Can you imagine how many times I would have had to hit 'tab' just to get to this textarea if I only had a keyboard and was using w3m or something? I shudder at the prospect.
For one, I'm sixteen years old and entirely self-taught in computers, and I'm quite adept enough at server administration.
For another, here's what I think: Any hacker can do any certified admin's job, and any hacker can do it better. I suspect that often times, people who just learn the technical skills and miss out on the culture of computing and the Internet fail to "get it," fail to see the beauty of Unix and good design. (And you-know-who, proprietor of the title of MSCE, likes it that way. But I digress.)
I have little experience with actual certified admins (that which I have had has evidently been negative), so this is all speculation, really, but I consider it good speculation. If you can't appreciate the art, how can you master it?
...to disrespect the user's privacy like that, it's really not an issue if you're using any decent browser. If you bring this up with your Windows-using friends, it might get them to at least start using Firefox.
Part of the beauty of the Internet is that no single entity has control over it. It's simply a giant network; you can do anything you want with it, whether it's mirroring the Linux Kernel Archive, running a domain name registration business, or hosting pornographic images.
I don't think these people have quite the right idea of what exactly the Internet is. It isn't just another distributor/consumer medium, like radio or television. The Internet is an interactive environment in which information is distributed on an on-demand basis; that is, the user chooses what content is delivered to him. Because the medium is "ask and ye shall receive," rather than "we're stuffing this junk down your throat whether you like it or not," such stringent control of content as that found on radio or television is really unnecessary. On the Internet, any user who knows what he's doing will be quite capable of protecting himself.
Unless, of course, your goal is to stifle the free exchange of information...
Fame found Kevin Mitnick when the US government made an example of him, incarcerating him for five years for computer based offences. Four of his years inside were served before he was even tried, and he was forced to endure eight months in solitary confinement because "the government said I could start a nuclear war if I had access to a telephone," Mitnick says.
If it really is possible to start a nuclear war from a telephone, I must ask, who's the genius who attached our nuclear weapons systems to the phone grid?
Seriously. There's no way somebody able to handle the task of organizing such a large force would be idiotic enough to give nukes phone lines. Then again, we are talking about the United States government...
...if he had been warned that the Feds were not down with his site's content in advance, but from what I hear, he was just raided with no forewarning whatsoever. That's unfair.
Furthermore, if the government was so concerned about the bomb-making sites he was linking to, why didn't they just shut down those instead? They sounded a lot more dangerous than an excersize of the First Amendment.
MEMPHIS, TN 12:41 AM EDT - Caldera, otherwise known as SCO, has announced today that in addition to filing a lawsuit with IBM/Linux for violating its intellectual property rights, it will now be looking for monetary damages from the Southern College of Optometry for trademark infringement.
"I really don't think (SCO) has a well-founded argument," commented William E. Cochran, O.D., president of the Southern College of Optometry, in an interview. "Just because we're both called SCO doesn't make it trademark infringement. I've spoken with my lawyers on this one."
SCO, which is a registered trademark of the Lindon, Utah-based computer company, is also in the URL of the Southern College of Optometry's Web site (http://www.sco.edu/). SCO senior vice president Jeff Hunsaker stated in a brief press conference that "this Web address is a legitimate violation of SCO intellectual property rights. The misleading nature of the URL draws potential customers away from our Web site and instead encourages them to enroll in an optometry school."
When asked how a school of optometry threatened SCO's business, Hunsaker replied, "We're just looking out in the best interest of our shareholders."
Dr. Cochran issued a public announcment shortly thereafter encouraging SCO to challenge the California State Controller's Office (http://www.sco.ca.gov/) in a federal court of law on similar charges to those being pressed on the Southern College of Optometry.
Mr. Hunsaker declined to comment in reply to Dr. Cochran's announcment.
SCO Seeks Lawsuit Against College of Optometry
BY DANIEL BAUMGARTEN (MISINFORMATION, LTD.)
MEMPHIS, TN 12:41 AM EDT - Caldera, otherwise known as SCO, has announced today that in addition to filing a lawsuit with IBM/Linux for violating its intellectual property rights, it will now be looking for monetary damages from the Southern College of Optometry for trademark infringement.
"I really don't think (SCO) has a well-founded argument," commented William E. Cochran, O.D., president of the Southern College of Optometry, in an interview. "Just because we're both called SCO doesn't make it trademark infringement. I've spoken with my lawyers on this one."
SCO, which is a registered trademark of the Lindon, Utah-based computer company, is also in the URL of the Southern College of Optometry's Web site (http://www.sco.edu/). SCO senior vice president Jeff Hunsaker stated in a brief press conference that "this Web address is a legitimate violation of SCO intellectual property rights. The misleading nature of the URL draws potential customers away from our Web site and instead encourages them to enroll in an optometry school."
When asked how a school of optometry threatened SCO's business, Hunsaker replied, "We're just looking out in the best interest of our shareholders."
