No, seriously, congratulations, and I hope your contracts are waterproof. Just two questions : -Will the source of/. remain open ? -Can they fire you and take over the site ? Or did you get guarantees on paper. Sure hope you did, I'd hate to lose my favourite site.
I think I read this in a web version of The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy... I believe it was called Project Galactic Guide, but I don't remember the URL or the entry where this cat/buttered-toast theory was stated.
What amazes me is how a big-screen two-hour movie, with a budget of several million dollars at least, can sell on a $35-45 DVD, while a 60 minute album that only cost a few percent of the cost of the movie to make still sells for 50% of the price to the consumer.
Yes, but people don't flock to concerts the way they do to movie theatres. The profits in the movie industry are not made from the video/DVD release, but from moviegoers. You can show your movie every night in hundreds of cities, for weeks on end. I'd like to see the first band or artist do that:-)
I think we all agree the normal 'communication protocol' on this forum is plain English, with proper capitalisation, spelling and grammar. We do not mind the occasional typo or mistake. But keep in mind that the more unconventional your writing style is, the more it distracts from the message you're trying to get accros. So Daveo, if you want to participate in discussions in a meaningfull way, try to adapt to the language used in it. All caps, no punctuation and third person speech is only going to draw the attention away from what you are trying to say. Same goes for that signature of yours : it is still mostly in all caps, and it's in bold typeface. Which part of your message is most important do you think ? Your text or your sig ? But which part jumps out at your readers right away ? Indeed ! Now do something about it... please.
Yep ! I've noticed the same effect... I keep my GSM next to my computer screen, and I don't even have to wait for it to ring to know I'm getting a call. My whole screen just starts flickering wildly, and if I'm wearing headphones at the time I can also hear the interference. Same when I'm in my car : my car radio picks it up too. It also happens sometimes when I'm not getting a call, but I think it has something to do with the phone letting the network know where it is.
Did anyone notice that no actual Linux experience was required for this job ? And that excellent writing qualities were sought ? Sounds like they are looking for a FUD-farmer...
Why on earth would anybody want to "upgrade" to this "phase-two" technology that actually limits your choice of music ? And how are they going to prevent people from ripping their CD's with other software ? Ripping CD's will probably not work anymore with the rippers the RIAA wants us to use, but what is to stop anybody from writing or downloading another one ? Music is by definition an analog signal, which can be encoded digitally in a multitude of forms. So once the music from a CD is decoded into an analog signal, nobody can stop anyone from re-encoding it in a different way.
Does this mean the film board has to review each site, then decide to block it or not ? Or does this mean the film board gets to set the rules for what is offensive and what is not, and that each ISP is responsible for blocking out every "offensive" site ? For example :
-Sites on which instructions to make explosives can be obtained. -Every site on which female nipples are visible -Sites that contain the word "hack" -Sites which contain anti-government statements -... (where will they stop ?)
It's hard to imagine that 30 or so people can review the entire internet. And think of all the movies they have to review when they're not surfing. Poor sods:-)
Another idea : maybe someone outside of Australia can set up a server which sends "banned" pages to users who request them by mail. Let's see them block that...
I read it for the articles combined with the comments. I find it so much more informative to read the opinion of dozens of smart (and not so smart) people who know what they are talking about (most of the time anyway), than it is to read the opinion of a single reporter. If I want to know the BS level of a particular story, I just check the comments and it soon becomes clear if the journalist who wrote the story knew what he was talking about or if he was just quoting from AP, Reuters, CNN or an MS sales brochure.
Apart from that, it's also a great way to waste time at work:-)
Almost ? I thought I controlled my/. habbit, but a few days ago when I couldn't reach the site, I caught myself trying to reach it every half hour or so. I wonder how many other people here update at least ten times a day to check for new stories. Maybe it's time I joined/.-ers Anonymous...
...while I was still in tech support myself. I remember having trouble not to laugh out loud at some of the tech support jokes, while I was on the phone myself talking to similar pebkac cases. Also the other ISP jokes were very recognizeable to me and made me laugh often.
Although I have to admit UF isn't as funny as it used to be for me, also because I changed jobs and I'm not in tech support any more.
I've been using 'Slashdot' and 'Slashdot-effect' for months now... Some friendly soul once created that account for those of us too lazy to register, and it still works:-)
I'm a language modeling engineer for a large speech-technology company, and I'm working on the Dutch language right now. So far we've counted over 5.000.0000 different words (well, non-space characters separated by spaces) in our text corpora. Even if you throw away the odd punctuation mark and garbage word, that's still a lot of words. And I don't think English will have much less words than that. Don't forget, every compound word counts as a word too, so theoretically you can have an almost unlimited number of words.
