But proponents of open-source computing complain that they are being left out of the e-Mexico project because they lack the resources to offer multimillion-dollar donations.
Huh? Well, I just won't stand for it. Using my personal fortune, I hereby donate to the people of Mexico any and all open source software they desire. In addition, I'm giving them the source code, and they are free to use it or modify it any way they like!
Now, this will be quite a blow to my accumlated wealth, so I'd appreciate any donations to defray the cost, in cash or in kind. Please either send me one legally licensed copy of Linux, Star Office and/or KDE, or use my PayPal account to pay for the equivalent. I'll forward all donations to the Mexican gov't.
Ha. Actually, Counterpane, Bruce Schneier's company, offers realtime live security monitoring by humans; I presume even they view the traffic in some interpreted, filtered state.
I meant merely that hopefully a Net Admin has a faster, more comprehensive, reliable and detailed source than CNN, such as CERT, some other mailing lists, or their AV vendor.
On July 19, 2001 more than 359,000 computers were infected with the Code-Red (CRv2) worm in less than 14 hours. At the peak of the infection frenzy, more than 2,000 new hosts were infected each minute.
That was "over-hyped?"
It was. If you look at the ratio of infected computers to total computers in the world (hundreds of millions), you can see that your chance of infection is very small.
Also, your chance of infection probably depends highly on your e-mail client (Outlook anyone?) and number of people who have your address in Outlook address books. In a Fortune 500 company using Outlook, you're probably facing a far greater risk than sitting at home using AOL. And who is reading the hype? Net admins don't read CNN to learn about virus outbreaks (I hope).
Yes, a book is the same at every bookstore, but that only matters if you already know which book you want; most/many shoppers don't. The expertise of a specialized store produces better selection and advice.
Maybe you want to learn Java, but don't know where to start. do you go to Amazon or ProgrammersBooks.com, which you know is run by programmers? They always pick the best book on any programming subject and place it front and center, just a click away (like a Google search result). You can even e-mail them and get great suggestions and advice.
The choice is clear, and Amazon couldn't possibly compete.
If I were starting an online bookstore, I'd pick one subject I knew well, and try to build a reputation as the center of that online community.
I think most users are not yet sophisticated enough to easily find alternatives. Also, they *expect* large mass-market retailers instead of high-quality specialists -- that's how they've gone shopping most of their lives.
Once they gain the skill, and they learn to expect better than mass-market, they may turn to specialized online bookstores (from politicaleconomybooks.com to trashromancenovels.com to thinkgeekbooks.com).
For example, many users I support don't type addresses in the URL field. Most can't search efficiently ('how do you spell "google"?'), much less find sites that don't appear at the top of the search results.
They'll learn of course, and their kids are bloggers and already use the specialized sites. Then Amazon may find that they do everything, but nothing well.
I agree. There's no consequential difference between computer technology and old analog equivalents.
I mean, can you believe some people bother with all this digital stuff, much less argue -- and I'm not making this up -- they argue over which operating system to use? Why doesn't Malda just make Slashdot a dry erase board on his front door?
Seriously, this argument comes up all the time. Slashdot users actually argue that technological change doesn't matter? Hey, why don't we legalize machine guns? I don't see how this is much different than other weapons, which have been legal for thousands of years.
Not all monopolies are abusive. I have no serious objection to Intel's or Cisco's market dominance, and IMHO SBC falls into the same category.
After they took over Ameritech's operations, service and especially support improved dramatically, at least for me. I'm happy to have them here -- the best telecom company I've ever dealt with (I've done business with Ameritech, PacBell, AT&T, MCI/Worldcom, Sprint, Verizon, and some others).
Try sending a Eudora user an e-mail with "Attachment Converted: c:\windows\ssblank.scr". Wait for an e-mail back that says "Whenever I load your attachment, my screen goes black...?":-)
I've used it for years. It's not a clickable link unless you send the actual attachment. If you just send the text "Attachment Converted..." it does no more than it would here on Slashdot.
If you are unhappy, tell them: http://kazaa.com/en/contact/feedback.htm
Be reasonable. If you just flame them, they won't take you seriously (and their customers service dept will be secretly happy that your going to their competitors).
WordPerfect kept essentially the same format from v6 (~1994) to now (v10). It's odd for SO to say they're only compatible with v6 and v7.
WP introduced a 'compund document' format ~v8 which was not backward compatible, but hardly anyone uses it that I've seen (and yes I see a few WP users).
