In the internet era, our friends CAN'T know that we died. They'll just start wondering what happened when they didn't see us online.
This has bothered me for YEARS. What happens if I die? What happens to my webpages? My online friends? What will happen to the friend that maybe needed my help and didn't know I was gone for good?
In your home they'll know you're gone, but thousands of miles away?
Bravo for this service. I think it's really needed now.
Serious - if all you do is chatting,gaming and slashdotting... then what's your life about? But if you use the web to EXPAND your possibilities, that's a different matter.
Examples:
from online gaming to live gaming
from internet reading to visiting libraries or watching TV documentaries
From reading politics news to getting _actually_ involved in politics
From just chatting to meeting "real" people
you can hang out with...
So, it all depends whether you're using the internet to [Morpheus]Open your mind[/Morpheus] or becoming [Smith]just another one in the system[/Smith]... it can liberate you or enslave you.
Think about it. Do you plan to become a 100% cybernetic loser like the girl in "The Net"?
Give me a break.
I've seen STRONGBAD videos much better voice-sync'ed than 3D Anime sequences. You don't expect something to feel realistic when the characters speak like this:
OH, no! You (mouth closes) must stop (opens) her! (image keeps talking). (Image starts talking) You're (stops) right.
Frankly, I wonder if the cheap hardware will win the race over nice rendering algorithms.
Still, the story differs a lot from Starwars. In starwars, Luke is the descendant of a race of supernatural warriors.
In Last Starfighter, the guy is simply a good space pilot because he trained (read: videogame addict:-P )
Some elements were kinda unrealistic, but I still liked the movie. Maybe because it portrays the fantasy of every teenager: You play videogames, and now you have the chance to save the universe.
(somehow reminds me of typical teen fantasies in anime shows like Love Hina, Tenchi, Chobits etc - is that why these shows are favorites? fulfilling a secret fantasy?)
Why won't just ask Slashdot to post this link as permanent (along with wired.com )? I read it every day. They have diff. sections: nanotubes, nanoelectronic, nanoenergy, MEMS (nanomachines),... the first time I looked at it i became a nanoaddict;-)
Just look at these nanoapex news regarding spintronics (reverse sorted by date):
Putting the joke aside, just imagine: MS Office for Linux, MS Visual Studio for Linux... *shudders*
With Linux 2.6 released, finally the option of clean (compileless) nice installs will come.
This will eventually end up with the Windows (NOT Microsoft) monopoly. Do you think Microsoft will sit in there with their arms crossed? No, they'll start writing for Linux. *shudders*
Think about it. Most viruses today are not *Windows* viruses. They're *WORD* viruses, *Microsoft JScript* viruses, *Outlook* viruses, *ActiveX* viruses...
even if you sandbox your MS installations, they'll end up doing what they were (re)programmed to do.
Let's just hope that Microsoft doesn't DARE touch Linux!
Images of doomsayers come to my mind right now - someone either kill this post or give a comforting answer, I'll have nightmares tonight!:(
If you ride a bike on a highly transited street, you obviously expose yourself to some risks. So it's not the bike maker's fault.
*HOWEVER*, if it's a FACT that when you ride the bike you'll _ALWAYS_ end up going to that dangerous street, _AND_ the bike maker doesn't offer you either alternative bikes or roads, then you can be SURE that it's the bike maker's fault. Either by action or by negligence.
When companies signed a contract with Microsoft and bought their products and FORCE YOU to use Microsoft products (they signed the contract, not you), then you could sue either the company, or Microsoft. And when the WHOLE BUSINESS MODEL forces you to use Microsoft Products (i.e. Word), _AND_ by using the software you expose yourself to loss of data, or money (like working at home for something job-related), then the risk is INEVITABLE.
The key here, is that Microsoft doesn't give you A CHOICE. So in practical terms, you are FORCED (read: coerced) to use their products. Isn't coercion something that can invalidate a contract (it can invalidate marriages for what I know)?
When you take a risk because you had no choice, you are indeed affected by the person who forced you to take that risk. I think bosses have already been sued because their employees were taking UNNECESSARY RISKS.
So, I think there IS a possibility to sue Microsoft. For property damage, of course.
Hey. Why doesn't the company get a dummy account at yahoo or hotmail (to get the incoming data) and then program an algorithm which can read twisted and l33t words? A simple Neural Network can be trained (even manually by humans). Let the algorithm send the "unmasked" output to the real spam filter.
