I'll probably sign up directly with the phone company, if they offer the service. This seems like an unfair advantage to the other companies.
Is this unfair? Yes it is. Is it illegal? Probably. Does anyone care? Doesn't seem to be. The phone companies are looking to take over the ISPs role, and DSL is just apart of the game. But I guess with everything going on in the pit of vipers that is the corporate world, is this all that important? I guess not. Anyway, I am stretching my NDA anyway. I do feel 31337 to have an issue that I can't comment on due to a NDA though.
But totally irrelevant to almost everything, unless you are running your hardware in a war zone (or Detroit, maybe). Judging computers fitness to compute by their fitness to withstand gunfire is like judging a sheep's ability to produce wool by its ability to survive on the surface of Venus.
Although I guess it could be that a company that is shoddy on general physical construction may not care too much about other aspects of design. It could be, but it hardly logically follows.
This is what you are worried about?
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As a 23-year old software engineer, I'm doing great right now, but I'm terrified about what will happen when I hit 40 or 50.
Frankly, as a 21 year old with no current job prospects, what worries me the most is that by the time I am 40 or 50, I will have been relegated to the status of "useless" by some faceless government agency, and that my body will be thrown into a vat where it will dissolve, leaving only my internal organs to be snapped up by some illuminatus.
Don't worry about the future since you have no control over it.
I have seen so many references to the Gnutella being the name of a breakfast for European children, but what the hell is "gnutella", is it some food item I have not heard of? Does anybody know what this means?
Electrons don't travel at the speed of light, they have mass and therefore they travel slightly slower then the speed of light. In practice, an electron is 10-30% as fast as an electron.
Also, since photons do not posses charge, they can not be interfered with by any kind of static electricity, magnetic fields, etc. Their signal stays truer.
...when Steve Case takes Ester Dyson to be his concubine (he got tired of Natalia Portman) and throws out the internet.
Then, using a beowulf cluster of opal photonic servers in his secret headquarters, he will connect to the implants of the mark of the beast (under ipv6.66) in everyones skin.
The situation will only be saved when Linus the Red, asssited by a crazed gun-totin survivalist ESR, manages to rise from the desert and save the monks of Qumran\Mirabilis, who were held captive by the beast; and they lead the armies of the 31,337 chosen to paradise.
This article was pretty sparse on technical details...all it said that there was some kind of silicon material coating microscopic bubbles in opals. So is the way that they store a piece of information by trapping the little photons in the bubbles, where they bounce around a few hundred trillion times, until they are allowed to go free?
I feel sorry for those poor photons, trapped in their little opal bubble cages.
On the other hand, if they ever built a server out of these...we could/. it. We haven't slashdotted a precious stone yet.
I didn't moderate myself up to +5. What I did was see an article, post a short comment about it, and then went back to playing Street Fighter.
I wouldn't have moderated this up either. I didn't think it was that good of a comment. I was just making a philsophical observation that was slightly off topic.
But I do think that I made a good point. Software made by companies with evil management (and all companies have evil management) and companies that make software with social purposes, don't make software that is inherently technically flawed. If you look at Slashdot, or even Sun's CPR, that seems to be an unspoken assumption.
If it would make people feel better, moderate my defense of myself down to -1, Offtopic; and then I will end up with even Karma from the whole experience.
This had not been a censorware product that caused the security hole? This doesn't seem to be a major security hole, it is confined to one specific firewall and one particular censorware product.
If Slashdot is trying to show a technical flaw, that is cool. And if Slashdot is trying to say that censorware is wrong\unethical, that is also okay. But by combining the two, what Slashdot seems to be subliminally implying is:
"Unethical" software is inherently techincally flawed.
Of course, no one would come out and say that, because it is totally ridiculous. But by showing examples, the idea is implanted.
What with brokering the Tuvala deal, the antarctica.aq deal, and what I made during the break up of Czechoslavakia, I can almost buy myselph some Top Ramem.
Yes, and by chance the new island is going to be named "Sexalla", because it was the sixth island created in this chain. They are going to sell the.sex domain name for 250,000,000.23 cents, which works out to 25 million dollars and 2 cents for each of the lichen there.
