Generic phonetic spelling only works when everyone talks the same way. Otherwise, you alienate everyone who doesn't talk the same way you do.
Stupid idea... the spelling of language combined with a high literacy rate fixes dialect in place and slows considerably the natural evolution of language. What, you all want to drop the pronounciation of our 'r's? Maybe drop half our syllables altogether like the Brits do? Or, perhaps you want to advance the evolution of the language another 1,000 years or so and end up with a language like Chinese, that has no verb tenses, and only makes sense based on context, and where half the words all sound the same?
The Federal Court decision has NOT been overturned yet, and now we have a large chunk of time to gather statistics which can prove one way or another whether legal downloading is hurting the music industry or not.
Meanwhile, I'm downloading all the music I damn well please. After all, I'm already paying for the right to copy it for personal use.
Now you've got it, and you're still bitching. Cripes, you can't find anything good about them! The least you can do is admit you're deliberately on the attack. All this "informational bulletin propaganda disguised as legitimate criticism" is getting a bit old, don't you think?
Just make a "Microsoft-bashing" department, and be blatant about it! Stop hiding behind the ineffective veneer of objectivity, you pussies.
You want to travel to the stars? Do it right: build an Orion and just be done with it. A single, or even a dozen, Orion launches would push us out further to the outer reaches of the solar system faster and more completely than the way we're currently heading: little squirts of machinery and technology at carefully planned moments. Bah!
Any study that finds correlations demands a closer look. Jumping back into DDT usage is probably one of the stupidest things these armchair scientists on Slashdot could be proposing, and quite frankly, they deserve what they get.
Why even bother with all your other movie scientists? He is the original, the best, the smartest, the most creative, and his lab was filled with the coolest effects-laden gadgets. Why even bother discussing it? It's obviously Dr. Frankenstein.
Hrm. Or maybe Dr. Eldon Tyrell of the Tyrell corporation. Any guy who's not afraid to call security when his raving lunatic creation comes up for a quick game of chess--and oh yea to squish your fucking head to a pulp while poking his thumbs into your eyeball sockets, causing a veritable fountain of your own blood to gout ignominously onto the floor--is okay in my books.
All these people who think that Googling for facts makes them experts are fools. If you think you're getting *any* useful or intelligent, verifiable answers out of any of these people (including me) then you deserve what you get when you listen to them.
The same goddamn thing happens every time someone pulls out an Ask Slashdot where medical advice or scientific debate is requested. For eye treatments, for pesticide discussions, for disease treatments, this site is so full of armchair wannabe scientists whose opinions are based on five minutes of Googling for specific terms like (DDT "no environmental impact").
It's pointless, it's fruitless, and ultimately it's harmful to readers who might otherwise be swayed by posts in the comments here.
Why do you keep doing this, Slashdot editors? Why do you keep posting this drivel? Nothing good comes of it!
Hackmaster is the One True Inheritor of the AD&D title. All those new rules, all the needless additional rolling, the Need A Rule For Everything Because I Lack An Imagination generation of D&D might as well flush itself now, while it still has a modicum of self respect left.
Put the Dungeon back in D&D, the Gummy back in the Gummy Elemental, and the Betty back in the Skipping Betty fireball.. skip the crap, stick with Hackmaster!... and the combat mode of the Hackmaster GM shield puts the fear of god (a.k.a. the DM) back into players who are far too used to rules lawyering their way to 20th without a single resurrection!
Bring back the 20-or-die poisons, the lethal curses and diseases, and the System Shock rolls! Ha ha haaaaa....
On my systems, it would require extensive tuning because the application I would need it for requires a large-scale installation, but the kernels I'm using do not by default have large volumes of shared memory configured-in.
If you want to quote out of context from the rest of the note, at least have the decency to have pretended to read the rest of it. I'm talking about my systems, my customers, my databases. I'm not even pretending to extend this to a generalisation; you inferred that because I didn't qualify *every* single one of my f-ing sentences. That's pretty pedantic bud.
Postgresql would be a real bitch to install and support, and therefore it's not worth the time and effort it would require. People in my situation (with large-scale requirements) would face the same problem.
On most OSes, shared memory is a precious resource and requires either static, compile-time tunables, or run-time tunables that are difficult to juggle. Shared memory is hard to port between OSes because nobody supports it quite the same way.
