Now everyone can run a porn server without fear of big brother =)
nah, the porn server is *run* by big brother.
This allows big brother to both keep tabs on you, and to keep you occupied so that you do not have enough time to meddle in things where you might be actually be dangerous or get things done.
Of course, there is an old style bbs you can telnet to associated with the UserFriendly fan base.
You can telnet directly to bbs.ufies.org - there is a web page at http://bbs.ufies.org/ with a couple of useful links like who is oneline now, etc. They have been up for about a year and a half, and are running the game doors on dosemu on a linux box.
Of course, I expect them to get/dotted by all the fresh attention.
Just look at the report on Carnivore that was discussed here the other day.
The complete cluelessness regarding quality assurance is pretty widespread. Heck, even when you have billions to throw at it like certain big companies, the slacker attitude is pretty hard to get around.
so what do you expect when you have companies who do not have billions to throw around? Their business plans will not have things like QA built into them. Maube just a lick and a promise. When it does raise it's ugly head, the bean counter types scream and foam at the mouth. By then, it is way way way too late to stem the leak of cash. Who wants to double their estimates of development costs?
I see that there is a scalability issue verse the political agendas. There are obviously advantadges to not being democratic in how you deal with data. Spam, for example, or porn. [depending on taste]
There are also dis-advantadges to not being democratic in dealing with data. Insert speculated advertising spin:
"Microsoft's Bits and Bytes are simply superior. They simply just are"
the straw man and obvious target aside, this is also a problem.
So do we want to gain a short term advantadge in dealing with scalability, and wind up a solution we would not desire?
these little bits of trivia are part of the jargon and the secret signals that make up the clue, the code that hold a culture together.
be it the knowing discussions around the watercooler of monday nite football, or the lyrics of a favorite pop tune, or the ketboard sequence of a favorite game, those little words and signals allow members of that particular subculture to identify each other, among other things.
Just as an example, look at the name of THIS site. True, alot more folks are on the internet.
But how many even "get" the name of a place called slashdot?
This is all a consequence of accelerating technology, and is aptly covered by the old book "Future Shock".
Now we get the gritty details of what that really means.
Among other things it means a shift in the rules of what makes up your personal reality. Some folks do not deal with this well.
Gore still has the decision for the Contest this Afternoon.(?)
And there is also the lawsuit in Seminole county where it is alledged that Republicans were allowed to correct the paperwork on 5000 absentee ballots, thus letting them count, while conveniently tossing out 2000 Democratic absentee ballots in similar condition.
if Gore wins that one, the Republicans will be royally pissed off.
remember, if GWB becomes prez, he will be the third president named George.
I may not see it every Night. But I know I will see it. And I know a lot of people will see it.
Just the fact of people seeing it up there in the night will have a positive impact. This is because of something that the cynical might discount or might not have heard of.
This is the power of dreams. And seeing it up there leads to speculation and to dreaming about what might be.
Now of course, you might disrepect this.
But I have found that the ones who disrepect this notion are often the ones who have most often have been disrepected themselves.
Or sadly have had no dreams at all in the first place.
and yet here Netscape goes and releases a browser that is buggy (I can't access certain web pages, among other things), and is missing certain enterprise level features that are essential to widespread adoption.
it's just a bit too little a bit too late
too bad AOL can't or won't give up that marketing agreement with Microsoft, that puts AOL in every winblows machine.
don't get me started, as I am bitter at MS for promoting fourth rate solutions, and for pillaging the best ones they do have
I hope someone puts a stake through Microsoft's heart.
There is the question of the inherent rightness and wrongness of what he did. And this is the question that bedevils hackers and the culture of technology.
Given all of the possible justifications that someone could come up with [new college course: Improvisational Ethics 101], what *is* justified, and when are the excuses given just plain BS, no matter what jollies you get from the hack; well this all needs to be re-examined.
This might mean painful experiences like growing up, etc.
Sometimes the attitude does not translate well into other areas. [Psychosurgury or politics, for example.] This would tend to expose potential flaws in ethical arguments.
Hate to say it, but this calls for so serious self-reflection. [Kiddies need not apply]
Not wanting to believe that the cypher was a hoax, my only conclusion from the above results was that the cypher simply contained too many errors to allow successful pattern-matching against lists of correctly spelt words. I tried another approach with the computer's aid: looking for on-line texts containing word sequences that had the same lengths of words as some sequences in the cypher. My primary focus was on the sequence 'XQCMKUYWEKa gs B', or word lengths 11-2-1, which has a rather low probability of appearing in English texts. I searched the Internet for texts by Joseph Addison - the author of Whalen's plaintext - and other poets and writers predating Poe, but found nothing. Fortunately, I abandoned this search early, since it would have yielded nothing, as the text I finally deciphered was nowhere to be found on the Internet.
I, for one, am impressed. It is one thing to break a cipher, but quite another to do it with mis-spelt words, typos, and other assorted noise.
these little bits of trivia are part of the jargon and the secret signals that make up the clue, the code that hold a culture together.
be it the knowing discussions around the watercooler of monday nite football, or the lyrics of a favorite pop tune, or the ketboard sequence of a favorite game, those little words and signals allow members of that particular subculture to identify each other, among other things.
Just as an example, look at the name of THIS site. True, alot more folks are on the internet.
But how many even "get" the name of a place called slashdot?
I mean, what would you say if any of the following announced such a corporate position (Chief Privacy Officer) - (although It does sould like a Chief Petty Officer to me, a senior enlisted rank in the navy)
Slashdot Mirror
keep up the good work
nah, the porn server is *run* by big brother.
