With the current climate in the US, intent is all that is needed with some crimes. For example if you hit someone and scream a racial slur it can be classified a hate crime and bumped up a notch on the crime scale. That's different because there was initially a crime and it's just being declaired a worse crime.
With child molestation it's a little different. You don't want to wait until the crime happens, intent should be enough. The general concensus also seems to be that once someone is given to that type of crime, they are damaged and need to be removed from population (maybe forever.) The Polly Klaus law reflects that attitude, once a sex crime has been committed you could very well be labeled a pervert and sex offender for the rest of your life.
I'm totally against thought crime and that sort of thing but I think the right thing was done here. Here is a guy, clearly an intelligent adult human being with lot's of money and power. He has some sexual fetish, not a big deal we've all got some sexual desire which could be labeled fetish by someone. I'm even willing to cut some slack, I've got no problems with someone going on IRC and talking dirty to someone else, even if that other person happens to be a minor. He went above and beyond that, he flew down to LA and went to a place for an expected rendezvous. That's a lot, what other reason could he have been there? He's a pedaphile, he's got a problem, he need's to be isolated from society and he need's to get some kind of help. Did he ask for pictures or a telephone call or make any attempt to find out if she wasn't really 13? The article makes it sound like he was looking for sex with a minor and I would expect the Disney media powerhouse to do everything they could to sugarcoat it.
Yeah it bothers me. He has surrounded himself with an amazing geek squad though. I still think that the fact that he has ever been laid is a modern miracle. He is definitely lacking in social graces. He totally fits the old stereotype for computer nerds. the fact is, most hackers don't. Some do, I've seen them, but most don't.
Bill couldn't code to save his life anymore. I don't know that he ever could have. In pop culture he's the all time best programmer though.
They didn't put it on the same level as the computer science and math classes, they put it on the same level as the computer science and math graduate level courses... I thought it was particularly funny that you had to get in to grad school to take the manners course... Or at least that's how they made it sound.
Wow, I went to CMU and there were always the MIT jokes and the MIT name recognition envy )everyone knows MIT, period, CMU is only well known is some circles) but I never knew they had such a class. CMU could probably use it for a good portion of the SCS students, it's unfortunate that I have to admit that but it's the truth.
There was a whole new world of MIT jokes waiting to happen. I wonder how many can't pass it?
Anyone done anything with it? I haven't had the time yet but I've got about a thousand ideas for that beast... How come it's not the standard editor in all these IDEs? Code reuse people! That's 2 birds in one stone, emacs and you can autoload the vile script for the freaks out there.
He's a great actor. Lucas is a megalomaniacal director who micromanages every detail down to how the toys look. Supposedly he even took the faces off of actors from one take and digitally pasted them on to their bodies in a different take. Lucas isn't exactly "pro-actor" if he's doing stuff like that, it's quite a slap in the face to someone who takes pride in their ability to act. Of course the better actors are going to disagree with him. He's not the first, Harrison Ford has said he wouldn't work with Lucas again. Liam sounded bloody pissed at the whole TPM experience.
He's right to some extent too, it's a movie. It's fun and exciting but some people take it a bit far. As one of the greatest actors around it's got to sting a little to have done some amazing roles and then be primarily remembered by some younger generations for a bit role in a pop movie.
Falling down the detonator and blowing up the bridge was a little over the top though also..
The workplace is held in hire esteem by the American justice system than your public life. It's one thing to go and seek out a hotmail or ICQ account and use it, there are plenty of alternatives. Work is work and you don't have to work in a hostile environment. The two aren't the same.
You could probably try to sue though, and you could potentially win depending on what the user agreement says.
I'm not sure SMP or drivers are the best argument against it, but a good detailed explanation of FreeBSD's technical superiority is needed. They are doing what Linux did in assuming superiority to NT, they are just assuming it. The source code is there, I'd like someone to go point by point and start explaining the superiority of BSD.
It's not a process issue, they said "technical superiority" Can someone clear up what they meant?
