Wha[tt] you fail to understand is that Microsoft keeps people employed and puts food on the table for many millions of Americans. Most of the people from the tree hugging *nix hippy crowd forget that what makes this country great is the ability for anyone to become a millionaire if they work hard enough. You start distributing some free OS and that puts a hole in the system. Free OSes are un-American. This Negroponte character may as well be a mafia don trying to undermine all that is good and pure in the American free-enterprise system. Microsoft is a shining example of what happens when you put brilliant minds behind a product made for profit. Bill Gates alone has made more millionaires for this country than all businesses combined in the 20th century. The fact that the OS has to be patched is just a small inconvenience to pay in order to keep this country and every citizen in it as rich as they are. So thank you... I'll take my patches and happily keep up with them. It's not like it's that hard (just set up auto update and forget it). I'd rather support the American economy than some hippy tree huggers with no real understanding of how this nation works.
Why would that be a joke? One of the problems I have with the whole of humanity is the negative impact it seems to have on the rest of the world. I'd sooner see all of humanity extinguished than spread it's ills away from our planet.
...about which chip is more energy efficient or which one runs hotter, but where is the truth? I am thinking of upgrading one of my RedHat 9 GNU/Linux systems to Fedora Core 3 (maybe the 64-bit distro) and I'm having a hard time trying to figure out which CPU to go with. Intel Xeon or P4 vs. AMD Opteron or Dual Athlon 64s. One of my main considerations is energy efficiency, but... I don't want an efficient PC at the cost of a slower PC. My past experience with AMD has been pretty dismal, but maybe they've changed. I had a DX4 120 AMD clone chip back in the 90s and it had all kinds of problems. I later got a K5 chip which was rated at 233MHz, but seemed slower than my Pentium 200 MMX. So these days, I hear people rave about AMD chips, the 64 bit chips from AMD and Asus mobos. I'm tempted, but... is it going to be more of the same? Is that 2.5 GHz AMD Athlon 64 going to really perform as well as a 2.5 GHz Intel P4? If I go dual (which I tend to prefer) will a Dual Athlon 64 system really rock compared to a dual Xeon? It's nuts!
...were so, we are not gods. And before anyone jumps on my back and says that we need to experiment with this stuff before we get it right, keep in mind that the same could have been said about the experiments that the Nazis did on humans in the hopes of finding cures to various ills as well. I think we would do better to simulate this for the next few centuries in software until we're almost 99.999% sure that our plan would work correctly without negatively impacting the rest of the universe.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've been thinking over my current backup strategy and I see some potential for huge data loss in the case that something happens to the main drive while I'm in the middle of a backup. Or... when I do the mkreiserfs command to format the backup drive, if the main drive set is dead... well that's just nasty. One question though if you're still around AC... will the 'rsync' incrememental backup allow me to keep the drives in perfect sync including files that I delete on the main data set? I hate the idea of having my backup take up a lot more space than my data drive and not being able to sort through what is good data and what isn't on the backup. A lot of times I copy multigigabyte video files to the data drive for temporary use and delete them. I want to make sure that my backup drive doesn't get filled with these and never delete them.
Actually, I wasn't really thinking archival here. I was thinking more in terms of day to day use, which is how I use them. I have a backup system for the home server that completely wipes the entire backup drive system, reformats it and then copies everything from the live data drive system to it on a daily basis. So I write about 250 gigs per day to the backup system. It's not perfect though. I'm hoping to eventually set something up that works similar to an HP VA7400 series storage array for home use.
I could have told people this as they've replaced video tape, and audio tape for me for the past decade. I find them much more convenient, portable and cross platform. I have SCSI drives from 1994 that will still work in a PC (Linux or Windows) or Mac today. They are easy to backup to and restore from. The HD is about as close to perfection as you can get in a storage medium. At least until you get flash drives that can store 1 terabyte at minimum, and have an infinite number of writes. At least a 100 year lifespan.
Sort of. I too, get annoyed with all the Windows related "news" on/. But, the fact is that most Slashdot users are Windows users. As much as they go on about Linux or BSD or the GPL, they tend to be Windows users with only a smattering of experience in any other OS. I'd hazard a guess that about 80% of the readers are Windows users almost 100% of the time. 10% are mixed users who use Windows as their desktop and *nix for their servers at home. And the last 10% are *nix (including Mac OS X) users nearly 100% of the time. So it's not really preaching to the choir. Just for the record I fall within the last 10% entioned above.
