I think there was a virtual lan over internet called KALI back in the old days of Doom/ROTT... Perhaps there is still some form of it bouncing around out there..
I hope everyone's been paying attention to the whole Enron/GlobalCrossing/etc. affair--seems to me this thing is just getting bigger every day. One thing about the NSA being so secretive is that all they are doing is getting/gathering data. They can't really do anything with it. And I don't think they would, if they could. They are professionals just like the rest of us. It's who they give the information to that's scary.
Why would an Atomic Energy organization care about flies in Africa? They aren't planning on building giant nuclear power plants across all of Africa and then piping the electricity into Europe, are they? I mean, we wouldn't want the thousands of construction workers getting diseases from exotic flies. It's going to be the next Panama canal. There's a lot of Uranium in Africa also. And with those superconducting power lines, boy. This could be quite a moneymaker. Wonder if Enron knows anything about this.
I would say the simple solution is gravity, plain and simple.
You have two masses moving, in essence, side to side (horizontally).
X
The masses are equal, but not perfectly in sync. It's pretty impossible to get anything perfectly in sync. So basically, sooner or later, they will both reach the center point X at the same time. When they do, the gravitational attraction between the two masses is at it's highest. When the pendulums begin to move apart again, they are affected by an equal force resisting them moving apart. Regardless of their acceleration away from each other, they will from this point forward always come to the center point at the same time, because that is where they "want" to be.
If you want to wax intellectually on the subject, we can take a look at the clocks themselves.
As each pendulum swings, it imparts a torque on each clock. When the pendulums meet in the middle as I've described above, the torque on each clock is exactly equal and opposite also. Assuming the clocks are equal in mass they will fall back like little pendulums themselves, but at the same rate.
So what we have, basically, is gravity multiplying itself harmonically. Fascinating.
Bah.
I think Pink Floyd's Roger Waters put it best: I'm amused to death.
The solution to all of this crap is simple. Turn off your television. Too bad we Americans are largely stupid and lazy. When I watch television it makes me feel dumb, tired. It truely is the new religion, the opiate of the masses. It used to be churches. In this day and age, we scoff at the churches. How low tech. We laugh at Muslims who follow the words of their church and hate America. But what about us? Aren't we the hippocrites? We follow the words of television, of the media, and hate Muslims (well, average America does, anyway).
It is not merely an economic reorganization, as you've stated. You totally made all of that stuff up. It's perfectly alright though. That is typical American false class consciousness. Everyone in America wants to believe that we all have a chance to become rich, powerful, prestigious, President, whatever. Sorry folks, never have, never will. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. You saying that a few business mergers will change everything shows that you still believe you actually control your destiny. That you actually have a choice. Sorry, again, you all will have to work your entire lives or starve. And you will have to put up with all of the people are aren't smart enough to read Slashdot or to realize that Television is putting thoughts inside their head. They are the majority, and they can and do vote.
So, what can us smart people do? We can either A: protest and get nowhere or B: join with these "evil" corporations and make a hell of a lot of money off these stupid people. It's always been this way, and always will be. There is no perfect world, but here in America, dumb people are happy watching Television. Why can't you smart people be happy exploiting them?
It's funny. Most of the code for Windows looks like this. Windows is basically one big script. Everything it does, practically, is scripted. They were relying on the fact that most of the scripting is undocumented, but a simple browse to \windows\web and opening *.htt with notepad should show you how much of a problem this is. Even something as fundamental as file browsing is scripted. There will always be a way to exploit windows.
Actually, you can remove iexplore.exe and it still doesn't deintegrate IE. Try it yourself. Remove iexplore.exe and then go into "My Computer" and type a web address into the "Address" field. WOW, a web page pops up. Then, you might end up looking in \WINDOWS\WEB and noticing these little hidden files (*.htt) which are the Hypertext TEMPLATE files for all of the special folders on Win98. There's a Control Panel.htt, My Computer.htt, etc etc. When you look at these, you'll realize what a sham this all is! WIN98 IS JUST A MEMORY MANAGER THAT RUNS MS-DOS INSTANCES. That's why when you click on my computer and you have a CD in the drive, it takes forever for it to come up. Windows effectively opens a DOS instance, trys to log each drive (A-Z) and then reports back to explore.exe, which then makes up some cheesy HTML from the My Computer.htt template, and renders it. MICROSOFT does not want the world knowing that Win98 is just a cheesy graphical shell for DOS. But, that's all it is. And it's pretty slick how they do it. Everything is just a script with a few tiny DLL's here and there to do hardware work. That's why it is so slow and crappy. It is just DOS. IT'S DOS I TELL YOU! Sorry, coffee'd up.
