She added that the WIPO official who embraced the meeting had done so without proper consultation with the member states, and that WIPO's budget already is strained and cannot accommodate another meeting next year.
or next century, they're on such a tight budget. There are only 179 member world states after all...
What a shitty excuse. Who do they take people for ?
It appears that starting October 15th I will not be able to talk to my MSN friend in South Korea.
Yep. You can't IM your North Korean friends because of a communist dictature, and you can't IM your South Korean friends because of a software dictature.
The Innurnet is a global village my butt, and it's sad really...
why not take a shot of the Mars Pathfinder landing site? IIRC, Mars Global Surveyor can take shots with a resolution up to 1.5m/pixel, so it'd be interesting to get a direct overhead visual feedback of how the Pathfinder probe landed, to see if the cushioning balloons have deployed evenly for example, or see if there's anything that could have been missed from ground shots taken by the rover itself. It might help improve future automatic ground probes missions...
Sunner said that most of the problems caused by SoBig involve the time and cost of cleaning the worm from computer systems rather than the destruction of files or the opening of files to outsiders on the Internet, which can be problems with many computer viruses. Pescatore said that the cost of both technical support personnel and lost productivity by the computers' users can range from $500 to $1,000 per infected machine.
And who is Marc Sunner? he's the CTO of MessageLabs. And what does MessageLabs do, you ask? see for yourself, from the main page at messagelabs.com:
Email security today is a global issue which pervades whole organizations. Viruses, spam, pornographic material and other harmful or unwanted content represent a serious risk to your company. To combat these all too real threats, you need a total, proven and effective solution. Only MessageLabs can assure you of complete peace of mind from complete email security
$500 to $1000 to clean up each infected machine? Right, whatever Marc. And it's obvious you don't have *any* interest in propagating that baloney too. (on second thought, if you hire me to clean your machines, I'll do 5% discount off that price).
Another fine impartial article reposted by Slashdot. (By the way, the word you're looking for is "advertising")...
I duct-taped my window to leave a very small oval hole about 1m off the ground, put 3 uncomfortable, too narrow chair right next to it, put a large cupboard 30cm in front of them, cranked up the A/C to 15 degrees, and put the stereo's volume at maximum on an empty radio frequency.
To simulate a flight, I sit on the chair immediately by the window for eight hours, ask an overweight friend to sit right next to me, and ask my wife to come around every two hours with a trolley to serve us shitty coffee.
It's a very accurate simulation of a 747, and it's much cheaper than all those fancy computer displays and joysticks.
I used to have a pair of Netwave cards (vanilla 802.11a card) and they were *much* slower and more expensive than your average consumer 802.11b cards. Like a modem of something, in the order of 2 or 3 KB/s.
I've personally adopted 802.11b : I think getting 600KB/s on a wireless link more than 50m away is really neat, and the underlying technology is probably impressive. If you don't, it's probably because you don't know what existed before, and I bet you probably think your x GHz processor equipped PC is on the slow side too.
Scientists in China have, for the first time, used cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits
I thought China needed to control the exponential growth of their population, do they really need that? They should sell the technology to the state of Florida instead...
I have a script on my box that puts the eth0 interface down and back up every 3 minutes to break the connection of any evil pirate who might haNO CARRIER
and you sure are a big-M Moron. How can anybody in 2003 want to abolish money?
Money isn't evil, it's just a portable simulation of real trade, just like you send files over the internet instead of having to go see the other guy and give him a diskette. The fact that certain goods or services can be overrated or underrated doesn't change the fact that money was one of the single greatest invention of the human race.
You go trade sacks of grains in the sovkhoz with your fellow idealist friends, while everybody else will takes care of advancing civilization thank you very much.
more traffic you get, the more likely that someone will link to your site, which will raise your google ranking, which increases the amount of traffic you get
Actually you got that bacward with Freshmeat and googlewashing.
Here's the recipe to get your project on top of google : Say your project is about linking the Foo network with the Bar device:
- Choose an explicit name for your project that is already used by some obscure group that you can find on google. Imagine there's an association called FOOBIP (FOOtless Bloggers on the Internet in Poland) that has its page listed in the 20th page in google. Chose that name for your project, that's the key to googlewashing.
- Make a homepage for your project that refers extensively to Foo and Bar, but casually, in the main body. I find googlewashing doesn't work as well if you're heavy on the meta tags. Actually, no meta tags works best in my experience.
- Now you have your shitty page that hosts your project with its borrowed obscure name, link it to Google and wait 2 or 3 days. Eventually, you should find your page on google somewhere at the end, but not necessarily.
- Then, make a Freshmeat entry and release as much as you can so it goes to the FM frontpage (I think the limit is once every 3 days), for like 3 weeks.
After 3 weeks, I guarantee you that your FOOBIP project will be at or near the top of Google when you look for Foo and Bar, and the (Polish handicapped association will be googlewashed to oblivion in the process unfortunately). What happens is, during the period your release like crazy, all the FM tickers in all the little webpages around the net will start linking to your FM project page, and google will see a sudden increase of interest from an existing listed keyword (I think, I'm not sure) and will bubble your page to the top.
