How many ways can you say that you didn't buy the game and you don't like having to register software to run it?
Make a point and support your point, done restate the same thing 8 times.
Restating your conundrum using big words and faux-intelectual sentance structures does not ameliorate the problem or illuminate your point. It only serves to obfuscate what it is that you're trying to communicate.
There was a choice. A choice not to post. The wrong choice was made, and we are all worse off because of that choice.
Why yes it's true... even geeks can kick ass in the video games and movies created by geeks. Why just the other day I imagined I took out an entire cell of terrorist ninjas who had formed an alliance w/ alien invaders.
The author points to a site run by a group called the Free Media Militia. Red flag for nutcases that can't be pleased is set off. Try writing a short email that doesn't contain a lot of jargon, cliche's that are only cliches known to a specific community, and fancied up hyperbolic English ("liberated of the pressures of proprietry software", "implore you", "disgustingly overpriced", "open the source code up for conversion, and security", "can code their own software". Write a simple email that gets right to the point and doesn't get all excited about the fact that you (a small minority of the population) can't send your taxes in electronically. Make the point, but without sounding like you're going to be sentanced to prison for 22-years for not knowing you're a drug mule.
I am starting a petition to tear down your firewalls all across the Internet. Please join us as we liberate these captive servers and spread security best practices all across the Internet.
Post a child-post to this post listing your Slashdot user-id and the subnet that your firewall has been removed from so that we can validate that you have indeed joined the revolution.
you're defending a grossly insecure system (Windows?) - Adequately securing a system and then replicating that security policy across a disparate group of servers all serving different functions is not an easy task. On top of that, systems and software have bugs, Windows, Linux, BSD, *nix, all have exploits released at some point in time. With a firewall you can start by reducing your risk by limiting the traffic ON YOUR NETWORK and may be able to do some packet inspection or logging to figure out where the attack is originating from so you can quarantine it. Firewalls can provide day-to-day protection and also can act as a valve to stop specific attacks during a crisis situation (virus spreading, DoS attacks, etc.)
you have unprotected communication on a network - Great point, because I know I encrypt all of my data that flows across the network. We run point-to-point VPNs for every single connection ever made on the network and then run SSL on top of that. Right.
you want to enforce a policy - Who doesn't want to enforce a policy? A policy like, I don't want any unnecessary traffic on my network. Or I don't want it to be EXTREMELY easy to scan my network. Or if I do have a vulnerability on one of my systems or the software running on those systems I want to limit my risk by limiting the traffic I allow to that box?
The point is that having layers of security is a good thing. Don't just rely on your firewall, it servers a purpose to protect your network and provide a general policy (ACLs, as the article described can play a roll here as well).
You're looking at this from a server perspective. It's quite possible you don't want certain traffic on your NETWORK. I don't want people scanning my networks.
Making/. portable isn't very difficult at all. Just take that last 3 weeks of stories and randomly read 10 of them every day. Make sure you have 2 anti-Microsoft stories, a Google is going into X market story, and an off topic YRO story every day and you'll never know you're not connected to the Internet.
It will detail the besieging of Irix, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Unix and the ultimate demise of their parent companies.
IBM (AIX) and HP (HP-UX) aren't going to die b/c they're not selling so many copies of their *nix OS. Last I heard HP sells printers, computers, software and services and IBM sells services to everyone. Both sell Linux.
In the end there will be three operating systems, Linux, Windows, and an obscure novelty from Apple.
You're an idiot. Everyone knows that the OS of the future is GNU Hurd.
Too bad though-- less competition is never good for the market.
SGI's demise is a result of the market, and a reduction in the # of players in the market does not necessarily mean there is reduced competition. It may mean, and in this case I think it does mean, mean that competition is so fierce that there is no room left in the market to sustain some of the players.
If you survive longer, you rack up more medical bills. Curing HIV might not be a big money-maker, but do you know how many drugs senior citizens take? Keeping them alive to continue their medications would be a gold mine.
Exactly... here's you cure for AIDS and your free trial sample of Viagra... go get em champ.
to hold a release hostage. Yes... I have the latest release of some software w/ all of the new features you want, and many of the bug fixes, but will not release it until I get $600. Then again, it's their software so it's not really hostage. Point is... this will be a very effective tool for established one-man or partly commercial project or for fixes to nagging problems in existing projects, but only when the developers use the money as an ultimatum for releasing the work.
Re:Interview with the author
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The Escapist
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· Score: 2
... looks like I forgot to escape my italics. Idiot. Here' the corrected version (not that it really matters). --- What is the Escapist about?which the author later revealed took him 13 years to write... roughly 13 pages per year on the average.
