Fight fire with fire. We need to push for legislation that forbids the sale of technology whose primary purpose is access control and which also has the effect of denying fair use rights. I wish I had more to say about it, but that pretty much sums it up.
Don't forget passive aggressive abuses of power like turning on sprinklers by remote control, hating authority figures, and always always techno music. Oh and righting up manifestos and sending them to 'feds'.
You're referring to the movie "Hackers." What the Feds were reading was a (somewhat modified) version of the Hacker's Manifesto. Other quotes in that text file were used in the movie, by different people in different circumstances.
For instance, "We make use of a service already
existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons", was adapted by the movie makers and put into the mouths of "Razor and Blade" for their TV show in the movie.
It's a pretty good read, taken as a whole. It repeats on the phrase "they're all alike" and draws on that for its dramatic conclusion. Nice. Check it out:
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~abennet1/manifesto.txt (or just do a google search for Hacker's Manifesto)
This article ignores one of the factors of the 1983 crash. Cheap home computers. Parents could buy a system that would let kids do their homework (that old salesman's story) and at the time had much better capabilities than the braindead 2600 (which was an ancient system by that time, true, but it was the king). Consoles have always face irrelevancy in terms of price vs. capabilities of computers. The NES came out and for its price it couldn't be beat by computers for years to come (especially since the PC was taking over the market where more game-capable systems were losing relevance). The gap between when a console comes out and it is matched in price vs. capabilities is shrinking rapidly. Because the consoles are getting more expensive, and their capabilities are only slightly better than a PC in the same order of price magnitude. Meanwhile, satisfactory gamers' PCs are getting cheaper by the minute. The X-box and Indrema only make it official. For the same price and capabilities, plus the ability to "do homework on it" makes it the preferred choice. A cheap PC becomes the hot new console. And that, my friends, is the end of the console era.
You know, when Doom 1, Episode 1 came out, almost everybody who used computers for games had to run out to upgrade their 386's and 486's RAM to just 4 MB. What else is new?
As for me, I waited for the Linux version to come out because Carmack said we should buy that version if we wanted to support Linux boxed games. Then it didn't come out, until I already played it long enough on my friend's Windows box. I held out because I didn't want to put my money into the Windows version instead of the Linux version (even though I do put lots of money into Windows games) like Carmack said. By the time the Linux version came out, and I looked through tons of stores, I just didn't want it that badly anymore. I ended up eventually buying U.T. instead... the Windows version even! It turned out it was a much better game anyway. And to think, I was big into Quake 2 (and I worshipped DOOM, but that is another story).
Actually, I'd rather see a good transparent X server under WinXX that basically can run X clients using the Explorer as the window manager - that is, I don't need one large window as the X root where all my other X-clients must reside.
I could go on and on, but at least the Directors cut of the original Dune movie, while imperfect and incomplete, was far truer to the heart and soul of the Dune story than this miniseries was.
I agree that the movie came out pretty lifeless. On the other hand, the Lynch movie added some things that were not in the book solely for shock value. Those are the things that annoy me most about Lynch's movie. Also, there is no "Director's Cut" besides the short version of the movie. The long version was made for TV, but not by Lynch, and is directed by a pseudonymous "Smithee" (meaning the director didn't want his name on it) not Lynch. I appreciated the miniseries' adherence to the consistency of the book, where it failed was when it diverged from the book, or just failed to convey the true scale of things. I haven't seen the long version of Dune, and I'm sure it is better than the short version, but it's not the "Director's cut."
After we get enough donations we will find some pop pyschologist to run us up a feel-good clone of AA or something, print some bumper-stickers and tee-shirts ("One Level At A Time") and then set folks up running sessions in vacant strip-mall spaces. Get on the local judicial lists as a treatment agency, and rile up some college students to write us grants for local and federal program monies.
Have you seen that recent movie, "But I'm a Cheerleader"? It's kind of like that, pretty funny.
I thought some things were improvements over the movie, such as the steersman/space travel scene, in which the special effects aged poorly in the movie. I also thought the acting was bad... William Hurt is a very bored (and boring) Leto. The accents SOME of the actors were TRYING to pull off were bad. As far as the Luke Skywalker stuff, that is intentional. He's supposed to be a spoiled brat until he goes into the desert, his father dies, etc.
But he's not the villain because he does those things for good reasons
Haven't you seen the X-men? The bad guy always thinks he is doing what is best, but thinks that the ends justify the means.
My theory is that the wife is the real villain. Consider, she is the one who contstantly tries to stop Willis from acting on his hero tendencies.
Two words: Lois Lane. Besides, it is not like Bruce Willis' character is terribly happy to have his abilities. It seems to me to be more of a curse than a blessing.
