I'm sorry, but I thought Dogma was pretty damn good. I didn't at all get the sense that it was split over whether to be funny or serious; there's no reason a movie can't be both, and Dogma meshed the two together quite nicely.
Calling it "blasphemous" is short-sighted, at best. So a thirteenth apostle is introduced, and a few other minor modifications are made to traditional Christian doctrine. Big deal. The message of Dogma was that people should find some faith and stop squabbling over stupid details that, even in the short run, don't so much matter. I have a hard time calling that message blasphemy.
Meanwhile, it was a Kevin Smith movie, and was therefore funny as hell. (Yeah, I get the irony in that statement. Ha.)
One thing the article leaves out is that not only were publically accessible directories searched, but some semi-private ones as well. If the searcher was able to either easily guess the password (something along the lines of "mp3") or was able to learn the password by sending an e-mail message to the archive's maintainer, and copyrighted material was found, network access was revoked.
So what? That hardly constitutes invasion of privacy or entrapment. If a cop walks up to a suspected drug dealer and asks him for some dope, and the guy offers to sell him some, that's a legal bust.
These CMU kids don't have a leg to stand on. They were stupid and the school decided to play it safe and enforce its policies rather than revoke them (which would have been truly stupid). Get over it. You've got nothing.
Ummm, no. This was done to the student's personal computers, in their dorm rooms - our accounts on the school computers weren't touched. It had NOTHING to do with the public storage area allocated from the university's network.
The question is, were the mp3s being shared on the campus network? If so, that constitutes illegal usage of university resources. At least, it does here at Georgia Tech, and I see no reason that shouldn't apply at your school.
Blow the "network computer". Most people don't want or need lame terminals. We want flexible, capable machines that do all kinds of crap. Sorry, but more is almost always better when it comes to computers.
Suppose this is patched for network play... you run as root, and your life is tied to, say, all running processes.. If you die, everything is killed, and your machine goes bye-bye. So everyone's trying to crash each other's systems with a well-placed rocket...
That'd be some incentive to not suck.
(If you wanted to be a wuss about it you could tie it to shutdown, so if you die your machine goes down gracefully... but where's the carnage in that?)
Yeah, Quake 3 is going to be nice (especially when XFree86 4.0 is released and it goes on my TNT2), but a reissue (Linux port?:) of Commander Keen... THAT I would fork over a big, big chunk of change for. I'd buy a color GameBoy in a heartbeat if there was a Commander Keen game available. God, I love that game.
It's also one of the most used programs in history, and one of the more complex. Give them a break... it's been a while since a root exploit was discovered in sendmail, yo.
As for the "proprietary" sendmail... it's pretty much just an interface to sendmail. Check your facts.
And what happens the next day when that same person is hungry again, and the other guy doesn't have a TV? That's the fallacy of socialism and why these seemingly simple ideas always fail.
No, that's a display of your inability to think metaphorically. When I say "feed", think "educate and if necessary feed". Something laissez-faire capitalists always forget (aside from the fact that we've tried that, and it just fucked over a lot of people) is that in a capitalist society there will *always* be some unemployed. If there weren't any unemployed, there'd be no labor pool to draw from. New businesses would be extremely difficult to found. The capitalist system would probably deadlock.
At any rate, you seem (like too many other uninformed people here) to equate socialism with the Communist governments around the world. Sorry, but it's not the same thing. If you want to see socialism, visit Europe sometime. It seems to be working pretty nicely there.
You're equating sanctity of property with sanctity of life, which is a notion that I think socialism finds absurd and offensive (and rightly so).
Sorry, pal, but your new TV is worth shit next to someone else's hunger. As far as I can see, it makes all kinds of sense for a government to take that TV away from you, sell it, and feed someone for a while or buy a kid a textbook or three.
Crimes against property are not the same thing as crimes against people, and it's about fucking time the U.S. took note of that fact and reformed accordingly.
How is it that something which is illegal for one person to do (e.g. a non-voluntary transfer of money) becomes legal when the "community" does it?
Yeah, well, welcome to society. Much as we'd all love to play idiotic semantics games with you, I think even you realize that this is an absurd argument.
First, children have always worked. Second, add up the hours that children work in school, and after school on homework. Ten- to twelve-hour days are commonplace.
Wow, I sure hope you aren't seriously arguing that hours spent in school equate to hours spent milling textiles, especially for children. If you are, you're less intelligent than I was already inclined to believe.
The average American lived in squalid poverty before the businesses came along. How can they be said to have caused that poverty?
Not a student of history, are you? Dig on "industrial revolution" and "gilded age".
If you ask Libertarians, they'll tell you that they don't want the benefits and security that government provides either. Such benefits and security always come at a price.
Sounds like a bunch of foolhardy anarchists to me. Anarchy's been seen (Somalia comes to mind). It doesn't work out real well. The benefits and security provided by government far outweigh the taxes and regulations most libertarians live under. God forbid you should have to live only comfortably instead of luxuriously because someone wants to build a road or school a child. Last I checked, they were a bunch of whiny jerks bent on reneging on any sort of social responsibility. And if it WERE every man for himself, the libertarians would probably be the first flushed out of the gene pool.
