Lemme guess, the 10Gig Red Dwarf? If you think about it, that is a great example of why BT works, one person could never have pushed the over 1.5TB of data that moved due to that one torrent, but with BT it took the person only a few days of full push on his DSL and then it just kept on working.
Just a question, the main problem with bittorrent is exactly the same as it used to be in the very early days of MP3, before most of you knew what the internet was and they shut down sites all the time that were just linking directly to the mp3s. You don't see that any now days, no one does directly linking, and the setup would not scale anyway. What do you see, we all use p2p search software. So why can I not use KaZaA to download the.torrent file and run it from there? Of Freenet? It still needs a tracker, but it decentralises the collection of.torrent files. How much work would it take to use KaZaA to get BT files?
Warez never truely dies, it just gets a good solid punch, you know the type where you can't breath for a few seconds, and then it catches its breath and comes back with a vengence.
Just to summarise it: Warez started with BBS, when found they were easy to kill. Moved to password and ratio BBS, a little harder, but not much. On the internet it really came of age with FTP, often with ratio still, this was still trackable thou and sites got killed often. Somewhere along the line, someone figured out that using centralised distribution methods was sorta the real problem leading to getting caught. Along comes P2P, mp3's at first but it scaled well, and so moved quickly to anything. So they started killing the search servers, ie napster, so we moved to P2P searches too. Here is where it gets interesting, the problems with P2P were not created by the copyright holders as much as by the users. Leechers are a huge problem, and basically that leads to speed issues. Now appears bittorrent, it attempts to resolve a lot of bandwidth issues, but it was not designed to be used in a obscured way. It tells the world everything and does not have search built in, but it is fast. People come up with search engines for BT files, but those are like Napster servers, easy kills for the copyright holders.
That is where we stand now...
So the next step is to create, either as a hybrid of BT and something else, as P2P network that allows for distributed searches with content insertion abilities and BT style forced bandwidth sharing.
What is the attack that occures after that? The copyright holders have found it hard to kill KaZaA and the like, but they are too slow for a lot of people, and they can kill the fast BT. What happens when the two merge? No one has figured out how to DoS the P2P nets, and you cannot successfully sue everyone who uses it(there is more to the world then the US)...
I just grabbed an old 233Mhz I had sitting around(small form factor Deskpro) and put in a PrismII based card(DLink DWL500 I think) and installed the Linux HostAP driver. It now runs as the access point on my network, and has built in DHCP and DNS servers and firewall capabilities.
Just find a rock solid card, ignore the AP issue and build your own with Linux! Hey, it really is that simple. And I have used this now for months without an issue at all. Debian Stable with the hostap driver compiled on and a updated kernel to deal with some speed issues...
One note is that I am doing this on a set of test systems.. (with windows 2k uptimes in the months) that are running old hardware, right at the bottom of the specs for win2k... my win2kserver box is running on an amd k6-2 333 and my win2kpro box is on a Celery 400 that is a scrounge from a collection of KNOWN UNSTABLE systems, it has good long uptimes too, but apps freeze and lock all the time on it...
I suspect it is running the latest and greatest that really kills you on things like that. Linux often has people testing it right from the first day the piece of code is written on the latest hardware, but windows probably does not in the same way. Plus, with building on the prior code base, both of them are rock solid on older hardware.
If you ever need a rock solid system, go get someone's old server and install the latest code base on it. Trust me, from experience, these things will NEVER die! They have known good hardware and the code that is running them is built on known good code, try it.
I run unpatched windows, behind a firewall... I just plain don't trust windows to do it's own security. I trust 3rd party software to help some, but more often I trust linux to help secure my windows systems. It is a solution that I have found works and covers a lot of holes right there.
I have a linux firewall locked hard, but I still have firewall software installed on all my windows machines and virus scanners... But not microsoft patches. That and the fact that they often just don't want to install...
Works great for me... My K6-2 500Mhz linux box plays divx fine with the command line #mplayer -vo vesa -ao esd -cache 8192 -framedrop -autosync 30 filename.avi - without X running, or if not a really hard file, then just on a seperate terminal, not inside X.
As for windows, on a K6-2 333 running Win2K server I can play DivX using the divx player(a little buggy, but it works)...
I do lose some frames here and there but generally no problems other than some sound sync issues on some files.
