He wrote "your parent post", but he meant "the parent to your post". You'll learn soon that the majority of people on SlashDot can't write, a sizeable percentage can't read, and none of us care enough to disguise it from anyone. The kicker is that the editors are as guilty of this as anyone..
Hollywood has always been a giant shit factory, and only by happy accident have you ever found some still edible corn in the middle of all that excrement.
I just get pissed off at clueless folks who pretend like this situation is somehow "new", or that there's no corn left in the bowl. There has been plenty of nuggety goodness in the past few years, and I have no sympathy for someone who keeps paying good money to eat the brown stuff.
I can't remember a decent movie I've seen in the theater in the last year or two.
That's bullshit. Memento was a good movie. Crouching Tiger was interesting, and certainly qualifies as "decent". Princess Mononoke was pretty damned cool. LA Confidential was certainly worth watching. There have been a whole shitload of smaller releases that have been worth watching -- Buffalo '66 springs immediately to mind.
All this bullshit about how there are no good movies anymore bugs the crap out of me. There have always been a bucketload of crappy movies, and there have always been a few gems that stand out, against the odds.
But if you keep insisting on giving money to the people that make movies like Pearl Harbor, you're going to keep seeing movies like Pearl Harbor. I have very little sympathy for you.
By definition, if he's being held in solitary confinement we wouldn't find out until afterwards.
OK, I'm done with this thread.
You've proven to anyone reading that you're seriously clueless, and I've proven to anyone reading that I argue with clueless anonymous cowards. I may as well be tilting at windmills.
It is clear that you and I have very different and incompatible definitions of "rumor", e"heresay", nad "attribution".
No-one has cited any evidence to support anything in the original poster's message. The original poster copied an unattributed post from another board. That post was speculation on the treatment of Mr. Sklyarov, and there has been absolutely no evidence provided to substantiate any of the speculation in that post.
No, the person who made the original post to this thread did not indicate that he had copied a post by Mr. Hamrick. He did not, in fact, mention Mr. Hamrick's name at all. Instead, a helpful anonymous poster replied to me, and attributed the source of the original post to Mr. Hamrick.
The original poster did not attribute the source of his materials.
In fact, Declan McCullagh, the well-known Wired magazine reporter, has written about just this subject.
Yes. Although it is a very interesting article, it does not claim that Mr. Sklyarov is held in solitary confinement, or that the Russian embassy has been denied access to him.
Before my original reply to the thread root, I did search the net, I read the article the original poster linked to at cryptonomicon, and I read the EFF press release, the DOJ press release, and the AP story linked to by the cryptonomicon story. None gave any indication that Mr. Sklyarov is being held in solitary confinement, or that the Russian embassy has been denied access to him.
Look, what is happening to Mr. Sklyarov is bad. The DMCA is bad. We must fight these things, and make it our goal to get him released, and get the onerous parts of the DMCA struck down. But the contents of the original post in this thread are nothing more than wholly unverified rumors. Nothing is gained by ranting in these forums about unverified rumors. Calling the US State Department and ranting about unverified rumors about the treatment of Mr. Sklyarov can only be detrimental to our goal.
Please, people -- when talking to others about this, please be very clear in your mind what is verified fact, and what is unverified rumor. And remember, the facts in this case stand as testament on their own.
Yes, I see now that you are correct -- the parent post was an unattributed copy of a post made to cryptonomicon.
On closer examination, I see that our AC has copied a post, posted by Hamrick nearly 10 hours ago, detailing an email made by Bill Scannell, discussing a phone conversation with Vladimir Katalov, in which Katalov detailed his belief that the Russian Embassy has been denied access to Sklyarov, and that Sklyarov may be held in solitary confinement.
So, as far as rumors go, this one is entirely on the up and up -- it's four or five levels of heresay deep, but at least the heresay is well documented.
This is no worse than most of the crap published on slashdot.
Do you have any supporting evidence for any of this? Who believes that Dmitry is being held in solitary? Why do they believe this? Has the Russian embassay confirmed that they've been denied access?
The above post looks a lot like the "I just read that Steven King died" and the "BSD is Dying" crapfloods that fill slashdot every day. Don't moderate this shit up, unless you're a damned troll, or you have some way of verifying it.
This was previously intractable and infeasible task as the scientist proves that nobody ever breaks the Turing machine. But, we've got a way to get around with it.
