Even if Tolkien made no distinctions in his book, is there not an implicit statement about the region. Seriously, when the "New world" was "discovered", people got the fsck out of Dodge--probably because there were a bunch of pretarded idiots that thought they had magic powers. Or unbelievably angry and evil people who would kill you over your jewelry. Or maybe it was the obsession with the jewelry that made people want to get the hell away.
Europe was, is and will be a dump. LOTR is the glorification of a culture that never existed.
At any rate, my comment was about the ridiculous concept of "nine races" in such a tiny geographical area. I suspect that it's more like "nine different ways that inbreeding can mess up your life."
I don't think Jackson is a racist either. Racism was never the subject. Just the concept of race in an overrated movie.
Spare me. We're talking about Lord of the Ring.
Tolkien not only didn't try to properly convey academic concepts of race, he probably didn't have a clue about modern biological anthropology.
I didn't call them "nine races", Tolkien did. You either didn't see the film or you just enjoy squirting yourself by taking stuff out of context.
I believe our colleague was just talking about the context of the article. That said, I thought LOTR was a strange movie and painful to watch. I quit trying to understand after the "nine races of men" meeting. That was utter nonsense. Those are nine different sizes of white guys.
And the woman was a total tease. What the hell is her problem with not putting out and why is she the only chick in the story? Maybe people will take this the wrong way but I think LOTR is a propaganda justification for male bonding of the worst kind.
My first hour as an Earthlink customer saw 20 spam messages to my account. My last name is hardly common (though it is short) and I've never used a major ISP besides Time Warner Cable. CR would have kept it empty.
The only other alternative is PGP but that requires widespread deployment of decent processors and computers that aren't bogged down with spyware and other crap.
To get acceptance of PGP, email needs to become a little more inconvenient. First, people need to accept the idea of "ok, it's frustrating but it stops spam." Then they need to get the idea that, "ok, spam is over. Is there anything that can eliminate this irritating CR stuff?"
Then, and only then, PGP can be deployed./.ers tend to be so smart that we forget that most people loath change.
I should have been clear about my point:
Because of spam, faster speeds have not realized their potential. Allowing HTML into email is another story...probably the worst aspect of spam.
I couldn't imagine someone coming into my house or my mailbox selling this crap without a major economic cost along with a significant social problem... I'd call the police if some jerk came to my door selling this stuff.
Challenge response is better than taxation and quicker than education. Definitely better than demonizing spammers. Why give Congress a role here? They don't deserve to legislate anything in my view.
After I got RDRAM with my current system, I realized that I would be able to keep this machine for a long time. All my systems, going back to my PCJr and XT are still being used by people.
As computers consume more energy and parts (like Dell drives from IBM/Fujitsu) become total crap, it's not likely that we'll see an article like this in 10 years about today's systems. I hope I'm wrong but I doubt it.
I still play Nuclear War (1989) and I think Project Space Station (1987) was one of the best strategy games ever--a precursor of RTS. But I am addicted to multi-tasking and I am quite fond of the research efficiency gains you point out.
Most people don't need to upgrade and become a slave to hype. I'm running everything off a 800 MHz system (4 years) and I intend to squeeze the last drop of energy out of it(8 years or more). I'm not on a more modern system or OS because Mr. Bill Gates slammed the door on my Dragon Dictate system... a 1997 discrete speech program that doesn't get along with XP.
Why would people upgrade these days? High quality RAM, a decent video card and a decent hard drive will handle everything for people that don't give a flying fsck about games and are mature enough to just stay put. I'll probably get a flat panel monitor within the next couple years but that fits with one of my subobjectives--don't get a PC that consumes so much power that it burns my house down.
Rage is very good stuff. Pearl Jam (like rage) started getting severely off any conceivable political point after the second album. Record companies would rather figure out how to sell Fruit Loops with a song than let an artist speak out against something. Pre-packaged sanitary crap rules the industry.
Yeah... I agree... that is precisely why I want short copyrights.
Humor aside, it's the political speech that scares the crap out of corporations. Disney *knows* that people are going to pound them the minute their stuff gets into public domain.
