Not at all. Every single 'fundraiser' I've seen on PBS has a 'spokesperson' with either a bad fake english accent, or is actually English with a bad speech impediment.
There is also the issue of all the English programming.
PBS also basically sucks unless your a pseudo-intellectual poseur.
It's a simple fact that 'astronauts' aren't special anymore. Their just workers like any other, and I don't see why they should be treated any differently.
NASA has been pushing the image of astronauts as being 'special' or 'different' for so long they can't comprehend that they aren't 'special' or 'different'. The recent 'vacation' of a civilian (forgot his name, seems he's fallen into obscurity) the Russians took up to the space station was opposed by NASA because they want to keep upholding the idea that astronauts are 'special' or 'different' despite that basically anybody who passes the physical is able to go into space. Their nothing more than glorified mechanics.
Their too damn stupid to know how to operate a shower. I get the shower in the gymnasium hasn't seen water once since the nerds started staying there. (it's probably seen a whole lot of other things, but not showers)
Ok, so some of ya don't like Katz. Big deal, get over it, if he's so damn bad then why do ya read what he writes? As far as I'm concerned you can go away, stop bellyachin, and find something to do with your time.
Now, on with the regularly scheduled program...
Katz makes some valid points. I've noticed this trend on attention also. We are inundated daily with all kinds of attention getting mechanisms to the point where it's just a real pain in the ass to deal with. Everywhere you go your faced with advertisements for one thing or another. It used to be bad enough when it was just consumer items being advertised, but now there's a growing trend for political or religious advertisements put up by anybody who can pony up the money to broadcast to the world their own little assinine message or parrot the trend du jour. On top of this are the seemingly innoculour 'info' advertisements for various technologies (emergent or otherwise). You can't even surf the web without having an irritating pop up ad window crapping up your machine till you can click it away like a perverted version of whack-a-mole. None of it makes me more likely to buy, subscribe to, or get all touch-feely than I was before. As far as I'm concerned the value of a product, idea, or information is in inverse proportion to the attempts to get it attention. If your product is selling well, and making a profit there's no real need to advertise. If your ideology is really noteworthy it won't need advertisements to get it recognized. If your trend du jour is meaningfull enough it won't need the advertisements either. Attention getting simply signals items on the decline.
Let the usual snide frat-boy, aids activist, linux activist, diety activist, etc... responses begin!
The dumbasses who either don't read the rental agreements, are to stupid enough to understand them, or fall for the "That's just standard rental agrement stuff, just sign at the bottom."
As far as I'm concerned they can go ahead with their speed tracking policy via GPS. Once the public get's hold of that information the only time they'll rent a car is if all the other agencies are flat out of available vehicles. Commercial Darwinism will rid the world of companies like this.
I've heard women (I would go so far as to say 'feminist women') say that Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead were nothing more than rape fantasies. Of course they completely ignore that in both books the female was the one who controlled the circumstances that led to any sexual encounter.
"My point of view on Microsoft right after reading it was 'leave em alone'"
Ah, but they can't. They have a psychotic desire to control everyone and everything around them, and to bend their environement (and other people) to their will no matter what the cost. Even if that cost means that there is no freedom in the future.
I have noticed that every single person that likes to tear Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead up are either young and idealistic, or older socialists. They really don't have either the moral, ethical, principle, or intellectual base to understand the concepts presented without looking past the admittedly bad story line. They are all clones of either Peter Keating and Ellsworth Toohey. Followers, and sycophants with no imagination or originality running around parroting whatever the trend du jour is.
Ok, this is all very nice, and I'm sure it'll get some limited use, but I don't expect to see it in widespread use in offices and whatnot. Why? Because the whole point of paper isn't so much as a display device, but a modifiable display device. I.E. people will want to write on it, and guess what will happen when someone draws their Bic across this.
The people that insist that port scanning should be legal miss the fact that it should be legal ONLY for the sysadmins of that particular network, not for every idiot that thinks he/she should have the 'freedom' to scan a network that doesn't belong to him/her.
A stated law that makes it clear that port scanning is illegal for those outside of that networks system administrators gives people the tool to go after those who scan networks for holes that they can exploit. For instance, on my dialup connection I regularly get scanned for SubSeven and NetBus. These people are looking specifically for those ports, and the only reason they are scanning those ports is to find a machine that has been compromised that they can get into. Those that advocate being able to run port scans on networks that they don't admin could also use the same argument that it's ok to attempt a robbery as long as the attempt isn't successfull.
But, I do expect the whole concept here to fall on deaf ears (or blind eye's as it were), since it seems that Slashdot has become a haven for the script kiddie crowd.
Although they may hold the patent in question, and legitimatly at that...
Suing companies that merely sell devices which contain infringing material for patent infringement is blatantly ridiculous. The appropriate targets should be the companies that manufacture the devices in question. As far as I know CompUsa and BestBuy don't have manufacturing plants that make such devices.
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Not at all. Every single 'fundraiser' I've seen on PBS has a 'spokesperson' with either a bad fake english accent, or is actually English with a bad speech impediment.
There is also the issue of all the English programming.
PBS also basically sucks unless your a pseudo-intellectual poseur.
EFNet #linux is full of the absolute biggest asshole fuckers that ever hid behind the linux name. (of course, EFNet is full of assholes of every type)
Ok, MAPS claims that they own the data. I want to know how they figure they own the data since the data contains data that someone else owns.
It's a simple fact that 'astronauts' aren't special anymore. Their just workers like any other, and I don't see why they should be treated any differently.
