Picture Dan Rather reporting the latest election return results: "And tonight we have the election returns for the state of Florida. Apparently 31337 hAx0r has won the election by an unprecendented landslide..."
to use MSN if you have QWest DSL. Simply locate an ISP in your area that supports DSL and call the QWest DSL department and request that they be your ISP. It's that simple...
We could implement a secure user identity system precisely like telephone Caller ID. It would be essentially an Internet ID. All Internet transactions could be based on it. Anyone who sends me e-mail can be identified. Anything I send can be traced to me. People wouldn't be forced to participate, but if they remain anonymous, I might choose to block them. I certainly wouldn't accept file attachments from them.
'er huh? Perhaps you've been living under a rock Cringely? So you don't run any anonymous attachments, great. Perhaps you forgot to consider the situation where someone you know actually does "click" (never did like that term) on an attachment from an anonymous e-mail? You'll receive the "worm" and happily "click" on it since it came from a trusted source.
It's interesting to me to note that 1984 will come true, not through the government but throught the effort of corporations. It amazes me that the Christian right supports the Republican agenda which flies in the face of religion. The mark of the beast won't be coming from any governments. It'll be coming from huge multi-national companies that have merged and merged and merged until they're so powerful they can enforce anything they want. --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Dude, don't be a moron... You waste time saying that they are very different questions, but you don't detail why. His scenario is that there is a causal relationship between the two. The technological disaster causes the clean design plate. Didn't you read the question? --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
you might pay $10 for a million clock cycles on some opinion server, and you can access all the opinions you want, within that clock cycle limit
On a 200Mhz machine that would amount to 1/200th of a second. Even worse if it's a dual proc machine! --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
When I called Covad a year ago asking about DSL, they offered me less bandwidth at a higher cost than my CLEC *and* they said they'd take three times longer get it installed. Thanks but no-thanks. I ran down the offer QWest gave me with the Covad operator and asked her to explain why I should go with Covad over QWest. She was quiet for a second and then piped in with their service level guarantee. The SLG basically says I'm entitled to a porportional amount of my subscription cost back for any downtime. My response was BFD.
I went with QWest for my local loop and chose a different company to be my ISP. In the last year I haven't seen a single outage! I pay less and get more bandwidth and couldn't be happier. --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Bind runs on root servers and TLD servers. If those don't work, *you* don't work. For a short period of time, many of them were vulnerable. It makes sense to give them at least a few hours advance notice to get them patched.
This won't stop the hard core crackers as they already know about these vulnerabilities in near real time. It will stop the script kiddies who lurk on Bugtraq. --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
If the Open Source community gets saddled with the reputation for stealing intellectual property, it will forge a divide between us and the organizations who have money and need our services. The Open Source community will suffer because we won't have the resources to dedicate to keeping up with the closed source development houses. Eventually we'll fall behind and Open Source software will become a joke.
If Linus could only work on the kernel for a few hours after work, we wouldn't see 2.4 until at least 2002. Even keeping up with the LKML e-mail takes 2 hours per day. --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Dude, that was Jamie who did that write-up. Do some research before shooting off your mouth. Moron! --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
The guy dies and all you can do is bitch about RPN. What a flaming jerk you can be!!! --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Yes, it is old news, though I do not think it has been posted to/. before. As a former Boeing employee, I knew about this almost 2 years ago. --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
I don't know about you, but I have to pay a cable bill every month. I am certaintly not getting them for free. Further, I buy products, which are invariably advertised on the shows I watch. Hence I am paying in that way as well.
What makes you think we are getting television shows for free? --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Ever seen the price on one of those HDTV's? Costco is selling them for $10,000. Sure, they'll come down, but they have a long way to go. Even a ten-fold drop is still more than I am willing to pay. About $250.00 is all I'm willing to pay for a decent TV. I've seen HDTV and the touched up promotional DVD's they play on the demo HDTV sets. It is not so dramatic that it would cause me to pay for a whole new system.
Honestly the picture is not *that* different from a regular TV. Sure, the detail is so good you can read the plays from a quarterback's wristband, it's just not that big of a deal. If they actually go through with this, it will lessen my already empty desire to obtain one of these things. --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
At the very most basic level the heat from this thing will easily power a steam turbine. There's also direct-energy-conversion. This is only about 1% efficient right now, but who cares if the power is free and causes no nasty after effects.
About the promise of this energy source. Why would the US have to hand over the plans to it. It's already in the scientific community. Anyone with an advanced physics degree can understand it. There's enough detail in the article itself to get a sufficiently funded effort underway doing the same thing.
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
It's the employees who go home and collectively use 100 times the electricy that the company uses. It's a simple matter of economies of scale. --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Bugtraq also announced that it will no longer be posting reports that contain only URL's because they want the whole report to be archived rather than a URL that will soon change... --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Interesting how this works out. They are reluctant to train you, but in general when a company hits a bad spot they'll have no problem letting employees go. Perhaps it is the employees who should be saying, "Should I be putting this sort of effort into a company to make it more valuable if I will not be seeing any of that added value.". --
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Slashdot Mirror
Can anyone contrast their experiences running a database server (Linux/Oracle/10-20 TPS) based on intel and PPC chips?
Amen dude. Couldn't agree more. In fact I think they should build them twice as large!
A-fucken-Men dude! You rule!
