Once again: Photoshop ported to GNU/Linux/BSD/etc=good thing. I'm all in favor of it. Then we can all get off the Gimp's back. I've been fighting ignorance about the Gimp for five years, and I'm sick of it. The reasons cited in this article amount to "We need something else for transportation, because cars do not come with steering wheels, tires, and motors." OK, whatever the reason for the insanity, y'all do what you have to.
OK, the government's going to play tiger team tomorrow. I guess I'll oblige by creating a 'honey-pot'. I know! I'll make a directory called "stolen_mp3s" and softlink it to/dev/random ! That ought to slow 'em down...
Before we get all worked up about hardware DRM, let me point out, once again:
You do not have to toddle to Best Buy or Circuit City and trustingly buy whatever the salesdrone hands you. Knock on my mod points, but if your only means of buying a computer is buying a ready-made unit, you're no better off than if you stuck to Windows and AOL.
Soldering irons, ladies and gentlemen, soldering irons. I still have mine. Do you have yours? There is no known method of defying the laws of physics so that actual molecules of silicone and copper individualy comprehend DRM. Remember, the richest corporation on Earth cannot stop you from hacking their XBoxes to run Linux (although, as recent events show, they can change things to hinder you.); how much hardware DRM is going to stick? Free/Open Source software got here in the first place by circumventing hardware that at the time only had commercial software in mind.
What happened to the confident community that boasts it can run it's software on a toaster? Yes, DRM is evil incarnate, but let's not make another Y2K out of this, OK?
He's so level-headed in a field of holy-men-with-a-mission-from-$DIETY as far as the eye can see. I may not always agree 100%, but it's well worth it just to hear him point out from time to time that we do not, in fact, have to commit ourselves to Jihad.
True story: Just two days ago my daughter brought home a little goldfish mobil made in art class in school. Using guess-which CDs as the body! I'd heard of 1001 uses for AOL Cds before, but this was the first time I'd seen a school-sanctioned usage of AOHell data as bulk material. Gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling!
You gotta wonder, are they so stupid they actually can't see where this is going to end? Soylent Green? Selling your kids? Killing random people on the street and selling their organs? Caligula stakings for entertaining, if it sells tickets?
When does money CEASE to be God? When do we acknowledge that when we improve the quality of life for everybody, it makes the whole world richer?
When doing business anywhere, you must obey the laws that
that land, not just the laws you agree with.
OK, so if we get each other anywhere where there is no government, only anarchy, it's fine and dandy to kill and eat each other?
No, I'm not kidding. I'm genuinely interested in hearing what the long-past-Fascist "Right" has to say on this issue. Where does money CEASE to be God?
On one hand, it's very American to be a capitalist. After all, what is the American dream?
Thank you for the rousing soapbox, but I think you hit something with this line right here. That "American Dream", summarized most efficiently as "Who dies with the most toys wins." is sad and empty and stupid. Most people who happen to live in America dream of very different things indeed.
Wait until the entire planet is raped, pillaged, and burned to a cinder and then wander out from the rubble and mumble a few weak words of disdain. Worth every penny of my tax dollar!
Right up there with Bush's "Drunk on Oil" digression. Hey, Mighty Mouse, the day you are here to save happened twenty years ago.
It would do people good to come out of their basements and realize that in real life, things cost money.
So, let me get this straight. You've paid for it every time you've had sex? You see public libraries and public parks as a bad thing? Shouldn't you be paying for the priveledge of viewing each individual web page you visit on the net, on a page-by-page basis? Hey, did you pay your bill to your parents for raising you? What if you get sick and your body's own immune system fights the infection off, before you have to go to a doctor - does this somehow detract from the quality of life?
See, it can also be seen as the mark of a healthy capitalist society that there is enough wealth to be spread around, without everybody fretting over every penny. What you have when every drink of water from every fountain costs another nickel, is not capitalism, but Argentina.
You write a program which you publish to the web. Someone compiles it and decides he or she likes it. They contact you about writing some more software.
I just happen to be doing that kind of thing with my blogs http://wallpaperfree.blogspot.com/ and the one in my sig, but so far haven't gotten good enough to get to step three of your plan. Nevertheless, I'll do it this way rather than snivel and moan after every pixel and semicolon of everything I produce fretting over somebody around the world didn't chip in their $.035 for something I did. I hear other people out there, and they're pathetic. They draw one frickin' picture and spend the rest of their lives mooing about it. In the amount of time they spend protecting it, they could have filled a whole gallery and moved on!
I wonder if one could do a series of PSAs about great creative minds from the past? Eistein freely gave away E=mc2. How much money did da Vinci earn off his famous engineering drawings? Didn't van Gosh paint half his life for free? If the past creative minds acted the way our present creative minds do, we wouldn't even remember them today.
