Greed of things unhad is the root of all evil - it's what led for Satan to be cast from heaven.
Money is often aquired through greed. Those that take the mark are those that will have willingly accepted the worldwide trade organization, and it's method of business. Likely, all but the top will have been demoted to utter wage slaves by then - it'll be a life of subsistance, and they'll have little choice...
My prediction is that all the fundamentalist Christians that decry this as the mark of the beast will be ignored, mocked, and or maybe even harassed/persecuted for their stance on this (if it ever comes to fruit mainstream).
Then, once it's become the standard for commerce, all trade will be outlawed with anything but these tags. Anyone without one would be a terrorist, right?
And then the government uses the tags and the respective databases and equipment to monitor and track anyone that they deem as 'suspicious'.
I can't believe that people actually see this as being a contrived possibility, considering all the shit that's flying about, and all the freedoms that the government -and- large corporations are trying to take away from Citizens (or are we Consumers?).
Armageddon, Mark of the Beast/666 or not, this is a Bad Thing. This falls under the blanket of the philosophy that any sacrifice of freedom for safety (or convenience) will rightly result in the deprivation of those freedoms from those that do not care enough to defend them.
Freudian slip, intentiontional illusion, or sad irony? I pick all three. Damn Lucas to hell for his lack of faith.
As far as the final (pfah, yeah right. they'll likely make a second trilogy, because people will watch it! bastards) Matrix is concerned, I have no interest in seeing it after the second one fucked things up so severely. They completely abandoned any coherrence of plot or storytelling and replaced it with a shitload of jungfoo and bullshit special effects. From what I hear, that's what they did with the third as well.
Hollywood needs more directors like Jackson. Most directors seem to think that by cutting corners, they'll lower production costs, and thus have a higher return - which, naturally, will promise them further contracts with the studio. This is bullshit.
For example, look at LotR. It's not popular just because it's based off of Tolkien's world - it's popular because it's an awesome film, and stands on its own. I know of people that have watched the first two films, and have loved them - and they aren't fantasy fans in the least, and haven't even read the books.
Unfortunately, there simply aren't that many visionaries in Hollywood that are also good at managing people and directing well (which includes getting a good script, etc.). There are a few around nowadays: Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, (possibly, given time) Troy Duffy, David Fincher (when he gets a decent script), and a couple others. Of course, there are other contributing factors to good film (good composers, actors, editors, and writers/storyboarders, mainly), and every director has his shortcomings and bad eggs, but these are some of the better ones out there, IMO. Anyone else have any directing favorites that I couldn't pull off the top?
I would have included Steven Spielberg and Lucas, but Spielburg seems a bit past his prime, at least in terms of quality film, and Lucas hasn't really done a damned thing of quality except for Star Wars - and it's debateable how much of that is really his, and how much of it is simply him falling into the seat of opportunity.
Yes, you're correct. Except for the fact that 99% of civilization has no idea how to access characters that don't exist on the keyboard, that is. WTF is wrong with you?
"Yes, my web site is ache tee tee pee colon slash slash dub dub dub dot, then "alternate 123235", ampersand, "alt-2245", dot com.!"
Around the time of the Plague in Europe (after it, IIRC), I seem to recall reading that there were political barriers between England and France in the field of academia. I seem to recall the differences having been religious in origin. (Something to do with alchemy.)
the new debian installer is able to download Sid (unstable) packages if you so tell it to.
there wsa an earlier slashdot article on it; you should be able to find the url.
granted, this is a netinst disk, I believe: you'd need to install the packages while online. doesn't help you if you're on dialup, but you could also wget a sid package directory from a server and burn that for updates.
How wrong you are. If we're talking about actual work...
A group of 5 people that interesting and friendly, if told to work together, will sit around a table, tippity tap on their laptops, and talk while they "work". They'll be marginally productive, and not be commiting the majority of their mindshare to the work at hand but "communicating". You know what I'm talking about: "So how was your weekend?", "Yeah, this chick at the part was viciously hot!", "So this girl came up to me..."
A single person that is able to concentrate and get down to business is much more productive. Sure, they could be surfing the web or looking at pr0n. Speaking from personal experience, though, it's -much- less distracting and task-disorienting to have a browser window open while working than to have someone next to me talking about what a hot coed was doing on the bar at the club last friday, or even a TV in the background.