For music, however, they have no excuse. Some really terrific stuff can come out of public domain music. The political stuff will be irrelevant in this area, I believe. If people aren't buying music, they are searching for popular music for free. Few people, if anybody, search for political music. The '60s protest rock is the extent of my political noise.
I can agree with that. If you are going to buy drugs, you owe it to yourself to get the best stuff. LSD presents the appeal of people swearing that they went to completely different states of reality that are as real as now. If a dealer is halfway competent as a salesman, he can sell a can of sardines in Windex on that reputation. If drugs are about recreation then there's no excuse for buying crap. If drugs aren't about recreation or medicine then the buyer has a deeper problem.
Unless you happen to be under the roller coaster... like between the wheels and the metal... yeah... that's a bad trip. Congratulations on your profound lack of insight.
If you can't make money by selling then make it by litigating. I believe that frames don't meet the patent requirement of "nonobvious." Your point about frames existing prior to the Internet pretty much locks up the argument. That's a pretty critical requirement to qualify for a patent. It's depressing to see corporations get away with this kind of crap. That said, using frames is not a very good method of site design anyway. Can't wait until some jerk patents breathing.
I agree completely. The parent to my response didn't seem to understand. Granted, only a troll would say "I'm going to celebrate by downloading movies..." but I decided I should point out that this does nothing for individual violators. If anything, it gives a green light for record companies to go on witch hunts. For serious pirates, the industry has a right to protect itself. I wonder, however, if they will stop at the serious pirates.
The record industry once hunted down fan sites that distributed elevator music style MIDI files. These idiots know no bounds.
One way means one way for the cable. Uploading goes through a 56K connection. Dealing with a cap is really a pointless thing to get upset about. Paying $40 per month for something that averages only a slightly better performance than the modem alone is a criminal scam.
When I was in Tampa, the cable company provided the Internet and I could live off my cell phone. After moving to West Palm(~230 mi SE), the cable company is the incorrigible Adolfia which is still using one way cable modems in my area. Now I pay for a landline so I can get the underperforming DSL line that SmellSouth owns no matter what company I choose. Point is this: if you can get cable and your mobile phone will cooperate as a suitable regular phone, then drop the landline and get cable access.
If DRM isn't embraced by the Linux community, then Microsoft will easily exploit the position with words like "thieves" and "pirates."
If you don't like DRM then just take it out as long as you don't distribute it. That's my take from his note. Doesn't sound like a problem to me.
The Linux community needs to break into the mainstream desktop and they need corporate alliances to do that. If corporations think that the Linux community will stab them in the back, they won't cooperate.
I'm sure there are zealots that could care less if Linux never goes mainstream but, like all extremists, they aren't thinking about the future of their cause.
By way of explantion, (not justification) there is so much gratuitous stupidity inflicted upon the web-browsing public, I just get aggravated.
I was thinking the same thing after my first defensive response. Your criticism was legitimate... if someone wants to open a page to maximum or keep their browser in some way that they prefer, I shouldn't stop them.
The defensive response was another idiotic typical/. reaction. If we want/. to change, I think we need to take it upon ourselves to decide that we won't lose our cool and we will consider criticism despite egos. If I'm the only one that does that then/. is a better place for me. If everyone does that then/. is a better place for everyone.
Yeah, it's stating the obvious but I'm not sure how many people actually try to change the world by changing themselves.
As for the honeypot, I'm adding in a legitimate spam catcher for testing purposes. Will probably write another article installment covering the changes.
Last night, a reader sent in a PHP port of the code. I posted it on my site.
I wouldn't doubt that these spammers have at least one techie who read Slashdot. Posting "Here's my honeypot" to this guy is simply going to get your hostname blacklisted among other spammers. They won't harvest you once they discover you, and any further work you do will be for naught until you bring up a new, unrelated site.
That's probably something I could live with.:)
The point of stating the existence of my honeypot so publicly was two-fold:
1. Encourage programmers to do the same.
2. Get input/criticism on what I've done to date.
I probably won't know how point #1 turned out for a long time, if ever. But/. is a pretty good spot for reigniting a practice that was obviously tried in the past (Labrea, PeachPit.)