I like the part about the PHB going to the tech to get his laptop to do the same as his desktop. It points out the install issue that most people have is not an issue at a large organization. I just dropped a new install on my laptop of Debian SID and have a perfectly working and fully functional laptop system with all the programs I need to be productive. The install(depndency and other issues, because I am using Unstable) was a little fun, but other than that, this works perfectly. A PHB only cares if his system works, not how to get the OS Installed, he has lackeys to do that.
That exactly my situation. I run my linux system, all the latest versions(or close) of the software, on an AMD K6-2 500Mhz with Dual Head. Plays DVDs, DivXs, runs great, fully responsive, with all the little features turned on. I have not gotten a new computer in years because I don't need to. My laptop is a 233 and does near the same(no dvd playback, don't have any divx installed, but it does do VCDs)... The only reason I intend to get a new computer some time soon is basically, to add to my collection.
On the other hand, Windows2000 runs well on the same hardware, I use it on my laptop to interface with some unsupported and propriatary peripherals(say those two words a few times fast, hell, type them fast!)... and it works well, but Linux is my prefered OS.
I love "Real Life" I play it all day, every day. I wake up in the morning and start playing and don't stop until I go to bed, and even then I'm still playing.
I'll put it this way: There may be other games that let you have sex, but the feedback is sooooo much better in "Real Life".
Based on my phone experience, I've owned and generally used both a 900 and a 2.4 phone. The 2.4 sounds better close in and can get a good secure connection to the base station within about 100+ meters of my base station. On the other hand, my 900 was quite capable of connecting to me when I was over 250+ meters away. The connection quality was pasable, but the range was great.
The reason they are probably using 900 is for connection distance. The same equiptment will cover more users with probably less bandwidth, but that is a price to pay.
As someone else noted, security of the connection has nothing to do with the frequency, so just discuss that with the provider. As it is, still 80% of the wireless networks that I run into are even setup with WEP(mine is not, but I have other ways) and most are default settings, so if the provider even tries to put in some security, no one will bother with them unless they have a reason.
The parent is modded funny, and the best part is that the comment could be true. How many out there can find Hungary on a map? Do you have much of an idea of where it is? I've gotten the impression in the past that many in the US do not have an impression of the rest of the world(Just watch "Talking to Americans" on CBC some time, if you get the jokes )
So... Do you know where Hungary is? Can you find it on a map? Without Google?
I had a general idea when I started reading the story, and when I thought of this comment I was able to place it exactly in my head, and could even tell you nearby countries...(no hints for you!)
I was at my parents house sitting a few weeks back when the second phone line died(no dsl, just dialup, and I only had a 14.4 on me). I was the one who wired the house's phone systems and so I wen't to take a look. Well I zapped my fingers a few times catching the live phone lines, but nothing serious, didn't bother me. The next day my finger tips felt like I had burned them on something mildly too hot. I had a mild burn in each finger I zapped. I wouldn't kill you, but it does annoy.
So basically, one solution that is obviously suggested by your comment is that everyone dress the same all the time... Basically live life in one giant GAPe compercial... Boy would that piss my friends off, we have filmed documentaries about how all the people of many social groups will wear exactly the same thing(we have the footage to prove it) and we wear what we want just to be different....
Bandwidth can be both cheap and expensive... depends on the situation.
If you are hosting the server at your own locations, say the school itself, then getting the bandwidth there will probably cost you a bit, depending on what you want, . DSL with a fixed IP address would cover your needs fine.
If you are hosting at a co-lo center, bandwidth is cheaper, they already have a lot, and just resell it over their switch(or whatever setup...).
My recommendation is to get a hosted solution, either a shared server like at rosehosting.com(29.95/month 2gig storage 15gig transfer) or a dedicated server like at serverbeach.com(99/month 60gig storage 450gig transfer) - (I use rosehosting and may switch to serverbeach when I have enough paying customers.)
As for hardware, any hosting option will have more than enough, but hosting at your own location is another factor, get the cheapest thing you can get your hands on, make sure the storage is enough for what you want(if you have a couple of big sites/users) and make sure you have a cd-rw for backups. Then just automate the backup process(or not who cares)and you are set, I serve more people than you off my test server ant it is a p233 with 64meg and 3gig, I think anything over 100 will do
I would love to code XHTML strict, but there is the problem of my users, you see, they are not technical, they don't all upgrade thier browser when they can, even when they are told too. I have to code in many ways to the lowest common denominator, then add or modify features for the better browsers and try to avoid breaking things.
If you're on a controlled intranet or something similar and can control the browser used, your set, but I wish the real world was like that.
