Would it be that big of a deal for slashdot to mirror the sites on their web server - at least for the time being?
As a matter of ettiquete, I don't think what/. is doing is right. Sh*t - I'd hate to pay for the bandwidth if I was slashdotted.
Sorry for being OT, but I think this is kinda getting out of hand.
Would comment about the article but...
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
It's early and already people are posting stuff about "done in free time! got in trouble! can't believe it"
I'm not sure where you live / went to school, but I know that here in Oregon, especially in the Beaverton/Hillsboro area, the administration is both stupid and scary - seemingly inept in every way (i.e. network up 1/2 the time), but also paranoid as hell - how about webcams on each and every computer that are always on and are monitored actively?
Oh. they got that awesome proxy stuff too, you know, the one that filters "offensive" sites, like slashdot and the usual keywords - god forbid you learn anything other than keyboarding in a school that gets several hundred thousand yearly (from independent corporations such as intel) to teach students about "high tech"
Westview High School is especially bad and I will give you a description of my experiences there.
How about this - a school employee hacked a kid's webpage about why a teacher sucked (granted this was when angelfire was just starting, with all of its bugs, couldn't really be construed as hacking)
and changed it to mirror the School Disrict homepage - all of this was, of course approved by the administration.
Oh... they changed his password too, not just edited the page.
He complained, put a petition around the school - and lo and behold, they gave him a MONTH suspension for "hacking" into computers. No evidence, nothing - just removed him from campus one day, gave him a letter saying that he was suspended, and if he came on campus, he would be arrested and charges filed for trespassing. They didn't answer his phone calls, refused to talk directly with him, etc.
He went on a bender for that month (booze, weed, acid), so he didn't exactly defend himself, just took a break from school.
Whats good is to see somebody actually stand up for their rights. Same shit happened to me, but being a Canadian citizen in an American school (legally, of course, I have my green card now...) Needless to say, I let it slide.
Oh... word of advice - if you're in a shitty high school (and not in your senior year) - drop out, get your GED and go the local community college.
A GED is really easy to get(with a gr. 10 education), especially if you're fairly intelligent.
College is so much better - the teachers are 10x better too, not to dump on all HS teachers, but the majority of them suck (which is why they "choose" to work for less pay in a less respected orgainization). College teachers actually know how to teach and also know the material.
Enough "rant" for now, just be aware that this does happen, and its freaking great to see people defending themselves.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Maybe you haven't heard, but the word on the proverbial street is that napster isn't going to be around much longer...
I heard from a source close to someone in the napster business that the service will be discontinued by the end of next month.
For napster, the proverbial shit has hit the equally proverbial fan.
They are just toying with stuff now, hoping to get patents on peer2peer file sharing encryption / authentication et al.
Oh.. one last thing - to the person who modded down my last message because of my sig.
Fuck you, you stupid asshole!
Since Dubya became president and commander in cheif, the US Military has killed more allies than civilians... Current count - 9 Japanese to 3 Iraquis
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Because it's fun to make new stuff.
Damn dude(ette), haven't you ever written any code just for the hell of it - or written a story because you just feel like it? or put a circut board together because you wanted to?
Since when was the desire to innovate simply enough to do so? Einstein didn't put together his ideas for monetary gain, nor did Newton, Mozart, Michelangelo et cetera...
Sure, they may of have "sold" their works after the fact, but the drive was not for the money.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
It's fucking capatalist yuppies like you that screw everything up.
If there were "magic photocopiers", and someone wanted to come and copy my kitchen table - sure, I'd say - why the hell not? Why the fuck should I care?
As long as I still have the original, thats fine.
And goddamit - when the fuck did music become centralized around money. The REAL artists are those who don't do it for the money - like the hundreds of garage bands etc... Not brittney big-tits spears.
Its late, I'm pissed, Gnight
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Just moved down,
Fuck this place is backward, internet service is $40-50 a month - if you can get it, slow, shit speeds.
4 - 5 month install times, 2x that for repairs.
Medical care is horrible.
The internet cafes smell like the fat american teenage fudgepacking fucks which drip sweat by the gallons onto the keyboards while they play quake 3 with their friends.
Getting a good cup of tea is impossible, the best you'll get is that "stash" shit.
And the people, so fucking rude.
Oh.. forgot, never saw somebody masturbating in a internet cafe here to anime porn in Canada. What the fuck is up with that?
Though taxes and money is better here (gotta admit).
Oh well...
I smell a flame war brewin' . . . read my sig before you post.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Anyone see the grammy's last night, I caught the last bit and eminem said "shit" at least 4x - in the clear btw.
