Do you know how tedious finding items is? This is a bot that will do it for you. I've been able to start doing my homework again, as well as other 'real life' tasks. When I want to play I stop the bot and see what it found. Good items: YAAY! No items: oh well... No hours lost to the game! It's brilliant.
Here is an interesting comparison. Think of motorcycles. People customize them all the time. You buy one, then you are free to do whatever you want to it. The aftermarket is huge as a consequence - everybody wins. Imagine going to jail for putting a Japanese-made seat on your bike, because the original manufacturer only wants you to use AMERICAN seats.
It stands to reason that we should be able to cutomize our products once we buy them. Of course we might not want weapons of mass destruction to be legal just because their builder 'customized' the original materials...
I don't see how mod chips are any different than the X-Box itself as a circumvention device. Even a brick could be considered as such. It could be used to smash open those little single-cd players, but still have legitimate uses. These things should be looked at on a per-user basis. Is the user using the tool to break the law? No? Move on then. An example of this in the present day? Guns: the most visible law-breaking tool in the land. The only difference is that the whole 'innocent until proven guilty' thing still applies there.
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Taken?
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They were looking for human artifacts, I assume. Probably early mecha.
Ugly AND gay? I've only ever considered it to be ugly, but gay? Never! I mean, I saw it kiss KDE once, but they're friends, right? Old friends kiss each other on the cheek... I think...
All of the fun Apple projects (Aqua et. al.) that I would be interested in tweaking are closed-source.
And thus you've hit upon the main reason open-source stuff survives: someone finds it to be fun. Visual stuff gives the most immediate reward, so it gets the most attention. Other things, like darwin streaming, deserves a good deal of attention too.
The guy that came over to install my stuff was a total moron. When signing up for my cable modem service I decided to do the "honeypot" idea with my Windows machine, which I figured would be easiest (let them screw everything up, then pull out the info I need after they leave). There was a spot of trouble which I didn't forsee, however: I use Apple Studio Displays on all of my machines, and he couldn't get over the fact that they aren't iMacs. When he got there he was like, "Aa, iMacs? They're fancy. I don't know how to install this stuff on iMacs. Let me call my supervisor..."
I had three clearly visible beige boxes under the table at this point, which obviously had the monitors connected to them, the keyboards, mouses, etc, etc.
I tell him, "No, man, these are all PC's."
"Yeah, cool. Hmmm..."
*fiddles with one of them running Windows98, dials number on cellphone*
"Yeah, what's up, man. Um, I got these iMacs here, and I was wondering what I should do..."
I just about hit him over the head with my chair. After some pressuring I got to talk to the guy on the other end of the phone, who gave me everything I needed to know(IP, etc). When I gave the phone back I could hear him yelling at the "installer."
"Oh, you mean that they aren't iMacs. That's crazy. They look just like em."
No kidding. What a flagrant act of destruction this is. It takes the idea of "music as art" and stuffs it into a "music as money" box. In the current model, where you must buy a cd, artists still have some level of control over what you buy. Imagine a world in which musicians had to write every song as stand-alone. There would be no symphonies, no "Thw Wall"... Everything would become pop.
This is an extremely bad idea. I'm sure that musicians will fight this tooth and nail.
If they're saying that Flatpanels will make more money, then this has everything to do with market share. More money == more power. Since the cost of manufacturing these things is low, the winner is the flatpanel maker. Also, in a related theory, more money == more problems.
The people who did this are undoubtedly HUGE computer freaks(like the rest of us). If they had succeeded, they would have thought it was the coolest thing ever until they realized that they brought down the internet. Then they would undergo massive withdrawal, since they killed thier main source of entertainment. For a few days they would curl up into a corner and curse their existence. Maybe they would go outside and turn to ashes in the sun.
It's like a crack addict killing his dealer for fun.
I think we'll be seeing more of this in the future. It seems that security on these trains are very tight, but they are remarkably easy to stow-away on. Supposedly they can go on total lockdown in a few seconds, while timers pop up in each car, and they are all flooded with dark red light.
My point was: whiz-bang garners mainstream attention. Attitudes like yours make for good-enough computing, which is the norm for opensource. I don't need anything like a mouse that flies between computers. Then again, I don't need any computer products period. I bought them because they are cool, and very useful at times. The cooler they are, the more I'll buy. Same goes for the general consumer. That's classic economics for ya'.
It is true, though, that a select group does make above-and-beyond interesting stuff. They make really cool things for personal entertainment purposes. None of it leaves their houses though. I'm generalizing, but I'm talking about general opinion on computing alternatives.
"At one desk, users can move a wireless mouse's pointer from the screen of one computer to the screen of a laptop, with no wire or wireless connection between the computers themselves. That allows copying or moving material between the computers, a task that would otherwise be more difficult."
