we don't need the virus, if the code was trustworthy (open source), I'd happily volunteer to donate my spare cycles to the cause. I bet I'm not the only one.
what if we sent all the replies through anonymous remailers set up specifically for the task, or even better, had a system that you could foreward all your spam to that would do the replying for you - from an address that would send a random spam back in reply to anything you send it - you would literally spam the spammers.
"the purpose of the TemplateMaster is to clone itself" uh.. why would you want to buy something that can only duplicate itself? at least it's convienient.. how many 'copy-protected' materials are themselves violations of the DCMA - on themselves?
call 800-726-8649: sco's number - do your part to drain their budget, morale, and arrogance. I like to call every few days or so, to leave a message or point out an interesting SCO-related url that the people who work there may want to see.
I encourage everyone who has something to say to them to do the same. That's what the phone is for!
DEAD WRONG. There are people out there who depend on marijuana for their lives, and many others out there who just enjoy it.
The idea that I could be put in jail for smoking marijuana is completely insane. I am voting for Georgy now, BECAUSE she is willing to publically support marijuana legalization. There are other issues I agree with her on, but this one is so critical that it alone is enough to change my vote.
I AM NOT ALONE. She is not damaging her campaign by supporting rational, positive, non-life-destroying drug policy. She is gaining the support of people like me, hopefully millions.
I am sick of society telling me that there is something wrong with me because I prefer smoking pot to drinking alcohol. In a more perfect world, where this trend continues, and politicians continue to publically support legalization, I would NEVER vote for anyone who does NOT speak out against the inhumane laws we currently have.
All this confusion and debate and 'circus' atmosphere are just what REAL democracy feels like. This fake-ass tv-polished elephant-and-pony-show that I've seen in every other election is maybe on it's way out.
-------- it's the simple things in life that turn the peasants into leaders and we know the differences between the walkers and the sleepers
- aesop rock
This is actually a great idea - what if EVERYONE who is really pissed off at SCO sent them an envelope with a note attached saying 'here is my license fee for linux', a copy of the GPL, and a picture of their middle finger.
Can you imagine the demoralization at SCO if they received even just a dozen or so fuck-you gesture pictures per employee? Better yet, address them to specific people who have said idiotic things in public to assist in SCO's attempted rape of the linux industry.
(the following information is cached here as taken from SCO's website, as of ~5:15 PST, Aug. 5:
SCO's address is:
The SCO Group 355 South 520 West Suite 100 Lindon, Utah 84042 USA
801-765-4999 phone 801-765-1313 fax
here are some executive profiles: http://www.caldera.com/company/execs/ Here's sco's list of papers filed (and the judge's name, in case you want to write to him - but i recommend using a different set of content) http://www.sco.com/ibmlawsuit/
if you do it, say so - encourage others - SCO should not be feeling good about themselves.
BTW -there is no reason they need to know who exactly sent them their thoughts. It's a pretty widely shared viewpoint.
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Any company trying so hard to make other people's lives harder deserves some consequenses.
1. It really wasn't intended as a troll. I was sincere. 2. He has effectively repealed most of those archaic 'rights' for all of us, that should apply to him as well. 3. Dammit, you're right.
If only it were true... If Jon Ashcroft were sentenced to Death By Legislation, it would be the finest example of justice in America that I had seen in my life so far. Somehow I bet this isn't what happened.
I have ADD and have for most of my life (though I was diagnosed at 21, about five years ago). I have tried many things to help with that, and found two that make a HUGE positive difference in my ability to focus:
- Adderall
- Marijuana
Both work best in the lowest dose that you feel an effect from, and they work well in combination (kinda counterintuitive, but it's true!). I have an "off the record" doctor's reccomendation for the latter, and an actual legal prescription for the former. (Here in the U.S., the government basically terrorizes and/or destroys the life of those who advocate the use of drugs that the government doesn't want people using - so my doctor was willing to give his approval, but nothing written.)
