Um, I don't think you'll be holding a cellphone up to your head when using it as a modem. Unless of course the modem's being plugged into your head as a brain upgrade; most bullies I ever knew were as thick as pigshit.
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If you restrict comments to logged in, known, users, and the moderators job is extended to determine someone's bias on a number of different topics (pro/anti-MS, pro/anti-Linux, etc) based on a selection of the comments they have posted, then bias can in fact be a useful factor, e.g.: Pro-MS/.er: Hey, Win2k is really neat! Typical reaction: Yeah right. Rearrange the words 'off' and 'fsck' to form a well known phrase or expression. Anti-MS/.er: Hey, Win2k is really neat! Reaction? Probably not the same. Then each article posted could flag important bias factors, for example it might be important for a particular article to know the respondents'(?) attitude to Open Source and their political bias, and posters can have their bias displayed next to their comments so that those reading the comments can know where the poster is coming from. Of course AC posting could still be allowed but the bias cannot be known because it is not known who the AC is. I'll leave it to everyone else to determine if a comment posted anonymously from a logged in user should display bias. Or perhaps that can be selectable by the poster.
Which is so that people who write crap software can pretend their software isn't as crap as it is because it meets a bunch of standards, and nobody ever questions whether or not the standards are crap. Linux doesn't need standards because it just works. End of story. It doesn't need labels and tickets and glossy packaging and billion dollar marketing campaigns and all the other crap that a certain other operating system, if I may call it that, needs, because it fundamentally works. It goes. It keeps going. If it falls over, it's because you just tripped it up and not just because of some random occurrence. Fix it and it goes again. You don't have to try a fix several times over for that fix eventually to work with no explanation as to why that fix didn't work the first 7 times. A lot of standards simply say "Here's what I do", and as long as you do that, you meet the standard. So if your standard is "We write shit software that craps out every 10 minutes" and that's what you do, then you get the TickIT. Most other standards I've seen seem pretty much the same (including BS-5750, ISO-9xxx). I suppose it would do the community good to meet *some* standards, but are there any out there that are actually worth meeting? By standard I'm talking about the marketing standards like the aforementioned, not technical standards like TCP/IP, HTML 1.1, etc. It dowsn't matter that Losedows deliberately breaks all the technical standards with each release, from a marketing viewpoint.
Surely not...Not even Gates could be that thick...
But then you don't have the data.
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So the original message was how to bankrupt Threadneedle's Old Lady? It gets encrypted with one-way encryption - hey presto, end of message. May as well have shredded the original document.
Not necessarily - the file would have to be big enough to contain the porn pictures, the issues of Phrack _and_ the 'other information'; all they would have to do would be to recompress the porn and phrack and get a smaller file size and they could show by implication that there is more to the original file than meets the eye. It's enough to cast 'reasonable doubt' on a case. The only way out of this would be to invent a compression algorithm that wastes space, but who'd use that? Personally I want my Zip files to be as small as possible and I see no reason to adopt a deliberately lossy format just to protect criminals. Or am I looking at this the wrong way? Should I adopt a deliberately lossy format to protect my freedom? This in itself suggests I have something to hide.
I bet this is even more amazing: Shortly after my 3rd birthday, there was a point when I was exactly pi years old! Now THAT's amazing, especially considering that pi is an irrational number! Maybe that's why I'm an irrational person.
In fact now that I'm 31, some time in January I was exactly 10*pi years old! Wow!!!!!
Did anyone out there celebrate being n*e years old?
What about Star Wars then? When Star Wars was release ONLY in the US, that qualifies it as a LOCAL ISSUE and should also therefore - according to your logic at least - be banned from/.
Bollocks say I. You're just another American who thinks the world stops at the sea and that non-Americans are just a figment of someone's sick imagination. You people need to get your heads out of your arses and smell the fresh air for a change - there is a world outside of the US and it's a damn sight more interesting than you people think it is.
'"I'm going there to explain to them why they can't win with a closed-source strategy," Raymond said.'
Er, lets see, MS is the largest company in their field in the world; the CEO is the richest man in the world; many _developers_ (let alone PHBs) are millionaires and won't have to work again after they quit MS; their product is a household name and everyone continues to buy it regardless of how bad it gets.
Assuming of course we fully understand the sun's mechanism and that dropping a load of nuclear waste into it won't trigger a chain reaction which switches it off...
Year: 1999 (August if I remember rightly) Moonbase Alpha torn out of Earth's orbit by nuclear explosion...
