The changes are numerous, but non-obvious unless....
It just so happened that when I loaded the site all the black and green parts suddenly washed out. I knew it was a glitch, but still, it seemed funny.
Does anyone else find it odd that CT has only posted 57 times in the life of the site, according to his homenode? This lends buckets of credence to the idea of/. bigshots using secondary accounts.
Ok ok I was generalizing... I was hungry. Think outside the tech industry and merely of the root concept. Do you really believe, excepting OSes and such, market share isn't a reflection of a product's merits? Your perspective is very cynical yet valid in today's tech industry. Think of the Devil's Dictionary as opposed to Webster's.
The server market is just not significant. Very few people run their own servers...
Damn dude, where's all that code red stuff coming from then??
Also, since Apple controls at least 7% market share, you can't say that 99% of everyone runs x86. You can't. Besides that you make some interesting points, but... missiles? Missiles? BILL GATES IS GOING TO BLOW UP APPLE! OF COURSE! Come on, man!
Don't get me wrong, I think that MS is as usual spouting utter BS. But you jump to the conclusion that companies should not worry about stock price, IP, or market dominance. Stock price is a reflection of the merits of a company's products. IP is the company's property which it owns and invested in to get in the first place. Market dominance, or rather, market share, is a reflection of how good their products are, usually. They're dithering over this stuff because of the products. What don't you get here?
Sweet! The random quote of the day seems to have been updated. Futurama's definitely new I think. Though I bet it's just a text file they can change at will, it seems different than usual.
For posterity: I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth. -- Fry
Well that's informative... :-/
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· Score: 4, Informative
Logically, slashdot is supposed to summarize news, not say basically nothing. All right, software should be developed by a mob. How is that significantly different from how things are today with mid-sized OSS projects? Come on, Tim, give us more than a single thought. What are the merits of this essay? Some details? How does it contrast with other OSS development models?
A couple days ago AT&T (formerly MediaOne) blocked port 80 here in Mpls./St Paul. I instant messaged with a tech guy last night and he was less than friendly about it.. considering how I was in such a good mood. Also, somewhere along the line they fsck'ed up and blocked http://www.roadrunner.com from me. Some URL port filtering message came up, which wasn't cool because I couldn't remember the tech support email address. Here's some choice transcripts:
Tech: What sort of problems are you having?
Me: well, i'm running a Linux/Apache server which I know is immune... and I read on slashdot that you guys blocked off all port 80 incoming connections, so my server can't be reached by anyone, which annoys me and I'm wondering if there's any way to get things open again. i was just wondering if i could get unblocked.
tech: At this time AT&T will continue to block the port until they can find a more permanent solution to the problem.
Me: also, you should know that a lot of official mediaone sites are blocked as well
Tech: Which ones?
Me: example: www.roadrunner.com and its related sub-domains
Tech: I will escalate the issue about blocking the sites. But as for the port blocking, we cannot unblock them as of now.
Me: ugh... there's nothing in my User Agreement about port blocking... i'd suspect someone in a worse mood than me would get in your face about that
Tech: Try looking at Section 10.9.
I didn't have the user agreement on hand so I gave up. Just now I dug it out and I feel misled. Me: oh darn
So I dug out this 10.9 thing which he speaks of. (My user agreement is structured differently than the one they have online) In any case, the agreement explicitly permits non-commercial use of servers as long as they don't mess things up. Section 10.9: You agree that AT&T and ServiceCo shall have the right to take any action that either AT&T Broadband or ServiceCo deems appropriate to protect the Road Runner service, its facilities and equipment. Frankly blocking my server isn't an action which protects the Road Runner facilities, service or equipment. In fact since my connection is a 2-way modem, it is harming the service. I understand the problems they are having, but a blanket blocking isn't the way to go on this. I have taken all appropriate security measures on my web server, and my service is being penalized by other users' failure to do so.
By definition all radioactive materials have a half life. As time passes, radioactive substances decay, reducing their true (useful) mass. It only makes sense that the original creator of this legacy system (probably long-dead of radiation poisoning and unavailable for comment) built in an automated mass-reduction system. Either that or giant, glowing ants ate some of the vacuum tubes in the original machine and the mistake has been embedded since then.:-)
On another topic, why don't companies bombard radioactive waste with neutrons to make it break down?
...Back in the years when it was still not cool to be a geek...
CmdrTaco: Jon, I am sorry, your services are no longer required...
JonKatz:What do you mean?
CT: Geeks are cool now, it says so here. JonKatz: I can still... complain about corporations and stuff, can't I?
