You know... I tend to agree about the organizing thing. I spend about half my time in meetings discussing doing things and what the possible ramifications might be rather than spending a quarter of my time trying them and seeing if it's going to work or not. Committees suck.
Um, I'm a member of the Libertarian Party. I've written to my Congressmsn on several occasions and attended local Q&A sessions trying to make my point. What have I gotten... my name and address placed on their junk mailing lists.
This is why I said I can't make difference on my own. I'm looking for ways to get others in the vain hope that a mass of letters might have some sort of impact.
Thanks for your support.
And Suck's predictions manifest themselves.
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Scanning through the discussion I've seen a lot of impotent whining about Suck commenting on/.'s impotent whining.
Does anyone have any real suggestions on how we can start making a difference instead of beating our meat in a/. board? I wish I did, but I'm not that smart so I'm just trying to make an opening for smart people to come up with a suggestion.
Please don't talk about boycotts. Talk about something on how to get the unwashed masses attention, interest and energy behind the causes we find important. Those of us here obviously can't do a whole lot of good on our own, we need to get others involved.
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That's kinda the point Suck was making. The problem with your presentation of it though is that the "real world" doesn't know of even the most popular of geek discussion boards like/.
Even if they didn't they wouldn't have the patience to wade through all the cruft like First Posts to get to the meat of the discussion. Yes, I sort the comments based on rating and filter out the -1 and 0 posts, but do you think someone who barly knows how use AOL is going to be able to do this? Then, if they happen to get to a meaty post, they're not going to read it because it'll take to long or because it's not written in such a way that they can comprehend it easily.
If you want them to learn from us, you'll have to take the message to them in such a way that they'll want to learn more about the issues. Then you have to convince them that they need to do something about it when we apparently can't even convince ourselves to do something about it.
Sorry, I worded that in a confusing manner. I didn't mean to imply that the Lewinsky thing was an atrocity. I meant that it was an example of people judging others for really stupid reason.
I'm sure there are *real* atrocities involving the same type of judgments in the more recent past than WWII (I'm thinking in the 90s), but nothing came to mind so I just put other atrocities.
Something along the lines of that Sheppard kid in Colorado, or the basis of the movie "Boys Don't Cry." Although I don't think someone has to die for it to be an atrocity.
Perhaps we shouldn't be worried about keeping things private. Perhaps we should be more worried about the reasons why people need privacy in the first place. Such as the false moralities defined 2000 (and more in some cases) years ago by social outcasts that caused the whole "Lewinski scandal" and other recent atrocities. Maybe we should be worried about just trying to get people to grow the fuck up.
Has *almost* everyone forgotten that they're not suing those pirating copyrighted material. They're suing people who wrote software with legitimate uses/purposes because some people are doing illegal things with it.
They're not suing the pirates. They're suing people who make a tool with legitimate uses that happens to be used by pirates. Therefore the lawsuits suck ass.
Put together a non-profit organization funded by various grants that collects PCs headed for the scrapheap from local companies. Rebuild them and throw free software on them (perhaps advertising funds can be collected from free software vendors like RedHat or *your fav for-profit distro here* can be added). Those PCs can be distributed to students whose families can't afford them. Crash course training on the basics (word processing, web browsing) can be provided by local LUG volunteers or some such nonsense.
Okay, in come some "Save the Kids" ninny pansy motherfuckers. FILTER FILTER FILTER, SUE SUE SUE. Anyway, giving directly to the kids isn't gonna work. So, provide applications throughout the community for ADULTS to sign up for the things. Criteria can include income AND children/age of children plus other junk. Training still provided. Kids get computers at home. Schools are off the hook and can spend their money in better places (leaky roofs, yada yada).
Then the computers break. Support must be given. During this whole process you can bring in people (the same people that go to night school and pay for this kind of education) offer to teach them the stuff they want to know to get Tech Supportish jobs in exchange for them supporting the free PCs.
This is a very condensed version of a proposal I'm trying to put together for my community to get some grants and get off the ground.
Damn, I wish I were moderating today so I could moderate this up. I think this really gets to the core of the issue.
We keep pushing each other farther and farther apart. It seems like people don't even really interact with each other anymore or express their feelings. I guess when you're afraid of getting sued, etc. for just about anything anymore it's pretty hard to open up to people.
It has a complete version of Chapter 6 online as well.
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From the MSNBC article:
For Glenn the issue is simple. "Our only concern is providing maximum protection for children," he says, citing a recent case in Muskegon, Mich., where a girl was raped at a library with full Internet access.
