I still think it would be nice to assign additional points to people with a high karma so that I can view their (probably) insightful views even though several idiots have marked it as "Redundant" or "Flamebait".
Good idea; what I'd like, though, is to be able to set the threshold for comments to show anything that had been modded up, no matter what its score. So, even if an AC gets modded up only to +1, I'd still see it along with everything higher than, say, 2.
I used to live right by there. I lived in London for two years 9'92-'94) and I lived at #17 Queens Gate Gardens, SW7. I checked streetmap.co.uk to make sure I was remembering it right, and yeah. I used to walk by there; I don't remember P'tite Delice, but it may be new.
Nice neighbourhood, and embassies every six feet. The Kuwaiti and the Iraqi embassies were just down the street from each other on Queen's Gate and about a block away from each other. A friend of mine used to go to Imperial College during the Gulf War and said it was a pretty interesting street...
Dang, torn between modding up questions and submitting one of my own...
What would it take to Slashdot Google? What do you do to avoid this? Have you been Slashdotted before, either from Slashdot itself or from some other link?
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Hm...fair point -- but if a tool intended for one purpose has turned out to be fabulously valuable, or useful, or even just used, by a large number of people for another purpose, how do you expect to just stop that use?
Absolutely. And each of those, IMHO, are of far greater import than control of the root domain.
(My sense from your comment is that you would agree with that, so this isn't meant as a dig or contradiction.)
Control of the root domain is important, but not as important as this book would suggest, because a) most Internet users aren't sophisticated enough to change their nameservers to, say, those of Alternic, and b) there are (I'm guessing) a lot more domain names than IP addresses.
For instance: I run a server that hosts five websites -- five different domains. If I decide that it's time to Screw the Man (tm), and that I'm not going to be able to get the really rebel domain name that I want 'cos of InterNic, and therefore I'm going to have to just pass around a link to the IP address, that leaves less namespace usable on that server.
I've lost a convenient label for this site, one that can be easily remembered. While that's a setback, and not a small one, it's not a showstopper. (God almighty...first namespace, now showstopper...somebody stop me!) If my task is Educating The Masses (also tm), all I need is to convince someone to put up a link on a website that does have a memorable domain name; at that point, Joe User can click it, or make a bookmark, or email it, or be emailed it, or remember the path of links it took to get there. Less convenient, but not a killer. And in any case, a link from a memorable site would be half the battle anyway in getting the word out; I'm sure print/spoken advertising isn't everything in getting people to go to a site.
What is a showstopper is, as you say, explicit censorship of the contents for reasons of copyright, or security, or litigation. This worries me a lot more than whether or not I can register yahhooo.com.
Well, no, because that would be piracy, or bad, or something. But I can vouch for the overwhelming BS factor in this sentence fragment:
as well as promoting piracy by allowing consumers to buy, record and sell back discs while retaining their own digitally pristine copies.
I've been in dire enough straits that I've had, on more than one occasion, to go through my collection and decide whether that rare Stereolab single was worth more than rent (arghh!). Any place I've ever been, $3 per full-length album was pretty damn good; most of the time it was $2.00 or $2.50. That's one damned expensive way of ripping MP3s and screwing Emimem over, even if you figure that the pirate (ahem) bought the damned thing used. And if there's even one scratch, forget it. And we all know how pristine our CDs stay, right?
On another note, I've recorded my own CD (acoustic guitar sadboy emo-folk), and I made 500 copies. I sold a few, have a lot more sitting around my apartment, and every now and then I'll come across a copy in a used CD store. I can't even begin to tell how thrilling it is to see this. I've come across so many wonderful and amazing albums in used CD stores that I either would never have been able to afford new, or else would never have thought to try, or else have never been able to find anywhere else. (If anyone can point me to a copy of Lotion's third album, let me know.)
My point is that if someone was to do this nasty pirate thing -- buy it, rip MP3s, then sell it back -- I think it would almost be like catch-and-release fishing: enjoy the fun, and make sure it's there for the next person too. And I'd still be thrilled to see a copy in a used CD store. I'm not proud.:-)
Slashdot as a way for (some subset of) government to test the waters, of proposing something to (some subset of) the public, and a way for a civil servant to exert some influence on his employer.
Remember, CmdrTaco, use this power for good, not evil. The Trade Federation is in thrall to the Dark Side, and cannot be trusted. JarJar is your friend...
You just wait...CmdrTaco and Hemos will persuade Peter Jackson to put them into the DVD Director's "SlashCut" as orcs that quickly get killed, pasted in digitally.
I'm taking applications now to form The Campaign for Real Movie History. Who's in?
Hm, I didn't get that at all. The impression I had was of two people sitting on different sides of the issue, explaining things forcefully but respectfully. If the first guy (sorry, it's like 5.30am) had truly thought the worst of Xiph, he would've compared 'em to Microsoft, or announced he was reporting them to the FSF, or said that they poison wells and steal children.
I thought they both had valid points. What really struck me (it's all about me:-) was that Xiph guy responded to his points. Compare and contrast with the guy from... oh crap it's early... Redmond Linux? the one who didn't have source for his Linux distro in the beta CDs. He ducked all attempts
at answering the points that were raised against him, and just whined about the Linux community "eating its young" or some such. That left a bad taste in my mouth -- side step the questions, throw mud around -- whereas
with this I came out w/respect for both people and both points of view.
Of course, I could be wrong. I remember the last time it happened. It was a Monday...
