Well, now that the USSR has dissolved, and the world is made up of more politically motivated factions, and global nuclear profileration has spread - is it really so black and white?
And - given that many, if not most scenarios, have a nucelar device being snuck to the target, instead of fired by ICBM, is continuing to pour hundreds of millions into interceptor research a good idea? Maybe it has uses in regional theaters like Iraq, but note how even the poorly organized and coordinated Iraqis managed to alter the trajectory of crude 1970's era Scuds to hit Kuwait and foil the Patriot batteries and other anti-missile tech.
I'd also challenge you to produce any sort of evidence that showed that the massive economic problems of Soviet Russia, and Gorbachev's decision to have glsnost, was affected by US spending on an ABM system.
There is a good comment at the end of the parent article. The comment is, predators have their eyes close together - to focus on prey. Prey has eyes far apart, to see predators better.
Now look at Darl's beady eyes. Which do you think he is?
Does anyone know what Darl is actually going to put on his tax return this year? Well in excess of $1M. He can retire to his farm, and count his coins, until some other company run by scumbags needs a pointman to take the stones thrown at them. In fact, I bet if you interview the current class at Harvard Business School - there are a lot of people who admire Darl for agreeing to be the beat-down man for his pittance of the booty.
Of course, most of the masterminds of the Enron scandal seemed to come from HBS, so there ya go.
As for Michael Moore, his manager was warned by someone at Disney NOT to sign with Miramax because they wouldn't distribute it, and now he's all "I'm shocked! Disney won't distribute my film".
Well, in that case he made the correct move. Harvey Weinstein bought back the rights to the film from Disney, and will find a new distributor. Moore has a white knight.
I don't care if they make films for kids, films for teens, films for old age home dwellers. I got in to Pixar in the summer of 2003 at $53/share. The rumors were already flying that trouble with Disney was brewing, but I thought they'd mend ways for a larger percentage. Instead, that bonehead Eisner cut them loose. He also cut Michael Moore's new film loose, even though that will also do huge business. Never let politics interfere with business, what a shmuck.
I just want these films to come out and be big, smash hits. So, when Pixar goes to Sony or somebody else for distro rights, they get a blockbuster deal and the stock shoots up to $80 or beyond. My $10k in should return well if that happens. I'll take 35% over two years, for my annualized rate of return, thank you very much.
This would be sort of like the USA/USSR arms race. If you shoot me, I shoot back and we both die.
This term is known as Mutual Assured Destruction or MAD.
Here is the Wikepedia entry for it. It's a premise in most game theory decisions as well, in some respects the Prisoner's Dilemma can be said to be based on it.
this is what Patents have de-volved into. One files patents for the sole purpose of assuring destruction of litigating party. If I patent something insanely stupid, like the use of color in word processing, then I can always use it to bash you if you sue me for something of actual merit. I can tie the court system up long enough to make it completely destructive to you. Thus, you are deterred from doing anything about my wholesale intellectual property theft.
This "non-partisan" bunch of wankers next project paper:
1. Why Longhorn promotes goodness in the world.
2. Why the Linux penguin is a symbol of a secret cult.
3. Hitler's Diaries, the hidden chapter on why open source is good for fascism.
4. Linus Torvalds spelled backwards means "Horrible Disease" in Swahili.
5. Why only a pinko commie who hates America and freedom would use Linux.
6. The Finnish conspiracy.
7. How the Olympics banned Linux.
8. How Al-Queda can strike all the companies in the world you run Linux.
9. How Darl mcBride will go down as a hero in the revised history books of the future.
10. Why apache causes AIDS in the third world.
These will be, of course, unbiased factual reports.
The only post I saw that was informative, was to put a FAX card in your linux box, and script it to only accept calls from ANI that is on a whitelist.
Which leads me to believe that if you were to build a small box like this, with a keypad to add "whitelisted" numbers, or perhaps even an ethernet interface and a web server, like linksys does, to configure it - it would sell pretty well.
I wonder if high end FAX machines can offer this? Let me see....
Well, i can't find a FAX machine that allows a ANI white list. I did find this article on a class-action lawsuit against fax.com though...
