I'd be willing to pay a few bucks a month to get a Slashdot free of trolls and full of content... It's gotten to the point where I rarely even read the comments anymore... -sigh-
As long as they don't try to shutdown health related websites that aren't in the.health TLD, more power to them. Most people are intelligent enough to decide if they want FDA approved drugs, or if they're willing to do their homework and try alternative medicines, why not the same thing for web sites?
Although there doesn't appear to be a place to setup proxies through the GUI, just go to the directory it's installed in, defaults\pref\all.js and edit the all.js file directly, putting in your proxy info as needed. Shutdown the browser and bring it back up, I'm writing this using KMeleon going through a corporate proxy right now.
If need be, you might want to open up a functional prefs.js from a working Netscape program for comparison.
This program is definitely still Beta, but it's showing a LOT of promise!
...Ask me this question again in 5-10 working days. After the last story about NSI, I went to www.jumpdomain.com and filled out their form to transfer a domain from someone else to them. The form was simple enough, if anyone's interested, e-mail me in 5-10 working days and if the mail gets through to me, the transfer most likely worked out okay. =) Or, for that matter, has anyone out there every used jumpdomain to transfer off of NSI?
Once again today, I should have been more careful with my exact wording (It's been a long day). Not necessarily 'Forced relocation.' But I don't believe we should continue to keep sustaining people if they choose to live in an area that is incapable of sustaining human life. Do you propsose that, if someone refuses to leave his home in the middle of the desert, that the collective 'we' continue to support them and their families indefinitely? Or, as I stated earlier, should we search for an alternate solution? I don't believe that continues hand-outs are the answer in some situations.
I feel I need to elaborate. I apologize for my original post, I was a little hot under the collar. I get so tired of people whining that we shouldn't be 'wasting' money on space exploration while there are starving people on Earth. I was not advocating cutting off all aid to these people, I was not advocating extermination or anything in that vein. I think it's just obvious that our current attempts at feeding the hungry are working against themselves and creating an endless cycle. Another solution needs to be come up with. The old give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach him to fish, he eats for live parable. And, if the people are living in a barren desert, than MOVE THEM to somewhere where they CAN sustain their lives. Anyway, I just wanted to elaborate and explain myself a bit more now that I've got a chance to calm down some.
Oh, and for the 'We don't need to go to space for our generation' line, that's a little too close to 'We don't need to stop polluting for our generation, let our children worry about it.' for me.....
I'm sorry if I go on a bit of a rant here, but so far the posts I've seen on this topic are NOT what I expected out of Slashdot people. Wanting to not put money into space? Wanting to put (Throw away?) more money into local 'social issues'? Personally, I think WAY too much money is wasted on saving the starving now as it is. I'm not a cold hearted bastard (Believe it or not) but the more we prop these people up, the more they are going to have more poor starving children, creating a vicious cycle. And for that matter, it could be argued that these very starving millions are a good reason to go to space. There are plenty of resources available, just sitting there for the grabbibg, if a way to easily/cheaply get them can be arranged. We're never going to figure out how to do it if we don't try going there in the first place. As far as 'wasting' money on space exploration. I can't think of a better cause the government has every spent money on! Yes, part of it is admittedly an ego-trip. Part of it is even nationalistic bragging rights on the first/only one to do something. A lot of it is also people being able to be proud of what people have done. Is there anything wrong with having pride in your species? Anything that helps boost global morale is, IMHO, generally a good thing. And I'm not even going to get into the scientific run-off of inventions/perfections/discoveries that wouldn't have/won't happen if it weren't for manned space flight
Oh well, I better stop before my rant gets too unreadable. I'll probally get flamed/moderated down for this, but I just had to say what I had to say.
Perhaps if some of the larger mega-corporations get slammed with stupid Trademark infringement cases, they'll loosen up on smacking around the little guys with them. Than again, it could just make them that much meaner about the issue. We'll see...
Hate to sound like the stereotypical stodgy old Amiga user, but I remember my Amiga reading text to me back in the late 80's, and a magnifying glass app around the same time...
Simple. If you were going to be president, wouldn't you want to get a VP so horrible that noone would DARE try to assassinate you for fear of the VP becoming president? That's the only explanation I can come up for considering the last 2 VP's.
I won't let his offhand comments change the way I will vote. His wife did that for me years ago when she founded the PMRC and began her crusade to 'clean up' music. Of course, being in Texas, I can't say much good about Bush Jr. either. Guess I'll have to see how things turn out before I fully decide who gets my vote, but the thought of the founder of the PMRC living in the White House scares the crap out of me personally. Of course, those are just my feelings. Feel free to differ. =)
You realize, what with the mainstream media trawling Slashdot for commentary from those 'in the know' that your dream-description of Transmeta's product will be listed tommorow in the Wall Street Journal as a statement of fact, don't you?
