I don't know about most of you, but I don't use the scrollbar to read through a webpage. I tend to use the scrollwheel, or most of the time arrow/pgup/pgdown keys. The mouse just sort of sits there until I want to click on a link.
I mean, this can have some positive usage; if anything, for getting input on how to redesign a site to make it easier/faster to use.
If you're paranoid, this is one more reason to disable javascript when browsing the web. Of course, his has been blown a little out of proportion: this "mouse watching" can only take place at a site that is hosting the page that has this ability. If you don't like it, don't visit the site.
While I browse the web just as much as the next person, I spend a lot of my time using typing at the command line terminal. Specifically, I use aterm, which I set to be translucent (a randomly chosen hue). Images like that x-ray which are monochromatic look especially cool tinted, and because it's fairly dark, white text will look good superimposed on top. In fact, I just added it now. Thanx, Guy, you're one cool d00d!
Find someone who will fight for them pro-bono (as they have a strong case) or get someone like the EFF involved (for funding)
Give up but ask for a little more than originally offered if at all possible.
Not neglecting option 2, also raise a gigantic fuss about it and convince everyone on slashdot not watch that show (which amounts to about everyone who does).
I'm sure many of you are aware of the "emacs" and "vi" editing modes of bash (or any readline enabled Unix app). Could not the same thing apply to video games? I think it would be cool to apply "UI skins" on top of games. If you've gotten good with your Quake 3 keysettings, why not apply it to your new whiz-bang FPS? New games could allow you to "import" old configurations and inform you of any unmapped keys or features (with possible suggestions).
Nothing has annoyed me more about a playing new game than having to relearn how to interface with it.
...was the actual content of the page, which coincides with strings in the actual virus itself that VirusShield is looking for. The virus that infected the machine must carry a copy of the page verbatim inside itself, and that is one of McAffee's clues to finding it.
But that's K5. I'm not saying we should try to be like them, but we should be democratizing the site more. Naturally, Hemos and CmdrTaco and the rest should keep their ability to post whatever they damn well feel like.
Fullscreen video over a phone line? The concept is tantalizing, but the reality is a pure fantasy. Let me explain:
They claim you can get full screen video at 30 fps over a 28.8 modem Let's just consider the case of pure video (no audio), at 320x240 (a nicer size than the one they were using)
28800 bps / 30 fps = 960 bits per frame
320x240=76800 pixels per frame
960 / 76800 = 1/80 bits per pixel per frame!
So what does this mean? Well, let's supposed the bits were just being used (in the most compressed sense) to indicate any change at all. Then you're limited to positively identifying one out of every 80 pixels as changing between frames, and that's not considering the information needed to specify which ones!
What I'm saying is that I think that moving video on a full screen contains more information than 28800 bits per second.
Three years ago, Slashdot was "The Place" to go for computer news. That's because three years ago (before the tech slump), there was tons of computer news to harvest. Now we have to reach. As a result, we recap what other people are reporting, and repost stories accidentally.
We do have to work on our article submission system. There needs to be some sort of volunteer "slashdot council" who screens the material. It would be better than the people who run the weblog whose decisions are guided by what they think will keep their readers.
As for the moderation? I think it is a fair system, in that a better system would be far more complex (and require a rewrite of many parts of slashcode).
If you visit the website now, you might notice that you get redirected to the EFF. Apparently when you post comments, it doesn't check what you type in. A few lines of javascript later (hehe), and the site looks like it's h4x0r3d.
Mandrake is a desktop linux distro (note the 2 CDs enclosed). Do not run this on anything without a VGA adapter (embedded, serial console, router, etc.)
Those imperceptable gaps never "get out" of the DAC. This is due to the slew rate of DACs not being perfect (transistor swing, capicitor leakage, line impedence), meaning you don't get square edges, and that most of them are explicitly filtered to remove frequencies beyond the Nyquist frequency. There isn't anything extra for the ear to hear.
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Actually, lots of sites are slow (including slashdot). I think there's some DoSing going on.
Actually, rm would have walked the entire tree doing unlink and rmdir on every file. rm doesn't know that it can just rmdir the root directory because the filesystem is FAT32. Actually, the kernel would probably not let it, seeing as the VFS would probably require the directory to be empty before removing it anyway, regardless of the underlying filesystem. That's why in FAT32 it took 6.7 seconds, because it was writing to the FAT a number of times.