Groeing will come up with something else, you can be sure. In other news, I just got a whole set of Futurama collectable tin toys--I might have to stash them somewhere if they weren't so cool.
This might be of some interest...Of course every transmission made is monitored.. Power is inherently fragile; knowing the moves of your enemy in advance is a key to protecting your power. Make your own conclusions, obviously.
You should talk to marketing and say "hey, I can get you a 10 dollar markup on these clear drives" (which probably cost less than ones with a metal case).
Then, they can expand the line--put a strobe disk access light so the head appears to freeze and jump around in a lighted room, chrome plate everything, hell, DIAMOND studded drives. They do it with cell phones now..
The possibilities are endless, as are the number of total idiots who are willing to spend $$ making their computer look cool (after they are done spending $$ to make their ricey econobox look like a remote controlled car).
I was thinking about this further, and realized this would also give everyone free telephone service (I mean with some sort of Voice(over)IP service), free video service (ersatz at this point, but I think someone will figure out a good way to stream video. I have a few ideas myself;)), and more. So, of course, this would go directly against the interests of these large telcom companies. Plus, they already have all of the wires needed in place. So what needs to occur is the government needs to buy all these telcom assets (like wires, poles, etc.), hire all the displaced workforce, and boom, state telecommunications. I think this is a good idea. There ARE few places where CAPITALISM isn't necessarily a good thing: Essential services. Although there are benefits to corporate involvement, as any economist would tell you, the industries as we know them today are so vertically alligned that many of the benefits cease to exist. An economist would say that the government is inefficient, because it is too big and requires public support for everything it is in charge of. Corporations are big and inefficent now also. Doesn't it suck to wait on hold for 12387 hours to get help with something? Wouldn't it be nicer to spread this out to the neighborhoods, decentralize it, so one guy only helps 100 people, and most of the time no one at all. See, in an industry like telcom or any communications industry for that matter (USPS was mentioned), the benefits of corporate involvment cease to exist. This is because of AT&T. Back in the day, when AT&T owned everything telcom, they got too big and were broken up. Everyone knows this. But the problem is, the same wires are still there, and are still owned by those spun off broken off baby bells. Sure, the cable industry has made a little dent in home to home communications, but in most cases only in ONE DIRECTION. Regardless, all of our difficulties with telcom at this point stem from the Central Office paradigm of infrastructure organization developed by the monopoly of AT&T. This structure works perfectly for a MONOPOLY, and is designed for a MONOPOLY to use. I mean, it did make AT&T into the largest corporation in the world, didn't it. Microsoft is nothing compared to what AT&T was in 1984. Anyway, because the infrastructure we are still using today is built with a monopoly in mind, it is only natural that business will orient itself along the existing infrastructure to make the best possible use of it. Ethernet and IP make all this Central Office organization UNNECESSARY today, as these are protocols and hardware designed for decentralization. Now, the industry is not going to want to change; I mean, would you? This existing structure makes them BILLIONS at a cost of ZERO. These lines are so old, they have depriciated to be worth NOTHING right now; in fact, I doubt they are even taxed as property anymore. So, since they are no longer property of anyone, why doesn't the government just take them? Buy them, whatever. Only the government can do it. But, with the poles, and stuff, why not string fiber to each house. What's 100 bucks a house to the government? Nothing! They can just buy a fiber optic factory from one of the failing telcom corps, zip it out for even less because they aren't marking it up for a profit, and bingo. Anyway, the point I'm trying (laboriously) to make is that, TELCOM SHOULD BE RUN BY THE GOVERNMENT, AND SHOULD BE KEPT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE. This means avoiding all the bullshit that USPS got themselves into trying to run themselves as a CORPORATION and not as a GOVERNMENT OFFICE. I DON'T CARE IF MORE PEOPLE SEND PACKAGES THRU FEDEX! JUST GET MY FIRST CLASS LETTER ANYWHERE IN THE U.S. IN 2-3 DAYS. There is no need to compete with FedEx on special stuff like packages. That is an extended luxury service, not an essential. Likewise, with telcom, I DON'T CARE IF YOU CAN WATCH 2671727 MOVIE CHANNELS ON GOVERNMENT INTERNET, people who want/need that LUXURY can buy CABLE. All I need is basic email, basic voice service (local, long distance, and 911), basic Video (community access). Anything else would be corporate. But for God's sake, let's lay AT&T to rest already, stop beating this dead horse and move into the 21st century. It's ok for these wires to be publicly owned. The roads are, and they are fine.
