andy, have you seen Project Gutenberg? While it's not big on new works, there's a ton of great classic stuff, fiction and non. Also, there's (for example) the UVA ebook library. It sez "for MS and Palm devices" but no worries, there's HTML as well. A quick google search about ebooks will yield fine results.
I never suggested any crime. Lots of authors release free ebooks these days. I don't think that's an unreasonable request to make of someone who seems to support the freedom of informationas much as this guy. Mr. Vaidhyanathan submitted a great friend-of-the-court brief in support of Emmanuel Goldstien and 2600back in 2000, so I figured the guy'd be nice enough to put his book out for open electro distro, perhaps like Bean does.
Back in the day there was a web site, anti-social.com that gave out free email @anti-social.com. So I grabbed letthemdie@anti-social.com and used that whenever I had to give an address to something I didn't want to give an address to, just to be an ass.
The original Anti-social.com faded away in the mid-90's. It's rather interesting to note that now, when I point my browser to anti-social.com it redirects me to the offical Bush-Cheney '04 blog. How bizzare. What's up with that?
Once upon a time I installed an operating system on a desktop computer with NO connection to any network. I wrote the root password down in a sooper-sekrit place. I used the machine and the root password successfully for three days. The password was hard-to-remember, and I consulted the note several times over those days. On the forth day, the root password would no longer be accepted. I spent much of the forth day trying and retrying the password, using the same keyboard, different keyboards, and getting other people to try to type the password in, just to take myself out of the equation.
Nothing worked. Impossibly, the password had been changed. On the fifth day, I reinstalled the operating system.
At the time, I lived alone. No one else had access to this machine until I asked folks to try to type the pswd. The only possible explanation I could come up with was that a cosmic ray had hit the hard disk and twiddled a bit in the password file, changing it from the password I had set, written down, and used successfully.
Anyone else have an alternate explanation or a similar tale? I'd love to hear them.
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Owch! Two -1 Troll mods. Them Oregoners sure take thing personally. I guess there aren't any Dead Kennedys fans with mod points around tonight. Here's a link to the actual lyrics.
I'm from West Virginia. I just don't know what I'd do if someone were to make jokes about my state. Probably break down and cry like these pussy northwestern boys.;)
I want to tell you a story about the last time I was in Portland. The night before we played at the Long Goodbye. I was walking on the street about 10:30 at night. A lot of people go to bed around here at 10:30 at night. And well, I was walking along when suddenly these jocks in this bright blue pickup drove up. It had KC lights, tractor tires, everything but the CB. It was a life-size Hot Wheels car for some dumb rich kid, right. Well, they drove up to me and they yelled what dumb rich kids usually yell, "Hey, faggot," and showered me with some water. So, I stood there thinking, what a bunch of fuckheads and picked up a rock. Now, I waited, walked down about a block to where the Kentucky Fried Chicken is, on Burnside, and sure enough they drove around again. They said, "Hey, faggot, where's the nearest McDonald's?" I said, "I don't know" and they squirted me again. So I threw the rock and put a nice-size dent in their giant Hot Wheels car. They screached to a halt in the parking lot of some department store, who's name I don't remember, it's up the street from Fred Meyer, and they got out their clubs and they ran after me, yelling, "We're gonna kill you, you god damn faggot, we're gonna kill you, you motherfucker." So I got in a phonebooth by the Kentucky Fried Chicken on Burnside, held my legs straight out like this so they couldn't open the door to the phonebooth. So they began charging the phonebooth, beating on it with their club, yelling, "We're gonna kill you, you motherfucker, we're gonna kill you, you god damn faggot." I just looked at them. So, there was a crowd gathering by this time and these kids were standing nearby and they said, "Oh, look at him, he's insane." I thought, ah-hah, here's my way out. I yelled at them, "Take me to a mental hospital right away. I wanna be be put away. Please put me away, c'mon, call the cops and put me away. Please put me away now." They said, "Alright, faggot, we're calling the police." So they called the police. The cop comes out and I go, ah, my savior, I'm away from these jocks. He opens up the door, "Get out of there, you," throws me up against the car, frisks me, shoves me in the back. Then he goes over to the jocks, "Now what happened here? It looks like we're going have to take him to jail but we got to have the full story first" So the jocks, who had an ace in the hole, ace in the hole Take down on the bass, a little bit down on the bass. Yeah, ace in the hole, and they go, "Well, goddammit, the motherfucker put a dent in my truck, a $5000 truck, right, so I got my club, I went out and I wanted to kill him. I want to kill him. Let me kill him, goddammit. Let me kill him." So the cop made them go home, and he drove me home, and he confiscated their club and my rock as further evidence. And I thought, so this is Oregon, huh? Tolerent Oregon?