I cannot reccommend the marijuana solution highly enough. As long as you are careful to be _doing_ what you want to accomplish, you will have a much higher level of interest and dedication to the task, and not be nearly as distracted by other things (as long as they aren't people - for some reason people are still a huge distraction).
FYI, I am a programmer, and have coded up about two hundred programs of various using MJ for enhanced concentration / creativity, and dozens with Adderall and/or the combination.
Could you explain the process of contacting the spam company, contacting the court, the lawers, etc... in more detail? I'd REALLY like to do this myself, and start teaching and encouraging others to do it. Spam happens because it makes money for the companies that send it. If they started LOSING massive amounts of money...
Unfortunately, voting Libertarian will not do much good -- they will not get elected.
Fuck you.
If you insist on only voting for candidates from the list of recently popular parties, YOU are causing the vicious cycle to repeat, and if you would rather see someone from another party get elected, but instead vote for someone you don't think would do as good a job... you really don't deserve the right to vote.
People who value their right to vote, vote for the person they think is best for the job. Period.
Start thinking or stop voting! The sooner people get some principles and refuse to vote for anyone who doesn't deserve their vote, even if they are "likely to win", the sooner we will have a real political system in this country.
It removes all of the (practical) motivation to speed. You can't remove the other kind of motivation anyway, unless you make speeding commonplace and legal.
OR, you could assume that if they are going to be in a paid position buying computer equipment, they have computer catalogues around somewhere, or at least web access, and enough basic grey matter connections segments to wrap around the concept that to buy that hard drive or lcd monitor or technical sounding thing like they heard of on TV, or saw written on some boxes down in the computer storage room, they'll have to look for those things at a computer parts store. From there it is a simple text string match for words like LCD monitor and SCSI drive. Even if they have no clue what SCSI is, if all the drives seem to be SCSI or IDE, they'll know to get the one matching your acronym.
Even the dumbest guy I have ever met can do a plain old strcmp() in his head.
Damn right. More importantly, we (the US Citizens) have just as much right to spy on the US Government as they do to spy on us. Even more, if you consider that we pay their salaries.
I've been an American all my life, and I'm sad to say it but I could not agree with you more.
Americans are distrustful of their own government (which I believe is in direct response to how it has treated us over the last n years), so many of them feeling powerless over the political system, feeling that they cannot possibly change the way things are. For example: try to explain to an average american why someone might vote for a third party candidate. It doesn't matter who the candidate is at ALL to them, they just give up at the thought).
If WE as americans feel this way (and I know I am not the only one), just imagine how entire countries of other people must feel, with all these unfair drug laws, export laws, denial of free speech, government sponsored monopolies in several different monopolies; and we also send in our troops to just about any other country that suits our fancy - whether they ask for help or not. It isn't even a big deal anymore.
The fact that we could have american troops - paid for by MY TAX MONEY - involved in multiple international conflicts simultaneously - demands at least weekly explaination, progress reports, and eta to finish from the ruling administration. This sort of bad-karma-inducing decadance is not what I want to support with my share of the society's debt.
I don't believe, however, that they are fundamentally different.
Accounting is about keeping track of a lot of data, doing a lot of math, and following precise sequences of instructions in order to correctly
process the data and get the result desired..
If we were talking sociology, or religeon, I would agree that they are fundamentally different from software. But accounting... no.
Everyone seems so convinced that software standards change fast because that is somehow their nature. But really, if you step back and think about it, other than one or two types of virus, software does not change it's interfaces/behavior by itself. At least, not much so far. It takes _people_ to change all this stuff, and the frequency with which they do so is based on their own personal motivations and quirks. I believe this is a self-reinforcing myth.
Do we want this continual turmoil of newer and bigger and better standards in software forever?? I believe that like most other technologies, most common types of software will reach a stage where they are 90% perfect and the cost of continuing to update them and break compatibility with older systems will not be worth the effort, and although minor updates, security fixes, and the like would happen, for the most part, you could take a computer and install a bunch of software on it, and then just __use__ it for years without worrying about upgrading the software, operating system, browser, or their intercompatibility.