All I can say is... WTF does full internet access have to do with a girl getting raped in the same building? How the hell is an internet filter supposed to stop that?
Well... it was intended to be some humorous/sarcastic. Given that your post actually got moderated up, maybe I should refrain from ever attempting humor in the future. Thanks for the bitchslap back into reality.
and I know none of you care, but I'm going to talk for a while anyway.
It seems to me that Techs and Lawyers are in extremely similar situations. Our entire lives are caught up in syntax and protocols.
Techs spend their days combing through man pages and HOWTOs to find the one obscure option that will make their scripts work or boning up on RFCs to figure out why the IP stack isn't hacking it or reading manufacturer's docs to figure out why a 100MB file transmitted to a UDP port on a 100MB/s network will cause the kernel to crack when using a 3Com 3095b.
Lawyers spend their days thumbing through lawbooks and precedents trying to find a way to claim an incriminating piece of evidence is inadmissible.
Both have tendencies to spend unusual amounts of time at the office hacking away at projects.
The difference. Computer and electronic technology, more specifically different applications of technology, are EXTREMELY new. We don't have a couple hundred years of cruft hanging off of our specialties.
Hell, Windows 9x is dying a miserable death and it's only what 20 years old (if you allow for it being based on DOS). Business law in America is 200+ years old folks. They're using dusty thomes that are monstrosities compared to the source code of most OSes.
So, in conclusion, I don't think one is necessarily better than another. Our speciality just happens to evolve and change faster like so many others have said.
Perhaps that simply points out a flaw in the overall structure of the legal system. If you ask the legal structure DOES NOT WORK! That idea is at the root of all comments made that want to treat everything on a case by case basis. There are plenty of people out there who would like to see us start from scratch on the government, law and law enforcement arenas here in the US.
As a freshman at the U of Iowa in the fall of '95 I was an online neophyte.... About half way through the first month, one of my friends introduced me to ISCA BBS based right there in Iowa City. We were hooked.
We'd pull things like tag teaming on women. One of us would start getting interested in some chick we were talking too, find out what lab they were in, then send the other to go find out what they looked like. It was completely ridiculous.
Several failed, short term, lackluster romances later my friend hooked up (online only) with a girl at Northwest Missouri State... (BTW they actually had ISCA counciling at the time) and she had a friend. So for about a month we'd spend approximately 8 hrs a day chatting.
Someone had the bright idea that we should meet one weekend. So we planned it for about a week. It was going to take them something like 10 hrs. to get to Iowa City because they had to stop somewhere else on their way that fateful Friday night. Butterflies were in the air.
So after I got off work monitoring the Computer Lab, I went over to my friends to goof off until they got there playing Command & Conquer or some such nonsense. About 10 p.m. there was a disturbance in the hallway, which was weird because my friend was one of the few on the floor that didn't play football and the football team was in Michigan (you'll see why this remains so clear in my mind in a minute.)
Anyway, a bunch of the redshirt freshman had been left behind and they were having a party. So I went and had a few drinks with the football team (bad experience... would require 'nother page of story). Fast forward to 2:45 Sat morning.... phone rings.
(I'll use our ISCA handles for some form of anonymity.... no we didn't address each other like this in person or online.)
Bowl of Ditka: Hello? You're where? Okay, well directions Okay, we'll see you in a bit.
Anti Christ (me): So where were they?
Bowl of Ditka: Coralville... they've been drinking.
Fast forward another 15 minutes or so... phone rings... 20 minutes of conversation... we figure out where they are... we have to walk 2 miles across campus to meet them. DOH!
So we walk the two miles. We get to the Handi Mart parking lot... spot a car with Missouri plates that matches the description we were given. We siddle up to the car... yep two females... little bit closer, the door opens. One Alpha Chic (assoc with Bowl of Ditka) gets out of the passenger side, Mixed Nuts (assoc w/ Anti Christ) gets out. I'm underwhelmed, Bowl of Ditka is happy, they're... well, they're drunk.
So we drive back to Bowl of Ditka's dorm. Mixed Nuts and I don't speak... Bowl of Ditka and Alpha Chic mix well. We get back to the dorm... it's 3:30 or so.
"Do you mind if we get on ISCA?" Alpha Chic asks. "We told someone we'd check in with them when we got here."
"Uh...... hrm..... I guess so." Bowl of Ditka says.
