it's called humor. mod it down as overrated if you want, even flaimbait (which is also an over-reaction) but it's not a troll, and I resent the implication.
Everyone on Slashdot always seems to be complaining about spam. I don't see what the big deal is. I enjoy receiving e-mail from people and companies I don't know. Each morning when I run my e-mail program, it starts downloading, and the unexpected e-mail is a pleasant surprise that brightens my day. Well, a few hundred pleasant surprises that is, and they brighten my day in the same way that stepping in a pile of dogshit brightens my day. A few hundred times. So what the fuck? Why are all you whiny bitches on Slashdot always complaining about spam? Don't waste your time writing or deploying spam blockers. Enjoy life. And relax. Assholes.
I am really happy about this. Once a week I travel 50 miles to transfer data from our main office to a remote site. You'd think that in 2004 nobody would be using sneaker net to transfer data, but when it comes to scientific data, it's much cheaper to do it by car than by fiber.
I'm looking forward to getting my hands on one of these babies.
Thompson and Ritchie wrote Unix to play a game on. To make it portable they wrote C and a compiler. This was done at Bell Labs on their dime. They let Berkley, and some others, have copies to evaluate and improve, thus causing BSD, and other variants. AT&T allows this and causes the forking of Unix. Then through mirad stupidity and laywer speak we end up with todays chinese fire drill. All because AT&T did not think to guard their original IP by copyrighting it. Then allowed several groups to modify it without central control.
At least all Linux kernal mods have to be approved by Linus. It's more control than AT&T ever exerted when it mattered.
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it's called humor. mod it down as overrated if you want, even flaimbait (which is also an over-reaction) but it's not a troll, and I resent the implication.
Jason
Everyone on Slashdot always seems to be complaining about spam. I don't see what the big deal is. I enjoy receiving e-mail from people and companies I don't know. Each morning when I run my e-mail program, it starts downloading, and the unexpected e-mail is a pleasant surprise that brightens my day. Well, a few hundred pleasant surprises that is, and they brighten my day in the same way that stepping in a pile of dogshit brightens my day. A few hundred times. So what the fuck? Why are all you whiny bitches on Slashdot always complaining about spam? Don't waste your time writing or deploying spam blockers. Enjoy life. And relax. Assholes.
Scotty is an Engineer and Kirk is just management :)
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I am really happy about this. Once a week I travel 50 miles to transfer data from our main office to a remote site. You'd think that in 2004 nobody would be using sneaker net to transfer data, but when it comes to scientific data, it's much cheaper to do it by car than by fiber.
I'm looking forward to getting my hands on one of these babies.
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Thompson and Ritchie wrote Unix to play a game on. To make it portable they wrote C and a compiler. This was done at Bell Labs on their dime. They let Berkley, and some others, have copies to evaluate and improve, thus causing BSD, and other variants. AT&T allows this and causes the forking of Unix. Then through mirad stupidity and laywer speak we end up with todays chinese fire drill. All because AT&T did not think to guard their original IP by copyrighting it. Then allowed several groups to modify it without central control.
At least all Linux kernal mods have to be approved by Linus. It's more control than AT&T ever exerted when it mattered.