They have re-renamed the development division back to Borland. In honor of the great Al Borland of Home Improvement. (Well, maybe not that last part:) )
This also scares me. In a Wired interview, Leonardo Chiariglione, the head of the SDMI initiate, said:
"Why all of sudden has the United States become so concerned with privacy? Privacy was never a concern before the Web."
We have always been concerned about privacy. It is more along the lines of "Why are there suddenly so many privacy invasions and disregard for everyones basic want for privacy?"
No doubt! It seemed to be forever before anyone took the Internet seriously. Back in the text-based Telnet/FTP days, you could tell something was definitely happening. However, it took flashy pictures and mouse-clicking before the businesses took notice. Well, duh, I guess I am restating the obvious here...
Looks heavily funded by IBM? Their non-so-secret strategy against Microsoft? Of course, eventually someone will not like the direction that the Apache group is going and will create a new distribution (ala Linux) with a different aim. Not that is bad, it will be interesting to see where it goes...
Need people to thrash on my new web messaging system. The code is in the extreme pre-alpha stages, being only two days old, but it working well (but not very feature-rich just yet, but give it time!) and I need to see how it holds up under a load.
I completely agree, except that the top level domain should be.xxx instead of the protocol name (xxx://)
Any site with porn should be required to have a http://www.nakedhumans.xxx type address.
With all these new so-called competitors to NSI for registering domain names, why are we still seing nothing but.com,.org., and.net? I had ONE company mail me something about getting a.cc address, and that is it. I thought that these competing registrars were all going to have their own TLD -.web,.inc,.dot,.slash, etc. (or would that be.etc ?:) )
You are a small-brained lemming/sheep. It's people like you that scare me the most. While, yes, in the short term, you give some freedom up in exchange to catch the bogeyman, in the long run you give up far more. Would you curse your children or grandchildren to a horrible existence just to protect you from the "monsters"?
Yes, I currently have nothing to hide, yet that is no reason for me to arbitrarily give my privacy rights to someone else.
See, eventually, if all this "listening" goes into effect, some day, some crazy (Hitler, Big Brother, or probably something worse) will get into a leadership position of world government and will abuse the shit out of that power, and for the first time in human history, the general population, once it becomes enraged by the atrocities, will be unable to coordinate to change/overthrow this sick person as the minute they try to discuss it, they are instantly "listened" and then the secret police show up and kill you and your family.
Don't say it wont happen. Study the history of EVERY government that has ever existed. Sadly, it always happens.
Wow! I was at the Kearney, Nebraska Weird Al show! I even had a back stage pass! I got to meet him after the show. Of course, I had absolutely nothing intelligent to say ("Uh, people say I'm weirder than you!" and he just looked at me like some kind of freak!)
Does ANYONE remember "The Weird Al Report" (I think that was what it was called) on HBO or Showtime around 1986 or 1987? In one of the shows, he took a long, rolled up piece of paper and stuck it up his nose and pulled it out of his nose slowly while making weird faces and noises. (I know that sounds stupid and lame, but it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen, about peed myself!) I said something about it to Al, and he said I must have him confused with someone else. He was nice, considering he was very tired and putting up with a bunch of stupid hicks from mid-Nebraska. Still, I walked away feeling like a fool!:)
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I know quite a few people who have purchased an MD player in the last few weeks. It is really starting to take off. If only there were more bands available on pre-recorded formats. But, I have a CD player with fiber-optic out and now can make copies of CDs (Or even better, MDs with ONLY the songs that I want to listen to!!) all with digital copying.
I think it is just beginning. We Americans are just a bit slow!:)
Get OVER the Dead? What the fuck? Yah, let's get OVER Led Zeppelin, let's get OVER the Beatles, let's get OVER Blue Oyster Cult, let's get over The Who, let's get OVER Dream Theater, let's get OVER Stone Temple Pilots, let's get over beethoven, let's get over Elvis, let's get over Electricity, let's get OVER Tesla, let's get OVER chocolat, let's get OVER whatever the fuck your weenie ass thinks is good music. Let's get OVER Open Source, let's get OVER RMS, let's get OVER evolution, let's get over being DEAD, let's get OVER LINUX and Slashdot and anything else anyone hold's dear to their heart!!!!! Go to HELL you stupid bastard. Fuck off, eat shit! If ya want to get over something, let's get OVER Kosovo. (Send over an assassination team if Billy-boy is REALLY serious!!) Let's GET OVER your stupid ass!!! (Moderators, find it in your hearts to give this a PLUS ONE!!!)