...perhaps caused by NASA crashlanding a nuclear probe on the moon and
>The moon's just a barren rock
not turning out to be true after all? Perhaps Space 1999 was a prophecy not just a scifi series? Shame we haven't built a base up there already though.
Sigh...tear in eye...reminds me of the hack - dare I call it that in light of such a grand effort? perhaps minihack, or microhack - me and a friend did at university in Bangor, North Wales, when we decorated the Main Lecture Theatre with a printout from banner "Didn't we have a luverly time the day we went to Bangor". It just fit as well, to within an inch or so, and stayed up a lot longer than we'd expected; it survived past the end of the academic year but had gone by the start of the next. I suspect it came down shortly after someone (not us) lp'd banner "bang her" and stuck it on top of "Bangor";-)
Did anyone else out there in slashdotland go to Bangor between 1986 and 1989?
Take a $100 chair. And a $25 keyboard. What's that? It's split? Okay - let's be generous and double the keyboard cost for splitting it in half. $50. Add 0.3 seconds of thinking time for "Duh, how about a keyboard integrated into the chair", say at $100/hour (excessive) = c0.83, call it c1. Oh yes, we'll need an adapter, to mount the halves of the keyboard on the chair - adjustable in 3D (mount it on a height adjustable ball joint), say $25 each, that's $50.
That's $225.01. Now let's flog it for $1000! Bollocks to that. RSI here I come.
The other devices aren't much better. Datahand looks good but for a box with 8 buttons and a bit of clever electronics (one EPROM?) $1000 is a bit much. I reckon if I could be bothered I could undercut them by 75% with a better product and still make a mint.
I dunno who buys these things. They must have more money than sense. As well as keyboarding, I play the sax (exercises the right arm) and bagpipes (exercises the left arm) and only get wrist pains when I give up music.
Although thinking about the economics of my situation that probably doesn't make much sense anyway. Sax=$3000. Pipes=$1500. Piper's No1 outfit=$2000. Oh well...:-) Still, it's more fun than a chair-mounted mouse.
The New Jerusalem is a 1,960,000 square mile city built from gold with jasper walls 200 feet thick (or high) (Rev 21:16-17) exclusive to people who do nothing shameful or deceitful as judged by God (:27). (Judging by the gospel message I think it would be fair to add the words "any more" to that, otherwise the place would be empty.)
Not exactly difficult to spot with modern technology.
I can't see how the internet could possibly be the New Jerusalem, except of course in the sense of the word "NOT".
Reminds me of when I went to the Dominican Republic a couple of years ago; the local I was with got out of the beach shower, shivered and said "Es frio".
I nearly fell over and said "Frio? Frio? You want to come to England if you think _this_ is frio!"
Chapter 2 - the fifth part of the increasingly inaccurately named Star Wars trilogy?
I've seen something like that before somewhere...
If Han Solo isn't around until near the end (I haven't got a clue about the SW story line so feel free to call me stupid, if of course you're so sad you've got nothing better to do with your life), then perhaps they could call the story "Mostly Hanless"?
Cor, you should have seen the flames when I missed out an "R" and an "H" and just referred to "Linux 5.2". The ultimate in elevator lacking ess ay dee cases really came out of their shells (pun intended).
vie sounds stupid? what about hi and pi? Ni?
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So you greet your friends with "Aitch-eye", and refer to 3 and a bit as "Pee eye"?
And what about the jazz "So danso samba, so danso samba, vi vi vi vi vi"?
The last of course was a red herring. Everyone knows that the Knights Who Say Ni pronounce it "knee", in a shrieky voice.
I thought # was hash, or sharp. What's an octothorpe when it's at home? Or even when it's at college writing a program to generate pee-eye;-)
I've yet to see anyone justify the pronunciation of "vi" as "vee-eye" without their eyes watering and them bawling "it just sounds dumb". That's not an argument. Drawing a parallel with "hi" and "pi" however _is_ a valid argument, and until I hear better I'm sticking with "vie". I MIGHT be persuaded to join the Knights (why, are they coming apart?) and pronounce it (shriek) VEE!
-- I don't have a lift, I have a program. : Emergency Medical Hologram, Voyager.
Americans are so US-centric it's ridiculous. It's hardly worthwhile trying to get them to take their heads out of their arses; they pop out for a second to flame you but just stick them right up again. I don't bother any more. To Americans, the world stops at their shores.