So, Mixed Nuts logs on... her and Alpha Chic chat excitedly as they type away. Bowl of Ditka and I sit in silence and glare. 30 minutes later...
"Fuck this, I'm going to sleep," I announce.
I'm disturbed by a commotion.... open my eyes, the lights on... WTF? Three figures are moving around putting on coats and shit. I look at the clock. It says, "It's 6 AM on a Saturday morning in Iowa City... go back to sleep, dumbass."
As I try to comply I hear, "Jesse, you awake?"
"Mmph...." Approx. equivalent to "Fuck off!"
"They're leaving."
Not comprehending I comply to the clock's demands.
Five minutes later I awake to the thought... "Oh shit, they're leaving!" I jump up, throw on my coat and run out to the parking lot.
Bowl of Ditka and Alpha Chic are at the back of the car fighting/making out. I never did get them. I could fill another 8 pages just beginning to explain the oddities in their relationship.
Mixed Nuts is sitting at the driver's wheel and it looks like she's been crying. She's got the window open and is smoking. I crouch down and ask what's going on. No response. Dumbfounded, half-asleep, utterly clueless I have absolutely no idea what to say do.
"Why isn't he saying anything?" Alpha Chic whispers to Bowl of Ditka. I get pissed, but still don't have anything to say. So Alpha Chic and Bowl of Ditka say their goodbyes... with tongue of course. I stare blankly at Mixed Nuts... Alpha Chic gets in the car. I say, "Umm... goodbye? I guess I'll talk to you when you get back???" No response. They leave.
I turn to Bowl of Ditka... "WTF?"
"They got in a fight with someone down at NWMS and decided to leave." he says.
"Yeah, but even so.... WTF? Did Alpha Chic talk to you?"
"Yeah, after you went to sleep she came over and sat on the bed with me and we talked. They were just nervous. Mixed Nuts stayed at the terminal though."
"I still don't get it."
"Neither do I." Bowl of Ditka responded.
Alpha Chic talked to me and Bowl of Ditka, but Mixed Nuts would only talk to Bowl of Ditka after that. I still don't have any sort of clue. Shortly, after that Alpha Chic and Bowl of Ditka broke up and the girls from NWMS went into ISCA rehab. I went on the wagon, but Bowl of Ditka kept on trucking.
About a month later, I met a girl from the U of N. Iowa (which was in my home town) who went by the nick of Jade Marie. We started calling each other a lot after meeting over semester break. Partly do to my relationship with her and also because "no class/homework" == "sub 3.0 GPA" == "loss of scholarship" I moved home and transferred to UNI the following year. We're still together now 4 years after we first talked online and it seems ridiculous to think we actually met online.
I think focusing on the impact this will have only on the geek kids may be a little too narrow and shows something of a reverse discrimination. These systems shouldn't have anything against students who like to get shit-faced on the weekends. I knew plenty of 4.0 GPA students, high IQ kind of folks, that partied every weekend, still knew their shit, didn't hurt anyone and yet were hassled because they like to drink. Everyone has to deal with these kind of stereotypes.
Also, let's not forget about the good ol' racial/economic stereotypes. These have the same opportunity to be misused in this type of software. This kind of software in general is a BAD idea and will hurt EVERYONE DIRECTLY as well as INDIRECTLY via overall quality of life degridation. Anyway, I've begun to ramble and will not cease and desist.
It seems a lot of people are gung ho on throwing violent criminals in jail for the rest of their lives. While I'm all for dispatching as many people as possible for the gene pool (everyone qualifies) there are those people out there who have precious little in the way of options.
I'm doing my best not to sound like a bleeding heart liberal here, but like the Katz issues with the cinema and such it seems many people are missing the point. Most criminals are criminals for reasons other than wanting to be badass criminals. Look at other nations in the world. There is something desperately sick and wrong with our society.
I personally believe that the moralistic, misguided, utterly confused perversion of Xianity that the majority adhere to in America shares a large portion of the fault, but being just a dumb webhead fresh out of the worst CS program in the nation, my opinion may not qualify for much.
That's interesting that even people outside of this forsaken country can see this, yet 95% of the citizens can't.
Anyone wanna guess what the final straw will be and when it will come to wake up a majority of the country to the fact that nothing is going to change until there's some sort of _drastic_ action taken?
I'm fairly new and out of the loop on stuff like this, but isn't some of the stuff their doing for kernel v. 2.4 supposed to take care of the IP stack that was causing Linux to choke under heavy loads in the Mindcraft tests? Of course, the company probably wouldn't want to wait around when BSD apparently fixes the problem now.
