I wouldn't want anyone who breaks into my house, not take anything (or harass anybody) to get 50 years in jail for it. Even if they were bad people and not some relatively harmless Aspergers dude who thinks my house has UFO docs.
If he was mentally ill, I'd want him to get appropriate medical or psychiatric help for his condition so that he doesn't go around causing problems.
And if he still keeps doing it over and over again, despite the me, the Courts and etc telling him not to, then his freedoms will have to be limited so that I have a few years of not having my house broken into:).
Didn't seem to torment the telemarketer much. Plus the telemarketer has him on the record as being a moron:D. and I think that was one experienced telemarketer (might have dealt with speaking to bots before - I'm sure someone must have set up a telemarketer handling bot;) ).
FWIW, I think automated "Hold on, the baby's...", and similar "please wait" type responses would waste more time.
1) Once the laptop battery goes, just buy a UPS:). BTW I suspect the runtime of a laptop on a UPS can be quite long;). 2) The hinges, keyboards etc aren't going to wear out fast or matter much if you use the laptop as a home server.
The main problem I'll have with laptops is they don't come with multiple Ethernet NICs (but the usual 1 x Ethernet + 1 x WiFi might be good enough for many popular scenarios). The other major problem is many crappy ones will probably die fast if they run 24/7 without extra cooling[1].
[1] In one of the companies I worked for, an old laptop was once used as a temporary firewall. It would sometimes hang from overheating. But after I put it on the cool metal case of a "real server" it was fine:).
My cousin's old but nonretired laptop seems to work much better after I bought her one of those laptop coolers - you put the laptop on it and it has fans that blow on it. Doesn't need to be expensive.
Yeah, and though some people want low power computers - media or 24/7 home servers, nowadays I wonder if they could just use a laptop for most such stuff. Not all laptops are that expensive.
Built in 3-6 hour UPS (especially with the screen off). Compact, built in keyboard and screen.
The funny thing is so many companies want their stuff to be treated as property when it suits them and not property when it doesn't.
For example:
1) In many countries, even if you're renting a house from someone and have missed some payments, the Landlord can't just kick you out. Heck even squatters have some rights. There's some history behind all this I'm sure. But it seems the reasons for those laws and protections are not being transferred to the "Intellectual Property" domain.
2) They advertise it as "Buy Product A", not "Rent Product A", or "Sign up for Package A" (and there's no signing).
3) Amazon can delete ebooks from "your" (their?) Kindle without getting prosecuted for hacking or some other Computer Misuse Laws. Sony can rootkit your PC and nobody gets jailed for it.
> The question is do we treat them with a little dignity, or do we use their lowness as proof of their unworthiness and use that as an excuse to grind them
Many people seem to be able to treat pets well, but when it comes to a dumb human, I guess we expect more of them.
I suppose one reason is the dumb human typically has far greater influence and power than the usual pet animal.
Lots of people who share their ideas publicly actually want them adopted.
So to them it's perfectly fine for someone else to help spread them around. Now if someone dishonestly/negligently claims he/she is the original source when that's not true then it's plagiarism.
Most pirates don't plagiarize when they copy stuff- they don't claim they are the original authors of the work.
Without copyright issues, ISPs could run "Super Seeders" that can start downloading and seeding stuff on demand (to locals). http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/07/214259 The super seeders get higher priority high bandwidth connections to networks outside the ISP. Then the ISP's customers will download fast from these (and very slow from elsewhere - but they won't care). Despite claims that caches would be legal, I'm sure the **AA will go after any ISP that implements these in a general way.
Now the tech issue is how many servers and drives would you need? Conventional hard drives are slow for random seeks (which is what happens if you seed to lots of different users). SSDs are small. But adding servers is likely to be cheaper than increasing the bandwidth of NZ-USA connections.
In my pipedream if a country goes to war, most of the civilians would be behind it, so if the other country nukes or gases them to bits, that's fair.
Makes it easier to kill the other side when you are very sure most of them want you and your family etc dead.
