There hasn't been a single good sci-fi novel since Herbert. Modern authors have fallen into rehashing the same old plots, ideas, and "insights into human nature" over and over again, much like modern popular musicians. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, though; every genre eventually loses its lustre as the finite pool of ideas are exhausted. You don't see very many innovative, exciting romance novels hitting the charts these days, do you? Of course not, every possible idea for such a novel has already been hashed and rehashed at least twenty times by now.
Instead of lamenting the sorry state of sci-fi in this modern age, you should be happy that while the genre was viable, it gave us such great works as Dune, The Foundation and Ender's Game. Cherish these old classics, while lying in wait for a fresh exciting new genre to further push the boundaries that science fiction has grown too old to push itself.
("I am really sick of" -> "of which I am really sick", etc.)
"Excuse me, where is the library at?"
"Here at Hahvahd, we never end a sentence with a preposition."
"O.K. Excuse me, where is the library at, *asshole*?"
Just out of curiosity, don't you want to improve your grammar just for your own personal betterment as a human being? I mean, English is your first language, right?
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Across 1. This band must've been desperate for publicity to give an interview to Slashdot! 5. Crapflooder impersonated well by Silicon Simian. 7. A special treat you earn for Bad Posting. 0A. Sean Kelly's ex-lover and former SlashNET IRCop. 0E. Ew! Between the eyes! 0F. This dog won't mess your carpet, shed fur all over the place, or do much else besides consume batteries. 11. Living proof that you get what you pay for. 12. The soundtrack for the World Wide Web. 14. Disney makes money to destroy free speech on the Internet every time you buy ____ on DVD. 15. Slashcode's overglorified killfile. 17. You were writing FOX about "The Tick" when you should've been writing your congressman about this bill. 18. A very Snotty troll. 1A. This young Afghan loves watching movies and JonKatz on his C64. 1D. The best text editor EVER! 1E. What you say!! If you say it one more time, I'll bludgeon you to death! 1F. These guys gave Linux mono. 25. These shiny discs feed money into a bloated media cartel and stifle fair use rights, but you buy them by the millions anyway. 28. Slashdot's top comment poster and story submitter. 2A. These networks "disrupt" artists' cash flows. 2B. Open Source codeword for amphetamines. 2D. RAM type optimized for Extended Data Output on old Pentiums. 2E. Hillary Rosen knows you're just itching to steal Charley Pride's __. 30. A hack to get a kernel designed only to boot off floppy disks to boot off a hard drive. 31. ___ BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!! 32. Marketers who resort to this tactic are worse than Hitler and should be tortured and killed. 33. This desktop environment kicks GNOME's ass! 35. Microsoft sold off this Unix, and it's gone downhill ever since. 38. An essential e-mail utility for child pornographers and terrorists. 3B. (0A Down)'s lucky number. 3C. It's not Unix, and it shows. 3D. Preface for 90% of Slashdot comments, and 100% of CmdrTaco's personal ads. 3F. Where non-free software goes on your file system. 41. You better mark all the comments as ____ in metamod unless you want to lose karma. 42. This international standards body, no matter what you may think, does NOT read Slashdot. 44. Head bitch of the RIAA. 46. A primitive chat program superseded by AOL Instant Messenger. 49. An online webzine which demonstrated that online subscriptions don't work to everybody except CmdrTaco. 4B. If you moderate in a way CmdrTaco doesn't like, you earn this special database flag. 4C. vi does a poor job of emulating this standard Unix text editor. 4D. To B or not __ _. 4E. You won't get much use out of this text-recognition technology if all you use your scanner for is scanning your ass. 50. The sound Michael's head makes when he's stuffing it up his rectum. 52. Unique index for a whole LIST of babble. 53. The world's best operating system! 54. Father of Methuselah, or old-school Slashdot troll. 55. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict this operating system's future. 56. Most geeks sleep through this half of the day. 57. This open-source man was Natalie's first. 58. Carly's mission is to steer this company into the ground. 59. mimbleton's favorite subject prefix. 5A. Chewing this might help your babbling problem. 5C. Programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter. 5F. Dead drummer for CmdrTaco's favorite band, or ridiculous Liberal myth. 61. Every Slashdotter's dream is to get one of these. 62. The Firm that is spelling Armageddon for free speech on The Net. 64. These networks are the beginning of Disorganized Crime. 65. Shitty "bitch band" whose leader likes to bitch about the RIAA. 66. The only Adequacy editor with a real PhD. 67. I think 7 over 22 is both backwards AND wrong. 68. Mentioning this droid (and others) is what is keeping you from getting laid. 69. Two-letter country code for Oman. 6A. Giving a ____ Necklace involves "coming" on Heidi Wall's bosom. 6B. What people who can't afford Visual Studio use to search text files. 6C. This hacker tool is often used to replace "characters" in "strings". 6D. QueenTaco's maiden name. 6E. The best text editor EVER! 6F. The PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's a programming language.
