And not that many people have the exposure Linus has.. Any employer would have automatic name recognition (This posably being a reason Transmeta hired Linus.. that and having a hand in Linux develupment for Transmetas chips)
Slashdot might hire him
or Linux Dot Com may want him on staff....
He'd also fit well with Source Forge or FreshMeat.
There are a number of places Linus would fit well..
Hay... RMS dosn't have an MSCE eather but people pay him good money to be a consultent...
(He dose this only just enough to pay the bills... his primary focuse is on the FSF.. all your domations make it posable for him to STAY focused on the FSF... so donate NOW..)
I don't think Linus has any worrys...
At worst he could work for a news agentcy as a tech corespondent
> man, you are going to be so fucked when all your appreciated, in-the-loop, understood, secure employees leave for a 100% pay rise.
And daily whippings and being chain to desks (litterally) of course...
Not many people want to be Bill Gates... they'd rather be Linus...
Mr Gates isn't appreciated much [Look around Slashdot... one of the most populare web sites... not a whole lot of Bill love goin on here]
But he's wealthy...
Linus how ever... He isn't wealthy but he's much liked...
Would you rather have money or love? And you can't buy love....
A lady friend of mine and I were chatting about her new home.
It's expensive enough that she is now poor after paying rent.
"Better to be poor in a cassle than wealthy in a cave"
She agreed.. the whole reasoning behind the new place...
A diffrent way to think of it...
You "buy" a better job by taking a paycut...
On the other hand... being wealthy is pritty good when your living in a cave...
It seems this is an old law based on the notion that piracy can not be prevented. So it is infact legal to do so.
A very good recomendation was for HP to pick up and leave. I wish to extend this notion.
No.. EVERYONE should pack up and leave. Microsoft due to lack of effective piracy laws and IoMega for the potental for piracy using the Zip and Jaz drives.
Both sides are hurt by this addatude...
Hardware makers for being tagged negitively and content sources for lack of protection against theft.
Hay let's hit Intel.. they make ROMs that can store data.. and CPUs that can convert that data into music or other such information sources.
Napster, Sony, HP, Intel, Linux, Microsoft it's all one great big conspericy to steal music we can not posably contend with it so we'll just pass some dumpy laws instead.
[Incase anyone was wondering.. Sony sells tape recorders.. My reel to reel tape is a Sony]
As much an attempt at humor that is... It's kinda haunting thought...
On that note.... an additional thought comes to mind...
The Internet can go allmost anywhere...
Would proof of the afterlife come in the form of a ping from heven? Thats kinda spooky to think about...
I rember how the word "fuck" was banned yet the domain name fuckedcompany.com was allowed.
I might add that this is the Internet and keepping the Internet domains clean of english curse words when web sites are known to contain graphic discriptions of thies curse words.
One often posted website contains a clear example of one curse... something I personally got called a lot when someone didn't get what they wanted. But the domain name is deceptive.. It is quite likely had the domain holder had a choice he would have selected a compleatly discriptive domain name.
Why should the f word be void from Internet domains when in some cases Usenet posts are composed of almost nothing but....
Aren't we being a bit prudish?
On radio and TV I understand the point.. broudcast.. etc. But gezz... Make bind filter the 7 words and then let people reg those domains who don't want kids accessing those web sites....
hay instead of credit card varification require adult sites use a 4 letter word that can then be cut off at bind...
> The question is: if there are so many intelligences in the universe, where are they?
Easy answer: Not here...
How are we going to find life on other planets while we are trapped on this one?
Only human arrogence would assume alien life would think like we do...
The desire to make contact with alien life is a human desire.. It may be unique to us...
That again.. assuming it's even POSABLE.. and the chances are pritty good it's not...
On earth there are a larg number of deity of such the Christian god is only one.
Of deity many clame to be "The one and only" many deity are still folowed today.
The Christian god was not allways in populare folowing. So we can not count on this as proof of validity...
Given a pure statistical analisis what are the odds that the christian god is valid?
Now... is this any way to handle religion? Not really...
But for those who enjoy running around saying "Repent" (such as the poster) well.. ok fine thats funny...
Those who are truely sereous about it... Who stand out infront of mass transit trains (such as BART in California or the Subway in New York..) I have a reply...
Repent now and be saved or Oden shall smite you...
(Please note I'm not an Odenist so it's likely the preveous statment is not consistent with that religion.. I wouldn't know)
I'm being silly here so don't take me too sereously..
Now the bacterea isn't very smart is it?
Wait if the whole colective of bactera is accually a single life force.. Then it could have intelegence. It's not really dependent on any given cluster of cells..
It's not in control of the mutations so occasionally it becomes harmful but the whole idea is to just live peacefully.. So it's not resentful when we kill off thousands of it's cells.
Now.. picture that we are basicly unaware it exists.. becouse it's diffrent etc.
Now picture.. it's just ammused by us and while it would like to say hello it's waiting for us to make first contact. (No crop circles etc)
Now picture it has a sense of hummor and all thies humans are looking for alien life...
Now picture. it's a prankster... a major prankster...
"Look at me.. I'm an alien..." hahahaha...
To be more realistic.. just seems maybe we have a lot of bacterea around the planet.. in the atmosphear etc...
Blasphamy...
You must code.. you must hack perl...
How dare you prefer calculus to perl...
Nooo we must torment you....
Ok my minions.. discover the subject he is weakest on and force him to answer questions in that area...
Torment him when he is wrong.. and and force him to watch evil purple dinos...
Deprive him of his fav Si Fis...
and force him to watch the stupid mockerys of si fi by hacks (writing hacks BTW.. not computer hacks.. in publishing it's an insult)...