This Egyptian style access is what we get in Ireland and it sucks. Works out much more expensive than the flat rate available in Northern Ireland and Great Britain (unless you use a tiny no. of minutes a month).
see http://www.eircomtribunal.com/ to discover how bad value the "free" service is.
Only thing it is good for is for visiting tourists with laptops who need no more than a telephone number to get internet access cheap as the natives
This is the dominant mode of internet access. All (2 or 3) major ISP's allow free modem access, while you pay the cost of the telephone call (about 70 cents an hour evenings and weekends, 4 times that at other times)
It is not bad, (no contract) but leaves a bit to be desired, and there is NO affordable broadband access m
The ECommerce Act in Ireland approaches it as follows:
"...the Act provides for a court order to be issued requiring a person to disclose the encrypted evidence in a plain-text form. However, section 27 of the Act specifically provides that nothing in the Act shall have the effect of requiring the disclosure of unique data such as codes, passwords, algorithms, private cryptographic keys..."
Not perfect, but I have seen worse. There are also expressions that people are entitled to use the strongest available forms of encryption, and should be encouraged to do so
While you may be correct in your nitpicking of the previous posters use of terminology, didn't you know there is no such word as virii?
http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/
Clearly states `By the way, the ill-informed lucubrations of a Slashdot writer to the contrary, there is no such word as "virii". The plural of this English word is "viruses". (The word was borrowed and redefined from the Latin word virus = slime, poison, or venom. In Latin, that is a 2nd declension neuter noun, whose nominative plural form is now unclear, since it seems that nobody ever used one -- and it doesn't appear to work like either a standard "-us" or "-um" noun, whose plural behaviours are known. In other words, it doesn't have a Latin plural, possibly because it was a mass noun rather than a countable one.)'
Your comment is superficially plausible, but ultimately flawed. Followed to its logical conclusion we would not wear clothes, or build shelters, or farm food. Thus making our environment as hostile as possible and "keeping our gene pool pure". It is the process of natural selection that has led to the medicines and therapies you deride.
Of course, there will always be some throw-backs...
warming up is not a bad thing. My '92 car, has a manual choke. By letting it warm up it is possible to drive it with less choke (Engine already heated up) which reduces the chance of flooding the engine and makes drive smoother too. Had a really shitty experience not doing this when i was just starting out driving!
m
you don't need to recompile more than once to get alsa to load. All you need is basic sound card support enabled in the kernel. Then compile and install alsa (which will put a bunch of modules in your kernel's module directory). Then start trying to load the appropriate modules (which CAN be a bit tricky, in my past experience).
m
you make a bad business decision, and you pay the price! You go lending money to bums and its you who are in trouble
think about it (it would make a change)
"I believe what you are doing is called a strawman attack"
I believe you copied this from elsewhere, and got it ever so slightly wrong in the translation. Original source was good though;-)
this would be true if your government took a neutral stance regarding such states, but it does not. In the case of China, you are correct, but regarding countries like Indonesia, it was very much with US and UK backing that the oppressive business-friendly regimes which many see as the worst excesses of globalisation (and i agree that the term is ultimately empty, but the acts are not) came into being.
The same as a government in thrall to business will persecute its own citizens with DMCA, it will help business to exploit the resources of poorer countries. We benefit because we get cheap goods.
It is truly a measure of the successful indoctrination of people in the developed world that you do not see that this is the case.
What disgusts me is the calls for people to revolt, coming from what i am sure are soft lazy over-fed goons with nothing better to do but trawl slashdot (i am no better, but at least i am not telling guys who work 16 hours a day for a couple of dollars, and who were born into debt to sort out the world on THEIR free time).
The real problem, is that there is an astonishingly profound lack of imagination and subtlety. Morons taking everything at face value, and assuming that the social world they see is shaped by natural forces rather than will and idea.
the reason people are unhappy with the way the system works is because we have constructed a system which aims to reward capital. The aim of the whole game is that the guys who have money today have more money tomorrow, and a bit more the day after that.
Anything else is just tacked on afterwards. But the problem is that the things tacked on afterwards are the things that make life worth living (like having a bit of control over your life, having a sense of self worth, community and so on).
Instead we get a capitalist system which is run by the minority for the benefit of the minority! Big surprise that it doesn't turn out with something that makes most people happy, but you are all so trapped inside the box that you don't dare question it!
how can you talk bullshit like "contract" when the people making the contract are in such a shitty position they have NO CHOICE!
