There is, of course, a very good system in action right here. It is caled a "username". When combined with a "brain", it allows the reader to determine whether to trust articles written by someone who they've already read before.
When I read this in the article, I thought that it's pretty obvious the author hasn't discovered what those numbers behind the reply titles are for... (Abuse-free) moderating is a reputation rating system... And (with the exception of abuses) it works pretty damn well, IMHO.
Which site was down? Slashdot? Then how did you post your message?
Oh, you meant that the link to Carmack's.plan was down... OHH.. that just means that you have no reading comprehension skills, as the previous poster said you didn't need to read the article.. it's posted here... Allow me to Quote:
Posted by Hemos on Thursday August 26, @09:30AM MDT from the frag-your-friends dept. SithLordBill writes "Looks like there will be another Quake3 test due in mid-September. This one will include single player bots as well as the Virtual Machine (written to interpret game mods). Anyway, Carmack will be releasing the VM and its modules (as well as the modified compiliers, LCC and q3asm) will be open-source as to give mod developers a head start. Check out his most recent.plan update -- there's a bunch of cool stuff there. "
Perhaps it's time to go take a grade 3 refresher course.
Nightmare is just skill level 4 with monster respawning & fast monsters... so if you turn these on manually, then cheats will still work.. the appropriate command-line switches are as follows:
police told Smith his Miranda rights, but the defendant voluntarily waived his rights and chose to speak, Bubb asserted. At that time, "Smith admitted, among other things, to writing the 'Melissa' macro virus, illegally accessing American Online for the purpose of posting the virus onto cyberspace, and destroying the personal computers he used to post 'Melissa'
They make it sound like the cops sat down and had tea while discussing this...
I imagine his "voluntary waiving" of his rights went something like "OWWW!!! Why do you keep hitting me? OWW!!! That hurts! Quit it! OK, I'll confess if you stop hitting me! Just Please stop!"
I read the article, and it wasn't clear to me at all.
...central processing units from two computer systems had been removed.
So the guy "removed" his CPU.. "removed" it from where? his desk? This implies to me (and obviously to the original poster) that just the CPU chip was removed. Otherwise, it's not a computer system, is it?
This paper reminds me of an article I read a long time ago (1988?) in Scientific American. The author (Professor Arlo Lipof) claimed to have invented a mathematical equation that allowed him to cut a 1"x5"x8" block of gold, and reassemble it into a 1"x8"x8" block (which resulted in a volume increase of about 1.5%.) The article was complete with diagrams and went on for 3 pages on the topic, very much like this paper.
(The SA article immediately activated my BS meter, but I got about 1/3 of the way through before realizing that it was published in the April edition try to make an anagram of Arlo Lipof, and see what you get:o). If this is a joke, he's a little out of season.)
Hmm.. in grade 6 I remember reading a story called "The Great Tomato Addiction." It went on and on with statistics about how 90% of the population was addicted to tomatoes. (95% of convicted criminals have eaten them, etc..) It also proved that tomatoes are really addictive too... when an addict is denied tomatoes, they invariably turn to other substitutes, such as potatoes, beef, etc. If an addict is denied tomatoes and all substitutes, they will die within a few weeks!
Now that's a REALLY serious addiction problem! If "internet addicts" are denied their addiction, at least they don't die from it!
This is one "study" I'm not going to take too seriously.
Linux is fragmented moreso than any commercial flavor of Unix ever will. (snip) We have GNOME and KDE (need I say more?). umm.. Yes. You need say more, as I don't understand what you're getting at. KDE and Gnome, while different beasts, interoperate pretty damn well. I recently installed Gnome on my (previously) KDE system, and had no problems at all. KDE software ran very well in Gnome (including the KWM!) If you prefer to code for KDE, use QT, if you prefer Gnome, use GTK. Software from one will run in the other.
We'd had an annoying time with Compaq's Intel boxes
First, I've never had a problem with anything made by Compaq (except for their consumer-level stuff, which is about the same as anybody else's.) I am writing this on a (circa) 1995 Deskpro that has never had any hardware problems at all.
and their crappy dealer-based sales system
As opposed to Digital's dealer-based sales system? (yes, Digital had dealers, just like Compaq.. and the only thing required to become one was a PO from a customer worth $15000 or more.)
