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Re:finger pointing by circletimessquare · 2015-03-26 15:34 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US

copy finland

whatever they do, we do the same

#1 thing we should copy from finland's universities:

https://www.jyu.fi/en/academic...

Doctoral sword

The sword used at the Degree Ceremony is independent Finland's official civilian sword. The sword comes with a scabbard and a black or golden holder. The University's golden symbol will also be on the sword. Other traditional swords can also be used if available.

The sword is traditionally carried on the left side. Men carry the sword in its holder. A loop for the holder can be sewn into pants and the sword will stay firmly in place because there is a catch on the scabbard. Female doctors should also have a sword. In most cases the sword cannot be directly attached to dresses, because the material is not strong enough. A belt with a loop can be used, or the sword can be attached to a skirt at the waist by taking out some of the seam, or the fastening can be hidden under the top of a two-piece outfit. There is also the option of carrying the sword in hand.

The person's name, the date of their dissertation and the date of the Degree Ceremony is etched on the sword. One does not need to attend a Degree Ceremony to purchase a sword.

To buy the doctoral sword the Promovendi can join the collective order. Additional information on the collective order will be sent later for all registered Doctors.

i mean, that's just awesome. if we gave our graduates swords, i think they would try harder, right?

all joking aside, we really should just copy finland

fuck japan, it's a closed society and a stifling culture that doesn't have anything to translate to our own

but finland, we can just copy their system wholesale

Re:Oblig: TED Talk by Midnight+Thunder · 2012-07-06 02:35 · Score: 1 · on Apple-Motorola Judge Questions Need For Software Patents

The same pharma companies that spend over 50% of budget on marketing and advertising? Don't you think it is a little wasteful?

PS: No, I don't need to provide a link, google it.

Your response would have been better if you had provided a link yourself. Anyhow, here is one link (PDF), entitled 'Pharmaceutical Marketing – Time for Change':

http://ejbo.jyu.fi/pdf/ejbo_vol9_no2_pages_4-11.pdf

Re: epic failures by tapanitarvainen · 2009-04-09 17:19 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration

This story usually [...] And then, with every retelling, the number of years increases by one....

Heh. But, the machine I was talking about is this (nimbus1.mit.jyu.fi). It's an HP9000/835 that was new in 1990. Be warned, though, it is *slow*. (I'm hoping slashdotting will kill it for good...)

State your mission man ... by zeridon · 2006-04-26 12:06 · Score: 4, Informative · on IP Addressing Space Management Applications?

1) Do you need just bookkeeping stuff? - spreadsheet or some homemade app will do it!
2) DHCP/DNS integration management? - Sauron project is my favourite at the moment
3) Something more speciffic ... then go either for something comercial or your developers.

Zangelding by TeknoHog · 2006-04-01 11:45 · Score: 1 · on The Cure for Information Overload

A related solution is offered at the Zangelding official home page.

Re:Bah by arose · 2005-01-11 23:54 · Score: 1 · on Breakthrough In JPEG Compression

Most JPEGs aren't optimized so it's always good to run something like jpegoptim over them.

June 19th rings a bell by D4C5CE · 2004-06-19 06:18 · Score: 2, Insightful · on Microsoft Sues Brazilian Official for Defamation

Astounding how such news breaks on this very day that marks the anniversary of a historic event when another country in a nearby place in Latin America tried to show how imperialism often backfires (even quite literally) on its proponents.
No one would wish for Brazilian politicians to resort to firing squads (where an army of penguins -and lawyers- will do), but this strange coincidence should serve as a surefire warning for emperors of any kind not to defy their companies' destiny by forcing products and business models down someone's throat where entire countries reject them:
"You're not welcome here" is a message loud and clear...

Re:Possible source of free lenses by Graymalkin · 2004-05-21 16:57 · Score: 1 · on Things You Can Do With A Giant Fresnel Lens

You can also build one of these to do your cooking for you. They can be build by various means for a pretty low price. Combine some collectors and a lens and you'll have a nice little material heater.

