Why is Ok for artists to drone on and on about technique and musicians making asses of themselves jamming in a bar (no they are not the line-up act), all while sipping wine or snorting coke, but geeks are being "geeky" when they get wet over cat5 cabling and Q3? Even in the eyes of other geeks?
I cant count the number of times I've been stuck at a party where the drummer and guitarist fucking bored me to tears with their top 100 countdown (girls swooning over this shit too !?!), and yet it's socially unacceptable
for geeks to talk amongst themselves or to others about a common interest, something that is no longer a "fringe" interest.
At the end of the day, I want no part of your lame ass "let's hang out" nonsense. Just an opportunity to relax and get my self on someone's "bad" list whenn my mouth starts moving too freely.
It's just a set up. If you don't go, they think you don't "fit in", if you go, you just get fucked over in the end.
I've worked with are not people I would choose as friends, despite our "common" interest in the job. The place I work at now, I don't even trust the guy next to me not to stab me in the back, let alone have a beer with him. The one guy I did respect quit. Lucky Bastard.
I did do a 2 year stint as a chef at an upper-crust society club for awhile. That was loads of fun, lots of beer and Thurs/Fri. night fun. Anytime we had a banquet was an excuse to raid the liquor cabinets -- the Sous Chef did most of the raiding too;)
for more logical TLD's. Although they wouldn't be able to filter out all of.relig(ion), as this would block out sites that Saudis would want available, but it sure would cut down on the manual entries (7000 URLs/month, is that all!?!) if they could just block.xxx
What a gargantuan effort! And it would never end. All it takes is for me to decide one day that instead of running a radio station, I'm going to peddle porn, or document human rights abuses, or the snakey Saudi relations with the Bush government. How long would it take for them to notice? The length of time it takes for them to spider me?
Really, proper TLD's would help along censorship, but everything has a double-edge anyways. At least.xxx and.kids would help organise content according to purpose, which is what it's all about anyway. You certainly wouldn't have to worry about Disney and MS squatting on.xxx domains.
Exactly, I'm surprised no one else saw it as well.
Government handouts and subsidies happen all the time in flagging industries, why not be happy that the govt wants to give a shot in the arm to the TelComm sector? More jobs, more money. Sounds good. Of course it won't work, but that's not the point is it? It's all about a boost.
Better get it while the gettin' is good, because I'm sure the money could easily go to something else like, oh... I dunno, the nosediving (pun intended) airline sector, or some new "initiatives" to protect IP and copyright.
Isn't hard-to-disrupt communication the reason that DARPA got involved in this "Internet" business anyhow?
Good point, although I don't think at the time that DOD believed that others ( non-US govt) would have widespread access. I think they were trying to imagine a way to avoid the single point of failure, which the Internet still fulfills quite well. The DOD was probably more concerned with bombed-out Comm stations and cut fiber/wire under devastated city roads, than DOS attacks. DOS attacks are new and would've been difficult to foresee in the early Internet.
Personally I think that a fragmented Internet is inevitable. The free-market, ( some may argue not-so-free) coupled with the immense size of the Net will cause the net to fragment into different carriers. Each carrier will offer similiar services, prices and the like, just like the Telco's. Hell, most of the fiber is owned by the Telco's anyway, it just allows them to get a return on their investment for all that dark fiber.
Coming Soon: AOLNET, MSNET, GOVNET, DisneyNET, EuroNET, etc.
I'm not a big fan of greed, but nature decided that one or all of the following:
- a big dick
- fast car
- big muscles
- lots of money to sue your competition into oblivion
are what is neccessary to get a good piece of tail. If you think I want a flashy car just for the hell of it, think again. I just want a hot wife. Now, with everyone chasing tail, that doesnt leave alot of room for utopian ideals.
Which is why the party with the money wins. They can spend more payola on lawyers to dissect the meaning of the word "truth" until it is illegal for me to post this commnet as I have no inherent right to the words of the English language, and require permission from the Corporation for Thoughts, Ideas and Free Thinking after they patented the enhanced genome sequence for fetal brain development that is mandatory in all registered newborns.
Seriously, lawyers are the high priests of our new Dark Ages. We no longer battle w/ sword, but by the pen, and semantics. And it is all about the interpretation of words.
Moderators: if you don't live in B.C., shut the hell up.
