This is just horrible! What is so wrong about a bunch of hot women hanging out with a bunch of computer nerds?! Who was the whiner? Who ratted them out? Some Neo-feminist group? Some Irresponsible Parents group? (TV and video games are NOT Babysitters!) Senators Hillary Clinton and Joseph Lieberman?
The "Family Entertainment Protection Act" is what to videogames what the Patriot Act is to the rest of our freedoms! I suppose all the booth babes should just show up next year in burkas!
I don't give a damn what these up tight hippocrites say! I want my Booth Babes at E3!
Why can't we get ANYTHING new here? Here we are. America. #2 in terms of Technology behind the Japanese, or so we thought. And what do we do, we deny innovation. Instead of revamping the American automobile industry with hybrid vehicles, we shut down factories and market cars that are not hybrid as hybrid. I know that sounds offtopic, but when you think about it, if the Toytas and Hondas of the world are getting 55 MPG for their hybrid vehicles and we can't any of our Fords and GMs above 30 MPG, chances are Ford and GM aren't telling the truth.
A more mundane cause seems to shutting down new technology from improving the lives of others.
Image if a small group of cavemen decided to keep Prometheus's Fire from the world. Likewise in a more relevant sense, the Blackberry. The greatest thing to come from Canada since Tim Hortons. Here we have one of the greatest handheld devices on the market and what does NTP want to do? They want to keep it away from everyone.
Why should we let them covet this technology to themselves?! We don't have the Sharp Zaurus, so we don't have any Linux handhelds. There doesn't seem to be any real support for Palm or Pocket PC devices since the handheld market is nearly non existant. And America is not even in the top five high tech countries in the world anymore thanks to greedy businessmen and their lawyers.
You've heard of the dumbing down of America. Now we are witnesses to the downshifting of America. Instead of downshifting being used as a term by organizations like the Adbusters, think of this definition of downshifting as the enervation of innovation, where computers are used as consumer devices instead of a source for collective knowlege. Where people sit in front of their computers playing videogames for days on end instead of creating the next big operating system. Where freedom of speech is replaced with untrustworthy censorship. Our rights as creative programmers and innovative technologists are being stripped away. Our right to freedom of choice is also being taken without warrent or a collective complaint.
These are the days that programmers and technologists must ask ourselves: "Are we just going to still sit here and let these people shut us down because it violates a patent or is not marketable enough in the eyes of a select few or are we going to take back control?" We know how things work, and what they are for. Lawyers and businessmen only know now to use it to make money, to keep feeding the Beast known as Consumerism so that they can use to sell our rights away by controlling the government through secular causes and irrational exuberance. How could a Capitalist country such as the United State prevent itself from making money? More importantly, Why would it?
I call checks and balances on this case. An office of the Excutive Branch of government (United States Patent and Trademark Office under the Techonology Adminstration under The Department of Commerce) and the Judicial Branch (that has sided with the USPTO that doesn't work). What about all those Senators and Congressmen who are going to work tomarrow morning and find that they don't have Blackberry Service. Sure, it wasn't a problem for them until they were denied service. I know for certain theres going to be a Congressional hearing when some big shot representative doesn't have Blackberry.
I don't really give a damn what you FUD-monger are saying about this. If anything, I buy the thing and take it a part just to prove all you nay-sayers wrong about this technology.
I really would like to get this device when it comes out. However, I'll wait for Cisco or Linksys to release their version of the device first. I really would like to see this device come to market.
Control the Airwaves! Fuel the the reaction! Use Every weapon of mass-distraction Turn active people in to passive consumers Feed 'em bogus polls and harebrainded rumors!
Cut back civil rights Make no mistake Tell 'em homeland security is now at stake! Whip up a frenzy keep 'em suspended DON'T LET THEM KNOW THAT THEIR LIBERTY'S ENDED!
In a related story, the university has built a town for residents to move into and a modest price.
Yep. Three and four bedroom homes that do not have transmutation circles covered up with wallpaper. Oh, and pay no attention to the symmetry of the town map or the position of the homes and businesses being positioned where they are. It's not a giant alchemy transmutation circle! You're silly and watch too much anime! It's a Rorschach test. Yeah! And from what I see I see two philosopher sto--stoner podering the meaning of life. Yep! Wo said anything about philosopher stones?! There you go again making stuff up. There's no such thing as homounculus, alchemy, or strange men with scars on their face with an arm transplant. Talk your happy pills and go back to sleep! And if you see a red glow duck and cover!
Tachikoma: "Mr. Bato! Where are you going?"