Right up front I will say that I am a Linux user. Before that, I was a Windows user. Before that I was a Mac user. And before that I was an Atari ST user. All of this is my personal experience with many OSes and not work related at all. When I was an Atari ST user, I got very used to the fact that I could easily download any software I wanted from the internet and use it. A lot of it was shareware (a concept I misunderstood at the time. I assumed I could use it without paying for it and it was just an option to pay.) and some of it was freeware. At the time, I was basically JUST a user. I didn't write my own apps or even tweak config files. I just ran the shareware, freeware and some purchased software and JUST worked. That was OK. I also played some games. That was OK too. Then I moved onto GFA Basic and also got a C compiler and learned how to start writing my own apps. That eventually was OK too.
Then I got the chance to use Macs in college. They separated me even more from the technical side of computing and threw me even farther into the JUST a user crowd. This was OK. I had a chance to pursue more creative artistic endeavors without ever having to think about the computer as anything more than a music making tool, or a graphic editing tool, or a desktop publishing tool. This was OK.
When I graduated, I found that I couldn't afford a Mac and the Atari ST world was drying up. I was employed by a desktop publishing outfit that was PC based on an associate basis after I graduated. My employer was also kind of a mentor. I told him that I was in a quandry over PC vs. Mac. As he'd clearly gone the PC route but was handling desktop layout (engineering catalogs) for really big clients, I wondered whether or not I really needed to go Mac myself. At one point, I'd told him about the memory upgrade I built on my own for my Atari ST (I wired up a board to install SIMMs in it to get up to 2.5 Megs of RAM and saved myself considerable money) and he told me that I'd definitely be able to build a PC on my own. Up to that point I was afraid it would be too hard compared to the Mac. So in August of 1994, I built my first PC and installed DOS/Win31 on it. What surprised me was the lack of non-nagged shareware for DOS and Windows compared to the Atari ST. I wound up having to spend a lot of money on commercial products from Norton, Procomm, Microsoft, Aldus and Adobe. I found that Ihad to buy new versions/upgrades almost every year to year and a half as well. I went from Win31 to Win95. I learned that there were lots of thing about the Windows world that were half-assed compared to my experience with the Mac or even the Atari ST.
I got sick of the cost of computing with Windows and I tried Linux in 1995. I already had experience with *nix from a dial up shell account I got access to in College as well as VMS. So the prospect of running a nice flexible and easy to use CLI on my own PC compared to Windows 95 was very appealing. I had actually tried Linux in 1994 but when I failed to get X to run properly, I gave up on it since at that point I really wanted my PC to work like a Mac. The "killer apps" that got me to switch to Linux were Enlightment and GIMP. They were much closer to what I was accustomed to on the Mac and the ST and even my limited Amiga experience.
So between 1995 and 1999 I gradually moved further from Windows and more solidly to Linux. Al the while I've kept tabs on the Windows camp and I will say the Windows XP is probably the best version of Windows that Microsoft has made to date. It's the most stable version and the most user friendly version. It took the nearly 20 years, but they finally achieved parity with Mac OS 7 in terms of usability. Microsoft also finally acknowledged that the artistic community (musicians, graphic designers, videographers, etc...) is important too. I would argue that they are more important than business which is something that Microsoft still seems to fail to understand, but that is another discussion. However, these
Hmmm... I wouldn't know as I haven't used IE on a regular basis in quite a few years. And since I'm pretty much a Linux user... I didn't know they make IE for Linux.;P Well, you get the drift. You DO, don't you? Or am I assuming too much about your intellect?
The FBI said Friday it has shut down an e-mail system that it uses to communicate with the public because of a possible security breach. The bureau is investigating whether someone hacked into the www.fbi.gov e-mail system, which is run by a private company, officials said. 'We use these accounts to communicate with you folks, view internet sites, and conduct other non-sensitive bureau business such as sending out press releases,' Special Agent Steve Lazarus, the FBI's media coordinator in Atlanta, said in an e-mail describing the problem.
