Listen, I disagree with the degree of your characteraziations. Back away from the smack here with the "lied through their teeth," pass the smell test," "facade of officious objectivity," and pernicious groupthink. CBS made a mistake and they are paying the price for it with the most vaulable assest a news organization has: it's credibility.
Now like them or not, they are an institution with about 50 years experience of getting it right. Whether you agree with the "flavor" of their reports, is another matter. Materially, they are usually, if not always accurate. The same can be said for other "big media." If they were not, any of them would be soon out of business, sued for libel and completely discredited. That's how it works. Period. And therein lies is the major difference between the bloggers and a newspaper, TV network or wire service. Blogger fucks up and there is little, if any, blowback. People just say, oh stupid blogger. The CBS case is a perfect example of the what happens to "Big Media."
And it's such a great way to advertise to new customers. Buy the new TiVo. It does less than the old model!
After months of my snivelling and whining, my wife finally succumb and said we can get TiVo this Christmas! I danced around like a little boy.
But now, I wonder what next? First no the PPV limit, now the NFL limitation (neither of which I think directly apply to how we'll use it) but what next?
Will it be eventually limited to only broadcast, b access programs? Wayne's World here I come!
Straying further off, here are some answers from the FAQ:
"Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Sure, it's a great idea, but it has a lot of implications. For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. If I cache one of their pages, this will mess with their statistics, and mess with their banner ads. In other words, this will piss them off.
Of course, most of the time, the commercial sites that actually have income from banner ads easily withstand the Slashdot Effect. So perhaps we could draw the line at sites that don't have ads. They are, after all, much more likely to buckle under the pressure of all those unexpected hits. But what happens if I cache the site, and they update themselves? Once again, I'm transmitting data that I shouldn't be, only this time my cache is out of date!
I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented."
and
Is it possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a Slashdot story?
Not inconceivable, but I don't really think it's worth the work. Most of the sites that are Slashdotted are prepared for it, and the sites that get smashed usually are caught completely off guard; they wouldn't know of this mysterious opt-out meta tag.
How about a little notation appended to the end of Front Page articles indicating that a site has been 'dotted. Maybe a quick ping and a response time -- although depending upon your location that may or may not be reflective your ability to reach it -- but it would give a feel.
One, we readers who should know better -- but sometimes don't -- wouldn't waste time trying to hit the main link. Two, this might reduce the "dottedness" of the poor site by stemming the tide a bit. If it's a big machine on a big pipe, the blast away, gentle readers.
People "with brains" fall for all sorts of dumb things. (Point of reference: the a political campaign.) How about the various credit card phishing scams going around?
Unfortunately, plenty of people see "The Internets" as this mysterious place. Who knows what the computers can do? They're ALIVE!!!
But seriously, at $7,000 a pop, it only takes a few frightened, technologically-challenged small to medium-sized business owners to pay and this scam becomes pretty profitable.
Dell, Apple, Gateway, even Micro$oft, would do well to include a "Here's How the Internet Works" seminar with every PC or Mac that they sell. At least let people know the difference between things that are truly scary and things that are not.
In the abscence of institutional memory or/. editors sitting in the same room:-) , could Slashcode be tweaked to scan for URLs that are identical in stories and flag them somehow?
Some Perl script or such that looks at the post about to hit the front page, then looks at a say the last three or four posts that were on the front page. If it finds an identical or closely identical link, it then sends an email of the body of the two posts to the editor.
I don't think it would get the server's load up too much.
Hail Storm. This sounds like a great idea. I'd be all over it except that at least once a year some part of the metro area where I live gets pounded with hail. I didn't see anything in the article about how these tiles would be manufactured to survive this or heavy wet snow.
Then why not use Acrobat? It provides a read-only, password protected version of documents, but is viewable on almost every platform -- not just in MSIE.
I heard Drudge (driving in the father-in-law's car, no radio control!) and he was humping this on Sunday. I can't believe it is still bouncing around -- slooooow day on/.
If I recall, all those rules between the two candidates' camps were loudly decried as trivial, over-the-top and plain silly. But, since GWB performed the Dance of the Sourpuss King, his henchmen are now treating those rules like the Ten Commandments. Puhleez.
Hopefully, the.Mac account hosting that QT movie will meltdown from the "Slashdot Effect" and we can all move onto more vital things -- like whether Bill Gates is the Devil or just a very close facisimile. (I vote Devil.)
PS - You can tell he's putting a cap on a pen at the end of the clip. So there's your news: Illegal Lucky Pen Tips Debate to Kerry. Quote Pres. Bush: I could have gotten away with four more years, if it weren't that lucky pen!
I wonder if their hesitation to go to a gig is less due to storage space available and more the traffic that would be generated? Bandwith consumption is likely of little concern to Google, shoot they probably get worried when it drops.
I clearly am clueless idiot redux. When I saw No.1 (Ashley Highfield) it was surprising because I'd always just considered her a hottie reporter from MSNBC.