Michael:Sorry bro, that's my department now! HAHAHA!
JonKatz:This is just yet another manifestation of the classic post-modern urge to bury one's head in the sand, don't you see?
CT:(sighs slightly) Yes, that and MK-ULTRA manipulation, too, Jon...
I think by that logic, burning oil is not exactly a source of energy, just a battery-like release of chemical energy. I guess, then, only collection of natural radiation counts as an energy source.
CNN: But after stories were written about the group's goals, the Bahamian government pressured the company to leave. It relocated last year to the United States.
I'm pretty sure that's the first time that anyone has ever left the Bahamas for the U.S. because of legal pressure!
The dawn of the information age, economies built on silicon and dreams... A new age of communication, a new time for civilization.
But we humans just can't help bright shiny objects. Pretty... shiny! All the world's economies are a collective hallucination, swapping gold for $$, yen or pounds doesn't mean anything. I just hope that everyone doesn't notice money has no real value at the same time.
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Pretty odd coincidence...
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So I tried to tape a syndicated rerun of The Invisible Man (a fine Sci-Fi channel show) but i spaced out and accidentally taped Andromeda instead. Pissed off, I decided to watch the whole thing. It was pretty decent altogether. I didn't think there was going to be a lot in the way off good entertainment, but it was ok and I was pretty impressed with the complexity of the grander story, what I could pick up anyway. I think that the really ugly furry-looking creature who's all peaceful is sort of silly, and the other characters were basically shells in this episode. OTOH I sort of liked all the "Pride" stuff, sort of. I really don't know what to think, and with Farscape and the Invisible Man, with occasional Outer Limits and X-Files, my Sci-Fi plate is pretty full and admittedly at a glance the show is pretty cheesy (which is why I never watched it until today, accidentally).
To sum up rambling: Ok show, if I run into it again I will give it a go.
My argument, at the risk of getting accused of trolling:
Disney and anime are both exceedingly trite and cliche. They both use the same general framework and styles... I don't mean drawing styles, i mean narrative styles. Here I'm thinking of more grounded anime like this Nadia thing, not Akira type stuff. It's all the basic stock of characters. Basic plot: Ooooh the crystal is linked to the core... but mysterious! And she's... exotic! Like the guy said above, 7 basic story archetypes. Disney isn't that creative, and usually anime isn't either, even when it's being insane and random, it's just pointless pulling random ideas out of the writers' collective asses. (except the mechanical stuff, I'll give ya that, I dig that) So there's my rant.:P
The thought of messing with people via strobe light is pretty tempting.
Also I have seen an example of something similar involving analog info via light. My physics teacher rigged a LED to a variable resistor attached to a radio. A solar panel picked up the LED's invisibly varying light and played it on a speaker. Not as useful as straight-up RF but it was pretty cool at the time.
If there's one thing that bugs me about tech in our fast food nation, it's the damned BEEPING at McDonalds. There you are trying to eat a cheeseburger and it's all BEEP BEEP BEEP all around you from the kitchen. My god that pisses me off!
But the problem is not ordinary punks hacking the client to create false positives. No, the problem are those Beowulf clusters in underground NSA facilities making all the false negatives!
Slashdot Mirror
It just so happened that when I loaded the site all the black and green parts suddenly washed out. I knew it was a glitch, but still, it seemed funny.
Does anyone else find it odd that CT has only posted 57 times in the life of the site, according to his homenode? This lends buckets of credence to the idea of /. bigshots using secondary accounts.
Ok ok I was generalizing... I was hungry. Think outside the tech industry and merely of the root concept. Do you really believe, excepting OSes and such, market share isn't a reflection of a product's merits? Your perspective is very cynical yet valid in today's tech industry. Think of the Devil's Dictionary as opposed to Webster's.
Damn dude, where's all that code red stuff coming from then??
Also, since Apple controls at least 7% market share, you can't say that 99% of everyone runs x86. You can't. Besides that you make some interesting points, but... missiles? Missiles? BILL GATES IS GOING TO BLOW UP APPLE! OF COURSE! Come on, man!
Don't get me wrong, I think that MS is as usual spouting utter BS. But you jump to the conclusion that companies should not worry about stock price, IP, or market dominance. Stock price is a reflection of the merits of a company's products. IP is the company's property which it owns and invested in to get in the first place. Market dominance, or rather, market share, is a reflection of how good their products are, usually. They're dithering over this stuff because of the products. What don't you get here?
For posterity: I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth. -- Fry
I get the news I pay for, I guess.
Tech: What sort of problems are you having?
