And Brer RedHat said, "Please, please Brer BitTorrent, don't take the load off of my central servers so that my paying customers can get at a cerfified, supported version of the operating system. I would cry and cry -- oh how it would hurt! -- if all the free-loading college kids with big bandwidth and no money downloaded my product off of other people's dime and became great hackers that on graduating might form companies that need guaranteed support. In the mean time, oh how I would miss the Slashdot effect on my own servers! How lonely my customers will be without the seething hordes of./ to share their pipe!" And Brer BitTorrent laughed and threw the ISO into its briar patch. Brer RedHat landed on his feet, laughed and ran off to gambol with his customers. -- AdAstra time left: 13 hour 13 min 33 sec download to:../RedHat9.iso download rate: 36 kB/s upload rate: 39 kB/s
I work for one of the contractors on the Robonaut project. It's coming along nicely, with more automation of repetitious tasks and intelligent responses to failures (such as lost communication) planned for the next few years. Here's some more information.
The point of./ moderation in to highlight the thought provoking, interesting and knowledgable posts, while hiding the flame bait, asinine, and grossly off-topic from normal view. So really, there shouldn't be much disagreement on what's good moderation. Set up moderation such that the moderator sets a target score for a post, which nudges the post towards the target. If the post ends up two or more points _either_way_ off the target, the moderator loses a "Moderator Point," and if s/he loses enough s/he's not a moderator any more. Perhaps even give more weight to the suggestions of moderators who moderate well. The moderators who moderate objectively will be kept and those who moderate subjectively will lost.
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And Brer RedHat said, "Please, please Brer BitTorrent, don't take the load off of my central servers so that my paying customers can get at a cerfified, supported version of the operating system. I would cry and cry -- oh how it would hurt! -- if all the free-loading college kids with big bandwidth and no money downloaded my product off of other people's dime and became great hackers that on graduating might form companies that need guaranteed support. In the mean time, oh how I would miss the Slashdot effect on my own servers! How lonely my customers will be without the seething hordes of ./ to share their pipe!" ../RedHat9.iso
And Brer BitTorrent laughed and threw the ISO into its briar patch.
Brer RedHat landed on his feet, laughed and ran off to gambol with his customers.
-- AdAstra
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upload rate: 39 kB/s
Reg required, etc, but this NYT article, besides getting the scoop, is longer and better with details than CNN. Shocking, I know.
I work for one of the contractors on the Robonaut project. It's coming along nicely, with more automation of repetitious tasks and intelligent responses to failures (such as lost communication) planned for the next few years. Here's some more information.
Book info on David Brin's homepage. Keep in mind Brin is very controversial on this topic, but interesting and well thought out.
Which of your design decisions are you proudest of or happiest with, and which make you reach for the brown bag to hide your shame?
It was in the old "Webster's and in Chaucer.
The point of ./ moderation in to highlight the thought provoking, interesting and knowledgable posts, while hiding the flame bait, asinine, and grossly off-topic from normal view. So really, there shouldn't be much disagreement on what's good moderation.
Set up moderation such that the moderator sets a target score for a post, which nudges the post towards the target. If the post ends up two or more points _either_way_ off the target, the moderator loses a "Moderator Point," and if s/he loses enough s/he's not a moderator any more. Perhaps even give more weight to the suggestions of moderators who moderate well.
The moderators who moderate objectively will be kept and those who moderate subjectively will lost.