I just want to make sure that everyone out there realizes that the part about my mother knowing Stallman was a useless aside - since you've editted out the:) that marked it as something to be taken lightly. And some other posts seem to have missed that point. It was kind of a funny story - my mom was reading something online about this guy called Richard Stallman and she remembered having a class or something with him in Boston in the late 70s, so she sent him an e-mail to find out if it was the same guy and it was. I thought it was kinda neat and am going to exploit it for geek points:)
I should also point out that I'm well aware that your comment about 20 years passing was said in jest too, before someone accuses me of missing your:)
Anyway, back to defend my real point - while he can give very precise arguments, I think he has a tendancy to get side-tracked onto things that matter to him and not the matter at hand. He also seems to be very polarizing in his arguments - either you agree strongly, or you disagree strongly. A good speaker is capable of allowing people to listen to their arguments without forcing them to take a side, while Stallman seems to try and force his ideas on others. This makes it harder to take him seriously, as it almost makes it seem as if his ideas don't carry enough weight by themselves and instead need to be forced on people.
I honestly don't know how he'd do in a court case, but I know plenty of people who can't stand to hear him speak. He's kind of like Michael Moore in that respect - people either like listening to him or can't stand him. I personally can't stand anything Michael Moore says or does, even though I agree with him on several points. (I found Bowling for Columbine to be surprisingly good, though, because Moore was trying to start a debate and not to force his views on others.)
To try and show the parallels more clearly, think of the difference between the following:
I think that what most people call Linux really needs to be called GNU/Linux. The GNU project has provided many important components to what many refer to as the "Linux Operating System" and has received very little credit back in return. This is not right, so most Linux systems use the GNU utilities to run their systems.
Versus
If you don't call yourselves the GNU/Linux Assocation, I won't speak at your site. You also need to change it to "GNU/Linux" on your website.
While Stallman's explanation of GNU/Linux on the FSF webpage is well thought out and closer to the first paragraph, his dealings with reporters and others in public have been much closer to the second. It's this that makes me worry about his public speaking skills - he needs to come off as someone who can make an argument that stands on its own and not solely because it has the backing of the a person with strong convictions.
I hope this explains my position better - I haven't had a chance to listen to Stallman speak recently (he keeps on scheduling his speaches that I am close enough to attend at inopertune times:)), but based on the reactions to things he's said that I've seen or heard, I can only come to the conclusion that he isn't that good a public speaker.
From what I've heard about Stallman (including that my mother knew him in the late 70s:)), he is not a good public speaker. I think we all already know that, though - he's caused many an uproar on Slashdot by statements made that have infuriated even people that mostly agree with him.
If Stallman receives proper coaching, then he probably can do a good job on the stand. But he's not a really good public speaker, and if he's not careful, he could come off badly on the stand. We just have to hope that he does a good job speaking if he actually makes it to the stand. However, I can't imagine anything useful he could say in relation to a contract dispute between IBM and SCO, so I'm not as worried as I'd otherwise be.
But who knows why he's been subpoenaed. Apparently not even SCO knows - until we find out what they want with him and what information they hope to receive, anything here is just useless speculation.
(Although I will know what to feel about the first person who "corrects" me on this issue...)
Slap-slap-slap-slap.
I know, I know, OK - I thought it was amusing. Xeno is one of the more common nicknames used by people with not a spark of creativity in them - like the AC said. I can read posts. I just thought it was amusing. Especially, if you go by date joined, that I'm copying the "real" xeno.
Besides, the X is lame. People who use names that being with X are lamers. My name starts with an underscore.:P
(Although the name I use in elsewhere online begins with - uh, an X. But ignoring that...)
Actually, Matt Groening has a very "straight" approach to telling jokes. If you listen to the audio commentary, you can hear him telling jokes in a very "normal" manor. He'll say absolutely rediculous things with a completely straight face, and if it weren't insane and on an audio commentary, you might not realize he was joking.
I can entirely believe that Groening would say, with a completely straight face: "Fox fought against it and said that they would sue the show.... And we called their bluff because we didn't think that Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself." I could imagine him saying that in such a fasion that people not looking for the satire would take it seriously.
You can see this in the Simpsons and Futurama too - there are a lot of visual gags that are just there, with nothing calling attention to them. If you were stupid enough to assume the animation was "real" you might miss that they're actually a joke. I can completely believe that Matt Groening was relating a story about being yelled at for mocking Fox News, and that people thought he was serious.
