As a member of H. sapiens, I am extremely offended that you insist on considering yourself a member of my species. Is it really so bad to be Homo deformibus? You apparently get laid a whole lot and even get to swing with fat moustachioed hambeasts, which is something I cannot claim.
I can easily see how people could confuse it with something created by AOL, Inc.
Well son of a bitch. I'm pretty sure AOL would be glad to have their name on gaim. Considering it's everything and more that their client would be if they didn't have to cater to the lowest common denominator.
The only reason they don't heist features from gaim is because of the confusion it would cause amongst their AIM users.
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Fight Book Burning ______
everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
And what about people who get angry when they drive... that nervous tick is problematic enough, now it'll move the car god knows where. Unless they can manage to take such involuntary motions and harness them into good driving skills... ______
everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
I'm a CS major at Georgia Tech and all our programs are turned in using a custom environment that processes all the code through such cheat checkers. It seems to work pretty well and those who are caught are shuffled away quickly and quietly. It's understood that if code's not your own, you'll probably get caught. ______
everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
Microsoft, though really horrible at what it's supposed to do (code), is the best example ever of capitalism and marketing in a capitalist society. If you don't follow in the footsteps of such a well thought out plan of market attack, then you're a moron. As good as linux is at being free, the profitable sections of linux should do what works (so as to bolster the free sections even more). Microsoft's marketing is brilliant. Their products leave much to be desired though. And since people are blind to the suckiness of the product because of the marketing razzle dazzle, they don't complain. ______
everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
I think the world is computerized enough right now. It's enough of a pain in the ass to bother with synching every random appliance I have and getting everything working together, playing nicely, etc. How much of a royal pain in the ass will it be when everything, from t-shirts to condoms (didn't think about that one, didja), to toilet paper holds information that people "need"?
I don't want to live in a world where I have to sync a condom after usage in order to see the stats on it. I'd rather not know some things. And I definitely don't want to sync my t-shirt with everything else. Imagine hooking yourself up to the computer for a few minutes every morning... it'll be like taking an EKG (hooking up nodes to various parts of you). Screw that. The palm docking station is enough syncing for me. I'm a fruit of the loom guy... not a fruit of the valley. ______
everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
The whole right click thing on a palmtop could be dangerous. Imagine you're playing minesweeper, and you're giddy at the prospect of winning... you try to right click (tap and hold) a box, but in your jubliation you don't hold long enough to register as a tap and hold... so it unleashes the bomb you knew was underneath. I don't trust it farther than I can throw it. ______
everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
I'm tired of my newly converted Debian friend (ex-RedHatter) mocking me when I have to update an rpm, and end up spending hours on rpmfind.
This should help keep a bunch of distros even closer... which should be the aim of all of the distributions, while keeping their various specific bonuses (such as Corel being businessish, etc) ______
everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
Let's hear about the programming of it. I can't even imagine what the interface is like. Description, details, and is it worth it for me to get one shipped across the pond?
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
Patents are a good thing to protect ones intellectual property. But I have a hard time believing that whoever owns the EU patent on hypertext preprocessing actually came up with the idea. If so, they're morons for allowing preprocessing to go on without collecting whatever royalties. Patents are not meant to give people rights over someone elses ideas for all of eternity, they're simply meant to give someone rights over their own ideas and creations. Patent squatting is rediculous, and getting patents just to have them even more so. To take out a patent and not actually use it in some ways devalues the entire idea of the patent. (Is the patent patented? Hmm...) ______
everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
Towards the end of the article, it mentioned how quantum cryptography generates unbreakable keys which can be used to unlock quantum encrypted data. Anyone who knows more than I on this subject care to comment on that? Is that possible, a non-crackable encryption? (Obviously, since this is all questions, I don't have any answers...;-)
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
Settle down there champ. First off, your spelling is worse than the 1337n355 that "hacked"/. The fact that they did it is pretty cool, and the fact that they fixed it is even more so. The fact that you posted that crap about your server being bulletproof proves your idiocy. Please never post anything where I have to read it again. You're killing my grey matter.
In the discussions a while back about the supersonic submarine, using it's rediculously high speeds to create itself a little bubble, we ran across the problem of stuff in the way.
Now, the submarine can just nuke the crap out of everything in front of it. Whales, debris, sunken treasure, land masses, whatever it may be.
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I'm all for this kind of thing. There are a bunch of areas where linux is dragging behind a LOT. Media is my primary concern. As of now I have yet to see a quality linux program play videos. If there is such a beast out there, it's almost impossible to get working. And if you get it working, many features are missing or crappy (a la fullscreen) XMMS is a wonderful program, much better in my estimation than any offering for windows.
Bottom line: Sound we've got down... video, we need all the help we can get.
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That definitely depends on where you live...
case 1: 35yo swm in Middle-of-nowhere, Kansas
case 2: 19yo swf in the Bronx, NY
which is why some people might actually want it... kinda like a home security system for yourself. Although I don't like the idea, it may be seen as beneficial to a large group of people.
