What's to prevent the Russians or Chinese (or Americans!) from DELIBERATELY launching several nukes on The Day and then saying "Whoops... must've been malfunctioning software"??
IIRC, China's longest-range missile (the long march) is able to reach New Delhi, but not the US. No ICBM's in China's arsenal to my knowledge.
Also, there has been speculation on the part of the West that China may one day develop some imperialistic designs on the rest of the world on account of it's size and population. This has never materialized however. China is too consumed with China's business to care about conquering the US or anyone else.
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Ignore the "hype". The media is just doing what it does best: selling airtime and magazines. The spin the media puts on things should in no way influence peoples examination of the actual facts. Ignore the obviously sensationalist Time/Newsweek treatment of the subject ans listen to what the senate, NERC, et al have to say.
Y2K is hyped in much the same way that the Cuban missile crisis was hyped, except that today the media is far more irresponsible about how it reports things.
You could say in retrospect that all the people who built bomb shelters in their backyards were suckered into it by the media and people selling bomb shelters, but that doesn't mean the possibility of getting nuked wasn't there.
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Were it not for Stallman and the GPL, Linux would be another forgotten project, Linus would be another faceless SV hacker, and you would be rebooting your Win95 box 3 times a day and loving it. And you want Stallman to die, huh.
Fuck you. Fuck you and all the other whining newbie Linux lamers. You think you can do better? Go draft your own license and we'll see how many people adopt it.
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I find myself sympathising with the FSF more and more these days. Trading freedom for acceptance may make good sense today, but I don't think its worth jeapordizing the movement for.
Not too worried though. THe GPL is still the same GPL Stallman wrote. No one can sell it out now, not even Linus.
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Gates has a strange habit of curling into a fetal position and rocking back and forth when he gets nervous. They say Scott McNealy always has this effect on him.
The only other people I know who do this are paranoid schizophrenics.
Then of course there's the story about the $.50 coupon. Bill was buying a carton of ice cream, and held up the line for a solid 15 minutes while he searched for this coupon. A guy behind him in line gave him $.50 to move him along, and Bill took it. This would be unremarkable, except Bill was already worth several billion at the time.
He took the money. Who does this. Small children, that's who.
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Leave the thinking to the Alphas, they are so frightfully clever! I am glad I am an Epsilon-minus semi-moron. Operating elevators is where true joy lies!
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Aside from the legal issues, how many people do you know that really like their movements tracked? How many folks would stop using MS stuff RIGHT NOW if they knew? 30% More?
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Scary nuttin, this is illegal.
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Blizzard got in big trouble for doing this. Class-action suit anyone?
Just wiped out my last Windows box:-)
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I've been thinking about this for a while. It should be trivial to load all your MP3's into an Oracle (or other) database as Binary Large Object (BLOb) files, and write a simple C/perl program that can autogenerate playlist files based on search criteria. (and pipe the output directly to mpg123?)
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
All that proves is how central the US military is in American society. As a rule, the inventions follow the money. If other government agencies (or private citizens) had that kind of research capital, I think we'd have a different sort of inventions now. I don't think "the Super" would have been one of them.
The military invented the internet, yes, but it would have happened anyway. Probably under the control of (shudder) AT&T.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were non-military agencies that had a budget for Advanced Research Projects like the internet? Think of just how disney life would be.
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Just another attempt to rein in the chaos of the net. Gee, people don't seem afraid of porn, maybe they'll be afraid of cyburworfare!. Just imagine! Big bad racist garbage-can-lid-throwin dudes like Kevin Mitnick could be walking the streets! Take part in your community to help support increased cryptography restrictions, and the death penalty for anyone who uses a "handle".
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I didn't ask, I just sort of did it (Set up a big ol' Big Brother monitoring system, paging, etc). Then I told my boss, we got a support contract, and now I'm Linux admin.:-)
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Slashdot Mirror
Is Sean McLawran in the running?
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
What's to prevent the Russians or Chinese (or Americans!) from DELIBERATELY launching several nukes on The Day and then saying "Whoops... must've been malfunctioning software"??
IIRC, China's longest-range missile (the long march) is able to reach New Delhi, but not the US.
No ICBM's in China's arsenal to my knowledge.
Also, there has been speculation on the part of the West that China may one day develop some imperialistic designs on the rest of the world on account of it's size and population.
This has never materialized however. China is too consumed with China's business to care about conquering the US or anyone else.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Ignore the "hype". The media is just doing what it does best: selling airtime and magazines. The spin the media puts on things should in no way influence peoples examination of the actual facts.
