Aah, Trumpet Winsock.. reminds me of the good old days of Windows 3.1, making sure the dial-up script was right and watching the program does it magic as it connected to the internet, accompanied with the sound of the modem handshaking. I wonder how that company is doing, after all I thought Windows 95 put them out of business.
I'm sure this has already been long discussed about, but how much is
2- Lindows is an operating system designed to take place of Windows by allowing you to run Windows apps without running Windows.
going to mess up the image of Linux in the eye of the public? The originator of this stupid Lindows idea is already a PHB who's been trying to cheat people off their money and failed before. Will RMS say that the FSF has nothing to do with this crap, once it flops in the market? Would that help Linux at all?
saintlupus said it nicely. Haven't you heart any of Bush's speeches, he's been saying "God is with us" from day one. Which god? If you take bin Ldaen's point of view, Allah is with him and will send Bush to hell or whatever it is that everybody wants the Deity to do for themselves. Standard religion-is-evil rant.
Al Queda hasn't been able to pull anything off since we wisely used our military to stop them. Mission accomplished.
No one knew on 9/10 that something really awful was about to happen the next day. How can you be so sure that our world is safe now?
To the people at NSA reading this, no, I don't know any terrorist and if something bad does/did happen, this post didn't have anything to do with it.
Well, jwz (one other person recognizable by his initials) said it nicely in his rant here
evilpiper said "Most new commericals show people standing in front of multiple waving flags.". What would you call that if not blatant abuse of a country's symbol by idiots trying to sell Gap T-shirts or God knows what else.
Somewhat related, I'm worried about how Bush is going to fuck up the world thinking he's right, let's see how many more hate-the-US-extrimists his current moronic policies will bring, damn, even I am starting to dislike him (there goes any chance of me getting a Visa to visit the US).
Also, wasn't it comforting to hear about how "We killed 400 Al Queda's in one day!", imagine the newscaster bringing the news "400 US soldiers were killed today.". As much as we believe we (the US, the western ("civilized") world) we are right, and that "God is with us."(TM), so do bin Laden and friends believe that they are right, and that "Allah is with us.".
A few weeks ago I was in an IRC-room when someone asked what sort of results people were getting for "traceroute (some IP I've forgotten)". whois said it was the CIA's IP-range, and the traceroute never reached that IP. Taking the numbers from the diagram in the article, whois says:
Hewlett-Packard Company (NETBLK-HP19)
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
US
Netname: HP19
Netblock: 192.81.0.0 - 192.81.255.255
Maintainer: HP . Hmm the CIA has 162.45.*.* assigned to them, I guess they aren't using it. I hope the MiBs don't come knocking on my door now.
Well I don't see any holes for AGP or PCI slots on his case, so much for upgradability. In fact his AGP/PCI slots are all empty. But he's using it as a Linux (probably remote) system anyway, but then why the DVD drive?
It is also a problem because with Linux, because you have the source, you can always remove the DRM code, and voila, you have a non-DRM OS. Remain where you are, the thought police will shortly be there.
Also this may be wrong, but if you have the source that tells you how to decrypt the encrypted content, you can do namely that, decrypt the content. But of course PGP/GPG is free source, but PGPed messages are still secure.
So, is Disney good or bad? Yesterday we were mad about SSSCA and the fact that Disney is one of the few who are going to fuck the country with their bought Senator(s), and now we're cheering about them. In the words of an AC, 'This is Slashdot, home of the "Evil company X is threatening to restrict our rights! Let's all get together to stop--OOOH! SHINEY!!!"'
Well call me crazy because I'm becoming too passionate about something offtopic to this discussion, but if we're just going to forget it after one day, no wonder they're going to get away with it.
It really is a big world out there, and do you think the number of people you can gather up for this boycott can make a dent in the percentage of CDs being bought by 13 year old fans of Backdoor Boys?
I already don't buy CDs, admitelly I have lots of illegal MP3s, no doubt I'm actually a contributor to the mess that has lead these people to try to legislate our asses back to the stone age.
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My rant on this topic, and the US government.
Yes this is very 1984ish. When this law passes "Big Brother is watching" gets that much closer to reality. You have your 1984 TV that spreads the propaganda, the propaganda that only they can produce. And it watches you (let's see what MS will build into its OS), and you can't turn the device off (The DMCA Thought Police will get you).
