Bullseye. I made most of these arguments as reasons why putting Bush in office would be a bad idea. Now we have to live with it for a few more years. Hence why you have to add 4 to the amount of years delayed for Mars for every year the republicans are in control. Shame really especially considering Reagan wanted a space plane.
Maybe they just really don't get it. A good portion of the military goodies they have today are the result of our space program from the 50's, 60's and 70's.
..If you're a regular guy, you pay X amount, but if you're a video rental guy, you have to pay twice as much for the SAME thing in a different color package.
I think the point is for twice the money they get the right to rent the video to paying cutomers. Hence they make money out of the deal that you and I can't at 'retail' price. They are buying a different use license than we are. They should have to pay more for that because that is their business. How much more is a different matter.
'Speaking of Microsoft, some smart-aleck readers opined that the most vaporous thing in tech last year was the Justice Department's failure to deliver on its promise to punish Bill Gates for his company's monopolistic misdeeds...
This is just more proof that when a person (OJ Simpson) or corporation(m$) has the financial resources and the power that comes with it to go one on one with the gov in a court room they always win and we (the taxpayers) lose?
Here here. Your requests are right on the mark at least on my list. Additionally features that I want in truly 'Interactive Television' :
A button that takes out the mosaics on the Howard Stern Show and E!'s Wild On series.
A button that cancels censor bleeps.
A goo feature so Neil Cavuto's head can appear even larger on my 60"
Something that also gets rid of the obnoxious ticker display all the news channels are constantly running with 'update' information they refresh like twice a day.
A compressor to equalize the sound ending thr cycle of volume up / volue down... no more super quiet talk that makes you pump the volume only to rock the cup of coffee out of my neighbors hand when something loud happens at the high level and forces the volume button down again...
Infomercial eliminator mode; a temporary killfile for channels that are displaying 'Paid Programming' from the list of available things to watch when scrolling through the channel guide at 3:30 am.
A favorite channels version of the channel guide.
How about an auto dial or link mode for commercials that take me to an advertisers website?
In a default install it is the top third. On a small site (say less than 10,000 users) this probably works well enough to not make it an issue. I think that on a larger site like/. 80-90% would be about right for allowing moderation points. There being enough users and comments at that point to make it necessary to have a larger pool to assign the rapidly accumulating moderation points.
There are other factors in getting mod points too like has the user posted, karma above a specific score, metamods.
I think metamod is available to anyone who has an account and has posted (in a default install) but things maybe a bit different now with the new system.
the system randomly assigns mod points to a set percentage of userids ie if your uid is in the x percent of the total users(oversimplified)
example total users 500,000
user mod points awarded to top 20% would mean uid's 1 to 100,000
or 40% would be 1 to 200,000
but wait there is more to it than this... the amount of points available to be assigned is 1 mode point for every 10 posts(each post being a token), so when there are 5 total points a random user id in the users elligable to mod will get assigned points.
The numbers I threw at you are all made up. The system allows you to configure it based uppon your site. go to slashcode and download the source to see the real nuts and bolts of how this works.
As for your willingness to mod; cool, but, you will have to wait till your userid falls below the treshold that they set for moderation on slashdot. I think they are using the oldest third of the uids but that is a guess.
Interesting... In effect, 'foe' is the equivalent to/ignore. Kind of a different perspective as weblogs evolve to a real slow version of irc, err, uh, oops nevermind.
Personally I find it a neat feature. I don't forsee using it much however it is nice to have the option.
allright then I hereby apply for the folloing *indows variants;
Aintdows - no this is clearly not m$
Bindows - all your/bin are belong...
Dindows - gungas client
Eindows - scary physics edition
Findows - Sharks gotta have an OS too
Gindows - Shaken, stirred...
Hindows - new religious sect
Jindows - straight up moonshine version 1.0
Kindows - the deep south hillbilly OS
Lindows - err.. oops thats taken
Mindows - Ho Chi's apple based abicus
Nindows - Trent Reznor enhanced edition
Oindows - complete with matzah balls
Pindows - an OS so simple your PHB could use
Qindows - soo bloated you need five beowulf clusters just to boot
Rimdows - the ass lickers edition
Sindows - the ultimate pr0n OS(aka Pr0ndows)
Tindows - the only os without a shrinkrap
Unindows - what you really want to rm -rf
Vindows - aint this one taken too?