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1451781
I know people at NCSA who feel he ripped off the work of many when he built Netscape. But, forget that, or whatever percieved bias you think I have. Just do a Google search on Loudcloud. Read the stories in chronological order.
Now ask people what they think of Opsware as a company and a business model. Draw your own conclusions.
Please, take him off the list. It's like inducting Britney Spears into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
What would his bust say? "Walked out of the University of Illinois NCSA, with the Mosaic code under his coat. Started a private company with the code. His company pushed some inventions, like Javascript and getting SSL in broswers to fuel E-Commerce on the net, but by all accounts - he's failed at everything else he's ever done. Took his money and went to live on a farm."
Because, what, that never happened under Communism? In the USSR, they really loved an educated consumer?
The public education system has faults, but they are faults that can be traced to democracy, not capitalism. People vote for tax breaks, they shoot down education reform bills. Capitalism responds by creating private schools. Private, non-demoninational schools are the best schools in the U.S.
Rent or buy Penn and Teller's Showtime series "Bullshit!" on DVD. Put on the episode about creationism.
You want to fret about pseudo-science? In Georgia, they modified the textbooks to remove references to Darwinism, or in some cases, put it up against some cockeyed theory wrapped in a vaguely reasonable name, "Intelligent Design".
There are entire relious groups in the American South dedicated to "Intelligent Design". It postulates an absolute literal reading of the bible. The heavens and earth really WERE created in 7 days. 6 actually, he rested on the seventh. No word on the 8th or 9th. Adam and Eve were real, we did not evolve, we were blond haired and blue eyed right from the start, etc etc.
Penn and Teller then proceed to smash these idiots in the mouth. But, it's pretty scary. When the religious factions of the U.S. start re-writing textbooks, and debunking real science in favor of pseudo-science, it's scary. They interview this moron who thinks the Grand Canyon proves God created the earth in 6 days. How, I'm not sure. But he has an entire museum, well funded, dedicated to smearing Darwin. He tells people that at the end of his life, Darwin recanted all he said, and begged forgiveness from God. That and a bunch of other lies.
Penn postulates at the end of the episode that bullshit science is usually easily spotted for it's adherence to some sort of faith based postulate. Dogma eventually gets exposed.
That's why I love P&T, promoting a different kind of lifestyle. They call it, "Intelligent Skepticism". Thank your God for guys like them.
He sold Thwate for $575M. Damn, outside of the guy who founded Hotmail and actually walked away from a Microsoft $300M offer, holding out until he got something like $500M, this is the 2nd most impressive dot-com startup guy I've heard about. That's amazing.
Make the access wireless ONLY. No RJ45 jack on the box at ALL. Cable goes into the unit - put in by the installer, and you are DONE.
Make users use a certificate to associate to the wireless SSID. The installer issues them a machine certificate, perhaps through some sort of software they install. Now, you have the user by the balls. We've already read about DRM in hardware, and how some music won't play without the hardware. How about Linux users not being welcome on cable providers networks AT ALL? Even if you have windows, THEY will control what services you can run, what ports can be opened, and log and audit what ports you request to be open.
Tin foil hat? Maybe. But it's such an easy jump to get there, I can't see why they WOULDN'T do it. What are you going to do? Comcast is slowly pushing Time-Warner out across North America. DSL companies are being reduced as well, Covad looks like the winner there. Once they go to 802.11 end user access, that's it. Check and mate.
I used to tune to channel 19, hold the "hammer" down and play Abba's 'Dancing Queen' again and again. I don't know why, but the truckers weren't entertained. Shoulda went with Johnny Cash.
I think the comparison is Terrorists and Patriots, not pirates. Blackbeard is long dead, but I still think he's regarded as pretty foul dog, which is why the British sailed to North Carolina to fry his ass after he rebuked the Queen.
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Anybody know of a band that broke-out with real sales & popularity on the net or via mp3 alone?
A band named Fugazi basically flipped off the whole industry and went completely indy. They didn't get rich, but they are beloved my many GenX like myself.
I know the old mp3.com didn't go anywhere trying to push artists that weren't on a label, but I never thought that model worked very well. The model that was interesting was the band website, with all the songs online and you could donate. Shareware mp3s.
