So, it's the combination of a relatively compact set of instructions that makes everything happen... Isn't this a lot like having a lot of small programs that, when scripted together, can outperform a large, monolithic one?
On the other hand, this makes creating 'killer roundworms' less justifiable to corporate bean counters. "But, Mr. Ackbar, for another ten thousand records we could create zero-gravity slaves."
"But you don't understand! The world needs Aibo-eating roundworms".
As above posts have said, in order to really judge what's happened, the content of the posts has to be known.
However, if you said, "I'm an Initech employee, or was, anyway, not any more, because they suck," you have probably gone too far. This is not the first time that Yahoo! boards have been the subject of ligitation. What you have done, in the eyes of the court, is substantially similar to picking up a megaphone and broadcasting your opinion about Initech.
I don't like it, America shouldn't be this way, but it's probably the way it's going to be. Don't forget, there are laws in place now that would have given every one of the Founding Fathers of America, were they to reappear tomorrow, the death penalty.
Uh, I still browse with Lynx most of the time. I don't think we're on a "video Internet" just yet, I DO know that my ability to do work on the Web suffers when my next-door neighbor is downloading movies on his Win98 B.S. box.
Has anyone thought about what will happen when every dumb dick in the free world is long-distance VOIPing his buddy across eighteen routers and three sections of the backbone?
Here's a clue... apt-getting 'cal' will take fifty-two minutes on your T1 connection.
We've had working voice connections for nearly a hundred years. Why load the Internet beyond human comprehension just to have free long distance?
"How many DNS (the word 'server' is implicit in the use of DNS here, FYI) are on U.S. soil, and are therefore subject to US judiciary control?"
It is not beyond imagining that some DNS operators might choose a different set of servers as "root". There's nothing to prevent this. You should try setting up BIND some time, this might help you understand.
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Lost, I think, in the complaints about WIPO is the fact that none of this will matter very much until it is fully tested in the court of international (or, at least, U.S.) law.
As has been proven time and time again, baseball free-agency being a good example, no matter how consistent or inconsistent your system is, it is still subject to revocation through the lengthy court process.
Eventually, there probably will be a ban on 'sucks' domains (because of corporate-funded decision-makers) or there will not be (because the free-speech issue is held to be prominent). And if some bodies don't like it, perhaps there will be country-specific '.sucks' registrars...
I think we should resist "micropayment" by any means necessary. Why? Simple. No such system will be put in place nowadays without massive government involvement, monitoring, and tracking, to say nothing about credit bureau involvement.
Do you want a mortgage officer to be able to see that you "micropaid" for a pornography site three years ago, or that someone visiting your home did so, and you had 'auto-micropay' turned on, and now it looks like you did it? Say you are a firearms owner who visits gun-related sites. When your next employer demands to see your micropay list, and refuses to hire you because you are a "gun nut", how will you feel about micropayment then?
Make it anonymous, secure, and throw the records out every six months, and I'll do it... but nobody will be willing to meet those conditions.
The slashdot-asker details a situation in which he purchased an item for a vendor, being satisfied with said vendor's security. He apparently "knows about" computer security, whatever that is.
Following his purchase, Egghead buys the company. Now that company is absorbed into Egghead. Virtually nothing the company did before being purchased matters now, because now he is dealing (after a fashion) with a different entity, the security of which he never thought to judge.
That being said, he wonders how to determine the security/privacy of a site, but, ya see, in the case he details, it didn't matter, because the business transaction of the company purchase completely obviates any 'security checks' he could have done.
What's he looking for? A company that tells potential purchasers what they intend to do in the event of being purchased themselves?
Well, everyone, I have been trying for a couple of minutes now, and I am ashamed to admit it, but I am completely unable to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
I think perhaps my Beoimpotence may have something to do with watching 75% of that Christopher Lambert "Beowulf" movie. Thank G-d the videotape broke. If it had been a DVD, I might have gone insane.
doing a 'bash-mode', where those of us who prefer bash on the command line would be able to have easy bash-style commands, while still retaining the ksh scripting features?
I don't have the luxury of refusing business from non-Linux customers. If it's on a network or outputs data, I'll work with it.
I apologize, I really do. I forgot that not everyone on./ is American, as I am. In America, we are free to work on the OS of our choice. I am sure that in your country, the government can force you to work on old SCO boxes and a hodgepodge of bad-idea stuff. Didn't mean to make those assumptions.
I doubt that an SA advocating Linux only is going to get many second looks in the job market.
I know that's what you'd like to think. It validates your current existence, scrubbing old proprietary ISA cards in a basement, doing lonely parsing of odd protocols using old CP/M tools with EULAs that make you an automatic federal felon as soon as you open the box.
Ain't true, though. Linux careers exist, but they require drive, ambition, and perseverance. Those of us who just want to go to DeVry and then spend the rest of our lives licking the ass of some old Novell box need not apply.
