Radical materialistic atheist? There's a gomer who's never written a line of decent code in his life. While I'm not gonna argue with the atheist part (it includes me, after all), most true hackers I know are either middle-of-the-road or devoutly Libertarian, and definitely spiritual rather than materialistic.
Forgive the soapbox here, but the preponderance of toasty reponses is the result of two things; the general breakdown of what us old folks would refer to as polite society, and the fact that net access puts a megaphone in the hands of every knuckle-draggin', mouth-breathin', Chiclet-brained car crazy out there. Anyone who attends a public function such as a town hall meeting knows that there a a whole buttload of cranks out there; the Net simply arms them all with BFG-9000's and infinite energy cells.
Jon, while I'm not always in agreement with your views, and while not ALL of your articles fall into my personal "must read" category, I have not a thimble's worth of your writing ability, and I like your work enough to value it highly. So just tell yourself "I will ignore the opinions of the mentally bankrupt; may their genitalia fall into the bit bucket" and go on doing what you do best. BTW, kudos on both the excerpt and the book sales.
As an aside, any spudhead who thinks CT and Hemos are gonna clear their first mill off of Jon's book sales hasn't followed Slashdot's "catch as catch can" evolution. Anyone who puts out one of the world's premiere tech news sites using vi and a toothpick obviously isn't working for personal gain. Many thanks, gentles all.
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Radical materialistic atheist? There's a gomer who's never written a line of decent code in his life. While I'm not gonna argue with the atheist part (it includes me, after all), most true hackers I know are either middle-of-the-road or devoutly Libertarian, and definitely spiritual rather than materialistic.
Forgive the soapbox here, but the preponderance of toasty reponses is the result of two things; the general breakdown of what us old folks would refer to as polite society, and the fact that net access puts a megaphone in the hands of every knuckle-draggin', mouth-breathin', Chiclet-brained car crazy out there. Anyone who attends a public function such as a town hall meeting knows that there a a whole buttload of cranks out there; the Net simply arms them all with BFG-9000's and infinite energy cells.
Jon, while I'm not always in agreement with your views, and while not ALL of your articles fall into my personal "must read" category, I have not a thimble's worth of your writing ability, and I like your work enough to value it highly. So just tell yourself "I will ignore the opinions of the mentally bankrupt; may their genitalia fall into the bit bucket" and go on doing what you do best. BTW, kudos on both the excerpt and the book sales.
As an aside, any spudhead who thinks CT and Hemos are gonna clear their first mill off of Jon's book sales hasn't followed Slashdot's "catch as catch can" evolution. Anyone who puts out one of the world's premiere tech news sites using vi and a toothpick obviously isn't working for personal gain. Many thanks, gentles all.
Try this link:
x -upgrades/
http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/2.2.
Haven't pund any Trojans or seen any probs with these.