German Shepard Sniffers to Punish Those Censoring Web.
Anonymous Coward writes "The IDG (International Dog Grooming)News Service reports "is proposing a system to detect illegal drug content on Web sites, and block kennel access to those sites via German Shepard ISPs.(internet sniffing pooches)" The flea block Collars would be installed at "key Internet junctions" that would disallow access to the offending sites. Andy Müller-Maguhn at the Chaos Kennel Club is quoted in the story, and calls this post absurd." This joke has been floated before - looks like it's going full speed ahead.
Windows has been able to capture a lot of the Mechanical Engineering software market mostly due to the fact that P.C. Hardware has been getting much cheaper while catching up to hardware built by Sun, SGI, HP, and even Cray. This could be a great opportunity for the Linux movement!
I'm not saying this to be funny, but seriously, Imagine a cluster of these!
Companies like Ford, GM, and Daimler Chrysler literally have thousands of computers sitting idle most of the day. Meanwhile, they also spend Millions of dollars on hardware to run crash test simulations.
Get rid of your secretary's 4 year old PC, buy her a dual Processor Box with 2 gigs of RAM, (she'll be very happy), and then use it for Analysis Jobs when her screen saver kicks on. Two birds with one stone. Do this with even a few hundred secretaries, and you could literally save a company millions of dollars on Hardware.
Daimler Chrysler is supposedly laying off 26,000 workers, so don't start thinking that it's a problem with solely the Linux Industry. Almost verybody is hurting somewhat.
Here's a Related Link For "learning" about watching illegal Cable TV on your linux box. Haven't tried it yet mostly because My TV tuner card sucks.
Also, I could be wrong, but suppose a guy (not me I swear!) wanted to steal cable signals. If they wanted to go with the DSS method, they wouldn't have to pay ANY monthly service fee. The guy stealing Signals from his local cable company would likely have to pay for the "basic" package while his little black box would be considered the "upgrade".
I used to be an automechanic (in a previous life)
so when I started working on my Mechanical Engineering Degree, I was already older than some guys that had already earned their BSME degrees.
For me, it's worked to my advantage.
Also, keep in mind that most people are looking for experience. Ever been to a job fair? If not, guess what the first thing is that headhunters look for when they start reading your resume? (no, not the 12 years of reading Slashdot). They're looking for experience. Without a resume in hand, people just make assumptions about your ability. I'm willing to bet that people in the computer fields have this problem more often since their skills are less easily estimated by age.
How about a message board system running slashcode?
Patients could ask Doctors for medical advice, and Doctors could compete for Karma. Bad medical advice would be moderated " -1 Kevorkian " and Funny medical advice could be.....
Well, maybe I'll have to work on this one some more.
Anybody know what kind of memory these will be using?
If I can eventually buy one of these boards with a $70 dollar 256 meg stick of RAM from pricewatch Then it would be pointless to do any upgrades on any of my computers. I just wish I could quit drooling over this! Look Out Intel!
Okay,
So we've proven that online filters don't work.
How about a service that doesn't "blacklist" websites, but instead only lets visitor's view approved sites from a certain list.
When people try to access sites from off the approved list, the URL gets logged to a database.
Somebody at a computer in Nebraska then checks to see if this URL should be allowed to be put on the approved list.
Yeah, I know it's censorship, but haven't we already agreed that the old way is also censorship? At least this way would work.
Interesting Point. Unfortunately, you are correct.
It is this cost that is preventing it's widespread use. Add to this the fact that Colleges make a very large portion of their profits from Their Dormatories and Cafeteria meal plans. What's the incentive for a large school to develop these classes? Bloated systems often mean keeping jobs. No More Dorms? Guess we won't need a maintainance man. No more Cafeteria? Guess we won't be needing more cooks. You get the idea. Nobody wants to lose their job even if it means having a better system. Just look at the Government.
As much as I'd love to see this stuff more available, Unfortunately, I'm pesimistic about it happening anytime soon.
My sister ( a mac Guru ) told me a similar story.
as the story goes:
One of the old Macintosh computers was designed with a significant portion of development done on Cray computers.
Ironically, old Cray computers were developed using a lot of Macs.
IMHO, both the Crays and the Macs Were/are very significant computers in their time. Perhaps their success was due to a paradigm shift. Sometimes the best ideas happen because somebody thinks "outside the box".
Being a somewhat newbie techie, I don't always know what certain things should be callled
I commend Pilsbury for helping me add to my
tech education. I now know what to call "events where engineers get together to test their implementations against each other."
I gotta wonder...
Is it possible they're just doing this for publicity?
After all, Spam is now a household name. This is just some scam to sell more cookies. Buy stock in Pillsbury now!
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German Shepard Sniffers to Punish Those Censoring Web.
Anonymous Coward writes "The IDG (International Dog Grooming) News Service reports "is proposing a system to detect illegal drug content on Web sites, and block kennel access to those sites via German Shepard ISPs.(internet sniffing pooches)" The flea block Collars would be installed at "key Internet junctions" that would disallow access to the offending sites. Andy Müller-Maguhn at the Chaos Kennel Club is quoted in the story, and calls this post absurd." This joke has been floated before - looks like it's going full speed ahead.
Or does this thing look like a Harley Davidson Fat-Boy minus the seat and Handlebars?
This has far more potential than drawing simple 3D pictures on your home PC.
This could realistically be tied into Finite Element Analysis software similar to SDRC's I-DEAS , Pro-Engineer Or even Hyper-Mesh.
