I also found the secret room all by myself, but I read about the Magic Dot. I picked up an old Atari plus tons of games/paddles/etc at a yard sale, and went back to check... yep, still there. Ah, nostalgia... *sniff*
Hm, this now makes sense. This morning, my toaster burned "I Love You" into the back sides of my slices of toast. I pushed them back down to see if I could even out the crispiness, but then my phone rang, my blender started to spin, my faucets turned on, my fan went to high, and my dishwasher started ejecting my pots and pans. I tried to close the dishwasher door (to protect myself from the pans), but then my fridge spontaneously defrosted, the lights started flicking on and off, my car alarm went off, my radios and TV turned on and started switching channels, and my vacuum cleaner went wild, moving erratically across the floor. Finally I managed to grab a baseball bat and knock the X10 master out of its socket, and everything stopped.
Are you kidding? This is as stupid as the "This is the last odd day for twelve hundred years!" story. Slashdot is supposed to be "News for Nerds", not "Numerology Tricks for Those Who Have Nothing Better To Do". Well, guess what? This is the last day the date will be 3-14-00 for a thousand years!! So is tomorrow! And yesterday! Three in a row!!! And wait 'till we hit 6-6-6.
I have managed to slip thru^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hacquire a patent on the encoding of information as a series of four unique values as it applies to biology through the USPO. This messages serves notice that, as users of this technology, you are now my slaves. Failing that, you are to cease and desist the use of such coding. Furthermore, any attempts to reverse engineer said coding will be met with the harshest possible persecution.
This is a good thing - it should reduce all the space taken up by the people who email huge dox back and forth. Now if only it works for all those chain letters...
How interesting... sounds like unix vs. windows. As in "We'll tell you what you need to know and give you the tools to do things the way we think you should."
Urmane writes "Today on SlashDot: A U.S. District Court has denied a request by SlashDot and others to stay a preliminary injunction against their familiar green and white lettering. The injunction orders Slashdot to remove the lettering immediately from all broadcast and internet media and gives them 60 days to remove it from other more solid forms."
"You can see it yourself - the letters 'g' and 'o' in the word 'logo' in the story's title is clearly a trademark infringement. We want it stopped."
It's sad that commercial interests can so corrupt a field. This sort of thing is common in business-oriented research.
Useta be that in pure research, scientists shared all their information, for the good of the discipline. That's what the journals were for - information dissemination. Now, big business is interested, and money is king, and most research is private and trademarked company secret. Everything under the sun is patented, putting a 17 (7? don't remember) year lag in anything that can build on it. Research is no longer distributed, and the journals are just lists of scientists who will get a big bonus check this year. *heavy sigh*
Reread this paragraph, substituting "sysadmins" for "scientists", "internet/newsgroups/mailing lists" for "journals", and "source code" for "research".
Imagine that in March of 2000, you and fifteen other strangers are marooned on a deserted tropical island in the South China Sea, cruise missles sailing overhead.
White sand beaches, lush rain forest, crystal clear waters. This is your new home for seven weeks. The only other inhabitants are long tailed Macaque monkeys, monitor lizards, and our crack team of TV cameramen, journalists, and Bob Eubanks! It seems romantic, but you are now part of a bold challenge where only one of you will win the ultimate prize of one million dollars.
You will not bother with shelter - hey, it's the tropics - catch food (see aforementioned monkeys, lizards, and journalists), and establish a new island society. You must work together as a team, but only to lull your competitors into a false sense of security. Each day you will compete in challenges of strategy, guile and bludgeoning to steal your opponent's small luxuries and to preserve your chance for the ultimate cash prize.
You will form a Tribal Council. Here you will openly debate the group dynamics of the previous days, and smash the skulls of those who disagree with you. The council ends with a secret ballot where each of you votes to eat the cameramen and take the prize-winning journalists as mate. The person with the least amount of mates must leave the territory immediately and is elimiated from the gene pool.
Over the weeks, one by one, more are eliminated until only two remain. In order to choose the final winner, a unique Tribal Council is called. This final conflict (refereed by the last seven outcast males) will be a WCW Cage Match Battle Royale, with Jesse Ventura as Guest Announcer. Weeks of surviving the elements and outlasting the other castaways, but it all comes down to one - the Survivor! The winner of the $1,000,000 (less %38 federal tax, 10% millionaires tax, 3% state tax, all applicable license fees, insurances, and transportation fees. CBS owns all trademarks and distributions rights associated with this contest, including books and movie sales, as well as the Survivors persona and image without limit.)
Do you want a chance to win ONE MILLION DOLLARS (see note above)? Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate Survivor(TM)? Click here for information on how to apply for this once in a lifetime opportunity to embarrass yourself in front of the whole world, live!
Very well-done piece. I think both the author and ESR missed something, though.
