These RF tags are perfect for tagging clothes, as the blurb pointed out. But an even more sinister use than tagging clothes is tagging the people who wear the clothes. And I'm especially referring to a certain kind of person:
Slavery is alive and well in this country, and I'm not referring merely to rhetorical or political slavery, but actual slavery. Women from foreign countries, particularly southeast-Asian countries are flown to America and promised low-paying but normal jobs performing menial labor or housecleaning services, but when they arrive, they discover to their horror that the real purpose is to prostitute themselves for the financial benefit of their masters. These women (and even children) are trapped, since they don't speak English, don't have the money to fly home, and don't have the physical or mental stamina to escape their tormentors after so much abuse.
How is this relevant to RF tags? Think of how much easier it would be to kidnap people from airports if all you needed to do was wander around with a small device, picking up the signals from the tags embedded in clothing given to the erstwhile immigrants back in their home countries. No longer would there have to be complicated networks of international communication -- they'd just have to agree on a certain range of serial numbers (of which there are trillions, as the article points out), hand out "free" clothes to people boarding the plane at departure, and sit back while agents at the US airports haul in the "goods".
This never would've been possible if we'd stuck to normal barcodes -- it's simply impossible to read barcodes surreptitiously. And since criminals are always the first to adopt new technologies for these devious purposes, it's only a matter of time before it comes to an airport near you, Thirteenth Amendment be damned.
Prior to this, they'd met 23 times in tournament play, each winning three and drawing 17. To say that Kasparov is no longer #1 is a bit rash; he'll rise again.
When I kill someone who's causing an imminent threat to me, it's not murder: it's self-defense, which is a 'perfect' defense to murder (as distinguished from an excuse, such as duress). Even if the person killed is a whole human beyond all question. And why does the law declare it not to be murder? Because of the assailant's relationship to me.
It's the same with the fetus (and even more so, since the fetus is a potential person and not an actual person). The fetus is causing an imminent threat to my life, and it is my right to remove that threat at whatever cost. You have the right to defend your home from burglars, and I have the right to defend my womb from foreign agents who would suck my life force for their own benefit.
The fact that it's even open for debate is a sad commentary on the objectification of women by contemporary society. I do NOT go poking around in your ass, peer at your prostate, and proclaim: "Aha, here is an inviolable part of men's bodies that they have no sovereign dominion over!" You shall not do the same with my body.
Harshbarger's Mona Lisa was commissioned by Dave Michelson, a programmer who's bought several of Eric's other works. And it's really wonderful to see the ancient practice of artistic patronage by the wealthy paying off in this 21st century.
But, sadly, not all artists are so lucky, and the current political climate in the US isn't so forgiving. Back in 1997, NEA funding was severely cut, and private giving hasn't increased to make up for the deficit. And with current debates about eliminating the estate tax failing to see how the estate tax actually increases patronage of museums and public art institutions by wealthy people eager to divest themselves of inheritted works, we're little assured of a brighter future.
How many other lego scuplters would our nation produce if we were more liberal with funding for the arts? How many nascent artists, how many little Erics, are picking through their lego tubs, searching for that flat 3x1 piece, but more importantly, searching for a nation who would see their promise and help them deliver? And if they ever receive the funding they so desperately need, will they be saddled with draconian political restrictions on what sort of art they may create? Sure, no one's offended by a lego Mona Lisa, but will the same be true when someone finally builds a lego Piss Christ?
I urge all of you, write your congresspersons and support funding for the arts. Especially our international friends over in the Netherlands, since you seem to have something extra to do with legos and all. It's imperative that the promise of tomorrow doesn't get squashed today like so many little pieces of plastic under the foot of an angry parent walk barefoot to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
I don't have a URL on hand for the Atlantic Works decision, but that quote's been referenced many times by subsequent decisions, including A. & P. TEA CO. v. SUPERMARKET CORP..
I realize everyone is anti-patent here, but think for a moment: patents are already being frivolously filed in this country, TODAY! Under the current system! But who are the ones doing the filing? It's the well-moneyed corporations, who can afford to sink a few hundred dollars into a dead-end pursuit if there's a slight chance it'll pay off with a million-dollar windfall some day.
Making the patent-submission process an electronic one removes one more barrier, but that's a good thing: it helps the little citizen compete on the same playing field that the corporations have historically reserved for themselves. It lets us get a little piece of that pie and grows the pie at the same time.