I was once like you, well, I didn't create typos as often as you do, but I was like you in the sense that I was willing to settle for second best. Then I met Stallman, and that changed my life. Before I knew it, I was selling Samba servers by the half-dozens, building Perl apps, and making the power of Linux work to help animal welfare organizations. And once I had made the commitment to Free Software, I found that it paid pretty well, too - not millions of dollars, but enough to sleep at night without fear.
Your analogy to a "Porsche-only gas station" is silly. Think, instead, of a high-end auto dealership. My "cars" are GNU/Linux and Open BSD. Sure, I'll dick around with Slowlaris or something similar, but I never lost sight of the goal..
Yes, your sympathy is touching. But the idea that the "real world" will somehow enforce your ideas of what is "normal" is ridiculous.
Maybe these "Linux zealots" will simply create situations in which Linux (or OpenBSD, or other FREE operating systems) have a chance to demonstrate their excellence. Where I'm currently contracting, I built a Debian box to monitor two Sun Starfires. Why, you ask? Because the Debian box is about five times more stable, and that way we know what's going on.
Linux paid for my motorcycles, my cars, and my house, often at rates twice what NT lusers get paid, and exceeding what Slowlaris admins get.
If you somehow think the "real world" will cut young Free Software gladiators down to size, think again.
Oh yeah, take that Win98 box, and throw it out the window. Your passive acceptance of MS-buttfscking is hurting the rest of us.
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I sold Ford Explorers for two years, and took in a lot of Chevy Blazers. There's actually quite a bit of difference, the most notable one being that a 6'5" man will fit in an Explorer, but not in a Blazer.
By the same token, I'm pretty sure that most people would notice, and probably regret, if they were to be moved, without their consent, from one of these platforms to the other.
I have done this several times for clients...
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but beware, whenever you provide a GNU/Linux box for routing and/or firewall services, you will be asked over and over again, "Does this work just like a Raptor?" and "How's this compare to a Checkpoint?"
However, my friend, what will you do in forty days? Will you revert to vaginal/oral action, or will you spin a small threaded covering, wait a few days, and emerge, triumphant, as 'buttfucker2001'?
that having a good monitor is 90% of the battle. LaCie's "blue" monitors are supposedly very good. A decent monitor shouldn't drift much. I use two SyncMaster 900IFTs, and they match very well, to these eyes at least.
Let me start by saying that I have read Ender's Gamer at least six times, and Speaker three or four times. I sat through the Xeno/Children one-book's-worth-of-plot-in-two-covers. I am a HUGE Ender fan.
However, "Ender's Shadow" was terrible. Admit it. Didn't you start really biting your lip when "the light on Bean's console began flashing, indicating that he should take over the attack on the bugger homeworld." Weren't you horrified by the reverse temporal lobotomy performed on Ender? Didn't you want to cry when all of the original Bean/Ender interaction was twisted beyond recognition?
I'm not reading the next book. It will be difficult for me, but in order to preserve what enjoyment I have left in the originals, I must stop now. Please, Mr. Card, consider doing the same.
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On the other hand, this makes creating 'killer roundworms' less justifiable to corporate bean counters. "But, Mr. Ackbar, for another ten thousand records we could create zero-gravity slaves."
"But you don't understand! The world needs Aibo-eating roundworms".
However, if you said, "I'm an Initech employee, or was, anyway, not any more, because they suck," you have probably gone too far. This is not the first time that Yahoo! boards have been the subject of ligitation. What you have done, in the eyes of the court, is substantially similar to picking up a megaphone and broadcasting your opinion about Initech.
I don't like it, America shouldn't be this way, but it's probably the way it's going to be. Don't forget, there are laws in place now that would have given every one of the Founding Fathers of America, were they to reappear tomorrow, the death penalty.
Uh, I still browse with Lynx most of the time. I don't think we're on a "video Internet" just yet, I DO know that my ability to do work on the Web suffers when my next-door neighbor is downloading movies on his Win98 B.S. box.
Here's a clue... apt-getting 'cal' will take fifty-two minutes on your T1 connection.
We've had working voice connections for nearly a hundred years. Why load the Internet beyond human comprehension just to have free long distance?
"How many DNS (the word 'server' is implicit in the use of DNS here, FYI) are on U.S. soil, and are therefore subject to US judiciary control?"
It is not beyond imagining that some DNS operators might choose a different set of servers as "root". There's nothing to prevent this. You should try setting up BIND some time, this might help you understand.
As has been proven time and time again, baseball free-agency being a good example, no matter how consistent or inconsistent your system is, it is still subject to revocation through the lengthy court process.
Eventually, there probably will be a ban on 'sucks' domains (because of corporate-funded decision-makers) or there will not be (because the free-speech issue is held to be prominent). And if some bodies don't like it, perhaps there will be country-specific '.sucks' registrars...
Jonathan Pollard was 'open-sourcing' our intelligence to the Israelis for years!
Do you want a mortgage officer to be able to see that you "micropaid" for a pornography site three years ago, or that someone visiting your home did so, and you had 'auto-micropay' turned on, and now it looks like you did it? Say you are a firearms owner who visits gun-related sites. When your next employer demands to see your micropay list, and refuses to hire you because you are a "gun nut", how will you feel about micropayment then?