Then, when the Sparcstation 4 came out, it sported the sun4m or SuperSPARC architecutre (V8, 32bit). This allowed much better SMP support and other cool stuff. (like comparing Pentium to 486)
Then came the Ultras, featuring the sun4u or UltraSPARC architecture (V9, 64bit). This is like the jump from pentium to pentium pro (sort of). They are capabale of management-impressing competetively high clock speeds.
Mr. Mundie said that in his speech, he would break the open-source strategy into five categories: community, standards, business model, investment and licensing model. Microsoft, he said,... already has what he called a shared-source philosophy, which makes its source code available to hardware makers, software developers, scientists, researchers and government
agencies.
And every last one of those groups (with the exemption of us non-windows programmers) are soulless miserable chaps. I wonder why that is?
Shared-source philosophy = we get your soul for a chance to gaze at the Ultimate Chaos.
MindStalker: You're right. But the new RFC states that protocol must be able to be implemented across all of the transports. This way, we have no further reason to ignore IPV6 networks (well really, we're being nice to everyone). I didn't mean to imply that IPv4 is/should be depreciated
Bob: Remember that the SMTP server (or any application), when it opens a socket, has to choose the address family. So, it does matter what transport layer (or layers) you implement it with.
Excellent... this is probably the biggest benefit. If vendors want to be up to snuff and support the new RFC, they have to have IPv6 support. So this is an extra push of getting rid of crusty old IPv4. I mean, what better use of IPV6 than forwarding chain letters intellegently?
How reliable is this? Pages that are generated server side can change layout behind your back and break your "bookmarks" (is it context-based like patch?)
Furthermore, doesn't the task of attempting to find the region in question within a copy of the downloaded document nullify the benefits acheived by having MD5 sums to compare in the first place? Compiled regular expressions anyone?
Maybe I missed something. And this is to notify portables, right?
Squid uses MD5 keys to keep track of the pages that it's indexed (how else?). It also uses these keys in ICP queries of other sibling/parent servers to find the content. Of course, it doesn't use them in the protocols to talk to webservers... but if the browser/server is willing to use date stamps, what's wrong with that?
If the server is going to be explicit about what time something was changed, and how long it should be valid for, this is valuable information, a little more than a checksum can provide. This is all conveyed in a header request (which is less work than downloading a document and caclulating the checksum, or the same as asking the "enabled" server for one).
Good point. I keep assuming that everyone uses bash instead of sh. It's creeping in though, Sun's Solaris has been using it as a shell replacement in 2.8 in some configurations.
I tried using test, and the test worked on linux (as expected) and, thankfully, also in Ultrix. So maybe it's not that bad...
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The don't know why yet, but it looks like a terrorist attack.
I don't know about most of you, but I don't use the scrollbar to read through a webpage. I tend to use the scrollwheel, or most of the time arrow/pgup/pgdown keys. The mouse just sort of sits there until I want to click on a link.
I mean, this can have some positive usage; if anything, for getting input on how to redesign a site to make it easier/faster to use.
If you're paranoid, this is one more reason to disable javascript when browsing the web. Of course, his has been blown a little out of proportion: this "mouse watching" can only take place at a site that is hosting the page that has this ability. If you don't like it, don't visit the site.
Well, it wasn't noted who said it, but if I had to venture a guess, I'd say Ruri Hushino. Definitely.
While I browse the web just as much as the next person, I spend a lot of my time using typing at the command line terminal. Specifically, I use aterm, which I set to be translucent (a randomly chosen hue). Images like that x-ray which are monochromatic look especially cool tinted, and because it's fairly dark, white text will look good superimposed on top. In fact, I just added it now. Thanx, Guy, you're one cool d00d!
I'm sure many of you are aware of the "emacs" and "vi" editing modes of bash (or any readline enabled Unix app). Could not the same thing apply to video games? I think it would be cool to apply "UI skins" on top of games. If you've gotten good with your Quake 3 keysettings, why not apply it to your new whiz-bang FPS? New games could allow you to "import" old configurations and inform you of any unmapped keys or features (with possible suggestions).
Nothing has annoyed me more about a playing new game than having to relearn how to interface with it.
...was the actual content of the page, which coincides with strings in the actual virus itself that VirusShield is looking for. The virus that infected the machine must carry a copy of the page verbatim inside itself, and that is one of McAffee's clues to finding it.
But that's K5. I'm not saying we should try to be like them, but we should be democratizing the site more. Naturally, Hemos and CmdrTaco and the rest should keep their ability to post whatever they damn well feel like.
