I have heard on good authority that the signals we recieved earlier have been translated and they in fact a message that came from mars, the message contained the following data; "If You Keep Sending This Junk To Us, We Are Going To Get Pissed Off."
QoS Support? are you nuts?, Do you have any idea of the kind of inefficiency created by using QoS to mark packets? Work with a major ISP for awhile and you'll understand, the internet is amazingly stable considering it uses routers held together with chewing gum, they can't handle QoS. QoS is a bad idea, marking packets is a bad idea.
Say it with me now, "Marking packets is bad mm'kay"
Jon, the odds some high ranking Ford executive's kid is into computers and so they did this deal just so the higher ups can get some free computers for their family, in exchange for the company buying lots of them for the workers.
When this comes up in any public forum, I expect some sort of negative reaction. As was part of my comment to Katz describing this very situation, this is why I asked him that question. When you get flames from people all the time, you get used to it.
As for Matt's box, I've been there since his LSU Days.. back in 95' I think...
You are a perfect example of the flame-casters I was refering. Though I notice by your jurai email you're on matt's box now, I wonder when that happened? As for AO, I don't defend John, and I never liked Caroline, both have turned an otherwise honest medium into one of lies and deception.
I am, or was a online writer like yourself, I spent a great deal of time and energy writing for a publication which I will not name as I feel I have finally lived down the flame I recieved by aligning myself to it. Some Slashdot readers may recall my name from it, some may not. Regardless I've spent almost a year recovering from the hatred I received online, not for my writing but that I wrote *for* this online webzine. As a result, its lack of integrity has gone from flame to truth even in the eyes of the mainstream media. The result is I have seen first hand what flame can do, Almost to an exact opposite of what has happened with you and Slashdot. In my case, I was not hated for what I wrote, but for who I wrote it. In your case, Slashdot remains respected even with your detractors hating your writing. My question is how you deal with your detractors, and how you continue to write, do you ignore them as a whole? or as I've seen recently,(from the furnance series of articles) you've tried to understand them and their motives in a attempt that they might better understand you? My question is how you intend to recover from the damage done to you by your detractors, whether real or not - it continues to hound you and Slashdot and I for one would like to know if it is even possible to put such 'ghosts' to rest.
I feel the Hemos Award was rigged, It should have been presented to me as I feel I am a better "Hemos" then the Hemos who accepted the award. This leads me to believe that there is a conspiracy underway to prevent the more worthy Hemos-i from stepping forward to claim their heritage. No - instead we are forced to acknowledge this false prophet Hemos as our true Hemos. This is most Anti-Hemos and his coming has been told in the great book of Hemos for some Hemoniums now. Anonymous Hemos #981376351
So I guess Slashdot is going to be running under VA Hardware eventually?.. This does put us (the readers) in a difficult position as we must trust the journalistic integry of Rob Malda and Jeff Bates, Which we have never had to do before since there wasn't a major coporate Linux Corp backing Slashdot.org until now. This also puts pressure on them in that anything they do with regards to VA/Linux news may cause them to come under fire as being 'biased'. This deal while good for Andover.net, may make life alot harder on our friends here at slashdot, for both sides of the fence.
A not so well known alternative which uses a very low ammount of bandwidth is a program written in 1995' called 'Iparty' developed as a n 'experiment' and given out freely by Intel.
It's amazing what a little flame mail will do these days when only a few thousand people send them... all within about five minutes... to a single person...
are we archiving these on slashdot somewhere? Of course *I* have collected and archived every episode, afterall - who wouldnt want them? Listening to the angelic voice of Hemos keeps me sane...
Its nice to see more works like this one making their way into the spotlight., However I think after witnessing the lawyers quoting Anonymous Cowards from slashdot that it won't be the overpaid analysts/experts that may sway judges treding the dark gloomy waters of the legalities of data collection and reverse engineering so much as it will be the people who post without thought in public forums who's pointed and often heated words will be used to attack the very community they hope to represent. Its an age old pratice of tactics of speech, we as a community need to be carefull how we present ourselves, and try to take notes on what the mainstream is thinking so we can know what they need to be educated on, if anything.
