This is by no means the kind of crypto the/. audience is interested in,
Wow, am I glad that there's finally someone who can speak for the entire slashdot audience. Because, as we all know, we're all exactly the same kind of person, and all of us have the same opinion of everything.
If anyone saw Chicago Hope this Wednesday (Thursday in the US, I think), this story probably made them think of that episode. Essentially, a man with muscle paralysis so severe that he could not speak, had sensors implanted into his brain, so that he could speak by thinking about words and letters and having the computer spell them out.
One of the first things the man said once he learned how to "speak" using the machine, was "Kill me. Let me die. Please, Please".
Why am I talking about this? I dunno, really. Just a spooky coincidence about the news release coming so soon after the show.
There's a reason why I took 8 months and $8000.00 to become a licensed pilot! It wasn't because it took me that long to learn how to control the aircraft. After only a few hours in the air I could do a decent job of that.
What really takes time in learning how to fly is making sure you know the laws perfectly. Making sure that you know how a given meteorological phenomenon will affect flight. Making sure that you drill yourself with emergency procedures so much and so often that you wake up dreaming about them. Making sure that you're comfortable enough that you can handle yourself properly in all situations.
Learning to fly involves more than just being able to control the aircraft. Certainly someone who knows how to make a few takeoffs and landings isn't necessarily someone who knows how to fly. I could just see the hordes of people who buy these helicopters under the assumption that if they've spent several hours in front of Microsoft Flight Simulator, that they know how to fly. To have people flying these things around with no license is idiotic.
Why the hell is it flamebait just because someone dares to have a right-wing point of view? I didn't realize that Slashdot was so incredibly left-wing that a moderator felt he had to warn the rest of the site when someone posted a right-wing comment.
The point isn't really whether or not it was any good (I thought it was...). The point is only that it was the world's most widely-visited, longest-running musical.
Sorry to disappoint all the "If it's from Microsoft, it has to suck" people out there, but our old crappy Printer server, running a first-edition, non-upgraded Win95, and having a crappy old bios, survived the rollover with no problem. It claims that the date is Jan 1 2000, it's still printing things that it's told to, and in general everything is working okay.
I work for Investment Challenge, a somewhat-large stock market simulation provider. We're confident that our machines won't break, and will be leaving them connected to the rest of the net. I won't be here tonight, but certainly another of the techies will, and I'll have my cel phone on, Just In Case [tm]
I'm hoping that I won't be let down, and that Big Brother won't disturb my party.
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Sure, but if an OS has a commonly-known flaw, good software will know how to get around the flaw.
Are registering exactly the same record uptime. I know for a fact that a Windows machine can stay up longer than the maximum uptime listed; I've seen it with my own eyes. I wonder if the software that's used has a bug in that it forgets to take into account the fact that the Windows uptime clock wraps at 49 days.
...what a horrible, nasty, evil thing that saying "Merry Christmas" is. I don't know about in the States, but up here in Canada, it is no longer politically correct to do so.
Oh, you can say "Happy Channukah", all right. Of course, all the neutral crap like "Seasons Greetings" and "Happy Holidays", but if you say "Merry Christmas", you are originally branded a bigot who doesn't understand that other people celebrate different holidays.
Why can't people just understand that "Merry Christmas" is, 99% of the time, just an expression of wishes and good will, and is rarely said in malice?
It said that if you live in North Carolina, and you've purchased things online without paying sales tax, you will have to pay. It says nothing about what people who live in Nevada will have to do.
I agree that the logos are similar, but they're certainly differnt enough that anyone with an IQ higher than an old pair of socks should be able to tell the difference.
The GoTo.com logo is essentially "GoTo.COM" in white on a green circle background. The Go Network logo is "Go" superimposed on a traffic light.
Sooner or later there will be no acceptable logos left.. the courts will rule that Westinghouse's "W" logo is too close to the McDonald's "M" logo. After all, it may confuse someone if one is just an upside-down version of the other.
I can't figure out why everyone is so happy about 3dfx putting out another Voodoo chip. They're pushing a proprietary interface (Glide), where a perfectly good standard exists instead (OpenGL). They're using market pressure to get game manufacturers to adopt their standard, and lawsuits against developers who try to write Glide wrappers so that Glide-only games can be played on other video cards.
Doesn't this sound a bit like another company that everyone is up in arms about?
I think we're forgetting something. A large portion of us have been using computers since we were 5 or 6. To us, everything seems obvious -- how to install new software, the difference between root and the rest of the users, why sometimes we have to use the keyboard to do things instead of the mouse...
But Linux simply isn't ready for non-computer-geeks to be using all the time. It's propbably okay for smart non-computer-geeks, as long as they have a bit of support once in a while. But it's still not ready for Aunt Helga who wants to check her email once in a while and run a word processor.
I've already seen several of the inevitable "Well, the warezers will move somewhere else" posts. Yes they will, but that's not the point.
