Listen, I am no lover of the McCain-Palin ticket I can assure you, so this is not a partisan slant. But I'll say this: what this dumbass did is _completely_ out of line and he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We don't allow this sort of behavior to go unpunished in a civilized society.
This stance does in no way let Palin off the hook for transgressing her government's policies on using outside email for business work, but that's not the point. Her privacy was violated in an illegal manner, and this cannot be tolerated for an instant. How can a person stand against government electronic surveillance while at the same time say the behavior of this individual is acceptable?
I've been a email server administrator for years. Privacy is extremely important to me, and I consider the attack on Palin's privacy to be an attack against us all. We should work to protect everyone's privacy, and in particular, stand up for the privacy rights of those with whom we do not agree. This is called "taking the high road."
Full disclosure: "this guy" is also my father, and is a professional audio engineer. He also designs and builds his own loudspeakers, including all the loudspeakers you see in this space (they're transmission line technology).
That would be a good theory if we used a voting system that would deliver results representative of the voters' wishes.
If I vote for my ideal progressive candidate who is guaranteed to lose, I may be inadvertently helping the most popular "greater evil" candidate, at the expense of the most popular "lesser evil" candidate. Therefore, it makes sense for me to vote for the lesser evil. This is called "tactical voting". Another way of saying this is, "All votes for anyone other than the second place are votes for the winner."
Simply stating that if everyone voted their conscience instead of participating in tactical voting is naive, and I suspect you know that. The only way to give true progressive third-party candidates a chance is to change the voting system itself, to something that discourages tactical voting (for example, preferential voting. Until that happens (and I wouldn't hold your breath), I recommend voting for the lesser evil unless you want to see more presidents like GWB in the future.
God I hate those stupid damn LEDs. This has been a sore spot for me for a while now. I can't believe all the comments from the other slashdotters who don't see the problem -- you are the same crowd who puts crass blacklights in your dumb computer case and think it looks so freaking RAD. How about the post from the guy who is like, "and who DOESN'T get a cheap thrill from turning off all the room lights and seeing Mission Control all totally cool and lit up and stuff?" I'll tell you who: anyone who isn't twelve and who wouldn't be impressed by the aesthetics of a Turkish disco, circa 1978.
The worst offenders of the blinky LED department, in my opinion, are the bluetooth headsets. Many have an absolutely RIDICULOUS bright blinky LED that is on all the time and the guy wearing it (presumably, the guy who should be extracting status information from that dumb blink) can't even SEE the damn light while he's wearing it. I took mine apart and destroyed the LED, but I shouldn't have to -- and I'm sure I waived my product warranty in the process.
Nobody is saying that subtle indicator LEDs that actually INDICATE functionality (ie: hub/switch lights) are out-of-line, the article author even spells this out. It's overly-bright superfluous LEDs that are the problem here.
If I have to read one more retarded comment that goes something like:
If we didn't have buglars, we wouldn't need safes. If we didn't have x we wouldn't need y... Jesus you losers, seriously try RTFA once in a while, see if it floats your boat.
The author is advocating something quite intelligent here -- shifting security analysis from a reactive to a proactive stance. He's not advocating less security or saying that we won't need dedicated security professionals down the road-- he's just saying if we spend more on security up front (when we build operating systems, applications, etc), we wouldn't have to spend so much on it down the road (on more intelligent firewalls and other security products).
Pay attention, damn it.
--booj
(reposted from theinternetpatrol.com's comment section) The flixter guy mentions Plaxo in his comment -- I hate those guys too.
Basically we need to really shine a spotlight on all these kinds of operations like Plaxo and Flixter -- we need to raise public awareness that all these "social networking"-type sites do is offer you a product/service which doesn't do much for you, and in exchange you not only forfeit your own privacy, but the privacy of everyone on your contact list! These companies should be ashamed of themselves, really.
And honestly, how hard is it to keep in contact with your friends and let them know what stupid movies you are watching these days? Is that worth giving up even one iota of privacy? Give me a break.
I remember back on my 2MB 386-SX (and well before '95) running a non-windowing non-GUI multi-tasking environment that worked quite well. In functionality it felt sorta similar to virtual terminals on a linux console box but with DOS, where you could flip between various shells and have each running its own task simultaneously. What was the name of that software, do you remember? It was very good IIRC -- I used it in conjunction with BBS software, where of course multi-tasking was very useful. Also I'm certain it required a 386.