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that all of ZDNET is beginning to mimic the patent pending writing of Jesse Berst? Everyweek it seems some columnist from ZiffDavis is writes a pro-linux and then later a anti-linux article on which neither is original or informative. The end result only seems to be that slashdot.org will post a link to their article and all of us will read it, quote it, respond/flame it, and talk about it for the full fifteen minutes of fame it was written to generate. Perhaps we should start ignoring articles like this and concentrate on things that were not created to just get a rise out of the linux communities' collective nerves.
Alot of the Unix camp comes from the school of thought that says a GUI is only so we can display more xterms at the same time. There is also the people who either worship or despise the GUI itself. From whichever camp you follow you all know we will never go back to the console-line world when it comes to the 'home pc', granted - the evolution of the GUI has began to impress even me. However, I feel Gates' law beginning to creep up and take hold of even our beloved XFree86, I can remember when simplicity of design was law, and now I see the trend to copy and mimic GUIs like OS/X for their beauty, unfortunitly all that beauty is not free, it can cost us our grace.
Even though when this issue is raised it seems to raise some concern, I feel this is another example that Linux was indeed right that Linux's next real dominance may come from being used to run embedded systems and NC's like these terminals. Which can be a great thing for linux as a whole.
That single perl script they are running to parse all the world's email for words like "BOMB" and "ENCRYPTION" must of finally choked from our Echelon protest last month;)
I think this issue has been debated to death, but once again I can't help but point out the design flaws in "Security thru Obscruity", if MS would just open up their source and let us peek around I'm sure we could sniff out all those nasty bugs.. err I mean "FEATURES"
Encryption is bad mm'kay? If you use encryption, you're a bad criminal person mm'kay? Don't use encryption, mm'kay? -Brought to you by the US Government
I've read this book, and the review is dead on in my opinion. It's a nice general overview of the subject matter, and like a college textbook or stereo instruction manual, it reads very dry. I'd suggest it to people with no real knowledge of the world of security as a realistic look on the problems that need to be tackled. However this book is in no ways a way to be taught how to solve said problems.
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I have heard on good authority that the signals we recieved earlier have been translated and they in fact a message that came from mars, the message contained the following data; "If You Keep Sending This Junk To Us, We Are Going To Get Pissed Off."
Instead of ending stupid patents, why don't we just end stupid posts on /. ?
Heh, There goes any karma I had left...
QoS Support? are you nuts?, Do you have any idea of the kind of inefficiency created by using QoS to mark packets? Work with a major ISP for awhile and you'll understand, the internet is amazingly stable considering it uses routers held together with chewing gum, they can't handle QoS. QoS is a bad idea, marking packets is a bad idea.
Say it with me now, "Marking packets is bad mm'kay"
I think Hemos would make a great Arthur...
Jon, the odds some high ranking Ford executive's kid is into computers and so they did this deal just so the higher ups can get some free computers for their family, in exchange for the company buying lots of them for the workers.
When this comes up in any public forum, I expect some sort of negative reaction. As was part of my comment to Katz describing this very situation, this is why I asked him that question. When you get flames from people all the time, you get used to it.
As for Matt's box, I've been there since his LSU Days.. back in 95' I think...
Jeremy Anderson,
You are a perfect example of the flame-casters I was refering. Though I notice by your jurai email you're on matt's box now, I wonder when that happened? As for AO, I don't defend John, and I never liked Caroline, both have turned an otherwise honest medium into one of lies and deception.
Jon,
I am, or was a online writer like yourself, I spent a great deal of time and energy writing for a publication which I will not name as I feel I have finally lived down the flame I recieved by aligning myself to it. Some Slashdot readers may recall my name from it, some may not. Regardless I've spent almost a year recovering from the hatred I received online, not for my writing but that I wrote *for* this online webzine. As a result, its lack of integrity has gone from flame to truth even in the eyes of the mainstream media. The result is I have seen first hand what flame can do, Almost to an exact opposite of what has happened with you and Slashdot. In my case, I was not hated for what I wrote, but for who I wrote it. In your case, Slashdot remains respected even with your detractors hating your writing. My question is how you deal with your detractors, and how you continue to write, do you ignore them as a whole? or as I've seen recently,(from the furnance series of articles) you've tried to understand them and their motives in a attempt that they might better understand you? My question is how you intend to recover from the damage done to you by your detractors, whether real or not - it continues to hound you and Slashdot and I for one would like to know if it is even possible to put such 'ghosts' to rest.
