Others have said it, so I'm basically being redundent, but since no one has said it well:
The one thing I really like about X is the fact that you can run applications remotely. I've gone into a computer lab, sshed into my machine in my dorm, and started Netscape, Mozilla, GAIM, etc. all from my home machine. And they run on the box.
I've also had to use Maple for math classes, and since I'm too cheap to buy a student version, I'd rather use the Tru64 version that the college owns. Bottom line? Again, ssh into the server, and run the application on my desktop. Being able to run GUI applications on another machine is incredibly useful - and that's what X is for. X isn't about the GUI, that's why we're seeing GTK+ and Qt and all the other GUI toolkits. X is a method of running graphical applications so that they run on one machine and display on another. That's why you'd install X - so that you can ssh into you're friend's *nix box, and run X applications off it.
Now, using X for a local graphical environment would be insane - sorta. Except that if Apple did that, you could run Mac OS X apps over a remote link. That would be very nice. The reason X is still around is that it does a job very nicely - allowing a graphical application to be run over a network. And that's why people use X.
...Or you were downloading it when they pulled it. I can't download it anymore, seems to have vanished. Oh well. And since I don't have a Napster account (and it's blocked along with Gnutella) it's kinda irrelevant here.
Actually, it's much more like when you tell a 2-year-old not to stick his tongue out at you. What's he gonna do? Stick his tongue out at you.
Plus the novelty of moderating wares off very quickly. It's too much of a chore to actually be a good moderator. Reminds me of when I was in jr. high, I told a teacher he couldn't hold me after class. What'd he do? Hold me after class (but not that day! See, I had a... uh, prior commitment. Um, elsewhere.).
Basically, if you tell someone "don't do that" what're they going to do? Do it. Similar to the MPAA saying "don't link to DeCSS!" What happened? Everyone linked to DeCSS!
It's not that surprising. Watch - I dare someone to moderate this as "insightful." Now I'll get moderated as "flamebait," "troll," "offtopic" (no one ever bothers reading the parent post, that's just boring!), or, if they're afraid of losing karma, "overrated."
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Weird - I tried the link, posted, tried the link - nothing. Typed in www.kuro5hin.org, got an instant response. (As in, about 1 sec to load the page. Finally getting good bandwidth to the 'net - they blocked Napster and Gnutella at my college, finally.) Both times I tried off Slashdot, I got nothing. But with no Referrer-URL: header (or whatever, I dunno) I got a very speedy response and was able to browse the site quite nicely.
Seems to me that they're denying requests that come from Slashdot. So try typing www.kuro5hin.org in your browser, not clicking the link... At first, I just middle-clicked on the link to pop it into a new window, and it didn't load. Then I just typed the URL in, hit enter, and there it was!
So yeah, it's back up for real, but Slashdot links don't seem to get through... (instead, right click, choose "copy link location," and paste)...
There's one thing you have to understand about the two which might make the GPL the government's choice of license. As everyone knows, the GPL is viral, which means that it has to stay open. That's actually a good thing for companies. A lot of companies are unwilling to release source because (among other things) they're worried about other people walking off with it and making money off of their IP. The GPL prevents that. For companies, the GPL is probably the best Open Source license to use that's really Free Software. If you look at other licenses, like the license Sun gives the source to their JDK under, you'll see that it's very similar to the GPL but more restrictive. In Sun's case, you can't release modifications, and any bug fixes have to be sent back to Sun.
I can't look at all companies, but other companies I've seen that release their source usually have similar provisions, that bug fixes must be sent back in. If you think about it, most companies are much more willing to release their source if they can guarentee it's "protected" from being stolen by competitors. That's why the GPL is really important. It provides an easy-to-use license which companies are (more) willing to use than BSD style licenses. It's also a "well known" license that people are willing to trust.
Beats me. From what I understand, giving out VHS tapes to friends is OK because the quality degrades, but giving a copy of a CD in MP3 form isn't OK. I dunno, IANAL, so... I just really don't want to be dragged into an argument over exactly what fair use is, what it should be, if the law is moral, etc.
