Mod me down if you'd like, but I actually liked Freddy Got Fingered. You see, the trick is knowing that he wasn't trying to make a good movie. In that respect, it was certainly a success. I'd happily sit through FGF for a second time rather than ever watch Lord of the Rings (not so much bad as it is just not nearly as good as everyone desperately wants to believe it is) or The Passion of the Christ (I'm sorry, but a forty minute beating is just excessive--on top of many, many other problems).
Fair enough; YEnc is used primarily for illicit activities. But as to comparing it to other e-mail clients with basic usenet functionality, even Outlook Express handles multipart messages correctly. It doesn't support YEnc either, though. Which is why I switched over to Xnews.
For the record, there are other things that people take pictures of than naked girls and boys, or naked girls and boys. Or naked girls and girls, or naked boys and boys. You get the idea.
The long and short of it is that YEnc is the defacto binary message format on Usenet. If you want to make a Usenet client, it needs to support YEnc. Otherwise, just make it a mail client and I'll use a sepereate newsreader.
I tried Thunderbird, but as a newsreader it sucked. Didn't handle multipart messages very well at all and had no support for YEncode (I don't care that it's not an official standard--it's a defacto standard which is extremely widely used and that's what counts). Without YEnc support, it's basically useless to me as a newsreader. It was also just too damned slow.
I love Firefox, though! Great browser. Small, fast, etc., etc. Thunderbird just needs some more work before it's really there, IMO.
Amen to that. Woodie Guthrie was all about giving his songs to the people. As many have already posted, he was all for people using his songs however they wanted. Even leaving that aside, however, this is quite obviously parody, and thus protected.
The tape of the show also "disapeared" for about twenty years. It was considered by many to be an urban legend (about which you can read more here--threr's also audio and video of it there, too. Nobody really believed that it actually happened. It was just in the last couple of years that the network copped to it actually existing. If you ever watch VH1, and they stop playing "I Love the '_0s" long enough, they'll show "Funniest Gameshow Moments" (or something like that). The clip is in shows number 1 and 2, at the very end if you're interested in seeing it. It's pretty funny.
My opinion has always been that if you stumble across somthing, then you should absolutely tell those that need to know, and NOT the general public (at the very least, not until those responsible have had a reasonable chance to repair whatever the problem was). However, purposely breaking in to private servers to show how much they need to beef up security (or similar such actions) is tantamount to breaking in to someone's home to show how bad their door locks are; it's breaking and entering, and it's a crime. If you want to do penetration testing, you really need to get permission from the owner before they start tearing in to their system.
For those of us too lazy to RTFA, are we allowed to legally host a for-profit webserver for the price of $35, or whatever else the basic package costs?
Because if I can't do that what would be my incentive to do it. I already have a hard time keeping up with all the pr0n i'm leaching.
The article doesn't say anything about allowing servers, etc. Personally, my incentive would be that I'm already paying $35/month for DSL from Verizon (with extremely low QOS--I have about 30 minutes of downtime a day, on average and my speed tops out around 80k), so if I can get a faster, more reliable connection for exactly the same price, why not?
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You make it sound like he's been trying to take credit for hypertext, etc. In fact, he's always been very humble and freely admits that the component ideas for the WWW had been around for years. All he did was to assemble them into one application.
Absolutely. The only reason(s) that I still use Windows 2000 as my primary OS on my primary box is that I can't get a) Photoshop, b) Dreamweaver, c) Take-Your-Pick to work on Linux or (my personal preference) BSD.
GIMP isn't yet a viable alternative--I've tried it, it's getting better, but it's still not there yet.
There really aren't any alternatives to Dreamweaver (with the possible exception of Nvu, although that looks a little too simplistic).
And any number of other applications that I use on a daily or weekly basis.
I will welcome the day with open arms when I can use an open source OS as my primary. But that day isn't here for me yet.
I'm going to make a quick guess and say that you didn't read the article. The system has four video cards and four monitors. Each workstation gets one monitor, one keyboard, one mouse.
