You forget one thing: in 2007 companies will be billed too! I'd say nearly ALL internet companies have lots of PCs but no TV. Sure, they currently say they want to apply a flat fee only once per building for companies, but will this stay that way? And even so, it is a completely pointless fee, companies will most likely not let their employes watch ARD or ZDF while at work.
Moreso, it is unjust: ARD and ZDF started to offer these internet broadcast, using money from the tv fees, money that could have gone into better programs. Now anyone that has a pc will be billed, just because they decided to offer this.
If they start offering radio over certain telephone numbers, will I be required to pay for my telephone too? if they place large TV sets in public spaces, will I be billed because I could go there and watch?
ARD and ZDF could very well restrict their internet access and require a subscription, this is MUCH easier than it would be for TV. If, in spite of that, they decide to offer it for free, why should I pay?
(Darn, I did preview, but somehow I still managed to mess it up. second try, mod parent down)
I keep on seeing steam mentioned somewhere, But what the heck is it? Ok so I checked the link in the article, which lead me to a very shallow feature list. I tried google, which was no help at all.
I have a vague grasp of what it is by now, it seems like some cross of instant messenger and automatic updater/downloader, with a few online games thrown in. but can I somewhere find a more in depth explanation of what it does and how it does it? And why it is the best thing since preprocesed cheese?
I keep on seeing steam mentioned somewhere, But what the heck is it? Ok so I checked the link in the article, which lead me to a very shallow . I tried , which was no help at all.
I have a vague grasp of what it is by now, it seems like some cross of instant messenger and automatic updater/downloader, with a few online games thrown in. but can I somewhere find a more in depth explanation of what it does and how it does it? And why it is the best thing since preprocesed cheese?
Here in Germany we have a free mail provider (GMX) that offers 1 GB (since a few months), for mails AND for files, and you can access them as a file system(link to German site) using the open WebDAV protocol from linux, windows or mac, so no ugly hacks are neccesary. (Konqueror can do that out-of-the-box, I think)
Also offers free pop and smtp, mail forwarding, and configurable filters
Interface is in German only, and you have to give them an existing German, Austrian or Swiss postal address when you sign up. (but those could theoretically be found on the net.)
I dont live in florida or anywhere near the US, but I DO talk about politics with my friends. (BTW, registering to vote is mandatory here, just not voting. Everyone gets an invitation per mail)
I just don't get the "convince people to vote just for vote's sake" part
I mean, talking with friends about why I would vote this and that and what would be the best for this country is all good and fine, but that is not what this site promotes.
But I do not think the election results will be any better or clearer if just more people vote, if these people still have no clear idea for what they vote.
to quote from the site: "hey, I have a stance on this election and I'm going to vote, are you?". What is the point if I do not offer them any help choosing their stance. If they do not have one by now, then they probably need help.
More people voting should be a side-efffect of my political actions, never the primary goal.
Ok, the topic has been mentioned bevore, but let me rephrase it a bit:
Why should I be interested in getting people to vote, regardeless of what they vote?
If I convince people to vote, who share my political opinion, then the benefit is obvious.
If I convince people to vote, who would vote for another candidate or party, then I act contrary to my political intentions. The election result I want is less likely to happen as it would be otherwise.
If I convince people to vote, that have no predetermined opinion and do not care about any candidate or party enough to vote on their own, then their vote will be pretty much random. If there are more than two parties or candidates (and that is the case even in the US system) then they will most likely not vote the same as I will. So why should I convince them to vote? It would only make sense if I convinced them to vote for MY candidate.
It is probably better for the system as a whole, if more people vote, because this way it an claim to stand for all these people, and should ideally reflect the opinion of more people. But convincing other people to vote seems contrary to my personal and selfish interest.
The worst is yet to come. Eliza already could fool lots of people into thinking they were talking to a real person. just wait untill artificial intelligence is a bit better than it is now, and you will find spambots engaging in random conversions on slashdot, usenet, blogs, recomending their product wherever it might be remotely ontopic, suplying anecdotical evidence that it really is the best thing since sliced breadth, and you won't be able to tell the difference between them and normal people that are genuinely recomending something they like.
(some might argue that this is already the case as of now. But seriously, we have not yet seen the worst)
We had such a light for a long time in a nearby small town (in germany) timed at 30 km/h
The result was that everyone that knew about it would suddenly hit the brakes when approaching that light, and then speed up to 60 again as soon as they went past it.
This has been sort of "solved" by making the street smaller so that you cannot drive that fast.
Which also leads to congested traffic in that areay whenever a bus comes form both sides.
Leaking the source may be illegal, but looking at it once someone has leaked it is not. The TOS only applies to you if you install a Microsoft program or othwerwise explicitely agree to it. Any NDAs also dont apply to you if you did not sign them.
So looking at the source should be legal if you did not use any illegal means to obtain it
I know I am a bit late, but so far noboy else has mentionened LaBrea.
