You have a unique position as a well-known figure in both the Free Software community and the underground rap community; as you are well-known for your involvement in Debian, speeding the corporate adoption of Free Software and protecting the IP of the Free Software community, as well as laying down the phat beats and representin' for the community, I have a few questions to ask of you about these enormous responsibilities.
First, what do you do to try to get your message out to the community? What do you tell the kids who are looking for a positive role model, to show them that it's entirely possible to have legally obtained their bling-bling, and yet still have street cred, even if that street may be Wall Street? Also, have other people in the industries--like ESR or Puff Daddy--accused you of 'selling out', or 'forgetting where you came from'? And did you correctly identify them as playa hatas, who are just jealous of your successful and honest nature?
Don't let them get you down, Bruce; you have shown everyone that it's possible to be an intelligent and responsible white man, and yet still make some mad loot, not give in to the big corporations, (software, recording, or otherwise) score with the ladies (husband *and* father!), and lay down some phat beats in the mean time. You're 100x the role model that Eminem will ever be, and I mean that, from the heart, as one wigga to another.
Unless, of course, Eminem wises up and takes a page or two from your book, and starts researching intellectual property law and free software. In your honor, Bruce--let's all stand up.
Slashdot is a site built around perl scripts, so one might expect there to be a considerable amount of knowledge and interest about a topic such as this.
Could you, dear writer, perhaps be the maintainer of a GIANT collection of perl scripts badly in need of a rewrite?
Now, I admit, I'm a nerd. I'd love to have a >1Ghz machine, or a giant flat-screen TV, but eventually you have to draw the line.
So, I ask you: why the FUCK would my BLENDER need a 36" MONITOR???
I mean, really: do you want to ZOOM IN on the little pureed chunks?
How about a Bluetooth-enabled FOOD PROCESSOR while you're at it?
P.S. You guys are sick.
P.P.S. If you haven't gotten it yet, yes, the above is a joke. However, slashdot submissions are never clearly worded, and yes, we're all a bunch of nerds. This is just here so you can all laugh at the posters who invariably won't get it and will *still* reply! They're illiterate too.
Well, I'd play it if it ran my NES games. Even if they had to re-release them. I guess that'll be the first real hacking project for the GBA: run NES games.:)
I thought the screenshot looked pretty good, actually. But I don't remember saying anything as to the quality of the video display. I was objecting to the fact that they chose to remake "Mario 2", the worst Mario game for the NES. If they actually remade Mario 3, as the story submitter implied, that would be awesome.
And yes, I buy systems because its games are fun to play. That's why I owned a C64, an Atari 7800, and an NES. Sadly, I have owned no other good gaming systems besides a PC. I think an SNES or a Playstation might have been worthwhile, but that's about it. Oh, and my g/f has a Vectrex, and that's really fun too.:)
Game Boy Color isn't really that new; it's just a few hacks on top of the aging Game Boy. Also, the original Game Boy had an add-on that would do color like this.
And no other non-"GameBoy" handhelds ever really took off, so I can see how someone would see this as the first real Advance in handhelds in 10 years.
They've already had technology like this for a while. So do large companies, and it's really expensive stuff.
Maybe the CIA improved the AI somewhat, but it sounds pretty similar. At least they're telling us more about it, though.
However, I'm sure slashdot will still link to RealAudio every time someone gives a talk, so I don't care. If they think I have anything incriminating to say, then they're wasting my money.
I just don't like to see methods like this used as a substitute for talking to the kids. If you've seen American Beauty, the military guy is a good example of this. He could have had a fairly normal family if he could take the time to talk to and understand his son. And his son could, if he could trust his father to listen to him, and not to beat him. But they're trapped instead, because neither one of them can make the first move towards understanding, trapped by fear of rejection or punishment.
This is what happens when you don't communicate with people enough, or don't make an effort to listen to them, or understand their point of view. If you do, then you can try to teach them morals, and convince them that something is right or wrong or even just a good idea. If you don't, then even if you can stop them from doing whatever behavior you don't like, you still aren't explaining to them why it's bad. You're fixing the symptom, but allowing the problem to spread--it's a very Western idea, but not necessarily a good one.
