Yes, as a matter of fact, that is solving the problem. People learn via pain. Ever put your hand on a red hot stove? Ever do it again?
I set up a machine with everything that they need like Spybot, AdAware, and some anti-virus software. I give them plenty of advice and answer all of their questions. I let them know that they can lose ALL of their data forever (address books, favorite e-mails, legal documents) if they don't follow them.
Inevitably they learn to protect their data when everything is gone. I re image the system once or twice and they are CURED.
The absolute best search results I ever got were from a program called "Bullseye". I believe Infoseek had a link to it for a while.
This program would go to about 30 different search engines, throw your query at them, return the results, go to each page listed, and search the contents of that actual page to see if what you were looking for was really there.
There was the option to search just the web, newsgroups, forums, onlines stores, and so on. Most of the methods for submitting the query to the search engines, as well as the returned results, have changed for most search engines so it doesn't work anymore. Plus many of the search engines are long gone so the results were getting more limited as time went on.
Has anyone developed another tool that does this? Were I a coder I would find the time to make this myself and distribute it under the GPL. Sadly my coding consists of making my computer say "Hello, World".
[Begin SCO Logic]
So shouldn't Salon sue each and every Slashdot user for having illegal access to their IP? Should it determine which users read it and only sue them? Perhaps it should sue Slashdot directly for not removing the offending IP (fortunately we KNOW where and what it is)? Should Slashdot start an indemnification program for users who did RTFA? Should all users say they didn't RTFA even if they did?
[End SCO Logic]
Or, in an evil universe not too far from our own...
People get divorced and lose their families and free time due to the high demands of the current marketplace.
People needing to do more work each day take pills to reduce the need for sleep.
Employers needing to cut training costs develop the "Plug N Work" chip. When you get hired you are assigned a read only chip that has all of the companies policies, procedures, employee names, and specific work duties for each task.
Employers add wireless to the PNW chip to rapidly update corporate policies as they are implemented.
The tasks and skills for your job (doctor, lawyer, tech support, etc) are duplicated by a firm that sells the chips to your company. Your wage just became minimum because now ANYONE can walk off the street and perform the function.
Wireless communication reaches the brain level and we go from being worker drones to Borg drones. This eliminates the internal need for teleconferencing, e-mail, telephones, or bulletin boards. Your pr0n and Slashdot time at work become obsolete in the new order as everyone would know what you were doing.
Underground hackers develop technology to override The Companies' chip and deliver slashdot, goatse.cs, and pr0n unbidden to all recievers in the area.
George Orwells dream of the though police and ultimate revisionism become a reality.
I am woefully ignorant. Will someone please clue me in? How would you know that they are using GPL code unless you violated their TOS to look at their code? Or does the fact that it is out there already protect anyone who looks at it for this specific purpose?
Is one person going to take all of the heat and "find" all of the GPL code, or would the courts rule that it was inadmissable as evidence or something?
Once the wave pattern hits the level the computer is programmed to recognize as the frustration cutoff point, the caller will immediately be transferred to the operator.
I think that I'll just break out my Sam Kinnison albums at them. THAT should do the trick.
The idea that mathematics is a human construction and probably holds no water in another civilization that grew up on the other side of the universe makes a lot of sense to me.
So that is why all of those UFOs are crashing all over the place.
I use the car method sometimes, but telling the end user that the computer is kind of like a 4 or 5 year old and will take instruction accordingly helps.
Example: If you tell a child to get you a glass of water and the only things in the cupboard are plastic, the child may get confused and come back telling you that there are no glasses and they cannot fulfil your request. If you tell the child to:
1). Walk into the kitchen.
2). Get the stool by the refridgerator.
3). Put the stool in front of the cupboard that is to the right of the sink.
4). Climb up on the stool and open the cupboard.
5). Look for either a glass or a cup and put one of those on the counter.
6). Climb down off of the stool.
7). Move the stool in front of the sink (or left 2 feet).
8). Climb up the stool and turn on the cold water.
9). Put the container under the running water until the cup is almost full.
10). Put the now full cup on the counter.
11). Turn off the running water.
12). Put the stool back by the refridgerator.
13). Get the container that is now filled with water and while keeping it level and not spilling anything bring it to me.
I then tell them that they made a few assumptions and ask them what they were. They look at me and either ask what they missed (and I tell them about getting off of the stool before putting it back by the fridge) or they go "OH, I get it."
