We'll probably be dead -- we could destroy civilization with merely the turn of a key and the push of a button.
Of course, if that doesn't happen (it's not a slim chance), we'll probably have antimatter engines propelling us slowly to other stars with fusion reactors turning a little ice into a lot of energy.
But we'll still probably all be DEAD and NUKED into oblivion within a decade!
The HIPAA is a bloated, disgusting piece of huge paperwork that may have meant well, but grew disgustingly out of proportion, and was still bloated even after the Administrative Simplification. I believe in privacy, but there's no simple way to make everything ultra-secure with encryption and such -- and that should be a move taken by the businesses themselves, not forced upon them by a distant bureaucracy.
It's nothing but more government interference in private business that chains capitalism to the ground and makes us as weak and inefficient as the old Soviet Union was. This does not simplify anything with electronic transactions -- it just bogs down the already efficient electronic systems in place with red tape.
Want to fight it? Simple -- don't implement it if it hinders you and ignore it, and go on with business as usual.
Getting Goatse'd in 3D! Oh, the horror of the future! Don't bring children into such a world!
If you can't figure out magic eyes, this one is easier to see -- you might just have to give it awhile.
And yes, this is somewhat relevant -- it is a magic eye image of Goatse, which is an inextricable part of slashdot now that we've all been desensitized to it for 2 years.
I really wish they'd just see that technology opens up new revenue streams faster than it closes them down.
Palladium is the only way of ensuring such things happen, especially with broadband.
People could always swap tapes in person, but now high-speed internet connections exist in every home, and the ability to copy the latest forms of media between two places is completely unprecedented due to its unrestricted nature.
After September 11th, wouldn't airlines be quite wary of anything that could, if properly rigged by master terrorists, blow a hole in the fuselage large enough to down the plane?
They're jumpy enough that my friend, when he joked that he had "Yeah, and a big brick of C4" in his bag to a National Guard soldier, they detained him for 6 hours and -- I exaggerate not -- gave him a full cavity search, tore open his shoes, and destroyed his laptop looking for bombs.
Though it may be an advance, it may be banned from airplanes by paranoid maniacs like John Ashcroft.
Even though Minix is long dead, there still is a good question: was a microkernel architecture better, or is Linux's monolithic kernel the right way to go?
WindowsNT uses the microkernel design, but most operating systems since DOS haven't used a monolithic kernel, which was only truly necessary in the days of extremely scarce resources. It's true that Linux does extremely well under many circumstances, but could it have been done even better with a nice, modular, microkernel design?
If history had changed and Minix took off instead of Linux, would we be better off today with the superiority of a microkernel design?
With modern computers and government spy networks like Echelon, there is no reason that we shouldn't use OpenSSH as our default shell, as it is free as in speech and as in beer, yet provides excellent security.
There are about a billion other websites that pop up in your face if you want modchips whenever you go to a good ol' http warez site. Just close down enough porno banners and eventually you'll find a modchip site -- it's a lot easier to find than the actual warez on the site itself.
My brother installed a PS1 modchip when he was 11 years old, and it's not that hard at all to DIY.
Lik Sang does sell tons of other cool stuff; modchips aren't their only resource.
...and just rent a cheap hotel room, do a shitload of psychadelic drugs and shoot up some vodka intravenously, and you can fuck my fat slop hole until your buttcheeks go 180 miles per hour, all while being filmed by the MTV cameras!
Dad's too busy working on his latest mallcore album and playing on his latest mallcore Ozzfest tour -- plus he didn't like the "taco snotting" he got from the head caterer of CmdrTacoBell after he passed out from eating an entire mason jar full of Xanax a few years back.
Red hair is a phenotype particular only to scarce areas of Northern Europe, mostly in Scotland, Ireland, and Scandinavia -- even there, it is not entirely common.
Blazing red hair is a very recessive trait created entirely by past inbreeding in Europe -- and past inbreeding is a common heritage for Europe, as well, since most Europeans can trace their ancestors back to a very small group of perhaps a dozen Ice Age survivors. It requires not only a 3rd-level hair gene (0-3 for red), it also requires a very low lightness gene (0 for platinum blond, down thru 12 to pitch black), which is extremely recessive as well.
