Freebsd already has an apt-thing type thing. It's called "the ports tree".. for example:
cd/usr/ports/graphics/Mesa3
make install
The Makefile will fetch everything needed to compile mesa, then build and install it. When you want to get rid of it, just make deinstall. And it's got a mechanism for updating the ports too. See the freebsd handbook for that though.
This looks like a troll to me, but I'll bite anyway:)
Let's do some math. Let's say that there is one second between the first two clicks, and then a full two second after the second one before you can click on the next one while you wait for the email to be deleted. That's 3 seconds per spam. You said that you get 10 per day? That's 30 seconds to delete all the spam for the day. With 365.25 days per year, that's 21915 seconds or 6.09 hours of deleting spam. I'd rather be coding...
I am not sure if you are aware of this, but CARTOONS are not real.
By definition, all theory is not "real". Macross plus had some interesting theories.
I am a bit confused on the moderation, 3? This comment is not relevant to the story at all.
One of the elements of the show is that there is a design competition between two designs, the YF-19 and the YF-21. One of the things that the YF-21 design had going for it was that it had an interface similar to the one mentioned in the story. The main difference is that the YF-21's interface didn't require the pilot to actually move any part of his body. He could simply "visualize" the whole aircraft as an extension of his body, and control it that way.
Another thing worth mentioning, there was a scene where the YF-21's pilot visualized an easy way to kill the YF-19's pilot given the current circumstance. The YF-21's computer system took this as an order, and they YF-19's pilot was almost killed. This illustrates a potential danger in these kind of systems that the designers and/or users will have to be weary of.
Sure it does. What if what I want to say just happens to be identical to, say, Tom Clancy's latest book. I decide to say that by
posting it on my web site. If that's not prohibited, Clancy's right to exclusivity no longer exists. If it is prohibited, they've
made a law restricting my freedom of speech.
It doesn't work like that. If you've never read Clancy's novel, and you happen to write a novel exactly like it, then both you and Clancy hold copyright over your respective instance. A common example example that is used to demonstrate this is that if there are two poets working in isolation and they write the same poem, they both have rights over their particular instance of it. And if you really did copy Clancy's novel word for word, you're not really "saying" anything, you are just making a copy of what was said by him.
I did read the source code. I was quoting from an online copy of the Constitution.
I'm sory, I should have clarified. I meant the copyright law. There is an online copy but I don't have the link:(
... "to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States", and "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". This entirely contradicts the First Amendment, which would make much of that (especially the second quotation, about copyright) impossible.
That's wrong, those don't conflict at all. The first amendment lets the author say anything they want. Copyright gives them the ability to control copying of a work, which has nothing to do at all with what is being said. If you go read the source code (the law its self) you'll grok it.
There's a spamming technique that allows spammers to find your email address even if you've NEVER given it to anyone. Basically you set up a script that vomits a bunch of spam to a domain with random user names and watch to see which ones DON'T bounce. I suspect a big name like hotmail would be an excellent target for such an attack. More users means better chance of finding unlisted "private" mail boxes. My mail server has been hit by many of these scans. Yeesh.
I'm going to start writing to the companies in the MPAA. It'll be something like this..
To whom it may concern,
Speaking as a US consumer that owns a region free player, I will be promptly returning any disk that does not work in it. The more restrictions placed, the less I will buy. Have a nice day.
The way I see it, that's really what will hurt them the most. Opinions add up to nothing when it comes to calculating the bottom line, and that's what they value most. If they start to see that the money lost from people not buying it due to restrictions is more than they are gaining from them, they'll change their minds.
The above page has the real translations for what he said. Looks like he doesn't know a word of japanese; They are all copied verbatim from the page. What an ass.
I think some of the people saying IRC couldn't handle it may be forgetting about DCC and CTCP. DCC "Direct Client to Client" is a protocol for
IRC clients to open connections directly to each other, bypassing the server. CTCP is a protocol for sending non chat message type signals
between clients (relayed by the server), for example, the/ping command. To initiate a DCC connection, it's just two little CTCP messages going
across the server, and the rest never touches it. Want to connect to a bot that is acting as a directory? It's only 2 little CTCP signals through the
server, probably requiring less resources than a typical conversation. Want to download a song from someone? 2 more CTCP messages per
request.
What's even better, IMHO, is that we don't even need to write new IRC clients. Many popular clients already have ample scripting facilities; All
we need to do is define a protocol for indexing and searching and then write some scripts to support it in existing clients.
There are also a great deal of astonishing coincidences that allow cars to function. Did you know:
If cars were just 2 feet wider, they would not fit in your average traffic lane.
If they required more energy to run, gasoline would not contain enough energy to power them.
