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A tornado's worth of spin control. telstar writes "The Code Report is reporting that last week's story from the New York Times concerning the death of Hailstorm was not entirely accurate. A Microsoft spokesperson has stated that Microsoft is shifting from a model in which MSN was the sole operator to a model where the operation of these services is available to multiple operators."
Onan Meets Midas. daoine writes: "Reversing the outcome of an earlier argument, boston.com is reporting that MGM and New Line Cinema have reached an agreement that permits New Line to continue with the Goldmember name. It also stipulates that further satirical names must be approved by MGM."
Does dishes, saves gas, freshens your breath, cleans your pets ... Apparently, Gentoo Linux is contagious. JigSaw writes: "OSNews features an interesting review of Gentoo Linux 1.0 and they call it 'the fastest loading, fastest-operating Linux distribution to date.' Gentoo may be the fastest Linux for a workstation today, but according to the review, it still has some problems, most notably, annoying bugs. However, it still manages to score a glowing 8.2 out of 10 overall."
Reader sckevyn also points to the Gentoo PowerPC page for those equipped different.
First steps always seem small. camusflage writes "Yahoo has a story from ZDNet about TheKompany's recent release of tkcPlayer for the Zaurus, which is being billed as the first portable Ogg Vorbis player. A player for a format not many people are using on a platform even fewer people are using. Admirable, but not likely to be a commercial success."
Honey, your quark is showing. ngrier writes "As a quick follow-up to the story posted here a few days ago regarding the potential quark star, the NASA APOD today is a picture of the aforementioned star."
this fine tax-day evening (you did remember, right?)
Oh shit...
Good luck!
That's: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020414.html.
in the U.S. - ah no it isn't! *cue wailing and gnashing of teeth*
Video Game cheats, hints a
... http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020414.html
Eh, even if you forgot it's tax day, you can at least file for an extension which will buy you some more time. So all is not lost.
Is this the right link?
Video Game cheats, hints a
That last link should be here, and it was yesterday's picture.
"It also stipulates that further satirical names must be approved by MGM."
Since when do they need permission to use a parodized name? I thought that parody law not only allowed one to use a similar name ('Goldmember' is not THAT similar...), but also their original artwork could be closely mimicked.
Anybody remember reading about that guy who put up an 'aolsucks.com' site? AOL attempted to sue him because he used their artwork to parodize him. His lawyer said he was well within his rights because it was a pardoy/criticism of the company.
Question: Wouldn't the same logic be applied as it was for this guy, or is there a variable I'm not considering?
"Derp de derp."
When I first read about .NET and MS's philosophy with it (i.e. what hailstorm was supposed to be and what it's acceptance would accomplish) it terrified me. Now hailstorm is dead as we knew it and the threat it posed is (seemingly) gone. My question is: now that Hailstorm is not a factor, are there still any risks for the internet and software communities(both open and closed) assossiated with taking up the .NET framework (barring the fact that it _is_ MS we're talking about here, obviously they've screwed people before)? I think that the idea behind the framework of .NET and what it's effects on the way things are coded (from a purely programming point of view) could be very interesting and improve software; I am also very suspiscious of any big "ideas" coming out of MS. Any thoughts?
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
MGM pulled the same shenanigans with The Spy Who Shagged Me. Threaten to sue (even though you'd almost certainly lose under parody protection), and force some trailers to be shown before the film.
Yawn, I hope they put all of that in the agreement this time, so we don't have to hear about it in future installments.
They're moving to a federated model, meaning MS will not be the only one providing the services.
Nothing to add - the original article was just wrong.
I'm pretty comfortable with Debian, and I am putting trying Gentoo on my to-do list, but I was wondering if anyone knows if there is some interest in bringing some of the source-based distro goodness to Debian.
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'apt-build install kde3' or something, mmmm
HOMER: Would you look at those morons... I paid my taxes over a year ago!
LISA: You have to do your taxes every year, dad.
