Urgh... I mis-recognized the reference to the 'the one<->neo as an ancient alternate meaning.... (Perhaps it was taken back in time by the time-traveling stock trader?).
1) The obvious: Neo literally means new, not one. Take the next step and your name now becomes "new protects the crown".
If trying to defend my previous thesis to the teeth, I'd be inclined to say that the name would then translate as "new protector (holder?) of the crown".
Mr. Anderson WAS Neo. The guy you're thinking of was a Smith.
No. I had it right.. Although we don't consider neo to be evil, the system did.
Had The System known what Anderson was doing and the long term implications of what was about to happen, it would have responded much more strongly and much earlier. By the time The System took action, it was too late to late to prevent the final dffects.
Some time ago I was at the reading for an author... (Possibly Spider Robinson, but I'm not sure) who mentioned that he had recieved a book on interpretive literature from a publisher who had used some of his work. After one of his stories they had a series of questions:
What did the author mean by....
explain the author's use of metaphor in.......
What symbolism was the author invoking with.....
He says that he had no answer to more than half the questions.
In my world:
Neo -> Neophyte / newbie / new In Fandom (Science Fiction fan world), a newbie is a newcommer -- often eager and with some promise, but definitely needing some support and mentoring to fulfill their promise. Also new-> source of newness (The New WOrld)..
Morpheus -> Morph / change A source or change for Neo. Shifting him into becoming the ultimate weapon -- Final testing via Trinity.
Mr. Anderson -> Anderson Consulting. A seemingly innocuous entity covering up nefarious activity which could fundamentally change the system (yes, I realize that Anderson imploded after Matrix, but why can't we assign this to prophesy??).
Zion -> Zionizm Refers to the wish for some jews to retern to the old homeland (aka Israel) -- A return to the old ways of doing things and being. The real homeland.
Cypher -> Secret code Both a method of communication and The Spy..
Neo: The messiah. This is Thomas Anderson's virtual name. Literally meaning "new," Neo is also referred to as the "One," which is an anagram for Neo.
Nebuchadnezzar: Morpheus's ship. This figure referenced in the Book of Daniel was the powerful king of ancient Babylon who suffered from troubling dreams. The name literally means "Nebo, protect the crown."
If Nebo later became Neo ( a reasonable linguistic morph), then Nebuchadnezzar might have meant "The one[who] protects the crown."
Remember the story of the person who passed a $3.00 bill with Bill Clinton's face on it? All they could charge him with was failure to pay, since he hadn't really counter fitted any money.
No, because you made that up.
The George Bush $200 (from an earlier post) is the most recent form of the scam. I can't say for sure that the Clinton $3 bill wasn't a hoax, but it definitely got enough airtime for me to hear about it (up in Canada).
Well, considering he [Asimov] wrote that story in 1956, nine years before the Multics project started (never mind UNIX), I'm thinking he worked it [Multivac] out on his own, based on UNIVAC.
I'm now wondering if the Multics name came from Asimov's Multivac.
It amazes me that Slashbots can criticize players like Microsoft for ignoring standards when it suits them, then turn around and do exactly the same thing themselves.
As someone who's pretty much grown up on Unix (my first root prompt was on the first Radio Shack Model 16 delivered into Edmonton), I've admined just about every major brand of Unix. For me, Linux and BSD look, feel, smell and taste like UNIX. This isn't like NT or OpenVMS which are completely different animals with a posix compliant skin. These boxes were designed to be UNIX(TM) and they've done a pretty good job of it.
In my world, the leasst complient Unix I've played with would be AIX (last messed with circa '93) -- it's config files and admin approach are so un-UNIX(TM) like that cross-platform admin tools almost always have to special-case it. I haven't played with Open-VMS, but if it's anything like VMS, then it's probably worse than AIX in that regard. NT starts with a different text file format snd goes downhill from there.