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Remove the device... I'm sure there'll be some black market doctors making an honest(?) living removing these things.
Also, if there is access to the on/off switch, then it'll probably be hacked within the first year as to how to change the internal ID. We're smarter than the government!;-)
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I agree on some fronts... I don't think there is a big conspiracy. I don't think the government is out to get us.
I do, however, want to know that no one has the ability to know where I am at all times. Such as the case with the cell phone complaints from last week: People sometimes don't want to be on call... yet with cells and pagers and microchips, that's just not possible anymore.
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there's not too much point to accelleration. memory yes, but accelleration for desktop machines that are used for practical purposes besides rendering is worthless... I think we're going to hit critical i-dont-care faster with video cards than with cpus.
critical i-dont-care being the point where it doesn't matter anymore what is in your system
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't record companies get a cut of blank cd sales? so you have to take that cut away to get the percentage markup just to have music on it.
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I was talking about the general progression of things. The government is increasingly liberal on all forms of media except for technology.
20 years ago, you would never have seen things like: Scared Straight, Oz, Cops, or any other reality based show that we have now. All in the Family was pretty tough... we have cartoons that are worse now.
I agree with most, however you can't just create a program and let it run rampant, and not expect any repercussions.
"The authors can't otherwise control what's done with it."
If you create something destructive and get it out to a bunch of people, you are the creator and should face the music. You can't hide behind the actions of other people when you had the primary role. That's like Big Tobacco blaming people for smoking. The companies themselves never lit a cigarette for a consumer.
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Everything in the world is gaining freedom (generally speaking), except for in the computer realm. On TV you can see all sorts of things that 20 years ago never would have been allowed. Programmers however face the opposite: freedoms are going away. Who knows what will happen to a completely innocent and legal program you write today... in a year it might be involved in some intellectual property issue or any number of other things.
This trend is completely backwards because of how the world is run these days... by technology. Why should the tail end of society (soap operas and FOX) get all the freedoms and the bleeding edge get the shaft? Any answers to this problem?
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If a company has such a tracking system on their web site, they should at least have a welcome page that informs the visitor of what's happening. And give the option of going or staying. The info mentioned in this welcome page should include every piece of info that the page is collecting about the visitor. At the very least there should be some place to see what was sent about you.
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Where will this take Caldera's stock? I decided to throw some money down and of course bought the stock at its peak, and now it's down to half what I got it for. Anyone care to venture whether this will help or hinder? ______
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As a member of H. sapiens, I am extremely offended that you insist on considering yourself a member of my species. Is it really so bad to be Homo deformibus? You apparently get laid a whole lot and even get to swing with fat moustachioed hambeasts, which is something I cannot claim.
I can easily see how people could confuse it with something created by AOL, Inc.
Well son of a bitch. I'm pretty sure AOL would be glad to have their name on gaim. Considering it's everything and more that their client would be if they didn't have to cater to the lowest common denominator.
The only reason they don't heist features from gaim is because of the confusion it would cause amongst their AIM users.
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Fight Book Burning
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
I hate sneezing when I drive already.
And what about people who get angry when they drive... that nervous tick is problematic enough, now it'll move the car god knows where. Unless they can manage to take such involuntary motions and harness them into good driving skills...
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
I'm a CS major at Georgia Tech and all our programs are turned in using a custom environment that processes all the code through such cheat checkers. It seems to work pretty well and those who are caught are shuffled away quickly and quietly. It's understood that if code's not your own, you'll probably get caught.
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
Microsoft, though really horrible at what it's supposed to do (code), is the best example ever of capitalism and marketing in a capitalist society. If you don't follow in the footsteps of such a well thought out plan of market attack, then you're a moron. As good as linux is at being free, the profitable sections of linux should do what works (so as to bolster the free sections even more). Microsoft's marketing is brilliant. Their products leave much to be desired though. And since people are blind to the suckiness of the product because of the marketing razzle dazzle, they don't complain.
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
I think the world is computerized enough right now. It's enough of a pain in the ass to bother with synching every random appliance I have and getting everything working together, playing nicely, etc. How much of a royal pain in the ass will it be when everything, from t-shirts to condoms (didn't think about that one, didja), to toilet paper holds information that people "need"?
I don't want to live in a world where I have to sync a condom after usage in order to see the stats on it. I'd rather not know some things. And I definitely don't want to sync my t-shirt with everything else. Imagine hooking yourself up to the computer for a few minutes every morning... it'll be like taking an EKG (hooking up nodes to various parts of you). Screw that. The palm docking station is enough syncing for me. I'm a fruit of the loom guy... not a fruit of the valley.
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
The whole right click thing on a palmtop could be dangerous. Imagine you're playing minesweeper, and you're giddy at the prospect of winning... you try to right click (tap and hold) a box, but in your jubliation you don't hold long enough to register as a tap and hold... so it unleashes the bomb you knew was underneath. I don't trust it farther than I can throw it.
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
I'm tired of my newly converted Debian friend (ex-RedHatter) mocking me when I have to update an rpm, and end up spending hours on rpmfind.
