I'm still trying to figure out how some of them came up with a value < 1 (e.g. 10^-5). I guess they don't hold life on earth in very high regard, themselves included.
Speaking of doxpara.com, has anyone actually figured out how to use Mr. Kaminsky's stupid fucking tool?
Um, what browser are you using? In Firefox 3.0.1 (and IE 7.0.x), the contents of the iframe load fine. May just have been a network hiccup, but it's worked every time I've used it or told anyone else to check it out.
As far as his credibility goes, I have nothing to say on the subject... I didn't hear the interview you reference, and otherwise don't know anything about the guy. He does explain how his test works and it seems like a valid, albeit very simple, way to quickly check.
I realize that you must be joking, but for those who didn't read the linked page to the sfgate columnist (here), this is the story according to him:
For those of you who have not yet received the pamphlet (mailed free to anyone who buys me an automobile), the word Mondegreen, meaning a mishearing of a popular phrase or song lyric, was coined by the writer Sylvia Wright.
As a child she had heard the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray" and had believed that one stanza went like this:
Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands Oh where hae you been? They hae slay the Earl of Murray, And Lady Mondegreen.
Poor Lady Mondegreen, thought Sylvia Wright. A tragic heroine dying with her liege; how poetic. When it turned out, some years later, that what they had actually done was slay the Earl of Murray and lay him on the green, Wright was so distraught by the sudden disappearance of her heroine that she memorialized her with a neologism.
Going out on a limb here, but I'd imagine it's just a knee-jerk reaction to a broad generalization, or negative stereotype... neither of which do any of us good.
I, too, had the same initial reaction to some posts here. I bought a truck last June when I bought my first house (which is requiring even more improvements than I had initially thought). It's been invaluable in getting things done for my house. I have no idea how much more money I'd have to spend to get things delivered (mulch, top soil, lumber, insulation, etc). But now I'm beginning to wonder if the increase in gas prices would tip the balance back to favoring having a small car + getting supplies delivered.
I had the same thing happen to me with my original account. I even emailed Rob or someone a looong time ago about getting the account back to no avail.
(I also have the same issue: the email associated with the account has long been defunct)
I had to post the link here given the topic and that it has to do with penguins.
Hilarious site, and has a lot of the same "mosaic feel" as the original home.mcom.com (not to mention frames with nice, fat borders for resizing!).
Very well stated; and I agree with most of what you had to say.
(this is all predicated upon the assumption that those who find child porn exciting are born as such, and therefore having the desire is not a conscious choice they have made, and that proper treatment for them isn't made available)
But, to elaborate on your main point, about hanging up the person that's viewing the child porn, I believe the laws were designed to eliminate the demand. If you eliminate the demand by threatening the viewers with severe punishment, then the *real* crime, the child abuse that happens when the real criminal is snapping the photos of children, is less likely to happen as often. Maybe the justice system should take another look at how they're battling child porn... maybe learn a lesson from how copyright infringement is handled... you give the holders of the material a slap on the wrist if they aid in the arrest of the distributors.
Saying that the "sports for the more intellectually inclined, like cycling, running, etc." take more thought than team sports, including the major 3 (in the US, football, basketball, and baseball), just shows your ignorance on the subject.
Now, I never considered myself a jock, and even had some of the experiences with "jocks" that some here have noted that are considered stereotypical of that of a "nerd's" experience in high school. But I did play high school soccer (and grew up playing basketball and baseball as well). I've also participated in individual sports. I graduated salutatorian. I can't speak to the intellectual requirements of American football, but the team sports I've participated in require as much, if not more, thought than individual sports. You no longer have a strategy that's dependent upon what you do, but what 10 (as in soccer) others do. Anticipation, cooperation, and communication are requirements for success in team sports, all of which take a fairly high degree of thought during play. Teamwork was a very important thing that I had to learn to do well in order to succeed, and it has paid off later in life.
It's the ignorance, due to a lack of experience, that the stereotypes, among slashdotters and nerds alike, of the major team sports perpetuating the myth that these sports can be played just as well with a team of monkeys (no offense to monkeys).
Maybe Ballmer was speaking in generalities, and wasn't speaking of any specific IP.
