If all the people who think JonKatz doesn't belong on/. were to find his comments and mark them as Flamebait, he wouldn't be able to post anymore. (Yeah, I know it wouldn't work, but it was my attempt at being slighly humorous. Hey, I've got more Karma than Rob!:))
My idea is that any level of moderation is potentially abused, but that the higher your Karma, the less likely you are to abuse it. Let's say there were 10000 logins with nonnegative Karma who were willing to moderate. Find the median Karma or those users. If it's 5, that's the minimum Karma for the next level of moderation. Find the median of those (say, 15) and make it the minimum Karma for the next level of moderation. Keep going until you have a group of under 1000 or so. When you are randomly selected as a moderator, you are given a level of moderation randomly chosen from among the levels for which you qualify. Thus, you aren't very likely to get fourth-level moderation (and subsequently run out of brain space) unless you have very high Karma and you're willing to moderate. Of course, you should also be able to specify the highest level for which you are willing to moderate.
Sure, I don't know how many people would go for it, but what if even the Anonymous folk such as myself (though I may get an account someday) could self-moderate... down? Give yourself an extra -1, you know?
If you want your post to start off at anything less than 1, you probably shouldn't be posting it. Actually, you might want to post off-topic at 0, but -1 is ridiculous.
On the prefs page, there should be a popup for Karma with three choices: Honor and Display, Honor but Hide, and Ignore and Hide. The first option is self-explanatory, the second displays the comment score as if the Karma weren't there but will still show you a comment that appears like it's 1 below your threshold, and the third will ignore Karma entirely when calculating scores and which comments to display.
When moderating, the comment display should be automatically (and temporarily!) modified to do several things: force -1 viewing, Ignore Karma, eliminate short/long thresholds, and randomize the display order of the top-level replies. This way, moderators see a relatively random selection of all posts, and they moderate posts relative to the normal, pre-Karma baseline (1 for accounts, 0 for ACs). Of course, this now means that non-moderators might now see posts at 7(!), but I don't think that's a life-threatening problem.
Attitudes such as yours have convinced me that Ken Thompson was right about Linux.
Forgive my ignorance, but what did Ken Thompson say about Linux?
At any rate, from a technical perspective, Linux still lags considerably behind commercial UNIXes, and even NT. UNIX and NT aren't standing still either.
I'll ignore the NT comment (that holy war isn't worth the time) and simply remind you that Linux is a variety of Unix. There's no such thing as the single Unix anymore.
The differences between the distros isn't that great of a problem. The amount of time it takes to adjust to a new distro is miniscule compared to the amount of time it takes to adjust to your first.:)
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see why people make fun of this one so much. It actually makes sense! If your keyboard isn't working, there's not terribly much you can do. Connect a valid keyboard and you're able to press F1 and continue the boot.
You're looking at it from a strong US bias. In the US, the two major parties are nearly indistinguishable. There are some inaccuracies in your post that I won't bother pointing out because they're irrelevant; both parties are very authoritarian and fascist, and keep up a mutual facade to hide it from the masses.
I don't follow your logic: the Print Screen key is essential because it's the current way to access the built-in screenshot feature of Win32? Never mind that Microsoft could switch to a different key or combo, and that there are plenty of other programs that can happily map to any key?
The "oh-my-god-we-have-to-protect-everyone-from-everyt hing" point of view stems mostly from today's politicians who are bored with today's lack of "real" problems (war, famine, pestulance) and feel that they need to dig up new problems and make the public care about them.
War, famine, and pestilance haven't suddenly disappeared. Rather, politicians have learned to ignore them, because it's easier to get elected if you promise to fight some demon you're invented than the real problems.
It's because whoever saved that gif didn't set the transparency problem. Rest assured that 5000 emails have informed various people ranging from hemos to the stockholders of Andover.net about this.
I was mixing up a bunch of stuff in the hope it would come out somewhat funny. Not sure it worked.
But I was making a point (sorta). Fingerprints are always going to be with you, short of sandpaper or a knife.::cringe:: Eventually, I forsee a large database of DNA (not the whole thing, just an MD5-like checksum) which can be easily matched to a DNA test applied in the form of a blood prick that's processed in the polices' forensic labs. There's no way to keep your identity anonymous in such a case: what's needed is to take a strong stance against the very idea of tracking this sort of stuff. And if we don't fight them each and every time they try and degrade our rights, we'll end up hoping that they aren't planning to run their database on NT.
