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Re:What is "Flamebait" ?
See Fla mebait
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On being politically active
...campaign donations are implicitly exchanged for influence over the political process.Perhaps slightly off topic here, but in Canada, we frown on politicians accepting bribes. This applies to most other democratic countries too, I think.
This is the American definition of "politically active", is it? Campain donor? I've always been a bit confused by the way the U.S. has so much of this going on and nobody seems to want to do much to change it.
More practically, are there ways that American geeks (not all of us are, remember) can influence the political process with less of a go-home-and-shower feeling?
Greg
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Re:A Good Thing (tm)Am I daft, or just missing something?
Good Thing®
Good Thing©
Good Thing(tm)
etc...I've seen the term here, in both the Jargon File and on Everything, but trademarks just don't seem to fit the term.
Censorship on Everything?
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Re:A Good Thing (tm)Am I daft, or just missing something?
Good Thing®
Good Thing©
Good Thing(tm)
etc...I've seen the term here, in both the Jargon File and on Everything, but trademarks just don't seem to fit the term.
Censorship on Everything?
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More on biochipsIt happens that my working group at the Center for Molecular Biology, Heidelberg is exactly into this thing - microarrays, biochips & co. So I might tell you some words on how does it work and why I think this is not the best solution for MT diagnostics in Russia. First, the preliminaries (if you slept at your biology class, try looking at Everything
:-). If you have a single stranded DNA sequence, then you can use it to fish out the so called complementary DNA sequence from a mixture of different molecules - the both single strands hybridize and make a double strang. It is easy to synthetise virtually any DNA sequence you need. Now, imagine that you want to detect whether in your mix there is a certain DNA species. What you do in the biochip technology is to bind your synthetized DNA on a glass plate (biochip) or nylon membrane (microarray) and label your unknown mixture of DNAs - say, a fluorescent molecule is attached to every DNA molecule in the mixture. Now, you wash the glass chip with the mixture: only the complementary DNA is specifically bound to the probe immobilized on the chip (or array). Now you wash with another solution - and what remains and can be detected by a fluorescence-detector will be the probe you are looking for.The clue about this system is that you can bind to your glassware an immense number of different probes, and so probe for different genes or regions of the genome (in fact, we are using this system to detect mRNAs - to see how an organisms expresses its genes).
But this system has one major disadvantage: it is not nearly as sensitive as other methods - the PCR / RT-PCR, for example. That means, to identify the MT strain you have first to raise it on a culture medium, because direct patient isolates will not provide enough genetic material to acomplish the task. And rasing MT is not easy.
It seems to me, someone wants desperatly to make the news: biochips have made the news a couple of years ago; right now commercial systems for many different tasks are available since many years. Check an issue of "Nature" for advertisments
:) you can have the whole yeast genome on a small piece of glass for a couple of $$.What's more, the system described is very, very expensive, and I doubt that it is therefore suitable for diagnostics in Russia. PCR-based systems are much cheaper - though not allowing to check a couple of thousands genes with a single reaction - but much better suitable for cheap and quick MT diagnosis.
It is, of course, quite possible that the EETimes got everything wrong and it does make sense after all. Journalists
;-)Regards,
January
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linux borg
Silly question, I know, still.
What parts of the AmigaOS are usefully salvageable for other OSs? File system, graphics, GUI?
I just can't see Amiga becoming anything more than a reminiscing toy (although that's quite a nice place to be in, really)
I had an Amiga. All I did all day was play Turrican2, maybe Swiv, and some games by Bullfrog. Also, I read Amiga Power but I rant about that in other places. -
Re:Patent everything.
Maybe the "Patent Everything" isn't such a bad idea. How about one big patent that has everything in it? Maybe we can have everything run a form to allow people to enter all their ideas. Once the patent office rejects the "Everything patent", then they have lots of prior art that they will have to check and can not ignore. Of course the title of the device will need to be a "device to dominate the world"
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Re:Open Source Encyclopedia
everything.blockstackers.com? It doesn't contain a ton of useful information yet, but anyone can add to it.
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It's about timeYou know, I remember back when the first commercial websites were opening up, and everyone was hyped about the WWW being some sort of gigantic Web-based encyclopedia...
