This is what those assholes get for firing me after I used profanity in the DirecPC customer service database!
FUCK YOU, Hughes!
The polymer car you will never see.
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This car is an interesting idea, but it fails to address something that would really improve fuel efficiency; the automobile industry needs to stop making cars from metal. There are plenty of modern polymers stronger and lighter than the steel used in cars, and ceramic engines wear less and weigh less than steel. Such cars would have a much longer lifespan than the cars we have now, and would not need nearly as many expensive replacement parts as the cars being produced now. This would hurt the automotive industry's flawed business model that revolves around products guaranteed to degrade and lose value. Ick.
Perhaps the AOL/TW execs are trying to redeem themselves for ever merging to begin with. AOL users will be much more likely to hang around if only AOL can offer things like CNN.com and rollingstone.com.
It also takes something away from MSN users, who already pay more than other generic ISP clients, and only get extra advertisements compared to the extra "features" of AOL.
Sony is not leaving *NIX and Mac users out in the cold, because they know that their copy-protection scheme WILL be broken by *NIX/Mac geeks who are already used to taking the road less traveled.
What this scheme will do is make it harder for computer-illiterate young girls (Teenage guys can figure out anything on a computer, so I stick this on the girls.) to rip the latest top 40 hits and share them on P2P networks with all of the other file swappers. This will leave the music being shared on the systems of clueful users, making obvious supernodes that the record companies will be able to hack once they are given vigilante privileges by the US government.
From the article: "..Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records."
Would someone in or near Oakland be so kind as to dig up this guy's new address and post it on the web?
When an ex-employer calls you for something and does not use the words "please," "thank," and "you" in every third sentence, blow him off. If an ex-employer wants work out of you, demand payment at a flat rate of at least $100/hour, and get an agreement in writing first. You are nobody's bitch unless you let yourself be.
I see people in IT caving in to employers all the time, and it disgusts me. Remember, you are there because THEY NEED YOU. Never take shit that you did not earn (But learn to take it well when you have it coming). Never, EVER, let an employer act like you owe him anything. The best way to get ahead in IT is to be an arrogant prick, because if you just do your job well and act like a drone, people will have no reason to notice you and will walk all over you. You are there because you are better than anyone else they could have doing that job, never forget it.
Malcom X once said "It takes a nation of millions to hold us back." IT people need to think about that philosophy more often, because people take advantage of us, ignore us, and dump shit on us left and right, and too many geeks just sit there and put up with it.
X is too much of a pain in the ass for desktop users. XF86Config files are way over most people's heads. Font configuration is a nightmare, and without some tweaking fonts look like shit in X. To really get Linux on the desktops of Lusers, X has to be replaced by something entirely intended for desktops.
1- Read a few good Linux books, or take a nice Linux Administration class. 2- Replace Windows domain controller/print/file servers with Samba servers. This part is a little rough at first, but works incredibly well once you get used to Samba. 3- Replace Exchange servers with PostFix/Qmail (Both are great, read up on both and pick the one find comfortable). 4- Replace firewalls with multi-mac linux machines running IPTables. If you are into IDS, toss snort on the box as well. 5- Sit back and compile things at random all day because your network never breaks.
Even better, does anyone think that there a a ton of poorly-defended systems out there where l33t hax0rs can replace popular programs with their own, and the only people who find out are open source geeks?
For example, what would happen if someone hacked the Symantec Anti-Virus FTP, replaced the intelligent updater with a trojan, hacked the HTTP server and stuck up a matching md5sum, and then waited until monday for thousands of admins to download the latest version and install it? How long would it take for someone to find out?
For $17.99 - $24.99 I can get most of these movies on DVD. The price of a DVD includes All the extra "features" and "enhancements" movie companies put on the disc are now gone, which should wipe out a good chunk of the cost right there. Take out another big chunk for the sound and video quality being generally crappy (A VHS rental tape would look/sound better.). This leaves me with a shitty copy of a movie that I could have rented for the same price.
Why not just charge a little more, sell a nice DiVX rip of the DVD, so that I can buy the movie, download it, burn it to a CD, and watch it all I want? The movie companies would make more money in the long run, because they no longer have to package and (physically.) distribute the movie. Of course, I might just serve the video up on Kaazaa, a private FTP, or an IRC bot, but someone else was already doing that when the movie was in the theatre!