Perhaps I have enough input to start on a V2 article. At the risk of getting marked "redundant", thank you.
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Even if Tolkien made no distinctions in his book, is there not an implicit statement about the region. Seriously, when the "New world" was "discovered", people got the fsck out of Dodge--probably because there were a bunch of pretarded idiots that thought they had magic powers. Or unbelievably angry and evil people who would kill you over your jewelry. Or maybe it was the obsession with the jewelry that made people want to get the hell away.
Europe was, is and will be a dump. LOTR is the glorification of a culture that never existed.
At any rate, my comment was about the ridiculous concept of "nine races" in such a tiny geographical area. I suspect that it's more like "nine different ways that inbreeding can mess up your life."
I don't think Jackson is a racist either. Racism was never the subject. Just the concept of race in an overrated movie.
Spare me. We're talking about Lord of the Ring. Tolkien not only didn't try to properly convey academic concepts of race, he probably didn't have a clue about modern biological anthropology. I didn't call them "nine races", Tolkien did. You either didn't see the film or you just enjoy squirting yourself by taking stuff out of context.
Hey Psycho,
I believe our colleague was just talking about the context of the article. That said, I thought LOTR was a strange movie and painful to watch. I quit trying to understand after the "nine races of men" meeting. That was utter nonsense. Those are nine different sizes of white guys.
And the woman was a total tease. What the hell is her problem with not putting out and why is she the only chick in the story? Maybe people will take this the wrong way but I think LOTR is a propaganda justification for male bonding of the worst kind.
My first hour as an Earthlink customer saw 20 spam messages to my account. My last name is hardly common (though it is short) and I've never used a major ISP besides Time Warner Cable. CR would have kept it empty.
/.ers tend to be so smart that we forget that most people loath change.
The only other alternative is PGP but that requires widespread deployment of decent processors and computers that aren't bogged down with spyware and other crap.
To get acceptance of PGP, email needs to become a little more inconvenient. First, people need to accept the idea of "ok, it's frustrating but it stops spam." Then they need to get the idea that, "ok, spam is over. Is there anything that can eliminate this irritating CR stuff?"
Then, and only then, PGP can be deployed.
I didn't know that any of these creatures actually exist. Please show me an example of one.
I should have been clear about my point: Because of spam, faster speeds have not realized their potential. Allowing HTML into email is another story...probably the worst aspect of spam. I couldn't imagine someone coming into my house or my mailbox selling this crap without a major economic cost along with a significant social problem... I'd call the police if some jerk came to my door selling this stuff. Challenge response is better than taxation and quicker than education. Definitely better than demonizing spammers. Why give Congress a role here? They don't deserve to legislate anything in my view.
Earthlink offers DSL and cable. I'm using it right now.
I am definitely in favor of a little pain up front in increased traffic from challenge-response to get the spam boys off the net.
I suspect that when the spammers stop sucking up so much bandwidth, net speeds will increase for everyone--including dial up users.
Remember when 14.4K was fast? So do I. And I think with a correction in the system, it can be a decent speed.
Kind of like that weird game everybody was playing on the ship a few years later... good thing you learned from the experience. :)
After I got RDRAM with my current system, I realized that I would be able to keep this machine for a long time. All my systems, going back to my PCJr and XT are still being used by people.
As computers consume more energy and parts (like Dell drives from IBM/Fujitsu) become total crap, it's not likely that we'll see an article like this in 10 years about today's systems. I hope I'm wrong but I doubt it.
Was thinking the same thing... this "drug war" has no scruples.
I still play Nuclear War (1989) and I think Project Space Station (1987) was one of the best strategy games ever--a precursor of RTS. But I am addicted to multi-tasking and I am quite fond of the research efficiency gains you point out.
Most people don't need to upgrade and become a slave to hype. I'm running everything off a 800 MHz system (4 years) and I intend to squeeze the last drop of energy out of it(8 years or more). I'm not on a more modern system or OS because Mr. Bill Gates slammed the door on my Dragon Dictate system... a 1997 discrete speech program that doesn't get along with XP.
