To all slashdotters: I'm looking for parts for email terminals and such. Good enough parts for an MP3 server would be even better! Email me, I'll even pay a nominal fee to you to send me the "junk."
And as others have mentioned, I think this type of scrounging for parts is a really good idea. If nothing else, hook up a simple email terminal for the little old lady next door and let her share your super fast Cable internet connection via some Cat5. I'm sure she would appreciate being able to keep in touch with her children and grand-children on a semi-daily basis. Besides, she'll be eternally grateful for your generosity. I'm just looking for parts for a simple MP3 server so I don't have to run up two flights of stairs to get to my main file server!
Usually when I invest in something, I expect to make money doing so. This is just another way to promote donations. I donate to charity, not corporations.
Is a 12 year old kid actualy forbidden to buy an MA game title w/out his parrents?
To my knowledge, not yet. And that is the problem I think. Just slapping a 'this will rot your brain' label on the box doesn't mean the kid won't buy it. Just the opposite! This attracts kids cause it's supposedly another thing they want to get away with. Not letting them buy it without there parent or over 17 guardian there to supervise is what it should be, just like the movies. I read another story today that said that movie companies might need to start cleaning up their act because the last year's harsher enforcement of not letting under 17's buy tickets to R-rated movies was costing movies millions of dollars on the opening week 'cause fewer teens were going to see them without parental supervision.
We don't need seperation of church and state. I'm all for prayer in schools, ten commandments in the courthouse, etc. That's what our country was founded on. Religious freedom, not religious seperation from society.
I'm also all for not blaming the media for our children's deficiencies. I've played tons of violent video games, still do, but I also can be one of the more conservative voices on slashdot. For instance, paintball is a pretty harmless sport (besides the welts you get). Does that teach you that killing is ok? NO! Playing FPS games is the same thing. If it's something blatantly offensive, I wouldn't play it, and I wouldn't let my kids (if I had any) play it either. Enforce the rules already on the books! Don't let kids go to R-movies if they're under 17, don't let them by Mature rated games if they're under 17, etc. without a parent being there to supervise. Lack of parental supervision is the problem to a large degree. Media is not squeaky clean, but if parents let their kids do anything, media will cater to 'anything' to make more money. If you don't like your kids seeing blood fly when you shoot someone in the head on a game of CounterStrike, don't buy it for them. This also means they shouldn't be allowed to buy it at the store even though it's marked as 'Mature'. Enforce the rules.
Steve may be a bit alarmist in his writing style, but he does make good technical and social points.
1. He was getting a really easy to filter DDoS attack. Quickly remedied once he got a hold of a technician.
2. Would have been remedied much faster had the 'big guys' like Earthlink and Verio responded to him in a more timely manner. That's just a customer service problem.
So really, he's trying to make the point that the little guys of the world will get really screwed if they try to fix problems like this because there are bigger and better customers for the technicians and government officials to deal with.
So until you've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, at least, you can expect to basically have to handle it on your own when your small business gets DDoS'd.
I was referring to the fact that RIAA is already rich, but think that they're losing supposed billions of dollars having things like Napster out there. Of course they're not, and I haven't bought a CD since Napster got screwed, but that's another argument.
From the article: "This way the cost is not a huge cash drain. It's based on how successful the (company) is," Ackerson said. "I think similar gains can be achieved by realizing that working together...works for everyone." - from the lawyer representing the class action lawsuits.
While I don't particularly care for all large corp's, I care for most lawyers even less. Especially the class action suit ones. Sounds to me like he figured out a 'legitamite' business plan that wouldn't screw anyone over too much, but would still 'work for everyone'. It's called sue from the rich, to make me rich (or even richer)! The RIAA did it to Napster, and WOW! my life is so much better now that I can't preview songs from an artist at my leisure that I've heard on the radio before I go buy it at the store. And what now?! Now I can pay a big shot lawyer an extra $5 every month through my internet surcharges because he came up with a great way to extort money from all those telco 'fat cats'. Joy! Yep, that really 'works for me.'
I can't believe people modded this up to +5 at one point?! First off, let me reply to this statement you made:
In the beginning we were innocent and naked and had no privacy, like Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, naked but for a fig leave each.
If you had actually recounted this Biblical story correctly, you would have known that Adam and Eve were completely naked (no coverings what-so-ever) until they were tempted by Satan, the Devil, the Evil One, Lucifer (whatever you want to call him), and then they sinned by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which God told them not to do. He wanted them to not have to know what evil was. It was at this point, when they gained knowledge of good AND evil (before that they only knew good according to the Biblical story), that they realized they were completely naked, became ashamed, and covered themselves with the 'fig leaves', partly because they knew they had done that which God told them not to, hence, they were ashamed.