Uh, the DMCA only works if your circumventing something someone used to prevent you from accessing their copyrighted material. It's perfectly legal for the police to unencrypt his hard drive - he hasn't copyrighted any of the work there. I think.
Basically, you can't say "Look, I put a lock there!" when protected your collection of illegal songs. But you can do that to prevent people from "walking off with" your latest tune/book/painting/creative expression. Keep in mind - even if he was "just giving out live/accoustic/rare" stuff, it's still illegal. What you do with that's your own choice, but remember - in our current system, giving away perfect copies of copyrighted material is illegal. Since I don't really wanna get in a debate as to whether it should be legal, I'm just going to repeat the main point:
You can only use the DMCA to protect your own copyrighted material from a "circumvention device." If you put a lock on someone else's material, then it's OK to break it - they choose how it's protected, not you.
Shoeboy (currently?) is a troll. Apparently, as a protest to the 50 karma barrier, he is attempting to lose karma by posting trolls. (Actually, I guess his karma is currently ~125, so he's trying to get it down to "normal.") Taking a peek at his User Info I'd say he's failing right now. But I wish him luck - I'd like to be able to get karma above 50 like Signal 11 and FascDot Killed My Pr. The curse of the newbies.... never to get 3 digit karma...
Maybe I'll have to bid on FascDot Killed My Pr's account over at e-bay...
I don't see anything about 14 years... and life of the author plus 70 certainly sounds limited to me.
The unfortunate part is that life+10^20 years would be "limited" also. And if you look at the part of the constitution on copyright:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
You'll notice it says nothing about this "fair use" thing people keep talking about...
I believe you are refering to the WORN storage technology. WORN is similar to WORM technology; it is only one letter/word different. WORM stands for "Write Once; Read Many" while WORN stands for "Write Once, Read Never." Fortunately, an "M" looks much like an "N" and since you can't return them once the package is open...
Guns, screwdrivers, and DeCSS/technology of the moment are tools. Do we outlaw them because our world has decide that because there is an illegal use, that these things must be outlawed?
The problem is, the MPAA, RIAA, and I'm sure whatever the Publishers AA is (that's Association of America, not the other common "AA"), have created a new classification of "tool." It's "copyright circumvention device." Since DeCSS falls into that rather broad catagory, it is illegal. In a way, it's similar to creating a new catagory of tools that are illegal which "may be used to enter areas which have been reasonably protected from entry." See, I've just made screwdrivers illegal. They can be used to pry open doors or remove locks.
I rather like MP3.com's response as to why they pulled the song:
Actually, I didn't pull the song...but somebody here must have. As you know, this is a hot legal issue right now. We're sorta being sued by enough people right now, I guess we'd like to keep out of court for a while, if that's okay....you'll need to fight the first amendment fight on your own on this issue, if that's okay.
Problem with these things is that they wouldn't work as a heatsink at all - they conduct heat. Putting them in the chip would allow you to conduct heat away from the chip - which would be a good thing, probably. But you still have to get rid of the chip. From what I understand, these things are no good at radiating heat, only conducting it. The heat sink is a method of radiating heat better than the flat surface of the CPU would do. You'd still need something like a heat sink - somewhere. It's what "gets rid" of the heat. I'm not sure exactly how these things work at the ends, but I think they're like wires for heat - they conduct the heat from an end to the other end. But since I'm not a thermaldynamiction (that a word?), I'm not sure. I'd have check up on my thermodynamics and learn some more to be sure what would happen. These things are good at moving heat, but I'm not sure how it works at the ends.
But, if the material the chip is encased in was a good enough heat conductor, you could make due with much less heatsink
Oh come on, you have the same amount of heat! You'd need the same sized heat sink - it's still AIR this is being radiated into! Actually, I'm not sure how well these things would radiate heat at the ends anyway.
I think you've rubbed them the wrong way - they are modding you up. In the same way, I've hit the 50 cap, so I feel like burnin' up some karma just so I can see it go up again. Took a summer o' karma whoring to get it there, and then he locks it at 50. The bastard.
