Why do these fan films always have an evil guy with an incredibly lame "spooky voice"?
The whole Apprentice video sucked. Including the Vader talent segment.
Not only the spooky voice, but WHY must they ALWAYS talk in a stupid RHYTHM that makes them SOUND like idiots? This always seems to be an issue with fan-made stuff, especially Star Wars. It doesn't come across well, the audio is very hard to hear. I give them credit for making it, but for all the effort they put into it, you would think that they would listen to it once or twice and realize how bad it sounds. I am sure they could have mixed it so you could hear it.
And yet, if they're that short, they'll be blasted-apart by the password cracking software they use in only a few minutes/hours.
Well, my real passwords are much longer - that was only an example. And you don't have to use songs, you could use almost anything. I think the algorithm works well, at least for me. You eventually just memorize the password, but the key is that you can recreate it if you need to. It really does become easy.
I am still surprised that geeks still do standard things like replace "E" with "3" and "O" with "0" in passwords. That is like putting your wallet in your shoe at the beach.
Don't remember phrases, remember rules. You can make them up, never have to write them down, and best of all you can change them if you want.
e.g. I choose my password to be "CIrpotb,". This was the password of an intern where I used to work, he gave it to me when he left in case I needed any of his files. It is the first letter of the words in the Pearl Jam song Jeremy: "Clearly I remember picking on the boy,". This password is very memorable, as this was back in 96 or so, and I still remember it.
On to the rules...
Take your starting password, remove all vowels: Crptb,
Now invert all the uppercase/lowercase: cRPTB,
Bookend it with the first/last letters of the band in uppercase. Password is now PcRPTB,M
So let's run through it for another one:
"I've been caught stealing:once when I was five." Password is IbcsowIwf
Apply Rule 1: bcswwf
Apply Rule 2: JbcswwfN
Your password hint for this password could be: "Ritual - No vow, invert, bookend"
If you make up the rules, and have reminders to them, people aren't going to be able to figure out your password.
My primary point is that this is an easy question to answer, it need not be merely rhetorical. But nothing other than Star Trek jumps out at me. I didn't even know TekWar made it to a television series.
I hate having to explain comments that should be obvious to even the most remotely intelligent person. This is directed at all the responses, and those who saw fit to moderate me as a troll. I guess I have to really spell things out on Slashdot.
But you answered my question - he hasn't done much of anything of importance. Hence, why is this news? Why is it news that anyone, let alone Shatner, pitched a Star Trek prequel show that got turned down? I just don't understand why this is news, or why anyone cares? Now if it was approved, I could see why it might somehow be news, although I personally wouldn't give a rat's ass. The title might as well have been : "Shatner still yanking on the Star Trek teat". Did you notice his picture on IMDB? Why not an updated picture instead of one from the 60s?
I entered my friend's e-mail in hotmail, and clicked the forgotten password button. It gave me his secret question, and from there I simply asked him it. Its a secret question! Ack.
I hate the standard "secret questions" where there is basically only one answer. I like putting in my own secret question, because I can make it cryptic. e.g. What did you eat on your 16th birthday? The answer could be ANYTHING. But to be safe, it could be made more cryptic: What color food did you eat on your 16th birthday?
Answer: BlueFries16 (color, food, 16 are clues to me)
But this wouldn't be my password, it would just be another clue to my password. Maybe my password is really a German Word, French Word, English Word. Numbers are spelled out. So in this fictitious case, my password would be BlauFritesSixteen.
My passwords follow rules that I have in my head. I can remember the rules much more easily than the passwords. After a while, I morph the rules so that they only make sense to me. Like always add 3 to the number before spelling it out, and remove all e's from the word. So the above would be BlauFriesNintn.
So if your roommate followed rules like this, and you asked what color food he ate on his 16th birthday, he could say "Blue French Fries" and you would never guess his password.
Seriously. He had a lead role (poorly acted) in a very bad TV series that somehow turned into a cult classic. I'll give him that much. But what has he done SINCE then?
Now, linux-heads love choice and more power to them for that. BUT such up-front confusion with linux is not the way to win over the general public.
Your entire argument is based on the opinion that winning over the general public is somehow the "goal" of Linux.
Think about it for a second.
Now think about it for another.
Personally, I don't want it to become mainstream, or the OS of the general public. The general public is a bunch of morons who destroy the fun and life in everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants. NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants.