So now we have to recompile our kernels just to support Postgres? That is not cool, and means remote configuration of server machines to support Postgres is *very* dangerous.
Additionally, when Postgres starts eating up all my system's shared memory, the other, play-nice facilities that don't consume masses of the stuff start choking because it's difficult to tell Postgres to throttle itself. So now I have to tell *both* the system *and* Postgres to match their limits. Postgres expects me not only to reconfigure my kernel, but to tell it what I've done.
After all this, I find out that Postgres, like every other database engine out there, has a bunch of quirks in its command-line, the same way that MySQL and every other DB engine out there does.
I'm sorry, but it's just not practical to support Postgres without extensive tuning and configuration, that I just can't afford to do on my remote machines. Therefore, MySQL or the newly-freed commercial engines are my only options.
They've failed because they don't provide a true overlay of the additional functionality on top of the existing internet. By this, I mean of course that this alternate DNS should provide the ability to overlay additional.COMs and only if the lookup fails in the new DNS mechanisms should it default back to the existing ones. Yes, this would mean that the alternates could overlay well-known, pre-existing.com domain names. So what?
If this were to ever come about, I (and probably thousands of other administrators) would instantly jump on the bandwagon and convert our servers permanently. We're all tired of seeing annoying people domain squatting, or squabbling over a namespace that we have absolutely no input in.
I have some ceramic mugs and plates right now that can survive a 15 ft. fall to a hardwood floor. It's the only reason I still have them after 12 years.
Uh.. the 553 is stated in plain English. All the person has to do is read two sentences that clearly state "The email address you wrote to was shut down due to spammers. Please visit www.example.com if you wish to contact me."
Spam is not an economic problem. Through simple information warfare techniques (in the Neal Stephenson concept of it) I just manage what information is available to whom, and I partition it enough that damage (a.k.a. harvesting) does not take my entire email presence down. The "damage" is localised, trackable, and easily fixed. The nature of the system also allows me to know who leaked what and to whom.
Your analogy is false, also. How is careful management of my email aliases anything like trying to sell gas to people?! How absurd..
The only reason someone would even get the 553 errors would be if they tried to write to an alias that I shut down--look, I'm going to repeat myself, which is something I rarely do, and then this thread is over because I'm not going to respond to you anymore: Random people trying to contact me are led directly to my website, which gives them explicit instructions on how to do so. There are no 553s involved in that.
Random forum posters (like yourself) who expect, in all their hypocrisy, to be able to send me private email when they themselves don't even post their emails in their Slashdot profile, are being unrealistic.
There are no further hoops for people to jump through to write me than there would've been pre-spam.
My system is simple, not particularly technical, and is more a careful management technique than anything.
I am spam-free, I have been for years, and anonymous people from the internet still somehow manage to write me all the time--enough that I have trouble answering them all back. The rest of the people wouldn't have been able to write me even pre-spam anyway because they wouldn't have found my website to begin with, and thus would never have been able to find my email address (which was only ever posted on my website.)
Therefore my method is as close to non-impactful as is possible (to third parties) at the cost of a few seconds every few weeks. I use *NO* additional bandwidth-receiving junk mail, I use *NO* additional time combing through spamboxes, I use *NO* CPU time nor disk space on expensive bogofilter-like devices, and I've never missed a legitimate incoming email.
It's a no-brainer for people with the technical expertise to do it, especially for those who are currently being spammed hundreds or thousands of emails per day (as I was) when the cost is so minimal. For people like me, and only for people like me, this is as close to a perfect anti-spam solution as is possible.
Everyone else need not apply, especially people who don't archive their own email properly.
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Mod parent up, he's right. :-)
Generic phonetic spelling only works when everyone talks the same way. Otherwise, you alienate everyone who doesn't talk the same way you do.
Stupid idea... the spelling of language combined with a high literacy rate fixes dialect in place and slows considerably the natural evolution of language. What, you all want to drop the pronounciation of our 'r's? Maybe drop half our syllables altogether like the Brits do? Or, perhaps you want to advance the evolution of the language another 1,000 years or so and end up with a language like Chinese, that has no verb tenses, and only makes sense based on context, and where half the words all sound the same?
