A strong case for human cloning.....Nitrozac
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If ever there was a strong case for human cloning research, Nitrozac, you're it. Yeah, I know it was alread mentioned, but I thought of it before reading your interview (that has to count for something, eh?).
Intelligent, creative and off the Geek Grrl scale.... damn, I must be looking in the wrong places!
Keep up the great work, I haven't seen anything so creative (and downright bizarre) in a long time.
>Did you know J. Edgar Hoover was a cross-dresser? That makes the whole FBI a bunch of panzies, now doesn't >it?
Panzies? Maybe no. Ill informed jackbooted thugs; now that's a different story.
As for the debate weather it is "moral","right", "natural" or "a choice" to be gay; I could care less. I personally believe (my opinion, please save the flames for another time) homosexuality is not a "natural" condition for human being, BUT I do not judge people because of their sexual preferance. There are many qualities human beings posess that are so much more important than where you like to put your hoohadilly; compared honor, integrity and compassion, sexual preferance doesn't even come close. You're here, your queer? So what? I like sex with the lights on; I don't go around telling everyone about it.
I think much of the anger directed towards gays (or any other "minority") is a result of the frustration the average, white, middle class American male feels. Yes, there are ignorant bigots that are hell bent on spreading hate, but I belive that the majority of anti-gay sentiment has less to do with "homophobia" and more to do with a concept called "fairness".
I (a white, middle class male, by the way) live in a midwestern town that recieved quite a bit of media attention about a year ago because it denied a proposition that would give homosexuals special minority status (privilege and protection). We were thrashed quite well by the media who likened our city to a Neo-Nazi convention. I think your average Joe sixpack, who usually lacks the verbal skills to convey his thoughts without the words "fuckin" and "faggot", can't understand why some people should be treated differently simply because of what they like to do with their private parts. I like sex, "doggie style", why isn't anyone putting me in a special group? Regardless weather you are Gay, Jewish, Black, Female, White, Hispanic or otherwise, there are already laws to protect you from crime and guarantee your liberty.
Maybe I'm foolish to believe this, but I believe that most people are fair and decent. The plain and simple truth is that you cannot pass laws to change people's hearts; the real bigots don't care about equal opportunity laws and the rest of us just feel alienated. While they may be good intentioned, I think many of the "fairness" laws on the books do more harm than good by highlighting the differences between people and constantly make issue out of what otherwise would be commonplace. If there should be any law in place, it should be a blanket law that requires fair and equal treatment REAGARDLESS of race, sexual preference, creed and nationality; it'll be no harder to enforce than the other special interest legislation out there already.
The ideas expressed here are my own and in no way reflect views of my employer, parents, siblings, car or mold collection. Any similarities to the live, deceased or or otherwise "ghostly" are purely intentional. All rights reserved.
This is one of those "I know someone" posts, but I can assure you it's true....
I know someone who works for a company that does contract work almost exclusively for a government agency. While he never gives me details of what he's working on (he'd be fired on the spot and could be imprisoned), he *is* allowed to talk about the vague concepts and ideas.
For a while now he's been telling me how cool it is that he's learning all the ways to hide data on unused tracks and to get software to install and execute without the user ever knowing about it. In fact,almost all of the concepts we discuss involve hiding things and making machines execute code without the user knowing!
If I recall correctly, some time ago there was mention of him working on ways to circumvent the tcp/ip stack, and more recently, he tells me it's been his company's holy grail for some time to get a NT device driver to run an executable undetected.
I often ask him if what he writes is used to spy on people, and his usual nondescript response is this,"They [the aforementioned gov't agency] use my programs to help catch *REALLY* bad people".
It's obvious why a government agency would want to quietly execute code and hide data; I just question who decides who the "*REALLY* bad" people are.
I can't believe people are still ranting about this supposed "e-mail tax". Jeez, it's a HOAX! This hoax and it's bretheren "The Modem Tax" and "The DiVinci Virus" are almost as old as the 'net itself! How did this make it's way to SlashDot; I though you guys were a bit more cluefull than this.
To all of you who still believe there's a proposal to levy an e-mail tax, I have a great new product for you; it's this awsome new game called BLAZEMONGER. BlazeMonger is the best game to ever hit the market; just send me $35.00 US and I'll tell you where you can get it.
P.S. if this thread is indicative of the quality of today's "netizens", I would encourage Al Gore to take his "Information Superhighway" and route it up his ass!
Perhaps this post is only pseudo-on-topic, but I feel it's relevent....