If your house was on fire and you could only save one thing, what would it be?
If you were an animal, what would you be? What kind of animal would you want to be if it's not the one you would be? (I'd be a stallion;) but I'd want to be a duck or a badger. Ducks can swin underwater, on top of water, they can walk on land and fly, it's hard to beat that.)
Is U2 greater than the Beatles? Who was the best Beatle?
While I'm on this Beatles vibe and to knock off Tarantino, are you an Elvis man or a Beatles man?
Who do you like in the next World Cup? Any opionions on Lance's emotional win in the tour?
Any opinion on transubstantiation? or religion in general?
Who's your favorite painter? If you had a painting by them would you save it instead of whatever you picked for answer 1?
Now that we're done with the warm ups...
What's your feeling on the WWW and how LaTeX fits into it? Should web pages really be PDFs or DVIs? Do you care?
How do you feel about garbage collection? Good? Bad? The hacker in me wants to do it "my way" but in my wisened mid 20's I've grown to appriciate garbage collection, especially in the hands on non-expert programmers. Do you sometimes wish that the kernel had garbage collection when you're fixing leaks? (not that it would be practical)
How do you feel about the future of programming and computers in general? There is a strong trend to dumb computers down a lot for "end users" (a la KDE and GNOME among other GUIs) Do you think this is good in the long term and do you think the same thing should be done with programming on a large scale? (as it is, there is an astronomical number of CS grads who come out with very little programming skill or experience, there also appears to be a growing number of people who can write scripts (perl) but can't code at a lowlevel, so it appears to be happening) Do you think programming should be stressed more as a skill all computers users need? Do you think that in the future everybody will be a programmer and then there will be a few hardcore hackers who do the real work? (which is really how it is now) Or will society and civilization as a whole be able to fully utilize computers without becoming a society full of programmers? There is kind of a lot in this question, I went through a very tough and rigorous university CS program and because I'm a computer geek I loved it but a lot of people there could have got by with a lot less and still been able to be productive members of the software industry, should CS become more of a specialized discipline for hackers and should liberal arts become an introductory basic programming type degree with a focus on liberal arts?
As an add-on, Linux is a tremendously rich programming platform, lot's of compiler development takes place on linux and you can find a complier for just about any langauge or programming system. Do you think that gives it a natural advantage over windows in a "programmer's" society? Despite the programmer friendliness of the Linux community and development it still looks like Linux lacks in some ways compared to Windows. For example, you can script just about anything with MS Office objects and Visual BASIC, it's extremely flexible, I don't know of anything on linux that combines that power with that level of ease. How do you think we can fix that if we need to? This is kind outside kernel space... Just curious what you think about apps and the development going on there.
The new emerging sex symbol for the new millenium seems to be the hacker/geek/technical professional/programmer type. They've even had a pseudocracker on an MTV program (or so I've read on Slashdot.) How do you feel about this trend? As with most things in the fashion world, it's all about image and the the symbols themselves seem to be largely fraudulent, I don't know of any real hackers who are being touted as sex symbols or models. Imitation is supposed to be the most sincere form of flattery though, do you feel flattered?
Speaking of making a buck.. (I always associate making a buck with sex symbols because they are all just marketing creations) How do you feel about the RedHat IPO? Good for linux? Bad for linux? Good for free software? Bad for free software? Just a few guys trying to make a buck?
Are there any directions the kernel is going in that you don't fully agree with? Is there something that isn't happening that you'd like to happen? I'd kind of like to see ACLs... with coda in the kernel and xfs on the way they might become more popular.
What's your favorite architecture to write assembly for?
RedHat should do what they've been doing. They've been in the black, they've been the dominant distribution, and they've been giving a lot back to the community.
Buy Borland, Cygnus, or SCO? Borland will come around on their own or die. Cygnus is doing just fine. SCO? hahah, that's a support headache, you can't just buy a revenue stream either, there are a lot of costs that come with it. I don't know what they'd get out of cygnus, the risks are great. Borland, SCO, SGI, etc.. they will come around on their own or they will stop doing business, it will be better if they do it on their own that if you try to force them by buying them.
