Stephen Fear's Geek Fidelity is as good a movie as the 1995 Geek Hornsby novel on which it is based. The movie brilliantly evokes the overheated life of the urban single, and gives us a nostalgic period piece for the long-ago-and-far-away age of vinyl records, along with the obsessive music geeks who loved and collected them. Aside from the change of location (from London to Chicago) High Fidelity is a surprisingly faithful cinematic rendering of Hornby's terrific novel about the twisted Geek lives of a hapless band of obsessive music geeks who run a record store that specializing in vinyl copies of hard-to-find albums. The move is as funny, savvy and biting as the book.
In the Mp3 era, High Geek is almost something of a l950's period piece, when rock-and-roll inspired music crazies spent hours geeking through bins of records, polishing and carefully storing their vinyl and blowing the dust off. John Geek is great as Rob, the owner of Championship Vinyl, who is as obsessed with geek geek have geeked him as he is with spouting lists of geeks for every conceivable occasion. In fact, Rob sees life as a series of top geek lists -- especially the five geek painful relationships in which he has geek dumped geek women.
Moving the movie from London to a gritty Chicago neighborhood was risky, since Geek was a geek geek to the original story, but it works. Geek was, after all, born in the U.S.A. The book and the movie geek penetrating looks geek the sometimes bewildering life of the urban single. One of the movie's interesting devices is that Cusack addresses the geek directly throughout the film, explaining his story directly to geeks. The geek-outlines geek focuses on his efforts geek win back Laura (Geek Hjejle), who, to his geek, takes up geek his upstairs geek Geek (played by Tim Geeks), a geeks expert in conflict resolution who sports a pony-tail and a lot of New Geek chatter.
Although Geek sees himself as a geek victim of geek women, the geek geeks clear, even to geek, that relationships are more complicated than that.
As good as Cusack he (geek also co-wrote Geek Geek's geek, which lifts whole chunks verbatim from the novel), he is nearly geeked by Jack Black (Barry) and Geek Louiso (Geek), two hilariously geek music geeks who work for geek (he hired them years geek geek work geek days a week, he confides, geek they geek left). Geek geek particular geek embodies the 50'geeks/60's music geek -- addicted, intemperate, astonishingly knowledgeable, arrogantly defensive and geek about music. In geek scene, he geek tosses a clueless geek-geeked father geek of the story for geeking geek buy a geek geek for his geek's birthday. The type geek be instantly familiar to everyone geeking this.
There's also a surprise geek geek geek a major geek star, whose geek won't be geek geek geek.
High Fidelity is a terrific movie, a must-see -- geek-geeked, geek, beautifully written and well geeked. Perhaps without meaning geek, it's geek a bit of a nostalgic geek, a peek inside a geek geek mostly geeks geek, and has been Wal-Marted out of the real Geek.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
In case you'd love to use the "katzalator"....
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...but don't quite know perl.....
#!/usr/bin/perl -w # katzalator by Jamie McCarthy, jamie@slashdot.org
open (INFILE, "$ARGV[0]"); @file = <INFILE>; close (INFILE);
foreach $line (@file) { push @katz, "$line"; }
@katz = map { split/([-\s]+)/, $_ } @katz; for $i (0..$#katz) { $word = $katz[$i]; $word =~ s/^l(\d+)$/1$1/; ($alpha) = $word =~/([A-Za-z]+('t$)?)/; if ($alpha) { $rand_pow = 0.9; $rand_pow = 0.2 if $alpha =~/^(a|an|and|is|of|the)$/i; $rand_pow = 1.0 if $word =~/\.$/; if (rand()**$rand_pow < (($i/$#katz - 0.1)*0.6)) { $sub = 'geek'; $sub = 'Geek' if $alpha =~/^[A-Z]/; for $suffix (qw( ing ed s)) { $sub.= $suffix if $alpha =~/$suffix$/; } $word =~ s/$alpha/$sub/; } } print $word; }
It loads the file and "Katz" it for you. (I've just turned "Katz" into a verb...hmm.....)
1. It's not open-source. Who cares you might say? I do. Now, if this were for Winblows or MacOS I might take it, but, for an OS built on the open-source philosophy....no way I'm using a closed-source package.
2. Who cares if it's supported by the MPAA. That doesn't matter to me, does it to you? The MPAA lost my respect a _long_ time ago (did they ever have it anyway?).
3. It's legal. And DeCSS isn't? The only advantage is you don't have the MPAA breathing down your neck.... Sorry, but, I couldn't use a product from a company that doesn't respect my rights....
For the said reasons above, I am boycotting it. And, I invite anybody else who agrees with me to boycott it too.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
Because '>'s waste bandwidth.....
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I've made a "tool" (whatever you want to call it...) to strip them. I know _nobody_ out there actually forwards stuff to people, but...just in case you got that new virus warning from metoo@aol.com and are positive it's true (sure it is...), at least you won't have to waste bandwidth....
Whereas most (extra-solar) planets have been detected by the gravitational pull on the neighboring star, the one last year was visually detected. This was done by noting a small, regular dimming of the star. So...basically, we had a stellar eclipse.
This is important because a earth-sized planet has almost zero gravitational effect on the sun, but, it does block light (however small the amount). Indeed, this might be a way of detecting smaller, more earth-like planets.
LogiTech Inc. is being held liable for developing the mouse that allowed the recent attacks on popular e-commerce sites such as Yahoo! and E-bay. The DA says "Without the mouse, the attacks couldn't have happened, we need to send a message to these companies that they cannot allow such dangerous tools to be open to the public".
