I am quite aware of MIT's hacking tradition, and the use of the term hacker over that long history.
I am referring to the debate between crackers and hackers, and how hackers want the word to ONLY mean implementing a cool hack on a COMPUTER.
I am calling for the word hacker to be large enough to encompass the ingenious hacks, such as the R2D2 dome, that are not necessarily implemented in binary digits.
I bet you were the guy who wasn't laughing and cheering when the football game was interrupted.
Were you holding a beer and hotdog saying "Those MIT jerks interrupted a game I paid GOOD MONEY to see"
You worry about getting killed for a hack. Well, a great many people die laying on their couches. The sum of the probabilities of something bad out there getting you in the end is exactly 1.
The meaning of hacker has become diluted in recent times, but we must all remember and pay homage to those folks who may or may not program computers, but still implement the most ingenious hacks.
If you look at the FBI statistics for firearm deaths, you'll see that legitimate self-defense use of guns including police use results in ~3000 deaths a year.
The total number of deaths from guns is 10 times that.
That means that 9 times out of 10 when a gun goes off, it's a tragedy.
Handguns are stupid things to have. At least rifles and shotguns can't be easily hidden in your clothing, and they have a use for hunting.
Canada has the law right. The gun and ammo should only come together when you're headed out the door to get your deer. Having a gun for self-protection is irrational.
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Hi, I'm the coordinator of the Free Trek project (see web site above) and our game is portable betwen Linux and Windows (and Solaris and other UNIX too with little trouble).
I use MSVC++ 6.0 for the Windows port, but wish I didn't have to. If you need to use the Standard Template Library, you're only hope to compile is to get STLPort (www.stlport.org) and cross your fingers. Debugging that crap is horrible because the error messages are completely un-helpful.
Microsoft has a long way to go before their development tools are enterprise ready.
These error numbers are completely STUPID. I propose another Slashdot effect for good. Everyone should write an e-mail to RealAudio slamming them for putting assinined error numbers in their program.
How much spam do people get from the Concentric Network? Not much. In the past month, I've gotten 3 mails, and in the year before that, nothing at all. Those 3 unlucky fools who spammed me from Concentric were charged $200 for each incident.
It's not that hard. They already have their credit card number. If uu.net started charging people $200 for each spam incident, then uu.net would instantly stop being a spam haus.
This is the only thing that really really works. How can we start a public movement to make people adopt this sort of license?
I'm more like the foolhardy WWI officer marching along the top of the trench, daring anyone and everyone to shoot at me, because I know that I am wearing a Kevlar vest which can stop a tank round.
Or something like that. Spammers can e-mail me at pdrap@concentric.net, and I promise that I'll f**k you up as hard as I can.
Everyone here knows how to sign up for a free e-mail account from wherever, and how to make it forward all incoming mail to a third e-mail address.
What would be the effect if everyone set up a free e-mail address forwarding to the representative of your choice, and posting the address on the Usenet?
Note that I am not advocating this, I'm just wondering what would happen?:-)
Back in the early 1990's Cyrix had superior floating point performance.
Too bad they didn't keep that advantage. Floating point performance is more important than CPU performance for many games, and it would have made a difference in my processor decision.
I bought an Intel Celery 300a because of the floating point performance. I will probably buy a K7 in the future because it looks like the K7 will beat Intel (but who really knows for sure?)
Running Linux, my 300a Celeron isn't any faster than my Pentium 133. The system feels exactly the same. Compiles go quicker, but X runs just as fast on slow chips. That's because Linux is so fast on just about any computer, it's hard to tell the difference from ludicrous speed and "plaid." So, for my purposes, I don't care a bit about how fast the CPU integer performance is. The extra floating point kick makes a big difference when I am gaming though.
Cyrix could have carved out the entire gaming niche for itself if only they had built a CPU with P-200 integer performance, but with super duper floating point performance.
National Semiconductor is getting spanked by Intel. NS makes a lot of different products which could make a lot of money. Competing with Intel is expensive.
If pushing multiple keys for a single character is causing a slight deficiency in your efficiency, then maybe someone can invent a keyboard where every letter can be typed with a single keystroke.
And, it will autoconfigure itself to send encrypted packets to encryption capable sites. No admin intevention is needed. As more and more people use the encryption software, the more useful it becomes. Kind of like everything else.
I am so sick of the Linux is hard comments. Just last night i was fighting with my system to install Windows 95 in a partition.
Why in the hell doesn't Microsoft just put a fricking CD-ROM driver in their OS that works? I have a standard ATAPI CD-ROM and their ATAPI-CD.sys device driver doesn't know about it. I fixed the problem and copied a driver from another machine and installed.
Linux never every gave me a bit of trouble during an install, and that's going back all the way to the 0.97pl4 days in Jun3 1993. Linux is EZ!
Hahahahaha! You don't understand anything, do you? Your education a bit lacking, eh?
