Then we will have an onslaught of mask wearing in public streets, and disguises will become common.
Dont know if this is any coincidence or what. In south london (where I live), since all the CCTV camera's have been deployed, a new fashion has started to emerge. Young, male, 'hood-looking types have started wearing baseball caps and hooded tops - at the same time - in such a way that their face is pretty much obscured.
And you thought ubiqitous survelliance powers of security forces was an infringement of your civil liberties.
In fact, I have uncovered the truth, and it is far, far, more horrid...
The network of monitoring systems across the UK were actually secretly sponsered by the secrative NewWorldDocumentary film co. They have drawn up plans to turn the entire UK into one huge reality TV program "Bigger Brother". It will run for 200,000,000 weeks, and each week, you - the American audience - will vote one UK citizen to be deported immidiatly to Australia (current favourite to win - Tony Blair).
For the next 350,000 years, all you will be able to watch on TV is english people scratching their arses, eating deep fried cod & chips, smoking woodbine, discussing shelly's hairdo in eastenders and talking rubbish after 7 pints of stella.
I work in a London hospital (King's). A few weeks ago the following sign appeared in various places around the hospital:
Smile
:-)
You're on recorded CCTV
Sinister.
On further consideration, a south London hospital (where i am now) can get pretty hairy on a saturday night. In a way, I am glad the camera's are there. I was chatting to one of the night security about it while having a cig break. Apparantly, they spotted somebody who had collapsed in a remote corner of the hospital on CCTV, and got there much faster as a result.
However, a Hospital is a pretty special situation, and I dont think we can draw many conclusions from their utility here....
All though I agree with most of what you are saying, I think you should think about toning down the flamage:
the only reason that people out there are writing free software is that no one would want to pay for their code.
This is clearly not the only reason. There are a number of philisophical & practical reasons for free software. Furthermore, ther are numerous examples of people who are paid to write free software (e.g. linus, alan cox); and people who are paid to write propriety code (i.e. they are good enough programmers that someone is willing to pay them) in their job, but also are involved in free software projects in their own time.
as soon as it is mandatory for encryption to have a gov't controlled back door, fork the distribution and start developement outside of the USA, much like OpenBSD
Interesting point, but i'm not sure how they would do that... It could be quite difficult to to backdoor an open source project without someone noticing, which would be fun.
Ridiculously obfuscated code perhaps? I've heard the NSA are pretty good at this already...
After some deliberation, I have decided to post this. I could have quietly informed one of the/. editors. I should have bought this ripe little domain for myself, but I am skint. So here it is, somebody snap this peachy little domain please - Its still available, according to internetters.co.uk:
slashdot.info
Basically, I'm completely pissed, so i am gonna post something completely offtopic, yet strangekly relevant.
Bletchley Park.
Thats where the war was won.
As much as the Somme....
I live in bletchley, MK
2 minutes walk to bletchley psrk.
And you wanna know abouth this place???
Man this ids the most boring dull, back end armpit of the earth, a hell hole full of inbreds who havent left this twon for 6 generations.
The IQ of the population lep 10fold when Alan Turing arrived (more offtopic-ness: why to gays (and i'm saying this an afectionate way, i love em even thou i aint one)... pick such bad role models..... ie steps, elton john, princess die, when they have someone like Turing to look up to), and since turing left, the town has gone ven further down hilll.
Anyways.... Any yanks coming over here..... avoid bletchley at all costs - at best, you will prbably come away with BSE
---- you think this is flaimbait - just wait till you come here ---
My sister has, for the last few years, been running a "grey import" company. Basically, some guy in the states buys up a load of microsoft products which are marked purely as OEM, not for resale, not to be sold outside of the US etc. As far as I understand it, the guy in the US is basically classified as a villian, even though he buys most of his stock from US system builders who have gone bust. However, my sister buys his stock after he has shipped it to the UK, where all these dumb clauses aren't applicable under EU law. Therefore her company is completely ligit - a publicly owned company, with a 'net presence etc., and able to sell microsoft products at a vastly reduced price to normal retail outlets.
