I've been thinking about a feature for slashcode where posts can be marked as below, but with no karma involved. A poster could mark his own post, or a moderator could use a mod point. Then in preferences, readers could mark these posts -5.
+0 Meta comments own comment with I know "I will be modded"
+0 Requests mod up or down
+0 Copy and paste of article
+0 Comment is only a reply to a sig (annoying when sigs are off)
+0 Suggests a weird useless feature for slashcode
Another quick thought is that the score on the page is sometimes confusing when you award and demote posts, so how about marking next to it (+3) indicating that your preference setting increased the score of the post by 3. Yes, I know that you can see this when you view the individual posting.
The second result, Be software, showing up just means that people linked using 'To Be or Not to Be' which makes sense considering the name of the company and that they went out of business. The fourth result, 2Bee or Nottoobee, is just a play on words with your phrase and hardly 'flat out erroneous'. Even if you consider those two links invalid, I don't see any links close to being erroneous anywhere else in all 950 search results which makes for an error rate of much less than a 20 percent.
I know this was in jest, but if you're unemployed why not give it a shot? They're specifically looking for CS, Engineer, Physics and Chem majors and we've all read recently about what a hard time they're having filling open positions. If you scroll down on that page they have reasonable benefits. Government work may not be for everybody but it's definitely reliable steady work. Contact info is also on that page or go here for a list of the job openings in Virginia.
And look, they are even looking for patent examiners with a core responsibility of finding prior art.
For example, as a patent examiner, you will:
review patent applications to assess if they comply with basic format and legal rules;
determine the scope of the protection claimed by the inventor;
research relevant technologies to compare similar prior inventions;
and
write a final opinion with advice about the technical and legal requirements for the particular invention compared with earlier ones.
human beings use less than 10% of their brain's potential computing factor
As mentioned here several times in the past, this is actually an urban legend. This is even convincingly explained by this neuroscience for kids article.
You can change this behavior if you find it offensive. Just change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs
from res://mshtml.dll/about.moz to http://mozilla.org .
The NY Post estimated they'd spend $6 billion on legal fees just fighting the antitrust suit. That's 3,000 lawyers if each lawyer makes a cozy $1 million per year for two years. The exact numbers are unavailable since, from the article, Cullanin refused to disclose Microsoft's legal costs, which he said are built into the annual budget "just like every other big company."
I sent a 'reply' and it bounced off the non-existent sender's address.
Perhaps hotmail staff had already removed the offending account. I highly doubt they would violate federal laws by sending you such an obvious scam just to irritate you. To show you that these checking account scammers are actually out there, here's an article from last fall where Something Awful got back at one of them.
I didn't mean to imply that bacteria was now spreading across the moon, just that bacteria was carried within our equipment and could live for years under very extreme conditions. Contamination that doesn't spread can still be a real problem if it invalidates an expensive mission because it can't be proven that the life forms weren't brought along. Here's a better article that gives more detail on the moon bacteria.
Perhaps the Murchison Meteorite was ejected from the Earth billions of years ago, in an asteroid strike, before left-handed amino acids had been eliminated? On the other hand, scientists have already simulated conditions in space to produce various amino acids showing that they can form 'spontaneously' space. So, instead of this meteorite showing that life exists elsewhere, maybe it just validates the latest theories.
Your idea is a valid one and scientists are currently thinking that the best chance to find life in our solar system will be on Jupitor's moon, Europa. However, it is actually extremely difficult to keep the robot probe itself from carrying contamination since modern electronics can't take the extreme heat needed to kill resilient strains which could possibly destroy any life on that planet. Recently scientists have been putting more effort into trying to figure out how to explore Europa without contamination.
Contamination has already been shown to occur easily. The first Apollo mission found the moon to be sterile, but later Apollo missions found strep bacteria from previous missions. Deeply buried in ancient Antarctic ice, Lake Vostok is an enviroment that is thought to contain ancient life forms, but scientists are reluctant to explore the lake until contamination can be prevented. Bacteria has already been found in drilling to just above the top of the buried lake.
Many IE users don't bother with the back button either, but use Crazy Browser which adds a tabbed interface with middle-click to open a link and middle-click on the tab to close it. Personally I find the tabbed interface slicker and easier than in Opera or Mozilla. It also can groups of sites with on click. Any group can open on default and the last visited group will open all sites that were open when the browser was closed. It adds many shortcut keys like alt-enter to search Google. Best of all, it kills all popup windows and allows shutting off scripts, images, sounds, Java or whatever on a site-by-site basis.
.NET server is being renamed Windows Server 2003, but it sounds like there may be some other changes too. I'm hoping they use a Slashdot poll for ideas.
