Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
That was a quote from Pulp Fiction, not the Bible. I don't have one to hand right now, but that is a bastardization of two or three different lines. --
FreeNet: The huge libertarian presence on the Internet. If you ask why, it's because a lot of libertarians saw a good thing back in 1992-1993 and were "early adopters" of commercial Internet service.
Now it goes to the appeals court, and thence to the Supreme Court. I imagine the appeals court will pass it along, and the Supreme Court will finally say "The DMCA is unconstitutional."
All of you who are whining about no Slashcode being released, or who are whining about it not being "published" -- let's see some Perl. The 0.3 tarball is out there. So download it and hack already.
I see a lot of whining but I don't see any patches....
As techies, we probably understand more about law than does the average shmoe on the street. We understand more about most things than does the average shmoe on the street because we, like the cat, besides being next-to-impossible to herd, are curious.
As to whether we understand more about law than do lawyers and judges understand about computers, that's a tossup. I'd have to say that, like anything else, it varies by individual.
I see a few posts here whose attitude is "Screw the newbie." One, in fact, used those words.
While that's a fine attitude to have, check this out: For every person to whom you say "Screw you, you're a newbie" that's another $89.99 in Bill's wallet.
I'm still learning Linux myself, but I'm at about the point where the man pages, the HOWTOs, etc. are actually helpful.
The man pages and the HOWTOs don't often tell you what to do when something goes wrong. What do you do when you've RTFM, followed the instructions and it still doesn't work? --
cannot comprehend how some can argue that hate crimes are no different from all other crimes.
Umm...well...how about...
Murder is murder?
Yes, you're still just as dead whether you're white, black, Filipino-American, Korean, gay, or straight.
Mr. Vice President, if you hadn't spent so much time inventing the Internet, you might understand this. --
If you can't take the heat, stay off Usenet.
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Just like the subject says. Anything goes on Usenet; if you think you'll get your po' ittoe feewings huwt, then stay out. Or use a killfile; that's what they're there for. --
Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground.
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If you agree with letting the police and the courts in to stop speech you don't agree with, you have no complaint whatsoever when they try to stop speech you do agree with.
Many posters don't seem to realize that China is one of the U.S.'s biggest trading partners. Think about it -- a potential market of over a billion people.
I guarantee that U.S. companies that sell to China certainly aren't worried about any "stigma" that Chinese endorsement of our favorite O.S. could cause.
I wish I had been here when this was posted so I didn't get lost in the shuffle. But I met my wife on IRC in 1995, and we talked a lot off and on until summer of 1996 when we started dating. She lived in Raleigh, NC, and I lived in Corvallis, Oregon. We got married in October of 1996 and have been very happy ever since.
The key to any successful relationship is communication. After that, luck.:)
Finding someone online is just like using any other means of finding someone.
1. The federal government should be prohibited from using any Microsoft products. To borrow someone else's format...
Pros:
One of MS's major revenue sources dries up.
Cons:
The taxpayers pay massive costs including time loss during changeovers, costs of retraining personnel, and the like. 2. Do away with all "corporate welfare" benefits for Microsoft.
Pros:
It keeps the libertarian types happy.
Cons:
What are Microsoft's "corporate welfare" benefits, anyway?
It may very well be unconstitutional to do something like this (i.e. to single out a company)
A customer subscribing to Microsofts volume Open Level B license, for example, deploying 10 Windows 2000 servers with 100 PCs would pay an upgrade price of $22,800; $17,500 for the desktops, $3,700 for the servers, and $1,600 for the client access licenses.
And with Linux you can do all that for the cost of the hardware. --
If the bigtime hackers had any interest in working in the space program, or trying to design the 200MPG carburetor, that's what they'd be doing, Internet or no Internet.
I don't think the Internet is keeping people from doing other things they enjoy. --
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That is, dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO).
Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
For more information, go to http://www.circus.com/~nodhmo/.
Ban DHMO!
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That was a quote from Pulp Fiction, not the Bible. I don't have one to hand right now, but that is a bastardization of two or three different lines.
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FreeNet: The huge libertarian presence on the Internet. If you ask why, it's because a lot of libertarians saw a good thing back in 1992-1993 and were "early adopters" of commercial Internet service.
If you ask why that is, I have no answer.
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Was there some mystical force that pulled your mouse to the "Read More" link and forced you to click on it?
Do you killfile everything you don't read and read everything you don't killfile?
The words "Jon Katz Interview" were in great big letters at the top.
Or are you in a backhanded way advocating censorship, so that no one should be forced to suffer through Katz?