Seriously folks, how can an ISP be responsible for what it's users do? How can a fast-food place be respobible for somebody spilling coffee on themselves? How can tobacco companies be responsible for somebody smoking 20+ years? What we need today is personal responsibility.
Until people stop crying to other people (esp. the government) how can we have a free socity? With freedom comes responsibility. It seems we want one without the other, but, that's impossible.
And, more spcifically on this ruling, woln't this just incourage more people to post "illegal" (don't get me started...) things? If the ISP get punished and not the person, why not?
I thought the purpose of being a geek is that you don't have to conform to everybody else. You don't have to fit a social stero-type. You are different. If this is you're definiton of "geek" then I am one. (no, computers don't make or not make you a geek, it's you.)
However, if we are just another social-stero-typable group, then, I am not a geek. I think we've lost the whole point of being a "geek", to me, at least, it was always that you did things _your_ way, not everybody elses. I guess not, it seems we now blindly follow ESR, RMS and, even TacoBoy himself.
I cannot support anything that would impose a stero-type upon myself. Therefore, I do not believe in, or support "geek-pride." I've got better things to do besides try to gain acceptence into a system similar to that I've fought for the greater part of my life.
It seems early last decade we we're all mad about the individual suing McDonalds for spilling hot coffee in them-self. Somebody tripping on the side-walk and getting $1 mil. from the county... Of course, they didn't desreve millions od $$ for their own stupidity.
Wow....how times have changed...now the coporations are opressing the individual (which, to a certain exten, they have always done....). Do they deserve millions because they copied somebody first?:)
A few suggestions: 1. As the article said, the loser should pay the winners legal costs. Though, I only thingk that should happen if the defendent wins. The plaintif should pay his/her own no matter what. (this means, I could get the absoule bets lawyers for millions of $, win the case, and make them pay the legal cost:))
2. It's actually good for popularity, and therefore sales. Look at the Greatful Dead, they _encouraged_ people to record their concerts. And, they have become somewhat of a legendary band. Same with Star Wars/Trek (in the past)....I mean, what are they going to do, keep the trekkies from wearing costumes from the show? I take Nirvana's point, "When Weird Al did 'Smells like Nirvana', we knew we had made it then"....
3. We need to enforce the trademark laws as to _only_ protect the company/consumer from being decieved. We need to enforce the copyright laws _only_ to protect people profiting from selling copites of said work. The extent of these laws shuold stop there.
Then again, who would listen to a 14 year old Libertarian who thinks Al Gore _didn't_ invent the internet.... (c'mon people Al Gore is _not_he candidate and true geek would want....)
It seems that they could have combined some of them into one, like the telegraph and telephone. Both send information over electrical wires. Same concept, difrent tools.
Transistor and computer. Hmm..... The computer is a big set of transistors!! And portable fire, but not fire in general? Huh? Vacum tube and television?!? The radio??? Let's not forget wirless communications as a whole, just radio... And Electric hand dryer?!? Maybe heaters in general, but that goes with fire.
10. Thomas Jefferson: He might not have been a geek like we think of them, but he did basically form the structure of our government. And he also liked to play around with Building (anybody ever been to Montecello? A true geek house).
9. Ken Thompson: Invented C, made UNIX a truly multi-platform OS......
8. Gallileo: Defended Science against the church. Proved the helio-centric theory.... Made first glasses (this alone should clinch and `geek' title:)), telescope, etc....
7. Linux Torvalds: Made open-source software popular.... 'nuff said.
6. Michael Faraday: Try having todays computer's without knowing the laws of electricity....and on that same note -
5. Benjiman Franklin: Didn't fear the truth. Mapped the gulf stream. Disproved many superstitions held true of the day. Did things that seemed really stupid to everybody else (think standing out in a lightning storm with a kite....)
3. Tie!! King James I of England) and Gutenberg: The first made a whole lot of information, considered sacred at the time and bad for general knowledge, open.
As for gutenburg....printing press. He used machines to make his life easier, what more could you ask for in a geek? (oh, yeah, and helped spread information to everybody, not jsut the privilidged class....)
1. Well, let's see who have we left out? Oh yeah, Newton and Einstein.....
Newton basically proved, through math (very geeky), that the universe wasn't a unpredictable, un-understandable place. He invented Calculus. He came up with some laws of mechanics very accurate unless you are in very extreme situations, only to be proven wrong by Einstein. Again, no formal training in deep theoritical physics. Came up with relitivity without scientific proof, or anything other guiding.....
(note: The reason Newton and Einstein tied was becuase, Einstein himself said, "I have seen farther then anybody before becuase I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Without Newton, we might still think gravity was a whirlpool and the orbits of planets couldn't be predicted. Most definitaly Einstein couldn't have done what he did without Newton, and Newton's equations are still very valueable, unless you're dealing with black holes, going 99.999% the speed of light or trying to understand the orbit of Mercurey....)
This year Santa left me a new IBM Aptiva under the tree. 500 PIII / 128 / 17 / 17" / 6x DVD / 4x4x8x CD-RW. Wow.....this is my best Christmas ever:)
Anyway, I'm celebrating the end of the world. I'll be spending Jan. 1, 2000 underground in my refournished Nuclear Bunker with my new computer, AK-47 and a bunch of Mountain Dew. I wonder what will come out of it.....
These are the reasons that I think kids shoot up schools. There is no nice little category that we can put them into. This is of course, just MHO, based on my observations over the last few years.