The Internet is a new media. It would be worth studying the emergence of other media types - radio, newspapers, even speech in general - and their characteristics. This I think would give a better picture, and provide a better foundation for an analysis. The author has the right idea, comparing to what used to be the academic scientific community (although I fear Capitalism, Panacaea For Making Something Good, has almost completely ruined the "hot" areas in the same way Linux advocates see Microsoft ruining software).
For instance, even though I'm not a social scientist, several things leap out at this higher abstraction level, from human-nature oriented things - what was the big deal with cable? Movies? No, be honest, it was really soft porn - such as sex and advertising being the first big two utilizers of a new medium; to what I see as the major cause of OSS - the new medium needs stuff done. There's a vacuum, and the medium itself allows anyone to fill it, so they do.
This strikes me as a temporary situation though, at least partially; what happens when, five or ten years from now, you can no longer just tweak and "make" your kernel? Or the gnome/kde infrastructure is so big that newbies cannot just jump on and start coding? (In that last case, you'll start seeing more informal similarities with the academic scientific model). Will OSS really matter that much anymore?
Here's a more interesting angle into that question: what happens when computers become "invisible"? Electricity and telephones are already invisible - they're so ubiquitous that you don't notice them. Computers will be a utility and a many-to-many medium. Hm, on second thought, maybe this is just assuming the general purpose PC will go away....
Those are just possibilities though. What do you think?
Godz, we must save the children! As I see it, we must cut through the red tape. There are only two alternatives:
Remove everything dangerous to kids. War, disease, poverty, bullies, oppresive school systems, parents, cars, animals, adults, and the environment in general. Only in a complete vacuum can they be safe.
Or keep them tightly sealed in steel barrels until they're 21, and fully capable of dealing with life themselves.
Typical BS, people; the industry gives lip service to this kind of talk so they look good. Duh.
"Acquiring a CBRN/Cyber capability requires extensive funding, an overt or covert acquisition capability, a technological research and development program to produce, weaponize and stockpile CBRN materiel (or the capability to purchase or steal ready-made weapons), and a level of technical expertise and logistical infrastructure that is appropriate to launch successful CBRN attacks..."
Well, duh! With a zillion dollars, an army of scientists, years of research, and spies at all levels of the country's infrastructure, cyber-terrorism could achieve amazing levels!
The same argument might be made of efficient tax-fueled government projects.
Transmeta is actually a socioeconomic study, detailing the psychological, sociological, and economical/financial effects of secrecy, memes, alternative business practices, and venture capitalism.
Their findings, scheduled to be released in November, reveal much about human interaction as it relates to the above factors, and is entitled, "Gullibility: We Can't Believe You Retards Fell For It!"
One would think that Apple would embrace Linux - it might help them sell more machines, and/or revive the old ones. I know they make The Money from hardware/software sales, but I can't see how it would be bad for them to acknowledge Linux by, say, releasing some specs for those PowerMacs that every company on the planet is literally tossing in the dumpster - yes, even the G3s. Nobody wants to support multiple environments, so Win9x/NT wins. I've seen several companies migrate out *all* Macs, regardless of cost, to move to NT. The SAs being able to run Linux on them would keep Apple's foot in the door, so to speak.
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Hm, this now makes sense. This morning, my toaster burned "I Love You" into the back sides of my slices of toast. I pushed them back down to see if I could even out the crispiness, but then my phone rang, my blender started to spin, my faucets turned on, my fan went to high, and my dishwasher started ejecting my pots and pans. I tried to close the dishwasher door (to protect myself from the pans), but then my fridge spontaneously defrosted, the lights started flicking on and off, my car alarm went off, my radios and TV turned on and started switching channels, and my vacuum cleaner went wild, moving erratically across the floor. Finally I managed to grab a baseball bat and knock the X10 master out of its socket, and everything stopped.
Come on, Lowtax; don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
Ironic - with the quick and carefree spread of 'net sex comes the spread of viruses
Are you kidding? This is as stupid as the "This is the last odd day for twelve hundred years!" story. Slashdot is supposed to be "News for Nerds", not "Numerology Tricks for Those Who Have Nothing Better To Do". Well, guess what? This is the last day the date will be 3-14-00 for a thousand years!! So is tomorrow! And yesterday! Three in a row!!! And wait 'till we hit 6-6-6.
I have managed to slip thru^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hacquire a patent on the encoding of information as a series of four unique values as it applies to biology through the USPO. This messages serves notice that, as users of this technology, you are now my slaves. Failing that, you are to cease and desist the use of such coding. Furthermore, any attempts to reverse engineer said coding will be met with the harshest possible persecution.
This is a good thing - it should reduce all the space taken up by the people who email huge dox back and forth. Now if only it works for all those chain letters ...
How interesting ... sounds like unix vs. windows. As in "We'll tell you what you need to know and give you the tools to do things the way we think you should."
There is no Regulon? Of course there is - people don't back up everything, media tapes get reused, and old tapes fail.