You are right in saying that privacy is not a right. So why do we want it? Because we all DO have something to hide, because we've ALL made mistakes and are ashamed of them. Or at the very least, we're pretty good, and we don't want other people (like Credit Agencies) making mistakes with our data and ruining our lives.
And as to your other statement: (about as absurd as stating that gun ownership is a 'right').
Of course it's not a right! It's written into the Constitution as a priveledge of our freedom in this country. It's a responsibility to use a gun or firearm properly, and unfortunately, too many people, like you apparently, think that the majority of people who own a gun just don't need it. Tell that to the little old ladies, moms, and dads of this nation who want to protect their families, and themselves, from violent drug addicts trying to rob their homes in the middle of the night.
Am I the only one who quickly abandoned B&W, due to frequent misinterpretation of gestures?
There are limitations to gesture controls, but B&W is built for it. It's part of the game, because you're a god, so waving your hand around should produce miracles, not some function key being pressed. It's part of the mystique and aura of the game, and involves you in the story more. So while gesture based commands may be slightly gimmicky for everyday workstation use, it works well in a game where you're supposed to be a 'god', producing magical effects with the wave of a hand. I have temporarily given up the game cause it never really saves my games, but I really like the gestures for this game only. I'll stick to keyboard commands for everything else I think.
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Haven't you seen the recent headlines? Advertising like this doesn't work, as epitomized by all of the dotcom belly up's lately. And just cause they said it on TV, doesn't mean it's true. Unless you're talking about beer commercials, in which reality does mirror what's on the TV, 'cause hey!, you're drunk, and frogs and lizards really DO talk then!
How can we possibly teach our children to trust that authority figures know best when the authority figures don't show them any trust back? (I.E. "Do as I say, not as I do.")
It's ok for adults to sleep around with anyone they want, skip work even when they're not sick, and cheat in their work, but we want to monitor children 24/7 so they can't do the same? Does that make any sense?
This post is going to sound like more M$ slashdot style rhetoric, but here goes...
The only reason I haven't begun using Linux for everyday, non-gaming use is because my DSL connection doesn't work with Linux (USB hookup). But when I get RoadRunner in the next couple of weeks, guess which system I will be using to surf the net, listen to MP3's, etc?
Now Linux isn't for everyone yet. It may never get to that point, but personally I'm tired of the Microsoft OS. It's unflexible for the ways I use a computer, which is of course, are much different than the average Joe on the street that has a computer. And the more I get the chance to learn to use Linux, the easier it becomes to use it, versus M$ products.
Linux may become a cult product, much like Apple computers are now-a-days, but then again, Windows3.1 was the first real, useable GUI system Microsoft came out with (just like many of their software titles, the 3rd version is a far cry from the first two versions). KDE and Gnome are still in their childhoods. One more major revision for both, as well as for the Linux kernel, and I think Linux will really be in business as a mainstream product.
Apple has been a 'cult' brand for quite a while now. It's no surprise that they'll play that up even more with their hip new, 'chic' all LCD systems. So drink your stupid red Kool-Aid, quit quoting CoS literature out-of-context, and move on with life.
I agree with you, state and federal standardized testing is not a cure all. If anything, it seems like yet another lazy solution to telling teachers what kind of job they're doing, telling the students how they stack up, etc. Which is why (when I have them) my kids are going to go to private school or get home schooled. The public school system is whacked and simply breeds mediocrity.
And I certainly don't want my kids' performance in school and their knowledge to be a statistic. I haven't finished college yet, but I guarantee you that I'm making more money than many of my peers are right now. I don't make more money than most of my peers because I have a paper saying I passed a bunch of tests and graduated, I make more money because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!
Interesting, but nothing new really. Just like all other 'inovative' keyboards, this one will be useful for the carpal tunnel folk, but won't convert the mainstream user. The keyboard is about the least improved part of a computer ever, so I doubt anything will change until we get telepathy-enabled computers. In fact, the keyboard has been around since typewriters, so why would we ever change the design? The only really innovative keyboard design I have seen has been the Plycon Flex Keyboard as reviewed in this VH Review.
I think you will also find that the hippies who stuck to their ideals, and let their children choose what they considered 'right' also have the most unruly 'grown up' children now, and wished they had done it differently. A world without rules, is a world of chaos. Chaos does not produce love, peace, and harmony.
