Your rant about corruption is probably accurate, lord knows it is a stereotype that has probably been earned, but I am not sure that it is entirely acccurate regarding this particular case. There are better reasons for their choice, namely that training the employees was significantly more expensive than the windows licenses.
The general consensus was that deploying the 'free' operating system in Mexican schools would save money, but the sad fact is, the lack of hardware support and arcane configuration issues are indeed beyond then ken of a typical teacher/school administrator. These aren't stupid people, mind you, it's just that their training is in totally different areas. Windows, OTOH, can be set up on nearly any hardware configuration through simplistic 'Wizards'.
So when you boil it down, is it cheaper to pay for training the 100's or 1000's that would need it in the ways of linuxy goodness, or simply purchase windows and click yes when asked until the systems are deployed? I think the Mexican School Boards have realized that it is the former, though I suspect it was with the assistance of MS marketting and sales that made it clear to them. PS, Brian Farina can bite my ass!
that reminds me of one of my favorite Frank Black albums Teenager of the Year, the opening track of which was titled 'Whatever Happened to Pong?' Great stuff.
You people are just nuts for Sklyarov... but the sad fact is that he is a 'cracker', a Russian cracker at that, and crackers have been the bane of Big Software for decades. So a company finally has a chance to lift a few solid details out of the aether of the cracker kingdom, a specific event with a specific cracker talking about a specific crtacking tool... Of course they had to act. And I bet if you had a software product that was threatened by these 'nogoodniks' you would act as well.
Now, thought the Justice Department and the FBI may insist on trying Sklyarov here in the US, unless he was selling the cracking software or sharing the source code, he'll get off scotch free. Since he was just talking about the details of Adobe security technology, there's hardly anything to get excited about, right?
Go ahead, mod me straight to -1 for my unpopular opinion- the groupthink around here is thick enough to carve with a knife. But the reality is, this is going to end in an utterly anticlimactic way, and the only effect of the EFF and all of you 'activist citizens' will be prolonging Sklyarov's harrassment. Obviously the officials are treading lightly out of fear of a public outcry. If you all would just let this die down, it would be over in a heartbeat!
Does it apply? at least this post isn't as gummy as your shlock on kurosion!
YOU ARE NOT YOUR KARMA, OR HOW MANY STORIES YOU'VE HAD POSTED TO THE FRONT PAGE. YOU ARE NOT YOUR LINUX BOX UPTIME. YOU'RE NOT YOUR FUCKING PALMPILOT. YOU ARE THE ALL SINGING, ALL DANCING CRAP OF SLASHDOT
It was sad when Taco felt the need to run vlad out of town. It was sad when he wanted to mess with signal 11 as well, only he should've comported himself with a modicum of dignity the way vlad did, don't you think?
btw, I would've thought jsm was a good choice too. too bad about the way it's been working out!
(To the tune of "When Bad Meets Evil" off of the album "The Real Slim Shady")
[intro]
[Taco] I reckon you ain't familiar with these here parts
You know, there's a story behind that there sid
Twenty weeks ago, two karma whores took this whole thread over
Moderators couldn't stop em
Quickest damn flamewars I've ever seen
Got modded down in cold blood
That ol' inchfan there was their lil' home away from home
They say the ghosts of TROLL and K-HO still live in that thread
And on a quiet night
You can still hear the footsteps of Signal11 and Ol' Shoeboy
[Signal11] I don't post, I float in the grits wrapped in some toast
I'm not a real slashbot, I'm a troll linking to goats
I translate when my post is read through a Cuecat and a noise is bred,
picked up and transmitted through Shoeboy's head (AAHHH)
Trapped him in a sid, possessed him and hoist his thread
Till the K-HOness flows through his blood like poisonous lead
Told him each one of his bots is dead
I asked him to come to the steelcage, he made a choice and said
[Shoeboy] +2 hard? yo I done post first!
We can get in two threads and deliberate at each other
To see which one'll swerve first
Two blind slashbots panic, whose mental capacity holds
That of a thread on top of nine other comments
Kissed the cheek of the da RMS
Intelligence level is lower than JonKatz sellin'/. posts at a tradeshow
Dismissal, I'm not a fair man, disgraced the race of a unix admin
Intercepting flamebait wit my bare hands like a patriot
One thread sliced without words, I buried the AC corpse
In my past life when the Red Hat mounted the First Post
And stayed over-worked, its like the zealots and newbies
Collaborating, attemptin to take over the earth
[Signal11] Cuz this is what happens when TROLL Meets K-HO
We hit the trees till we look like (-1: Insightful)
He's K-HO, and I'm TROLL like Steve Segal
Above Karma cuz I don't agree wit Hemos either (shit, me neither)
We ain't eager to be feeble
So please leave me wit the keys to your PT Beetle
I breathe mdma in three lethal amounts
When I stab myself in the knee with a diseased beer mug
Releasin rage on anybody in penis-bird range
Cold enough to make the topic change into something lame
(He's insane) No I'm not, I just want to eat lunch and I'm pissed off
Cuz I can't write a decent flame...
[Shoeboy] The disaster of threads
I'm 1337 enough to commit suicide and survive long enough
To mod my post after I'm dead
When in trolltalk it's funny
actually my flavor's similar to a llama
Cuz I serve any stranger wit karma
I spray a hundred, man until the story changes
While slippin comments at point blank range like they was punches
Piss on a zealot and burn it, murder you then come to your funeral
Use a server for hobby, strangle your distro then confirm you
Whippin slashbot ass, throwin trolls crackin jokes
Wit my posts wrapped in gause, dipped in FUD and rants
I'm blazin AC's, at the same time amazin AC's
Somehow AC's ain't that eye-brow raisin to me
From all of angles of us,
crash a Mac bad enough
to trigger a/. DDoS attack
And bust till flamewars errupt
[interlude] *phone rings*
Hello? (momo) Aiyyo what's up?
