. . . and Indiana. Amusingly enough, the governor at the time (Evan Bayh) refused to buy the first lottery ticket as suggested by his media advisors. He knew the whole thing was a rip-off (and probably didn't approve personally of gambling).
And if Passport was Open Sourced (whoever said this should be shot, IMHO), EVERYONE would know how to hack it. My God man.
Think again. You are making the famous appeal to Security Through Obscurity. If Passport were open-sourced, people would find the bugs and fix them, instead of sitting on them and hoping no one would notice the way Microsoft does with all its products.
Re:Sounds halfway like the ZDNN article the other
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It's called an intro, and it's an obligatory part of good journalism. I think it does a good job of explaining the basics. Even better, it captures the importance of the GNU tools and GNU philosophy, giving up the props, which not many articles bother to do.
Intros are good. Hopefully, not everyone who reads this article will be a Linux illuminatus like you or me. Hopefully, it will combine with other recent mainstream press exposure to make a few people experiment with GNU-Linux systems and enjoy their liberating influence. How can this be bad?
Re:Yep, this is hero worship alright. An Linus...
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What's wrong with hero worship? Linus gives us an ideal and an inspiration. He shows that it can be done, where it means achieving the grand vision of Stallman in a commercially viable, sustainable way. He is hard-working, humerous, and gracious and deferential to his fellow contributors. He stands as a model of modesty for successfuly hackers. If I had kids, I would want them to choose a role model like Linus.
Really? That's what I told 'em. They weren't very impressed, and I doubt they have the memory or reflective tendencies to think about it now. They'll probably all end up voting Republican to "reduce the tax load on working families," thereby reducing my tax load and increasing theirs.
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Right. If the women were geeks, too (or at least some kind of intellectuals) this would actually be a good thing.
You know, it's funny that you mention dancing. All over the Bay Area, swing and ballroom dancing are going through a huge revival. However, it's couples, by and large, who sign up for the lessons.
"Let him who would move the world first move himself [on the dance floor]" --Socrates, interpreted somewhat
I like spending money with women, but "spending it on them" sounds too much like you're doing it just to get a certain something in return. That, in my humble opinion, sucks.
Then again, maybe your opinion differs. Your signature would seem to suggest as much.:P
Agreed. I was living in the Silicon Valley until recently, and it was very easy to forget, moving from the office to the largely office-related social circle, that over 50% of the Earth's population is female. Right before I left, I read this depressing article about dating in SV, citing the experience of geeks who have been asked how much money they make on the third, second, or even first date!
To that I can only say, Fuck all y'all bitches! I'd rather stick with my right hand for all eternity than get with some superficial gold-digging asshole.
Yes. To clarify, the IA64 kernel will run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. So you get to choose how you want to compile your applications. (I'm not implying you didn't know this; it just wasn't explicitly mentioned in your comment.)
I still say IA64 is the worst idea I've heard since 8086 emulation mode. (Funny how both come from the same company, eh?) Give me an Alpha any day.
Yeah, that's true. If you want to skimp on the reading time, you can read the original short story on which the novel was based, also called "Blood Music". It appears at least in the collection Nanotech, edited byJack Dann and Gardner Dozois--a great read. The final novella, David Marusek's "We Were out of our Minds with Joy", is poingnantly beautiful and timeless. (Like all good SF, it transcends the technological trappings of its setting. It's not self-conscious about them; rather, it lets them blend naturally into the plot, residing mostly in the background where they belong.)
I've found that usually, if you think of a good idea (or even a bad one) related to some putative technology, you can find some SF story that's already used the idea. It's kind of frustrating. I once went to a talk by Douglas Adams where he admitted that he no longer reads SF for just this reason: Either he sees people ripping off his ideas, or he finds ideas he's inadvertantly echoed. Not much fun.
As long as we're talking about SF, I'd like to trot out this great quotation I came across in the Philip K. Dick novel The Divine Invasion this morning:
In this way you entered into a dialogue with the Scripture; it became alive. It became a sentient organism that was never twice the same. The Christian- Islamic Church, of course, wanted both the Bible and the Koran frozen forever. If Scripture escaped out from under the church its monopoly departed.
