So, they want to set up an intranet for the government. Why is this a bad thing? Should all corporations be required to use the internet for any and all communications between employees/remote sites/customers?
Because it's going to take our tax money, to pay for this.
Maybe you should only be allowed to review a paper on a peer review website if you have submitted a paper for review. Initially there will not be many reviewers but as time goes on more and more people will have submitted papers and will be able to review other papers. Maybe even limit the reviewers ability to only review papers in the same catagory as the papers they have submitted.
Have everyone post their scientific journals, then other educated people can rate the journels. Why limit the peer review process to the opinions of a select group of people? And when people are selected into these groups, they are usually choosen because they have the same opinion as the rest of the people in the group. Then the journal published by that group becomes biased, which isn't very scientific.
There should be some kind of registration process so some 12 year old kiddy can't submit a journel on UFO study and get all his friends to rate it up. The registration won't stop that, but most kiddies won't bother going through a registration to screw with a website.
It's because it's too easy to send an email. Representatives don't have the time to go through 100's of emails a day and see peoples opinions, they need the peoples input to be filtered so only the important messages get through. Snail mail takes more effort to send and thus the person sending it is more likely to spend more time expressing theirs and others opinions.
It only takes a second to send a worthless email saying "SSSCA SuXoRs!", but if you take the time to write out a paper letter and post a stamp on it and mail it out, you are probably going to spend more time writing what you think.
Also, sending it with restricted delivery or a return reciept will make it stand out more from the other mails that get sent in.
What's to stop Microsoft from performing random audits of home users for pirated software? And then making an example of them to scare other people into not pirating MS products? They keep doing this to smaller and smaller companies, what's to stop them from going to home users?
Terrorists are not going to use encryption with backdoors when non-backdoor encryption is already available. The only people that are going to use it are the law abiding people, the same people who are not going to be terrorists.
And besides, all of Osama's communications weren't through high-tech means but also low-tech. When the someone figures out how to trace one of Osamas high tech communications, he will just switch to a low tech form.
Remember when MS was talking about linux forking? According to the article Windows XP already comes in 3 different versions.
On another note, I wonder if all 3 are really the same and all you have to do is change one line in the setup file to access the different files in the different versions. Like back with Win95, where you could select what version to install with the oemsetup.something file.
Instead of fixing the operating system to avoid these obvious mistakes, we have people creating solutions outside of the operating system. It's like when MS tells people that their systems are buggy, so instead of fixing their own system, they suggest people buy more licenses and more machines to run as backups.
What happened to fixing the problem where it originated from?
..and I know most people will take this as MS bashing. Has Bill Gates donated any money to the NYC effort? Amazon.com has taken in 3 million$ last time I checked from almost 100,000 people, surely Gates himself could spare more than that to help out with the effort.
What does the outside world think of slashdot when one day everyone is yelling that Dmitry Sklyarov should be set free even though he violated the DMCA and created and sold illegal software. Then the next day a 17 year old script kiddy who DOS attacked a few sites and got a punishment of 8 months in a detention center, and everyone is angry that his punishment isn't enough? How could the common person get any understanding what slashdot's ideology is?
I've got my encryption ready. All they'll be doing is wasting cpu power. And once they get machines that can decrypt messages fast enough, just double the bits in the encryption key and wait another couple years for them to catch up.
Maybe I'm just nitpicking here, or this posting was not based on anything substantion.
firing Maverick missiles from Apache helicopter gunships
These missles are huge. I don't think an apache can even carry one of them. They are only used on large jets. Hellfires and stingers are the only missles apaches can use.
I read a book called Red Mars where corporations on earth started buying small countries for their resources. They then had to govern the people of the country. The corporation wasn't much different than a government other than that economic policy was the law above everything else. Everyone fears that coporations will control and manipulate industries to work towards their goals, but isn't that what a government does now?
Let software quality make your products stand out from others, not features. There are many "elitist" companies in every industry that use this tactic. Take the Leica camera company for example (I'm into photography). They make some of the simplest featureless cameras in the market, yet they are the most expensive cameras in the market. Why? Because people don't buy their cameras for features, they buy them because of quality.
You can do the same thing with software. Make it nice and simple, but make it stable and fast. Take the basic and most important features that people use all the time, and make them work the best they can. With a good solid base system, minor features can easily be compensated for or even forgotten.
The key factor that everyone misses is that we obtain our resources from the environment. The amount of resources on the planet will never get larger, but the amount of people will always increase. This means less resources per person as the population increases. To add to this problem, when people waste resources by throwing them into landfills, etc, this decreases the amount of resources per person even more.
