There is always room for someone who is different who actually does work, and actually does know his shit.
Even in a team based environment. There is an example here at my work in the Unix SA team. The smartest person I have probably ever met in respect to Unix just sits there and plays chess online and reads slashdot, but when there is an actual problem to be fixed, he not only fixes it, but documents it well enough that he shouldn't have to be bothered from his chess playing next time it comes up. I respect him anyway, and from the rumors of his paycheck, The Man does also.
IIRC, this was a missle silo bought and renovated by a guy who was involved heavily in the creation of LSD. There was an article about it in Rolling Stone a few months back. Or maybe that was some other guy with a missle silo that had a marble bathtub installed. Hehe.. I would find the article, but I'm lazy, and people on slashdot are undeserving.
The lethal dose of THC is equvilent to a quarter-ton of high-grade Marijuana smoked in 15 minutes. This of course would be impossible, because you would die of smoke inhalation first. (Quick, lets outlaw fire.) Another fact the Gubmint doesn't want you to know. I do however wish I could remember the URL to back up my words.
Smokedot.org always has a lot of useful information like this. And it's running slashcode.:)
Poor, poor, deprived linux people. Us dos/windows users have been enjoying this "revolutionary funtionality" since about DOS 6.0. Hehe. Editing files over FTP, syntax highlighting.. poor, poor linux users.
Actually, it is highly doubtful that bin Laden's network uses the internet for anything very sensitive. They don't trust the internet, rather they prefer face-to-face passing of messages. Honestly, if I was conducting a Jihad, I wouldn't trust the internet either. Though I imagine the anarchist's cookbook probably came in handy (and it wouldn't surprise me if there was a howto on hijacking an airplane with box cutters.) Makes you wonder if the FBI is going to start arresting people who own copies of it..
Yes, I'm sure the anarchists cookbook was probably far more helpful than the CIA backed formal training. Hehe, what a piece of shit book.
By your arguement if I take a knife and stab someone I've broken the "license agreement" on that knife. Ridiculous. I've broken a totally different law that has little to do with knife manufacture.
I meant to include this also..
But, as a knife manufacture I would like to be able to include a user agreement along with my knives. Of course any violations you made in relation to my agreement would only probably be punishable by you not being able to use my brand of knives any more. Which would be pretty unimportant considering you would be in jail for killing someone anyway. But who cares?
A set of rules made and enforced to bring order to a creation of the government (roads) is very different than giving corportations license to write new law.
Yeah.. I figured you'd say that. That's why I threw in the airplane/sky one too.
I found this out recently when trying to take pictures at the mall on a photo outing... we had to switch to a discreet point-and-click and even then we ended up getting caught twice and followed around by the security guard. Most stores, for whatever reason, really dislike photos being taken
I got kicked out of a mall for filming also. I think the reasoning is that the people who pay for space in the mall would think that it upsets customers to have some guy walking around filming people. Which is their right, and probably true. While you may be filming your girlfriend picking out a dress, I may be filming your girlfriend picking out a dress too. And what do you think of that? It's bad business. They have cameras, but they try to keep them unintrusive. Generally a good balace of "make them visible to potential shoplifters", and "make them invisible to average shopper" seems to be the norm. You wouldn't probably go to a store if they had security guards walking around with camcorders, it would just be weird. I wouldn't anyway.
im hesitant to admit this, but was fortunate to be able to log in to the nyt article using the generic cypherpunks id. the archives are also a useful privacy shield, and maybe/. posting ALL nyt articles at least one day later is best. just as posting as an anonymous coward helps protect my privacy
And what's great about being anonymous is that no one cares what you say either. For the most part, people on slashdot browse at 1 I think. So even in this supposedly "everyone is equal", and "we appreciate privacy" environment, people can appreciate the accountability that comes with putting a name to a face, so to speak.
I love his chair and the analogies it represents. It points out the idiocy of buying something that you can only use under certain circumstances.
