First I would be dishonerd if I did not state at this point that I am numb from the fremented liqueds of at least 3 differant plant matters.
Second evolution in humans is going backwords. Not just standing still.
In nature those with the strongest traits toward survivel bread an move on. In humans it is now ver y differant as will be seen in my followintg argument.
How many of you wear glasses?
How many of you have bread with a person who does not cut the evolutionary mustard, ie some one on prozac. How many of you have traits that you feel are not a benifit to mankind long turm like a slow matabilism or some other imbalance in the body or mine?
There are many. And the mumbers only get higher our side of the geek comunity where people bread almost indascrimanitly with people who are _the_weakest_link_.
The human body is known to contain 3000 to 5000 ganetic disorders and illnesses. The adverage indavidual holds the genes for about 3 of them. Most of these are not known to the holder and they will bread with someone else who holds the same ill gene. The child of such a union will be positive for and manifest the illness. Will this stop them from breading? No. I have seen people breading with all sorts of undisirable types with blatant genetic errors only to produce progany that are even more unequiped to contribute to the forward movement of the human gene pool.
Submitted with out spell checking or homonym checking for the reason stated at top and in conjunction with using a broweser that does not suport an external editor, ie links.
There is a ticker on the site that is currently showing just a hair over 10,000 visits. Now we can watch the/. effect in real time.
By the way I have been looking for a geek style cookbook for a while.
Any one know of a cook book that specializes in recipes that can be cooked up a week in advance and in bulk that will not loose their flavor or require more than 30 ingredients?
I have visited numerous bookstores in the last month and have as of yet to find such a book.
Was I the only person who thought of the reprocutions of the meta-moderation?
Emagin lots and lots of users with the ability to kill someones chances of moderating with a fair/unfair rulling. I would not be suprised to see that meta-moderation was suspended till this thread is arcived.
I must disagree with the degree of commonness you feel was in the 13 colonies. As any good introduction to the Federalist Papers will point out there where few common things. In the 11 years after 1776 the States where each their own country with different currencies, political views, heritages (the Dutch in one state and the English in another etc). That is why half of the colonies did not even show up for the forming of the Constitution.
In the copy of the Federalist Papers published by Penguin they point out that Boston and Philly had more in common with London then they did with each other.
I was one day wondering to my self and came up with the following.
We have this space station up there now and know its exact location at any given moment.
Why don't we just strap a mirror to it and bounce a laser off of it to get an idea of the current air properties?
1. I thought about this long before we go the ISS up there but once we had that in place it seemed like a good choice.
People spend far too much time in front of the TV as it is. The average student spends 40 hours, a full time job, a week watching TV.
I may spend 40 hours a week in front of the computer but there are things I get accomplished like communicating with distant homosapians and working on what will one day be great pieces of litterateur, or not.
So what are the long-term results of this service? Will it bring people to their TV looking for a documentary on Mesopotamia? No. It will bring them to look for more useless crap to zone out on. Just like the web gives you the ability to filter out opposing points of view and leave you in an stimulation vacuum of like minded people this tech will make TV a further black hole of non-information.
As an experiment for all of you who have 100+ channels: unplug the cable/satellite for a week so that you are reduced to just your local stations. Notice that you will watch the same amount of TV, or even more, because you will continue to flip through the channels until you do find "something to watch".
Save your self now and just unplug it. Life is much better when you do that. I just finished the Autobiography of Ben Franklin, which I would have never seen on TV. And because it takes considerably longer to read than it does to view you get the added benefit of absorbing far more.
A lot of companies, sports teams, and record labels for example, have started using holograms as a certificate of authenticity and now that Everyday Joe can make holograms with a few supplies they will have to find something new to spoil the deeds of counterfeiters.
Sorry Daniel, but this is a terrible idea. I am an artist. Not an Artist as in someone whom makes money off their work but a person who occasionally puts pen to paper and creates something that has value. I copyright each one of these drawings so that if someone finds one and decides they want to use it for the cover of their new CD or book or who knows what that they have to find me and I can get credit or money or both because they liked what they saw.
Copyright was created by Tomas Jefferson to help the little guy like me. What you would have done would cause the big corporations to have total control because I could not afford the $100 a year to sustain my write to determine what happens to my work. Or worse yet on your second option I undervalue the work and then I get sued by some government agency for not properly estimating the value of something that I had no idea would sell at all.
