Suddenly "revenge of the nerds" is not a teen comedy anymore, but a social realistic drama.
They are forcing geeks and nerds, what used to be the most peaceful and passive citizens, to become outlaws. We are talking about people who are so loyal to authority that they'd report their own kin to the FBI for removing mattress tags.
It is nothing less than a declaration of war. The result is that a large population will change sides. From being fair use advocates, we will turn into rabid pirates, just for the principle.
Source code in the public domain exposes the software to scutiny. Without scrutiny, how do you know it's safe? You're just going to trust the word of any two bit software maker?
If the merger happened in a bull market, you might have seen a rally. However, I think the Wall street might punish this deal. If you intend on getting into HP/Compaq bigtime, you are probably better off waiting a bit. Just my $.02.
Teh requirement of 10% or at least one computer to offer unfiltered access will do away with filters nicely.
Set up only one Linux server, that works as display manager for the whole library. Let all workstations be X terminals. No more filtering.
Plus library will save a bundle and half worth of HW and software licenses.
Thanks, Michael, finally the crapflooders have an article where they can go nuts without the risk of being off-topic. I have to say Slashdot has proven to be a very inclusive society indeed.
Don't these dorms have private bathrooms in their rooms?
You sound like a very angry and constipated young man. I think the only living places as small as a dorm room that has their own toilets are called jail cells. So if you find it increasingly hard to hold, consider taking up drug dealing, turn yourself in, and enjoy your own private bathroom courtesy of your government.
I won't be a judge of whether the $10 Billion is an accurate figure. Consider what wold happen if damages was awarded to MS victims? (excluding punitive damages):
Some Microsoft figures:
Annual Sales: $25 billion
Annual earnings before taxes: $11 billion
Profit: 7.7 Billion
This shows us that MS contributed approximately 0 dollars to the economy. That's what I call a well put together scam. If punitive damages were awarded, MS would soon be history, and Billy Boy would move from his mansion to some shelter.
While the lottery is a tax on the mathematically challenged, MS is a tax on the computer illiterati.
It may kind of "work", but just good enough to lure investors. Black box demo's lie this are very suspicious.
Did the auditors get to pick a movie of their own choice?
Did the auditors supply the test HW, to ensure no tricks could be done?
If their compression is as efficient as they claim, they could patent it and submit it to the MPEG group. If it blows the competing codecs out of the water, they'll make a bundle on licensing. Instead they are staging suspect demo's hoping to lure investors. The same kind of investors who will buy stuff from ads with the "seen on TV" logo.
As far as I can recall, Window NT has been running on Alpha for years. But that port may have been due the effort of compaq's engineering people and not microsoft.
Especially the leaping milk drops. They look like a bunch of tall skinny people. This must be the perfect science project for kids, and for once the results are something that's good enough to frame and put on a wall. And it also teaches that things are not always what they seem, and there's beauty in the details. And (stretching or contracting) time changes everything.
The author brings up many points about poor and unethical journalism, and especially rants against internet and dotcom related journalism.
His whole point is that this particular sector is unethical in an unprecedented degree. If this guy was a real journalist, he would know that this goes on in all kinds of press, and is nothing new.
If he knew anything at all about journalism, he would know that the watergate expose is the exception, and not the rule.
Most industries have a few myths that are generally accepted as truths. Today Ben Stein posted an interesting article on thestreet.com, dissecting the myth about the high longterm yields of the stock market. He showed that it is a myth. However, 99% of financial reporters and analysts accept this myth as pure truth. Does that make reporters of the financial sector crooked, or cold it just be incompetence, and lack of foresight.
Every single industry has similar problems. Do you see many of the car magazines criticizing the industry, and the government for the SUV scandal?
Does body builder magazines publish critical articles on the dangers, and use of steroids?
When's the last time you saw one of the fashion magazones write that Kalvin Klein makes pretentious dozen ware, and DKNY makes ugly clothes?
When's the last time a D.C. newspaper did a deep and dirty expose on congress, senate or white house, that had anything to do with the politics? Nope, they're too busy to dig up sex stories, leaving the pols to do their business unaudited.
So I have to disagree with the author. Yes, there's a lot of crap in tech journalism, but that's not special. Crap journalism has been a readily available commodity for a long time, all over the place.
but if one is required by law to use Free software
Daft boy. The only requirement is on the government to use free and open software. Open software should also be a requirement when dealing with high security and classified data. How guarantee the security if you can't even audit the code?
Tax payers, or their representatives, are telling the government not to waste their money. For example, many governments have requirements that all sizeable purchases must open for public bidding.
I can very easily see that M.S would lose a lot of business if agencies started following their own rules.
Each citizen is free to buy software from M.S, or toilet seats of gold. However, taxpayers have every right to limit what the government should spend money on.
Don't those banana republics know that US and er corporations are the protectors of the free world!. Requiring government to use Libre software is a bitch slap in the face of US.
Remember last time a country had the guts to throw out U.S companies, being tired of working as underpaid plantation labor for U.S fruit barons? U.S us still upholding a strict trade embargo against that country.