A few years ago, microsoft were really trying to stamp out companies selling grey imports: Basically turning up at the office of some tiny company one monday morning with 15 lawyers and 70 boxes of legals. These companies closed down pretty darn quick. However, I think one of these companies took the case all the way to the EU court and won! Hence, my sister is now safe in her business.
I'm sorry I cant rember the exact details, but my sister has this great legal schpiel whenever anyone accuses her of being a crook - EU case numbers, reference subsections, grand judge rulings (I'll try and get her on slashdot later to fill in the details). All I can remeber about her little diatribe is that it usually ends with the sentence "Microsofts license is almost as buggy as its software".
She has allways been a good bussinesswoman & salesperson (she even managed to flog me one of those millenium bug kits, convincing me my computer would die otherwise, even though I know for a fact ahe actually knows nothing about computers!).
A while back she was approached by one of the major linux distributors about being their UK distributor. She took one look at the GPL and almost died laughing. I remember her words:
"How the fuck am I supposed to make money selling this? It makes the MS licence look good."
As I said, she's allways been a good bussinesswoman!
Hmnn.. not sure about CORBA, but perl applets? Doesn't make much sense to me. That's not what perl is good for, and it's certainly not what it was designed for. Anyway, Perl is already at large, on the internet, doing (arguably) what it does best - CGI.
<offtopic> What I would really like to know is, when the hell is someone going to come out with a "psh"? Imagine it.... a Perl Shell. mmmmmmmmn
"ordinary Americans will have to learn to bear... interference with their liberty of instant electronic access to friends and services... If Washington is serious in its determination to eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow the transmission of encrypted messages...
I recently had the oppotunirty to hav a play on one of those "internet pay phones" recently featured on slashdot (cant find the original stoty right now... soz:-( ). What really impressed me was the touch screen. I really want one at home now - they rule! Imagine it.... being able to click on a link - actually click on it, with your finger to the screen. Moving the scrollbar with your finger. It rocks, trust me.
Then again, the novelty will probably wear off after 10 minutes and I'll be back to console lynx style...
I have to say, I agree with the point about vested interests (and yes, this company has good reason to exagerate the claims). At least they are being honest about giving estimates - how many times have we heard about court cases where the prosecution charged a hacker with exactly $1,764,726,818.76 worth of damage [well, er, none actually - but you get the point!]?
Yes, $10 bill sounds like alot. However, this is from the same company:
Migraine headaches cost American businesses between $5.6 and $17.2 billion in lost work productivity a year...
Scramjets, or supersonic combustion ramjets, burn hydrocarbon fuel but scoop oxygen out of the atmosphere to combust it....
...The Pentagon and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are both studying scramjet technology since it would allow missiles or spacecraft to travel longer distances and carry larger payloads than rockets.
I'm sure i'm missing something fundamental here, but where the hell are spacecrafts supposed to get the oxygen from?
I guess they must just mean using scramjet untill leaving the atmosphere, and then use onboard oxygen, but it is a little misleading
That's incorrect. In most places you can restrain and report to the police anyone you see who commits a crime. This is what a "citizen's arrest" is. A few state laws are mentioned
No, I believe he was correct. Read the article. It was in the sunday herald. A Scottish newspaper. The article was talking about borders UK branches. Therefore, UK laws apply, not US laws. Hell, we dont even have a constitution.....
Slashdot Mirror
I did this years ago to my wolfendale's - playing napalm death with the amp turned up to 11...
BOOM! "Was the big bang louder than drum & bass?" -- AliGThen we will have an onslaught of mask wearing in public streets, and disguises will become common.
