I hold in my hand a simple igneous rock that is capable of 6.2 Gflops/s. Think about it: all by itself, it can solve countless (and many as yet undiscovered) laws of fluid dynamics as a throw it at people through the air. It easily and comfortably interfaces with both my hands, and it has a far finer resolution than any tv or monitor: it has a fractal-surface display. It's multi-user (we can both take turns throwing the rock) and it's fully networked (it interacts well with human hands and other rocks). It's fully backwards compatible with sedimentary rocks, and it holds great promise for future developments in becoming a metamorphic rock. And it's far more durable that this newfangled PSX2 device -- long after the last PSX2 crumbles to dust, our descendants will still be digging up rocks.
The code in question (I assume) is this lovely slashdotted ditty over here in case anyone wants a look-see.
My favorite still has to be this one which translates the imput into pig latin while being itself an ascii pig comprised of pig-latin'ed code. I'd inline it, but slashdot munges the extra spacing.
I'm more interested in the obfuscated-justice contest they're having over at the Superior Court of the State of California County of Santa Clara. I keep trying to compile their efforts, but all I get is "error: INJUSTICE". Maybe I'm using the wrong Constitution? Does anyone have a totalitarian-state constitution I can link against? Maybe the old CCCP constitution?
I don't expect Katz to get things like this correct, but the quote that he mistakenly attributes to Justice Douglas ought to be correctly attributed to Justice Brandeis (in Olmstead v. US):
The protection guaranteed by the Amendments is much broader in scope. The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man's spiritual nature, of his feelings and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most prehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the Government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Yes, Douglas used Olmstead to support his landmark Griswold v. Connecticut decision, but to allow that fact to transfer the authorship of this quote would be the same as allowing me to usurp Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" quote by quoting him when I myself step onto the moon decades later (what an interesting prospect!).
As for Douglas, while I appreciate many of his authored or concurring decisions, there were times when he behaved either repugnantly (Hirabayashi v. US: Japanese-American internment camps are A-OK!) or terminably sillily (Sierra Club v. Morton: Rivers and streams and mountains ought to have standing conferred onto them so that they themselves can sue people in court -- the ultimate (and misguided) form of personification).
The quote is by Pastor Martin Niemöller. The correct quote is:
"When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church -- and there was nobody left to be concerned. " [As quoted from the Congressional Record, 14, October 1968, page 31636]
You get screwed anyway. Just ask the petitioners in Walker v. City of Birmingham: all it takes is a rogue judge with an ex parte injunction, and you're screwed regardless.
I admire your enthusiasm, but I question your knowledge of history.
As Jon Wiener described in his book Gimmee Some Truth about John Lennon's harassment by the FBI and the INS, it's mighty inconvenient to be even a famous foreign national in the US. I have no real reason to suspect Linus is getting singled out for special nettling, but just as the INS tried to deport Lennon for his overthrow-the-establishment political rhetoric, perhaps it wouldn't be too farfetched to suspect certain segments of the software industry of trying to suppress Linus and his certain open-source ideologies.
Hopefully this will serve as an example of why the current bureaucracies and laws need massive reforms. I can hope, can't I?
The symbol of the Phoenix is perfect for Transmeta, since what other creature could emerge in its full brilliant splendor from the fiery death that is an overheating pentium? I submit to you, the answer is none.
Conspiracy theory for the day: the Kottler Caldera Group of Phoenix was a finalist in the design contest for Phoenix, AZ's official symbol. What could this mean?!?!?!
There is no Option-doubleclick-and-hold. At least not one that does anything special. Nice little anecdote, though.
There actually is an option-doubliclick-and-hold -- it's the default action for invoking Apple's silly spring-loaded-folder navigation. You can set a flag somewhere to get rid of the option part, but nevertheless it still exists and the original poster's comment is still valid.
Trusty google has turned up the following slashdot relic (it may not be the original, but it is quite old):
It's the "grits" problem all over again by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10[, 1999], @02:00AM EDT
...Every boy from south of the Mason-Dixon line swears that grits are good eatin'. However, no Northerner can seem to figure out why. They suck. The answer every southern boy gives him is, "you just haven't had them the way my mom makes them."