The 'hippies' you refer to did not exist in mass quantities. That's why politicians like Richard Nixon were elected into office. They were the most vocal about issues, and the most colorful segment of society at the time, but they did not represent a majority. Don't go spouting anti-parental/authority figure FUD unless you have a more solid base to stand on.
Any attempt to totally control society, or to let it run completely free of rules and regulations, won't work. We need mediums, some of which are not happy ones for everyone. I assume you believe that society is inherently good, and that we all, for the most part, want to Do The Right Thing. This however, could not be further from the truth about humanity. Children are not taught how to do bad things, children know it instinctively. They have to be taught to do good things, to share with others, to obey, etc. I do not advocate not listening to kids, because sometimes they have the most pointed, down-to-earth veiw of things that adults can sometimes miss. But that does not mean that there should not be rules on the books for them, and their parents, to follow.
Hehe. Just 'cause Cmdr-Taco, CowboyNeal, micheal, Cliff, and others run this site doesn't mean they are any smarter than the rest of us. I'm glad the above poster made the point to show everyone exactly what Whistler was doing and dispel some rumours perpetuated by Cmdr-Taco. The 'editors' are not editors, they're moderators. Like Mike Meyer's character on the old SNL, they're just saying to us slashdotters: "I'll give you a topic, talk amongst yourselves." I hope you weren't holding them to some journalistic standard above that...
a last-resort measure that has been abused to the point where no one takes it seriously anymore
Like it or not, and I certainly don't, this, "protect the children" is not overplayed. In fact, I would say it's more prevelant and usefull in today's society than in any other point in history. It's how we justify gun control, pr0n control, freedom control, and politically correct speech. I find it very hypocritical that today's society uses "ban the violence in video games, it teaches kids bad things" arguments to control things, and yet they scream for "freedom of speech", and "freedom of choice" when it comes to abortion and pr0n. You don't think abortion harms kids? It keeps them from even being born! It's taking a living thing's life away (even if you don't agree that a fetus is human yet at that stage, it is still a living cellular organism) plain and simple, but if they make it past that stage, we don't want them to learn how to harm life forms by playing violent video games. Go figure.
Well, something does need to be said for M$'s wanting to keep their source code closed. They can keep a monopoly on their OS. Then again, Apple did that, and they are a cult brand now, but not as powerful as say, M$, who originally built their source to run all sorts of Intel PC clones. Now WindowsXP is going to validate all the hardware and software I have in my PC and make it harder to upgrade my stuff? Guess what, I'm not going to buy it, even if it does have more features than Linux or Apple OS's. It makes it great for supportability and ease of use by the commoner, but they're not going to win any technophiles that way.
While the 'editors', and I use that term loosely as they are more topic givers for discussion than editors of journalistic intent, have to read through hundreds of story submissions EVERY DAY. I doubt that they all get the chance to do anything more than skim what the other 'editors' are putting up. Still, that is a little lazy on their part.
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And as others have mentioned, I think this type of scrounging for parts is a really good idea. If nothing else, hook up a simple email terminal for the little old lady next door and let her share your super fast Cable internet connection via some Cat5. I'm sure she would appreciate being able to keep in touch with her children and grand-children on a semi-daily basis. Besides, she'll be eternally grateful for your generosity. I'm just looking for parts for a simple MP3 server so I don't have to run up two flights of stairs to get to my main file server!
Usually when I invest in something, I expect to make money doing so. This is just another way to promote donations. I donate to charity, not corporations.
To my knowledge, not yet. And that is the problem I think. Just slapping a 'this will rot your brain' label on the box doesn't mean the kid won't buy it. Just the opposite! This attracts kids cause it's supposedly another thing they want to get away with. Not letting them buy it without there parent or over 17 guardian there to supervise is what it should be, just like the movies. I read another story today that said that movie companies might need to start cleaning up their act because the last year's harsher enforcement of not letting under 17's buy tickets to R-rated movies was costing movies millions of dollars on the opening week 'cause fewer teens were going to see them without parental supervision.
