I would give good odds that slashdot accepts stories for submission and queues them for display on the front page over the course of the day. They want the 8-10 articles per day to slowy show up during the day to increase readership.
So your submission was probably a duplicate as I am sure just about every reader who came across this submitted it.
Magazine subscriptions are low because publishers and advertisers want to know that people are actually reading them. Most if not all of the production costs are payed for by the advertisers.
If there were magazines that *paid* people would subscribe just for the check.
Here are some links I collected in the course of reading more about this subject and reading the Slashdot thread at a low threshold.
Some History:In the late sixties Roy Bates and his family occupied one of the forts and declared himself a soverign nation. This was upheld in British Court and the long bizarre history began. The tiny nation was attacked and captured by a German businessman and friends for several weeks until Roy could put a crew together to retake it by rappeling from helicopters. (There were no known fatalities from these actions.) Here are some fun links to learn more:
Dorothy Lerda at The National Geographic answers a question about Sealand. (Notice that she has what is likely to be the web address of the imposters responsible for selling passports.)
...the price of recorded music to consumers has fallen dramatically since CDs were first introduced in 1983. Between 1983 and 1996, the average price of a CD fell by more than 40%. Over this same period of time, consumer prices (measured by the Consumer Price Index, or CPI) rose nearly 60%. If CD prices had risen at the same rate as consumer prices over this period, the average retail price of a CD in 1996 would have been $33.86 instead of $12.75
I looked at that page and said, $34, thats bullshit we haven't seen anywhere near that kind of inflation. So I went to the The Inflation Calculator. Using the numbers provied by the RIAA, this calculator figures that CD's in 1983 should have cost $21.52. While I certainly wasn't buying CD's then, I don't think they cost that much.
The prices that I remember was $12 in 1988. Looking again at the inflation calculator, this tells us that cd's today should cost: $17, and look at that, they do.
So what do we learn from this:
The costs of CD's probably haven't fallen significantly (despite all that blather in the 80's about paying of the construction of new factories.)
The RIAA chooses very odd numbers in its calculations, what is special about 96? Why are we talking about prices 4 years ago? This is clearly a dodge to get the number $34 into your head.
They don't even address the issue of why most cds cost exactly the same across stores and record companies. This smacks of price fixing to me.
there is NO way (at least, in most circumstances.. obviously, it might help you prevent freezing to death or something;)) that smoking can benefit your health
Not recommended. Nicotine does horrible things to your cappilary blood flow and is a great way to help get frostbite, and if you have frostbite, its a good way encourage your extremities to fall off. If you want to use a cigarette has a heat source, I don't recommend smoking it.
This is almost to small an issue to mention, but I wanted to discourage this meme from spreading.
Carl C-M Former Mountain Oriented First Aid Instructor for the Seattle Mountaineers.
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Reading the comments about this show reminded me of the comment that Jobs made in the recently posted Times interview: He said that in Hollywood engineers are considered second class citizens next to the "creative types"(its reversed in Silicon Valley).
This strikes me as evidence to back up that claim.
Remember that your typical G3 uses something like 5 Watts while a comparable Pentium processor uses more like 40. I think is great they can get away with fewer moving parts and I strongly doubt they will have heat related problems in the future.
I mean please, the author quoted "sources" 9 times in about that many paragraphs.
I enjoy my press releases as much as the next guy, but lets not pretend that they are news and lets not give this Spooner character too much credit for rewording it.
Can we have some real news now. Thank you Rob, for slashdot discussion forums and the real information they contain.
Remember Ken Thompson's brilliant piece from 1984: Reflections on Trusting Trust. So I go to the local computer store and put a box together, install my favorite Linux distribution, carefully examine the source and recompile everything. Oh well, my compiler was boobytrapped so my system is still bugged. Do'oh. Perhaps the traps are hidden in the bios... Do you really want to compile everything on your system from scratch?
The technology exists to spy on anyone anytime: churning the technological arms race won't help us. Any lock can be broken by a determined attacker. We need to practice social engineering and forge societies where spying is impossible. Look for solutions that lead to fewer secrets rather than more secrets and remove the necessity for complicated technological locks.
For example: Openly install monitoring tools on all police hardware with a 3 month delay before it goes public. So maybe they will be spying on us, but at least we can find out exactly what abuses they are doing. (The three month delay is to give them some time to prosecute their cases.) -ccm
Please! Sure the typical programmer demographic is a large one but there are other populations of users out there who might want to play computer games also. I think its important for programmers to take pride in their work but its more important for the intended audience to enjoy a game than for the programmer to enjoy the game.
