For Heaven's sake, ever since I was a little boy I knew that a hearty breakfast got me through the day, and if anything, skipping dinner or having a light supper lead to a better night's rest and a more likely repetition of the cycle the next day.
Our whole culture, as usual, is skewed the opposite from common sense: skip breakfast, vending-machine bag-of-chips at mid-day, and when you get off at the end of the day, stuff yourself porky, then waddle to bed and sleep, where your body can do nothing with the calories then but store them as fat. Simply go to bed two hours earlier and wake up two hours earlier and have your big meal then, and your whole life changes.
But noooooooooooo, too difficult for capitalists to figure out!
The author of this article didn't take his own advice, cuz maybe he'd be smart enough to chop out 90% of the cutesy sugary journal-babble and just deliver the content, already!
You got about a hundred entries in the jargon file documenting this kind of thing. Teergrubs, tiger teams, honey pots, etc. Fighting back against criminals is as old as the hills.
But I still see the ultimate fighting back as assuring that there's no "back" to fight from, i.e. work around the spam/scamers, don't go where they lurk, and you'll have less fights to extricate yourself from!
It has been noted, fighting back only gets you in trouble with the gov., while they go on coddling the assholes. The funny thing is, the decent people consistently fail to get a clue about who their government's favorite kind of person is, 'cuz then they'd move where they're more welcome, taking their IT skills with them.
It resonates strongly with America's poor recent showing (17th) in Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest, reported and buzzed upon on this site last week or so.
Also, didn't the story break a while back about China demanding that their computer suppliers "buy China" only? Funny thing is, I don't see them having a problem keeping up their commitmenmt.
You cannot remove services in that, just disable them.
Love your wisdom. But, er, you can't remove services? With earlier versions of MS I used to run, I was at least able to uninstall program packages and delete folders and re-write batch files to trim the fat out of Windows (the result I got was a whale on day two of a Slim-Fast diet, granted, but there was a noticable result). They even took *that* away?
"Bob" (not his real name) dropped by positively beaming and let me know he had noticed that luna (the server) had not been rebooted for a long time so over the weekend he had rebooted it for us!
You took his keys away and had security escort him out the door, right?
I love it. Richard Feynmann had a term for people like this: "Cargo Cultist" When you grilled him on his reasoning, I bet his answer was something along the lines of "But we've always done that!"
That's *still* the version I want to do, if I ever get around to releasing my own distro. Just for laughs:
Viral Linux. The Linux distro with the easiest install program..."infect". It will be seductive and enticing, causing anybody who sees it to fall under it's spell and be filled with the desire to copy it onto every computer they see...
Har, har! No wait, I've got one: patent the method of using brackets ()[]{} to delimit any program instruction. Then you'd own every piece of software on Earth!
Thank you! Finally, somebody who can explain this stuff so it makes sense. Where were you when we were all trying to figure out if it was OK to use GIFs?
First, George Bush needs to get in bed, financially speaking, with the rice industry, the tea industry, the die-cast-metal toy industry, and anybody else who might profit from China being siezed, ripped into chunks, and the chunks handed out. Get their backing.
Next, start a propaganda campaign about China. They harbor al Quaida. Print a deck of cards. For the sake of fun, instead of the WMD line, tell the American people that one billion Chinese are standing on chairs preparing to jump off and jolt the Earth out of it's orbit and into the sun. Remember, it only has to be good enough to fool an American.
Third, shock and awe time. The crucial, agonizing problem of somebody, somewhere in the world not wanting the pretty blue sky and clouds on their machine will be rendered moot when all the computers in the country are burned husks, along with half the population.
I just love a post that calls me "virulent Linux zealot" and ends with the word "peace".
Folks, get a clue. Market dominance, market dominance, and more market dominance is not an end to itself. Believe it or not, some people just want to USE THEIR OWN COMPUTER THAT THEY BOUGHT WITH THEIR OWN MONEY OR PUT TOGETHER WITH THEIR OWN HANDS THE WAY THEY SEE FIT! Many of us would almost prefer that we be a market of one. I don't care about anybody else's computer, and I don't want anybody else caring about mine. That's why I use Linux. That's also why, as soon as a big mega-corporation buys my distro, I'll switch to something else. If I have to compile my own operating system and keep it hidden from the rest of the world, _I_ _will_ _have_ _my_ _own_.
I don't get it. It's not "being a zealot" to modify your own car to work like you want, or build your own furniture, or grow your own crop, or cook your own food. But go near a computer, and the entire society seems to be screaming, "NOOOOO! We have to control EVERY SINGLE BYTE!" I think that's kind of silly. I think it is the actions of people who do not understand computers at all, or they would not be so terrified of what I might do if I have complete control of one.
That's being a zealot. Sure, I'll go get the dot burned on my forehead first thing tomorrow.
