So how might you test this theory? You could find some people willing to take the plunge and go into a suspected wormhole. However, if turned out to be a black hole they would certainly die and not be able to report showing up in another universe (or somewhere else is the same universe). However, if it did indeed work and the were instantly teleported to another place, how long could we wait for them to return with the good news before marking it as a dud, a blackhole???
Probably a slow trial and error process... kind of like the first people in Japan that thought there MUST be some part of the Fugu fish worth eating.
I like responses like yours because it's logical, reasonable, and evaluates the reality of the article. Unlike many other posts that seem to write off the whole genre of technology by proclaiming "So long internet video", as if now all online video hosts will immediately use the technology to annoy their visitors in the maximum way possible.
So why not just choose another name that doesn't contain the word? Yahoo's systems are privately owned and operated. They choose their policies and proceedures. They offer their services to you, often times at no charge, if you agree to those policies. As a private corporation, they have many rights afforded to them by the laws of this country, just as you do. It seems to me that they have every right and ability to determine if certain words do not mix well with the community they intend to create.
I'm not saying that you have no right to complain or ask Yahoo for a change of their policy. You do. In fact I believe you can say just about anything you want to say about and to them. If it is in their interest to allow certain forms of a word and not other forms, then they might change and allow it. However, I can imagine that it would be quite a challenge for them to police that without causing other members of their community to become angry.
I'm not saying "put up or shut up" either - far from it in. In a captialistic free-speech protected society (that's what this is supposed to be, right?), you are welcome to post your concern on slashdot, possibly round up and align the opinions of many individuals and cause change. You are also able to create your own version of Yahoo with whatever policies and proceedures you feel inclined or necessary to meet your business goals. Good luck and I hope for the best.
Was anyone here a subscriber to Boardwatch magazine back in the day when they covered BBSes? I remember watching the slow transition to internet related topics, and I especially remember the reader revolt when the main editor guy (his name escapes me right now) resigned to do other things and the whole magazine lost it's original flavor.
Those were great days. My BBS never got that large - the most calls it ever handled in one day was 20 and I only had one line. I ran it off of a 286 with a 40mb hard drive for a while and later moved it to a 486 with a 4-disc CD tower. I learned tons about batch files and modem initialization strings in those days!
Some of the tools I remember using were:
TheDraw - an ANSI graphics editor
BinkleyTerm - the Fido/File net front end mailer
RoboBoard FX
Shotgun BBS - written by Brent Shellenberg right near the end of the BBS days, but this was definitely a great BBS software
There was also Renegade, which was free and had some nice features. MajorBBS I goofed around with for a while but it was the most "commercial" of them all and expensive, if I recall. I'm sure there were others that I used too...
Fileecho - a tool to enable transfer of files between BBSes
Anyone remember RIP graphics?
I can't remember the name of the small app I used as a local news/fido reader...
Telex - one of the nicest dialers/terminal programs
Then of course I remember all the door games... LORD, BRE, Usurper among many others. Later, there were also caller ID doors and other callback verification devices to ensure the correct number was given. Even later, there were telnet and Slirp doors for SLIP connections to the internet.
I'm sure there were many more programs, tools, and utilities that I used in the day, but somehow I lost the ZIP I made of my entire BBS when I closed it down. I really wish I still had it around!
Live an honest life. Don't make criticisms that you aren't willing to stand by. Don't support political candidates that you aren't willing to be associated with. Don't do certain actions that you might not want to be known for in the future.
If you are constantly acting today in a way that you will be respected for in the future, then all of the information that will be findable with a Google search will be a bonus for you later.
I don't think it's wise to live with a great expectation of privacy...
I'm not sure how this is really different than linux. Once you've loaded it up, there are often a number of patches to apply. You can either connect the box to the internet to get them or download them elsewhere. Do most linux users think to do this?
There are definitely uses for this! Sometimes my dog just won't be quiet. It would be great to cyrogenically freeze him up for a while and bring him back later!