Dont know if this is any coincidence or what. In south london (where I live), since all the CCTV camera's have been deployed, a new fashion has started to emerge. Young, male, 'hood-looking types have started wearing baseball caps and hooded tops - at the same time - in such a way that their face is pretty much obscured.
and thats it really....
And you thought ubiqitous survelliance powers of security forces was an infringement of your civil liberties.
In fact, I have uncovered the truth, and it is far, far, more horrid...
The network of monitoring systems across the UK were actually secretly sponsered by the secrative NewWorldDocumentary film co. They have drawn up plans to turn the entire UK into one huge reality TV program "Bigger Brother". It will run for 200,000,000 weeks, and each week, you - the American audience - will vote one UK citizen to be deported immidiatly to Australia (current favourite to win - Tony Blair).
For the next 350,000 years, all you will be able to watch on TV is english people scratching their arses, eating deep fried cod & chips, smoking woodbine, discussing shelly's hairdo in eastenders and talking rubbish after 7 pints of stella.
Enjoy
Smile
Sinister.
On further consideration, a south London hospital (where i am now) can get pretty hairy on a saturday night. In a way, I am glad the camera's are there. I was chatting to one of the night security about it while having a cig break. Apparantly, they spotted somebody who had collapsed in a remote corner of the hospital on CCTV, and got there much faster as a result.However, a Hospital is a pretty special situation, and I dont think we can draw many conclusions from their utility here....
the only reason that people out there are writing free software is that no one would want to pay for their code.
This is clearly not the only reason. There are a number of philisophical & practical reasons for free software. Furthermore, ther are numerous examples of people who are paid to write free software (e.g. linus, alan cox); and people who are paid to write propriety code (i.e. they are good enough programmers that someone is willing to pay them) in their job, but also are involved in free software projects in their own time.
Bad Idea.
Last time I tried something like this, I got the following response:
"Why would anyone ever want to hack into my computer? Its just all boring work stuff..... Anyway, how come you know so much about hacking? eh?"
ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Interesting point, but i'm not sure how they would do that... It could be quite difficult to to backdoor an open source project without someone noticing, which would be fun.
Ridiculously obfuscated code perhaps? I've heard the NSA are pretty good at this already...After some deliberation, I have decided to post this. I could have quietly informed one of the /. editors. I should have bought this ripe little domain for myself, but I am skint. So here it is, somebody snap this peachy little domain please - Its still available, according to internetters.co.uk:
slashdot.info
go get it.....
Basically, I'm completely pissed, so i am gonna post something completely offtopic, yet strangekly relevant.
Bletchley Park.
Thats where the war was won.
As much as the Somme....
I live in bletchley, MK
2 minutes walk to bletchley psrk.
And you wanna know abouth this place???
Man this ids the most boring dull, back end armpit of the earth, a hell hole full of inbreds who havent left this twon for 6 generations.
The IQ of the population lep 10fold when Alan Turing arrived (more offtopic-ness: why to gays (and i'm saying this an afectionate way, i love em even thou i aint one)... pick such bad role models..... ie steps, elton john, princess die, when they have someone like Turing to look up to), and since turing left, the town has gone ven further down hilll.
Anyways.... Any yanks coming over here..... avoid bletchley at all costs - at best, you will prbably come away with BSE
---- you think this is flaimbait - just wait till you come here ---
My sister has, for the last few years, been running a "grey import" company. Basically, some guy in the states buys up a load of microsoft products which are marked purely as OEM, not for resale, not to be sold outside of the US etc. As far as I understand it, the guy in the US is basically classified as a villian, even though he buys most of his stock from US system builders who have gone bust. However, my sister buys his stock after he has shipped it to the UK, where all these dumb clauses aren't applicable under EU law. Therefore her company is completely ligit - a publicly owned company, with a 'net presence etc., and able to sell microsoft products at a vastly reduced price to normal retail outlets.