This is one reason that I love templates thou, I have a work in progress template for my main site that is XHTML strict, so browsers that support it can have it.
Excellent, thanks... this will be fun... hehe... playing with hardware, netorking and weird things to do with way too much processing power... hehe... weeeee!
I got a NIC of one of my friends, he used to work with NetZero and they provided internet for the systems. It is a great little box for almost anything, and you can drop in a laptop hard drive in seconds. It is a good box for messing with, boots anything from the win2k install disks to knoppix perfectly, there is no unusual hardware in these things.
If you need a little terminal, get one, just add peripherals and network. I have 2 NCD Xterms on my netowork and an old 386 that has a boot rom(no moving parts in the system, quite silent) so adding another item to the boot on the network was nothing(PXE netowrk boot built into the unit) and it "just works". I have way too much running here as it is, so this unit does nothing other then random computations... I'm thinking of dropping a custom Mosix setup onto my systems in the near future(ah using my slow laptop, just run the program and it should deal with resources... I'll have fun setting that up)
These things(my version - older) have a 233Mhz processor, 64Megs ram, 4meg flashdisk, 10/100 network, 56k softmodem(drivers work), sound, usb and joystick, cdrom drive. Works great.
I definatly have to agree with this, I am a relativly new user of vim and still use it all over the place... Gvim for windows, kvim in KDE, plain vim for ssh sessions... all act similar/the same and give good support for exactly what you described.
I code in php/html/css/js and often have overlap, vim deals with it... the other features you want are normal editor features, I don't use them, but they should be there, check the docs...
Bit it is not jingoism, the reports out there state that they had a scoring system, max 10000 and linux got mid 6K area, windows got lower 5K area, so by thier testing and other procedures, they determined that linux would be the best option for them... This is how every company would love to do it, make a true decision based on business needs. and if they did, some would go MS, some would go Linux, but more people would be happy.
that could work, but my god! could you imagine the size of that database, associating a score for every word on the page with every word in the search term... and vice versa? that would get big fast, I know google can keep their db running quick, but this would be an order of magnitude more complex on the query side, not saying it could not be done, just difficult to do...
A lot of the arguments against push on the idea that either it only can categorize to one thing - troll, or that they will adapt...
Don't get rid of moderation, just assist it with a troll/offtopic/whatever system, bayesian based...
And it can do more than just good or bad, there is one bayesian filter out there hat has multiple categories of filter... It can learn to recognize anything, and multiple categories is simple...
It could be done... but will it? prolly not. Maybe when I get around to writing my own news site I'll code the ability in... we will see.
From my understanding of his full explanation(I read it a while ago, can't remember where, dig around some) each e-mail has every word examined and given a rating from 0.01(good) to 0.99(spam), then the 15 words farthest from 0.50 are selected, some averaging is done and if the score is over some threshold(say 0.90) then it is called spam and trashed, I use spamunition for my outlook e-mail(working on moving my e-mail over to linux, hopefully soon, so I can del my windows boxen) and it can give the stats for each e-mail and it appears to use the same formula...
Part of the reason this all works is that spammers slowly change their wording over time to beat the static filters, but the baysian filter will still catch it on other parts of the message, and add the new wording to the db... the only spam that ever get throu to me now is stuff that is worded exactly like a normal e-mail, and even then they have a hard time, yet all my friends have no problems...
I think the key here is to(with this software) never delete any e-mail, spam goes to the spam folder, sort the other stuff, and stuff you wanted, but don't need, move to another folder just so allow the filter to know what to look for... I have 5200 spam e-mails saved and about 1000 legit mail saved and my accuracy level is about 99.9...
I've been using a baysian spam filter for months now and I understand how they work... Even thou people find the comment funny, a baysian troll filter on slashdot would work...
If you were to run every slashdot post throu my mail filter as an e-mail message and properly mark the trolls and others you don't want, and the ones you do want, suddenly you would only get the actual good posts, trolling would die quickly... And because of the user classification system currently in place, slashdot has a huge db to build up the word stats, so it could happen immediatly or faster...
Seriously, I ask that the slashdot admins consider adding this to slashcode... even if slashdot does not use it, others would... there are too many trolls out there as it is on the net and many people put them only a few rungs higher than spammers on the evolutionary ladder(but lower than an ameoba still)
The logic behind this can actually be extended, to allow a user to start filtering stories so that they only get ones that interest them, or even to filtering submissions to get rid of the cruft, how often to you think that the trolls post troll story submissions? Save work for the site admins...
