...but when I used to play such games regularly, I had names like Faith, Hope and Charity for fighters. Other characters (rogues and mages) included Hittem Hie, Kickum Lough, the twins Hittim and Bashem Harde, Castem Quik, Blastem Nowe and his sister Zappum.
...that this idea ties in with my fondness for music boxes. I am firmly convinced that had the average hacker been born a hundred years earlier they would've been clockmakers and music box makers.
Music boxes are fun. They are genuine musical instruments, but they are chock full of little mechanical spinny bits. And orchestrions! It's a little-known fact that those things are just computers that play music. Just because the logic is implemented using pneumatic gates doesn't mean they aren't Turing complete.
I've gotten that one several times, and I always have the same reply: "So the covers won't drop in. Now, can YOU tell ME why manhole covers in Nashua, NH are triangular?"
It's a pity we are losing those covers as the city tries to rebuild its infrastructure. For those not in the know, Nashua and one other city in this country had manhole systems designed by a man in the early part of this century who realized that a three-point support system for a manhole cover would minimize the "clunk-clunk" effect of an even slightly warped round manhole cover as you drove over it.
And what other city shares this distinction with Nashua? Well, they've mostly replaced those old covers, since you can't get them anymore, but that town which shares this distinction with Nashua is New York City.
And I've never had anyone at an interview be able to tell me any of THAT.
Lasts forever on a set of batteries, has either Reverse-Polish-Lisp or a new Basic-style lisp plus machine language. A meg of RAM, good display. You can also program it in C with the Saturn GCC port, but that's a cross-compiler, you need another computer to run it. Most PDA's aren't good at self-hosted program development, the 49 is great at it.
*I* can remember the last time I used a pay phone. Or TRIED to, that is. Unless you are dragging around deep pockets full of change they are totally useless. The chances of finding one that would honor your call card is miniscule, the operators are unhelpful, the connection quality is lousy, the service totally non-existent. That last miserable, unsuccessful, money and time-wasting experience drove me to cell phones, and I'm not looking back. Let them join the other Bad Things of ancient history like bubonic plague and President Clinton.
Just how are you supposed to be able to tell what is proprietary code? Unless they thoughtfully marked each block they touched, and each file they added with some helpful comment to allow you to identify it then they are indulging in a catch-22. If their code is marked, fine, remove it. If it isn't, sorry, they need to identify it so you can remove it. It is not up to you to have to guess what is proprietary and what is not.
Anyone sending threats gets a form letter. "I intend to release this code under the GPL on dd/mmm/yyyy, if you have proprietary code you do not wish disclosed please send me a patch removing the code or some other reasonable means for me to identify and remove it. Failure to do so implies informed consent to publish under the GPL."
Sadly, chances are you will wind up in court anyway, so have a lawyer on retainer and primed to deal with people who will almost certainly try to bully you with legal harrassment.
In the US the inmates are clearly running the asylum, but to anyone who has actually read any of their history, I wouldn't try to out-weird a Russian. Not only would it be extremely difficult, in the final analysis - what would it say about the US to succeed?
>When was the last time you saw a phone that would >let you dial a number?
Let's see...it was about a month ago. We were visiting my step-mother-in-law on Cape Cod. She still has her original-issue standard Bell tabletop phone. The handset weighs about five pounds. And yes you dial - with the little round dialing thingy - zick-clickclickclickclick, zick-clickclick, zickclickclickclick.
Sadly, it was disconnected. She has a new wireless phone/answering machine/microwave/blender/carjack unit that can dial in eight different languages. I couldn't figure out how to play back messages...control/alt/meta/cokebottle-something.. .
I don't think so. I think you are right that that's what the Founding Fathers intended, but in actual practice, yes, I think the law is code and, yes, programmers of the law (more often called "lawyers") do find bugs in it - and exploit them. Frequently with bizarre nomenclature, or "legalese" wouldn't be so frigging hard to figure out for normal people.
It really wouldn't surprise me if some silly dodge like this didn't work to at least some extent. The problem is, if it did the RIAA would just go back to Congress and buy some more legislation against it, and we're back to square one...
Look, the damned lawyers are hauling us up by our short hairs, we're being eaten alive by a huge raftload of bad law aided and abetted by Microsoft and others. There is no longer any question that we need protection.
It doesn't need to be elaborate. A.osilicrc file would contain a list of booleans for every approved open-source license. When an app starts up it merely calls a library function that checks to see if that file has the boolean checked and if it does not, prompts the user by command-line or dialog box to set it. The OSI licenses them- selves should be modified to note that OSI soft- ware will not run without the boolean being set, and therefore the fact that the software runs is evidence of user acceptance of the license, regardless of how the boolean came to be set, by dialog or user editing.