The first things I tried to do was: 1) Access the Encyclopaedia Britannica online (had to pay) and 2) visit the Louvres (had to pay too, at the time.) That was a major bummer.
So this is a nice change of pace, and it's about time it came about, too. The simple fact of the matter is, you can't compete against a clever search engine and a modicum of intelligence when it comes to looking for information on the Web.
EB is doing a smart move, and they probably realise they'll make much more money with well-targeted ads than by charging a membership fee. However, I'm not sure if it means the EB won't be obsolete. Its strong point is a variety of expert writeups and a central collection of articles. Its weak points? It's still a book trying to become an Internet knowledge database.
When will we see an "Encyclopaedia Interneta"? A knowledge-oriented, peer-reviewed compendium of human knowledge? How could such a process benefit from the Slashdot model, as seen in the Jane Cyberterrorism story?
I'm certain the key to storing and indexing knowledge is in there somewhere, but I don't think it's been done properly yet. (And I mean no disrespect to Everything.
:) )
"There is no surer way to ruin a good discussion than to contaminate it with the facts."
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Re:Britney!
I do believe they call that a Music Snob.
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donate your bell bottomsHere's an idea from everything about the homeless. Think about it... ok so it doesn't make sense but if you got some really big ass bell-bottoms you could fit a few bums under them and shelter them from the elements for a little while. Well that's what I get for trying to help my fellow man.
So
/.ers...who has an old pair of bell bottoms to donate? :)
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linkfest '99Mostly it's techno dub ambient (early sisters of mercy,nephlim,nin,vast,dead can dance,basement jaxx,aphex twin - some wholesome NZ goodness from Southern Tribe)
sitting in the sun with folkish thoughful Ani Difranco, dan bern (the namedropper), mobile stud unit.
Metally some nz shihad [2, loves ugly children, or overseas Deftones are mighty tasty (though what was with that drive video?).
Educators say how baroque music sets the mind into the right wave patterns, it's conducive to learning and recalling, but really, it just pissed me off.
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linkfest '99Mostly it's techno dub ambient (early sisters of mercy,nephlim,nin,vast,dead can dance,basement jaxx,aphex twin - some wholesome NZ goodness from Southern Tribe)
sitting in the sun with folkish thoughful Ani Difranco, dan bern (the namedropper), mobile stud unit.
Metally some nz shihad [2, loves ugly children, or overseas Deftones are mighty tasty (though what was with that drive video?).
Educators say how baroque music sets the mind into the right wave patterns, it's conducive to learning and recalling, but really, it just pissed me off.
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Re:CORBA, or any form of RPC can be bad
wow.
long? yes. well tought out? yes.
I work in the guts of a distributed object infrastructure project, so this is the kind of discussion that my fellow geeks and I would spend HOURS on if management didn't walk by that offten. I think you clearly see the empty spot on the scatter diagram you drew out there, and are obviously on the right track to fill it in.
I also think you're reinventing the wheel. (don't we all at some point? ;)
What you've described is the message passing protocols that existed before IPC. This is the style of programming that was taught by having to "run" your programs by carrying a shoe box of punched cards to the window by the machine room and giving it to an operator who would run it and give you back a stack of cards. This stack of cards of course might itself be a program which could then be fed back to the operator in one or more additional shoe boxes and the cycle began again.... I still write scripts that end by enqueing several more scripts for batch processing - and I WASN'T actively part of that era of computing. This style of communications is also still the big winner in the mainframe world of Transaction Monitors, ERPs, etc . . . look at IBM's hugely successful MQ Series for example. (here is a better read for the un-initiated.)
There are several implementations of frameworks for messaging protocols out there. One of my favorites in uni was the Paralell Virtual Machine architecture. Another was the Message Passing Interface. Many forms of paralell computation use the messaging model.