Yes, I agree. I think all end user agreements should be done away with. Especially those that limit who can drive a car, and how. I think when you buy the car, it's yours, and you can do what you please with it. Just like with a chair. You bought the chair, and you can install spikes and a card reader in it if you please. Like an airplane. You bought it, and no one owns the skies, so why do you need a license? Everyone should be able to fly freely I think, the sky belongs to everyone. I wish the world would stop being so lame.
I'll just scratch the surface with a single example. Sadman Insane (sadhamm Huseinn for the phonetically challenged) was a friend of the US Government who wasn't such a bad guy, until the day when he was suddenly always a murderous dictator who must be stopped.
Hehe, I usually don't get into all of this conspiracy theory type crap.
But, I do think it's funny that so many Americans, even the whacky conspiracy theory people that think The Government is behind it all, fall so easily into thinking that every foreign power we come up against is genuinely crazy. Doesn't it strike you as a bit odd that every "enemy" of The United States is "insane". Hitler was insane, Saddam Hussein is insane, Osama Bin Laden is insane, Milsovec (sp) was insane. In WWII, the Japanese were not only insane, but usually dipicted in political cartoons as gorillas. Insane gorillas. Doesn't get much worse than that.
People never seem to think about much of anything. They just pick a view and then run with it. Never reconsidering, never thinking. For instance.. everyone attributes every bad thing that happens as being the personal responsibility of George Doubleya, or whatever insulting names people come up with for whatever president is presently president. But, do you really think he is just sitting, isolated in some little room somewhere drawing up the plans for the demise of cryptography? No. Of course not. It's just stupid. Maybe he personally penned the details of the DMCA on his lunch break? No. It's all just business, and none of it so complicated. And I think Jesse Ventura illustrated the uselessness of any one political figure when he became elected governor. On his first day someone asked him if he was worried that with very little experience he would be able to handle the responsibilities of his job, and he replied "That's what I have all these people here to help me for". Elected representatives are usually just that. Representatives. They are speakers, and they usually have character. They are no more important to the business of government than Ronald Mcdonald is to the decision making process of wether to bring back the McRib sandwich at McDonalds. Just a happy face.
Cameras yes. Audio, not always. Many states are of the single party consent variety which mean that for a conversation, only 1 party is required to give consent to be recorded.
Oh good. You learned something from the Monica Lewinksy scandal. Hehe.
The problem the open source community I think is in it's lack of innovation. Rather than just trying to do "that", only make it open source is a bad approach to ever making any real change, or ever getting people to use your software. The idea should be to do "that", first. When it matters. Just something to think about.
How convenient, and people accuse Microsoft of releasing software in a beta stage.
Yeah.. I really do get tired of all of the open-source better than m"$", and everyone else pretty much, bullshit. They have a piece of crap browser, that will never oficially "ship". Even if it does.. in 2005 or something when it's bug-free, it will also be standards-compliance-free. Such a futile fate. Give up.
So why when we hear that a stupid web browser, one that has been years in the making, has 100,000 bugs and it STILL sucks is such great progress???
Hehe.. that's a great question. Probably because open-source advocates tend to be a little on the retarded side. Always preaching for "open standards" and this and that.. and in the process only isolating themselves from the rest of the world. I don't know. I think I used to care, and then I just gave up.
the ACLU is a self serving and hypocritical elitist organization. They are not about civil liberties except only in their name. They are about government enforcement of racism and bigotry, while enslaving the population under hate and mistrust
Hehe, you're obviously an idiot, and a troll, but I have nothing better to do than stoop to your level I suppose.
They are sometimes the only people who rally a legal defense for someone guilty only of persecution when otherwise they would have been left to rot in jail if it were left to the fate of the legal system and it's count appointed attorneys. Even if they did nothing else, and sometimes they policies were bad (though I have seen nothing to indicate they are (please enlighten me)) then I would say they are worth supporting.
At last someone who does what I just asked people to do in over here [slashdot.org]: move the discussion forward to why the government doesn't listen to the "criminals don't care about laws" argument and to what it is that can be done to address that.