The point is that if even half of the 25 lawsuits that have been filed come out in favour of the software industry, it will not only frighten a few people away from piracy, but it will also set some legal precedent.
I've been on IRC for six years now. IRC is rife with piracy. I'm glad that someone is trying to do something about it. I bet there will be several posts complaining about this; complaining against the software companies. Why? I don't know. I can't figure out why people, several of whom write software for a living, would want piracy to continue...
Oh, just what the world needs. Another Distributed Computing effort.
Wouldn't our time be much better spent trying to co-ordinate all of the current efforts, rather than simply reduce the computing power available to each one by throwing another into the pot? There really is a limited number of computing power available. There are a limited number of people who would want their extra CPU cycles, extra as they be, to be used that way. Adding another "let's brute-force a crypto key" effort into the pot seems to have no point other than to slow down the work of all of the other efforts out there.
One of the features that I love about my Rio is that I can take it running with no skipping, and no fear that I will be breaking something mechanically (except my legs! I'm in bad shape).
If I were to try to run with a spinning hard drive attached to me, I'm sure it would be only a matter of weeks before I destroyed it with the constant shocks... I'm sure they shock-test those things, but they're not meant for the several-times-per-second jarring of someone who is jogging. (Or running to catch a train, for that matter).
Although certainly Bill Gates isn't exactly an example of ethical behaviour that we should all try to follow, I'm surprised to see so many people who are advocating physical violence against him.
Yes, greedy and monopolistic practises are reprehensible behaviour, but physical violence is far far worse. Why are you all stooping to a level even lower than his?
No, as someone who's worked with traders for a long time, I can say that Red Splat is the "public face" of Linux on Wall Street. Ticker Symbols really aren't as important as all that.
Quite frankly, any investor who simply buys into this IPO, just because it contains the name "Linux", deserves what they'll get.
This venture will inevitably fail. They have no product yet, they already have too many competitors, both in the domestic and international markets, and they don't seem to have any business sense, let alone much technical expertise.
However, it is also inevitable that someone will say "Ooh, it says Linux, so I should buy some of the IPO! Yeah baby yeah, I'm gonna be rich!" The stock price, however, along with the trading volumes, will eventually dwindle down so as to be insignificant. When this happens, people hwo invest without doing the slightest bit of research will be well-rewarded for their laziness and greed.
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This is by no means the kind of crypto the /. audience is interested in,
Wow, am I glad that there's finally someone who can speak for the entire slashdot audience. Because, as we all know, we're all exactly the same kind of person, and all of us have the same opinion of everything.
If anyone saw Chicago Hope this Wednesday (Thursday in the US, I think), this story probably made them think of that episode. Essentially, a man with muscle paralysis so severe that he could not speak, had sensors implanted into his brain, so that he could speak by thinking about words and letters and having the computer spell them out.
One of the first things the man said once he learned how to "speak" using the machine, was "Kill me. Let me die. Please, Please".
Why am I talking about this? I dunno, really. Just a spooky coincidence about the news release coming so soon after the show.
There's a reason why I took 8 months and $8000.00 to become a licensed pilot! It wasn't because it took me that long to learn how to control the aircraft. After only a few hours in the air I could do a decent job of that.
What really takes time in learning how to fly is making sure you know the laws perfectly. Making sure that you know how a given meteorological phenomenon will affect flight. Making sure that you drill yourself with emergency procedures so much and so often that you wake up dreaming about them. Making sure that you're comfortable enough that you can handle yourself properly in all situations.
Learning to fly involves more than just being able to control the aircraft. Certainly someone who knows how to make a few takeoffs and landings isn't necessarily someone who knows how to fly. I could just see the hordes of people who buy these helicopters under the assumption that if they've spent several hours in front of Microsoft Flight Simulator, that they know how to fly. To have people flying these things around with no license is idiotic.
After I installed and enabled IDcide, it made about 1/4 of Slashdot's ads not show anything, and instead just show a broken graphic.
Why the hell is it flamebait just because someone dares to have a right-wing point of view? I didn't realize that Slashdot was so incredibly left-wing that a moderator felt he had to warn the rest of the site when someone posted a right-wing comment.
Or maybe the moderator was just an idiot.
The point isn't really whether or not it was any good (I thought it was...). The point is only that it was the world's most widely-visited, longest-running musical.
Someone says something vaguely good about a Microsoft product and it gets moderated down as a "Troll"?
Sorry to disappoint all the "If it's from Microsoft, it has to suck" people out there, but our old crappy Printer server, running a first-edition, non-upgraded Win95, and having a crappy old bios, survived the rollover with no problem. It claims that the date is Jan 1 2000, it's still printing things that it's told to, and in general everything is working okay.
I work for Investment Challenge, a somewhat-large stock market simulation provider. We're confident that our machines won't break, and will be leaving them connected to the rest of the net. I won't be here tonight, but certainly another of the techies will, and I'll have my cel phone on, Just In Case [tm]
I'm hoping that I won't be let down, and that Big Brother won't disturb my party.