By the way, I like Half-Empty; I haven't been there in a while, though. It's still pretty chaotic, I take it?
I see nothing wrong with curiosity. I do see something wrong with stifling it. I wouldn't be happy with the disobedience, but I'd rather have a chance to explain things, instead of causing resentment and not knowing it.
Covering your own eyes (or looking away) during a scary part of a movie is self-censorship. So is viewing slashdot moderation--self-censorship by a community. This isn't always a bad thing, but it should be noticed, and called what it is.
Do you remember being a kid? Did you always consider your parents to be the absolute authority on everything? I think that technological censorship tools either cause resentment in children, or teach them how to hack.
I know I spent a considerable amount of time getting around useless security measures in High School. If some of those hadn't existed in the first place, I never would have learned how to defeat them. (and believe me, they were pointless)
But in either case, I'm sure every good parent out there would rather keep their children's respect and trust by explaining things to them and trying to teach them morals than lose it by simply denying them what they want and not listening to them. That is my objection, and I think these tools often cause that; it is a form of neglect, and encourages poor communication.
TV's and VCR's already have this feature. DVD Players have different control measures. There are all kinds of little chips already built into your electronics to stop you from using what you own. Why should this be any different?
Feel free to protest this, but remember to also protest Macrovision, Region coding, Censorship, and parents who don't want to take responsibility for their children. I think these are all good things to protest, but I doubt you'll get very far.
Apparently people would rather have DVDs and games than basic human rights. Bread and Circuses wins over The Constitution any day...
Since everybody already got their chance at getting domains in the.com,.net, and.org spaces (not to mention their local country codes, where they probably should have gotten them in the first place), I see nothing wrong with giving trademark holders a chance at it. Who wants a ".pro" domain anyhow...
In the case where two or more trademark holders want the same names, we'll be back to the same old first-come first-serve solutions, and when that doesn't work, they'll sue each other again. Besides, I'm willing to bet that many of the same companies will buy the same domains anyhow, as insurance.
Remember how quickly companies snapped up the same '888' numbers, when those came out? Guess who gets 'ibm.pro'...
I'm sure that as long as the techniques used are less invasive than the environment for the past million years, there shouldn't be a problem.
Therefore, even monitoring with radar and sonar would be a good start, but I'd definitely wait before introducing anything into a possible lake ecosystem. However, if it already has some interaction with the rest of the environment, it can be studied indirectly at those points.
In any case, I hope that in their eagerness, the scientists involved don't kill the goose that laid the golden eggs...
Certainly this is cool, and I'm sure it would be very useful for some embedded applications.
However, most serious linux users would gain much more time by switching to reiserfs, or any other journalling filesystem, instead of waiting for ext2 to take an interminable amount of time to fsck its drives, and possibly lose data...
I know. Ask anyone who, say, had a SCSI card go bad on them.
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You have a unique position as a well-known figure in both the Free Software community and the underground rap community; as you are well-known for your involvement in Debian, speeding the corporate adoption of Free Software and protecting the IP of the Free Software community, as well as laying down the phat beats and representin' for the community, I have a few questions to ask of you about these enormous responsibilities.
First, what do you do to try to get your message out to the community? What do you tell the kids who are looking for a positive role model, to show them that it's entirely possible to have legally obtained their bling-bling, and yet still have street cred, even if that street may be Wall Street? Also, have other people in the industries--like ESR or Puff Daddy--accused you of 'selling out', or 'forgetting where you came from'? And did you correctly identify them as playa hatas, who are just jealous of your successful and honest nature?
Don't let them get you down, Bruce; you have shown everyone that it's possible to be an intelligent and responsible white man, and yet still make some mad loot, not give in to the big corporations, (software, recording, or otherwise) score with the ladies (husband *and* father!), and lay down some phat beats in the mean time. You're 100x the role model that Eminem will ever be, and I mean that, from the heart, as one wigga to another.
