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Pot, meet KettleHow long does it take you people to goto news.google and find a site that doesn't require registration or giving our personal info?
You certainly could have provided a couple links, but noooo..
Here's a couple:
Sega, Sammy to Combine Operations
UPDATE 3-Sega to merge with Sammy, slashes 02/03 forecast
Or just follow this crummy link for the whole pile of poop.
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Re:The problem is...
You're showing how little you understand about the process before starting to criticise it.
The revenue generated from the scheme is "ring-fenced", so none of it goes to pay for his shiny new offices, nor for his taxis he gets to get from home in Islington to the South Bank. (Ken is well known for taking public transport). Then again, as mayor of London maybe he should take heed of the advice from his security staff in these strange days, and take some kind of secure route to/from his offices.
You can level the "human factor" complaint at anything. How about the automated underground ticket system? Prestige cost a billion pounds, (figures here), five times that of the congestion charge, (figures here). NATS isn't doing that well either - have you ever been delayed at a UK airport due to "Air Traffic Control Issues"?
I can't see how you are so sure that this scheme is going to fail, other than you obviously have anti-Ken blinkers on. If so few people live in the centre of London, why is there so much traffic there? Oh, wait, it's because people work there
I won't be in the country next time there's a mayoral election, and though I voted for Ken last time, I'd probably do it again this time, unless the CC scheme fails miserably and there's a candidate with a viable alternative (though I haven't heard of one) Somehow though, I don't think it will fail dismally. It may not do spectacularly well, but the money generated will be useful, and those who bus into London will be grateful.
Also, I've tried parking in Islington to visit a friend. But without a pass it's impossible without parking half a mile away from were you want to be. And passes are only issued to residents on a per street basis. Parking near the boundary will not "become a problem", it already is a problem. -
Re:No way to contact spammer
Why? Check out this rather interesting article:
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,576 13,00.html
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Re:Imagine this idea
yeah, then you could install this and not even need a monitor
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lest we forget...
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It's not a civil matter, it's criminal!
>also, this is civil.
Alas you're wrong there. The No Electronic Theft act makes sharing copyrighted material over a certain threshhold into a federal offense. Consider the feds' raid on DrinkOrDie. All these guys were doing was running warez FTP servers - not all that different from sharing a few gigs of MP3s on KaZaAaAaA - and they were busted by the US Customs Services.
>Do the police get to come to enforce a civil warrant?
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Stop! Stop Now!
They must stop this madness now!
Do you think I want children 'researching' oral sex, or discusting masturbation in a public library? It is completely evil!
If this doesn't go past, you will automatically start to see bums jacking off in libraries!
Or gay rings in public schools!
We Must Put a Stop to This!
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Check this out
I posted a link to this story earlier in the day in my journal. Interestingly enough, it is titled "The New Convergence".
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Oh Great
Now when a network component fails I can worry about getting medium voltage power directly into my motherboard.
Didn't we learn a long time ago to separate power and signal wires?
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Re:One time pad, quantum encryption are unbreakabl
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The companies can fix thisI agree that it is in a hard spot, but it seems that EA has come up with a solution to the problem with its policy on unhappy SimCity 4 customers. From the wired article:
Indeed, EA does offer dissatisfied users a way to get their money back, by trading opened software boxes for unopened ones by mail. They can then return the unopened game where they originally bought it.
Bing, CompUSA is no longer the problem. The software companies just have to step up now. -
"Pink" was OS project, not chip
"Pink" was a joint operating system project between Apple and IBM. Here's an article about it from 1993: Surrender the Pink!
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More InformationHere are more links I collected when submitting this story...
- World Chess Federation
- WCF coverage of match
- Yahoo News - coverage in non-chess expert terms
- Wired News article - why chess isn't as good a measure of intelligence as some make it out to be
- X3D Technology - provided 2D and 3D coverage of the match
- Coverage of games and press conferences by X3D
- How X3D works
Does anyone have a good link describing the programmers behind Deep Junior? All I could find were news articles and press releases. I'd like to read more information about their strategy, search algorithms, etc.
David
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Space Elevator feasible? (Re:What I'd like to see)
I'd also like to see a space elevator persued, but I don't know that we have the tech yet. Then again, I haven't looked into it that much either.
According to this article mentioned earlier on Slashdot:
"Technically it's feasible," said Robert Cassanova, director of the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts.
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The key to the concept's feasibility lies in the material that will be used to construct the ribbon between the Earth and outer space. Nanotubes are essentially sheets of graphite -- a lattice of carbon -- seamlessly rolled into long tubes that are mere nanometers in diameter. These are 100 times as strong as steel, but much lighter.
"Carbon nanotubes are rapidly developing," Cassanova said. "They are not long enough to stretch from Earth's surface to 62,000 miles, but there are a number of organizations working on that now."
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Banning vs. BlockingAll sorts of people who don't understand the web or the Internet keep trying to get rules made or bring lawsuits or abuse the DMCA in novel ways because they don't like how their data is being used. In most cases, this is way out of line (as opposed to mildly out of line) because they can simply set their web server not to respond to requests they don't like.
