Jon is right about one thing, we need to stop treating the third world as a mercantilist soruce of raw materials, we must stop IT imperialism.
The third world needs to be brought into the net age, without shameless profiteering. This will eliminate lots of human suffering, once all humans are connected in one network. Think of how many Linus's and RMS's there are in third world countries like Nepal, Nairobi, Rhodesia, Malaysia and France. Think of what good they could accomplish once they get on the net and start communicating with other like minded people.
I call for the UN to mandate the IT companies sell older networking equipment, PC's and software far below cost to third world countries, to help leapfrog them into the net age (much like pharmaceutical companies have humanely decided to offer AIDS drugs below cost to AIDS-stricken Africans). As a species, we have far too much to lose.
I do hope that the divX;) team realizes that they will head down the same path to oblivion that home grade Beta followed unless they allow porn on their disks.
A big part of the problem, and it's reflected here at Slashdot, is that CS is about 80% male. You should take steps to improve the gender equity, especially since once you get into the workplace, you will work with women.
I'm not sure how to do this, perhaps some of the courses can be geared to topics women understand and appreciate. Perhaps you could do a study on Barbie's Dressmaker, a huge hit for girls.
Perhap's a woman's view could be incorporated into operating system design? Most operating systems are heirarchal in nature, reflecting men's basic philosophy (there will be one process controlling everything, very patriarchal). Could you imagine an operating system where everything is shared and every process cooperates? Good bye to heap exhaustion, and you probably wouldn't even need mallocs, either.
I prefer to think of Slashdot's latest behavior as a new security feature, you get logged out after every comment posted or every update.
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The mean temperature in space is very low, not too many K above absolute zero.
The problem is that heat transfer in space is also very low, so heat buildup is one of the biggest issues in any spacecraft.
Heat is commonly transferred by three mechanisms; conduction, convection and radiation. In the vacuum of space, you get no conduction or convection, the only way you can get rid of heat is by radiation. So, it doesn't take too many electronics running to start worrying about overheating.
Thus, the shuttle flies with it's doors open to expose it's radiators and cool down. Satellites use various esoteric heat tubes and exchangers to remove heat and radiate it to space. Internal operating temperatues end up being -40 to +85 degrees C.
Submitted for your approval, another anology to tie together a weblog named S_____.org and Tom Paine.
What if the colonial authorities had not censored Tom Paine, but instead told print shops that if they published his pamphlets, they could not buy paper shipped in on British flagged merchant ships. Now, under the mercantilist theory, there would be few or none colonial paper mills, and few or none foreign flagged merchant ships. Still censorship?
Or how about this analogy? They can print Common Sense but they can not distribute it, the most they can do it post it outside their print shop. The info is still there, you jsut have to go outside of your way to access it. Still censorship?
Perhaps by causing a filtering of viewpoints so that you only see viewpoints that reinforce your own worldview?
Imagine, if you will, what would have happened in the colonies prior to the Revolutionary War if Tom Paine's Common Sense was de fact modded down by the Crown due to censorship.
Would we have had a revolution, or would we have been kept as a mercantilist vassal state to England. Why, we might just be inventing steam engines now!
Despite seemingly rare acts of "good" by small parts of these organizations, you surely must concede that the the two main derivatives of Judaism (Islam, Christianae) are exceptionally violent belief systems.
The unabashed support of jihads even by the present day Islamic leaders is proof enough that Islam preaches violence.
Instead of learning about Islam through the Arnold Schwarzenegger block buster of the week, why don't you read about the history of Islam. Islam is generally a tolerant religion.
During the Islamic expansion and conquest, practitioners of other religions were given a choice, convert or pay a tariff. Contrast this with typical choices given followers of minority religions in other areas, death, torture, confiscation or property.
Jews have lived in Damascus for centuries after the Islamic conquest with few problems.
Jews lived in Spain under Islamic rule fine. When the Moslems were driven out of Spain, the Jews suffered under Catholic rule.
Most modern Moslems are opposed to terrorism, and appalled at what the Taliban is doing. Don't judge Islam by a small splinter sect of hotheads, anymore than you would judge Judiasm by the JDL, or Christianity by Jim Jones.
Thank you for conveniently missing Homer. Might I add Virgil and Seneca, too?
Now let me pick a few principles and idea of Western Culture and illustrate there they came from.
Democracy
The principle of democracy came from Athens, Greece, maybe 2500 years ago. Granted, at that time democracy meant landowning males could vote, but it was far better than being ruled by hereditary nobles common everywhere in the world. In fact, the word democracy is derived from Greek.
Trojan Horse
Have you heard of a computer program that does one thing, but has a hiddden, more sinister purpose? A Trojan Horse, perhaps? Greek!
Hubris
Another greek work, look up Pride Goeth Before a Fall.