Oh, yes, I see now. Stupid me. Only one problem left then : my boss:-)
Anyhow, I'm probably going to visit the States the first time in June anyway, and that's going to be paid by my employer. So I guess I don't even need to join the competition. But I don't think I'll be getting to see much of the beach then:-)
That this is in America. I'd have loved to enter, but flying all the way there from Belgium is just a tad expensive for me. And besides, I don't look good on camera:-)
I have to agree with some posters here that Katz is getting better. Most of the time I start reading one of his articles and by the time I'm near the end my attention starts fading. Not so with this one. I found it a higly enjoyable story about two guys and their life. There still was some of that superfluous abstract techno philosopy blahthering stuff Jon writes so much, but it was less than usual. I'd say keep up the good work, you're nearly there.
I have it from very reliable sources within Planet Internet that the Kipling site was not cracked (for those of you that couldn't figure that one out by just looking at their "cracked" page). I have heard, however, that they had to move it (or are going to) to another server, because of the Slashdot effect and a number of DOS attacks. I think we should notify the press about this fumbled up PR stunt. It could generate a whole lot of negative publicity for the Kipling Hacker line, and expose them for the wannabees they really are:-)
As far as I know, there are no laws banning the export of cryptography products/algorithms/... here in Belgium. The U.S.A., on the other hand, do have such laws, I believe. But I don't know if importing such things to the U.S.A. is also illegal or not.
Maybe I should go to that store...
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I happen to live near Antwerp... What if I just went to the store, looked for the password and then post it here ?
But then again, where's the sport in that ?
Aside from that, I have owned and used a Kipling bag for years now, and I'm very satisfied with it. Regardless of their clueless marketing, I think they make good bags (although I had to remove the little monkey doll that was attached to the bag as a marketing stunt when I bought it).
Maybe Toshiba wants to avoid any more "Windows-refund-incidents". IIRC it was a Toshiba-user who sparked the whole Win-Refund-Day thing. Their reasoning might be that if you can't run Linux on their laptops, you won't be tempted to install it over the pre-installed Windows copy.
Hehe... now that you say it. I've noticed I'm geting up to three hits per minute ! I should have put up some porn banners dammit. I could have been made rich by the $lashdot effect by now:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Will this mean that http://www.slashdot.org is going to change to http://www.slashdot.com ?
/. remain open ?
No, seriously, congratulations, and I hope your contracts are waterproof. Just two questions :
-Will the source of
-Can they fire you and take over the site ? Or did you get guarantees on paper. Sure hope you did, I'd hate to lose my favourite site.
I think I read this in a web version of The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy... I believe it was called Project Galactic Guide, but I don't remember the URL or the entry where this cat/buttered-toast theory was stated.
What amazes me is how a big-screen two-hour movie, with a budget of several million dollars at least, can sell on a $35-45 DVD, while a 60 minute album that only cost a few percent of the cost of the movie to make still sells for 50% of the price to the consumer.
:-)
Yes, but people don't flock to concerts the way they do to movie theatres. The profits in the movie industry are not made from the video/DVD release, but from moviegoers. You can show your movie every night in hundreds of cities, for weeks on end. I'd like to see the first band or artist do that
Hear, Hear !
I think we all agree the normal 'communication protocol' on this forum is plain English, with proper capitalisation, spelling and grammar. We do not mind the occasional typo or mistake. But keep in mind that the more unconventional your writing style is, the more it distracts from the message you're trying to get accros. So Daveo, if you want to participate in discussions in a meaningfull way, try to adapt to the language used in it. All caps, no punctuation and third person speech is only going to draw the attention away from what you are trying to say. Same goes for that signature of yours : it is still mostly in all caps, and it's in bold typeface. Which part of your message is most important do you think ? Your text or your sig ? But which part jumps out at your readers right away ? Indeed ! Now do something about it... please.
Yep ! I've noticed the same effect... I keep my GSM next to my computer screen, and I don't even have to wait for it to ring to know I'm getting a call. My whole screen just starts flickering wildly, and if I'm wearing headphones at the time I can also hear the interference. Same when I'm in my car : my car radio picks it up too. It also happens sometimes when I'm not getting a call, but I think it has something to do with the phone letting the network know where it is.
Did anyone notice that no actual Linux experience was required for this job ? And that excellent writing qualities were sought ? Sounds like they are looking for a FUD-farmer...
Why on earth would anybody want to "upgrade" to this "phase-two" technology that actually limits your choice of music ? And how are they going to prevent people from ripping their CD's with other software ?
Ripping CD's will probably not work anymore with the rippers the RIAA wants us to use, but what is to stop anybody from writing or downloading another one ? Music is by definition an analog signal, which can be encoded digitally in a multitude of forms. So once the music from a CD is decoded into an analog signal, nobody can stop anyone from re-encoding it in a different way.