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Kewl, I just wrote this letter to the DOJ a couple night ago:
------------------------------------ I am concerned about the way Network Solutions is doing business and how it will affect the nature of the Internet. They have been operating under an exclusive contract with the US government for the past seven years.
www.internic.net has been a central site for Internet registration information for that time and has come to be regarded as the central point on the Internet for locating domain registration information.
Now that the government has expanded the registration services to allow other companies to also provide registration services, Network Solutions has effectively perverted the Internic services by changing the web page for Internic to redirect to the Network Solutions web page. While this was not against any ruling involved in de-monopolizing domain registration services, it is certainly against the spirit of it!
Internic has always been a shared resource of the entire Internet, and now Network Solutions has unethically claimed control of it.
Whatever the Federal Trade Commission can do, I hope you can do something.
I just read a thing about Omaha being one of the most wired place in the world. So much bandwidth you can fly a kite on the temporal distortion induced by the sheer amount of data delta-vee.
A hellish amount of fiber coming into town. Three companies competing to provide you with cable modem service. Plus ADSL just about everywhere as well.
Sounds like this study is just one of those "43% of all statistics are made up on the spot" stories.
Yah, and if we could now just get to the next stage. I am getting pretty bored with all these relatively similar games like quake, doom, halflife. The first-person thing was really cool when it first came out with Wolfenstien 3D and Doom. But now everything coming out seems to be the same-old same-old. Slightly better graphics, purportedly better (re: more complex) gameplay, but still the same walk-around a dark environment and kill the monsters things. Give me something else.
Not quite on topic, but nothing has been said about Internic for a while here.
Here's what I sent to www.ftc.gov tonight:
I am concerned about the way Network Solutions is doing business and how it will affect the nature of the Internet. They have been operating under an exclusive contract with the US government for the past seven years.
www.internic.net has been a central site for Internet registration information for that time and has come to be regarded as the central point on the Internet for locating domain registration information.
Now that the government has expanded the registration services to allow other companies to also provide registration services, Network Solutions has effectively perverted the Internic services by changing the web page for Internic to redirect to the Network Solutions web page. While this was not against any ruling involved in de-monopolizing domain registration services, it is certainly against the spirit of it!
Internic has always been a shared resource of the entire Internet, and now Network Solutions has unethically claimed control of it.
Whatever the Federal Trade Commission can do, I hope you can do something.
They have become aware of the cross-branding potential of the Intel name.
You will soon be able to buy a bag of any of several flavors of new Intel Pentatium Chips at your local grocer. They will be selling a package called the Intel Pentatium III which will be a three-pack of regular, Celeron (Sour Cream and Celery) [Ewww!], and Overclocked - with super hot spicy seasoning on them!
They will come with wash-off tattoos that you can put on your stomach that say "Intel Inside".
Oh yummy! They also will be released on May 19 to coincide with the release of Star Wars Episode One. I wonder which one I can't wait for the most!:)
Yah, 128 bit addressing. Sure, like we're really ever going to see that.
Probably about the same time we see the US finally adopt the metric system.
Both are pretty much the same line of BS from the US we've been hearing for years.
IPv6 (aka IPng - IP The Next Generation): Conceptualized back when Star Trek-The Next Generation was still on. Now here, where Star Trek:Deep Space Nine is done in a couple weeks, it STILL ain't in place. (And we all home they cancel that pathetic ST:Voyager series. Send us all a nude picture of 7of9 and send the rest back to whereever they came from)
Realize smoke up your ass when you see/hear/feel it...
Good point to include the lyrics from "Architecture of Aggression"!! (Especially as Russia has referred to this as the beginning of World War III)
------------------------- Megadeth: Architecture of Aggression
Born from the dark, In the back cloak of night. To envelope its prey below, Deliver to the light. To eliminate your enemy, Hit them in their sleep, And when all is won and lost, The spoils of war are yours to keep.
Great nations built from the bone of the dead With mud and straw, blood and sweat. You know your worth when your enemies Praise your architecture of aggression.
Ensuing power vacuum, A toppled leader dies His body fuels the power fire, And the flames rise to the sky. One side of his face a kiss, The other GENOCIDE. Time to pay, with your ass, A worldwide suicide.
Great nations built from the bone of the dead With mud and straw, blood and sweat. You know your worth when your enemies Praise your architecture of aggression.
Born from the dark, In the back cloak of night. To envelope its prey below, Deliver to the light. To eliminate your enemy, Hit them in their sleep, And when all is won and lost, The spoils of war are yours to keep.
