I dunno, maybe because I never read the comics (though I did watch the cartoon), I was just tremendously entertained by this movie. My friends and I had fun trying to guess who was who among the kids at the school, and the powers of the mutants were just spiffy. Wolverine, always my favorite, kicked some serious ass in this movie. And watch for Ray Parks doing a little Darth Maul bit during one of the fight scenes, that was the best. Not only is that guy seriously badass, but he's pretty funny too.
I've already seen it twice, which is probably enough, but now I'm definitely anticipating the followups that were implicitly promised by the plot. X-Men rule. --
Does it claim to be? Do we expect it to be? Not really. I read this site because it carries stories that are often interesting to me, and because I either sympathize with or can filter out the biases. --
1 They're probably under NDAs of some kind. 2 Free software thrives on having forceful, interesting personalities leading the projects. Those types of people tend to be more interesting to interview, I'd imagine. --
I used to grade for my compsci department, and the students put the most amazing comments in their code. Stuff like: i++;//increment i /* Dan, I don't know why this doesn't work, don't mark me off too much. */ /* I really hate this class */ /* yeah, I know we were supposed to do it recursively...*/
Heh, sometimes they got an extra point for making me laugh. Shh, don't tell them that.
Despite the best effort of that cult, the subliminal messages in the trailors didn't convince me to see this movie; therefore, it didn't take away two hours of my life. Of course, I promptly blew them on perl and partying anyway.
Yeah! My life is a lot like Shadowrun, now that you mention it. Just today, while dodging orange barrels on the freeway, this mutant guy on a motorcycle came up and tried to jack me with a shotgun. Luckily I had those mods done to my car last month, or he might have got me!
After taking care of that, I slinked into my corporate job, adopting my work persona: that of a short-on-sleep, perl hacking college student. That's just a cover. I do my real work at night, and it's much more exciting. I'll let you in on a little secret: they don't call them daemons for nothing, baby!
Tonight, I may catch a concert, or I may have to take some time and deal with this pig-snouted guy with a bulge in the small of his back, under his trenchcoat, who's been following me around. I should check out the polls, too, there's a dragon running for president this year. That's life, here in the future.
The computer science department at my school has its own server, and groups for every course. Generally, they are used by students looking for help from one another, though I know the profs and graders monitor them too. Occasionally lab and homework corrections are posted, or notices of due date changes. This is for the comp sci people though, who are expected to be technically competant. For an intro level chem course, it may not be worth the hassle at all; professors would probably be better served by maintaining their own course webpage, or having a TA do it.
Don't these big companies have mob connections any more? I mean, if this guy had tried this in the 60s (yeah, yeah, no web in the 60s, beside the point), he would have been whacked, and his body dragged to a park to make it look like a suicide. If they aren't using their hit men on this type of loser, then what are they saving them for?
Um, it will end when they knock it off and leave us alone. When they stop rewriting US law at whim to help their bottom line, when the politicians work for us again, and when they are no longer able to use their lawyers, guns, and money to hurt everyone who doesn't want to be a conforming, obedient little consumer. So basically, never.
Wasn't it qwforever that had the story posted a while back about GPL violation (If not them, then who?)? What ever happened with that, does anybody know?
Being a subsidiary of Andover, and soon VA, they have money. I'd probably contribute anyway, to be able to say I helped trash the DMCA. If a law is wrong, you really have a moral duty to oppose it in all ways you can, up to and including breaking it.
Hmm, slashdot has lawyers, and money. Now they need guns...
As long as we're talking about followups, what ever happened to that guy who was putting a stupid disclaimer on his site "by downloading my GPL code, you agree not to ask for the source"? I was kind of wondering about that the other day, there was a big uproar when that story was first posted, and then nothing more ever came of it (that I know of).