And if turns out nobody except Great Leader wants the war, Great Leader stands a chance of dying. Which keeps even sociopaths/psychopaths thinking twice about crying crocodile tears about sending our young soldiers to die and all that bullshit.
If it's a static site, a normal desktop class PC could handle lots of users - there are many webservers out there that can handle thousands of concurrent connections (don't use 1 connection per process webservers).
The biggest problem would be the internet connection. It doesn't matter if your server is technically up - if the line is badly congested, it's effectively down.
Not sure if it's related to the announcement, but today when I opened a whole bunch of Yahoo Finance pages at a go, I got an "open/download p.pdf" prompt. By reflex I cancelled that (and I don't use Adobe for PDF stuff anyway), but it may mean that someone has managed to use popular servers to infect machines.
Perhaps I should have downloaded and tried analyzing it. Not sure where it actually comes from- yahoo may use 3rd party servers for caching, and nowadays stuff like facebook also gets involved etc.
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I wouldn't want anyone who breaks into my house, not take anything (or harass anybody) to get 50 years in jail for it. Even if they were bad people and not some relatively harmless Aspergers dude who thinks my house has UFO docs.
:).
If he was mentally ill, I'd want him to get appropriate medical or psychiatric help for his condition so that he doesn't go around causing problems.
And if he still keeps doing it over and over again, despite the me, the Courts and etc telling him not to, then his freedoms will have to be limited so that I have a few years of not having my house broken into
I saw this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4EPcOpSy8 (How to torment telemarketers with one word ).
Didn't seem to torment the telemarketer much. Plus the telemarketer has him on the record as being a moron :D. and I think that was one experienced telemarketer (might have dealt with speaking to bots before - I'm sure someone must have set up a telemarketer handling bot ;) ).
FWIW, I think automated "Hold on, the baby's ...", and similar "please wait" type responses would waste more time.
But if you don't want to tie up your line maybe something like this would help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_information_tones
Three tones, then "The number you have dialed is not for telemarketing, please wait if you are someone I would like to speak to".
1) Once the laptop battery goes, just buy a UPS :). BTW I suspect the runtime of a laptop on a UPS can be quite long ;).
:).
2) The hinges, keyboards etc aren't going to wear out fast or matter much if you use the laptop as a home server.
The main problem I'll have with laptops is they don't come with multiple Ethernet NICs (but the usual 1 x Ethernet + 1 x WiFi might be good enough for many popular scenarios). The other major problem is many crappy ones will probably die fast if they run 24/7 without extra cooling[1].
[1] In one of the companies I worked for, an old laptop was once used as a temporary firewall. It would sometimes hang from overheating. But after I put it on the cool metal case of a "real server" it was fine
My cousin's old but nonretired laptop seems to work much better after I bought her one of those laptop coolers - you put the laptop on it and it has fans that blow on it. Doesn't need to be expensive.
The battery life bit sucks too.
Yeah, and though some people want low power computers - media or 24/7 home servers, nowadays I wonder if they could just use a laptop for most such stuff. Not all laptops are that expensive.
Built in 3-6 hour UPS (especially with the screen off). Compact, built in keyboard and screen.
Sure it's dingoes and not kangaroos?
http://www.snopes.com/humor/nonsense/kangaroo.asp
Oh noes a tank full of unwashed sceptics...
Whatever it is, it's long been time to dump Gartner if you haven't already :).
The funny thing is so many companies want their stuff to be treated as property when it suits them and not property when it doesn't.
For example:
1) In many countries, even if you're renting a house from someone and have missed some payments, the Landlord can't just kick you out. Heck even squatters have some rights. There's some history behind all this I'm sure. But it seems the reasons for those laws and protections are not being transferred to the "Intellectual Property" domain.
2) They advertise it as "Buy Product A", not "Rent Product A", or "Sign up for Package A" (and there's no signing).
3) Amazon can delete ebooks from "your" (their?) Kindle without getting prosecuted for hacking or some other Computer Misuse Laws. Sony can rootkit your PC and nobody gets jailed for it.
