How many joggers, skateboarders, or skaters add an extra 83 lbs. of metal on you when they hit you?
Bikers are about the only thing that come close but you would have to be rideing one monster of a bike for it to reach 83 lbs! Not to mention the size of the person who could propel the thing. So that's not even a valid compairison.
The article specifically says,"the law that prohibits an entity that receives a National Security Letter request for information from telling anyone about the request." Perhaps the president of the company receives the letter and is forced to comply without telling anyone else.
Thing about that is how does he impliment it without anyone else knowing? The ISPs I've worked for are full of magment that can barely run their laptops let alone the switches/routers/racks they own.
At some point some tech had to be given an order to do something to comply with whatever request is being made. More likely it would be more than one person who would know about whats going on and as such anyone who cared to know would.
You make a very good point however there have been cases where a book has been turned into something very very...very bad when made into a movie.
I personally think that everyone involved in making "The Cat in the Hat" should be flogged. Granted these "books" were never really the type that should grace the big screen but it is a case in point about how wrong something can go.
Of course it's out of our hands as the last time Hollywood listened to anyone was...well never so the best we can do is hope and vote with your dollars. If the movie stinks don't pay to see it! (Nasty catch-22 there as the only true way to see if something is bad is to see it but I'm sure a few slashdotters will chime in when that time comes so that we might get some sort of idea as to it's quality.)
You got me to look in/proc for said file, then I thought you tricked me! but it really does exist. Only it wasn't added until 2.6 & some of us still run 2.4
Now if I'm not mistaken all of these values can be tweaked to better improve swap settings. And I think the one to change was kswapd but it has been some time since I messed with it. However I'm sure Google could dig up some info on exactly how to modify each of these settings properly.
If you can't be good, be controversial. All this publicity is just going to sell more books.
While there is some truth to this there is a big diffrence between religion and IT. Relition by it's very nature has so many ways of even telling the same story that it's impossable to say with any certainty which one, if any, might be correct.
And while there has been a massive attempt to FUD up the OSS movement it's been countered quite powerfully by some equally massive anti-FUD. In addition majority of the people directly involved are still around and can easily claify things that are impossable to do with religion.
As for your 2nd example you again cite something that has to do with issues that are not quanitfiable. Morality is very much in the eye of the beholder and has little to do with the issue of how the OSS/FSF community does it's work.
Ah the console fanboy's cry! Halo forever! Nobody wants to play complex RTS, Simulation, RPG games anyway.
Ok, yes fine console games make lots of money and they are eating into the PC game market. Well what do you expect? Them to eat into the board game market?
People are not that bright as a whole. They like mindless games that are easy to play and have lots of flashy graphics. However that does not mean that they are the only ones playing games, much like the way that the TV has not killed books. (Though I'm quite sure fools like yourself ran around during the early days of TV screaming "Print is Dying!")
Anyway, please, by all means have your console. Have 2 or 3 for all I care. But if you must spout off about how the gameing market is changeing try not to ignore the fact that few things ever truely die; they rather change and adapt.
OK then - human flight, disputed. Refrigeration - I don't know (benefit of doubt to America then). Automobiles - Germany. Television - Britain. Computers - Britain. Space travel - Russia (or more accurately, competeting sets of Germans working in Russia and America after WWII). The Internet - America.
Credit where credit is due of course but sometimes it's not who invents an idea that counts in the big picture, it's who is able to take that idea and run with it.
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile but his mass production assembly line made it an applicable product vs the traditional method of trying to produce cars. (It almost could be argued that the invention of the assembly line really should be mentioned vs that of the automobile but meh.)
On to computers; while the term 'computer' can be applied to anything that can add 1 and 1 the real breakthough with computers came with the invention of the transistor which was done in Bell Labs by Americans. A further breakthough in turning that transistor into an integrated circuit was then produced by Jack Kilby, another American working for TI labs. Finally, I don't think there is any real doubt that the US was the one that was then able to take these combigned techs and make computers what they are today. IBM/Compaq/Apple all were/are American and have made computers what they are today. (A nod to Finnland for it's contribution of course but even it's work was based on stuff that was invented here in the US by AT&T and Berkely.;)
Perchance you missed the big Monty Python Foot on the frontpage?
This is in the "It's Funny, Laugh" section which means that, while many will rightfully kick SCO any chance they get, it's mostly about just getting a few chuckles in.
Hey, does anyone else keep getting a little frustrated with the fact that Google seems hell-bent on introducing new services [orkut, gmail, etc.] but they haven't really done anything about the fact that 'optimizers' have basically cracked PageRank?