Ignore the obviously sensationalist Time/Newsweek treatment of the subject ans listen to what the senate, NERC, et al have to say.
Y2K is hyped in much the same way that the Cuban missile crisis was hyped, except that today the media is far more irresponsible about how it reports things.
You could say in retrospect that all the people who built bomb shelters in their backyards were suckered into it by the media and people selling bomb shelters, but that doesn't mean the possibility of getting nuked wasn't there.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Were it not for Stallman and the GPL, Linux would be another forgotten project, Linus would be another faceless SV hacker, and you would be rebooting your Win95 box 3 times a day and loving it. And you want Stallman to die, huh.
Fuck you. Fuck you and all the other whining newbie Linux lamers. You think you can do better? Go draft your own license and we'll see how many people adopt it.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I find myself sympathising with the FSF more and more these days. Trading freedom for acceptance may make good sense today, but I don't think its worth jeapordizing the movement for.
Not too worried though. THe GPL is still the same GPL Stallman wrote. No one can sell it out now, not even Linus.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Robert X. Cringely relates this story in his book "Accidental Empires". If its a UL, it's a good one.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
All true. More recent versions do not have this "feature"
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Ever see his deposition?
Gates has a strange habit of curling into a fetal position and rocking back and forth when he gets nervous. They say Scott McNealy always has this effect on him.
The only other people I know who do this are paranoid schizophrenics.
Then of course there's the story about the $.50 coupon.
Bill was buying a carton of ice cream, and held up the line for a solid 15 minutes while he searched for this coupon. A guy behind him in line gave him $.50 to move him along, and Bill took it. This would be unremarkable, except Bill was already worth several billion at the time.
He took the money. Who does this. Small children, that's who.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Yes. Let's all take some soma, and get over it.
Leave the thinking to the Alphas, they are so frightfully clever!
I am glad I am an Epsilon-minus semi-moron. Operating elevators is where true joy lies!
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Aside from the legal issues, how many people do you know that really like their movements tracked?
How many folks would stop using MS stuff RIGHT NOW if they knew? 30% More?
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Blizzard got in big trouble for doing this.
:-)
Class-action suit anyone?
Just wiped out my last Windows box
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
For God's sake, load uox3 on your machine and give yourself 500,000 GP and a mage tower.
And be a GM, and not have to play with all the UO PK assholes named "BoB Dah KiLLaH"
UO is a great idea, poorly implemented.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Honestly man, you're killing me over here.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Personally speaking, looking for mp3's is one of the bigger wastes of time ever.
Heh. You just don't know where to look.
Try IRC.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I've been thinking about this for a while.
It should be trivial to load all your MP3's into an Oracle (or other) database as Binary Large Object (BLOb) files, and write a simple C/perl program that can autogenerate playlist files based on search criteria. (and pipe the output directly to mpg123?)
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Every day tens of breakin attempts are made.
I attempted to do the worm and injured my spine.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Fall down! The computer says you're dead!
Did not!
Does too!
Mooooooooooommmm!
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
All that proves is how central the US military is in American society.
As a rule, the inventions follow the money. If other government agencies (or private citizens) had that kind of research capital, I think we'd have a different sort of inventions now. I don't think "the Super" would have been one of them.
The military invented the internet, yes, but it would have happened anyway. Probably under the control of (shudder) AT&T.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were non-military agencies that had a budget for Advanced Research Projects like the internet? Think of just how disney life would be.
--
As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Just another attempt to rein in the chaos of the net.
Gee, people don't seem afraid of porn, maybe they'll be afraid of cyburworfare!. Just imagine! Big bad racist garbage-can-lid-throwin dudes like Kevin Mitnick could be walking the streets! Take part in your community to help support increased cryptography restrictions, and the death penalty for anyone who uses a "handle".
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I didn't ask, I just sort of did it (Set up a big ol' Big Brother monitoring system, paging, etc). :-)
Then I told my boss, we got a support contract, and now I'm Linux admin.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I do all my documenting in vi. ASCII text is small, portable, able to be grepped, and doesn't ever ever ever contain macro viruses.
MS is culture in the same way that WalMart is culture.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
So work as a pornographer, or make snuff films.
Maybe you could be a lawyer that defends insurance companies against 5-year-old cancer patients.
I mean God, doesn't your conscience bother you?
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Right-click RPM file, click install.
My God, that nearly killed me!
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I buy a $1 Million server, and then run out and buy Microsoft's "Just Like Daddy's" server OS to use on it?
While I'm at it I'll go have my Jaguar painted at Earl Sheib.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Maybe we could key their cars and burn dog doo on their porches, too.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.