I mean, Toasters can do this!
Someday, maybe not in my lifetime, computers will be simple and easy to use. For real, not just in marketing speak (which translates back to english as " ").
On the other hand, some types of software will never stop being changing, just like art and music will never stop changing.
Bullshit.
Gore cost Nader the election. How many millions of more people would have voted for Nader if they didn't feel like Gore was their "only real choice"
No, the solution is to start a non-profit open version of the hack SDMI contest. I read the whole agreement about what you have to do before downloading the samples, and there is no mention of keeping quiet about your hack unless you want them to __PAY__ you. So let's eliminate that motive.
I say we register something like www.openhacksdmi.org and take the same thing the RIAA would like to see kept closed and secret and publish it on the web. The author of the hack would get a PO box or it's electronic equivalent and take donations. I personally would throw in 100 bucks or so to help see the RIAA's paltry 10k extortion scheme go down in flames.. There have to be more people out there like me who would like to do _something_ to fight back against the RIAA's campaign of pillaging and raping on my civil rights.
I am a notary public in the State of California, and in legal terms an Oath or affirmation IS more than a promise, or notarys wouldn't be involved in verifying that the person taking the oath is who they say they are, aren't under duress, know at least basically what they are agreeing to, etc...
This is more than a promise. The purpose of all this fanfare seems to be to make it a legally enforceable promise. IANAL, but I would expect that in a system that purports to provide some sort of justice, if all these public officials have to take oaths, they should be held personally responsible for doing what they said.
And since when is a promise meaningless? It's only so if while let it be.
No, I saw them for sale at Frys in Canoga Park (CA). A friend of mine bought one, and you can bet I'm gonna. The company that makes them is called Raite, here's their [english] website: http://www.raite.com.tw/edefault.htm
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we don't need the virus, if the code was trustworthy (open source), I'd happily volunteer to donate my spare cycles to the cause. I bet I'm not the only one.
what if we sent all the replies through anonymous remailers set up specifically for the task, or even better, had a system that you could foreward all your spam to that would do the replying for you - from an address that would send a random spam back in reply to anything you send it - you would literally spam the spammers.
"the purpose of the TemplateMaster is to clone itself"
uh..
why would you want to buy something that can only duplicate itself?
at least it's convienient.. how many 'copy-protected' materials are themselves violations of the DCMA - on themselves?
call 800-726-8649:
sco's number - do your part to drain their budget, morale, and arrogance. I like to call every few days or so, to leave a message or point out an interesting SCO-related url that the people who work there may want to see.
I encourage everyone who has something to say to them to do the same. That's what the phone is for!
DEAD WRONG. There are people out there who depend on marijuana for their lives, and many others out there who just enjoy it.
The idea that I could be put in jail for smoking marijuana is completely insane. I am voting for Georgy now, BECAUSE she is willing to publically support marijuana legalization. There are other issues I agree with her on, but this one is so critical that it alone is enough to change my vote.
I AM NOT ALONE. She is not damaging her campaign by supporting rational, positive, non-life-destroying drug policy. She is gaining the support of people like me, hopefully millions.
I am sick of society telling me that there is something wrong with me because I prefer smoking pot to drinking alcohol. In a more perfect world, where this trend continues, and politicians continue to publically support legalization, I would NEVER vote for anyone who does NOT speak out against the inhumane laws we currently have.
All this confusion and debate and 'circus' atmosphere are just what REAL democracy feels like. This fake-ass tv-polished elephant-and-pony-show that I've seen in every other election is maybe on it's way out.
--------
it's the simple things in life that turn the peasants into leaders and we know the differences between the walkers and the sleepers
- aesop rock
This is actually a great idea - what if EVERYONE who is really pissed off at SCO sent them an envelope with a note attached saying 'here is my license fee for linux', a copy of the GPL, and a picture of their middle finger.
Can you imagine the demoralization at SCO if they received even just a dozen or so fuck-you gesture pictures per employee? Better yet, address them to specific people who have said idiotic things in public to assist in SCO's attempted rape of the linux industry.
