I'm scratching my chin at the profundity of your statement.
You're looking at the syntax of my words, and not the meaning. Perhaps I should have said "aware" instead of real. But doesn't the beginning of my statement, that no one has an unshakeable foundation of truth, mean essentially what you are saying?
I post in all seriousness about a touchy subject, and get modded down as flamebait and only ACs respond. Fuck, I hate anonymous cowards...
Ok Mr. AC, what unshakeable foundation, what absolute truth do you posess that informs you that your perceptions of reality aren't complete hallucinations? Inductive reasoning? A gut feeling? I don't know if you've tried to alter and test your mind, but I have a feeling that you haven't. Go ahead and live within your Windows box of a mind. I've personally had experience on hallucinogens that were more real that my day to day experiences. But I guess you'll just have to experience that for yourself.
The scope of vision for most people when contemplating alien life is woefully narrow. Would our ancestors succeed in contacting alien life through smoke signals and drums? (maybe)
Nothing contradicts the possibility that hyper-advanced beings could manipulate the universe at will, perhaps even modify or conjoin with the fabric of the universe. Our bodys and minds are made up of this fabric, so is it really so far fetched to look within our selves to contact other beings?
In fact, some people believe they have already contacted alien beings through the use of the hallucinogen tryptomanes, like DMT and Psilocybin (mushrooms). A large percentage of DMT "travellers" all experience the same contact with elf-like beings that can control the nature of reality. Some also believe that they have contacted insect like beings through the use of psychedelic mushrooms.
Psychedelic research has a number of distinct advantages over SETI, though I am not saying that the SETI work should stop. First, it's cheap. Psychedelics are available to most people, if they try to find them. Also, hallucinogens get results, and they are testable, if you have the mental stability to handle the large doses required. If you don't believe it, you can try it. And, they also have the capability to expand your mind in ways unimaginable.
Even if you are correct in saying that the WinCE device does multiple things poorly, what happens when some advancement or market condition makes memory super cheap or batteries last 5 months? The more powerful device will already support playing MP3s and movies, and Palm will be trying to catch up. If you don't need the memory or features, go ahead and use a plain old Franklin Planner.
Most union/rights organizations have to learn a lot before they can play with the big boys. For instance, Ceasar Chavez had no results for years, maybe decades, until he learned the ropes and read literature on civil disobedience.
Fortunately for us, programmer's rights are a relatively minor issue compared to migrant worker's rights, so we haven't had to deal with truly difficult situations. Most rights issues are in the hypothetical, but once in a while a case like this makes it real.
"If you are not already aware, Elcomsoft are the makers of a heinous Spam-ware package, Advanced Direct Remailer, which circumvents an outgoing SMTP server, and sends directly to recipient servers. They also sell address collection and verification software (The reason all of you mangle your Email address here on Slashdot). AND all their shareware is password protected. It just sounds like he got caught up in his own game, eh?"
This is slightly offtopic, but I don't know why it hasn't been suggested before. The RIAA is a front to divert attention away from the record companies to save face. And we are falling for it. I suggest that from now on, whenever we would use the term RIAA, we should now use [BMG|Geffen|MTV|MCA|Polygram|Sony|Virgin|WarnerBro s]. It's a pain, but the effort is worth it to point fingers at the right place. You wouldn't believe who is on the RIAA members list:
Asylum Records, Refuge Records, Guardian Records
Greatful Dead Records (!!!), Woodstock Records, PBS Records
Buddha Records, Aware Records, Bliss Productions, Gospel Records, Worship Together Records, Praise Gathering
and of course, Straight Profit Records, Victory Records, Ruthless Records, Ruffhouse Records, and Psychopath Records. <-- At least these guys are for real.
God, what a troll! How did this get modded up to 5? God, NASA, military, cosmic rays, radiation
Ok, do you REALLY understand the technology that HP is proposing? Can you tell me why the technology that NASA currently uses isn't susceptible to the same problems, and why redundancy wouldn't overcome them with the new technology? jeez
These kind of posts really make me wonder... "Damn, my horse can run faster than this wheeled thingamajig! It breaks down every other day! Do they really think the cavalry will be replaced??"