Ray, are you done with your guitar yet? He isn't done yet. So what else do you want to hear, I'm out of stories. That's a true story, too. Just ask Bruce Loose.
Yeah, well, we humans sometimes do things that are... illogical.
Plus, I still have most of the discs handy to re-rip as need be. I OGG my stuff at Quality=5, supposedly a sweetspot of sound quality/file size. Perhaps Q=4.9 would be better on that ratio. I don't have a portable player thingy, so that's currently not a factor, but one can see how a person such as myself would want Vorbis support like that Rio thing has. In summation, Ogg @ Q = 5 -> Happy music fan
Alternative Answer: I am a masochist, you insensitive clod!;)
1. Slashdot already tracks anonymous posts by IP &/or user. (So you're really only hiding from other users)
2. Slashdot allows you and others to see the comments made by a user.
So it would be nice to be able to keep track of your AC posts without anyone else being able to see them. I don't think it would be that much of an increase in load. If so, fuck it, spend some of my $5 on some more blades, and let 'er eat.
So just keep in mind that/. could be subpoena'ed to turn over IP & user info on any comment that a judge deemed neccessary. Which tends to invalidate the statement in the faq,
"We think the ability to post anonymously is important. Sometimes people have important information they want to post, but are afraid to do it if they can be linked to it."
Ya know... I'm thinking about it... You should be able to see your own anon posts just like you can see your loged-in posts, since obviously/. is still keeping track of your anon posts.
I'd post anonymously but slashdot doesn't let me on the weekends:
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I just like to crack an offcolor joke from time to time... you know, express that free speech thing, whatever that means... perhaps just say what you're thinking without wondering if the folks around you will like what you have to say. I agree with the above poster asking about ban length. Either allow anon posting or don't. The trolls will make their way around your ip bans. I just wanna make some folks laugh. Everybody so serious these days, so quick to ban. Banning things doesn't stop terrorism or help Bush, it just fucks over your friends.
Nice sig, man. I just recently was turned onto Massive Attack. What great stuff. Tricky's pretty good solo, but Massie Attack is totally on teh sp0ke. For those unfamiliar, it's some totally groovin' mega-chill trip-hop. Great stuff. Check 'em out if you get a chance.
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Jeezus Kreist, XP's SP2 ?!? I've still never been able to install W2K's SP4 and have a bootable machine afterward. Good thing SP4 has an uninstaller.
A OS patch with an uninstaller. They've been aware that their shit sucks for years.
andy, have you seen Project Gutenberg? While it's not big on new works, there's a ton of great classic stuff, fiction and non. Also, there's (for example) the UVA ebook library. It sez "for MS and Palm devices" but no worries, there's HTML as well. A quick google search about ebooks will yield fine results.
Oops, my bad, I meant Baen, of course, not bean.
I never suggested any crime. Lots of authors release free ebooks these days. I don't think that's an unreasonable request to make of someone who seems to support the freedom of informationas much as this guy. Mr. Vaidhyanathan submitted a great friend-of-the-court brief in support of Emmanuel Goldstien and 2600back in 2000, so I figured the guy'd be nice enough to put his book out for open electro distro, perhaps like Bean does.