Since the trait is so recessive, the extinction of redheads is predicted to be sometime in the late 21st or early 22nd century, due to population implosion of the native populations of northern Europe and the traits being lost due to interbreeding with those with dominant dark-haired traits.
It's no surprise that redheads have other strange recessive genes that we are only now discovering -- this could prove to be very interesting, and could help a lot in future gene therapy.
Though it will never be another Source Forge, VA Linux loses a lot more money than they make, and the harsh reality is that it may be a matter of time before it gets 100 "Fuck Points" on Fucked Company and bandwidth-devouring slashdot, freshmeat, and especially sourceforge have to go on their own to survive.
Microsoft has nearly unlimited resources, and developers of various large open source projects may have no choice but to move to Microsoft's site, at least to use their bandwidth, which is still holding up quite well under a heavy slashdotting.
Now that we have advanced systems and greedy corporations profiting off of putting smut on every CD until most of the games on the market are rated R (MA-17 or whatever), it's going to have some definite effects on society.
We already have enough people who are desensitized to this killing -- I felt terrible when I blew someone's head into a bunch of tiny pink chunks in Counter-Strike, I was appalled. Now I can watch Faces of Death without flinching, and I frequently think of blowing people apart in real-life with an AR-15 like in Counter-Strike, and it scares me.
Now games go further than violence, like with Grand Theft Auto 3 -- and with every kid in our nation being latchkey kids, we're going to raise an entire generation of sociopaths that are going to make the droogs in A Clockwork Orange look like a choir boys.
Corporations are getting rich off of peddling smut, and it's about time family businesses took a stand against the immoral and depraved game industry.
The Libertarians are just like the Republicans when it comes to issues of corporate hegemony over public life -- while they claim to love freedom, they want nothing less than a plutocracy which they can worship in their self-aggrandizing Ayn Rand cult. These people revere Bill Gates as a living God and ideologically hate the altruism of Open Source.
They're not some party that takes the "freedom-loving" aspects -- they're incredibly right-wing and anti-freedom, except they tout the pro-business aspects instead of the social issues, whereas the Republicans simply do the opposite, and a lot moderately, too.
If you want true freedom from corporate greed and corruption, vote Green Party and join every anti-globalization PROTEST that you can!
What's it like living life with ALS, communicating through a computer with only the blinking of your eyes, and not being able to shred Serrana Parts on the guitar or get up on stage with Marty Friedman and Rick Marrino again?
Please donate to the ALS fund -- we need Stephen Hawking and Donald Becker back!
Anti-spammer wins court case Caitlin Fitzsimmons October 14, 2002
THE Australian court system upheld the right of internet activists to campaign against junk email in a landmark decision today.
The District Court of Western Australia dismissed the lawsuit by Perth-based direct marketing firm T3 Direct against anti-spam activist Joey McNicol, describing it as "speculative and based on propositions (the plaintiff) knew to be incorrect".
The Which Company, trading as T3 Direct, had sued Mr McNicol for allegedly getting the company black-listed on anti-spam website SPEWS.org
SPEWS - or the Spam Prevention Early Warning System - publishes a list of internet protocol (IP) addresses believed to be used for unsolicited bulk email or spam. Network administrators and internet service providers (ISPs) can refer to the SPEWS list to block traffic from the black-listed IP addresses on their networks.
T3 claimed the action cost at least $82,000 in lost income and the cost of repairing its computer systems. Mr McNicol denied contacting SPEWS and argued that nothing he did or was accused of doing was illegal and today the court granted Mr McNicol's application for summary judgment.
The court found that T3 offered neither proof that Mr McNicol had contacted SPEWS nor that doing so was illegal.
The court rejected T3's claim that such a complaint to SPEWS was "unfounded", noting that T3 had elsewhere admitted to sending unsolicited advertising emails.
Though we all know by now that cycles per second alone does not determine performance, the average consumer does not.
