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That's odd...I noticed the colors too. I was just thinking about how I like them better than the colors found on the rest of Slashdot.

Probably because they remind you of the spam-free experiences you've had on Kuro5hin, where YOU choose the stories. K5 uses #006699; Slashdot/developers uses #336699. The perceptual difference between sRGB #006699 and sRGB #336699 is negligible.

UDDI's single biggest proponent is IBM. This is incontrovertible.

IBM collaborated with Nazi Germany. Ipso facto, UDDI is tainted by Nazi attrocities.

IBM is also a huge corporate advocate of slashdot's favorite operating system. Does this make all Linux users Nazis as well?

Also, if you actually bothered to read the story that you linked to, you'd see that while IBM did sell Hollerith cards to Germany during The War, they were hardly Nazi sympathizers. The same technology can be used for good or evil. Dumbass.

ps. Yeah, I know, IHBT, IHL. Whoop.

I visited a friend of mine, who is a big DV enthusiast. He was working on a cheesy rap video to pass the time and was trying to make it appear as though his car had flown into its parking spot.

That one minute clip took about an hour of work, and we spent at least 15 minutes just waiting for Premiere to render the effects he was applying (basically, move and rotate a Photoshop image acress the screen). Mind you, this is a 1.33 GHz Athlon, fresh out of the local hardware agora, with half a GB of RAM.

If a "killer app" to justify further upgrades is needed, I'd have to say one of them digital video. Is it any coincidence that Apple and Microsoft are putting said functionality in their latest OSes?
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There is no K5 cabal.

I'm not going to dredge up the link, but surely you recall the "potato powered computer"? Anything is possible.
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This is delving a bit deep into the psyche, but the fact that so few people have an idea of what the rapist's mind goes through is a sufficient indicator of how troubled a rapist is. Such a small portion of society understands what it is about, while many people have tried or continue to use illegal drugs and think no ill of it, if not in public, at least in private.
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This is surely scored favorably as "funny", not "interesting". Why not make a laptop case out of said material, instead of a tent? For that matter, why not settle on a DC standard that could power Walkmans and GPS units out of backpacks, suitcases, and purses? You don't have to wash any of those very often, and you could easily lug around the same one of those every day...
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However, HotOrNot is a "context free" metric. You look at a single picture and decide that the person is hot or not. Unfortunately, this isn't all that useful as the answers tend to be very close to either "1" or "10" A much better implementation would be just "thumbs up" or "thumbs down." K5 also suffers from this problem when it asks users to rate comments on a scale of 1 to 5. Keeping it simple would make the ratings much more effective.

Pick the Hottie on the other hand implements a contextual metric. Instead of rating a picture on it's own you look at two pictures and click the one you think is hotter. It's much easier to decide between coffee or tea than it is to rate coffee on a scale of 1 to 10. Effectively the site is sorting pictures using human judgement for the comparison function. This way you get much more useful results. With this system you can get the "Top 10 Hotties." With HotOrNot there are probably thousands of images that are 10.0 or 9.9.

Justin Chapweske of Open Cola gets the credit for pointing out this one.

burris

I'd say that just about everything is an RPG -- self-preservation, search, destroy, develop. What is Wolfenstein but nethack with guns? I don't think many people would put the two in the same category, though. So given what passes for game standards, I'd say that Tribes is definitely not an FPS; in fact, it's almost cool!

Personally, I'm still happy with Warcraft II. Five years down the line with it, I still haven't found another game that is quite as good.
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This reminds me of a very similar discussion over at K5.

This reminds me of a very similar discussion over at K5.

Not much, sorry to say. I'm at home working on my dissertation. At least I got my diary posted before this happened.

iGrrrl

Rusty of Kuro5hin has written a great Op-Ed piece about reality and belief. It deserves the widest possible dissemination - so we'll Slashdot it. Bookmark the URL and try to read it tommorrow or sometime next week.

I have been looking into alternative fuels lately. Most modern gasoline internal combustion engines can be modified to run off of alcohol. They can be made to possibly run even more efficiently. It would require rejetting the carb and possibly adjusting the timing. Another thing to do would be to replace the fuel filters when switching and after running on alcohol for a time as alcohol is a great cleanser and you wouldn't want a bunch of gunk getting into your engine. With a few modifications any gasoline engine can be made to burn alcohol.

As for biodiesel, the only change one would have to make is a new filter when changing and after a bit of running as with the gasoline/alcohol switch for similar reasons. Other than that, a diesel engine should run off of biodiesel with no modification.

