For christs sake... just go to "preferences", scroll down a bit, and click on "john katz" under the exclude secion! It's not some magic dream..you can do it today!
But no...i'd be willing to bet that you'd rather not do that, and stay here and bitch. How great for the rest of us...
The idea that people who have strong beliefs about free software aren't "real hackers" is ridiculous. Coding skill is not related to your political alignment in that way.
In my opinion, restricting the rooms to 22 users greatly increases the quality of the conversations. Have you ever tried to follow conversations in IRC rooms with 200 or 300 users? I don't know how people do it. I mean, if there aren't 20 people having 20 seperate conversations all in the same room, then it's 200 people not saying a damned word (which is why AOL is nice...if you're going to enter a chat room and then go to sonic..you're going to get booted).
I was looking through my mom's garage yesterday and found an old 3.5" floppy with a label that said, "AOL NEW VERSION 3.0!!!! 15 FREE HOURS!!! The easiest just got easier!!"
Whoohoo!! You mean I get 15 free hours!?!?:) Hehe.. how many free hours are they on now, like 700??? They really have been increasing that number in very tiny increments since the beginning of time, haven 't they??
Actually, we do have error-correcting DNA. At least according to my biology class a few semeseters ago. Some sort of enzyme or something goes along the length of the DNA and replaces bases that have gotten knocked out.
It only works past a certain point though, and I think the amount of errors radiation causes is way too much for our error-correction to handle.
It's also been theorized that small mutations over time are the reason for people's bodies getting all wrinkled and weak when they get older. Random bases get knocked out and most are corrected by the body's natural error-correction. But over time, the ones that don't get fixed add up.
Of course, i'm in no way an expert, so i could be completly off on all of this (i'm sure someone will let me know if i am). But this is my understanding from what I learned in class.
-- juju
Re:Port new games, run old ones in WINE
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I agree. It seems most everyone just spent one second of their life to view the front page of the site, made a split-second judgement of everything this guy was about, and then posted some dumb comment here. But then, the/. story doesn't really make it clear that you can actually watch the entire one-and-a-half hour show.
Man, none of you guys actually watched the video! It's really very funny and enlightening. I thought it had great insights into what a corporation can do to a person.
I just now d/led the official client (1.1.112) onto my Slackware machine and it seems to work fine. I haven't been booted off yet, although i've only been connected for about 10 minutes.
Does anyone know which protocol the official aim linux client uses? TOC or Oscar? Noone is online so I cannot test it!:)
I think it'd be a good idea to go ahead and implement the "user-supplied aol.exe" solution anyways. Users can find version 3.5 -- we'll mirror it or trade it on
music city if we have to.
I believe he was trying to say that the point of the game, for him, was FUN, and not collecting. Now, come on.. opposing viewpoints don't always mean the person's a blithering idiot.
Personally, I played for fun. The collecting aspect was simply a necessity that i dealt with in order to get to the fun of the actual game. But i'm sure there are plenty of folks who enjoyed the collector's aspect of it all.
I'm in Data Structures right now at the University of Arkansas, and I really don't like the way it's taught. The teacher's philosophy seems to be the complete opposite of open source, which is puzzling since there are a few open source links on his website.
A student looking at any code not written exclusively by himself is not permitted. We cannot look at other student's code, and code isn't shown in the lessons. The teacher just 'discussses' the basic ideas of the algorithms. Then, we are expected to complete these humongous assignments that are very time-consuming.
For me, the most immediate way to understand how an algorithm works is to look at the code that implements it. I don't understand why teachers don't get this. How am I supposed to learn how to program if they just talk about it and never show it to me? Once, when I suggested to the teacher that he might should show more code examples in his lecture, he actually told me that he wasn't here to teach me how to program. He's here to teach me the "ideas of the algorithms", or some such nonsense. Whatever that means.
What's really interesting to me though, is that even though the assignments are pretty hard, everyone seems to be doing okay on them. I realize now more than ever that most CS students just teach themselves, because there's no way anyone could complete the assignments based on the lecture. I'm not dogging the teacher though, just the basic ways that i've seen CS taught today. Last time he actually spent most of the class time going over code examples, and it really seems like people were learning a lot better to me. I guess he took my suggestion.