Hint: The number of mispellings could be a significant variable in determining whether something is spam or not. Ta-da!
when we let big pharmaceutical companies take control of R&D.
Most antibiotics today are BASED on peniciline. Truth is, these resistant TB strains are resistant against PENICILINE-based antibiotics.
As I saw on Discovery once... There are thousands of natural antibiotics which are extremely complex. Some can be taken from cactae in South America, some can be taken from certain species of ants.
But natural antibiotics just can't be patented (think of it as the OSS medicine), and companies don't give a sh*t about them.
Nanotube based displays will enable the use of CRT-like technology. But instead of a whole box-sized vacuum tube, we'll have a flat grid (why didn't I think of that?). The advantage is that the voltage requirements will be minimal. Like 20 volts instead of the 200 that today's CRT-based displays require.
Hey look at that. This article is weekly - i wonder why didn't I submit it as a story in the first place...;-)
Think about this. The company you have is getting hacked. Valuable information gets destroyed. Your boss fires you, or in the worst case, the company goes bankrupt.
Now, comparing a "bug" to life is simply "exaggerating"? The point here is that Microsoft is letting criminals attack the people who don't pay enough money for "protection".
[accent]Say what you want, baby, but it sounds like a mighty mob to me![/accent]
Finally the Linux guys agreed that there SHOULD be a standard (even if it's not implemented yet).
Seriously, saying Linux is 1000 times better than Microsoft is kinda being hypocritical when they make MS's same mistake: Despising standards in favor of proprietary implementations. (NO, i DON'T mean open vs closed source. I mean standard vs proprietary).
Anyway let's see if in a couple of months, this resolution helps programmers deploy Linux binaries that run on _ALL_ compliant Linux distros, ending to the.os hell mentioned earlier. (No more recompiling! Halleluyah!!)
The constant requirement of HAVING to compile something against the current kernel (or having to REcompile everything if you just recompiled one or two so's) makes an installation process EASIER, or HARDER?
How many things can go wrong when installing a precompiled software? How many things can go wrong when installing something that has to be compiled?
I know Linux wasn't INTENDED to be a replacement for desktop operating systems, but a successor of common UNIX platforms.
But does it have to BE that way? My point is not what Linux WAS meant to be, but what Linux CAN BE. Some distributions (such as Xandros) are trying to make Linux a desktop OS, and with not much success.
But I guess Linuxers are as accustomed to their way of doing things just as windows users are. Try to change a bit of that, and you get an angry mob at you. Fear of change? You tell.
About user-friendliness. Perhaps you've forgot some thing called LEARNING CURVE.
The learning curve in Windows is pretty easy. Just open the program you want to learn (i.e. Word), click on a menu option and see what it does. Configuring the system is for advanced users. The common user doesn't have to worry about that. But just in case, there's something called control panel.
Now what's the learning curve in Linux? For instance, you have to choose a distro that fits you. OK what's wrong in that? Well that means you have to KNOW the particularities of ALL distro's. Does that make things easier or harder for the user?
Then you have to learn how to use the help, the package managers, the compilation process if you have to modify something...
Why does Linux have to be *nix? But I guess you're right. I'm trying to change the impossible. The Joe average Windows user is standing on the wall between an insecure OS, and a perfectly difficult OS which doesn't make things EASIER for him.
Here's a challenge.
Try googling for "Problem with Windows" and "Problem with Linux". "Problem with Windows" (quoted) gives you 25,400 results. "Problem with Linux" gives you 13,000. Statistically speaking, for a user base comparison of 10 to 1 of windows users comparing with linux users, Linux is about 5 times more problematic than windows.
The real thing with Linux is that it was intended to be "A better Minix than Minix", not "the next desktop OS".
But users need a secure desktop OS A.S.A.P.
And if you're not part of the solution (i.e. "RTFM", "stop whining and keep using your insecure windoze", "that's what Linux is period"), you're part of the problem.
Exactly. That's the problem with Linux. It's unable to replace the desktop market implanted by Windows. We need a good replacement as secure as Linux, and we need it FAST.
I just installed PostgreSQL 7.4.5 at work with the./configure ; make; make install that is so familiar to Unix sysadmins and many users.
You still don't get the point. The point is that YOU NEED TO COMPILE. That's the whole problem with Linux. You said it yourself. "To me, this is the pinnacle of technical-user-friendliness." Linux needs to have common-user-friendliness. Why does a user need to compile a software on his x86 machine, just because his distro is not the one that all techy users have? That's plain nonsense.
