Isn't that why there are newsgroups like alt.sex.unix? A newsreader could assume anything posted there is spam and filter similar messages from other groups.
Open-source crypto works because the secret isn't the algorithm, it's the keys. In this case, the secret is the algorithm. The entire scheme can be circumvented by someone who knows how it works.
I'm not saying we shouldn't automate, I'm just asking what do we do as our jobs per person keeps declining?
Well, what we should do is go to four-day work weeks and triple the minimum hourly wage. Unfortunately, that ain't gonna happen because that won't help The Man keep up with the Joneses.
At some point, the unemployed will be the majority and they'll get together and start killing a lot of rich people. (Wait a minute, that's already happening...) Eventually the economy will collapse completely, somebody will realize that the Amish never have to worry about this shit, and we'll revert to an agricultural society.
Just yesterday I wrote an actual letter for the first time in years. (My girlfriend is away at boot camp.) Know what? Writing hurts. I'll stick to the keyboard and take my chances with carpal tunnel, thanks.
I failed handwriting in second grade, and that was before I got my first computer. I've been writing in all-caps since I took drafting in high school. I have difficulty reading other people's cursive handwriting. Good riddance, I say.
Right. Except that "stealing" music on P2P is NOT stealing, NOT a crime in any meaningful sense of the word. Copyright is legal fiction, doesn't mean anything to real people, never did, never will.
The people have spoken with their actions. P2P filesharing is not a crime.
Question: In your rough estimation, how much less would medical care cost if physicians and hospitals didn't have to pay malpractice insurance?
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I was once a residential cable internet customer of a company called Smyrna Cable. While I was their customer, they were bought out by Charter Communications. My last few bills had the Charter logo on them. However, my personal web page and email address remained under the smyrnacable.net domain. I cancelled my account when I moved out of their service area almost a year ago.
I've been checking my old email address periodically just in case someone tries to contact me there. A couple weeks ago I finally tired of this and asked Charter to kindly close my inbox and remove my Web site (for which I've long forgotten the FTP password.) But their tech support department has no information about those servers and denies any association with Smyrna Cable.
I checked WHOIS, and the IP addresses of the Web and mail server are actually registered to Cable & Wireless. But C&W also denies any knowledge of their existance. Strangely, Charter's nameservers are still listed as authoritative for the domain.
It makes me think the entire industry hasn't got a clue. A company grows to a certain size and the proverbial left hand no longer knows what the right is up to.
Keep your shotgun handy though, as they are more than likely going to open up a portal into another dimension and all sorts of nasties are going to come pouring out.
Where the hell did this come from? The article makes no wild speculations like this. I mean, I can see how you might expect that kind of reporting from a Christian news site, but in fact the article was pretty level-headed, if dumbed down quite a bit.
Which begs the question: Why the fuck did Timothy post a dumb article like that?
Who is Timothy anyway, and why is he an editor? Is he Taco's kid brother or something?
DOJ should be subpoenaing all notes/conversations/etc between Microsoft and SCO for the last year or so...
Are you kidding? The DOJ is probably in on it. They have a vested interest in making sure everyone uses the same insecure operating system. Putting in backdoors for three-letter-agency spooks was probably part of the secret deal that got the DOJ off Microsoft's back.
given that this (the copyfight [sic] infringement) could be so easily proven
Or disproven. When they do finally show their "evidence" at the trial, is the judge going to allow it to be made public? Will the defense be allowed time to get a sworn statement from the Linux hacker in some country you haven't heard of who really wrote the code in question?
I've often wondered just what we'd find if we could "follow the money" and see who's actually making the big profits. I have a sneaking suspicion it's the insurance industry. And it ain't just health care they've got their grubby hands in; that "OK car" you mentioned ought to cost a lot less, too.
Tearing the insurance industry a new asshole is gonna be a big plank in my platform when I run for President in 2012.:o)
I always remember that I "heard" a TV show, even though that's an impossibility.
I don't think that kind of thing is too unusual. I used to watch movies and play video games on a black and white TV, and later I would vividly remember seeing them in color. And when I watch foreign films, I sometimes can't remember whether I watched them dubbed or subtitled. All I remember is "the story" translated into whatever language I use internally.
There are some economically up-and-coming nations in South America that desperately need saved from Capitalist influences and ecological disaster. Who knows, you might be able to get your name in their history books as a founder of one of the world's first true democracies.