OMFG!!!! The FBI can't tell the difference between the web www.fbi.gov and e-mail user@fbi.gov! Not only that, but they use their e-mail system to "view internet sites"???!!! WTF!!!? That's like a friend of mine asking me about a web address that looks like: http://user@fbi.gov! And the final nail in the coffin is that Special Agent Steve Lazarus sent an e-mail describing the problem to "communicate with you folks". Any guess that they are still using the same web/e-mail system to send out the press release? Wahoo it's so fun to participate in the idiotry of Slashdot!!!;P
This is going to be a boon for drunk drivers and such. Now they can drive on ANY road! These roads will be unsecured, and even if they have police on them, it's not like the police can catch every one of them.
Hell, the average driver can't even keep from TAILGATING! How does anyone expect them to actually drive in a responsible manner (Cars automatically allow drunks to get behind the wheel)? Many people I know have to pause to think about what most basic traffic laws are in my state. Everyone who isn't an expert is going to be screwed by this.
(It's already happened with roads, drivers and cars, the "information highway" is not impervious to the influx of stupid people. Just look at most posts on Slashdot, this one included);P
If it's natural, it's less likely to cause problems. If it's man made, it's more likely to cause problems.
Humans have a pretty piss poor track record when wielding large amounts of power.
In other news... Boy George really looks scary these days. Almost like something out of an anime. I just saw him on BBC America on the chat show The Kumars at Number 42.
The only reason to get into this game is because you like to play. If you are looking to advance in your career or make a lot of money, you have got the completely wrong idea. If that's your goal, go to school and get an MBA and then work on becoming a business person. Otherwise, play, rock, compute!
Many of us already have some kind of a system to play music in digital form. iPods, Rios, hell even PCs with some kind of media player on them or... the venerable CD player. A while back I sat thinking about the best way to be able to listen to music throughout the house without needing to either:
1. Run speaker wires to every room 2. Cart the music playing system (I use a PC with XMMS on Linux) around the house 3. Run network cables to each room I wanted to listen to music in 4. Or just have a device in every room
All of these seemed cost/time prohibitive. Then I got to thinking... What do I have in every room of the house that I could use to get music into the room without a lot of effort? It dawned on me: heating/cooling ducts. (If you have steam heat or baseboard heat, then my post doesn't apply to you) What I wound up doing was moving my music playing PC from the living room down to my basement (yeah mine. not my parent's) and putting a speaker transducer in the heater that connects to the main ducts. Then I set the volume high enough the the vibrations travel through the ducts to every room at a suitable volume.
Cons: 1. Tinny sound at best 2. Too loud when you are closer to the first floor 3. Can't control what your listening to (I play in random+repeat mode)
I'm pretty sure that the majority of you have ductwork in your house and could take advantage of this innovative approach to whole house wireless music distribution. Let me know what you think!
RFID tags in silicone breast implants is completely logical. Let's see if folks can follow my line of thinking here:
1. The women most likely to have silicone breast implants are... trophy wives. (AKA Stepford Wives) 2. Trophy wives gain their status by renouncing their independence and agreeing to a fiscal union (ie. being bought and sold by rich men) with a wealthy man 3. Therefore trophy wives are property 4. It is important to keep track of your property when you are a property owner. What better way to do it than RFID?
QED: Breast implant MUST have RFID by the very nature of what they represent and who is interested in them
I tell you, the world is going to hell thanks to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's illegitimate moon child Windows. Back in the days of yore (about two years ago) I was using MSN Messenger to communicate with my intarweb pals. Then someone told me that M$ wanted to claim ownership of what I wrote in MSN Messenger. No! I didn't believe it. I figured that this had to be some kind of GNU Hippy Commie FUD lie. But I read the fine print myself and sure enough, Micro$haft owns anything you happen to write in MSN Messenger. So I stopped using MSN Messenger. Now they want to start interfereing in personal IDs? This is wrong wrong wrong!!! Can you imagine? Micronut$ would own YOUR IDENTITY! I'll bet there is fine print legalese that says that by using the ID, you promise to never do anything contrary to Micro$uck's wishes. The GNU hippies were right! I personally reject all that is Micro$oft as being invalid and declare myself a sovereign computer operator! If I can't buy and sell things as the bible tells of Bill Gates and his Beast system, then I prefer to starve to death than wear the mark of Bill (Satan) Gates!!! They'll never take me alive!!! NEVER!!!! NEVER!!!! They're going to have to pry my GNU/Linux system from my cold dead fingers.