I don't want my fingerprints on my driver's license! When I get stopped by the police, my fingerprints will be safely at home, encrypted. I don't want to carry my fingerprints around with me all the time.
That's why we need the BSDL (BS Driver's License). Anyone can get one and modify it, so long as they don't try and pass me.
"Greece" was just an alliance of city-states in what is now the country of Greece. Troy was in Anatolia (aka Asia Minor, now the country of Turkey), and controlled access to the Dardanelles (Greece -> Aegean Sea -> Dardanelles -> Sea of Marmara -> Bosporus -> Black Sea) and thus to the Danube and Persia and a helluva lot of trade. Historically, the Trojan War was about trade, though the excuses given at the time might not have been. Troy was sacked at the end, and not found again until the late 19th century when some guy decided to follow the path described in the Iliad and started digging and found it.
I don't remember the exact details, but I'm sure it was quite different than you described. IIRC, it effected a version of the beta, and only was activated when you pirated it, and only sent the email address and a few other things, not the whole registry (which is huge).
1. Anyone who has been paying attention to the past few Microsoft releases would know that they have been increasingly less popular than expectations predicted.
Not necessarily true. Experienced MS OS users know that if they want bugfixes, they need to upgrade and update. (Not unlike experienced Linux users needing to update.) Don't think that PHBs are suddenly going to wise up and realize that buying W2K isn't a great idea.
4. W2k will not live up to the hype.
Again, this is nothing new. MS users are either used to it or are probably not going to have success with Linux. (Ahhhhh! Where's my mouse???!!!)
5. Finally, there's Y2k. Nobody's going to make any major changes to their mission-critical now, and in January there will be enough mopping-up to do that they'll delay still more.
I hear this a lot, but I think it applies more to larger, older networks than to recently-purchased stuff. Also, who says that W2K will be out in time to sell well before the end of the year?
Great, you've increased the number of people who can get into college. That really is a good thing, IMHO. But these people are already in the running for college admission. These aren't the illiterate masses, the vulgus profanum watching football games and lottery advertisements. These are the people who are forming the lower class, and these are the people who are being failed by the educational system. Yes, there are cultural issues. But these aren't excuses for a genuine lack of opportunity.
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If all the people who think JonKatz doesn't belong on /. were to find his comments and mark them as Flamebait, he wouldn't be able to post anymore. (Yeah, I know it wouldn't work, but it was my attempt at being slighly humorous. Hey, I've got more Karma than Rob! :))
My idea is that any level of moderation is potentially abused, but that the higher your Karma, the less likely you are to abuse it. Let's say there were 10000 logins with nonnegative Karma who were willing to moderate. Find the median Karma or those users. If it's 5, that's the minimum Karma for the next level of moderation. Find the median of those (say, 15) and make it the minimum Karma for the next level of moderation. Keep going until you have a group of under 1000 or so. When you are randomly selected as a moderator, you are given a level of moderation randomly chosen from among the levels for which you qualify. Thus, you aren't very likely to get fourth-level moderation (and subsequently run out of brain space) unless you have very high Karma and you're willing to moderate. Of course, you should also be able to specify the highest level for which you are willing to moderate.
OK, maybe it's not such a good idea.
If you want your post to start off at anything less than 1, you probably shouldn't be posting it. Actually, you might want to post off-topic at 0, but -1 is ridiculous.
When moderating, the comment display should be automatically (and temporarily!) modified to do several things: force -1 viewing, Ignore Karma, eliminate short/long thresholds, and randomize the display order of the top-level replies. This way, moderators see a relatively random selection of all posts, and they moderate posts relative to the normal, pre-Karma baseline (1 for accounts, 0 for ACs). Of course, this now means that non-moderators might now see posts at 7(!), but I don't think that's a life-threatening problem.
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I'm sure I could do better if I had some high-ASCII characters handy. :)
Forgive my ignorance, but what did Ken Thompson say about Linux?
At any rate, from a technical perspective, Linux still lags considerably behind commercial UNIXes, and even NT. UNIX and NT aren't standing still either.
