MS could never castrate those with IQ's under 100. They would have to castrate they're own tech support teams, who would of course resign in anger. Then they would be forced to hire people who know how to say more than: "Duh, I don't know, uninstall then reinstall the driver for that hardware" "Duh, I don't know, reinstall Windows" "That bug is fixed in the new release just go buy the update for $90"
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I have the original source code to Atari's "Combat" it is written of course in assembler and is fairly well documented. I still don't understand a word...err command of it because Atari assembler is different than x86 assember but it is still kinda cool to have.:)
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You've said that a couple times now and really peaked my interest. Is this something that we are going to hear about or something I will think of 10 years from now and say "I wonder what that revolutionary project based on V2 was?"?
heh, acutally it could have altogether different content. As I said in another reply, I like you, don't know how much illegal stuff is in there and don't really want to look and see, but I just think a *sign* like that is worth looking into. Kinda like if I were to open a store with the name "John's Big 'Ole House a' Marijuana" I wouldn't be offended if cops came in everday with a search warrant.
So in order to determine whether the material is indeed objectionable, they'd have to check, and possibly violate the law by posessing (for however a short time) child pornography. Ugly situation for the censors to be in Well I would agree that censors might not want to look at that kind of stuff, I can imagine the kind of bitterness for the world you could develop if it was your job to look at little kids getting abused all day, but as far as them possessing it, isn't it already on the ISP's servers?
Well I have to say it is nice to finally have a logical argument to my query. For a minute there I was beginning to think Slashdot was full of child molestors. I guess you make a valid point. I don't guess the ISP's can look at the content of every group on a regular basis. But I don't know have you ever seen some of the names of these groups? Things like alt.binary.pictures.erotica.pre-teen.hardcore and stuff. I know if I was an ISP a name like that would definetly be red flag and I would stay away from it. I guess to answer your question they should not IMHO carry stuff that the government deems legal enough to have like task forces for and stuff. I mean kid porn is practically it's own branch of the police office and there are arrests everyday. Pirating brand new software is something that arrests are made for I am sure on a frequent basis. I don't think anyone has EVER been arrested for carrying commadore64 binaries in modern times. Maybe the best way to do it would be to let the government decide. I know everyone here is against government regulations but it just disgusts me that some scumbag could take nude and or x rated photos of my kid sister or later on my daughter and post them on the internet for all to see. I admit I don't know how much of the content of those groups really is illegal and I don't really want to find out, but with such an illegal "gateway" staring us in the face I would think there would be something we could do.
Regardless of what sick and perverted view you might take on the matter the content is ILLEGAL and the ISP's have a general idea what the content is when the support the newsgroup. And what is this 'sharing information' crap, if I give your kid some heroin all I am doing is sharing chemicals, or if I steal your car all I am doing is "sharing" it with you. Sharing information like anything else can be harmful, imagine if I gave secret US military info to the chinese government, would that not be wrong, I mean after all I am only sharing information, who cares if the chinese are going to use it to destroy the US? I was just sharing info right? As far as Warez goes you are just transferring bits but you are transferring copyrighted bits, which has never been legal, and rightfully so, if someone creates something then they have the right to say what is done with it. And kid porn, you don't think looking at that is harmful, I tell you what why don't we see what would happen to your opinion if your daughter or sister or whatever gets raped by some dirty old man that likes "'dem yung tings he seen online"
Umm yes alt.flowers could have kid porn, but it could also have umm, lets see... flowers. What other content could alt.pictures.erotica.pre-teen.hardcore have? I can't believe you are using free speech to defend kid porn. kid porn isn't speech. see speech involves saying something, not showing illegal pictures.
Shouldn't an ISP be liable to some extent for the newsgroups it carries? I mean have you ever looked at the names of some of these newsgroups. For example it is obvious what kind of content is in (or intended to be in) groups like alt.binaries.warez, or alt.binaries.pedophilia and the like. The ISP's have to ok the newsgroup so they obviously know by OKing a newgroup with the words pictures and pedophilia or binaries and warez that they will be carrying illegal content. Should they be held liable for such an outright disregard for human decency?
