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And then we saw the sharks. a9db0 writes "Part II of Doc Searl's travelogue recounting his experiences on the Geek Cruise has been posted here by the fine folks over at the Linux Journal"
In an earlier report from Geek Cruise, Linus predicted 2.6 by June 2003. If you liked the list of features being considered for 2.6, you can thank puriots0 for "the list of what's been included in time for the feature freeze for Linux 2.6", as found at kernelnewbies.org.
Peel back your eyelids and let these images flood your brain. strredwolf writes "I think we had half the story when Cartoon Network said they were going to remove Zoids and G Gundam in their Toonami block. It was more like remove Zoids, move G Gundam to Midnight Run with GI Joe, put HeMan and Transformers on full weekdays, and double up on DB and DBZ. The website and broadcast prove it now. (This report was done while watching to Toonami live.)"
And Stalke writes "Recently, rumours about Stargate SG1 7th season included it both being renewed as well as speculation that it might be cancelled. MGM and Scifi put those rumours to rest today by officially announcing a 7th season. It will begin filming next year with a full 22 episodes ordered. No word about Daniel Jackson returning though :("
Cracking down on alien fraudsters. yep writes "Administrators of the alien-hunting distributed computing experiment SETI@home have announced they will crack down on cheats who rort statistics on computing power lent to the project. The announcement follows a united protest from the chief contributors. SETI@home director David Anderson announced SETI@home would do its best to investigate users returning suspiciously high amounts of work and delete their accounts if it uncovered solid evidence of cheating."
Sure they're not. tiltowait writes "The Hartford Courant article "The FBI Has Bugged Our Public Libraries" has been retracted (this was mentioned here - but the older article has been removed). Even if the retraction can be trusted, this doesn't change the fact that the FBI can still bug libraries as freely as the CIA can assasinate with impunity, or that more McCarthyism is on the way."
This story retracts the claims of bugging made in the previous one. Since the FBI has little incentive to tell the truth on this count, I don't see what incentive anyone has to believe their denial.
Cleaning up the future for SOAP. Makarand writes "A major hurdle in finalizing the SOAP 1.2 specification has been removed. Both Epicentric, a subsidiary of Vignette, and WebMethods, which makes integration software, had said in earlier statements that they may have patents that cover the technology used in the SOAP 1.2 specification which would have made SOAP 1.2 non royalty-free hindering approval by W3C. Epicentric has now amended its earlier statement saying they no longer believe they hold any such patents, and even if they did, they are interested in making them available on a royalty-free basis. WebMethods has made no comments yet."
If I were you guys I'd probably avoid Slashdotting the Supreme Court...
;-)
Just a thought, though, not a sermon
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"MGM and Scifi put those rumours to rest today by officially announcing a 7th season. It will begin filming next year with a full 22 episodes ordered."
Yea? I remeber when SciFi and Jim Henson annouced more seasons of Farscape and full seasons ordered.
It all makes sense folks. The truth is out there.
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it! --Yogi Berra--
Why don't they use a standard principle of distributed systems: just send out the same work unit to multiple machines and teams, and use some cross-comparison scheme to detect anamolies? Work units that disagree with the majority are flagged as invalid.
-- Samir Gupta, Ph. D. Head, New Technology Research Group, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Kyoto, Japan.
Couldn't some /.er go to the library in question and investigate the computers? See if there is something running in the background or a keylogger on the keyboard? *That* would be interesting, indeeeeed. I would be interested to see what library patrons have been doing to circumvent and/or expose any attempts at skullduggery by the feds.
There's no sex on the Geek Cruise. None. Oh, there's geeks on the Geek Cruise -- but you don't want geeks. You want sex. And there's no sex on the Geek Cruise.
Wow... that is news worthy. Middle aged Tom Cruise uses SOAP. :)
BAD joke... Ignore this.. do not even mod it.
NO! NO! Please don't mod me, I'm too young to die a troll. *click* Oh the pain, the pain...
Free cruises are a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer.
Free cruises are a matter of the vacationers' freedom to sail to, study, change and improve cities all across the globe. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the cruise:
- The freedom to ride on any ship, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the ship works, and adapt it to your vacationing needs (freedom 1).
- The freedom to redistribute free cruise passes so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
- The freedom to improve the cruise, and release your improvements to the event coordinator, so that the whole community benefits. (freedom 3).
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Is that why RMS doesn't use it?
These "Geek Cruises" seem to be doing quite well. This phenomenon has even attracted the attention of mainstream travel agencies like Orbitz.
Even the highest judiciary station in the land is flooded with corporate cash and corrupt puppets.
WTF are you saying? Do you mean to imply that the Supreme court is accepting bribes from Microsoft? Where can I view your proof?
Or are you just talking out of your ass?