Kuro5hin had this article on hemp biodiesel a while ago. Another great site is Journey to Forever

I have been looking into alternative fuels lately. Most modern gasoline internal combustion engines can be modified to run off of alcohol. They can be made to possibly run even more efficiently. It would require rejetting the carb and possibly adjusting the timing. Another thing to do would be to replace the fuel filters when switching and after running on alcohol for a time as alcohol is a great cleanser and you wouldn't want a bunch of gunk getting into your engine. With a few modifications any gasoline engine can be made to burn alcohol.

As for biodiesel, the only change one would have to make is a new filter when changing and after a bit of running as with the gasoline/alcohol switch for similar reasons. Other than that, a diesel engine should run off of biodiesel with no modification.

Kuro5hin had this article on hemp biodiesel a while ago. Another great site is Journey to Forever

...okay, guys, I know I am asking for it. But here is what I just posted in 'that other place'... You'll notice that I pose no solutions, but I do believe that I have a valid rationale for keeping this sort of tripe away from the children. I skimmed through most of the other posts and didn't see anything along these lines, so here it is. I will respond to one post that seemed to say that parents need to be more responsible in raising their kids in this environment: parents cannot raise their children effectively in the current environment. There's just too many influences, and IMHO, too many Evil influences. Read on to get a feel for my viewpoint, and then feel free to respond! These are my thoughts after long deliberation, so please do me a favor and give me due consideration. Don't dis me. And try not to flame me as an AC; you're abusing the system and I won't respond. *sigh* that said, here goes:

After reading the passages in the FCC document (highly entertaining!), can anyone really defend their airing on the public airwaves? Those of us who are old enough to appreciate the content can obtain it readily from other sources, and I maintain that it is in the best interests of our society that we protect the children (do it for the little children!!! Of course, who else do we do these things for?) from being exposed to this information. Ironically, the same moralists are the ones who applauded the release of the Starr Report in our local newspaper. The Ends do not justify the Means, but apparently they do for Them.

Now as to my reasoning as to why this information is harmful. I am against most of the methods employed by the Christian Right, as I believe they
are neither Christian nor Right, but I had to figure out for myself what constituted the reasoning behind the Laws of God, if only to figure out my own morality. What I came up with is this: the brand of Love that is portrayed to children between mutually consenting adults is important to their understanding of what is Right and Wrong. I think that a perfectly idealized love* is almost non-sexual in nature. In this idealized Love of, say a Man for a Woman, he cherishes her and holds her more important than his own life. In any case, the object of his love is her soul, her essence. This sort of Love is self-renewing and always fulfilling. It is the sort of love that grows with time in a deeper intimacy and abiding trust. The heart and the soul of the lover become filled with Joy and Life takes on a meaning that transcends the ordinary day-to-day events.

In contrast, the sort of attraction a Man has for a Woman as portrayed by these shock jocks totally denies the soul of the person, and objectifies
her as mere flesh. The problem here is that the object of desire is the flesh itself, which has no soul, so there is nothing further to do once the
object has been er, conquered. This leads to immense dissatisfaction in the psyche, as one realizes that what one thinks he has been searching for is found, and then it's done. It then becomes like a drug, it's all about one's own sexual needs, not about any joining of souls, and the problem becomes one of maintaining the excitement and the impetus for continuing pursuit of this inner drive. The only way to maintain That kind of high, is, like a drug, to increase the dosage - you must next have two partners, or use vibrators, whips, chains, multiple partners. You cheat, you tomcat around, you pay money for it. It is very much like the current climate in radio. Once advertisers learned that titillation turns heads (walk through any video store and count the number of times a big ol' .45 caliber pistol is posed oh-so-close to a pair of ruby-red lips), they opened up a door to something that ultimately had to lead (like the frog in the pan of water on the stove, slowly until it's boiling) to what we have today. And you know what? It shocks you, it turns your head, and it even stimulates you (that is, until you are numb). But it is guaranteed to Never fulfill you. In fact, it is guaranteed to frustrate you and provoke your anxiety.

But that of course is the nature of evil, to consume your soul. You learn that the hard way at your own peril.

So we as a society should continue to punish those who, in their own misguided notion of fun and need to create an allegience among our youth, would teach them to be titillated by such porn. Because there is a much more important way to Love. Because our Children need to learn that first. This will save them when they are exposed to the various genitalia flouted at them over the course of their lives.

Yes. Do it... for the children. :)

(*- By the way. In a perfectly idealized love? The sex is Great!)

--Robert (the k5 karma whore ;^)=

Holloway, on holiday.

