Interesting. For reference, here is the original text and links (from before the article "went live", as seen by subscribers):
Luther Blissett writes "There's a history of pranks and hacks in the year-end issue of the Economist, including MIT hacks, the Bonsai Kitten, and the Pentagon hack by my favorite, Abbie Hoffman." From the article: "At Harvard's neighbour, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 'hacks', as the MIT crowd calls them, are more serious. So serious, in fact, that in 2003 the institute's best hacks were assembled in a 178-page book, 'Nightwork'. The pranks at MIT tend to be feats of engineering. They are positively encouraged, because they teach students to work in teams, solve complex problems and, sometimes, get a message across. Mr Peterson's book includes an 11-point code for pranksters: leave no damage, do not steal, do not drop things off a building without a ground crew, and so on. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, at least, student pranks have become an establishment activity."
It wasn't an obvious call by any means, and I'm not surprised that people were conflicted. Trying to pick between Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum isn't fun.
You did know that you had otherchoices, didn't you?
Yeah, I'm typing from there now on my 2.53 GHz P4 via Road Runner cable connection, within my house that's rest next to a $200,000+ small suburb. Behind my house is a large horse field for those willing to pay the price to house their house there. In front of me is a small fishing lake with a park and four tennis courts for public use.
For some reason, I expected the next sentence to read, "Unfortunately, the government has frozen my bank account, and I need to get $1,000,000 out of the Cayman Islands FAST. Can you help me?"
I'll buy a beer for anyone who admits to being taken in by these chumps.
Amateur. It goes like this:
HELLO I AM PRINCE FALFURALL SON OF KING FELLOVERDED WHO TRAGICLEY DIED IN A BRWERY ACCIDENT. THE CORUPT LOCAL OFFICALS HAVE IMPOUNDED ALL THE BEER BUT THE MINISTER OF TRADE CAN ARRANGE A TANKER TRUCK TO EXPORT 1,736,000.50 LITERS TO SENEGAL BUT ONLY FOR A UNITD STATES NATIONAL. IF YOU WILL HELP ME TRANSPORT THE BEER I WILL GIVE YOU TEN (10) PERCENT OR 173600 GALLONS PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP GOD BLESS YOU!!~~!
Bar: Walk a mile in my shoes, buddy. You'll find out it ain't all peachs 'n cream.
Yeah. You've got it bad, here in America (I assume) with "the run-down, teeming streets, the grimy buildings, the broken refrigerators stacked outside, the strings of wet washing. It's the kind of place where plainclothes police prowl the streets extorting bribes, where mobs burn thieves to death for stealing a cellphone, and where some people paint "This House Is Not For Sale" in big letters on their homes, in case someone posing as the owner tries to put it on the market."
Oh, my bad. That's the description (from the FA) of the conditions of the folks who you're asking to "walk in your shoes". There's no way anyone from the US, Canada, or Europe (including myself) could even concieve of what it's like to live in such conditions with no way out.
Wrong is wrong, and the young man profiled in the article has more guts than most to see that and turn his back on it. But to completely ignore the factors behind the bad behavior is counterproductive at best. "Root causes" (of crime, poverty, terrorism, etc) may be overrated, but it's hard to defeat an enemy if you don't know his motivation.
Or maybe Slashdot dropped the [sarcasm] tag from your post...
This looks to be the second article in a row from the esteemed Monsieur Piquepaille that doesn't link to an article in his blog. Check out his story posting history:
Can asbestos help us understand nanotoxicity? Wed Oct 19, '05 12:23 PM Pillows Dangerous for Your Health Sat Oct 15, '05 12:28 PM Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Cooking Mon Aug 29, '05 11:32 AM The Eyes of the Space Shuttle Wed Aug 03, '05 12:58 PM
BIG gap between the two latest non-self-referential stories, and the weekly shameless self-promotion that used to be his trademark.
I suspect that somebody either gave Mr. P a stern talking-to, or more likely the editors just quit accepting his stories. Now, he's back, chastened and better for it. You've got to admit, the guy has an eye for science stories. He's just got to have confidence that if he posts good stuff, the click-throughs to his main page (linked appropriately to his name) will follow in time.
I'm all for shameless self-promotion, of course, but I'm content with the URL link in the post heading. Well, mostly...
...or do you mean: fromage mangeant des baiseurs de singe? Actually, I stole the French from a Slashdot.sig, so it's probably not phrased very well. However, I think yours translates even more strangely: "Cheese, eating some monkey-f*kers." Beware the monkey-f*ker-eating cheese!
