Just let there be one method of exchanging biometric ID for liquidity, and the human pieces-parts will start flying. after all, "it's not my finger..."
Then use something that is expendable, like shit. Kids bring their feces to the lunch lady in a plastic bag and use it for ID. Then that day's identification method becomes tomorrow's Salisbury Steak (extra gravy if a stomach flu goes around.)
Biometrics is something the school bully can't beat out of you.
True, until they dip your hand in the 6-molar H2SO4 in chemistry class.
But, if you were to get shot at close range in the head with a.45 hollowpoint several times such that your face would no longer be recognizable (as such is certainly wont to happen in our schools today), then the Meal-Creation-Laborers can pull your arm over to the scanner and identify you.
That I'm curious, why do you have a file called "dos", and why does it refer to your fstab?
It's that pesky Creative Unix Dyslexia of mine. I often tend to get my arguments backwards. It's amusing at times to see some horrid effects of tcsh's 'alias' command done bass-ackwards as well.
So, to get back on-topic, Dreamcast (with small-c, for that anal-retentive AC) now is supposedly dead (unless there's an update that I didn't read.) My condolences.
Now our focus must turn to the next target: the X-Box. Who'd like to start a pool to bet how long it takes, in weeks (1-100), for either Linux or *BSD to successfully boot a kernel and get to at least single-user mode (with how-to documentation) on an X-Box?
If the UK government is so stupid as to pass this fecal matter, then there will be no need for high-encryption of e-mails. They'd be so stupid that you could encrypt it with rot13 and they'd never figure it out.:)
Well, they wouldn't actually give a shit about getting the disk back. However, if it got out onto the Net, there would be damages then. Just like if somebody steals your car and crashes it into somebody. Exactly like that.
Unless you make it look like someone stole your car and crashed it into someboy.
I don't think it's a big leap to assume that a movie, if stolen, would be on the 'Net the next day.
My scenario says that someone buys the disc, gives it to a pirate friend for 'Net distribution, and claims that it got stolen, thus absolving the buyer of liability. After the claim is processed, he gets his movie back, as well as thousands of others who get that same copy.
The states would have to investigate every claim to check for this and any other scenario that one could concoct. Well, they wouldn't have to, but we all know the pressure the $$MPAA/RIAA$$ can put on a government.
Or even better:), the MPAA/RIAA creates a "watchdog" group, not unlike the BSA, to snoop around for unlicenced copies of DVDs. Since it'd be a private organization, it wouldn't be subject to them darn Constitutional restrictions.
"Accountability is un-American!!" -- Opus, Bloom County Thus sprach DrQu+xum. # grep/etc/fstab dos /dev/da1a/msdos vfat rw 0 0
The purchaser of copyrighted material will purchase "infringement insurance" to pay the damages for when his copyrighted material gets "freed", just as an automobile owner will purchase "liability insurance" for when he smashes another car and/or the occupants.
Who the hell is going to pay a monthly fee, or even a one-time fee, for what *might* happen to a $20 DVD?
In fact, just like autos, the States will probably require their citizens to purchase "copyright insurance" in order to have access to copyrighted material - just as auto insurance is mandatory.
Thus opening up a whole new level of insurance fraud.
Droid: Intellectual Property Claim Center.
1337 d00d: Hey, my copy of "The Net" got stolen!
Droid: Yes sir. We are sending two of our investigators to your residence to investigate your claim.
The states (read: taxpayers) would have to shell out big bucks to investigate claims for $20 discs.
The best analogy I can think of here is a concert.
Keep thinking, then.
The person(s) who own the concert venue decide who performs and when they can do it. Then they sell tickets to consumers, which are licences to listen/view the broadcast -- yes, it's a broadcast in a very general sense.
TV sets are owned by the consumer. They are the concert venue owners. If we would rather see Whose Line Is It Anyway? than Friends or whatever else is on Thursday at 8et/7ct, fine. But it is also the right of the consumer to record whatever transmissions come to the receiver.
See also fair use.
Of course with the huge anti-corporate, anti-business, anti-profit bias on Slashdot, I expect this will be a hot-button issue.
