probably doesn't realize that his account is causing the ISDP to be DDOS'd via Slash.
should read
probably doesn't realize that his account is causing the ISP to be DDOS'd via Slash.
And twentysiz.net really is also suffering the Slash dot effect.
BTW, what ever happened to thosed cute little graphics that slash had the people could put on their website. y'know, the one showing the feet with the toe tag, saying that they had been slashdotted?
I'm going to see about putting the images someplace else as soon I get a reasonable amount og them downloaded.
All of the pics seem to be 411x311 (50 to 60kb each), and there are a couple dozen on the page. So this was never a page for dial ups to begin with.
what they should do is set up a mirrop up on tripod or something, with one of the free hosting services.
the guy who submits it should tell the author.
I can see this. One of the guys good buddies submitted it as a practical joke. the poor dude is likely still asleep in bed, this being a Sunday morning, and probably doesn't realize that his account is causing the ISDP to be DDOS'd via Slash.
In fact the parent domain, twentysix.net, is also under, and is likely a mom&pop ISP who are running around in freak mode right now. With any luck it is an old 486 or P1 that someone threw linux on, with the hard drive flashing a solid light due to all the queries.
You took it very seriously because it hit a hot button.
There is a technical term for the comment I made about a DNA based AI computer.
It is called a "joke".
This is because of the cognitive dissonance between the usual attempts at AI using wires and cirsuits and such, the DNA from living creatures, where some form of awareness and intelligence can occasionally be found.
go have yer morning cup of coffee, and relax. perhaps you didn't see the smiley face in the original post.
Or else you have a database with links to the random objects (word docs, etc.), but descriptions, etc in the database about the objects. Quick and dirty, but not the best solution.
which, come to think of it, is what is happening in XML anyhow, you are adding tags in the file instead of having descriptive data outside in the database.
YMMV as far as which method will work better for you.
By definition this is an unsolvable problem, because what it requires is definition of undefinition (if such a term exists). While you can make assumptions on unstructured data and apply Natural Language rules across it you are still left with the possibility that you've interpretted incorrectly. So to create definition in a loose format inherently requires you to assume its meaning, the rate of accuracy can be improved but absolutes are impossible to attain.
Probably it should be randomly structured data, but in any case, the problem still boils down to how you described to, trying to decide what is relevant and how. Other wise you just have a bunch of blobs.
Or else you have a database with links to the random objects (word docs, etc.), but descriptions, etc in the database about the objects. Quick and dirty, but not the best solution.
Under Windows 95, 98, and ME, the USER.EXE and GDI.EXE resource heaps are each limited to 64 kilobytes. (Windows NT, 2000, and XP have no such limit.) This bites me in the butt on K5 too.
Which is just another reason for me to finally get off my butt and build that freebsd box i've been thinking of.
I know that when I have moderator status here on slash, I can watch the system resources disappear down a block hole if I hit a story with a lot of comments and I use Moz.
You can hear me screaming down the street.
It is a little better under IE, but I prefer to use Moz.
although I found some of the summaries slightly shallow, they are not bad.
The problem is that it becomes an average of opinion, when you sometimes need that longer insightful article. This easily could become the news of sheep everywhere.
This could be bad when facts come in to contradict initial impressions.
In spite of its appearance, the H4 is a bit too big to really be carried around as a watch.
True enough, but then at the time the only comparison _were_ watches, even though it is a bit larger. The technology was of the same class, which is why the judges had so much problem with it. They had no way comprehending the technology of a "watch" on steroids
I can see this applied to places like theaters, if you could get walls, floors and ceiling to vibrate.
This would really get the subsonics going.
The ultimate would of course be stadiums, for rock concerts and other public events. I can seen the politicians now, using sound to held inspire fear or some other emotion depending on the vibrations being put into the mix.
"I don't know, but I felt sort of tingly when I saw him/her live. TV just doesn't communicate his/her charisma"
Of course, the stress testing of the building designs would have to be taken to a whole new level, to handle the extra energy.
