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on September 30, 1998.
Then again I guess for all intents and purposes...
Reckon US voting should be opened internationally as the laws seem to be, or at the very least the pretence of being a democracy should be dropped.
Well I'll try to explain, not entirely sure what I was talking about myself.
The 1st,2nd,3rd foundation stuff is actually from Asimov's (or was it Clark? always get the 2 mixed up) books, not secret all powerful cabals:)
In it this guy developed a kind of math that allowed him to predict the future of people, on the basis that you can predict the movement of lots of people, even though you can't predict just one.
And the point was that hollywood/MPAA/RIAA/etc. probably will be able to get away with pretty much anything they want as a lot of people they can fool with their arguments, and even more people don't really care.
I've noticed several of the same names popping up
year after year, without ever getting caught, dealing in "gold edition" software.
Could be they work for software companies, or distribution or something by day. Getting caught would be a very bad idea for them.
Have to admit though the warez fraternity does have privacy pretty well sussed. except of course for the ones that provide links to their homepages and pics of them with thier friends.
*online equivalent of a speakeasy* - kinda like that 'bar' Tad Williams otherland books?:)
Oh well off to bed then I guess, and of course some serious regreting in the morning.
's what I love about The Reg BBS (my more normal haunt), even though it is slow as driving a transit thru mud, you can delete your comments after the fact.
PS, (re the sig thing) I also wrote this great scipt (read IRL crap hack) to convert the 2600 page to links, anybody have any idea as to the legality of the whole thing if I was to bung it up on say linux.net.uk (if they exist, if they are an isp, if I have an account with them, if I didn't care about their common carrier status, down to one eye now (left) If I seemed tostop making sense about 4 hours ago, then I did), but anyway even in the US, the script could convert and display any page, if people choose to paste the 2600 URL, well it is up to them..))
Actualy it is all just silly, silly I tell you, I really hope you 'Merkins aren't wasting your votes, cos well hey, what you vote for we have to live with, and we DO bear grudges.
Swedloff, sowwy got carried away, pls ignore the please ignore rest of comment after 8th word.
If you do, then we're in trouble when a more repressive regime than the US attempts to indict us in the US for crimes against their nation elsewhere.
Umm yeah and that's really likely to happen, face it, you have won, whatever happens to the world is entirely on your shoulders now, you asked for it, you got it.
Who is gonna bomb the US when they can be sure of the fact that thier entire nation is goong to be wiped out as a result.
Oh darn, straying back on topic, these terrorists in the good old moving pictures, they are fighting for a cause, they are very rarely going to waste their own country in the process, no matter what Hollywood tells you.
That is why we aren't all deaded, you need to push harder, never know what might happen.
It's at times like these that we remember the good old rule of TANSTAFL, or possibly GYPANKGTYA.
Bugger, I had a punchline, and it was good, and slightly surreal (only slighly cos I know we have Americans in the audience:P [yeah I know cheap jab and all that, hmm and on third thoughts, I am not meaning to give offence to anyone from the US, it was meant as humour based on commonly understood stereotypes, and in no way representative of the readership of SlashingDot. Therefore you do NOT need to lecture me endlessly about how only you have freedom cos you have the old pointing killing things, the war of indepance is a closed book to me, I prefer it that way, Do you get my train of thought here?, if not check below].
Unfortunately I was disrtacted as all the kittens woke up, bastards that they are, umm although kinda cute.
IF you are willing to assert your rights, so are they, are you making your views known to the right people? (As with all my comments, except the ones about FTL travel, why oh Why, won't you read between the lines....)
Or something.... (Sorry Rotoplooker, but when you have the world's greatest sig you have to expect it's gonna be nicked, and for future refence don't leave the doors unlocked)
We never had tv for ages (well ok about 3 years) living in a valley and all that and we did indeed make our own entertainment, and it was well funky.
