No argument there, so why the fuck are you still using it? This is the problem with most of what you say: you demand better, then use crap from which everyone else has moved on. Get with the times buddy. Dependency hell hasn't been a problem for a LONG time for anyone who isn't using an RPM-based distro.
Mabye I'm just dumb but I can't work out what problems electronic or mechanical voting solves. In Australia we have a more complicated voting system (preferential and in some states optional preferential) and use paper ballots. We still manage to count most of the primary vote the night of the election.
Having been a scrutineer on such elections, I don't see how they would be any easier to defraud than electronic or mechanical systems. The ballot boxes are watched like hawks by the scrutineers and the scrutineers are present while the votes are counted, keeping a sharp eye out for fraud.
So what do these mechanical or electronic systems actually achieve that is different? Obviously the electronic systems would give a result as soon as polling closes, but is that really worth the expense and risk of implementing an entirely separate system that only gets used once every few years?
So we've used the stick and got their attention now. The aim of the spam guards isn't to hamper communication but to enforce compliance.
So now how can we help them comply and get *.asia out of the spam blocks?
What is needed are some good translations of a HOWTO which explains the problem and how to solve it. I don't speak an Asian language but I'm sure there are some who do. Step forward now and help translate such documents!
Instead of making consumers pay (directly) for copy protection, why don't the big corporations enforce the existing laws?
If we can track down spammers, surely they can track down some of the people running massive Morpheus/Gnutella/Audiogalaxy/Whatever nodes with huge amounts of material, right?
I saw the digital film thing shown at the National Film Theatre here in London. It's actually really really impressive. Previously I'd thought this technology had a long way to go but it's actually ready right now.
I couldn't pick the difference between the projector and film. The only discernible difference was the lack of scratches on the film. Quite amazing.
For those interested, it was a Barco D-Film projector.
Since/. kills many many sites with interesting stuff on them every time it links to them but is unwilling to cache the pages because the lawyers run the show there, how about Google?
Slashdot should organise with Google to cache the page as they approve a post. Google grabs the site before the hoards and next to the real link/. posts the google cache URL?
These guys launched in the wrong place. How can you compete when local phone calls are free? There just weren't, at the time they started, enough people who wanted net access on the move.
If they had got it going in Europe they would have made a killing. Most European countries have timed local calls and are only just getting unmetered modem calls.
So the US has decided to change their ridiculous policy to be slightly less ridiculous, but still ridiculous. Great.
It always grabbed me as insane anyway. Particularly the software ones. What's to stop a diplomat in Washington popping out to his local Egghead or whatever and picking up whatever is restricted and sticking it in the diplomatic bag back home? I mean, duh!
They don't have Cello or any of the other funky browsers that were trying to enter the market after Mosaic. Guess it wasn't so hard to write a browser in those days...
I still want to work out what the "Annotation" menu on Mosaic was. Never did see an annotation server, even on the NCSA site -- sounded like a good idea though.
I've always wondered why someone hasn't designed an licq type interface to IRC. The infrastructure is already there and the protcols and clients are already open.
Why not just make a DCC CHAT ready client that works like the instant messaging clients?
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How long before IBM shuts down all their manufacturing plants and moves them to places where such employee problems aren't IBM's problem?
Oh right, it was CmdrTaco of course...
Debian's greatest achievement is surely its policy and strict adherence to that policy. apt-get is only as usable as this due to the policy.
/usr/share/doc? That's a bug.
/etc/? That's a bug.
Docs somewhere other than
Config files somewhere other than
The bug tracking system hassles the author to fix the policy violation.
They'd better stay well fucking away from my piece of Lunar real estate! Or they can pay rent...
"RPM sucks. Period."
No argument there, so why the fuck are you still using it? This is the problem with most of what you say: you demand better, then use crap from which everyone else has moved on. Get with the times buddy. Dependency hell hasn't been a problem for a LONG time for anyone who isn't using an RPM-based distro.
