See US and UK unilaterally attack Iraq. He didn't allow comments to be posoted until Malda enabled them. At any rate, this and others like it got enough people mad at him that he was kicked off. But that was over a year ago.
Maybe things have changed. Maybe they haven't. We'll see.
You dared to defile the sacred name of SLASHDOT? Nothing but hot days in hell can befall you and your ilk. CmdrTaco is never wrong! Hemos is omniscient! RobLimo can see into the future! JonKatz runs windows without it crashing!
Linux advocates never lie, or would say anything that is less than true. For example, a linux user would never say
BILL GATES CLUBS BABY SEALS!
or even
MICROSOFT IS A COMMIE FRONT!
because Linux users are kind, wise people who never need to resort to FUD to support their beleiefs.
What difference does it make if Novell gets some market share? Novell and MS are both coporations devoted to closed-source software. Either of them would crush you and your puny free operating system if they could.
If NetWare 5 beats Win2k, whose to say that Novell won't go after Linux/BSD next?
I don't see how consumers would ever switch to RIAA crap like SDMI. Even if MP3.com gets shut down, it will make *absolutely no dent* in illegal mp3 trading.
Legal threats to stop technology remind me of the laws enacted by angry farmers in the earlier part of the 20th century which required car owners to pull over if a horse-drawn cart was coming through, then dismantle the engine as not to frighten the horse. The driver could then repair his auto and continue, until the next horse.
What rights do you have, anyway? I seriously doubt that 'playing DVDs under the operating system of your choice' is one of those "unalienable rights". As for the 'greater good', since when has that *ever* concerned the world of coporate greed?
I wouldn't be surprised if someone *was* planning to create a Linux DVD player, and the CCA was none to happy about losing their monopoly.
Well, it's on the *Internet*, and we all know that the internet is only for perverts and anarchists, and that no *real* American would be caught dead in such a place, right?
People still have the tendency to view people on the Internet as machines or to dismiss actions that occur here as not worthy of "real people".
Unsurprisingly, this is still the case with the reactionary world of contemporary American politics.
Face it: the Internet changes *nothing*. Sure, it allows the faster dissemination of knowledge and better communication between voters, but it doesn't affect the main problem which seems to strike at the presidential race: the candidates, for lack of a better phrase, suck.
In America, anyone can become president, so long as you are a middle-of-the-road white male 'republiocrat' who is willing to base both your campaign and administration soley on opinion polls. So we must be content with what the two parties are willing to give us: either a former crack addict who is adamant about tougher sentances for drug addicts (among his many other hypocracies and past failings) and bland party men such as Gore who, together with his wife Tipper, would censor anything which offended their delicate sensibilities.
The only way out is to truly bring America into the mult-party system. Break the monopoly of the GOP and Democrats on political power.
Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. How do you think he got there?
It's a successful business plan, like it or not, so businesses are going to use it. The 'innovation' myth is long-gone, and nowadays we have only lawsuits and mergers for companies to increase their stock values.
Subliminal ads in the Linux kernel. If "Buy Transmeta(tm)" showed up for a few microsecs every now and then, don't you think their sales would increase?
Don't you understand? LINUS TORVALDS, creator of Linux, works there! Therefore, we are all compelled to PURCHASE TRANSMETA PRODUCTS in the hopes that we may somehow be buying a piece of the man we so dearly love and admire.
Then where, pray tell, should it go? We have no other public forum in which we may air our greivences, and until there is a such a place, I have no choice but to make my voice heard here.
If there was a permanent forum where all such postings could be discussed, then perhaps we would use it (and the sid comments don't count: they are neither permanent nor well known), but there is no such thing. Maybe that's something else that Slashdot needs to fix.
Yes, but that's how it's always been. Anonymous moderation encourages the semi-censorship with which the original post was treated.
And the majortiy of Slashdot readers would probably claim to be advocates of "Open Source" (or whatever they call it), with it's intellectual openness and 'free your mind' attitude. Yet, when a poster is critical of RMS, Linux, ESR, or any other sacred cow, the cult member mentality kicks in and many of them do exactly what they are told: crush any opposition and claim the moral high ground.
After all, anyone who could oppose anything so grand as to be subject of a Slashdot article must be a Microsft employee, right?
Slashdot Mirror
See US and UK unilaterally attack Iraq. He didn't allow comments to be posoted until Malda enabled them. At any rate, this and others like it got enough people mad at him that he was kicked off. But that was over a year ago.
Maybe things have changed. Maybe they haven't. We'll see.
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auntfloyd
You dared to defile the sacred name of SLASHDOT? Nothing but hot days in hell can befall you and your ilk. CmdrTaco is never wrong! Hemos is omniscient! RobLimo can see into the future! JonKatz runs windows without it crashing!
Linux advocates never lie, or would say anything that is less than true. For example, a linux user would never say
BILL GATES CLUBS BABY SEALS!
or even
MICROSOFT IS A COMMIE FRONT!
because Linux users are kind, wise people who never need to resort to FUD to support their beleiefs.
No go repent
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auntfloyd
What difference does it make if Novell gets some market share? Novell and MS are both coporations devoted to closed-source software. Either of them would crush you and your puny free operating system if they could.
If NetWare 5 beats Win2k, whose to say that Novell won't go after Linux/BSD next?
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auntfloyd
This happens all the time: two closed-source companies go at it.