Well, while I don't agree with it.. it certainly isn't rocket science. America is scared, America wants security, Amercans are also generall not prone to thinking things out on their own (I am an American btw), so.. America turns to the government. The government can do a few things. Ignore them, which of course isn't good for people looking to see another term in office (no fault to them on that). They can try to solve the underlying problem, which of course, like in this case, isn't always even possible, let alone on a timeframe that suits the American attitude of demanding everything every hour on the hour. Or they can make a symbolic gesture which usually does quite fine to pacify the American population while they actually do look for ways to solve the real problem in cases where it can be solved, or continue to ignore it in instances where it is not economically advantageous to solve anything at all. Symbolic gestures for the benefit of the American people can and do sometimes include such things as passing trivial unimportant laws (like banning guns in schools, banning shooting your classmates, banning crypto, etc). So.. like I said, it's not rocket science. Think of these things from the perspective as if you were playing SimAmerica not as if you were playing George W. Bush who is only a representative to a bigger body of decision makers. Hell, he can't even speak publically without it being written for him (and once again, no fault to him, as he is a fine speaker, and obviously instills confidence in some of the more ignorant American people who believe the president is the head honcho or what have you). Anyway, in summary.. it's not rocket science, it's a game. Learn to play.
Who knows, this might save your house from being destroyed in a future attack because they intercepted an email from l33tTerrorist@hotmail.com outlining an attack. What are you gonna cry about more? Your "privacy" being slightly invaded or being homeless?
Yeah.. deporting all Americans of the Muslim faith might stop it from happening again too. Of course that's a little more outlandish, but where do you draw the line? Appearantly in WWII it was somewhere just near that line of putting American citizens, some of whom were war veterans themselves, into camps as if they were no longer fit for citizenship. I don't know. At the time appearantly that seemed like a reasonable freedom to give up, so once this starts, who will stop it.. You?
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There is always room for someone who is different who actually does work, and actually does know his shit.
Even in a team based environment. There is an example here at my work in the Unix SA team. The smartest person I have probably ever met in respect to Unix just sits there and plays chess online and reads slashdot, but when there is an actual problem to be fixed, he not only fixes it, but documents it well enough that he shouldn't have to be bothered from his chess playing next time it comes up. I respect him anyway, and from the rumors of his paycheck, The Man does also.
Oh.. like the WOPR. Man that thing kicks ass on that IBM pansy ASCI Blue.
IIRC, this was a missle silo bought and renovated by a guy who was involved heavily in the creation of LSD. There was an article about it in Rolling Stone a few months back. Or maybe that was some other guy with a missle silo that had a marble bathtub installed. Hehe.. I would find the article, but I'm lazy, and people on slashdot are undeserving.
The lethal dose of THC is equvilent to a quarter-ton of high-grade Marijuana smoked in 15 minutes. This of course would be impossible, because you would die of smoke inhalation first. (Quick, lets outlaw fire.) Another fact the Gubmint doesn't want you to know. I do however wish I could remember the URL to back up my words.
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Smokedot.org always has a lot of useful information like this. And it's running slashcode.
Well I guess thats one way to make Unix insecure.
That.. and it's 10 plus year running history of remotely exploitable buffer overflows. But yeah.
Here they have about 200 desktops, most of them (probably around 150) run NT, the rest are split about evenly between HP-UX and Linux.
Poor, poor, deprived linux people. Us dos/windows users have been enjoying this "revolutionary funtionality" since about DOS 6.0. Hehe. Editing files over FTP, syntax highlighting.. poor, poor linux users.
Actually, it is highly doubtful that bin Laden's network uses the internet for anything very sensitive. They don't trust the internet, rather they prefer face-to-face passing of messages. Honestly, if I was conducting a Jihad, I wouldn't trust the internet either. Though I imagine the anarchist's cookbook probably came in handy (and it wouldn't surprise me if there was a howto on hijacking an airplane with box cutters.) Makes you wonder if the FBI is going to start arresting people who own copies of it..
Yes, I'm sure the anarchists cookbook was probably far more helpful than the CIA backed formal training. Hehe, what a piece of shit book.
By your arguement if I take a knife and stab someone I've broken the "license agreement" on that knife. Ridiculous. I've broken a totally different law that has little to do with knife manufacture.
I meant to include this also..