Responsible? Microsoft? "er," is right. Can't MS establish and enforce guidelines for third-party libraries so that they don't essentially break the OS (or parts thereof)? If one doesn't conform, the scanning tool from MS should warn the user: "Hey, we don't like this file because [insert reason.] The downside for Redmond would be this tool barfing on their own code.
I must be doing something wrong because we've had quite a bit of difficulty getting USB data cables (one for a nokia, one for a moto) to work with OS X (10.3.4)
I've had to resort to using Quicklink Mobile from Smith-Micro to get our staff's cell phones to transmit data. Mind you, QLM works very well and is worth the cost, but I don't like being dependent upon them for cables -- especially if one dies and I can't just hit the Verizon store or other retailer to buy a replacement.
The problem, as I've been told, is that USB drivers for these cables are not written for Mac. (Hence, the need for QLM's drivers and their supplied cable.)
Does anyone know anymore about USB drivers and USB cell phone data cables for Mac?
Speaking of attacking The Google...if you're myDoom14 writer, then why not make this a more low-key "attack?" Instead of pulling your pants down and virtually (get it Internet, virtual...) announcing "We're screwing with search engines!", make your virus work more slowly and less obviously? First, you get your stinking email addresses with which you will spam bomb me and everyone else. Secondly, we get Google uninterupted. Google Interupted?
While I don't see the article addressing your point: morphine based painkillers no longer work, there is a bit of a mention to this issue:
Childhood immunisation would provide adults with protection from the euphoria that is experienced by users...
My uneducated guess is that the effect of these drugs in the absence of pain is very different than when a person uses them while experiencing great pain. The "vaccine" likely would aim to blunt the euphoria while perserving the ability of morphine and other painkiller to do just that -- kill pain and return a patient to baseline.
Slashdot Mirror
Listen, I disagree with the degree of your characteraziations.
Back away from the smack here with the "lied through their teeth," pass the smell test," "facade of officious objectivity," and pernicious groupthink.
CBS made a mistake and they are paying the price for it with the most vaulable assest a news organization has: it's credibility.
Now like them or not, they are an institution with about 50 years experience of getting it right. Whether you agree with the "flavor" of their reports, is another matter. Materially, they are usually, if not always accurate. The same can be said for other "big media." If they were not, any of them would be soon out of business, sued for libel and completely discredited. That's how it works. Period.
And therein lies is the major difference between the bloggers and a newspaper, TV network or wire service. Blogger fucks up and there is little, if any, blowback. People just say, oh stupid blogger.
The CBS case is a perfect example of the what happens to "Big Media."
I blogged this error 30 minutes ago.
Yes, of course, not a problem at all because every Windows user on the planet has a fully patched, up-to-date system. Whew.
Trollfully yours,
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Perhaps steganography would be more viable, being un-prosecutable by virtue of being undetectable
e ss.org/detection.phpi /Steganalysis
Top Google Results for "detecting steganography."
http://niels.xtdnet.nl/stego/
http://www.outgu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
And it's such a great way to advertise to new customers. Buy the new TiVo. It does less than the old model!
After months of my snivelling and whining, my wife finally succumb and said we can get TiVo this Christmas! I danced around like a little boy.
But now, I wonder what next? First no the PPV limit, now the NFL limitation (neither of which I think directly apply to how we'll use it) but what next?
Will it be eventually limited to only broadcast, b access programs? Wayne's World here I come!
Straying further off, here are some answers from the FAQ:
"Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Sure, it's a great idea, but it has a lot of implications. For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. If I cache one of their pages, this will mess with their statistics, and mess with their banner ads. In other words, this will piss them off.
Of course, most of the time, the commercial sites that actually have income from banner ads easily withstand the Slashdot Effect. So perhaps we could draw the line at sites that don't have ads. They are, after all, much more likely to buckle under the pressure of all those unexpected hits. But what happens if I cache the site, and they update themselves? Once again, I'm transmitting data that I shouldn't be, only this time my cache is out of date!
I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented."
and
Is it possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a Slashdot story?
Not inconceivable, but I don't really think it's worth the work. Most of the sites that are Slashdotted are prepared for it, and the sites that get smashed usually are caught completely off guard; they wouldn't know of this mysterious opt-out meta tag.
It doesn't appear that the Dremel page is quite yet Slashdotted, but it is very sloooow loading.
Since I'm in a mood of helping Taco, CowboyNeal, Tim et al with Slashcode...
How about a little notation appended to the end of Front Page articles indicating that a site has been 'dotted. Maybe a quick ping and a response time -- although depending upon your location that may or may not be reflective your ability to reach it -- but it would give a feel.
One, we readers who should know better -- but sometimes don't -- wouldn't waste time trying to hit the main link. Two, this might reduce the "dottedness" of the poor site by stemming the tide a bit. If it's a big machine on a big pipe, the blast away, gentle readers.
People "with brains" fall for all sorts of dumb things. (Point of reference: the a political campaign.)
