I mean the data you base your opinions on is weak. The Slashdot comment was merely a glimpse into your opinions, I'm sure.
Your recommendations were to condescendingly treat women like little children who have no sense. And your recommendation that "... treat women right even if they treat you badly." was told in such a way to imply that men are the victims of bad treatment by women as a class, never the other way around, oh no. It would be like a right-wing christian saying Jews are "murderous, lying, thieving, bastards who betrayed Jesus, but we must treat them right, even if they treat us badly." It completely reverses the historical record of oppression to make yourself seem like the victim.
I was going to do a point-by-point argument of the original post, but it would have ended up being about 10 times longer than I wished. I will sum up my points as this: you point out a lot of problems with American society, some of the real, some of them imagined. However, to make a blanket assertion such as "if you have only known women of the U.S. culture, you have never really known a woman at all." is so absurd that it's hard to see it as anything other than simple hatred.
Perhaps if you did not make such sweeping generalizations of millions of people you have never met or use rhetoric comparing them to raw sewage, people might take you more seriously. As it stands, you sound like a hateful old misogynist wishing to put women back in their place. I see from your anti-Bush rants that you are not some dittohead conservative, so I will keep hoping that you will someday stop blaming women for all the U.S.'s(or your) problems.
At least they weren't fired in a Slashdot post. Other humiliating geek ways of being fired:
Your employer uploads pinkslip.txt to the CVS tree of the free software project you've been spending all your time on.
Your boss cracks your home machine and leaves the message "J00 ar3 n07 1337. F10R3D!!!!11!1!"
Boss takes you to a fancy Indian restaurant. When the waiter comes, he says "Yes, we're ready to order - by the way, Bob, Mahel here will be replacing you in two days."
They FedEx you a cell phone while you work, a la the Matrix. It rings, and when you answer, a mysterious deep voice tells you, "Look at the hall by the elevator. They're coming for you, Neo". You look, and you see a group of HR people coming to fire your sorry ass, being directed towards your cubicle. Being a geek, you immediately re-enact the scene where the agents(HR people) are trying to hunt Neo(you) while he talks to Morpheus(the mysterious stranger).
You think, "This is it. The thing I have been waiting for all my life - confirmation that I AM the One! Haha, I'm not a loser, suckers!" However all your hopes come crashing to an end when the guy on the phone says "Oh what the hell. You're fired anyway whether they find you or not. I've been leading you on for my own amusement, but now it's gotten boring. Clever hack, eh? btw, you're not The One, you'll never touch Trinity, and you're still just a loser without a job." In desperation you fling yourself out the 10th-floor window to confirm you have super powers or die trying. You die trying. However you prove the hacker wrong on one point when you DO touch Carrie-Anne Moss at the last moment of your life, crushing her to death between you and her motorcycle.
Sorry I'm a bit late replying, I was busy during the week.
I disagree with your conclusions and question the methods you used to come to them. It's clear that you have had bad experiences with American women and are concluding that American women == t3h 3vi1, imagining that you have had an very accurate view of the "American woman", nevermind the diversity to be found in a group of ~140 million people. I am a foreigner who has lived in the U.S. for over 10 years, and at no point did I ever come to the arrogant thought that all American women are the same. That you did so says more about you or the women you knew than about the general U.S. female population.
Your argument style is sort of deceptive and illogical as well. You assert that there is a problem with U.S. "women culture", then you make sweeping gerneralizations about American women, then you provide your only evidence to back up your claims - women's magazines(supermarket tabloids), Oprah, Movies(British and European), and your knowledge gained from "Hundreds of women", most of them apparently outside of the U.S.. Well, let me just state this: your data set is weak.
You then go on to list how to mistreat and disrespect women with a condescending tone, then you go off on a wild tangent about the current president and administration. The whole post reads as if you're clothing your own misogyny in common European prejudices about Americans in general to get modded up.
Your argument goes like this:
(1)Evidence U.S. women are bad -> (2)Assertions about how bad U.S. women are -> (3)How to hack them.
Your points (1) and (2) are deeply flawed, your evidence is almost non-existant and your assertions in point (2) seem to pop out of thin air with no support whatsoever to begin with. Given that the foundations of your argument are so flawed, the rest of your post is as well.