Every grammy awards seeems to "enhance" the quality of language used on network tv.
Seems to me, only 1 word can't be said on TV,
I'm waiting for Regis to stand up and say "FUCK!", he won a million...
that and that survivor babe to say "fuck me hard!"
Oh well, we can all dream and buy HBO instead.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
You think that renting of software will be at reasonable rates?
Hah!
I envision companies doing the "compuserve" thing
$20 monthly flat rate. Plus some vulgar $4 a minute fee for using an "optional" thing like a spell check or autocorrect.
I think that this is clearly going to cost companies more in the long run. Whether they will save on support I have no idea, MS says that it will, but MS says a lot of things...
It'll also be fun when the EULA has a clause that includes "variable billing" and a "eula change" clause which locks you into a 12 month contract.
augh.. whatever....
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
80% of their money comes from fucking patents,
NOT ACTUAL PRODUCTS!
They don't give a fsck if no one buys their ram, they can still mooch off others...
Hope to seem them soon on FC, but it probably won't be so... remember that company that has a patent on http browsing? They are still around, slowly extorting money, "dubious IP and lawyers" can still get you a good living down in the USA I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
They got 20 DVD's - full of DIVX compressed DVD rips.
17 GB / 700 mb (decent rip) about 24 movies per DVD, Multiply that by 20 DVD's - about 480 movies.
Good to know that the astronauts will be working:)
Seriously though, would they really bring up a DVD player (about $10,000 to put up in space, plus an AC adaptor (another $10,000) assuming it's the tiny one Panasonic) or a laptop...
Also listed are a set of "premium" services, including transport of cargo to and from the station by the space shuttle, at a cost of $22,000/kg ($10,000/lb.) for pressurized cargo and $26,400/kg ($12,000/lb.) for unpressurized cargo. Transportation costs were not included in the standard bundle prices because of the possibility that cargo may be ferried to and from the station by private spacecraft.
Other premium services include additional crew time, at $15,000 per hour, and energy, at $2,000 per KWh, as well as Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) transponder time, at a rate of $100 per minute..
http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/02/29a.html
Actual Slashdot post/reply
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
1 gig file. Damn. Getting 40 K though.... only 8 hours left.
This is, in a geeky way, kind of cool. I've never downloaded a 1 gig file before.
In anycase, I want a server that can handle this shit, and whatever upstream connection that box has. It'd be a hell of a warez server:)
Believe it or not this is not new, s**t - even cloning a human from two persons of the same gender has been done (only 2 women at this time) - I'm pretty sure that this was on slashdot about a year ago too, but it seems that everybody (?) has forgotten about it.
Essentially two females (this was aimed at lesbians (just a fact, no flamebait here), go to a lab and have a.... child/CLONE of themselves, WITH NO MALE DONOR!
Only difference is that we now place the fertilized egg into a human body instead of a test tube.
"As with animal cloning, he said, the technology would involve injecting genetic material from the father into the mother's egg, which would then be implanted in her womb. "
Really, it's not really a clone, its freakin' IVF. IT HAS BEEN DONE!!!!, this is only a slight modification of the process. Kids have been born through IVF, and I see this as no different (I believe the oldest IVF baby is 17)
Oh... btw, I belive clone is an identical copy of ONE parent, not two, so no natalie portman's here (unless you mix her with some guy's DNA, or if you somehow get dna from both of 'em (hair, skin samples) and do it that way. The kid is guaranteed to be female in the latter way so there won't be any suprises:)
What everybody should be pissed about is not the ethics etc... of cloning, but the fact that so little is heard about it in the media, especially about the fact that americans won't hear shit about this for quite some time and the fact that the British (no offense intended), a historically news tight society, have shown this first, not the "free americans".
In any case, this really isn't "new" news. Nothing here is really a breakthrough, but IMHO, this doesn't let the useless american media off the hook
Shouts.
.
The following was an actual post / response on slashdot... enjoy.
This "new technology" as it's being touted was actually created in the late 80's as a "pay per view" product. A set top box would connect to a fone line and provide payperview as well as regular stations. Then some people got together and said "what if we could run computer data on this" (Payper view was digital)
Thus the advent of DSL.
Not new, and yes... I think verizon has the experience needed to give this a bad rep. Oh well...
Those who are suing him have been around for a while. In fact, they are the mother fuckers who claim to have patented http - remember that article? (This is the "official reason" that Greg is being sued.)
