It should also be noted that the gps signal is fairly weak, and wouldn't be hard to interfere with.
This is a problem which has been all but solved. The military has developed vehicle-mounted gps recievers that can deal with inconceivable amounts of jamming (something about using multiple recievers to filter out the jamming signal - im not a radio expert), then relay the signal over some un-jammed frequency (software-based radio maybe?) to provide highly accurate positioning to weapons and personnel in the field who are unable to recieve the "native" gps signal.
Couple this with the military's ability to selectively introduce faulty data into the GPS signal (and remove it on the ground) and you have a pretty good system for getting you within 10 feet of where you want to go and disorienting your enemy besides.
And in response to the grandparent of this post, good luck hitting any LEO satellite with a missle. That's like trying to shoot a fly at 5000 yards with a.44. Talk about a feat! A more effective anti-satellite weapon would probably be a railgun (a real railgun) capable of hurling millions of particles of dust sized shrapnel at insane speeds in the general vacinity of the target satellite -- if they'd ever finish the development of the weapon..
All that fancy navigational equipment I have in my airplane doesn't come close to approaching the compass/stopwatch/map for reliability.
Ah yes but it certainly does for accuracy and detail!
No it doesn't. Browser extensions aren't the same thing as plugins like flash/shockwave/etc. that handle files based on a mimetype (or file extension - stupid microsoft). Browser Extensions change the behavior of the browser itself - They are things like the Google toolbar and that Alexa piece of crap. There are some useful ones too that do things like block ads and kill popups. I have Extensions turned off and I can still see flash just fine. Sadly, I can no longer kill popups or ads so easily in IE anymore. Oh well... for all these settings and extensibility, we still can't control the levels of access that scripting languages have to or system or selectively allow certain programs to run.
I don't remember where exactly I read it, but basically, there was a statement that 3D Acceleration was outpacing Moore's law by a monumental amount such that Moore's law was totally inapplicable. Maybe I can dig something up...
Why create an algorithm dependant on chaotic laser behavior when you know that you can get cheap encryption which is secure in available hardware.
For fuck's sake, just to fucking do it.
Why do you bother wasting your time posting to slashdot when you're just going to die someday and it's not going to matter?
Besides, your FPGA doesn't exactly fit well into an all-optical switch or router with MEMS or bubble gates that bounce light around, does it? But it's easy enough to add or subtract the optical noise optically without having to waste a bunch of fucking time demodulating the signal, feeding it through a (comparitavely) ass-slow FPGA, modulating it again then sending it down the pipe. Latency is the issue, not whether or not your toaster has more crypto in it for the buck. Besides that, it would likely scale more cheaply than something like an FPGA solution. Bump the speed 10x - suddenly you need thousands of dollars worth of FPGA's, yet you probably only need a slightly faster oscillator of some sort in your chaotic noise generator - maybe a $5 difference or similar. And did you consider that you can probably use the SAME noise generators to cover your entire optical network - one pair in each device - while you'd need a pair of encrypting/decrypting FPGA's at either end of a link? Think of a 48 port switch and you've just saved an enormous amount of money.
Maybe you should actually *read* the ARM website you link to.
OMAP is an ARM core with extra DSP functions. TI makes it.
StrongARM is an ARM core with lots of flexibility (ie reconfigurable pins). Intel makes it.
XScale is an ARM core with some neat extra extensions and very high clockspeed. Intel makes it.
NETsilicon makes a neat little ARM7TDMI core processor with an ethernet controller in it. Nearly a full system on chip.
Other companies produce various ARM cores. Almost everyone and their dog makes ARM core chips. A project got shut down recently on Opencores that had an open design ARM core chip that you could make in your garage fab (shea)! It is very difficult to find someone NOT developing a handheld today on top of any other processor. All the PocketPC devices are ARM core. New PalmOS devices are (imminently) ARM. This handheld is ARM. Gameboy Advance is ARM. I have two telephones on my desk that have StrongARM's in them. (Another admittedly has a PPC core)
Get back into the palmtop market? You must be smoking crack.
