I loved the assembly language and the ease of programming this chip's design made possible back in the day. I still recall how we crammed more routines into the 800 by deactivating the ROM during the vertical blank interrupt, and hit the RAM below it for sorting and running tightly coded (in assembler) routines, mainly for drawing and moving sprites. Funny how much we could accomplish in only 32K, 48K or 64K of RAM in those days.
I visited them in Charlottesville too! The old brick "stables" on the hill were an interesting and pretty place to work.
IOK Frito.OOI (And later, LoK BBQFrito.BW after Daisy roasted me when I was showing off my rdagger skills)
IOK was a ball, and I played Legends of Kesmai from the time it was beta until they closed it down.
But MW-III I remember a lot: it cost me a pile of cash on Compuserve back when I was "hulling out" a planet (and I remember a ton of hacks on GEnie one of which was logging in at 300 for some things, and "high speed" for others).
In some ways, IoK/LoK was more fun than some of the more modern MMOs. There was a good community there.
2 of my 3 have/. IDs. My middle son has a 7 digit ID here. Eldest (daughter) had a high 6 digit ID, but grew away from tech (she's an RN, eventually MS-N and NP if I can help pay for the grad school) and truthfully, she got kinda tired of the juvenile male crap that went on here. Youngest thinks S::N here is so poor its not worth the time to post, plus he is deployed (Afghanistan) at the moment so connectivity is a bit difficult.
Plenty of good reasons not to like Stevens. I don't disagree with you at all on that. But not enough to screw up the justice system when going after him. It does make you wonder why the Bush administration wanted him politically pushed under the bus.
And don't forget the undisputed fact that he did receive unreported income from a political supporter. The only things disputed are whether the income influenced (or was given to influence) Ted Steven's votes and whether he was aware that there was a funneling of money to him, as he didn't report it correctly on disclosure forms or IRS forms and such... It was improper on many levels, so why was it done that way, and what political pressure was laid to get that outcome?
Agreed. Then again, the Alask old-boy network had been doing that for years. And therein is the puzzle! If one takes off the ideological blinders, like you have done, then you really wonder what sort of corruption was ongoing in the US Justice Department for them to force such a case. Either it was easily proven or else should not have been brought. The real puzzler to me is why they (Justice Dept/Bush) then allowed the prosecuting team in such a high profile case to engage in such a degree of prosecutorial misconduct. As you point out, its nearly impossible to come up with any plausible scenario that either a friend or foe would have envisioned working out quite the way things did -- the timing alone was so unusual and could have been easily altered by any number of elements to make the whole case moot in terms of the election; no way Begich's people would have dreamed that one up. It just doesn't make any sense. And the irony that the opposing political party's incoming Atty Gen (Holder) ended up cleaning up the mess and cutting the defendant free is icing on the weirdness cake. It really makes me wonder just how (morally) corrupt and power hungry the US Justice Dept has become.
He gets flack about it because he stood up there talking about something he knew absolutely nothing about, babbling words that some lobbyist paid him (er, um... donated to his campaign) to say.
The sad thing is that very scene is repeated daily in the US House and Senate. A congress of idiots.
[In April], a new team of prosecutors asked Sullivan to dismiss Stevens's conviction and indictment after uncovering notes from previous prosecutors that contradicted testimony from a key government witness.
Paul O'Brien, one of the new Justice lawyers, told Sullivan that "we deeply, deeply regret that this occurred." Laura Sweeney, a department spokeswoman, said officials will review Sullivan's order "and will continue to cooperate with the court on this matter."
During and after the trial, the judge reprimanded prosecutors several times for how they had handled evidence and witnesses. He chastised prosecutors for allowing a witness to leave town. He grew more agitated when he learned that prosecutors had introduced evidence they knew was inaccurate, and he scolded them for not turning over exculpatory material to the defense.
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said... after seeing so much "shocking and disturbing" behavior by the government "In 25 years on the bench, I have never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I have seen in this case."