LS
Agreed. Science isn't about an end goal. But couldn't he have saved some cycles/money and used colored smoke and a beam of light to study the effect in a real shower?
If you read my post, it says "...in addition to chatrooms involving help with coding or project collaboration, the two largest groups that use IRC are "pirates" and pr0n freaks". I acknowledge the fact that IRC is used in significant numbers by people other than "warez kiddies"
The posts on slashdot indicate that most of you think that the DOS attacks are the responsibility of a 13 year who has too much time on his hands and hasn't yet understood the stupidity of attacking a nonprofit service.
I pose a different theory. There is not much to back it up, but it's a possibility that should be considered. First, in addition to chatrooms involving help with coding or project collaboration, the two largest groups that use IRC are "pirates" and pr0n freaks. Big business hates the IRC because it's the epicenter for trading of movies, music, and software, and some software and movie distributers even start with the IRC. The Government hates the IRC because they seem to think that it's the hotbed for perverts to meet children, hence all the FBI agents posing as little girls.
The IRC is somewhat immune to legal attack, since it is decentralised, and like the newsgroups, the content is user-based, thus the hosts don't take responsibility for illegal activity. So what can Big Business and the Government do to stop this menace? Hmmm....
You're speaking in the wrong forum. The slashdotties will analyze and chew at what you've said, and most won't get anything except a nagging feeling they can't shake.
A lot of you out there actually disagree with a concept of intellectual property in its entirety. But since acting like IP doesn't exist will solve nothing in jurisdictions that that enforce IP, the GPL was created to counteract IP by turning IP laws against themselves.
Chinese law doesn't support IP, and therefore the GPL is uneeded there. Isn't this what all of you want eventually?
I know this is a little more general than the topic, but I feel it's very relevant. In the United States, and increasingly everywhere else, consumerism drives power and legal structures. Advertising is a major component of consumerism. As long as capitalism rules the land, you will never see strong anti-advertising laws, including those against spam.
* Try stopping junk mail from filling your snailbox. Good luck.
* You paid for that movie ticket. Why are there advertisements before the movie?
* You paid for that concert ticket. Why are there sponsor banners all over the place?
* And that damn magazine you paid 6 bucks for. Why the hell is more than half of it ads?
* There are beer and liquor advertisements on the PUBLIC subway car here in NY, two feet in front of your and many childrens' faces! What's all the noise about advertising cigarettes to children with such blatant government hypocrisy?
Don't expect ads to go away anytime soon... and don't expect spam to go away anytime soon.
I was ready to sign and fax (!) back the license agreement to download the source, until I read this:
"By signing the Solaris 8 Foundation Source license agreement, you agree that all Internet discussions about the Solaris 8 Foundation Source in which you are involved must be held on the Solaris 8 Foundation Source Discussion Forum."
Seems like a pretty heavy restriction to me. I've never had to restrict my speech to download anything. What if I'm participating in a discussion on a newsgroup about kernels, and then Sun's kernel comes up. "Oh, I'm sorry, but I can only discuss that on Sun's discussion forum. Sorry." Fuck that.
It seems to me a little ironic that someone attacking a misuse of the word "ironic" is really just paraphrasing some article he read after the release Alanis Morrisette's song.
I tend to agree with you: amazement by advancements in technology gets old after a while For example, Slashdot just posted an article on IBM's super fast transistor. So WHAT? Transistors have been constantly getting faster for decades. But graphics are different. There is a distinct milestone, an endpoint, which is the exact duplication of visual reality. I will continue to be awed by computer graphics advances until a CG human which is indistinguishable from a real person is walking around on my screen.
Hash Cash would whittle out small-time spammers, and create "spam farms" of computer clusters specialized in computing hashes. So instead of stopping all spammers, it would only stop spammers without decent resources. The argument that the ratio of the cost of computer power to rate of sales is not a good one, because the hardware purchase is a onetime event, and hardware gets cheaper and faster everyday.
Ok, I don't call the whole shebang "GNU/Linux", but you are still guilty of accusing all the authors of software other than the kernel, Linux "zealots". Many of these zealots work on projects that are platform independent.
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I'm scratching my chin at the profundity of your statement.
You're looking at the syntax of my words, and not the meaning. Perhaps I should have said "aware" instead of real. But doesn't the beginning of my statement, that no one has an unshakeable foundation of truth, mean essentially what you are saying?
