Dave Farber (who, incidentally, does understand the issues and isn't making this comment in a "get used to it" sense) has a great quote: "The consumer is going to eat what he's given."
Hey, Dave - I got something for you to eat, right here, pal.
I see the hidden agenda here - slowly, but surely, we are broadcasting all of Earth's pornography into space. This way, when the hammer finally comes down on the perverts here, we will have ensured the preservation of one of our most precious resources. Brilliant.
Interesting article, but fundamentally flawed. Carr bases the whole of his reasoning on this statement:
I could not escape one central dilemma: Only two forms of regulation are available in the United States: governmental and corporate.
This strikes me as similar to a religious person trying to convince an atheist that everyone should live under the rule of the Church, because after all, you're either going to live under God, or under Satan, and at least God is on your side... ignoring, of course, that the third possibility that neither God nor the Devil are on your side (much less exist at all) and that people can damn well take care of themselves.
It's nice to see some impressive displays of Open Source Real Time Systems - the Fantazein clock is an especially nice demo. Are there any other Open Source RTS projects in development, and can anyone post some links to them if there are?
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What could you possibly market with such a domain name?
Uhhh...a security-related site, perhaps? Come on, easy one there. If this post was modded up as "funny", I could see that, but I get the impression that you're serious...
You're being deliberately obtuse here. The man page for cp also clearly states, right up at the top:
SYNOPSIS
cp [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST
cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
DESCRIPTION
Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.
I'm having difficulty seeing what is confusing, even to a newbie, here. All the information necessary to use the basic command correctly is right there. Sure, all the stuff you mention above may be confusing at first glance, but all you have to do is actually read instead of letting your eyes glaze over, and when you come across a concept or phrase you don't understand, go look that up. It's not rocket science.
This is why I am not an author of UNIX books - they'd be way too short. Chapter 1: log in. Chapter 2: type "man man" and hit return. Chapter 3: start reading.
Using your argument, I could claim that Punctuation stifles my creativity, and simply write every sentence in this comment without any. Now, that may be creative, but it would certainly prevent my comment from being very readable, or understandable.
...and this is one of the big problems I have with Python. English is nice in some ways - Proper Names are capitalized, a period ends a sentence, etc... Some programming languages take advantage of a human's ability to infer meaning from context...
Now all we need is to get some big special effects house to release an open source distributed rendering tool ala SETI@home. How cool would it be to say that you used your linux box at home or at work to help render the LotR movies, or the next Star Wars? Very cool, that's how cool.
You can also pick up Damian Conway's Quantum::Superpositions module for Perl (http://search.cpan.org/doc/ DCONWAY/Quantum-Superpositions-1.03/lib/Quantum/Su perpositions.pm) that simulates QM-like superpositions. The documentation is an interesting introduction to quantum computing, and the talk he gave on this module at the O'Reilly conference was amazing. Now we just have to wait for Perl to be ported to one of these machines, and we'll be all set...
To summarize what other people have responded to this: Cops (in the loosest sense of the term) are just normal people. However, many normal people are scumbags. Therefore, many cops are scumbags. Not all, and not because they are cops, but just because they are. Giving his kind of surveillance capabilities to *any* scumbags is, IMHO, a Bad Thing.
Instead of installing equipment that only turns the volume down on ringers that have that feature, try one of these to turn them all down. Permanently.
I love how the New York Times has begun to sink to the level of circus sideshow barkers - "the results of the experiments are so mind-bending and weird that the easily unnerved are advised--in all seriousness--not to read beyond this point..." If you have a heart condition, or are prone to fainting spells, you will need written permission from a doctor to see the mind-numbing spectacle inside this tent... Please. It's science. Things change. Get over it.
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but is it possible that some clueless ISPs have started filtering out all mail with "FW:" in the subject?
Yes, it is possible. The IS department at our office (a large "e-business solutions provider" company) has set up filters to do exactly that, for exactly that reason. I would think that a rigorous progrom of user re-education, or the removal of virus-propagating software from the company's network would be a better solution than blindly blocking all forwards with a particular prefix in the subject, but maybe that's just me.
I've already written to the guy that runs the site and offered to host a version of the Dialectizer if he opens up the code. I suggest that others do the same. Even if he decides not to, I'm sure that the basic translation rules could be figures out by running the filters on a good sample set of texts, and re-created. I look forward to my letter from BofA's lawyers. Viva la resistance!
But his argument for not putting books online - even books with expired copyrights - is that there is something 'mindless,' 'isolating,' 'lonely' and 'arrogant' about reading online."
I think he forgot a couple - "impatient" and "lazy" spring immediately to mind...
This article is fortuitously timed - I just watched a documentarty on Alejandro Jodorowsky ("Holy Mountain", "El Topo") and discovered that he originally bought the rights to "Dune" and started pre-production on the movie! Anyone who's seen his movies will agreed that Jodorowsky would have made a far, far superior product than anything we're see so far. The way he deals with religious and spiritual imagery, combined with his visceral and surreal style would have created a very unpopular, but very true film.
Other tidbits: H.R. Giger was to work on the design for one of the planets, Orson Welles was cast as Baron Harkonnen, and Salvadore Dali was to play the mad emperor. In the documentary, they showed lots of pre-production materials, like storyboards, comic strips, and design books - I'm sure these are still floating around somewhere. Hmmm..../me goes to ebay...
> Last year, an RIAA official publicly stated their > intention to eventually "phase out" MP3s by > putting an "off switch" on all SDMI compliant > software. After the SDMI standard becomes > widespread, the consortium would "flip the > switch", and make MP3s completely unplayable on >all computers with SDMI installed.
Can you give us a source for this publicly stated intention? Not that I don't buy it, but it sounds like a good piece of ammunition against the RIAA/SDMI thing, and I'd like to be able to back up the claim if anyone asks me about it...