You're just so accustomed to compiling and recompiling that you think it's "normal", or "ok". It is NOT. Give the average Joe-user a break.
I know what "help" is. I read a couple tutorials. Everytime I needed to know what a command did, i used help [command]; or in this case, command/?
want to know what else you can do with the DOS internal commands?
cd \DOS dir
This still works somewhat in win32 (just type "HELP" and you're done).
So, what command do we use in linux to find files? Where's my home? where did linux install that program? what are the basic survival commands?
Even worse, the Linux tree directory is extremely cryptic. (And that's WITHOUT counting the mazelike symlinks). I can't even see where my home is.
ls/usr
What do I get? Access denied (or something similar).
Really, really, there SHOULD be a "help" command, which tells me:
a) The basic linux commands. b) Where my home directory is. c) Where are the files that I (somehow) installed. i.e. if I installed a webserver, where's the conf files? And where's the doc root?
In windows, I use Apache and I *KNOW* that apache is installed in C:\Apache2\. The htdocs are in C:\web (because I *TOLD* the apache *INSTALLER* where to put the htdocs. OK let's suppose you're the average joe slashdotter. In this case, it would be in c:\htdocs.
Now try that in Linux. Now let's go for the installations nightmare. Ever heard of Sablotron, the PHP xslt processor?
I asked my webadmin to install it... i thought, it should be easy.
He got angry at me for making him lose many hours of his job, not being able to install. I was lucky he used a test box instead of the *REAL* web server.
On windows,i just edit the php.ini and add "php_sablot.dll" (or however it's called) to the extensions list.
OK, let's try config.
Where's the config file? In DOS, it was c:\config.sys and c:\autoexec.bat
that's all you gotta know. A simple text editor will do the job.
Don't like windows vulnerabilities? Well, look back. There's MS-DOS. Open your floppy disk, type "INSTALL", and it will do EVERYTHING for you.
Face it. Linux may have a helluva core security and network layer. But it's still for die-hard experts only.
So far the attempts to make it friendly are just a bunch of GUI frontends (wysiwyg html editors, anyone?) that make things look prettier on the outside while keeping things UGLY on the inside.
But overall, the greatest Linux mistake was not having a _UNIVERSAL_ native executable (or library) format. Want to make sure your files are the same and haven't been tampered with? Apply some hash to the exes. No need for recompilation on every box.
Conclusion:
Universal EXE + library format = compile once, install ANYWHERE. This was present not only in windows, but in DOS. FROM THE BEGINNING.
OK, OK... maybe i got too far. Let me fix that. Universal EXE + Library format (per CPU type/instruction set).
Result = Compile once (per CPU type/instruction set), install anywhere.
Why didn't linux have ONE AND ONLY ONE standard executable and module (read: binary) format?
In windows, it's called.EXE (or.DLL for that matter. Still you can copy a system's exe and dll's to another machine, and it WILL WORK!)
Want to install a new program? Insert the CD, double-click on "setup", and you're done. Ta-da!
But on linux, let's see what's this? RPM? make install? error? WTF!?!? *reads manual* *gets frustrated* "It doesn't work dammit!!!"
And this is what keeps me as another slave in the Microsoft Borg.
There's no "outside", outside there's nothing. Just chaos.
If Linux can replace that chaos with some order, and ONE ONLY EXECUTABLE FILE FORMAT... you'll make Bill Gates wet his pants as he sees his entire empire crumble down.
Force ISPs NOT to transmit mails with forged "from" headers. i.e. user and domain used to log in into the SMTP server MUST be the user and domain used in the from field.
Allow ISPs to blacklist abusing users, and/or domains.
Slashdot Mirror
In the internet era, our friends CAN'T know that we died. They'll just start wondering what happened when they didn't see us online.
This has bothered me for YEARS. What happens if I die? What happens to my webpages? My online friends? What will happen to the friend that maybe needed my help and didn't know I was gone for good?
In your home they'll know you're gone, but thousands of miles away?
Bravo for this service. I think it's really needed now.
Serious - if all you do is chatting,gaming and slashdotting... then what's your life about? But if you use the web to EXPAND your possibilities, that's a different matter.
Examples:
So, it all depends whether you're using the internet to [Morpheus]Open your mind[/Morpheus] or becoming [Smith]just another one in the system[/Smith]... it can liberate you or enslave you.
Think about it. Do you plan to become a 100% cybernetic loser like the girl in "The Net"?
