Why not make news media non-profit? As is, most stations don't make much on advertising. If they were made non-profit, they would not have any incentive to continue their behavior. In fact, the large networks might even have fewer ads shown or heard, because there is no incentive to make a profit.
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"Ask not if the article is utter BS, but what BS can be exposed in said article."
I just tried using LOMAC on a box that was at a NOC remotely. It locked me completely out of my box, no way of connecting or anything. I'm contacting the NOC at this moment to lead them through de-installation.
This module is not for you unless it'll be used as a workstation which will not run any servers.
"All is Well and N7QVC.COM has Been approved and can remain up. I wish to thank each and everyone for your Support. Received Email from Attorney and said that 'your use of the letters N7QVC in your domain name are used only for your personal use, and not for commercial activities that would create the impression that you are affiliated or connected with ***, Inc. in any way, we will take no further action'.
I understand *** needs to protect there trademark as you would want to protect your FCC assigned call from other people using it, I'm satisfied that this matter is over, and hope everyone will consider that the attorney was doing his job and doing it well. Lets all consider this matter over, I owe you all a great deal of thanks. I only wish I could thank you in person and let you know how grateful I am, How wonderful if feels to be a ham today. Its a wonderful hobby and you really meet some cool people that are always there for one another. There are some special people out there and i got email from allot of them in the past few days. at least now my site can go back to an average 25-50 hits a day:-) And while i have all your attention lol Don't forget to check out the Dualband copper cactus antenna. It works good and everyone says its really easy to build, by the way its all free as amateur radio should be. I Really don't know if I could have this website without all your support. I hope you all know what this means to me and how grateful I am."
In cases like these it's up to you guys to add the apporiate filters to filter out this kind of thing. This way you have complete control of what kind of mail gets into your inbox.
Here at where I work I'm trying to get them to add auto-filteration of spam for those who want it. (We already use MAPS and RBL). Basically it'll go through and if it's suspected to be spam, it'll add 'SPAM:' to the beginning of the Subject line in the email. On the user's end they can just set up filters to move all mail that have 'SPAM:' in their subject line to the trash.
This is something that all ISPs and web hosting companies should do besides just using RBL and MAPS.
I never thought this might be necessary but it seems like we need to teach the corporate community a lesson.
Do not use any American coders in your open-source project. You heard right, no American coders. Although this might be a bit extreme, it is necessary to prove to the government and to corporations that they are killing the American IT industry. (By American I mean the United States, not Canada or any other country in North America)
If this does not make the companies get the message, then it's their own fault for killing the economy.
We need to get rid of Carnivore period. This is just the Big Brother phenomeon developing right in front of us. It shouldn't be in any form whatsoever. If this is allowed to be used by the FBI it can have devastating consequences. It would turn the Internet from a save haven for people to exchange information to a place where you have to hire a lawyer to make sure the content you're trying to place on a server isn't gonna be considered by the government to be a "threat to national security."
I will not be sastified until every last Carnivore system is trashed and used for some other purpose.
I have an idea. Since the governments are interfering with the Internet as is, how about each of us gets a ham radio license? Of course you can't swear or use it for commercial purposes, but it's actually far more funner to use. At least we don't fry our eyeballs looking at a ham radio transceiver:)
But still, the test is easy (w/o Morse code). I passed it by taking practice exams on the Internet and studying out of a study guide.
Someone should start a fund to help Slashdot in case Slashdot does get sued by Microsoft, even though it's very unlikely Slashdot will win. Maybe hire Johnny Cocran to take the case as well as Andover's lawyers. He's had great experience when it came to the O.J Simpson trial;)
Anyways, everyone needs to write their representative now! This link will allow you to do so with ease. The DMCA needs to be stopped before it stunts technology permanantly.
I'm Muslim, but I believe that the Koran should not be used as basis for laws. This goes for other religious books also from other religions (such as the Bible.)
I know the Koran is supposed to tell you how to live etc, but I barely go by some of the stricter portions of it. In other words, censorship is sure to come if the country has religious laws and religion as its base.
If people want to break their religions and go to hell, I think they should be allowed to. If they want to be an "honest, faithful" person, let them do that too. Just don't force it upon an entire population.