I think it is nice that the movie companies are doing this, but they need to loosen up a little. Exisiting distribution paradigms are dying fast, the time has come to cut losses and just give consumers what the consumers are already getting for FREE, instead of selling a crappy version.
"The NSA is probably the most secretive organization in the world..."
If you know it exists, it is not really all that secret. The NSA certainly cannot hold a candle to the secrecy of the shadow-government or the secret military courts used to prosecute Al-Quaeda members.
"Well, now with hard drives we can have even better convenience and menu selection with our movies and music. Plus it's cool to do it this way. Why do you assume this is about piracy?"
Because I have heard the same story from people about using the Xbox modchip to store games on large hard disks; but everyone I know with a modified XBox uses it to copy rented games to the hard disk without buying the games.
Getting OS X working with AD can be done, but you need to do it with Samba. Read the Samba documentation, learn to use Samba, and you should have no problem getting your OS X systems to work with AD. This will require research, effort, and scariest of all, it will require editing text files and maybe even working with the command line, but with some time even a Mac user should figure it out.
"It would be really cool to have 100+ movies built in to my dvd player."
Translates to:
"I am cheap, and I would really like to borrow my friends movies and rip permanent copies without actually compensating the people who made the movie."
Just a note to the/. editors: As long as you keep posting lines from assholes like this one, the MPAA will never have a hard time convincing anyone that they need legal protection from media piracy.
Actually, it makes a lot of sense. All the companies have to do is create a stable base, and handle updates and software add-ons with apt-get, which blows away any of the rpm based package fetching tools as far as speed and ease are concernced. All they have to do is make Gnome/KDE more user friendly (Mostly just renaming and rearranging the software and menus.), and then host some high-speed file servers.
Sticking with Debian also keeps people from screwing with the OS very much, because most Linux users are on RedHat/Mandrake or SuSE, and those who prefer Debian know it well enough to just run plain Debian without the extra stuff.
I recently purchased a car stereo, and noticed that most of the $300+ (USD) head units that handle satellite also play MP3. Satellite radio requires $10/mo service fee, and the purchase of a $150+ reciever.
Given the choise of spending at least $160 for satellite radio, or to just dump a few hundred tracks onto a couple of CD-Rs, I think I know which option most people will go with
Perhaps our schools should teach students about corporate bailouts/handouts right before the students learn about capitalism, so that the students grow up realizing that the USA is a SOCIALIST NATION!!!
Ok, ignoring all the other silliness, 20,000 people is a small city... Not a state. What state in America would allow 20,000 outsiders to move in an take over?
Let them die... I doubt anyone will really miss: 1- More bad remakes of good old movies. 2- More shitty action movies full of lame CG explosions. 3- More shitty teen comedy/horror movies. 4- More "Black" movies where all the black characters are just black actors playing out negative stereotypes. 5- More bad sequels to bad movies. 6- More churning books into expensive movies that are designed to make money from action figures.
"If wordstar and typewriters are working, why spend $6b to replace them?"
Because the Navy wants everything tied together into one large directory designed for secure communication using standard software. Communicating encrypted messages is much eaiser when everything is standardized.
"If folks can get a better, faster, cheaper online experience by ditching AOL, they'll do it in a heartbeat.'"
AOL doesn't really seem to be having this problem, given that their user base is up to nearly 40 million people and growing every day. As for broadband competition, most AOL users who go broadband just switch to the "roll-your-own" service that only costs $9.95 a month, and has way less overhead for AOL.
AOL's real problem at the moment is the loss of advertising dollars that came after the dot-com busts, when companies realized that consumers tend to ignore online advertising, which doesn't really matter in the long run, because all the TW money will offest things in the long run.
Give AOL a few years for AOL to be absorbed into TW, and for all the idiots who bought AOL at stupid prices to get over their losses, and the company will look just as good as it always did.
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This is what those assholes get for firing me after I used profanity in the DirecPC customer service database!
FUCK YOU, Hughes!
