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Yes...he did...then told a bullshit story about the website he hijacked ON that website and lied about it. Blatantly.

Check out this for the part of the story Michael doesn't like to talk about.

He's one of the more inflammatory editors on this site IMHO...he's about a Junis away from Jon Katz. :)

See title;

Too many people now-a-days will start a blog/journal/diary/whatever and expect it to instantly become popular. They may write about everything and nothing, about politics and sex and drugs, but they never get really well-read.

Why? Because unless people know who you are, they generally don't care.

Let's pick on Livejournal for a second. It is flirting with 1 million user accounts right now (inluding mine), but how many do I read? Maybe I read about 4; There are thousands of .com blogs too; how many do I read? 1. Slashdot and K5 have journals too, but I only read 1 of those,too.

It should be no suprise that the journals/blogs/etc I read are those of people I feel I have an aquaiantance with, albeit at a distance. I read 'Taco's journal because I know what he did. I read Brad's livejournal because I know what he did; Same with Rusty, jwz and a few others.

But anyone else I don't care about. Why? Because they haven't *done* anything I care about. You may like to write, but don't expect people to read just because you do it. See title.

And I'm not alone; I started a popular internet thing that people use a lot. Suddenly I find names I don't know commenting in my LJ and showing up in my "friends" list, even on my Zoo page here. It's not because they like what I write just for the sake of it, but because they have a point of reference to relate to me on.

That's what it comes down too -- if we can't relate to you, we don't care.

kuro5hin.org article
Google Dance

-dk

About a month ago, someone posted this story over on K5 regarding the google dance. Good to see it's run by a marketing site, I couldn't think of anyone who might have more of an interest in rankings then those bastards. :P

About a month ago, someone posted this story over on K5 regarding the google dance. Good to see it's run by a marketing site, I couldn't think of anyone who might have more of an interest in rankings then those bastards. :P

Fuck Slashdot, use Kuro5hin. Never mind, we don't want your kind.

I haven't seen much discussion here about alternatiev economic systems. Most of the talk is about whether we have cash or electronic cards. Why not talk about more interesting stuff, like altering the way money itself works. Ever heard of demurrage? Neither had I until I read some stuff over at transaction.net - the concept of negative currency is a fascinating one.

If you've ever read the Mars trilogy, you'll probably have some idea of the kinds of things I'm thinking about: limitations on the size of corporations and so on. Basically Capitalism version 2 (or 3).

[... gold standard good ... no bad ... no good ...]

Yeah, but then they'd have to dumpster dive for it everywhere in the whole region. Good luck: it would be buried with thousands of other copies of Daikatana... that'd truly be a needle in a haystack.

In a few days you will be incarcerated, then raped in prison a dozen times day for about five years until Bush gives the green light to waste your sorry ass.

If you don't like it, go here instead. So the editors here post dupes (trips? uh..). If you don't like it, tough. There are more websites out there that do get spellchecked.

You should get modded down because your comments are totally off-topic. This story is not about a Heartbreaking National Tragedy. It is about furthering the space program.

I can't see any fucking comments you champs. I suggest you upgrade your Slash or recompile your kernel or reboot your rackmounts or something.

Kuro5hin is hosting a story on the topic of response to tragedies like this now -- A Heartbreaking National Tragedy.

Well worth a read.

If the computer is still doing its job, then why is it obselete?

There are also good technical reasons why NASA uses "obselete" computers on alot of their spacebound equipment.

That Aviation Week article was the best recounting I've seen yet. I get so tired of that period of time between a catastrophic event and the time real information can be disseminated. Looks like I'm not alone

Firstly, a quick agreement - I've thought this for a long time, even before I got into such arguments on the web. It pisses me off in real life when people come up with analogies and then take them to extremes that no longer bear any relevance.

The main point of my comment however is that I am planning to write an article for K5 on this exact subject, and just thought it polite to ask if I could borrow some of your points/examples from your journal (credited of course).

Porn and Tequila.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2003/1/28/22056/9 730?pid=291#292

I hereby caution you that reading the contents of the linked message will more than likely skew the way you look at a group of characters in a classic movie for the rest of your life.

Oh goody, it looks like some creationists have moderation points. Notice at this time, all the anti creationist post have been modded offtopic.

It looks like the creationists aren't the only babies with the mod points... If you'll take a second look you'll see that just about everything in this thread is down to -1...

I'd hardly consider a post or two on creation and evolution offtopic when applied to an article that is purely based on speculation based on evolutionary theory. Personally, I think the the original article's idea has some merit, but it really is nothing but an idea. They suggest an experiment towards the end, but this really just tests the relationship between hiccuping and suckling. One could raise the argument that hiccupping has nothing to do with lungfish and is only related to suckling. Do I have anything to back up this claim - no, but neither do the authors of the original article.

It is sad that rather than posting a meaningful reply folks like to go crazy with mod points. I agree that creationism/evolutionism probably doesn't deserve a +5 in a thread like this, but it certainly doesn't belong with -1 spamming. If I wanted to read articles in a mod system like this I'd go read kuro5hin...

