This organization protesting UCITA will probably be helped by having a Republican in the White House. For those of you who don't know much about American politics, the Republicans are the party that is for States Rights (this States Rights philosophy goes back a hundred years, even to the Civil War).
As long as this organization frame this as a states right issue, they should get help from the Bush administration. While Republicans are known as pro-business, I imagine the smary nerdiness of GAtes will probably annoy good old boy Dubya, and remind him of those geeks that made fun of him in school.
"Now, this opening is very important, and if word got out that you were filling it, things might get awkward." She stood up, straightened her skirt, then walked to her window. She lowered her blinds and closed them, and then walked to her door to do the same thing. Then she walked up next to me and laid her hand on my shoulder.
"You know tpyical geek, I've pretty much watched you grow up. I remember you coming over to Jordan's 6th birthday party, and now look at you, 6 foot tall, 180 pounds, rugged good lucks, and you sure fill out those jeans, if you know what I mean."
The co-op started out great, but it got boring, so I went to see my manager. She was an older woman, mid 30's (I even had her son in one of my classes), but she still looked pretty, long blonde hair and she wore short skirts a lot.
I told her that I needed more challenging work, I was a bright young man, full of energy, and in relatively good shape for a computer nerd.
She leaned forward, and I got a nice look down her blouse. She crossed her legs and her skirt rode up a little on her thigh, and through narrowed eyes she mentioned that had a particular position she wanted to try on me.
Judge> defendant, name and a/s/l?
onlook3r> What r u wearing under your robe, judge?
Defendent> 12/f/pakistan
Pros Attorney> bailiff, please kick onlook3r
dave$ su
*******
# cd /
I'm sorry Dave, you can't do that.
# rm -rf *
Dave, you're scaring me
Dave, would you like to hear a song?
Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do....
Do you think that if we got enough of a mentoring organization together, we could perhaps turn the programming field into a guild or a union?
Now, rub your knees for a minute from jerking and hitting your desk bottom, don't think of union as a janitor's or autoworkers union, where most of the members work 2 hours a day, and pay a small fortune to the union bosses, but rather think of a group of like minded craftsmen, who only want to see their field prosper, who only want to pass along the best techniques to their journeymen and apprentices.
Perhaps a Guild is a better image. We senior programmers could pass along good programming tips and technics, as well as a good sense of programming ethos to younger, more impressionable programmers. We could instill a much greater sense of professionalism in the field.
Eventually, we could assert our power for the good of the field, perhaps modeling ourselves on the AMA. We could certify certain schools, and not allow programmers to be board certified if they didn't graduate from our chosen schools, and pass our chosen board tests. Really, you wouldn't let any quack operate on you, or any hack defend you in court, wouldn't you feel better knowing a professional, certified programmer was writing your web page?
Now, rub your knees please, after they reflexively jerked and hit your desk, and hear me out.
What is one of the biggest issues today in desktop computing? Security! Yes, Virii, crackers, trojan horses, worm, etc, any PC connected to the internet is a big fat target.
NOw, for you and I, security is no big thing. We read bugtraq, run SAINT, run COPS, run TRIPWIRE, check out router logs, get decent firewalls, and continually update our virii profiles. But this does take time, an hour there, an hour here, and before you know it, we're talking real time.
Enter the software companies, who see a way to save us time, make them a little money, and increase security. It's the VA LInux model, start selling support incrementally instaed of a program in one fell swoop.
So in the end, it's a win-win situation. We spend less time on tedious security routines, the software companies update our software daily, and they make a business model. It is ironic that the software company poised to make money selling service and support is MS, not RedHat.
when you're the leader of the free world
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your cultural standards are little bit different than if your some past-your-prime fiefdom in an aging continent.
For better or for worse, we are living in the Pax Americana (if you don't understand this allusion, ask a history major, there are other important things to learn than Linux). The world looks to America for leadership and sacrifice (no, not the whole world, but most of it). Whenever dirty work needs to be done, vital fluids protected, American troops are the first to respond and the first to die. Witness one of Dubya's first acts as President, placing American airmen at risk to destroy dangerous Iraqi air defences.
This is tough, though. People are afraid of death and don't like to face it, they have to be toughened up and trained. Hence, the need for gory films (like Hannibal) and gory games (like Quake) to train impressionable young men and women to not be afraid of death, blood and goree. Sparta had naked exercises in cold weather, we have LAN parties.