Rarely do I get the same problem over and over after that. It teaches them that they need to be careful what they tell their computer what to do. After all, if you told your 5 year old to open that package for you and they did, would you be suprised to find that it might have been a bomb or poison or something, or would you have known to inspect it yourself and use deductive reasoning first?
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I guess there just aren't that many Darl's around, probably something for which we should be grateful.
A direct link to a 15MB.mov file on the front page of slashdot? Does someone REALLY not like the people who run that server or something?
Yeah. They tagged his office, now he's DDOSing their server in retribution. The punks.
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So which choice do we make:
1). Make linux easy to work on and use so that it can be an effective alternative to windows. This might entail things like standardized GUI interfaces, methods of adjusting preferences that neither involve the command line nor hacking an initialization script, and help files that guide users through how to easily solve their problems.
2). Keep linux in it's current state of "difficult for the newbie to work on and use." This would involve the least disruption to the current developmental process(es), would keep things "just as they are today", and ensure the burden is on the user for tracking down an expert in case they need to install, modify, use, upgrade, or remove either the operating system or an application.
While keeping the customization that is vital to the particular user available is it necessary to keep it difficult? Or are the two mutually exclusive?
Besides a few industry analysts who attribute some merit to SCO's claims, the undercurrent of SCO supporters has yet to take up arms alongside McBride. "The reason they're silent is because if they stick their head up, they tend to get shot by a bunch of Linux people," McBride said
I suppose that the silent majority of polka fans didn't speak up when Adrian Cronauer was playing rock music back in Vietnam either, despite protests from 2nd Lt. Steven Hauk claiming that most GI's really preffered a rousing polka to Jimi Hendrix.
I can block any advertising that I choose. Edit the.ini file and the bad advertising just goes away. You can make the good advertising (i.e. Slashdot's ad server) continue by adding in what you want to see. It is available for at least Linux and Windows. It uses regular expressions to parse all URLs requested. I haven't seen an ad at home (except while browsing Slashdot) for about two years.
Cookies? I don't need no stinkin' cookies except from sites that I choose. Granted it sometimes can be tough telling where the cookie is coming from, but I feel that it is a small price to pay.
A good friend of mine had spent 8 years in the state system here in Washington state. According to him the closest thing to reality he could find is the HBO (or Showtime or whatever) series "Oz". The only things that were different were the size of the cell (the ones in Oz are bigger) and the all clear cell front instead of bars.
If you have not seen the show, do so. While I have only seen about three episodes that were rented on DVD the series it was, at least for me, was an excellent advertisement for why you should not want to go to prison.
If you keep your goal vague enough then when you accomplish something, anything, big you can say that your goal was achieved even if it was far from what you wanted.
I am not a math guru by any stretch of the imagination. I kicked butt in high-school geometry, but that was a long time ago.
If I have a one dimensional line and want it to bend it so it has no holes (or gaps I guess), it must be promoted to at least two dimensions. It becomes a circle in two and could be a knot (like a piece of string) in three.
If I have a two dimensional plane and want to bend it so it has no holes, it must be promoted to at least three dimensions. It becomes a sphere in three (and god knows what in four).
So, if I have a three dimentional cube and want to bend it so it has no holes, doesn't it need to be promoted to at least four or five dimensions to accomplish this?
I might have been reading into this conjecture that the three dimensional cube had to remain confined to three dimensional space to pull this off which is the reason that I am asking this.
I've heard alot about these models, and they're supposed to be spactacular. Incredibly accurate.
Yeah, but does do the controls have a 7 minute lag time? That would add a level of realism that would let people know that the grunt work is BOOOORRRIIIIING.
IANAP (I Am Not A Programmer) by any stretch of the imagination and have absolutely no idea about the nature of the core team, but a phrase like this makes me wonder if it was self destructing. Were I to hear this phrase in a business environment it would indicate to me that it turned into a political quagmire and that direction was defocused and derailed by hard lined vocal factions.
Could it be they just decided to disagree and split up because it just wasn't worth it any more?
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, as a matter of fact, that is solving the problem. People learn via pain. Ever put your hand on a red hot stove? Ever do it again?
I set up a machine with everything that they need like Spybot, AdAware, and some anti-virus software. I give them plenty of advice and answer all of their questions. I let them know that they can lose ALL of their data forever (address books, favorite e-mails, legal documents) if they don't follow them.
Inevitably they learn to protect their data when everything is gone. I re image the system once or twice and they are CURED.
I'm more into Heavy Metal Osbourn (Ozzy) myself.
The article is pure genius by trolling standards.
They have just told the entire blackhat community that their Kung Fu is weak.
