In November I decided, what the hell, I'll start a web server, and now I've made something I'm pretty proud of, all things considered. Fortunately I haven't posted every inane and stupid thing that happens to me as I go about my day, and try to leave it to entertaining things. In any case, starting a weblog sort of thing really has sparked a lot of interest at my high school.
Or controversy, considering that I was really angry and swore at a school administrator and got suspended... That kind of sucked. Lot of First Amendment vs. respect anger there. And then a friend of mine quoted me and got suspended too.
However in general I think that democratizing this sort of publishing is really positive, as long as it's not merely bitching about having a crummy day and so forth.
I bought the domain thwart.net, hoping to make it into a sort of anarchial index of other people starting up weblog-type setups oriented around their friends, not just themselves. However I've been busy.:-( Could be cool though.
For this task I use NewsPro, a great and extensible, though limited in many ways, CGI script. What fun! Freely (as in beer at least) available at http://amphibian.gagames.com/newspro/. Have fun!
Maybe there's some truth to that, but you'd have to agree the same is true for, say, the American Lung Society, which would be out of business if everybody REALLY stopped smoking.
I don't think they're a for-profit organization, unlike this "race industry." Then again, the MPAA is a NPO too, I'm pretty sure.
Stallman, angered that the US military had seemingly violated, or at least bent, the clauses and the intent of the GPL, rode swiftly across the land in his Honda, calling on GNU religious adherents everywhere to his righteous flag of free beer, free speech and free penguins. The many suspender-and-beard wearing supporters held protests across the land objecting to the military's theft of GPL'ed intellectual property.
And yet the military abused its power more and more, taking GPL'ed code and putting it in proprietary systems.
And the people took up pitchforks and soldering irons and marched to the Pentagon behind Stallman's Honda.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was in a meeting when he heard the chant, growing stronger with each passing moment. The voice of the people had reached into the corridors of power.
Outside, thousands upon thousands now called to the military, "All your base are belong to us!!!" and lo, it was so.
Yes, exactly. Just a couple days ago there was the slashdot story on an Internet Movie Archive. The purpose of this archive is at least partly ephermal, [sp?] that is, recording that which is not intended as a "permanent record." For example, educational films and news reels can paint a more realistic, or complete, picture of a time past. USENET archives, perhaps, can be considered much the same thing. Of course, USENET is a very diffuse medium, low signal-to-noise ratio, but I still think this will be good.
If it said so in their original agreement with the ISP, they aren't allowed to use NAT. If they wanted to use NAT, they shouldn't have signed up for the service, or tried to cross that clause off the contract. And running your petition off the same service you're bitching about? Come on, guys...
I've been reading through the massive numbers of thoughtful, insightful and articulate replies to the topic here, and I have decided that/. does not have enough moderator points going around. People say such good, incisive stuff but it maybe only gets up to about 2 points, unless they are in the first 50 posts.
I wholeheartedly agree with the viewpoint that both cloning and genetic engineering reduces our diversity, which could have effects that we can't even begin to understand. Example: people with sickle-cell anemia, a serious blood disease, are unaffected by malaria. If people had discovered this connection a few centuries down the road, we would be in shafted because there wouldn't be anyone around with the sickle-cell gene "defect." Diversity is a key component of evolution, of course, and we need to minimize use of cloning and genetic engineering for the sake of the species.
Clarice is more like Agent Scully pursuing a meta-psycho.
Actually, the X-Files' Scully character is derived very strongly from Clarice, according to a lot of hard-core X-Philes. Both are red-haired female FBI agents strongly grounded in reality, and they must confront not only what is darkest about the world but themselves as well, and they end up entering a world of total unreality.
It doesn't matter whether you're stealing MP3's from recording artists, or you're stealing physical items from retail stores, the fact of the matter is, It's still stealing. If you steal from a store, the store is the victim. If you mug someone on the street, the person you mugged is the victim.
Well I have said this before and I will say it again: IT IS NOT THE SAME! If you steal a CD, the store is out the cost of shipping, stocking, etc. etc. not to mention the profits of the sale. If you download from Napster, the record company and the store may lose the profits of the sale. If you copy something, the first person still has the original. This is NOT like mugging a person or stealing a TV.
Brussels police spokesman told reporters today that in their ongoing crackdown on copyright violators, professional 'information warfare' officers uncovered a massive and dangerous underground network of 'thieves and antisocial miscreants. From the press conference:
American reporter: So, are Belgian authorities now aware of the piracy caused by Hotline and Carracho servers run amuck distributing Adobe Photoshop and such?
Spokesman: We're looking into that, but this situation is far more serious than that. We have found that various American companies have had their complete operating systems pirated, source code and everything!
American reporter: Did Belgian hackers steal the Windows 2000 source code?
Spokesman: No, fortunately. However, professional hackers are now using a system called "mirroring" to propagate both the source code and compiled programs of American companies. On their underground web sites, they seem to idolize some uber-hackerwho goes by the handle RMS. We have contacted the companies but they haven't gotten back to us yet.
American Reporter (mutters): No wonder you people can't hold the Germans every couple decades. Jesus!
Perhaps I'm being crass, but could unknowingly developing a romantic relationship with a computer that passes the Turing test count as adultery or masturbation?
I have heard futurists say that this era will be among the most poorly recorded times in human history, simply because digital information can be destroyed far more easily. The Library of Congress archives every issue of every periodical around as far as I know, but does it archive Slashdot comments?