Then we bought a video and so the end began, first we watched HK movies because the morality we could understand, and the action was better than anything we had ever seen (except of course old uncle albert, he ate pufferfish, and boy did he bounce, ride em cowboy!!), then when they ran out (there is a limited supply in the UK) we were forced to watch old hollywood flicks, Rambo and such.
This was the end of the beginning.
Nowadays we are just another family statistic, they call us and I try to get them to go away, BUT THEY NO MORE ABOUT ME THAN I DO, and well, my clothes are whiter these days so I guess I am better off....
PS Note to moderator type ppl, this is not a 'troll' I'm just having fun, and trying to get to 50 to verify peoples claims that things turn weird then, I mean I already went over 26, had god knows how many first posts, any mod you want to mention I have had it, what more is left...
{Coquetish look}, my ideal is also to end world hunger, institute a realistic world government that won't favour the needy over those that have and to reverse the destruction of our rainforest.
I kinda wonder if this is bigger than *we* think it is.
We've all read about the first, second, and third foundation.
Admitedly it is just a book, but how much effect do *we* actually have compared to the will of the masses, who are quite happy to lap up whatever is served to them.
Word to the wise: I am talking about being able to predict the movemenet of a given percentage, not of an individual, cos well hey, that's what markeing is about.
And just for fun, are *we* right even, or are *they*
Actually the Chinese are developing their own distro, Red Flag Linux (possibly more), there already has been quite a lot of work done to support Chinese language under linux even before that.
The Government there isn't really too chuffed with windows as the chinese language version was done in Taiwan, and the coders bunged in loads of anti PRC easter eggs.
I think in general the people there do still tend to use windows, for the same reason most people in userland do, shallower learning curve, more apps.
Having said that if Red Flag gets going then there could be a lot of conversions, as it is likely to handle Chinese far more natively than windows.
I can generally get about half way through the articles. From there read a few of the posts for a break. Then go back and read paragraph by paragraph from the end.
Apropos enough I've got BBC news 24 playing in the background (well I often do), and they just had a report on online banking in the UK.
What they did was get an ex hacker|cracker (delete according to taste), he was able to compromise almost all the systems just by sending some users of the bank an email with a k/b sniffer trojan.
It says a lot about the skills of virus writers that no one has ever managed to do this on a large scale.
All that untapped user stupidity out there, I mean come on guys, you can do better!
Hmm yeah that's something I find really disturbing about the whole article. It really isn't a balanced view, more a tirade against the Bad Bad Evil Dinosaur Old Smelly news on TV.
But never fear our one new true God The Internet will save us.
I like being able to sit down for an hour or so a day and catch up with what is happening, someday I think it would even be nice not to log on to the internet for a month or so, gosh I've heard some people don't even have net connections.
And is net news that less commercial and unbiased?
I admit that the world does need people like J.Katz to provide extreme viewpoints, and to be passionate about subjects such as he is, even if only because it makes more people aware, hopefully they can come to their own conclusions rather than just swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
God help you guys if he ever gets a job in politics:)
I suspect he was probably abused by a major media corporation as a kid meself.
Re:What we want is information, not ads or hype.
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Which strangely is pretty much the reason I avoid online news sites.
Then again I have BBC & ITN news 24 hours a day, both fairly unbiased (not perfect of course, but what news source on or off line is) and at least one of which is completely ad free.
I don't know any online news site that has the resources of the BBC to investigate news stories, or have 'programs' such as Correspondent or Hardtalk.
The only news I really use the net for is specialist stuff, things like tech or environmental, as that is something by it's nature it excels at. Or to get more info on stories seen on TV.
I'm not sure how it could be AOL as surely they are just providing the transport?, unless they have transparent proxy somewhere (quite likely).
If they do, and it does block multipart forms then there probably isn't much you can do, could check the browsers proxy settings in case it is not a transparent one, but one installed by default.
Slashdot Mirror
The only thing this is guaranteeing is 100% student penetration.
Mirror this comment!
It's not, never has been.
ICANN Sez:
Then again I guess for all intents and purposes...
Reckon US voting should be opened internationally as the laws seem to be, or at the very least the pretence of being a democracy should be dropped.