My god, I don't even know where to start with your recommendations on how to treat women. The one that stands out has to be "Don't answer violence with more violence", as if wife beaters are simply responding to like violence, and that American men would have to have Jesus-like compassion to *not* beat up women.
The idea that U.S. women should not be given respect or responsibility because "they don't like that" is one of the most absurd things I have heard on Slashdot. What you mean is, you think they should not be given respect or responsibility because *you* don't like that. Although the U.S. was later than some countries in women's sufferage, American women have been actively involved in the politics and issues of this country since its founding, especially in issues like civil rights, and it is profoundly ignorant to charachterize them as "irresponsible".
In short, it seems that you have come to generalize about millions of people you will never meet based on shallow media depictions and your own personal biases. I hope someday you will be able to see through those mistakes.
While I agree that the poster was quite ignorant of British law, you do not seem to know the U.S. Constitution very well, either. I am not American, but I have read the document and taken civics class, so here's my quick explanation of the constitution of the U.S. to non-Americans.
The constitution lays out what the federal government can and cannot do. The parts which you believe 'lay down what the rights of US citizens are' do not, in fact, do so. They merely prohibit the federal government from passing laws limiting those rights. They should not be taken to mean that those are the only rights that the people have, or that the constitution is "providing" rights to the people. The basic idea is that even if you're in Communist China or Nazi Germany, you have the right to free speech, fair trials, etc. - it's just that the government there does not recognize those rights. In the constitution, the founders decided to specifically cite certain rights the the federal government would have to respect. In fact, some of the founders did not want rights to be mentioned in the constitution at all, because they felt that would lead to people thinking as you do, that rights are created by the constitution and that rights not listed do not exist.
Let's look at the actual wording of those amendments that mention rights: (from here
Amendment 1: Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom... or the right of the people...
Amendment 2: the right of the people... shall not be infringed.
Amendment 4: The right of the people... shall not be violated
Amendment 6:... the accused shall enjoy the right...
Amendment 7:... the right of trial by jury shall be preserved,...
Amendment 9: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Nowhere in the constitution does it just say "The people have a right to..." a particular right. They all take the form of telling the government not to infringe on them. It is taken as a given that rights exist outside of the ones listed in the constitution, as amendment 9 specifically says. When new amendments are added that "give" new rights, such as women's sufferage, they do not mean that the right suddenly came into existence when the amendment was passed, but that the government was infringing on that right up to that time.
btw, You say that Britain doesn't need a constitution, but how does it know what powers the government has, and what procedures it must take to change the system? I'm thinking in particular about Tony Blair removing the House of Lords by himself. Where does it say he had the power to do so? If he can do that, can he remove the House of Commons? Throw the Royals out? The equivalent in America would require a constitutional convention and ratification by the states, so having a prime minister make arbritary changes like that seems frightening. Not that the House of Lords seemed like a good idea to begin with, but still...
Actually, I have heard that the military and the State Dept. had a semi-decent peacekeeping plan for post-conquest worked out, but it was overruled by the White House and their neocon advisors including Ahmed Chalabi, who were insisting that the Iraqis would welcome them with open arms. At least some of the Iraqi exiles seem as bad as Cuban exiles when it comes to distorting U.S. foreign policy.
Don't worry, our Imperial Sardukar will put down those dirty Fremen rebels and their terrorist "Maud'dib" leader without having to resort to orbital bombardment. Do you not trust our glorious leader, the Baron George Bush? We just have to watch out for those blasted sandworms....
Exodus 6:2-8 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name STALLMAN was I not known to them. And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Slashdot, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children of GNU/Linux, whom the Proprietary Vendors keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. Wherefore say unto the children of GNU/Linux, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Proprietary Vendors, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
Exodus 7: Raymond turns the Nile into blood.
Exodus 8: Raymond brings forth a plauge of frogs.
Exodus 10: Raymond parts the Redmond Sea, allowing the children of GNU/Linux to cross. When the armies of the Pharoh McNealy try to cross, the waters rush in on them.
and so on... The frightening thing is how well the personalities fit : )
(crosses finger and hopes he doesn't get smited by God)
Actually, one of my school's sysadmins made his own Knoppix variant. He changed some of the graphics like the background, icons, etc. to the school logo, to help promote the school.
It's these kinds of cool specializations that might make linux a bit more popular among schools and businesses. Handing out what is basically a self-branded complete operating system to people to promote your school/business is definitely not something you can do with windows. Hell, you can even hand out a bootable business card with your own linux variant on it!
