Far be it from me to do anything of the sort, but some of these "hacker" groups should make themselves useful and attack Brilliant's systems, instead of Yahoo or something *beneficial* to the Internet.
I say hit 'em, and hit 'em hard...let them know what we think.
To paraphrase Malcolm X,
We didnt land on your advertising, you crammed your advertising down our throats without asking, bitches
I remember watching the extra crap on the "Gladiator" DVD, and, interestingly enough, the designers for the movie quoted director Ridley Scott as saying something like "We're not making a documentary."
Obviously, he understands that it must be significantly convincing to enable the "suspension of disbelief" so that the movie is enjoyable, but not so accurate that the fun is taken out.
News for Nerds my eye...i bet these guys could code anything they wanted and correct peoples' syntax errors in 4 different programming languages, but, seriously...dont we speak this language people?!
how hard is this, dictionary.com (hell, i used it to make sure i was correcting correctly)
not to totally "me too" here about the gravity/mass thing, but, did anyone else find it ironic/funny that such a grossly innaccurate statement was made by a reader named "quantaman"?
especially a waste considering how little soldiers are actually used anymore
Umm...just for the record, I have some friends (one in particular i know well) that are employed in the US Special Forces...Navy SEALS to be exact,...go have a 12-pack with him sometime, hear the stories he tells (what he can talk about, at least), and tell me the US doesnt use soldiers any more. Sure we're not storming beaches like D-Day anymore, but you cannot have a military presence in an area without soldiers. Air/sea power can have an effect on the war effort, but when it comes to capturing and holding, infantry is the only answer.
i dont know which distro you've been running, but, from what i've always been told, you NEVER log in a root, use sudo and su...i use su in xterm all the time to start up root-needing applications (linuxconf comes to mind, as does quit a few utils in KDE/Gnome)
well, here you are in err...the book for Ep I goes into a history of where exactly the Sith order arose.
A couple of thousand years ago, a specific Jedi realized that there was a way to become much more powerful much more quickly through ways new to the Jedi order, he was told he could not practice in that manner, and ended up leaving the order with a group of Jedi...the first group of Dark Jedi (not Sith yet) had incessant infighting, due to the nature of the dark side, they all wanted to be the most powerful in the group, and all were killed off except for one, Darth Bane, who crash-landed on a planet outside the known galaxy populated by a race called the Sith. The Sith worshipped Darth Bane as a god, due to his powers, and he led them in a revolt against the Jedi (i think, i'm getting fuzzy here), in which, the Jedi believed all the Sith destroyed. Darth Bane, however, DID survive, and knew that for the Dark Jedi to exist, there had to be rules, just as the Jedi have rules. Jedi's have the rule of one Teacher, one Learner, in order for favoritism not to cause jealousy in a padawan Jedi, and risk his fall to the dark side. The Sith's (the name taken by the Dark Jedi after the Jedi/Sith war) on the other hand, hand, there can be only two Sith Lord's at a time due to the fact that with any more than two, a master and an apprentice, there will ALWAYS be a power struggle. As a matter of fact, the book talks of the fact that as an apprentice gets older, he usually ends up killing his master in order to be more powerful, then must find a new apprentice. Two, no more, no less.
I dont care what anyone says, the first toys/movies i remember having/seeing were star wars, and, by god, if i'm no there at the midnight showing, i will be there for the 12:01 showing.
BTW: if you didnt read the Phantom Menace book for the movie, you really sort of missed out on a lot...
Any good story has four parts, intro, building, climax, and denoument(sp?)...if you expect Ep. I to have a full story, you totally missed the boat. Ep I was the intro/setup to a lot of background in the dual-trilogy...
Now, i'm by no means saying i wouldnt but a bullet between jar-jar's eyes, i hated that as much as anyone, but, other than jar-jar, the story set up a lot that will come to be explained in the Ep's II and III...