You might want to take a few more math classes, and then then get back to us. I'd tell you to suggest to your professor to do the same, but incompetent professors are often extremely vindictive.
There's often nothing useful you can do with a computer science professor who has refused to learn any computer science, except nod and smile and stay the hell out of their way.
I wonder if judges or state legal boards look favorably on lawyers who send out intimidating letters and threatning lawsuit, and then later backpeddling and say, "Oh, we were just kidding. We never meant to sue!"
It would be good if tactics like this had reprecussions for the arrogant jerks involved.
The deletes are a different story. ext3 and reiser are quite a bit slower than jfs and xfs.
I believe you've misrepresented the results. Two sets of tests were performed -- the first with one medium-large file (645 Mb), and the second with 10,000 small files (totaling about 550Mb).
In the one-large-file delete, the reiserfs and ext3 filesystem were slower. But, in the many-small-file delete, the reiserfs and ext3 filesystems were faster. Similarly, the write test depend a lot on the number and size of the files being written.
The final word is -- benchmark for your application, not someone elses. And, like the above comment says, none if this matters if your data plonks.
their attitude changes the second you tell them you're carrying a gun LEGALY.(and unless your an idiot and want to die you can NOT tell them right away that your LEGALY pack'n)
Am I alone, or did this paragraph make absolutely no sense to anyone?
Yes, you are not a lawyer, and I'm glad because the one the GAIM people got seems to have a good handle on the situation...you obviously do not.
If the lawyer the Gaim people found is willing to take their $1,700 and in return tell them they can clone software and change one letter in the original software's trademarked name, then I'd say the chance are good he has a very good handle on the situation.
It's kind of sad that the Gaim people are such greedy little fuck heads, though. If they weren't a such group of slimebags, they might have managed to find a human being for a lawyer, instead of another greedy little pussbag like themselves.
still, harley has no problem selling every bike they can make despite the time delays and the quadrupled prices. it says a lot about the quality of their product dont you think?
It says much more about what their product is. No rational person on earth would claim that a Harley motorcycle is technically superiour or of higher quality than the upper-end models in the Honda product line. Harleys have become infinitely better in the last 15-20 years, but they're still no match for a good Honda.
Of course, that just means that only a fool buys a Harley because he thinks it's a good motorcycle. A perfectly rational person buys a Harley knowing he's not paying for the bike, but for something else. Like Nike, or DeBeers, or Coca Cola, Harley has been incredibly successful at selling that "something else" for a number of years, and I respect them for that.
No matter how they spin it, there's no excuse for a disk controller to put them out of service for a week. Lose data since the last backup, sure, but not a week long shutdown.
I'm just spouting off clueless, uninformed, random guesses here, but I can easily imagine a weeklong shutdown when a controller biffs.
Like, if they were relying on a mirroring disk controller, and didn't have any useful backups (write-only tape drives are far, far, far too common in this world). Imagine if the whole last week the fate of MSN rested on the shoulders of a couple of guys living on caffeine, using their binary editors to read and edit the raw disk images. It has happened in more than once in this world..
I'm glad Hollywood has finally gotten around to recognizing global warming. It's about time.
Hopefully they can make a movie about a time in the near future, when we've destroyed almost all plant and animal life on the planet, even exausting the supply of plankton in the ocean, and the only thing humans have left to eat are other humans. But most people wouldn't know that their food is people -- it would be kept a secret from the population. And then, in the last scene, the truth should be revealed! That would be a cool movie. Why hasn't hollywood made something like that yet? What a bunch of lame asses.
IANAL, but I don't believe the people who make the "Gaim instant messenger client" can reasonably claim that their mark is distinct from AOL's "AIM instant messenger client." It doesn't do much to help any claim that they're distinct that the sourceforge page says, "Gaim is a clone of the AOL instant messenger client." I think an arguement could easily be made that the Gaim people have intentionally chosen a name similar to AIM, with a product that is functionally similar, and have capitalized on that similarity.
The Gaim situation is not similar to the situation of the X Consortium's X Window System and Microsoft's Windows Operating System. The generic term "window system" has been around for a long time (certainly longer than the Windows Operating System), and the X Consortium goes to some trouble to point out that their mark is X, X is a window system, and there is no product called X Windows. The X Consortium is not going to get in trouble for making a window system, any more than a farmer is going to get in trouble for growing an apple. However, Software called X Windows probably would infringe on Microsoft's trademark, no matter what that software did. Even a windowing sytem called X Windows would probably infringe on Microsoft's trademark -- an "X Windows" brand window system would probably get (deservedly) bitchslapped by the courts pretty damned quick.
