That's quite a trick, calling leaving the country rather than appearing in court illegal. It's not illegal anymore once you're gone! And just about the whole world refuses to sign extradition treaties with the US. For minor crimes you might as well serve your sentence and get on with your life, but 30 years?! He was a millionaire living in a 3rd world country, what didn't he have in the DR?
How could anyone at slashdot take seriously a reviewer who refers to the computer case as the "CPU" and uses such language as "You just plug the CPU into the wall and away you go"?...
I don't know why stupid social outcasts would want to join us... we're the most elitist group in the world. Make a stupid comment and you're ignored or ridiculed.. write crappy software and you're hated by millions of people.. stroll into the AI lab knowing the system but making ugly code (Gerry Sussman) and you're a social outcast for a year until you can prove yourself.
That wasn't my point- you dont lose any freedoms for safety as long as you have all the passwords to your encryption. You do lose freedoms for safety when to escape from murderers on the street you offer your life in serfdom to a local lord so you can take refuge in his castle.. I meant it in a literal way. And I didn't mean all that would happen just from copyright infringement being legal, it was just a general comment about anarchy
hacker ethic applied to government = anarchy by the way... everyone's favorite form of government until they realize that nobody else has to obey any stupid rules either and suddenly it's back to living in castles and giving up a couple freedoms for safety, and etc etc you get the picture
Why do I get the feeling that you think you've just had a brilliant, novel idea? The balance between freedom and law is basically the whole of political discussion. On one end of the scale lies the hacker ethic, on the other vicious governments that highly restrict their citizens freedoms (even America restricts a baffling number of freedoms, though it's relatively good about it on a world scale)
What's the problem? If these people are flaming on the internet it's their bosses fault for firing them, 4chan isn't doing anything wrong. If you mean that teachers lose their jobs because their bad teaching is exposed through the internet then again 4chan's not doing anything wrong.
It comes of having more than 3000 edits on signed pages alone (and that being 3/5 of my edit count) it gets to be habit before hitting submit you type "--~~~~"
I have a similar problem with gmail chat (the only IM I use)... I start all my lines with "t" since I have t bound to chat in counter strike:)
Please give verifiable examples of 4channers actually going to old ladies' homes and slitting the throat of her little "emo bitch" child as a prank. No wikipedia
I hope you get modded troll into oblivion (and you will on slashdot with that anti-privacy stance). I'm sure we can all appreciate the anonymity and freedom of expression that makes this all possible, even if we disagree with the messages themselves. Personally I think it's hilarious in the first place, and even more hilarious that people think there's real danger associated with guys goofing off on the internet. Internet users need anonymity to stay ahead of those hyperconservatives who have no sense of humor / idea that nothing's serious on the interwebs.
You're obviously new here (er at 4chan). The joke is that Anonymous is a single person with enormous amounts of time on his hands who posts nearly all of 4chan by himself. --~~~~
Eh, I don't like the idea of "basic laws" like for murder never changing. Most states have mandatory immediate life-without-parole-in-adult-prison sentences for homicide even if you're as young as 13.. which seriously needs to change, and is not common sense "basic law" at all. Read the terrifying testimony here
How is there a 'limited supply' of video games? It costs virtually nothing to press a game disk, and literally nothing to download it through content delivery systems like steam (or bittorrent for that matter).
Ever used the Timex Triathlon? Finally a watch with an Up and a Down button so I don't have to push the button 45 times to get from:30 to:15. I swear by that watch- but I know what you mean, I went through elementary, middle, and high with a casio calculator watch:)
What? I don't understand your accent.. what don't you think is getting through? Did you mean:
I don't think it's getting through. Please tell me once more how Mr Jobs dislikes buttons. I don't think it's getting through. What? I don't understand your accent..
I must be new here.. don't the editors read the summaries before posting them?
"While many technology companies load their products up with buttons, Steve Jobs treats them as blemishes that add complexity and hinder their clean aesthetics. The iPhone is Steve Jobs's attempt to crack a juicy new market for Apple Inc. But it's also part of a decades-long campaign by Mr. Jobs against a much broader target: buttons. The new Apple cellphone famously does without the keypads that adorn its rivals. Instead, it offers a touch-sensing screen for making phone calls and tapping out emails. The resulting look is one of the sparest ever for Apple, a company known for minimalist gadgets. While many technology companies load their products up with buttons, Mr. Jobs treats them as blemishes that add complexity to electronics products and hinder their clean aesthetics."
Yeah, sometimes they can get pretty lame though, like the likes of "we lost x powerup in the y cage. need to requisition z weapon/strategy to defeat y and regain z".. 'inadvertantly' giving samus the info she needs to kill y.
Yeah, I agree- there are billions of dollars spent yearly on unneccessary proprietary software. Here free software can impact the Real World and save businesses real money. And think of how desktop adoption will skyrocket once peoples "computer training" field on their CV starts saying linux instead of windows because all their previous employers used it and they're more comfortable in linux than windows..