This car is an interesting idea, but it fails to address something that would really improve fuel efficiency; the automobile industry needs to stop making cars from metal. There are plenty of modern polymers stronger and lighter than the steel used in cars, and ceramic engines wear less and weigh less than steel. Such cars would have a much longer lifespan than the cars we have now, and would not need nearly as many expensive replacement parts as the cars being produced now. This would hurt the automotive industry's flawed business model that revolves around products guaranteed to degrade and lose value. Ick.
Perhaps the AOL/TW execs are trying to redeem themselves for ever merging to begin with. AOL users will be much more likely to hang around if only AOL can offer things like CNN.com and rollingstone.com.
It also takes something away from MSN users, who already pay more than other generic ISP clients, and only get extra advertisements compared to the extra "features" of AOL.
Sony is not leaving *NIX and Mac users out in the cold, because they know that their copy-protection scheme WILL be broken by *NIX/Mac geeks who are already used to taking the road less traveled.
What this scheme will do is make it harder for computer-illiterate young girls (Teenage guys can figure out anything on a computer, so I stick this on the girls.) to rip the latest top 40 hits and share them on P2P networks with all of the other file swappers. This will leave the music being shared on the systems of clueful users, making obvious supernodes that the record companies will be able to hack once they are given vigilante privileges by the US government.
From the article:
"..Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records."
Would someone in or near Oakland be so kind as to dig up this guy's new address and post it on the web?
When an ex-employer calls you for something and does not use the words "please," "thank," and "you" in every third sentence, blow him off. If an ex-employer wants work out of you, demand payment at a flat rate of at least $100/hour, and get an agreement in writing first. You are nobody's bitch unless you let yourself be.
I see people in IT caving in to employers all the time, and it disgusts me. Remember, you are there because THEY NEED YOU. Never take shit that you did not earn (But learn to take it well when you have it coming). Never, EVER, let an employer act like you owe him anything. The best way to get ahead in IT is to be an arrogant prick, because if you just do your job well and act like a drone, people will have no reason to notice you and will walk all over you. You are there because you are better than anyone else they could have doing that job, never forget it.
Malcom X once said "It takes a nation of millions to hold us back." IT people need to think about that philosophy more often, because people take advantage of us, ignore us, and dump shit on us left and right, and too many geeks just sit there and put up with it.
I love X from a sysadmin perspective, but...
X is too much of a pain in the ass for desktop users. XF86Config files are way over most people's heads. Font configuration is a nightmare, and without some tweaking fonts look like shit in X. To really get Linux on the desktops of Lusers, X has to be replaced by something entirely intended for desktops.
1- Read a few good Linux books, or take a nice Linux Administration class.
2- Replace Windows domain controller/print/file servers with Samba servers. This part is a little rough at first, but works incredibly well once you get used to Samba.
3- Replace Exchange servers with PostFix/Qmail (Both are great, read up on both and pick the one find comfortable).
4- Replace firewalls with multi-mac linux machines running IPTables. If you are into IDS, toss snort on the box as well.
5- Sit back and compile things at random all day because your network never breaks.
Even better, does anyone think that there a a ton of poorly-defended systems out there where l33t hax0rs can replace popular programs with their own, and the only people who find out are open source geeks?
For example, what would happen if someone hacked the Symantec Anti-Virus FTP, replaced the intelligent updater with a trojan, hacked the HTTP server and stuck up a matching md5sum, and then waited until monday for thousands of admins to download the latest version and install it? How long would it take for someone to find out?
Even worse, would anyone ever even find out?
For $17.99 - $24.99 I can get most of these movies on DVD. The price of a DVD includes All the extra "features" and "enhancements" movie companies put on the disc are now gone, which should wipe out a good chunk of the cost right there. Take out another big chunk for the sound and video quality being generally crappy (A VHS rental tape would look/sound better.). This leaves me with a shitty copy of a movie that I could have rented for the same price.
Why not just charge a little more, sell a nice DiVX rip of the DVD, so that I can buy the movie, download it, burn it to a CD, and watch it all I want? The movie companies would make more money in the long run, because they no longer have to package and (physically.) distribute the movie. Of course, I might just serve the video up on Kaazaa, a private FTP, or an IRC bot, but someone else was already doing that when the movie was in the theatre!
