While I agree in part with your position, NPR Member stations DO pay Dues to be part of NPR, and pay real $ to purchase NPR shows. Withholding your pledge will send a signal. Let me also say if you have qualms -- stations most likely to be directly hurt are the smaller rural ones. Larger big-city ones (WBUR Boston ahem cough cough) that actually generate NPR programming are the ones that should be sent a clue!:-)
Unfortunately, no free out there -- radio stations within a certain distance of the Canadian border on either side of the line have to go through a special arbitration process between the FCC AND its Canadian equivalent. I know this from working at my college radio station (WRUR, Rochester, NY), which was trying to boost its signal from an ERP of ~900 watts to 3KW, and move its transmitter to a much higher location -- thereby pushing its signal well into Canada. The upgrade process took YEARS.... I think both sides have the ability to nix it.
The exceptionally disgusting fact about the whole LPFM debacle is not the presence of industry trade-groups -- you could have expected that.
It's the presence of NPR. Yes, National Public Radio -- public broadcasting. In an effort to justify their existence and keep a stranglehold on what they consider "community" broadcasting, they have done a deal with the devil and allied themselves with the major radio station congolmerates which have sprung up over the past few years.
Remember that next time you consider pledging. Some of your dollars are being used to lobby congress to keep you out of the game!
Yes, but AM radio is different than FM, and much more likely to cause the type of interference you describe. Your condition is likely much more exacerbated by your proximity to the station, and the fact that, sorry to say, if you are getting AM radio interference it is the fault of the products you are using not the AM station. They should have been designed to include powerline filters and preamp filters, but the designers cut a corner.
In fact, it was Adventure (or, for the real fans, ADVENTUR -- 8 character limit, you see). It would have been interesting if the paper had gone into the history of THAT excellent game.
Of course, the other password was plugh...
It is very dark. If you continue, you are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
I think it was a side-effect of them choosing where to spend their $. I read that the entire miniseries was produced for a rather modest $20 million, so IMHO so far the effects are pretty darn good (of course, what you can get for $20m has increased a LOT in the past 10 years!). The worm was pretty good.
I thought the worse effect was when Paul & Jessica were running from Harkonnen craft, and it looked like they were standing in front of a rear-view projection screen. oh well:-)
also, the fremen's blue eyes sometimes flickered on and off:-)
Right, ok, go ahead: show how minesweeper is equivalent to factoring large numbers:-)
I submit to you that knowing that a path exists out there and actually finding it is a hard task in and of itself. As I said, all you've proved is that the solution DOES exist.
It's worth pointing out that the Boston.com does gloss over some fairly important mathematics.
All that Kaye has done is show that Minesweeper is NP complete. He has not yet found a polynomial-time solution to it, which is necessary to prove that P=NP -- in a nutshell, he just shows that Minesweeper falls into an equivalence class that holds a hell of a lot of other algorithms.
And EVEN IF HE FINDS the polynomial solution to Minesweeper, that STILL doesn't say anything about RSA (or any other "hard" algorithm), other than that it can be solved in polynomial time SOMEHOW.
The only reason people focus on this conjecture is they hope that proving P=NP and solving some algorithm will give them some magic insight into speeding up some other algorithm that's equivalently hard, rather than working on the algorithm directly. Or, disproving P=NP once and for all, and ensuring the computational assumptions that make people pick algorithms like RSA.
I don't entirely buy this. While an absolutely tremendous amount can be done via email, don't knock high-bandwidth communication, i.e. f2f, or the dreaded meeting.
Meetings don't necessarially have to be what you think of them as -- they can be simple hallway chats or dropping by someone's office. But frequently they are *essential* to breaking through conceptual logjams and coming to a consensus.
I'm currently involved with a commercial development project in the US and Europe, and we use email, but we also have weekly videoconferences, and exchange staff every quarter. You just can't beat it.
Look, you're missing the obvious. Self-insure your package. Declare the value of your shipment to be $0. Now, this may get your shipment in hot water with customs people, but I tend to doubt it. All this will end up meaning is that if the shipment is lost, broken, or stolen, you will have to pay for it yourself. But it's only $300, it's not going to break the bank or anything.
