Actually, I was specifically told not to go near violent movies/cartoons/other forms of media by my Dad when I was younger.
My first experience with a "violent" film was seeing a commercial for Little Shop of Horrors at age 6 (they fed an innocent man to the plant -- I ran from the room screaming and crying). When we had to see a flick on railroad safety in 4th grade I threw up (they showed someone getting hit by a train and later, bodybags).
Since my Dad died 9 years ago (when I was 13), my little brothers have been exposed to a lot more violent imagery than I have. Nothing major, but the little ones saw Scream around age 11. The proof in the long run has been, however, that they are a lot more social with their peers, handle life's challenges more adamently (they don't run away like I did in high school), and generally lead happier lives. It seems to be a culture phenomonom.
I won't say that all kids should be forced to watch violent media (one of my high school teachers force fed Braveheart to his 3 year-old son. I think that's just wrong), but it seems in today's society you get along a little better with peers if you do. This seems to make you happier and friendlier with kids your age, Columbine whackos be damned.
My question: why can't new people apply to be editors for Slashdot? Clearly, some people would be great to review article submissions, and those who frequent the site would recognize duplicate stories (*cough* Hemos *cough*).
I asked CmdrTaco to be part of the Slashdot crew through email and he didn't respond.
As it is, there seems to be a lot of editors lying around since the stone age of Slashdot evolution, back when they actually *did* review articles and contribute to stories.
Wouldn't it be cool to include ALL OS's? Not just the *NIX's (getting one package manager to correctly handle both BSD and Linux is a complicated task as it is), but Mac, Windows, etc?
If they could get something that would reliably install stuff under Win2K (InstallShield really doesn't cover it), and do compiling for makefiles (I don't even know if there is something to do makefiles in Windows anyway), I'd definitely get this package manager.
But we argued this before. We don't own the ideas of these music makers/movie makers/software makers. If I was a software producer trying to make an honest living (e.g. not Bill Gates), I would be pretty pissed if people thought they had a "right" to copy my shit. That thing about backups is bull. If we all needed backups, why in the hell would things like Napster prosper?
The point is, I'm not saying that corporations should be given any extra money. But somewhere along the line an artist must be getting paid somewhere, whether they are music artists or writers or whatever.
Fact: most authors get paid a small amount for creating the book initially, and get paid a small sum for each individual book they sold. If those books were copied for free, forget it. No one would want to be an author.
I think most hackers, myself included, have to figure out where that right line is between intellectual freedom and "getting free stuff" --- and learn not to cross it if we want our arguments to be taken seriously.
This is why there is a large number of people working for Coca-Cola who go around the country stopping at restaurants and ordering a Coke, then sampling the order and sending it back to the Coca-Cola company for testing.
Dude, the only thing my union did for me when I part-timed at A&P supermarket in high school was collect my dues -- and they were huge! It was something ridiculous like $5-15 a month.
Considering my wages were below the lowest tax bracket, this was a ton.
Considering that a google search for friends' web sites and other good stuff usually turns up more dirt than paydirt, it's pleasant to contemplate more relevance in search engines.
I disagree. I continually find close matches using Google, much better than anything I used previously (Hotbot was good for a while).
When Yahoo started using them I rejoiced. It was the best of all possible worlds (good search engine, web of content like the calender, and hand-picked sites when all else failed).
I'm a vet Unreal Tournament player, so this would be simple to mod to make a good map. Add low gravity on the outside of the ship. Place a flak on the solar panel and a rocket launcher near the airlock.
If you want you could even set up a cool Assault mission. Be a third-party country and try to raid the station. Then be the ISS defense. You could put sniper rifles by the windows.
If I create something (a poem for example) and I don't want you to have it, how is this "freely shareable"? It's within the definition of intellectual property.
Let's say I sell you that poem, but tell you I don't want it copied all over the place. That's part of the deal. What right do you have to tell me you can? It's my poem!
The problem is there's these rules that noone wants to follow. If you don't like them, TOUGH.
Just out of my own experience, I just wanted to say that the standard itself rocks. I bought a base station and card from Dell with my new notebook and you can roam with these things everywhere. And since my cable modem only supports speeds up to around 3 Mbps, the 11Mbps standard more than covers it.
But the question is whether or not any of these are "rights" at all, in light of the fact that we're buying the content from someone else. They set up the contract. We purchase the movie -- we in essence sign it.
I'm not saying I don't like getting free stuff. I do. I love Napster. But I'm a little disturbed of using the hacking argument to facilitate the stealing one.
For example, I recently hacked my Wireless LAN base station. It needed a repair, I ripped it apart on my own, fixed some things, then put it back together. That's cool hacking.
Stealing movies -- I don't know. If you're going to do it, and hacking, I wouldn't be trying so eagerly to tie the two together.
(And again, it's their product that we are buying. I don't know if we have a right to argue that it doesn't meet up to our "standards" for personal rights. You know what others will say: if you don't like it, don't purchase it. Movies are entertainment. If the argument was for getting bread and water, I could see that the ferocity would be needed.