I note you have an.edu address I hardly get any spam on my.edu address, neither do my other faculty relatives. And what we get is traceable, as you noted. I guess they think we're poor students and not worth the effort. That is probably the best explanation for it I've ever heard; ironic, isn't it? College tech types tend to have the most money of the various majors, and be the most willing to spend it online. The credit card companies seemed to think I was the best customer they could possibly attract there for while:) I do own my own domain though, and it never seems to get shotgunned. I've had it for about a year and a half. Maybe I'm just tempting fate by constantly wondering out loud at my good fortune...
More importantly than can such laws be written, is whether such laws should be written. It isn't really the responsibility of the government to protect us from advertisements. The government does not need us begging it to have more authority, they are perfectly happy to grab it for themselves.
Be honest: we do not need laws to keep these things off of us. I don't get much spam, and what I do I can generally trace back to some website or other I signed up for voluntarily. I can filter it if it gets bad, opt out, I can hang up on telemarketers. If someone doesn't identify themselves on Caller ID (and that bothers you), let the machine filter it, most direct dialing in my area is done by a computer that hangs up if it hears an answering machine. DoS has technical solutions; some have been proposed, I'm sure others are being worked on, and the slowest technical solution will be faster coming and more effective when it gets here than the best law Congress can pass. Congress and the state legislatures should worry about important things, like health care and the fate of Cuban toddlers, and leave us alone to solve our own minor problems.
I don't own a palm. I've thought about it, but at this point in my life, a nice TI calculator is really more useful for me:) My question to those with these things is: is there any content out there for you to read? I imagine they can do email, which is nice. But can they read any regular webpages (the point, for most people, of an internet connection)? With wireless devices like this apparently increasing in popularity, is there anything we should do to our webpages to make them more palm-friendly?
Intouch has bigger problems than the fact that they obey and use stupid patent laws. Another defendant in this suit is Time Warner. They just opened the biggest box of flesh-eating lawyers the world has ever seen. Heh, you almost feel sorry for them.
I didn't notice anyone suggesting we should boycott Intouch...??? Hmmm?? I hit RMS's website, and didn't see any "Boycott Intouch!!!" postings...??? Hmmm?? I am boycotting Amazon. Except, well, I never bought anything from them before, and I don't generally buy books online anyway, so they really aren't losing anything by my boycott. I've never bought anything from Intouch. As far as I can tell, their target market is record stores, so probably no more than 1 or 2 people on all of/. has ever bought anything from them. We don't own record stores, so we never would anyway. All of/. boycotting Intouch will have precisely the same effect on their bottom line as my personal boycott does to Amazon. 0. Zip. Nadda. So why bother?
Rather difficult, because they say the servers won't just be checking the version, but also some random bit of magic they have added to it to allow authorization on their server. I don't know how, but I'm real tempted to put windows back on my box just to find out (no TCPirch for linux, oh darn ).
is because they are unable to deal with the barrage of attacks on their irc servers from people using scriptable clients. In the explanation that was sent out to hosts, they explain that they are unable to stop the flooding, nick stealing (all TC nicks require passwords), and various war scripts that people are using on the server through these clients. This smells like BS to me, but I am unable to prove it, because I don't know enough about how IRC servers and these attack scripts works. But I chat on other servers, and they never seem to have those kinds of problems. Undernet, DALnet, whatever, I've never seen anywhere near the problems on there that I do on TalkCity. I suspect these come from a couple of sources. Socially, by proclaiming themselves bigger, better, and cleaner than the rest of IRC, they make themselves a target. Technically, they use these stupid proxy servers that, while protecting a user's privacy, also make it impossible to effectively ban someone; only their superops, the CSAs, can ban someone by host, and then it is server wide. This neuters the hosts they generally use to keep order; on another server, we could ban the guy and be done, but on TalkCity we have to waste the CSA's time to get it done right. This "solution" doesn't address either of these basic problems. That it doesn't reveals them to be the moneygrubbing rats they are, using the server only to increase their adcounts. They did the same thing a while back, adding message boards (with ads) to the server, that all hosts had to chat on, and telling all the forums and hosts that they had to have regularly updated webpages (with ads). There's nothing wrong with ads on pages; changing the structure of the place to increase adcount, while proclaiming that outside "hacker" forces are making them do this, is wrong. TalkCity is no longer a fun place to host, and that's why I'm done there, and a lot of other people too.