I wonder if that mindset has anything to do with this.
One of the big factors in a successful boycot is letting the company that your boycotting know that your doing it to them.
However I, sadly, have to agree with you that a boycot of any meida in the US will most likely fail. We simply live for our meida right now and the arguments are too complex for Joe Sixpack and Suzy Homemaker to understand.
Seems like some people are getting a bit too excited about the Google IPO and thinking that once again companies with no real business plan can do IPOs worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
You present a mixed message there that really is not fair to Google. They have been private and profitable for quite some time and to lump them in with "companies with no real business plan" does not help your point.
What you point should be, imo, is that many people walking around with capital, with MBAs, or those writeing about these events have no real clue about what is really going on with IT technology and instead play there strategies off buzzwords and watered down reports.
Don't let your friends run IE, don't let your department run IE, just don't run IE!
Of course I'm preaching to the quire here but as spyware becomes more of an issue hopefully everyone else will wake up. Or better yet, maybe since MS is a convicted monopolist someone will force them to include other browsers with a default install.
Yes, this issue is bigger than just web browsers but this is a simple solution to many problems. If this page offered a little more diversity when you look at the "Web Browsers Used to Access Google" maybe MS would be forced to improve IE beyond a patch here and there to something approaching Opera or Mozilla.
Still though, copying and cracking software is wrong.
Scenario 1 -- I have a few kids that run loose in my house. (I'm not some SOB who puts them on those leashes, wtf is that all about.) They seem to manage to get into my computer room sometimes and play frisbee with my CD's. If I didn't have a *legal thanks to fair use* copy of my software that I *paid for* I would be SOL. Moral: Copying software is *NOT* always wrong.
Scenario 2 -- I have a killer cool gaming rig that I then go out and buy all sorts of games. I bring home a copy of latest game X and lo and behold the copy protection that the feckless losers at the publishing co installed (Note, I said publishers not developers. Most times the developers realize that protection is a waste of time and it's the damn suits who insist on the protection.) does not seem to work right with my CD-ROM drive. Now I can't play the game that I just *paid for* and when I go to try and do anything about it all the morons at BestBuy can do is sit there with their thumbs in their asses and if I'm lucky give me store credit so I can go maybe use it on some overpriced RIAA crap that will proably install deathware on my PC when I go to play it there anyway. But luckily instead of having to deal with all that I can download a crack and play the game I paid for! Moral: Cracking software is *NOT* always wrong.
While it's been duely noted that using up more channels could interfere with others who are trying to use 2.4, there are a number of applications I can see that would be useful for this type of setup.
Large old office buildings that arn't wired for ethernet, large warehouses, and people who live on large plots of land.
Yes, if you are living in a typical burb or in the city and try to use one of these you could run into issues with running out of channels. However not everyone lives/works in small areas.
You've never had a right to privacy as a domain owner. If that bothers you, don't use DNS and just publish your web server's IP number.
And then that begs the question is it legal/ethical to require that information to be public?
I know of no law that requires that information to be correct and I can see several ethical issues that would preclude this not being a privacy right issue.
Last time I checked Kuro5hin, it was full of nothing but neo-con nutjobs and anti-everything trolls making one-line posts.
Reading K5 is like pulling teeth. There is no threshold setting so there is no real reason to moderate. (Other than the new feature of trying to "hide" a comment which takes so many mods to do I'm not even sure why they bother and then you get the fun of watching the flame wars start over it right there in the same thread.)
I still hit K5 every now and then to see what makes it to the front page but trying to read the threads becomes old real quick.
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I agree, I was right there with him up until that "class war" comment. Dude must have some major political angst or something going on.
How many joggers, skateboarders, or skaters add an extra 83 lbs. of metal on you when they hit you?
Bikers are about the only thing that come close but you would have to be rideing one monster of a bike for it to reach 83 lbs! Not to mention the size of the person who could propel the thing. So that's not even a valid compairison.
There was a bizarre hit and run that took place in San Francisco on Tuesday between a 3-year-old girl and a Segway.
Three-year-old Ruby Bleskacek sustained cuts, bruises and a nasty bump on her head.
Will they be provideing helmets and pads for all the peds that arn't rideing the Segways?
The article specifically says,"the law that prohibits an entity that receives a National Security Letter request for information from telling anyone about the request." Perhaps the president of the company receives the letter and is forced to comply without telling anyone else.