(the following information is cached here as taken from SCO's website, as of ~5:15 PST, Aug. 5:
SCO's address is:
The SCO Group
355 South 520 West
Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042 USA
801-765-4999 phone
801-765-1313 fax
here are some executive profiles:
http://www.caldera.com/company/execs/
Here's sco's list of papers filed (and the judge's name, in case you want to write to him - but i recommend using a different set of content)
http://www.sco.com/ibmlawsuit/
if you do it, say so - encourage others - SCO should not be feeling good about themselves.
BTW -there is no reason they need to know who exactly sent them their thoughts. It's a pretty widely shared viewpoint.
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Any company trying so hard to make other people's lives harder deserves some consequenses.
1. It really wasn't intended as a troll. I was sincere.
2. He has effectively repealed most of those archaic 'rights' for all of us, that should apply to him as well.
3. Dammit, you're right.
If only it were true...
If Jon Ashcroft were sentenced to Death By Legislation, it would be the finest example of justice in America that I had seen in my life so far. Somehow I bet this isn't what happened.
I have ADD and have for most of my life (though I was diagnosed at 21, about five years ago). I have tried many things to help with that, and found two that make a HUGE positive difference in my ability to focus:
- Adderall
- Marijuana
Both work best in the lowest dose that you feel an effect from, and they work well in combination (kinda counterintuitive, but it's true!). I have an "off the record" doctor's reccomendation for the latter, and an actual legal prescription for the former. (Here in the U.S., the government basically terrorizes and/or destroys the life of those who advocate the use of drugs that the government doesn't want people using - so my doctor was willing to give his approval, but nothing written.)
I cannot reccommend the marijuana solution highly enough. As long as you are careful to be _doing_ what you want to accomplish, you will have a much higher level of interest and dedication to the task, and not be nearly as distracted by other things (as long as they aren't people - for some reason people are still a huge distraction).
FYI, I am a programmer, and have coded up about two hundred programs of various using MJ for enhanced concentration / creativity, and dozens with Adderall and/or the combination.
Could you explain the process of contacting the spam company, contacting the court, the lawers, etc... in more detail? I'd REALLY like to do this myself, and start teaching and encouraging others to do it. Spam happens because it makes money for the companies that send it. If they started LOSING massive amounts of money...
Unfortunately, voting Libertarian will not do much good -- they will not get elected.
Fuck you.
If you insist on only voting for candidates from the list of recently popular parties, YOU are causing the vicious cycle to repeat, and if you would rather see someone from another party get elected, but instead vote for someone you don't think would do as good a job... you really don't deserve the right to vote.
People who value their right to vote, vote for the person they think is best for the job. Period.
Start thinking or stop voting! The sooner people get some principles and refuse to vote for anyone who doesn't deserve their vote, even if they are "likely to win", the sooner we will have a real political system in this country.
That is actually brilliant.
It removes all of the (practical) motivation to speed. You can't remove the other kind of motivation anyway, unless you make speeding commonplace and legal.
OR, you could assume that if they are going to be in a paid position buying computer equipment, they have computer catalogues around somewhere, or at least web access, and enough basic grey matter connections segments to wrap around the concept that to buy that hard drive or lcd monitor or technical sounding thing like they heard of on TV, or saw written on some boxes down in the computer storage room, they'll have to look for those things at a computer parts store. From there it is a simple text string match for words like LCD monitor and SCSI drive. Even if they have no clue what SCSI is, if all the drives seem to be SCSI or IDE, they'll know to get the one matching your acronym.
Even the dumbest guy I have ever met can do a plain old strcmp() in his head.
Damn right. More importantly, we (the US Citizens) have just as much right to spy on the US Government as they do to spy on us. Even more, if you consider that we pay their salaries.
Think about it. He has a legitimate question that you haven't answered.
