Actions like modding this post to 'troll' are the reason metamoderation exists... Proving once again that metamoderation is a civic duty, don't shirk it!
Actually, IKEA's as-is department is having a contest... buy scraps of furniture hardware, build something interesting and at least somewhat functional constructed of at least 80% IKEA stuff, the best entry gets a US$100 gift certificate.
This is the most interesting way I've seen a company try to unload their broken bits and pieces.
The procmail element, IMHO, incorporates a bit of 'human' in the machine... as other posts have mentioned, I decide what I consider to be spam for me. So, the server-side component would filter out what a machine can determine to be clearly spam, and a couple of standard procmail recipes would catch the rest of what is "most spam to most people."
But I don't wanna have to do any of it by hand, so I'm gonna add my own recipes... so I don't see any see the stuff that isn't spam to the machine (not in the.0016% that it 'misses') but that I consider spam. That's a human using a tool to do something...
Nothing will ever be 100%, but the asymptote can get smaller and smaller the more closely the user and machine are working together for this.
As far as Mozilla integration... mozilla's just reading from my mail spool, so why would I want my MUA consuming resources that procmail will use more efficiently, silently in the background?
Some people won't run procmail, or run some OS that isn't compatible. I understand. But that's like not wearing a seatbelt: do so at your own risk and possible injury.
Especially GCC. I wanted to provide a link, but I couldn't find where I read it, that thanks to apple's contributions, gcc compiles for powerpc ultra-efficiently--better even than Intel's ICC compiles for x86.
Some of us wish we could forget our days as resistance fighters during the Second Vogon Colonial Wars. The harsh oppression visited upon us day in and day out was eclipsed only by the horror of the mandatory poetry recitals. Never Again!
This explains soooo much! He wasn't a paranoid android, he was just self-conscious about his height! Really, there needs to be a support group for midget robots.
Wait, no, that's not politically correct! What is the PC term for those like Marvin?
Snideness was intended only regarding Microsoft, not Apple. OS X is very cool, and clearly a lot of innovation went into it.
However, I do think the old Mac OS was crap. And it was a fusion of NeXT and *BSD unixes that created the core of OS X.
I'll calmly ignore the Linux remark. But my roommate's seven year old daughter hasn't had any problems with my Debian box. And debian is solid, flexible, powerful... well, it was more solid before I upgraded to testing.
The only upside I see to OS X is that Mac users aren't being subjected to frivolous litigation by a nervous company.
They licensed both the source code and UNIX patents from SCO... This article has the details.
I was curious as to why they would do this. MS Services for UNIX is the likely reason, but my theory is that after working for over twenty years to come up with an operating system and only managing to come up with Windows XP, they wanted to see how an OS is supposed to work.
Apple did the same thing... well, no, they bought a company that owned UNIX licenses and used an open-source kernel.
Forget "bad cop" arguments. The police are "the wrong hands" to begin with. They are the violent thugs of the state. That's all. And they don't take 'substantial risks' on my behalf. They take substantial risk on the behalf of the rich.
We should do everything we can to make that job harder and increase the risk.
And I trust 16 year old kids more than I do cops, even if they are more likely to leave gadgets on the bus.
What it comes down to with this is, knowledge == power, an increase in the quality and quantity of information available to the state is an increase in state power & state control. It's not a good thing.
Well, here's my take on this: it's the U.S. Constitution that establishes the legal basis for copyrights in the first place:
Article I, Sec. 8: The Congress shall have the power...
[paragraph 8]
To promote the progress of science and useful arts,
by securing for limited times
to authors and inventors
the exclusive right
to their respective writings and discoveries;
It doesn't say anything about making backups... however, there are plenty of legal scholars who think the copyright extensions that hollywood et al. have successfully lobbied for are dubious practices given the explicit intention of securing limited monopolies for copyright holders.
Although it would never happen in the current political climate, I could see an argument that prohibiting the development of circumvention technologies unfairly (and illegaly?) handicaps those who would release formerly copyrighted materials into the public domain after the "limited time" has elapsed.