You can see more of "Amago", the lizard boy at the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow site: http://www.ambient.on.ca/jimrose/ - I'm a longtime fan of the Circus, and I blew off the show the last time they showed up in SF. I'm very sorry, and I promise I'll never do it again.
When asked why he began work on the artificial snake, Dr. Miller replied, "If I could afford a real snake, do you think I'd be working in a place like this?"
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Hey, Dave - I got something for you to eat, right here, pal.
http://www.google.com/search?q=perl+golf
I see the hidden agenda here - slowly, but surely, we are broadcasting all of Earth's pornography into space. This way, when the hammer finally comes down on the perverts here, we will have ensured the preservation of one of our most precious resources. Brilliant.
I could not escape one central dilemma: Only two forms of regulation are available in the United States: governmental and corporate.
This strikes me as similar to a religious person trying to convince an atheist that everyone should live under the rule of the Church, because after all, you're either going to live under God, or under Satan, and at least God is on your side... ignoring, of course, that the third possibility that neither God nor the Devil are on your side (much less exist at all) and that people can damn well take care of themselves.
It's nice to see some impressive displays of Open Source Real Time Systems - the Fantazein clock is an especially nice demo. Are there any other Open Source RTS projects in development, and can anyone post some links to them if there are?
Uhhh...a security-related site, perhaps? Come on, easy one there. If this post was modded up as "funny", I could see that, but I get the impression that you're serious...
SYNOPSIS
cp [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST
cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
DESCRIPTION
Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.
I'm having difficulty seeing what is confusing, even to a newbie, here. All the information necessary to use the basic command correctly is right there. Sure, all the stuff you mention above may be confusing at first glance, but all you have to do is actually read instead of letting your eyes glaze over, and when you come across a concept or phrase you don't understand, go look that up. It's not rocket science.
This is why I am not an author of UNIX books - they'd be way too short. Chapter 1: log in. Chapter 2: type "man man" and hit return. Chapter 3: start reading.
Does this mean that we finally have people that can see squant without the special plugin now?
Yeah, but we want our new Netscape now, dammit! That Mozilla stuff will never ship - look at how long it's taking!
Now all we need is to get some big special effects house to release an open source distributed rendering tool ala SETI@home. How cool would it be to say that you used your linux box at home or at work to help render the LotR movies, or the next Star Wars? Very cool, that's how cool.
You can also pick up Damian Conway's Quantum::Superpositions module for Perl (http://search.cpan.org/doc/ DCONWAY/Quantum-Superpositions-1.03/lib/Quantum/Su perpositions.pm) that simulates QM-like superpositions. The documentation is an interesting introduction to quantum computing, and the talk he gave on this module at the O'Reilly conference was amazing. Now we just have to wait for Perl to be ported to one of these machines, and we'll be all set...
To summarize what other people have responded to this: Cops (in the loosest sense of the term) are just normal people. However, many normal people are scumbags. Therefore, many cops are scumbags. Not all, and not because they are cops, but just because they are. Giving his kind of surveillance capabilities to *any* scumbags is, IMHO, a Bad Thing.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/09/10/0826258.shtm l 1 772,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,233
Mmmmmmm....HERF guns....
Or rather, and more to the point, people are animals, too!
I love how the New York Times has begun to sink to the level of circus sideshow barkers - "the results of the experiments are so mind-bending and weird that the easily unnerved are advised--in all seriousness--not to read beyond this point..." If you have a heart condition, or are prone to fainting spells, you will need written permission from a doctor to see the mind-numbing spectacle inside this tent... Please. It's science. Things change. Get over it.
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but is it possible that some clueless ISPs have started filtering out all mail with "FW:" in the subject?
Yes, it is possible. The IS department at our office (a large "e-business solutions provider" company) has set up filters to do exactly that, for exactly that reason. I would think that a rigorous progrom of user re-education, or the removal of virus-propagating software from the company's network would be a better solution than blindly blocking all forwards with a particular prefix in the subject, but maybe that's just me.
I've already written to the guy that runs the site and offered to host a version of the Dialectizer if he opens up the code. I suggest that others do the same. Even if he decides not to, I'm sure that the basic translation rules could be figures out by running the filters on a good sample set of texts, and re-created. I look forward to my letter from BofA's lawyers. Viva la resistance!
I just tested the bug/hole on IE5 on Windows 2000, and it does indeed work there.
I think he forgot a couple - "impatient" and "lazy" spring immediately to mind...
Or, in more pedestrian terms, "There's no such thing as bad publicity."
Other tidbits: H.R. Giger was to work on the design for one of the planets, Orson Welles was cast as Baron Harkonnen, and Salvadore Dali was to play the mad emperor. In the documentary, they showed lots of pre-production materials, like storyboards, comic strips, and design books - I'm sure these are still floating around somewhere. Hmmm..../me goes to ebay...
> Last year, an RIAA official publicly stated their
> intention to eventually "phase out" MP3s by
> putting an "off switch" on all SDMI compliant
> software. After the SDMI standard becomes
> widespread, the consortium would "flip the
> switch", and make MP3s completely unplayable on
>all computers with SDMI installed.
Can you give us a source for this publicly stated intention? Not that I don't buy it, but it sounds like a good piece of ammunition against the RIAA/SDMI thing, and I'd like to be able to back up the claim if anyone asks me about it...
You can see more of "Amago", the lizard boy at the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow site: http://www.ambient.on.ca/jimrose/ - I'm a longtime fan of the Circus, and I blew off the show the last time they showed up in SF. I'm very sorry, and I promise I'll never do it again.
When asked why he began work on the artificial snake, Dr. Miller replied, "If I could afford a real snake, do you think I'd be working in a place like this?"