I've been living in B.C. for the last 6 years, I came here just as the Land of Milk and Honey was drying up. This province has only one thing going for it -- the weather. If anyone ever tells you that Vancouver is nice and whatever, they are FUCKING LIARS. Fuck B.C., and Fuck the Liberals, and Fuck the NDP. Fuck any one who wants Unions and Home Schooling too. Vancouver is NOT a metroplois, and is NOT a center of culture. This city may have a pretty view and moderate climate, (tho it pissses rains all winter) but thanks to the socialist NDP that was really a bunch of self-serving hacks that neither fostered business nor social reform, and only existed to fatten their bank accounts like no other corrupt goverment in Canadian history, this province continues to stagnate in a backwater swamp of blue-collar, left-wing social welfare, absurdly high taxes, and substandard government services.
FUCK B.C. This whole video game thing is a non-issue. That's twice this topic has been on/., and screw you guys for posting it here. If you think I give a flying fuck about video games in my province, think again. I couldn't care less whether some trailer-trash fatbitch in Surrey or WhiteRock doesn't want her snot-nosed kid playing a FPS. She's probably living common-law with some welfare case drunk, growing pot in the basement while she collects disablity for being a fat CUNT.
Anybody who lives in the Lower Mainland knows exactly what I mean. The warm weather and sea trade routes attract every kind of human waste you could imagine.
Crazy people come here because they don't freeze their asses on the street in the winter. Welfare cases come here in droves because the other provinces are cracking down on slothful freeloaders. Crack and Heroin addicts have commandeered and entire stretch of the Downtown core. This isnt your regular Skid Row, kiddies, it's a friggin epidemic. THIS IS LIKE NOTHING ELSE IN THE COUNTRY. Almost everyone of these people has HIV, AIDS or tuberculosis. Land of Milk and Honey indeed. Why it was ever called Lotus Land is beyond me. Should have called it Poppy Land. Or Coca land. The division between rich and poor here is ridiculous. Armies of cracked-out squeegee kids, wiping the windows of armies of Lexus drivers.
Vancouver has all the big city problems and none of the benefits. The rest of the province is just a series of gas stations and strip malls on the Trans-Canada Highway, posing as cities.
This place has far worse problems than fucking video-game rating systems. We have laws that prevent you from driving, drinking, and getting a piece of ass off the street. So what if I have to show some ID to shoot up some 3D bad guys. I have to show the same ID to watch 3d bad guys kill each other in a theater, so who cares.
The Liberals are a bunch of right-wingers, and I hate right-wingers. Liberal is supposed to be left-of-center, and they are NOT. Privatise health-care? Get fucked. Kick all those goddamn blue-collar seasonal trade workers in the ass for me, I certainly don't get to bitch for 6 months a year about how my benefits didnt come in yet-- becasue I have to work all year around!!! Get a regular job you mustachoed friggin lumberjack.
This province needs high-tech, but you won't be seeing it. All our schools are LITERALLY full of Asians and Mexicans who will leave as soon as they graduate. All our resources are leaving the province. We sell our raw goods to the world for a penny and buy back slave-labour-finished products for a dollar.
FUCK B.C. Calgary is looking pretty good right now. Flatlanders were always so much friendlier that the snotty West Coast hippies anyways.
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Hey moderators, did it ever occur to you that this post was just a little suspect? So nicely formatted, with no spelling or grammar errors at all. If you look at the poster's previous comments, this one tends to stand out.
A quick look on Goolge show that this guy is a karma whore
I'm with an ISP in Vancouver, and I can tell you that 1 out of 5 sites I try will fail. If a site cannot be reached, a quick traceroute reveals that UUnet is the culprit. Always a 152.158.xxx.xxx address.
Over the last 6 months or so, it definitely seems like the 'Net is.... not so reliable. Has anyone else noticed a slow degadation in the performance of the 'Net in general? Or is it the crack again?
One of the most disturbing scenes I have ever witnessed in a film was the scene in American History X, when Ed Norton curb stomps one of the black guys who broke into his home.
I still get chills thinking about that, and I literally broke down at the end of that movie. I certainly *never* want to see that movie again, but I can also say without a doubt that had I *not* seen that brutal scene, the movie would not have affected me as deeply.
If someone *chooses* to edit content, so be it, but there are some things that must be seen in order to gain perspective.
At a penny per page, I would be broke by the end of the week, just hanging out on/.
Plus, the "huge expansion in online content" the article speaks of would never happen. Are you going to pay a penny just to see my homebrew site?
Seriously, most people go to a few select sites that they have found to be worth their *time*. Most other sites are just oddities, has-beens or will-have-beens. All this would do is increase the revenue of webhosting companies, while independent site operators use their new "income" to cover the bandwidth charges they incurred last month.
1) Start out in a University comp sci lab hacking at Sun/Hp-UX boxen 10 tears ago.