1. Users have the right to "time-shift" content that they have
legally acquired.
This gives you the right to record video or audio for later
viewing or listening. For example, you can use a VCR to record a
TV show and play it back later.
2. Users have the right to "space-shift" content that they have
legally acquired.
This gives you the right to use your content in different places
(as long as each use is personal and non-commercial). For example,
you can copy a CD to a portable music player so that you can
listen to the songs while you're jogging.
3. Users have the right to make backup copies of their content.
This gives you the right to make archival copies to be used in
the event that your original copies are destroyed.
4. Users have the right to use legally acquired content on the
platform of their choice.
This gives you the right to listen to music on your Rio, to
watch TV on your iMac, and to view DVDs on your Linux computer.
5. Users have the right to translate legally acquired content into
comparable formats.
This gives you the right to modify content in order to make it
more usable. For example, a blind person can modify an electronic
book so that the content can be read out loud.
6. Users have the right to use technology in order to achieve the
rights previously mentioned.
This last right guarantees your ability to exercise your other
rights. Certain recent copyright laws have paradoxical loopholes
that claim to grant certain rights but then criminalize all
technologies that could allow you to exercise those rights. In
contrast, this Bill of Rights states that no technological
barriers can deprive you of your other fair use rights.
"It's a huge risk for Microsoft," Helm said. "They have so much riding on this. If this is late and doesn't work as advertised, it will have effects that will ripple through the entire company and the industry. But the benefits, if they succeed, will be huge."
I just look at the microsoft record where the 1.0 version of anything was not very good. Just look at the version one point oh of any of the name products. windows, word, excel, etc etc etc. This with their initiative to have "trustworthy" computing is going to present a major problem.
One of thesetimes they are going to try to retransformed themselves on time too many and it will blow up in their faces.
I deem to remember an article (and an extensive Microsoft whitepare, etc)from about a year ago. I don't remember if it is the same thing. (can't find the link right off)
I thought the gap was narrowing thanks to the Dummies series.
it is expanding because of the dummies series.
Actually it is expanding due to the Dummies series, and due to things like educational feel good agendas. Shear speculation, but most likely in the midwest the basics of education, especially in rural areas, are still being used, while in the cities all of the latest theories are being used, changing from year to year. or you have a system where the city with the most money per student has the worst scores in the State (*cough*Boston*cough*)
Money is not the answer, but methodology is.
As far as throwing money at the problem, check this out.
1) The US is a country with possible the greatest level of personal freedoams in history (maybe not, YMMV) 2) The US is a country where the Government has access to more information on people than has even been possible in history.
Typically, in the past Lots of government information = no personal freedom, a very repressive society, etc.
David Brin's take on this is that there are several other factors involved in this that expalin the apparent parradox, the primary of which is the access to information about the government is also the highest it has ever been, at least in the US.
He has a number of articles online dealing on the issue of privacy. In my mind, to a certain extent it is a war where the government is trying to hold on to it's secrets. This is kinda obvious in China, where alot of corruption is hidden as state secrets.
Not that this would _ever_ take place place in the USA.
on the other hand, I do not know how "transparent" a world I am currently comfortable with.
The average joe will hopefully wake up before he figurtes out that the things he wants are now illegal.
unfortunately, the tactic used in the poast has been to ust gradually reduce the feature set of the products gradually so that he never notices.
hopefully the best hope on this is the quandary seen in companies like sony. Sony music, I believe, grosses 4 billion dollars a year, while Sony Electronics, makers of mp3 players, etc grosses 40 billion dollars. In this case, I wonder which part of the company will win out, given the conflict of interest inside the company.
there are plenty such issues messing up the priorities.