Or for that matter, how about ProDOS for the Apple//e? Well what do you know -- not ONE single security vulnerability found in ProDOS in 2006 -- wow it must be the most secure OS ever!
AFAIK, these patent issues only apply to encoding, not decoding (so rippers, not players). If that's true you'll probably never have to worry about playing your mp3s.
For encoding, though -- yeah, I think there could be an issue here. Most of the open-source/Linux stuff out there for encoding mp3's uses the LAME encoding stuff (which, don't forget, is widely recognized as the _best_ mp3 encoder there is -- at any price). If patent-holders went after that project, you could well start to see mp3-creating stuff drop from your favorite distros.
And if that happens, well good riddance, in my book. I've been encoding to ogg Vorbis for years, and I've never looked back. It's just better.
Automobiles have been promised for a long time now. As an example, I remember that a production automobile was promised by Benz to be available in showrooms by 1880...then 1882...then 1883...then 1885... And we still wait.
It appears increasingly unlikely that automobiles will ever happen. Although automobile technology continues to improve, the improvement is very gradual. It's not clear that automobiles are progressing faster than new steam technology, in which case the two will never converge.
I should also note that the automobile by itself is not that much faster than a horse and buggy. Even if Benz drastically increased the power of the automobile it still would have no advantage. You would still have to carry around extra fuel for additional power, because there are no gas stations.
Bear in mind that you wouldn't be able to refuel the automobile by just pouring in more petroleum. Petroleum is extremely poisonous even in very small amounts, and medically significant amounts are absorbed through the skin. Therefore the automobiles will require expensive and durable equipment to prevent the leakage of any fuel whatsoever. Probably the fuel tanks will be expensive and will have to be recycled and disposed of properly.
I run Azureus exclusively on a 400Mhz PII-class celeron; it runs just fine with no obscene CPU usage (definitely nothing like the 40% you quote). I regularly get download speeds in excess of 600KB/s with no CPU or memory issues whatsoever. Are you running an older JRE? Older JREs don't play well with Azureus and are known to cause CPU-hogging issues, among other things.
The live CD seems to work fine with VMWare workstation. Just make sure you use an IDE hard drive instead of a SCSI, and point your CD-ROM device to the ISO image.
I love bashing Slashdot posts as much as the next guy, but do really need these "do we really need these x threads posted on a y basis" comments posted on a minute-by-minute basis?
Thanks for immediately lashing out with an immature "RTFA!!!!11111111!!!OMG!@," but I think you're missing his point.
Spammers are smart. Quickly, they will figure out that spamming sites using the "nofollow" tag is pointless, and therefore stop doing it. Also, they will realize that it will take a loooong time for every message board website to upgrade to the "nofollow" method. They will then write their spambot software to only exploit those websites still not using the "nofollow" tag in their message boards.
Following this line of reasoning, eventually the "nofollow" tag would become a less meaningful indicator of the link's value to Google. Following it to its extreme, you could even argue that links using "nofollow" have a higher liklihood of being ham than links that don't.
God, you're a kook. No seriously. You're a complete blithering idiot. Judging by google's usenet archives, you only have gotten more insane with the passage of time.
As for the rest of the slashdot posters out there who wrote the equivalent of 3sea's drivel but with the exception of managing to spell the words the and chaos correctly, could I please ask you this: At any time did you think to yourself, "Holy crap, this is MANDELBROT we're talking about. This guy discovered FRACTAL GEOMETRY for chrissake--and added significantly to the field of study known as chaos theory. He's a Sterling Professor of Mathematics at freaking YALE and an IBM Fellow Emeritus. Maybe, just maybe, any retarded rebuttal I can come up with in 10 seconds could have been already considered by him maybe 10 years ago?" Hmmm, do you think?
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No.
Listen, I am no lover of the McCain-Palin ticket I can assure you, so this is not a partisan slant. But I'll say this: what this dumbass did is _completely_ out of line and he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We don't allow this sort of behavior to go unpunished in a civilized society.
This stance does in no way let Palin off the hook for transgressing her government's policies on using outside email for business work, but that's not the point. Her privacy was violated in an illegal manner, and this cannot be tolerated for an instant. How can a person stand against government electronic surveillance while at the same time say the behavior of this individual is acceptable?
