Another take on this.. Can't remember the name of it or even the author, but it's an interesting concept. Basically there have been these "alien" signals picked up for the last 20 years, repeating same time every day, with a different "image" on each one. They finally stop, one person puts the puzzle together and they build this machine that allows them to view the world in the 4th dimension. The authors take on the 4th dimension was kind of an "overmind" which could be used to view all peoples thoughts/memories etc. The aliens that have been broadcasting this message have also been travelling towards earth the entire time and they finally get here, the 2 overminds from the different planets finally touch and everybody on the world experiences true empathy.
Very interesting read.. I wish I could remember the authors name
Of course, there's always the possibility that the record labels are flooding Napster/wherever you get your mp3's with these half-assed recordings to tease you and get you to buy the cd
IMHO this happens more than the RIAA will admit. They put mp3's out there (how did the Metallica CD get out there BEFORE it was released?), they KNOW that napster is an incredible source for marketing, they use it alot. The problem is, they want to control everything to do with music, they want the control of the distribution.
Huh? What the hell? So it's OK for Miguel to use that title, and then explain what he means by it, but it's not ok for/. to use the same title and then explain what they mean by it? wtf??
For the lazy - here is the full article that/. posted. Or, the link alessio writes: "On the front page of Linux Weekly News there is a report from the Ottawa Linux Symposium where the adorable Miguel de Icaza supposedly states that Unix has been built wrong from the ground up." It's actually a pretty cool interview, and as always, Miguel makes his point without any candy coating! The major point is the lack of reusable code between major applications (a major problem that both KDE and GNOME have been striving to fix for some time now).
So, has been built wrong from the ground up, lack of reusable code etc (all stuff the Miguel said) is an inflamatory or innapropriate article?
Slashdot is no worse or better than traditional media for the title of the article. It is designed to be catchy, so that you read further.
I think it's a Good Thing that a commercial site is being given a dotcom domainname over a non-commercial site.
I think it would be a Better Thing to do away with TLD's for good, but that's another argument.
It won't happen to me, guess what.. I don't have a domainname, nor do I want one, unless of course I'm going to start my own business up of course. I'm happy enough having people that I trust enough email me at slycer@myipaddress. JUST WTF does joe smith need a domainname of joesmith.com for????
As much as I hate to play the devil's advocate here.
The soccer team has commercial interest right? I assume they are selling something related to the team on their site I can't read whatever language is on the www.corinthian.com.br site. Now, even though the dotcom name has been twisted to mean the internet, it's still supposed to be for commercial sites. Shouldn't the bible page have been a.org to begin with?
Note, I'm pissed that they ruled in this fashion, but really.com is for commerce,.org for non-profit, which site fits where?
Define privacy.. If your definition of privacy includes not having any company know about your purchases/income/address etc then yes, you are not going to get it other than going to the extremes mentioned above.
My concern is someone eavesdropping on my private conversations, a person getting my Visa number (and possibly using it). A corporation putting arbitrary charges on my credit cards etc. Real people (vs corporate entities) are more likely going to abuse any information they gather about me (like ussearch). This is what worries me.
Actually.. as long as you trash the file where it is pulling it's clean files from - it's easy enough to get rid of whatever you want..
The files are in a hidden folder c:\winnt\system32\dllcache Get rid of something in there, then you can delete the file that it is supposed to be backing up.
Man, at the arcade I frequent, I doubt there would be many games left in the regular section. Maybe this will help revive pinball. Or it will be a throwback to some good ole pong type games. Really, I am having a hard time placing a recent game that does not involve some sort of violence....
I just can't picture the guy being serious (I do like him though). On a semi-related mostly OT note - does anyone know the name of the western type show that he played in? It was cheesy and really bad - but I really liked it. I haven't seen it now for 6 or so years, and would love the chance to watch the series again..
I may be showing some major ignorance here, but the article talks specifically about a writer (DVD-RAM?) - do the writers work the same way as say a CDR works? Meaning can *nix clients read DVD-ROMs?
The new X will support OpenGL, a full range of X extensions, use of a three-button mouse, CDE (Common Desktop Environment) fonts, and will be XDM (X Window Display Management) capable. It will also support Web-based display of X client applications via "Broadway," an X Window extension to allow remote X applications to be invoked and displayed with a browser.
Right, which is fine.. that is the stores internal policy, again the comparison can be made to robots.txt. The big difference here is that Walmart could not charge me under the law. In fact, it is probably not legal for them to confiscate my property.
With a couple of billion, I would buy an island, build a nice house (not huge), setup a good power supply, build links of some sort to the rest of the world - hell maybe my own phone switch.. Build a good high-speed net link and I'd be happy. Course, a helicopter for visits to wherever..
Most of the rest I would donate to some charity or another, keep enough to maintain a good standard of living. Now, $1 billion is probably a little too much for that, but islands can be expensive:-)
The article mentions that the courts are trying to force "old world rules" onto the internet, and that is part of why this happened.