This would provide far superior heat disipation, as it would go from source to void.
WHAT are you planning to do with the heat? Heat sinks don't destroy heat, they move it. (Actually, NOTHING destroys heat. Part of that conservation of energy thing.) For the big heat sink that sits on my Athlon, they move the heat from the surface of the chip to the air in the heat sink. Little fan on top moves air out of the heat sink and into the rest of the case, where (hopefully) the other fans blow it into the room, allowing new colder air to be sucked in. But the heat's still going somewhere.
From reading the article, you're (sorta) right that you could use these to in essence suck the heat out of a component, but you'd still need a heat sink to help disipate the heat. Look at the back of a fridge if you can - if you can find an airconditioner you can see into, try that instead. Look for the tubing wrapping around - that's basically a heat sink. Refridgeration works by compressing air so that the heat in it becomes "denser" if you will, making it hotter. Heat is then disipated elsewhere, and then the air is decompressed, and it's cooler than it was before (heat was lost).
Although the article suggests they could be used to cool parts otherwise too hot, it leaves out the part explaining what they end up doing with the heat. (They probably conduct it somewhere else and let it disipate there.)
You'd still need something to disipate the heat - they don't destroy heat. They're almost like fiber optics - they move energy down the fiber. Heat sinks help disipate heat - this could make them more efficient in doing so.
Because then all the/.ers can bitch about it. You can't really discuss a CNet article with about 1000 posting slashdot readers unless it's on Slashdot - it would be "offtopic" otherwise.
If you view Slashdot as a discussion forum, it's to give topics for discussion. If you view it as a money-making buisness, it's to generate more pageviews. Whatever you consider it, it's just something that the editor (be it CmdrTaco or timothy or whoever) believes are important to most of Slashdot's readers.
Besides, it's kind of nice reading them on Slashdot - by reading the comments you can get a nice view of the differing opinions on the subject, and can often come to a better conclusion by reading other viewpoints that the posters provide.
SO where exactly is the problem, is it that Richard Stallman cheers for Gnome?
That seems to me more like someone rooting for his
"home" team. Living in Massachusetts, I root for the Red Sox. Does that mean I'm against the Yankees continued existance? No! It just means I'd rather see the team from where I live win. RMS probably feels that GNOME is closer to being his "home team" and so he'd rather that they "win" the desktop "war." Personally, I'd rather they both continue, so that they can work off of each other - anything KDE does better gets copied into GNOME, and anything GNOME does better gets copied into KDE.
Tools -> Internet Options... -> Security (tab) -> -> Custom Level (button) -> Scripting -> Active Scripting
(The Scripting and Active Scripting are way the hell down on the scrolling list of options.)
Choose "Disable" to prevent JavaScript (or VBScript, or any other script) from running. Choose "Enable" to allow. Choose "Prompt" to find out just how many sites use JavaScript. (It get's annoying after a while. Very, very, annoying.)
Plus, as of now, it appears that his network connection has been revoked! I know that if one of my personal sites that runs on my computer through my college's resnet was slashdotted, Netops would pull my resnet connection and charge me to get it reinstated!
I think having to visit his local BOFH will be punishment enough. He's going to have to answer to all the bandwidth he's using!
Our Tradition TV News (TTVN) pre-filters all the news that we think doesn't interest our sponsers, who are of course (albiet indirectly), you, the consumer - er, viewer, who buys our sponsers' merchandise. That means no negative news on things like companies that advertise on our network! We do show some - uh, investigative - reporting on people who refuse to advertise.
Like money? So do we! So we bring you stories about companies that advertise - I mean, are doing well on our station - I mean, in the marketplace!
"It's so nice," said some random guy. "I get to hear about the latest blockbuster that the network showing TTVN is producing." That's right, you, too, can learn about the stars personal lives!
Ever wondered which celebrity sleeping with another celebrity? Now we can find out using our exclusive TTVN helicopters, which we fly over their houses! Plus the latest scandals! With our exclusive TTVN helicopters, we can fly around getting exclusive photos of your favorite football players releaving themselves!
