Someone mentioned Zelazny, 'Lord of Light'. Try '.. and call me Conrad'.
Also published under the title This Immortal. See also My Name is Legion (a bit dated - the hero tore up his punch cards when they were building the universal database - but servicable) and Isle of the Dead. Heck, I can't think of anything by Zelazny that doesn't have some merit. Just finished reading The Great Book of Amber - all the Amber novels in one volume. That's fantasy, not SF, but great stuff anyway. Zelazny had a very readable, yet highly literate, style that is beautiful to behold.
Try Keith Laumer. Retief novels are a quick, fun, read. My favorites are the Bolo stories.
I like the Bolos too; also The Ultimax Man and Night of Delusions. Laumer's style is very clean and tight, some have compared it to Raymond Chandler (of The Big Sleep, which ain't SF but is so very very damn good you ought to read it anyway).
What was I reading around age 13? This was 1983, so it would all be "old school" by today's standards, but my booksselves held a lot by authors such as Ben Bova, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein (his older stuff (like Farmer in the Sky) is mostly straight-ahead boy's adventure, middle stuff (Stranger in a Strange Land) more adult and interesing, then there was stuff (I Will Fear No Evil) that just sucked), Arthur Clarke, and Issac Asmiov. I gave Frank Herbert's Dune a shot around that age, but it was a little much; I didn't reall get it until I reread in my 20's. Might be an interesting thing to read and discuss together, though. I also used to read a lot of Piers Anthony around that age, but most of that would fall more under fantasy than SF.
A lot of "newer" SF may or may not be appropriate for a 13-year-old, depending, but that's no excuse for you. B-) You must read Gibon's Sprawl books - Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. (See if you can find te short story collection Burning Chrome, also.)
Other random suggestions: Rudy Rucker, Walter Jon Williams, David Gerrold, Ursula K. LeGuin, Neal Stephenson, John Brunner, Bruce Sterling.
In fact, make this historical record a chip that must be installed on all Aibos at the port of entry before the US can import them.
Um, sure. I suppose we need to have the US put voice chips on all exports, too, detailing our genocide against the Indian nations, our enslavement of Africans, our imprisonment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during WWII, our foreign interventions to support brutal dictators, etcetera. And every Volkswagon should come with a textbook on the Holocaust, every bottle of Russian vodka should have a warning label about Soviet aggression, every crate of Isreali fruit should detail the history of the oppression of the Palestinians.
How far back should we go? Should every Italian suit have the misdeeds of Rome sewn into it, tapestry-fashion?
No nation is pure. Yes, we must understand the horrors of the past to prevent them from re-occuring. But we must also understand that these horrors were, ultimately, perpitrated by people, not nations, and we should not blame innocents who happen to share nationality with oppressors and war criminals.
This individual is looking to raid some deep pockets, and she has targeted doubleclick because they are disliked enough that she may not look greedy compared to them.
She targeted Dobuleclick because they committed fraud. The big issue is not that they were tracking individuals, but that they were doing so while claiming not to. That's gross and willful fraud.
I say revoke their corporate charter, liquidate all corporate assests, fine the corporate officers and anyone else the law allows, and distribute the proceeds to everyone who was tracked or had their privacy compromised. But then, that's my opinion of what should happen to a lot of corporations.
The guy KNOWINGLY breaks the law, and you guys all worship him?
It's not at all clear that he broke the law, and I hardly worship him.
But there are certainly people I respect who have broken the law. In fact, given the scope of the law these days, I don't think I know anyone who's not a criminal - from the underage drinkers to the pot smokers to the CD tapers to the unauthorized software copiers to the sex criminals (take a look at some of the state laws), I doubt there's anyone in this country over the age of 18 who hasn't broken at least one federal, state, or local ordinance.
Then, of course, you've got your famous lawbreakers like MLK and Gandhi...there's nothing sacred about the law, or necessarily immoral in breaking it. Those who think otherwise would have made fine fugitive-slave catchers.
The companies who bring you DVDs are entirely within their rights to license them however they wish.
No, they are not. They could not, for example, choose to licence their DVDs only for viewing by blond-haired Christians on Tuesday nights when the moon is waning, and expect the state to enforce their claims.