Also, does your friend have any friends or relatives in Moscow or any of the other cities?
I've shipped computers (usually laptops) internationally before and have found that declaring value only raises stupid questions. Once I was sent a laptop (purchased in the US) from Austria, and it was held up in NYC for 3 days by customs because the sender declared a value of $3k or something and there were issues of duties. Totally absurd -- as if someone would avoid customs duties on an IBM Thinkpad by buying it in AUSTRIA and having it FEDEXed priority overnight to the US!
I'll agree you have a point about reading other people's comments -- but then, for god's sake, give me a way to filter! How about a checkbox that says "not already seen in the major media"?
For that matter, how about all the new filtering features that/. was supposed to be getting?
No, I've been reading for > 2 years now (my userid is barely > 10,000).
People come to a site because they can get things there that they can't elsewhere. My morning bookmarks are NYTimes, CNet, CNN, CBS Marketwatch, and Slashdot. If I start noticing that the last is just a rehash of the first 4, why would I bother to visit?
if Slashdot has all the same content as NYTimes, it's no longer "News For Nerds", it's "All the News that's Fit to Print", and I'll read it over there, thank you:-)
Over the past few days, most of the headlines appearing on/. have just been reposts of headlines from other web news sites, many of which have their own discussion forums. Just today, I counted 2 CNet, 2 NYtimes, and a bunch of warmed-over postings.
Personally, I already read all these sites. Why all the rehash? There's enough going on in the high-tech world without simply cloning content from one site to the next. If I want to jump off to some other portal/news site, I'll either bookmark it or use the slashboxes on the main page!
Unfortunately, many PhDs DO get compensation -- they get stipends and teaching assistantships. Not too many people out there actually pay cash on the barrelhead for their PhD program.
What the *HELL* are you talking about? yes, price fixing is "normal" in other countries, but that does not make it right.
Japan's economy crashed BECAUSE of the inefficiencies and counter-productive incentives introduced by the strangling government control, not because of the removal. All the businesses collapsed because of the artificial economic incentives they relied on like crutches which were removed.
And for evidence of Japan's amazing economic success -- well, let's hop in a time machine to 1990, and you will invest $1 in the Nikkei and I will invest $1 in the Dow, and we'll see who does better in the end!
(hint: today you'll have about $1. I'll have about $9.)
No kidding. I have to admit, in this kind of environment it's really, really, really hard to figure out who to root for!:-) Maybe while they're all arguing in the conference room we can nail all the doors shut, and physically cart the entire building to the ocean and set them adrift...!
Oh please, that's the smarmiest piece of moral equivalence I've heard in a long time. Not only does this invoke Godwin's law, but it should open people's eyes here:
People like Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy who CONTINUALLY try to take the moral high-ground from Microsoft have just been shown (well, one of them has) to be no better. Let's make this clear: were the tables turned, Ellison would do EXACTLY what Gates has done.
The interesting thing is that this came out AFTER the court ruling against Microsoft. Imagine what would have happened if this had come out, say, half way through the trial? Wasn't Oracle a witness against Microsoft? Where's their credibility now?
And are you, as employees/founders of a company, prepared to be carted off at gunpoint, and possibly put on trial, for the activities of your business?
Can I get (either for free, or since this is a business, for pay) an email address at havenco.com, or some other domain hosted at Sealand?
In reality, the most important data any person or organization has is their email! It can be read, spied on, subpoenaed, etc. I'd pay MONEY for this service.
Will Sealand be getting a top-level country code? If so, you could also sell domains, but let me say that I think the hottest idea is selling web-based email accounts.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't bother downloading that, unless you want to set your system clock back to November, 2000 -- it's a time-limited install image.
Yes, but low-power FM radio doesn't require a $1,000 box and a $21.99/month service to receive. It requires a $5.99 receiver and nothing else.
LPFM wasn't aimed at the netheads of the world, anyway. See the thread above.