But even better, since TTVN is trying to get to the widest possible audience, we show:
MORE color bits on celebrities!
MORE pseudo philosophical guff about what celebrities and sport stars are doing to help the, um, community!
TOTAL coverage of pointless stupid events like the end of our latest TV show!
ENDLESS ranting by self appointed pundits on how the Internet is DESTROYING OUR CIVILIZATION THROUGH PORN!
But, remember, TTVN also means:
NO people who use long difficult words - we need to get everyone watching!
NO intellectuals mumbling on and on - we get specialists who tell it like our audience wants to hear!
NO pictures of poor people in far away places - that's just depressing to our target audience. Instead we give statistics! Sometimes, when we can, we might decide to show you the head of a starving kid - usually nothing more. Those pictures are depressing.
That's right, you don't need the Internet for news, your Traditional TV will work just fine! Plus, we're slowly trying to change everyone away from a community member and into a mindless consumer automatron! Our advertisers need to make money, you know. You are, after all, just people with money for the taking.
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The one thing I really like about X is the fact that you can run applications remotely. I've gone into a computer lab, sshed into my machine in my dorm, and started Netscape, Mozilla, GAIM, etc. all from my home machine. And they run on the box.
I've also had to use Maple for math classes, and since I'm too cheap to buy a student version, I'd rather use the Tru64 version that the college owns. Bottom line? Again, ssh into the server, and run the application on my desktop. Being able to run GUI applications on another machine is incredibly useful - and that's what X is for. X isn't about the GUI, that's why we're seeing GTK+ and Qt and all the other GUI toolkits. X is a method of running graphical applications so that they run on one machine and display on another. That's why you'd install X - so that you can ssh into you're friend's *nix box, and run X applications off it.
Now, using X for a local graphical environment would be insane - sorta. Except that if Apple did that, you could run Mac OS X apps over a remote link. That would be very nice. The reason X is still around is that it does a job very nicely - allowing a graphical application to be run over a network. And that's why people use X.
...Or you were downloading it when they pulled it. I can't download it anymore, seems to have vanished. Oh well. And since I don't have a Napster account (and it's blocked along with Gnutella) it's kinda irrelevant here.
Plus the novelty of moderating wares off very quickly. It's too much of a chore to actually be a good moderator. Reminds me of when I was in jr. high, I told a teacher he couldn't hold me after class. What'd he do? Hold me after class (but not that day! See, I had a ... uh, prior commitment. Um, elsewhere.).
Basically, if you tell someone "don't do that" what're they going to do? Do it. Similar to the MPAA saying "don't link to DeCSS!" What happened? Everyone linked to DeCSS!
It's not that surprising. Watch - I dare someone to moderate this as "insightful." Now I'll get moderated as "flamebait," "troll," "offtopic" (no one ever bothers reading the parent post, that's just boring!), or, if they're afraid of losing karma, "overrated."
Weird - I tried the link, posted, tried the link - nothing. Typed in www.kuro5hin.org, got an instant response. (As in, about 1 sec to load the page. Finally getting good bandwidth to the 'net - they blocked Napster and Gnutella at my college, finally.) Both times I tried off Slashdot, I got nothing. But with no Referrer-URL: header (or whatever, I dunno) I got a very speedy response and was able to browse the site quite nicely.
So yeah, it's back up for real, but Slashdot links don't seem to get through... (instead, right click, choose "copy link location," and paste)...
I can't look at all companies, but other companies I've seen that release their source usually have similar provisions, that bug fixes must be sent back in. If you think about it, most companies are much more willing to release their source if they can guarentee it's "protected" from being stolen by competitors. That's why the GPL is really important. It provides an easy-to-use license which companies are (more) willing to use than BSD style licenses. It's also a "well known" license that people are willing to trust.
Ah. Ok. Some of the higher moderated posts in past discussions seemed to indicate otherwise. But that makes more sense.
