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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:56PM
(4 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:56PM (#825790)
I would recommend revisiting any of the following: .
"Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays
of Richard M. Stallman" (2002) Richard M Stallman. .
"Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution"
(2001) Glyn Moody. .
"The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age"
(2001) Pekka Himanen. . It woud be refreshing to discuss the basics again and regain some focus in these times of astroturfing and entryism.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 08 2019, @03:10AM
(1 child)
Which one burns the brightest when subjected to sufficiently high censorship? * Oryx and Crake - Book #1 of the MaddAddam trilogy - Margaret Atwood * Beggars in Spain - Book #1 of the Sleepless trilogy - Nancy Kress * Too Far - Rich Shapiro * Revolt in 2100 - (short stories collection) - Robert A. Heinlein * Morlock the Maker Short Stories - (pre-Blood of Ambrose?) - James Enge * Downbelow Station - C. J. Cherryh * Hammerfall - C. J. Cherryh * Sundiver - David Brin
Which one shines the brightest when subjected to a sufficiently high voltage and current: * mobile phone * laptop * desktop * NAS (Network Attached Storage) * the "cloud" * private server * spread around different devices (wired in series) * Other (Specify)
Which one shines the brightest when subjected to a sufficiently high voltage and current: * ARM * Intel x86 (with Management Engine) * AMD x86 (with Platform Security Processor) * Pre-2008 Intel or Pre-2013 AMD (or any models without known backdoors) * POWER or PowerPC * RISC-V * MIPS or SPARC * None of the above (comment your answer)
Which glows the brightest when supplied with a sufficiently high voltage and current: * Light bulbs * Vacuum tubes * Crystal oscillators * Transistors * Integrated Circuits * EEPROMs * LEDs * Other (Specify)
-- People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday April 12 2019, @07:22PM
(4 children)
C. S. Lewis - Space Trilogy Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Pentalogy (Ignoring the sixth one he didn't write, "And another thing ...") Douglas Adams - The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Compilation of unpublished works, interviews, etc, and his uncompleted 6th hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy novel.) J. R. R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion James S. A. Corey - Expanse Series Brent Weeks - Lightbringer Series Brandon Sanderson - Stormlight Archive
-- Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @05:48AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday April 24 2019, @05:48AM (#834235)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:56PM (4 children)
I would recommend revisiting any of the following:
.
"Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays
of Richard M. Stallman" (2002) Richard M Stallman.
.
"Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution"
(2001) Glyn Moody.
.
"The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age"
(2001) Pekka Himanen.
.
It woud be refreshing to discuss the basics again and regain some focus in these times of astroturfing and entryism.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 08 2019, @03:10AM (1 child)
Looks good. I'd like to include 1 or 2 of those next time around. There's no problem with a little non-fiction once in a while.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:47AM
Thanks!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Friday April 26 2019, @08:50AM (1 child)
Where are my mod points on this? Privileged posting, or what? Please advise.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 03 2019, @12:15AM
It's time based you doofus. You only get to mod a post for a week or two after it's made.
(Score: 2) by Some call me Tim on Monday April 08 2019, @05:54AM (1 child)
In addition to Downbelow Station, take a look at the Foreigner Series. I really enjoyed these books.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/40807-foreigner [goodreads.com]
Questioning science is how you do science!
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:57AM
Your suggestion holds great merit nand' Tim.
I say we do either Downbelow Station then Revolt in 2100, or vice versa.
And book one of the "Foreigner" series, aptly named "Foreigner."
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by DannyB on Monday April 08 2019, @07:36PM
Which one burns the brightest when subjected to sufficiently high censorship?
* Oryx and Crake - Book #1 of the MaddAddam trilogy - Margaret Atwood
* Beggars in Spain - Book #1 of the Sleepless trilogy - Nancy Kress
* Too Far - Rich Shapiro
* Revolt in 2100 - (short stories collection) - Robert A. Heinlein
* Morlock the Maker Short Stories - (pre-Blood of Ambrose?) - James Enge
* Downbelow Station - C. J. Cherryh
* Hammerfall - C. J. Cherryh
* Sundiver - David Brin
Which one shines the brightest when subjected to a sufficiently high voltage and current:
* mobile phone
* laptop
* desktop
* NAS (Network Attached Storage)
* the "cloud"
* private server
* spread around different devices (wired in series)
* Other (Specify)
Which one shines the brightest when subjected to a sufficiently high voltage and current:
* ARM
* Intel x86 (with Management Engine)
* AMD x86 (with Platform Security Processor)
* Pre-2008 Intel or Pre-2013 AMD (or any models without known backdoors)
* POWER or PowerPC
* RISC-V
* MIPS or SPARC
* None of the above (comment your answer)
Which glows the brightest when supplied with a sufficiently high voltage and current:
* Light bulbs
* Vacuum tubes
* Crystal oscillators
* Transistors
* Integrated Circuits
* EEPROMs
* LEDs
* Other (Specify)
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday April 12 2019, @07:22PM (4 children)
Can we please have a preferential ballot?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday April 12 2019, @09:14PM (3 children)
no 🙅
However, more than one winner will be selected.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @11:15AM (2 children)
O M F G
emojii? really?
What is this, friendface?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 13 2019, @11:22AM (1 child)
This the triggering 👌
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:00PM
Cha-Ching! 🤑
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 14 2019, @12:00AM (1 child)
The hit protofuturistic novel Erectus Walks Amongst Us [amazon.com] should be added to the list.
(Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Saturday April 20 2019, @02:22PM
It looks interesting, but are you trying to bankrupt the poorer soylentils? The options they give me range from $800 to $5000.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1604581212/ref=dp_olp_used_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=used [amazon.com]
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday April 15 2019, @09:39PM (1 child)
C. S. Lewis - Space Trilogy
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Pentalogy (Ignoring the sixth one he didn't write, "And another thing ...")
Douglas Adams - The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Compilation of unpublished works, interviews, etc, and his uncompleted 6th hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy novel.)
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion
James S. A. Corey - Expanse Series
Brent Weeks - Lightbringer Series
Brandon Sanderson - Stormlight Archive
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @05:48AM
The Silmarillion? Oh dear. Why?