Now, if we're talking about purely business oriented tasks (marketing, sales, finance, and those other kinds of spin), it's another matter entirely. Or even planning projects - but planning projects shouldn't be a significant amount of project time anyway. For things that -require- interaction for hasty conclusions, this is necessary. If you're one of hte people that need to be involved in such things, and you're antisocial, it only makes sense that you're let go.
Coding, on the other hand, is fairly heirchial. Someone can delegate functions or features to specific programmers, and away they go. That's what specifications and project planning are for.
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er, explain for me how you're able to avoid using apt on a debian system, please. I'm not aware of such a process that allows this, short of installing every single package manually.
I think you're mistaking ESR for RMS. RMS is the flaming GNU-fetish driven, EMACS-writing madman. ESR is the more practical of the two. I picture ESR as more of a clueful John Dovorak (I think that is/was his name - the guy that writes/wrote for PC Magazine) for the linux community.
If I were broadcasting something on (say) AM radio, and someone with a radio were to *gasp* hear me, would they be charged with communication theft? Last I checked, radio was still considered a form of communication.
When someone leaves a network wide open, they are advertising it as available (if there are no preventative methods). WIndows will automatically detect that connection and make it for you, as well. Should MS be held liable?
What POS state do you live in? That's damned foolish legislation. It allows someone to get in trouble for something someone else did, and could easily be used as a tool against someone.
For instance, someone could break into your house undetected or lift your keys from your pocket while passing you by on the street, and then use the keys to steal your truck later that night and run someone over. No evidence is found - other than your truck having been used. Would you be liable in this situation? It's your word ("No, I didn't leave my keys in the ignition") versus the 'evidence' that suggests that you did; there's no proof otherwise. Even if it doesn't prove your guilt, it would still lead to character assassination - if you're even the least bit prominent in your community, it could lead you losing your job or political/social standing simply by the social implications that you were responsible - society is not as kind as laws when it comes to "innocient until proven guilty".
Not only that, but it's a law that treats people as incompetent drones that are unable to wipe their/our own asses. It's one thing for a company to make a product that prevents such abuse (such as providing keys to prevent unauthorized folks to use the vehicle), but another entirely for the government to penalize someone for such a task. Especially when it would be more akin to the gov't holding the car owner responsible if someone hotwired the car (or the car was activated/turned on/unlocked with an IR device that most people aren't aware of).
In the case of an open connection, it could be said that your scenario doesn't even apply: leaving your keys in the ignition is entirely different than leaving a firewall open for your average person. (If you're a network admin or such, though, the rules would be different.) It's a tragically flawed analogy. Cars are licensed and drivers have to be licensed to drive them. Computers, and electronics in general, do not apply to either of those things. Furthermore, autos are built in a manner so that 'security" (at least reasonably so) is "on by default". Your average router doesn't have these failsafes - it doesn't warn the person, and more often than not people don't know the difference anyway. They think these products should come with these features built in: thus, when you (falsely) see "network firewall router" on some products, it sends a false sense of security to the user. It's like selling a vehicle with the same key that every other vehicle of that make/model has.
...taking a resource (bandwidth) that somebody is paying for...
I don't know about you, but I have never personally paid for bandwidth. I don't know of anyone that has in their home. There are still a fairly small percentage of people that do, too. So in the broader spectrum, it's fairly unlikely that anyone would be stealing anything anyone paid for, since they're not losing anything.
Only conditinoal I can see on that is the cable/dsl co complaining. But since the cable/dsl subscribe is the one with the contract, they'd probably be the one considered liable. or at least, they should be.
Exactly. This is absolutely no different than a BBS leaving a password-free dial-in number in a phone booth, or possibly posted on a billboard outside their building. Or maybe even connecting to a person itself: that is, from a BBS dialing up some shmoe who has an open line and connecting for him.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this as being a troll or inflamatory, but I'm not trying to be. This is a sincere suggestion.
If you're studying film for fun, cool. Academic persuits for the sake of academia should be available to everyone that's interested so as to increase the knowledge of humanity. However, if you're planning a career in film, I strongly suggest you reconsider. Your production quality is horrible. Bad audio recording, bad cinematography, bad lighting, and a fairly poor presentation of the information (despite the actual information in this one being significantly better than the first).
I'd consider significant financial savings on bandwidth a useful feature for a company. I'd also consider quicker load times a useful feature for those that are on dialup. get a clue.