Down 1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___. 2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE. 3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux. 4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe. 5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal. 6. Russian Geeks in Space. 7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem. 8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party. 9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will. 0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth. 0B. The market leader in megahertz lies. 0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic. 0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers. 10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down). 13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it. 16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks. 18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____. 1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever! 20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies. 21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)). 22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device. 23. (43 Down)'s employer. 24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across). 26. ESR's birthday present to RMS. 27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users. 29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble. 2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants! 2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points. 2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb! 33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot. 34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site. 35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project wasn't just a game. 36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state. 37. A geek's computer is always __. 39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction. 3A. The XP makes it go faster! 3E. The world's worst operating system! 40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'. 41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore. 43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot. 45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process. 47. VA Software has the world's worst ___. 48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again. 4A. Legalized child pornography. 4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for. 51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here. 53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All. 5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass! 5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot. 5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products. 5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system. 5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips. 5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis. 60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across). 64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*... 65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot. 67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers. 6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.
Mozilla has its share of problems too; it's just that the media is so busy fawning over the bleeding-heart "David vs. Goliath" vision of Mozilla (much like that given to Linux in the old IPO rush days) to highlight these troubles. One particularly nasty problem Mozilla has is the ability to encode arbitrary data into a URL starting with "data:". This misfeature alone is enough for me to keep Mozilla off all my high-security computer systems until the project decides to either a) remove this "feature" as the debugging relic it is or b) add a preference to disable it, like Javascript or animated images.
For those not aware of his problem, here's a synopsis. Mozilla will parse a URL of the form "data:content/type;encoding,rawdata and treat it as a file of the type given. For example, the URL "data:text/html;identity,<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;http://www.google.com/">" will create an HTML page that will immediately shunt you to google.com. Open up Mozilla and paste that URL in if you don't believe me. Using an encoding type of "base64", images, data files and even executables can be hidden inside a URL. Trolls have already exploited this numerous times for mundane things like embedding goatse.cx links; imagine if some malicious hacker were to design a page with a trojan.exe or shellscript embedded in an innocuous-looking URL!
While "data:" URLs can be filtered out with Proxomitron or avoided by careful scanning of the status bar before clicking any link, I think such a glaringly wide target for abuse doesn't belong in any project past the alpha-test stage, much less one that is getting ready to make a highly-publicised 1.0 release in the upcoming weeks. Until this hole is patched, I would recommend Konqueror to you. It no longer "crash[es] constantly anyway", as you put it; the 3.0 release is incredibly stable, supports made-for-IE sites much better than Moz, and also has more than adequate standards support. I would suggest rethinking your Mozilla deployment strategy and giving Konq another go.
...but those new TLDs should be short, easy to pronounce and not make their owners embarrassed to say them, like the monstrosities OpenNIC and ICANN are offering up now.