Gaaak! How cool is that! There's something that is missing in the opensource community - the "WOW" factor. I mean, there's plenty of stuff that's neat floating around, but it seems like we're always playing catchup to the standards created by superfunded companies. At some point, coming out with a (built-in) whiz-bang thing like this would really help out the cause. Imagine...
"Gosh, you mean that this free software and reasonably priced hardware can make my life immediately easier OUT OF THE BOX!?!? Graaaah! WHY HAVE I WASTED MY LIFE THUS FAR?"
Rapture envelopes the cubicle masses as companies adopt the new computing paradigm, etc...
only suffering IE on sites that Chimera can't handle...
You know, a lot of sites "Chimera can't handle" are probably sites that don't conform to standards. IE is very "forgiving" as far as standards go, and people have been taking advantage of that. IMO, that is a good thing. Use what is available, right? Standards need to conform to what people want and are using. It's silly to ignore what is most popular in user-land because of outmoded standards. Like everything, they need to be updated.
For example, I use Konqueror on this machine. To play with my cute little neopet, I have to switch to my Windows machine running IE because the Konquerorites (and others) refuse to allow extended text in alt tags. Like language, you have to update yourself to adapt to what users are doing. Otherwise, you'll end up speaking something entirely useless.
I wonder if the original "Symbian" company will sue Nokia for stealing the name. I mean, I'll be really confused now when I see popups for "Hot XXX girls RIDE THE SYMBIAN"... Hmmm, have they created a new fetish niche?
Re:Mosfet.org updated about why this is bad
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· Score: 2, Interesting
KDE is a package deal. People work hard on it with that in mind. When someone comes along and picks and chooses pieces from the whole, the original idea is trashed. As all of you know, a big part of the Open Source community is the belief in it. For anyone to do anything for free they must believe what they are doing is worthwhile. I can't help but feel bad for the KDE folks who are watching their baby be split into pieces, and incorporated into someone else's dream. You know, this is Red Hat we're talking about here. This *could* seriously alter the future of KDE. When the very idea behind a project changes, a lot of people become disenchanted. Unfortunately, the thin veneer of idealism is all that holds many projects together.
Then again, a license is a license. Red Hat was totally in the right to do what they did. The question is, how does large-scale project snatching effect the developers? This has happened a million times before in the paying world, and the free one too I'm sure.
I thought it would be cool to see how fast I go, how efficient my driving habits are, etc. Then I thought, holy shit - people would quickly bastardize any legitimate non-invasive purpose the thing would have. So I moved on to my next invention: the Grabber! It can fetch cups from high cupboards with ease. Not only that, but it won't hang around your neck like a leash. It can't be used to enforce morals/territorial travel limits at all!
We need to define a territory of jurisdiction for computers. They are increasingly more intelligent, and I imagine a set of laws more convoluted than god being enacted to control them.
Anyway, what if the server was co-owned by an American? Say the guy in Italy bargained his way out of a long sentence by revealing their password. In the process he also bargained away what was the other guy's right as an American to post that stuff. The Italian police then decide to use Italian laws on the American's half-owned property by defacing the site. Once the Italian is in jail, the American reposts the stuff. What have the Italian police accomplished on the net? Nothing at all. What if the guy didn't change the password and the Italian police deface it again in accordance with the precedent?
Imagine a book sitting in the U.S. that had print so large that the people in Italy could read it. It would be a call to war if Italy didn't like the book and replaced its text with something else. What if the book contained kiddie porn? Well, its up to the U.S. to deal with what's in the book, since this is where it is stored.
The murky area is whether or not to go after the author. I would say that if a law is broken on a country's soil (a server housed there), then the server should get taken down, as well as the author if their country permits deportation. So: the soil the server is on should determine jurisdiction for the server, and the soil the author is on should determine his fate. In that case, kiddie porn servers in a kiddie porn condoning area would be legal throughout the globe. BUT... if someone accessed the kiddie porn servers in a non-kiddie porn condoning society they would be subject to the applicable punishment.
feel free to replace bold text with whatever pisses you off
Humor is a good thing, probably necessary to live like this guy. I'm sure he's well aware of how dangerous he is living, and would enjoy a joke like that.
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Do you know how tedious finding items is? This is a bot that will do it for you. I've been able to start doing my homework again, as well as other 'real life' tasks. When I want to play I stop the bot and see what it found. Good items: YAAY! No items: oh well... No hours lost to the game! It's brilliant.
Here is an interesting comparison. Think of motorcycles. People customize them all the time. You buy one, then you are free to do whatever you want to it. The aftermarket is huge as a consequence - everybody wins. Imagine going to jail for putting a Japanese-made seat on your bike, because the original manufacturer only wants you to use AMERICAN seats.