RedHat should definitely keep contributing to projects, GCC would be a great one to start helping with. They should contribute to any project that helps them fix a weakness, right now that would include a GPLed office suite. Keep doing GNOME. They should hire some writers and get to work on a good set of Linux manuals.
I really don't see what they are going to get out of buying another company, there will be cultural problems, debt to assume, customers to support, product incompatibilities, and other problems. Buying another company (like the ones that have been suggested) is a step in the wrong way because instead of focusing on GNU/Linux they will spend a huge amount of effort focusing on making the investment pay off.
Sign some deals with hardware vendors. Maybe sign a deal with Inprise/Borland or Cygnus, no more. Keep doing what they are doing and if money is really just burning a hole in their pocket then buy a support provider.
The subscription idea isn't half bad either, MS makes a ton of money from it. Hell that's the way I got slackware for a long time. The details would need to be polished a little, but quarterly errata and updates with a couple major releases would be pretty nice. Include the cute little CD book/box that comes with MSDN and charge a couple hundred dollars..
I think the LDP has been wanting for a while. Back in the day, it was great but it's showing its age and it's just not enough in ways.
I like howtos, they are pretty sweet and generally answer my questions. There are some really good ones, there are also a bunch of lesser howtos which aren't part of the standard cannon and you just sort of stubmle across when looking for something. Some of the bigger ones need to go beyond that though, they already have for the most part.
I also have looked at a number of linux books and a good portion of them are LDP in print or a collection of HOWTOs. Now publishing your own dist has never bothered me because the is definitely some service being provided in getting everything on a CD like that and there is usually some value added in the install. Simply downloading HOWTOs and binding them seems a little cheap though. If you can do that, then they should also be in an online book form as well. One big PDF complete with links and everything. Something that get's compiled regularly, has people in charge of various sections, and acts just like any other living project. Once it looks like a book the issues about formats and whatnot start to go away because you're either contributing to the book or you're just writing a doc. There are some ego issues to work out, two people can't write the same sentence but I think it could help to make it more like a product.
I also think a help database is due. There are reams and reams of questions asked an answers provided on numerous Linux subjects on usenet and various mailing lists. We should start putting that information into an expert system. We should start putting all the linux information on all the different linuxes together into one place. It would be huge but it would be very useful and there are so many tricks and tips and hints that get asked for over and over. It would be great if I could pop that extra CD in that came with my Redhat and ask it questions. Again, this is more "product" oriented, LDP doesn't make products and they need to think of it that way to get the movement and the fluid nature of linux going.
I think they need to have some goals to make things bigger and better and there is still plenty of work to be done in terms of consolidation. Documentation is still one of Linux's weakest areas but there are great HOWTOs and lot's of documentation, it just needs to be cleaned up and they need to shoot for a higher goal.
I read a number of complaints by people who were given an offer that they wanted to take but couldn't for one reason or another. There is a huge jump from that to believing that they have the right to compensation.
I think most of this is just sour grapes from people who couldn't or didn't buy redhat stock. Redhat != Linux. Redhat has no control over kernel decisions. What does their worth matter?
You're obviously not a coder and haven't followed linux much if you think that the community hasn't been filled with "serious competition" since its conception. The "serious competition" is one of the things that draws a lot of us to it. It's made a huge difference too, Linux is far better because of competition.
No, your robot only get's destroyed if it sucks and is not worthy of being around any longer...
You have to make mighty robot warriors, like voltron..;) Use aluminum, steel, titanium, and nasty war implements to destroy the other robots. This is a test of the truest nature.
New or not, I think this has got to be one of the coolest things! It's a bummer they have all the restrictions they do though, I think a bomber bot, a flame thrower bot, an electrocutioner bot, and a glue or acid or liquid nitrogen bot would be damn cool. It's like they don't want to make the robots battle to the death!
