I didn't say he wasn't a fool, either. I think we're in agreement;-)
SB
Re:What do we really have to ask those turkeys?
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SCO Group Lawsuit Q&A
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Whoa, wacky moderators on crack.
When I first looked at this, I saw "Score 5, Flamebait" (Bruce Perens, guys? come on!) now I'm seeing 5, Insightful.
My head is spinning frictionlessly at high rpms.
Must be that CAT5^H^H^H^H thin wire hooked to, uh, my brain.
Or Slashdot. Yes, that must be it.
Ontopic: Bruce, the lawyers at SCO are on crack. Or desperate. Or something. They're fscking nuts, anyway. This whole lawsuit is still giving me the giggles.
Sigh. Censorship sucks. Why the hell! are so many politicians so clueless these days? After 10 years of the internet you would think they would be educated by now...but no....
Beats them spending the same time in front of the Vacuum Tube watching the garbage on it, doesn't it?
(ok, unless you can restrict their TV time to more educational things such as Discovery Channel and whatever else is available nowadays - beats me, I haven't watched TV in years)
You might enjoy the Honor Harrington series by David Weber, then. Honor is a fictional character, but a strong "true to rules of war" style character. She treats her enemies with compassion even after she's finished stomping on them; even the scum (tho she gives them only one chance).
Buy the book "War of Honor" and you get all the previous books, and much more, on CD. Great reading and highly recommended. Weber is fantastic.
They should have David Weber's Honor Harrington books on the reading list also. The character Honor Harrington is a *very* good example of a competent leader.
You got it right about the prosperity part. Let's all remember here that Osama Bin Laden is(was?) a spoiled *rich* Saudi brat. He had a lot of money, quite a lot of religious fanaticism, and (questionable) motive.
It sure would be nice to know whether or not he's still around....
SB
Sorry, I just hadda do it
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Duke3d in Linux
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· Score: 2, Funny
In a stunning turn of events, Lord Stallman is hired by Microsoft.
Ballmer: Palladium is now the ultimate power in the cyberuniverse. I suggest we use it.
Stallman: Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed, Mr. Gates. The ability to dominate the planet is insignificant, next to the power of Open Source.
Ballmer: Don't try to frighten us with your Hippy ways, Lord Stallman. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion hasn't given you the power to conjure up the stolen code, nor helped us find the rebels hidden serv- *urk* *gaak*
Stallman: I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Gates: Enough of this! Stallman, release his server!
Stallman:As you wish. *virtual thud*
Gates: This bickering is pointless. Lord Stallman will provide us with the IP of the rebels hidden server by time Palladium is operational. We will then crush the rebellion with one swift lawsuit.
Where I'm at in Northern MN we have exactly two choices for decent FM stereo; the country station (blech) and the local "rock" station.
I could set my clock by the local rock station simply by which song they play. They are so scripted it's ridiculous. Same fucking songs, every day. "Look, it's Clapton's 'Cocaine' it's 1:17 PM". Christ.
God, I miss the good ol' university stations I listened to in the '80s.
That DJ was an idiot. Rush has been a "cult band" (ie, having a large number of fanatical fans) since the early/mid 70s.
I suspect that DJ was either 1) really damned young and ignorant or 2) a corporate shill.
I've been listening to Rush and going to their concerts since '80. (makes me a young'un, I suspect:-)
It's damned sad they get so little airplay from the payola people; they are one of the most insightful (inciteful?:-) bands out there. They have a lot to say.
But oh, jeez, they're just not "popular" anymore. Sigh.
Not everyone who drops out of college remains poor. It depends on what you want to do, and whether you do it. I've changed "careers" three times, by choice.
To be fair, I once had the same attitude towards college that you do. That was nearly 20 years ago. I've learned a lot in the meantime. I'm not making six figures, but neither am I poor. Neither do I "rely" on P2P - I have a huge album collection bought and paid for over the last quarter century. When the media I've already paid for wears out, I replace it thru friends, and, occasionally, P2P. That's not "theft" I've already paid for it (not that I can find a lot of the albums anyway, anymore, *sadly*)
Sorry, your viewpoint is pretty narrow in this respect. Yes, I'm old enough to call you on it. The times, they be a'changing. Deal with it - or don't. One thing I love about the way things are nowadays, vs. 20 years ago, is that information is more accessible than it used to be. There are many people who don't like that. Christ. I'dve *loved* to have something like the internet as it is now around when I was younger. I would have learned a lot more, quicker, and would be even smarter than then where I am (not stupid, not brilliant, but not an idiot).