But, as a knife manufacture I would like to be able to include a user agreement along with my knives. Of course any violations you made in relation to my agreement would only probably be punishable by you not being able to use my brand of knives any more. Which would be pretty unimportant considering you would be in jail for killing someone anyway. But who cares?
A set of rules made and enforced to bring order to a creation of the government (roads) is very different than giving corportations license to write new law.
Yeah.. I figured you'd say that. That's why I threw in the airplane/sky one too.
I found this out recently when trying to take pictures at the mall on a photo outing... we had to switch to a discreet point-and-click and even then we ended up getting caught twice and followed around by the security guard. Most stores, for whatever reason, really dislike photos being taken
I got kicked out of a mall for filming also. I think the reasoning is that the people who pay for space in the mall would think that it upsets customers to have some guy walking around filming people. Which is their right, and probably true. While you may be filming your girlfriend picking out a dress, I may be filming your girlfriend picking out a dress too. And what do you think of that? It's bad business. They have cameras, but they try to keep them unintrusive. Generally a good balace of "make them visible to potential shoplifters", and "make them invisible to average shopper" seems to be the norm. You wouldn't probably go to a store if they had security guards walking around with camcorders, it would just be weird. I wouldn't anyway.
im hesitant to admit this, but was fortunate to be able to log in to the nyt article using the generic cypherpunks id. the archives are also a useful privacy shield, and maybe /. posting ALL nyt articles at least one day later is best. just as posting as an anonymous coward helps protect my privacy
And what's great about being anonymous is that no one cares what you say either. For the most part, people on slashdot browse at 1 I think. So even in this supposedly "everyone is equal", and "we appreciate privacy" environment, people can appreciate the accountability that comes with putting a name to a face, so to speak.
I love his chair and the analogies it represents. It points out the idiocy of buying something that you can only use under certain circumstances.
Yes, I agree. I think all end user agreements should be done away with. Especially those that limit who can drive a car, and how. I think when you buy the car, it's yours, and you can do what you please with it. Just like with a chair. You bought the chair, and you can install spikes and a card reader in it if you please. Like an airplane. You bought it, and no one owns the skies, so why do you need a license? Everyone should be able to fly freely I think, the sky belongs to everyone. I wish the world would stop being so lame.
Would have been funnier if you`d steered away from pointless homophobia.
I thought it was pretty funny anyway.
I'll just scratch the surface with a single example. Sadman Insane (sadhamm Huseinn for the phonetically challenged) was a friend of the US Government who wasn't such a bad guy, until the day when he was suddenly always a murderous dictator who must be stopped.
Hehe, I usually don't get into all of this conspiracy theory type crap.
But, I do think it's funny that so many Americans, even the whacky conspiracy theory people that think The Government is behind it all, fall so easily into thinking that every foreign power we come up against is genuinely crazy. Doesn't it strike you as a bit odd that every "enemy" of The United States is "insane". Hitler was insane, Saddam Hussein is insane, Osama Bin Laden is insane, Milsovec (sp) was insane. In WWII, the Japanese were not only insane, but usually dipicted in political cartoons as gorillas. Insane gorillas. Doesn't get much worse than that.
People never seem to think about much of anything. They just pick a view and then run with it. Never reconsidering, never thinking. For instance.. everyone attributes every bad thing that happens as being the personal responsibility of George Doubleya, or whatever insulting names people come up with for whatever president is presently president. But, do you really think he is just sitting, isolated in some little room somewhere drawing up the plans for the demise of cryptography? No. Of course not. It's just stupid. Maybe he personally penned the details of the DMCA on his lunch break? No. It's all just business, and none of it so complicated. And I think Jesse Ventura illustrated the uselessness of any one political figure when he became elected governor. On his first day someone asked him if he was worried that with very little experience he would be able to handle the responsibilities of his job, and he replied "That's what I have all these people here to help me for". Elected representatives are usually just that. Representatives. They are speakers, and they usually have character. They are no more important to the business of government than Ronald Mcdonald is to the decision making process of wether to bring back the McRib sandwich at McDonalds. Just a happy face.
Cameras yes. Audio, not always. Many states are of the single party consent variety which mean that for a conversation, only 1 party is required to give consent to be recorded.