Didn't we just see a huge article describing exactly the level of bullshit on the meter about this dvorak stuff? I've got a bunch of friends who have gone to dvorak, and none of them have shown much improvement over qwerty that I can see.
Okay, sharp guy, would you rather bust a guy for crossing state lines with intent to have sex with a minor and throw his ass in jail (which is the current plan), or wait til he actually HAS had sex with a minor and charge him for that? Personally, I prefer the former, which under federal law is a crime, and he performed an act which violated it.
that doesn't mean it's okay to make RPM the "standard". If you're going that route, why would you choose anything other than.tgz packages (which Slackware uses) as standard? Everyone has tar and gzip...you wouldn't even need something like alien.
The LSB does not need to specify a packaging system. All I'm saying.
You don't understand. I'm not talking about a small minority off in the corner compiling all their stuff for fun. I'm talking about most Debian users, most Slackware users, and a fair chunk of the users of other distributions. And that's a sizeable portion of the Linux community.
[b] Have a standard method we can use to add an app to kde menus (NO, the stupid.kdesktop file (or in the case of gnome the.desktop file is NOT the answer DAMMIT.)...something like a shell script call from an RPM will be nice -- work with redhat. the same goes for gnome. Note that RPM is probably going to be the standard for the LSB.
That makes LSB a bit of a misnomer, doesn't it?
Quite a lot of people don't like and don't want RPM (and, methinks, with good reason)... It'd be foolish for KDE to base such things on it.
As for Kermit, well... Good riddence to another fallen fairytale. Exposing the children to the fact that even their childhood friends are sellouts is a worthwhile lesson. Disillusionment is good. We do not want our kids growing up in a world of illusions and false beliefs, do we?
Heck no. What we want are mindless, unimaginative worker drones. If we can make everyone really cold and untrusting, hell, that's just bonus!
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I'm sorry, but I thought Dogma was pretty damn good. I didn't at all get the sense that it was split over whether to be funny or serious; there's no reason a movie can't be both, and Dogma meshed the two together quite nicely.
Calling it "blasphemous" is short-sighted, at best. So a thirteenth apostle is introduced, and a few other minor modifications are made to traditional Christian doctrine. Big deal. The message of Dogma was that people should find some faith and stop squabbling over stupid details that, even in the short run, don't so much matter. I have a hard time calling that message blasphemy.
Meanwhile, it was a Kevin Smith movie, and was therefore funny as hell. (Yeah, I get the irony in that statement. Ha.)
One thing the article leaves out is that not only were publically accessible directories searched, but some semi-private ones as well. If the searcher was able to either easily guess the password (something along the lines of "mp3") or was able to learn the password by sending an e-mail message to the archive's maintainer, and copyrighted material was found, network access was revoked.
So what? That hardly constitutes invasion of privacy or entrapment. If a cop walks up to a suspected drug dealer and asks him for some dope, and the guy offers to sell him some, that's a legal bust.
These CMU kids don't have a leg to stand on. They were stupid and the school decided to play it safe and enforce its policies rather than revoke them (which would have been truly stupid). Get over it. You've got nothing.
Ummm, no. This was done to the student's personal computers, in their dorm rooms - our accounts on the school computers weren't touched. It had NOTHING to do with the public storage area allocated from the university's network.
The question is, were the mp3s being shared on the campus network? If so, that constitutes illegal usage of university resources. At least, it does here at Georgia Tech, and I see no reason that shouldn't apply at your school.
Not all women go for jerks.
Who the hell is interested in women who do?
So where are these things? IBM says they're shipping... but they don't even appear to be in THEIR online store, let alone anyone else's...
Blow the "network computer". Most people don't want or need lame terminals. We want flexible, capable machines that do all kinds of crap. Sorry, but more is almost always better when it comes to computers.
Suppose this is patched for network play... you run as root, and your life is tied to, say, all running processes.. If you die, everything is killed, and your machine goes bye-bye. So everyone's trying to crash each other's systems with a well-placed rocket...
That'd be some incentive to not suck.
(If you wanted to be a wuss about it you could tie it to shutdown, so if you die your machine goes down gracefully... but where's the carnage in that?)
My new Xeon obsolesced to an abacus in the drive home. ;)
Really? I sure could use an abacus... mail it to me.
I have no idea which "Gen" I belong to. I'm 20. I dig massively on both Gibson and Stephenson (and Sterling, and diFilipo).
Actually, we just kinda don't put Bob's head on our stuff because we just kinda don't do that. We're Church-sanctioned, man. :)
Yeah, Quake 3 is going to be nice (especially when XFree86 4.0 is released and it goes on my TNT2), but a reissue (Linux port? :) of Commander Keen... THAT I would fork over a big, big chunk of change for. I'd buy a color GameBoy in a heartbeat if there was a Commander Keen game available. God, I love that game.