The only way I think this can possibly succeed is to discard the traditional "Central Office" mentality of telecom providers. If this is to be a public network, (ala state sponsored, socialist, German and/or Euro-style), it will be imperative to keep it out of the hands of a few large corporations. This means decentralization; a home by home public network. Give a gigantic tax credit to those homeowners who "host" a switch, and have their neighbors' wires come to their home to be routed to other neighbors or neighborhoods. Of course utilize encryption, but anyone with privacy concerns should learn to trust their neighbors more. Geeze, you'd rather have a huge, above-the-law corporation in charge of keeping your data secure or your buddy down the street. Of course, this would be a great thing for neighborhoods, also. Allowing a nieghborhood email service, file sharing, and whathaveyou would bring about a whole new era in living. Post complaints about behavior anonymously, welcome newcomers, it'll be the 50's all over again. Maybe people will stop being so afraid of each other that they will come out and talk, and crime rates will drop, everyone will be happier. Wow. Utopia. Oh, and since it's socialist, and supported monetarily by the government, it's free! Or the government can just give huge amounts of money to these huge corporations and let them spend half of it on administration, the execs pocket another 1/4, and the whole thing just gets done half assed enough that they will eventually give up, keep all the stuff they bought, and use it to roll out their own expensive service. Sweet. Well, that's America for you. Why do things the easy friendly way when you can allow some rich power to control your life?
Hey, remember this story about how Redhat was planning to give copies of RedHat for free in order to make the proposed Microsoft antitrust settlement more valuable to schools. All of a sudden, I am seeing evil in the air again....
When was the last time you send your congressperson a letter? When was the last time you then got all of your friends to send your congressperson a letter? It might take 5 fucking minutes, but everyone is so lazy and apathetic these days. If you feel strongly enough about it to emphasize FUCK, I suggest you do something. As least maybe it will ease your troubled mind a bit. Besides, if every one simply goes about doing what they do with good intentions, eventually everything will work out. We are not helpless.
Imagine if the RIAA sent a card to every person in America asking them to sign a statement saying they don't own any pirated music, and if they don't sign, you can be raided by federal marshalls for suspicion of piracy. A long time ago, I thought 2002 would be a good year. Finally peace on Earth, regular space missions, a moon base, etc. Instead we have endless bickering over a few dollars worth of binary digits that somehow do something that is expected to be traded for money or something else of value. A few dollars worth of binary digits that, if you refuse to Opt Out of a legal battle by signing a statement, will mean you are subject to illegal search and seizure. This would be like the Government sending a card for everyone to sign stating they "don't have any illegal weapons" and if you don't sign, you are immediately suspected of owning illegal weapons. Whatever happened to the 5th Amendment? Whatever happened to being innocent until PROVEN guilty? Are they going to take that right away now?
It was to be called Mantis, and used scripting language called Mantis Markup Language. It was enormously powerful, completely portable, and simple to use.
It's first use was to be in a MP3 player named "Sonique2" until Lycos hijacked the project from it's creators to use as a copy protected music distribution system. Mantis could have changed the world of UI design... Too bad.
WAREZ n., (wares) (alt pronouc: ware-ez)
1. Commercial software, generally of a highly desireable nature, but with an exhorbitant price thus not allowing curious young hackers a chance to even try it.
2. Software in general.
What WAREZ is not:
1. A group of people.
2. An organization.
3. Anything but software.
A "warez" group is a group who is interesting the the afformentioned software. IT IS NOT SOME "CYBERGANG" OR OTHER SUCH DRIVEL. Gee, with reporting like this, one has to wonder if we are really at war with Afghanistan because of terrorism, or if this is all about oil.