A classic instance is the "deep linking" cases, where somebody doesn't want to let you see their deep pages except by coming through their front page. Rather than taking this to court, as several content providers have done, and beat up on users one at a time, it's much simpler to check the HTTP-REFERER to find out what page the request came from, and send an appropriate response page to any request that doesn't come from one of their other pages. (Whether that's a 404 or a redirect to the front page or a login screen or whatever depends on the circumstances.)
Screen scapers are an interesting case for a couple of reasons. One of them is that blind people often use them to feed text-to-speech browsers, so banning them is Extremely Politically Incorrect, as well as rude and stupid. Another is that anybody with a Print-Screen program on their PC can screen-scrape - you're only affecting whether they get ugly bitmaps or friendlier HTML objects. So you not only have to ban custom-tailored CPAN objects, you have to get Microsoft and Linus to break the screen-grabbers in their operating systems.
The related question "ok, so how *do* I detect and block http requests I don't like?" is left as an exercise to the blocker (and to the people who build workarounds to the blocks, and the people who also block those workarounds, etc...) The classic answers are things like cookies (widely supported "need the cookie to see the page" features seem to be available), ugly URLs that are either time-decaying or dependent on the requester's IP address, etc., or just checking the browser to see which lies it's telling about what kind of browser it is. There's also the robots.txt convention for politely requesting robots to stay away, and Spider traps to hand entertaining things to impolite robots or overly curious humans.
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Predators improve the breed.It's been a while since I posted a journal, and there's a few new happenings.
I got another story submitted. I'm really surprised I got this one, since I'm sure the stupid Lunix fanboys submitted this 500 times. Of course, the discussion that followed was purely anti-Microsoft, even though there are a billion LUnix systems out there that are vulnerable to other exploits, and can be just as big a pain to patch. Fucking hypocrites.
I'm improving in my ability to karma whore, as you can see. As I type this, I've got "Positive" karma, and I ping-pong pretty freely between Positive, Bad and Neutral. Not bad. Hell, I've even posted a blatant anti-michael post logged in and not been any worse for wear.
With positive karma, I'm metamodding several times a day now, pretty much marking everything as "unfair" (unless it's a troll, who's karma whoring and has been modded up. Then I either stay neutral or metamod "Fair" or "Funny"). $20 says I spend more time meta-moderating than most -- and I'm doing it for the sole purpose of getting the signal/noise ratio as low as possible. I wish my other accounts were able to metamod.
On to the subject of this little Journal: Predators improve the breed. It's occurred to me that my work, and the work of the many trolls (most of which are far more competent than I) might actually make Slashdot better if Taco were to begin listening to them. He's mentioned in his journal that he's heard all the grousing about moderation, which means grousing is not going unheard.
Don't get me wrong -- CmdrTaco is still an idiot, totally out of his league running a site like this. But the fact that he puts oil on the squeaky wheels means he has ears and can be annoyed. Unfortunatly the "oil" is an even more fucked-up moderation system, hamfistedly added to allow editors to put the "squeaky wheels" (trolls) into more-and-more-soundproof rooms instead of solving the problem. You know why divorces happen? Because the people in the relationship don't address their problems. Instead they push them aside and try their hardest to ignore them until they can't any longer, spending more energy ignoring them than they do dealing with them.
Why not just meet the issues head-on?
1) Ditch the irrational, unprofessional condescending LUnix fanboyism from the editors. As FortKnox says, "Lunix isn't always the answer. Microsoft isn't always the problem."
2) Before publishing articles, have the common sense to spellcheck and fact-check them. Is it a dupe? If you want to preserve the stupidity of the submitter, just put some "[sic]" marks in the article.
3) Don't pull a michael and add unnecessary snide remarks. It's unprofessional.
4) If you won't do #1, #2 and #3, please drop any pretense of being objective or even rational. It's insulting.
5) For fuck's sake, stop pretending you're not censoring. Stop insulting your readers' intelligence and just admit that the mod system is there so editors can ensure Slashdot reflects THEIR opinions, not those of the readers. Then you can do what you really want to do: delete comments and users that you don't like.
6) The only redeeming quality of michael is that he seems to post fewer (if any) duplicate articles. Fire him. If that's not enough, please fire him because he's the only editor with the sense to check for dupes, which probably makes the other editors jealous. Does he have rich parents or something? Is he paying Slashdot to keep him occupied so he can research his petty conspiracy lunacy?
7) I'm fully capable of reading Wired, The Register, CNN and The New York Times all by myself, and I won't get Slashdot's editorial bias or mind-numbingly stupid interpretations by Slashdot editors and article submitters. Sooner or later, even the stupidest of your drooling LUnix fanboys will realize this and leave. How about stopping Slashdot from becoming the unofficial comment board for these sites?
See, Taco, that's what a lot of the grousing seems to be about. If you were to truly embrace your Liberal sensibilities, you'd see that your Predators -- your trolls -- are trying to improve their Prey -- Slashdot. It's Darwinian, you stupid twat, but you're too dense to see it.
YHBT. HAND.