1. Once again, in the book, you get a glimpse of Anakin's rift forming with Obi-Wan,
2. Background on everyone and their dog
3. Yoda's dual warnings...its interesting
4. Does the prophecy of the "one that will bring balance to the force" mean that Darth Vader will finally kill the Emperor and himself, thus ending the line of Sith? Or does it mean Darth Vader will work to decimate the Jedi ranks, making Darth and Palpatine the two Sith, and Obi-wan and Yoda the two Jedi?
5. Basically, if you didnt like Ep I, then just dont go see Ep II, and filter all Star Wars content, and quit bitching. (notice the period, signifying finality)
I know i'm gonna get a bunch of pussy AC's reply to this, but if anyone has intelligent input, feel free.
if you have a bunch of kids on a playground, they're eventually going to get into fights...what happens when a few of them bring knives to school? If you are one of the kids with a knife, are you going to leave yours at home, or are you going to keep it in your back pocket, as an insurance piece?
Nuclear weapons are a bane to our existence, but they're here, so how, realistically, should we be dealing with them? We cant throw all of ours away, and *hope* everyone else does too...that's just not realistic...sorry.
you know, when this whole Napster thing blew up, i remember watching Billy Corgan (sp?) of the Smashing Pumpkins interviewed about what he thought, he replied something along the lines of:
"I dont see why they are putting up all this work to shut down this little fire (Napster) when, as soon as they do, there will be a thousand more little fires spring up all over the place..."
Did it ever occur to you gents that this is a revolution? In a world where court orders and lawyers control how businesses interact and manipulate each other, this is the revolution. Open source has been predicting something similar to this for a while. As information begins to flow more freely, and as communication becomes easier facilitated, the boundaries of the RL become less important. The RIAA/MPAA can throw as much money and technology at trying to protect their own greedy-ass interests, but when it comes down to it, the peasants WILL storm the palace and seize power. Some may get caught in the process, but there are too many of us to catch us all. It is a revolution worthy of examination and reflection. As so many have said before me, "Art wants to be free," notice it is only the greedy among us that argue that point. Any good musician/artist wants to get compensated for their work, but often times the only way to do that is to sign a big contract saying the recording company will get the huge chunk of the money. Most good artists make money off of their performances/touring/radio-play(royalties), and comparatively little off of record sales.
Vive la revolution! (ok, so that was cheezy, but you get my drift.
btw...lawyers on/.? I'll bet they're the 9% of the poll paying subscription fees:)
my first computer was a #2 pencil and and some of that shitty brown paper in 1st grade, the kind that ripped when you tried to erase anything...analog computing at its finest...and i remember i tried to RAM my finger in the pencil sharpener, that really MegaHertz!! it felt like it took a MegaByte outta my finger!
yeah, and while we're in "Make-believe Land," can I have a pony? and about three Playboy Playmates?
I dont mind using SetiAtHome or something similar, hell, i'm helping out...but i dont want to _have_ to share my resources with Joe Public, if i wanted that, i'd be a communist
....and as i read once "In capitalism, man exploits man, in communism, its the other way around."
exploration should only be done for the purpose of colonization
No, i said that the purpose of looking for "inhabitable," ie, earth-like/livable planets...blah, whatever...not looking for ANY planets...I'm a firm believer in the idea that we should learn anything and everything about the universe that we live in, no information is useless.
again, to defend my point, I, in no way, said we should quit looking, i just said we should quit looking for other "us's"...by that i mean life forms similar to those on earth.
Science tends to get a lot more subjective than it wants to be. We take for granted the notion that we are products of our culture (defined as broadly or as narrowly as you'd like), and that we, naturally as parts of a system, have a hard time thinking outside of that system to understand new and amazing things.
Albert Einstein's discovery of the "warping" of space-time explained a problem that had been around for a while when it came to measuring the speed of light, up until he came upon his discovery, scientists had created the concept of a celestial "ether" (i'm not going to explain this, look it up)...the whole point is that when Albert came up with his idea, it revolutionized the way we even LOOK at the universe and opened up uncountless possibilities.