Dr. Cochran issued a public announcment shortly thereafter encouraging SCO to challenge the California State Controller's Office (http://www.sco.ca.gov/) in a federal court of law on similar charges to those being pressed on the Southern College of Optometry.
Mr. Hunsaker declined to comment in reply to Dr. Cochran's announcment.
I have family members who have, in fact, clicked a banner ad that looked like a UI element because they thought it was a critical system message. You'd be amazed at how stupid some people can be.
But what I'd REALLY like to see is somebody using a Mac to click on one of these decidedly Windows-esque ads, thinking it was a real system message. Now that's something to laugh at.
An adaptation of the best scene in Douglas Adams's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe to explain exactly what's going on here. Enjoy.
The telescope aperture opened.
"Hello?" said the man.
"Do you run the observatory?" said the planet Mars.
The man smiled at it.
"I try not to," he said. "Are you wet?"
The planet Mars looked at him in astonishment.
"Wet?" it cried. "Does it look as if I'm wet?"
"That's how it looks to me," said the man, "but how you feel about it might be an altogether different matter. If you feel a giant hydrogen pocket under each pole makes you dry, you'd better get some."
Hang on a sec while I go get my dart gun, with which I plan to resolve the issue that Mars is just another Hindenburg waiting to happen.
...or at least its introductiory sequence. When something unexpected happens, I now say "what happen?" by force of habit.
Toaplan hath set me up the bomb.
So? What's your point?
"PC" (or preferrably "PeeCee") is a term used by people when they want to demonstrate that Macs and Windows/*nix boxes are in classes of their own because of different system architectures. The URL means "Personal computer preferred," which essentially means nothing.
If Adobe wanted to show you how much it didn't want to support Macs anymore, the url would say:
http://www.adobe.com/motion/windowspreferred.html...or something like that.
Don't read too far into it. It's just the URL in the first place.
Nonetheless, Star Wars looks best presented on the big screen, filmed by a camera. I think it's going to lose some of its impact as a cartoon. Outrageous stuff happens in cartoons every day, so without its name, this one is just another face in the crowd.
I agree that the anime tie-in works for the Matrix. However, anime is targeted towards a more mature audience than the style of cartoon being presented by Lucas, here. Major break of protocol for Star Wars. They're making a big mistake by kiddifying it.
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Can you imagine how many times I would have had to hit 'tab' just to get to this textarea if I only had a keyboard and was using w3m or something? I shudder at the prospect.
One of the last remaining BBSes: SDF-1
I'm a member. I'm seventeen years old. I missed the golden age of the BBS. I must watch this documentary.
I like how Slashdot is listening to Microsoft for security advice.
I was expecting the Heart of Gold to be a little less... rotund.
For one, I'm sixteen years old and entirely self-taught in computers, and I'm quite adept enough at server administration.
For another, here's what I think: Any hacker can do any certified admin's job, and any hacker can do it better. I suspect that often times, people who just learn the technical skills and miss out on the culture of computing and the Internet fail to "get it," fail to see the beauty of Unix and good design. (And you-know-who, proprietor of the title of MSCE, likes it that way. But I digress.)
I have little experience with actual certified admins (that which I have had has evidently been negative), so this is all speculation, really, but I consider it good speculation. If you can't appreciate the art, how can you master it?
...to disrespect the user's privacy like that, it's really not an issue if you're using any decent browser. If you bring this up with your Windows-using friends, it might get them to at least start using Firefox.
Part of the beauty of the Internet is that no single entity has control over it. It's simply a giant network; you can do anything you want with it, whether it's mirroring the Linux Kernel Archive, running a domain name registration business, or hosting pornographic images.
I don't think these people have quite the right idea of what exactly the Internet is. It isn't just another distributor/consumer medium, like radio or television. The Internet is an interactive environment in which information is distributed on an on-demand basis; that is, the user chooses what content is delivered to him. Because the medium is "ask and ye shall receive," rather than "we're stuffing this junk down your throat whether you like it or not," such stringent control of content as that found on radio or television is really unnecessary. On the Internet, any user who knows what he's doing will be quite capable of protecting himself.
Unless, of course, your goal is to stifle the free exchange of information...
Mightn't such a schedule be rushing it a bit? I don't think the necessary technology would have time to mature by 2011.
Instead of setting a deadline to reach Mars, I say we go when we're good and ready.
Seriously. There's no way somebody able to handle the task of organizing such a large force would be idiotic enough to give nukes phone lines. Then again, we are talking about the United States government...
...if he had been warned that the Feds were not down with his site's content in advance, but from what I hear, he was just raided with no forewarning whatsoever. That's unfair.
Furthermore, if the government was so concerned about the bomb-making sites he was linking to, why didn't they just shut down those instead? They sounded a lot more dangerous than an excersize of the First Amendment.
Finally! A bike that I can feed to pandas!
whoops! Forgot BR tags.