Ya' know, now that I think about it, I almost hope it does. It'd be good for a laugh, at least...
'Computer Industry Expert states today that secretive California startup Transmeta, where Linus Torvalds, creator of the popular Linux operating system works, announced that they will begin shiping a new type of portable computer early next year, with greater power than current high-end desktop machines, be voice controlled, (Blah blah blah etc. etc. etc.). Eager investors have laid siege to Transmeta's headquarters, building a barricade of money, refusing to let anyone in or out of the building until they are allowed to empty their dumptrucks full of money inside the building.'
They were both poisoned. I've spent the last 5 years building up an immunity to Iocaine Poweder, er, I mean Transmeta tyops. I mean Transmeta typos. Whatever. I better go to bed.....
Off Topic, feel free to moderate me down to -1 as I deserve to be, but I just somehow find it amusing that www.defendmicrosoft.org is running Apache on Linux. Sort of ironic justice, IMHO.
In my personal experiences, meeting someone online can turn out (And for me has) either bad or good, just as meeting them in the real world can. My ex-girlfriend and I met on IRC, on a channel dedicated to the city we live in. We talked on there for several months, became friends, met at a few channel get-togethers, and than started going out together without the get together as an excuse. That relationship lasted about a year, and went pretty well. The breakup was a polite one, we are still friends. (The good news is, that one was my bad experience. =) As far as good goes, I met my current fiance on IRC as well, she had just left my town and moved to Chicago, and was feeling homesick, so she was hanging out in the local IRC channel. We became friends, and got to know each other much better through LONG chats via ICQ. After several plane trips for her from Chicago back to here (Dallas, if you're curious, btw) she decided to move back here. We are now happily 'living in sin', engaged to be married, and trying to decide on a date (12:01 AM January 1st anyone? =) I guess, to sum it up, 'dating' online is really no different than dating in 'real life'. You'll get some winners, you'll find some losers. Eventually, as they always say, you'll find someone who is right for you. Oh, and one more thing, don't go LOOKING for someone. That is the best way to assure you'll never find them. Just be friends to people, in general. Be a nice person, and the person who can make you happy will pick up on this, and want to be more than a friend to you eventually. (If that makes any sense.)
Forgive my ignorance, I'm not a lawyer, but if he got an adult to incorporate his company, and than declared him an officer of that company, than wouldn't any deals he makes technically be between the corporation and the other person, not between him (The 17 year old) and another individual, and thus be legally binding? As I understand it, once a company has incorporated, it is treated as an adult person in most respects. Oh well, just a thought...
What's really scary about the law as it now sits is when a political candidate actively complains to the FEC about sites that they don't like. Case in point is http://www.gwbush.com/ This site, being HIGHLY critical of presidential candidate George W. Bush, is being hounded by the FEC as well. In this case, however, the reason the investigation was begun was because GW Bush's lawyers complained to the FEC. Scary... Very scary... (The very thought of politicians with lawyers terrifies me, but...) Anyway, enough babbling from this humble peasant.
Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington, DC Oct. 6, 1999 (Phone: 202/358-1547)
Nancy Neal Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-0039)
Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: 410/338-4514)
RELEASE: 99-107
STARRY BULGES YIELD SECRETS TO GALAXY GROWTH
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is uncovering important new clues to a galaxy's birth and growth by peering into its heart -- a bulge of millions of stars that resemble a bulbous center yolk in the middle of a disk of egg white.
Hubble astronomers are trying to solve the mystery of which came first: the stellar disk or the central bulge?
Two complementary surveys by independent teams of astronomers using Hubble show that the hubs of some galaxies formed early in the Universe, while others formed more slowly, across a long stretch of time.
Hubble confirms that the evolutionary paths of bulges and disks are connected. The central bulge stabilizes a galaxy's development and largely controls the ebb and flow of star birth in the core. The central bulge holds secrets as to how and when a galaxy formed. Before Hubble, astronomers had detailed information only about the complex core of our galaxy, which has a small bulge peppered with massive young star clusters and a telltale bar structure funneling gas to the center. Hubble allows astronomers to see bright star clusters, bars and other structures deep inside the bulges of other galaxies.
A group led by Reynier Peletier from the University of Nottingham, in the United Kingdom, has confirmed that the central bulges of more tightly wound spirals were all created at more or less the same time in the early universe.
