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Open Sourcers tend to have difficulty facing reality. Thats why there are so many vaoprware articles on Slashdot, these people whould rather live in the world of make-believe.
They like to delude themselves into thinking that Linux is a serious, enterprise class operating system. They like to think that there is important work being done at Sourceforge. They actually believe the RIAA won't win, that Microsoft will go out of business, that the DMCA will be repealed. Open Sourcers like Star Wars, Anime, and Quake. They like RPGs, Aeon chairs, and Lego Mindstorms.
Why? Anything to escape reality. An Open Sourcer substitutes these synthetic experiences for the real ones that normal people enjoy. Their world is shit and they know it. Building a robot out of Legos (compelte instructions provided) makes them feel smart. Gunning down an electronic foe makes them feel badass. They damn well know that they can't compete in the real world, so they entrench themselves in an electronic substitue where, if they just hit Continue often enough, they will someday be adequate.
Of course the reaction to this kind of truth will be savage. They will posture and babble and thump their chests. Thats what is often called a 'compensatory facade'. Deep down they know they are weak, they just can't admit it.
Some guy messes around with a giant corporation's software security, reverse engineering is involved, as is some cracking. The guy comes to the US to give a little presentation about his work, the corporation has him arrested for violation of the DMCA (which he certainly did). Slashbots everywhere are outraged. They call for the heads of Adobe execs, they boycott their software (as if they bought any in the first place), they post the same tired drivel every time a DMCA article goes up. They demand their freedom to steal.
Contrast this with:
Some guy messes around with a piddly little weblog's filtering software. He figures out how to post an ASCII art rendering of an infamous disgusting photograph of a man with a torn out ass. Slashbots everywhere hurriedly try to mod it down. Editors leap into action, trying to figure out how the filter was cracked. The ASCII artist is treated like a criminal.
Which they would if they wanted anything other than Windows. See, dumbass, thats how capitalism works: You get to pick what OS you want voting with your dollars. Don't want Windows? Don't fucking buy a PC with it on there, Microsoft will not make any money, they'll disappear, and maybe Red Hat will be world's largest software vendor.
Windows didn't get where it is because they wanted to, they made good business decisions. They made people want them everywhere. Dell only offers Windows because no one wants anything else. You and you long-bearded friend don't count because there aren't enough of you, nor do you have enough money to buy a computer anyway.
Bzzzzt. There are a whole bunch of judges higher than those on the Supreme Court. You might even know a few of them. Andrew Jackson is on the front of one kind.
And this is demonstrated by what evidence? Their continuing dominance over the market? The fact that they have two executives among the top 10 wealthiest people on the planet? The regular failure of Open Source companies?
Who will usurp Microsoft's power, a bunch of spineless weblog addicts? Do you think your posturing will make a difference? Maybe you'll all decide to really hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook. All those Windows partitions you all have for gaming, you'll all start using warez'd copies of Windows for that won't you? That will probably break MS, just like you broke the RIAA by boycotting a bunch of music that you were stealing in the first place.
Face it, you are powerless. No one cares about your struggle. Microsoft could spend more money on lawyers than you and all of the readers of Slashdot and all your EFFs will ever make over the course of your entire existence. You cannot win because the battle is already over, it was over long before you were born.
Keep it the hell over there so it doesn't contaminate our TV signal. Keep it over there with your inbred royal family, your oppressive taxation, your failed health care system. Keep the poorly built cars, your Naked Chefs, the misshapen bread loaves, and the tasteless fish eggs. While you're at it, hang on to the women with hairy armpits, unshaven legs, and overgrown bush.
In short: Keep all your shit. If we want something of yours, we'll come over there and take it (like Germany would do).
He should go to work for Microsoft. My years there taught me that they are a corporation willing to protect their employees, always standing up for their best intrests.
Alternatively, one could just store their encryption key on a Windows 2000 machine and leave it logged off.
The security of the Windows 2000 operating system is unparalleled in the history of computers, it would certainly be the safest environment in which to maintain any sensitive information. Thousands of companies rely on the security it provides on a daily basis, we should all join them so that we can benefit as well.
While I understand that it is often difficult for you people to come to terms with the fact that your Open Source software is vulnerable to anyone with enough skill to operate a keyboard or pointing device, you should sacrifice your idealistic viewpoint where data security is concerned. You will only end up hurting yourself in the long run.
I agree, it is the guns (or at lewast access to them) that is the main problem. If you look around there are guns everywhere, in every home, often just lying out in the open where some innocent and well meaning child might pick it up, make a list of the people he wants to kill, load the thing up in his bookbag, get it past the metal detectors, seek out his victims, then fill them full of lead. It should be obvious to compassionate person that the gun is the major player in all of that.
In addition I would like to bring up other points along these same lines. Bob Abooey, Jon Katz, and I have been conducting extensive studies that cover many of the social ill that plague our country. We have discovered the following truths:
Vehicles are involved in 100% of drunk driving fatalities. Elimination of vehicles would reduce the number of dead by 100%.