What I imagine really happened is that some humorless executive somewhere flagged the ticker as potentially "harmful" or something and created a big stink, and that Groening's story is based on that. Afterwards, there may or may not have been a policy against faking tickers, to satisfy this executive who is certain that it's confusing people. But who knows, I'm just guessing. But it seems that is most likely what happened.
Actually, Easter has quite a lot to do with Passover. The events that Easter celebrates are based on the account of events that occured during Passover. Jesus was celebrating Passover when he was betrayed and turned over to the Roman authorities. The "real" rituals basically involve reading the Bible account of the events and "remembering" how Jesus rose from the dead to absolve people of their sins, or something.
Easter occurs based on when Passover occurs. Easter is supposed to be a celebration of the resurrection of Christ. Things like the Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs are "popular" rituals, similar to Santa Claus during Christmas, that were added to replace or emulate other spring time rituals.
Easter is basically the only "real" Christian holiday (along with Pentecost?). It is the most holy Christian holiday. Christmas was originally created to replace pagan "light" festivals. For many years, Christmas was denied by officials and made illegal to celebrate because it was seen as a pagan holiday. Only recently (in the 19th century, really) did Christmas become more popular.
That covers the two major Christian holidays - Easter, marking the resurrection of Christ, and Christmas, marking an attempt to assimilate various pagan light rituals. I can't think of any other "core" Christian holidays - most other holidays are not universal among the various Christian churches. Being a Congregationalist myself, I don't even know about any of the other "Christian" holidays. We don't even really make a big deal about Lent, which is really a part of Easter anyway.
I was trying to keep it to two items each, because I also left out things like WindowMaker and other "third party" choices that don't get as much support as "the big two." Besides, that rapidly becomes:
^a) pico
^b) nano
Trust me, I've seen a pico vs nano argument before. It's not a pleasant sight. In fact, it's really quite weird...
Of course, I could have also added in GUI vs CLI, Outlook vs Evolution, Outlook/Evolution/ThunderBird/Mail.app vs Pine, Pine vs Mutt, bash vs csh, csh vs ksh, ksh vs sh, and so on and so forth.
I was trying to only accent the big Program Holy Wars, not the minor skirmishes. With a name like pico, it can't be too big a deal.
Besides, someone will eventually pipe up with vi vs vim...
I think you need some super-blocks, too:
A) Gnome
B) KDE
Oh, and:
I) GPL
II) BSD
And, of course:
*) vi
#) emacs
These are important over-all groups that people in any block can belong to. These voices need to be heard! Well, actually, they don't need to be heard, but come hell or high water they will be anyway so you might as well incorporate them somehow.
Actually, suggesting that patents encouraged the Industrial Revolution is rather amusing to me, considering I live near a city that basically flourished by breaking them.
After independence there were a number of unsuccessful attempts to establish textile factories. Americans needed access to the British industrial innovations, but England had passed laws forbidding the export of machinery or the emigration of those who could operate it. Nevertheless it was an English immigrant, Samuel Slater, who finally introduced British cotton technology to America.
Slater had worked his way up from apprentice to overseer in an English factory using the Arkwright system. Drawn by American bounties for the introduction of textile technology, he passed as a farmer and sailed for America with details of the Arkwright water frame committed to memory. In December 1790, working for mill owner Moses Brown, he started up the first permanent American cotton spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Employing a workforce of nine children between the ages of 7 and 12, Slater successfully mechanized the carding and spinning processes.
The United States as an industrial power was basically established through patent infringement. The patent system was designed based on the idea of convincing people to share their ideas. Protecting them is a means to an end. However, when you have patents protecting frivolous inventions (once you have dynamically linked libraries, plugins are a fairly obvious next step), the system becomes abused. It no longer promotes the sharing of ideas and the development of new ones, it instead restricts innovation.
Who knows if patents as they currently exist really do spur on invention? But patents as they existed during the Industrial Revolution almost kept America out of the game until someone "stole" the designs for mills, at which point the flood gates opened and America became industrialized.
BitTorrent has a very important component called the tracker. It runs on a single server. Kill that and everyone's download will eventually stop, and no one will be able to download new copies.
(Just in case you're wondering, the tracker is what maintains a list of peers currently downloading/uploading the file. It sends (random portions of) this list to the clients. As peers drop off the network, a given client will attempt to refresh with the tracker to obtain new peers to talk with. If the tracker is down, then eventually as people drop off the network no one will be able to continue a download, and no one will be able to start a new one. BitTorrent still has a single point of failure - its strength is in distributing the bandwidth requirement amongst peers.)
