Nope, you better tell more. I just set my system up to use OpenNIC in preference to whatever my router tells it to use (which I presume is what my ISP tells my router to use, which I presume is Verisign.) And while I presumably have access to all the (rather unknown) TLDs now, I'm still seeing Verisign's bullshit when I try to go to www.verisignsucksdonkeyballs.com.
I figure this is because OpenNIC passes it off to Verisign when it fails to find the site.
Can I whack Verisign right out of the DNS list? Which is to say, does OpenNIC mirror all of the.com,.edu,.org, etcetera TLD information?
I'd be perfectly delighted to have OpenNIC as my sole DNS, but not at the cost of losing access to the majority of the Internet...
(If OpenNIC can do it all, we need to pressure Opera, Mozilla, and the like into using it as the primary DNS, with Verisign only as fallback!)
I loved Half-life. That was a fairly tightly-scripted game. But it was also very well-written (at least during the first third). I was in a complete panic when I saw the first military dude shoot a scientist! I had to run that scenario a few times over just to convince myself that it really was supposed to go over that way.
On the other hand, I loved Unreal Tournament human-vs-human. No scripts at all, tons o' fun.
Man, I found most of the entire interview to be an attack on the fellow. The questions were vague and argumentative, and it seems their intention was to pick a fight.
Mark my word, a crisis situation will be manufactured that fall. The US Vote will be delayed until the war machine succeeds in rally the people into Mom & Apple Pie unity, all set to elect Bush.
A security hole large enough to drive Bush through, eh? You poor bastards... you don't even get the democracy you deserve, you get the democracy you're given.
We all know MS is going to release Yet Another Office Upgrade. And we know it's going to break compatibility with OpenOffice and other alternative suites. And we can probably count on MS using DRM/DCMA to prevent anyone from reverse-engineering the format.
It is important to begin telling everyone you regularly communicate with that you will NOT accept MS Office file formats that are not backwards compatible with Office 97.
Let them know well ahead of time, so that the meme gets well-implanted long before MS starts filling their heads with advertising.
Let your contacts know that it is their responsibility to ensure their documents can be used by others.
In this way, you will help encourage people to look to alternative office suites, think twice about upgrading to MS Office, and will encourage greater use of compatible file formats.
I have a buddy who survived a parachute failure. Does that mean that parachutes are unnecessary for those people who choose to throw themselves out of airplanes?
There are excellent studies in which children are randomly assigned to a non-violent or violent environment (movies, videogame, cartoons, whatever). Inevitably those children who were in the violent environment behave more aggressively in their play activities.
I am going to quit responding to you now. The facts are well-researched and well-known. Your insistence that they are not true is absurd as insisting that the moon is made of green cheese.
Oh, god. There's nothing like the willfully unthinking to frustrate hell out of one.
There are innumerable examples of children believing in fantasty just as strongly -- and often contrary to -- reality. Santa Claus is fucking real to most kids.
The reality is that violent environments influence children's behaviour toward becoming more violent. Your fantasy is that there's a complete disconnect between environment and learning.
Try joining us here in the real world some day. Pop out some pups of your own and find out for yourself that Danse Junior's behaviour toward's his playmates becomes more violent if you allow him to watch violent scenes.
Oh, lordy. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, Quantumprof.
The researchers grab a random sample of kids and randomly divide them in two groups. One group is assigned non-violent games, the other violent games. They do not assign the violent kids to the violent games. That would be stupid: it would invalidate the study.
The kids play the games and are then engaged in group play. The researchers observe the interactions between the kids. They observe the kids who had been playing violent games -- and remember, these were just kids at random -- tend to be more physically aggressive.
Study after study is showing this. And the results fit in perfectly with what we already know about kids: they learn by observing and doing.
No one ever wants to argue that children don't learn how to behave by what they observe.
If we had a post that stated research shows that children who watch Dad beat the shit out of Mom grow up to become wife-beaters themselves, no one would quibble. We know that kids raised in abusive households are at higher risk of becoming abusive.
If we had a post that stated research shows that children with alcoholic parents are more likely to drink as teenagers, no one would quibble.
But as soon as anyone dares suggest that the playing violent games or watching nasty net porn could have an effect on children's behaviours, why what a hue and cry we hear!
Children learn by observing and by doing. There is NO arguing against that. They are little sponges soaking up everything around them.
Which means that there is no doubt whatsoever that playing violent videogames will influence a child's likely behaviour in times of threat or stress.
(it's coincidence that i'm replying to a fish post! honest, no blood relation!)
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The government ran the fiber? I doubt that very much.
Nope, you better tell more. I just set my system up to use OpenNIC in preference to whatever my router tells it to use (which I presume is what my ISP tells my router to use, which I presume is Verisign.) And while I presumably have access to all the (rather unknown) TLDs now, I'm still seeing Verisign's bullshit when I try to go to www.verisignsucksdonkeyballs.com.
.com, .edu, .org, etcetera TLD information?
I figure this is because OpenNIC passes it off to Verisign when it fails to find the site.
Can I whack Verisign right out of the DNS list? Which is to say, does OpenNIC mirror all of the
I'd be perfectly delighted to have OpenNIC as my sole DNS, but not at the cost of losing access to the majority of the Internet...
(If OpenNIC can do it all, we need to pressure Opera, Mozilla, and the like into using it as the primary DNS, with Verisign only as fallback!)
