Why's this story not on the main page? I don't have any of those self-censoring preferences. This is an interesting story...someone should type up a forecast for Titan in the form of one of those National Weather Service advisories...you know, the ALL-CAPS ones.
Re:Some of us worked our way through art school...
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Like a drunken Russian diplomat waving around his diplomatic passport at the scene of a car wreck, the artsy types immediately pull out the "if you restrict Art funding, you jeopardize the foundation upon which the free world was founded" argument whenever someone suggests that the people who like Art should be the ones paying for it.
If you worked your way through Art school, congratulations to you. You could have gotten free money from the Government to pursue your "education". And whenever it was required of you to produce Art, just go pay some homeless bum $10 to urinate on a canvas, thus demonstrating for the 40 people who come to your exhibition the ugly sight and stench of the cruelty of white males.
I think this videogame Art that is the subject of this story is just a dodge, a scam. Some guy just made a bunch of still scenes that reinforced his political beliefs in order to justify further grants and funding. Still, an improvement from his earlier "work", which consisted of hours of downloading porn, then taking 10 minutes in Photoshop to blur out the naked ladies in each image. Yeah. Go Art.
These things really just make me sad more than anything else. Even though I pay for Art year in and year out, Art has no place in my daily life. None. I don't participate in Art or enjoy Art in any way. And it's exhibits like these that convince me that Artists are for the large part untalented, uncreative scam artists who only continue to receive public subsidies by using the same unscrupulous tactics in Congress as the Tobacco companies and the defense industries.
Re:Some of us worked our way through art school...
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If you appreciate art, pay for it. Don't make me pay for it with my money.
As an aside, I had a couple of hours to kill in a strange city a couple of years ago, and a public library was nearby, so I stopped by and immediately went for the "Computer" books section. Needless to say, most of the books were about BASIC on your TRS-80 and the like. One of the more interesting books was a "Video Game Guide" that listed different gaming consoles availible that year. This work predated the Atari 2600 by a year or two, and as such only listed pong-type games (classifying them by how many "games" they featured, i.e. "tennis", "table tennis", "doubles", "squash" which were really only re-arrangements of the paddles and walls). The relevant part is a piece out of the book describing the next year's models of non-programmable game consoles being demonstrated by a factory tech - "This young man deftly manipulated BOTH paddles, playing a game of pong with himself with an ease that amazed onlookers." Hence my point, that people simply SUCKED at hand-eye type coordination back then, and we're just getting better and better and better at it. Take a pinball wizard and ask him to play Quake. He'll spend the whole day trying to figure out how to aim the mouse.
They aren't that funny. Maybe you have to be a part of the Eastern Establishment to get it, or something. Anyway, this article pretty much sums it up.
As few at Gino's could avoid knowing, the man has been a fan of The Capitol Steps ever since he heard a friend's copy of the group's 1994 Clinton-skewering album Lord Of The Fries.
"That was a good album," the man noted, "with some really funny stuff like 'Middle-Aged Lady Named Janet Reno.'"
"Instead of 'Little Old Lady From Pasadena,' he clarified."
alt.hackers is still around, and still the moderated group with no moderator. Posting frequency is pretty low, but that's the way they likes it. I think the Will you were referring to was Voyager. He's still around, sometimes he'll show up to drink some Cuervo way down Mexico way.
You'll pardon me if I don't show a lot of sympathy with your post. You sound like a whiny "I want everything my way" Baby Boomer type.
I work with a senior guy, who is very valuable. We work at a "dot-com" with very little structure, everything is rush-rush-it's-due-for-the-demo-tomorrow. This guy is in his thirties, and he has, several times, LEFT THE PREMISES in the middle of a critical deployment to go coach a kid's hockey game. He doesn't even have a son on the team, I guess he just decided he wanted to be a coach. He says, "Oh, around 7pm I have to leave to coach, I'll be back at 10pm if you need me" and then JUST LEAVES. Guess who has to pick up the slack? Me. And I'm not nearly as good as him, and I end up calling him on his cell to ask him questions, and half the time he turns his cell phone off even though he knows we need him.