If radio Paradise can pull in about $110k/yr in domations (he'll need more this year) - I wonder if some bands could make it this way.
I download stuff from Finnish techno, stufffrom Japanese speed metal bands, the market for free music that is global, authored and distributed by the bands themselves exist - but it hasn't been a revolution like I thought it would be 5 years ago. There are still corporate conglomerates like the production company that does the American and World Idol gig. They invade the pre-teen mind with that shit, and pre-empt any attempt to look into the independant music scene.
Where do you stand on the issue of "Ass Rape" in the great state of Nebraska?
In Nebraska, that's a constitutional issue.
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Instead we have men like Jeb Bush who cajole Disney into stifling free speech, and who just yesterday removed 40,000 felons from the voter rolls - even though it was proved in 2000 that many of the people he removed were, in fact, not felons. Just Democrats. Mostly Black Democrats.
Ol' Jebby is ALREADY starting to throw the election, and we are 6 months away from actually voting. He must have to wipe the drool off his chin when he reads about E-voting.
I don't know if you've seen on the website, but Spybot has been under a concerted DDOS attack, off and on, for awhile. I think the fact the software is so damn effective, and the guy does just a frankly superb job of keeping signatures up, that's it's really put a thorn into the side of spybot creators everywhere.
If you can afford it, consider donating to the guy. That's a helluva bit of software to be giving away. Either that, or nominate him for the Nobel Prize, if your on the committee that is.
Redhat had up2date, and the Linux distros should follow suit with an administration tool like SUS. Maybe there is one. Maybe it's just rdist or rcp in a shell script.
I guess I should ask - what is the equivalent of SUS for Linux? What do people out there use? Is there something tied to RPM?
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Well, now that the USSR has dissolved, and the world is made up of more politically motivated factions, and global nuclear profileration has spread - is it really so black and white?
And - given that many, if not most scenarios, have a nucelar device being snuck to the target, instead of fired by ICBM, is continuing to pour hundreds of millions into interceptor research a good idea? Maybe it has uses in regional theaters like Iraq, but note how even the poorly organized and coordinated Iraqis managed to alter the trajectory of crude 1970's era Scuds to hit Kuwait and foil the Patriot batteries and other anti-missile tech.
I'd also challenge you to produce any sort of evidence that showed that the massive economic problems of Soviet Russia, and Gorbachev's decision to have glsnost, was affected by US spending on an ABM system.
There is a good comment at the end of the parent article. The comment is, predators have their eyes close together - to focus on prey. Prey has eyes far apart, to see predators better.
Now look at Darl's beady eyes. Which do you think he is?
Does anyone know what Darl is actually going to put on his tax return this year? Well in excess of $1M. He can retire to his farm, and count his coins, until some other company run by scumbags needs a pointman to take the stones thrown at them. In fact, I bet if you interview the current class at Harvard Business School - there are a lot of people who admire Darl for agreeing to be the beat-down man for his pittance of the booty.
Of course, most of the masterminds of the Enron scandal seemed to come from HBS, so there ya go.
As for Michael Moore, his manager was warned by someone at Disney NOT to sign with Miramax because they wouldn't distribute it, and now he's all "I'm shocked! Disney won't distribute my film".
Well, in that case he made the correct move. Harvey Weinstein bought back the rights to the film from Disney, and will find a new distributor. Moore has a white knight.
In fact, they've already announced they will.
I don't know why other people keep saying Pixar don't want to do sequels. Businessweek says Steve Jobs also wants Toy Story 3.
Zimmerman gets bonus points for the way the U.S. government strung him up by his thumbs, tried to drive him into bankruptcy.
I don't care if they make films for kids, films for teens, films for old age home dwellers. I got in to Pixar in the summer of 2003 at $53/share. The rumors were already flying that trouble with Disney was brewing, but I thought they'd mend ways for a larger percentage. Instead, that bonehead Eisner cut them loose. He also cut Michael Moore's new film loose, even though that will also do huge business. Never let politics interfere with business, what a shmuck.
