I had a brainstorm just yesterday (yes, they are rare events:-). You have a P2P frontend that communicates via an email transport layer that uses fake emails that resemble spam, but actually contain encrypted stegnographic data. Will AOL get suspicious when you receive 10 MBs of "spam" every day?:-)
what has Bill Joy done for me lately? Sure, he worked on BSD, vi, and NFS, but he's spent the 1990s in his secret lab in Boulder, CO working on JINI and JXTA vaporware.
Like how the California Lottery "pays for schools"? No wonder public schools don't teach kids important subjects like personal finances. Who would buy lottery tickets then if everyone knew they were taxes on people who are bad at math?
Why must judicial appointments be delayed and filibustered? Why can't the Democrats just vote against him. No majority of votes? Game over. Next judicial appointment, please..
I was at my local music store this weekend and say the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's new album for just $7.99! I had to do a triple-take to make sure it wasn't just an EP or CD single. That's less expensive that many used CDs. Low price is a strong motivator. I bought the CD.:-)
absolutely! The BSD license implicitly encourages companies to share patches "upstream" because it will make future forking easier. The companies that used "forked" BSD software do not want to maintain tons of separate bug fixes in a different codebase. They just want to copy other people's work. That sounds "evil", but it does provide a strong incentive to share a common codebase.
If there were caching the results, I wonder which calculator expression is most common. Probably 2+2? Maybe Google Zeitgeist will list the top ten expressions.:-)
"James Tierney, former Director of Testing at Microsoft has reported in internal presentations that some Microsoft applications groups have found 10-20% of the bugs in their projects using monkey test tools."
If Unix had instead mmap'd files in it's original design there would probably not be transparent access to network file systems or many of the other things we take for granted today.
Why would mmap'd files prevent transparent network access? mmap'd files is just a shortcut to random file I/O. Plus there are systems that support distributed virtual memory.
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but what film do you think mostly accurately represent an acid trip (visually or third-party perspective)? "Easy Rider" had a pretty good one with crying naked people in a New Orleans cemetery. and yes I have done acid and mushrooms, so I do have some context.
I don't understand what PROBLEM these electronic voting systems are intended to solve. Usability? Fraud prevention? Recountability? Non-centralized weakness? For ALL of those supposed problems, these electronic voting systems are WORSE than paper ballots.
The only advantage I see is that the electronic systems can count ballots faster, but we've never had problems with the speed of ballot counting. Ballot counting is easily parallelized across all voting precincts across the nation. In fact, that is a GOOD thing because the counting process is publicly overseen by representatives from all political parties and vote tampering is limited to a smaller set of votes.
What if Godwin's Law applied to politics? From this point on, no politician is allowed to make the cause of war (or some other unwarranted intrussion) using Hitler or Nazi metaphors.
The high bid is now $305.69. damn! How long until eBay shuts down his "fake" auction? I refreshed the couple times while watching the pageview counter. It looks like his auction page is getting about 50 pageviews/second!
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I had a brainstorm just yesterday (yes, they are rare events
you must be a Car Talk fan.
what has Bill Joy done for me lately? Sure, he worked on BSD, vi, and NFS, but he's spent the 1990s in his secret lab in Boulder, CO working on JINI and JXTA vaporware.
maybe Bill Joy will now work full-time on releasing the new vi-2004 editor.
Like how the California Lottery "pays for schools"? No wonder public schools don't teach kids important subjects like personal finances. Who would buy lottery tickets then if everyone knew they were taxes on people who are bad at math?
Is al Queda an open source army? They seem to be giving the "Fortune USA" army a serious run for its money..
Why must judicial appointments be delayed and filibustered? Why can't the Democrats just vote against him. No majority of votes? Game over. Next judicial appointment, please..
I was at my local music store this weekend and say the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's new album for just $7.99! I had to do a triple-take to make sure it wasn't just an EP or CD single. That's less expensive that many used CDs. Low price is a strong motivator. I bought the CD.
Wasn't Skinny Puppy from Vancouver, BC? hmm..
I thought that only the sharer was violating the copyright, so legally only the sharer (not the downloader) can be sued..?
absolutely! The BSD license implicitly encourages companies to share patches "upstream" because it will make future forking easier. The companies that used "forked" BSD software do not want to maintain tons of separate bug fixes in a different codebase. They just want to copy other people's work. That sounds "evil", but it does provide a strong incentive to share a common codebase.
If there were caching the results, I wonder which calculator expression is most common. Probably 2+2? Maybe Google Zeitgeist will list the top ten expressions.
yes, these automated test tools are called "smart monkeys".
"James Tierney, former Director of Testing at Microsoft has reported in internal presentations that some Microsoft applications groups have found 10-20% of the bugs in their projects using monkey test tools."
If you want to really WOW them, don't forget goatse.cx man and tubgirl. They are part of many a programmers' day.
If Unix had instead mmap'd files in it's original design there would probably not be transparent access to network file systems or many of the other things we take for granted today.
Why would mmap'd files prevent transparent network access? mmap'd files is just a shortcut to random file I/O. Plus there are systems that support distributed virtual memory.
there's hope that MacOS X's filesystem will start incorporating the rich-metadata, dynamic view model of the world.
you mean like Mac OS 9 and earlier?
Microsoft does something --> evil!
GNOME/Linux does same thing later --> innotative!
but what film do you think mostly accurately represent an acid trip (visually or third-party perspective)? "Easy Rider" had a pretty good one with crying naked people in a New Orleans cemetery. and yes I have done acid and mushrooms, so I do have some context.
I don't understand what PROBLEM these electronic voting systems are intended to solve. Usability? Fraud prevention? Recountability? Non-centralized weakness? For ALL of those supposed problems, these electronic voting systems are WORSE than paper ballots.
The only advantage I see is that the electronic systems can count ballots faster, but we've never had problems with the speed of ballot counting. Ballot counting is easily parallelized across all voting precincts across the nation. In fact, that is a GOOD thing because the counting process is publicly overseen by representatives from all political parties and vote tampering is limited to a smaller set of votes.
to whom should I address the package?
What if Godwin's Law applied to politics? From this point on, no politician is allowed to make the cause of war (or some other unwarranted intrussion) using Hitler or Nazi metaphors.
or is it AmeriKKKa?
but who will you vote for in 2004? As a Republican, would really vote for Kerry or Dean over Bush?
Yeah, because every slashdotter is refreshing just like you are.
yes. It gives an quantifiable measurement of a slashdotting.
The high bid is now $305.69. damn! How long until eBay shuts down his "fake" auction? I refreshed the couple times while watching the pageview counter. It looks like his auction page is getting about 50 pageviews/second!