As far as I'm concerned, just being first-level POSIX compliant doesn't make an OS UNIX any more than speaking (heavily accented) English makes one British. It is, however, a reasonable first step.
Moreover, there is nothing in the FTC Act that says "deceptive trade practices" are permitted if done for a good reason, or against people we don't like.
The thing about participating in something illegal is a well-entrenched legal concept known as 'unclean hands'... Basically, it's that people involved in an illegal act tend not to have much right to go running to the court to complain about how the deal falls apart.
Now, in this case, the RIAA is making files available in response to the fact that people are sharing stuff that they think they deserve to be paid for.. Problem is that the law says that they're in the right.
In the case of spam the FTC is responding to people doing shit to get you to view their advertisment.. In the case of the RIAA, they're doing all sorts of stuff to discourage you from 'stealing our stuff'.
If you try to sue them on this, you're going to get laughed out of court -- assuming that they don't counter-sue you for $50,000... One thing that I would suggest is that you really intend to follow this line, that you go in with absolutely clean hands -- i.e. you've only ever downloaded tracks that you've already bought and you have never had copyright files available for upload.... (oh... but people who fit that rule tend not to be interested in sucking thes files down/??? oops-- too bad).
The real answer to this is stop downloading RIAA artists! There are a lot of really good artists out there that aren't being carried by these geeks. They deserve (and could heartily use) your support. I've even got files from two different groups of friends online on my own web pages: Theda -- a friend of mine with a beautiful voice (I'd call it a mix of Enya and the Eurythmics).
and Phat Tank a rather interesting funk-style group put together by some friends of mine.
Spread it around... Find friends who do good music and get permission to put their music on the net. Let people the world have access to real music.
It's not like the stuff on passport security is critical... It's only your email, your identifying information, your credit card number and...... Well it's not like it's life-threatening...
then even if you agree that Ashcroft is evil, it's simply offtopic Bush-bashing, appropriately labled as flamebait.
I dunno if the ACLU has more cases than usual, but some of the ones they're dealing with are far more serious than in the recent past. Have you seen what they're doing in Guantanimo???
Those aren't just 'regular' military tribunals. they're closer to the kinds of trubunals that we hear of in Bananna republics and places like Nigeria. It was so bad that the officer/lawyers who were assigned to 'defend' those people accepted the risk to their military careers that came from refusing to sign on to the terms and getting fired.
From what I've heard:
It proceeds in secrecy
Death sentences aren't just possible... Judges are directed to impose sentences with 'maximum deterrenc effect'.
You can be convicted based on heresay evidence..
The prosecution can bring in anonymous witnesses.
There is no automatic right of cross-examination (not for the defence, anyways)
Your lawyer can be thrown in jail for just raising the question of whether you are properly classified as an 'illegal combatant'.
(S)he can also be jailed for discussing your case with colleagues
Documents cannot be taken away from
-- and, yes, they can put you in front of this court even if you're a US citizen living in the states.
The Star Chamber's life cycle (the Star Chamber started out with a pretty good reputation, but slowly grew more and more arbitrary and political until it became cause for a coup D'etat.
These military tribunals are starting more than half way through the Star Chamber's lifecycle.
Human rights in the Western world are under derious attack -- all in the name of 'anti-terrorism'. What people don't seem to understand is that Muslims aren't the only 'potential' terrorists out there. We seem to have forgotten that the second worst terrorism act in the us was comitted by a blond-haired blue-eyed ex-marine. Anybody can get caught in the war on terrorism. Unfortunately, by the time we realize it, it will be too late.
When they came for the Semites (Jews&Muslims) I said nothing for I was not one.
When they came for the Gypsys, I said nothing, for I was not a Gypsy
When they came for the Communists, I was solaced by my safety
When they came for the Gays, I clung to my wife.
When they came for the Labour Organizers, I hid in my business.
When they came for the Rights Protesters, I was glad I had been silent.
When they came for my wife, I cowered in the corner.