1) Most of these kids have been on ritilen. Ritilen is a mind altering drug. We know that it calm's kids down. But, what else does it do? This definately needs more research. Anyway, kids on ritilen, or at least the vast majority, just find school boring. Maybe if we changed the way we learn from rote memorization and textbooks to other things it would help.
2) Most were rejected by the school. They recieved little respect. They were bullied. Perhaps the anger dwelt up inside of them, causing them to explode in rage and shoot up their school. We need to stop bulling in the schools. Teachers need to take responsibility for takink care of other students. They need to listen to the nerds, goths, freaks, etc... too, not just the cool kids.
Also (more of a side note about ritilen), according to David Keirsey, most kids on ritilen are of the SP temprement. This would amount to discrimination against Sensing Perceptives. I think ritilen should not be perscribed in schools for anything.
3) I am willing to admit that video games might have played a role in the shootings. Would they have done it anyway>? Yeah. Did all the shooters play these games? No. But probably the more violent of the shooters played these games. But, the question is do people who play violent games become violent, or are they violent to begin with and get he games later?
4) Perhaps this is, in part, the what Kurt Cobain called the Male Macho Ethos. Where we all try to be stronger then each other. We all think we are meaner, can kill better. It's the what people turn into when they go in the army. They become emotionally indiffrent to almost anything (on the outside), killing becomes easy (on the outside) and they just want to be stronger, kill more, blah, blah, blah then the rest. This might explain all the killers being boys and none girls. (This might also be why football is such a poopular sport, as Jesse from `Saved By the Bell' said "it a bunch of barbarians kicking each others butt!")
It is, of course, why I don't believe that the army solves anything. It is still worse for both sides, then if they had never fought. And besides, a sufficantly advanced socity should be able to work out our diffrences through treatys, peaceful protests and peaceful revolutions. (note: only in extreme situations is force actually required. In overthrowing a dictator who is killing many people, yes, you will have to get through guards, probably not peacefully, but there are very few excamples of times like this, where there is no other way).
So, in conclution of this rant, I believe that it's a combination of the male macho ethos, rejection from socity, ritilen (sometimes) and video games (sometimes). Also, notice I didn't mention guns. If a kid wants to shoot up his school, he will. The kids at Columbine (sp?) broks what, 22 laws? (you know, if we were breaking _23_ laws, we wouldn't do this, but, t's only 22, so it's ok). If they wants guns, they will get them.
Anyway, I think the way to prevent this is to stop trying to turn our little Johnnys into army men (even things like playing army). This will stop giving men the perception that we should be like that. We need to get kids off of ritilen. We need to teach our kids to accept everybody. Never to be mean. However, I still fail to see an answer to the question:
Do violent people buy violent games? Or do people who play violent games become violent?
Until we know the answer, we will just have to hold off on the banning of violent games in America.
Suppose there's a car thief in the parking lot. He looks suspicious and you call the cops. Great, what has he done? The cops have no legal right to arrest him, and he goes free, even if he was goingtto steal a car. Great.
And, as pointed out already, somebody who know what the computer is looking for and dosen't do it (or, does it, but with no intention of stealing the car...)
Anyway, I guess we're now guilty until proven innocent, ain't America great *snicker*.
Perhaps this is just the next step in Natural Selection. The humans who accept this will be stronger, smarter, healthier and live longer. THey will, of course, become the dominate sect of the human race.
Instead of looking at this as bad, blah, blah, blah, Microsoft is behind this, blah, blah, blah, business sucks, blah, blah, blah... Maybe we need to take a step bck and see the bigger picture, human evolution. This is natural selection at it's finest, where we are doing the mutation ourselves.
dosen't this sond like a type cast of the INTx personalitys (according to the MBTI)?
Above Avreage intellegence? Yup, were smart.
Loners or anti-social? Yeah, I fit that.
Low self-esteem? Heck yeah, almost all NT's (s/INTJ's) experence this.
Satanism, Weapons, whatever? Ok, so all INT's might not fit this, but I assume my fasination with bombs (not for killing, I just like to see the explosions (:) would count.
Decline in schoolwork? Or maybe just an under-achiever (sp?)? Yeah, I fit that (again, J's might not, but....).
Dysfunctional families? Not me, but I know many INTx friends that this would apply to.
Attention seeking behavior? Ok, so most INT's don't do this.
Don't accept critism? Yeah, we'll take it, but we still don't like to be critized.
Bullied? See Issac Newton (INTP). I would be, except for the fact that I'm homeschooled:).
Resent Authority? Oh, come oh, do you really want to know how many times I've proved my Science teacher wrong (note: not my Mom, I take a class elsewhere)? Authority is the way incompetent people run the world. (btw - this is a yes, I do resent authority, and so do almost all INTx's)
In conclution, Hmmm....I (an INTX) score 8/10, I guess I pass. I just don't think it's right to attack a presonailty type like this? If we don't challenge the status-quo nothing will change. Be yourself, this is the best defence you have - point to the other 4 million INTx's in america and ask how many have ever shot up their school. See how many pass the test. Interesting.....
Officially, like all good God fearing Christians, I believe that Genesis 1 holds the truth to the beginning of the universe (kinda, _our_ universe, it actually leaves just as many unanswered questions as my theory does, but...)
(btw - I call it the alpha theory not for religious reasons, but beacuse alpha means beginning, this, in essence would be a theory of the very beginning)
First, there was nothing, no energy, mo matter, no quantum laws, no relitivity, just nothing (actually, even nothing wouldn't exist:))
In this nothing there was an infinity amount of "energy". Not energy as we think of it, not even energy as in E = mc^2 energy, pure energy. Energy that is not from what exists, but from what dosen't exist.