(we're comin to get you..)
VLAD! THEY KNOW IT'S US!!
[momocrome](cameo)
I used to be a loudmouth, remember me? (uh-ah)
I'm the one who burned your sid down (oh)
Well I'm out now (shit), and this time I'm comin back to blow your sid up
And I ain't gon leave you a trolltalk to fall back on
Give me two fat flames and three fuck-yous
And you won't see me like 1337 kiddies in comp.newsgroups
And when I go to AOL and I'm gettin ready to leave
I'ma put card numbers in a file and charge people to see
[Shoeboy] (Signal11)
Cuz this is what happens when TROLL Meets K-Ho
And we hit the trees till we look like MySQL
He's K-HO, and I'm TROLL like Steve Segal
Against karma, see you at Kiro5hin for the sequel
(We'll be waitin) See you in hell
Goats.cx, Raymond da Eric S,
See you on AOL for the sequel (bye bye)
TROLL Meets K-HO, what? (till next time)
[Taco] And so that's the story when Signal11 Meets Shoeboy
Two of the most cumbersome individuals on slashdot
Made Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman look like Karma Whoring thespians
It's too bad they had to go out the way they did
Got flamed in the back comin out of that ol' crunchtime
But their spirits still live on till this day
Shhh...[posts] wait, did y'all hear that?
[Taco]
I reckon you ain't familiar with these here parts
You know, there's a story behind that there sid
Twenty weeks ago, two karma whores took this whole thread over
Moderators couldn't stop em
Quickest damn flamewars I've ever seen
Got modded in cold blood
That ol' inchfan there was their lil' home away from home
They say the ghosts of TROLL and K-HO still live in that thread
And on a quiet night
You can still hear the footsteps of Signal11 and Ol' Shoeboy
[Signal11]
I don't post, I float in the grits wrapped in some toast
I'm not a real slashbot, I'm a troll linking to goats
I translate when my post is read through a seismograph
And a noise is bred, picked up and transmitted through Shoeboy's head (AAHHH)
Trapped him in a sid, possessed him and hoist his thread
Till the K-HOness flows through his blood like poisonous lead
Told him each one of his bots is dead
I asked him to come to the dark side, he made a choice and said
[Shoeboy]
+2 hard? yo I done post worse
We can get in two threads and deliberate at each other
To see which one'll swerve first
Two blind slashbots panic, whose mental capacity holds
That of a thread on top of nine other comments
Kissed the cheek of the da RMS
Intelligence level is lower than JonKatz pickin up chicks in a high school
Dismissal, I'm not a fair man, disgraced the race of a atheist
Intercepting flamebait wit my bare hands like a patriot
One thread sliced without words, I buried the AC corpse
In my past life when the Black Knight mounted the white horse
And stay over-worked, its like the zealots in the newsgroups
Collaborating, attemptin to take over the earth
[Signal11]
Cuz this is what happens when TROLL Meets K-HO
We hit the trees till we look like Canadian a-holes
He's K-HO, and I'm TROLL like Steve Segal
Above Karma cuz I don't agree wit Hemos either (shit, me neither)
We ain't eager to be amusin
So please leave me wit the keys to your PT Cruiser
I breathe mdma in three lethal amounts
When I stab myself in the knee with a diseased beer mug
Releasin rage on anybody in penis-bird range
Cold enough to make the topic change into something lame
(He's insane) No I'm not, I just want to mod up and I'm pissed off
Cuz I can't find a decent post
[Shoeboy]
The disaster of threads
I'm 1337 enough to commit suicide and survive long enough
To mod my post after I'm dead
When in danger it's funny actually my flavor's similar to a llama
Cuz I serve any stranger wit karma
I spray a hundred, man until they story changes
While slippin comments at point blank range like they was punches
Piss on a zealot and burn it, murder you then come to your funeral
Serve this hobbyist, strangle your distro then confirm you
Whippin slashbot ass, throwin trolls crackin jokes
Wit my posts wrapped in gause, dipped in FUD and rant
I'm blazin AC's, at the same time amazin AC's
Somehow AC's ain't that eye-brow raisin to me
From all of angles of us, crash a mac loud enough to cast a avalanche
And bust till flamewars errupt
[interlude]
*phone rings*
Hello? (momo) Aiyyo what's up?
(we're comin to get you..)
VLAD! THEY KNOW IT'S US!!
[momocrome](cameo)
I used to be a loudmouth, remember me? (uh-ah)
I'm the one who burned your sid down (oh)
Well I'm out now (shit), and this time I'm comin back to blow your sid up
And I ain't gon leave you a trolltalk to fall back on
Give me two fat flames and three fuck-yous
And you won't see me like 1337 kiddies in comp.newsgroups
And when I go to AOL and I'm gettin ready to leave
I'ma put card numbers in a file and charge people to see
[Shoeboy] (Signal11)
Cuz this is what happens when TROLL Meets K-Ho
And we hit the trees till we look like Canadian a-holes
He's K-HO, and I'm TROLL like Steve Segal
Against karma, see you at Kiro5hin for the sequel
(We'll be waitin) See you in hell
Goats.cx, Raymond da Eric S,
See you on AOL for the sequel (bye bye)
TROLL Meets K-HO, what? (till next time)
[Taco]
And so that's the story when Signal11 Meets Shoeboy
Two of the most cumbersome individuals on slashdot
Made Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman look like Karma Whoring thespians
It's too bad they had to go out the way they did
Got flamed in the back comin out of that ol' crunchtime
But their spirits still live on till this day
Shhh...[spits] wait, did y'all hear that?
"...it seems downright stupid to make the default behavior of ol2000 to send it's e-mail only in MS's proprietary TNEF format."