I think what happened to us is we got desk jobs. I'm 5' 11", and for the longest time, I was 125-130 lbs. with a 28 in. waist. I used to have boundless energy and ate like a horse. It has been about 1 1/2 years since I took this desk job, and it has taken that time for me to gain 2 inches and go up to 150 lbs. I don't get enough exercise, I don't eat right and I drink too much beer; most of my new weight is clinging to the "beltline" region of my body. I really don't want to end up looking like Homer Simpson.
I was the typical skinny guy you know who couldn't hold still and ate uncontrolably (until recently, that is). I'm also borderline hypoglycemic (it sound's like several of the "hackers" posting here are) so if I miss a meal or try to cheat by using sugar as a "pick me up", I wind up tired, shakey, lethargic, dazed and with a headache. (IIRC, part of hypoglycemia is your body being unable to tap into your fat reserves after your bloodsugar has depleted.) My habit of skipping breakfast and eating crap at odd hours only aggravate the above problems.
Something interesting happened to me this weekend; I spent Saturday cutting the grass and de-thatching the yard with an old rake (trust me, it sucks) and a good portion of Sunday rollerblading. I got more exercise this weekend than the last two weeks combined. The interesting thing is, for dinner yesterday (Sunday), I had a Coke, a large order of fries, a Quarter pounder, a fish sandwich and some icecream. This may sound like a lot, but for a large portion of my life, anything less would have been abnormal. The point of all this is that after just one weekend of decent exercise, I feel much better and (for today so far) I feel like I've been a little more resistant to the wild energy level swings that accompany my usual bloodsugar level rollercoaster ride.
If we took the time a few days a week to get out and use the muscles we were born to use, we'd feel much better and would be more productive in the long run. I fear that we the "hacker" generation are going to have serious medical problems in the coming years if we don't take better care of ourselves. I'm 26 now and already I have a massive patch of grey, my eyes are being ruined my this damn CRT and I lack the physical stamina I had 2 years ago; it just isn't normal. At this rate, by the time I'm able to retire, I'll have to move directly into a nursing home!
I don't think anybody wants a fate like this.
Slashdot dudes--- How 'bout moving the "preview" and "Submit" buttons away from eachother; it's much to easy to hit the wrong one.
Say the Gov't COULD take a 3D Ir or Microwave snapshot of my house; how would this impact privacy and search 'n siezure laws? Say I don't let the nice FBI agents in because they don't have a warrant; so what......POOF, they just took a detailed picture of my place down to the last square inch. Was that an illegal search or not?
Hmm. Ah, everyone needs a big brother!!!
Use the recruiter dimwits to your advantage!
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Why complain about recruiters' incompetence? Use it to your advantage!
In an one year period, I was the victim of "rightsizing" on three seperate occasions. In that same year period, I jumped from $7.75 an hour to $40k a year income. I had been foolishly studying a non computer/technology oriented major, but came to the realization that computers are what I'm best at (well, plus I was broke). My first 2 (computer jobs) were your usual contract/geeksploitation/sweatshop "add ram to these 400 peecees" type jobs. After being "added to the mobility pool" from these places, a decided to try out the local employment agencies. Most places tried to send me back to the crappy pc support jobs I had been trying to avoid until I learned to play the game. I decided to put any experience I'd ever had with any piece of hardware or software on my resume and added generous amounts of buzzwords to attract attention. Finally, a particularly dimwitted agency called me in for a "serious interview" (yes, they said those words).
Since I mentioned Unix on the resume, above mentioned agency asked if I minded taking a few tests. The Unix user and general PC support "exams" were so insanely easy I stopped midway and forced them to give me the SysAdmin tests (those were a joke as well). When the "official results" were tallied, said recruiter started gushing like a schoolgirl at a Hansen concert. Suddenly, the list of Good Jobs (TM) was requested while my "agent" asked me canned questions from note cards. Recruiters don't know anything about computers, otherwise they wouldn't be recruiters! I could have answered "transistorized cream cheese", and she wouldn't have know the difference.
What's the point of all this? Fill your resume with buzzwords the point and drool types go ga-ga over and hype yourself up to get an interview with the actual company. When I got a *REAL* interview with a company I was being placed at, I told them (the company)I know my skills were overhyped and if they were looking for a college graduate type, I was sorry to waste their time. I also told them exactly what I did know, how well, and that I was confident I could quickly learn any other needed skills. The tactic worked and they hired me. Now, I can now add to my resume that I set up and administer an RS/6000, a Unixware box (blech), several SCO boxes (blech, blech), a few Linux boxen (JOY!) and have set up a VPN and moved our office to NT/BackOffice (Arrg!) from Netware.
Use recruiters' cluelessness to get interview with the good companies. I know $40k isn't that great, but I think for a college dropout who more than doubled his income in a year, it is. Now I finally can afford to go back and get one of those expensive pieces of paper (a diploma, I think).
