Yeah, and health care costs are fucking unreal, some people have children dying because they cant buy patented medications that are the ONLY ones for their ill, my sons is $2000 a month, just for him to stay alive. Im lucky I have insurance, admittedley thaey hate me and would do anything to dump me, or how about all the adults dying of something like aids globally and the not being able to save them because US companies hold the patents and wont let go even to save fucking lives. How about all the corporations eroding the rights of citizens for their own profit ? How about a goverment that caters now to the corporations more than its citizens ?
Oh wait, im responding to a complete fucking moron with no grasp in the real world and who lives only in the census statistics !
Spend a day, or an hour if you can stomach it at a world class childrens hospital, Cincinatti , Boston, etc. Talk to the parents of the kids dying in the cancer wards, ask the parents that cant afford the cure for their childs ills, when they are available, ask a parent willing to do anything to save a child that needs an organ transplant, I have experience with my son in both of the above, visit a field hospital in Africa. When youve done those thing and are content that the corporations grace us with a 36,000 average income, you tell me all is roses.......
You smoking crak or wearing blinder....its rampant EVERYWHERE , here in the states more so than ANYWHERE, we just put, civilized names on it , like 'soft-money' , Lobbying, etc.
You wanna talk about Sheer volumes of money sxchanged in pursuit of a single commercial goal, thats right the good ole' USA will win hands down every time.
I have a hope that the next major war wont be fought between countries with differing ideologies, but rather between the people and the corporations. But alas I am just an old crank....
I hope they do find another ISP soon, I have often wondered what ever happened to the Alternet idea ?
THAT WAS FUNNY !!!!! really...My spelling is bad, I think I get more comments on that than anything, but I pegged karma cap in 2 weeks...so go figure...
I think youre right, I hate these damm 'soft touch' jobbers, I used my Original IBM PC , clicker job for as long as I could, Noone makes a mechanical clikc thunk one anymore.
I am not anticomputer....In the least...I have owned and used a computer since 1978. I make my living with them.
I am however concerned about a house of cards effect when it comes to my computer interaction. I have physical copies of all documents, banking etc. If, lets say if, all the computers ceased to function tommorow, EMP, Solar Flare, you name it. Would YOU as a person and as a family survive the consequences ? I would , and its nice to know I would. But many other, city dwellers, etc.
It seems like an awfull fragile concept to base my daily life on at the moment
Cool.....but a litle off center....
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Disinformation.com
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This is cool and I have visited their site previously, but some of the stuff just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Its one thing to wish for untainted information, stive for truth and freedom, and quite another to spew frothing at the mouth about it, hidden in an amongst what appear to be good information.
AND it is yet even more of a shame when a whole bunch of conspiracy seeking, alien hunting, govermentphobes start giving, us good truth seekers a bad name....
Wheres the tin foil hat when you sighn up to their site, I thought that wsa a requirment.
You know those things you saw on clips of 40-50's news reels.
Neat idea, but I have to seiously question the deendece to such a degree on technology, technology is fragile, and a great tool, One sinlgle 100 megaton nuclear device exploded in the atmosphere would end all that for decades.
EMP weaponry is going to be one of the tools of the future for armies at large, you think a Jumo Jet creates havoc. What would you do tommorow, if all the electronic devices you use were suddenly non functional , Could you survive ?, I could, I have a breaker ignition vehicle in storge, backup mechanical water pumping(on a well) and oil heat with no electronic controls. This isnt the norm, prevasive compution is a cool concept but sounds far too omniporesent and fragile for me.
This is good, and I agree with the change, I think there has been a fair amount of bad feelings by developers when code has been wrapped in a proprietary product. Even though none of those poroprietary products have sealed their efforts, codeweavers does donate back to wine and transgaming is available via CVS.
I am curious about what will happen to the existing wine trees out there and in process of development. If I am correct they will not be allowed to borrow from the tree effective date being the liscence change, they will in fact, with the amount of work that goes into wine, end up with a stale tree quickly.
Is there a way around this ?
There is obviously no way to make the liscence apply retroactivly, and that would be wrong, is there any way to ensure certain portions of the new tree dont make it into a proprietary product bundle ?
This is probably the most singular unifying architechture change that will propel Linux to the top of all the markets, server, desktop, and embedded.
YEAH RIGHT !
Ok, Im suprised RMS said something without demanding, frothing, or berating. But in the whole scheme of things is this really worth the bits its typed with ?
Some architechtural changes in the next version of each twoard additional compatility would be nice. But aside from that they are different systems, written by different people, with different needs and different goals, as well as different philosiphys on how to achieve what they want. To this end I dont really see what good compatible themes are gonna do for the rest of the projects...