Tell us all about OpenNIC. Can I use it as a direct replacement for whateveritis that my ISP gives me for DNS lookup?
(Actually, I'm about to head right over to that link. But others will want to know.)
Dear Alumni Association:
"expletia deleted."
Yours,
fish.
A lt of vwls rn't necsry. U jst nd th mjr phnms. Thus ltrs, not ls.
I loved Half-life. That was a fairly tightly-scripted game. But it was also very well-written (at least during the first third). I was in a complete panic when I saw the first military dude shoot a scientist! I had to run that scenario a few times over just to convince myself that it really was supposed to go over that way.
On the other hand, I loved Unreal Tournament human-vs-human. No scripts at all, tons o' fun.
Room for both genres, I say!
Man, I found most of the entire interview to be an attack on the fellow. The questions were vague and argumentative, and it seems their intention was to pick a fight.
Listen up: you ain't gonna have a vote in 2004.
Mark my word, a crisis situation will be manufactured that fall. The US Vote will be delayed until the war machine succeeds in rally the people into Mom & Apple Pie unity, all set to elect Bush.
bang!
that's gotta hurt.
They're the ones that want to claim copyright on that letter, so that talking about *nix requires paying a licensing fee.
It also means we can't call them a b*nch of motherf*cking f*ckwits, which is a real shame.
...'cause it means that on the whole, no matter how bad a day I'm having, I can always remember: someone else had a far, far worse one.
They should sue LucasFilms, for making a movie that encouraged the kid to act like a dork, just like other parents sue game makers!
k, thx. Off I bound, screwdriver in hand!
Hadn't occured to me to search Usenet. And here I am, subscribed to a half-dozen newsgroups!
Mine's an SMC-branded product. How do I find out who the OEM is?
Intriguing. What sort of alternative firmware exists for the SMC products? Got any resource recommendations? Search term suggestions?
A security hole large enough to drive Bush through, eh? You poor bastards... you don't even get the democracy you deserve, you get the democracy you're given.
We all know MS is going to release Yet Another Office Upgrade. And we know it's going to break compatibility with OpenOffice and other alternative suites. And we can probably count on MS using DRM/DCMA to prevent anyone from reverse-engineering the format.
It is important to begin telling everyone you regularly communicate with that you will NOT accept MS Office file formats that are not backwards compatible with Office 97.
Let them know well ahead of time, so that the meme gets well-implanted long before MS starts filling their heads with advertising.
Let your contacts know that it is their responsibility to ensure their documents can be used by others.
In this way, you will help encourage people to look to alternative office suites, think twice about upgrading to MS Office, and will encourage greater use of compatible file formats.
And doesn't Texas have some arcane law about how it's legal to shoot someone if they're too damn dumb to live?
Come, Americans. You've got more guns than you have people. Surely you can take care of the SCO problem!
er... what isn't decent about humanely terminating their spamming little lives?
Opera's new email client does exactly this.
Good god.
I have a buddy who survived a parachute failure. Does that mean that parachutes are unnecessary for those people who choose to throw themselves out of airplanes?
There are excellent studies in which children are randomly assigned to a non-violent or violent environment (movies, videogame, cartoons, whatever). Inevitably those children who were in the violent environment behave more aggressively in their play activities.
I am going to quit responding to you now. The facts are well-researched and well-known. Your insistence that they are not true is absurd as insisting that the moon is made of green cheese.
Oh, god. There's nothing like the willfully unthinking to frustrate hell out of one.
There are innumerable examples of children believing in fantasty just as strongly -- and often contrary to -- reality. Santa Claus is fucking real to most kids.
The reality is that violent environments influence children's behaviour toward becoming more violent. Your fantasy is that there's a complete disconnect between environment and learning.
Try joining us here in the real world some day. Pop out some pups of your own and find out for yourself that Danse Junior's behaviour toward's his playmates becomes more violent if you allow him to watch violent scenes.
Huzzah. Good parenting praise to you!
Oh, lordy. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, Quantumprof.
The researchers grab a random sample of kids and randomly divide them in two groups. One group is assigned non-violent games, the other violent games. They do not assign the violent kids to the violent games. That would be stupid: it would invalidate the study.
The kids play the games and are then engaged in group play. The researchers observe the interactions between the kids. They observe the kids who had been playing violent games -- and remember, these were just kids at random -- tend to be more physically aggressive.
Study after study is showing this. And the results fit in perfectly with what we already know about kids: they learn by observing and doing.
Why on earth would you wish to pretend otherwise?
No doubt.
No one ever wants to argue that children don't learn how to behave by what they observe.
If we had a post that stated research shows that children who watch Dad beat the shit out of Mom grow up to become wife-beaters themselves, no one would quibble. We know that kids raised in abusive households are at higher risk of becoming abusive.
If we had a post that stated research shows that children with alcoholic parents are more likely to drink as teenagers, no one would quibble.
But as soon as anyone dares suggest that the playing violent games or watching nasty net porn could have an effect on children's behaviours, why what a hue and cry we hear!
Children learn by observing and by doing. There is NO arguing against that. They are little sponges soaking up everything around them.
Which means that there is no doubt whatsoever that playing violent videogames will influence a child's likely behaviour in times of threat or stress.
(it's coincidence that i'm replying to a fish post! honest, no blood relation!)