If you are so unlucky as to have a motherboard that will not boot without a keyboard; check out your handy-dandy Black Box catalog. I don't have a catalog with me right now, but I know they sell a device for about $50 (like Black Box ever sold anything cheap!) that plugs into your keyboard port and fools your machine into "thinking" it has one attached.
May the Bunnies choke on their own bile!
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I am so sick of marketroids trying to make computer hardware look stylish! My Cisco 675 looks like pregnant, mutated radar detector. The new HP tower cases are shaped like an ass cheek! What gives?
I want a *SEXY* computer. Sexy computers are black. They are big (2.5' by 2.5 by 3.0'). They have lots of blinking lights. They have *TOGGLE SWITCHES* on the front! The have a *COOLANT LEVEL* that needs to be monitored. They have more CPU's than my calculator has buttons! They have imposing names like UniDeath Model 6342-XMP. They have hardware specs full of acronyms like RAID, BSP, SCSI, SMP and SP. They sound like a jet engine when they power up! They consume more energy than your average clothes dryer! Most importantly they're so damn fast, they _disembowel_ fashionable desktop PC's!
Shouldn't the defenition of a hacker be, "One who subscribes to the hacker ethic"?
One of the traits of the true hacker is a profoundly antibureaucratic and democratic spirit. That spirit is best exemplified by the Hacker's Ethic. This ethic was best formulated by Steven Levy in his 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Its tenets are as follows:
Access to computers should be unlimited and total. All information should be free. Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You create art and beauty on a computer, Computers can change your life for the better.
Wow, seeing that ANSI art brings back a lot of fond memories; I still remember the nights in front of my trusty A500 like it was yesterday! Do any of you remember any of the old internet BBS's like the Citadel, Spies in the Wire, quartz.rutgers.edu and mars.ee.mstate.edu?
Maybe this is off topic, but I wish I could thank all the unknown people out there who sparked my curiosity and took the time to answer my neophyte questions. It's a shame that the internet the way I remember it, a close knit community of the brightest minds out there, is but a thing of the past.
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If ever there was a strong case for human cloning research, Nitrozac, you're it. Yeah, I know it was alread mentioned, but I thought of it before reading your interview (that has to count for something, eh?).
Intelligent, creative and off the Geek Grrl scale.... damn, I must be looking in the wrong places!
Keep up the great work, I haven't seen anything so creative (and downright bizarre) in a long time.
P.S. How did the alias "Nitrozac" come about?
>Did you know J. Edgar Hoover was a cross-dresser? That makes the whole FBI a bunch of panzies, now doesn't >it?
Panzies? Maybe no. Ill informed jackbooted thugs; now that's a different story.
As for the debate weather it is "moral","right", "natural" or "a choice" to be gay; I could care less. I personally believe (my opinion, please save the flames for another time) homosexuality is not a "natural" condition for human being, BUT I do not judge people because of their sexual preferance. There are many qualities human beings posess that are so much more important than where you like to put your hoohadilly; compared honor, integrity and compassion, sexual preferance doesn't even come close. You're here, your queer? So what? I like sex with the lights on; I don't go around telling everyone about it.
I think much of the anger directed towards gays (or any other "minority") is a result of the frustration the average, white, middle class American male feels. Yes, there are ignorant bigots that are hell bent on spreading hate, but I belive that the majority of anti-gay sentiment has less to do with "homophobia" and more to do with a concept called "fairness".
I (a white, middle class male, by the way) live in a midwestern town that recieved quite a bit of media attention about a year ago because it denied a proposition that would give homosexuals special minority status (privilege and protection). We were thrashed quite well by the media who likened our city to a Neo-Nazi convention. I think your average Joe sixpack, who usually lacks the verbal skills to convey his thoughts without the words "fuckin" and "faggot", can't understand why some people should be treated differently simply because of what they like to do with their private parts. I like sex, "doggie style", why isn't anyone putting me in a special group? Regardless weather you are Gay, Jewish, Black, Female, White, Hispanic or otherwise, there are already laws to protect you from crime and guarantee your liberty.
Maybe I'm foolish to believe this, but I believe that most people are fair and decent. The plain and simple truth is that you cannot pass laws to change people's hearts; the real bigots don't care about equal opportunity laws and the rest of us just feel alienated. While they may be good intentioned, I think many of the "fairness" laws on the books do more harm than good by highlighting the differences between people and constantly make issue out of what otherwise would be commonplace. If there should be any law in place, it should be a blanket law that requires fair and equal treatment REAGARDLESS of race, sexual preference, creed and nationality; it'll be no harder to enforce than the other special interest legislation out there already.