Heh. To me, the Woodstock of my generation (early 20s) was LinuxWorld Expo in March of '99! It had all the euphoria of a subculture's coming out to the worldand feeling its oats, and quite a bit of the drugs for those interested in partaking (not me).;) Free love was conspicuously missing, though.;)
By the way, don't place too much faith in BlueTooth. Its hardware has some serious power-consumption problems.
I'm now reading Plato's republic - dunno how long that is on paper, but it sure is dull;-/
For what it's worth, only the English translations of Plato are dull. The original Greek is very easy-going and colloquial, with a real sense of conversational flow, not all the stuffy rhetorical grandstanding you get in translation. The Symposium is hilarious! It's basically this huge bull session where a bunch of urbane dudes sit around talking about (homosexual) love and romance over dinner. Alcibiades shows up piss drunk and starts hitting on the host,etc.;)
I have to hand it to the older British scholars for really fucking up such a fun corpus of work. Just the fact that they didn't know how to kick back and have fun doesn't meant the Greeks couldn't.
*Sigh* One of these days, when I vest the stocks from my awesome Linux start-up and become independently wealthy (yeah, right) I'll brush up on my Greek and do a real translation.;)
I'm afraid their reasoning goes somewhat like this: We need to cut costs. We can't afford to keep developing our own chips, so we'll let Intel do that for us. Given that we won't be using our own chips, it's pointless to keep developing our own operating system. It's cheaper to keep adding value on top of Linux, so we'll do that.
I don't mean to question that this is a good thing for Linux and for the community. Their support for open-source software, with no fancy non-GPL licenses and no strings attached, is unequivocally better than any other Unix vendor's. Actually, I think the kind of cost-saving outsourcing opportunity that SGI sees in Linux is a really good thing for everyone concerned. Hopefully the next few years will see an explosion in this kind of cooperation and a dramatic reduction in wasteful duplication of effort, just as RMS has always predicted.
No, I'm more concerned about the idea of blindly embracing Intel's latest product, which looks to be the kludgiest chip ever invented, with horrific cooling requirements, two silicon-wasting legacy instruction sets, and tons upon tons of cache to make up for absent registers. That's not to mention the fact that the damn thing still hasn't been released.
It's like SGI has decided that high-end computing doesn't pay off, so it's just trying to be another PC vendor. Where is the visionary company of yore? I hope that, at the least, they will keep their position of innovation in graphics. It looks as if they're trying to do that.
Good luck, SGI. Beer recipe: free! #SourceCold pints: $2 #Product
Congratulations to both parties! It's always good to see people getting paid and supported for solid open-source community work. Beer recipe: free! #SourceCold pints: $2 #Product
Is there a site where I can read about the corporate funding of U.S. Senators and Representatives? How about state officials? I know this information is supposed to be public, but I don't know how accessible it's been made. A nice, dynamic site, preferrably with links to voting records, could go a long way toward making politicians' true loyalties known and maybe, in the long run, building support for campaign-finance reform.
It's a tall order, I know, but I really think it's a worthwhile project. If there isn't such a resource out there already, I'd be very much willing to build one. (Hello, mod_perl!) Beer recipe: free! #SourceCold pints: $2 #Product
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Java is kin to DPS, and XML is becoming second cousin.
Funny, I like it for the same reason. (Then again, I don't take race very seriously. It's hard to get all worked up over a few phenotypic traits. If you ask me--or any geneticist--the whole idea of race is a gross misnomer.)
Anyway, I like using the term "cracker" because it gives you lots of opportunities to imitate Chef while deriding script kiddies.
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It appears to be a portal for a porn site. Too bad--I would have found it much more amusing had the company been completely self-referential. It's still pretty funny, though. It's as if they took mindless IPO hype to its conclusion, beyond the point where the image overshadows the substance to the point where the substance is the image itself. (The medium is the message?!)
How fucked-up. This is hilarious. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
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Think again. You are making the famous appeal to Security Through Obscurity. If Passport were open-sourced, people would find the bugs and fix them, instead of sitting on them and hoping no one would notice the way Microsoft does with all its products.
