It might seem that way to someone studying law at a school so prestigous and selective, where the current and former members of the student body are surely the most brilliant and ambitious of all academia, but if i may speak for the Slashdot crowd, it's a little boggling for us. Sure, i can't point to any one part and say, "Yeah, right here is where it's confusing." Any little part makes sense. But trying to swallow and digest it is rather difficult for someone not used to reading such documents.
It's kinda like showing a proof of Godel's Incompleteness Theory to someone not versed in math. Each step of the process is simple and straightforward, but as a whole it's tough for an untrained mind to grasp and follow along.
The hackers were this close to setting off their attack, but luckily before they could initiate the program, the rolling blackouts hit the server they were using.
Well, that's just a perfect example of how the so-called "lameness filter", while frustrating good users who want to post brief comments, lets crappy posts through like a sieve.
How can the Slashdot editors criticize web-porn filters and Napster filters for blocking the wrong people when they do it themselves?
Dump the braindead heuristics. If you really want to curb AC abuse, make it so that AC posts don't appear on the main page until a logged-in user "adopts" the post and any karmic moderation that gets done to it.
This is awesome. This is a solid gold example of the power of open source and tight user-developer interaction in getting itches scratched.
Once the dust settles and you developers have Copious Free Time, you might want to consider publishing a Scratch-That-Mozilla-Itch-HOWTO.. Pretend the code that makes the popup preference work didn't exist, and carefully document the steps a person would follow to add the feature.
I'm a good programmer. There are lots of little things i'd like to add to my web browser. But i fear that there is a huge learning curve in a project as large as Moz and that even adding a tiny change like this (i'm guessing the engine patch looked like
< pop_up();
> if (bool)
> pop_up();
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BTW, i think you've set a new record for "Largest Karmic Increase From A Single Story"
He's talking about doing this stuff while the page is loading.. So that when you load Slashdot and set your thresh to -1 and click a story with 500 comments, you can start reading them as the page downloads. Instead, most browsers wait until they see the closing </table> tag.
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Awesome idea. You should post it to Bugzilla. It's really easy to do so. I'd do it myself, but i'd like to help get the Slashdot people used to the concept. Once you get used to it, you'll be able to file bugs in less than a minute.
Yeah, maybe Mozilla should work out a deal with Slashdot, where when someone takes the time to post a bitchy comment about a bug but doesn't bother to report it to the developers, a message pops up that says, "Gotcha! You actually just submitted the bug to Bugzilla! Sucker!"
There's an interesting discussion about the ethics of copying going on right now over at Joel On Software (Disclosure: I started the thread).. Some of you might find it interesting, and i'd certainly like to hear some Slashdot opinions on the matter.
But then you always hear the annoying carrier tone, and it's much harder to tell whether or not any data is being transferred -- at least subconsciously, which is my goal here.
Another nice trick if you have an external modem is to splice a speaker into the cable's RXD line (optionally with a switch so you can turn the speaker off)
This way, i can start a download and then go sit on the couch and watch TV or read or whatever without having to check up on things every five minutes. Whenever my modem is sending data to the computer, the speaker is clattering.
It's also nice because you can tell how much bandwidth you're using -- see, with Gnutella, if i have too many things downloading at once, i only get like 4%-5% of any of them before the download breaks for one reason or another. But if i only have one or two downloads going at once, i might not be using my full bandwidth. So with this trick, while i'm sitting on the couch i can keep an eye (ear?) on things and tune the number of concurrent downloads accordingly.
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This has got to be ICANN fud. I haven't read the RFCs, but there's no reason you can't make the "root" system a p2p distributed database. This is not a power grid where economies of scale are proving to be a more efficient way of working than deregulated competition;
It's not the infrastructure that has to be centralized, it's the authority. You can make a p2p distributed database, but who populates the database? How do i know that mail sent to my address will get to me when the address points to different places, depending on whom you ask?
it's more like a telephone grid.
Exactly. There is a centralized authority that doles out phone numbers.
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It's kinda like showing a proof of Godel's Incompleteness Theory to someone not versed in math. Each step of the process is simple and straightforward, but as a whole it's tough for an untrained mind to grasp and follow along.
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How can the Slashdot editors criticize web-porn filters and Napster filters for blocking the wrong people when they do it themselves?
Dump the braindead heuristics. If you really want to curb AC abuse, make it so that AC posts don't appear on the main page until a logged-in user "adopts" the post and any karmic moderation that gets done to it.
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And you didn't tell anyone!?
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Once the dust settles and you developers have Copious Free Time, you might want to consider publishing a Scratch-That-Mozilla-Itch-HOWTO.. Pretend the code that makes the popup preference work didn't exist, and carefully document the steps a person would follow to add the feature.
I'm a good programmer. There are lots of little things i'd like to add to my web browser. But i fear that there is a huge learning curve in a project as large as Moz and that even adding a tiny change like this (i'm guessing the engine patch looked like
< pop_up();
> if (bool)
> pop_up();
) would require a ton of research.
BTW, i think you've set a new record for "Largest Karmic Increase From A Single Story"
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Microsoft bought that.
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Don't leave us hanging! How'd you do it?
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This way, i can start a download and then go sit on the couch and watch TV or read or whatever without having to check up on things every five minutes. Whenever my modem is sending data to the computer, the speaker is clattering.
It's also nice because you can tell how much bandwidth you're using -- see, with Gnutella, if i have too many things downloading at once, i only get like 4%-5% of any of them before the download breaks for one reason or another. But if i only have one or two downloads going at once, i might not be using my full bandwidth. So with this trick, while i'm sitting on the couch i can keep an eye (ear?) on things and tune the number of concurrent downloads accordingly.
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Oh yeah, nothing's worse than those damn noisy Intel chips.
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Actually, i remember reading that Microsoft is prohibiting exactly that with XP -- OEMs are not allowed to add any icons whatsoever to the desktop.
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It's not the infrastructure that has to be centralized, it's the authority. You can make a p2p distributed database, but who populates the database? How do i know that mail sent to my address will get to me when the address points to different places, depending on whom you ask?
it's more like a telephone grid.
Exactly. There is a centralized authority that doles out phone numbers.
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