The correction for overshoot on the 30s skip is the 8 second "instant replay" button. Push it twice and you'll be ~15 seconds back for instance. I can skip commercials now in about 2 seconds, far faster than I could even when I got the 3x FF exactly right.
Oh, and he was right about DirecTivo+2.5xtreme getting guide data off the air. Normal DirecTivo's don't (I don't think) but 2.5xtreme has a hack to make it possible. Still, things like showcases, etc. won't work. Since I dont have a DirecTivo, I can't say for sure.
I have actually done seamless roaming while streaming video at 75mph with the breezecom equipment. I believe that technically very high roaming speeds are possible with more dense configurations of AP's.
The first problem is that the breezecom stuff is FHSS which is a little bit easier to "roam" than DSSS, simply because you can hear neighboring AP's without having to switch channels as you do with DSSS, thus you know more about neighboring AP's.
The next problem is that the network has to be specially designed to support roaming clients. It has to have intelligence on the ethernet side of the AP's to teach the network about roaming client routing, so that packets always get to where they need. In large WLAN's, AP's are all rarely connected via a 100mbps backbone or the like. They are often connected with layer 3 switches, or worse -- routers, such that roaming is near impossible anyway without using special client software that implements MobileIP (or even ipv6)
The final problem with the way that breezecom does it is that their roaming is proprietary. The AP's preauthenticate clients before they show up, saving time after switching. It's not compatible with 802.11, though "regualr" 802.11 FHSS cards can indeed roam on breezecom equipment.
The fast roaming modes do not work on the breezecom direct sequence 802.11b equipment. You must be going 5mph or practically 10mph to roam seamlessly (ie without a data stream interruption) on this equipment.
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Have you ever seen BreezeCom (now alvarion) radios? They are built like a tank. I dropped one off a tower once (~20ft) onto concrete and it was fine.
The other solution is just to put all your stuff inside an enclosure with whatever NEMA rating your environment requires. Add a heat exchanger and UPS in there and you have a nice sealed up shielded box that's good to contain about any piece of computing equipment you want.
This has absolutely nothing to do with DSL. A Tin can and string is closer to DSL than this.
A lot of fixed wireless companies (not just broadband data) call their services the wireless equivalent of the wireline alternative. Ie: Wireless Cable -- what a misnomer!
Some company says "Wireless DSL" and some stupid person posts it to slashdot as some sort of breakthrough idea. It's simply fixed wireless.
You can't sell DSL service "beyond SBC" unless you want to run your own CO's, which is not turning out to be very profitable for small companies to do. DSL only goes over copper wires and it only goes so far.
Actually, this is not the fault of the database. If you mod a post that is already +5 up or mod a -1 post down you will lose a mod point and the score will go unchanged (the moderation total values will increase though)
You can use transactions or locking with MySQL to keep consistancy on this particular issue as well; however, under either database, the use of a transaction to record a moderation is fairly frivilous and probably more of a waste of CPU time than moderation point -- which is why slash doesn't implement it.
For clarification, you can't use transactions on MyISAM tables [yet] but it's not like transactions in MySQL don't exist at all. Just use BDB, InnoDB, or Gemini table types and you get transaction support.
Anyway, I don't care which DB you prefer or use or promote or whatever. I have run into programming problems with both Postgres and MySQL alike.
So, even though you are quite incorrect (which your probably already knew), at least you got me to respond to your troll.:)
Smoke, after all is what makes electrical things operate. Have you ever let the smoke out of a CPU and seen it continue to operate? The smoke must be kept contained!
Well, we already know the best use of it is to put windows in our starships. (heh) But even the starship windows are actually an aluminum alloy.
[For those of you missing the whole joke -- the windows on the spaceships in Star Trek are supposed to be "transparent aluminum"]
Pure transparent aluminum might be weak indeed, but perhaps it can be used in an alloy to create a transparent sheet that is as strong and durable as oridnary sheet aluminum. I find it hard that you mention steel (in particular certain varieties) yet you fail to address the usefulness of a transparent aluminum component in such an alloy.