Somebody, somewhere, will be pushed too far and kill Bill. If Martin Luther King and John Lennon managed to attract their own screwballs to execute them, how has this asshole lived this long?
Because that movie had plot holes you could have lost a galaxy in, and I never saw what my fellow geeks did in it.
Back to the topic, there's still plenty to think about. It burns glucose, so diabetics will have a new way to burn off excess body sugar. Now, since we've gotten this far, how about making one that burns fat?
Can't you just picture this? The stereotypical (and dead-acurate-correct) lard-assed American, squeezing his tremendous bulk into his Ford Expectorant, babbling into two cell phones at once while he tries to steer with his feet, fairly coming with delight at the thought of the starving countries his corporate portfolio has condemned to death this morning, wheezing his approval as the smog from his gas-guzzling monstrosity wrecks the planet's climate. Sorry, lardo, we don't sell gas any more. What do we do instead? Thought you'd never ask. And at least now, you have a *really* *good* reason to keep sucking down those Star-chucks double lattes! We have the ultimate diet for you, too, ladies! Eat as much as you physically can, then plug in at the "gym" and sell the juice back to the electric company!
Me, I can't wait until they find a way to use the whole human body, crackling bones and all. Irritating lusers can meet my new case mod, "Spike", with the clanking, thrashing metal jaws...
Slashdot. If you can't get the first punchline, get the lowest!
"Guess what, the vast majority of kids are going to work in an environment where Windows is used."
Pardon me, with the utmost respect for your profession, I must ask:
*says WHO?* You and your crystal ball? How can you look back at the technologies that have fallen into dust in the last 50 years and decree that what *you're* comfortable with is going to be the one that lasts? You mean NEVER, in the entire future of the human race, no matter how long we live and how many planets we colonize and what life-forms we mutate into and what new energy sources are discovered - never, never, never will we get past the ne-plus-ultra of Windows, the pinacle of human achievement for all eternity?
I am incredulous. My children get exposed to Linux at home. I suppose that is tantamount to ruining them for life in your eyes? How about if I surgically remove the part of their brain that remembers Linux? Is it too late to save them that way?
Again I say, I trust Bill Gates with my kids about as far as I'd trust Michael Jackson.
For about the same reasons.
Seriously, every day when I read the internet news sites, there's at least two new stories per day about M$ (sic - there is no character on my keyboard of a little "M" with horns!) getting *way* too cuddly with everybody's kids. If your neighbor acted like this, they'd lock him up, wouldn't they?
You could put a finer point on it by showing the sharing of ideas in health science. Grok gets a polio vaccine and shows Grog how to make it so he doesn't get polio, either.
Don't worry, the "thought theft" wave won't crest forever. I just thought of what's going to stop it. The theocrats will protest the New Intellectual Theft Laws when it stops them from witnessing about Jesus door to door.
"Kind of like those school programs that convince second graders that their parents are evil if they smoke and that they're alcoholics if they have a glass of wine."
Yes, and doubtless, this whole "intellectual property" fiasco will be remembered as the "Reefer Madness" of the 21st century.
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Our whole culture, as usual, is skewed the opposite from common sense: skip breakfast, vending-machine bag-of-chips at mid-day, and when you get off at the end of the day, stuff yourself porky, then waddle to bed and sleep, where your body can do nothing with the calories then but store them as fat. Simply go to bed two hours earlier and wake up two hours earlier and have your big meal then, and your whole life changes. But noooooooooooo, too difficult for capitalists to figure out!
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say n' more, SMACK!
But I still see the ultimate fighting back as assuring that there's no "back" to fight from, i.e. work around the spam/scamers, don't go where they lurk, and you'll have less fights to extricate yourself from!
It has been noted, fighting back only gets you in trouble with the gov., while they go on coddling the assholes. The funny thing is, the decent people consistently fail to get a clue about who their government's favorite kind of person is, 'cuz then they'd move where they're more welcome, taking their IT skills with them.
I don't know whether to watch "Days of our Lives", study "Weekly World News", or read "Slashdot first.
Correlation does not imply causality. Correlation does not imply causality. Correlation does not imply causality.
Your tax dollars hard at work.
why again?
They'll all be great photo oportunities for this guy: http://www.abandoned-places.com/
Also, didn't the story break a while back about China demanding that their computer suppliers "buy China" only? Funny thing is, I don't see them having a problem keeping up their commitmenmt.
Geez, you're almost too good to post on /.
You cannot remove services in that, just disable them. Love your wisdom. But, er, you can't remove services? With earlier versions of MS I used to run, I was at least able to uninstall program packages and delete folders and re-write batch files to trim the fat out of Windows (the result I got was a whale on day two of a Slim-Fast diet, granted, but there was a noticable result). They even took *that* away?
You took his keys away and had security escort him out the door, right?
I love it. Richard Feynmann had a term for people like this: "Cargo Cultist" When you grilled him on his reasoning, I bet his answer was something along the lines of "But we've always done that!"