Making *NIX systems easy to configure maintain, manage and etc will be the downfall of the IT industry, Green Skinned *NIX admins everywhere will revolt the people tring to bring *NIX to the masees.....
Alright so im joking...big suprise...
I think this would be a good thing all in all, IF they DONT MUCK with my existing configurations. There are many things that can be tweaked far beyond the iditot proof gui configuration tools on other OS, In windows you can resort to registry tweaking for some items, others you just cant do a damm thing about, its those thing Im afraid will be removed from my control.
Dummning down on the surface is fine, as long as they dont do it to the underlying configurations. I still cant figure out how the hell to edit (or find) the samba configuration file on OSX, Now granted its not my machine, and I dont really use BSD, so im not suprised. But does it even exist ??? A I am used to it on Solaris and Linux ?
MS could fight it tooth and nail and it wouldnt matter one bit. First, there are tons sales to be made , with or without MS interaction. Think of all the govts that are tinkering with dropping MS in favor of an open soure system, well darwin is, they can inspect and recompile it. Think of all the Art Poser types, that have a 4 year old PC daddy gave em and wish they could have an Apple. Next hink of all the *NIX developer types that would love to use it as their destop *NIX, maybe not their servers but the workstation side.
But as has been stated here many times Apple is a hardware company,
Joining , full strength the OpenOffice initiative would be a good choice, bundling an Office Capable suite in OXS that ran on x86 would be great, and a boon to sales I am certain, MAJOR work needs done on the filter side of office, and a binary compatible, database to access.
One problem, X86 is forking, IA64 and X86-64.....
3 Years from now....The major companies will be pushing this for hardware and renewed software sales.
This guy gives a bad name to good Anarchists, I mean the way to do it isnt violent direct action, even Che reckognized in the US thats not the way to go. It is I belive through the massive expansion ov goverment services to no particular end, they will suffocate under their own bloat and meanwhile create a pressure within the population that cannot be contained. Lead thm on wild goose chases whilst doing nothing illegal, pass large amounts of heavily encrypted data of say teletubbie pictures to iranian or iraqui email address, this would be fun, tie the iraquis up doing nothing particularly usefull and at the same time make the NSA and the FBI and CIA spend X amount of man hours to no avail, youvedone nothing illegal, but given enough useless crap when it comes time fro budget review I can see it now. 'Senator X to the Director FBI' >>
Did you sir spend 40 million dollars decrypting certain encrytped communications ?
'FBI:Uhhhh Yes sir,'
'Senator; WHat was in those documents'
'FBI: Uhhhh Digital imagrey of a highly contreversial nature'
'Senator X, You mean sir pornagraphic depictions of teletubbies dont you'
'FBI: Uhuh'
But seriously did you read the transcript and feel like you were reading a lost Laurel and Hardy script.
Ms. TIPOGRAPH (sounds like typograph, a neccesity in any legal document:)
Agent Kuhn (Agent Coon, cousin to secret squirrel)
Mr Hou (Hows who on first)
This kid broke the law directly, molotov cocktails, hacking an defacment. Too bad he couldnt just stick to information he'da been a martyr, well maybe but at worst a malcontent.
'Trustworth Computing' and Microsoft in the same sentece is an oxymoron.
That said it is much easier to innovate wihtout regard to security even at a basic level, MS has been doing just this for quite sometime, and it looks like it may finally be catching up to bite em in the ass.
MS has made great strides in interface usablitiy, and some disasters, some minor security annoyance, and some bungles of a scale unseen before. Quantity, not Quality has been the MS creed for a long while, blowind the doors off their prior interface and capablities of 3.1 to win95 was a major leap, and they ran like a thief with it.
Its easy to innovate and produce LOTS of stuff fast if security isnt a concer, unfortunatley for MS that mindset became standard at MS, Bill's Memo is proof in itself,
Snnnnnoooooree.....zzzzzzz
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First let me say I an a fan of Alan Conx, from a purely technical point, I dont know him personally, and therefore cannot make a determination if I like him or not.
The answers given were good, to the point and basically good answers.
THE QUESTIONS SUCKED !
This has too be one of the shortest most boring interviews with Alan Ive seen. Alan doesnt seem to be as forthcoming with tangents as some interviewees. But thats him, me id talk about everything under the sun.
Long story short, and a note to interviewers, If you actually get time to ask someone like this questions in the future, give some thought to the questions youre going to ask, this one about put me to sleep.
This will be funny, the errors that are appearing in genetic replication that lead to obesity,
Ever notice the more dysfunctional someone is the fatter their cat ?
