These companies are like small children - they have to be raised with the values of our siciety. And they will make mistakes. But that's mistakes, not consicious evil! And we should not punich them or harass them, as some people did when this first came up on/., instaed, we should, as Perens did, help them up on the path again!
Anyone knows for usage of which technologies, and hence for infrigement of which patents, they have sued Netscape? Links into the IBM patent database would be especially good.
Why not create an encyption system, that enables you to pack as many messages into one single encrypted message as you like, having one private key for them each, and make it impossible to count the them, or in any way know which one is "the real one"? With this system, you could allways hand in some of your private keys, and allways include some harmless text, encrypted with some of the handed in keys, in your encrypted messages. I don't even think this would be hard to implement. Oh, and just an implementation note: Make all encrypted messages be in sizes that are multiples of some fixed size (1024 bytes?), so that it is impossible to see from the sizxe of the encrypted message, how many messages there are in it.
This "technology" is, right now, used in sweden by farmers for cows and pigs. And that was exactly what the nazists meant the system ; for; for "these human animals", if I got the quote right... Scary, rally scary.
No. Being able to see what is good does not imply that you are able to create something good (But it does imply that you don't write something bad). In the same way, being bad at moderating does not imply that you are bad at writing.
So the system should not tie together Karma for moderations with Karma for postings.
And, finally, a question to Malda: Why is the moderation Karma (M2 moderation done to you) , but not the posting Karma (Moderations done to your postings) shown on your usder page?
In Europe, it's ruled - you can not patent or copyright life. The law was about genetic manipulation, but from what I know, it will cover this too (But I'm not a lawyer). So the church may not file any lawsuit here...
By the way, think of an OpenGenome creature with everyone assembling bugs in their basements - what a wonderfull and scary future!
I think the religious right will deny this forever. They can not accept that anyone except god may create life. And if they are convinced by evidence otherwise, they'l deny it as long as possible, and then say it's a sin. Anyway, to answer a question in one of the other comments "do such a bacteria have a soul": Let's say someone in the future creates not a bacteria but an animal (perheaps as smart as a human). Would that animal have the right to be free, as humas has? If its is created from silicon and iron (a robot), would that affect its rights? I think that, if humans where able to, they would create machine slaves. Never would they create robots (whetever made by iron and silicon or carbon) to give them freedom. This makes it a sin. So, once, the church has right. But in a way they didn't meant it...
That is only an average... And the minimum and maximum is wide apart. The web is not really a web I think, but a set of (nearly) independent webs. An example of this is the set of x86 protected mode programming sites. Nearly all of them are linked with the others, but not with anything else.
Oh, and just one more thought: Links Why not make it easy to link from one post to another. Without having to copy the URL. Just add a link from where you are writing a post, to the main page that adds a special parameter to the querry that makes/. remember your posting. Then, along with all postings, and add-link button should appear, which you could hit to go back to your posting-editation, with the link pasted... OK, perheaps it could be done in some better way I can not figure out right now, but an easy linking scheme is needed (Some people just pastes the URL with the cdi-links, without an <A Href="">, so you have to copy/paste the links! Blah!).
The reader-style of a moderator must be different from the style of a non-moderator; a moderator should typically browse at -1, while, as a typical non-moderator, you browse at 0, or even 1. While moderator access is given by random, it would be good to le people configure two browse levels, one for when they have moderator access, and one for when they don't.
In addition to this idea, that is just a feature-idea *featurist*, I have a wuestion; What is the reason for the totally random grant of moderator access? Either, you could let everyone have access (Give us one point for each, let's say, 10 of written comments). That/. would perheaps become the Average Stupid/., but not more than it is today... Or, you could give those moderated high (those with high karma), moderator access (Say, one point per 10 recieved points). That/. will probably become a elitistic/., but not more elitistic than today's. So, what is the reason for randomness? But perheaps, there is no reason for it, just that you don't see any reason for non-randomness? But there certainly is a reason for non-randomness: A person, or at least I, want continuity, to be able to predict the load of information to be read today. In addition, when a moderator doesn't have any points left, but sees a very good, new, posting, he or she should be able to collect some more points (by writing some good things), to be able to moderate up that good posting later... Or, at least, that last is a good idea, though, only i sketch...
To answer the problem; why not give people "restricted moderator access"; i.e. let them moderate down in a thread, but not higher up? That would allow good postings deep down in the tree to pop up to the top. Another solution, that is not that fair, is to double moderator points given to a posting deep down in the tree (Have a factor that increases the moderator points given deeper down, say points_recieved = points_given + 0.5 * thread_depth).