Though it is a revolutionary advance, they're more apt to see "64-bit" as a useless gimmick or even see it as inferior to "128-bit" Gamecube processors, while thinking that 1.8ghz is dirt slow, especially in 2003 when Intel will be in the 3's and AMD in the 2's, even if the chips still are 32-bit.
All you need to do is make a chip oscillate fast, and Joe Customer will think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Going a bit further, why not just put a miniscule amount of C4 in a bullet with those batteries and have explosive rounds? The 5.56 bullets we have now are effective, but simply lack the stopping power of an explosive-tipped armor-piercing warhead -- instead of a neat little hole in the head, which a mad terrorist could run through easily, why not just use C4-tipped rounds to destroy their head like a Gallagher-smashed watermelon?
Chances are, these things are going to end up in ultra high-tech weapons for US Special Forces to assist them in pillaging third-world countries for their natural resources in this "War on Terrorism" long before we ever see them in civilian use. The only thing keeping them from using such terrible weapons are power sources, and now that it's being addressed, we could see them being used in Arab countries very soon.
Soon, hack attacks from Dreamcasts will bring every network in the world to their very knees, society will break down, and World War III/Armageddon will erupt, leaving 6 billion dead in its wake, save for the 144,000 virgins (many of them slashdot users) who will be saved by Jesus Christ on judgement day!
The badly dated Half-Life engine still has one feature that is more powerful than anything in UT2k3: and that's voice over ip, in-game, mostly used in Counter-Strike.
UT2k3 already uses OGG for its music -- and I recall reading a UT2k3 developer plan file that states the wish for voice-over-ip, but basically they were waiting for someone in the open-source world to do all the work.
Why just hit a few buttons to say, "Ownage!" when they can hear your true compressed, overly nasal-sounding voice say it -- or perhaps more insulting, filthier things?
Slashdot Mirror
Not even goatse or fecaljapan repels us... what makes you think garlic can?
Anything but Microsoft.
We'll probably be dead -- we could destroy civilization with merely the turn of a key and the push of a button.
Of course, if that doesn't happen (it's not a slim chance), we'll probably have antimatter engines propelling us slowly to other stars with fusion reactors turning a little ice into a lot of energy.
But we'll still probably all be DEAD and NUKED into oblivion within a decade!
The HIPAA is a bloated, disgusting piece of huge paperwork that may have meant well, but grew disgustingly out of proportion, and was still bloated even after the Administrative Simplification. I believe in privacy, but there's no simple way to make everything ultra-secure with encryption and such -- and that should be a move taken by the businesses themselves, not forced upon them by a distant bureaucracy.
It's nothing but more government interference in private business that chains capitalism to the ground and makes us as weak and inefficient as the old Soviet Union was. This does not simplify anything with electronic transactions -- it just bogs down the already efficient electronic systems in place with red tape.
Want to fight it? Simple -- don't implement it if it hinders you and ignore it, and go on with business as usual.
Getting Goatse'd in 3D! Oh, the horror of the future! Don't bring children into such a world!
If you can't figure out magic eyes, this one is easier to see -- you might just have to give it awhile.
And yes, this is somewhat relevant -- it is a magic eye image of Goatse, which is an inextricable part of slashdot now that we've all been desensitized to it for 2 years.
I really wish they'd just see that technology opens up new revenue streams faster than it closes them down.
Palladium is the only way of ensuring such things happen, especially with broadband.
People could always swap tapes in person, but now high-speed internet connections exist in every home, and the ability to copy the latest forms of media between two places is completely unprecedented due to its unrestricted nature.
After September 11th, wouldn't airlines be quite wary of anything that could, if properly rigged by master terrorists, blow a hole in the fuselage large enough to down the plane?
They're jumpy enough that my friend, when he joked that he had "Yeah, and a big brick of C4" in his bag to a National Guard soldier, they detained him for 6 hours and -- I exaggerate not -- gave him a full cavity search, tore open his shoes, and destroyed his laptop looking for bombs.
Though it may be an advance, it may be banned from airplanes by paranoid maniacs like John Ashcroft.
Even though Minix is long dead, there still is a good question: was a microkernel architecture better, or is Linux's monolithic kernel the right way to go?