W.. ahh f them
Xindows...hrm...
Yindows - Fengshue cosmic edition
Zindows - a narcoleptic edition (formerly known as Win95)
Ya know for me I had more or less the same thoughts but there was one really annoying thing and it had nothing to do with the actual movie(yeah, I know this is going OT). It was... Cellular Phones.
/me rants
Why, oh why can't people shut them off in the theater? Come on... I paid the $18 to see the movie with my wife and at this point I think I will not see anything in the theaters for a while. For as much as movies cost to go see I think a few bucks more and the wait for dvd is worth it. In the showing I saw this evening there was at least 20 different phone calls inbound and a few made outbound. I wish that people would be a little more considerate.
/me shuts up
A few weeks ago I submitted an article about this (with links to good sources of info, too bad you can pull up what you have submitted to repost)... Anyway, enough bitching.
It would seem that the Saudi's have found relatively easy work arounds for their 'great firewall'. In most cases, Saudi's have been making phone calls to the US to connect to AOL or other ISP's to surf/chat/email without censorship. They even have cyber cafe's that have "Hacker's" on hand (at USD $50-150/hr) to help their fellow Saudi's get access to all the pr0n they want. Additionally, with a US ip address they can access sites that bypass US crypto restrictions and download all the software they like. They then encrypt it and store their data locally decrypting it when needed and then encrypting again when finished(seems the average Saudi understands how to use these apps better than the average USian). The hackers make house calls and sell cdroms full of pr0n.
The filtering software mentioned in the article is basically moot as long as a Saudi citizen can make a call outside of Saudi.
Satellite internet access is popular over there as well.
My guess is the same work arounds hold true for a lot of other countries where information is illegal. The big difference is that the Saudi's have soooo much money that is makes it all a non issue.
A good example of 'the golden rule'; He who has the gold shall make his own rules.
Yeah. That's the one I was talking about. I would love to see this type of input device get developed into something usefull. I work a good portion of my life teaching Kenpo to people of all ages and sizes and I could think of lots of ways to make great use of this type of system. Not just for gaming but for training; teaching techniques, monitering movement, forms, basics etc. This would be an ideal tool for people who want to train but have constraints on them like time or distance from their instructors.
what ever happened to the infrared motion detection systems that were coming out? You know the ones designed for fighting games where a punch would register a punch, a kick a kick etc. I always thought this would be a great tool for training fighters with a vr helmet but I never saw them hit the market.
Anyone know what happened to these things or if there were any good hacks of them?
This is kind of a throwback to the days of the first cordless phones;
Back in the late 70's my mom got a cordless radio shack telephone for Christmas. One afternoon as I was getting the mail (and testing the limits of the phone) all of the sudden I could hear a conversation on the line. Being a kid I couldn't help but insert my thoughts into the call which caused the parties to hang up.
Ever curious I decided that a bike ride was in order. I took the handset and rode a few blocks away, listining to the phone until a dialtone would come up and then make calls to friends on other peoples lines. this vulnerability was discovered by plenty of other people(made news as other people were making free long distance calls on the lines) and the first wave of multichannel phone arrived on the scene not to long after.
damn... I see all sorts of moderations happening to posts, but, never for the life of me figured I'd get an 'offtopic' for that post considering it is directly on topic...
hrm.. I wonder if the stereo image viewer you describe could invalidate some vr patents and the like as prior art. I've seen multiframe/manually cranked movies at an antique shop once when i was a kid and totally got a kick out of it; it was a 'porno' can-can girl thing.
My theory, albeit an unedumacted one, is that this may be a wormhole rather than a classic singularity/core type. The terms may be wrong but I think you get my idea of it being a conduit to another point in warped/folded space versus a "crush everything it can suck in to some insanely massive yet small space" type of black hole. All we need to do is look to see if there is an 'other end' to it.
I won't miss DG. He has become a government kissass in the last few years and that is not what NASA needed. NASA needs strong leadership with vision and balls to stand firm on the vision. It is a complete disgrace that at this point in time and entire generation has become 'Adult's' since the last time we landed a human on the moon.
A lunar launch base is absolutly essential to making a Mars program work yet we have nothing to show for progress other than the ISS... which isn't exactly progress at this point; under budgeted and now forever crippled by being understaffed.
Dan:: so long and thanks for the fish. I would loved to have seen you resign with the meter/feet incident. In the big picture that should never have happened; you guys are supposed to be rocket scientists.