I don't see anything wrong with the sponsorship information above. The sponsors who sponsored ReiserFS are just saying in bootup messages that they actually sponsored development of it. Now if they came up with big 468x60 banner ads while using framebuffer mode, then I would be concerned.
Since new sponsorship information isn't retrieved from the Internet, this shouldn't be a problem.
But you can help now. This page allows you to write to government officals concerning laws like the DMCA and others. (This was rejected by Slashdot earlier BTW)
Getting on topic now, I think everyone's just greedy. We need a system where everyone is equalized, and which would prohibit anyone from being lower or higher than others. Information will also not have limits on it, and limits would be barred.
I doubt this will happen though. People won't live without a way to gain power and control.
The only thing that will come out of the breakup is streamlined business processes. They will still have the same communications link. Even though this worked for AT&T a while ago, this will hurt consumers.
Some people like CLI's, and others like their hands held by Artifical Intelligence. We should not force our beliefs onto others. Once we tell them the facts (truthfully, like the lack of applications for Linux; this is changing though) we should not interfere with their decision.
If they want Windows, let them. If they want Linux, don't torture them because they chose RedHat or something not as "elite as Debian." This will be the only way we can attract more people away from Windows.
I like the site a lot (hope it doesn't get Slashdotted because I noticed that it uses Frontpage elements on its pages), but I have a few problems with it:
1. It uses too many graphics (a no-no if you're being billed based on bandwidth) 2. There's animated GIF's (they aren't bad because of the Unisys stuff, but these particular ones take your attention off the rest of the registrars.) Unless this is what they were trying to achieve in the first place.
On another note this site deserves a good look. These rankings will almost gurantee that you'll find the registrar you're looking for.
I think this would allow more development on QNX, at least for the first 5000 who get a CD for free. If this has IP Masquerating support, I might wipe out Linux on my other box to try QNX out.
Actually, this is also good for people who want to make handheld devices, as this has a very small footprint in terms of RAM and storage space. IMO, this would have been a better choice for TiVO.
What's the accuracy of the current technology? 75-80%?
Anyways, I'm glad that the FSL is the first government lab to buy Linux systems. I'm wondering if they would have gotten any better results by using another version Of Unix or even a proprietary system.
Is running SETI or RC5 on one of these practical also? They'd need to win in order to start paying back High Performance for the $15 million supercomputer;)
Q: Which reminds me. Why do you guys talk about politics so much? Isn't this a show about computers?
A: Digital Village is actually a program about communication and technology. When we started the program, we found there were a number of other computer programs on radio (Gina Smith, etc.) and TV (Computer Chronicles, etc.) that talked about the hardware. And that's good, because people wanted and needed to know more about how a computer worked.
But there weren't any programs on the air that focused on the social and cultural ramifications of computers and the Internet (and the whole telecommunications revolution). We decided that we'd be that program. We agreed to focus on this impact until we ran out of topics. That agreement still stands.
Don't get me wrong. Ric and I enjoy the toys and want to talk about the goodies too. But the core of the show is how these technologies are *fundamentally* changing the way we communicate. I can't overstate that point. Because of this, we'll never in good conscience be able to ignore the politics of a digital society.
I'm glad that this is being discussed on traditional media rather than just on the Internet alone. If enough people listen to that station and if we can put "The Slashdot Show" or something on it, we can get our message about freedom out. I personally haven't listened to the station or the show, though the show looks interesting with or without Neal Stephenson.
I'm an amateur radio operator, and the thing we have to watch out for is RF radiation. At the microwave bands, the body starts absorbing more radiation and the internal tissue starts heating up *shudder*. If you're exposed for long periods of time to this, eventually you get stuff like cataracts, cancer and so forth.
However, to my understanding all modern computers are supposed to comply with FCC Part B regulations. This means that they don't emit anything that could cause interference or other harm. In other words, you have nothing to worry about unless you run the system with the case open.
Although this news is not the best in the world, I think there's a silver lining.
This is all a balance. In about 20 years the amount of pollution will diminish as fewer and fewer inhabit the Earth, and we'll eventually be "green" people. It's all a part of evolution. After the population diminishes to the point where the Earth can hold us all, people will realize what they did and will take steps never to let it happen again.
So as you can see, there's nothing to worry about.
Spoiled spam (the kind that went past the expiry date): the usual porn and 900 number spam. Doesn't taste good.