Now, it's all well and good for certain European countries to adopt an opposite philosophy of pleasure seeking; sex is good, promiscuity is good, guns and violence are bad. But don't push them on America, we need to be violent to save the world.
Ask yourself this, how would Hitler have been stopped in WWII if the only opposition he had was a demand for greater sex ed and free condoms for German youth?
I'm as much a fan of technology as the next geek, but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. There should be some limits to what can be done.
I imagine that is/. was around 150 years ago, there would be all sorts of articles like
New strip mining technic allows greater recover of metals for telegraph industry.
This is a pretty irresponsible web page. Do you realize just how many volatile and dangerous chemicals are released when plastics are created?
Now, a plastic company will have filters and scrubbers and such to contain the outgassing and keep the amount of released chemicals low, to help save the atmosphere, and stay with EPA guidelines. Do you think Joe Sixpack in a garage will do this?
Unless we want the whole of the Earth to turn into a smog filled hellhole like Los Angeles, we should really discourage this reckless behavior.
That is probably a winnable case. However, though the students could benefit from the $$$, it will have the end result of adding fuel to the fire of more strict censorship.
Uh-huh, and until the perfect web censoring maching arrives (probably powered by a perpetual motion machine), what school district will take the liability of using imperfect censoring software?
By using BESS, the school district is censoring you, and claiming responsibility for what you access on the internet. I'm not sure of the license, but it may share responsibility.
Now, doing imperfect censoring is worse than doing no censoring at all. Check page 791 of the purple UNIX System Administration Handbook for a legal precedent.
So, arrange for viewing of objectionable material (goatse anyone) that BESS does not block and claim that it has anguished and injured you. BESS and the school district will be held liable, you just need a good lawyer who wants to win a few million dollars.
And if you think I want a device spewing lead fumes into my house, with my pregnant wife, 4 year old daughter and lovable mixed breed dog, well, you've got another thing coming.
Since George W. Bush has been elected (fair and square mind you), and since he realizes just what Fortune 10 company has been driving the American economy in the last 10 years, he's going to ask Ashcroft to ignore his fundamentalist leanings (I mean, MS does write software for infidel languages, like Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew) and lighten up on MS. My prediction, a fine of a few million dollars, a slap on the wrist, and MS is given carte blanche to compete as only they know how to compete.
Surely it's not coincidence that the American economy has taken a nosedive just as the Microsoft trial came to fruition. You would think that the American government would learn from the mistakes of all the nations in the world that try to overregulate thier economies:
Japan, stuck in a recession since the '80s.
Germany, BMW and Mercedes are building plants in the US as fast as they can, to flee teh confiscatory tax rate.
Malaysia, another paper tiger who's state run econonmy has collapsed.
Please, let's free up Microsoft to compete, all of us geeks will be rewarded when the NasDA shoots up again, and we'll have lots of discretionary income to buy Linux boxes and work on our Linux hobby.
What the hell is he thinking? Why should I want to subsidize record companies?
For the record, a few times a month I copy a commercially recorded CD on a CDR, but this is as an archival method. Almost all of the CDRs that I burn are for music that is allowed to be copied for no profit, ie. the Grateful Dead. If the artist who holds the copyright encourages me to make free copies, how would the RIAA get off in demanding that I pay them a tax?????????
If I want this kind of government intervention in my computer media, I'll move to Canada.
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and allows a country with a substandard communication infrastructure, like sub Saharan Afrca, leapfrog their 100 year old technology and jump right into the 21st century.
This is probably why wireless is so prevalent in England, too.
Yeah, you can pull that bullshit over most of the American's here, but if I recall from my foreign history lessons and Herman's Hermit's song, Henry the 8th banned Catholicism and started the Anglican church back in the 1500's.
So, you were really raised Anglican, or perhaps Presbyterian, right? (though to be honest, there isn't a rat's ass of a difference between a typical liberal American Catholic church and an Anglican church, except for the woman priest thing).
Of more interest to me, and my fellow Slashdotters, is how this will positively affect Linux.
I think it will, since Linux doesn't get virii and Windows does. If you can only get updated virii definitions from one vendor, your Windows box either becomes a monoculture, or has dangerous outdated virii definitions. For the very cautious people that run Norton and Symantec at the same time (yeah, probably overkill, bur you never know) they won't be able to do this.
So, in the end, protecting Windows machines become more expensive, less secure, and Linux desktop share rises.