They should have put up a website that said that when X number of people voted, the microphone would be turned off and the acceptance speech would be over./That/ would have been useful interactivity. I've acted before, I've seen the back sides of sets, that's not that cool; but making the actors shut up, that would be real power:)
I was in a union, non-software, before I had enough experience to get a tech-type job. It sucked. I had to pay $100 to join it, had to join it to work this stupid summer job, got paid next to minimum wage anyway, and didn't hear another thing from them except how great they were, and oh yeah could I vote for this one guy they liked? If that's what a union is like, it's not what tech workers need, because it blew, it seemed to have forgotten that it was supposed to work for its members, and not the other way around. A PAC or something maybe, but if tech places start unionizing and "closing shops", I'll just consult, because I don't need that kind of shit.
Do you mean abuse/by/ an advisor, or/of/ an advisor? Last summer I worked for the EE department here at OSU, they needed a programmer. I'm an undergrad, so they would only hire me for 30 hours a week, and at punkass pay. But the project they hired me to work on had some hard deadlines coming up real fast, so I put in rather more than that. At 5:30, the evening before the project had to be completed, my advisor/boss comes and says "Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could add these features..." I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Yeah, it would." And then ignored him. What a jackass. Sweet revenge. A month after I stopped working for them, my ex-boss calls me up to explain that he and the other guys using my code have mananged to screw it up beyond belief (they wanted to use VB on NT, what did they expect?), and could I please come straighten it out? I figure I'll call them in another week or two and offer to consult for them at about 10x my previous punkass salary.
i think all this negitivity towards his articles may be getting to him Nah. I think, it being Valentines Day and all, that he had a hot date, and was in a hurry to turn this in:)
What are you people doing to me? I'm on a corporate LAN, and you put a link to a PLAYBOY article on there? Visiting those depraved, worthless websites from work has been known to get people fired! Now I can't read it until I go home! Note for the humor impaired: buggroff.
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RMS proposed it actually be called GNU/S/1999 J 1.
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I dunno, maybe because I never read the comics (though I did watch the cartoon), I was just tremendously entertained by this movie. My friends and I had fun trying to guess who was who among the kids at the school, and the powers of the mutants were just spiffy. Wolverine, always my favorite, kicked some serious ass in this movie. And watch for Ray Parks doing a little Darth Maul bit during one of the fight scenes, that was the best. Not only is that guy seriously badass, but he's pretty funny too.
I've already seen it twice, which is probably enough, but now I'm definitely anticipating the followups that were implicitly promised by the plot. X-Men rule.
--
Does it claim to be? Do we expect it to be? Not really. I read this site because it carries stories that are often interesting to me, and because I either sympathize with or can filter out the biases.
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1 They're probably under NDAs of some kind.
2 Free software thrives on having forceful, interesting personalities leading the projects. Those types of people tend to be more interesting to interview, I'd imagine.
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I used to grade for my compsci department, and the students put the most amazing comments in their code. Stuff like: //increment i
i++;
/* Dan, I don't know why this doesn't work, don't mark me off too much. */
/* I really hate this class */
/* yeah, I know we were supposed to do it recursively...*/
Heh, sometimes they got an extra point for making me laugh. Shh, don't tell them that.
Despite the best effort of that cult, the subliminal messages in the trailors didn't convince me to see this movie; therefore, it didn't take away two hours of my life. Of course, I promptly blew them on perl and partying anyway.
Yeah! My life is a lot like Shadowrun, now that you mention it. Just today, while dodging orange barrels on the freeway, this mutant guy on a motorcycle came up and tried to jack me with a shotgun. Luckily I had those mods done to my car last month, or he might have got me!
After taking care of that, I slinked into my corporate job, adopting my work persona: that of a short-on-sleep, perl hacking college student. That's just a cover. I do my real work at night, and it's much more exciting. I'll let you in on a little secret: they don't call them daemons for nothing, baby!