I've also been playing the game for a few days with a Geforce 3,Athlon 1.3, 256 DDR and platinum sound card. This guide was very interesting to me, because my fps keeps dropping to unbearably low levels any time things are happening which makes it impossible to play. When I turn textures and particles all the way up I get a whopping 2-5 fps, but otherwise usually get around 15 fps which is still pretty weak. And, yes I have all the latest drivers and patches.
For my two cents on the game.. the downside is that the gameplay is very linear and the level load times are extremely unbearable--'quick' load takes about two minutes. EAX is also buggy as hell. However, the eye candy is definitely incredible. There are very realistic volumetric particle affects like rain, flame, and billowing smoke and dust, incredibly detailedalien landscapes and actual realistic fingers on hands instead of square blobs.
"Why are there so many e-mail ads for these products? Does anybody buy them? Is there a town somewhere, called Spamville, where the men consume Viagra and pornography in bulk quantities, then lurch around in a lust-crazed frenzy, their huge artificially enhanced endowments knocking holes in their walls, so eventually their houses fall down, forcing them to purchase new ones, using low-interest mortgages?"
[2] - Bytecode Verifier vulnerability
(it affects Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0-6.0 including VM build 3805)
Its successfull exploitation allows for complete circumvention of the
Java type safety rules. In a result of this, applet sandbox restrictions
can be also escaped and malicious actions can be taken on the computer
of the victim user.
So our fate is not in our hands because we have plumbing, electricity and the telephone? He had to kill three people to give us this vast wisdom? Maybe he could have used this magical long-distance communication, like you are, and just posted this online. Actually, he didn't want to, because there is too much 'noise' online so he had to threaten to kill people to get 'respectable news sources' like the NYT to print this tripe instead.
Try reading (in one of those new fangled book thingies) some history about life before and during the industrial revolution. The 'average man's fate' was much less in his own hands than it is now. How can you choose your own fate when life expectancy is like like 30 years? Ever heard of slavery, serfdom, kingdoms, or indentured servitude? How would life be now without technology.. no antibiotics or other medical procedures besides leeches, no printing presses, no advanced learning available for 95% of the population, transportation by animal with no roads, no microwave, no space travel.. you get the idea. Sure technology can be intrusive and even dangerous, but there's no way I would want to go back to the way the things were.
One other minor point, Ted Kaczynski made a good show of living with no water or electricity, but where did his food, typewriter, paper, bomb equipment, address lookup, mail delivery or even clothes come from?
What about all of the drugs and pharmaceuticals that make it into the water supply? Antibiotics passed from humans and feed animals have been found in the water supply. Hormones are present in greater concentrations than you'd think and are thought to be disrupting fish reproduction with males having eggs in their testes. Although being able to produce caviar at will could make you quite the party favorite.
To me, it looks like this system can sort of do that. Point people to your little web server and add a few lines of Javascript to the top of your main web page and all the files reached from there, with extensions that you specify, will be served via the P2P cache.
See the instructions. Also on that page is a link to a large PDF which gets served P2P via an OnionNetworks Java applet. The PDF loaded for me in about 20 seconds. A disadvantage for the user is that currently PDF's stream and you instantly see the first page.
Perhaps Slashdot could use this only in certain cases like when linking to a pdf or linking directly to the newest iso.
I agree that this does sound like a contradiction, but I went to eat at an Amish restaraunt last summer and was surprised to read a pamphlet about their lifestyle that said they don't shun technology outright. Instead they are trying to avoid intrusions into the home, maintain Gelassenheit (simplicity and modesty) and stay seperate from the rest of the world. The Amish leaders consider each technology carefully before deciding whether to allow it into the community. They don't drive cars because they are status symbols. They don't have electrical outlets because they connect to the world, but they do have generator and batteries. Community telephones are allowed and some Amish men carry mobile phones. There are some definitely some weird contradictions like tractors are ok, but pneumatic tires aren't, so they only use tractors with steel wheels.
It looks like you can get to the forums where they're looking for people to help out in SF.
Also in the cache listing are cache links to many pages with listings of the actual cds. I'm not sure this stuff is really worth all the fuss, but I guess people have said that about most junk that historians and archeologists treasure today.
OT: Did anyone else notice Google's new tour page? Ok, so I'm a little bored today.
Rebooting clears the worm from memory and don't most people shut their laptop off when they carry it in to work? Actually we quite a few laptops and desktops that needed patching and the users had no idea that they had MSDE or SQL server running. Windows Update doesn't notify these users that they need patches, and these users definitely include the types that would have no idea that they need to track down obscure patches that didn't even, until this weekend, have an install routine. MSDE installs by default with Visual Studio.NET, ASP.NET web matrix tool, Office XP Developer, MSDN subscription, Accesss 2002, Visual FoxPro 7/8 and can be redistributed by vendors. Even worse, MSDE and SQL server install with a blank password, although I think it warns on install now.
