too bad on the third day when the 3000 child-geeks get back to school their 9000 bully couterparts are not only going to steal their lunch money, they'll get a free PDA.
I plan on rackmounting half a dozen DirecTivo's. That, and my 200 gig fibre channel array, and I'll be the most popular guy in the warez channels.
*grin*
Spammers should be deported to Afghanistan, where they can share the nation's one surviving 300 baud modem, in their efforts to tell the world how to get rich quick.
But what if they don't have experience with a Commodore?
Re:Gotta get a bitchin' domain name : )
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For giggles, I checked on "transvestite.tv". Here are the results:
transvestite.tv has been registered.
Other available names you might like:
homosexual.tv is an available premium name!
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human.tv is an available premium name!
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person.tv is an available premium name!
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drag.tv is an available premium name!
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transvestites.tv is an available premium name!
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I am a citizen of the United States, and a computer professional with 22 years of experience in the field.
Having read the proposed remedy, I am deeply concerned that it will not address the pattern of misbehavior that Microsoft has been engaged in consistently for the past decade. I also believe that the proposed remedy does not address the concerns of one of the major potential and actual competitors that Microsoft has: the free software/open-source software communities.
While I am not in full agreement with some of the rhetoric, I agree with the first two of the three remedies proposed by the Free Software Foundation (which can be found at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/microsoft-antitrust. html).
A summary of these is:
1) Microsoft would be required to publish complete documentation for all programming interfaces and file formats, and would be prohibited from using any interface or file format which is not fully-documented.
2) Microsoft would be required to use any patents in the field of software for defensive purposes only.
In addition to providing a level playing field for *all* Microsoft competitors, the two proposed remedies above would be far less administratively burdensome, involve much less involvement by the government in Microsoft's management, and would go a long way in preserving Microsoft's "freedom to innovate".
Thank you for your consideration of my views in this matter.
The thing that's always bothered me is that I can't turn off the "overload threshold". I normally read at Level 2, nested, newest first. In a popular article, I get the 50- message limit. When I read the first bunch, and go on to the second, new postings have changed the thread order, and I get threads that I've already read.
This makes me load the first page again, to find the one or two or 5 new messages, and then I have to go through the same crap again.
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There's a user here on slashdot (sorry I don't remember their name) who used to have the signature "wu-ftpd -- Providing Remote Root Access since 1994".
Having been vicimized in the past, I'm now running ProFTP in the few places I need FTP at all.
If I could find a secure and free-as-in-beer method to provide upload access to some Windows-using folk, I'd bag FTP entirely.
I'm the DNS guy at work. About 2 years ago, I transferred about 35 domains from Network Solutions to DomainDiscover, using DomainDiscover's interface. There were absolutely no problems, and working with DomainDiscover has been a pleasure. Any time I called them on their 800 number, the phone was answered by a human being (a *knowledgeable* human being) within 3 rings.
They are relatively expensive, so I register my personal "hobby" domains with gandi, but for a business, the extra bucks are worth it for superb phone support.
Re:Censorship : Not just in the South. . . .
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You said:
I've always considered computer programming to be the closest thing to spellcasting there is. You put the words together and then the machine does nifty things.
For someone who thinks like this, I can highly recommend Rick Cook's Wizardry series, in which a stereotypical hacker is transported to a world where magic works. He ends up saving the magic world by producing a spell interpreter. Later books in the series include one where the hero recruits a team to produce a magic compiler at an SCA event. Not great writing, full of truly groan-inducing tech jokes, but lots of fun.
The wording on the tag was changed about 20 years ago. Probably not a coincidence that this was around the time when the first boomers who had been traumatized as 8-year-olds by the thought of the FBI coming to arrest them for removing the tag from the new sofa got old enough to have some influence on the laws....
If we're allowed to patent business models of overwhelming obviousness and mucho prior art, why doesn't someone patent "Embrace and Extend".
I'd love to see Microsoft defending that in court:
"Your Honor, we've been doing that for years, and we can prove...err..."
