At work we've got about 60 machines named after Scottish rivers... However I always laugh when I hear about the seismic boat that had it's machines named after serial killers. Quality.
'What's Happening?' might well translate into 'Que Pasa?' but their domain name isn't 'whatshappening.com'. it's 'whatshappenin.com'... If they're too lazy to use the English language then they've no hope with Spanish!
American dolts!
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Heck I'm sitting here waiting for volume 4! I must have snapped up 'The Mountain of Black Glass' on its day of publication and read it in a week... A nice twist (in both senses) at the end!
Currently I'm finishing reading KSR's California trilogy after reading the Mars trilogy. I'm inclined to say Pacific Edge is one of his best and you can see a lot of his ideas in the Mars series germinating here - hell there's even a Hiroko!
As it stands hordes of people submit stories to Slashdot every day - these are filtered by 'The Editors' to those that are actually featured. Often there are duplicates, and masses of people think certain stories are 'dumb'.
A more advanced (plus fairer and more open) approach would be for the front page to list all submitted stories. These stories would have associated scores just like posts do today (but with more resolution/levels) and users could mark a story as '+', '-' or 'dup'. Most users wouldn't see the swarm of stories as they'd browse at, say, level '50+' stories...
With this implemented Slashdot would be self-running and the featured stories really would reflect its readership (Is that good?).
I'm sure there are as many messed up kids (and adults) in the UK as there are in the US, but incidents like Columbine simply cannot happen with such alarming regularity
Wince through the teller screen at your local bank and I'm willing to bet what you'll see... No, it's not a gaggle of blonds - it's passowrds on postit-notes stuck onto monitors. They're crying to be abused!
And on a related note: Until recently TSB's ATM network in The UK used modem dial-up to network their cash machines in the North of Scotland to the rest of their network. Further more no encryption was employed over these lines. Unencrypted transfers on public lines - sheesh!
This is the high-tech version of the village witch-hunt...
Any male who is accussed of sexual crimes toward children is automatically harassed in the community - pictures of them nailed to trees in the park and such like.
What if they're innocent? That's their life ruined anyway...
I don't get it. You have a national broadcaster that is on the same channel wherever you go? You're talking about Channel 4 and 5 like they are national. Is this correct?
The UK has 5 national analogue TV channels:
BBC 1
BBC 2
ITV
Channel 4
Channel 5
BBC 2, C4 (except Wales) and C5 are largely the same over the whole country. BBC 1 and ITV have regional variations. Naturally the channels are found on different frequencies across the UK.
Digital TV adds a whole swath more of free, national, channels (a la BBC Choice, BBC Education, BBC WhateverTheyWasteMonetOn, S2,...)
Sex is heavily censored. You can't purchase images (moving or still) of erect penises "over the counter" here. Eh? Perhaps sir should look at the top shelf...
ITV is catering for the masses, The BBC still tries to be a little bit more up-market. C5 are rank because they are even more scummy/sexist/cheap than the masses want.
The BBC only sees digital TV as a way of increasing the licence fee. They couldn't care less about it technically. Their net services are one of the main reasons they are needing more funds - creating, and maintaining, such a service is not cheap, especially when it creates no revenue.
The quality of BBC programs is not amazing.
The British Government should abolish the BBC licence fee, sell them off and be done with it. Let the BBC compete on level terms, let the BBC compete in the modern world - a licence on the radio spectrum... how quaint!
If this had been successful then it'd just benefited the companies (i.e. cheaper for them, more profit).
Something which would benefit consumers would be the use of internal electricity circuits as a home/office network. No installation hastles, no expensive cabling... I'm sure I read about his somewhere.
Card swipping will be more secure for the simple reason that more information will be stored on the chip than the existing card number and expiry combination used the validate a card.
More data == more secure? Well at least not as easy to defraud. Perhaps.
OK, small is cool (in certain cases...) however shouldn't there be more desire/development of autonomous machines/robots?
A machine that can be sent to the middle of nowwhere and told to do a job - it'll then trundle along and do it. It will build more of 'itself' from available resources to speed up the job... A mobile production line.
And i'm talking about the traditional moderation here. Attaching a score to an article is a fair idea - however all these various ratings that go along with it are pointless, confusing and redundant.
What is different between 'interesting' and 'insightful'? 'troll' and 'off-topic'? Is 'over-rated' a -1, 'under-rated' a +1?
Why not drop the meaningless ratings and just go with hard scores (+1, -1)?
Meta-moderation however still needs work done to it. It is difficult to say if a given score is fair fair without context - the article itself or the previous comment.
And? I don't think 'standing on someones toes' is the issue here. If Steven Tweedie gets his journaled file system together, then fine - if not, he's missed the boat!
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At work we've got about 60 machines named after Scottish rivers... However I always laugh when I hear about the seismic boat that had it's machines named after serial killers. Quality.
Big deal!
If SendMail.net wasn't currently Slashdot's main banner ad would this have been posted?