Pretty much he was railroaded by an overzealous and lying Bush Administration US Justice Department (and corrected by the Obama Administration, nice irony). Righty or Lefty, everyone deserves a fair trial. Get that into your overly-partisan thick head. You on the left are as bad as the rightist when it comes to hating your political enemies so much you'd screw up our justice system to punish them whether they deserved it or not -- and lying and smearing people in public without regard to the truth. Liars like you, left and right, are so damnably stupid they think they can get away with it. There was serious prosecutor misconduct, not "baseless rumor" - nice try but you lied and are busted. See the part in italics in the quote above? It was the federal prosecutors (under Holder/Obama) that asked the conviction to be overturned (RTFA linked), not the judge. Care to retract your post as the lie that it is?
Here's the main point. Unless you're a climate scientist, you're not qualified in any way to engage in a "fact based debate." There's too much data here and it requires specialists to see all of it as a homogeneous whole and draw conclusions.
Complete and utter bullshit. Your statement is typical of cargo-cultists. No poll of scientists, nor self-selected signing onto an opinion about interpretation of data has anything to do with science. Science is not a democratic process! Try Feynman instead:
scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty--a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid--not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked--to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.
Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be
given, if you know them. You must do the best you can--if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong--to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.
In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Of course! Because we all know how well democracy works when people can't get facts. Facts are -essential- to any sort of democracy without facts democracy falls apart. These things were all pre-Obama all quite old. It is -essential- that people get the facts without them being obscured. Without it, democracy can no longer work. Without facts, explain to me how democracy can work?
I dunno, ask the genious leftists in the press on JournoList, where they conspired to put forth deliberate deception and misinformation campaigns to benefit one side in a political race; burying negatives on one side and creating them for the other side.
Conversely, if we cannot trust our government to make this decision, we need to do something about our government.
Correct, you don't, yes, you do, and what Julian Assange is doing is exactly "doing something about" it.
So your problem with him is...?
My problem? The very real issue that Assanage did not do a good job "cleaning" the documents, and as such several hundred innocent lives of Afghan citizens are now set to be forfeit to Taliban terror, when they only wanted to help rid their country of fundamentalists who were blowign up schools, preventing girls from being educated, etc. Not to mention putting some NATO operations and troops likes at risk as the leaked sources dry up. Its not "Do Something", as you stupidly suppose, its "Do the RIGHT thing". This clearly wasn't done well, nor right. Assanage was wanting to make a big splash instead of doing the right thing and carefully vetting and redacting ALL the documents. Innocent blood will be on his hands.
The problem is that in the documents they did release, a quick review shows that Wikileaks included specific identities, activities, familes and villages - in other words its too late. They have already set up hundreds of innocent Afghanis to be killed by the Talib. All they wanted was to get the Talib out of their village, and now thanks to the arrogance and incompetence of Wikileaks, they and their families are at risk of death. I see a lawsuit from survivors coming against Wikileaks staff and the media whore that is the nominal leader, in several jurisdictions. His world will shrink quite soon, and the blood will be on his hands.
Julian Assange also admits someday he's probably going to have "blood on his hands." He has put himself in a tough situation. But I'm betting the increased daylight will do more good than bad.
Explain that "more good" to those who are exposed as working against the Taliban, and are now targeted for death - along with their families. Assanage is a media whore, and this whore just cost a lot of civilians their lives with his carelessness in filtering the documents. He should be put on trial fro contributory negligence resulting in death, and be locked up. Whistleblowing on government wrongdoing is one thing, but exposing everyday people in villages trying to help get rid of violent fundamentalists to those very same vindictive thugs is a completely different thing. IMHO morally, Assanage has stepped far over the line and should bear the consequences.
After reading the article, the summary is sensationalistic egregious and erroneous sophomoric propaganda, complete with loaded language and inflammatory terms, as well as an over-the-top accusation of "shill" (once you look into the truth and facts of the situation).
This article is pure kdawson, the unmitigated master of shite gathering for/. Malda, please fire this asshat, he keeps beclowning himself (and slashdot) with his blindness to leftard bullshit. Its just as bad as someone with a rightard BS fetish would be. Musn't let them corrupt our pure bodily essences, be it GM foods or fluoridation, eh?