This will be hilarious, first a genetic predisposition to obesity, followed by some loon that just cant let go of "Fluffy" I can see it now CAT-KONG (Its a funny childrens book)
An 80 lb cat, a shortened life span and an already neruotic owner that couldnt let go thie first time around, watch this become a really sad vicious cycle, copies of copies, getting fat and dying yet faster than the last time around. Maybe I should go after a Vet Liscence.....
If you know what you are doing, you can run W2K server WITOUT IE, You need to make a special OEM cd using their toolkit, and you can even do other fun things like put InetPub AND IIS on a sperate partition, under users that have no access to the rest of the partiotions , hence the OS. NSA has some good info on the latter.
The courts are compltley ignorant on this matter, so are their 'expets' for the most part. Windwows will run fine without IE, at least, 95, NT 4.0 and W2K , SP is 2k on steroids with eye candy, The OEM install kit(XP) has a network ready bootable CD image that wii RUN ANY(IE included, Abobe, you name it), Windows app under it you want this should be PROOF alone. It starts as only a background and a shell window, you can run anything else from it you want executing it from the command line, Beauty is it will handle Win32 AND NTFS partitions, makes a wicked hack tool for a dead or funked machine, or to change the SAM around:)
This sounds cool, and Im glad someone is on this track, in 20 years people will be sayign (as they do with TV) , 'People used to think this would hurt their eyes' , like my mom used to say about the TV.
I always love the sci-fi flicks where they have something like this on a thin stick near their eye, walking around in a dark smokey ship hold. a good slap upside the head and , ouch. no more eye.
Or the IBM commercial....same thing.
Im not so worried about the reitanl scanning effects, lasers(no not the little led jobbers), arcs, you name it and Ive looked at it. I can still see, I may have had vison problems for a day or so after some of the incidents but it healed(I know I understand some dont).
What Im WORRIED about is having something the size of a frigging pencil 1 inch from my eye, that sounds scarrier than potential retinal damage.
Well even a blind man can hit a dart board half the time.
To be honest I have more belief in certain sci-fi writews in the long term of prediction, HG Wells for one. If not take litteraly of course.
AS far as THIS goes...
'rant goes, I was going to find a science timeline to refute it with a few choice examples, but I think I'll leave it at one: The Internet, which allows rabble-rousing pedants to blow off steam into the air of a virtual domain rather than taking up valuable public park space with their soapboxes and shrill, infantile'proclamations
Two points, the internet was one of the things I was ranting about, digital dissemination of infromation is leading corporations to crack down and stifle speech more than before.
Medical breakthroughs dont mean shit when we have twice as many people starving to death, etc.
As far as the soapbox part goes ????
Well I was a loudmouthed opinionated pain in the ass before the internet came to be. I think in a past life I mighta been standing on one.......
---begin rant---
One difference, I will actually backup my words with action, whatever neccesary, I have convictions, right or wrong, theyre mine. Im not (and im not saying you are so dont take this wrong) One of those mealy mouthed politically correct spinless bastards that tries to whitewash everything, while at the same time tries to steal rights and freedoms from you, saying if you respond in a negative way you are a blah blah blah or hiding something or someother crap meant to silence you further.
I was raised to fight, my son will be raised to fight, no matter what the cost, to preserve integrity,not to hide under a shroud of fear,
Humans do some things better than any other 4000 years and it does not change, only the scenery, make no mistake, histroy has tought us this again and again, we kill, plunder and oppress. Until we understand and embrace this we cannot change it.
----end rant----
On a whole, lives taken by a result of technology from 1900 to lives saved,....guess what your argument loses EVERY time, it has been studied, and proven.
Python has all you need, If I were to design a language from the ground up it would act and look alot like Python, that said, there is already something there and no need to push the edge of insanity writing my own language again, I did when I was younger, in the early 80's. No enough caffiene on the planet to try it again.
Python will, if designed properly handle any load you could want to throw at it, it is portable as it gets, its easy to debug.
I cannot imagine what you are writing, or your boss thinks youre going to write that needs all that in one place at the same time. My bet is this is a buzzword hyped dude that has no Idea of the actual functional requirments. He wants an IDE and RAD, Im assuming so any 12$ an hour lackey can help support it at a later date as well as speed initial development. If portablity is the least of your concerns(in short term) VB.net would be the choice. In about 2 years VB.net programmers will be like VB programmers are now....a dime a dozen. That has more value than you can imagine on a large scale project whose lifecycle is indeterminite.