Pericles' Funeral Oration by blingbing · 2004-05-21 07:52 · Score: 1 · on Sailing the Wine Dark Sea

link

Security is still sub-par with wifi by mao+che+minh · 2003-06-25 10:54 · Score: 4, Informative · on WiFi Exposes Sensitive Student Data

WEP (Wired Equivalency Protection) uses RC4 encryption which is not very strong. Due to the design of RC4 (it was intended to be used over a synchronous stream), WEP designers had to make the key change with each packet. This means that the keys are quickly reused, and thus a sinffer can eventually - and usually rather quickly in large networks - determine the key loop. The SSID (Service Set ID) is sent over the wire either unencrypted or encrypted using weak algorithims.

WTLS (Wireless Transport Layer Security) was designed poorly as well. It's design limits the effectiveness that a certificate authority like Verisign can have when using WTLS.

Attacks against the WAP WTLS protocol (PDF): Source one, Source two

Security+ primer (lots of basic WEP, WAP, WTLS): Alpha Geek

Re:IRC is P2P by Xerithane · 2003-05-14 05:41 · Score: 2, Funny · on IRC Networks Unite in Fight Against Fizzer Worm

Gee, really going way out of your way to change the subject, huh? Wonder why that is? Got something to defend there? Chatting, irc, etc are way close enough to be referred to as a sort of P2P.

Change what subject? I'm responding to what you said.

I can discuss with people, just don't "do" insults, which I certainbly didn't start,so if you or anyone else want to talk to me, do it without insults or get ignored from here on out.

The original poster who corrected you didn't insult you at all. Go back and read it, I'll wait.

I just don't like picky crap like this, it's a waste of time. If you can't figure out what my basic thoughts were,

Lets just stick to the language we've all (except you) have agreed upon, ok? Stop inventing words, or misusing them and we'll be fine.

And last I knew, there isn't any official P2P overlord who has got the one and true legal definition of P2P

Well, I'll inform you that

there is.

BUT, we'll let uyou "win" that one, only the way you describe it is the one true "official" definition. All hail the official P2P uberdictator!

You are just making an ass out of yourself. Don't worry, I'm not going to stop you.

Here is better round-up by juhtolv · 2003-01-25 06:50 · Score: 1 · on JWZ Reviews Video on Linux

Never mind JWZ. Here is better article about video players of Linux:

GNU/Linux Media Player Roundup
.

Here is my E-Mail I wrote to JWZ:

WWW-diary of Juhapekka Tolvanen: Saturday, 25 January 2003

Good SIte to Read by jfroot · 2003-01-15 12:32 · Score: 2 · on SMS Messaging Unreliable

Here is a good site with a wealth of technical information on how SMS works behind the scenes.

Re:And there's a new song, too by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-01 07:47 · Score: 0 · on OpenBSD 3.2 Available

at the school parking lot by ejaw5 · 2002-10-21 13:35 · Score: 1 · on Chrysler Adopts Linux For Vehicle Simulations

you can expect to see Soccer-Mom driven Town and Country Minivans with "Powered by Linux"
stickers sported on the bumpers.

Re:My wife examined the actual Voynich Manuscript by dachshund · 2002-08-27 04:01 · Score: 1 · on Star Charts From A Strange Book From The Past

There's a whole set of pages that feature naked women lounging around in bathtubs (that seem to be connected with either plant tubes or very funky plumbing).

Here's one example.

Re:What about software? by Per+Wigren · 2002-06-20 21:57 · Score: 2 · on Commercial NNTP Gateway Recommendations?

For leeching in the binaries-groups, Binary News Reaper is by far the best one! It can assemble parts from multiple servers, which is a great feature if you are using newsfeeds.com which has a per-server-per-day downloadlimit (17 servers, total of 10GB/day).. Too bad it's only freeware and not Open Source though.. :(

If you only have a single server, PAN is a better bet, as it also supports "normal" Usenet-usage (discussions).. It's a shame that "assemble parts from multiple servers" is not even in the TODO-list for Pan.. :(

For downloading whole groups there is a lot of options.. I've tried them all and I found UBH (Usenet Binary Harvester) to be the most powerful and flexible one.