Mind you, he's not the only one who they have sued, these fuckheads go from major companies (GM, Toyota, Intel) and ask for licensing fees for using their patent (pretty much extort money from them). Over 10 cases have been settled out of court and this company has quite a few $
A quick look at the employees shows a bunch of fucking lawyers who specialize in buying patents and enforcing them. There are no techies among them, nor any scientists, nor anyone who has a clue about the real world.
Oh... One more thing, their page fucking sucks. I'd expect more from the gods that patented http.
Of course, neither does doubleclick...
(NOT share your personal information, only network usage statistics in aggregate)
and as for wireless game server - Q3 lan/bush party...
Slashdot Mirror
Would it be that big of a deal for slashdot to mirror the sites on their web server - at least for the time being?
As a matter of ettiquete, I don't think what
Sorry for being OT, but I think this is kinda getting out of hand.
Would comment about the article but...
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Sorry.
'nuff said.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I'm not sure where you live / went to school, but I know that here in Oregon, especially in the Beaverton/Hillsboro area, the administration is both stupid and scary - seemingly inept in every way (i.e. network up 1/2 the time), but also paranoid as hell - how about webcams on each and every computer that are always on and are monitored actively?
Oh. they got that awesome proxy stuff too, you know, the one that filters "offensive" sites, like slashdot and the usual keywords - god forbid you learn anything other than keyboarding in a school that gets several hundred thousand yearly (from independent corporations such as intel) to teach students about "high tech"
Westview High School is especially bad and I will give you a description of my experiences there.
How about this - a school employee hacked a kid's webpage about why a teacher sucked (granted this was when angelfire was just starting, with all of its bugs, couldn't really be construed as hacking)
and changed it to mirror the School Disrict homepage - all of this was, of course approved by the administration.
Oh... they changed his password too, not just edited the page.
He complained, put a petition around the school - and lo and behold, they gave him a MONTH suspension for "hacking" into computers. No evidence, nothing - just removed him from campus one day, gave him a letter saying that he was suspended, and if he came on campus, he would be arrested and charges filed for trespassing. They didn't answer his phone calls, refused to talk directly with him, etc.
He went on a bender for that month (booze, weed, acid), so he didn't exactly defend himself, just took a break from school.
Whats good is to see somebody actually stand up for their rights. Same shit happened to me, but being a Canadian citizen in an American school (legally, of course, I have my green card now...) Needless to say, I let it slide.
Oh... word of advice - if you're in a shitty high school (and not in your senior year) - drop out, get your GED and go the local community college.
A GED is really easy to get(with a gr. 10 education), especially if you're fairly intelligent.
College is so much better - the teachers are 10x better too, not to dump on all HS teachers, but the majority of them suck (which is why they "choose" to work for less pay in a less respected orgainization). College teachers actually know how to teach and also know the material.
Enough "rant" for now, just be aware that this does happen, and its freaking great to see people defending themselves.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I heard from a source close to someone in the napster business that the service will be discontinued by the end of next month.
For napster, the proverbial shit has hit the equally proverbial fan.
They are just toying with stuff now, hoping to get patents on peer2peer file sharing encryption / authentication et al.
Oh.. one last thing - to the person who modded down my last message because of my sig.
Fuck you, you stupid asshole!
Since Dubya became president and commander in cheif, the US Military has killed more allies than civilians... Current count - 9 Japanese to 3 Iraquis
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Damn dude(ette), haven't you ever written any code just for the hell of it - or written a story because you just feel like it? or put a circut board together because you wanted to?
Since when was the desire to innovate simply enough to do so? Einstein didn't put together his ideas for monetary gain, nor did Newton, Mozart, Michelangelo et cetera...
Sure, they may of have "sold" their works after the fact, but the drive was not for the money.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Fuck brittney spears - wonder if guys have to suck dick to make it big time in the music industry too? Or maybe they just toss salads -
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
If there were "magic photocopiers", and someone wanted to come and copy my kitchen table - sure, I'd say - why the hell not? Why the fuck should I care?
As long as I still have the original, thats fine.
And goddamit - when the fuck did music become centralized around money. The REAL artists are those who don't do it for the money - like the hundreds of garage bands etc... Not brittney big-tits spears.
Its late, I'm pissed, Gnight
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Fuck this place is backward, internet service is $40-50 a month - if you can get it, slow, shit speeds.
4 - 5 month install times, 2x that for repairs.
Medical care is horrible.
The internet cafes smell like the fat american teenage fudgepacking fucks which drip sweat by the gallons onto the keyboards while they play quake 3 with their friends.
Getting a good cup of tea is impossible, the best you'll get is that "stash" shit.
And the people, so fucking rude.