This whole article is "downright stupid" to borrow a phrase. You can send email in just about any typical format from outlook. I can send stuff in UTF-8 plain ascii dullness with a twitch of a mouseclick. I can send it in HTML as rendered by Outlooks wysiwyg HTML encoder, or I can type the HTML in directly. I can send a Word doc, RTF, etc. If someone complains that they couldn't decifer my email, it is a simple thing to switch down to a lower format and re-send. motherfscking duh.
The real problem here is blind mean rabble rousing antagonism from the Linux-OSS-AntiMicro$oft biker gang. A nation or culture cannot endure a rabble-rousing element for any extended length of time. Sooner or later, by whatever justification or means, this rohdiculous yacking that causes so much FUD with lies and purposful mis-interpretations and mis-representations of things like a 'MS app's features' will trigger society's rejection of such an unpleasant element as mindless zealot vitriol. We've seen it all before, society lashes out and cauterizes an unpleasant and obnoxious vocal element to retain some semblance of stability. It is the Law of Pragmatism. We as a culture cannot endure this baited nastiness forever. No matter how unjust it seems from the perspective of those directly involved in the of vocal mayhem, to silence the voices that only cause trouble, in the long run, history and the future will thank us for laying the smack down on a bunch of whiney small fry like Chris DiBona and his 'outrage' over oulooks's default format.
What I'm more concerned about is that nobody is railing over the fact that the *nix filesystem is wrapped around a 40-year old structure of dubious practicality. Nobody is railing over the fact that Linux degenerates the general computing climate and the march toward ultra-super tech with its lack of centralized culpability and abysmal hardware support. Nobody is complaining that zealotry is running unchecked and undermining the OSS movement with every whack-assed article like this.
I should mention that the future Operating Systems will eventually attain a state wherein any software, from any platform written against any API will run without any attention from the user. not that this will be relavant, as future software will make antique software (what we have today) seem an excersize in masochism compared to the latest offering. Software is divided into genres now, and every few years there'll be a killer app written to dominate the respective genre and nullify the value of ALL prior offerings. Nowhere in this vision is there room for whining and pouting like zealots do today. If you continue down this path, oh zealots, there'll be dire consequences. remember the McCarthy/Kohn era? If this zealot crap continues, questions like "have you now or ever been a memeber of the OSS movement?" will be a serious fucking question with your personal fortune and social standing hanging in the balance. I guess you could say that when society gears uup for the next big snap in one direction or the other, you zealots will be first against the wall, even before the traditionally reviled lawyers and politicians.
I recommend we gather all these defunct dishes together to make some sort of "Geographically Distributed Wide Array Multi-Point Radio Telescope" or G.D.W.A.M.P.R.T. system (like they used in that one anime movie about the senetor and his high-tech crime-fighting secretary) we could use many open-source principles and a new day of peace and merriment would ensue.
It is time SETI faced a little free-market competition!
"...I wonder tho if they'll find the guy in the beta program that leaks it to a pirate group..."
I'll bet that Apple just might be serializing each individual copy of the beta... all those millions of copies! (not just serial numbers on the packaging, mind you, but burying unique identifiers within the binaries themselves. That is a pretty huge task, you can't just burn a single image onto the disks, each image has to be unique.)
Apple has been acting aggressively paranoid over the last couple years. A step like this would allow them to spot & sue the offending pirate immediately. just download the pirated copy and look up who it was registered to. hmmm....
"...Having spent a number of years in the sub community..."
I immediately pictured a small village just under the surface of some ocean, with happy disney-esque subs and a slightly overweight balding mechanical engineer wearing a canary yellow short sleeved polyester button-up shirt, all of them sitting around some sort of underwater campfire, however that is supposed to work. I then chuckled to myself and decided to post the moment, even though I am after a first post and sitting here for ten minutes now hitting the refresh key, reading a paragraph from a thread, hit the refresh key, over and over until it drives me insane.
the difference is that companies have competition.
>You're forgetting that communist regimes have
>competition too. Competition with
>capitalism is what the Bolsheviks (and more
>importantly, later, the Stalinists)
>used to justify their attrocities.
Soviet Communism also collapsed under this competition. This bolsters the position that the competition principle is strong enough to overcome any arrogance (or tyranny). Eventually, the individuals involved will realize the benefit of the new, fresh corporation over the old, entrenched monopoly, and change will be effected.
>Corporations are creating this strange new form
>of nationalism. And same thing we saw with the
>Communist and Capitalist countries who were all
>too willing to work together to increase their
>mutual power over citizens, we're seeing
>competing corporations who will work together in
>order to increase their control over consumers.
I don't think the 'nationalism' is all that strange or new. It is actually similar to the feudal system in many ways. Your employer being the leige-lord, of course, but everyone can have an opinion about who should be kings and ministers... the way the peasants had an opinion of Mary, Queen of Scotts or vote for United States President. I've personally been viewing the corporation as a type of first class citizen, an analogue of nobility, for some time now. There will always be some folk that are fine with such a stable and palpable heirarchy to offer up their loyalty for the benefit of that stability.
Strange days, no?
oh, yes!
All of this serves to maintain a stable system, a corporate
ecology. Birth, life and death are all factored in so that the system may
perpetuate itself. There were no such measures taken for communism.
>Maybe Adam Smith's version of capitalism, yes.
>But remember that theory and practice are very
>different beasts. Marx's communism had people in
>control of the government. Has that ever
>happened? No.
The leaders of soviet russia were never confused over this, however. They realized from the onset that their power was absolute, even though the citizens may have bought into the marxist prozlityizing. Corporations, on the other hand, are guided clearly and simply by the hunger for revenues, ie sales, which are ultimately in the hands of the consummer.
>Witness the amount of control corporations have
>over each of the candidates.
>Would Adam Smith or any of the "fathers of
>capitalism" have condoned corporate control of
>electoral democracy?