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Hahhahahaha. CmdrTaco is predictable as drool from a retard. I posted the text of this journal entry in a CmdrTaco story, and I've been bitchslapped AGAIN! Here's some cut&paste HTML from my messages:
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:18 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:19 AM
Moderation of "Amen." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Arrogant dick. You're helping them win." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
See how the first moderation of my thread post occurred less than a minute after I posted it? Then all those other mods occurred at the same time.
I've been bitchslapped again! Taco REALLY doesn't like it when you criticise. Such a fragile ego! -
62000 milesFrom the space elevator link:
extend 62,000 miles up into space
Wow! 62000 miles is long. Consider the fact that the radius of earth is about 6371.01 km (3981 miles), I seriously wonder the necessity for a shaft almost 8 times the diameter of the earth hanging off into space. I know it's a typo on their part but they really shouldn't let something like this to appear twice in one page. -
Re:Only supports the Windows version.So, what use can be made from a Linux system with 5 control buttons, a dial control and a locking switch as input and a low-res mono display and audio as output?
You port Doom to it, of course.
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Re:Bill's Karma is catching up with him
Well funded? Since when has anyone who wanted to put linux on a console had cash to spare?
This is the obvious response, but what the hell.
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Re:Does Billy have one?
You mean like this one? I know it's not on her desk, but it's in her hands.
Taken from this article in Feb's Wired magazine. -
Re:Does Billy have one?
You mean like this one? I know it's not on her desk, but it's in her hands.
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Re:And tonight...You may be more right than you think. According to wired Clark left on a very anti-Microsoft sounding note only to be replaced by an ex-MS crony. Afterall, this is the Bush administration, they're doing a wonderful job proving how unbelievably complacent Americans are.
Clarke, in an e-mail sent overnight Thursday to colleagues, cited damage from the weekend's infection that struck hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, slowing e-mail and Web surfing and even shutting down some banking systems. He called the attacking software "a dumb worm that was easily and cheaply made."
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Bailing out from 100,000 feetI am following up my own post with some more info. Here is a link to a Life magazine account of a parachute jump from 102,000 feet .
A French balloonist plans to freefall from 130,000 feet later this year.
An important difference between a jump from a balloon and bailing out from an incoming spacecraft is that the balloonist's airspeed when they bail out would be pretty close to zero, not some multiple of the speed of sound.
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Re:Is this really news?
It would have been nice to see some kind of list, or maybe a timeline of sorts with other MS security flaws.
That would be here.
it just seemed like they based their whole thesis of security shortcommings on one recent incident.
I think it has more to do with the anniversary of the Trustworthy Computing effort within Microsoft. It was a year ago that the Bill announced that security was their new focus, that all the software engineers were standing down for a month of no new code, just security bug-finding and bug-fixing. And there have been recent announcements reiterating this sort of "commitment".
Mind you, this worm is a poor example of Microsoft insecurity. Not only was there a patch out, but it was SQL - any admin who didn't have it patched should at least have had it firewalled. But the timing of it points out that Microsoft has had many years of insecure feature-oriented software engineering to go back and fix up, and that their "new direction" has a lot of inertia to overcome.
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Dumb Mobs
For an alternative perspective on mob behavior, see this article in Wired.
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Algae-Aid Algae based bandage
I thought i had read about this before in wired. This came out around august 2001 Wired August 2001 Here is a link to a company that makes the bandage in case someone needs a few med-kits of their own Company
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Re:But they are!
Don't joke! It happens!
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Turn of events...
As the battle raged on in to 2003, the Anti-Mac orcs having been robbed of almost all tangible ammunition, retreated behind the "Macintoshes are for homosexuals" blanket.
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Free (adware) games.
I wonder if we'll see large budget adware games in the future. Considering the 400billion to Trillion[1] dollar expenditures on direct and indirect advertising along with the increased popularity of ad-blocking software and consumer electronics, creative --foolhardy?-- ad producers might see piggyback ads as a way to micro-target consumers.
Some modern ad examples: Kazaa makes (millions) off of their file sharing service. We see product placement ads in movies Happy Gilmore (Subway sandwitch), tv shows Drew Carey(Aqua Java drink) nowadays. Some oneline chat (MMORPG) "There.com" (Levis/Nike)
Former FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky projected online advertising revenue to projected to increase. From 3E8$ to 2E9$ to 11 billion dollars by 2003[2]. If advertisers aren't seeing good returns from banner ads, they might after making their "ads" more entertaining by bundling some entertainment... =)
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[1]COMMUNICATION FROM THE UNITED STATES: Advertising and Related Services (2001 July). World Trade Organization notes (?)
[2]Opening Remarks, FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky, Public Workshop on Online Profiling, November 8, 1999. Volume XIX. Issue 22. November 15, 1999. Page 5-8. [see hyperlink]. --the linked article is some sort of critque of Pitosfsky's policies. -
Coming from IBM, take it with grain of salt.
These are the guys that promised us OS/2
and Tagilent Pink as the replacements for the
state of market operating system of the the time.
Linux will surely replace Solaris, HP/UX, SCO,
etc. The question is, can it displace Windows
on the desktop. Good news, I just got my
boss to try Redhat today (borrowed my laptop) and
I'm getting rave reviews. This is the PHB + rave
reviews !!!! So maybe we're reaching critical
mass here !!! C'mon Apple heads, join the
revloution. We need you.