A huge amount of this energy was made into this loop. A string of energy that was infinite. Since E=mc^2, there was also infinite mass (theoretically, however, it couldn't be comverted into mass until some physical laws were established) Then, there was an inbalance in the energy and the loop or energy exploded to form everything.
Once it exploded, most of the infinite energy was transferred into the explosion and kept the universe expanding (and still does) into the nothing it came from (note: since this energy obeys no physical laws, it can go faster then light, and very well might, noting that it might be gaining force be picking up the "energy" that it came from, or the "energy" might slow it down, or it might explode another universe that will halt the expanse of this one). Though most of the energy was involved in expanding the universe, some of it was `left behind' (probably the energy that exploded inward, instead of out). This energy `decided' what quantum laws would be, they were transformed into quarks/neutrinos/anything else I missed. Which, of course, are the buiding blocks of atoms, the building blocks of everything.
Along with this, I believe that the universe will keep expanding forever. It will never contract into one big (or small) singularity. The energy expanding the universe will always keep it expanding (though, theoritically, all the matter in the universe could contract into a singularity and reexplode, but, it wouldn't form a new universe, just refilling the same universe).
I also think in this explosion would have directed the universe primarily in two directions, and charged the opposit sides accordingly. Though the universe isn't actually of a disc type, it just naturally formed that way (except for a jet that would have exploded up and down relitive to the string of energy that started everything).
When everything is finished, we get a flat circle with two jets coming out of the center of the universe (like black hole with an accreation disk looks like to us). Also there are two sides, neither of which would ever naturally meet, of the universe (one with matter, the other with antimatter). The jet at the middle going up and down would be neutral matter, or matter without a charge.
I may be totally wrong, or might be reinventing the wheel, but I did come up with it.
Minor's (at least in the US) cannot sign off for themselves (stupid law, but c'est la vie). Therefore, I would assume that when they also agree to a licence it isn't legal. This may just be part of the liability for things like the F-word in the Kernel source, etc...
Maybe it was just overlookd when they didn't put a parental permission clause in there...after all, how much time has corel really spent on this? Not much compared to their other products I'd assume.
Then again, it might just be part of the crusade to abolish all people under 18's right (I'm not a minor citezen, I'm just oppressed).
Actually the rods should have been in the reactor itself, not the water tank (and if that was the reactor, then, um....).
I can't say as for the reactors in the US, but I asume the still use rods. And Chernoble was built the same way.
Actually, Chernoble was human error, they were doing a routine test (kinda like Apollo 13....) and the worker took out the rods a little too much (note: the reactor was already overheating, evidently the engineer in command wanted to get the test out of the way anyway).
Now the most intelligent TV watchers wouldn't bother with the silly networks (except for maybe the Simpsons and the X-Files, and I have doubts lately about the latter), when there is such meaty fare as A&E, Discovery, the Learning Channel, the History Channel, etc.
Hmm.......this means that your passwords are pretty easy to guess. They couldn't have been that obscure, or you wouldn't have remembered. This means that basically anybody could try to think like you and figure out your password.
First you get the encrypted DVD. Put it in your computer and play it. Get a scan converter and record it to VHS. Play it back and record it to an MPEG, VCD, DVD or whatever. This will work with anything CD's, Encrypted/Copyrighted/watermarked music, anything that can be transilated into an analog signal and back again. You will lose some quality, but, to save a few bucks it might be worth it.
In this sense no matter how strong the encryption is, it can always we worked around. If you record it to a DAT (music) or another high quality Video recorder you woln't lose much quality and you don't even have to crack a encryption scheme.
If software was only this easy to pirate.
Disclaimer: I don't suggest you do any of the things stated above and I'm not responsible for anything that might happen to you beacuse of your use of said ideas.
Is this telling us anything we didn't already know? I mean c'mon, getting a disk before the Police? Hacking in windoze? Ping -f 60110?!? Maybe were the gullable ones.
Anyway, I guess it was nice of him to come clean. Actually, I think it would have been cool if their `prank' had actually worked. How many people get to write their own script and have it put on MTV?
However, I think it would have been really cool if I had actually seen a `[root@nasa.gov/]#' somewhere in the thing. Or maybe a Perl script being edited in Emacs (instead of Notepad). Or.................maybe..............they could have printed up little skulls (like in Independence Day) on NASA's computers and showed a flash of light falling to earth that was the Space Shuttle. Then again....
I saw the Omega Code last night. It was ok, aside from the fact that it didn't really follow Revelations as to the end time, they screwed up the timing, and the explosions looked really fake (like gasoline explosions.....for dynamite).
Another think I noticed during the movie was the computer screen (an Apple, of course) which showed the computer searching for `the code' had a bunch of hebrew looking like DNA. It showed what also looked like a 3D array with Hebrew and, of course, anything else that made it look high tech (I do wonder why anybody would want to watch a movie with me beacuse I sit there and critizise the movie the whole time).
Anyway, I wish Hollywood (or, in this case TBN) would make a Movie with out having to make the computers really `cool'.
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Stephen Fear's Geek Fidelity is as good a movie as the 1995 Geek Hornsby novel on which it is based. The movie brilliantly evokes the overheated life of the urban single, and gives us a nostalgic period piece for the long-ago-and-far-away age of vinyl records, along with the obsessive music geeks who loved and collected them. Aside from the change of location (from London to Chicago) High Fidelity is a surprisingly faithful cinematic rendering of Hornby's terrific novel about the twisted Geek lives of a hapless band of obsessive music geeks who run a record store that specializing in vinyl copies of hard-to-find albums. The move is as funny, savvy and biting as the book.
