When it is possible for some british bloke to build his own rocket and fly into space, evil terrorist might be able to build their own rockets and fly into space, too.
Such sick evilmen might attack commucinations satellites and bring down the whole internet in no time.
There are of course some ocean cables but we all know that these are not very reliable due to the sharks. In fact there has evoled a new shark species which can stand very high pessure just the nibble at ocean cables and make them break.
And there is also the possibility that evil terrorist might fall down from space onto your head !!!
When people use the internet in cafes or bars they are the most time very drunk and write stupid things.
For example I know a dude who really posted on a very popular website that he got email from Afghanistan when there is no electricity or water there and the tabilan shot people for having computers, very stupid indeed.
So this decision might actually rise the quality of the internet automatically but I don't know if the stupid "I-got-email" bloke is from china sorry.
Some chinese might have trouble to get truthful information in this repressive system but intelligent people always know how to get this information because the definition of intelligent people is: people who know how to get truthful information.
Invaluable: That's what people always say but when you would have several million $$$, you would soon notice that there is in fact a finite price for women.
..most ideas I've read here are rather strange.
The ultimate geek gift is a computer.
Always.
Ever.
All the time.
If a geek has 1 computer he can always use another one.
If a geek has n computers he can always use n+1 computers.
In fact, the necessary (but no sufficient) condition for being a geek is to have always use for another computer. If someone hasn't he isn't a geek.
Mainly Geogre Lucas will be making much money by recycling an old and braindead SCI-FI movie be creating new films on the topic which contain no decent storyline but much special effects and computer animated pictures. Because the ending of the last movie of the old ones had left no sensible possibility to create any sequels, Mr. Lucas will have the innovative and cunning idea of creating prequels.
And now the most important thing of the plot: many coloured things will expode (especially in vacuum with a loud "kaboom !). And some guys will jump around.
Byuing laptops is nonsense. They are really overpriced and have little computing power.
The bst thing is to build your own laptop.
This can be easily done by ripping a standard TFT display apart and gluing some standard board to it. This is even better than a normal computer because it has no case and so the cooling is much better because of the more air all around. Fresh air is always healthy not only for computers.
Getting a useable keyboard might be a little problem but there are these rubber keyboards which are designed to be waterproof which can be glued to the other components. And you want of course a CD-RW, DVD, HDD etc. which all can be glued easily to the other components. Power supply might be a little problem, but the mainboard and the TFT use
usually max 12V so this can be done easily with batteries, rechargeable prefered.
I really biuld one of these thing.
And yes, it didn't work but I think this is because of linux and I should have used FreeBSD instead because it's more Windows compatible.
The difference machine might be an analog computer. While digital computers store on bit of information in one storage unit, an anlog computer might store an infite number of information in one storage unit, because there is an analytic mapping from R to (0,1). Therefore it might break all ciphers in no time and breaks all encryption, really. So the NSA will ban this book all over the world. I suspect they financed the effords for rebuilding the difference engine. The rebuilding failed up to now but the CIA will just hush up the truth like they do with the aliens with whom we had contact in 1949.
The main idea behind open source is that everybody should reuse and contribute to the sources freely. But for this to happen you need licenses everybody can understand. Most programmer ain't laywers, so if the licenses is too complicated everybody is scared away which makes open source useless.
So I wonder if this isn't the wrong way. These academic laywers will create too complicated licenses and legal babble which will scare all programmers away from using open source.
I think this is a big problem with the laywers you have in the US. Everwere they see something they crawl on to many all complicated and to suck money from class action suits. We here in europe are very lucky that we don't have such things. We might have weapon control but we won't have any raving mad laywers to sue our butt off.
Yes you might ask now: "Why wants this strange dude with RMS post address ? Does he want to send him some flowers ?"
No.
I got RMS homepage address when I was on the AOL chatroom because I searched for pro open source propaganda which is always a good cause.
I thought: "strange address" but then I remembered that RMS is well known for his humor and he has in fact a beard like a goat.
So I looked up the address and I was very surprised that he showed all the world his haemorrhoids. But then I known how much pain these thing can be and he must be really desperate now. You go always to the doctor and he gives you some stuff but it never works really.
And I believe that's also the reason why he is always ranting about GNU/linux and stuff like this. When you have so much pain in your butt you are always in bad mood, I know this really.
That's probably also the reason why he hasn't created any new program lately. His last was emacs coded 20 years ago which is a very long time. You really can't sit before a computer and concentrate with these evil things.
But I have good news for him !
I found a special creme which worked very well for me really and I want to send it to him because it's a special local product here in Sweden and he won't ever get it in the US and would have always this great pain.
You rally make good computers in the US but when it comes to whale oil & carrot creme you are really lost.