And there are a number of reasons why, but I can tell you the one most glaring and obvious reason: aesthetics. The original TLDs.com,.org,.net,.edu, and.mil are all short, easy to type, one syllable to pronounce (except for.edu), and most importantly look good at the end of a domain name.
From OpenNIC's TLD list, you have chosen the TLDs.glue,.indy,.geek,.null,.oss,.parody, and.bbs. All of these are either horribly narrow-reaching and have no reason to be a TLD (.geek,.oss,.parody), sound stupid (.glue,.indy), look stupid (.geek,.oss,.bbs), or are too long (all of them except.oss and.bbs).
These are the same reasons nobody wants a domain under.biz,.info,.museum or any of the other "official" new TLDs. Geeks seem to be naturally deficient at proper design, so I'm not blaming what is essentially a geek project for having this problem. An alternative to the monstrosity Verisign and ICANN have made of their root servers is severely needed. But, if I may, I would like to suggest you ditch these ugly TLDs and put some more thought into choosing names people actually would want on the end of their site names. Think to yourself, would you seriously consider getting a ".parody" domain? Here are some tips:
The TLDs must all be short. Extremely short. No more than 3 characters. Preferably monosyllabic.
Don't use ugly letters like 'y', 'k', or 'z', especially at the beginning or end of the domain.
Avoid catering to special interests. ".com", ".org" and ".net" all work because they're broad and unspecific. TLDs like ".geek" and ".oss" are just going to make nongeeks roll their eyes and look elsewhere.
Most importantly, before you approve a new TLD, seriously ask yourself (and preferably a few other regular people), "would I buy a domain under this TLD?" Few people are going to want a ".geek" domain, I can tell you.
I really want to see a project like this succeed, but you have to create domains that appeal to broad ranges of people, are easy to type and remember, and look good.
eg esdiv oi oihs oibo oibh woieo a sfioa hfofih oho oweigjwoogjweo hoi jh orjoij oihjoeijhoihj eo jo hjieh oijoij roij ohirjhoirjwjlfsln slnlslsf jwgwoe we
And while I honestly had no plans to sneak any malicious code into my script, I can see the risk. I just wish jamie would try to find a more constructive solution than outright banning of all Javascript. I liked joe_jones' solution of filtering out document.cookie, which would put a huge dent in the danger of rogue scripts. From your comment, it would probably be wise to block document.write() as well. However, that may be too difficult to implement. We'll see what jamie's final solution is.
Slashdot Mirror
Instead of lamenting the sorry state of sci-fi in this modern age, you should be happy that while the genre was viable, it gave us such great works as Dune, The Foundation and Ender's Game. Cherish these old classics, while lying in wait for a fresh exciting new genre to further push the boundaries that science fiction has grown too old to push itself.
Somebody set up us the dead horse!
You have no chance to be humourous make your time!
"Excuse me, where is the library at?"
"Here at Hahvahd, we never end a sentence with a preposition."
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No. Perl is CmdrTaco's first language.
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THE CLUES:
Across
1. This band must've been desperate for publicity to give an interview to Slashdot!
5. Crapflooder impersonated well by Silicon Simian.
7. A special treat you earn for Bad Posting.
0A. Sean Kelly's ex-lover and former SlashNET IRCop.
0E. Ew! Between the eyes!
0F. This dog won't mess your carpet, shed fur all over the place, or do much else besides consume batteries.
11. Living proof that you get what you pay for.
12. The soundtrack for the World Wide Web.
14. Disney makes money to destroy free speech on the Internet every time you buy ____ on DVD.
15. Slashcode's overglorified killfile.
17. You were writing FOX about "The Tick" when you should've been writing your congressman about this bill.
18. A very Snotty troll.
1A. This young Afghan loves watching movies and JonKatz on his C64.
1D. The best text editor EVER!
1E. What you say!! If you say it one more time, I'll bludgeon you to death!
1F. These guys gave Linux mono.
