This is a protection akin to slashdot only allowing mod points to users who have UID's below X% of the total. Loosely speaking of course.
It's pretty much splitting the difference between the full protection (admins only) that already exists and just keeping more power away from anons and newer users. So now, to use a Windows comparison, there are pages that Administrators can change (full protection), Power Users (semi-protected, NEW!), and the overwhelming majority of the rest can be edited by guest users.
Now, they'll have to deal with the trolls who will register craploads of accounts for use in the future against the semi-protected pages. They're trying to make people/media happy on one end, yet ending up feeding the trolls on the other end.
I love wikipedia, even with the exploits available due to the anon & instant user editing ability. Considering the overwhelming amount non-trolled information, it's pretty incredible that it hasn't been abused quite a bit more.
I hope that they don't pursue this much farther. IMHO, anything more will trigger the trolls into being (even) more subtle and keep their bellies much more full.
When you correct your aim best not to aim for the beach in Sydney, the people there are worse than sharks. They are a bit touchy about immigrants at the moment. The mind boggles to think what they would do to somebody tunneling into one of their beaches.
Damn, I was shooting for +1 Subtle as I didn't think many would relate it to Cronulla Beach. Oh well.
I remember when we had pong on TV. We watched the ball go back and forth. And we were grateful.
And then, on the second day, the Pong-Lordeth Saeth, "Let there Be Sticky Paddles for the pong to sticketh to henceforth" and all of the people rejoiced.
(cool Google maps hack shows you where you will come out if you dig a hole through the center of the earth from any location).
Thanks for the google maps hack information. My current hole would have ended up 2 miles off-coast of Sydney, Australia and with me drowning after being shark-bit if it weren't for current technology setting me straight.
And you have to present him as an ordinary guy who makes grammatical errors, which I'm sure he's trained to make--he didn't talk that way at Yale--and a fake Texas twang, and he's off to his ranch to cut brush or something. It's like a toothpaste ad. And I think a lot of people know it.
I'll never forget an excellent quote from one of Douglas Adams books although Bush, unlike most presidents, is breaking the rule quite a bit " the President's job is not to wield power but to distract attention away from it.
That said, yeah, someone at the the FBI or Secret Service (not likely the NSA) will be skimming my posts now, I expect.
It's not likely. The FBI and the rest are in a mess (again!) after trying to semi-merge into the Homeland Security. It'll be a decade or so before they recover.
No one barely knows who's supposed to do what other than terrorist monitoring (and multi-state crimes, etc...) and don't know who will get hung out to dry if general "fishing" investigations get leaked out. This has a lot to do with how the CIA was bitch-slapped decades ago after being ordered to do things by one administration and then persecuted by the following administration for following previous orders, rinse, lather, repeat. Also, it's more likely that the Secret Service would be interested if there weren't so many reported threats to check up on, threatening emails/letters to government agencies, and phone calls from seriously disturbed people to deal with.
The agencies were in quite a bit of trouble a decade ago for not paying attention to threats from Francisco Martin Duran. He ended up trying to kill President Clinton. Francisco got 40 years for the attempt. They know that it's important to concentrate on reported threats or direct ones, not check on every person who posts anti-administration text on WWW/USENET. They may do some dumb things, but the not-dumb things are rarely good Headline Media Material.
Although I do not believe what government agencies report, there is sufficient documentation and mention of numbers around 1,500 investigations/year that I believe that the number is quite likely accurate. Even if the number is 10x higher, it's not a large number considering the population of the world. On top of that, the crime is only punishable with a 5 year sentence. Being charged for growing marijuana (no sales!) usually carries a more serious sentence.
Also, Google alone reports 2.5 MILLION hits for the phrase "kill president bush" alone to check out.
Yes, I will always fear government. But, I also realize that they they're human, not supermen who can do whatever they want unless the current political climate gives them some rope and they can justify the time they spend getting paid to do {whatever}.
Reading Slashdot and/or filtering communications for the billions of variations of "do something bad to government" is not likely to be useful. OTOH, filtering for references to the {currently watched terrorist organizations} more likely is being done.
Again, I fear government. But, I'm much more worried about laws being passed to infringe on our rights compared to what will happen to me if I have "Bomb. Kill. President. Revolution. Washington. Airplanes. Hijack. CAPSII actually helps us terrorists..." in a USENET/WWW.sig or post.
And, before anyone is quick with a mod-down, remember, if (when) there is another successful terrorist attack and the United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs finds out that government employees were wasting time investigating Slashdot/WWW/USENET text, heads will definitely roll.
