Well... lets see whats on the short list of things that are "against the American Way".
1) terrorism
2) kiddie porn
3) communism
I could go on, but unless you have been living in a cave or are too young to remember the McCarthy Era, everybody understands that "against the American Way" is double speak for "there ought to be a law".
There used to be more, but Laurence Godfrey got pissed at my site and threatened to sue, call the FBI, etc.
Well the FBI called, and I was forced by them to take down half of the content.
Append the url with old_index.php3 and you can see the origial content. I submitted the story to Slashdot under YRO but it was rejected as usual. I have a very funny log of emails from Prof. G.
Belief in a supreme creator, superstitions, irrational phobias, etc. are all part of the frail human psyche. No rational logic or argument will ever eradicate it completely. You may as well ask your dog to prove Fermat's last theorem.
Everquest is NOT a skill based game. Lets nip that sorry excuse in the bud. Everquest is about TIME, and how much of it you have to spend sitting around camping for junk (and probably watching TV at the same time to kill the boredom).
Except there is no incentive to fix a vulnerability "right" like a public leak of the details.
Trust me. I worked for a company that has been featured on BugTraq once or twice. If not for BugTraq, our "fixes" of the vulnerabilites would have been limited to the simple work-arounds that our clients wanted. The holes would NOT have been closed fully; its just too much work.
We should be fair, and be unbiased. There is nothing wrong with security through obscurity. It is a helpful element in any security arragement, ever since Blackbeard buried his treasure in the Carribean. Thanks!
I am being fair and unbiased. Security through obscurity never works.
Read a few books on cryptography, and then come back with a clue.
Somebody as naive as you should NOT be using the ship name of an AI several billion times smarter.
If Banks were dead, he would be turning over in his grave.
Commercial scanners are not produced by "a person off the street". They're produced by professionals that work for companies that have a significant motive for ensuring the accuracy of their products: money
You poor, misguided, niave thing. Have you ever worked for a "company" that has "professional programmers"? Let me give you a clue. Programmers are programmers. Regardless of whether they work for a "company" or are donating time to an Open Source project, they are just as prone to stupidity as the next guy.
Commercial products, contrary to your utopian notion, are produced by professional marketing departments that have a significant motive for ensuring that the average consumer THINKS their product is worth its cost. Accuracy, efficiency, function, and stability have nothing to do with it - the Consumer, more often than not, is never in a position to objectively judge the quality of a product.
The most innovative countries have been those with 1) a large GNP 2) large, educated populations.
Jeffersons point is still valid, especially the part about my light not darkening yours. This point notwithstanding, patents still do far more harm then good, now more than ever.
Has your company ever actually been involved in a patent dispute?
Let me clue you in. Very RARELY does the dispute result in 1) more innovation or 2) rewards for the "inventor".
More often than not it is a down and ditry playground brawl over two very large patent *portfolios*.
The bigger the portfolio the better. The more highly paid the lawyers the better. It's all about the Benjamins and cross-licensing deals. The inventor? Who the hell is he? The patent very rarely covers an original idea in the first place. Who the cares who "invented" it?
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from any body. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices."
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13, 1813
What geeks should do is band together and buy HUGE lots of these drives, then return them because they are "defective." - i.e. "hey I can't seem to get my data off this drive".
Accepting returns cost retailers a TON of money, and if it is the same type of drives that constantly cause unhappy customers, the smart retailers will eventually stop dealing in those products.
"Technically, the accident was caused partly by operator error and partly by faults in the reactor construction itself. It all started with an experiment to investigate the possibility of producing electricity from the residual energy in the turbo-generators.
"To carry out the experiment, the operators broke six vital safety rules, and all automatic shutdown systems were taken out of operation. In addition, the emergency core cooling system for the reactor was taken out of operation."
Its funny. I just got done watching the Hughes brothers excellent "American Pimp" and you have summed it up exactly.
The theme of the movie is "why does a ho need a pimp?"
One of the first things you learn is that ho's NEVER get a percentage. Not 10%, not 5%, not even 1%. Every single pimp says the same thing. 0%. Then they go on to talk at length about why a ho needs a pimp - after a ton of hand waving, you realize it is all about MIND share. Its about convincing the HOs they need a pimp, not convincing the johns that hos need a pimp.
Of course, the most striking similarity between Hilary Rosen, Jack Valenti, and pimps is in the "get me my motherfucking money" segment. In it, a pimp explains that a ho doesn't EARN him his money. The ho goes and GETS his motherfucking money from the John. It is already assumed the John HAS his motherfucking money, and it is up to the ho to get it for the pimp.
In any case, if you want to learn why the RIAA and MPAA make so much damn money, and work so hard to "get their motherfucking money" from you, go rent American Pimp. 5 stars.
I try to get at least 10 hours of sleep per day. It makes me far more productive than those annoying workaholic fools who BRAG that they get 5 hours sleep per night.
Is it just me or does the FBI sound like a bunch of *wannabe* leet hax0rs/warez pups. I laughed out loud when I read this "sekret document" with the word "Dell" repeatedly blacked out (because its leet to black out stuff.. like 1-800-ITS-PRIVATE!).
