Actually, I AM a "pussy". I'm a girl. We generally don't like fighting. I was beat up by the kind of girls who grow up to be shaven-headed butch lesbians, and by various guys of various nasty sorts.
No, seriously. Forget for a moment about "big brother" fears. This sort of thing would be GREAT for the kids who were beat up for being nerdy (like me), fat, etc. You could just say to the teacher, "If you don't do something about (PERSON X) and (PERSON Y) picking on me, I'll just tell the Principal to review the tapes." Maybe that would help get some results.
A lot of kids (myself included) come away from the public school system with a REALLY negative attitude, since kids are basically allowed to beat the snot out of each other and no one does anything. The resulting perception is that authority figures are cold, ineffectual, and utterly apathetic. This might help alleviate that problem.
Could you email me some?;) I'm sure Crisco will make them hard to find now;)
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Apparently, "growing up" means "not making half-serious jokes about the current Republican administration"? Or thus saeth a SlashDot troll, anyhow...
How long before...
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...such things get classified as "terrorist training events"? After all, I hear they're running unAmerican OSes like that Lunix thing there... and they keep talking about HACKING! Oh poor Merkins!
I don't give a flaming rat's patootie about the DMCA, or the "don't copy that floppy" rubbish. I REALLY want to get into the mainframe admin field, and to do so, you need experience with newer mainframe OSes.
If you can give me a copy of such things, email me at J L B at T W U dot net.
I'm serious. I want to learn this stuff; DAMN copyright law. We all know it's impossible to find an entry-level position on anything nowadays, much less on mainframe operations.
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It's not about genitalia. It's about having the fucking right to CHOOSE what you put on YOUR computer, as opposed to having Pop Culture and Mama Gates dictate it for you.
Running Mac OS X doesn't make me feel my b00bs are any larger. It does, however, make me feel a little freer than the WinDrones of the world.
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Hey, up yours, buddy. This is PRECISELY what I wanted as a kid. So if you don't give a poop about the nerdy little kids getting the snot beat out of them just because they're nerdy... well, I guess that's your problem.
This is how the system works at present. The kids who get picked on have no recourse. Those who DARE fight back get sent to the Principal's office. The instigators of conflicts, however, hardly EVER get in any sort of trouble whatsoever. And we wonder why the RIAA gets away with the crap they do?
I think you're wearing rose-tinted glasses here. Or, to put it less politely, I think you are out of touch with reality. Go ask a few gamers what they think about a system where one or two 'new' (read: the last six months to a year) games work on it, but oh-- oh-- we have GREAT Tetris games! I guarantee you they will laugh you right out of the room.
My idea of 'gaming' is playing 10-year-old games in emulators. But my idea of gaming is ALSO a joke to most computer users nowadays.
And incidentally, TuxRacer IS available for Windows. And so is Frozen Bubble. It is VERY EASY to port Unix software to Windows (thanks to GNU-Win32 and the like); it is VERY HARD to port Windows software to Unix (thanks to Microsoft's semi-closed specs for the Win32 API). You do the math.
I'd like to see actual CAMERAS, please.
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And before you start screaming "INVASION OF PRIVACY!", please consider what it is that many geeks (i.e. many of the readers of this very story) go through in school. I was one of the two 'most picked on' kids in my school throughout my entire childhood (the fat girl was the other one). Teachers will almost never care when a student complains about another student harassing them. It's considered a "normal" (and, by implication, healthy!?) part of growing up. I once got beaten up by an older girl in the hallway, and no one did anything about it. Peppering Elementary and Middle schools with cameras, and enforcing strict penalties against the students who perpetrate violence against other students (and their parents, for raising such despicable brats in the first place), would do a lot more good than sensors and other "non-invasive" measures.
...the ease of use is only for USE. Not for support. There are a bajillion different variants of "desktop Linux" system, and each has to be supported differently. (Compare and contrast with Windows, where its much-berated centralization actually makes it easier to support. You see users helping OTHER USERS with Windows-- e.g. "Yeah, you just have to click on X, then click Y and you're done". You'd never see that with Linux.
What's more, to most of the people I've talked to about Linux, ease of use is not even a factor so long as commercial games won't run on Linux. (No, I'm not talking about WineX or VMWare. I'm talking about native support.) Most users are unwilling to talk about how easy Linux-based systems can be to use if they can't use them to game. You may poo-poo something that seems so frivolous, but it's a HUGE factor to many (most?) Windows users, particularly those under 30.
I love Linux. But frankly, this sort of story just seems like the Linux community patting itself on the back. Here's a challenge: Go to a college computer lab (make sure you fit in, i.e. don't do this if you're 45 and have a long gray beard) and ask random students if they've heard of Linux. (It may help to wear a Debian pin, or a Tux pin, or both, or the like). Then ask if they've considered switching to it. Be sure to tell them that some distributions of Linux can be quite easy to use. It won't matter... You may be surprised by what they tell you. And I guarantee games will be on the menu (in the majority of cases, anyhow).
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I got rid of the BLINK.
A honeypot-generating script, with instructions, and the first honeypot made by said script:
http://www.twu.net/projects/Warez.php
Enjoy!
Actually, I AM a "pussy". I'm a girl. We generally don't like fighting. I was beat up by the kind of girls who grow up to be shaven-headed butch lesbians, and by various guys of various nasty sorts.
Kids can't sue ANYONE. It's not within their legal rights.
And parents generally are too busy/apathetic/etc. to do so.