If your standards are so low as to continue to allow someone with so little reasoning ability and such a large and obvious political bias as Kdawson employment as an "editor", you may as well let Ann Coulter and "Daily Kos" start choosing articles for slashdot too, The flame wars and comedy would be great and you'd get tons of web hits (assuming that is all you are after). Let Slashdot finally descend into political lunacy and irrelevance, and die, rather than exist as a chintzy blog populated by mind-numbed zombie-like newbies and brain-dead editors -- for it is now spiraling toward the whimpering undeath of irrelevancy under the effects of your repeated bad judgment regarding your editorial staff. Just do it, give in to whoring the site for fake and politicized controversies, and your journey to the dark side will be complete.
(Before anyone says it: I have kdawson filtered on my/. account, but its not possible to do so on the RSS feed I use, so here I am).
Why not just encode those channels I used to get with ATSC or QAM standards so my wndow media center could decode
They want that extra $10 a month from you for the box. I have a very nice HD set we got for Christmas, and very little of the content is available any more --- I did the same thing: disconnected Comcast. DirecTV will be at my place to install their stuff next week. Funny thing is the HD Directv delivers has no additional cost and their basic package was 1/3 what Comcast was charging, plus a free install on top of it and service to 3 sets no extra fee or charge. No need for those movie channels or music, Roku gives me all of that via Netflix and Pandora, plus Hulu from the computer in 1080P. I've heard Dish is offering the same thing. And a lot of people are dumping Comcast for just that reason. They should have made the full basic package ATSC/QAM Digital, no box needed, and I'd likely still be overpaying top them by way of inertia.
Hey asshole, RTFA. Its not critics, its that the Twitters apparently are part of a grand jury corruption investigation target - revealing confidential information that is being discussed by a grand jury - which *is* a crime if they are a party to that grand jury. The secrecy of grand juries is vital to their function in cases like this. Revealing information can tip off criminals ot possible source of information and point them to evidence that could be destroyed to damage any case.
Basically, the Tweets are interfering with the functioning of a legit grand jury and the AG wants to know if they are doing so criminally. He is well within his powers to do so.
Slashdot Mirror
And in those good old days there were still plenty of usernames with just two capitals... Or was it the fashion?
Just us 283nn'ers I guess, Keyhole
Signed,
Equalizer (or Everquest if you were into MMOs back then)
It might be a little dusty, and colors have faded a little bit though.
Of course, those old fashioned steam-powered four-digit IDs keep working for quite a while as long as you maintain them properly.
Not like these new-fangled 7-digit IDs, which seem to be pretty defective from the get go. :-P
I guess that means I am driving one of those diesel powered 5 digit IDs. Mine's shiny because I just had it repainted.
> childfucker.
You should really get over your anger issues before you post pejorative bullshit - it discredits the rest of your post.
And what they wanted was: Attention. Streisand Effect. Apple, YHBT.
I loved the assembly language and the ease of programming this chip's design made possible back in the day. I still recall how we crammed more routines into the 800 by deactivating the ROM during the vertical blank interrupt, and hit the RAM below it for sorting and running tightly coded (in assembler) routines, mainly for drawing and moving sprites. Funny how much we could accomplish in only 32K, 48K or 64K of RAM in those days.
This journalism is dying, by the way.
Netcraft... ah nevermind.
I visited them in Charlottesville too! The old brick "stables" on the hill were an interesting and pretty place to work. IOK Frito.OOI (And later, LoK BBQFrito.BW after Daisy roasted me when I was showing off my rdagger skills)
IOK was a ball, and I played Legends of Kesmai from the time it was beta until they closed it down. But MW-III I remember a lot: it cost me a pile of cash on Compuserve back when I was "hulling out" a planet (and I remember a ton of hacks on GEnie one of which was logging in at 300 for some things, and "high speed" for others). In some ways, IoK/LoK was more fun than some of the more modern MMOs. There was a good community there.
2 of my 3 have /. IDs. My middle son has a 7 digit ID here. Eldest (daughter) had a high 6 digit ID, but grew away from tech (she's an RN, eventually MS-N and NP if I can help pay for the grad school) and truthfully, she got kinda tired of the juvenile male crap that went on here. Youngest thinks S::N here is so poor its not worth the time to post, plus he is deployed (Afghanistan) at the moment so connectivity is a bit difficult.
More of you 4 digits than us 5 digits, I think. Seems our attrition rate is higher.