"WE POWN joo we have l33t warez - we call it (yes is has a leet name) C4RN1V0R (part of our DR4GUNW4R3Z Suite!!) ph33r!!! Me and KnightDeathRider wrote it with alot of help from DragonMaster! Shout outs and props to my peeps DeathBringer and NightStalker!"
"We are l33t visual BASIC haxors!! THE LEETEST LANGUAGE EVER!!"
"IT IS so leet it runs on NT. Plus we call our patches "SERVICE PACKS" thats how leet we are! phr33r!"
"It has very long term reliability - it stays up for up to 48 hours!!!! thats like two days!! leet!!!"
I mean, please. These guys are total no talent lamers. What decent coder in the RIGHT mind would join the FBI for 1/4 the pay doing shit they HATED.
"The GPL is built upon copyright law. Copyright law is the foundation of the GPL (or any other license you care to mention). Take it or leave it."
This is a common misconception. The GPL doesn't NEED copyright law. It protects software authors *from* copyright law abuses.. i.e. somebody copying your code *and then selling it* with their own copyright attached such that others aren't allowed to distrubute it.
If copyright law wasn't so fundamentally messed up, the GPL would be unnecessary.
When you get a bit older, and the government consistently oversteps its bounds to screw you over bit by bit, inch by inch, all in the name of "protecting you," sooner or later you will wonder how it happened.
Maybe you'll be audited. Maybe you'll sell your car to somebody who racks up $15k of violations, but due to a filing error, the DMV still thinks the car is yours and the cops have a warrant out for your arrest (don't laugh, this is happening to a friend of mine). Maybe you'll write a piece of software that somebody doesn't like. Maybe you'll write a book that somebody doesn't like.
You sound like you still have a lot of life to live. Once you spend a few more decades in the REAL world, and learn a bit more about human nature, and the nature of governments you will realize how naive you sound.
On the other hand, maybe you are a troll.
The history books are full of martyrs who died at the hands of somebody with a righteous cause of "protecting the innocent"
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This one is pretty bad alright. Man this guy is scum.
Well... lets see whats on the short list of things that are "against the American Way".
1) terrorism
2) kiddie porn
3) communism
I could go on, but unless you have been living in a cave or are too young to remember the McCarthy Era, everybody understands that "against the American Way" is double speak for "there ought to be a law".
Somebody moderate the parent down. Its one of those lamer IE haxor tricks.
(wasting my automatic 2)
Is it just me or has the quality of lamers gone down.
Ooops.
That should read
wipo.really.fuckingsucks.net
There used to be more, but Laurence Godfrey got pissed at my site and threatened to sue, call the FBI, etc.
Well the FBI called, and I was forced by them to take down half of the content.
Append the url with old_index.php3 and you can see the origial content. I submitted the story to Slashdot under YRO but it was rejected as usual. I have a very funny log of emails from Prof. G.
wipo.reallyfuckingsucks.net
Belief in a supreme creator, superstitions, irrational phobias, etc. are all part of the frail human psyche. No rational logic or argument will ever eradicate it completely. You may as well ask your dog to prove Fermat's last theorem.
Everquest is NOT a skill based game. Lets nip that sorry excuse in the bud. Everquest is about TIME, and how much of it you have to spend sitting around camping for junk (and probably watching TV at the same time to kill the boredom).
Spare me.
.."Jack Offs" instead
[/me ducks]
Except there is no incentive to fix a vulnerability "right" like a public leak of the details.
Trust me. I worked for a company that has been featured on BugTraq once or twice. If not for BugTraq, our "fixes" of the vulnerabilites would have been limited to the simple work-arounds that our clients wanted. The holes would NOT have been closed fully; its just too much work.
We should be fair, and be unbiased. There is nothing wrong with security through obscurity. It is a helpful element in any security arragement, ever since Blackbeard buried his treasure in the Carribean. Thanks!
I am being fair and unbiased. Security through obscurity never works.
Read a few books on cryptography, and then come back with a clue.
Somebody as naive as you should NOT be using the ship name of an AI several billion times smarter.
If Banks were dead, he would be turning over in his grave.
PS. Nice Troll.
Sony has always been bad with CD-R. Almost all their car audio CD players (including their changers) don't play CD-Rs.
No, its not a *hidden* conspiracy. It's an *open* and entirely intentional misfeature.
Terrorism
The Drug War
You forgot:
Kiddie Porn
Commercial scanners are not produced by "a person off the street". They're produced by professionals that work for companies that have a significant motive for ensuring the accuracy of their products: money
You poor, misguided, niave thing. Have you ever worked for a "company" that has "professional programmers"? Let me give you a clue. Programmers are programmers. Regardless of whether they work for a "company" or are donating time to an Open Source project, they are just as prone to stupidity as the next guy.
Commercial products, contrary to your utopian notion, are produced by professional marketing departments that have a significant motive for ensuring that the average consumer THINKS their product is worth its cost. Accuracy, efficiency, function, and stability have nothing to do with it - the Consumer, more often than not, is never in a position to objectively judge the quality of a product.
