I mean, the guy has nothing left but his image. Here in Canada, musician Nash the Slash sucessfully sued Pepsi for using his likeness in a commercial with Carol Pope. Stars have a certain image, a persona that they use to sell their product, be it their acting abilities, their music, their "mystical powers". The last goes for both Uri Geller, and the Catholic Pope. I don't judge them, but I don't believe in them, either...the "mystical powers", that is.
Anyone who has s/u/f/f/e/r/e/d/ worked tech support will get a good laugh out of UF. Anyone who has worked retail will probably find it funny, and any SysAdmin should find it funny, or hand in their BOFH membership!
Congrats on the Win! This is just the first in a line, I hope! But this whole fight is just one theatre of an ongoing battle that we are fighting over intellectional property, privacy and free speech in a planetary context.
Many organizations are running into this problem, through the Internet there are no borders. What may be a death sentence in one country may be perfectly legal in another. National Laws are being laughed at. And it is the whole globalization challenge again.
Organizations, companies and nations have to realize there is a big blue planet we all live in, and that in the end, unless something must remain secret for the public good, it is going to come out...no encryption is unbreakable, esp. when the human factor comes into play. All it takes is one lone protestor in a government or company that feels that something shouldn't be secret, and suddenly, it is in the public domain.
All groups must consider how their actions will be interpreted in other countries, esp in regards to electronic information. And we need watchdogs to prevent others from hiding vital information from us.
That is the challeng ofthe next 20 years...and it may come down to the old Cyberpunk battle of Hackers on one side, and MegaCorps on the other.
I hope not. But then again, I retain some sense of optimizism about the highest primate inhabitants of this planet.
Many organizations are running into this problem, through the Internet there are no borders. What may be a death sentence in one country may be perfectly legal in another. National Laws are being laughed at. And it is the whole globalization challenge again. Organizations, companies and nations have to realize there is a big blue planet we all live in, and that in the end, unless something must remain secret for the public good, it is going to come out...no encryption is unbreakable, esp. when the human factor comes into play. All it takes is one lone protestor in a government or company that feels that something shouldn't be secret, and suddenly, it is in the public domain.
All groups must consider how their actions will be interpreted in other countries, esp in regards to electronic information. And we need watchdogs to prevent others from hiding vital information from us.
That is the challeng ofthe next 20 years...and it may come down to the old Cyberpunk battle of Hackers on one side, and MegaCorps on the other.
I hope not. But then again, I retain some sense of optimizism about the highest primate inhabitants of this planet.
Where would you like to see Linux in a level playing field...ie, one where a user can easily choose between, say BeOS, *BSD, Linux, Windows 2000/98++ on their new systems.
Or simply, in a level playing field, what niche do you see Linux occupying?
The fact that he worked so hard to try and disprove Quantum Theory is his great contribution to Quantum Physics. The only way that it was able to become what it is to day was for people of caliber of Eistein and Schrodinger to try and disprove it mathematically. Ultimatly, the only way they could attack it was philisophically, sisinctly in Einstein's quote (I think this is exact) "God does not play with dice", refering to the assignment of probablities; and Schrodinger with his famous "Cat" Thought Experiment.
It turns out that the Norse God Thor is one of the sources of that complex sentance that we now call Santa Clause. And he used to give a lump of coal to stir the fires of imagination in those who needed it. That's the last thing we need from the ACs...or maybe it is a good thing...
ttyl Farrell
A token Celt in an almost all Norse ADF Grove! Silver Fox Grove, ADF
We have one at work...cruddy IDE hard drive...SLOWS DOWN THE SYSTEM! ATI Mach 64 video, Sound blaster quality sound...IDE CD-ROM...For half the price, you can get a Intel box that will run circles around these...about the only thing these are good for is if you are doing a lot of math oriented stuff...they suck the big one as WebServers!
ttyl Farrell
Re:Life, COG? Better: Church of All Words
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I would think that a group like the Church of All Words might better be able to make an informed comment on this than most of the popular churchs of this day. A science fiction fan probably has a better chance of making intellegent comments on this than a member of those same popular churches.