This is a tool for linux and windows, that can even be run on a linux boot floppy on an unused pc.
""LaBrea is a program that creates a tarpit or, as some have called it, a "sticky honeypot". LaBrea takes over unused IP addresses on a network and creates "virtual machines" that answer to connection attempts. LaBrea answers those connection attempts in a way that causes the machine at the other end to get "stuck", sometimes for a very long time.""
So, while this would be no foolproof protection for your users, it would stop many of the simpler attacs and slow the rest down, and you would automatically be notified if someone tried to scan the whole network or a new code red tried to propagate
There is a book by Douglas Hofstadter about programs that automatically generate fonts with a consistent "look and feel". I just dont remeber the title anymore, maybe it was "fargonauts"?
I notice some stories, like this one, are posted in areas that I should be seeing on my custom slashdot homepage, but never show up unless I view the "older stuff" link. And usually they have a very low number of comments, so I'm guessing not too many other readers are seeing them either.
There is a setting in your user preferences: "Collapse Sections (show stories from all sections, unless specifically excluded)" I stumbled over this setting recently and activated it, and since then I see those "invisible" stories all the time. I guess these are stories that the editors think are unimportant for most of the readers (althought these stories are sometimes far more interesting than the rest) and normaly only show up in the slashboxes of a specific section. I think this "feature" should be abandoned and all stories be visible by default
But we can pretty much do this at the moment by using the various suspend and hibernate options. Ok, so it's a different technology but the effect is the same. But nobody not using a laptop ever does.
Why do you think nobody is using it? Since I got win2000, I use hibernate exclusively on my PC. Of course I have to reboot it every 2 weeks, because it runs out of resources (really!)
How about a few people volunteering real FQDNs that all resolve to 127.0.0.1? I realize that people would be volunteering horsepower and bandwidth for DNS lookups, but it would be in the name of dramatically reducing spam. Then, keep a list of all the "loopback FQDN's" and let the rest of us feed those FQDN's into spam-trap generators. Eventually, there would be so many real-looking spam trap email addresses that the spam software wouldn't be able to keep up with the list of loopback FQDN's.
Slashdot has been doing that for years with warez.slashdot.org . try it, it resolves to 127.0.0.1 I always enter postmaster@warez.slashdot.org in spamforms
1000 Years? I dont think so.
The weather is a chaotic process. that means little errors in the input of any weather formula produce big errors in the output. Over 1000 years, even if you know the exact position of every molecyle exept one, this one will produce such a large error, that the results are unuseable.
You normally do not see satelites in the sky. But when you lie outside in the gras for some hours at night, you start seeing more and more. We did this a few times and we could see satelites almost all 10 minutes. they do not blink or something, they are just very dimm stars moving a constant high speed from ost to west.
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You forget one thing: in 2007 companies will be billed too!
I'd say nearly ALL internet companies have lots of PCs but no TV.
Sure, they currently say they want to apply a flat fee only once per building for companies, but will this stay that way? And even so, it is a completely pointless fee, companies will most likely not let their employes watch ARD or ZDF while at work.
Moreso, it is unjust: ARD and ZDF started to offer these internet broadcast, using money from the tv fees, money that could have gone into better programs. Now anyone that has a pc will be billed, just because they decided to offer this.
If they start offering radio over certain telephone numbers, will I be required to pay for my telephone too? if they place large TV sets in public spaces, will I be billed because I could go there and watch?
ARD and ZDF could very well restrict their internet access and require a subscription, this is MUCH easier than it would be for TV. If, in spite of that, they decide to offer it for free, why should I pay?
(Darn, I did preview, but somehow I still managed to mess it up. second try, mod parent down)
I keep on seeing steam mentioned somewhere,
But what the heck is it?
Ok so I checked the link in the article, which lead me to a very shallow feature list. I tried google, which was no help at all.
I have a vague grasp of what it is by now, it seems like some cross of instant messenger and automatic updater/downloader, with a few online games thrown in.
but can I somewhere find a more in depth explanation of what it does and how it does it? And why it is the best thing since preprocesed cheese?
I keep on seeing steam mentioned somewhere,
But what the heck is it?
Ok so I checked the link in the article, which lead me to a very shallow . I tried , which was no help at all.
I have a vague grasp of what it is by now, it seems like some cross of instant messenger and automatic updater/downloader, with a few online games thrown in.
but can I somewhere find a more in depth explanation of what it does and how it does it? And why it is the best thing since preprocesed cheese?
Here in Germany we have a free mail provider (GMX) that offers 1 GB (since a few months), for mails AND for files, and you can access them as a file system(link to German site) using the open WebDAV protocol from linux, windows or mac, so no ugly hacks are neccesary. (Konqueror can do that out-of-the-box, I think)
Also offers free pop and smtp, mail forwarding, and configurable filters
Interface is in German only, and you have to give them an existing German, Austrian or Swiss postal address when you sign up. (but those could theoretically be found on the net.)
I dont live in florida or anywhere near the US, but I DO talk about politics with my friends.