Now that's great and all, everybody knows you need to have a life, etc, etc. But what if I said that I need to have three hours off several evenings a week, just so that I could play Command & Conquer, because playing C&C is "important" to me. I'd get a lot of shit from my boss and wouldn't get looked on very well next time I was up for a raise, or asked for some paid training. I mean, do what's important to you, but don't expect it to reflect well on your career.
We have a senior DBA here from a South American country, he works constantly, and he just had a baby. He's always availible when we need him, and we need him a lot. In the country he's from, one of the head government people was photographed handing a bushel of cash money to an influential legislator. You think this guy wants to go back there? No, he's going to work long and hard because he wants to be here, not because he takes it for granted as a birthright that he only works a set amount and then can forget about work until a set time the next day.
Have you ever thought, that perhaps America is actually better off, all things considered, with the spy system in place, than without? The NSA and their capabilities do protect us, and better yet, deter potential enemies, dissuading them from even so much as trying to blow up a piece of America.
Anybody remember right before New Year's 2000, an Algerian was captured trying to enter the USA from Canada (Refer to here and here) with a huge amount of explosives in the trunk and a hotel reservation a few blocks away from the Space Needle. The Seattle New Year's Eve 2000 public gathering was subsequently cancelled at the urging of federal officials. How do you think they knew when and where to look for this guy crossing the border? Echelon. The American spy agencies absolutely do not do any Dick-Tracy-like legwork nowadays. It's far more manpower-efficient to simply listen in.
The point being, that there are genuine threats out there, and the NSA is, really, trying its best to protect you, whether you realize it or not. The NSA's monomania can really be traced all the way back to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent "never again" attitude that has pervaded ever since.
See what happens when you take regular lame-o dorks and give them powerful digital connections. Don't trust me, read here!
<SLiPY:#darknet> hah this guy is narcing me
<SLiPY:#darknet> for telling him he's a fucking homo
<SLiPY:#darknet> for sleeping with 1 guy and his girl
<SLiPY:#darknet> a orgy, 2 guys 1 girl
<SLiPY:#darknet> so he does a whois on my isp
<SLiPY:#darknet> pastes my ip and goes
<SLiPY:#darknet> YOUR OWNED
<SLiPY:#darknet> HAHAHAHAHA
<SLiPY:#darknet> SEE YOU IN JAIL
<SLiPY:#darknet> i'm like wtf
<SLiPY:#darknet> the guy pastes me the email he sent
<SLiPY:#darknet> he sent it to hostmaster@mtt.ca
<no_ana> antix
<tNc:#darknet> LOL
<SLiPY:#darknet> i'm like dude, thats for uhm other shit, email root@mtt.ca
<SLiPY:#darknet> so i told him to email root@mtt.ca and abuse@mtt.ca
<Shatter> GLuE IZ BETTUH THAN PaSTe
<SLiPY:#darknet> see if they care that i called u a queer on a irc channel.
<scam-WORK:#darknet> I am boo0ored !"#
<Crow^^:#darknet> me too
<scam-WORK:#darknet> lets.. packet something
<tNc:#darknet> scam-WORK heheh
<scam-WORK:#darknet> =)
<scam-WORK:#darknet> try packet me
<Cruciphux:#darknet> time for a new job?
<scam-WORK:#darknet> I`ll give u 10 roots if u are able to drop me
<gov-boi:#darknet> anyone have unreleased overflows to trade?
<wait3r:#darknet> your offering 'roots' for someone to drop you?
<wait3r:#darknet> heh
<gov-boi:#darknet> anyone have the sendmail 8.11.0 remote sploit?
<gov-boi:#darknet> or hasnt it made its rounds yet..
<scam-WORK:#darknet> gov-boi : I am workin on bind P5
<Eas:#darknet> working on bind P5?
<Eas:#darknet> I already talked about this with Mixter
<scam-WORK:#darknet> Eas : I said I was workin on it.. and. I already found some owerflows.. for DoS..
<scam-WORK:#darknet> but nothing else
<Eas:#darknet> for dos.