Now I have known people, that I respect, that like each of these things. But as a whole, these things cater to the lowest common denominator. In my opinion, Linux is above that. And you can't say it is elitest, because *it* isn't a thing with someone behind the wheel steering it in any one direction. It is more like evolution than a lab experiment. In all honesty, I think it is a beautiful thing, and I don't want it to be degraded to the point where it is on the public desktop. If someone or a company can put it there, so be it. But hopefully if that happens it won't drag "Linux" down with it.
One of the problems with Linux is that there is too much choice.
I know I quoted you out of sequence, so forgive me. But choice is EXACTLY what got Linux where it is today. I can agree that it is daunting, even for me, to choose. But I would rather have the choice. I was on the same distro for about 5 years, which is like millenia in distro time. By the time I decided to upgrade, the choices were staggering! I tried one, then another, then settled on my third choice. There are still things that I don't like about the one I chose (or should I say that I like better about the ones I didn't), but I made a good choice. Linux is evolving, constantly, and is improving. I have been using it since RedHat5.1, and Unix before that. There are some tools that I use today that I used the first day I logged in. And I still learn about new tools today - some brand new, some that have been there since day 1. It is awesome, and I love it. There are 50 ways to do the same thing, some more elegant than others, some brute force. I write scripts all the time that perform actions like taking photos, resizing them to 3 standard sizes, making thumbnails, and creating HTML around them so people can view them on a web page. There are packages that can do this, there are hundreds of ways via shell scripts, different languages, etc. But I did it my way. Is my way the best way? There is no best way. My way works, and it is mine. THAT is why I like Linux. I think it is better to offer choice. Everyone can choose, but everyone doesn't have to choose the same thing.
I'm slightly skeptical. The article talks about soft tissue, but none of the scientists even try to explain how soft tissue could have survived for seventy million years?
Ahh. This just proves that Evolution is BS, and that the earth is not hundreds of millions of years old. It is just a couple of thousand years old. Soft tissue could have lasted that long. In your FACE scientists. The dinosaurs were obviously killed in the crusades because they were dumb animals that didn't believe in Jesus. Duh.
Take a word with negative connotations, assign it to something you don't like even if not appropriate, then watch as everyone begins to associate the word and the thing.
I was in the video store once, and a couple of guys were talking in the checkout line about movies. One asked the other if he had seen Fahrenheit 9/11, and the other said: "No way, I wouldn't see anything by that commie."
I wonder what he thought "commie" meant anyway. I would have loved to hear him explain it.
DRI meaning Dirty Rotten Imbeciles? I did a quick search on them and found lots. Their homepage is http://www.dirtyrottenimbeciles.com/. I never cared much for them personally. Sad part - if you do a google search for "music dri" the first link is to (ugh) MSN Music where you can buy their tracks for $0.99 each. See for yourself
But like I said - if it weren't for the internet, this music would be dead. Unfortunately, the labels don't have the brains or vision to embrace it.
It never dies. Just wait a decade or so, and someone will release it on an album titled "Thats what I call Old Shit! Volume 32141052";)
Yeah, the popular stuff MIGHT make it onto that album. I used to listen to metal/hard rock in the 80s. They don't re-release that stuff. If they do, it is Bon Jovi or other such garbage. Not the stuff I used to listen to. Even if they would, you would probably only get the popular stuff. I have forgotten a lot of the bands that I used to listen to, simply because I don't have their stuff anymore and can't get it. Some of it was bad and corny, but that doesn't mean that I don't still want to listen to it from time to time. I think I still have a Dangerous Toys tape somewhere.
And no one seems to care that books after 1924 are rotting away. So DRM and short memories it will be from now on.
And a majority of the recorded music is rotting away because it isn't available. I too grew up in the 80s. What if I want to listen to a group that I liked, but my tapes are worn out? Can I go out and buy their CD? Maybe, if any store will carry it. There is a lot of good (and bad) music that will be lost because the record companies don't think they can make money on it anymore. They own the right to it, and choose to let it die.
The same goes for lots of things I guess. We are definitely a nostalgia generation. If it weren't for the enthusiast community, a lot of the video games from the 80s would be extinct. I was into arcade video game collecting for a while, and one of my friends (who was into it WAY more than me) cobbled together pieces from several different video game boards to resurrect a game that nobody had anymore in working condition. (Zektor) Now you can play it on MAME. Now you can play LOTS of games on MAME, and big companies had nothing to do with it. Music and movies are the same to some extent, I am afraid. I don't want to hear crap that is on the radio, I would like to hear the old stuff I used to listen to when I was growing up. It is getting harder and harder to find.
