The first time I read a review of this book, it was from a very different standpoint. The libertarians at reason.com think quite differently about this book and I thought it would be a good thing to throw into the discussion.
As for what I think, I don't know, I haven't really digested it yet.:) --
The only danger with Spamcop is that they learn your e-mail address. However, I think they can be trusted not to abuse this information.
One thing you need to be aware of when signing up with Spamcop is the sheer amount of spam-response emails you will receive, like: Thank you for reporting an abuse at isp.com. We at isp.com don't tolerate spam, yadda yadda...
So you want to give em a throwaway account: I used my AOL one as it's hopelessly drowning in spam anyway.
We Europeans are very cheesed-off with the Microsoft "borgs" and their Windows 2000 operating system. We are investigating them for breaking anti-trust law. We have the draconian power to strike these infringers very hard with a big stick.
But we are not too concerned with the subject of Microsoft and their "borgs." We are more concerned with the Internet site "slashdot", and the terrible problem of the "Karma whores". This is clearly a breach of European regulations on religion and prostitution.
Because slashdot continues to make these infractions against the European Internet, we will sentence them to a stong campaign of "trolling." In using the European surplus of hot grits and the services of the french actor Jean Reno, who played the character "Leon" in the film of that name with Natalie Portman, we can deluge slashdot with shitty posts.
We would like to thank you gentlemen for your grandmothers' pussies.
Sorry for the big quote, but it was relevant. Scroll down...
And as for the concept of the SATs et al testing "what you need to know to succeed in college," they do no such thing. Again from personal experience. I was in Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth program. A prerequisite for admission to said program was scoring at least 430 on the old Verbal and 500 on the old Math SAT at the time I participated. Some of us did fabulously well in life. Some of us who were big fish in small ponds in high school got to college and realized that we might be intelligent, we might be brilliant standardized-test takers, but we didn't know how to study! I was screwed the first time I had to write a research paper in college. Didn't know what in the H-E-double hockey sticks I was doing. I also tested out of (or nearly so) classes that I really should have taken, and the holes in my mathematical, scientific, and music theory background came back to haunt me again and again in college.
I was also in the Johns Hopkins CTY program. I had the highest math score in my state (NH: 720) but couldn't really afford the actual summer camp, so I didn't go. I did well on my actual SAT scores a few years later, and got accepted to WPI. Your big-fish comment certainly holds water (forgive the pun): I'm typically acing my CS and technical classes, but often the tests are hard because I can't study too well. Also, now I have a huge research paper to do and I feel horribly lost.
Like most of you, I'm pretty excited about Mozilla and I was looking forward to getting M13. I'd put off getting it till now, but I figured Alpha was safe enough.
So I went to the site, saw some mirrors, looked for binaries, but all I found were "i686-pc-linux" tarballs. Pentium II or K6 level. But I only have a Pentium, so I don't imagine they'd work. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I figure I'll just build the source myself.
Download the source, unpack, configure, make, swell! Except, the compiled code size is enormous. It runs out of disk space. So I look for more disk - ah, there's a 700MB partition I wasn't using. (Lucky, that!) So I rebuild over there, and it STILL runs out of disk space. 700MB? That's ridiculous!
So I guess what I'm asking is: is there anyone with a Pentium (or lower) Linux machine and a large amount of diskspace who has (or will build) an i586-compatible executable?
While I'm dreaming, do you have it in.deb format?;-)
What parent doesn't wish they could get a solid guarantee that the child will be born without mental retardation or other genetic disease? Or with six fingers or two heads for that matter?
Don't you recall the scene in Gattaca with the six-fingered man? (Well, 2*6 = 12 fingers, but I think that's what you meant.) It was beneficial for him to be this way.
I won't elaborate more on what I mean because I don't want to spoil that scene for those who haven't seen it yet.:)
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But is V2 OS a RTOS?
If the page said it was, my apologies. It seems to have been Effect-ed.
I think you're confusing the NSA with the CIA. We already have an intelligence/spying/etc agency here. What purpose does No Such Agency have, other than fun stuff like Echelon?
I'm a newbie when it comes to security and encryption, so I was confused by some terms the author used, and therefore unable to reap the full mental benefits of this exercise. Several of the terms (like "arbitrage") were new to me. Would someone be so kind as to give a summary of each of these terms?
Unforgeable pseudonymous identities
Bidirectional, typed, filterable links
Arbitrage agents
Bonding agents
Escrow agents
Digital Cash
Capability Based Security with Strong Encryption --
Allow me to explain whay the Fed should stay out of MS's business practices. Basically, it boils down to market forces. When Ma Bell broke up, everyone thought it was going to be low prices and better services for everyone. But now look what's happened: A bunch of little companies have sprung up and become successful. And have then been bought out. The break up took the big fish and made many little fish. Now the biggest of those little fish are eating the small ones, getting bigger. And we're coming back to one big fish again. How much of your voice/data traffic travles over lines owned my MCI/Worldcom/Sprint? Yeah.
The problem doesn't lie in the breaking up of Ma Bell. The problem is that it wasn't done correctly. Sure, these fish may have been smaller, but they didn't need to be big; they each had their own little pond. No competition was introduced, and that is the way to fix a monopoly. --
Dummy - fool, idiot, dolt, person lacking in brainpower.
The series of books (which aren't too bad) are for the beginner, someone who realizes he or she knows nothing about a subject but wants to learn. A "computer dummy" for example, may want to buy Computers for Dummies to learn about computers. The reason these books are so popular is because they are written to teach the very basics.