I'm sorry to hear about your problems with Compaq, but in truth, my experiences with Digital (pre-Compaq) are just as bad - how about a hard drive that failed, and Digital doesn't have any to replace it - so they said "we've got that on back-order right now, we expect stock in 3 to 6 weeks." _FIVE MONTHS LATER_ our hard drive arrived.
I for one welcomed the purchase by Compaq.
Our top programmer gave us a talk explaining that "NT" had originally stood for N10 ("N-ten")
Your programmer was wrong. NT stood for "New Technology" - as in "not Windows 3.x" - it came from a new codebase, whereas the old (3.x) code stemmed from what was just a graphical shell (no multitasking, networking, memory management, etc..)
How about this: For end users, the standard means no longer having to remember or type in a series of dots, dashes and backslashes in order to find the information they need.
Umm, is it just me, or is a "series of dots and dashes" completely meaningless?
It sounds like the author has confused morse code and HTTP... I've never seen any url that looked like http://www.foo.com/..--.-\.-..-\..-\\-....--.-...- ./
If the US government decided to take their ball and go home, that would be stupid, but we built it - we make the rules.
Umm, and what would that prove, exactly?
There would be a big, gaping, hole in the internet that the other backbone providers would simply route around (it might create some chaos for a few weeks, until everything settled.)
Likewise, DNS is not a (persistant) issue, my TLD is ca. It's pretty simple to point to different root servers.
"address assignment" is a joke - sounds like you're implying that my IP address would become invalid.
The genie is out of the bottle; there's nothing now that can be done about it. "Taking your ball and going home" would do nothing except piss off the few americans who actually have a brain.
Well tell me then, why giving 30,000+ people their livelyhood, making a quarter of them millionaries is bad?
Actually, MS has only made a handful of it's employees millionaires.
THE STOCK MARKET has made the rest, NOT MS..
Relative to what it makes, MS doesn't pay it's employees very well at all (look at the fight of the "temp" workers.) Looks like you've been taken in by the "MS Millionaire Myth."
Applying your standard, any add that uses humor is misleading and should be banned. What, if I let my dog eat tacos he's going to turn into a hideous, but bi-lingual, abomination? Clearly misleading!
This is _NOT_ the same thing; (I assume you're referring to the Taco Bell ads..) they don't say that YOUR dog will speak spanish after eating their product, they say that _A_ dog did (and they don't even say that.)
Saying "this happened when we did x" is _NOT_ the same as saying "If you buy XXX of our product, we will give you XXX." The first one is a tall tale, the second is a promise.
You couldn't take the Taco Bell people to court if your dog doesn't speak spanish, because they never said it would; pepsico said that if you accumulate 7,000,000 points, then you get a jet.
Pepsi broke their promise, and they should have to pay.
Servers I administer are (generally) attacked once a week or more... I usually alert the administrator (if I can find out who it is) of the source...
On almost every occasion that I received a response, the source machine had been hacked already, and the cracker was using that machine as a base to launch other attacks... (again playing Devil's Advocate) if someone (besides the Chinese Government) had a vendetta against the ISP's in question, breaking into the Chinese Computers first would be a great way to misdirect blame...
I'm not defending the Chinese Government here, (I think they're involved in one way or another..) but it's not impossible that they're innocent of this...
Something that NSI seems to be unaware of...
on
NSI to be RBL'ed?
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· Score: 4
.. is that MAPS has gone up against bigger companies and won...
Anyone remember when Microsoft was RBL'ed?
They poised, and they threatened, and then they backed down... MS is bigger than NSI could ever hope to be, and they have WAY more money to throw at lawyers.
AOL, also was blackholed as well; with the same results; denials, threats, submission.
If MS couldn't win, then what makes NSI think they will? This letter just shows exactly how clueless they are. Someone should send them a wake-up call. Paul Vixie doesn't back down.
Apparently they're trying to syn-flood the two sites; one attack failed, the other didn't..
Guess which site is running Windows?
