Your ip address has been sent to the legitimate owner of this laptop with a copy sent to the owners local police station. The ip address is traceable to you personally. I suggest you post this laptop back to me (the owner) within a week at the below address. If you choose not to post it yourself, the police will come and get it for me. They may be less understanding.
Anyone think of the instances where going above the speed limit is necessary - traffic issues, defensive driving, emergencies?
Not that I am defending this antiprivacy system in itself, but technically there is a possibility to only mail a speeding ticket if one has been speeding for more than 30 seconds. Most valid reasons to temporarily speed would that way let you do it. And if you hurry to a hospital the ticket computer could see that the destination is a hospital and choose not to mail you a speeding ticket. Unless the computer sees that you are employed at the hospital of course. Unless you're a heart surgeon on call of course. And unless you're employed with the hospital but having a personal medical emergency anyway. Unless.. Oh well. Never mind. Scrap this overly complicated speeding ticket system.
I mean the guy sued Northrop for fuck sake. Nobody is going to confuse a B-2 Stealth bomber with anything this retard could make. He lacks the means to make military stealth aircraft, and the B-2 was first anyhow.
He is probably a sumbag just as you say. However he may be a little less of a scumbag if one reads the below quote from this post:
The best-known stealth brand may be the military's B2 stealth bomber, whose main contractor, Northrop Grumman, has fought Mr. Stoller to something of standoff. In 2001, the company paid Mr. Stoller $10 and agreed to abandon its trademark applications to use "stealth bomber" in spinoff products like model airplanes and video games. In return, Mr. Stoller agreed not to oppose Northrop's use of "stealth" in aircraft or defense equipment.
"We resolved it in a way that achieved our business purposes without in any way agreeing that Mr. Stoller's assertions were correct," said Tom Henson, a Northrop Grumman spokesman.
> As always, the correct approach is for everyone worried about this to send polite emails to Plextor corporate.
Yeah? Oh well, why not:
Subject: Regarding your cease and desist letter to Alexander Noe.
Hello Plextor,
Please forward this email to your CEO.
I read a story about your company sending legal threats to a free software developer making software for your hardware. I am just a powerless individual and realize my request has no real meaning to you and your competing companies. But what the heck - "please cease and desist threatening that poor dude. You should welcome his free work."
This made me think about the childrens thought police games and later real life actions:
"A handsome, tough-looking boy of nine had popped up from behind the table and was menacing him with a toy automatic pistol, while his small sister, about two years younger, made the same gesture with a fragment of wood. Both of them were dressed in the blue shorts, grey shirts, and red neckerchiefs which were the uniform of the Spies. Winston raised his hands above his head, but with an uneasy feeling, so vicious was the boy's demeanour, that it was not altogether a game.
'You're a traitor!' yelled the boy. 'You're a thought- criminal! You're a Eurasian spy! I'll shoot you, I'll vaporize you, I'll send you to the salt mines!'
Suddenly they were both leaping round him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!' the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters. There was a sort of calculating ferocity in the boy's eye, a quite evident desire to hit or kick Winston and a consciousness of being very nearly big enough to do so. It was a good job it was not a real pistol he was holding, Winston thought."
...
"With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police."
"IBM to Help UAE Track Drivers on the Road" Am I the only one to have read that as:
s/UAE as in United Arab Emirates/UAE as in Unix Amiga Emulator/
s/drivers as in people who drives cars/drivers as in software purposed to link hardware to an OS/
s/on the road as in cars on the ground/on the road as in, in real time/
Like, I imagined the story would be about IBM making UAE able to for example detect a newly plugged in USB harddrive without having to reset the emulator first.
It is good that those annoying spammers and immoral phishers are getting some negative consequences for their misbehaviour. However, it would be in the same spirit for Micro$oft to stop annoying me with their "There is a new MSN update available" spam. When I click on the popup spam, I get an option "to not receive this update message for a week." But there is no option to turn it off permanently. Very annoying.