I've seen a number of interviews with him, and watched him play live, and the thing that always impresses me is how much this guy loves music. You know that joyous expression that little kids [and mabey hackers too{grin}] have when they get a bright, shiny new toy to play with? Well, that is the expression that Stevie Wonder has when he plays. Most of us loose that expression, through growing up and other's reactions, I hope that with regaining his sight, Stevie doesn't loose his.
This is a capitalist society we have in North America, let's vote with our dollars, and pressure those who have "partnerships" with Amazon, like Slashdot, to dissolve those partnerships.
Good code is as important to keep as good literature. Sure, it looses some of it context, and can be somewhat obscure to read, but with the right commentary, it is priceless.
ttyl Farrell
Screen, Keyboard and navigation tool.
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Interface Zen
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Back when I had a brief gig selling computers back in the late '80s, I used to tell people that for the most part, computers worked the same on the inside. Once you have chosen your feature set, you need to pick something that is almost, if not maybe more important...your interface to the system: The Keyboard, the Monitor, and Nav Tool (mouse, trackball, clitorus, pad, etc.). Get a keyboard that you are comfortable with, a monitor that gives good contrast and resolution, and a device that you feel confortable with.
Personally, I like both the Marble Mouse by Logitech and the IBM clitorus for nav tool, since both are handedness agnostic, and I change what han I use every couple of months.; I always remap my keyboard to put the ctl key to the left of the "a" key, and I have a nice, crisp.22 dot-pitch philips display.
BTW, I still prefer the Wordstar keyclusters for editors...I recently amazed a co-worker on how fast I could get around and edit a text file with Joe in WS emulation mode. And he has been using VI for a decade...
Definite Kudos to the SGI people for the support pages for IRIS! It is the kind of thing that the LSM blerbs used to be helpful with, but it is orders of magnitude better!
Now I *have* to get a hardware accellerated 3d graphics card....
When I first installed RedHat 5.x, and checked out the Dosemu setup that came default with it, I noticed a piece of software I had not seen in years, a FOSSIL driver. It stands for Fido Opus SeaDOG Serial Interface Layer. Basically a generallized connection that all of these products, and those compatible with them can share. So I knew there was some interest in running DOS based BBS software out there...but things are progressing very fast. It seems that Fidonet Technology is being rapidly integrated with TCP/IP to enable the full use of Fidotech via the Internet. Programs like "DBINK" serve as a front-door forthis, and many programs out there handle the tossing and scanning of mail from message bases. In some ways, this software is more mature and employ better technology solutions than News does, for example. Before the decline of Fidonet, it was moving more mail/news type traffice than than usenet was then, and maybe even today, if you cut out the binaries newsgroups.
Right now, I am working on the rebuilding of a popular network that used Fidotech, PODSnet, on the internet. You can email me if you would like to know more about the recreation of PODSnet.
1:163/xxx.xx Was a lot of fun way back when...I rmember when we started it, and applied for our own net number. Until then, we were a bunch of nodes off of 148, Toronto's net number.
Data/SFnet was one of the first 500 BBSs in Fidonet, which at it's peak had tens of thousands of BBSs world wide connected. What can I say, I am an early adoptor of tech....
I see the appointing of a mediator an act of giving MS enough rope to hang itself with. The judge can now say if they don't reach a bargan that he attempted to try and get both parties to work out their differences, and now it's time to throw the book at MS, not punches pulled.
MS should settle here, otherwise things will go very badly for them, IMOHO, of course.
ttyl Farrell
...not a student of law, but someone with a lot of experience in mediation & conflict resolution.
Slashdot Mirror
It would be nice to see what things are illegal in the US for us Canadians to avoid bringing down there.
ttyl
Farrell
All Hail Discordia!
Chaos Reigns...at least in Kernel Source Code!
ttyl
Farrell
I mean, the guy has nothing left but his image. Here in Canada, musician Nash the Slash sucessfully sued Pepsi for using his likeness in a commercial with Carol Pope. Stars have a certain image, a persona that they use to sell their product, be it their acting abilities, their music, their "mystical powers". The last goes for both Uri Geller, and the Catholic Pope. I don't judge them, but I don't believe in them, either...the "mystical powers", that is.
ttyl
Farrell
Anyone who has s/u/f/f/e/r/e/d/ worked tech support will get a good laugh out of UF. Anyone who has worked retail will probably find it funny, and any SysAdmin should find it funny, or hand in their BOFH membership!
ttyl
Farrell
SysAdmin &
Tech-Support Survivor
One of my Fav languages...but I have not had much use for it in a long time...I wonder if I still remember how to write in it...
ttyl
Farrell
...with memories of GraForth on the APPLE ][...
