I couldn't find anything in the article where it explained where the magic fairies created the network out of dreams and wishes. Someone had to pay for the "2,800 miles of free fiber" because it couldn't have been donated all of those responsible, well-meaning corporations out there. Too many government officials confuse free with "didn't come out of our budget".
I never understood why NetFlix used IP address to determine which country's service that they gave you access to. Why don't they use the billing address for the credit card/payment service and then only allow the country to be changed if your billing address changed and then stupid technical fixes implementing Google DNS wouldn't be necessary.
I don't if any of these games are in violation of copyright laws but I do know that just because it is for sale does not mean that it is a violation. You can get e-books for works out of copyright for authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and W. Shakespeare from archive.org and Project Gutenburg but it doesn't stop books stores from selling them anyways.
I imagine that the copyright laws governing these games are subject to where the foundation for archive.org is established. So if they established the foundation in a country that doesn't have draconian copyright laws like the US, but instead where it is something reasonable like 20 years then I believe that all of these games would be clear.
People's rights were respected. First, the residents were asked to to stay in their homes. Secondly, the searches were voluntary and law enforcement went door-to-door and asked to search the premises and the residents willfully co-operated.
To be honest, I was fully expecting the state and local government to throw out everyone's rights in the name of expediency and serving the greater good and was pleasantly surprised when it didn't happen. Although it is still early, I haven't heard of any incidents where law enforcement was overzealous and trampled on anyone's rights.
Parents should be the ones making these decisions instead of the government (Australia anyone?). This goes to the heart of the argument regarding censuring content and who's responsibility it is to decide. Adults should be able to decide for themselves and parents should decide for their kids. It is up to each parent to decide what is and is not appropriate for their kids and to determine the best way to do it. Saying that the poster is enforcing fascist policies on his/her kids is the same argument that a government uses when trying to implement censorship laws on its citizens: you know what is better for them more than they do.
As for the technical question: Most of what you want to implement can be done through an off-the-shelf router that has had the firmware flashed with DD-WRT. You can set up individual profiles for the MAC address of the kids laptops that limits the times that they can access the internet, and when you ground them you can disable access completely via their individual profile. It also has some VERY basic web filtering. You have to have/buy a router that is supported by DD-WRT, but you can get one pretty cheap. The ASUS 520GU is supported and it usually can be had at NewEgg for around $40. If want more robust web filtering you can set up a linux server and run Dan's Guardian & install Nagios for hardware monitoring.
but what about all the other porn & violence our kids should not be looking at on the 'net?
First of all, as a parent, it is my responsibility to make the decisions about what my kids should and shouldn't have access to. It's not their responsibility to decide what is best for my family, and it certainly not yours. If I want to censor my kids' internet experience, I can buy net nanny software and select the categories and sites that I decide are important. Also, the more you tell someone that they can't have something the more they want it, especially with kids. If you try and block access to porn & violence they will make it their life's mission to get access to it. Its usually better to talk to them and let them know why certain things are not good for them so that when they do access it they will put your words together with what they observe and realize that what you are telling them makes sense.
Second, I could be mistaken but I don't believe there are any countries where child pornography or bestiality is legal. I think we can all agree that both acts are so disgusting that they shouldn't be tolerated, so it should be relatively simple thing to set up a system where such sites can be reported so that they can be verified and shut down. I know it's not that simple, but it's easier than setting up and maintaining a nationwide web filter using these things as a pretense to strip away my rights.
Third, I am not a kid. I am an adult and can make my own decisions about whether I want to watch porn or violent shows. How does a nationwide web filter know how old I am? It doesn't and it's just a pretense for someone in power to impose their narrow values on me.
Your whole argument is that this nationwide web filter is a waste of time & money because it doesn't do enough to suit your narrow paradigm of right and wrong. Why do you think that you get to decide that kinky, watersports, scat and BDSM porn should be blocked? Just because you don't like these things doesn't mean that you have the right to prevent others who do from watching them. I don't understand why you lump these things in with child pornography and beastiality. If a kid sees a plain-vanilla sex scene on the net that involves a man and a woman, is it any different? What if its features anal sex? How about 2 women? Group sex? Do you consider some professional sports too violent and need to be blocked? Mixed martial arts, boxing, hockey and American football all can be very violent. Or is it OK because they don't involve guns?