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Okay, I don't get what you're complaining about - are you saying that the slient tracks somehow lowers the value of the rest of the songs? Not trying to flame, just need an explanation...
Other non-music tracks I can think of:
One of Offspring's albums has an "intermission" track.
At least one Marylin Manson album(Antichrist Superstar) has 99 tracks, the maximum allowable under the CD audio standard. The album cover only lists tracks that are actual songs.
One Beatles album(Sgt. Pepper's I think) in vinyl form had a last track that was an endless loop which would play some noise forever until you stopped the record.
Lots of anime soundtracks have a 'drama track' where the voice actors do a radio drama type thingy.
And these days, a lot of CDs come with data tracks that contain extras like video and art.
This is the one being hosted by the guys behind Rubi-con, right? I've thought about going in the past, but was too busy and such. Might go this year, as it's a bit closer than Detroit.
btw, how was last year's Rubi-con? I can't find any writeups or anything. Did the cops get called again? Were there feds? Inquiring minds want to know:)
I don't know if you are telling the truth, but if you are, you should count yourself lucky.
Although I don't think MS would deliberately release the windows source code just to "taint" open source projects as some here have suggested, I think it's quite plausible that MS could fill up some zips with garbage data and release the IP and password of a honeypot server containing the 'windows source code'. They could catch a whole bunch of warez and script kiddies, without exposing themselves to real damage.
The moral of the story: never accespt a free ride from Microsoft, even if they offer tasty candy.
How could you get 'Vertical' spelled right in the submission, but mess it up in the headline?! Did the submitter misspell it, or did the editors? And finally... did no one who was a subscriber notice, too?
Of all the possible examples you could have used, that's about the worst one.
The thing that annoys me the most about the sexism in the computer geek cultre is that too many guys seem to feel that coding or sysadmining is a manly-man's job that's on par with athletics or physical labor. Hell, they seem to think that being able to write good code 'proves' their manlyness the same way that lifting heavy objects or beating someone else in combat does - notice the 'my kung fu is better' comments and 'real men code ' quotes. Of course lumberjacks, miners, soldiers, etc. would laugh at the very thought of fat geeks acting macho while they code in assembler.
While the computer geeks I've known in real life are cool, the loudest ones online remind me more of the attitudes of the high school football team than the science club. Perhaps geeks who are denied an oppurtunity to be macho and tough through sports are taking that attitude to their hobby and work?
Although I can't tell you anything about getting a career in 'computer forensics', I have found some info that might help you.
Sun's BigAdmin security FAQs page has articles like "Basic Steps in the Forensic Analysis of Unix systems" and "Responding to Customer's Security Incidents". Some of them are from Sun, some from outside sources.
We agreed to form a bunch of states. We agreed to combine those states into a federation called The United States. We agreed on a single currency for all the states. We agreed on a method for choosing our leaders.
If you're old enough to have been at the founding of the U.S., how come your./ ID isn't lower?:-P
No shit, I remember printing out those photos for a presentation I gave on hackers for high school speech tournaments. That must have been 3 years ago at least, and I recall the site was old back then, too. I also remember the site used to be ugly as hell and just basic HTML, though. At least it has some of the only photos I could find on guys like Mark Abene or that Russian guy.
I think the reason they didn't mind the security cameras(and why the public doesn't) is that they don't think about who is behind the cameras. They just chalk it up to being watched by "the authorities", whether it's corporate or government. They have the conforting belief that the cameras are there for "our protection" and that the people using them would never abuse them, for example by tracking political protesters, recording who meets with dissidents, etc.
It's because of the very impersonal nature of the cameras that people don't worry about them, I think. They figure, "anything that looks so official must have responsible people behind it". It probobly also helps that there's so much data to process that usually the tapes are only checked when something goes wrong.
No no no, don't pay the bills yourself - have someone else do it!
Call up SCO, and tell them "I want to tip you off that there is a large number of unlicensed SCO/Linux boxes at the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum. Call (phone #), and ask them for licenses - in fact call them repeatedly, they may pretend to not know what you're talking about."
PS- If he shouts, "That's a lot of polygons" ignore it. S'all good.
Newbie. Everyone knows bezier curves and bump mapping are the best ways to turn a guy on. Just as important, of corse, is the "bounce algorithm" - don't forget to debug yours!