Yes there is! I will use it in a sentence "When yous comes to Slashdot yous can git desinformation, dats all about da issues." It's obvious to me that the poster is either from the ghetto or was an extra on deliverence.:)
Sure maybe the big companies are screwing over the little guy, but what's new? It's like Chuck D said, now the little guy can put a web page up and post his MP3's and cut out the middle man. That is the advantage of MP3's, cutting out the middle man. If you still use a middle man then of course you are going to get screwed. I have happened across lots of small geocities style websites and really liked the music that I heard from them. Sure a geocities page won't make the artist famous overnight, but hey even one listener is more than they were getting playing in the garage. I think maybe to many artists are looking for overnight fame and fortune, it just doesn't happen that way.
As you might have read in my other post I haven't booted into Windows for many months now. So VMWare isn't remotely important to MY way of computing. Some people however might not want to give up the games of Windows or MS Office. But that doesn't mean they should always have to either use a crummy OS or reboot between OS's two or three times a day either.
Ok I seem to be reading every other post saying "leave VMWare alone if they want to charge money let them how dow you hurt their business!" And the other half of the posts say "Yeah, FreeMWare now we don't have to pay those losers VMWare $100" Well, let me just point out that there are companies producing commercial X-servers and doing quite well at it, even thought XFree86 exists. AND not only does XFree86 exist but it comes with every distribution. If these X-server companies can compete with the out-of-box solution than VMWare can compete with FreeMWare. I mean Wine hasn't replaced Windows yet has it? The folks at VMWare just have to raise the bar alittle. Since they are making money they just need to sink a little of it back into the software. If they can't raise the bar and compete with the free stuff then they never deserved to be in business in the first place.
One of the reasons I didn't use VMWare is that you have to install Windows ontop of VMWare. That is to say if you already have Windows installed you will have to reinstall and since I have a Compaq I don't a Windows 98 CD and don't really care enough about the issue to ask Compaq for one. (And now if MS gets their way it might not matter anyhow) I haven't used my Windows partition in ages just because I hate having to reboot and there is nothing there that I can't live without. So what I want to know is if anyone can tell me if FreeMWare will be able to just boot from my existing Windows partition, or if that is even possible?
Well, the way I see it, there is a difference between "I want it" and "I need it" For example, Quake III is purely "I want it" (except to for those few fragaddicts.) It's not a necessity and it is not going to really make your life any easier, just more fun. So people don't mind paying for it. Something like and OS or and Office Program or VMWare becomes more of a necessity. In the case of VMWare it safes lots of rebooting time, which nobody likes to do anyhow. What good is having an OS that can stay up for years just to have to reboot into one that has to reboot practically everytime a application is installed? When something crosses the line of novelty to necessity I think it is more important that we don't have to pay for it. Besides if these people want to code this software then let them, I mean people like to code stuff, if this type of thing tickles thier fancy then it isn't just about not paying for VMWare.
In 1997 I was trained and licensed by the state of Virginia as a private investigator. I assure you that I meant no insult to those in the security field. In fact a good night watchman has excellent deductive reasoning, just like a good coder. The difference lies in the fact that deductive reasoning is a different type of knowledge than the quick learning mind of a coder. After all the heart is a very intricate and technical thing. It's not a criminal. (althought love does hurt sometimes)
You are missing the point. Even if someone had an IQ of 200 doesn't mean they could do open heart surgery if they have never been trained. Let me ask you this question. If you were dying and needed open heart surgery, but all the surgeons were unavailable. Someone was going to have to take a crash course in open heart surgery. Would you rather that person be a skilled programmer or the night watchman at the all nite chicken shack? While I'll admit your chances of living through open heart surgery performed under any kind of crash course aren't very good, so this might not make the best analogy, but I for one would take more comfort in the fact that the programmer would have a better retention for knowledge then the night watchman. *Disclaimer*, this is not an insult to any employees of the all night chicken shack.