These OSes DON'T RUN!!! (Linux, *BSD, *nix, Mac OS X) Err... wait.
When somne like Enron rewards it's employees with millions, the commie pinkos on/. all cry out and fly the red flag of communism. When Google does it, they all cheer. Pure hypocrisy if I've ever seen it. They talk of rewarding "genius". This is absolute worthless twaddle. What about rewarding the more surperior evil geniuses that brought us the 2000 election? Or maybe the genius behind the Walmart stores? They deserve a lot of money for the works they've done to make this country the greatest empir... nation in the known world!! It just sickens me to see the worthless "accomplishments" of a few pencil-necked geeks unjustly awarded millions that should have gone to some middle management execs and salesforce people. Management and sales are what make us the greatest country in the world!!! The rest of what the wiry technogeeks do is just support.
But no!!! You're wrong! You're so wrong! FOSS is different. It's not meant to fall victim to the ravings of mad dictators like Fidel or the commies. ESR is simply stepping down in order to let someone else have a turn. After all, what fairness would there be in not letting everyone in the community have a shot at being the top dog for a while? ESR probably has a lot of more important things to get on with right now. I hear he has a fantastic glass eye collection he's been working on for the past decade or so. That kind of thing consumes a lot of time and would prevent one from being able to participate in FOSS evangelizationism as ESR has done. Just imagine how great his collection of glass eyes is going to be after only a year or two of being away from the FOSS evangelizationism. It would put to shame the glass eye collection that Terry Gilliam used in the cut scenes from Brazil. I, for one, welcome our hiatus taking squanderlords! (In case you people are curious, I am completely substance free)
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Wha[tt] you fail to understand is that Microsoft keeps people employed and puts food on the table for many millions of Americans. Most of the people from the tree hugging *nix hippy crowd forget that what makes this country great is the ability for anyone to become a millionaire if they work hard enough. You start distributing some free OS and that puts a hole in the system. Free OSes are un-American. This Negroponte character may as well be a mafia don trying to undermine all that is good and pure in the American free-enterprise system. Microsoft is a shining example of what happens when you put brilliant minds behind a product made for profit. Bill Gates alone has made more millionaires for this country than all businesses combined in the 20th century. The fact that the OS has to be patched is just a small inconvenience to pay in order to keep this country and every citizen in it as rich as they are. So thank you... I'll take my patches and happily keep up with them. It's not like it's that hard (just set up auto update and forget it). I'd rather support the American economy than some hippy tree huggers with no real understanding of how this nation works.
...does i[tt] run BSD from beyond the grave??? ;P
Why would that be a joke? One of the problems I have with the whole of humanity is the negative impact it seems to have on the rest of the world. I'd sooner see all of humanity extinguished than spread it's ills away from our planet.
...about which chip is more energy efficient or which one runs hotter, but where is the truth? I am thinking of upgrading one of my RedHat 9 GNU/Linux systems to Fedora Core 3 (maybe the 64-bit distro) and I'm having a hard time trying to figure out which CPU to go with. Intel Xeon or P4 vs. AMD Opteron or Dual Athlon 64s. One of my main considerations is energy efficiency, but... I don't want an efficient PC at the cost of a slower PC. My past experience with AMD has been pretty dismal, but maybe they've changed. I had a DX4 120 AMD clone chip back in the 90s and it had all kinds of problems. I later got a K5 chip which was rated at 233MHz, but seemed slower than my Pentium 200 MMX. So these days, I hear people rave about AMD chips, the 64 bit chips from AMD and Asus mobos. I'm tempted, but... is it going to be more of the same? Is that 2.5 GHz AMD Athlon 64 going to really perform as well as a 2.5 GHz Intel P4? If I go dual (which I tend to prefer) will a Dual Athlon 64 system really rock compared to a dual Xeon? It's nuts!