'What's Happening?' might well translate into 'Que Pasa?' but their domain name isn't 'whatshappening.com'. it's 'whatshappenin.com'... If they're too lazy to use the English language then they've no hope with Spanish!
American dolts!
Heck I'm sitting here waiting for volume 4! I must have snapped up 'The Mountain of Black Glass' on its day of publication and read it in a week... A nice twist (in both senses) at the end!
Currently I'm finishing reading KSR's California trilogy after reading the Mars trilogy. I'm inclined to say Pacific Edge is one of his best and you can see a lot of his ideas in the Mars series germinating here - hell there's even a Hiroko!
Actually that's the way forward.
As it stands hordes of people submit stories to Slashdot every day - these are filtered by 'The Editors' to those that are actually featured. Often there are duplicates, and masses of people think certain stories are 'dumb'.
A more advanced (plus fairer and more open) approach would be for the front page to list all submitted stories. These stories would have associated scores just like posts do today (but with more resolution/levels) and users could mark a story as '+', '-' or 'dup'. Most users wouldn't see the swarm of stories as they'd browse at, say, level '50+' stories...
With this implemented Slashdot would be self-running and the featured stories really would reflect its readership (Is that good?).
Wince through the teller screen at your local bank and I'm willing to bet what you'll see... No, it's not a gaggle of blonds - it's passowrds on postit-notes stuck onto monitors. They're crying to be abused!
And on a related note: Until recently TSB's ATM network in The UK used modem dial-up to network their cash machines in the North of Scotland to the rest of their network. Further more no encryption was employed over these lines. Unencrypted transfers on public lines - sheesh!
This is the high-tech version of the village witch-hunt...
Any male who is accussed of sexual crimes toward children is automatically harassed in the community - pictures of them nailed to trees in the park and such like.
What if they're innocent? That's their life ruined anyway...
If they are looking for an interesting character from Slashdot, then thay are looking for DAVEO!
Wangi thinks it's a good idea.
The UK has 5 national analogue TV channels:
BBC 2, C4 (except Wales) and C5 are largely the same over the whole country. BBC 1 and ITV have regional variations. Naturally the channels are found on different frequencies across the UK.
Digital TV adds a whole swath more of free, national, channels (a la BBC Choice, BBC Education, BBC WhateverTheyWasteMonetOn, S2, ...)
Sex is heavily censored. You can't purchase images (moving or still) of erect penises "over the counter" here.
Eh? Perhaps sir should look at the top shelf...
- ITV is catering for the masses, The BBC still tries to be a little bit more up-market. C5 are rank because they are even more scummy/sexist/cheap than the masses want.
- The BBC only sees digital TV as a way of increasing the licence fee. They couldn't care less about it technically. Their net services are one of the main reasons they are needing more funds - creating, and maintaining, such a service is not cheap, especially when it creates no revenue.
- The quality of BBC programs is not amazing.
The British Government should abolish the BBC licence fee, sell them off and be done with it. Let the BBC compete on level terms, let the BBC compete in the modern world - a licence on the radio spectrum... how quaint!If this had been successful then it'd just benefited the companies (i.e. cheaper for them, more profit).
Something which would benefit consumers would be the use of internal electricity circuits as a home/office network. No installation hastles, no expensive cabling... I'm sure I read about his somewhere.
Indeed. Even if the chip on the card added another security level to the transaction things, would not be more secure.
The card could still be stolen and used by any Joe Fool.
Now if those readers had an iris-reader on them it could add authentication to the transaction...
Card swipping will be more secure for the simple reason that more information will be stored on the chip than the existing card number and expiry combination used the validate a card.
More data == more secure? Well at least not as easy to defraud. Perhaps.
OK, small is cool (in certain cases...) however shouldn't there be more desire/development of autonomous machines/robots?
A machine that can be sent to the middle of nowwhere and told to do a job - it'll then trundle along and do it. It will build more of 'itself' from available resources to speed up the job... A mobile production line.
Like in KSR's Red Mars...
And i'm talking about the traditional moderation here. Attaching a score to an article is a fair idea - however all these various ratings that go along with it are pointless, confusing and redundant.
What is different between 'interesting' and 'insightful'? 'troll' and 'off-topic'? Is 'over-rated' a -1, 'under-rated' a +1?
Why not drop the meaningless ratings and just go with hard scores (+1, -1)?
Meta-moderation however still needs work done to it. It is difficult to say if a given score is fair fair without context - the article itself or the previous comment.
Perhaps it's not x86 based - Transmeta anyone?
Perhaps it's not WinCE OS - Amiga Objects anyone?
I'm not even going to nention the Wolf...
You'd have to email that to the Slashdot crew to.
Haven't we had this before?
And? I don't think 'standing on someones toes' is the issue here. If Steven Tweedie gets his journaled file system together, then fine - if not, he's missed the boat!
After all he has been at it for 'some time' now.
Pardon? Flame-war?
I made a simple statement that ETrade and Redhat are not violating the GPL - The GPL can be considered your contract with RedHat.
As I said, if you want to make money from your code then go-ahead, but don't moan when someone else makes a buck from your GPL'd code...