Intellectual property is an artificial creation of the state meant to promote progress in the arts and sciences. When it becomes destructive of those ends - when it prevents the spread of ideas rather then encouraging their development - no rights, legal or ethical, apply.
Question - how woul dYOU like it if big companies ignored the GPL because they felt like it?
So long as the rest of us were also free to ignore all claims of copyright or restricted licence, fine by me. The GPL is made for a world where copyright and licencing are used to restrict our freedom to use and modify software - remove that impediment, and there's no more need for the GPL.
If I were on trial under a bad law here in Maryland, I might well try to point out to the jury that the state constitution declares them "Judges of Law, as well as of fact" and argue why the law is bad.
You need to be sure that the values in the registers are below 65536 or 256 to use these tricks, and the programmer can know this, but the compiler cant.
Isn't this why we have short int, long int, and char data types - so we can tell the compiler these things?
And we block them for a reason. I'm trying to read a page and there's a damn flying monkey zooming all around the top of it, distracting me chewing up my CPU time. No thanks.
Want me to know about your sponsors? I won't feel the need to block a simple, plain text "Supporters of this page include...The Frobozz Corp, makers of fine Frobozz Grue Repellent." It might even give me a warm fuzzy feeling towards The Frobozz Corp, that a dancing grue animation never would.
Ad banners are dying, and I can't wait to piss on their graves.
In netscape, you can disable cookies from other hosts than the page being viewing. This effectively blocks Internet-wide tracking like doubleclick.net.
NO. IT DOES NOT.
Sorry to shout, but I fear many people share the same misapprehension. Cookies can be attached to images as well as to web pages. By attaching cookies to banner ads or invisible GIFs served from a common source, servers can pass information about you between themselves. Since the cookie comes from the same source as the image, the "Only accept cookies originating from the same server" option will gladly accept them. You must block or delete cookies if you wish to prevent this tracking. (Also note that even the mighty, mighty Junkbuster won't protect you fully - cookies can still get thru in Javascript and SSL.)
...when in fact it's not you that gets to live forever, but a non-homo sapien electronic duplicate
Which begs the question, can that "non-homo sapien electronic duplicate" be said to be me? Which also leads us to the non-trivial question, just what am I anyway - is there really a "me", or am I just an illusion?
Consult any Zen master for further enlightenment on the general question, but for the specific idea of electronic copies of persons I suggest reading The Mind's I by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennet (much more accessable than Godel, Esher, Bach which I've never managed to make it through) and Rudy Rucker's SF novels Software and Hardware.
I just wrote a more lengthy discussion of the issue, but Netscape ate all my memory and crashed before I could post it. So I'll just summarize by saying that in questions of personal identity, we need to consider the time axis. If the me-of-right-now (call him Tom0) is duplicated or fissioned into two beings (call them Tom1 and Tom2), those two beings are not personal-identical to each other, but are personal-identical to the original. Tom0 survives if either Tom1 or Tom2 survives. In the presence of duplication, personal identity is not transitive.
Of course viruses exist for Linux. Except they're called Trojans
Viruses and Trojan Horse programs are different things. While the Mainstream Media(tm) persists in calling all malicious software "viruses", there are actually several different varieties:
Trojan Horse: named, of course, for the classic crack of the city of Troy by the Greeks. A Trojan Horse program is advertized to be something benign, but actually has it in for you. The user has to run a Trojan Horse for it to be able to attack. Many macro "viruses" fall into this category. Trojans are hard to hide in open source software, and if they are run by an ordinary user they are limited in the damage they can do.
Worm: a worm crawls from machine to machine across a network without user intervention. They often take advantage of bugs in network servers to spread - and since these servers often have root access, they can be more damaging than Trojans. Sometimes they leave a copy of themselves behind, sometimes not. The famous Internet worm is the best example. There is at least one worm that infects Linux machines (I was hit by it a year or two back on a loosely administered box; didn't seem to affect anything other than put a "w0rm" entry in my/etc/passwd.)
Virus: a virus infects specific executable files and reproduces to infect other files. (Macros make word processor documents into executable files, thus allowing macro viruses to exist. Emacs had the same problem with file variables, but the dangerous behavior is now off by default.) Unlike a worm or a trojan, the virus is (generally) a code fragment, not a complete program in and of itself - just as a DNA or RNA virus is a fragment of genetic material, not a complete living genome.