Thing about that is how does he impliment it without anyone else knowing? The ISPs I've worked for are full of magment that can barely run their laptops let alone the switches/routers/racks they own.
At some point some tech had to be given an order to do something to comply with whatever request is being made. More likely it would be more than one person who would know about whats going on and as such anyone who cared to know would.
You make a very good point however there have been cases where a book has been turned into something very very...very bad when made into a movie.
I personally think that everyone involved in making "The Cat in the Hat" should be flogged. Granted these "books" were never really the type that should grace the big screen but it is a case in point about how wrong something can go.
Of course it's out of our hands as the last time Hollywood listened to anyone was...well never so the best we can do is hope and vote with your dollars. If the movie stinks don't pay to see it! (Nasty catch-22 there as the only true way to see if something is bad is to see it but I'm sure a few slashdotters will chime in when that time comes so that we might get some sort of idea as to it's quality.)
You got me to look in /proc for said file, then I thought you tricked me! but it really does exist. Only it wasn't added until 2.6 & some of us still run 2.4
/proc/sys/vm/
/proc/sys/vm/
Indeed. Some of still run 2.2 even!
2.2.x kernel:
# ls
bdflush buffermem freepages kswapd overcommit_memory page-cluster pagecache pagetable_cache
2.4.x kernel:
# ls
bdflush kswapd max_map_count max-readahead min-readahead overcommit_memory page-cluster pagetable_cache
Now if I'm not mistaken all of these values can be tweaked to better improve swap settings. And I think the one to change was kswapd but it has been some time since I messed with it. However I'm sure Google could dig up some info on exactly how to modify each of these settings properly.
If you can't be good, be controversial. All this publicity is just going to sell more books.
While there is some truth to this there is a big diffrence between religion and IT. Relition by it's very nature has so many ways of even telling the same story that it's impossable to say with any certainty which one, if any, might be correct.
And while there has been a massive attempt to FUD up the OSS movement it's been countered quite powerfully by some equally massive anti-FUD. In addition majority of the people directly involved are still around and can easily claify things that are impossable to do with religion.
As for your 2nd example you again cite something that has to do with issues that are not quanitfiable. Morality is very much in the eye of the beholder and has little to do with the issue of how the OSS/FSF community does it's work.
Currently, the PC games market is dying.
Ah the console fanboy's cry! Halo forever! Nobody wants to play complex RTS, Simulation, RPG games anyway.
Ok, yes fine console games make lots of money and they are eating into the PC game market. Well what do you expect? Them to eat into the board game market?
People are not that bright as a whole. They like mindless games that are easy to play and have lots of flashy graphics. However that does not mean that they are the only ones playing games, much like the way that the TV has not killed books. (Though I'm quite sure fools like yourself ran around during the early days of TV screaming "Print is Dying!")
Anyway, please, by all means have your console. Have 2 or 3 for all I care. But if you must spout off about how the gameing market is changeing try not to ignore the fact that few things ever truely die; they rather change and adapt.
Good - freenet shouldn't exist anyway (Score:3, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 17, @10:38PM (#9179744)
This is almost like saying Bill Gates didn't write MS DOS! ...oh wait...
He didn't.
OK then - human flight, disputed. Refrigeration - I don't know (benefit of doubt to America then). Automobiles - Germany. Television - Britain. Computers - Britain. Space travel - Russia (or more accurately, competeting sets of Germans working in Russia and America after WWII). The Internet - America.
;)
Credit where credit is due of course but sometimes it's not who invents an idea that counts in the big picture, it's who is able to take that idea and run with it.
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile but his mass production assembly line made it an applicable product vs the traditional method of trying to produce cars. (It almost could be argued that the invention of the assembly line really should be mentioned vs that of the automobile but meh.)
On to computers; while the term 'computer' can be applied to anything that can add 1 and 1 the real breakthough with computers came with the invention of the transistor which was done in Bell Labs by Americans. A further breakthough in turning that transistor into an integrated circuit was then produced by Jack Kilby, another American working for TI labs. Finally, I don't think there is any real doubt that the US was the one that was then able to take these combigned techs and make computers what they are today. IBM/Compaq/Apple all were/are American and have made computers what they are today. (A nod to Finnland for it's contribution of course but even it's work was based on stuff that was invented here in the US by AT&T and Berkely.
Perchance you missed the big Monty Python Foot on the frontpage?
This is in the "It's Funny, Laugh" section which means that, while many will rightfully kick SCO any chance they get, it's mostly about just getting a few chuckles in.