Messaging is also being brought into the Java world with JMS (no, not the great maker) the Java Messaging System.
wow. This is the kind of discusion that makes me proud to login to /. why can't there be more? Why aren't there? hrmm. -
What Stephenson saysI talked to Stephenson while he was here in Boston promoting Cryptonomicon. He said that, contrary to rumor, he doesn't hate The Big U -- he just doesn't want it confused with his current writing. He said he feels it's an okay book, but people are foolish to pay so much for it and he hates to see that happen. For that reason, he's open to doing a reprint, but he wants to find a way that won't mislead people into thinking that it's something new he's writen. If suddenly a new book appears in stores, people may to be confused: "It seems like his writing has regressed about twenty years in this new book. Maybe Stephenson is losing it".
PS: Interlibrary loan is your friend.
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Re:Oh my, where to start
No, the fight has been over the fact that Jon is first of all a relatively poor writer. Suffering through some of his muddle-mind and meandering posts has truly be a harrowing experience at times.
I'm ever so glad someone else got here first with that comment... No offense Jon, but I couldn't agree more.
Writers are imprecise, uncertain and backwards-looking.
Good ones aren't. Take a look at J . Michael Straczynski. He is one of the best in the genre; he is very precise, seems fairly certain of him self and is forward thinking enough to know the last scene of a five years story arch before begining production of day one... not to mention I think he said details 15 years in each direction and generalitiles thousands of years in each direction. Now it's true that he's a fiction writer, and I'm sure you meant non-fiction... but there isn't a difference when it comes down to good writing. The Marine Corps 7Ps come in handy: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.
Their relationship with technology is uncertain, a means, never an end.
There is nothing uncertain about it. Computer technology is a tool (a means as you call it). Nothing more. Nothing less. It is a tool on par with the pencil and paper, or the quill, parchment and ink pot. -
Advertisements on the Moon?
I am personally going to resolve, right now, to permanently boycott any company that has the audacity to paint its own image on the Moon.
Thank God[?] that Pizza Hut didn't go through with those plans. -
Re:towel not included
if they decide to make it serious - they should make it like Everything. Except a little more moderated. "Field Agents" could write in with their entries, and it would be looked over and possibly submitted by volunteers over the network.
Well, Everything is definately a better choice to base it off of them h2g2. I've played with them both, and h2g2 got boring. However, I've spent more than my share of time on Everything.
We've already mentioned the idea of The Handheld Everything on there, so it's not like the idea is anything new.
Everything is starting to show that a large community-maintaned database is not necessarily a bad thing, because of collaborative filtering and all. Everything 2 should give an even better demonstration as to how well it works, as it starts to become the ultimate reference guide.
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if they decide to make it serious - they should make it like Everything. Except a little more moderated. "Field Agents" could write in with their entries, and it would be looked over and possibly submitted by volunteers over the network.
Well, Everything is definately a better choice to base it off of them h2g2. I've played with them both, and h2g2 got boring. However, I've spent more than my share of time on Everything.
We've already mentioned the idea of The Handheld Everything on there, so it's not like the idea is anything new.
Everything is starting to show that a large community-maintaned database is not necessarily a bad thing, because of collaborative filtering and all. Everything 2 should give an even better demonstration as to how well it works, as it starts to become the ultimate reference guide.
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Re:towel not included
if they decide to make it serious - they should make it like Everything. Except a little more moderated. "Field Agents" could write in with their entries, and it would be looked over and possibly submitted by volunteers over the network.
Well, Everything is definately a better choice to base it off of them h2g2. I've played with them both, and h2g2 got boring. However, I've spent more than my share of time on Everything.
We've already mentioned the idea of The Handheld Everything on there, so it's not like the idea is anything new.
Everything is starting to show that a large community-maintaned database is not necessarily a bad thing, because of collaborative filtering and all. Everything 2 should give an even better demonstration as to how well it works, as it starts to become the ultimate reference guide.
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Re:towel not included
if they decide to make it serious - they should make it like Everything. Except a little more moderated. "Field Agents" could write in with their entries, and it would be looked over and possibly submitted by volunteers over the network.
Well, Everything is definately a better choice to base it off of them h2g2. I've played with them both, and h2g2 got boring. However, I've spent more than my share of time on Everything.
We've already mentioned the idea of The Handheld Everything on there, so it's not like the idea is anything new.
