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  1. And my state is so 1969 on IBM Releases VisualAge for Linux Preview · · Score: 1

    wake up the second golden age hasn't hit yet, people are still starving, and governments still censor people for crying out loud we're still in the dark ages.

  2. a difference between 2 unknowns fighting on /. on When Open Source Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    and someone who's been around.

  3. I was complaining simply about media parrotry... on The AOL-Netscape-Sun Triune want to slay Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The net is not limited to sports, stocks and porn.

  4. Corporate masturbation by Swami PCDeadananda on The AOL-Netscape-Sun Triune want to slay Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The day I can buy software with a title deed I'll kiss the ground.

    Really an economy can't go on if it stops itself.

    DUH!

    Plus at this point it should be quite clear that a company that controls the market and its consumers globally where they have nowhere to put the money since it is global only smacks of corporate onanism. Totally not the real thing. Look at it like this a snake that bites everything it owns including itself. Globalization is going to cause economies to literally cancel each other if only few control the world leaving an equilibrium that will kill everything. On the other hand globalization with small businesses is going to open up many opportunities.

    But that means at least partial knowledge of the things you work with.

    We really have to get rid of guys like this Swami DesktopComputingIsDeadanananananda.

    As for marriage/prostitution, there's a lot of ownership themes in pimping. Why do you think it's illegal? It's so women should feel guilty and dirty which makes them hardly a voice in the system and so only the pimps make the money off the women's work.

  5. Lame app servers is that the best you can do? on The AOL-Netscape-Sun Triune want to slay Microsoft · · Score: 1

    1970/1 (I forget... gotta check that Win^H^H^H game programming book again)

    First GUI invented Used to hate Xerox for
    dropping the project but no doubt it's because of Luddites like yourself who were using that killer application - the lawn mower - most of the time.

    1975 MS formed
    Big Whoop. BAssIC. Down with IBM (who used to share source monopoles as they were).

    ...

    1985 First 32-bit OS Available
    Amiga for $500 in 1987 - NC before NCs.
    4096 colors
    Big question how come the following was gaining ground?

    1991 Tandy 1000 SL $1200 384k RAM 8086 16 Colors
    Let me see your Luddite merit badge again.

    Incidentally the birth of Linux.

    Hmm 1999 the PUBLIC discovers multiple GUI's.

    Get off your phony evolutionary theorist high horse. The next generation is going to be more than just lame App servers over the net. That's the fucking best you can come up with? I see Open Hardware design, I see intelligent effects processor boards for High Budget Multimedia artists. They will be able to do in a virtual world what they can do on canvas and with clay. And I mean artistic effects boards that can transfer learned styles from one 3D model to another. Distorted Model Style Recognition. I see every person being able to do the work they need to do at whatever paradigm they need to do it. Not the crap that happens to be the latest bullshit fad.

    You've had a desk job too long get some air on the moon.

  6. this guy is killing me... Netscape pseudoacronym on The AOL-Netscape-Sun Triune want to slay Microsoft · · Score: 1

    ach nevermind. I've been coding too much.

  7. Sport stocks and porn.. You sound like an expert. on The AOL-Netscape-Sun Triune want to slay Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Try again. Use the web besides bruising and chaffing (I mean browsing and chatting).

    Obviously you're not involved in anything constructive.

    Slacker.

  8. Long live Lynx. on The AOL-Netscape-Sun Triune want to slay Microsoft · · Score: 1

    End of story. Dialup? Oh yeah um dial an internet connection. Like you know ppp-on-demand or kppp or X-ISP, or others. Who needs ISP centric dialers?

    and if AOL wants to keep us out we'll gladly take their customers with us.

    This is just more Micros~1 FUD. We're already there, just need to remind every one else we've won.

  9. Cut the caps. No monopoly can withstand OSS esp on The AOL-Netscape-Sun Triune want to slay Microsoft · · Score: 1

    if they use OSS themselves. Easy to just quit the projects and go on strike.

    The triumvirus taking over. :P

    Some people might hate M$, but a heck of a lot of them have no love for monopolies in general. The second they try to pull a fast one is the second we stay the fuck away.

    Read that as:

    No DivX like BS
    No rental software
    No user only gets browsing, ISPs get serving, email, ftp, and such.
    No Pisswatered down versions of the Open Licenses.

    If we can take out M$ we can take our the three new boneheads as well.

    Not that I believe the report.

  10. Thank you. What's with all the superficial theor- on Review:The Meme Machine · · Score: 1

    izing we've seen lately anyway?

  11. Conscioussness is species-independent. Dammit! on Review:The Meme Machine · · Score: 1

    Nobody likes to look behind the curtain and no one accepts what they find when they do look. First of all, let's put away the term consciousness. We don't know how many memes are tangled in it, therefore we have this insufferable (hyperbole) state where everyone's right and wrong about it. Second were talking about two concepts here the world-ego (built by constant life experience) and "real"-ego (conceived because constant life experience consistently does not makes sense just on it's own account). It's like those bonehead naturalists used to say, "all there is reality, only ears, mouth, nose, skin, and eyes." Bull. Reality does not speak for itself. I will submit exhibit A: a bunch of meme halves that should account for some of what is observed- the capacity, ability, or instance (take your pick) of being aware or influenced by your own actions. Somewhere in that vat of memes exists that so-called consciousness. As for consciousness being special. I think it's vital personally toward maintaining some sort of sanity. However, I don't think humans are unique among themselves nor among the species, geni, all the way up past the kingdom classifications. It's just that I don't need that to convince me to treat people and living beings with respect. And yes I am an omnivore. I know some of you will be scratching your heads on that one. If we were to drop our pride we'd realize how much simpler and vastly more robust intelligence really is and how its natural parallelism outclasses the artificially serial educatioon system we impose on our younger population. Now there's a psycho monster to be afraid of - the serial educator. And we'd also realize how in fact our serial education system destroys critical thinking because critical thinking requires the ability to consider several issues at once, hence parallel learning is the way to go. Ya know I think of starting a hacker run www.edu.org everytime some psycho-babbler opens their mouth or writes something. Just to save future generations from the same nonsense.

