Come the year 2001, thousands of people out there will be overcome with despair, because they will be stuck with generators, water purifiers, rifles, candles, and many other things whose value will drop to 20% its current value.
They will have had to eat all those awful MRE's, and lima beans, and rice they stocked up, for a whole year, as well as all that canned food.
Soon they will go completely postal.
And then, the President will find this bunker mighty useful.
Your ISP would have to have a server for folks-who-want-to-get-past-Cyber-Patrol, folks-who-want-to-get-past-Cyber-Sitter,folks-who- want-to-get-past-Net-Nanny, et cetera, et cetera. To make things even odder, if you have content about some issues you are guaranteed to be blocked by one side or another:
Does your page have content that is gay-positive? Welcome to one set of blacklists.
Does your page have content that is homophobic? Welcome to another set of blacklists.
For those on the Western side of the Pond, you should know that British newspapers are not exactly attentive to accuracy. Credible British journalists usually end up working for the BBC, leaving the Sunday Times and other papers with a beggar's choice of researchers.
This is the same British newspaper that published the Israeli "ethnic bullet" story because they found one such story in Hebrew and apparently didn't know the Hebrew phrase for "science fiction". See here.
> In closing, I'll repeat: if you honestly think > you know of a specialized audio playback > device integrating a hard drive or solid > state memory with a dedicated
You mean to tell me that the specialization is what qualifies the patent?
Specialization in this case means "removing other functionalities of the device," since a laptop can do what a Rio does and also other things.
Please tell me that doesn't count as grounds for patent approval.
Read it, y'all. Even back when measuring longitude was still a challenge worth a king's ransom, England and France were haggling over the placement of the prime meridian.
And it's a biography of a cool 18th century hacker.
If a journalist writes a clueless article that does merit a collective response, summarize what needs answering, (fair use limitations, of course) collect the worthy repsonses, and send them to him.
I hope I'm not tempting fate to say the fsck-you'ers are not going to seek out the article in Altavista just to give the journalist a piece of their minds. (No, fate, nothing to see here, please move along...)
As for articles in local papers, advocacy is important, but it should not involve more than the local LUG.
The Beowulf mailing list had a thread for a while about clustering Playstations. All that 3D rendering does indicate a sweet chip in there. The only problem is Playstations are supposed to be largely black-box so as to deter piracy, so putting Linux and MPI on them would be difficult.
A guy I know wanted to keep his DHCP-assigned address including when he was away or at work, so he could serve web pages and collect email (cable modem line), so he crontabbed a few sendmails and wgets after seeing several times that he was losing his IP address asignment whenever there was no traffic. But, thanks for all the clues, everyone.
Say you get a line like this with DHCP but you want to hold on to the IP adress you're first assigned so you can treat the machine as quasi-static. What do you do? You set up a crontab with a few http queries to slashdot and chicks-with-schnauzers, maybe a few emails to your work address (filter them out at work.)
Now, a Mac or Win9X user would be unlikely to do this, but a Linux guy user could do it and seriously annoy a provider.
As the market for Linux grows a provider would just have to deal with it, but that's not the case right now.
This is a blessing in disguise. Even a PHB would know better than to go along with something this nasty when OSS software is available.
A piracy crackdown is what caused Linux to get popular in many countries outside the US. A law this severe will bring the world domination trophy to Linus's door.
In some outfits, like Spider's, you were encouraged to forget your comrades' actual names, and only use codenames, even in everyday communication. Then you couldn't slip up and use a person's real name in radio communication, which was usually monitored by the enemy. Once the enemy knew where you were at a given time and day, they could send a bogus telegram fro Washington, through the Polish embassy, supposedly from the Army, regretting to inform your parents or your wife that you had been killed in action there and then, thus undermining morale on the home front.
Yes and no. Re:Easier than Beowulf?
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MOSIX will let you reuse legacy code and distribute it on a processor farm so if you have many jobs of a type to run this will kick your throughput through the roof.
Latency, on the other hand, will stay the same with MOSIX because you're still running a serial piece of code from who-knows-when. If you want a single 24 hour job to finish faster, you still have to use MPI or PVM or (...) to farm it on several machines. But if it's several long-term jobs that you just want running at a good pace, MOSIX is excellent.
Well, kinda.. Re:ARRRRGH! It's /.'ed already!
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Israel's polling booths just closed. The whole subnet's going on a large load right now.
A lot of our mothers started out as typists. Mine did, which is why she liked the old DOS+Word Perfect 5.1 combination. When her PHB made the office switch to MS Word, my mother developed long lasting hatred towards Bill Gates.
The government of the United States, by court order, has declared that the following patents and copyrights owned by the Microsoft Corporation, [insert list], are null and void. The works covered are now in the public domain and their use and duplication are no longer subject to regulation by the United States.
Love,
President William Clinton."
No regulation or enforcement. In fact, quite the contrary.
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. -- Linus Torvalds
Slashdot Mirror
If the government taxes email, the government
knows how much you email.
Squick!
You, my friend, are one sick puppy.
The Mass. Committee on Science and Technology is probably where the bill will begin. When UCITA comes up, it should be listed here.
Th is link should at some point lead to the bill itself.
Let's not let it happen in our backyard.
Come the year 2001, thousands of people out there will be overcome with despair, because they will be stuck with generators, water purifiers, rifles, candles, and many other things whose value will drop to 20% its current value.
They will have had to eat all those awful MRE's, and lima beans, and rice they stocked up, for a whole year, as well as all that canned food.