Unless, of course, Eminem wises up and takes a page or two from your book, and starts researching intellectual property law and free software. In your honor, Bruce--let's all stand up.
Fuck it, let's all stand up. :)
Slashdot is a site built around perl scripts, so one might expect there to be a considerable amount of knowledge and interest about a topic such as this.
Could you, dear writer, perhaps be the maintainer of a GIANT collection of perl scripts badly in need of a rewrite?
Are you the maintainer of Slash??
I knew the US Intelligence Departments, were incompetent, but....
It frightens me when DoubleClick is doing a better job.
Now, I admit, I'm a nerd. I'd love to have a >1Ghz machine, or a giant
flat-screen TV, but eventually you have to draw the line.
So, I ask you: why the FUCK would my BLENDER need a 36" MONITOR???
I mean, really: do you want to ZOOM IN on the little pureed chunks?
How about a Bluetooth-enabled FOOD PROCESSOR while you're at it?
P.S. You guys are sick.
P.P.S. If you haven't gotten it yet, yes, the above is a joke. However, slashdot submissions are never clearly worded, and yes, we're all a bunch of nerds. This is just here so you can all laugh at the posters who invariably won't get it and will *still* reply! They're illiterate too.
Thank you.
Christ, this is the funniest thing I've seen today.
The paralells between this and even your average smoking commercial are hilarious.
"With every reboot, you lose six minutes off your life!"
Why should this be a surprise?
If the companies in question signed an agreement with Microsoft, surely they can't complain when the other party actually wants what is due to them.
It's high time everyone learned what making deals with the devil actually means. Eventually he will collect, in blood...
Cable is *soo* much faster; a friend of mine was getting 2mbits/sec from Microsoft.com of all places, and I've seen faster.
DSL around here is just slow.
But that's what you're going to see; local usage patterns, load on the local network and the internet, and the time of day affect things a lot.
Therefore, I'd expect Canada to be faster just based on the "local network" thing...
That's the shortest review I've ever seen on here, and it's *still* wrong; now, this is CVS in a nutshell:
Help, help, I'm in a nutshell!
CHECK ME OUT OF HERE!
For IBM, you might be right. :)
Well, yes, of course I'm silent around the marketing chicks.
:)
(good thing the don't read slashdot.
IBM supports their OS for large-scale business rollouts, not for the consumer. This shouldn't make much of a difference in practice.
Ooo, they call their new version something else. Like, say, Win2k instead of NT5, or "MacOS X" instead of Rhapsody.
The engineers probably still call it OS/390, and dutifully ignore the marketdroids, as we should too.
Well, I'd play it if it ran my NES games. Even if they had to re-release them. I guess that'll be the first real hacking project for the GBA: run NES games. :)
:)
I thought the screenshot looked pretty good, actually. But I don't remember saying anything as to the quality of the video display. I was objecting to the fact that they chose to remake "Mario 2", the worst Mario game for the NES. If they actually remade Mario 3, as the story submitter implied, that would be awesome.
And yes, I buy systems because its games are fun to play. That's why I owned a C64, an Atari 7800, and an NES. Sadly, I have owned no other good gaming systems besides a PC. I think an SNES or a Playstation might have been worthwhile, but that's about it. Oh, and my g/f has a Vectrex, and that's really fun too.
Game Boy Color isn't really that new; it's just a few hacks on top of the aging Game Boy. Also, the original Game Boy had an add-on that would do color like this.
And no other non-"GameBoy" handhelds ever really took off, so I can see how someone would see this as the first real Advance in handhelds in 10 years.
Sad, but true.
They've already had technology like this for a while. So do large companies, and it's really expensive stuff.
Maybe the CIA improved the AI somewhat, but it sounds pretty similar. At least they're telling us more about it, though.
However, I'm sure slashdot will still link to RealAudio every time someone gives a talk, so I don't care. If they think I have anything incriminating to say, then they're wasting my money.
Fair enough, nebby; I'm not a parent, either.