There are a few other types, but these are the main ways that malware can get into your system. To complicate life, some malware exhibits behavior from more than one of these categories.
It's really incredible to me that intelligent people who are aware enough of their computing environment to hack on open source software will play with guns in their spare time and practically exhibit... a militia mentality. If the religious right wing militia nutcases ever get any control, the free speech and cultural quality that hackers prize will be gone.
Which sounds like a great reason for those of us who aren't religious right wing militia nutcases to obtain a basic competence in firearms, no?
(You can take that either as "Ah, good, there are people with guns who aren't wacko religious fanatics" or as "Oh no, there are left wing armed nutcases too!" Take yer pick.)
Only one entity has a monopoly on the legal use of force, and it sounds as if a lot of people are willing to give that entity more power to in order to prevent these "evil" companies from getting "too big"
To the contrary, it is exactly that forceful entity - the state - which creates and empowers these evil companies. (More properly, that set of forceful entities: national and state govenments.) Where would AOL, Time-Warner, Microsoft, WalMart, et cetera be without corporate charters, copyrights, patents, land deeds, and other such state creations?
It's entirely appropriate for the state to demand, via regulation, that the corporations it creates and empowers operate in the public interest - that is, after all, the whole rationale for the existence of the state and of corporations. But it often happens that the state creates corporations, corporations gather control of enormous wealth, and then use this to buy government influence.
I don't want a bigger state. I don't want bigger corporations, or richer robber barons, either. Concentrations of power are a threat to freedom.
Capitalism, with all of it's terrible warts, exists simply because (for example) a person who is better at growing food than I am aka, a farmer) trades with what he does best for what another entity does best
That's free trade, not capitalism. Don't confuse the two.
Free trade boils down to "Since we have different skills and interests, I'll swap some of my labor for some of yours". If we meet in the marketplace with equal power, full knowledge, and all costs accounted for, that trade leaves us both better off.
Capitalism boils down to "This resource (bit of land, mineral vein, idea) is MINE, and government guns will back up that claim". It's very good for those whose claims the state decides to back but, depending on what's being claimed, can tend to suck for everyone else.
Trade is an ancient activity, predating historical record; capitalism, especially industrial corporate capitalism, is relatively new.
You have every right to copy the work, as long as the author is duely compensated for their labor.
That is not the position of the law, or the ethical position of most reasonable people. I can copy audio or video recordings, or make photocopies from books or magazines, for personal use without paying the author a cent. I can memorize (thus creating a copy stored in synape connections) anything I have the will and capability to copy into my brain, for free.
The author is entitled to receive compensation from each person using their work.
Not at all. I can read a book without paying the author a cent. I can sing a song without paying the songwriter (unless I'm getting paid to sing, basically). I can use the copy of MS Word on my father's computer (though why I would want to do this, I don't know) and not pay Microsoft a dime.
It's clear that if creators aren't paid, less stuff will be created. (I won't address the question of the quality of stuff produced by those who are paid vs. those who aren't.) But having creators get paid by using government force preventing the making of copies is ethically questionable, and with the advent of digital media is not practical. It's time to drop that model and adopt a new one.
The fact is that code is like art or literature, you spend your time and energy to create something, and you would like it to be protected from some loozer coming along and claiming it as his.
Being recognized as the creator of a work is not at all the same thing as being able to use government force to prevent others from making copies of that work.
If you claim to have written something that I have created, you are lying, which is recognized as unethical by almost everyone, and has been throughout history; and you are commiting fraud, which is recognized as illegal by almost everyone, and has been throughout history. If, however, you make a copy of my work, it's much less clear that what you've done is unethical, and its legal status varies though time and space.
"If only I'd been born in Lily^H^H^H^HHedy's time, I would have been all right...."
I also keep thinking of the song from Little Shop of Horrors: "Would you like a Cadilac car? / Or a guest shot on Jack Parr? / How's about a date with Hedy Lamarr? / You're gonna get it (if you want it, baby)."
one fellow at work was giving his view of uP history to a small audience and stated that the Apple II used a Z80
A bit of a tangent...