If I don't like something then I don't watch it. Its lazy, narrow-minded, non-thinking people like you how have bought into the "think of the children" BS that are making it easy for the government to slowly strip away people's rights.
December 9, 2009. CodePlex Foundation Launches Search for Executive Director, Technical Director
Moving to meet its 100 day goals, the CodePlex Foundation today announced that it has launched a search for a permanent, full-time Executive Director and Technical Director. Individuals chosen for the positions will guide the Foundation in its mission of facilitating the participation of corporate software developers in open source projects while providing a channel of communication from the open source community back to software companies.
This is dated 12/9, a full ten days before the 100 day deadline. Besides, how often does a large scale foundation ever stick to its original schedule?
This is not a troll, but it probably is flame-bait, but wtf.
[sarcasm on]
It really is hard to tell our paper currency apart, what with the denominations printed in about 10 - 15 places on each bill. And they sure are hard to counterfeit, what with the 6 or more obvious counter-measures, and the 6 or so non-obvious counter-measures in each bill. [sarcasm off]
I LIKE our money the way it is. I don't want money that looks like a rainbow shit on it. If foreigners can't take the time to learn the denominations of one of the hardest currencies in the world, then fuck'em.
The lame ass Dems better pass that economic stimulus package and help their constituents go back to work instead of playing these political games. I got a quite unexpected pink slip today to ring in the "New Year" with and my wife and four kids are used to having a roof over their heads and food to eat. I know that's not as important as the Dems jockying for power, trying to take back the Congress. However, I don't want or need them to create anymore social programs, I want to go back to work.
I was so busy thinking how I wanted to put a Soundblaster card that supported Dolby into the one and only PCI slot in the damn thing, that I forgot you also needed TV-In for PVR, LOL.
Damn. Well the tradeoff seems to be PVR, or good sound for everything else.
No need for an additional video card. It has an integrated video chip(Savage) that has TV-Out(S-Video) built into the mobo. Add HDD, processor, memory and it could be a nice MP3 server hooked to your TV, especially if you "have an IR reciever plopped off the serial port" as you said. Tivo-like system should be just as doable. I would like to see an LCD slapped on the front of it though. For the $250 MWave is charging, and say $250 more for the aforementioned components, this would make a nifty addition to an entertainment system. With the built-in NIC, it could also double as a MP3 playing, web-surfing, e-mail, instant messaging kiosk that you could access right from the couch.
My brother-in-law worked for them 15 years before the anouncement came that they were going out of business. To keep from having an employee mass exodus so that they could sell of all the remaining inventory, the employees were promised the following for staying the last few months:
Pay for unused vacation
A weeks pay for every year of service for severance
This money was to be mailed to their places of residence the Saturday after the Final closing date along with their final paycheck.
Saturday arrives and instead of the checks they get a letter saying that not only were they reneging on the promised severance and vacation pay, but they also were not getting their last paycheck.
My brother-in-law got screwed out of 20 weeks pay.(3 weeks vacation, 15 years service, 2 week paycheck)
Moral: Stick your company for everything you can get when it comes to salary and benefits, because they have as much empathy and caring for you as they do for the Xerox machine. Don't believe anything management promises, unless it is in writing AND signed. When the company looks like it is in trouble, abandon it like rats off a sinking ship, because that is what they would do to you.
They believe that they will be blessed by their God for dying for their religious beliefs. So, we kill all of them, that way they are one with their God, and are happy. They are dead and can't harm us so we're happy. It's a win-win for everyone.
Systems administrators -- good system administrators -- are worth their weight in coffee beans weekly, probably more if you count overtime...
I don't where Timothy buys his coffee, but most decent coffee can be be bought on-line for around $4.50/lb USD. If you take an arbitrary weight of 180 pounds for an admin, thats $810 USD per week, or $42,120 USD per year for a good sys admin.
