(from Geoffrey Perkins's introduction to "The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts") I came to work for BBC Radio from a shipping company in Liverpool. I only went there because when I told the University appointment board that I didn't know what I wanted to do they immediately told me to go into shipping. It was only afterwards that I realised they probably recommend everyone who comes in on a Wednesday and doesn't know what they want to do to go into shipping. On Thursdays it's probably accountancy, and so on.
When I was in school (in the US, about ten years ago), the fad was to use these career aptitude assessment profiles or some nonsense like that. They ask a bunch of questions about how you like to work, what things interest you, what bores you, if you prefer spearmint or peppermint gum, etc. Then someone magically tell you what career you're best suited for. They're probably now using them for everything from college selection to picking a lunch menu. The point is, I took two of them (that I can remember) and the first one said oceanographic biology; which was odd because I didn't like either water or animals. The second time I got aerospace engineer which sounded more exciting and expensive. Well, I'm neither now, in fact I dropped out of college basically because I realised the same thing Geoffrey Perkins did. And on those tests I must've just filled out all the blanks for "pathetic directionless loser" and, rather than tell me I had no prospect at any meaningful career, it just tossed something out at random.
Or, compile your kernel without loadable modules. We're talking about firewalls here. They're just supposed to sit there with little to no human interaction and just do their one thing and do it well for months (years?) at a time. There's also (arguably) some speed advantages to having everything compiled into the kernel.
'Course, theres those awkward times when your the nic driver is being a bitch and won't recognize both cards unless it's loaded as a module, but...
We need to do to medicine what RMS has done to software. If the point of medicine is to improve the quality of life for people, what use is it to restrict it to only those who can afford it? If a doctor is sworn to "first, do no harm" then he cannot morally prevent a person from benefitting from his medicine just because that person didn't pay the fee. The same goes for allowing other doctors to make use of his medicine. Making medical treatment available to everyone who needs it cannot be done with patents and restrictions and medical fees.
Access to medicine should be Free. They should be looking into alternate means of income.
("If we can't stop other people from copying our software then we can't afford to carry out development." Sound familiar?)
Don't forget the elections for congress and state and local office.
Of particular interest is many of the initiatives for things such as mundane funding bills to the more spectacular doctor-assisted suicide.
It looks like Colorado and Nevada are going to allow medical use of marijuana. I also noticed Arizona and Colorado wanted to place limits on growth (or as they call it, "urban sprawl") which the voters have rejected.
They screwed up with Florida because they were basing their "results" on exit-polling. Which is just a bunch of doofuses standing outside the voting places begging people to tell them how they voted. Of course, there's nothing to say that what the person says in the exit poll is actually how they voted.
I thought it was repugnant and disgusting because they're bribing them with cigarettes. And after all the fuss the Dems made about the evils of tobacco.
Just goes to show, whoever wins (Rep or Dem), we can blame it all on the tobacco companies.
(Vote for me and you'll all get affordable health care! Now heres some cigarettes so you can get lung cancer.)
...what has the administration done to support the open-source movement, either through procurement policies (very little), funding for open-source software (not something the administration talks about) or protecting free software developers from software patents and anticompetitive practices
Could [Gore] at least respond to the repeated requests for the administration to talk about procurement and the free-software movement? Or find a way to use the federal acquisition regulations to fund the development of public-domain software?
We have patents on methods of Internet auctions, patents on one-click shopping, patents on methods of picking stocks, patents on methods of avoiding taxes on credit card transactions, patents on methods of political compaigning on the Internet, and even patents on Internet Web standards.
...as ICANN considers corporate proposals to use the ICANN control over domain names and the IP numbers, to become an ever-ambitious police for alleged intellectual property infringements. In the trademark areas, ICANN is already throwing concepts such as fair use or free speech out the window.
Gee, if he had gone on the mention DeCSS I might start thinking that Ralph Nader was Signal11 or something. But really, it's interesting to note that these responses are taken from previous statements by Nader. And here he's been talking about open source all along. The corporate petting-boys of Bush and Gore probably don't even know free software exists. It's just too bad there wasn't a response to the question about encryption.
(I wonder what hitting 'return' did just now, ohwell)
Gateway uses Athlons now. I don't know if they still have any Intel-based machines. But certainly their not dependant on "Chipzilla" (excuse me) as, say, Dell. And it shows in their quarterly report where they're just about the only computer maker that's been able to stay afloat this year.
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(from Geoffrey Perkins's introduction to "The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts")
I came to work for BBC Radio from a shipping company in Liverpool. I only went there because when I told the University appointment board that I didn't know what I wanted to do they immediately told me to go into shipping. It was only afterwards that I realised they probably recommend everyone who comes in on a Wednesday and doesn't know what they want to do to go into shipping. On Thursdays it's probably accountancy, and so on.