SCO Seeks Lawsuit Against College of Optometry
BY DANIEL BAUMGARTEN (MISINFORMATION, LTD.)
MEMPHIS, TN 12:41 AM EDT - Caldera, otherwise known as SCO, has announced today that in addition to filing a lawsuit with IBM/Linux for violating its intellectual property rights, it will now be looking for monetary damages from the Southern College of Optometry for trademark infringement.
"I really don't think (SCO) has a well-founded argument," commented William E. Cochran, O.D., president of the Southern College of Optometry, in an interview. "Just because we're both called SCO doesn't make it trademark infringement. I've spoken with my lawyers on this one."
SCO, which is a registered trademark of the Lindon, Utah-based computer company, is also in the URL of the Southern College of Optometry's Web site (http://www.sco.edu/). SCO senior vice president Jeff Hunsaker stated in a brief press conference that "this Web address is a legitimate violation of SCO intellectual property rights. The misleading nature of the URL draws potential customers away from our Web site and instead encourages them to enroll in an optometry school."
When asked how a school of optometry threatened SCO's business, Hunsaker replied, "We're just looking out in the best interest of our shareholders."
Dr. Cochran issued a public announcment shortly thereafter encouraging SCO to challenge the California State Controller's Office (http://www.sco.ca.gov/) in a federal court of law on similar charges to those being pressed on the Southern College of Optometry.
Mr. Hunsaker declined to comment in reply to Dr. Cochran's announcment.
SCO Seeks Lawsuit Against College of Optometry BY DANIEL BAUMGARTEN (MISINFORMATION, LTD.) MEMPHIS, TN 12:41 AM EDT - Caldera, otherwise known as SCO, has announced today that in addition to filing a lawsuit with IBM/Linux for violating its intellectual property rights, it will now be looking for monetary damages from the Southern College of Optometry for trademark infringement. "I really don't think (SCO) has a well-founded argument," commented William E. Cochran, O.D., president of the Southern College of Optometry, in an interview. "Just because we're both called SCO doesn't make it trademark infringement. I've spoken with my lawyers on this one." SCO, which is a registered trademark of the Lindon, Utah-based computer company, is also in the URL of the Southern College of Optometry's Web site (http://www.sco.edu/). SCO senior vice president Jeff Hunsaker stated in a brief press conference that "this Web address is a legitimate violation of SCO intellectual property rights. The misleading nature of the URL draws potential customers away from our Web site and instead encourages them to enroll in an optometry school." When asked how a school of optometry threatened SCO's business, Hunsaker replied, "We're just looking out in the best interest of our shareholders." Dr. Cochran issued a public announcment shortly thereafter encouraging SCO to challenge the California State Controller's Office (http://www.sco.ca.gov/) in a federal court of law on similar charges to those being pressed on the Southern College of Optometry. Mr. Hunsaker declined to comment in reply to Dr. Cochran's announcment.
I have family members who have, in fact, clicked a banner ad that looked like a UI element because they thought it was a critical system message. You'd be amazed at how stupid some people can be.
But what I'd REALLY like to see is somebody using a Mac to click on one of these decidedly Windows-esque ads, thinking it was a real system message. Now that's something to laugh at.
An adaptation of the best scene in Douglas Adams's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe to explain exactly what's going on here. Enjoy.
The telescope aperture opened.
"Hello?" said the man.
"Do you run the observatory?" said the planet Mars.
The man smiled at it.
"I try not to," he said. "Are you wet?"
The planet Mars looked at him in astonishment.
"Wet?" it cried. "Does it look as if I'm wet?"
"That's how it looks to me," said the man, "but how you feel about it might be an altogether different matter. If you feel a giant hydrogen pocket under each pole makes you dry, you'd better get some."
Hang on a sec while I go get my dart gun, with which I plan to resolve the issue that Mars is just another Hindenburg waiting to happen.
...or at least its introductiory sequence. When something unexpected happens, I now say "what happen?" by force of habit. Toaplan hath set me up the bomb.
So? What's your point? "PC" (or preferrably "PeeCee") is a term used by people when they want to demonstrate that Macs and Windows/*nix boxes are in classes of their own because of different system architectures. The URL means "Personal computer preferred," which essentially means nothing. If Adobe wanted to show you how much it didn't want to support Macs anymore, the url would say: http://www.adobe.com/motion/windowspreferred.html ...or something like that.
Don't read too far into it. It's just the URL in the first place.
Nonetheless, Star Wars looks best presented on the big screen, filmed by a camera. I think it's going to lose some of its impact as a cartoon. Outrageous stuff happens in cartoons every day, so without its name, this one is just another face in the crowd.
I agree that the anime tie-in works for the Matrix. However, anime is targeted towards a more mature audience than the style of cartoon being presented by Lucas, here. Major break of protocol for Star Wars. They're making a big mistake by kiddifying it.
This sort of reminds me of what The Matrix is trying to do with The Animatrix, only in a much more "blah" way.