That's "fish 'n' chips" cos you're replacing both a and d with inverted commas.
By the way, hot grits down the pants is exceedingly preferrable to paying BT's charges for their under-specced service. NT won't work with it, Linux won't work with it (which really hacks me off) and if you knew how incompetent BT have been about the test installations you'd cry. Or laugh.
I am of the opinion that Lawrence Godfrey is a menace to society, and a stain upon the face of humanity. I can say this quite happily because I prefaced it with "I am of the opinion that" and no-one can sue you for stating your opinion as you're not saying anything is fact. This should calm some but sadly it is no solution. It is a fact that something needs to be done about libel law.
>It boggles the mind. If you find this >"entertaining", I suggest you get help.
Maybe, just maybe, people have the freedom to choose what they believe in, and for some people who have no religious faith this kind of stuff is hilarious because it is so silly and overblown. Maybe they want to find it hilarious without wishing to influence the minds of others on this matter and wouldn't seek to make misplaced and judgemental comments upon others like you have just done.
When you are writing, do you claim to speak only for peopel you encounter in the US or abroad too? I live in the UK and none of the geeks I've met seem to fit into your world view, despite them being, in my opinion, very much archetypal examples of whatever it means to be one. Maybe this is just my experience but I'm quite well connected and it seems to me that peopel in teh US can't be that different to use over here. Do you ever stop and wonder whether you are believing your own hype?
In many UK universities it is common to have network links in campus/college rooms. This has created a culture of its own in many places with all sorts of gaming clans/IRC networks being formed. The funny thing is the way many students will encrypt their comunications in order to not be detected by authorities if they think that what they're doing is not allowed. I've seen some really nice methods used although mentioning names could be silly. In many cases there is a nice culture going which makes you feel quite priveleged to be able to access.
Don't be silly. If you're one of those anti-M$ peopel who hates them no matter what they do then you'd be having good reason to be fearful. Ballmer appears a lot more influential as a figurehead. His talks are much mroe animated that Gates' and he can get a crowd worked up. For employees this is important.
To be honest you shouldn't worry as the uptime for Linux boxes in general is as high as most other platforms already. It is not uptiem alone that sells an OS to other people. If you can upgrade your kernel to take advantage of new functionality then that is more likely to make Linux appear robust, usable and so on.
Hemos - it's *adjective* about *noun*, a verb is a going word.:-) Right - pedantry over with.:-) I just got (with only minor tweaking from my first attempt):
Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's rabbits have conveyed to every rabbit with the potential to eat in the small tank industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, 3Com, Compaq, WalMart, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense guns to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's wonky products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such potatoes and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and marshmallows that exhibit the potential to run Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly gender-bend consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not wibble with Microsoft's hamper.
Just when it seems IE is running away with the browser war...Netscape start running in the opposite direction. Communicator 5.0 is unlikely to come out before Microsoft have the entire browser market sewn up. This is scary and Not Good for the WWW. We're not looking at any real competition to IE until the Spring probably.
I was talking to a Lucent employee who called his company Loo-Scent. Then it occured tome - why the hell don't people think of these things before they name their companies?
This is hilarious. My favourites are the Ivory Soap and Oil of Olay ones. How I wish I was working for Proctor and Gamble.:-)
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Well first you have to do somethign for yourself - don't allow people to gain that much information on you. Don't use Hotmail, when peopel ask for unecessary information, decline to give it. Of course this won't stop people from accessing your name through electoral records and so on (I do not advocate losing your right to vote by removing yourself from electoral rolls!) but you can at least do *somethign* for yourself. Perhaps more specifically, always always be careful about what is being sold to you. If companies find out information about you and try to sell stuff to you, you're not under any obligation to buy it, so don't. Ensure that you're always researching the best deal for yourself despite being propositioned by a bunch of companies who may have been pointed towards you due to your profile. As they become smarter in their race to take your money, become smarter in your efforts to get yourself the best services/products for the least cash.
I use two BBS systems, one of them run by a guy called Ford Prefect so I'm wondering...:-) It's been going since 1986 (a bit before my time) and I am not revealing the name of it either. However, the other is Monochrome which is the largest BBS in the UK, probably. Thousands of users, plenty to do and if clueless people want to turn up they're welcome. There is no snobbishness on there. It's a real community and the facility ot message other users of the BBS and see how is on makes you feel that you're inside the system. Closest thing I've seen to a real Internet community, and a shining example of how BBSes can still work today.