The Dell talks about heaps of software, multimedia (CD, sound, gfx) and so on. I'm missing something here; why is the PS over $1000 more expensive for 8G less disk space and probably a 14" monitor instead of 17"? Admittedly, I didn't spend more than a couple of minutes looking, but neither is your average business bod who is even considering switching. The $$$ count alone kills the linux-hw option for anyone without more cash than sense.
Okay so it works with Linux but that's not enough of an incentive for me to stop buying Dells and dropping Win98 - paid for or otherwise - in the round file. Seems you can "pay" for Windows, or "!!!!!!___P-A-Y___!!!!!!" for Linux. Linux-hw obviously charges a "bad at maths" tax.
No I have a far better way. I use @Guard; it removes, at the TCP/IP level, ALL popup windows, banner ads and cookies; learns about new ones, doesn't provide a blanket approach (i.e. Accept all cookies/Reject all cookies is just too general, what of you want some then youre stuffed because you've got to accept all of them). The learn feature is dead useful; what's that, an advert? well let;s find a unique string that's part of the advert and tell it to block every HTML item containing that string. Bye-bye advert.
Okay it doesn't block that stupid geoshitties watermark (yet) but I haven't seen a geo or tripod popup for months now. Or any banner ads, except for when I have to reinstall Windows because it has become unmanageably unstable yet again (about once every 6-10 weeks for WinNT).
This is one bit of shareware that improves my online experience so much I'm even considering registering it!!!!!!
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Um, I don't think you'll be holding a cellphone up to your head when using it as a modem. Unless of course the modem's being plugged into your head as a brain upgrade; most bullies I ever knew were as thick as pigshit.
If you restrict comments to logged in, known, users, and the moderators job is extended to determine someone's bias on a number of different topics (pro/anti-MS, pro/anti-Linux, etc) based on a selection of the comments they have posted, then bias can in fact be a useful factor, e.g.: Pro-MS /.er: Hey, Win2k is really neat! Typical reaction: Yeah right. Rearrange the words 'off' and 'fsck' to form a well known phrase or expression. Anti-MS /.er: Hey, Win2k is really neat! Reaction? Probably not the same. Then each article posted could flag important bias factors, for example it might be important for a particular article to know the respondents'(?) attitude to Open Source and their political bias, and posters can have their bias displayed next to their comments so that those reading the comments can know where the poster is coming from. Of course AC posting could still be allowed but the bias cannot be known because it is not known who the AC is. I'll leave it to everyone else to determine if a comment posted anonymously from a logged in user should display bias. Or perhaps that can be selectable by the poster.
Which is so that people who write crap software can pretend their software isn't as crap as it is because it meets a bunch of standards, and nobody ever questions whether or not the standards are crap. Linux doesn't need standards because it just works. End of story. It doesn't need labels and tickets and glossy packaging and billion dollar marketing campaigns and all the other crap that a certain other operating system, if I may call it that, needs, because it fundamentally works. It goes. It keeps going. If it falls over, it's because you just tripped it up and not just because of some random occurrence. Fix it and it goes again. You don't have to try a fix several times over for that fix eventually to work with no explanation as to why that fix didn't work the first 7 times. A lot of standards simply say "Here's what I do", and as long as you do that, you meet the standard. So if your standard is "We write shit software that craps out every 10 minutes" and that's what you do, then you get the TickIT. Most other standards I've seen seem pretty much the same (including BS-5750, ISO-9xxx). I suppose it would do the community good to meet *some* standards, but are there any out there that are actually worth meeting? By standard I'm talking about the marketing standards like the aforementioned, not technical standards like TCP/IP, HTML 1.1, etc. It dowsn't matter that Losedows deliberately breaks all the technical standards with each release, from a marketing viewpoint.
Surely not...Not even Gates could be that thick...
So the original message was how to bankrupt Threadneedle's Old Lady? It gets encrypted with one-way encryption - hey presto, end of message. May as well have shredded the original document.
Not necessarily - the file would have to be big enough to contain the porn pictures, the issues of Phrack _and_ the 'other information'; all they would have to do would be to recompress the porn and phrack and get a smaller file size and they could show by implication that there is more to the original file than meets the eye. It's enough to cast 'reasonable doubt' on a case. The only way out of this would be to invent a compression algorithm that wastes space, but who'd use that? Personally I want my Zip files to be as small as possible and I see no reason to adopt a deliberately lossy format just to protect criminals. Or am I looking at this the wrong way? Should I adopt a deliberately lossy format to protect my freedom? This in itself suggests I have something to hide.