Idiot.
Of course, having read this, Ashcroft's Ashellians will require licenses on mail servers....
"with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton
My point here is - I've never known movies to be wrong.
Let's see... the FBI says the report wasn't true, the city librarian says the report wasn't true, the reporter says the report wasn't true, and the reporter's two anonymous sources say the story wasn't true. And the delusional /. editor's response? "Since the FBI has little incentive to tell the truth on this count, I don't see what incentive anyone has to believe their denial."
Un-fucking-believable.
This story retracts the claims of bugging made in the previous one. Since the FBI has little incentive to tell the truth on this count, I don't see what incentive anyone has to believe their denial.
Early tomorrow morning, around 4:30am, you will receive some surprise guests at your door, and after they let themselves in, you will learn exactly what your incentive is.
Hint: save yourself a lot of trouble and have your computers unplugged and boxed up.
By tomorrow afternoon, I predict you too will retract your statement.
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"doesn't change the fact that the FBI can still bug libraries as freely as the CIA can assassinate with impunity, or that more McCarthyism is on the way."
You diminish the tragedy of McCarthy with your excited little exaggerations.
As for the CIA capping terrorists:
"..hey man, nice shot!" - Filter
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Much as I love to criticize the CIA, they're in the clear as far as I'm concerned on that one incident. Assassination is you take out a political leader instead of direct military action or to aid existing military actions. Frankly, what the drone plane did wasn't assassination. It was a military action. Sure it was a small-scale one, but with the enemy scattered all over the world in small groups, that's the way ALL military action against A-Q will look.
But the overall point of the Patriot Act sucking is well taken.
http://clanknm.homeip.net/open.html
Well, Timothy, killing combatants with impunity is what happens in wars...
karma capped
"..hey man, nice shot!" - Filter
Read this, particularly the part about the three peasants.
What if someone were to turn around and declare you a terrorist?
Still finding it such a good idea?
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
IMO, the fact that the librarians refused to discuss the matter of the FBI tapping the computers and stuff like that is solid evidence that the FBI is IN FACT doing it. If the FBI was NOT doing it, the Librarian would have said straight up the FBI has not contacted us and is not bugging anything. IMO, the fact that the librarian refused to talk about it, shows that she has been briefed by the FBI on what to say if questioned about the bugging.
Definitely talking out his ass, especially since the Supreme Court didn't rule in the Microsoft Antitrust case.
I'm only a quarter of the way through the Eldred arguments, IANAL, insert disclaimer here, but it seems to me that many of the judges asking these questions just don't have an understanding of Eldred's arguments, yet are interrupting him with questions from all directions so as not to let him completely answer it.
That's just my take on it, but it just seems like they didn't buy his argument, and they're just being deliberately obtuse about it.
"Einstein argued that [...] God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer." ~ Brooks
this is like the best slashback ever. so much interesting stuff. wow. I feel so in the know.
/. people
no, I'm not kidding.
in all seriousness. good job
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
In related news, JD Salinger was arrested at his New Hampshire home.
Please, there is no Supreme Court ruling re MS. Not even close. The case was settled, so if you want to blame someone, blames the Bush Administration Justice Department for the weak terms it sought, or more importantly the portions of the case it simply dropped after winning on them (e.g., tying).
But, anyway, NOT insightful.
Right, and this f*cking moron is currently sitting at +2 insightful. /. crowd is getting dumber by the day. This jerk's idea of insightful is a bellybutton lint collection.
I don't understand, why is the above marked troll? It appears to be a legit link. Am I just naive?
Never wrong? Not even "Armageddon"? :)
That boat must have looked like a ghost ship from the outside.
Of course you know that the Supreme Court has never ruled on the Microsoft case except to deny the appeal by Microsoft from the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and to deny the fasttrack from Judge Jackson. The Supreme Court is not flooded with corporate cash at all. The justices are very open about all of their money, and it is stupid to claim that they are corrupt puppets.
Come play Heroes of Might and Magic Mini online.
No, they'd say something like, "Then I said, 'Hey, I wonder what THAT button's for?'"
Pretty scary for the folks on the ground, who have to worry maybe the CIA guy's got bad TV reception, or didn't sleep well last night.
This isn't really relevant, but I've been needing to make this rant for all the time I've worked at webMethods...
It's "webMethods". Not "web methods". Not "WebMethods". Not "Webmethods".
Just "webMethods".
Thank you.
(And, no, I don't know anything about the patent)
C'mon, stop vacillating and just shoot him!
I didn't just say that. Anyone who says I did is a liar!
This post and subsequent moderation is why there is M2. Don't rubberstamp moderation results, take the time to investigate. Warning: under the current consensus system, you may never moderate again for insightfully metamoderating. =) I M2 twice a day, and haven't moderated in a month.