Um, how is that? Is the goal of cracking these encryption schemes to "help provide better ones" and "learn about their internal workings" (words of the industry and hackers respectively)...
...or is it just to get free movies?
Pretty sad if all it is for is to get free movies.
It's gotta be invisible to the home viewer, and practically flawless in design, to work. The first down line they use now is a good example. Fox's ugly "shadow puck" for hockey, complete with electronic trails every time the puck was fired, is not.
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My first experience with a "violent" film was seeing a commercial for Little Shop of Horrors at age 6 (they fed an innocent man to the plant -- I ran from the room screaming and crying). When we had to see a flick on railroad safety in 4th grade I threw up (they showed someone getting hit by a train and later, bodybags).
Since my Dad died 9 years ago (when I was 13), my little brothers have been exposed to a lot more violent imagery than I have. Nothing major, but the little ones saw Scream around age 11. The proof in the long run has been, however, that they are a lot more social with their peers, handle life's challenges more adamently (they don't run away like I did in high school), and generally lead happier lives. It seems to be a culture phenomonom.
I won't say that all kids should be forced to watch violent media (one of my high school teachers force fed Braveheart to his 3 year-old son. I think that's just wrong), but it seems in today's society you get along a little better with peers if you do. This seems to make you happier and friendlier with kids your age, Columbine whackos be damned.
Enough said.
What the hell is that? This is an awesome hack. I'd like to see Hemos do something *other* than code web sites.
All the more reason for my other comment.
I asked CmdrTaco to be part of the Slashdot crew through email and he didn't respond.
As it is, there seems to be a lot of editors lying around since the stone age of Slashdot evolution, back when they actually *did* review articles and contribute to stories.
Why can't new people apply.
If they could get something that would reliably install stuff under Win2K (InstallShield really doesn't cover it), and do compiling for makefiles (I don't even know if there is something to do makefiles in Windows anyway), I'd definitely get this package manager.
The point is, I'm not saying that corporations should be given any extra money. But somewhere along the line an artist must be getting paid somewhere, whether they are music artists or writers or whatever.
Fact: most authors get paid a small amount for creating the book initially, and get paid a small sum for each individual book they sold. If those books were copied for free, forget it. No one would want to be an author.
I think most hackers, myself included, have to figure out where that right line is between intellectual freedom and "getting free stuff" --- and learn not to cross it if we want our arguments to be taken seriously.
I tried on three different machines (RH 7.0, RH 6.1 and FreeBSD 4.0) and I couldn't get the makefile to work.
I'll pass. Why don't they just use those polyurethene packages from the 80s?
You mean "a beowulf cluster of AC's".
My mantra.
...Beowulf for Dummies.
Much more thorough than the Yahoo article.
Can you prove this?
Considering my wages were below the lowest tax bracket, this was a ton.
I disagree. I continually find close matches using Google, much better than anything I used previously (Hotbot was good for a while).
When Yahoo started using them I rejoiced. It was the best of all possible worlds (good search engine, web of content like the calender, and hand-picked sites when all else failed).
If you want you could even set up a cool Assault mission. Be a third-party country and try to raid the station. Then be the ISS defense. You could put sniper rifles by the windows.
Anyone up for a deathmatch? :)
Nice argument, my friend. One of the most intelligent I've ever seen on Slashdot.
If I create something (a poem for example) and I don't want you to have it, how is this "freely shareable"? It's within the definition of intellectual property.
Let's say I sell you that poem, but tell you I don't want it copied all over the place. That's part of the deal. What right do you have to tell me you can? It's my poem!
The problem is there's these rules that noone wants to follow. If you don't like them, TOUGH.
Just out of my own experience, I just wanted to say that the standard itself rocks. I bought a base station and card from Dell with my new notebook and you can roam with these things everywhere. And since my cable modem only supports speeds up to around 3 Mbps, the 11Mbps standard more than covers it.
I'm not saying I don't like getting free stuff. I do. I love Napster. But I'm a little disturbed of using the hacking argument to facilitate the stealing one.
For example, I recently hacked my Wireless LAN base station. It needed a repair, I ripped it apart on my own, fixed some things, then put it back together. That's cool hacking.
Stealing movies -- I don't know. If you're going to do it, and hacking, I wouldn't be trying so eagerly to tie the two together.
(And again, it's their product that we are buying. I don't know if we have a right to argue that it doesn't meet up to our "standards" for personal rights. You know what others will say: if you don't like it, don't purchase it. Movies are entertainment. If the argument was for getting bread and water, I could see that the ferocity would be needed.
CmdrTaco being lame enough to shoot this down... or softies keep posting it. So they lost their DNS for a few hours. Big fat hairy deal.
...or is it just to get free movies?
Pretty sad if all it is for is to get free movies.
It's gotta be invisible to the home viewer, and practically flawless in design, to work. The first down line they use now is a good example. Fox's ugly "shadow puck" for hockey, complete with electronic trails every time the puck was fired, is not.
Even using something like Yahoo Messenger and having it constantly dial in with silence or a recorded audio file.
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-Be a man. Insult me without using an AC.