In France, DSL service that is 10 times faster than the typical United States connection; 100 TV channels and unlimited telephone service cost only $38 per month.
Laugh while you can, you singes de capitulation qui mangent du fromage! You'll come crawling back when the Internet comes crashing down around you! Then we'll see who gets the last laugh!
Giant purple spiders aside, does the image show actual spots where the remnant magnetic flux is particularly strong? It seems like those spots might be an interesting place to site the first few Mars colonies.
Since shielding from the solar wind is a big issue, a location with just a little help from the residual field (even if weak) might have some advantages over a spot with no help at all from the dead crust.
Although the AC poster totally missed the point, his/her link to Cultural aspects of drinking patterns and alcohol controls in China is a facinating discussion of alcohol and its history in traditional and modern Chinese culture. It has nothing to do with my post, but is interesting nonetheless, especially in the context of the article (how "addiction", internet/alcohol/whatever, might be viewed in China).
I'll be sure to reference this link when the article is duplicated again -- give it a few weeks, it'll resurface.:)
To prevent that imminent danger all programmers must start programming in TI-99/4a Basic right now.
Start? Who ever stopped?
Actually, I wrote one of my first programs on my uncle's TI-99/4a. It was a playing card program of some sort, using the WOW! COOL! heart, spade, diamond, and club characters. Unfortunately, as I was completing the program, I tried to type an "=" and ended up doing "Reset"... the damned buttons were right next to each other.
But I sure wouldn't argue that the U.S. should adjust its priorities and send all NASA's funding to care for the homeless.
I just got a mental image of a million citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi building New New Orleans on the shores of the Sea of Tranquility. *shakes head at own insanity*
A bit of Slashdot man-behind-the-curtain trivia. Before this article went live, subscribers saw it on the front page. They also saw this article: Real Wins Against Microsoft, posted by CmdrTaco himself. The Zonk version won out, and the CmdrTaco story became one of my "Ghosts of Slashdot".
Can you imagine the flames if both articles had gone live? Back-to-back dupes aren't unknown, but there's usually at least a few minutes between them:)
In my opinion, the internet is way better and safer than alcohol and drugs any day.
You couldn't be more wrong. Alcohol and drugs suppress your higher brain functions, as well as your desire to do anything but get more alcohol and drugs. Properly managed, you will continue to be a loyal servant of the state, since we produce the alcohol and tolerate the drugs.
Excessive use of the Internet, on the other hand, could lead to independent thought, social instability, and rebellion.
The details that actually occur in those few nanoseconds and microseconds are not completely understood, but it is understood that a great many bizarre interactions take place.
I misread "interactions" as "incantations", and imagined the resulting neutron star looking something akin to the eye of Sauron...
Interesting choice of name. It implies that there might be something interesting on the inside, once you get past the cruft on the outside.
This web page may be of use: How To Break Open A Geode! Oddly enough, some of the information may apply to this particular type of "Geode":
"Below I will describe the most popular methods to opening geodes (besides sawing them). There are many different ways to open a geode, but no matter how you do it, the key is PATIENCE, PATIENCE, PATIENCE! If you want the geode to break into two halves, you absolutely CANNOT just hit it as hard as you want to with a hammer! If it is hollow, you will be left with pieces in most cases, not two halves!"
The page goes on to detail: * Hammer/Chisel Method * Sock Method * Pipe Cutter Method
1. It is very inefficient. 2. You still have to have the energy to compress the air. 3. High pressure air systems do not take abuse well and can be very dangerous. 4. This thing will be noisy as all get out.
You forgot:
5. ??? 6. Profit!
I think Step 5 goes something like this: To continue reading the complete article, login or subscribe below and get free instant access. Get 6 issues of TIME for only $1.99
Finally! After all these years, and now it's here: a story for which "Yeah, but does [ridiculously incongruous device] run Linux?" is actually on-topic!
The doctor, Philip Mach, 1: had a license to practice medicine in New Jersey but he 2: provided prescriptions to people throughout the United States without ever evaluating them, both of which are big no-no's.
So, it's against the law to practice medicine in New Jersey? Wow, the things you learn on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting. For reference, here is the original text and links (from before the article "went live", as seen by subscribers):
Luther Blissett writes "There's a history of pranks and hacks in the year-end issue of the Economist, including MIT hacks, the Bonsai Kitten, and the Pentagon hack by my favorite, Abbie Hoffman." From the article: "At Harvard's neighbour, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 'hacks', as the MIT crowd calls them, are more serious. So serious, in fact, that in 2003 the institute's best hacks were assembled in a 178-page book, 'Nightwork'. The pranks at MIT tend to be feats of engineering. They are positively encouraged, because they teach students to work in teams, solve complex problems and, sometimes, get a message across. Mr Peterson's book includes an 11-point code for pranksters: leave no damage, do not steal, do not drop things off a building without a ground crew, and so on. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, at least, student pranks have become an establishment activity."
