<I> I don't think Mozilla blocks all open() calls regardless what since then a lot of web sites I've visited that popup stuff when you click on a link shouldn't work. </I>
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Boy, that should take a while to fix.
</biting sarcasm >
So now businesses make the user experience worse, so new businesses spring up to block their crap, so now <A http://anti-leech.com> other </A> businesses spring up to force us to degrade our browsing...
And mozilla, properly <A http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html> customized </A> can just walk right over most of it. Any one else find this economic oscillation bizarre? OS/FS makes so much sense it must be illegal...
This isn't for morse code, this is for playing Missle Command writ large!
You have answered your own question, sir.
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I want to make something that people can control over the internet. Any suggestions?
-- Lego Pron, Mouse powered Asynchronous computers, remote controlled webcams [man.ac.uk]
Motorized, remote controlled lego pr0n filmed over remote control webcams.
Think about it. It's perfect.
Even though the market is going thru a rough patch, and the number of detrimental aspects to programming are increasing (ageism and so forth), I still do not feel that programming is a dead end job. (SNIP) Isn't this true for any career?
Umm, Cliff, when you have a comment almost as long as the submitted quote, why not use the handy dandy comment system to air your view, instead of slapping it all over the front page? Y'know, encourage a discussion, participate on an equal basis? Rather than structuring the discourse on your own terms?
I find an interesting correlation here between "lassaie faire" business practices and the anti-corporation/IP movement.
There hasn't been a true lassaie faire buisness practice since the invention of the pointed stick.
Left and right are antiquated: the only issue is control. The left is not profreedom any more than the right: both seek control, just in different domains.
What is useful about government is when it does what is required to protect the people from other organizations (foriegn governments, mafia, etc). We organize to protect our freedom from other organizations. When governments turn into the enforcement wing of those they are supposed to be keeping track of, it's time for a revolution.
Doesn't have to be a GNU/RMS revolution, but make some noise kids, before they come for us (Canadians).
And I thought my 4-bit key's were safe!
Damn the relentless progress of computing!
Re:Strange distinction.
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Any freedom that means something is, in some way, an expression of power.
This is an oversimplification of the slave (user) view of power. As a master (developer), with power over others, granting freedom is a dissolution of power. As far as I can tell, the Tao De Ching, RMS and The Holy Reverend Polyfather feel this is the only justifiable use of power: giving it to others.
MS's use of power is the reverse: the concatenation of power, into larger pools controlled by smaller numbers of people. This reinforces the master/slave relationship, which ultimately devalues everyone involved.
The GPL is a powerful tool for creating freedom. Not everthing falls into a simple top-down heirarchy.
Plus your analogy to home defense is FUD. Is anyone brutally reverse engineering your code to rob you? If they are, is your EULA going to do a damn thing about it? How will you ever know for certain?
By now I'm sure you've all heard that certain resources are needed to build certain units. No big deal right? Well...
My first game, as the Japanese, I've reached the tech level to start needing Iron to build the good units... and there is only one iron resource on the coninent I'm on! The Chinese are rushing their workers towards it, and I'm at peace and don't want to fight them (not without my swordsmen!), so I start a line of workers building a long road through the jungle towards the precious iron... I get there first, build a colony and start pumping out units, when the chinese build a city next to my colony and take all that beautiful iron away from me!
I went to war over _one_ square on the map.
I used horsemen to cut his roads to his capital and other good cities so he couldn't use the iron there (which was so cool, really), rushed my very few swordsmen to the fore and was finally able to take his city next to the iron. Just then I got chivalry, and it's sword swinging Samurai time! The tactical and strategic importance of the map is way beyond anything in civII or SMACX even.
What other games challange you to deal with a single point of failure in your road system?:)
Isn't this a manifestation of that 'infocalypse' thing people have been going on about for so long? Y'know, where the only thing you do all day is read email, or story submissions. Everything comes so thick and fast that you can't devote the time required to do a perfect job, so you end up pissing off a larger and larger percentage of your readership and let more and more errors creep through...
Just as the early mod system had to be extensively reworked and eventually dumped in the laps of the people causing the problems in the first place (to the chagrin of democracy fans everywhere), maybe this is less a lesson than a wake up call?
Or maybe just a bad week on/....
American Influence...
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Isn't the Internet a no-no in Afghanistan?
And does this count as anti-Taliban steganography?
Or a secret message? 'When you see the evil icon of America, strike!!'
Of course this is a hoax. Anyone can see that. To suggest it's for disinformation purposes is also, clearly a hoax. Strange loops have 3 layers, kids, and at the bottom of the barrel we have what? What could possibly motivate the NSA if gaining sympathy/funding or sandbagging the opposition are both out?
Well? What have they accomplished? What outcome could they desire and predict?