Screw em all and write it in assy, dont let em see any progress and then unleash it upon them complete, debugging is easy, if its wrong it dosent run. Its portable, from same architecture to same architecture(snicker), it actually will scale(buzzword insert)BUT THE SINGULAR MOST IMPORTANT PART is Youll have a job for life, at whatever you want em to pay you to maintain it:)
Im stil waiting for the flying car promised in the 50's
Or the atomic car promised by ford in the 60's
Or the Artificial intelligence android promised me in the 70's
Or......I get it....futurists have NO clue what so ever !
All this technolgy only makes it easier to kill each other, steal each other land and money, and pretty much lead more misearble meaningless existences than life was 50 years ago....
Predicting what an OS is going to be like now is hilarious. The systems architecture, may, be the exact same basis the PC has been for 20 years no. I got my first IBM PC in 81, they havent changed as much as you think, open up one of the antiques , youll see....
So what is a computer going to be like in 10 years ? If you can predict this one way or another. Same or Radically different you could be the next BG....
In a small town (where I work) they have pretty progrewssive ideas on power and communications,
First they have community power, almost 1/2 the cost of Ohio Edison in the next town over. Second is community cable, once again much cheaper, third is cable internet access, $20 a month compared to Time Warners, which you can still get here,
NOW about a year ago Wadsworth put FIBER to every home in wadsworth, long term plans include long distance. AND the ability to selcetivly shut down electical stuff on peak demand, (just your air conditioner, etc) to avoid brownout, because of the above reasons , and one of the best public school systems in the country, population is exploding.
Wadsworth is a great town and I lived there during my high school years, BUT If i lived here again an axe and cutters would hit that fiber so fast it'd make your head spin. Shutting down services on your panel selectivly MY ASS.
Years ago Infoseek offered a version of their search engine to Index LARGE collections of documents. We had over 500,000 IT was around 15k if I remeber correctly. Python on a Sparc 20, (20k itself at the time with mem proccesors array and tapes) So we had alomst 4k tied up in the whole thing, There was if I remeber correctly a per site, or per page fee in addition over so many documents, I made an error in a config file once and allowed it to traverse links, other than filling the hard drive, quickly, the additional costing we did after to see how much it would be should we decide to keep those docs was hilarious.
20k, Isnt bad at all if your talking some serious indexing. We indexed 5, F500 compaines techincal documents at the time, before they were all in house, this was 97-98. It was slick, I often wondered what happened to that software package.
Anyone know what google is written in ? I decompiled a fair bit of Infoseeks just to see what was what, and because I could:) Indexing LARGE repositories isnt easy and config can be a pain. 20k sounds ok to me. I have YET to see anopen source solution that can handle VERY large document sets ASPSeek, but it still has issues, and over about 2.5 million docs I hear its a dead horse.
WILL YOU STOP WITH THE GODDAM FAKE DEATH ANNOUNCMENTS ?????
What , Alan Thicke, Steven King, who elses fake death announcment have I missed ?
I know this is a troll ???, Or what the hell it is.
Its kinda morbid....And a little loopy....
I can see it now....
Sad News CDWert found dead at 30
CDWert an prolific poster, and notoriously bad typist of slashdot found dead today at his console, cause of death is expected to be a caffiene overdose. Even though most of us dislike him his spirited rants he will be...not missed at all Good Riddance !
America did quite well, BEFORE it stated participating in a global marketplace, better than it does now. We had our OWN SELF sufficient industry. Contained within, we needed imports of VERY few items, prior to th 70 oil wasnt needed as an import. Rubber, Sugar and a few hard raw materials were the only imports needed.
I would GLADLY see america's import/export closed, it would be a boon to our domestic industry hard at first but much better in the long run, CAN NAFTA, and make all who import pay tarriff, heavy ones, they make us why not us them ?
My life depends little on others sacrifice, myself and my family HAVE sacrificed much, for 200 years every generation except my father's has fought in our military. We have sacrificed in industyr as well, NOW you tell me what good ANY of those sacrifices did for US no, in WWI and WWII ? Europe is free, but how does that help Me ? I live in the states.
It always kills me outsiders views on this country, I have travelled ALL over the world, and they have No clue what is going on here. I guss if they did , THEY would be the singularly most powerfull nation on earth, as we are. Militarily, Economically, Socially, etc. I guess the point is they dont get it, if they did they would be where we have been the last 100 years.
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Yeah, and health care costs are fucking unreal, some people have children dying because they cant buy patented medications that are the ONLY ones for their ill, my sons is $2000 a month, just for him to stay alive. Im lucky I have insurance, admittedley thaey hate me and would do anything to dump me, or how about all the adults dying of something like aids globally and the not being able to save them because US companies hold the patents and wont let go even to save fucking lives. How about all the corporations eroding the rights of citizens for their own profit ? How about a goverment that caters now to the corporations more than its citizens ?
