I think he's done exactly that. He's taught his son never to trust an authority figure no matter how much they say they love and respect him. He's taught him to erase his tracks or get caught.
The kid will come out of this being highly paranoid and knowing a few more things about computers.
Oh, and he'll still be smoking pot. When you idiots going to learn that you can't stop people from that?
The story of the original Matrix was nothing new to most fans of sci-fi, as the concept of the Matrix goes back to the nightmare fiction of Harlan Ellison,
The problem is that your average "sci-fi" fan these days doesn't read at all. They watch movies, play video games and bitch at each other on message boards. The only books they ever read are novelizations of movies and horrible Star Trek books. The only thing they know about Ellison is that he wrote "The City on the Edge of Forever" episode of Star Trek.
So the philosophy of The Matrix came as a surprise to them.
The first Matrix wasn't bad, but it could have been a lot better if Keanu hadn't been handed lines like "What's an EMP?" to explain to the members of the audience what it is.
I mean, come on, any "hacker god" like Neo was supposed to be would know what an EMP was. A real hacker god could have built one in his basement.
Ok, first it demands your email address. They probably sell it to the RIAA so they can prosecute. When you click on the link in the email to confirm you get this dialog,
"Problem with Email Verification
Grouper was unable to automatically verify your email address. This could be caused by one of the following:
* Your default browser is not Internet Explorer.
* Internet Explorer is not configured to run signed, trusted ActiveX controls."
So they also won't let you join if you don't use IE.
You can buy a Lexmark printer for about 25 dollars. With shipping it was 32. It comes with one color ink cartridge. It doesn't come with a usb cable, but if you're like me, you have those lying around.
A replacement lexmark cartridge costs 35 to 40 bucks. So when the original cartridge runs out, buy a new printer. Then sell the old one on ebay for 10 bucks (make sure to tell them it doesn't have an ink cartridge). So you've paid about 23 dollars for the whole thing. Which is how much even "cheap" ink cartridges cost, no matter who makes them.
I've got a nice all in one Brother scanner, fax, printer lying around that has something wrong with it, but it would cost me more to fix than I can buy a Lexmark for. And the ink for that printer was about the same as the Lexmark would be, even though the associate at Office Depot told me that it was the cheapest ink around. It is, but when you have to buy 3 color cartridges and one black cartridge it comes to about 50 bucks.
I've also been thinking about buying a lot of these lexmark printers and taking the cartridge out, sell it and the printer on ebay. I could probably make a profit of about 10 dollars for each printer I did this with. They are worth more if you take the ink cartridge and the printer and sell them seperately than they are if you sell them together.
So, what you're saying is that how important you are is measured soley by how much money you have in the bank?
And you missed something you said yourself. Diversified. MS has all it's eggs in one basket. The tech market changes fast, or haven't you noticed? In 1990 no one Apple would be a minor player, either. Everything could change tommorrow and MS could lose all those eggs it has in one basket.
Plus, the idiot comment was uncalled for. Are you a troll?
Without a doubt, AOL. Remember, they're aol/time/warner. MS isn't anything but some software, while AOL is a huge media empire. What does MS really control? Some software, an operating system, a word processor. How many people have PCs? Not nearly as many as watch tv, read newspapers, magazines, go to movies, listen to music.
MS influences things people do at work, AOL has everything else. Which is more important to society, the software your pointy haired boss uses on his laptop or the tv your children watch? Warner bros put out the Harry Potter movie, some subsidiary probably published the book. AOL owns a chunk of that, exerted at least some sort of influence over it.
Also, the common herd, the people who don't have their own server, the people who would think an ip address is a phone number for a foreign country, the people who don't read slashdot, they use AOL. It's on your boss's laptop, too.
So, really, which is more important?
As to whether one is more evil than the other, I don't know. Neither one has sent anyone to the ovens at Dauchau, so I don't really think you could call them evil.
I filter anything with the Yen symbol in it. That get's rid of almost all the Japanese spam, just like filtering anything with a dollar sign gets rid of the US spam.
It's a little heavy handed, so I just filter it to a seperate mailbox and check it occasionally rather than delete it.
Slashdot Mirror
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I think he's done exactly that. He's taught his son never to trust an authority figure no matter how much they say they love and respect him. He's taught him to erase his tracks or get caught.
The kid will come out of this being highly paranoid and knowing a few more things about computers.
Oh, and he'll still be smoking pot. When you idiots going to learn that you can't stop people from that?