IMPORTANT QUESTION for the flamebaiting asshole:
If it smells like that, then why do you do it? Hmmm? The fact that you DO do this, speaks more to your lack of intelligence than the someone's scent.
...were so, we are not gods. And before anyone jumps on my back and says that we need to experiment with this stuff before we get it right, keep in mind that the same could have been said about the experiments that the Nazis did on humans in the hopes of finding cures to various ills as well. I think we would do better to simulate this for the next few centuries in software until we're almost 99.999% sure that our plan would work correctly without negatively impacting the rest of the universe.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've been thinking over my current backup strategy and I see some potential for huge data loss in the case that something happens to the main drive while I'm in the middle of a backup. Or... when I do the mkreiserfs command to format the backup drive, if the main drive set is dead... well that's just nasty. One question though if you're still around AC... will the 'rsync' incrememental backup allow me to keep the drives in perfect sync including files that I delete on the main data set? I hate the idea of having my backup take up a lot more space than my data drive and not being able to sort through what is good data and what isn't on the backup. A lot of times I copy multigigabyte video files to the data drive for temporary use and delete them. I want to make sure that my backup drive doesn't get filled with these and never delete them.
Actually, I wasn't really thinking archival here. I was thinking more in terms of day to day use, which is how I use them. I have a backup system for the home server that completely wipes the entire backup drive system, reformats it and then copies everything from the live data drive system to it on a daily basis. So I write about 250 gigs per day to the backup system. It's not perfect though. I'm hoping to eventually set something up that works similar to an HP VA7400 series storage array for home use.
I could have told people this as they've replaced video tape, and audio tape for me for the past decade. I find them much more convenient, portable and cross platform. I have SCSI drives from 1994 that will still work in a PC (Linux or Windows) or Mac today. They are easy to backup to and restore from. The HD is about as close to perfection as you can get in a storage medium. At least until you get flash drives that can store 1 terabyte at minimum, and have an infinite number of writes. At least a 100 year lifespan.
Sort of. I too, get annoyed with all the Windows related "news" on /. But, the fact is that most Slashdot users are Windows users. As much as they go on about Linux or BSD or the GPL, they tend to be Windows users with only a smattering of experience in any other OS. I'd hazard a guess that about 80% of the readers are Windows users almost 100% of the time. 10% are mixed users who use Windows as their desktop and *nix for their servers at home. And the last 10% are *nix (including Mac OS X) users nearly 100% of the time. So it's not really preaching to the choir. Just for the record I fall within the last 10% entioned above.
Thanks for the uninmportant news tidbit. I still don't see your point. Was there ever one?
Right up front I will say that I am a Linux user. Before that, I was a Windows user. Before that I was a Mac user. And before that I was an Atari ST user. All of this is my personal experience with many OSes and not work related at all. When I was an Atari ST user, I got very used to the fact that I could easily download any software I wanted from the internet and use it. A lot of it was shareware (a concept I misunderstood at the time. I assumed I could use it without paying for it and it was just an option to pay.) and some of it was freeware. At the time, I was basically JUST a user. I didn't write my own apps or even tweak config files. I just ran the shareware, freeware and some purchased software and JUST worked. That was OK. I also played some games. That was OK too. Then I moved onto GFA Basic and also got a C compiler and learned how to start writing my own apps. That eventually was OK too.
Then I got the chance to use Macs in college. They separated me even more from the technical side of computing and threw me even farther into the JUST a user crowd. This was OK. I had a chance to pursue more creative artistic endeavors without ever having to think about the computer as anything more than a music making tool, or a graphic editing tool, or a desktop publishing tool. This was OK.