No, Mr. Smith would not have condoned this arrangement, but that hardly equates to Stalinist Russia or any atrocities on that scale (like China, today). At worst, the system is similar to feudalism. The CEO's and Boardmembers seem to rule the US from their oak veneer throne rooms. But there are benefits- the straight corporate interest (as opposed to the entrenched military-industrial interest) primarily seeks to grease the skids towards more and more profit, which is passed along to the second class citizens in the form of a stocks and salaries. Overall, the system is charged with a fast and healthy metabolism, though tangible change may come slowly, there is a lot of frantic activity to make it happen at all. this keeps everyone on their toes, and with so much competition (in such a large economy), almost all interests stand an equal chance of finding a politician that will play ball with them.
btw, spilkas, how'd you acquire such
a low UID?
>I've been on Slashdot since about 1997 or so.
oh, sorry, that was just a little joke about spiralx. nothing personal.
the difference is that companies have competition.
so Intel becomes too massive and unweildy someday, so what? See how AMD and transmeta and VIA are all pounding at the door already? We've already seen IBM have it's lunch eaten, so now if Intel gets popped through this type of negligence/incompetence, a new company (at a different stage in its lifecycle) will step in to fill the gap. Thus companies can be as arrogant and rude as they like, eventually the people that have to work with them or the target customer base will look elsewhere for the product, to avoid dealing with the arrogant corp.
If this process gets out-of-whack somehow and a company is able to entrench itself as the only game in town, then the DOJ steps in to crack em open.
All of this serves to maintain a stable system, a corporate ecology. Birth, life and death are all factored in so that the system may perpetuate itself. There were no such measures taken for communism.
...your pocket change is welcome. It costs my company more than $25,000 an hour just to keep up the fat pipes goin 'across the sea'. That Debian is some real bargain technology!;)
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[OT] Actually useful secret sids...
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Hi.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
mmm. I disagree about the resolution issue. The webtv renders very crisp text. it is also adjustable, so you can tune it by size and even font to get the best effect. If you use digital cable or DSS, the menu system is quite legible, no? it is even better with webtv because of the attention to anti-aliasing correctly.
I am seeing a lot o pessimism here, but this project would prove MANY times more effective at upending the Windows monopoly than Linux ever will. it's just obvious.
The thing that strikes me is that 13373 h4x0rz are able to crack a game in an hour. Why can't people apply some softice or other reverse engineering debugger to the binaries? How about sharing the info with the world? The API's are almost completely available online, much less in the Visual Studio Documentation. But the specifics should be irrelevant. One could use any number of techiniques to hack apart win98. So why don't we just contribut to an 'Open Hack' map of the beast online? Then people could work on smaller and smaller chunks and test them by simple replacement on a windows machine. seems simple to me... it also seems to be the openwindows plan. Well, do I need to point out that you can participate in an open project? There were several complaints that a project like this could never compete with the hundreds of programmers working on '98 and ME, but c'mon, get real! we could eventually have millions pitching in effort, take the lead and let M$ play catchup. All you need to do is accept the inspiration, and the rest will take care of itself.
If you'd all just take off your pissy-hats and apply yourselves, we could communally hack this out in under a year.
This is a tremendous clew, a great place to start. Many of you sourpusses would like to think of yourselves as 1337 enough to handle this, but for some reason, because it has something to do with M$, you are all discouraged and talking trash. Put your money where your mouth is!
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So when you boil it down, is it cheaper to pay for training the 100's or 1000's that would need it in the ways of linuxy goodness, or simply purchase windows and click yes when asked until the systems are deployed? I think the Mexican School Boards have realized that it is the former, though I suspect it was with the assistance of MS marketting and sales that made it clear to them. PS, Brian Farina can bite my ass!
Now, thought the Justice Department and the FBI may insist on trying Sklyarov here in the US, unless he was selling the cracking software or sharing the source code, he'll get off scotch free. Since he was just talking about the details of Adobe security technology, there's hardly anything to get excited about, right?
Go ahead, mod me straight to -1 for my unpopular opinion- the groupthink around here is thick enough to carve with a knife. But the reality is, this is going to end in an utterly anticlimactic way, and the only effect of the EFF and all of you 'activist citizens' will be prolonging Sklyarov's harrassment. Obviously the officials are treading lightly out of fear of a public outcry. If you all would just let this die down, it would be over in a heartbeat!
Does it apply? at least this post isn't as gummy as your shlock on kurosion!
YOU ARE NOT YOUR KARMA, OR HOW MANY STORIES YOU'VE HAD POSTED TO THE FRONT PAGE. YOU ARE NOT YOUR LINUX BOX UPTIME. YOU'RE NOT YOUR FUCKING PALMPILOT. YOU ARE THE ALL SINGING, ALL DANCING CRAP OF SLASHDOT
It was sad when Taco felt the need to run vlad out of town. It was sad when he wanted to mess with signal 11 as well, only he should've comported himself with a modicum of dignity the way vlad did, don't you think?
btw, I would've thought jsm was a good choice too. too bad about the way it's been working out!
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
(To the tune of "When Bad Meets Evil" off of the album "The Real Slim Shady")
/. posts at a tradeshow
/. DDoS attack
[intro]
[Taco]
I reckon you ain't familiar with these here parts
You know, there's a story behind that there sid
Twenty weeks ago, two karma whores took this whole thread over
Moderators couldn't stop em
Quickest damn flamewars I've ever seen
Got modded down in cold blood
That ol' inchfan there was their lil' home away from home
They say the ghosts of TROLL and K-HO still live in that thread
And on a quiet night
You can still hear the footsteps of Signal11 and Ol' Shoeboy
[Signal11]
I don't post, I float in the grits wrapped in some toast
I'm not a real slashbot, I'm a troll linking to goats
I translate when my post is read through a Cuecat and a noise is bred,
picked up and transmitted through Shoeboy's head (AAHHH)
Trapped him in a sid, possessed him and hoist his thread
Till the K-HOness flows through his blood like poisonous lead
Told him each one of his bots is dead
I asked him to come to the steelcage, he made a choice and said
[Shoeboy]
+2 hard? yo I done post first!
