I see Kirk is adding in mentions of Nazis and racism... how divine.
Because evolutionary principle/thought definitely had nothing to do with Nazi thought or racist thought.... I don't know how you can get around eugenics as being something that seemed to come out of evolutionary concepts.
Eugenics requires evolution. Evolution does not require eugenics. Cybersex requires a computer. But computers do not require cybersex. You can write a motherboard manual without mentioning cybersex anywhere. In fact, cybersex tips would be out of place in a motherboard manual. A book on Nazis would probably include eugenics and evolution, but there is no reason that a book on evolution would need to mention Nazis or eugenics.
I'm saying that eugenics... seems to be a logical progression from evolutionary thought.
I disagree. The idea that inferior genes will naturally die out does not logicically lead to we must kill everyone with inferior genes.
why not help evolution along and get rid of these inferior races.
If they really believed what they were saying, it seems more likely that they would let evolution run its course.
Don't forget, there might not be a problem in the first place. If you are looking around, and see someone else's GPL code in a proprietary product, make sure you find the original owner and talk to them before you go around shouting at the hill tops how evil the proprietary company is.
It is entirely possible that the code was appropriately licensed by the original owner. Just because something is GPL, does not mean that it can not also be licensed for a specific user, usually for money. Think Quake.
Even if the project itself is not licensed for their use, maybe whoever wrote that part of the project re-licensed their contribution to a proprietary company.
Lucky for this guy there was evidence to prove he didn't do it. A hacker could might have installed a remote access program, downloaded the files manually, and then uninstalled the remote access program. There wouldn't be much evidence to suggest that this guy didn't download the kiddie porn himself.
So he must stop advising a board who makes decisions that he disagrees with? Yeah, that will solve problems. Everyone should only advise people who were going to make the decisions that the adviser was going to advise anyway. That way, all advisers are useless. And then... what exactly is your end goal in making advisers useless?
Some people do resign from boards when the board repeatedly makes decisions that the adviser does not approve of. The rejection just gets to be too much for them, and so they quit. It is understandable, but the board suffers when the range of opinions decreases.
Basically, AC, people you work with will make decisions you disagree with. It is important that you put of with it, and not be a big baby.
I'm assuming good faith, but personally, I'm not concerned that it took so long to release the source code. Most likely, the developers... had to postpone lower-priority tasks to meet that deadline.
You think that meeting legal requirements is a low priority task? And that pirating free software goes with good faith?
Spring is buggy as hell. I reported several bugs on the forums, and I got * denial * accusations * "if you aren't using Ubuntu, you have no right to complain that it doesn't work in your distro" * "if you don't like the manual, change it yourself, it's a wiki." Except that it is buggy and that the devs are pretenious pricks, I don't know anything that I could add to the wiki.
Slashdot has a weird definition of "pro". I figured it meant cryptography professionals. But if the title came out and said "IT professionals" or "lumber professionals" then it would be obvious that the story has no value.
Microsoft feels it deserves a patent for the 'invention' of 'Time-Based Licensing,' which aims to make the traditional pay-once perpetual license model a thing of the past.
If they successfully patent time-based software licensing, wouldn't that make the traditional model a more viable solution?
That's one potential outcome. I think it is more likely that advertising will just be worth less, and so ad based web sites will make less money per advertisement, and will need to show more advertisements to stay in business.
Fraud has been going on for a long time. This isn't new, and isn't going to change anything.
Someone cutting you off isn't your fault. This is more like you almost getting into an accident because you had a narcoleptic episode. In which case, you shouldn't drive.
You could say that the FBI director could be cured with knowledge, but knowledge doesn't cure gullibility, only ignorance. It is rare that people recover from gullibility.
I have a WRT54GL (effectively a WRT54Gv4) with DD-WRT, and when I was using it, it would often freeze. Usually when I was running a P2P client.
I found this: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Router_Slowdown I'll probably try that stuff next time I set it up. And Tomato. And OpenWRT. DD-WRT has lots of unexplained errors. I've heard good things about Tomato, and I value stability and functionality over freedom (they usually come packaged, I rarely have to choose).
Another possible reason for a router to freeze is overheating.
I think the best solution is to build our own. I think regular routers are just not powerful enough to route regular traffic adequately. I bought a regular router figuring it would be higher quality and simpler to use than my Debian-based home made router, but I was wrong. The only advantage to a regular router is that it takes less electricity, but it gets less done too. I suppose it takes up less space, and is easier to move too. And it looks prettier.