Fullscreen video over a phone line? The concept is tantalizing, but the reality is a pure fantasy. Let me explain:
They claim you can get full screen video at 30 fps over a 28.8 modem
Let's just consider the case of pure video (no audio), at 320x240 (a nicer size than the one they were using)
28800 bps / 30 fps = 960 bits per frame
320x240=76800 pixels per frame
960 / 76800 = 1/80 bits per pixel per frame!
So what does this mean? Well, let's supposed the bits were just being used (in the most compressed sense) to indicate any change at all. Then you're limited to positively identifying one out of every 80 pixels as changing between frames, and that's not considering the information needed to specify which ones!
What I'm saying is that I think that moving video on a full screen contains more information than 28800 bits per second.
That's because three years ago (before the tech slump), there was tons of computer news to harvest. Now we have to reach. As a result, we recap what other people are reporting, and repost stories accidentally.
We do have to work on our article submission system. There needs to be some sort of volunteer "slashdot council" who screens the material. It would be better than the people who run the weblog whose decisions are guided by what they think will keep their readers.
As for the moderation? I think it is a fair system, in that a better system would be far more complex (and require a rewrite of many parts of slashcode).
If you visit the website now, you might notice that you get redirected to the EFF. Apparently when you post comments, it doesn't check what you type in. A few lines of javascript later (hehe), and the site looks like it's h4x0r3d.
Great job e-ThePeople!
Great job.
I could open internal links on a dead site using google's cache. What is that field next to the URL anyway?
...Of highly compressed iron, while the moon does not. The moon is almost "all crust", hence overall it's specific gravity is much less.
Mandrake is a desktop linux distro (note the 2 CDs enclosed). Do not run this on anything without a VGA adapter (embedded, serial console, router, etc.)
Those imperceptable gaps never "get out" of the DAC. This is due to the slew rate of DACs not being perfect (transistor swing, capicitor leakage, line impedence), meaning you don't get square edges, and that most of them are explicitly filtered to remove frequencies beyond the Nyquist frequency. There isn't anything extra for the ear to hear.
Actually, lots of sites are slow (including slashdot). I think there's some DoSing going on.
Actually, rm would have walked the entire tree doing unlink and rmdir on every file. rm doesn't know that it can just rmdir the root directory because the filesystem is FAT32. Actually, the kernel would probably not let it, seeing as the VFS would probably require the directory to be empty before removing it anyway, regardless of the underlying filesystem. That's why in FAT32 it took 6.7 seconds, because it was writing to the FAT a number of times.
And every last one of those groups (with the exemption of us non-windows programmers) are soulless miserable chaps. I wonder why that is?
Shared-source philosophy = we get your soul for a chance to gaze at the Ultimate Chaos.
MindStalker: You're right. But the new RFC states that protocol must be able to be implemented across all of the transports. This way, we have no further reason to ignore IPV6 networks (well really, we're being nice to everyone). I didn't mean to imply that IPv4 is/should be depreciated
Bob: Remember that the SMTP server (or any application), when it opens a socket, has to choose the address family. So, it does matter what transport layer (or layers) you implement it with.
Excellent... this is probably the biggest benefit. If vendors want to be up to snuff and support the new RFC, they have to have IPv6 support. So this is an extra push of getting rid of crusty old IPv4. I mean, what better use of IPV6 than forwarding chain letters intellegently?
- How reliable is this? Pages that are generated server side can change layout behind your back and break your "bookmarks" (is it context-based like patch?)
- Furthermore, doesn't the task of attempting to find the region in question within a copy of the downloaded document nullify the benefits acheived by having MD5 sums to compare in the first place? Compiled regular expressions anyone?
Maybe I missed something. And this is to notify portables, right?Squid uses MD5 keys to keep track of the pages that it's indexed (how else?). It also uses these keys in ICP queries of other sibling/parent servers to find the content. Of course, it doesn't use them in the protocols to talk to webservers... but if the browser/server is willing to use date stamps, what's wrong with that?
If the server is going to be explicit about what time something was changed, and how long it should be valid for, this is valuable information, a little more than a checksum can provide. This is all conveyed in a header request (which is less work than downloading a document and caclulating the checksum, or the same as asking the "enabled" server for one).
Good point. I keep assuming that everyone uses bash instead of sh. It's creeping in though, Sun's Solaris has been using it as a shell replacement in 2.8 in some configurations.
I tried using test, and the test worked on linux (as expected) and, thankfully, also in Ultrix. So maybe it's not that bad...