Why don't we have a/. poll to see how many people really care about all these Napster stories... and if the "I don't care"s win there won't be anymore Napster posts.
Sir, you are being ridiculous. The term "Dark Fiber" is not racist. Is "Black Tie Affair" racist? Well, you'll probably say it isn't because there is a positive connotation to it. What about those pork commericals... you know "Pork, the other white meat." Is that racist? I mean, c'mon... are we not allowed to use colors to describe anything anymore? It's ridiculous. If you are offended by these things, you have serious issues.
My point is, would it be so hard for you white people to call it 'unlit fiber'?
Ok, so white people are now the authority on the English language. Last time I checked there are a lot of words in the English language now that were originally used by African Americans. And it's not that it's hard to say "unlit fiber" it's that there is a perfectly good term "dark fiber" already in use. For example, the Whitehouse. Should we call that "The President's Mansion"... no, because we already call it "The Whitehouse". Which, in my opinion describes it perfectly... it's a house... and it just so happens to be the color white. If the damned thing was red. We would probably call it "The Redhouse"... which really doesn't have a nice ring to it.
I mean, modern western films no longer make the bad guy wear black and the good guy wear white, and this is precisely because Hollywood has for some time now had an enlightened attitude to racism.
I don't consider being afraid to use adjectives due to their perceived racist overtones being "enlightened." To me, being enlightened would mean that people stop seeing themselves as black or white or whatever... and start seeing themselves as Americans. Just plain old Americans.
Secondly, I don't like the racist overtones of the term 'dark fibre'. I mean, I don't want to be overly sensitive about my race (as an African American I love my country as much as the next guy) But really do all negative terms have to include this racist hint. 'Dark fibre' is just another one of those terms, along with 'put someone on a Blacklist', 'give someone a 'black look' or whatever I could go on and on.
Please tell me you are joking. The Dark in "Dark Fibre" clearly refers to the fact that there is no light traveling through it. Last time I checked, dark and light were opposite adjectives. Acquisitions of racial overtones in that term are ridiculous. Should we be calling it "non-lit fiber"? Or how about "luminarily-challenged fiber".
I don't buy the fact that the act of speeding alone kills people. It's speeding paired with driving recklessly (like tailgating, weaving, etc.) that gets people killed. But, it's typical in our society to place the blame where it's easiest. Such as guns, violence on TV, and cholesterol, and "Big Oil/Media/Tobacco" (whatever those stupid terms mean)
Slashdot doesn't condone anything other than doing away with stupidity.
Nonsense. If the market were decently regulated then there would be more competition because no company would have such a huge monopoly. Other groups would have a far easier time having their OS accepted. Witness how BeOS sunk, despite having a technically superior OS to both Windows and Linux.
BeOS sunk because it was only one component in the total user experience. What I mean by that is BeOS does not have the application base that Windows has. Now, M$ may not have any single application, server, or OS that is superior to anything else on the market... but in total, they have the best System. All of there software works together pretty seemlessly. You can embed an Excel spreadsheet into a PowerPoint presentation... or a Word Document just as an example. That is what every other OS is missing. Applications that integrate seemingly seemlessly with each other. That's why M$ is on top and you know what... for that reason they deserve to be. Maybe the best competitor is MacOS... but they are held back by the limited hardware that it runs on.
Until a company, or a group of companies working together, challenge the whole of M$'s offering, Windows will always be on top. That's what the market wants. That's why a free market is good. Demand drives what products are produced.
Bullshit. This is exactly why a free market is good. Because we are free to use non-MS software. If it wasn't a free market, MS or some government sanctioned software company would be the only choice... and all things GNU, GPLed, Open Source, etc would not exist.
You bring up good points. Lots of school systems would give their left arm for $20 million to spend on computers and textbooks, etc... this seems like an awful waste of money to me.
Well, the problem is that the DNS system is going to be 100x more important when the switch to IPv6 is made because the addresses are much more unweildy than IPv4.
Because InterNIC... or more acurately, Network Solutions, Inc... or still more acurately, Verisign has in their service agreement that you do not own a domain that you register with them... they do. So it is in their best interest to just keep all the domains they can. They'll probably auction them off. So, in other words, don't use networksolutions.com... use register.com or someone else.