Computers are involved in 100% of all computer hacking cases. Elimination of computers would reduce these cases to 0.
Fat people are major contributors to the number of deaths in the US that occur from obesity. Mass killings of fat people would drastically reduce the number of deaths from obesity.
Dogs are involved in every single known dog bite case in the United States. To bring this problem under control we suggest the elimination of all dogs.
Indeed, these are pressing issues facing us all. For further information on Handgun Control please visit HCI's web site. Thank you.
That would work. If he planned to bike no more than 100 meters from his server. He would be better off with a strand of fiber.
Anyway, congratulations on contributing to the discussion. You've at least spent as much time thinking about it as the author of the article did. Here is a guy who says that he has 'gotten as far as' figuring out in his head what the optimal setup would be (even given some thought to an aerodynamic camera). Yet he goes no further than writing an Ask Slashdot.
Type damn 'wireless camera' into Google for crying out loud.
I question the notion that the net has spawned a community of 'thousands of online shops'. Katz seems to mention this quite often, I recall one of his recent articles mentioned 'mom and pop' e-stores or something along those lines.
While there is no doubt a lot of places to buy things online I'm not sure that it necessarily constitutes a community in the traditional sense of the word. The trend in the brick and mortar retail world is toward gigantic, all encompassing, department stores. Hardware shops that used to sell lumber and botls have been replaced by warehouse sized outlets that not only carry lumber, but TVs, applicances, and other items formerly out of the realm of hardware. The grocery business is heading the same way: it is no longer enough to just carry food, you have to offer clothing and toys and furniture as well. At least this is the case in the US.
I see online shopping heading that way as well. Times have gotten leaner and I expect that many small specialty e-tailers have been driven out of the market. This would seem to be to damage any sort of community feeling that the mom and pop folks have. If the players keep chaning and there really isn't much money to be made then that should be the trend. Even the larger shops like Amazon have not exactly been tearing it up sales wise.
Regardless, the online store community seems to be a recurring theme for Katz but I'm not sure where the evidence is.
The first OSDL project is a scalability project designed to enhance the Linux operating system to support 16 64-bit processors with near-linear performance improvement. The second project, identified with jabber.org, an open source company, is focused on increasing Linux TCP/IP concurrent connection support from 20,000 to greater than 64,000.
Under the lab's charter, all projects were established according to the open source development model. The lab does not create projects; rather, it supports and accelerates existing or new projects developed by the open source community.
Note that they are talking about 16 64-bit processors, not a 64 way machine.
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For the simple act of chaning your sig because someone found a nit to pick with it, you have been awarded the Slashbot of the Month for August 2001.
Reply here with your name, address, phone number, date of birth, social secutiry number, account ID, password, mother's maiden name, and credit card number and you will receive, via the magic of the internet, your award. Respond now, before they're all gone.
They like to delude themselves into thinking that Linux is a serious, enterprise class operating system. They like to think that there is important work being done at Sourceforge. They actually believe the RIAA won't win, that Microsoft will go out of business, that the DMCA will be repealed. Open Sourcers like Star Wars, Anime, and Quake. They like RPGs, Aeon chairs, and Lego Mindstorms.
Why? Anything to escape reality. An Open Sourcer substitutes these synthetic experiences for the real ones that normal people enjoy. Their world is shit and they know it. Building a robot out of Legos (compelte instructions provided) makes them feel smart. Gunning down an electronic foe makes them feel badass. They damn well know that they can't compete in the real world, so they entrench themselves in an electronic substitue where, if they just hit Continue often enough, they will someday be adequate.
Of course the reaction to this kind of truth will be savage. They will posture and babble and thump their chests. Thats what is often called a 'compensatory facade'. Deep down they know they are weak, they just can't admit it.
Since it uses Linux they'll call it a clusterfuck.
Some guy messes around with a giant corporation's software security, reverse engineering is involved, as is some cracking. The guy comes to the US to give a little presentation about his work, the corporation has him arrested for violation of the DMCA (which he certainly did). Slashbots everywhere are outraged. They call for the heads of Adobe execs, they boycott their software (as if they bought any in the first place), they post the same tired drivel every time a DMCA article goes up. They demand their freedom to steal.
Contrast this with:
Some guy messes around with a piddly little weblog's filtering software. He figures out how to post an ASCII art rendering of an infamous disgusting photograph of a man with a torn out ass. Slashbots everywhere hurriedly try to mod it down. Editors leap into action, trying to figure out how the filter was cracked. The ASCII artist is treated like a criminal.
The 'highlights' of the DMCA explained by the EFF and a website named 'tuxers'. Its the straight sotry I'm sure.
Also, if you are interested in an unbiased history of the US Civil Rights movement, take a look at the Klan's site.
UBB sucks.