Great nations built from the bone of the dead With mud and straw, blood and sweat. You know your worth when your enemies Praise your architecture of aggression.
I as well am completely ready to fight and even to die to protect my country. However, these current actions seem a bit odd and have nothing to do with protecting our constitution unless you follow this weird path of odd rhetoric about how this little Kosovo country could possibly destabilize Europe and then the world.
Sure, something similar happened earlier this century, but that was before instantaneous worldwide communication and the Internet.
If you want the real news: Try the kosovo Usenet newsgroups. (I forget the exact newsgroup name, just search for Kosovo or Yugoslavia) There is REAL news from real people there getting out. Unfiltered by the media machine. Angry people, scared people, not people trying to make a living or win a prize for writing.
I have seen nothing from the US during my life except these "beat up the little guy and tell him what to do" skirmishes my whole life. No longer do we fight honorable wars like WWII - where we actually had a reason to fight (and even give our lives) to protect ourselves. Instead we behave like the mean kid on the block chasing little kids around with an electric cattle prod stolen from daddy. And laughing because they can't do anything to us. I don't like it. I don't like this whole NATO/Big Brother thing either. Read this for more info (The SmallBrain "mammals" will say it is anti-government. LargeBrained people will realize that it is pro-constitution)
I'm sure I'll get power-flamed for a lot of this. I love my country, but I fear my government. I'm just not really understanding the need for all these wimp-wars of the last 20 years. Why don't we just live our lives. If someone wants to be stupid enough to come mess with the US, then we can wallop them, but until then we should just be nice. This is more like walking around saying "I bet you can't kick MY ass!" - That's all fun until someone comes along that CAN. Every large empire (which is pretty much what the US has become) has behaved the same way. Now there is no Greek, Roman, English, empires. Someone finally kicked the arrogance out of them. We need to use our magic for good, not evil.
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They have re-renamed the development division back to Borland. In honor of the great Al Borland of Home Improvement. (Well, maybe not that last part :) )
Thanks! That is very interesting (and scary as hell!)
"Why all of sudden has the United States become so concerned with privacy? Privacy was never a concern before the Web."
We have always been concerned about privacy. It is more along the lines of "Why are there suddenly so many privacy invasions and disregard for everyones basic want for privacy?"
He's deafinitely out of touch with the current reality!
That could be why. Think of how much more fun it was to drink it is before you are old enough to buy alcohol! :)
No doubt! It seemed to be forever before anyone took the Internet seriously. Back in the text-based Telnet/FTP days, you could tell something was definitely happening. However, it took flashy pictures and mouse-clicking before the businesses took notice. Well, duh, I guess I am restating the obvious here...
Looks heavily funded by IBM? Their non-so-secret strategy against Microsoft? Of course, eventually someone will not like the direction that the Apache group is going and will create a new distribution (ala Linux) with a different aim. Not that is bad, it will be interesting to see where it goes...
Need people to thrash on my new web messaging system. The code is in the extreme pre-alpha stages, being only two days old, but it working well (but not very feature-rich just yet, but give it time!) and I need to see how it holds up under a load.
The URL is http://ooze.bloomnet.com/MessageBase/
Thanks!
I completely agree, except that the top level domain should be .xxx instead of the protocol name (xxx://)
.com, .org., and .net? I had ONE company mail me something about getting a .cc address, and that is it. I thought that these competing registrars were all going to have their own TLD - .web, .inc, .dot, .slash, etc. (or would that be .etc ? :) )
Any site with porn should be required to have a http://www.nakedhumans.xxx type address.
With all these new so-called competitors to NSI for registering domain names, why are we still seing nothing but
Ack! That previous message should read "about 10 bits of data transferred per actual BYTE sent."
:)
Sorry about that!
If you average it out, with the overhead of TCP/IP header info, you end up with about 10 bits of data transfer per actual bit sent.
So, saying 16 kbps of raw throughput is correct, but also, 12.8 kbps of true data throughput is also correct.
You are a small-brained lemming/sheep. It's people like you that scare me the most. While, yes, in the short term, you give some freedom up in exchange to catch the bogeyman, in the long run you give up far more. Would you curse your children or grandchildren to a horrible existence just to protect you from the "monsters"?
Yes, I currently have nothing to hide, yet that is no reason for me to arbitrarily give my privacy rights to someone else.
