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The real strength of something like this would be in a corporate environment, where having a dbfs would simplify file management a great deal.

I'm a freshman at the University of Rochester (not to be confused with RIT [Sorry abou that link!]) and we got to see 13 Days in early December. Whne the movie began to encounter all sorts of weirdness, one of the guys running to show got up and told us that there was nothing they could do since I was just a messup with the satellite signal. This leads me to my question:

Does anyone have any info on the system used to send movie previews to colleges via satellite? Encryption? Any way to hijack the signals?

Yeah, really. My school's filtering system doesn't even have goatse.cx blocked. Once, this kid I don't like (you know the type...always asking to borrow a dollar) asked me how to get around the filter (I had been using another proxy), and I told him to go to goatse.cx. My fellow nerds and I retired to the nerdery with our calculators and had quite a laugh.

If Bush rigged the election, then why did he almost lose? Looks like he did a terrible job of it. Well, of course he didn't rig it. Just compare the character of Bush to the character of Gore.

You can check out the current CA system load here. Oops, sorry about that, try here.

I'm sure some of my little buddies out there will get the reference in under three hours. . . .

(sorry, couldn't resist. . . . at least there are no www.goatse.cx references. . . .except that one. . . .)

Man, you are really stupid. I hope you realize that. Well, here's to you!!

Please, for the love of GOD, shut the fuck up and die!!

The human brain looks for rewards & avoids punishments, and this fact will inevitably reflect in all online communities.

The "problem", if there is such is not really in "karma" or "mojo" or whatever, if you don't have these, people will do it manually by posting "Thank you! Well said" or "TROLL *plonk*" (see Usenet). No real difference except for the little number that shows up in the account info (I believe it's wrong to show it, that only creates challenges, K5 doesn't show it).

The real question is what behavior is rewarded. I think that by making all users effectively moderators, K5 avoids the kind of behavior that many may find annoying on /. ("Oh, look, I've looked up the link, mod me up!") On /., you have more a selection of posts, where on K5, you have an election :)

The only kind of behavior I find annoying is posting an opinion different from your own just to get a lot of feedback. I have never understood where the reward in this lies, and I like to know what the people I talk to really think. Ah, and those goatsex links. They suck.

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No, that was not annus horribilis, this is annus horribilius.

its a commonly known fact, that when you over-user certain chemicals, such as slashdot, that sometimes paranoia results...

I mean the fact that you're hallucinating whilst on slashdot should be a sign that you need to get OFF the slashdot.... Geez you even said it yourself that you are getting paranoid to "stuff your seeing ON SLASHDOT"....

what i suggest you do, is to lay off the slashdot... it can be highly addicting, and cause hallucinations, specifically, naked, petrified Natalie Portman, links to informative articles, visions of hot gritz and bouilliabase...

My advice to you, is to lay off the slashdot for a while and reality will start piecing itself back together...

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Christmas Island is the way to go! They let you do pretty much anything

Kindof hypocritical considering the reputed sexual tastes of the average Catholic Priest. (I'm sure you've heard the stories...) But then again the Church is well known for hypocrisy.

Ashes of Empires and bodies of kings,

Someday, we will get over our fascination with HTML. A link is meant to be a convenience, not some clever way to hide the URL! OTOH, if we hadn't done it that way, we probably would be tricked by links to goat sex quite a bit more often...

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Jesus fucking Christ on a popsicle stick

Let's analyze this. Jesus is commonly called Christ. Fscking oneself is another term for masturbation. Why would Jesus be shoving a Popsicle® stick up his ass?

Now, with that out of the way:
Besides, ink on dead tree isn't going anywhere. For long format fiction it's still a far better experience that etext

Especially because etext refers to books in public domain, especially those published by Project Gutenberg. eBook is the term for those proprietary, copy-controlled, encrypted-out-the-ass electronic texts of works still under copyright. And don't count on any more literature expiring into the public domain, as Disney buys 20 more years of copyright for everything every 20 years, effectively putting everything written on or after January 1, 1923, under perpetual copyright.

Now to address the other side of that: I know CRTs suck cock. That's why I do most of my reading on an LCD. Subpixel text rendering using individual color channels for finer anti-aliasing can make a good LCD look almost as good as paper.