I've been a email server administrator for years. Privacy is extremely important to me, and I consider the attack on Palin's privacy to be an attack against us all. We should work to protect everyone's privacy, and in particular, stand up for the privacy rights of those with whom we do not agree. This is called "taking the high road."
His 78 equipment is very low-end, even for its day. That GE cartridge is a piece of junk.
Now this guy has a real 78 digitizing rig:
http://mdcarter.smugmug.com/gallery/2424008_RKGvb#127077056_gUrCf-A-LB
http://mdcarter.smugmug.com/gallery/2424008_RKGvb#127077282_wtgLn-A-LB
http://mdcarter.smugmug.com/gallery/2424008_RKGvb#127135149_Hz9WH-A-LB
Full disclosure: "this guy" is also my father, and is a professional audio engineer. He also designs and builds his own loudspeakers, including all the loudspeakers you see in this space (they're transmission line technology).
That would be a good theory if we used a voting system that would deliver results representative of the voters' wishes.
If I vote for my ideal progressive candidate who is guaranteed to lose, I may be inadvertently helping the most popular "greater evil" candidate, at the expense of the most popular "lesser evil" candidate. Therefore, it makes sense for me to vote for the lesser evil. This is called "tactical voting". Another way of saying this is, "All votes for anyone other than the second place are votes for the winner."
This is a well-known flaw with our system of voting, and many feel this was the primary reason Gore lost the 2000 presidential race.
Simply stating that if everyone voted their conscience instead of participating in tactical voting is naive, and I suspect you know that. The only way to give true progressive third-party candidates a chance is to change the voting system itself, to something that discourages tactical voting (for example, preferential voting. Until that happens (and I wouldn't hold your breath), I recommend voting for the lesser evil unless you want to see more presidents like GWB in the future.
omg uber-zing! he totally went all tosser-bomb on me! OH NOES.
You are impressed by bright blinky lights. This puts you on par intellectually with the average moth.
Nice work.
You are impressed by bright blinky lights. This puts you on par intellectually with the average moth. Nice work.
People have AIDS, cancer, and you are bothering to RESPOND to a post about an article about blinky LEDs. Get off your high horse.
Yeah you've met those kinds of people -- most often when you stare into a mirror.
God I hate those stupid damn LEDs. This has been a sore spot for me for a while now. I can't believe all the comments from the other slashdotters who don't see the problem -- you are the same crowd who puts crass blacklights in your dumb computer case and think it looks so freaking RAD. How about the post from the guy who is like, "and who DOESN'T get a cheap thrill from turning off all the room lights and seeing Mission Control all totally cool and lit up and stuff?" I'll tell you who: anyone who isn't twelve and who wouldn't be impressed by the aesthetics of a Turkish disco, circa 1978.
The worst offenders of the blinky LED department, in my opinion, are the bluetooth headsets. Many have an absolutely RIDICULOUS bright blinky LED that is on all the time and the guy wearing it (presumably, the guy who should be extracting status information from that dumb blink) can't even SEE the damn light while he's wearing it. I took mine apart and destroyed the LED, but I shouldn't have to -- and I'm sure I waived my product warranty in the process.
Nobody is saying that subtle indicator LEDs that actually INDICATE functionality (ie: hub/switch lights) are out-of-line, the article author even spells this out. It's overly-bright superfluous LEDs that are the problem here.
(reposted from theinternetpatrol.com's comment section)
The flixter guy mentions Plaxo in his comment -- I hate those guys too.
Basically we need to really shine a spotlight on all these kinds of operations like Plaxo and Flixter -- we need to raise public awareness that all these "social networking"-type sites do is offer you a product/service which doesn't do much for you, and in exchange you not only forfeit your own privacy, but the privacy of everyone on your contact list! These companies should be ashamed of themselves, really.
And honestly, how hard is it to keep in contact with your friends and let them know what stupid movies you are watching these days? Is that worth giving up even one iota of privacy? Give me a break.
Regards;
--booj
Ah, here it is. Man, reading that article takes me back...
--booj
Richard:
I remember back on my 2MB 386-SX (and well before '95) running a non-windowing non-GUI multi-tasking environment that worked quite well. In functionality it felt sorta similar to virtual terminals on a linux console box but with DOS, where you could flip between various shells and have each running its own task simultaneously. What was the name of that software, do you remember? It was very good IIRC -- I used it in conjunction with BBS software, where of course multi-tasking was very useful. Also I'm certain it required a 386.