Beats me. From what I understand, giving out VHS tapes to friends is OK because the quality degrades, but giving a copy of a CD in MP3 form isn't OK. I dunno, IANAL, so... I just really don't want to be dragged into an argument over exactly what fair use is, what it should be, if the law is moral, etc.
Basically, you can't say "Look, I put a lock there!" when protected your collection of illegal songs. But you can do that to prevent people from "walking off with" your latest tune/book/painting/creative expression. Keep in mind - even if he was "just giving out live/accoustic/rare" stuff, it's still illegal. What you do with that's your own choice, but remember - in our current system, giving away perfect copies of copyrighted material is illegal . Since I don't really wanna get in a debate as to whether it should be legal, I'm just going to repeat the main point:
You can only use the DMCA to protect your own copyrighted material from a "circumvention device." If you put a lock on someone else's material, then it's OK to break it - they choose how it's protected, not you.
Shoeboy (currently?) is a troll. Apparently, as a protest to the 50 karma barrier, he is attempting to lose karma by posting trolls. (Actually, I guess his karma is currently ~125, so he's trying to get it down to "normal.") Taking a peek at his User Info I'd say he's failing right now. But I wish him luck - I'd like to be able to get karma above 50 like Signal 11 and FascDot Killed My Pr. The curse of the newbies.... never to get 3 digit karma...
Maybe I'll have to bid on FascDot Killed My Pr's account over at e-bay...
The unfortunate part is that life+10^20 years would be "limited" also. And if you look at the part of the constitution on copyright:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
You'll notice it says nothing about this "fair use" thing people keep talking about...
I believe you are refering to the WORN storage technology. WORN is similar to WORM technology; it is only one letter/word different. WORM stands for "Write Once; Read Many" while WORN stands for "Write Once, Read Never." Fortunately, an "M" looks much like an "N" and since you can't return them once the package is open...
The problem is, the MPAA, RIAA, and I'm sure whatever the Publishers AA is (that's Association of America, not the other common "AA"), have created a new classification of "tool." It's "copyright circumvention device." Since DeCSS falls into that rather broad catagory, it is illegal. In a way, it's similar to creating a new catagory of tools that are illegal which "may be used to enter areas which have been reasonably protected from entry." See, I've just made screwdrivers illegal. They can be used to pry open doors or remove locks.
Seems kind of appropriate, somehow.
I got moderated as "troll."
I'd say the parent could be "flamebait" to anyone from the Boston area. But I'd expect to hemorage karma if I moderated it as such.
BTW, why do you lose karma on "bad" moderations but don't gain any on "good?" Seems to me that it should work both ways...
But, if the material the chip is encased in was a good enough heat conductor, you could make due with much less heatsink
Oh come on, you have the same amount of heat! You'd need the same sized heat sink - it's still AIR this is being radiated into! Actually, I'm not sure how well these things would radiate heat at the ends anyway.
I think you've rubbed them the wrong way - they are modding you up. In the same way, I've hit the 50 cap, so I feel like burnin' up some karma just so I can see it go up again. Took a summer o' karma whoring to get it there, and then he locks it at 50. The bastard.
WHAT are you planning to do with the heat? Heat sinks don't destroy heat, they move it. (Actually, NOTHING destroys heat. Part of that conservation of energy thing.) For the big heat sink that sits on my Athlon, they move the heat from the surface of the chip to the air in the heat sink. Little fan on top moves air out of the heat sink and into the rest of the case, where (hopefully) the other fans blow it into the room, allowing new colder air to be sucked in. But the heat's still going somewhere.
From reading the article, you're (sorta) right that you could use these to in essence suck the heat out of a component, but you'd still need a heat sink to help disipate the heat. Look at the back of a fridge if you can - if you can find an airconditioner you can see into, try that instead. Look for the tubing wrapping around - that's basically a heat sink. Refridgeration works by compressing air so that the heat in it becomes "denser" if you will, making it hotter. Heat is then disipated elsewhere, and then the air is decompressed, and it's cooler than it was before (heat was lost).
Although the article suggests they could be used to cool parts otherwise too hot, it leaves out the part explaining what they end up doing with the heat. (They probably conduct it somewhere else and let it disipate there.)