Oh good. You learned something from the Monica Lewinksy scandal. Hehe.
The problem the open source community I think is in it's lack of innovation. Rather than just trying to do "that", only make it open source is a bad approach to ever making any real change, or ever getting people to use your software. The idea should be to do "that", first. When it matters. Just something to think about.
Hehe, if my car ran Java.. I'd buy a new car. I need to get to work eventually.
Osama Bin Laden is probably a figment of the CIA's imagination. That much is probably true.
Yes, I don't know that he is totally unreal, but he is probably not behind any of this.
They're only hurting themselves and developers with their idiotically stubborn unwillingness to get with the program.
Not to mention Java is a slow piece of cow shit that runs like a whore on the only OS that matters... so who cares.
How convenient, and people accuse Microsoft of releasing software in a beta stage.
Yeah.. I really do get tired of all of the open-source better than m"$", and everyone else pretty much, bullshit. They have a piece of crap browser, that will never oficially "ship". Even if it does.. in 2005 or something when it's bug-free, it will also be standards-compliance-free. Such a futile fate. Give up.
So why when we hear that a stupid web browser, one that has been years in the making, has 100,000 bugs and it STILL sucks is such great progress???
Hehe.. that's a great question. Probably because open-source advocates tend to be a little on the retarded side. Always preaching for "open standards" and this and that.. and in the process only isolating themselves from the rest of the world. I don't know. I think I used to care, and then I just gave up.
the ACLU is a self serving and hypocritical elitist organization. They are not about civil liberties except only in their name. They are about government enforcement of racism and bigotry, while enslaving the population under hate and mistrust
Hehe, you're obviously an idiot, and a troll, but I have nothing better to do than stoop to your level I suppose.
They are sometimes the only people who rally a legal defense for someone guilty only of persecution when otherwise they would have been left to rot in jail if it were left to the fate of the legal system and it's count appointed attorneys. Even if they did nothing else, and sometimes they policies were bad (though I have seen nothing to indicate they are (please enlighten me)) then I would say they are worth supporting.
At last someone who does what I just asked people to do in over here [slashdot.org]: move the discussion forward to why the government doesn't listen to the "criminals don't care about laws" argument and to what it is that can be done to address that.
Well, while I don't agree with it.. it certainly isn't rocket science. America is scared, America wants security, Amercans are also generall not prone to thinking things out on their own (I am an American btw), so.. America turns to the government. The government can do a few things. Ignore them, which of course isn't good for people looking to see another term in office (no fault to them on that). They can try to solve the underlying problem, which of course, like in this case, isn't always even possible, let alone on a timeframe that suits the American attitude of demanding everything every hour on the hour. Or they can make a symbolic gesture which usually does quite fine to pacify the American population while they actually do look for ways to solve the real problem in cases where it can be solved, or continue to ignore it in instances where it is not economically advantageous to solve anything at all. Symbolic gestures for the benefit of the American people can and do sometimes include such things as passing trivial unimportant laws (like banning guns in schools, banning shooting your classmates, banning crypto, etc). So.. like I said, it's not rocket science. Think of these things from the perspective as if you were playing SimAmerica not as if you were playing George W. Bush who is only a representative to a bigger body of decision makers. Hell, he can't even speak publically without it being written for him (and once again, no fault to him, as he is a fine speaker, and obviously instills confidence in some of the more ignorant American people who believe the president is the head honcho or what have you). Anyway, in summary.. it's not rocket science, it's a game. Learn to play.
Who knows, this might save your house from being destroyed in a future attack because they intercepted an email from l33tTerrorist@hotmail.com outlining an attack. What are you gonna cry about more? Your "privacy" being slightly invaded or being homeless?
Yeah.. deporting all Americans of the Muslim faith might stop it from happening again too. Of course that's a little more outlandish, but where do you draw the line? Appearantly in WWII it was somewhere just near that line of putting American citizens, some of whom were war veterans themselves, into camps as if they were no longer fit for citizenship. I don't know. At the time appearantly that seemed like a reasonable freedom to give up, so once this starts, who will stop it.. You?