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It's so nice to see/. giving space to this.
We get graced with so many great stories here (none of mine have NEVER been accepted! hee hee) regarding technology and not only about computers.
Technological growth is all exponential though. Now we realize all the great things that space exploration has contributed to, like Kevlar.
We probably don't think enough about how much our astronauts have contributed to the advancement of technology.
Then there's just the bravery of it all. Just think about what is actually happening: flying into space with a huge and very deadly rocket under your butt!
It's really amazing and back in the days of Apollo 1 it was all about doing what was so bleeding edge and untested.
It is such unexcelled bravery. It's mind boggling really. Into space and doing it with less computer power than a Commodore 64.
All the space pioneers were amazing and some of them gave all. God bless all of 'em, especially Apollo 1.
AhH yes but can they monitor their own death? Seems that bunches of robots swimming around and then dying would constitute pollution as well. After they die will they add their own body count?
>[quote]"If I leave my keys in my car because it's convenient for me, and somebody steals my car, is that my fault?"[unquote]
You are responsible for the consequences of your actions.
That goes for leaving keys in cars because you're a dumbass or creating lousy software that constantly gets exploited because you're a dumbass.
As we all know, one of the greatest things about living in these here United States of America is that you never have to take responsibility for your actions even if you are a moron (or Microsoft).
>I've been darn pleased with the direction Microsoft is going lately
-You mean the direction of degrading the quality of MP3 in XP?
-The direction of not rewriting IIS causing Gartner Group to recommend companies to drop it?
-Smart Tags?
-Not wanting people to publish exploits in their code?
-Not supporting java?
>innovating at their former pace.
M$ has never been innovative.
Here's the direction that M$ is on..
Most NT boxes don't even run IIS yet their software accounts for the large majority of exploits.
You must be a gov't contractor whose job depends on patching M$ all the time.
Maybe the next step for the tech community is to launch an all out campaign to make sure that Fritz doesn't get re-elected next time.
Why are we always so reactive and leaving it at that?
Maybe we should start being proactive instead and start a site like defeatfritz.com and start making an effort to strike back. Fritz has shown his true colors and it failed and now he should pay for his stupidity. Maybe if other congressman on the take see that there are severe consequences, maybe they won't be so fast to cash those MPAA/RIAA/Disney etc checks.
If someone had only did that to the dumb ass gentleman from Utah around the time of DMCA.....
I work for the Federal Government and like the majority of/.ers I am dedicated to open source. The particular division of the Army that I contract for runs nothing but NT boxes. So I promptly created a few apps using PERL on top of Linux that, to the commanding general's folks, appear like fire to cavemen. The trick was to code them at home on a DHCP enabled laptop, tell the General's right hand men that you have something that they MUST see, bring it in,plug it into the network, demo it and voila! Just like that I got my job description rewritten and a ** LINUX ** box set up amongst the sea of NT boxes.
Man oh man, the way the blood drained out of the M$ lovin' PMs face when he was told to put up a Linux box was priceless!
They are really gonna positively sh*t when I demo slash as an internal news mechanism!
So YES! If you are in a government job and you want to have some fun with your M$ friends, let me know, I'll give you a couple of the apps I developed for the Army.
Thanks fishbowl!
Except he was from Murray, Kentucky.
Otherwise thank you for clarifying this.
Sadly, school kids a hundred years from now will think that Steve Jobs invented the GUI.
So with no intellectual property rights they can pick whatever package they want, why would they have to choose linux?
Because at some point with China joining the rest of the world, the property of intellectual property rights will have to be addressed. It's not very likely that communism will change to suit this when an official advocation of Linux is possible.
That's easy. ALL copies of Windows running in China are legitimate. No intellectual property rights - remember?
This new info superhighway will probably have to be powered by Linux. Intellectual property rights don't exist in China (Communism). It would be interesting to know how many legitimate copies of Windows there are in China versus how many people are actually running it.
Now that Al Gore lost the election perhaps he could go and invent the Chinese information superhighway also.
Because of $$$$.
That's all that matters to this country.
Talk is cheap when it comes to things like Tibetan/Taiwan rights. It's also cheap when speaking of Tiannamen square but where there's $$$ to be made, all is forgotten and forgiven.
That's also why Rwanda happened. A group of people killed with better efficiency than the nazis efforts to the jews, but we let it go on. We probably would have let it happened to Kosovo also but that's too close to the rest of Europe.
Then there's Iraq invading Kuwait and the stories (later proven the be false) of Iraqi soldiers dumping babies on the floor from their incubators.
There's nothing to exploit in Kosovo or Rwanda. There is definitely something to exploit in China, money, money, money.
Now as far as the pesky firewall is concerned, assuming China keeps a firewall up that allows some of the internet in, there's always the hope of peer to peer.
That would be a kool idea, dissemination of news via a Gnutella like program.
I don't hesitate at all to use credit cards over the 'net. Reason being that any charge without a signature on file can be disputed. I once had a problem with a hotel room upon arrival and decided not to stay. They previously had my credit card number from when I made my reservation over the 'net. The bill came, I got charged and I called Visa. My only question to the credit card company was "Can you produce my signature?"
No signature, no problem (at least for me), no charge.
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You mean Ball U?
Corps of Engineers is unhappy?
Marine Corps unhappy?
AmeriCorps ?
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It's so nice to see /. giving space to this.
We get graced with so many great stories here (none of mine have NEVER been accepted! hee hee) regarding technology and not only about computers.