Russia supports Serbs for a lot of reasons, but the biggest reason is that Serbs use the same character set. Serbian and Croatian is the same language, except that Croatians use the Latin alphabet, and Serbians use the Cyrillic alphabet. The two can speak to each other and understand each other, but they write the same language differently. Russians stick by Serbs because there is a shared language and political heritage there. It's little different than the "special relationship" between us here in the colonies and Great Britain.
AND, having said that, you need to understand the importance of language in Eastern Europe. In that area of the world, people kill people who fall into the category of "THEM." How do you know who's US and THEM so you don't kill the wrong people? Easy. You can see what church they walk into, or you can find out what language they speak.
So, without realizing it, you've fallen into the same trap that has plagued Eastern Europe for hundreds of years. Don't divide the world into US and THEM, because after you do that you start thinking that OUR shit doesn't stink, and you've got to kill THEM.
The first time I wrote a letter to a newspaper editor, he kindly changed a 'was' to a 'were' and screwed up my subject/verb agreement. I was royally pissed off, because the letter was about the school system, and I was still in High School. All my English teachers saw it, and probably thought I was the one who made the mistake.
I also got a "Last Word" letter printed in "The New Scientist" and although my letter was crystal clear, the editor decided to change my wording so that the published letter actually said exactly the OPPOSITE of what I had written to him.
I wrote to the editor that aboriginal peoples in the far north now wear glasses in the same proportions that other peoples in the world do. This is because the eye has a feedback mechanism which causes it to enlongate to the proper degree as it develops, depending on what the eye is looking at most of the time. Now that aboriginal peoples read books and go to school, the feedback mechanism is causing the eye to develop in a more enlongated way, causing near sightedness.
The idiot editor at "The New Scientist" changed my letter to say that the eyestrain from switching back and forth from books to polarbears and seals at a distance causes nearsightedness! Bah! It's damn frustrating.
I almost forgot to add that it would really suck if somebody just build one really huge radio tower for the entire planet and made a giant single segment Ethernet.
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I am quite aware of MIT's hacking tradition, and the use of the term hacker over that long history.
I am referring to the debate between crackers and hackers, and how hackers want the word to ONLY mean implementing a cool hack on a COMPUTER.
I am calling for the word hacker to be large enough to encompass the ingenious hacks, such as the R2D2 dome, that are not necessarily implemented in binary digits.
I bet you were the guy who wasn't laughing and cheering when the football game was interrupted.
Were you holding a beer and hotdog saying "Those MIT jerks interrupted a game I paid GOOD MONEY to see"
You worry about getting killed for a hack. Well, a great many people die laying on their couches. The sum of the probabilities of something bad out there getting you in the end is exactly 1.
The meaning of hacker has become diluted in recent times, but we must all remember and pay homage to those folks who may or may not program computers, but still implement the most ingenious hacks.
If you look at the FBI statistics for firearm deaths, you'll see that legitimate self-defense use of guns including police use results in ~3000 deaths a year.
The total number of deaths from guns is 10 times that.
That means that 9 times out of 10 when a gun goes off, it's a tragedy.
Handguns are stupid things to have. At least rifles and shotguns can't be easily hidden in your clothing, and they have a use for hunting.
Canada has the law right. The gun and ammo should only come together when you're headed out the door to get your deer. Having a gun for self-protection is irrational.
Hi, I'm the coordinator of the Free Trek project (see web site above) and our game is portable betwen Linux and Windows (and Solaris and other UNIX too with little trouble).
I use MSVC++ 6.0 for the Windows port, but wish I didn't have to. If you need to use the Standard Template Library, you're only hope to compile is to get STLPort (www.stlport.org) and cross your fingers. Debugging that crap is horrible because the error messages are completely un-helpful.
Microsoft has a long way to go before their development tools are enterprise ready.
Or, Error 1.
These error numbers are completely STUPID. I propose another Slashdot effect for good. Everyone should write an e-mail to RealAudio slamming them for putting assinined error numbers in their program.
Oh yea. That's who I meant. At least I didn't say Ritchie.
Maybe Kernigan would like to make a similar news release?
I totally agree.
How much spam do people get from the Concentric Network? Not much. In the past month, I've gotten 3 mails, and in the year before that, nothing at all. Those 3 unlucky fools who spammed me from Concentric were charged $200 for each incident.
It's not that hard. They already have their credit card number. If uu.net started charging people $200 for each spam incident, then uu.net would instantly stop being a spam haus.
This is the only thing that really really works. How can we start a public movement to make people adopt this sort of license?
I'm more like the foolhardy WWI officer marching along the top of the trench, daring anyone and everyone to shoot at me, because I know that I am wearing a Kevlar vest which can stop a tank round.
Or something like that. Spammers can e-mail me at pdrap@concentric.net, and I promise that I'll f**k you up as hard as I can.
Everyone here knows how to sign up for a free e-mail account from wherever, and how to make it forward all incoming mail to a third e-mail address.
