Kasparov must be locked up right now. Chess and card games and such were the original sims. They were used to teach strategy and analytical thinking to children and to keep adult's skills sharp in peacetime. Now all of sudden this is a bad thing? Are these the same people who argue against Harry Potter on the grounds that he encourages that great evil: Literacy?
...is it possible for Microsoft to simply buy enough senators/congressmen that new laws protecting their investments in the role of Digital Media Broker To The World will favor MS or the Baby Bills?
I can answer this portion of your question straight off: It's not just possible, it's done. As for the likelyhood of any of the current justices stepping down (my info may be slightly out-of-date), based on what I know of the current justices, this is unlikely. Unless there is some major illness I'm not informed of, I believe at least the next president and possibly the next two presidents will be looking at the same Court.
I think the article itself has been fairly thoroughly dissected, as has the author's journalistic methods. This same discussion always happens, and goes in the same direction, every time a ZD article (from any ZD holding) is posted here. The obvious lesson would be that the next time somebody subits a ZD article, Just Say No!
This concludes this broadcast of the Emergency Clue Network.
Yeah, but at least he tried to salvage it into something slightly worthwile, what with the preaching at the end. But look! It was made with a tool of the Devil!
Try to enforce it. They'll just move. And become even more antisocial and organized for it. Particularly against members of the BSA. Anyway, post the JP interview already. I'm bored.
Worry about the US, too. You can expect a few new "underground" groups to pop up, discovering, releasing, and using Linux security holes. And this also might lead to/leaning/ by the gov't on the Linux principals. If your enemy was using an OS developed partly by citizens of your own country, wouldn't you exploit that?
A country of peasants to one of the few superpowers.
That still, somehow, remains for the large part a country of peasants. This actually may backfire on the Linux rep, and demonstrates the already existing lack of understading by folks all over the world of Linux. How many Linux developers are actually communists like our friend here? Not many. Thinking that software should be free != communist, but who in the mainstream has even *considered* these issues yet? We need to start a PR campaign right now, in case the news media picks up on this and it gets into the popular thought that Linux == communism.
4. If you don't need to recieve a reply email (like website passwords or account verification) from a site that expects you to give them your adress, use a fake one. It's easy, and allows you to exercise your creative juices... I always like using root@:)
An even better one is putting in the site's own abuse@ address. If they have one, they'll get the joy of spamming themselves; if they don't, it'll bounce. Nobody gets hurt but the jerks.:)
Actually you can overcome hotmail's infantile filters, hotmail lets you use an email client to check your mail. (Yeah, I couldn't believe they'd do something this cool and not announce it either) The servers are pop.hotmail.com and smpt.hotmail.com. Just use an email client with the filters you listed above to check your hotmail, and voila.
Are you objecting to the very presence of realaudio? I could understand if you were, but there is an MP3 version, which supposedly could stream (if I had phone wiring less than 28 years old), according to the text next to the link.
We at the Chinpokomon Corporation would greatly appreciate if you ceased and desisting in your disparaging comments about Chinpokomon. Also, Echelon is a myth, and has nothing to do with Chinpokomon or Chinpokomon Corporation. You Americans have biiig penis.
Anyway, why is all of the comment stuff broken? The "foo of bar comments" thing isn't showing up next to anything after the post-finding M$ story. And there's a comment above that belongs in the Ask Slashdot that was posted later, and there's a few more comments missing from this story than moderation explains. Wierd as hell.
Well, hell, these days most movies are digital at some point in the process anyway, people have demonstrated their willingness to brave long download times for entertaiment, and the capitalists are fast coming up with ways to charge for it. It had to happen sooner or later, and The Great Speilberg decided on sooner. Long live the Animaniac.
Actually it's fairly easy, using this method, to just collect all of the cookies you *want* (slashdot is the only one I keep), delete all the other lines, and then make the file read-only. This way you get convenience, but only when you want it (I read slashdot up to 6 times a day, logging in manually each time.. ugh), and don't have to use a resource-gobbling helper program or a bandwith-gobbling proxy. Best of both worlds.
Recently Graduated Guidence Councelor: Mr. Principal, I have a rather grave problem to bring to your attention. I beleive we have in attendence here a student who could become a mass murderer. I think we should include him in our new "special intervention" program.
Sensible School Administrator: That is indeed a grave problem, Mr. Guidence Councelor. What specifically is so concerning about this student?
RGCC: He has been known to wear black clothing, and he eats at the "geek table" in the lunchroom.
SSA: Mr. Guidence Councelor, I hardly think...
RGCC: But, Mr Principal, I wasn't finished. He also parts his hair like Ted Bundy.
SSA: Mr. Guidence Councelor, none of the concerns you've brought to me justify seperating this student from the rest of the student body. You know I'm no fan of the District's "special intervention" alternative-schooling program anyway, but...