Heck, even laminating something ordinary (ie lucite, glass) with such a material would have immediate benefits. Think diamond-tipped bits, saws, etc.
RDPX is easy enough. (see rdesktop) but that won't get you what you're looking for since (afaik) there is nothing for windows to serve single apps out of RDP. Plus RDP doesn't really have the features to transparently support a desktop like this.
The closest I have seen is running the Citrix ICA client in X and exporting a single application from the server. It can be made to have the application windows borderless and managed by your window manager. Some apps need to be run in a desktop window though, since they try to do things like customize the tilebar and control menus, install an item in the tray, etc.
Ecceptunce-a ooff zee prupused settlement in U.S. f. Meecrusufft vuoold cleer zee rued fur zee cumpuny tu ixtend its munupuly tu must iff nut ell espects ooff cumpooteeng, seys Joodge-a Rubert H. Bork.
Bork Bork Bork!
"I dun't theenk it dues unytheeng tu Meecrusufft," seeed Bork in un interfeeoo veet Leenoox Plunet. "I theenk it joost lets zeem cunteenooe-a es zeey vere-a beffure-a."
Iff thet heppens, he-a seys, Meecrusufft's cuntrul is leekely tu ixtend beyund zee sufftvere-a indoostry, leedeeng tu munupuleees in erees incloodeeng oonleene-a eccess und zee Internet.
Bork Bork Bork!
Zee reeleety ooff Joodge-a Bork is fer mure-a interesteeng thun zee cereecetoore-a screebbled by hees inemeees, vhu deesegree-a veet hees "streect cunstroocshuneest" feeoo -- shered veet zee Fuoondeeng Fezeers -- thet gufernment is zee lest resurt, nut zee furst, fur sulooshuns tu suceeetel vues.
Bork Bork Bork!
He-a is knoon cheeeffly fur zee tremenduoos perteesun bettle-a thet iroopted vhee he-a ves numeeneted tu zee Uneeted Stetes Soopreme-a Cuoort by Preseedent Runeld Reegun, und thet, tuu, is sed. Fur hees ixpereeence-a in zee lev, ispeceeelly untee-troost lev, is ixtenseefe-a, es is hees schulersheep. He-a hes serfed es curcooeet joodge-a, U.S. Cuoort ooff Eppeels fur zee Deestrict ooff Culoombeea (vheech hes heerd tvu U.S. f. Meecrusufft ceses in zee teeme-a seence-a he-a lefft zee bench), suleecitur generel, und ecteeng etturney generel ooff zee Uneeted Stetes, es vell es 17 yeers es a pruffessur et Yele-a Lev Schuul und 12 yeers in preefete-a precteece-a. He-a is a seneeur felloo et zee Emereecun Interpreese-a Insteetoote-a. Hees buuks incloode-a Sluoocheeng tooerds Gumurreh: Mudern Leeberelism und Emereecun Decleene-a (1996), Zee Unteetroost Peredux: A Puleecy et Ver Veet Itselff (secund ideeshun, 1993), und Zee Tempteeng ooff Emereeca: zee Puleeticel Sedoocshun ooff zee Lev (1989). Poobleeshed in a veede-a fereeety ooff pereeudicels, und freqooent netvurk telefeesiun legel unelyst, Joodge-a Bork hulds B.A. und J.D. degrees frum zee Uneefersity ooff Cheecegu.
Bork Bork Bork!
Bork deed vurk fur Netscepe-a in cunnecshun veet zee unteetroost cese-a und hes feeled memurunda in fefur ooff a feending egeeenst Meecrusufft.
Bork Bork Bork!
I dont mean to be picky but there is a kio slave for mp3 also that works just as well as the ogg one (for those of you who want to use the more widely supported format)
First, your thread isn't going to get bitchslapped unless you continue to make a stupid ass out of yourself posting and starting tons of useless threads through tons of accounts. Did you not consider that perhaps your comments are not as Funny, Clever, Insightful, or Interesting as you thought? I recall your post on using the cowboyneal result as a poll popularity and relevance indicator. I thought it was indeed particularly interesting (though I don't know if you came up with it or not), which is why I modded it up (not just because everyone else modded it up!) You know, my life is not over if an interesting post gets moderated down to 0 and I never see it. The system isn't going to be perfect, but at least it's going to keep me from staring deep into someone's anus 99% of the time.