Looking at this guy's work makes me wonder what exactly the/. maintainers have been doing for the last 3+ years. I'm sure they're busy and all, but as far as actually finding information for the site, they have to look a lot less - it all comes to them, nowadays, as opposed to the beginning where they found a lot of it themselves. (Which, IMO, was more interesting than a lot of the psuedo-politics and business garbage that have been seen in the last year or so...News for Nerds, right?)
I'm sure I'll be modded down for this or have the message completely removed, but it seems to me as if Taco and his gang have been negligent with their jobs. Think how much money they could be saving OSDN by simply doing a little extra work!
On the other hand, I wonder why this guy didn't approach OSDN and offer to sell them this design/interface overhaul. At even $3,000, it would be something that would be a 'wise business choice', even if they coudl get it done for less elsewhere.
As far as the design goes... I wonder what effect it would have on system load and memory use. More? Less? I'd wager less, but that's just my ignorant guess.
I know someone that was in the Navy, and was on shore leave down there on frequent occasion. This was maybe 5 or 6 years back.
He and a buddy would chip in and rent a car together. Then they'd cruise the strip and pick up drunks. Every time they passed a cassino, they'd charge the drunk a quarter - that's what the fare was, they'd say. Of course, the smallest denominator that some of these people had was probably something like a 10, 20, 50 or even a 100$ bill. Being drunk, they would often be quite of of it.... so it was not uncommon for them to make 2 grand a night from a $100 vehicle rental.
Granted, his stories could have been a hoax, but if not... well, I can see why cabbie business there is so cut throat.:P
I wonder why the porn industry isn't more up in arms than the RIAA is. They probably lose more potential business than the RIAA; is it becasue the porn industry doesn't rely on investments for livelyhood as much as the music industry does, and thus their company value isn't as pertinent to their success?
At least on Kazaa, it seems as if getting specific songs, and complete songs, is next to impossible. That, and nearly every search returns at least half a dozen instances of porn (unless I simply search for music, in which case it's only one or two). On the other hand, if someone searches for porn, it's likely little else will show up.
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so what exactly is shorting stock?
If by "God" they mean "Bill Gates", then yes, I agree. Nobody benefits from this more than Microsoft.
Greed of things unhad is the root of all evil - it's what led for Satan to be cast from heaven.
Money is often aquired through greed. Those that take the mark are those that will have willingly accepted the worldwide trade organization, and it's method of business. Likely, all but the top will have been demoted to utter wage slaves by then - it'll be a life of subsistance, and they'll have little choice...
My prediction is that all the fundamentalist Christians that decry this as the mark of the beast will be ignored, mocked, and or maybe even harassed/persecuted for their stance on this (if it ever comes to fruit mainstream).
Then, once it's become the standard for commerce, all trade will be outlawed with anything but these tags. Anyone without one would be a terrorist, right?
And then the government uses the tags and the respective databases and equipment to monitor and track anyone that they deem as 'suspicious'.
I can't believe that people actually see this as being a contrived possibility, considering all the shit that's flying about, and all the freedoms that the government -and- large corporations are trying to take away from Citizens (or are we Consumers?).
Armageddon, Mark of the Beast/666 or not, this is a Bad Thing. This falls under the blanket of the philosophy that any sacrifice of freedom for safety (or convenience) will rightly result in the deprivation of those freedoms from those that do not care enough to defend them.
greed or other phantom menaces.
Freudian slip, intentiontional illusion, or sad irony? I pick all three. Damn Lucas to hell for his lack of faith.
As far as the final (pfah, yeah right. they'll likely make a second trilogy, because people will watch it! bastards) Matrix is concerned, I have no interest in seeing it after the second one fucked things up so severely. They completely abandoned any coherrence of plot or storytelling and replaced it with a shitload of jungfoo and bullshit special effects. From what I hear, that's what they did with the third as well.
Hollywood needs more directors like Jackson. Most directors seem to think that by cutting corners, they'll lower production costs, and thus have a higher return - which, naturally, will promise them further contracts with the studio. This is bullshit.
For example, look at LotR. It's not popular just because it's based off of Tolkien's world - it's popular because it's an awesome film, and stands on its own. I know of people that have watched the first two films, and have loved them - and they aren't fantasy fans in the least, and haven't even read the books.
Unfortunately, there simply aren't that many visionaries in Hollywood that are also good at managing people and directing well (which includes getting a good script, etc.). There are a few around nowadays: Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, (possibly, given time) Troy Duffy, David Fincher (when he gets a decent script), and a couple others. Of course, there are other contributing factors to good film (good composers, actors, editors, and writers/storyboarders, mainly), and every director has his shortcomings and bad eggs, but these are some of the better ones out there, IMO. Anyone else have any directing favorites that I couldn't pull off the top?