So where can I download it?
...in Japan.
It would be cool if my remote control had a moot button... But what would it do?
I guess it would be pointless, really.
Back in the day there was a web site, anti-social.com that gave out free email @anti-social.com. So I grabbed letthemdie@anti-social.com and used that whenever I had to give an address to something I didn't want to give an address to, just to be an ass.
The original Anti-social.com faded away in the mid-90's. It's rather interesting to note that now, when I point my browser to anti-social.com it redirects me to the offical Bush-Cheney '04 blog. How bizzare. What's up with that?
Indeed it can.
Once upon a time I installed an operating system on a desktop computer with NO connection to any network. I wrote the root password down in a sooper-sekrit place. I used the machine and the root password successfully for three days. The password was hard-to-remember, and I consulted the note several times over those days. On the forth day, the root password would no longer be accepted. I spent much of the forth day trying and retrying the password, using the same keyboard, different keyboards, and getting other people to try to type the password in, just to take myself out of the equation.
Nothing worked. Impossibly, the password had been changed. On the fifth day, I reinstalled the operating system.
At the time, I lived alone. No one else had access to this machine until I asked folks to try to type the pswd. The only possible explanation I could come up with was that a cosmic ray had hit the hard disk and twiddled a bit in the password file, changing it from the password I had set, written down, and used successfully.
Anyone else have an alternate explanation or a similar tale? I'd love to hear them.
Why are you using the MP3 standard?
We want to make things simple for you. MP3 is the standard Internet audio format, and the easiest to work with. MP3 files are compatible with all popular media applications and home/portable digital audio devices. TMBG MP3s are encoded at 256kbps using the LAME MP3 encoder for superior audio quality. In this case, LAME means good. TMBG MP3s are professionally encoded to ensure a much better quality file than MP3s downloaded over P2P networks by brigands and thieves. MP3 files are also easier to download over the Internet because of their smaller file size. (Roughly 1.5MB per minute of audio)
"People say rape can't be funny...
I say rape can be funny...
Picture Elmer Fudd raping Porky Pig!
That's funny!"
-- George Carlin
Here's one place you can look, the FEDZ official job site, USAJOBS (OPM = US Office of Personnel Management). You can input a resume, search for jobs, &/or set up search agents. One program relating to this topic is SOFIA (Support Our Friends in Iraq and Afghanistan.)
Owch! Two -1 Troll mods. Them Oregoners sure take thing personally. I guess there aren't any Dead Kennedys fans with mod points around tonight. Here's a link to the actual lyrics.
;)
I'm from West Virginia. I just don't know what I'd do if someone were to make jokes about my state. Probably break down and cry like these pussy northwestern boys.
Jello Biafra:
I want to tell you a story about the last time I was in Portland.
The night before we played at the Long Goodbye.
I was walking on the street about 10:30 at night.
A lot of people go to bed around here at 10:30 at night.
And well, I was walking along when suddenly these jocks in this
bright blue pickup drove up. It had KC lights, tractor tires,
everything but the CB. It was a life-size Hot Wheels car for some dumb rich kid,
right. Well, they drove up to me
and they yelled what dumb rich kids usually yell, "Hey, faggot,"
and showered me with some water.
So, I stood there thinking, what a bunch of fuckheads and picked up a rock.
Now, I waited, walked down about a block to
where the Kentucky Fried Chicken is, on Burnside,
and sure enough they drove around again.
They said, "Hey, faggot, where's the nearest McDonald's?" I said,
"I don't know" and they squirted me again.
So I threw the rock and put a nice-size dent in their giant Hot Wheels car.
They screached to a halt in the parking lot of some department store,
who's name I don't remember, it's up the street from Fred Meyer,
and they got out their clubs and they ran after me, yelling,
"We're gonna kill you, you god damn faggot, we're gonna kill you,
you motherfucker."