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You know... I tend to agree about the organizing thing. I spend about half my time in meetings discussing doing things and what the possible ramifications might be rather than spending a quarter of my time trying them and seeing if it's going to work or not. Committees suck.
I believe this is at least the thrid time this story has been on /.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/05/1646251.shtm l
I couldn't find another one, but I could swear I remember this article being on /. at least twice before.
I don't usually snipe at Taco & Co, but c'mon... at least search your own databases for a linked URL before posting a story.
Um, I'm a member of the Libertarian Party. I've written to my Congressmsn on several occasions and attended local Q&A sessions trying to make my point. What have I gotten... my name and address placed on their junk mailing lists.
This is why I said I can't make difference on my own. I'm looking for ways to get others in the vain hope that a mass of letters might have some sort of impact.
Thanks for your support.
Scanning through the discussion I've seen a lot of impotent whining about Suck commenting on /.'s impotent whining.
Does anyone have any real suggestions on how we can start making a difference instead of beating our meat in a /. board? I wish I did, but I'm not that smart so I'm just trying to make an opening for smart people to come up with a suggestion.
Please don't talk about boycotts. Talk about something on how to get the unwashed masses attention, interest and energy behind the causes we find important. Those of us here obviously can't do a whole lot of good on our own, we need to get others involved.
That's kinda the point Suck was making. The problem with your presentation of it though is that the "real world" doesn't know of even the most popular of geek discussion boards like /.
Even if they didn't they wouldn't have the patience to wade through all the cruft like First Posts to get to the meat of the discussion. Yes, I sort the comments based on rating and filter out the -1 and 0 posts, but do you think someone who barly knows how use AOL is going to be able to do this? Then, if they happen to get to a meaty post, they're not going to read it because it'll take to long or because it's not written in such a way that they can comprehend it easily.
If you want them to learn from us, you'll have to take the message to them in such a way that they'll want to learn more about the issues. Then you have to convince them that they need to do something about it when we apparently can't even convince ourselves to do something about it.
Sorry, I worded that in a confusing manner. I didn't mean to imply that the Lewinsky thing was an atrocity. I meant that it was an example of people judging others for really stupid reason.
I'm sure there are *real* atrocities involving the same type of judgments in the more recent past than WWII (I'm thinking in the 90s), but nothing came to mind so I just put other atrocities.
Something along the lines of that Sheppard kid in Colorado, or the basis of the movie "Boys Don't Cry." Although I don't think someone has to die for it to be an atrocity.
Sorry for the confusion.
Perhaps we shouldn't be worried about keeping things private. Perhaps we should be more worried about the reasons why people need privacy in the first place. Such as the false moralities defined 2000 (and more in some cases) years ago by social outcasts that caused the whole "Lewinski scandal" and other recent atrocities. Maybe we should be worried about just trying to get people to grow the fuck up.
Has *almost* everyone forgotten that they're not suing those pirating copyrighted material. They're suing people who wrote software with legitimate uses/purposes because some people are doing illegal things with it.
They're not suing the pirates. They're suing people who make a tool with legitimate uses that happens to be used by pirates. Therefore the lawsuits suck ass.
Put together a non-profit organization funded by various grants that collects PCs headed for the scrapheap from local companies. Rebuild them and throw free software on them (perhaps advertising funds can be collected from free software vendors like RedHat or *your fav for-profit distro here* can be added). Those PCs can be distributed to students whose families can't afford them. Crash course training on the basics (word processing, web browsing) can be provided by local LUG volunteers or some such nonsense.
Okay, in come some "Save the Kids" ninny pansy motherfuckers. FILTER FILTER FILTER, SUE SUE SUE. Anyway, giving directly to the kids isn't gonna work. So, provide applications throughout the community for ADULTS to sign up for the things. Criteria can include income AND children/age of children plus other junk. Training still provided. Kids get computers at home. Schools are off the hook and can spend their money in better places (leaky roofs, yada yada).
Then the computers break. Support must be given. During this whole process you can bring in people (the same people that go to night school and pay for this kind of education) offer to teach them the stuff they want to know to get Tech Supportish jobs in exchange for them supporting the free PCs.
This is a very condensed version of a proposal I'm trying to put together for my community to get some grants and get off the ground.
Hey, it could work!
Damn, I wish I were moderating today so I could moderate this up. I think this really gets to the core of the issue.