You're probably asking yourself "What does that have to do with free music?" Well....my little brother is a musician, professional - has conducted the Big Nine Symphony, among other things. If he'd had more free access to music and musical knowledge years back, he might be able to give his audiences an even better performance, neh?
Take your viewpoint that money is everything, and stuff it.
Apologies, but I'm sick of the proprietary attitude towards knowledge, entertainment, and politics. Really sick of it tonite. Create, don't litigate.
SB (sorry, but tonite I'm pissed off, so if I'm flaming a bit...well...what the hell)
In the final analysis, who is this really hurting?
Everybody!. Because the universities must spend more money in defending themselves, which raises their budgets, in the long run they have to raise their tuition.
This means that we have fewer students who can afford college; fewer graduates who have the skills and knowledge to improve our society; fewer educated people to make decisions.
I have watched the deterioration of our educational system for too long. I am getting very damned angry. What can be done to stop this? Do we have to declare open season on lawyers who take cases on simply out of greed? We should at least start slapping down companies/organizations who pull this kind of shit; it's obviously not contributing to the common good. Perhaps fines aren't enough; dismember the companies involved and execute the greedy fucks.
Good lord. I am sick of where this country is headed. The greedmongers have taken over, and we are all fucked in the long run. Maybe it *is* time for a revolution. I honestly don't know what else can be done at this point. The sheeple don't know enough to fix things - not that our political election system seems to work right, either.
I'll second this. I've installed numerous routers for people who went cable and had an old machine laying around, which I stripped down and installed IPCop (I don't like Smoothwall for, uh, political reasons)
Very stable, easy to install and works very well, even for dialup machines if you want a network shared dialup without using windows shared dialup.
One caveat: on small harddrive machines with SW or IpCop make sure you tell the logger to ignore port 138 and 137 requests, or else on a windows network your logs will fill up to the point where it dogs the machine badly;-)
20 years ago when I did a lot more hardware hacking then I do now, homebrew was *the only way* to get a lot of equipment that was either too expensive or simply unavailable. I still remember when I built my first IBM clone machine out of specs and parts bought from all over via mail order.
It was a fantastic way to learn the internals of the machines and hone one's hardware skills.
Nowadays homebrew is all too often considered "patent infringement" or "piracy" and discouraged. Like you said, god forbid that someone *buys hardware* and modifies it for *their own use*.
Fucking bastards. This really pisses me off. Especially when it limits access to hardware (like programmable (x)rom controllers) that has many, many legit uses but is difficult to get because of a few illegit (like sat TV).
I would imagine the Israeli Mossad has already tried to assassinate him. They supposedly have a very effective intelligence org. Given the amount of protection around Saddam, it's very possible that it was tried, but nobody succeeded.
---------- "The Naraj defenders used a stone burner," Farok said. "My son was too close. Cursed atomics! Even the stone burner should be outlawed." ----------
Oh, and twilight30, you were right:
---------- Paul, knowing that sound and glow from the earliest nightmare glimpses of his vision, felt an odd sense of fulfillment. It went the way it must. "Stone burner!" someone screamed.
"Stone burner!" The cry was all around him.
"Stone burner . . . stone burner . .." -----------
Took some digging! Wish I had a searchable version (ebook);-)
Ok, maybe I overreacted a little. But it pisses me off when people blame the tool and not the wielder (or his/her parents). The techno-gun that the article is talking about is just another way for a company to make money off of the antigun lobby's rhetoric.
BTW, I lost a friend that way when I was young. His father was one of those kind of people who didn't believe in teaching his kids gun safety. I'm glad most of the rest of their family isn't that foolish.
Slashdot Mirror
IANAL, but isn't that technically illegal? "Insider trading" or some such thing?
Oh, my.
SB
I didn't say he wasn't a fool, either. I think we're in agreement
SB
Whoa, wacky moderators on crack.
When I first looked at this, I saw "Score 5, Flamebait" (Bruce Perens, guys? come on!) now I'm seeing 5, Insightful.
My head is spinning frictionlessly at high rpms.
Must be that CAT5^H^H^H^H thin wire hooked to, uh, my brain.
Or Slashdot. Yes, that must be it.
Ontopic: Bruce, the lawyers at SCO are on crack. Or desperate. Or something. They're fscking nuts, anyway. This whole lawsuit is still giving me the giggles.