Completely OT: Wouldn't WP's tagged formatting code method make it an ideal way to create low-end XML? It already has great word-processing features, and claims an XML format. WP could output SGML 8 yrs ago or more. Re: WP and XML, search google or see, for example: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/05/31/word perfect/
It's interesting to learn some standards by which info is judged by intelligence professionals.
But aren't these just theories about why the info would not be valuable. The main point of the story is that, contrary to usual practices and expectations, in reality the info on the list is valuable.
So the question is, why? Were the theories always wrong, or has the world changed?
Every tool has its application.
Obviously, some secrets are worth keeping: for example, the code for the President's briefcase that launches the nukes is something best kept off Slashdot, or the open-source intelligence listserv.
At the same time, I think this intelligence listserv shows how much of our gov't secrecy may be counter-productive. It's long been asserted, and not with tongue-in-cheek, that better intelligence is available from the newspaper than the CIA. There is a significant cost to our government keeping secrets (besides the obvious one that it prevents citizens from monitoring gov't behavior):
A very prominent former Senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a book called Secrecy,where he describes classification by the gov't as counter-productive on the whole, and nothing more than another form of regulation. He says it impedes the flow of valuable info, and allows ridiculous ideas to take hold in the intelligence community because only a few people ever know about them -- i.e. they never get exposed to the 'many eyes' of public debate.
A significant source of secrecy was explained by a well-known sociologist, I think Max Weber (can someone confirm/correct?), who said the main occupation of bureaucrats in a large organization is to keep to themselves as much information as possible and trade it with other bureaucrats, like currency. It's a natural consequence of humans working in bureaucracies.
I've also read that it's a status thing in D.C., to have higher security clearance than the other guy. And of course, people keep secrets to cover their a**'s. Overall, I think democratic gov't is the most important place to utilize open, free information.
A system like this only works if all the users keep their P2P agents running 24/7, so that others can access their shared files.
I don't get it -- why does Kazaa only work if *my* shared files are available 24/7? So what if you can't access my files; millions of others will be available.
they boast a huge database of stuff that's mostly unavailable.
Not in my experience. Almost everything I try to download is available.
And for the record, I download, almost exculsively, unreleased live recordings. P2P services put bootleggers out of business.
Napster and Kazaa are cultural treasures. I couldn't, in a lifetime, find the gems I can find on a p2p service in a few hours.
If you really want to predict it well, I think it's a business question -- whose work won't be displaced by imitators, and whose has a market that will endure. Language is a big consideration too.
How about some writers outside the Sci-Fi universe:
- Garbriel Garcia Marquez or Gunter Grass (fiction)
- Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter (mostly plays)
- A self-help or 'inspirational' book?
- Someone in a specialty like Kissinger (his book on diplomacy) or Milton Friedman (economics) or even Bill James (baseball) or an IETF RFC...
- Pres. Clinton's memoirs
- Whoever wrote the following: If you receive an e-mail with the subject "Good Times", DON'T OPEN IT! It will delete your hard drive and forward all credit card numbers to an unknown location in Moldova. It was announced this morning by IBM, AMD and the CDC....
I know some (e.g. Beckett) are dead, but so are Douglas Adams and Dr. Seuss.
Wasn't the first movie supposed to be 'The Fellowship of the Ring', the first part of the written trilogy?
IIRC, the Balrog's cameo was definitely in 'The Fellowship...', so what's up with this?
Labrie reported that the most difficult creatures from The Two Towers, and Return of the King include Gollum, Treebeard (an ent), and the Balrog. ?We will be diving into those right after the delivery of film one.?
In depicting a Balrog, Jackson will be forced to offer his own answer to a question that has haunted Tolkien fans since the book was released. In the book, it isn?t clear whether a Balrog, which is described in passing by Gandalf, has wings or not.
Slashdot Mirror
From the article:
But proponents of open-source computing complain that they are being left out of the e-Mexico project because they lack the resources to offer multimillion-dollar donations.
Huh? Well, I just won't stand for it. Using my personal fortune, I hereby donate to the people of Mexico any and all open source software they desire. In addition, I'm giving them the source code, and they are free to use it or modify it any way they like!
Now, this will be quite a blow to my accumlated wealth, so I'd appreciate any donations to defray the cost, in cash or in kind. Please either send me one legally licensed copy of Linux, Star Office and/or KDE, or use my PayPal account to pay for the equivalent. I'll forward all donations to the Mexican gov't.
...and no wonder nobody wants to roll out ipv6.
Ha. Actually, Counterpane, Bruce Schneier's company, offers realtime live security monitoring by humans; I presume even they view the traffic in some interpreted, filtered state.