Everything is starting to show that a large community-maintaned database is not necessarily a bad thing, because of collaborative filtering and all. Everything 2 should give an even better demonstration as to how well it works, as it starts to become the ultimate reference guide.
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towel not included
if they decide to make it serious - they should make it like Everything. Except a little more moderated. "Field Agents" could write in with their entries, and it would be looked over and possibly submitted by volunteers over the network.
now we just have devise a means for interstellar space travel.
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Skycar
Moller International of Davis California has a full blown Skycar It uses 8 Wankel Rotary Engines(? ) (ala Mazda RX-7) the M400 gets 15 MPG (like the RX-7 too) and top speed of 390 mph (uh, not like the RX-7). The M150 gets 45 MPG and a top speed of 375 MPH. Cnet did a write-up of it a few weeks ago (that I sent into
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Kelly Browne
Excellent! My amiga of youth will soon be back and widespread in power and versitility running the god of OS's, Linux, and take over those bitches that work at microsoft.
Of course, i'm only joshing.
Still, it does fell like Amiga was a slut all along, eh lads?
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Pathetic In ModerationSince when are we moderating based on degree of agreement? If the parent of this post is flamebait, I'm a Snork.
Maybe this is an unusual example of the pitfalls of online-voting?
Sorry to make this second post, but I put a good deal of time into backing up my statements, providing links to my sources and illustrating my points in that post and to have it ticked-down to 'flamebait' is insulting.
I'm no Jon Katz, Alan Cox, or Rob Malda, but I have a damned good record of comments being marked-up since moderation began and if I have to worry that some trigger-happy-kid with five moderation points to squander is going to paint my post with white-out without cause, then I may think two or three times before bothering to participate in discussions here.
Save your moderation points for me too, first post and what does this have to do with Unix posts and real flamebait/trolls.
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Pathetic In ModerationSince when are we moderating based on degree of agreement? If the parent of this post is flamebait, I'm a Snork.
Maybe this is an unusual example of the pitfalls of online-voting?
Sorry to make this second post, but I put a good deal of time into backing up my statements, providing links to my sources and illustrating my points in that post and to have it ticked-down to 'flamebait' is insulting.
I'm no Jon Katz, Alan Cox, or Rob Malda, but I have a damned good record of comments being marked-up since moderation began and if I have to worry that some trigger-happy-kid with five moderation points to squander is going to paint my post with white-out without cause, then I may think two or three times before bothering to participate in discussions here.
Save your moderation points for me too, first post and what does this have to do with Unix posts and real flamebait/trolls.
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Pathetic In ModerationSince when are we moderating based on degree of agreement? If the parent of this post is flamebait, I'm a Snork.
Maybe this is an unusual example of the pitfalls of online-voting?
Sorry to make this second post, but I put a good deal of time into backing up my statements, providing links to my sources and illustrating my points in that post and to have it ticked-down to 'flamebait' is insulting.
I'm no Jon Katz, Alan Cox, or Rob Malda, but I have a damned good record of comments being marked-up since moderation began and if I have to worry that some trigger-happy-kid with five moderation points to squander is going to paint my post with white-out without cause, then I may think two or three times before bothering to participate in discussions here.
Save your moderation points for me too, first post and what does this have to do with Unix posts and real flamebait/trolls.
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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:- Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
- increased mysql max_connections to to 250
( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )
Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )
Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )
Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )
Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )
Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )
Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
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The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.( Read More... | 94 of 94 comments )
Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.( Read More... | 205 of 205 comments )
FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.( Read More... | 202 of 206 comments )
Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.( Read More... | 192 of 192 comments )
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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:- Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
- increased mysql max_connections to to 250
( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )
Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )
Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )
Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )
Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )
Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )
Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
from the what-freud-really-wanted-to-do dept.
The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.( Read More... | 94 of 94 comments )
Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.( Read More... | 205 of 205 comments )
FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.( Read More... | 202 of 206 comments )
Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.( Read More... | 192 of 192 comments )
Unisys gif-lzw-license Model Changed
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Linus Torvalds on State of Linux
Creator of Tcl/Tk: Open-Source Creates Commercial Opportunities
Inside the Netscape Gecko Open Source Browser Team More TechNetCast
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Comments:383 | Votes:24104Features The latest installment of Geeks in Space is up at The Sync. We talk about the Red Hat IPO, crazy naming schemes, and much more.