What happened to the sixth person? You say there are six people, but later on you only mention five of them.
Don't you see? Six people, trapped in a tin can... They're too ashamed to admit it, but their healthy, fat demeanor gives it away. He was obviously eaten:)
What the hell? This is the funniest comment I have ever read on Slashdot, especially since this guy seems to be totally serious. Either he's a troll, or very gullible.
I guess when I was taking pictures on vacation or at school, I was conducting industrial espionage without knowing it! Yes, my secret photos of the high school debate team were being sent over to the Japanese embassy where nefarious shifty-eyed agents would send them on to their masters in Tokyo, no doubt. Pleeeeze.
Seriously, we Japanese do seem to have a camera fetish, especially when we're on vacation. I was a shutterbug when I had film cameras, but now that I have digital, I basically take pics of everything. Attributing that to being a cover for 'industrial espionage' is the most ludecruos thing I have heard outside of the SCO case.
The one example you cite is hard to believe. First of all, I've never seen rice krispies in Japan - what, you think we're going to eat that shit just 'cause it's "rice"? Kelloggs might sell small amounts of theirs over there, but it certainly wasn't popular enough for me to notice. Second of all, it's frigging cerial - you really think we would need 'industrial espionage' to copy that? Other American cerial companies seem to have knockoffs, and I don't see you getting all worked up about it. Frankly, American/Europeans had good cameras before the Japanese, and if the factories were worried about industrial espionage, they probobly wouldn't have been giving tours in the first place.
btw, if you want to go see a cool manufacturing plant, go to the Boeing factory in Seattle. They still have tours, and I think they allow cameras. Definitely one of the coolest places I have ever been.
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I was microwaving my tinfoil hat when it was like, 'Beep Beep Beep Beep' and then, like, half the hat was gone.
...a bummer.
And I was, like, "uuuunh?"
It DEVOURED my tinfoil hat.
It was a really good tinfoil hat.
And then I had to nuke it again, and it wasn't as good because I had to do it fast before the Illuminati came.
It was...
My name is Ellen Feiss, and they're all out to get me.
I mean the data you base your opinions on is weak. The Slashdot comment was merely a glimpse into your opinions, I'm sure.
Your recommendations were to condescendingly treat women like little children who have no sense. And your recommendation that "... treat women right even if they treat you badly." was told in such a way to imply that men are the victims of bad treatment by women as a class, never the other way around, oh no. It would be like a right-wing christian saying Jews are "murderous, lying, thieving, bastards who betrayed Jesus, but we must treat them right, even if they treat us badly." It completely reverses the historical record of oppression to make yourself seem like the victim.
I was going to do a point-by-point argument of the original post, but it would have ended up being about 10 times longer than I wished. I will sum up my points as this: you point out a lot of problems with American society, some of the real, some of them imagined. However, to make a blanket assertion such as "if you have only known women of the U.S. culture, you have never really known a woman at all." is so absurd that it's hard to see it as anything other than simple hatred.
Perhaps if you did not make such sweeping generalizations of millions of people you have never met or use rhetoric comparing them to raw sewage, people might take you more seriously. As it stands, you sound like a hateful old misogynist wishing to put women back in their place. I see from your anti-Bush rants that you are not some dittohead conservative, so I will keep hoping that you will someday stop blaming women for all the U.S.'s(or your) problems.
At least they weren't fired in a Slashdot post. Other humiliating geek ways of being fired:
Your employer uploads pinkslip.txt to the CVS tree of the free software project you've been spending all your time on.
Your boss cracks your home machine and leaves the message "J00 ar3 n07 1337. F10R3D!!!!11!1!"
Boss takes you to a fancy Indian restaurant. When the waiter comes, he says "Yes, we're ready to order - by the way, Bob, Mahel here will be replacing you in two days."
They FedEx you a cell phone while you work, a la the Matrix. It rings, and when you answer, a mysterious deep voice tells you, "Look at the hall by the elevator. They're coming for you, Neo". You look, and you see a group of HR people coming to fire your sorry ass, being directed towards your cubicle. Being a geek, you immediately re-enact the scene where the agents(HR people) are trying to hunt Neo(you) while he talks to Morpheus(the mysterious stranger).