Why did you decide to self publish your book? I had tried sending The Escapist to a few agents. I'm sure if I'd carpet bombed all the relevant agencies I would eventually have found representation and some form of publishing deal. Sure you would have... well considering what they publish... you acutally might have But it could have taken ages, and I was confident my book was good enough for prime time. By prime time... you mean posting your own review on/.?
You've taken a Creative Commons license. Why did you do that?...send me some money...viral marketing...
How are you going to market your book?...I've had one review on a popular computing news website as well so far. Oh really, and where would you find editors of a popular computing news website lazy enough to publish said review... oh... sorry, silly question
Well, I hope someone likes it. Read the PDF, burn a copy... to a CD or otherwise... and send this guy some money, but not enough to make him think about writing a follow up.
The Bit Stream Syndrome by Lasiter Crash Park by Lasiter Electrons Never Sleep and Neither Do I by Buldonsol Control Protocol by Charles Sunspot Redux: 2098 by Charles The Coretropic Analysis Trilogy by Nevels (book 1 is slow, book 3 is worth it) Crime is not Crime in Cyberspace by Terry Love is still Love in Cyberspace by Terry Death Undone by Terry (a fave of mine) Reduction Chronicles by Mulstoy
All of these are fictional works... literally.
Interview with the author
on
The Escapist
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· Score: 3, Informative
This book, The Escapist was self-published here. This site actually has an interview w/ the author (or hack whichever you prefer). Here are a few choice tidbits from the interview. My comments are added in italics
What is the Escapist about? It's an epic, picaresque tale, which I've somehow managed to squeeze into 168 pages. which the author later revealed took him 13 years to write... roughly 13 pages per year on the average.
Why did you decide to self publish your book? I had tried sending The Escapist to a few agents. I'm sure if I'd carpet bombed all the relevant agencies I would eventually have found representation and some form of publishing deal. Sure you would have... well considering what they publish... you acutally might have But it could have taken ages, and I was confident my book was good enough for prime time. By prime time... you mean posting your own review on/.?
You've taken a Creative Commons license. Why did you do that?...send me some money...viral marketing...
How are you going to market your book?...I've had one review on a popular computing news website as well so far. Oh really, and where would you find editors of a popular computing news website lazy enough to publish said review... oh... sorry, silly question
Well, I hope someone likes it. Read the PDF, burn a copy... to a CD or otherwise... and send this guy some money, but not enough to make him think about writing a follow up.
Re:summary or sales pitch?
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The Escapist
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· Score: 2, Informative
Here's the picture of the cover. Not very mysterious or evocative in my opinion, but what do I know about high art.
Sounds like a Travis Tea novel...
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The Escapist
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· Score: 1
Re:Gadget Filled
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· Score: 3, Funny
I just threw up a little in my mouth... ugh, I need some water.
My review of The Escapist
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The Escapist
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· Score: 5, Funny
I have not RTFB, but in true Slashdot fashion that will not keep me from presenting my opinions. Here are some random notes I took while not reading TFB.
First, the protaginists name, Bentley Dean, leads me to believe that a prequal will at some point be writeen about this man's previous career in the adult film industry.
Two, this book is trying to be a movie. Morris cunningly creates a universe where space travel seems to exist, but most of the action takes place on Earth so he can have a future, cyber-punk, technothriller action movie without the big budget requirements that a space travel flick would demand.
Three, one area I wish the book would have explored more was Bentley Dean's (shudder) emotional side; what is driving this wonderful and delightfully animated character? Clearly he's been hurt in the adult film industry... used by so many men... that you'd think this subject matter would lay an interesting foundation and rationale for Dean's cold-blooded killing streak. I can understand how the author wouldn't want to cover some of the details of Dean's exploitation as they may be too close to some of his own experiences in the underground Mexican adult film industry.
One thing is clear, without RTFB I was able to see just how ridiculous it is and provide insightful karma-building comments to the rest of the community. I was however thrilled to read that
The Escapist can also be bought as a PDF direct from the website. And since the novel is published under a Creative Commons license, once you've got hold of one of these PDFs, you can share it around and print it out as much as you like.
So, got out and buy it, spread it like a weed, and when you're done reading it feel free to read another wonderful book that is slightly more coherent and literarily pure.
A better analogy would be when people start talking about kitchen knife control or baseball bat control. Do you see that happening
Knives and bats are inanimate objects. They are controlled by people who make choices with thier minds... therefore we need to get to the root of the problem and start talking about mind control.
Slashdot Mirror
Would I develop a pathetic geek crush on Alex?