Was it in danger of being trod upon by a dwarf?
The most innovative countries have been those with 1) a large GNP 2) large, educated populations.
Jeffersons point is still valid, especially the part about my light not darkening yours. This point notwithstanding, patents still do far more harm then good, now more than ever.
Has your company ever actually been involved in a patent dispute?
Let me clue you in. Very RARELY does the dispute result in 1) more innovation or 2) rewards for the "inventor".
More often than not it is a down and ditry playground brawl over two very large patent *portfolios*.
The bigger the portfolio the better. The more highly paid the lawyers the better. It's all about the Benjamins and cross-licensing deals. The inventor? Who the hell is he? The patent very rarely covers an original idea in the first place. Who the cares who "invented" it?
Quote:
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from any body. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices."
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13, 1813
Follow the MONEY...
What geeks should do is band together and buy HUGE lots of these drives, then return them because they are "defective." - i.e. "hey I can't seem to get my data off this drive".
Accepting returns cost retailers a TON of money, and if it is the same type of drives that constantly cause unhappy customers, the smart retailers will eventually stop dealing in those products.
Nice Troll.
Quote (from http://www.chernobyl.com.ua/photo_12.htm):
"Technically, the accident was caused partly by operator error and partly by faults in the reactor construction itself. It all started with an experiment to investigate the possibility of producing electricity from the residual energy in the turbo-generators.
"To carry out the experiment, the operators broke six vital safety rules, and all automatic shutdown systems were taken out of operation. In addition, the emergency core cooling system for the reactor was taken out of operation."
Good going!
Its funny. I just got done watching the Hughes brothers excellent "American Pimp" and you have summed it up exactly.
The theme of the movie is "why does a ho need a pimp?"
One of the first things you learn is that ho's NEVER get a percentage. Not 10%, not 5%, not even 1%. Every single pimp says the same thing. 0%. Then they go on to talk at length about why a ho needs a pimp - after a ton of hand waving, you realize it is all about MIND share. Its about convincing the HOs they need a pimp, not convincing the johns that hos need a pimp.
Of course, the most striking similarity between Hilary Rosen, Jack Valenti, and pimps is in the "get me my motherfucking money" segment. In it, a pimp explains that a ho doesn't EARN him his money. The ho goes and GETS his motherfucking money from the John. It is already assumed the John HAS his motherfucking money, and it is up to the ho to get it for the pimp.
In any case, if you want to learn why the RIAA and MPAA make so much damn money, and work so hard to "get their motherfucking money" from you, go rent American Pimp. 5 stars.
I try to get at least 10 hours of sleep per day. It makes me far more productive than those annoying workaholic fools who BRAG that they get 5 hours sleep per night.
Is it just me or does the FBI sound like a bunch of *wannabe* leet hax0rs/warez pups. I laughed out loud when I read this "sekret document" with the word "Dell" repeatedly blacked out (because its leet to black out stuff.. like 1-800-ITS-PRIVATE!).
"WE POWN joo we have l33t warez - we call it (yes is has a leet name) C4RN1V0R (part of our DR4GUNW4R3Z Suite!!) ph33r!!! Me and KnightDeathRider wrote it with alot of help from DragonMaster! Shout outs and props to my peeps DeathBringer and NightStalker!"
"We are l33t visual BASIC haxors!! THE LEETEST LANGUAGE EVER!!"
"IT IS so leet it runs on NT. Plus we call our patches "SERVICE PACKS" thats how leet we are! phr33r!"
"It has very long term reliability - it stays up for up to 48 hours!!!! thats like two days!! leet!!!"
I mean, please. These guys are total no talent lamers. What decent coder in the RIGHT mind would join the FBI for 1/4 the pay doing shit they HATED.
"The GPL is built upon copyright law. Copyright law is the foundation of the GPL (or any other license you care to mention). Take it or leave it."
This is a common misconception. The GPL doesn't NEED copyright law. It protects software authors *from* copyright law abuses.. i.e. somebody copying your code *and then selling it* with their own copyright attached such that others aren't allowed to distrubute it.
If copyright law wasn't so fundamentally messed up, the GPL would be unnecessary.
What if you are being persecuted under laws you don't happen to agree with?
When you get a bit older, and the government consistently oversteps its bounds to screw you over bit by bit, inch by inch, all in the name of "protecting you," sooner or later you will wonder how it happened.
Maybe you'll be audited. Maybe you'll sell your car to somebody who racks up $15k of violations, but due to a filing error, the DMV still thinks the car is yours and the cops have a warrant out for your arrest (don't laugh, this is happening to a friend of mine). Maybe you'll write a piece of software that somebody doesn't like. Maybe you'll write a book that somebody doesn't like.
You sound like you still have a lot of life to live. Once you spend a few more decades in the REAL world, and learn a bit more about human nature, and the nature of governments you will realize how naive you sound.
On the other hand, maybe you are a troll.
The history books are full of martyrs who died at the hands of somebody with a righteous cause of "protecting the innocent"