Homer: Ahh! Marge! How many kids do we have? Oh, no time to count, I'll just estimate! Uh...nine!
Marge: Homer, you know we don't h--
Homer: Shut up, shut up! If I don't hear you it's not illegal! OK, I need some deductions, deductions... ah!! Business gifts!
[Homer grabs the boat painting from above the couch and hands it to Marge.]
Here you go, keep using nuclear power!
Marge: Homer! I painted that for you!
Homer: OK, Marge, if anyone asks, you require twenty four hour nursing care, Lisa's a clergyman, Maggie is seven people, and Bart was wounded in Vietnam!
Bart: Cool!
(The relevant part of the page is under "News & Updates" on the left.)
Yes, that's right, a Slashback featuring the title of "membership" says nothing about using a non-paypal method of subscribing to Slashdot.
Love it or leave it, subscribership seems to me to be a way of supporting the site to which so many of us devote our time.
Yet, they're not rushing to pacify their most zealous "PayPal Hating Credit Card Wielding" fans. Maybe it's difficult to set up a relationship with the local bank that allows a computer to accept a credit card number, spew out a hard copy receipt and then /dev/null the number. Or have one of the editors take some of his "Grammar Is Irrelevant" time and sit down with his e-mail reader of choice and one of those merchant credit card readers.
I don't expect Slashdot will ever favor the most vocal Slashdot minority, the "Tin Foil Wearing Small Unmarked Bills" wielding folk.
If you owe taxes, an extension won't help you too much. You only get an extension on filing the paperwork. If you owe anything, it must still be postmarked by the 15th of April.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
I'm using Gentoo Linux right now, and it certainly is fast. I'm on a dual-P3 system, so running KDE3 (which is da bomb), reading Slashdot, checking my mail, and compiling KDevelop in the background isn't too bad. Things have gotten a bit easier with the addition of stage 2/3 tarballs, meaning that the build gcc/glibc rebuild binutils/gcc/glibc cycle is eliminated, cutting down the installation time a lot.
Gentoo is a lean distro, to be sure. Everything uses MMX/SSE, which is nice, though the performance gain of that is probably marginal. What really gives it a good kick is that the base install contains only a handful of apps (the *bare* minimum) and everything else is installed as necessary. That's certainly not unique to Gentoo, but it's a plus. (Why have eject if you don't have a CD-ROM?)
The only downside, though, is the lengthy compiles; a dual-P3 box is decent, but a full recompile of XFree86 still takes time. But hey, in my opinion, it's worth it.
I am not a linux newbie, but I don't read source code, and can't troubleshoot compilation problems when I encounter errors compiling packages from source. With that said, I am finally getting work done on my gentoo box, and I'm almost completely Windows free. After 4 years of on and off w/ Red Hat, and struggling w/ RPM and compiling from source, I've finally gotten all the deskstop apps I need running, and running well under Gentoo with no major problems. This includes DVD, MPlayer, CDR, OpenGL with nvidia's drivers and a TV Tuner card w/ xawtv.
Bleep! That is to say rumours of Hailstorm's death have been greatly exagerated? Curses!
You mean the ones from 2001?
If that were the case, using your own argument, the site would be named slashdot.org.us, wouldnt it?
* Disclaimer, not all US-citizens are gringos, only the stupid, prejudiced, egotistical jerks that seem to plague the world.
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And it's the US-bashing jerks(1) like you that prompt us to tell you to start your own slashdot.
(1) With your "disclaimer", you prove to be just as stupid, prejudiced, and egotistical.
Cheers!
"If there's hope, it lies in the proles..."
The company that does both my business and my personal taxes knows to file the first round of extensions automatically. This year I am hoping to break a trend I've had for the last three years... I intend to fill my taxes before October 15th! (You all do know that you can get two extensions, right?)
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If I actually could spell I'd have spelled it right in the first place.