Actually, mplayer has an option to redirect its output to an "ascii art graphics engine". If you change your font to a really small one you will get some really interresting pron. I once watched a whole Star Trek episode in ascii mode. IIRC the option was "mplayer rms_does_folkdance.mpg -vo aa".
If you use GNU/Debian you could try the engine very easily by doing this:
This black box sounds just like that little gizmo the Borg take from their dead drones before they dispose of the rest of the body.
It would be interresting to get an automated "You are fired"-email to the cellphone when enough vitals are outside of specified parameters.
But then again, there are some advantages: You don't have to go through all of the bureaucracy when applying for a life insurance - they are already aware of all the necessary data to make a fair risk judgement.
I once had a very similar idea and developed a working perlscript implementation. But I never had the time to release it officially. So if someone is interested in a free (as in freedom aswell as gratis) timestamping service you may download my package from the below link and email me comments:
http://bokstavera2.sourceforge.net/GPGNotary-1_0.t ar.gz
(remove the space in the link).
I just saw the movie. I've seen the first two several times. Each time I saw one of the previous ones, I understood more about all of the messages the movies are trying to convey. I need to see the third movie at least twice more before I decrypt it enough to be able to make a fair comparison to the first two.
Also I should point out that I don't see Matrix as three (or four including Animatrix) diffrent movies. It's all just _one_ movie. And the ending made a strong suggestion that there would be at least one more Matrix movie. The Watchowski brothers said that there would be no more Matrix movies. It would seem as if they intended to say that "there will be no more Matrix movies within this trilogy". Perhaps they will develop another (or more) Matrix trilogy.
Remember that the Matrix movies are all about symbolism. Their intent is not to spell stuff out. That is left to the audience. Compare it to a poem: If you would read a poem which had controversial and strong "hidden" messages, and the end of the poem would be just as symbolic as the beginning, you would not think it was a meaningless poem, would you? If they wanted to spell stuff out and it would (unlikely) have passed censorship, would they not have instead developed some form of documentary?
I look forward to further analysis of the trilogy. And for you that did not see it yet - please do; it's packed with meaning. Then dl it and watch it again to see the Matrix even clearer. I know I will.
IANAH, but:
How could the parent post get "Score:5, Insightful"? What is insightful about that mean comment? As I've been reading the discussion so far, I've been thinking about what situations the symbol would be used in. If the parent post is an example of that, and/.-ers in general don't find that post a troll, I know at least I will choose to not associate myself with the symbol.
A hacker would provide a link to more information about "The game of life". A hacker would not say "you are not a Hacker".
I haven't read the below link myself. But Wikipedia is usually good at explaining these sorts of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's+Game+of+Life
And to the original poster: Don't "change your hobby" just because some mean person tries to discourage you. If you enjoy hacking, you should continue to do so. Don't care about what other people call you. If you hack, you're a hacker.
I cannot check because I gave up MS* a long time ago. I use GNU/Debian. But if the license clause is as you stated, I pity all who have not yet migrated.
Btw: I don't think such a clause would be legal - at least here in Sweden. I don't think one is allowed to agree on giving up ones freedom of speech. But then again, if it is legal in US, US will pressure EU, and EU will pressure Sweden to follow US.
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You probably want http, so the firmware could do http://www.laptopjack.com/report.pl?laptopid=AF314 229B2C&gps=55N33E or whatever the hell it sends.
"Hello Mr Thief,
Your ip address has been sent to the legitimate owner of this laptop with a copy sent to the owners local police station. The ip address is traceable to you personally. I suggest you post this laptop back to me (the owner) within a week at the below address. If you choose not to post it yourself, the police will come and get it for me. They may be less understanding.
Kind regards,
Tommy"
Anyone think of the instances where going above the speed limit is necessary - traffic issues, defensive driving, emergencies?
Not that I am defending this antiprivacy system in itself, but technically there is a possibility to only mail a speeding ticket if one has been speeding for more than 30 seconds. Most valid reasons to temporarily speed would that way let you do it.
And if you hurry to a hospital the ticket computer could see that the destination is a hospital and choose not to mail you a speeding ticket.