I don't know about you guys, but before I take a Linux Sys Admin job, I'm going to balloon up to 350 - 400 lbs first.
As an aside, for those who are Metricly challanged, 2.2 pounds is approximately 1 kilogram.
It is readily apparent that Eazel and most other Linux related products (Ximian, RedHat, etc.) follow the CueCat business model of "give away the product and try to make money off the product by indirect means." In this case, it's give away the product and try to get people to pay for services. This business model is doomed to fail in every instance.
What I don't understand is the reasoning here on Slashdot. I hate to paint this community with a broad brush, but the editors inundated us with article after article on the CueCat. Granted, most of it was about how Digital Convergence was trying to enforce licensing on hardware and how they were issuing "Cease and Desist" orders to anyone writing alternative software for it. However, there was quite a bit of commentary from this community about how flawed DC's business model was, and how no company has a right to make a profit or survive for that matter. It appears that this is the same business model a lot of the so-called "Linux Companies" are following, yet the editors here feel we should make donations via PayPal to keep this company afloat. Does this mean that these rules are only supposed to apply to non-Linux related companies?
I apologise for the long-winded, Jon Katz style editorial, but this seems to be an issue that not only affects Eazel, but most other "commercial" Linux companies. I fully expect this post to be modded down as a "Troll" by the blind Linux faithful, but hopefully enough people will read it before it finds -1 to spark some discussion on this problem.
PCMCIA would allow for a modem, ethernet card, or even better an Iomega PocketZip. Granted you can get USB version of any of these periperals, but USB modems and etherenet cards are notoriously slow and buggy. PCMCIA cards are easier to transport.
Reading the explanation on their site, there seems to be an awful lot of suppositions:
It's widely believed that Western governments read (and decrypt) a great deal of Internet mail through systems called Echelon, Carnivore and others. Presumably they have filters which discard spam. Possibly, due to the existence of this little website, they can no longer ignore spam. Even if spammimic only gets 2 hits a day; the fact that it's here might force the snoops to process terabytes of spam -- making them spend a little less time on other mails.
Wow, spew some vague, unrealistic, sci-fi, "Big-Brother" tripe and it get's modded up. I'll have to remember that.
Anyways, all that aside let me answer your question for you:
What else could a small robot with cameras be used for anyway?
How about anywhere that is to small for a human to get to troubleshoot. How helpful would it be to be able to send a small robot w/camera into a complex machine to see why it wasn't working, instead of having to completely disassemble it? I'm not talking about anything unrealistic like actually fixing it, just acting as a small, very flexible pair of eyes.
Just apply this robot to the following statement:
"I really wish this shit wasn't packed in here like this, so I could see what the problem was."
It has been suggested that the posts from were either organized by Linuxgruven management or are the work of the same person with multiple accounts.
I would like to suggest it was neither. I believe that Linuxgruven is a cult along the lines of the Hale-Boppers. I believe that current Linuxgruven employees were the students in it's training program that showed the greatest potentional to open suggestion and thus were brainwashed. The popular press already depicts most Linux users as "geeks", "disenfranchised", or "outsiders" which is the perfect pool of humanity in which to recruit from.
Here is what I propose:
We need a syncronized raid on all 8 of the Linuxgruven offices to free these poor, misguided, brainwashed souls before it is too late. Linuxgruven has already publicly stated it intends to double the number of locations in which they can "recruit" new members.
Please do not confuse the acquisition of a piece of paper from a certified educator with compentency.
The percentage of less than compentent people without college degrees is probably the same as ones who have them. I personally know of a small village of people who attended college and basically skated to graduation with a decent GPA just by glomming all the answers from friends, boy/girl friends, family, etc. I also know of an equal amount of people that learned their craft by OJT, research, and dedication to knowing everything necessary in order to the the job right.
There are many reasons why someone can be skilled at a job, in this case Software Engineering, and not need a sheepskin in order to do the job right.
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It appears that hotdogs are dangerous as well: http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
When Google finds security bugs in Android do they publish it along with proof of concept after 90 days?
