As with firearms, it's the shooter that commits a murder, not the gun. In this case, it's hackers that commit hacking, not the tool. And just as with guns, when they outlaw hacking tools, only outlaws will have them, and the new laws will just annoy the shit out of legit users.
Microsoft is too busy to figure out the list of infringing patens eh? then how did they count the exact number of infringing patents? if this number didn't come out of a countable list, perhaps, just perhaps, they must be pulling it out of their collective arse...
And how, exactly, is that going to happen with people actively turning back to XP in droves?
Get real, this is only temporary. Once Microsoft has patched Vista enough to make it vaguely palatable, and newer PCs ship with enough extra oomph to run the OS as fast as XP on today's hardware, people will just get used to it. Don't kid yourself, the forced upgrade scheme will be going as planned.
Simple: it's an online place for retarded teenagers to create hard-to-read webpages and socialize, and for pedophiles and perverts to stalk onto. Same as Myspace...
Given a multi-gigabit network infrastructure and an on-net server with a gigabit Ethernet port, what software packages are available which can reliably test throughput approaching one gigabit?
You need a fast computer with a large hard-disk and a gigabit ethernet card, tcpdump, a shell, and 12000 monkeys to read the logs.
...How long before the definition of "hate" is expanded to speech politicians don't like?
This is already the case. French right-wing politician Jean-Marie Lepen once publicly declared that the Nazi gas chambers were a detail of history (which, however horrible, they technically are, since history concerns much more than 3 years in some spots of Germany and Poland). Mr. Lepen was sued in court and condemned for having said that.
hate will grow as a result. This is a common human trait : when something is forbidden, people are attracted by it. Just ask any teenager smoking a cigarette in hiding.
But here's the proof, imho : in the US, where you can pretty much say any old darn thing short of direct calls to violence, neo-nazi, KKKs and other white supremacist groups exist, express themselves (much to the dismay of the local populace around them) and... they look like a small group of retards. On the other hand, in Europe, where you can't say something even remotely critical of the jews, and where naziism has become taboo to the point where it's not even possible to discuss the official head count of the holocaust without landing in the pokey, antisemitism, racism and extreme-right groups are growing at an alarming rate. Why? because these people stay hidden, embedded in the general population, by force of law, instead of coming out and showing themselves as the numbskulls they are like in the US.
So in short, banning hate speech will do nothing but promote hate. Well done EEC, some insight...
I've been suspicious of Google's "do no evil" motto from day one, but my suspicions were confirmed when it was announced that Google Mail would be storing your emails ad-infinitum even if you deleted them. It is quite clear and obvious (and it has been for a long time) that Google is in the datamining business, the targeted advertisement part of which is only the tip of the iceberg. Anybody who's surprised by this announcement has been living in a cave...
What's next... an MMORPG where you have to spot trains?
No no, the next cool thing will be an MMORPG where you can play an MMORPG. Something called Third Life for example, just in case you're bored with your ordinary, everyday second-life and want to escape plain virtual reality...
This is the number to call if you'd like to report a fraud during the Nigerian election : 1-888-GO-419
You'll soon get called back by voting official Dr. Adewale Johnson, who incidentally also has a lot of money locked up in a bank account and needs your help.
I think you're wrong here: as hateful as XP was, it was a relief compared to such gems as Windows 98 or ME. Frankly, if Microsoft was smart, given the relative acceptance of the latest iterations of XP as a stable and useful OS (in Microsoft metrics of course), they would have kept pluging holes and making it better one patch at a time until it was finally good. But of course this doesn't make them big bucks, so instead they embarqued on this stupid Longhorn fantasy and this is the result: people are happy enough with XP (and justly wary of any new Microsoft product) that they don't want Vista.
and you know what, I've done even better. I can generate a pure sine carrier with an infinite frequency: It's a generator that generates 0V DC. Beat that!
You're missing the point: This is about tacking ads you don't want to see to a flash file you do want to see. If you want to see the video, you'll have to swallow a dose of ads. No ads, no video.
Well yes and no. I mean yes, it won't introduce any noticeable temperature difference in the atmosphere for sure, but it could destabilize whatever climate system that depends on the jet stream somehow. I'm certainly not a specialist, but I recall having read about 15 years ago an article about a project consisting of giant underwater turbines anchored in the gulf stream in the middle of the gulf of Mexico, to extract energy from moving masses of water. I remember the article said that it wouldn't slow down the gulf stream, but it might conceivably alter living conditions for the wildlife downstream, and perhaps disturb the flow of water enough that it might alter the climate in Europe ever so slightly.
So I don't know, if these guys, presumably expects, were worried about the ecological impact of an underwater turbine, one might wonder about the impact of a similar turbine tapping power from the jet stream. At least it's worth an impact study.