Or you could just openly admit your obsolete 18th/19th Century Laissez-Faire tendencies.:)
We don't want to go to RH7 just yet -- it's our paranoia for x.0 products.:)
We've only installed XFree86 4.0.x on one RH6.2 box -- it wasn't pretty, but it works. Of course, the fact that it has to run in 8-bit mode to support the old astronomical software isn't too great, either. Thus sprach DrQu+xum. # grep/etc/fstab dos /dev/da1a/msdos vfat rw 0 0
I found this out the hard way -- Rage Pro 128 is not supported in RedHat 6.2/XFree86 3.3.x. SuSE has patches for it, I understand, but if you've got one of these cards, you'll be better off running XFree86 4.0.x. Thus sprach DrQu+xum. # grep/etc/fstab dos /dev/da1a/msdos vfat rw 0 0
It's beyond me that the government thinks they can possibly make the right decisions on things like software patents, without having qualified personnel in Congress.
Want me to run in 2004, my first year of Congressional eligibility? I'd *love* to go up against the Pharmaceutical Puppetess Melissa Hart (our Congresswoman-Elect, assuming she somehow wins again in 2002).
Perhaps by then, tho, the eCommerce/Patent/Judicial crowds will learn the meanings of "patentable", "prior art", and "fair use."
>paranoia<
If a pop-up JavaScript window appears on my screen when I load up/. anytime soon....let's just say the results won't be pretty.
Why else would Herr Malda post a story like this, but as a warning to/.ers that he would consider an inane stunt like this....
>/paranoia<
Okay, maybe that's a little un-founded, but I'm thinking that most/.ers don't want to see VA Linux'/eGrail's/whatever's latest ad campaign show up on our desktops.
"Of course, that's just my opinion...I could be wrong." -- Dennis Miller Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Like being an asshole? Being obnoxious about being right? Hell, I get paid for all that!:)
But, back on-topic.
Passion doesn't convince. Passion makes you look like an idiot or an asshole.
Passion *does* convince if you can justify it to yourself and to the person you want to palm it off on.
Por ejemplo, I use/bin/sh and AWK. Why? Because I can find/bin/sh on every machine I can get my grubby little hands on, even that old VAX that still runs OSF/1. AWK looks and smells of C, which I grew up on and feel most comfortable with.
Granted, I'm never gonna be able to palm off Bourne Shell & AWK, but I think I've justified my point.
BUT!
You're also not going to deny me of the right to criticize your decision mercilessly. And I expect everyone on/. to ridicule me mercilessly for supporting an old OSF/1 machine because some 95-year-old professor doesn't want to lose his old medium-energy particle simulation.
But that's geek life. You ridicule me, I ridicule you, and if I'm not embarrassed by what I use, then I'm happy.
Sigh. I don't know why I even bother to feed this troll.
They built the first transistor
Bell Labs, not Intel. Intel came up with the idea of putting tons of them in a tiny little package with little wires sticking out the side. Now they make them smaller.
Try this: build a working version of the Intel 4004 with vacuum tubes. Or worse, with the first solid-state transistor from Bell Labs, which was pretty damn huge.
Intel has always relied on the merits of its products.
Pentium floating-point bug. The F00F hack. PIII serial number. Yup, there's some pretty good things coming out there, uh-huh-uh-huh.
I know that's not fair -- the MultiBus architecture was pretty decent for its time, when there wasn't much more than VME.
Don't just spout vitriolic words from the sidelines or spin your elaborate webs of conspiracy. Your path lacks moral conviction, and I urge you to reconsider.
Jeezus. Now you're spouting out against the culture and habits of ~90% of/.ers. Please do us a favour -- drag yourself away from your computer, take Signal 11 with you*, and keep your evangelistical PC idealism to yourself, and let us wallow in our own X-Files induced paranoia. And no, I will not reconsider.
Thank you, and you may now mod me down.
*-Whether AM & SXI are the same is left as an exercise to the trolls. Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Re:The Middle Ages weren't the Dark Ages
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The Western Roman Empire fell circa 476 AD not just because of Black Death, but military dissention, bureaucratic mismanagement, and the Germanic tribes' constant attacks.
My hog-fscking opinion for what it's worth: Technology languished for ~800 years due to the refusal to propagate knowledge by the Church of Rome and the Royalty. Note that the only scholars of the time were monks and very-high-ranking officials.
The less the peasants know, the more loyal they will remain to us.
Imagine if you will, what would have happened if Marxism was thought up between 500-1500 AD. It'd probably make the Peasant's Revolt look like a bar fight. Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Are you sure BWK & Ken didn't leave to become the 4th & 5th members of ZZ Top?
Anyhoo -- that just leaves DMR there as THE BIG NAME at Bell Labs (with all due respect to Rob Pike, et. al.). Let's hope he sticks around for a while longer.