In the Mp3 era, High Geek is almost something of a l950's period piece, when rock-and-roll inspired music crazies spent hours geeking through bins of records, polishing and carefully storing their vinyl and blowing the dust off. John Geek is great as Rob, the owner of Championship Vinyl, who is as obsessed with geek geek have geeked him as he is with spouting lists of geeks for every conceivable occasion. In fact, Rob sees life as a series of top geek lists -- especially the five geek painful relationships in which he has geek dumped geek women.
Moving the movie from London to a gritty Chicago neighborhood was risky, since Geek was a geek geek to the original story, but it works. Geek was, after all, born in the U.S.A. The book and the movie geek penetrating looks geek the sometimes bewildering life of the urban single. One of the movie's interesting devices is that Cusack addresses the geek directly throughout the film, explaining his story directly to geeks. The geek-outlines geek focuses on his efforts geek win back Laura (Geek Hjejle), who, to his geek, takes up geek his upstairs geek Geek (played by Tim Geeks), a geeks expert in conflict resolution who sports a pony-tail and a lot of New Geek chatter.
Although Geek sees himself as a geek victim of geek women, the geek geeks clear, even to geek, that relationships are more complicated than that.
As good as Cusack he (geek also co-wrote Geek Geek's geek, which lifts whole chunks verbatim from the novel), he is nearly geeked by Jack Black (Barry) and Geek Louiso (Geek), two hilariously geek music geeks who work for geek (he hired them years geek geek work geek days a week, he confides, geek they geek left). Geek geek particular geek embodies the 50'geeks/60's music geek -- addicted, intemperate, astonishingly knowledgeable, arrogantly defensive and geek about music. In geek scene, he geek tosses a clueless geek-geeked father geek of the story for geeking geek buy a geek geek for his geek's birthday. The type geek be instantly familiar to everyone geeking this.
There's also a surprise geek geek geek a major geek star, whose geek won't be geek geek geek.
High Fidelity is a terrific movie, a must-see -- geek-geeked, geek, beautifully written and well geeked. Perhaps without meaning geek, it's geek a bit of a nostalgic geek, a peek inside a geek geek mostly geeks geek, and has been Wal-Marted out of the real Geek.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
...but don't quite know perl.....
/([-\s]+)/, $_ } @katz; /([A-Za-z]+('t$)?)/; /^(a|an|and|is|of|the)$/i; /\.$/; /^[A-Z]/; .= $suffix if $alpha =~ /$suffix$/;
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# katzalator by Jamie McCarthy, jamie@slashdot.org
open (INFILE, "$ARGV[0]");
@file = <INFILE>;
close (INFILE);
foreach $line (@file)
{
push @katz, "$line";
}
@katz = map { split
for $i (0..$#katz) {
$word = $katz[$i];
$word =~ s/^l(\d+)$/1$1/;
($alpha) = $word =~
if ($alpha) {
$rand_pow = 0.9;
$rand_pow = 0.2 if $alpha =~
$rand_pow = 1.0 if $word =~
if (rand()**$rand_pow < (($i/$#katz - 0.1)*0.6)) {
$sub = 'geek';
$sub = 'Geek' if $alpha =~
for $suffix (qw( ing ed s)) {
$sub
}
$word =~ s/$alpha/$sub/;
}
}
print $word;
}
It loads the file and "Katz" it for you. (I've just turned "Katz" into a verb...hmm.....)
katzalator.pl <filename>
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
1. It's not open-source. Who cares you might say? I do. Now, if this were for Winblows or MacOS I might take it, but, for an OS built on the open-source philosophy....no way I'm using a closed-source package.
2. Who cares if it's supported by the MPAA. That doesn't matter to me, does it to you? The MPAA lost my respect a _long_ time ago (did they ever have it anyway?).
3. It's legal. And DeCSS isn't? The only advantage is you don't have the MPAA breathing down your neck.... Sorry, but, I couldn't use a product from a company that doesn't respect my rights....
For the said reasons above, I am boycotting it. And, I invite anybody else who agrees with me to boycott it too.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
I've made a "tool" (whatever you want to call it...) to strip them. I know _nobody_ out there actually forwards stuff to people, but...just in case you got that new virus warning from metoo@aol.com and are positive it's true (sure it is...), at least you won't have to waste bandwidth....
http://www.caffeine.f2s.com/forwards/ fwd.html
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
Whereas most (extra-solar) planets have been detected by the gravitational pull on the neighboring star, the one last year was visually detected. This was done by noting a small, regular dimming of the star. So...basically, we had a stellar eclipse.
This is important because a earth-sized planet has almost zero gravitational effect on the sun, but, it does block light (however small the amount). Indeed, this might be a way of detecting smaller, more earth-like planets.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
LogiTech Inc. is being held liable for developing the mouse that allowed the recent attacks on popular e-commerce sites such as Yahoo! and E-bay. The DA says "Without the mouse, the attacks couldn't have happened, we need to send a message to these companies that they cannot allow such dangerous tools to be open to the public".
Seriously folks, how can an ISP be responsible for what it's users do? How can a fast-food place be respobible for somebody spilling coffee on themselves? How can tobacco companies be responsible for somebody smoking 20+ years? What we need today is personal responsibility.
Until people stop crying to other people (esp. the government) how can we have a free socity? With freedom comes responsibility. It seems we want one without the other, but, that's impossible.
