This is morbid, cynical, and I deserve to be shot for thinking along these lines, but please bear me out...
Heaven forbid, but lets say that Linus pulls a John Ritter and unexpectedly dies.
What then?
There are a few people that have been instrumental in making computers a prevalent as they are... In making them as IMPORTANT to daily life as they are.
Torvalds, Gates, Jobs.... These men are the reason we all touch a computer every day. What happens when they are gone?
Jobs? As things are currently, the Mac will die without him. Sure... Some people will always use it. Just like some people will continue to use Amiga or OS/2
Gates? MS is an institution, like it or not. It will exist forever. MS has reached Critical Mass
Torvalds? What happens to Linux when The Engineer is gone? What happens when the Pure Coder is gone? Linux needs someone or something to "run it". Who is in line to be the next Torch Bearer? Who is the glue once Linus is gone?
The Kingdom with one King, becomes nothing with 20 kings.
I guess I'm just looking for a pat on the head and a kind word here... I'm afraid that without Linus, the whole OSS thing will fork beyond anything it currently resembles.
SF Weekly, one of the 2 major free weeklies in SF also has an article related to this. (Personal opinion -- its the better of the two free weeklies IMHO. The other is the Bay Guardian. SF Weekly is also better than the above mentioned daily in many respects.)
Regarding the Bay Guardian, they do carry the Techsploitation column, which covered this subject at least once:
http://www.sfbg.com/37/46/x_techsploitation.html
Granted, none of this is "mass media" ala Time, Newsweek, etc.... But this IS being reported at least in the "liberal bastion" that is the SF Bay Area.
If you want it to be mentioned in your local news... Write your local news paper/station... Ask them whats up. Then ask again. Then ask again. And again.
1) Find your local spammer's address 2) Buy 50 cans of spam (the "meat" kind) 3) Place slices and/or chunks of spam in strategic locations around the aforementioned address. 4) Let spam fester in the sun for x number of days.
---- (Step 4 is actually the end of the idea, but I feel I must add two more jus' because....
-- I had a friend call me yesterday. He has a laptop with Windows.. He didn't know what version... He asked me if "anyone can see what he has been doing"....Ummm... Bring me the laptop, and I'll make sure your girlfriend can't find your porn.
-- About a month ago, a different friend asked straight out.. "DUde, I don't want my girlfriend seeing my porn. How do I get rid of it?" Me--"What OS and broswer you using?" Him--"Yahoo"
--
Point is... Average Joe knows less about computers than you think he does.
A "Service Pack" is a known entity to Joe. He doesn't know what is happening, or why... But Joe knows its "that time".
In the US there is a Federal income tax that averages out at around 25-33% of gross (for the middle classes). Why not just drop the income tax completely for everyone (including businesses), and replace it with a federal sales tax of N%?
Joe Poor buys a used Pinto and pays N% taxes on that purchase. Joe Middle buys a Minivan, and pays the same % in taxes on that purchase. And, Joeseph Corporation buys a Lear jet for the COO and pays the exact same % on that purchase.
Its pretty simple... The more you consume, the more you pay.
If the Federal sales tax rate were set at 20% for example, and there was no income tax, then I believe the majority of US citizens would actually end up having more cash in hand, and the Federal government would as well.
I'm sure there are holes in this idea, but as a starting point (if nothing else) it seems pretty fair and balanced to me.
Boston College and MIT challenged the RIAA's subpoenas on narrow technical grounds, arguing that the RIAA had filed its subpoenas in Washington, DC, instead of Massachusetts.
This in itself is a shaky comeback for MIT, and Boston College considering if some law was broken cross state lines, and mind you the DA's will look at the fact downloads occurred all over the world. Law is law anywhere in the US, I don't know when it stopped being so. -- Not shaky, imho.
Let's say you are from Lake Oswego, and you are visiting San Diego. I mug you in San Diego and get $15. You go home to Lake Oswego and file a report with the police. Sure... mugging is illegal in both places, but it happened in SD, not LO.
Slightly better example.... You stay in LO, and me, in SD, starts sending you threatening messages. Illegal in both places, but which cops do you need to talk to to have me stop? The ones in SD.
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However, the music industry is pursuing music piracy with strong arm tactics and subpoena powers that far exceed those available against violent criminals.
Highly doubtful. Because the RIAA is taking steps to fight for what they think is right, gives no one the right to knock them for it. -- Umm.. I have to strongly disagree with you on this one.
I'm in the US, and you seem to be in the US as well. There is something written into the Consititution of the US that says I have the right to knock anything I want to for any reason. (Yes, I'm paraphrasing the Consititution here.)
In addition, when a corporation has the power to issue a subpeona against an individual, then things have gone way too far. (IMHO, of course.)
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Don't get me wrong, I support the idea that artists should be paid for their work. Apparently the RIAA does too. Now, lets see the labels open their books for a full independent audit.
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You know.. This whole mess makes me glad I am one of those "dirty smelly hippies". The bands I like to see live ENCOURAGE the trading of copies of their live shows. I have hundreds of hours of live music, and its all blessed by the artists themselves.