While I agree in part with your position, NPR Member stations DO pay Dues to be part of NPR, and pay real $ to purchase NPR shows. Withholding your pledge will send a signal. Let me also say if you have qualms -- stations most likely to be directly hurt are the smaller rural ones. Larger big-city ones (WBUR Boston ahem cough cough) that actually generate NPR programming are the ones that should be sent a clue! :-)
Unfortunately, no free out there -- radio stations within a certain distance of the Canadian border on either side of the line have to go through a special arbitration process between the FCC AND its Canadian equivalent. I know this from working at my college radio station (WRUR, Rochester, NY), which was trying to boost its signal from an ERP of ~900 watts to 3KW, and move its transmitter to a much higher location -- thereby pushing its signal well into Canada. The upgrade process took YEARS.... I think both sides have the ability to nix it.
The exceptionally disgusting fact about the whole LPFM debacle is not the presence of industry trade-groups -- you could have expected that.
It's the presence of NPR. Yes, National Public Radio -- public broadcasting. In an effort to justify their existence and keep a stranglehold on what they consider "community" broadcasting, they have done a deal with the devil and allied themselves with the major radio station congolmerates which have sprung up over the past few years.
Remember that next time you consider pledging. Some of your dollars are being used to lobby congress to keep you out of the game!
Yes, but AM radio is different than FM, and much more likely to cause the type of interference you describe. Your condition is likely much more exacerbated by your proximity to the station, and the fact that, sorry to say, if you are getting AM radio interference it is the fault of the products you are using not the AM station. They should have been designed to include powerline filters and preamp filters, but the designers cut a corner.
...and if they do catch you, you are banned from holding an FCC license for life.
In fact, it was Adventure (or, for the real fans, ADVENTUR -- 8 character limit, you see). It would have been interesting if the paper had gone into the history of THAT excellent game.
Of course, the other password was plugh...
It is very dark. If you continue, you are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
I think it was a side-effect of them choosing where to spend their $. I read that the entire miniseries was produced for a rather modest $20 million, so IMHO so far the effects are pretty darn good (of course, what you can get for $20m has increased a LOT in the past 10 years!). The worm was pretty good.
:-)
:-)
I thought the worse effect was when Paul & Jessica were running from Harkonnen craft, and it looked like they were standing in front of a rear-view projection screen. oh well
also, the fremen's blue eyes sometimes flickered on and off
Right, ok, go ahead: show how minesweeper is equivalent to factoring large numbers :-)
I submit to you that knowing that a path exists out there and actually finding it is a hard task in and of itself. As I said, all you've proved is that the solution DOES exist.
It's worth pointing out that the Boston.com does gloss over some fairly important mathematics.
All that Kaye has done is show that Minesweeper is NP complete. He has not yet found a polynomial-time solution to it, which is necessary to prove that P=NP -- in a nutshell, he just shows that Minesweeper falls into an equivalence class that holds a hell of a lot of other algorithms.
And EVEN IF HE FINDS the polynomial solution to Minesweeper, that STILL doesn't say anything about RSA (or any other "hard" algorithm), other than that it can be solved in polynomial time SOMEHOW.
The only reason people focus on this conjecture is they hope that proving P=NP and solving some algorithm will give them some magic insight into speeding up some other algorithm that's equivalently hard, rather than working on the algorithm directly. Or, disproving P=NP once and for all, and ensuring the computational assumptions that make people pick algorithms like RSA.
Well, it really explains why they have a serious bug up their ass about people hacking their device, now don't it!?!? :-)
I don't entirely buy this. While an absolutely tremendous amount can be done via email, don't knock high-bandwidth communication, i.e. f2f, or the dreaded meeting.
Meetings don't necessarially have to be what you think of them as -- they can be simple hallway chats or dropping by someone's office. But frequently they are *essential* to breaking through conceptual logjams and coming to a consensus.
I'm currently involved with a commercial development project in the US and Europe, and we use email, but we also have weekly videoconferences, and exchange staff every quarter. You just can't beat it.