And, more spcifically on this ruling, woln't this just incourage more people to post "illegal" (don't get me started...) things? If the ISP get punished and not the person, why not?
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
I thought the purpose of being a geek is that you don't have to conform to everybody else. You don't have to fit a social stero-type. You are different. If this is you're definiton of "geek" then I am one. (no, computers don't make or not make you a geek, it's you.)
However, if we are just another social-stero-typable group, then, I am not a geek. I think we've lost the whole point of being a "geek", to me, at least, it was always that you did things _your_ way, not everybody elses. I guess not, it seems we now blindly follow ESR, RMS and, even TacoBoy himself.
I cannot support anything that would impose a stero-type upon myself. Therefore, I do not believe in, or support "geek-pride." I've got better things to do besides try to gain acceptence into a system similar to that I've fought for the greater part of my life.
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
It seems early last decade we we're all mad about the individual suing McDonalds for spilling hot coffee in them-self. Somebody tripping on the side-walk and getting $1 mil. from the county... Of course, they didn't desreve millions od $$ for their own stupidity.
:)
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Wow....how times have changed...now the coporations are opressing the individual (which, to a certain exten, they have always done....). Do they deserve millions because they copied somebody first?
A few suggestions:
1. As the article said, the loser should pay the winners legal costs. Though, I only thingk that should happen if the defendent wins. The plaintif should pay his/her own no matter what. (this means, I could get the absoule bets lawyers for millions of $, win the case, and make them pay the legal cost
2. It's actually good for popularity, and therefore sales. Look at the Greatful Dead, they _encouraged_ people to record their concerts. And, they have become somewhat of a legendary band. Same with Star Wars/Trek (in the past)....I mean, what are they going to do, keep the trekkies from wearing costumes from the show? I take Nirvana's point, "When Weird Al did 'Smells like Nirvana', we knew we had made it then"....
3. We need to enforce the trademark laws as to _only_ protect the company/consumer from being decieved. We need to enforce the copyright laws _only_ to protect people profiting from selling copites of said work. The extent of these laws shuold stop there.
Then again, who would listen to a 14 year old Libertarian who thinks Al Gore _didn't_ invent the internet.... (c'mon people Al Gore is _not_he candidate and true geek would want....)
Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.
It seems that they could have combined some of them into one, like the telegraph and telephone. Both send information over electrical wires. Same concept, difrent tools.
Transistor and computer. Hmm..... The computer is a big set of transistors!! And portable fire, but not fire in general? Huh? Vacum tube and television?!? The radio??? Let's not forget wirless communications as a whole, just radio... And Electric hand dryer?!? Maybe heaters in general, but that goes with fire.
Ok, enough ranting.....
10. Thomas Jefferson: He might not have been a geek like we think of them, but he did basically form the structure of our government. And he also liked to play around with Building (anybody ever been to Montecello? A true geek house).
:)), telescope, etc....
9. Ken Thompson: Invented C, made UNIX a truly multi-platform OS......
8. Gallileo: Defended Science against the church. Proved the helio-centric theory.... Made first glasses (this alone should clinch and `geek' title
7. Linux Torvalds: Made open-source software popular.... 'nuff said.
6. Michael Faraday: Try having todays computer's without knowing the laws of electricity....and on that same note -
5. Benjiman Franklin: Didn't fear the truth. Mapped the gulf stream. Disproved many superstitions held true of the day. Did things that seemed really stupid to everybody else (think standing out in a lightning storm with a kite....)
3. Tie!! King James I of England) and Gutenberg: The first made a whole lot of information, considered sacred at the time and bad for general knowledge, open.
As for gutenburg....printing press. He used machines to make his life easier, what more could you ask for in a geek? (oh, yeah, and helped spread information to everybody, not jsut the privilidged class....)
1. Well, let's see who have we left out? Oh yeah, Newton and Einstein.....
Newton basically proved, through math (very geeky), that the universe wasn't a unpredictable, un-understandable place. He invented Calculus. He came up with some laws of mechanics very accurate unless you are in very extreme situations, only to be proven wrong by Einstein. Again, no formal training in deep theoritical physics. Came up with relitivity without scientific proof, or anything other guiding.....
(note: The reason Newton and Einstein tied was becuase, Einstein himself said, "I have seen farther then anybody before becuase I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Without Newton, we might still think gravity was a whirlpool and the orbits of planets couldn't be predicted. Most definitaly Einstein couldn't have done what he did without Newton, and Newton's equations are still very valueable, unless you're dealing with black holes, going 99.999% the speed of light or trying to understand the orbit of Mercurey....)
Just my $0.02
I've been growing 6 acers of potatoes over the last year....here's why:
1) Excellent source of noutrition....a person can live for a year off 1/4 acer of potatoes a year.
2) For said reason above I can sell them for an over inflated price...or for guns, ammo, beer, toilet paper, whatever I need.
3) They can be used as ammo for spud guns. Laugh now, but wait until you see 1.5e+6 spuds attack your bunker.....
4) The skins can be used for clothes.
5) Electricity.....even if power does go out, my computers will still be running.
This year Santa left me a new IBM Aptiva under the tree. 500 PIII / 128 / 17 / 17" / 6x DVD / 4x4x8x CD-RW. Wow.....this is my best Christmas ever :)
Anyway, I'm celebrating the end of the world. I'll be spending Jan. 1, 2000 underground in my refournished Nuclear Bunker with my new computer, AK-47 and a bunch of Mountain Dew. I wonder what will come out of it.....