If i put a gun to your head and tell you to lick my boots or i kill you right here right now, you would probably be very glad to lick my boots. This does not make it a fair contract, or one that outside observers should be comfortable watching.
What it did do is create IRA support among Irish (and American, incidentally) people who would not otherwise have associated themselves with the IRA
This is ironic since the guys in jail had nothing to do with the IRA anyway. The modern IRA is very much a product of Unionist sectarian government behaviour in the 60's and 70's, followed by some very poor behaviour by British Army personnell (who were initially welcomed in by the Catholics!).
If your behaviour is indistinguishable from that of terrorists, you are just going to encourage and legitimise terrorsists.
on art theme, this kinda idea was used in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy novel (small spoiler)
private detective is following this guy around every day, eventually notices that there is actually a pattern to the guy's daily wanderings: each day he draws a letter
tower of babylon (IIRC)
cool novel
i was doing the sums on this a while ago. A friend of mine asked his father (a prof of Gaelic) what the distribution of a journal in the field would be, and the answer was a couple of hundred copies a month. This is tiny tiny load for a server (and Andy is right that the content will generally be too dry to encourage slashdot effect). Even a couple of thousand is still small traffic really (there are not nearly so many articles in a monthly journal as there are stories in a month of/., and people don't constantly recheck the January edition of the journal to see if there is a chance for first post)
Hosting such a journal on the Uni network would be a drop in the ocean compared to the bandwith used by students for porn. Main cost would be making sure there was someone qualified to run the box and keep backups. Unis pay huge fees for paper journals as it is, i think they could stump up the small costs of hosting a journal or too on their networks!
m
Re:The Hindenburg accident wasn't due to the hydro
on
Return of the Zeppelins
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Another point is that only about 1/3 of passengers died. Could you imagine getting 2/3 of passengers out of a 737 if it caught fire in the air on the approach to the runway?
maybe OSS programmers who don't intend to gain money for themselves for their work should encourage donations to charity like Bram Moolenaar has done with VIM
http://www.vim.org/
and donations to childrens fund in Uganda
are you a moron? do you think that businesses sell cars to poor people and DON'T MAKE MONEY OFF THEM?!
Yeah, that's right, and then they tell the shareholders "sure profits are down this year and the stock is slumped and there is no dividend, but that is because we spent all the money we made selling Top Notch Kit to rich goons on cars for poor people, that's capitalism baby"
Cop on! the other poster is spot on, "market segregation" is what it is all about. I saw a talk by a former head engineer at BMW, and he basically said that their cars were not worth the money. They take a good car, and then load it up with crap (rosewood, leather, warning light to tell you your passenger beside you has not put on a seat belt, etc., etc.,) until it seems that they can justify a price which will mean that only rich folk can buy it (exclusivity), and then spend more money marketing it as-such. But fundamentally, the car is little better than any standard car of the same size from a reputable car-maker.
You say "Poor people get a lot for a bargain", are you an IDIOT?, do you not think that rich people get a lot of "poor people's" labour for a bargain?
And no matter what you buy, unless you buy from soup-kitchens or idiots, the seller will be making a profit (or they at least hoped to make a profit, i know this can change in sales and the like).
the joke is that posts like the parent to this one are modded up. I don't think anybody here with even a basic facility for science/engineering could accept this sort of pseudo-economics crap.
some very good journals (IEEE Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, and Phys Rev. B) actually ask the author to recommend 5 referees! Plus, the former has "voluntary" page charges of $150 per page
jerrytcow misses the point when he says it is not "your" money.
Ultimately, you have a limited budget, and if you did not spend the money fed-ex'ing the manuscript, you might spend it on equipment or upgrade something.
Equally, when you use your time to format material just the way the journa wants it, it is time you could spend doing research (or having a life).
Many researchers are not doing it as a job, but are students on a stipend (legally a different thing), and i know of several phd students who have had to stump up for expenses towards the end of their project when the cash starts to run out
Slashdot Mirror
Absolutely right! Amen brother!
This Egyptian style access is what we get in Ireland and it sucks. Works out much more expensive than the flat rate available in Northern Ireland and Great Britain (unless you use a tiny no. of minutes a month).
see
http://www.eircomtribunal.com/
to discover how bad value the "free" service is.