Patents do have their downside, and the Supreme Court has recognized that fact for the last hundred years. Said the Court, "It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax upon the industry of the country." But for too long, it's been inanimate (and constitutionally unjustifiable) corporations who've drawn all the benefits from that system. If we abolish it and embark on a new more enlightened path some day, then great, but in the mean time, let's not screw ourselves at our own expense and not at the expense of the corrupt.
Equality has been the rallying point of the modern enlightened state, and we should achieve it wherever and whenever possible. Electronic filing is yet another step towards equality for all, and I applaud it.
Get your fucking grubby hands out of my womb. No, I won't shut up. It is not your choice to do what you want with my body. It is my body. My fucking body. You have no right to determine my reproductive destiny by raping me, and you have no right to determine my reproductive destiny by criminalizing my body and what I do with it. What I do with my body is between me and whatever Divine Maker I worship and it has nothing to do with you.
It's not murder when I amputate a gangrene foot from my body and it's not murder when I extricate a tapeworm from my body. It's the same with abortion, and if abortion is ever recriminalized, then I will arm myself and defend that right. You won't want to mess with me.
It's hard to say why the internet press is jumping all over this one: is it to appeal to their target audiences which include mp3 snarfers or is it just a big human-interest story, in the way Time and Newsweek and all the dead-tree rags have covered it. But at least Napster's demonstrated one thing: even people who aren't willing to pay for their music can still provide the eyeballs for banner revenue models. And ultimately, that's the only way any of these consortia will be economically viable.
The only statistic your page disagrees with is the figure for breaking even (1 year versus more than 1 year). I never said solar arrays are never economical; but they're hardly the no-brainer decision that everyone tries to make them out to be -- they, like everything else, have costs, and those costs would be magnified incredibly if they were implemented on the scale that the original poster was envisioning. Especially the costs due to social engineering.
Manufacturing current solar arrays produces horrible pollution and takes about 5-10 years to break even on that count (when compared to burning fossil fuels to produce the same amount of electricity). And many parts of the world (e.g. Seattle) don't see enough sunlight to break even in anyone's lifetime. The economics aren't quite as bad as usual, because you are already making other use of the land -- solar arrays are always more environmentally costly for wasting arable land than for most other reasons -- but the numbers still don't quite pan out.
You're also discounting the macho do-it-yourself ethic that exists out there, especially among male homeowners who cannot bear to let professionals do "their" job for them, because it might reflect poorly on their manhoods. You know whom I'm talking about; the guys who will routinely try to patch their own roofs but always leave them leaking (and occasionally fall through them, trying). They'd be insane to try to maintain an electrically complex one (and would be a hazard to themselves and others).
We already have these devices, except they're called airplanes: expensive to maintain, require refueling, occasionally crash, and when they do crash, they kill people (the pilots). Governments aren't going to stop using them (or stop spying in general), so we might as well make them as cheap as possible both in monetary cost and cost to human life.
Soviet Russia proved that if you want to spy, all you need is a complicent populace to bear the brunt of the spy-work. With these planes doing the work instead of our tenants or landlords doing the work, we don't have to be the ones doing the work. It's ultimately a good thing, comparatively.
NASA has a page on previous involvement with AeroVironment, including descriptions of all previous solar aircraft, starting back in 1971 and up to the Helios (the one in this article) and the ERAST program in general. These things have come a long ways in thirty years.
The tenth amendment concerns the abrogation of state powers by the federal governemnt, whereas the line-item veto is about the balance of powers between coordinate branches of the federal government. The two have nothing to do with each other. Please reread Raines v. Byrd and Clinton v. City of New York.
Hi, Jon. On your homepage you indicate you majored in English and philosophy, rather than CS, mathematics, or the hard sciences. Has your background in the humanities allowed you to bring a unique approach to problem solving in the areas you're now exploring?
For example, much of "hardening" consists of finding poorly written code with buffer overruns and the like. But much of it also consists of cultural engineering/deengineering: how would a script kiddy approach this distribution? What sort of exploits generate the most prestige among fellow crackers/kiddies? That sort of thing. Did your humanities training (which is clearly still an active part of your life, what with all the poetry you write) give you a unique perspective that others lack?
(And on a personal note, did you ever forgive your girlfriend for her choice in that waiting-room?)
What about the third amendment? Quartering soldiers in peacetime? Does anyone really think this applicable to the 21st century?
Before the third amendment was enacted, it was a common practice among governments to subdue their populaces, not merely by forcing them to support and house soldiers, but by exposing them and their children to rape by those same soldiers. It's bad enough that such things happen during wartime (and classified as warcrimes); I'm proud that our constitution specifically addresses it in the Bill of Rights.