So, I'll end with Bomb. Does. Kill. Better. President. Get. Foreign. A. Policy. Before. Drastic. Someone. Something.
A lot of people consider Maxtor as good for nothing but paperweights, because some of the earlier members of the DiamondMax line really really sucked.
If they hadn't replaced those drives for customers with just as low quality ones that would also fail rather quickly, they probably wouldn't have experienced such a long-lasting backlash from the geek community.
When replacing problem hardware, companies should never send a replacement that they know damned well is likely to be a problem. People will often forgive once, but are not as like to do so twice in a row.
For one thing, ripping an entire CD collection in a row is a great way to ruin your CD drive. Those things have moving parts and they heat up real fast, especially in laptops.
Who said anything about ripping an entire collection in one sitting?
That aside, ~$25 (home PC) CD drives are easy to find at retailers for this purpose
I will concede the heating part even if only 10 CDs are ripped in a row. when I ripped my ~900 CD collection, I did it at half of the rated speed of the CD drive. And, I would never suggest that someone burn a collection on a laptop.
So I picked up this month's Scientific American and was reading the their "Scientific American 50" the other day and realized that they had named Hwang the "Research Leader of the Year" [sciam.com].
If the allegations about fabricating and faking the data are true, then I'm curious what the editors at SciAm will do? Rename him to "Fraud Leader of the Year"?
They will be sold to local pawn shops or richer people for food...
Ob Southpark:
"Okay then, do we have our Bibles that were handed out freely? [an Ethiopian attempts to eat one, but Hollis interrupts] No no no, we don't eat the Bibles, we read them."
The cloning has not been proven 'fake' yet. I think it is only some of the 'morality' of the experiment that could be called into question so far.
True, the BBC used an incorrect headline and Slashdot copied it. It gives an impression similar to "United States Moon Landing Successes Faked". Most people would consider that to mean that the BBC is saying that the moon landings were fake.
It's only on Slashdot that you see "S. Korea Cloning Success Faked" as the headline instead of, "S. Korea Cloning Success Possibly Faked".
Actually, if you RTA, you'll see that the subject line here uses the same wording as the BBC's subject line. It's extremely common for all mainstream news organizations to use imprecise headlines because those headlines often have to fit in a small area in print or on-screen for television.
Slashdot is not mainstream and can have longer subject lines so I do feel that "possibly" should have been added to it.
Wikipedia redirects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhale to the correct Narwhal page instead of barfing up a "NO DUMBASS!" error. Merriam-Webster online does a similar thing when it should actually suggest alternatives.
Someone at Wikipedia had to correct "monceros" and replace it with "monoceros". The poor Narwhal must be jinxed.
BTW: My Firefox Spellbound extension correctly flags "Narwhale" as incorrect.
And yet you keep this admittedly cruel and viscious animal as pet for your own amusement, curiouser and curiouser.
I had googled for for a penitentiary that accepts cats that like to torture and kill other creatures for entertainment. But, all of the results indicated that it's the nature of cats to do that sort of thing.
since we teach kids process rather than critical thinking. If you want to teach your 2-year-old to tie his shoes, to you teach a series of steps to be followed, rather than an understanding of what qualities a knot must have to hold. I suppose this may be because kids can't handle critical thinking, but this test can't prove it.
They can't handle critical thinking yet, but there isn't any reason not to teach them that they can choose to tie their shoes in different ways. Once you show a child how to tie a working knot, IMO it's not a bad idea to expand the concept by showing a different way to tie the knot.
Once you've done that, the child will often experiment with shoe knots instead of reasoning that there is only one way to do the task.
To the editors: ARE YOU SERIOUS?? What, today is 'any old story will do' day?
It really doesn't count as a story since it boils down to "some version of Windows won't start up in some vague way on a Gateway of unknown model number after a power outage".
Slashdot Mirror
This is a protection akin to slashdot only allowing mod points to users who have UID's below X% of the total. Loosely speaking of course.
It's pretty much splitting the difference between the full protection (admins only) that already exists and just keeping more power away from anons and newer users. So now, to use a Windows comparison, there are pages that Administrators can change (full protection), Power Users (semi-protected, NEW!), and the overwhelming majority of the rest can be edited by guest users.
Now, they'll have to deal with the trolls who will register craploads of accounts for use in the future against the semi-protected pages. They're trying to make people/media happy on one end, yet ending up feeding the trolls on the other end.
I love wikipedia, even with the exploits available due to the anon & instant user editing ability. Considering the overwhelming amount non-trolled information, it's pretty incredible that it hasn't been abused quite a bit more.
I hope that they don't pursue this much farther. IMHO, anything more will trigger the trolls into being (even) more subtle and keep their bellies much more full.