Bato: "I can't see a damn thing! All I see is this blue screen with some stupid message asking me to press enter."
Kusanagi: "Is that why you are in the ladies rest room?"
Aramaki: "What the hell are you all stand around and blathering about?!"
Kusanagi: "It's Bato. He's got the blue screen of death again."
Togusa: "Have you pressed CTRL-ALT-DEL?"
Saito: "What are you? Some kind of noobie? Run a diagonstic!"
Aramaki: "Go to the Start Menu!"
Tachikoma: "Call technical support!"
The other Tachikomas (pass through the hall): "What's going on?"
Tachikoma: "It's Mr. Bato! He can't see!"
Bato (bumps head against the wall accidently, then is embarrassed by the events that just occured): "If I don't show up for work tomarrow, don't call to wake me up."
More people would be interested in Math if math teachers would teach more vector calculus instead of pussing out and making us study all this financial crap. I want to use math for Science not for Money!
Hold on there Blue-Collar Slashdotters! Hear me out before you go representing your Union support by flamebaiting this post!
American Automobile Manfactures suck! We will continue to suck as long as we have the current adminstrations at Ford, GM, and Mopar and Big Oil. Who runs these companies? Surely it is not the Unions. Instead, it is Rich White Men who lie to us! Who say "we support our Union works". Who tell us that they are spending millions on alternative fuel research which actually goes to pay off our government to drill in the Artic, to bulid a pipeline through Canada, into the Midwest United States. Who rape us at the pump at $3/gal!
Who had a better Christmas this year? The suits or the factory workers?
One thing I would like to tell you guys about is the Ford Assembly Plant in Hazelwood, Missouri. Mayor T.R. Carr of Hazelwood, St. Louis County Executive Charles Dooley, and Missouri Governor Matt Blunt have bent over backwards just to keep this factory open that Ford constantly breaks their promise of keeping it open. Ford is stealing money from the city of Hazelwood! They are taking the money and the they lie when they say they will fight to keep it open! This is the factory that makes the Ford Explorer. Why isn't Hazelwood assembling Explorers with hybrid fuel systems? Because Ford won't let them!
The Oil Companies that are paying off Ford, GM, and Mopar have told the manfacturers that if any factory in North America attempted to install hybrid fuel systems on their vehicle they would cease funding them. As a way to put a gun to their head, they would also have to shut down plants and blackball the corporation. The Oil industry is doing the same thing with companies that build military and commerical aircraft, industrial machinery, various energy co-ops and corporations, a few technology corporations, and the United States Governement (as if you didn't figure that one out.)
They only way we will ever break free from these profitiering blackmailers is to tell them to literally "F*** Off!".
Eager to serve the United States instead of letting some power-hungry turbonerds cause the BSOD that vaporizes the world (or corporate rivals), the Government once again has expunged the totolitarian empire from those who would attempt to undermind the national infrastructure or those nutjobs who think they are helping break down that enitity.
The good news is that we won't have to worry about anyone with an XBOX360 playing TNW with NORAD's BURGR supercomputer.
"The only winning move is not to play." --WOPR from Wargames
If there is anything that the on the go Computer Scientist, geek, or hacker should have it is a 1GB thumbdrive loaded with MSYS, MinGW (GCC for Windows), Vim, Firefox 1.5 with plugins, and Netbeans 5.0beta. These programs can all be configured to run from a Thumbdrive. I don't like using Cygwin because it is anchored to the computer. MSYS is more flexable. A few batch scripts, moving files to the proper locations, and making sure that there is nothing stored in the registry is all that it takes.
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I still belive that the dogs barking Fur Esles (sp) is more entertaining.
Don't kow about the dogs? Google it! It is probably on the same site as dogs barking Jingle Bells.
Hello Mr. Ander--I mean--America,
My name is Smith. Agent Smith. Attorney at Law.
I am a sentient program here to defend your rights. Have you been injured on the job? Do you feel your insurance company offered you an unfair settlment? Has your doctor committed malpractice? Are you a father trying to win custody of your children in a divorce claim? Do you owe bad taxes? Do you need to file bankrupcy? Has a man named Morpheous spoken to you about "The Matrix"?
If you've answered yes to any of these questions, contact me at 1-877-MR-SMITH. That 1-877-677-6584.
One of my clones--er--paralegal assitants will assit you in filing your claim and there is not fee until I collect you--um--you collect!
Call now! Call while you are still able to speak...
Vive le Resistance! Finally, France has changed alot since the riots. They seem to be getting their act togeather instead of letting us English-speaking people make fun of them. Seriously, this is a positive thing.
