The (US) government wants to protect its citizens? By reading all mail etc? So citizens shouldn't be allowed private communication channels, but carrying fire arms is legal? Either I or the US government is missing something here...;)
Great, let them withdraw JPEG as an ISO standard, that'll teach 'em!
Well, on second thought...:) Dropping JPEG as a standard wouldn't mean anything if there aren't enough viable alternatives. PNG sure is a very viable alternative, but I haven't seen too many PNG-powered websites so far. In fact, I think the sites I built myself are rarities. So dropping the JPEG-standard is one, but convincing ppl to switch to PNG is another... So, what are we going to do to accomplish this? Burn-all-JPEGs or something?:)
When a light car and a heavy car collide, the light car undergoes more acceleration which makes it a more dangerous place to be.
I suggest we all buy ourselves tanks.
But seriously, what you say there isn't as true as you might think. There's a lot more to be won in the technology. Compare an old car to a new one. Take for instance a Citroen CX (1974) and a Renault Laguna II (2001?). I estimate their weight is about the same, about 1300 kgs. And they're even both French:) I know in which one I'd like to be when they slam into eachother. I haven't seen many crashes with a normal car and a Formula One car, but in that case I'd prefer to be in the Formula One car... Even if its weight is less than half of that of its opponent.
But the article wasn't focused on security. In fact, the article wasn't even focused on the subject: it didn't talk as much about the car as about what the author thinks the world is like. Sure, internal combustion engines are dirty and stuff... And sure, oil reserves are running out. BUT WE'VE KNOWN THAT FOR AGES! Geez, why didn't he go into the car's details?
Think of advertisements on your desktop. I don't know about you all, but I would hate it. So, first thing I would do, is take a dive in the source and strip those parts out of it. Or at least, I'd try, because I'm not (yet?) such a C guru.
I'm pretty sure there are more folks out there that would do the same. And that would provide a lot of not-yet-programmers with an "itch to scratch", as Eric S. Raymond calls it in The cathedral and the bazar (or was it Linus in Just for fun? Dunno, I liked both:)
And once you get the hang, it's a lot easier to modify some more, start fooling around with other code and end up becoming a Linux kernel hacker:)
So yes, in this respect I'd like to see some ad sponsored stuff appear in the Open Source world. If it turns out to be a commercial flop (which I expect), it will at least get some more people working on Open Source projects. And as a result of that, you might no longer need funding...
When I was in college, we weren't allowed to do anything on the computers except what the teacher told us to do. This was a Computer Science college, mind you. If we even thought of popping up an ICQ-window, we could get kicked out.
Then we had this brilliant (?) idea of asking the school to provide us with room and bandwidth for a weekend, so that we could carry in our own computers and have a weekend of fun and Internet. They agreed. We could use the basement and sysadmin provided us with a fast uplink and a range of IP-adresses. We found Intel prepared to sponsor us: they would provide us with the network equipment we needed and we would make sure the name Intel was visible everywhere. I can tell you, it was fun. See opbouwen,
Zaterdag 1, Zaterdag 2 and Zondag for some picture.
In this way, we didn't have to use the inferior (?) school computers and school didn't have to worry about us vandalizing their equipment.
It may be just an idea, but wouldn't this be a possible April's Fool's Day (or whatever it's called in English) joke? Suppose they're going to court on April 1st...? Wouldn't surprise me.
I've always loved British humor. Guys like Hugh Laurie, John Cleese c.s. and Rowan Atkinson can really make my day. But this is so crazy even Monty Python couldn't have thought of anything like this:) This is what I would call Absolutely Fabulous.
I think he could have avoided this whole silly mess.
He probably could, but why should he? Spammers are annoying, but this is comedy. I love it. And maybe it's too late for Bernie to learn from this, surely some spammers-to-be can take this as a hint about how spam is seen on the Net. If you fail to be a good example, you can still be a horrible warning.
Honestly, I couldn't suppress a broad grin when I read this site. How more Slashdot-like can a post be? It's funny and related to the Internet. Admit, it can hardly be called informative:)
Say, wouldn't this be a nice Open Source project? Developing such a system on completely open standards (call it ReallyOpenMail or so *grin*). With lots of hooks for virus scanners and such.
I have some recollection of an article which stated that NASA was planning to deploy Linux on a broad scale. Can't remember where I read the article, only that I did and that it was quite some time ago.
Heh, that's one chess program that's made to be as violent as possible:) I remember the screaming of the pawn as a queen set fire to it. Or the chopping off arms and legs from knights and stuff. I think chess could be a major challenge for some, but I'd suggest you look for a less violent version of it.
Find a mud that focusses on exploration and quest solving, rather than fighting. Then it meets the non-violence criteria.
I think that's going to be a problem. I played MUD very (very) intensely for quite some time, but I haven't seen a single one in which fighting wasn't almost a goal in itself.
But the idea is very good, I think. Maybe you could have those kids rearrange an existing MUD engine into a non-violent one, provided that at least some of them can program. Question then is: what are you going to turn it into? You could replace the fighting by bargaining or exploring, but I think it would be difficult to make it as interesting as plain old slaying (insert evil grin here).