However, the variety of books has gotten out of hand. I saw a copy of Sex for Dummies recently, I'm not kidding.
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As for what I think, I don't know, I haven't really digested it yet. :)
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If you would have taken the time to visit the page, you might have noticed that they covered that point.
I thought it was Mickey at first, and only after clicking on it did I realize that it was a letter C.
One thing you need to be aware of when signing up with Spamcop is the sheer amount of spam-response emails you will receive, like: Thank you for reporting an abuse at isp.com. We at isp.com don't tolerate spam, yadda yadda...
So you want to give em a throwaway account: I used my AOL one as it's hopelessly drowning in spam anyway.
Never mind that 20 year old technology he invented: "ethernet" I think it's called...
But we are not too concerned with the subject of Microsoft and their "borgs." We are more concerned with the Internet site "slashdot", and the terrible problem of the "Karma whores". This is clearly a breach of European regulations on religion and prostitution.
Because slashdot continues to make these infractions against the European Internet, we will sentence them to a stong campaign of "trolling." In using the European surplus of hot grits and the services of the french actor Jean Reno, who played the character "Leon" in the film of that name with Natalie Portman, we can deluge slashdot with shitty posts.
We would like to thank you gentlemen for your grandmothers' pussies.
The European Trolling Commission.
And as for the concept of the SATs et al testing "what you need to know to succeed in college," they do no such thing. Again from personal experience. I was in Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth program. A prerequisite for admission to said program was scoring at least 430 on the old Verbal and 500 on the old Math SAT at the time I participated. Some of us did fabulously well in life. Some of us who were big fish in small ponds in high school got to college and realized that we might be intelligent, we might be brilliant standardized-test takers, but we didn't know how to study! I was screwed the first time I had to write a research paper in college. Didn't know what in the H-E-double hockey sticks I was doing. I also tested out of (or nearly so) classes that I really should have taken, and the holes in my mathematical, scientific, and music theory background came back to haunt me again and again in college.
I was also in the Johns Hopkins CTY program. I had the highest math score in my state (NH: 720) but couldn't really afford the actual summer camp, so I didn't go. I did well on my actual SAT scores a few years later, and got accepted to WPI. Your big-fish comment certainly holds water (forgive the pun): I'm typically acing my CS and technical classes, but often the tests are hard because I can't study too well. Also, now I have a huge research paper to do and I feel horribly lost.
Our education system is a tad screwy, I'd say.
So I went to the site, saw some mirrors, looked for binaries, but all I found were "i686-pc-linux" tarballs. Pentium II or K6 level. But I only have a Pentium, so I don't imagine they'd work. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I figure I'll just build the source myself.
Download the source, unpack, configure, make, swell! Except, the compiled code size is enormous. It runs out of disk space. So I look for more disk - ah, there's a 700MB partition I wasn't using. (Lucky, that!) So I rebuild over there, and it STILL runs out of disk space. 700MB? That's ridiculous!
So I guess what I'm asking is: is there anyone with a Pentium (or lower) Linux machine and a large amount of diskspace who has (or will build) an i586-compatible executable?
While I'm dreaming, do you have it in .deb format? ;-)
Great. Then all you can see is bright blue. Even with your eyes closed. Try it if you like, but I'm not testing this! :)
Certainly I'm not the only one who sees a connection between this article and this article on 'slacking' a few days ago...
I simply wanted to point out that there was some legal use for the product. In the same way MP3's can be legal.
Cool beans.
Don't you recall the scene in Gattaca with the six-fingered man? (Well, 2*6 = 12 fingers, but I think that's what you meant.) It was beneficial for him to be this way.
I won't elaborate more on what I mean because I don't want to spoil that scene for those who haven't seen it yet. :)
If the page said it was, my apologies. It seems to have been Effect-ed.
Gee, not to oversimplify or anything...
How about the garage-band who can now afford to press a whole ton of their own CD's?
You're falling for the same crap the RIAA is spewing at us.
Thanks!
Moderate this guy up!
Seriously? I thought that was still a mystery.
Would you be so kind as to enlighten those of us who are biologically not in-the-know?
Where have you been? Mozilla is doing exactly that.
I think you're confusing the NSA with the CIA. We already have an intelligence/spying/etc agency here. What purpose does No Such Agency have, other than fun stuff like Echelon?
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Unforgeable pseudonymous identities
Bidirectional, typed, filterable links
Arbitrage agents
Bonding agents
Escrow agents
Digital Cash
Capability Based Security with Strong Encryption
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The problem doesn't lie in the breaking up of Ma Bell. The problem is that it wasn't done correctly. Sure, these fish may have been smaller, but they didn't need to be big; they each had their own little pond. No competition was introduced, and that is the way to fix a monopoly.
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Oak - the big production computer
Spruce - the smaller utility box
Acorn - the laptop
Simple, easy to remember!
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I go to WPI. Those funny names are still there. I love it - you know exactly what room to go to. Honda.wpi.edu? The car lab! (AK 120d)
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Dummy - fool, idiot, dolt, person lacking in brainpower.
The series of books (which aren't too bad) are for the beginner, someone who realizes he or she knows nothing about a subject but wants to learn. A "computer dummy" for example, may want to buy Computers for Dummies to learn about computers. The reason these books are so popular is because they are written to teach the very basics.
However, the variety of books has gotten out of hand. I saw a copy of Sex for Dummies recently, I'm not kidding.
Here's their site
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But your conjectures as to the reason make sense.
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