Higher data rates contain much more modulation on the carrier. The modulation is suspected to do many very bad thing like causing cancer and doing brain damage. So the removal of this restriction might cause health problems to many people which might be very bad in fact.
And when you rwally think about it all these mobile phones are useless anyway. Just a normal phone with a answering machine does the same job. If there is something important people will call be later or else it wasn't important.
And mobile internet is very bad anyway because it distracts people from the traffic and causes accidents. Just try to post on slashdot and drive on a highway all the same time !!! You will crash in no time, unless linux crashes before you which is both very bad because in both possibilities the filesystem on you harddisk will be corrupted.
..we have lot's of national ID cards all over Europe and no big brother in sight.
Just our crime rates are lower, our economic wealth is greater and people may drink alcohol on the streets.
The US is in fact criminals paradise without any decent resident laws (you must register where you live at the local public authority). Swift moving around, never be caught. There might be reasons for this but they belong to the 18th century not to the 21th.
..until they are killed by legal actions.
These services attack a multibillon dollar industry.
Does anyone think these guys will just sit back and watch their money float away ?
They have the power and the influence to buy any laywer, court and politian they want, so it's only a matter of time until these services are declared illegal by law and ISPs will be forced to block any connections to them.
But I personally don't think that this is bad. I never like music anyway and all this metallica and micheal jackson and brithney tits stuff sucks anyway. Music only distracts you from writing computer program and doing calculus, so it's very good when they make it expensive so that ppor nerds can't afford it anymore.
isn't the usual fingerprint of an attack that your web server is down, your traffic explodes and all people you know send your their documents to have your advice ?
I don't see much more room for advanced technology there.
Open source means that you open up your intelectual property so that other can use it without fees and add their own contribution.
That's exactly what's happening here:
People take the sources of other peoples open source licences, modify them and redistribute them without having to pay any silly license fees.
So, you see the great sucess of open source here: many different licenses exist now and compete with each other and all time new licenses are created.
Some people might say now this is bad because there might be holes which evil guys can abuse, but because the license is open at once a new license is created without the hole and evil men have no chance !!!
So don't believe Microsoft with their evil anti-open source FUD: nobody uses the MS licenses beside MS themselves anymore, because they are closed and they will fail. Soon all licenses will be open source licenses because that's the only licenses people can fit to their needs wihtout paying big bucks !
And laywers can still make money just be providing advice for the licenses without needing to charge fees for the original licenses !!!
I usually don't have very much space on my harddisk because it very small and i often can't decide which pictures to delete i downloaded from the internet.
So this installer comes in very handy because it deletes just all data and you don't have to decide whether to delete the picture of all these nice kitties or not.
So you have much more space on your harddisk and can download again much more nice pictures from the internet with cats.
My problem is however that i don't have an MAC and i hope they port it to linux soon so that i have again nice 30 megabytes of free harddisk space.
It is of course very sad that people with important data have lost all important data but you can't have much space and important data on your harddisk all the same time anyway.
DOT and MI had lots of little coloured grafics.
And they did very much sound to make come out of the computer.
However under linux all grafics are grey and my computer makes no sound even it is the same i used for playind DOT several years ago.
So why does one create a interpreter for games with many grafics and sounds for a system without any grafics and sounds ?
Even with these grafics being very little you will notice that there are no colours and you will hear no sound !
And why is the interpreter not written in perl ?
You can write anything in perl it is a very modern language besides that it can't display any coloured grafics but i think this is because of linux because linux don't have any colours.
And when they don't write the interpreter not in perl then why they don't use assembler ?
Even i wrote an interpreter in assembler once but it didn't work but i think this is because of linux.
All these computer games make little children and students play computer instead of doing their homework and learning.
When you get these games in stores for much money, little children can't buy them and must stay at home and learn much.
But with these internet games the situation is changed. Some cost money which is good because little children have no money and can't play these games and must do their homework because parents don't give them any money to play games instead of doing their homework.
But such free games little children will download them for free and play instead of learning so that they don't learn much and stay silly their whole life along.
And parents can't protect them because the games don't cost any money because they are free !!!
This is very bad and causes many uneducated people.
Due to the opening up these standards, it's very easy for competitors to create compatible devices without license fees.
So the initial inventors don't get very much money from their inventions like they could make initially.
This is very bad because it will force other companies do the very same.
You might say: good for open source community.
But in fact it's very bad: it restricts the profit inventors get from their invention.
Look for example at IBM, they nearly died from getting not enough money from their invention of the IBM PC.
So nobody will do any more inventions, because they look at IBM and say: "Look, they nearly died from getting not enough money from their invention. Let's rather sell old, cheap stuff and get rich !"
So, no more inventions will be done and there will be no enconomical and scientific advancement.
So, you see that treaties like this are in fact very bad and might destroy our economy.
Slashdot Mirror
When it is possible for some british bloke to build his own rocket and fly into space, evil terrorist might be able to build their own rockets and fly into space, too.