I've often wondered if our medicine and technology will harm our evolutionary progress. It's a touchy issue because it deals with relative human "worth" in the context of survival of the species. It's apparently an issue too volatile to address; I've never heard anyone mention it. (Or maybe I'm just nuts for having thought of it.)
Think about it though. Thanks to modern medicine, lots of people are alive who by the rights of natural selection ought to be dead. People with weak immune systems. People with congenital defects. People who just aren't as smart or as agile as the rest of us. In short, people who are genetically inferior. And they're reproducing...
So I take issue with those who object to genetic engineering on the grounds that we're "playing God." We've been playing God for centuries. You could even argue that we've been playing God since the first farmer planted his crop in a field where it never naturally grew.
Here's another thought: Given our piss poor management of agriculture, medicine, and the other technologies we've had for centuries, I don't hold out much hope for genetic engineering to be anything other than an unmitigated disaster for humankind. When will we learn?
I have to say that I find this argument disturbing. At one time in U.S. history, slavery was legal. Slaves were property and could be treated in whatever manner the slave owner deemed appropriate - including physical beatings and starvation. Popular sentiment is that this was fine. Was popular sentiment correct?
I see your point, but I don't think that's a very good example. Slavery was never held to be moral by the majority in this country, only by the rich and powerful whose ends it served. They created the social environment in which near-universal racism later took root.
And the slave owners are still rich and powerful and making the laws...
Whether or not you agree with existing copyrights, or you feel that the recording companies are colluding to steal your money, the fact of the matter is, based on current laws, distributing copies of copyrighted materials is agsint the law.
OK... Does anyone give a crap about the law anymore? I sure don't. I don't understand most of it, and I don't have any say in any of it. All I know is that the law should follow popular sentiment, and popular sentiment is that music sharing should be legal. Therefore it *is* legal, and anyone who says otherwise is not a legitimate authority.
Instead of complaining about how "the man is trying to screw me" or setting up p2p networks to distribute mp3's, I would suggest that people who are against the RIAA and music copyrights work to get the laws changed.
Convince me that's even possible anymore and maybe I'll consider it. Until then, civil disobedience is the order of the day.
Check out the rioutil project on SourceForge. I built 1.3.3 on RH8 and it works great with my S10 (except I have to be root, but I probably just need to change the permissions on something.)
They've got a mostly working firmware updater last I checked. No actual open-source firmware yet, though, but who knows. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Maybe they can make it play oggs....
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Isn't that why there are newsgroups like alt.sex.unix? A newsreader could assume anything posted there is spam and filter similar messages from other groups.
What, that isn't the reason?
*ahem* I'll be going now...
He doesn't need sound... he's simulating a glider! :o)
Open-source crypto works because the secret isn't the algorithm, it's the keys. In this case, the secret is the algorithm. The entire scheme can be circumvented by someone who knows how it works.
Well, what we should do is go to four-day work weeks and triple the minimum hourly wage. Unfortunately, that ain't gonna happen because that won't help The Man keep up with the Joneses.
At some point, the unemployed will be the majority and they'll get together and start killing a lot of rich people. (Wait a minute, that's already happening...) Eventually the economy will collapse completely, somebody will realize that the Amish never have to worry about this shit, and we'll revert to an agricultural society.
The next model will also feature a video-conferencing camera mounted behind an unbreakable plexiglass screen.
In a word... so?
Just yesterday I wrote an actual letter for the first time in years. (My girlfriend is away at boot camp.) Know what? Writing hurts. I'll stick to the keyboard and take my chances with carpal tunnel, thanks.
I failed handwriting in second grade, and that was before I got my first computer. I've been writing in all-caps since I took drafting in high school. I have difficulty reading other people's cursive handwriting. Good riddance, I say.
Right. Except that "stealing" music on P2P is NOT stealing, NOT a crime in any meaningful sense of the word. Copyright is legal fiction, doesn't mean anything to real people, never did, never will.
The people have spoken with their actions. P2P filesharing is not a crime.
Thank you for what you do and what you wrote.
Question: In your rough estimation, how much less would medical care cost if physicians and hospitals didn't have to pay malpractice insurance?
I was once a residential cable internet customer of a company called Smyrna Cable. While I was their customer, they were bought out by Charter Communications. My last few bills had the Charter logo on them. However, my personal web page and email address remained under the smyrnacable.net domain. I cancelled my account when I moved out of their service area almost a year ago.