2) Completely luck out in a pre-WWW/"e-commerce" economy by hooking up with a mom and pop ISP doing helldesk, circa 1994.
3) Learn everything you know as you go along, after the previous admin gets sacked for coming in drunk too often.
4) Learn to use every variant of *nix that you have the hardware to spare for. You have the money for it now.
5)Get a swank job with a well-funded company as the Keeper of the Bandwidth. Drive a nice car, take home Good Pay. Get the Girl.
6) Post on/. that you just "fell into it" and totally ruin my fucking day.
OR
Sysadmin Scenario 2:
1)Buy your first PC, break it repeatedly until you understand how it works.
2) Break your OS repeatedly, until you understand how it works.
3) Learn Linux, learn a few different distros, note the elitism surrounding the flavours, get bored, and learn BSD.
4) Learn Perl, shell scripts, HTML and build some dynamic sites. Work yourself hard and spend all your time in front of that box until your eyes bleed.
5) Get a domain or two, read DNS and BIND, set up some sites, learn to use Apache, Sendmail, SSH, Samba, etc, learn about protocols, ports, services, and firewalls.
6) Read up on different carrier methods and data transport mechanisms. What's a T1? What's a DS3?
How does ADSL work? ISDN? If you can't touch it, read about it.
7) Get fucking ignored at your job, just keep answering questions on how to configure Outlook Express, make shit money, work the graveyard shift, and rot away.
8) Realise that your company's sysadmin lives at home with Mommy sharing a bedroom with his little brother. Savour the indignity.
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Why is Ok for artists to drone on and on about technique and musicians making asses of themselves jamming in a bar (no they are not the line-up act), all while sipping wine or snorting coke, but geeks are being "geeky" when they get wet over cat5 cabling and Q3? Even in the eyes of other geeks?
I cant count the number of times I've been stuck at a party where the drummer and guitarist fucking bored me to tears with their top 100 countdown (girls swooning over this shit too !?!), and yet it's socially unacceptable
for geeks to talk amongst themselves or to others about a common interest, something that is no longer a "fringe" interest.
The one time my (ex)company brought out beer for a staff meeting was when they announced we were all fired!
Hear! Hear!
At the end of the day, I want no part of your lame ass "let's hang out" nonsense. Just an opportunity to relax and get my self on someone's "bad" list whenn my mouth starts moving too freely.
It's just a set up. If you don't go, they think you don't "fit in", if you go, you just get fucked over in the end.
I've worked with are not people I would choose as friends, despite our "common" interest in the job. The place I work at now, I don't even trust the guy next to me not to stab me in the back, let alone have a beer with him. The one guy I did respect quit. Lucky Bastard.
;)
I did do a 2 year stint as a chef at an upper-crust society club for awhile. That was loads of fun, lots of beer and Thurs/Fri. night fun. Anytime we had a banquet was an excuse to raid the liquor cabinets -- the Sous Chef did most of the raiding too
which is why I have to hang out on /. all the time.
:(
Seriously tho, I work a midnight to 8am shift, if I had friends, I'd never see 'em anyways. God Bless 24/7 support
for more logical TLD's. Although they wouldn't be able to filter out all of .relig(ion), as this would block out sites that Saudis would want available, but it sure would cut down on the manual entries (7000 URLs/month, is that all!?!) if they could just block .xxx
.xxx and .kids would help organise content according to purpose, which is what it's all about anyway. You certainly wouldn't have to worry about Disney and MS squatting on .xxx domains.
What a gargantuan effort! And it would never end. All it takes is for me to decide one day that instead of running a radio station, I'm going to peddle porn, or document human rights abuses, or the snakey Saudi relations with the Bush government. How long would it take for them to notice? The length of time it takes for them to spider me?
Really, proper TLD's would help along censorship, but everything has a double-edge anyways. At least
Why don't they just use AOL?
</joke>
Expecting lots of screenshots on the front page...the first thing I saw was the title "The Next Computer Interface" and a picture of that guy.
Run for your lives!!! =)
Exactly, I'm surprised no one else saw it as well.
Government handouts and subsidies happen all the time in flagging industries, why not be happy that the govt wants to give a shot in the arm to the TelComm sector? More jobs, more money. Sounds good. Of course it won't work, but that's not the point is it? It's all about a boost.
Better get it while the gettin' is good, because I'm sure the money could easily go to something else like, oh... I dunno, the nosediving (pun intended) airline sector, or some new "initiatives" to protect IP and copyright.
Isn't hard-to-disrupt communication the reason that DARPA got involved in this "Internet" business anyhow?
