one called "Basic BASIC" and one called "Advanced BASIC" - My school had a PDP-8e running ETOS and OS/8 - Used an ASR33 Teletype or a DecwriterII if I signed up for it early enough - I used TECO to edit programs and ultimately wound up working for DEC for a few years:) - After BASIC, I picked up FORTRAN IV - Once the AppleII and PET arrived, I learned PASCAL, C, and 6502 assembler - The assembler code made me go back to the PDP-8e and learn that machine code as well.
That's just the programming.
Learning to actually write software properly, and not resort to things like self-modifying code, globals, and gotos took real world experience
DMCA is a great example of your US taxpayer dollars at work. The people that you elected to represent you and your interests were paid by you to write and enact this legislation. Did you get your money's worth? The industry lobbyists sure did.
...how some readers can think that politicians can do anything meaningful to influence this issue. The presumption that politicians have the time, will, intellectual capacity, common sense, and just plain patience to study an issue and formulate a response that is in any way useful, is a mind set that completely eludes me.
The same holds for the media.
Where does it say anywhere that the press owes you an accurate, well-researched story? The media exists not to inform but to sell advertising.
Media and Politics are two sides of the same see-saw. Both sides want our attention and our money, but ultimately benefit us nothing.
If you are passionate about global warming, stop consuming electricity, stop driving your car, stop eating processed foods, stop using air conditioning, stop heating your house with fossil fuels, stop wearing synthetic fibres, stop buying over-packaged products, make individual choices that get the attention of others.
Just don't be a jerk about it. Be a positive role model. Don't be a pious martyr. Don't drive a Prius and think you are changing the world.
The attention that you create causes questions to get asked, and you win hearts and minds one at a time. Nobody wants to do this because it takes work and time. They would rather see who can scream the loudest on the weekend news shows, and settle for a knee-jerk steaming pile of legislation that is a result of mis-informed horse trading.
Totally expecting to lose karma points on this one.
So virtually all of my limited number of positings in/. run along the lines of "show me the money - who has the money interest in this situation?" - I guess I need to add to that "show me the political agenda"
But not anyone can participate in this market. If the average honest American entrepreneur wants to open a gaming site or a casino, he can't; he needs connections or a personal exception or a willingness to break the law. Many do break it, directly or indirectly, with impunity, but no honest businessman can participate.
Wow. Took the words right out of my mouth. I have long dreamed of opening a casino of my own, but realise that I can never do it for just the reasons mentioned above. My state is dead set against gambling, and its not just a tax thing, it is some deeply engrained aversion to gambling that I will never fully understand. Gaming that benefits certain very large churches is okay, but propose a modest casino? forget it.
Virtually all of my limited number of postings to Slashdot say roughly the same thing: Follow the money. HiFn do not care about being deleted from the BSD source tree, and they certainly do not care about placating Theo. If BSD support were critical for them, they would be writing their own drivers and supplying them to their customers. (N.B. I used to be in the fabless semiconductor biz, and we did exactly this).
There is no constitutional right to privacy in the United States - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, but no right to privacy - Go read the docs - It ain't in there
It is interesting to read about Leonardo and his undeniable genius. I liken it to the great thinkers from Greece, and it leaves me wondering how both the Greek and Italian cultures came to be completely marginalised in modern times. Do not read this as a slam to the two countries, just wondering how shifts like these happen.
This all reminds me of the debates that spring up when people want to criminalize firearms. As the cliche goes, "If guns are criminalized then only criminals will have guns". One may easily say the same about robust encryption. If you have communications that are valuable, you will take the steps necessary to secure them from all eavesdropping, including the government's. Nowadays, this is easily accomplished through creative use of one-pad ciphers, which, in theory, are still largely unbreakable. (was that an iceberg we just hit?) Anyway, the point is if you have communications so valuable that you do not want the government listening, then you probably also have the resources to use what the government would deem illegal encryption (no back door) and also have the resources to make any legal problems that may arise just go away. This is a really old theme that is not going to change any time soon. The one with all of the gold makes the rules.
What an absolutely asenine letter - The author addresses an inportant issue and clouds it with useless analogy - The style of the letter screams "please ignore me, these are the ramblings of someone who should not be taken seriously" - This is a shame, since he eventually makes a very good point - S/N ratio is way too low for this to be a useful letter
You know, I find it odd that M$ is saying that people forgive free software more than stuff that you pay for. I can recall, during my Windows days, not giving it a second thought when I got a blue screen of death, and had to reboot. I just came to accept that the occasional BSOD was the best that I could get out of Redmond.