I could see some recourse for the Gaim people if they had historically called themselves the Gnu Abstract Instant Messenger client, or the Guile Agnostic Instant messenger client. It would also help if they had not originally set out to create an AIM clone, and hadn't already been tangled up with AOL by putting an AOL logo on their product page.
I hope the Gaim people just change their name, and donate the $1,700 to the EFF to help someone fight for stuff that matters.
"X" is a "window system." It is the "X Window System."
"Windows" is an "operating system." It is the "Windows Operating System."
It is asinine to think that Microsoft could go after the X Consortium because the X consortium makes a "window system." It would be the same as Microsoft going after the company Marvin Windows because they make "windows", or Apple Computers going after a farmer because he grows "Fuji Apples."
Of course, it wouldn't suprise me if someday some confused and deranged legal intern didn't confuse the generic word "window system" for the trademark "Windows Operating System". After all, any reasonable window system draws pretty pictures on the screen, just like the Windows Operating System. To some people (including a distressingly large number of people who post on slashdot), that in itself must indicate that any window system is infringing on Microsoft's IP. Because the name "Windows Operating System" sounds a lot like the generic term "window system" (to people with ADD), it must be infringement!
The problem with paying for content is not that "different people assign a different amount of value to the same content."
The problem is that we can't pay for content. There's no system available that would allow me to pay five cents everytime I reloaded slashdot, or three cents to make this post, or half a cent for every comment I read. There's no system that exists that makes it possible.
But everyone reading this already knew that. This has been a slashdot story a few times just this month. This brings up the biggest problem with paying for web content -- most of it is pretty shitty. I'd be pretty damned pissed if I had to pay for every story I read, and the website was notorious for rerunning stories with only minor content changes.
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I think your cut/paste had some problems there. What I got looked like this:
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He wrote "your parent post", but he meant "the parent to your post". You'll learn soon that the majority of people on SlashDot can't write, a sizeable percentage can't read, and none of us care enough to disguise it from anyone. The kicker is that the editors are as guilty of this as anyone..
Whatever.
Hollywood has always been a giant shit factory, and only by happy accident have you ever found some still edible corn in the middle of all that excrement.
I just get pissed off at clueless folks who pretend like this situation is somehow "new", or that there's no corn left in the bowl. There has been plenty of nuggety goodness in the past few years, and I have no sympathy for someone who keeps paying good money to eat the brown stuff.
I wrote an executable that would remap the CAPS LOCK key to function just like an ordinary Shift key
Ewww. Everyone knows that the CapsLock key should be remapped to the Ctrl key.
perhaps you need to see more movies.
Nah. Most movies are pretty crappy.
I can't remember a decent movie I've seen in the theater in the last year or two.
That's bullshit. Memento was a good movie. Crouching Tiger was interesting, and certainly qualifies as "decent". Princess Mononoke was pretty damned cool. LA Confidential was certainly worth watching. There have been a whole shitload of smaller releases that have been worth watching -- Buffalo '66 springs immediately to mind.
All this bullshit about how there are no good movies anymore bugs the crap out of me. There have always been a bucketload of crappy movies, and there have always been a few gems that stand out, against the odds.
But if you keep insisting on giving money to the people that make movies like Pearl Harbor, you're going to keep seeing movies like Pearl Harbor. I have very little sympathy for you.
By definition, if he's being held in solitary confinement we wouldn't find out until afterwards.
OK, I'm done with this thread.
You've proven to anyone reading that you're seriously clueless, and I've proven to anyone reading that I argue with clueless anonymous cowards. I may as well be tilting at windmills.
It is clear that you and I have very different and incompatible definitions of "rumor", e"heresay", nad "attribution".
No-one has cited any evidence to support anything in the original poster's message. The original poster copied an unattributed post from another board. That post was speculation on the treatment of Mr. Sklyarov, and there has been absolutely no evidence provided to substantiate any of the speculation in that post.
No, it was attributed.
No, the person who made the original post to this thread did not indicate that he had copied a post by Mr. Hamrick. He did not, in fact, mention Mr. Hamrick's name at all. Instead, a helpful anonymous poster replied to me, and attributed the source of the original post to Mr. Hamrick.
The original poster did not attribute the source of his materials.