Tonight, I may catch a concert, or I may have to take some time and deal with this pig-snouted guy with a bulge in the small of his back, under his trenchcoat, who's been following me around. I should check out the polls, too, there's a dragon running for president this year. That's life, here in the future.
The computer science department at my school has its own server, and groups for every course. Generally, they are used by students looking for help from one another, though I know the profs and graders monitor them too. Occasionally lab and homework corrections are posted, or notices of due date changes. This is for the comp sci people though, who are expected to be technically competant. For an intro level chem course, it may not be worth the hassle at all; professors would probably be better served by maintaining their own course webpage, or having a TA do it.
Don't these big companies have mob connections any more? I mean, if this guy had tried this in the 60s (yeah, yeah, no web in the 60s, beside the point), he would have been whacked, and his body dragged to a park to make it look like a suicide. If they aren't using their hit men on this type of loser, then what are they saving them for?
Um, it will end when they knock it off and leave us alone. When they stop rewriting US law at whim to help their bottom line, when the politicians work for us again, and when they are no longer able to use their lawyers, guns, and money to hurt everyone who doesn't want to be a conforming, obedient little consumer. So basically, never.
Wasn't it qwforever that had the story posted a while back about GPL violation (If not them, then who?)? What ever happened with that, does anybody know?
Being a subsidiary of Andover, and soon VA, they have money. I'd probably contribute anyway, to be able to say I helped trash the DMCA. If a law is wrong, you really have a moral duty to oppose it in all ways you can, up to and including breaking it.
Hmm, slashdot has lawyers, and money. Now they need guns...
As long as we're talking about followups, what ever happened to that guy who was putting a stupid disclaimer on his site "by downloading my GPL code, you agree not to ask for the source"? I was kind of wondering about that the other day, there was a big uproar when that story was first posted, and then nothing more ever came of it (that I know of).
I note you have an .edu address .edu address, neither do my other faculty relatives. And what we get is traceable, as you noted. :)
I hardly get any spam on my
I guess they think we're poor students and not worth the effort.
That is probably the best explanation for it I've ever heard; ironic, isn't it? College tech types tend to have the most money of the various majors, and be the most willing to spend it online. The credit card companies seemed to think I was the best customer they could possibly attract there for while
I do own my own domain though, and it never seems to get shotgunned. I've had it for about a year and a half. Maybe I'm just tempting fate by constantly wondering out loud at my good fortune...
Be honest: we do not need laws to keep these things off of us. I don't get much spam, and what I do I can generally trace back to some website or other I signed up for voluntarily. I can filter it if it gets bad, opt out, I can hang up on telemarketers. If someone doesn't identify themselves on Caller ID (and that bothers you), let the machine filter it, most direct dialing in my area is done by a computer that hangs up if it hears an answering machine. DoS has technical solutions; some have been proposed, I'm sure others are being worked on, and the slowest technical solution will be faster coming and more effective when it gets here than the best law Congress can pass. Congress and the state legislatures should worry about important things, like health care and the fate of Cuban toddlers, and leave us alone to solve our own minor problems.
I don't own a palm. I've thought about it, but at this point in my life, a nice TI calculator is really more useful for me :)
My question to those with these things is: is there any content out there for you to read? I imagine they can do email, which is nice. But can they read any regular webpages (the point, for most people, of an internet connection)? With wireless devices like this apparently increasing in popularity, is there anything we should do to our webpages to make them more palm-friendly?
Intouch has bigger problems than the fact that they obey and use stupid patent laws. Another defendant in this suit is Time Warner. They just opened the biggest box of flesh-eating lawyers the world has ever seen. Heh, you almost feel sorry for them.
I didn't notice anyone suggesting we should boycott Intouch...??? Hmmm?? I hit RMS's website, and didn't see any "Boycott Intouch!!!" postings...??? Hmmm?? /. has ever bought anything from them. We don't own record stores, so we never would anyway. All of /. boycotting Intouch will have precisely the same effect on their bottom line as my personal boycott does to Amazon. 0. Zip. Nadda. So why bother?