We can get in two threads and deliberate at each other
To see which one'll swerve first
Two blind slashbots panic, whose mental capacity holds
That of a thread on top of nine other comments
Kissed the cheek of the da RMS
Intelligence level is lower than JonKatz sellin'
Dismissal, I'm not a fair man, disgraced the race of a unix admin
Intercepting flamebait wit my bare hands like a patriot
One thread sliced without words, I buried the AC corpse
In my past life when the Red Hat mounted the First Post
And stayed over-worked, its like the zealots and newbies
Collaborating, attemptin to take over the earth
[Signal11]
Cuz this is what happens when TROLL Meets K-HO
We hit the trees till we look like (-1: Insightful)
He's K-HO, and I'm TROLL like Steve Segal
Above Karma cuz I don't agree wit Hemos either (shit, me neither)
We ain't eager to be feeble
So please leave me wit the keys to your PT Beetle
I breathe mdma in three lethal amounts
When I stab myself in the knee with a diseased beer mug
Releasin rage on anybody in penis-bird range
Cold enough to make the topic change into something lame
(He's insane) No I'm not, I just want to eat lunch and I'm pissed off
Cuz I can't write a decent flame...
[Shoeboy]
The disaster of threads
I'm 1337 enough to commit suicide and survive long enough
To mod my post after I'm dead
When in trolltalk it's funny
actually my flavor's similar to a llama
Cuz I serve any stranger wit karma
I spray a hundred, man until the story changes
While slippin comments at point blank range like they was punches
Piss on a zealot and burn it, murder you then come to your funeral
Use a server for hobby, strangle your distro then confirm you
Whippin slashbot ass, throwin trolls crackin jokes
Wit my posts wrapped in gause, dipped in FUD and rants
I'm blazin AC's, at the same time amazin AC's
Somehow AC's ain't that eye-brow raisin to me
From all of angles of us,
crash a Mac bad enough
to trigger a
And bust till flamewars errupt
[interlude]
*phone rings*
Hello? (momo) Aiyyo what's up?
(we're comin to get you..)
VLAD! THEY KNOW IT'S US!!
[momocrome](cameo)
I used to be a loudmouth, remember me? (uh-ah)
I'm the one who burned your sid down (oh)
Well I'm out now (shit), and this time I'm comin back to blow your sid up
And I ain't gon leave you a trolltalk to fall back on
Give me two fat flames and three fuck-yous
And you won't see me like 1337 kiddies in comp.newsgroups
And when I go to AOL and I'm gettin ready to leave
I'ma put card numbers in a file and charge people to see
[Shoeboy] (Signal11)
Cuz this is what happens when TROLL Meets K-Ho
And we hit the trees till we look like MySQL
He's K-HO, and I'm TROLL like Steve Segal
Against karma, see you at Kiro5hin for the sequel
(We'll be waitin) See you in hell
Goats.cx, Raymond da Eric S,
See you on AOL for the sequel (bye bye)
TROLL Meets K-HO, what? (till next time)
[Taco]
And so that's the story when Signal11 Meets Shoeboy
Two of the most cumbersome individuals on slashdot
Made Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman look like Karma Whoring thespians
It's too bad they had to go out the way they did
Got flamed in the back comin out of that ol' crunchtime
But their spirits still live on till this day
Shhh...[posts] wait, did y'all hear that?
[Footsteps and wind blowing]
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
[intro]
[Taco]
I reckon you ain't familiar with these here parts
You know, there's a story behind that there sid
Twenty weeks ago, two karma whores took this whole thread over
Moderators couldn't stop em
Quickest damn flamewars I've ever seen
Got modded in cold blood
That ol' inchfan there was their lil' home away from home
They say the ghosts of TROLL and K-HO still live in that thread
And on a quiet night
You can still hear the footsteps of Signal11 and Ol' Shoeboy
[Signal11]
I don't post, I float in the grits wrapped in some toast
I'm not a real slashbot, I'm a troll linking to goats
I translate when my post is read through a seismograph
And a noise is bred, picked up and transmitted through Shoeboy's head (AAHHH)
Trapped him in a sid, possessed him and hoist his thread
Till the K-HOness flows through his blood like poisonous lead
Told him each one of his bots is dead
I asked him to come to the dark side, he made a choice and said
[Shoeboy]
+2 hard? yo I done post worse
We can get in two threads and deliberate at each other
To see which one'll swerve first
Two blind slashbots panic, whose mental capacity holds
That of a thread on top of nine other comments
Kissed the cheek of the da RMS
Intelligence level is lower than JonKatz pickin up chicks in a high school
Dismissal, I'm not a fair man, disgraced the race of a atheist
Intercepting flamebait wit my bare hands like a patriot
One thread sliced without words, I buried the AC corpse
In my past life when the Black Knight mounted the white horse
And stay over-worked, its like the zealots in the newsgroups
Collaborating, attemptin to take over the earth
[Signal11]
Cuz this is what happens when TROLL Meets K-HO
We hit the trees till we look like Canadian a-holes
He's K-HO, and I'm TROLL like Steve Segal
Above Karma cuz I don't agree wit Hemos either (shit, me neither)
We ain't eager to be amusin
So please leave me wit the keys to your PT Cruiser
I breathe mdma in three lethal amounts
When I stab myself in the knee with a diseased beer mug
Releasin rage on anybody in penis-bird range
Cold enough to make the topic change into something lame
(He's insane) No I'm not, I just want to mod up and I'm pissed off
Cuz I can't find a decent post
[Shoeboy]
The disaster of threads
I'm 1337 enough to commit suicide and survive long enough
To mod my post after I'm dead
When in danger it's funny actually my flavor's similar to a llama
Cuz I serve any stranger wit karma
I spray a hundred, man until they story changes
While slippin comments at point blank range like they was punches
Piss on a zealot and burn it, murder you then come to your funeral
Serve this hobbyist, strangle your distro then confirm you
Whippin slashbot ass, throwin trolls crackin jokes
Wit my posts wrapped in gause, dipped in FUD and rant
I'm blazin AC's, at the same time amazin AC's
Somehow AC's ain't that eye-brow raisin to me
From all of angles of us, crash a mac loud enough to cast a avalanche
And bust till flamewars errupt
[interlude]
*phone rings*
Hello? (momo) Aiyyo what's up?
