It seems to me that the people who are the biggest bloggers spend more time talking about the metamechanics of blogging, or about how wonderful blogging is than actually blogging.
It is tedious. The format is not the content, and the medium is not the message.
You can get away with near infinite violence in the media in the US.
You can get away with far less in terms of nudity. I mean look, we had a little breast flash on national television a little while ago, and everyone went agog. From what I have been told, europeans have far less tolerance for violence, and more tolerance for nudity.
It is usually fairly trivial to find out interesting information about someone, especially if you have something like a person's job application in front of them. While all the information there is self voulenteered, it is likely to be at least substantially correct. This contains a plethora of potential leads. It is even easier if you do not contrain yourself to bounds of law and misrepresent yourself on the phone.
You simply call up their previous/current employers, their surnames if the surname is unusual, and their neighbors. One blabby former/current coworker or relation will tell you lots of what you want to know. A proverbial little old lady who lives across the street can If you have access to credit reports, there is also additional fun stuff in there. Credit reports vary in accuracy and completeness, the information there needs verification but there are plenty of good leads there.
Don't forget your public records, like tax assessors, VCIS for bankruptcy filings, and my personal favorite resource: research desks at libraries if you are dealing with a geographic area for which you are not familiar. Research desk librarians usually live for answering odd questions for random people and are usually pretty cool people to boot.
...the interviewed party sounds like he's making things up as he goes along for greater exposure and interest. There is nothing there that jumps out to me and says "liar", but at the same time, I think that the interviewee might have been, er thinking about this topic too much and might be blowing things out of proportion just a little bit.
Do people on IRC attack conference line services? Oh yes, I've seen it being done several times, and FoF is something of a wheel in this scene. Are said hijacked conference lines used for neferious purposes? I'm sure once in a while, but really they are mostly used for the purposes of socialization... same as has been the case with phreaking the past.
What do people do the first time they phreak? They call a faraway place and talk to someone just because it is neat to talk to someone in England, or Fiji or somewhere far away without cost.
What is the primary use of these phreak'd conference lines? Socialization, a way for people who are geographically distant who have got to know each other on IRC to talk to each other without cost. Believe you me, the content of these conversations is far more likely to contain dreary e/n stuff rather than Plots To Take Over The World.
The intimation that this culture could somehow be for sale to nefarious people and powers is frankly outrageous and hysterical at the very same time.
Heh. For some people, $2.5K is a non-trivial amount of money. I just had to scrape for $80US for a SPARC Classic on eBay, and I'm doing a happy dance at just though thought of having another box to play with.
While I don't think that this is the death of Intel, for they have too many fingers in too many lucrative pots, it suggests that they have misstepped badly with RAMBUS are are going to lose their market dominance in CPUs if AMD keeps it's act together... which other than Irongate and a scarcity of Athlon MBs, they have been doing fairly well.
As far as Irongate's AGP issues, there isn't a whole lot of difference performance-wise at this point between AGP 1x and AGP 2x. Maybe in the next iteration of video cards we'll see a more significant difference, but I'd rather have a CPU that is 15%-20% faster than sweating about a 4% hit on the AGP bus. Some people feel that Athlon is not being entirely honest & ethical with the issue, which may taint their reputation in the long run.
My next machine will be an Athlon based system. I've suffered extreme technolust since they were released, and they just get better and better.
It will be quite some time before Intel has anything in market to compete with Athlon, and by that time it might be too little too late. Their most recent efforts have yielded uncertain results in comparison to the Athlon.
I should think that less conspiracy theory is in order. Indeed, please review the definition of a Denial of Service attack, and then get back to us with the appropriate amount of egg on your face.
That aside...
I do not think this law can stand for long. A law of its type in any other field of commerce would be unthinkable, but to some people computers and their software are still magical mystery devices. With sufficent pressure in the form of letter writing campaigns and petition signing I think that you do have the opportunity to make educate your member of legislature.
I do know that the encryption and privacy enthusiasts in the UK have worked on a program where they send letters to their MPs on the merits and deficencies of various bills that deal with those issues. From my understanding, there had been a degree of success in such efforts.
It is common for legislators to ask experts in a particular field for a greater insight into issues that they may not have full comprehension of. I do not think that many of our elected officials have full comprehension of the magnitude of this type of legislation.