When you correct your aim best not to aim for the beach in Sydney, the people there are worse than sharks. They are a bit touchy about immigrants at the moment. The mind boggles to think what they would do to somebody tunneling into one of their beaches.
Damn, I was shooting for +1 Subtle as I didn't think many would relate it to Cronulla Beach. Oh well.
I remember when we had pong on TV. We watched the ball go back and forth. And we were grateful.
And then, on the second day, the Pong-Lordeth Saeth, "Let there Be Sticky Paddles for the pong to sticketh to henceforth" and all of the people rejoiced.
(cool Google maps hack shows you where you will come out if you dig a hole through the center of the earth from any location).
Thanks for the google maps hack information. My current hole would have ended up 2 miles off-coast of Sydney, Australia and with me drowning after being shark-bit if it weren't for current technology setting me straight.
And what harm will come if a bunch of it happens to flow up to the surface by accident?
No harm done as long as there are poor mountaineers close-by trying to keep their families fed.
They are tracking a large green creature surf-boarding towards Tokyo.
Does that count?
Best. Science Fiction. Ever.
Yes. A day without Pat Boone is like a day without...night.
And you have to present him as an ordinary guy who makes grammatical errors, which I'm sure he's trained to make--he didn't talk that way at Yale--and a fake Texas twang, and he's off to his ranch to cut brush or something. It's like a toothpaste ad. And I think a lot of people know it.
I'll never forget an excellent quote from one of Douglas Adams books although Bush, unlike most presidents, is breaking the rule quite a bit " the President's job is not to wield power but to distract attention away from it .
That said, yeah, someone at the the FBI or Secret Service (not likely the NSA) will be skimming my posts now, I expect.
.sig or post.
It's not likely. The FBI and the rest are in a mess (again!) after trying to semi-merge into the Homeland Security. It'll be a decade or so before they recover.
No one barely knows who's supposed to do what other than terrorist monitoring (and multi-state crimes, etc...) and don't know who will get hung out to dry if general "fishing" investigations get leaked out. This has a lot to do with how the CIA was bitch-slapped decades ago after being ordered to do things by one administration and then persecuted by the following administration for following previous orders, rinse, lather, repeat. Also, it's more likely that the Secret Service would be interested if there weren't so many reported threats to check up on, threatening emails/letters to government agencies, and phone calls from seriously disturbed people to deal with.
The agencies were in quite a bit of trouble a decade ago for not paying attention to threats from Francisco Martin Duran. He ended up trying to kill President Clinton. Francisco got 40 years for the attempt. They know that it's important to concentrate on reported threats or direct ones, not check on every person who posts anti-administration text on WWW/USENET. They may do some dumb things, but the not-dumb things are rarely good Headline Media Material.
Although I do not believe what government agencies report, there is sufficient documentation and mention of numbers around 1,500 investigations/year that I believe that the number is quite likely accurate. Even if the number is 10x higher, it's not a large number considering the population of the world. On top of that, the crime is only punishable with a 5 year sentence. Being charged for growing marijuana (no sales!) usually carries a more serious sentence.
Also, Google alone reports 2.5 MILLION hits for the phrase "kill president bush" alone to check out.
Yes, I will always fear government. But, I also realize that they they're human, not supermen who can do whatever they want unless the current political climate gives them some rope and they can justify the time they spend getting paid to do {whatever}.
Reading Slashdot and/or filtering communications for the billions of variations of "do something bad to government" is not likely to be useful. OTOH, filtering for references to the {currently watched terrorist organizations} more likely is being done.
Again, I fear government. But, I'm much more worried about laws being passed to infringe on our rights compared to what will happen to me if I have "Bomb. Kill. President. Revolution. Washington. Airplanes. Hijack. CAPSII actually helps us terrorists..." in a USENET/WWW
And, before anyone is quick with a mod-down, remember, if (when) there is another successful terrorist attack and the United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs finds out that government employees were wasting time investigating Slashdot/WWW/USENET text, heads will definitely roll.
So, I'll end with Bomb. Does. Kill. Better. President. Get. Foreign. A. Policy. Before. Drastic. Someone. Something.
From MSNBC link: ...after September 11 authorising the National Security Agency...
Coming up at 11:00: Will Microsoft add spell-check to MSNBC? Tune in to find out!
Podcasting, Skypecasting, ummmm... blogcasting? Seriously, it's just a media stream, not something new. Please invent words responsibly.
Actually, you can blame that word on Stuart at Skypejournal. He created it a year ago.