It is part of OUR culture, it is still up to us to preserve it.
First figure out what you want in your custom-built system. After all, that's why you are building your own instead of buying from Dell.
Exactly. I want what is more important to me. I want a good power supply. I want whatever case I feel like getting. I don't need a keyboard, monitor, or mouse. I don't need a free crappy printer.
Usually, I buy CPUs that are not the latest (better bang/buck) but couple them with the new motherboards, decent (but not overextravagant) memory, and a nice video/TV card like the ATI All-in-wonder series.
Heh, me too. you can get a CPU that is a year old, or even older, for peanuts. I don't fall into that "CPU Envy" trap. Get a really good heatsink, like a Zalman. I did go with the ATI AIW card, and at the time it was the most expensive part of my system. You can also get better CD/DVD burners than Dell will give you.
Building your own also lets you try out the better cases, so there's less Apple envy.
Or you can re-use an existing case. I actually built my last PC in a free case. They were getting rid of an old dual-Pentium Compaq server. Huge honking tower case, weighed about 80 lbs. But I get these things:
Cooling - lots of air capacity, room for big fans.
Quiet - it is thick steel, not tinny aluminum
Working space - plenty of room inside (but I did have to buy longer cables)
Drive trays - It had SCSI drive trays that slide in the front of the case. I just removed the backplane, mounted my drives in the trays, and now I can easily take out drives. When I moved, I just popped them out, wrapped them up in a separate box, and popped them back in after unpacking.
Of course, there are some downsides.
I had to do some modding to get some things to fit, like the PSU and the motherboard. But it wasn't that difficult.
The thing is NOT portable. It is a monster. But portability was not one of my requirements. It sits about 3 feet high, but it gives me somewhere to set my X-Arcade controller.:-)
It is like buying a car. You could put neon lights under it, buy a bunch of stickers, and put a coffee can on the exhaust. Or you could invest in some quality parts that will make it a much more reliable long-term investment.
I have built my own systems since I don't remember when. But my first rule of thumb when building a new system - research all the technology that changed since the last time you built a system.
To put it in perspective, all of my systems at home have PC-133 memory in them. The last time I built an entire system from scratch, 80 gig drives were expensive, DDR memory didn't exist, 12x CD-RW drives were getting affordable, and we were just breaking the gigahertz barrier in CPUs.
Now I have sort of been following things, but not enough to know off the top of my head what to grab off the e-shelf to build a system. I have found that this has been the biggest challenge in building new systems.
This is the worst interview to ever be on slashdot, and I'm even counting the Shatner one.
He doesn't even begin to do a little bit of basic research before replying with "I dont know what that means" to several questions and moving on. He provides no insight into his own personality or character and sounds rather uninteresting.
And he's a fucking stoner. Jesus fuck.
Did anyone care about this interview? Even some of the questions he was asked were only modded to +3.
We get this interview, but we never got the Bruce Perens questions answered.
Wow, what a cool looking place to work, I mean you can make your own space, nice furniture, spacious - OMFG - is that a Garfield doll ?! What kind of mindless idiots do they have working there?
Religious Studies people and Sociologists generally attribute this to the fact that America has no state support of religion.
I do believe that you mean there is no official state support of religion. It is quite clear that Christianity is the preferred and correct version of religion in the US, as evidenced because it was the religion of choice of our founding fathers. You can't disagree with our founding fathers - that would make you UN-AMERICAN! You aren't un-American, are you? That would make you anti-American, and we will therefore arrest you under the Patriot Act. How can anyone say, with the current President, that there is no state support of Religion? I know what you meant, but just because something is not "officially" supported doesn't mean that is how things actually work.
Well as a self-described fundie I don't really find anything wrong with any of the film titles/descirptions. I mean I suppose there is a slight, slight chance that they are horribly mislabled and are actually hardcore porn, but seriously, I kinda want to see these baised on those descrptions.
Immersion without some learning first is a different word: Confusion.
Now, take this with a grain of salt, because I really don't speak any other languages. But my wife got her masters in Linguistics, and is a language teacher, so I have picked up a thing or two.
Immersion is essential to really learn a language well, but it is no substitute for studying. Once you know the basics of a language, immersion is really the only way to really comprehend everything you have learned and apply it. Otherwise, you are simply wasting time trying to piece together nonsensical sounds into meaning. That isn't very effective learning. Sure, you can learn like that - but why not learn more effectively?