The only compromise I could see making legal sense would be if courts ordered the DVD hardware industry to come up with consumer technology for backups that were somehow secure.
I think the whole stinking DMCA should be thrown out, but since the courts seem to want to keep it, I think that sort of plan is the only way to reconcile it with prior copyright law.
They tried... there was a lawsuit over VCRs, and there was a lawsuit over audiocassette recorders. But that was back when "Fair Use" still meant something as far as copyright law was concerned.
I think a better settlement would have forced the recording industry to stop producing
Oh, wait, but if they actuallly had something resembling a worthwhile product, they probably never would have felt the need to engage in price-fixing. Silly me.
Maybe I'm wrong. But has any major label released anything halfway decent in the last ten years?
I want a check from the RIAA for the pain and suffering caused every time I've been within earshot of a Top 40 radio broadcast.
Demand Justice!
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I come to Slashdot for my legal and health advice.
I assume that you're not worried about the pending legal action against you since probably have less than six months to live?
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My uncle has two of them!! The evidence cannot be silenced!! I will show the world, there WAS a CoCo.
I'm scared. Do you think their assassins are coming now? Go, my friends, find the CoCos. Trust no one. The truth is out there.
TI 99/4A with Speech Synthesizer was the best. That barely comprehensible voice echoes with warm childhood memories...
I still have mine. Actually, I have four. I don't know what to do with them, but I can't bring myself to dump them. My first coding ever was in BASIC on those things... 80 lines of code that just made the screen do pretty things, and that I had to retype every time 'cos the thing didn't come standard with any kind of storage... then I got the cassette tape "drive."
No no, you wait until your manager starts commenting on how much better everything's running since you made the switch to linux, and then you show him the picture... improving the credibility of young guys with dreadlocks everywhere!
This is very cool... child labour laws don't really enter into it, I don't think... I don't know what the laws are in Brazil, but you can work in the U.S. at 14... and I think there should be exceptions for working for an ISP, anyway... it's not exactly a textile mill. If you're young and smart, why not?
I'd always seen the hope and potential for VoIP as similar to my hopes and potentials for WiFi: low-to-no-cost community networks that could be used to get everybody wired... unlike what's currently happening, just another area for corporate intervention.
Maybe some of these attempts will contibute to the community network effort, but that's what we thought with widespread use of WiFi, and all that's done is added snarfing WiFi traffic to the list of amusing events at 2600 meetings.
Isn't it more like a bubble is hollow in the first place, as antibubbles are full of liquid?
In line with your proposal of airborne droplets as antibubbles, that's what's more or less being described, except that the droplets are airborn in a liquid... sort of. It's a droplet -borne in the air- inside of a bubble. An "enbubbled droplet," if you like.
But within the medium in question, I think antibubble describes it ok.
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This is the most interesting way I've seen a company try to unload their broken bits and pieces.
But I don't wanna have to do any of it by hand, so I'm gonna add my own recipes... so I don't see any see the stuff that isn't spam to the machine (not in the .0016% that it 'misses') but that I consider spam. That's a human using a tool to do something...
Nothing will ever be 100%, but the asymptote can get smaller and smaller the more closely the user and machine are working together for this.
As far as Mozilla integration... mozilla's just reading from my mail spool, so why would I want my MUA consuming resources that procmail will use more efficiently, silently in the background?
Some people won't run procmail, or run some OS that isn't compatible. I understand. But that's like not wearing a seatbelt: do so at your own risk and possible injury.
Especially GCC. I wanted to provide a link, but I couldn't find where I read it, that thanks to apple's contributions, gcc compiles for powerpc ultra-efficiently--better even than Intel's ICC compiles for x86.
Almost as bad as Vogon poetry.
Some of us wish we could forget our days as resistance fighters during the Second Vogon Colonial Wars. The harsh oppression visited upon us day in and day out was eclipsed only by the horror of the mandatory poetry recitals. Never Again!
Vive la Resistance!
This explains soooo much! He wasn't a paranoid android, he was just self-conscious about his height! Really, there needs to be a support group for midget robots.