Just do a search. The man WAS a genius. I also recommend the Feynman lectures on physics, the so called "red books". You will be sorely hurt if you do not check him out.
We are all the asshole in the middle. If someone is coming between you and something you want and you don't let them, aren't you coming between that person at what they want?
Applied Digital Solutions supposedly has this new body heat powered body availible to buy. Pretty cool little device. Supposedly they are going to be supplying it for some new watch that does all kinds of neat stuff like GPS and CDMA..
Strange, and not very likely, but it seems odd that this whole terrorism/war thing happens right during the midst of some of the most important changes to society since well, World War II, and specifically, the Atomic Bomb. Now it is information, money, power that is at stake, rather than the fate of the Earth. It is now that we are dividing up power for the next 50 years. Right now we are undergoing amazing changes, many of them in the digital world which pretty much affects all other fields of study. I mean, would DNA research have made their discoveries without the advances of computing and information technology. I think not. Would business even been capable of managing this massive amount of money they make without the advances of computers? Odds are most certainly against it. Doesn't it follow, then, that laws limiting the development of technology today will limit our technological evolution in the future? Until now, technology was mainly limited by nature. In the last 20 years, technology has become limited by marketing. In the last 3, technology has become regulated by law. It's almost as if someone who is gaining a lot of money and power and information right now is not willing to give up their position when we find something better. So they repress it. OR perhaps they are sure their way is the best, but we all know nothing is perfect. Remember back, I ask you, to September 10th, 2001. Everyone slightly worried about a minor recession, mainly in stock prices, on a waning technology sector. We all just ignore the giant event under our noses. The California power crisis. California can not afford power. Now, California buys power at market prices, just like everone else. So Everyone Else was paying the same outrageous prices for power, we just had government regulations in place. It's a classic case of a bug in the system. The "market" created overly high prices which really mean nothing, and created a huge loss on PAPER. So naturally, every power company lost billions and is GOING TO NEED TO BE MAKING IT UP over probably the next 5 years. What does your computer run on? Power. What do hotels and airports run on? Power. What does everything in the economy run on? Power. I think you see my point. We are dependent on power, and it is in fact a very major expense for many large corporations. So even say a 10% increase in power expenses can affect a company that uses a lot of energy; some companies run a small bottom line and that 10% can upset the balance. I recieved a letter FROM THE PWER COMPANY speaking about a DOUBLE in power prices by NEXT SUMMER. So, in order to make up for it, they must lay off many hundreds of employees. Perhaps this could be the reason for this sudden rise in unemployment. You see, in this long, drawn out explaination, I am trying to show that this is all too convenient. Perhaps maybe looking at the big picture rather than the one AoL/Time Warner wants you to see. They want you to forget the past, forget what was so nice about those days. Make us feel like we don't have a choice. Well, we do. As a mass, we are the consumers, and we have the ultimate choice. But by passing these idiotic lies, they are removing our choices, and by doing, limiting our rights to affect our own destiny. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but surely you must admit, based on knowledge of previous shinanegans in the U.S. Government, that it IS possible for something as horrible as a terrorist incident, and even a WAR, to be used as justification for changes (including new laws) in our country that are against the constitution. It's strange how all these cases (landmark cases) are scheduled now (after this incident), and how they are all simply dismissed, because in light of the "horrible incidents" they are petty and don't deserve to be debated. Benjamin Franklin said we should always be suspicious of authority, especially those who try to make changes you know are wrong under "the guise of security." We are simply going along with this, because CNN tells us of "threats of terrorism" and we are "at war". With what? With whom. Prove it! And today, it was the pot in the kettle when President G. Dubya Bush says the recession we are now facing is a result of Terrorism and the Long War we are about to Fight. WE WERE FACING RECESSION BEFORE SEPT. 11TH BECAUSE OF THIS POWER THING. Hey, just look at your power bill, and how much of your income it takes before you label this Flamebait.
And if the feds bail out Enron in the next 6 months, you can bet everything I said is true.
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I think there was a virtual lan over internet called KALI back in the old days of Doom/ROTT... Perhaps there is still some form of it bouncing around out there..