(we're comin to get you..)
VLAD! THEY KNOW IT'S US!!
[momocrome](cameo)
I used to be a loudmouth, remember me? (uh-ah)
I'm the one who burned your sid down (oh)
Well I'm out now (shit), and this time I'm comin back to blow your sid up
And I ain't gon leave you a trolltalk to fall back on
Give me two fat flames and three fuck-yous
And you won't see me like 1337 kiddies in comp.newsgroups
And when I go to AOL and I'm gettin ready to leave
I'ma put card numbers in a file and charge people to see
[Shoeboy] (Signal11)
Cuz this is what happens when TROLL Meets K-Ho
And we hit the trees till we look like Canadian a-holes
He's K-HO, and I'm TROLL like Steve Segal
Against karma, see you at Kiro5hin for the sequel
(We'll be waitin) See you in hell
Goats.cx, Raymond da Eric S,
See you on AOL for the sequel (bye bye)
TROLL Meets K-HO, what? (till next time)
[Taco]
And so that's the story when Signal11 Meets Shoeboy
Two of the most cumbersome individuals on slashdot
Made Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman look like Karma Whoring thespians
It's too bad they had to go out the way they did
Got flamed in the back comin out of that ol' crunchtime
But their spirits still live on till this day
Shhh...[spits] wait, did y'all hear that?
[Footsteps and wind blowing]
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
IMHO, trolling slashdot is the best IT-related stress relief. It is just so obvious.
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
" ...it seems downright stupid to make the default behavior of ol2000 to send it's e-mail only in MS's proprietary TNEF format."
This whole article is "downright stupid" to borrow a phrase. You can send email in just about any typical format from outlook. I can send stuff in UTF-8 plain ascii dullness with a twitch of a mouseclick. I can send it in HTML as rendered by Outlooks wysiwyg HTML encoder, or I can type the HTML in directly. I can send a Word doc, RTF, etc. If someone complains that they couldn't decifer my email, it is a simple thing to switch down to a lower format and re-send. motherfscking duh.
The real problem here is blind mean rabble rousing antagonism from the Linux-OSS-AntiMicro$oft biker gang. A nation or culture cannot endure a rabble-rousing element for any extended length of time. Sooner or later, by whatever justification or means, this rohdiculous yacking that causes so much FUD with lies and purposful mis-interpretations and mis-representations of things like a 'MS app's features' will trigger society's rejection of such an unpleasant element as mindless zealot vitriol. We've seen it all before, society lashes out and cauterizes an unpleasant and obnoxious vocal element to retain some semblance of stability. It is the Law of Pragmatism. We as a culture cannot endure this baited nastiness forever. No matter how unjust it seems from the perspective of those directly involved in the of vocal mayhem, to silence the voices that only cause trouble, in the long run, history and the future will thank us for laying the smack down on a bunch of whiney small fry like Chris DiBona and his 'outrage' over oulooks's default format.
What I'm more concerned about is that nobody is railing over the fact that the *nix filesystem is wrapped around a 40-year old structure of dubious practicality. Nobody is railing over the fact that Linux degenerates the general computing climate and the march toward ultra-super tech with its lack of centralized culpability and abysmal hardware support. Nobody is complaining that zealotry is running unchecked and undermining the OSS movement with every whack-assed article like this.
I should mention that the future Operating Systems will eventually attain a state wherein any software, from any platform written against any API will run without any attention from the user. not that this will be relavant, as future software will make antique software (what we have today) seem an excersize in masochism compared to the latest offering. Software is divided into genres now, and every few years there'll be a killer app written to dominate the respective genre and nullify the value of ALL prior offerings. Nowhere in this vision is there room for whining and pouting like zealots do today. If you continue down this path, oh zealots, there'll be dire consequences. remember the McCarthy/Kohn era? If this zealot crap continues, questions like "have you now or ever been a memeber of the OSS movement?" will be a serious fucking question with your personal fortune and social standing hanging in the balance. I guess you could say that when society gears uup for the next big snap in one direction or the other, you zealots will be first against the wall, even before the traditionally reviled lawyers and politicians.
Thank you very much.
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
I recommend we gather all these defunct dishes together to make some sort of " Geographically Distributed Wide Array Multi-Point Radio Telescope" or G.D.W.A.M.P.R.T. system (like they used in that one anime movie about the senetor and his high-tech crime-fighting secretary) we could use many open-source principles and a new day of peace and merriment would ensue.
It is time SETI faced a little free-market competition!
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
" ...I wonder tho if they'll find the guy in the beta program that leaks it to a pirate group..."
I'll bet that Apple just might be serializing each individual copy of the beta... all those millions of copies! (not just serial numbers on the packaging, mind you, but burying unique identifiers within the binaries themselves. That is a pretty huge task, you can't just burn a single image onto the disks, each image has to be unique.)
Apple has been acting aggressively paranoid over the last couple years. A step like this would allow them to spot & sue the offending pirate immediately. just download the pirated copy and look up who it was registered to. hmmm....
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
that's really funny-
...Having spent a number of years in the sub community..."
"
I immediately pictured a small village just under the surface of some ocean, with happy disney-esque subs and a slightly overweight balding mechanical engineer wearing a canary yellow short sleeved polyester button-up shirt, all of them sitting around some sort of underwater campfire, however that is supposed to work. I then chuckled to myself and decided to post the moment, even though I am after a first post and sitting here for ten minutes now hitting the refresh key, reading a paragraph from a thread, hit the refresh key, over and over until it drives me insane.