For their senior project, these kids launched a freakin' satellite.
Much as I hate hardware (stupid evil sound card of doom sound cards, especially, at the moment), I'm pretty impressed.
"So, what'd you do last weekend?"
"Oh, we put our satellite, that we built because we wanted to, into orbit. You?"
It's also one of the most used programs in history, and one of the more complex. Give them a break... it's been a while since a root exploit was discovered in sendmail, yo.
As for the "proprietary" sendmail... it's pretty much just an interface to sendmail. Check your facts.
And what happens the next day when that same person is hungry again, and the other guy doesn't have a TV? That's the fallacy of socialism and why these seemingly simple ideas always fail.
No, that's a display of your inability to think metaphorically. When I say "feed", think "educate and if necessary feed". Something laissez-faire capitalists always forget (aside from the fact that we've tried that, and it just fucked over a lot of people) is that in a capitalist society there will *always* be some unemployed. If there weren't any unemployed, there'd be no labor pool to draw from. New businesses would be extremely difficult to found. The capitalist system would probably deadlock.
At any rate, you seem (like too many other uninformed people here) to equate socialism with the Communist governments around the world. Sorry, but it's not the same thing. If you want to see socialism, visit Europe sometime. It seems to be working pretty nicely there.
You're equating sanctity of property with sanctity of life, which is a notion that I think socialism finds absurd and offensive (and rightly so).
Sorry, pal, but your new TV is worth shit next to someone else's hunger. As far as I can see, it makes all kinds of sense for a government to take that TV away from you, sell it, and feed someone for a while or buy a kid a textbook or three.
Crimes against property are not the same thing as crimes against people, and it's about fucking time the U.S. took note of that fact and reformed accordingly.
How is it that something which is illegal for one person to do (e.g. a non-voluntary transfer of money) becomes legal when the "community" does it?
Yeah, well, welcome to society. Much as we'd all love to play idiotic semantics games with you, I think even you realize that this is an absurd argument.
First, children have always worked. Second, add up the hours that children work in school, and after school on homework. Ten- to twelve-hour days are commonplace.
Wow, I sure hope you aren't seriously arguing that hours spent in school equate to hours spent milling textiles, especially for children. If you are, you're less intelligent than I was already inclined to believe.
The average American lived in squalid poverty before the businesses came along. How can they be said to have caused that poverty?
Not a student of history, are you? Dig on "industrial revolution" and "gilded age".
If you ask Libertarians, they'll tell you that they don't want the benefits and security that government provides either. Such benefits and security always come at a price.
Sounds like a bunch of foolhardy anarchists to me. Anarchy's been seen (Somalia comes to mind). It doesn't work out real well. The benefits and security provided by government far outweigh the taxes and regulations most libertarians live under. God forbid you should have to live only comfortably instead of luxuriously because someone wants to build a road or school a child. Last I checked, they were a bunch of whiny jerks bent on reneging on any sort of social responsibility. And if it WERE every man for himself, the libertarians would probably be the first flushed out of the gene pool.
Didn't we just see a huge article describing exactly the level of bullshit on the meter about this dvorak stuff? I've got a bunch of friends who have gone to dvorak, and none of them have shown much improvement over qwerty that I can see.
Nice to see the eugenicists are back.
Well, no. A "capitol" is a building.
What the hell's a "catpital"?
Okay, sharp guy, would you rather bust a guy for crossing state lines with intent to have sex with a minor and throw his ass in jail (which is the current plan), or wait til he actually HAS had sex with a minor and charge him for that? Personally, I prefer the former, which under federal law is a crime, and he performed an act which violated it.
that doesn't mean it's okay to make RPM the "standard". If you're going that route, why would you choose anything other than .tgz packages (which Slackware uses) as standard? Everyone has tar and gzip...you wouldn't even need something like alien.
The LSB does not need to specify a packaging system. All I'm saying.
You don't understand. I'm not talking about a small minority off in the corner compiling all their stuff for fun. I'm talking about most Debian users, most Slackware users, and a fair chunk of the users of other distributions. And that's a sizeable portion of the Linux community.
[b] Have a standard method we can use to add an app to kde menus (NO, the stupid .kdesktop file (or in the case of gnome the .desktop file is NOT the answer DAMMIT.)...something like a shell script call from an RPM will be nice -- work with redhat. the same goes for gnome. Note that RPM is probably going to be the standard for the LSB.
That makes LSB a bit of a misnomer, doesn't it?
Quite a lot of people don't like and don't want RPM (and, methinks, with good reason)... It'd be foolish for KDE to base such things on it.
As for Kermit, well... Good riddence to another fallen fairytale. Exposing the children to the fact that even their childhood friends are sellouts is a worthwhile lesson. Disillusionment is good. We do not want our kids growing up in a world of illusions and false beliefs, do we?
Heck no. What we want are mindless, unimaginative worker drones. If we can make everyone really cold and untrusting, hell, that's just bonus!