I prefer keeping the objects of my affection in deep dark holes in my cellar. If you think that I am wierd, see the guy who keeps women trapped in pits on www.bobandtom.com for more details. The only troble is filtering out their screams with white noice, but I find Zamfir the pan flutist to be the best. It also is good for brain washing the victims,ahem... object of my affection. So you plan on suing the state who have laws against statuephiles. Does this mean that you are discriminating against states with statutes against statutory love? Boggles the mind somehow.
You or the ISP could use any security you want. It sounds like CISCO has solved the hardware and other technical problems of wireless networking. Software would probably be up to the ISP. As for PCS, I have AT&T and have NEVER had a dropped call even when I left the central caslling area for the back woods.
Katz does have a tendancy to sometimes gloss over the information he uses. The Internet only makes this worse. However, don't get too worked up about encryption export laws or whether evolution is taught in schools in this country. People here have always been a mixture of paranoid and pious. It comes from a frontier mentality carried on by too many westerns on TV. Americans are good for screaming NIMBY, NINA, God/prayer in classrooms, No New Taxes, "there oughtta be a law", Serperate but Equal, Big Brother, and NRA-- Free Guns! A vocal minority always go extreme on issues and no two activists can agree on the same thing. Both can be tree huggers but one may be anti guns while the other is ProChoice. If things were really as bad it it is made out by the media, someone would have pulled a U-haul full of Kerosene and fertilizer to the capital. The schools are bad here, I do admit. Between fights over protect our children and God in school, 2/5 of all buildings need repair, most classrooms are over crowded, teachers are under trained or under paid. Teaching creationism and putting the 10 commandments isn't going to make little Johnny Rebel ready for Electrical Engineering or CompSci, but it does make him the most pious and the revivalist tractor pull. Here it is the lack of national standards in education that are to blame, but the US constitution left education up to the states. The Internet will not be a cure all for society's woes. Until everyone hads equal access to it and a decent education, things will be bad between rich and poor. Ever notice how some people are using religeon in schools to hide bad parenting, poor discipline, under unfunding and reckless youth? Religeon is the opiate of the masses. It helps the thief for you to cry wolf while he is steraling your sheep. Americans will always be a land of wanting government to fix things without raising their taxes or cutting off Monday Night Football.
How about.adu for adult or.cum for well, you know? The only way to get more url's is to get rid of the Internic monopoly. Personally, I would love to see adult sites move thier names over to a domain that they can all use. Filtering would be easier, companies could block it with proxy servers, and I could remember names better. I think that.xxx is a little too cliche but you do have a point.
May be slightly off-topic, but I was glad to read that someone in the media knows how to use the word "hackers". At least I can be sure that the Irish press are getting the word used correctly. Now we just need it correctly used over hear. Kudos to the Irish for being receptive to ESR!
I suspect that some other sort of application will come of this technology. Even if it is ten years before they are available for the market, CD's and DVD's will not be rendered obsolite overnight. People still play vinyl records and some radio stations still use 8 tracks for commercials, right? It does sound nice in theory to have that much storage capacity. Imagine the talking into a wrist computer like Dick Tracy and his two-way radio. Ah well, it's all vapourware until I actually get to hold one. Enough of this wishful thinking, I am going outside to daydream. It's sunny and warm.
Well if it is true, then at least somebody is making a game to get to a prime target audience. Once you venture down the darkside, forever will it dominate your destinty. Emacs?!!!! Silly coder. Emacs is for kids. Stolen from life of Brian... Roman Legionaire:"You know what the punishment for hiding traitors is? Vi!" Jewish Conspirator:"Vi is a doggeral." Roman:"Don't say that."
Remember that Slashdot is more of a forum than a news service. This lends to the biased and even inflammatory comments by users and Anonymous cowards. These reporters of these services are also biased. They are biased towards the almighty buck. Ultimately, it is the average joe who knows nothing about hacker culture that pays for their paychecks. Now Slashdot does report the news, but it is "news for geeks" and not for a more generalized readership. The general public loves sensationalism, exaggeration, and hear-say. That is what motivates sales of newspapers and that is what sells advertisements. Don't get so inlflamed about these articles. We know they are wrong. Let's try to set a positive image by responding appropriatly and not with a nuclear strike.