In fact, Declan McCullagh, the well-known Wired magazine reporter, has written about just this subject.
Yes. Although it is a very interesting article, it does not claim that Mr. Sklyarov is held in solitary confinement, or that the Russian embassy has been denied access to him.
Before my original reply to the thread root, I did search the net, I read the article the original poster linked to at cryptonomicon, and I read the EFF press release, the DOJ press release, and the AP story linked to by the cryptonomicon story. None gave any indication that Mr. Sklyarov is being held in solitary confinement, or that the Russian embassy has been denied access to him.
Look, what is happening to Mr. Sklyarov is bad. The DMCA is bad. We must fight these things, and make it our goal to get him released, and get the onerous parts of the DMCA struck down. But the contents of the original post in this thread are nothing more than wholly unverified rumors. Nothing is gained by ranting in these forums about unverified rumors. Calling the US State Department and ranting about unverified rumors about the treatment of Mr. Sklyarov can only be detrimental to our goal.
Please, people -- when talking to others about this, please be very clear in your mind what is verified fact, and what is unverified rumor. And remember, the facts in this case stand as testament on their own.
Yes, I see now that you are correct -- the parent post was an unattributed copy of a post made to cryptonomicon.
On closer examination, I see that our AC has copied a post, posted by Hamrick nearly 10 hours ago, detailing an email made by Bill Scannell, discussing a phone conversation with Vladimir Katalov, in which Katalov detailed his belief that the Russian Embassy has been denied access to Sklyarov, and that Sklyarov may be held in solitary confinement.
So, as far as rumors go, this one is entirely on the up and up -- it's four or five levels of heresay deep, but at least the heresay is well documented.
This is no worse than most of the crap published on slashdot.
Do you have any supporting evidence for any of this? Who believes that Dmitry is being held in solitary? Why do they believe this? Has the Russian embassay confirmed that they've been denied access?
The above post looks a lot like the "I just read that Steven King died" and the "BSD is Dying" crapfloods that fill slashdot every day. Don't moderate this shit up, unless you're a damned troll, or you have some way of verifying it.
This was previously intractable and infeasible task as the scientist proves that nobody ever breaks the Turing machine. But, we've got a way to get around with it.
You might want to take a few more math classes, and then then get back to us. I'd tell you to suggest to your professor to do the same, but incompetent professors are often extremely vindictive.
There's often nothing useful you can do with a computer science professor who has refused to learn any computer science, except nod and smile and stay the hell out of their way.
I wonder if judges or state legal boards look favorably on lawyers who send out intimidating letters and threatning lawsuit, and then later backpeddling and say, "Oh, we were just kidding. We never meant to sue!"
It would be good if tactics like this had reprecussions for the arrogant jerks involved.
My hope is that the censored "big media" includes any outlet stupid enough to give Katz money for his ramblings.
The deletes are a different story. ext3 and reiser are quite a bit slower than jfs and xfs.
I believe you've misrepresented the results. Two sets of tests were performed -- the first with one medium-large file (645 Mb), and the second with 10,000 small files (totaling about 550Mb).
In the one-large-file delete, the reiserfs and ext3 filesystem were slower. But, in the many-small-file delete, the reiserfs and ext3 filesystems were faster. Similarly, the write test depend a lot on the number and size of the files being written.
The final word is -- benchmark for your application, not someone elses. And, like the above comment says, none if this matters if your data plonks.
their attitude changes the second you tell them you're carrying a gun LEGALY.(and unless your an idiot and want to die you can NOT tell them right away that your LEGALY pack'n)
Am I alone, or did this paragraph make absolutely no sense to anyone?
Well, I am a lawyer
Sure.
Yes, you are not a lawyer, and I'm glad because the one the GAIM people got seems to have a good handle on the situation...you obviously do not.
If the lawyer the Gaim people found is willing to take their $1,700 and in return tell them they can clone software and change one letter in the original software's trademarked name, then I'd say the chance are good he has a very good handle on the situation.
It's kind of sad that the Gaim people are such greedy little fuck heads, though. If they weren't a such group of slimebags, they might have managed to find a human being for a lawyer, instead of another greedy little pussbag like themselves.
still, harley has no problem selling every bike they can make despite the time delays and the quadrupled prices. it says a lot about the quality of their product dont you think?
It says much more about what their product is. No rational person on earth would claim that a Harley motorcycle is technically superiour or of higher quality than the upper-end models in the Honda product line. Harleys have become infinitely better in the last 15-20 years, but they're still no match for a good Honda.