Been quite a while (10 years + even) since I've read the whole series anyway.
Not that I can talk, been watching TV all day, even when I was reduced to watching 80's feel good comedys...
The 1st,2nd,3rd foundation stuff is actually from Asimov's (or was it Clark? always get the 2 mixed up) books, not secret all powerful cabals :)
In it this guy developed a kind of math that allowed him to predict the future of people, on the basis that you can predict the movement of lots of people, even though you can't predict just one.
And the point was that hollywood/MPAA/RIAA/etc. probably will be able to get away with pretty much anything they want as a lot of people they can fool with their arguments, and even more people don't really care.
Just a thought really.
Could be they work for software companies, or distribution or something by day. Getting caught would be a very bad idea for them.
Have to admit though the warez fraternity does have privacy pretty well sussed. except of course for the ones that provide links to their homepages and pics of them with thier friends.
*online equivalent of a speakeasy* - kinda like that 'bar' Tad Williams otherland books? :)
's what I love about The Reg BBS (my more normal haunt), even though it is slow as driving a transit thru mud, you can delete your comments after the fact.
PS, (re the sig thing) I also wrote this great scipt (read IRL crap hack) to convert the 2600 page to links, anybody have any idea as to the legality of the whole thing if I was to bung it up on say linux.net.uk (if they exist, if they are an isp, if I have an account with them, if I didn't care about their common carrier status, down to one eye now (left) If I seemed tostop making sense about 4 hours ago, then I did), but anyway even in the US, the script could convert and display any page, if people choose to paste the 2600 URL, well it is up to them..))
Actualy it is all just silly, silly I tell you, I really hope you 'Merkins aren't wasting your votes, cos well hey, what you vote for we have to live with, and we DO bear grudges.
Swedloff, sowwy got carried away, pls ignore the please ignore rest of comment after 8th word.
If you do, then we're in trouble when a more repressive regime than the US attempts to indict us in the US for crimes against their nation elsewhere.
Umm yeah and that's really likely to happen, face it, you have won, whatever happens to the world is entirely on your shoulders now, you asked for it, you got it.
Who is gonna bomb the US when they can be sure of the fact that thier entire nation is goong to be wiped out as a result.
Oh darn, straying back on topic, these terrorists in the good old moving pictures, they are fighting for a cause, they are very rarely going to waste their own country in the process, no matter what Hollywood tells you.
That is why we aren't all deaded, you need to push harder, never know what might happen.
Bugger, I had a punchline, and it was good, and slightly surreal (only slighly cos I know we have Americans in the audience :P [yeah I know cheap jab and all that, hmm and on third thoughts, I am not meaning to give offence to anyone from the US, it was meant as humour based on commonly understood stereotypes, and in no way representative of the readership of SlashingDot. Therefore you do NOT need to lecture me endlessly about how only you have freedom cos you have the old pointing killing things, the war of indepance is a closed book to me, I prefer it that way, Do you get my train of thought here?, if not check below].
Unfortunately I was disrtacted as all the kittens woke up, bastards that they are, umm although kinda cute.
IF you are willing to assert your rights, so are they, are you making your views known to the right people? (As with all my comments, except the ones about FTL travel, why oh Why, won't you read between the lines....)
Or something.... (Sorry Rotoplooker, but when you have the world's greatest sig you have to expect it's gonna be nicked, and for future refence don't leave the doors unlocked)
We never had tv for ages (well ok about 3 years) living in a valley and all that and we did indeed make our own entertainment, and it was well funky.
Then we bought a video and so the end began, first we watched HK movies because the morality we could understand, and the action was better than anything we had ever seen (except of course old uncle albert, he ate pufferfish, and boy did he bounce, ride em cowboy!!), then when they ran out (there is a limited supply in the UK) we were forced to watch old hollywood flicks, Rambo and such.
This was the end of the beginning.
Nowadays we are just another family statistic, they call us and I try to get them to go away, BUT THEY NO MORE ABOUT ME THAN I DO, and well, my clothes are whiter these days so I guess I am better off....