A second team, led by C. Marcella Carollo of Columbia University in New York, surveyed galaxies that have small bulges and bar-like structures that bisect the nucleus like the slash across a no-smoking sign. They found that the bulges in these galaxies grew more recently, through markedly different processes happening within the galaxy's disk.
Both surveys used Hubble's precise resolution to peer into bulbous hubs of more than 200 neighboring galaxies, out to a distance of 100 million light-years. Using Hubble's visible-light and infrared cameras to penetrate deep into the cores of the galaxies, astronomers were able to untangle the stars' true colors -- a measure of age -- from their apparent colors, which are made redder by interstellar dust.
Peletier's team used Hubble to look into the center of 20 spiral galaxies that have large bulges. The team found that elliptical bulges of stars formed over a relatively brief period very early in the young universe. This could have happened through the collapse of a single cloud of hydrogen or merger of primeval star clusters.
"Apparently everywhere in the universe these intermediate- sized galaxies must have started forming early on," reports Peletier in a paper to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "The bulges of early spiral galaxies are old, and at least the outer parts of their disks are considerably younger."
Carollo's team found that in a different class of spiral galaxy, a small bulge probably formed early on, but was later fed by gas flowing into the galaxy's core, likely along a bar-like structure caused by instabilities in the surrounding disk of stars. The gas fueled the birth of new stars, and the bulge inflated like a beach ball as brilliant star clusters populated the center.
Carollo's results, to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, show young and old stars in the bulge. The researchers say that these types of bulges can continue to grow in galaxies in the present universe, but it is unlikely that they will ever become as big as those giant bulges that formed when the universe was young.
The Space Telescope Science Institute is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. for NASA, under contract with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency.
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Yeah... Too bad Lawn Darts are now banned in the US...
Lawndarts Banned in US
I've always wanted to start an Underground Lawn Darts league, just to publicize how out of control the federal goverment is...
All I want is some job security... I'm lucky enough to still be employed, but for how long.....
-sigh-
Wouldn't that be iCrow that they'll hafta eat?
I'd be willing to pay a few bucks a month to get a Slashdot free of trolls and full of content... It's gotten to the point where I rarely even read the comments anymore... -sigh-
As long as they don't try to shutdown health related websites that aren't in the .health TLD, more power to them. Most people are intelligent enough to decide if they want FDA approved drugs, or if they're willing to do their homework and try alternative medicines, why not the same thing for web sites?
Although there doesn't appear to be a place to setup proxies through the GUI, just go to the directory it's installed in, defaults\pref\all.js and edit the all.js file directly, putting in your proxy info as needed. Shutdown the browser and bring it back up, I'm writing this using KMeleon going through a corporate proxy right now.
If need be, you might want to open up a functional prefs.js from a working Netscape program for comparison.
This program is definitely still Beta, but it's showing a LOT of promise!
...Ask me this question again in 5-10 working days. After the last story about NSI, I went to www.jumpdomain.com and filled out their form to transfer a domain from someone else to them. The form was simple enough, if anyone's interested, e-mail me in 5-10 working days and if the mail gets through to me, the transfer most likely worked out okay. =)
Or, for that matter, has anyone out there every used jumpdomain to transfer off of NSI?
/GUINEA PIG MODE ON
I'm sure any idiot could figure it out, but just to make sure here's the correct, working URL:
Shockwave.com
Not a WHOLE lot better, but at least it's more than a single paragraph on this topic:
http://www.cnn.com/1999/ SHOWBIZ/Music/12/03/stevie.wonder/
Once again today, I should have been more careful with my exact wording (It's been a long day). Not necessarily 'Forced relocation.' But I don't believe we should continue to keep sustaining people if they choose to live in an area that is incapable of sustaining human life. Do you propsose that, if someone refuses to leave his home in the middle of the desert, that the collective 'we' continue to support them and their families indefinitely? Or, as I stated earlier, should we search for an alternate solution? I don't believe that continues hand-outs are the answer in some situations.
I feel I need to elaborate. I apologize for my original post, I was a little hot under the collar. I get so tired of people whining that we shouldn't be 'wasting' money on space exploration while there are starving people on Earth. I was not advocating cutting off all aid to these people, I was not advocating extermination or anything in that vein. I think it's just obvious that our current attempts at feeding the hungry are working against themselves and creating an endless cycle. Another solution needs to be come up with. The old give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach him to fish, he eats for live parable. And, if the people are living in a barren desert, than MOVE THEM to somewhere where they CAN sustain their lives. Anyway, I just wanted to elaborate and explain myself a bit more now that I've got a chance to calm down some.
Oh, and for the 'We don't need to go to space for our generation' line, that's a little too close to 'We don't need to stop polluting for our generation, let our children worry about it.' for me.....