I'm not an expert on this, but isn't it possible to syn-flood with a spoofed IP address? Just to play devil's advocate, this wouldn't necessarily mean that it's the Chinese doing this, am I right?
I read the article, and there was no mention of my KG-9,Mac-10, and Browning 9mm electric-pump replicas.. (they were even made by Laramie!)... Sure, they aren't as powerful as the super-soaker, but in the late 80's, they were the ultimate water-gun.. I would put them up against a first-generation super-soaker any day...
Anyone else remember these things? *sigh* those were the days...
From their "security notice": When you conduct a transaction on the PayPal web site, we encrypt all of your private information. That information is stored on a secure server housed in a secure data center. All transactions are conducted through our secure servers, which are protected behind state-of-the-art firewalls.
Who is guaranteeing the site is secure? Have they been audited by someone, or are they blowing smoke?
It certainly sounds good, but I'm a little skeptical without more information..
The idea of having a major office productivity suite that looks and feels the same no matter which OS is beneath it is simply too good to be denied.
Something like this already exists... when it was released on the Mac, there was a huge outcry from Mac users about how "alien" it felt - it didn't behave like a Mac App.
It's name was Microsoft Office.
Now, I hate MS products, but in all fairness, if MS were to release "MSOffice for Linux" tomorrow, would you say the same thing? Why not?
"Look & Feel" is a two-edged sword, keeping the look & feel of a product across OS's is a dangerous thing, especially when there is already an established "look & feel" for each OS.
Slashdot Mirror
There is, of course, a very good system in action right here. It is caled a "username". When combined with a "brain", it allows the reader to determine whether to trust articles written by someone who they've already read before.
When I read this in the article, I thought that it's pretty obvious the author hasn't discovered what those numbers behind the reply titles are for... (Abuse-free) moderating is a reputation rating system... And (with the exception of abuses) it works pretty damn well, IMHO.
What about "Credible Source"?
... part expert commentary, part peer review, and part cocktail-party banter, as credible sources and experts weigh in alongside crackpots
Hmm... I'm not credible, or an expert...
I guess that makes me a crackpot!
Woo-Hoo! Time to create a sig... "Official Slashdot Crackpot".. I like the sound of that..
Which site was down? Slashdot? Then how did you post your message?
.plan was down... OHH.. that just means that you have no reading comprehension skills, as the previous poster said you didn't need to read the article.. it's posted here... Allow me to Quote:
.plan update -- there's a bunch of cool stuff there. "
Oh, you meant that the link to Carmack's
Posted by Hemos on Thursday August 26, @09:30AM MDT
from the frag-your-friends dept.
SithLordBill writes "Looks like there will be another Quake3 test due in mid-September. This one will include single player bots as well as the Virtual Machine (written to interpret game mods). Anyway, Carmack will be releasing the VM and its modules (as well as the modified compiliers, LCC and q3asm) will be open-source as to give mod developers a head start. Check out his most recent
Perhaps it's time to go take a grade 3 refresher course.
You can...
Nightmare is just skill level 4 with monster respawning & fast monsters... so if you turn these on manually, then cheats will still work.. the appropriate command-line switches are as follows:
-skill 4 -respawn -fast
I always thought that 0.0.0.0 was the loopback address
No, 127.0.0.1 is the loopback address (localhost) 127.0.0.0 is the loopback network, and 0.0.0.0 is default gateway.
$ route -n
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.20.18 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 1 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.20.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 138 eth0
police told Smith his Miranda rights, but the defendant voluntarily waived his rights and chose to speak, Bubb asserted. At that time, "Smith admitted, among other things, to writing the 'Melissa' macro virus, illegally accessing American Online for the purpose of posting the virus onto cyberspace, and destroying the personal computers he used to post 'Melissa'
They make it sound like the cops sat down and had tea while discussing this...
I imagine his "voluntary waiving" of his rights went something like "OWWW!!! Why do you keep hitting me? OWW!!! That hurts! Quit it! OK, I'll confess if you stop hitting me! Just Please stop!"
I read the article, and it wasn't clear to me at all.
...central processing units from two computer systems had been removed.