Sadly, science does the same thing across the board. Look at our history of understanding the human body, and take into account the timeframe at which different theories came about, they were are all very ethnocentric for their time (ie, when the steam engine was the big thing, they thought the human body worked somewhat like a steam engine, etc)...even today we tend to think of the human brain as working like a digital computer, of course, we use that in metaphorical terms, but, in essence, what we are doing is limiting our thinking about a certain topic by likening it to something we understand more fully.
Honestly, i believe the same thing is happening with the hunt for ET's...we *only* understand life as it evolved here, and when we go to hunt for ET's, we toss out the staggering odds against life ever evolving here, and blindly begin looking for life like us elsewhere (again, water/carbon based life, not just human).
It just seems that we forget that life developing here was an unbelievable against-all-statistical-odds occurence...if that is so, why do expect the same kind of life to develop elsewhere?
Every time i hear about "inhabitable" planets, or "signs of extraterrestrial life," i laugh my ass off, and i laugh harder the more educated that the idiot that mentions these things.
I'm in no way a scientist, hell, I'm a Comm. Studies major, i have had a lot of biology classes, so i'm not totally ignorant either. However, it just seems that if we're really looking for life on other planets/celestial bodies, we need to quit thinking so close-mindedly.
Let's say, for argument's sake, that life evolved much the way some scientists say it did, the whole Darwinian macroEvolution of the many species. What does that teach us when trying to look for other signs of life out there? well, i can tell you it definitely DOES NOT mean that we need to look for other earth-like planets with water and it DOES NOT mean we should say "well, there is an abundance of molecules that could form into DNA" or the presence of carbon means anything.
What we need to look at is the *effects* of otherworldly life, and i'm not talking about the "face of Mars"...i'm talking about other signs, real signs of unnatural form/structure in space. We need to quit anthropomorphizing possible alien life and we need to quit looking for life "as we know it."
Even in a time when new terrestrial life forms are being found in places where these educated scientists said no life could ever exist (undersea thermal vents, etc), the science community tends to want to look like life like us (not human, DNA/carbon based life).
As far as we know, we're the exception, and there are interstellar races 10^6 times larger than we are that exist in the fusion reactors inside stars. I'm citing an extreme example, but my point is this: If there was life so extreme, how would we ever notice them? How would we ever contact them? With radio signals embedded with decodable messages? You could broadcast a voice talking over FM radio into space, and when it reaches an alien race, they never notice it because either they've moved so far past that technology or never had the need to use radio-type waves for communication purposes.
IMHO, the only point in looking for "inhabitable" planets is for future colonization. All else is simply pointless.
i remember reading about a court decision a few years back that ruled that the admin of a web board isnt responsible for the comments/content of what the visitors post to his site...wouldnt this same ruling protect any general file-sharing system? Kazaa doesnt house any of the copyrighted data, if the users use its technology to transmit a bunch of 1's and 0's, how is kazaa responsible for the content that its users send?
Slashdot Mirror
I say hit 'em, and hit 'em hard...let them know what we think.
To paraphrase Malcolm X,
We didnt land on your advertising, you crammed your advertising down our throats without asking, bitches
Obviously, he understands that it must be significantly convincing to enable the "suspension of disbelief" so that the movie is enjoyable, but not so accurate that the fun is taken out.
Smart man.
"shit® happens"?
and its "apocryphal"
News for Nerds my eye...i bet these guys could code anything they wanted and correct peoples' syntax errors in 4 different programming languages, but, seriously...dont we speak this language people?!
how hard is this, dictionary.com (hell, i used it to make sure i was correcting correctly)
Just an observation.
Umm...just for the record, I have some friends (one in particular i know well) that are employed in the US Special Forces...Navy SEALS to be exact, ...go have a 12-pack with him sometime, hear the stories he tells (what he can talk about, at least), and tell me the US doesnt use soldiers any more. Sure we're not storming beaches like D-Day anymore, but you cannot have a military presence in an area without soldiers. Air/sea power can have an effect on the war effort, but when it comes to capturing and holding, infantry is the only answer.