The very best option is newsfeeds.com! by Per+Wigren · 2002-06-20 19:26 · Score: 2 · on Commercial NNTP Gateway Recommendations?

newsfeeds.com's Premium membership is $19.95/month or $159.60/year. That gives you access to 17 servers, many of which are dedicated to porn, binaries, multimedia and/or warez.. You get a downloadlimit of 300MB-1GB per server per day, which is a total of 10GB per day! I use it with BNR2 which collects the parts from all of the servers so you can use the full 10GB/day without having to connect to another server every time you reach the downloadlimit of one of them...

Agora by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-12 03:56 · Score: 0 · on Top Research Labs in Human-Computer Interaction?

Well, if anybody cares, the University of Jyväskylä (in Finland) has Agora - human technology center

Musical Machines Gain Cognition by Mentifex · 2002-03-16 03:48 · Score: 0, Informative · on Musical Machines Gain Recognition

The European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music introduces the topic of musical machine cognition.

The Music, Mind, Machine project in The Netherlands carries it further.

The Research Project on Cognitive Musicology in Finland is the last word. Enjoy!

Re:hmmm by drakee · 2002-01-21 10:19 · Score: 1 · on Webcomics As Business Model

Yes, bandwidth is a huge problem for online comics. Unlike most types of content, comics exist as large, bandwidth-hogging image files. And when a cartoon site has a few years' worth of archived strips that people can look at, the GBs can really add up.

I don't pretend to know how to make money with online comics, but I can tell you that many webcomics could cut their bandwidth bills in half by optimizing their images:

1. Stop using GIFs! Fer crying out loud, use PNG images indexed to 256 or less colors. You don't have to worry about Unisys royalties or any such nonsense, and it compresses much more efficiently than GIF.

2. If you use PNG images, further compress them with pngcrush. It's free and doesn't degrade image quality at all.

3. If you use JPEG, use jpegoptim to optimize compression losslessly. The results may not be too dramatic, but every byte counts.

Drake Emko
http://hackles.org (nerdy animal fun!)

There is other pages about that same subject by juhtolv · 2002-01-12 05:01 · Score: 1 · on RMS: Putting an End to Word Attachments

Here you are:

Don't use MS-Word as a document exchange format (Goldberg, Jeffrey )
( http://www.goldmar k.org/netrants/no-word/ )
plaintext - In praise of practical e-mail hygiene (Vermeer, Martin )
( http://www.netby.dk/Oest/Europa-Alle/vermeer/plain .html )

And here is mine. It is in Finnish:
"Miksi on typerää postittaa sähköpostin liitetiedostona MS Word -dokumentteja"
( http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/mswordmail.html )

There is other pages about that same subject by juhtolv · 2002-01-12 05:01 · Score: 1 · on RMS: Putting an End to Word Attachments

Here you are:

Don't use MS-Word as a document exchange format (Goldberg, Jeffrey )
( http://www.goldmar k.org/netrants/no-word/ )
plaintext - In praise of practical e-mail hygiene (Vermeer, Martin )
( http://www.netby.dk/Oest/Europa-Alle/vermeer/plain .html )

And here is mine. It is in Finnish:
"Miksi on typerää postittaa sähköpostin liitetiedostona MS Word -dokumentteja"
( http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/mswordmail.html )

Re:Dungeons and Dragons by WWWWolf · 2001-12-02 04:40 · Score: 1 · on Interplay Targeted By Bioware-fare

Of course, how can we forget the nice, kind words on the same subject? =)

Demoscene and Linux by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-01 03:50 · Score: 0 · on Dreamhack 2001

Since this is really not a 'LAN party' but a 'demo party' and this is Slashdot, something about the demo scene and linux is in order....

Check out Lnxscene for some Linux demos. Linux and demoscene haven't really mixed (yet?) so most of the stuff there isn't that good but I recommend checking out at least the linux-only (!) Dose 2 demo by mfx that placed 5th at Assembly, a very respectable achievement. Slashdot had a story about asm, too.