Chip manufacturers have better define some kind of common norm for the Vccm Vss, GND, busses, etc... pins on similar devices (like ICs, RAM chips and such), otherwise it's back to square one with a circuit board that has to pick up the lines and reroute them to other components, and the advantage of this technology would be zilch.
My opinion is that this hi-res frenzy that's been going on for years is pure marketing bullshit. The truth is :
1- only a small minority of consumers have 50" TVs 2- only a small subset of aforementioned minority watches 50" TVs upclose 3- What do you watch on TV that requires high resolution? most TV programs are crap, and if they display text in the image (the toughest kind of feature to display with a low resolution), it's big enough that it never matters anyway.
High resolution is a solution in search of a problem. The best proof is, nobody in the 25-or-so years I've been hearing about HDTV coming "real soon now" is really clamoring for a better image quality. Most people are happy enough with TV the way it is. That's the reality.
Slashdotters are coders and often want to put up interesting web sites to highlight their ideas, but that costs money,
Actually developers (at least those who do free software) have it very easy to advertise their work on Google: it's very simple and quite work-free to get a dingy little project page ranked very well on Google. All you have to do is list it on Freshmeat with the proper words in the project description and wait a couple of days. The huge number of sites that link to Freshmeat and archive the FM frontpage will automatically make a kajillion link to the project's page. I myself maintain a dozen small OSS projects that are almost invariably ranked very well in the Google first page when searching with fairly generic terms relevant to my applications.
So no, coders and nerds in general (the admitted target audience of Slashdot) don't need Google's marketing tools and don't need to pay a cent for them, because they benefit from the huge F/OSS social network on the net. Those who do need Google's marketing tools are those who try to *sell* you something that, unless the product is exceptionally good, isn't going to be listed at the top of the Google search unless the pusher pays Google.
That's why I say again that I (and I think most Slashdot readers) don't need/want to read about marketing tools.
This is pathetic: this "article" is nothing more than a PR release. I don't want to read that sort of thing, and especially not about something that makes online marketers' lives easier!
Since I have the weakness to believe Slashdot isn't paid to plug Google, I can only deduce that they tend to post about anything that has "Google" written in it somewhere, which is lame...
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As with firearms, it's the shooter that commits a murder, not the gun. In this case, it's hackers that commit hacking, not the tool. And just as with guns, when they outlaw hacking tools, only outlaws will have them, and the new laws will just annoy the shit out of legit users.
Microsoft is too busy to figure out the list of infringing patens eh? then how did they count the exact number of infringing patents? if this number didn't come out of a countable list, perhaps, just perhaps, they must be pulling it out of their collective arse...
And how, exactly, is that going to happen with people actively turning back to XP in droves?
Get real, this is only temporary. Once Microsoft has patched Vista enough to make it vaguely palatable, and newer PCs ship with enough extra oomph to run the OS as fast as XP on today's hardware, people will just get used to it. Don't kid yourself, the forced upgrade scheme will be going as planned.
Simple: it's an online place for retarded teenagers to create hard-to-read webpages and socialize, and for pedophiles and perverts to stalk onto. Same as Myspace...
Now it'll be impossible to post "holy cow!" anywhere on Orkut...
I thought it was gonna be something else Bush and Rove were at fault for.
This time you can arguably blame Scott McNealy though...
Given a multi-gigabit network infrastructure and an on-net server with a gigabit Ethernet port, what software packages are available which can reliably test throughput approaching one gigabit?
You need a fast computer with a large hard-disk and a gigabit ethernet card, tcpdump, a shell, and 12000 monkeys to read the logs.
Are you seriously lumping Hitler, Castro and Valenti together?
REALLY?
You're right, that's silly, Castro isn't even dead yet...
...How long before the definition of "hate" is expanded to speech politicians don't like?
This is already the case. French right-wing politician Jean-Marie Lepen once publicly declared that the Nazi gas chambers were a detail of history (which, however horrible, they technically are, since history concerns much more than 3 years in some spots of Germany and Poland). Mr. Lepen was sued in court and condemned for having said that.
hate will grow as a result. This is a common human trait : when something is forbidden, people are attracted by it. Just ask any teenager smoking a cigarette in hiding.
But here's the proof, imho : in the US, where you can pretty much say any old darn thing short of direct calls to violence, neo-nazi, KKKs and other white supremacist groups exist, express themselves (much to the dismay of the local populace around them) and... they look like a small group of retards. On the other hand, in Europe, where you can't say something even remotely critical of the jews, and where naziism has become taboo to the point where it's not even possible to discuss the official head count of the holocaust without landing in the pokey, antisemitism, racism and extreme-right groups are growing at an alarming rate. Why? because these people stay hidden, embedded in the general population, by force of law, instead of coming out and showing themselves as the numbskulls they are like in the US.
So in short, banning hate speech will do nothing but promote hate. Well done EEC, some insight...