I couldn't find anything in the article where it explained where the magic fairies created the network out of dreams and wishes. Someone had to pay for the "2,800 miles of free fiber" because it couldn't have been donated all of those responsible, well-meaning corporations out there. Too many government officials confuse free with "didn't come out of our budget".
I never understood why NetFlix used IP address to determine which country's service that they gave you access to. Why don't they use the billing address for the credit card/payment service and then only allow the country to be changed if your billing address changed and then stupid technical fixes implementing Google DNS wouldn't be necessary.
I don't if any of these games are in violation of copyright laws but I do know that just because it is for sale does not mean that it is a violation. You can get e-books for works out of copyright for authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and W. Shakespeare from archive.org and Project Gutenburg but it doesn't stop books stores from selling them anyways.
I imagine that the copyright laws governing these games are subject to where the foundation for archive.org is established. So if they established the foundation in a country that doesn't have draconian copyright laws like the US, but instead where it is something reasonable like 20 years then I believe that all of these games would be clear.
Yes, it is:
Mono
ASP.NET
Entity Framework
People's rights were respected. First, the residents were asked to to stay in their homes. Secondly, the searches were voluntary and law enforcement went door-to-door and asked to search the premises and the residents willfully co-operated.
To be honest, I was fully expecting the state and local government to throw out everyone's rights in the name of expediency and serving the greater good and was pleasantly surprised when it didn't happen. Although it is still early, I haven't heard of any incidents where law enforcement was overzealous and trampled on anyone's rights.
Parents should be the ones making these decisions instead of the government (Australia anyone?). This goes to the heart of the argument regarding censuring content and who's responsibility it is to decide. Adults should be able to decide for themselves and parents should decide for their kids. It is up to each parent to decide what is and is not appropriate for their kids and to determine the best way to do it. Saying that the poster is enforcing fascist policies on his/her kids is the same argument that a government uses when trying to implement censorship laws on its citizens: you know what is better for them more than they do.
As for the technical question: Most of what you want to implement can be done through an off-the-shelf router that has had the firmware flashed with DD-WRT. You can set up individual profiles for the MAC address of the kids laptops that limits the times that they can access the internet, and when you ground them you can disable access completely via their individual profile. It also has some VERY basic web filtering. You have to have/buy a router that is supported by DD-WRT, but you can get one pretty cheap. The ASUS 520GU is supported and it usually can be had at NewEgg for around $40. If want more robust web filtering you can set up a linux server and run Dan's Guardian & install Nagios for hardware monitoring.
but what about all the other porn & violence our kids should not be looking at on the 'net?
First of all, as a parent, it is my responsibility to make the decisions about what my kids should and shouldn't have access to. It's not their responsibility to decide what is best for my family, and it certainly not yours. If I want to censor my kids' internet experience, I can buy net nanny software and select the categories and sites that I decide are important. Also, the more you tell someone that they can't have something the more they want it, especially with kids. If you try and block access to porn & violence they will make it their life's mission to get access to it. Its usually better to talk to them and let them know why certain things are not good for them so that when they do access it they will put your words together with what they observe and realize that what you are telling them makes sense.
Second, I could be mistaken but I don't believe there are any countries where child pornography or bestiality is legal. I think we can all agree that both acts are so disgusting that they shouldn't be tolerated, so it should be relatively simple thing to set up a system where such sites can be reported so that they can be verified and shut down. I know it's not that simple, but it's easier than setting up and maintaining a nationwide web filter using these things as a pretense to strip away my rights.
Third, I am not a kid. I am an adult and can make my own decisions about whether I want to watch porn or violent shows. How does a nationwide web filter know how old I am? It doesn't and it's just a pretense for someone in power to impose their narrow values on me.