Not the article, the post by "spiers". Here's a link for you:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=comments&sid=2001/2/21 /19441/2905&cid=38#38

It is Hotmail's policy to respect the privacy of its users. Therefore, Hotmail will not monitor, edit, or disclose the contents of a user's private communications unless required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Hotmail; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of Hotmail; or (3) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of its users or the public.

Oh it's easy for you to assume that just because it doesn't fit in with your wonderful, liberal view of life that it's got to be a troll. Far easier than actually trying to come up with some facts to support your position, right?

Ok, you might want to take a look at this story on sexuality over at Kuro5hin. It's a fascinating read, one of the best things I've seen there in a while. Chock full of hard facts about the intrinsic need for sexual release in human beings.

You're not worth arguing with. You'll just apply the word "liberal" to any evidence to any argument you don't like, just like you have in all three of your posts so far.

Furthermore, your argument seems to be based on a particular pseudo-literalist reading of the Bible, so it's not like the discussion would go anywhere.

Expedited discussion with this troll:

1. I'm going to have a little fun, and quote 1 Corinthians 7:1 "Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry", the standard justification for primacy of celibacy over marriage, and tell you that if you really wanted to take the word of God to heart you would forsake all physical pleasure, even with your wife. I'll further support my claim with Luke 14:25-27: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate .... his wife and children, .... --he cannot be my disciple."

2. You're going to writhe and scream and complain and try and explain I'm distorting the passage. You might quote me Shakespeare, and say that "the devil has the power to quote scripture" thinking you have a biblical comeback. You might quote 1 Corinth 7:2-5 as a better retort.

3. Then I'll say Christ makes clear in 7:6-7 that permanent non-marriage is a preferable state.

4. Then you'll invent a new complaint to justify ignoring the passages of the bible you dislike. Of course, by disregarging only one passage, you've kind of shot your argument that we should blindly use the Bible as a set of rules without thinking - if it's wrong there, why isn't it wrong about pornography? (Of course, the bible never mentions pornography, you can borrow the inferential references which conservative theologians find to justify anti-pornographic positions.)

5. I'll be sick of the discussion and won't reply because you will ignore any other facts I introduce into the discussion or attach the word "liberal" to them, as if I should run in terror at being called such a horrible word.

There, we condensed in all down into one post. Wait I think I got a patent idea... Expedited troll conversations via prediction of troller/trollee responses.

There's a pretty good review of MacOS X on Kuro5hin, you should have included also.

I'ts called 24 hours with Mac OS X.

IMO, Slashdot is the single most important english site on the internet, except when silly stories [ like this one ] are published so people can speculate about an event that will likely never happen.
This shouldn't be debated when I know so many quality reader submissions are being sumarily dismissed without a second thought. Story selections are becoming a real problem lately - alot of stories are either redundant or boring -and I can see a mass exodus to kuro5hin if the editors of /. don't allow more color and diversity.

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Please don't force me to change my startup page to something else...
Kuro5hin even did a nice piece.

But I guess it's not /. news until they can be sure to be the LAST to report it! Hmm.. Ya, but those wireless microwaves... Wooo doggy, uber geek, but... Ah, nevermind, it is sort of cool, just a bit more pointless. Just glad there are at least one or two other sources of Geek news than slashdot...

It's unfortunate how many unknowing and unexperienced politicians (in the realm of video games) are so quick to condemn "excessively violent" entertainment. I find this a bit shocking from Mr. Ashcroft, as he definitely seems reasonable and in agreement with geeks on other issues such as Carnivore.

...where 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams allegedly opened fire from a bathroom in Santana High, killing two and wounding 13.

Allegedly?

OK, I realize this is just journalistic autopilot and please-don't-sue-me-speak here, but there is something very wrong going on. I would think that if someone shoots 15 people, killing two of them, in a public place, and is then arrested by police you could be pretty much certain what actuallly happened, rather than what has been alleged to happen.

Now what does it matter what word we use? Well take a look at some of the drug laws (and soon probably other laws as well) that essentially make it a crime to be suspected of wrongdoing. I believe this is related to the blatent journalistic wording such as is present in this article. Just think about it. Charles Andrew Williams allegedly shot 15 people. Soon, someone makes a law to punish alleged school shooters. Or perhaps to punish potential criminals who are alleged players of video games. You see my point? This attitude of "they're criminals, they don't deserve any rights" has gotten well out of hand when we begin treating people as criminals who are merely alleged of commiting a crime (as compared with people like Charles Andrew Williams, who most certainly did).

I'd like to see the submission queue opened up so people could vote on which submissions they'd like to see added.

Perhaps you should rephrase that to:

I'd like to see the submission queue opened up so it can become a toy for trolls and spammers.