The foam from your mouth is visible from here. This won't become law. Yes, it is usually where proving your inocence is easy that the reversal of Burden of Proof is reversed but this clrealy is NOT one such case. Therefore it *will* set a precedent for that reason. That precedent can and will be used by others, if allowed to be set, to bend things their way when usually the law would have found against them. It doesn't help that people like RMS miss out on this obvious problem, and that it gives ammunition to those poor people who hide guns under their beds in case the New World Order marches in and arrests them for being good and upstanding libertarians. Any part of this law, shoudl it contradict other laws already in place, will set a precedent, and a dangerous one, if passed by a judge in court. That is why it has passed out from the E-commerce bill and into a seperate bill where we can fully attack it for being the slimy pile of shit it is. Onme thign is for sure, I won't be handing over my crypto keys to anyone anytime soon.
This whole article is riddled with inaccuraices about Linux. Shame , really. It wasn't reverse-engineered from AT&T products and it didn't leap straight into multiprocessor machines. Ask the people who ran the multiprocessor tests against NT (the fairer ones).
I spoke with Richard Stallman about this last Monday. He seemed dead keen to hear about it, and has obviously done some reading, but I think he's overreacted. I wasn't aware at the time it had been dropped/deferred but we came to the conclusion (myself and others preent) that it would not be written into law as that assumption of guilt would set a legal precedent which all judges from then on would be forced to consider. It is a shame he did not pick up on this, and has chosen to say this stuff, especially the bit about this so obviously being in Britain. I find that a little offensive, to be honest.
Either my browser is being odd or this page has been slashdotted out of existence. I managed to load it once and then hit refresh for a reason which resulted in "reset connection with server". Perhaps wait a little while until it is back up again?
Not at all. You're wrong, in fact. The US does not "have" the death penalty. Merely that some States have it as a punishment whereas others do not. The US also grants its citizens the right to vote, and, in the Constitution at least, the right to say what they feel. That's an awful lot more than China allows its citizens, as you're well aware. It is meaningful to say that China has ignored human rights to a large extent and, despite the many abuses going on, the US has broadly accepted the need for them to be implemented. There is a difference and it is not without logic to use that to work out which country you'd imagine would be likely to honour the licence and which you would not.
Poor ESR. He is under the delusion that China is "communist". As if...what is the point in quoting Marx when dealing with a country which is no longer even Maoist? Side-issue, however. He is quite right to want to have Linux distanced from the brutal murdering regime sitting in Beijing. If Chine feel no obligation to respect human rights agreements how the hell can we expect them to respect a software licence?
I've seen a commercial use of stable over the last few months and to my knowledge (I've been logging into this system daily, doing work on it and loaded it heavily myself) it has performed fine.
I know of many peopel who have met peopel over a BBS, would you believe. Try logging on to Monochrome and you'll find loads of ppl on there who have met someone else and gone out with them even though there was quite a few miles between them. I've never gone in for that, but it is interesting to watch those that have. Some you can pin down to a stereotype but others you can't because they do have a real life outside of the BBS. It certainly is not an evil, I can be sure of that because one or two people have gotten married after meeting people on Monochrome. Then again several have got together, done stuff together and then fallen out again in a big way. To make one a success it demands that a) both are sensible mature adults who understand what is going on, b) that it is possible to actually meet or at least phone regularly, c)that no-one pins too much on anything and takes it as it comes and d)that you're the right people for each other in the first place! I guess I've always found on-line relationships to be somewhat cold until you hear a person's voice on the other end of a phone line or meet them in person. At the end of the day you have to remember you're talking to a person who will be a bit like you with their own thoughts, feelings and so on. If you can't inject a vital spark of humanity in there then it will neverget past the initial stages without a lapse into formula and predictability. Just my thoughts, anyway.
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It's just one of those things. Everyone takes less care than they should at some stage. Hope you didn't lose too many personal items.
Actually it was 13 times, and it was available as a RealAudio stream on the BBC News website for a while. It might stil be there actually. The interview won an award, and was ocnducted shortly after the 1997 election when Michael Howard was running for leader of the Conservative Party who had been unceremoniously tossed out of office. Paxman probed Mr Howard on the resignation of the Director of Prisons and asked: "Did you threaten to overrule Mr Lewis"
Howard replied "I have given a full account to the enquiry into this matter" Paxman asked again, and again. No matter how polite he was he was equally insistent. Finally, after the 13th time (when Mr Howard was getting *seriously* steamed up under the surface) Paxman cuts that line of questioning off and then asks him about his leadership campaign. "Do you feel the people of the party can trust you, Mr Howard?" Of course don't take my word for it - I coudl have transcribed wrongly.
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That's "fish 'n' chips" cos you're replacing both a and d with inverted commas.
By the way, hot grits down the pants is exceedingly preferrable to paying BT's charges for their under-specced service.