You think, "This is it. The thing I have been waiting for all my life - confirmation that I AM the One! Haha, I'm not a loser, suckers!" However all your hopes come crashing to an end when the guy on the phone says "Oh what the hell. You're fired anyway whether they find you or not. I've been leading you on for my own amusement, but now it's gotten boring. Clever hack, eh? btw, you're not The One, you'll never touch Trinity, and you're still just a loser without a job." In desperation you fling yourself out the 10th-floor window to confirm you have super powers or die trying. You die trying. However you prove the hacker wrong on one point when you DO touch Carrie-Anne Moss at the last moment of your life, crushing her to death between you and her motorcycle.
Sorry I'm a bit late replying, I was busy during the week.
I disagree with your conclusions and question the methods you used to come to them. It's clear that you have had bad experiences with American women and are concluding that American women == t3h 3vi1, imagining that you have had an very accurate view of the "American woman", nevermind the diversity to be found in a group of ~140 million people. I am a foreigner who has lived in the U.S. for over 10 years, and at no point did I ever come to the arrogant thought that all American women are the same. That you did so says more about you or the women you knew than about the general U.S. female population.
Your argument style is sort of deceptive and illogical as well. You assert that there is a problem with U.S. "women culture", then you make sweeping gerneralizations about American women, then you provide your only evidence to back up your claims - women's magazines(supermarket tabloids), Oprah, Movies(British and European), and your knowledge gained from "Hundreds of women", most of them apparently outside of the U.S.. Well, let me just state this: your data set is weak.
You then go on to list how to mistreat and disrespect women with a condescending tone, then you go off on a wild tangent about the current president and administration. The whole post reads as if you're clothing your own misogyny in common European prejudices about Americans in general to get modded up.
Your argument goes like this:
(1)Evidence U.S. women are bad -> (2)Assertions about how bad U.S. women are -> (3)How to hack them.
Your points (1) and (2) are deeply flawed, your evidence is almost non-existant and your assertions in point (2) seem to pop out of thin air with no support whatsoever to begin with. Given that the foundations of your argument are so flawed, the rest of your post is as well.
My god, I don't even know where to start with your recommendations on how to treat women. The one that stands out has to be "Don't answer violence with more violence", as if wife beaters are simply responding to like violence, and that American men would have to have Jesus-like compassion to *not* beat up women.
The idea that U.S. women should not be given respect or responsibility because "they don't like that" is one of the most absurd things I have heard on Slashdot. What you mean is, you think they should not be given respect or responsibility because *you* don't like that. Although the U.S. was later than some countries in women's sufferage, American women have been actively involved in the politics and issues of this country since its founding, especially in issues like civil rights, and it is profoundly ignorant to charachterize them as "irresponsible".
In short, it seems that you have come to generalize about millions of people you will never meet based on shallow media depictions and your own personal biases. I hope someday you will be able to see through those mistakes.
While I agree that the poster was quite ignorant of British law, you do not seem to know the U.S. Constitution very well, either. I am not American, but I have read the document and taken civics class, so here's my quick explanation of the constitution of the U.S. to non-Americans.
... abridging the freedom ... or the right of the people ...
... shall not be infringed.
... shall not be violated
... the accused shall enjoy the right ...
... the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, ...
The constitution lays out what the federal government can and cannot do. The parts which you believe 'lay down what the rights of US citizens are' do not, in fact, do so. They merely prohibit the federal government from passing laws limiting those rights. They should not be taken to mean that those are the only rights that the people have, or that the constitution is "providing" rights to the people. The basic idea is that even if you're in Communist China or Nazi Germany, you have the right to free speech, fair trials, etc. - it's just that the government there does not recognize those rights. In the constitution, the founders decided to specifically cite certain rights the the federal government would have to respect. In fact, some of the founders did not want rights to be mentioned in the constitution at all, because they felt that would lead to people thinking as you do, that rights are created by the constitution and that rights not listed do not exist.
