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8 Jun 10 - 20:18
Nero wrote:
Sentynel wrote:Now reading The Cuckoo's Egg - Cliff Stoll, a classic of hacker culture literature; the true story of an astrophysicist-turned-hacker who, in the mid 80s, is asked to track down the source of a 75 cent accounting error in their mainframe, and discovers evidence of and sets out to track down the cracker responsible.
That's a damn huge percent.
75 cents. As in, $0.75. They assumed it was just a rounding glitch, hence it being given to the author (who was new on the job) to track down. But instead it led to evidence of a hacker passing through their systems using an exploit in Emacs on his way to breaking into US military systems.
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Mwamba Higher Spirit
8 Jun 10 - 21:29
Pride and Prejudice ~Jane Austin
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Nero Higher Spirit
11 Jun 10 - 02:14
Mwamba wrote:Pride and Prejudice ~Jane Austin
Heh. Are you one of those girls who just adore Mr. Darcy? =P

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11 Jun 10 - 08:23
Nero wrote:
Mwamba wrote:Pride and Prejudice ~Jane Austin
Heh. Are you one of those girls who just adore Mr. Darcy? =P
I hate everyone in Pride and Prejudice. And I'm not sure I completed the book. I think I read the abridged version.
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Mwamba Higher Spirit
11 Jun 10 - 18:09
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:
Nero wrote:
Mwamba wrote:Pride and Prejudice ~Jane Austin
Heh. Are you one of those girls who just adore Mr. Darcy? =P
I hate everyone in Pride and Prejudice. And I'm not sure I completed the book. I think I read the abridged version.
What? No need to bash it just because it's the forerunner of chick lits. :P

The novel is alright, not my favorite but a few lines amuse me. And to my defense, it's required reading (and highlight, annotate, and journal) for school.
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Cathy Imp
14 Jun 10 - 05:39
I'm reading Monstrous Regiment.
I've discovered the delights of Discworld (Rincewind is like Barti 24/8!) and now I've spent most of my pocket money buying the books.
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14 Jun 10 - 12:06
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14 Jun 10 - 12:12
Mwamba wrote:
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:
Nero wrote:
Mwamba wrote:Pride and Prejudice ~Jane Austin
Heh. Are you one of those girls who just adore Mr. Darcy? =P
I hate everyone in Pride and Prejudice. And I'm not sure I completed the book. I think I read the abridged version.
What? No need to bash it just because it's the forerunner of chick lits. :P
No, not because it is a chick lit. I just found their priorities weird. It's from another generation, maybe that is why.
And, surprisingly, I'm reading Anne of Green Gables now. Anne irritates me too. I thought it might be like that, but my friend said the book was very good.
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Cathy Imp
14 Jun 10 - 21:02
I read Emma, and all they do is sit around (no one has a real job) and talk about getting married.

Discworld IS awesome!! The first 2 books are kind of weird and confusing, but they do get better. I've read about 15 of them already. D:
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15 Jun 10 - 14:56
Cathy wrote:I read Emma, and all they do is sit around (no one has a real job) and talk about getting married.
Hehe, yeah, that is what irritated me too. Their priorities are so weird. And Anne in Anne of Green Gables prefers to be pretty than smart.
"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men!" - Einstein
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Nero Higher Spirit
15 Jun 10 - 22:41
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:
Cathy wrote:I read Emma, and all they do is sit around (no one has a real job) and talk about getting married.
Hehe, yeah, that is what irritated me too. Their priorities are so weird. And Anne in Anne of Green Gables prefers to be pretty than smart.
Let's be honest, which girls don't wanna be pretty? Especially at her age.
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16 Jun 10 - 01:46
Um, I don't know about pretty, but I wanted to go to Hogwarts.

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Mwamba Higher Spirit
16 Jun 10 - 02:57
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:
Cathy wrote:I read Emma, and all they do is sit around (no one has a real job) and talk about getting married.
Hehe, yeah, that is what irritated me too. Their priorities are so weird. And Anne in Anne of Green Gables prefers to be pretty than smart.
Go for Virginia Woolf then. :D

Sadly enough, I find the priorities in Pride and Prejudice relevant today. Or at the very least, I can relate with the character personalities. For one thing, Bennet parents remind me of my own parents (though it's college/career instead of marriage for me.) Bingley, happy-go-lucky, not stupid but a little naive. Bingley Sister...well there's the clingy, jealous types everywhere. Charlotte, who while people would call unlucky is practical. Lydia is boycrazy and likes attention, and will just do whatever without thinking. etc. etc.

The only person whose believability seems to wane a little is Darcy. But nyeh.