A lot of people consider Maxtor as good for nothing but paperweights, because some of the earlier members of the DiamondMax line really really sucked.
If they hadn't replaced those drives for customers with just as low quality ones that would also fail rather quickly, they probably wouldn't have experienced such a long-lasting backlash from the geek community.
When replacing problem hardware, companies should never send a replacement that they know damned well is likely to be a problem. People will often forgive once, but are not as like to do so twice in a row.
For one thing, ripping an entire CD collection in a row is a great way to ruin your CD drive. Those things have moving parts and they heat up real fast, especially in laptops.
Who said anything about ripping an entire collection in one sitting?
That aside, ~$25 (home PC) CD drives are easy to find at retailers for this purpose
I will concede the heating part even if only 10 CDs are ripped in a row. when I ripped my ~900 CD collection, I did it at half of the rated speed of the CD drive. And, I would never suggest that someone burn a collection on a laptop.
A poor joke considering that Ethiopia has been an independent Christian nation since the 4th Century. Ethiopians can eat their [i]own[/i] bibles.
Actually, there are more Muslims in Ethiopia than Christians.
So I picked up this month's Scientific American and was reading the their "Scientific American 50" the other day and realized that they had named Hwang the "Research Leader of the Year" [sciam.com].
If the allegations about fabricating and faking the data are true, then I'm curious what the editors at SciAm will do? Rename him to "Fraud Leader of the Year"?
No, "Re-Research Leader Of The Year".
They will be sold to local pawn shops or richer people for food...
."
Ob Southpark:
"Okay then, do we have our Bibles that were handed out freely? [an Ethiopian attempts to eat one, but Hollis interrupts] No no no, we don't eat the Bibles, we read them
The cloning has not been proven 'fake' yet. I think it is only some of the 'morality' of the experiment that could be called into question so far.
True, the BBC used an incorrect headline and Slashdot copied it. It gives an impression similar to "United States Moon Landing Successes Faked". Most people would consider that to mean that the BBC is saying that the moon landings were fake.
It's only on Slashdot that you see "S. Korea Cloning Success Faked" as the headline instead of, "S. Korea Cloning Success Possibly Faked".
Actually, if you RTA, you'll see that the subject line here uses the same wording as the BBC's subject line. It's extremely common for all mainstream news organizations to use imprecise headlines because those headlines often have to fit in a small area in print or on-screen for television.
Slashdot is not mainstream and can have longer subject lines so I do feel that "possibly" should have been added to it.
Aiming 1 Billion watt microwave beams at Earth isn't a very good idea.
Spiders yes. Blofeld no.
Wikipedia redirects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhale to the correct Narwhal page instead of barfing up a "NO DUMBASS!" error. Merriam-Webster online does a similar thing when it should actually suggest alternatives.
Someone at Wikipedia had to correct "monceros" and replace it with "monoceros". The poor Narwhal must be jinxed.
BTW: My Firefox Spellbound extension correctly flags "Narwhale" as incorrect.
And yet you keep this admittedly cruel and viscious animal as pet for your own amusement, curiouser and curiouser.
I had googled for for a penitentiary that accepts cats that like to torture and kill other creatures for entertainment. But, all of the results indicated that it's the nature of cats to do that sort of thing.
Anyhoo, im not sure quite why a study of that would be needed, but I for one find looking at it from the angle of specific heat is pretty interesting.
It is interesting.
But, I'll still enjoy saying "hey dumbass, don't put food that's been heated anywhere from 350-500 degrees in your mouth right away!" to people.
since we teach kids process rather than critical thinking. If you want to teach your 2-year-old to tie his shoes, to you teach a series of steps to be followed, rather than an understanding of what qualities a knot must have to hold. I suppose this may be because kids can't handle critical thinking, but this test can't prove it.
They can't handle critical thinking yet, but there isn't any reason not to teach them that they can choose to tie their shoes in different ways. Once you show a child how to tie a working knot, IMO it's not a bad idea to expand the concept by showing a different way to tie the knot.
Once you've done that, the child will often experiment with shoe knots instead of reasoning that there is only one way to do the task.
That article only proves they're much more like humans than most think. What species is more violent than man? None.
My cat stacks up dead chipmunks behind our house on a regular basis. They usually have been decapitated.
It doesn't eat them, it just does it for entertainment and sometimes I'll see the cat batting one of the heads around on the lawn.
I, on the other hand, rarely do that sort of thing.
To the editors: ARE YOU SERIOUS?? What, today is 'any old story will do' day?
It really doesn't count as a story since it boils down to " some version of Windows won't start up in some vague way on a Gateway of unknown model number after a power outage ".
News for Nerds indeed.