25. These shiny discs feed money into a bloated media cartel and stifle fair use rights, but you buy them by the millions anyway.
28. Slashdot's top comment poster and story submitter.
2A. These networks "disrupt" artists' cash flows.
2B. Open Source codeword for amphetamines.
2D. RAM type optimized for Extended Data Output on old Pentiums.
2E. Hillary Rosen knows you're just itching to steal Charley Pride's __.
30. A hack to get a kernel designed only to boot off floppy disks to boot off a hard drive.
31. ___ BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!!
32. Marketers who resort to this tactic are worse than Hitler and should be tortured and killed.
33. This desktop environment kicks GNOME's ass!
35. Microsoft sold off this Unix, and it's gone downhill ever since.
38. An essential e-mail utility for child pornographers and terrorists.
3B. (0A Down)'s lucky number.
3C. It's not Unix, and it shows.
3D. Preface for 90% of Slashdot comments, and 100% of CmdrTaco's personal ads.
3F. Where non-free software goes on your file system.
41. You better mark all the comments as ____ in metamod unless you want to lose karma.
42. This international standards body, no matter what you may think, does NOT read Slashdot.
44. Head bitch of the RIAA.
46. A primitive chat program superseded by AOL Instant Messenger.
49. An online webzine which demonstrated that online subscriptions don't work to everybody except CmdrTaco.
4B. If you moderate in a way CmdrTaco doesn't like, you earn this special database flag.
4C. vi does a poor job of emulating this standard Unix text editor.
4D. To B or not __ _.
4E. You won't get much use out of this text-recognition technology if all you use your scanner for is scanning your ass.
50. The sound Michael's head makes when he's stuffing it up his rectum.
52. Unique index for a whole LIST of babble.
53. The world's best operating system!
54. Father of Methuselah, or old-school Slashdot troll.
55. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict this operating system's future.
56. Most geeks sleep through this half of the day.
57. This open-source man was Natalie's first.
58. Carly's mission is to steer this company into the ground.
59. mimbleton's favorite subject prefix.
5A. Chewing this might help your babbling problem.
5C. Programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter.
5F. Dead drummer for CmdrTaco's favorite band, or ridiculous Liberal myth.
61. Every Slashdotter's dream is to get one of these.
62. The Firm that is spelling Armageddon for free speech on The Net.
64. These networks are the beginning of Disorganized Crime.
65. Shitty "bitch band" whose leader likes to bitch about the RIAA.
66. The only Adequacy editor with a real PhD.
67. I think 7 over 22 is both backwards AND wrong.
68. Mentioning this droid (and others) is what is keeping you from getting laid.
69. Two-letter country code for Oman.
6A. Giving a ____ Necklace involves "coming" on Heidi Wall's bosom.
6B. What people who can't afford Visual Studio use to search text files.
6C. This hacker tool is often used to replace "characters" in "strings".
6D. QueenTaco's maiden name.
6E. The best text editor EVER!
6F. The PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's a programming language.
Down ...
1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___.
2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE.
3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux.
4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe.
5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal.
6. Russian Geeks in Space.
7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem.
8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party.
9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will.
0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth.
0B. The market leader in megahertz lies.
0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic.
0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers.
10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down).
13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it.
16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks.
18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____.
1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever!
20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies.
21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)).
22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device.
23. (43 Down)'s employer.
24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across).
26. ESR's birthday present to RMS.
27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users.
29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble.
2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants!
2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points.
2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb!
33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot.
34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site.
35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project wasn't just a game.
36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state.
37. A geek's computer is always __.
39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction.
3A. The XP makes it go faster!
3E. The world's worst operating system!
40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'.
41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore.
43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot.
45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process.
47. VA Software has the world's worst ___.
48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again.
4A. Legalized child pornography.
4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for.
51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here.
53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All.
5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass!
5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot.
5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products.
5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system.
5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips.