With all the rules, it looks like an open rotary saw is one of the most devistating weapons. Some sort of high powered crushing device might also be effective unless you're going after the more passive type strategies (pin the other robot or flip it over or something like that) A hammer could be nice but I bet a hydraulic press is the way to go, there are weight restrictions and hammers are effective in relation to their weight. I bet something like a bulldozer with a big beefy lawnmower engine so that it's quick and a magnetic shovel would be pretty good, bulldoze the other bots into the wall and then hold them there.. then if you could some how crush it. if only you could hold them there and then put explosives or drip liquid nitrogen on to them...
Nothing against Phil, he's great but did you ever see Bass-o-matic? Go find a copy of PGP 1.0 and have a look-see. Phil is a wonderful activist and software engineer but he's not my choice of a cryptanalyst. His endorsment isn't glowing. I don't believe CAST to be as secure as the algorithms they have chosen.
the AES contest was good because we now have a bunch of fairly secure algorithms out in the public, not all of them are as secure as some but none of them is totally weak either. The 5 finalists are 5 fine algorithms that are put together by some of the foremost experts in the field. Being created by Eli Biham, Don Coppersmith or Ron Rivest is about as good a pedigree as you can get in the cryptography business aside from an NSA stamp which approves your cipher for classifed top secret military use.
I normally don't condone open blacklisting or this kind of thing but who was doing this? It seems perfectly reasonable to me to request compensation from their deadbeats or some form of explanation. If they provide neither then post a list of the offenders, I'd like to know which OSS projects aren't paying their way, assuming that it was some OSS projects who weren't. From my consulting days, I know how hard it can be to collect from someone who decides to screw you, that's still a game the big boys can play best because when you're small you can't afford to pay and then wait for collection, not when you depend on that money. A well worded letter which explains that compensation or an explanation is needed or else your name will be publicly posted would probably shake out a few dollars. Give them a chance to explain or pay and then tell the world who it is.
Likewise, I've been a student, I've survived for 2 weeks on $10 before, I know what it's about. If there are projects that can't afford a home and need one that kind of list should also be put together, I know there are people who are willing to help in whatever way they can and that might be as simple as mailing a check for $5 to somebody.
Isn't irridium pretty much shutting themselves down? They are 4+billion in debt and can't hold on to subscribers. Their service costs and arm and a leg, it's worth it to the small segment that needs it but that's really small.
A buddy and I went and saw it Saturday, great flick but the shaky video start to get to me. The theater was packed and so I had to sit in about the 10th row and the screen was huge, sit closer to the back or take some motion sickness medication if you're prone to it. I've never been sick from something like that before but there were times when I just couldn't take all the motion.
Also, being a bit of a woodsman, prepare to disbelieve. A good portion of the movie I was asking myself "what kind of wimps are they?" I've spent a larger than normal amount of time in the woods though (I live in Colorado) and I've always operated under the assumption that I'm the meanest and most dangerous thing out there. That's the wrong attitude to have for this movice because you just sit there and think they are either really stupid or absolute wusses.
I don't watch TV, so I'm not sure what the hype is all about but my local paper did a review and then immediately said the whole thing was fake, I think it would have been a little more spooky had I not known that, it's still very well made and there are some very memorable images and some kind of spooky parts. A very good horror film.
It's not a new genere of movies, Man Bites Dog was the most recent "non-documentry documentry" I can remember. It's brilliant if done right, BWP just about nails it. MBD went way over the top to have a comedic effect. Worth seeing.
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With child molestation it's a little different. You don't want to wait until the crime happens, intent should be enough. The general concensus also seems to be that once someone is given to that type of crime, they are damaged and need to be removed from population (maybe forever.) The Polly Klaus law reflects that attitude, once a sex crime has been committed you could very well be labeled a pervert and sex offender for the rest of your life.