Sure, the moderation system is a little funky, but it is designed to keep penis birds and goatse.cx out of the browsers of the folks that don't want to see that shit. I really disagree with folks who say that it's fundamentally broken or that we'd be better off without it. I suppose we'd be better off without threaded comments too, or user accounts, or a discussion board, since all of those things have inherent disadvantages and cause people a lot of problems.
Return slashdot to the day when it was the lone taco posting one or two stories a day (if that) and there was no discussion! What are you smoking? Boring vs. slightly broken but still interesting on the whole -- I'll take door #2, Monty.
What i DO think, though, is that there are better ways to mine useful relevence and popularity data from the database than by only using the moderation/metamoderation system. As a simple example, let's take a comment I recently posted (you can easily find it if you want to -- I don't post under 30 different names) that as of last count has recieved over 30 moderations. Obviously some people thought it was interesting, and probably a good discussion topic, since it gets at people on both sides of the fence. The idea is to use data like this in conjunction with the score of the post in conjunction with the metamoderation data, in conjunction with the user's karma could easily bubble the truly good posts to the top.
I've been around here a pretty long time. I remember (as a longtime reader even at that point) when slashdot opened up the user account signup. I told my friend and he registered (#245). At any rate, I don't even begin to see your point, unless of course you are just one of the true trolls. In which case, I salute you for provoking such a long response from me. I just wasted a lot of time!
So propose an alternative way to fix the piracy problem. If you are pirating software, then you should be scared when you get one of these letters. Their aim is not to get companies or people to buy "extra" licenses, but to buy the licenses they should have bought in the first place.
You seem to imply that there are businesses that are totally legal on all of their software that recieve one of these letters, freak out, and buy 10 licenses for Windows XP and Office XP they don't need.
How do you think you'd feel if you wrote a GPL'd app and 10,000 variants sprang up all without source code and all publicly distributed? What if the police are doing nothing about it? How else do you fight it?
If you agree that there should be controls to prevent software piracy (ie license violations -- this would include both free/non-free software "piracy") then how do you propose these controls should be implemented?
I didn't say anything about what the GPL license allows/disallows regarding distribution, use, or anything else. I only said essentially that copyright law protects the freedoms and limitations the GPL grants -- indeed the existence of the GPL itself.
It's still not legal to run office on 100 machines when it violates MS's license, as it is illegal to modify the source for GIMP so that it runs on OS/X and distribute only the compiled binaries when it violates the GPL.
No matter how you hype it, it's just not legal for a company to own (or sometimes not) a single copy of Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Office and run it on 10's or 100's of computers. Somebody has to enforce the law or it breaks down. Incedentally, it's the same copyright law that keeps your GPL software free that they are protecting!
If they scare off their customers, GOOD! The companies have the option not to use proprietary licensed software, maybe if they get some fines, they'll consider the alternatives.
Jesus christ, they aren't sending Federal Marshalls storming into a business for no reason. That could not happen without some sort of precident. I don't believe that the BSA has ever done this and not uncovered mountains of software license violations.
Some of you editors are such fucking hypocrites to cry foul and hire in the gestapo when some company viloates the GPL in *A SINGLE CASE* yet you bitch and moan about your rights and privacy when Microsoft hires BSA to uncover *TENS OF THOUSANDS* of violations to their licenses. What's worse is that I probably hate M$ more than you do, but if there's one thing I can't stand, it's a stupid person. michael and chrisd are topping this list right about now.
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It should also be noted that the gps signal is fairly weak, and wouldn't be hard to interfere with.
.44. Talk about a feat! A more effective anti-satellite weapon would probably be a railgun (a real railgun) capable of hurling millions of particles of dust sized shrapnel at insane speeds in the general vacinity of the target satellite -- if they'd ever finish the development of the weapon..