SB
But he is the primary motivator behind Al Quada - that was my point.
;-)
He's also a fucking coward. Won't take the risks himself - but sees no problem sending other people off to die.
Boy, I'd *love* to meet him in a dark alley.
SB
and the cry goes out....
MELT THEIR SERVERS!
It'd serve them right......poetic justice.
Sigh. Censorship sucks. Why the hell! are so many politicians so clueless these days? After 10 years of the internet you would think they would be educated by now...but no....
SB
Beats them spending the same time in front of the Vacuum Tube watching the garbage on it, doesn't it?
(ok, unless you can restrict their TV time to more educational things such as Discovery Channel and whatever else is available nowadays - beats me, I haven't watched TV in years)
SB
You might enjoy the Honor Harrington series by David Weber, then. Honor is a fictional character, but a strong "true to rules of war" style character. She treats her enemies with compassion even after she's finished stomping on them; even the scum (tho she gives them only one chance).
Buy the book "War of Honor" and you get all the previous books, and much more, on CD. Great reading and highly recommended. Weber is fantastic.
Great post, BTW.
SB
They should have David Weber's Honor Harrington books on the reading list also. The character Honor Harrington is a *very* good example of a competent leader.
IMHO, of course, but I'd recommend you read them.
SB
You got it right about the prosperity part. Let's all remember here that Osama Bin Laden is(was?) a spoiled *rich* Saudi brat. He had a lot of money, quite a lot of religious fanaticism, and (questionable) motive.
It sure would be nice to know whether or not he's still around....
SB
Ballmer: Palladium is now the ultimate power in the cyberuniverse. I suggest we use it.
Stallman: Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed, Mr. Gates. The ability to dominate the planet is insignificant, next to the power of Open Source.
Ballmer: Don't try to frighten us with your Hippy ways, Lord Stallman. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion hasn't given you the power to conjure up the stolen code, nor helped us find the rebels hidden serv- *urk* *gaak*
Stallman: I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Gates: Enough of this! Stallman, release his server!
Stallman:As you wish. *virtual thud*
Gates: This bickering is pointless. Lord Stallman will provide us with the IP of the rebels hidden server by time Palladium is operational. We will then crush the rebellion with one swift lawsuit.
*He* is here.
Duke 'O Nukem? What makes you think so?
A tremor in Slashdot. The last time I felt it, it was in the presence of my old master, DOS.
Surely he must be dead, by now.
Never underestimate the Source-Hippies.
Mod parent up, please.
Where I'm at in Northern MN we have exactly two choices for decent FM stereo; the country station (blech) and the local "rock" station.
I could set my clock by the local rock station simply by which song they play. They are so scripted it's ridiculous. Same fucking songs, every day. "Look, it's Clapton's 'Cocaine' it's 1:17 PM". Christ.
God, I miss the good ol' university stations I listened to in the '80s.
SB
Exactly, Concerned Onlooker.
:-)
:-) bands out there. They have a lot to say.
That DJ was an idiot. Rush has been a "cult band" (ie, having a large number of fanatical fans) since the early/mid 70s.
I suspect that DJ was either 1) really damned young and ignorant or 2) a corporate shill.
I've been listening to Rush and going to their concerts since '80. (makes me a young'un, I suspect
It's damned sad they get so little airplay from the payola people; they are one of the most insightful (inciteful?
But oh, jeez, they're just not "popular" anymore. Sigh.
SB
Not everyone who drops out of college remains poor. It depends on what you want to do, and whether you do it. I've changed "careers" three times, by choice.
To be fair, I once had the same attitude towards college that you do. That was nearly 20 years ago. I've learned a lot in the meantime. I'm not making six figures, but neither am I poor. Neither do I "rely" on P2P - I have a huge album collection bought and paid for over the last quarter century. When the media I've already paid for wears out, I replace it thru friends, and, occasionally, P2P. That's not "theft" I've already paid for it (not that I can find a lot of the albums anyway, anymore, *sadly*)
Sorry, your viewpoint is pretty narrow in this respect. Yes, I'm old enough to call you on it. The times, they be a'changing. Deal with it - or don't. One thing I love about the way things are nowadays, vs. 20 years ago, is that information is more accessible than it used to be. There are many people who don't like that. Christ. I'dve *loved* to have something like the internet as it is now around when I was younger. I would have learned a lot more, quicker, and would be even smarter than then where I am (not stupid, not brilliant, but not an idiot).