Is a politician who refuses to compromise on his principles, but by doing so manages to not accomplish anything (due to refusal to budge) ethical?
Yes. By making a stand for his principles, as long as they are in alignment with those of his constituency, he provides a definite voice for those principles.
We all have core principles, the ones that we are not willing to comprimise on for almost any price. We also have more flexable principles, where we are willing to have some degree of comprimise to get some of what we want in exchange for something that the other person or party wants.
The problem is that few politicians seem to have any core principles. Everything is for sale.
I think that having such a market for the American political system would be a really great idea. It would certainly make me more involved in what my representatives are doing. I'm fairly apathetic about politics, and many other people are, but regardless of my apathy, if it was framed in the way the the HSX is framed, I would certainly play and give more than the usual small attention that I do to politics.
How do we know that the geek guys in the valley aren't gay or bisexual?
I can't speak for the valley, but I would imagine that like most places that are affluent and filled with intelligent people you are more likely going to find a higher proportion of out homosexuals than in a random sample taken from the American population.
This isn't to assert that all gays must be intelligent and/or affluent, but instead that a homosexual is more likely to be out and thus visible and countable for the sample.
From my personal experience, I have noted that having a geek boy to go along with me is quite pleasant. Our skills and interests mesh well and understand each other's technofetishism.
We met on a thread on Usenet. How geeky can you get?
But your list is deceptive. The service packs are generally just minor cosmetic or bug fixes and addition of user mode programs.. not kernel changes. Also Workstation and Server use identical kernels, the only difference between the two is only a single registry setting a a few extra user level programs.
I must disagree. Some of the service packs for NT were significant enough changes to merit a version number change in any other sane numbering system.
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It seems to me that the people who are the biggest bloggers spend more time talking about the metamechanics of blogging, or about how wonderful blogging is than actually blogging.
It is tedious. The format is not the content, and the medium is not the message.
Right, it has to do with a crystalline lifeform that lived in a highly salty layer of water under the surface of a terraformed planet.
OTOH, I usually say "Ugly bags of mostly salty water" when refering to people.
No no no, its the Amiga monitor!
You can get away with near infinite violence in the media in the US.
You can get away with far less in terms of nudity. I mean look, we had a little breast flash on national television a little while ago, and everyone went agog. From what I have been told, europeans have far less tolerance for violence, and more tolerance for nudity.
It is usually fairly trivial to find out interesting information about someone, especially if you have something like a person's job application in front of them. While all the information there is self voulenteered, it is likely to be at least substantially correct. This contains a plethora of potential leads. It is even easier if you do not contrain yourself to bounds of law and misrepresent yourself on the phone.
You simply call up their previous/current employers, their surnames if the surname is unusual, and their neighbors. One blabby former/current coworker or relation will tell you lots of what you want to know. A proverbial little old lady who lives across the street can If you have access to credit reports, there is also additional fun stuff in there. Credit reports vary in accuracy and completeness, the information there needs verification but there are plenty of good leads there.
Don't forget your public records, like tax assessors, VCIS for bankruptcy filings, and my personal favorite resource: research desks at libraries if you are dealing with a geographic area for which you are not familiar. Research desk librarians usually live for answering odd questions for random people and are usually pretty cool people to boot.
...the interviewed party sounds like he's making things up as he goes along for greater exposure and interest. There is nothing there that jumps out to me and says "liar", but at the same time, I think that the interviewee might have been, er thinking about this topic too much and might be blowing things out of proportion just a little bit.
Do people on IRC attack conference line services? Oh yes, I've seen it being done several times, and FoF is something of a wheel in this scene. Are said hijacked conference lines used for neferious purposes? I'm sure once in a while, but really they are mostly used for the purposes of socialization... same as has been the case with phreaking the past.
What do people do the first time they phreak? They call a faraway place and talk to someone just because it is neat to talk to someone in England, or Fiji or somewhere far away without cost.
What is the primary use of these phreak'd conference lines? Socialization, a way for people who are geographically distant who have got to know each other on IRC to talk to each other without cost. Believe you me, the content of these conversations is far more likely to contain dreary e/n stuff rather than Plots To Take Over The World.