I tried that. But then I put kdawson back when I realized that half the fun to coming to Slashdot is making fun of the summaries, and the commenters, and complaining about the lack of news and substance and how there aren't any editors.
Nobody yet has mentioned the easiest, most reliable method of registering a domain name anonymously. Just enter fake information in the database. As long as it isn't obviously fake, like Fuck You at Fuck St, Fuck, 11111, it won't get deleted. And you don't have to worry about the proxy company selling it, or accidentally giving it away to hackers.
This of course won't solve the credit card has your name problem, but you can get anonymous debit cards from most grocery stores.
It will kill you instantly. Fortunately, it comes with a special rubber sheath and stand, which you can use to wrap around the beam, therefore making sure that you can see it and don't touch it.
Why not just buy a cheap eSATA or USB external drive and stick it in a closet somewhere -- it's not much more expensive, lasts longer, and saves you a ton of productivity.
GE expects a 1TB disk will be $100 5 years from now. That's more than a 1TB drive costs now, by then it will be 5 times as much. So people wouldn't use these disks to save money. The only whys I can think of are that it is smaller, and maybe lasts longer. Lasting longer is tough to tell, but historically optical disks have had a longer shelf-life than magnetic media when it has adequate error correction and no DRM.
If somebody shipped a browser as crash-prone as Netscape was today, it wouldn't matter if it was three years ahead of the competition. People would play with it for a bit, and then use something stable.
Um, no, you just disproved your own point.
Netscape did deliver a browser years ahead of the competition...
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He copied it from abstrusegoose.com
http://abstrusegoose.com/88 ->
http://abstrusegoose.com/secret-archives/across-the-third-dimension
I see Kirk is adding in mentions of Nazis and racism... how divine.
Because evolutionary principle/thought definitely had nothing to do with Nazi thought or racist thought.... I don't know how you can get around eugenics as being something that seemed to come out of evolutionary concepts.
Eugenics requires evolution. Evolution does not require eugenics. Cybersex requires a computer. But computers do not require cybersex. You can write a motherboard manual without mentioning cybersex anywhere. In fact, cybersex tips would be out of place in a motherboard manual. A book on Nazis would probably include eugenics and evolution, but there is no reason that a book on evolution would need to mention Nazis or eugenics.
I'm saying that eugenics ... seems to be a logical progression from evolutionary thought.
I disagree. The idea that inferior genes will naturally die out does not logicically lead to we must kill everyone with inferior genes.
why not help evolution along and get rid of these inferior races.
If they really believed what they were saying, it seems more likely that they would let evolution run its course.
Don't forget, there might not be a problem in the first place. If you are looking around, and see someone else's GPL code in a proprietary product, make sure you find the original owner and talk to them before you go around shouting at the hill tops how evil the proprietary company is.
It is entirely possible that the code was appropriately licensed by the original owner. Just because something is GPL, does not mean that it can not also be licensed for a specific user, usually for money. Think Quake.
Even if the project itself is not licensed for their use, maybe whoever wrote that part of the project re-licensed their contribution to a proprietary company.
Lucky for this guy there was evidence to prove he didn't do it. A hacker could might have installed a remote access program, downloaded the files manually, and then uninstalled the remote access program. There wouldn't be much evidence to suggest that this guy didn't download the kiddie porn himself.
So he must stop advising a board who makes decisions that he disagrees with? Yeah, that will solve problems. Everyone should only advise people who were going to make the decisions that the adviser was going to advise anyway. That way, all advisers are useless. And then ... what exactly is your end goal in making advisers useless?
Some people do resign from boards when the board repeatedly makes decisions that the adviser does not approve of. The rejection just gets to be too much for them, and so they quit. It is understandable, but the board suffers when the range of opinions decreases.
Basically, AC, people you work with will make decisions you disagree with. It is important that you put of with it, and not be a big baby.
today, a typical 500 GB hard drive costs about $100
This article must be several years old. In present day, a 1TB hard drive costs about $80.
October 23rd, 2009 By Lisa Zyga
Doh!
There is prior art from 2002: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/10/bsod_ads.html
I'm assuming good faith, but personally, I'm not concerned that it took so long to release the source code. Most likely, the developers ... had to postpone lower-priority tasks to meet that deadline.