The DHS has been using UNISYS for some time now and, like may other possibly illegal lucrative operations recently, is NOT located in the United States. Instead, they are located on the Island of Bermuda, the Bahamas, They Cayman Islands, various other Carribean countries, even Mexico! Heck, I wonder if the Government is monitoring any phone calls coming from the 537 area code. (Hint: America blocks most websites from this CoUntry BecAuse of its free health care and education. To any of you slashdotters not in the United States, try mirroring some of that country's sites because I think at this point that country's government is way better than ours at this time.)
Sometimes I think that we, the United States, are the terrorists. And I don't mean because of the secret tourture camps, or the violations of the 4th and 8th ammendments, but because of the adminstration that has become corrupt. We have seen this many times last year and is inexcusable. I have a good feeling that we, the People of the United States, will be storming the castle this year. Alot of hands are going to get caught in the cookie jar and we are going to make darn sure that if anyone skips down, they won't get as far as the airport even if it is in another country!
OK, just to defend China for a second, how can we be sure that the press did not say the Chinese shut down 600 kiddie porn websites? I mean, when you think about it, if you are charging people with running a porn website (e.g. "Click here to see Carmen Electra") chances are the authority that enforces that law must be hiding something. (e.g. a 12 y.o. alter boy). But if you are going after the sickos who run the child porn sites, then you have a reason.
However, the way the Western Media continues to call China a bunch of "commie scumbags" or say things like "Don't take your loose girlfriend to China" or "They'll arrest you for picking your nose" or "General Mao is watching you", perhaps China has a reason to block out our content.
However, going to the EU, the UN, or even our government to whine about "Those Americans women are showing there boobies on the Internet" is total crap!
If they don't like the porn on the Internet, then chances are they are defintely not going to like it when we send them the Chinese-dub of Brokeback Mountain.
Slashdot Mirror
This is just horrible! What is so wrong about a bunch of hot women hanging out with a bunch of computer nerds?! Who was the whiner? Who ratted them out? Some Neo-feminist group? Some Irresponsible Parents group? (TV and video games are NOT Babysitters!) Senators Hillary Clinton and Joseph Lieberman?
The "Family Entertainment Protection Act" is what to videogames what the Patriot Act is to the rest of our freedoms! I suppose all the booth babes should just show up next year in burkas!
I don't give a damn what these up tight hippocrites say! I want my Booth Babes at E3!
KMFDM&HC&JL&FEPA!
Who wants to bet that we'll catch RIAA, OPEC, USPTO, and Walmart's hands in the cookie jar as well?
I second that opinion.
Why can't we get ANYTHING new here? Here we are. America. #2 in terms of Technology behind the Japanese, or so we thought. And what do we do, we deny innovation. Instead of revamping the American automobile industry with hybrid vehicles, we shut down factories and market cars that are not hybrid as hybrid. I know that sounds offtopic, but when you think about it, if the Toytas and Hondas of the world are getting 55 MPG for their hybrid vehicles and we can't any of our Fords and GMs above 30 MPG, chances are Ford and GM aren't telling the truth.
A more mundane cause seems to shutting down new technology from improving the lives of others.
Image if a small group of cavemen decided to keep Prometheus's Fire from the world. Likewise in a more relevant sense, the Blackberry. The greatest thing to come from Canada since Tim Hortons. Here we have one of the greatest handheld devices on the market and what does NTP want to do? They want to keep it away from everyone.
Why should we let them covet this technology to themselves?! We don't have the Sharp Zaurus, so we don't have any Linux handhelds. There doesn't seem to be any real support for Palm or Pocket PC devices since the handheld market is nearly non existant. And America is not even in the top five high tech countries in the world anymore thanks to greedy businessmen and their lawyers.
You've heard of the dumbing down of America. Now we are witnesses to the downshifting of America. Instead of downshifting being used as a term by organizations like the Adbusters, think of this definition of downshifting as the enervation of innovation, where computers are used as consumer devices instead of a source for collective knowlege. Where people sit in front of their computers playing videogames for days on end instead of creating the next big operating system. Where freedom of speech is replaced with untrustworthy censorship. Our rights as creative programmers and innovative technologists are being stripped away. Our right to freedom of choice is also being taken without warrent or a collective complaint.