The only way AOL could provide a cost-effective Linux client, given its "total support for free" policy, would be to market a real, full-featured personal computer (as opposed to an "Internet appliance") that runs Linux and is preconfigured for AOL. The target market for this computer would not be sophisticated Linux users, but current AOL subscribers who want to replace their current boxes, and it would need to be a very low-cost item to succeed in that market
The best way to acommplish this would be to have their own branded verion of Linux.
AOLinux.
Then they won't have to worry about all of the other distros. And it can have a stripped down feature set so that they do not have to support every widget on planet earth.
Extra bonus brownie points for tweaking the Nose of Microsoft.
You debug management by business process analysis. Standard practice in large corporations. Look up stuff like "riva" and "RAD" (role activity diagrams)
Of course, but these guys were clueless on the basic concept. which would explain how their projects probably go.
In a world of degradable storage, replicating copies is the surest way to guarantee longevity. Whether your data is in atoms or bits, the more copies you make of it and the more widely you disperse it, the greater the likelihood that your data will persist forever. (That's why Jaron Lanier jokingly proposed encoding printed matter into the DNA of the notoriously prolific cockroach, as a means of ensuring archives through a nuclear war and beyond.)
I can see some future biologist doing the the heavy work on decoding this now. And the arguments. of course, if it contained something like the Linux kernel, figuring it out could take awhile.
Heck I am still waiting for folks to find a licensing and copyright statement in the human genome.
Eh. What is your point? How do you "debug management systems"? Christ. You are so fake it makes me sick.
My Point presumes that you can have a rational system of managing a development process. It presumes that the QA process can be applied to life outside of dev issues.
damn, that screwed up. Let's see where that went off the rails.
Now I can see that the idea of putting in a bug report on a boss or supervisor is going to sound a bit funny. Sort of like putting in a bug report on Clinton or Bush.
But what happened has to be documented someplace, it has to be analysed someplace, the fix has to be made somehow, And it has to be tested so that screw ups don't happen again. and of course, it has to be the right fix.
Now of course, the typical attitude this is the energetic use of a middle finger accompanied by shouting. Along with the conviction that damn well no-one should ever try this, because somebody will put a stop to this nonsense. No-one should ever change jobs, and everyone is always peechy keen.
God forbid that the process used to make sure that a software system works smoothly were ever used to make sure a human system runs smoothly. Besides, everyone knows that it is not needed. Everything always runs perfectly.
The major problems for most folks in something like this are on the points on making sure you have the right fix, and actually getting the fix rolling.
Of course this is unbelievable to many folks. What do you mean fix the System? everyone knows that it can't happen! Gee, what a maroon...
Slashdot Mirror
should read
probably doesn't realize that his account is causing the ISP to be DDOS'd via Slash.
And twentysiz.net really is also suffering the Slash dot effect.
BTW, what ever happened to thosed cute little graphics that slash had the people could put on their website. y'know, the one showing the feet with the toe tag, saying that they had been slashdotted?
I'm going to see about putting the images someplace else as soon I get a reasonable amount og them downloaded.
All of the pics seem to be 411x311 (50 to 60kb each), and there are a couple dozen on the page. So this was never a page for dial ups to begin with.
the guy who submits it should tell the author.
I can see this. One of the guys good buddies submitted it as a practical joke. the poor dude is likely still asleep in bed, this being a Sunday morning, and probably doesn't realize that his account is causing the ISDP to be DDOS'd via Slash.
In fact the parent domain, twentysix.net, is also under, and is likely a mom&pop ISP who are running around in freak mode right now. With any luck it is an old 486 or P1 that someone threw linux on, with the hard drive flashing a solid light due to all the queries.
You took it very seriously because it hit a hot button.
There is a technical term for the comment I made about a DNA based AI computer.
It is called a "joke".
This is because of the cognitive dissonance between the usual attempts at AI using wires and cirsuits and such, the DNA from living creatures, where some form of awareness and intelligence can occasionally be found.
go have yer morning cup of coffee, and relax. perhaps you didn't see the smiley face in the original post.
at least we would have a benchmark of sorts.