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I was going to post something like this too, but I think I'll chime in with some other questions too.
Namely, whenever people on Slashdot complain about how EJBs are insanely slow and seem to cause more problems than they solve, someone always posts something along the lines of "they weren't used properly." Which is nice and all, but I have yet to figure out what is a proper use of EJBs. So, that's my main question - what should EJBs be used for? When are they the right tool for the job?
I wasn't able to figure this out the last time I worked with a J2EE environment. All in all, it seemed that they were too complicated for what we were doing. And I wasn't able to see a problem where they would have been a good solution.
Of course, I've been soured to them (or bittered, maybe?) based on the project which was basically people questioning the contractors' choice of CORBA on their Java-based system. Someone suggested to management that the contractors should have used EJBs and that this would have made the finished project "Better." So I got stuck with the task of trying to demo a system with CORBA replaced with EJBs instead - never mind the fact that most J2EE environments use CORBA as the RMI layer between beans...
So to sum up: What is the "right way" to use EJBs? And what types of problems are they best at solving?
I find it worth noting that the theme there actually is Playskool XP recolored to be gray. In fact, it looks suspiciously like the Silver color scheme available currently in Windows XP...
Well, like the Silver color scheme with new windows where the gradient isn't vertical but instead horizontal. But it's actually very similar to the existing Windows XP Style.
Don't forget, this is Microsoft. They never learn from others until after they've bought them. If Microsoft didn't invent it, then it can't be any good.
A group of people can easily download the entire book, stitch it together, and release it to the wild. Not a good thing. I don't know how this works, but it may even be possible for a group of people to do this using a simple program that runs in the background.
There's no way Amazon is ever going to get away with this program - it will be abused. I can understand why Amazon is doing this (they want to be more like a physical book store), but this service is just asking to be abused.
I managed to read it as ATAPI and then only later realized he had written "APATI"... I'm wondering what it means that my mind will now "decode" improperly spelled computer acronyms that I really know nothing about. What's ATAPI? I dunno, but I know that it involves CDs...
It took the "submit" button to realize the contradictory information in my post.
OK, back when BitTorrent wasn't blocked, it could take up to 30 seconds to start a download. Now that it is blocked, it can take up to a minute before I realize something is screwy and remember that BitTorrent was blocked to give everyone else on the network a chance to use it. BitTorrent makes a great denial of service tool against everyone else on the local network...
Quite frankly, if I knew of a BT client that flat out rejected people refusing to upload, I'd use that instead.
You have to allow some slack in the protocol for people who are just starting a download and don't have anything useful yet. When I start a BitTorrent download it can take up to 30 seconds before I start uploading because I don't have anything useful.
Plus a lot of people are on asynchronous connections, so they may be capable of receiving more than they can send, and shouldn't be punished for that. Besides, BitTorrent already has measures in place where clients will cut off bandwidth to peers who aren't uploading enough. However, if there's an overabundance of bandwidth, they'll still receive some data and be able to download anyway.
Not that any of this matters, since BitTorrent is blocked on my network connection. *grumbles*
Oh well, I tried and failed to resist making a joke about your typo. So:
My laptop has more memory in it's L2 cache than my fists floppy drive could store.
First of all, it's "fist's" and second of all, your fist has a floppy drive? That sounds pretty cool. Can you download data into your brain Matrix-style? "I know kung-fu."
I can just see someone having a little slot just below the knuckles and therefore needs to make a fist in order to insert a floppy disk. I found the mental image rather amusing.
(Although now that I think about it, practicing a martial art learned through a fist drive could cause serious damage to the drive. Also, Slashdot refuses to allow me to preview this so blame mistakes on it.)
I'd think copying the VGA output would produce a nicer result, personally. If LCD monitors can use standard VGA to create a pixel-based display, it's gotta be possible to steal the screen that way too.
Re:Slashdot popups? (house ads)
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Slashdot has had "house ads" for ages - they usually point to Newsforge or some random thing on Think Geek. The Slashdot ads I've seen on Slashdot, though, seem to be advertising the site in general.
Although I just went through and refreshed a page like 100 times to pull up one of the ads and it turns out you're right - I couldn't tell based on the ad, but they're actually for a mailing list that sends out the Slashdot headlines. (The ad brings you here and I assume the ad was for this. Not what I expected based on the ad, though.)