I was working at my first job, and we had 10 people to a Sun server. I was writing shell scripts, and wrote one called fubar that was this:
while [1] do
fubar &
done
Then I did chmod +x fubar, and typed "fubar &"
oops.
The system load started climbing and everyone else on the machine started bitching. I thought it would crash, and went over to the local admin and fessed up. Of course, we were all interested in what would happen. Nobody could get in to kill it, and the processes were spawning so fast that we couldn't catch it. It was taking forever just to log int. But the load leveled off, and it wasn't going to crash. The admin was going to reboot it, but then I said "wait a second!" I went back to my window that was open. Know what I typed?
rm -f fubar
I suppose you could make it more nasty by making the file name create a copy of itself and name it the process id, so that you wouldn't be able to rename it.
cp $0.$$ ./.$$ &
This will leave all the process files laying around, but you could code something to remove them. But this gets the point across.
This is brilliant!! Appear to be helpful, but really just point out shortcomings and bugs in your competitor's product, all the while gaining visibility and recognition in the community. I really must remember to do this sometime.
You just described the Slashdot moderation system.
Slashdot Mirror
The whole Apprentice video sucked. Including the Vader talent segment.
Not only the spooky voice, but WHY must they ALWAYS talk in a stupid RHYTHM that makes them SOUND like idiots? This always seems to be an issue with fan-made stuff, especially Star Wars. It doesn't come across well, the audio is very hard to hear. I give them credit for making it, but for all the effort they put into it, you would think that they would listen to it once or twice and realize how bad it sounds. I am sure they could have mixed it so you could hear it.
Can't believe people actually use fast-forward instead!
You could be prosecuted under the DMCA, and are stealing programming by circumventing these ads.
Well, my real passwords are much longer - that was only an example. And you don't have to use songs, you could use almost anything. I think the algorithm works well, at least for me. You eventually just memorize the password, but the key is that you can recreate it if you need to. It really does become easy.
I am still surprised that geeks still do standard things like replace "E" with "3" and "O" with "0" in passwords. That is like putting your wallet in your shoe at the beach.
In ten more years, remove the cables.
e.g. I choose my password to be "CIrpotb,". This was the password of an intern where I used to work, he gave it to me when he left in case I needed any of his files. It is the first letter of the words in the Pearl Jam song Jeremy: "Clearly I remember picking on the boy,". This password is very memorable, as this was back in 96 or so, and I still remember it.
On to the rules...
Take your starting password, remove all vowels: Crptb,
Now invert all the uppercase/lowercase: cRPTB,
Bookend it with the first/last letters of the band in uppercase. Password is now PcRPTB,M
So let's run through it for another one:
"I've been caught stealing:once when I was five." Password is IbcsowIwf
Apply Rule 1: bcswwf
Apply Rule 2: JbcswwfN
Your password hint for this password could be: "Ritual - No vow, invert, bookend"
If you make up the rules, and have reminders to them, people aren't going to be able to figure out your password.
I thought the exact same thing while I was typing, and thought about putting in there "(and I know what you are thinking)". Dirty minded f'er. :-)
I hate having to explain comments that should be obvious to even the most remotely intelligent person. This is directed at all the responses, and those who saw fit to moderate me as a troll. I guess I have to really spell things out on Slashdot.
But you answered my question - he hasn't done much of anything of importance. Hence, why is this news? Why is it news that anyone, let alone Shatner, pitched a Star Trek prequel show that got turned down? I just don't understand why this is news, or why anyone cares? Now if it was approved, I could see why it might somehow be news, although I personally wouldn't give a rat's ass. The title might as well have been : "Shatner still yanking on the Star Trek teat". Did you notice his picture on IMDB? Why not an updated picture instead of one from the 60s?
I hate the standard "secret questions" where there is basically only one answer. I like putting in my own secret question, because I can make it cryptic. e.g. What did you eat on your 16th birthday? The answer could be ANYTHING.
But to be safe, it could be made more cryptic: What color food did you eat on your 16th birthday?
Answer: BlueFries16 (color, food, 16 are clues to me)
But this wouldn't be my password, it would just be another clue to my password. Maybe my password is really a German Word, French Word, English Word. Numbers are spelled out. So in this fictitious case, my password would be BlauFritesSixteen.
My passwords follow rules that I have in my head. I can remember the rules much more easily than the passwords. After a while, I morph the rules so that they only make sense to me. Like always add 3 to the number before spelling it out, and remove all e's from the word. So the above would be BlauFriesNintn.