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
the difference is that companies have competition.
>You're forgetting that communist regimes have
>competition too. Competition with
>capitalism is what the Bolsheviks (and more
>importantly, later, the Stalinists)
>used to justify their attrocities.
Soviet Communism also collapsed under this competition. This bolsters the position that the competition principle is strong enough to overcome any arrogance (or tyranny). Eventually, the individuals involved will realize the benefit of the new, fresh corporation over the old, entrenched monopoly, and change will be effected.
>Corporations are creating this strange new form
>of nationalism. And same thing we saw with the
>Communist and Capitalist countries who were all
>too willing to work together to increase their
>mutual power over citizens, we're seeing
>competing corporations who will work together in
>order to increase their control over consumers.
I don't think the 'nationalism' is all that strange or new. It is actually similar to the feudal system in many ways. Your employer being the leige-lord, of course, but everyone can have an opinion about who should be kings and ministers... the way the peasants had an opinion of Mary, Queen of Scotts or vote for United States President. I've personally been viewing the corporation as a type of first class citizen, an analogue of nobility, for some time now. There will always be some folk that are fine with such a stable and palpable heirarchy to offer up their loyalty for the benefit of that stability.
Strange days, no?
oh, yes!
All of this serves to maintain a stable system, a corporate
ecology. Birth, life and death are all factored in so that the system may
perpetuate itself. There were no such measures taken for communism.
>Maybe Adam Smith's version of capitalism, yes.
>But remember that theory and practice are very
>different beasts. Marx's communism had people in
>control of the government. Has that ever
>happened? No.
The leaders of soviet russia were never confused over this, however. They realized from the onset that their power was absolute, even though the citizens may have bought into the marxist prozlityizing. Corporations, on the other hand, are guided clearly and simply by the hunger for revenues, ie sales, which are ultimately in the hands of the consummer.
>Witness the amount of control corporations have
>over each of the candidates.
>Would Adam Smith or any of the "fathers of
>capitalism" have condoned corporate control of
>electoral democracy?
No, Mr. Smith would not have condoned this arrangement, but that hardly equates to Stalinist Russia or any atrocities on that scale (like China, today). At worst, the system is similar to feudalism. The CEO's and Boardmembers seem to rule the US from their oak veneer throne rooms. But there are benefits- the straight corporate interest (as opposed to the entrenched military-industrial interest) primarily seeks to grease the skids towards more and more profit, which is passed along to the second class citizens in the form of a stocks and salaries. Overall, the system is charged with a fast and healthy metabolism, though tangible change may come slowly, there is a lot of frantic activity to make it happen at all. this keeps everyone on their toes, and with so much competition (in such a large economy), almost all interests stand an equal chance of finding a politician that will play ball with them.
btw, spilkas, how'd you acquire such
a low UID?
>I've been on Slashdot since about 1997 or so.
oh, sorry, that was just a little joke about spiralx. nothing personal.
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
the difference is that companies have competition.
so Intel becomes too massive and unweildy someday, so what? See how AMD and transmeta and VIA are all pounding at the door already? We've already seen IBM have it's lunch eaten, so now if Intel gets popped through this type of negligence/incompetence, a new company (at a different stage in its lifecycle) will step in to fill the gap. Thus companies can be as arrogant and rude as they like, eventually the people that have to work with them or the target customer base will look elsewhere for the product, to avoid dealing with the arrogant corp.
If this process gets out-of-whack somehow and a company is able to entrench itself as the only game in town, then the DOJ steps in to crack em open.
All of this serves to maintain a stable system, a corporate ecology. Birth, life and death are all factored in so that the system may perpetuate itself. There were no such measures taken for communism.
btw, spilkas, how'd you acquire such a low UID?
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
...your pocket change is welcome. It costs my company more than
$25,000 an hour just to keep up the fat pipes goin 'across the sea'.
That Debian is some real bargain technology!
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
Hi.
/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the
I have been waiting for Slashdot to open up some persistent sids on recurrent topics, and maybe even list them on the front page. I've written this suggestion to Hemos and Taco both, though it probably just got lost in the noise. So, in the spirit of Open Source Everything©, I hereby introduce my own unsanctioned Open Editorial Decision©. See, I realized one day that the trolls had taken to making their own sids, so I thought to myself, 'how can I harness this phenomenon in a positive, productive way?'
And so I've decided to create the following sids:
Open Source Advocacy
Operating Systems
Hardware
Sci-Fi / Anime
Slashdot Culture
Technology and Politics
Trollsville
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
Thank you very much,
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Hi.
/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the
I have been waiting for Slashdot to open up some persistent sids on recurrent topics, and maybe even list them on the front page. I've written this suggestion to Hemos and Taco both, though it probably just got lost in the noise. So, in the spirit of Open Source Everything©, I hereby introduce my own unsanctioned Open Editorial Decision©. See, I realized one day that the trolls had taken to making their own sids, so I thought to myself, 'how can I harness this phenomenon in a positive, productive way?'
And so I've decided to create the following sids:
Open Source Advocacy
Operating Systems
Hardware
Sci-Fi / Anime
Slashdot Culture
Technology and Politics
Trollsville
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
Thank you very much,
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
Hi.
/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the
I have been waiting for Slashdot to open up some persistent sids on recurrent topics, and maybe even list them on the front page. I've written this suggestion to Hemos and Taco both, though it probably just got lost in the noise. So, in the spirit of Open Source Everything©, I hereby introduce my own unsanctioned Open Editorial Decision©. See, I realized one day that the trolls had taken to making their own sids, so I thought to myself, 'how can I harness this phenomenon in a positive, productive way?'
And so I've decided to create the following sids:
Open Source Advocacy
Operating Systems
Hardware
Sci-Fi / Anime
Slashdot Culture
Technology and Politics
Trollsville
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
Thank you very much,
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
Hi.
