Would you remove psoriasis from the genepool? Parkinsons? Hemophilia? MS? I'd say yes, absolutely. but would I allow a situation when stupid humans sit down at a checklist in the HappyHappyJoyJoy Fetus-as-you-like-it Clinic arguing over whether their kid is going to be 6' or 6'5" or have blond, black, or green hair? No chance. This needs to be as controlled as morphine.
I don't think virginia should issue this plate though Besides being stupid it defeats the view of the internet as a collection of computers with no true centralized point.
I think they should, because if it's the Internet C@pital, some psycho nutbar like Saddam "The Internet is the great Satan" Hussein will blow the hell out of it trying to shut it down.
I can definitely see it happening. Here's the point I'm trying to make:
I LOVE linux, both in principle, in $ savings, and in utility. But do you think M$ could develop a better OS if they put money into it? Oh hell yeah, and I bet they are already doing so in some deep lab at Redmond (that's my conspiracy theory for today anyhow).
Look, pretend for a second you are Bill G. You've got a ton of cash up the wazoo, you -really- like computers and spend all your time thinking up ways for technology to advance in forms like wearable computers, worldwide internet technology, etc. Do you think he is dumb enough to just let Linux win? Not a chance. He's going to go balls to the wall developing and OS that takes things to a new level, learning from Linux and the thousands of developers that work on it for free and stealing the ideas behind them all without the slightest repercussion (how do YOU enjoy working for Microsoft?). He's not going to make huge mistakes in buggy software anymore, he'll soon stop developing exclusively for the AOLuddites and other technophobes and work on an OS that everyone can use, one that doesn't crash, is cheap, is portable, and can win.
All the way through this he's going to look at the world that he is helping to create with the entire thought that he is doing us all a big big favour. And he's right. As much as Windows needs competition, Linux needs it more. In order to develop something that can compete, we're going to have to capture the workstation market.
Now think about that...Windows has the workstation market by the balls. Linux is making very minor headroads in this, but is not yet a real competitor. Linux has the ability as it is to have the server market by the balls in the same way. Yet we're moving to a situation where Linux developers are just barely starting to move to the workstation market. Tie the two together, mix and meld, and you've got our Buddy Bill using Linux principles to develop a great operating system capable of taking over both the server and workstation markets.
Will I use this new mix of OS? Damned rights. After seeing just how difficult it is comparative to get a Linux workstation up and running (setting up X anyhow) to the same level as a Win98 system, I'd have a huge temptation to use and OS that was completely usable in a 1/2 hour of installation without worrying too terribly much about hardware compatibility, that was stable for extended periods, and didn't have a learning curve that could stun a goat.
I run a site called Geekrights.org, which covers many of the same topics and more. I hope that CmdrTaco doesn't put me out of business, but I definitely know (after the interviews, emails, phone calls) that this is a growing topic. Certainly all the work I've put into doing this site has been worth it in the realizations I've had on my own.
Some of the most amazing things that I'm seeing throughout this are the things that high-tech workers are putting up with in the workplace. We're talking outright abuse in some cases. Others are finally working out what they really make for their time (wages divided by hours) and realizing that they aren't that far ahead of working at the 7-11.
But hey, saving money in the bank is easy when you never have time between sleep and work to spend it!
We can all agree (ok, most of us) that TPM (and hell, the rest of them too) is NOT in any way, shape, or form the best set of movies ever made.
For that matter, it's just a 'movie'. It's not an 'epic'. Pauly Shore makes 'movies', Anna Nicole Smith makes 'movies', and this should be lumped in with them.
The real point of this is, why in the world should Alec Guinness be given any sort of grief for disliking this media-vehicle, over-blown piece of kiddie-oriented tripe? I'd be embarassed myself if I acted in it. I'd be a whole lot more embarassed if I'd written it.
So now we're going to have a bunch of high schoolers (or whatever) running around claiming that they've written games better than quake in a language written for newbies, without even understanding the inner nuts and bolts of the process which goes on.
You don't perhaps think that when they attempt to build a 3D engine using Python they are going to run into some difficulties and very quickly learn that Python is not the best language for this? I suspect that no 3D Python engine is going to come out of this. This will be a stepping stone for them to learn something much nicer and more effective.
I still think (I'm biased here since Perl is just about the only language I know well) that Perl is an excellent choice for teaching beginners. There is no need to start off day 1 with pattern matching and obfuscated Perl, just some nice simple stuff, some nice clean subroutine ideas and they're off writing CGI scripts for their Geocities website:)
I can't imagine what would push these people to go and put banner ads on their webpage for the WHOIS. They are just begging for the US government to pull their rights to the database at all. This should be interesting to watch play out.