Of course, Brin would probably argue (and I agree) that the 'in exchange for our privacy' deal is no deal at all. We, as little people, will have no privacy; my question is: how much disclosure can we squeeze out of the government and powerful organizations?
I like the basic principle of giving ordinary users tools available to more powerful organizations.
However, a packet sniffer is only useful for packets that pass through your computer, so Joe Average with a dial up connection would be able to snoop on members of his family. Jane Hacker with a DSL may be able to sniff on her neighbors, but she won't see packets from arbitrary IP addresses. That would require sniffers on the major hubs.
I take exception that the only way to combat misuse of personal information is through routine encryption.
Routinely encrypting all my traffic may not buy me much privacy.
Traffic analysis can reveal where I have been surfing and who I have been emailing without saying anything about what I was saying. But I imagine that in this hypothetical police state exchanging email with subversives would be a crime. And don't think that anonymous remailers will protect you; remember anon.penet.fi.
Failing traffic analysis, I am still conducting transactions with websites, who is to say that they won't decide that its financially advantageous to get together and construct detailed profiles of me. Isn't that what ads.doubleclick.com is doing?
How do I know that my security protocols are really secure? I just downloaded PGP from some random website or installed the standard Red Hat Distribution. How do I know that the implimentation wasn't weakened so that powerful interests can read my mail anyway? Worse I might believe that I can send whatever I want with PGP and end up incriminating myself more completely.
Rather than pressuring congress to allow me to implement weak and insecure protocols that give me the illusion of privacy, why don't we pressure Congress to open up government. "Okay Congress, you want to monitor our networks for criminal activity, you can, if you make verifiable public records of all activities and results from the monitoring." Better yet, if they want this tool, let them build it, but make it a public domain tool that serves everyone. Why should we trust incompetent government workers to secure our networks?
This bargain could be struck on many levels. If congress wants to monitor all email, I'd be quite happy to go along with this if in exchange the government would publish all gov. documents on the web five years after creation regardless of classification.
Perhaps surveillance of everyone is immanent, but it doesn't have to be clandestine. We have an opportunity to choose how it is implemented.
If given a choice between having all my email read by the NSA without my knowledge or permission or having all my email read by the NSA and receiving notification whenever it happens; I will always pick the later case. Even better is if I recieve notification from anyone when that email is used. Whose to say that Coca-Cola doesn't have nefarious schemes?
One point that hasn't been discussed is the difference between books and other commodities. I put books in a different category because they have an impact on the intellectual discourse of our culture. I think that it is important that midlist authors receive support and exposure. The old Amazon seemed like it would support that.
The early Amazon felt like a revolt against the cheesy mass-market booksellers because it was focused on tools for readers and an unlimited selection. It felt more like an small independant bookstore with a large catalog and powerful search and recommendation features. Now it seems that the original focus is lost and I am concerned that Amazon will sacrific editorial integrity and user experience for short term gain.
They have demonstrated this loss several times, first by accepting payment from publishers then by polluting the user experience with inline auction ads and now with electronic equipement noise.
Slashdot Mirror
I am sure there are generous slots underneath it for your fingers just like every large monitor I have ever seen.
I would give good odds that slashdot accepts stories for submission and queues them for display on the front page over the course of the day. They want the 8-10 articles per day to slowy show up during the day to increase readership.
So your submission was probably a duplicate as I am sure just about every reader who came across this submitted it.
Cheers,
Carl C-M
Magazine subscriptions are low because publishers and advertisers want to know that people are actually reading them. Most if not all of the production costs are payed for by the advertisers.
If there were magazines that *paid* people would subscribe just for the check.
Some History:In the late sixties Roy Bates and his family occupied one of the forts and declared himself a soverign nation. This was upheld in British Court and the long bizarre history began. The tiny nation was attacked and captured by a German businessman and friends for several weeks until Roy could put a crew together to retake it by rappeling from helicopters. (There were no known fatalities from these actions.) Here are some fun links to learn more:
The prices that I remember was $12 in 1988. Looking again at the inflation calculator, this tells us that cd's today should cost: $17, and look at that, they do.
So what do we learn from this:
Not recommended. Nicotine does horrible things to your cappilary blood flow and is a great way to help get frostbite, and if you have frostbite, its a good way encourage your extremities to fall off. If you want to use a cigarette has a heat source, I don't recommend smoking it.
This is almost to small an issue to mention, but I wanted to discourage this meme from spreading.
Carl C-M
Former Mountain Oriented First Aid Instructor for the Seattle Mountaineers.