This is a problem which has been all but solved. The military has developed vehicle-mounted gps recievers that can deal with inconceivable amounts of jamming (something about using multiple recievers to filter out the jamming signal - im not a radio expert), then relay the signal over some un-jammed frequency (software-based radio maybe?) to provide highly accurate positioning to weapons and personnel in the field who are unable to recieve the "native" gps signal.
Couple this with the military's ability to selectively introduce faulty data into the GPS signal (and remove it on the ground) and you have a pretty good system for getting you within 10 feet of where you want to go and disorienting your enemy besides.
And in response to the grandparent of this post, good luck hitting any LEO satellite with a missle. That's like trying to shoot a fly at 5000 yards with a
All that fancy navigational equipment I have in my airplane doesn't come close to approaching the compass/stopwatch/map for reliability.
Ah yes but it certainly does for accuracy and detail!
No it doesn't. Browser extensions aren't the same thing as plugins like flash/shockwave/etc. that handle files based on a mimetype (or file extension - stupid microsoft). Browser Extensions change the behavior of the browser itself - They are things like the Google toolbar and that Alexa piece of crap. There are some useful ones too that do things like block ads and kill popups. I have Extensions turned off and I can still see flash just fine. Sadly, I can no longer kill popups or ads so easily in IE anymore. Oh well... for all these settings and extensibility, we still can't control the levels of access that scripting languages have to or system or selectively allow certain programs to run.
I think IE is scumware.
I don't remember where exactly I read it, but basically, there was a statement that 3D Acceleration was outpacing Moore's law by a monumental amount such that Moore's law was totally inapplicable. Maybe I can dig something up...
~GoRK
Why create an algorithm dependant on chaotic laser behavior when you know that you can get cheap encryption which is secure in available hardware.
For fuck's sake, just to fucking do it.
Why do you bother wasting your time posting to slashdot when you're just going to die someday and it's not going to matter?
Besides, your FPGA doesn't exactly fit well into an all-optical switch or router with MEMS or bubble gates that bounce light around, does it? But it's easy enough to add or subtract the optical noise optically without having to waste a bunch of fucking time demodulating the signal, feeding it through a (comparitavely) ass-slow FPGA, modulating it again then sending it down the pipe. Latency is the issue, not whether or not your toaster has more crypto in it for the buck. Besides that, it would likely scale more cheaply than something like an FPGA solution. Bump the speed 10x - suddenly you need thousands of dollars worth of FPGA's, yet you probably only need a slightly faster oscillator of some sort in your chaotic noise generator - maybe a $5 difference or similar. And did you consider that you can probably use the SAME noise generators to cover your entire optical network - one pair in each device - while you'd need a pair of encrypting/decrypting FPGA's at either end of a link? Think of a 48 port switch and you've just saved an enormous amount of money.
~GoRK
Maybe you should actually *read* the ARM website you link to.
OMAP is an ARM core with extra DSP functions. TI makes it.
StrongARM is an ARM core with lots of flexibility (ie reconfigurable pins). Intel makes it.
XScale is an ARM core with some neat extra extensions and very high clockspeed. Intel makes it.
NETsilicon makes a neat little ARM7TDMI core processor with an ethernet controller in it. Nearly a full system on chip.
Other companies produce various ARM cores. Almost everyone and their dog makes ARM core chips. A project got shut down recently on Opencores that had an open design ARM core chip that you could make in your garage fab (shea)! It is very difficult to find someone NOT developing a handheld today on top of any other processor. All the PocketPC devices are ARM core. New PalmOS devices are (imminently) ARM. This handheld is ARM. Gameboy Advance is ARM. I have two telephones on my desk that have StrongARM's in them. (Another admittedly has a PPC core)
Get back into the palmtop market? You must be smoking crack.
~GoRK
The correction for overshoot on the 30s skip is the 8 second "instant replay" button. Push it twice and you'll be ~15 seconds back for instance. I can skip commercials now in about 2 seconds, far faster than I could even when I got the 3x FF exactly right.
Oh, and he was right about DirecTivo+2.5xtreme getting guide data off the air. Normal DirecTivo's don't (I don't think) but 2.5xtreme has a hack to make it possible. Still, things like showcases, etc. won't work. Since I dont have a DirecTivo, I can't say for sure.