When they came for me, there was nobody left to cry out for my rights.
. . . .
But many UNIX vendors eventually cleaned up their act and started putting out secure systems, it is not impossible that microsoft could do the same. . . ..
Unix was insecure back when people were working on an assumption that 'the net' was a secure place where all the admins pretty much knew each other within 2 or 3 degrees of separation. The Great
Morris worm of 1988 is generally considered the 'great wakeup call' for the unix community.
If Windows 2003 is the first MS product to benefit from their 'bourne again' focus on security, then this means
it pretty much took 15 years for MS to 'realize' that security was a
real issue worth addressing. Perhaps, in 5 years or so, they'll have caught up with the Unix community.
It looks to me like MS doesn't consider security a good idea on it's own terms. They consider security to be a marketing issue. It was only when security issues threatened their market dominance that they took it with any seriousness. If it ever ceases to be a marketing issue (i.e. if they ever manage to 'put Linux down'), then I expect that it will, once again, wane in their focus.
But making or saving money is the only reason for a corporation to sue somebody.
Only if you believe that the only reason for a corporation to exist is to make money. This isn't true. Originally, corporations were created for the public good. Charters were granted to corporations only if they promised to do something positive, and the charter could be revoked if they violated their promise. Over time, this has been changed (I'm tempted to say 'perverted').
There are some coporations that exist to serve some other end. For those corporations, profit is simply a necesity to keep the coporation in existence. Volvo come to mind as a corporation which claims to be intent on providing the best cars possible -- with profit claimed to be a fallout from the intention.
A number of years ago, I actually worked for a registered non-profit corporation. It was fun when I made an application at a place that had different charge rates for commercial and non-profit organizations. (yes, I finally managed to get the non-profit rate).
Linux is case sensitive, and the actual name is Ie (cap 'I' lower case 'e') It apparently has something to do with inheriting Windows' diskike for names all in upper case. if you did a 'find -iname ie' you might have better luck.
Of course, if you do find it, your system will immediately freeze up like you'd looked at Medusa, but that's a different issue....
If they get more money back than was spent on the process, I will be surprised.
If they don't, then they shouldn't have sued in the first place.
Monetary awards are not the only reason for suing somebody (although going into court without a monetary interest can confuse the best of judges..). Here in BC there are many cases of companies going to court go get injunctions against protestors, etc. Although the injunctions are nominally interlocutory (until the case properly goes to court), they often stop prosecuting the case after the injunction is granted (i.e. the injunction is the only reason why they filed the injunction. I was actually surprised to find that they actually proceeded with one of these cases and got a ($6000) award.
Although they seem to have little hope of collecting on the $16M award, the fact that they can have these people arrested for violating the injunction can probably save them thousands of dollars in human an hardware costs.
Scientology predates Nazi Germany. The daemons referenced in the texts of L. Ron Hubbard have been in existence for aeons. So has the fight against them.. Hitler banned the predecessor to The Church of Scientology after they tested him and declared him to be "as 'clear' as a mudpuddle".
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Those aren't logic operators, those are arithmetic operators. Logic operators are AND (&), OR (|), NOT (!), and XOR (^).
If you insist:
The '|' is just a one in another form.
! is a one with a small 0 beneath it.
^ is two ones
& is a bit more difficult, but it can be reasonably done as two 0's one small '1' and two even smaller '1's side by side (for the up=pointing stub.
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1) The obvious: Neo literally means new, not one. Take the next step and your name now becomes "new protects the crown".
If trying to defend my previous thesis to the teeth, I'd be inclined to say that the name would then translate as "new protector (holder?) of the crown".
No. I had it right.. Although we don't consider neo to be evil, the system did.
Had The System known what Anderson was doing and the long term implications of what was about to happen, it would have responded much more strongly and much earlier. By the time The System took action, it was too late to late to prevent the final dffects.