When I graduated, I found that I couldn't afford a Mac and the Atari ST world was drying up. I was employed by a desktop publishing outfit that was PC based on an associate basis after I graduated. My employer was also kind of a mentor. I told him that I was in a quandry over PC vs. Mac. As he'd clearly gone the PC route but was handling desktop layout (engineering catalogs) for really big clients, I wondered whether or not I really needed to go Mac myself. At one point, I'd told him about the memory upgrade I built on my own for my Atari ST (I wired up a board to install SIMMs in it to get up to 2.5 Megs of RAM and saved myself considerable money) and he told me that I'd definitely be able to build a PC on my own. Up to that point I was afraid it would be too hard compared to the Mac. So in August of 1994, I built my first PC and installed DOS/Win31 on it. What surprised me was the lack of non-nagged shareware for DOS and Windows compared to the Atari ST. I wound up having to spend a lot of money on commercial products from Norton, Procomm, Microsoft, Aldus and Adobe. I found that Ihad to buy new versions/upgrades almost every year to year and a half as well. I went from Win31 to Win95. I learned that there were lots of thing about the Windows world that were half-assed compared to my experience with the Mac or even the Atari ST.
I got sick of the cost of computing with Windows and I tried Linux in 1995. I already had experience with *nix from a dial up shell account I got access to in College as well as VMS. So the prospect of running a nice flexible and easy to use CLI on my own PC compared to Windows 95 was very appealing. I had actually tried Linux in 1994 but when I failed to get X to run properly, I gave up on it since at that point I really wanted my PC to work like a Mac. The "killer apps" that got me to switch to Linux were Enlightment and GIMP. They were much closer to what I was accustomed to on the Mac and the ST and even my limited Amiga experience.
So between 1995 and 1999 I gradually moved further from Windows and more solidly to Linux. Al the while I've kept tabs on the Windows camp and I will say the Windows XP is probably the best version of Windows that Microsoft has made to date. It's the most stable version and the most user friendly version. It took the nearly 20 years, but they finally achieved parity with Mac OS 7 in terms of usability. Microsoft also finally acknowledged that the artistic community (musicians, graphic designers, videographers, etc...) is important too. I would argue that they are more important than business which is something that Microsoft still seems to fail to understand, but that is another discussion. However, these
Hmmm... I wouldn't know as I haven't used IE on a regular basis in quite a few years. And since I'm pretty much a Linux user... I didn't know they make IE for Linux. ;P Well, you get the drift. You DO, don't you? Or am I assuming too much about your intellect?
FTP maybe. But not e-mail address or web address.
OMFG!!!! The FBI can't tell the difference between the web www.fbi.gov and e-mail user@fbi.gov! Not only that, but they use their e-mail system to "view internet sites"???!!! WTF!!!? That's like a friend of mine asking me about a web address that looks like: http://user@fbi.gov! And the final nail in the coffin is that Special Agent Steve Lazarus sent an e-mail describing the problem to "communicate with you folks". Any guess that they are still using the same web/e-mail system to send out the press release? Wahoo it's so fun to participate in the idiotry of Slashdot!!! ;P
...maybe I really AM a geek after all? Was I the only one who read the title as "The 83-Year-Old Dead Swap File"? ;P
This is going to be a boon for drunk drivers and such. Now they can drive on ANY road! These roads will be unsecured, and even if they have police on them, it's not like the police can catch every one of them.
;P
Hell, the average driver can't even keep from TAILGATING! How does anyone expect them to actually drive in a responsible manner (Cars automatically allow drunks to get behind the wheel)? Many people I know have to pause to think about what most basic traffic laws are in my state. Everyone who isn't an expert is going to be screwed by this.
(It's already happened with roads, drivers and cars, the "information highway" is not impervious to the influx of stupid people. Just look at most posts on Slashdot, this one included)
Hey Dick... Simple rule:
If it's natural, it's less likely to cause problems.
If it's man made, it's more likely to cause problems.
Humans have a pretty piss poor track record when wielding large amounts of power.
In other news... Boy George really looks scary these days. Almost like something out of an anime. I just saw him on BBC America on the chat show The Kumars at Number 42.
The only reason to get into this game is because you like to play. If you are looking to advance in your career or make a lot of money, you have got the completely wrong idea. If that's your goal, go to school and get an MBA and then work on becoming a business person. Otherwise, play, rock, compute!