I just don't like to see methods like this used as a substitute for talking to the kids. If you've seen American Beauty, the military guy is a good example of this. He could have had a fairly normal family if he could take the time to talk to and understand his son. And his son could, if he could trust his father to listen to him, and not to beat him. But they're trapped instead, because neither one of them can make the first move towards understanding, trapped by fear of rejection or punishment.
This is what happens when you don't communicate with people enough, or don't make an effort to listen to them, or understand their point of view. If you do, then you can try to teach them morals, and convince them that something is right or wrong or even just a good idea. If you don't, then even if you can stop them from doing whatever behavior you don't like, you still aren't explaining to them why it's bad. You're fixing the symptom, but allowing the problem to spread--it's a very Western idea, but not necessarily a good one.
By the way, I like Half-Empty; I haven't been there in a while, though. It's still pretty chaotic, I take it?
I see nothing wrong with curiosity. I do see something wrong with stifling it. I wouldn't be happy with the disobedience, but I'd rather have a chance to explain things, instead of causing resentment and not knowing it.
Covering your own eyes (or looking away) during a scary part of a movie is self-censorship. So is viewing slashdot moderation--self-censorship by a community. This isn't always a bad thing, but it should be noticed, and called what it is.
Do you remember being a kid? Did you always consider your parents to be the absolute authority on everything? I think that technological censorship tools either cause resentment in children, or teach them how to hack.
I know I spent a considerable amount of time getting around useless security measures in High School. If some of those hadn't existed in the first place, I never would have learned how to defeat them. (and believe me, they were pointless)
But in either case, I'm sure every good parent out there would rather keep their children's respect and trust by explaining things to them and trying to teach them morals than lose it by simply denying them what they want and not listening to them. That is my objection, and I think these tools often cause that; it is a form of neglect, and encourages poor communication.
Adults can stop their kids by teaching them, not by censoring them.
What is a VChip if now censorship?
TV's and VCR's already have this feature. DVD Players have different control measures. There are all kinds of little chips already built into your electronics to stop you from using what you own. Why should this be any different?
Feel free to protest this, but remember to also protest Macrovision, Region coding, Censorship, and parents who don't want to take responsibility for their children. I think these are all good things to protest, but I doubt you'll get very far.
Apparently people would rather have DVDs and games than basic human rights. Bread and Circuses wins over The Constitution any day...
Since everybody already got their chance at getting domains in the .com, .net, and .org spaces (not to mention their local country codes, where they probably should have gotten them in the first place), I see nothing wrong with giving trademark holders a chance at it. Who wants a ".pro" domain anyhow...
In the case where two or more trademark holders want the same names, we'll be back to the same old first-come first-serve solutions, and when that doesn't work, they'll sue each other again. Besides, I'm willing to bet that many of the same companies will buy the same domains anyhow, as insurance.
Remember how quickly companies snapped up the same '888' numbers, when those came out? Guess who gets 'ibm.pro'...
I'm sure that as long as the techniques used are less invasive than the environment for the past million years, there shouldn't be a problem.
Therefore, even monitoring with radar and sonar would be a good start, but I'd definitely wait before introducing anything into a possible lake ecosystem. However, if it already has some interaction with the rest of the environment, it can be studied indirectly at those points.
In any case, I hope that in their eagerness, the scientists involved don't kill the goose that laid the golden eggs...
Certainly this is cool, and I'm sure it would be very useful for some embedded applications.
However, most serious linux users would gain much more time by switching to reiserfs, or any other journalling filesystem, instead of waiting for ext2 to take an interminable amount of time to fsck its drives, and possibly lose data...
I know. Ask anyone who, say, had a SCSI card go bad on them.
Moore's law governs Transistor Density.
If you can explain to me how this relates to Hard Disk Drives, I'll be greatly impressed.
However, if you wish to plot a curve of densities, and create "Pubpib's Law", I'll be all for it.
There's nothing wrong with that, I just find it funny that they did it first, and everybody is still copying them. :)
That is the one thing I truly have to thank BSD for; without them, we wouldn't have networking as we know it today.
Great; now we can all steal the *BSD IP stack again. :)
Thanks, *BSD, for continuing to be the research arm of the software community...