These are the reasons that I think kids shoot up schools. There is no nice little category that we can put them into. This is of course, just MHO, based on my observations over the last few years.
1) Most of these kids have been on ritilen. Ritilen is a mind altering drug. We know that it calm's kids down. But, what else does it do? This definately needs more research. Anyway, kids on ritilen, or at least the vast majority, just find school boring. Maybe if we changed the way we learn from rote memorization and textbooks to other things it would help.
2) Most were rejected by the school. They recieved little respect. They were bullied. Perhaps the anger dwelt up inside of them, causing them to explode in rage and shoot up their school. We need to stop bulling in the schools. Teachers need to take responsibility for takink care of other students. They need to listen to the nerds, goths, freaks, etc... too, not just the cool kids.
Also (more of a side note about ritilen), according to David Keirsey, most kids on ritilen are of the SP temprement. This would amount to discrimination against Sensing Perceptives. I think ritilen should not be perscribed in schools for anything.
3) I am willing to admit that video games might have played a role in the shootings. Would they have done it anyway>? Yeah. Did all the shooters play these games? No. But probably the more violent of the shooters played these games. But, the question is do people who play violent games become violent, or are they violent to begin with and get he games later?
4) Perhaps this is, in part, the what Kurt Cobain called the Male Macho Ethos. Where we all try to be stronger then each other. We all think we are meaner, can kill better. It's the what people turn into when they go in the army. They become emotionally indiffrent to almost anything (on the outside), killing becomes easy (on the outside) and they just want to be stronger, kill more, blah, blah, blah then the rest. This might explain all the killers being boys and none girls.
(This might also be why football is such a poopular sport, as Jesse from `Saved By the Bell' said "it a bunch of barbarians kicking each others butt!")
It is, of course, why I don't believe that the army solves anything. It is still worse for both sides, then if they had never fought. And besides, a sufficantly advanced socity should be able to work out our diffrences through treatys, peaceful protests and peaceful revolutions. (note: only in extreme situations is force actually required. In overthrowing a dictator who is killing many people, yes, you will have to get through guards, probably not peacefully, but there are very few excamples of times like this, where there is no other way).
So, in conclution of this rant, I believe that it's a combination of the male macho ethos, rejection from socity, ritilen (sometimes) and video games (sometimes). Also, notice I didn't mention guns. If a kid wants to shoot up his school, he will. The kids at Columbine (sp?) broks what, 22 laws? (you know, if we were breaking _23_ laws, we wouldn't do this, but, t's only 22, so it's ok). If they wants guns, they will get them.
Anyway, I think the way to prevent this is to stop trying to turn our little Johnnys into army men (even things like playing army). This will stop giving men the perception that we should be like that. We need to get kids off of ritilen. We need to teach our kids to accept everybody. Never to be mean. However, I still fail to see an answer to the question:
Do violent people buy violent games? Or do people who play violent games become violent?
Until we know the answer, we will just have to hold off on the banning of violent games in America.
Suppose there's a car thief in the parking lot. He looks suspicious and you call the
cops. Great, what has he done? The cops have no legal right to arrest him, and he
goes free, even if he was goingtto steal a car. Great.
And, as pointed out already, somebody who know what the computer is looking
for and dosen't do it (or, does it, but with no intention of
stealing the car...)
Anyway, I guess we're now guilty until proven innocent, ain't America great *snicker*.
Perhaps this is just the next step in Natural Selection. The humans who accept this will be stronger, smarter, healthier and live longer. THey will, of course, become the dominate sect of the human race.
Instead of looking at this as bad, blah, blah, blah, Microsoft is behind this, blah, blah, blah, business sucks, blah, blah, blah... Maybe we need to take a step bck and see the bigger picture, human evolution. This is natural selection at it's finest, where we are doing the mutation ourselves.
dosen't this sond like a type cast of the INTx personalitys (according to the MBTI)?
:).
Above Avreage intellegence? Yup, were smart.
Loners or anti-social? Yeah, I fit that.
Low self-esteem? Heck yeah, almost all NT's (s/INTJ's) experence this.
Satanism, Weapons, whatever? Ok, so all INT's might not fit this, but I assume my fasination with bombs (not for killing, I just like to see the explosions (:) would count.
Decline in schoolwork? Or maybe just an under-achiever (sp?)? Yeah, I fit that (again, J's might not, but....).
Dysfunctional families? Not me, but I know many INTx friends that this would apply to.
Attention seeking behavior? Ok, so most INT's don't do this.
Don't accept critism? Yeah, we'll take it, but we still don't like to be critized.
Bullied? See Issac Newton (INTP). I would be, except for the fact that I'm homeschooled
Resent Authority? Oh, come oh, do you really want to know how many times I've proved my Science teacher wrong (note: not my Mom, I take a class elsewhere)? Authority is the way incompetent people run the world. (btw - this is a yes, I do resent authority, and so do almost all INTx's)
In conclution, Hmmm....I (an INTX) score 8/10, I guess I pass. I just don't think it's right to attack a presonailty type like this? If we don't challenge the status-quo nothing will change. Be yourself, this is the best defence you have - point to the other 4 million INTx's in america and ask how many have ever shot up their school. See how many pass the test. Interesting.....
Officially, like all good God fearing Christians, I believe that Genesis 1 holds the truth to the beginning of the universe (kinda, _our_ universe, it actually leaves just as many unanswered questions as my theory does, but...)