/. readers will develop a geek crush on as little as two flesh-colored pixels.
I can't speak for you, but I know Netcraft has shown that 82% of regular
How many ways can you say that you didn't buy the game and you don't like having to register software to run it?
Make a point and support your point, done restate the same thing 8 times.
Restating your conundrum using big words and faux-intelectual sentance structures does not ameliorate the problem or illuminate your point. It only serves to obfuscate what it is that you're trying to communicate.
There was a choice. A choice not to post. The wrong choice was made, and we are all worse off because of that choice.
Why yes it's true... even geeks can kick ass in the video games and movies created by geeks. Why just the other day I imagined I took out an entire cell of terrorist ninjas who had formed an alliance w/ alien invaders.
W. Mitty
Such a low /.id and so little luck with a simple gfx driver install/uninstall?
/. will lead to loss of basic brain functions.
Just goes to prove my theory that too much time on
because they have locked themselves safely in their parent's basements.
The author points to a site run by a group called the Free Media Militia. Red flag for nutcases that can't be pleased is set off. Try writing a short email that doesn't contain a lot of jargon, cliche's that are only cliches known to a specific community, and fancied up hyperbolic English ("liberated of the pressures of proprietry software", "implore you", "disgustingly overpriced", "open the source code up for conversion, and security", "can code their own software". Write a simple email that gets right to the point and doesn't get all excited about the fact that you (a small minority of the population) can't send your taxes in electronically. Make the point, but without sounding like you're going to be sentanced to prison for 22-years for not knowing you're a drug mule.
I am starting a petition to tear down your firewalls all across the Internet. Please join us as we liberate these captive servers and spread security best practices all across the Internet.
Post a child-post to this post listing your Slashdot user-id and the subnet that your firewall has been removed from so that we can validate that you have indeed joined the revolution.
Ingolfke - 172.16.56.0/24
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Bot-net for sale. Contact me.
You argued against yourself.
you're defending a grossly insecure system (Windows?) - Adequately securing a system and then replicating that security policy across a disparate group of servers all serving different functions is not an easy task. On top of that, systems and software have bugs, Windows, Linux, BSD, *nix, all have exploits released at some point in time. With a firewall you can start by reducing your risk by limiting the traffic ON YOUR NETWORK and may be able to do some packet inspection or logging to figure out where the attack is originating from so you can quarantine it. Firewalls can provide day-to-day protection and also can act as a valve to stop specific attacks during a crisis situation (virus spreading, DoS attacks, etc.)
you have unprotected communication on a network - Great point, because I know I encrypt all of my data that flows across the network. We run point-to-point VPNs for every single connection ever made on the network and then run SSL on top of that. Right.
you want to enforce a policy - Who doesn't want to enforce a policy? A policy like, I don't want any unnecessary traffic on my network. Or I don't want it to be EXTREMELY easy to scan my network. Or if I do have a vulnerability on one of my systems or the software running on those systems I want to limit my risk by limiting the traffic I allow to that box?
The point is that having layers of security is a good thing. Don't just rely on your firewall, it servers a purpose to protect your network and provide a general policy (ACLs, as the article described can play a roll here as well).
You're looking at this from a server perspective. It's quite possible you don't want certain traffic on your NETWORK. I don't want people scanning my networks.
Making /. portable isn't very difficult at all. Just take that last 3 weeks of stories and randomly read 10 of them every day. Make sure you have 2 anti-Microsoft stories, a Google is going into X market story, and an off topic YRO story every day and you'll never know you're not connected to the Internet.
It will detail the besieging of Irix, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Unix and the ultimate demise of their parent companies.
IBM (AIX) and HP (HP-UX) aren't going to die b/c they're not selling so many copies of their *nix OS. Last I heard HP sells printers, computers, software and services and IBM sells services to everyone. Both sell Linux.
In the end there will be three operating systems, Linux, Windows, and an obscure novelty from Apple.
You're an idiot. Everyone knows that the OS of the future is GNU Hurd.
Too bad though-- less competition is never good for the market.
SGI's demise is a result of the market, and a reduction in the # of players in the market does not necessarily mean there is reduced competition. It may mean, and in this case I think it does mean, mean that competition is so fierce that there is no room left in the market to sustain some of the players.
and linux does? all linux /oss guys do is copy MS....
You're full of crap. Linux absolutely does not copy Microsoft. They copy BSD.
EMACS doesn't copy Microsoft, it copies vi. Drop it and switch to a decent editor now.
If you survive longer, you rack up more medical bills. Curing HIV might not be a big money-maker, but do you know how many drugs senior citizens take? Keeping them alive to continue their medications would be a gold mine.
