I'm sorry, I have to go off-topic here for a moment, and I don't give a fuck about karma. but here goes.
I'm sorry, I really don't understand _why_ people come over here and say stuff like this. If these people think slashdot sucks, they can start slashdot-sucks.org and shove it up their own asses instead of makin' the people that like to use slashdot as a forum for discussing things that we're interested in, listen to it. Additonally, I'm a bit tired of people taking shots at rob and jon, and all the rest of the people that handle all the slashdot stuff, and no one cares if you want to give a "nice wet rim job to taco's mom." I don't even know what the hell that's supposed to mean!
In conclusion, all the anonymous coward slashdot-haters (not the people that use slashdot and just like to keep their idents secret), just shove all the slashdot bashing up your ass and leave the people that like slashdot alone.
well, I don't think that these.sex and.xxx and so on would be a good idea, it would be much easier to add filters to just block out stuff from.sex or.xxx, how are we supposed to get our porn?!?!?!
ok, sorry....someone seems to have posted rob's girlfriend, kathleen's address and phone number. I replied to it and I guess they just erased it, with good cause...:) good job catching that one rob.
I agree with rob, this doesn't really interest me in my current situation with a regular television, and the fact that I don't watch _that_ much tv, but if any of this bandwidth usage stuff takes off, imagine the possibilities! no more tuning to cnnfn for stock info, just turn on the regular broadcast tv and watch as the stock quote go across the whole screen on a weird channel instead of just a little bar on the bottom of the screen! or even, a live doppler radar channel for us weather watchers! just immagine! dvd could become useless, as we could have encrypted showtime coming over the airwaves instead of having to wire up the house!
all good points, I'd like to add on that to the fact that everyone here just tries to post things that they thing will get them better karma, because lets face it, we all feel better when we see we have a karma of 14 or 15 or so, here's an example of one I was planning to put in before I read yours: How dare they say we're never on topic, I don't under...slashdot sucks! see what I mean?
I really don't think they they're even gonna put it on book shelves. And everytime someone goes into B&N (the store:)) and see columbine, they're gonna buy it, I guarantee that it will be bought by a few non-/.ers. I think it'd be terriffic if they'd put it on shelves, esspeccially for people like me who don't have a credit card to use at thinkgeek and don't think mom & dad'll buy it for me.
I know that if I _had_ been a slashdot reader at the time of the original hellmouth, I certainly would have posted the bad experiences I've been having for the past few months in highschool, and I know that Icertainly would want this to be published so that other people know that they're not alone in their pain. Just a few weeks ago, I was accused of saying that I was going to bring a weapon (I assume a gun) and blow everyone away. In fact, this is routinly suggested by classmates as something that I'd do, merely because I read a lot and don't talk to a lot of people, and when I finnally read all the original hellmouth stuff yesterday, I was happy and on the verge of tears that _so_ many people were experiencing what I was feeling. So jon, I really feel that slashdot is doing the right thing by publishing this hellmouth stuff, it certainly moved me, and I"d like it to move non-slashdot readers. I, in fact, plan to buy 2 or three copies for myself to distribute to principals or school board members. Thank you!
I could easily get around the copy protection scheme they have set up with a screen shot utility, but the biggest problem I have is it takes 3 minutes to load the plugin and then 10 minutes to load the image on my p150 and 33.6k modem, and is there even a plugin I can use on my linux box (which is slower, 486dx4, 14.4k modem)?
the/. phenomenon usually only applies for front-page postings, not comments, and nasa usually has pretty nice servers up, if the jpl server could take the day after the mars pathfinder landed, I'm sure this skyview deal can take it:)
There is a similar service that has been in use for several years, the hubble data archive has hosted a _huge_ database of celestial objects with reasonable clarity and terriffic options for image format and size.
Acutally, terraserver is hosted by a little company called arial images that has a fleet of planes and satelites that take pictures of stuff. the Microsoft Terraserver just worked out a contract with these terraserver fellas about three or four years ago to put a lot of images on their site to show off their databasing skills. Recently, these arial image people have taken those images off the microsoft terraserver and put it on to their terraserver where there is a _very_ slow plugin that you are forced to use.
Actually, the old microsoft terraserver used java but now these Aerial Images fellas restricted all their images and took most of their images off of the the microsoft terraserver, so now, on terraserver.com, they have this _very_ slow plug-in that you are forced to use. I have stopped using both terraservers because microsoft terraserver doesn't have any good images, and the regular terra server uses a deathly slow plugin, probably to keep people from saving the images for mirroring or printing them as usa today did.
I'm not even really sure on the exact definition of hackers and crackers, but I know what cool people (us) say hackers are, which are like hard core coders and things like that. But cracker is supposed to mean like the kinda person that would exploit this "back-door." Why can't the mainstream say this right?
I don't really think it would catch on. For one, they tend to jet around a lot and ask each other questions, and the camera work would be hell and any kind of streaming video would always break up with the camera moving so rapidly, which I often have to endure with jennishow. And yes, I know, Real Player is evil:)
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So, are you like talking about the IS guys building custom distros for the specific departments at a big corp? That would be pretty cool.
I should probably point out that I am 15...and a slashdot reader, who the hell am I supposed to get pregnent? :P
I'm sorry, why was I moderated down to zero, you could have given a reason.