Today, rape still occurs among military personel (especially in retaliation to gender-integration), but for the most part, it occurs in barracks or on ships and away from civilians (though our Japanese friends living near navy personel stationed in Osaka may disagree).
Then there was the owners' secretary, who - to quote the Partner on the job - "liked the cut of my jib" - and hinted about her upcoming weekend in Palm Springs.
She's just doing what it takes to survive, since she's just been abandoned in her existing relationship with her bosses; her entire world has just come crashing down, and she's desperately flailing about to try to attach herself to another providing male. And you, as the white knight who's ridden in on your white horse to save her and what's left of the company from this fate, are the perfect opportunity.
If I may hazard a guess, she's probably in her late thirties, not so old that she's given in to societal pressures and renounced her status as "spinster" by marrying the first dweeb with a paycheck who comes along, but not so young that she's holding out indefinitely, as if somehow her hand won't be forced by the same society that grinds us all up and spits us out and won't take no for an answer.
RIDGEWOOD, NEW JERSEY -- Copyleft, an open source company that has made a significant effort to support the free software community with financial contributions financed through online sales of "geek chic" clothing, is poised to announce its new winter fashion line. Though no details are yet forthcoming, it is believed that central to Copyleft's new offerings is a blue cotton wedding dress with a thirty-foot train. When asked why, management denied comment except to mumble about needing more space to work with. Rumors of an apparent connection to Microsoft's recent break-ins and code theft remain unanswered.
Then I encourage you to do so. He's having the sort of impact on the modern music scene that others could only dream about, and his influence will remain long after the Backstreet Boys and boybands have been forgotten.
Let's look for a moment at aol's web page and see what all the fuss is about:
Top news -- We should be encouraging AOLers to be informed about what's going on in the world. Maybe then the s/n on Usenet would improve.
Shopping links --. Besides getting their porn fix, shopping is what most AOLers use AOL for.
Stock quotes -- ditto for shopping.
AOLEmail -- ditto for stock quotes and shopping.
Web Channels -- discussion boards for all sorts of useful topics. Here, AOLers get to practice their online communication skills and learn the principles of netiquette before moving on out into the rest of the net. This is a good thing.
All in all, it's a decent portal for newbies and hardly worthy of our derision: it doesn't even have too many ads, unlike certain other portals. Most newbies never change their homepages from netscape or microsoft anyway, and AOL is taking the prudent step of giving them one fewer thing to worry about.
Maybe you don't remember the old slashdot. Let me remind you. It looked something like this:
Contributed by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 21, [1997] @10:10 from the movin-on-up dept. ascott@pacbell.net sent me a link to This article.
It's another excellent example of the kind of
amazingly cool press that Linux is getting from
the media. We're approaching critical mass
people. I'm still waiting for that PC Magazine
cover story though.
Maybe you don't remember what slashdot used to be. Let me remind you. It looked something like this :
Contributed by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 07, [1998] @02:50AM from the preaching-the-truth dept. Another cameo appearance of Linux in a mainstream mag comes to us from
Amos Shapira. He sent in an article at inforworld about NT 5.0's hefty system requirements, and how Linux will
"beat the living daylights out of it" on a system with less than 64 megs of RAM. Flattery
like that is just the kinda publicity we like to hear.
Slashdot has always posted little stories glorifying Linux, because THAT'S WHAT ROB LIKES!!! In the old days, if it mentioned Linux, then the story RAN and we (ACs) liked it that way. With stories like these, Rob is being truer to his roots than a thousand napster/cuecat stories could ever be.
In this picture, you can clearly see a penguin reflecting off the actor's left nostril. In fact, that's the only reason why that picture was included, since after all, it isn't a picture of the DAMN SCREEN and must serve some purpose.
Yeah, it's windowmaker, and the buzz has been floating around for half a year since promos started getting aired. Here's an mpeg of the show's lineup, and you can clearly see it's at least some variant of unix, probably linux.
It's hydrogen sulfide. It's the same compound that makes all those pretty white swirls you see in pictures of Jupiter. Don't believe me? Would you believe google? A search for jupiter+"hydrogen sulfate" turns up only 4 matches, whereas a search for jupiter+"hydrogen sulfide" turns up 10 screens of matches.