I'm sorry if I go on a bit of a rant here, but so far the posts I've seen on this topic are NOT what I expected out of Slashdot people. Wanting to not put money into space? Wanting to put (Throw away?) more money into local 'social issues'? Personally, I think WAY too much money is wasted on saving the starving now as it is. I'm not a cold hearted bastard (Believe it or not) but the more we prop these people up, the more they are going to have more poor starving children, creating a vicious cycle. And for that matter, it could be argued that these very starving millions are a good reason to go to space. There are plenty of resources available, just sitting there for the grabbibg, if a way to easily/cheaply get them can be arranged. We're never going to figure out how to do it if we don't try going there in the first place. As far as 'wasting' money on space exploration. I can't think of a better cause the government has every spent money on! Yes, part of it is admittedly an ego-trip. Part of it is even nationalistic bragging rights on the first/only one to do something. A lot of it is also people being able to be proud of what people have done. Is there anything wrong with having pride in your species? Anything that helps boost global morale is, IMHO, generally a good thing. And I'm not even going to get into the scientific run-off of inventions/perfections/discoveries that wouldn't have/won't happen if it weren't for manned space flight
Oh well, I better stop before my rant gets too unreadable. I'll probally get flamed/moderated down for this, but I just had to say what I had to say.
Perhaps if some of the larger mega-corporations get slammed with stupid Trademark infringement cases, they'll loosen up on smacking around the little guys with them. Than again, it could just make them that much meaner about the issue. We'll see...
Hate to sound like the stereotypical stodgy old Amiga user, but I remember my Amiga reading text to me back in the late 80's, and a magnifying glass app around the same time...
"What is it with our recent VPs anyway?"
Simple. If you were going to be president, wouldn't you want to get a VP so horrible that noone would DARE try to assassinate you for fear of the VP becoming president? That's the only explanation I can come up for considering the last 2 VP's.
I won't let his offhand comments change the way I will vote. His wife did that for me years ago when she founded the PMRC and began her crusade to 'clean up' music. Of course, being in Texas, I can't say much good about Bush Jr. either. Guess I'll have to see how things turn out before I fully decide who gets my vote, but the thought of the founder of the PMRC living in the White House scares the crap out of me personally. Of course, those are just my feelings. Feel free to differ. =)
You realize, what with the mainstream media trawling Slashdot for commentary from those 'in the know' that your dream-description of Transmeta's product will be listed tommorow in the Wall Street Journal as a statement of fact, don't you?
Ya' know, now that I think about it, I almost hope it does. It'd be good for a laugh, at least...
'Computer Industry Expert states today that secretive California startup Transmeta, where Linus Torvalds, creator of the popular Linux operating system works, announced that they will begin shiping a new type of portable computer early next year, with greater power than current high-end desktop machines, be voice controlled, (Blah blah blah etc. etc. etc.). Eager investors have laid siege to Transmeta's headquarters, building a barricade of money, refusing to let anyone in or out of the building until they are allowed to empty their dumptrucks full of money inside the building.'
They were both poisoned. I've spent the last 5 years building up an immunity to Iocaine Poweder, er, I mean Transmeta tyops. I mean Transmeta typos. Whatever. I better go to bed.....
=)
Off Topic, feel free to moderate me down to -1 as I deserve to be, but I just somehow find it amusing that www.defendmicrosoft.org is running Apache on Linux. Sort of ironic justice, IMHO.
Netcraft Results for www.defendmicrosoft.org
In my personal experiences, meeting someone online can turn out (And for me has) either bad or good, just as meeting them in the real world can. My ex-girlfriend and I met on IRC, on a channel dedicated to the city we live in. We talked on there for several months, became friends, met at a few channel get-togethers, and than started going out together without the get together as an excuse. That relationship lasted about a year, and went pretty well. The breakup was a polite one, we are still friends. (The good news is, that one was my bad experience. =) As far as good goes, I met my current fiance on IRC as well, she had just left my town and moved to Chicago, and was feeling homesick, so she was hanging out in the local IRC channel. We became friends, and got to know each other much better through LONG chats via ICQ. After several plane trips for her from Chicago back to here (Dallas, if you're curious, btw) she decided to move back here.
We are now happily 'living in sin', engaged to be married, and trying to decide on a date (12:01 AM January 1st anyone? =)
I guess, to sum it up, 'dating' online is really no different than dating in 'real life'. You'll get some winners, you'll find some losers. Eventually, as they always say, you'll find someone who is right for you.
Oh, and one more thing, don't go LOOKING for someone. That is the best way to assure you'll never find them. Just be friends to people, in general. Be a nice person, and the person who can make you happy will pick up on this, and want to be more than a friend to you eventually. (If that makes any sense.)