The issue is maintainability- the scheme of locking a "guru" in a closet for 5 years and telling him to write a multimillion dollar application is tried and true, but you'd have to keep him on staff for the rest of the program's use-life and hope nothing happens to him or nobody will ever be able to understand his code. I'd tend to think that software would be rock-solid though.. if you know every subroutine and layer and system perfectly well (you wrote them!) then you'd be the ideal person to try to make them all fit together securely. But like you said, any ol hacker throwback willing to dedicate 10 years of his life to writing mlocs by himself would probably be unwilling to "comply with all the regulations which say how software written for aircraft has to be tested"
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That's quite a trick, calling leaving the country rather than appearing in court illegal. It's not illegal anymore once you're gone! And just about the whole world refuses to sign extradition treaties with the US. For minor crimes you might as well serve your sentence and get on with your life, but 30 years?! He was a millionaire living in a 3rd world country, what didn't he have in the DR?
How about the Trackpoint on thinkpads and such? Everyone I know with a thinkpad (including myself :D) swears by the little thing.
How could anyone at slashdot take seriously a reviewer who refers to the computer case as the "CPU" and uses such language as "You just plug the CPU into the wall and away you go"? ...
Oops, slashdot messed up the link.
I don't know why stupid social outcasts would want to join us... we're the most elitist group in the world. Make a stupid comment and you're ignored or ridiculed.. write crappy software and you're hated by millions of people.. stroll into the AI lab knowing the system but making ugly code (Gerry Sussman) and you're a social outcast for a year until you can prove yourself.
Who thought "$50,360 price cut? I didn't think it was that expensive"?
Even inside the US, an astonishingly small number of people know who even their own senators/reps are, let alone Jack Thompson..
That wasn't my point- you dont lose any freedoms for safety as long as you have all the passwords to your encryption. You do lose freedoms for safety when to escape from murderers on the street you offer your life in serfdom to a local lord so you can take refuge in his castle.. I meant it in a literal way. And I didn't mean all that would happen just from copyright infringement being legal, it was just a general comment about anarchy
hacker ethic applied to government = anarchy by the way... everyone's favorite form of government until they realize that nobody else has to obey any stupid rules either and suddenly it's back to living in castles and giving up a couple freedoms for safety, and etc etc you get the picture
Why do I get the feeling that you think you've just had a brilliant, novel idea? The balance between freedom and law is basically the whole of political discussion. On one end of the scale lies the hacker ethic, on the other vicious governments that highly restrict their citizens freedoms (even America restricts a baffling number of freedoms, though it's relatively good about it on a world scale)
What's the problem? If these people are flaming on the internet it's their bosses fault for firing them, 4chan isn't doing anything wrong. If you mean that teachers lose their jobs because their bad teaching is exposed through the internet then again 4chan's not doing anything wrong.
It comes of having more than 3000 edits on signed pages alone (and that being 3/5 of my edit count) it gets to be habit before hitting submit you type "--~~~~" I have a similar problem with gmail chat (the only IM I use) ... I start all my lines with "t" since I have t bound to chat in counter strike :)
Please give verifiable examples of 4channers actually going to old ladies' homes and slitting the throat of her little "emo bitch" child as a prank. No wikipedia
I hope you get modded troll into oblivion (and you will on slashdot with that anti-privacy stance). I'm sure we can all appreciate the anonymity and freedom of expression that makes this all possible, even if we disagree with the messages themselves. Personally I think it's hilarious in the first place, and even more hilarious that people think there's real danger associated with guys goofing off on the internet. Internet users need anonymity to stay ahead of those hyperconservatives who have no sense of humor / idea that nothing's serious on the interwebs.
You're obviously new here (er at 4chan). The joke is that Anonymous is a single person with enormous amounts of time on his hands who posts nearly all of 4chan by himself. --~~~~
Eh, I don't like the idea of "basic laws" like for murder never changing. Most states have mandatory immediate life-without-parole-in-adult-prison sentences for homicide even if you're as young as 13.. which seriously needs to change, and is not common sense "basic law" at all. Read the terrifying testimony here
How is there a 'limited supply' of video games? It costs virtually nothing to press a game disk, and literally nothing to download it through content delivery systems like steam (or bittorrent for that matter).
So write safe code instead of goo gooing and gaa gaaing in your little interpreter sandbox hoping the java nanny will protect you.
Ever used the Timex Triathlon? Finally a watch with an Up and a Down button so I don't have to push the button 45 times to get from :30 to :15. I swear by that watch- but I know what you mean, I went through elementary, middle, and high with a casio calculator watch :)
Yeah, sometimes they can get pretty lame though, like the likes of "we lost x powerup in the y cage. need to requisition z weapon/strategy to defeat y and regain z" .. 'inadvertantly' giving samus the info she needs to kill y.
Yeah, I agree- there are billions of dollars spent yearly on unneccessary proprietary software. Here free software can impact the Real World and save businesses real money. And think of how desktop adoption will skyrocket once peoples "computer training" field on their CV starts saying linux instead of windows because all their previous employers used it and they're more comfortable in linux than windows..
How about Metroid Prime? Not a "story" per se, but the space pirate logs available through the scan visor are plenty interesting
The issue is maintainability- the scheme of locking a "guru" in a closet for 5 years and telling him to write a multimillion dollar application is tried and true, but you'd have to keep him on staff for the rest of the program's use-life and hope nothing happens to him or nobody will ever be able to understand his code. I'd tend to think that software would be rock-solid though.. if you know every subroutine and layer and system perfectly well (you wrote them!) then you'd be the ideal person to try to make them all fit together securely. But like you said, any ol hacker throwback willing to dedicate 10 years of his life to writing mlocs by himself would probably be unwilling to "comply with all the regulations which say how software written for aircraft has to be tested"