Good point, although I don't think at the time that DOD believed that others ( non-US govt) would have widespread access. I think they were trying to imagine a way to avoid the single point of failure, which the Internet still fulfills quite well. The DOD was probably more concerned with bombed-out Comm stations and cut fiber/wire under devastated city roads, than DOS attacks. DOS attacks are new and would've been difficult to foresee in the early Internet.
Personally I think that a fragmented Internet is inevitable. The free-market, ( some may argue not-so-free) coupled with the immense size of the Net will cause the net to fragment into different carriers. Each carrier will offer similiar services, prices and the like, just like the Telco's. Hell, most of the fiber is owned by the Telco's anyway, it just allows them to get a return on their investment for all that dark fiber.
Coming Soon: AOLNET, MSNET, GOVNET, DisneyNET, EuroNET, etc.
When MS starts .NET on it's own fiber, we can call it ABOVE_the_GOVNET.
ROFL!
No pepsi! Only crab juice!
I'm not a big fan of greed, but nature decided that one or all of the following:
- a big dick
- fast car
- big muscles
- lots of money to sue your competition into oblivion
are what is neccessary to get a good piece of tail. If you think I want a flashy car just for the hell of it, think again. I just want a hot wife. Now, with everyone chasing tail, that doesnt leave alot of room for utopian ideals.
Which is why the party with the money wins. They can spend more payola on lawyers to dissect the meaning of the word "truth" until it is illegal for me to post this commnet as I have no inherent right to the words of the English language, and require permission from the Corporation for Thoughts, Ideas and Free Thinking after they patented the enhanced genome sequence for fetal brain development that is mandatory in all registered newborns.
Seriously, lawyers are the high priests of our new Dark Ages. We no longer battle w/ sword, but by the pen, and semantics. And it is all about the interpretation of words.
Moderators: if you don't live in B.C., shut the hell up.
/., and screw you guys for posting it here. If you think I give a flying fuck about video games in my province, think again. I couldn't care less whether some trailer-trash fatbitch in Surrey or WhiteRock doesn't want her snot-nosed kid playing a FPS. She's probably living common-law with some welfare case drunk, growing pot in the basement while she collects disablity for being a fat CUNT.
I've been living in B.C. for the last 6 years, I came here just as the Land of Milk and Honey was drying up. This province has only one thing going for it -- the weather. If anyone ever tells you that Vancouver is nice and whatever, they are FUCKING LIARS. Fuck B.C., and Fuck the Liberals, and Fuck the NDP. Fuck any one who wants Unions and Home Schooling too. Vancouver is NOT a metroplois, and is NOT a center of culture. This city may have a pretty view and moderate climate, (tho it pissses rains all winter) but thanks to the socialist NDP that was really a bunch of self-serving hacks that neither fostered business nor social reform, and only existed to fatten their bank accounts like no other corrupt goverment in Canadian history, this province continues to stagnate in a backwater swamp of blue-collar, left-wing social welfare, absurdly high taxes, and substandard government services.
FUCK B.C. This whole video game thing is a non-issue. That's twice this topic has been on
Anybody who lives in the Lower Mainland knows exactly what I mean. The warm weather and sea trade routes attract every kind of human waste you could imagine.
Crazy people come here because they don't freeze their asses on the street in the winter. Welfare cases come here in droves because the other provinces are cracking down on slothful freeloaders. Crack and Heroin addicts have commandeered and entire stretch of the Downtown core. This isnt your regular Skid Row, kiddies, it's a friggin epidemic. THIS IS LIKE NOTHING ELSE IN THE COUNTRY. Almost everyone of these people has HIV, AIDS or tuberculosis. Land of Milk and Honey indeed. Why it was ever called Lotus Land is beyond me. Should have called it Poppy Land. Or Coca land. The division between rich and poor here is ridiculous. Armies of cracked-out squeegee kids, wiping the windows of armies of Lexus drivers.
Vancouver has all the big city problems and none of the benefits. The rest of the province is just a series of gas stations and strip malls on the Trans-Canada Highway, posing as cities.
This place has far worse problems than fucking video-game rating systems. We have laws that prevent you from driving, drinking, and getting a piece of ass off the street. So what if I have to show some ID to shoot up some 3D bad guys. I have to show the same ID to watch 3d bad guys kill each other in a theater, so who cares.
The Liberals are a bunch of right-wingers, and I hate right-wingers. Liberal is supposed to be left-of-center, and they are NOT. Privatise health-care? Get fucked. Kick all those goddamn blue-collar seasonal trade workers in the ass for me, I certainly don't get to bitch for 6 months a year about how my benefits didnt come in yet-- becasue I have to work all year around!!! Get a regular job you mustachoed friggin lumberjack.