I imagine that the problems of creating a truly AI computer will be solved using a DNA based computer.
;-)
which, come to think of it, is what is happening in XML anyhow, you are adding tags in the file instead of having descriptive data outside in the database.
YMMV as far as which method will work better for you.
Probably it should be randomly structured data, but in any case, the problem still boils down to how you described to, trying to decide what is relevant and how. Other wise you just have a bunch of blobs.
Or else you have a database with links to the random objects (word docs, etc.), but descriptions, etc in the database about the objects. Quick and dirty, but not the best solution.
Which is just another reason for me to finally get off my butt and build that freebsd box i've been thinking of.
You can hear me screaming down the street.
It is a little better under IE, but I prefer to use Moz.
You just have to have a trusty worthy dictator.
I somehow do not see these folks as all being properly qualified in this regard.
at least, in other times, there was the appearance of legitamcy where a large body voted power to a few strong men. Here, there isn't even that.
www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/
although I found some of the summaries slightly shallow, they are not bad.
The problem is that it becomes an average of opinion, when you sometimes need that longer insightful article. This easily could become the news of sheep everywhere.
This could be bad when facts come in to contradict initial impressions.
oops
this statistic was startling:
As many as 30 percent of the stolen laptops are gone for good because they are never used to go online after being stolen.
Never mind that If I had a system like that I would just wipe the drive to begin with. Of course, common crooks may not bother.
True enough, but then at the time the only comparison _were_ watches, even though it is a bit larger. The technology was of the same class, which is why the judges had so much problem with it. They had no way comprehending the technology of a "watch" on steroids
That is what screwed everyone up at the time, because the majority of folks were into heavy metal and wood and so on. Pendulums are messy on ships.
The spinning mechanisms of mechanical watches are much more stable, and this, with the miniaturization, proved to be the key.
The professionals could not deal with a simple "watch" that was the first chronometer.
This would really get the subsonics going.
The ultimate would of course be stadiums, for rock concerts and other public events. I can seen the politicians now, using sound to held inspire fear or some other emotion depending on the vibrations being put into the mix.
"I don't know, but I felt sort of tingly when I saw him/her live. TV just doesn't communicate his/her charisma"
Of course, the stress testing of the building designs would have to be taken to a whole new level, to handle the extra energy.
Bill of Rights, as found at http://www.digitalconsumer.org/bill.html
1. Users have the right to "time-shift" content that they have legally acquired.
This gives you the right to record video or audio for later viewing or listening. For example, you can use a VCR to record a TV show and play it back later.
2. Users have the right to "space-shift" content that they have legally acquired.
This gives you the right to use your content in different places (as long as each use is personal and non-commercial). For example, you can copy a CD to a portable music player so that you can listen to the songs while you're jogging.
3. Users have the right to make backup copies of their content.
This gives you the right to make archival copies to be used in the event that your original copies are destroyed.
4. Users have the right to use legally acquired content on the platform of their choice.
This gives you the right to listen to music on your Rio, to watch TV on your iMac, and to view DVDs on your Linux computer.
5. Users have the right to translate legally acquired content into comparable formats.
This gives you the right to modify content in order to make it more usable. For example, a blind person can modify an electronic book so that the content can be read out loud.
6. Users have the right to use technology in order to achieve the rights previously mentioned.
This last right guarantees your ability to exercise your other rights. Certain recent copyright laws have paradoxical loopholes that claim to grant certain rights but then criminalize all technologies that could allow you to exercise those rights. In contrast, this Bill of Rights states that no technological barriers can deprive you of your other fair use rights.
Exactly. It is the typical information that any sysadmin from the outside. The graphic diagramming the networking layout shows nothing remarkable.
You can seen the original report in PDF format here, with _all_ of the juicy details.
Which is funny, because the link is not directly accessable from the main site.
talk about security.
I just look at the microsoft record where the 1.0 version of anything was not very good. Just look at the version one point oh of any of the name products. windows, word, excel, etc etc etc. This with their initiative to have "trustworthy" computing is going to present a major problem.