This may well be a foreboding statement, hinting to Microsoft's infamous strategy to embrace, extend, and extinguish. Getting their proverbial foot in the door, implanting MS IP in some distro here or there as a gesture of "good will" or some sort of perverted philanthropy, as a sort of time bomb detonating at the point at which MS decides to attempt to extinguish Linux-based OSes as competition.
Mod me as FUD if you wish... but I'm not claiming these statements are anything more than pure speculation.
I didn't sign up initially too, like yourself, because I was a little hesitant at registering for just about any website at the time. I also started visiting around '97 or '98, being referred to slashdot by a co-worker, reading mostly at work . I believe it must've been right after he moved from Chips & Dips to Slashdot.
At the risk of being modded offtopic, when I did finally register, I had the user "sp" (I was, and still am, a fan of Smashing Pumpkins). But, once I registered and started using my own domain name for email, I forgot to change my email address for the "sp" account, and subsequently forgot the password. I even emailed slashdot, possibly even Rob directly, about trying to get my "sp" account back, to no avail. So, I had to re-register, and got my longer UID.
I must be one of the only customers who never had a problem with Packard Bell
You just might be... after brushing up on the history of Packard Bell on Wikipedia, I found that PC World ranked their computers from '86-'96 the worst PCs of all time.
I also found out that they had no relation to HP, as I had previously thought...
Publicly announcing this (non-critical) deviation, and explaining exactly why, is the proper way to go about it.
I tend to differ...
What they're doing is making a change to a service that they provide so that their problem is resolved (which they have a right to do IMO).
It's kind of a move towards an 'ignorance-is-bliss' policy rather than fixing a problem for their customers... after all, if they aren't aware of a spam problem that their customers are experiencing then there isn't a spam problem.
I'm a fan of DynDNS simply because of the (free) services that they used to provide back in the day that (seemingly) no one else offered, but the way you put it they're leading the industry in solving the Big Email Problem.
Their move will do nothing to impact any standard whatsoever because simply removing the sending of NDRs does nothing to solve the inherent problems, it just covers it up a bit.
Slashdot Mirror
No doubt.
I'm still trying to figure out how some of them came up with a value < 1 (e.g. 10^-5). I guess they don't hold life on earth in very high regard, themselves included.
I think you missed that part about the fire.
Um, what browser are you using? In Firefox 3.0.1 (and IE 7.0.x), the contents of the iframe load fine. May just have been a network hiccup, but it's worked every time I've used it or told anyone else to check it out.
As far as his credibility goes, I have nothing to say on the subject... I didn't hear the interview you reference, and otherwise don't know anything about the guy. He does explain how his test works and it seems like a valid, albeit very simple, way to quickly check.
...or a free ride, when you've already paid.
I realize that you must be joking, but for those who didn't read the linked page to the sfgate columnist (here), this is the story according to him:
Chicken and the egg...
Can't you still get Jeep Wranglers these days like that (stripped of all the "comforts" for utility)?
Going out on a limb here, but I'd imagine it's just a knee-jerk reaction to a broad generalization, or negative stereotype... neither of which do any of us good.
I, too, had the same initial reaction to some posts here. I bought a truck last June when I bought my first house (which is requiring even more improvements than I had initially thought). It's been invaluable in getting things done for my house. I have no idea how much more money I'd have to spend to get things delivered (mulch, top soil, lumber, insulation, etc).
But now I'm beginning to wonder if the increase in gas prices would tip the balance back to favoring having a small car + getting supplies delivered.
I had the same thing happen to me with my original account. I even emailed Rob or someone a looong time ago about getting the account back to no avail.
(I also have the same issue: the email associated with the account has long been defunct)
http://www.allegromedia.com/sugi/penguin/
To quote: I had to post the link here given the topic and that it has to do with penguins.
Hilarious site, and has a lot of the same "mosaic feel" as the original home.mcom.com (not to mention frames with nice, fat borders for resizing!).
If your questions about population weren't rhetorical, in the second paragraph, the article states:
"2.4 million jobs across the U.S."
Hey now.
I live in Kentucky (Louisville to be specific) and take offense to that.
Maybe you're getting confused with our affinity for horse racing.