No Morse code is needed, and in fact, Morse Code is no longer used on ships anymore, either.
ttyl
Farrell
Congrats on the Win! This is just the first in a line, I hope! But this whole fight is just one theatre of an ongoing battle that we are fighting over intellectional property, privacy and free speech in a planetary context.
Many organizations are running into this problem, through the Internet there are no borders. What may be a death sentence in one country may be perfectly legal in another. National Laws are being laughed at. And it is the whole globalization challenge again.
Organizations, companies and nations have to realize there is a big blue planet we all live in, and that in the end, unless something must remain secret for the public good, it is going to come out...no encryption is unbreakable, esp. when the human factor comes into play. All it takes is one lone protestor in a government or company that feels that something shouldn't be secret, and suddenly, it is in the public domain.
All groups must consider how their actions will be interpreted in other countries, esp in regards to electronic information. And we
need watchdogs to prevent others from hiding vital information from us.
That is the challeng ofthe next 20 years...and it may come down to the old Cyberpunk battle of Hackers on one side, and MegaCorps on the other.
I hope not. But then again, I retain some sense of optimizism about the highest primate inhabitants of this planet.
ttyl
Farrell
Many organizations are running into this problem, through the Internet there are no borders. What may be a death sentence in one country may be perfectly legal in another. National Laws are being laughed at. And it is the whole globalization challenge again. Organizations, companies and nations have to realize there is a big blue planet we all live in, and that in the end, unless something must remain secret for the public good, it is going to come out...no encryption is unbreakable, esp. when the human factor comes into play. All it takes is one lone protestor in a government or company that feels that something shouldn't be secret, and suddenly, it is in the public domain.
All groups must consider how their actions will be interpreted in other countries, esp in regards to electronic information. And we need watchdogs to prevent others from hiding vital information from us.
That is the challeng ofthe next 20 years...and it may come down to the old Cyberpunk battle of Hackers on one side, and MegaCorps on the other.
I hope not. But then again, I retain some sense of optimizism about the highest primate inhabitants of this planet.
ttyl
Farrell
Where would you like to see Linux in a level playing field...ie, one where a user can easily choose between, say BeOS, *BSD, Linux, Windows 2000/98++ on their new systems.
Or simply, in a level playing field, what niche do you see Linux occupying?
ttyl
Farrell
...Linux User/Evangelist since kernel v0.12
The fact that he worked so hard to try and disprove Quantum Theory is his great contribution to Quantum Physics. The only way that it was able to become what it is to day was for people of caliber of Eistein and Schrodinger to try and disprove it mathematically. Ultimatly, the only way they could attack it was philisophically, sisinctly in Einstein's quote (I think this is exact) "God does not play with dice", refering to the assignment of probablities; and Schrodinger with his famous "Cat" Thought Experiment.
ttyl
Farrell
It turns out that the Norse God Thor is one of the sources of that complex sentance that we now call Santa Clause. And he used to give a lump of coal to stir the fires of imagination in those who needed it. That's the last thing we need from the ACs...or maybe it is a good thing...
ttyl
Farrell
A token Celt in an almost all Norse ADF Grove!
Silver Fox Grove, ADF
Ah, just admit it, it isn't just your SO, you just want to go and fragg Julie!
Personally, I hope that the engine will be robust enough to support it's use as a virtual world, not just a fragg area.
ttyl
Farrell
Look, I just set up one of these UltraSparc 10 machines as a web server under Red Hat 6.0, and it is SLOW!!!
On the other hand, the UltraSparc Enterprise servers really rock...but no IDE subsystems on them!
ttyl
Farrell
Ick!