Your whole argument is that this nationwide web filter is a waste of time & money because it doesn't do enough to suit your narrow paradigm of right and wrong. Why do you think that you get to decide that kinky, watersports, scat and BDSM porn should be blocked? Just because you don't like these things doesn't mean that you have the right to prevent others who do from watching them. I don't understand why you lump these things in with child pornography and beastiality. If a kid sees a plain-vanilla sex scene on the net that involves a man and a woman, is it any different? What if its features anal sex? How about 2 women? Group sex? Do you consider some professional sports too violent and need to be blocked? Mixed martial arts, boxing, hockey and American football all can be very violent. Or is it OK because they don't involve guns?
If I don't like something then I don't watch it. Its lazy, narrow-minded, non-thinking people like you how have bought into the "think of the children" BS that are making it easy for the government to slowly strip away people's rights.
This is dated 12/9, a full ten days before the 100 day deadline. Besides, how often does a large scale foundation ever stick to its original schedule?
This is not a troll, but it probably is flame-bait, but wtf.
[sarcasm on]
It really is hard to tell our paper currency apart, what with the denominations printed in about 10 - 15 places on each bill. And they sure are hard to counterfeit, what with the 6 or more obvious counter-measures, and the 6 or so non-obvious counter-measures in each bill.
[sarcasm off]
I LIKE our money the way it is. I don't want money that looks like a rainbow shit on it. If foreigners can't take the time to learn the denominations of one of the hardest currencies in the world, then fuck'em.
The lame ass Dems better pass that economic stimulus package and help their constituents go back to work instead of playing these political games. I got a quite unexpected pink slip today to ring in the "New Year" with and my wife and four kids are used to having a roof over their heads and food to eat. I know that's not as important as the Dems jockying for power, trying to take back the Congress. However, I don't want or need them to create anymore social programs, I want to go back to work.
Ooops! :)
I was so busy thinking how I wanted to put a Soundblaster card that supported Dolby into the one and only PCI slot in the damn thing, that I forgot you also needed TV-In for PVR, LOL.
Damn. Well the tradeoff seems to be PVR, or good sound for everything else.
No need for an additional video card. It has an integrated video chip(Savage) that has TV-Out(S-Video) built into the mobo. Add HDD, processor, memory and it could be a nice MP3 server hooked to your TV, especially if you "have an IR reciever plopped off the serial port" as you said. Tivo-like system should be just as doable. I would like to see an LCD slapped on the front of it though. For the $250 MWave is charging, and say $250 more for the aforementioned components, this would make a nifty addition to an entertainment system. With the built-in NIC, it could also double as a MP3 playing, web-surfing, e-mail, instant messaging kiosk that you could access right from the couch.
My brother-in-law worked for them 15 years before the anouncement came that they were going out of business. To keep from having an employee mass exodus so that they could sell of all the remaining inventory, the employees were promised the following for staying the last few months:
Pay for unused vacation
A weeks pay for every year of service for severance
This money was to be mailed to their places of residence the Saturday after the Final closing date along with their final paycheck.
Saturday arrives and instead of the checks they get a letter saying that not only were they reneging on the promised severance and vacation pay, but they also were not getting their last paycheck.
My brother-in-law got screwed out of 20 weeks pay.(3 weeks vacation, 15 years service, 2 week paycheck)
Moral: Stick your company for everything you can get when it comes to salary and benefits, because they have as much empathy and caring for you as they do for the Xerox machine. Don't believe anything management promises, unless it is in writing AND signed. When the company looks like it is in trouble, abandon it like rats off a sinking ship, because that is what they would do to you.
Invinvible?
Try this logic:
They believe that they will be blessed by their God for dying for their religious beliefs. So, we kill all of them, that way they are one with their God, and are happy. They are dead and can't harm us so we're happy. It's a win-win for everyone.
Systems administrators -- good system administrators -- are worth their weight in coffee beans weekly, probably more if you count overtime...
I don't where Timothy buys his coffee, but most decent coffee can be be bought on-line for around $4.50/lb USD. If you take an arbitrary weight of 180 pounds for an admin, thats $810 USD per week, or $42,120 USD per year for a good sys admin.
I don't know about you guys, but before I take a Linux Sys Admin job, I'm going to balloon up to 350 - 400 lbs first.