A SLASHDOT DISCUSSION!!!
They're polling us, don't you see?
Now they know what we think, how many of us don't trust them, how many do. They know what we fear (quantum decryption), they have a stack of numbers we guess apply to them... We've just told them everything they might want to know about how we see them!! This story is a giant troll!!! On top of them getting feedback, we're also spreading FUD everywhich way... lots of speculation and rumour, nothing else.
(TNG did it first, and TNG did it best. Jeri Ryan was simply added to Voyager for the horny-teen demographic.)
That, and they needed one person on board who can act (other than the doc). She's actully a decent actress, but I guess it can be hard to see past those stupid, stupid costumes they give the attractive women (Troi didn't wear a uniform till, what, the last season?).
a multi-species universe where humans can only "redeem" themselves by engaging in some twisted form of self-abasement!
Right on brother! And you just _know_ how they're going to go about that abasement: SEX! Sex with NON-HUMANS! They won't stop until the captain is in a long term emotionally crippling relationship with some ALIEN WHORE-WOMAN FROM BEYOND MARS!
RED ALERT BOYS! Keep those pants up, and set your phasers to Obliterate!
Actually, that's Choronzon, frequently associated with cognitive dissonence about the Great Work. It's something along the lines of that which waits beyond the opening of the fifth circuit. Choronzon bothered Crowley for some time, so the Jesus reference is probably wrong.
this corrected point of view reveals his entire rant on slashdot to be a load of steaming sensationalism. mention slashdot, especially in a negative way and it's instant traffic, just like the marketing department ordered.
RTABP (Read the article before posting)
His point is that currently linux coverage == advocacy. There is no objectivity here, never tried to be. The problem is that there is no source for neutral reporting on OS's.
If this sort of thing happened, the results would be two-fold.
1) Definate: People would be calling for blood (most likely taken out of the cracker/script kiddie who did this, and rightly so in my opinion). The software industry/media would view this as the work of a "hacker" and not thier fault.
2) Less Likely: (but wishful) People might realize how security is iterative and valuable.
Consequence Number 3:
Law makers and 'responsible, accountable' software firms denounce the actions of these unruly 'hacker' types and take our computers away.
Then "Anti-terrorist" laws are passed: gcc requires a three-day waiting period and a license.
Don't give them the excuse.
So we tend to think that owning something and ethics go together, and accept that the RIAA would look out for their artists (an ethical thing to do) by enforcing their ownership (a legal thing). But the RIAA is not opposed to people getting music from the 'net, they're opposed to someone else profiting. In every sense, they are the pirate, since they see no connection between ownership and ethical treatment. This is, and always has been, about control, and never about the artist.
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I don't think Mozilla blocks all open() calls regardless what since then a lot of web sites I've visited that popup stuff when you click on a link shouldn't work.
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< biting sarcasm >
Boy, that should take a while to fix.
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So now businesses make the user experience worse, so new businesses spring up to block their crap, so now <A http://anti-leech.com> other </A> businesses spring up to force us to degrade our browsing...
And mozilla, properly <A http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html> customized </A> can just walk right over most of it. Any one else find this economic oscillation bizarre? OS/FS makes so much sense it must be illegal...
That image is... striking.
This isn't for morse code, this is for playing Missle Command writ large!
Umm, Cliff, when you have a comment almost as long as the submitted quote, why not use the handy dandy comment system to air your view, instead of slapping it all over the front page? Y'know, encourage a discussion, participate on an equal basis? Rather than structuring the discourse on your own terms?
Boy, do I sound like a HGSBlackout-er right now.
Language is so bizarre sometimes.
Or rather: We are unable to determine the extent of his heroism having now firmly established the magnitude of his villany.
Perhaps if further details of this entaglement with Bohr are found, we might be able to discern an exact naughty/nice ratio.
I set all my friends to neutral, and /. told me:
You are alone in the world.
I thought I was amoungst my own here!
I thought I was accepted!
Loved even!
Will no one be my friend?
There hasn't been a true lassaie faire buisness practice since the invention of the pointed stick.
Left and right are antiquated: the only issue is control. The left is not profreedom any more than the right: both seek control, just in different domains.
What is useful about government is when it does what is required to protect the people from other organizations (foriegn governments, mafia, etc). We organize to protect our freedom from other organizations. When governments turn into the enforcement wing of those they are supposed to be keeping track of, it's time for a revolution.
Doesn't have to be a GNU/RMS revolution, but make some noise kids, before they come for us (Canadians).
And I thought my 4-bit key's were safe!
Damn the relentless progress of computing!
This is an oversimplification of the slave (user) view of power. As a master (developer), with power over others, granting freedom is a dissolution of power. As far as I can tell, the Tao De Ching, RMS and The Holy Reverend Polyfather feel this is the only justifiable use of power: giving it to others.