I'm totally against thought crime and that sort of thing but I think the right thing was done here. Here is a guy, clearly an intelligent adult human being with lot's of money and power. He has some sexual fetish, not a big deal we've all got some sexual desire which could be labeled fetish by someone. I'm even willing to cut some slack, I've got no problems with someone going on IRC and talking dirty to someone else, even if that other person happens to be a minor. He went above and beyond that, he flew down to LA and went to a place for an expected rendezvous. That's a lot, what other reason could he have been there? He's a pedaphile, he's got a problem, he need's to be isolated from society and he need's to get some kind of help. Did he ask for pictures or a telephone call or make any attempt to find out if she wasn't really 13? The article makes it sound like he was looking for sex with a minor and I would expect the Disney media powerhouse to do everything they could to sugarcoat it.
Bill couldn't code to save his life anymore. I don't know that he ever could have. In pop culture he's the all time best programmer though.
They didn't put it on the same level as the computer science and math classes, they put it on the same level as the computer science and math graduate level courses... I thought it was particularly funny that you had to get in to grad school to take the manners course... Or at least that's how they made it sound.
There was a whole new world of MIT jokes waiting to happen. I wonder how many can't pass it?
Anyone done anything with it? I haven't had the time yet but I've got about a thousand ideas for that beast... How come it's not the standard editor in all these IDEs? Code reuse people! That's 2 birds in one stone, emacs and you can autoload the vile script for the freaks out there.
They also know that WinCE (in pain) is gaining momentum and they need to get other devices supporting their OS.
He's right to some extent too, it's a movie. It's fun and exciting but some people take it a bit far. As one of the greatest actors around it's got to sting a little to have done some amazing roles and then be primarily remembered by some younger generations for a bit role in a pop movie.
Falling down the detonator and blowing up the bridge was a little over the top though also..
You could probably try to sue though, and you could potentially win depending on what the user agreement says.
It's not a process issue, they said "technical superiority" Can someone clear up what they meant?
Is he quitting the whole program and won't partake if future movies?
I only ever watched because of Gillian anyways.. ;)
If you were an animal, what would you be? What kind of animal would you want to be if it's not the one you would be? (I'd be a stallion ;) but I'd want to be a duck or a badger. Ducks can swin underwater, on top of water, they can walk on land and fly, it's hard to beat that.)
Is U2 greater than the Beatles? Who was the best Beatle?
While I'm on this Beatles vibe and to knock off Tarantino, are you an Elvis man or a Beatles man?
Who do you like in the next World Cup? Any opionions on Lance's emotional win in the tour?
Any opinion on transubstantiation? or religion in general?
Who's your favorite painter? If you had a painting by them would you save it instead of whatever you picked for answer 1?
Now that we're done with the warm ups...
What's your feeling on the WWW and how LaTeX fits into it? Should web pages really be PDFs or DVIs? Do you care?
How do you feel about garbage collection? Good? Bad? The hacker in me wants to do it "my way" but in my wisened mid 20's I've grown to appriciate garbage collection, especially in the hands on non-expert programmers. Do you sometimes wish that the kernel had garbage collection when you're fixing leaks? (not that it would be practical)
How do you feel about the future of programming and computers in general? There is a strong trend to dumb computers down a lot for "end users" (a la KDE and GNOME among other GUIs) Do you think this is good in the long term and do you think the same thing should be done with programming on a large scale? (as it is, there is an astronomical number of CS grads who come out with very little programming skill or experience, there also appears to be a growing number of people who can write scripts (perl) but can't code at a lowlevel, so it appears to be happening) Do you think programming should be stressed more as a skill all computers users need? Do you think that in the future everybody will be a programmer and then there will be a few hardcore hackers who do the real work? (which is really how it is now) Or will society and civilization as a whole be able to fully utilize computers without becoming a society full of programmers? There is kind of a lot in this question, I went through a very tough and rigorous university CS program and because I'm a computer geek I loved it but a lot of people there could have got by with a lot less and still been able to be productive members of the software industry, should CS become more of a specialized discipline for hackers and should liberal arts become an introductory basic programming type degree with a focus on liberal arts?