Windows has been able to capture a lot of the Mechanical Engineering software market mostly due to the fact that P.C. Hardware has been getting much cheaper while catching up to hardware built by Sun, SGI, HP, and even Cray. This could be a great opportunity for the Linux movement!
I'm not saying this to be funny, but seriously,
Imagine a cluster of these!
Companies like Ford, GM, and Daimler Chrysler literally have thousands of computers sitting idle most of the day. Meanwhile, they also spend Millions of dollars on hardware to run crash test simulations.
Get rid of your secretary's 4 year old PC, buy her a dual Processor Box with 2 gigs of RAM, (she'll be very happy), and then use it for Analysis Jobs when her screen saver kicks on. Two birds with one stone. Do this with even a few hundred secretaries, and you could literally save a company millions of dollars on Hardware.
Daimler Chrysler is supposedly laying off 26,000 workers, so don't start thinking that it's a problem with solely the Linux Industry. Almost verybody is hurting somewhat.
Why use a swap partition at all if you can just buy more memory? Isn't that the same as buying this?
Might be good for people that have all their slots filled. All in all, sounds like a very cool product.
Here's a Related Link For "learning" about watching illegal Cable TV on your linux box. Haven't tried it yet mostly because My TV tuner card sucks.
Also, I could be wrong, but suppose a guy (not me I swear!) wanted to steal cable signals. If they wanted to go with the DSS method, they wouldn't have to pay ANY monthly service fee. The guy stealing Signals from his local cable company would likely have to pay for the "basic" package while his little black box would be considered the "upgrade".
oops..... Maybe I'd better consider making my wallpaper out of a dictionary instead!
Wallpaper for the computer room anywone?
;-)
I used to be an automechanic (in a previous life)
so when I started working on my Mechanical Engineering Degree,
I was already older than some guys that had already
earned their BSME degrees.
For me, it's worked to my advantage.
Also, keep in mind that most people are looking for experience. Ever been to a job fair? If not, guess what the first thing is that headhunters look for when they start reading your resume? (no, not the 12 years of reading Slashdot). They're looking for experience. Without a resume in hand, people just make assumptions about your ability.
I'm willing to bet that people in the computer fields have this problem more often since their skills are less easily estimated by age.
Soon we'll all be bitchin' about forgeting our keys in our computers.
How about a message board system running slashcode?
Patients could ask Doctors for medical advice, and Doctors could compete for Karma. Bad medical advice would be moderated " -1 Kevorkian " and Funny medical advice could be
Well, maybe I'll have to work on this one some more.
Anybody know what kind of memory these will be using?
If I can eventually buy one of these boards with a $70 dollar 256 meg stick of RAM from pricewatch Then it would be pointless to do any upgrades on any of my computers. I just wish I could quit drooling over this! Look Out Intel!
Controled by GPS ????
Got any Aluminum Foil? Wrap that sucker up!
Muh Hah aha ha ha!!!
A lot of these guys run dual platforms.
(i.e. a Windows P.C. and a Solaris Sparcstation).
It would be very interesting if VMWare could emulate other platforms such as running IRIX or HPUX on intel based hardware.
Regardless, I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this company!
Streaming Media would be cool too
I may be dreaming, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
Okay, So we've proven that online filters don't work.
How about a service that doesn't "blacklist" websites, but instead only lets visitor's view approved sites from a certain list.
When people try to access sites from off the approved list, the URL gets logged to a database. Somebody at a computer in Nebraska then checks to see if this URL should be allowed to be put on the approved list.
Yeah, I know it's censorship, but haven't we already agreed that the old way is also censorship? At least this way would work.
Interesting Point.
Unfortunately, you are correct.
It is this cost that is preventing it's widespread use. Add to this the fact that Colleges make a very large portion of their profits from Their Dormatories and Cafeteria meal plans. What's the incentive for a large school to develop these classes? Bloated systems often mean keeping jobs. No More Dorms? Guess we won't need a maintainance man. No more Cafeteria? Guess we won't be needing more cooks. You get the idea. Nobody wants to lose their job even if it means having a better system. Just look at the Government.
As much as I'd love to see this stuff more available, Unfortunately, I'm pesimistic about it happening anytime soon.
If you look closely, you can see a carrot ( ^ ) in that guy's nose.
BFD!
Back 100 years ago people were worried about global cooling! If it's not one thing it's another!
Personally, I don't see why /. doesn't just use these instead of the "please sign in or register" links.
My guess is that it's probably for legal reasons.
My sister ( a mac Guru ) told me a similar story.
as the story goes:
One of the old Macintosh computers was designed with a significant portion of development done on Cray computers.
Ironically, old Cray computers were developed using a lot of Macs.
IMHO, both the Crays and the Macs Were/are very significant computers in their time. Perhaps their success was due to a paradigm shift. Sometimes the best ideas happen because somebody thinks "outside the box".
Being a somewhat newbie techie, I don't always
know what certain things should be callled
I commend Pilsbury for helping me add to my
tech education. I now know what to call "events where engineers get together to test their implementations against each other."
I gotta wonder...
Is it possible they're just doing this for publicity?
After all, Spam is now a household name. This is just some scam to sell more cookies. Buy stock in Pillsbury now!
Somebody should have their name legally changed to "Bake Off"
Then everybody can claim that "Bake Offs" are named after Mr. Off.
Or maybe just do as somebody else suggested, and rename it. I propose "Bae Koff"
What you really need is not just a regular sheet metal like Aluminum
or steel, but something with a very high density.
Anybody know where I can get sheets of Gold plating about the size of an envelope?
Now I can finally have a mouse that move's itself!