But the last time I checked, it was fully legal to shop around for the best price. In fact, AFAIK it is legal to pay someone to shop for the best price for you. And lastly, if I was inclined to take notes on prices in different stores and make them publicly available, could I be charged?
This is wierd if you ask me, don't the judges realize that search engines are doing more or less the same thing?
OTOH, there was a post above that mentioned the robots.txt file - and I must say I agree with that, anything searching a site should be obeying that file. This is akin to a store keeping it's records locked up, or knowing about an upcoming sale and not broadcasting it the week before.
Too bad the early Civics and Preludes into which these motors were fitted had myriad safety deficiencies, not limited to brakes that could be activated by a passenger pressing a foot too hard on the passenger side firewall.
I had one of these - was my first car.. that passengar side "brake" was a lot of fun for my buddies. Yes the car felt like tinfoil, and wasn't the best for acceleration, but we still had a blast in it.
Too bad I'll never trust another Honda product again.
That is too bad. I now have an 89 Civic hatchback. It is a great car, have had VERY few problems with it. I will definately look at a Honda again for the next car.
Bah.. I work for a large (30,000+) company on the help desk. Believe me, the majority of people are scared to open their mail as is, once we get the warnings out anyways.. next bunch of calls are people wanting to know whether they can even open mail.. and don't get me started on the godamned chain letters that warn about viruses.
People are too stupid to be scared by anything subtle. Just having a title of "I Love you" (or whatever it was) is enough to get most people to open it, and after that they don't touch the mail for at least a couple of days.
I've got an 89 Civic hatchback that'll get a lot faster than 35mph merging onto a highway.. no problem at all.. Hell, I've even seen relatively high speed races involving the things (stock)
That clients can't sue website's for constantly changing designs. Have you ever tried to link to something on the M$ site? It seems like they change the location of pages almost daily.
Slashdot Mirror
Man I kept trying to get to IANA.org..
But all I'm seeing is a under construction page..
check it out yourself:
Here
Another take on this..
Can't remember the name of it or even the author, but it's an interesting concept. Basically there have been these "alien" signals picked up for the last 20 years, repeating same time every day, with a different "image" on each one. They finally stop, one person puts the puzzle together and they build this machine that allows them to view the world in the 4th dimension. The authors take on the 4th dimension was kind of an "overmind" which could be used to view all peoples thoughts/memories etc. The aliens that have been broadcasting this message have also been travelling towards earth the entire time and they finally get here, the 2 overminds from the different planets finally touch and everybody on the world experiences true empathy.
Very interesting read.. I wish I could remember the authors name
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Of course, there's always the possibility that the record labels are flooding Napster/wherever you get your mp3's with these half-assed recordings to tease you and get you to buy the cd
IMHO this happens more than the RIAA will admit. They put mp3's out there (how did the Metallica CD get out there BEFORE it was released?), they KNOW that napster is an incredible source for marketing, they use it alot. The problem is, they want to control everything to do with music, they want the control of the distribution.
$conspiracy_theory="off";
Huh? What the hell? /. to use the same title and then explain what they mean by it? wtf??
/. posted. Or, the link
So it's OK for Miguel to use that title, and then explain what he means by it, but it's not ok for
For the lazy - here is the full article that
alessio writes: "On the front page of Linux Weekly News there is a report from the Ottawa Linux Symposium where the adorable Miguel de Icaza supposedly states that Unix has been built wrong from the ground up." It's actually a pretty cool interview, and as always, Miguel makes his point without any candy coating! The major point is the lack of reusable code between major applications (a major problem that both KDE and GNOME have been striving to fix for some time now).
So, has been built wrong from the ground up, lack of reusable code etc (all stuff the Miguel said) is an inflamatory or innapropriate article?
Slashdot is no worse or better than traditional media for the title of the article. It is designed to be catchy, so that you read further.
By that logic nothing will ever change.
I think it's a Good Thing that a commercial site is being given a dotcom domainname over a non-commercial site.
I think it would be a Better Thing to do away with TLD's for good, but that's another argument.
It won't happen to me, guess what.. I don't have a domainname, nor do I want one, unless of course I'm going to start my own business up of course. I'm happy enough having people that I trust enough email me at slycer@myipaddress. JUST WTF does joe smith need a domainname of joesmith.com for????
As much as I hate to play the devil's advocate here.
.org to begin with?
.com is for commerce, .org for non-profit, which site fits where?
The soccer team has commercial interest right? I assume they are selling something related to the team on their site I can't read whatever language is on the www.corinthian.com.br site. Now, even though the dotcom name has been twisted to mean the internet, it's still supposed to be for commercial sites. Shouldn't the bible page have been a
Note, I'm pissed that they ruled in this fashion, but really
Define privacy..
If your definition of privacy includes not having any company know about your purchases/income/address etc then yes, you are not going to get it other than going to the extremes mentioned above.
