Lots of stock market gurus are beginning to assert that wireless technology will be the the next booming market as the Internet is now.
Companies all over the planet are making billions off of the Internet. Cisco made $500 billion in only 10 years! If Transmeta is going to be such a fore-runner in the field of wireless, a field that will supposedly be exploding in value in the near future, why is 90 million dollars a lot?
Television and Newsstands are relatively easy things for the government to censor from any group (say minors for now), but the Internet is much more difficult. With television and printed media, it is easy to trace the source of the offending material back to the originating company or the distributors.
On the Internet, this is not always feasable. Thus the government will never be able to fully censor the Internet. That's why there's nothing to worry about.
It's just like saying that since we already are legally required to leash our dogs in public, it's not really a big deal to ask us to leash our kids.
I think a more a better metaphor is it's like saying that since we are legally required to leash our dogs in city parks, it's not really that big a deal to ask us to leash our dogs in national parks. We're really "leashing" the same thing: sex.
Smut is hardly a critical but controversial political opinion, so there is generally no harm in censoring it. I would go so far as to argue that a bit of political censorship is a good thing. It:
Saves people the time of having to read through useless "opinions" ("Kill all twinkies!" or something dumb, whatever)
It can be used to avoid violence by silencing pro-violence groups.
It keeps stupid people from getting confused by opinions they don't understand.
It keeps easily shocked people from getting shocked out of sanity.
Though I agree with your conundrum in general, there are most certainly web pages on the internet that are more than 9 hops from eachother if there's a path between them at all. Suppose I was to host a website which contained no external links at all? It would be impossible to hop from that site to anywhere else, hence it is an infinite number of hops away from illegal material (unless it contains illegal material).
How can AOL/Time Warner choose to "allow" sites or not? Why should little sites like slashdot care about Time ad salespeople?
I know we all suffer from largecorporationophobia here, myself included, but I don't see how controlling even 20% of the web (astronomically large unreachable figure) gives you complete control over its content. People who don't want to read AOL's propaganda can very easily find sites not run by AOL.
Furthermore, though it's true that most of the web's users are more interested in DiCaprio than De Icaza (sorry if I don't know how to spell), people in general tend to have sympathy for underdogs. That's why Linux and Be get as much publicity as they do. That's why large companies will never be able to capture more than a certain critical mass of internet content.
"And the cool part is, you can leave your motor (The lasers) at home to send out other light sails. "
Are you sure that's how it works? I though that the idea was to sail on the Sun's light, not try to shoot lasers from Earth. No matter how hard you try, lasers from Earth wont be nearly as powerfull as the Sun's broad-spectrum radiation.
Of course, when said corporations do something like open-source their NetBEUI stack (ProCom) or give away their C++ compiler for free (Borland), then all of a sudden, the Large Corporations are Linux's best friend!
I don't think the majority of people would consider Borland to be a "best friend" of Linux. I can't think of any large corporations that are "best friends".
Go Fork Yourself: A Complete Guide To UNIX Process Control by W. Richard Stevens
Well, Linux just happens to be one of the best forking kernels out there.
I'm glad the boycott hasn't faded from people's minds. The first thing I thought when I read RMS's statement (back when it had just come out) was "Unfortuneately, this will be dead within the month."
The way I see it, I'm the perfect age to be in on the nanotech revolution. I'm 16. By the time I'm in the workforce, the shit will just be hitting the fan. I am exceedingly interested in getting into this field.
So what do I major in? I was thinking I would take Engineering Physics. Is that the right route? Does anybody have any idea/clues/suggestions?
zugzan (n): pronouced TZOOK-zvang (at least where I come from). This is any position in which the player who must moves is in an apparently reasonable position, however all of his legal moves result in death. Basically it means that the player is forced to screw himself over.
This was taken from the Red Hat mailing list email message:
Tired of collecting Beanie Babies and Pokemon cards?
Christopher Robin called last night complaining about the lack of collectibles pertaining to the famous "Pooh" show. Eeyore, of course, said, "I dooon't knooow aboouuut this".... But what does Eeyore know anyway?
The result:
PIGLET
This is no ordinary pig! Stand back folks, he's large and live and ready to rumble. This pig is knocking back CPU loads of 99 whilst having tea and crumpets with Pooh Bear. This bad boy eats Lizards for breakfast and spits out kernel patches. Approach with caution, he could be dangerous!