I've heard that Microsoft Singularity sucks.
(Go ahead, mod me down... I deserve it.)
It wasn't an obvious call by any means, and I'm not surprised that people were conflicted. Trying to pick between Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum isn't fun.
You did know that you had other choices, didn't you?
Yeah, I'm typing from there now on my 2.53 GHz P4 via Road Runner cable connection, within my house that's rest next to a $200,000+ small suburb. Behind my house is a large horse field for those willing to pay the price to house their house there. In front of me is a small fishing lake with a park and four tennis courts for public use.
For some reason, I expected the next sentence to read, "Unfortunately, the government has frozen my bank account, and I need to get $1,000,000 out of the Cayman Islands FAST. Can you help me?"
I'll buy a beer for anyone who admits to being taken in by these chumps.
Amateur. It goes like this:
HELLO I AM PRINCE FALFURALL SON OF KING FELLOVERDED WHO TRAGICLEY DIED IN A BRWERY ACCIDENT. THE CORUPT LOCAL OFFICALS HAVE IMPOUNDED ALL THE BEER BUT THE MINISTER OF TRADE CAN ARRANGE A TANKER TRUCK TO EXPORT 1,736,000.50 LITERS TO SENEGAL BUT ONLY FOR A UNITD STATES NATIONAL. IF YOU WILL HELP ME TRANSPORT THE BEER I WILL GIVE YOU TEN (10) PERCENT OR 173600 GALLONS PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP GOD BLESS YOU!!~~!
Foo: They say the American guy has a good life.
Bar: Walk a mile in my shoes, buddy. You'll find out it ain't all peachs 'n cream.
Yeah. You've got it bad, here in America (I assume) with "the run-down, teeming streets, the grimy buildings, the broken refrigerators stacked outside, the strings of wet washing. It's the kind of place where plainclothes police prowl the streets extorting bribes, where mobs burn thieves to death for stealing a cellphone, and where some people paint "This House Is Not For Sale" in big letters on their homes, in case someone posing as the owner tries to put it on the market."
Oh, my bad. That's the description (from the FA) of the conditions of the folks who you're asking to "walk in your shoes". There's no way anyone from the US, Canada, or Europe (including myself) could even concieve of what it's like to live in such conditions with no way out.
Wrong is wrong, and the young man profiled in the article has more guts than most to see that and turn his back on it. But to completely ignore the factors behind the bad behavior is counterproductive at best. "Root causes" (of crime, poverty, terrorism, etc) may be overrated, but it's hard to defeat an enemy if you don't know his motivation.
Or maybe Slashdot dropped the [sarcasm] tag from your post...
Boihazard == Bad
Nanotoxins == Bad
Oh, come on. Avril Lavigne isn't that hazardous. Just annoying.
This looks to be the second article in a row from the esteemed Monsieur Piquepaille that doesn't link to an article in his blog. Check out his story posting history:
Can asbestos help us understand nanotoxicity? Wed Oct 19, '05 12:23 PM
Pillows Dangerous for Your Health Sat Oct 15, '05 12:28 PM
Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Cooking Mon Aug 29, '05 11:32 AM
The Eyes of the Space Shuttle Wed Aug 03, '05 12:58 PM
BIG gap between the two latest non-self-referential stories, and the weekly shameless self-promotion that used to be his trademark.
I suspect that somebody either gave Mr. P a stern talking-to, or more likely the editors just quit accepting his stories. Now, he's back, chastened and better for it. You've got to admit, the guy has an eye for science stories. He's just got to have confidence that if he posts good stuff, the click-throughs to his main page (linked appropriately to his name) will follow in time.
I'm all for shameless self-promotion, of course, but I'm content with the URL link in the post heading. Well, mostly...
...or do you mean: fromage mangeant des baiseurs de singe? .sig, so it's probably not phrased very well. However, I think yours translates even more strangely: "Cheese, eating some monkey-f*kers." Beware the monkey-f*ker-eating cheese!
Actually, I stole the French from a Slashdot
In France, DSL service that is 10 times faster than the typical United States connection; 100 TV channels and unlimited telephone service cost only $38 per month.
Laugh while you can, you singes de capitulation qui mangent du fromage! You'll come crawling back when the Internet comes crashing down around you! Then we'll see who gets the last laugh!