Promotheum Fire
A favorite journalistic metaphor for early adopters who get burned. Greek.
Code of Hammurabi
This is even more east than Greece, Summeria even. The first laws ever written down, so that anyone who could read could look at the laws of the state themselves. The same idea was captured in the Roman Twelve Tables.
I could go, but why don't you take a history course.
Because all religions are charlatanistic businesses designed to rip off the easily duped masses by turning over large amounts of money and control over your daily lives to self-appointed know-it-alls who will make your life better, I promise. See also "communism".
You're writing this hateful troll on a weblog powered by Perl, a language written by a devout Christian. The main tome of the Perl language, the Camel book, is filled with Biblical allusions (as well as Tolkien allusions). This weblog started at a Christian college.
You are heir to thousands of year of Western culture (do the names Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Solomon, Moses, et al mean anything to you?), only by virture of wise Islamic scholars and wise Irish monks, who copied and preserved all the ancient literature they could during Europes dark ages.
And now, because of a few well known con artists, you're painting the spiritual lives of billions of people and thousands of years of history with that that same dirty brush.
When the media does this to geeks, Hellmouth reigns. When trolls do it to religion, it's approved. See the contradiction?
You can still access the net by going to the library, or using the Cyber X-Po at the mall, you just have to work a little harder.
While I agree with you about most of the -1 stuff, some of it seems to be downmodded out of spite, or fear, or by the Slashdot editors. Don't these moderators konw that coverups rarely work?
Wow, the above post was modded as off topic, in a discussion related to the New Media.
Isn't the New Media supposed to be able to prevent and bypass censorship?
Does anyone remember the phrase Information wants to be free?
While the above poster may have displayed a lack of sensitivity in taking a quote used against Nazi concentrations camps and genocide and comparing it to a simple weblog, the point should be well taken.
It would be wise to remember the words of Benjamin Franklin, I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to my death the right for you to say it.
Do we hold New Media outlets that have made it (millions of page views per month) to higher ethical standards than someone running a homepage on an ISP dial up account?
There seems to be an attitude at some New Media outlets of Hey, it's my site and I'm doing what I want with it!
Now, I can understand this attitude if it's a part time site, with maybe 20 page view of day. But when you grow into a leading New Media outlet with 30 million page views a month, shouldn't this attitude change?
William Randolph Hearst was accused of starting the Spanish American war to increase circulation for his newspaper. This was rightly decried, you can safely stand on a street corner and advocate war, but when you have a bully pulpit of millions of readers, you should be expected to have more accountability and responsibility. Sadly, I'm not always seeing this on New Media outlets.
Should New Media outlets be more aware of journalistic integrity. Now, at Slashdot Rob Malda almost always let's us know about his VA LInux holding when he writes about VA Linux. He also posts stories about VA Linux's financial problems, to his credit. Should it be a policy that any New Media editor mention all conflicts of interest? Do they realize that with the ease of transferring cash, and the ease of faek indentities, New Media editors need to be cleaner than Caeser's wife.
Slashdot got a subpoena from Microsoft when certain users posted how to open a package without reading their restrictive licensing. blue underpants was one of the users.
The Slashdot lawyers told them to ignore it, so they did. Case closed.
So, at least a long time ago, Slashdot protected all their user's rights, not just anonymous cowards. I'm not so sure about today.
I know this Engineer guy, and he knows a lot, and he told me about these buckyball things. He said they are soccer balls. But if they start making soccer balls out of different materials, what will this do to the World Cup?
First of all, you mean footballs, right? Here's a clue, if you're at a technical conference on the internet, and 90% of the attendees are calling it the internet, while 10% of the attendees are calling it The Microsoft Network with Internet Extensions, don't you think the 10% should change their naming scheme to conform to the common naming scheme?
As for changes in the World Cup? Probably few, the winners would be Brasil, Germany or maybe Italy, definitely not USia.
Ta-ta
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or other cultures that are dominated by females, as females tend to communicate using feelings and other empathetic, less qualitative methods of communicate.
Come on, you guys with girlfriends all know what I'm talking about. Let's hope all the alien civilizations are patriarchal.
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Jon is right about one thing, we need to stop treating the third world as a mercantilist soruce of raw materials, we must stop IT imperialism.
The third world needs to be brought into the net age, without shameless profiteering. This will eliminate lots of human suffering, once all humans are connected in one network. Think of how many Linus's and RMS's there are in third world countries like Nepal, Nairobi, Rhodesia, Malaysia and France. Think of what good they could accomplish once they get on the net and start communicating with other like minded people.