Slashdot Mirror
These RF tags are perfect for tagging clothes, as the blurb pointed out. But an even more sinister use than tagging clothes is tagging the people who wear the clothes. And I'm especially referring to a certain kind of person:
Slavery is alive and well in this country, and I'm not referring merely to rhetorical or political slavery, but actual slavery. Women from foreign countries, particularly southeast-Asian countries are flown to America and promised low-paying but normal jobs performing menial labor or housecleaning services, but when they arrive, they discover to their horror that the real purpose is to prostitute themselves for the financial benefit of their masters. These women (and even children) are trapped, since they don't speak English, don't have the money to fly home, and don't have the physical or mental stamina to escape their tormentors after so much abuse.
How is this relevant to RF tags? Think of how much easier it would be to kidnap people from airports if all you needed to do was wander around with a small device, picking up the signals from the tags embedded in clothing given to the erstwhile immigrants back in their home countries. No longer would there have to be complicated networks of international communication -- they'd just have to agree on a certain range of serial numbers (of which there are trillions, as the article points out), hand out "free" clothes to people boarding the plane at departure, and sit back while agents at the US airports haul in the "goods".
This never would've been possible if we'd stuck to normal barcodes -- it's simply impossible to read barcodes surreptitiously. And since criminals are always the first to adopt new technologies for these devious purposes, it's only a matter of time before it comes to an airport near you, Thirteenth Amendment be damned.
Prior to this, they'd met 23 times in tournament play, each winning three and drawing 17. To say that Kasparov is no longer #1 is a bit rash; he'll rise again.
When I kill someone who's causing an imminent threat to me, it's not murder: it's self-defense, which is a 'perfect' defense to murder (as distinguished from an excuse, such as duress). Even if the person killed is a whole human beyond all question. And why does the law declare it not to be murder? Because of the assailant's relationship to me.
It's the same with the fetus (and even more so, since the fetus is a potential person and not an actual person). The fetus is causing an imminent threat to my life, and it is my right to remove that threat at whatever cost. You have the right to defend your home from burglars, and I have the right to defend my womb from foreign agents who would suck my life force for their own benefit.
The fact that it's even open for debate is a sad commentary on the objectification of women by contemporary society. I do NOT go poking around in your ass, peer at your prostate, and proclaim: "Aha, here is an inviolable part of men's bodies that they have no sovereign dominion over!" You shall not do the same with my body.
Harshbarger's Mona Lisa was commissioned by Dave Michelson, a programmer who's bought several of Eric's other works. And it's really wonderful to see the ancient practice of artistic patronage by the wealthy paying off in this 21st century.
But, sadly, not all artists are so lucky, and the current political climate in the US isn't so forgiving. Back in 1997, NEA funding was severely cut, and private giving hasn't increased to make up for the deficit. And with current debates about eliminating the estate tax failing to see how the estate tax actually increases patronage of museums and public art institutions by wealthy people eager to divest themselves of inheritted works, we're little assured of a brighter future.
How many other lego scuplters would our nation produce if we were more liberal with funding for the arts? How many nascent artists, how many little Erics, are picking through their lego tubs, searching for that flat 3x1 piece, but more importantly, searching for a nation who would see their promise and help them deliver? And if they ever receive the funding they so desperately need, will they be saddled with draconian political restrictions on what sort of art they may create? Sure, no one's offended by a lego Mona Lisa, but will the same be true when someone finally builds a lego Piss Christ?
I urge all of you, write your congresspersons and support funding for the arts. Especially our international friends over in the Netherlands, since you seem to have something extra to do with legos and all. It's imperative that the promise of tomorrow doesn't get squashed today like so many little pieces of plastic under the foot of an angry parent walk barefoot to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
I don't have a URL on hand for the Atlantic Works decision, but that quote's been referenced many times by subsequent decisions, including A. & P. TEA CO. v. SUPERMARKET CORP..
I realize everyone is anti-patent here, but think for a moment: patents are already being frivolously filed in this country, TODAY! Under the current system! But who are the ones doing the filing? It's the well-moneyed corporations, who can afford to sink a few hundred dollars into a dead-end pursuit if there's a slight chance it'll pay off with a million-dollar windfall some day.
Making the patent-submission process an electronic one removes one more barrier, but that's a good thing: it helps the little citizen compete on the same playing field that the corporations have historically reserved for themselves. It lets us get a little piece of that pie and grows the pie at the same time.
Patents do have their downside, and the Supreme Court has recognized that fact for the last hundred years. Said the Court, "It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax upon the industry of the country." But for too long, it's been inanimate (and constitutionally unjustifiable) corporations who've drawn all the benefits from that system. If we abolish it and embark on a new more enlightened path some day, then great, but in the mean time, let's not screw ourselves at our own expense and not at the expense of the corrupt.