Unless the computer sees that you are employed at the hospital of course.
Unless you're a heart surgeon on call of course.
And unless you're employed with the hospital but having a personal medical emergency anyway.
Unless.. Oh well. Never mind. Scrap this overly complicated speeding ticket system.
I mean the guy sued Northrop for fuck sake. Nobody is going to confuse a B-2 Stealth bomber with anything this retard could make. He lacks the means to make military stealth aircraft, and the B-2 was first anyhow.
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He is probably a sumbag just as you say. However he may be a little less of a scumbag if one reads the below quote from this post:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=154766&ci
The best-known stealth brand may be the military's B2 stealth bomber, whose main contractor, Northrop Grumman, has fought Mr. Stoller to something of standoff. In 2001, the company paid Mr. Stoller $10 and agreed to abandon its trademark applications to use "stealth bomber" in spinoff products like model airplanes and video games. In return, Mr. Stoller agreed not to oppose Northrop's use of "stealth" in aircraft or defense equipment.
"We resolved it in a way that achieved our business purposes without in any way agreeing that Mr. Stoller's assertions were correct," said Tom Henson, a Northrop Grumman spokesman.
Yes, but does it have a "toram" boot parameter? Oh wait, never mind.
Hmm? But their official graph over release critical bugs still says 30. Guess they aren't that release critical after all?
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
> As always, the correct approach is for everyone worried about this to send polite emails to Plextor corporate.
1 39203&tid=185&tid=123&tid=1
Yeah? Oh well, why not:
Subject: Regarding your cease and desist letter to Alexander Noe.
Hello Plextor,
Please forward this email to your CEO.
I read a story about your company sending legal threats to a free software developer making software for your hardware. I am just a powerless individual and realize my request has no real meaning to you and your competing companies. But what the heck - "please cease and desist threatening that poor dude. You should welcome his free work."
The story I read can be read here:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/06/1
Peace and love.
--
Regards,
Thomas Anderson
Your page says 16 release critical bugs right now. But this other page says 26. And it has a nice graph :).
I quote:
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
Number concerning the next release (excluding ignored and not-in-testing): 26
> A terrorist expresses dissent by violence, mayhem, murder, or destruction of property.
You mean like deleting M$ Windows, and installing GNU/Debian instead?
This made me think about the childrens thought police games and later real life actions:
...
"A handsome, tough-looking boy of nine had popped up from behind the table and was menacing him with a toy automatic pistol, while his small sister, about two years younger, made the same gesture with a fragment of wood. Both of them were dressed in the blue shorts, grey shirts, and red neckerchiefs which were the uniform of the Spies. Winston raised his hands above his head, but with an uneasy feeling, so vicious was the boy's demeanour, that it was not altogether a game.
'You're a traitor!' yelled the boy. 'You're a thought- criminal! You're a Eurasian spy! I'll shoot you, I'll vaporize you, I'll send you to the salt mines!'
Suddenly they were both leaping round him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!' the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters. There was a sort of calculating ferocity in the boy's eye, a quite evident desire to hit or kick Winston and a consciousness of being very nearly big enough to do so. It was a good job it was not a real pistol he was holding, Winston thought."
"With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police."
It's good that I don't have children..
"IBM to Help UAE Track Drivers on the Road"
..but this other story was interresting too.
Am I the only one to have read that as:
s/UAE as in United Arab Emirates/UAE as in Unix Amiga Emulator/
s/drivers as in people who drives cars/drivers as in software purposed to link hardware to an OS/
s/on the road as in cars on the ground/on the road as in, in real time/
Like, I imagined the story would be about IBM making UAE able to for example detect a newly plugged in USB harddrive without having to reset the emulator first.
It is good that those annoying spammers and immoral phishers are getting some negative consequences for their misbehaviour. However, it would be in the same spirit for Micro$oft to stop annoying me with their "There is a new MSN update available" spam. When I click on the popup spam, I get an option "to not receive this update message for a week." But there is no option to turn it off permanently. Very annoying.
> Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
> -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822.3.