I meant merely that hopefully a Net Admin has a faster, more comprehensive, reliable and detailed source than CNN, such as CERT, some other mailing lists, or their AV vendor.
On July 19, 2001 more than 359,000 computers were infected with the Code-Red (CRv2) worm in less than 14 hours. At the peak of the infection frenzy, more than 2,000 new hosts were infected each minute.
That was "over-hyped?"
It was. If you look at the ratio of infected computers to total computers in the world (hundreds of millions), you can see that your chance of infection is very small.
Also, your chance of infection probably depends highly on your e-mail client (Outlook anyone?) and number of people who have your address in Outlook address books. In a Fortune 500 company using Outlook, you're probably facing a far greater risk than sitting at home using AOL. And who is reading the hype? Net admins don't read CNN to learn about virus outbreaks (I hope).
Yes, a book is the same at every bookstore, but that only matters if you already know which book you want; most/many shoppers don't. The expertise of a specialized store produces better selection and advice.
Maybe you want to learn Java, but don't know where to start. do you go to Amazon or ProgrammersBooks.com, which you know is run by programmers? They always pick the best book on any programming subject and place it front and center, just a click away (like a Google search result). You can even e-mail them and get great suggestions and advice.
The choice is clear, and Amazon couldn't possibly compete.
If I were starting an online bookstore, I'd pick one subject I knew well, and try to build a reputation as the center of that online community.
I think most users are not yet sophisticated enough to easily find alternatives. Also, they *expect* large mass-market retailers instead of high-quality specialists -- that's how they've gone shopping most of their lives.
Once they gain the skill, and they learn to expect better than mass-market, they may turn to specialized online bookstores (from politicaleconomybooks.com to trashromancenovels.com to thinkgeekbooks.com).
For example, many users I support don't type addresses in the URL field. Most can't search efficiently ('how do you spell "google"?'), much less find sites that don't appear at the top of the search results.
They'll learn of course, and their kids are bloggers and already use the specialized sites. Then Amazon may find that they do everything, but nothing well.
Where did you get RC1? AFAIK, it doesn't yet exist. The "recent builds" the post mentions are builds of RC1, but it's not out yet.
Looking at Mozilla.org and Mozillazine.org, I don't see a mention of RC1 being released.
"On the off chance that your post isn't some kind of subtle, ironic humor that has eluded me"
My apologies; no subtlety intended.
I don't know much about them, but maybe you can get one of those.
I agree. There's no consequential difference between computer technology and old analog equivalents.
I mean, can you believe some people bother with all this digital stuff, much less argue -- and I'm not making this up -- they argue over which operating system to use? Why doesn't Malda just make Slashdot a dry erase board on his front door?
Seriously, this argument comes up all the time. Slashdot users actually argue that technological change doesn't matter? Hey, why don't we legalize machine guns? I don't see how this is much different than other weapons, which have been legal for thousands of years.
end of rant.
"Cisco equipment is generally interoperable with other routing equipment, . . . And even Intel has some competition"
Note that neither company attempts to 'extend' or 'extinguish' the standards they've 'embraced'.
Not all monopolies are abusive. I have no serious objection to Intel's or Cisco's market dominance, and IMHO SBC falls into the same category.
After they took over Ameritech's operations, service and especially support improved dramatically, at least for me. I'm happy to have them here -- the best telecom company I've ever dealt with (I've done business with Ameritech, PacBell, AT&T, MCI/Worldcom, Sprint, Verizon, and some others).
Try sending a Eudora user an e-mail with "Attachment Converted: c:\windows\ssblank.scr". Wait for an e-mail back that says "Whenever I load your attachment, my screen goes black...?" :-)
I've used it for years. It's not a clickable link unless you send the actual attachment. If you just send the text "Attachment Converted..." it does no more than it would here on Slashdot.My apologies to ESR and tuxedo.org's host. I e-mailed Michael and it's been changed.
If you are unhappy, tell them:
http://kazaa.com/en/contact/feedback.htm
Be reasonable. If you just flame them, they won't take you seriously (and their customers service dept will be secretly happy that your going to their competitors).
WordPerfect kept essentially the same format from v6 (~1994) to now (v10). It's odd for SO to say they're only compatible with v6 and v7.
d perfect/
WP introduced a 'compund document' format ~v8 which was not backward compatible, but hardly anyone uses it that I've seen (and yes I see a few WP users).