Have you studied Leonardo at all? Have you tried to read his handwriting? You have to hold it up to a mirror to read it correctly.
Einstein went to a conference in Paris. His wife packed his bag and he came back a week later. He had not changed his clothes and was not wearing any socks. Why? He could not find any. His bag had never been opened.
Newton, died at the age of 87 a virgin who had fantasies of setting his mom ablaze.
I have never met or read about a genius who was all there in the head. Have you ever meet a person with an IQ of over 200 who took a shower more than once a week?
"We have a new software that does not exist yet but will give us the ability to infect a computer remotely"
With a remotely installed spy app they could remotely uninstall it. AKA no search warrant needed to get it on there in the first place because they can remove it any time they want causing a gapping hole in the 4th amendment (remember the Bill of Rights?). The other thing is how do they get this installed on a Linux system? The same binaries that work on win32 systems will not work natively on nix systems. Does this mean it could be the first Trojan to work across multiple OS's?
What I want to know is if you can use this as a means of wireless networking on the AM band. Now it wouldn't do any good for my laptop but I could use it for my two desktops to comunicate with. Anyone know where I can buy a AM reciver wireless network card?
In the ad world this is known as pushing. The concept is to put ads where you never got them before. Cell phone, pager, and car when the radio is off, etc. They want you to see ads in church, on the beach, in the shower, and NASA is working on allowing commercial sponsorship of space missions. Can you see the Pepsi logo on the side of a rocket? I can.
It will get much worse. You know that networked refrigerator they keep telling us is going to come? It too will have ads.
Free software has ads. Spending on advertising is going down as people become trained to ignore them. Just 10 years ago there where 2 less minutes of commercials per 30 minutes of programming. You now see 6 times the number of ads you did 10 years ago (sorry can't think of the source).
Ads are getting more intrusive by the day. Remember when you would get your receipt and it would have coupons on the back? Those are too easy to tune out. Now you get a separate piece of paper with coupons on it.
You used to buy something and it would come with a free gift. That free gift has turned into a discount somewhere else. More advertising.
When will this change? It won't. What can you do to avoid all of this? Nothing. Well nothing unless you live like I do, which is not recommended.
o Text based browser.
o No pager
o No cell phone
o TV is not plugged in
o no VCR
o no DVD
o Listen to NPR, the ads here are even getting an out of hand for "commercial free programming"
o don't own a car
You see fewer ads on the bus because you can bury your head in a book and not have you eyes locked on the road where all those billboards, A-frame signs, and faux-hot-air balloons are.
o Don't shop at the big stores. Hit the thrift stores and antique stores.
o Eat at mom and pop places and not places with BigThemePark adverts on the tray liners, YBotherBox adds on the drinks and movie tie ins on the to go bags.
o and the list goes on.
To explain, no there is too much, let me sum up: This should come as no surprise.
If you want to keep up on the wide world of hate I would recomend Hatewatch.org. If I can recall correctly they have had some trouble with keeping up with all the hate sites the web has to offer and had to suspend their arcive of hate sites.
If they can not keep up with just monitoring these sites how is anyone going to cut down on them?
Also, in the grand/. tradition of mentioning GPL any time you can, hatewatch is made with Post-Nuke a slashcode style GNU/GPL licanced app.
I learned about theregister.co.uk a long time ago becuase of slashdot. Now we have a billion choices for slashboxes but how come we dont have one for the reg? Every/. reader worth their salt reads the reg and its time it got a slashbox. While we are at it lets add theinquirer.net as well.
This would be a boon for every linux and hardware buff.
Its a cool hack but does it have a point?
AFIK the thing does not have a net connection shiped with it so you can not get any networking. Is there a printer port? Can you plug in a cdrom drive or a fd0/L120 device?
Sure you can use a spread sheet with it but what do you do with it after its created. Where can you save, print, send it?
I would like to see something like this with a distro amied at newbies. With interactive lessons on how to use all of the apps so that it becomes a "learn linux on your PS2" thing that allows us to capture the newbies before they get hooked on windows.
But unless this can escape the gravity of a cool novilty or hack that will not happen.
A while ago/. posted a simalar story. Two months ago storm was extreamly active ans seems much quieter now.
You can always check out the current conditions by going to here.
In San Diego the weather never changes so this gives me something to look at.
Every one talks about the weather but no one does anything about it.