When I was back in high school, in the Advanced Physics lab (home of the ubergeeks) we had Apple IIe's with Z80 cards in them, running CP/M. (Took forever to boot, even by late-80s standards.) We had Turbo Pascal installed on them, and would hack up programs to control and read from various electronic gizmos using the joystick ports and such. (One of my experiments almost put out the eye of the county Superintendent of Schools, but that's a story for another time.) Those were the days, my friend.
If you want to dig a little deeper into the sociological aspects of these subjects than Harel's book reaches,
you may want to read Clifford Stoll's "Digital Snake Oil".
Actually, it's Silicon Snake Oil. He has another, newer book along the same line called High-Tech Heretic. I think he goes a little far in his criticism, but it's a good counterbalance to the hype, especially about the use of computers in schools.
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | http://www.infamous.net/
Computers are just simple turing machines. This means that everything they do is utterly predictable. The very essence of being conscious is an ability to behave in a random fashion, also known as free will.
First, it's not at all clear that free will exists, or that human behavior isn't completely deterministic. Second, if randomness is all that's needed, I already have a/dev/random; if that's not random enough, a simple particle counter or other device can be added to the system.
If human level intelligence can exist in 1500cc's of fatty meat, I don't see any reason why it couldn't eventually exist in some sort of other computer as well. I suspect, though, that we might not ever be able to actually create such an intelligence though programming, because our own ability to understand how our intelligence works is limited. However, we may be able to evolve one using genetic algorithms - a sort of natural selection applied to algorithms.
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | http://www.infamous.net/
Anyone remember the movie "Logan's Run"? That's a great movie to watch on your 30th birthday.
I also turn 30 today. (Or, if you prefer, 0x1E, or 036 - doesn't look as interesting in hex or octal, does it?)
I'm celebrating by getting a tattoo, meeting some friends for a few beers, and heading out to the mountains for a few days (yes, a few days off the net, believe it or not one can actually survive). Think I'll skip watching Logan's Run, though. Anyone else remember the really bad TV show, or the so-so series of books, that it spawned?
Happy birthday to HAL, to warroonsert, and to everyone else with a b-day today. Well, except Rush Limbaugh and Hermann Goring.
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Actually, I believe the philosophers wondered that without the help of modern movie making...
"I do not know whether I was thena man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." -- Chuang-Tzu
On standard US network TV, on an hour program there will be about 15 minutes of commercials - three commercial interruptions duing the program, and one between it and the next show.
Bravo was recently (they may still be) rerunning the old Max Headroom series on Sunday afternoons. It's scary how well it holds up. (Well, except for the very 80's costumes - but then again, even the mohawk haircut is making a comeback...)
"Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm. Successful, isn't it?"
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They just did a better job than anyone else at getting people on the Internet.
Not really. AOL just did a great job of externalizing their costs. They dumped hordes of clueless newbies onto the net, sucking up countless hours of time from admins and moderators all over the place - and not paying a penny for all that trouble.
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What was I reading around age 13? This was 1983, so it would all be "old school" by today's standards, but my booksselves held a lot by authors such as Ben Bova, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein (his older stuff (like Farmer in the Sky) is mostly straight-ahead boy's adventure, middle stuff (Stranger in a Strange Land) more adult and interesing, then there was stuff (I Will Fear No Evil) that just sucked), Arthur Clarke, and Issac Asmiov. I gave Frank Herbert's Dune a shot around that age, but it was a little much; I didn't reall get it until I reread in my 20's. Might be an interesting thing to read and discuss together, though. I also used to read a lot of Piers Anthony around that age, but most of that would fall more under fantasy than SF.
A lot of "newer" SF may or may not be appropriate for a 13-year-old, depending, but that's no excuse for you. B-) You must read Gibon's Sprawl books - Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. (See if you can find te short story collection Burning Chrome, also.)
Other random suggestions: Rudy Rucker, Walter Jon Williams, David Gerrold, Ursula K. LeGuin, Neal Stephenson, John Brunner, Bruce Sterling.
Now get thee to a library. And enjoy!
How far back should we go? Should every Italian suit have the misdeeds of Rome sewn into it, tapestry-fashion?
No nation is pure. Yes, we must understand the horrors of the past to prevent them from re-occuring. But we must also understand that these horrors were, ultimately, perpitrated by people, not nations, and we should not blame innocents who happen to share nationality with oppressors and war criminals.