Let's look at the actual wording of those amendments that mention rights: (from here
Amendment 1: Congress shall make no law
Amendment 2: the right of the people
Amendment 4: The right of the people
Amendment 6:
Amendment 7:
Amendment 9: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Nowhere in the constitution does it just say "The people have a right to..." a particular right. They all take the form of telling the government not to infringe on them. It is taken as a given that rights exist outside of the ones listed in the constitution, as amendment 9 specifically says. When new amendments are added that "give" new rights, such as women's sufferage, they do not mean that the right suddenly came into existence when the amendment was passed, but that the government was infringing on that right up to that time.
btw, You say that Britain doesn't need a constitution, but how does it know what powers the government has, and what procedures it must take to change the system? I'm thinking in particular about Tony Blair removing the House of Lords by himself. Where does it say he had the power to do so? If he can do that, can he remove the House of Commons? Throw the Royals out? The equivalent in America would require a constitutional convention and ratification by the states, so having a prime minister make arbritary changes like that seems frightening. Not that the House of Lords seemed like a good idea to begin with, but still...
Actually, I have heard that the military and the State Dept. had a semi-decent peacekeeping plan for post-conquest worked out, but it was overruled by the White House and their neocon advisors including Ahmed Chalabi, who were insisting that the Iraqis would welcome them with open arms. At least some of the Iraqi exiles seem as bad as Cuban exiles when it comes to distorting U.S. foreign policy.
Don't worry, our Imperial Sardukar will put down those dirty Fremen rebels and their terrorist "Maud'dib" leader without having to resort to orbital bombardment. Do you not trust our glorious leader, the Baron George Bush? We just have to watch out for those blasted sandworms....
That's probobly because they mistook it for another giant slug ;) Or maybe they thought it was Tonya Harding...
Well, I don't know about blender, but my palm has absolutly not problems loving... oh wait, you mean that other 'palm' :P
Exodus 6:2-8
And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name STALLMAN was I not known to them.
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Slashdot, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of GNU/Linux, whom the Proprietary Vendors keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Wherefore say unto the children of GNU/Linux, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Proprietary Vendors, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
Exodus 7:
Raymond turns the Nile into blood.
Exodus 8:
Raymond brings forth a plauge of frogs.
Exodus 10:
Raymond parts the Redmond Sea, allowing the children of GNU/Linux to cross. When the armies of the Pharoh McNealy try to cross, the waters rush in on them.
and so on... The frightening thing is how well the personalities fit : )
(crosses finger and hopes he doesn't get smited by God)
Actually, one of my school's sysadmins made his own Knoppix variant. He changed some of the graphics like the background, icons, etc. to the school logo, to help promote the school.
It's these kinds of cool specializations that might make linux a bit more popular among schools and businesses. Handing out what is basically a self-branded complete operating system to people to promote your school/business is definitely not something you can do with windows. Hell, you can even hand out a bootable business card with your own linux variant on it!
Okay, I don't get what you're complaining about - are you saying that the slient tracks somehow lowers the value of the rest of the songs? Not trying to flame, just need an explanation...
Other non-music tracks I can think of:
One of Offspring's albums has an "intermission" track.
At least one Marylin Manson album(Antichrist Superstar) has 99 tracks, the maximum allowable under the CD audio standard. The album cover only lists tracks that are actual songs.
One Beatles album(Sgt. Pepper's I think) in vinyl form had a last track that was an endless loop which would play some noise forever until you stopped the record.
Lots of anime soundtracks have a 'drama track' where the voice actors do a radio drama type thingy.
And these days, a lot of CDs come with data tracks that contain extras like video and art.
This is the one being hosted by the guys behind Rubi-con, right? I've thought about going in the past, but was too busy and such. Might go this year, as it's a bit closer than Detroit.
:)
btw, how was last year's Rubi-con? I can't find any writeups or anything. Did the cops get called again? Were there feds? Inquiring minds want to know
I don't know if you are telling the truth, but if you are, you should count yourself lucky.
Although I don't think MS would deliberately release the windows source code just to "taint" open source projects as some here have suggested, I think it's quite plausible that MS could fill up some zips with garbage data and release the IP and password of a honeypot server containing the 'windows source code'. They could catch a whole bunch of warez and script kiddies, without exposing themselves to real damage.
The moral of the story: never accespt a free ride from Microsoft, even if they offer tasty candy.
How could you get 'Vertical' spelled right in the submission, but mess it up in the headline?! Did the submitter misspell it, or did the editors? And finally... did no one who was a subscriber notice, too?
Sheesh... 'Verticle', indeed...
Of all the possible examples you could have used, that's about the worst one.
