> Not quite. In 1922, the Supreme Court held that insofar as the federal antitrust laws apply only to interstate commerce, baseball is beyond the reach of those laws, because a baseball game is played in only one state at a time.
REUTERS, May 18, 2039.
A constitutional crises is brewing after yesterday's game in the new Texarkana Civic Stadium, after slugger Binko Rutherford hit a homer that not only went over the fence, but also across the state line. The Supreme Court is meeting in an emergency session to reconsider the merits of its 1922 ruling on the status of baseball vis-a-vis federal anti-trust laws.
The stakes in this decision are unusually high, as the team owners are threatening to secede from the union if their traditional priviledged status is reversed.
> So, WRT MLB for a fee...Don't want to pay? Find free entertainment.
This is, IMO, why we keep finding ourselves paying more and getting less. We seem to have a gene that vetos us whenever we ought to say "no" to some new scam^w scheme that worsens our position as a consumer.
Consumers have enormous power over producers, but very rarely use it in the most basic self-interested manner. Oddly, rabble rousers can whip us up into a boycotting frenzy when there's not really anything at stake (e.g., getting the 13 stars off the Arm & Hammer logo), but we very rarely exercise it from the grassroots up on saner issues.
I suppose lots of/.ers are "just saying no" to commercial software, but look at how many turn around and buy DVDs.
> Far from being "like kicking a dead whale down a beach", each instance will look and feel just like any other Linux installation you'd tried - Bash, Apache, remote X, you name it... execept for the small difference that you can create a new instance of a Linux system in under a minute, and you can have several THOUSAND such instances running a comparable performance to a PC, on z/Architecture machine.
OK, so it will be more like herding 41,000 penguins down the beach.
> The M16 and the AR15 are automatic and semi-automatic assault rifles actually designed to injure.
Perhaps that's part of it, but I think the biggest motivator in the historical adoption of assault weapons is the lowered minimum standard for the quality and training of the soldier who uses them. During the latter part of WWII lots of countries were dredging the bottom of their manpower reserves and having to rush the draftees to the front without sufficient training, so there was lots of appeal to the idea of a weapon that just sprays lead everywhere rather than requiring an elevated degree of marksmanship in the bearer.
> How about if we all just agree than anyone who voted for either Bush or Gore is an idiot, and just be done with it?
I could go along with that. After all, I didn't vote for either one of them.
Contrary to what all the freepers assume about my.sig, my gripe is against the judicial coup, not against the fact that Gore lost.
People of every political alignment should consider the implications of what happened. It might be the Democrats that 0wn the state where the next close count occurs. Certifying a dubious count and obstructing attempts to correct it will be every bit as (im)proper then as it was this time around. What goes around has a nasty habit of coming around, too.
> Some think that the square root of two and pi were "demonic" numbers for Pitagorics, a mysthical sect of Antiquity and predecessors of many Christian ideas and with some love to play maths. The fact of the existence of real numbers was felt as a "fault" in the building of the Universe... Btw Pitagorics were responsible for the advent of prime numbers.
FWIW, one of the oldest known conspiracy theories claims that Pythagoras was drowned by his own followers in their outrage at his discovery of irrational numbers.
> THe tough part is going to be tracking anything down in Freenet - stuff is encrypted - you have no idea where it comes from, etc
What happens when you use it for whistle blowing, and then a reveal-all bug is discovered the next day? Ooops.
"Oh, hi there, Mr. Crime Lord. That stuff I posted on Freenet yesterday was just an editorial, OK? Nothing you were supposed to take personal or anything, ya know."
> You'd save a lot of money if you eliminated the cost of upgrading.
Or the cost of buying a license in the first place. Many citys and businesses are using illegal copies of commercial software, so it's quite possible that an entity the size of MC might be using many thousands of illegal licenses. Going free means you don't get bent over a barrel when the SPA (or whatever they call it now) sends Guido around for an audit.
> It's a shame that this document is secret. I doubt that anyone with a sane mind would take part in a organisation which is founded on such a childish and unbelievable scifi-story.
Homework assignment (due Monday) -
1. Write a 5 page essay comparing/contrasting the story that Scientology is founded on with the story that one other popular religion is founded on. Is one more believable than the other to non-initiates? Why or why not?
2. For religions based on "childish and unbelievable" stories, why do the initiates continue to profess that religion? Does the motivation or retention mechanism vary between religions?
I understand that the p0rn industry also has prior art on lots of innovative ways to make babies, including methods that aren't obvious to every skilled worker in the field.
> A real Robin Hood hacker would steal web space from rich people who can afford high powered dedicated servers and give it to us poor guys that can only afford to virtually host their ISP given subdomains....
You're right. Hacktivism would more appropriately be compared to Robin's cousin, Marvin Hood, who went around painting "G1v3 70 743 p00r!" on the front of the nobles' castles.
P.S. - Be careful not to confuse Marvin with his brother, Kevin Hood, who went around writing "Fr33 743 p00rn!".
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> PS - God loves you and longs for relationship with you.
So does Cthulhu, but he's SOL too.
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> So, WRT MLB for a fee...Don't want to pay? Find free entertainment.
