User: Atreide

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On: Slashdot Moderation Phase 1.1

I haven't understood the end of the comment :-(

however, from what I understood, That's interesting :
let everyone registered vote, but they have one voice. that way you are sure :
1) they will vote for very interesting stuff
2) they will not tweak /. to make some of their stupid comment too high in charts

then you say ACow cannot vote (obvious) and cannot reach a score higher than a given threshold. that way you ensure that no flaming thread will high rank.

of course when I write "1 voice" this is for ease of comprehension ;-)
In fact I propose 1 voice per account and per stroy (or a few more if you want) or give a pool of voices for the whole day (but some people can be penalyzed because of the clock not being the same worldwide (Aah ? my time is not yours ? it's 20:25 here ;-)

reducing threshold inside threads : good but..

On: Slashdot Moderation Phase 1.1

good idea, I would just add, do not use reduce by 1 each step because many replies do not lose interest that fast

Or : what about good replies to bad ones ?

On: Slashdot Moderation Phase 1.1

your reply to a flaming thread can be a good one & interesting one

means only people who can afford it could talk :

On: Slashdot Moderation Phase 1.1

they are suits & a few others, therefore the whole site would be less interesting

I would be interested to know how many students are writers here...

moreover, if you cannot comment a message, there is less interest in reading (a whole lot of fun is in replying, isn't it ? ;-)

Red Hat is not Linux but a "wanna earn money" corp

On: Is Red Hat the Next Microsoft?

I suggest you read the article from Red Hat about their story (a link appeared on slashdot a few weeks ago).

They did not begin with linux or any free software, but selling shareware or the like (I am not sure what they exactly sold, so please do not flame, but I am sure what they did not sell...).

what appeared in that article was : RH wants to earn money, and even though I believe they are honest right now about Free Software, what will it be when it will be bigger ?

human nature is : "never enough money, never enough power"

I do not believe RH is different, because its people are normal people, not saints...

As a conclusion : we have to keep an eye on every corp, because one day they may slide into the dark side... look, even Jedi Anakin Skywalker fell ;-)

a little paranoria can help preventing bad things

Please !

On: Red Hat Releases Starbuck

All of You ! Stop trying connecting into RedHat !
Let me in instead... ;-p

no more battery shortening ?

On: Add a tilt sensor to your PalmPilot

there are watches that use movement to recharge themselves.
maybe someone will find someway to do the same with your Palm P ?

then you'll be able to say :
I go out to recharge my "batteries"...

I want a pinball machine !!!

On: Add a tilt sensor to your PalmPilot

tilt
tilt
Game over !!

History repeats, unity is the key

On: LSB: A position paper

look at first Unix versions. It factionized, and it was the mess.

If there is no minimal Linux version, big corps will distribute their own versions (isn't Corel starting this already ?). This will bring :
* either chaos with more distributions
* or corps apps will end to being tied to their distribution (and say bye-bye to freedom). Just imaging that M$ distribute some Linux version that can easely run windows apps. I am sure they will if Linux is threatening them. Years ago Billy said : "Internet is nothing, we have MSN" but one year later he embraced Internet... You might be horrified by that idea, but plenty of M$ clients would be interested... Another argument in this favor : Win is a mono user environement, M$ never believed in thin clients, but they changed their mind with NT4 Terminal Server & win 200?