I don't have a problem with them putting ads on their webpage to make cash...after all, if it was easy to make money on the internet (like all the spams say) then we'd all be spending our days rich and carefree instead of whining on Slashdot.
Now.....if they were to put ads trailing everytime I ran a whois command, I'd blow a fit.
HOWEVER, if you are the terd going 99.99....% c, you could cross the universe in a sneeze, but when you got to the other 'end', time would have gone billions if not maaaaaaaaaaaany more years by..so the only things left could be ancient black holes or ?
99.99...% of c would still take you over 4 years to get to the nearest star. Hardly a "sneeze"
Seems to me it would be a lot cooler to get tubing, paint, circuit boards, whatever and make your computer into a cyberpunkish funkified monstrosity. At least if you have some artistic style.
Why make your computer look like an Imac? Personally I'd rather funkify my computer case with paint, glue-on circuit boards, tubing, or whatever other cyberpunkish paraphenalia I can find.
You should be aware that the next century begins On Jan. 1, 2001, for exactly the same reason that the next millenium begins on the same day.
I don't care if the millenium "officially" starts Jan 2001 or not. When it comes not partying this New Years Eve, I'm going to be thinking of other things besides calendar math.
Nah, obviously "super hacker" Kevin is going to have to create the ultimate high-level computer language:
"Hey How's it going Kevin?" "Not bad, how're things with you, I'm still not allowed to say 'c***uter' or read c***uter magazines." %> Universe Error: Segmentation Fault - The Universe has become unstable and must be restarted.
After all, even the government obviously thinks Kevin Mitnick is god.
Are they going to enforce when I use "that" or "which" too?
Languages change and evolve on their own, and making changes to technical terms that have already made it into common household usage is ridiculous and implausible. Just another waste of time, money and effort. They probably been working on this plan since we had 32 "kibibytes" of RAM.
The whole situation has been an indescribable nightmare, bounded by travesties of justice, vindictive corporations and over zealous prosecution. The stupid thing is, a very few outside of the high-tech community are screaming about this, when everyone that believes in a democratic legal process should be fighting this in the streets.
It could have been many people dealt with in this matter. None of us are pure. Kevin was unlucky enough to be the first in line. Yes, he did some stupid thing, and yes, he's a criminal - both in the eyes of the law and the general concensus. But in no way does any human deserve to be taken outside the rules decided upon by our lawmakers. This just shows us that real justice has a long way to come before we can all feel safe.
What I hope is that they call it "time-served" and let his go, êbut I may just be wishful thinking. This battle isn't over.
Even if he was allowed to go free, what then? Will be fight the government for unlawful prosecution and the removal of his constitutional rights? I suspect he's a tired, tired man, but this kind of action still needs to be taken so that the next case of this sort does not turn into anoth witch-hunt.
Are geeks the next girl-chasing badboys? Will high school chicks now wear their boyfriends pocket protector instead of the grad jacket/leather jacket? Will young women finally realize that a sensible car and a steady intellectual job are better than a Camaro driving redneck working at the 7-11?
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But you gotta be not-too-smart to throw matches in the garbage before they cool properly. I learned that one pretty early.
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I think they should, because if it's the Internet C@pital, some psycho nutbar like Saddam "The Internet is the great Satan" Hussein will blow the hell out of it trying to shut it down.
POOF! No Virginia. POOF! No Iraq.
TheGeek
Geekrights.org
TheGeek
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I LOVE linux, both in principle, in $ savings, and in utility. But do you think M$ could develop a better OS if they put money into it? Oh hell yeah, and I bet they are already doing so in some deep lab at Redmond (that's my conspiracy theory for today anyhow).
Look, pretend for a second you are Bill G. You've got a ton of cash up the wazoo, you -really- like computers and spend all your time thinking up ways for technology to advance in forms like wearable computers, worldwide internet technology, etc. Do you think he is dumb enough to just let Linux win? Not a chance. He's going to go balls to the wall developing and OS that takes things to a new level, learning from Linux and the thousands of developers that work on it for free and stealing the ideas behind them all without the slightest repercussion (how do YOU enjoy working for Microsoft?). He's not going to make huge mistakes in buggy software anymore, he'll soon stop developing exclusively for the AOLuddites and other technophobes and work on an OS that everyone can use, one that doesn't crash, is cheap, is portable, and can win.