We keep pushing each other farther and farther apart. It seems like people don't even really interact with each other anymore or express their feelings. I guess when you're afraid of getting sued, etc. for just about anything anymore it's pretty hard to open up to people.
Here's the URL http://www.databasenation.com/
It has a complete version of Chapter 6 online as well.
From the MSNBC article:
For Glenn the issue is simple. "Our only concern is providing maximum protection for children," he says, citing a recent case in Muskegon, Mich., where a girl was raped at a library with full Internet access.
All I can say is... WTF does full internet access have to do with a girl getting raped in the same building? How the hell is an internet filter supposed to stop that?
Is Ford going to be sued for corruption of minors if they don't install filters on the PCs?
Sounds silly, but this is the American way of life (for the Ford employees that are still in the US)
Well... it was intended to be some humorous/sarcastic. Given that your post actually got moderated up, maybe I should refrain from ever attempting humor in the future. Thanks for the bitchslap back into reality.
What good will it do Kevin to get the data back? He can't use a computer and I'm sure he's not going to decrypt a GB worth of data by hand!
Yeah... I know he could give it to someone else :P
It seems to me that Techs and Lawyers are in extremely similar situations. Our entire lives are caught up in syntax and protocols.
Techs spend their days combing through man pages and HOWTOs to find the one obscure option that will make their scripts work or boning up on RFCs to figure out why the IP stack isn't hacking it or reading manufacturer's docs to figure out why a 100MB file transmitted to a UDP port on a 100MB/s network will cause the kernel to crack when using a 3Com 3095b.
Lawyers spend their days thumbing through lawbooks and precedents trying to find a way to claim an incriminating piece of evidence is inadmissible.
Both have tendencies to spend unusual amounts of time at the office hacking away at projects.
The difference. Computer and electronic technology, more specifically different applications of technology, are EXTREMELY new. We don't have a couple hundred years of cruft hanging off of our specialties.
Hell, Windows 9x is dying a miserable death and it's only what 20 years old (if you allow for it being based on DOS). Business law in America is 200+ years old folks. They're using dusty thomes that are monstrosities compared to the source code of most OSes.
So, in conclusion, I don't think one is necessarily better than another. Our speciality just happens to evolve and change faster like so many others have said.
Perhaps that simply points out a flaw in the overall structure of the legal system. If you ask the legal structure DOES NOT WORK! That idea is at the root of all comments made that want to treat everything on a case by case basis. There are plenty of people out there who would like to see us start from scratch on the government, law and law enforcement arenas here in the US.
Roblimo, etc. should be quaking in their boots when they submit the questions they cull off the top of the discussion! *smirk*
We'd pull things like tag teaming on women. One of us would start getting interested in some chick we were talking too, find out what lab they were in, then send the other to go find out what they looked like. It was completely ridiculous.
Several failed, short term, lackluster romances later my friend hooked up (online only) with a girl at Northwest Missouri State... (BTW they actually had ISCA counciling at the time) and she had a friend. So for about a month we'd spend approximately 8 hrs a day chatting.
Someone had the bright idea that we should meet one weekend. So we planned it for about a week. It was going to take them something like 10 hrs. to get to Iowa City because they had to stop somewhere else on their way that fateful Friday night. Butterflies were in the air.
So after I got off work monitoring the Computer Lab, I went over to my friends to goof off until they got there playing Command & Conquer or some such nonsense. About 10 p.m. there was a disturbance in the hallway, which was weird because my friend was one of the few on the floor that didn't play football and the football team was in Michigan (you'll see why this remains so clear in my mind in a minute.)
Anyway, a bunch of the redshirt freshman had been left behind and they were having a party. So I went and had a few drinks with the football team (bad experience... would require 'nother page of story). Fast forward to 2:45 Sat morning.... phone rings.
(I'll use our ISCA handles for some form of anonymity.... no we didn't address each other like this in person or online.)
Bowl of Ditka: Hello? You're where? Okay, well directions Okay, we'll see you in a bit.
Anti Christ (me): So where were they?
Bowl of Ditka: Coralville... they've been drinking.
Fast forward another 15 minutes or so... phone rings... 20 minutes of conversation... we figure out where they are... we have to walk 2 miles across campus to meet them. DOH!
So we walk the two miles. We get to the Handi Mart parking lot... spot a car with Missouri plates that matches the description we were given. We siddle up to the car... yep two females... little bit closer, the door opens. One Alpha Chic (assoc with Bowl of Ditka) gets out of the passenger side, Mixed Nuts (assoc w/ Anti Christ) gets out. I'm underwhelmed, Bowl of Ditka is happy, they're... well, they're drunk.