This might be a bit off-topic, but anyway, I've thought a lot of it, so I'l put it here... It would be nice to have a type of articles that are posted by average users, and not reviewed by Rob or anyone else. Of course they should be filterable! That would allow general comments on/. and other such things. An alternative would be a fixed topic that is allways there, to which people can post anything at any time, and from which old, non-moderated postings are eaten by a garbage-collector.
First, it doesn't matter if you have a copyright notice or not - you own the copyright of all work done by you. To provide everyone with the ability to distribute your work, but not to restrict the rights of anyone else, there are several licenses. I don't know if GPL is applicable to anything else than source. But if it is (A text-file is it's own sourcecode?), that's a good choice (Mainly because everyone knows what GPL is). Another alternative is OPL (www.opencontent.org) ; it is designed for non-code documents so it is guaranteed to be usefull for this purpose. A more restricted license to distribute text under may be the license for the Linux documentation. But I havn't read that license that thorough, so I don't know if it's what you want...
Activity The survey does asks for the time you spend on a list of activites such as e-mail, surfing, chatting, etc. But programming isn't even incliuded. Or is that "work", even if I don't get paid?
Spending time "on the Internet" I have a direct connection, so I'm allways "on the Internet", as defined in the survey... Altough I do not surf the web often, I have a biff on my desktop, so I can se new mails arrive. Is that to check the in-box constantly? Is if to "use the Internet" to ssh to somewhere else and run emacs there to write a novell? The definition is quite fuzzy... Or I'm just to detail-focused?
Anyway, I think those thinking you may be addicted to the Internet hasn't understund anything. You may be addicted to chatting, or a-miling. It's a bounch of fenomens, not one single. And is everyone having a great hobby an addict to his/her hobby?
So, when discussing a graphical installation, I have to promote my graphical boot! It wraps araound init and shows nice icons along the text. I designed it after a discussion here at/., so I think it's apropriate to post this... And anyway, it's name isn't just any word plus ix:)
Actually, print Screen isn't really a Print Screen. It's a SysRq (It sais that at the side of it). You use it when you've trashed the keyboard/screen drivers (Like when X or SVGAlib crashes) to sync and unmount the discs and the reboot... (ALT-SysRq-s syns, ALT-SysRq-u unmounts and ALT-SysRq-b reboots).
Without a SysRq I would have a dead machine today
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How do you do ALT-SysRq-s, ALT-SysRq-u and ALT-SysRq-b, without a SysRq? Ok, in most cases you may live with the functionallity provided by gpm (Tripple click both left and right mouse buttons, the click one button again), but that will only work if things didn't wen that wrong... Besides that, people uses TVs with a set of buttons for normal use (Change channel, volume etc), and a set of buttons for config. use (tune in a station, set colour balance, etc). They seems not to have any problem with that. SO, why would they have problem with some extra "strange" keys on their computer keyborads? I've never heard any "average joe" complain about that as a hard thing with computers... Everything else, but not the keyboard...
A thing that they do complain over is the key-combinations. Like Ctrl-C for copy, etc. Why not create a keybord like the SUN keyboard that has keys for Cut, Copy, Paste and Help? And when w're at it, we may even add keys like "move a word forward/backward", "move to end/start of paragraph/line/document" (Line does allready exist as home/end, but they are sometimes mapped to document), "Indent more/less".
OK, this might be a troll, but... Ary you damn crazy, Americans? Banning the evolution theory and letting the religious right in to the school will decrease the number of well-educated students, suited for Univerdity study, that comes out of it. Oh, well, just continue and we'l not have to bother about you here in Europe anymore:) Or stop NOW.
...so you come after us to make us need you. That's their reason to harrass us.
I see some trends;
The old style representation of people consists of old people (How many yang delegates are there in the EU parlament?). The new consists of everyone who cares to represent him/herself. _Including_ the yang people. The old are scaered to loose their power.
The old style manifests its power through control and restriction. The new manifests its power through discontrol and unrestricted information.
I just hope that none of them will get the idea to cut the kables. Oh, sorry, they allready got that idea. Now they're cutting kables.
I only want to comment on your note on POSIX compliance in Windows NT. The support is the minimal requered; it does not implement any of the optional parts of the POSIX standard. It does not even implement networking, from what I know (Please correct me if I'm wrong). This is why packages like Cygwin exists (Cygwin implements all the POSIX libraries using Win32 calls, and it implements a lot more than the native POSIX support).
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These companies are like small children - they have to be raised with the values of our siciety. And they will make mistakes. But that's mistakes, not consicious evil! And we should not punich them or harass them, as some people did when this first came up on /., instaed, we should, as Perens did, help them up on the path again!
Anyone knows for usage of which technologies, and hence for infrigement of which patents, they have sued Netscape? Links into the IBM patent database would be especially good.