OK, now be very, very honest with me. Would /. be the same without the goatsex, Beowulf cluster and Natalie Portman references? I almost consider it a sport avoiding the links we all know so well. The trolls might make a lot of noise, but it'd be damn silent without them every now and then...

i was in a radioshack the other day. they had computers set up with some sort of broadband net access. and cyber patrol to filter out all the smut.

i try to load the peacefire webpage. it's blocked. no surprise there. so i try to load www.goatse.cx. it's not blocked.

i left it open, so the customers have something to think about, then left.
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It stands to reason that in any diverse community, opinions will differ, and the difference will not always be friendly. So long as nobody takes the moral high ground and cries "troll" or "flamebait", the community will survive it, and benefit from the exchange of ideas.

The point is, it isn't all warm, fuzzy, here-check-out-these-pictures-of-my-kids-and-my-do g. There are disagreements, and sometimes, as in RL relationships, it isn't worth the time to argue logically. Sometimes you just have to say "shut up" or "fuck off" or "here, click on this link". i for one am sick of all these arrogant fucking EEs that try to apply electronic terms like signal to noise ratio to discussions. As long as a human took the time to type it in, it's signal. If /.'s server HD gets corrupted and we get a bunch of garbage text, that's noise. The distinction between good signal and bad signal is all subjective; one mans mead is another's poison.

Mod this down as flamebait, and prove my point, cunt.

Love,
Slashfucker

"Ha haah, you is dissin' de fellows on me's first post!!!", said the man with a large anus

Wow! I think the parent is the highest rated and perhaps, first legitimate use of a goatse.cx link!

I hate to nitpick, but Arecibo is not a volcanic caldera, in spite of what the tabloid press might report. In fact, it is a large limestone sinkhole in the karst terrain of Puerto Rico: check out this link for more info. (I promise its not a goatse.cx link.)

One of the cuter stories is that when they were searching for the perfect site on Puerto Rico, they took a dime and slid it around on a contour map of the island - and where it fit nicely inside the contours, there the dish went... Its amazing to look at, and I recommend a visit if you vacation in PR.

OTOH, your other point is completely correct - Arecibo only sees a limited range of the sky, and cannot view anything south of a certain declination (14? I forget). Not being able to see the Gal;actic center is particularly galling! That's why the new GBT (100m, unlike 305m at Arecibo, but the GBT is fully steerable) is so exciting.

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See you in hell,
Bill Fuckin' Gates®.

I recall reading some of NASA's studies showing that Mars had oceans in its past, and that likely meant life. I wonder if the oceans of Ganymede could have sufficient heat, either from internal activity, or radiated from the planet, to have life also?

BSI's Everything 2 BBS is profusely linked in much the same way. But are you trying to link to Goats (a comic strip) or Goatse (the One True Ass Pic)?
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.

It wasn't until the early 1990s, when GOPHER appeared, that the internet actaully lost usage. My theory is that when gopher made the internet look incredibly ugly, the general public watched more television, people actually started reading books, and engineers began socializing. Creativity thrived. We could have had a renaissance; unfortunately, the web was invented shortly thereafter, and now we have websites like goatse.cx, if you like windows click here, and slashdot, where people are trying to sell their signature space to advertisers.

I remember some condescending story on children a few years ago and how if you painted the classroom colours different it correlated to different speed and detail of work (condescending as they didn't try it on adults). There's some more detail on this at CNN.

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Fig. 1.

There are multiple issues immediately apparent, viz a viz sending said Linux user/criminal (hereafter referred to as fat fuck) on an extended space flight. They are as follows:

1. Will new booster technology be necessary to lift the fat fuck to a stable orbit, along with a suitable payload of supplies and instruments?
2. Will another booster be needed to deliver vienna sausages, Pringles, and Mountain Dew to the fat fuck in orbit?
3. Once in orbit and free of the restraining force of gravity, will the fat fuck's ass expand to fill any confining structure, or will it become amoeba like, using fleshy pseudopods to envelop and consume other astronauts?
4. Will the Hubble Space Telescope be able to derive the Hubble Constant by observing the fat fuck's ass, and if so, will it validate an open-state or closed-state theory for the expansion of the fat fuck's ass?
5. Is it possible that the gravitational presence of fat fuck's fat ass in orbit could possibly exacerbate the Chandler wobble and endanger all life on earth?
6. When the fat fuck is brought down to Earth, how do we determine who is landing on who?

*BSD users, on the other hand, tend to be tall, thin, and generally preying mantis-like. Although they suffer from the same social ineptitude as the average criminal/Linux user, the jury is still out on the effects of sending them on a long term spaceflight. More research must be done.

