Be sure to adorn yourself with, for example, some nonextinct wildflowers known as Mount Diable Buckwheat in your hair.
When you travel to the metropolitan Bay Area, typically you will encounter some nonviolent people attempting to change the world through peaceful coexistence and overpriced real estate.
To ensure your acceptance, decorate yourself with several varieties of attractive vascular plants.
I don't know why parent was moded funny. This ain't funny, this is insightful.
Actually, I was going for both. It should be clear to anyone in the Slasdot crowd that government(s) can't police the Internet without severe loss of freedom. The idea that the people, who ultimately are the government, need to police it themselves follows directly. Whether the government needs to be part of the solution is left to the ideology of the reader.
But "Sploit" is just a funny word. Not LOL funny, but still.
It's not a chicken-and-egg thing, where everyone would do it if there were only the infrastructure, but there's no infrastructure because no one's doing it yet. At least, it doesn't seem that way to me.
IPv6 came about when the Internet exploded in the early 90's. Folks looked at the address space and said "Hey, we're running out of room!"
The solution in IPv6 was to use 128-bit addresses instead of 32-bit ones, and to design the next gen of protocols using the lessons learned from the previous one. TCP/IPv4 was designed in an era when security was not in as much focus as it is now.
It seems like about two minutes after IPv6 began to be developed, the world discovered NAT and firewalls. We'd always had routers with private networks, but NAT made it possible for mortals to set up. A whole company with thousands or millions of IP addresses can be hidden behind a very small set of IPv4 addresses.
That solution has worked so well that few feel the need to use IPv6.
Comedy is about misdirection. You expect one thing, and get another. That's why jokes aren't funny if you'ver heard them before.
The repetitive use of the same word or phrase in different context seems not to follow this rule, but yet it does. Monty Python used the line "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" several times in different situations, always dropping it when you least expected it.
The GP is funny because of the multiple layers of misdirection.
MiB is really funny. Maybe not "Holy Grail" funny, but still funny.
The Quiet Man is not a typical John Wayne movie. It's very funny, and a beautiful film.
The Passion of the Christ was not "religious garbage" - religious yes, garbage no. Just because you don't like the subject matter is no reason not to appreciate a well-made film.
The Matrix, now there's some religious garbage:-). As I said, "yeah, but I liked it".
I forgot "Young Frankenstein" and some of the other Mel Brooks stuff.
I saw The Ring thinking it would be a teenage slasher movie. The first few scenes play into that, as a group of teenagers goes up to the lake for a weekend...
Then movie changes lanes, shifts into high gear, and pins your ears to the headrest. I was scared.
The last time I was that scared by a movie was when I was 9, watching Dracula with Christopher Lee.
>How did Revenge of the Sith get #1? >George Lucas, are you up to no good?!?
It looks like he didn't RTFA, since he said "get #1", while the list wasn't ordered.
For proper comedic effect, he should have followed it with a line such as, "Where's my tinfoil hat?" or "Next he'll (wink, wink) get an Oscar!"
People with mod points are sometimes careless with them, calling the parent "informative". It's either funny or a troll, but it's not informative in any way.
There are several factors that make up for the inefficiency in power generation:
the "fuel" is free.
the water is used at least twice, which decreases the relative pumping costs
power generation is just a positive side effect of supplying fresh water.
Places like Saudi Arabia and Chile, which have lots of sun and salt water, but almost no fresh water, should jump on this. Saudi Arabia in particular, which has all the power it needs, could really benefit.
Why wouldn't they allow their patents to be used in an OS?
They reserve the right to snatch that back, such as if the Linux kernel suddenly acquires the ability to become hardware and run itself.
Or if they ever start to "see themselves as a software company" or believe they're "really about consulting" or some other such dreck, then they'll snatch back their patents. They'd also be on the road to corporate oblivion, but that would be independent of allowing FOSS use of their patents.
TCP/IP and the Internet anticipate cooperation among sites. You and your neighbors should all happily route each other's packets.
The trouble is that in many places it doesn't work that way. There are rural "leaf" nodes, of course, but there are many more sites which have only one connection because of what I consider to be petty business decisions.
Two competing ISPs in the same area should share a direct link to each other. If they have different upstream providers, then when one provider goes down the other picks up the slack. In any case local traffic should stay local.
The fear, of course, is that one ISP will choose a bad provider and take advantage of the other. That has an easy fix: if the other one starts to abuse you, pull the plug.
Single points of failure are not supposed to exist.
Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, nineteen for me
(ref:) Cause I'm the tax man Yea I'm the tax man
Should five percent appear too small Be thankful I don't take it all (ref) If you drive a car-car I'll tax the street If you try to sit-sit I'll tax your seat If you get too cold I'll tax the heat If you take a walk I'll tax your feet Tax man (ref) Don't ask me what I want it for If you don't want to pay some more (ref) Now my advice for those who die (tax man) Declare the pennies on your eyes (tax man) (ref) And you're working for no one but me (Tax man)
BBSing was like the Internet, but more social. Most of the people you corresponded with were local, or at least in your area code, so quite often you'd meet. We even had parties. Really.
In a typical BBS session, you'd hop from BBS to BBS, much like web surfing (but you had to make a phone connection each time). The modem software let you maintain lists of BBS numbers with username and password macros.
Some were discussion boards, some had files, some had games to play. Some mixed it up.
Later on, there were networks such as "FidoNet" that used modems to relay messages around the country ala Usenet. There was a lot of cooperation. Some Fidonet discussions actually crossed over to newgroups, blurring the lines between Usenet and the BBS world.
I've run into several people I met in those days, and there's still a kinship, a certain level of trust. Even if you argued like arch enemies on the BBS, a lot of the time in person it was a different story (just avoid certain topics, and all is well). Years later, only the friendship remains.
A BBS friend got me my first job after college, I think. I never asked him if he pulled any strings, but I felt a lot more confident in the group interview because he was there, an ally. I'd bought a car from him, and I think he felt guilty for ripping me off:-).
One BBS was run by a law firm in town. Years later, I needed representation and chose them.
It really was a big part of my life, and I never even ran my own board.
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Be sure to adorn yourself with, for example, some nonextinct wildflowers known as Mount Diable Buckwheat in your hair.
When you travel to the metropolitan Bay Area, typically you will encounter some nonviolent people attempting to change the world through peaceful coexistence and overpriced real estate.
To ensure your acceptance, decorate yourself with several varieties of attractive vascular plants.
Actually, I was going for both. It should be clear to anyone in the Slasdot crowd that government(s) can't police the Internet without severe loss of freedom. The idea that the people, who ultimately are the government, need to police it themselves follows directly. Whether the government needs to be part of the solution is left to the ideology of the reader.
But "Sploit" is just a funny word. Not LOL funny, but still.
Surely IBM, with its vast army of technical wizards, will put a vibe-only feature in the firmware.
I donno, though, those cards look awfully big to hang on a belt clip. Maybe they come with a nice IBM tote bag or something.
>You know, like in that
>documentary "Enemy of the State".
Yeah, I wish Time had put documentaries in their Top 100 films list. That one surely would have been right there.
Did you notice how the mainstream media just ignored that, treating it like just another movie?
I added another layer of foil to the bomb shelter after I saw it.
I believe our Founding Fathers, well-versed in the technology of the day, said it best:
Is IPv6 a tool looking for a job to do?
It's not a chicken-and-egg thing, where everyone would do it if there were only the infrastructure, but there's no infrastructure because no one's doing it yet. At least, it doesn't seem that way to me.
IPv6 came about when the Internet exploded in the early 90's. Folks looked at the address space and said "Hey, we're running out of room!"
The solution in IPv6 was to use 128-bit addresses instead of 32-bit ones, and to design the next gen of protocols using the lessons learned from the previous one. TCP/IPv4 was designed in an era when security was not in as much focus as it is now.
It seems like about two minutes after IPv6 began to be developed, the world discovered NAT and firewalls. We'd always had routers with private networks, but NAT made it possible for mortals to set up. A whole company with thousands or millions of IP addresses can be hidden behind a very small set of IPv4 addresses.
That solution has worked so well that few feel the need to use IPv6.
I wonder what will happen to force the issue?
But if you had a Beowulf cluster of the running Linux, would you get the works of Shakespeare?
>funny, but I don't know why...
Comedy is about misdirection. You expect one thing, and get another. That's why jokes aren't funny if you'ver heard them before.
The repetitive use of the same word or phrase in different context seems not to follow this rule, but yet it does. Monty Python used the line "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" several times in different situations, always dropping it when you least expected it.
The GP is funny because of the multiple layers of misdirection.
>How many Slashdotters blog for their companies?
(Uh, I would, but I'm too busy on Slashdot. )
Why is it bad ("greedy") for a company to have employees pretend to expound on their personal opinions in the form of a blog?
Asked and answered. Official personal corporate blogs are too much like astroturfing.
I've seen all of the Star Wars movies in the theater as they came out, and I've liked them all.
I just steadfastly remain intentionally shallow.
It's supposed to be eye candy, not give you a doctorate in comparative theology or high-energy physics.
>alcohol absorbs thc
Oh. I never actually tried Jose Cuervo in a bong, I just thought it sounded funny.
Serves me right.
MiB is really funny. Maybe not "Holy Grail" funny, but still funny.
:-). As I said, "yeah, but I liked it".