Seems, she've been slashdotted - I barly could load the frontpage...
Is that limit for the hole path, or just for a single domainname? If not for the hole path, why not just create sub-domains? foo.bar.gazonk.com?
Why not create an encyption system, that enables you to pack as many messages into one single encrypted message as you like, having one private key for them each, and make it impossible to count the them, or in any way know which one is "the real one"? With this system, you could allways hand in some of your private keys, and allways include some harmless text, encrypted with some of the handed in keys, in your encrypted messages. I don't even think this would be hard to implement. Oh, and just an implementation note: Make all encrypted messages be in sizes that are multiples of some fixed size (1024 bytes?), so that it is impossible to see from the sizxe of the encrypted message, how many messages there are in it.
This "technology" is, right now, used in sweden by farmers for cows and pigs. And that was exactly what the nazists meant the system ; for; for "these human animals", if I got the quote right... Scary, rally scary.
* I do not remember how I first came in contact with /.
* I do not remember any anectdotes
* I do not have any friends here
Am I wortheless, because of that?
But, I do get interresting ideas from here. And I do get good response to my own postings.
Yes, of course we do! Don't you remember when we BSODed windows98 beta?
No. Being able to see what is good does not imply that you are able to create something good (But it does imply that you don't write something bad). In the same way, being bad at moderating does not imply that you are bad at writing.
So the system should not tie together Karma for moderations with Karma for postings.
And, finally, a question to Malda: Why is the moderation Karma (M2 moderation done to you) , but not the posting Karma (Moderations done to your postings) shown on your usder page?
In Europe, it's ruled - you can not patent or copyright life. The law was about genetic manipulation, but from what I know, it will cover this too (But I'm not a lawyer). So the church may not file any lawsuit here...
By the way, think of an OpenGenome creature with everyone assembling bugs in their basements - what a wonderfull and scary future!
I think the religious right will deny this forever. They can not accept that anyone except god may create life. And if they are convinced by evidence otherwise, they'l deny it as long as possible, and then say it's a sin. Anyway, to answer a question in one of the other comments "do such a bacteria have a soul": Let's say someone in the future creates not a bacteria but an animal (perheaps as smart as a human). Would that animal have the right to be free, as humas has? If its is created from silicon and iron (a robot), would that affect its rights? I think that, if humans where able to, they would create machine slaves. Never would they create robots (whetever made by iron and silicon or carbon) to give them freedom. This makes it a sin. So, once, the church has right. But in a way they didn't meant it...
...but that makes it an ideal X-terminal!
That is only an average... And the minimum and maximum is wide apart. The web is not really a web I think, but a set of (nearly) independent webs. An example of this is the set of x86 protected mode programming sites. Nearly all of them are linked with the others, but not with anything else.
Oh, and just one more thought: Links /. remember your posting. Then, along with all postings, and add-link button should appear, which you could hit to go back to your posting-editation, with the link pasted... OK, perheaps it could be done in some better way I can not figure out right now, but an easy linking scheme is needed (Some people just pastes the URL with the cdi-links, without an <A Href="">, so you have to copy/paste the links! Blah!).
Why not make it easy to link from one post to another. Without having to copy the URL. Just add a link from where you are writing a post, to the main page that adds a special parameter to the querry that makes
The reader-style of a moderator must be different from the style of a non-moderator; a moderator should typically browse at -1, while, as a typical non-moderator, you browse at 0, or even 1. While moderator access is given by random, it would be good to le people configure two browse levels, one for when they have moderator access, and one for when they don't.
/. would perheaps become the Average Stupid /., but not more than it is today... Or, you could give those moderated high (those with high karma), moderator access (Say, one point per 10 recieved points). That /. will probably become a elitistic /., but not more elitistic than today's. So, what is the reason for randomness? But perheaps, there is no reason for it, just that you don't see any reason for non-randomness? But there certainly is a reason for non-randomness: A person, or at least I, want continuity, to be able to predict the load of information to be read today. In addition, when a moderator doesn't have any points left, but sees a very good, new, posting, he or she should be able to collect some more points (by writing some good things), to be able to moderate up that good posting later... Or, at least, that last is a good idea, though, only i sketch...
/. and other such things. An alternative would be a fixed topic that is allways there, to which people can post anything at any time, and from which old, non-moderated postings are eaten by a garbage-collector.
In addition to this idea, that is just a feature-idea *featurist*, I have a wuestion; What is the reason for the totally random grant of moderator access? Either, you could let everyone have access (Give us one point for each, let's say, 10 of written comments). That
To answer the problem; why not give people "restricted moderator access"; i.e. let them moderate down in a thread, but not higher up? That would allow good postings deep down in the tree to pop up to the top. Another solution, that is not that fair, is to double moderator points given to a posting deep down in the tree (Have a factor that increases the moderator points given deeper down, say points_recieved = points_given + 0.5 * thread_depth).