/.ers are "just saying no" to commercial software, but look at how many turn around and buy DVDs.
This is, IMO, why we keep finding ourselves paying more and getting less. We seem to have a gene that vetos us whenever we ought to say "no" to some new scam^w scheme that worsens our position as a consumer.
Consumers have enormous power over producers, but very rarely use it in the most basic self-interested manner. Oddly, rabble rousers can whip us up into a boycotting frenzy when there's not really anything at stake (e.g., getting the 13 stars off the Arm & Hammer logo), but we very rarely exercise it from the grassroots up on saner issues.
I suppose lots of
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> ...the OS whose creation inspireed Fred Brooks' book "The Mythical Man Month".
And Brooks was right: Even after all these years IBM still doesn't even have the name pinned down.
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> Coincidence? I think not... (or is IBM trying to one-up Apple?)
It's not exactly like they're trying to compete in the same space.
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> sugest MS changes the name of Windows XP to Y OS.
I suggest Y/OY instead.
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> Far from being "like kicking a dead whale down a beach", each instance will look and feel just like any other Linux installation you'd tried - Bash, Apache, remote X, you name it... execept for the small difference that you can create a new instance of a Linux system in under a minute, and you can have several THOUSAND such instances running a comparable performance to a PC, on z/Architecture machine.
OK, so it will be more like herding 41,000 penguins down the beach.
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> OS/390 was the OS for the IBM/390, and OS/2 was meant to be the OS for the PS/2. So the z/OS name is at least consistent.
No, if you apply the consistent interpretation you discover that it's an OS named "z" intended to be run on a machine named "OS".
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> The M16 and the AR15 are automatic and semi-automatic assault rifles actually designed to injure.
Perhaps that's part of it, but I think the biggest motivator in the historical adoption of assault weapons is the lowered minimum standard for the quality and training of the soldier who uses them. During the latter part of WWII lots of countries were dredging the bottom of their manpower reserves and having to rush the draftees to the front without sufficient training, so there was lots of appeal to the idea of a weapon that just sprays lead everywhere rather than requiring an elevated degree of marksmanship in the bearer.
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> Player 1: "I can code that in 50 lines."
> Player 2: "I can code that in 20 lines."
Phil Carmody: "I can code that in one prime number!"
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> Do you imagine Jackson taking bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H donations from interest groups?
Maybe from the NRA...
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Now they need to figure out what makes an Octopussy purr.
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> How about if we all just agree than anyone who voted for either Bush or Gore is an idiot, and just be done with it?
.sig, my gripe is against the judicial coup, not against the fact that Gore lost.
I could go along with that. After all, I didn't vote for either one of them.
Contrary to what all the freepers assume about my
People of every political alignment should consider the implications of what happened. It might be the Democrats that 0wn the state where the next close count occurs. Certifying a dubious count and obstructing attempts to correct it will be every bit as (im)proper then as it was this time around. What goes around has a nasty habit of coming around, too.
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> Some think that the square root of two and pi were "demonic" numbers for Pitagorics, a mysthical sect of Antiquity and predecessors of many Christian ideas and with some love to play maths. The fact of the existence of real numbers was felt as a "fault" in the building of the Universe... Btw Pitagorics were responsible for the advent of prime numbers.
FWIW, one of the oldest known conspiracy theories claims that Pythagoras was drowned by his own followers in their outrage at his discovery of irrational numbers.
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> > Just because it's possible doesn't mean you have to do it.
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> Please just give me a kickass Star Wars movie that doesn't suck
Just because it's possible doesn't mean he has to do it.
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What do you expect from a company that fakes their computer displays for courtroom evidence?
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What happens when you use it for whistle blowing, and then a reveal-all bug is discovered the next day? Ooops.
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> You'd save a lot of money if you eliminated the cost of upgrading.
Or the cost of buying a license in the first place. Many citys and businesses are using illegal copies of commercial software, so it's quite possible that an entity the size of MC might be using many thousands of illegal licenses. Going free means you don't get bent over a barrel when the SPA (or whatever they call it now) sends Guido around for an audit.
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Homework assignment (due Monday) -
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> Refunds for Apple and the other firms who licensed the one click?
Yeah, Amazon is setting up a one-click refund site.
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Now if we only knew what the Alien Anal Probe was trying to detect.
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This looks like the ultimate karmic opportunity, if anyone thinks posts of the form "All your * are belong to us" are still worth upmods.
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I understand that the p0rn industry also has prior art on lots of innovative ways to make babies, including methods that aren't obvious to every skilled worker in the field.
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> A real Robin Hood hacker would steal web space from rich people who can afford high powered dedicated servers and give it to us poor guys that can only afford to virtually host their ISP given subdomains....
You're right. Hacktivism would more appropriately be compared to Robin's cousin, Marvin Hood, who went around painting "G1v3 70 743 p00r!" on the front of the nobles' castles.
P.S. - Be careful not to confuse Marvin with his brother, Kevin Hood, who went around writing "Fr33 743 p00rn!".
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> Shouldn't this be Cracktivism?
Maybe so, but IMO "hacktivism" is hurting The Man more than "cracktivism" is.
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