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Bullseye. I made most of these arguments as reasons why putting Bush in office would be a bad idea. Now we have to live with it for a few more years. Hence why you have to add 4 to the amount of years delayed for Mars for every year the republicans are in control. Shame really especially considering Reagan wanted a space plane.
Maybe they just really don't get it. A good portion of the military goodies they have today are the result of our space program from the 50's, 60's and 70's.
..If you're a regular guy, you pay X amount, but if you're a video rental guy, you have to pay twice as much for the SAME thing in a different color package.
I think the point is for twice the money they get the right to rent the video to paying cutomers. Hence they make money out of the deal that you and I can't at 'retail' price. They are buying a different use license than we are. They should have to pay more for that because that is their business. How much more is a different matter.
ah... f@#$ me!
here I was trying to be funny and now your point is really driven home and is scaring the shit outta me. Damn.
hey Krow: is there a way to delete my previous *dows rant?
This is just more proof that when a person (OJ Simpson) or corporation(m$) has the financial resources and the power that comes with it to go one on one with the gov in a court room they always win and we (the taxpayers) lose?
Ah... the list could go on...
In a default install it is the top third. On a small site (say less than 10,000 users) this probably works well enough to not make it an issue. I think that on a larger site like /. 80-90% would be about right for allowing moderation points. There being enough users and comments at that point to make it necessary to have a larger pool to assign the rapidly accumulating moderation points.
There are other factors in getting mod points too like has the user posted, karma above a specific score, metamods.
I think metamod is available to anyone who has an account and has posted (in a default install) but things maybe a bit different now with the new system.
the system randomly assigns mod points to a set percentage of userids ie if your uid is in the x percent of the total users(oversimplified)
example total users 500,000
user mod points awarded to top 20% would mean uid's 1 to 100,000
or 40% would be 1 to 200,000
but wait there is more to it than this... the amount of points available to be assigned is 1 mode point for every 10 posts(each post being a token), so when there are 5 total points a random user id in the users elligable to mod will get assigned points.
The numbers I threw at you are all made up. The system allows you to configure it based uppon your site. go to slashcode and download the source to see the real nuts and bolts of how this works.
As for your willingness to mod; cool, but, you will have to wait till your userid falls below the treshold that they set for moderation on slashdot. I think they are using the oldest third of the uids but that is a guess.
Interesting... In effect, 'foe' is the equivalent to /ignore. Kind of a different perspective as weblogs evolve to a real slow version of irc, err, uh, oops nevermind.
Personally I find it a neat feature. I don't forsee using it much however it is nice to have the option.
hey, why not? I got 3 copies of Crouching Tiger on DVD anyone wanna trade?
allright then I hereby apply for the folloing *indows variants; /bin are belong...
...hrm...
Aintdows - no this is clearly not m$
Bindows - all your
Dindows - gungas client
Eindows - scary physics edition
Findows - Sharks gotta have an OS too
Gindows - Shaken, stirred...
Hindows - new religious sect
Jindows - straight up moonshine version 1.0
Kindows - the deep south hillbilly OS
Lindows - err.. oops thats taken
Mindows - Ho Chi's apple based abicus
Nindows - Trent Reznor enhanced edition
Oindows - complete with matzah balls
Pindows - an OS so simple your PHB could use
Qindows - soo bloated you need five beowulf clusters just to boot
Rimdows - the ass lickers edition
Sindows - the ultimate pr0n OS(aka Pr0ndows)
Tindows - the only os without a shrinkrap
Unindows - what you really want to rm -rf
Vindows - aint this one taken too?
W.. ahh f them
Xindows
Yindows - Fengshue cosmic edition
Zindows - a narcoleptic edition (formerly known as Win95)
yuk yuk...
Ya know for me I had more or less the same thoughts but there was one really annoying thing and it had nothing to do with the actual movie(yeah, I know this is going OT). It was... Cellular Phones.
/me rants
Why, oh why can't people shut them off in the theater? Come on... I paid the $18 to see the movie with my wife and at this point I think I will not see anything in the theaters for a while. For as much as movies cost to go see I think a few bucks more and the wait for dvd is worth it. In the showing I saw this evening there was at least 20 different phone calls inbound and a few made outbound. I wish that people would be a little more considerate.