The point is, if it's that hard to do it right, it isn't as inherently good as all those southern boys (or.mp3 fans) try to make it out to be. Fact is, it's going to suck if it isn't done exactly right, and it's next to impossible to do it exactly right, so why not just dedicate the efforts to more worthwhile tasks (like developing affordable broadband internet connections so we can pirate raw cdda data instead, or eating oatmeal)?
After a month or so, the comments get flattened and the -1 posts are thrown out. Inasmuch as the grits posts consistently get moderated to hell, you won't be able to find them. Once upon a time, Rob was tossing around the idea of selling a quarterly slashdot cdrom with stories and comments, but nothing ever came of that.
I would expect the local value of a cow to be much smaller in a place where cows are traditionally not eaten. I'd rather see a comparison made to something that is more universally consumed and valued, such as wheat. And don't forget to throw in some comparisons to countries like Israel where computer parts are heavily taxed in a (still) war-time economy.
[Don't mind the links -- Slashdot is munging some perfectly good code, again. Maybe the urls are just too big?...]
But Waterworld actually made money
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According to the IMDB, Waterworld cost $175 million to make, grossed $255.2 million worldwide, and netted $42.358 million in rental fees. By my math, Waterworld made a profit of $122.558 million. While that is a poor return on a fifth of a billion dollars, it's hardly a true loss in the sense that The Stupids and Baby's Day Out were.
And in any event, it's a nonsequitur since Waterworld was a privately funded for-profit venture whereas the trip to Mars would likely be a publicly funded for-science venture.
No, no, no...if more responsible public officials got ten thousand irate telephone calls every time they did something incredibly stupid, such as blocking internet sites, they'd learn.
By all means, call him all you want at the office, but I will continue to assert that he deserves a modicum of privacy in his own home.
Yes, you can get his number out of the phonebook. Heck, you can even get it online. But should the response be "Here's his number; go hammer him!"? Must you employ massive retaliation where other methods have not yet been used and where there's no reason to suspect they won't be effective?
This argument has taken me where I didn't plan to venture, I must admit, since I'm usually the asshole who's fomenting the masses and preaching civil disobedience. By all means, use the system (and subvert the dominant paradigm), but do it responsibly where appropriate (and this is such an instance).
If you want to get back at a University policy, you don't verbally assault its president. You simply aim the media's spotlight at the policy. Just look at the infamous water buffalo affair at UPenn, for example -- colleges and universities simply cannot withstand proper scrutiny. Go about it that way -- if you have to hammer someone, let it be Rupert Murdoch and his ilk.
Monday's crash affected "the processing of intelligence, but not the collection of intelligence," according to the spokeswoman.
Thank you for calling the NSA. All operators are busy, but we value your call and hope you'll stay on the line and we'll get back to you in the order your call was received. Your call may be monitored for quality assurance purposes.
Sources said the problem occurred because the computer system was overloaded and badly stressed.
Basically, they forgot to feed the hamsters and the wheels just stopped a-turnin'. It's really sad that the US claims to be the last-remaining and still reigning superpower but can't afford to slap another couple nodes on the NSA's infrastructure. But as we all know, monopolies breed complacency....
The philosophy of unix is "write once, compile on all conforming platforms" (ie, other unices, as long as you don't use any platform-specific code). What openstep/gnustep buys you is "write once, compile anywhere, including all the silly proprietary have-their-thumbs-where-the-sun-doesn't-shine platforms (ie, Windows et al). The latter is a godsend for programmers everywhere.
faerie also faery n., pl. faeries. 1.A tiny, mischievous, imaginary form; a fairy. 2.The land or realm of the fairies.
fairy n., pl. fairies. 1.A tiny imaginary being in human form, depicted as clever, mischievous, and possessing magical powers. 2.Offensive. Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay or homosexual man.
The part about "disparaging" isn't necessarily true if "fairy/faerie" is reserved for the specific meaning "a long-haired effeminate gay man", as any of these sites would testify.
Well, he's a university president and that means that if he's typical, he gets his university mansion residence -- which suffices as both his official address and his residential address.