What did the author mean by
explain the author's use of metaphor in
What symbolism was the author invoking with
He says that he had no answer to more than half the questions.
In my world:
No... The geek shall hack the earth.
(or is it that we shall hack a hole into the earth to bury the geek?)
whatever...
Just try talking to Bush, Rosen, Valenti and Gates.....
:-Ð
Remember the story of the person who passed a $3.00 bill with Bill Clinton's face on it? All they could charge him with was failure to pay, since he hadn't really counter fitted any money.
No, because you made that up. The George Bush $200 (from an earlier post) is the most recent form of the scam. I can't say for sure that the Clinton $3 bill wasn't a hoax, but it definitely got enough airtime for me to hear about it (up in Canada).
I'm now wondering if the Multics name came from Asimov's Multivac.
As someone who's pretty much grown up on Unix (my first root prompt was on the first Radio Shack Model 16 delivered into Edmonton), I've admined just about every major brand of Unix. For me, Linux and BSD look, feel, smell and taste like UNIX. This isn't like NT or OpenVMS which are completely different animals with a posix compliant skin. These boxes were designed to be UNIX(TM) and they've done a pretty good job of it.
In my world, the leasst complient Unix I've played with would be AIX (last messed with circa '93) -- it's config files and admin approach are so un-UNIX(TM) like that cross-platform admin tools almost always have to special-case it. I haven't played with Open-VMS, but if it's anything like VMS, then it's probably worse than AIX in that regard. NT starts with a different text file format snd goes downhill from there.
As far as I'm concerned, just being first-level POSIX compliant doesn't make an OS UNIX any more than speaking (heavily accented) English makes one British. It is, however, a reasonable first step.
That's the wordplay (AFIK) that spawned (if you'll excuse the pun) the UNIX name.
The thing about participating in something illegal is a well-entrenched legal concept known as 'unclean hands'... Basically, it's that people involved in an illegal act tend not to have much right to go running to the court to complain about how the deal falls apart.
Now, in this case, the RIAA is making files available in response to the fact that people are sharing stuff that they think they deserve to be paid for.. Problem is that the law says that they're in the right.
In the case of spam the FTC is responding to people doing shit to get you to view their advertisment.. In the case of the RIAA, they're doing all sorts of stuff to discourage you from 'stealing our stuff'. .. One thing that I would suggest is that you really intend to follow this line, that you go in with absolutely clean hands -- i.e. you've only ever downloaded tracks that you've already bought and you have never had copyright files available for upload.... (oh... but people who fit that rule tend not to be interested in sucking thes files down/??? oops-- too bad).
If you try to sue them on this, you're going to get laughed out of court -- assuming that they don't counter-sue you for $50,000.
The real answer to this is stop downloading RIAA artists! There are a lot of really good artists out there that aren't being carried by these geeks. They deserve (and could heartily use) your support. I've even got files from two different groups of friends online on my own web pages: Theda -- a friend of mine with a beautiful voice (I'd call it a mix of Enya and the Eurythmics). and Phat Tank a rather interesting funk-style group put together by some friends of mine.
Spread it around... Find friends who do good music and get permission to put their music on the net. Let people the world have access to real music.
It's not like the stuff on passport security is critical... It's only your email, your identifying information, your credit card number and ...... Well it's not like it's life-threatening...
I dunno if the ACLU has more cases than usual, but some of the ones they're dealing with are far more serious than in the recent past. Have you seen what they're doing in Guantanimo???
Those aren't just 'regular' military tribunals. they're closer to the kinds of trubunals that we hear of in Bananna republics and places like Nigeria. It was so bad that the officer/lawyers who were assigned to 'defend' those people accepted the risk to their military careers that came from refusing to sign on to the terms and getting fired.
-- and, yes, they can put you in front of this court even if you're a US citizen living in the states.