Distros would, of course, simply combine the above into part of the install "Do you accede to the requirements of the following OSI licenses?" and sets the file up with all booleans checked. Viola, no more hassle.
I sure wish we could, but it is a demonstratable fact that American freedoms are evaporating at what should be an alarming rate - but, to a vast majority of my countrymen, apparently including you, is not. Incidently, with the new mini-RPV units in test "for the military", those black helicopters are going to be two feet long and hovering outside your window in the next few years. I guarantee it. Only they won't be black, they'll say "So-and-so Police Department" or "FBI", or even "CIA". Or, if they are owned by the National Security Administration, perhaps they will be black and unmarked.
>The real question is: who do you trust more, the > chinese government or microsoft?
Ooooooooooo - that's a tough one. Let's, we have Tianamen Square, sneaky license agreements that effectively transfer technology to China, oh, and let's not forget buying Clinton's second term for him. I guess I'd have to say...China.
If the rules are not properly disclosed, the contract is not valid and should not be enforceable. These companies in each case failed to disclose exactly what the rules were. Entrapment, pure and simple.
They certainly do rely on compliant types like you, though, to get away with this shit.
Themes are easier to remember and much less prone to sudden inappropriateness - such as when your department suddenly reorganizes and changes it's name.
My home network is built around the server called "oz", the other systems are ozma, glinda, dorothy, auntem, scraps, etc. (for some reason, I wound up using female names only. But someday I'll set up tinman or tiktok.)
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>scanning your Fruit Loops
That's "Froot Loops", not "Fruit Loops".
If it was "Fruit Loops" they'd have to
put REAL fruit in them.
I had names like Faith, Hope and Charity for
fighters. Other characters (rogues and mages)
included Hittem Hie, Kickum Lough, the twins
Hittim and Bashem Harde, Castem Quik, Blastem
Nowe and his sister Zappum.
Exactly how does a banshee...never mind. I don't
want to know.
...that this idea ties in with my fondness
for music boxes. I am firmly convinced that
had the average hacker been born a hundred
years earlier they would've been clockmakers
and music box makers.
Music boxes are fun. They are genuine musical
instruments, but they are chock full of little
mechanical spinny bits. And orchestrions! It's
a little-known fact that those things are just
computers that play music. Just because the
logic is implemented using pneumatic gates doesn't
mean they aren't Turing complete.
> What happens when the whole system breaks down
That's why you have MRE's stacked in the cellar.
Right?
>decent sized porn clip
Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
I've gotten that one several times, and I always
have the same reply: "So the covers won't drop in.
Now, can YOU tell ME why manhole covers in Nashua,
NH are triangular?"
It's a pity we are losing those covers as the city
tries to rebuild its infrastructure. For those
not in the know, Nashua and one other city in this
country had manhole systems designed by a man in
the early part of this century who realized that
a three-point support system for a manhole cover
would minimize the "clunk-clunk" effect of an
even slightly warped round manhole cover as you
drove over it.
And what other city shares this distinction with
Nashua? Well, they've mostly replaced those old
covers, since you can't get them anymore, but that
town which shares this distinction with Nashua is
New York City.
And I've never had anyone at an interview be able
to tell me any of THAT.
Lasts forever on a set of batteries, has
either Reverse-Polish-Lisp or a new Basic-style
lisp plus machine language. A meg of RAM, good
display. You can also program it in C with the
Saturn GCC port, but that's a cross-compiler,
you need another computer to run it. Most PDA's
aren't good at self-hosted program development,
the 49 is great at it.
And then you can marry a princess with
huge...tracts of lands!
Both barrels, the pistol, and then a baseball bat.
Go Linus!
*I* can remember the last time I used a pay phone.
Or TRIED to, that is. Unless you are dragging
around deep pockets full of change they are totally
useless. The chances of finding one that would
honor your call card is miniscule, the operators
are unhelpful, the connection quality is lousy,
the service totally non-existent. That last
miserable, unsuccessful, money and time-wasting
experience drove me to cell phones, and I'm not
looking back. Let them join the other Bad Things
of ancient history like bubonic plague and
President Clinton.
Just how are you supposed to be able to tell what is proprietary code? Unless they thoughtfully marked each block they touched, and each file they added with some helpful comment to allow you to identify it then they are indulging in a catch-22. If their code is marked, fine, remove it. If it isn't, sorry, they need to identify it so you can remove it. It is not up to you to have to guess what is proprietary and what is not.