Picture Dan Rather reporting the latest election return results: "And tonight we have the election returns for the state of Florida. Apparently 31337 hAx0r has won the election by an unprecendented landslide..."
to use MSN if you have QWest DSL. Simply locate an ISP in your area that supports DSL and call the QWest DSL department and request that they be your ISP. It's that simple...
We could implement a secure user identity system precisely like telephone Caller ID. It would be essentially an Internet ID. All Internet transactions could be based on it. Anyone who sends me e-mail can be identified. Anything I send can be traced to me. People wouldn't be forced to participate, but if they remain anonymous, I might choose to block them. I certainly wouldn't accept file attachments from them.
'er huh? Perhaps you've been living under a rock Cringely? So you don't run any anonymous attachments, great. Perhaps you forgot to consider the situation where someone you know actually does "click" (never did like that term) on an attachment from an anonymous e-mail? You'll receive the "worm" and happily "click" on it since it came from a trusted source.
It's interesting to me to note that 1984 will come true, not through the government but throught the effort of corporations. It amazes me that the Christian right supports the Republican agenda which flies in the face of religion. The mark of the beast won't be coming from any governments. It'll be coming from huge multi-national companies that have merged and merged and merged until they're so powerful they can enforce anything they want.
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
The only 100% intuitive interface is the nipple...
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Deja Vous baby...
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Dude, don't be a moron... You waste time saying that they are very different questions, but you don't detail why. His scenario is that there is a causal relationship between the two. The technological disaster causes the clean design plate. Didn't you read the question?
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
you might pay $10 for a million clock cycles on some opinion server, and you can access all the opinions you want, within that clock cycle limit
On a 200Mhz machine that would amount to 1/200th of a second. Even worse if it's a dual proc machine!
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
When I called Covad a year ago asking about DSL, they offered me less bandwidth at a higher cost than my CLEC *and* they said they'd take three times longer get it installed. Thanks but no-thanks. I ran down the offer QWest gave me with the Covad operator and asked her to explain why I should go with Covad over QWest. She was quiet for a second and then piped in with their service level guarantee. The SLG basically says I'm entitled to a porportional amount of my subscription cost back for any downtime. My response was BFD.
I went with QWest for my local loop and chose a different company to be my ISP. In the last year I haven't seen a single outage! I pay less and get more bandwidth and couldn't be happier.
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
No, part of his job description is officially working on the kernel.
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Bind runs on root servers and TLD servers. If those don't work, *you* don't work. For a short period of time, many of them were vulnerable. It makes sense to give them at least a few hours advance notice to get them patched.
This won't stop the hard core crackers as they already know about these vulnerabilities in near real time. It will stop the script kiddies who lurk on Bugtraq.
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
If the Open Source community gets saddled with the reputation for stealing intellectual property, it will forge a divide between us and the organizations who have money and need our services. The Open Source community will suffer because we won't have the resources to dedicate to keeping up with the closed source development houses. Eventually we'll fall behind and Open Source software will become a joke.
If Linus could only work on the kernel for a few hours after work, we wouldn't see 2.4 until at least 2002. Even keeping up with the LKML e-mail takes 2 hours per day.
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Dude, that was Jamie who did that write-up. Do some research before shooting off your mouth. Moron!
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
The guy dies and all you can do is bitch about RPN. What a flaming jerk you can be!!!
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Yes, it is old news, though I do not think it has been posted to /. before. As a former Boeing employee, I knew about this almost 2 years ago.
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
I wonder how much of this "industry cooperation" can be considered collusion?
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
I don't know about you, but I have to pay a cable bill every month. I am certaintly not getting them for free. Further, I buy products, which are invariably advertised on the shows I watch. Hence I am paying in that way as well.
What makes you think we are getting television shows for free?
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Ever seen the price on one of those HDTV's? Costco is selling them for $10,000. Sure, they'll come down, but they have a long way to go. Even a ten-fold drop is still more than I am willing to pay. About $250.00 is all I'm willing to pay for a decent TV. I've seen HDTV and the touched up promotional DVD's they play on the demo HDTV sets. It is not so dramatic that it would cause me to pay for a whole new system.
Honestly the picture is not *that* different from a regular TV. Sure, the detail is so good you can read the plays from a quarterback's wristband, it's just not that big of a deal. If they actually go through with this, it will lessen my already empty desire to obtain one of these things.
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
At the very most basic level the heat from this thing will easily power a steam turbine. There's also direct-energy-conversion. This is only about 1% efficient right now, but who cares if the power is free and causes no nasty after effects.
About the promise of this energy source. Why would the US have to hand over the plans to it. It's already in the scientific community. Anyone with an advanced physics degree can understand it. There's enough detail in the article itself to get a sufficiently funded effort underway doing the same thing.
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
It's the employees who go home and collectively use 100 times the electricy that the company uses. It's a simple matter of economies of scale.
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Bugtraq also announced that it will no longer be posting reports that contain only URL's because they want the whole report to be archived rather than a URL that will soon change...
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc
Interesting how this works out. They are reluctant to train you, but in general when a company hits a bad spot they'll have no problem letting employees go. Perhaps it is the employees who should be saying, "Should I be putting this sort of effort into a company to make it more valuable if I will not be seeing any of that added value.".
--
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
25: ten.knilrevlis@wkcuhc