I remember a time when the newsgroups were full of interesting discussions about interesting things. The people there were hackers and scientists, and they had a lot of strange fetishes, but were generally very intelligent and thoughtful.
Some of these people migrated to slashdot when it started. But now, I can't even read it anymore. It's become a cesspool. Not because of trolls or anything like that, but because of the people that everyone seems to mistake for hackers now.
I just read a post there, under a story decrying software patents, by someone asserting that your brain is exactly the same as a computer, and you could run DeCSS in your head, so the DMCA outlaws your thoughts.
The level of stupidity of these people is becoming really astounding. Everyone seems to think that the only purpose of software is artistic expression, and there is no difference between a program that controls a vat of chemicals and a novel. Really, give me a break. I have a nagging suspicion that many of these guys are actually 14 year old script-kiddies who want to think they're cool because they're talking about something anti-establishment or anti-corporate.
Sure, we'll just abolish software patents. In 20 years, the only patentable things will be computer hardware and motors. (Everything else will be software.) That will be swell for the world economy, and for the U.S. in particular. We don't really need all those Microsoft employees anyway; ship 'em all off to India and let 'em work for a living like people in the 3rd world. It won't matter, because benevolent hackers working as tour-guides or cooks will make all the software we need for free...
Sorry for the sarcasm -- it's not usually my style. I'm becoming less tolerant of stupidity though. Argh.
agreed, i think its unbelivable the amount of sh*t going around on the web. I mean I try to explain things to people and they agree that i am correct but then they carry on talking about 'Hacking' servers and cpus and just a hole lot of stuff that makes no sence at all. They are so sucked in to the world of evil that they can't get out even if you tell it to them straight. If you go on a site like Progenic you will not see Lots of Security related sites but fcuking cracking...
I being part of the youth of the internet am realy pised that all my friends are blinded by this Stupidity
Shocking. It's rather depressing to see the standard of thinking, and the capacity, it would seem, for thinking declining like this. It's at times like this that I think that Aldous Huxley had a good point or two.
I hope that these people aren't the future inheritors of the earth, or the future is really sunk.
Posted by: lashlar at September 15, 2003 07:32 AM
Posted by: Mr.Mini at September 6, 2003 06:47 PM