As my sig file used to say "Windows hasn't increased computer literacy, it's lowered the standard". I fancied myself a programmer back in my DOS days when I did simple 3d engines and tile based games. Then I come to UNIX and I'm in like...programmer heaven. I don't want to start a Windows-Linux flame war but I really do think that the UNIX way of doing things keeps you on your toes mentally. I mean there is no doubt that UNIX isn't for the layman, yet a layman could learn it if he wanted and then not be a layman anymore. If he got more computer savy by learning UNIX and its more bare boned ways of doing things, then why not give credit to the OS. Of course Windows did teach me one thing UNIX hasn't. Patience. Nothing like having to debug a program on an OS that crashes frequently anyway. As one Windows-programmer friend of mine said "It's hard to tell when a crash is your fault or Windows' fault":)
I think it does seem almost obvious that those with high intellect jobs would seem to get more and more intelligent. I think you sort of perfect the thinking process so to speak. For example as someone who enjoys programming, a very seldom see a great looking game without also seeing lines of code mysteriously floating around in my head as I try to figure out how they did it. Now as I have taken my interests into more scientific areas I can't hardly sleep anymore becuase I am always trying to invent some crazy new concept in my head. I can't count the number of things I have thought out completely from beginning to end and the said "well that was fun, lets move on" The point of all this is that when you work in a high-thought area you really become used to figuring things out and suddenly you find yourself doing it automatically. Therefore it only stands to reason that you would self-teach yourself as you progress. I guess we could think of the brain like just about any other part of the body, when a body part is put to work alot it (particularly muscle) grows. If our brain is using up all it synapses figuring out things like lines of code in the newest Playstation game or how to build a stunt kite powered by the Biesfield-Brown effect, it has to create some new synapses to do the rest of the thinking. Incidently it would be a great experiment to test the IQ of a person as they start a job and test it again a about 10-20 years after they start the job. (Sorry if that was in the article I didn't read it)
This is really just causing criminals to create a new way to commit an old crime. Think about it. the IRS here in the US has for all of it's life, been able to look into the books of companies. But that didn't stop them from fixing the books. Now the Australian criminals will just have to put up decoy info on the server and keep the pertinet stuff some where else. Like say for example a LAN. The bad guys (errr Australian gov.) would have to be in the room with the computers to hack a network with no outside connection. Beside, who keeps info that could breach national security on a public server anyhow?
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There are actually a whole lot of them in there that make sense like this one. What is so stupid about a law than bans making unsafe cribs? I think maybe they just needed some filler or something, but if you read the site there are plenty of "Hey what's wrong with that one" type laws, maybe they should rename the site to www.littleknownlaws.com or something or either take out the legitimate ones, it makes is sound like they are for infant death.
I actually had a book of dumb laws when I was a kid. Probably still got it around here somewhere. It's very strange how addicting stuff like that is. I remember every time I would re-find the book I would just intend to read one or two dumb laws then end up reading the whole book. Like most people I would like to know how the laws started but more importantly I would like to know how you would get caught. Like some people have said that oral sex was illegal at one time, but in order to get caught the cop would have to break into your house, then your bedroom. At which point I would assume the mood would be killed and there would be nothing to catch you doing. And how on earth are the cops going to know that a donkey is in your bathtub?:)
OK lets say for a minute you block out all the ads. Do you think for a minut that CmdrTaco and the like are going to keep up slashdot if they aren't making any money? Come on people have to make a living and lots of websites take all day to maintain. If we see the removal of banner ads then we see the inclusion of a membership fee for the site. Geez I get so sick of people complaining about ads, I suppose you think all TV Shows should be commercial free and we all should just pay out our asses to support the multi-million dollar tv shows they air too. huh? Like it our not, those ads provide a way for people to get paid without you giving them money, you should be thankful. I can understand your gripe with something like Geocities that just pops it up in your face which is wrong, or porn sites that have 50 banners and no content, but some people like to eat and if you don't pay them for thier work and the banner companies will, then so be it.