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It's still too soon after Kevin Mitnick was all we heard about for awhile. I don't miss him yet. Go away for a few more years, Kevin (just stay out of jail)! Legends should be reclusive.
Until I saw this story. This is more than silly. This is silly in paisley pants.
For God's sake, we need to call a screeching halt to all intellectual property, period. Yes, it sucks, we won't be able to make a cent off all our hard work, but the alternative is to herd every ex-MS programmer on a secret island so they cannot blab code in their sleep to the uninitiated, cut all the lines of the internet so nobody can talk to anybody, mandatory lobotomization of every user who has ever looked at a Microsoft screen so they can't rat out trade secrets, and stop breathing after somebody patents the FUCKING AIR!!!
And yes, I do know a little something about neurophysiologic monitoring as I teach neurophysiology labs to medical students.
OK, but don't expect the fact that you know what you're talking about to win you any special consideration around here!:^)
For my part, I'm glad it isn't reliable. Not because I'm for criminals getting away with committing crimes, but because I just know in my bones that if we did have a 100% accurate lie detector, it of course wouldn't have as many applications in deterring crime as it would in having the RIAA torturing confessions out of us on the rack ("WHERE did you get that Brittany Spears song?").
...that I have never once, in my entire life, heard about any study anywhere reporting that people ever get any smarter? Either we're heading back to the trees, or something's seriously flawed with our studies.
Perhaps for once, we could establish a benchmark: "How smart are we *supposed* to be?" Slip below that, we know we have trouble. Rise above it, we know we're doing good.
Now, you tell me "People are getting technologically dumber." Well, of course they are! Because more and more people leave more and more power in the hands of fewer and fewer elite, and that is they who both craves power and makes and maintains the gadgets. I've been preaching "The technology that you do not master, will eventually master you." for 30 years, now. Hasn't turned one head, yet. At least *my* butt's covered!
I really wish Wikipedia could be used as an academic reference. I really wish the edit wars would stop. I really wish I could truly trust the information posted there. I really wish the POV could be fixed so that various viewpoints could be accurately and fairly be included.
See, way back when I first heard of Wiki, I knew better than to look to it for these things. I grew up in South LA; I know all about graffiti. Blocks of useless stupid tagging punctuated by the occasional breathtaking work of art. If you closely examine a tagged-up wall, you'll notice half the paint is there to scratch out a rival faction's tag. In other words, every wall has an "edit war" going on. Same with any surface that anybody and everybody can write whatever they want on. Only the best art or most profound words stay untouched - tribal respect.
We have the rest of the internet for accredited news and information sources. The Wiki is just one more place to read and write.
Slashdot Mirror
Once again: Photoshop ported to GNU/Linux/BSD/etc=good thing. I'm all in favor of it. Then we can all get off the Gimp's back. I've been fighting ignorance about the Gimp for five years, and I'm sick of it. The reasons cited in this article amount to "We need something else for transportation, because cars do not come with steering wheels, tires, and motors." OK, whatever the reason for the insanity, y'all do what you have to.
OK, the government's going to play tiger team tomorrow. I guess I'll oblige by creating a 'honey-pot'. I know! I'll make a directory called "stolen_mp3s" and softlink it to /dev/random ! That ought to slow 'em down...
I'm not, but I'm a minority. The majority is something more than civilized, somewhere between hypnotized and lobotomized.
You do not have to toddle to Best Buy or Circuit City and trustingly buy whatever the salesdrone hands you. Knock on my mod points, but if your only means of buying a computer is buying a ready-made unit, you're no better off than if you stuck to Windows and AOL.
Soldering irons, ladies and gentlemen, soldering irons. I still have mine. Do you have yours? There is no known method of defying the laws of physics so that actual molecules of silicone and copper individualy comprehend DRM. Remember, the richest corporation on Earth cannot stop you from hacking their XBoxes to run Linux (although, as recent events show, they can change things to hinder you.); how much hardware DRM is going to stick? Free/Open Source software got here in the first place by circumventing hardware that at the time only had commercial software in mind.
What happened to the confident community that boasts it can run it's software on a toaster? Yes, DRM is evil incarnate, but let's not make another Y2K out of this, OK?
He's so level-headed in a field of holy-men-with-a-mission-from-$DIETY as far as the eye can see. I may not always agree 100%, but it's well worth it just to hear him point out from time to time that we do not, in fact, have to commit ourselves to Jihad.
I *like* MS FUD. I jerk off too it.
True story: Just two days ago my daughter brought home a little goldfish mobil made in art class in school. Using guess-which CDs as the body! I'd heard of 1001 uses for AOL Cds before, but this was the first time I'd seen a school-sanctioned usage of AOHell data as bulk material. Gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling!