PIGLET: Your once in a lifetime chance to have this rare collection!
This is a limited time offer, when we run out of bits, they'll be gone forever. Don't miss out folks, the Internet lines are lighting up, they're going like hotcakes, and we can't guarantee availability on this item for very long! Similar items we have provided in the past are now going for over a ONE MILLION percent gain on the original price tag of $0.
PIGLET includes the following new features:
- A new and improved Anaconda [tm] installer - Partitionless installs - Improved X Configuration - Additional GUI Partitioning tool - Software RAID Configuration in Kickstart Installations - RAID upgrades - ATAPI Zip and Jaz Drive Recognition - Rescue Disk Improvements - It works! - Rescue via the installation CD - Pico on rescue disk - mtools on rescue disk - Kernel 2.2.15 - Enhanced Software RAID - P III Enhancements - New web based High Availability Configuration Utility - Kerberos Integration - New Window Managers - New desktop backgrounds and themes - Docbook tools - Standard Samba mounts in/etc/fstab - Smaller minimal install - Separate client/server packages for servers:
PIGLET, pick up this rare find at:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat-6.2beta/
Or at a mirror near you! A list of Red Hat ftp mirrors can be had via your web browser of choice at:
http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
PIGLET is available now for Intel, Sparc and Alpha architectures. PIGLET is ONLY available through the Internet, and ONLY for a limited time!. This is a beta release of Red Hat Linux, and we don't encourage using this for mission critical applications. However, like most Red Hat beta collectibles, it is very usable for:
1) Testing those new holographic storage devices 2) Installing on all of the machines in your favorite lab 3) Seeing what that "Linux thing" is really all about 4) Preparing your thesis on "Works in progress"
We have created piglet-list for discussion of this beta release. To subscribe, merely send a message to piglet-list-request@redhat.com with the code word "subscribe" in the subject line, respond to the confirmation message request, and enjoy hours upon hours of entertaining and useful messages from hackers trying to make this thing fall down go *BOOM*...
(With a special thanks to home shopping channels everywhere!) -- /^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^ ^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^\ Dale Lovelace Red Hat, Inc. dale@redhat.com
Research, n.: Consider Columbus: He didn't know where he was going. When he got there he didn't know where he was. When he got back he didn't know where he had been. And he did it all on someone else's money.
I'm up in Beautifal British Columbia, Canada. Very often I see stories calling for political action by the free software/open source community. What can I do living in Canada? Any suggestions?
Slashdot Mirror
Ah... insider trading. Don't forget to cut me in.
HEY, LINUS! I'll work CHEAP!
Companies all over the planet are making billions off of the Internet. Cisco made $500 billion in only 10 years! If Transmeta is going to be such a fore-runner in the field of wireless, a field that will supposedly be exploding in value in the near future, why is 90 million dollars a lot?
On the Internet, this is not always feasable. Thus the government will never be able to fully censor the Internet. That's why there's nothing to worry about.
I think a more a better metaphor is it's like saying that since we are legally required to leash our dogs in city parks, it's not really that big a deal to ask us to leash our dogs in national parks. We're really "leashing" the same thing: sex.
Sex is censored everywhere in our society. Why is this something to panic about?
Though I agree with your conundrum in general, there are most certainly web pages on the internet that are more than 9 hops from eachother if there's a path between them at all. Suppose I was to host a website which contained no external links at all? It would be impossible to hop from that site to anywhere else, hence it is an infinite number of hops away from illegal material (unless it contains illegal material).
It's not a web page per se. There is no URL for it. Users access this page through their custom AOL client.
The people who wrote the quotes you mentioned are assholes, but not the one your replied to.
I know we all suffer from largecorporationophobia here, myself included, but I don't see how controlling even 20% of the web (astronomically large unreachable figure) gives you complete control over its content. People who don't want to read AOL's propaganda can very easily find sites not run by AOL.
Furthermore, though it's true that most of the web's users are more interested in DiCaprio than De Icaza (sorry if I don't know how to spell), people in general tend to have sympathy for underdogs. That's why Linux and Be get as much publicity as they do. That's why large companies will never be able to capture more than a certain critical mass of internet content.
Are you sure that's how it works? I though that the idea was to sail on the Sun's light, not try to shoot lasers from Earth. No matter how hard you try, lasers from Earth wont be nearly as powerfull as the Sun's broad-spectrum radiation.