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oddly prescient?
"Dyson notes Joy's oddly prescient comment
Ok, what about that comment is "oddly prescient"? Does the submitter not understand what "prescient" means; does he not understand the comment; or (the most generous interpretation I can find) is he merely noting that Joy foresaw--not anything that has passed in reality--but further science-fiction doom-saying?
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Re:Interesting Speculation
every Crichton fan or lover of science fiction will want to read this one.
And, once again, every lover of science will cringe. Crichton (himself an MD) goes well beyond stereotypes in an attepmpt to portray science and scientists in a negative light. "Crichtonism" has gotten so out of hand that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation actually has to offer a cash prize to filmmakers who can break out of this mold. As Wired says, it's normal that "The scientists featured in film and television are often insane, incompetent or incurable geeks." What is wrong with America when his books are always bestsellers? -
Predators improve the breed (Hi, michael!)It's been a while since I posted a journal, and there's a few new happenings.
I got another story submitted. I'm really surprised I got this one, since I'm sure the stupid Lunix fanboys submitted this 500 times. Of course, the discussion that followed was purely anti-Microsoft, even though there are a billion LUnix systems out there that are vulnerable to other exploits, and can be just as big a pain to patch. Fucking hypocrites.
I'm improving in my ability to karma whore, as you can see. As I type this, I've got "Positive" karma, and I ping-pong pretty freely between Positive, Bad and Neutral. Not bad. Hell, I've even posted a blatant anti-michael post logged in and not been any worse for wear.
With positive karma, I'm metamodding several times a day now, pretty much marking everything as "unfair" (unless it's a troll, who's karma whoring and has been modded up. Then I either stay neutral or metamod "Fair" or "Funny"). $20 says I spend more time meta-moderating than most -- and I'm doing it for the sole purpose of getting the signal/noise ratio as low as possible. I wish my other accounts were able to metamod.
On to the subject of this little Journal: Predators improve the breed. It's occurred to me that my work, and the work of the many trolls (most of which are far more competent than I) might actually make Slashdot better if Taco were to begin listening to them. He's mentioned in his journal that he's heard all the grousing about moderation, which means grousing is not going unheard.
Don't get me wrong -- CmdrTaco is still an idiot, totally out of his league running a site like this. But the fact that he puts oil on the squeaky wheels means he has ears and can be annoyed. Unfortunatly the "oil" is an even more fucked-up moderation system, hamfistedly added to allow editors to put the "squeaky wheels" (trolls) into more-and-more-soundproof rooms instead of solving the problem. You know why divorces happen? Because the people in the relationship don't address their problems. Instead they push them aside and try their hardest to ignore them until they can't any longer, spending more energy ignoring them than they do dealing with them.
Why not just meet the issues head-on?
1) Ditch the irrational, unprofessional condescending LUnix fanboyism from the editors. As FortKnox says, "Lunix isn't always the answer. Microsoft isn't always the problem."
2) Before publishing articles, have the common sense to spellcheck and fact-check them. Is it a dupe? If you want to preserve the stupidity of the submitter, just put some "[sic]" marks in the article.
3) Don't pull a michael and add unnecessary snide remarks. It's unprofessional.
4) If you won't do #1, #2 and #3, please drop any pretense of being objective or even rational. It's insulting.
5) For fuck's sake, stop pretending you're not censoring. Stop insulting your readers' intelligence and just admit that the mod system is there so editors can ensure Slashdot reflects THEIR opinions, not those of the readers. Then you can do what you really want to do: delete comments and users that you don't like.
6) The only redeeming quality of michael is that he seems to post fewer (if any) duplicate articles. Fire him. If that's not enough, please fire him because he's the only editor with the sense to check for dupes, which probably makes the other editors jealous. Does he have rich parents or something? Is he paying Slashdot to keep him occupied so he can research his petty conspiracy lunacy?
7) I'm fully capable of reading Wired, The Register, CNN and The New York Times all by myself, and I won't get Slashdot's editorial bias or mind-numbingly stupid interpretations by Slashdot editors and article submitters. Sooner or later, even the stupidest of your drooling LUnix fanboys will realize this and leave. How about stopping Slashdot from becoming the unofficial comment board for these sites?
See, Taco, that's what a lot of the grousing seems to be about. If you were to truly embrace your Liberal sensibilities, you'd see that your Predators -- your trolls -- are trying to improve their Prey -- Slashdot. It's Darwinian, you stupid twat, but you're too dense to see it.
YHBT. HAND.
EDIT:
Hahhahahaha. CmdrTaco is predictable as drool from a retard. I posted the text of this journal entry in a CmdrTaco story, and I've been bitchslapped AGAIN! Here's some cut&paste HTML from my messages:
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:18 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:19 AM
Moderation of "Amen." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Arrogant dick. You're helping them win." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
See how the first moderation of my thread post occurred less than a minute after I posted it? Then all those other mods occurred at the same time.
I've been bitchslapped again! Taco REALLY doesn't like it when you criticise. Such a fragile ego!