--booj
Or for that matter, how about ProDOS for the Apple //e? Well what do you know -- not ONE single security vulnerability found in ProDOS in 2006 -- wow it must be the most secure OS ever!
AFAIK, these patent issues only apply to encoding, not decoding (so rippers, not players). If that's true you'll probably never have to worry about playing your mp3s.
For encoding, though -- yeah, I think there could be an issue here. Most of the open-source/Linux stuff out there for encoding mp3's uses the LAME encoding stuff (which, don't forget, is widely recognized as the _best_ mp3 encoder there is -- at any price). If patent-holders went after that project, you could well start to see mp3-creating stuff drop from your favorite distros.
And if that happens, well good riddance, in my book. I've been encoding to ogg Vorbis for years, and I've never looked back. It's just better.
--booj
-booj
Same article, circia 1884
Automobiles have been promised for a long time now. As an example, I remember that a production automobile was promised by Benz to be available in showrooms by 1880...then 1882...then 1883...then 1885... And we still wait.
It appears increasingly unlikely that automobiles will ever happen. Although automobile technology continues to improve, the improvement is very gradual. It's not clear that automobiles are progressing faster than new steam technology, in which case the two will never converge.
I should also note that the automobile by itself is not that much faster than a horse and buggy. Even if Benz drastically increased the power of the automobile it still would have no advantage. You would still have to carry around extra fuel for additional power, because there are no gas stations.
Bear in mind that you wouldn't be able to refuel the automobile by just pouring in more petroleum. Petroleum is extremely poisonous even in very small amounts, and medically significant amounts are absorbed through the skin. Therefore the automobiles will require expensive and durable equipment to prevent the leakage of any fuel whatsoever. Probably the fuel tanks will be expensive and will have to be recycled and disposed of properly.
the point is: have a little bit of vision
--booj
I run Azureus exclusively on a 400Mhz PII-class celeron; it runs just fine with no obscene CPU usage (definitely nothing like the 40% you quote). I regularly get download speeds in excess of 600KB/s with no CPU or memory issues whatsoever. Are you running an older JRE? Older JREs don't play well with Azureus and are known to cause CPU-hogging issues, among other things.
--booj
The live CD seems to work fine with VMWare workstation. Just make sure you use an IDE hard drive instead of a SCSI, and point your CD-ROM device to the ISO image.
DaC
Maybe if everybody is checking their blackberries when you're talking, it should tell you something about the quality of your input.
I love bashing Slashdot posts as much as the next guy, but do really need these "do we really need these x threads posted on a y basis" comments posted on a minute-by-minute basis?
Thanks for immediately lashing out with an immature "RTFA!!!!11111111!!!OMG!@," but I think you're missing his point.
Spammers are smart. Quickly, they will figure out that spamming sites using the "nofollow" tag is pointless, and therefore stop doing it. Also, they will realize that it will take a loooong time for every message board website to upgrade to the "nofollow" method. They will then write their spambot software to only exploit those websites still not using the "nofollow" tag in their message boards.
Following this line of reasoning, eventually the "nofollow" tag would become a less meaningful indicator of the link's value to Google. Following it to its extreme, you could even argue that links using "nofollow" have a higher liklihood of being ham than links that don't.
DaC
127G /home/pth/work/projects/.linuxx/.a/xxx/jpegs
DaC
Hey Tim:
I know this is a little belated, but happy 5-year anniversary of your christening as an official kook by the usenet community. You must be so proud!
DaC
hi tim
God, you're a kook. No seriously. You're a complete blithering idiot. Judging by google's usenet archives, you only have gotten more insane with the passage of time.
As for the rest of the slashdot posters out there who wrote the equivalent of 3sea's drivel but with the exception of managing to spell the words the and chaos correctly, could I please ask you this: At any time did you think to yourself, "Holy crap, this is MANDELBROT we're talking about. This guy discovered FRACTAL GEOMETRY for chrissake--and added significantly to the field of study known as chaos theory. He's a Sterling Professor of Mathematics at freaking YALE and an IBM Fellow Emeritus. Maybe, just maybe, any retarded rebuttal I can come up with in 10 seconds could have been already considered by him maybe 10 years ago?" Hmmm, do you think?
DaC
I did that right away. I still get the little icon in the lower-right telling me there are updates available.
DaC