It stands to reason that we should be able to cutomize our products once we buy them. Of course we might not want weapons of mass destruction to be legal just because their builder 'customized' the original materials...
I don't see how mod chips are any different than the X-Box itself as a circumvention device. Even a brick could be considered as such. It could be used to smash open those little single-cd players, but still have legitimate uses. These things should be looked at on a per-user basis. Is the user using the tool to break the law? No? Move on then. An example of this in the present day? Guns: the most visible law-breaking tool in the land. The only difference is that the whole 'innocent until proven guilty' thing still applies there.
They were looking for human artifacts, I assume. Probably early mecha.
Internizzle Sizzle Applizzle (Internet Search Appliance) Googizzle.kizzle (google.com) bizzle.googizzle.kizzle (beta.google.com) frizzle.googizzle.kizzle (froogle.google.com) For shizzle my nizzle.
Ugly AND gay? I've only ever considered it to be ugly, but gay? Never! I mean, I saw it kiss KDE once, but they're friends, right? Old friends kiss each other on the cheek... I think...
Pixar != Disney
Anyone else see the name on the DVD the next to the laptop on apple.com? it read: "Winter in Whistler". I sense a swipe at Windows XP!
The magnet doens't move. The coil and the cone do.
All of the fun Apple projects (Aqua et. al.) that I would be interested in tweaking are closed-source.
And thus you've hit upon the main reason open-source stuff survives: someone finds it to be fun. Visual stuff gives the most immediate reward, so it gets the most attention. Other things, like darwin streaming, deserves a good deal of attention too.
A similar "creative" process was used naming Stone Temple Pilots, I'm sure.
"Okay, everyone write out names of on these sheets of paper. The first two we pull out will be the name!"
"The first one is... Cock! Allright!"
"Okay, the next one is... Ass. Cockass. Maybe we should try again."
The guy that came over to install my stuff was a total moron. When signing up for my cable modem service I decided to do the "honeypot" idea with my Windows machine, which I figured would be easiest (let them screw everything up, then pull out the info I need after they leave). There was a spot of trouble which I didn't forsee, however: I use Apple Studio Displays on all of my machines, and he couldn't get over the fact that they aren't iMacs. When he got there he was like, "Aa, iMacs? They're fancy. I don't know how to install this stuff on iMacs. Let me call my supervisor..."
I had three clearly visible beige boxes under the table at this point, which obviously had the monitors connected to them, the keyboards, mouses, etc, etc.
I tell him, "No, man, these are all PC's."
"Yeah, cool. Hmmm..."
*fiddles with one of them running Windows98, dials number on cellphone*
"Yeah, what's up, man. Um, I got these iMacs here, and I was wondering what I should do..."
I just about hit him over the head with my chair. After some pressuring I got to talk to the guy on the other end of the phone, who gave me everything I needed to know(IP, etc). When I gave the phone back I could hear him yelling at the "installer."
"Oh, you mean that they aren't iMacs. That's crazy. They look just like em."
What the FUCK...
No kidding. What a flagrant act of destruction this is. It takes the idea of "music as art" and stuffs it into a "music as money" box. In the current model, where you must buy a cd, artists still have some level of control over what you buy. Imagine a world in which musicians had to write every song as stand-alone. There would be no symphonies, no "Thw Wall"... Everything would become pop.
This is an extremely bad idea. I'm sure that musicians will fight this tooth and nail.
If they're saying that Flatpanels will make more money, then this has everything to do with market share. More money == more power. Since the cost of manufacturing these things is low, the winner is the flatpanel maker. Also, in a related theory, more money == more problems.
The people who did this are undoubtedly HUGE computer freaks(like the rest of us). If they had succeeded, they would have thought it was the coolest thing ever until they realized that they brought down the internet. Then they would undergo massive withdrawal, since they killed thier main source of entertainment. For a few days they would curl up into a corner and curse their existence. Maybe they would go outside and turn to ashes in the sun.
It's like a crack addict killing his dealer for fun.
Here's a promo shot from the manufacturer:
Train of the future
I think we'll be seeing more of this in the future. It seems that security on these trains are very tight, but they are remarkably easy to stow-away on. Supposedly they can go on total lockdown in a few seconds, while timers pop up in each car, and they are all flooded with dark red light.
snow
My point was: whiz-bang garners mainstream attention. Attitudes like yours make for good-enough computing, which is the norm for opensource. I don't need anything like a mouse that flies between computers. Then again, I don't need any computer products period. I bought them because they are cool, and very useful at times. The cooler they are, the more I'll buy. Same goes for the general consumer. That's classic economics for ya'.