I've been checking my old email address periodically just in case someone tries to contact me there. A couple weeks ago I finally tired of this and asked Charter to kindly close my inbox and remove my Web site (for which I've long forgotten the FTP password.) But their tech support department has no information about those servers and denies any association with Smyrna Cable.
I checked WHOIS, and the IP addresses of the Web and mail server are actually registered to Cable & Wireless. But C&W also denies any knowledge of their existance. Strangely, Charter's nameservers are still listed as authoritative for the domain.
It makes me think the entire industry hasn't got a clue. A company grows to a certain size and the proverbial left hand no longer knows what the right is up to.
I got the joke. They made it sound like the article was saying something like that.
Which begs the question: Why the fuck did Timothy post a dumb article like that?
Who is Timothy anyway, and why is he an editor? Is he Taco's kid brother or something?
Are you kidding? The DOJ is probably in on it. They have a vested interest in making sure everyone uses the same insecure operating system. Putting in backdoors for three-letter-agency spooks was probably part of the secret deal that got the DOJ off Microsoft's back.
given that this (the copyfight [sic] infringement) could be so easily proven Or disproven. When they do finally show their "evidence" at the trial, is the judge going to allow it to be made public? Will the defense be allowed time to get a sworn statement from the Linux hacker in some country you haven't heard of who really wrote the code in question?
Tearing the insurance industry a new asshole is gonna be a big plank in my platform when I run for President in 2012. :o)
How long before they can put a cat's brain in a female android body?
I don't think that kind of thing is too unusual. I used to watch movies and play video games on a black and white TV, and later I would vividly remember seeing them in color. And when I watch foreign films, I sometimes can't remember whether I watched them dubbed or subtitled. All I remember is "the story" translated into whatever language I use internally.
It amounts to the same thing. Who cares if the stupid lawyers are calling it something different?
There are some economically up-and-coming nations in South America that desperately need saved from Capitalist influences and ecological disaster. Who knows, you might be able to get your name in their history books as a founder of one of the world's first true democracies.
Then again, you might get shot.
To the greedy rich: We, the working class, want to resolve this without dusting off the ol' guillotine. Honestly, we do. Please don't corner us.
Or an explanation of what's inaccurate in the cited article? This is the kind of thing I like to add to my Linux advocacy page.
I've often wondered if our medicine and technology will harm our evolutionary progress. It's a touchy issue because it deals with relative human "worth" in the context of survival of the species. It's apparently an issue too volatile to address; I've never heard anyone mention it. (Or maybe I'm just nuts for having thought of it.) Think about it though. Thanks to modern medicine, lots of people are alive who by the rights of natural selection ought to be dead. People with weak immune systems. People with congenital defects. People who just aren't as smart or as agile as the rest of us. In short, people who are genetically inferior. And they're reproducing... So I take issue with those who object to genetic engineering on the grounds that we're "playing God." We've been playing God for centuries. You could even argue that we've been playing God since the first farmer planted his crop in a field where it never naturally grew. Here's another thought: Given our piss poor management of agriculture, medicine, and the other technologies we've had for centuries, I don't hold out much hope for genetic engineering to be anything other than an unmitigated disaster for humankind. When will we learn?
I see your point, but I don't think that's a very good example. Slavery was never held to be moral by the majority in this country, only by the rich and powerful whose ends it served. They created the social environment in which near-universal racism later took root.
And the slave owners are still rich and powerful and making the laws...
OK... Does anyone give a crap about the law anymore? I sure don't. I don't understand most of it, and I don't have any say in any of it. All I know is that the law should follow popular sentiment, and popular sentiment is that music sharing should be legal. Therefore it *is* legal, and anyone who says otherwise is not a legitimate authority.
Instead of complaining about how "the man is trying to screw me" or setting up p2p networks to distribute mp3's, I would suggest that people who are against the RIAA and music copyrights work to get the laws changed.
Convince me that's even possible anymore and maybe I'll consider it. Until then, civil disobedience is the order of the day.
Check out the rioutil project on SourceForge. I built 1.3.3 on RH8 and it works great with my S10 (except I have to be root, but I probably just need to change the permissions on something.) They've got a mostly working firmware updater last I checked. No actual open-source firmware yet, though, but who knows. Necessity is the mother of invention. Maybe they can make it play oggs....
1.) United Auto Workers 2.) Gun control zealots