We do need a way to keep certain standards on the Net from being "embraced and extended" by proprietary code. Here is a hint. If some Linux developer could taken on helping the Mozilla project and get other companies to do Linux versions of their web applications, then we may just stop this war and keep the net an open forum for speech and software standards.
I really do not see what all the fuss is about in the first place. If the DVD consortium had bothered to create open source drivers for LINUX and *BSD then the crack would not have been necessary. They haven't even broken any copyrights anyway since they haven't released dvd movies on the internet. All they did was open source the means to write drivers and indirectly how to read the encryption to to run those drivers. The actual hardware requirements for burning DVD is costly and copying to CD loses all the advantages of DVD. All you get is a lousy VHS quality and that is bad. If you want pirated VHS movies, they are already on the net. Any idiot with a T1 and a video graphics card can copy movies. Also the space reqirements for dvd are in the gigabytes. CD's only hold 650 MB of information. You will loose a lot of quality in the compression to CD. The worst that they may have done was infringe on some patents and copyrights. The harware makers are just lashing out from their own stupidity for such lousy encryption schemes. Oh well, I just want to watch my DVD movies in my home player and maybe play DVD released software on my computer. I could give a shit about stealing a copy of of a movie when I can rent it for four bucks and buy it for 15 bucks.
Instead of the Pied Piper of Hamilin or exterminators, let's just give every rat a free cell phone and a hunk of cheese. Good-bye disease bearing vermine. Or better yet, let's give them all internet accounts with a link to Slashdot. They will never reproduce, never produce anything of value, and the rest of us can lead happy normal lives away from the dehumanization of technology. At least the rats won't post as anonymous cowards. To all you flame baiters, this was just a joke.
I am a Linux newbie and have alrady rented a steam shovel. Unfortuantly, it will take a quantum N-space mine to plug the black hole that is in Redmond, Washington. That or hell of a lot of anti-gravitons.
I am sorry for Rob Malda, but Eric Clapton is God. Pete is just an anthromorphic personification of the Holy Spirit. I just had to set that strait. Remember, they have been wrting that Eric Clapton was God since the 1960's. Would be nice to hear a piece of music based upon my stats, but it would be even better to hear one based upon Pamela Anderson's stats. I wonder how curvy and melodic it would be?
We all know that businesses are going to buy Windows 2000, simply because no one ever gets fired for buying Microsoft software. However, the Web user access fee of $2000 for 50 users will make many small to medium sized business balk. I think that a jump in Linux or FreeBSD will come as a result of many companies rethinking their remote user and web server strategies. Why pay two grand on top of the Operating system and Hardware when you can purchase a faster server of a couple of good workstations for the same amount? Open Source software is going to become more popular.
I won't predict bad things for Microsoft though. It has enough large corporate customer who will deploy it out of some deranged sense of innovation. It will make money but it'll lose ISP's and web companies.
Rob? He made me do it. I didn't want to but the bad man made me watch all those pictures. Now I have to go home and weed whack my palms! No mister, you made me bad touch!
Obviously I went blind long ago. Hell, I have been on the 'net since 1990. I was going blind in ASCII with 2600 baud modems. Now I am writing this with my IWhack hooked into a Dragon Speak and Spell. The only horrific versions of teenage sex I have ever had to witness was watching two drunk friends of mine go at it when they thought I was passed out. The site of them both did make me wrtech and pass out soon after. If MP3's could only be gotten off of porn sites, we'd all have the soundtrack to Debbie Does Dallas and Deep Throat {heard both}. Think I'll set my braille lynx reader for the Hustler site. I heard that they have really goog commentaries on Jerry Falwell.
Actually, we did. The Europeans have been on ARPANET from the start due to NATO contacts. Companies like NORTEL and British Telecom (and the continental equivalents) were responsible for transAtlantic cable. We have helped to more than pay our fair share.
C'est une suprix? Mais non! Les Francias sont la premier amis de GPL.