I just want these films to come out and be big, smash hits. So, when Pixar goes to Sony or somebody else for distro rights, they get a blockbuster deal and the stock shoots up to $80 or beyond. My $10k in should return well if that happens. I'll take 35% over two years, for my annualized rate of return, thank you very much.
This would be sort of like the USA/USSR arms race. If you shoot me, I shoot back and we both die.
This term is known as Mutual Assured Destruction or MAD.
Here is the Wikepedia entry for it. It's a premise in most game theory decisions as well, in some respects the Prisoner's Dilemma can be said to be based on it.
this is what Patents have de-volved into. One files patents for the sole purpose of assuring destruction of litigating party. If I patent something insanely stupid, like the use of color in word processing, then I can always use it to bash you if you sue me for something of actual merit. I can tie the court system up long enough to make it completely destructive to you. Thus, you are deterred from doing anything about my wholesale intellectual property theft.
Welcome to your future.
This "non-partisan" bunch of wankers next project paper:
1. Why Longhorn promotes goodness in the world.
2. Why the Linux penguin is a symbol of a secret cult.
3. Hitler's Diaries, the hidden chapter on why open source is good for fascism.
4. Linus Torvalds spelled backwards means "Horrible Disease" in Swahili.
5. Why only a pinko commie who hates America and freedom would use Linux.
6. The Finnish conspiracy.
7. How the Olympics banned Linux.
8. How Al-Queda can strike all the companies in the world you run Linux.
9. How Darl mcBride will go down as a hero in the revised history books of the future.
10. Why apache causes AIDS in the third world.
These will be, of course, unbiased factual reports.
The only post I saw that was informative, was to put a FAX card in your linux box, and script it to only accept calls from ANI that is on a whitelist.
p /1451781
Which leads me to believe that if you were to build a small box like this, with a keypad to add "whitelisted" numbers, or perhaps even an ethernet interface and a web server, like linksys does, to configure it - it would sell pretty well.
I wonder if high end FAX machines can offer this? Let me see....
Well, i can't find a FAX machine that allows a ANI white list. I did find this article on a class-action lawsuit against fax.com though...
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.ph
I know people at NCSA who feel he ripped off the work of many when he built Netscape. But, forget that, or whatever percieved bias you think I have. Just do a Google search on Loudcloud. Read the stories in chronological order.
Now ask people what they think of Opsware as a company and a business model. Draw your own conclusions.
Please, take him off the list. It's like inducting Britney Spears into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
What would his bust say? "Walked out of the University of Illinois NCSA, with the Mosaic code under his coat. Started a private company with the code. His company pushed some inventions, like Javascript and getting SSL in broswers to fuel E-Commerce on the net, but by all accounts - he's failed at everything else he's ever done. Took his money and went to live on a farm."
Not real impressive.
Because, what, that never happened under Communism? In the USSR, they really loved an educated consumer?
The public education system has faults, but they are faults that can be traced to democracy, not capitalism. People vote for tax breaks, they shoot down education reform bills. Capitalism responds by creating private schools. Private, non-demoninational schools are the best schools in the U.S.
Rent or buy Penn and Teller's Showtime series "Bullshit!" on DVD. Put on the episode about creationism.
You want to fret about pseudo-science? In Georgia, they modified the textbooks to remove references to Darwinism, or in some cases, put it up against some cockeyed theory wrapped in a vaguely reasonable name, "Intelligent Design".
There are entire relious groups in the American South dedicated to "Intelligent Design". It postulates an absolute literal reading of the bible. The heavens and earth really WERE created in 7 days. 6 actually, he rested on the seventh. No word on the 8th or 9th. Adam and Eve were real, we did not evolve, we were blond haired and blue eyed right from the start, etc etc.
Penn and Teller then proceed to smash these idiots in the mouth. But, it's pretty scary. When the religious factions of the U.S. start re-writing textbooks, and debunking real science in favor of pseudo-science, it's scary. They interview this moron who thinks the Grand Canyon proves God created the earth in 6 days. How, I'm not sure. But he has an entire museum, well funded, dedicated to smearing Darwin. He tells people that at the end of his life, Darwin recanted all he said, and begged forgiveness from God. That and a bunch of other lies.