I don't find these sorts of comments funny or insightful in any way. And they always show up on Slashdot.
Didn't you get bullied when you were in school? Didn't you have enough of that?
To better understand your comment, I'll rephrase it thusly:
"RMS is funny, and I don't understand him. He says things that cause me to think. He says things that threaten my livelihood. He speaks out where I am afraid to. He is confident in his ideas.
Kick kick kick. I cannot deal with him. Kick Kick Kick.
I am small and by kicking RMS I can be big."
Myself, I wish I could understand and phrase an argument as clearly and succinctly as RMS. I wish I could code as well as RMS. I wish I had made a contribution to my profession 1/1000th as important as either emacs, gcc, or GNU. I wish I had the balls to speak as freely as RMS. I wish I wasn't as enamored of money as I am, maybe then I could follow my dreams of activism, and I thank RMS for following his. I thank RMS for his contributions to our profession and to society, and for making arguments that cause me much grief when I think about them.
I know that here on Slashdot we all like to pile on the flaming when it comes to the Church of Scientology, but doesn't anyone care about the "Church" and its actions when they sponsor something like the Geek Cruise? Is this another case where Slashdotters are willing to look the other way because they are basically being bribed off? How many times do we see this with the RIAA/MPAA-love/hate relationship on this message board?
Here's the scoop. Geek Cruises Inc. is operated by Neil Bauman who is a OT6-level Scientologist. Not to mention that he has deep contacts with anti-semite Bobby Fischer.
The geek cruise format, from the time of leaving port is identical to that of the Freewinds OT5 training. The early seminars and late "social activities" are designed to loosen your mind from its pinnings, allowing external suggestion to become much easier.
This isn't done to "brainwash you into loving Linux", that's already done and there's no need to be redundant. However, the point of the cruise is to open your mind to the possibility of joining their other cruises like Mindscape: Clear your mind in Alaska and Celebrity Slam (this year featuring Nicholas Cage). These other cruises are specifically geared towards getting people hooked into Scientology. For whatever reason, it works a hell of a lot better than the weirdo movie they like to show to "IQ test takers" at their normal temples.
It's because the company Geek Cruises Inc does so many nice things for the geek community and provides really interesting cruises that Scientology likes it as a means of recruiting so much. Don't be fooled, please. If you are interested in Scientology, please visit their website and read up about it. Then visit Operation Clamback and read up about the things they don't want you to know.
Scientology is one of the most devious "religions" around. Don't be sucked in by promises of meeting geek celebrities or viewing beautiful scenery and stopping at exotic ports of call. It is all a scam. You may get what you pay for, but you will get much more that you simply don't want.
Does anyone know when a decision is expected on the Eldred case?
One of the brag factors about SETI seems to be "number of block computed" or whatever they call it. I wonder if the amount of cheating / falsifying data would decrease if the competitive nature of who's processed the most blocks were taken away.
Publishing aggregate results is fine, but posting individual results begs people to find ways, sometimes malicious, to "get ahead".
Dragonball and Dragonball Z are the twinkies of Anime. Lots of empty calories. I'd hesitate to even call them Anime. Any "plot" exists simply to get you to the next fight scene. It's a pity Bebop is too "mature" for that timeslot. It's got much more meat to it. Personally I'd fill those slots with Ranma 1/2 but I wouldn't object to seeing more Courage the Cowardly Dog and/or Powerpuff Girls in those slots.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
The ruling on the MS case is not a primary reason to lose faith in the Supreme Court. Things like their ruling in Bush V Gore (or was it Gore V Bush? I forget), and all the interesting political bs documented as going on in Closed Chambers by Ed Lazarus are all much more damning than that. For the record, while Ed documents thoroughly the inconsistencies of the alleged "strict constructionists" on the court, the liberals are just as much at fault, so don't construe me as having a particular agenda.
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
This is really offtopic, but se4emed like a good place to put it.
/. crowd doesn't really have any use for them, do they? Just struck me as funny, thought I would make the observation out loud.
I just got a flyer in the mail for LinuxWorldExpo.
I normally just throw these away, they aren't worth my time or energy to go.
Of note were the sponsors.
The cornerstone sponsor was HP, the former employer of pundit Bruce Perens, until he slighted MS too much. Also the company that can't decide how to distribute Linux (or did they resolve that?) on their PC's.
Also, the silver sponsor was Macrovision.
I just thought it was appropriate that these two companies were sponsoring an expo. Neither of these two companies really are anti-Linux, but the
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Umm. The Supreme Court had nothing to do about the MS case. As for Bush v. Gore, they stepped in to prevent the Florida supreme court from overstepping their bounds. The Florida court made up their own rules rather than following the rules already enacted by the legislature. The same thing happened recently in NJ, where the NJ supreme court allowed the Democrats to substitute a candidate at the last minute (who later won), despite the explicit laws on the books.