~GoRK
I have actually done seamless roaming while streaming video at 75mph with the breezecom equipment. I believe that technically very high roaming speeds are possible with more dense configurations of AP's.
The first problem is that the breezecom stuff is FHSS which is a little bit easier to "roam" than DSSS, simply because you can hear neighboring AP's without having to switch channels as you do with DSSS, thus you know more about neighboring AP's.
The next problem is that the network has to be specially designed to support roaming clients. It has to have intelligence on the ethernet side of the AP's to teach the network about roaming client routing, so that packets always get to where they need. In large WLAN's, AP's are all rarely connected via a 100mbps backbone or the like. They are often connected with layer 3 switches, or worse -- routers, such that roaming is near impossible anyway without using special client software that implements MobileIP (or even ipv6)
The final problem with the way that breezecom does it is that their roaming is proprietary. The AP's preauthenticate clients before they show up, saving time after switching. It's not compatible with 802.11, though "regualr" 802.11 FHSS cards can indeed roam on breezecom equipment.
The fast roaming modes do not work on the breezecom direct sequence 802.11b equipment. You must be going 5mph or practically 10mph to roam seamlessly (ie without a data stream interruption) on this equipment.
Have you ever seen BreezeCom (now alvarion) radios? They are built like a tank. I dropped one off a tower once (~20ft) onto concrete and it was fine.
The other solution is just to put all your stuff inside an enclosure with whatever NEMA rating your environment requires. Add a heat exchanger and UPS in there and you have a nice sealed up shielded box that's good to contain about any piece of computing equipment you want.
This has absolutely nothing to do with DSL. A Tin can and string is closer to DSL than this.
A lot of fixed wireless companies (not just broadband data) call their services the wireless equivalent of the wireline alternative. Ie: Wireless Cable -- what a misnomer!
Some company says "Wireless DSL" and some stupid person posts it to slashdot as some sort of breakthrough idea. It's simply fixed wireless.
You can't sell DSL service "beyond SBC" unless you want to run your own CO's, which is not turning out to be very profitable for small companies to do. DSL only goes over copper wires and it only goes so far.
~GoRK
Actually, this is not the fault of the database. If you mod a post that is already +5 up or mod a -1 post down you will lose a mod point and the score will go unchanged (the moderation total values will increase though)
:)
You can use transactions or locking with MySQL to keep consistancy on this particular issue as well; however, under either database, the use of a transaction to record a moderation is fairly frivilous and probably more of a waste of CPU time than moderation point -- which is why slash doesn't implement it.
For clarification, you can't use transactions on MyISAM tables [yet] but it's not like transactions in MySQL don't exist at all. Just use BDB, InnoDB, or Gemini table types and you get transaction support.
Anyway, I don't care which DB you prefer or use or promote or whatever. I have run into programming problems with both Postgres and MySQL alike.
So, even though you are quite incorrect (which your probably already knew), at least you got me to respond to your troll.
Let the whacking commence!
~GoRK
Smoke, after all is what makes electrical things operate. Have you ever let the smoke out of a CPU and seen it continue to operate? The smoke must be kept contained!
~GoRK
Exactly!
If buying drugs makes you no better than a terrorist...
Then why doesn't resorting to blatantly false propaganda and scare tactics make you any better than a communist?
~GoRK
Well, we already know the best use of it is to put windows in our starships. (heh) But even the starship windows are actually an aluminum alloy.
[For those of you missing the whole joke -- the windows on the spaceships in Star Trek are supposed to be "transparent aluminum"]
Pure transparent aluminum might be weak indeed, but perhaps it can be used in an alloy to create a transparent sheet that is as strong and durable as oridnary sheet aluminum. I find it hard that you mention steel (in particular certain varieties) yet you fail to address the usefulness of a transparent aluminum component in such an alloy.
Heck, even laminating something ordinary (ie lucite, glass) with such a material would have immediate benefits. Think diamond-tipped bits, saws, etc.