Eatable spam (everything else): The spam from legit companies, etc. Even though this is still annoying, it's not the kind we complain to the FDA about.
Either way they're not tasty. Complain to your local supermarket or the FDA as soon as you can
This brings to mind one thing: why didn't they put the proper modules up to maintain orbit first? It would have saved them time and money (and would have avoided an extra launch to reposition it)
Will we see any more stuff like this on the International Space Station? Or will they start using solely the metric system to prevent what happened on Mars?;)
This is pretty useful for web hosting companies and the like, as they get to customize every aspect of it and make it as secure and reliable as possible.
I'm currently discussing this with my boss, but there's one thing that's missing from that howto: how to burn the new distro onto CD and how to install it on other computers. That is the thing which is preventing us from implementing this reliably (there is always the possibility of using a boot disk and copying it using NFS, but that isn't for the faint of heart.)
Too bad my 486 only has ISA slots...or otherwise I'd pop that thing in. Same goes for my Pentium 166 from Compaq (although there's 32-bit PCI vs. the 64-bit PCI that this dual-Celeron board seems to require)
Actually that looks small enough to fit into a car somehow, poof! Instant set-top Internet using Linux. I can think of all kinds of uses now, maybe getting a ton of these and making a SETI or distributed.net cluster, although this might be a bit expensive to pull off.
I wonder if there's anyone that all Slashdoters can trace their heritage to. I mean, there must be some kind of abacus hacker whom we can all identify with. Or maybe some cave painter who realized that we need to find out new ways to live...
Anyways, couldn't this information be used for discrimination by corportations and other entities? Or is the information only available to the person who requests it? I mean, what if someone was traced back to a Neanderthal who lived in the Great Rift Valley? Some people could mistake that as the person being African-American. Of course this doesn't happen easily, but it's a possibility the conspiracy theorists out there can ponder on.
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mind21_98 - http://www.translator.cx/
"Ask not if the article is utter BS, but what BS can be exposed in said article."
I just tried using LOMAC on a box that was at a NOC remotely. It locked me completely out of my box, no way of connecting or anything. I'm contacting the NOC at this moment to lead them through de-installation.
This module is not for you unless it'll be used as a workstation which will not run any servers.
"All is Well and N7QVC.COM has Been approved and can remain up. I wish to thank each and everyone for your Support. Received Email from Attorney and said that 'your use of the letters N7QVC in your domain name are used only for your personal use, and not for commercial activities that would create the impression that you are affiliated or connected with ***, Inc. in any way, we will take no further action'.
I understand *** needs to protect there trademark as you would want to protect your FCC assigned call from other people using it, I'm satisfied that this matter is over, and hope everyone will consider that the attorney was doing his job and doing it well. Lets all consider this matter over, I owe you all a great deal of thanks. I only wish I could thank you in person and let you know how grateful I am, How wonderful if feels to be a ham today. Its a wonderful hobby and you really meet some cool people that are always there for one another. There are some special people out there and i got email from allot of them in the past few days. at least now my site can go back to an average 25-50 hits a day :-) And while i have all your attention lol Don't forget to check out the Dualband copper cactus antenna. It works good and everyone says its really easy to build, by the way its all free as amateur radio should be. I Really don't know if I could have this website without all your support. I hope you all know what this means to me and how grateful I am."
No need to worry, folks. Just move along.
Here at where I work I'm trying to get them to add auto-filteration of spam for those who want it. (We already use MAPS and RBL). Basically it'll go through and if it's suspected to be spam, it'll add 'SPAM:' to the beginning of the Subject line in the email. On the user's end they can just set up filters to move all mail that have 'SPAM:' in their subject line to the trash.
This is something that all ISPs and web hosting companies should do besides just using RBL and MAPS.
I never thought this might be necessary but it seems like we need to teach the corporate community a lesson.
Do not use any American coders in your open-source project. You heard right, no American coders. Although this might be a bit extreme, it is necessary to prove to the government and to corporations that they are killing the American IT industry. (By American I mean the United States, not Canada or any other country in North America)
If this does not make the companies get the message, then it's their own fault for killing the economy.