Technological growth is all exponential though. Now we realize all the great things that space exploration has contributed to, like Kevlar.
We probably don't think enough about how much our astronauts have contributed to the advancement of technology.
Then there's just the bravery of it all. Just think about what is actually happening: flying into space with a huge and very deadly rocket under your butt!
It's really amazing and back in the days of Apollo 1 it was all about doing what was so bleeding edge and untested.
It is such unexcelled bravery. It's mind boggling really. Into space and doing it with less computer power than a Commodore 64.
All the space pioneers were amazing and some of them gave all. God bless all of 'em, especially Apollo 1.
AhH yes but can they monitor their own death? Seems that bunches of robots swimming around and then dying would constitute pollution as well. After they die will they add their own body count?
Can it do Tinsel?
Can Streaming MP3 ornaments be far behind?
>[quote]"If I leave my keys in my car because it's convenient for me, and somebody steals my car, is that my fault?"[unquote]
You are responsible for the consequences of your actions.
That goes for leaving keys in cars because you're a dumbass or creating lousy software that constantly gets exploited because you're a dumbass.
As we all know, one of the greatest things about living in these here United States of America is that you never have to take responsibility for your actions even if you are a moron (or Microsoft).
>I've been darn pleased with the direction Microsoft is going lately
-You mean the direction of degrading the quality of MP3 in XP?
-The direction of not rewriting IIS causing Gartner Group to recommend companies to drop it?
-Smart Tags?
-Not wanting people to publish exploits in their code?
-Not supporting java?
>innovating at their former pace.
M$ has never been innovative.
Here's the direction that M$ is on..
Most NT boxes don't even run IIS yet their software accounts for the large majority of exploits.
You must be a gov't contractor whose job depends on patching M$ all the time.
Maybe the next step for the tech community is to launch an all out campaign to make sure that Fritz doesn't get re-elected next time.
Why are we always so reactive and leaving it at that?
Maybe we should start being proactive instead and start a site like defeatfritz.com and start making an effort to strike back. Fritz has shown his true colors and it failed and now he should pay for his stupidity. Maybe if other congressman on the take see that there are severe consequences, maybe they won't be so fast to cash those MPAA/RIAA/Disney etc checks.
If someone had only did that to the dumb ass gentleman from Utah around the time of DMCA.....
Spoken like a true M$ anonymous coward. /.'s server logs it's obvious that your opinion is worthless.
Unless you have access to
My point to the General's folks was that as a programmer I provide services not platforms.
They do but they are dedicated to ASP. That was my argument to them, "Don't fear PERL, it works under Windows too!"
I work for the Federal Government and like the majority of /.ers I am dedicated to open source. The particular division of the Army that I contract for runs nothing but NT boxes. So I promptly created a few apps using PERL on top of Linux that, to the commanding general's folks, appear like fire to cavemen. The trick was to code them at home on a DHCP enabled laptop, tell the General's right hand men that you have something that they MUST see, bring it in,plug it into the network, demo it and voila! Just like that I got my job description rewritten and a ** LINUX ** box set up amongst the sea of NT boxes.
Man oh man, the way the blood drained out of the M$ lovin' PMs face when he was told to put up a Linux box was priceless!
They are really gonna positively sh*t when I demo slash as an internal news mechanism!
So YES! If you are in a government job and you want to have some fun with your M$ friends, let me know, I'll give you a couple of the apps I developed for the Army.
first
Great!
Thanks fishbowl! Except he was from Murray, Kentucky. Otherwise thank you for clarifying this. Sadly, school kids a hundred years from now will think that Steve Jobs invented the GUI.
So with no intellectual property rights they can pick whatever package they want, why would they have to choose linux?
Because at some point with China joining the rest of the world, the property of intellectual property rights will have to be addressed. It's not very likely that communism will change to suit this when an official advocation of Linux is possible.
That's easy. ALL copies of Windows running in China are legitimate. No intellectual property rights - remember?
Ah not only an anonymous coward but a moron too.
This new info superhighway will probably have to be powered by Linux. Intellectual property rights don't exist in China (Communism). It would be interesting to know how many legitimate copies of Windows there are in China versus how many people are actually running it.
Now that Al Gore lost the election perhaps he could go and invent the Chinese information superhighway also.
Because of $$$$.
That's all that matters to this country. Talk is cheap when it comes to things like Tibetan/Taiwan rights. It's also cheap when speaking of Tiannamen square but where there's $$$ to be made, all is forgotten and forgiven.
That's also why Rwanda happened. A group of people killed with better efficiency than the nazis efforts to the jews, but we let it go on. We probably would have let it happened to Kosovo also but that's too close to the rest of Europe.
Then there's Iraq invading Kuwait and the stories (later proven the be false) of Iraqi soldiers dumping babies on the floor from their incubators.
There's nothing to exploit in Kosovo or Rwanda. There is definitely something to exploit in China, money, money, money.
Now as far as the pesky firewall is concerned, assuming China keeps a firewall up that allows some of the internet in, there's always the hope of peer to peer.
That would be a kool idea, dissemination of news via a Gnutella like program.
If you're going to hack his page at least make it say "/."
I don't hesitate at all to use credit cards over the 'net. Reason being that any charge without a signature on file can be disputed. I once had a problem with a hotel room upon arrival and decided not to stay. They previously had my credit card number from when I made my reservation over the 'net. The bill came, I got charged and I called Visa. My only question to the credit card company was "Can you produce my signature?" No signature, no problem (at least for me), no charge.