Yes, his address is listed on the clemson server and it's even listed in the phone book, and even if it weren't either of those two things, someone with enough dedication could dig it up somehow. But still, you probably shouldn't make it so easy for the undedicated but still obnoxious persons to get ahold of it (especially his home phone number). The risk is largely ephemeral, however, and you can consider my post as mostly humorous (as it was intended).
Your parents should probably look into getting a personal toll-free number like the ones the folks over at sprint will sell you. It ends up being much cheaper than collect calls, and it's even less susceptable to filtering on the college's end.
I actually don't recommend sprint in particular, and in fact, my stock portfolio would probably prefer it if you went with AT&T, so run along and do that instead.:)
Write to his local bagel shop: Corner Bagel Shop 405 College Ave, Clemson, SC 29631-1421 Phone: (864)654-0045
Or write his local grocer: Plez U Food Store 233 Pendleton Rd, Clemson, SC 29631-2907 (864) 654-0045
Or write his local gas station: Cartee's Shell 219 Pendleton Rd, Clemson, SC 29631-2212 (863) 654-5334
This issue is just too important not to be truly thorough!
As for singling people out and posting their home addresses on the internet, perhaps it would be more prudent not to do so. When he starts getting death threats and package bombs, how will that sit with your conscience?
We have evidence that this particular fellow is an ethical squatter -- he bought up linux.com way back when in order to prevent unsavory types from abusing it, and then he sold it to the company with the best vision of how to turn it into a useful site for the community as a whole (and not just for a particular company's products or distribution). In particular, we're pretty sure that he even turned down some higher offers than the one he eventually took from VA, because he thought that VA had the better vision -- not an approach the typical squatter would take.
If he lives in NY, NY, he might be one of the six people listed here. Keeping with the spirit of Doubleclick, you could just randomly choose one of them and have that person's privacy royally invaded.
Slashdot Mirror
com0prise (kõm-prhz2) tr.v. com0prised, com0pris0ing, com0pris0es.
1. To consist of; be composed of.
2. To include; contain.
That looks like what I intended to say.
I hold in my hand a simple igneous rock that is capable of 6.2 Gflops/s. Think about it: all by itself, it can solve countless (and many as yet undiscovered) laws of fluid dynamics as a throw it at people through the air. It easily and comfortably interfaces with both my hands, and it has a far finer resolution than any tv or monitor: it has a fractal-surface display. It's multi-user (we can both take turns throwing the rock) and it's fully networked (it interacts well with human hands and other rocks). It's fully backwards compatible with sedimentary rocks, and it holds great promise for future developments in becoming a metamorphic rock. And it's far more durable that this newfangled PSX2 device -- long after the last PSX2 crumbles to dust, our descendants will still be digging up rocks.
Rocks. They're not just for breakfast anymore.
The code in question (I assume) is this lovely slashdotted ditty over here in case anyone wants a look-see.
My favorite still has to be this one which translates the imput into pig latin while being itself an ascii pig comprised of pig-latin'ed code. I'd inline it, but slashdot munges the extra spacing.
I'm more interested in the obfuscated-justice contest they're having over at the Superior Court of the State of California County of Santa Clara. I keep trying to compile their efforts, but all I get is "error: INJUSTICE". Maybe I'm using the wrong Constitution? Does anyone have a totalitarian-state constitution I can link against? Maybe the old CCCP constitution?
I don't expect Katz to get things like this correct, but the quote that he mistakenly attributes to Justice Douglas ought to be correctly attributed to Justice Brandeis (in Olmstead v. US):
The protection guaranteed by the Amendments is much broader in scope. The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man's spiritual nature, of his feelings and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most prehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the Government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Yes, Douglas used Olmstead to support his landmark Griswold v. Connecticut decision, but to allow that fact to transfer the authorship of this quote would be the same as allowing me to usurp Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" quote by quoting him when I myself step onto the moon decades later (what an interesting prospect!).
As for Douglas, while I appreciate many of his authored or concurring decisions, there were times when he behaved either repugnantly (Hirabayashi v. US: Japanese-American internment camps are A-OK!) or terminably sillily (Sierra Club v. Morton: Rivers and streams and mountains ought to have standing conferred onto them so that they themselves can sue people in court -- the ultimate (and misguided) form of personification).