I've found out that method after many trials and errors. It works for me. I'm not sure why, but it works.
I too maintain niche projects, some bigger than others, some more popular than others. Here's how I understand the dynamics of a community around a projects. You have 3 cases:
1) your project is too specialized, you have a smallish community of people who use it, few bug reports now and then, and you end up doing all the work on your project.
2) your project is interesting enough that the community around it grows to a point where most of the improvements come from patches, bug reports... i.e. bits of work done not by you, but you still end up integrating the changes and act as the only maintainer of the project.
3) your project is very interesting and the community around it grows exponentially. The improvements / bug reports flood you and, essentially, your own bandwidth is not enough to maintain the project. You have to delegate and trust other people, in which case A) you're a shitty project manager and someone else who has that talent eventually makes a code fork and takes it over, or B) you become a successful OSS project maintainer, the extreme case of which, for example, is Linus.
The added fun is that, if you code well while you start the project, it can go from a shitty thing to something of interest, just because the look-n-feel that detracted people from trying it before now attracts more people. That's where all the interest is, see how you can "prime the pump" and build a community around your ideas by doing the initial work, then watch the improvements come already made.
I personally choose to create/maintain projects that I reckon will fall in or near category 2), because I don't want to maintain big projects anymore, with the flood of patches, suggestions and hate mail that comes with it, but I don't want to end up having my name associated with a shitty tarball that nobody cares about either.
We're constantly hearing how the source based nature of the Gentoo distro makes better use of your hardware
Obvious, unless you use a genuine i386.
What kind of gains are involved over distros which use binary packaging?
Take a wild guess...
That's a lot of useless preamble to put some meat around the bone of this Slashdot article, which essentially lies at the end, where it says "The article is here."
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She added that the WIPO official who embraced the meeting had done so without proper consultation with the member states, and that WIPO's budget already is strained and cannot accommodate another meeting next year.
...
or next century, they're on such a tight budget. There are only 179 member world states after all
What a shitty excuse. Who do they take people for ?
IBM Corp. has begun a real-world test of its grid-computing system by turning to a familiar geek pastime: games.
I'd have hosted Slashdot instead. Or updates.microsoft.com.
It appears that starting October 15th I will not be able to talk to my MSN friend in South Korea.
...
Yep. You can't IM your North Korean friends because of a communist dictature, and you can't IM your South Korean friends because of a software dictature.
The Innurnet is a global village my butt, and it's sad really
why not take a shot of the Mars Pathfinder landing site? IIRC, Mars Global Surveyor can take shots with a resolution up to 1.5m/pixel, so it'd be interesting to get a direct overhead visual feedback of how the Pathfinder probe landed, to see if the cushioning balloons have deployed evenly for example, or see if there's anything that could have been missed from ground shots taken by the rover itself. It might help improve future automatic ground probes missions ...
Sunner said that most of the problems caused by SoBig involve the time and cost of cleaning the worm from computer systems rather than the destruction of files or the opening of files to outsiders on the Internet, which can be problems with many computer viruses. Pescatore said that the cost of both technical support personnel and lost productivity by the computers' users can range from $500 to $1,000 per infected machine.
...
And who is Marc Sunner? he's the CTO of MessageLabs. And what does MessageLabs do, you ask? see for yourself, from the main page at messagelabs.com:
Email security today is a global issue which pervades whole organizations. Viruses, spam, pornographic material and other harmful or unwanted content represent a serious risk to your company. To combat these all too real threats, you need a total, proven and effective solution. Only MessageLabs can assure you of complete peace of mind from complete email security
$500 to $1000 to clean up each infected machine? Right, whatever Marc. And it's obvious you don't have *any* interest in propagating that baloney too. (on second thought, if you hire me to clean your machines, I'll do 5% discount off that price).
Another fine impartial article reposted by Slashdot. (By the way, the word you're looking for is "advertising")
oh, and I forgot the deluxe version where I push the cupboard 50cm further away and write EXIT in big letters on the duct-tape ...
I duct-taped my window to leave a very small oval hole about 1m off the ground, put 3 uncomfortable, too narrow chair right next to it, put a large cupboard 30cm in front of them, cranked up the A/C to 15 degrees, and put the stereo's volume at maximum on an empty radio frequency.
To simulate a flight, I sit on the chair immediately by the window for eight hours, ask an overweight friend to sit right next to me, and ask my wife to come around every two hours with a trolley to serve us shitty coffee.
It's a very accurate simulation of a 747, and it's much cheaper than all those fancy computer displays and joysticks.
Federal prosecutors in California went too far when they put a man in prison for disclosing a website security hole
Guess whose hole will need tight security now ?
You people don't know where you come from.
...
I used to have a pair of Netwave cards (vanilla 802.11a card) and they were *much* slower and more expensive than your average consumer 802.11b cards. Like a modem of something, in the order of 2 or 3 KB/s.
I've personally adopted 802.11b : I think getting 600KB/s on a wireless link more than 50m away is really neat, and the underlying technology is probably impressive. If you don't, it's probably because you don't know what existed before, and I bet you probably think your x GHz processor equipped PC is on the slow side too.