Oh.. forgot, never saw somebody masturbating in a internet cafe here to anime porn in Canada. What the fuck is up with that?
Though taxes and money is better here (gotta admit).
Oh well...
I smell a flame war brewin' . . . read my sig before you post.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Exactly.
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Hah!
I envision companies doing the "compuserve" thing
$20 monthly flat rate. Plus some vulgar $4 a minute fee for using an "optional" thing like a spell check or autocorrect.
I think that this is clearly going to cost companies more in the long run. Whether they will save on support I have no idea, MS says that it will, but MS says a lot of things...
It'll also be fun when the EULA has a clause that includes "variable billing" and a "eula change" clause which locks you into a 12 month contract.
augh.. whatever....
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
80% of their money comes from fucking patents,
NOT ACTUAL PRODUCTS!
They don't give a fsck if no one buys their ram, they can still mooch off others...
Hope to seem them soon on FC, but it probably won't be so... remember that company that has a patent on http browsing? They are still around, slowly extorting money, "dubious IP and lawyers" can still get you a good living down in the USA
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
4th post and it's already /.'ed...
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
Where the fsck is Western Europe?
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
17 GB / 700 mb (decent rip) about 24 movies per DVD, Multiply that by 20 DVD's - about 480 movies.
Good to know that the astronauts will be working:)
Seriously though, would they really bring up a DVD player (about $10,000 to put up in space, plus an AC adaptor (another $10,000) assuming it's the tiny one Panasonic) or a laptop...
Also listed are a set of "premium" services, including transport of cargo to and from the station by the space shuttle, at a cost of $22,000/kg ($10,000/lb.) for pressurized cargo and $26,400/kg ($12,000/lb.) for unpressurized cargo. Transportation costs were not included in the standard bundle prices because of the possibility that cargo may be ferried to and from the station by private spacecraft.
Other premium services include additional crew time, at $15,000 per hour, and energy, at $2,000 per KWh, as well as Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) transponder time, at a rate of $100 per minute..
http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/02/29a.html
Actual Slashdot post/reply
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
1 gig file. Damn. Getting 40 K though.... only 8 hours left. :)
This is, in a geeky way, kind of cool. I've never downloaded a 1 gig file before.
In anycase, I want a server that can handle this shit, and whatever upstream connection that box has. It'd be a hell of a warez server
For the rest of you, read the fscking article.
Essentially two females (this was aimed at lesbians (just a fact, no flamebait here), go to a lab and have a.... child /CLONE of themselves, WITH NO MALE DONOR!
Only difference is that we now place the fertilized egg into a human body instead of a test tube.
"As with animal cloning, he said, the technology would involve injecting genetic material from the father into the mother's egg, which would then be implanted in her womb. "
Really, it's not really a clone, its freakin' IVF. IT HAS BEEN DONE!!!!, this is only a slight modification of the process. Kids have been born through IVF, and I see this as no different (I believe the oldest IVF baby is 17)
Oh... btw, I belive clone is an identical copy of ONE parent, not two, so no natalie portman's here (unless you mix her with some guy's DNA, or if you somehow get dna from both of 'em (hair, skin samples) and do it that way. The kid is guaranteed to be female in the latter way so there won't be any suprises :)
What everybody should be pissed about is not the ethics etc... of cloning, but the fact that so little is heard about it in the media, especially about the fact that americans won't hear shit about this for quite some time and the fact that the British (no offense intended), a historically news tight society, have shown this first, not the "free americans".
In any case, this really isn't "new" news. Nothing here is really a breakthrough, but IMHO, this doesn't let the useless american media off the hook
Shouts.
.
The following was an actual post / response on slashdot... enjoy.
Though try using the Russian GPS system if you don't want local "fuzziness" around certain areas (Washington DC)
Thus the advent of DSL.
Not new, and yes... I think verizon has the experience needed to give this a bad rep. Oh well...
Mind you, he's not the only one who they have sued, these fuckheads go from major companies (GM, Toyota, Intel) and ask for licensing fees for using their patent (pretty much extort money from them). Over 10 cases have been settled out of court and this company has quite a few $
A quick look at the employees shows a bunch of fucking lawyers who specialize in buying patents and enforcing them. There are no techies among them, nor any scientists, nor anyone who has a clue about the real world.
Oh... One more thing, their page fucking sucks. I'd expect more from the gods that patented http.
Of course, neither does doubleclick...
(NOT share your personal information, only network usage statistics in aggregate)
and as for wireless game server - Q3 lan/bush party...
try 2005. funny that nobody knows about it yet...