The quote is by Pastor Martin Niemöller. The correct quote is:
"When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church -- and there was nobody left to be concerned. " [As quoted from the Congressional Record, 14, October 1968, page 31636]
You get screwed anyway. Just ask the petitioners in Walker v. City of Birmingham: all it takes is a rogue judge with an ex parte injunction, and you're screwed regardless.
I admire your enthusiasm, but I question your knowledge of history.
As Jon Wiener described in his book Gimmee Some Truth about John Lennon's harassment by the FBI and the INS, it's mighty inconvenient to be even a famous foreign national in the US. I have no real reason to suspect Linus is getting singled out for special nettling, but just as the INS tried to deport Lennon for his overthrow-the-establishment political rhetoric, perhaps it wouldn't be too farfetched to suspect certain segments of the software industry of trying to suppress Linus and his certain open-source ideologies.
Hopefully this will serve as an example of why the current bureaucracies and laws need massive reforms. I can hope, can't I?
The symbol of the Phoenix is perfect for Transmeta, since what other creature could emerge in its full brilliant splendor from the fiery death that is an overheating pentium? I submit to you, the answer is none.
Conspiracy theory for the day: the Kottler Caldera Group of Phoenix was a finalist in the design contest for Phoenix, AZ's official symbol. What could this mean?!?!?!
There is no Option-doubleclick-and-hold. At least not one that does anything special. Nice little anecdote, though.
There actually is an option-doubliclick-and-hold -- it's the default action for invoking Apple's silly spring-loaded-folder navigation. You can set a flag somewhere to get rid of the option part, but nevertheless it still exists and the original poster's comment is still valid.
Trusty google has turned up the following slashdot relic (it may not be the original, but it is quite old):
.mp3 fans) try to make it out to be. Fact is, it's going to suck if it isn't done exactly right, and it's next to impossible to do it exactly right, so why not just dedicate the efforts to more worthwhile tasks (like developing affordable broadband internet connections so we can pirate raw cdda data instead, or eating oatmeal)?
It's the "grits" problem all over again
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10[, 1999], @02:00AM EDT
...Every boy from south of the Mason-Dixon line swears that grits are good eatin'. However, no Northerner can seem to figure out why. They suck. The answer every southern boy gives him is, "you just haven't had them the way my mom makes them."
The point is, if it's that hard to do it right, it isn't as inherently good as all those southern boys (or
After a month or so, the comments get flattened and the -1 posts are thrown out. Inasmuch as the grits posts consistently get moderated to hell, you won't be able to find them. Once upon a time, Rob was tossing around the idea of selling a quarterly slashdot cdrom with stories and comments, but nothing ever came of that.
"Kid" yourself. It's a preponderance of the population, and it's enough to make a big economic impact, which is all I claimed.
Cows will get more expensive, if the substance of this article ever comes to pass. Then the ratio of modem prices to cow prices will be much closer to one, and everyone will be happy, right?
I would expect the local value of a cow to be much smaller in a place where cows are traditionally not eaten. I'd rather see a comparison made to something that is more universally consumed and valued, such as wheat. And don't forget to throw in some comparisons to countries like Israel where computer parts are heavily taxed in a (still) war-time economy.
[Don't mind the links -- Slashdot is munging some perfectly good code, again. Maybe the urls are just too big?...]
Have fun.
According to the IMDB, Waterworld cost $175 million to make, grossed $255.2 million worldwide, and netted $42.358 million in rental fees. By my math, Waterworld made a profit of $122.558 million. While that is a poor return on a fifth of a billion dollars, it's hardly a true loss in the sense that The Stupids and Baby's Day Out were.
And in any event, it's a nonsequitur since Waterworld was a privately funded for-profit venture whereas the trip to Mars would likely be a publicly funded for-science venture.
No, no, no...if more responsible public officials got ten thousand irate telephone calls every time they did something incredibly stupid, such as blocking internet sites, they'd learn.
By all means, call him all you want at the office, but I will continue to assert that he deserves a modicum of privacy in his own home.