I think it is nice that the movie companies are doing this, but they need to loosen up a little. Exisiting distribution paradigms are dying fast, the time has come to cut losses and just give consumers what the consumers are already getting for FREE, instead of selling a crappy version.
You will, just like Time Warner/Disney/Sony are big and evil, but the /. editors keep posting stories about all the cool DVDs that they are buying.
"The NSA is probably the most secretive organization in the world..."
If you know it exists, it is not really all that secret. The NSA certainly cannot hold a candle to the secrecy of the shadow-government or the secret military courts used to prosecute Al-Quaeda members.
How about rolling over to soft-core hentai after 23:00, like skinemax.
"Well, now with hard drives we can have even better convenience and menu selection with our movies and music. Plus it's cool to do it this way. Why do you assume this is about piracy?"
Because I have heard the same story from people about using the Xbox modchip to store games on large hard disks; but everyone I know with a modified XBox uses it to copy rented games to the hard disk without buying the games.
Getting OS X working with AD can be done, but you need to do it with Samba. Read the Samba documentation, learn to use Samba, and you should have no problem getting your OS X systems to work with AD. This will require research, effort, and scariest of all, it will require editing text files and maybe even working with the command line, but with some time even a Mac user should figure it out.
"It would be really cool to have 100+ movies built in to my dvd player."
/. editors: As long as you keep posting lines from assholes like this one, the MPAA will never have a hard time convincing anyone that they need legal protection from media piracy.
Translates to:
"I am cheap, and I would really like to borrow my friends movies and rip permanent copies without actually compensating the people who made the movie."
Just a note to the
Actually, it makes a lot of sense. All the companies have to do is create a stable base, and handle updates and software add-ons with apt-get, which blows away any of the rpm based package fetching tools as far as speed and ease are concernced. All they have to do is make Gnome/KDE more user friendly (Mostly just renaming and rearranging the software and menus.), and then host some high-speed file servers.
Sticking with Debian also keeps people from screwing with the OS very much, because most Linux users are on RedHat/Mandrake or SuSE, and those who prefer Debian know it well enough to just run plain Debian without the extra stuff.
In other news, it turns out that there already IS a successful Debian desktop project, code named Lindows.
I recently purchased a car stereo, and noticed that most of the $300+ (USD) head units that handle satellite also play MP3. Satellite radio requires $10/mo service fee, and the purchase of a $150+ reciever.
Given the choise of spending at least $160 for satellite radio, or to just dump a few hundred tracks onto a couple of CD-Rs, I think I know which option most people will go with
Perhaps our schools should teach students about corporate bailouts/handouts right before the students learn about capitalism, so that the students grow up realizing that the USA is a SOCIALIST NATION!!!
Ok, ignoring all the other silliness, 20,000 people is a small city... Not a state. What state in America would allow 20,000 outsiders to move in an take over?
Wasn't this a repeat story when Slashdot posted about it a couple years ago?
Let them die... I doubt anyone will really miss:
1- More bad remakes of good old movies.
2- More shitty action movies full of lame CG explosions.
3- More shitty teen comedy/horror movies.
4- More "Black" movies where all the black characters are just black actors playing out negative stereotypes.
5- More bad sequels to bad movies.
6- More churning books into expensive movies that are designed to make money from action figures.
The list goes on... fuck hollywood.
"If wordstar and typewriters are working, why spend $6b to replace them?"
Because the Navy wants everything tied together into one large directory designed for secure communication using standard software. Communicating encrypted messages is much eaiser when everything is standardized.
"If folks can get a better, faster, cheaper online experience by ditching AOL, they'll do it in a heartbeat.'"
AOL doesn't really seem to be having this problem, given that their user base is up to nearly 40 million people and growing every day. As for broadband competition, most AOL users who go broadband just switch to the "roll-your-own" service that only costs $9.95 a month, and has way less overhead for AOL.
AOL's real problem at the moment is the loss of advertising dollars that came after the dot-com busts, when companies realized that consumers tend to ignore online advertising, which doesn't really matter in the long run, because all the TW money will offest things in the long run.
Give AOL a few years for AOL to be absorbed into TW, and for all the idiots who bought AOL at stupid prices to get over their losses, and the company will look just as good as it always did.
AOL