It would be like them to support anything that is not essentially Amierican only, can be ported into French easily, and can be modified by anyone qualified to make a contribution. They are merely trying to save money, recruit outside help, and try to reestablish themselves as a technological giant. There would be choice because inviduals do not have to use Linux. People can run their computer on anything they want, just as long as it can communiacte with other computers or get the job done. Besides that Windows NT fiascoe with the Blue Screen of Death on US navy Ship proved that a more relaible program is needed for essential computer or networking services. We all know the French are resolutely independent and nationalistically prideful (just like Americans), so this is a big egalitarian step towards gloabalism for them.
Sounds like an interesting theory to expalin punctuated equilibrium or the theory that evolution happens in litteral explosions of new species isntead of only just gradual change.
The US has no authority, moral or otherwise, to dictate terms exclusively for its own interests. They may have created the ARPANET, the father of the Internet (sorry Mr. Gore!), but they do not own it. The most popular portion, the WWW was created at CERN. Hell, the telephone was not even invented in the US exclusively. If the US wants to exert its influence in international affairs to its wishes, it should pony up money and conviction instead of Jesse Helms and hot air. Participation in International organizations means paying the membership dues.
I could care less about how may Americans sit on the board. Bring the flamers unto me!
Congratulations to Illiad. Remember, just because he is not a techie (you would have found out if you had ever read anything on his website regularly, that does not mean he does not have good insight into the Open Source (OPEN SORES!) community.
When you have $150 million in cash to donate, you can dictate terms of its dispersal. Until then, quit your yapping. None of us are old enough to remember any out breaks of TB. Our parents probably barely remember the epidemics at all. This disease is cause by a bacterium and is therefore easier to identify than a virus. If the cofounder of Netscape wants to spend some money to try to eliminate the spread of a pandemic by helping to develope a technology that would obviously have cross applications in medecine, then so be it. TB used to be as bad a killer as influenza and smallpox. The former is mostly now just an annoyance and the latter has been eadicated from the population. Before you reply , yes, I know that the flu has strains that are tenacious and ccan kill but at least this is not the pandemic of 1919.
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I prefer keeping the objects of my affection in deep dark holes in my cellar. If you think that I am wierd, see the guy who keeps women trapped in pits on www.bobandtom.com for more details. The only troble is filtering out their screams with white noice, but I find Zamfir the pan flutist to be the best. It also is good for brain washing the victims,ahem... object of my affection. So you plan on suing the state who have laws against statuephiles. Does this mean that you are discriminating against states with statutes against statutory love? Boggles the mind somehow.
You or the ISP could use any security you want. It sounds like CISCO has solved the hardware and other technical problems of wireless networking. Software would probably be up to the ISP. As for PCS, I have AT&T and have NEVER had a dropped call even when I left the central caslling area for the back woods.
Katz does have a tendancy to sometimes gloss over the information he uses. The Internet only makes this worse. However, don't get too worked up about encryption export laws or whether evolution is taught in schools in this country. People here have always been a mixture of paranoid and pious. It comes from a frontier mentality carried on by too many westerns on TV. Americans are good for screaming NIMBY, NINA, God/prayer in classrooms, No New Taxes, "there oughtta be a law", Serperate but Equal, Big Brother, and NRA-- Free Guns! A vocal minority always go extreme on issues and no two activists can agree on the same thing. Both can be tree huggers but one may be anti guns while the other is ProChoice. If things were really as bad it it is made out by the media, someone would have pulled a U-haul full of Kerosene and fertilizer to the capital. The schools are bad here, I do admit. Between fights over protect our children and God in school, 2/5 of all buildings need repair, most classrooms are over crowded, teachers are under trained or under paid. Teaching creationism and putting the 10 commandments isn't going to make little Johnny Rebel ready for Electrical Engineering or CompSci, but it does make him the most pious and the revivalist tractor pull. Here it is the lack of national standards in education that are to blame, but the US constitution left education up to the states. The Internet will not be a cure all for society's woes. Until everyone hads equal access to it and a decent education, things will be bad between rich and poor. Ever notice how some people are using religeon in schools to hide bad parenting, poor discipline, under unfunding and reckless youth? Religeon is the opiate of the masses. It helps the thief for you to cry wolf while he is steraling your sheep. Americans will always be a land of wanting government to fix things without raising their taxes or cutting off Monday Night Football.
Makes me want to go get the book since there was a lot of candour about its shortcomings.