This allows big brother to both keep tabs on you, and to keep you occupied so that you do not have enough time to meddle in things where you might be actually be dangerous or get things done.
Big brother cherishes his control.
aside from some of the technical content, doesn't seem much here that I would be all that interested in
most of it is available elsewhere in better quality.
and to be honest, the bandwidth and reliability needed to make it work well is still a few years out.
which is just as well, since we want to be cultivating a proper sense of culture among the microbes, no?
[ducks, then runs away ...]
now more often seen in places like russia, etc. but still kicking with a few diehard hobbyists.
Also an underground way (if slow) to do email, etc.
You can telnet directly to bbs.ufies.org - there is a web page at http://bbs.ufies.org/ with a couple of useful links like who is oneline now, etc. They have been up for about a year and a half, and are running the game doors on dosemu on a linux box.
Of course, I expect them to get /dotted by all the fresh attention.
Something else to add to my xmas list.
The xmas list of all the things I am buying for *myself* for Xmas.
[sigh ...]
Lots of interesting reading
This is good for more detailed technical data, etc. There are some white papers, etc. All the usual good stuff.
The complete cluelessness regarding quality assurance is pretty widespread. Heck, even when you have billions to throw at it like certain big companies, the slacker attitude is pretty hard to get around.
so what do you expect when you have companies who do not have billions to throw around? Their business plans will not have things like QA built into them. Maube just a lick and a promise. When it does raise it's ugly head, the bean counter types scream and foam at the mouth. By then, it is way way way too late to stem the leak of cash. Who wants to double their estimates of development costs?
I see that there is a scalability issue verse the political agendas. There are obviously advantadges to not being democratic in how you deal with data. Spam, for example, or porn. [depending on taste]
There are also dis-advantadges to not being democratic in dealing with data. Insert speculated advertising spin:
the straw man and obvious target aside, this is also a problem.So do we want to gain a short term advantadge in dealing with scalability, and wind up a solution we would not desire?
I couldn't improve on it if I tried....
really
Now we get the gritty details of what that really means.
Among other things it means a shift in the rules of what makes up your personal reality. Some folks do not deal with this well.
Cynicism aside, they are a big piece of the market. and so I do not think it would make much traction.
even if everyone else who had two brain cells (raise your hands please) decided that this was a Really Good Idea (tm).
This can't be something any more difficult than getting the world to change operating systems, y'know?
- No list of precision specifications. [This would be vulnerable to political feedback/interferance]
- No Quality Assurance work at all [bug checking, compatibility testing, etc.]except the minimal done by the developers
- No Quality checking on the design parameters to make sure that it would pass muster with someone beside a political hack.
Add to the list at your leisureAll in all, an excellent example of how NOT to design and code a peice of software.
sorta sounds like a peice of spaghetti coding [ie: throwing it spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks]
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/18/ seminole.county/
There have been more recent news stories to the effect that the democrats were not allowed similar access.
there is a more detailed and up to date story on ABCNews here
And there is also the lawsuit in Seminole county where it is alledged that Republicans were allowed to correct the paperwork on 5000 absentee ballots, thus letting them count, while conveniently tossing out 2000 Democratic absentee ballots in similar condition.
if Gore wins that one, the Republicans will be royally pissed off.
remember, if GWB becomes prez, he will be the third president named George.
Long live King Georg the III !!! [snort]
I may not see it every Night. But I know I will see it. And I know a lot of people will see it.
Just the fact of people seeing it up there in the night will have a positive impact. This is because of something that the cynical might discount or might not have heard of.
This is the power of dreams. And seeing it up there leads to speculation and to dreaming about what might be.
Now of course, you might disrepect this.
But I have found that the ones who disrepect this notion are often the ones who have most often have been disrepected themselves.
Or sadly have had no dreams at all in the first place.
I really hate the evil empire, really.
and yet here Netscape goes and releases a browser that is buggy (I can't access certain web pages, among other things), and is missing certain enterprise level features that are essential to widespread adoption.
it's just a bit too little a bit too late
too bad AOL can't or won't give up that marketing agreement with Microsoft, that puts AOL in every winblows machine.
don't get me started, as I am bitter at MS for promoting fourth rate solutions, and for pillaging the best ones they do have
I hope someone puts a stake through Microsoft's heart.
There is the question of the inherent rightness and wrongness of what he did. And this is the question that bedevils hackers and the culture of technology.
Given all of the possible justifications that someone could come up with [new college course: Improvisational Ethics 101], what *is* justified, and when are the excuses given just plain BS, no matter what jollies you get from the hack; well this all needs to be re-examined.
This might mean painful experiences like growing up, etc.
Sometimes the attitude does not translate well into other areas. [Psychosurgury or politics, for example.] This would tend to expose potential flaws in ethical arguments.
Hate to say it, but this calls for so serious self-reflection. [Kiddies need not apply]
You can make money off of their technological incompetance.
You can turn them in to the BSA, and in some countries even collect bonuses.
just think, another tool to push *your* political agenda.
Start today!
I am thoroughly impressed
these little bits of trivia are part of the jargon and the secret signals that make up the clue, the code that hold a culture together.
be it the knowing discussions around the watercooler of monday nite football, or the lyrics of a favorite pop tune, or the ketboard sequence of a favorite game, those little words and signals allow members of that particular subculture to identify each other, among other things.
Just as an example, look at the name of THIS site. True, alot more folks are on the internet.
But how many even "get" the name of a place called slashdot?
- Microsoft
- The IRS
- Al Gore/George Bush (pick one)
- Torvalds
- Your Local CouncilMan or City Official
- Your Boss
- Finance Institutions
- etc.
gets interesting after awhile