Completely OT: Wouldn't WP's tagged formatting code method make it an ideal way to create low-end XML? It already has great word-processing features, and claims an XML format. WP could output SGML 8 yrs ago or more. Re: WP and XML, search google or see, for example:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/05/31/wor
Progress on the tunnel has not gone unnoticed on the surface. Ask Brooklyn sound studio Master Sound.
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windowsmedia/soft ware/V8/privacy.asp
It's interesting to learn some standards by which info is judged by intelligence professionals. But aren't these just theories about why the info would not be valuable. The main point of the story is that, contrary to usual practices and expectations, in reality the info on the list is valuable. So the question is, why? Were the theories always wrong, or has the world changed?
Every tool has its application. Obviously, some secrets are worth keeping: for example, the code for the President's briefcase that launches the nukes is something best kept off Slashdot, or the open-source intelligence listserv. At the same time, I think this intelligence listserv shows how much of our gov't secrecy may be counter-productive. It's long been asserted, and not with tongue-in-cheek, that better intelligence is available from the newspaper than the CIA. There is a significant cost to our government keeping secrets (besides the obvious one that it prevents citizens from monitoring gov't behavior): A very prominent former Senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a book called Secrecy ,where he describes classification by the gov't as counter-productive on the whole, and nothing more than another form of regulation. He says it impedes the flow of valuable info, and allows ridiculous ideas to take hold in the intelligence community because only a few people ever know about them -- i.e. they never get exposed to the 'many eyes' of public debate.
A significant source of secrecy was explained by a well-known sociologist, I think Max Weber (can someone confirm/correct?), who said the main occupation of bureaucrats in a large organization is to keep to themselves as much information as possible and trade it with other bureaucrats, like currency. It's a natural consequence of humans working in bureaucracies.
I've also read that it's a status thing in D.C., to have higher security clearance than the other guy. And of course, people keep secrets to cover their a**'s. Overall, I think democratic gov't is the most important place to utilize open, free information.
A system like this only works if all the users keep their P2P agents running 24/7, so that others can access their shared files.
I don't get it -- why does Kazaa only work if *my* shared files are available 24/7? So what if you can't access my files; millions of others will be available.
they boast a huge database of stuff that's mostly unavailable.
Not in my experience. Almost everything I try to download is available.
And for the record, I download, almost exculsively, unreleased live recordings. P2P services put bootleggers out of business.
Napster and Kazaa are cultural treasures. I couldn't, in a lifetime, find the gems I can find on a p2p service in a few hours.
If you really want to predict it well, I think it's a business question -- whose work won't be displaced by imitators, and whose has a market that will endure. Language is a big consideration too.
...
How about some writers outside the Sci-Fi universe:
- Garbriel Garcia Marquez or Gunter Grass (fiction)
- Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter (mostly plays)
- A self-help or 'inspirational' book?
- Someone in a specialty like Kissinger (his book on diplomacy) or Milton Friedman (economics) or even Bill James (baseball) or an IETF RFC...
- Pres. Clinton's memoirs
- Whoever wrote the following: If you receive an e-mail with the subject "Good Times", DON'T OPEN IT! It will delete your hard drive and forward all credit card numbers to an unknown location in Moldova. It was announced this morning by IBM, AMD and the CDC.
I know some (e.g. Beckett) are dead, but so are Douglas Adams and Dr. Seuss.
Wasn't the first movie supposed to be 'The Fellowship of the Ring', the first part of the written trilogy?
IIRC, the Balrog's cameo was definitely in 'The Fellowship...', so what's up with this?
Labrie reported that the most difficult creatures from The Two Towers, and Return of the King include Gollum, Treebeard (an ent), and the Balrog. ?We will be diving into those right after the delivery of film one.?
In depicting a Balrog, Jackson will be forced to offer his own answer to a question that has haunted Tolkien fans since the book was released. In the book, it isn?t clear whether a Balrog, which is described in passing by Gandalf, has wings or not.
Will Jackson?s Balrog have wings?
Fans will have to wait until 2003 to find out.
Stratfor
Concise, more comprehensive than anything else I've seen, and by far the best analysis.
Usually, they're a leading foreign policy website, focusing on 'intelligence' rather than 'news'.
Remember, the power of terrorists is terror -- don't let them win.
Here's a few places to look, though I don't know how much you'll find:
t /i ndex.html
s t/ newsgroup_archives.html
Archive for the History of Usenet Mailing list
http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Usenet.His
Where is the archive for newsgroup X? (an index)
http://www.pitt.edu/~grouprev/Usenet/Archive-Li
Archives of moderated newsgroups (not working when I tried):
ftp://ftp.sterling.com/moderators/Archives.html