NT won't work with it, Linux won't work with it (which really hacks me off) and if you knew how incompetent BT have been about the test installations you'd cry.
Or laugh.
Yes it is expensive, and a year late too. This is the price you pay for having a company named British Telecom in charge of affairs.
I am of the opinion that Lawrence Godfrey is a menace to society, and a stain upon the face of humanity.
I can say this quite happily because I prefaced it with "I am of the opinion that" and no-one can sue you for stating your opinion as you're not saying anything is fact.
This should calm some but sadly it is no solution.
It is a fact that something needs to be done about libel law.
>It boggles the mind. If you find this >"entertaining", I suggest you get help.
Maybe, just maybe, people have the freedom to choose what they believe in, and for some people who have no religious faith this kind of stuff is hilarious because it is so silly and overblown.
Maybe they want to find it hilarious without wishing to influence the minds of others on this matter and wouldn't seek to make misplaced and judgemental comments upon others like you have just done.
When you are writing, do you claim to speak only for peopel you encounter in the US or abroad too?
I live in the UK and none of the geeks I've met seem to fit into your world view, despite them being, in my opinion, very much archetypal examples of whatever it means to be one.
Maybe this is just my experience but I'm quite well connected and it seems to me that peopel in teh US can't be that different to use over here. Do you ever stop and wonder whether you are believing your own hype?
Indeed - and in my opinion A looks cleaner and therefore easier on MY eye.
In many UK universities it is common to have network links in campus/college rooms. This has created a culture of its own in many places with all sorts of gaming clans/IRC networks being formed. The funny thing is the way many students will encrypt their comunications in order to not be detected by authorities if they think that what they're doing is not allowed. I've seen some really nice methods used although mentioning names could be silly.
In many cases there is a nice culture going which makes you feel quite priveleged to be able to access.
Don't be silly. If you're one of those anti-M$ peopel who hates them no matter what they do then you'd be having good reason to be fearful. Ballmer appears a lot more influential as a figurehead. His talks are much mroe animated that Gates' and he can get a crowd worked up. For employees this is important.
To be honest you shouldn't worry as the uptime for Linux boxes in general is as high as most other platforms already.
It is not uptiem alone that sells an OS to other people. If you can upgrade your kernel to take advantage of new functionality then that is more likely to make Linux appear robust, usable and so on.
Hemos - it's *adjective* about *noun*, a verb is a going word. :-) :-)
Right - pedantry over with.
I just got (with only minor tweaking from my first attempt):
Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's rabbits have conveyed to every rabbit with the potential to eat in the small tank industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, 3Com, Compaq, WalMart, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense guns to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's wonky products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such potatoes and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and marshmallows that exhibit the potential to run Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly gender-bend consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not wibble with Microsoft's hamper.
God I am feeling weird today.
Just when it seems IE is running away with the browser war...Netscape start running in the opposite direction.
Communicator 5.0 is unlikely to come out before Microsoft have the entire browser market sewn up. This is scary and Not Good for the WWW.
We're not looking at any real competition to IE until the Spring probably.
I was talking to a Lucent employee who called his company Loo-Scent. Then it occured tome - why the hell don't people think of these things before they name their companies?
This is hilarious. :-)
My favourites are the Ivory Soap and Oil of Olay ones.
How I wish I was working for Proctor and Gamble.
Well first you have to do somethign for yourself - don't allow people to gain that much information on you. Don't use Hotmail, when peopel ask for unecessary information, decline to give it.
Of course this won't stop people from accessing your name through electoral records and so on (I do not advocate losing your right to vote by removing yourself from electoral rolls!) but you can at least do *somethign* for yourself.
Perhaps more specifically, always always be careful about what is being sold to you.
If companies find out information about you and try to sell stuff to you, you're not under any obligation to buy it, so don't. Ensure that you're always researching the best deal for yourself despite being propositioned by a bunch of companies who may have been pointed towards you due to your profile.
As they become smarter in their race to take your money, become smarter in your efforts to get yourself the best services/products for the least cash.
I use two BBS systems, one of them run by a guy called Ford Prefect so I'm wondering... :-)
It's been going since 1986 (a bit before my time) and I am not revealing the name of it either.
However, the other is Monochrome which is the largest BBS in the UK, probably. Thousands of users, plenty to do and if clueless people want to turn up they're welcome. There is no snobbishness on there.
It's a real community and the facility ot message other users of the BBS and see how is on makes you feel that you're inside the system.
Closest thing I've seen to a real Internet community, and a shining example of how BBSes can still work today.
The foam from your mouth is visible from here.
This won't become law.
Yes, it is usually where proving your inocence is easy that the reversal of Burden of Proof is reversed but this clrealy is NOT one such case.