My concern is someone eavesdropping on my private conversations, a person getting my Visa number (and possibly using it). A corporation putting arbitrary charges on my credit cards etc. Real people (vs corporate entities) are more likely going to abuse any information they gather about me (like ussearch). This is what worries me.
It always comes off to me as being a sort of a 'dirty' language in that there are about a kajillion different ways to do the same thing
:-)
But that's the whole point of PERL..
Actually.. as long as you trash the file where it is pulling it's clean files from - it's easy enough to get rid of whatever you want..
The files are in a hidden folder c:\winnt\system32\dllcache
Get rid of something in there, then you can delete the file that it is supposed to be backing up.
Yes, sol.exe is in that directory - bizarre
Man, at the arcade I frequent, I doubt there would be many games left in the regular section. Maybe this will help revive pinball. Or it will be a throwback to some good ole pong type games. Really, I am having a hard time placing a recent game that does not involve some sort of violence....
Reflections is what we use at our shop.
Works very well, support for X Windows emulation, I have never run into a problem with it.
I'm sure it costs a lot of $$$ - but is a great app for this kind of thing.
Boy, that would be different.
I just can't picture the guy being serious (I do like him though). On a semi-related mostly OT note - does anyone know the name of the western type show that he played in? It was cheesy and really bad - but I really liked it. I haven't seen it now for 6 or so years, and would love the chance to watch the series again..
I may be showing some major ignorance here, but the article talks specifically about a writer (DVD-RAM?) - do the writers work the same way as say a CDR works? Meaning can *nix clients read DVD-ROMs?
Can I watch my movies using the thing..
The new X will support OpenGL, a full range of X extensions, use of a three-button mouse, CDE (Common Desktop Environment) fonts, and will be XDM (X Window Display Management) capable. It will also support Web-based display of X client applications via "Broadway," an X Window extension to allow remote X applications to be invoked and displayed with a browser.
Cool, a three button mouse!
Right, which is fine.. that is the stores internal policy, again the comparison can be made to robots.txt. The big difference here is that Walmart could not charge me under the law. In fact, it is probably not legal for them to confiscate my property.
:-)
Of course, the standard IANAL applies here
With a couple of billion, I would buy an island, build a nice house (not huge), setup a good power supply, build links of some sort to the rest of the world - hell maybe my own phone switch.. Build a good high-speed net link and I'd be happy.
:-)
Course, a helicopter for visits to wherever..
Most of the rest I would donate to some charity or another, keep enough to maintain a good standard of living. Now, $1 billion is probably a little too much for that, but islands can be expensive
The article mentions that the courts are trying to force "old world rules" onto the internet, and that is part of why this happened.
But the last time I checked, it was fully legal to shop around for the best price. In fact, AFAIK it is legal to pay someone to shop for the best price for you. And lastly, if I was inclined to take notes on prices in different stores and make them publicly available, could I be charged?
This is wierd if you ask me, don't the judges realize that search engines are doing more or less the same thing?
OTOH, there was a post above that mentioned the robots.txt file - and I must say I agree with that, anything searching a site should be obeying that file. This is akin to a store keeping it's records locked up, or knowing about an upcoming sale and not broadcasting it the week before.
But on the other hand, in this case DeCSS is clearly breaking the law (DMCA) and they are guilty
But...
They didn't make DeCSS - this is a case to test the legality of LINKING to something that is illegal.
Well DUH..
Sorry if that comes out as offensive - but I thought that DeCSS was proven illegal a long time ago.
This case is about linking to the DeCSS program.. NOT about whether or not said program is illegal. Sheesh.. figure out what your protesting.
Too bad the early Civics and Preludes into which these motors were fitted had myriad safety deficiencies, not limited to brakes that could be activated by a passenger pressing a foot too hard on the passenger side firewall.
I had one of these - was my first car.. that passengar side "brake" was a lot of fun for my buddies. Yes the car felt like tinfoil, and wasn't the best for acceleration, but we still had a blast in it.
Too bad I'll never trust another Honda product again.
That is too bad. I now have an 89 Civic hatchback. It is a great car, have had VERY few problems with it. I will definately look at a Honda again for the next car.
Damn..
I agree totally.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up.
:-)
Bah..
I work for a large (30,000+) company on the help desk. Believe me, the majority of people are scared to open their mail as is, once we get the warnings out anyways.. next bunch of calls are people wanting to know whether they can even open mail.. and don't get me started on the godamned chain letters that warn about viruses.
People are too stupid to be scared by anything subtle. Just having a title of "I Love you" (or whatever it was) is enough to get most people to open it, and after that they don't touch the mail for at least a couple of days.
Personally I have noticed no fluctuation. I've seen prices go up, and stay there.. people get used to it, they go up again.. rinse and repeat.
I've got an 89 Civic hatchback that'll get a lot faster than 35mph merging onto a highway.. no problem at all.. Hell, I've even seen relatively high speed races involving the things (stock)
That clients can't sue website's for constantly changing designs. Have you ever tried to link to something on the M$ site? It seems like they change the location of pages almost daily.