Last week when Mike Muuss (the inventor of ping) died, someone posted that we should pay our respects to our heroes and legends of computing before they're gone forever.
Thanks, Ken, for everything. Just don't get behind the stick of them MiG-25s again.:) Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Are there plans to have SMP kernels in OpenBSD (for those archs that support it, e.g. i386, alpha, sparc) ?
Are there plans to support the UltraSPARC platform? I'd let the OpenBSD developers use ours, but it's kinda busy being a 24/7 file server under Slowaris:)
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Re:Hardware support for new Macs, but will it inst
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Not to reply to your.sig, but my power animal is a blowfish.
I may just have to buy a G4 just to see in run a real OS, be it OS X or OpenBSD 2.8 (I preordered it 3 weeks ago, for my SPARCClassic X.)
IMHO, there are two things left for OpenBSD to do for now:
SMP code for SMP-capable machines, and
UltraSPARC port.
Something to look forward toward in OpenBSD 3.x. Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
If you're impatient, you can check out DMR's
webpage.
He's got a ton of stuff on the old days of Unix, C, etc. Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Re:Surely the vast majority of geeks are loaded?
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Geek Charities?
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I won't be loaded until my $24k of student loans are paid off.
On-topic: Does the UF Project for Humanity still exist?
Also on-topic: My alma mater, Westminster College, regularly gave all the aged & retired 486s to Lawrence County HeadStart. Now all the little kids in New Castle, PA will know the phrase "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" by heart.
"See kids? It's okay to make mistakes -- this computer makes mistakes all the time!"
WC wouldn't let me pre-install FreeBSD before they sent them out.:(
There's actually a movement in NA to "unvulgarize" the word c?nt...by feminists, of all people. (Note that I have nothing against feminists.)
Their reasoning:
The word "vagina" is derived from the Greek for "sheath of a sword."
The word "c?nt" has something to do with a goddess.
To get back on topic, it seems to me that NSI uses "George Carlin's Incomplete List of Impolite Words" to determine what's inappropriate in a domain name. But still, how do names like f.uk get through? Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Slashdot Mirror
Just let there be one method of exchanging biometric ID for liquidity, and the human pieces-parts will start flying. after all, "it's not my finger..."
Then use something that is expendable, like shit. Kids bring their feces to the lunch lady in a plastic bag and use it for ID. Then that day's identification method becomes tomorrow's Salisbury Steak (extra gravy if a stomach flu goes around.)
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
Biometrics is something the school bully can't beat out of you.
.45 hollowpoint several times such that your face would no longer be recognizable (as such is certainly wont to happen in our schools today), then the Meal-Creation-Laborers can pull your arm over to the scanner and identify you.
True, until they dip your hand in the 6-molar H2SO4 in chemistry class.
But, if you were to get shot at close range in the head with a
See? It has practical uses!
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
That I'm curious, why do you have a file called "dos", and why does it refer to your fstab?
It's that pesky Creative Unix Dyslexia of mine. I often tend to get my arguments backwards. It's amusing at times to see some horrid effects of tcsh's 'alias' command done bass-ackwards as well.
So, to get back on-topic, Dreamcast (with small-c, for that anal-retentive AC) now is supposedly dead (unless there's an update that I didn't read.) My condolences.
Now our focus must turn to the next target: the X-Box. Who'd like to start a pool to bet how long it takes, in weeks (1-100), for either Linux or *BSD to successfully boot a kernel and get to at least single-user mode (with how-to documentation) on an X-Box?
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
...then this marks another dead platform that NetBSD supports.
A shame -- I would've loved seeing sendmail running on a DreamCast.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
If the UK government is so stupid as to pass this fecal matter, then there will be no need for high-encryption of e-mails. They'd be so stupid that you could encrypt it with rot13 and they'd never figure it out. :)
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
Well, they wouldn't actually give a shit about getting the disk back. However, if it got out onto the Net, there would be damages then. Just like if somebody steals your car and crashes it into somebody. Exactly like that.
:), the MPAA/RIAA creates a "watchdog" group, not unlike the BSA, to snoop around for unlicenced copies of DVDs. Since it'd be a private organization, it wouldn't be subject to them darn Constitutional restrictions.
/etc/fstab dos
/dev/da1a /msdos vfat rw 0 0
Unless you make it look like someone stole your car and crashed it into someboy.
I don't think it's a big leap to assume that a movie, if stolen, would be on the 'Net the next day.