We need to get rid of Carnivore period. This is just the Big Brother phenomeon developing right in front of us. It shouldn't be in any form whatsoever. If this is allowed to be used by the FBI it can have devastating consequences. It would turn the Internet from a save haven for people to exchange information to a place where you have to hire a lawyer to make sure the content you're trying to place on a server isn't gonna be considered by the government to be a "threat to national security."
I will not be sastified until every last Carnivore system is trashed and used for some other purpose.
I have an idea. Since the governments are interfering with the Internet as is, how about each of us gets a ham radio license? Of course you can't swear or use it for commercial purposes, but it's actually far more funner to use. At least we don't fry our eyeballs looking at a ham radio transceiver :)
But still, the test is easy (w/o Morse code). I passed it by taking practice exams on the Internet and studying out of a study guide.
Someone should start a fund to help Slashdot in case Slashdot does get sued by Microsoft, even though it's very unlikely Slashdot will win. Maybe hire Johnny Cocran to take the case as well as Andover's lawyers. He's had great experience when it came to the O.J Simpson trial ;)
Anyways, everyone needs to write their representative now! This link will allow you to do so with ease. The DMCA needs to be stopped before it stunts technology permanantly.
I'm Muslim, but I believe that the Koran should not be used as basis for laws. This goes for other religious books also from other religions (such as the Bible.)
I know the Koran is supposed to tell you how to live etc, but I barely go by some of the stricter portions of it. In other words, censorship is sure to come if the country has religious laws and religion as its base.
If people want to break their religions and go to hell, I think they should be allowed to. If they want to be an "honest, faithful" person, let them do that too. Just don't force it upon an entire population.
I don't see anything wrong with the sponsorship information above. The sponsors who sponsored ReiserFS are just saying in bootup messages that they actually sponsored development of it. Now if they came up with big 468x60 banner ads while using framebuffer mode, then I would be concerned.
Since new sponsorship information isn't retrieved from the Internet, this shouldn't be a problem.
But you can help now. This page allows you to write to government officals concerning laws like the DMCA and others. (This was rejected by Slashdot earlier BTW)
Getting on topic now, I think everyone's just greedy. We need a system where everyone is equalized, and which would prohibit anyone from being lower or higher than others. Information will also not have limits on it, and limits would be barred.
I doubt this will happen though. People won't live without a way to gain power and control.
Breaking up Microsoft will not work.
Let me repeat again, it will not work.
The only thing that will come out of the breakup is streamlined business processes. They will still have the same communications link. Even though this worked for AT&T a while ago, this will hurt consumers.
Some people like CLI's, and others like their hands held by Artifical Intelligence. We should not force our beliefs onto others. Once we tell them the facts (truthfully, like the lack of applications for Linux; this is changing though) we should not interfere with their decision.
If they want Windows, let them. If they want Linux, don't torture them because they chose RedHat or something not as "elite as Debian."
This will be the only way we can attract more people away from Windows.
I like the site a lot (hope it doesn't get Slashdotted because I noticed that it uses Frontpage elements on its pages), but I have a few problems with it:
1. It uses too many graphics (a no-no if you're being billed based on bandwidth)
2. There's animated GIF's (they aren't bad because of the Unisys stuff, but these particular ones take your attention off the rest of the registrars.) Unless this is what they were trying to achieve in the first place.
On another note this site deserves a good look. These rankings will almost gurantee that you'll find the registrar you're looking for.
Hmm...
I think this would allow more development on QNX, at least for the first 5000 who get a CD for free.
If this has IP Masquerating support, I might wipe out Linux on my other box to try QNX out.
Actually, this is also good for people who want to make handheld devices, as this has a very small footprint in terms of RAM and storage space. IMO, this would have been a better choice for TiVO.
What's the accuracy of the current technology? 75-80%?
;)
Anyways, I'm glad that the FSL is the first government lab to buy Linux systems. I'm wondering if they would have gotten any better results by using another version Of Unix or even a proprietary system.
Is running SETI or RC5 on one of these practical also? They'd need to win in order to start paying back High Performance for the $15 million supercomputer
Q: Which reminds me. Why do you guys talk about politics so much? Isn't this a show about computers?
A: Digital Village is actually a program about communication and technology. When we started the program, we found there were a number of other computer programs on radio (Gina Smith, etc.) and TV (Computer Chronicles, etc.) that talked about the hardware. And that's good, because people wanted and needed to know more about how a computer worked.