All the commenters so far seem to think that this is a 4th Hellmouth article rehashing an ancient topic. This is actually just part 4 of the hellmouth book which is being serialized here on slashdot. It's not part 4 of the original Hellmouth Slashdot articles.
It sounded pretty interesting, but I guess I missed something because they started saying it would help people protect copyrights. At first I thought, they must be talking about publishers which want an easy way to identify the copyright holder of a given object (article, song, whatever) so they can electronically pay for their royalties, etc. For example, when colleges want to create course packets for a class by photocopying various articles, etc. they send faxes to various publishers asking for prices for permission to copy, and then sending in payments. (I was once working on a database to help this process, never bothered to finish it though.) But it's not like the photocopier machines require authorization to copy, the people selling coursepacks manually get permission.
So the question is, is this object thing they are talking about a way to make it easier for these type of people (and other who wish to maintain copyright compliance because they happen to be operating publicly and will get sued if they don't, perhaps an online radio station for example), is is this supposed to be part of a trusted client (the perpetual motion machine of the information age) scheme like the failed Divx DVD players?
Here is a quote from the article:
Developers may purchase the cryptographic certificates used to create such a signature from Verisign Inc.--Microsoft has no say in determining who may receive such certificates or what software may be signed.
It kind of says it all doesn't it? It never says Microsoft has a final say over who can write apps for it (although it does raise some issues, not the ones everyone is going on about here...)
This weekend I just finished "Free For All" which was reviewed on/. In the last chapter, the author makes some predictions that the current "system" is going to be very threatened by software that flows freely "like dandelion seeds blowing in the wind." Lost tax revenue is going to be a large one. Governments are going to do what they can to tax free software (governments can't resist the urge to tax anything they can get away with). This is a pretty big threat to free software. You can bet the current commercial software giants are going to put pressure behind such efforts. (Which reminds me, we also need to get rid of soft money (the other book I've been reading: How to Overthrow the Government by Arianna Huffington, an advocate for campaign finance reform)).
(My quick review Free for All: If you already know the history of free software/open source, there will be little in this book to learn that is worth the $23, although I did learn some things about BSD history I didn't know. I couldn't picture the general population being interested in most of the detailed explanations. There are a few sloppy mistakes such as confusing free speech vs. free beer in some chapters while explaining it in other chapters. Only in the last chapter does the author attempt to add insights instead of going over dry facts.)
Don't know if you'll read this at this point, but... I was going to put "chi" at first, but I know that there is a special way to write "ti" instead of "chi" because I always got marked wrong trying to write "party" (pa--ti) in katakana. It's pretty rare and only used in certain foreign words as far as I can tell.
He was talking about all combinations of a consonant with a vowel (syllables in japanese are generally consonant-vowel except for "N" and standalone vowels), in which case the number is MUCH lower.
No. The r sound in Japanese is somewhere between an L and an R. Words taken from English that have an L or R sound get translated into the same "letter" in Japanese, one of the following syllables: ra, ri, ru, re, ro, rya, ryu, ryo.
(pronounce the consonants like they are in spanish, "a" is English short A, "i" is long E, "u" is long U, "e" is long A, "o" is long O. ah, ee, oo (as in "too"), eh, oh. A consonant can be one of the vowels by itself, or it can have a consonant in from of it: ka-ki-ku-ke-ko. ta-chi-tsu-te-to (as you can see, some consonants have irregular pronunciations). Some consonants can have a "y"-consonant blended into it, rya, ryu, ryo, kya, kyu, kyo, etc. "n" can be a consonant by itself after a regular syllable. Also, some consonants are doubled. And vowels can be made twice as long. to-o-kyo-o (in hiragana, a long o is indicated with a U, other vowels by adding that vowel. in katakana, you can indicate a long vowel with a straight line.) So what can we conclude from this?
Trinity in japanese is probably something like "TO RI N I TI" but the RI could sound somelike like "LI", it is 4 syllables long, and is written with 5 characters. The usual romanization of "ri" is with an R instead of an L.
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Fight fire with fire. We need to push for legislation that forbids the sale of technology whose primary purpose is access control and which also has the effect of denying fair use rights. I wish I had more to say about it, but that pretty much sums it up.
Don't forget passive aggressive abuses of power like turning on sprinklers by remote control, hating authority figures, and always always techno music. Oh and righting up manifestos and sending them to 'feds'.
You're referring to the movie "Hackers." What the Feds were reading was a (somewhat modified) version of the Hacker's Manifesto. Other quotes in that text file were used in the movie, by different people in different circumstances.
For instance, "We make use of a service already
existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons", was adapted by the movie makers and put into the mouths of "Razor and Blade" for their TV show in the movie.