As an add-on, Linux is a tremendously rich programming platform, lot's of compiler development takes place on linux and you can find a complier for just about any langauge or programming system. Do you think that gives it a natural advantage over windows in a "programmer's" society? Despite the programmer friendliness of the Linux community and development it still looks like Linux lacks in some ways compared to Windows. For example, you can script just about anything with MS Office objects and Visual BASIC, it's extremely flexible, I don't know of anything on linux that combines that power with that level of ease. How do you think we can fix that if we need to? This is kind outside kernel space... Just curious what you think about apps and the development going on there.
The new emerging sex symbol for the new millenium seems to be the hacker/geek/technical professional/programmer type. They've even had a pseudocracker on an MTV program (or so I've read on Slashdot.) How do you feel about this trend? As with most things in the fashion world, it's all about image and the the symbols themselves seem to be largely fraudulent, I don't know of any real hackers who are being touted as sex symbols or models. Imitation is supposed to be the most sincere form of flattery though, do you feel flattered?
Speaking of making a buck.. (I always associate making a buck with sex symbols because they are all just marketing creations) How do you feel about the RedHat IPO? Good for linux? Bad for linux? Good for free software? Bad for free software? Just a few guys trying to make a buck?
Are there any directions the kernel is going in that you don't fully agree with? Is there something that isn't happening that you'd like to happen? I'd kind of like to see ACLs... with coda in the kernel and xfs on the way they might become more popular.
What's your favorite architecture to write assembly for?
Thanks for your time and all your work.
Buy Borland, Cygnus, or SCO? Borland will come around on their own or die. Cygnus is doing just fine. SCO? hahah, that's a support headache, you can't just buy a revenue stream either, there are a lot of costs that come with it. I don't know what they'd get out of cygnus, the risks are great. Borland, SCO, SGI, etc.. they will come around on their own or they will stop doing business, it will be better if they do it on their own that if you try to force them by buying them.
RedHat should definitely keep contributing to projects, GCC would be a great one to start helping with. They should contribute to any project that helps them fix a weakness, right now that would include a GPLed office suite. Keep doing GNOME. They should hire some writers and get to work on a good set of Linux manuals.
I really don't see what they are going to get out of buying another company, there will be cultural problems, debt to assume, customers to support, product incompatibilities, and other problems. Buying another company (like the ones that have been suggested) is a step in the wrong way because instead of focusing on GNU/Linux they will spend a huge amount of effort focusing on making the investment pay off.
Sign some deals with hardware vendors. Maybe sign a deal with Inprise/Borland or Cygnus, no more. Keep doing what they are doing and if money is really just burning a hole in their pocket then buy a support provider.
The subscription idea isn't half bad either, MS makes a ton of money from it. Hell that's the way I got slackware for a long time. The details would need to be polished a little, but quarterly errata and updates with a couple major releases would be pretty nice. Include the cute little CD book/box that comes with MSDN and charge a couple hundred dollars..
Pay your investors a dividend!
I'm not sure why but I've always had a bad taste for them, you can't crush them if you buy them.
I like howtos, they are pretty sweet and generally answer my questions. There are some really good ones, there are also a bunch of lesser howtos which aren't part of the standard cannon and you just sort of stubmle across when looking for something. Some of the bigger ones need to go beyond that though, they already have for the most part.
I also have looked at a number of linux books and a good portion of them are LDP in print or a collection of HOWTOs. Now publishing your own dist has never bothered me because the is definitely some service being provided in getting everything on a CD like that and there is usually some value added in the install. Simply downloading HOWTOs and binding them seems a little cheap though. If you can do that, then they should also be in an online book form as well. One big PDF complete with links and everything. Something that get's compiled regularly, has people in charge of various sections, and acts just like any other living project. Once it looks like a book the issues about formats and whatnot start to go away because you're either contributing to the book or you're just writing a doc. There are some ego issues to work out, two people can't write the same sentence but I think it could help to make it more like a product.