Good luck that Billy Boy has gotten himself into a bit of a jam with the DOJ, otherwise we'd seen the Marines setting up a beach head on Ipanema by now.
Considering that many US citizens appear to have never actually read either
Declaration of Independance, US Constitution or relevent state constitutions.
Dead right. It would be interesteing to see if any of these fine young people ever read any of those documents. Or this bunch of gansters. And I would be extremely surprised if this promising young man ever managed to read it through.
Most of these guys went to law school, but I suspect they used more time on "networking" than their curricilum.
He compares the
economic effect of the Internet to various other technological revolutions, especially the introduction of steam power in the
early 19th century.
Yep. So this latest revolution must be the better revolution. Steamy pron, instead of just hot air.
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You're not using your brains, mr. Schmoe. The whole point of getting a cheap-ass PC for $50 is that it'll cost you only $50 to replace it when it breaks. Instead you'd be willing to pay some $50-100 per month or so just for some piece of mind?
When you buy or lease expensive hardware, you're already guaranteed to lose money on the deal. Doing it in a large corporation is no excuse for being stupid. Heck, I'd think the last few months of Wall street panic and focus on the bottom line would make large corporations extra eager to trim their IT budgets with a few millions, or billions.
The larger the company, the larger the savings.
What is compelling for large corporations is to have high revenues and low expenses. It's what makes the business world go round, and that may be why Linux one day will whoop MS ass out of town.
From now on, I will not listen to rock music on the radio. I have not bought a CD, or downloaded an mp3 the last year or so. From now on, only live performances, or talk radio will benefit from my listening.
Since I hardly ever go to concerts, that means the guys who play on street corners and the subway will receive $.25 or so every time they play something I find worthy of listening to.
That's what struck me, too. I'm trying to remember the name of the actor who rode that bomb. It sounds like a proverb or something. Slim Pickens or something like that.
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I don't mean to be a stick in the mud
How about the part of thelaw that says that parody, satire and caricature is free speech. Clearly the layout of this exploit is a satire along the lines of: How A Three Year Old Can Break Into Fort Knox And Get Away With Half A Trillion Dollars Without Even Trying Very Hard.
We await your lawyerly opinion.
You may be a lawyer, but it appears you are wrong about the link part. 2600 and many others were taken to court and lost, by posting links to DeCSS code, something that is quite outrageous, but it flew in court.
SMIT is only useful if you forget a command name. Most AIX admins use the command line for just about everything.
Which is why smit is an excellent tool. It's easy enough to get something done the first time, and shows you how to run the same task from command line, so you can put together a powerful script when setting up 500GB of disk instead of getting moused to death.
Of all the unixen I have played with AIX is one of the worst. Only Conrol data's unix and NCR was worse. Their smit admin tool is pretty cool, but everything else looks like nothing else, and porting stuff to AIX is no fun.
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Suddenly "revenge of the nerds" is not a teen comedy anymore, but a social realistic drama.
They are forcing geeks and nerds, what used to be the most peaceful and passive citizens, to become outlaws. We are talking about people who are so loyal to authority that they'd report their own kin to the FBI for removing mattress tags.
It is nothing less than a declaration of war. The result is that a large population will change sides. From being fair use advocates, we will turn into rabid pirates, just for the principle.
Source code in the public domain exposes the software to scutiny. Without scrutiny, how do you know it's safe? You're just going to trust the word of any two bit software maker?
If the merger happened in a bull market, you might have seen a rally. However, I think the Wall street might punish this deal. If you intend on getting into HP/Compaq bigtime, you are probably better off waiting a bit. Just my $.02.
Set up only one Linux server, that works as display manager for the whole library. Let all workstations be X terminals. No more filtering.
Plus library will save a bundle and half worth of HW and software licenses.
I predict that in 2401, retro CD-ROM coasters will be en vogue again.
Thanks, Michael, finally the crapflooders have an article where they can go nuts without the risk of being off-topic. I have to say Slashdot has proven to be a very inclusive society indeed.
You sound like a very angry and constipated young man. I think the only living places as small as a dorm room that has their own toilets are called jail cells. So if you find it increasingly hard to hold, consider taking up drug dealing, turn yourself in, and enjoy your own private bathroom courtesy of your government.
I won't be a judge of whether the $10 Billion is an accurate figure. Consider what wold happen if damages was awarded to MS victims? (excluding punitive damages):
Some Microsoft figures:
Annual Sales: $25 billion
Annual earnings before taxes: $11 billion
Profit: 7.7 Billion
This shows us that MS contributed approximately 0 dollars to the economy. That's what I call a well put together scam. If punitive damages were awarded, MS would soon be history, and Billy Boy would move from his mansion to some shelter.
While the lottery is a tax on the mathematically challenged, MS is a tax on the computer illiterati.
Why bother?
Just submit a slashdot story about them. That will take care of their web site.
Did the auditors get to pick a movie of their own choice?
Did the auditors supply the test HW, to ensure no tricks could be done?
If their compression is as efficient as they claim, they could patent it and submit it to the MPEG group. If it blows the competing codecs out of the water, they'll make a bundle on licensing. Instead they are staging suspect demo's hoping to lure investors. The same kind of investors who will buy stuff from ads with the "seen on TV" logo.