Microsoft buys Norway. Micrsoft raises taxes. Norway requires Microsoft proprietary software to be used across the land, spending large sums on Microsoft software. Microsoft's investment pays off. Another winning business model!
Heh... and to think that I'm about to write a check for $52,000 for my quarterly taxes...
Could this affect DNA used in criminal cases?
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Photoshop for DNA
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The first thing I thought of is how this might affect DNA used in criminal cases. If it becomes simple to manipulate DNA, would it be possible for a forensic analyst to, say, grease the wheels a bit on finding the "right" DNA on a particular item? It seems that if the DNA on an object were manipulated to mirror another's DNA, the switch wouldn't be so easily traceable. Then again, the analyist could always clean the item and tamper with it in a variety of other ways too.
It's not like we don't already have power outlets near our workstations. It's not like 15 watts is going to power your computer AND your monitor. So, who really cares? This article could have just as easily been titled "New energy-saving computer produced - now you can lower your electricity bill this summer!"
The general idea could apply, however, in situations where we already use PoE technology: places where it's a lot more convenient not to call the electritian in addition to the low voltage cabler. Like in the ceiling for access points and stuff. But... scheez... my WAPs already run Linux. What else do I need?
The U.S. is slowly starting to come around with certain commercial ventures, such as Verizon, installing fiber to the home. Thier particular service is currently available in certain markets for $50/month with 15Mbps down and 2Mbps up. Check out http://www.verizonfios.com/ for more info.
I believe that all Windows Update patches are digitally signed, so this spoof might be harder to pull of than it would initially seem
Legitimate question: what's the opposing argument?
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CherryOS On Hold
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There are two sides to every story. It's clear that the Slashdot crows believes the publisher of CherryOS should burn in hell, but what is his story/argument? Surely he didn't think that he could get away with a clear violation of the GPL, claim all ownership and intellectual property of CherryOS, sell it, make millions, and not get anyone suspicious. Is he thinking that he's doing an allowable fork and then selling some slightly modified version with support or something?
"I feel that I've made the movie the best I can and it turned out the way I wanted it to be, so I'm happy," Lucas, 60, told The Associated Press in an interview. "I never try to anticipate what the world's going to think or even worry about whether they're going to like it or not. That's not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don't. That's completely out of my hands."
Messagelabs has a product that will detect pornography in images. It works incredibly well. We've been using it to block emailed pornography here for a number of years.
Someone did this years ago with 3.25" floppy disks. There's nothing particularly new or interesting here. You can create a raid out of just about anything!:) Well, I suppose it would be particularly cool if someone made an array out of punch cards.
No outbound calls are allowed unless others can call inbound using your phone system. Then again, you could always hook Asterisk up to Vonage and send those incoming calls out that way.
Slashdot Mirror
Dude - Opaque glasses are the answer.
So how might you test this theory? You could find some people willing to take the plunge and go into a suspected wormhole. However, if turned out to be a black hole they would certainly die and not be able to report showing up in another universe (or somewhere else is the same universe). However, if it did indeed work and the were instantly teleported to another place, how long could we wait for them to return with the good news before marking it as a dud, a blackhole???
Probably a slow trial and error process... kind of like the first people in Japan that thought there MUST be some part of the Fugu fish worth eating.
Here's the patent Click Here
I like responses like yours because it's logical, reasonable, and evaluates the reality of the article. Unlike many other posts that seem to write off the whole genre of technology by proclaiming "So long internet video", as if now all online video hosts will immediately use the technology to annoy their visitors in the maximum way possible.
I'm not saying that you have no right to complain or ask Yahoo for a change of their policy. You do. In fact I believe you can say just about anything you want to say about and to them. If it is in their interest to allow certain forms of a word and not other forms, then they might change and allow it. However, I can imagine that it would be quite a challenge for them to police that without causing other members of their community to become angry.
I'm not saying "put up or shut up" either - far from it in. In a captialistic free-speech protected society (that's what this is supposed to be, right?), you are welcome to post your concern on slashdot, possibly round up and align the opinions of many individuals and cause change. You are also able to create your own version of Yahoo with whatever policies and proceedures you feel inclined or necessary to meet your business goals. Good luck and I hope for the best.