RGCC: But, Mr Principal, based on this data, Mosaic-2010 placed this student into the "high risk" category.
SSA: Oh! Well, I hope the kid likes orange jumpsuits, then. Where's he at now?
The existance of the SSA requires suspension of disbeleif, I know, but just go with it.
Am I the only one whos vaguely reminded of "Gattica"?
It won't be an "Athlon Killer" unless it is competatively priced. Assuming this report is reliable, Intel takes it from paper to silicon, and a lot of other stuff, it still won't appeal to te typical computer buyer (which ain't us anymore) unless there's not too huge a price gap. Which would mean Intel selling under cost yet again, and how long can they keep that up? Fiscally, a long time, admittedly, but I'm talking logically.
If you didn't list starting flame wars as a hobby of yours on your homepage, you might do better in starting them. Nice try, though, you seem to have managed to insult me on every level you know me on. Truly a masterpiece. You might want to try questioning people's parentage next, it's an oldie but goodie.
The first time I saw "hackers", I squirmed in my seat. I would have gotten up and turned it off, but I was watching it with people who had seen it before, and positively gushed about it.
Then I realized why they loved it.. It's friggin' hilarious! By the time I got to the scene where they were admiring the girl's "sweet", "cutting-edge" laptop, I was rolling on the floor, right along with my friends.
Movies like this provide a great source of entertainment, just don't take them so seriously. Or seriously, at all.
Not until they think the *majority* of the audience would "get it" if they didn't dumb it down substantially. It is a business, now more than ever, and they gotta get butts in those seats.
Think about it, there can't possibly be a complete lack of literate people in Hollywood, and yet there has yet to be an honest movie about computers. Why? 'cuz people would run screaming from the theaters. The things hackers do are too technical to be explained in any satisfying depth (I'm talking satisfying to geeks and to reg. moviegoers) in the movies (guns, guns, car chase, jiggly women) as they are made now.
People who don't understand what they are watching don't keep watching, and today's moviegoer doesn't want to have to sit through an education just to get the plot.
I wasn't referring to the reasons the web was created, I'm talking about why it became such a part of the general culture. What was meant by my post was that the web would still be very small and geekified w/o the sheer number of PCs sitting in homes, and we geeks would have a lot less people to talk to.. assuming we might sometime want to talk to non-geeks.. but anyway, I meant the web in it's current incarnation would not exist w/o PCs.
So where did the lecture on HTML come from, young Anthony? I really can't figure that out.
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Kasparov must be locked up right now. Chess and card games and such were the original sims. They were used to teach strategy and analytical thinking to children and to keep adult's skills sharp in peacetime. Now all of sudden this is a bad thing? Are these the same people who argue against Harry Potter on the grounds that he encourages that great evil: Literacy?
I can answer this portion of your question straight off: It's not just possible, it's done. As for the likelyhood of any of the current justices stepping down (my info may be slightly out-of-date), based on what I know of the current justices, this is unlikely. Unless there is some major illness I'm not informed of, I believe at least the next president and possibly the next two presidents will be looking at the same Court.
I think the article itself has been fairly thoroughly dissected, as has the author's journalistic methods. This same discussion always happens, and goes in the same direction, every time a ZD article (from any ZD holding) is posted here. The obvious lesson would be that the next time somebody subits a ZD article, Just Say No!
This concludes this broadcast of the Emergency Clue Network.
Unless you count Emacs (insert rimshot here).
Is your inbox actually that empty? Now would be a good time to write up my "Slashdot-branded garter belts" idea and send it your way, then?
..then I'm truly sorry, it's just that I sometimes snort when I laugh. Maniacally.
Yeah, but at least he tried to salvage it into something slightly worthwile, what with the preaching at the end. But look! It was made with a tool of the Devil!
They've gone to comdex for as long as they've been able to afford it. Perhaps you could use a little caffine, to assist your memory?
Could you move the whole /. operation down here, too? It'd be nice to get to slashdot in less than 13 hops. If it's not too much trouble. :)
Try to enforce it.
They'll just move. And become even more antisocial and organized for it. Particularly against members of the BSA. Anyway, post the JP interview already. I'm bored.
Worry about the US, too. You can expect a few new "underground" groups to pop up, discovering, releasing, and using Linux security holes. And this also might lead to /leaning/ by the gov't on the Linux principals. If your enemy was using an OS developed partly by citizens of your own country, wouldn't you exploit that?
fh
A country of peasants to one of the few superpowers.