Equality has been the rallying point of the modern enlightened state, and we should achieve it wherever and whenever possible. Electronic filing is yet another step towards equality for all, and I applaud it.
Get your fucking grubby hands out of my womb. No, I won't shut up. It is not your choice to do what you want with my body. It is my body. My fucking body. You have no right to determine my reproductive destiny by raping me, and you have no right to determine my reproductive destiny by criminalizing my body and what I do with it. What I do with my body is between me and whatever Divine Maker I worship and it has nothing to do with you.
It's not murder when I amputate a gangrene foot from my body and it's not murder when I extricate a tapeworm from my body. It's the same with abortion, and if abortion is ever recriminalized, then I will arm myself and defend that right. You won't want to mess with me.
RedHerring 's article, Excite's copy of Reuter's coverage, and Zdnet's article, not to mention CNN and the rest.
It's hard to say why the internet press is jumping all over this one: is it to appeal to their target audiences which include mp3 snarfers or is it just a big human-interest story, in the way Time and Newsweek and all the dead-tree rags have covered it. But at least Napster's demonstrated one thing: even people who aren't willing to pay for their music can still provide the eyeballs for banner revenue models. And ultimately, that's the only way any of these consortia will be economically viable.
The only statistic your page disagrees with is the figure for breaking even (1 year versus more than 1 year). I never said solar arrays are never economical; but they're hardly the no-brainer decision that everyone tries to make them out to be -- they, like everything else, have costs, and those costs would be magnified incredibly if they were implemented on the scale that the original poster was envisioning. Especially the costs due to social engineering.
Manufacturing current solar arrays produces horrible pollution and takes about 5-10 years to break even on that count (when compared to burning fossil fuels to produce the same amount of electricity). And many parts of the world (e.g. Seattle) don't see enough sunlight to break even in anyone's lifetime. The economics aren't quite as bad as usual, because you are already making other use of the land -- solar arrays are always more environmentally costly for wasting arable land than for most other reasons -- but the numbers still don't quite pan out.
You're also discounting the macho do-it-yourself ethic that exists out there, especially among male homeowners who cannot bear to let professionals do "their" job for them, because it might reflect poorly on their manhoods. You know whom I'm talking about; the guys who will routinely try to patch their own roofs but always leave them leaking (and occasionally fall through them, trying). They'd be insane to try to maintain an electrically complex one (and would be a hazard to themselves and others).
We already have these devices, except they're called airplanes: expensive to maintain, require refueling, occasionally crash, and when they do crash, they kill people (the pilots). Governments aren't going to stop using them (or stop spying in general), so we might as well make them as cheap as possible both in monetary cost and cost to human life.
Soviet Russia proved that if you want to spy, all you need is a complicent populace to bear the brunt of the spy-work. With these planes doing the work instead of our tenants or landlords doing the work, we don't have to be the ones doing the work. It's ultimately a good thing, comparatively.
NASA has a page on previous involvement with AeroVironment, including descriptions of all previous solar aircraft, starting back in 1971 and up to the Helios (the one in this article) and the ERAST program in general. These things have come a long ways in thirty years.
The tenth amendment concerns the abrogation of state powers by the federal governemnt, whereas the line-item veto is about the balance of powers between coordinate branches of the federal government. The two have nothing to do with each other. Please reread Raines v. Byrd and Clinton v. City of New York.
Hi, Jon. On your homepage you indicate you majored in English and philosophy, rather than CS, mathematics, or the hard sciences. Has your background in the humanities allowed you to bring a unique approach to problem solving in the areas you're now exploring?
For example, much of "hardening" consists of finding poorly written code with buffer overruns and the like. But much of it also consists of cultural engineering/deengineering: how would a script kiddy approach this distribution? What sort of exploits generate the most prestige among fellow crackers/kiddies? That sort of thing. Did your humanities training (which is clearly still an active part of your life, what with all the poetry you write) give you a unique perspective that others lack?
(And on a personal note, did you ever forgive your girlfriend for her choice in that waiting-room?)
What about the third amendment? Quartering soldiers in peacetime? Does anyone really think this applicable to the 21st century?
Before the third amendment was enacted, it was a common practice among governments to subdue their populaces, not merely by forcing them to support and house soldiers, but by exposing them and their children to rape by those same soldiers. It's bad enough that such things happen during wartime (and classified as warcrimes); I'm proud that our constitution specifically addresses it in the Bill of Rights.