Only thing it is good for is for visiting tourists with laptops who need no more than a telephone number to get internet access cheap as the natives
This is the dominant mode of internet access. All (2 or 3) major ISP's allow free modem access, while you pay the cost of the telephone call (about 70 cents an hour evenings and weekends, 4 times that at other times)
It is not bad, (no contract) but leaves a bit to be desired, and there is NO affordable broadband access
m
me too posts are discouraged, but i'd like to agree, that it is an excellent post.
The ECommerce Act
in Ireland approaches it as follows: Not perfect, but I have seen worse. There are also expressions that people are entitled to use the strongest available forms of encryption, and should be encouraged to do so
While you may be correct in your nitpicking of the previous posters use of terminology, didn't you know there is no such word as virii?
http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/
Clearly states
`By the way, the ill-informed lucubrations of a Slashdot writer to the contrary, there is no such word as "virii". The plural of this English word is "viruses". (The word was borrowed and redefined from the Latin word virus = slime, poison, or venom. In Latin, that is a 2nd declension neuter noun, whose nominative plural form is now unclear, since it seems that nobody ever used one -- and it doesn't appear to work like either a standard "-us" or "-um" noun, whose plural behaviours are known. In other words, it doesn't have a Latin plural, possibly because it was a mass noun rather than a countable one.)'
Corroborating information is available
here
Not much need to reply since you won the argument hours ago
m
Your comment is superficially plausible, but ultimately flawed. Followed to its logical conclusion we would not wear clothes, or build shelters, or farm food. Thus making our environment as hostile as possible and "keeping our gene pool pure". It is the process of natural selection that has led to the medicines and therapies you deride.
Of course, there will always be some throw-backs...
m
warming up is not a bad thing. My '92 car, has a manual choke. By letting it warm up it is possible to drive it with less choke (Engine already heated up) which reduces the chance of flooding the engine and makes drive smoother too. Had a really shitty experience not doing this when i was just starting out driving!
m
you don't need to recompile more than once to get alsa to load. All you need is basic sound card support enabled in the kernel. Then compile and install alsa (which will put a bunch of modules in your kernel's module directory). Then start trying to load the appropriate modules (which CAN be a bit tricky, in my past experience).
m
you make a bad business decision, and you pay the price! You go lending money to bums and its you who are in trouble
think about it (it would make a change)
"I believe what you are doing is called a strawman attack" ;-)
I believe you copied this from elsewhere, and got it ever so slightly wrong in the translation. Original source was good though
I think he actually thought the fbi/atf goons, not the davidians were the psychopaths
maybe i'm wrong, it is unclear
m
this would be true if your government took a neutral stance regarding such states, but it does not. In the case of China, you are correct, but regarding countries like Indonesia, it was very much with US and UK backing that the oppressive business-friendly regimes which many see as the worst excesses of globalisation (and i agree that the term is ultimately empty, but the acts are not) came into being.
:-)
The same as a government in thrall to business will persecute its own citizens with DMCA, it will help business to exploit the resources of poorer countries. We benefit because we get cheap goods.
It is truly a measure of the successful indoctrination of people in the developed world that you do not see that this is the case.
What disgusts me is the calls for people to revolt, coming from what i am sure are soft lazy over-fed goons with nothing better to do but trawl slashdot (i am no better, but at least i am not telling guys who work 16 hours a day for a couple of dollars, and who were born into debt to sort out the world on THEIR free time).
The real problem, is that there is an astonishingly profound lack of imagination and subtlety. Morons taking everything at face value, and assuming that the social world they see is shaped by natural forces rather than will and idea.
WAKE UP!
I despair
the reason people are unhappy with the way the system works is because we have constructed a system which aims to reward capital. The aim of the whole game is that the guys who have money today have more money tomorrow, and a bit more the day after that.
:-)
Anything else is just tacked on afterwards. But the problem is that the things tacked on afterwards are the things that make life worth living (like having a bit of control over your life, having a sense of self worth, community and so on).
Instead we get a capitalist system which is run by the minority for the benefit of the minority! Big surprise that it doesn't turn out with something that makes most people happy, but you are all so trapped inside the box that you don't dare question it!
I laugh (you gotta, and at least that's free
m
you, sir, are an idiot!
how can you talk bullshit like "contract" when the people making the contract are in such a shitty position they have NO CHOICE!
