Think about the difference between hacking this and hacking the iOpener. The iOpener is intended to sell you an ISP contract. Larry Ellison wants nothing less than to kill Windows and sell more big servers that run Oracle. As long as the hacks you make don't interfere with his goals, I'm sure he'll have no problem.
You wouldn't believe how hard they have to work. The last movie my uncle saw in a movie theater was the origional star wars, in the late 70's. He's just that busy.
Oh please.
Why is government so different? We have a set of things we're given for our money. Its not like the government is turning a profit. They're in debt, remember?
My response to this astoundingly naive statement:
First, please read article 1, section 8 and the tenth amendment of the Constitution and then tell me if you believe the federal government can legally run Medicare and Social Security. The Constitution tells the government what it may legally take money from the people to do. Yes, building roads and providing for the defense of our country our in there. Most of the things you think are so great are not.
The government is in debt because Congressmen just can't resist spending money on unconstitutional projects to pander to their electorate and hold on to their power.
First of all, I think this is a troll, given this statement: "When the Constitution was drafted, if they'd have realised the threats that children face everyday, I'm sure they'd have realised that sometimes, freedom of speech is not an abolute concept."
But I'll reply since it got modded up to 5. Taking away childrens' responsibility causes them
to be what? Irresponsible. If kids aren't allowed to make any kind of decisions for themselves about what to do and what not to do, do you think they are going magically acquire that ability when they turn 18?
A lot of the pseudo-libertarians around here
think it's great that we should have limited
government, but once they perceive their
jobs are being threatened, it's "no more H1-Bs!"
You know, at one point, I would have agreed with
you. But when I saw those Vaios, dammit, I had
to have one (a PCG-N505VE, the super-thin Celeron 300 one).
I'd love to know what it is about the design
of a product that makes it so appealing. Certain
shapes and things have to appeal to deeply
rooted biological impulses (if I know biology, for food and sex:-)), and we just can't resist them.
That's not MS's fault...they are binary compatible
with DCE. Function names and everything are all the same. I know, I suffered for years as a DCE programmer.
Clues for the clueless: M$ (Or any public corp, for that matter) Dosn't really make any money. Amazing, that. See what you said? 33c earnings per share? That goes to the shareholders. NOT to the corperation. Cool, that.
OK, since you're so clued in...what did Microsoft pay in dividends to their shareholders last year? How about the year before?
Give up? Nothing. Microsoft doesn't pay dividends, like most tech companies. They
invest their profits back into the company (or
other investments).
I'm running 2.4.0-test8 (was running test7) on my box, and it's a champ. This pre-release already kicks the crap out of anything our friends in Redmond can put out...
Sorry, you've been busted by the FUD police. I
don't know what you do with your box, but I run
an Oracle 8i instance on mine which is heavily
used by software developers. I had to go back
to 2.2.16, test8 is atrocious under heavy load.
Windows 2000 would never run as poorly as test8 does. Note they've put in an new VM for test9,
which is in the "pre" stage right now.
Funny, to me, putting it in context only makes it worse!
I'm not mislabeling anything. I don't mean calling him a socialst to be an offhanded insult, and I don't allude to communism or any cold war crap. But he is a socialist. If that's what you believe in, fine.
I'm not contradicting what you said, I'm just adding to it: it's great when you come to the realization with a language that the simple problems are too easy. You never get paid to solve a simple problem.:-) By making the simple problems easy, it frees you up to concentrate on the difficult problems, a.k.a. the reasons why you are really developing software. I first had this experience with Java of all things, but have since had it with Perl as well.
Anytime I see someone proposing Ralph Nader as an alternative to bigger government I have to laugh. If you like Ralph Nader, fine, but he is a socialist and I guarantee you the government would be far more opressive under him.
I asked myself the same question, but in the reverse direction. I'm not a professional web developer, but I do alot of web development in my job. I had been using PHP, and was looking at learning Perl. Perl has since become so useful to me for doing miscellaneous things that I wanted to use it for web development as well -- why bother remembering two sets of syntax for doing essentially the same thing? Then I discovered Mason, which lets you embed Perl into web pages just like PHP does (there are other ways of doing this too). That sealed the deal; I haven't touched PHP in months.
Warning: this post is going to be seriously random.