On Number 4, I don't think that Micro$oft would mind losing Hotmail, since the fact that they still can't get it ported to NT must be getting pretty embarassing. What does anyone think the chances are that a non-M$ Hotmail will ever move their servers off of Solaris? Me either.
Is hook up a robot burger flipping arm to a web server, and have some little Java program that will let you control it over the web. Post the link on Slashdot. After all, we are still looking for new and interesting things to/.
What we need is a Beowulf Cluster of these things!
Am I really the first Beowulf post? Where the Hell are the trolls?
Goodbye, Karma.
Is this Xenophobia, or do people have a real case?
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The problem I have in trying to figure out this case is I can't tell how much of part xenophobia plays in this, and I can't tell how much of a real case people have against China. I am not an expert on current US-China trade relationtions, although I do know more then my fair share about Chinese history (I read the Water Margin...twice!)
The problem is that even though the Chinese government is doing plenty of evil things, people would hate them and say they were evil even if they wern't. Can anyone deny that there is a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment in America?
A hundred years ago, there was the same basic arguments about letting Chinese workers into our country (and Chinese workers did end up building most of our Western railroad system, at great cost of life to them). During this time their was great furor in Cali about their ways, probably because they smoked that devil opium and worshipped that pagan Buddha idol. Or basically, FUD because they took jobs away from American workers, or maybe just because they were different. All hidden under a veil of morality.
Much of what still goes on is still the same thing, fear and prejudice disguised as moralizing, this time it is hidden behind the rhetoric of the Chinese government doesn't follow human rights, instead of the Chinese people aren't Christians. And the same economic interests are making this rhetoric important.
Human rights we like to believe, and I think this is true, are more then just a local moralistic prejudice. Our concern about this stems not from trying to force a way of life on others, but on a concern for the Chinese people, and that our oppostion is to the Chinese govermnent.
On the other hand, the opposing argument is that China has a history of authoritarian government, and that it is part of their culture. To oppose the authority of the Chinese government is to oppose the teeming masses of China, who have indirectly given the "mandate of heaven" to their rulers by not rebelling (succesfully, at least). So even if our local notion of rule by the people and by the law is not carried out in China, there is a culturally different but still valid system of popular rule going on in China.
Those, I think are the basic arguments and counter arguments to the China issue. Here are my own humble opinions about what these mean:
1. "Not letting China into the WTO is xenophobia and will bar China from the community of nations." I think this is false. China is already part of the community of nations in most ways, it participates in every major international scientific and diplomatic body AFAIK. They have a permanent seat on the UN council of five! The real issue here is whether they will be let into the system of global capitalism. The interests here seem to both be economic, business vs. unions. Right now I will have to vote with the unions, but in either case they do not need to participate enriching a fraction of the US Economy to participate in global affairs
2. "The government of China is not evil. They are merely trying to admistister a large country and most of the people support them." This, I belive, is true. Considered to some truly brutal dictatorships where you wonder what the strong man is putting on his cereal, China is very well run. China is not a one man state but a state run by a council of older bureacrats who honestly do love their country and want to see it prosper. And they have been seeing it prosper. They are not fanatical with hate, and they do not wish to harm people. They are cold and ruthless, but not cruel.
3. "China has different notions of human rights and government authority caused by their traditions and history." True, but who cares? United States tradition and history said for a long time (for example) that blacks were inferior and that they were fit to be slaves. We realized that this was wrong, and we changed it, or tried to change it. Why is China somehow immune from making changes? And my own sense of personal values, and I think that most people would agree with me, says that human rights (and political rights) are not just local prejudices, not just a cultural thing. They are universal, and any civilized country of any culture or history should recognize them.
Thank you for listening. My own mind is made up that China should not be in the WTO (mostly because I don't like the WTO), but draw your own conclusions.
That is an interesting list, some make sense and some don't. Not to doubt anything, but what exactly is the source for this?
And are all of these countries embargoed equally? Some of them may be countries we don't send anything to, while others may only be countries that we just don't send dangerous munitions, like Netscape 4.7, to.