<Eas:#darknet> okay
<Eas:#darknet> what about the bind P3 ?
First of all, you're a newbie. Next, EFnet doesn't implement lame-o "channel services" because anyone who can't defend their channel or nick doesn't deserve to keep them. As well, it prevents lamers from registering your cool nick you've had forever and then only joining a client once every three months. Abuse by opers is also prevented.
So, in conclusion, if you don't like it, leave. EFnet isn't any poorer because of it.
Acutally, isn't KDE supposed to have originally been a replacement for people familiar with CDE? Hence the similar name.
With regards to the Xi CDE install hosing the Xfree installation, in Xi's defense, if you're going to go to all the trouble of purchasing an X server and CDE for your machine, why would you want to run the previously-installed freeware GUI? I think the reviewer/hobbyist got a copy and expected everything to go smooth as silk the entire way, and the install hosed his box, and he got all pissy and wrote a scathing review.
I occasionally use CDE under Solaris at work, it's not as utterly horrible as everyone seems to be making it out to be, but it's definitely not as "good" as KDE. Dtterm in particular is not what I'd choose as a day-to-day workhorse, but on the other hand Konsole isn't that great either.
forging an
email address is not going to trick the system. The FBI isn't stupid.
I don't know about that...this is the agency who put a scientist in solitary for a year and lets the director of the CIA off for the same offense, the agency whose own crime lab falsified test results, whose agents can and will lie to you when they're asking you questions about your friends. The FBI really doesn't do
Perry Mason-type investigations any more. They only have two tools in their kit, informants and wiretapping. That's why they're so worked up about Carnivore,
it's their only hope.
Lest you think I'm some kind of right-wing whacko (anybody who doesn't trust the FBI is inevitably tagged as one), I admire the job the FBI does most of the time protecting Americans. I just wish they would do more investigating, and less
lying (known as misleading, and it's perfectly legal).
Maybe it's just me, but I found "Pi" to be a dumb movie. I came in expecting to see something vaguely associated with mathematics, but got a story that was completely lacking in any sort of math whatsoever and, instead, substituted unlikely happenstance and a secret code in a Jewish holy book?!? Might as well go watch "The Omega Code".
But then, I didn't go to film school, I'm not the kind of guy who can appreciate the director's use of lighting, I just like watching movies.
Re:As requested: facts about Al Gore and the inter
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It's pretty clear what Al Gore meant, he was trying to take credit for someone else's successful idea. It's not a big deal, politicians do it all the time. Al Gore just got called out on it, that's all.
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The Olympics is a spectator sport. NBC paid big, big dollars for the right to cover the Olympics and display the Rings alongside the Peacock. NBC needs to recoup all of that money and then turn a profit. They do this by attracting television viewers. Television viewers are not entranced by dull events that no Americans will win. They will change the channel and watch a rerun of Sienfeld or M*A*S*H. Viewers want stories about people they can relate to, people they could imagine themselves being, if perhaps things had turned out differently. In the telling words of this excellent article about the coverage of the Atlanta Olympics,
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almost 50 percent of the audience of the
Olympics doesn't normally watch sporting events. "
and "Women want to get personal. They want warmly intimate stories, not athletic competition and cold hard scores."
So there's your answer, if you choose to understand it. They're giving the viewer what she wants.
As requested: facts about Al Gore and the internet
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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
-- Al Gore, March 9, 1999; CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer
Re:History proves this type of thing wrong
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Maybe not executed, but you could sure hire some Pinkertons and have them beaten silly.
That's rather like saying, "Gosh, those National Socialist Scientists are great guys! I visited their compound and they showed me how they were going to improve quality of life by eliminating poverty, unemployment, and helping to bring peace to the whole world. They don't care a bit about the whole "embrace and extinguish" tactics of their government employer, instead they focus their efforts on such things as rocket power, alternative fuels, and improved methods of soap-making. When I graduate Bremen University, I'm really considering taking the oath to the Leader and working there!"
it would be wildly stupid for MS to try to reinvent IPv6, simply so that it won't
work.