~GoRK
RDPX is easy enough. (see rdesktop) but that won't get you what you're looking for since (afaik) there is nothing for windows to serve single apps out of RDP. Plus RDP doesn't really have the features to transparently support a desktop like this.
The closest I have seen is running the Citrix ICA client in X and exporting a single application from the server. It can be made to have the application windows borderless and managed by your window manager. Some apps need to be run in a desktop window though, since they try to do things like customize the tilebar and control menus, install an item in the tray, etc.
~GoRK
Ecceptunce-a ooff zee prupused settlement in U.S. f. Meecrusufft vuoold cleer zee rued fur zee cumpuny tu ixtend its munupuly tu must iff nut ell espects ooff cumpooteeng, seys Joodge-a Rubert H. Bork.
Bork Bork Bork!
"I dun't theenk it dues unytheeng tu Meecrusufft," seeed Bork in un interfeeoo veet Leenoox Plunet. "I theenk it joost lets zeem cunteenooe-a es zeey vere-a beffure-a."
Iff thet heppens, he-a seys, Meecrusufft's cuntrul is leekely tu ixtend beyund zee sufftvere-a indoostry, leedeeng tu munupuleees in erees incloodeeng oonleene-a eccess und zee Internet.
Bork Bork Bork!
Zee reeleety ooff Joodge-a Bork is fer mure-a interesteeng thun zee cereecetoore-a screebbled by hees inemeees, vhu deesegree-a veet hees "streect cunstroocshuneest" feeoo -- shered veet zee Fuoondeeng Fezeers -- thet gufernment is zee lest resurt, nut zee furst, fur sulooshuns tu suceeetel vues.
Bork Bork Bork!
He-a is knoon cheeeffly fur zee tremenduoos perteesun bettle-a thet iroopted vhee he-a ves numeeneted tu zee Uneeted Stetes Soopreme-a Cuoort by Preseedent Runeld Reegun, und thet, tuu, is sed. Fur hees ixpereeence-a in zee lev, ispeceeelly untee-troost lev, is ixtenseefe-a, es is hees schulersheep. He-a hes serfed es curcooeet joodge-a, U.S. Cuoort ooff Eppeels fur zee Deestrict ooff Culoombeea (vheech hes heerd tvu U.S. f. Meecrusufft ceses in zee teeme-a seence-a he-a lefft zee bench), suleecitur generel, und ecteeng etturney generel ooff zee Uneeted Stetes, es vell es 17 yeers es a pruffessur et Yele-a Lev Schuul und 12 yeers in preefete-a precteece-a. He-a is a seneeur felloo et zee Emereecun Interpreese-a Insteetoote-a. Hees buuks incloode-a Sluoocheeng tooerds Gumurreh: Mudern Leeberelism und Emereecun Decleene-a (1996), Zee Unteetroost Peredux: A Puleecy et Ver Veet Itselff (secund ideeshun, 1993), und Zee Tempteeng ooff Emereeca: zee Puleeticel Sedoocshun ooff zee Lev (1989). Poobleeshed in a veede-a fereeety ooff pereeudicels, und freqooent netvurk telefeesiun legel unelyst, Joodge-a Bork hulds B.A. und J.D. degrees frum zee Uneefersity ooff Cheecegu.
Bork Bork Bork!
Bork deed vurk fur Netscepe-a in cunnecshun veet zee unteetroost cese-a und hes feeled memurunda in fefur ooff a feending egeeenst Meecrusufft.
Bork Bork Bork!
I dont mean to be picky but there is a kio slave for mp3 also that works just as well as the ogg one (for those of you who want to use the more widely supported format)
First, your thread isn't going to get bitchslapped unless you continue to make a stupid ass out of yourself posting and starting tons of useless threads through tons of accounts. Did you not consider that perhaps your comments are not as Funny, Clever, Insightful, or Interesting as you thought? I recall your post on using the cowboyneal result as a poll popularity and relevance indicator. I thought it was indeed particularly interesting (though I don't know if you came up with it or not), which is why I modded it up (not just because everyone else modded it up!) You know, my life is not over if an interesting post gets moderated down to 0 and I never see it. The system isn't going to be perfect, but at least it's going to keep me from staring deep into someone's anus 99% of the time.
