Among items they found were emails and phone numbers of sys admins and other employees
This sounds really stupid of the CIA at the first glance, but if you think about it, the sys-admins were probably "email the webmaster!" links and the 'other employees' were probably officials that displayed their office numbers so the public could contact them. What a joke.
Don't forget it's the most beautiful state in the nation. And it's far enough away from everything else that we can pretend we're not in the same country as fools like you.
I was in Olympia a couple of weeks ago (that's the state capitol) to talk to some of my reps about the latest tuition hike for state schools and saw some of this going down. The software guy was a real shady character but definitely smooth with the legislators. It was watching him talk to my reps (when we couldn't get their attention) that made me realize that our government is corrupt beyond hope. Well, maybe not beyond hope. There's always room for hope...
Yeah. It's really sad if you think about it. The people who are just now coming onto the net will never know what it was like before it got all commercial.
Microsoft does similar things here at the University of Washington. They are actually giving CS majors free copies of all the development software. I guess they're hoping that people will get used to using them and therefor continue to use them in the marketplace.
I actually get a kick out of surfing at -1. If it's late and I have tons of work to do before the morning, I like to take breaks to read some good trolls. I pick a story with > 400 replies (preferably about linux or windows), click on 'highest scores first' and then go to the last page at -1.
I admit that most Trolls are boring (lyrics, links to goatse.cx, etc.), but there are a few that are rather funny. Then there are the trolls that get modded to around '3: Interesting', which are another case entirely.
Boeing did that recently too. They left Seattle for Chicago because Washington wouldn't bow to their demands and give them all kinds of wacky tax breaks.
It's not "eh". It's "hey" without the h pronounced. I once thought it your way, but learned the real derivation of the word after many hours of sailing with Canadians.
you are correct. what is funny is that the person who submitted that had the username of 'Metrollica'. I may be wrong, but I do believe that I've seen his handiwork on quite a few trolls here (when I go surfing at -1). He certainly claimed credit for the last posting of the 'troll faq' that I saw.
Slashdot kicked off with the equally inane "but Apples are so expensive" garbage
I wouldn't call this argument "garbage". As someone who grew up on a macintosh and couldn't think of anything else, I now use a pc (yay linux!). Why? Because macs are expensive. I'm not trying to flame; they just are very expensive.
The typical reply is that iMacs are cheap. That's why I told my parents to get one. For the rest of us who actually use computers, we want a computer we can take apart and fiddle around with. Macs just can't do this.
I'm sorry, but Macs are expensive. And this is also why we won't see MacOSX on PCs anytime soon -- hardware is how Apple makes its money. If they don't sell the hardware bundled with the OS, they won't keep making that profit they like so much.
In today's world, dominated by the Wicked Wizard of Redmond, the penguins and the mac heads need to hang together and understand each other.
I don't understand why we need to do that. Apple is a for-profit company. They would be doing what Microsoft is doing if they had the chance. Remember how they sued Microsoft for having a windowing OS? Remember how they sued people for making iMac clones? Remember how they smashed all the aqua themes as fast as they came? "[T]he penguins and the mac heads" don't need to stick together -- they're after totally different goals. On one end, superb computing, on the other end, profit.
I've tried to make this as non-flamey as possible, but this topic always causes a flame war. Please read my arguments carefully before you respond.
I know that anti-hydrogen has been around for awhile, but still I caught myself being suspicious because the source was New Scientist. Oh man. It's funny how the mind works...
"I want to sell millions of toys, but what I really hope is that a bunch of kids who open them up use the motors and things to build something else... then I'll have them arrested for violating the DMCA and use their inventions to my own gain! [mad cackle]"
Hey, don't give up hope. We may get out there yet. It seems like strip-mining the asteroid belt is starting to become a popular idea, so maybe if we're lucky some corporation will let us tag along for the ride.
I know what you mean though. It's depressing to think about all the things we can't do because of the lack of technology. But just think of the oportunity we do have: To study physics before everything is known. You could be the first one to nail down a solid set of equations describing everything. Now that would be nice.
how is this offtopic? Perl and Python arguments happen all the time, so a joke concerning that argument an a post about a Python developer getting an award is very on-topic. Moderators: Don't be a bitch like this person; don't moderate something down just because you don't think it's funny. It's okay to leave it at 1.
I was going to make a joke about how my woody was read for release right now, but it looks like 10^4 people already did that.
I must say, I've been waiting for this for a long, long time. Imagine running Mozilla 1.0 on Debian 3.0. Ah well, gotta save some things for future generations, right?
(I'm joking of course. These are both fantastic projects. I'm especially psyched to get my hands on Woody as soon as I get my new hard drive...)
Slashdot Mirror
How is this offtopic? I'd mod it unfair, but then again, I have no mod points...
waiting for that two minute gap...
No problem, we'll just stick it on the NGST. What's that? Budget cuts? Oh. Well then, nevermind.
Here's another funny thing:
Among items they found were emails and phone numbers of sys admins and other employees
This sounds really stupid of the CIA at the first glance, but if you think about it, the sys-admins were probably "email the webmaster!" links and the 'other employees' were probably officials that displayed their office numbers so the public could contact them. What a joke.