NASA has been pushing the image of astronauts as being 'special' or 'different' for so long they can't comprehend that they aren't 'special' or 'different'. The recent 'vacation' of a civilian (forgot his name, seems he's fallen into obscurity) the Russians took up to the space station was opposed by NASA because they want to keep upholding the idea that astronauts are 'special' or 'different' despite that basically anybody who passes the physical is able to go into space. Their nothing more than glorified mechanics.
Their too damn stupid to know how to operate a shower. I get the shower in the gymnasium hasn't seen water once since the nerds started staying there. (it's probably seen a whole lot of other things, but not showers)
". This is akin to calling myself "crippled" because my BMW is in the shop,"
No, 'crippled' is having the Jag in the shop.
Ok, so some of ya don't like Katz. Big deal, get over it, if he's so damn bad then why do ya read what he writes? As far as I'm concerned you can go away, stop bellyachin, and find something to do with your time.
Now, on with the regularly scheduled program...
Katz makes some valid points. I've noticed this trend on attention also. We are inundated daily with all kinds of attention getting mechanisms to the point where it's just a real pain in the ass to deal with. Everywhere you go your faced with advertisements for one thing or another. It used to be bad enough when it was just consumer items being advertised, but now there's a growing trend for political or religious advertisements put up by anybody who can pony up the money to broadcast to the world their own little assinine message or parrot the trend du jour. On top of this are the seemingly innoculour 'info' advertisements for various technologies (emergent or otherwise). You can't even surf the web without having an irritating pop up ad window crapping up your machine till you can click it away like a perverted version of whack-a-mole. None of it makes me more likely to buy, subscribe to, or get all touch-feely than I was before. As far as I'm concerned the value of a product, idea, or information is in inverse proportion to the attempts to get it attention. If your product is selling well, and making a profit there's no real need to advertise. If your ideology is really noteworthy it won't need advertisements to get it recognized. If your trend du jour is meaningfull enough it won't need the advertisements either. Attention getting simply signals items on the decline.
Let the usual snide frat-boy, aids activist, linux activist, diety activist, etc... responses begin!
Find some trendy little fag that's doing art with a computer and you've found how to make it acceptable as 'fine art'.
the 16th amendment was never ratified by all but two of the states. BUT, it wasn't challenged so it remains.
Good idea. After all it's a First Amendment Right. Let's fill up those servers!
The dumbasses who either don't read the rental agreements, are to stupid enough to understand them, or fall for the "That's just standard rental agrement stuff, just sign at the bottom."
As far as I'm concerned they can go ahead with their speed tracking policy via GPS. Once the public get's hold of that information the only time they'll rent a car is if all the other agencies are flat out of available vehicles. Commercial Darwinism will rid the world of companies like this.
It's the sudden deceleration.
I've heard women (I would go so far as to say 'feminist women') say that Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead were nothing more than rape fantasies. Of course they completely ignore that in both books the female was the one who controlled the circumstances that led to any sexual encounter.
"My point of view on Microsoft right after reading it was 'leave em alone'"
Ah, but they can't. They have a psychotic desire to control everyone and everything around them, and to bend their environement (and other people) to their will no matter what the cost. Even if that cost means that there is no freedom in the future.
I have noticed that every single person that likes to tear Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead up are either young and idealistic, or older socialists. They really don't have either the moral, ethical, principle, or intellectual base to understand the concepts presented without looking past the admittedly bad story line. They are all clones of either Peter Keating and Ellsworth Toohey. Followers, and sycophants with no imagination or originality running around parroting whatever the trend du jour is.
If they were Slashdot readers they'd be thin, pale creatures with no physical strength.
Ok, this is all very nice, and I'm sure it'll get some limited use, but I don't expect to see it in widespread use in offices and whatnot. Why? Because the whole point of paper isn't so much as a display device, but a modifiable display device. I.E. people will want to write on it, and guess what will happen when someone draws their Bic across this.
I'll begin with this...
The people that insist that port scanning should be legal miss the fact that it should be legal ONLY for the sysadmins of that particular network, not for every idiot that thinks he/she should have the 'freedom' to scan a network that doesn't belong to him/her.
A stated law that makes it clear that port scanning is illegal for those outside of that networks system administrators gives people the tool to go after those who scan networks for holes that they can exploit. For instance, on my dialup connection I regularly get scanned for SubSeven and NetBus. These people are looking specifically for those ports, and the only reason they are scanning those ports is to find a machine that has been compromised that they can get into. Those that advocate being able to run port scans on networks that they don't admin could also use the same argument that it's ok to attempt a robbery as long as the attempt isn't successfull.
But, I do expect the whole concept here to fall on deaf ears (or blind eye's as it were), since it seems that Slashdot has become a haven for the script kiddie crowd.
Somehow I doubt that. The audio isn't listed on the NPR's web site. (although that doesn't necessarily mean the brodcast wasn't made)
I've known Jamaicans, and frankly I'm surprised you even have the lucidity to be able to type.
Alex,
What does it feel like to be a nut?
No offense? Hell, intend as much offense as possible.
What gets me is someone actually did a 'security report' on it. DUH! Ok, next up will be a 'security report' on how shouting down a hall isn't secure.
The big difference is that the sieve is reliable.
Although they may hold the patent in question, and legitimatly at that...
Suing companies that merely sell devices which contain infringing material for patent infringement is blatantly ridiculous. The appropriate targets should be the companies that manufacture the devices in question. As far as I know CompUsa and BestBuy don't have manufacturing plants that make such devices.
It's already happening under the watchfull gaze of our alien overlords!