And, I have a favorite site I like to go to for "non-hippie" music. All the techo, experimental, folk, etc you could ever want. Studio versions released LEGALLY by the artists/labels.
The site: epitonic.com
---- And No. I don't work for anything I just mentioned.
This is fine for person to person, but what about person to business?
Let's pretend I'm a business. I WANT you to send me an email.
I WANT emails from every single person in the world that isn't a customer yet.
I NEED to accept every email on the chance that one of them might be a sale. (Yep. This means I need to look at the ones that include *details* in the subject.)
Whitelist doesn't work here.
I do NOT want a phone call from you as first contact. A one minute email response is now a 40 minute phone call explaining that "Yes you must turn on your computer first if you want to actually use it"
White-list is unworkable for business, because everything must be "whited" by default.
Challenge-Response is unworkable because I/we (as a small to mid business) simply could not keep up with that. Sure. One of the real programmers we have (i'm not one of them) could come up with an auto-bot to respond to challenge-response, but then we end up back where we started, don't we?
I don't have the answers. But I do know what the answers aren't. And Whitelist/Challenge-Repsonse aren't it
IMHO, this is as much a protected form of speach as: -a white-robed KKK guy, or a -stripper in a US flag thong, or a -guy with a "Suspected Terrorist" button, or a -car with an "Abortion is Murder" bumper sticker....
Free Speach is great when you agree with the message. It's even more relevant when you don't.
Slashdot Mirror
the computer doesn't smash you!
(Or something like that.)
This is morbid, cynical, and I deserve to be shot for thinking along these lines, but please bear me out ...
.... These men are the reason we all touch a computer every day. What happens when they are gone?
Heaven forbid, but lets say that Linus pulls a John Ritter and unexpectedly dies.
What then?
There are a few people that have been instrumental in making computers a prevalent as they are... In making them as IMPORTANT to daily life as they are.
Torvalds, Gates, Jobs
Jobs? As things are currently, the Mac will die without him. Sure... Some people will always use it. Just like some people will continue to use Amiga or OS/2
Gates? MS is an institution, like it or not. It will exist forever. MS has reached Critical Mass
Torvalds? What happens to Linux when The Engineer is gone? What happens when the Pure Coder is gone? Linux needs someone or something to "run it". Who is in line to be the next Torch Bearer? Who is the glue once Linus is gone?
The Kingdom with one King, becomes nothing with 20 kings.
I guess I'm just looking for a pat on the head and a kind word here... I'm afraid that without Linus, the whole OSS thing will fork beyond anything it currently resembles.
anyway.... just my worries
SFgate.com has an article related to this. (SF gate is the online version of the San Francisco daily paper - The Chronicle)
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=
SF Weekly, one of the 2 major free weeklies in SF also has an article related to this. (Personal opinion -- its the better of the two free weeklies IMHO. The other is the Bay Guardian. SF Weekly is also better than the above mentioned daily in many respects.)
http://sfweekly.com/issues/2003-09-24/smith.htm
Regarding the Bay Guardian, they do carry the Techsploitation column, which covered this subject at least once:
http://www.sfbg.com/37/46/x_techsploitation.htm
Granted, none of this is "mass media" ala Time, Newsweek, etc.... But this IS being reported at least in the "liberal bastion" that is the SF Bay Area.
If you want it to be mentioned in your local news... Write your local news paper/station... Ask them whats up. Then ask again. Then ask again. And again.
because you registered that domain, and Verisign is "using" that domain at no charge?
Is that different enough?
Now, if Verisign had to pay for EVERY time their site finder was invoked on a non-registered domain, then I could see it being a little more fair.
Yes. Eye due ascii my spell checker to only flag miss spell inks.
Ewe got and tissue wit that?
Having grown up in Tacoma, WA I consider this to be "normal".
Thats they way they did it there, so thats what I got used to.
Of course, in Tacoma, the change-over isn't at 1st... It's at 6th.
Go ahead and shoot me, but I have to admit that "horrific cuntsore" is a good one.
Anyone mind if I use that to refer to my horrific boss, Darl McCuntsore, and/or President Bush?
What is 10% of a punch to the face?
-An open-handed slap?
-Tweaking the nose?
-Two fingers to the eyes? (ala Larry, Moe, and Shemp)
Auto Format
Quicknet Technologies
OpenH323 Project
Better yet... Burn the AOL CDs to a blank, and then send the copied version. :)
I live in San Francisco, and our clouds here are, in fact, supported by the ground.
We call it "fog".
I kinda like the spam idea...
...
1) Find your local spammer's address
2) Buy 50 cans of spam (the "meat" kind)
3) Place slices and/or chunks of spam in strategic locations around the aforementioned address.
4) Let spam fester in the sun for x number of days.
----
(Step 4 is actually the end of the idea, but I feel I must add two more jus' because....
5)
6) Profit
Sorry. I had to do it.)
Agreed on Sinfest.
little-gamers also gets a vote from me
Mod the parent Insightful, please.
...Ummm... Bring me the laptop, and I'll make sure your girlfriend can't find your porn.
--
I had a friend call me yesterday. He has a laptop with Windows.. He didn't know what version... He asked me if "anyone can see what he has been doing".