I almost can't take this anymore. How can we wake up the public to see that our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms are being stolen right from under our nose?
On a related note, check out this article Harry Browne wrote about his Supreme Court litmus test (question 1: "Can you read?").
Back to the serious part: what can we do? What organizations are out there watching the government now? A thousand angry Slashdot readers are nothing but noise. How can we organize; create an "open source" protest against this ("this" not being Carnivore specifically, but the gradual movement of the USA to Oceania)? Let's get some suggestions here.
I tried to register unconstitutional.org yesterday but it's already taken. Does anyone know of a site that lists all of the laws in effect which are clearly unconstitutional? I'd love to see that.
1000 BC: I guess it's cool that people are doing things with canvas and colored mixtures of water and various substances, but giving it a name like 'painting' and calling it art is a bit too much for me. Hand me my chisel, Oog.
(Actually, I'm not personally defending this as art, but it all depends on how you look at it.)
Biological creatures have evolved such that they, um, mate, because it "feels good." Not just physically, but in a deeper psychological sense as well. My question is this: when we have machines that can reproduce, why will they? If it's just for practical value, will emotionless machines kill their offspring if they cease to be of value and start consuming more than they're producing?
I don't have the documentation handy, but if you have MSDN, I specifically remember MS building the ability to do this into the TCP/IP stack that comes with Windows 2000. If I think of it later I'll post more information. (You need to be a C/C++ programmer too.:-) )
Word will use Internet Explorer to do this, which also means it will use IE's proxy settings. Just another good reason to use Junkbuster. Of course, there's a very small chance the host images are coming off of are actually in your scookie.ini.
I'll second this. We had unacceptable performance with the Java 2 JDK that comes straight from Sun. If you're going to do Java on Linux, use the Blackdown JDK. As a bonus, the Blackdown JDK far outperforms the Windows JDK as well (at least for server apps, we don't do any GUI development).
Nobody questions the concept that you have to be 17 to get into an R-rated movie
Oh please. That's because everyone knows it's a joke to do so anyway.
Soldier of Fortune is a very violent game, and if I had kids, I wouldn't want them playing it.
I'm glad you feel qualified to make that decision for every other parent in the country. Every time you consider making something you don't like illegal, think about this: there are probably hundreds of thousands or millions of people out there who want to make something that you like to do illegal.
--jb
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Is this a joke? The CDA was struck down as unconstitutional ages ago.
--jbThink about the difference between hacking this and hacking the iOpener. The iOpener is intended to sell you an ISP contract. Larry Ellison wants nothing less than to kill Windows and sell more big servers that run Oracle. As long as the hacks you make don't interfere with his goals, I'm sure he'll have no problem.
--jb
Checked it out...ow, change the color!
--jbIt's been said before, but:
Vote Libertarian.
Support the EFF.
Support the ACLU.
Use encryption (someone post me a Linux link).
Call your representative.
Don't just sit there, do something. Put the right people in power and this crap will get fixed.
--jbSpeaking of Harry Browne...there's a round table with him going on at kuro5hin all week; he's got an account and he's answering questions. Seriously.
--jbOh please.
My response to this astoundingly naive statement:
Will you commit to freeing the American people from the unnecessary and unconstitutional Internal Revenue Service during your term? Why or why not?
--jbFirst of all, I think this is a troll, given this statement: "When the Constitution was drafted, if they'd have realised the threats that children face everyday, I'm sure they'd have realised that sometimes, freedom of speech is not an abolute concept."
But I'll reply since it got modded up to 5. Taking away childrens' responsibility causes them to be what? Irresponsible. If kids aren't allowed to make any kind of decisions for themselves about what to do and what not to do, do you think they are going magically acquire that ability when they turn 18?
--jbThat's exactly his point.
A lot of the pseudo-libertarians around here think it's great that we should have limited government, but once they perceive their jobs are being threatened, it's "no more H1-Bs!"
--jbYou know, at one point, I would have agreed with you. But when I saw those Vaios, dammit, I had to have one (a PCG-N505VE, the super-thin Celeron 300 one).
I'd love to know what it is about the design of a product that makes it so appealing. Certain shapes and things have to appeal to deeply rooted biological impulses (if I know biology, for food and sex :-)), and we just can't resist them.
--jbThat's not MS's fault...they are binary compatible with DCE. Function names and everything are all the same. I know, I suffered for years as a DCE programmer.