I post in all seriousness about a touchy subject, and get modded down as flamebait and only ACs respond. Fuck, I hate anonymous cowards...
Ok Mr. AC, what unshakeable foundation, what absolute truth do you posess that informs you that your perceptions of reality aren't complete hallucinations? Inductive reasoning? A gut feeling? I don't know if you've tried to alter and test your mind, but I have a feeling that you haven't. Go ahead and live within your Windows box of a mind. I've personally had experience on hallucinogens that were more real that my day to day experiences. But I guess you'll just have to experience that for yourself.
LS
The scope of vision for most people when contemplating alien life is woefully narrow. Would our ancestors succeed in contacting alien life through smoke signals and drums? (maybe)
Nothing contradicts the possibility that hyper-advanced beings could manipulate the universe at will, perhaps even modify or conjoin with the fabric of the universe. Our bodys and minds are made up of this fabric, so is it really so far fetched to look within our selves to contact other beings?
In fact, some people believe they have already contacted alien beings through the use of the hallucinogen tryptomanes, like DMT and Psilocybin (mushrooms). A large percentage of DMT "travellers" all experience the same contact with elf-like beings that can control the nature of reality. Some also believe that they have contacted insect like beings through the use of psychedelic mushrooms.
Psychedelic research has a number of distinct advantages over SETI, though I am not saying that the SETI work should stop. First, it's cheap. Psychedelics are available to most people, if they try to find them. Also, hallucinogens get results, and they are testable, if you have the mental stability to handle the large doses required. If you don't believe it, you can try it. And, they also have the capability to expand your mind in ways unimaginable.
LS
Even if you are correct in saying that the WinCE device does multiple things poorly, what happens when some advancement or market condition makes memory super cheap or batteries last 5 months? The more powerful device will already support playing MP3s and movies, and Palm will be trying to catch up. If you don't need the memory or features, go ahead and use a plain old Franklin Planner.
LS
Most union/rights organizations have to learn a lot before they can play with the big boys. For instance, Ceasar Chavez had no results for years, maybe decades, until he learned the ropes and read literature on civil disobedience.
Fortunately for us, programmer's rights are a relatively minor issue compared to migrant worker's rights, so we haven't had to deal with truly difficult situations. Most rights issues are in the hypothetical, but once in a while a case like this makes it real.
LS
I posted this in a previous discussion:
"If you are not already aware, Elcomsoft are the makers of a heinous Spam-ware package, Advanced Direct Remailer, which circumvents an outgoing SMTP server, and sends directly to recipient servers. They also sell address collection and verification software (The reason all of you mangle your Email address here on Slashdot). AND all their shareware is password protected. It just sounds like he got caught up in his own game, eh?"
LS
This is slightly offtopic, but I don't know why it hasn't been suggested before. The RIAA is a front to divert attention away from the record companies to save face. And we are falling for it. I suggest that from now on, whenever we would use the term RIAA, we should now use [BMG|Geffen|MTV|MCA|Polygram|Sony|Virgin|WarnerBr
Asylum Records, Refuge Records, Guardian Records
Greatful Dead Records (!!!), Woodstock Records, PBS Records
Buddha Records, Aware Records, Bliss Productions, Gospel Records, Worship Together Records, Praise Gathering
and of course, Straight Profit Records, Victory Records, Ruthless Records, Ruffhouse Records, and Psychopath Records. <-- At least these guys are for real.
LS
God, what a troll! How did this get modded up to 5? God, NASA, military, cosmic rays, radiation Ok, do you REALLY understand the technology that HP is proposing? Can you tell me why the technology that NASA currently uses isn't susceptible to the same problems, and why redundancy wouldn't overcome them with the new technology? jeez These kind of posts really make me wonder... "Damn, my horse can run faster than this wheeled thingamajig! It breaks down every other day! Do they really think the cavalry will be replaced??" LS
You might be thinking of the BBC, not PBS.
Copy protecting TV broadcasts is like putting defecation in a safe. I just hope they don't touch PBS.
LS
Agreed. Science isn't about an end goal. But couldn't he have saved some cycles/money and used colored smoke and a beam of light to study the effect in a real shower?