If i put a gun to your head and tell you to lick my boots or i kill you right here right now, you would probably be very glad to lick my boots. This does not make it a fair contract, or one that outside observers should be comfortable watching.
idiot
I don't think it did help,
What it did do is create IRA support among Irish (and American, incidentally) people who would not otherwise have associated themselves with the IRA
This is ironic since the guys in jail had nothing to do with the IRA anyway. The modern IRA is very much a product of Unionist sectarian government behaviour in the 60's and 70's, followed by some very poor behaviour by British Army personnell (who were initially welcomed in by the Catholics!).
If your behaviour is indistinguishable from that of terrorists, you are just going to encourage and legitimise terrorsists.
on art theme, this kinda idea was used in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy novel (small spoiler)
private detective is following this guy around every day, eventually notices that there is actually a pattern to the guy's daily wanderings: each day he draws a letter
tower of babylon (IIRC)
cool novel
I think Andy is right, last poster wrong
/., and people don't constantly recheck the January edition of the journal to see if there is a chance for first post)
i was doing the sums on this a while ago. A friend of mine asked his father (a prof of Gaelic) what the distribution of a journal in the field would be, and the answer was a couple of hundred copies a month. This is tiny tiny load for a server (and Andy is right that the content will generally be too dry to encourage slashdot effect). Even a couple of thousand is still small traffic really (there are not nearly so many articles in a monthly journal as there are stories in a month of
Hosting such a journal on the Uni network would be a drop in the ocean compared to the bandwith used by students for porn. Main cost would be making sure there was someone qualified to run the box and keep backups. Unis pay huge fees for paper journals as it is, i think they could stump up the small costs of hosting a journal or too on their networks!
m
Another point is that only about 1/3 of passengers died. Could you imagine getting 2/3 of passengers out of a 737 if it caught fire in the air on the approach to the runway?
maybe OSS programmers who don't intend to gain money for themselves for their work should encourage donations to charity like Bram Moolenaar has done with VIM
http://www.vim.org/
and donations to childrens fund in Uganda
Excuse my language, but BULLSHIT!!!!
are you a moron? do you think that businesses sell cars to poor people and DON'T MAKE MONEY OFF THEM?!
Yeah, that's right, and then they tell the shareholders "sure profits are down this year and the stock is slumped and there is no dividend, but that is because we spent all the money we made selling Top Notch Kit to rich goons on cars for poor people, that's capitalism baby"
Cop on! the other poster is spot on, "market segregation" is what it is all about. I saw a talk by a former head engineer at BMW, and he basically said that their cars were not worth the money. They take a good car, and then load it up with crap (rosewood, leather, warning light to tell you your passenger beside you has not put on a seat belt, etc., etc.,) until it seems that they can justify a price which will mean that only rich folk can buy it (exclusivity), and then spend more money marketing it as-such. But fundamentally, the car is little better than any standard car of the same size from a reputable car-maker.
You say "Poor people get a lot for a bargain", are you an IDIOT?, do you not think that rich people get a lot of "poor people's" labour for a bargain?
And no matter what you buy, unless you buy from soup-kitchens or idiots, the seller will be making a profit (or they at least hoped to make a profit, i know this can change in sales and the like).
the joke is that posts like the parent to this one are modded up. I don't think anybody here with even a basic facility for science/engineering could accept this sort of pseudo-economics crap.
Just think, for a change!
m
it is not all about economics.
Consider for a moment:
A) How many microsoft wage-slaves are truly happy doing their programming?
B) How many volunteer OSS coders are truly happy doing their programming?
anyone like to hazard a guess which number would be larger... place bets NOW!!!
some very good journals (IEEE Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, and Phys Rev. B) actually ask the author to recommend 5 referees! Plus, the former has "voluntary" page charges of $150 per page
you really wonder where the money goes.
jerrytcow misses the point when he says it is not "your" money.
Ultimately, you have a limited budget, and if you did not spend the money fed-ex'ing the manuscript, you might spend it on equipment or upgrade something.
Equally, when you use your time to format material just the way the journa wants it, it is time you could spend doing research (or having a life).
Many researchers are not doing it as a job, but are students on a stipend (legally a different thing), and i know of several phd students who have had to stump up for expenses towards the end of their project when the cash starts to run out
m
the grave is stable too