(BTW, registering to vote is mandatory here, just not voting. Everyone gets an invitation per mail)
I just don't get the "convince people to vote just for vote's sake" part
I mean, talking with friends about why I would vote this and that and what would be the best for this country is all good and fine, but that is not what this site promotes.
But I do not think the election results will be any better or clearer if just more people vote, if these people still have no clear idea for what they vote.
to quote from the site: "hey, I have a stance on this election and I'm going to vote, are you?". What is the point if I do not offer them any help choosing their stance. If they do not have one by now, then they probably need help.
More people voting should be a side-efffect of my political actions, never the primary goal.
Ok, the topic has been mentioned bevore, but let me rephrase it a bit:
Why should I be interested in getting people to vote, regardeless of what they vote?
If I convince people to vote, who share my political opinion, then the benefit is obvious.
If I convince people to vote, who would vote for another candidate or party, then I act contrary to my political intentions. The election result I want is less likely to happen as it would be otherwise.
If I convince people to vote, that have no predetermined opinion and do not care about any candidate or party enough to vote on their own, then their vote will be pretty much random.
If there are more than two parties or candidates (and that is the case even in the US system) then they will most likely not vote the same as I will. So why should I convince them to vote?
It would only make sense if I convinced them to vote for MY candidate.
It is probably better for the system as a whole, if more people vote, because this way it an claim to stand for all these people, and should ideally reflect the opinion of more people.
But convincing other people to vote seems contrary to my personal and selfish interest.
The worst is yet to come.
Eliza already could fool lots of people into thinking they were talking to a real person.
just wait untill artificial intelligence is a bit better than it is now, and you will find spambots engaging in random conversions on slashdot, usenet, blogs,
recomending their product wherever it might be remotely ontopic,
suplying anecdotical evidence that it really is the best thing since sliced breadth,
and you won't be able to tell the difference between them and normal people that are genuinely recomending something they like.
(some might argue that this is already the case as of now. But seriously, we have not yet seen the worst)
We had such a light for a long time in a nearby small town (in germany) timed at 30 km/h
The result was that everyone that knew about it would suddenly hit the brakes when approaching that light, and then speed up to 60 again as soon as they went past it.
This has been sort of "solved" by making the street smaller so that you cannot drive that fast.
Which also leads to congested traffic in that areay whenever a bus comes form both sides.
Leaking the source may be illegal, but looking at it once someone has leaked it is not.
The TOS only applies to you if you install a Microsoft program or othwerwise explicitely agree to it. Any NDAs also dont apply to you if you did not sign them.
So looking at the source should be legal if you did not use any illegal means to obtain it
IANAL&co
Fry Sharing
I know I am a bit late, but so far noboy else has mentionened LaBrea.
This is a tool for linux and windows, that can even be run on a linux boot floppy on an unused pc.
""LaBrea is a program that creates a tarpit or, as some have called it, a "sticky honeypot". LaBrea takes over unused IP addresses on a network and creates "virtual machines" that answer to connection attempts. LaBrea answers those connection attempts in a way that causes the machine at the other end to get "stuck", sometimes for a very long time.""
So, while this would be no foolproof protection for your users, it would stop many of the simpler attacs and slow the rest down, and you would automatically be notified if someone tried to scan the whole network or a new code red tried to propagate
There is a very good animated flash version of that song available here .
Well, I'd mod you up if I could.
Its fun and damn everyone who thinks otherwise
oh yeah, then I'd spoof my 'unique ID' so that is the one from the CEO, and then he gets locked out.
If a company would set up such a system, then hackers could easily take down the whole wireless lan
There is a book by Douglas Hofstadter about programs that automatically generate fonts with a consistent "look and feel".
I just dont remeber the title anymore, maybe it was "fargonauts"?
Anyone knows more?
And if you press it often enough, it says something like "super gem activated" or "MOW MOW"
"Collapse Sections (show stories from all sections, unless specifically excluded)"
I stumbled over this setting recently and activated it, and since then I see those "invisible" stories all the time. I guess these are stories that the editors think are unimportant for most of the readers (althought these stories are sometimes far more interesting than the rest) and normaly only show up in the slashboxes of a specific section.
I think this "feature" should be abandoned and all stories be visible by default
Since I got win2000, I use hibernate exclusively on my PC. Of course I have to reboot it every 2 weeks, because it runs out of resources (really!)
I always enter postmaster@warez.slashdot.org in spamforms
1000 Years? I dont think so.
The weather is a chaotic process. that means little errors in the input of any weather formula produce big errors in the output. Over 1000 years, even if you know the exact position of every molecyle exept one, this one will produce such a large error, that the results are unuseable.
Or did i miss something?
You normally do not see satelites in the sky. But when you lie outside in the gras for some hours at night, you start seeing more and more. We did this a few times and we could see satelites almost all 10 minutes. they do not blink or something, they are just very dimm stars moving a constant high speed from ost to west.