Viral Linux. The Linux distro with the easiest install program..."infect". It will be seductive and enticing, causing anybody who sees it to fall under it's spell and be filled with the desire to copy it onto every computer they see...
Wait, Linux already does all that...
Har, har! No wait, I've got one: patent the method of using brackets ()[]{} to delimit any program instruction. Then you'd own every piece of software on Earth!
Thank you! Finally, somebody who can explain this stuff so it makes sense. Where were you when we were all trying to figure out if it was OK to use GIFs?
Next, start a propaganda campaign about China. They harbor al Quaida. Print a deck of cards. For the sake of fun, instead of the WMD line, tell the American people that one billion Chinese are standing on chairs preparing to jump off and jolt the Earth out of it's orbit and into the sun. Remember, it only has to be good enough to fool an American.
Third, shock and awe time. The crucial, agonizing problem of somebody, somewhere in the world not wanting the pretty blue sky and clouds on their machine will be rendered moot when all the computers in the country are burned husks, along with half the population.
Folks, get a clue. Market dominance, market dominance, and more market dominance is not an end to itself. Believe it or not, some people just want to USE THEIR OWN COMPUTER THAT THEY BOUGHT WITH THEIR OWN MONEY OR PUT TOGETHER WITH THEIR OWN HANDS THE WAY THEY SEE FIT! Many of us would almost prefer that we be a market of one. I don't care about anybody else's computer, and I don't want anybody else caring about mine. That's why I use Linux. That's also why, as soon as a big mega-corporation buys my distro, I'll switch to something else. If I have to compile my own operating system and keep it hidden from the rest of the world, _I_ _will_ _have_ _my_ _own_.
I don't get it. It's not "being a zealot" to modify your own car to work like you want, or build your own furniture, or grow your own crop, or cook your own food. But go near a computer, and the entire society seems to be screaming, "NOOOOO! We have to control EVERY SINGLE BYTE!" I think that's kind of silly. I think it is the actions of people who do not understand computers at all, or they would not be so terrified of what I might do if I have complete control of one.
That's being a zealot. Sure, I'll go get the dot burned on my forehead first thing tomorrow.
Somebody, somewhere, will be pushed too far and kill Bill. If Martin Luther King and John Lennon managed to attract their own screwballs to execute them, how has this asshole lived this long?
Back to the topic, there's still plenty to think about. It burns glucose, so diabetics will have a new way to burn off excess body sugar. Now, since we've gotten this far, how about making one that burns fat?
Can't you just picture this? The stereotypical (and dead-acurate-correct) lard-assed American, squeezing his tremendous bulk into his Ford Expectorant, babbling into two cell phones at once while he tries to steer with his feet, fairly coming with delight at the thought of the starving countries his corporate portfolio has condemned to death this morning, wheezing his approval as the smog from his gas-guzzling monstrosity wrecks the planet's climate. Sorry, lardo, we don't sell gas any more. What do we do instead? Thought you'd never ask. And at least now, you have a *really* *good* reason to keep sucking down those Star-chucks double lattes! We have the ultimate diet for you, too, ladies! Eat as much as you physically can, then plug in at the "gym" and sell the juice back to the electric company!
Me, I can't wait until they find a way to use the whole human body, crackling bones and all. Irritating lusers can meet my new case mod, "Spike", with the clanking, thrashing metal jaws...
Slashdot. If you can't get the first punchline, get the lowest!
Pardon me, with the utmost respect for your profession, I must ask:
*says WHO?* You and your crystal ball? How can you look back at the technologies that have fallen into dust in the last 50 years and decree that what *you're* comfortable with is going to be the one that lasts? You mean NEVER, in the entire future of the human race, no matter how long we live and how many planets we colonize and what life-forms we mutate into and what new energy sources are discovered - never, never, never will we get past the ne-plus-ultra of Windows, the pinacle of human achievement for all eternity?
I am incredulous. My children get exposed to Linux at home. I suppose that is tantamount to ruining them for life in your eyes? How about if I surgically remove the part of their brain that remembers Linux? Is it too late to save them that way?
For about the same reasons.
Seriously, every day when I read the internet news sites, there's at least two new stories per day about M$ (sic - there is no character on my keyboard of a little "M" with horns!) getting *way* too cuddly with everybody's kids. If your neighbor acted like this, they'd lock him up, wouldn't they?
You could put a finer point on it by showing the sharing of ideas in health science. Grok gets a polio vaccine and shows Grog how to make it so he doesn't get polio, either.
Don't worry, the "thought theft" wave won't crest forever. I just thought of what's going to stop it. The theocrats will protest the New Intellectual Theft Laws when it stops them from witnessing about Jesus door to door.
-Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1986
Yes, and doubtless, this whole "intellectual property" fiasco will be remembered as the "Reefer Madness" of the 21st century.
For just about the same reasons!