Just because of this article, I think I'm going to go run SETI@ on all my servers and home desktops now.
Thanks!
A "pen test" is where you wander in to a business and offer random employees a pen or pencil if they give you their username and password.
Cripes..
That's pretty bad.
The Federal Court decision has NOT been overturned yet, and now we have a large chunk of time to gather statistics which can prove one way or another whether legal downloading is hurting the music industry or not.
Meanwhile, I'm downloading all the music I damn well please. After all, I'm already paying for the right to copy it for personal use.
Now you've got it, and you're still bitching. Cripes, you can't find anything good about them! The least you can do is admit you're deliberately on the attack. All this "informational bulletin propaganda disguised as legitimate criticism" is getting a bit old, don't you think?
Just make a "Microsoft-bashing" department, and be blatant about it! Stop hiding behind the ineffective veneer of objectivity, you pussies.
You want to travel to the stars? Do it right: build an Orion and just be done with it. A single, or even a dozen, Orion launches would push us out further to the outer reaches of the solar system faster and more completely than the way we're currently heading: little squirts of machinery and technology at carefully planned moments. Bah!
That's one of my links. One.
Any study that finds correlations demands a closer look. Jumping back into DDT usage is probably one of the stupidest things these armchair scientists on Slashdot could be proposing, and quite frankly, they deserve what they get.
Why even bother with all your other movie scientists? He is the original, the best, the smartest, the most creative, and his lab was filled with the coolest effects-laden gadgets. Why even bother discussing it? It's obviously Dr. Frankenstein.
Hrm. Or maybe Dr. Eldon Tyrell of the Tyrell corporation. Any guy who's not afraid to call security when his raving lunatic creation comes up for a quick game of chess--and oh yea to squish your fucking head to a pulp while poking his thumbs into your eyeball sockets, causing a veritable fountain of your own blood to gout ignominously onto the floor--is okay in my books.
All these people who think that Googling for facts makes them experts are fools. If you think you're getting *any* useful or intelligent, verifiable answers out of any of these people (including me) then you deserve what you get when you listen to them.
The same goddamn thing happens every time someone pulls out an Ask Slashdot where medical advice or scientific debate is requested. For eye treatments, for pesticide discussions, for disease treatments, this site is so full of armchair wannabe scientists whose opinions are based on five minutes of Googling for specific terms like (DDT "no environmental impact").
It's pointless, it's fruitless, and ultimately it's harmful to readers who might otherwise be swayed by posts in the comments here.
Why do you keep doing this, Slashdot editors? Why do you keep posting this drivel? Nothing good comes of it!
Cripes..
Male "occupational" exposure to DDT causes birth defects in their children.
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http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2004/6759/abstract.
http://www.birthdefects.org/archives/News_aug01.h
Duh. When was the last time your company hired someone off the internet over someone, similarly qualified, who dropped off their resume in person?
Hackmaster is the One True Inheritor of the AD&D title. All those new rules, all the needless additional rolling, the Need A Rule For Everything Because I Lack An Imagination generation of D&D might as well flush itself now, while it still has a modicum of self respect left.
... and the combat mode of the Hackmaster GM shield puts the fear of god (a.k.a. the DM) back into players who are far too used to rules lawyering their way to 20th without a single resurrection!
Put the Dungeon back in D&D, the Gummy back in the Gummy Elemental, and the Betty back in the Skipping Betty fireball.. skip the crap, stick with Hackmaster!
Bring back the 20-or-die poisons, the lethal curses and diseases, and the System Shock rolls! Ha ha haaaaa....
Pay attention, dammit.
On my systems, it would require extensive tuning because the application I would need it for requires a large-scale installation, but the kernels I'm using do not by default have large volumes of shared memory configured-in.
If you want to quote out of context from the rest of the note, at least have the decency to have pretended to read the rest of it. I'm talking about my systems, my customers, my databases. I'm not even pretending to extend this to a generalisation; you inferred that because I didn't qualify *every* single one of my f-ing sentences. That's pretty pedantic bud.
Postgresql would be a real bitch to install and support, and therefore it's not worth the time and effort it would require. People in my situation (with large-scale requirements) would face the same problem.
.. people would rather be honest and treated fairly after all?
Damn! This is going to fuck up a LOT of business plans.