First let me say that I'm not trying to defend the anti-intellectual property zealots. But I think that most slashdotters get all worked up about specific patents, such as the Amazon one-click e-commerce crap. I'm sure everyone on/. would agree that RSA was a good patent. That was innovation... they came up with it first. Checksum-ing something and checking it against a stored value is NOT innovation... it's been done before. That's what the issue is. The USPTO allows too many patents for things that are not new and are considered common practice. That doesn't encourage innovation, it discourages it because now people can make money off of patent lawsuits without the need to innovate at all.
I like this idea... for the same reason I hate clean needle programs. People that use these drugs shouldn't get any help from the taxpayer to deal with all the bad things that can happen. I say fuck'em.
that Napster sucks? I remember when pirating copyrighted material was done in secrecy... I can't believe everyone expects to be able to do it in the open. Dumbasses.
Well, then maybe there needs to be a new term. Since the idiots don't know the difference... we should come up with a new word to mean "Free as in speech".
... because everyone knows that all "TLD" operators are good people and would never use security bugs to break into someone else's system.
Paul Vixie is just full of good ideas. I want to be like him when I grow up.
I have an idea. Let's limit the bug reporting system to people whose mail servers block mail from people on the MAPS RBL. That way we'll kill two birds with one stone.
Why not use JavaScript? It's standard... well, ECMAScript is but that's the same thing... the solution is that web developers need to be more active in providing alternatives for browsers that are older or don't support all the standards.
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I agree... and why can't it just fill in the background color for empty table cells? Would that be really hard?
You know... Jon Katz can be so convincing sometimes. I'm glad that I also read the user comments so that I get myself back to reality.
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Why don't we have a /. poll to see how many people really care about all these Napster stories... and if the "I don't care"s win there won't be anymore Napster posts.
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"I'm talking about the 31337 h4x0r kids with the bad attitude"...
31337 h4x0r is hacker-speak for eleet (elite) hackor (hacker).
3 = e
1 = l
7 = t
4 = a
0 = o
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Personally, I'm waiting for the Fox special "When Grass Attacks"... now that will be some scary shit.
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Sir, you are being ridiculous. The term "Dark Fiber" is not racist. Is "Black Tie Affair" racist? Well, you'll probably say it isn't because there is a positive connotation to it. What about those pork commericals... you know "Pork, the other white meat." Is that racist? I mean, c'mon... are we not allowed to use colors to describe anything anymore? It's ridiculous. If you are offended by these things, you have serious issues.
My point is, would it be so hard for you white people to call it 'unlit fiber'?
Ok, so white people are now the authority on the English language. Last time I checked there are a lot of words in the English language now that were originally used by African Americans. And it's not that it's hard to say "unlit fiber" it's that there is a perfectly good term "dark fiber" already in use. For example, the Whitehouse. Should we call that "The President's Mansion"... no, because we already call it "The Whitehouse". Which, in my opinion describes it perfectly... it's a house... and it just so happens to be the color white. If the damned thing was red. We would probably call it "The Redhouse"... which really doesn't have a nice ring to it.
I mean, modern western films no longer make the bad guy wear black and the good guy wear white, and this is precisely because Hollywood has for some time now had an enlightened attitude to racism.
I don't consider being afraid to use adjectives due to their perceived racist overtones being "enlightened." To me, being enlightened would mean that people stop seeing themselves as black or white or whatever... and start seeing themselves as Americans. Just plain old Americans.
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Secondly, I don't like the racist overtones of the term 'dark fibre'. I mean, I don't want to be overly sensitive about my race (as an African American I love my country as much as the next guy) But really do all negative terms have to include this racist hint. 'Dark fibre' is just another one of those terms, along with 'put someone on a Blacklist', 'give someone a 'black look' or whatever I could go on and on.
Please tell me you are joking. The Dark in "Dark Fibre" clearly refers to the fact that there is no light traveling through it. Last time I checked, dark and light were opposite adjectives. Acquisitions of racial overtones in that term are ridiculous. Should we be calling it "non-lit fiber"? Or how about "luminarily-challenged fiber".
Sheesh.