I'm curious if an extension of this idea is how Google News works... anyone know?
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Lemme guess, the 10Gig Red Dwarf? If you think about it, that is a great example of why BT works, one person could never have pushed the over 1.5TB of data that moved due to that one torrent, but with BT it took the person only a few days of full push on his DSL and then it just kept on working.
What? Are you implying that...? Never!
Just a question, the main problem with bittorrent is exactly the same as it used to be in the very early days of MP3, before most of you knew what the internet was and they shut down sites all the time that were just linking directly to the mp3s. You don't see that any now days, no one does directly linking, and the setup would not scale anyway. What do you see, we all use p2p search software. So why can I not use KaZaA to download the .torrent file and run it from there? Of Freenet? It still needs a tracker, but it decentralises the collection of .torrent files. How much work would it take to use KaZaA to get BT files?
Warez never truely dies, it just gets a good solid punch, you know the type where you can't breath for a few seconds, and then it catches its breath and comes back with a vengence.
Just to summarise it:
Warez started with BBS, when found they were easy to kill.
Moved to password and ratio BBS, a little harder, but not much.
On the internet it really came of age with FTP, often with ratio still, this was still trackable thou and sites got killed often.
Somewhere along the line, someone figured out that using centralised distribution methods was sorta the real problem leading to getting caught.
Along comes P2P, mp3's at first but it scaled well, and so moved quickly to anything.
So they started killing the search servers, ie napster, so we moved to P2P searches too.
Here is where it gets interesting, the problems with P2P were not created by the copyright holders as much as by the users. Leechers are a huge problem, and basically that leads to speed issues.
Now appears bittorrent, it attempts to resolve a lot of bandwidth issues, but it was not designed to be used in a obscured way. It tells the world everything and does not have search built in, but it is fast.
People come up with search engines for BT files, but those are like Napster servers, easy kills for the copyright holders.
That is where we stand now...
So the next step is to create, either as a hybrid of BT and something else, as P2P network that allows for distributed searches with content insertion abilities and BT style forced bandwidth sharing.
What is the attack that occures after that? The copyright holders have found it hard to kill KaZaA and the like, but they are too slow for a lot of people, and they can kill the fast BT. What happens when the two merge? No one has figured out how to DoS the P2P nets, and you cannot successfully sue everyone who uses it(there is more to the world then the US)...
Just some thoughts and ideas...
I just grabbed an old 233Mhz I had sitting around(small form factor Deskpro) and put in a PrismII based card(DLink DWL500 I think) and installed the Linux HostAP driver. It now runs as the access point on my network, and has built in DHCP and DNS servers and firewall capabilities.
Just find a rock solid card, ignore the AP issue and build your own with Linux! Hey, it really is that simple. And I have used this now for months without an issue at all. Debian Stable with the hostap driver compiled on and a updated kernel to deal with some speed issues...
Try it and see...
One note is that I am doing this on a set of test systems.. (with windows 2k uptimes in the months) that are running old hardware, right at the bottom of the specs for win2k... my win2kserver box is running on an amd k6-2 333 and my win2kpro box is on a Celery 400 that is a scrounge from a collection of KNOWN UNSTABLE systems, it has good long uptimes too, but apps freeze and lock all the time on it...
I suspect it is running the latest and greatest that really kills you on things like that. Linux often has people testing it right from the first day the piece of code is written on the latest hardware, but windows probably does not in the same way. Plus, with building on the prior code base, both of them are rock solid on older hardware.
If you ever need a rock solid system, go get someone's old server and install the latest code base on it. Trust me, from experience, these things will NEVER die! They have known good hardware and the code that is running them is built on known good code, try it.
Anyway...
I run unpatched windows, behind a firewall... I just plain don't trust windows to do it's own security. I trust 3rd party software to help some, but more often I trust linux to help secure my windows systems. It is a solution that I have found works and covers a lot of holes right there.
I have a linux firewall locked hard, but I still have firewall software installed on all my windows machines and virus scanners... But not microsoft patches. That and the fact that they often just don't want to install...
Works great for me... My K6-2 500Mhz linux box plays divx fine with the command line #mplayer -vo vesa -ao esd -cache 8192 -framedrop -autosync 30 filename.avi - without X running, or if not a really hard file, then just on a seperate terminal, not inside X.
As for windows, on a K6-2 333 running Win2K server I can play DivX using the divx player(a little buggy, but it works)...