Yes, you can get his number out of the phonebook. Heck, you can even get it online. But should the response be "Here's his number; go hammer him!"? Must you employ massive retaliation where other methods have not yet been used and where there's no reason to suspect they won't be effective?
This argument has taken me where I didn't plan to venture, I must admit, since I'm usually the asshole who's fomenting the masses and preaching civil disobedience. By all means, use the system (and subvert the dominant paradigm), but do it responsibly where appropriate (and this is such an instance).
If you want to get back at a University policy, you don't verbally assault its president. You simply aim the media's spotlight at the policy. Just look at the infamous water buffalo affair at UPenn, for example -- colleges and universities simply cannot withstand proper scrutiny. Go about it that way -- if you have to hammer someone, let it be Rupert Murdoch and his ilk.
Monday's crash affected "the processing of intelligence, but not the collection of intelligence," according to the spokeswoman.
Thank you for calling the NSA. All operators are busy, but we value your call and hope you'll stay on the line and we'll get back to you in the order your call was received. Your call may be monitored for quality assurance purposes.
Sources said the problem occurred because the computer system was overloaded and badly stressed.
Basically, they forgot to feed the hamsters and the wheels just stopped a-turnin'. It's really sad that the US claims to be the last-remaining and still reigning superpower but can't afford to slap another couple nodes on the NSA's infrastructure. But as we all know, monopolies breed complacency....
The philosophy of unix is "write once, compile on all conforming platforms" (ie, other unices, as long as you don't use any platform-specific code). What openstep/gnustep buys you is "write once, compile anywhere, including all the silly proprietary have-their-thumbs-where-the-sun-doesn't-shine platforms (ie, Windows et al). The latter is a godsend for programmers everywhere.
faerie also faery n., pl. faeries.
1.A tiny, mischievous, imaginary form; a fairy.
2.The land or realm of the fairies.
fairy n., pl. fairies.
1.A tiny imaginary being in human form, depicted as clever, mischievous, and possessing magical powers.
2.Offensive. Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay or homosexual man.
The part about "disparaging" isn't necessarily true if "fairy/faerie" is reserved for the specific meaning "a long-haired effeminate gay man", as any of these sites would testify.
Well, he's a university president and that means that if he's typical, he gets his university mansion residence -- which suffices as both his official address and his residential address.
Yes, his address is listed on the clemson server and it's even listed in the phone book, and even if it weren't either of those two things, someone with enough dedication could dig it up somehow. But still, you probably shouldn't make it so easy for the undedicated but still obnoxious persons to get ahold of it (especially his home phone number). The risk is largely ephemeral, however, and you can consider my post as mostly humorous (as it was intended).
Your parents should probably look into getting a personal toll-free number like the ones the folks over at sprint will sell you. It ends up being much cheaper than collect calls, and it's even less susceptable to filtering on the college's end.
:)
I actually don't recommend sprint in particular, and in fact, my stock portfolio would probably prefer it if you went with AT&T, so run along and do that instead.
Write to his local bagel shop:
Corner Bagel Shop
405 College Ave, Clemson, SC 29631-1421
Phone: (864)654-0045
Or write his local grocer:
Plez U Food Store
233 Pendleton Rd, Clemson, SC 29631-2907
(864) 654-0045
Or write his local gas station:
Cartee's Shell
219 Pendleton Rd, Clemson, SC 29631-2212
(863) 654-5334
This issue is just too important not to be truly thorough!
As for singling people out and posting their home addresses on the internet, perhaps it would be more prudent not to do so. When he starts getting death threats and package bombs, how will that sit with your conscience?
We have evidence that this particular fellow is an ethical squatter -- he bought up linux.com way back when in order to prevent unsavory types from abusing it, and then he sold it to the company with the best vision of how to turn it into a useful site for the community as a whole (and not just for a particular company's products or distribution). In particular, we're pretty sure that he even turned down some higher offers than the one he eventually took from VA, because he thought that VA had the better vision -- not an approach the typical squatter would take.
If he lives in NY, NY, he might be one of the six people listed here. Keeping with the spirit of Doubleclick, you could just randomly choose one of them and have that person's privacy royally invaded.