Mark Twain
By chance my Black Death World Tour T-Shirt from NortherSun.com arived today. Its a fun shirt with the years it spread across Europe on it and on the back it has a list of cities it "toured".
Also some of you RPG or SCI-FI lovers should check out the series called Amber for another story of the black death.
According to theregister.com some one put the WTC on Ebay. It was pulled quickly.
Little 5" copper statues of the WTC can be found on Ebay for $130.
Tomarrow you will see parts of the WTC listed on Ebay.
Next week you will be able to buy commemoritive $5 coins minted by The American Mint which will be leagal tender in Libiria.
21 days from now you will be able to get a 11" x 17" coffie table book detailing the history of the World Trade Center in living color.
Within a month the insurance policies and wills of those killed will put money in the hands of people not mentaly equiped to handle the responsablitiy of the new money.
Within the month Pres Bush will sound like an idiot by saying that we need his Missel Defence Shield more than ever.
Within the year our constitutional rights will be slightly limited in the name of freedom.
30 years from now no one will have as of yet taken credit for this attack and we will see our freedomes striped down to fight a nonvisable enamy. Any one ever see the movie Brazil?
I will spare you the darker side of what I see, but I think that these things should hold you over for a while.
if you click on the hof [hall of fame] for the top 10 posted to stories on slashdot this is now number one by a margin of 200 votes.
Also scroll down the main page and note that the post about linus speeking only got 100 posts and a story about MS ranked in at 300 posts. Current number of posts thus far on this submission is 2200. Not encluding the two others related submissions.
In case we needed any perspective on how big these events are the fact that Google has made change like this to their main page makes the point all the more.
Slashdot Mirror
You mean ***by "Internet," we mean AOL/TW Extra-Fun Super-Happy shopping network.
First I would be dishonerd if I did not state at this point that I am numb from the fremented liqueds of at least 3 differant plant matters.
Second evolution in humans is going backwords. Not just standing still.
In nature those with the strongest traits toward survivel bread an move on. In humans it is now ver y differant as will be seen in my followintg argument.
How many of you wear glasses?
How many of you have bread with a person who does not cut the evolutionary mustard, ie some one on prozac. How many of you have traits that you feel are not a benifit to mankind long turm like a slow matabilism or some other imbalance in the body or mine?
There are many. And the mumbers only get higher our side of the geek comunity where people bread almost indascrimanitly with people who are _the_weakest_link_.
The human body is known to contain 3000 to 5000 ganetic disorders and illnesses. The adverage indavidual holds the genes for about 3 of them. Most of these are not known to the holder and they will bread with someone else who holds the same ill gene. The child of such a union will be positive for and manifest the illness. Will this stop them from breading? No. I have seen people breading with all sorts of undisirable types with blatant genetic errors only to produce progany that are even more unequiped to contribute to the forward movement of the human gene pool.
Submitted with out spell checking or homonym checking for the reason stated at top and in conjunction with using a broweser that does not suport an external editor, ie links.
There is a ticker on the site that is currently showing just a hair over 10,000 visits. Now we can watch the /. effect in real time.
By the way I have been looking for a geek style cookbook for a while.
Any one know of a cook book that specializes in recipes that can be cooked up a week in advance and in bulk that will not loose their flavor or require more than 30 ingredients?
I have visited numerous bookstores in the last month and have as of yet to find such a book.
Was I the only person who thought of the reprocutions of the meta-moderation?
Emagin lots and lots of users with the ability to kill someones chances of moderating with a fair/unfair rulling. I would not be suprised to see that meta-moderation was suspended till this thread is arcived.
I must disagree with the degree of commonness you feel was in the 13 colonies. As any good introduction to the Federalist Papers will point out there where few common things. In the 11 years after 1776 the States where each their own country with different currencies, political views, heritages (the Dutch in one state and the English in another etc). That is why half of the colonies did not even show up for the forming of the Constitution.
In the copy of the Federalist Papers published by Penguin they point out that Boston and Philly had more in common with London then they did with each other.
I was one day wondering to my self and came up with the following.
We have this space station up there now and know its exact location at any given moment.
Why don't we just strap a mirror to it and bounce a laser off of it to get an idea of the current air properties?
1. I thought about this long before we go the ISS up there but once we had that in place it seemed like a good choice.
People spend far too much time in front of the TV as it is. The average student spends 40 hours, a full time job, a week watching TV.
