I highly doubt that we will know who our president is after the elections. I'm sure it will stretch on for another month or so before we do. Much like the last election. Hopefully it will be more clear cut this time, but with things like faulty electronic voting; I doubt there will be a clear indicator here.
Since 9/11, President Bush, you have had a strong push for fighting terror. However, you seemed to have shown little concern for Osama Bin Laden after we went to Iraq. Constantly on the news, we hear more and more about al-Qa'ida, yet you seem to take little concern over them.
My question is, will there be a larger focus on finding the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, the reason you started this war? Or will our primary focus be in Iraq, which has not been a threat to our country?
The biggest problem here is when spammers use this in there opt out link. This would probably be much more effective than the scrollbar hack they are using now. It just has to render the damn page, and wham you're infected.
The customers own the movie industry and if Hollywood continues putting out crap films, studio execs will only have themselves to blame for the fall of Hollywood.
Have you read the news lately? They blame it all on pirates. Poor quality isn't the matter with their films, its piracy. Guess they never sat through Gigli.
This is actually a great question the RIAA should ask. If this has no way of taking off in the porn industry, how the hell do they think they will pull this off to the general public. All great technologies of their time got their boost from porn (VHS, internet, etc)
If you can't sell it to the porn industry, aren't they just wasting their time?
Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2
Background
On 20 May 2004, I posted a statement refuting the claim of Ken Brown, President of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, that Linus Torvalds didn't write Linux. My statement was mentioned on Slashdot, Groklaw, and many other Internet news sites. This attention resulted in over 150,000 requests to our server in less than a day, which is still standing despite yesterday being a national holiday with no one there to stand next to it saying "You can do it. You can do it." Kudos to Sun Microsystems and the folks who built Apache. My statement was mirrored all over the Internet, so the number of true hits to it is probably a substantial multiple of that. There were also quite a few comments at Slashdot, Groklaw, and other sites, many of them about me. I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.
The Brown Book
I got an advance copy of Ken Brown's book. I think it is still under embargo, so I won't comment on it. Although I am not an investigative reporter, even I know it is unethical to discuss publications still under embargo. Some of us take ethics more seriously than others. So I won't even reveal the title. Let's call it The Brown Book. There is some precedent for nicknaming books after colors: The International Standard for the CD-ROM (IS 10149) is usually called The Red Book.
Suffice it to say, there is a great deal to criticize in the book. I am sure that will happen when it is published. I may even help out.
Brown's Motivation
What prompted me to write this note today is an email I got yesterday. Actually, I got quite a few:-) , most of them thanking me for the historical material. One of yesterday's emails was from Linus, in response to an email from me apologizing for not letting him see my statement in advance. As a matter of courtesy, I did try but I was using his old transmeta.com address and didn't know his new one until I got a very kind email from Linus' father, a Finnish journalist.
In his email, Linus said that Brown never contacted him. No email, no phone call, no personal interview. Nothing. Considering the fact that Brown was writing an explosive book in which he accused Linus of not being the author of Linux, you would think a serious author would at least confront the subject with the accusation and give him a chance to respond. What kind of a reporter talks to people on the periphery of the subject but fails to talk to the main player?
Why did Brown fly all the way to Europe to interview me and (and according to an email I got from his seat-mate on the plane) one other person in Scandinavia, at considerable expense, and not at least call Linus? Even if he made a really bad choice of phone company, how much could that cost? Maybe a dollar? I call the U.S. all the time from Amsterdam. It is less than 5 cents a minute. How much could it cost to call California from D.C.?
From reading all the comments posted yesterday, I am now beginning to get the picture. Apparently a lot of people (still) think that I 'hate' Linus for stealing all my glory (see below for more on this). I didn't realize this view was so widespread. I now suspect that Brown believed this, too, and thought that I would be happy to dump all over Linus to get 'revenge.' By flying to Amsterdam he thought he could dig up dirt on Linus and get me to speak evil of him. He thought I would back up his crazy claim that Linus stole Linux from me. Brown was wrong on two counts. First, I bear no 'grudge' against Linus at all. He wrote Linux himself and deserves the credit. Second, I am really not a mean person. Even if I were still angry with him after all these years, I wouldn't choose some sleazy author with a hidden agenda as my vehicle. My home page gets 2500 hits a week. If I had something to say, I could put it there.
When The Brown Book comes out, there will no doubt be a lot of publicity in the mainstream media. Any of you with contacts in the media are actively encouraged to point reporters to this p
The fact that anyone could patent an apple just goes to show you that the patent system needs to be redone. How this was even passed on to anyone, given prior 'art' is beyond me.
Even though Microsoft supposedly didn't get the patent; I wonder if the true patent holder will now sue all apple farmers, saying it infringes on their patent.
It saddens me that things like this can fly. This basically amounts to a corporate brainwashing. Can't people see that corporations are beginning to run everything, now they are going to the schools. I don't mind the advertisments (coke,pepsi), but when they start telling us what to think, that is when we should draw the line. If we kicked out religion from our schools for being "bad", same should apply to corporations.
Won't linux turn into windows. The kind of people who shop at Walmart, I would assume aren't very computer savy. The whole reason linux is so great is because these people aren't on it. Sure everyone wants linux to do great, but do you really want to go over to your mother's house to fix her computer because she doesn't understand a commandline. The only reason I like them offering linux, is because the overall cost of a prebuilt computer is cheaper.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought it was Bill Clinton's fault. Now I'm confused.
you forgot that they were in the beta stage as well. So fixing your arguement. The release of firefox has zero so far, and IE has thousands.