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I find that after a few bong hits, my computer invariably acts funny, it ends up a #smokedot, and I understand "All your base are belong to us"
This organization protesting UCITA will probably be helped by having a Republican in the White House. For those of you who don't know much about American politics, the Republicans are the party that is for States Rights (this States Rights philosophy goes back a hundred years, even to the Civil War).
As long as this organization frame this as a states right issue, they should get help from the Bush administration. While Republicans are known as pro-business, I imagine the smary nerdiness of GAtes will probably annoy good old boy Dubya, and remind him of those geeks that made fun of him in school.
V1- pulse jet, like a ram jet
V2- liquid oxygen and alcohol, a real rocket.
"Now, this opening is very important, and if word got out that you were filling it, things might get awkward." She stood up, straightened her skirt, then walked to her window. She lowered her blinds and closed them, and then walked to her door to do the same thing. Then she walked up next to me and laid her hand on my shoulder.
"You know tpyical geek, I've pretty much watched you grow up. I remember you coming over to Jordan's 6th birthday party, and now look at you, 6 foot tall, 180 pounds, rugged good lucks, and you sure fill out those jeans, if you know what I mean."
The co-op started out great, but it got boring, so I went to see my manager. She was an older woman, mid 30's (I even had her son in one of my classes), but she still looked pretty, long blonde hair and she wore short skirts a lot.
I told her that I needed more challenging work, I was a bright young man, full of energy, and in relatively good shape for a computer nerd.
She leaned forward, and I got a nice look down her blouse. She crossed her legs and her skirt rode up a little on her thigh, and through narrowed eyes she mentioned that had a particular position she wanted to try on me.
go get a chatroom
(and save a copy of the log for me)
Why can't Linux just name it, like Linux 4, Service Pack 2?
And he keeps reusing modules, which is why the human gene seems to have a lot in common with other animals.
And that might be why I don't understand C++, for the ways and programming of God is inscrutable to man.
Judge> defendant, name and a/s/l?
onlook3r> What r u wearing under your robe, judge?
Defendent> 12/f/pakistan
Pros Attorney> bailiff, please kick onlook3r
Really, the log goes like:
dave$ su
*******
# cd /
I'm sorry Dave, you can't do that.
# rm -rf *
Dave, you're scaring me
Dave, would you like to hear a song?
Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do....
Do you think that if we got enough of a mentoring organization together, we could perhaps turn the programming field into a guild or a union?
Now, rub your knees for a minute from jerking and hitting your desk bottom, don't think of union as a janitor's or autoworkers union, where most of the members work 2 hours a day, and pay a small fortune to the union bosses, but rather think of a group of like minded craftsmen, who only want to see their field prosper, who only want to pass along the best techniques to their journeymen and apprentices.
Perhaps a Guild is a better image. We senior programmers could pass along good programming tips and technics, as well as a good sense of programming ethos to younger, more impressionable programmers. We could instill a much greater sense of professionalism in the field.
Eventually, we could assert our power for the good of the field, perhaps modeling ourselves on the AMA. We could certify certain schools, and not allow programmers to be board certified if they didn't graduate from our chosen schools, and pass our chosen board tests. Really, you wouldn't let any quack operate on you, or any hack defend you in court, wouldn't you feel better knowing a professional, certified programmer was writing your web page?
Thanks for reading this, and thinking about it.
Now, rub your knees please, after they reflexively jerked and hit your desk, and hear me out.
What is one of the biggest issues today in desktop computing? Security! Yes, Virii, crackers, trojan horses, worm, etc, any PC connected to the internet is a big fat target.
NOw, for you and I, security is no big thing. We read bugtraq, run SAINT, run COPS, run TRIPWIRE, check out router logs, get decent firewalls, and continually update our virii profiles. But this does take time, an hour there, an hour here, and before you know it, we're talking real time.
Enter the software companies, who see a way to save us time, make them a little money, and increase security. It's the VA LInux model, start selling support incrementally instaed of a program in one fell swoop.
So in the end, it's a win-win situation. We spend less time on tedious security routines, the software companies update our software daily, and they make a business model. It is ironic that the software company poised to make money selling service and support is MS, not RedHat.
your cultural standards are little bit different than if your some past-your-prime fiefdom in an aging continent.
For better or for worse, we are living in the Pax Americana (if you don't understand this allusion, ask a history major, there are other important things to learn than Linux). The world looks to America for leadership and sacrifice (no, not the whole world, but most of it). Whenever dirty work needs to be done, vital fluids protected, American troops are the first to respond and the first to die. Witness one of Dubya's first acts as President, placing American airmen at risk to destroy dangerous Iraqi air defences.