Some others work checking out are Astral Blur by TBL (they have a really cool system called Ixalance which lets them distribute the same files for all platforms it supports - all you need is the Ixalance launcher (only few hundred kilobytes) and you can run any of their .ixa demos), State of Mind by Bomb and Alpha 2 by Astral. Finally, if you've got Java installed , you can enjoy the show right inside your browser window: Cyboman 1999 by the Komplex folks. This one's actually a java remake of an old 64k intro.

Surprisingly many Windows demos even work under WINE.

I greatly respect Sam Lantinga/Loki for giving us SDL, looking at the non-SDL demos/games on the Linux platform I'd say that only SDL has really made Linux a viable alternative for the demoscene to develop on.

My Zsh Prompts by juhtolv · 2001-07-06 01:04 · Score: 1 · on What Does Your Command Prompt Look Like?

Most of the time my Zsh-prompt looks like this:

juhtolv@heresy : /home/juhtolv %

And as a rewt it looks like this:

-=*[ROOT ZSH]*=- root@heresy : /root #

In both cases I have RPROMPT like this:

10001 | pts/5

My shell-configs are available here:

http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/configs/shellrc/i

Re:New? by WWWWolf · 2000-03-05 20:18 · Score: 1 · on New Atari Jaguar Game Running $1,225 on eBay

Sssshht, be careful!

Kids, you've seen in this short snippet, live recording from a hapless victim, where the Pokemon addiction can lead to. Stand fast. Play the game, but don't let the Addiction take over your mind, or some bad things will happen. That has happened before, sort of. =)

OK, now to the topic...

I don't think that this will revive Jaguar, except that this may result some "scene" type stuff. There may be more people who do "ars gratia artis", that is, "art for the sake of art".

"Pokemon effect" that revived GameBoy will not work here - they don't produce the Jaguars anymore, and they don't have a big corporation behind them funding them and marketing the game...

This looks like a sporgery to me. by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-06 07:31 · Score: 0 · on First Journaling FS for Linux

See the definition if you don't know what a sporgery is.

I really hope we won't be seeing more of these on slashdot.

astroturf is pointless by Anonymous Coward · 1999-07-17 12:26 · Score: 0 · on The Folly of Faking Fan Sites

If the people who created a work that you admire/appreciate had their family/friends create fake "astroturf" support for it, does that reflect poorly on the work or on the creators?

Here are some more things to consider:

Paul Thurrott's Wininfo: Either this guy really likes that sort of thing or there's something he's not telling us...
Obsessive Fan Sites: Does this site really point out which fan sites are silly wastes of bandwidth or does it get secret funding from fan site operators in exchange for linking to their pages? It's not terribly bad publicity, once you think about who these sites are trying to attract.
Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon fan pages: Are all of these really run by Sailormoon fans, or are some really run by friends and family of Takeuchi Naoko? For love and justice indeed!
slashdot.org: Is this really a geek-run open-source-friendly news site or is it a secret joint venture between Redhat/SUSE/Caldera (with additional help from the X10 "price slasher") to stir up buzz? The fact that it's not all about Linux could be an attempt to throw people off the trail and make /. look "genuine".

To the best of my knowledge, the sites I discussed are not "astroturf" (with the possible exception of that Slashdot thing, you know all the comments on there are planted :)

But why would anyone do such a thing, if there's already real grassroots support? I can understand the DIVX pages, but any movie is going to attract a rabid following, however few in number. I just can't see any possible benefit of fake TBWP fan sites. That doesn't mean that none of them are fake--if some of them are, the people responsible should get a smack upside the head--just that having fake ones is worthless given that there are bound to be some real ones.

And who goes around believing everything that they read? This sentence is false.

BTW: is this post fake? :)

No Subject Given by Anonymous Coward · 1999-01-08 18:52 · Score: 0 · on Where can you get Linux Computer Logos?

The homepage of the Linux Penguin Sticker Movement has suppliers and "source".

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