I think this article is fairly ridiculous. Not that it wasn't well written and fair enough (although it was a bit brief), but I wouldn't say that either one of these OSes is better then the other. If the article was going to talk about some kind of technical points that could be quantified, that would be one thing. But what we have here is some vague generalizaions about what "most people" would want.
THe choice of OS is mostly a matter of personal preference. There are no 'average' users, and if there were, they would be using Windows anyway.
When I first read this, I was browsing at 2, and I didn't see a single comment about Beowulf clusters. When I sent myself down to inlcude all comments, I see that the Beowulf clusters comment was in it's proper place, which is as first post.
C'Mon, guys, these Beowulf Cluster comments are part of Slashdot, and in this case, it is actually appropriate\funny!!! So stop bitchslapping people for this!!!
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Please Slashdotters, Think of the Children! and stop stealing the food of the innocent children with this Gnutella technology!
Is this unfair? Yes it is. Is it illegal? Probably. Does anyone care? Doesn't seem to be. The phone companies are looking to take over the ISPs role, and DSL is just apart of the game. But I guess with everything going on in the pit of vipers that is the corporate world, is this all that important? I guess not. Anyway, I am stretching my NDA anyway. I do feel 31337 to have an issue that I can't comment on due to a NDA though.
Although I guess it could be that a company that is shoddy on general physical construction may not care too much about other aspects of design. It could be, but it hardly logically follows.
Frankly, as a 21 year old with no current job prospects, what worries me the most is that by the time I am 40 or 50, I will have been relegated to the status of "useless" by some faceless government agency, and that my body will be thrown into a vat where it will dissolve, leaving only my internal organs to be snapped up by some illuminatus.
Don't worry about the future since you have no control over it.
Also, since photons do not posses charge, they can not be interfered with by any kind of static electricity, magnetic fields, etc. Their signal stays truer.
Then, using a beowulf cluster of opal photonic servers in his secret headquarters, he will connect to the implants of the mark of the beast (under ipv6.66) in everyones skin.
The situation will only be saved when Linus the Red, asssited by a crazed gun-totin survivalist ESR, manages to rise from the desert and save the monks of Qumran\Mirabilis, who were held captive by the beast; and they lead the armies of the 31,337 chosen to paradise.
This article was pretty sparse on technical details...all it said that there was some kind of silicon material coating microscopic bubbles in opals. So is the way that they store a piece of information by trapping the little photons in the bubbles, where they bounce around a few hundred trillion times, until they are allowed to go free?
I feel sorry for those poor photons, trapped in their little opal bubble cages.
On the other hand, if they ever built a server out of these...we could /. it. We haven't slashdotted a precious stone yet.
I wouldn't have moderated this up either. I didn't think it was that good of a comment. I was just making a philsophical observation that was slightly off topic.
But I do think that I made a good point. Software made by companies with evil management (and all companies have evil management) and companies that make software with social purposes, don't make software that is inherently technically flawed. If you look at Slashdot, or even Sun's CPR, that seems to be an unspoken assumption.
If it would make people feel better, moderate my defense of myself down to -1, Offtopic; and then I will end up with even Karma from the whole experience.
This had not been a censorware product that caused the security hole? This doesn't seem to be a major security hole, it is confined to one specific firewall and one particular censorware product.
If Slashdot is trying to show a technical flaw, that is cool. And if Slashdot is trying to say that censorware is wrong\unethical, that is also okay. But by combining the two, what Slashdot seems to be subliminally implying is:
"Unethical" software is inherently techincally flawed.
Of course, no one would come out and say that, because it is totally ridiculous. But by showing examples, the idea is implanted.
And lets face it, Tux would have to be the cutest thing in a Disney movie since...well, since, forever.
Plus, we could /. a volcano.
On Number 4, I don't think that Micro$oft would mind losing Hotmail, since the fact that they still can't get it ported to NT must be getting pretty embarassing. What does anyone think the chances are that a non-M$ Hotmail will ever move their servers off of Solaris? Me either.
What we need is a Beowulf Cluster of these things!
Am I really the first Beowulf post? Where the Hell are the trolls?
Goodbye, Karma.