See, eventually, if all this "listening" goes into effect, some day, some crazy (Hitler, Big Brother, or probably something worse) will get into a leadership position of world government and will abuse the shit out of that power, and for the first time in human history, the general population, once it becomes enraged by the atrocities, will be unable to coordinate to change/overthrow this sick person as the minute they try to discuss it, they are instantly "listened" and then the secret police show up and kill you and your family.
Don't say it wont happen. Study the history of EVERY government that has ever existed. Sadly, it always happens.
Wow! I was at the Kearney, Nebraska Weird Al show! I even had a back stage pass! I got to meet him after the show. Of course, I had absolutely nothing intelligent to say ("Uh, people say I'm weirder than you!" and he just looked at me like some kind of freak!)
:)
Does ANYONE remember "The Weird Al Report" (I think that was what it was called) on HBO or Showtime around 1986 or 1987? In one of the shows, he took a long, rolled up piece of paper and stuck it up his nose and pulled it out of his nose slowly while making weird faces and noises. (I know that sounds stupid and lame, but it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen, about peed myself!) I said something about it to Al, and he said I must have him confused with someone else. He was nice, considering he was very tired and putting up with a bunch of stupid hicks from mid-Nebraska. Still, I walked away feeling like a fool!
I know quite a few people who have purchased an MD player in the last few weeks. It is really starting to take off. If only there were more bands available on pre-recorded formats. But, I have a CD player with fiber-optic out and now can make copies of CDs (Or even better, MDs with ONLY the songs that I want to listen to!!) all with digital copying.
:)
I think it is just beginning. We Americans are just a bit slow!
SAC is over, SAC is done. It's all been moved to Colorado Springs. Nothing is left here but a Museum. (Or so they say anywayz)
Get OVER the Dead? What the fuck? Yah, let's get OVER Led Zeppelin, let's get OVER the Beatles, let's get OVER Blue Oyster Cult, let's get over The Who, let's get OVER Dream Theater, let's get OVER Stone Temple Pilots, let's get over beethoven, let's get over Elvis, let's get over Electricity, let's get OVER Tesla, let's get OVER chocolat, let's get OVER whatever the fuck your weenie ass thinks is good music. Let's get OVER Open Source, let's get OVER RMS, let's get OVER evolution, let's get over being DEAD, let's get OVER LINUX and Slashdot and anything else anyone hold's dear to their heart!!!!! Go to HELL you stupid bastard. Fuck off, eat shit! If ya want to get over something, let's get OVER Kosovo. (Send over an assassination team if Billy-boy is REALLY serious!!) Let's GET OVER your stupid ass!!!
(Moderators, find it in your hearts to give this a PLUS ONE!!!)
Kewl, I just wrote this letter to the DOJ a couple night ago:
------------------------------------
I am concerned about the way Network Solutions is doing business and how it will affect the nature of the Internet. They have been operating under an exclusive contract with the US government for the past seven years.
www.internic.net has been a central site for Internet registration information for that time and has come to be regarded as the central point on the Internet for locating domain registration information.
Now that the government has expanded the registration services to allow other companies to also provide registration services, Network Solutions has effectively perverted the Internic services by changing the web page for Internic to redirect to the Network Solutions web page. While this was not against any ruling involved in de-monopolizing domain registration services, it is certainly against the spirit of it!
Internic has always been a shared resource of the entire Internet, and now Network Solutions has unethically claimed control of it.
Whatever the Federal Trade Commission can do, I hope you can do something.
Thank you.
I just read a thing about Omaha being one of the most wired place in the world. So much bandwidth you can fly a kite on the temporal distortion induced by the sheer amount of data delta-vee.
A hellish amount of fiber coming into town. Three companies competing to provide you with cable modem service. Plus ADSL just about everywhere as well.
Sounds like this study is just one of those "43% of all statistics are made up on the spot" stories.
Yah, and if we could now just get to the next stage. I am getting pretty bored with all these relatively similar games like quake, doom, halflife. The first-person thing was really cool when it first came out with Wolfenstien 3D and Doom. But now everything coming out seems to be the same-old same-old. Slightly better graphics, purportedly better (re: more complex) gameplay, but still the same walk-around a dark environment and kill the monsters things. Give me something else.
Not quite on topic, but nothing has been said about Internic for a while here.
Here's what I sent to www.ftc.gov tonight:
I am concerned about the way Network Solutions is doing business and how it will affect the nature of the Internet. They have been operating under an exclusive contract with the US government for the past seven years.
www.internic.net has been a central site for Internet registration information for that time and has come to be regarded as the central point on the Internet for locating domain registration information.