Don't forget it's the most beautiful state in the nation. And it's far enough away from everything else that we can pretend we're not in the same country as fools like you.
I was in Olympia a couple of weeks ago (that's the state capitol) to talk to some of my reps about the latest tuition hike for state schools and saw some of this going down. The software guy was a real shady character but definitely smooth with the legislators. It was watching him talk to my reps (when we couldn't get their attention) that made me realize that our government is corrupt beyond hope. Well, maybe not beyond hope. There's always room for hope...
You can tell this author is a an idiot using big words to impress people. Just look at the title of his website: Entropy Gradient Reversals
I'd put money down that he couldn't explain entropy and doesn't know what a gradient is. On the other hand, I sure hope he knows what reversal is...
Yeah. It's really sad if you think about it. The people who are just now coming onto the net will never know what it was like before it got all commercial.
Microsoft does similar things here at the University of Washington. They are actually giving CS majors free copies of all the development software. I guess they're hoping that people will get used to using them and therefor continue to use them in the marketplace.
I actually get a kick out of surfing at -1. If it's late and I have tons of work to do before the morning, I like to take breaks to read some good trolls. I pick a story with > 400 replies (preferably about linux or windows), click on 'highest scores first' and then go to the last page at -1.
I admit that most Trolls are boring (lyrics, links to goatse.cx, etc.), but there are a few that are rather funny. Then there are the trolls that get modded to around '3: Interesting', which are another case entirely.
Boeing did that recently too. They left Seattle for Chicago because Washington wouldn't bow to their demands and give them all kinds of wacky tax breaks.
It's not "eh". It's "hey" without the h pronounced. I once thought it your way, but learned the real derivation of the word after many hours of sailing with Canadians.
Lets get some things straight: Mars used to have vast oceans and Europa has life.
It makes better news that way.
you are correct. what is funny is that the person who submitted that had the username of 'Metrollica'. I may be wrong, but I do believe that I've seen his handiwork on quite a few trolls here (when I go surfing at -1). He certainly claimed credit for the last posting of the 'troll faq' that I saw.
... people like designs that incorporate naked chics. Lots and lots of naked chics.
the SuperContenient Pangaea
this sounds too much like an anime title.
Slashdot kicked off with the equally inane "but Apples are so expensive" garbage
I wouldn't call this argument "garbage". As someone who grew up on a macintosh and couldn't think of anything else, I now use a pc (yay linux!). Why? Because macs are expensive. I'm not trying to flame; they just are very expensive.
The typical reply is that iMacs are cheap. That's why I told my parents to get one. For the rest of us who actually use computers, we want a computer we can take apart and fiddle around with. Macs just can't do this.
I'm sorry, but Macs are expensive. And this is also why we won't see MacOSX on PCs anytime soon -- hardware is how Apple makes its money. If they don't sell the hardware bundled with the OS, they won't keep making that profit they like so much.
In today's world, dominated by the Wicked Wizard of Redmond, the penguins and the mac heads need to hang together and understand each other.
I don't understand why we need to do that. Apple is a for-profit company. They would be doing what Microsoft is doing if they had the chance. Remember how they sued Microsoft for having a windowing OS? Remember how they sued people for making iMac clones? Remember how they smashed all the aqua themes as fast as they came? "[T]he penguins and the mac heads" don't need to stick together -- they're after totally different goals. On one end, superb computing, on the other end, profit.
I've tried to make this as non-flamey as possible, but this topic always causes a flame war. Please read my arguments carefully before you respond.
I know that anti-hydrogen has been around for awhile, but still I caught myself being suspicious because the source was New Scientist. Oh man. It's funny how the mind works...
Here's the real quote!
... then I'll have them arrested for violating the DMCA and use their inventions to my own gain! [mad cackle]"
"I want to sell millions of toys, but what I really hope is that a bunch of kids who open them up use the motors and things to build something else
Hey, don't give up hope. We may get out there yet. It seems like strip-mining the asteroid belt is starting to become a popular idea, so maybe if we're lucky some corporation will let us tag along for the ride.
I know what you mean though. It's depressing to think about all the things we can't do because of the lack of technology. But just think of the oportunity we do have: To study physics before everything is known. You could be the first one to nail down a solid set of equations describing everything. Now that would be nice.
What do you think they'd be like as a beowulf cluster?
how is this offtopic? Perl and Python arguments happen all the time, so a joke concerning that argument an a post about a Python developer getting an award is very on-topic. Moderators: Don't be a bitch like this person; don't moderate something down just because you don't think it's funny. It's okay to leave it at 1.
... has got to be the best idea in the last five years.
I was going to make a joke about how my woody was read for release right now, but it looks like 10^4 people already did that.
I must say, I've been waiting for this for a long, long time. Imagine running Mozilla 1.0 on Debian 3.0. Ah well, gotta save some things for future generations, right?
(I'm joking of course. These are both fantastic projects. I'm especially psyched to get my hands on Woody as soon as I get my new hard drive...)
... did he write Perl? I don't think so.
Next!
(joking of course. props to Guido)
yeah, I agree. After I posted this I saw the 7billion other similar jokes.