Of course, the chances of this working are a million to one, and the arrival date might be off by a few hundred years, but if it did work I think it would be an great archeological find for the 4th millenium or so.
btw, anyone else read Interstellar Pig back in the day? William Sleator is a GOD.
Aren't you dead?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
good stuff
watch out for the time dialation.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
This has been fixed today. It was apparently a problem with the portage database. Re-run "emerge rsync" and your problem should be solved.
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And a lot of people don't know that the april 15th deadline is only important if YOU'RE paying THEM. If you're getting a nice sum back on your return, It works even up to a year late, and if you don't file, oh well, they keep your money.
get 0wned. irc.w30wnzj00.com
I actually saw the video press release go out on NASA TV last week (woohoo, I get to watch NASA TV at work). They did a fade FROM that picture to another one done in the X-ray spectrum (Chandra) where that virtually invisible star turned into a shining beacon of quark.
One simple rule for its versus it's
seeing as "mike myer's brush with the humor police" is mentioned in the summary, you may want to at least mention his name somewhere.. you possibly even wish to go so far as to explain just what sort of brush this happened to be.
was it bristley? pokey? does he have grounds to sue for brutality?
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A player for a format not many people are using on a platform even fewer people are using. Admirable, but not likely to be a commercial success.
Ok, everyone who keeps saying that they refuse to buy a player that doesn't support Ogg Vorbis needs to step up to the plate. Heck, you get the added bonus of it running on Linux. If *you* don't, who will? Then when it fails, everyone will say it's because the people *want* closed source, proprietary products...
jred
I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage...
So, instead of Microsoft wanting to have all my personal information, it'll be lots of companies sharing it.
Man, I need advice here: Do I crack jokes about how much safer I feel now that Microsoft is planning to share it's hoard of all my info? Or do I ask how is this an improvement on everyone sharing my info now?
Between this and the WinXE-Tivo story (a few hundred bucks worth of buggy software and a $1000 computer to replace a $300 appliance in a still-tepid market), I can't decide which is more of a product without a need. Ah, well, lets all sit back and enjoy the warm glow as Microsoft burns another billion of that massive war chest. Microsoft cell phones, XBox blues, a legal case based on "Security By Obscurity"... and now these techno-misfires.
A note that I think should have gotten into today's Slashback -- the New Scientist is reporting that the IEEE has rescinded its decision to make all paper submitters agree not to violate the DMCA in their articles, amid a storm of protest.
"The plan is to remove the reference to the DCMA," says Bill Hagen, intellectual property rights manager for the IEEE. "It's controversial to say the least. We've been getting a lot of correspondence, comment and opinion and have been forced to reconsider it."
This is even better than preserving the status quo, because in this case the hooplah got the problems of the DMCA out in front of the IEEE membership, which is very large and includes some extremely influential people. Score one for the good guys.
Quantum mechanics: the dreams that stuff is made of.
Thank you, DavittJPotter and thank you, anonymous coward, for proving my point so succintly.
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I actually just did this... quite painless. Note, however, that if you end up owing taxes, you will at least have to pay interest on them, if you don't pay them now. Kinda weird: "I don't know how much I'll finally need to pay, but here is what I owe." At any rate, for those who need to do so, go here and grab form 4868.
You appear to be ignorant of the fact that half the articles on /. refer to non US sites, eg, the register, Toms, Linux Distros, etc.
Microsoft - Where would you like to go today, Maybe Jail?
Another case of over eager media looking to see the worst in tech companies. Or maybe just the worst in Microsoft.
.NET with it. Hailstorm was .NET's flag-ship product. Saying "Hailstorm is alive and well" is nothing but a damage control spin.
Nope, Hailstorm is dead dead dead. A key feature of Hailstorm was that Microsoft wants to be the "gatekeeper" of the internet. In order collect a toll requires a monopoly. People are NOT going to pay at a toll booth when there's a free street to the same place.