Personally, I'm waiting for some country with a fat pipe and poor US relations, say China, to run some OpenNAP servers in order to stick it to the Evil Monopolistic Capitalistic Amercian Corporation (tm). Then we'll all really find out how powerfull the RIAA lobby is.
I doubt that China would be a likely candidate. From what i've heard, their government is pretty viscious about quelling things that they don't agree with.
But you're right, there are probably many other countries that the RIAA won't be able to influence.
Anyway, it might be a good thing that opennap and bearshare are more "underground" than napster was. The more the new servers stay under the RIAA's radar, the less likely the servers are to be shut down.
But then again, I suppose they probably do have some lackey that just searches for infringing copyright material all day in his office. We'll see, i suppose.
How much bandwidth do you get over sattelites? And who ownes them? Do you own the satts, or do you just rent time on them?
Just curious...
-- juju
Re:This could be bad news for manned space travel.
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What about the converse? Consider this passage:
The fact that a small (about 4-pound) meteorite from a planet contains large numbers of bacteria suggests
that such bacteria were widespread on the surface of Mars, the researchers say. A stone of similar size from
Earth would contain many bacteria.
What happens when the astronaut returns to Earth?? Our immune systems have evolved defenses to bacteria in OUR environment. What are the chances that an extraterrestrial bacteria could wipe out our civilization?
If we ever become capable of really exploring the galaxy, and the universe really is as diverse as this article suggests, then i'd say our chances wouldn't be that good. Of course, there might not be any bacteria alive on Mars today. But that still doesn't exclude further extraplanetary explorations.
You are right, none of us individually can really handle any sort of legal hassle. We're techies. We'll do what we do best: create alternative software solutions to the problem. Now that we're actually combining our efforts and knowledge through the open-source model(sharing information, like any good science), we'll be much more effective at at what we do best.
To quote the mentor: You may stop this individual, but you cannot stop us all.
Slashdot Mirror
That one strain had 900 machines. There are probably many other versions of the bot configured to connect to different irc servers.
-- juju
The FBI can read his article just like everyone else. It's freedom of information.
-- juju
For christs sake... just go to "preferences", scroll down a bit, and click on "john katz" under the exclude secion! It's not some magic dream..you can do it today!
But no...i'd be willing to bet that you'd rather not do that, and stay here and bitch. How great for the rest of us...
-- juju
Wow...you mean Slashdot slashdotted Slashdot? Cool!!
The idea that people who have strong beliefs about free software aren't "real hackers" is ridiculous. Coding skill is not related to your political alignment in that way.
In my opinion, restricting the rooms to 22 users greatly increases the quality of the conversations. Have you ever tried to follow conversations in IRC rooms with 200 or 300 users? I don't know how people do it. I mean, if there aren't 20 people having 20 seperate conversations all in the same room, then it's 200 people not saying a damned word (which is why AOL is nice...if you're going to enter a chat room and then go to sonic..you're going to get booted).
-- juju
Slackware 7.1 DOES come with Xfree 4.0. In the set that I bought, it's on disk 4 in the contributed package archive.
-- juju
I was looking through my mom's garage yesterday and found an old 3.5" floppy with a label that said, "AOL NEW VERSION 3.0!!!! 15 FREE HOURS!!! The easiest just got easier!!"
Whoohoo!! You mean I get 15 free hours!?!?
-- juju
http://info.bio.cmu.edu/Courses/03441/TermPapers/
Actually, we do have error-correcting DNA. At least according to my biology class a few semeseters ago. Some sort of enzyme or something goes along the length of the DNA and replaces bases that have gotten knocked out.
It only works past a certain point though, and I think the amount of errors radiation causes is way too much for our error-correction to handle.
It's also been theorized that small mutations over time are the reason for people's bodies getting all wrinkled and weak when they get older. Random bases get knocked out and most are corrected by the body's natural error-correction. But over time, the ones that don't get fixed add up.
Of course, i'm in no way an expert, so i could be completly off on all of this (i'm sure someone will let me know if i am). But this is my understanding from what I learned in class.
-- juju
Yes, but Wine Is Not an Emulator!
Aaaugh! Question marks instead of apostrophe's are all over this damned article! Isn't it about time someone developed a hack to fix this?
-- juju
Are you really comparing operating systems to first-person shooters?