The ideas expressed here are my own and in no way reflect views of my employer, parents, siblings, car or mold collection. Any similarities to the live, deceased or or otherwise "ghostly" are purely intentional. All rights reserved.
I'm addicted to the internet as much as I'm addicted to water.....
This is one of those "I know someone" posts, but I can assure you it's true....
I know someone who works for a company that does contract work almost exclusively for a government agency. While he never gives me details of what he's working on (he'd be fired on the spot and could be imprisoned), he *is* allowed to talk about the vague concepts and ideas.
For a while now he's been telling me how cool it is that he's learning all the ways to hide data on unused tracks and to get software to install and execute without the user ever knowing about it. In fact,almost all of the concepts we discuss involve hiding things and making machines execute code without the user knowing!
If I recall correctly, some time ago there was mention of him working on ways to circumvent the tcp/ip stack, and more recently, he tells me it's been his company's holy grail for some time to get a NT device driver to run an executable undetected.
I often ask him if what he writes is used to spy on people, and his usual nondescript response is this,"They [the aforementioned gov't agency] use my programs to help catch *REALLY* bad people".
It's obvious why a government agency would want to quietly execute code and hide data; I just question who decides who the "*REALLY* bad" people are.
I can't believe people are still ranting about this supposed "e-mail tax". Jeez, it's a HOAX! This hoax and it's bretheren "The Modem Tax" and "The DiVinci Virus" are almost as old as the 'net itself! How did this make it's way to SlashDot; I though you guys were a bit more cluefull than this.
To all of you who still believe there's a proposal to levy an e-mail tax, I have a great new product for you; it's this awsome new game called BLAZEMONGER. BlazeMonger is the best game to ever hit the market; just send me $35.00 US and I'll tell you where you can get it.
P.S. if this thread is indicative of the quality of today's "netizens", I would encourage Al Gore to take his "Information Superhighway" and route it up his ass!
Perhaps this post is only pseudo-on-topic, but I feel it's relevent....
I think what happened to us is we got desk jobs. I'm 5' 11", and for the longest time, I was 125-130 lbs. with a 28 in. waist. I used to have boundless energy and ate like a horse. It has been about 1 1/2 years since I took this desk job, and it has taken that time for me to gain 2 inches and go up to 150 lbs. I don't get enough exercise, I don't eat right and I drink too much beer; most of my new weight is clinging to the "beltline" region of my body. I really don't want to end up looking like Homer Simpson.
I was the typical skinny guy you know who couldn't hold still and ate uncontrolably (until recently, that is). I'm also borderline hypoglycemic (it sound's like several of the "hackers" posting here are) so if I miss a meal or try to cheat by using sugar as a "pick me up", I wind up tired, shakey, lethargic, dazed and with a headache. (IIRC, part of hypoglycemia is your body being unable to tap into your fat reserves after your bloodsugar has depleted.) My habit of skipping breakfast and eating crap at odd hours only aggravate the above problems.
Something interesting happened to me this weekend; I spent Saturday cutting the grass and de-thatching the yard with an old rake (trust me, it sucks) and a good portion of Sunday rollerblading. I got more exercise this weekend than the last two weeks combined. The interesting thing is, for dinner yesterday (Sunday), I had a Coke, a large order of fries, a Quarter pounder, a fish sandwich and some icecream. This may sound like a lot, but for a large portion of my life, anything less would have been abnormal. The point of all this is that after just one weekend of decent exercise, I feel much better and (for today so far) I feel like I've been a little more resistant to the wild energy level swings that accompany my usual bloodsugar level rollercoaster ride.
If we took the time a few days a week to get out and use the muscles we were born to use, we'd feel much better and would be more productive in the long run. I fear that we the "hacker" generation are going to have serious medical problems in the coming years if we don't take better care of ourselves. I'm 26 now and already I have a massive patch of grey, my eyes are being ruined my this damn CRT and I lack the physical stamina I had 2 years ago; it just isn't normal. At this rate, by the time I'm able to retire, I'll have to move directly into a nursing home!
I don't think anybody wants a fate like this.
Slashdot dudes--- How 'bout moving the "preview" and "Submit" buttons away from eachother; it's much to easy to hit the wrong one.
Hubec wrote: "It would be illegal to do it without a warrant, just like tapping a phone."
Ahh, but they are supposed to obtain a warrant to do that as well; that is why the wiretap laws become ever more dilute!
Say the Gov't COULD take a 3D Ir or Microwave snapshot of my house; how would this impact privacy and search 'n siezure laws? Say I don't let the nice FBI agents in because they don't have a warrant; so what......POOF, they just took a detailed picture of my place down to the last square inch. Was that an illegal search or not?