The thing that annoys me the most about the sexism in the computer geek cultre is that too many guys seem to feel that coding or sysadmining is a manly-man's job that's on par with athletics or physical labor. Hell, they seem to think that being able to write good code 'proves' their manlyness the same way that lifting heavy objects or beating someone else in combat does - notice the 'my kung fu is better' comments and 'real men code ' quotes. Of course lumberjacks, miners, soldiers, etc. would laugh at the very thought of fat geeks acting macho while they code in assembler.
While the computer geeks I've known in real life are cool, the loudest ones online remind me more of the attitudes of the high school football team than the science club. Perhaps geeks who are denied an oppurtunity to be macho and tough through sports are taking that attitude to their hobby and work?
Although I can't tell you anything about getting a career in 'computer forensics', I have found some info that might help you.
Sun's BigAdmin security FAQs page has articles like "Basic Steps in the Forensic Analysis of Unix systems" and "Responding to Customer's Security Incidents". Some of them are from Sun, some from outside sources.
You might also want to try the Linux documentation project to find some good help files.
We agreed to form a bunch of states. We agreed to combine those states into a federation called The United States. We agreed on a single currency for all the states. We agreed on a method for choosing our leaders.
./ ID isn't lower? :-P
If you're old enough to have been at the founding of the U.S., how come your
No shit, I remember printing out those photos for a presentation I gave on hackers for high school speech tournaments. That must have been 3 years ago at least, and I recall the site was old back then, too. I also remember the site used to be ugly as hell and just basic HTML, though. At least it has some of the only photos I could find on guys like Mark Abene or that Russian guy.
I think the reason they didn't mind the security cameras(and why the public doesn't) is that they don't think about who is behind the cameras. They just chalk it up to being watched by "the authorities", whether it's corporate or government. They have the conforting belief that the cameras are there for "our protection" and that the people using them would never abuse them, for example by tracking political protesters, recording who meets with dissidents, etc.
It's because of the very impersonal nature of the cameras that people don't worry about them, I think. They figure, "anything that looks so official must have responsible people behind it". It probobly also helps that there's so much data to process that usually the tapes are only checked when something goes wrong.
No no no, don't pay the bills yourself - have someone else do it!
Call up SCO, and tell them "I want to tip you off that there is a large number of unlicensed SCO/Linux boxes at the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum. Call (phone #), and ask them for licenses - in fact call them repeatedly, they may pretend to not know what you're talking about."
Hilarity ensues.
PS- If he shouts, "That's a lot of polygons" ignore it. S'all good.
Newbie. Everyone knows bezier curves and bump mapping are the best ways to turn a guy on. Just as important, of corse, is the "bounce algorithm" - don't forget to debug yours!
Obviously one was a Windows user, and the other was a Mac person. They just weren't compatibe :P
What happened to the sixth person? You say there are six people, but later on you only mention five of them.
:)
Don't you see? Six people, trapped in a tin can... They're too ashamed to admit it, but their healthy, fat demeanor gives it away. He was obviously eaten
What the hell? This is the funniest comment I have ever read on Slashdot, especially since this guy seems to be totally serious. Either he's a troll, or very gullible.
I guess when I was taking pictures on vacation or at school, I was conducting industrial espionage without knowing it! Yes, my secret photos of the high school debate team were being sent over to the Japanese embassy where nefarious shifty-eyed agents would send them on to their masters in Tokyo, no doubt. Pleeeeze.
Seriously, we Japanese do seem to have a camera fetish, especially when we're on vacation. I was a shutterbug when I had film cameras, but now that I have digital, I basically take pics of everything. Attributing that to being a cover for 'industrial espionage' is the most ludecruos thing I have heard outside of the SCO case.
The one example you cite is hard to believe. First of all, I've never seen rice krispies in Japan - what, you think we're going to eat that shit just 'cause it's "rice"? Kelloggs might sell small amounts of theirs over there, but it certainly wasn't popular enough for me to notice. Second of all, it's frigging cerial - you really think we would need 'industrial espionage' to copy that? Other American cerial companies seem to have knockoffs, and I don't see you getting all worked up about it. Frankly, American/Europeans had good cameras before the Japanese, and if the factories were worried about industrial espionage, they probobly wouldn't have been giving tours in the first place.
btw, if you want to go see a cool manufacturing plant, go to the Boeing factory in Seattle. They still have tours, and I think they allow cameras. Definitely one of the coolest places I have ever been.