I hope everyone's been paying attention to the whole Enron/GlobalCrossing/etc. affair--seems to me this thing is just getting bigger every day. One thing about the NSA being so secretive is that all they are doing is getting/gathering data. They can't really do anything with it. And I don't think they would, if they could. They are professionals just like the rest of us. It's who they give the information to that's scary.
Why would an Atomic Energy organization care about flies in Africa? They aren't planning on building giant nuclear power plants across all of Africa and then piping the electricity into Europe, are they? I mean, we wouldn't want the thousands of construction workers getting diseases from exotic flies. It's going to be the next Panama canal. There's a lot of Uranium in Africa also. And with those superconducting power lines, boy. This could be quite a moneymaker. Wonder if Enron knows anything about this.
Cheers
I would say the simple solution is gravity, plain and simple.
You have two masses moving, in essence, side to side (horizontally).
X
The masses are equal, but not perfectly in sync. It's pretty impossible to get anything perfectly in sync. So basically, sooner or later, they will both reach the center point X at the same time. When they do, the gravitational attraction between the two masses is at it's highest. When the pendulums begin to move apart again, they are affected by an equal force resisting them moving apart. Regardless of their acceleration away from each other, they will from this point forward always come to the center point at the same time, because that is where they "want" to be.
If you want to wax intellectually on the subject, we can take a look at the clocks themselves.
As each pendulum swings, it imparts a torque on each clock. When the pendulums meet in the middle as I've described above, the torque on each clock is exactly equal and opposite also. Assuming the clocks are equal in mass they will fall back like little pendulums themselves, but at the same rate.
So what we have, basically, is gravity multiplying itself harmonically. Fascinating.
Bah.
I think Pink Floyd's Roger Waters put it best:
I'm amused to death.
The solution to all of this crap is simple. Turn off your television. Too bad we Americans are largely stupid and lazy. When I watch television it makes me feel dumb, tired. It truely is the new religion, the opiate of the masses. It used to be churches. In this day and age, we scoff at the churches. How low tech. We laugh at Muslims who follow the words of their church and hate America. But what about us? Aren't we the hippocrites? We follow the words of television, of the media, and hate Muslims (well, average America does, anyway).
It is not merely an economic reorganization, as you've stated. You totally made all of that stuff up. It's perfectly alright though. That is typical American false class consciousness. Everyone in America wants to believe that we all have a chance to become rich, powerful, prestigious, President, whatever. Sorry folks, never have, never will. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. You saying that a few business mergers will change everything shows that you still believe you actually control your destiny. That you actually have a choice. Sorry, again, you all will have to work your entire lives or starve. And you will have to put up with all of the people are aren't smart enough to read Slashdot or to realize that Television is putting thoughts inside their head. They are the majority, and they can and do vote.
So, what can us smart people do? We can either A: protest and get nowhere or B: join with these "evil" corporations and make a hell of a lot of money off these stupid people. It's always been this way, and always will be. There is no perfect world, but here in America, dumb people are happy watching Television. Why can't you smart people be happy exploiting them?
Cheers
Check this out, a little piece at ABC news for kids. This is kindof scary.
Perhaps they are slowly making the world ready for disclosure of the truth.
It's funny. Most of the code for Windows looks like this. Windows is basically one big script. Everything it does, practically, is scripted. They were relying on the fact that most of the scripting is undocumented, but a simple browse to \windows\web and opening *.htt with notepad should show you how much of a problem this is. Even something as fundamental as file browsing is scripted. There will always be a way to exploit windows.
Actually, you can remove iexplore.exe and it still doesn't deintegrate IE. Try it yourself. Remove iexplore.exe and then go into "My Computer" and type a web address into the "Address" field. WOW, a web page pops up. Then, you might end up looking in \WINDOWS\WEB and noticing these little hidden files (*.htt) which are the Hypertext TEMPLATE files for all of the special folders on Win98. There's a Control Panel.htt, My Computer.htt, etc etc. When you look at these, you'll realize what a sham this all is! WIN98 IS JUST A MEMORY MANAGER THAT RUNS MS-DOS INSTANCES. That's why when you click on my computer and you have a CD in the drive, it takes forever for it to come up. Windows effectively opens a DOS instance, trys to log each drive (A-Z) and then reports back to explore.exe, which then makes up some cheesy HTML from the My Computer.htt template, and renders it. MICROSOFT does not want the world knowing that Win98 is just a cheesy graphical shell for DOS. But, that's all it is. And it's pretty slick how they do it. Everything is just a script with a few tiny DLL's here and there to do hardware work. That's why it is so slow and crappy. It is just DOS. IT'S DOS I TELL YOU! Sorry, coffee'd up.