"We recently turned down donations of an aircraft carrier and a 727",
says executive director James Burgett. "But we are ready to handle a
727 the next time one is offered."
C'mon, guys...we were this close to having the Linux Air Force!
"Roger, Blue Leader, this is Blue 6...I'm taking another pass at Redmond." "Stay on target, Blue 6, stay on target..."
Slashdot Mirror
Good idea; what I'd like, though, is to be able to set the threshold for comments to show anything that had been modded up, no matter what its score. So, even if an AC gets modded up only to +1, I'd still see it along with everything higher than, say, 2.
ISO? Just apt-get dist-upgrade: I've already got a working installation. I had to download, I think, about 100 MB.
Can't you kids do a proper slashdotting these days? It won't work unless we all pull together!
I am now blessing your formatted ping packet...
Sorry...what's a formatted ping packet to a modem? I don't understand that line...
Cripes, already slashdotted. You bastards!
Nice neighbourhood, and embassies every six feet. The Kuwaiti and the Iraqi embassies were just down the street from each other on Queen's Gate and about a block away from each other. A friend of mine used to go to Imperial College during the Gulf War and said it was a pretty interesting street...
What would it take to Slashdot Google? What do you do to avoid this? Have you been Slashdotted before, either from Slashdot itself or from some other link?
High viscosity? What do you mean?
Control of the root domain is important, but not as important as this book would suggest, because a) most Internet users aren't sophisticated enough to change their nameservers to, say, those of Alternic, and b) there are (I'm guessing) a lot more domain names than IP addresses.
For instance: I run a server that hosts five websites -- five different domains. If I decide that it's time to Screw the Man (tm), and that I'm not going to be able to get the really rebel domain name that I want 'cos of InterNic, and therefore I'm going to have to just pass around a link to the IP address, that leaves less namespace usable on that server.
I've lost a convenient label for this site, one that can be easily remembered. While that's a setback, and not a small one, it's not a showstopper. (God almighty...first namespace, now showstopper...somebody stop me!) If my task is Educating The Masses (also tm), all I need is to convince someone to put up a link on a website that does have a memorable domain name; at that point, Joe User can click it, or make a bookmark, or email it, or be emailed it, or remember the path of links it took to get there. Less convenient, but not a killer. And in any case, a link from a memorable site would be half the battle anyway in getting the word out; I'm sure print/spoken advertising isn't everything in getting people to go to a site.
What is a showstopper is, as you say, explicit censorship of the contents for reasons of copyright, or security, or litigation. This worries me a lot more than whether or not I can register yahhooo.com.
as well as promoting piracy by allowing consumers to buy, record and sell back discs while retaining their own digitally pristine copies.
I've been in dire enough straits that I've had, on more than one occasion, to go through my collection and decide whether that rare Stereolab single was worth more than rent (arghh!). Any place I've ever been, $3 per full-length album was pretty damn good; most of the time it was $2.00 or $2.50. That's one damned expensive way of ripping MP3s and screwing Emimem over, even if you figure that the pirate (ahem) bought the damned thing used. And if there's even one scratch, forget it. And we all know how pristine our CDs stay, right?
On another note, I've recorded my own CD (acoustic guitar sadboy emo-folk), and I made 500 copies. I sold a few, have a lot more sitting around my apartment, and every now and then I'll come across a copy in a used CD store. I can't even begin to tell how thrilling it is to see this. I've come across so many wonderful and amazing albums in used CD stores that I either would never have been able to afford new, or else would never have thought to try, or else have never been able to find anywhere else. (If anyone can point me to a copy of Lotion's third album, let me know.)
My point is that if someone was to do this nasty pirate thing -- buy it, rip MP3s, then sell it back -- I think it would almost be like catch-and-release fishing: enjoy the fun, and make sure it's there for the next person too. And I'd still be thrilled to see a copy in a used CD store. I'm not proud. :-)
Remember, CmdrTaco, use this power for good, not evil. The Trade Federation is in thrall to the Dark Side, and cannot be trusted. JarJar is your friend...
Um, sorry everyone...too much cough medicine.
(Still think this is neat, though.)
None of your shoddy open-source crap here, no sir!
Huh. George Lucas really is Satan.
I'm taking applications now to form The Campaign for Real Movie History. Who's in?
Now that's subversive.
Cool...thanks!
Meant to reply to this before...all over the news, believe me. Crowded everything else out that day, and for at least three or four after.
Aha...thanx kindly.
I thought they both had valid points. What really struck me (it's all about me :-) was that Xiph guy responded to his points. Compare and contrast with the guy from ... oh crap it's early ... Redmond Linux? the one who didn't have source for his Linux distro in the beta CDs. He ducked all attempts
at answering the points that were raised against him, and just whined about the Linux community "eating its young" or some such. That left a bad taste in my mouth -- side step the questions, throw mud around -- whereas
with this I came out w/respect for both people and both points of view.
Of course, I could be wrong. I remember the last time it happened. It was a Monday...
Dang! I bow to you, sir...that's definitely more betterish (tm).
"We recently turned down donations of an aircraft carrier and a 727", says executive director James Burgett. "But we are ready to handle a 727 the next time one is offered."
C'mon, guys...we were this close to having the Linux Air Force!
"Roger, Blue Leader, this is Blue 6...I'm taking another pass at Redmond." "Stay on target, Blue 6, stay on target..."
No...this was just the first thing that popped into my head. Worth a read, I take it? I'll have to look for it at the library.