These are the days that programmers and technologists must ask ourselves: "Are we just going to still sit here and let these people shut us down because it violates a patent or is not marketable enough in the eyes of a select few or are we going to take back control?" We know how things work, and what they are for. Lawyers and businessmen only know now to use it to make money, to keep feeding the Beast known as Consumerism so that they can use to sell our rights away by controlling the government through secular causes and irrational exuberance. How could a Capitalist country such as the United State prevent itself from making money? More importantly, Why would it?
I call checks and balances on this case. An office of the Excutive Branch of government (United States Patent and Trademark Office under the Techonology Adminstration under The Department of Commerce) and the Judicial Branch (that has sided with the USPTO that doesn't work). What about all those Senators and Congressmen who are going to work tomarrow morning and find that they don't have Blackberry Service. Sure, it wasn't a problem for them until they were denied service. I know for certain theres going to be a Congressional hearing when some big shot representative doesn't have Blackberry.
I don't really give a damn what you FUD-monger are saying about this. If anything, I buy the thing and take it a part just to prove all you nay-sayers wrong about this technology.
I really would like to get this device when it comes out. However, I'll wait for Cisco or Linksys to release their version of the device first. I really would like to see this device come to market.
I think the subject of this post explains it all. I don't need to go any further than that.
--Stars & Stripes by KMFDM
In a related story, the university has built a town for residents to move into and a modest price.
Yep. Three and four bedroom homes that do not have transmutation circles covered up with wallpaper. Oh, and pay no attention to the symmetry of the town map or the position of the homes and businesses being positioned where they are. It's not a giant alchemy transmutation circle! You're silly and watch too much anime! It's a Rorschach test. Yeah! And from what I see I see two philosopher sto--stoner podering the meaning of life. Yep! Wo said anything about philosopher stones?! There you go again making stuff up. There's no such thing as homounculus, alchemy, or strange men with scars on their face with an arm transplant. Talk your happy pills and go back to sleep! And if you see a red glow duck and cover!
/Duck and cover doesn't work!
Tachikoma: "Mr. Bato! Where are you going?"
Bato: "I can't see a damn thing! All I see is this blue screen with some stupid message asking me to press enter."
Kusanagi: "Is that why you are in the ladies rest room?"
Aramaki: "What the hell are you all stand around and blathering about?!"
Kusanagi: "It's Bato. He's got the blue screen of death again."
Togusa: "Have you pressed CTRL-ALT-DEL?"
Saito: "What are you? Some kind of noobie? Run a diagonstic!"
Aramaki: "Go to the Start Menu!"
Tachikoma: "Call technical support!"
The other Tachikomas (pass through the hall): "What's going on?"
Tachikoma: "It's Mr. Bato! He can't see!"
Bato (bumps head against the wall accidently, then is embarrassed by the events that just occured): "If I don't show up for work tomarrow, don't call to wake me up."
More people would be interested in Math if math teachers would teach more vector calculus instead of pussing out and making us study all this financial crap. I want to use math for Science not for Money!
"Those who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security". --Benjamin Franklin
Hold on there Blue-Collar Slashdotters! Hear me out before you go representing your Union support by flamebaiting this post!
American Automobile Manfactures suck! We will continue to suck as long as we have the current adminstrations at Ford, GM, and Mopar and Big Oil. Who runs these companies? Surely it is not the Unions. Instead, it is Rich White Men who lie to us! Who say "we support our Union works". Who tell us that they are spending millions on alternative fuel research which actually goes to pay off our government to drill in the Artic, to bulid a pipeline through Canada, into the Midwest United States. Who rape us at the pump at $3/gal!
Who had a better Christmas this year? The suits or the factory workers?
One thing I would like to tell you guys about is the Ford Assembly Plant in Hazelwood, Missouri. Mayor T.R. Carr of Hazelwood, St. Louis County Executive Charles Dooley, and Missouri Governor Matt Blunt have bent over backwards just to keep this factory open that Ford constantly breaks their promise of keeping it open. Ford is stealing money from the city of Hazelwood! They are taking the money and the they lie when they say they will fight to keep it open! This is the factory that makes the Ford Explorer. Why isn't Hazelwood assembling Explorers with hybrid fuel systems? Because Ford won't let them!
The Oil Companies that are paying off Ford, GM, and Mopar have told the manfacturers that if any factory in North America attempted to install hybrid fuel systems on their vehicle they would cease funding them. As a way to put a gun to their head, they would also have to shut down plants and blackball the corporation. The Oil industry is doing the same thing with companies that build military and commerical aircraft, industrial machinery, various energy co-ops and corporations, a few technology corporations, and the United States Governement (as if you didn't figure that one out.)