As an aside, I'm also running for State Representative in November. And I've been reading Slashdot since '98. There's a first for everything.
Very well stated; and I agree with most of what you had to say.
(this is all predicated upon the assumption that those who find child porn exciting are born as such, and therefore having the desire is not a conscious choice they have made, and that proper treatment for them isn't made available)
But, to elaborate on your main point, about hanging up the person that's viewing the child porn, I believe the laws were designed to eliminate the demand. If you eliminate the demand by threatening the viewers with severe punishment, then the *real* crime, the child abuse that happens when the real criminal is snapping the photos of children, is less likely to happen as often.
Maybe the justice system should take another look at how they're battling child porn... maybe learn a lesson from how copyright infringement is handled... you give the holders of the material a slap on the wrist if they aid in the arrest of the distributors.
Just a thought...
Good call...
(and it is)
Saying that the "sports for the more intellectually inclined, like cycling, running, etc." take more thought than team sports, including the major 3 (in the US, football, basketball, and baseball), just shows your ignorance on the subject.
Now, I never considered myself a jock, and even had some of the experiences with "jocks" that some here have noted that are considered stereotypical of that of a "nerd's" experience in high school. But I did play high school soccer (and grew up playing basketball and baseball as well). I've also participated in individual sports. I graduated salutatorian. I can't speak to the intellectual requirements of American football, but the team sports I've participated in require as much, if not more, thought than individual sports. You no longer have a strategy that's dependent upon what you do, but what 10 (as in soccer) others do. Anticipation, cooperation, and communication are requirements for success in team sports, all of which take a fairly high degree of thought during play. Teamwork was a very important thing that I had to learn to do well in order to succeed, and it has paid off later in life.
It's the ignorance, due to a lack of experience, that the stereotypes, among slashdotters and nerds alike, of the major team sports perpetuating the myth that these sports can be played just as well with a team of monkeys (no offense to monkeys).
DDoS'ing a botnet DDoS'ing... I like how you think.
Maybe Ballmer was speaking in generalities, and wasn't speaking of any specific IP.
This may well be a foreboding statement, hinting to Microsoft's infamous strategy to embrace, extend, and extinguish. Getting their proverbial foot in the door, implanting MS IP in some distro here or there as a gesture of "good will" or some sort of perverted philanthropy, as a sort of time bomb detonating at the point at which MS decides to attempt to extinguish Linux-based OSes as competition.
Mod me as FUD if you wish... but I'm not claiming these statements are anything more than pure speculation.
But your information is stored in a vault!
Er, you're right, I'm not comfortable with that either.
Now, if it was stored in a lock box, that'd be a different story...
Haha, awesome indeed!
I didn't sign up initially too, like yourself, because I was a little hesitant at registering for just about any website at the time.
I also started visiting around '97 or '98, being referred to slashdot by a co-worker, reading mostly at work . I believe it must've been right after he moved from Chips & Dips to Slashdot.
At the risk of being modded offtopic, when I did finally register, I had the user "sp" (I was, and still am, a fan of Smashing Pumpkins). But, once I registered and started using my own domain name for email, I forgot to change my email address for the "sp" account, and subsequently forgot the password. I even emailed slashdot, possibly even Rob directly, about trying to get my "sp" account back, to no avail.
So, I had to re-register, and got my longer UID.
*sigh*
What does Sony have to do with anything? Oh, you meant sonny... or it was quite the stretch of a play on words.
I see that your schwartz is as big as mine...
i know i'm not adding any value to the conversation, so mod me down if you wish... but i couldn't resist after an editing job as terrible as this
I also found out that they had no relation to HP, as I had previously thought...
What they're doing is making a change to a service that they provide so that their problem is resolved (which they have a right to do IMO).
It's kind of a move towards an 'ignorance-is-bliss' policy rather than fixing a problem for their customers... after all, if they aren't aware of a spam problem that their customers are experiencing then there isn't a spam problem.
I'm a fan of DynDNS simply because of the (free) services that they used to provide back in the day that (seemingly) no one else offered, but the way you put it they're leading the industry in solving the Big Email Problem.
Their move will do nothing to impact any standard whatsoever because simply removing the sending of NDRs does nothing to solve the inherent problems, it just covers it up a bit.