I would have included Steven Spielberg and Lucas, but Spielburg seems a bit past his prime, at least in terms of quality film, and Lucas hasn't really done a damned thing of quality except for Star Wars - and it's debateable how much of that is really his, and how much of it is simply him falling into the seat of opportunity.
Yes, you're correct. Except for the fact that 99% of civilization has no idea how to access characters that don't exist on the keyboard, that is. WTF is wrong with you?
"Yes, my web site is ache tee tee pee colon slash slash dub dub dub dot, then "alternate 123235", ampersand, "alt-2245", dot com.!"
Instead, they want it replaced with, "Politician" and "Consumer", to be more demographically representative.
Around the time of the Plague in Europe (after it, IIRC), I seem to recall reading that there were political barriers between England and France in the field of academia. I seem to recall the differences having been religious in origin. (Something to do with alchemy.)
the new debian installer is able to download Sid (unstable) packages if you so tell it to.
there wsa an earlier slashdot article on it; you should be able to find the url.
granted, this is a netinst disk, I believe: you'd need to install the packages while online. doesn't help you if you're on dialup, but you could also wget a sid package directory from a server and burn that for updates.
Dear god, save me. I understood you both perfectly.
How wrong you are. If we're talking about actual work...
A group of 5 people that interesting and friendly, if told to work together, will sit around a table, tippity tap on their laptops, and talk while they "work". They'll be marginally productive, and not be commiting the majority of their mindshare to the work at hand but "communicating". You know what I'm talking about: "So how was your weekend?", "Yeah, this chick at the part was viciously hot!", "So this girl came up to me..."
A single person that is able to concentrate and get down to business is much more productive. Sure, they could be surfing the web or looking at pr0n. Speaking from personal experience, though, it's -much- less distracting and task-disorienting to have a browser window open while working than to have someone next to me talking about what a hot coed was doing on the bar at the club last friday, or even a TV in the background.
Now, if we're talking about purely business oriented tasks (marketing, sales, finance, and those other kinds of spin), it's another matter entirely. Or even planning projects - but planning projects shouldn't be a significant amount of project time anyway. For things that -require- interaction for hasty conclusions, this is necessary. If you're one of hte people that need to be involved in such things, and you're antisocial, it only makes sense that you're let go.
Coding, on the other hand, is fairly heirchial. Someone can delegate functions or features to specific programmers, and away they go. That's what specifications and project planning are for.
er, explain for me how you're able to avoid using apt on a debian system, please. I'm not aware of such a process that allows this, short of installing every single package manually.
I think you're mistaking ESR for RMS. RMS is the flaming GNU-fetish driven, EMACS-writing madman. ESR is the more practical of the two. I picture ESR as more of a clueful John Dovorak (I think that is/was his name - the guy that writes/wrote for PC Magazine) for the linux community.
If I were broadcasting something on (say) AM radio, and someone with a radio were to *gasp* hear me, would they be charged with communication theft? Last I checked, radio was still considered a form of communication.
When someone leaves a network wide open, they are advertising it as available (if there are no preventative methods). WIndows will automatically detect that connection and make it for you, as well. Should MS be held liable?
What POS state do you live in? That's damned foolish legislation. It allows someone to get in trouble for something someone else did, and could easily be used as a tool against someone.
For instance, someone could break into your house undetected or lift your keys from your pocket while passing you by on the street, and then use the keys to steal your truck later that night and run someone over. No evidence is found - other than your truck having been used. Would you be liable in this situation? It's your word ("No, I didn't leave my keys in the ignition") versus the 'evidence' that suggests that you did; there's no proof otherwise. Even if it doesn't prove your guilt, it would still lead to character assassination - if you're even the least bit prominent in your community, it could lead you losing your job or political/social standing simply by the social implications that you were responsible - society is not as kind as laws when it comes to "innocient until proven guilty".
Not only that, but it's a law that treats people as incompetent drones that are unable to wipe their/our own asses. It's one thing for a company to make a product that prevents such abuse (such as providing keys to prevent unauthorized folks to use the vehicle), but another entirely for the government to penalize someone for such a task. Especially when it would be more akin to the gov't holding the car owner responsible if someone hotwired the car (or the car was activated/turned on/unlocked with an IR device that most people aren't aware of).