Groeing will come up with something else, you can be sure. In other news, I just got a whole set of Futurama collectable tin toys--I might have to stash them somewhere if they weren't so cool.
This might be of some interest...Of course every transmission made is monitored.. Power is inherently fragile; knowing the moves of your enemy in advance is a key to protecting your power. Make your own conclusions, obviously.
...don't you think?
You should talk to marketing and say "hey, I can get you a 10 dollar markup on these clear drives" (which probably cost less than ones with a metal case).
Then, they can expand the line--put a strobe disk access light so the head appears to freeze and jump around in a lighted room, chrome plate everything, hell, DIAMOND studded drives. They do it with cell phones now..
The possibilities are endless, as are the number of total idiots who are willing to spend $$ making their computer look cool (after they are done spending $$ to make their ricey econobox look like a remote controlled car).
Good day.
I was thinking about this further, and realized this would also give everyone free telephone service (I mean with some sort of Voice(over)IP service), free video service (ersatz at this point, but I think someone will figure out a good way to stream video. I have a few ideas myself ;)), and more. So, of course, this would go directly against the interests of these large telcom companies. Plus, they already have all of the wires needed in place. So what needs to occur is the government needs to buy all these telcom assets (like wires, poles, etc.), hire all the displaced workforce, and boom, state telecommunications. I think this is a good idea. There ARE few places where CAPITALISM isn't necessarily a good thing: Essential services. Although there are benefits to corporate involvement, as any economist would tell you, the industries as we know them today are so vertically alligned that many of the benefits cease to exist. An economist would say that the government is inefficient, because it is too big and requires public support for everything it is in charge of. Corporations are big and inefficent now also. Doesn't it suck to wait on hold for 12387 hours to get help with something? Wouldn't it be nicer to spread this out to the neighborhoods, decentralize it, so one guy only helps 100 people, and most of the time no one at all. See, in an industry like telcom or any communications industry for that matter (USPS was mentioned), the benefits of corporate involvment cease to exist. This is because of AT&T. Back in the day, when AT&T owned everything telcom, they got too big and were broken up. Everyone knows this. But the problem is, the same wires are still there, and are still owned by those spun off broken off baby bells. Sure, the cable industry has made a little dent in home to home communications, but in most cases only in ONE DIRECTION. Regardless, all of our difficulties with telcom at this point stem from the Central Office paradigm of infrastructure organization developed by the monopoly of AT&T. This structure works perfectly for a MONOPOLY, and is designed for a MONOPOLY to use. I mean, it did make AT&T into the largest corporation in the world, didn't it. Microsoft is nothing compared to what AT&T was in 1984. Anyway, because the infrastructure we are still using today is built with a monopoly in mind, it is only natural that business will orient itself along the existing infrastructure to make the best possible use of it. Ethernet and IP make all this Central Office organization UNNECESSARY today, as these are protocols and hardware designed for decentralization. Now, the industry is not going to want to change; I mean, would you? This existing structure makes them BILLIONS at a cost of ZERO. These lines are so old, they have depriciated to be worth NOTHING right now; in fact, I doubt they are even taxed as property anymore. So, since they are no longer property of anyone, why doesn't the government just take them? Buy them, whatever. Only the government can do it. But, with the poles, and stuff, why not string fiber to each house. What's 100 bucks a house to the government? Nothing! They can just buy a fiber optic factory from one of the failing telcom corps, zip it out for even less because they aren't marking it up for a profit, and bingo. Anyway, the point I'm trying (laboriously) to make is that, TELCOM SHOULD BE RUN BY THE GOVERNMENT, AND SHOULD BE KEPT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE. This means avoiding all the bullshit that USPS got themselves into trying to run themselves as a CORPORATION and not as a GOVERNMENT OFFICE. I DON'T CARE IF MORE PEOPLE SEND PACKAGES THRU FEDEX! JUST GET MY FIRST CLASS LETTER ANYWHERE IN THE U.S. IN 2-3 DAYS. There is no need to compete with FedEx on special stuff like packages. That is an extended luxury service, not an essential. Likewise, with telcom, I DON'T CARE IF YOU CAN WATCH 2671727 MOVIE CHANNELS ON GOVERNMENT INTERNET, people who want/need that LUXURY can buy CABLE. All I need is basic email, basic voice service (local, long distance, and 911), basic Video (community access). Anything else would be corporate. But for God's sake, let's lay AT&T to rest already, stop beating this dead horse and move into the 21st century. It's ok for these wires to be publicly owned. The roads are, and they are fine.