Oh wait, im responding to a complete fucking moron with no grasp in the real world and who lives only in the census statistics !
Spend a day, or an hour if you can stomach it at a world class childrens hospital, Cincinatti , Boston, etc. Talk to the parents of the kids dying in the cancer wards, ask the parents that cant afford the cure for their childs ills, when they are available, ask a parent willing to do anything to save a child that needs an organ transplant, I have experience with my son in both of the above, visit a field hospital in Africa. When youve done those thing and are content that the corporations grace us with a 36,000 average income, you tell me all is roses.......
Idiot.....
In ASIA ???????
You smoking crak or wearing blinder....its rampant EVERYWHERE , here in the states more so than ANYWHERE, we just put, civilized names on it , like 'soft-money' , Lobbying, etc.
You wanna talk about Sheer volumes of money sxchanged in pursuit of a single commercial goal, thats right the good ole' USA will win hands down every time.
I have a hope that the next major war wont be fought between countries with differing ideologies, but rather between the people and the corporations. But alas I am just an old crank....
I hope they do find another ISP soon, I have often wondered what ever happened to the Alternet idea ?
http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
Ive heard about scavenging screenshots from computers a couple hundred feet away using the EM signal, but had serious questions on how easy this was.
The above link does it in reverse plays MP3's through your MONITOR as an antenna !!!
Now, that said, I have more of a belief in a tempest like system, guess its time to get my copy of tinfiol linux
As an attorney for the churh of ScienKookery,
We herwith and forthto demand an immediate retraction.
Any use of the very word ScienKookery is expressly forbidden due to copyright violations.
Blah...Blah Blah....
THAT WAS FUNNY !!!!! really...My spelling is bad, I think I get more comments on that than anything, but I pegged karma cap in 2 weeks...so go figure...
I think youre right, I hate these damm 'soft touch' jobbers, I used my Original IBM PC , clicker job for as long as I could, Noone makes a mechanical clikc thunk one anymore.
I am not anticomputer....In the least...I have owned and used a computer since 1978. I make my living with them.
I am however concerned about a house of cards effect when it comes to my computer interaction. I have physical copies of all documents, banking etc. If, lets say if, all the computers ceased to function tommorow, EMP, Solar Flare, you name it. Would YOU as a person and as a family survive the consequences ? I would , and its nice to know I would. But many other, city dwellers, etc.
It seems like an awfull fragile concept to base my daily life on at the moment
This is cool and I have visited their site previously, but some of the stuff just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Its one thing to wish for untainted information, stive for truth and freedom, and quite another to spew frothing at the mouth about it, hidden in an amongst what appear to be good information.
AND it is yet even more of a shame when a whole bunch of conspiracy seeking, alien hunting, govermentphobes start giving, us good truth seekers a bad name....
Wheres the tin foil hat when you sighn up to their site, I thought that wsa a requirment.
Sounds like the kitchen of the future to me...
You know those things you saw on clips of 40-50's news reels.
Neat idea, but I have to seiously question the deendece to such a degree on technology, technology is fragile, and a great tool, One sinlgle 100 megaton nuclear device exploded in the atmosphere would end all that for decades.
EMP weaponry is going to be one of the tools of the future for armies at large, you think a Jumo Jet creates havoc. What would you do tommorow, if all the electronic devices you use were suddenly non functional , Could you survive ?, I could, I have a breaker ignition vehicle in storge, backup mechanical water pumping(on a well) and oil heat with no electronic controls. This isnt the norm, prevasive compution is a cool concept but sounds far too omniporesent and fragile for me.
This is good, and I agree with the change, I think there has been a fair amount of bad feelings by developers when code has been wrapped in a proprietary product. Even though none of those poroprietary products have sealed their efforts, codeweavers does donate back to wine and transgaming is available via CVS.
I am curious about what will happen to the existing wine trees out there and in process of development. If I am correct they will not be allowed to borrow from the tree effective date being the liscence change, they will in fact, with the amount of work that goes into wine, end up with a stale tree quickly.
Is there a way around this ?
There is obviously no way to make the liscence apply retroactivly, and that would be wrong, is there any way to ensure certain portions of the new tree dont make it into a proprietary product bundle ?
This is probably the most singular unifying architechture change that will propel Linux to the top of all the markets, server, desktop, and embedded.
YEAH RIGHT !
Ok, Im suprised RMS said something without demanding, frothing, or berating. But in the whole scheme of things is this really worth the bits its typed with ?
Some architechtural changes in the next version of each twoard additional compatility would be nice. But aside from that they are different systems, written by different people, with different needs and different goals, as well as different philosiphys on how to achieve what they want. To this end I dont really see what good compatible themes are gonna do for the rest of the projects...