Exactly... here's you cure for AIDS and your free trial sample of Viagra... go get em champ.
Time to go buy some stock in Dole!
Bob Dole?
to hold a release hostage. Yes... I have the latest release of some software w/ all of the new features you want, and many of the bug fixes, but will not release it until I get $600. Then again, it's their software so it's not really hostage. Point is... this will be a very effective tool for established one-man or partly commercial project or for fixes to nagging problems in existing projects, but only when the developers use the money as an ultimatum for releasing the work.
... looks like I forgot to escape my italics. Idiot. Here' the corrected version (not that it really matters).
/.?
...send me some money...viral marketing ...
...I've had one review on a popular computing news website as well so far. Oh really, and where would you find editors of a popular computing news website lazy enough to publish said review... oh... sorry, silly question
---
What is the Escapist about?which the author later revealed took him 13 years to write... roughly 13 pages per year on the average.
Why did you decide to self publish your book?
I had tried sending The Escapist to a few agents. I'm sure if I'd carpet bombed all the relevant agencies I would eventually have found representation and some form of publishing deal. Sure you would have... well considering what they publish... you acutally might have But it could have taken ages, and I was confident my book was good enough for prime time. By prime time... you mean posting your own review on
You've taken a Creative Commons license. Why did you do that?
How are you going to market your book?
Well, I hope someone likes it. Read the PDF, burn a copy... to a CD or otherwise... and send this guy some money, but not enough to make him think about writing a follow up.
The Bit Stream Syndrome by Lasiter
Crash Park by Lasiter
Electrons Never Sleep and Neither Do I by Buldonsol
Control Protocol by Charles
Sunspot Redux: 2098 by Charles
The Coretropic Analysis Trilogy by Nevels (book 1 is slow, book 3 is worth it)
Crime is not Crime in Cyberspace by Terry
Love is still Love in Cyberspace by Terry
Death Undone by Terry (a fave of mine)
Reduction Chronicles by Mulstoy
All of these are fictional works... literally.
This book, The Escapist was self-published here. This site actually has an interview w/ the author (or hack whichever you prefer). Here are a few choice tidbits from the interview. My comments are added in italics
/.?
...send me some money...viral marketing ...
...I've had one review on a popular computing news website as well so far. Oh really, and where would you find editors of a popular computing news website lazy enough to publish said review... oh... sorry, silly question
What is the Escapist about?
It's an epic, picaresque tale, which I've somehow managed to squeeze into 168 pages. which the author later revealed took him 13 years to write... roughly 13 pages per year on the average.
Why did you decide to self publish your book?
I had tried sending The Escapist to a few agents. I'm sure if I'd carpet bombed all the relevant agencies I would eventually have found representation and some form of publishing deal. Sure you would have... well considering what they publish... you acutally might have But it could have taken ages, and I was confident my book was good enough for prime time. By prime time... you mean posting your own review on
You've taken a Creative Commons license. Why did you do that?
How are you going to market your book?
Well, I hope someone likes it. Read the PDF, burn a copy... to a CD or otherwise... and send this guy some money, but not enough to make him think about writing a follow up.
Here's the picture of the cover. Not very mysterious or evocative in my opinion, but what do I know about high art.
set in the future. Check out Travis' other novel.
I just threw up a little in my mouth... ugh, I need some water.
First, the protaginists name, Bentley Dean, leads me to believe that a prequal will at some point be writeen about this man's previous career in the adult film industry.
Two, this book is trying to be a movie. Morris cunningly creates a universe where space travel seems to exist, but most of the action takes place on Earth so he can have a future, cyber-punk, technothriller action movie without the big budget requirements that a space travel flick would demand.
Three, one area I wish the book would have explored more was Bentley Dean's (shudder) emotional side; what is driving this wonderful and delightfully animated character? Clearly he's been hurt in the adult film industry... used by so many men... that you'd think this subject matter would lay an interesting foundation and rationale for Dean's cold-blooded killing streak. I can understand how the author wouldn't want to cover some of the details of Dean's exploitation as they may be too close to some of his own experiences in the underground Mexican adult film industry.
One thing is clear, without RTFB I was able to see just how ridiculous it is and provide insightful karma-building comments to the rest of the community. I was however thrilled to read that
So, got out and buy it, spread it like a weed, and when you're done reading it feel free to read another wonderful book that is slightly more coherent and literarily pure.
A better analogy would be when people start talking about kitchen knife control or baseball bat control. Do you see that happening
Knives and bats are inanimate objects. They are controlled by people who make choices with thier minds... therefore we need to get to the root of the problem and start talking about mind control.