This is exactly the kind of anti-competitive practice that should be attacked right away from the top. Abuse of market power on this level is definately something the government should get involved with.
The FTC should be all over AOL TW again and force them to get these ads run on Time Warner Cable. --
...that are killing P2P, but it's lack of scalability.
The more people searching through a gnutella-kind-of-P2P-network, the more traffic is used by searches and searchresponses. That's all bandwith you can't use for filetransfers anymore.
The bandwith problem only kicks in because your searches are going through slower links in the P2P chain, making effective searches a real problem.
And even if you decide against using mirrors, note that one of the IP addresses used for ftp.redhat.com (nslookup reveals three, the.212 one is faulty) will give you an empty FTP server.
...the FBI is now zeroing in on California and Oregon as the region from which the attacks most likely originated
Only a couple of hours ago (around 10pm CET) CNN Text was featuring a story that said that the attacks were originating from Germany and were done by a program called "barbed wire" (yah, that's a translated term, I forgot the German).
Apparently everyone's pointing at something in such a hurry that no-one is really trying to figure out who *really* did it. Maybe the FBI should work a bit more coordinated both on their research and their press-releases.
I've always been amazed with people's excuses for applying the Death Penalty.
Coming from a European country with no capital punishment whatsoever I find it difficult to accept the "turning point" for when someone can be sentenced to death. Maximal punishment around here is something like 20 years and though we maybe not have as much extreme crime as the US does (then again, we're a smaller country), the percentage of the population in jail is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller than it is in the United States.
Saying that teens who commit serious crimes like this should be sentenced to death is like wishing the problem away. It's a way of saying that you don't know how to handle the problem and by just erasing it (eg. killing the criminals) it will solve itself.
Apart from that, I do not believe in a government that kills its own people.
The second part of the problem, guns. I know how touchy the subject of gunpossession lies in the US, but this is definately a very good second in defining the problem. There is no justification why someone, anyone, should be allowed to carry a gun. I don't care how violent your little suburban town is, or how big of a rodent problem you're having, that does NOT give you the right to carry a lethal weapon around.
Teens should NOT be allowed anywhere _near_ guns. You've got pathetically strict smoking and drinking laws, why not go after something that REALLY kills?
Something that has absolutely nothing to do with the killing spree are the computergames they played. Although it might have drawn them away from social life (which I think was a severely contributing factor to the problem) the games itself didn't cause them to "snap".
These kids had severe problems in their social life, along with easy access to weapons and explosives (what apparently, reading the thread, a lot of americans find their God-given right)that's what caused this outburst of agression.
There is no way to prevent something like this overnight, it's going to take a long time before people realize the full impact that stopping this from ever happening again is going to have on their lives. It's not just "them" that have to change, it requires a lot of change from your own part as well.
A computergame or music doesn't kill, people do.
Sorry if this sounds too ranty, it's pretty early and I just got in the office.
Slashdot Mirror
Considering most news sites are totally overloaded, I've started a writeup as well as a mirror for all pictures I come across.
rc6.org crash updates [rc6.org]
This is exactly the kind of anti-competitive practice that should be attacked right away from the top. Abuse of market power on this level is definately something the government should get involved with.
The FTC should be all over AOL TW again and force them to get these ads run on Time Warner Cable.
--
Don't they know that Cyber cafes no longer are cool hangouts?
--
Actually none of the links that this article links to are in Swedish.
Agreed, there's some *Dutch* articles in there, but there's always an English translation on the same page.
Don't you just love the way NASA claims it alters the comet's orbit just barely measurable
I feel really safe now.
...that are killing P2P, but it's lack of scalability.
The more people searching through a gnutella-kind-of-P2P-network, the more traffic is used by searches and searchresponses. That's all bandwith you can't use for filetransfers anymore. The bandwith problem only kicks in because your searches are going through slower links in the P2P chain, making effective searches a real problem.
There was an article about this earlier, which was also posted to Slashdot.
;
make that "the .192 one is faulty"
-rbb (he who posts too fast )
And even if you decide against using mirrors, note that one of the IP addresses used for ftp.redhat.com (nslookup reveals three, the .212 one is faulty) will give you an empty FTP server.
...the FBI is now zeroing in on California and Oregon as the region from which the attacks most likely originated
Only a couple of hours ago (around 10pm CET) CNN Text was featuring a story that said that the attacks were originating from Germany and were done by a program called "barbed wire" (yah, that's a translated term, I forgot the German).
Apparently everyone's pointing at something in such a hurry that no-one is really trying to figure out who *really* did it. Maybe the FBI should work a bit more coordinated both on their research and their press-releases.
Unfortunately the site at http://rhythm.cx/dvd/ has also taken down its list of sites mirroring both DeCSS and the source.
Since when is it also illegal to link to sites containing illegal software?
i want one?
I want their whole productline!
Getting your PCI64 to work is actually quite easy.
After messing around in the kernel for quite some time with the Ensoniq drivers it didn't quite work the way I wanted it.
So i thought "what the heck" and tried the OSS package from Open Sound. Works just the way it should.
Okay okay, it's payware but hell the rest of my Linux is free anyway so I didn't really mind the concession.
If you can spare the $30,- (20 for the core and 10 for the PCI64/128 support) than it's WELL worth the money.
-rbb
I've always been amazed with people's excuses for applying the Death Penalty.
Coming from a European country with no capital punishment whatsoever I find it difficult to accept the "turning point" for when someone can be sentenced to death. Maximal punishment around here is something like 20 years and though we maybe not have as much extreme crime as the US does (then again, we're a smaller country), the percentage of the population in jail is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller than it is in the United States.
Saying that teens who commit serious crimes like this should be sentenced to death is like wishing the problem away. It's a way of saying that you don't know how to handle the problem and by just erasing it (eg. killing the criminals) it will solve itself.
Apart from that, I do not believe in a government that kills its own people.
The second part of the problem, guns. I know how touchy the subject of gunpossession lies in the US, but this is definately a very good second in defining the problem. There is no justification why someone, anyone, should be allowed to carry a gun. I don't care how violent your little suburban town is, or how big of a rodent problem you're having, that does NOT give you the right to carry a lethal weapon around.
Teens should NOT be allowed anywhere _near_ guns. You've got pathetically strict smoking and drinking laws, why not go after something that REALLY kills?
Something that has absolutely nothing to do with the killing spree are the computergames they played. Although it might have drawn them away from social life (which I think was a severely contributing factor to the problem) the games itself didn't cause them to "snap".
These kids had severe problems in their social life, along with easy access to weapons and explosives (what apparently, reading the thread, a lot of americans find their God-given right)that's what caused this outburst of agression.
There is no way to prevent something like this overnight, it's going to take a long time before people realize the full impact that stopping this from ever happening again is going to have on their lives. It's not just "them" that have to change, it requires a lot of change from your own part as well.
A computergame or music doesn't kill, people do.
Sorry if this sounds too ranty, it's pretty early and I just got in the office.
rbb