I tried the quote, to find, you gave.
Found it, I did not.
I believe Yoda, it was, you tried to quote.
http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/yoda/
Isn't this kind of discussion illegal according to the DMCA? If it is, I hope you all are not planning to visit the land of the free (USA).
Actually, mplayer has an option to redirect its output to an "ascii art graphics engine". If you change your font to a really small one you will get some really interresting pron. I once watched a whole Star Trek episode in ascii mode. IIRC the option was "mplayer rms_does_folkdance.mpg -vo aa".
If you use GNU/Debian you could try the engine very easily by doing this:
# apt-get install bb
# bb
emacs
dragonhawk@iname.microsoft.com
:).
I do not like Microsoft. Remove them from my email address.
Hehe, nice way to redirect all your spam to the servers of microsoft
Well. The body was redundant with the subject5. Aka funny.
This black box sounds just like that little gizmo the Borg take from their dead drones before they dispose of the rest of the body.
It would be interresting to get an automated "You are fired"-email to the cellphone when enough vitals are outside of specified parameters. But then again, there are some advantages: You don't have to go through all of the bureaucracy when applying for a life insurance - they are already aware of all the necessary data to make a fair risk judgement.
No.
"It was then that I realised that she was using an Apple computer".
I once had a very similar idea and developed a working perlscript implementation. But I never had the time to release it officially. So if someone is interested in a free (as in freedom aswell as gratis) timestamping service you may download my package from the below link and email me comments:
t ar.gz
http://bokstavera2.sourceforge.net/GPGNotary-1_0.
(remove the space in the link).
I just saw the movie. I've seen the first two several times. Each time I saw one of the previous ones, I understood more about all of the messages the movies are trying to convey. I need to see the third movie at least twice more before I decrypt it enough to be able to make a fair comparison to the first two.
Also I should point out that I don't see Matrix as three (or four including Animatrix) diffrent movies. It's all just _one_ movie. And the ending made a strong suggestion that there would be at least one more Matrix movie. The Watchowski brothers said that there would be no more Matrix movies. It would seem as if they intended to say that "there will be no more Matrix movies within this trilogy". Perhaps they will develop another (or more) Matrix trilogy.
Remember that the Matrix movies are all about symbolism. Their intent is not to spell stuff out. That is left to the audience. Compare it to a poem: If you would read a poem which had controversial and strong "hidden" messages, and the end of the poem would be just as symbolic as the beginning, you would not think it was a meaningless poem, would you? If they wanted to spell stuff out and it would (unlikely) have passed censorship, would they not have instead developed some form of documentary?
I look forward to further analysis of the trilogy. And for you that did not see it yet - please do; it's packed with meaning. Then dl it and watch it again to see the Matrix even clearer. I know I will.
IANAH, but: /.-ers in general don't find that post a troll, I know at least I will choose to not associate myself with the symbol.
e
How could the parent post get "Score:5, Insightful"? What is insightful about that mean comment? As I've been reading the discussion so far, I've been thinking about what situations the symbol would be used in. If the parent post is an example of that, and
A hacker would provide a link to more information about "The game of life". A hacker would not say "you are not a Hacker".
I haven't read the below link myself. But Wikipedia is usually good at explaining these sorts of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's+Game+of+Lif
And to the original poster: Don't "change your hobby" just because some mean person tries to discourage you. If you enjoy hacking, you should continue to do so. Don't care about what other people call you. If you hack, you're a hacker.
I am more of an RMS than ESR follower but still I have to disagree on your "gun" argument.
http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/attack.htm
I cannot check because I gave up MS* a long time ago. I use GNU/Debian. But if the license clause is as you stated, I pity all who have not yet migrated.
Btw: I don't think such a clause would be legal - at least here in Sweden. I don't think one is allowed to agree on giving up ones freedom of speech. But then again, if it is legal in US, US will pressure EU, and EU will pressure Sweden to follow US.
What? Are you saying ppl aren't allowed to use MS Front Page to make homepages negative about MS? Or was that just an fictitious example?