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you've got to be kidding... it has no connection with satan... it's a cute little devil... c'mon. Tux looks more dangerous than the BSD devil.
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Screw laws against SPAM... I want a law against being harassed by telemarketers.
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Yeah, now it just brings up a bunch of pages talking about when doing the search brought up Microsoft. :)
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I don't buy the fact that the act of speeding alone kills people. It's speeding paired with driving recklessly (like tailgating, weaving, etc.) that gets people killed. But, it's typical in our society to place the blame where it's easiest. Such as guns, violence on TV, and cholesterol, and "Big Oil/Media/Tobacco" (whatever those stupid terms mean)
Slashdot doesn't condone anything other than doing away with stupidity.
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Nonsense. If the market were decently regulated then there would be more competition because no company would have such a huge monopoly. Other groups would have a far easier time having their OS accepted. Witness how BeOS sunk, despite having a technically superior OS to both Windows and Linux.
BeOS sunk because it was only one component in the total user experience. What I mean by that is BeOS does not have the application base that Windows has. Now, M$ may not have any single application, server, or OS that is superior to anything else on the market... but in total, they have the best System. All of there software works together pretty seemlessly. You can embed an Excel spreadsheet into a PowerPoint presentation... or a Word Document just as an example. That is what every other OS is missing. Applications that integrate seemingly seemlessly with each other. That's why M$ is on top and you know what... for that reason they deserve to be. Maybe the best competitor is MacOS... but they are held back by the limited hardware that it runs on.
Until a company, or a group of companies working together, challenge the whole of M$'s offering, Windows will always be on top. That's what the market wants. That's why a free market is good. Demand drives what products are produced.
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Bullshit. This is exactly why a free market is good. Because we are free to use non-MS software. If it wasn't a free market, MS or some government sanctioned software company would be the only choice... and all things GNU, GPLed, Open Source, etc would not exist.
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You bring up good points. Lots of school systems would give their left arm for $20 million to spend on computers and textbooks, etc... this seems like an awful waste of money to me.
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good post... seriously.
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Well, the problem is that the DNS system is going to be 100x more important when the switch to IPv6 is made because the addresses are much more unweildy than IPv4.
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Because InterNIC... or more acurately, Network Solutions, Inc... or still more acurately, Verisign has in their service agreement that you do not own a domain that you register with them... they do. So it is in their best interest to just keep all the domains they can. They'll probably auction them off. So, in other words, don't use networksolutions.com... use register.com or someone else.
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First let me say that I'm not trying to defend the anti-intellectual property zealots. But I think that most slashdotters get all worked up about specific patents, such as the Amazon one-click e-commerce crap. I'm sure everyone on /. would agree that RSA was a good patent. That was innovation... they came up with it first. Checksum-ing something and checking it against a stored value is NOT innovation... it's been done before. That's what the issue is. The USPTO allows too many patents for things that are not new and are considered common practice. That doesn't encourage innovation, it discourages it because now people can make money off of patent lawsuits without the need to innovate at all.
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I like this idea... for the same reason I hate clean needle programs. People that use these drugs shouldn't get any help from the taxpayer to deal with all the bad things that can happen. I say fuck'em.
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that Napster sucks? I remember when pirating copyrighted material was done in secrecy... I can't believe everyone expects to be able to do it in the open. Dumbasses.
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Well, then maybe there needs to be a new term. Since the idiots don't know the difference... we should come up with a new word to mean "Free as in speech".
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What about character sets? I'm sure Unicode won't be able to handle all the alien characters. We'll probably need 32-bit characters.
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... because everyone knows that all "TLD" operators are good people and would never use security bugs to break into someone else's system.
Paul Vixie is just full of good ideas. I want to be like him when I grow up.
I have an idea. Let's limit the bug reporting system to people whose mail servers block mail from people on the MAPS RBL. That way we'll kill two birds with one stone.
Fuck Paul Vixie with a big rubber dick.
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Ten times a day? Wow, not very devoted are you? I'm reloading at least 100. :)
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Why not use JavaScript? It's standard... well, ECMAScript is but that's the same thing... the solution is that web developers need to be more active in providing alternatives for browsers that are older or don't support all the standards.
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