Oh yeah, I think I remember reading somewhere that Mozilla/Netscape 5.0 will be able to be "themed" sorta like the lycos browser or the neoplanet browser on IE. Or can Netscape for Windows already do that?
Actually I think they might have been talking about IE? That part confused me too, but it seems as thought that might have meant IE 5.0 to IE 5.5, because IE 5.5 is supposed to be coming out and the article said that there wasn't going to be a big difference between 4.7 and 5.5, but netscape was totally rewriting the code and the look of the browser. That doesn't really make sense if they are referring to Netscape both times. It would make sense to say IE 5.0 won't be that big of a difference from IE 5.5, but netscape 5.0 is a total rewrite. So both browser should be on level playing ground again. Of course I could be horribly wrong. BTW: Does anybody know what the "big" features of the 5th generation browsers are. It seems like the 2nd generation brought in frames and stuff, and the 3rd generation brought in javascript or whatever, then the 4th generation were big into dynamic html and css and stuff. What is the "must have" feature in 5th generation browsers? *Disclaimer* The above history of browsers is very likely to be very wrong, I just meant that each new browser has introduced something big.
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"Duh, I don't know, uninstall then reinstall the driver for that hardware"
"Duh, I don't know, reinstall Windows"
"That bug is fixed in the new release just go buy the update for $90"
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I still don't understand a word
As I said in another reply, I like you, don't know how much illegal stuff is in there and don't really want to look and see, but I just think a *sign* like that is worth looking into. Kinda like if I were to open a store with the name "John's Big 'Ole House a' Marijuana" I wouldn't be offended if cops came in everday with a search warrant.
So in order to determine whether the material is indeed objectionable, they'd have to check, and possibly violate the law by posessing (for however a short time) child pornography. Ugly situation for the censors to be in
Well I would agree that censors might not want to look at that kind of stuff, I can imagine the kind of bitterness for the world you could develop if it was your job to look at little kids getting abused all day, but as far as them possessing it, isn't it already on the ISP's servers?
I guess you make a valid point. I don't guess the ISP's can look at the content of every group on a regular basis. But I don't know have you ever seen some of the names of these groups? Things like alt.binary.pictures.erotica.pre-teen.hardcore and stuff. I know if I was an ISP a name like that would definetly be red flag and I would stay away from it.
I guess to answer your question they should not IMHO carry stuff that the government deems legal enough to have like task forces for and stuff. I mean kid porn is practically it's own branch of the police office and there are arrests everyday. Pirating brand new software is something that arrests are made for I am sure on a frequent basis. I don't think anyone has EVER been arrested for carrying commadore64 binaries in modern times.
Maybe the best way to do it would be to let the government decide. I know everyone here is against government regulations but it just disgusts me that some scumbag could take nude and or x rated photos of my kid sister or later on my daughter and post them on the internet for all to see. I admit I don't know how much of the content of those groups really is illegal and I don't really want to find out, but with such an illegal "gateway" staring us in the face I would think there would be something we could do.
Regardless of what sick and perverted view you might take on the matter the content is ILLEGAL and the ISP's have a general idea what the content is when the support the newsgroup. And what is this 'sharing information' crap, if I give your kid some heroin all I am doing is sharing chemicals, or if I steal your car all I am doing is "sharing" it with you.
Sharing information like anything else can be harmful, imagine if I gave secret US military info to the chinese government, would that not be wrong, I mean after all I am only sharing information, who cares if the chinese are going to use it to destroy the US? I was just sharing info right?
As far as Warez goes you are just transferring bits but you are transferring copyrighted bits, which has never been legal, and rightfully so, if someone creates something then they have the right to say what is done with it.
And kid porn, you don't think looking at that is harmful, I tell you what why don't we see what would happen to your opinion if your daughter or sister or whatever gets raped by some dirty old man that likes "'dem yung tings he seen online"
The ISP's have to ok the newsgroup so they obviously know by OKing a newgroup with the words pictures and pedophilia or binaries and warez that they will be carrying illegal content. Should they be held liable for such an outright disregard for human decency?