They only way we will ever break free from these profitiering blackmailers is to tell them to literally "F*** Off!".
Capitalism will do us in. Don't kid yourself.
Sooner or later, someone had to have posted this:n tumleap.mp3
http://www.tvclassic.net/programs/quantumleap/qua
Eager to serve the United States instead of letting some power-hungry turbonerds cause the BSOD that vaporizes the world (or corporate rivals), the Government once again has expunged the totolitarian empire from those who would attempt to undermind the national infrastructure or those nutjobs who think they are helping break down that enitity.
The good news is that we won't have to worry about anyone with an XBOX360 playing TNW with NORAD's BURGR supercomputer.
"The only winning move is not to play." --WOPR from Wargames
Thats a good point. And why can't we block out some of the USENET messages that we don't want to see?
"Spam is dead!
And no one cares!
I there is a hell!
I'll see you there!"
--Heresy from The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails, sort of.
That's all great and stuff, but what about newsgroups?
Thunderbird has yet to support:
1) Combining multi-part newsgroup attachments.
2) yEnc support.
Forget about RSS and all that jazz. Let Firefox handle RSS. Thunderbird users want some USENET supporting features.
If there is anything that the on the go Computer Scientist, geek, or hacker should have it is a 1GB thumbdrive loaded with MSYS, MinGW (GCC for Windows), Vim, Firefox 1.5 with plugins, and Netbeans 5.0beta. These programs can all be configured to run from a Thumbdrive. I don't like using Cygwin because it is anchored to the computer. MSYS is more flexable. A few batch scripts, moving files to the proper locations, and making sure that there is nothing stored in the registry is all that it takes.
I still belive that the dogs barking Fur Esles (sp) is more entertaining.
Don't kow about the dogs? Google it! It is probably on the same site as dogs barking Jingle Bells.
Hello Mr. Ander--I mean--America,
My name is Smith. Agent Smith. Attorney at Law.
I am a sentient program here to defend your rights. Have you been injured on the job? Do you feel your insurance company offered you an unfair settlment? Has your doctor committed malpractice? Are you a father trying to win custody of your children in a divorce claim? Do you owe bad taxes? Do you need to file bankrupcy? Has a man named Morpheous spoken to you about "The Matrix"?
If you've answered yes to any of these questions, contact me at 1-877-MR-SMITH. That 1-877-677-6584.
One of my clones--er--paralegal assitants will assit you in filing your claim and there is not fee until I collect you--um--you collect!
Call now! Call while you are still able to speak...
Vive le Resistance!
Finally, France has changed alot since the riots. They seem to be getting their act togeather instead of letting us English-speaking people make fun of them. Seriously, this is a positive thing.
The DHS has been using UNISYS for some time now and, like may other possibly illegal lucrative operations recently, is NOT located in the United States. Instead, they are located on the Island of Bermuda, the Bahamas, They Cayman Islands, various other Carribean countries, even Mexico! Heck, I wonder if the Government is monitoring any phone calls coming from the 537 area code. (Hint: America blocks most websites from this CoUntry BecAuse of its free health care and education. To any of you slashdotters not in the United States, try mirroring some of that country's sites because I think at this point that country's government is way better than ours at this time.)
Sometimes I think that we, the United States, are the terrorists. And I don't mean because of the secret tourture camps, or the violations of the 4th and 8th ammendments, but because of the adminstration that has become corrupt. We have seen this many times last year and is inexcusable. I have a good feeling that we, the People of the United States, will be storming the castle this year. Alot of hands are going to get caught in the cookie jar and we are going to make darn sure that if anyone skips down, they won't get as far as the airport even if it is in another country!
KMFDM!
/Is that brimestone I smell?
OK, just to defend China for a second, how can we be sure that the press did not say the Chinese shut down 600 kiddie porn websites? I mean, when you think about it, if you are charging people with running a porn website (e.g. "Click here to see Carmen Electra") chances are the authority that enforces that law must be hiding something. (e.g. a 12 y.o. alter boy). But if you are going after the sickos who run the child porn sites, then you have a reason.
However, the way the Western Media continues to call China a bunch of "commie scumbags" or say things like "Don't take your loose girlfriend to China" or "They'll arrest you for picking your nose" or "General Mao is watching you", perhaps China has a reason to block out our content.
However, going to the EU, the UN, or even our government to whine about "Those Americans women are showing there boobies on the Internet" is total crap!
If they don't like the porn on the Internet, then chances are they are defintely not going to like it when we send them the Chinese-dub of Brokeback Mountain.
They want their BetaMax back!