It's a pretty good read, taken as a whole. It repeats on the phrase "they're all alike" and draws on that for its dramatic conclusion. Nice. Check it out:
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~abennet1/manifesto.txt
(or just do a google search for Hacker's Manifesto)
This article ignores one of the factors of the 1983 crash. Cheap home computers. Parents could buy a system that would let kids do their homework (that old salesman's story) and at the time had much better capabilities than the braindead 2600 (which was an ancient system by that time, true, but it was the king). Consoles have always face irrelevancy in terms of price vs. capabilities of computers. The NES came out and for its price it couldn't be beat by computers for years to come (especially since the PC was taking over the market where more game-capable systems were losing relevance). The gap between when a console comes out and it is matched in price vs. capabilities is shrinking rapidly. Because the consoles are getting more expensive, and their capabilities are only slightly better than a PC in the same order of price magnitude. Meanwhile, satisfactory gamers' PCs are getting cheaper by the minute. The X-box and Indrema only make it official. For the same price and capabilities, plus the ability to "do homework on it" makes it the preferred choice. A cheap PC becomes the hot new console. And that, my friends, is the end of the console era.
You know, when Doom 1, Episode 1 came out, almost everybody who used computers for games had to run out to upgrade their 386's and 486's RAM to just 4 MB. What else is new?
As for me, I waited for the Linux version to come out because Carmack said we should buy that version if we wanted to support Linux boxed games. Then it didn't come out, until I already played it long enough on my friend's Windows box. I held out because I didn't want to put my money into the Windows version instead of the Linux version (even though I do put lots of money into Windows games) like Carmack said. By the time the Linux version came out, and I looked through tons of stores, I just didn't want it that badly anymore. I ended up eventually buying U.T. instead... the Windows version even! It turned out it was a much better game anyway. And to think, I was big into Quake 2 (and I worshipped DOOM, but that is another story).
Actually, I'd rather see a good transparent X server under WinXX that basically can run X clients using the Explorer as the window manager - that is, I don't need one large window as the X root where all my other X-clients must reside.
Hummingbird Exceed can do this.
I could go on and on, but at least the Directors cut of the original Dune movie, while imperfect and incomplete, was far truer to the heart and soul of the Dune story than this miniseries was.
I agree that the movie came out pretty lifeless. On the other hand, the Lynch movie added some things that were not in the book solely for shock value. Those are the things that annoy me most about Lynch's movie. Also, there is no "Director's Cut" besides the short version of the movie. The long version was made for TV, but not by Lynch, and is directed by a pseudonymous "Smithee" (meaning the director didn't want his name on it) not Lynch. I appreciated the miniseries' adherence to the consistency of the book, where it failed was when it diverged from the book, or just failed to convey the true scale of things. I haven't seen the long version of Dune, and I'm sure it is better than the short version, but it's not the "Director's cut."
My vote for the worst FX goes to the (twice shown) kangaroo mouse ("muad'dib")
FREMEN: What name do you want? Your real name isn't good enough.
PAUL: What do you call that little creature?
FREMEN: Pikachu ?!?
After we get enough donations we will find some pop pyschologist to run us up a feel-good clone of AA or something, print some bumper-stickers and tee-shirts ("One Level At A Time") and then set folks up running sessions in vacant strip-mall spaces. Get on the local judicial lists as a treatment agency, and rile up some college students to write us grants for local and federal program monies.
Have you seen that recent movie, "But I'm a Cheerleader"? It's kind of like that, pretty funny.
Paul and Jessica appear in the desert (after a commercial break :-) with no explanation whatsoever
I heard they cut out a lot of the miniseries for the American audience because of extra commercials. I wonder if they cut out that scene.
I thought some things were improvements over the movie, such as the steersman/space travel scene, in which the special effects aged poorly in the movie. I also thought the acting was bad... William Hurt is a very bored (and boring) Leto. The accents SOME of the actors were TRYING to pull off were bad. As far as the Luke Skywalker stuff, that is intentional. He's supposed to be a spoiled brat until he goes into the desert, his father dies, etc.
But he's not the villain because he does those things for good reasons
Haven't you seen the X-men? The bad guy always thinks he is doing what is best, but thinks that the ends justify the means.
My theory is that the wife is the real villain. Consider, she is the one who contstantly tries to stop Willis from acting on his hero tendencies.
Two words: Lois Lane. Besides, it is not like Bruce Willis' character is terribly happy to have his abilities. It seems to me to be more of a curse than a blessing.
Wow, a Turing machine implemented in game-of-Life. You could program it to do anything. You could even make a spell checker run in Life! :)
All the commenters so far seem to think that this is a 4th Hellmouth article rehashing an ancient topic. This is actually just part 4 of the hellmouth book which is being serialized here on slashdot. It's not part 4 of the original Hellmouth Slashdot articles.
and the chances of a code fork with Hurd are even greater than for Linux, due to the easier understandibility of the source code.