I've been an American all my life, and I'm sad to say it but I could not agree with you more. Americans are distrustful of their own government (which I believe is in direct response to how it has treated us over the last n years), so many of them feeling powerless over the political system, feeling that they cannot possibly change the way things are. For example: try to explain to an average american why someone might vote for a third party candidate. It doesn't matter who the candidate is at ALL to them, they just give up at the thought). If WE as americans feel this way (and I know I am not the only one), just imagine how entire countries of other people must feel, with all these unfair drug laws, export laws, denial of free speech, government sponsored monopolies in several different monopolies; and we also send in our troops to just about any other country that suits our fancy - whether they ask for help or not. It isn't even a big deal anymore. The fact that we could have american troops - paid for by MY TAX MONEY - involved in multiple international conflicts simultaneously - demands at least weekly explaination, progress reports, and eta to finish from the ruling administration. This sort of bad-karma-inducing decadance is not what I want to support with my share of the society's debt.
Accounting is old.
Software is new.
I don't believe, however, that they are fundamentally different.
Accounting is about keeping track of a lot of data, doing a lot of math, and following precise sequences of instructions in order to correctly
process the data and get the result desired..
If we were talking sociology, or religeon, I would agree that they are fundamentally different from software. But accounting... no.
Everyone seems so convinced that software standards change fast because that is somehow their nature. But really, if you step back and think about it, other than one or two types of virus, software does not change it's interfaces/behavior by itself. At least, not much so far. It takes _people_ to change all this stuff, and the frequency with which they do so is based on their own personal motivations and quirks. I believe this is a self-reinforcing myth.
Do we want this continual turmoil of newer and bigger and better standards in software forever?? I believe that like most other technologies, most common types of software will reach a stage where they are 90% perfect and the cost of continuing to update them and break compatibility with older systems will not be worth the effort, and although minor updates, security fixes, and the like would happen, for the most part, you could take a computer and install a bunch of software on it, and then just __use__ it for years without worrying about upgrading the software, operating system, browser, or their intercompatibility.
I mean, Toasters can do this!
Someday, maybe not in my lifetime, computers will be simple and easy to use. For real, not just in marketing speak (which translates back to english as " ").
On the other hand, some types of software will never stop being changing, just like art and music will never stop changing.
<i>I took my first programming class in Ada.</i>
Ok, someone _has_ to moderate this message's parent as Funny.
Bullshit. Gore cost Nader the election. How many millions of more people would have voted for Nader if they didn't feel like Gore was their "only real choice"
No, the solution is to start a non-profit open version of the hack SDMI contest. I read the whole agreement about what you have to do before downloading the samples, and there is no mention of keeping quiet about your hack unless you want them to __PAY__ you. So let's eliminate that motive.
I say we register something like www.openhacksdmi.org and take the same thing the RIAA would like to see kept closed and secret and publish it on the web. The author of the hack would get a PO box or it's electronic equivalent and take donations. I personally would throw in 100 bucks or so to help see the RIAA's paltry 10k extortion scheme go down in flames.. There have to be more people out there like me who would like to do _something_ to fight back against the RIAA's campaign of pillaging and raping on my civil rights.
I am a notary public in the State of California,
and in legal terms an Oath or affirmation IS more than a promise, or notarys wouldn't be involved in verifying that the person taking the oath is who
they say they are, aren't under duress, know at least basically what they are agreeing to, etc...
This is more than a promise. The purpose of all this fanfare seems to be to make it a legally enforceable promise. IANAL, but I would expect that in a system that purports to provide some sort of justice, if all these public officials have to take oaths, they should be held personally responsible for doing what they said.
And since when is a promise meaningless?
It's only so if while let it be.
There is only ONE reasonable restriction you can make to help curtail drug use: don't use them yourself.
No, I saw them for sale at Frys in Canoga Park (CA). A friend of mine bought one, and you can bet I'm gonna.
The company that makes them is called Raite,
here's their [english] website:
http://www.raite.com.tw/edefault.htm
I'm all for napster, but this AC is right. That ain't flamebait, just truth.
Actually, in that article, Sun took over a YEAR for one of their fixes.