FInally someone makes an entertaining comment.
Windows didn't get where it is because they wanted to, they made good business decisions. They made people want them everywhere. Dell only offers Windows because no one wants anything else. You and you long-bearded friend don't count because there aren't enough of you, nor do you have enough money to buy a computer anyway.
Bzzzzt. There are a whole bunch of judges higher than those on the Supreme Court. You might even know a few of them. Andrew Jackson is on the front of one kind.
Who will usurp Microsoft's power, a bunch of spineless weblog addicts? Do you think your posturing will make a difference? Maybe you'll all decide to really hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook. All those Windows partitions you all have for gaming, you'll all start using warez'd copies of Windows for that won't you? That will probably break MS, just like you broke the RIAA by boycotting a bunch of music that you were stealing in the first place.
Face it, you are powerless. No one cares about your struggle. Microsoft could spend more money on lawyers than you and all of the readers of Slashdot and all your EFFs will ever make over the course of your entire existence. You cannot win because the battle is already over, it was over long before you were born.
Keep it the hell over there so it doesn't contaminate our TV signal. Keep it over there with your inbred royal family, your oppressive taxation, your failed health care system. Keep the poorly built cars, your Naked Chefs, the misshapen bread loaves, and the tasteless fish eggs. While you're at it, hang on to the women with hairy armpits, unshaven legs, and overgrown bush.
In short: Keep all your shit. If we want something of yours, we'll come over there and take it (like Germany would do).
The plan is most likely to drink the rum and piss it over the side.
That Bob Young guy on the World's Strongest Man Contest typically gives a much more coherent interview than this version.
Now it's: Write code all your life. GIve it away for nothing. Die an angry, unshaven, heathen under a bridge somewhere.
Stated differently: Free software that is distrubuted under a policy of Release Early, Release Often is generally trash.
The security of the Windows 2000 operating system is unparalleled in the history of computers, it would certainly be the safest environment in which to maintain any sensitive information. Thousands of companies rely on the security it provides on a daily basis, we should all join them so that we can benefit as well.
While I understand that it is often difficult for you people to come to terms with the fact that your Open Source software is vulnerable to anyone with enough skill to operate a keyboard or pointing device, you should sacrifice your idealistic viewpoint where data security is concerned. You will only end up hurting yourself in the long run.
In addition I would like to bring up other points along these same lines. Bob Abooey, Jon Katz, and I have been conducting extensive studies that cover many of the social ill that plague our country. We have discovered the following truths:
Computers are involved in 100% of all computer hacking cases. Elimination of computers would reduce these cases to 0.
Fat people are major contributors to the number of deaths in the US that occur from obesity. Mass killings of fat people would drastically reduce the number of deaths from obesity.
Dogs are involved in every single known dog bite case in the United States. To bring this problem under control we suggest the elimination of all dogs.
Indeed, these are pressing issues facing us all. For further information on Handgun Control please visit HCI's web site. Thank you.
Anyway, congratulations on contributing to the discussion. You've at least spent as much time thinking about it as the author of the article did. Here is a guy who says that he has 'gotten as far as' figuring out in his head what the optimal setup would be (even given some thought to an aerodynamic camera). Yet he goes no further than writing an Ask Slashdot.
Type damn 'wireless camera' into Google for crying out loud.
Your mom loves it when I send her stuff like that. You'd better not be trying to move in on my action.
Its fast and instant.
Both? Get right out of town.
Microsoft covers all the bases, you people are stuck in the outfield.
It is neither....its a kernel.
While there is no doubt a lot of places to buy things online I'm not sure that it necessarily constitutes a community in the traditional sense of the word. The trend in the brick and mortar retail world is toward gigantic, all encompassing, department stores. Hardware shops that used to sell lumber and botls have been replaced by warehouse sized outlets that not only carry lumber, but TVs, applicances, and other items formerly out of the realm of hardware. The grocery business is heading the same way: it is no longer enough to just carry food, you have to offer clothing and toys and furniture as well. At least this is the case in the US.
I see online shopping heading that way as well. Times have gotten leaner and I expect that many small specialty e-tailers have been driven out of the market. This would seem to be to damage any sort of community feeling that the mom and pop folks have. If the players keep chaning and there really isn't much money to be made then that should be the trend. Even the larger shops like Amazon have not exactly been tearing it up sales wise.
Regardless, the online store community seems to be a recurring theme for Katz but I'm not sure where the evidence is.
The first OSDL project is a scalability project designed to enhance the Linux operating system to support 16 64-bit processors with near-linear performance improvement. The second project, identified with jabber.org, an open source company, is focused on increasing Linux TCP/IP concurrent connection support from 20,000 to greater than 64,000. Under the lab's charter, all projects were established according to the open source development model. The lab does not create projects; rather, it supports and accelerates existing or new projects developed by the open source community.
Note that they are talking about 16 64-bit processors, not a 64 way machine.