I've been suspicious of Google's "do no evil" motto from day one, but my suspicions were confirmed when it was announced that Google Mail would be storing your emails ad-infinitum even if you deleted them. It is quite clear and obvious (and it has been for a long time) that Google is in the datamining business, the targeted advertisement part of which is only the tip of the iceberg. Anybody who's surprised by this announcement has been living in a cave...
What's next... an MMORPG where you have to spot trains?
No no, the next cool thing will be an MMORPG where you can play an MMORPG. Something called Third Life for example, just in case you're bored with your ordinary, everyday second-life and want to escape plain virtual reality...
This is the number to call if you'd like to report a fraud during the Nigerian election : 1-888-GO-419
You'll soon get called back by voting official Dr. Adewale Johnson, who incidentally also has a lot of money locked up in a bank account and needs your help.
Microsoft complaining about a company locking competitors out? that's rich...
I think you're wrong here: as hateful as XP was, it was a relief compared to such gems as Windows 98 or ME. Frankly, if Microsoft was smart, given the relative acceptance of the latest iterations of XP as a stable and useful OS (in Microsoft metrics of course), they would have kept pluging holes and making it better one patch at a time until it was finally good. But of course this doesn't make them big bucks, so instead they embarqued on this stupid Longhorn fantasy and this is the result: people are happy enough with XP (and justly wary of any new Microsoft product) that they don't want Vista.
Microsoft?
unlike generics in C#, maintaining backwards (and forwards) compatibility with existing Java code.
Who ever saw a version of a Microsoft product that was compatible with the previous version?
and you know what, I've done even better. I can generate a pure sine carrier with an infinite frequency: It's a generator that generates 0V DC. Beat that!
You're missing the point: This is about tacking ads you don't want to see to a flash file you do want to see. If you want to see the video, you'll have to swallow a dose of ads. No ads, no video.
Well yes and no. I mean yes, it won't introduce any noticeable temperature difference in the atmosphere for sure, but it could destabilize whatever climate system that depends on the jet stream somehow. I'm certainly not a specialist, but I recall having read about 15 years ago an article about a project consisting of giant underwater turbines anchored in the gulf stream in the middle of the gulf of Mexico, to extract energy from moving masses of water. I remember the article said that it wouldn't slow down the gulf stream, but it might conceivably alter living conditions for the wildlife downstream, and perhaps disturb the flow of water enough that it might alter the climate in Europe ever so slightly.
So I don't know, if these guys, presumably expects, were worried about the ecological impact of an underwater turbine, one might wonder about the impact of a similar turbine tapping power from the jet stream. At least it's worth an impact study.
Chip manufacturers have better define some kind of common norm for the Vccm Vss, GND, busses, etc... pins on similar devices (like ICs, RAM chips and such), otherwise it's back to square one with a circuit board that has to pick up the lines and reroute them to other components, and the advantage of this technology would be zilch.
My opinion is that this hi-res frenzy that's been going on for years is pure marketing bullshit. The truth is :
1- only a small minority of consumers have 50" TVs
2- only a small subset of aforementioned minority watches 50" TVs upclose
3- What do you watch on TV that requires high resolution? most TV programs are crap, and if they display text in the image (the toughest kind of feature to display with a low resolution), it's big enough that it never matters anyway.
High resolution is a solution in search of a problem. The best proof is, nobody in the 25-or-so years I've been hearing about HDTV coming "real soon now" is really clamoring for a better image quality. Most people are happy enough with TV the way it is. That's the reality.
If you lean into your honey for a kiss, she doesn't get all pixellated when you get close to her face.
Dude, this is Slashdot. When a Slashdot reader leans into his honey for a kiss, she *does* get pixellated...
Slashdotters are coders and often want to put up interesting web sites to highlight their ideas, but that costs money,
Actually developers (at least those who do free software) have it very easy to advertise their work on Google: it's very simple and quite work-free to get a dingy little project page ranked very well on Google. All you have to do is list it on Freshmeat with the proper words in the project description and wait a couple of days. The huge number of sites that link to Freshmeat and archive the FM frontpage will automatically make a kajillion link to the project's page. I myself maintain a dozen small OSS projects that are almost invariably ranked very well in the Google first page when searching with fairly generic terms relevant to my applications.
So no, coders and nerds in general (the admitted target audience of Slashdot) don't need Google's marketing tools and don't need to pay a cent for them, because they benefit from the huge F/OSS social network on the net. Those who do need Google's marketing tools are those who try to *sell* you something that, unless the product is exceptionally good, isn't going to be listed at the top of the Google search unless the pusher pays Google.
That's why I say again that I (and I think most Slashdot readers) don't need/want to read about marketing tools.
This is pathetic: this "article" is nothing more than a PR release. I don't want to read that sort of thing, and especially not about something that makes online marketers' lives easier!
Since I have the weakness to believe Slashdot isn't paid to plug Google, I can only deduce that they tend to post about anything that has "Google" written in it somewhere, which is lame...