Such sick evilmen might attack commucinations satellites and bring down the whole internet in no time.
There are of course some ocean cables but we all know that these are not very reliable due to the sharks. In fact there has evoled a new shark species which can stand very high pessure just the nibble at ocean cables and make them break.
And there is also the possibility that evil terrorist might fall down from space onto your head !!!
When people use the internet in cafes or bars they are the most time very drunk and write stupid things.
For example I know a dude who really posted on a very popular website that he got email from Afghanistan when there is no electricity or water there and the tabilan shot people for having computers, very stupid indeed.
So this decision might actually rise the quality of the internet automatically but I don't know if the stupid "I-got-email" bloke is from china sorry.
Some chinese might have trouble to get truthful information in this repressive system but intelligent people always know how to get this information because the definition of intelligent people is: people who know how to get truthful information.
Invaluable: That's what people always say but when you would have several million $$$, you would soon notice that there is in fact a finite price for women.
..most ideas I've read here are rather strange.
The ultimate geek gift is a computer.
Always.
Ever.
All the time.
If a geek has 1 computer he can always use another one.
If a geek has n computers he can always use n+1 computers.
In fact, the necessary (but no sufficient) condition for being a geek is to have always use for another computer. If someone hasn't he isn't a geek.
...to the /. crowd.
We are really only interested in the threat by the demented crapflooder virus.
Hey, I'll give you the plot of the whole film.
Mainly Geogre Lucas will be making much money by recycling an old and braindead SCI-FI movie be creating new films on the topic which contain no decent storyline but much special effects and computer animated pictures. Because the ending of the last movie of the old ones had left no sensible possibility to create any sequels, Mr. Lucas will have the innovative and cunning idea of creating prequels.
And now the most important thing of the plot: many coloured things will expode (especially in vacuum with a loud "kaboom !). And some guys will jump around.
Byuing laptops is nonsense. They are really overpriced and have little computing power. The bst thing is to build your own laptop. This can be easily done by ripping a standard TFT display apart and gluing some standard board to it. This is even better than a normal computer because it has no case and so the cooling is much better because of the more air all around. Fresh air is always healthy not only for computers. Getting a useable keyboard might be a little problem but there are these rubber keyboards which are designed to be waterproof which can be glued to the other components. And you want of course a CD-RW, DVD, HDD etc. which all can be glued easily to the other components. Power supply might be a little problem, but the mainboard and the TFT use usually max 12V so this can be done easily with batteries, rechargeable prefered. I really biuld one of these thing. And yes, it didn't work but I think this is because of linux and I should have used FreeBSD instead because it's more Windows compatible.
The difference machine might be an analog computer. While digital computers store on bit of information in one storage unit, an anlog computer might store an infite number of information in one storage unit, because there is an analytic mapping from R to (0,1). Therefore it might break all ciphers in no time and breaks all encryption, really. So the NSA will ban this book all over the world. I suspect they financed the effords for rebuilding the difference engine. The rebuilding failed up to now but the CIA will just hush up the truth like they do with the aliens with whom we had contact in 1949.
Anyone knows how they fought the first borg cube attacking earth in Star Trek ?
The main idea behind open source is that everybody should reuse and contribute to the sources freely. But for this to happen you need licenses everybody can understand. Most programmer ain't laywers, so if the licenses is too complicated everybody is scared away which makes open source useless.
So I wonder if this isn't the wrong way. These academic laywers will create too complicated licenses and legal babble which will scare all programmers away from using open source.
I think this is a big problem with the laywers you have in the US. Everwere they see something they crawl on to many all complicated and to suck money from class action suits. We here in europe are very lucky that we don't have such things. We might have weapon control but we won't have any raving mad laywers to sue our butt off.
Yes you might ask now: "Why wants this strange dude with RMS post address ? Does he want to send him some flowers ?"
No.
I got RMS homepage address when I was on the AOL chatroom because I searched for pro open source propaganda which is always a good cause.
I thought: "strange address" but then I remembered that RMS is well known for his humor and he has in fact a beard like a goat.
So I looked up the address and I was very surprised that he showed all the world his haemorrhoids. But then I known how much pain these thing can be and he must be really desperate now. You go always to the doctor and he gives you some stuff but it never works really.
And I believe that's also the reason why he is always ranting about GNU/linux and stuff like this. When you have so much pain in your butt you are always in bad mood, I know this really.
That's probably also the reason why he hasn't created any new program lately. His last was emacs coded 20 years ago which is a very long time. You really can't sit before a computer and concentrate with these evil things.
But I have good news for him !
I found a special creme which worked very well for me really and I want to send it to him because it's a special local product here in Sweden and he won't ever get it in the US and would have always this great pain.
You rally make good computers in the US but when it comes to whale oil & carrot creme you are really lost.
