Is it really any more irresponsible than running IE in the first place? How many more of these browser exploits have to happen? A part of me almost hopes someone does exploit this and do nasty things with it JUST SO PEOPLE WON'T BE DEPENDANT ON IE ANYMORE. Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer.
I think the word needs to be spread: Anyone who uses IE isn't an innocent bystander, but someone who knowingly uses a defective and dangerous product. IE Users are no better than people who own Ford Explorers and kept the old Firestones because they don't want to go through the trouble to get them changed.
So, all you other geeks out there, when you're visiting family over the upcoming holidays and they inevitably ask you to fix something on their computer, install Mozilla (or Opera, or even Netscape) and set it as the default browser. When they ask why, tell them it's because IE is a dangerous and defective product.
People don't care about freedom. They want their bread and circuses. If MS gives them more of that, they'll sell their very souls to get it.
The same people who "love freedom" voted for congressmen that passed the DMCA. The same people who "love freedom" probably don't know what the DMCA is or why it's important.
Users locked out from 95% of the internet? Nope. Linux locked away from 95% of the users. People won't care what's serving which pages or which they can or cannot see. It's not going to be immediate, it'll happen over time, and eventually a version of IE will ship that won't allow anything but pages from "approved and safe servers" to be viewed. And the majority of the freedom loving folks aren't going to care as long as they can still find their porn.
What will happen is this: All IE browsers will only load pages from "trusted" servers. You can only have a "trusted" server with Microsoft's blessing, specifically if it runs IIS. You can keep your webserver, because 95% of the computer market won't be able to see your pages anyway, or at the very least will get a warning that contains the word "illegal" at least once.
It's all about making your security holes work for you.
You could at least check the front page of CNN.COM before you dumped such a pathetic troll.
Dateline is 01:50 p.m. EDT (1750 GMT) -- 2 July 2002, lead story headline is "Searching for Answers", lead sentence is "Afghan and American officials headed to an Afghan village today to begin an investigation into why U.S. planes mistakenly struck a wedding party, killing about 40 people and wounding about 100."
You, my friend, are a dumbass. We're not all out to get you, you're just that paranoid.
Essentially, some governing body would determine that the following categories of information were news, and other categories were "features". Sports scores and actions are "news", but the Bob Costas-style features are just features, not really news. Political wrangling is news, but what the First Lady wore to dinner and who she talked to is a feature.
There are a lot of judgment calls that would have to be made, and some mechanism for producing those calls would need to be standardized. If someone was doing it on a subscription basis, I'd buy.
Finding a local field day
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If you're already a ham, just ask on the local repeaters, or get in touch with someone on 146.52.
If you're not a ham, check your local newspapers, or just go to google, look for an amateur radio club in a geographic area near you. For example, I live in Clay County, so search for Clay County Amateur Radio and you'll eventually find our web site.
We have a blast over field day. Typically, operations are done using emergency power. My club has a generator on a trailer, for field day as well as for emergencies.
The other cool thing about field day is that all you tecnician licenses (who can't normally transmit below 30 Mhz) can because clubs will have General and Extra class control operators around. So you get to play on HF and get a little incentive to upgrade your license.
So, anyone's who's got a few hours over the weekend, we start at 1800 UTC (13:00 CDT) on Saturday, and go for 24 hours. Show up, ask questions, and learn stuff.
It sounds like they don't have that whole "freedom of speech" thing the same way it exists in the U.S. Yeah, there's a lot of corporate hoo-ha on trying to limit freedom of speech, what is speech, and so on, but I don't think this case could ever fly in the US. So my advice to the Dutch and the Germans would be to get protected speech.
My other bit of advice would be to find the dumbass who think's it's a cool idea to derail trains carrying NUCLEAR MATERIAL and explain to him why having a freightcar load of NUCLEAR MATERIAL spilling onto the ground might not be a good idea.
The biggest problem (and greatest benefit) with free speech is that everyone gets it. Even dumbasses who want to dump a bunch of radioactive crap on the ground. Anybody who would even consider doing something like this has got to have fecal material in their cranium.
We have several smallshops that sell components cheap, usually about the same as pricewatch after you figure in sales tax, shipping, and all the other extras. I like buying from them because there is someone I can talk face-to-face with and return parts to. I can ask questions like "hey, how often do you get people returning brand X hard drives that are DOA".