In the case of an open connection, it could be said that your scenario doesn't even apply: leaving your keys in the ignition is entirely different than leaving a firewall open for your average person. (If you're a network admin or such, though, the rules would be different.) It's a tragically flawed analogy. Cars are licensed and drivers have to be licensed to drive them. Computers, and electronics in general, do not apply to either of those things. Furthermore, autos are built in a manner so that 'security" (at least reasonably so) is "on by default". Your average router doesn't have these failsafes - it doesn't warn the person, and more often than not people don't know the difference anyway. They think these products should come with these features built in: thus, when you (falsely) see "network firewall router" on some products, it sends a false sense of security to the user. It's like selling a vehicle with the same key that every other vehicle of that make/model has.
...taking a resource (bandwidth) that somebody is paying for...
I don't know about you, but I have never personally paid for bandwidth. I don't know of anyone that has in their home. There are still a fairly small percentage of people that do, too. So in the broader spectrum, it's fairly unlikely that anyone would be stealing anything anyone paid for, since they're not losing anything.
Only conditinoal I can see on that is the cable/dsl co complaining. But since the cable/dsl subscribe is the one with the contract, they'd probably be the one considered liable. or at least, they should be.
Exactly. This is absolutely no different than a BBS leaving a password-free dial-in number in a phone booth, or possibly posted on a billboard outside their building. Or maybe even connecting to a person itself: that is, from a BBS dialing up some shmoe who has an open line and connecting for him.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this as being a troll or inflamatory, but I'm not trying to be. This is a sincere suggestion.
If you're studying film for fun, cool. Academic persuits for the sake of academia should be available to everyone that's interested so as to increase the knowledge of humanity. However, if you're planning a career in film, I strongly suggest you reconsider. Your production quality is horrible. Bad audio recording, bad cinematography, bad lighting, and a fairly poor presentation of the information (despite the actual information in this one being significantly better than the first).
I'd consider significant financial savings on bandwidth a useful feature for a company. I'd also consider quicker load times a useful feature for those that are on dialup. get a clue.
Looking at this guy's work makes me wonder what exactly the /. maintainers have been doing for the last 3+ years. I'm sure they're busy and all, but as far as actually finding information for the site, they have to look a lot less - it all comes to them, nowadays, as opposed to the beginning where they found a lot of it themselves. (Which, IMO, was more interesting than a lot of the psuedo-politics and business garbage that have been seen in the last year or so...News for Nerds, right?)
I'm sure I'll be modded down for this or have the message completely removed, but it seems to me as if Taco and his gang have been negligent with their jobs. Think how much money they could be saving OSDN by simply doing a little extra work!
On the other hand, I wonder why this guy didn't approach OSDN and offer to sell them this design/interface overhaul. At even $3,000, it would be something that would be a 'wise business choice', even if they coudl get it done for less elsewhere.
As far as the design goes... I wonder what effect it would have on system load and memory use. More? Less? I'd wager less, but that's just my ignorant guess.
As far as I know, MD5 was never intended for security purposes, but to make sure that a file downloaded/copied properly.
That's just a little bit OTT to believe.
Cabbies in vegas can make a killing.
:P
I know someone that was in the Navy, and was on shore leave down there on frequent occasion. This was maybe 5 or 6 years back.
He and a buddy would chip in and rent a car together. Then they'd cruise the strip and pick up drunks. Every time they passed a cassino, they'd charge the drunk a quarter - that's what the fare was, they'd say. Of course, the smallest denominator that some of these people had was probably something like a 10, 20, 50 or even a 100$ bill. Being drunk, they would often be quite of of it.... so it was not uncommon for them to make 2 grand a night from a $100 vehicle rental.
Granted, his stories could have been a hoax, but if not... well, I can see why cabbie business there is so cut throat.
This is what my 4:21 AM dyslexic brain read:
... and I thought, "w00t!"
15 Year Old Threatens RIAA
I wonder why the porn industry isn't more up in arms than the RIAA is. They probably lose more potential business than the RIAA; is it becasue the porn industry doesn't rely on investments for livelyhood as much as the music industry does, and thus their company value isn't as pertinent to their success?
At least on Kazaa, it seems as if getting specific songs, and complete songs, is next to impossible. That, and nearly every search returns at least half a dozen instances of porn (unless I simply search for music, in which case it's only one or two). On the other hand, if someone searches for porn, it's likely little else will show up.