So if your roommate followed rules like this, and you asked what color food he ate on his 16th birthday, he could say "Blue French Fries" and you would never guess his password.
Seriously. He had a lead role (poorly acted) in a very bad TV series that somehow turned into a cult classic. I'll give him that much. But what has he done SINCE then?
Your entire argument is based on the opinion that winning over the general public is somehow the "goal" of Linux.
Think about it for a second.
Now think about it for another.
Personally, I don't want it to become mainstream, or the OS of the general public. The general public is a bunch of morons who destroy the fun and life in everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants. NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants.
Now I have known people, that I respect, that like each of these things. But as a whole, these things cater to the lowest common denominator. In my opinion, Linux is above that. And you can't say it is elitest, because *it* isn't a thing with someone behind the wheel steering it in any one direction. It is more like evolution than a lab experiment. In all honesty, I think it is a beautiful thing, and I don't want it to be degraded to the point where it is on the public desktop. If someone or a company can put it there, so be it. But hopefully if that happens it won't drag "Linux" down with it.
One of the problems with Linux is that there is too much choice.
I know I quoted you out of sequence, so forgive me. But choice is EXACTLY what got Linux where it is today. I can agree that it is daunting, even for me, to choose. But I would rather have the choice. I was on the same distro for about 5 years, which is like millenia in distro time. By the time I decided to upgrade, the choices were staggering! I tried one, then another, then settled on my third choice. There are still things that I don't like about the one I chose (or should I say that I like better about the ones I didn't), but I made a good choice. Linux is evolving, constantly, and is improving. I have been using it since RedHat5.1, and Unix before that. There are some tools that I use today that I used the first day I logged in. And I still learn about new tools today - some brand new, some that have been there since day 1. It is awesome, and I love it. There are 50 ways to do the same thing, some more elegant than others, some brute force. I write scripts all the time that perform actions like taking photos, resizing them to 3 standard sizes, making thumbnails, and creating HTML around them so people can view them on a web page. There are packages that can do this, there are hundreds of ways via shell scripts, different languages, etc. But I did it my way. Is my way the best way? There is no best way. My way works, and it is mine. THAT is why I like Linux. I think it is better to offer choice. Everyone can choose, but everyone doesn't have to choose the same thing.
Ahh. This just proves that Evolution is BS, and that the earth is not hundreds of millions of years old. It is just a couple of thousand years old. Soft tissue could have lasted that long. In your FACE scientists. The dinosaurs were obviously killed in the crusades because they were dumb animals that didn't believe in Jesus. Duh.
I was in the video store once, and a couple of guys were talking in the checkout line about movies. One asked the other if he had seen Fahrenheit 9/11, and the other said: "No way, I wouldn't see anything by that commie."
I wonder what he thought "commie" meant anyway. I would have loved to hear him explain it.
But like I said - if it weren't for the internet, this music would be dead. Unfortunately, the labels don't have the brains or vision to embrace it.
Yeah, the popular stuff MIGHT make it onto that album. I used to listen to metal/hard rock in the 80s. They don't re-release that stuff. If they do, it is Bon Jovi or other such garbage. Not the stuff I used to listen to. Even if they would, you would probably only get the popular stuff. I have forgotten a lot of the bands that I used to listen to, simply because I don't have their stuff anymore and can't get it. Some of it was bad and corny, but that doesn't mean that I don't still want to listen to it from time to time. I think I still have a Dangerous Toys tape somewhere.
And a majority of the recorded music is rotting away because it isn't available. I too grew up in the 80s. What if I want to listen to a group that I liked, but my tapes are worn out? Can I go out and buy their CD? Maybe, if any store will carry it. There is a lot of good (and bad) music that will be lost because the record companies don't think they can make money on it anymore. They own the right to it, and choose to let it die.
The same goes for lots of things I guess. We are definitely a nostalgia generation. If it weren't for the enthusiast community, a lot of the video games from the 80s would be extinct. I was into arcade video game collecting for a while, and one of my friends (who was into it WAY more than me) cobbled together pieces from several different video game boards to resurrect a game that nobody had anymore in working condition. (Zektor) Now you can play it on MAME. Now you can play LOTS of games on MAME, and big companies had nothing to do with it. Music and movies are the same to some extent, I am afraid. I don't want to hear crap that is on the radio, I would like to hear the old stuff I used to listen to when I was growing up. It is getting harder and harder to find.