Totally agree that SOAP is cool.
Clues for the clueless: M$ (Or any public corp, for that matter) Dosn't really make any money. Amazing, that. See what you said? 33c earnings per share? That goes to the shareholders. NOT to the corperation. Cool, that.
OK, since you're so clued in...what did Microsoft pay in dividends to their shareholders last year? How about the year before?
Give up? Nothing. Microsoft doesn't pay dividends, like most tech companies. They invest their profits back into the company (or other investments).
--jbSorry, you've been busted by the FUD police. I don't know what you do with your box, but I run an Oracle 8i instance on mine which is heavily used by software developers. I had to go back to 2.2.16, test8 is atrocious under heavy load. Windows 2000 would never run as poorly as test8 does. Note they've put in an new VM for test9, which is in the "pre" stage right now.
--jbInteresting, but...I'd personally like to see some kind of evidence of this before I take your word for it.
--jbFunny, to me, putting it in context only makes it worse!
I'm not mislabeling anything. I don't mean calling him a socialst to be an offhanded insult, and I don't allude to communism or any cold war crap. But he is a socialist. If that's what you believe in, fine.
--jbI'm not contradicting what you said, I'm just adding to it: it's great when you come to the realization with a language that the simple problems are too easy. You never get paid to solve a simple problem. :-) By making the simple problems easy, it frees you up to concentrate on the difficult problems, a.k.a. the reasons why you are really developing software. I first had this experience with Java of all things, but have since had it with Perl as well.
--jbAnytime I see someone proposing Ralph Nader as an alternative to bigger government I have to laugh. If you like Ralph Nader, fine, but he is a socialist and I guarantee you the government would be far more opressive under him.
"we should tax things we don't like" -- Ralph Nader.
I'll second the previous poster: vote libertarian.
--jbI asked myself the same question, but in the reverse direction. I'm not a professional web developer, but I do alot of web development in my job. I had been using PHP, and was looking at learning Perl. Perl has since become so useful to me for doing miscellaneous things that I wanted to use it for web development as well -- why bother remembering two sets of syntax for doing essentially the same thing? Then I discovered Mason, which lets you embed Perl into web pages just like PHP does (there are other ways of doing this too). That sealed the deal; I haven't touched PHP in months.
--jbWarning: this post is going to be seriously random.
I almost can't take this anymore. How can we wake up the public to see that our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms are being stolen right from under our nose? On a related note, check out this article Harry Browne wrote about his Supreme Court litmus test (question 1: "Can you read?").
Back to the serious part: what can we do? What organizations are out there watching the government now? A thousand angry Slashdot readers are nothing but noise. How can we organize; create an "open source" protest against this ("this" not being Carnivore specifically, but the gradual movement of the USA to Oceania)? Let's get some suggestions here.
I tried to register unconstitutional.org yesterday but it's already taken. Does anyone know of a site that lists all of the laws in effect which are clearly unconstitutional? I'd love to see that.
--jb1000 BC: I guess it's cool that people are doing things with canvas and colored mixtures of water and various substances, but giving it a name like 'painting' and calling it art is a bit too much for me. Hand me my chisel, Oog.
(Actually, I'm not personally defending this as art, but it all depends on how you look at it.)
--jbBiological creatures have evolved such that they, um, mate, because it "feels good." Not just physically, but in a deeper psychological sense as well. My question is this: when we have machines that can reproduce, why will they? If it's just for practical value, will emotionless machines kill their offspring if they cease to be of value and start consuming more than they're producing?
--jbI don't have the documentation handy, but if you have MSDN, I specifically remember MS building the ability to do this into the TCP/IP stack that comes with Windows 2000. If I think of it later I'll post more information. (You need to be a C/C++ programmer too. :-) )
--jbWord will use Internet Explorer to do this, which also means it will use IE's proxy settings. Just another good reason to use Junkbuster. Of course, there's a very small chance the host images are coming off of are actually in your scookie.ini.
--jbI'll second this. We had unacceptable performance with the Java 2 JDK that comes straight from Sun. If you're going to do Java on Linux, use the Blackdown JDK. As a bonus, the Blackdown JDK far outperforms the Windows JDK as well (at least for server apps, we don't do any GUI development).
--jb