I agree. It seems most everyone just spent one second of their life to view the front page of the site, made a split-second judgement of everything this guy was about, and then posted some dumb comment here. But then, the
-- juju
Since when are mean-spirited, thoughtless insults "(+1 Funny)"?
-- juju
Man, none of you guys actually watched the video! It's really very funny and enlightening. I thought it had great insights into what a corporation can do to a person.
-- juju
I just now d/led the official client (1.1.112) onto my Slackware machine and it seems to work fine. I haven't been booted off yet, although i've only been connected for about 10 minutes.
Does anyone know which protocol the official aim linux client uses? TOC or Oscar? Noone is online so I cannot test it!
-- juju
I think it'd be a good idea to go ahead and implement the "user-supplied aol.exe" solution anyways. Users can find version 3.5 -- we'll mirror it or trade it on music city if we have to.
-- juju
I believe he was trying to say that the point of the game, for him, was FUN, and not collecting. Now, come on.. opposing viewpoints don't always mean the person's a blithering idiot.
Personally, I played for fun. The collecting aspect was simply a necessity that i dealt with in order to get to the fun of the actual game. But i'm sure there are plenty of folks who enjoyed the collector's aspect of it all.
-- juju
I'm in Data Structures right now at the University of Arkansas, and I really don't like the way it's taught. The teacher's philosophy seems to be the complete opposite of open source, which is puzzling since there are a few open source links on his website.
A student looking at any code not written exclusively by himself is not permitted. We cannot look at other student's code, and code isn't shown in the lessons. The teacher just 'discussses' the basic ideas of the algorithms. Then, we are expected to complete these humongous assignments that are very time-consuming.
For me, the most immediate way to understand how an algorithm works is to look at the code that implements it. I don't understand why teachers don't get this. How am I supposed to learn how to program if they just talk about it and never show it to me? Once, when I suggested to the teacher that he might should show more code examples in his lecture, he actually told me that he wasn't here to teach me how to program. He's here to teach me the "ideas of the algorithms", or some such nonsense. Whatever that means.
What's really interesting to me though, is that even though the assignments are pretty hard, everyone seems to be doing okay on them. I realize now more than ever that most CS students just teach themselves, because there's no way anyone could complete the assignments based on the lecture. I'm not dogging the teacher though, just the basic ways that i've seen CS taught today. Last time he actually spent most of the class time going over code examples, and it really seems like people were learning a lot better to me. I guess he took my suggestion.
Personally, I'm waiting for some country with a fat pipe and poor US relations, say China, to run some OpenNAP servers in order to stick it to the Evil Monopolistic Capitalistic Amercian Corporation (tm). Then we'll all really find out how powerfull the RIAA lobby is.
I doubt that China would be a likely candidate. From what i've heard, their government is pretty viscious about quelling things that they don't agree with.
But you're right, there are probably many other countries that the RIAA won't be able to influence.
Anyway, it might be a good thing that opennap and bearshare are more "underground" than napster was. The more the new servers stay under the RIAA's radar, the less likely the servers are to be shut down.
But then again, I suppose they probably do have some lackey that just searches for infringing copyright material all day in his office. We'll see, i suppose.
-- juju
I really shouldn't have to keep saying this to people, but, Gore NEVER SAID that he invented the internet!!!!!!
geez...
How much bandwidth do you get over sattelites? And who ownes them? Do you own the satts, or do you just rent time on them?
Just curious...
-- juju
What about the converse? Consider this passage:
What happens when the astronaut returns to Earth?? Our immune systems have evolved defenses to bacteria in OUR environment. What are the chances that an extraterrestrial bacteria could wipe out our civilization?
If we ever become capable of really exploring the galaxy, and the universe really is as diverse as this article suggests, then i'd say our chances wouldn't be that good. Of course, there might not be any bacteria alive on Mars today. But that still doesn't exclude further extraplanetary explorations.
-- juju
You are right, none of us individually can really handle any sort of legal hassle. We're techies. We'll do what we do best: create alternative software solutions to the problem. Now that we're actually combining our efforts and knowledge through the open-source model(sharing information, like any good science), we'll be much more effective at at what we do best.
To quote the mentor: You may stop this individual, but you cannot stop us all.
-- juju