Rodney Caston
the information tends to get a bit scrambled each time it is reread
So How do we het the MPAA and the RIAA to start using this medium?
I feel the Hemos Award was rigged, It should have been presented to me as I feel I am a better "Hemos" then the Hemos who accepted the award. This leads me to believe that there is a conspiracy underway to prevent the more worthy Hemos-i from stepping forward to claim their heritage. No - instead we are forced to acknowledge this false prophet Hemos as our true Hemos. This is most Anti-Hemos and his coming has been told in the great book of Hemos for some Hemoniums now. Anonymous Hemos #981376351
So I guess Slashdot is going to be running under VA Hardware eventually? .. This does put us (the readers) in a difficult position as we must trust the journalistic integry of Rob Malda and Jeff Bates, Which we have never had to do before since there wasn't a major coporate Linux Corp backing Slashdot.org until now. This also puts pressure on them in that anything they do with regards to VA/Linux news may cause them to come under fire as being 'biased'. This deal while good for Andover.net, may make life alot harder on our friends here at slashdot, for both sides of the fence.
A not so well known alternative which uses a very low ammount of bandwidth is a program written in 1995' called 'Iparty' developed as a n 'experiment' and given out freely by Intel.
It's amazing what a little flame mail will do these days when only a few thousand people send them... all within about five minutes... to a single person...
Slashdot Flame Mail - fear our 31337 pestering.
are we archiving these on slashdot somewhere? Of course *I* have collected and archived every episode, afterall - who wouldnt want them? Listening to the angelic voice of Hemos keeps me sane...
I'd like to see an Aibo lead an expedition to the south pole.
Its nice to see more works like this one making their way into the spotlight., However I think after witnessing the lawyers quoting Anonymous Cowards from slashdot that it won't be the overpaid analysts/experts that may sway judges treding the dark gloomy waters of the legalities of data collection and reverse engineering so much as it will be the people who post without thought in public forums who's pointed and often heated words will be used to attack the very community they hope to represent. Its an age old pratice of tactics of speech, we as a community need to be carefull how we present ourselves, and try to take notes on what the mainstream is thinking so we can know what they need to be educated on, if anything.
Wow, the MPAA and China... This is certainly a match signed in hell and witnessed by Steve Case himself.
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that all of ZDNET is beginning to mimic the patent pending writing of Jesse Berst? Everyweek it seems some columnist from ZiffDavis is writes a pro-linux and then later a anti-linux article on which neither is original or informative. The end result only seems to be that slashdot.org will post a link to their article and all of us will read it, quote it, respond/flame it, and talk about it for the full fifteen minutes of fame it was written to generate. Perhaps we should start ignoring articles like this and concentrate on things that were not created to just get a rise out of the linux communities' collective nerves.
Alot of the Unix camp comes from the school of thought that says a GUI is only so we can display more xterms at the same time. There is also the people who either worship or despise the GUI itself. From whichever camp you follow you all know we will never go back to the console-line world when it comes to the 'home pc', granted - the evolution of the GUI has began to impress even me. However, I feel Gates' law beginning to creep up and take hold of even our beloved XFree86, I can remember when simplicity of design was law, and now I see the trend to copy and mimic GUIs like OS/X for their beauty, unfortunitly all that beauty is not free, it can cost us our grace.
Even though when this issue is raised it seems to raise some concern, I feel this is another example that Linux was indeed right that Linux's next real dominance may come from being used to run embedded systems and NC's like these terminals. Which can be a great thing for linux as a whole.
That single perl script they are running to parse all the world's email for words like "BOMB" and "ENCRYPTION" must of finally choked from our Echelon protest last month ;)
I think this issue has been debated to death, but once again I can't help but point out the design flaws in "Security thru Obscruity", if MS would just open up their source and let us peek around I'm sure we could sniff out all those nasty bugs.. err I mean "FEATURES"
Encryption is bad mm'kay? If you use encryption, you're a bad criminal person mm'kay? Don't use encryption, mm'kay? -Brought to you by the US Government
Now if they will just create a enzyme that will clean my bathroom.
I've read this book, and the review is dead on in my opinion. It's a nice general overview of the subject matter, and like a college textbook or stereo instruction manual, it reads very dry. I'd suggest it to people with no real knowledge of the world of security as a realistic look on the problems that need to be tackled. However this book is in no ways a way to be taught how to solve said problems.