I call for the UN to mandate the IT companies sell older networking equipment, PC's and software far below cost to third world countries, to help leapfrog them into the net age (much like pharmaceutical companies have humanely decided to offer AIDS drugs below cost to AIDS-stricken Africans). As a species, we have far too much to lose.
if you get prompted for one to get to the Washington post site
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cyferpunk
yer welcome
I do hope that the divX;) team realizes that they will head down the same path to oblivion that home grade Beta followed unless they allow porn on their disks.
A big part of the problem, and it's reflected here at Slashdot, is that CS is about 80% male. You should take steps to improve the gender equity, especially since once you get into the workplace, you will work with women.
I'm not sure how to do this, perhaps some of the courses can be geared to topics women understand and appreciate. Perhaps you could do a study on Barbie's Dressmaker, a huge hit for girls.
Perhap's a woman's view could be incorporated into operating system design? Most operating systems are heirarchal in nature, reflecting men's basic philosophy (there will be one process controlling everything, very patriarchal). Could you imagine an operating system where everything is shared and every process cooperates? Good bye to heap exhaustion, and you probably wouldn't even need mallocs, either.
So, there is a hint of censorship there, when all posts but -1 get archived aftera few weeks.
Slashdot is broken again
I prefer to think of Slashdot's latest behavior as a new security feature, you get logged out after every comment posted or every update.
The mean temperature in space is very low, not too many K above absolute zero.
The problem is that heat transfer in space is also very low, so heat buildup is one of the biggest issues in any spacecraft.
Heat is commonly transferred by three mechanisms; conduction, convection and radiation. In the vacuum of space, you get no conduction or convection, the only way you can get rid of heat is by radiation. So, it doesn't take too many electronics running to start worrying about overheating.
Thus, the shuttle flies with it's doors open to expose it's radiators and cool down. Satellites use various esoteric heat tubes and exchangers to remove heat and radiate it to space. Internal operating temperatues end up being -40 to +85 degrees C.
The typewriter helped office standardization, and even created specialized jobs, ie. the clerk typist.
In a way, the typewriter was as big an impact on business as the computer.
Also, the typewriter may have been the first piece of office equipment ever brought home.
Submitted for your approval, another anology to tie together a weblog named S_____.org and Tom Paine.
What if the colonial authorities had not censored Tom Paine, but instead told print shops that if they published his pamphlets, they could not buy paper shipped in on British flagged merchant ships. Now, under the mercantilist theory, there would be few or none colonial paper mills, and few or none foreign flagged merchant ships. Still censorship?
Or how about this analogy? They can print Common Sense but they can not distribute it, the most they can do it post it outside their print shop. The info is still there, you jsut have to go outside of your way to access it. Still censorship?
Perhaps by causing a filtering of viewpoints so that you only see viewpoints that reinforce your own worldview?
Imagine, if you will, what would have happened in the colonies prior to the Revolutionary War if Tom Paine's Common Sense was de fact modded down by the Crown due to censorship.
Would we have had a revolution, or would we have been kept as a mercantilist vassal state to England. Why, we might just be inventing steam engines now!
The Q'ran prohibits images.
Saddam is not particularly religious, indeed, Iraq is possibly the least Islamic state in the mideast.
As far as the Taliban blowing up statues of Buddha, most Moslems are appalled. Even Iran condemned that.
Want to show your ignorance some more?
I attended public schools in USia, and tried to supplement my education on the side.
but I have read about it, and am familar with the basis thesis.
Thanks for grasping my point.
Despite seemingly rare acts of "good" by small parts of these organizations, you surely must concede that the the two main derivatives of Judaism (Islam, Christianae) are exceptionally violent belief systems.
The unabashed support of jihads even by the present day Islamic leaders is proof enough that Islam preaches violence.
Instead of learning about Islam through the Arnold Schwarzenegger block buster of the week, why don't you read about the history of Islam. Islam is generally a tolerant religion.
During the Islamic expansion and conquest, practitioners of other religions were given a choice, convert or pay a tariff. Contrast this with typical choices given followers of minority religions in other areas, death, torture, confiscation or property.
Jews have lived in Damascus for centuries after the Islamic conquest with few problems.
Jews lived in Spain under Islamic rule fine. When the Moslems were driven out of Spain, the Jews suffered under Catholic rule.
Most modern Moslems are opposed to terrorism, and appalled at what the Taliban is doing. Don't judge Islam by a small splinter sect of hotheads, anymore than you would judge Judiasm by the JDL, or Christianity by Jim Jones.
Have you ever even known a Moslem?
Sorry, I don't speak Greek, so my translations are a little rusty.
Thanks for the correction.
Thank you for conveniently missing Homer. Might I add Virgil and Seneca, too?
Now let me pick a few principles and idea of Western Culture and illustrate there they came from.
Democracy
The principle of democracy came from Athens, Greece, maybe 2500 years ago. Granted, at that time democracy meant landowning males could vote, but it was far better than being ruled by hereditary nobles common everywhere in the world. In fact, the word democracy is derived from Greek.
