I truly believe all of the pro-pr0n on Slashdot is due to the ugly men (and often enough women) who weren't getting any and decided pr0n was ok. Even now I see the old fat hax0r on Slashdot (not that I've read it lately), a much higher percentage of ugly than the general population, and it strikes me that I must be right.
When I was in elementary school, my teacher made the class write down the pledge. Even though we had been taught it and reciting it daily (and rotely), few students could do it (myself included). We knew how to say it, but we did not know the actual WORDS. scary.
In the late 1980s, my junior high school said the pledege every morning. I don't remember when, but sometime in the early 1990s, my high school stopped saying the pledge.
If the politicians believe their claims that "under God" is just "ceremonial" and in NO WAY promoting the Christian God, then why do they even care to include?
Doesn't that defeat the point of using a P2P system? The gub'mint can just kill the central administrator at MIT and the entire system has no (new) content.
Under copyright law, you are not permitted to make copies of another person's work. Period.
Actually, copyright law DOES allow for people to copy others' work... IF they obtain permission. The GPL does not grant any new or controversial freedoms. The GPL just makes obtaining permission much easier (and implicit, actually).
Maybe you are a Libertarian, not a Republican. I think many conservatives are Libertarians and they either have never heard of the Libertarian Party or they vote "strategically" for Republicans (like Greens who vote for Democrats).
I can understand why Libertarians would not vote for socialist Democrats, but I do not understand why many have adopted the Republican Party. The GOP is the anithesis of libertarian ideals. The GOP is filled with religious fundamentalists and Big Brothers. Republican-controlled states have been shown to spend more than Democrat-controlled states. Republican administrations cut taxes, yet increase spending (AKA "big debt and taxes INCREASES for our children").
I hope this administration is a turning point for Libertarian voters who have "strategically" voted for Republicans. You want freedom, but they want power. They do not deserve your votes.
Wasn't there a web site with a betting pool for the linux-2.6.0 release date? I know there was one for linux-2.4.0. The web site required that you submit your guess using time_t seconds!:-)
My guess is linux-2.6.0 will be released December 31, 2003.
Re:SLASHDOT MYTHS VS. REALITY
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I used to work at Microsoft during Windows 2000 product development. There was a project (I never learned the codename) to create a "sandbox" environment for arbitrary native code. Some OSes (like EROS)can do this using "capabilities", where you tell the OS which system calls and features the application is allowed to use.
The NT team was trying to this but in the typical backwards Microsoft design: using "Discretionary Access Control Lists" (DACLS). DACLs are like ACLs in reverse: you tell the OS which system calls and features the user/group/application is NOT allowed to use. The idea was that some arbitrary native code could be downloaded from the Internet, run in this sandbox, and everything would be safe. The only problem is that a sandbox built using DACLs would have to explicitly list EVERYTHING the application was NOT allowed to do. Needless to say, this is an impossible feat. If some Microsoft engineer forgot some small feature, API side-effect, or unknown interaction with some IE buffer overrun, then the entire sandbox is blown wide open. This sandbox is more like a sieve.
wages or salaries? If teachers make on the same average annual salary as the general population, BUT ONLY WORK 9 OUT OF 12 MONTHS, then they are making BETTER than average hourly wages.
I've discusses private schools versus public schools with some friends that are teachers. Well, they WERE teachers but they couldn't live on the salary. They are so indoctrinated. None of them understood that unions are sucking their money and that a free market of private schools would help them make MORE money. They all view private, commercial schools as evil corporations.
One thing that has been driving me nuts lately are the barrage of commercials for the "Free Software" from Richard M. Stallman - He runs these commercials 5-6 times an hour minimum across hundreds of web sites. It disgusts me when companies use the word "free" over and over with little fine print below like "* some restrictions apply" - I do not believe this type of advertising should be legal, not to mention the fact that this is misleading and I suspect the software they're hawking are obsolete versions of mediocre titles.
Whenever these "free software" commercials come on, I pick up the phone and auto-dial the 800 number until the commercial goes off the air. I get a nice recording for about 30s and then call back over and over.. just like they do to me.
I take great satisfaction in making my "free" call to them to listen to the recorded message about their "free" software. Hopefully they'll get the message. Remember, "It's FREE!" Try it yourself: 1-800-259-1553!
All Wind River did was acquire BSDi (for BSD/OS) and Walnut Creek CDROM (which was silly because that company just redistributed FreeBSD CDs). I don't think Wind River released anything back to the BSD community. BSDi did donate some SMP code from BSD/OS to FreeBSD 5.0, but I don't think Wind River had anything to do with that.
or the damnable epinions pages, with absolutely no comments or useful information.
I remember when epinions was good, with actually helpful product reviews written by actual people. Now most of their pages contain just MySimon.com ads and NO product reviews..:-(
Google did invent something innovative: PageRank. Google ranks pages based on content on OTHER pages. Earlier search engines, like Alta Vista, ranked pages based on content on the SAME page: keywords, meta tags, page title, word frequency, font size,... Those search engines were easily tricked by malicious content developers.
I still have archinved posts of Linus flaming one of their enginneers for trying to mod the linux OS to improve the performance of Maya when an app change would have been more efficiant.
I remember reading stories about the Linux and Apache projects rejecting many SGI patches. Can you post (some of?) your Linus flames here? I would be VERY interested in reading them!:-)
Slashdot Mirror
I truly believe all of the pro-pr0n on Slashdot is due to the ugly men (and often enough women) who weren't getting any and decided pr0n was ok. Even now I see the old fat hax0r on Slashdot (not that I've read it lately), a much higher percentage of ugly than the general population, and it strikes me that I must be right.