That was actually quite funny.
> The question is do we treat them with a little dignity, or do we use their lowness as proof of their unworthiness and use that as an excuse to grind them
Many people seem to be able to treat pets well, but when it comes to a dumb human, I guess we expect more of them.
I suppose one reason is the dumb human typically has far greater influence and power than the usual pet animal.
Lots of people who share their ideas publicly actually want them adopted.
So to them it's perfectly fine for someone else to help spread them around. Now if someone dishonestly/negligently claims he/she is the original source when that's not true then it's plagiarism.
Most pirates don't plagiarize when they copy stuff- they don't claim they are the original authors of the work.
I don't see how that will help.
Maybe it's about finding out how many people in the world are really interested in "oil spill".
Copyright issues. And I guess some tech issues.
Without copyright issues, ISPs could run "Super Seeders" that can start downloading and seeding stuff on demand (to locals). http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/07/214259
The super seeders get higher priority high bandwidth connections to networks outside the ISP. Then the ISP's customers will download fast from these (and very slow from elsewhere - but they won't care).
Despite claims that caches would be legal, I'm sure the **AA will go after any ISP that implements these in a general way.
Now the tech issue is how many servers and drives would you need? Conventional hard drives are slow for random seeks (which is what happens if you seed to lots of different users). SSDs are small.
But adding servers is likely to be cheaper than increasing the bandwidth of NZ-USA connections.
> I mean, I'm assuming this technology was developed for *some* reason. :)
Because they can patent it?
They are building many nuclear reactors:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90884/6640166.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country#Countries_with_nuclear_power_plants
http://www.iaea.org/programmes/a2/index.html (search/highlight "China" on that page)
And I think they are trying to control the supply of materials used for motors and batteries.
Go figure :).
The soldiers are just the "guns". Sometimes the gun hits the wrong target[1]. The leaders are the ones pulling the trigger.
When you "unleash" soldiers to kill people, they often kill the wrong people. That's why you should never start wars lightly[2].
[1] Of course if a gun keeps hitting the wrong targets...
[2] http://slashdot.org/~TheLink/journal/208853
Here's my pipedream: http://slashdot.org/~TheLink/journal/208853
In my pipedream if a country goes to war, most of the civilians would be behind it, so if the other country nukes or gases them to bits, that's fair.
Makes it easier to kill the other side when you are very sure most of them want you and your family etc dead.
And if turns out nobody except Great Leader wants the war, Great Leader stands a chance of dying. Which keeps even sociopaths/psychopaths thinking twice about crying crocodile tears about sending our young soldiers to die and all that bullshit.
Any videos of that you can show?
So far I've seen stuff like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8-kqovVjss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqF3GTwlFE4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXTB1yxvmoo
Would be interesting to hear comments from you on this as you seem to be doing similar stuff.
That seems easy compared to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8-kqovVjss
Or the other related stuff...
Reminds me of the song "These Boots Are Made for Talkin"... OK the original title has "Walkin".
:).
I'm too lazy to mangle the lyrics accordingly. Perhaps someone else can?
If it's a static site, a normal desktop class PC could handle lots of users - there are many webservers out there that can handle thousands of concurrent connections (don't use 1 connection per process webservers).
The biggest problem would be the internet connection. It doesn't matter if your server is technically up - if the line is badly congested, it's effectively down.
Maybe he knew that already. In theory it's possible to use a computer while doing that. Just hope you don't inherit his "company issue laptop"...
But now I wonder if wind powered boats can use the same trick to go downwind faster - instead of wheels you'd use propellors or paddles in the water.
Not sure if it's related to the announcement, but today when I opened a whole bunch of Yahoo Finance pages at a go, I got an "open/download p.pdf" prompt. By reflex I cancelled that (and I don't use Adobe for PDF stuff anyway), but it may mean that someone has managed to use popular servers to infect machines.
Perhaps I should have downloaded and tried analyzing it. Not sure where it actually comes from- yahoo may use 3rd party servers for caching, and nowadays stuff like facebook also gets involved etc.