So I got in a phonebooth by the Kentucky Fried Chicken on Burnside,
held my legs straight out like this so they couldn't open the door
to the phonebooth. So they began charging the phonebooth,
beating on it with their club, yelling,
"We're gonna kill you, you motherfucker, we're gonna kill you,
you god damn faggot." I just looked at them.
So, there was a crowd gathering by this time
and these kids were standing nearby and they said,
"Oh, look at him, he's insane." I thought, ah-hah, here's my way out.
I yelled at them, "Take me to a mental hospital right away.
I wanna be be put away.
Please put me away, c'mon, call the cops and put me away.
Please put me away now."
They said, "Alright, faggot, we're calling the police." So they called the police.
The cop comes out and I go, ah, my savior, I'm away from these jocks.
He opens up the door, "Get out of there, you,"
throws me up against the car, frisks me, shoves me in the back.
Then he goes over to the jocks, "Now what happened here?
It looks like we're going have to take him to jail
but we got to have the full story first"
So the jocks, who had an ace in the hole, ace in the hole
Take down on the bass, a little bit down on the bass. Yeah,
ace in the hole, and they go, "Well, goddammit,
the motherfucker put a dent in my truck, a $5000 truck, right,
so I got my club, I went out and I wanted to kill him.
I want to kill him. Let me kill him, goddammit.
Let me kill him."
So the cop made them go home, and he drove me home,
and he confiscated their club and my rock as further evidence.
And I thought, so this is Oregon, huh? Tolerent Oregon?
Ray, are you done with your guitar yet? He isn't done yet.
So what else do you want to hear, I'm out of stories.
That's a true story, too. Just ask Bruce Loose.
Yeah, well, we humans sometimes do things that are... illogical.
;)
Plus, I still have most of the discs handy to re-rip as need be. I OGG my stuff at Quality=5, supposedly a sweetspot of sound quality/file size. Perhaps Q=4.9 would be better on that ratio. I don't have a portable player thingy, so that's currently not a factor, but one can see how a person such as myself would want Vorbis support like that Rio thing has. In summation, Ogg @ Q = 5 -> Happy music fan
Alternative Answer:
I am a masochist, you insensitive clod!
95% of my (100% legal) 30 GigaBytes of music is in .OGG farmat.
The flashing lights... SO PRETT... Ack! *has seizure*
1. Slashdot already tracks anonymous posts by IP &/or user. (So you're really only hiding from other users)
2. Slashdot allows you and others to see the comments made by a user.
So it would be nice to be able to keep track of your AC posts without anyone else being able to see them. I don't think it would be that much of an increase in load. If so, fuck it, spend some of my $5 on some more blades, and let 'er eat. So just keep in mind that
Hee hee, nice one. :)
(still can't post anon)
Ya know... I'm thinking about it... You should be able to see your own anon posts just like you can see your loged-in posts, since obviously /. is still keeping track of your anon posts.
Takes one to know one. ;)
I'd post anonymously but slashdot doesn't let me on the weekends:
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner or login and improve your posting . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are "[deleted]" and "[deleted]" and (optionally, but preferably) your IP number "[deleted]" and your username "DrunkenTerror".
I just like to crack an offcolor joke from time to time... you know, express that free speech thing, whatever that means... perhaps just say what you're thinking without wondering if the folks around you will like what you have to say. I agree with the above poster asking about ban length. Either allow anon posting or don't. The trolls will make their way around your ip bans. I just wanna make some folks laugh. Everybody so serious these days, so quick to ban. Banning things doesn't stop terrorism or help Bush, it just fucks over your friends.
Gohan can handle Cell again. I'm not worried about this at all.
Nice sig, man. I just recently was turned onto Massive Attack. What great stuff. Tricky's pretty good solo, but Massie Attack is totally on teh sp0ke. For those unfamiliar, it's some totally groovin' mega-chill trip-hop. Great stuff. Check 'em out if you get a chance.
Robert Enderle
I agree with this post.