Ok, what? How can he not be power-hungry and at the same time think he's the most special person in the world, who "single-handedly advanced the human race" into the info age? The difference between thirsting for power and thinking you're entitled to it, all of it, by merit of your own superior worth is a very fine line.
And the GOP site was made using frontpage, to boot. I can't even do my little mental "superior dance" when I see stuff like this anymore. I just get depressed.
I beleive the portion of my comment which is relevant to yours is
"which is worthy of repect, surely, but..."
As for the "transistor" thing, which others may have also misunderstood, it was merely exaggeration for the sake of humor. I use humor to deflect flame.
First off, CHILL with the all caps, and 2nd, read your history. He took every idea (and this isn't something we/.ers made up) he ever had from people who didn't see their value and basically gave them to him. His one skill is foresight, which is deserving of some respect, surely, but there are lots of people who have had geater foresight than he and never received, and occaisionally never even asked for, rewards. Add to that that he takes credit for just about every innovation in computing exept for the transistor and you may begin to see where this dislike came from. 'Kay?
Actually, he bought a "quick-and-dirty" version of a DOS (not DoS) that has been argued to be a simple decompilation of another commercial product of the time, with a few cosmetic changes made. If this is true, it would mean his whole empire *started* on unethical foundations from the start. Which is why nobody has the balls to talk about this.:)
Why don't the intelligent, informed, polite readers of slashdot inform MTV of their errors? They just might pay attention.
I think this was a production of their news section, so you can mail mtvdart@aol.com with your comments. Of course, this may also fall under the umbrella of "shows", so you might want to use this page to send your feedback. I'm pretty sure the former is the case, however.
L0pht had the ear of a journalist (okay, that's debatable, but go with me) and apparently didn't even bother to emphasize how horribly the media continues to mangle the term "hacker". I personally expected better. Not from MTV, of course, but from the "community", L0pht especially. Not to mention the people they profiled aren't worthy of even the term "cracker", they're just script-kiddie web-page defacers. Serena repeated several times how these kids had broken into "some of the defense department's most secure computers". Which computers? their web servers! If those are their most secure computers, we're all fucked.
Grumble. FreakHo
ps- and jaypee's little performance was scraping the barrel of publicity-mongering, but a fish has gotta swim.
The high school I attended (NAHS, SC) has used SSN's as ID numbers, on badges that you have to wear (with ridiculous penalties if you don't), unobfuscated, with the number written in plain text below, for about 6 years now. This is, as far as I can tell, the exact situation that the students in Louisiana are bitching about. Except for the fact that ours had our picture on it. I'm interested in the "violation of federal law" thing. anybody know any more about this?
Actually, this has sorta happened already. Remeber the story about Cyber Yugoslavia, the entirely virtual nation? About 3/8 of the people registered as citizens signed up on August 8 of this year... the day it was posted on/.
Finding somebody willing to pay you for the amount of education you have is only the first problem. Asssuming that you do, you're going to be expected to work even more hellish hours than people with BS's in CS.
And if you don't care about that, and salary is paramount, then you could very easily train yourself up to that pay grade in non-traditional ways, without having to pay back any more student loans.
It's under W95, but it works well and simply. It's incredibly easy to encode whole discs, it's free, and it looks cool. Not to mention the sound quality, which is the best I've found. Download Nexencode
Also whatever you do end up using, please let it not be AudioGrabber. It Sucks. Yes, that's a capital "S". [no flame please]
The RIAA is stupid, SDMI is just silly, MP3 will conquor all, and the music industry will be the next cultural relic to fall to hackers. Yippee! Moving on...
I'm gonna ignore the rest of the flamebait, but I have to say I seriously doubt you are a bigger fan than me. I mean, where did that even come from? That kind of divisiveness is directly counter to Gene's whole big thing (vision, prophesy, whatever). So I'm going to assume that's another example of humor. I hope.
That may be true for you, and I'm not trying to tell you how you shoud feel about this, I'm not a shrink. I just know that I personally was a little offended by some of the stuff. I'm asking for a little consideration, for those who feel a little closer to the matter, and for a man who enriched my life and those of others who is now dead. I think this should be one of the very few places where a person can expect consideration anymore.