Penn postulates at the end of the episode that bullshit science is usually easily spotted for it's adherence to some sort of faith based postulate. Dogma eventually gets exposed.
That's why I love P&T, promoting a different kind of lifestyle. They call it, "Intelligent Skepticism". Thank your God for guys like them.
In his Bio he lists Slashdot as one of his likes.
He sold Thwate for $575M. Damn, outside of the guy who founded Hotmail and actually walked away from a Microsoft $300M offer, holding out until he got something like $500M, this is the 2nd most impressive dot-com startup guy I've heard about. That's amazing.
Make the access wireless ONLY. No RJ45 jack on the box at ALL. Cable goes into the unit - put in by the installer, and you are DONE.
Make users use a certificate to associate to the wireless SSID. The installer issues them a machine certificate, perhaps through some sort of software they install. Now, you have the user by the balls. We've already read about DRM in hardware, and how some music won't play without the hardware. How about Linux users not being welcome on cable providers networks AT ALL? Even if you have windows, THEY will control what services you can run, what ports can be opened, and log and audit what ports you request to be open.
Tin foil hat? Maybe. But it's such an easy jump to get there, I can't see why they WOULDN'T do it. What are you going to do? Comcast is slowly pushing Time-Warner out across North America. DSL companies are being reduced as well, Covad looks like the winner there. Once they go to 802.11 end user access, that's it. Check and mate.
I used to tune to channel 19, hold the "hammer" down and play Abba's 'Dancing Queen' again and again. I don't know why, but the truckers weren't entertained. Shoulda went with Johnny Cash.
I think the comparison is Terrorists and Patriots, not pirates. Blackbeard is long dead, but I still think he's regarded as pretty foul dog, which is why the British sailed to North Carolina to fry his ass after he rebuked the Queen.
It happened in 2000.
Click here
What they are doing with removing votes recently.
How they are preparing to use E-voting to do it again...
And to the guy who modded it flamebait....Fuck you
Anybody know of a band that broke-out with real sales & popularity on the net or via mp3 alone?
A band named Fugazi basically flipped off the whole industry and went completely indy. They didn't get rich, but they are beloved my many GenX like myself.
I know the old mp3.com didn't go anywhere trying to push artists that weren't on a label, but I never thought that model worked very well. The model that was interesting was the band website, with all the songs online and you could donate. Shareware mp3s.
If radio Paradise can pull in about $110k/yr in domations (he'll need more this year) - I wonder if some bands could make it this way.
I download stuff from Finnish techno, stufffrom Japanese speed metal bands, the market for free music that is global, authored and distributed by the bands themselves exist - but it hasn't been a revolution like I thought it would be 5 years ago. There are still corporate conglomerates like the production company that does the American and World Idol gig. They invade the pre-teen mind with that shit, and pre-empt any attempt to look into the independant music scene.
Where do you stand on the issue of "Ass Rape" in the great state of Nebraska?
In Nebraska, that's a constitutional issue.
Instead we have men like Jeb Bush who cajole Disney into stifling free speech, and who just yesterday removed 40,000 felons from the voter rolls - even though it was proved in 2000 that many of the people he removed were, in fact, not felons. Just Democrats. Mostly Black Democrats.
Ol' Jebby is ALREADY starting to throw the election, and we are 6 months away from actually voting. He must have to wipe the drool off his chin when he reads about E-voting.
I don't know if you've seen on the website, but Spybot has been under a concerted DDOS attack, off and on, for awhile. I think the fact the software is so damn effective, and the guy does just a frankly superb job of keeping signatures up, that's it's really put a thorn into the side of spybot creators everywhere.
If you can afford it, consider donating to the guy. That's a helluva bit of software to be giving away. Either that, or nominate him for the Nobel Prize, if your on the committee that is.
Stick uIP on your 64 and you too can join the fun! "I can DOS that machine in 4 packets!" "I can do it in 2!"
http://www.dunkels.com/adam/contiki/links.html
Redhat had up2date, and the Linux distros should follow suit with an administration tool like SUS. Maybe there is one. Maybe it's just rdist or rcp in a shell script.
I guess I should ask - what is the equivalent of SUS for Linux? What do people out there use? Is there something tied to RPM?