The Star Chamber's life cycle (the Star Chamber started out with a pretty good reputation, but slowly grew more and more arbitrary and political until it became cause for a coup D'etat. These military tribunals are starting more than half way through the Star Chamber's lifecycle.
Human rights in the Western world are under derious attack -- all in the name of 'anti-terrorism'. What people don't seem to understand is that Muslims aren't the only 'potential' terrorists out there. We seem to have forgotten that the second worst terrorism act in the us was comitted by a blond-haired blue-eyed ex-marine. Anybody can get caught in the war on terrorism. Unfortunately, by the time we realize it, it will be too late.
Anybody remember who wrote the original poem?Let's think about that:
Unix was insecure back when people were working on an assumption that 'the net' was a secure place where all the admins pretty much knew each other within 2 or 3 degrees of separation. The Great Morris worm of 1988 is generally considered the 'great wakeup call' for the unix community.
If Windows 2003 is the first MS product to benefit from their 'bourne again' focus on security, then this means it pretty much took 15 years for MS to 'realize' that security was a real issue worth addressing. Perhaps, in 5 years or so, they'll have caught up with the Unix community.
It looks to me like MS doesn't consider security a good idea on it's own terms. They consider security to be a marketing issue. It was only when security issues threatened their market dominance that they took it with any seriousness. If it ever ceases to be a marketing issue (i.e. if they ever manage to 'put Linux down'), then I expect that it will, once again, wane in their focus.
Needless to say, I'm writing this from a Linux box.
Only if you believe that the only reason for a corporation to exist is to make money. This isn't true. Originally, corporations were created for the public good. Charters were granted to corporations only if they promised to do something positive, and the charter could be revoked if they violated their promise. Over time, this has been changed (I'm tempted to say 'perverted').
There are some coporations that exist to serve some other end. For those corporations, profit is simply a necesity to keep the coporation in existence. Volvo come to mind as a corporation which claims to be intent on providing the best cars possible -- with profit claimed to be a fallout from the intention.
A number of years ago, I actually worked for a registered non-profit corporation. It was fun when I made an application at a place that had different charge rates for commercial and non-profit organizations. (yes, I finally managed to get the non-profit rate).
What part of "It's a joke" don't you understand?
Linux is case sensitive, and the actual name is Ie (cap 'I' lower case 'e') It apparently has something to do with inheriting Windows' diskike for names all in upper case. if you did a 'find -iname ie' you might have better luck.
Of course, if you do find it, your system will immediately freeze up like you'd looked at Medusa, but that's a different issue....
On a $25M award, I'd be happy to go after these bastards for a simple 5% collector's fee.
((-: Would it be OK if I destroyed their business in the process?? :-)) [big evil grin]
Slicing up an Apple just see what's inside.
Kinda seedy, if you ask me....
If they don't, then they shouldn't have sued in the first place.
Monetary awards are not the only reason for suing somebody (although going into court without a monetary interest can confuse the best of judges..). Here in BC there are many cases of companies going to court go get injunctions against protestors, etc. Although the injunctions are nominally interlocutory (until the case properly goes to court), they often stop prosecuting the case after the injunction is granted (i.e. the injunction is the only reason why they filed the injunction. I was actually surprised to find that they actually proceeded with one of these cases and got a ($6000) award.
Although they seem to have little hope of collecting on the $16M award, the fact that they can have these people arrested for violating the injunction can probably save them thousands of dollars in human an hardware costs.
Scientology predates Nazi Germany. The daemons referenced in the texts of L. Ron Hubbard have been in existence for aeons. So has the fight against them.. Hitler banned the predecessor to The Church of Scientology after they tested him and declared him to be "as 'clear' as a mudpuddle".
If you insist:
The '|' is just a one in another form.
! is a one with a small 0 beneath it.
^ is two ones
& is a bit more difficult, but it can be reasonably done as two 0's one small '1' and two even smaller '1's side by side (for the up=pointing stub.
btw: AND and OR are often designated as: * and +.