Draggin' Ballz
Web servers named after arachnids, blackwidow, tarantula, etc
FTP servers after Butlers, Jeeves, etc
continue with that using your imagination
A couple of thousand years ago, a specific Jedi realized that there was a way to become much more powerful much more quickly through ways new to the Jedi order, he was told he could not practice in that manner, and ended up leaving the order with a group of Jedi...the first group of Dark Jedi (not Sith yet) had incessant infighting, due to the nature of the dark side, they all wanted to be the most powerful in the group, and all were killed off except for one, Darth Bane, who crash-landed on a planet outside the known galaxy populated by a race called the Sith. The Sith worshipped Darth Bane as a god, due to his powers, and he led them in a revolt against the Jedi (i think, i'm getting fuzzy here), in which, the Jedi believed all the Sith destroyed. Darth Bane, however, DID survive, and knew that for the Dark Jedi to exist, there had to be rules, just as the Jedi have rules. Jedi's have the rule of one Teacher, one Learner, in order for favoritism not to cause jealousy in a padawan Jedi, and risk his fall to the dark side. The Sith's (the name taken by the Dark Jedi after the Jedi/Sith war) on the other hand, hand, there can be only two Sith Lord's at a time due to the fact that with any more than two, a master and an apprentice, there will ALWAYS be a power struggle. As a matter of fact, the book talks of the fact that as an apprentice gets older, he usually ends up killing his master in order to be more powerful, then must find a new apprentice. Two, no more, no less.
Hope this helps...
BTW: if you didnt read the Phantom Menace book for the movie, you really sort of missed out on a lot...
Any good story has four parts, intro, building, climax, and denoument(sp?)...if you expect Ep. I to have a full story, you totally missed the boat. Ep I was the intro/setup to a lot of background in the dual-trilogy...
Now, i'm by no means saying i wouldnt but a bullet between jar-jar's eyes, i hated that as much as anyone, but, other than jar-jar, the story set up a lot that will come to be explained in the Ep's II and III...
1. Once again, in the book, you get a glimpse of Anakin's rift forming with Obi-Wan,
2. Background on everyone and their dog
3. Yoda's dual warnings...its interesting
4. Does the prophecy of the "one that will bring balance to the force" mean that Darth Vader will finally kill the Emperor and himself, thus ending the line of Sith? Or does it mean Darth Vader will work to decimate the Jedi ranks, making Darth and Palpatine the two Sith, and Obi-wan and Yoda the two Jedi?
5. Basically, if you didnt like Ep I, then just dont go see Ep II, and filter all Star Wars content, and quit bitching. (notice the period, signifying finality)
I know i'm gonna get a bunch of pussy AC's reply to this, but if anyone has intelligent input, feel free.
just being picky in a +1 Informative kinda way.
Nuclear weapons are a bane to our existence, but they're here, so how, realistically, should we be dealing with them? We cant throw all of ours away, and *hope* everyone else does too...that's just not realistic...sorry.
Please reply if you have informed opinions...
I've used FreeBSD as well, and, i guess since i am a fellow masochist, I use Slack.
"I dont see why they are putting up all this work to shut down this little fire (Napster) when, as soon as they do, there will be a thousand more little fires spring up all over the place..."
Did it ever occur to you gents that this is a revolution? In a world where court orders and lawyers control how businesses interact and manipulate each other, this is the revolution. Open source has been predicting something similar to this for a while. As information begins to flow more freely, and as communication becomes easier facilitated, the boundaries of the RL become less important. The RIAA/MPAA can throw as much money and technology at trying to protect their own greedy-ass interests, but when it comes down to it, the peasants WILL storm the palace and seize power. Some may get caught in the process, but there are too many of us to catch us all. It is a revolution worthy of examination and reflection. As so many have said before me, "Art wants to be free," notice it is only the greedy among us that argue that point. Any good musician/artist wants to get compensated for their work, but often times the only way to do that is to sign a big contract saying the recording company will get the huge chunk of the money. Most good artists make money off of their performances/touring/radio-play(royalties), and comparatively little off of record sales.