Beware of odd patents like this - Don't forget that IBM held the patents to audible key click and a blinking cursor - Lucent (before they spiraled into financial oblivion) had an entire department that generated real bottom line revenue solely through licensing and patent enforcement
I used to own a VIC-20, lemme see - Hmmm - 5K of memory (8K - overhead) running a 65C02 processor at 1.2MHz - VIC stood for the Video Interface Chip that brought 8 colors and 24x20 colored text if I recall correctly - I never actually owned a C-64 or C-128 - I had moved on to an Apple IIc at that point running ProDos
I use Crossover Office regularly - It is awesome - CodeWeavers does not pay me or anything like that - These guys offer an excellent service, and I think that they should be commended when the opportunity arises
The knee-jerk reaction of politicians on both the right and left is a matter of death and taxes inevitability - I think that it is a good thing for software to have lots of people pounding on it at the same time - I also think that cyber terrorism is a bad thing - Being a gun nut, however, I don't think that preemptively taking away software tools is the way to solve the problem
If compilers are criminalized, then only criminals will have compilers
Open source software tools don't kill networks, people do
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps they can sell them at Love Field, but only if they are driving within the state. Does that help?
That's just the programming.
Learning to actually write software properly, and not resort to things like self-modifying code, globals, and gotos took real world experience
DMCA is a great example of your US taxpayer dollars at work. The people that you elected to represent you and your interests were paid by you to write and enact this legislation. Did you get your money's worth? The industry lobbyists sure did.
Government is corrupt and self serving. Film at 11.
if ( you agree with speech ) {
it's protected
} else {
it's bribery
}
There is no reasonable concept of reasonableness.
The same holds for the media.
Where does it say anywhere that the press owes you an accurate, well-researched story? The media exists not to inform but to sell advertising.
Media and Politics are two sides of the same see-saw. Both sides want our attention and our money, but ultimately benefit us nothing.
If you are passionate about global warming, stop consuming electricity, stop driving your car, stop eating processed foods, stop using air conditioning, stop heating your house with fossil fuels, stop wearing synthetic fibres, stop buying over-packaged products, make individual choices that get the attention of others.
Just don't be a jerk about it. Be a positive role model. Don't be a pious martyr. Don't drive a Prius and think you are changing the world.
The attention that you create causes questions to get asked, and you win hearts and minds one at a time. Nobody wants to do this because it takes work and time. They would rather see who can scream the loudest on the weekend news shows, and settle for a knee-jerk steaming pile of legislation that is a result of mis-informed horse trading.
Totally expecting to lose karma points on this one.
No, it is how key exchange is accomplished in the South :)
The "Biowarfare" tag is simply priceless :)
What complete non-news. I read TFA, and the most informed statement that it made was don't buy your Prozac from China. Brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant - 1000 whose line points
dp
So virtually all of my limited number of positings in /. run along the lines of "show me the money - who has the money interest in this situation?" - I guess I need to add to that "show me the political agenda"
Can we get a mod parent down here?
Wow. Took the words right out of my mouth. I have long dreamed of opening a casino of my own, but realise that I can never do it for just the reasons mentioned above. My state is dead set against gambling, and its not just a tax thing, it is some deeply engrained aversion to gambling that I will never fully understand. Gaming that benefits certain very large churches is okay, but propose a modest casino? forget it.
Virtually all of my limited number of postings to Slashdot say roughly the same thing: Follow the money. HiFn do not care about being deleted from the BSD source tree, and they certainly do not care about placating Theo. If BSD support were critical for them, they would be writing their own drivers and supplying them to their customers. (N.B. I used to be in the fabless semiconductor biz, and we did exactly this).
There is no constitutional right to privacy in the United States - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, but no right to privacy - Go read the docs - It ain't in there
Your digital signature is only as secure as your passphrase dp
Digital signatures are legally binding and enforcable - So, yes, you can sign in cyberspace
It is interesting to read about Leonardo and his undeniable genius. I liken it to the great thinkers from Greece, and it leaves me wondering how both the Greek and Italian cultures came to be completely marginalised in modern times. Do not read this as a slam to the two countries, just wondering how shifts like these happen.
This all reminds me of the debates that spring up when people want to criminalize firearms. As the cliche goes, "If guns are criminalized then only criminals will have guns". One may easily say the same about robust encryption. If you have communications that are valuable, you will take the steps necessary to secure them from all eavesdropping, including the government's. Nowadays, this is easily accomplished through creative use of one-pad ciphers, which, in theory, are still largely unbreakable. (was that an iceberg we just hit?) Anyway, the point is if you have communications so valuable that you do not want the government listening, then you probably also have the resources to use what the government would deem illegal encryption (no back door) and also have the resources to make any legal problems that may arise just go away. This is a really old theme that is not going to change any time soon. The one with all of the gold makes the rules.
What an absolutely asenine letter - The author addresses an inportant issue and clouds it with useless analogy - The style of the letter screams "please ignore me, these are the ramblings of someone who should not be taken seriously" - This is a shame, since he eventually makes a very good point - S/N ratio is way too low for this to be a useful letter
You know, I find it odd that M$ is saying that people forgive free software more than stuff that you pay for. I can recall, during my Windows days, not giving it a second thought when I got a blue screen of death, and had to reboot. I just came to accept that the occasional BSOD was the best that I could get out of Redmond.
Beware of odd patents like this - Don't forget that IBM held the patents to audible key click and a blinking cursor - Lucent (before they spiraled into financial oblivion) had an entire department that generated real bottom line revenue solely through licensing and patent enforcement
Damn, I am old...
dp
If compilers are criminalized, then only criminals will have compilers
Open source software tools don't kill networks, people do