On most OSes, shared memory is a precious resource and requires either static, compile-time tunables, or run-time tunables that are difficult to juggle. Shared memory is hard to port between OSes because nobody supports it quite the same way.
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http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/kernel-
So now we have to recompile our kernels just to support Postgres? That is not cool, and means remote configuration of server machines to support Postgres is *very* dangerous.
Additionally, when Postgres starts eating up all my system's shared memory, the other, play-nice facilities that don't consume masses of the stuff start choking because it's difficult to tell Postgres to throttle itself. So now I have to tell *both* the system *and* Postgres to match their limits. Postgres expects me not only to reconfigure my kernel, but to tell it what I've done.
After all this, I find out that Postgres, like every other database engine out there, has a bunch of quirks in its command-line, the same way that MySQL and every other DB engine out there does.
I'm sorry, but it's just not practical to support Postgres without extensive tuning and configuration, that I just can't afford to do on my remote machines. Therefore, MySQL or the newly-freed commercial engines are my only options.
Nice troll. Too bad you suck so hard at it.
We don't get to see a 300mil episode 7?! Oh well. I'll do my best to contain my disappointment, but it won't be easy.
Parent is wrong of course.
Poverty negatively affects the health of the poor.
Gee, what news. I know I'm blown away.
I mean.. really?!
They've failed because they don't provide a true overlay of the additional functionality on top of the existing internet. By this, I mean of course that this alternate DNS should provide the ability to overlay additional .COMs and only if the lookup fails in the new DNS mechanisms should it default back to the existing ones. Yes, this would mean that the alternates could overlay well-known, pre-existing .com domain names. So what?
If this were to ever come about, I (and probably thousands of other administrators) would instantly jump on the bandwagon and convert our servers permanently. We're all tired of seeing annoying people domain squatting, or squabbling over a namespace that we have absolutely no input in.
Time for a modified BIND!
Now.. get to work, someone else!
I have some ceramic mugs and plates right now that can survive a 15 ft. fall to a hardwood floor. It's the only reason I still have them after 12 years.
As though a dollar value counts as market share when you're talking about fucking free OSs.
Uh.. the 553 is stated in plain English. All the person has to do is read two sentences that clearly state "The email address you wrote to was shut down due to spammers. Please visit www.example.com if you wish to contact me."
Spam is not an economic problem. Through simple information warfare techniques (in the Neal Stephenson concept of it) I just manage what information is available to whom, and I partition it enough that damage (a.k.a. harvesting) does not take my entire email presence down. The "damage" is localised, trackable, and easily fixed. The nature of the system also allows me to know who leaked what and to whom.
Your analogy is false, also. How is careful management of my email aliases anything like trying to sell gas to people?! How absurd..
The only reason someone would even get the 553 errors would be if they tried to write to an alias that I shut down--look, I'm going to repeat myself, which is something I rarely do, and then this thread is over because I'm not going to respond to you anymore: Random people trying to contact me are led directly to my website, which gives them explicit instructions on how to do so. There are no 553s involved in that.
Random forum posters (like yourself) who expect, in all their hypocrisy, to be able to send me private email when they themselves don't even post their emails in their Slashdot profile, are being unrealistic.
There are no further hoops for people to jump through to write me than there would've been pre-spam.
My system is simple, not particularly technical, and is more a careful management technique than anything.
I am spam-free, I have been for years, and anonymous people from the internet still somehow manage to write me all the time--enough that I have trouble answering them all back. The rest of the people wouldn't have been able to write me even pre-spam anyway because they wouldn't have found my website to begin with, and thus would never have been able to find my email address (which was only ever posted on my website.)
Therefore my method is as close to non-impactful as is possible (to third parties) at the cost of a few seconds every few weeks. I use *NO* additional bandwidth-receiving junk mail, I use *NO* additional time combing through spamboxes, I use *NO* CPU time nor disk space on expensive bogofilter-like devices, and I've never missed a legitimate incoming email.
It's a no-brainer for people with the technical expertise to do it, especially for those who are currently being spammed hundreds or thousands of emails per day (as I was) when the cost is so minimal. For people like me, and only for people like me, this is as close to a perfect anti-spam solution as is possible.
Everyone else need not apply, especially people who don't archive their own email properly.