5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis.
60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across).
64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot.
67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers.
6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.
fin
For those not aware of his problem, here's a synopsis. Mozilla will parse a URL of the form "data:content/type;encoding,rawdata and treat it as a file of the type given. For example, the URL "data:text/html;identity,<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;http://www.google.com/">" will create an HTML page that will immediately shunt you to google.com. Open up Mozilla and paste that URL in if you don't believe me. Using an encoding type of "base64", images, data files and even executables can be hidden inside a URL. Trolls have already exploited this numerous times for mundane things like embedding goatse.cx links; imagine if some malicious hacker were to design a page with a trojan .exe or shellscript embedded in an innocuous-looking URL!
While "data:" URLs can be filtered out with Proxomitron or avoided by careful scanning of the status bar before clicking any link, I think such a glaringly wide target for abuse doesn't belong in any project past the alpha-test stage, much less one that is getting ready to make a highly-publicised 1.0 release in the upcoming weeks. Until this hole is patched, I would recommend Konqueror to you. It no longer "crash[es] constantly anyway", as you put it; the 3.0 release is incredibly stable, supports made-for-IE sites much better than Moz, and also has more than adequate standards support. I would suggest rethinking your Mozilla deployment strategy and giving Konq another go.
And only two years late, too!
...but those new TLDs should be short, easy to pronounce and not make their owners embarrassed to say them, like the monstrosities OpenNIC and ICANN are offering up now.
From OpenNIC's TLD list, you have chosen the TLDs .glue, .indy, .geek, .null, .oss, .parody, and .bbs. All of these are either horribly narrow-reaching and have no reason to be a TLD (.geek, .oss, .parody), sound stupid (.glue, .indy), look stupid (.geek, .oss, .bbs), or are too long (all of them except .oss and .bbs).
These are the same reasons nobody wants a domain under .biz, .info, .museum or any of the other "official" new TLDs. Geeks seem to be naturally deficient at proper design, so I'm not blaming what is essentially a geek project for having this problem. An alternative to the monstrosity Verisign and ICANN have made of their root servers is severely needed. But, if I may, I would like to suggest you ditch these ugly TLDs and put some more thought into choosing names people actually would want on the end of their site names. Think to yourself, would you seriously consider getting a ".parody" domain? Here are some tips:
- The TLDs must all be short. Extremely short. No more than 3 characters. Preferably monosyllabic.
- Don't use ugly letters like 'y', 'k', or 'z', especially at the beginning or end of the domain.
- Avoid catering to special interests. ".com", ".org" and ".net" all work because they're broad and unspecific. TLDs like ".geek" and ".oss" are just going to make nongeeks roll their eyes and look elsewhere.
- Most importantly, before you approve a new TLD, seriously ask yourself (and preferably a few other regular people), "would I buy a domain under this TLD?" Few people are going to want a ".geek" domain, I can tell you.
I really want to see a project like this succeed, but you have to create domains that appeal to broad ranges of people, are easy to type and remember, and look good.% telnet vger.kernel.org 25
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Trying 209.116.70.75...
Connected to vger.kernel.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 vger.kernel.org ZMailer Server 2.99.56-pre1 #39 ESMTP+IDENT ready at Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:38:08 -0500
HELO <your-domain-name>
250 vger.kernel.org Hello <your-domain-name>
MAIL FROM:<torvalds@transmeta.com>
RCPT TO:<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
DATA
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Hello everybody!
My name is Linus Torvalds!
QUIT
from the slashdot-will-post-any-inane-bullshit-today dept.
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And while I honestly had no plans to sneak any malicious code into my script, I can see the risk. I just wish jamie would try to find a more constructive solution than outright banning of all Javascript. I liked joe_jones' solution of filtering out document.cookie, which would put a huge dent in the danger of rogue scripts. From your comment, it would probably be wise to block document.write() as well. However, that may be too difficult to implement. We'll see what jamie's final solution is.