BTW, the ad I saw says: "Missed Yesterday's News?" and then "Slashdot: News every day, whether you need it or not." I thought it was advertising Slashdot in general.
The another says "Get Your Daily Dose of Slashdot" and "Sign up for daily Slashdot headlines" - which made it a lot clearer what it was advertising.
I basically do the same thing you do, but if you really need some CLI goodness in Windows, simply use Cygwin. All the Linux goodies you'd need for your Windows system, and you can play games too.
And for the person who called the above FUD, read the journal entry. It lists a whole lot of reasons why Windows offers a better desktop experience than Linux and at the bottom has some suggestions on how to improve the Linux experience - although the journal entry is now over six months old.
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Can I complain about this one really annoying ad that's appearing on the pages I view? It's about this site that offers "News, every day, whether you need it or not." I took a screenshot one of the times it came up. Hold on, let me look for it.
OK, it's for a site called, uh, "Slashdot".
On a more serious note, I have been shown an ad for Slashdot on Slashdot twice in the past week. I actually find it really amusing but I have to wonder how much Slashdot pays Slashdot to advertise Slashdot on Slashdot. I just felt like sharing...
Although I actually have a serious question on the topic of ads on Slashdot. I've been seeing Flash ads show on Slashdot occasionally in the past several months and was wondering if the previous policy of "no Flash ads" had been reversed or if those ads just snuck through. I personally didn't mind these ads, as they had no sound to them, but I'm curious if the Flash policy had been revised.
Slashdot Mirror
I should also point out that I'm well aware that your comment about 20 years passing was said in jest too, before someone accuses me of missing your :)
Anyway, back to defend my real point - while he can give very precise arguments, I think he has a tendancy to get side-tracked onto things that matter to him and not the matter at hand. He also seems to be very polarizing in his arguments - either you agree strongly, or you disagree strongly. A good speaker is capable of allowing people to listen to their arguments without forcing them to take a side, while Stallman seems to try and force his ideas on others. This makes it harder to take him seriously, as it almost makes it seem as if his ideas don't carry enough weight by themselves and instead need to be forced on people.
I honestly don't know how he'd do in a court case, but I know plenty of people who can't stand to hear him speak. He's kind of like Michael Moore in that respect - people either like listening to him or can't stand him. I personally can't stand anything Michael Moore says or does, even though I agree with him on several points. (I found Bowling for Columbine to be surprisingly good, though, because Moore was trying to start a debate and not to force his views on others.)
To try and show the parallels more clearly, think of the difference between the following:
Versus While Stallman's explanation of GNU/Linux on the FSF webpage is well thought out and closer to the first paragraph, his dealings with reporters and others in public have been much closer to the second. It's this that makes me worry about his public speaking skills - he needs to come off as someone who can make an argument that stands on its own and not solely because it has the backing of the a person with strong convictions.I hope this explains my position better - I haven't had a chance to listen to Stallman speak recently (he keeps on scheduling his speaches that I am close enough to attend at inopertune times :)), but based on the reactions to things he's said that I've seen or heard, I can only come to the conclusion that he isn't that good a public speaker.
If Stallman receives proper coaching, then he probably can do a good job on the stand. But he's not a really good public speaker, and if he's not careful, he could come off badly on the stand. We just have to hope that he does a good job speaking if he actually makes it to the stand. However, I can't imagine anything useful he could say in relation to a contract dispute between IBM and SCO, so I'm not as worried as I'd otherwise be.
But who knows why he's been subpoenaed. Apparently not even SCO knows - until we find out what they want with him and what information they hope to receive, anything here is just useless speculation.
Slap-slap-slap-slap.
I know, I know, OK - I thought it was amusing. Xeno is one of the more common nicknames used by people with not a spark of creativity in them - like the AC said. I can read posts. I just thought it was amusing. Especially, if you go by date joined, that I'm copying the "real" xeno.
Besides, the X is lame. People who use names that being with X are lamers. My name starts with an underscore. :P
(Although the name I use in elsewhere online begins with - uh, an X. But ignoring that...)
I don't know whether to be offended or honored...
(Although I will know what to feel about the first person who "corrects" me on this issue...)
Anyone else originally read that as "mibibytes" types as opposed to "megabyte" types?
I need more sleep.
I can entirely believe that Groening would say, with a completely straight face: "Fox fought against it and said that they would sue the show. ... And we called their bluff because we didn't think that Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself." I could imagine him saying that in such a fasion that people not looking for the satire would take it seriously.