It is true, though, that a select group does make above-and-beyond interesting stuff. They make really cool things for personal entertainment purposes. None of it leaves their houses though. I'm generalizing, but I'm talking about general opinion on computing alternatives.
"At one desk, users can move a wireless mouse's pointer from the screen of one computer to the screen of a laptop, with no wire or wireless connection between the computers themselves. That allows copying or moving material between the computers, a task that would otherwise be more difficult."
Gaaak! How cool is that! There's something that is missing in the opensource community - the "WOW" factor. I mean, there's plenty of stuff that's neat floating around, but it seems like we're always playing catchup to the standards created by superfunded companies. At some point, coming out with a (built-in) whiz-bang thing like this would really help out the cause. Imagine...
"Gosh, you mean that this free software and reasonably priced hardware can make my life immediately easier OUT OF THE BOX!?!? Graaaah! WHY HAVE I WASTED MY LIFE THUS FAR?"
Rapture envelopes the cubicle masses as companies adopt the new computing paradigm, etc...
only suffering IE on sites that Chimera can't handle...
You know, a lot of sites "Chimera can't handle" are probably sites that don't conform to standards. IE is very "forgiving" as far as standards go, and people have been taking advantage of that. IMO, that is a good thing. Use what is available, right? Standards need to conform to what people want and are using. It's silly to ignore what is most popular in user-land because of outmoded standards. Like everything, they need to be updated.
For example, I use Konqueror on this machine. To play with my cute little neopet, I have to switch to my Windows machine running IE because the Konquerorites (and others) refuse to allow extended text in alt tags. Like language, you have to update yourself to adapt to what users are doing. Otherwise, you'll end up speaking something entirely useless.
Chris
I wonder if the original "Symbian" company will sue Nokia for stealing the name. I mean, I'll be really confused now when I see popups for "Hot XXX girls RIDE THE SYMBIAN"... Hmmm, have they created a new fetish niche?
KDE is a package deal. People work hard on it with that in mind. When someone comes along and picks and chooses pieces from the whole, the original idea is trashed. As all of you know, a big part of the Open Source community is the belief in it. For anyone to do anything for free they must believe what they are doing is worthwhile. I can't help but feel bad for the KDE folks who are watching their baby be split into pieces, and incorporated into someone else's dream. You know, this is Red Hat we're talking about here. This *could* seriously alter the future of KDE. When the very idea behind a project changes, a lot of people become disenchanted. Unfortunately, the thin veneer of idealism is all that holds many projects together.
Then again, a license is a license. Red Hat was totally in the right to do what they did. The question is, how does large-scale project snatching effect the developers? This has happened a million times before in the paying world, and the free one too I'm sure.
I know. I feel like saying...
SHUTUP or I'll kill dash nine you
But I can't, because they wouldn't understand. That's the difference between US and THEM. We assume that they have no idea what we're talking about.
I thought it would be cool to see how fast I go, how efficient my driving habits are, etc. Then I thought, holy shit - people would quickly bastardize any legitimate non-invasive purpose the thing would have. So I moved on to my next invention: the Grabber! It can fetch cups from high cupboards with ease. Not only that, but it won't hang around your neck like a leash. It can't be used to enforce morals/territorial travel limits at all!
We need to define a territory of jurisdiction for computers. They are increasingly more intelligent, and I imagine a set of laws more convoluted than god being enacted to control them.
Anyway, what if the server was co-owned by an American? Say the guy in Italy bargained his way out of a long sentence by revealing their password. In the process he also bargained away what was the other guy's right as an American to post that stuff. The Italian police then decide to use Italian laws on the American's half-owned property by defacing the site. Once the Italian is in jail, the American reposts the stuff. What have the Italian police accomplished on the net? Nothing at all. What if the guy didn't change the password and the Italian police deface it again in accordance with the precedent?
eh
Think of it this way:
Imagine a book sitting in the U.S. that had print so large that the people in Italy could read it. It would be a call to war if Italy didn't like the book and replaced its text with something else. What if the book contained kiddie porn? Well, its up to the U.S. to deal with what's in the book, since this is where it is stored.
The murky area is whether or not to go after the author. I would say that if a law is broken on a country's soil (a server housed there), then the server should get taken down, as well as the author if their country permits deportation. So: the soil the server is on should determine jurisdiction for the server, and the soil the author is on should determine his fate. In that case, kiddie porn servers in a kiddie porn condoning area would be legal throughout the globe. BUT... if someone accessed the kiddie porn servers in a non-kiddie porn condoning society they would be subject to the applicable punishment.
feel free to replace bold text with whatever pisses you off
eh
It was funny.
Humor is a good thing, probably necessary to live like this guy. I'm sure he's well aware of how dangerous he is living, and would enjoy a joke like that.