If the wheels were on top instead of on bottom, cars would not be able to move because the wheels would not be touching the
ground.
Also, it was recently discovered that if it weren't for the force of the drivers trying to keep the cars apart (known as
anti-car-gravity), every car on the road would have clumped together into a giant mass of steel and traffic on I-10 would
be really slow.
If any one of these factors were even slightly different, the entire United States of America could not possibly have formed because nobody here knows how to function from day to day without one.
Then we have the slashdot effect. In essence this is 'like' a dos attack millions of unique connections made to a server at the exact same time... the only way to prevent this... load balanced servers a ton of bandwidth... or you could just not tell slashdot:-).
"What's interesting about it?" you might ask? The goal is to simualte piloting valkyries (the transforming fighters from Macross aka Robotech) and other anime style mechs.
It's still in early development stages, but there is some working code in the CVS...
Am I the only one who cringes at the term "netizen"?
What exactly do you want to be called?
How is the online experience "tailored" while the print one is not?
Slashdot, for one, allows you to ignore certain kinds of stories.
When I read a paper in the story I can assume it passed through several people's
hands to get there.
If I print a page off of the internet and give it to someone, it went through several
hands to get there. Does that really increase the creditability? How?
News is not open source. It shouldn't be. If I don't like something I read in the
paper, I can't alter it to suit my liking.
I think you may have missed the point. Customizing the articles themselves would be
a (to use a mild word) foolish. The point is that you can decide what kind articles to get
more of because there are many more outlets and many of them are specialized. On cable
at my house, I can hope for a news program that covers something computer related
to come on sometime within my lifetime. On the internet, I can just head to
slashdot.org or rootprompt or wherever and get the latest info on things I'm
interested, and just totally ignore other sites.
The open source aspect is that I can throw up my own web site and point people
that way.
I would buy one if either the price is a bit lower, or the interface is exceptionally good. But as far as safety goes, "hands free" is the only way to go when I'm digging through a long list of mp3s while going down the interstate at 75+ mph... I am willing to pay a few hundred more for the ability to keep my eyes on the road and my hands on the wheel.
Yes, that's exactly what we need to do. Mass public education. Well, why not write an open letter to them to tell them exactly what our view is and why their standpoint is faulty?
Write something soo straight forward and easy to undestand that they'll be branded as the evil ba^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hliars^H^H^H^H^Hfools that they are if they don't directly address it.
Make it short. Make it quotable. Make it linkable. Mirrior it everywhere possible. Get a few big names in the open source community to stand by it's truth and authenticity. With a bit of help from the right people (you know who you are), it's sure to circulate around to big name tech news companies, and then on from there.
Open source got us this far. Open source can take us farther.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought that one of the main points of evolution was that "Better" == "more fit to survive". Is this wrong?
STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR?
Freebsd already has an apt-thing type thing. It's called "the ports tree".. for example:
/usr/ports/graphics/Mesa3
cd
make install
The Makefile will fetch everything needed to compile mesa, then build and install it. When you want to get rid of it, just make deinstall. And it's got a mechanism for updating the ports too. See the freebsd handbook for that though.
This looks like a troll to me, but I'll bite anyway :)
Let's do some math. Let's say that there is one second between the first two clicks, and then a full two second after the second one before you can click on the next one while you wait for the email to be deleted. That's 3 seconds per spam. You said that you get 10 per day? That's 30 seconds to delete all the spam for the day. With 365.25 days per year, that's 21915 seconds or 6.09 hours of deleting spam. I'd rather be coding...
By definition, all theory is not "real". Macross plus had some interesting theories.
I am a bit confused on the moderation, 3? This comment is not relevant to the story at all.
One of the elements of the show is that there is a design competition between two designs, the YF-19 and the YF-21. One of the things that the YF-21 design had going for it was that it had an interface similar to the one mentioned in the story. The main difference is that the YF-21's interface didn't require the pilot to actually move any part of his body. He could simply "visualize" the whole aircraft as an extension of his body, and control it that way.Another thing worth mentioning, there was a scene where the YF-21's pilot visualized an easy way to kill the YF-19's pilot given the current circumstance. The YF-21's computer system took this as an order, and they YF-19's pilot was almost killed. This illustrates a potential danger in these kind of systems that the designers and/or users will have to be weary of.
It doesn't work like that. If you've never read Clancy's novel, and you happen to write a novel exactly like it, then both you and Clancy hold copyright over your respective instance. A common example example that is used to demonstrate this is that if there are two poets working in isolation and they write the same poem, they both have rights over their particular instance of it. And if you really did copy Clancy's novel word for word, you're not really "saying" anything, you are just making a copy of what was said by him.
I did read the source code. I was quoting from an online copy of the Constitution.