Look, you're missing the obvious. Self-insure your package. Declare the value of your shipment to be $0. Now, this may get your shipment in hot water with customs people, but I tend to doubt it. All this will end up meaning is that if the shipment is lost, broken, or stolen, you will have to pay for it yourself. But it's only $300, it's not going to break the bank or anything.
Also, does your friend have any friends or relatives in Moscow or any of the other cities?
I've shipped computers (usually laptops) internationally before and have found that declaring value only raises stupid questions. Once I was sent a laptop (purchased in the US) from Austria, and it was held up in NYC for 3 days by customs because the sender declared a value of $3k or something and there were issues of duties. Totally absurd -- as if someone would avoid customs duties on an IBM Thinkpad by buying it in AUSTRIA and having it FEDEXed priority overnight to the US!
I'll agree you have a point about reading other people's comments -- but then, for god's sake, give me a way to filter! How about a checkbox that says "not already seen in the major media"?
/. was supposed to be getting?
For that matter, how about all the new filtering features that
No, I've been reading for > 2 years now (my userid is barely > 10,000).
:-)
People come to a site because they can get things there that they can't elsewhere. My morning bookmarks are NYTimes, CNet, CNN, CBS Marketwatch, and Slashdot. If I start noticing that the last is just a rehash of the first 4, why would I bother to visit?
if Slashdot has all the same content as NYTimes, it's no longer "News For Nerds", it's "All the News that's Fit to Print", and I'll read it over there, thank you
Over the past few days, most of the headlines appearing on /. have just been reposts of headlines from other web news sites, many of which have their own discussion forums. Just today, I counted 2 CNet, 2 NYtimes, and a bunch of warmed-over postings.
Personally, I already read all these sites. Why all the rehash? There's enough going on in the high-tech world without simply cloning content from one site to the next. If I want to jump off to some other portal/news site, I'll either bookmark it or use the slashboxes on the main page!
The article implied that it was possible to get a *tour* to the North Pole. Where can you do that? Sign me up!
Unfortunately, many PhDs DO get compensation -- they get stipends and teaching assistantships. Not too many people out there actually pay cash on the barrelhead for their PhD program.
What the *HELL* are you talking about? yes, price fixing is "normal" in other countries, but that does not make it right.
Japan's economy crashed BECAUSE of the inefficiencies and counter-productive incentives introduced by the strangling government control, not because of the removal. All the businesses collapsed because of the artificial economic incentives they relied on like crutches which were removed.
And for evidence of Japan's amazing economic success -- well, let's hop in a time machine to 1990, and you will invest $1 in the Nikkei and I will invest $1 in the Dow, and we'll see who does better in the end!
(hint: today you'll have about $1. I'll have about $9.)
No kidding. I have to admit, in this kind of environment it's really, really, really hard to figure out who to root for! :-) Maybe while they're all arguing in the conference room we can nail all the doors shut, and physically cart the entire building to the ocean and set them adrift...!
Oh please, that's the smarmiest piece of moral equivalence I've heard in a long time. Not only does this invoke Godwin's law, but it should open people's eyes here:
People like Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy who CONTINUALLY try to take the moral high-ground from Microsoft have just been shown (well, one of them has) to be no better. Let's make this clear: were the tables turned, Ellison would do EXACTLY what Gates has done.
The interesting thing is that this came out AFTER the court ruling against Microsoft. Imagine what would have happened if this had come out, say, half way through the trial? Wasn't Oracle a witness against Microsoft? Where's their credibility now?
Ahh yes, this is known as "the ends justify the means" argument...
And are you, as employees/founders of a company, prepared to be carted off at gunpoint, and possibly put on trial, for the activities of your business?
Ooo! The more interesting question to ask is:
:-)
Can I get (either for free, or since this is a business, for pay) an email address at havenco.com, or some other domain hosted at Sealand?
In reality, the most important data any person or organization has is their email! It can be read, spied on, subpoenaed, etc. I'd pay MONEY for this service.
Will Sealand be getting a top-level country code? If so, you could also sell domains, but let me say that I think the hottest idea is selling web-based email accounts.
Dibs on "billg@havenco.com"