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All I know is that Andrew Wiggin has the best shot at taking out the damn things once and for all.
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When I read the headline I thought: teletype? Aren't we past that? Or are we now entering an AfterY2K world... :(
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Yeah right... 2.2 to 2.4... that's not a big version jump. Only .2 ! Linux wussies! At least MacOS and Windows make a big deal of whole numbers! ;)
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Apply DVD/CSS! About as lucid as a person (or alien) could possibly want.
Plus it may permit us an opportunity to shoot the MPAA's lawyers into space.
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Hey, come on, proving that something IS redundant is not IN ITSELF redundant! Ig'nurnt moderators!
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Or controversy, considering that I was really angry and swore at a school administrator and got suspended... That kind of sucked. Lot of First Amendment vs. respect anger there. And then a friend of mine quoted me and got suspended too.
However in general I think that democratizing this sort of publishing is really positive, as long as it's not merely bitching about having a crummy day and so forth.
I bought the domain thwart.net, hoping to make it into a sort of anarchial index of other people starting up weblog-type setups oriented around their friends, not just themselves. However I've been busy. :-( Could be cool though.
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For this task I use NewsPro, a great and extensible, though limited in many ways, CGI script. What fun! Freely (as in beer at least) available at http://amphibian.gagames.com/newspro/. Have fun!
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I don't think they're a for-profit organization, unlike this "race industry." Then again, the MPAA is a NPO too, I'm pretty sure.
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And yet the military abused its power more and more, taking GPL'ed code and putting it in proprietary systems.
And the people took up pitchforks and soldering irons and marched to the Pentagon behind Stallman's Honda.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was in a meeting when he heard the chant, growing stronger with each passing moment. The voice of the people had reached into the corridors of power.
Outside, thousands upon thousands now called to the military, "All your base are belong to us!!!" and lo, it was so.
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Yes, exactly. Just a couple days ago there was the slashdot story on an Internet Movie Archive. The purpose of this archive is at least partly ephermal, [sp?] that is, recording that which is not intended as a "permanent record." For example, educational films and news reels can paint a more realistic, or complete, picture of a time past. USENET archives, perhaps, can be considered much the same thing. Of course, USENET is a very diffuse medium, low signal-to-noise ratio, but I still think this will be good.
Damn, too late to get modded up, I'm sure.
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Your first link is no good because it still the /.'ed www.aquila.net. the second one is ok, though.
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Right-o. Sorry about that. Our president knows about Greckians and Saudarians, the rest of us are no better.
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I cannot help but observe the parallels between Hoth and Iceland. :)
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"Just remember, Gates, the harder you squeeze, the more Unices will slip through your fingers!"
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...multi-dimensional arrays you could just forget it. </rant>
Heheh... rant tag... hehehe... 'cause it's about XML, which has funny tags. That's a funny!
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If it said so in their original agreement with the ISP, they aren't allowed to use NAT. If they wanted to use NAT, they shouldn't have signed up for the service, or tried to cross that clause off the contract. And running your petition off the same service you're bitching about? Come on, guys...
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Ah just shut the fu
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I've been reading through the massive numbers of thoughtful, insightful and articulate replies to the topic here, and I have decided that /. does not have enough moderator points going around. People say such good, incisive stuff but it maybe only gets up to about 2 points, unless they are in the first 50 posts.
I wholeheartedly agree with the viewpoint that both cloning and genetic engineering reduces our diversity, which could have effects that we can't even begin to understand. Example: people with sickle-cell anemia, a serious blood disease, are unaffected by malaria. If people had discovered this connection a few centuries down the road, we would be in shafted because there wouldn't be anyone around with the sickle-cell gene "defect." Diversity is a key component of evolution, of course, and we need to minimize use of cloning and genetic engineering for the sake of the species.
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Actually, the X-Files' Scully character is derived very strongly from Clarice, according to a lot of hard-core X-Philes. Both are red-haired female FBI agents strongly grounded in reality, and they must confront not only what is darkest about the world but themselves as well, and they end up entering a world of total unreality.
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This is a really unusual thing for Katz of all people to say. ;-)
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Ok obvious... :-)
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Well I have said this before and I will say it again: IT IS NOT THE SAME! If you steal a CD, the store is out the cost of shipping, stocking, etc. etc. not to mention the profits of the sale. If you download from Napster, the record company and the store may lose the profits of the sale. If you copy something, the first person still has the original. This is NOT like mugging a person or stealing a TV.
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American reporter: So, are Belgian authorities now aware of the piracy caused by Hotline and Carracho servers run amuck distributing Adobe Photoshop and such?
Spokesman: We're looking into that, but this situation is far more serious than that. We have found that various American companies have had their complete operating systems pirated, source code and everything!
American reporter: Did Belgian hackers steal the Windows 2000 source code?
Spokesman: No, fortunately. However, professional hackers are now using a system called "mirroring" to propagate both the source code and compiled programs of American companies. On their underground web sites, they seem to idolize some uber-hackerwho goes by the handle RMS. We have contacted the companies but they haven't gotten back to us yet.
American Reporter (mutters): No wonder you people can't hold the Germans every couple decades. Jesus!
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Perhaps I'm being crass, but could unknowingly developing a romantic relationship with a computer that passes the Turing test count as adultery or masturbation?
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I have heard futurists say that this era will be among the most poorly recorded times in human history, simply because digital information can be destroyed far more easily. The Library of Congress archives every issue of every periodical around as far as I know, but does it archive Slashdot comments?
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