PS Note to moderator type ppl, this is not a 'troll' I'm just having fun, and trying to get to 50 to verify peoples claims that things turn weird then, I mean I already went over 26, had god knows how many first posts, any mod you want to mention I have had it, what more is left...
{Coquetish look}, my ideal is also to end world hunger, institute a realistic world government that won't favour the needy over those that have and to reverse the destruction of our rainforest.
Heineken, damn it's good!
umm whilst still bieng rather bad...
OK I AM SORRY.
But you get the coconut, banana, [fruit of your choice].
Congrats, we HAVE a winner!!!!
And for all the people itching to reply that either a coconut || banana isn't a fruit, please provide links, I like to learn. :)
We've all read about the first, second, and third foundation.
Admitedly it is just a book, but how much effect do *we* actually have compared to the will of the masses, who are quite happy to lap up whatever is served to them.
Word to the wise: I am talking about being able to predict the movemenet of a given percentage, not of an individual, cos well hey, that's what markeing is about.
And just for fun, are *we* right even, or are *they*
PS: drunk beyond your wildest dreams, ignore me :)
PPS:THey 0wn3 y0u (full stop)
P.S. Can't see them being all that happy about the NSA backdoor in windows rumours either.
The Government there isn't really too chuffed with windows as the chinese language version was done in Taiwan, and the coders bunged in loads of anti PRC easter eggs.
I think in general the people there do still tend to use windows, for the same reason most people in userland do, shallower learning curve, more apps.
Having said that if Red Flag gets going then there could be a lot of conversions, as it is likely to handle Chinese far more natively than windows.
And finally what I really wanted to say...
Cluster Management? Try Preparation H
Is stand well back so the semtex charges you put in the box earlier don't get you as well.
and cook it in the process :)
defend from the top of the stairs.
Probably never work, but you never know.
I guess the 2000 comp could be to see if anyone can write a sucessful linux virus.
Apropos enough I've got BBC news 24 playing in the background (well I often do), and they just had a report on online banking in the UK.
What they did was get an ex hacker|cracker (delete according to taste), he was able to compromise almost all the systems just by sending some users of the bank an email with a k/b sniffer trojan.
It says a lot about the skills of virus writers that no one has ever managed to do this on a large scale.
All that untapped user stupidity out there, I mean come on guys, you can do better!
But never fear our one new true God The Internet will save us.
I like being able to sit down for an hour or so a day and catch up with what is happening, someday I think it would even be nice not to log on to the internet for a month or so, gosh I've heard some people don't even have net connections.
And is net news that less commercial and unbiased?
I admit that the world does need people like J.Katz to provide extreme viewpoints, and to be passionate about subjects such as he is, even if only because it makes more people aware, hopefully they can come to their own conclusions rather than just swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
God help you guys if he ever gets a job in politics :)
I suspect he was probably abused by a major media corporation as a kid meself.
Then again I have BBC & ITN news 24 hours a day, both fairly unbiased (not perfect of course, but what news source on or off line is) and at least one of which is completely ad free.
I don't know any online news site that has the resources of the BBC to investigate news stories, or have 'programs' such as Correspondent or Hardtalk.
The only news I really use the net for is specialist stuff, things like tech or environmental, as that is something by it's nature it excels at. Or to get more info on stories seen on TV.
And they made butterfy knives illegal.
I could see ftp getting blocked on home accounts (have to have a business account to use it), cos after all you can just use frontpage.
hope not, but it's dangerous to underestimate, who would have thought that linking could be made illegal...
I'm not sure how it could be AOL as surely they are just providing the transport?, unless they have transparent proxy somewhere (quite likely).
If they do, and it does block multipart forms then there probably isn't much you can do, could check the browsers proxy settings in case it is not a transparent one, but one installed by default.
AOL do compress images when you browse, probably not relevant, but there is more info at http://home.earthlink.net/~jillb hart/AOLimage.html