Today, rape still occurs among military personel (especially in retaliation to gender-integration), but for the most part, it occurs in barracks or on ships and away from civilians (though our Japanese friends living near navy personel stationed in Osaka may disagree).
Then there was the owners' secretary, who - to quote the Partner on the job - "liked the cut of my jib" - and hinted about her upcoming weekend in Palm Springs.
She's just doing what it takes to survive, since she's just been abandoned in her existing relationship with her bosses; her entire world has just come crashing down, and she's desperately flailing about to try to attach herself to another providing male. And you, as the white knight who's ridden in on your white horse to save her and what's left of the company from this fate, are the perfect opportunity.
If I may hazard a guess, she's probably in her late thirties, not so old that she's given in to societal pressures and renounced her status as "spinster" by marrying the first dweeb with a paycheck who comes along, but not so young that she's holding out indefinitely, as if somehow her hand won't be forced by the same society that grinds us all up and spits us out and won't take no for an answer.
Try before you buy and read the prologue online.
RIDGEWOOD, NEW JERSEY -- Copyleft, an open source company that has made a significant effort to support the free software community with financial contributions financed through online sales of "geek chic" clothing, is poised to announce its new winter fashion line. Though no details are yet forthcoming, it is believed that central to Copyleft's new offerings is a blue cotton wedding dress with a thirty-foot train. When asked why, management denied comment except to mumble about needing more space to work with. Rumors of an apparent connection to Microsoft's recent break-ins and code theft remain unanswered.
Then I encourage you to do so. He's having the sort of impact on the modern music scene that others could only dream about, and his influence will remain long after the Backstreet Boys and boybands have been forgotten.
Borken's been in the jargon file for a while, and "b0rken" is a common variant. What made you think it was yours?
Top news -- We should be encouraging AOLers to be informed about what's going on in the world. Maybe then the s/n on Usenet would improve.
Shopping links --. Besides getting their porn fix, shopping is what most AOLers use AOL for.
Stock quotes -- ditto for shopping.
AOLEmail -- ditto for stock quotes and shopping.
Web Channels -- discussion boards for all sorts of useful topics. Here, AOLers get to practice their online communication skills and learn the principles of netiquette before moving on out into the rest of the net. This is a good thing.
All in all, it's a decent portal for newbies and hardly worthy of our derision: it doesn't even have too many ads, unlike certain other portals. Most newbies never change their homepages from netscape or microsoft anyway, and AOL is taking the prudent step of giving them one fewer thing to worry about.
This place has really gone downhill recently.
Maybe you don't remember the old slashdot. Let me remind you. It looked something like this:
Contributed by CmdrTaco
on Wednesday October 21, [1997] @10:10
from the movin-on-up dept.
ascott@pacbell.net
sent me a link to This article.
It's another excellent example of the kind of
amazingly cool press that Linux is getting from
the media. We're approaching critical mass
people. I'm still waiting for that PC Magazine
cover story though.
Maybe you don't remember what slashdot used to be. Let me remind you. It looked something like this :
Contributed by CmdrTaco
on Wednesday January 07, [1998] @02:50AM
from the preaching-the-truth dept.
Another cameo appearance of Linux in a mainstream mag comes to us from
Amos Shapira. He sent in an article at inforworld about NT 5.0's hefty system requirements, and how Linux will
"beat the living daylights out of it" on a system with less than 64 megs of RAM. Flattery
like that is just the kinda publicity we like to hear.
Slashdot has always posted little stories glorifying Linux, because THAT'S WHAT ROB LIKES!!! In the old days, if it mentioned Linux, then the story RAN and we (ACs) liked it that way. With stories like these, Rob is being truer to his roots than a thousand napster/cuecat stories could ever be.
It's his damn site, and you're being ungrateful.
In this picture, you can clearly see a penguin reflecting off the actor's left nostril. In fact, that's the only reason why that picture was included, since after all, it isn't a picture of the DAMN SCREEN and must serve some purpose.
Yeah, it's windowmaker, and the buzz has been floating around for half a year since promos started getting aired. Here's an mpeg of the show's lineup, and you can clearly see it's at least some variant of unix, probably linux.
It's hydrogen sulfide. It's the same compound that makes all those pretty white swirls you see in pictures of Jupiter. Don't believe me? Would you believe google? A search for jupiter+"hydrogen sulfate" turns up only 4 matches, whereas a search for jupiter+"hydrogen sulfide" turns up 10 screens of matches.