All I wanna see is the cat the cia cyborgized for remote recon mission, I
Oh, I forgot, after all those millions, frankenkitty got squashed....
This ought to be called the obsurdity display, How mush of these toys actually produced results ?
What about all the mind control devices the CIA and KGB played with in the 50's and 60's ?
WHAT ?? Theyre still using them?!?
......I forgot what I was going to say.....
Making *NIX systems easy to configure maintain, manage and etc will be the downfall of the IT industry, Green Skinned *NIX admins everywhere will revolt the people tring to bring *NIX to the masees.....
Alright so im joking...big suprise...
I think this would be a good thing all in all, IF they DONT MUCK with my existing configurations. There are many things that can be tweaked far beyond the iditot proof gui configuration tools on other OS, In windows you can resort to registry tweaking for some items, others you just cant do a damm thing about, its those thing Im afraid will be removed from my control.
Dummning down on the surface is fine, as long as they dont do it to the underlying configurations. I still cant figure out how the hell to edit (or find) the samba configuration file on OSX, Now granted its not my machine, and I dont really use BSD, so im not suprised. But does it even exist ??? A I am used to it on Solaris and Linux ?
Well yes and no......
MS could fight it tooth and nail and it wouldnt matter one bit. First, there are tons sales to be made , with or without MS interaction. Think of all the govts that are tinkering with dropping MS in favor of an open soure system, well darwin is, they can inspect and recompile it. Think of all the Art Poser types, that have a 4 year old PC daddy gave em and wish they could have an Apple. Next hink of all the *NIX developer types that would love to use it as their destop *NIX, maybe not their servers but the workstation side.
But as has been stated here many times Apple is a hardware company,
Joining , full strength the OpenOffice initiative would be a good choice, bundling an Office Capable suite in OXS that ran on x86 would be great, and a boon to sales I am certain, MAJOR work needs done on the filter side of office, and a binary compatible, database to access.
One problem, X86 is forking, IA64 and X86-64.....
3 Years from now....The major companies will be pushing this for hardware and renewed software sales.
This guy gives a bad name to good Anarchists, I mean the way to do it isnt violent direct action, even Che reckognized in the US thats not the way to go. It is I belive through the massive expansion ov goverment services to no particular end, they will suffocate under their own bloat and meanwhile create a pressure within the population that cannot be contained. Lead thm on wild goose chases whilst doing nothing illegal, pass large amounts of heavily encrypted data of say teletubbie pictures to iranian or iraqui email address, this would be fun, tie the iraquis up doing nothing particularly usefull and at the same time make the NSA and the FBI and CIA spend X amount of man hours to no avail, youvedone nothing illegal, but given enough useless crap when it comes time fro budget review I can see it now. 'Senator X to the Director FBI' >>
Did you sir spend 40 million dollars decrypting certain encrytped communications ?
'FBI:Uhhhh Yes sir,'
'Senator; WHat was in those documents'
'FBI: Uhhhh Digital imagrey of a highly contreversial nature'
'Senator X, You mean sir pornagraphic depictions of teletubbies dont you'
'FBI: Uhuh'
But seriously did you read the transcript and feel like you were reading a lost Laurel and Hardy script.
Ms. TIPOGRAPH (sounds like typograph, a neccesity in any legal document:)
Agent Kuhn (Agent Coon, cousin to secret squirrel)
Mr Hou (Hows who on first)
This kid broke the law directly, molotov cocktails, hacking an defacment. Too bad he couldnt just stick to information he'da been a martyr, well maybe but at worst a malcontent.
'Trustworth Computing' and Microsoft in the same sentece is an oxymoron.
That said it is much easier to innovate wihtout regard to security even at a basic level, MS has been doing just this for quite sometime, and it looks like it may finally be catching up to bite em in the ass.
MS has made great strides in interface usablitiy, and some disasters, some minor security annoyance, and some bungles of a scale unseen before. Quantity, not Quality has been the MS creed for a long while, blowind the doors off their prior interface and capablities of 3.1 to win95 was a major leap, and they ran like a thief with it.
Its easy to innovate and produce LOTS of stuff fast if security isnt a concer, unfortunatley for MS that mindset became standard at MS, Bill's Memo is proof in itself,
First let me say I an a fan of Alan Conx, from a purely technical point, I dont know him personally, and therefore cannot make a determination if I like him or not.
The answers given were good, to the point and basically good answers.
THE QUESTIONS SUCKED !
This has too be one of the shortest most boring interviews with Alan Ive seen. Alan doesnt seem to be as forthcoming with tangents as some interviewees. But thats him, me id talk about everything under the sun.