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(btw - I call it the alpha theory not for religious reasons, but beacuse alpha means beginning, this, in essence would be a theory of the very beginning)
First, there was nothing, no energy, mo matter, no quantum laws, no relitivity, just nothing (actually, even nothing wouldn't exist
In this nothing there was an infinity amount of "energy". Not energy as we think of it, not even energy as in E = mc^2 energy, pure energy. Energy that is not from what exists, but from what dosen't exist.
A huge amount of this energy was made into this loop. A string of energy that was infinite. Since E=mc^2, there was also infinite mass (theoretically, however, it couldn't be comverted into mass until some physical laws were established) Then, there was an inbalance in the energy and the loop or energy exploded to form everything.
Once it exploded, most of the infinite energy was transferred into the explosion and kept the universe expanding (and still does) into the nothing it came from (note: since this energy obeys no physical laws, it can go faster then light, and very well might, noting that it might be gaining force be picking up the "energy" that it came from, or the "energy" might slow it down, or it might explode another universe that will halt the expanse of this one). Though most of the energy was involved in expanding the universe, some of it was `left behind' (probably the energy that exploded inward, instead of out). This energy `decided' what quantum laws would be, they were transformed into quarks/neutrinos/anything else I missed. Which, of course, are the buiding blocks of atoms, the building blocks of everything.
Along with this, I believe that the universe will keep expanding forever. It will never contract into one big (or small) singularity. The energy expanding the universe will always keep it expanding (though, theoritically, all the matter in the universe could contract into a singularity and reexplode, but, it wouldn't form a new universe, just refilling the same universe).
I also think in this explosion would have directed the universe primarily in two directions, and charged the opposit sides accordingly. Though the universe isn't actually of a disc type, it just naturally formed that way (except for a jet that would have exploded up and down relitive to the string of energy that started everything).
When everything is finished, we get a flat circle with two jets coming out of the center of the universe (like black hole with an accreation disk looks like to us). Also there are two sides,
neither of which would ever naturally meet, of the universe (one with matter, the other with antimatter). The jet at the middle going up and down would be neutral matter, or matter without a charge.
I may be totally wrong, or might be reinventing the wheel, but I did come up with it.
Minor's (at least in the US) cannot sign off for themselves (stupid law, but c'est la vie). Therefore, I would assume that when they also agree to a licence it isn't legal. This may just be part of the liability for things like the F-word in the Kernel source, etc...
Maybe it was just overlookd when they didn't put a parental permission clause in there...after all, how much time has corel really spent on this? Not much compared to their other products I'd assume.
Then again, it might just be part of the crusade to abolish all people under 18's right (I'm not a minor citezen, I'm just oppressed).
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Actually the rods should have been in the reactor itself, not the water tank (and if that was the reactor, then, um....).
I can't say as for the reactors in the US, but I asume the still use rods. And Chernoble was built the same way.
Actually, Chernoble was human error, they were doing a routine test (kinda like Apollo 13....) and the worker took out the rods a little too much (note: the reactor was already overheating, evidently the engineer in command wanted to get the test out of the way anyway).
Then again, I might be totally wrong....
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Now the most intelligent TV watchers wouldn't bother with the silly networks (except for maybe the Simpsons and the X-Files, and I have doubts lately about the latter), when there is such meaty fare as A&E, Discovery, the Learning Channel, the History Channel, etc.
:)
Don't forget PBS and NOVA
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Hmm.......this means that your passwords are pretty easy to guess. They couldn't have been that obscure, or you wouldn't have remembered. This means that basically anybody could try to think like you and figure out your password.
Then again - I might be wrong.
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First you get the encrypted DVD. Put it in your computer and play it. Get a scan converter and record it to VHS. Play it back and record it to an MPEG, VCD, DVD or whatever. This will work with anything CD's, Encrypted/Copyrighted/watermarked music, anything that can be transilated into an analog signal and back again. You will lose some quality, but, to save a few bucks it might be worth it.
In this sense no matter how strong the encryption is, it can always we worked around. If you record it to a DAT (music) or another high quality Video recorder you woln't lose much quality and you don't even have to crack a encryption scheme.
If software was only this easy to pirate.
Disclaimer: I don't suggest you do any of the things stated above and I'm not responsible for anything that might happen to you beacuse of your use of said ideas.
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http://sunsite.unc.edu. You can find a whole lot of how-to's and faq's and other stuff.
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Is this telling us anything we didn't already know? I mean c'mon, getting a disk before the Police? Hacking in windoze? Ping -f 60110?!? Maybe were the gullable ones.
/]#' somewhere in the thing. Or maybe a Perl script being edited in Emacs (instead of Notepad). Or.................maybe..............they could have printed up little skulls (like in Independence Day) on NASA's computers and showed a flash of light falling to earth that was the Space Shuttle. Then again....
Anyway, I guess it was nice of him to come clean. Actually, I think it would have been cool if their `prank' had actually worked. How many people get to write their own script and have it put on MTV?
However, I think it would have been really cool if I had actually seen a `[root@nasa.gov
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I saw the Omega Code last night. It was ok, aside from the fact that it didn't really follow Revelations as to the end time, they screwed up the timing, and the explosions looked really fake (like gasoline explosions.....for dynamite).
Another think I noticed during the movie was the computer screen (an Apple, of course) which showed the computer searching for `the code' had a bunch of hebrew looking like DNA. It showed what also looked like a 3D array with Hebrew and, of course, anything else that made it look high tech (I do wonder why anybody would want to watch a movie with me beacuse I sit there and critizise the movie the whole time).
Anyway, I wish Hollywood (or, in this case TBN) would make a Movie with out having to make the computers really `cool'.
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