A human being is dead, people. And he was a human who actually touched some people's lives. I hate to be confrontational, but these comments, and the dept Hemos chose, sadly dissapoint me.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but whenever somebody in the media says "internet", the mean "web", and the pc had everything to do with that. As much as it pains me to admit.
fh
Ok, what? How can he not be power-hungry and at the same time think he's the most special person in the world, who "single-handedly advanced the human race" into the info age? The difference between thirsting for power and thinking you're entitled to it, all of it, by merit of your own superior worth is a very fine line.
fh
Don't you mean a bloatload? :)
fh
And the GOP site was made using frontpage, to boot. I can't even do my little mental "superior dance" when I see stuff like this anymore. I just get depressed.
fh
*ptwiiing!*
Freakho
Hey! You may have just revealed the source of all the BSODs!
Freakho
First off, CHILL with the all caps, and 2nd, read your history. He took every idea (and this isn't something we /.ers made up) he ever had from people who didn't see their value and basically gave them to him. His one skill is foresight, which is deserving of some respect, surely, but there are lots of people who have had geater foresight than he and never received, and occaisionally never even asked for, rewards. Add to that that he takes credit for just about every innovation in computing exept for the transistor and you may begin to see where this dislike came from. 'Kay?
Freakho
Actually, he bought a "quick-and-dirty" version of a DOS (not DoS) that has been argued to be a simple decompilation of another commercial product of the time, with a few cosmetic changes made. If this is true, it would mean his whole empire *started* on unethical foundations from the start. Which is why nobody has the balls to talk about this. :)
Freakho
This article has inspired me to new artistic heights...
the big software man
he's scary rich and truly
thinks he earned it all
(and yes, tounge firmly in cheek on that "artistic heights" thing)
Freakho
I think this was a production of their news section, so you can mail mtvdart@aol.com with your comments. Of course, this may also fall under the umbrella of "shows", so you might want to use this page to send your feedback. I'm pretty sure the former is the case, however.
FreakHo
L0pht had the ear of a journalist (okay, that's debatable, but go with me) and apparently didn't even bother to emphasize how horribly the media continues to mangle the term "hacker". I personally expected better. Not from MTV, of course, but from the "community", L0pht especially. Not to mention the people they profiled aren't worthy of even the term "cracker", they're just script-kiddie web-page defacers. Serena repeated several times how these kids had broken into "some of the defense department's most secure computers". Which computers? their web servers! If those are their most secure computers, we're all fucked.
Grumble.
FreakHo
ps- and jaypee's little performance was scraping the barrel of publicity-mongering, but a fish has gotta swim.
The high school I attended (NAHS, SC) has used SSN's as ID numbers, on badges that you have to wear (with ridiculous penalties if you don't), unobfuscated, with the number written in plain text below, for about 6 years now. This is, as far as I can tell, the exact situation that the students in Louisiana are bitching about. Except for the fact that ours had our picture on it. I'm interested in the "violation of federal law" thing. anybody know any more about this?
Finding somebody willing to pay you for the amount of education you have is only the first problem. Asssuming that you do, you're going to be expected to work even more hellish hours than people with BS's in CS.
And if you don't care about that, and salary is paramount, then you could very easily train yourself up to that pay grade in non-traditional ways, without having to pay back any more student loans.
My $.02
Download Nexencode
Also whatever you do end up using, please let it not be AudioGrabber. It Sucks. Yes, that's a capital "S". [no flame please]
The FreakHo
The RIAA is stupid, SDMI is just silly, MP3 will conquor all, and the music industry
will be the next cultural relic to fall to hackers. Yippee!
Moving on...
I'm gonna ignore the rest of the flamebait, but I have to say I seriously doubt you are a bigger fan than me. I mean, where did that even come from? That kind of divisiveness is directly counter to Gene's whole big thing (vision, prophesy, whatever). So I'm going to assume that's another example of humor. I hope.
That may be true for you, and I'm not trying to tell you how you shoud feel about this, I'm not a shrink. I just know that I personally was a little offended by some of the stuff. I'm asking for a little consideration, for those who feel a little closer to the matter, and for a man who enriched my life and those of others who is now dead. I think this should be one of the very few places where a person can expect consideration anymore.
A human being is dead, people. And he was a human who actually touched some people's lives. I hate to be confrontational, but these comments, and the dept Hemos chose, sadly dissapoint me.