Sure, but if an OS has a commonly-known flaw, good software will know how to get around the flaw.
Are registering exactly the same record uptime. I know for a fact that a Windows machine can stay up longer than the maximum uptime listed; I've seen it with my own eyes. I wonder if the software that's used has a bug in that it forgets to take into account the fact that the Windows uptime clock wraps at 49 days.
...what a horrible, nasty, evil thing that saying "Merry Christmas" is. I don't know about in the States, but up here in Canada, it is no longer politically correct to do so.
Oh, you can say "Happy Channukah", all right. Of course, all the neutral crap like "Seasons Greetings" and "Happy Holidays", but if you say "Merry Christmas", you are originally branded a bigot who doesn't understand that other people celebrate different holidays.
Why can't people just understand that "Merry Christmas" is, 99% of the time, just an expression of wishes and good will, and is rarely said in malice?
Did you even read the article?
It said that if you live in North Carolina, and you've purchased things online without paying sales tax, you will have to pay. It says nothing about what people who live in Nevada will have to do.
Short Circuit.
Did you send a copy to all those companies that are listed? If not, it's not an open letter.
- Drew
I agree that the logos are similar, but they're certainly differnt enough that anyone with an IQ higher than an old pair of socks should be able to tell the difference.
The GoTo.com logo is essentially "GoTo.COM" in white on a green circle background. The Go Network logo is "Go" superimposed on a traffic light.
Sooner or later there will be no acceptable logos left.. the courts will rule that Westinghouse's "W" logo is too close to the McDonald's "M" logo. After all, it may confuse someone if one is just an upside-down version of the other.
- Drew
I can't figure out why everyone is so happy about 3dfx putting out another Voodoo chip. They're pushing a proprietary interface (Glide), where a perfectly good standard exists instead (OpenGL). They're using market pressure to get game manufacturers to adopt their standard, and lawsuits against developers who try to write Glide wrappers so that Glide-only games can be played on other video cards.
Doesn't this sound a bit like another company that everyone is up in arms about?
- Drew
I think we're forgetting something. A large portion of us have been using computers since we were 5 or 6. To us, everything seems obvious -- how to install new software, the difference between root and the rest of the users, why sometimes we have to use the keyboard to do things instead of the mouse...
But Linux simply isn't ready for non-computer-geeks to be using all the time. It's propbably okay for smart non-computer-geeks, as long as they have a bit of support once in a while. But it's still not ready for Aunt Helga who wants to check her email once in a while and run a word processor.
- Drew
I've already seen several of the inevitable "Well, the warezers will move somewhere else" posts. Yes they will, but that's not the point.
The point is that if even half of the 25 lawsuits that have been filed come out in favour of the software industry, it will not only frighten a few people away from piracy, but it will also set some legal precedent.
I've been on IRC for six years now. IRC is rife with piracy. I'm glad that someone is trying to do something about it. I bet there will be several posts complaining about this; complaining against the software companies. Why? I don't know. I can't figure out why people, several of whom write software for a living, would want piracy to continue...
- Drew
Oh, just what the world needs. Another Distributed Computing effort.
Wouldn't our time be much better spent trying to co-ordinate all of the current efforts, rather than simply reduce the computing power available to each one by throwing another into the pot? There really is a limited number of computing power available. There are a limited number of people who would want their extra CPU cycles, extra as they be, to be used that way. Adding another "let's brute-force a crypto key" effort into the pot seems to have no point other than to slow down the work of all of the other efforts out there.
- Drew
One of the features that I love about my Rio is that I can take it running with no skipping, and no fear that I will be breaking something mechanically (except my legs! I'm in bad shape).
If I were to try to run with a spinning hard drive attached to me, I'm sure it would be only a matter of weeks before I destroyed it with the constant shocks... I'm sure they shock-test those things, but they're not meant for the several-times-per-second jarring of someone who is jogging. (Or running to catch a train, for that matter).
- Drew
I must have missed something... As far as I could tell, the article was fairly balanced and presented both sides of the issue.
Or were you expecting any article written about digital signatures to be gushing and adoring without presenting any of the negative aspects?
- Drew
Although certainly Bill Gates isn't exactly an example of ethical behaviour that we should all try to follow, I'm surprised to see so many people who are advocating physical violence against him.
Yes, greedy and monopolistic practises are reprehensible behaviour, but physical violence is far far worse. Why are you all stooping to a level even lower than his?
- Drew
- Drew
This venture will inevitably fail. They have no product yet, they already have too many competitors, both in the domestic and international markets, and they don't seem to have any business sense, let alone much technical expertise.
However, it is also inevitable that someone will say "Ooh, it says Linux, so I should buy some of the IPO! Yeah baby yeah, I'm gonna be rich!" The stock price, however, along with the trading volumes, will eventually dwindle down so as to be insignificant. When this happens, people hwo invest without doing the slightest bit of research will be well-rewarded for their laziness and greed.
- Drew