With that much non-cash in the bank, Sun will be sitting pretty for a long time!
When I was in elementary school, my teacher made the class write down the pledge. Even though we had been taught it and reciting it daily (and rotely), few students could do it (myself included). We knew how to say it, but we did not know the actual WORDS. scary.
no, these people are promoting the NEW traditions, not those OLD traditions...
In the late 1980s, my junior high school said the pledege every morning. I don't remember when, but sometime in the early 1990s, my high school stopped saying the pledge.
If the politicians believe their claims that "under God" is just "ceremonial" and in NO WAY promoting the Christian God, then why do they even care to include?
In Soviet Russia, you are separated from the church.
Doesn't that defeat the point of using a P2P system? The gub'mint can just kill the central administrator at MIT and the entire system has no (new) content.
Under copyright law, you are not permitted to make copies of another person's work. Period.
Actually, copyright law DOES allow for people to copy others' work... IF they obtain permission. The GPL does not grant any new or controversial freedoms. The GPL just makes obtaining permission much easier (and implicit, actually).
it isn't backed by a major corporation starting with an M.
McDonald's?
You've got people skills and excellent grammar. No wonder you were promoted to senior management!
Maybe you are a Libertarian, not a Republican. I think many conservatives are Libertarians and they either have never heard of the Libertarian Party or they vote "strategically" for Republicans (like Greens who vote for Democrats).
I can understand why Libertarians would not vote for socialist Democrats, but I do not understand why many have adopted the Republican Party. The GOP is the anithesis of libertarian ideals. The GOP is filled with religious fundamentalists and Big Brothers. Republican-controlled states have been shown to spend more than Democrat-controlled states. Republican administrations cut taxes, yet increase spending (AKA "big debt and taxes INCREASES for our children").
I hope this administration is a turning point for Libertarian voters who have "strategically" voted for Republicans. You want freedom, but they want power. They do not deserve your votes.
This sounds a lot like that "The Moon Is A Liberal Myth" troll..
Wasn't there a web site with a betting pool for the linux-2.6.0 release date? I know there was one for linux-2.4.0. The web site required that you submit your guess using time_t seconds!
My guess is linux-2.6.0 will be released December 31, 2003.
MYTH #1: "There is a myth #1."
Just add "-blog" to your search terms.
I used to work at Microsoft during Windows 2000 product development. There was a project (I never learned the codename) to create a "sandbox" environment for arbitrary native code. Some OSes (like EROS)can do this using "capabilities", where you tell the OS which system calls and features the application is allowed to use.
The NT team was trying to this but in the typical backwards Microsoft design: using "Discretionary Access Control Lists" (DACLS). DACLs are like ACLs in reverse: you tell the OS which system calls and features the user/group/application is NOT allowed to use. The idea was that some arbitrary native code could be downloaded from the Internet, run in this sandbox, and everything would be safe. The only problem is that a sandbox built using DACLs would have to explicitly list EVERYTHING the application was NOT allowed to do. Needless to say, this is an impossible feat. If some Microsoft engineer forgot some small feature, API side-effect, or unknown interaction with some IE buffer overrun, then the entire sandbox is blown wide open. This sandbox is more like a sieve.
wages or salaries? If teachers make on the same average annual salary as the general population, BUT ONLY WORK 9 OUT OF 12 MONTHS, then they are making BETTER than average hourly wages.
I've discusses private schools versus public schools with some friends that are teachers. Well, they WERE teachers but they couldn't live on the salary. They are so indoctrinated. None of them understood that unions are sucking their money and that a free market of private schools would help them make MORE money. They all view private, commercial schools as evil corporations.
One thing that has been driving me nuts lately are the barrage of commercials for the "Free Software" from Richard M. Stallman - He runs these commercials 5-6 times an hour minimum across hundreds of web sites. It disgusts me when companies use the word "free" over and over with little fine print below like "* some restrictions apply" - I do not believe this type of advertising should be legal, not to mention the fact that this is misleading and I suspect the software they're hawking are obsolete versions of mediocre titles.
Whenever these "free software" commercials come on, I pick up the phone and auto-dial the 800 number until the commercial goes off the air. I get a nice recording for about 30s and then call back over and over.. just like they do to me.
I take great satisfaction in making my "free" call to them to listen to the recorded message about their "free" software. Hopefully they'll get the message. Remember, "It's FREE!" Try it yourself: 1-800-259-1553!
All Wind River did was acquire BSDi (for BSD/OS) and Walnut Creek CDROM (which was silly because that company just redistributed FreeBSD CDs). I don't think Wind River released anything back to the BSD community. BSDi did donate some SMP code from BSD/OS to FreeBSD 5.0, but I don't think Wind River had anything to do with that.
or the damnable epinions pages, with absolutely no comments or useful information.
I remember when epinions was good, with actually helpful product reviews written by actual people. Now most of their pages contain just MySimon.com ads and NO product reviews..
They did nothing truly innovative.
Google did invent something innovative: PageRank. Google ranks pages based on content on OTHER pages. Earlier search engines, like Alta Vista, ranked pages based on content on the SAME page: keywords, meta tags, page title, word frequency, font size,
PageRank was named after one of its creators: Larry Page. Sure, it's a pun, but it really is named after Larry Page.
I still have archinved posts of Linus flaming one of their enginneers for trying to mod the linux OS to improve the performance of Maya when an app change would have been more efficiant.
I remember reading stories about the Linux and Apache projects rejecting many SGI patches. Can you post (some of?) your Linus flames here? I would be VERY interested in reading them!