Give me a break.
I've seen STRONGBAD videos much better voice-sync'ed than 3D Anime sequences. You don't expect something to feel realistic when the characters speak like this:
OH, no! You (mouth closes) must stop (opens) her! (image keeps talking).
(Image starts talking) You're (stops) right.
Frankly, I wonder if the cheap hardware will win the race over nice rendering algorithms.
*thinks*
:P
500 PS2 games! 3-disc pack! Only $29.95. Includes PS2 emulator for your PS3.
Now THAT sounds interesting
Still, the story differs a lot from Starwars. In starwars, Luke is the descendant of a race of supernatural warriors.
:-P )
In Last Starfighter, the guy is simply a good space pilot because he trained (read: videogame addict
Some elements were kinda unrealistic, but I still liked the movie. Maybe because it portrays the fantasy of every teenager: You play videogames, and now you have the chance to save the universe.
(somehow reminds me of typical teen fantasies in anime shows like Love Hina, Tenchi, Chobits etc - is that why these shows are favorites? fulfilling a secret fantasy?)
TONS of links in that text, and the REALLY IMPORTANT one is labelled "click here". Please!
http://news.nanoapex.com/
;-)
Why won't just ask Slashdot to post this link as permanent (along with wired.com )? I read it every day. They have diff. sections: nanotubes, nanoelectronic, nanoenergy, MEMS (nanomachines),... the first time I looked at it i became a nanoaddict
Just look at these nanoapex news regarding spintronics (reverse sorted by date):
Sep 03: Spintronics Breakthrough: Negative Resistance of a Single Magnetic Domain Wall Measured
Jun 23: Physicists Build New Microscope to Study Electron Spin
Apr 26: IBM, Stanford Collaborate on World-Class Spintronics Research
Mar 22: Silicon-based magnets boost spintronics
Feb 28: Spin valves open organic chip era
And that was just ONE topic. 'nuff said.
when Microsoft starts writing Linux products. :-P
:(
Putting the joke aside, just imagine: MS Office for Linux, MS Visual Studio for Linux... *shudders*
With Linux 2.6 released, finally the option of clean (compileless) nice installs will come.
This will eventually end up with the Windows (NOT Microsoft) monopoly. Do you think Microsoft will sit in there with their arms crossed? No, they'll start writing for Linux. *shudders*
Think about it. Most viruses today are not *Windows* viruses. They're *WORD* viruses, *Microsoft JScript* viruses, *Outlook* viruses, *ActiveX* viruses...
even if you sandbox your MS installations, they'll end up doing what they were (re)programmed to do.
Let's just hope that Microsoft doesn't DARE touch Linux!
Images of doomsayers come to my mind right now - someone either kill this post or give a comforting answer, I'll have nightmares tonight!
OK first of all: I'm not a lawyer, but...
If you ride a bike on a highly transited street, you obviously expose yourself to some risks. So it's not the bike maker's fault.
*HOWEVER*, if it's a FACT that when you ride the bike you'll _ALWAYS_ end up going to that dangerous street, _AND_ the bike maker doesn't offer you either alternative bikes or roads, then you can be SURE that it's the bike maker's fault. Either by action or by negligence.
When companies signed a contract with Microsoft and bought their products and FORCE YOU to use Microsoft products (they signed the contract, not you), then you could sue either the company, or Microsoft. And when the WHOLE BUSINESS MODEL forces you to use Microsoft Products (i.e. Word),
_AND_ by using the software you expose yourself to loss of data, or money (like working at home for something job-related), then the risk is INEVITABLE.
The key here, is that Microsoft doesn't give you A CHOICE. So in practical terms, you are FORCED (read: coerced) to use their products. Isn't coercion something that can invalidate a contract (it can invalidate marriages for what I know)?
When you take a risk because you had no choice, you are indeed affected by the person who forced you to take that risk. I think bosses have already been sued because their employees were taking UNNECESSARY RISKS.
So, I think there IS a possibility to sue Microsoft. For property damage, of course.
AMD is doing something else. "Word of mouth" can be VERY powerful today. But I bet they'd be doing LOTSA publicity if the internet hadn't arrived yet.
Remember what the lack of marketing did to the Commodore Amiga (with its powerful Video Toaster), when IBM only made bleeps and creeps.
Think about it.
but Athlon is HOT! :-P
Hey. Why doesn't the company get a dummy account at yahoo or hotmail (to get the incoming data) and then program an algorithm which can read twisted and l33t words? A simple Neural Network can be trained (even manually by humans). Let the algorithm send the "unmasked" output to the real spam filter.