The "new and improved" version of hailstorm is nothing but a glorified version of a standard username/password database. I doubt many companies are going to buy the software, and even if they do the proffits of selling the software are nothing compared to OWNING the identity of everyone on the net and selling the service.
The "new and improved" hailstorm is a desperate attempt to keep a colossal failure from sinking
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
MGM was negotiating to place an ad for the upcoming Bond adventure "Die Another Day" before the "Austin Powers" film
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That really sums up the value of MGM's case against Goldmember. If they genuinely felt that the name tarnished their James Bond property then why the hell would they want to use it to advertize a Bond film?!
It also stipulates that further satirical names must be approved by MGM.
Ok, maybe I'm having delusions that lawyers are actually rational human beings, but you *could* read that to mean MGM realized it was a frivolous lawsuit and to avoid a countersuit they stipulated they would approve any and all satirical names in the future.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
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sometimes we change our job, our friends, and our spouses, but we never change ourselves...
> you believe that only "roman citizens" should
> enjoy its benefits.
All roads lead to Rome. All huge fucking lines to get into a country lead into the US.
It's better to be a citizen of Rome than to be the Queen of Toronto.
"Has [being a kidnapped teenage girl, raped repeatedly for months] changed you?" - Katie Couric to Elizabeth Smart
I think you missed the point, which is, that while people in the rest of the world are readily aware there are countries beside their own, this truth seems to be happily neglected by many citizens of the USA. So we furriners just occasionally point out that fact, in the faint hope, that one day the realisation will hit and not go away. If you get annoyed by being reminded, that you're not alone on this our little, soiled planet, think of how annoying it would be if everyone stopped paying any attention at all to you. Read it as you like. Stefan.
The truth shall make you fret. (Ankh-Morpork tImes motto)
A player for a format not many people are using on a platform even fewer people are using. Admirable, but not likely to be a commercial success.
Ever since the zaurus has come out, it seems everyone has been against. When it came out everyone complained the website could not be accessed from mozilla, you complained there were not enough applications and now you doing it again.
It runs linux, a development model was produced to encourage, not beat the open source community. The first fruits of that is already coming through. What do you people want!!!!
I've had a development model since March. It is wonderfully usable, has everyting I could want and I am now writing apps for it. I had a windows CE machine for years before that and never did much more than read the address book.
Seesh, no wonder microsoft are winning, they don't have to listen to you lot winging.
Choose your allies carefully, it is highly unlikely you will be held accountable for the actions of your enemies
yes, its a delusion.
I'll wager what happened is something like this:
MGM said, "we want you to advertise a bond file"
NLC says "mmmmNo"
MGM brings its 'CASE' to the MPAA.
MPAA says "You can't do that"
NLC says "we're protected under the parody law"
MPAA says "This is about the agreement you have with us, and we're arbitrating and we say NO. If you take it to court, we'll toss you out of the MPAA and sue you for breech of contract"
NLC "you bastards!"
MPAA "yes?"
MGM "you know, we don't want to be an ass, so we'll let you keep the name, if you advertise are next JB film. Oh yeah, here is an approved list of parody names, feel free to use those. If you use something else, we'll go through this again."
NLC "stupid MPAA"
Clearly, because MGM acted first and put NLC into a defence position, they won.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I doubt you will get this, but:
Most likely, you didn't compile the kernel with devfs support. This is in the filesystems menu if you have "prompt for development packages" selected. No devfs = major mounting problems.
I have had no real problems with portage installing software that is too "bleeding edge", as they tend to stick with offical releases rather than alphas, betas, and cvs snapshots. If you have problems with this, you can probably edit the ebuilds to include an (earlier) version number. I wish that the ebuild maintiners would always use the lowest compatable version as dependencies, as they do sometimes.
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I am not. If I were, I wouldnt be reading slashdot.
Point is (one more time, with feeling!) that some posters here feel slashdot services only US citizens. Not everybody here, of course, but a few annoying dimwits.
You, however, seem an intelligent person, so I feel nothing else needs to be said on this matter.
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