You can see this in the Simpsons and Futurama too - there are a lot of visual gags that are just there, with nothing calling attention to them. If you were stupid enough to assume the animation was "real" you might miss that they're actually a joke. I can completely believe that Matt Groening was relating a story about being yelled at for mocking Fox News, and that people thought he was serious.
What I imagine really happened is that some humorless executive somewhere flagged the ticker as potentially "harmful" or something and created a big stink, and that Groening's story is based on that. Afterwards, there may or may not have been a policy against faking tickers, to satisfy this executive who is certain that it's confusing people. But who knows, I'm just guessing. But it seems that is most likely what happened.
Easter occurs based on when Passover occurs. Easter is supposed to be a celebration of the resurrection of Christ. Things like the Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs are "popular" rituals, similar to Santa Claus during Christmas, that were added to replace or emulate other spring time rituals.
Easter is basically the only "real" Christian holiday (along with Pentecost?). It is the most holy Christian holiday. Christmas was originally created to replace pagan "light" festivals. For many years, Christmas was denied by officials and made illegal to celebrate because it was seen as a pagan holiday. Only recently (in the 19th century, really) did Christmas become more popular.
That covers the two major Christian holidays - Easter, marking the resurrection of Christ, and Christmas, marking an attempt to assimilate various pagan light rituals. I can't think of any other "core" Christian holidays - most other holidays are not universal among the various Christian churches. Being a Congregationalist myself, I don't even know about any of the other "Christian" holidays. We don't even really make a big deal about Lent, which is really a part of Easter anyway.
^a) pico
^b) nano
Trust me, I've seen a pico vs nano argument before. It's not a pleasant sight. In fact, it's really quite weird...
Of course, I could have also added in GUI vs CLI, Outlook vs Evolution, Outlook/Evolution/ThunderBird/Mail.app vs Pine, Pine vs Mutt, bash vs csh, csh vs ksh, ksh vs sh, and so on and so forth.
I was trying to only accent the big Program Holy Wars, not the minor skirmishes. With a name like pico, it can't be too big a deal.
Besides, someone will eventually pipe up with vi vs vim...
A) Gnome
B) KDE
Oh, and:
I) GPL
II) BSD
And, of course:
*) vi
#) emacs
These are important over-all groups that people in any block can belong to. These voices need to be heard! Well, actually, they don't need to be heard, but come hell or high water they will be anyway so you might as well incorporate them somehow.
Lowell, Massachusetts is famous (well, was famous) as being a very important and large milling city in America. But before it could become a large milling city, the industrial era mills needed to be invented. They were orginally invented in England, where they were patented. From the Lowell National Historical Park Handbook, specifically, Early American Manufactoring:
The United States as an industrial power was basically established through patent infringement. The patent system was designed based on the idea of convincing people to share their ideas. Protecting them is a means to an end. However, when you have patents protecting frivolous inventions (once you have dynamically linked libraries, plugins are a fairly obvious next step), the system becomes abused. It no longer promotes the sharing of ideas and the development of new ones, it instead restricts innovation.
Who knows if patents as they currently exist really do spur on invention? But patents as they existed during the Industrial Revolution almost kept America out of the game until someone "stole" the designs for mills, at which point the flood gates opened and America became industrialized.
(Just in case you're wondering, the tracker is what maintains a list of peers currently downloading/uploading the file. It sends (random portions of) this list to the clients. As peers drop off the network, a given client will attempt to refresh with the tracker to obtain new peers to talk with. If the tracker is down, then eventually as people drop off the network no one will be able to continue a download, and no one will be able to start a new one. BitTorrent still has a single point of failure - its strength is in distributing the bandwidth requirement amongst peers.)
Namely, whenever people on Slashdot complain about how EJBs are insanely slow and seem to cause more problems than they solve, someone always posts something along the lines of "they weren't used properly." Which is nice and all, but I have yet to figure out what is a proper use of EJBs. So, that's my main question - what should EJBs be used for? When are they the right tool for the job?
I wasn't able to figure this out the last time I worked with a J2EE environment. All in all, it seemed that they were too complicated for what we were doing. And I wasn't able to see a problem where they would have been a good solution.