Your buddy,
MondoMor
P.s. It's a shame you've chosen to censor me as now I've had to resort to using one of the billion free proxies out there. Tsk, tsk. -
Predators Improve the BreedIt's been a while since I posted a journal, and there's a few new happenings.
I got another story submitted. I'm really surprised I got this one, since I'm sure the stupid Lunix fanboys submitted this 500 times. Of course, the discussion that followed was purely anti-Microsoft, even though there are a billion LUnix systems out there that are vulnerable to other exploits, and can be just as big a pain to patch. Fucking hypocrites.
I'm improving in my ability to karma whore, as you can see. As I type this, I've got "Positive" karma, and I ping-pong pretty freely between Positive, Bad and Neutral. Not bad. Hell, I've even posted a blatant anti-michael post logged in and not been any worse for wear.
With positive karma, I'm metamodding several times a day now, pretty much marking everything as "unfair" (unless it's a troll, who's karma whoring and has been modded up. Then I either stay neutral or metamod "Fair" or "Funny"). $20 says I spend more time meta-moderating than most -- and I'm doing it for the sole purpose of getting the signal/noise ratio as low as possible. I wish my other accounts were able to metamod.
On to the subject of this little Journal: Predators improve the breed. It's occurred to me that my work, and the work of the many trolls (most of which are far more competent than I) might actually make Slashdot better if Taco were to begin listening to them. He's mentioned in his journal that he's heard all the grousing about moderation, which means grousing is not going unheard.
Don't get me wrong -- CmdrTaco is still an idiot, totally out of his league running a site like this. But the fact that he puts oil on the squeaky wheels means he has ears and can be annoyed. Unfortunatly the "oil" is an even more fucked-up moderation system, hamfistedly added to allow editors to put the "squeaky wheels" (trolls) into more-and-more-soundproof rooms instead of solving the problem. You know why divorces happen? Because the people in the relationship don't address their problems. Instead they push them aside and try their hardest to ignore them until they can't any longer, spending more energy ignoring them than they do dealing with them.
Why not just meet the issues head-on?
1) Ditch the irrational, unprofessional condescending LUnix fanboyism from the editors. As FortKnox says, "Lunix isn't always the answer. Microsoft isn't always the problem."
2) Before publishing articles, have the common sense to spellcheck and fact-check them. Is it a dupe? If you want to preserve the stupidity of the submitter, just put some "[sic]" marks in the article.
3) Don't pull a michael and add unnecessary snide remarks. It's unprofessional.
4) If you won't do #1, #2 and #3, please drop any pretense of being objective or even rational. It's insulting.
5) For fuck's sake, stop pretending you're not censoring. Stop insulting your readers' intelligence and just admit that the mod system is there so editors can ensure Slashdot reflects THEIR opinions, not those of the readers. Then you can do what you really want to do: delete comments and users that you don't like.
6) The only redeeming quality of michael is that he seems to post fewer (if any) duplicate articles. Fire him. If that's not enough, please fire him because he's the only editor with the sense to check for dupes, which probably makes the other editors jealous. Does he have rich parents or something? Is he paying Slashdot to keep him occupied so he can research his petty conspiracy lunacy?
7) I'm fully capable of reading Wired, The Register, CNN and The New York Times all by myself, and I won't get Slashdot's editorial bias or mind-numbingly stupid interpretations by Slashdot editors and article submitters. Sooner or later, even the stupidest of your drooling LUnix fanboys will realize this and leave. How about stopping Slashdot from becoming the unofficial comment board for these sites?
See, Taco, that's what a lot of the grousing seems to be about. If you were to truly embrace your Liberal sensibilities, you'd see that your Predators -- your trolls -- are trying to improve their Prey -- Slashdot. It's Darwinian, you stupid twat, but you're too dense to see it.
YHBT. HAND.
EDIT:
Hahhahahaha. CmdrTaco is predictable as drool from a retard. I posted the text of this journal entry in a CmdrTaco story, and I've been bitchslapped AGAIN! Here's some cut&paste HTML from my messages:
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:18 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:19 AM
Moderation of "Amen." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Arrogant dick. You're helping them win." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
See how the first moderation of my thread post occurred less than a minute after I posted it? Then all those other mods occurred at the same time.
I've been bitchslapped again! Taco REALLY doesn't like it when you criticise. Such a fragile ego! -
Predators improve the breed.It's been a while since I posted a journal, and there's a few new happenings.
I got another story submitted. I'm really surprised I got this one, since I'm sure the stupid Lunix fanboys submitted this 500 times. Of course, the discussion that followed was purely anti-Microsoft, even though there are a billion LUnix systems out there that are vulnerable to other exploits, and can be just as big a pain to patch. Fucking hypocrites.
I'm improving in my ability to karma whore, as you can see. As I type this, I've got "Positive" karma, and I ping-pong pretty freely between Positive, Bad and Neutral. Not bad. Hell, I've even posted a blatant anti-michael post logged in and not been any worse for wear.
With positive karma, I'm metamodding several times a day now, pretty much marking everything as "unfair" (unless it's a troll, who's karma whoring and has been modded up. Then I either stay neutral or metamod "Fair" or "Funny"). $20 says I spend more time meta-moderating than most -- and I'm doing it for the sole purpose of getting the signal/noise ratio as low as possible. I wish my other accounts were able to metamod.