[sarcasm] Theres some good news. [/sarcasm]
The absolute best search results I ever got were from a program called "Bullseye". I believe Infoseek had a link to it for a while.
This program would go to about 30 different search engines, throw your query at them, return the results, go to each page listed, and search the contents of that actual page to see if what you were looking for was really there.
There was the option to search just the web, newsgroups, forums, onlines stores, and so on. Most of the methods for submitting the query to the search engines, as well as the returned results, have changed for most search engines so it doesn't work anymore. Plus many of the search engines are long gone so the results were getting more limited as time went on.
Has anyone developed another tool that does this? Were I a coder I would find the time to make this myself and distribute it under the GPL. Sadly my coding consists of making my computer say "Hello, World".
No matter what they do with the pen computer, however, I predict that the hadwriting recognition will still suck.
[Begin SCO Logic]
So shouldn't Salon sue each and every Slashdot user for having illegal access to their IP? Should it determine which users read it and only sue them? Perhaps it should sue Slashdot directly for not removing the offending IP (fortunately we KNOW where and what it is)? Should Slashdot start an indemnification program for users who did RTFA? Should all users say they didn't RTFA even if they did?
[End SCO Logic]
Or, in an evil universe not too far from our own...
People get divorced and lose their families and free time due to the high demands of the current marketplace.
People needing to do more work each day take pills to reduce the need for sleep.
Employers needing to cut training costs develop the "Plug N Work" chip. When you get hired you are assigned a read only chip that has all of the companies policies, procedures, employee names, and specific work duties for each task.
Employers add wireless to the PNW chip to rapidly update corporate policies as they are implemented.
The tasks and skills for your job (doctor, lawyer, tech support, etc) are duplicated by a firm that sells the chips to your company. Your wage just became minimum because now ANYONE can walk off the street and perform the function.
Wireless communication reaches the brain level and we go from being worker drones to Borg drones. This eliminates the internal need for teleconferencing, e-mail, telephones, or bulletin boards. Your pr0n and Slashdot time at work become obsolete in the new order as everyone would know what you were doing.
Underground hackers develop technology to override The Companies' chip and deliver slashdot, goatse.cs, and pr0n unbidden to all recievers in the area.
George Orwells dream of the though police and ultimate revisionism become a reality.
But perhaps I'm just being paranoid.
I am woefully ignorant. Will someone please clue me in? How would you know that they are using GPL code unless you violated their TOS to look at their code? Or does the fact that it is out there already protect anyone who looks at it for this specific purpose?
Is one person going to take all of the heat and "find" all of the GPL code, or would the courts rule that it was inadmissable as evidence or something?
Once the wave pattern hits the level the computer is programmed to recognize as the frustration cutoff point, the caller will immediately be transferred to the operator.
I think that I'll just break out my Sam Kinnison albums at them. THAT should do the trick.
I was on hold for five fucking years!!!
... the infamous 'Pre-meeting meeting' though.. *shudders*
Whoa, hold on there cowboy. Don't you think it's unwise to rush into something like that.
Obviously you have never attended the "Preliminary pre-meeting meeting" before, have you.
The idea that mathematics is a human construction and probably holds no water in another civilization that grew up on the other side of the universe makes a lot of sense to me.
So that is why all of those UFOs are crashing all over the place.
I use the car method sometimes, but telling the end user that the computer is kind of like a 4 or 5 year old and will take instruction accordingly helps.
Example: If you tell a child to get you a glass of water and the only things in the cupboard are plastic, the child may get confused and come back telling you that there are no glasses and they cannot fulfil your request. If you tell the child to:
1). Walk into the kitchen.
2). Get the stool by the refridgerator.
3). Put the stool in front of the cupboard that is to the right of the sink.
4). Climb up on the stool and open the cupboard.
5). Look for either a glass or a cup and put one of those on the counter.
6). Climb down off of the stool.
7). Move the stool in front of the sink (or left 2 feet).
8). Climb up the stool and turn on the cold water.
9). Put the container under the running water until the cup is almost full.
10). Put the now full cup on the counter.
11). Turn off the running water.
12). Put the stool back by the refridgerator.
13). Get the container that is now filled with water and while keeping it level and not spilling anything bring it to me.
I then tell them that they made a few assumptions and ask them what they were. They look at me and either ask what they missed (and I tell them about getting off of the stool before putting it back by the fridge) or they go "OH, I get it."