Was anyone here a subscriber to Boardwatch magazine back in the day when they covered BBSes? I remember watching the slow transition to internet related topics, and I especially remember the reader revolt when the main editor guy (his name escapes me right now) resigned to do other things and the whole magazine lost it's original flavor.
Some of the tools I remember using were:
I'm sure there were many more programs, tools, and utilities that I used in the day, but somehow I lost the ZIP I made of my entire BBS when I closed it down. I really wish I still had it around!
Live an honest life. Don't make criticisms that you aren't willing to stand by. Don't support political candidates that you aren't willing to be associated with. Don't do certain actions that you might not want to be known for in the future.
If you are constantly acting today in a way that you will be respected for in the future, then all of the information that will be findable with a Google search will be a bonus for you later.
I don't think it's wise to live with a great expectation of privacy...
I'm not sure how this is really different than linux. Once you've loaded it up, there are often a number of patches to apply. You can either connect the box to the internet to get them or download them elsewhere. Do most linux users think to do this?
There are definitely uses for this! Sometimes my dog just won't be quiet. It would be great to cyrogenically freeze him up for a while and bring him back later!
Microsoft buys Norway. Micrsoft raises taxes. Norway requires Microsoft proprietary software to be used across the land, spending large sums on Microsoft software. Microsoft's investment pays off. Another winning business model!
Heh... and to think that I'm about to write a check for $52,000 for my quarterly taxes...
The first thing I thought of is how this might affect DNA used in criminal cases. If it becomes simple to manipulate DNA, would it be possible for a forensic analyst to, say, grease the wheels a bit on finding the "right" DNA on a particular item? It seems that if the DNA on an object were manipulated to mirror another's DNA, the switch wouldn't be so easily traceable. Then again, the analyist could always clean the item and tamper with it in a variety of other ways too.
The general idea could apply, however, in situations where we already use PoE technology: places where it's a lot more convenient not to call the electritian in addition to the low voltage cabler. Like in the ceiling for access points and stuff. But... scheez... my WAPs already run Linux. What else do I need?
Security through obscurity and all that
From IBM?!?? Noooooooooo.. never!
The U.S. is slowly starting to come around with certain commercial ventures, such as Verizon, installing fiber to the home. Thier particular service is currently available in certain markets for $50/month with 15Mbps down and 2Mbps up. Check out http://www.verizonfios.com/ for more info.
I believe that all Windows Update patches are digitally signed, so this spoof might be harder to pull of than it would initially seem
There are two sides to every story. It's clear that the Slashdot crows believes the publisher of CherryOS should burn in hell, but what is his story/argument? Surely he didn't think that he could get away with a clear violation of the GPL, claim all ownership and intellectual property of CherryOS, sell it, make millions, and not get anyone suspicious. Is he thinking that he's doing an allowable fork and then selling some slightly modified version with support or something?
Quote from George Lucas follows...
"I feel that I've made the movie the best I can and it turned out the way I wanted it to be, so I'm happy," Lucas, 60, told The Associated Press in an interview. "I never try to anticipate what the world's going to think or even worry about whether they're going to like it or not. That's not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don't. That's completely out of my hands."
Shamelessly cut and pasted from CNN
Heh. The real geeks shall infiltrate the corporate world.
That building you see out his window is the one I work in. I drink starbucks in their building on a regular basis...
Then this is probably not the device for you. Don't buy it?
Messagelabs has a product that will detect pornography in images. It works incredibly well. We've been using it to block emailed pornography here for a number of years.
Someone did this years ago with 3.25" floppy disks. There's nothing particularly new or interesting here. You can create a raid out of just about anything! :) Well, I suppose it would be particularly cool if someone made an array out of punch cards.
No outbound calls are allowed unless others can call inbound using your phone system. Then again, you could always hook Asterisk up to Vonage and send those incoming calls out that way.