Slashdot Mirror
Something Awful also pegged one of these scammers with a series of well written and hilarious emails.
I've been thinking about a feature for slashcode where posts can be marked as below, but with no karma involved. A poster could mark his own post, or a moderator could use a mod point. Then in preferences, readers could mark these posts -5.
+0 Meta comments own comment with I know "I will be modded"
+0 Requests mod up or down
+0 Copy and paste of article
+0 Comment is only a reply to a sig (annoying when sigs are off)
+0 Suggests a weird useless feature for slashcode
Another quick thought is that the score on the page is sometimes confusing when you award and demote posts, so how about marking next to it (+3) indicating that your preference setting increased the score of the post by 3. Yes, I know that you can see this when you view the individual posting.
The second result, Be software, showing up just means that people linked using 'To Be or Not to Be' which makes sense considering the name of the company and that they went out of business. The fourth result, 2Bee or Nottoobee, is just a play on words with your phrase and hardly 'flat out erroneous'. Even if you consider those two links invalid, I don't see any links close to being erroneous anywhere else in all 950 search results which makes for an error rate of much less than a 20 percent.
And look, they are even looking for patent examiners with a core responsibility of finding prior art.
For example, as a patent examiner, you will:
review patent applications to assess if they comply with basic format and legal rules;
determine the scope of the protection claimed by the inventor;
research relevant technologies to compare similar prior inventions;
and write a final opinion with advice about the technical and legal requirements for the particular invention compared with earlier ones.
human beings use less than 10% of their brain's potential computing factor
As mentioned here several times in the past, this is actually an urban legend. This is even convincingly explained by this neuroscience for kids article.
You can change this behavior if you find it offensive. Just change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs from res://mshtml.dll/about.moz to http://mozilla.org .
The NY Post estimated they'd spend $6 billion on legal fees just fighting the antitrust suit. That's 3,000 lawyers if each lawyer makes a cozy $1 million per year for two years. The exact numbers are unavailable since, from the article, Cullanin refused to disclose Microsoft's legal costs, which he said are built into the annual budget "just like every other big company."
I sent a 'reply' and it bounced off the non-existent sender's address.
Perhaps hotmail staff had already removed the offending account. I highly doubt they would violate federal laws by sending you such an obvious scam just to irritate you. To show you that these checking account scammers are actually out there, here's an article from last fall where Something Awful got back at one of them.
I didn't mean to imply that bacteria was now spreading across the moon, just that bacteria was carried within our equipment and could live for years under very extreme conditions. Contamination that doesn't spread can still be a real problem if it invalidates an expensive mission because it can't be proven that the life forms weren't brought along. Here's a better article that gives more detail on the moon bacteria.
Perhaps the Murchison Meteorite was ejected from the Earth billions of years ago, in an asteroid strike, before left-handed amino acids had been eliminated? On the other hand, scientists have already simulated conditions in space to produce various amino acids showing that they can form 'spontaneously' space. So, instead of this meteorite showing that life exists elsewhere, maybe it just validates the latest theories.
Your idea is a valid one and scientists are currently thinking that the best chance to find life in our solar system will be on Jupitor's moon, Europa. However, it is actually extremely difficult to keep the robot probe itself from carrying contamination since modern electronics can't take the extreme heat needed to kill resilient strains which could possibly destroy any life on that planet. Recently scientists have been putting more effort into trying to figure out how to explore Europa without contamination.
Contamination has already been shown to occur easily. The first Apollo mission found the moon to be sterile, but later Apollo missions found strep bacteria from previous missions. Deeply buried in ancient Antarctic ice, Lake Vostok is an enviroment that is thought to contain ancient life forms, but scientists are reluctant to explore the lake until contamination can be prevented. Bacteria has already been found in drilling to just above the top of the buried lake.
Many IE users don't bother with the back button either, but use Crazy Browser which adds a tabbed interface with middle-click to open a link and middle-click on the tab to close it. Personally I find the tabbed interface slicker and easier than in Opera or Mozilla. It also can groups of sites with on click. Any group can open on default and the last visited group will open all sites that were open when the browser was closed. It adds many shortcut keys like alt-enter to search Google. Best of all, it kills all popup windows and allows shutting off scripts, images, sounds, Java or whatever on a site-by-site basis.
Not to mention that .NET obfuscation gives ~1400 more hits than his Java obfuscator search.
.NET server is being renamed Windows Server 2003, but it sounds like there may be some other changes too. I'm hoping they use a Slashdot poll for ideas.