Someone supposed to be representing the people has actually been paid by a couple of corporations to promote their own interest. The idiot Hollings is only after money, but isn't that politics nowadays, money and public opinion, I believe Bush knew more about Enron than he's saying, come on Bush and Cheney were/are in the oil business goddammit!
Why are we only attacking the evil that is SSSCA, not the evil that is the corruption that is running the government? I believe a revolution is overdue. And it won't be televised, because guess who owns the media? Why haven't we seen anything on CNN? Or Time Magazine?
Furthermore, I can't believe what is happening to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Yes they are being refused prisoner of war status, they are on hunger strike, last I read. They are ready to die for their beliefs, and hell no the US Govt isn't going to let them die, but if they die anyway, who's going to prosecute the US? Imagine if those are US soldiers being held captive in Iraq. Bush would be nuking Saddam's ass and he (Mr. Hussein) would be Milosevic's cellmate in no time, but no, the US Govt is running the show here. As much as I hate extrimist who kill innocent people, I hate the idea that Bush is getting away with what otherwise would be "crimes against humanity" simply because he's the one bossing the world. Double standards for you, yeah life isn't fair, tough.
But all empires fall in the end. This one has covered basically the whole planet, what will happen when it falls? Just because the provider of its "entertainment" corrupted the congress that runs the planet itself.
If the SSSCA bill pass through, I'd like to see what kind of a country the US would be in a couple of decades, if not the world. People who don't like the idea would stop using computers and technology. The idea of Amish society doesn't seem so bad after all, live simpler lives without Disney crapthat you don't need anyway. We could return to music making with real analog instruments and public performances of real artists, performances for donations, recorded using a pencil on music sheets. As for the internet, I can imagine that they would try to monitor all forms of data communication next. Non-certified publishers (aka servers) will not be allowed to serve content. Only AOL Time Warner will be left, serving you, yet again, crap, the internet turned into a TV, like a slashdotter has said. The "greatest thing after the industrial revolution" lived to a ripe age of 25 (born 1975) and died a slow painful death.
Paragraph 2, last sentence, " This would be do to the volume of scale involved with the internet distribution of data including songs and movies.".. "do" should be "due".
The genius of it is that (a couple of) the cut out logos serve as ventilation holes. But 2 layers of alumunium? A bit of overkill, in my opinion.. but it is sure as hell one sweet case
His point was, people nowadays use the technological advancement that is the car because it's more convinient. Flash is very convinient in making things go swish and boom, and although magical interactive sites can be done using DHTML, doing it in Flash is a lot easier.
Can't use the DHTML argument either, because if the viewer's browser can do DHTML, it'll be powerful enough to run Flash presentations, and Flash does more, on more platforms compared to the 2 current broken DHTML "implementations".
MSNBC quoted "Bill Campbell, who operates Internet service provider Celestial Software near Seattle". Makes me wonder if this guy didn't read Slashdot and then mentioned about the Asian relay servers to MSNBC himself.
But moronic computer users-turned-admins are out there in force, not just in Asia. Add the language barrier to it and you got bigger morons. I for one agree about banning Asian servers until they figure out what they have to do, although I doubt my primary email provider, Yahoo, would ever do that.
Well I never saw any keyboard (I blame it on the confusing maze of tiny iconic screens, all alike), but maybe it was a keyboard drawn in Flash, which is programmed to do something magic only when you double-click it.
Some of his predictions for 2002 are interestingly already true. He predicted software in Lego (p. 12) and multiuser-speech-recognition (p. 13) which was featured in an MP3 player article somewhere in Slashdot
I also don't watch TV anymore, but now I waste my time on the net, including reading slashdot. Can't have a poll on that one heh? "Do you find not reading slashdot saves you time?" I sometimes think I should edit/etc/hosts and redirect slashdot.org and everything2.com to some webpage that would yell at me to go studying, but alas, I'm still here!
Hehe, actually whenever I see document shredders for sale these days, I keep thinking, if I made shredders, I'd put stickers on their boxes saying "Enron Special Edition".:P . Or to be more accurate, "The Andressen Special Edition"/"Andressen Model", etc...
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Aah, Trumpet Winsock.. reminds me of the good old days of Windows 3.1, making sure the dial-up script was right and watching the program does it magic as it connected to the internet, accompanied with the sound of the modem handshaking. I wonder how that company is doing, after all I thought Windows 95 put them out of business.