Also, by taking my money to those shops I help make sure they stay in business, so as to not help those big shops that seem to get articles on slashdot a lot for various questionable business practices, as well as making sure the little shops are still around when I need a part "right now" not "in a few days, when we feel like sticking it in the mail".
Agreed. This is friggin beautiful. I'm on a powerbook, so I've got the whole LCD thing happening too, and the antialiased text is a big help for readability on any LCD.
Big difference. If anybody from the team is reading, thanks, this is great.
I've got to agree. I've been a subscriber since November. XM is great.
And that commercial thing. It's like the stupid one-button mouse topic every time an apple story gets posted. OK, let's review which XM channels have commercials: The talk stations, which are by and large syndicated stuff you'd pick up on AM radio (ESPN Radio, CNN headline news is just the audio feed from the TV bits, and so on). The comedy stations and a few of the music stations play commercials typically on the hour. A few of the music stations play commercials. Not all of them, and consequently none of the ones I listen to. The other stations that play commercials are rebroadcasts of crappy-ass pop stations from LA.
So get off the friggin commercial thing. It's limited, and you have the power to change the station and the variety of having something to land on that won't suck.
A decent toolset, with at least a #2 philips, a very small, a medium, and a very large standard, a good carpenter's hammer, a set of wrenches (crescent wrenches suck) in metric and english, pliers, vice grips, and wire strippers. The leatherman's too uncomfortable for big jobs, and the most subversive thing you can do is be able to build things. Don't neglect a decent toolbox either, something that will slide under a bed.
Screw the LED flashlight. Maglite. The 5 D-Cell version, but only if you can't find the 6. Gets you back from late classes in the dark safely, doubles as a death machine. It's big, it's heavy, and it's durable. And it has an extra bulb in the base. Belt carrying clip so it'll go on a backpack strap.
Batteries, for the flashlight and for everything else.
A decent wireless access point and a good working knowledge of snort would be good. That's more of a time investment than anything else though. Think of it as a digital lockpick, if you will.
Recommended reading...well, if she's not read Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Anthem, and The Forever War, she probably should. There's probably more than those, but they'd be the top of my list.
Condoms and "self satisfaction products" would probably be appreciated if presented discreetly.
(1) want to keep people from certain IP's from hitting your SQL Box? Use a firewall. That's what it's for.
(2) Then you'd end up with everyone setting their "SA" password to either space or, helpfully "sa". Why does C++ allow you to make unsafe pointer assignments? It assumes you know what you're doing. SQL Server is the same way, unfortunately lots of folks don't know what they're doing.
If they need to haul stuff, they buy a truck. If they want to stay in business, they don't leave the keys in it and the windows down while it's parked somewhere in public.
If they need to make copies, they buy a copy machine. If they need machine tools, they buy them. They also tend to keep these things in locked rooms so joe public can't walk in and trash them.
If they buy computer systems, they leave the passwords blank and expect people to not use them. That's not bad programming, it's stupid users.
First, I haven't found a good shared calendaring system that compares with the calendar bits in Exchange/Outlook. Server-based calendaring is important, even in smaller companies.
Second, MS Access. Shut up about MySQL for a minute. Access is a bit more than a data store (which is what MySQL is). It also has forms generation capabilities, makes pretty reports, and it's easy to use. It makes high-end end users able to write little "what are you going to bring to the potluck" applications quickly. It's not an enterprise computing tool, it's a personal computing tool. I haven't seen anything like it in the linux/open source world.
I'd love for someone to point me in the right general direction of replacements for these systems that don't have the heavy burden of MS software (a full-time on staff licensing manager).
There are very few people who can become outstanding system administrators and keep that career path growing without a degree. And it's not based on ability, it's really based on luck, a combination of how the economy goes and the right company needing to hire someone when you're available.
Consider 5 years down the road. Which do you think has a better top-end salary and job opportunities? Engineers can continue to evolve and accept more and more responsibility via bigger budgets, better technology, and more training. SA's generally have a certain number of machines they can fit into their headspace, and then they've topped out.
Consider 10 years down the road. What will the operating systems look like? I don't know, but I can guess that they'll still need to handle things like device access, paging and memory allocation, and process scheduling. Once I figure those bits out, I know how the OS works to a large extent, and I can start making guesses about how many users it can support, how much load it can support, and how much it's going ot cost when it's fully implemented.
In short, do you want to spend your life being a technician or an engineer? If you want to be a technician, the best training is on the job training. If you want to be an engineer, to get anything out of the on the job training you need, you've got to have foundation that you'll pick up in a good computer science curriculum.