AP interview with poster printer
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Here's an excerpt from an AP report (swiped from DC's all-news radio station, WTOP ) in which the guy who printed the posters is interviewed:
Mostafa Kamal, production manager of Azad Products, the Dhaka shop that made the posters, told the AP he had gotten the images off the Internet.
"We did not give the pictures a second look or realize what they signified until you pointed it out to us," he said
The company had printed about 2,000 posters, and they were snapped up by the demonstrators, who were angry over the U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan.
Kamal said he would leave out the controversial images from his next posters.
The parent to this reply is modded as "funny" (and I agree because of the spam reference), but
this was actually done in the 19th century by one of the states which later became Australia (the ad was printed on the back of the stamp, so the person licking the stamp got the "ad impression"). Italy also had stamps with advertising (this time on the front) in the 1920s.
Many countries have sold ads on the back of stamp booklets, or on a label which would otherwise be left blank in the booklet.
If anyone wants exact references, I can look them up (I'm at work, my stamp catalogs are at home). Leave a reply to this, or send an email to me at (omit the dashes and do the obvious) tadas-at-tadas-dot-net.
Tadas
Linux demi-geek and member of the American Philatelic Society
This isn't exactly a surprise. The Supremes would really have to find something way wrong procedurally to override a *unanimous* Circuit Court opinion on a limited procedural question.
The common-law tradition is, in some strange way, like the open-source development process -- it tends to favor "working code". There is a strong bias in the system against mucking with what lower courts have done, and this is done only when the lower court does something that seems to be way out of line. You can see this in what the Circuit Court did to the trial decision -- it found that Judge Jackson was out of line in how he determined the remedy, but didn't throw out the findings of fact (and tossed it back to a different judge for the penalty phase).
I think that the fact that the Circuit Court's "en banc" decision was *unanimous* cut a lot of mustard with the Supreme Court.
PS - When I started this post, there were no posts. Since I tried to actually put some (admittedly not a huge amount) care into what I was saying, I guess this wont be a "First Post". I tried, though...
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And Katz will write an essay about it....
7,500 - Pro Microsoft
15,000 - mAnti-Microsoft
7,000 - CowboyNeal
Kinda like Slashdot...
You mean you'll be setting up a Beow....
You said:
Spammers should be deported to Afghanistan, where they can share the nation's one surviving 300 baud modem, in their efforts to tell the world how to get rich quick.
But what if they don't have experience with a Commodore?
For giggles, I checked on "transvestite.tv". Here are the results:
transvestite.tv has been registered.
Other available names you might like:
homosexual.tv is an available premium name!
$500.00 / year*
human.tv is an available premium name!
$1,000.00 / year*
person.tv is an available premium name!
$350.00 / year*
drag.tv is an available premium name!
$400.00 / year*
transvestites.tv is an available premium name!
$500.00 / year*
I am a citizen of the United States, and a computer professional with 22 years of experience in the field.
. html).
Having read the proposed remedy, I am deeply concerned that it will not address the pattern of misbehavior that Microsoft has been engaged in consistently for the past decade. I also believe that the proposed remedy does not address the concerns of one of the major potential and actual competitors that Microsoft has: the free software/open-source software communities.
While I am not in full agreement with some of the rhetoric, I agree with the first two of the three remedies proposed by the Free Software Foundation (which can be found at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/microsoft-antitrust
A summary of these is:
1) Microsoft would be required to publish complete documentation for all programming interfaces and file formats, and would be prohibited from using any interface or file format which is not fully-documented.
2) Microsoft would be required to use any patents in the field of software for defensive purposes only.
In addition to providing a level playing field for *all* Microsoft competitors, the two proposed remedies above would be far less administratively burdensome, involve much less involvement by the government in Microsoft's management, and would go a long way in preserving Microsoft's "freedom to innovate".
Thank you for your consideration of my views in this matter.
Tadas Osmolskis
(my snail-mail address omitted)
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I say:
Dribble, dribble, fake, dribble, shoot!