This is exactly why they will do it. If Micros~1 implemented $STANDARD in a way that was exactly 100% compatible with everybody else's $PRODUCT, there would be no compelling reason to use the MS implementation. It would then follow that one could easily have a hybrid environment composed of MS servers and other OS's.
On the other hand, if Micros~1 implements $STANDARD in such a way that it only slightly deviates from the way everybody else does it, there will be subtle, annoying incompatibilities evident to end users. Installing a Microsoft server will eliminate those problems. This course of action enhances shareholder value, and any other action by Microsoft that did not enhance said value would be, frankly, irresponsible.
That's a nice, windy post, but the reason that nobody likes Amazon's cookie shenanigans, is that the only benefit is to them, so they can charge you higher prices.
I can't remember if I've ever used the word "merits" more than once in a single week.
I believe you are confusing the Mir space station with the International Space Station. Mir is Russian-constructed, and IIRC currently owned by a corporation, and the ISS is, well, international.
Yeah, doesn't make sense at all...an American producer, making a show destined for an American audience, having the cast of the show be Americans. Don't know what he was thinking.
Of course, there could probably be a Canadian or two on the show, and I don't think anyone would even notice.
These shows are so boring, you could hardly tear yourself away from the screen, huh? You'd figure someone that thinks these to be hardly interesting wouldn't watch them at all. Like me, for instance.
The Mir show will be boring, like the other shows. Won't stop anyone from watching it, though. Millions and millions of people watch TV every night habitually, whether or not there's anything on.
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Why's this story not on the main page? I don't have any of those self-censoring preferences. This is an interesting story...someone should type up a forecast for Titan in the form of one of those National Weather Service advisories...you know, the ALL-CAPS ones.
If you worked your way through Art school, congratulations to you. You could have gotten free money from the Government to pursue your "education". And whenever it was required of you to produce Art, just go pay some homeless bum $10 to urinate on a canvas, thus demonstrating for the 40 people who come to your exhibition the ugly sight and stench of the cruelty of white males.
I think this videogame Art that is the subject of this story is just a dodge, a scam. Some guy just made a bunch of still scenes that reinforced his political beliefs in order to justify further grants and funding. Still, an improvement from his earlier "work", which consisted of hours of downloading porn, then taking 10 minutes in Photoshop to blur out the naked ladies in each image. Yeah. Go Art.
These things really just make me sad more than anything else. Even though I pay for Art year in and year out, Art has no place in my daily life. None. I don't participate in Art or enjoy Art in any way. And it's exhibits like these that convince me that Artists are for the large part untalented, uncreative scam artists who only continue to receive public subsidies by using the same unscrupulous tactics in Congress as the Tobacco companies and the defense industries.
If you appreciate art, pay for it. Don't make me pay for it with my money.
I wonder how many of those pictures were protected by copyright before they were created into Art?
As an aside, I had a couple of hours to kill in a strange city a couple of years ago, and a public library was nearby, so I stopped by and immediately went for the "Computer" books section. Needless to say, most of the books were about BASIC on your TRS-80 and the like. One of the more interesting books was a "Video Game Guide" that listed different gaming consoles availible that year. This work predated the Atari 2600 by a year or two, and as such only listed pong-type games (classifying them by how many "games" they featured, i.e. "tennis", "table tennis", "doubles", "squash" which were really only re-arrangements of the paddles and walls). The relevant part is a piece out of the book describing the next year's models of non-programmable game consoles being demonstrated by a factory tech - "This young man deftly manipulated BOTH paddles, playing a game of pong with himself with an ease that amazed onlookers." Hence my point, that people simply SUCKED at hand-eye type coordination back then, and we're just getting better and better and better at it. Take a pinball wizard and ask him to play Quake. He'll spend the whole day trying to figure out how to aim the mouse.
Eh? Texas is quite more likely to dismiss legal hair-splitting and shenanigans of the type listed above and to administer simple, clear justice.
As few at Gino's could avoid knowing, the man has been a fan of The Capitol Steps ever since he heard a friend's copy of the group's 1994 Clinton-skewering album Lord Of The Fries.