According to Netcraft homepages.msn.com is running Apache on Solaris.
I don't run Slashmirror, I've just seen it used here, and as I managed to get the pictures from this article, I put them up on Slashmirror:
o r-1.jpg
o r-2.jpg
ftp://128.253.254.56/upload/pose30-palmos35-col
ftp://128.253.254.56/upload/pose30-palmos35-col
Enjoy.....
Forgive my ignorance, I'm not a lawyer, but if he got an adult to incorporate his company, and than declared him an officer of that company, than wouldn't any deals he makes technically be between the corporation and the other person, not between him (The 17 year old) and another individual, and thus be legally binding? As I understand it, once a company has incorporated, it is treated as an adult person in most respects. Oh well, just a thought...
Sheesh, talk about a grey area... =)
What's really scary about the law as it now sits is when a political candidate actively complains to the FEC about sites that they don't like. Case in point is http://www.gwbush.com/
This site, being HIGHLY critical of presidential candidate George W. Bush, is being hounded by the FEC as well. In this case, however, the reason the investigation was begun was because GW Bush's lawyers complained to the FEC. Scary... Very scary... (The very thought of politicians with lawyers terrifies me, but...) Anyway, enough babbling from this humble peasant.
Per request, here's the full text of the article:
o tos.html
Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC Oct. 6, 1999
(Phone: 202/358-1547)
Nancy Neal
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/286-0039)
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410/338-4514)
RELEASE: 99-107
STARRY BULGES YIELD SECRETS TO GALAXY GROWTH
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is uncovering important new
clues to a galaxy's birth and growth by peering into its heart --
a bulge of millions of stars that resemble a bulbous center yolk
in the middle of a disk of egg white.
Hubble astronomers are trying to solve the mystery of which
came first: the stellar disk or the central bulge?
Two complementary surveys by independent teams of astronomers
using Hubble show that the hubs of some galaxies formed early in
the Universe, while others formed more slowly, across a long
stretch of time.
Hubble confirms that the evolutionary paths of bulges and
disks are connected. The central bulge stabilizes a galaxy's
development and largely controls the ebb and flow of star birth in
the core. The central bulge holds secrets as to how and when a
galaxy formed. Before Hubble, astronomers had detailed
information only about the complex core of our galaxy, which has a
small bulge peppered with massive young star clusters and a
telltale bar structure funneling gas to the center. Hubble allows
astronomers to see bright star clusters, bars and other structures
deep inside the bulges of other galaxies.
A group led by Reynier Peletier from the University of
Nottingham, in the United Kingdom, has confirmed that the central
bulges of more tightly wound spirals were all created at more or
less the same time in the early universe.
A second team, led by C. Marcella Carollo of Columbia
University in New York, surveyed galaxies that have small bulges
and bar-like structures that bisect the nucleus like the slash
across a no-smoking sign. They found that the bulges in these
galaxies grew more recently, through markedly different processes
happening within the galaxy's disk.
Both surveys used Hubble's precise resolution to peer into
bulbous hubs of more than 200 neighboring galaxies, out to a
distance of 100 million light-years. Using Hubble's visible-light
and infrared cameras to penetrate deep into the cores of the
galaxies, astronomers were able to untangle the stars' true colors
-- a measure of age -- from their apparent colors, which are made
redder by interstellar dust.
Peletier's team used Hubble to look into the center of 20
spiral galaxies that have large bulges. The team found that
elliptical bulges of stars formed over a relatively brief period
very early in the young universe. This could have happened
through the collapse of a single cloud of hydrogen or merger of
primeval star clusters.
"Apparently everywhere in the universe these intermediate-
sized galaxies must have started forming early on," reports
Peletier in a paper to be published in the Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society. "The bulges of early spiral galaxies
are old, and at least the outer parts of their disks are
considerably younger."
Carollo's team found that in a different class of spiral
galaxy, a small bulge probably formed early on, but was later fed
by gas flowing into the galaxy's core, likely along a bar-like
structure caused by instabilities in the surrounding disk of
stars. The gas fueled the birth of new stars, and the bulge
inflated like a beach ball as brilliant star clusters populated
the center.
Carollo's results, to be published in the Astrophysical
Journal, show young and old stars in the bulge. The researchers
say that these types of bulges can continue to grow in galaxies in
the present universe, but it is unlikely that they will ever
become as big as those giant bulges that formed when the universe
was young.
The Space Telescope Science Institute is operated by the
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. for
NASA, under contract with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of
international cooperation between NASA and the European Space
Agency.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: Image files are available on the Internet at:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html and
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/34/pr-ph