Why? Is it more cross-platform for cross-compiles? Just seems kind of odd. Your post, if expanded, might be an interesting story over at K5

Hey, anyone ever considered putting up a site, that shows all articles being rejected by the Slashdot Heinis ? Count me in ;-)

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The details on how I go about this are here, but to answer your question: I do use dvgrab for the actual capture. MainActor is used soley for the non-linear editing of the product, in order to cut out commercials and cruft preceeding (and following) the actual program (dv grab captures the video, but it does not filter commercials or do any kind of editing).

Yes, it is a little tedious ... editing the footage takes about twenty minutes, and the renders to MJPEG avi format take several hours, as does the final conversion to DivX. The latter isn't an issue, really, as I fire off the MJPEG renders in parallel before going to bed, then fire off the DivX conversion before leaving for work the next morning. That evening I burn the result to CD and watch it.

Obviously this is something you only do for a program you really enjoy and want to add to your personal video library, not something you are just casually watching.

Of course, PBS broadcasts are much easier, as there is almost no editing out of the commercials involved.

• Sony DVMC-DA2 Media Converter (converts the analog signal to firewire -- I've also used a mini-dv camcorder to do this, but prefer the media converter. I am replacing it with a Hollywood media converter, as the Sony only does NTSC and I have some home videos in PAL I wish to convert, so if you're buying new hardware I suggest the Hollywood over the Sony kit)
  
• TI OHCI Compliant FireWire Controller
  
• 75 GB IDE UDMA/100 driver w/ Promise controller
  
• I have 512 MB RAM, but that is way more than is needed ... 128 MB should be plenty
  
• CD-R drive for burning final result to CD
  
  (One hour dv video requires ~12 GB as avi's).
  
  Details on the software I use can be found here

See this CNN article and discussion on K5 earlier.

Plenty more humo(u)r like this can be found at Kuro5hin and at Geekizoid and at slashdot itself.

Be warned, you might want to turn off automatic image loading in your browser. I'll say no more.

The well organized but very secretive Troll High Council calls this: "Education through Misinformation."

Or are they? It seems to me that peer pressure, brought on by Meta-Moderation here on /. or "Truster User" status on K5 seems to imply that people have a sociological need to moderate other people. People enjoy being lazy, by their very nature. Look at the U.S.A., for God's sake. Just give us our Whoppers, a La-Z-Boy and some XFL football and we're happy for the next 2 hours until we fall asleep and droll all over ourselves.

Television is still going to be the most efficient way of communicating with the masses. People hate to read, write, or do anything constructive. They want the information fed to them. Katz can scream about the "New World Order" of the 'net, but in the end, this is doomed just like all adventurous tasks; there's too much thought involved and people are turned off by thought.

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See my post at kuro5hin for more.

There was a discussion on WINE on kuro5hin this week. For all the number of people posting crap about the supposed superiority of k5 over /., the k5 crowd sure posted a lot of crap about WINE.

The story asked the following question: instead of hounding companies to port, why not help with WINE? The responses were divided between:

1. WINE doesn't work that great right now

2. I think it's bad 'coz there's no incentive then to write native and/or Free apps

Now #2 I can see, but #1? The story was asking why people don't help improve WINE! Duh! One jerk went so far as to say that all WINE was for was to run Windows programs under Linux. Even when the subject of Winelib came up. Um, duh, Winelib is a library to help make porting easy. Heck, Microsoft products usually get ported to other platforms through such software, though usually commercial software... :-)

This sounds like a great solution because Windows doesn't look to be on its deathbed quite yet, and there's this odd backlash against Linux on the desktop. It's starting to look like we'll be stuck with Windows shrinkwrap and Free/Open clones for a while yet...

at least that particular story.
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Take it to K5 then.

I agree, this court ruling is very insightful. Consider the horrors we try to protect our poor, innocent children from: violence in video games and tv, sex, and alcohol.

Maybe other Americans simply don't know anything about the rest of the world, but low age drinking is very common if not ubiquitous in many parts of Europe. Yet, they don't have the problems some people claim would result from underage drinking. During a recent trip to England I noticed pornography (including explicit intercourse and lesbian activity) on tv late at night. This was normal tv, not a premium channel such as the Playboy channel. I wonder why, after exposure to this, we don't see epidemics of teenage pregnancy and rape in England? Topless bathing in public is also very common in Europe, particularly in warm Mediterranean areas. How can children not be scarred for life after seeing actual breasts in public? And violence? Their kids see plenty of violence on tv and in video games also, but their crime rates are lower. The situation is much more extreme in Japan: Even shows for younger audiences feature levels of violence that would never be tolerated on the major networks in the U.S, yet Japan's violent crime rate is practically negligible compared to America's.