So we drive back to Bowl of Ditka's dorm. Mixed Nuts and I don't speak... Bowl of Ditka and Alpha Chic mix well. We get back to the dorm... it's 3:30 or so.
"Do you mind if we get on ISCA?" Alpha Chic asks. "We told someone we'd check in with them when we got here."
"Uh...... hrm..... I guess so." Bowl of Ditka says.
So, Mixed Nuts logs on... her and Alpha Chic chat excitedly as they type away. Bowl of Ditka and I sit in silence and glare. 30 minutes later...
"Fuck this, I'm going to sleep," I announce.
I'm disturbed by a commotion.... open my eyes, the lights on... WTF? Three figures are moving around putting on coats and shit. I look at the clock. It says, "It's 6 AM on a Saturday morning in Iowa City... go back to sleep, dumbass."
As I try to comply I hear, "Jesse, you awake?"
"Mmph...." Approx. equivalent to "Fuck off!"
"They're leaving."
Not comprehending I comply to the clock's demands.
Five minutes later I awake to the thought... "Oh shit, they're leaving!" I jump up, throw on my coat and run out to the parking lot.
Bowl of Ditka and Alpha Chic are at the back of the car fighting/making out. I never did get them. I could fill another 8 pages just beginning to explain the oddities in their relationship.
Mixed Nuts is sitting at the driver's wheel and it looks like she's been crying. She's got the window open and is smoking. I crouch down and ask what's going on. No response. Dumbfounded, half-asleep, utterly clueless I have absolutely no idea what to say do.
"Why isn't he saying anything?" Alpha Chic whispers to Bowl of Ditka. I get pissed, but still don't have anything to say. So Alpha Chic and Bowl of Ditka say their goodbyes... with tongue of course. I stare blankly at Mixed Nuts... Alpha Chic gets in the car. I say, "Umm... goodbye? I guess I'll talk to you when you get back???" No response. They leave.
I turn to Bowl of Ditka... "WTF?"
"They got in a fight with someone down at NWMS and decided to leave." he says.
"Yeah, but even so.... WTF? Did Alpha Chic talk to you?"
"Yeah, after you went to sleep she came over and sat on the bed with me and we talked. They were just nervous. Mixed Nuts stayed at the terminal though."
"I still don't get it."
"Neither do I." Bowl of Ditka responded.
Alpha Chic talked to me and Bowl of Ditka, but Mixed Nuts would only talk to Bowl of Ditka after that. I still don't have any sort of clue. Shortly, after that Alpha Chic and Bowl of Ditka broke up and the girls from NWMS went into ISCA rehab. I went on the wagon, but Bowl of Ditka kept on trucking.
About a month later, I met a girl from the U of N. Iowa (which was in my home town) who went by the nick of Jade Marie. We started calling each other a lot after meeting over semester break. Partly do to my relationship with her and also because "no class/homework" == "sub 3.0 GPA" == "loss of scholarship" I moved home and transferred to UNI the following year. We're still together now 4 years after we first talked online and it seems ridiculous to think we actually met online.
Also, let's not forget about the good ol' racial/economic stereotypes. These have the same opportunity to be misused in this type of software. This kind of software in general is a BAD idea and will hurt EVERYONE DIRECTLY as well as INDIRECTLY via overall quality of life degridation. Anyway, I've begun to ramble and will not cease and desist.
I'm doing my best not to sound like a bleeding heart liberal here, but like the Katz issues with the cinema and such it seems many people are missing the point. Most criminals are criminals for reasons other than wanting to be badass criminals. Look at other nations in the world. There is something desperately sick and wrong with our society.
I personally believe that the moralistic, misguided, utterly confused perversion of Xianity that the majority adhere to in America shares a large portion of the fault, but being just a dumb webhead fresh out of the worst CS program in the nation, my opinion may not qualify for much.
That's interesting that even people outside of this forsaken country can see this, yet 95% of the citizens can't.
Anyone wanna guess what the final straw will be and when it will come to wake up a majority of the country to the fact that nothing is going to change until there's some sort of _drastic_ action taken?
I'm fairly new and out of the loop on stuff like this, but isn't some of the stuff their doing for kernel v. 2.4 supposed to take care of the IP stack that was causing Linux to choke under heavy loads in the Mindcraft tests? Of course, the company probably wouldn't want to wait around when BSD apparently fixes the problem now.