--
About a month ago, a different friend asked straight out.. "DUde, I don't want my girlfriend seeing my porn. How do I get rid of it?" Me--"What OS and broswer you using?" Him--"Yahoo"
--
Point is... Average Joe knows less about computers than you think he does.
A "Service Pack" is a known entity to Joe. He doesn't know what is happening, or why... But Joe knows its "that time".
damn, man.... Write your own world if you hate the one you live in so much. Jeez.
I tried Amphetadesk. Nice deal if you like your RSS feeds in a web page.
I stumbled across a 3-pane reader that I like MUCH more than a web page interface.
Try SharpReader if you are are a Windows person. Worthy contender, IMHO.
I've been working on a perpetual motion machine. But it seems like its taking forever and a day.
One idea...
In the US there is a Federal income tax that averages out at around 25-33% of gross (for the middle classes). Why not just drop the income tax completely for everyone (including businesses), and replace it with a federal sales tax of N%?
Joe Poor buys a used Pinto and pays N% taxes on that purchase. Joe Middle buys a Minivan, and pays the same % in taxes on that purchase. And, Joeseph Corporation buys a Lear jet for the COO and pays the exact same % on that purchase.
Its pretty simple... The more you consume, the more you pay.
If the Federal sales tax rate were set at 20% for example, and there was no income tax, then I believe the majority of US citizens would actually end up having more cash in hand, and the Federal government would as well.
I'm sure there are holes in this idea, but as a starting point (if nothing else) it seems pretty fair and balanced to me.
Quick porn, and lots of storage for the really good pics.
Thats my guess.
Boston College and MIT challenged the RIAA's subpoenas on narrow technical grounds, arguing that the RIAA had filed its subpoenas in Washington, DC, instead of Massachusetts.
This in itself is a shaky comeback for MIT, and Boston College considering if some law was broken cross state lines, and mind you the DA's will look at the fact downloads occurred all over the world. Law is law anywhere in the US, I don't know when it stopped being so.
--
Not shaky, imho.
Let's say you are from Lake Oswego, and you are visiting San Diego. I mug you in San Diego and get $15. You go home to Lake Oswego and file a report with the police. Sure... mugging is illegal in both places, but it happened in SD, not LO.
Slightly better example.... You stay in LO, and me, in SD, starts sending you threatening messages. Illegal in both places, but which cops do you need to talk to to have me stop? The ones in SD.
-------
However, the music industry is pursuing music piracy with strong arm tactics and subpoena powers that far exceed those available against violent criminals.
Highly doubtful. Because the RIAA is taking steps to fight for what they think is right, gives no one the right to knock them for it.
--
Umm.. I have to strongly disagree with you on this one.
I'm in the US, and you seem to be in the US as well. There is something written into the Consititution of the US that says I have the right to knock anything I want to for any reason. (Yes, I'm paraphrasing the Consititution here.)
In addition, when a corporation has the power to issue a subpeona against an individual, then things have gone way too far. (IMHO, of course.)
-----------
Don't get me wrong, I support the idea that artists should be paid for their work. Apparently the RIAA does too. Now, lets see the labels open their books for a full independent audit.
-----------
You know.. This whole mess makes me glad I am one of those "dirty smelly hippies". The bands I like to see live ENCOURAGE the trading of copies of their live shows. I have hundreds of hours of live music, and its all blessed by the artists themselves.
Artists: moe., Grateful Dead, Phish. Govt Mule, Particle, etc
And, I have a favorite site I like to go to for "non-hippie" music. All the techo, experimental, folk, etc you could ever want. Studio versions released LEGALLY by the artists/labels.
The site: epitonic.com
----
And No. I don't work for anything I just mentioned.
This is fine for person to person, but what about person to business?
Let's pretend I'm a business. I WANT you to send me an email.
I WANT emails from every single person in the world that isn't a customer yet.
I NEED to accept every email on the chance that one of them might be a sale. (Yep. This means I need to look at the ones that include *details* in the subject.)
Whitelist doesn't work here.
I do NOT want a phone call from you as first contact. A one minute email response is now a 40 minute phone call explaining that "Yes you must turn on your computer first if you want to actually use it"
White-list is unworkable for business, because everything must be "whited" by default.
Challenge-Response is unworkable because I/we (as a small to mid business) simply could not keep up with that. Sure. One of the real programmers we have (i'm not one of them) could come up with an auto-bot to respond to challenge-response, but then we end up back where we started, don't we?
I don't have the answers. But I do know what the answers aren't. And Whitelist/Challenge-Repsonse aren't it
Just my 3 cents worth of rant for today.
And yes, I mean "wrong" in the evil sense of the word
I'm guessing, but I think "Me siento utilizado" means:
"Dude, you're a tool."
I have the DeCSS code on the back of a t-shirt.
....
IMHO, this is as much a protected form of speach as:
-a white-robed KKK guy, or a
-stripper in a US flag thong, or a
-guy with a "Suspected Terrorist" button, or a
-car with an "Abortion is Murder" bumper sticker
Free Speach is great when you agree with the message. It's even more relevant when you don't.