You'd still need something to disipate the heat - they don't destroy heat. They're almost like fiber optics - they move energy down the fiber. Heat sinks help disipate heat - this could make them more efficient in doing so.
Because then all the /.ers can bitch about it. You can't really discuss a CNet article with about 1000 posting slashdot readers unless it's on Slashdot - it would be "offtopic" otherwise.
If you view Slashdot as a discussion forum, it's to give topics for discussion. If you view it as a money-making buisness, it's to generate more pageviews. Whatever you consider it, it's just something that the editor (be it CmdrTaco or timothy or whoever) believes are important to most of Slashdot's readers.
Besides, it's kind of nice reading them on Slashdot - by reading the comments you can get a nice view of the differing opinions on the subject, and can often come to a better conclusion by reading other viewpoints that the posters provide.
That seems to me more like someone rooting for his "home" team. Living in Massachusetts, I root for the Red Sox. Does that mean I'm against the Yankees continued existance? No! It just means I'd rather see the team from where I live win. RMS probably feels that GNOME is closer to being his "home team" and so he'd rather that they "win" the desktop "war." Personally, I'd rather they both continue, so that they can work off of each other - anything KDE does better gets copied into GNOME, and anything GNOME does better gets copied into KDE.
(The Scripting and Active Scripting are way the hell down on the scrolling list of options.)
Choose "Disable" to prevent JavaScript (or VBScript, or any other script) from running. Choose "Enable" to allow. Choose "Prompt" to find out just how many sites use JavaScript. (It get's annoying after a while. Very, very, annoying.)
I think having to visit his local BOFH will be punishment enough. He's going to have to answer to all the bandwidth he's using!
For those of you who don't like AVI's, try the MPEG version instead. It's larger, and has higher quality.
But the government wants to move into a "pay per use" system...
2000/08/25 19:20:12 - toilet use started
2000/08/25 19:24:54 - toilet use ended, $0.005/min for 00:04:42; $0.0235 credit to Acme Toilet Seats
Of course, the toilets would now require swipe "smart cards" so the gov't would know what department to bill...
TRADITIONAL TV NEWS
Our Tradition TV News (TTVN) pre-filters all the news that we think doesn't interest our sponsers, who are of course (albiet indirectly), you, the consumer - er, viewer, who buys our sponsers' merchandise. That means no negative news on things like companies that advertise on our network! We do show some - uh, investigative - reporting on people who refuse to advertise.
Like money? So do we! So we bring you stories about companies that advertise - I mean, are doing well on our station - I mean, in the marketplace!
"It's so nice," said some random guy. "I get to hear about the latest blockbuster that the network showing TTVN is producing." That's right, you, too, can learn about the stars personal lives!
Ever wondered which celebrity sleeping with another celebrity? Now we can find out using our exclusive TTVN helicopters, which we fly over their houses! Plus the latest scandals! With our exclusive TTVN helicopters, we can fly around getting exclusive photos of your favorite football players releaving themselves!
But even better, since TTVN is trying to get to the widest possible audience, we show:
MORE color bits on celebrities!
MORE pseudo philosophical guff about what celebrities and sport stars are doing to help the, um, community!
TOTAL coverage of pointless stupid events like the end of our latest TV show!
ENDLESS ranting by self appointed pundits on how the Internet is DESTROYING OUR CIVILIZATION THROUGH PORN!
But, remember, TTVN also means:
NO people who use long difficult words - we need to get everyone watching!
NO intellectuals mumbling on and on - we get specialists who tell it like our audience wants to hear!
NO pictures of poor people in far away places - that's just depressing to our target audience. Instead we give statistics! Sometimes, when we can, we might decide to show you the head of a starving kid - usually nothing more. Those pictures are depressing.
That's right, you don't need the Internet for news, your Traditional TV will work just fine! Plus, we're slowly trying to change everyone away from a community member and into a mindless consumer automatron! Our advertisers need to make money, you know. You are, after all, just people with money for the taking.
Ignore
Repress
Omit