We have one at work...cruddy IDE hard drive...SLOWS DOWN THE SYSTEM! ATI Mach 64 video, Sound blaster quality sound...IDE CD-ROM...For half the price, you can get a Intel box that will run circles around these...about the only thing these are good for is if you are doing a lot of math oriented stuff...they suck the big one as WebServers!
ttyl
Farrell
I would think that a group like the Church of All Words might better be able to make an informed comment on this than most of the popular churchs of this day. A science fiction fan probably has a better chance of making intellegent comments on this than a member of those same popular churches.
ttyl
Farrell
To get an idea of the world they are proposing, pick up the video of "Shock Treatment", and be afraid, be very afraid!
ttyl
Farrell
I've seen a number of interviews with him, and watched him play live, and the thing that always impresses me is how much this guy loves music. You know that joyous expression that little kids [and mabey hackers too{grin}] have when they get a bright, shiny new toy to play with? Well, that is the expression that Stevie Wonder has when he plays. Most of us loose that expression, through growing up and other's reactions, I hope that with regaining his sight, Stevie doesn't loose his.
ttyl
Farrell
This is a capitalist society we have in North America, let's vote with our dollars, and pressure those who have "partnerships" with Amazon, like Slashdot, to dissolve those partnerships.
ttyl
Farrell
Good code is as important to keep as good literature. Sure, it looses some of it context, and can be somewhat obscure to read, but with the right commentary, it is priceless.
ttyl
Farrell
Back when I had a brief gig selling computers back in the late '80s, I used to tell people that for the most part, computers worked the same on the inside. Once you have chosen your feature set, you need to pick something that is almost, if not maybe more important...your interface to the system: The Keyboard, the Monitor, and Nav Tool (mouse, trackball, clitorus, pad, etc.). Get a keyboard that you are comfortable with, a monitor that gives good contrast and resolution, and a device that you feel confortable with.
.22 dot-pitch philips display.
Personally, I like both the Marble Mouse by Logitech and the IBM clitorus for nav tool, since both are handedness agnostic, and I change what han I use every couple of months.; I always remap my keyboard to put the ctl key to the left of the "a" key, and I have a nice, crisp
BTW, I still prefer the Wordstar keyclusters for editors...I recently amazed a co-worker on how fast I could get around and edit a text file with Joe in WS emulation mode. And he has been using VI for a decade...
ttyl
Farrell
Definite Kudos to the SGI people for the support pages for IRIS! It is the kind of thing that the LSM blerbs used to be helpful with, but it is orders of magnitude better!
Now I *have* to get a hardware accellerated 3d graphics card....
ttyl
Farrell
When I first installed RedHat 5.x, and checked out the Dosemu setup that came default with it, I noticed a piece of software I had not seen in years, a FOSSIL driver. It stands for Fido Opus SeaDOG Serial Interface Layer. Basically a generallized connection that all of these products, and those compatible with them can share. So I knew there was some interest in running DOS based BBS software out there...but things are progressing very fast. It seems that Fidonet Technology is being rapidly integrated with TCP/IP to enable the full use of Fidotech via the Internet. Programs like "DBINK" serve as a front-door forthis, and many programs out there handle the tossing and scanning of mail from message bases. In some ways, this software is more mature and employ better technology solutions than News does, for example. Before the decline of Fidonet, it was moving more mail/news type traffice than than usenet was then, and maybe even today, if you cut out the binaries newsgroups.
Right now, I am working on the rebuilding of a popular network that used Fidotech, PODSnet, on the internet. You can email me if you would like to know more about the recreation of PODSnet.
ttyl
Farrell
Hi!
1:163/xxx.xx Was a lot of fun way back when...I rmember when we started it, and applied for our own net number. Until then, we were a bunch of nodes off of 148, Toronto's net number.
Data/SFnet was one of the first 500 BBSs in Fidonet, which at it's peak had tens of thousands of BBSs world wide connected. What can I say, I am an early adoptor of tech....
ttyl
Farrell
I see the appointing of a mediator an act of giving MS enough rope to hang itself with. The judge can now say if they don't reach a bargan that he attempted to try and get both parties to work out their differences, and now it's time to throw the book at MS, not punches pulled.
MS should settle here, otherwise things will go very badly for them, IMOHO, of course.
ttyl
Farrell
...not a student of law, but someone with a lot of experience in mediation & conflict resolution.
Fnord!