Hey, does anyone else keep getting a little frustrated with the fact that Google seems hell-bent on introducing new services [orkut, gmail, etc.] but they haven't really done anything about the fact that 'optimizers' have basically cracked PageRank?
I wonder if that mindset has anything to do with this.
And they'll probably blame it on priacy anyways.
One of the big factors in a successful boycot is letting the company that your boycotting know that your doing it to them.
However I, sadly, have to agree with you that a boycot of any meida in the US will most likely fail. We simply live for our meida right now and the arguments are too complex for Joe Sixpack and Suzy Homemaker to understand.
So I'd like to hear from the tinfoil hat brigade
Why do you attempt to make fun of people who have serious concerns about their privacy?
Uhm, if you expect to be taken seriously while wearing a tinfoil hat I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you...
Does this kid have *any* friends at all?
Seems like some people are getting a bit too excited about the Google IPO and thinking that once again companies with no real business plan can do IPOs worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
You present a mixed message there that really is not fair to Google. They have been private and profitable for quite some time and to lump them in with "companies with no real business plan" does not help your point.
What you point should be, imo, is that many people walking around with capital, with MBAs, or those writeing about these events have no real clue about what is really going on with IT technology and instead play there strategies off buzzwords and watered down reports.
Don't run IE!
Don't let your friends run IE, don't let your department run IE, just don't run IE!
Of course I'm preaching to the quire here but as spyware becomes more of an issue hopefully everyone else will wake up. Or better yet, maybe since MS is a convicted monopolist someone will force them to include other browsers with a default install.
Yes, this issue is bigger than just web browsers but this is a simple solution to many problems. If this page offered a little more diversity when you look at the "Web Browsers Used to Access Google" maybe MS would be forced to improve IE beyond a patch here and there to something approaching Opera or Mozilla.
If you study some history you will find that many people went into debt for their ideas. Some of them for far worse ideas than what Gentoo has become.
Still though, copying and cracking software is wrong.
Scenario 1 -- I have a few kids that run loose in my house. (I'm not some SOB who puts them on those leashes, wtf is that all about.) They seem to manage to get into my computer room sometimes and play frisbee with my CD's. If I didn't have a *legal thanks to fair use* copy of my software that I *paid for* I would be SOL.
Moral: Copying software is *NOT* always wrong.
Scenario 2 -- I have a killer cool gaming rig that I then go out and buy all sorts of games. I bring home a copy of latest game X and lo and behold the copy protection that the feckless losers at the publishing co installed (Note, I said publishers not developers. Most times the developers realize that protection is a waste of time and it's the damn suits who insist on the protection.) does not seem to work right with my CD-ROM drive. Now I can't play the game that I just *paid for* and when I go to try and do anything about it all the morons at BestBuy can do is sit there with their thumbs in their asses and if I'm lucky give me store credit so I can go maybe use it on some overpriced RIAA crap that will proably install deathware on my PC when I go to play it there anyway. But luckily instead of having to deal with all that I can download a crack and play the game I paid for!
Moral: Cracking software is *NOT* always wrong.
Rant mode off.
While it's been duely noted that using up more channels could interfere with others who are trying to use 2.4, there are a number of applications I can see that would be useful for this type of setup.
Large old office buildings that arn't wired for ethernet, large warehouses, and people who live on large plots of land.
Yes, if you are living in a typical burb or in the city and try to use one of these you could run into issues with running out of channels. However not everyone lives/works in small areas.
If you really want to run for a purpose, might I suggest hashing.
While now I prefer to drink my beer while sitting around, I can only say that unless you experience a hash for yourself you will not understand.
Beacuse in the end what I want has nothing to do with software but the end result, what I put on my ballot.
It should be some sort of paper, to ensure some sort of paper trail. It should be human readable.
That simple.
You've never had a right to privacy as a domain owner. If that bothers you, don't use DNS and just publish your web server's IP number.
And then that begs the question is it legal/ethical to require that information to be public?
I know of no law that requires that information to be correct and I can see several ethical issues that would preclude this not being a privacy right issue.
Last time I checked Kuro5hin, it was full of nothing but neo-con nutjobs and anti-everything trolls making one-line posts.
Reading K5 is like pulling teeth. There is no threshold setting so there is no real reason to moderate. (Other than the new feature of trying to "hide" a comment which takes so many mods to do I'm not even sure why they bother and then you get the fun of watching the flame wars start over it right there in the same thread.)
I still hit K5 every now and then to see what makes it to the front page but trying to read the threads becomes old real quick.