Well I've just been to www.kkk.com and there's nothing about naacp there; it is indeed the kkk's homepage.
So how come? If we both look up kkk.com and you get one page and I get another, one or both DNS has to be wrong, right?
'ping www.kkk.com' pought 207.155.252.7 when I tried it. What about you?
...when a product is released in the US only.
;-)
All I can say to your whingeing is: HAR HAR HAR!!
Mmmm, revenge is sweet...
Woo, amazing!
I bet this is even more amazing: Shortly after my 3rd birthday, there was a point when I was exactly pi years old! Now THAT's amazing, especially considering that pi is an irrational number! Maybe that's why I'm an irrational person.
In fact now that I'm 31, some time in January I was exactly 10*pi years old! Wow!!!!!
Did anyone out there celebrate being n*e years old?
So you think local issues should be banned?
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What about Star Wars then? When Star Wars was release ONLY in the US, that qualifies it as a LOCAL ISSUE and should also therefore - according to your logic at least - be banned from
Bollocks say I. You're just another American who thinks the world stops at the sea and that non-Americans are just a figment of someone's sick imagination. You people need to get your heads out of your arses and smell the fresh air for a change - there is a world outside of the US and it's a damn sight more interesting than you people think it is.
'"I'm going there to explain to them why they can't win with a closed-source strategy," Raymond said.'
Er, lets see, MS is the largest company in their field in the world; the CEO is the richest man in the world; many _developers_ (let alone PHBs) are millionaires and won't have to work again after they quit MS; their product is a household name and everyone continues to buy it regardless of how bad it gets.
Sorry, how exactly do you define "win" here?
Assuming of course we fully understand the sun's mechanism and that dropping a load of nuclear waste into it won't trigger a chain reaction which switches it off...
Year: 1999 (August if I remember rightly)
Moonbase Alpha torn out of Earth's orbit by nuclear explosion...
...perhaps caused by NASA crashlanding a nuclear probe on the moon and
>The moon's just a barren rock
not turning out to be true after all? Perhaps Space 1999 was a prophecy not just a scifi series? Shame we haven't built a base up there already though.
:-)
Sigh...tear in eye...reminds me of the hack - dare I call it that in light of such a grand effort? perhaps minihack, or microhack - me and a friend did at university in Bangor, North Wales, when we decorated the Main Lecture Theatre with a printout from banner "Didn't we have a luverly time the day we went to Bangor". It just fit as well, to within an inch or so, and stayed up a lot longer than we'd expected; it survived past the end of the academic year but had gone by the start of the next. I suspect it came down shortly after someone (not us) lp'd banner "bang her" and stuck it on top of "Bangor" ;-)
Did anyone else out there in slashdotland go to Bangor between 1986 and 1989?
Take a $100 chair.
:-) Still, it's more fun than a chair-mounted mouse.
And a $25 keyboard.
What's that? It's split? Okay - let's be generous and double the keyboard cost for splitting it in half. $50.
Add 0.3 seconds of thinking time for "Duh, how about a keyboard integrated into the chair", say at $100/hour (excessive) = c0.83, call it c1.
Oh yes, we'll need an adapter, to mount the halves of the keyboard on the chair - adjustable in 3D (mount it on a height adjustable ball joint), say $25 each, that's $50.
That's $225.01. Now let's flog it for $1000!
Bollocks to that. RSI here I come.
The other devices aren't much better. Datahand looks good but for a box with 8 buttons and a bit of clever electronics (one EPROM?) $1000 is a bit much. I reckon if I could be bothered I could undercut them by 75% with a better product and still make a mint.
I dunno who buys these things. They must have more money than sense. As well as keyboarding, I play the sax (exercises the right arm) and bagpipes (exercises the left arm) and only get wrist pains when I give up music.
Although thinking about the economics of my situation that probably doesn't make much sense anyway. Sax=$3000. Pipes=$1500. Piper's No1 outfit=$2000. Oh well...
The New Jerusalem is a 1,960,000 square mile city built from gold with jasper walls 200 feet thick (or high) (Rev 21:16-17) exclusive to people who do nothing shameful or deceitful as judged by God (:27). (Judging by the gospel message I think it would be fair to add the words "any more" to that, otherwise the place would be empty.)