Hint: The number of mispellings could be a significant variable in determining whether something is spam or not. Ta-da!
when we let big pharmaceutical companies take control of R&D.
Most antibiotics today are BASED on peniciline. Truth is, these resistant TB strains are resistant against PENICILINE-based antibiotics.
As I saw on Discovery once... There are thousands of natural antibiotics which are extremely complex. Some can be taken from cactae in South America, some can be taken from certain species of ants.
But natural antibiotics just can't be patented (think of it as the OSS medicine), and companies don't give a sh*t about them.
Hmph.
Oops. My error, yeah. Must have misread the numbers there.
Nanotube based displays will enable the use of CRT-like technology. But instead of a whole box-sized vacuum tube, we'll have a flat grid (why didn't I think of that?). The advantage is that the voltage requirements will be minimal. Like 20 volts instead of the 200 that today's CRT-based displays require.
;-)
Hey look at that. This article is weekly - i wonder why didn't I submit it as a story in the first place...
Comparing bugs to life?
Think about this. The company you have is getting hacked. Valuable information gets destroyed. Your boss fires you, or in the worst case, the company goes bankrupt.
Now, comparing a "bug" to life is simply "exaggerating"? The point here is that Microsoft is letting criminals attack the people who don't pay enough money for "protection".
[accent]Say what you want, baby, but it sounds like a mighty mob to me![/accent]
Finally the Linux guys agreed that there SHOULD be a standard (even if it's not implemented yet).
.os hell mentioned earlier. (No more recompiling! Halleluyah!!)
Seriously, saying Linux is 1000 times better than Microsoft is kinda being hypocritical when they make MS's same mistake: Despising standards in favor of proprietary implementations. (NO, i DON'T mean open vs closed source. I mean standard vs proprietary).
Anyway let's see if in a couple of months, this resolution helps programmers deploy Linux binaries that run on _ALL_ compliant Linux distros, ending to the
OK, letme ask you a question.
The constant requirement of HAVING to compile something against the current kernel (or having to REcompile everything if you just recompiled one or two so's) makes an installation process EASIER, or HARDER?
How many things can go wrong when installing a precompiled software?
How many things can go wrong when installing something that has to be compiled?
I know Linux wasn't INTENDED to be a replacement for desktop operating systems, but a successor of common UNIX platforms.
But does it have to BE that way? My point is not what Linux WAS meant to be, but what Linux CAN BE. Some distributions (such as Xandros) are trying to make Linux a desktop OS, and with not much success.
But I guess Linuxers are as accustomed to their way of doing things just as windows users are. Try to change a bit of that, and you get an angry mob at you. Fear of change? You tell.
About user-friendliness. Perhaps you've forgot some thing called LEARNING CURVE.
The learning curve in Windows is pretty easy. Just open the program you want to learn (i.e. Word), click on a menu option and see what it does. Configuring the system is for advanced users. The common user doesn't have to worry about that. But just in case, there's something called control panel.
Now what's the learning curve in Linux? For instance, you have to choose a distro that fits you. OK what's wrong in that? Well that means you have to KNOW the particularities of ALL distro's. Does that make things easier or harder for the user?
Then you have to learn how to use the help, the package managers, the compilation process if you have to modify something...
Why does Linux have to be *nix? But I guess you're right. I'm trying to change the impossible.
The Joe average Windows user is standing on the wall between an insecure OS, and a perfectly difficult OS which doesn't make things EASIER for him.
Here's a challenge.
Try googling for "Problem with Windows"
and "Problem with Linux". "Problem with Windows" (quoted) gives you 25,400 results. "Problem with Linux" gives you 13,000. Statistically speaking, for a user base comparison of 10 to 1 of windows users comparing with linux users, Linux is about 5 times more problematic than windows.
The real thing with Linux is that it was intended to be "A better Minix than Minix", not "the next desktop OS".
But users need a secure desktop OS A.S.A.P.
And if you're not part of the solution (i.e. "RTFM", "stop whining and keep using your insecure windoze", "that's what Linux is period"), you're part of the problem.
Exactly. That's the problem with Linux. It's unable to replace the desktop market implanted by Windows. We need a good replacement as secure as Linux, and we need it FAST.
I just installed PostgreSQL 7.4.5 at work with the ./configure ; make; make install that is so familiar to Unix sysadmins and many users.