I'm sory, I should have clarified. I meant the copyright law. There is an online copy but I don't have the link :(
That's wrong, those don't conflict at all. The first amendment lets the author say anything they want. Copyright gives them the ability to control copying of a work, which has nothing to do at all with what is being said. If you go read the source code (the law its self) you'll grok it.
There's a spamming technique that allows spammers to find your email address even if you've NEVER given it to anyone. Basically you set up a script that vomits a bunch of spam to a domain with random user names and watch to see which ones DON'T bounce. I suspect a big name like hotmail would be an excellent target for such an attack. More users means better chance of finding unlisted "private" mail boxes. My mail server has been hit by many of these scans. Yeesh.
To whom it may concern,
Speaking as a US consumer that owns a region free player, I will be promptly returning any disk that does not work in it. The more restrictions placed, the less I will buy. Have a nice day.
The way I see it, that's really what will hurt them the most. Opinions add up to nothing when it comes to calculating the bottom line, and that's what they value most. If they start to see that the money lost from people not buying it due to restrictions is more than they are gaining from them, they'll change their minds.
We're addressing that in the next patch.
http://www.asianet.net/learnjapan.html
The above page has the real translations for what he said. Looks like he doesn't know a word of japanese; They are all copied verbatim from the page. What an ass.
What's even better, IMHO, is that we don't even need to write new IRC clients. Many popular clients already have ample scripting facilities; All we need to do is define a protocol for indexing and searching and then write some scripts to support it in existing clients.
There are also a great deal of astonishing coincidences that allow cars to function. Did you know:
If cars were just 2 feet wider, they would not fit in your average traffic lane.
If they required more energy to run, gasoline would not contain enough energy to power them.
If the wheels were on top instead of on bottom, cars would not be able to move because the wheels would not be touching the ground.
Also, it was recently discovered that if it weren't for the force of the drivers trying to keep the cars apart (known as anti-car-gravity), every car on the road would have clumped together into a giant mass of steel and traffic on I-10 would be really slow.
If any one of these factors were even slightly different, the entire United States of America could not possibly have formed because nobody here knows how to function from day to day without one.
Then we have the slashdot effect. In essence this is 'like' a dos attack millions of unique connections made to a server at the exact same time... the only way to prevent this ... load balanced servers a ton of bandwidth ... or you could just not tell slashdot :-).
Wouldn't that be security through obscurity? (:
Check out "The Valkyrie Simulation Project"http://valkyrie.sourceforge.net/
"What's interesting about it?" you might ask? The goal is to simualte piloting valkyries (the transforming fighters from Macross aka Robotech) and other anime style mechs. It's still in early development stages, but there is some working code in the CVS...
Am I the only one who cringes at the term "netizen"?
What exactly do you want to be called?
How is the online experience "tailored" while the print one is not?
Slashdot, for one, allows you to ignore certain kinds of stories.
When I read a paper in the story I can assume it passed through several people's
hands to get there.
If I print a page off of the internet and give it to someone, it went through several
hands to get there. Does that really increase the creditability? How?
News is not open source. It shouldn't be. If I don't like something I read in the
paper, I can't alter it to suit my liking.
I think you may have missed the point. Customizing the articles themselves would be
a (to use a mild word) foolish. The point is that you can decide what kind articles to get
more of because there are many more outlets and many of them are specialized. On cable
at my house, I can hope for a news program that covers something computer related
to come on sometime within my lifetime. On the internet, I can just head to
slashdot.org or rootprompt or wherever and get the latest info on things I'm
interested, and just totally ignore other sites.
The open source aspect is that I can throw up my own web site and point people
that way.
Will someone please explain to me how some manga series fits into the "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." definition?
:)
I'm a geek. I read slashdot. I love Tenchi. This post matters to me. Looks like I'm not the only one. 'nuff said.
I would buy one if either the price is a bit lower, or the interface is exceptionally good.
But as far as safety goes, "hands free" is the only way to go when I'm digging through a long list of mp3s while going down the interstate at 75+ mph... I am willing to pay a few hundred more for the ability to keep my eyes on the road and my hands on the wheel.
Yes, that's exactly what we need to do. Mass public education. Well, why not write an open letter to them to tell them exactly what our view is and why their standpoint is faulty?
Write something soo straight forward and easy to undestand that they'll be branded as the evil ba^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hliars^H^H^H^H^Hfools that they are if they don't directly address it.
Make it short. Make it quotable. Make it linkable. Mirrior it everywhere possible. Get a few big names in the open source community to stand by it's truth and authenticity. With a bit of help from the right people (you know who you are), it's sure to circulate around to big name tech news companies, and then on from there.
Open source got us this far. Open source can take us farther.