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/28/22056/9730

Here is an insightful editorial on K5 which should help put some things into perspective. It's worth reading if you haven't already.

As Mr. Pournelle states:

The value of prizes is that there is no cost until the task is accomplished, and the total cost is limited and known. If you insist on "being fair" to all the losers in a competition then you are in essences saying don't do anything.

It would take Congress about 6 hours to pass the prize legislation I described. If that cause no results, well, so be it; but it might in fact get things going. There may be better ways, but I have seen no reason not to try the prizes in addition to anything else.

tps12 == Boromir son of Faram == tps12 @ K5 == Travis P. Scholtens

Quite. It is vapourware.

Nevertheless, firewire has always included a facility for encrption and key exchange-- it is a little dissapointing that the first "encrypted firewire drive" to market supports an obsolete standard
firewire encrypt "Designers notes"

I just wanted to debunk all of the myths people are posting about potato launchers being illegal. During the incident that happened to me yesterday, I found out for sure that potato launchers not only are not illegal, but it was the least of my problems :) The officer was telling me that he had one himself, and we discussed fuels etc. It was...Interesting.

What's next? A Kuro5hin text ad for your "massage therapy"?

The only problem is how could this bug be 'harmful' to a host system if the prime directive was self perseverance?

This is so very true. I wonder how many virii just sit on thousands of computers doing absolutely nothing except for spreading slowly. Detecting such a virus would be very difficult if it doesn't cause lots of network traffic or leave other similar traces.

The next gen virii you mention sound a lot like the worms described in this this k5 article. But should viruses evolve to something like this, I still think that it would be possible to protect systems from them. It would take more powerful means and might need systems to be more isolated from networks around them but I certainly think it would be possible (By somehow sandboxing everything coming in from a network, treating programs that are not from the original install as tainted and sandbox them as well etc.).

Look here.

In comments submitted on Kuro5hin, a question (see comment) is raised on whether or not Slashdot employs a similiar technique (as presented in the article) to foil spam-flooders

I post diaries over at Kuro5hin. They cover football basics and include play analysis after games. I was too drunk during this game, so there will be no Superbowl analysis.

Here are a couple (they used to go on my website, and they will go back up there next season):

An Analysis of 2 Raiders Plays That Beat the Titans
Zone Blitz
The Cover 2 Shell

I post diaries over at Kuro5hin. They cover football basics and include play analysis after games. I was too drunk during this game, so there will be no Superbowl analysis.

Here are a couple (they used to go on my website, and they will go back up there next season):

An Analysis of 2 Raiders Plays That Beat the Titans
Zone Blitz
The Cover 2 Shell

I post diaries over at Kuro5hin. They cover football basics and include play analysis after games. I was too drunk during this game, so there will be no Superbowl analysis.

Here are a couple (they used to go on my website, and they will go back up there next season):

An Analysis of 2 Raiders Plays That Beat the Titans
Zone Blitz
The Cover 2 Shell

Right Here

He says that geeks don't understand about the total package and that technical ability isn't the only thing. He's right in that is what geeks say. However, geeks do realize this, but they just don't know it.

From an example taken from The Other Site in the last day: programming languages. People will willingly use broken languages, not as superior, because they interface to more things, can be applied to more general purpose situations (even when they shouldn't be), or have bigger libraries. You only need to look to Perl and C.

Perl is an attrocious language judging on purely technical merits, however CPAN and all the sugar it has are what give people reason to use it. You will often hear the C or Perl apologist say, "it does what I need good enough" or "I get work done in it." This is almost the same decision calculous that the author is expousing: people chose VHS because it did what they needed (recording a two hour movie unattended) and it did it well enough (they couldn't tell the difference in image quality).

In fact, I would encourage you to develop this idea and post it on k5.

Kuro5hin does it better: You choose from 1-5, and the score is an average of all the votes.

Start gathering old (or at least current) hardware now.

Not necessary. You can simply switch off TCPA. Then of course you won't be allowed to download movies from MPAA-approved-moviesite.com, but that's no different from using old hardware.

TCPA technical analysis

patents only last for 17 years from issuance of patent, or 20 years from application for patent, whichever expires first.

Actually, it's whichever expires last according to 35 USC 154(c)(1).

But if Rep. Mary Bono has her way, she'll probably introduce a bill like this to "harmonize" patent terms with copyright terms.

They put in in people inside a capsule thats the size of a grain of rice and most of that size is the capsule. The devices consist of a single TINY microchip (grain of sand size) and a very tiny inductor (two grains of sand size).

The truly irritating thing -- for someone who likes to think of himself as skeptical and rational -- is that it wasn't so long ago this was the stuff of paranoid schizophrenia.

I didn't say "the stuff of science fiction", mind you. I said "the stuff of paranoid schizophrenia." I knew people years before this RFID stuff was public, who believed that "someone" had implanted a "chip" or a "radio transmitter" inside their bodies, to track them. Those people were mentally disturbed and their beliefs were delusions. Now ... well ... these things exist, they are getting widely deployed -- people put them in their dogs after all.