Anyone sending threats gets a form letter. "I intend to release this code under the GPL on dd/mmm/yyyy, if you have proprietary code you do not wish disclosed please send me a patch removing the code or some other reasonable means for me to identify and remove it. Failure to do so implies informed consent to publish under the GPL."
Sadly, chances are you will wind up in court anyway, so have a lawyer on retainer and primed to deal with people who will almost certainly try to bully you with legal harrassment.
1. Can't happen soon enough.
2. I don't believe it for a second.
In the US the inmates are clearly running
the asylum, but to anyone who has actually
read any of their history, I wouldn't
try to out-weird a Russian. Not only would
it be extremely difficult, in the final
analysis - what would it say about the US to
succeed?
CUSTOMERS robotic and at long last his
system will be secure and copies will
never leak again.
>When was the last time you saw a phone that would
. .
>let you dial a number?
Let's see...it was about a month ago. We were
visiting my step-mother-in-law on Cape Cod. She
still has her original-issue standard Bell tabletop
phone. The handset weighs about five pounds. And
yes you dial - with the little round dialing
thingy - zick-clickclickclickclick,
zick-clickclick, zickclickclickclick.
Sadly, it was disconnected. She has a new
wireless phone/answering machine/microwave/blender/carjack unit that can
dial in eight different languages. I couldn't
figure out how to play back messages...control/alt/meta/cokebottle-something.
Anyone who hates the RIAA can't be all bad.
>The law is not code to find bugs in.
I don't think so. I think you are right that
that's what the Founding Fathers intended,
but in actual practice, yes, I think the law
is code and, yes, programmers of the law
(more often called "lawyers") do find bugs in it
- and exploit them. Frequently with bizarre
nomenclature, or "legalese" wouldn't be so
frigging hard to figure out for normal people.
It really wouldn't surprise me if some
silly dodge like this didn't work to at least
some extent. The problem is, if it did the RIAA
would just go back to Congress and buy some more
legislation against it, and we're back to square
one...
Look, the damned lawyers are hauling us up by
our short hairs, we're being eaten alive by a
huge raftload of bad law aided and abetted by
Microsoft and others. There is no longer any
question that we need protection.
It doesn't need to be elaborate. A
file would contain a list of booleans for every
approved open-source license. When an app starts
up it merely calls a library function that checks
to see if that file has the boolean checked and
if it does not, prompts the user by command-line
or dialog box to set it. The OSI licenses them-
selves should be modified to note that OSI soft-
ware will not run without the boolean being set,
and therefore the fact that the software runs is
evidence of user acceptance of the license,
regardless of how the boolean came to be set, by
dialog or user editing.
Distros would, of course, simply combine the
above into part of the install "Do you accede
to the requirements of the following OSI
licenses?" and sets the file up with all booleans
checked. Viola, no more hassle.
>Can we stop with the black-helicopters...
I sure wish we could, but it is a demonstratable
fact that American freedoms are evaporating at
what should be an alarming rate - but, to
a vast majority of my countrymen, apparently
including you, is not. Incidently, with the
new mini-RPV units in test "for the military",
those black helicopters are going to be two feet
long and hovering outside your window in the next
few years. I guarantee it. Only they won't be
black, they'll say "So-and-so Police Department"
or "FBI", or even "CIA". Or, if they are owned
by the National Security Administration, perhaps
they will be black and unmarked.
>The real question is: who do you trust more, the
> chinese government or microsoft?
Ooooooooooo - that's a tough one. Let's, we
have Tianamen Square, sneaky license agreements
that effectively transfer technology to China,
oh, and let's not forget buying Clinton's second
term for him. I guess I'd have to say...China.
>On modem connections, moving to all PNG would make
>the internet completely void of all but the
>simplest graphics.
You say this like it was a bad thing.
If the rules are not properly disclosed, the
contract is not valid and should not be
enforceable. These companies in each case
failed to disclose exactly what the rules
were. Entrapment, pure and simple.
They certainly do rely on compliant types
like you, though, to get away with this
shit.
I suppose it depends on how much of a fee
you are willing to pay.
Themes are easier to remember and much less prone
to sudden inappropriateness - such as when your
department suddenly reorganizes and changes it's
name.
My home network is built around the server called
"oz", the other systems are ozma, glinda, dorothy,
auntem, scraps, etc. (for some reason, I wound up
using female names only. But someday I'll set up
tinman or tiktok.)