Of course, that just means that only a fool buys a Harley because he thinks it's a good motorcycle. A perfectly rational person buys a Harley knowing he's not paying for the bike, but for something else. Like Nike, or DeBeers, or Coca Cola, Harley has been incredibly successful at selling that "something else" for a number of years, and I respect them for that.
No matter how they spin it, there's no excuse for a disk controller to put them out of service for a week. Lose data since the last backup, sure, but not a week long shutdown.
I'm just spouting off clueless, uninformed, random guesses here, but I can easily imagine a weeklong shutdown when a controller biffs.
Like, if they were relying on a mirroring disk controller, and didn't have any useful backups (write-only tape drives are far, far, far too common in this world). Imagine if the whole last week the fate of MSN rested on the shoulders of a couple of guys living on caffeine, using their binary editors to read and edit the raw disk images. It has happened in more than once in this world..
I'm glad Hollywood has finally gotten around to recognizing global warming. It's about time.
Hopefully they can make a movie about a time in the near future, when we've destroyed almost all plant and animal life on the planet, even exausting the supply of plankton in the ocean, and the only thing humans have left to eat are other humans. But most people wouldn't know that their food is people -- it would be kept a secret from the population. And then, in the last scene, the truth should be revealed! That would be a cool movie. Why hasn't hollywood made something like that yet? What a bunch of lame asses.
IANAL, but I don't believe the people who make the "Gaim instant messenger client" can reasonably claim that their mark is distinct from AOL's "AIM instant messenger client." It doesn't do much to help any claim that they're distinct that the sourceforge page says, "Gaim is a clone of the AOL instant messenger client." I think an arguement could easily be made that the Gaim people have intentionally chosen a name similar to AIM, with a product that is functionally similar, and have capitalized on that similarity.
The Gaim situation is not similar to the situation of the X Consortium's X Window System and Microsoft's Windows Operating System. The generic term "window system" has been around for a long time (certainly longer than the Windows Operating System), and the X Consortium goes to some trouble to point out that their mark is X, X is a window system, and there is no product called X Windows. The X Consortium is not going to get in trouble for making a window system, any more than a farmer is going to get in trouble for growing an apple. However, Software called X Windows probably would infringe on Microsoft's trademark, no matter what that software did. Even a windowing sytem called X Windows would probably infringe on Microsoft's trademark -- an "X Windows" brand window system would probably get (deservedly) bitchslapped by the courts pretty damned quick.
I could see some recourse for the Gaim people if they had historically called themselves the Gnu Abstract Instant Messenger client, or the Guile Agnostic Instant messenger client. It would also help if they had not originally set out to create an AIM clone, and hadn't already been tangled up with AOL by putting an AOL logo on their product page.
I hope the Gaim people just change their name, and donate the $1,700 to the EFF to help someone fight for stuff that matters.
"X" is a "window system." It is the "X Window System."
"Windows" is an "operating system." It is the "Windows Operating System."
It is asinine to think that Microsoft could go after the X Consortium because the X consortium makes a "window system." It would be the same as Microsoft going after the company Marvin Windows because they make "windows", or Apple Computers going after a farmer because he grows "Fuji Apples."
Of course, it wouldn't suprise me if someday some confused and deranged legal intern didn't confuse the generic word "window system" for the trademark "Windows Operating System". After all, any reasonable window system draws pretty pictures on the screen, just like the Windows Operating System. To some people (including a distressingly large number of people who post on slashdot), that in itself must indicate that any window system is infringing on Microsoft's IP. Because the name "Windows Operating System" sounds a lot like the generic term "window system" (to people with ADD), it must be infringement!
The problem with paying for content is not that "different people assign a different amount of value to the same content."
The problem is that we can't pay for content. There's no system available that would allow me to pay five cents everytime I reloaded slashdot, or three cents to make this post, or half a cent for every comment I read. There's no system that exists that makes it possible.
But everyone reading this already knew that. This has been a slashdot story a few times just this month. This brings up the biggest problem with paying for web content -- most of it is pretty shitty. I'd be pretty damned pissed if I had to pay for every story I read, and the website was notorious for rerunning stories with only minor content changes.
Transistors? Blinking lights? You're all nancy boys, with soft, weak girly hands.
In my day, we had to make our difference engines out brass gears, cams, and rods. We had to make our own gears, too!