How about .adu for adult or .cum for well, you know? The only way to get more url's is to get rid of the Internic monopoly. Personally, I would love to see adult sites move thier names over to a domain that they can all use. Filtering would be easier, companies could block it with proxy servers, and I could remember names better. I think that .xxx is a little too cliche but you do have a point.
True. It's just another corporate announcement for the platform. I will believe all thehype when I actually start seeing product.
May be slightly off-topic, but I was glad to read that someone in the media knows how to use the word "hackers". At least I can be sure that the Irish press are getting the word used correctly. Now we just need it correctly used over hear. Kudos to the Irish for being receptive to ESR!
I suspect that some other sort of application will come of this technology. Even if it is ten years before they are available for the market, CD's and DVD's will not be rendered obsolite overnight. People still play vinyl records and some radio stations still use 8 tracks for commercials, right? It does sound nice in theory to have that much storage capacity. Imagine the talking into a wrist computer like Dick Tracy and his two-way radio. Ah well, it's all vapourware until I actually get to hold one. Enough of this wishful thinking, I am going outside to daydream. It's sunny and warm.
Well if it is true, then at least somebody is making a game to get to a prime target audience. Once you venture down the darkside, forever will it dominate your destinty. Emacs?!!!! Silly coder. Emacs is for kids. Stolen from life of Brian... Roman Legionaire:"You know what the punishment for hiding traitors is? Vi!" Jewish Conspirator:"Vi is a doggeral." Roman:"Don't say that."
Remember that Slashdot is more of a forum than a news service. This lends to the biased and even inflammatory comments by users and Anonymous cowards. These reporters of these services are also biased. They are biased towards the almighty buck. Ultimately, it is the average joe who knows nothing about hacker culture that pays for their paychecks. Now Slashdot does report the news, but it is "news for geeks" and not for a more generalized readership. The general public loves sensationalism, exaggeration, and hear-say. That is what motivates sales of newspapers and that is what sells advertisements. Don't get so inlflamed about these articles. We know they are wrong. Let's try to set a positive image by responding appropriatly and not with a nuclear strike.
We do need a way to keep certain standards on the Net from being "embraced and extended" by proprietary code. Here is a hint. If some Linux developer could taken on helping the Mozilla project and get other companies to do Linux versions of their web applications, then we may just stop this war and keep the net an open forum for speech and software standards.
I really do not see what all the fuss is about in the first place. If the DVD consortium had bothered to create open source drivers for LINUX and *BSD then the crack would not have been necessary. They haven't even broken any copyrights anyway since they haven't released dvd movies on the internet. All they did was open source the means to write drivers and indirectly how to read the encryption to to run those drivers. The actual hardware requirements for burning DVD is costly and copying to CD loses all the advantages of DVD. All you get is a lousy VHS quality and that is bad. If you want pirated VHS movies, they are already on the net. Any idiot with a T1 and a video graphics card can copy movies. Also the space reqirements for dvd are in the gigabytes. CD's only hold 650 MB of information. You will loose a lot of quality in the compression to CD. The worst that they may have done was infringe on some patents and copyrights. The harware makers are just lashing out from their own stupidity for such lousy encryption schemes. Oh well, I just want to watch my DVD movies in my home player and maybe play DVD released software on my computer. I could give a shit about stealing a copy of of a movie when I can rent it for four bucks and buy it for 15 bucks.
Instead of the Pied Piper of Hamilin or exterminators, let's just give every rat a free cell phone and a hunk of cheese. Good-bye disease bearing vermine. Or better yet, let's give them all internet accounts with a link to Slashdot. They will never reproduce, never produce anything of value, and the rest of us can lead happy normal lives away from the dehumanization of technology. At least the rats won't post as anonymous cowards. To all you flame baiters, this was just a joke.
I am a Linux newbie and have alrady rented a steam shovel. Unfortuantly, it will take a quantum N-space mine to plug the black hole that is in Redmond, Washington. That or hell of a lot of anti-gravitons.
I am sorry for Rob Malda, but Eric Clapton is God. Pete is just an anthromorphic personification of the Holy Spirit. I just had to set that strait. Remember, they have been wrting that Eric Clapton was God since the 1960's.