Does this mean the film board has to review each site, then decide to block it or not ? Or does this mean the film board gets to set the rules for what is offensive and what is not, and that each ISP is responsible for blocking out every "offensive" site ? For example :
:-)
-Sites on which instructions to make explosives can be obtained.
-Every site on which female nipples are visible
-Sites that contain the word "hack"
-Sites which contain anti-government statements
-...
(where will they stop ?)
It's hard to imagine that 30 or so people can review the entire internet. And think of all the movies they have to review when they're not surfing. Poor sods
Another idea : maybe someone outside of Australia can set up a server which sends "banned" pages to users who request them by mail. Let's see them block that...
I read it for the articles combined with the comments. I find it so much more informative to read the opinion of dozens of smart (and not so smart) people who know what they are talking about (most of the time anyway), than it is to read the opinion of a single reporter. If I want to know the BS level of a particular story, I just check the comments and it soon becomes clear if the journalist who wrote the story knew what he was talking about or if he was just quoting from AP, Reuters, CNN or an MS sales brochure.
:-)
Apart from that, it's also a great way to waste time at work
Slashdot almost addictive for those who care
/. habbit, but a few days ago when I couldn't reach the site, I caught myself trying to reach it every half hour or so. I wonder how many other people here update at least ten times a day to check for new stories. Maybe it's time I joined /.-ers Anonymous...
Almost ? I thought I controlled my
...while I was still in tech support myself. I remember having trouble not to laugh out loud at some of the tech support jokes, while I was on the phone myself talking to similar pebkac cases. Also the other ISP jokes were very recognizeable to me and made me laugh often.
Although I have to admit UF isn't as funny as it used to be for me, also because I changed jobs and I'm not in tech support any more.
I've been using 'Slashdot' and 'Slashdot-effect' for months now... Some friendly soul once created that account for those of us too lazy to register, and it still works :-)
I'm a language modeling engineer for a large speech-technology company, and I'm working on the Dutch language right now. So far we've counted over 5.000.0000 different words (well, non-space characters separated by spaces) in our text corpora. Even if you throw away the odd punctuation mark and garbage word, that's still a lot of words. And I don't think English will have much less words than that. Don't forget, every compound word counts as a word too, so theoretically you can have an almost unlimited number of words.
Oh, yes, I see now. Stupid me. Only one problem left then : my boss :-)
:-)
Anyhow, I'm probably going to visit the States the first time in June anyway, and that's going to be paid by my employer. So I guess I don't even need to join the competition. But I don't think I'll be getting to see much of the beach then
That this is in America. I'd have loved to enter, but flying all the way there from Belgium is just a tad expensive for me. And besides, I don't look good on camera :-)
I have to agree with some posters here that Katz is getting better. Most of the time I start reading one of his articles and by the time I'm near the end my attention starts fading. Not so with this one. I found it a higly enjoyable story about two guys and their life. There still was some of that superfluous abstract techno philosopy blahthering stuff Jon writes so much, but it was less than usual. I'd say keep up the good work, you're nearly there.
I have it from very reliable sources within Planet Internet that the Kipling site was not cracked (for those of you that couldn't figure that one out by just looking at their "cracked" page). I have heard, however, that they had to move it (or are going to) to another server, because of the Slashdot effect and a number of DOS attacks. I think we should notify the press about this fumbled up PR stunt. It could generate a whole lot of negative publicity for the Kipling Hacker line, and expose them for the wannabees they really are :-)
Hehe...
;-)
By an amazing coincidence I also happened to work at planetinternet.be not long ago. I'll see if some of my old buddies there know anything
As far as I know, there are no laws banning the export of cryptography products/algorithms/... here in Belgium. The U.S.A., on the other hand, do have such laws, I believe. But I don't know if importing such things to the U.S.A. is also illegal or not.
I happen to live near Antwerp... What if I just went to the store, looked for the password and then post it here ?
But then again, where's the sport in that ?
Aside from that, I have owned and used a Kipling bag for years now, and I'm very satisfied with it. Regardless of their clueless marketing, I think they make good bags (although I had to remove the little monkey doll that was attached to the bag as a marketing stunt when I bought it).
Check out the results page of the poll and hit reload a few times... The first option is soaring :-)
Now you can really tell your boss to "Shake it real hard to reboot it" ;-)
Maybe Toshiba wants to avoid any more "Windows-refund-incidents". IIRC it was a Toshiba-user who sparked the whole Win-Refund-Day thing. Their reasoning might be that if you can't run Linux on their laptops, you won't be tempted to install it over the pre-installed Windows copy.
Just my two Eurocents
Hehe... now that you say it. I've noticed I'm geting up to three hits per minute ! I should have put up some porn banners dammit. I could have been made rich by the $lashdot effect by now :-)
This means you can program them to CTRL-ALT-DEL and have "emergency brakes" for Windoze :-)