I'm pretty sure this was meant to hurt my feelings, but I couldn't stop laughing through this. seriously. hehehe
I'm sorry, I really don't understand _why_ people come over here and say stuff like this. If these people think slashdot sucks, they can start slashdot-sucks.org and shove it up their own asses instead of makin' the people that like to use slashdot as a forum for discussing things that we're interested in, listen to it. Additonally, I'm a bit tired of people taking shots at rob and jon, and all the rest of the people that handle all the slashdot stuff, and no one cares if you want to give a "nice wet rim job to taco's mom." I don't even know what the hell that's supposed to mean!
In conclusion, all the anonymous coward slashdot-haters (not the people that use slashdot and just like to keep their idents secret), just shove all the slashdot bashing up your ass and leave the people that like slashdot alone.
oh please, what's the problem with porn, anyway?
well, I don't think that these .sex and .xxx and so on would be a good idea, it would be much easier to add filters to just block out stuff from .sex or .xxx, how are we supposed to get our porn?!?!?!
ok, sorry....someone seems to have posted rob's girlfriend, kathleen's address and phone number. I replied to it and I guess they just erased it, with good cause... :) good job catching that one rob.
I agree with rob, this doesn't really interest me in my current situation with a regular television, and the fact that I don't watch _that_ much tv, but if any of this bandwidth usage stuff takes off, imagine the possibilities! no more tuning to cnnfn for stock info, just turn on the regular broadcast tv and watch as the stock quote go across the whole screen on a weird channel instead of just a little bar on the bottom of the screen! or even, a live doppler radar channel for us weather watchers! just immagine! dvd could become useless, as we could have encrypted showtime coming over the airwaves instead of having to wire up the house!
all good points, I'd like to add on that to the fact that everyone here just tries to post things that they thing will get them better karma, because lets face it, we all feel better when we see we have a karma of 14 or 15 or so, here's an example of one I was planning to put in before I read yours: How dare they say we're never on topic, I don't under...slashdot sucks! see what I mean?
I guess you didn't read my sarcasm reply to myself.... :P
that's a very, very good suggestion, I did not thing of that, but why the anon coward?
I really don't think they they're even gonna put it on book shelves. And everytime someone goes into B&N (the store :)) and see columbine, they're gonna buy it, I guarantee that it will be bought by a few non-/.ers. I think it'd be terriffic if they'd put it on shelves, esspeccially for people like me who don't have a credit card to use at thinkgeek and don't think mom & dad'll buy it for me.
I know that if I _had_ been a slashdot reader at the time of the original hellmouth, I certainly would have posted the bad experiences I've been having for the past few months in highschool, and I know that Icertainly would want this to be published so that other people know that they're not alone in their pain. Just a few weeks ago, I was accused of saying that I was going to bring a weapon (I assume a gun) and blow everyone away. In fact, this is routinly suggested by classmates as something that I'd do, merely because I read a lot and don't talk to a lot of people, and when I finnally read all the original hellmouth stuff yesterday, I was happy and on the verge of tears that _so_ many people were experiencing what I was feeling. So jon, I really feel that slashdot is doing the right thing by publishing this hellmouth stuff, it certainly moved me, and I"d like it to move non-slashdot readers. I, in fact, plan to buy 2 or three copies for myself to distribute to principals or school board members. Thank you!
I could easily get around the copy protection scheme they have set up with a screen shot utility, but the biggest problem I have is it takes 3 minutes to load the plugin and then 10 minutes to load the image on my p150 and 33.6k modem, and is there even a plugin I can use on my linux box (which is slower, 486dx4, 14.4k modem)?
the /. phenomenon usually only applies for front-page postings, not comments, and nasa usually has pretty nice servers up, if the jpl server could take the day after the mars pathfinder landed, I'm sure this skyview deal can take it :)
There is a similar service that has been in use for several years, the hubble data archive has hosted a _huge_ database of celestial objects with reasonable clarity and terriffic options for image format and size.
is it just me or does it seem like this usgs image was just drawn on a cocktail napkin?
Acutally, terraserver is hosted by a little company called arial images that has a fleet of planes and satelites that take pictures of stuff. the Microsoft Terraserver just worked out a contract with these terraserver fellas about three or four years ago to put a lot of images on their site to show off their databasing skills. Recently, these arial image people have taken those images off the microsoft terraserver and put it on to their terraserver where there is a _very_ slow plugin that you are forced to use.
Actually, the old microsoft terraserver used java but now these Aerial Images fellas restricted all their images and took most of their images off of the the microsoft terraserver, so now, on terraserver.com, they have this _very_ slow plug-in that you are forced to use. I have stopped using both terraservers because microsoft terraserver doesn't have any good images, and the regular terra server uses a deathly slow plugin, probably to keep people from saving the images for mirroring or printing them as usa today did.
acutally, the toys in toys (hehehe) were actually _used_ as weapons, not as planning mechanisms for murders :)
and then you broke the hatch lock. But luckily, an inanimate carbon rod saved the day... :)
And then there's Rainbow 6 teaching potential terrorists techniques to get bye anti-terrorist groups...;) wink wink
I'm not even really sure on the exact definition of hackers and crackers, but I know what cool people (us) say hackers are, which are like hard core coders and things like that. But cracker is supposed to mean like the kinda person that would exploit this "back-door." Why can't the mainstream say this right?
I don't really think it would catch on. For one, they tend to jet around a lot and ask each other questions, and the camera work would be hell and any kind of streaming video would always break up with the camera moving so rapidly, which I often have to endure with jennishow. And yes, I know, Real Player is evil :)