Well you could give up your right leg, get a wooden one in its place, find a pirate ship and go hunt for one of them ships in the seas.. Arrr!
you don't see intel patenting "chip" or "cpu," do you?
Trademarking, you mean.. they did try to trademark numbers (486), but they didn't get them.
I'm sure this has already been long discussed about, but how much is
2- Lindows is an operating system designed to take place of Windows by allowing you to run Windows apps without running Windows.
going to mess up the image of Linux in the eye of the public? The originator of this stupid Lindows idea is already a PHB who's been trying to cheat people off their money and failed before. Will RMS say that the FSF has nothing to do with this crap, once it flops in the market? Would that help Linux at all?
saintlupus said it nicely. Haven't you heart any of Bush's speeches, he's been saying "God is with us" from day one. Which god? If you take bin Ldaen's point of view, Allah is with him and will send Bush to hell or whatever it is that everybody wants the Deity to do for themselves. Standard religion-is-evil rant.
Al Queda hasn't been able to pull anything off since we wisely used our military to stop them. Mission accomplished.
No one knew on 9/10 that something really awful was about to happen the next day. How can you be so sure that our world is safe now?
To the people at NSA reading this, no, I don't know any terrorist and if something bad does/did happen, this post didn't have anything to do with it.
evilpiper said "Most new commericals show people standing in front of multiple waving flags.". What would you call that if not blatant abuse of a country's symbol by idiots trying to sell Gap T-shirts or God knows what else.
Somewhat related, I'm worried about how Bush is going to fuck up the world thinking he's right, let's see how many more hate-the-US-extrimists his current moronic policies will bring, damn, even I am starting to dislike him (there goes any chance of me getting a Visa to visit the US).
Also, wasn't it comforting to hear about how "We killed 400 Al Queda's in one day!", imagine the newscaster bringing the news "400 US soldiers were killed today.". As much as we believe we (the US, the western ("civilized") world) we are right, and that "God is with us."(TM), so do bin Laden and friends believe that they are right, and that "Allah is with us.".
A few weeks ago I was in an IRC-room when someone asked what sort of results people were getting for "traceroute (some IP I've forgotten)". whois said it was the CIA's IP-range, and the traceroute never reached that IP.
Taking the numbers from the diagram in the article, whois says:
Hewlett-Packard Company (NETBLK-HP19)
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
US
Netname: HP19
Netblock: 192.81.0.0 - 192.81.255.255
Maintainer: HP
.
Hmm the CIA has 162.45.*.* assigned to them, I guess they aren't using it.
I hope the MiBs don't come knocking on my door now.
The entire CHINESE WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL TEAM all share ONE personality -- and have since BIRTH!!
:)
How interesting.
Well I don't see any holes for AGP or PCI slots on his case, so much for upgradability. In fact his AGP/PCI slots are all empty. But he's using it as a Linux (probably remote) system anyway, but then why the DVD drive?
Aaarrrghh, learn how to write Haikus properly why don't you!
It is also a problem because with Linux, because you have the source, you can always remove the DRM code, and voila, you have a non-DRM OS. Remain where you are, the thought police will shortly be there.
Also this may be wrong, but if you have the source that tells you how to decrypt the encrypted content, you can do namely that, decrypt the content. But of course PGP/GPG is free source, but PGPed messages are still secure.
Well call me crazy because I'm becoming too passionate about something offtopic to this discussion, but if we're just going to forget it after one day, no wonder they're going to get away with it.
It really is a big world out there, and do you think the number of people you can gather up for this boycott can make a dent in the percentage of CDs being bought by 13 year old fans of Backdoor Boys?
I already don't buy CDs, admitelly I have lots of illegal MP3s, no doubt I'm actually a contributor to the mess that has lead these people to try to legislate our asses back to the stone age.
My rant on this topic, and the US government.
Yes this is very 1984ish. When this law passes "Big Brother is watching" gets that much closer to reality. You have your 1984 TV that spreads the propaganda, the propaganda that only they can produce. And it watches you (let's see what MS will build into its OS), and you can't turn the device off (The DMCA Thought Police will get you).
Someone supposed to be representing the people has actually been paid by a couple of corporations to promote their own interest. The idiot Hollings is only after money, but isn't that politics nowadays, money and public opinion, I believe Bush knew more about Enron than he's saying, come on Bush and Cheney were/are in the oil business goddammit!