Vive la revolution! (ok, so that was cheezy, but you get my drift.
btw...lawyers on /.? I'll bet they're the 9% of the poll paying subscription fees :)
/me goes back to my pipedream...
ha. ha. ha.
They've been grasping for air for months...someone should have put them down a long time ago, just like a lame horse.
(I used BeOS once, it was OK, but no apps to do anything on it)
I dont mind using SetiAtHome or something similar, hell, i'm helping out...but i dont want to _have_ to share my resources with Joe Public, if i wanted that, i'd be a communist
....and as i read once "In capitalism, man exploits man, in communism, its the other way around."
No, i said that the purpose of looking for "inhabitable," ie, earth-like/livable planets...blah, whatever...not looking for ANY planets...I'm a firm believer in the idea that we should learn anything and everything about the universe that we live in, no information is useless.
Science tends to get a lot more subjective than it wants to be. We take for granted the notion that we are products of our culture (defined as broadly or as narrowly as you'd like), and that we, naturally as parts of a system, have a hard time thinking outside of that system to understand new and amazing things.
Albert Einstein's discovery of the "warping" of space-time explained a problem that had been around for a while when it came to measuring the speed of light, up until he came upon his discovery, scientists had created the concept of a celestial "ether" (i'm not going to explain this, look it up)...the whole point is that when Albert came up with his idea, it revolutionized the way we even LOOK at the universe and opened up uncountless possibilities.
Sadly, science does the same thing across the board. Look at our history of understanding the human body, and take into account the timeframe at which different theories came about, they were are all very ethnocentric for their time (ie, when the steam engine was the big thing, they thought the human body worked somewhat like a steam engine, etc)...even today we tend to think of the human brain as working like a digital computer, of course, we use that in metaphorical terms, but, in essence, what we are doing is limiting our thinking about a certain topic by likening it to something we understand more fully.
Honestly, i believe the same thing is happening with the hunt for ET's...we *only* understand life as it evolved here, and when we go to hunt for ET's, we toss out the staggering odds against life ever evolving here, and blindly begin looking for life like us elsewhere (again, water/carbon based life, not just human).
It just seems that we forget that life developing here was an unbelievable against-all-statistical-odds occurence...if that is so, why do expect the same kind of life to develop elsewhere?
That's all i meant.
I'm in no way condemning the search for life on other planets, the whole point of my rant was that we need to quit being so myopic in our search.
I'm in no way a scientist, hell, I'm a Comm. Studies major, i have had a lot of biology classes, so i'm not totally ignorant either. However, it just seems that if we're really looking for life on other planets/celestial bodies, we need to quit thinking so close-mindedly.
Let's say, for argument's sake, that life evolved much the way some scientists say it did, the whole Darwinian macroEvolution of the many species. What does that teach us when trying to look for other signs of life out there? well, i can tell you it definitely DOES NOT mean that we need to look for other earth-like planets with water and it DOES NOT mean we should say "well, there is an abundance of molecules that could form into DNA" or the presence of carbon means anything.
What we need to look at is the *effects* of otherworldly life, and i'm not talking about the "face of Mars"...i'm talking about other signs, real signs of unnatural form/structure in space. We need to quit anthropomorphizing possible alien life and we need to quit looking for life "as we know it."
Even in a time when new terrestrial life forms are being found in places where these educated scientists said no life could ever exist (undersea thermal vents, etc), the science community tends to want to look like life like us (not human, DNA/carbon based life).
As far as we know, we're the exception, and there are interstellar races 10^6 times larger than we are that exist in the fusion reactors inside stars. I'm citing an extreme example, but my point is this: If there was life so extreme, how would we ever notice them? How would we ever contact them? With radio signals embedded with decodable messages? You could broadcast a voice talking over FM radio into space, and when it reaches an alien race, they never notice it because either they've moved so far past that technology or never had the need to use radio-type waves for communication purposes.
IMHO, the only point in looking for "inhabitable" planets is for future colonization. All else is simply pointless.
damn, that was my last $0.02...
just curious