So the guy "removed" his CPU.. "removed" it from where? his desk? This implies to me (and obviously to the original poster) that just the CPU chip was removed. Otherwise, it's not a computer system, is it?
This paper reminds me of an article I read a long time ago (1988?) in Scientific American. The author (Professor Arlo Lipof) claimed to have invented a mathematical equation that allowed him to cut a 1"x5"x8" block of gold, and reassemble it into a 1"x8"x8" block (which resulted in a volume increase of about 1.5%.) The article was complete with diagrams and went on for 3 pages on the topic, very much like this paper.
:o). If this is a joke, he's a little out of season.)
(The SA article immediately activated my BS meter, but I got about 1/3 of the way through before realizing that it was published in the April edition try to make an anagram of Arlo Lipof, and see what you get
Hmm.. I don't know what I would do with all that storage, but I can imagine the average 'doze user could use it to install Office 2001...
:o)
:o)
... and have almost 100MB of space left over to store a document
(sorry, gratuitous MS-bashing... you could see it coming, couldn't you?
1) Are you having sexual relations with the internet
:)
:)
:)
Umm... how would one go about that, exactly?
Would you use your computer? (sorry, mine only takes a 3.5" floppy
Or would you "interface" directly with the router (sounds painful to me
Ahh.. Humor... at 8:00 AM everything is funny
Remember, people in glass houses shouldn't get stoned!
Hmm.. in grade 6 I remember reading a story called "The Great Tomato Addiction." It went on and on with statistics about how 90% of the population was addicted to tomatoes. (95% of convicted criminals have eaten them, etc..) It also proved that tomatoes are really addictive too... when an addict is denied tomatoes, they invariably turn to other substitutes, such as potatoes, beef, etc. If an addict is denied tomatoes and all substitutes, they will die within a few weeks!
Now that's a REALLY serious addiction problem! If "internet addicts" are denied their addiction, at least they don't die from it!
This is one "study" I'm not going to take too seriously.
Linux is fragmented moreso than any commercial flavor of Unix ever will. (snip) We have GNOME and KDE (need I say more?). umm.. Yes. You need say more, as I don't understand what you're getting at. KDE and Gnome, while different beasts, interoperate pretty damn well. I recently installed Gnome on my (previously) KDE system, and had no problems at all. KDE software ran very well in Gnome (including the KWM!) If you prefer to code for KDE, use QT, if you prefer Gnome, use GTK. Software from one will run in the other.
We'd had an annoying time with Compaq's Intel boxes
First, I've never had a problem with anything made by Compaq (except for their consumer-level stuff, which is about the same as anybody else's.) I am writing this on a (circa) 1995 Deskpro that has never had any hardware problems at all.
and their crappy dealer-based sales system
As opposed to Digital's dealer-based sales system?
(yes, Digital had dealers, just like Compaq.. and the only thing required to become one was a PO from a customer worth $15000 or more.)
I'm sorry to hear about your problems with Compaq, but in truth, my experiences with Digital (pre-Compaq) are just as bad - how about a hard drive that failed, and Digital doesn't have any to replace it - so they said "we've got that on back-order right now, we expect stock in 3 to 6 weeks." _FIVE MONTHS LATER_ our hard drive arrived.
I for one welcomed the purchase by Compaq.
Our top programmer gave us a talk explaining that "NT" had originally stood for N10 ("N-ten")
Your programmer was wrong. NT stood for "New Technology" - as in "not Windows 3.x" - it came from a new codebase, whereas the old (3.x) code stemmed from what was just a graphical shell (no multitasking, networking, memory management, etc..)
How about this:
- ./
For end users, the standard means no longer having to remember or type in a series of dots, dashes and backslashes in order to find the information they need.
Umm, is it just me, or is a "series of dots and dashes" completely meaningless?
It sounds like the author has confused morse code and HTTP... I've never seen any url that looked like http://www.foo.com/..--.-\.-..-\..-\\-....--.-...
If the US government decided to take their ball and go home, that would be stupid, but we built it - we make the rules.
Umm, and what would that prove, exactly?
There would be a big, gaping, hole in the internet that the other backbone providers would simply route around (it might create some chaos for a few weeks, until everything settled.)