My scenario says that someone buys the disc, gives it to a pirate friend for 'Net distribution, and claims that it got stolen, thus absolving the buyer of liability. After the claim is processed, he gets his movie back, as well as thousands of others who get that same copy.
The states would have to investigate every claim to check for this and any other scenario that one could concoct. Well, they wouldn't have to, but we all know the pressure the $$MPAA/RIAA$$ can put on a government.
Or even better
"Accountability is un-American!!" -- Opus, Bloom County
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
# grep
The purchaser of copyrighted material will purchase "infringement insurance" to pay the damages for when his copyrighted material gets "freed", just as an automobile owner will purchase "liability insurance" for when he smashes another car and/or the occupants.
/etc/fstab dos
/dev/da1a /msdos vfat rw 0 0
Who the hell is going to pay a monthly fee, or even a one-time fee, for what *might* happen to a $20 DVD?
In fact, just like autos, the States will probably require their citizens to purchase "copyright insurance" in order to have access to copyrighted material - just as auto insurance is mandatory.
Thus opening up a whole new level of insurance fraud.
Droid: Intellectual Property Claim Center. 1337 d00d: Hey, my copy of "The Net" got stolen! Droid: Yes sir. We are sending two of our investigators to your residence to investigate your claim.
The states (read: taxpayers) would have to shell out big bucks to investigate claims for $20 discs.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
# grep
The best analogy I can think of here is a concert.
:)
/etc/fstab dos
/dev/da1a /msdos vfat rw 0 0
Keep thinking, then.
The person(s) who own the concert venue decide who performs and when they can do it. Then they sell tickets to consumers, which are licences to listen/view the broadcast -- yes, it's a broadcast in a very general sense.
TV sets are owned by the consumer. They are the concert venue owners. If we would rather see Whose Line Is It Anyway? than Friends or whatever else is on Thursday at 8et/7ct, fine. But it is also the right of the consumer to record whatever transmissions come to the receiver.
See also fair use.
Of course with the huge anti-corporate, anti-business, anti-profit bias on Slashdot, I expect this will be a hot-button issue.
Or you could just openly admit your obsolete 18th/19th Century Laissez-Faire tendencies.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
# grep
We don't want to go to RH7 just yet -- it's our paranoia for x.0 products. :)
/etc/fstab dos
/dev/da1a /msdos vfat rw 0 0
We've only installed XFree86 4.0.x on one RH6.2 box -- it wasn't pretty, but it works. Of course, the fact that it has to run in 8-bit mode to support the old astronomical software isn't too great, either.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
# grep
I found this out the hard way -- Rage Pro 128 is not supported in RedHat 6.2/XFree86 3.3.x. SuSE has patches for it, I understand, but if you've got one of these cards, you'll be better off running XFree86 4.0.x. /etc/fstab dos
/dev/da1a /msdos vfat rw 0 0
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
# grep
It's beyond me that the government thinks they can possibly make the right decisions on things like software patents, without having qualified personnel in Congress.
/etc/fstab dos
/dev/da1a /msdos vfat rw 0 0
Want me to run in 2004, my first year of Congressional eligibility? I'd *love* to go up against the Pharmaceutical Puppetess Melissa Hart (our Congresswoman-Elect, assuming she somehow wins again in 2002).
Perhaps by then, tho, the eCommerce/Patent/Judicial crowds will learn the meanings of "patentable", "prior art", and "fair use."
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
# grep
Apparently, TW was convinced from the DeCSS case that Fair Use is not applicable to the 'Net.
/etc/fstab dos
/dev/da1a /msdos vfat rw 0 0
Thus sprach DrQu+xum.
# grep
>paranoia< /. anytime soon....let's just say the results won't be pretty. /.ers that he would consider an inane stunt like this....
/.ers don't want to see VA Linux'/eGrail's/whatever's latest ad campaign show up on our desktops.
If a pop-up JavaScript window appears on my screen when I load up
Why else would Herr Malda post a story like this, but as a warning to
>/paranoia<
Okay, maybe that's a little un-founded, but I'm thinking that most
"Of course, that's just my opinion...I could be wrong." -- Dennis Miller
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Like being an asshole? Being obnoxious about being right? Hell, I get paid for all that! :)
/bin/sh and AWK. Why? Because I can find /bin/sh on every machine I can get my grubby little hands on, even that old VAX that still runs OSF/1. AWK looks and smells of C, which I grew up on and feel most comfortable with.