On to the subject of this little Journal: Predators improve the breed. It's occurred to me that my work, and the work of the many trolls (most of which are far more competent than I) might actually make Slashdot better if Taco were to begin listening to them. He's mentioned in his journal that he's heard all the grousing about moderation, which means grousing is not going unheard.
Don't get me wrong -- CmdrTaco is still an idiot, totally out of his league running a site like this. But the fact that he puts oil on the squeaky wheels means he has ears and can be annoyed. Unfortunatly the "oil" is an even more fucked-up moderation system, hamfistedly added to allow editors to put the "squeaky wheels" (trolls) into more-and-more-soundproof rooms instead of solving the problem. You know why divorces happen? Because the people in the relationship don't address their problems. Instead they push them aside and try their hardest to ignore them until they can't any longer, spending more energy ignoring them than they do dealing with them.
Why not just meet the issues head-on?
1) Ditch the irrational, unprofessional condescending LUnix fanboyism from the editors. As FortKnox says, "Lunix isn't always the answer. Microsoft isn't always the problem."
2) Before publishing articles, have the common sense to spellcheck and fact-check them. Is it a dupe? If you want to preserve the stupidity of the submitter, just put some "[sic]" marks in the article.
3) Don't pull a michael and add unnecessary snide remarks. It's unprofessional.
4) If you won't do #1, #2 and #3, please drop any pretense of being objective or even rational. It's insulting.
5) For fuck's sake, stop pretending you're not censoring. Stop insulting your readers' intelligence and just admit that the mod system is there so editors can ensure Slashdot reflects THEIR opinions, not those of the readers. Then you can do what you really want to do: delete comments and users that you don't like.
6) The only redeeming quality of michael is that he seems to post fewer (if any) duplicate articles. Fire him. If that's not enough, please fire him because he's the only editor with the sense to check for dupes, which probably makes the other editors jealous. Does he have rich parents or something? Is he paying Slashdot to keep him occupied so he can research his petty conspiracy lunacy?
7) I'm fully capable of reading Wired, The Register, CNN and The New York Times all by myself, and I won't get Slashdot's editorial bias or mind-numbingly stupid interpretations by Slashdot editors and article submitters. Sooner or later, even the stupidest of your drooling LUnix fanboys will realize this and leave. How about stopping Slashdot from becoming the unofficial comment board for these sites?
See, Taco, that's what a lot of the grousing seems to be about. If you were to truly embrace your Liberal sensibilities, you'd see that your Predators -- your trolls -- are trying to improve their Prey -- Slashdot. It's Darwinian, you stupid twat, but you're too dense to see it.
YHBT. HAND.
EDIT:
Hahhahahaha. CmdrTaco is predictable as drool from a retard. I posted the text of this journal entry in a CmdrTaco story, and I've been bitchslapped AGAIN! Here's some cut&paste HTML from my messages:
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:18 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:19 AM
Moderation of "Amen." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Arrogant dick. You're helping them win." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
See how the first moderation of my thread post occurred less than a minute after I posted it? Then all those other mods occurred at the same time.
I've been bitchslapped again! Taco REALLY doesn't like it when you criticise. Such a fragile ego! -
Re:Remember to check if it's legal.-Callback
VoIP no, but "callback" yes. Give 'em time.
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Predators improve the breed.
It's been a while since I posted a journal, and there's a few new happenings.
I got another story submitted. I'm really surprised I got this one, since I'm sure the stupid Lunix fanboys submitted this 500 times. Of course, the discussion that followed was purely anti-Microsoft, even though there are a billion LUnix systems out there that are vulnerable to other exploits, and can be just as big a pain to patch. Fucking hypocrites.
I'm improving in my ability to karma whore, as you can see. As I type this, I've got "Positive" karma, and I ping-pong pretty freely between Positive, Bad and Neutral. Not bad. Hell, I've even posted a blatant anti-michael post logged in and not been any worse for wear.
With positive karma, I'm metamodding several times a day now, pretty much marking everything as "unfair" (unless it's a troll, who's karma whoring and has been modded up. Then I either stay neutral or metamod "Fair" or "Funny"). $20 says I spend more time meta-moderating than most -- and I'm doing it for the sole purpose of getting the signal/noise ratio as low as possible. I wish my other accounts were able to metamod.
On to the subject of this little Journal: Predators improve the breed. It's occurred to me that my work, and the work of the many trolls (most of which are far more competent than I) might actually make Slashdot better if Taco were to begin listening to them. He's mentioned in his journal that he's heard all the grousing about moderation, which means grousing is not going unheard.
Don't get me wrong -- CmdrTaco is still an idiot, totally out of his league running a site like this. But the fact that he puts oil on the squeaky wheels means he has ears and can be annoyed. Unfortunatly the "oil" is an even more fucked-up moderation system, hamfistedly added to allow editors to put the "squeaky wheels" (trolls) into more-and-more-soundproof rooms instead of solving the problem. You know why divorces happen? Because the people in the relationship don't address their problems. Instead they push them aside and try their hardest to ignore them until they can't any longer, spending more energy ignoring them than they do dealing with them.