The story of the original Matrix was nothing new to most fans of sci-fi, as the concept of the Matrix goes back to the nightmare fiction of Harlan Ellison, The problem is that your average "sci-fi" fan these days doesn't read at all. They watch movies, play video games and bitch at each other on message boards. The only books they ever read are novelizations of movies and horrible Star Trek books. The only thing they know about Ellison is that he wrote "The City on the Edge of Forever" episode of Star Trek. So the philosophy of The Matrix came as a surprise to them. The first Matrix wasn't bad, but it could have been a lot better if Keanu hadn't been handed lines like "What's an EMP?" to explain to the members of the audience what it is. I mean, come on, any "hacker god" like Neo was supposed to be would know what an EMP was. A real hacker god could have built one in his basement.
Yes, we are stronger for having been corrected. Also, that which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Strange that both Buddha and Nietzsche agreed on this point.
Ok, first it demands your email address. They probably sell it to the RIAA so they can prosecute. When you click on the link in the email to confirm you get this dialog,
"Problem with Email Verification
Grouper was unable to automatically verify your email address. This could be caused by one of the following:
* Your default browser is not Internet Explorer.
* Internet Explorer is not configured to run signed, trusted ActiveX controls."
So they also won't let you join if you don't use IE.
The whole thing is probably some sort of scam.
You can buy a Lexmark printer for about 25 dollars. With shipping it was 32. It comes with one color ink cartridge. It doesn't come with a usb cable, but if you're like me, you have those lying around.
A replacement lexmark cartridge costs 35 to 40 bucks. So when the original cartridge runs out, buy a new printer. Then sell the old one on ebay for 10 bucks (make sure to tell them it doesn't have an ink cartridge). So you've paid about 23 dollars for the whole thing. Which is how much even "cheap" ink cartridges cost, no matter who makes them.
I've got a nice all in one Brother scanner, fax, printer lying around that has something wrong with it, but it would cost me more to fix than I can buy a Lexmark for. And the ink for that printer was about the same as the Lexmark would be, even though the associate at Office Depot told me that it was the cheapest ink around. It is, but when you have to buy 3 color cartridges and one black cartridge it comes to about 50 bucks.
I've also been thinking about buying a lot of these lexmark printers and taking the cartridge out, sell it and the printer on ebay. I could probably make a profit of about 10 dollars for each printer I did this with. They are worth more if you take the ink cartridge and the printer and sell them seperately than they are if you sell them together.
Yes, in the future the army will place electrodes running linux on your genitals.
And they'll be bluetooth ready!
Take out the credit card companies and the credit reporting bureus. Level the playing field. Only way out.
Because they're......Evil?
Isn't that what the trailers are for?
Plus, Mark Chapman, John Lennon's assasin, had a copy of Catcher on him when he was arrested. He claimed it was very inspirational.
So, what you're saying is that how important you are is measured soley by how much money you have in the bank?
And you missed something you said yourself. Diversified. MS has all it's eggs in one basket. The tech market changes fast, or haven't you noticed? In 1990 no one Apple would be a minor player, either. Everything could change tommorrow and MS could lose all those eggs it has in one basket.
Plus, the idiot comment was uncalled for. Are you a troll?
Without a doubt, AOL. Remember, they're aol/time/warner. MS isn't anything but some software, while AOL is a huge media empire. What does MS really control? Some software, an operating system, a word processor. How many people have PCs? Not nearly as many as watch tv, read newspapers, magazines, go to movies, listen to music.
MS influences things people do at work, AOL has everything else. Which is more important to society, the software your pointy haired boss uses on his laptop or the tv your children watch? Warner bros put out the Harry Potter movie, some subsidiary probably published the book. AOL owns a chunk of that, exerted at least some sort of influence over it.
Also, the common herd, the people who don't have their own server, the people who would think an ip address is a phone number for a foreign country, the people who don't read slashdot, they use AOL. It's on your boss's laptop, too.
So, really, which is more important?
As to whether one is more evil than the other, I don't know. Neither one has sent anyone to the ovens at Dauchau, so I don't really think you could call them evil.
Netscape was never good. It was just slightly less evil than the competition.
The enemy of your enemy isn't always your friend. Just because Netscape comepeted with Microsoft doesn't mean they were the good guys.
I filter anything with the Yen symbol in it. That get's rid of almost all the Japanese spam, just like filtering anything with a dollar sign gets rid of the US spam.
It's a little heavy handed, so I just filter it to a seperate mailbox and check it occasionally rather than delete it.
Of course, only organisms can communicate....