But there weren't any programs on the air that focused on the social and cultural ramifications of computers and the Internet (and the whole telecommunications revolution). We decided that we'd be that program. We agreed to focus on this impact until we ran out of topics. That agreement still stands.
Don't get me wrong. Ric and I enjoy the toys and want to talk about the goodies too. But the core of the show is how these technologies are *fundamentally* changing the way we communicate. I can't overstate that point. Because of this, we'll never in good conscience be able to ignore the politics of a digital society.
I'm glad that this is being discussed on traditional media rather than just on the Internet alone. If enough people listen to that station and if we can put "The Slashdot Show" or something on it, we can get our message about freedom out. I personally haven't listened to the station or the show, though the show looks interesting with or without Neal Stephenson.
I'm an amateur radio operator, and the thing we have to watch out for is RF radiation. At the microwave bands, the body starts absorbing more radiation and the internal tissue starts heating up *shudder*. If you're exposed for long periods of time to this, eventually you get stuff like cataracts, cancer and so forth.
However, to my understanding all modern computers are supposed to comply with FCC Part B regulations. This means that they don't emit anything that could cause interference or other harm. In other words, you have nothing to worry about unless you run the system with the case open.
Are you sure about that?
Your English doesn't seem to be too good. Maybe you have dyslexia or something.
There's a 7-letter word to describe you kind of people, but I shouldn't say it here for fear of losing karma.
How about having everyone use the port forwarding features of SSH? Everyone could use SSH to log into a server with IRC on it.
For example:
1. Set up SSH config file with:
local port: 6667
remote host: [change to host with IRC server]
remote port: 6667)
2. Start SSH and log into the server with it. You should see a shell prompt.
3. Have BitchX, X-Chat or some other IRC client connect to 127.0.0.1 port 6667.
Tada! Instant security.
Although this news is not the best in the world, I think there's a silver lining.
This is all a balance. In about 20 years the amount of pollution will diminish as fewer and fewer inhabit the Earth, and we'll eventually be "green" people. It's all a part of evolution. After the population diminishes to the point where the Earth can hold us all, people will realize what they did and will take steps never to let it happen again.
So as you can see, there's nothing to worry about.
Well, there's 2 kinds of spam:
Spoiled spam (the kind that went past the expiry date): the usual porn and 900 number spam. Doesn't taste good.
Eatable spam (everything else): The spam from legit companies, etc. Even though this is still annoying, it's not the kind we complain to the FDA about.
Either way they're not tasty. Complain to your local supermarket or the FDA as soon as you can
*sarcasm*
This brings to mind one thing: why didn't they put the proper modules up to maintain orbit first?
;)
It would have saved them time and money (and would have avoided an extra launch to reposition it)
Will we see any more stuff like this on the International Space Station? Or will they start using solely the metric system to prevent what happened on Mars?
This is pretty useful for web hosting companies and the like, as they get to customize every aspect of it and make it as secure and reliable as possible.
I'm currently discussing this with my boss, but there's one thing that's missing from that howto: how to burn the new distro onto CD and how to install it on other computers. That is the thing which is preventing us from implementing this reliably (there is always the possibility of using a boot disk and copying it using NFS, but that isn't for the faint of heart.)
Too bad my 486 only has ISA slots...or otherwise I'd pop that thing in. Same goes for my Pentium 166 from Compaq (although there's 32-bit PCI vs. the 64-bit PCI that this dual-Celeron board seems to require)
Actually that looks small enough to fit into a car somehow, poof! Instant set-top Internet using Linux. I can think of all kinds of uses now, maybe getting a ton of these and making a SETI or distributed.net cluster, although this might be a bit expensive to pull off.
I wonder if there's anyone that all Slashdoters can trace their heritage to. I mean, there must be some kind of abacus hacker whom we can all identify with. Or maybe some cave painter who realized that we need to find out new ways to live...
Anyways, couldn't this information be used for discrimination by corportations and other entities? Or is the information only available to the person who requests it? I mean, what if someone was traced back to a Neanderthal who lived in the Great Rift Valley? Some people could mistake that as the person being African-American. Of course this doesn't happen easily, but it's a possibility the conspiracy theorists out there can ponder on.
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