I am boycotting Amazon. Except, well, I never bought anything from them before, and I don't generally buy books online anyway, so they really aren't losing anything by my boycott.
I've never bought anything from Intouch. As far as I can tell, their target market is record stores, so probably no more than 1 or 2 people on all of
Rather difficult, because they say the servers won't just be checking the version, but also some random bit of magic they have added to it to allow authorization on their server. I don't know how, but I'm real tempted to put windows back on my box just to find out (no TCPirch for linux, oh darn ).
is because they are unable to deal with the barrage of attacks on their irc servers from people using scriptable clients. In the explanation that was sent out to hosts, they explain that they are unable to stop the flooding, nick stealing (all TC nicks require passwords), and various war scripts that people are using on the server through these clients. This smells like BS to me, but I am unable to prove it, because I don't know enough about how IRC servers and these attack scripts works. But I chat on other servers, and they never seem to have those kinds of problems. Undernet, DALnet, whatever, I've never seen anywhere near the problems on there that I do on TalkCity.
I suspect these come from a couple of sources. Socially, by proclaiming themselves bigger, better, and cleaner than the rest of IRC, they make themselves a target. Technically, they use these stupid proxy servers that, while protecting a user's privacy, also make it impossible to effectively ban someone; only their superops, the CSAs, can ban someone by host, and then it is server wide. This neuters the hosts they generally use to keep order; on another server, we could ban the guy and be done, but on TalkCity we have to waste the CSA's time to get it done right.
This "solution" doesn't address either of these basic problems. That it doesn't reveals them to be the moneygrubbing rats they are, using the server only to increase their adcounts. They did the same thing a while back, adding message boards (with ads) to the server, that all hosts had to chat on, and telling all the forums and hosts that they had to have regularly updated webpages (with ads). There's nothing wrong with ads on pages; changing the structure of the place to increase adcount, while proclaiming that outside "hacker" forces are making them do this, is wrong. TalkCity is no longer a fun place to host, and that's why I'm done there, and a lot of other people too.
They should have put up a website that said that when X number of people voted, the microphone would be turned off and the acceptance speech would be over. /That/ would have been useful interactivity. I've acted before, I've seen the back sides of sets, that's not that cool; but making the actors shut up, that would be real power :)
I was in a union, non-software, before I had enough experience to get a tech-type job. It sucked. I had to pay $100 to join it, had to join it to work this stupid summer job, got paid next to minimum wage anyway, and didn't hear another thing from them except how great they were, and oh yeah could I vote for this one guy they liked? If that's what a union is like, it's not what tech workers need, because it blew, it seemed to have forgotten that it was supposed to work for its members, and not the other way around. A PAC or something maybe, but if tech places start unionizing and "closing shops", I'll just consult, because I don't need that kind of shit.
Do you mean abuse /by/ an advisor, or /of/ an advisor? Last summer I worked for the EE department here at OSU, they needed a programmer. I'm an undergrad, so they would only hire me for 30 hours a week, and at punkass pay. But the project they hired me to work on had some hard deadlines coming up real fast, so I put in rather more than that. At 5:30, the evening before the project had to be completed, my advisor/boss comes and says "Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could add these features..." I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Yeah, it would." And then ignored him. What a jackass.
Sweet revenge. A month after I stopped working for them, my ex-boss calls me up to explain that he and the other guys using my code have mananged to screw it up beyond belief (they wanted to use VB on NT, what did they expect?), and could I please come straighten it out? I figure I'll call them in another week or two and offer to consult for them at about 10x my previous punkass salary.
i think all this negitivity towards his articles may be getting to him :)
Nah. I think, it being Valentines Day and all, that he had a hot date, and was in a hurry to turn this in
What are you people doing to me? I'm on a corporate LAN, and you put a link to a PLAYBOY article on there? Visiting those depraved, worthless websites from work has been known to get people fired! Now I can't read it until I go home!
Note for the humor impaired: buggroff.