Did you even read the findings of fact from the Microsoft case?
Microsoft was found GUILTY of doing EXACTLY what you're saying they didn't do to IBM in August of 1995 during the Windows 95 launch. If IBM sold OS/2 on their laptops, MS wouldn't license them to sell Windows 95 on the laptops. As it was, IBM didn't get to start working on a Win95 install for their laptops until August, at which point Dell, Compaq, and everybody else already had working, shipping Win95 laptops.
Microsoft is a monopoly. It is NOT illegal to be a monopoly. It's illegal to be an asshole about being a monopoly. There is a difference.
As far as the antarctica bit, there is a very sensitive seismograph at the south pole. Two reasons: very sparsely populated area (fewer false readings) and it probably makes it easier to triangulate where seismic events happen since it's far away from the rest of the seismographs.
I'd go so far as to suggest that the good that HP did by providing jobs that attract bright people to wherever they have offices is a very important thing. For the purely cynical at heart, it increases the tax base of the community by providing higher paying jobs. For the more realistic among us, the community building didn't stop there, with a wealth of community works projects.
Companies are important. Companies give people places to work, and make money. Good companies give back to their communities, and companies that do this well are rare and shouldn't be taken for granted.
While it's all en vogue to be anti-globalization, it's probably not in anyone's interest long term to be purely anti-commercial. Companies that inspire loyalty from their employees by helping them build neat things are few and far between (rather than buying their loyalty with stock options, ala Enron).
There are good companies and bad companies. Just like people. HP happened to be one of the good companies. We'll see if that spirit is gone now.
Yet another attempt to model a multi-billion year old climate based on a short data stream.
Let's estimate the average income of everyone in the US over time by looking at people in Rhode Island for the last three days. Same sampling scale, or close.
Useless experiment to hype up the global warming debate again. Gee, I wonder if they'll pick any of the initial conditions that say "things aren't so bad after all". Nope, the only starting conditions that will ever see the light of day are the ones that back up their theory.
Not that the science on the other side is any better. I'm getting tired of the entire debate because, guess what kids, this is supposed to be SCIENCE. Not prognositcation. There is a difference. Come up with a theory, build a series of experiments to prove it, and see if it sticks to the fridge or not. All I'm seeing here is "come up with a theory, pick the data points that will support it, and then publish it in the NY Times".
The telling part of this merger, and a lot of answers on "why" will be answered on Tuesday when they announce which product lines they are keeping, and which ones are going away. Some choices are obvious, keeping HP's printers, for example. Others....
Which to keep: NetServer or Proliant? Which to keep: Jornada or iPaq? Which to keep: HP Desktops or Compaq desktops
They're both in the consumer and workstation PC markets. Which of those stay, and which go?
All I've got to say is that if anything happens to the Proliant quality, there's gonna be a lot of IBM x440's bought on this end. Anybody got any guesses on which way the axe will fall?
The new TiBooks come with AirPort. And they have a nifty $100 rebate on an AirPort BaseStation.
Lovin mine. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I betcha it's the only laptop you can buy with Unix not only factory-installed, but as the primary OS. Ya just drop a little icon onto your taskbar for Terminal, and it's just like home.
If you want to work WITH your computer instead of ON your computer, it's a great choice.
Because hopefully, they'll implement it with a 10 minute "You can read it but you can't comment" delay. I think that it's a good idea, it'll give the people who have subscribed 10 minutes to actually follow the link, read the article, and perhaps comment intelligently about the article.
Another "plum" suggestion would be read-only access to a less-moderated submission queue. Something like totalfark, but throwing out the (I'm imagining) repeated submissions for goatse.cx. Basically, instead of the editors saying "post this submission, don't post that one", it'd be more like "post this to the main page, post this to the "subscriber bonus" page, and trash the other". I'd even suggest leaving comments turned off on the bonus page, but that's even debatable.
from what I've seen/read, who'd want to live/work in the DC area? Crime, protesters, crack-smoking mayors, and in the 'burbs, exceptionally high real estate prices and traffic problems. My 25-minute drive to work sucks enough, why would I want an hour-long commute?
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but...(you knew the "but" was coming, right?)
Is it really any more irresponsible than running IE in the first place? How many more of these browser exploits have to happen? A part of me almost hopes someone does exploit this and do nasty things with it JUST SO PEOPLE WON'T BE DEPENDANT ON IE ANYMORE. Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer.