It's also got some of the best writing I've seen in years. I love that magazine, if nothing else for the Dos and Don'ts. They have almost all of their content up at their website.
Absolutely. I miss horribly those old days when I could log in to any one of the thirty or so local boards and chat with friends or have philosophical or political or pornographic arguments on the message boards. The larger the community got, the less it felt like a community.
Seriously yourself, Dude. Do I have to put [SARCASM]...[/SARCASM] markup tags on everything?
When there's no context or writing clues for it being sarcasm, it might help to avoid misunderstandings. This is text. I can't see your facial expressions or hear your voice. Sometimes you need to be a little more obvious than in real life.
Maybe his skills don't lie in research medicine, preemptive military strategy, and/or patent law. Heck, maybe not even in criminal investigation!
Seriously, dude. This is Slashdot. While I agree that these (well, most of them) are worthwhile efforts, the simple fact is that most people on Slashdot are just looking for a little entertainment and escape from their day. We're geeks. We do geeky things.
I agree that the iRiver isn't bad looking. But I adore the Apple design ethic. Clean and smooth. I do wish that they'd put some different shots of the damn thing on the website other than just front shots at slightly different tilts.
That's all well and good. But what some people call art, I do not. To me, art needs to be evoked by or evocative of some emotion. An empty room with a urinal--though funny--is not art. A group of geometric shapes randomly picked by a computer--while arguably interesting looking--is not art. I'm well aware of the post modern movement (as "The Simpsons" so eloquently put it: "weird for the sake of weird")--among others. I'm also well aware of the fact that just because somebody says something's art, and can convince somebody else it's art, doesn't mean they can convince me.
I hit about ten of those random abstracts. They all--every one of them--looked like something I would have seen in a hair salon in the late '80s, early '90s. It's not exactly difficult to grab a few geometrical shapes in various colors and slap them on a solid background. Personally, I'd rather look at those horrid Nagel prints than this pseudo-abstract rubbish. Interesting computer project? Maybe. Art? Absolutely not.
Totally agreed. I saw Alton Brown when he was in Seattle last time. He said that while he was in college, his whole hook was, "Come over to my place and I'll cook you dinner." And that if he fed them dinner, it was way more likely that there would be breakfast involved.
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Mod me down if you'd like, but I actually liked Freddy Got Fingered. You see, the trick is knowing that he wasn't trying to make a good movie. In that respect, it was certainly a success. I'd happily sit through FGF for a second time rather than ever watch Lord of the Rings (not so much bad as it is just not nearly as good as everyone desperately wants to believe it is) or The Passion of the Christ (I'm sorry, but a forty minute beating is just excessive--on top of many, many other problems).
Fair enough; YEnc is used primarily for illicit activities. But as to comparing it to other e-mail clients with basic usenet functionality, even Outlook Express handles multipart messages correctly. It doesn't support YEnc either, though. Which is why I switched over to Xnews.
For the record, there are other things that people take pictures of than naked girls and boys, or naked girls and boys. Or naked girls and girls, or naked boys and boys. You get the idea.
The long and short of it is that YEnc is the defacto binary message format on Usenet. If you want to make a Usenet client, it needs to support YEnc. Otherwise, just make it a mail client and I'll use a sepereate newsreader.
I tried Thunderbird, but as a newsreader it sucked. Didn't handle multipart messages very well at all and had no support for YEncode (I don't care that it's not an official standard--it's a defacto standard which is extremely widely used and that's what counts). Without YEnc support, it's basically useless to me as a newsreader. It was also just too damned slow.
I love Firefox, though! Great browser. Small, fast, etc., etc. Thunderbird just needs some more work before it's really there, IMO.
Bring it on! I'm unemployed and would love the opportunity to do something other than watch "Roseanne" reruns on Oxygen!
Uhh, the fact that he's suing somebody because he got called a shyster kind of confirms the fact that he's a shyster.
So what. You got called a name. Seriously. Get a fucking backbone, asshole. Shrug it off and move on.
Amen to that. Woodie Guthrie was all about giving his songs to the people. As many have already posted, he was all for people using his songs however they wanted. Even leaving that aside, however, this is quite obviously parody, and thus protected.