All the way through this he's going to look at the world that he is helping to create with the entire thought that he is doing us all a big big favour. And he's right. As much as Windows needs competition, Linux needs it more. In order to develop something that can compete, we're going to have to capture the workstation market.
Now think about that...Windows has the workstation market by the balls. Linux is making very minor headroads in this, but is not yet a real competitor. Linux has the ability as it is to have the server market by the balls in the same way. Yet we're moving to a situation where Linux developers are just barely starting to move to the workstation market. Tie the two together, mix and meld, and you've got our Buddy Bill using Linux principles to develop a great operating system capable of taking over both the server and workstation markets.
Will I use this new mix of OS? Damned rights. After seeing just how difficult it is comparative to get a Linux workstation up and running (setting up X anyhow) to the same level as a Win98 system, I'd have a huge temptation to use and OS that was completely usable in a 1/2 hour of installation without worrying too terribly much about hardware compatibility, that was stable for extended periods, and didn't have a learning curve that could stun a goat.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
Some of the most amazing things that I'm seeing throughout this are the things that high-tech workers are putting up with in the workplace. We're talking outright abuse in some cases. Others are finally working out what they really make for their time (wages divided by hours) and realizing that they aren't that far ahead of working at the 7-11.
But hey, saving money in the bank is easy when you never have time between sleep and work to spend it!
The Geek
Geekrights.org
Are we heading for Elohim and Morlocks?
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
For that matter, it's just a 'movie'. It's not an 'epic'. Pauly Shore makes 'movies', Anna Nicole Smith makes 'movies', and this should be lumped in with them.
The real point of this is, why in the world should Alec Guinness be given any sort of grief for disliking this media-vehicle, over-blown piece of kiddie-oriented tripe? I'd be embarassed myself if I acted in it. I'd be a whole lot more embarassed if I'd written it.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
You don't perhaps think that when they attempt to build a 3D engine using Python they are going to run into some difficulties and very quickly learn that Python is not the best language for this? I suspect that no 3D Python engine is going to come out of this. This will be a stepping stone for them to learn something much nicer and more effective.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
I don't have a problem with them putting ads on their webpage to make cash...after all, if it was easy to make money on the internet (like all the spams say) then we'd all be spending our days rich and carefree instead of whining on Slashdot.
Now.....if they were to put ads trailing everytime I ran a whois command, I'd blow a fit.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
Must be one tough S.O.B. ...
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
I traded it for a Primax 386 laptop with a broken HD, 4 megs ram, mono VGA screen.
Who was ripped off in the trade?
And why didn't we donate all of this to a school somewhere? (because they wouldn't take it)
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
99.99...% of c would still take you over 4 years to get to the nearest star. Hardly a "sneeze"
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
I don't care if the millenium "officially" starts Jan 2001 or not. When it comes not partying this New Years Eve, I'm going to be thinking of other things besides calendar math.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
(oops, was that a troll?) hehehe
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
>Iowa?
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>Oo, did I make #1?
Nope, you didn't. :)
Nothing fun ever happens here in Vancouver either.
I can't wait to see the news stories on this one:
"Local Hall swarmed by drunken geek revellers!"
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
"Hey How's it going Kevin?"
"Not bad, how're things with you, I'm still not allowed to say 'c***uter' or read c***uter magazines."
%> Universe Error: Segmentation Fault - The Universe has become unstable and must be restarted.
After all, even the government obviously thinks Kevin Mitnick is god.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
Languages change and evolve on their own, and making changes to technical terms that have already made it into common household usage is ridiculous and implausible. Just another waste of time, money and effort. They probably been working on this plan since we had 32 "kibibytes" of RAM.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
It could have been many people dealt with in this matter. None of us are pure. Kevin was unlucky enough to be the first in line. Yes, he did some stupid thing, and yes, he's a criminal - both in the eyes of the law and the general concensus. But in no way does any human deserve to be taken outside the rules decided upon by our lawmakers. This just shows us that real justice has a long way to come before we can all feel safe.
What I hope is that they call it "time-served" and let his go, êbut I may just be wishful thinking. This battle isn't over.
Even if he was allowed to go free, what then? Will be fight the government for unlawful prosecution and the removal of his constitutional rights? I suspect he's a tired, tired man, but this kind of action still needs to be taken so that the next case of this sort does not turn into anoth witch-hunt.
TheGeek http://www.geekrights.org
Are geeks the next girl-chasing badboys? Will high school chicks now wear their boyfriends pocket protector instead of the grad jacket/leather jacket? Will young women finally realize that a sensible car and a steady intellectual job are better than a Camaro driving redneck working at the 7-11?
Some how I don't think so.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org