As an aside, for those who are Metricly challanged, 2.2 pounds is approximately 1 kilogram.
It is readily apparent that Eazel and most other Linux related products (Ximian, RedHat, etc.) follow the CueCat business model of "give away the product and try to make money off the product by indirect means." In this case, it's give away the product and try to get people to pay for services. This business model is doomed to fail in every instance.
What I don't understand is the reasoning here on Slashdot. I hate to paint this community with a broad brush, but the editors inundated us with article after article on the CueCat. Granted, most of it was about how Digital Convergence was trying to enforce licensing on hardware and how they were issuing "Cease and Desist" orders to anyone writing alternative software for it. However, there was quite a bit of commentary from this community about how flawed DC's business model was, and how no company has a right to make a profit or survive for that matter. It appears that this is the same business model a lot of the so-called "Linux Companies" are following, yet the editors here feel we should make donations via PayPal to keep this company afloat. Does this mean that these rules are only supposed to apply to non-Linux related companies?
I apologise for the long-winded, Jon Katz style editorial, but this seems to be an issue that not only affects Eazel, but most other "commercial" Linux companies. I fully expect this post to be modded down as a "Troll" by the blind Linux faithful, but hopefully enough people will read it before it finds -1 to spark some discussion on this problem.
PCMCIA would allow for a modem, ethernet card, or even better an Iomega PocketZip. Granted you can get USB version of any of these periperals, but USB modems and etherenet cards are notoriously slow and buggy. PCMCIA cards are easier to transport.
Reading the explanation on their site, there seems to be an awful lot of suppositions:
It's widely believed that Western governments read (and decrypt) a great deal of Internet mail through systems called Echelon, Carnivore and others. Presumably they have filters which discard spam. Possibly, due to the existence of this little website, they can no longer ignore spam. Even if spammimic only gets 2 hits a day; the fact that it's here might force the snoops to process terabytes of spam -- making them spend a little less time on other mails.
Wow, spew some vague, unrealistic, sci-fi, "Big-Brother" tripe and it get's modded up. I'll have to remember that.
Anyways, all that aside let me answer your question for you:
What else could a small robot with cameras be used for anyway?
How about anywhere that is to small for a human to get to troubleshoot. How helpful would it be to be able to send a small robot w/camera into a complex machine to see why it wasn't working, instead of having to completely disassemble it? I'm not talking about anything unrealistic like actually fixing it, just acting as a small, very flexible pair of eyes.
Just apply this robot to the following statement:
"I really wish this shit wasn't packed in here like this, so I could see what the problem was."
It has been suggested that the posts from were either organized by Linuxgruven management or are the work of the same person with multiple accounts.
I would like to suggest it was neither. I believe that Linuxgruven is a cult along the lines of the Hale-Boppers. I believe that current Linuxgruven employees were the students in it's training program that showed the greatest potentional to open suggestion and thus were brainwashed. The popular press already depicts most Linux users as "geeks", "disenfranchised", or "outsiders" which is the perfect pool of humanity in which to recruit from.
Here is what I propose:
We need a syncronized raid on all 8 of the Linuxgruven offices to free these poor, misguided, brainwashed souls before it is too late. Linuxgruven has already publicly stated it intends to double the number of locations in which they can "recruit" new members.
We must act now before it is too late.
Please do not confuse the acquisition of a piece of paper from a certified educator with compentency.
The percentage of less than compentent people without college degrees is probably the same as ones who have them. I personally know of a small village of people who attended college and basically skated to graduation with a decent GPA just by glomming all the answers from friends, boy/girl friends, family, etc. I also know of an equal amount of people that learned their craft by OJT, research, and dedication to knowing everything necessary in order to the the job right.
There are many reasons why someone can be skilled at a job, in this case Software Engineering, and not need a sheepskin in order to do the job right.
A better question would be:
What the fuck were you guys smoking at the FCC when you approved the AOL/TWC merger?
$50 Followup:
Where can I get some?
Inprise.
Everybody remember when Borland changed their name to this? Everybody remember how stupid it was? What's their name now?
Yeah.