Plenty of good reasons not to like Stevens. I don't disagree with you at all on that. But not enough to screw up the justice system when going after him. It does make you wonder why the Bush administration wanted him politically pushed under the bus.
And don't forget the undisputed fact that he did receive unreported income from a political supporter. The only things disputed are whether the income influenced (or was given to influence) Ted Steven's votes and whether he was aware that there was a funneling of money to him, as he didn't report it correctly on disclosure forms or IRS forms and such... It was improper on many levels, so why was it done that way, and what political pressure was laid to get that outcome?
Agreed. Then again, the Alask old-boy network had been doing that for years. And therein is the puzzle! If one takes off the ideological blinders, like you have done, then you really wonder what sort of corruption was ongoing in the US Justice Department for them to force such a case. Either it was easily proven or else should not have been brought. The real puzzler to me is why they (Justice Dept/Bush) then allowed the prosecuting team in such a high profile case to engage in such a degree of prosecutorial misconduct. As you point out, its nearly impossible to come up with any plausible scenario that either a friend or foe would have envisioned working out quite the way things did -- the timing alone was so unusual and could have been easily altered by any number of elements to make the whole case moot in terms of the election; no way Begich's people would have dreamed that one up. It just doesn't make any sense. And the irony that the opposing political party's incoming Atty Gen (Holder) ended up cleaning up the mess and cutting the defendant free is icing on the weirdness cake. It really makes me wonder just how (morally) corrupt and power hungry the US Justice Dept has become.
He gets flack about it because he stood up there talking about something he knew absolutely nothing about, babbling words that some lobbyist paid him (er, um... donated to his campaign) to say.
The sad thing is that very scene is repeated daily in the US House and Senate. A congress of idiots.
"Geekoid", Nice try at repeating a lie and then spinning it. But you're lying flat out.
Try the truth per the Washington Post:
Judge Orders Probe of Attorneys in Stevens Case; Prosecutor Misconduct Alleged In Former Senator's Trial
Pretty much he was railroaded by an overzealous and lying Bush Administration US Justice Department (and corrected by the Obama Administration, nice irony). Righty or Lefty, everyone deserves a fair trial. Get that into your overly-partisan thick head. You on the left are as bad as the rightist when it comes to hating your political enemies so much you'd screw up our justice system to punish them whether they deserved it or not -- and lying and smearing people in public without regard to the truth. Liars like you, left and right, are so damnably stupid they think they can get away with it. There was serious prosecutor misconduct, not "baseless rumor" - nice try but you lied and are busted. See the part in italics in the quote above? It was the federal prosecutors (under Holder/Obama) that asked the conviction to be overturned (RTFA linked), not the judge. Care to retract your post as the lie that it is?
Here's the main point. Unless you're a climate scientist, you're not qualified in any way to engage in a "fact based debate." There's too much data here and it requires specialists to see all of it as a homogeneous whole and draw conclusions.
Complete and utter bullshit. Your statement is typical of cargo-cultists. No poll of scientists, nor self-selected signing onto an opinion about interpretation of data has anything to do with science. Science is not a democratic process! Try Feynman instead:
scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty--a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid--not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked--to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated. Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can--if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong--to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition. In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Of course! Because we all know how well democracy works when people can't get facts. Facts are -essential- to any sort of democracy without facts democracy falls apart. These things were all pre-Obama all quite old. It is -essential- that people get the facts without them being obscured. Without it, democracy can no longer work. Without facts, explain to me how democracy can work?
I dunno, ask the genious leftists in the press on JournoList, where they conspired to put forth deliberate deception and misinformation campaigns to benefit one side in a political race; burying negatives on one side and creating them for the other side.
Conversely, if we cannot trust our government to make this decision, we need to do something about our government.
Correct, you don't, yes, you do, and what Julian Assange is doing is exactly "doing something about" it.
So your problem with him is...?
My problem? The very real issue that Assanage did not do a good job "cleaning" the documents, and as such several hundred innocent lives of Afghan citizens are now set to be forfeit to Taliban terror, when they only wanted to help rid their country of fundamentalists who were blowign up schools, preventing girls from being educated, etc. Not to mention putting some NATO operations and troops likes at risk as the leaked sources dry up. Its not "Do Something", as you stupidly suppose, its "Do the RIGHT thing". This clearly wasn't done well, nor right. Assanage was wanting to make a big splash instead of doing the right thing and carefully vetting and redacting ALL the documents. Innocent blood will be on his hands.