"That was a good album," the man noted, "with some really funny stuff like 'Middle-Aged Lady Named Janet Reno.'"
"Instead of 'Little Old Lady From Pasadena,' he clarified."
alt.hackers is still around, and still the moderated group with no moderator. Posting frequency is pretty low, but that's the way they likes it. I think the Will you were referring to was Voyager. He's still around, sometimes he'll show up to drink some Cuervo way down Mexico way.
I work with a senior guy, who is very valuable. We work at a "dot-com" with very little structure, everything is rush-rush-it's-due-for-the-demo-tomorrow. This guy is in his thirties, and he has, several times, LEFT THE PREMISES in the middle of a critical deployment to go coach a kid's hockey game. He doesn't even have a son on the team, I guess he just decided he wanted to be a coach. He says, "Oh, around 7pm I have to leave to coach, I'll be back at 10pm if you need me" and then JUST LEAVES. Guess who has to pick up the slack? Me. And I'm not nearly as good as him, and I end up calling him on his cell to ask him questions, and half the time he turns his cell phone off even though he knows we need him.
Now that's great and all, everybody knows you need to have a life, etc, etc. But what if I said that I need to have three hours off several evenings a week, just so that I could play Command & Conquer, because playing C&C is "important" to me. I'd get a lot of shit from my boss and wouldn't get looked on very well next time I was up for a raise, or asked for some paid training. I mean, do what's important to you, but don't expect it to reflect well on your career.
We have a senior DBA here from a South American country, he works constantly, and he just had a baby. He's always availible when we need him, and we need him a lot. In the country he's from, one of the head government people was photographed handing a bushel of cash money to an influential legislator. You think this guy wants to go back there? No, he's going to work long and hard because he wants to be here, not because he takes it for granted as a birthright that he only works a set amount and then can forget about work until a set time the next day.
Anybody remember right before New Year's 2000, an Algerian was captured trying to enter the USA from Canada (Refer to here and here) with a huge amount of explosives in the trunk and a hotel reservation a few blocks away from the Space Needle. The Seattle New Year's Eve 2000 public gathering was subsequently cancelled at the urging of federal officials. How do you think they knew when and where to look for this guy crossing the border? Echelon. The American spy agencies absolutely do not do any Dick-Tracy-like legwork nowadays. It's far more manpower-efficient to simply listen in.
The point being, that there are genuine threats out there, and the NSA is, really, trying its best to protect you, whether you realize it or not. The NSA's monomania can really be traced all the way back to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent "never again" attitude that has pervaded ever since.
See what happens when you take regular lame-o dorks and give them powerful digital connections. Don't trust me, read here!
<SLiPY:#darknet> hah this guy is narcing me
<SLiPY:#darknet> for telling him he's a fucking homo
<SLiPY:#darknet> for sleeping with 1 guy and his girl
<SLiPY:#darknet> a orgy, 2 guys 1 girl
<SLiPY:#darknet> so he does a whois on my isp
<SLiPY:#darknet> pastes my ip and goes
<SLiPY:#darknet> YOUR OWNED
<SLiPY:#darknet> HAHAHAHAHA
<SLiPY:#darknet> SEE YOU IN JAIL
<SLiPY:#darknet> i'm like wtf
<SLiPY:#darknet> the guy pastes me the email he sent
<SLiPY:#darknet> he sent it to hostmaster@mtt.ca
<no_ana> antix
<tNc:#darknet> LOL
<SLiPY:#darknet> i'm like dude, thats for uhm other shit, email root@mtt.ca
<SLiPY:#darknet> so i told him to email root@mtt.ca and abuse@mtt.ca
<Shatter> GLuE IZ BETTUH THAN PaSTe
<SLiPY:#darknet> see if they care that i called u a queer on a irc channel.
<scam-WORK:#darknet> I am boo0ored !"#
<Crow^^:#darknet> me too
<scam-WORK:#darknet> lets.. packet something
<tNc:#darknet> scam-WORK heheh
<scam-WORK:#darknet> =)
<scam-WORK:#darknet> try packet me
<Cruciphux:#darknet> time for a new job?