I think the word needs to be spread: Anyone who uses IE isn't an innocent bystander, but someone who knowingly uses a defective and dangerous product. IE Users are no better than people who own Ford Explorers and kept the old Firestones because they don't want to go through the trouble to get them changed.
So, all you other geeks out there, when you're visiting family over the upcoming holidays and they inevitably ask you to fix something on their computer, install Mozilla (or Opera, or even Netscape) and set it as the default browser. When they ask why, tell them it's because IE is a dangerous and defective product.
People love freedom? That's crap.
People don't care about freedom. They want their bread and circuses. If MS gives them more of that, they'll sell their very souls to get it.
The same people who "love freedom" voted for congressmen that passed the DMCA. The same people who "love freedom" probably don't know what the DMCA is or why it's important.
Users locked out from 95% of the internet? Nope. Linux locked away from 95% of the users. People won't care what's serving which pages or which they can or cannot see. It's not going to be immediate, it'll happen over time, and eventually a version of IE will ship that won't allow anything but pages from "approved and safe servers" to be viewed. And the majority of the freedom loving folks aren't going to care as long as they can still find their porn.
What will happen is this: All IE browsers will only load pages from "trusted" servers. You can only have a "trusted" server with Microsoft's blessing, specifically if it runs IIS. You can keep your webserver, because 95% of the computer market won't be able to see your pages anyway, or at the very least will get a warning that contains the word "illegal" at least once.
It's all about making your security holes work for you.
You could at least check the front page of CNN.COM before you dumped such a pathetic troll.
Dateline is 01:50 p.m. EDT (1750 GMT) -- 2 July 2002, lead story headline is "Searching for Answers", lead sentence is "Afghan and American officials headed to an Afghan village today to begin an investigation into why U.S. planes mistakenly struck a wedding party, killing about 40 people and wounding about 100."
You, my friend, are a dumbass. We're not all out to get you, you're just that paranoid.
I think this is an interesting idea.
Essentially, some governing body would determine that the following categories of information were news, and other categories were "features". Sports scores and actions are "news", but the Bob Costas-style features are just features, not really news. Political wrangling is news, but what the First Lady wore to dinner and who she talked to is a feature.
There are a lot of judgment calls that would have to be made, and some mechanism for producing those calls would need to be standardized. If someone was doing it on a subscription basis, I'd buy.
If you're already a ham, just ask on the local repeaters, or get in touch with someone on 146.52.
If you're not a ham, check your local newspapers, or just go to google, look for an amateur radio club in a geographic area near you. For example, I live in Clay County, so search for Clay County Amateur Radio and you'll eventually find our web site.
We have a blast over field day. Typically, operations are done using emergency power. My club has a generator on a trailer, for field day as well as for emergencies.
The other cool thing about field day is that all you tecnician licenses (who can't normally transmit below 30 Mhz) can because clubs will have General and Extra class control operators around. So you get to play on HF and get a little incentive to upgrade your license.
So, anyone's who's got a few hours over the weekend, we start at 1800 UTC (13:00 CDT) on Saturday, and go for 24 hours. Show up, ask questions, and learn stuff.
It sounds like they don't have that whole "freedom of speech" thing the same way it exists in the U.S. Yeah, there's a lot of corporate hoo-ha on trying to limit freedom of speech, what is speech, and so on, but I don't think this case could ever fly in the US. So my advice to the Dutch and the Germans would be to get protected speech.
My other bit of advice would be to find the dumbass who think's it's a cool idea to derail trains carrying NUCLEAR MATERIAL and explain to him why having a freightcar load of NUCLEAR MATERIAL spilling onto the ground might not be a good idea.
The biggest problem (and greatest benefit) with free speech is that everyone gets it. Even dumbasses who want to dump a bunch of radioactive crap on the ground. Anybody who would even consider doing something like this has got to have fecal material in their cranium.
We have several small shops that sell components cheap, usually about the same as pricewatch after you figure in sales tax, shipping, and all the other extras. I like buying from them because there is someone I can talk face-to-face with and return parts to. I can ask questions like "hey, how often do you get people returning brand X hard drives that are DOA".
Also, by taking my money to those shops I help make sure they stay in business, so as to not help those big shops that seem to get articles on slashdot a lot for various questionable business practices, as well as making sure the little shops are still around when I need a part "right now" not "in a few days, when we feel like sticking it in the mail".