This should NOT be -1. Just because (s)he disagrees with you doesn't mean he's a trool. Read the moderator guidelines.
Notice any problems?
Need a hint?
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I don't think the majority of people would consider Borland to be a "best friend" of Linux. I can't think of any large corporations that are "best friends".
Go Fork Yourself: A Complete Guide To UNIX Process Control by W. Richard Stevens
Well, Linux just happens to be one of the best forking kernels out there.
Well, I'm glad I was wrong!
I don't think this would make much difference speed-wise of course, but it could be helpful against memory leaks.
After all, hate is just an expression of frustration/jealosy. If you have enough food/energy, you won't wage war.
So what do I major in? I was thinking I would take Engineering Physics. Is that the right route? Does anybody have any idea/clues/suggestions?
zugzan (n): pronouced TZOOK-zvang (at least where I come from). This is any position in which the player who must moves is in an apparently reasonable position, however all of his legal moves result in death. Basically it means that the player is forced to screw himself over.
I think I emailed CmdrTaco about this in the past, and I repeat my sentiments. A puzzle section would be simply awesome!
It sure wasn't very funny. I just couldn't help but notice that your acronyms were completely stupid and unbelievable.
This was taken from the Red Hat mailing list email message:
/etc/fstab
/^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^ ^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^V^^\
Tired of collecting Beanie Babies and Pokemon cards?
Christopher Robin called last night complaining about the lack of
collectibles pertaining to the famous "Pooh" show. Eeyore, of course, said,
"I dooon't knooow aboouuut this".... But what does Eeyore know anyway?
The result:
PIGLET
This is no ordinary pig! Stand back folks, he's large and live and ready to
rumble. This pig is knocking back CPU loads of 99 whilst having tea and
crumpets with Pooh Bear. This bad boy eats Lizards for breakfast and spits
out kernel patches. Approach with caution, he could be dangerous!
PIGLET: Your once in a lifetime chance to have this rare collection!
This is a limited time offer, when we run out of bits, they'll be gone
forever. Don't miss out folks, the Internet lines are lighting up, they're
going like hotcakes, and we can't guarantee availability on this item for very
long! Similar items we have provided in the past are now going for over a
ONE MILLION percent gain on the original price tag of $0.
PIGLET includes the following new features:
- A new and improved Anaconda [tm] installer
- Partitionless installs
- Improved X Configuration
- Additional GUI Partitioning tool
- Software RAID Configuration in Kickstart Installations
- RAID upgrades
- ATAPI Zip and Jaz Drive Recognition
- Rescue Disk Improvements
- It works!
- Rescue via the installation CD
- Pico on rescue disk
- mtools on rescue disk
- Kernel 2.2.15
- Enhanced Software RAID
- P III Enhancements
- New web based High Availability Configuration Utility
- Kerberos Integration
- New Window Managers
- New desktop backgrounds and themes
- Docbook tools
- Standard Samba mounts in
- Smaller minimal install
- Separate client/server packages for servers:
PIGLET, pick up this rare find at:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat-6.2beta/
Or at a mirror near you! A list of Red Hat ftp mirrors can be had via your
web browser of choice at:
http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
PIGLET is available now for Intel, Sparc and Alpha architectures. PIGLET is
ONLY available through the Internet, and ONLY for a limited time!. This is a
beta release of Red Hat Linux, and we don't encourage using this for mission
critical applications. However, like most Red Hat beta collectibles, it is
very usable for:
1) Testing those new holographic storage devices
2) Installing on all of the machines in your favorite lab
3) Seeing what that "Linux thing" is really all about
4) Preparing your thesis on "Works in progress"
We have created piglet-list for discussion of this beta release. To
subscribe, merely send a message to piglet-list-request@redhat.com with the
code word "subscribe" in the subject line, respond to the confirmation message
request, and enjoy hours upon hours of entertaining and useful messages from
hackers trying to make this thing fall down go *BOOM*...
(With a special thanks to home shopping channels everywhere!)
--
Dale Lovelace Red Hat, Inc. dale@redhat.com
Research, n.:
Consider Columbus:
He didn't know where he was going.
When he got there he didn't know where he was.
When he got back he didn't know where he had been.
And he did it all on someone else's money.
You have contributed nothing to slashdot other than your jackass backwards .sig file.
I'm up in Beautifal British Columbia, Canada. Very often I see stories calling for political action by the free software/open source community. What can I do living in Canada? Any suggestions?