I'm going to sound like a Kuro5hin poster to ask this -- but what does it mean about our society that we are making paranoid delusions come true so easily? Apparently our laws encourage it, our police and other government agencies are all very willing to forward it, and our industries to implement it.

If we want to live in a dystopia, all we need to do is implement the technologies and policies of dystopia. If we want to live in an insane society, all we need to do is implement the technologies and policies of insanity. I'd rather neither, thanks.

I might like technical consistence & cluefulness more than most people. The following list of writers reflects that.

Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing just released Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory and his work have been mentioned here a time or five before. He just co-wrote Jury Service with Charlie Stross, another loopy fun writer. Stross' Lobsters is online; Stross' interview and appearance on Slashdot made me seek out more. Stross' list of published fiction includes a dozen online versions of stories. Both Doctorow & Stross are entertainingly loopy, and technically consistent & clueful.

John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up" and "The Shockwave Rider" are good dystopian lit.

Bruce Sterling is still around; he just wrote "Tomorrow Now," a non-fiction futurist book. Zeitgeist, Distraction, and Holy Fire were all enjoyable and insightful.

Vernor Vinge coined the term "singularity." "A Deepness in the Sky" and "A Fire Upon the Deep" have a joining character pre- and post-Singularity, and both won Hugos. He just released some short stories, but I haven't read it yet.

Matt Ruff wrote the science fiction "Sewer Gas & Electric" and fantasy "Fool on the Hill." The first is funny and fast-paced.

I've enjoyed K. W. Jeter, Rudy Rucker, Roger Williams (The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect) a bit...

Technical accuracy isn't his forte, but Jim Monroe, a former managing editor of Adbusters, wrote Angry Young Spaceman and Living in Silico. I downloaded AYS ages ago, but bought a copy during his tour so I can loan it to friends. Oh, and checking now, he's put his 1999 book Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask up.

There is. See here

Can be downloaded here The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Great cyberpunk style science fiction, and you can download it right now!

Im serious, this is up there with the best of 'em.

If you want to see how it should be done, take a look here (need an account if you want to see how it works, or just read their FAQ etc).

If the writeup had at least made reference to the older story and made clear that this thread is supposed to be about interesting data found on "old" harddrives, then I would agree with you. But from the post it sounds like CmdrTaco hasn't even checked from last week to ensure that this isn't a duplicate.

This is their job. They are trying to get people to support them through subscriptions. Before I'd subscribe, I'd have to see some kind of perfessionalism. To be perfectly honest, the only reason I stick around Slashdot is not because of the editors but because of the community already here. Without the community, I wouldn't bother reading, because it wouldn't be worth reading. Posting dupes and generally not checking the stories they are posting make it seem like the editors don't care about the site anymore and make the community feel like they're being neglected.

Don't forget, a lot of the original very vocal Slashdotters already moved to another community. The lack of professionalism on the part of the editors is annoying and a slap in the face of the people for who the site is run. It would be very nice to have the editors explain that they are at the very least doing something to try and prevent duplicates. As things stand, it seems that the editors aren't listening to the community and are just ignoring us.

(Mind you - this goes both ways. It seems that a vocal group of Slashdotters feel that the editors "owe" the posters, while the editors seem to feel that the posters "owe" the Slashdot crew. Neither is true. Slashdot as we know it needs both. Without either, it would be nothing. "Slashdot" owes both the community and the editors for its existance.)

That's why you see people complaining about dupes. It let's them vent steam and hopefully get a message to the editors that they want change and hope that the editors will pay more attention and hopefully admit that they can screw up. The fact that they're getting modded up indicates that there are many people who agree with them. In this case, I feel that the bitching is justified.

You're right, and this analogy has already been published to the front page of K5: Road builders and maintainers should pay robbery victims.

This is a k5 link with some interesting info on the subject.
And the software was licensed perfectly legally, since the inclusion of the copyright notice satisfied the BSD license.
That statement is really funny when you realize he's talking about dissasembling the exec to see the notice.

You should check out The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Wait til you're eating lunch to read it :)

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
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Later, Raven made the traditional toast. Her strong voice boomed out through the rooms and courtyards she had envisioned. Caroline's handcuffs disappeared, and like everyone else she found herself holding a drink. "It's time for our toast," Raven declared. "Who are we going to toast?"
"PRIME INTELLECT!" answered over four thousand enthusiastic voices.
"To Prime Intellect, for making the world safe from people like us!"
And four thousand people, instead of tossing back those drinks, inverted their glasses, baptising the floor in alcohol.
"My heart just isn't in that toast any more," a balding older man told Caroline. She wondered briefly if he had chosen to be old for some reason, or if it was his way of letting nature take its course. "I mean, we're amateurs against Prime Intellect. I killed six college students. It killed the whole universe. Not even in the same league."