Hmm. Ah, everyone needs a big brother!!!
Why complain about recruiters' incompetence? Use it to your advantage!
In an one year period, I was the victim of "rightsizing" on three seperate occasions. In that same year period, I jumped from $7.75 an hour to $40k a year income. I had been foolishly studying a non computer/technology oriented major, but came to the realization that computers are what I'm best at (well, plus I was broke). My first 2 (computer jobs) were your usual contract/geeksploitation/sweatshop "add ram to these 400 peecees" type jobs. After being "added to the mobility pool" from these places, a decided to try out the local employment agencies. Most places tried to send me back to the crappy pc support jobs I had been trying to avoid until I learned to play the game. I decided to put any experience I'd ever had with any piece of hardware or software on my resume and added generous amounts of buzzwords to attract attention. Finally, a particularly dimwitted agency called me in for a "serious interview" (yes, they said those words).
Since I mentioned Unix on the resume, above mentioned agency asked if I minded taking a few tests. The Unix user and general PC support "exams" were so insanely easy I stopped midway and forced them to give me the SysAdmin tests (those were a joke as well). When the "official results" were tallied, said recruiter started gushing like a schoolgirl at a Hansen concert. Suddenly, the list of Good Jobs (TM) was requested while my "agent" asked me canned questions from note cards. Recruiters don't know anything about computers, otherwise they wouldn't be recruiters! I could have answered "transistorized cream cheese", and she wouldn't have know the difference.
What's the point of all this? Fill your resume with buzzwords the point and drool types go ga-ga over and hype yourself up to get an interview with the actual company. When I got a *REAL* interview with a company I was being placed at, I told them (the company)I know my skills were overhyped and if they were looking for a college graduate type, I was sorry to waste their time. I also told them exactly what I did know, how well, and that I was confident I could quickly learn any other needed skills. The tactic worked and they hired me. Now, I can now add to my resume that I set up and administer an RS/6000, a Unixware box (blech), several SCO boxes (blech, blech), a few Linux boxen (JOY!) and have set up a VPN and moved our office to NT/BackOffice (Arrg!) from Netware.
Use recruiters' cluelessness to get interview with the good companies. I know $40k isn't that great, but I think for a college dropout who more than doubled his income in a year, it is. Now I finally can afford to go back and get one of those expensive pieces of paper (a diploma, I think).
If you are so unlucky as to have a motherboard that will not boot without a keyboard; check out your handy-dandy Black Box catalog. I don't have a catalog with me right now, but I know they sell a device for about $50 (like Black Box ever sold anything cheap!) that plugs into your keyboard port and fools your machine into "thinking" it has one attached.
I am so sick of marketroids trying to make computer hardware look stylish! My Cisco 675 looks like pregnant, mutated radar detector. The new HP tower cases are shaped like an ass cheek! What gives?
I want a *SEXY* computer. Sexy computers are black. They are big (2.5' by 2.5 by 3.0'). They have lots of blinking lights. They have *TOGGLE SWITCHES* on the front! The have a *COOLANT LEVEL* that needs to be monitored. They have more CPU's than my calculator has buttons! They have imposing names like UniDeath Model 6342-XMP. They have hardware specs full of acronyms like RAID, BSP, SCSI, SMP and SP. They sound like a jet engine when they power up! They consume more energy than your average clothes dryer! Most importantly they're so damn fast, they _disembowel_ fashionable desktop PC's!
Feel free to moderate this post to hell.
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May a falling S390 land on the dancing "Bunnies"
Shouldn't the defenition of a hacker be, "One who subscribes to the hacker ethic"?
One of the traits of the true hacker is a profoundly antibureaucratic and democratic
spirit. That spirit is best exemplified by the Hacker's Ethic. This ethic was best formulated by
Steven Levy in his 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Its tenets are as
follows:
Access to computers should be unlimited and total.
All information should be free.
Mistrust authority - promote decentralization.
Hackers should be judged by their hacking not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or
position.
You create art and beauty on a computer,
Computers can change your life for the better.
Wow, seeing that ANSI art brings back a lot of fond memories; I still remember the nights in front of my trusty A500 like it was yesterday! Do any of you remember any of the old internet BBS's like the Citadel, Spies in the Wire, quartz.rutgers.edu and mars.ee.mstate.edu?
Maybe this is off topic, but I wish I could thank all the unknown people out there who sparked my curiosity and took the time to answer my neophyte questions. It's a shame that the internet the way I remember it, a close knit community of the brightest minds out there, is but a thing of the past.
Long live telnet, archie and gopher!