  12. True communism never existed. I wholeheartedly ag on Ask Slashdot: Echelon Protection? · · Score: 1

    ree.

  13. I meant commercial versus open source,,, on LinuxPPC Autostart Worm · · Score: 1

    No MS bug was ever handled as quickly as OSS does its hiccups

  14. Except one problem. Yahoo is under the same type on Anonymity not a "Free Speech" right · · Score: 1

    of contract as publishers of phone books. One publisher got slammed a while ago and

    By the way the Amendment IV or VI (I forget) says rights to personal security and request of warrants are required by the constitution.

  15. Sort of like that flag desecration amendment. on Anonymity not a "Free Speech" right · · Score: 1

    Since we can't vote our conscience, since we're obsessed with Clinton/Lewinski (so the media say), then when this this passes through the senate (it has already passed through several hice of representatives), we will all be known to concerned that people would burn the flag, and our official position on it will be that we'd rather have the constitution burn instead of the flag (so will say the media).

    Your opinion brought to you by FOX news before you've even been asked.

    --Shortest straw pulled for you.

  16. 1 Million monkeys say your analogy sucks, is not on Anonymity not a "Free Speech" right · · Score: 1

    correct, or is actually in a different language.

    Sound obeys the laws of space and time. It is required that only one person speak at a time so that one can be heard clearly. (and yes I do read a lot of posts.)

    The internet curls space and time into one thing.. bandwidth. Clarity and content is preserved.

    The internet however destroys concepts of place and name. Probably a Good Thing(tm).

  17. God Bless Ms. ADA on Biomolecular Computers · · Score: 1

    the first hacker was a chick.

  18. The point is response time... something commercial on LinuxPPC Autostart Worm · · Score: 1

    companies do not have.

    .02

  19. Nat'l Socialist BS aside Humanity has fucked up... on Biomolecular Computers · · Score: 1

    before.

    A word of warning: This guy has conveniently left out the dark side of national socialism. It's sort of like the opposite of how bills get killed. You tack on a little last minute very unpopular amendment to the bill to kill it. Well he's done the opposite. He's left out the usual racist baggage most popularised Nazis proudly include. I'm not saying this guy's one of them but he's spouting a lot of Darwinism. It's a good idea not to confuse the sheep with wolves.

    OTOH, If I were to give him the benefit of the doubt, I'd say he's right.
    About education.
    About AIDS (who knows really, but I can tell you they've been pretty slow about curing it. There's an essay I read once about all the promises. It was in a College English text I once had. If only I remembered the title of the essay collection.)
    About freedom. Yep.

    About executing people. No. The freedom of information and capable teachers outside of the schools would make such a drastic move unnecessary. Perhaps a Home-Schooling Council would be appropriate.

    About fucking like rabbits. Don't knock it till you've tried it. Seriously, look around. It's the conservative countries like China that have a billion residents. (Hmm do I smell a slip of the tongue on his part?) Why do conservative governments have high populations? People don't even fuck when they're married anymore. They now have children. And they mix other people's gametes to do it if they can't have kids naturally. Why is this? Hmm, familyism. Chinese residents generally have three generations under one roof. That's a fucking centuries worth of prejudices. When you turn 21 your relatives can't wait to see your future offspring. Hence China has an excuse to say and has said, "We believe it is our duty to feed our population not worry about civil rights." Is it any wonder that a culture that has no depth in its values would have such a fate. Imagine if as we grew up we didn't have to search for knowledge, just be safe and always in the company of people who know what's best for us. Monstrous. But guess where the hacker-user conflict draws its fire from? Granted MS is the pusher.

    But back to the current context for such technology. Haven't we been here before? Lots of optimism, world fairs, machine lunacy, and then out of nowhere war like we'd never imagined.

    At least I wish these "geniuses" would give us a chance to finish the foundation before building the house.

  20. VOTE NONE of The Above on FBI Reports on Encryption · · Score: 1

    IT forces a new election

  21. Somewhere out there... on Anonymity not a "Free Speech" right · · Score: 1

    there's this: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~iic/4yp/

  22. We already have blackdown. (nt) on IBM releases JDK 1.16 alpha for Linux · · Score: 0

    duh!

  23. College economics parrotry... on Rasterman Summarizes his Red Hat Leave · · Score: 1

    It's like that cuz we buy products from people who form a group call it a body and forget to give it a heart or a head. The upshot is in the end it's not under their control anymore. Stock holders and venture capitalists are holding a gun to their heads.

    Wait, so then capitalism IS decentralized... and they said open source wouldn't work.

  24. If it sucks but doesn't break the rules don't read on Rasterman Summarizes his Red Hat Leave · · Score: 1

    Who are you to decide what's /. material? Moderation is for keeping the me too first post and such shit out. And if you haven't noticed Rob doesn't post everything that hits the submit story link. So chill.

    Personally I'd like to know the character of the people I support with my money.

  25. Sorry but Info Age moves too fast -- cannot wait on AOL Subscribers Can Be Sued in Virginia Courts · · Score: 1

    >Wait until the circuit courts get their hands on it.

    Yeah right, and sit there with my thumb up my ass when it hits home wondering what happened. By the way, it does in fact involve the internet. It is the internet that makes this ruling ridiculous as well as if it had been done on the phone.

    Seriously have the courts talk about it before it's finished.