This is probably the first time in my life where I can expect more than 0.0001% of the readers to get the reference.
The thing that's always bothered me is that I can't turn off the "overload threshold". I normally read at Level 2, nested, newest first. In a popular article, I get the 50- message limit. When I read the first bunch, and go on to the second, new postings have changed the thread order, and I get threads that I've already read.
This makes me load the first page again, to find the one or two or 5 new messages, and then I have to go through the same crap again.
Give me the whole damn thing all at once!
It's gotta be more than 5%. I generally can't connect to *any* link on the front page of this site...
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I think this is about getting Debian to run under Windows.
A new meaning for "hot phone sex"...
This software comes with no warranty. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
There's a user here on slashdot (sorry I don't remember their name) who used to have the signature "wu-ftpd -- Providing Remote Root Access since 1994".
Having been vicimized in the past, I'm now running ProFTP in the few places I need FTP at all.
If I could find a secure and free-as-in-beer method to provide upload access to some Windows-using folk, I'd bag FTP entirely.
I'm the DNS guy at work. About 2 years ago, I transferred about 35 domains from Network Solutions to DomainDiscover, using DomainDiscover's interface. There were absolutely no problems, and working with DomainDiscover has been a pleasure. Any time I called them on their 800 number, the phone was answered by a human being (a *knowledgeable* human being) within 3 rings.
They are relatively expensive, so I register my personal "hobby" domains with gandi, but for a business, the extra bucks are worth it for superb phone support.
For someone who thinks like this, I can highly recommend Rick Cook's Wizardry series, in which a stereotypical hacker is transported to a world where magic works. He ends up saving the magic world by producing a spell interpreter. Later books in the series include one where the hero recruits a team to produce a magic compiler at an SCA event. Not great writing, full of truly groan-inducing tech jokes, but lots of fun.
The wording on the tag was changed about 20 years ago. Probably not a coincidence that this was around the time when the first boomers who had been traumatized as 8-year-olds by the thought of the FBI coming to arrest them for removing the tag from the new sofa got old enough to have some influence on the laws....
If we're allowed to patent business models of overwhelming obviousness and mucho prior art, why doesn't someone patent "Embrace and Extend".
I'd love to see Microsoft defending that in court:
"Your Honor, we've been doing that for years, and we can prove...err..."
Anybody else remember this religious war?
BTW, I was firmly on the Modem7 side of this one...
The parent to this reply is modded as "funny" (and I agree because of the spam reference), but
this was actually done in the 19th century by one of the states which later became Australia (the ad was printed on the back of the stamp, so the person licking the stamp got the "ad impression"). Italy also had stamps with advertising (this time on the front) in the 1920s.
Many countries have sold ads on the back of stamp booklets, or on a label which would otherwise be left blank in the booklet.
If anyone wants exact references, I can look them up (I'm at work, my stamp catalogs are at home). Leave a reply to this, or send an email to me at (omit the dashes and do the obvious) tadas-at-tadas-dot-net.
Tadas
Linux demi-geek and member of the American Philatelic Society
Godwin's Law!
"What if I was typing with one hand because the other is busy? "
That only works for pr0n sites
This isn't exactly a surprise. The Supremes would really have to find something way wrong procedurally to override a *unanimous* Circuit Court opinion on a limited procedural question.
The common-law tradition is, in some strange way, like the open-source development process -- it tends to favor "working code". There is a strong bias in the system against mucking with what lower courts have done, and this is done only when the lower court does something that seems to be way out of line. You can see this in what the Circuit Court did to the trial decision -- it found that Judge Jackson was out of line in how he determined the remedy, but didn't throw out the findings of fact (and tossed it back to a different judge for the penalty phase).
I think that the fact that the Circuit Court's "en banc" decision was *unanimous* cut a lot of mustard with the Supreme Court.
PS - When I started this post, there were no posts. Since I tried to actually put some (admittedly not a huge amount) care into what I was saying, I guess this wont be a "First Post". I tried, though...