Now that the government has expanded the registration services to allow other companies to also provide registration services, Network Solutions has effectively perverted the Internic services by changing the web page for Internic to redirect to the Network Solutions web page. While this was not against any ruling involved in de-monopolizing domain registration services, it is certainly against the spirit of it!
Internic has always been a shared resource of the entire Internet, and now Network Solutions has unethically claimed control of it.
Whatever the Federal Trade Commission can do, I hope you can do something.
Thank you.
They have become aware of the cross-branding potential of the Intel name.
:)
You will soon be able to buy a bag of any of several flavors of new Intel Pentatium Chips at your local grocer. They will be selling a package called the Intel Pentatium III which will be a three-pack of regular, Celeron (Sour Cream and Celery) [Ewww!], and Overclocked - with super hot spicy seasoning on them!
They will come with wash-off tattoos that you can put on your stomach that say "Intel Inside".
Oh yummy! They also will be released on May 19 to coincide with the release of Star Wars Episode One. I wonder which one I can't wait for the most!
Yah, 128 bit addressing. Sure, like we're really ever going to see that.
Probably about the same time we see the US finally adopt the metric system.
Both are pretty much the same line of BS from the US we've been hearing for years.
IPv6 (aka IPng - IP The Next Generation):
Conceptualized back when Star Trek-The Next Generation was still on. Now here, where Star Trek:Deep Space Nine is done in a couple weeks, it STILL ain't in place. (And we all home they cancel that pathetic ST:Voyager series. Send us all a nude picture of 7of9 and send the rest back to whereever they came from)
Realize smoke up your ass when you see/hear/feel it...
Good point to include the lyrics from "Architecture of Aggression"!! (Especially as Russia has referred to this as the beginning of World War III)
-------------------------
Megadeth: Architecture of Aggression
Born from the dark,
In the back cloak of night.
To envelope its prey below,
Deliver to the light.
To eliminate your enemy,
Hit them in their sleep,
And when all is won and lost,
The spoils of war are yours to keep.
Great nations built from the bone of the dead
With mud and straw, blood and sweat.
You know your worth when your enemies
Praise your architecture of aggression.
Ensuing power vacuum,
A toppled leader dies
His body fuels the power fire,
And the flames rise to the sky.
One side of his face a kiss,
The other GENOCIDE.
Time to pay, with your ass,
A worldwide suicide.
Great nations built from the bone of the dead
With mud and straw, blood and sweat.
You know your worth when your enemies
Praise your architecture of aggression.
Born from the dark,
In the back cloak of night.
To envelope its prey below,
Deliver to the light.
To eliminate your enemy,
Hit them in their sleep,
And when all is won and lost,
The spoils of war are yours to keep.
Great nations built from the bone of the dead
With mud and straw, blood and sweat.
You know your worth when your enemies
Praise your architecture of aggression.
I as well am completely ready to fight and even to die to protect my country. However, these current actions seem a bit odd and have nothing to do with protecting our constitution unless you follow this weird path of odd rhetoric about how this little Kosovo country could possibly destabilize Europe and then the world.
Sure, something similar happened earlier this century, but that was before instantaneous worldwide communication and the Internet.
If you want the real news: Try the kosovo Usenet newsgroups. (I forget the exact newsgroup name, just search for Kosovo or Yugoslavia) There is REAL news from real people there getting out. Unfiltered by the media machine. Angry people, scared people, not people trying to make a living or win a prize for writing.
I have seen nothing from the US during my life except these "beat up the little guy and tell him what to do" skirmishes my whole life. No longer do we fight honorable wars like WWII - where we actually had a reason to fight (and even give our lives) to protect ourselves. Instead we behave like the mean kid on the block chasing little kids around with an electric cattle prod stolen from daddy. And laughing because they can't do anything to us. I don't like it. I don't like this whole NATO/Big Brother thing either. Read this for more info (The SmallBrain "mammals" will say it is anti-government. LargeBrained people will realize that it is pro-constitution)
I'm sure I'll get power-flamed for a lot of this. I love my country, but I fear my government. I'm just not really understanding the need for all these wimp-wars of the last 20 years. Why don't we just live our lives. If someone wants to be stupid enough to come mess with the US, then we can wallop them, but until then we should just be nice. This is more like walking around saying "I bet you can't kick MY ass!" - That's all fun until someone comes along that CAN. Every large empire (which is pretty much what the US has become) has behaved the same way. Now there is no Greek, Roman, English, empires. Someone finally kicked the arrogance out of them. We need to use our magic for good, not evil.
That is all I've got to say about that for now.