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I don't know who said it:
"The First Amendment is intended to protect offensive speech, because no one ever tries to block the other kind."
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Now it goes to the appeals court, and thence to the Supreme Court. I imagine the appeals court will pass it along, and the Supreme Court will finally say "The DMCA is unconstitutional."
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Show me the code!
All of you who are whining about no Slashcode being released, or who are whining about it not being "published" -- let's see some Perl. The 0.3 tarball is out there. So download it and hack already.
I see a lot of whining but I don't see any patches....
--
As techies, we probably understand more about law than does the average shmoe on the street. We understand more about most things than does the average shmoe on the street because we, like the cat, besides being next-to-impossible to herd, are curious.
As to whether we understand more about law than do lawyers and judges understand about computers, that's a tossup. I'd have to say that, like anything else, it varies by individual.
--
I see a few posts here whose attitude is "Screw the newbie." One, in fact, used those words.
While that's a fine attitude to have, check this out: For every person to whom you say "Screw you, you're a newbie" that's another $89.99 in Bill's wallet.
--
I'm still learning Linux myself, but I'm at about the point where the man pages, the HOWTOs, etc. are actually helpful.
The man pages and the HOWTOs don't often tell you what to do when something goes wrong. What do you do when you've RTFM, followed the instructions and it still doesn't work?
--
I've been to a few Star Trek and SF conventions, and they had the con scenes down pretty pat.
With the aliens, they did a Coneheads-ish shtick that, while it worked for the movie, could have been handled differently.
It wasn't great cinema, but a good, solid comedy SF movie.
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it.
The movie was frickin' hilarious.
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...and I've come to the following conclusion:
We're all gonna die.
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"1 out of every 5 people is crazy. Look around you; if the four people around you are normal, you're it."
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cannot comprehend how some can argue that hate crimes are no different from all other crimes.
Umm...well...how about...
Murder is murder?
Yes, you're still just as dead whether you're white, black, Filipino-American, Korean, gay, or straight.
Mr. Vice President, if you hadn't spent so much time inventing the Internet, you might understand this.
--
Just like the subject says. Anything goes on Usenet; if you think you'll get your po' ittoe feewings huwt, then stay out. Or use a killfile; that's what they're there for.
--
If you agree with letting the police and the courts in to stop speech you don't agree with, you have no complaint whatsoever when they try to stop speech you do agree with.
No, it's not all right. Not at all.
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Many posters don't seem to realize that China is one of the U.S.'s biggest trading partners. Think about it -- a potential market of over a billion people.
I guarantee that U.S. companies that sell to China certainly aren't worried about any "stigma" that Chinese endorsement of our favorite O.S. could cause.
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....of, say, a hundred million PCs.
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However the official distribution is Chinux
And the official distribution of Canada is, of course, Canux.
The U.S.? USux.
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I wish I had been here when this was posted so I didn't get lost in the shuffle. But I met my wife on IRC in 1995, and we talked a lot off and on until summer of 1996 when we started dating. She lived in Raleigh, NC, and I lived in Corvallis, Oregon. We got married in October of 1996 and have been very happy ever since.
:)
The key to any successful relationship is communication. After that, luck.
Finding someone online is just like using any other means of finding someone.
--
1. The federal government should be prohibited from using any Microsoft products. To borrow someone else's format...
Pros:
One of MS's major revenue sources dries up.
Cons:
The taxpayers pay massive costs including time loss during changeovers, costs of retraining personnel, and the like. 2. Do away with all "corporate welfare" benefits for Microsoft.
Pros:
It keeps the libertarian types happy.
Cons:
What are Microsoft's "corporate welfare" benefits, anyway?
It may very well be unconstitutional to do something like this (i.e. to single out a company)
--
Anyone had any success running Eudora with WINE?
As a matter of fact, I have. The latest free version with Wine990704. I haven't tried it with a more recent version yet.
The graphics on the buttons are messed up, but fortunately each button comes up with one of those little text windows that says its function.
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A customer subscribing to Microsofts volume Open Level B license, for example, deploying 10 Windows 2000 servers with 100 PCs would pay an upgrade price of $22,800; $17,500 for the desktops, $3,700 for the servers, and $1,600 for the client access licenses.
And with Linux you can do all that for the cost of the hardware.
--
If the bigtime hackers had any interest in working in the space program, or trying to design the 200MPG carburetor, that's what they'd be doing, Internet or no Internet.
I don't think the Internet is keeping people from doing other things they enjoy.
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