When I was in school (in the US, about ten years ago), the fad was to use these career aptitude assessment profiles or some nonsense like that. They ask a bunch of questions about how you like to work, what things interest you, what bores you, if you prefer spearmint or peppermint gum, etc. Then someone magically tell you what career you're best suited for. They're probably now using them for everything from college selection to picking a lunch menu. The point is, I took two of them (that I can remember) and the first one said oceanographic biology; which was odd because I didn't like either water or animals. The second time I got aerospace engineer which sounded more exciting and expensive. Well, I'm neither now, in fact I dropped out of college basically because I realised the same thing Geoffrey Perkins did. And on those tests I must've just filled out all the blanks for "pathetic directionless loser" and, rather than tell me I had no prospect at any meaningful career, it just tossed something out at random.
We already have monofilament threads, most fishing line is described as such. What everyone here is thinking of is monomolecular filaments.
Or, compile your kernel without loadable modules. We're talking about firewalls here. They're just supposed to sit there with little to no human interaction and just do their one thing and do it well for months (years?) at a time. There's also (arguably) some speed advantages to having everything compiled into the kernel.
'Course, theres those awkward times when your the nic driver is being a bitch and won't recognize both cards unless it's loaded as a module, but...
We need to do to medicine what RMS has done to software. If the point of medicine is to improve the quality of life for people, what use is it to restrict it to only those who can afford it? If a doctor is sworn to "first, do no harm" then he cannot morally prevent a person from benefitting from his medicine just because that person didn't pay the fee. The same goes for allowing other doctors to make use of his medicine. Making medical treatment available to everyone who needs it cannot be done with patents and restrictions and medical fees.
Access to medicine should be Free. They should be looking into alternate means of income.
("If we can't stop other people from copying our software then we can't afford to carry out development." Sound familiar?)
Good thing the two computers were close to each other or the TTL would expire while you ran between the offices.
I thought they were just fans of Apple computers?
uhm.... Someone please explain this one to me.
(TSIA)
Not having a hard drive also helps keep it cool.
Don't forget the elections for congress and state and local office.
Of particular interest is many of the initiatives for things such as mundane funding bills to the more spectacular doctor-assisted suicide.
It looks like Colorado and Nevada are going to allow medical use of marijuana. I also noticed Arizona and Colorado wanted to place limits on growth (or as they call it, "urban sprawl") which the voters have rejected.
They screwed up with Florida because they were basing their "results" on exit-polling. Which is just a bunch of doofuses standing outside the voting places begging people to tell them how they voted. Of course, there's nothing to say that what the person says in the exit poll is actually how they voted.
In other words. The popular media are idiots.
Apparently, in Nevada you can vote for "None of these Candidates." It's doing better than Harry Browne too.
I proudly wrote in Naked Dancing Llama for president!
I thought it was repugnant and disgusting because they're bribing them with cigarettes. And after all the fuss the Dems made about the evils of tobacco.
Just goes to show, whoever wins (Rep or Dem), we can blame it all on the tobacco companies.
(Vote for me and you'll all get affordable health care! Now heres some cigarettes so you can get lung cancer.)
Outland wasn't a "horrible rip off". It was a diversion from BC because Berke Breathed was tired of doing a daily.
And here's the original strip we were talking about.
So.... does this mean all I have to do to break any encryption is type "XYZZY"?
Hell, someone toss some funding my way. I can fail for HALF that much!
Gee, if he had gone on the mention DeCSS I might start thinking that Ralph Nader was Signal11 or something. But really, it's interesting to note that these responses are taken from previous statements by Nader. And here he's been talking about open source all along. The corporate petting-boys of Bush and Gore probably don't even know free software exists. It's just too bad there wasn't a response to the question about encryption.
He said "hacker!" Burn him!!!
Behold the power of FUD.
The DC Metro area has what are known as "slug lines" which is sorta a gnutella-like mass transit.
A hasty google search brings these few links up. (Note: I didn't proofread these. I don't know which to recommend since I no longer live in the area and don't even commute anymore.)
www.slug-line.com
www.slug-lines.com
www.commuterpage.com
www.va-links.com
www.commutersregiste r.c om
(boy, what's it say when you start describing real-world things in terms of internet fads?)
(I wonder what hitting 'return' did just now, ohwell)
Gateway uses Athlons now. I don't know if they still have any Intel-based machines. But certainly their not dependant on "Chipzilla" (excuse me) as, say, Dell. And it shows in their quarterly report where they're just about the only computer maker that's been able to stay afloat this year.
Fnord.
January 15, 1990 comes to mind.
But I believe Mothers' Day is the traditional busiest single day of telephone usage.
Oh... pants-CAM... Stupid me was reading it as "pant-SCAM"