The tape of the show also "disapeared" for about twenty years. It was considered by many to be an urban legend (about which you can read more here--threr's also audio and video of it there, too. Nobody really believed that it actually happened. It was just in the last couple of years that the network copped to it actually existing. If you ever watch VH1, and they stop playing "I Love the '_0s" long enough, they'll show "Funniest Gameshow Moments" (or something like that). The clip is in shows number 1 and 2, at the very end if you're interested in seeing it. It's pretty funny.
My opinion has always been that if you stumble across somthing, then you should absolutely tell those that need to know, and NOT the general public (at the very least, not until those responsible have had a reasonable chance to repair whatever the problem was). However, purposely breaking in to private servers to show how much they need to beef up security (or similar such actions) is tantamount to breaking in to someone's home to show how bad their door locks are; it's breaking and entering, and it's a crime. If you want to do penetration testing, you really need to get permission from the owner before they start tearing in to their system.
The difference is that a street preacher doesn't cost you money without your permission.
You make it sound like he's been trying to take credit for hypertext, etc. In fact, he's always been very humble and freely admits that the component ideas for the WWW had been around for years. All he did was to assemble them into one application.
Absolutely. The only reason(s) that I still use Windows 2000 as my primary OS on my primary box is that I can't get a) Photoshop, b) Dreamweaver, c) Take-Your-Pick to work on Linux or (my personal preference) BSD.
GIMP isn't yet a viable alternative--I've tried it, it's getting better, but it's still not there yet.
There really aren't any alternatives to Dreamweaver (with the possible exception of Nvu, although that looks a little too simplistic).
And any number of other applications that I use on a daily or weekly basis.
I will welcome the day with open arms when I can use an open source OS as my primary. But that day isn't here for me yet.
I'm going to make a quick guess and say that you didn't read the article. The system has four video cards and four monitors. Each workstation gets one monitor, one keyboard, one mouse.
It's also got some of the best writing I've seen in years. I love that magazine, if nothing else for the Dos and Don'ts. They have almost all of their content up at their website.
Absolutely. I miss horribly those old days when I could log in to any one of the thirty or so local boards and chat with friends or have philosophical or political or pornographic arguments on the message boards. The larger the community got, the less it felt like a community.
Maybe his skills don't lie in research medicine, preemptive military strategy, and/or patent law. Heck, maybe not even in criminal investigation!
Seriously, dude. This is Slashdot. While I agree that these (well, most of them) are worthwhile efforts, the simple fact is that most people on Slashdot are just looking for a little entertainment and escape from their day. We're geeks. We do geeky things.
Get over it.
No, I was talking about the iRiver photos, not any of the Apple stuff.
But my Japanese opera 78s only have one song per side!
I agree that the iRiver isn't bad looking. But I adore the Apple design ethic. Clean and smooth. I do wish that they'd put some different shots of the damn thing on the website other than just front shots at slightly different tilts.
That's all well and good. But what some people call art, I do not. To me, art needs to be evoked by or evocative of some emotion. An empty room with a urinal--though funny--is not art. A group of geometric shapes randomly picked by a computer--while arguably interesting looking--is not art. I'm well aware of the post modern movement (as "The Simpsons" so eloquently put it: "weird for the sake of weird")--among others. I'm also well aware of the fact that just because somebody says something's art, and can convince somebody else it's art, doesn't mean they can convince me.
I hit about ten of those random abstracts. They all--every one of them--looked like something I would have seen in a hair salon in the late '80s, early '90s. It's not exactly difficult to grab a few geometrical shapes in various colors and slap them on a solid background. Personally, I'd rather look at those horrid Nagel prints than this pseudo-abstract rubbish. Interesting computer project? Maybe. Art? Absolutely not.
Ask and ye shall receive. http://www.talesofinterest.com/no-action/
Totally agreed. I saw Alton Brown when he was in Seattle last time. He said that while he was in college, his whole hook was, "Come over to my place and I'll cook you dinner." And that if he fed them dinner, it was way more likely that there would be breakfast involved.