I've also been playing the game for a few days with a Geforce 3,Athlon 1.3, 256 DDR and platinum sound card. This guide was very interesting to me, because my fps keeps dropping to unbearably low levels any time things are happening which makes it impossible to play. When I turn textures and particles all the way up I get a whopping 2-5 fps, but otherwise usually get around 15 fps which is still pretty weak. And, yes I have all the latest drivers and patches.
For my two cents on the game.. the downside is that the gameplay is very linear and the level load times are extremely unbearable--'quick' load takes about two minutes. EAX is also buggy as hell. However, the eye candy is definitely incredible. There are very realistic volumetric particle affects like rain, flame, and billowing smoke and dust, incredibly detailed alien landscapes and actual realistic fingers on hands instead of square blobs.
Here's one positive review and a great screenshot of the bad guys.
Here is the full text of the Science article in PDF format. Use Google to parse this into HTML.
[2] - Bytecode Verifier vulnerability
(it affects Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0-6.0 including VM build 3805)
Its successfull exploitation allows for complete circumvention of the Java type safety rules. In a result of this, applet sandbox restrictions can be also escaped and malicious actions can be taken on the computer of the victim user.
So our fate is not in our hands because we have plumbing, electricity and the telephone? He had to kill three people to give us this vast wisdom? Maybe he could have used this magical long-distance communication, like you are, and just posted this online. Actually, he didn't want to, because there is too much 'noise' online so he had to threaten to kill people to get 'respectable news sources' like the NYT to print this tripe instead.
Try reading (in one of those new fangled book thingies) some history about life before and during the industrial revolution. The 'average man's fate' was much less in his own hands than it is now. How can you choose your own fate when life expectancy is like like 30 years? Ever heard of slavery, serfdom, kingdoms, or indentured servitude? How would life be now without technology.. no antibiotics or other medical procedures besides leeches, no printing presses, no advanced learning available for 95% of the population, transportation by animal with no roads, no microwave, no space travel.. you get the idea. Sure technology can be intrusive and even dangerous, but there's no way I would want to go back to the way the things were.
One other minor point, Ted Kaczynski made a good show of living with no water or electricity, but where did his food, typewriter, paper, bomb equipment, address lookup, mail delivery or even clothes come from?
What about all of the drugs and pharmaceuticals that make it into the water supply? Antibiotics passed from humans and feed animals have been found in the water supply. Hormones are present in greater concentrations than you'd think and are thought to be disrupting fish reproduction with males having eggs in their testes. Although being able to produce caviar at will could make you quite the party favorite.
Several upatched bugs allow code to escape the sandbox.
To me, it looks like this system can sort of do that. Point people to your little web server and add a few lines of Javascript to the top of your main web page and all the files reached from there, with extensions that you specify, will be served via the P2P cache. See the instructions. Also on that page is a link to a large PDF which gets served P2P via an OnionNetworks Java applet. The PDF loaded for me in about 20 seconds. A disadvantage for the user is that currently PDF's stream and you instantly see the first page.
Perhaps Slashdot could use this only in certain cases like when linking to a pdf or linking directly to the newest iso.
I agree that this does sound like a contradiction, but I went to eat at an Amish restaraunt last summer and was surprised to read a pamphlet about their lifestyle that said they don't shun technology outright. Instead they are trying to avoid intrusions into the home, maintain Gelassenheit (simplicity and modesty) and stay seperate from the rest of the world. The Amish leaders consider each technology carefully before deciding whether to allow it into the community. They don't drive cars because they are status symbols. They don't have electrical outlets because they connect to the world, but they do have generator and batteries. Community telephones are allowed and some Amish men carry mobile phones. There are some definitely some weird contradictions like tractors are ok, but pneumatic tires aren't, so they only use tractors with steel wheels.
More info: Amish Telephones The Amish: Technology The Amish Get Wired. The Amish? Amish FAQ
It looks like you can get to the forums where they're looking for people to help out in SF.
Also in the cache listing are cache links to many pages with listings of the actual cds. I'm not sure this stuff is really worth all the fuss, but I guess people have said that about most junk that historians and archeologists treasure today.
OT: Did anyone else notice Google's new tour page? Ok, so I'm a little bored today.
Punch cards!
Rebooting clears the worm from memory and don't most people shut their laptop off when they carry it in to work? Actually we quite a few laptops and desktops that needed patching and the users had no idea that they had MSDE or SQL server running. Windows Update doesn't notify these users that they need patches, and these users definitely include the types that would have no idea that they need to track down obscure patches that didn't even, until this weekend, have an install routine. MSDE installs by default with Visual Studio .NET, ASP.NET web matrix tool, Office XP Developer, MSDN subscription, Accesss 2002, Visual FoxPro 7/8 and can be redistributed by vendors. Even worse, MSDE and SQL server install with a blank password, although I think it warns on install now.