I may spend 40 hours a week in front of the computer but there are things I get accomplished like communicating with distant homosapians and working on what will one day be great pieces of litterateur, or not.
So what are the long-term results of this service? Will it bring people to their TV looking for a documentary on Mesopotamia? No. It will bring them to look for more useless crap to zone out on. Just like the web gives you the ability to filter out opposing points of view and leave you in an stimulation vacuum of like minded people this tech will make TV a further black hole of non-information.
As an experiment for all of you who have 100+ channels: unplug the cable/satellite for a week so that you are reduced to just your local stations. Notice that you will watch the same amount of TV, or even more, because you will continue to flip through the channels until you do find "something to watch".
Save your self now and just unplug it. Life is much better when you do that. I just finished the Autobiography of Ben Franklin, which I would have never seen on TV. And because it takes considerably longer to read than it does to view you get the added benefit of absorbing far more.
A lot of companies, sports teams, and record labels for example, have started using holograms as a certificate of authenticity and now that Everyday Joe can make holograms with a few supplies they will have to find something new to spoil the deeds of counterfeiters.
I have found many communications mediums that allow the small person to be active.
1. Tin-Can to Tin-Can, AKA PPPOTC
2. Copy machine to street corner
3. Projection on laser tracked white balloon
4. Soap Box
5. Spray paint on large wall
6. RFC 2549
7. Bumper sticker
I could come up with others but that's just what I found on the top of my head.
Granted numbers 2, 3, 5, & 7 allow for only one way data transmission but that still leaves 3 bi-directional methods for use by the little people.
Sorry Daniel, but this is a terrible idea. I am an artist. Not an Artist as in someone whom makes money off their work but a person who occasionally puts pen to paper and creates something that has value. I copyright each one of these drawings so that if someone finds one and decides they want to use it for the cover of their new CD or book or who knows what that they have to find me and I can get credit or money or both because they liked what they saw.
Copyright was created by Tomas Jefferson to help the little guy like me. What you would have done would cause the big corporations to have total control because I could not afford the $100 a year to sustain my write to determine what happens to my work. Or worse yet on your second option I undervalue the work and then I get sued by some government agency for not properly estimating the value of something that I had no idea would sell at all.
Have you studied Leonardo at all? Have you tried to read his handwriting? You have to hold it up to a mirror to read it correctly.
Einstein went to a conference in Paris. His wife packed his bag and he came back a week later. He had not changed his clothes and was not wearing any socks. Why? He could not find any. His bag had never been opened.
Newton, died at the age of 87 a virgin who had fantasies of setting his mom ablaze.
I have never met or read about a genius who was all there in the head. Have you ever meet a person with an IQ of over 200 who took a shower more than once a week?
"We have a new software that does not exist yet but will give us the ability to infect a computer remotely"
With a remotely installed spy app they could remotely uninstall it. AKA no search warrant needed to get it on there in the first place because they can remove it any time they want causing a gapping hole in the 4th amendment (remember the Bill of Rights?). The other thing is how do they get this installed on a Linux system? The same binaries that work on win32 systems will not work natively on nix systems. Does this mean it could be the first Trojan to work across multiple OS's?
What I want to know is if you can use this as a means of wireless networking on the AM band. Now it wouldn't do any good for my laptop but I could use it for my two desktops to comunicate with. Anyone know where I can buy a AM reciver wireless network card?
In the ad world this is known as pushing. The concept is to put ads where you never got them before. Cell phone, pager, and car when the radio is off, etc. They want you to see ads in church, on the beach, in the shower, and NASA is working on allowing commercial sponsorship of space missions. Can you see the Pepsi logo on the side of a rocket? I can.
It will get much worse. You know that networked refrigerator they keep telling us is going to come? It too will have ads.
Free software has ads. Spending on advertising is going down as people become trained to ignore them. Just 10 years ago there where 2 less minutes of commercials per 30 minutes of programming. You now see 6 times the number of ads you did 10 years ago (sorry can't think of the source).
Ads are getting more intrusive by the day. Remember when you would get your receipt and it would have coupons on the back? Those are too easy to tune out. Now you get a separate piece of paper with coupons on it.
You used to buy something and it would come with a free gift. That free gift has turned into a discount somewhere else. More advertising.