Of course, I've been soured to them (or bittered, maybe?) based on the project which was basically people questioning the contractors' choice of CORBA on their Java-based system. Someone suggested to management that the contractors should have used EJBs and that this would have made the finished project "Better." So I got stuck with the task of trying to demo a system with CORBA replaced with EJBs instead - never mind the fact that most J2EE environments use CORBA as the RMI layer between beans...
So to sum up: What is the "right way" to use EJBs? And what types of problems are they best at solving?
Well, like the Silver color scheme with new windows where the gradient isn't vertical but instead horizontal. But it's actually very similar to the existing Windows XP Style.
Don't forget, this is Microsoft. They never learn from others until after they've bought them. If Microsoft didn't invent it, then it can't be any good.
I have friends.
A group of people can easily download the entire book, stitch it together, and release it to the wild. Not a good thing. I don't know how this works, but it may even be possible for a group of people to do this using a simple program that runs in the background.
There's no way Amazon is ever going to get away with this program - it will be abused. I can understand why Amazon is doing this (they want to be more like a physical book store), but this service is just asking to be abused.
I managed to read it as ATAPI and then only later realized he had written "APATI"... I'm wondering what it means that my mind will now "decode" improperly spelled computer acronyms that I really know nothing about. What's ATAPI? I dunno, but I know that it involves CDs...
OK, back when BitTorrent wasn't blocked, it could take up to 30 seconds to start a download. Now that it is blocked, it can take up to a minute before I realize something is screwy and remember that BitTorrent was blocked to give everyone else on the network a chance to use it. BitTorrent makes a great denial of service tool against everyone else on the local network...
You have to allow some slack in the protocol for people who are just starting a download and don't have anything useful yet. When I start a BitTorrent download it can take up to 30 seconds before I start uploading because I don't have anything useful.
Plus a lot of people are on asynchronous connections, so they may be capable of receiving more than they can send, and shouldn't be punished for that. Besides, BitTorrent already has measures in place where clients will cut off bandwidth to peers who aren't uploading enough. However, if there's an overabundance of bandwidth, they'll still receive some data and be able to download anyway.
Not that any of this matters, since BitTorrent is blocked on my network connection. *grumbles*
My laptop has more memory in it's L2 cache than my fists floppy drive could store.
First of all, it's "fist's" and second of all, your fist has a floppy drive? That sounds pretty cool. Can you download data into your brain Matrix-style? "I know kung-fu."
I can just see someone having a little slot just below the knuckles and therefore needs to make a fist in order to insert a floppy disk. I found the mental image rather amusing.
(Although now that I think about it, practicing a martial art learned through a fist drive could cause serious damage to the drive. Also, Slashdot refuses to allow me to preview this so blame mistakes on it.)
I'd think copying the VGA output would produce a nicer result, personally. If LCD monitors can use standard VGA to create a pixel-based display, it's gotta be possible to steal the screen that way too.
Although I just went through and refreshed a page like 100 times to pull up one of the ads and it turns out you're right - I couldn't tell based on the ad, but they're actually for a mailing list that sends out the Slashdot headlines. (The ad brings you here and I assume the ad was for this. Not what I expected based on the ad, though.)
BTW, the ad I saw says: "Missed Yesterday's News?" and then "Slashdot: News every day, whether you need it or not." I thought it was advertising Slashdot in general.
The another says "Get Your Daily Dose of Slashdot" and "Sign up for daily Slashdot headlines" - which made it a lot clearer what it was advertising.
I think I see a flaw with that system. I mean, spammers could just use really slow computers that take over 10 seconds to solve the equation.
And for the person who called the above FUD, read the journal entry. It lists a whole lot of reasons why Windows offers a better desktop experience than Linux and at the bottom has some suggestions on how to improve the Linux experience - although the journal entry is now over six months old.
OK, it's for a site called, uh, "Slashdot".
On a more serious note, I have been shown an ad for Slashdot on Slashdot twice in the past week. I actually find it really amusing but I have to wonder how much Slashdot pays Slashdot to advertise Slashdot on Slashdot. I just felt like sharing...
Although I actually have a serious question on the topic of ads on Slashdot. I've been seeing Flash ads show on Slashdot occasionally in the past several months and was wondering if the previous policy of "no Flash ads" had been reversed or if those ads just snuck through. I personally didn't mind these ads, as they had no sound to them, but I'm curious if the Flash policy had been revised.
Seriously, "Unix" is very vague, and the above is a "Unix port" after a fashion, so...
Nah, we'll just enjoy socialist tax rates paired with no of the socialist benefits. No deficit that way - but no services anyway.