I do lose some frames here and there but generally no problems other than some sound sync issues on some files.
I like the part about the PHB going to the tech to get his laptop to do the same as his desktop. It points out the install issue that most people have is not an issue at a large organization. I just dropped a new install on my laptop of Debian SID and have a perfectly working and fully functional laptop system with all the programs I need to be productive. The install(depndency and other issues, because I am using Unstable) was a little fun, but other than that, this works perfectly. A PHB only cares if his system works, not how to get the OS Installed, he has lackeys to do that.
Enjoy!
That exactly my situation. I run my linux system, all the latest versions(or close) of the software, on an AMD K6-2 500Mhz with Dual Head. Plays DVDs, DivXs, runs great, fully responsive, with all the little features turned on. I have not gotten a new computer in years because I don't need to. My laptop is a 233 and does near the same(no dvd playback, don't have any divx installed, but it does do VCDs)... The only reason I intend to get a new computer some time soon is basically, to add to my collection.
On the other hand, Windows2000 runs well on the same hardware, I use it on my laptop to interface with some unsupported and propriatary peripherals(say those two words a few times fast, hell, type them fast!)... and it works well, but Linux is my prefered OS.
Anyway,
Enjoy
Goes well with the bill quote "We will never have a price lower than Linux"... Only to be the low bidder. I found that really funny myself.
I'll put it this way: There may be other games that let you have sex, but the feedback is sooooo much better in "Real Life".
Enjoy!
The reason they are probably using 900 is for connection distance. The same equiptment will cover more users with probably less bandwidth, but that is a price to pay.
As someone else noted, security of the connection has nothing to do with the frequency, so just discuss that with the provider. As it is, still 80% of the wireless networks that I run into are even setup with WEP(mine is not, but I have other ways) and most are default settings, so if the provider even tries to put in some security, no one will bother with them unless they have a reason.
Enjoy!
So... Do you know where Hungary is? Can you find it on a map? Without Google?
I had a general idea when I started reading the story, and when I thought of this comment I was able to place it exactly in my head, and could even tell you nearby countries...(no hints for you!)
Enjoy!
I was at my parents house sitting a few weeks back when the second phone line died(no dsl, just dialup, and I only had a 14.4 on me). I was the one who wired the house's phone systems and so I wen't to take a look. Well I zapped my fingers a few times catching the live phone lines, but nothing serious, didn't bother me. The next day my finger tips felt like I had burned them on something mildly too hot. I had a mild burn in each finger I zapped. I wouldn't kill you, but it does annoy.
So basically, one solution that is obviously suggested by your comment is that everyone dress the same all the time... Basically live life in one giant GAPe compercial... Boy would that piss my friends off, we have filmed documentaries about how all the people of many social groups will wear exactly the same thing(we have the footage to prove it) and we wear what we want just to be different....
Enjoy!
If you are hosting the server at your own locations, say the school itself, then getting the bandwidth there will probably cost you a bit, depending on what you want, . DSL with a fixed IP address would cover your needs fine.
If you are hosting at a co-lo center, bandwidth is cheaper, they already have a lot, and just resell it over their switch(or whatever setup...).
My recommendation is to get a hosted solution, either a shared server like at rosehosting.com(29.95/month 2gig storage 15gig transfer) or a dedicated server like at serverbeach.com(99/month 60gig storage 450gig transfer) - (I use rosehosting and may switch to serverbeach when I have enough paying customers.)
As for hardware, any hosting option will have more than enough, but hosting at your own location is another factor, get the cheapest thing you can get your hands on, make sure the storage is enough for what you want(if you have a couple of big sites/users) and make sure you have a cd-rw for backups. Then just automate the backup process(or not who cares)and you are set, I serve more people than you off my test server ant it is a p233 with 64meg and 3gig, I think anything over 100 will do
Enjoy!
If you're on a controlled intranet or something similar and can control the browser used, your set, but I wish the real world was like that.
This is one reason that I love templates thou, I have a work in progress template for my main site that is XHTML strict, so browsers that support it can have it.
Enjoy!
Excellent, thanks... this will be fun... hehe... playing with hardware, netorking and weird things to do with way too much processing power... hehe... weeeee!
Right. Got that out of my system. Thanks
I'll Enjoy!
I got a NIC of one of my friends, he used to work with NetZero and they provided internet for the systems. It is a great little box for almost anything, and you can drop in a laptop hard drive in seconds. It is a good box for messing with, boots anything from the win2k install disks to knoppix perfectly, there is no unusual hardware in these things.