Sincerely,
Dr. I.M. PiffleWhiz, Ph.D. Astrophysics

*sigh*... You and other system administrators wouldn't have to worry about getting vengence on spammers in the first place if you use an MTA like PostFix or qmail. They're a lot easier to configure to filter out all the crap. They're pretty secure, too.

'mirrors' points right to www.kernel.org!

That's because Kernel.org is the Linux kernel mirror system.

Now, for a cute link, try here. Or here. (Ness looks so precious.) Or here.

It's already been done. Check out http://www.hyperreal.com/tech/raveLAN/index.html

blah. you all suck

-Kyle

source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.

Unless I have the right to run this program under Windows 2000 (for stability) and to ftp these "punch cards" to my friend in Holland for free, it does not meet RMS's definition of free software.

I propose that you either port your "punch card" software to Visual Basic, GW-Basic, QuickBasic, and perl, and release it under the GPL, or withdraw your offer of "closed-source" software, which is not welcome on this forum.

Thanks, cunt!

Love,
Slashfucker

source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.

Unless I have the right to run this program under Windows 2000 (for stability) and to ftp these "punch cards" to my friend in Holland for free, it does not meet RMS's definition of free software.

I propose that you either port your "punch card" software to Visual Basic, GW-Basic, QuickBasic, and perl, and release it under the GPL, or withdraw your offer of "closed-source" software, which is not welcome on this forum.

Thanks, cunt!

Love,
Slashfucker

I couldn't help but notice that your e-mail, tww@tww.cx, ends in "cx". You wouldn't happen to be the goatsex guy, now would you?

Can I recommend installing the "Windows 95" product, by Microsoft?

You'll find it combines security with stability, and high performance.

Thank you

1. Some asshole who got his MBA out of a Post Toasties box writes a business plan: "We will provide people with free lunch, supported by banner impression and clickthrough revenues, and cross-marketing deals with online retailers."
2. MBA boy shops the business plan to coked out VC. VC says "This looks great, can you score me a dime bag by Friday too?"
3. VC firm pours cash down MBA boy's throat. MBA boy hires a bunch of kids, who got expelled from high school for hacking the principal's PC to make farting noises, to write Perl/Java/Visual Basic code to provide free lunch. The code is open source.
4. www.freelunch.com goes live. CmdrTaco posts a story about how it is proof that free stuff works. Hemos posts the story again 2 days later.
5. Thousands of people use and enjoy free lunch, but completely ignore the ad banners and cross-marketing links. 1.5 million impressions a day, 3 click throughs, one of which was an accident. (he was probably trying to punch the monkey) The VC guy wakes up covered in money, next to a dead hooker, with a terrible hangover.
6. An IPO is announced. VC firm gets pre-IPO stock, which repays their initial investment so they have more cash to support free breakfast and free dinner startups, and enough left over to buy crack rocks for all of San Francisco. Joe Sixpack invests his retirement fund in freelunch.com stock. MBA boy and the high school kids all buy solid platinum Ford Excursions.
7. freelunch.com has their first post-IPO earnings report. Server bills, payroll, and the ad budget for the $10,000,000 Super Bowl commercial with a man farting out the tune to "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" all add up to 600x the revenue brought in from ad impressions. CNNfn attributes this to "problems in the supply chain with freelunch.com's JIT business system."
8. Stock plummets, Joe Sixpack decides to buy more while the price is low, because "My friend has a computer, and he uses free lunch all the time." Stock soars.
9. Advertisers realize that nobody gives a shit for the ad banners. freelunch.com can't sell its ad inventory. They lower their asking price for impressions, and change from banner ads to pop-up windows. Closing the window counts as a clickthrough, and it pops up another window. Ad revenues soar, advertisers get shafted. MBA boy gets a nose ring, and is interviewed by Wired Magazine on "The New Free-conomy."
10. Users get fed up with clicking through 10,000 pop-up windows for free lunch when they could just pay for it. Besides, Microsoft gives you a tastier free lunch, although less nutritious, and you have to pay to sit down to eat it.
11. Stockholders vote MBA boy out of the CEO chair. He is replaced by a former Pepsi CEO. freelunch.com is branded as "the choice of a new generation," and through a cross marketing deal, free lunch is given away at Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut to people who fill out a market survey, including name, address, social security number, income, and credit card numbers.
12. The data is securely stored online just in case a user wants to purchase something from freelunch.com's sponsors. Securely means it can be accessed by clicking on the link that says "Secure data, don't click here!" and entering the password: "password". Script kiddie finds out and mass-mails goatse.cx to all freelunch subscribers. Wired News does a story, when reached for comment the CEO says that "No private account data was compromised, but all freelunch.com users should probably cut up their credit cards. It's good to renew them every few months, anyway."
13. Stock has been steadily dropping. The CEO has to sell one of his 10 Bentleys; he just can't afford the gas. CNNfn attributes the drop to "low consumer confidence in the high tech sector." Joe Sixpack calls his broker.
14. One day, freelunch.com is replaced with an animated gif of a construction worker, and the message "Please excuse our dust! freelunch.com is being redesigned to serve you better!" The new CEO considers a subscription based model, a support based model, b2b, b2c, c2b, c2c, p2p, and a few other words he read in Fast Company.
15. Eventually he realizes that his retirement is on the line, and jumps ship, albeit with a $20,000,000 performance bonus, 12 months vacation before he leaves, and severance. Somehow it works out that Mr. CEO runs freelunch.com into the ground, and the company buys him a dozen vacation homes around the world, including an apartment aboard the International Space Station.
16. One of the high school kids takes over as interim CEO. AOL/Time Warner convinces him to sell the freelunch.com technology by offering him Pokemon cards. freelunch.com stock is converted to AOL/TW, dollar for dollar, which means the entire market capitalization of freelunch.com is worth 13 shares of AOL/TW.