Make it anonymous, secure, and throw the records out every six months, and I'll do it... but nobody will be willing to meet those conditions.
Following his purchase, Egghead buys the company. Now that company is absorbed into Egghead. Virtually nothing the company did before being purchased matters now, because now he is dealing (after a fashion) with a different entity, the security of which he never thought to judge.
That being said, he wonders how to determine the security/privacy of a site, but, ya see, in the case he details, it didn't matter, because the business transaction of the company purchase completely obviates any 'security checks' he could have done.
What's he looking for? A company that tells potential purchasers what they intend to do in the event of being purchased themselves?
I think perhaps my Beoimpotence may have something to do with watching 75% of that Christopher Lambert "Beowulf" movie. Thank G-d the videotape broke. If it had been a DVD, I might have gone insane.
doing a 'bash-mode', where those of us who prefer bash on the command line would be able to have easy bash-style commands, while still retaining the ksh scripting features?
It was a joke, designed to point out that he isn't "forced" to work on Windows, etc. Relax, I know there's a world outside America.
I apologize, I really do. I forgot that not everyone on
I doubt that an SA advocating Linux only is going to get many second looks in the job market.
I know that's what you'd like to think. It validates your current existence, scrubbing old proprietary ISA cards in a basement, doing lonely parsing of odd protocols using old CP/M tools with EULAs that make you an automatic federal felon as soon as you open the box.
Ain't true, though. Linux careers exist, but they require drive, ambition, and perseverance. Those of us who just want to go to DeVry and then spend the rest of our lives licking the ass of some old Novell box need not apply.
I was once like you, well, I didn't create typos as often as you do, but I was like you in the sense that I was willing to settle for second best. Then I met Stallman, and that changed my life. Before I knew it, I was selling Samba servers by the half-dozens, building Perl apps, and making the power of Linux work to help animal welfare organizations. And once I had made the commitment to Free Software, I found that it paid pretty well, too - not millions of dollars, but enough to sleep at night without fear.
Your analogy to a "Porsche-only gas station" is silly. Think, instead, of a high-end auto dealership. My "cars" are GNU/Linux and Open BSD. Sure, I'll dick around with Slowlaris or something similar, but I never lost sight of the goal..
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Think about that, Winboy.
Yes, your sympathy is touching. But the idea that the "real world" will somehow enforce your ideas of what is "normal" is ridiculous.
Maybe these "Linux zealots" will simply create situations in which Linux (or OpenBSD, or other FREE operating systems) have a chance to demonstrate their excellence. Where I'm currently contracting, I built a Debian box to monitor two Sun Starfires. Why, you ask? Because the Debian box is about five times more stable, and that way we know what's going on.
Linux paid for my motorcycles, my cars, and my house, often at rates twice what NT lusers get paid, and exceeding what Slowlaris admins get.
If you somehow think the "real world" will cut young Free Software gladiators down to size, think again.
Oh yeah, take that Win98 box, and throw it out the window. Your passive acceptance of MS-buttfscking is hurting the rest of us.
how Katz 'infilitrated' his way into ./ ?
What's it like, having the ubermenschen buy Rover then shit all over it?
What's it like, being an economic satellite of the United States?
What's it like, having a pound with a dollar's worth of buying power?
I voted for Bush. Put Gore in, and we'll see what happens with armed resistance.
You can be taxed, jailed, "coshed", denied decent health care, whatever... and you can't do anything about it.
Sometimes I really wish Operation Sea Lion had gone through. That way, there wouldn't be any socialist countries left.
Obviously it'll be the customer service department of the Sirus Cybernetics Company, you idiot!
Ken helped make a good OS. Stallman changed the way we'll think about software, forever.
I can guarantee all of you wouldn't be talking about how great UNIX is if you were paying Bell Labs' license fees.
Ken, thanks. RMS - thanks++.
we have Perl. Now, what we need is for someone to figure out a way to write "Perl Invaders".
By the same token, I'm pretty sure that most people would notice, and probably regret, if they were to be moved, without their consent, from one of these platforms to the other.
My answer: it runs EMACS.
However, my friend, what will you do in forty days? Will you revert to vaginal/oral action, or will you spin a small threaded covering, wait a few days, and emerge, triumphant, as 'buttfucker2001'?
that having a good monitor is 90% of the battle. LaCie's "blue" monitors are supposedly very good. A decent monitor shouldn't drift much. I use two SyncMaster 900IFTs, and they match very well, to these eyes at least.
However, "Ender's Shadow" was terrible. Admit it. Didn't you start really biting your lip when "the light on Bean's console began flashing, indicating that he should take over the attack on the bugger homeworld." Weren't you horrified by the reverse temporal lobotomy performed on Ender? Didn't you want to cry when all of the original Bean/Ender interaction was twisted beyond recognition?
I'm not reading the next book. It will be difficult for me, but in order to preserve what enjoyment I have left in the originals, I must stop now. Please, Mr. Card, consider doing the same.