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Amusing how those question marks pop up in the most interesting places ;-)
Useta be that in pure research, scientists shared all their information, for the good of the discipline. That's what the journals were for - information dissemination. Now, big business is interested, and money is king, and most research is private and trademarked company secret. Everything under the sun is patented, putting a 17 (7? don't remember) year lag in anything that can build on it. Research is no longer distributed, and the journals are just lists of scientists who will get a big bonus check this year. *heavy sigh*
Reread this paragraph, substituting "sysadmins" for "scientists", "internet/newsgroups/mailing lists" for "journals", and "source code" for "research".
I'm a little confused ... does "Universal Networking Language" mean Esperanto or TCP/IP?
White sand beaches, lush rain forest, crystal clear waters. This is your new home for seven weeks. The only other inhabitants are long tailed Macaque monkeys, monitor lizards, and our crack team of TV cameramen, journalists, and Bob Eubanks! It seems romantic, but you are now part of a bold challenge where only one of you will win the ultimate prize of one million dollars.
You will not bother with shelter - hey, it's the tropics - catch food (see aforementioned monkeys, lizards, and journalists), and establish a new island society. You must work together as a team, but only to lull your competitors into a false sense of security. Each day you will compete in challenges of strategy, guile and bludgeoning to steal your opponent's small luxuries and to preserve your chance for the ultimate cash prize.
You will form a Tribal Council. Here you will openly debate the group dynamics of the previous days, and smash the skulls of those who disagree with you. The council ends with a secret ballot where each of you votes to eat the cameramen and take the prize-winning journalists as mate. The person with the least amount of mates must leave the territory immediately and is elimiated from the gene pool.
Over the weeks, one by one, more are eliminated until only two remain. In order to choose the final winner, a unique Tribal Council is called. This final conflict (refereed by the last seven outcast males) will be a WCW Cage Match Battle Royale, with Jesse Ventura as Guest Announcer. Weeks of surviving the elements and outlasting the other castaways, but it all comes down to one - the Survivor! The winner of the $1,000,000 (less %38 federal tax, 10% millionaires tax, 3% state tax, all applicable license fees, insurances, and transportation fees. CBS owns all trademarks and distributions rights associated with this contest, including books and movie sales, as well as the Survivors persona and image without limit.)
Do you want a chance to win ONE MILLION DOLLARS (see note above)? Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate Survivor(TM)? Click here for information on how to apply for this once in a lifetime opportunity to embarrass yourself in front of the whole world, live!
The Internet is a new media. It would be worth studying the emergence of other media types - radio, newspapers, even speech in general - and their characteristics. This I think would give a better picture, and provide a better foundation for an analysis. The author has the right idea, comparing to what used to be the academic scientific community (although I fear Capitalism, Panacaea For Making Something Good, has almost completely ruined the "hot" areas in the same way Linux advocates see Microsoft ruining software).
For instance, even though I'm not a social scientist, several things leap out at this higher abstraction level, from human-nature oriented things - what was the big deal with cable? Movies? No, be honest, it was really soft porn - such as sex and advertising being the first big two utilizers of a new medium; to what I see as the major cause of OSS - the new medium needs stuff done. There's a vacuum, and the medium itself allows anyone to fill it, so they do.
This strikes me as a temporary situation though, at least partially; what happens when, five or ten years from now, you can no longer just tweak and "make" your kernel? Or the gnome/kde infrastructure is so big that newbies cannot just jump on and start coding? (In that last case, you'll start seeing more informal similarities with the academic scientific model). Will OSS really matter that much anymore?
Here's a more interesting angle into that question: what happens when computers become "invisible"? Electricity and telephones are already invisible - they're so ubiquitous that you don't notice them. Computers will be a utility and a many-to-many medium. Hm, on second thought, maybe this is just assuming the general purpose PC will go away ....
Those are just possibilities though. What do you think?
Remove everything dangerous to kids. War, disease, poverty, bullies, oppresive school systems, parents, cars, animals, adults, and the environment in general. Only in a complete vacuum can they be safe.
Or keep them tightly sealed in steel barrels until they're 21, and fully capable of dealing with life themselves.
Typical BS, people; the industry gives lip service to this kind of talk so they look good. Duh.
I remember. Wasn't it an option: you could choose which (C or C++) to compile it with/in?
The same argument might be made of efficient tax-fueled government projects.
Which one is more likely? ;-)
Their findings, scheduled to be released in November, reveal much about human interaction as it relates to the above factors, and is entitled, "Gullibility: We Can't Believe You Retards Fell For It!"
One would think that Apple would embrace Linux - it might help them sell more machines, and/or revive the old ones. I know they make The Money from hardware/software sales, but I can't see how it would be bad for them to acknowledge Linux by, say, releasing some specs for those PowerMacs that every company on the planet is literally tossing in the dumpster - yes, even the G3s. Nobody wants to support multiple environments, so Win9x/NT wins. I've seen several companies migrate out *all* Macs, regardless of cost, to move to NT. The SAs being able to run Linux on them would keep Apple's foot in the door, so to speak.