It is part of OUR culture, it is still up to us to preserve it.
Exactly. I want what is more important to me. I want a good power supply. I want whatever case I feel like getting. I don't need a keyboard, monitor, or mouse. I don't need a free crappy printer.
Usually, I buy CPUs that are not the latest (better bang/buck) but couple them with the new motherboards, decent (but not overextravagant) memory, and a nice video/TV card like the ATI All-in-wonder series.
Heh, me too. you can get a CPU that is a year old, or even older, for peanuts. I don't fall into that "CPU Envy" trap. Get a really good heatsink, like a Zalman. I did go with the ATI AIW card, and at the time it was the most expensive part of my system. You can also get better CD/DVD burners than Dell will give you.
Building your own also lets you try out the better cases, so there's less Apple envy.
Or you can re-use an existing case. I actually built my last PC in a free case. They were getting rid of an old dual-Pentium Compaq server. Huge honking tower case, weighed about 80 lbs. But I get these things:
Cooling - lots of air capacity, room for big fans.
Quiet - it is thick steel, not tinny aluminum
Working space - plenty of room inside (but I did have to buy longer cables)
Drive trays - It had SCSI drive trays that slide in the front of the case. I just removed the backplane, mounted my drives in the trays, and now I can easily take out drives. When I moved, I just popped them out, wrapped them up in a separate box, and popped them back in after unpacking.
Of course, there are some downsides.
I had to do some modding to get some things to fit, like the PSU and the motherboard. But it wasn't that difficult.
The thing is NOT portable. It is a monster. But portability was not one of my requirements. It sits about 3 feet high, but it gives me somewhere to set my X-Arcade controller. :-)
It is like buying a car. You could put neon lights under it, buy a bunch of stickers, and put a coffee can on the exhaust. Or you could invest in some quality parts that will make it a much more reliable long-term investment.
To put it in perspective, all of my systems at home have PC-133 memory in them. The last time I built an entire system from scratch, 80 gig drives were expensive, DDR memory didn't exist, 12x CD-RW drives were getting affordable, and we were just breaking the gigahertz barrier in CPUs.
Now I have sort of been following things, but not enough to know off the top of my head what to grab off the e-shelf to build a system. I have found that this has been the biggest challenge in building new systems.
Did anyone care about this interview? Even some of the questions he was asked were only modded to +3.
We get this interview, but we never got the Bruce Perens questions answered.
Wow, what a cool looking place to work, I mean you can make your own space, nice furniture, spacious - OMFG - is that a Garfield doll ?! What kind of mindless idiots do they have working there?
I do believe that you mean there is no official state support of religion. It is quite clear that Christianity is the preferred and correct version of religion in the US, as evidenced because it was the religion of choice of our founding fathers. You can't disagree with our founding fathers - that would make you UN-AMERICAN! You aren't un-American, are you? That would make you anti-American, and we will therefore arrest you under the Patriot Act. How can anyone say, with the current President, that there is no state support of Religion? I know what you meant, but just because something is not "officially" supported doesn't mean that is how things actually work.
Hmmm, Freudian slip or typo? Or ... both?
Immersion without some learning first is a different word: Confusion.
Now, take this with a grain of salt, because I really don't speak any other languages. But my wife got her masters in Linguistics, and is a language teacher, so I have picked up a thing or two.
Immersion is essential to really learn a language well, but it is no substitute for studying. Once you know the basics of a language, immersion is really the only way to really comprehend everything you have learned and apply it. Otherwise, you are simply wasting time trying to piece together nonsensical sounds into meaning. That isn't very effective learning. Sure, you can learn like that - but why not learn more effectively?
while [1] do
fubar &
done
Then I did chmod +x fubar, and typed "fubar &"
oops.
The system load started climbing and everyone else on the machine started bitching. I thought it would crash, and went over to the local admin and fessed up. Of course, we were all interested in what would happen. Nobody could get in to kill it, and the processes were spawning so fast that we couldn't catch it. It was taking forever just to log int. But the load leveled off, and it wasn't going to crash. The admin was going to reboot it, but then I said "wait a second!" I went back to my window that was open. Know what I typed?
rm -f fubar
I suppose you could make it more nasty by making the file name create a copy of itself and name it the process id, so that you wouldn't be able to rename it.
cp $0 .$$
./.$$ &
This will leave all the process files laying around, but you could code something to remove them. But this gets the point across.
The answer to all of these questions is obvious: Jesus did it.
You just described the Slashdot moderation system.