Reading the comments about this show reminded me of the comment that Jobs made in the recently posted Times interview: He said that in Hollywood engineers are considered second class citizens next to the "creative types"(its reversed in Silicon Valley).
This strikes me as evidence to back up that claim.
-carl cm
Remember that your typical G3 uses something like 5 Watts while a comparable Pentium processor uses more like 40. I think is great they can get away with fewer moving parts and I strongly doubt they will have heat related problems in the future.
-ccm
I mean please, the author quoted "sources" 9 times in about that many paragraphs.
I enjoy my press releases as much as the next guy, but lets not pretend that they are news and lets not give this Spooner character too much credit for rewording it.
Can we have some real news now. Thank you Rob, for slashdot discussion forums and the real information they contain.
-Carl C-M
The technology exists to spy on anyone anytime: churning the technological arms race won't help us. Any lock can be broken by a determined attacker. We need to practice social engineering and forge societies where spying is impossible. Look for solutions that lead to fewer secrets rather than more secrets and remove the necessity for complicated technological locks.
For example: Openly install monitoring tools on all police hardware with a 3 month delay before it goes public. So maybe they will be spying on us, but at least we can find out exactly what abuses they are doing. (The three month delay is to give them some time to prosecute their cases.) -ccm
Please! Sure the typical programmer demographic is a large one but there are other populations of users out there who might want to play computer games also. I think its important for programmers to take pride in their work but its more important for the intended audience to enjoy a game than for the programmer to enjoy the game.
-ccm
Of course, Brin would probably argue (and I agree) that the 'in exchange for our privacy' deal is no deal at all. We, as little people, will have no privacy; my question is: how much disclosure can we squeeze out of the government and powerful organizations?
-Carl Coryell-Martin
I like the basic principle of giving ordinary users tools available to more powerful organizations.
However, a packet sniffer is only useful for packets that pass through your computer, so Joe Average with a dial up connection would be able to snoop on members of his family. Jane Hacker with a DSL may be able to sniff on her neighbors, but she won't see packets from arbitrary IP addresses. That would require sniffers on the major hubs.
--Carl Coryell-Martin
- Routinely encrypting all my traffic may not buy me much privacy.
- Traffic analysis can reveal where I have been surfing and who I have been emailing without saying anything about what I was saying. But I imagine that in this hypothetical police state exchanging email with subversives would be a crime. And don't think that anonymous remailers will protect you; remember anon.penet.fi.
- Failing traffic analysis, I am still conducting transactions with websites, who is to say that they won't decide that its financially advantageous to get together and construct detailed profiles of me. Isn't that what ads.doubleclick.com is doing?
- How do I know that my security protocols are really secure? I just downloaded PGP from some random website or installed the standard Red Hat Distribution. How do I know that the implimentation wasn't weakened so that powerful interests can read my mail anyway? Worse I might believe that I can send whatever I want with PGP and end up incriminating myself more completely.
- Rather than pressuring congress to allow me to implement weak and insecure protocols that give me the illusion of privacy, why don't we pressure Congress to open up government. "Okay Congress, you want to monitor our networks for criminal activity, you can, if you make verifiable public records of all activities and results from the monitoring." Better yet, if they want this tool, let them build it, but make it a public domain tool that serves everyone. Why should we trust incompetent government workers to secure our networks?
- Perhaps surveillance of everyone is immanent, but it doesn't have to be clandestine. We have an opportunity to choose how it is implemented.
If given a choice between having all my email read by the NSA without my knowledge or permission or having all my email read by the NSA and receiving notification whenever it happens; I will always pick the later case. Even better is if I recieve notification from anyone when that email is used. Whose to say that Coca-Cola doesn't have nefarious schemes?This bargain could be struck on many levels. If congress wants to monitor all email, I'd be quite happy to go along with this if in exchange the government would publish all gov. documents on the web five years after creation regardless of classification.
-Carl Coryell-Martin
One point that hasn't been discussed is the difference between books and other commodities. I put books in a different category because they have an impact on the intellectual discourse of our culture. I think that it is important that midlist authors receive support and exposure. The old Amazon seemed like it would support that.
The early Amazon felt like a revolt against the cheesy mass-market booksellers because it was focused on tools for readers and an unlimited selection. It felt more like an small independant bookstore with a large catalog and powerful search and recommendation features. Now it seems that the original focus is lost and I am concerned that Amazon will sacrific editorial integrity and user experience for short term gain.
They have demonstrated this loss several times, first by accepting payment from publishers then by polluting the user experience with inline auction ads and now with electronic equipement noise.
Just because I have no use for a given product does not mean that I have no interest.
I could be shopping for someone else. I could be doing research on a product or company.