You're probably asking yourself "What does that have to do with free music?" Well....my little brother is a musician, professional - has conducted the Big Nine Symphony, among other things. If he'd had more free access to music and musical knowledge years back, he might be able to give his audiences an even better performance, neh?
Take your viewpoint that money is everything, and stuff it.
Apologies, but I'm sick of the proprietary attitude towards knowledge, entertainment, and politics. Really sick of it tonite. Create, don't litigate.
SB
(sorry, but tonite I'm pissed off, so if I'm flaming a bit...well...what the hell)
In the final analysis, who is this really hurting?
Everybody!. Because the universities must spend more money in defending themselves, which raises their budgets, in the long run they have to raise their tuition.
This means that we have fewer students who can afford college; fewer graduates who have the skills and knowledge to improve our society; fewer educated people to make decisions.
I have watched the deterioration of our educational system for too long. I am getting very damned angry. What can be done to stop this? Do we have to declare open season on lawyers who take cases on simply out of greed? We should at least start slapping down companies/organizations who pull this kind of shit; it's obviously not contributing to the common good. Perhaps fines aren't enough; dismember the companies involved and execute the greedy fucks.
Good lord. I am sick of where this country is headed. The greedmongers have taken over, and we are all fucked in the long run. Maybe it *is* time for a revolution. I honestly don't know what else can be done at this point. The sheeple don't know enough to fix things - not that our political election system seems to work right, either.
Fuck.
SB *does not give a shit about karma tonite*
Salut!
[ lifts glass ]
I'll second this. I've installed numerous routers for people who went cable and had an old machine laying around, which I stripped down and installed IPCop (I don't like Smoothwall for, uh, political reasons)
;-)
Very stable, easy to install and works very well, even for dialup machines if you want a network shared dialup without using windows shared dialup.
One caveat: on small harddrive machines with SW or IpCop make sure you tell the logger to ignore port 138 and 137 requests, or else on a windows network your logs will fill up to the point where it dogs the machine badly
SB
Y'know, I have to agree.
20 years ago when I did a lot more hardware hacking then I do now, homebrew was *the only way* to get a lot of equipment that was either too expensive or simply unavailable. I still remember when I built my first IBM clone machine out of specs and parts bought from all over via mail order.
It was a fantastic way to learn the internals of the machines and hone one's hardware skills.
Nowadays homebrew is all too often considered "patent infringement" or "piracy" and discouraged. Like you said, god forbid that someone *buys hardware* and modifies it for *their own use*.
Fucking bastards. This really pisses me off. Especially when it limits access to hardware (like programmable (x)rom controllers) that has many, many legit uses but is difficult to get because of a few illegit (like sat TV).
"chilling effect" indeed...
sigh
SB
I would imagine the Israeli Mossad has already tried to assassinate him. They supposedly have a very effective intelligence org. Given the amount of protection around Saddam, it's very possible that it was tried, but nobody succeeded.
SB
Which is exactly what I was talking about. An essential part of gun training is what they are *for*.
Educate, don't legislate.
Someday I'm going to write a book on the rise and fall of the American Democracy/Republic/Empire.
Sigh.
SB
I hope you get laid today! ;-)
SB
Yes.
."
;-)
----------
"The Naraj defenders used a stone burner," Farok said. "My son was too close. Cursed atomics! Even the stone burner should be outlawed."
----------
Oh, and twilight30, you were right:
----------
Paul, knowing that sound and glow from the earliest nightmare glimpses of his vision, felt an odd sense of fulfillment. It went the way it must. "Stone burner!" someone screamed.
"Stone burner!" The cry was all around him.
"Stone burner . . . stone burner . .
-----------
Took some digging! Wish I had a searchable version (ebook)
SB
Ok, maybe I overreacted a little. But it pisses me off when people blame the tool and not the wielder (or his/her parents). The techno-gun that the article is talking about is just another way for a company to make money off of the antigun lobby's rhetoric.
BTW, I lost a friend that way when I was young. His father was one of those kind of people who didn't believe in teaching his kids gun safety. I'm glad most of the rest of their family isn't that foolish.
SB
"Paul eventually blinds himself"
Huh? Paul was blinded by a stoneburner, a weapon (near as I can determine) made specifically as a terror weapon for that very task.
(been a while since I read it though)
SB
Oh my. I'm in Hibbing, MN, soon moving to Austin temp then to the Black Hills. I may just have to make some time
I have no doubt you'd beat me. It's been nearly twenty years. Hey, but my palms have healed
SB