"one-dimensional party line foisted by Al-Jazeera"
Yep, just like Fox News.
Not in Australia. They charge per megabyte at Australian ISPs so it's in their interest to see more traffic...
Exact minute in London? You gotta be fucking joking! You're lucky to have the bus turn up ant all. And if it snows...
Mabye I'm just dumb but I can't work out what problems electronic or mechanical voting solves. In Australia we have a more complicated voting system (preferential and in some states optional preferential) and use paper ballots. We still manage to count most of the primary vote the night of the election.
Having been a scrutineer on such elections, I don't see how they would be any easier to defraud than electronic or mechanical systems. The ballot boxes are watched like hawks by the scrutineers and the scrutineers are present while the votes are counted, keeping a sharp eye out for fraud.
So what do these mechanical or electronic systems actually achieve that is different? Obviously the electronic systems would give a result as soon as polling closes, but is that really worth the expense and risk of implementing an entirely separate system that only gets used once every few years?
Right folks, we need an alternative that works on our platforms of choice. Go to gift.sf.net now, download and compile it and start hacking!
But nobody ever says that's a problem for using it on servers...
So we've used the stick and got their attention now. The aim of the spam guards isn't to hamper communication but to enforce compliance.
So now how can we help them comply and get *.asia out of the spam blocks?
What is needed are some good translations of a HOWTO which explains the problem and how to solve it. I don't speak an Asian language but I'm sure there are some who do. Step forward now and help translate such documents!
Instead of making consumers pay (directly) for copy protection, why don't the big corporations enforce the existing laws?
If we can track down spammers, surely they can track down some of the people running massive Morpheus/Gnutella/Audiogalaxy/Whatever nodes with huge amounts of material, right?
He had complete creative control and chose Luke Perry as the lead?
Isn't this exactly Sun (and others') complaint about Microsoft? Bundling a free product with their operating system to achieve a monopoly?
I saw the digital film thing shown at the National Film Theatre here in London. It's actually really really impressive. Previously I'd thought this technology had a long way to go but it's actually ready right now.
I couldn't pick the difference between the projector and film. The only discernible difference was the lack of scratches on the film. Quite amazing.
For those interested, it was a Barco D-Film projector.
That's not this story but an old one. The latest will be unavailable until get the site somewhere with >ADSL.
Hehe. Just got an SMS message from one of the guys who lives where the server is. I suspect its his only means of communication at the moment.
The site is hosted on an IBM laptop at the end of a DSL line.
Since /. kills many many sites with interesting stuff on them every time it links to them but is unwilling to cache the pages because the lawyers run the show there, how about Google?
/. posts the google cache URL?
Slashdot should organise with Google to cache the page as they approve a post. Google grabs the site before the hoards and next to the real link
These guys launched in the wrong place. How can you compete when local phone calls are free? There just weren't, at the time they started, enough people who wanted net access on the move.
If they had got it going in Europe they would have made a killing. Most European countries have timed local calls and are only just getting unmetered modem calls.
This has already been exposed as bollocks. Do some research before you uncritically post crap like this!
So the US has decided to change their ridiculous policy to be slightly less ridiculous, but still ridiculous. Great.
It always grabbed me as insane anyway. Particularly the software ones. What's to stop a diplomat in Washington popping out to his local Egghead or whatever and picking up whatever is restricted and sticking it in the diplomatic bag back home? I mean, duh!
Except that they ask for permission. Read it before making dumb comments like that
They don't have Cello or any of the other funky browsers that were trying to enter the market after Mosaic. Guess it wasn't so hard to write a browser in those days...
I still want to work out what the "Annotation" menu on Mosaic was. Never did see an annotation server, even on the NCSA site -- sounded like a good idea though.
I've always wondered why someone hasn't designed an licq type interface to IRC. The infrastructure is already there and the protcols and clients are already open.
Why not just make a DCC CHAT ready client that works like the instant messaging clients?