No, seriously. Forget for a moment about "big brother" fears. This sort of thing would be GREAT for the kids who were beat up for being nerdy (like me), fat, etc. You could just say to the teacher, "If you don't do something about (PERSON X) and (PERSON Y) picking on me, I'll just tell the Principal to review the tapes." Maybe that would help get some results.
A lot of kids (myself included) come away from the public school system with a REALLY negative attitude, since kids are basically allowed to beat the snot out of each other and no one does anything. The resulting perception is that authority figures are cold, ineffectual, and utterly apathetic. This might help alleviate that problem.
Who the hell modded this troll? What is trollish about this?
...but needs PUBLICIZING. As in, to non-geeks. Specifically, pointy-haired bosses.
Wanna bet the pro-MS article will be the one most PHBs will have come across their desk?
Can I get a translator, please? About the only bit I get is the "one of many things" paragraph.
They use some funky codec from Microsoft-land that apparently doesn't ship with Quicktime 6.0 for Mac OS X.
He wouldn't be "loosing" anything. He'd be "losing" something (only in his mind, of course).
When did it become publically acceptable to not know how to spell anything at all?
Go fuck yourself? I don't live in an all-Microsoft world like you do.
That's "cartridges", you philistine. When did it become publically acceptable to not know how to spell ANYTHING?
Depends on the human. I've met a lot of people I wouldn't pay a red cent for. ;)
Could you email me some? ;) I'm sure Crisco will make them hard to find now ;)
Apparently, "growing up" means "not making half-serious jokes about the current Republican administration"? Or thus saeth a SlashDot troll, anyhow...
...such things get classified as "terrorist training events"? After all, I hear they're running unAmerican OSes like that Lunix thing there... and they keep talking about HACKING! Oh poor Merkins!
I don't give a flaming rat's patootie about the DMCA, or the "don't copy that floppy" rubbish. I REALLY want to get into the mainframe admin field, and to do so, you need experience with newer mainframe OSes.
If you can give me a copy of such things, email me at J L B at T W U dot net.
I'm serious. I want to learn this stuff; DAMN copyright law. We all know it's impossible to find an entry-level position on anything nowadays, much less on mainframe operations.
New Macs start at $799.
It's not about genitalia. It's about having the fucking right to CHOOSE what you put on YOUR computer, as opposed to having Pop Culture and Mama Gates dictate it for you.
Running Mac OS X doesn't make me feel my b00bs are any larger. It does, however, make me feel a little freer than the WinDrones of the world.
The instructions assume a Windows PC.
Hey, up yours, buddy. This is PRECISELY what I wanted as a kid. So if you don't give a poop about the nerdy little kids getting the snot beat out of them just because they're nerdy... well, I guess that's your problem.
This is how the system works at present. The kids who get picked on have no recourse. Those who DARE fight back get sent to the Principal's office. The instigators of conflicts, however, hardly EVER get in any sort of trouble whatsoever. And we wonder why the RIAA gets away with the crap they do?
I think you're wearing rose-tinted glasses here. Or, to put it less politely, I think you are out of touch with reality. Go ask a few gamers what they think about a system where one or two 'new' (read: the last six months to a year) games work on it, but oh-- oh-- we have GREAT Tetris games! I guarantee you they will laugh you right out of the room.
My idea of 'gaming' is playing 10-year-old games in emulators. But my idea of gaming is ALSO a joke to most computer users nowadays.
And incidentally, TuxRacer IS available for Windows. And so is Frozen Bubble. It is VERY EASY to port Unix software to Windows (thanks to GNU-Win32 and the like); it is VERY HARD to port Windows software to Unix (thanks to Microsoft's semi-closed specs for the Win32 API). You do the math.
And before you start screaming "INVASION OF PRIVACY!", please consider what it is that many geeks (i.e. many of the readers of this very story) go through in school. I was one of the two 'most picked on' kids in my school throughout my entire childhood (the fat girl was the other one). Teachers will almost never care when a student complains about another student harassing them. It's considered a "normal" (and, by implication, healthy!?) part of growing up. I once got beaten up by an older girl in the hallway, and no one did anything about it. Peppering Elementary and Middle schools with cameras, and enforcing strict penalties against the students who perpetrate violence against other students (and their parents, for raising such despicable brats in the first place), would do a lot more good than sensors and other "non-invasive" measures.
...the ease of use is only for USE. Not for support. There are a bajillion different variants of "desktop Linux" system, and each has to be supported differently. (Compare and contrast with Windows, where its much-berated centralization actually makes it easier to support. You see users helping OTHER USERS with Windows-- e.g. "Yeah, you just have to click on X, then click Y and you're done". You'd never see that with Linux.
What's more, to most of the people I've talked to about Linux, ease of use is not even a factor so long as commercial games won't run on Linux. (No, I'm not talking about WineX or VMWare. I'm talking about native support.) Most users are unwilling to talk about how easy Linux-based systems can be to use if they can't use them to game. You may poo-poo something that seems so frivolous, but it's a HUGE factor to many (most?) Windows users, particularly those under 30.
I love Linux. But frankly, this sort of story just seems like the Linux community patting itself on the back. Here's a challenge: Go to a college computer lab (make sure you fit in, i.e. don't do this if you're 45 and have a long gray beard) and ask random students if they've heard of Linux. (It may help to wear a Debian pin, or a Tux pin, or both, or the like). Then ask if they've considered switching to it. Be sure to tell them that some distributions of Linux can be quite easy to use. It won't matter... You may be surprised by what they tell you. And I guarantee games will be on the menu (in the majority of cases, anyhow).