Not exactly difficult to spot with modern technology.
I can't see how the internet could possibly be the New Jerusalem, except of course in the sense of the word "NOT".
Reminds me of when I went to the Dominican Republic a couple of years ago; the local I was with got out of the beach shower, shivered and said "Es frio".
I nearly fell over and said "Frio? Frio? You want to come to England if you think _this_ is frio!"
So maybe Rob's not such a big wuss after all...
Chapter 2 - the fifth part of the increasingly inaccurately named Star Wars trilogy?
I've seen something like that before somewhere...
If Han Solo isn't around until near the end (I haven't got a clue about the SW story line so feel free to call me stupid, if of course you're so sad you've got nothing better to do with your life), then perhaps they could call the story "Mostly Hanless"?
May the farce be with you...
lift^He
Okay, so I should have used submit.
Cor, you should have seen the flames when I missed out an "R" and an "H" and just referred to "Linux 5.2". The ultimate in elevator lacking ess ay dee cases really came out of their shells (pun intended).
So you greet your friends with "Aitch-eye", and refer to 3 and a bit as "Pee eye"?
;-)
And what about the jazz "So danso samba, so danso samba, vi vi vi vi vi"?
The last of course was a red herring. Everyone knows that the Knights Who Say Ni pronounce it "knee", in a shrieky voice.
I thought # was hash, or sharp. What's an octothorpe when it's at home? Or even when it's at college writing a program to generate pee-eye
I've yet to see anyone justify the pronunciation of "vi" as "vee-eye" without their eyes watering and them bawling "it just sounds dumb". That's not an argument. Drawing a parallel with "hi" and "pi" however _is_ a valid argument, and until I hear better I'm sticking with "vie". I MIGHT be persuaded to join the Knights (why, are they coming apart?) and pronounce it (shriek) VEE!
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I don't have a lift, I have a program.
: Emergency Medical Hologram, Voyager.
Americans are so US-centric it's ridiculous. It's hardly worthwhile trying to get them to take their heads out of their arses; they pop out for a second to flame you but just stick them right up again. I don't bother any more. To Americans, the world stops at their shores.
So in order to avoid the Windows tax, you go to linux-hw?
PS450WS100, 450MHz P2, 128M, 4.5G $2873.
Dell Dimension, 450MHz P2, 12.9G, 17", Zip $1799.
The Dell talks about heaps of software, multimedia (CD, sound, gfx) and so on. I'm missing something here; why is the PS over $1000 more expensive for 8G less disk space and probably a 14" monitor instead of 17"? Admittedly, I didn't spend more than a couple of minutes looking, but neither is your average business bod who is even considering switching. The $$$ count alone kills the linux-hw option for anyone without more cash than sense.
Okay so it works with Linux but that's not enough of an incentive for me to stop buying Dells and dropping Win98 - paid for or otherwise - in the round file. Seems you can "pay" for Windows, or "!!!!!!___P-A-Y___!!!!!!" for Linux. Linux-hw obviously charges a "bad at maths" tax.
Yeah but what if you _want_ javascript et al?
No I have a far better way. I use @Guard; it removes, at the TCP/IP level, ALL popup windows, banner ads and cookies; learns about new ones, doesn't provide a blanket approach (i.e. Accept all cookies/Reject all cookies is just too general, what of you want some then youre stuffed because you've got to accept all of them). The learn feature is dead useful; what's that, an advert? well let;s find a unique string that's part of the advert and tell it to block every HTML item containing that string. Bye-bye advert.
Okay it doesn't block that stupid geoshitties watermark (yet) but I haven't seen a geo or tripod popup for months now. Or any banner ads, except for when I have to reinstall Windows because it has become unmanageably unstable yet again (about once every 6-10 weeks for WinNT).
This is one bit of shareware that improves my online experience so much I'm even considering registering it!!!!!!
Wow! Someone who hasn't read DEC Wars!
Remember, just before PDP-1 Kenobi vanished, Dec Vadic noticed his uid go negative and thought that was odd since uids were unsigned.
Incidentally, Linux 5.2 UIDs are 32 bit. sizeof(uid_t) is 4. "useradd -u 150000 biguid" works fine.
[root@defiant /etc]# uname -rs /etc]# useradd -u 150000 biguid /etc]# grep biguid /etc/passwd
Linux 2.0.36
[root@defiant
[root@defiant
biguid:!!:150000:150000::/home/biguid:/bin/bash