That still, somehow, remains for the large part a country of peasants. This actually may backfire on the Linux rep, and demonstrates the already existing lack of understading by folks all over the world of Linux. How many Linux developers are actually communists like our friend here? Not many. Thinking that software should be free != communist, but who in the mainstream has even *considered* these issues yet? We need to start a PR campaign right now, in case the news media picks up on this and it gets into the popular thought that Linux == communism.
fh
4. If you don't need to recieve a reply email (like website passwords or account verification) from a site that expects you to give them your adress, use a fake one. It's easy, and allows you to exercise your creative juices... I always like using root@ :)
:)
An even better one is putting in the site's own abuse@ address. If they have one, they'll get the joy of spamming themselves; if they don't, it'll bounce. Nobody gets hurt but the jerks.
fh
Actually you can overcome hotmail's infantile filters, hotmail lets you use an email client to check your mail. (Yeah, I couldn't believe they'd do something this cool and not announce it either) The servers are pop.hotmail.com and smpt.hotmail.com. Just use an email client with the filters you listed above to check your hotmail, and voila.
fh
Are you objecting to the very presence of realaudio? I could understand if you were, but there is an MP3 version, which supposedly could stream (if I had phone wiring less than 28 years old), according to the text next to the link.
fh
We at the Chinpokomon Corporation would greatly appreciate if you ceased and desisting in your disparaging comments about Chinpokomon. Also, Echelon is a myth, and has nothing to do with Chinpokomon or Chinpokomon Corporation. You Americans have biiig penis.
Anyway, why is all of the comment stuff broken? The "foo of bar comments" thing isn't showing up next to anything after the post-finding M$ story. And there's a comment above that belongs in the Ask Slashdot that was posted later, and there's a few more comments missing from this story than moderation explains. Wierd as hell.
I think we broke it. Blame it on Bill.
fh
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Well, hell, these days most movies are digital at some point in the process anyway, people have demonstrated their willingness to brave long download times for entertaiment, and the capitalists are fast coming up with ways to charge for it. It had to happen sooner or later, and The Great Speilberg decided on sooner. Long live the Animaniac.
fh
Actually it's fairly easy, using this method, to just collect all of the cookies you *want* (slashdot is the only one I keep), delete all the other lines, and then make the file read-only. This way you get convenience, but only when you want it (I read slashdot up to 6 times a day, logging in manually each time.. ugh), and don't have to use a resource-gobbling helper program or a bandwith-gobbling proxy. Best of both worlds.
fh
The existance of the SSA requires suspension of disbeleif, I know, but just go with it.
Am I the only one whos vaguely reminded of "Gattica"?
fh
I think this is mislabled. They seem to be just abandoning the brick-and-mortar, like everybody else, not pulling out of the market entirely.
fh
It won't be an "Athlon Killer" unless it is competatively priced. Assuming this report is reliable, Intel takes it from paper to silicon, and a lot of other stuff, it still won't appeal to te typical computer buyer (which ain't us anymore) unless there's not too huge a price gap. Which would mean Intel selling under cost yet again, and how long can they keep that up? Fiscally, a long time, admittedly, but I'm talking logically.
fh
If you didn't list starting flame wars as a hobby of yours on your homepage, you might do better in starting them. Nice try, though, you seem to have managed to insult me on every level you know me on. Truly a masterpiece. You might want to try questioning people's parentage next, it's an oldie but goodie.
Better luck,
fh
The first time I saw "hackers", I squirmed in my seat. I would have gotten up and turned it off, but I was watching it with people who had seen it before, and positively gushed about it.
Then I realized why they loved it.. It's friggin' hilarious! By the time I got to the scene where they were admiring the girl's "sweet", "cutting-edge" laptop, I was rolling on the floor, right along with my friends.
Movies like this provide a great source of entertainment, just don't take them so seriously. Or seriously, at all.
fh
Not until they think the *majority* of the audience would "get it" if they didn't dumb it down substantially. It is a business, now more than ever, and they gotta get butts in those seats.
Think about it, there can't possibly be a complete lack of literate people in Hollywood, and yet there has yet to be an honest movie about computers. Why? 'cuz people would run screaming from the theaters. The things hackers do are too technical to be explained in any satisfying depth (I'm talking satisfying to geeks and to reg. moviegoers) in the movies (guns, guns, car chase, jiggly women) as they are made now.
People who don't understand what they are watching don't keep watching, and today's moviegoer doesn't want to have to sit through an education just to get the plot.
At least that's the thinking in Hollywood.
fh
Oh, how I love being talked down to...
I wasn't referring to the reasons the web was created, I'm talking about why it became such a part of the general culture. What was meant by my post was that the web would still be very small and geekified w/o the sheer number of PCs sitting in homes, and we geeks would have a lot less people to talk to.. assuming we might sometime want to talk to non-geeks.. but anyway, I meant the web in it's current incarnation would not exist w/o PCs.
So where did the lecture on HTML come from, young Anthony? I really can't figure that out.
fh