I say revoke their corporate charter, liquidate all corporate assests, fine the corporate officers and anyone else the law allows, and distribute the proceeds to everyone who was tracked or had their privacy compromised. But then, that's my opinion of what should happen to a lot of corporations.
But there are certainly people I respect who have broken the law. In fact, given the scope of the law these days, I don't think I know anyone who's not a criminal - from the underage drinkers to the pot smokers to the CD tapers to the unauthorized software copiers to the sex criminals (take a look at some of the state laws), I doubt there's anyone in this country over the age of 18 who hasn't broken at least one federal, state, or local ordinance.
Then, of course, you've got your famous lawbreakers like MLK and Gandhi...there's nothing sacred about the law, or necessarily immoral in breaking it. Those who think otherwise would have made fine fugitive-slave catchers.
No, they are not. They could not, for example, choose to licence their DVDs only for viewing by blond-haired Christians on Tuesday nights when the moon is waning, and expect the state to enforce their claims.Intellectual property is an artificial creation of the state meant to promote progress in the arts and sciences. When it becomes destructive of those ends - when it prevents the spread of ideas rather then encouraging their development - no rights, legal or ethical, apply.
So long as the rest of us were also free to ignore all claims of copyright or restricted licence, fine by me. The GPL is made for a world where copyright and licencing are used to restrict our freedom to use and modify software - remove that impediment, and there's no more need for the GPL.If I were on trial under a bad law here in Maryland, I might well try to point out to the jury that the state constitution declares them "Judges of Law, as well as of fact" and argue why the law is bad.
Want me to know about your sponsors? I won't feel the need to block a simple, plain text "Supporters of this page include...The Frobozz Corp, makers of fine Frobozz Grue Repellent." It might even give me a warm fuzzy feeling towards The Frobozz Corp, that a dancing grue animation never would.
Ad banners are dying, and I can't wait to piss on their graves.
Sorry to shout, but I fear many people share the same misapprehension. Cookies can be attached to images as well as to web pages. By attaching cookies to banner ads or invisible GIFs served from a common source, servers can pass information about you between themselves. Since the cookie comes from the same source as the image, the "Only accept cookies originating from the same server" option will gladly accept them. You must block or delete cookies if you wish to prevent this tracking. (Also note that even the mighty, mighty Junkbuster won't protect you fully - cookies can still get thru in Javascript and SSL.)
For a detailed explanation see Chapter 9 of Phillip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing (scroll down about halfway for the relevant section).
Consult any Zen master for further enlightenment on the general question, but for the specific idea of electronic copies of persons I suggest reading The Mind's I by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennet (much more accessable than Godel, Esher, Bach which I've never managed to make it through) and Rudy Rucker's SF novels Software and Hardware.
I just wrote a more lengthy discussion of the issue, but Netscape ate all my memory and crashed before I could post it. So I'll just summarize by saying that in questions of personal identity, we need to consider the time axis. If the me-of-right-now (call him Tom0) is duplicated or fissioned into two beings (call them Tom1 and Tom2), those two beings are not personal-identical to each other, but are personal-identical to the original. Tom0 survives if either Tom1 or Tom2 survives. In the presence of duplication, personal identity is not transitive.
- Trojan Horse: named, of course, for the classic crack of the city of Troy by the Greeks. A Trojan Horse program is advertized to be something benign, but actually has it in for you. The user has to run a Trojan Horse for it to be able to attack. Many macro "viruses" fall into this category. Trojans are hard to hide in open source software, and if they are run by an ordinary user they are limited in the damage they can do.
- Worm: a worm crawls from machine to machine across a network without user intervention. They often take advantage of bugs in network servers to spread - and since these servers often have root access, they can be more damaging than Trojans. Sometimes they leave a copy of themselves behind, sometimes not. The famous Internet worm is the best example. There is at least one worm that infects Linux machines (I was hit by it a year or two back on a loosely administered box; didn't seem to affect anything other than put a "w0rm" entry in my
/etc/passwd.) - Virus: a virus infects specific executable files and reproduces to infect other files. (Macros make word processor documents into executable files, thus allowing macro viruses to exist. Emacs had the same problem with file variables, but the dangerous behavior is now off by default.) Unlike a worm or a trojan, the virus is (generally) a code fragment, not a complete program in and of itself - just as a DNA or RNA virus is a fragment of genetic material, not a complete living genome.