Ingrates
MIMO, which 'relies on taking advantage of huge amounts of computing power to send numbers of signals from closely spaced antennas'
If they're close enough, you can run an ethernet cable between the two, that's even cheaper.
always the first to get the nice stuff. I can't wait till the Windows port comes out ...
Does "thou fart" work too ? It's easier to remember ...
What two things go better together than Star Wars and sex?
This guy has been dreaming of those erectile light-sabers a little too much.
looks especially designed to not be readable on a Blackberry pager. Nice usability test though ...
Scientists in China have, for the first time, used cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits
...
I thought China needed to control the exponential growth of their population, do they really need that? They should sell the technology to the state of Florida instead
I have a script on my box that puts the eth0 interface down and back up every 3 minutes to break the connection of any evil pirate who might haNO CARRIER
Thank goodness nobody mentioned that most modern ATMs (no "machine" !!!) have a HDD drive inside and an LCD display ...
yes, I'm a small-c communist.
and you sure are a big-M Moron. How can anybody in 2003 want to abolish money?
Money isn't evil, it's just a portable simulation of real trade, just like you send files over the internet instead of having to go see the other guy and give him a diskette. The fact that certain goods or services can be overrated or underrated doesn't change the fact that money was one of the single greatest invention of the human race.
You go trade sacks of grains in the sovkhoz with your fellow idealist friends, while everybody else will takes care of advancing civilization thank you very much.
to test all new new inventions coming out of the mint. I can handle large test batches too.
Isn't the radius of Earth about 40.000 km
...
Oooh, that's why I can never see my neighbors' feet under the horizon
it was built completely from scratch in the desert, on the side of the mountain, in the rain.
Why buy $98 worth of equipment at Home Depot and take the trouble of making tinfoil emitters when you can just dance to get rain in the desert?
more traffic you get, the more likely that someone will link to your site, which will raise your google ranking, which increases the amount of traffic you get
:
Actually you got that bacward with Freshmeat and googlewashing.
Here's the recipe to get your project on top of google : Say your project is about linking the Foo network with the Bar device
- Choose an explicit name for your project that is already used by some obscure group that you can find on google. Imagine there's an association called FOOBIP (FOOtless Bloggers on the Internet in Poland) that has its page listed in the 20th page in google. Chose that name for your project, that's the key to googlewashing.
- Make a homepage for your project that refers extensively to Foo and Bar, but casually, in the main body. I find googlewashing doesn't work as well if you're heavy on the meta tags. Actually, no meta tags works best in my experience.
- Now you have your shitty page that hosts your project with its borrowed obscure name, link it to Google and wait 2 or 3 days. Eventually, you should find your page on google somewhere at the end, but not necessarily.
- Then, make a Freshmeat entry and release as much as you can so it goes to the FM frontpage (I think the limit is once every 3 days), for like 3 weeks.
After 3 weeks, I guarantee you that your FOOBIP project will be at or near the top of Google when you look for Foo and Bar, and the (Polish handicapped association will be googlewashed to oblivion in the process unfortunately). What happens is, during the period your release like crazy, all the FM tickers in all the little webpages around the net will start linking to your FM project page, and google will see a sudden increase of interest from an existing listed keyword (I think, I'm not sure) and will bubble your page to the top.
I've found out that method after many trials and errors. It works for me. I'm not sure why, but it works.
I too maintain niche projects, some bigger than others, some more popular than others. Here's how I understand the dynamics of a community around a projects. You have 3 cases :
... i.e. bits of work done not by you, but you still end up integrating the changes and act as the only maintainer of the project.
1) your project is too specialized, you have a smallish community of people who use it, few bug reports now and then, and you end up doing all the work on your project.
2) your project is interesting enough that the community around it grows to a point where most of the improvements come from patches, bug reports
3) your project is very interesting and the community around it grows exponentially. The improvements / bug reports flood you and, essentially, your own bandwidth is not enough to maintain the project. You have to delegate and trust other people, in which case A) you're a shitty project manager and someone else who has that talent eventually makes a code fork and takes it over, or B) you become a successful OSS project maintainer, the extreme case of which, for example, is Linus.
The added fun is that, if you code well while you start the project, it can go from a shitty thing to something of interest, just because the look-n-feel that detracted people from trying it before now attracts more people. That's where all the interest is, see how you can "prime the pump" and build a community around your ideas by doing the initial work, then watch the improvements come already made.
I personally choose to create/maintain projects that I reckon will fall in or near category 2), because I don't want to maintain big projects anymore, with the flood of patches, suggestions and hate mail that comes with it, but I don't want to end up having my name associated with a shitty tarball that nobody cares about either.
Using it. It rocks. Best Linux distribution yet.
So are Debian, RedHat, SuSE and Slackware, according to Debian, RedHat, SuSE and Slackware users (respectively). I take it you're a Gentoo fan?
We're constantly hearing how the source based nature of the Gentoo distro makes better use of your hardware
...
Obvious, unless you use a genuine i386.
What kind of gains are involved over distros which use binary packaging?
Take a wild guess
That's a lot of useless preamble to put some meat around the bone of this Slashdot article, which essentially lies at the end, where it says "The article is here."