The winners in this game are the VCs, who chuck money at startups like it's nothing, and cover their losses through big hype IPOs. Also, the CEOs and "visionaries" that come up with the startups must manage to squirrel a little away for retirement, not to mention the godlike reputation they get for "breaking all the rules." The investment banks that broker the IPOs make out pretty well too, on the near-asymptotic curve that peaks roughly 2 seconds after an IPO, and slowly rolls downhill.

The main loser is Joe Sixpack, the hardworking, taxpaying investor who takes a bath because he doesn't know to get out of the stock while the getting's good. But it's probably his fault, since he doesn't really know enough about lunch to invest in it. He should know better than to listen to press releases and earnings reports on technology. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Thank you for your time, cunt.

Love,
Slashfucker

aphr0 reports that Slashdot will be banned from posting anything by Jon Katz for the next decade. (or however long funding lasts) The restriction, imposed by the Few Intelligent Slashdot Posters (FISP), is designed to prevent Mr. Katz from spewing his tired old bullshit on the front page of our beloved web site each week.

-weewee

Is this an easy simple solution to minors on the NET or have I just been working to hard?

You've been working too hard. I've been living on my own/arranging for my own internet access since I was 16; I've had multiple dial-up accounts and once a cable account. Not once have I been asked for ID or been told I must be 18 to sign up. Only AOL has required me to have a CC (which I've had, at any rate; there are banks which issue them to minors, with parental permission) - most ISPs are more than happy to send you a bill and be mailed a check. Or given cold hard cash in their office, as the case may be.

Companies like AOL like to require that you give them a CC# and be billed no other way because it makes it more work for you to 1) see what they're billing you and 2) cancel the service when their Accounts phone line is only open between 1 and 3 AM Tuesdays. Everyone else takes cash and checks.

<SARCASM>Plus, you're obviously missing the point that we're trying to protect THE CHILDREN from the HORRIBLE PORN PUSHERS out there. THE PORN DEALER on your street corner is redirecting YOUR CHILD'S browser to goatse.cx without your precious little darling doing more than sitting in front of the computer.</SARCASM>

Since it gets asked everytime there's a *BSD article or release, might as well answer the differences between the flavours of BSD.

NetBSD is meant to run on as many platforms as possible. I've seen it run on old VAXen to Mac+'s, iMacs, x86, etc etc etc. Chances are if it's a halfway popular carchitecture, NetBSD will run in some way on it.

The install is a bit "different," but if you're looking for a *NIX for the old machine sitting in the corner try NetBSD.

OpenBSD is meant for security. It's the one with the line-by-line security code audit a few years back, and it shows. It's the only freenix I've ever installed, then not fiddled around with right afterwards so I wouldn't get rooted. I went and ate lunch instead. It's SMP is a bit lacking (but it's getting there ;p), there are some complaints about the speed of it's file system, and it doesn't run on as many platforms as NetBSD.

I'm a bit biased since I cut my teeth on OpenBSD rather than Linux, so I can't speak if the install is easy or not anymore. But if you want security, get this.