You still don't get the point. The point is that YOU NEED TO COMPILE. That's the whole problem with Linux. You said it yourself. "To me, this is the pinnacle of technical-user-friendliness." Linux needs to have common-user-friendliness. Why does a user need to compile a software on his x86 machine, just because his distro is not the one that all techy users have? That's plain nonsense.
You're just so accustomed to compiling and recompiling that you think it's "normal", or "ok". It is NOT. Give the average Joe-user a break.
I'm a die-hard MS-DOS veteran.
/?
/usr
I know what "help" is. I read a couple tutorials.
Everytime I needed to know what a command did, i used help [command]; or in this case, command
want to know what else you can do with the DOS internal commands?
cd \DOS
dir
This still works somewhat in win32 (just type "HELP" and you're done).
So, what command do we use in linux to find files?
Where's my home?
where did linux install that program?
what are the basic survival commands?
Even worse, the Linux tree directory is extremely cryptic. (And that's WITHOUT counting the mazelike symlinks). I can't even see where my home is.
ls
What do I get? Access denied (or something similar).
Really, really, there SHOULD be a "help" command, which tells me:
a) The basic linux commands.
b) Where my home directory is.
c) Where are the files that I (somehow) installed. i.e. if I installed a webserver, where's the conf files? And where's the doc root?
In windows, I use Apache and I *KNOW* that apache is installed in C:\Apache2\.
The htdocs are in C:\web (because I *TOLD* the apache *INSTALLER* where to put the htdocs. OK let's suppose you're the average joe slashdotter. In this case, it would be in c:\htdocs.
Now try that in Linux. Now let's go for the installations nightmare. Ever heard of Sablotron, the PHP xslt processor?
I asked my webadmin to install it... i thought, it should be easy.
He got angry at me for making him lose many hours of his job, not being able to install. I was lucky he used a test box instead of the *REAL* web server.
On windows,i just edit the php.ini and add "php_sablot.dll" (or however it's called) to the extensions list.
OK, let's try config.
Where's the config file? In DOS, it was c:\config.sys
and c:\autoexec.bat
that's all you gotta know. A simple text editor will do the job.
Don't like windows vulnerabilities? Well, look back. There's MS-DOS. Open your floppy disk, type "INSTALL", and it will do EVERYTHING for you.
Face it. Linux may have a helluva core security and network layer. But it's still for die-hard experts only.
So far the attempts to make it friendly are just a bunch of GUI frontends (wysiwyg html editors, anyone?) that make things look prettier on the outside while keeping things UGLY on the inside.
But overall, the greatest Linux mistake was not having a _UNIVERSAL_ native executable (or library) format.
Want to make sure your files are the same and haven't been tampered with? Apply some hash to the exes. No need for recompilation on every box.
Conclusion:
Universal EXE + library format = compile once, install ANYWHERE. This was present not only in windows, but in DOS. FROM THE BEGINNING.
OK, OK... maybe i got too far. Let me fix that.
Universal EXE + Library format (per CPU type/instruction set).
Result = Compile once (per CPU type/instruction set), install anywhere.
That's it.
Linux NEEDS TO CHANGE.
Why didn't linux have ONE AND ONLY ONE standard executable and module (read: binary) format?
.EXE (or .DLL for that matter. Still you can copy a system's exe and dll's to another machine, and it WILL WORK!)
In windows, it's called
Want to install a new program? Insert the CD, double-click on "setup", and you're done. Ta-da!
But on linux, let's see what's this? RPM? make install? error? WTF!?!? *reads manual*
*gets frustrated*
"It doesn't work dammit!!!"
And this is what keeps me as another slave in the Microsoft Borg.
There's no "outside", outside there's nothing. Just chaos.
If Linux can replace that chaos with some order, and ONE ONLY EXECUTABLE FILE FORMAT... you'll make Bill Gates wet his pants as he sees his entire empire crumble down.
Force ISPs NOT to transmit mails with forged "from" headers. i.e. user and domain used to log in into the SMTP server MUST be the user and domain used in the from field.
:-?
Allow ISPs to blacklist abusing users, and/or domains.
Or am I being too simplistic?
We have 250MB floppies now, they are called Zip-disks.
Oh, you mean $ip-disk$? I don't think they'll be useful for daily information interchange, which is what floppies were for in the first place.
Man... that thing has WORSE colors than /. !!!
Can I hack their website and reface it? Pleeeease???
O:)