Higher data rates contain much more modulation on the carrier. The modulation is suspected to do many very bad thing like causing cancer and doing brain damage. So the removal of this restriction might cause health problems to many people which might be very bad in fact. And when you rwally think about it all these mobile phones are useless anyway. Just a normal phone with a answering machine does the same job. If there is something important people will call be later or else it wasn't important. And mobile internet is very bad anyway because it distracts people from the traffic and causes accidents. Just try to post on slashdot and drive on a highway all the same time !!! You will crash in no time, unless linux crashes before you which is both very bad because in both possibilities the filesystem on you harddisk will be corrupted.
..we have lot's of national ID cards all over Europe and no big brother in sight.
Just our crime rates are lower, our economic wealth is greater and people may drink alcohol on the streets.
The US is in fact criminals paradise without any decent resident laws (you must register where you live at the local public authority). Swift moving around, never be caught. There might be reasons for this but they belong to the 18th century not to the 21th.
..until they are killed by legal actions.
These services attack a multibillon dollar industry.
Does anyone think these guys will just sit back and watch their money float away ?
They have the power and the influence to buy any laywer, court and politian they want, so it's only a matter of time until these services are declared illegal by law and ISPs will be forced to block any connections to them.
But I personally don't think that this is bad. I never like music anyway and all this metallica and micheal jackson and brithney tits stuff sucks anyway. Music only distracts you from writing computer program and doing calculus, so it's very good when they make it expensive so that ppor nerds can't afford it anymore.
isn't the usual fingerprint of an attack that your web server is down, your traffic explodes and all people you know send your their documents to have your advice ?
I don't see much more room for advanced technology there.
Open source means that you open up your intelectual property so that other can use it without fees and add their own contribution.
That's exactly what's happening here:
People take the sources of other peoples open source licences, modify them and redistribute them without having to pay any silly license fees.
So, you see the great sucess of open source here: many different licenses exist now and compete with each other and all time new licenses are created.
Some people might say now this is bad because there might be holes which evil guys can abuse, but because the license is open at once a new license is created without the hole and evil men have no chance !!!
So don't believe Microsoft with their evil anti-open source FUD: nobody uses the MS licenses beside MS themselves anymore, because they are closed and they will fail. Soon all licenses will be open source licenses because that's the only licenses people can fit to their needs wihtout paying big bucks !
And laywers can still make money just be providing advice for the licenses without needing to charge fees for the original licenses !!!
I usually don't have very much space on my harddisk because it very small and i often can't decide which pictures to delete i downloaded from the internet.
So this installer comes in very handy because it deletes just all data and you don't have to decide whether to delete the picture of all these nice kitties or not.
So you have much more space on your harddisk and can download again much more nice pictures from the internet with cats.
My problem is however that i don't have an MAC and i hope they port it to linux soon so that i have again nice 30 megabytes of free harddisk space.
It is of course very sad that people with important data have lost all important data but you can't have much space and important data on your harddisk all the same time anyway.
DOT and MI had lots of little coloured grafics.
And they did very much sound to make come out of the computer.
However under linux all grafics are grey and my computer makes no sound even it is the same i used for playind DOT several years ago.
So why does one create a interpreter for games with many grafics and sounds for a system without any grafics and sounds ?
Even with these grafics being very little you will notice that there are no colours and you will hear no sound !
And why is the interpreter not written in perl ?
You can write anything in perl it is a very modern language besides that it can't display any coloured grafics but i think this is because of linux because linux don't have any colours.
And when they don't write the interpreter not in perl then why they don't use assembler ?
Even i wrote an interpreter in assembler once but it didn't work but i think this is because of linux.
All these computer games make little children and students play computer instead of doing their homework and learning.
When you get these games in stores for much money, little children can't buy them and must stay at home and learn much.
But with these internet games the situation is changed. Some cost money which is good because little children have no money and can't play these games and must do their homework because parents don't give them any money to play games instead of doing their homework.
But such free games little children will download them for free and play instead of learning so that they don't learn much and stay silly their whole life along.
And parents can't protect them because the games don't cost any money because they are free !!!
This is very bad and causes many uneducated people.
Due to the opening up these standards, it's very easy for competitors to create compatible devices without license fees. So the initial inventors don't get very much money from their inventions like they could make initially. This is very bad because it will force other companies do the very same. You might say: good for open source community. But in fact it's very bad: it restricts the profit inventors get from their invention. Look for example at IBM, they nearly died from getting not enough money from their invention of the IBM PC. So nobody will do any more inventions, because they look at IBM and say: "Look, they nearly died from getting not enough money from their invention. Let's rather sell old, cheap stuff and get rich !" So, no more inventions will be done and there will be no enconomical and scientific advancement. So, you see that treaties like this are in fact very bad and might destroy our economy.