We won't even get the benefits of amusing flamewars ala Linux vs. BSD
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auntfloyd
you'll get sent the refeshing scent of dog excrement.
I'm sure that if this gots off the ground and is popular, someone will write a self-propgating email worm to do this.
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auntfloyd
They need to get a clue, cluetrain style:
I don't see how consumers would ever switch to RIAA crap like SDMI. Even if MP3.com gets shut down, it will make *absolutely no dent* in illegal mp3 trading.
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auntfloyd
Yep. As you can see, it's the 'American way'.
Legal threats to stop technology remind me of the laws enacted by angry farmers in the earlier part of the 20th century which required car owners to pull over if a horse-drawn cart was coming through, then dismantle the engine as not to frighten the horse. The driver could then repair his auto and continue, until the next horse.
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auntfloyd
Maybe DeCSS will be part of the next AOL upgrade
[Ensuring, no doubt, even more coverage in Slashdot]
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auntfloyd
Watch what you say!
They'll probably add this to the case against the defendants!
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auntfloyd
What rights do you have, anyway? I seriously doubt that 'playing DVDs under the operating system of your choice' is one of those "unalienable rights". As for the 'greater good', since when has that *ever* concerned the world of coporate greed?
I wouldn't be surprised if someone *was* planning to create a Linux DVD player, and the CCA was none to happy about losing their monopoly.
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auntfloyd
A new algorithim? That would mean admitting that they were wrong in the first place!
The ego is the most vulnerable spot for any person or group, and trying to get them to change will be somewhat diffucult.
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auntfloyd
oops, I feel like an idiot now.
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auntfloyd
So you can only watch CNN and the WB channel.
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auntfloyd
"zerocool^"?
d00d, ur l33t0! for using such a kewl anme from such a kewl m0vi3!!!: Hackers (or as I like to say 'h4x0rs')
Which, as we all know, is a completely accurate portrayal of the 'hacker' lifestyle.
For that offense alone, you should be moderated down. No go beg for forgiveness from the online confession booth.
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auntfloyd
Yes, I did. And for the most part I agree with them. Which is completely irrelevent to my post.
But thanks for asking.
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auntfloyd
"A very phallic joystick fills up this page, and the stick is replaced with a stick of dynamite..."
Methinks she might be reading into this a bit too much.
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auntfloyd
Well, it's on the *Internet*, and we all know that the internet is only for perverts and anarchists, and that no *real* American would be caught dead in such a place, right?
People still have the tendency to view people on the Internet as machines or to dismiss actions that occur here as not worthy of "real people".
Unsurprisingly, this is still the case with the reactionary world of contemporary American politics.
~~~~~~~~~
auntfloyd
Face it: the Internet changes *nothing*. Sure, it allows the faster dissemination of knowledge and better communication between voters, but it doesn't affect the main problem which seems to strike at the presidential race: the candidates, for lack of a better phrase, suck.
In America, anyone can become president, so long as you are a middle-of-the-road white male 'republiocrat' who is willing to base both your campaign and administration soley on opinion polls. So we must be content with what the two parties are willing to give us: either a former crack addict who is adamant about tougher sentances for drug addicts (among his many other hypocracies and past failings) and bland party men such as Gore who, together with his wife Tipper, would censor anything which offended their delicate sensibilities.
The only way out is to truly bring America into the mult-party system. Break the monopoly of the GOP and Democrats on political power.
Ok. I'm done ranting.
For now...
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auntfloyd
For geeks?
[Oh, never mind]
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auntfloyd
Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. How do you think he got there?
It's a successful business plan, like it or not, so businesses are going to use it. The 'innovation' myth is long-gone, and nowadays we have only lawsuits and mergers for companies to increase their stock values.
Sad (?) but true
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auntfloyd
A troll?
You should know that it's a 'This Modern World' parody (though I am a fan of the strip).
http://www.well.com/~tomorrow/
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auntfloyd
Subliminal ads in the Linux kernel. If "Buy Transmeta(tm)" showed up for a few microsecs every now and then, don't you think their sales would increase?
They should force Torvalds to do it.
[joke -^ ]
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auntfloyd
Don't you understand? LINUS TORVALDS, creator of Linux, works there! Therefore, we are all compelled to PURCHASE TRANSMETA PRODUCTS in the hopes that we may somehow be buying a piece of the man we so dearly love and admire.
CONSUME! CONSUME! CONSUME! CONSUME! CONSUME! CONSUME! BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY!
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auntfloyd
Then where, pray tell, should it go? We have no other public forum in which we may air our greivences, and until there is a such a place, I have no choice but to make my voice heard here.
If there was a permanent forum where all such postings could be discussed, then perhaps we would use it (and the sid comments don't count: they are neither permanent nor well known), but there is no such thing. Maybe that's something else that Slashdot needs to fix.
~~~~~~~~~
auntfloyd
Yes, but that's how it's always been. Anonymous moderation encourages the semi-censorship with which the original post was treated.
And the majortiy of Slashdot readers would probably claim to be advocates of "Open Source" (or whatever they call it), with it's intellectual openness and 'free your mind' attitude. Yet, when a poster is critical of RMS, Linux, ESR, or any other sacred cow, the cult member mentality kicks in and many of them do exactly what they are told: crush any opposition and claim the moral high ground.
After all, anyone who could oppose anything so grand as to be subject of a Slashdot article must be a Microsft employee, right?
~~~~~~~~~
auntfloyd