WindowsNT uses the microkernel design, but most operating systems since DOS haven't used a monolithic kernel, which was only truly necessary in the days of extremely scarce resources. It's true that Linux does extremely well under many circumstances, but could it have been done even better with a nice, modular, microkernel design?
If history had changed and Minix took off instead of Linux, would we be better off today with the superiority of a microkernel design?
I think we would.
With modern computers and government spy networks like Echelon, there is no reason that we shouldn't use OpenSSH as our default shell, as it is free as in speech and as in beer, yet provides excellent security.
OpenBSD leads the way once again.
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:JCif7d953CUC: promo.kde.org/newsforge/kde-3.1.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF -8
There are about a billion other websites that pop up in your face if you want modchips whenever you go to a good ol' http warez site. Just close down enough porno banners and eventually you'll find a modchip site -- it's a lot easier to find than the actual warez on the site itself.
My brother installed a PS1 modchip when he was 11 years old, and it's not that hard at all to DIY.
Lik Sang does sell tons of other cool stuff; modchips aren't their only resource.
...and just rent a cheap hotel room, do a shitload of psychadelic drugs and shoot up some vodka intravenously, and you can fuck my fat slop hole until your buttcheeks go 180 miles per hour, all while being filmed by the MTV cameras!
Dad's too busy working on his latest mallcore album and playing on his latest mallcore Ozzfest tour -- plus he didn't like the "taco snotting" he got from the head caterer of CmdrTacoBell after he passed out from eating an entire mason jar full of Xanax a few years back.
Hilarious!
Red hair is a phenotype particular only to scarce areas of Northern Europe, mostly in Scotland, Ireland, and Scandinavia -- even there, it is not entirely common.
Blazing red hair is a very recessive trait created entirely by past inbreeding in Europe -- and past inbreeding is a common heritage for Europe, as well, since most Europeans can trace their ancestors back to a very small group of perhaps a dozen Ice Age survivors. It requires not only a 3rd-level hair gene (0-3 for red), it also requires a very low lightness gene (0 for platinum blond, down thru 12 to pitch black), which is extremely recessive as well.
Since the trait is so recessive, the extinction of redheads is predicted to be sometime in the late 21st or early 22nd century, due to population implosion of the native populations of northern Europe and the traits being lost due to interbreeding with those with dominant dark-haired traits.
It's no surprise that redheads have other strange recessive genes that we are only now discovering -- this could prove to be very interesting, and could help a lot in future gene therapy.
Though it will never be another Source Forge, VA Linux loses a lot more money than they make, and the harsh reality is that it may be a matter of time before it gets 100 "Fuck Points" on Fucked Company and bandwidth-devouring slashdot, freshmeat, and especially sourceforge have to go on their own to survive.
Microsoft has nearly unlimited resources, and developers of various large open source projects may have no choice but to move to Microsoft's site, at least to use their bandwidth, which is still holding up quite well under a heavy slashdotting.
Now that we have advanced systems and greedy corporations profiting off of putting smut on every CD until most of the games on the market are rated R (MA-17 or whatever), it's going to have some definite effects on society.
We already have enough people who are desensitized to this killing -- I felt terrible when I blew someone's head into a bunch of tiny pink chunks in Counter-Strike, I was appalled. Now I can watch Faces of Death without flinching, and I frequently think of blowing people apart in real-life with an AR-15 like in Counter-Strike, and it scares me.
Now games go further than violence, like with Grand Theft Auto 3 -- and with every kid in our nation being latchkey kids, we're going to raise an entire generation of sociopaths that are going to make the droogs in A Clockwork Orange look like a choir boys.
Corporations are getting rich off of peddling smut, and it's about time family businesses took a stand against the immoral and depraved game industry.
The Libertarians are just like the Republicans when it comes to issues of corporate hegemony over public life -- while they claim to love freedom, they want nothing less than a plutocracy which they can worship in their self-aggrandizing Ayn Rand cult. These people revere Bill Gates as a living God and ideologically hate the altruism of Open Source.