A few years ago, microsoft were really trying to stamp out companies selling grey imports: Basically turning up at the office of some tiny company one monday morning with 15 lawyers and 70 boxes of legals. These companies closed down pretty darn quick. However, I think one of these companies took the case all the way to the EU court and won! Hence, my sister is now safe in her business.
I'm sorry I cant rember the exact details, but my sister has this great legal schpiel whenever anyone accuses her of being a crook - EU case numbers, reference subsections, grand judge rulings (I'll try and get her on slashdot later to fill in the details). All I can remeber about her little diatribe is that it usually ends with the sentence "Microsofts license is almost as buggy as its software".
She has allways been a good bussinesswoman & salesperson (she even managed to flog me one of those millenium bug kits, convincing me my computer would die otherwise, even though I know for a fact ahe actually knows nothing about computers!).
A while back she was approached by one of the major linux distributors about being their UK distributor. She took one look at the GPL and almost died laughing. I remember her words:
"How the fuck am I supposed to make money selling this? It makes the MS licence look good."
As I said, she's allways been a good bussinesswoman!
er, too busy reading slashdot??
Why is this generating so much anticipation?
One word: Marketing.
It works though - I'm salivating with anticipatory excitement as much as the next sheep......
The cartoon from a few years ago (underrated in my opinion) was unfinished, because they ran out of cash. Hence no marketing, hence a flop.
and i've already been modded up, based on false info.
;-)
I feel like a cheap karma whore now (probably true
Anyways, mod me back down if you feel angered by this....
Soz all.
oh sh*t, i lied!
:-(
follow the link and it just takes you to the apple site
big DOH
however, it does have a scene by scene account with pictures here:
http://www.theonering.net/
Yes, i know its not the same, but it looks pretty cool just from the pics....
Quick, rush here:
http://www.lordoftherings.net/
before it gets slashdotted too....
Enjoy!
Thanks.
:-\
now i feel stoopid
Was just an idea and typed it in as it came into my head. I do know howto use google/think for myself. honest.
Hmnn.. not sure about CORBA, but perl applets? Doesn't make much sense to me. That's not what perl is good for, and it's certainly not what it was designed for. Anyway, Perl is already at large, on the internet, doing (arguably) what it does best - CGI.
<offtopic> What I would really like to know is, when the hell is someone going to come out with a "psh"? Imagine it.... a Perl Shell. mmmmmmmmn
On second thoughts..... let's not log on to slashdot - t'is a silly place!
This man deserves to be modded up to 5:
Because, unlike the rest of us, he actually got up off his ass and sent the letter to his representative rather then just rambling on at slashodt.
Nice one!
"ordinary Americans will have to learn to bear... interference with their liberty of instant electronic access to friends and services... If Washington is serious in its determination to eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow the transmission of encrypted messages...
The register rip's the article to pieces better than i ever could.
Then again, the novelty will probably wear off after 10 minutes and I'll be back to console lynx style...
Yeah, no one tell stephen hawking, ok?
Here's the original report that CNN qouted, from computer economics
I have to say, I agree with the point about vested interests (and yes, this company has good reason to exagerate the claims). At least they are being honest about giving estimates - how many times have we heard about court cases where the prosecution charged a hacker with exactly $1,764,726,818.76 worth of damage [well, er, none actually - but you get the point!]?
Yes, $10 bill sounds like alot. However, this is from the same company:
Migraine headaches cost American businesses between $5.6 and $17.2 billion in lost work productivity a year...
Scramjets, or supersonic combustion ramjets, burn hydrocarbon fuel but scoop oxygen out of the atmosphere to combust it....
I'm sure i'm missing something fundamental here, but where the hell are spacecrafts supposed to get the oxygen from?
I guess they must just mean using scramjet untill leaving the atmosphere, and then use onboard oxygen, but it is a little misleading
No, I believe he was correct. Read the article. It was in the sunday herald. A Scottish newspaper. The article was talking about borders UK branches. Therefore, UK laws apply, not US laws. Hell, we dont even have a constitution.....