Long story short, and a note to interviewers, If you actually get time to ask someone like this questions in the future, give some thought to the questions youre going to ask, this one about put me to sleep.
This will be funny, the errors that are appearing in genetic replication that lead to obesity,
Ever notice the more dysfunctional someone is the fatter their cat ?
This will be hilarious, first a genetic predisposition to obesity, followed by some loon that just cant let go of "Fluffy" I can see it now CAT-KONG (Its a funny childrens book)
An 80 lb cat, a shortened life span and an already neruotic owner that couldnt let go thie first time around, watch this become a really sad vicious cycle, copies of copies, getting fat and dying yet faster than the last time around. Maybe I should go after a Vet Liscence.....
If you know what you are doing, you can run W2K server WITOUT IE, You need to make a special OEM cd using their toolkit, and you can even do other fun things like put InetPub AND IIS on a sperate partition, under users that have no access to the rest of the partiotions , hence the OS. NSA has some good info on the latter.
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The courts are compltley ignorant on this matter, so are their 'expets' for the most part. Windwows will run fine without IE, at least, 95, NT 4.0 and W2K , SP is 2k on steroids with eye candy, The OEM install kit(XP) has a network ready bootable CD image that wii RUN ANY(IE included, Abobe, you name it), Windows app under it you want this should be PROOF alone. It starts as only a background and a shell window, you can run anything else from it you want executing it from the command line, Beauty is it will handle Win32 AND NTFS partitions, makes a wicked hack tool for a dead or funked machine, or to change the SAM around
This sounds cool, and Im glad someone is on this track, in 20 years people will be sayign (as they do with TV) , 'People used to think this would hurt their eyes' , like my mom used to say about the TV.
I always love the sci-fi flicks where they have something like this on a thin stick near their eye, walking around in a dark smokey ship hold. a good slap upside the head and , ouch. no more eye.
Or the IBM commercial....same thing.
Im not so worried about the reitanl scanning effects, lasers(no not the little led jobbers), arcs, you name it and Ive looked at it. I can still see, I may have had vison problems for a day or so after some of the incidents but it healed(I know I understand some dont).
What Im WORRIED about is having something the size of a frigging pencil 1 inch from my eye, that sounds scarrier than potential retinal damage.
Well even a blind man can hit a dart board half the time.
To be honest I have more belief in certain sci-fi writews in the long term of prediction, HG Wells for one. If not take litteraly of course.
AS far as THIS goes...
'rant goes, I was going to find a science timeline to refute it with a few choice examples, but I think I'll leave it at one: The Internet, which allows rabble-rousing pedants to blow off steam into the air of a virtual domain rather than taking up valuable public park space with their soapboxes and shrill, infantile'proclamations
Two points, the internet was one of the things I was ranting about, digital dissemination of infromation is leading corporations to crack down and stifle speech more than before.
Medical breakthroughs dont mean shit when we have twice as many people starving to death, etc.
As far as the soapbox part goes ????
Well I was a loudmouthed opinionated pain in the ass before the internet came to be. I think in a past life I mighta been standing on one.......
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One difference, I will actually backup my words with action, whatever neccesary, I have convictions, right or wrong, theyre mine. Im not (and im not saying you are so dont take this wrong) One of those mealy mouthed politically correct spinless bastards that tries to whitewash everything, while at the same time tries to steal rights and freedoms from you, saying if you respond in a negative way you are a blah blah blah or hiding something or someother crap meant to silence you further.
I was raised to fight, my son will be raised to fight, no matter what the cost, to preserve integrity,not to hide under a shroud of fear,
Humans do some things better than any other 4000 years and it does not change, only the scenery, make no mistake, histroy has tought us this again and again, we kill, plunder and oppress. Until we understand and embrace this we cannot change it.
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On a whole, lives taken by a result of technology from 1900 to lives saved,....guess what your argument loses EVERY time, it has been studied, and proven.
Python has all you need, If I were to design a language from the ground up it would act and look alot like Python, that said, there is already something there and no need to push the edge of insanity writing my own language again, I did when I was younger, in the early 80's. No enough caffiene on the planet to try it again.
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Python will, if designed properly handle any load you could want to throw at it, it is portable as it gets, its easy to debug.
I cannot imagine what you are writing, or your boss thinks youre going to write that needs all that in one place at the same time. My bet is this is a buzzword hyped dude that has no Idea of the actual functional requirments. He wants an IDE and RAD, Im assuming so any 12$ an hour lackey can help support it at a later date as well as speed initial development. If portablity is the least of your concerns(in short term) VB.net would be the choice. In about 2 years VB.net programmers will be like VB programmers are now....a dime a dozen. That has more value than you can imagine on a large scale project whose lifecycle is indeterminite.