They're not some party that takes the "freedom-loving" aspects -- they're incredibly right-wing and anti-freedom, except they tout the pro-business aspects instead of the social issues, whereas the Republicans simply do the opposite, and a lot moderately, too.
If you want true freedom from corporate greed and corruption, vote Green Party and join every anti-globalization PROTEST that you can!
What's it like living life with ALS, communicating through a computer with only the blinking of your eyes, and not being able to shred Serrana Parts on the guitar or get up on stage with Marty Friedman and Rick Marrino again?
Please donate to the ALS fund -- we need Stephen Hawking and Donald Becker back!
Here yuo go:
Anti-spammer wins court case
Caitlin Fitzsimmons
October 14, 2002
THE Australian court system upheld the right of internet activists to campaign against junk email in a landmark decision today.
The District Court of Western Australia dismissed the lawsuit by Perth-based direct marketing firm T3 Direct against anti-spam activist Joey McNicol, describing it as "speculative and based on propositions (the plaintiff) knew to be incorrect".
The Which Company, trading as T3 Direct, had sued Mr McNicol for allegedly getting the company black-listed on anti-spam website SPEWS.org
SPEWS - or the Spam Prevention Early Warning System - publishes a list of internet protocol (IP) addresses believed to be used for unsolicited bulk email or spam. Network administrators and internet service providers (ISPs) can refer to the SPEWS list to block traffic from the black-listed IP addresses on their networks.
T3 claimed the action cost at least $82,000 in lost income and the cost of repairing its computer systems. Mr McNicol denied contacting SPEWS and argued that nothing he did or was accused of doing was illegal and today the court granted Mr McNicol's application for summary judgment.
The court found that T3 offered neither proof that Mr McNicol had contacted SPEWS nor that doing so was illegal.
The court rejected T3's claim that such a complaint to SPEWS was "unfounded", noting that T3 had elsewhere admitted to sending unsolicited advertising emails.
Australian IT
It's better when RMS is NOT involved!
Though we all know by now that cycles per second alone does not determine performance, the average consumer does not.
Though it is a revolutionary advance, they're more apt to see "64-bit" as a useless gimmick or even see it as inferior to "128-bit" Gamecube processors, while thinking that 1.8ghz is dirt slow, especially in 2003 when Intel will be in the 3's and AMD in the 2's, even if the chips still are 32-bit.
All you need to do is make a chip oscillate fast, and Joe Customer will think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Going a bit further, why not just put a miniscule amount of C4 in a bullet with those batteries and have explosive rounds? The 5.56 bullets we have now are effective, but simply lack the stopping power of an explosive-tipped armor-piercing warhead -- instead of a neat little hole in the head, which a mad terrorist could run through easily, why not just use C4-tipped rounds to destroy their head like a Gallagher-smashed watermelon?
Oh, and you're sexier than me and get more than I do.
I'm jealous!
Chances are, these things are going to end up in ultra high-tech weapons for US Special Forces to assist them in pillaging third-world countries for their natural resources in this "War on Terrorism" long before we ever see them in civilian use. The only thing keeping them from using such terrible weapons are power sources, and now that it's being addressed, we could see them being used in Arab countries very soon.
Their applications?
Pulse Rifles, as seen in Aliens, Land Warrior systems, and Exoskeletons
They reverse engineered the DC modem?!
Soon, hack attacks from Dreamcasts will bring every network in the world to their very knees, society will break down, and World War III/Armageddon will erupt, leaving 6 billion dead in its wake, save for the 144,000 virgins (many of them slashdot users) who will be saved by Jesus Christ on judgement day!
The badly dated Half-Life engine still has one feature that is more powerful than anything in UT2k3: and that's voice over ip, in-game, mostly used in Counter-Strike.
UT2k3 already uses OGG for its music -- and I recall reading a UT2k3 developer plan file that states the wish for voice-over-ip, but basically they were waiting for someone in the open-source world to do all the work.
Why just hit a few buttons to say, "Ownage!" when they can hear your true compressed, overly nasal-sounding voice say it -- or perhaps more insulting, filthier things?