Supposedly the basic law of economics will save us from running out of resources. The less resources there are to spread around, the more expensive they will be. The price will get exponentially great, like a y=1/x curve. Eventually this will get to a point where only the rich can have basic resources.
So, our economy needs to become more efficient, reusing resources in order to keep from falling into this future problem.
Has anyone read the book Red Mars? I like this book as it shows a good example of what happens to an economy with no respect for the enviroment and it's limited resources.
GUI's are easier to learn because all the options are laid out in front of you. You can click through menus and scroll bars and see all the options available. This makes it very easy to learn. Eventually though you will know all the capabilities of your editor, but you will still have to click and move through menus and graphics to get to what you want.
CLI tools are the opposite. They are hard to learn, but once you know them, they are fast and efficient. Vim is a perfect example of this. The editor is simply amazing. It has a keyboard interface to do nearly anything you want to do. The only problem is, it's very very difficult to learn. You don't know what all your options are. You have to goto:help and start searching for something simliar to what you want to do. But once you know the basic commands, it becomes easy to find other commands for something you want to do.
Here's a nice cryptic example. What's a fast way to find the include file for a function? Browsing through help files, searching for the command and cutting and pasting the include in? Or this:
:r! man ntohl | grep "\#include"
Ya, I thought so too. =)
...and Open Source in general. With the Bush administration letting MS off this easily after being accused of being a monopoly, what do you think this tells other major corporations? Big businesses will be a lot less worried about getting into trouble when attacking smaller businesses. Bush doesn't want to protect small businesses, he wants to support Big Business.
As for Linux running into hard times. MS is going to have more freedom to attack Linux now. Do you think the Bush administration is going to support Linux against MS? No way, Linux doesn't make any money, it's against the Bush administrations ideals. Other Open Source projects better watch out for any commercial competition. It's open season on the little guys now.
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And old school connection for all the "leet" people.
So, they want to set up an intranet for the government. Why is this a bad thing? Should all corporations be required to use the internet for any and all communications between employees/remote sites/customers?
Because it's going to take our tax money, to pay for this.
Maybe you should only be allowed to review a paper on a peer review website if you have submitted a paper for review. Initially there will not be many reviewers but as time goes on more and more people will have submitted papers and will be able to review other papers. Maybe even limit the reviewers ability to only review papers in the same catagory as the papers they have submitted.
Have everyone post their scientific journals, then other educated people can rate the journels. Why limit the peer review process to the opinions of a select group of people? And when people are selected into these groups, they are usually choosen because they have the same opinion as the rest of the people in the group. Then the journal published by that group becomes biased, which isn't very scientific.
There should be some kind of registration process so some 12 year old kiddy can't submit a journel on UFO study and get all his friends to rate it up. The registration won't stop that, but most kiddies won't bother going through a registration to screw with a website.
It's because it's too easy to send an email. Representatives don't have the time to go through 100's of emails a day and see peoples opinions, they need the peoples input to be filtered so only the important messages get through. Snail mail takes more effort to send and thus the person sending it is more likely to spend more time expressing theirs and others opinions.
It only takes a second to send a worthless email saying "SSSCA SuXoRs!", but if you take the time to write out a paper letter and post a stamp on it and mail it out, you are probably going to spend more time writing what you think.
Also, sending it with restricted delivery or a return reciept will make it stand out more from the other mails that get sent in.
Watch out for those pop-up advertisements on your way into MSNBC.
That's what the middle fingers function will be for...
What's to stop Microsoft from performing random audits of home users for pirated software? And then making an example of them to scare other people into not pirating MS products? They keep doing this to smaller and smaller companies, what's to stop them from going to home users?
http://www.habitat.org/getinv/
Terrorists are not going to use encryption with backdoors when non-backdoor encryption is already available. The only people that are going to use it are the law abiding people, the same people who are not going to be terrorists.
And besides, all of Osama's communications weren't through high-tech means but also low-tech. When the someone figures out how to trace one of Osamas high tech communications, he will just switch to a low tech form.
What would a mass production chicken farm need with a quantum computing semiconductor?
Remember when MS was talking about linux forking? According to the article Windows XP already comes in 3 different versions.
On another note, I wonder if all 3 are really the same and all you have to do is change one line in the setup file to access the different files in the different versions. Like back with Win95, where you could select what version to install with the oemsetup.something file.