But how about a simple game of chess? I know from my own experience that a good chess program can be highly addictive. No violence, lots of challenge.
Some years ago I used to play Vikings, a rather simple game in terms of sound and video, but a real mind-twister from time to time. You had three Vikings, with their particular skills. You had to combine those skills in order to get all three of them from level to level.
I don't know in how far the no violence means can't hit anything, but you have to kill dinosaurs and cavemen every now and then. The killing part is like Space Invaders: you shoot and it drops. No blood, no screams, no satanical laughing.
As I said, it's been quite some time since I played it, so I can't provide you with a link now. I'll see if I can find the disks at home. If I do, I'll let you know.
But I don't see why you said the others are short-sighted...can you explain?
I didn't say the others were short-sighted, the word short-sighted referred to the fact that there are a lot of people defending Open Source and just one closed source. It's a bit like a business meeting where one employee wants to get something done, but all the others disagree: the man isn't going to get his way, whether he has a point or not.
Don't get me wrong, I like to see M$ in trouble (insert evil grin here), but in my opinion this is an unfair fight. Strange to notice that I actually liked the idea of someone defending M$ (Brett Glass).
He's busy dating!:D
Hmm, so the man has a private life too... Damn, that makes him better than me in two ways *grin*
I like the idea of an open discussion, but I don't think this will be an interesting one. The idea of this is MS-bashing. Which is fun, BTW, but with only one man defending a policy against a whole bunch of others is a little short-sighted. Too bad RMS quit, BTW.
Wouldn't it be much more interesting if some guys from Unisys joined, to defend their way of handling the GIF format? Or someone from AOL, I think it would be nice to see MS and AOL defend one point of view together. Maybe a discussion about standards in instant-messaging systems *grin*.
I really am sick and tired of the loads of spam that I get every day. I've been e-mailing senders and forwarders of spam for some time now, but it doesn't seem to help shit. I'm particularly angry about the ad for Winfix, that I get almost daily. I e-mailed these suckers, plus the contact address of the domain from which it was sent, plus the ISP which forwarded it, but none of them replied.
I wondered what could be done about this and/. inspired me for a solution. How about slashdotting spammers? I suppose I'm not the only one how keeps getting this Winfix ad (first thing I found when I entered winfix in AltaVista, was a number of pages about this very ad) and I think it would make quite an impression if all/. would send these jerks a few messages, telling them to quit spamming. How about it?
Maybe an idea for an extra topic on Slashdot: top 10 spammers. A page containing names of spammers and the ads they distribute. Accompanied, of course, by some addresses where to contact them so that all the world can tell them to get their hands off of our mailboxes.
Using Windows NT [...] on a warship is similar to hoping that luck will be in our favor.
Listen to the man, he's obviously an expert:)
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Hehehe, I saw a glimpse of Married...with children on German TV some time ago... IN GERMAN! Can you imagine Bud saying ah, dad, das ist cool? Even worse, I saw a piece of Saturday Night Fever. I can tell you: John Travolta sounds like a complete sissy when he speaks German:)
To all our German/.ers: Entschuldigung, ich mache nur Spaß;)
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The (US) government wants to protect its citizens? By reading all mail etc? So citizens shouldn't be allowed private communication channels, but carrying fire arms is legal? Either I or the US government is missing something here... ;)
Well, on second thought... :) Dropping JPEG as a standard wouldn't mean anything if there aren't enough viable alternatives. PNG sure is a very viable alternative, but I haven't seen too many PNG-powered websites so far. In fact, I think the sites I built myself are rarities. So dropping the JPEG-standard is one, but convincing ppl to switch to PNG is another... So, what are we going to do to accomplish this? Burn-all-JPEGs or something? :)
I suggest we all buy ourselves tanks.
But seriously, what you say there isn't as true as you might think. There's a lot more to be won in the technology. Compare an old car to a new one. Take for instance a Citroen CX (1974) and a Renault Laguna II (2001?). I estimate their weight is about the same, about 1300 kgs. And they're even both French :) I know in which one I'd like to be when they slam into eachother. I haven't seen many crashes with a normal car and a Formula One car, but in that case I'd prefer to be in the Formula One car... Even if its weight is less than half of that of its opponent.
But the article wasn't focused on security. In fact, the article wasn't even focused on the subject: it didn't talk as much about the car as about what the author thinks the world is like. Sure, internal combustion engines are dirty and stuff... And sure, oil reserves are running out. BUT WE'VE KNOWN THAT FOR AGES! Geez, why didn't he go into the car's details?
I'm pretty sure there are more folks out there that would do the same. And that would provide a lot of not-yet-programmers with an "itch to scratch", as Eric S. Raymond calls it in The cathedral and the bazar (or was it Linus in Just for fun? Dunno, I liked both :)
And once you get the hang, it's a lot easier to modify some more, start fooling around with other code and end up becoming a Linux kernel hacker :)
So yes, in this respect I'd like to see some ad sponsored stuff appear in the Open Source world. If it turns out to be a commercial flop (which I expect), it will at least get some more people working on Open Source projects. And as a result of that, you might no longer need funding...