Many of us already have some kind of a system to play music in digital form. iPods, Rios, hell even PCs with some kind of media player on them or... the venerable CD player. A while back I sat thinking about the best way to be able to listen to music throughout the house without needing to either:
1. Run speaker wires to every room
2. Cart the music playing system (I use a PC with XMMS on Linux) around the house
3. Run network cables to each room I wanted to listen to music in
4. Or just have a device in every room
All of these seemed cost/time prohibitive. Then I got to thinking... What do I have in every room of the house that I could use to get music into the room without a lot of effort? It dawned on me: heating/cooling ducts. (If you have steam heat or baseboard heat, then my post doesn't apply to you) What I wound up doing was moving my music playing PC from the living room down to my basement (yeah mine. not my parent's) and putting a speaker transducer in the heater that connects to the main ducts. Then I set the volume high enough the the vibrations travel through the ducts to every room at a suitable volume.
Pros:
1. Wireless!!!
2. Plays music!!!
3. Answers silly Ask Slashdot question!!!
Cons:
1. Tinny sound at best
2. Too loud when you are closer to the first floor
3. Can't control what your listening to (I play in random+repeat mode)
I'm pretty sure that the majority of you have ductwork in your house and could take advantage of this innovative approach to whole house wireless music distribution. Let me know what you think!
RFID tags in silicone breast implants is completely logical. Let's see if folks can follow my line of thinking here:
1. The women most likely to have silicone breast implants are... trophy wives. (AKA Stepford Wives)
2. Trophy wives gain their status by renouncing their independence and agreeing to a fiscal union (ie. being bought and sold by rich men) with a wealthy man
3. Therefore trophy wives are property
4. It is important to keep track of your property when you are a property owner. What better way to do it than RFID?
QED: Breast implant MUST have RFID by the very nature of what they represent and who is interested in them
I tell you, the world is going to hell thanks to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's illegitimate moon child Windows. Back in the days of yore (about two years ago) I was using MSN Messenger to communicate with my intarweb pals. Then someone told me that M$ wanted to claim ownership of what I wrote in MSN Messenger. No! I didn't believe it. I figured that this had to be some kind of GNU Hippy Commie FUD lie. But I read the fine print myself and sure enough, Micro$haft owns anything you happen to write in MSN Messenger. So I stopped using MSN Messenger. Now they want to start interfereing in personal IDs? This is wrong wrong wrong!!! Can you imagine? Micronut$ would own YOUR IDENTITY! I'll bet there is fine print legalese that says that by using the ID, you promise to never do anything contrary to Micro$uck's wishes. The GNU hippies were right! I personally reject all that is Micro$oft as being invalid and declare myself a sovereign computer operator! If I can't buy and sell things as the bible tells of Bill Gates and his Beast system, then I prefer to starve to death than wear the mark of Bill (Satan) Gates!!! They'll never take me alive!!! NEVER!!!! NEVER!!!! They're going to have to pry my GNU/Linux system from my cold dead fingers.
These OSes DON'T RUN!!! (Linux, *BSD, *nix, Mac OS X) Err... wait.
When somne like Enron rewards it's employees with millions, the commie pinkos on /. all cry out and fly the red flag of communism. When Google does it, they all cheer. Pure hypocrisy if I've ever seen it. They talk of rewarding "genius". This is absolute worthless twaddle. What about rewarding the more surperior evil geniuses that brought us the 2000 election? Or maybe the genius behind the Walmart stores? They deserve a lot of money for the works they've done to make this country the greatest empir... nation in the known world!! It just sickens me to see the worthless "accomplishments" of a few pencil-necked geeks unjustly awarded millions that should have gone to some middle management execs and salesforce people. Management and sales are what make us the greatest country in the world!!! The rest of what the wiry technogeeks do is just support.
But no!!! You're wrong! You're so wrong! FOSS is different. It's not meant to fall victim to the ravings of mad dictators like Fidel or the commies. ESR is simply stepping down in order to let someone else have a turn. After all, what fairness would there be in not letting everyone in the community have a shot at being the top dog for a while? ESR probably has a lot of more important things to get on with right now. I hear he has a fantastic glass eye collection he's been working on for the past decade or so. That kind of thing consumes a lot of time and would prevent one from being able to participate in FOSS evangelizationism as ESR has done. Just imagine how great his collection of glass eyes is going to be after only a year or two of being away from the FOSS evangelizationism. It would put to shame the glass eye collection that Terry Gilliam used in the cut scenes from Brazil. I, for one, welcome our hiatus taking squanderlords! (In case you people are curious, I am completely substance free)