/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the
I have been waiting for Slashdot to open up some persistent sids on recurrent topics, and maybe even list them on the front page. I've written this suggestion to Hemos and Taco both, though it probably just got lost in the noise. So, in the spirit of Open Source Everything©, I hereby introduce my own unsanctioned Open Editorial Decision©. See, I realized one day that the trolls had taken to making their own sids, so I thought to myself, 'how can I harness this phenomenon in a positive, productive way?'
And so I've decided to create the following sids:
Open Source Advocacy
Operating Systems
Hardware
Sci-Fi / Anime
Slashdot Culture
Technology and Politics
Trollsville
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
Thank you very much,
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
Hi.
/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the
I have been waiting for Slashdot to open up some persistent sids on recurrent topics, and maybe even list them on the front page. I've written this suggestion to Hemos and Taco both, though it probably just got lost in the noise. So, in the spirit of Open Source Everything©, I hereby introduce my own unsanctioned Open Editorial Decision©. See, I realized one day that the trolls had taken to making their own sids, so I thought to myself, 'how can I harness this phenomenon in a positive, productive way?'
And so I've decided to create the following sids:
Open Source Advocacy
Operating Systems
Hardware
Sci-Fi / Anime
Slashdot Culture
Technology and Politics
Trollsville
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
Thank you very much,
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
Hi.
/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the
I have been waiting for Slashdot to open up some persistent sids on recurrent topics, and maybe even list them on the front page. I've written this suggestion to Hemos and Taco both, though it probably just got lost in the noise. So, in the spirit of Open Source Everything©, I hereby introduce my own unsanctioned Open Editorial Decision©. See, I realized one day that the trolls had taken to making their own sids, so I thought to myself, 'how can I harness this phenomenon in a positive, productive way?'
And so I've decided to create the following sids:
Open Source Advocacy
Operating Systems
Hardware
Sci-Fi / Anime
Slashdot Culture
Technology and Politics
Trollsville
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
Thank you very much,
-=(V)0(V)0cr0(V)3=-
Hi.
/. community, I have submitted almost every type of post, ranging from preeminent insights to over-the top and vulgar flames. I've trolled, been trolled, shot from the hip and been torched when speaking-of-that-which-I-do-not-know. But for me at least, there is one situation I find myself in time after time. I suddenly have an insight into some topic that has no relevant story to post in. I post anyway, only to lose karma and have my insights buried as (-1: Off Topic), and few regular readers ever get to see them. I've taken to operating a couple of UIDs in order to burn or preserve my karma as appropriate, but I find it all rather cumbersome. I like this UID, and I dislike logging in different accounts several times a day.
I am a typical Slashdot reader. I have a couple of accounts, and I am posting this from my 'troll' account because it is rather off-topic, and deserves to be modded down. But this is a serious post, and I encourage you to read on:
As a typical member of the
I have been waiting for Slashdot to open up some persistent sids on recurrent topics, and maybe even list them on the front page. I've written this suggestion to Hemos and Taco both, though it probably just got lost in the noise. So, in the spirit of Open Source Everything©, I hereby introduce my own unsanctioned Open Editorial Decision©. See, I realized one day that the trolls had taken to making their own sids, so I thought to myself, 'how can I harness this phenomenon in a positive, productive way?'
And so I've decided to create the following sids:
Open Source Advocacy
Operating Systems
Hardware
Sci-Fi / Anime
Slashdot Culture
Technology and Politics
Trollsville
Now there is a place for us to go to vent our spleen, contribute, rant, spam, joke about, whatever you may want( within the limits of legality, of course) and yet remain entirely on-topic.
I know this is rather pushy of me, but it really is for the best. Now, if you find yourself with a brilliant insight for the Slashdot crowd, and there aren't any relevant stories to post it on, you've a place to go without thrashing your karma.
I have already made FP! introductory posts at each of the sids. C'mon by and tell me what you think. Especially the Slashdot staff- I realize you may be irritated at my forthright feature-creep, but there are so many worse things I could be spending my time on, while this is actually positive, useful, and will hopefully increase banner ad revenues for you. Oh, and I assure you, I hereby state that I hold no claim to the design or ownership of any aspect of this idea. I just wanted a feature, and utilized the 'Open' philosophy to my advantage, with the tools on hand.
Thank you very much,
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hell ya.
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mmm. I disagree about the resolution issue. The webtv renders very crisp text. it is also adjustable, so you can tune it by size and even font to get the best effect. If you use digital cable or DSS, the menu system is quite legible, no? it is even better with webtv because of the attention to anti-aliasing correctly.
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I am seeing a lot o pessimism here, but this project would prove MANY times more effective at upending the Windows monopoly than Linux ever will. it's just obvious.
The thing that strikes me is that 13373 h4x0rz are able to crack a game in an hour. Why can't people apply some softice or other reverse engineering debugger to the binaries? How about sharing the info with the world? The API's are almost completely available online, much less in the Visual Studio Documentation. But the specifics should be irrelevant. One could use any number of techiniques to hack apart win98. So why don't we just contribut to an 'Open Hack' map of the beast online? Then people could work on smaller and smaller chunks and test them by simple replacement on a windows machine. seems simple to me... it also seems to be the openwindows plan. Well, do I need to point out that you can participate in an open project? There were several complaints that a project like this could never compete with the hundreds of programmers working on '98 and ME, but c'mon, get real! we could eventually have millions pitching in effort, take the lead and let M$ play catchup. All you need to do is accept the inspiration, and the rest will take care of itself.
If you'd all just take off your pissy-hats and apply yourselves, we could communally hack this out in under a year.
This is a tremendous clew, a great place to start. Many of you sourpusses would like to think of yourselves as 1337 enough to handle this, but for some reason, because it has something to do with M$, you are all discouraged and talking trash. Put your money where your mouth is!
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