Agreed. This is friggin beautiful. I'm on a powerbook, so I've got the whole LCD thing happening too, and the antialiased text is a big help for readability on any LCD.
Big difference. If anybody from the team is reading, thanks, this is great.
I've got to agree. I've been a subscriber since November. XM is great.
And that commercial thing. It's like the stupid one-button mouse topic every time an apple story gets posted. OK, let's review which XM channels have commercials: The talk stations, which are by and large syndicated stuff you'd pick up on AM radio (ESPN Radio, CNN headline news is just the audio feed from the TV bits, and so on). The comedy stations and a few of the music stations play commercials typically on the hour. A few of the music stations play commercials. Not all of them, and consequently none of the ones I listen to. The other stations that play commercials are rebroadcasts of crappy-ass pop stations from LA.
So get off the friggin commercial thing. It's limited, and you have the power to change the station and the variety of having something to land on that won't suck.
A Leatherman super-tool.
A decent toolset, with at least a #2 philips, a very small, a medium, and a very large standard, a good carpenter's hammer, a set of wrenches (crescent wrenches suck) in metric and english, pliers, vice grips, and wire strippers. The leatherman's too uncomfortable for big jobs, and the most subversive thing you can do is be able to build things. Don't neglect a decent toolbox either, something that will slide under a bed.
Screw the LED flashlight. Maglite. The 5 D-Cell version, but only if you can't find the 6. Gets you back from late classes in the dark safely, doubles as a death machine. It's big, it's heavy, and it's durable. And it has an extra bulb in the base. Belt carrying clip so it'll go on a backpack strap.
Batteries, for the flashlight and for everything else.
A decent wireless access point and a good working knowledge of snort would be good. That's more of a time investment than anything else though. Think of it as a digital lockpick, if you will.
Recommended reading...well, if she's not read Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Anthem, and The Forever War, she probably should. There's probably more than those, but they'd be the top of my list.
Condoms and "self satisfaction products" would probably be appreciated if presented discreetly.
(1) want to keep people from certain IP's from hitting your SQL Box? Use a firewall. That's what it's for.
(2) Then you'd end up with everyone setting their "SA" password to either space or, helpfully "sa". Why does C++ allow you to make unsafe pointer assignments? It assumes you know what you're doing. SQL Server is the same way, unfortunately lots of folks don't know what they're doing.
If they need to haul stuff, they buy a truck. If they want to stay in business, they don't leave the keys in it and the windows down while it's parked somewhere in public.
If they need to make copies, they buy a copy machine. If they need machine tools, they buy them. They also tend to keep these things in locked rooms so joe public can't walk in and trash them.
If they buy computer systems, they leave the passwords blank and expect people to not use them. That's not bad programming, it's stupid users.
First, I haven't found a good shared calendaring system that compares with the calendar bits in Exchange/Outlook. Server-based calendaring is important, even in smaller companies.
Second, MS Access. Shut up about MySQL for a minute. Access is a bit more than a data store (which is what MySQL is). It also has forms generation capabilities, makes pretty reports, and it's easy to use. It makes high-end end users able to write little "what are you going to bring to the potluck" applications quickly. It's not an enterprise computing tool, it's a personal computing tool. I haven't seen anything like it in the linux/open source world.
I'd love for someone to point me in the right general direction of replacements for these systems that don't have the heavy burden of MS software (a full-time on staff licensing manager).
There are very few people who can become outstanding system administrators and keep that career path growing without a degree. And it's not based on ability, it's really based on luck, a combination of how the economy goes and the right company needing to hire someone when you're available.
Consider 5 years down the road. Which do you think has a better top-end salary and job opportunities? Engineers can continue to evolve and accept more and more responsibility via bigger budgets, better technology, and more training. SA's generally have a certain number of machines they can fit into their headspace, and then they've topped out.
Consider 10 years down the road. What will the operating systems look like? I don't know, but I can guess that they'll still need to handle things like device access, paging and memory allocation, and process scheduling. Once I figure those bits out, I know how the OS works to a large extent, and I can start making guesses about how many users it can support, how much load it can support, and how much it's going ot cost when it's fully implemented.
In short, do you want to spend your life being a technician or an engineer? If you want to be a technician, the best training is on the job training. If you want to be an engineer, to get anything out of the on the job training you need, you've got to have foundation that you'll pick up in a good computer science curriculum.