Why not just meet the issues head-on?
1) Ditch the irrational, unprofessional condescending LUnix fanboyism from the editors. As FortKnox says, "Lunix isn't always the answer. Microsoft isn't always the problem."
2) Before publishing articles, have the common sense to spellcheck and fact-check them. Is it a dupe? If you want to preserve the stupidity of the submitter, just put some "[sic]" marks in the article.
3) Don't pull a michael and add unnecessary snide remarks. It's unprofessional.
4) If you won't do #1, #2 and #3, please drop any pretense of being objective or even rational. It's insulting.
5) For fuck's sake, stop pretending you're not censoring. Stop insulting your readers' intelligence and just admit that the mod system is there so editors can ensure Slashdot reflects THEIR opinions, not those of the readers. Then you can do what you really want to do: delete comments and users that you don't like.
6) The only redeeming quality of michael is that he seems to post fewer (if any) duplicate articles. Fire him. If that's not enough, please fire him because he's the only editor with the sense to check for dupes, which probably makes the other editors jealous. Does he have rich parents or something? Is he paying Slashdot to keep him occupied so he can research his petty conspiracy lunacy?
7) I'm fully capable of reading Wired, The Register, CNN and The New York Times all by myself, and I won't get Slashdot's editorial bias or mind-numbingly stupid interpretations by Slashdot editors and article submitters. Sooner or later, even the stupidest of your drooling LUnix fanboys will realize this and leave. How about stopping Slashdot from becoming the unofficial comment board for these sites?
See, Taco, that's what a lot of the grousing seems to be about. If you were to truly embrace your Liberal sensibilities, you'd see that your Predators -- your trolls -- are trying to improve their Prey -- Slashdot. It's Darwinian, you stupid twat, but you're too dense to see it.
YHBT. HAND. -
Sunk by Windows NT
thanks to MS-Windows NT: "For about two-and-a-half hours, the ship was what we call 'dead in the water,'" said Commander John Singley of the Atlantic Fleet Surface Force"
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Re:Hahahaha
I agree that this does sound like a contradiction, but I went to eat at an Amish restaraunt last summer and was surprised to read a pamphlet about their lifestyle that said they don't shun technology outright. Instead they are trying to avoid intrusions into the home, maintain Gelassenheit (simplicity and modesty) and stay seperate from the rest of the world. The Amish leaders consider each technology carefully before deciding whether to allow it into the community. They don't drive cars because they are status symbols. They don't have electrical outlets because they connect to the world, but they do have generator and batteries. Community telephones are allowed and some Amish men carry mobile phones. There are some definitely some weird contradictions like tractors are ok, but pneumatic tires aren't, so they only use tractors with steel wheels.
More info: Amish Telephones The Amish: Technology The Amish Get Wired. The Amish? Amish FAQ -
Re:Hahahaha
Not to be contrary but as far as I understand it (IANA - I Am Not Amish) The Amish do not shun all technology as a matter of course.. They evaluate technology for it's impact on their way of life. If the impact is negative (by their criteria, which may have a spiritual component) then the tech is yanked.
A couple years ago wired published an article about the Amish evaluating cell phones and I found if a very engrossing read.
As a technophile the Amish (Perhaps mislabeled as technophobes) completely fascinate me. Like trying to get the perspective from the other side of the coin. never a bad thing in my mind. -
SlashWired
This is the third recent posting to Slashdot from the current issue of Wired Magazine: the 'Year the Music Dies' cover piece, the 'Civil War Within Sony' piece, and now this. Sure, they're all interesting, but do we really need the editors to hold our hand and lead us to the biggest and most famous computer/culture magazine? Aren't we geeks? Let me summarize for the slow: READ WIRED!
If you do need guidance in finding cool Wired articles, check out this 1996 gem on hacker tourism and the laying of fiber optic inter-continental cables by SF god Neal Stephenson, Mother Earth, Mother Board -
Been There Done That
Wired had an article last year about British Telephone's lawsuit against Prodigy for violating their patent on hyperlinks. So who really owns this patent?
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Re:Hidden DMCA letters Here's the letter:Here's the letter, sorry I didn't have the link when I wrote the original post above.
Moderators, please mod this up one point so it is equal with the parent and reply posts, thank you.
Here's the quote:
Since you own this IP address, we request that you immediately do the following:
1) Disable access to the individual who has engaged in the conduct described above; and 2) Terminate any and all accounts that this individual has through you.
The letter is here:
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1054
and here is the entire letter (and article):
Hollywood muscles Australian ISPs over piracy
| 2003-Jan-14, 12 am | Australia
UPDATE | Hello Slashdotters, from around the world. Nice to have you with us! The Slashdot article discussion forum has brought up a lot of good points. In particular, that US law -may- reach into Australian jurisdiction due to various treaties and internationally registered entertainment companies (which means an Australian branch of an entertainment like Warner Bros could easily liaise with its US parent and take legal action on Australian soil). That discussion can be read here.UPDATE | ZDNet Australia has published an excellent followup to the MediaForce letter which includes legal opinion over whether ISPs need comply with the company's demands. The article makes very interesting reading, and can be viewed here.Hollywood giant Warner Bros has started ordering Australian ISPs to disconnect users for sharing copyright material.