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16 Jun 10 - 15:45
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nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:
Cathy wrote:I read Emma, and all they do is sit around (no one has a real job) and talk about getting married.
Hehe, yeah, that is what irritated me too. Their priorities are so weird. And Anne in Anne of Green Gables prefers to be pretty than smart.
Let's be honest, which girls don't wanna be pretty? Especially at her age.
I know there is nothing wrong in wanting to be pretty, but wishing to be prettier than smarter is quite insane. And thinking that fainting is very romantic. Okay, the age thing makes sense. Hopefully, towards the end of the book, they would show her older and, probably then, her weird ideas would change :P.
Mwamba wrote:Sadly enough, I find the priorities in Pride and Prejudice relevant today. Or at the very least, I can relate with the character personalities. For one thing, Bennet parents remind me of my own parents (though it's college/career instead of marriage for me.) Bingley, happy-go-lucky, not stupid but a little naive. Bingley Sister...well there's the clingy, jealous types everywhere. Charlotte, who while people would call unlucky is practical. Lydia is boycrazy and likes attention, and will just do whatever without thinking. etc. etc.
I don't mind the basic characteristics of a person. There will always be happy-go-lucky, naive, jealous, practical, attention-seeking people on earth. It is just that they spend so much time thinking about marriage, love, beauty etc. as if life has nothing better to offer.

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men!" - Einstein
"I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you." - Studs Terkel.
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Nero Higher Spirit
16 Jun 10 - 20:19
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:
Nero wrote:
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:
Cathy wrote:I read Emma, and all they do is sit around (no one has a real job) and talk about getting married.
Hehe, yeah, that is what irritated me too. Their priorities are so weird. And Anne in Anne of Green Gables prefers to be pretty than smart.
Let's be honest, which girls don't wanna be pretty? Especially at her age.
I know there is nothing wrong in wanting to be pretty, but wishing to be prettier than smarter is quite insane. And thinking that fainting is very romantic. Okay, the age thing makes sense. Hopefully, towards the end of the book, they would show her older and, probably then, her weird ideas would change :P.
Mwamba wrote:Sadly enough, I find the priorities in Pride and Prejudice relevant today. Or at the very least, I can relate with the character personalities. For one thing, Bennet parents remind me of my own parents (though it's college/career instead of marriage for me.) Bingley, happy-go-lucky, not stupid but a little naive. Bingley Sister...well there's the clingy, jealous types everywhere. Charlotte, who while people would call unlucky is practical. Lydia is boycrazy and likes attention, and will just do whatever without thinking. etc. etc.
I don't mind the basic characteristics of a person. There will always be happy-go-lucky, naive, jealous, practical, attention-seeking people on earth. It is just that they spend so much time thinking about marriage, love, beauty etc. as if life has nothing better to offer.
You haven't finished Anne of Green Gables? Well yes, by the end I remember she significantly matures.

And I'd like to point out that there are lots of smart girls that want to be pretty. And they're not one of those booksmart students, so they logically sound; it's more like desire to become a certain image, which is created by the media, and all of that crap that you know.

And the characters in Pride and Prejudice are rich. There's nothing for them to do. They don't need to work. All they do is lend land for rent, and collect fares.
Land + sale of land = Lots of $$$$$$$$

So in conclusion, they're bored. There's nothing else to do.
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16 Jun 10 - 21:02
Well to be fair, it is supposed to be a satire of that sort of thing. Of course, most of its fans don't seem to realize this, so that confuses everyone. Haven't read it myself, yet.


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16 Jun 10 - 23:54
FuzzyLobster wrote:Well to be fair, it is supposed to be a satire of that sort of thing. Of course, most of its fans don't seem to realize this, so that confuses everyone. Haven't read it myself, yet.
Whut?

Hmm. Didn't see that coming.
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17 Jun 10 - 16:00
wrote:You haven't finished Anne of Green Gables? Well yes, by the end I remember she significantly matures.
I finished the book now and I agree with you. And the book is nice.
wrote:And I'd like to point out that there are lots of smart girls that want to be pretty. And they're not one of those booksmart students, so they logically sound; it's more like desire to become a certain image, which is created by the media, and all of that crap that you know.
Like I said before, I'm not saying it is wrong to want to look pretty. There is absolutely nothing weird in it, and honestly, who wants to look ugly? I was just commenting on the fact that she would prefer to look pretty than be smart. Which you got to admit, is kinda stupid.
wrote:And the characters in Pride and Prejudice are rich. There's nothing for them to do. They don't need to work. All they do is lend land for rent, and collect fares.
Land + sale of land = Lots of $$$$$$$$

So in conclusion, they're bored. There's nothing else to do.
And yeah, that is why it bores me too.



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Nero Higher Spirit
17 Jun 10 - 16:21
I have finished Dune.

I don't feel like reading the sequels to be honest.
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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17 Jun 10 - 16:40
Nero wrote:I have finished Dune.

I don't feel like reading the sequels to be honest.
I've never read Dune's sequels. It stands up perfectly well on its own, and I hear the sequels are nowhere near as good.
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