Logically there should be only one system,
I wonder if this phrase will have a different meaning if the MS monopoly continues for the next few years?
Instead of fixing the operating system to avoid these obvious mistakes, we have people creating solutions outside of the operating system. It's like when MS tells people that their systems are buggy, so instead of fixing their own system, they suggest people buy more licenses and more machines to run as backups.
What happened to fixing the problem where it originated from?
..and I know most people will take this as MS bashing. Has Bill Gates donated any money to the NYC effort? Amazon.com has taken in 3 million$ last time I checked from almost 100,000 people, surely Gates himself could spare more than that to help out with the effort.
What does the outside world think of slashdot when one day everyone is yelling that Dmitry Sklyarov should be set free even though he violated the DMCA and created and sold illegal software. Then the next day a 17 year old script kiddy who DOS attacked a few sites and got a punishment of 8 months in a detention center, and everyone is angry that his punishment isn't enough? How could the common person get any understanding what slashdot's ideology is?
I've got my encryption ready. All they'll be doing is wasting cpu power. And once they get machines that can decrypt messages fast enough, just double the bits in the encryption key and wait another couple years for them to catch up.
Maybe I'm just nitpicking here, or this posting was not based on anything substantion.
firing Maverick missiles from Apache helicopter gunships
These missles are huge. I don't think an apache can even carry one of them. They are only used on large jets. Hellfires and stingers are the only missles apaches can use.
If the terrorists can't get into the cockpit, they can't steer the plane to where they want.
I guess I'll just avoid browsing webshites and continue to browse websites then.
I'm currently reading Green, then Blue. Is there some future revelation I don't see coming yet? If so don't say anything. =)
I read a book called Red Mars where corporations on earth started buying small countries for their resources. They then had to govern the people of the country. The corporation wasn't much different than a government other than that economic policy was the law above everything else. Everyone fears that coporations will control and manipulate industries to work towards their goals, but isn't that what a government does now?
Let software quality make your products stand out from others, not features. There are many "elitist" companies in every industry that use this tactic. Take the Leica camera company for example (I'm into photography). They make some of the simplest featureless cameras in the market, yet they are the most expensive cameras in the market. Why? Because people don't buy their cameras for features, they buy them because of quality.
You can do the same thing with software. Make it nice and simple, but make it stable and fast. Take the basic and most important features that people use all the time, and make them work the best they can. With a good solid base system, minor features can easily be compensated for or even forgotten.
The key factor that everyone misses is that we obtain our resources from the environment. The amount of resources on the planet will never get larger, but the amount of people will always increase. This means less resources per person as the population increases. To add to this problem, when people waste resources by throwing them into landfills, etc, this decreases the amount of resources per person even more.
Supposedly the basic law of economics will save us from running out of resources. The less resources there are to spread around, the more expensive they will be. The price will get exponentially great, like a y=1/x curve. Eventually this will get to a point where only the rich can have basic resources.
So, our economy needs to become more efficient, reusing resources in order to keep from falling into this future problem.
Has anyone read the book Red Mars? I like this book as it shows a good example of what happens to an economy with no respect for the enviroment and it's limited resources.
GUI's are easier to learn because all the options are laid out in front of you. You can click through menus and scroll bars and see all the options available. This makes it very easy to learn. Eventually though you will know all the capabilities of your editor, but you will still have to click and move through menus and graphics to get to what you want.
:help and start searching for something simliar to what you want to do. But once you know the basic commands, it becomes easy to find other commands for something you want to do.
CLI tools are the opposite. They are hard to learn, but once you know them, they are fast and efficient. Vim is a perfect example of this. The editor is simply amazing. It has a keyboard interface to do nearly anything you want to do. The only problem is, it's very very difficult to learn. You don't know what all your options are. You have to goto
Here's a nice cryptic example. What's a fast way to find the include file for a function? Browsing through help files, searching for the command and cutting and pasting the include in? Or this:
:r! man ntohl | grep "\#include"
Ya, I thought so too. =)
...and Open Source in general. With the Bush administration letting MS off this easily after being accused of being a monopoly, what do you think this tells other major corporations? Big businesses will be a lot less worried about getting into trouble when attacking smaller businesses. Bush doesn't want to protect small businesses, he wants to support Big Business.
As for Linux running into hard times. MS is going to have more freedom to attack Linux now. Do you think the Bush administration is going to support Linux against MS? No way, Linux doesn't make any money, it's against the Bush administrations ideals. Other Open Source projects better watch out for any commercial competition. It's open season on the little guys now.