/. to ridicule me mercilessly for supporting an old OSF/1 machine because some 95-year-old professor doesn't want to lose his old medium-energy particle simulation.
But, back on-topic.
Passion doesn't convince. Passion makes you look like an idiot or an asshole.
Passion *does* convince if you can justify it to yourself and to the person you want to palm it off on.
Por ejemplo, I use
Granted, I'm never gonna be able to palm off Bourne Shell & AWK, but I think I've justified my point.
BUT!
You're also not going to deny me of the right to criticize your decision mercilessly. And I expect everyone on
But that's geek life. You ridicule me, I ridicule you, and if I'm not embarrassed by what I use, then I'm happy.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Sigh. I don't know why I even bother to feed this troll.
/.ers. Please do us a favour -- drag yourself away from your computer, take Signal 11 with you*, and keep your evangelistical PC idealism to yourself, and let us wallow in our own X-Files induced paranoia.
They built the first transistor
Bell Labs, not Intel. Intel came up with the idea of putting tons of them in a tiny little package with little wires sticking out the side. Now they make them smaller.
Try this: build a working version of the Intel 4004 with vacuum tubes. Or worse, with the first solid-state transistor from Bell Labs, which was pretty damn huge.
Intel has always relied on the merits of its products.
Pentium floating-point bug. The F00F hack. PIII serial number. Yup, there's some pretty good things coming out there, uh-huh-uh-huh.
I know that's not fair -- the MultiBus architecture was pretty decent for its time, when there wasn't much more than VME.
Don't just spout vitriolic words from the sidelines or spin your elaborate webs of conspiracy. Your path lacks moral conviction, and I urge you to reconsider.
Jeezus. Now you're spouting out against the culture and habits of ~90% of
And no, I will not reconsider.
Thank you, and you may now mod me down.
*-Whether AM & SXI are the same is left as an exercise to the trolls.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
The Western Roman Empire fell circa 476 AD not just because of Black Death, but military dissention, bureaucratic mismanagement, and the Germanic tribes' constant attacks.
My hog-fscking opinion for what it's worth: Technology languished for ~800 years due to the refusal to propagate knowledge by the Church of Rome and the Royalty. Note that the only scholars of the time were monks and very-high-ranking officials.
The less the peasants know, the more loyal they will remain to us.
Imagine if you will, what would have happened if Marxism was thought up between 500-1500 AD. It'd probably make the Peasant's Revolt look like a bar fight.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Are you sure BWK & Ken didn't leave to become the 4th & 5th members of ZZ Top?
Anyhoo -- that just leaves DMR there as THE BIG NAME at Bell Labs (with all due respect to Rob Pike, et. al.). Let's hope he sticks around for a while longer.
AWK on, Kernighan!
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Last week when Mike Muuss (the inventor of ping) died, someone posted that we should pay our respects to our heroes and legends of computing before they're gone forever.
:)
Thanks, Ken, for everything. Just don't get behind the stick of them MiG-25s again.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
I may just have to buy a G4 just to see in run a real OS, be it OS X or OpenBSD 2.8 (I preordered it 3 weeks ago, for my SPARCClassic X.)
IMHO, there are two things left for OpenBSD to do for now:
Something to look forward toward in OpenBSD 3.x.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
If you're impatient, you can check out DMR's webpage.
He's got a ton of stuff on the old days of Unix, C, etc.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
I won't be loaded until my $24k of student loans are paid off.
:(
On-topic: Does the UF Project for Humanity still exist?
Also on-topic: My alma mater, Westminster College, regularly gave all the aged & retired 486s to Lawrence County HeadStart. Now all the little kids in New Castle, PA will know the phrase "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" by heart.
"See kids? It's okay to make mistakes -- this computer makes mistakes all the time!"
WC wouldn't let me pre-install FreeBSD before they sent them out.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
Their reasoning:
To get back on topic, it seems to me that NSI uses "George Carlin's Incomplete List of Impolite Words" to determine what's inappropriate in a domain name. But still, how do names like f.uk get through?
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
I agree in principle, but it'd be a bit difficult...but I'll try....
[snip]
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.
PING muuss from slashdot.org, 56 bytes
slashdot.org reports: Destination host unreachable
slashdot.org reports: Destination host unreachable
slashdot.org reports: Destination host unreachable
^C
God bless ya, Mike. I pay my homage to you for making my job, and the jobs of millions of others, that much simpler.
Thus sprach DrQu+xum, SID=218745.