If you need a little terminal, get one, just add peripherals and network. I have 2 NCD Xterms on my netowork and an old 386 that has a boot rom(no moving parts in the system, quite silent) so adding another item to the boot on the network was nothing(PXE netowrk boot built into the unit) and it "just works". I have way too much running here as it is, so this unit does nothing other then random computations... I'm thinking of dropping a custom Mosix setup onto my systems in the near future(ah using my slow laptop, just run the program and it should deal with resources... I'll have fun setting that up)
These things(my version - older) have a 233Mhz processor, 64Megs ram, 4meg flashdisk, 10/100 network, 56k softmodem(drivers work), sound, usb and joystick, cdrom drive. Works great.
Anyway, enjoy!
I definatly have to agree with this, I am a relativly new user of vim and still use it all over the place... Gvim for windows, kvim in KDE, plain vim for ssh sessions... all act similar/the same and give good support for exactly what you described.
I code in php/html/css/js and often have overlap, vim deals with it... the other features you want are normal editor features, I don't use them, but they should be there, check the docs...
Enjoy
Bit it is not jingoism, the reports out there state that they had a scoring system, max 10000 and linux got mid 6K area, windows got lower 5K area, so by thier testing and other procedures, they determined that linux would be the best option for them... This is how every company would love to do it, make a true decision based on business needs. and if they did, some would go MS, some would go Linux, but more people would be happy.
Enjoy.
that could work, but my god! could you imagine the size of that database, associating a score for every word on the page with every word in the search term... and vice versa? that would get big fast, I know google can keep their db running quick, but this would be an order of magnitude more complex on the query side, not saying it could not be done, just difficult to do...
thanks, I'll have to test that out on mine, delete some old stuff...
I know everything, I just forget where in my mind I placed the files...
Enjoy.
A lot of the arguments against push on the idea that either it only can categorize to one thing - troll, or that they will adapt...
Don't get rid of moderation, just assist it with a troll/offtopic/whatever system, bayesian based...
And it can do more than just good or bad, there is one bayesian filter out there hat has multiple categories of filter... It can learn to recognize anything, and multiple categories is simple...
It could be done... but will it? prolly not.
Maybe when I get around to writing my own news site I'll code the ability in... we will see.
Enjoy.
From my understanding of his full explanation(I read it a while ago, can't remember where, dig around some) each e-mail has every word examined and given a rating from 0.01(good) to 0.99(spam), then the 15 words farthest from 0.50 are selected, some averaging is done and if the score is over some threshold(say 0.90) then it is called spam and trashed, I use spamunition for my outlook e-mail(working on moving my e-mail over to linux, hopefully soon, so I can del my windows boxen) and it can give the stats for each e-mail and it appears to use the same formula...
Part of the reason this all works is that spammers slowly change their wording over time to beat the static filters, but the baysian filter will still catch it on other parts of the message, and add the new wording to the db... the only spam that ever get throu to me now is stuff that is worded exactly like a normal e-mail, and even then they have a hard time, yet all my friends have no problems...
I think the key here is to(with this software) never delete any e-mail, spam goes to the spam folder, sort the other stuff, and stuff you wanted, but don't need, move to another folder just so allow the filter to know what to look for... I have 5200 spam e-mails saved and about 1000 legit mail saved and my accuracy level is about 99.9...
Read up on it, this stuff really does work.
Enjoy
I've been using a baysian spam filter for months now and I understand how they work... Even thou people find the comment funny, a baysian troll filter on slashdot would work...
If you were to run every slashdot post throu my mail filter as an e-mail message and properly mark the trolls and others you don't want, and the ones you do want, suddenly you would only get the actual good posts, trolling would die quickly... And because of the user classification system currently in place, slashdot has a huge db to build up the word stats, so it could happen immediatly or faster...
Seriously, I ask that the slashdot admins consider adding this to slashcode... even if slashdot does not use it, others would... there are too many trolls out there as it is on the net and many people put them only a few rungs higher than spammers on the evolutionary ladder(but lower than an ameoba still)
The logic behind this can actually be extended, to allow a user to start filtering stories so that they only get ones that interest them, or even to filtering submissions to get rid of the cruft, how often to you think that the trolls post troll story submissions? Save work for the site admins...
I'm curious if an extension of this idea is how Google News works... anyone know?
Enjoy.