Wait, no, that's not politically correct! What is the PC term for those like Marvin?
"Little Androids?"
"Dwarfbots?"
"Vertically Challenged Metallic Artificial Persons?"
However, I do think the old Mac OS was crap. And it was a fusion of NeXT and *BSD unixes that created the core of OS X.
I'll calmly ignore the Linux remark. But my roommate's seven year old daughter hasn't had any problems with my Debian box. And debian is solid, flexible, powerful... well, it was more solid before I upgraded to testing.
The only upside I see to OS X is that Mac users aren't being subjected to frivolous litigation by a nervous company.
I was curious as to why they would do this. MS Services for UNIX is the likely reason, but my theory is that after working for over twenty years to come up with an operating system and only managing to come up with Windows XP, they wanted to see how an OS is supposed to work.
Apple did the same thing... well, no, they bought a company that owned UNIX licenses and used an open-source kernel.
We should do everything we can to make that job harder and increase the risk.
And I trust 16 year old kids more than I do cops, even if they are more likely to leave gadgets on the bus.
What it comes down to with this is, knowledge == power, an increase in the quality and quantity of information available to the state is an increase in state power & state control. It's not a good thing.
Article I, Sec. 8: ...
The Congress shall have the power
[paragraph 8]
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
It doesn't say anything about making backups... however, there are plenty of legal scholars who think the copyright extensions that hollywood et al. have successfully lobbied for are dubious practices given the explicit intention of securing limited monopolies for copyright holders.
Although it would never happen in the current political climate, I could see an argument that prohibiting the development of circumvention technologies unfairly (and illegaly?) handicaps those who would release formerly copyrighted materials into the public domain after the "limited time" has elapsed.
I think the whole stinking DMCA should be thrown out, but since the courts seem to want to keep it, I think that sort of plan is the only way to reconcile it with prior copyright law.
They tried... there was a lawsuit over VCRs, and there was a lawsuit over audiocassette recorders. But that was back when "Fair Use" still meant something as far as copyright law was concerned.
Oh, wait, but if they actuallly had something resembling a worthwhile product, they probably never would have felt the need to engage in price-fixing. Silly me.
Maybe I'm wrong. But has any major label released anything halfway decent in the last ten years?
I want a check from the RIAA for the pain and suffering caused every time I've been within earshot of a Top 40 radio broadcast.
Demand Justice!
I assume that you're not worried about the pending legal action against you since probably have less than six months to live?
I'm scared. Do you think their assassins are coming now? Go, my friends, find the CoCos. Trust no one. The truth is out there.
TI 99/4A with Speech Synthesizer was the best. That barely comprehensible voice echoes with warm childhood memories... I still have mine. Actually, I have four. I don't know what to do with them, but I can't bring myself to dump them. My first coding ever was in BASIC on those things... 80 lines of code that just made the screen do pretty things, and that I had to retype every time 'cos the thing didn't come standard with any kind of storage... then I got the cassette tape "drive."
Are you kidding? Do you know how much time and effort it takes to maintain dreadlocks like that?
That's probably where he developed the persistence, dedication and attention to detail necessary to maintain the Linux kernel.
This is very cool... child labour laws don't really enter into it, I don't think... I don't know what the laws are in Brazil, but you can work in the U.S. at 14... and I think there should be exceptions for working for an ISP, anyway... it's not exactly a textile mill. If you're young and smart, why not?
As long as you have a union, anyway...
Maybe some of these attempts will contibute to the community network effort, but that's what we thought with widespread use of WiFi, and all that's done is added snarfing WiFi traffic to the list of amusing events at 2600 meetings.
Or perhaps we should be "Looking Back at Litigation Ethics in 2003"
In line with your proposal of airborne droplets as antibubbles, that's what's more or less being described, except that the droplets are airborn in a liquid... sort of. It's a droplet -borne in the air- inside of a bubble. An "enbubbled droplet," if you like.
But within the medium in question, I think antibubble describes it ok.
I think RMS is a more likely a gnurd.