Just my 2 Eurocents opinion...
Well, I remember having read this on /. before, and not a few years ago, one year at most. But agree, it's an interesting story :)
Then we had this brilliant (?) idea of asking the school to provide us with room and bandwidth for a weekend, so that we could carry in our own computers and have a weekend of fun and Internet. They agreed. We could use the basement and sysadmin provided us with a fast uplink and a range of IP-adresses. We found Intel prepared to sponsor us: they would provide us with the network equipment we needed and we would make sure the name Intel was visible everywhere. I can tell you, it was fun. See opbouwen, Zaterdag 1, Zaterdag 2 and Zondag for some picture.
In this way, we didn't have to use the inferior (?) school computers and school didn't have to worry about us vandalizing their equipment.
It may be just an idea, but wouldn't this be a possible April's Fool's Day (or whatever it's called in English) joke? Suppose they're going to court on April 1st...? Wouldn't surprise me.
I've always loved British humor. Guys like Hugh Laurie, John Cleese c.s. and Rowan Atkinson can really make my day. But this is so crazy even Monty Python couldn't have thought of anything like this :) This is what I would call Absolutely Fabulous.
He probably could, but why should he? Spammers are annoying, but this is comedy. I love it. And maybe it's too late for Bernie to learn from this, surely some spammers-to-be can take this as a hint about how spam is seen on the Net. If you fail to be a good example, you can still be a horrible warning.
Honestly, I couldn't suppress a broad grin when I read this site. How more Slashdot-like can a post be? It's funny and related to the Internet. Admit, it can hardly be called informative :)
Dude, if you want to post, please try to sound a little intelligent. The entire Internet was built on open standards.
Say, wouldn't this be a nice Open Source project? Developing such a system on completely open standards (call it ReallyOpenMail or so *grin*). With lots of hooks for virus scanners and such.
Yup, there's Postfix.
I have some recollection of an article which stated that NASA was planning to deploy Linux on a broad scale. Can't remember where I read the article, only that I did and that it was quite some time ago.
Heh, that's one chess program that's made to be as violent as possible :) I remember the screaming of the pawn as a queen set fire to it. Or the chopping off arms and legs from knights and stuff. I think chess could be a major challenge for some, but I'd suggest you look for a less violent version of it.
I think that's going to be a problem. I played MUD very (very) intensely for quite some time, but I haven't seen a single one in which fighting wasn't almost a goal in itself.
But the idea is very good, I think. Maybe you could have those kids rearrange an existing MUD engine into a non-violent one, provided that at least some of them can program. Question then is: what are you going to turn it into? You could replace the fighting by bargaining or exploring, but I think it would be difficult to make it as interesting as plain old slaying (insert evil grin here).
But how about a simple game of chess? I know from my own experience that a good chess program can be highly addictive. No violence, lots of challenge.
I don't know in how far the no violence means can't hit anything, but you have to kill dinosaurs and cavemen every now and then. The killing part is like Space Invaders: you shoot and it drops. No blood, no screams, no satanical laughing.
As I said, it's been quite some time since I played it, so I can't provide you with a link now. I'll see if I can find the disks at home. If I do, I'll let you know.
I didn't say the others were short-sighted, the word short-sighted referred to the fact that there are a lot of people defending Open Source and just one closed source. It's a bit like a business meeting where one employee wants to get something done, but all the others disagree: the man isn't going to get his way, whether he has a point or not.
Don't get me wrong, I like to see M$ in trouble (insert evil grin here), but in my opinion this is an unfair fight. Strange to notice that I actually liked the idea of someone defending M$ (Brett Glass).
He's busy dating! :D
Hmm, so the man has a private life too... Damn, that makes him better than me in two ways *grin*
Wouldn't it be much more interesting if some guys from Unisys joined, to defend their way of handling the GIF format? Or someone from AOL, I think it would be nice to see MS and AOL defend one point of view together. Maybe a discussion about standards in instant-messaging systems *grin*.
I wondered what could be done about this and /. inspired me for a solution. How about slashdotting spammers? I suppose I'm not the only one how keeps getting this Winfix ad (first thing I found when I entered winfix in AltaVista, was a number of pages about this very ad) and I think it would make quite an impression if all /. would send these jerks a few messages, telling them to quit spamming. How about it?
Maybe an idea for an extra topic on Slashdot: top 10 spammers. A page containing names of spammers and the ads they distribute. Accompanied, of course, by some addresses where to contact them so that all the world can tell them to get their hands off of our mailboxes.
Ok mom.
You're right, lunix is bad. Never seen lunix before, but I'm sure it's bad :)
Using Windows NT [...] on a warship is similar to hoping that luck will be in our favor.
Listen to the man, he's obviously an expert :)
To all our German /.ers: Entschuldigung, ich mache nur Spaß ;)
Try the new Renault Laguna or Citroën C5. After all it's not a coincidence that limousine and comfort are French words :)
Are you sure? Maybe the CD-eating fungus comes from Mars and is awaiting its lunch :)