Screw em all and write it in assy, dont let em see any progress and then unleash it upon them complete, debugging is easy, if its wrong it dosent run. Its portable, from same architecture to same architecture(snicker), it actually will scale(buzzword insert)BUT THE SINGULAR MOST IMPORTANT PART is Youll have a job for life, at whatever you want em to pay you to maintain it
Im stil waiting for the flying car promised in the 50's
....futurists have NO clue what so ever !
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Or the atomic car promised by ford in the 60's
Or the Artificial intelligence android promised me in the 70's
Or......I get it
All this technolgy only makes it easier to kill each other, steal each other land and money, and pretty much lead more misearble meaningless existences than life was 50 years ago....
Predicting what an OS is going to be like now is hilarious. The systems architecture, may, be the exact same basis the PC has been for 20 years no. I got my first IBM PC in 81, they havent changed as much as you think, open up one of the antiques , youll see
So what is a computer going to be like in 10 years ? If you can predict this one way or another. Same or Radically different you could be the next BG....
Horseshit all of it...
In ohio, they are doing this in several place,
In a small town (where I work) they have pretty progrewssive ideas on power and communications,
First they have community power, almost 1/2 the cost of Ohio Edison in the next town over. Second is community cable, once again much cheaper, third is cable internet access, $20 a month compared to Time Warners, which you can still get here,
NOW about a year ago Wadsworth put FIBER to every home in wadsworth, long term plans include long distance. AND the ability to selcetivly shut down electical stuff on peak demand, (just your air conditioner, etc) to avoid brownout, because of the above reasons , and one of the best public school systems in the country, population is exploding.
Wadsworth is a great town and I lived there during my high school years, BUT If i lived here again an axe and cutters would hit that fiber so fast it'd make your head spin. Shutting down services on your panel selectivly MY ASS.
Years ago Infoseek offered a version of their search engine to Index LARGE collections of documents. We had over 500,000 IT was around 15k if I remeber correctly. Python on a Sparc 20, (20k itself at the time with mem proccesors array and tapes) So we had alomst 4k tied up in the whole thing, There was if I remeber correctly a per site, or per page fee in addition over so many documents, I made an error in a config file once and allowed it to traverse links, other than filling the hard drive, quickly, the additional costing we did after to see how much it would be should we decide to keep those docs was hilarious.
:) Indexing LARGE repositories isnt easy and config can be a pain. 20k sounds ok to me. I have YET to see anopen source solution that can handle VERY large document sets ASPSeek, but it still has issues, and over about 2.5 million docs I hear its a dead horse.
20k, Isnt bad at all if your talking some serious indexing. We indexed 5, F500 compaines techincal documents at the time, before they were all in house, this was 97-98. It was slick, I often wondered what happened to that software package.
Anyone know what google is written in ? I decompiled a fair bit of Infoseeks just to see what was what, and because I could
WTF !!!!!!!!
...not missed at all Good Riddance !
WILL YOU STOP WITH THE GODDAM FAKE DEATH ANNOUNCMENTS ?????
What , Alan Thicke, Steven King, who elses fake death announcment have I missed ?
I know this is a troll ???, Or what the hell it is.
Its kinda morbid....And a little loopy....
I can see it now....
Sad News CDWert found dead at 30
CDWert an prolific poster, and notoriously bad typist of slashdot found dead today at his console, cause of death is expected to be a caffiene overdose. Even though most of us dislike him his spirited rants he will be
Noone said YOU HAD to buy.
America did quite well, BEFORE it stated participating in a global marketplace, better than it does now. We had our OWN SELF sufficient industry. Contained within, we needed imports of VERY few items, prior to th 70 oil wasnt needed as an import. Rubber, Sugar and a few hard raw materials were the only imports needed.
I would GLADLY see america's import/export closed, it would be a boon to our domestic industry hard at first but much better in the long run, CAN NAFTA, and make all who import pay tarriff, heavy ones, they make us why not us them ?
My life depends little on others sacrifice, myself and my family HAVE sacrificed much, for 200 years every generation except my father's has fought in our military. We have sacrificed in industyr as well, NOW you tell me what good ANY of those sacrifices did for US no, in WWI and WWII ? Europe is free, but how does that help Me ? I live in the states.
It always kills me outsiders views on this country, I have travelled ALL over the world, and they have No clue what is going on here. I guss if they did , THEY would be the singularly most powerfull nation on earth, as we are. Militarily, Economically, Socially, etc. I guess the point is they dont get it, if they did they would be where we have been the last 100 years.