MS's use of power is the reverse: the concatenation of power, into larger pools controlled by smaller numbers of people. This reinforces the master/slave relationship, which ultimately devalues everyone involved.
The GPL is a powerful tool for creating freedom. Not everthing falls into a simple top-down heirarchy.
Plus your analogy to home defense is FUD. Is anyone brutally reverse engineering your code to rob you? If they are, is your EULA going to do a damn thing about it? How will you ever know for certain?
By now I'm sure you've all heard that certain resources are needed to build certain units. No big deal right? Well...
:)
My first game, as the Japanese, I've reached the tech level to start needing Iron to build the good units... and there is only one iron resource on the coninent I'm on! The Chinese are rushing their workers towards it, and I'm at peace and don't want to fight them (not without my swordsmen!), so I start a line of workers building a long road through the jungle towards the precious iron... I get there first, build a colony and start pumping out units, when the chinese build a city next to my colony and take all that beautiful iron away from me!
I went to war over _one_ square on the map.
I used horsemen to cut his roads to his capital and other good cities so he couldn't use the iron there (which was so cool, really), rushed my very few swordsmen to the fore and was finally able to take his city next to the iron. Just then I got chivalry, and it's sword swinging Samurai time! The tactical and strategic importance of the map is way beyond anything in civII or SMACX even.
What other games challange you to deal with a single point of failure in your road system?
Isn't this a manifestation of that 'infocalypse' thing people have been going on about for so long? Y'know, where the only thing you do all day is read email, or story submissions. Everything comes so thick and fast that you can't devote the time required to do a perfect job, so you end up pissing off a larger and larger percentage of your readership and let more and more errors creep through...
/....
Just as the early mod system had to be extensively reworked and eventually dumped in the laps of the people causing the problems in the first place (to the chagrin of democracy fans everywhere), maybe this is less a lesson than a wake up call?
Or maybe just a bad week on
Isn't the Internet a no-no in Afghanistan?
And does this count as anti-Taliban steganography?
Or a secret message? 'When you see the evil icon of America, strike!!'
In any case, All Hail Eris
...someone fingers *nix as a terrorist aid?
I don't mean vague 'the internet is bad' rhetoric, I mean a captured laptop running Red Hat or Mandrake?
Of course this is a hoax. Anyone can see that. To suggest it's for disinformation purposes is also, clearly a hoax. Strange loops have 3 layers, kids, and at the bottom of the barrel we have what? What could possibly motivate the NSA if gaining sympathy/funding or sandbagging the opposition are both out?
Well? What have they accomplished? What outcome could they desire and predict?
A SLASHDOT DISCUSSION!!!
They're polling us, don't you see?
Now they know what we think, how many of us don't trust them, how many do. They know what we fear (quantum decryption), they have a stack of numbers we guess apply to them... We've just told them everything they might want to know about how we see them!! This story is a giant troll!!! On top of them getting feedback, we're also spreading FUD everywhich way... lots of speculation and rumour, nothing else.
Don't swing at the low ones, okay?
(TNG did it first, and TNG did it best. Jeri Ryan was simply added to Voyager for the horny-teen demographic.)
That, and they needed one person on board who can act (other than the doc). She's actully a decent actress, but I guess it can be hard to see past those stupid, stupid costumes they give the attractive women (Troi didn't wear a uniform till, what, the last season?).
a multi-species universe where humans can only "redeem" themselves by engaging in some twisted form of self-abasement!
Right on brother! And you just _know_ how they're going to go about that abasement: SEX! Sex with NON-HUMANS! They won't stop until the captain is in a long term emotionally crippling relationship with some ALIEN WHORE-WOMAN FROM BEYOND MARS!
RED ALERT BOYS! Keep those pants up, and set your phasers to Obliterate!
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The semi-Christ
Actually, that's Choronzon, frequently associated with cognitive dissonence about the Great Work. It's something along the lines of that which waits beyond the opening of the fifth circuit. Choronzon bothered Crowley for some time, so the Jesus reference is probably wrong.
OTOH, maybe not.
Synecdoche anyone?
RTABP (Read the article before posting)
His point is that currently linux coverage == advocacy. There is no objectivity here, never tried to be. The problem is that there is no source for neutral reporting on OS's.
Maybe OldManMurray should take that up?
So we tend to think that owning something and ethics go together, and accept that the RIAA would look out for their artists (an ethical thing to do) by enforcing their ownership (a legal thing). But the RIAA is not opposed to people getting music from the 'net, they're opposed to someone else profiting. In every sense, they are the pirate, since they see no connection between ownership and ethical treatment. This is, and always has been, about control, and never about the artist.