Would be nice to hear a piece of music based upon my stats, but it would be even better to hear one based upon Pamela Anderson's stats. I wonder how curvy and melodic it would be?
We all know that businesses are going to buy Windows 2000, simply because no one ever gets fired for buying Microsoft software. However, the Web user access fee of $2000 for 50 users will make many small to medium sized business balk. I think that a jump in Linux or FreeBSD will come as a result of many companies rethinking their remote user and web server strategies. Why pay two grand on top of the Operating system and Hardware when you can purchase a faster server of a couple of good workstations for the same amount? Open Source software is going to become more popular.
I won't predict bad things for Microsoft though. It has enough large corporate customer who will deploy it out of some deranged sense of innovation. It will make money but it'll lose ISP's and web companies.
Brings a whole new definition to viral attacks on computers. Will we have to babysit and feed the poor machine Vicks just so it will feel better?
Where do machines end and living things begin?
Rob? He made me do it. I didn't want to but the bad man made me watch all those pictures. Now I have to go home and weed whack my palms! No mister, you made me bad touch!
Obviously I went blind long ago. Hell, I have been on the 'net since 1990. I was going blind in ASCII with 2600 baud modems. Now I am writing this with my IWhack hooked into a Dragon Speak and Spell.
The only horrific versions of teenage sex I have ever had to witness was watching two drunk friends of mine go at it when they thought I was passed out. The site of them both did make me wrtech and pass out soon after.
If MP3's could only be gotten off of porn sites, we'd all have the soundtrack to Debbie Does Dallas and Deep Throat {heard both}.
Think I'll set my braille lynx reader for the Hustler site. I heard that they have really goog commentaries on Jerry Falwell.
If we don't GPL QT ASAP, then ASPL or IBM might gobble up the competition with RPM. If this doesn't confuse you, joy. It cetainly confused me.
Actually, we did. The Europeans have been on ARPANET from the start due to NATO contacts. Companies like NORTEL and British Telecom (and the continental equivalents) were responsible for transAtlantic cable. We have helped to more than pay our fair share.
C'est une suprix? Mais non! Les Francias sont la premier amis de GPL.
It would be like them to support anything that is not essentially Amierican only, can be ported into French easily, and can be modified by anyone qualified to make a contribution. They are merely trying to save money, recruit outside help, and try to reestablish themselves as a technological giant.
There would be choice because inviduals do not have to use Linux. People can run their computer on anything they want, just as long as it can communiacte with other computers or get the job done. Besides that Windows NT fiascoe with the Blue Screen of Death on US navy Ship proved that a more relaible program is needed for essential computer or networking services.
We all know the French are resolutely independent and nationalistically prideful (just like Americans), so this is a big egalitarian step towards gloabalism for them.
Sounds like an interesting theory to expalin punctuated equilibrium or the theory that evolution happens in litteral explosions of new species isntead of only just gradual change.
The US has no authority, moral or otherwise, to dictate terms exclusively for its own interests. They may have created the ARPANET, the father of the Internet (sorry Mr. Gore!), but they do not own it. The most popular portion, the WWW was created at CERN. Hell, the telephone was not even invented in the US exclusively. If the US wants to exert its influence in international affairs to its wishes, it should pony up money and conviction instead of Jesse Helms and hot air. Participation in International organizations means paying the membership dues.
I could care less about how may Americans sit on the board. Bring the flamers unto me!
Congratulations to Illiad. Remember, just because he is not a techie (you would have found out if you had ever read anything on his website regularly, that does not mean he does not have good insight into the Open Source (OPEN SORES!) community.
When you have $150 million in cash to donate, you can dictate terms of its dispersal. Until then, quit your yapping. None of us are old enough to remember any out breaks of TB. Our parents probably barely remember the epidemics at all. This disease is cause by a bacterium and is therefore easier to identify than a virus. If the cofounder of Netscape wants to spend some money to try to eliminate the spread of a pandemic by helping to develope a technology that would obviously have cross applications in medecine, then so be it.
TB used to be as bad a killer as influenza and smallpox. The former is mostly now just an annoyance and the latter has been eadicated from the population. Before you reply , yes, I know that the flu has strains that are tenacious and ccan kill but at least this is not the pandemic of 1919.