The problem is that in the documents they did release, a quick review shows that Wikileaks included specific identities, activities, familes and villages - in other words its too late. They have already set up hundreds of innocent Afghanis to be killed by the Talib. All they wanted was to get the Talib out of their village, and now thanks to the arrogance and incompetence of Wikileaks, they and their families are at risk of death. I see a lawsuit from survivors coming against Wikileaks staff and the media whore that is the nominal leader, in several jurisdictions. His world will shrink quite soon, and the blood will be on his hands.
Julian Assange also admits someday he's probably going to have "blood on his hands." He has put himself in a tough situation. But I'm betting the increased daylight will do more good than bad.
Explain that "more good" to those who are exposed as working against the Taliban, and are now targeted for death - along with their families. Assanage is a media whore, and this whore just cost a lot of civilians their lives with his carelessness in filtering the documents. He should be put on trial fro contributory negligence resulting in death, and be locked up. Whistleblowing on government wrongdoing is one thing, but exposing everyday people in villages trying to help get rid of violent fundamentalists to those very same vindictive thugs is a completely different thing. IMHO morally, Assanage has stepped far over the line and should bear the consequences.
After reading the article, the summary is sensationalistic egregious and erroneous sophomoric propaganda, complete with loaded language and inflammatory terms, as well as an over-the-top accusation of "shill" (once you look into the truth and facts of the situation).
This article is pure kdawson, the unmitigated master of shite gathering for /. Malda, please fire this asshat, he keeps beclowning himself (and slashdot) with his blindness to leftard bullshit. Its just as bad as someone with a rightard BS fetish would be. Musn't let them corrupt our pure bodily essences, be it GM foods or fluoridation, eh?
If your standards are so low as to continue to allow someone with so little reasoning ability and such a large and obvious political bias as Kdawson employment as an "editor", you may as well let Ann Coulter and "Daily Kos" start choosing articles for slashdot too, The flame wars and comedy would be great and you'd get tons of web hits (assuming that is all you are after). Let Slashdot finally descend into political lunacy and irrelevance, and die, rather than exist as a chintzy blog populated by mind-numbed zombie-like newbies and brain-dead editors -- for it is now spiraling toward the whimpering undeath of irrelevancy under the effects of your repeated bad judgment regarding your editorial staff. Just do it, give in to whoring the site for fake and politicized controversies, and your journey to the dark side will be complete.
(Before anyone says it: I have kdawson filtered on my /. account, but its not possible to do so on the RSS feed I use, so here I am).
Why not just encode those channels I used to get with ATSC or QAM standards so my wndow media center could decode
They want that extra $10 a month from you for the box. I have a very nice HD set we got for Christmas, and very little of the content is available any more --- I did the same thing: disconnected Comcast. DirecTV will be at my place to install their stuff next week. Funny thing is the HD Directv delivers has no additional cost and their basic package was 1/3 what Comcast was charging, plus a free install on top of it and service to 3 sets no extra fee or charge. No need for those movie channels or music, Roku gives me all of that via Netflix and Pandora, plus Hulu from the computer in 1080P. I've heard Dish is offering the same thing. And a lot of people are dumping Comcast for just that reason. They should have made the full basic package ATSC/QAM Digital, no box needed, and I'd likely still be overpaying top them by way of inertia.
If you are living in an apartment, your 40 ft antenna mast is not an option.
Is STL still not thread safe? That's been a bit of an issue. Using STL for systems programming is generally a stupid thing to do.
Hey asshole, RTFA. Its not critics, its that the Twitters apparently are part of a grand jury corruption investigation target - revealing confidential information that is being discussed by a grand jury - which *is* a crime if they are a party to that grand jury. The secrecy of grand juries is vital to their function in cases like this. Revealing information can tip off criminals ot possible source of information and point them to evidence that could be destroyed to damage any case. Basically, the Tweets are interfering with the functioning of a legit grand jury and the AG wants to know if they are doing so criminally. He is well within his powers to do so.
I wonder how many /.ers will get that any more.
About as many as know Rexx