I highly doubt that we will know who our president is after the elections. I'm sure it will stretch on for another month or so before we do. Much like the last election. Hopefully it will be more clear cut this time, but with things like faulty electronic voting; I doubt there will be a clear indicator here.
Even more in prison
I'll stop "stealing" when it is free.
Since 9/11, President Bush, you have had a strong push for fighting terror. However, you seemed to have shown little concern for Osama Bin Laden after we went to Iraq. Constantly on the news, we hear more and more about al-Qa'ida, yet you seem to take little concern over them. My question is, will there be a larger focus on finding the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, the reason you started this war? Or will our primary focus be in Iraq, which has not been a threat to our country?
The biggest problem here is when spammers use this in there opt out link. This would probably be much more effective than the scrollbar hack they are using now. It just has to render the damn page, and wham you're infected.
I don't see a problem here. No one will be able to use the machines anyway. They will all be blue screened, so we will have to go back to the old way.
You forgot undecided :)
Don't you mean Darl?
We also have people at the EFF who argue against some patents.
But it makes fun of Microsoft. That is why its allowed to be duped.
the women
This is actually a great question the RIAA should ask. If this has no way of taking off in the porn industry, how the hell do they think they will pull this off to the general public. All great technologies of their time got their boost from porn (VHS, internet, etc)
If you can't sell it to the porn industry, aren't they just wasting their time?
You mean they are the harlem globetrotters here to use their genius to save the world?
Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2 Background On 20 May 2004, I posted a statement refuting the claim of Ken Brown, President of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, that Linus Torvalds didn't write Linux. My statement was mentioned on Slashdot, Groklaw, and many other Internet news sites. This attention resulted in over 150,000 requests to our server in less than a day, which is still standing despite yesterday being a national holiday with no one there to stand next to it saying "You can do it. You can do it." Kudos to Sun Microsystems and the folks who built Apache. My statement was mirrored all over the Internet, so the number of true hits to it is probably a substantial multiple of that. There were also quite a few comments at Slashdot, Groklaw, and other sites, many of them about me. I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience. The Brown Book I got an advance copy of Ken Brown's book. I think it is still under embargo, so I won't comment on it. Although I am not an investigative reporter, even I know it is unethical to discuss publications still under embargo. Some of us take ethics more seriously than others. So I won't even reveal the title. Let's call it The Brown Book. There is some precedent for nicknaming books after colors: The International Standard for the CD-ROM (IS 10149) is usually called The Red Book. Suffice it to say, there is a great deal to criticize in the book. I am sure that will happen when it is published. I may even help out. Brown's Motivation What prompted me to write this note today is an email I got yesterday. Actually, I got quite a few :-) , most of them thanking me for the historical material. One of yesterday's emails was from Linus, in response to an email from me apologizing for not letting him see my statement in advance. As a matter of courtesy, I did try but I was using his old transmeta.com address and didn't know his new one until I got a very kind email from Linus' father, a Finnish journalist.
In his email, Linus said that Brown never contacted him. No email, no phone call, no personal interview. Nothing. Considering the fact that Brown was writing an explosive book in which he accused Linus of not being the author of Linux, you would think a serious author would at least confront the subject with the accusation and give him a chance to respond. What kind of a reporter talks to people on the periphery of the subject but fails to talk to the main player?
Why did Brown fly all the way to Europe to interview me and (and according to an email I got from his seat-mate on the plane) one other person in Scandinavia, at considerable expense, and not at least call Linus? Even if he made a really bad choice of phone company, how much could that cost? Maybe a dollar? I call the U.S. all the time from Amsterdam. It is less than 5 cents a minute. How much could it cost to call California from D.C.?
From reading all the comments posted yesterday, I am now beginning to get the picture. Apparently a lot of people (still) think that I 'hate' Linus for stealing all my glory (see below for more on this). I didn't realize this view was so widespread. I now suspect that Brown believed this, too, and thought that I would be happy to dump all over Linus to get 'revenge.' By flying to Amsterdam he thought he could dig up dirt on Linus and get me to speak evil of him. He thought I would back up his crazy claim that Linus stole Linux from me. Brown was wrong on two counts. First, I bear no 'grudge' against Linus at all. He wrote Linux himself and deserves the credit. Second, I am really not a mean person. Even if I were still angry with him after all these years, I wouldn't choose some sleazy author with a hidden agenda as my vehicle. My home page gets 2500 hits a week. If I had something to say, I could put it there.
When The Brown Book comes out, there will no doubt be a lot of publicity in the mainstream media. Any of you with contacts in the media are actively encouraged to point reporters to this p
At least this sort of thing can't happen in Europe. Oh wait....
They could have at least posted the code for the backdoor in all the routers.
The fact that anyone could patent an apple just goes to show you that the patent system needs to be redone. How this was even passed on to anyone, given prior 'art' is beyond me.
Even though Microsoft supposedly didn't get the patent; I wonder if the true patent holder will now sue all apple farmers, saying it infringes on their patent.
It saddens me that things like this can fly. This basically amounts to a corporate brainwashing. Can't people see that corporations are beginning to run everything, now they are going to the schools. I don't mind the advertisments (coke,pepsi), but when they start telling us what to think, that is when we should draw the line. If we kicked out religion from our schools for being "bad", same should apply to corporations.
Do you think slashdotters would even read that? Even the abridged version of the article is to much for some.
Won't linux turn into windows. The kind of people who shop at Walmart, I would assume aren't very computer savy. The whole reason linux is so great is because these people aren't on it. Sure everyone wants linux to do great, but do you really want to go over to your mother's house to fix her computer because she doesn't understand a commandline. The only reason I like them offering linux, is because the overall cost of a prebuilt computer is cheaper.
If the sites don't go down in protest, we'll slashdot them