The Quiet Man is not a typical John Wayne movie. It's very funny, and a beautiful film.
The Passion of the Christ was not "religious garbage" - religious yes, garbage no. Just because you don't like the subject matter is no reason not to appreciate a well-made film.
The Matrix, now there's some religious garbage
I forgot "Young Frankenstein" and some of the other Mel Brooks stuff.
I saw The Ring thinking it would be a teenage slasher movie. The first few scenes play into that, as a group of teenagers goes up to the lake for a weekend ...
Then movie changes lanes, shifts into high gear, and pins your ears to the headrest. I was scared.
The last time I was that scared by a movie was when I was 9, watching Dracula with Christopher Lee.
And it was funny.
>How did Revenge of the Sith get #1?
>George Lucas, are you up to no good?!?
It looks like he didn't RTFA, since he said "get #1", while the list wasn't ordered.
For proper comedic effect, he should have followed it with a line such as, "Where's my tinfoil hat?" or "Next he'll (wink, wink) get an Oscar!"
People with mod points are sometimes careless with them, calling the parent "informative". It's either funny or a troll, but it's not informative in any way.
>How many of those "too film-arty" movies
...
>on the list have you actually seen?
I only looked for the ones they had that I liked and the ones I liked that weren't listed.
Lemme check
None of the too film-arty ones, but many of the non-film-arty ones.
How's that for an answer?
Scared the white out of me. I couldn't go to the movies for a year after that without flashing back.
Serious PTSS.
In fact, I still kinda avoid manholes.
In general, they're way too film-arty. That's no surprise, but still.
Hits:
Blade Runner
Dr. Strangelove
The Fly (1986)
LOTR
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
Star Wars
Misses (not present):
Men in Black
The Quiet Man (John Wayne)
The Ring
The Passion of the Christ
The Matrix (yeah, but I liked it)
There are several factors that make up for the inefficiency in power generation:
Places like Saudi Arabia and Chile, which have lots of sun and salt water, but almost no fresh water, should jump on this. Saudi Arabia in particular, which has all the power it needs, could really benefit.
Try Jose Cuervo.
Just don't burn yourself up.
Why wouldn't they allow their patents to be used in an OS?
They reserve the right to snatch that back, such as if the Linux kernel suddenly acquires the ability to become hardware and run itself.
Or if they ever start to "see themselves as a software company" or believe they're "really about consulting" or some other such dreck, then they'll snatch back their patents. They'd also be on the road to corporate oblivion, but that would be independent of allowing FOSS use of their patents.
Keep making the neat gizmos, Nokia.
Yup, I think:
CmdrTaco, Roblimo, et al
PJ
Drudge
Barry Bonds (*)
are in a different class than other bloggers, for various reasons.
----
(*) he'll always have an asterisk now.
That's why.
TCP/IP and the Internet anticipate cooperation among sites. You and your neighbors should all happily route each other's packets.
The trouble is that in many places it doesn't work that way. There are rural "leaf" nodes, of course, but there are many more sites which have only one connection because of what I consider to be petty business decisions.
Two competing ISPs in the same area should share a direct link to each other. If they have different upstream providers, then when one provider goes down the other picks up the slack. In any case local traffic should stay local.
The fear, of course, is that one ISP will choose a bad provider and take advantage of the other. That has an easy fix: if the other one starts to abuse you, pull the plug.
Single points of failure are not supposed to exist.
Funding for the project is coming from McAfee and Symantec. Hmmmmm...
(just kidding).
>Is there really that much story there?
:-).
Yes. 5 hours just scratches the surface.
BBSing was like the Internet, but more social. Most of the people you corresponded with were local, or at least in your area code, so quite often you'd meet. We even had parties. Really.
In a typical BBS session, you'd hop from BBS to BBS, much like web surfing (but you had to make a phone connection each time). The modem software let you maintain lists of BBS numbers with username and password macros.
Some were discussion boards, some had files, some had games to play. Some mixed it up.
Later on, there were networks such as "FidoNet" that used modems to relay messages around the country ala Usenet. There was a lot of cooperation. Some Fidonet discussions actually crossed over to newgroups, blurring the lines between Usenet and the BBS world.
I've run into several people I met in those days, and there's still a kinship, a certain level of trust. Even if you argued like arch enemies on the BBS, a lot of the time in person it was a different story (just avoid certain topics, and all is well). Years later, only the friendship remains.
A BBS friend got me my first job after college, I think. I never asked him if he pulled any strings, but I felt a lot more confident in the group interview because he was there, an ally. I'd bought a car from him, and I think he felt guilty for ripping me off
One BBS was run by a law firm in town. Years later, I needed representation and chose them.
It really was a big part of my life, and I never even ran my own board.