Why would people upgrade these days? High quality RAM, a decent video card and a decent hard drive will handle everything for people that don't give a flying fsck about games and are mature enough to just stay put. I'll probably get a flat panel monitor within the next couple years but that fits with one of my subobjectives--don't get a PC that consumes so much power that it burns my house down.
Rage is very good stuff. Pearl Jam (like rage) started getting severely off any conceivable political point after the second album. Record companies would rather figure out how to sell Fruit Loops with a song than let an artist speak out against something. Pre-packaged sanitary crap rules the industry.
Yeah... I agree... that is precisely why I want short copyrights.
Humor aside, it's the political speech that scares the crap out of corporations. Disney *knows* that people are going to pound them the minute their stuff gets into public domain.
For music, however, they have no excuse. Some really terrific stuff can come out of public domain music. The political stuff will be irrelevant in this area, I believe. If people aren't buying music, they are searching for popular music for free. Few people, if anybody, search for political music. The '60s protest rock is the extent of my political noise.
I can agree with that. If you are going to buy drugs, you owe it to yourself to get the best stuff. LSD presents the appeal of people swearing that they went to completely different states of reality that are as real as now. If a dealer is halfway competent as a salesman, he can sell a can of sardines in Windex on that reputation. If drugs are about recreation then there's no excuse for buying crap. If drugs aren't about recreation or medicine then the buyer has a deeper problem.
Unless you happen to be under the roller coaster... like between the wheels and the metal... yeah... that's a bad trip. Congratulations on your profound lack of insight.
If you can't make money by selling then make it by litigating. I believe that frames don't meet the patent requirement of "nonobvious." Your point about frames existing prior to the Internet pretty much locks up the argument. That's a pretty critical requirement to qualify for a patent. It's depressing to see corporations get away with this kind of crap. That said, using frames is not a very good method of site design anyway. Can't wait until some jerk patents breathing.
The record industry once hunted down fan sites that distributed elevator music style MIDI files. These idiots know no bounds.
We may still see some college kids get thrown in jail.
One way means one way for the cable. Uploading goes through a 56K connection. Dealing with a cap is really a pointless thing to get upset about. Paying $40 per month for something that averages only a slightly better performance than the modem alone is a criminal scam.
When I was in Tampa, the cable company provided the Internet and I could live off my cell phone. After moving to West Palm(~230 mi SE), the cable company is the incorrigible Adolfia which is still using one way cable modems in my area. Now I pay for a landline so I can get the underperforming DSL line that SmellSouth owns no matter what company I choose. Point is this: if you can get cable and your mobile phone will cooperate as a suitable regular phone, then drop the landline and get cable access.
No because the schizophrenia is limited to you. :)
If you don't like DRM then just take it out as long as you don't distribute it. That's my take from his note. Doesn't sound like a problem to me.
The Linux community needs to break into the mainstream desktop and they need corporate alliances to do that. If corporations think that the Linux community will stab them in the back, they won't cooperate.
I'm sure there are zealots that could care less if Linux never goes mainstream but, like all extremists, they aren't thinking about the future of their cause.
I think you meant, "There is no spoon."
I was thinking the same thing after my first defensive response. Your criticism was legitimate... if someone wants to open a page to maximum or keep their browser in some way that they prefer, I shouldn't stop them.
The defensive response was another idiotic typical /. reaction. If we want /. to change, I think we need to take it upon ourselves to decide that we won't lose our cool and we will consider criticism despite egos. If I'm the only one that does that then /. is a better place for me. If everyone does that then /. is a better place for everyone.
Yeah, it's stating the obvious but I'm not sure how many people actually try to change the world by changing themselves.
As for the honeypot, I'm adding in a legitimate spam catcher for testing purposes. Will probably write another article installment covering the changes.
Last night, a reader sent in a PHP port of the code. I posted it on my site.
That's probably something I could live with. :)
The point of stating the existence of my honeypot so publicly was two-fold:
1. Encourage programmers to do the same.
2. Get input/criticism on what I've done to date.
I probably won't know how point #1 turned out for a long time, if ever. But /. is a pretty good spot for reigniting a practice that was obviously tried in the past (Labrea, PeachPit.)
Perhaps I have enough input to start on a V2 article. At the risk of getting marked "redundant", thank you.