You think that meeting legal requirements is a low priority task? And that pirating free software goes with good faith?
Spring is buggy as hell. I reported several bugs on the forums, and I got
* denial
* accusations
* "if you aren't using Ubuntu, you have no right to complain that it doesn't work in your distro"
* "if you don't like the manual, change it yourself, it's a wiki." Except that it is buggy and that the devs are pretenious pricks, I don't know anything that I could add to the wiki.
Spring is not worth anyone's time.
Your link says nothing at all about WGS84. Here is one that does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System
I did some searching and found the article you are probably referring to http://arstechnica.com/hardware/reviews/2008/07/atom-nano-review.ars/6
Is 3DMark the benchmark that will give a higher score to a VIA graphics card if the Vendor ID is changed to Nvidia?
It stands for unique selling proposition. I would like to point out that "more appealing that an endoscopy" is not unique at all.
Yeah. Prostitutes don't understand SSL either.
Slashdot has a weird definition of "pro". I figured it meant cryptography professionals. But if the title came out and said "IT professionals" or "lumber professionals" then it would be obvious that the story has no value.
Microsoft feels it deserves a patent for the 'invention' of 'Time-Based Licensing,' which aims to make the traditional pay-once perpetual license model a thing of the past.
If they successfully patent time-based software licensing, wouldn't that make the traditional model a more viable solution?
That's one potential outcome. I think it is more likely that advertising will just be worth less, and so ad based web sites will make less money per advertisement, and will need to show more advertisements to stay in business.
Fraud has been going on for a long time. This isn't new, and isn't going to change anything.
Someone cutting you off isn't your fault. This is more like you almost getting into an accident because you had a narcoleptic episode. In which case, you shouldn't drive.
You could say that the FBI director could be cured with knowledge, but knowledge doesn't cure gullibility, only ignorance. It is rare that people recover from gullibility.
A warning to those with epilepsy, a history of nausea, or good sense. Do not watch the trailer!
I have a WRT54GL (effectively a WRT54Gv4) with DD-WRT, and when I was using it, it would often freeze. Usually when I was running a P2P client.
I found this: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Router_Slowdown I'll probably try that stuff next time I set it up. And Tomato. And OpenWRT. DD-WRT has lots of unexplained errors. I've heard good things about Tomato, and I value stability and functionality over freedom (they usually come packaged, I rarely have to choose).
Another possible reason for a router to freeze is overheating.
I think the best solution is to build our own. I think regular routers are just not powerful enough to route regular traffic adequately. I bought a regular router figuring it would be higher quality and simpler to use than my Debian-based home made router, but I was wrong. The only advantage to a regular router is that it takes less electricity, but it gets less done too. I suppose it takes up less space, and is easier to move too. And it looks prettier.
I tried that. But then I put kdawson back when I realized that half the fun to coming to Slashdot is making fun of the summaries, and the commenters, and complaining about the lack of news and substance and how there aren't any editors.
Nobody yet has mentioned the easiest, most reliable method of registering a domain name anonymously. Just enter fake information in the database. As long as it isn't obviously fake, like Fuck You at Fuck St, Fuck, 11111, it won't get deleted. And you don't have to worry about the proxy company selling it, or accidentally giving it away to hackers.
This of course won't solve the credit card has your name problem, but you can get anonymous debit cards from most grocery stores.
It will kill you instantly. Fortunately, it comes with a special rubber sheath and stand, which you can use to wrap around the beam, therefore making sure that you can see it and don't touch it.
Why not just buy a cheap eSATA or USB external drive and stick it in a closet somewhere -- it's not much more expensive, lasts longer, and saves you a ton of productivity.
GE expects a 1TB disk will be $100 5 years from now. That's more than a 1TB drive costs now, by then it will be 5 times as much. So people wouldn't use these disks to save money. The only whys I can think of are that it is smaller, and maybe lasts longer. Lasting longer is tough to tell, but historically optical disks have had a longer shelf-life than magnetic media when it has adequate error correction and no DRM.
More likely than spam filter, and more likely than vacation, is that this Google account, like most web service accounts, was inactive.
If somebody shipped a browser as crash-prone as Netscape was today, it wouldn't matter if it was three years ahead of the competition. People would play with it for a bit, and then use something stable.
Um, no, you just disproved your own point. Netscape did deliver a browser years ahead of the competition...
Here you go: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/today