Therefore it *will* set a precedent for that reason.
That precedent can and will be used by others, if allowed to be set, to bend things their way when usually the law would have found against them.
It doesn't help that people like RMS miss out on this obvious problem, and that it gives ammunition to those poor people who hide guns under their beds in case the New World Order marches in and arrests them for being good and upstanding libertarians.
Any part of this law, shoudl it contradict other laws already in place, will set a precedent, and a dangerous one, if passed by a judge in court.
That is why it has passed out from the E-commerce bill and into a seperate bill where we can fully attack it for being the slimy pile of shit it is.
Onme thign is for sure, I won't be handing over my crypto keys to anyone anytime soon.
This whole article is riddled with inaccuraices about Linux.
Shame , really.
It wasn't reverse-engineered from AT&T products and it didn't leap straight into multiprocessor machines. Ask the people who ran the multiprocessor tests against NT (the fairer ones).
I spoke with Richard Stallman about this last Monday. He seemed dead keen to hear about it, and has obviously done some reading, but I think he's overreacted. I wasn't aware at the time it had been dropped/deferred but we came to the conclusion (myself and others preent) that it would not be written into law as that assumption of guilt would set a legal precedent which all judges from then on would be forced to consider. It is a shame he did not pick up on this, and has chosen to say this stuff, especially the bit about this so obviously being in Britain. I find that a little offensive, to be honest.
Either my browser is being odd or this page has been slashdotted out of existence.
I managed to load it once and then hit refresh for a reason which resulted in "reset connection with server".
Perhaps wait a little while until it is back up again?
Not at all.
You're wrong, in fact. The US does not "have" the death penalty. Merely that some States have it as a punishment whereas others do not.
The US also grants its citizens the right to vote, and, in the Constitution at least, the right to say what they feel. That's an awful lot more than China allows its citizens, as you're well aware.
It is meaningful to say that China has ignored human rights to a large extent and, despite the many abuses going on, the US has broadly accepted the need for them to be implemented.
There is a difference and it is not without logic to use that to work out which country you'd imagine would be likely to honour the licence and which you would not.
Poor ESR. He is under the delusion that China is "communist". As if...what is the point in quoting Marx when dealing with a country which is no longer even Maoist? Side-issue, however.
He is quite right to want to have Linux distanced from the brutal murdering regime sitting in Beijing.
If Chine feel no obligation to respect human rights agreements how the hell can we expect them to respect a software licence?
I've seen a commercial use of stable over the last few months and to my knowledge (I've been logging into this system daily, doing work on it and loaded it heavily myself) it has performed fine.
I know of many peopel who have met peopel over a BBS, would you believe.
Try logging on to Monochrome and you'll find loads of ppl on there who have met someone else and gone out with them even though there was quite a few miles between them.
I've never gone in for that, but it is interesting to watch those that have.
Some you can pin down to a stereotype but others you can't because they do have a real life outside of the BBS.
It certainly is not an evil, I can be sure of that because one or two people have gotten married after meeting people on Monochrome. Then again several have got together, done stuff together and then fallen out again in a big way.
To make one a success it demands that a) both are sensible mature adults who understand what is going on, b) that it is possible to actually meet or at least phone regularly, c)that no-one pins too much on anything and takes it as it comes and d)that you're the right people for each other in the first place!
I guess I've always found on-line relationships to be somewhat cold until you hear a person's voice on the other end of a phone line or meet them in person.
At the end of the day you have to remember you're talking to a person who will be a bit like you with their own thoughts, feelings and so on.
If you can't inject a vital spark of humanity in there then it will neverget past the initial stages without a lapse into formula and predictability.
Just my thoughts, anyway.
It's just one of those things. Everyone takes less care than they should at some stage. Hope you didn't lose too many personal items.
Actually it was 13 times, and it was available as a RealAudio stream on the BBC News website for a while. It might stil be there actually. The interview won an award, and was ocnducted shortly after the 1997 election when Michael Howard was running for leader of the Conservative Party who had been unceremoniously tossed out of office.
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Paxman probed Mr Howard on the resignation of the Director of Prisons and asked:
"Did you threaten to overrule Mr Lewis"
Howard replied "I have given a full account to the enquiry into this matter"
Paxman asked again, and again. No matter how polite he was he was equally insistent.
Finally, after the 13th time (when Mr Howard was getting *seriously* steamed up under the surface) Paxman cuts that line of questioning off and then asks him about his leadership campaign.
"Do you feel the people of the party can trust you, Mr Howard?"
Of course don't take my word for it - I coudl have transcribed wrongly.
http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/video/newsn
Top stuff.