Sure, the moderation system is a little funky, but it is designed to keep penis birds and goatse.cx out of the browsers of the folks that don't want to see that shit. I really disagree with folks who say that it's fundamentally broken or that we'd be better off without it. I suppose we'd be better off without threaded comments too, or user accounts, or a discussion board, since all of those things have inherent disadvantages and cause people a lot of problems.
Return slashdot to the day when it was the lone taco posting one or two stories a day (if that) and there was no discussion! What are you smoking? Boring vs. slightly broken but still interesting on the whole -- I'll take door #2, Monty.
What i DO think, though, is that there are better ways to mine useful relevence and popularity data from the database than by only using the moderation/metamoderation system. As a simple example, let's take a comment I recently posted (you can easily find it if you want to -- I don't post under 30 different names) that as of last count has recieved over 30 moderations. Obviously some people thought it was interesting, and probably a good discussion topic, since it gets at people on both sides of the fence. The idea is to use data like this in conjunction with the score of the post in conjunction with the metamoderation data, in conjunction with the user's karma could easily bubble the truly good posts to the top.
I've been around here a pretty long time. I remember (as a longtime reader even at that point) when slashdot opened up the user account signup. I told my friend and he registered (#245). At any rate, I don't even begin to see your point, unless of course you are just one of the true trolls. In which case, I salute you for provoking such a long response from me. I just wasted a lot of time!
Cheers,
~GoRK
Um, babelfish does do JE though not particularly well. Out of curiosity, I pulled it up on this site and it was more than adequate.
You mean you don't speak Japanese like the rest of us?
You obviously have enough time to waste to post this crap.
So propose an alternative way to fix the piracy problem. If you are pirating software, then you should be scared when you get one of these letters. Their aim is not to get companies or people to buy "extra" licenses, but to buy the licenses they should have bought in the first place.
You seem to imply that there are businesses that are totally legal on all of their software that recieve one of these letters, freak out, and buy 10 licenses for Windows XP and Office XP they don't need.
Again, you don't have to buy the software if you don't like the license.
Your argument is kind of the same as saying "a car doesn't care who's driving it" so you shouldn't care if someone steals your car.
How do you think you'd feel if you wrote a GPL'd app and 10,000 variants sprang up all without source code and all publicly distributed? What if the police are doing nothing about it? How else do you fight it?
If you agree that there should be controls to prevent software piracy (ie license violations -- this would include both free/non-free software "piracy") then how do you propose these controls should be implemented?
I didn't say anything about what the GPL license allows/disallows regarding distribution, use, or anything else. I only said essentially that copyright law protects the freedoms and limitations the GPL grants -- indeed the existence of the GPL itself.
It's still not legal to run office on 100 machines when it violates MS's license, as it is illegal to modify the source for GIMP so that it runs on OS/X and distribute only the compiled binaries when it violates the GPL.
No matter how you hype it, it's just not legal for a company to own (or sometimes not) a single copy of Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Office and run it on 10's or 100's of computers. Somebody has to enforce the law or it breaks down. Incedentally, it's the same copyright law that keeps your GPL software free that they are protecting!
If they scare off their customers, GOOD! The companies have the option not to use proprietary licensed software, maybe if they get some fines, they'll consider the alternatives.
Jesus christ, they aren't sending Federal Marshalls storming into a business for no reason. That could not happen without some sort of precident. I don't believe that the BSA has ever done this and not uncovered mountains of software license violations.
Some of you editors are such fucking hypocrites to cry foul and hire in the gestapo when some company viloates the GPL in *A SINGLE CASE* yet you bitch and moan about your rights and privacy when Microsoft hires BSA to uncover *TENS OF THOUSANDS* of violations to their licenses. What's worse is that I probably hate M$ more than you do, but if there's one thing I can't stand, it's a stupid person. michael and chrisd are topping this list right about now.
~GoRK
Or Armagetron which kicks gltron in the ass and also works client server.