LS
If you read my post, it says "...in addition to chatrooms involving help with coding or project collaboration, the two largest groups that use IRC are "pirates" and pr0n freaks". I acknowledge the fact that IRC is used in significant numbers by people other than "warez kiddies"
The posts on slashdot indicate that most of you think that the DOS attacks are the responsibility of a 13 year who has too much time on his hands and hasn't yet understood the stupidity of attacking a nonprofit service.
I pose a different theory. There is not much to back it up, but it's a possibility that should be considered. First, in addition to chatrooms involving help with coding or project collaboration, the two largest groups that use IRC are "pirates" and pr0n freaks. Big business hates the IRC because it's the epicenter for trading of movies, music, and software, and some software and movie distributers even start with the IRC. The Government hates the IRC because they seem to think that it's the hotbed for perverts to meet children, hence all the FBI agents posing as little girls.
The IRC is somewhat immune to legal attack, since it is decentralised, and like the newsgroups, the content is user-based, thus the hosts don't take responsibility for illegal activity. So what can Big Business and the Government do to stop this menace? Hmmm....
You're speaking in the wrong forum. The slashdotties will analyze and chew at what you've said, and most won't get anything except a nagging feeling they can't shake.
A lot of you out there actually disagree with a concept of intellectual property in its entirety. But since acting like IP doesn't exist will solve nothing in jurisdictions that that enforce IP, the GPL was created to counteract IP by turning IP laws against themselves.
Chinese law doesn't support IP, and therefore the GPL is uneeded there. Isn't this what all of you want eventually?
"Presume there is"
I know this is a little more general than the topic, but I feel it's very relevant. In the United States, and increasingly everywhere else, consumerism drives power and legal structures. Advertising is a major component of consumerism. As long as capitalism rules the land, you will never see strong anti-advertising laws, including those against spam.
* Try stopping junk mail from filling your snailbox. Good luck.
* You paid for that movie ticket. Why are there advertisements before the movie?
* You paid for that concert ticket. Why are there sponsor banners all over the place?
* And that damn magazine you paid 6 bucks for. Why the hell is more than half of it ads?
* There are beer and liquor advertisements on the PUBLIC subway car here in NY, two feet in front of your and many childrens' faces! What's all the noise about advertising cigarettes to children with such blatant government hypocrisy?
Don't expect ads to go away anytime soon... and don't expect spam to go away anytime soon.
LS
I was ready to sign and fax (!) back the license agreement to download the source, until I read this:
"By signing the Solaris 8 Foundation Source license agreement, you agree that all Internet discussions about the Solaris 8 Foundation Source in which you are involved must be held on the Solaris 8 Foundation Source Discussion Forum."
Seems like a pretty heavy restriction to me. I've never had to restrict my speech to download anything. What if I'm participating in a discussion on a newsgroup about kernels, and then Sun's kernel comes up. "Oh, I'm sorry, but I can only discuss that on Sun's discussion forum. Sorry." Fuck that.
LS
It seems to me a little ironic that someone attacking a misuse of the word "ironic" is really just paraphrasing some article he read after the release Alanis Morrisette's song.
I tend to agree with you: amazement by advancements in technology gets old after a while For example, Slashdot just posted an article on IBM's super fast transistor. So WHAT? Transistors have been constantly getting faster for decades. But graphics are different. There is a distinct milestone, an endpoint, which is the exact duplication of visual reality. I will continue to be awed by computer graphics advances until a CG human which is indistinguishable from a real person is walking around on my screen.
LS
Light bulbs should work behind a NAT too, bro.
LS
Hash Cash would whittle out small-time spammers, and create "spam farms" of computer clusters specialized in computing hashes. So instead of stopping all spammers, it would only stop spammers without decent resources. The argument that the ratio of the cost of computer power to rate of sales is not a good one, because the hardware purchase is a onetime event, and hardware gets cheaper and faster everyday.
LS
Ok, I don't call the whole shebang "GNU/Linux", but you are still guilty of accusing all the authors of software other than the kernel, Linux "zealots". Many of these zealots work on projects that are platform independent.
Didn't anyone read this:
Hardware Reviews Online
How do you free yourself from eternal vigilance?