Soon they will go completely postal.
And then, the President will find this bunker mighty useful.
Your ISP would have to have a server for folks-who-want-to-get-past-Cyber-Patrol, folks-who-want-to-get-past-Cyber-Sitter,folks-who- want-to-get-past-Net-Nanny, et cetera, et cetera.
To make things even odder, if you have content about some issues you are guaranteed to be blocked by one side or another:
Does your page have content that is gay-positive?
Welcome to one set of blacklists.
Does your page have content that is homophobic?
Welcome to another set of blacklists.
For those on the Western side of the Pond, you should know that British newspapers are not exactly attentive to accuracy. Credible British journalists usually end up working for the BBC, leaving the Sunday Times and other papers with a beggar's choice of researchers.
This is the same British newspaper that published the Israeli "ethnic bullet" story because they found one such story in Hebrew and apparently didn't know the Hebrew phrase for "science fiction".
See here.
> In closing, I'll repeat: if you honestly think
> you know of a specialized audio playback
> device integrating a hard drive or solid
> state memory with a dedicated
You mean to tell me that the specialization is
what qualifies the patent?
Specialization in this case means "removing other
functionalities of the device," since a laptop can
do what a Rio does and also other things.
Please tell me that doesn't count as grounds for patent approval.
Read it, y'all. Even back when measuring longitude was still a challenge worth a king's ransom, England and France were haggling over the placement of the prime meridian.
And it's a biography of a cool 18th century hacker.
If ESR's bribe was dinner with Greg Bear and Neal Stephenson, what bribes did Microsoft offer them?
...just wait till the first Factoid is subpoena'd.
Interest in this thing will decline sharply afterwards.
That would be so much cooler.
Set a date and time, make sure everyone's
clients are on at that time...
If a journalist writes a clueless article that does merit a collective response, summarize what needs answering, (fair use limitations, of course) collect the worthy repsonses, and send them to him.
I hope I'm not tempting fate to say the fsck-you'ers are not going to seek out the article in Altavista just to give the journalist a piece of their minds. (No, fate, nothing to see here, please move along...)
As for articles in local papers, advocacy is important, but it should not involve more than the local LUG.
The Beowulf mailing list had a thread for a while about clustering Playstations. All that 3D rendering does indicate a sweet chip in there.
The only problem is Playstations are supposed to be largely black-box so as to deter piracy, so putting Linux and MPI on them would be difficult.
The metasyntactic porn web site.
A hypothetical smut-box.
A guy I know wanted to keep his DHCP-assigned address including when he was away or at work, so he could serve web pages and collect email (cable modem line), so he crontabbed a few sendmails and wgets after seeing several times that he was losing his IP address asignment whenever there was no traffic. But, thanks for all the clues, everyone.
Say you get a line like this with DHCP but you want to hold on to the IP adress you're first assigned so you can treat the machine as quasi-static. What do you do? You set up a crontab with a few http queries to slashdot and chicks-with-schnauzers, maybe a few emails to your work address (filter them out at work.)
Now, a Mac or Win9X user would be unlikely to do this, but a Linux guy user could do it and seriously annoy a provider.
As the market for Linux grows a provider would just have to deal with it, but that's not the case right now.
But, hey, IP-6 is coming...
This is a blessing in disguise. Even a PHB would know better than
to go along with something this nasty when OSS software is
available.
A piracy crackdown is what caused Linux to get popular in many
countries outside the US. A law this severe will bring the
world domination trophy to Linus's door.
(An excert from 1968, by Joe Haldeman.)
In some outfits, like Spider's, you were
encouraged to forget your comrades' actual names,
and only use codenames, even in everyday communication. Then you couldn't slip up and
use a person's real name in radio communication,
which was usually monitored by the enemy. Once the enemy knew where you were at a given time and day,
they could send a bogus telegram fro Washington,
through the Polish embassy, supposedly from the Army, regretting to inform your parents or your wife that you had been killed in action there and then, thus undermining morale on the home front.
MOSIX will let you reuse legacy code and distribute it on a processor farm so if you have many jobs of a type to run this will kick your throughput through the roof.
Latency, on the other hand, will stay the same with MOSIX because you're still running a serial piece of code from who-knows-when. If you want a single 24 hour job to finish faster, you still have to use MPI or PVM or (...) to farm it on several machines. But if it's several long-term jobs that you just want running at a good pace,
MOSIX is excellent.
Israel's polling booths just closed. The whole
subnet's going on a large load right now.
Mirrors, anyone?
You know CmdrTaco & Co are doing something /.
right when a Chicago Tribune writer trolls
to bring up the hitcount.
A lot of our mothers started out as typists.
Mine did, which is why she liked the old DOS+Word Perfect 5.1 combination. When her PHB made the office switch to MS Word, my mother developed long lasting hatred towards Bill Gates.
GUI != user friendly.
CmdrTaco: Argonne has a Beowulf and is responsible for the MPICHameleon MPI implementation. You probably had them in mind.
"To whom it may concern:
.sig, please.]
The government of the United States, by court order, has declared that the following patents
and copyrights owned by the Microsoft Corporation, [insert list], are null and void. The works covered are now in the public domain and their use and duplication are no longer subject to regulation by the United States.
Love,
President William Clinton."
No regulation or enforcement. In fact,
quite the contrary.
[ignore my munged
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies
the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry
penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more
careful about what they say if they had. -- Linus Torvalds
'nuff said.