One ISP, which asked not to be named in this story, received a letter listing the IP address of users who had shared movies, along with infringement times and dates.
Australian ISP Managers were today hotly debating the topic of what to do in response to the demands. Some ISPs advocated warning or disconnecting users, while others were seeking legal advice to confirm their view that US companies had no jurisdiction in Australian law.
The company behind the letter is MediaForce, a New York based anti-piracy group that uses "advanced scanning techniques" to monitor piracy across the internet and report infringing users.
According to its website, the company monitors Napster/OpenNap, Aimster, Swapnut, Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire & others), AudioGalaxy, Hotline, iMesh, KaZaA, Morpheus/MusicCity, Grokster, Xolox, FTP Sites and IRC.
But the company does not just monitor copyright violations, it encourages ISPs to block or restrict file sharing ports on their services. It also distributes 'decoy' files via file sharing networks which look like real music and video files, but are in fact garbled data.
The full letter is quoted in the article continuation.
LINKS
* Media Force Inc
* Aust ISPs hose down reported US copyright attack (ZDNet Australia, 14 Jan 02)
* ISPs wary of role in anti-piracy actions (C|Net News.com, 8 Jun 01)
* File tracker may go too far (Wired, 11 May 01)
* On Behalf of Film Studios, Company Searches for Students Downloading Movies (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 Oct 01)
* Q&A for ISPs in USA on how to deal with Media Force (ChillingEffects.org)
* Guide to the Digital Agenda Act 2000 (Department of Communication, Information Technology and the Arts, Aust Govt)
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Dear Abuse Department:
We are writing this letter on behalf of Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P. ("Warner Bros.").
As you may know, Warner Bros. is the holder of rights under copyright, including exclusive distribution rights, in and to the motion picture(s) listed above.
No one is authorized to perform, exhibit, reproduce, transmit, or otherwise distribute the above-mentioned work(s) without the express written permission of Warner Bros., which permission Warner Bros. has not granted to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
We have received information that an individual has utilized the above-referenced IP address at the noted date and time to offer downloads of the above-mentioned work through a "peer-to-peer" service.
The attached documentation specifies the location on your network where the infringement occurred, the number of repeat violations recorded at this specific location, as well as any available identifying information.
The distribution of unauthorized copies of copyrighted motion pictures constitutes copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 106(3). This conduct may also violate the laws of other countries, international law, and/or treaty obligations.
Since you own this IP address, we request that you immediately do the following:
1) Disable access to the individual who has engaged in the conduct described above; and 2) Terminate any and all accounts that this individual has through you.
On behalf of Warner Bros., owner of the exclusive rights to the copyrighted material at issue in this notice, we hereby state, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 512, that we have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by Warner Bros., its respective agents, or the law.
Also pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we hereby state that we believe the information in this notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that MediaForce is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive rights being infringed as set forth in this notification.
Please contact us at the above listed address or by replying to this email should you have any questions.
We appreciate your assistance and thank you for your cooperation in this matter. In your future correspondence with us, please refer to Case ID XXXXXX Your prompt response is requested.
Respectfully,
Mark Weaver,
Director of Enforcement
MediaForce, Inc. (212) 925-9997
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What??Imagine you had a captive audience of 60 million people and didn't have to personally create any content to keep them entertained. I know plenty of people that would know how to exploit that model.
From Wired:
In the last six months alone, PC users have downloaded more than 90 million copies. Kazaa has 60 million users around the world and 22 million in the US - an irresistible audience to marketers. Last year, Sharman raked in millions from US advertisers like Netflix and DirecTV, without spending a penny on content.
It's no wonder they are fighting for all they're worth. -
Kazaa folks are not dumb
This is not a college-project-turned-into-corporation deal, like Napster was. **AA can go fuck itself for all Sharman cares.
I mean, look her in the eyes. Does she look like someone who would lie down and take from multinational media pimps?
I'm not a Kazaa user, but I'm with them all the way. If the opportunity cost of getting our freedoms taken away is few more sales of Billboard top 40 albums, then I'm all for piracy. -
God Machine
Wired has had some stories about this. TMS has been used to create "out of body" and religious experiances.
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Re:Please, lord. . . no!
Jimmy Page now uses an electronically self tuning guitar.....wired has a story about it.
Try to keep up, like Jimmy does. -
Re:PGN of the game?
A link to the PGN is on this page here.
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where to view game replays, and watch live games:
had the editors of the almighty slashdot bothered to read my infinitely more entertaining and informative story submission on this match, they might have had this interesting link included in their story, amongst other informative and titillating urls. this particular link will show the replay of today's game, as well as live broadcasts of future games.
boo to the editors.
yay to herrd0kt0r.
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Re:More copy protection isn't the answer
Your point is exemplified in the wired.com article from the earlier SlashDot article.
After hearing of all the dot bombs that based their business model on internet ad revenues and failed, it interesting to see that it can be profitable if you give the people what they want.
It's also too cool to see the "pirates" show the Corporations how it should be done.