Perhaps you are seeking Jon Katz's series of articles related to recent events in Colorado. These articles include Voices from the Hellmouth, More Stories from the Hellmouth or The Price of Being Different,
With all the hype about the recent MindCraft Linux/NT benchmarks, you might be interested in reading ESR's Response to the Mindcraft Fiasco
For something different, try reading my little essay Thoughts from the Furnace about the internet, and flame.
Update: 05/03 01:48 by CT : Past Features
Mozilla BOF at O'Reilly OSS Convention
cvs-mirror.mozilla.org Is (no longer) Sick
Mozilla Birds-Of-A-Feather Session
Load Test the New Slashdot Setup
Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important?
LinuxPPC challenge rides again
Review: The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest
Star Office to become Open Source?
Palm Gameboy Emulator update & screens
Your Hotmail Account Has Been Exposed
Securing The Home Linux System: Updated
Segfault.org: South Park Story
TWO New Slackware Mailing Lists More LinuxNewbie.org...
Magnetic spacecraft propulsion
Interview with Borland Sr. Product Mgr
Oracle Offer Linux Technology Track More LDN...
Wednesday August 18
Scientists create digital bug-life (131)
New Space Propulsion System Uses Sun's Magnetic Field (120)
Cassini visits Earth (175)
Tuesday August 17
Playstation 2 Outperforms Everything? (240)
SIGGRAPH '99 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes (37)
Dell Belgium forced to install Windows only? (75)
Relativity Used to Devise New Form of Crypt (24)
Robots Battle to the Death! (124)
Will PPC Become the Preferred Linux Platform? (277)
IBMs 15 hour Laptop Batteries (72)
Feature: After the Red Hat IPO Ball is Over (236)
Feature:Obscurity as Security (194)
l0pht develops Sniffer Sniffer (101)
NASA collecting anti-matter with giant ballon (109)
CIA releases its own X-Files (111)
Packet Storm Security is back (36)
Monday August 16
Sun Claims MS Steals Vision (162)
Scientists Find Evidence of Black Holes Sucking (163)
MS Dirty Pool Against AOL? (204)
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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:- Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
- increased mysql max_connections to to 250
( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )
Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )
Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )
Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )
Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )
Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )
Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
from the what-freud-really-wanted-to-do dept.
The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.( Read More... | 94 of 94 comments )
Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.( Read More... | 205 of 205 comments )
FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.( Read More... | 202 of 206 comments )
Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.( Read More... | 192 of 192 comments )
Unisys gif-lzw-license Model Changed
BeNews Is Moving - Outages Planned
Audio Buzz "Fixes" Announced
Austin BUG Meeting This Wednesday
ACE Bot, Devastation for Quake2
Be.com Frontpage Layout Updated Get more Be...
Alta Vista Search Alta Vista
any language Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish
John Carmack Updated His
.planMore Ass Kicking Quake Action...
What's Wrong with HTTP and Why It Doesn't Matter
A Brief History of Unix and the Internet
Author of sendmail on open-source and early days of email
Linus Torvalds on State of Linux
Creator of Tcl/Tk: Open-Source Creates Commercial Opportunities
Inside the Netscape Gecko Open Source Browser Team More TechNetCast
Review: Bowfinger - 'Funniest Eddie Murphy movie in a decade. Steve Martin showed...'
Review: Mickey Blue-Eyes - 'Not as funny as it could have been'
Feature: Robert Towne - From Chinatown to Hollywood. More from Hollywood Bitchslap
Slashdot Poll Preferred Compression
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Comments:383 | Votes:24104Features The latest installment of Geeks in Space is up at The Sync. We talk about the Red Hat IPO, crazy naming schemes, and much more.
Perhaps you are seeking Jon Katz's series of articles related to recent events in Colorado. These articles include Voices from the Hellmouth, More Stories from the Hellmouth or The Price of Being Different,
With all the hype about the recent MindCraft Linux/NT benchmarks, you might be interested in reading ESR's Response to the Mindcraft Fiasco
For something different, try reading my little essay Thoughts from the Furnace about the internet, and flame.