How about the various credit card phishing scams going around?
Unfortunately, plenty of people see "The Internets" as this mysterious place. Who knows what the computers can do? They're ALIVE!!!
But seriously, at $7,000 a pop, it only takes a few frightened, technologically-challenged small to medium-sized business owners to pay and this scam becomes pretty profitable.
Dell, Apple, Gateway, even Micro$oft, would do well to include a "Here's How the Internet Works" seminar with every PC or Mac that they sell. At least let people know the difference between things that are truly scary and things that are not.
In the abscence of institutional memory or /. editors sitting in the same room :-) , could Slashcode be tweaked to scan for URLs that are identical in stories and flag them somehow?
Some Perl script or such that looks at the post about to hit the front page, then looks at a say the last three or four posts that were on the front page. If it finds an identical or closely identical link, it then sends an email of the body of the two posts to the editor.
I don't think it would get the server's load up too much.
(much sarcasm, minus 1, bad dog.)
It is not the moisture I'm worried about, it is the impact of golf ball to baseball sized hail hitting them.
Hail Storm.
This sounds like a great idea. I'd be all over it except that at least once a year some part of the metro area where I live gets pounded with hail.
I didn't see anything in the article about how these tiles would be manufactured to survive this or heavy wet snow.
Then why not use Acrobat? It provides a read-only, password protected version of documents, but is viewable on almost every platform -- not just in MSIE.
I heard Drudge (driving in the father-in-law's car, no radio control!) and he was humping this on Sunday. I can't believe it is still bouncing around -- slooooow day on /.
.Mac account hosting that QT movie will meltdown from the "Slashdot Effect" and we can all move onto more vital things -- like whether Bill Gates is the Devil or just a very close facisimile. (I vote Devil.)
If I recall, all those rules between the two candidates' camps were loudly decried as trivial, over-the-top and plain silly. But, since GWB performed the Dance of the Sourpuss King, his henchmen are now treating those rules like the Ten Commandments. Puhleez.
Hopefully, the
PS - You can tell he's putting a cap on a pen at the end of the clip. So there's your news: Illegal Lucky Pen Tips Debate to Kerry.
Quote Pres. Bush: I could have gotten away with four more years, if it weren't that lucky pen!
Oh, sure, sure, they should have. But how many "Score:5, Funny" posts would THAT have generated.
/. It is about the laughs.
C'mon, it's
(PS: "Daily Show" watch your back!)
I wonder if their hesitation to go to a gig is less due to storage space available and more the traffic that would be generated? Bandwith consumption is likely of little concern to Google, shoot they probably get worried when it drops.
I clearly am clueless idiot redux. When I saw No.1 (Ashley Highfield) it was surprising because I'd always just considered her a hottie reporter from MSNBC.
Responsible? Microsoft? "er," is right.
Can't MS establish and enforce guidelines for third-party libraries so that they don't essentially break the OS (or parts thereof)? If one doesn't conform, the scanning tool from MS should warn the user: "Hey, we don't like this file because [insert reason.]
The downside for Redmond would be this tool barfing on their own code.
...and there's little I can do.
Yes, whatever you do DO NOT buy a chain and a paddlock for your bike. That would be utterly insane.
Sounds like Microsoft's idea of good programming practices: efficient re-use of code.
I must be doing something wrong because we've had quite a bit of difficulty getting USB data cables (one for a nokia, one for a moto) to work with OS X (10.3.4)
I've had to resort to using Quicklink Mobile from Smith-Micro to get our staff's cell phones to transmit data. Mind you, QLM works very well and is worth the cost, but I don't like being dependent upon them for cables -- especially if one dies and I can't just hit the Verizon store or other retailer to buy a replacement.
The problem, as I've been told, is that USB drivers for these cables are not written for Mac. (Hence, the need for QLM's drivers and their supplied cable.)
Does anyone know anymore about USB drivers and USB cell phone data cables for Mac?
Raggle for short?
Don't forget "and provides notification when new versions of iPhoto are available."
/. for upgrade news!
Now you don't have to rely on
I wonder what the record is for the fastest Slashdotting of a site? This one went belly up in what looks like less than 18 minutes...
Speaking of attacking The Google...if you're myDoom14 writer, then why not make this a more low-key "attack?"
Instead of pulling your pants down and virtually (get it Internet, virtual...) announcing "We're screwing with search engines!", make your virus work more slowly and less obviously?
First, you get your stinking email addresses with which you will spam bomb me and everyone else. Secondly, we get Google uninterupted. Google Interupted?
While I don't see the article addressing your point:
morphine based painkillers no longer work, there is a bit of a mention to this issue:
Childhood immunisation would provide adults with protection from the euphoria that is experienced by users...
My uneducated guess is that the effect of these drugs in the absence of pain is very different than when a person uses them while experiencing great pain. The "vaccine" likely would aim to blunt the euphoria while perserving the ability of morphine and other painkiller to do just that -- kill pain and return a patient to baseline.