The problem I have in trying to figure out this case is I can't tell how much of part xenophobia plays in this, and I can't tell how much of a real case people have against China. I am not an expert on current US-China trade relationtions, although I do know more then my fair share about Chinese history (I read the Water Margin...twice!)
The problem is that even though the Chinese government is doing plenty of evil things, people would hate them and say they were evil even if they wern't. Can anyone deny that there is a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment in America?
A hundred years ago, there was the same basic arguments about letting Chinese workers into our country (and Chinese workers did end up building most of our Western railroad system, at great cost of life to them). During this time their was great furor in Cali about their ways, probably because they smoked that devil opium and worshipped that pagan Buddha idol. Or basically, FUD because they took jobs away from American workers, or maybe just because they were different. All hidden under a veil of morality.
Much of what still goes on is still the same thing, fear and prejudice disguised as moralizing, this time it is hidden behind the rhetoric of the Chinese government doesn't follow human rights, instead of the Chinese people aren't Christians. And the same economic interests are making this rhetoric important.
Human rights we like to believe, and I think this is true, are more then just a local moralistic prejudice. Our concern about this stems not from trying to force a way of life on others, but on a concern for the Chinese people, and that our oppostion is to the Chinese govermnent.
On the other hand, the opposing argument is that China has a history of authoritarian government, and that it is part of their culture. To oppose the authority of the Chinese government is to oppose the teeming masses of China, who have indirectly given the "mandate of heaven" to their rulers by not rebelling (succesfully, at least). So even if our local notion of rule by the people and by the law is not carried out in China, there is a culturally different but still valid system of popular rule going on in China.
Those, I think are the basic arguments and counter arguments to the China issue. Here are my own humble opinions about what these mean:
1. "Not letting China into the WTO is xenophobia and will bar China from the community of nations." I think this is false. China is already part of the community of nations in most ways, it participates in every major international scientific and diplomatic body AFAIK. They have a permanent seat on the UN council of five! The real issue here is whether they will be let into the system of global capitalism. The interests here seem to both be economic, business vs. unions. Right now I will have to vote with the unions, but in either case they do not need to participate enriching a fraction of the US Economy to participate in global affairs
2. "The government of China is not evil. They are merely trying to admistister a large country and most of the people support them." This, I belive, is true. Considered to some truly brutal dictatorships where you wonder what the strong man is putting on his cereal, China is very well run. China is not a one man state but a state run by a council of older bureacrats who honestly do love their country and want to see it prosper. And they have been seeing it prosper. They are not fanatical with hate, and they do not wish to harm people. They are cold and ruthless, but not cruel.
3. "China has different notions of human rights and government authority caused by their traditions and history." True, but who cares? United States tradition and history said for a long time (for example) that blacks were inferior and that they were fit to be slaves. We realized that this was wrong, and we changed it, or tried to change it. Why is China somehow immune from making changes? And my own sense of personal values, and I think that most people would agree with me, says that human rights (and political rights) are not just local prejudices, not just a cultural thing. They are universal, and any civilized country of any culture or history should recognize them.
Thank you for listening. My own mind is made up that China should not be in the WTO (mostly because I don't like the WTO), but draw your own conclusions.
That is an interesting list, some make sense and some don't. Not to doubt anything, but what exactly is the source for this?
And are all of these countries embargoed equally? Some of them may be countries we don't send anything to, while others may only be countries that we just don't send dangerous munitions, like Netscape 4.7, to.
I think this article is fairly ridiculous. Not that it wasn't well written and fair enough (although it was a bit brief), but I wouldn't say that either one of these OSes is better then the other. If the article was going to talk about some kind of technical points that could be quantified, that would be one thing. But what we have here is some vague generalizaions about what "most people" would want.
THe choice of OS is mostly a matter of personal preference. There are no 'average' users, and if there were, they would be using Windows anyway.
When I first read this, I was browsing at 2, and I didn't see a single comment about Beowulf clusters. When I sent myself down to inlcude all comments, I see that the Beowulf clusters comment was in it's proper place, which is as first post.
C'Mon, guys, these Beowulf Cluster comments are part of Slashdot, and in this case, it is actually appropriate\funny!!! So stop bitchslapping people for this!!!