Rarely do I get the same problem over and over after that. It teaches them that they need to be careful what they tell their computer what to do. After all, if you told your 5 year old to open that package for you and they did, would you be suprised to find that it might have been a bomb or poison or something, or would you have known to inspect it yourself and use deductive reasoning first?
I guess there just aren't that many Darl's around, probably something for which we should be grateful.
What about his other brother Darl?
A direct link to a 15MB .mov file on the front page of slashdot? Does someone REALLY not like the people who run that server or something?
Yeah. They tagged his office, now he's DDOSing their server in retribution. The punks.
So which choice do we make:
1). Make linux easy to work on and use so that it can be an effective alternative to windows. This might entail things like standardized GUI interfaces, methods of adjusting preferences that neither involve the command line nor hacking an initialization script, and help files that guide users through how to easily solve their problems.
2). Keep linux in it's current state of "difficult for the newbie to work on and use." This would involve the least disruption to the current developmental process(es), would keep things "just as they are today", and ensure the burden is on the user for tracking down an expert in case they need to install, modify, use, upgrade, or remove either the operating system or an application.
While keeping the customization that is vital to the particular user available is it necessary to keep it difficult? Or are the two mutually exclusive?
I think that I'll vote for Senator Palpatine. At least we know where he stands.
Besides a few industry analysts who attribute some merit to SCO's claims, the undercurrent of SCO supporters has yet to take up arms alongside McBride. "The reason they're silent is because if they stick their head up, they tend to get shot by a bunch of Linux people," McBride said
I suppose that the silent majority of polka fans didn't speak up when Adrian Cronauer was playing rock music back in Vietnam either, despite protests from 2nd Lt. Steven Hauk claiming that most GI's really preffered a rousing polka to Jimi Hendrix.
I shit you not, every time somebody would call on this line, a fucking klaxon goes off.
What's the phone number?
Try Junkbuster.
.ini file and the bad advertising just goes away. You can make the good advertising (i.e. Slashdot's ad server) continue by adding in what you want to see. It is available for at least Linux and Windows. It uses regular expressions to parse all URLs requested. I haven't seen an ad at home (except while browsing Slashdot) for about two years.
I can block any advertising that I choose. Edit the
Cookies? I don't need no stinkin' cookies except from sites that I choose. Granted it sometimes can be tough telling where the cookie is coming from, but I feel that it is a small price to pay.
A good friend of mine had spent 8 years in the state system here in Washington state. According to him the closest thing to reality he could find is the HBO (or Showtime or whatever) series "Oz". The only things that were different were the size of the cell (the ones in Oz are bigger) and the all clear cell front instead of bars.
News flash: Rape: Real. Daily beatings: Real. Corrupt guards: Real.
If you have not seen the show, do so. While I have only seen about three episodes that were rented on DVD the series it was, at least for me, was an excellent advertisement for why you should not want to go to prison.
If you keep your goal vague enough then when you accomplish something, anything, big you can say that your goal was achieved even if it was far from what you wanted.
Yup. I spend a great deal of time telling my friends:
And then there was this one time, when I was on Slashdot...
Obviously this is more relevant and interesting than:
And then there was this one time, when I was watching this movie about band camp...
Honestly, I can tell by their wide eyed glassy stare and their slackjawed expression.
Question:
I am not a math guru by any stretch of the imagination. I kicked butt in high-school geometry, but that was a long time ago.
If I have a one dimensional line and want it to bend it so it has no holes (or gaps I guess), it must be promoted to at least two dimensions. It becomes a circle in two and could be a knot (like a piece of string) in three.
If I have a two dimensional plane and want to bend it so it has no holes, it must be promoted to at least three dimensions. It becomes a sphere in three (and god knows what in four).
So, if I have a three dimentional cube and want to bend it so it has no holes, doesn't it need to be promoted to at least four or five dimensions to accomplish this?
I might have been reading into this conjecture that the three dimensional cube had to remain confined to three dimensional space to pull this off which is the reason that I am asking this.
I've heard alot about these models, and they're supposed to be spactacular. Incredibly accurate.
Yeah, but does do the controls have a 7 minute lag time? That would add a level of realism that would let people know that the grunt work is BOOOORRRIIIIING.
or a place where technical discussion happens.
IANAP (I Am Not A Programmer) by any stretch of the imagination and have absolutely no idea about the nature of the core team, but a phrase like this makes me wonder if it was self destructing. Were I to hear this phrase in a business environment it would indicate to me that it turned into a political quagmire and that direction was defocused and derailed by hard lined vocal factions.
Could it be they just decided to disagree and split up because it just wasn't worth it any more?