One of thesetimes they are going to try to retransformed themselves on time too many and it will blow up in their faces.
I deem to remember an article (and an extensive Microsoft whitepare, etc)from about a year ago. I don't remember if it is the same thing. (can't find the link right off)
it is expanding because of the dummies series.
Actually it is expanding due to the Dummies series, and due to things like educational feel good agendas. Shear speculation, but most likely in the midwest the basics of education, especially in rural areas, are still being used, while in the cities all of the latest theories are being used, changing from year to year. or you have a system where the city with the most money per student has the worst scores in the State (*cough*Boston*cough*)
Money is not the answer, but methodology is.
As far as throwing money at the problem, check this out.
1) The US is a country with possible the greatest level of personal freedoams in history (maybe not, YMMV)
2) The US is a country where the Government has access to more information on people than has even been possible in history.
Typically, in the past Lots of government information = no personal freedom, a very repressive society, etc.
David Brin's take on this is that there are several other factors involved in this that expalin the apparent parradox, the primary of which is the access to information about the government is also the highest it has ever been, at least in the US.
He has a number of articles online dealing on the issue of privacy. In my mind, to a certain extent it is a war where the government is trying to hold on to it's secrets. This is kinda obvious in China, where alot of corruption is hidden as state secrets.
Not that this would _ever_ take place place in the USA.
on the other hand, I do not know how "transparent" a world I am currently comfortable with.
unfortunately, the tactic used in the poast has been to ust gradually reduce the feature set of the products gradually so that he never notices.
hopefully the best hope on this is the quandary seen in companies like sony. Sony music, I believe, grosses 4 billion dollars a year, while Sony Electronics, makers of mp3 players, etc grosses 40 billion dollars. In this case, I wonder which part of the company will win out, given the conflict of interest inside the company.
there are plenty such issues messing up the priorities.
The best way to acommplish this would be to have their own branded verion of Linux.
AOLinux.
Then they won't have to worry about all of the other distros. And it can have a stripped down feature set so that they do not have to support every widget on planet earth.
Extra bonus brownie points for tweaking the Nose of Microsoft.
The Galactic core is closer than that, the last I checked. Andromeda is about 2 million LY away, if I recall right. Let's see.
Antares = 520 light years
CNN cites the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association of stars which is actually about 470 light years away.
So CNN was off only by a factor of a thousand. Interesting theory, if they can get the facts right.
Of course, but these guys were clueless on the basic concept. which would explain how their projects probably go.
I can see some future biologist doing the the heavy work on decoding this now. And the arguments. of course, if it contained something like the Linux kernel, figuring it out could take awhile.
Heck I am still waiting for folks to find a licensing and copyright statement in the human genome.
;-)
My Point presumes that you can have a rational system of managing a development process. It presumes that the QA process can be applied to life outside of dev issues.
Now I can see that the idea of putting in a bug report on a boss or supervisor is going to sound a bit funny. Sort of like putting in a bug report on Clinton or Bush.But what happened has to be documented someplace, it has to be analysed someplace, the fix has to be made somehow, And it has to be tested so that screw ups don't happen again. and of course, it has to be the right fix.
Now of course, the typical attitude this is the energetic use of a middle finger accompanied by shouting. Along with the conviction that damn well no-one should ever try this, because somebody will put a stop to this nonsense. No-one should ever change jobs, and everyone is always peechy keen.
God forbid that the process used to make sure that a software system works smoothly were ever used to make sure a human system runs smoothly. Besides, everyone knows that it is not needed. Everything always runs perfectly.
The major problems for most folks in something like this are on the points on making sure you have the right fix, and actually getting the fix rolling.
Of course this is unbelievable to many folks. What do you mean fix the System? everyone knows that it can't happen! Gee, what a maroon ...
Of course, if you don't fix it, it goes to hell.
Enjoy your handbasket.