Clearly, the "see no evil, hear no evil, do no evil" solution is a failure. Our relatively overprotected children grow up to do worse than their foreign counterparts. The judge is right, children need to learn to deal responsibly with the presence of disturbing things, rather than living in a fantasy world before being thrown into the deep end upon reaching adulthood. Our society needs to change fundamentally: We must reject the Puritan heritage of labeling things taboo and sweeping them under the rug, and instead generate realistic responses without the hypocrisy that pervades modern society.

To do this, we must change three things: the ignorance of the general public, the sensationalism of the media, and the reactionary attitude of many government officials. Government officials are voted in by the people, and they gain information from the media, so clearly if society is to improve the media must be changed.

This can be accomplished through the establishment of alternative media sources and the promotion of ideas rejected by the establishment. Call CNN's talkback live and catch the "How can we protect our poor children?" hypocrites with their pants down. Send letters to the editors of newspapers. Join groups such as the ACLU that have the power to make a real difference. Gradually, more people will come to realize what changes must be made for society to overcome the issues facing it.

As more people are freed from the brainwashing of existing society, things will change. We won't see stories about these charges against children for making a paper gun anymore. Instead, we will see more of the freedom of speech our nation's founders envisioned. Should we fear alcohol, which has been used responsibly by innumerable people for all of history? Should we hide violence, which is a fact of life people need to learn to deal with to survive? Should we avoid horrible sex at all costs, even though Ben Franklin was a member of the notorious Hellfire club, famed for its orgies, Thomas Jefferson had affairs, and Washington was known for his hedonism? Sex is not unconstitutional. Banning everything and sweeping problems under the rug is. Banning alcohol brought the disasters of prohibition and the rise of organized crime. Banning free speech will bring the downfall of America.

Once the necessary changes have been made, we will see a new America, one capable of leading the world morally as well as economically. In the new America, sex will be an activity enjoyed guiltlessly by everyone, even young children and lovers of animals. Public orgies will be common. Violent video games will be more popular than ever and violent tv shows will be far more explicit than those currently available, yet the crime rate will be low-because citizens will be responsible people living lives much more enjoyable than the restrained 1984-style prison existences we have now. Everyone will be able to drink themselves into a stupor whenever they feel like it. We will all own guns for our protection, there will be a chicken in every pot, every able bodied man and woman will have 40 acres and a mule, there will be a car in every garage, a house for every family, and truth and justice for all. This will be a land of both anarchy and democracy-for is not anarchy the abscence of a controlling authority, thereby giving all people equal power, and democracy rule by all the people sharing power equally? By the very definition of democracy our government is illegitimate! Fight for anarchy, morality, and the American Way! Down with the government! Take back the streets, it's time to riot!

Read MLP in Kuro5hin for details.

I just want my free taco out of this whole thing. That's all I need.

-Keslin, the naked nerd girl

Stories like this belong on Kuro5hin, not Slashdot.
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set yourself up as a tin-pot dictator of your own website -- then you can decide what stories get posted.

Or just go to Kuro5hin, where the community chooses the stories.

Well, you could always post a summary to kuro5hin, but of course 5 people would shoot it down for being negative about Open Source companies, two for it being a possible troll, and the rest out of some odd, xenophobic fear, a paranoid need for kuro5hin to be Not Slashdot (which, btw, is held by Sig11 himself.)

Or Mortal Kombat XI Neodymium with the same 12 characters from the last five games...

Well, there's always Wolfen^H^H^H^H^H^H Quake 12...
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One other quick question, which I still haven't seen answered. When Slashdot was bought, and the parent company(ies) were going to have IPOs, I believe that you and CmdrTaco would be donating some of the income to Free Software or other projects you supported. Have you done so yet, and to which causes?

We just had a discussion on kuro5hin about how unlike Larry Augustin (VA Linux CEO) and the other suits at VA Linux, ESR and CmdrTaco didn't sell VA Linux stock when they had the chance. With VA Linux currently trading at around $3 there isn't much money to be made from the stock especially after taxes.

You mean like the intelligent and thoughtful poster who got this blatant piece of corporate propaganda on K5's front page recently? At least Slashdot's occasional failings are usually funny.

Oh well, I did sign up over there, maybe it was just a fluke that it was twice as lame as any /. frontpage I've ever seen. Well, at least they fronted the story about /. and the scientologists. I guess I'll check them again later.

See this story on kuro5hin if you don't know what I mean.

Please.

And if you think I'm right, or you disagree and want to defend yourself, please write me.

-- Michael Chermside