I also think a help database is due. There are reams and reams of questions asked an answers provided on numerous Linux subjects on usenet and various mailing lists. We should start putting that information into an expert system. We should start putting all the linux information on all the different linuxes together into one place. It would be huge but it would be very useful and there are so many tricks and tips and hints that get asked for over and over. It would be great if I could pop that extra CD in that came with my Redhat and ask it questions. Again, this is more "product" oriented, LDP doesn't make products and they need to think of it that way to get the movement and the fluid nature of linux going.
I think they need to have some goals to make things bigger and better and there is still plenty of work to be done in terms of consolidation. Documentation is still one of Linux's weakest areas but there are great HOWTOs and lot's of documentation, it just needs to be cleaned up and they need to shoot for a higher goal.
I read a number of complaints by people who were given an offer that they wanted to take but couldn't for one reason or another. There is a huge jump from that to believing that they have the right to compensation.
I think most of this is just sour grapes from people who couldn't or didn't buy redhat stock. Redhat != Linux. Redhat has no control over kernel decisions. What does their worth matter?
You're obviously not a coder and haven't followed linux much if you think that the community hasn't been filled with "serious competition" since its conception. The "serious competition" is one of the things that draws a lot of us to it. It's made a huge difference too, Linux is far better because of competition.
You have to make mighty robot warriors, like voltron.. ;) Use aluminum, steel, titanium, and nasty war implements to destroy the other robots. This is a test of the truest nature.
The military isn't interested in some glorified lawnmower warrior. They've already got far far more destructive weapons.
With all the rules, it looks like an open rotary saw is one of the most devistating weapons. Some sort of high powered crushing device might also be effective unless you're going after the more passive type strategies (pin the other robot or flip it over or something like that) A hammer could be nice but I bet a hydraulic press is the way to go, there are weight restrictions and hammers are effective in relation to their weight. I bet something like a bulldozer with a big beefy lawnmower engine so that it's quick and a magnetic shovel would be pretty good, bulldoze the other bots into the wall and then hold them there.. then if you could some how crush it. if only you could hold them there and then put explosives or drip liquid nitrogen on to them...
How does it feel to have a linux dist. named after you?
the AES contest was good because we now have a bunch of fairly secure algorithms out in the public, not all of them are as secure as some but none of them is totally weak either. The 5 finalists are 5 fine algorithms that are put together by some of the foremost experts in the field. Being created by Eli Biham, Don Coppersmith or Ron Rivest is about as good a pedigree as you can get in the cryptography business aside from an NSA stamp which approves your cipher for classifed top secret military use.
Likewise, I've been a student, I've survived for 2 weeks on $10 before, I know what it's about. If there are projects that can't afford a home and need one that kind of list should also be put together, I know there are people who are willing to help in whatever way they can and that might be as simple as mailing a check for $5 to somebody.
You're OS choices will be AIX, OS/400, Linux, and Monteray.
So is XFS or ext3 or ext2+b*tree going to make it in to 2.4? Is any of this stuff in the 2.3 kernels yet, I didn't think it was.
Isn't irridium pretty much shutting themselves down? They are 4+billion in debt and can't hold on to subscribers. Their service costs and arm and a leg, it's worth it to the small segment that needs it but that's really small.
Also, being a bit of a woodsman, prepare to disbelieve. A good portion of the movie I was asking myself "what kind of wimps are they?" I've spent a larger than normal amount of time in the woods though (I live in Colorado) and I've always operated under the assumption that I'm the meanest and most dangerous thing out there. That's the wrong attitude to have for this movice because you just sit there and think they are either really stupid or absolute wusses.
I don't watch TV, so I'm not sure what the hype is all about but my local paper did a review and then immediately said the whole thing was fake, I think it would have been a little more spooky had I not known that, it's still very well made and there are some very memorable images and some kind of spooky parts. A very good horror film.
It's not a new genere of movies, Man Bites Dog was the most recent "non-documentry documentry" I can remember. It's brilliant if done right, BWP just about nails it. MBD went way over the top to have a comedic effect. Worth seeing.