Did you even read the findings of fact from the Microsoft case?
Microsoft was found GUILTY of doing EXACTLY what you're saying they didn't do to IBM in August of 1995 during the Windows 95 launch. If IBM sold OS/2 on their laptops, MS wouldn't license them to sell Windows 95 on the laptops. As it was, IBM didn't get to start working on a Win95 install for their laptops until August, at which point Dell, Compaq, and everybody else already had working, shipping Win95 laptops.
Microsoft is a monopoly. It is NOT illegal to be a monopoly. It's illegal to be an asshole about being a monopoly. There is a difference.
As far as the antarctica bit, there is a very sensitive seismograph at the south pole. Two reasons: very sparsely populated area (fewer false readings) and it probably makes it easier to triangulate where seismic events happen since it's far away from the rest of the seismographs.
I'd go so far as to suggest that the good that HP did by providing jobs that attract bright people to wherever they have offices is a very important thing. For the purely cynical at heart, it increases the tax base of the community by providing higher paying jobs. For the more realistic among us, the community building didn't stop there, with a wealth of community works projects.
Companies are important. Companies give people places to work, and make money. Good companies give back to their communities, and companies that do this well are rare and shouldn't be taken for granted.
While it's all en vogue to be anti-globalization, it's probably not in anyone's interest long term to be purely anti-commercial. Companies that inspire loyalty from their employees by helping them build neat things are few and far between (rather than buying their loyalty with stock options, ala Enron).
There are good companies and bad companies. Just like people. HP happened to be one of the good companies. We'll see if that spirit is gone now.
Yet another attempt to model a multi-billion year old climate based on a short data stream.
Let's estimate the average income of everyone in the US over time by looking at people in Rhode Island for the last three days. Same sampling scale, or close.
Useless experiment to hype up the global warming debate again. Gee, I wonder if they'll pick any of the initial conditions that say "things aren't so bad after all". Nope, the only starting conditions that will ever see the light of day are the ones that back up their theory.
Not that the science on the other side is any better. I'm getting tired of the entire debate because, guess what kids, this is supposed to be SCIENCE. Not prognositcation. There is a difference. Come up with a theory, build a series of experiments to prove it, and see if it sticks to the fridge or not. All I'm seeing here is "come up with a theory, pick the data points that will support it, and then publish it in the NY Times".
The telling part of this merger, and a lot of answers on "why" will be answered on Tuesday when they announce which product lines they are keeping, and which ones are going away. Some choices are obvious, keeping HP's printers, for example. Others....
Which to keep: NetServer or Proliant?
Which to keep: Jornada or iPaq?
Which to keep: HP Desktops or Compaq desktops
They're both in the consumer and workstation PC markets. Which of those stay, and which go?
All I've got to say is that if anything happens to the Proliant quality, there's gonna be a lot of IBM x440's bought on this end. Anybody got any guesses on which way the axe will fall?
Nitpicky, I know, but....
The new TiBooks come with AirPort. And they have a nifty $100 rebate on an AirPort BaseStation.
Lovin mine. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I betcha it's the only laptop you can buy with Unix not only factory-installed, but as the primary OS. Ya just drop a little icon onto your taskbar for Terminal, and it's just like home.
If you want to work WITH your computer instead of ON your computer, it's a great choice.
Because hopefully, they'll implement it with a 10 minute "You can read it but you can't comment" delay. I think that it's a good idea, it'll give the people who have subscribed 10 minutes to actually follow the link, read the article, and perhaps comment intelligently about the article.
Another "plum" suggestion would be read-only access to a less-moderated submission queue. Something like totalfark, but throwing out the (I'm imagining) repeated submissions for goatse.cx. Basically, instead of the editors saying "post this submission, don't post that one", it'd be more like "post this to the main page, post this to the "subscriber bonus" page, and trash the other". I'd even suggest leaving comments turned off on the bonus page, but that's even debatable.
from what I've seen/read, who'd want to live/work in the DC area? Crime, protesters, crack-smoking mayors, and in the 'burbs, exceptionally high real estate prices and traffic problems. My 25-minute drive to work sucks enough, why would I want an hour-long commute?
Somebody please tell me I'm wrong here.
Let's see. It involves a scoring system and has definable "win" conditions.
:). And as much of a sport as chess. You decide.
It's more of a sport than figure skating
Insightful, to the point, and well written. Nice work.