Why are we only attacking the evil that is SSSCA, not the evil that is the corruption that is running the government? I believe a revolution is overdue. And it won't be televised, because guess who owns the media? Why haven't we seen anything on CNN? Or Time Magazine?
Furthermore, I can't believe what is happening to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Yes they are being refused prisoner of war status, they are on hunger strike, last I read. They are ready to die for their beliefs, and hell no the US Govt isn't going to let them die, but if they die anyway, who's going to prosecute the US? Imagine if those are US soldiers being held captive in Iraq. Bush would be nuking Saddam's ass and he (Mr. Hussein) would be Milosevic's cellmate in no time, but no, the US Govt is running the show here. As much as I hate extrimist who kill innocent people, I hate the idea that Bush is getting away with what otherwise would be "crimes against humanity" simply because he's the one bossing the world. Double standards for you, yeah life isn't fair, tough.
But all empires fall in the end. This one has covered basically the whole planet, what will happen when it falls? Just because the provider of its "entertainment" corrupted the congress that runs the planet itself.
If the SSSCA bill pass through, I'd like to see what kind of a country the US would be in a couple of decades, if not the world. People who don't like the idea would stop using computers and technology. The idea of Amish society doesn't seem so bad after all, live simpler lives without Disney crap that you don't need anyway. We could return to music making with real analog instruments and public performances of real artists, performances for donations, recorded using a pencil on music sheets. As for the internet, I can imagine that they would try to monitor all forms of data communication next. Non-certified publishers (aka servers) will not be allowed to serve content. Only AOL Time Warner will be left, serving you, yet again, crap, the internet turned into a TV, like a slashdotter has said. The "greatest thing after the industrial revolution" lived to a ripe age of 25 (born 1975) and died a slow painful death.
I can go on, but am I still coherent?
Paragraph 2, last sentence, " This would be do to the volume of scale involved with the internet distribution of data including songs and movies." .. "do" should be "due".
The genius of it is that (a couple of) the cut out logos serve as ventilation holes. But 2 layers of alumunium? A bit of overkill, in my opinion.. but it is sure as hell one sweet case
Bzzt, Wrong answer, thanks for playing!
His point was, people nowadays use the technological advancement that is the car because it's more convinient. Flash is very convinient in making things go swish and boom, and although magical interactive sites can be done using DHTML, doing it in Flash is a lot easier.
Can't use the DHTML argument either, because if the viewer's browser can do DHTML, it'll be powerful enough to run Flash presentations, and Flash does more, on more platforms compared to the 2 current broken DHTML "implementations".
MSNBC quoted "Bill Campbell, who operates Internet service provider Celestial Software near Seattle". Makes me wonder if this guy didn't read Slashdot and then mentioned about the Asian relay servers to MSNBC himself.
But moronic computer users-turned-admins are out there in force, not just in Asia. Add the language barrier to it and you got bigger morons. I for one agree about banning Asian servers until they figure out what they have to do, although I doubt my primary email provider, Yahoo, would ever do that.
Well I never saw any keyboard (I blame it on the confusing maze of tiny iconic screens, all alike), but maybe it was a keyboard drawn in Flash, which is programmed to do something magic only when you double-click it.
Some of his predictions for 2002 are interestingly already true. He predicted software in Lego (p. 12) and multiuser-speech-recognition (p. 13) which was featured in an MP3 player article somewhere in Slashdot
I also don't watch TV anymore, but now I waste my time on the net, including reading slashdot. Can't have a poll on that one heh? "Do you find not reading slashdot saves you time?" I sometimes think I should edit /etc/hosts and redirect slashdot.org and everything2.com to some webpage that would yell at me to go studying, but alas, I'm still here!
Look, he's playing MP3s and using the harddisks as output devices.. hmm.. there must be something funny that can said about built-in DRM?
Considering the site has videos, I don't think the admins at www.cmu.edu will be very impressed. :)
Hehe, actually whenever I see document shredders for sale these days, I keep thinking, if I made shredders, I'd put stickers on their boxes saying "Enron Special Edition". :P . Or to be more accurate, "The Andressen Special Edition"/"Andressen Model", etc...
He didn't do it in the basement/garage, he tried to simulate a clean room environment, read the page. And it seems to have worked.