Me: well, i'm running a Linux/Apache server which I know is immune... and I read on slashdot that you guys blocked off all port 80 incoming connections, so my server can't be reached by anyone, which annoys me and I'm wondering if there's any way to get things open again. i was just wondering if i could get unblocked.
tech: At this time AT&T will continue to block the port until they can find a more permanent solution to the problem.
Me: also, you should know that a lot of official mediaone sites are blocked as well
Tech: Which ones?
Me: example: www.roadrunner.com and its related sub-domains
Tech: I will escalate the issue about blocking the sites. But as for the port blocking, we cannot unblock them as of now.
Me: ugh... there's nothing in my User Agreement about port blocking... i'd suspect someone in a worse mood than me would get in your face about that
Tech: Try looking at Section 10.9.
I didn't have the user agreement on hand so I gave up. Just now I dug it out and I feel misled. Me: oh darn
So I dug out this 10.9 thing which he speaks of. (My user agreement is structured differently than the one they have online) In any case, the agreement explicitly permits non-commercial use of servers as long as they don't mess things up. Section 10.9: You agree that AT&T and ServiceCo shall have the right to take any action that either AT&T Broadband or ServiceCo deems appropriate to protect the Road Runner service, its facilities and equipment. Frankly blocking my server isn't an action which protects the Road Runner facilities, service or equipment. In fact since my connection is a 2-way modem, it is harming the service. I understand the problems they are having, but a blanket blocking isn't the way to go on this. I have taken all appropriate security measures on my web server, and my service is being penalized by other users' failure to do so.
On another topic, why don't companies bombard radioactive waste with neutrons to make it break down?
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CmdrTaco: Jon, I am sorry, your services are no longer required...
JonKatz:What do you mean?
CT: Geeks are cool now, it says so here.
JonKatz: I can still... complain about corporations and stuff, can't I?
Michael:Sorry bro, that's my department now! HAHAHA!
JonKatz:This is just yet another manifestation of the classic post-modern urge to bury one's head in the sand, don't you see?
CT: (sighs slightly) Yes, that and MK-ULTRA manipulation, too, Jon...
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I think by that logic, burning oil is not exactly a source of energy, just a battery-like release of chemical energy. I guess, then, only collection of natural radiation counts as an energy source.
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I'm pretty sure that's the first time that anyone has ever left the Bahamas for the U.S. because of legal pressure!
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*PING*... the mystical HongPong has granted your wish!
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But we humans just can't help bright shiny objects. Pretty... shiny! All the world's economies are a collective hallucination, swapping gold for $$, yen or pounds doesn't mean anything. I just hope that everyone doesn't notice money has no real value at the same time.
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To sum up rambling: Ok show, if I run into it again I will give it a go.
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Disney and anime are both exceedingly trite and cliche. They both use the same general framework and styles... I don't mean drawing styles, i mean narrative styles. Here I'm thinking of more grounded anime like this Nadia thing, not Akira type stuff. It's all the basic stock of characters. Basic plot: Ooooh the crystal is linked to the core... but mysterious! And she's... exotic! Like the guy said above, 7 basic story archetypes. Disney isn't that creative, and usually anime isn't either, even when it's being insane and random, it's just pointless pulling random ideas out of the writers' collective asses. (except the mechanical stuff, I'll give ya that, I dig that) So there's my rant. :P
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http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/03/2130251.shtm l
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/10/18/0213216.shtm l
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When I read the headline I suddenly thought of a gamer's charity benefit for Parkinson's disease.
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I thought the Nobel was international, prizes like "The Japan prize' would be a sort of subset of all Nobel-Prize-space, I think...
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Also I have seen an example of something similar involving analog info via light. My physics teacher rigged a LED to a variable resistor attached to a radio. A solar panel picked up the LED's invisibly varying light and played it on a speaker. Not as useful as straight-up RF but it was pretty cool at the time.
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Bruce Perens messes up, apologizes, more upvotes for the mistake and the correction! As he noted once before, typical slashdot mods...
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Does he mean a literal paperweight or is it a diss on Apple's G4 cube?
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If there's one thing that bugs me about tech in our fast food nation, it's the damned BEEPING at McDonalds. There you are trying to eat a cheeseburger and it's all BEEP BEEP BEEP all around you from the kitchen. My god that pisses me off!
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But the problem is not ordinary punks hacking the client to create false positives. No, the problem are those Beowulf clusters in underground NSA facilities making all the false negatives!
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I bet it would look like an awesome dark green and white beam, demolishing all in its path...
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