This might be a bit off-topic, but anyway, I've thought a lot of it, so I'l put it here... It would be nice to have a type of articles that are posted by average users, and not reviewed by Rob or anyone else. Of course they should be filterable! That would allow general comments on
First, it doesn't matter if you have a copyright notice or not - you own the copyright of all work done by you. To provide everyone with the ability to distribute your work, but not to restrict the rights of anyone else, there are several licenses. I don't know if GPL is applicable to anything else than source. But if it is (A text-file is it's own sourcecode?), that's a good choice (Mainly because everyone knows what GPL is). Another alternative is OPL (www.opencontent.org) ; it is designed for non-code documents so it is guaranteed to be usefull for this purpose. A more restricted license to distribute text under may be the license for the Linux documentation. But I havn't read that license that thorough, so I don't know if it's what you want...
The survey has some serious errors.
Activity
The survey does asks for the time you spend on a list of activites such as e-mail, surfing, chatting, etc. But programming isn't even incliuded. Or is that "work", even if I don't get paid?
Spending time "on the Internet"
I have a direct connection, so I'm allways "on the Internet", as defined in the survey... Altough I do not surf the web often, I have a biff on my desktop, so I can se new mails arrive. Is that to check the in-box constantly? Is if to "use the Internet" to ssh to somewhere else and run emacs there to write a novell? The definition is quite fuzzy... Or I'm just to detail-focused?
Anyway, I think those thinking you may be addicted to the Internet hasn't understund anything. You may be addicted to chatting, or a-miling. It's a bounch of fenomens, not one single. And is everyone having a great hobby an addict to his/her hobby?
So, when discussing a graphical installation, I have to promote my graphical boot! It wraps araound init and shows nice icons along the text. I designed it after a discussion here at /., so I think it's apropriate to post this... And anyway, it's name isn't just any word plus ix :)
Aurora is available here.
I hate to answer as an advertisement, but this time it's the only answer... The device you'r asking for is named a twiddler.
Actually, print Screen isn't really a Print Screen. It's a SysRq (It sais that at the side of it). You use it when you've trashed the keyboard/screen drivers (Like when X or SVGAlib crashes) to sync and unmount the discs and the reboot... (ALT-SysRq-s syns, ALT-SysRq-u unmounts and ALT-SysRq-b reboots).
How do you do ALT-SysRq-s, ALT-SysRq-u and ALT-SysRq-b, without a SysRq? Ok, in most cases you may live with the functionallity provided by gpm (Tripple click both left and right mouse buttons, the click one button again), but that will only work if things didn't wen that wrong...
Besides that, people uses TVs with a set of buttons for normal use (Change channel, volume etc), and a set of buttons for config. use (tune in a station, set colour balance, etc). They seems not to have any problem with that. SO, why would they have problem with some extra "strange" keys on their computer keyborads? I've never heard any "average joe" complain about that as a hard thing with computers... Everything else, but not the keyboard...
A thing that they do complain over is the key-combinations. Like Ctrl-C for copy, etc. Why not create a keybord like the SUN keyboard that has keys for Cut, Copy, Paste and Help? And when w're at it, we may even add keys like "move a word forward/backward", "move to end/start of paragraph/line/document" (Line does allready exist as home/end, but they are sometimes mapped to document), "Indent more/less".
OK, this might be a troll, but... Ary you damn crazy, Americans? Banning the evolution theory and letting the religious right in to the school will decrease the number of well-educated students, suited for Univerdity study, that comes out of it. Oh, well, just continue and we'l not have to bother about you here in Europe anymore :) Or stop NOW.
(. And now the freshmeat server is down. Do I see a connection? They are taking our speech away! Oups! .)
...so you come after us to make us need you. That's their reason to harrass us.
I see some trends;
The old style representation of people consists of old people (How many yang delegates are there in the EU parlament?). The new consists of everyone who cares to represent him/herself. _Including_ the yang people. The old are scaered to loose their power.
The old style manifests its power through control and restriction. The new manifests its power through discontrol and unrestricted information.
I just hope that none of them will get the idea to cut the kables. Oh, sorry, they allready got that idea. Now they're cutting kables.
I only want to comment on your note on POSIX compliance in Windows NT. The support is the minimal requered; it does not implement any of the optional parts of the POSIX standard. It does not even implement networking, from what I know (Please correct me if I'm wrong). This is why packages like Cygwin exists (Cygwin implements all the POSIX libraries using Win32 calls, and it implements a lot more than the native POSIX support).