There are a few other types, but these are the main ways that malware can get into your system. To complicate life, some malware exhibits behavior from more than one of these categories.(You can take that either as "Ah, good, there are people with guns who aren't wacko religious fanatics" or as "Oh no, there are left wing armed nutcases too!" Take yer pick.)
It's entirely appropriate for the state to demand, via regulation, that the corporations it creates and empowers operate in the public interest - that is, after all, the whole rationale for the existence of the state and of corporations. But it often happens that the state creates corporations, corporations gather control of enormous wealth, and then use this to buy government influence.
I don't want a bigger state. I don't want bigger corporations, or richer robber barons, either. Concentrations of power are a threat to freedom.
Free trade boils down to "Since we have different skills and interests, I'll swap some of my labor for some of yours". If we meet in the marketplace with equal power, full knowledge, and all costs accounted for, that trade leaves us both better off.
Capitalism boils down to "This resource (bit of land, mineral vein, idea) is MINE, and government guns will back up that claim". It's very good for those whose claims the state decides to back but, depending on what's being claimed, can tend to suck for everyone else.
Trade is an ancient activity, predating historical record; capitalism, especially industrial corporate capitalism, is relatively new.
It's clear that if creators aren't paid, less stuff will be created. (I won't address the question of the quality of stuff produced by those who are paid vs. those who aren't.) But having creators get paid by using government force preventing the making of copies is ethically questionable, and with the advent of digital media is not practical. It's time to drop that model and adopt a new one.
Being recognized as the creator of a work is not at all the same thing as being able to use government force to prevent others from making copies of that work.
If you claim to have written something that I have created, you are lying, which is recognized as unethical by almost everyone, and has been throughout history; and you are commiting fraud, which is recognized as illegal by almost everyone, and has been throughout history. If, however, you make a copy of my work, it's much less clear that what you've done is unethical, and its legal status varies though time and space.
"If only I'd been born in Lily^H^H^H^HHedy's time, I would have been all right...."
I also keep thinking of the song from Little Shop of Horrors: "Would you like a Cadilac car? / Or a guest shot on Jack Parr? / How's about a date with Hedy Lamarr? / You're gonna get it (if you want it, baby)."
A bit of a tangent...
When I was back in high school, in the Advanced Physics lab (home of the ubergeeks) we had Apple IIe's with Z80 cards in them, running CP/M. (Took forever to boot, even by late-80s standards.) We had Turbo Pascal installed on them, and would hack up programs to control and read from various electronic gizmos using the joystick ports and such. (One of my experiments almost put out the eye of the county Superintendent of Schools, but that's a story for another time.) Those were the days, my friend.
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | http://www.infamous.net/
First, it's not at all clear that free will exists, or that human behavior isn't completely deterministic. Second, if randomness is all that's needed, I already have a /dev/random; if that's not random enough, a simple particle counter or other device can be added to the system.
If human level intelligence can exist in 1500cc's of fatty meat, I don't see any reason why it couldn't eventually exist in some sort of other computer as well. I suspect, though, that we might not ever be able to actually create such an intelligence though programming, because our own ability to understand how our intelligence works is limited. However, we may be able to evolve one using genetic algorithms - a sort of natural selection applied to algorithms.
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | http://www.infamous.net/
warroonsert writes:
I also turn 30 today. (Or, if you prefer, 0x1E, or 036 - doesn't look as interesting in hex or octal, does it?)I'm celebrating by getting a tattoo, meeting some friends for a few beers, and heading out to the mountains for a few days (yes, a few days off the net, believe it or not one can actually survive). Think I'll skip watching Logan's Run, though. Anyone else remember the really bad TV show, or the so-so series of books, that it spawned?
Happy birthday to HAL, to warroonsert, and to everyone else with a b-day today. Well, except Rush Limbaugh and Hermann Goring.
Bravo was recently (they may still be) rerunning the old Max Headroom series on Sunday afternoons. It's scary how well it holds up. (Well, except for the very 80's costumes - but then again, even the mohawk haircut is making a comeback...)
"Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm. Successful, isn't it?"
So I guess it's true: One is the loneliest number.
(I am contemplating the percentage of /.'ers who'll look at that and say "Huh?", and feeling old. Wish me a happy 30th birthday tomorrow.)