I'll ignore the NT comment (that holy war isn't worth the time) and simply remind you that Linux is a variety of Unix. There's no such thing as the single Unix anymore.
The differences between the distros isn't that great of a problem. The amount of time it takes to adjust to a new distro is miniscule compared to the amount of time it takes to adjust to your first. :)
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see why people make fun of this one so much. It actually makes sense! If your keyboard isn't working, there's not terribly much you can do. Connect a valid keyboard and you're able to press F1 and continue the boot.
After looking at his uid, I highly doubt it. :)
You're looking at it from a strong US bias. In the US, the two major parties are nearly indistinguishable. There are some inaccuracies in your post that I won't bother pointing out because they're irrelevant; both parties are very authoritarian and fascist, and keep up a mutual facade to hide it from the masses.
Erm, wrong. He's an authoritarian socialist, based on his limited description of himself.
Nonono. Every n milliseconds, 1 if the key is down and 0 if it isn't. Which would be an intense experience.
I don't follow your logic: the Print Screen key is essential because it's the current way to access the built-in screenshot feature of Win32? Never mind that Microsoft could switch to a different key or combo, and that there are plenty of other programs that can happily map to any key?
War, famine, and pestilance haven't suddenly disappeared. Rather, politicians have learned to ignore them, because it's easier to get elected if you promise to fight some demon you're invented than the real problems.
It's because whoever saved that gif didn't set the transparency problem. Rest assured that 5000 emails have informed various people ranging from hemos to the stockholders of Andover.net about this.
That's because the listing is manual, and is pruned down to show only the ports that are at all interesting. Port 19 isn't.
But I was making a point (sorta). Fingerprints are always going to be with you, short of sandpaper or a knife. ::cringe:: Eventually, I forsee a large database of DNA (not the whole thing, just an MD5-like checksum) which can be easily matched to a DNA test applied in the form of a blood prick that's processed in the polices' forensic labs. There's no way to keep your identity anonymous in such a case: what's needed is to take a strong stance against the very idea of tracking this sort of stuff. And if we don't fight them each and every time they try and degrade our rights, we'll end up hoping that they aren't planning to run their database on NT.
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That's why we need the BSDL (BS Driver's License). Anyone can get one and modify it, so long as they don't try and pass me.
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"Greece" was just an alliance of city-states in what is now the country of Greece. Troy was in Anatolia (aka Asia Minor, now the country of Turkey), and controlled access to the Dardanelles (Greece -> Aegean Sea -> Dardanelles -> Sea of Marmara -> Bosporus -> Black Sea) and thus to the Danube and Persia and a helluva lot of trade. Historically, the Trojan War was about trade, though the excuses given at the time might not have been. Troy was sacked at the end, and not found again until the late 19th century when some guy decided to follow the path described in the Iliad and started digging and found it.
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I don't remember the exact details, but I'm sure it was quite different than you described. IIRC, it effected a version of the beta, and only was activated when you pirated it, and only sent the email address and a few other things, not the whole registry (which is huge).
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He was referring, I believe, to the power cable. If he doesn't watch TV, why would he throw money away on cable?
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Where do you want to go today?
*grins, runs, ducks projectiles*
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Not necessarily true. Experienced MS OS users know that if they want bugfixes, they need to upgrade and update. (Not unlike experienced Linux users needing to update.) Don't think that PHBs are suddenly going to wise up and realize that buying W2K isn't a great idea.
4. W2k will not live up to the hype.
Again, this is nothing new. MS users are either used to it or are probably not going to have success with Linux. (Ahhhhh! Where's my mouse???!!!)
5. Finally, there's Y2k. Nobody's going to make any major changes to their mission-critical now, and in January there will be enough mopping-up to do that they'll delay still more.
I hear this a lot, but I think it applies more to larger, older networks than to recently-purchased stuff. Also, who says that W2K will be out in time to sell well before the end of the year?
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Great, you've increased the number of people who can get into college. That really is a good thing, IMHO. But these people are already in the running for college admission. These aren't the illiterate masses, the vulgus profanum watching football games and lottery advertisements. These are the people who are forming the lower class, and these are the people who are being failed by the educational system. Yes, there are cultural issues. But these aren't excuses for a genuine lack of opportunity.
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