I'm also all for not blaming the media for our children's deficiencies. I've played tons of violent video games, still do, but I also can be one of the more conservative voices on slashdot. For instance, paintball is a pretty harmless sport (besides the welts you get). Does that teach you that killing is ok? NO! Playing FPS games is the same thing. If it's something blatantly offensive, I wouldn't play it, and I wouldn't let my kids (if I had any) play it either. Enforce the rules already on the books! Don't let kids go to R-movies if they're under 17, don't let them by Mature rated games if they're under 17, etc. without a parent being there to supervise. Lack of parental supervision is the problem to a large degree. Media is not squeaky clean, but if parents let their kids do anything, media will cater to 'anything' to make more money. If you don't like your kids seeing blood fly when you shoot someone in the head on a game of CounterStrike, don't buy it for them. This also means they shouldn't be allowed to buy it at the store even though it's marked as 'Mature'. Enforce the rules.
1. He was getting a really easy to filter DDoS attack. Quickly remedied once he got a hold of a technician.
2. Would have been remedied much faster had the 'big guys' like Earthlink and Verio responded to him in a more timely manner. That's just a customer service problem.
So really, he's trying to make the point that the little guys of the world will get really screwed if they try to fix problems like this because there are bigger and better customers for the technicians and government officials to deal with.
So until you've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, at least, you can expect to basically have to handle it on your own when your small business gets DDoS'd.
I was referring to the fact that RIAA is already rich, but think that they're losing supposed billions of dollars having things like Napster out there. Of course they're not, and I haven't bought a CD since Napster got screwed, but that's another argument.
While I don't particularly care for all large corp's, I care for most lawyers even less. Especially the class action suit ones. Sounds to me like he figured out a 'legitamite' business plan that wouldn't screw anyone over too much, but would still 'work for everyone'. It's called sue from the rich, to make me rich (or even richer)! The RIAA did it to Napster, and WOW! my life is so much better now that I can't preview songs from an artist at my leisure that I've heard on the radio before I go buy it at the store. And what now?! Now I can pay a big shot lawyer an extra $5 every month through my internet surcharges because he came up with a great way to extort money from all those telco 'fat cats'. Joy! Yep, that really 'works for me.'
In the beginning we were innocent and naked and had no privacy, like Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, naked but for a fig leave each.
If you had actually recounted this Biblical story correctly, you would have known that Adam and Eve were completely naked (no coverings what-so-ever) until they were tempted by Satan, the Devil, the Evil One, Lucifer (whatever you want to call him), and then they sinned by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which God told them not to do. He wanted them to not have to know what evil was. It was at this point, when they gained knowledge of good AND evil (before that they only knew good according to the Biblical story), that they realized they were completely naked, became ashamed, and covered themselves with the 'fig leaves', partly because they knew they had done that which God told them not to, hence, they were ashamed.
You are right in saying that privacy is not a right. So why do we want it? Because we all DO have something to hide, because we've ALL made mistakes and are ashamed of them. Or at the very least, we're pretty good, and we don't want other people (like Credit Agencies) making mistakes with our data and ruining our lives.
And as to your other statement: (about as absurd as stating that gun ownership is a 'right').
Of course it's not a right! It's written into the Constitution as a priveledge of our freedom in this country. It's a responsibility to use a gun or firearm properly, and unfortunately, too many people, like you apparently, think that the majority of people who own a gun just don't need it. Tell that to the little old ladies, moms, and dads of this nation who want to protect their families, and themselves, from violent drug addicts trying to rob their homes in the middle of the night.
There are limitations to gesture controls, but B&W is built for it. It's part of the game, because you're a god, so waving your hand around should produce miracles, not some function key being pressed. It's part of the mystique and aura of the game, and involves you in the story more. So while gesture based commands may be slightly gimmicky for everyday workstation use, it works well in a game where you're supposed to be a 'god', producing magical effects with the wave of a hand. I have temporarily given up the game cause it never really saves my games, but I really like the gestures for this game only. I'll stick to keyboard commands for everything else I think.
Carpal tunnel syndrome, no. Tennis elbow, yes.
Haven't you seen the recent headlines? Advertising like this doesn't work, as epitomized by all of the dotcom belly up's lately. And just cause they said it on TV, doesn't mean it's true. Unless you're talking about beer commercials, in which reality does mirror what's on the TV, 'cause hey!, you're drunk, and frogs and lizards really DO talk then!
It's ok for adults to sleep around with anyone they want, skip work even when they're not sick, and cheat in their work, but we want to monitor children 24/7 so they can't do the same? Does that make any sense?
The only reason I haven't begun using Linux for everyday, non-gaming use is because my DSL connection doesn't work with Linux (USB hookup). But when I get RoadRunner in the next couple of weeks, guess which system I will be using to surf the net, listen to MP3's, etc?