When will this change? It won't. What can you do to avoid all of this? Nothing. Well nothing unless you live like I do, which is not recommended.
o Text based browser.
o No pager
o No cell phone
o TV is not plugged in
o no VCR
o no DVD
o Listen to NPR, the ads here are even getting an out of hand for "commercial free programming"
o don't own a car
You see fewer ads on the bus because you can bury your head in a book and not have you eyes locked on the road where all those billboards, A-frame signs, and faux-hot-air balloons are.
o Don't shop at the big stores. Hit the thrift stores and antique stores.
o Eat at mom and pop places and not places with BigThemePark adverts on the tray liners, YBotherBox adds on the drinks and movie tie ins on the to go bags.
o and the list goes on.
To explain, no there is too much, let me sum up: This should come as no surprise.
If you want to keep up on the wide world of hate I would recomend Hatewatch.org. If I can recall correctly they have had some trouble with keeping up with all the hate sites the web has to offer and had to suspend their arcive of hate sites. /. tradition of mentioning GPL any time you can, hatewatch is made with Post-Nuke a slashcode style GNU/GPL licanced app.
If they can not keep up with just monitoring these sites how is anyone going to cut down on them?
Also, in the grand
I learned about theregister.co.uk a long time ago becuase of slashdot. Now we have a billion choices for slashboxes but how come we dont have one for the reg? Every /. reader worth their salt reads the reg and its time it got a slashbox. While we are at it lets add theinquirer.net as well.
This would be a boon for every linux and hardware buff.
Its a cool hack but does it have a point?
AFIK the thing does not have a net connection shiped with it so you can not get any networking. Is there a printer port? Can you plug in a cdrom drive or a fd0/L120 device?
Sure you can use a spread sheet with it but what do you do with it after its created. Where can you save, print, send it?
I would like to see something like this with a distro amied at newbies. With interactive lessons on how to use all of the apps so that it becomes a "learn linux on your PS2" thing that allows us to capture the newbies before they get hooked on windows.
But unless this can escape the gravity of a cool novilty or hack that will not happen.
A while ago /. posted a simalar story. Two months ago storm was extreamly active ans seems much quieter now.
You can always check out the current conditions by going to here.
In San Diego the weather never changes so this gives me something to look at.
Every one talks about the weather but no one does anything about it.
Mark Twain
As a person who has found themself recently single I would love to go to a place with lots of cleanly shaved Linux useing females.
/burn karma
20GHz in 6 years? Sounds slow to me.
current speeds are at 2G 2 X 2 = 4GHz in 18 months
4 X 2 = 8GHz in 3 years. 8 X 2 = 16GHz and then 16 x 2 = 32GHz in 6 years. So why is IBM falling behind?
By chance my Black Death World Tour T-Shirt from NortherSun.com arived today. Its a fun shirt with the years it spread across Europe on it and on the back it has a list of cities it "toured".
Also some of you RPG or SCI-FI lovers should check out the series called Amber for another story of the black death.
SS
According to theregister.com some one put the WTC on Ebay. It was pulled quickly.
Little 5" copper statues of the WTC can be found on Ebay for $130.
Tomarrow you will see parts of the WTC listed on Ebay.
Next week you will be able to buy commemoritive $5 coins minted by The American Mint which will be leagal tender in Libiria.
21 days from now you will be able to get a 11" x 17" coffie table book detailing the history of the World Trade Center in living color.
Within a month the insurance policies and wills of those killed will put money in the hands of people not mentaly equiped to handle the responsablitiy of the new money.
Within the month Pres Bush will sound like an idiot by saying that we need his Missel Defence Shield more than ever.
Within the year our constitutional rights will be slightly limited in the name of freedom.
30 years from now no one will have as of yet taken credit for this attack and we will see our freedomes striped down to fight a nonvisable enamy. Any one ever see the movie Brazil?
I will spare you the darker side of what I see, but I think that these things should hold you over for a while.
if you click on the hof [hall of fame] for the top 10 posted to stories on slashdot this is now number one by a margin of 200 votes.
Also scroll down the main page and note that the post about linus speeking only got 100 posts and a story about MS ranked in at 300 posts. Current number of posts thus far on this submission is 2200. Not encluding the two others related submissions.
In case we needed any perspective on how big these events are the fact that Google has made change like this to their main page makes the point all the more.
You must be new to the open source idea. The binarie in question is a tar.gz of the source code.