The only way I think this can possibly succeed is to discard the traditional "Central Office" mentality of telecom providers. If this is to be a public network, (ala state sponsored, socialist, German and/or Euro-style), it will be imperative to keep it out of the hands of a few large corporations. This means decentralization; a home by home public network. Give a gigantic tax credit to those homeowners who "host" a switch, and have their neighbors' wires come to their home to be routed to other neighbors or neighborhoods. Of course utilize encryption, but anyone with privacy concerns should learn to trust their neighbors more. Geeze, you'd rather have a huge, above-the-law corporation in charge of keeping your data secure or your buddy down the street. Of course, this would be a great thing for neighborhoods, also. Allowing a nieghborhood email service, file sharing, and whathaveyou would bring about a whole new era in living. Post complaints about behavior anonymously, welcome newcomers, it'll be the 50's all over again. Maybe people will stop being so afraid of each other that they will come out and talk, and crime rates will drop, everyone will be happier. Wow. Utopia. Oh, and since it's socialist, and supported monetarily by the government, it's free! Or the government can just give huge amounts of money to these huge corporations and let them spend half of it on administration, the execs pocket another 1/4, and the whole thing just gets done half assed enough that they will eventually give up, keep all the stuff they bought, and use it to roll out their own expensive service. Sweet. Well, that's America for you. Why do things the easy friendly way when you can allow some rich power to control your life?
...with AOLOS at the end of each one. What a vision. *vomits*
Hey, remember this story about how Redhat was planning to give copies of RedHat for free in order to make the proposed Microsoft antitrust settlement more valuable to schools. All of a sudden, I am seeing evil in the air again....
When was the last time you send your congressperson a letter? When was the last time you then got all of your friends to send your congressperson a letter? It might take 5 fucking minutes, but everyone is so lazy and apathetic these days. If you feel strongly enough about it to emphasize FUCK, I suggest you do something. As least maybe it will ease your troubled mind a bit. Besides, if every one simply goes about doing what they do with good intentions, eventually everything will work out. We are not helpless.
Imagine if the RIAA sent a card to every person in America asking them to sign a statement saying they don't own any pirated music, and if they don't sign, you can be raided by federal marshalls for suspicion of piracy. A long time ago, I thought 2002 would be a good year. Finally peace on Earth, regular space missions, a moon base, etc. Instead we have endless bickering over a few dollars worth of binary digits that somehow do something that is expected to be traded for money or something else of value. A few dollars worth of binary digits that, if you refuse to Opt Out of a legal battle by signing a statement, will mean you are subject to illegal search and seizure. This would be like the Government sending a card for everyone to sign stating they "don't have any illegal weapons" and if you don't sign, you are immediately suspected of owning illegal weapons. Whatever happened to the 5th Amendment? Whatever happened to being innocent until PROVEN guilty? Are they going to take that right away now?
It was to be called Mantis, and used scripting language called Mantis Markup Language. It was enormously powerful, completely portable, and simple to use.
It's first use was to be in a MP3 player named "Sonique2" until Lycos hijacked the project from it's creators to use as a copy protected music distribution system. Mantis could have changed the world of UI design... Too bad.
WAREZ n., (wares) (alt pronouc: ware-ez)
1. Commercial software, generally of a highly desireable nature, but with an exhorbitant price thus not allowing curious young hackers a chance to even try it.
2. Software in general.
What WAREZ is not:
1. A group of people.
2. An organization.
3. Anything but software.
A "warez" group is a group who is interesting the the afformentioned software. IT IS NOT SOME "CYBERGANG" OR OTHER SUCH DRIVEL. Gee, with reporting like this, one has to wonder if we are really at war with Afghanistan because of terrorism, or if this is all about oil.