Likewise, DNS is not a (persistant) issue, my TLD is ca. It's pretty simple to point to different root servers.
"address assignment" is a joke - sounds like you're implying that my IP address would become invalid.
The genie is out of the bottle; there's nothing now that can be done about it. "Taking your ball and going home" would do nothing except piss off the few americans who actually have a brain.
Well tell me then, why giving 30,000+ people their livelyhood, making a quarter of them millionaries is bad?
Actually, MS has only made a handful of it's employees millionaires.
THE STOCK MARKET has made the rest, NOT MS..
Relative to what it makes, MS doesn't pay it's employees very well at all (look at the fight of the "temp" workers.) Looks like you've been taken in by the "MS Millionaire Myth."
For everything you ever wanted to know about this topic, visit the BogoMIPS mini-HOWTO
Applying your standard, any add that uses humor is misleading and should be banned. What, if I let my dog eat tacos he's going to turn into a hideous, but bi-lingual, abomination? Clearly misleading!
This is _NOT_ the same thing; (I assume you're referring to the Taco Bell ads..) they don't say that YOUR dog will speak spanish after eating their product, they say that _A_ dog did (and they don't even say that.)
Saying "this happened when we did x" is _NOT_ the same as saying "If you buy XXX of our product, we will give you XXX." The first one is a tall tale, the second is a promise.
You couldn't take the Taco Bell people to court if your dog doesn't speak spanish, because they never said it would; pepsico said that if you accumulate 7,000,000 points, then you get a jet.
Pepsi broke their promise, and they should have to pay.
Servers I administer are (generally) attacked once a week or more... I usually alert the administrator (if I can find out who it is) of the source...
On almost every occasion that I received a response, the source machine had been hacked already, and the cracker was using that machine as a base to launch other attacks... (again playing Devil's Advocate) if someone (besides the Chinese Government) had a vendetta against the ISP's in question, breaking into the Chinese Computers first would be a great way to misdirect blame...
I'm not defending the Chinese Government here, (I think they're involved in one way or another..) but it's not impossible that they're innocent of this...
.. is that MAPS has gone up against bigger companies and won...
Anyone remember when Microsoft was RBL'ed?
They poised, and they threatened, and then they backed down... MS is bigger than NSI could ever hope to be, and they have WAY more money to throw at lawyers.
AOL, also was blackholed as well; with the same results; denials, threats, submission.
If MS couldn't win, then what makes NSI think they will? This letter just shows exactly how clueless they are. Someone should send them a wake-up call. Paul Vixie doesn't back down.
I read this yesterday on Wired..
Apparently they're trying to syn-flood the two sites; one attack failed, the other didn't..
Guess which site is running Windows?
I'm not an expert on this, but isn't it possible to syn-flood with a spoofed IP address? Just to play devil's advocate, this wouldn't necessarily mean that it's the Chinese doing this, am I right?
I read the article, and there was no mention of my KG-9,Mac-10, and Browning 9mm electric-pump replicas.. (they were even made by Laramie!)... Sure, they aren't as powerful as the super-soaker, but in the late 80's, they were the ultimate water-gun.. I would put them up against a first-generation super-soaker any day...
Anyone else remember these things? *sigh* those were the days...
From their "security notice":
When you conduct a transaction on the PayPal web site, we encrypt
all of your private information. That information is stored on a
secure server housed in a secure data center. All transactions are
conducted through our secure servers, which are protected behind
state-of-the-art firewalls.
Who is guaranteeing the site is secure? Have they been audited by
someone, or are they blowing smoke?
It certainly sounds good, but I'm a little skeptical without more
information..
The idea of having a major office productivity suite that looks and feels the same no matter which OS is beneath it is simply too good to be denied.
Something like this already exists... when it was released on the Mac, there was a huge outcry from Mac users about how "alien" it felt - it didn't behave like a Mac App.
It's name was Microsoft Office.
Now, I hate MS products, but in all fairness, if MS were to release "MSOffice for Linux" tomorrow, would you say the same thing? Why not?
"Look & Feel" is a two-edged sword, keeping the look & feel of a product across OS's is a dangerous thing, especially when there is already an established "look & feel" for each OS.