FA+
Shop
a less angry update
19 years ago
I have a bit of a headache, though I haven't had any alcohol for over 2 months.
I was camwhoring the other day, and discovered that if I gell my hair back, I can look similar to the tetragrammaton cleric in Equilibrium.
A project I'm involved with 'changed hands' recently. Although I'm really ticked off about the whole thing, it got me thinking. I don't think it is very professional to care who is in charge, I should focus on the code and only the code. Emotions simply don't factor in. I guess I'm not the stereotypical cold, hard programmer... not yet anyway (but I'll be working on that).
In other events, I've been playing some Animal Crossing Wild World, and Oblivion. It is nice to see that my gaming computer can still perform decently, even before I upgrade it (maybe later this year). I suppose I also ought to work on my website, but perhaps later.
Also, if you haven't read this, you should: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html (I'm a member of both the eff and the fsf, so I tend to evangelize about these sorts of things, please humor me by at least skimming it)
"The right to read is a battle being fought today. Although it may take 50 years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity, most of the specific laws and practices described above have already been proposed; many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere. In the US, the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act established the legal basis to restrict the reading and lending of computerized books (and other data too). The European Union imposed similar restrictions in a 2001 copyright directive.
Until recently, there was one exception: the idea that the FBI and Microsoft will keep the root passwords for personal computers, and not let you have them, was not proposed until 2002. It is called "trusted computing" or "palladium".
In 2001, Disney-funded Senator Hollings proposed a bill called the SSSCA that would require every new computer to have mandatory copy-restriction facilities that the user cannot bypass. Following the Clipper chip and similar US government key-escrow proposals, this shows a long-term trend: computer systems are increasingly set up to give absentees with clout control over the people actually using the computer system. The SSSCA has since been renamed to the CBDTPA (think of it as the "Consume But Don't Try Programming Act")."
I was camwhoring the other day, and discovered that if I gell my hair back, I can look similar to the tetragrammaton cleric in Equilibrium.
A project I'm involved with 'changed hands' recently. Although I'm really ticked off about the whole thing, it got me thinking. I don't think it is very professional to care who is in charge, I should focus on the code and only the code. Emotions simply don't factor in. I guess I'm not the stereotypical cold, hard programmer... not yet anyway (but I'll be working on that).
In other events, I've been playing some Animal Crossing Wild World, and Oblivion. It is nice to see that my gaming computer can still perform decently, even before I upgrade it (maybe later this year). I suppose I also ought to work on my website, but perhaps later.
Also, if you haven't read this, you should: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html (I'm a member of both the eff and the fsf, so I tend to evangelize about these sorts of things, please humor me by at least skimming it)
"The right to read is a battle being fought today. Although it may take 50 years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity, most of the specific laws and practices described above have already been proposed; many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere. In the US, the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act established the legal basis to restrict the reading and lending of computerized books (and other data too). The European Union imposed similar restrictions in a 2001 copyright directive.
Until recently, there was one exception: the idea that the FBI and Microsoft will keep the root passwords for personal computers, and not let you have them, was not proposed until 2002. It is called "trusted computing" or "palladium".
In 2001, Disney-funded Senator Hollings proposed a bill called the SSSCA that would require every new computer to have mandatory copy-restriction facilities that the user cannot bypass. Following the Clipper chip and similar US government key-escrow proposals, this shows a long-term trend: computer systems are increasingly set up to give absentees with clout control over the people actually using the computer system. The SSSCA has since been renamed to the CBDTPA (think of it as the "Consume But Don't Try Programming Act")."