Now Linux isn't for everyone yet. It may never get to that point, but personally I'm tired of the Microsoft OS. It's unflexible for the ways I use a computer, which is of course, are much different than the average Joe on the street that has a computer. And the more I get the chance to learn to use Linux, the easier it becomes to use it, versus M$ products.
Linux may become a cult product, much like Apple computers are now-a-days, but then again, Windows3.1 was the first real, useable GUI system Microsoft came out with (just like many of their software titles, the 3rd version is a far cry from the first two versions). KDE and Gnome are still in their childhoods. One more major revision for both, as well as for the Linux kernel, and I think Linux will really be in business as a mainstream product.
Apple has been a 'cult' brand for quite a while now. It's no surprise that they'll play that up even more with their hip new, 'chic' all LCD systems. So drink your stupid red Kool-Aid, quit quoting CoS literature out-of-context, and move on with life.
And I certainly don't want my kids' performance in school and their knowledge to be a statistic. I haven't finished college yet, but I guarantee you that I'm making more money than many of my peers are right now. I don't make more money than most of my peers because I have a paper saying I passed a bunch of tests and graduated, I make more money because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!
Interesting, but nothing new really. Just like all other 'inovative' keyboards, this one will be useful for the carpal tunnel folk, but won't convert the mainstream user. The keyboard is about the least improved part of a computer ever, so I doubt anything will change until we get telepathy-enabled computers. In fact, the keyboard has been around since typewriters, so why would we ever change the design? The only really innovative keyboard design I have seen has been the Plycon Flex Keyboard as reviewed in this VH Review.
I think you will also find that the hippies who stuck to their ideals, and let their children choose what they considered 'right' also have the most unruly 'grown up' children now, and wished they had done it differently. A world without rules, is a world of chaos. Chaos does not produce love, peace, and harmony.
Any attempt to totally control society, or to let it run completely free of rules and regulations, won't work. We need mediums, some of which are not happy ones for everyone. I assume you believe that society is inherently good, and that we all, for the most part, want to Do The Right Thing. This however, could not be further from the truth about humanity. Children are not taught how to do bad things, children know it instinctively. They have to be taught to do good things, to share with others, to obey, etc. I do not advocate not listening to kids, because sometimes they have the most pointed, down-to-earth veiw of things that adults can sometimes miss. But that does not mean that there should not be rules on the books for them, and their parents, to follow.
Hehe. Just 'cause Cmdr-Taco, CowboyNeal, micheal, Cliff, and others run this site doesn't mean they are any smarter than the rest of us. I'm glad the above poster made the point to show everyone exactly what Whistler was doing and dispel some rumours perpetuated by Cmdr-Taco. The 'editors' are not editors, they're moderators. Like Mike Meyer's character on the old SNL, they're just saying to us slashdotters: "I'll give you a topic, talk amongst yourselves." I hope you weren't holding them to some journalistic standard above that...
"Let's go to a McMovie."
"McF--- You!"
"This paper I have to write McSucks."
There were many more.
Like it or not, and I certainly don't, this, "protect the children" is not overplayed. In fact, I would say it's more prevelant and usefull in today's society than in any other point in history. It's how we justify gun control, pr0n control, freedom control, and politically correct speech. I find it very hypocritical that today's society uses "ban the violence in video games, it teaches kids bad things" arguments to control things, and yet they scream for "freedom of speech", and "freedom of choice" when it comes to abortion and pr0n. You don't think abortion harms kids? It keeps them from even being born! It's taking a living thing's life away (even if you don't agree that a fetus is human yet at that stage, it is still a living cellular organism) plain and simple, but if they make it past that stage, we don't want them to learn how to harm life forms by playing violent video games. Go figure.
Well, something does need to be said for M$'s wanting to keep their source code closed. They can keep a monopoly on their OS. Then again, Apple did that, and they are a cult brand now, but not as powerful as say, M$, who originally built their source to run all sorts of Intel PC clones. Now WindowsXP is going to validate all the hardware and software I have in my PC and make it harder to upgrade my stuff? Guess what, I'm not going to buy it, even if it does have more features than Linux or Apple OS's. It makes it great for supportability and ease of use by the commoner, but they're not going to win any technophiles that way.
While the 'editors', and I use that term loosely as they are more topic givers for discussion than editors of journalistic intent, have to read through hundreds of story submissions EVERY DAY. I doubt that they all get the chance to do anything more than skim what the other 'editors' are putting up. Still, that is a little lazy on their part.
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