The intimation that this culture could somehow be for sale to nefarious people and powers is frankly outrageous and hysterical at the very same time.
Fired it up with what I do have in my kitchen...
...sadly, there are no recipies that consist solely of these components.
"ramen noodles"
"mushrooms"
"hoisin sauce"
I've never heard nor seen USENET refered to as a "peer to peer" file sharing network.
Or a hyphenation of "news-group".
Heh. For some people, $2.5K is a non-trivial amount of money. I just had to scrape for $80US for a SPARC Classic on eBay, and I'm doing a happy dance at just though thought of having another box to play with.
While I don't think that this is the death of Intel, for they have too many fingers in too many lucrative pots, it suggests that they have misstepped badly with RAMBUS are are going to lose their market dominance in CPUs if AMD keeps it's act together... which other than Irongate and a scarcity of Athlon MBs, they have been doing fairly well.
As far as Irongate's AGP issues, there isn't a whole lot of difference performance-wise at this point between AGP 1x and AGP 2x. Maybe in the next iteration of video cards we'll see a more significant difference, but I'd rather have a CPU that is 15%-20% faster than sweating about a 4% hit on the AGP bus. Some people feel that Athlon is not being entirely honest & ethical with the issue, which may taint their reputation in the long run.
My next machine will be an Athlon based system. I've suffered extreme technolust since they were released, and they just get better and better.
It will be quite some time before Intel has anything in market to compete with Athlon, and by that time it might be too little too late. Their most recent efforts have yielded uncertain results in comparison to the Athlon.
I should think that less conspiracy theory is in order. Indeed, please review the definition of a Denial of Service attack, and then get back to us with the appropriate amount of egg on your face.
That aside...
I do not think this law can stand for long. A law of its type in any other field of commerce would be unthinkable, but to some people computers and their software are still magical mystery devices. With sufficent pressure in the form of letter writing campaigns and petition signing I think that you do have the opportunity to make educate your member of legislature.
I do know that the encryption and privacy enthusiasts in the UK have worked on a program where they send letters to their MPs on the merits and deficencies of various bills that deal with those issues. From my understanding, there had been a degree of success in such efforts.
It is common for legislators to ask experts in a particular field for a greater insight into issues that they may not have full comprehension of. I do not think that many of our elected officials have full comprehension of the magnitude of this type of legislation.
Is a politician who refuses to compromise on his principles, but by doing so manages to not accomplish anything (due to refusal to budge) ethical?
Yes. By making a stand for his principles, as long as they are in alignment with those of his constituency, he provides a definite voice for those principles.
We all have core principles, the ones that we are not willing to comprimise on for almost any price. We also have more flexable principles, where we are willing to have some degree of comprimise to get some of what we want in exchange for something that the other person or party wants.
The problem is that few politicians seem to have any core principles. Everything is for sale.
I think that having such a market for the American political system would be a really great idea. It would certainly make me more involved in what my representatives are doing. I'm fairly apathetic about politics, and many other people are, but regardless of my apathy, if it was framed in the way the the HSX is framed, I would certainly play and give more than the usual small attention that I do to politics.
I do not require validation from a television series to feel good about myself. I feel good about myself anyway.
I do require that people extend the same level of civility that common courtesy demands. You have proven yourself lacking in this regard.
Why fear and loathe us? There are so many other reasons to hate people based on defects in the character.
How do we know that the geek guys in the valley aren't gay or bisexual?
I can't speak for the valley, but I would imagine that like most places that are affluent and filled with intelligent people you are more likely going to find a higher proportion of out homosexuals than in a random sample taken from the American population.
This isn't to assert that all gays must be intelligent and/or affluent, but instead that a homosexual is more likely to be out and thus visible and countable for the sample.
From my personal experience, I have noted that having a geek boy to go along with me is quite pleasant. Our skills and interests mesh well and understand each other's technofetishism.
We met on a thread on Usenet. How geeky can you get?
But your list is deceptive. The service packs are generally just minor cosmetic or bug fixes and addition of user mode programs.. not kernel changes. Also Workstation and Server use identical kernels, the only difference between the two is only a single registry setting a a few extra user level programs.
I must disagree. Some of the service packs for NT were significant enough changes to merit a version number change in any other sane numbering system.