When does money CEASE to be God? When do we acknowledge that when we improve the quality of life for everybody, it makes the whole world richer?
OK, so if we get each other anywhere where there is no government, only anarchy, it's fine and dandy to kill and eat each other?
No, I'm not kidding. I'm genuinely interested in hearing what the long-past-Fascist "Right" has to say on this issue. Where does money CEASE to be God?
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Thank you for the rousing soapbox, but I think you hit something with this line right here. That "American Dream", summarized most efficiently as "Who dies with the most toys wins." is sad and empty and stupid. Most people who happen to live in America dream of very different things indeed.
Right up there with Bush's "Drunk on Oil" digression. Hey, Mighty Mouse, the day you are here to save happened twenty years ago.
So now that the other 5,999,999 people on this planet are defined as hobbyists, it's time the majority shut Bill gates out.
Colonel Mustard in the breezeway with the salad shooter!
So, let me get this straight. You've paid for it every time you've had sex? You see public libraries and public parks as a bad thing? Shouldn't you be paying for the priveledge of viewing each individual web page you visit on the net, on a page-by-page basis? Hey, did you pay your bill to your parents for raising you? What if you get sick and your body's own immune system fights the infection off, before you have to go to a doctor - does this somehow detract from the quality of life?
See, it can also be seen as the mark of a healthy capitalist society that there is enough wealth to be spread around, without everybody fretting over every penny. What you have when every drink of water from every fountain costs another nickel, is not capitalism, but Argentina.
You write a program which you publish to the web. Someone compiles it and decides he or she likes it. They contact you about writing some more software.
I just happen to be doing that kind of thing with my blogs http://wallpaperfree.blogspot.com/ and the one in my sig, but so far haven't gotten good enough to get to step three of your plan. Nevertheless, I'll do it this way rather than snivel and moan after every pixel and semicolon of everything I produce fretting over somebody around the world didn't chip in their $.035 for something I did. I hear other people out there, and they're pathetic. They draw one frickin' picture and spend the rest of their lives mooing about it. In the amount of time they spend protecting it, they could have filled a whole gallery and moved on!
I wonder if one could do a series of PSAs about great creative minds from the past? Eistein freely gave away E=mc2. How much money did da Vinci earn off his famous engineering drawings? Didn't van Gosh paint half his life for free? If the past creative minds acted the way our present creative minds do, we wouldn't even remember them today.
It's still too soon after Kevin Mitnick was all we heard about for awhile. I don't miss him yet. Go away for a few more years, Kevin (just stay out of jail)! Legends should be reclusive.
For God's sake, we need to call a screeching halt to all intellectual property, period. Yes, it sucks, we won't be able to make a cent off all our hard work, but the alternative is to herd every ex-MS programmer on a secret island so they cannot blab code in their sleep to the uninitiated, cut all the lines of the internet so nobody can talk to anybody, mandatory lobotomization of every user who has ever looked at a Microsoft screen so they can't rat out trade secrets, and stop breathing after somebody patents the FUCKING AIR!!!
OK, but don't expect the fact that you know what you're talking about to win you any special consideration around here! :^)
For my part, I'm glad it isn't reliable. Not because I'm for criminals getting away with committing crimes, but because I just know in my bones that if we did have a 100% accurate lie detector, it of course wouldn't have as many applications in deterring crime as it would in having the RIAA torturing confessions out of us on the rack ("WHERE did you get that Brittany Spears song?").
You're right, I hadn't. Thank you!
Perhaps for once, we could establish a benchmark: "How smart are we *supposed* to be?" Slip below that, we know we have trouble. Rise above it, we know we're doing good.
Now, you tell me "People are getting technologically dumber." Well, of course they are! Because more and more people leave more and more power in the hands of fewer and fewer elite, and that is they who both craves power and makes and maintains the gadgets. I've been preaching "The technology that you do not master, will eventually master you." for 30 years, now. Hasn't turned one head, yet. At least *my* butt's covered!
See, way back when I first heard of Wiki, I knew better than to look to it for these things. I grew up in South LA; I know all about graffiti. Blocks of useless stupid tagging punctuated by the occasional breathtaking work of art. If you closely examine a tagged-up wall, you'll notice half the paint is there to scratch out a rival faction's tag. In other words, every wall has an "edit war" going on. Same with any surface that anybody and everybody can write whatever they want on. Only the best art or most profound words stay untouched - tribal respect.
We have the rest of the internet for accredited news and information sources. The Wiki is just one more place to read and write.
...and yet when I say that companies hire astroturfers to come on Slashdot and post, you'd think it was the most ludicrous claim ever.
Microsoft goes from wanting to f***ing bury you to defending you.
http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/whatsbad.shtm l
http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
http://www.novell.com/linux/truth/no_mention.html
http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html
http://www.endgame.org/microsoft.html