:-)
What would be the effect if everyone set up a free e-mail address forwarding to the representative of your choice, and posting the address on the Usenet?
Note that I am not advocating this, I'm just wondering what would happen?
Back in the early 1990's Cyrix had superior floating point performance.
Too bad they didn't keep that advantage. Floating point performance is more important than CPU performance for many games, and it would have made a difference in my processor decision.
I bought an Intel Celery 300a because of the floating point performance. I will probably buy a K7 in the future because it looks like the K7 will beat Intel (but who really knows for sure?)
Running Linux, my 300a Celeron isn't any faster than my Pentium 133. The system feels exactly the same. Compiles go quicker, but X runs just as fast on slow chips. That's because Linux is so fast on just about any computer, it's hard to tell the difference from ludicrous speed and "plaid." So, for my purposes, I don't care a bit about how fast the CPU integer performance is. The extra floating point kick makes a big difference when I am gaming though.
Cyrix could have carved out the entire gaming niche for itself if only they had built a CPU with P-200 integer performance, but with super duper floating point performance.
National Semiconductor is getting spanked by Intel. NS makes a lot of different products which could make a lot of money. Competing with Intel is expensive.
will be nothing at all. On the other hand, if the Star Wars movie sucks, make sure you're stocked up on rice, beans, lard, and water. You'll need it.
A large microwave oven would work just as well, and since it's household technology it should be a lot cheaper than a fancy scanning X-ray machine.
Just arrest the guys who emit sparks...
If pushing multiple keys for a single character is causing a slight deficiency in your efficiency, then maybe someone can invent a keyboard where every letter can be typed with a single keystroke.
Remember, I thought of the idea first...
Creative thinks they know what fonts I like better than me, eh?
Well, their thoughtfulness has made the entire site completely illegible to me. I can't read a single word in their crappily fonted web site.
Stay away from perl. Use TCL instead.
And, it will autoconfigure itself to send encrypted packets to encryption capable sites. No admin intevention is needed. As more and more people use the encryption software, the more useful it becomes. Kind of like everything else.
I am so sick of the Linux is hard comments. Just last night i was fighting with my system to install Windows 95 in a partition.
Why in the hell doesn't Microsoft just put a fricking CD-ROM driver in their OS that works? I have a standard ATAPI CD-ROM and their ATAPI-CD.sys device driver doesn't know about it. I fixed the problem and copied a driver from another machine and installed.
Linux never every gave me a bit of trouble during an install, and that's going back all the way to the 0.97pl4 days in Jun3 1993. Linux is EZ!
Even freakier, I dated three different women who had birthdays on January 19th. Then I wised up and my wife's birthday is January 17th.
I like to think that the course of my life has been completely determined by the birthday paradox.
Hahahahaha! You don't understand anything, do you? Your education a bit lacking, eh?
Russia supports Serbs for a lot of reasons, but the biggest reason is that Serbs use the same character set. Serbian and Croatian is the same language, except that Croatians use the Latin alphabet, and Serbians use the Cyrillic alphabet. The two can speak to each other and understand each other, but they write the same language differently. Russians stick by Serbs because there is a shared language and political heritage there. It's little different than the "special relationship" between us here in the colonies and Great Britain.
AND, having said that, you need to understand the importance of language in Eastern Europe. In that area of the world, people kill people who fall into the category of "THEM." How do you know who's US and THEM so you don't kill the wrong people? Easy. You can see what church they walk into, or you can find out what language they speak.
So, without realizing it, you've fallen into the same trap that has plagued Eastern Europe for hundreds of years. Don't divide the world into US and THEM, because after you do that you start thinking that OUR shit doesn't stink, and you've got to kill THEM.
End of lesson.
The first time I wrote a letter to a newspaper editor, he kindly changed a 'was' to a 'were' and screwed up my subject/verb agreement. I was royally pissed off, because the letter was about the school system, and I was still in High School. All my English teachers saw it, and probably thought I was the one who made the mistake.
I also got a "Last Word" letter printed in "The New Scientist" and although my letter was crystal clear, the editor decided to change my wording so that the published letter actually said exactly the OPPOSITE of what I had written to him.
I wrote to the editor that aboriginal peoples in the far north now wear glasses in the same proportions that other peoples in the world do. This is because the eye has a feedback mechanism which causes it to enlongate to the proper degree as it develops, depending on what the eye is looking at most of the time. Now that aboriginal peoples read books and go to school, the feedback mechanism is causing the eye to develop in a more enlongated way, causing near sightedness.
The idiot editor at "The New Scientist" changed my letter to say that the eyestrain from switching back and forth from books to polarbears and seals at a distance causes nearsightedness! Bah! It's damn frustrating.
Anyone in Ausin TX need a Linux guy who's been programming since 1982, and running Linux since 0.97pl4 (June 1993) ? I'm experienced in C++ and UML.
I almost forgot to add that it would really suck if somebody just build one really huge radio tower for the entire planet and made a giant single segment Ethernet.