"When yous comes to Slashdot yous can git desinformation, dats all about da issues." It's obvious to me that the poster is either from the ghetto or was an extra on deliverence.
Well, let me just point out that there are companies producing commercial X-servers and doing quite well at it, even thought XFree86 exists. AND not only does XFree86 exist but it comes with every distribution. If these X-server companies can compete with the out-of-box solution than VMWare can compete with FreeMWare. I mean Wine hasn't replaced Windows yet has it? The folks at VMWare just have to raise the bar alittle. Since they are making money they just need to sink a little of it back into the software. If they can't raise the bar and compete with the free stuff then they never deserved to be in business in the first place.
So what I want to know is if anyone can tell me if FreeMWare will be able to just boot from my existing Windows partition, or if that is even possible?
Something like and OS or and Office Program or VMWare becomes more of a necessity. In the case of VMWare it safes lots of rebooting time, which nobody likes to do anyhow. What good is having an OS that can stay up for years just to have to reboot into one that has to reboot practically everytime a application is installed? When something crosses the line of novelty to necessity I think it is more important that we don't have to pay for it.
Besides if these people want to code this software then let them, I mean people like to code stuff, if this type of thing tickles thier fancy then it isn't just about not paying for VMWare.
While I'll admit your chances of living through open heart surgery performed under any kind of crash course aren't very good, so this might not make the best analogy, but I for one would take more comfort in the fact that the programmer would have a better retention for knowledge then the night watchman.
*Disclaimer*, this is not an insult to any employees of the all night chicken shack.
Of course Windows did teach me one thing UNIX hasn't. Patience. Nothing like having to debug a program on an OS that crashes frequently anyway. As one Windows-programmer friend of mine said "It's hard to tell when a crash is your fault or Windows' fault"
Now as I have taken my interests into more scientific areas I can't hardly sleep anymore becuase I am always trying to invent some crazy new concept in my head. I can't count the number of things I have thought out completely from beginning to end and the said "well that was fun, lets move on"
The point of all this is that when you work in a high-thought area you really become used to figuring things out and suddenly you find yourself doing it automatically. Therefore it only stands to reason that you would self-teach yourself as you progress.
I guess we could think of the brain like just about any other part of the body, when a body part is put to work alot it (particularly muscle) grows. If our brain is using up all it synapses figuring out things like lines of code in the newest Playstation game or how to build a stunt kite powered by the Biesfield-Brown effect, it has to create some new synapses to do the rest of the thinking.
Incidently it would be a great experiment to test the IQ of a person as they start a job and test it again a about 10-20 years after they start the job. (Sorry if that was in the article I didn't read it)
Beside, who keeps info that could breach national security on a public server anyhow?
I think maybe they just needed some filler or something, but if you read the site there are plenty of "Hey what's wrong with that one" type laws, maybe they should rename the site to www.littleknownlaws.com or something or either take out the legitimate ones, it makes is sound like they are for infant death.
Like most people I would like to know how the laws started but more importantly I would like to know how you would get caught. Like some people have said that oral sex was illegal at one time, but in order to get caught the cop would have to break into your house, then your bedroom. At which point I would assume the mood would be killed and there would be nothing to catch you doing.
And how on earth are the cops going to know that a donkey is in your bathtub?
Geez I get so sick of people complaining about ads, I suppose you think all TV Shows should be commercial free and we all should just pay out our asses to support the multi-million dollar tv shows they air too. huh?
Like it our not, those ads provide a way for people to get paid without you giving them money, you should be thankful. I can understand your gripe with something like Geocities that just pops it up in your face which is wrong, or porn sites that have 50 banners and no content, but some people like to eat and if you don't pay them for thier work and the banner companies will, then so be it.
BTW: Does anybody know what the "big" features of the 5th generation browsers are. It seems like the 2nd generation brought in frames and stuff, and the 3rd generation brought in javascript or whatever, then the 4th generation were big into dynamic html and css and stuff. What is the "must have" feature in 5th generation browsers?
*Disclaimer* The above history of browsers is very likely to be very wrong, I just meant that each new browser has introduced something big.