Giant purple spiders aside, does the image show actual spots where the remnant magnetic flux is particularly strong? It seems like those spots might be an interesting place to site the first few Mars colonies.
Since shielding from the solar wind is a big issue, a location with just a little help from the residual field (even if weak) might have some advantages over a spot with no help at all from the dead crust.
Aha... I remember now. Fctn+= instead of Shift+= == disaster. Man, was I ever pi... upset.
Although the AC poster totally missed the point, his/her link to Cultural aspects of drinking patterns and alcohol controls in China is a facinating discussion of alcohol and its history in traditional and modern Chinese culture. It has nothing to do with my post, but is interesting nonetheless, especially in the context of the article (how "addiction", internet/alcohol/whatever, might be viewed in China).
:)
I'll be sure to reference this link when the article is duplicated again -- give it a few weeks, it'll resurface.
To prevent that imminent danger all programmers must start programming in TI-99/4a Basic right now.
Start? Who ever stopped?
Actually, I wrote one of my first programs on my uncle's TI-99/4a. It was a playing card program of some sort, using the WOW! COOL! heart, spade, diamond, and club characters. Unfortunately, as I was completing the program, I tried to type an "=" and ended up doing "Reset"... the damned buttons were right next to each other.
But I sure wouldn't argue that the U.S. should adjust its priorities and send all NASA's funding to care for the homeless.
I just got a mental image of a million citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi building New New Orleans on the shores of the Sea of Tranquility. *shakes head at own insanity*
Wow, tough room. Hey, you try mixing satire and first-dozen-posting, and see if you can keep your facts straight. Speaking of facts...
Boy, people sure waste a lot of time having sex, I guess we'd better outlaw it before it becomes an epidemic.
Sometimes it seems like we're closer to that than you'd think.
A bit of Slashdot man-behind-the-curtain trivia. Before this article went live, subscribers saw it on the front page. They also saw this article: Real Wins Against Microsoft, posted by CmdrTaco himself. The Zonk version won out, and the CmdrTaco story became one of my "Ghosts of Slashdot".
:)
Can you imagine the flames if both articles had gone live? Back-to-back dupes aren't unknown, but there's usually at least a few minutes between them
Please mark links that are not work appropriate as such. Otherwise, it's hard for the kids to find them. :)
Actually, I'm curious what link in the grandparent post is NSFW? salon.com?
In my opinion, the internet is way better and safer than alcohol and drugs any day.
You couldn't be more wrong. Alcohol and drugs suppress your higher brain functions, as well as your desire to do anything but get more alcohol and drugs. Properly managed, you will continue to be a loyal servant of the state, since we produce the alcohol and tolerate the drugs.
Excessive use of the Internet, on the other hand, could lead to independent thought, social instability, and rebellion.
Please report to Minitrue immediately.
Great post. But I had to look twice near the end:
The details that actually occur in those few nanoseconds and microseconds are not completely understood, but it is understood that a great many bizarre interactions take place.
I misread "interactions" as "incantations", and imagined the resulting neutron star looking something akin to the eye of Sauron...
Interesting choice of name. It implies that there might be something interesting on the inside, once you get past the cruft on the outside.
This web page may be of use: How To Break Open A Geode! Oddly enough, some of the information may apply to this particular type of "Geode":
"Below I will describe the most popular methods to opening geodes (besides sawing them). There are many different ways to open a geode, but no matter how you do it, the key is PATIENCE, PATIENCE, PATIENCE! If you want the geode to break into two halves, you absolutely CANNOT just hit it as hard as you want to with a hammer! If it is hollow, you will be left with pieces in most cases, not two halves!"
The page goes on to detail:
* Hammer/Chisel Method
* Sock Method
* Pipe Cutter Method
I want one already!
1. It is very inefficient.
2. You still have to have the energy to compress the air.
3. High pressure air systems do not take abuse well and can be very dangerous.
4. This thing will be noisy as all get out.
You forgot:
5. ???
6. Profit!
I think Step 5 goes something like this:
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Kapiche?
Phoenix Mars Lander Hits Halfway Point
I had to look at that one twice. The first time, all I saw was "Phoenix Mars Lander Hits..." and my brain filled in the rest with "Object, Is Lost".
Finally! After all these years, and now it's here: a story for which "Yeah, but does [ridiculously incongruous device] run Linux?" is actually on-topic!
The doctor, Philip Mach, 1: had a license to practice medicine in New Jersey but he 2: provided prescriptions to people throughout the United States without ever evaluating them, both of which are big no-no's.
So, it's against the law to practice medicine in New Jersey? Wow, the things you learn on Slashdot.