/me shuts up
damn.. any mirrors?
As important of an issue as this is to /.'ers this should be a main page story!
Wasn't there something about an NSA key/door discovered in WinNT4.x not so long ago?
A few weeks ago I submitted an article about this (with links to good sources of info, too bad you can pull up what you have submitted to repost)... Anyway, enough bitching.
It would seem that the Saudi's have found relatively easy work arounds for their 'great firewall'. In most cases, Saudi's have been making phone calls to the US to connect to AOL or other ISP's to surf/chat/email without censorship. They even have cyber cafe's that have "Hacker's" on hand (at USD $50-150/hr) to help their fellow Saudi's get access to all the pr0n they want. Additionally, with a US ip address they can access sites that bypass US crypto restrictions and download all the software they like. They then encrypt it and store their data locally decrypting it when needed and then encrypting again when finished(seems the average Saudi understands how to use these apps better than the average USian). The hackers make house calls and sell cdroms full of pr0n.
The filtering software mentioned in the article is basically moot as long as a Saudi citizen can make a call outside of Saudi.
Satellite internet access is popular over there as well.
My guess is the same work arounds hold true for a lot of other countries where information is illegal. The big difference is that the Saudi's have soooo much money that is makes it all a non issue.
A good example of 'the golden rule'; He who has the gold shall make his own rules.
"The more you sweat in peace the less you bleed in battle."
I don't remember who said it but it goes well with;
"Relentless in training, superior in Combat."
Yeah. That's the one I was talking about. I would love to see this type of input device get developed into something usefull. I work a good portion of my life teaching Kenpo to people of all ages and sizes and I could think of lots of ways to make great use of this type of system. Not just for gaming but for training; teaching techniques, monitering movement, forms, basics etc. This would be an ideal tool for people who want to train but have constraints on them like time or distance from their instructors.
Just what I needed... an excuse to get out of my cave and go to gameworks :)
I thank you for the suggestion and will have to go hit gameworks this weekend to check this out.
what ever happened to the infrared motion detection systems that were coming out? You know the ones designed for fighting games where a punch would register a punch, a kick a kick etc. I always thought this would be a great tool for training fighters with a vr helmet but I never saw them hit the market.
Anyone know what happened to these things or if there were any good hacks of them?
This is kind of a throwback to the days of the first cordless phones;
;)
Back in the late 70's my mom got a cordless radio shack telephone for Christmas. One afternoon as I was getting the mail (and testing the limits of the phone) all of the sudden I could hear a conversation on the line. Being a kid I couldn't help but insert my thoughts into the call which caused the parties to hang up.
Ever curious I decided that a bike ride was in order. I took the handset and rode a few blocks away, listining to the phone until a dialtone would come up and then make calls to friends on other peoples lines. this vulnerability was discovered by plenty of other people(made news as other people were making free long distance calls on the lines) and the first wave of multichannel phone arrived on the scene not to long after.
ahh... the good old days
damn... I see all sorts of moderations happening to posts, but, never for the life of me figured I'd get an 'offtopic' for that post considering it is directly on topic...
mod it down... matters not in the big picture.
hrm.. I wonder if the stereo image viewer you describe could invalidate some vr patents and the like as prior art. I've seen multiframe/manually cranked movies at an antique shop once when i was a kid and totally got a kick out of it; it was a 'porno' can-can girl thing.
good points and thanks for the tip on the book.
:)
My theory, albeit an unedumacted one, is that this may be a wormhole rather than a classic singularity/core type. The terms may be wrong but I think you get my idea of it being a conduit to another point in warped/folded space versus a "crush everything it can suck in to some insanely massive yet small space" type of black hole. All we need to do is look to see if there is an 'other end' to it.
This may be one of the coolest discoveries yet
Agreed.
I won't miss DG. He has become a government kissass in the last few years and that is not what NASA needed. NASA needs strong leadership with vision and balls to stand firm on the vision. It is a complete disgrace that at this point in time and entire generation has become 'Adult's' since the last time we landed a human on the moon.
A lunar launch base is absolutly essential to making a Mars program work yet we have nothing to show for progress other than the ISS... which isn't exactly progress at this point; under budgeted and now forever crippled by being understaffed.
Dan:: so long and thanks for the fish. I would loved to have seen you resign with the meter/feet incident. In the big picture that should never have happened; you guys are supposed to be rocket scientists.