This province needs high-tech, but you won't be seeing it. All our schools are LITERALLY full of Asians and Mexicans who will leave as soon as they graduate. All our resources are leaving the province. We sell our raw goods to the world for a penny and buy back slave-labour-finished products for a dollar.
FUCK B.C. Calgary is looking pretty good right now. Flatlanders were always so much friendlier that the snotty West Coast hippies anyways.
(posted without +1 bonus)
Hey moderators, did it ever occur to you that this post was just a little suspect? So nicely formatted, with no spelling or grammar errors at all. If you look at the poster's previous comments, this one tends to stand out.
A quick look on Goolge show that this guy is a karma whore
I'm with an ISP in Vancouver, and I can tell you that 1 out of 5 sites I try will fail. If a site cannot be reached, a quick traceroute reveals that UUnet is the culprit. Always a 152.158.xxx.xxx address.
.... not so reliable. Has anyone else noticed a slow degadation in the performance of the 'Net in general? Or is it the crack again?
Over the last 6 months or so, it definitely seems like the 'Net is
FreeBSD is dying....
Linux is dying....
Windows XP kicks ass....
Wh007!
Blah, blah, blah.
Apple vs. Microsoft, God vs. Lucifer, Pepsi vs. Coke. My peepee vs. your peepee!
In the epic 12 round slugfest "The Pope vs. Dalai Lama", we already know who would win.
If you see the Buddha walking down the road, kill him/her. If you see Linus walking down the road, for that matter, kill him too =)
One of the most disturbing scenes I have ever witnessed in a film was the scene in American History X, when Ed Norton curb stomps one of the black guys who broke into his home.
I still get chills thinking about that, and I literally broke down at the end of that movie. I certainly *never* want to see that movie again, but I can also say without a doubt that had I *not* seen that brutal scene, the movie would not have affected me as deeply.
If someone *chooses* to edit content, so be it, but there are some things that must be seen in order to gain perspective.
At a penny per page, I would be broke by the end of the week, just hanging out on /.
Plus, the "huge expansion in online content" the article speaks of would never happen. Are you going to pay a penny just to see my homebrew site?
Seriously, most people go to a few select sites that they have found to be worth their *time*. Most other sites are just oddities, has-beens or will-have-beens. All this would do is increase the revenue of webhosting companies, while independent site operators use their new "income" to cover the bandwidth charges they incurred last month.
weeeee.....
Sysadmin Scenario 1:
/. that you just "fell into it" and totally ruin my fucking day.
/.
1) Start out in a University comp sci lab hacking at Sun/Hp-UX boxen 10 tears ago.
2) Completely luck out in a pre-WWW/"e-commerce" economy by hooking up with a mom and pop ISP doing helldesk, circa 1994.
3) Learn everything you know as you go along, after the previous admin gets sacked for coming in drunk too often.
4) Learn to use every variant of *nix that you have the hardware to spare for. You have the money for it now.
5)Get a swank job with a well-funded company as the Keeper of the Bandwidth. Drive a nice car, take home Good Pay. Get the Girl.
6) Post on
OR
Sysadmin Scenario 2:
1)Buy your first PC, break it repeatedly until you understand how it works.
2) Break your OS repeatedly, until you understand how it works.
3) Learn Linux, learn a few different distros, note the elitism surrounding the flavours, get bored, and learn BSD.
4) Learn Perl, shell scripts, HTML and build some dynamic sites. Work yourself hard and spend all your time in front of that box until your eyes bleed.
5) Get a domain or two, read DNS and BIND, set up some sites, learn to use Apache, Sendmail, SSH, Samba, etc, learn about protocols, ports, services, and firewalls.
6) Read up on different carrier methods and data transport mechanisms. What's a T1? What's a DS3?
How does ADSL work? ISDN? If you can't touch it, read about it.
7) Get fucking ignored at your job, just keep answering questions on how to configure Outlook Express, make shit money, work the graveyard shift, and rot away.
8) Realise that your company's sysadmin lives at home with Mommy sharing a bedroom with his little brother. Savour the indignity.
9) Post on
Yeah, you want to have a gander at my resume, too?
-- No certs, no post-secondary ed, == HR tosses the resume in the round file cabinet.
pr0n!
mirror here.
Nitpick: Michel's key concern was that the new proposal would prevent Internet users who don't own a website from having a vote in ICANN
Doesn't it give you a warm fuzzy feeling to know that ICANN board members see domains and websites as the same thing?
up yours ;)