Update: 05/03 01:48 by CT : Past Features
Mozilla BOF at O'Reilly OSS Convention
cvs-mirror.mozilla.org Is (no longer) Sick
Mozilla Birds-Of-A-Feather Session
Load Test the New Slashdot Setup
Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important?
LinuxPPC challenge rides again
Review: The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest
Star Office to become Open Source?
Palm Gameboy Emulator update & screens
Your Hotmail Account Has Been Exposed
Securing The Home Linux System: Updated
Segfault.org: South Park Story
TWO New Slackware Mailing Lists More LinuxNewbie.org...
Magnetic spacecraft propulsion
Interview with Borland Sr. Product Mgr
Oracle Offer Linux Technology Track More LDN...
Wednesday August 18
Scientists create digital bug-life (131)
New Space Propulsion System Uses Sun's Magnetic Field (120)
Cassini visits Earth (175)
Tuesday August 17
Playstation 2 Outperforms Everything? (240)
SIGGRAPH '99 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes (37)
Dell Belgium forced to install Windows only? (75)
Relativity Used to Devise New Form of Crypt (24)
Robots Battle to the Death! (124)
Will PPC Become the Preferred Linux Platform? (277)
IBMs 15 hour Laptop Batteries (72)
Feature: After the Red Hat IPO Ball is Over (236)
Feature:Obscurity as Security (194)
l0pht develops Sniffer Sniffer (101)
NASA collecting anti-matter with giant ballon (109)
CIA releases its own X-Files (111)
Packet Storm Security is back (36)
Monday August 16
Sun Claims MS Steals Vision (162)
Scientists Find Evidence of Black Holes Sucking (163)
MS Dirty Pool Against AOL? (204)
Older Articles
Yesterday's EditionWeather24.com
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It ain't that exciting a link anyway.
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Re:TWO HOURS?!?!
yeah, I'd have to agree with this guy. two hours seems a bit extreme. and as much as I'd love to bash Windoze for its instability, this summer I realized that it didn't seem to crash all too often. hardly ever, really. *however*, I just got back to school and got my network hooked up again, and it's back to crashing 5 times a day. my suspicions have been confirmed, the network is the problem. Word never seemed to crash, Quake 2 either (expect network games, or when I switched back to the desktop a few times and the video got screwed up). Ah well, back to good old reliable (cough) CWRUnet. (hey, it's got an entry on Everything. :)
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Blockstackers
Did Andover takeover^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hacquire Blockstackers or just Slashdot?
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Oh pooh.
So much for this then, eh?
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Everything Supported?
Obviously, it should have an interface to Everything
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Perhaps?
Perhaps I'll go down and get some Ben & Jerry's (TM) now, or perhaps not. Perhaps I'll go to the bathroom. Perhaps I'll spend another hour on Everything or watch a Seinfeld rerun. Perhaps...
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M$ FUD!!!
oh come on, this is obviously just a bunch of microsoft FUD going on.
thats all, I am not going to belive this untill I start seeing some hard evidence on things not owned by microsoft.
I mean this really paints a BAD!! picture of the AOL-NETSCAPE-SUN trio. and just what is this legal battle of MS about, its about microsoft's monolpoly, and who are the key players in it, aol, netscape, and sun.
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Saving money at university
I'm making 21-23k after bonuses and its all going into student debt repayments and rent
The trick for is to have parents as poor as church mice, so you get a student grant (even though it's a pittance), and to take out as small a student loan as you can get away with. Since I spent much of my free time in the Fyshbowl (look it up on Everything for an explanation), I incurred few costs apart from living expenses
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Re:A few commentsI think both Gillmor and you make some good points. Personally, I think Slashdot is, along with its ilk, one of the few sites that really makes use of this young medium, the web, as it should be. Whenever a new medium comes along, people tend to use it like they used the old ones: early movies were like filmed plays, and in the music business, it took a long time before people understood that a recording didn't have to sound just like a live act. Too much of what currently exists on the web is derived either from print media (noninteractive and bo-ring) or from TV (a hideous, bandwidth-sucking you-must-be-using-MSIE-to-view-this-site experience). Both are bad fits for the new medium.