<scam-WORK:#darknet> I`ll give u 10 roots if u are able to drop me
<gov-boi:#darknet> anyone have unreleased overflows to trade?
<wait3r:#darknet> your offering 'roots' for someone to drop you?
<wait3r:#darknet> heh
<gov-boi:#darknet> anyone have the sendmail 8.11.0 remote sploit?
<gov-boi:#darknet> or hasnt it made its rounds yet..
<scam-WORK:#darknet> gov-boi : I am workin on bind P5
<Eas:#darknet> working on bind P5?
<Eas:#darknet> I already talked about this with Mixter
<scam-WORK:#darknet> Eas : I said I was workin on it.. and. I already found some owerflows.. for DoS..
<scam-WORK:#darknet> but nothing else
<Eas:#darknet> for dos.
<Eas:#darknet> okay
<Eas:#darknet> what about the bind P3 ?
So, in conclusion, if you don't like it, leave. EFnet isn't any poorer because of it.
With regards to the Xi CDE install hosing the Xfree installation, in Xi's defense, if you're going to go to all the trouble of purchasing an X server and CDE for your machine, why would you want to run the previously-installed freeware GUI? I think the reviewer/hobbyist got a copy and expected everything to go smooth as silk the entire way, and the install hosed his box, and he got all pissy and wrote a scathing review.
I occasionally use CDE under Solaris at work, it's not as utterly horrible as everyone seems to be making it out to be, but it's definitely not as "good" as KDE. Dtterm in particular is not what I'd choose as a day-to-day workhorse, but on the other hand Konsole isn't that great either.
I don't know about that...this is the agency who put a scientist in solitary for a year and lets the director of the CIA off for the same offense, the agency whose own crime lab falsified test results, whose agents can and will lie to you when they're asking you questions about your friends. The FBI really doesn't do Perry Mason-type investigations any more. They only have two tools in their kit, informants and wiretapping. That's why they're so worked up about Carnivore, it's their only hope.
Lest you think I'm some kind of right-wing whacko (anybody who doesn't trust the FBI is inevitably tagged as one), I admire the job the FBI does most of the time protecting Americans. I just wish they would do more investigating, and less lying (known as misleading, and it's perfectly legal).
But then, I didn't go to film school, I'm not the kind of guy who can appreciate the director's use of lighting, I just like watching movies.
It's pretty clear what Al Gore meant, he was trying to take credit for someone else's successful idea. It's not a big deal, politicians do it all the time. Al Gore just got called out on it, that's all.
" almost 50 percent of the audience of the Olympics doesn't normally watch sporting events. "
and "Women want to get personal. They want warmly intimate stories, not athletic competition and cold hard scores."
So there's your answer, if you choose to understand it. They're giving the viewer what she wants.
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
-- Al Gore, March 9, 1999; CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer
Maybe not executed, but you could sure hire some Pinkertons and have them beaten silly.
This post does not violate Godwin's Law
This is exactly why they will do it. If Micros~1 implemented $STANDARD in a way that was exactly 100% compatible with everybody else's $PRODUCT, there would be no compelling reason to use the MS implementation. It would then follow that one could easily have a hybrid environment composed of MS servers and other OS's.
On the other hand, if Micros~1 implements $STANDARD in such a way that it only slightly deviates from the way everybody else does it, there will be subtle, annoying incompatibilities evident to end users. Installing a Microsoft server will eliminate those problems. This course of action enhances shareholder value, and any other action by Microsoft that did not enhance said value would be, frankly, irresponsible.
I can't remember if I've ever used the word "merits" more than once in a single week.
Yeah, doesn't make sense at all...an American producer, making a show destined for an American audience, having the cast of the show be Americans. Don't know what he was thinking.
Of course, there could probably be a Canadian or two on the show, and I don't think anyone would even notice.
The Apollo disaster was during a test, not during a launch. Russian unmanned rockets do explode on a regular basis, though.
The Mir show will be boring, like the other shows. Won't stop anyone from watching it, though. Millions and millions of people watch TV every night habitually, whether or not there's anything on.