Understandable source code is a bad thing?? Excuse me while I laugh. Ha!
:)
It sounded pretty interesting, but I guess I missed something because they started saying it would help people protect copyrights. At first I thought, they must be talking about publishers which want an easy way to identify the copyright holder of a given object (article, song, whatever) so they can electronically pay for their royalties, etc. For example, when colleges want to create course packets for a class by photocopying various articles, etc. they send faxes to various publishers asking for prices for permission to copy, and then sending in payments. (I was once working on a database to help this process, never bothered to finish it though.) But it's not like the photocopier machines require authorization to copy, the people selling coursepacks manually get permission.
So the question is, is this object thing they are talking about a way to make it easier for these type of people (and other who wish to maintain copyright compliance because they happen to be operating publicly and will get sued if they don't, perhaps an online radio station for example), is is this supposed to be part of a trusted client (the perpetual motion machine of the information age) scheme like the failed Divx DVD players?
... open-source. Then anybody can download and use that stuff. To use it in a commercial product, you have to pay us a royalty ...
Interesting definition of open-source. And they said Free software was too confusing...
Too bad it doesn't have a feature to detect if it is being used by the driver of a moving car, and disable itself.
Like... screenplays and novels!
Patent 57. A plot device whereby invaders from space initiate an attack, but are destroyed due to a fatal susceptability.
examples:
War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells) (Earth germs)
Independence Day (computer germs)
Mars Attacks (country music)
Here is a quote from the article:
Developers may purchase the cryptographic certificates used to create such a signature from Verisign Inc.--Microsoft has no say in determining who may receive such certificates or what software may be signed.
It kind of says it all doesn't it? It never says Microsoft has a final say over who can write apps for it (although it does raise some issues, not the ones everyone is going on about here...)
(It's not like it was that long of an article.)
This weekend I just finished "Free For All" which was reviewed on /. In the last chapter, the author makes some predictions that the current "system" is going to be very threatened by software that flows freely "like dandelion seeds blowing in the wind." Lost tax revenue is going to be a large one. Governments are going to do what they can to tax free software (governments can't resist the urge to tax anything they can get away with). This is a pretty big threat to free software. You can bet the current commercial software giants are going to put pressure behind such efforts. (Which reminds me, we also need to get rid of soft money (the other book I've been reading: How to Overthrow the Government by Arianna Huffington, an advocate for campaign finance reform)).
(My quick review Free for All: If you already know the history of free software/open source, there will be little in this book to learn that is worth the $23, although I did learn some things about BSD history I didn't know. I couldn't picture the general population being interested in most of the detailed explanations. There are a few sloppy mistakes such as confusing free speech vs. free beer in some chapters while explaining it in other chapters. Only in the last chapter does the author attempt to add insights instead of going over dry facts.)
Don't know if you'll read this at this point, but... I was going to put "chi" at first, but I know that there is a special way to write "ti" instead of "chi" because I always got marked wrong trying to write "party" (pa--ti) in katakana. It's pretty rare and only used in certain foreign words as far as I can tell.
It's 1/2 the price of VMware/Plex86
You're talking nonsense. plex86 is a Free Software replacement of VMware.
He was talking about all combinations of a consonant with a vowel (syllables in japanese are generally consonant-vowel except for "N" and standalone vowels), in which case the number is MUCH lower.
I thought the Japanese would say, "Tlinity"
No. The r sound in Japanese is somewhere between an L and an R. Words taken from English that have an L or R sound get translated into the same "letter" in Japanese, one of the following syllables: ra, ri, ru, re, ro, rya, ryu, ryo.
(pronounce the consonants like they are in spanish, "a" is English short A, "i" is long E, "u" is long U, "e" is long A, "o" is long O. ah, ee, oo (as in "too"), eh, oh. A consonant can be one of the vowels by itself, or it can have a consonant in from of it: ka-ki-ku-ke-ko. ta-chi-tsu-te-to (as you can see, some consonants have irregular pronunciations). Some consonants can have a "y"-consonant blended into it, rya, ryu, ryo, kya, kyu, kyo, etc. "n" can be a consonant by itself after a regular syllable. Also, some consonants are doubled. And vowels can be made twice as long. to-o-kyo-o (in hiragana, a long o is indicated with a U, other vowels by adding that vowel. in katakana, you can indicate a long vowel with a straight line.) So what can we conclude from this?
Trinity in japanese is probably something like "TO RI N I TI" but the RI could sound somelike like "LI", it is 4 syllables long, and is written with 5 characters. The usual romanization of "ri" is with an R instead of an L.
Thank you.
Ribaasu Donarudo.
... because they can't take a joke.