This should help keep a bunch of distros even closer... which should be the aim of all of the distributions, while keeping their various specific bonuses (such as Corel being businessish, etc)
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
Let's hear about the programming of it. I can't even imagine what the interface is like. Description, details, and is it worth it for me to get one shipped across the pond?
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
Patents are a good thing to protect ones intellectual property. But I have a hard time believing that whoever owns the EU patent on hypertext preprocessing actually came up with the idea. If so, they're morons for allowing preprocessing to go on without collecting whatever royalties. Patents are not meant to give people rights over someone elses ideas for all of eternity, they're simply meant to give someone rights over their own ideas and creations. Patent squatting is rediculous, and getting patents just to have them even more so. To take out a patent and not actually use it in some ways devalues the entire idea of the patent. (Is the patent patented? Hmm...)
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
Towards the end of the article, it mentioned how quantum cryptography generates unbreakable keys which can be used to unlock quantum encrypted data. Anyone who knows more than I on this subject care to comment on that? Is that possible, a non-crackable encryption? (Obviously, since this is all questions, I don't have any answers... ;-)
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everyone was born right-handed, only the greatest overcome it.
Settle down there champ. First off, your spelling is worse than the 1337n355 that "hacked" /. The fact that they did it is pretty cool, and the fact that they fixed it is even more so. The fact that you posted that crap about your server being bulletproof proves your idiocy. Please never post anything where I have to read it again. You're killing my grey matter.
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In the discussions a while back about the supersonic submarine, using it's rediculously high speeds to create itself a little bubble, we ran across the problem of stuff in the way.
Now, the submarine can just nuke the crap out of everything in front of it. Whales, debris, sunken treasure, land masses, whatever it may be.
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I'm all for this kind of thing. There are a bunch of areas where linux is dragging behind a LOT. Media is my primary concern. As of now I have yet to see a quality linux program play videos. If there is such a beast out there, it's almost impossible to get working. And if you get it working, many features are missing or crappy (a la fullscreen) XMMS is a wonderful program, much better in my estimation than any offering for windows.
Bottom line: Sound we've got down... video, we need all the help we can get.
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once they steal it, it's theirs... so the way to protect your GPLed thesis is to let them have it. That way, not even you can change it.
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That definitely depends on where you live...
case 1: 35yo swm in Middle-of-nowhere, Kansas
case 2: 19yo swf in the Bronx, NY
which is why some people might actually want it... kinda like a home security system for yourself. Although I don't like the idea, it may be seen as beneficial to a large group of people.
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Remove the device... I'm sure there'll be some black market doctors making an honest(?) living removing these things.
;-)
Also, if there is access to the on/off switch, then it'll probably be hacked within the first year as to how to change the internal ID. We're smarter than the government!
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I agree on some fronts... I don't think there is a big conspiracy. I don't think the government is out to get us.
I do, however, want to know that no one has the ability to know where I am at all times. Such as the case with the cell phone complaints from last week: People sometimes don't want to be on call... yet with cells and pagers and microchips, that's just not possible anymore.
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don't flame, I don't game...
there's not too much point to accelleration. memory yes, but accelleration for desktop machines that are used for practical purposes besides rendering is worthless... I think we're going to hit critical i-dont-care faster with video cards than with cpus.
critical i-dont-care being the point where it doesn't matter anymore what is in your system
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't record companies get a cut of blank cd sales? so you have to take that cut away to get the percentage markup just to have music on it.
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I was talking about the general progression of things. The government is increasingly liberal on all forms of media except for technology.
20 years ago, you would never have seen things like: Scared Straight, Oz, Cops, or any other reality based show that we have now. All in the Family was pretty tough... we have cartoons that are worse now.
I suggest taking the V-Chip off your TV.
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I agree with most, however you can't just create a program and let it run rampant, and not expect any repercussions.
"The authors can't otherwise control what's done with it."
If you create something destructive and get it out to a bunch of people, you are the creator and should face the music. You can't hide behind the actions of other people when you had the primary role. That's like Big Tobacco blaming people for smoking. The companies themselves never lit a cigarette for a consumer.
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Everything in the world is gaining freedom (generally speaking), except for in the computer realm. On TV you can see all sorts of things that 20 years ago never would have been allowed. Programmers however face the opposite: freedoms are going away. Who knows what will happen to a completely innocent and legal program you write today... in a year it might be involved in some intellectual property issue or any number of other things.
This trend is completely backwards because of how the world is run these days... by technology. Why should the tail end of society (soap operas and FOX) get all the freedoms and the bleeding edge get the shaft? Any answers to this problem?
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If a company has such a tracking system on their web site, they should at least have a welcome page that informs the visitor of what's happening. And give the option of going or staying. The info mentioned in this welcome page should include every piece of info that the page is collecting about the visitor. At the very least there should be some place to see what was sent about you.
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Where will this take Caldera's stock? I decided to throw some money down and of course bought the stock at its peak, and now it's down to half what I got it for. Anyone care to venture whether this will help or hinder?
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