Trojan Horse
Have you heard of a computer program that does one thing, but has a hiddden, more sinister purpose? A Trojan Horse, perhaps? Greek!
Hubris
Another greek work, look up Pride Goeth Before a Fall.
Promotheum Fire
A favorite journalistic metaphor for early adopters who get burned. Greek.
Code of Hammurabi
This is even more east than Greece, Summeria even. The first laws ever written down, so that anyone who could read could look at the laws of the state themselves. The same idea was captured in the Roman Twelve Tables.
I could go, but why don't you take a history course.
Because all religions are charlatanistic businesses designed to rip off the easily duped masses by turning over large amounts of money and control over your daily lives to self-appointed know-it-alls who will make your life better, I promise. See also "communism".
You're writing this hateful troll on a weblog powered by Perl, a language written by a devout Christian. The main tome of the Perl language, the Camel book, is filled with Biblical allusions (as well as Tolkien allusions). This weblog started at a Christian college.
You are heir to thousands of year of Western culture (do the names Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Solomon, Moses, et al mean anything to you?), only by virture of wise Islamic scholars and wise Irish monks, who copied and preserved all the ancient literature they could during Europes dark ages.
And now, because of a few well known con artists, you're painting the spiritual lives of billions of people and thousands of years of history with that that same dirty brush.
When the media does this to geeks, Hellmouth reigns. When trolls do it to religion, it's approved. See the contradiction?
am I censoring you?
You can still access the net by going to the library, or using the Cyber X-Po at the mall, you just have to work a little harder.
While I agree with you about most of the -1 stuff, some of it seems to be downmodded out of spite, or fear, or by the Slashdot editors. Don't these moderators konw that coverups rarely work?
Wow, the above post was modded as off topic, in a discussion related to the New Media.
Isn't the New Media supposed to be able to prevent and bypass censorship?
Does anyone remember the phrase Information wants to be free?
While the above poster may have displayed a lack of sensitivity in taking a quote used against Nazi concentrations camps and genocide and comparing it to a simple weblog, the point should be well taken.
It would be wise to remember the words of Benjamin Franklin, I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to my death the right for you to say it.
standards?
Do we hold New Media outlets that have made it (millions of page views per month) to higher ethical standards than someone running a homepage on an ISP dial up account?
There seems to be an attitude at some New Media outlets of Hey, it's my site and I'm doing what I want with it!
Now, I can understand this attitude if it's a part time site, with maybe 20 page view of day. But when you grow into a leading New Media outlet with 30 million page views a month, shouldn't this attitude change?
William Randolph Hearst was accused of starting the Spanish American war to increase circulation for his newspaper. This was rightly decried, you can safely stand on a street corner and advocate war, but when you have a bully pulpit of millions of readers, you should be expected to have more accountability and responsibility. Sadly, I'm not always seeing this on New Media outlets.
Should New Media outlets be more aware of journalistic integrity. Now, at Slashdot Rob Malda almost always let's us know about his VA LInux holding when he writes about VA Linux. He also posts stories about VA Linux's financial problems, to his credit. Should it be a policy that any New Media editor mention all conflicts of interest? Do they realize that with the ease of transferring cash, and the ease of faek indentities, New Media editors need to be cleaner than Caeser's wife.
Slashdot got a subpoena from Microsoft when certain users posted how to open a package without reading their restrictive licensing. blue underpants was one of the users.
The Slashdot lawyers told them to ignore it, so they did. Case closed.
So, at least a long time ago, Slashdot protected all their user's rights, not just anonymous cowards. I'm not so sure about today.
So, you interact bif the BAX using BM.
"As for changes in the World Cup? Probably few, the winners would be Brasil, Germany or maybe Italy, definitely not USia. "
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Don't you mean Deutchland?
If I said Deutchland, the USian Slashbots would rush to correct me, saying the correct name is either Holland or The Netherlands.
I didn't say Italia either.
TG
I know this Engineer guy, and he knows a lot, and he told me about these buckyball things. He said they are soccer balls. But if they start making soccer balls out of different materials, what will this do to the World Cup?
First of all, you mean footballs, right? Here's a clue, if you're at a technical conference on the internet, and 90% of the attendees are calling it the internet, while 10% of the attendees are calling it The Microsoft Network with Internet Extensions, don't you think the 10% should change their naming scheme to conform to the common naming scheme?
As for changes in the World Cup? Probably few, the winners would be Brasil, Germany or maybe Italy, definitely not USia.
Ta-ta
or other cultures that are dominated by females, as females tend to communicate using feelings and other empathetic, less qualitative methods of communicate.
Come on, you guys with girlfriends all know what I'm talking about. Let's hope all the alien civilizations are patriarchal.