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Intros are good. Hopefully, not everyone who reads this article will be a Linux illuminatus like you or me. Hopefully, it will combine with other recent mainstream press exposure to make a few people experiment with GNU-Linux systems and enjoy their liberating influence. How can this be bad?
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Morons.
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Cheers,
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The Silicon Valley sucks. It's a yuppie strip-mall-and-suburbs wasteland.
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You know, it's funny that you mention dancing. All over the Bay Area, swing and ballroom dancing are going through a huge revival. However, it's couples, by and large, who sign up for the lessons.
"Let him who would move the world first move himself [on the dance floor]"
--Socrates, interpreted somewhat
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Cold pints: $2 #Product
Then again, maybe your opinion differs. Your signature would seem to suggest as much. :P
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To that I can only say, Fuck all y'all bitches! I'd rather stick with my right hand for all eternity than get with some superficial gold-digging asshole.
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
I still say IA64 is the worst idea I've heard since 8086 emulation mode. (Funny how both come from the same company, eh?) Give me an Alpha any day.
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I've found that usually, if you think of a good idea (or even a bad one) related to some putative technology, you can find some SF story that's already used the idea. It's kind of frustrating. I once went to a talk by Douglas Adams where he admitted that he no longer reads SF for just this reason: Either he sees people ripping off his ideas, or he finds ideas he's inadvertantly echoed. Not much fun.
As long as we're talking about SF, I'd like to trot out this great quotation I came across in the Philip K. Dick novel The Divine Invasion this morning:
Sound familiar? ;)
(Sig screwed up due to Slashdot weirdness)
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By the way, don't place too much faith in BlueTooth. Its hardware has some serious power-consumption problems.
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
For what it's worth, only the English translations of Plato are dull. The original Greek is very easy-going and colloquial, with a real sense of conversational flow, not all the stuffy rhetorical grandstanding you get in translation. The Symposium is hilarious! It's basically this huge bull session where a bunch of urbane dudes sit around talking about (homosexual) love and romance over dinner. Alcibiades shows up piss drunk and starts hitting on the host,etc. ;)
I have to hand it to the older British scholars for really fucking up such a fun corpus of work. Just the fact that they didn't know how to kick back and have fun doesn't meant the Greeks couldn't.
*Sigh* One of these days, when I vest the stocks from my awesome Linux start-up and become independently wealthy (yeah, right) I'll brush up on my Greek and do a real translation. ;)
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
I don't mean to question that this is a good thing for Linux and for the community. Their support for open-source software, with no fancy non-GPL licenses and no strings attached, is unequivocally better than any other Unix vendor's. Actually, I think the kind of cost-saving outsourcing opportunity that SGI sees in Linux is a really good thing for everyone concerned. Hopefully the next few years will see an explosion in this kind of cooperation and a dramatic reduction in wasteful duplication of effort, just as RMS has always predicted.
No, I'm more concerned about the idea of blindly embracing Intel's latest product, which looks to be the kludgiest chip ever invented, with horrific cooling requirements, two silicon-wasting legacy instruction sets, and tons upon tons of cache to make up for absent registers. That's not to mention the fact that the damn thing still hasn't been released.
It's like SGI has decided that high-end computing doesn't pay off, so it's just trying to be another PC vendor. Where is the visionary company of yore? I hope that, at the least, they will keep their position of innovation in graphics. It looks as if they're trying to do that.
Good luck, SGI.
Beer recipe: free! #SourceCold pints: $2 #Product
Congratulations to both parties! It's always good to see people getting paid and supported for solid open-source community work.
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It's a tall order, I know, but I really think it's a worthwhile project. If there isn't such a resource out there already, I'd be very much willing to build one. (Hello, mod_perl!)
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What in the world do you mean by this?
Genuinely curious,--Q
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Anyway, I like using the term "cracker" because it gives you lots of opportunities to imitate Chef while deriding script kiddies.
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* This system is for authorized use only!
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* How're my little crackers today?
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Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
How fucked-up. This is hilarious.
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