This is tough, though. People are afraid of death and don't like to face it, they have to be toughened up and trained. Hence, the need for gory films (like Hannibal) and gory games (like Quake) to train impressionable young men and women to not be afraid of death, blood and goree. Sparta had naked exercises in cold weather, we have LAN parties.
Now, it's all well and good for certain European countries to adopt an opposite philosophy of pleasure seeking; sex is good, promiscuity is good, guns and violence are bad. But don't push them on America, we need to be violent to save the world.
Ask yourself this, how would Hitler have been stopped in WWII if the only opposition he had was a demand for greater sex ed and free condoms for German youth?
I'm as much a fan of technology as the next geek, but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. There should be some limits to what can be done.
/. was around 150 years ago, there would be all sorts of articles like
I imagine that is
New strip mining technic allows greater recover of metals for telegraph industry.
This is a pretty irresponsible web page. Do you realize just how many volatile and dangerous chemicals are released when plastics are created?
Now, a plastic company will have filters and scrubbers and such to contain the outgassing and keep the amount of released chemicals low, to help save the atmosphere, and stay with EPA guidelines. Do you think Joe Sixpack in a garage will do this?
Unless we want the whole of the Earth to turn into a smog filled hellhole like Los Angeles, we should really discourage this reckless behavior.
That is probably a winnable case. However, though the students could benefit from the $$$, it will have the end result of adding fuel to the fire of more strict censorship.
Uh-huh, and until the perfect web censoring maching arrives (probably powered by a perpetual motion machine), what school district will take the liability of using imperfect censoring software?
By using BESS, the school district is censoring you, and claiming responsibility for what you access on the internet. I'm not sure of the license, but it may share responsibility.
Now, doing imperfect censoring is worse than doing no censoring at all. Check page 791 of the purple UNIX System Administration Handbook for a legal precedent.
So, arrange for viewing of objectionable material (goatse anyone) that BESS does not block and claim that it has anguished and injured you. BESS and the school district will be held liable, you just need a good lawyer who wants to win a few million dollars.
Good luck!
CO2 carbonates beer and champagne, it makes plants grow, particularly kind plants.
I see this as a Republican plot, creating bacteria that will nullify all my favorite vices.
And if you think I want a device spewing lead fumes into my house, with my pregnant wife, 4 year old daughter and lovable mixed breed dog, well, you've got another thing coming.
I'll just shut down and reboot.
Surely it's not coincidence that the American economy has taken a nosedive just as the Microsoft trial came to fruition. You would think that the American government would learn from the mistakes of all the nations in the world that try to overregulate thier economies:
Please, let's free up Microsoft to compete, all of us geeks will be rewarded when the NasDA shoots up again, and we'll have lots of discretionary income to buy Linux boxes and work on our Linux hobby.
Thanks!
What the hell is he thinking? Why should I want to subsidize record companies?
For the record, a few times a month I copy a commercially recorded CD on a CDR, but this is as an archival method. Almost all of the CDRs that I burn are for music that is allowed to be copied for no profit, ie. the Grateful Dead. If the artist who holds the copyright encourages me to make free copies, how would the RIAA get off in demanding that I pay them a tax?????????
If I want this kind of government intervention in my computer media, I'll move to Canada.
and allows a country with a substandard communication infrastructure, like sub Saharan Afrca, leapfrog their 100 year old technology and jump right into the 21st century.
This is probably why wireless is so prevalent in England, too.
Yeah, you can pull that bullshit over most of the American's here, but if I recall from my foreign history lessons and Herman's Hermit's song, Henry the 8th banned Catholicism and started the Anglican church back in the 1500's.
So, you were really raised Anglican, or perhaps Presbyterian, right? (though to be honest, there isn't a rat's ass of a difference between a typical liberal American Catholic church and an Anglican church, except for the woman priest thing).
Yadda yadda yadda, lame patent.
Of more interest to me, and my fellow Slashdotters, is how this will positively affect Linux.
I think it will, since Linux doesn't get virii and Windows does. If you can only get updated virii definitions from one vendor, your Windows box either becomes a monoculture, or has dangerous outdated virii definitions. For the very cautious people that run Norton and Symantec at the same time (yeah, probably overkill, bur you never know) they won't be able to do this.
So, in the end, protecting Windows machines become more expensive, less secure, and Linux desktop share rises.
It's all good!
and Americans get wider!