See "Wag the Dog" for more information.
Just do a search. The man WAS a genius. I also recommend the Feynman lectures on physics, the so called "red books". You will be sorely hurt if you do not check him out.
We are all the asshole in the middle. If someone is coming between you and something you want and you don't let them, aren't you coming between that person at what they want?
Applied Digital Solutions supposedly has this new body heat powered body availible to buy. Pretty cool little device. Supposedly they are going to be supplying it for some new watch that does all kinds of neat stuff like GPS and CDMA..
It's called Thermo-Life. I think it's here.
that tiny island called Japan? With 120 million people on it? Size does matter after all.
Strange, and not very likely, but it seems odd that this whole terrorism/war thing happens right during the midst of some of the most important changes to society since well, World War II, and specifically, the Atomic Bomb. Now it is information, money, power that is at stake, rather than the fate of the Earth. It is now that we are dividing up power for the next 50 years. Right now we are undergoing amazing changes, many of them in the digital world which pretty much affects all other fields of study. I mean, would DNA research have made their discoveries without the advances of computing and information technology. I think not. Would business even been capable of managing this massive amount of money they make without the advances of computers? Odds are most certainly against it. Doesn't it follow, then, that laws limiting the development of technology today will limit our technological evolution in the future? Until now, technology was mainly limited by nature. In the last 20 years, technology has become limited by marketing. In the last 3, technology has become regulated by law. It's almost as if someone who is gaining a lot of money and power and information right now is not willing to give up their position when we find something better. So they repress it. OR perhaps they are sure their way is the best, but we all know nothing is perfect. Remember back, I ask you, to September 10th, 2001. Everyone slightly worried about a minor recession, mainly in stock prices, on a waning technology sector. We all just ignore the giant event under our noses. The California power crisis. California can not afford power. Now, California buys power at market prices, just like everone else. So Everyone Else was paying the same outrageous prices for power, we just had government regulations in place. It's a classic case of a bug in the system. The "market" created overly high prices which really mean nothing, and created a huge loss on PAPER. So naturally, every power company lost billions and is GOING TO NEED TO BE MAKING IT UP over probably the next 5 years. What does your computer run on? Power. What do hotels and airports run on? Power. What does everything in the economy run on? Power. I think you see my point. We are dependent on power, and it is in fact a very major expense for many large corporations. So even say a 10% increase in power expenses can affect a company that uses a lot of energy; some companies run a small bottom line and that 10% can upset the balance. I recieved a letter FROM THE PWER COMPANY speaking about a DOUBLE in power prices by NEXT SUMMER. So, in order to make up for it, they must lay off many hundreds of employees. Perhaps this could be the reason for this sudden rise in unemployment. You see, in this long, drawn out explaination, I am trying to show that this is all too convenient. Perhaps maybe looking at the big picture rather than the one AoL/Time Warner wants you to see. They want you to forget the past, forget what was so nice about those days. Make us feel like we don't have a choice. Well, we do. As a mass, we are the consumers, and we have the ultimate choice. But by passing these idiotic lies, they are removing our choices, and by doing, limiting our rights to affect our own destiny. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but surely you must admit, based on knowledge of previous shinanegans in the U.S. Government, that it IS possible for something as horrible as a terrorist incident, and even a WAR, to be used as justification for changes (including new laws) in our country that are against the constitution. It's strange how all these cases (landmark cases) are scheduled now (after this incident), and how they are all simply dismissed, because in light of the "horrible incidents" they are petty and don't deserve to be debated. Benjamin Franklin said we should always be suspicious of authority, especially those who try to make changes you know are wrong under "the guise of security." We are simply going along with this, because CNN tells us of "threats of terrorism" and we are "at war". With what? With whom. Prove it! And today, it was the pot in the kettle when President G. Dubya Bush says the recession we are now facing is a result of Terrorism and the Long War we are about to Fight. WE WERE FACING RECESSION BEFORE SEPT. 11TH BECAUSE OF THIS POWER THING. Hey, just look at your power bill, and how much of your income it takes before you label this Flamebait.
And if the feds bail out Enron in the next 6 months, you can bet everything I said is true.