I really think that in a way, Rob is a kind of visionary, because sites like Slashdot and Everything are among the first to really use the web _as_ the web, taking full(?) advantage of its capabilities, and not simply as a kind of magazine printed with electrons. Hence the buzz.
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Blimey, how many cross-references? :-)
You put a lot of cross-references in that article. You've obviously been reading Everything
:-)(btw, I'd not call The Register the European equivalent of Slashdot, as The Register is just a news site, not news/comments/opinion/flamage like Slashdot. I think The Register reads more like a bizarre cross between news.com and Segfault).
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Dictionary of terms
Try Everything And, if a definition doesn't exist, you can write one yourself.
It's a slash-cousin.
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The other way of doing things...
Back in high school I asked myself a question, and it was a simple one. Did I want to be the high tech guru in a low tech organization, or one of many "assembly-line" workers in a high tech organization. To me, the answer was obvious.
I took that decision and made another, that I would spend my college years getting an education, rather then a training. I signed up for Canadian Studies, rather then Comp-Sci. I went through school with many of the guys who are now in some very interesting places - Alex at Red Hat, Shaver at Mozilla, Dave at Nortel - just to name a few.
Me? I work for beer. Seriously. I work for Molson - purveyors of fine beverages. I get many of the advantages of the high tech worker - half decent pay, good benefits (actually, Great benefits), plus a 24 hr bar in the office. I also don't get the stress, the long hours, or the intensity that many of my colleagues end up with.
Working in the corporate world is radically different then the high tech one. Priorities are radically different, and management's preasures reflect this. It's by no means the utopia of the working man, but those who are feeling the downward force of high tech might do all right to consider the alternatives.
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The man himself
I thought I'd submit a bit of information on Clive Sinclair for those who haven't heard of him. (That everything.blocksta ckers.com thing appears to be broken at the moment.) He's certainly quite an interesting figure, and still a well known one in the UK.
First off: Planet Sinclair seems the best place for information on the man and his machines.
Perhaps the best comparison to make is with another "flawed hero", Steve Jobs. There are many obvious differences between the two, but they both seem to inhabit the same grey areas between visionary and huckster, and between modern-day Midas and failed businessman. Although he doesn't have Jobs' reputation for personal charisma (or egomania), Sir Clive generates similar feelings of affection and admiration among many. His products tend to be ground-breakingly inexpensive and are often genuine minor marvels of design. (He was something of an electronics wizard from his teens.) Unfortunately they also tend to be marked by kludges or fatal flaws in their design, shoddy manufacturing, unavailability, or uncommerciality.It's been a long time now since he's had a really successful product, and he hasn't produced a computer in many years. But he's succeeded in the past in uneven-looking contests against manufacturing titans, so don't write him off. Of course it's great to hear that he's embracing Linux - especially since Linus' machine was a Sinclair QL before he bought that fateful first PC.
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You cannot find God with scienceWell, I'll be able to respond at length on Sunday or Monday. But, a couple of quick things (though as I proofread this, it looks a lot less brief than I'd planned it to be):
I think you're missing the issue in part; Creationists and Fundamentalists don't speak on behalf of all Christians, and they don't speak for me. If I regard the creation or flood accounts in Genesis as poetry (instead of scientific fact), it doesn't mean that I'm a heretic, and it doesn't mean that there isn't a truth or two to be gleaned from that poetry. Obviously the world isn't 5,000 years old - and I'm not sure the Bible explicitly says so (but I'll defer to you on that one).
On the future *cough* "Saint Teresa of Calcutta" *cough*: I've been described, in an Everything node as a Pinko Commie Bedwetter. That's probably not far from the truth. My qualms with the Mother were politically-oriented (no, I don't have insider info about her, if that was what you were asking about). But my point was, if I had any point at all, that I could take the Christopher Hitchens version of the truth about her (which is an account that I respect) and still use that as material with which I could teach a Sunday School class.
Gotta go! In the words of St Ahnuld: "I'll be back!"
(Unless Rob's database totally craps out in the interim
:)
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