FreeBSD is good for servers/workstations. It has good (hard to qualify) SMP, and runs on many good platforms. It can be made very secure easily, has an excellent ports tree for software, and is fastfastfast at networking.

The install is easy, the performance is good, and if you want to try out a *BSD but haven't before try FreeBSD.

Oh, and goatse.cx. ;)

Parent links to http://atsm.fr.fm, which points directly to Goatse.cx

She's almost as big a whore as Anne Marie.

Yep, that's a very good point. You should also take into consideration the fact that certain NIC/hub combinations will break all databases on the network. Therefore, if you plan on running a database within the college, you must check the electrical properties of your networking gear extrememly carefully. More information on this is given here, here and here .

The feature will be optional. Don't get your panties in a twist.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of those rare individuals who challenge the impossible, we now know that we can do it. Alex Chiu knows this, and Alex Chiu is a shining example of the American capitalist motto, YOU CAN DO IT!©

Just because you elitist, long haired socialist hippie open-source freaks think nothing can be accomplished unless it is free doesn't mean you can poop on the efforts of those gifted imagineers that dare to dream the impossible. I don't know what they teach you in those dens of homosexual debauchery known as British boarding schools, but here in the free world, A.K.A. US to the motherfuckin' A, they teach us three things:

1. You have the right to own a gun
2. You have the right to shoot anyone who says otherwise
3. The only good software is software YOU PAY FOR
4. YOU CAN DO IT!©

WARNING: the above comment does not link to goatse.cx

I had less luck with this manufactured round cable, and wound up removing it because it caused the SCSI bus to constantly reset.

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www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=karma%20whore

www.cybernothing.org/~holychao/karmaho.html

www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/8.07/mustread.html ?pg=9

http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=sign al%2011

This place should give a lot of resources too:
http://goatse.cx

Then I thought about it. The smaller the cut, the smaller chance for error. Objects follow the path of least resistance. If you just make a small cut into one of those grooves, then peel the cable apart, it is almost impossible to screw it up -- you are less likely to make a bad cut, and the thinner shielding in the grooves will ensure that the ribbon will split right down the middle.

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Floppy cables can be rounded (you can even remove the middle connector), the older IDE cables can be rounded, and 50 pin SCSI wires can also be rounded. Bind everything together at the end with zip ties and then wrap it up with spiral wrap from Radio Shack and similar (e.g. Ax Man in the Twin Cities).

ATA/66 and 68 pin SCSI cables are a different story. The wires are stiff, and if you don't do the cable exactly right, you have either trashed an expensive cable, corrupted the data on your hard drive. People seem to have mixed success with those.

If you want to mess with your cables, try some old junky ones, first. If you must use a knife or razor, make the incision as small as possible, then peel the cable apart in opposite directions -- those grooves are the path of least resistance, so it should be more reliable than making a long, perfectly straight cut with a small sharp object.

If you want rounded cables and don't want to take any risks, I know that Plycon has all sorts of high quality machine made cables of all types, albeit for a very steep price (just like everything else they sell).

I'm still not sure why this isn't the standard. Some PC manufacturers have been doing this in their servers and micro towers to improve airflow through the chassis. I'll bet that these kinds of cables eventually become the standard, especially if the cooling requirements for x86 hardware is going to start requiring 1lb. heatsinks like the upcoming P4...

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I agree -- there should definately be .xxx, and it should be strictly enforced through the force of law. And any site that habitually links to pornographic material should be forced into that domain, so that we wouldn't have to see it.

For example, one website that should be prevented from finding its way into any clean, god fearing home is this one -- you would not believe some of the filth and perversion that is constantly being linked to from that site.

And I know that all of the hard-core anti-porn crusaders would agree with me on this, too -- I look forward to the day when viewing evil, bad, rotten sites is difficult, in exactly the same way listening to evil, bad, rotten songs, or watching evil, bad, rotten movies is getting difficult up here in Fargo, ND.

I look forward to the day when ISP's are all large, scared multi-national corporations, filtering content based on almost arbitrary labels. It works so well with the only "record stores" left around here (like Wal-mart and Target), and it works so well with the homogonized movie theatre chains, too. I feel so cacooned and protected, knowing I'll never see an NC-17 movie or buy an uncensored BloodHound gang song again. I will be even safer when I couldn't view bad websites even if I wanted to.

And I know that my definition of "bad" will be the same as yours. It just has to be! I know exactly what you shouldn't be seeing or listening too!