As far as I can recall, Window NT has been running on Alpha for years. But that port may have been due the effort of compaq's engineering people and not microsoft.
Especially the leaping milk drops. They look like a bunch of tall skinny people. This must be the perfect science project for kids, and for once the results are something that's good enough to frame and put on a wall. And it also teaches that things are not always what they seem, and there's beauty in the details. And (stretching or contracting) time changes everything.
His whole point is that this particular sector is unethical in an unprecedented degree. If this guy was a real journalist, he would know that this goes on in all kinds of press, and is nothing new.
If he knew anything at all about journalism, he would know that the watergate expose is the exception, and not the rule.
Most industries have a few myths that are generally accepted as truths. Today Ben Stein posted an interesting article on thestreet.com, dissecting the myth about the high longterm yields of the stock market. He showed that it is a myth. However, 99% of financial reporters and analysts accept this myth as pure truth. Does that make reporters of the financial sector crooked, or cold it just be incompetence, and lack of foresight.
Every single industry has similar problems. Do you see many of the car magazines criticizing the industry, and the government for the SUV scandal?
Does body builder magazines publish critical articles on the dangers, and use of steroids?
When's the last time you saw one of the fashion magazones write that Kalvin Klein makes pretentious dozen ware, and DKNY makes ugly clothes?
When's the last time a D.C. newspaper did a deep and dirty expose on congress, senate or white house, that had anything to do with the politics? Nope, they're too busy to dig up sex stories, leaving the pols to do their business unaudited.
So I have to disagree with the author. Yes, there's a lot of crap in tech journalism, but that's not special. Crap journalism has been a readily available commodity for a long time, all over the place.
Daft boy. The only requirement is on the government to use free and open software. Open software should also be a requirement when dealing with high security and classified data. How guarantee the security if you can't even audit the code?
Tax payers, or their representatives, are telling the government not to waste their money. For example, many governments have requirements that all sizeable purchases must open for public bidding.
I can very easily see that M.S would lose a lot of business if agencies started following their own rules.
Each citizen is free to buy software from M.S, or toilet seats of gold. However, taxpayers have every right to limit what the government should spend money on.
Remember last time a country had the guts to throw out U.S companies, being tired of working as underpaid plantation labor for U.S fruit barons? U.S us still upholding a strict trade embargo against that country.
Good luck that Billy Boy has gotten himself into a bit of a jam with the DOJ, otherwise we'd seen the Marines setting up a beach head on Ipanema by now.
Declaration of Independance, US Constitution or relevent state constitutions.
Dead right. It would be interesteing to see if any of these fine young people ever read any of those documents. Or this bunch of gansters. And I would be extremely surprised if this promising young man ever managed to read it through.
Most of these guys went to law school, but I suspect they used more time on "networking" than their curricilum.
economic effect of the Internet to various other technological revolutions, especially the introduction of steam power in the
early 19th century.
Yep. So this latest revolution must be the better revolution. Steamy pron, instead of just hot air.
-1 Not funny
-1 x-rated
-1 off-topic
-1 trying too hard
When you buy or lease expensive hardware, you're already guaranteed to lose money on the deal. Doing it in a large corporation is no excuse for being stupid. Heck, I'd think the last few months of Wall street panic and focus on the bottom line would make large corporations extra eager to trim their IT budgets with a few millions, or billions.
The larger the company, the larger the savings.
What is compelling for large corporations is to have high revenues and low expenses. It's what makes the business world go round, and that may be why Linux one day will whoop MS ass out of town.
From now on, I will not listen to rock music on the radio. I have not bought a CD, or downloaded an mp3 the last year or so. From now on, only live performances, or talk radio will benefit from my listening.
Since I hardly ever go to concerts, that means the guys who play on street corners and the subway will receive $.25 or so every time they play something I find worthy of listening to.
No, Peter Sellers had many other roles in the movie, but he did not ride the bomb. Thanks for the hint though, didn't think of imdb.
That's what struck me, too. I'm trying to remember the name of the actor who rode that bomb. It sounds like a proverb or something. Slim Pickens or something like that.
How about the part of thelaw that says that parody, satire and caricature is free speech. Clearly the layout of this exploit is a satire along the lines of: How A Three Year Old Can Break Into Fort Knox And Get Away With Half A Trillion Dollars Without Even Trying Very Hard.
We await your lawyerly opinion.
You may be a lawyer, but it appears you are wrong about the link part. 2600 and many others were taken to court and lost, by posting links to DeCSS code, something that is quite outrageous, but it flew in court.
Which is why smit is an excellent tool. It's easy enough to get something done the first time, and shows you how to run the same task from command line, so you can put together a powerful script when setting up 500GB of disk instead of getting moused to death.
You are correct. I never played with NextStep.
Of all the unixen I have played with AIX is one of the worst. Only Conrol data's unix and NCR was worse. Their smit admin tool is pretty cool, but everything else looks like nothing else, and porting stuff to AIX is no fun.