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The case was settled, so if you want to blame someone, blames the Bush Administration Justice Department for the weak terms it sought,
Oh, I think most nonpartisan observers (and of course those partisan observers in the anti-microsoft camp) already do blame the Bush administration for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
But there were nine states which did not settle, and which are perfectly entitled to persue an appeal against this ruling, and certainly should do so.
So the supreme court may well end up ruling on this case. The poster suspects it will do no good because of other apparent cases of corruption in other rulings by the supreme court (he doesn't cite any, but I suspect the election ruling of 2000 is one of those he had in mind, and on that one I'd have to agree).
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...that if I could use used all 5 mod points to +1 Funny, it'd be well worth it. :-)
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
I'd imagine they have some sort of rejection method right now (in case someone tries to upload /dev/random), but I don't know how much overhead this would involve.
Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks: temporary loans from the Public Domain, not real property ("intellectual" or otherwise)
Where's Sherkaner Underhill when you need him?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Then again, maybe that's why I was visited by the Secret Service last winter.
Have you read the SOAP 1.2 specification lately? Nevermind the XML Schema and HTTP 1.1 specifications which SOAP also uses. These specs are far from "simple". SOAP seems to be slowly turning into an XML version of CORBA. XMLRPC, on the other hand, is simple. The Jabber protocol is even simpler yet - no HTTP transport. Something that starts off simple is usually transformed into something quite different after committees of software development firms get a hold of it. It's in their interest to keep the barrier to entry high.
Recently = approximately nine days ago.
Is that enough time to call something a subsidiary? :) (I wonder if the deal has even been completed yet. I know the paperwork has been signed, but things like that still tend to take time.)
More Advertising, can I wear earplugs and make it go away?
No, but you can *pay* and make it go away. For a while.
Slap down yo' Benjamins or quit whining, bitch.
"the CIA can assasinate with impunity"
And not only that...it can assassinate US citizens. "Administration officials, intelligence operatives and military analysts...praised the CIA strikes as an innovative way to get the job done." You know that whole "pre-emptive strike" debate? Well it's over now. Everybody grab their sled because we're in for a nice ride down this slippery slope from moral highground! Weeeee!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Please link to the sources of these crucial assertions:
How do you know Mr. Bauman is a Scientologist?
Where did you read when Freewinds leaves port?
Oh, yeah, and your links to geek cruises all fail.
My conclusion? Well written, but completely false.
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
My mom is the director of a public library. A few months back I went home to visit, and the subject of our dinner time conversation was: "Will Mom go to jail?"
The short version is that she had been visited by some very "official" FBI agents, who informed her they had reason to beleive a patron was looking up "terrorist material" on the internet, and wouldn't she be so kind as to hand over her records and start watching said individual. My mom told them they'd need a warrant or subpoena, and she'd have to call the state's lawyers to see just where the PATRIOT act was these days.
Needless to say, the bitched and moaned that she wasn't a good citizen or patriot, and was quite possiblely negatively impacting the "War on Terror".
The truly ironic part is that most libraries, my mom's included, don't keep records around for any longer than absolutely necessary for just these reasons. Once you return a book, *poof* the record is gone. These sorts of requests have gone on for years. My mom has been asked to provided "lending histories" for suspects in murder trials, and other fun things. It amazes me that attorneys don't realize that by law (in some places) such records are not keep.
The Fed's should be required to obtain a warrant. Just like they had to when they wanted to tap the pay phone in my mom's library lobby. Libraries are a public resource, and should be treated accordingly.
Man, it really sounds like my mom's library is a hotbed of criminal activity huh?
According to the Wired article, the problem is that ISPs must pass on e-mail to any federal, state, or local agency on a "good faith" basis. That means that a county councilman could legally ask his buddy at the local ISP to give up e-mail for anyone that opposes him. No real reason is required. How about DNC e-mail being requested on behalf of the RNC?
Yes, Zoids was pulled from the Toonami afternoon block. But it's played at it's normal time at 6:30am Monday through Friday. It played during this time, at least ever since the Chaotic Century run was on the afternoon block, and continues today.
Ah, another republican apologist.
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
I think Epicentric and webMethods want to be "heard". There is no chance anyone is going to pay them any royalty for using SOAP. Here is a followup article about this snag.
Sorry to confuse you with reason.
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You get the government you deserve. Enjoy the lack of privacy and power abuses ushered in by the new completely controlled regime. (Just FYI I'd be saying the same thing if it were a completely Democratic federal government).
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
I'm not a Republican. I never said I was. Vote libertarian.
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quite a few things that just have nothing at all to do with the question).
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