And here I was thinking that the reason people went out to work in the first place was so that they and their families could eat. Silly me.
Its harder to get a job when you are already so far in the hole that you or your family can't eat, or you can't afford to have a car to drive around looking for a job. That's when it becomes much easier to go hold up a liquor store, which generally ends up being counterproductive.
There are many programs/orgs who give older computers to familes who can not otherwise afford them. I volunteer for one: http://www.witsinc.org/.
2) Is interested in Internet access
Part of the point is to get them interested.
3) Can't afford $20 / month dial-up
Which is $20 more than $0 WiFi.
4) Doesn't smoke 5) Doesn't drink 6) Doesn't use other recreational drugs 8) Owns a car with the stock stereo system in it 9) Spends not more than I do on shoes (around $20 every 3 months) 10) Doesn't buy lottery tickets
No comment:p
7) Doesn't have cable or satellite TV
Believe it or not, everybody can't afford cable.
I also note that this project probably won't raise taxes in any way. It has a far greater chance of taking state funds that would have just gone into a corporate pocket somewhere.
By the way, most economists (even conservative ones) consider education and information to be public goods.
Yes, but unfortunately they often genuinely believe that the best way to increase the effectiveness of these goods is to subject them to the free market.
Why should the vast majority of the population subsidize the small percentage of people who are interested in this stuff? It's not like Internet connectivity is *that* expensive.
This is why government-regulated industries and socialist ideas exist in the first place: Because some people as a group are willing to provide subsidized {access to new technology, farm aid, health care, social security} to those who are not able to afford it, in hopes that their efforts will eventually give economic stability to those being helped.
If you can't afford to eat, then clearly you can't even begin to worry about finding a job. Hence we have welfare. This application of the idea is little different: This "socialist" WiFi allows people access to technology that they would otherwise not have a prayer of seeing...which helps teach them English if they don't speak it, prepares them for the future, and makes them much more employable. This in turn boosts the economy.
They too were unable to see financially more than a few months into the future. I was sorry when they killed the program, though, because at least they provided near-flawless speed and service. In that case customers were also directed towards BellSouth, who have since managed to provide inferior service over the same physical lines.
I'm wondering what specifically about providing quality broadband is so difficult.
Actually it doesn't seem like they're using parallax, though that's what I first thought as well. I think it actually has to do with the fact that all transparent or semi-transparent substances change the phase of light passing through them.
As far as I can tell, the three images are taken slightly out of focus from each other. One is in focus, and the other two are positively and negatively defocused.
You then use fourier analysis to take the difference in phase of the images viewed from the three lenses and produce a "cleaned up" image where as much of the stuff that is shifting the light frequency is removed.
That's not necessarily true. There is no requirement that the information must come from your own personal expertise.
If you see a stub and have the time to donate, you can add a summary using information gathered from another source. The information is already there--the point of the encyclopedia is to put it in a place and format where it is easily accessible.
I disagree with your analogy, because you are implying that by paying less than I currently am for an album, I'm getting something for free, and somebody else is getting shafted. I don't think that's true. It shouldn't cost 90% of my $17 to edit the tracks, produce the album art, make the product, and advertise it. That's an incredible profit margin.
That system was created before the technology to do all of that cheaply became commonplace. Excellent software exists to record, edit, and mix tracks, and the hardware needed to do so well doesn't cost that much more than a high-end audio card. There are plenty of very talented artists and graphics designers who would jump at the chance to do cover art. The cost of the physical media and case is marginal. The last hurdle is advertising and promiting the album, but the internet provides an incredible medium for this. All we need is apropriate demand, which the record companies are doing their best to stifle.
That is why I don't feel that paying a little less for a CD (and still giving the artists more than they get now) is a bad thing.
Phew, so the artists aren't really starving, but we still can't all go back to "borrowing" music from our friends instead of each purchasing our own copy.
I'll stop doing that when I feel the price for an album has settled to a more reasonable price point.
Under the guise of appreciating my sysadmin, I emailed him this morning to notify him that our Exchange server had crashed again.
Fortunately, he's taken his own appreciation to heart and is on vacation until the 9th of August. I guess hearing back from my new Nigerian friend will have to wait a few weeks!
The more wire you use, the greater the signal loss. Good (low loss) cable can also be amazingly expensive, especially in Spain where it is likely not made locally.
Over short distances it doesn't really matter, but when you start having to run 75 or 100m of cable then you cut into your effective wifi range significantly, and it gets expensive.
You know the Cigarette Man gets off on the kinky stuff. "Take it off...slowly...now tell me how weak the Flouride has made your will to resist. Tell me! Oh yea....that hits the spot."
They probably could be. I'm sure 99% of systems on the 'net could be NATed and not even notice. But let's pretend that we had enough addresses to make your PDA or phone routable. Wouldn't it be cool to be run a webserver on your phone? Or that you could access your PDA's calendar (left on your desk, of course) from work via ssh or IP?
I notice in the article that the Feds et al. were notified of the sendmail security flaw before the official release. Um. Not that I have anything against the FBI perusing my pr0n collection (Leanna Hart -- Locker Room.avi is quite good if y'all are listening), but this scares the fuck out of me.
Sachs, speaking at the conference here, which was put on by The SANS Institute, pointed to last week's handling of the critical vulnerability in the Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent package as a prime example of how such back-channel communication between vendors, researchers and the government can help protect end users. Researchers at Internet Security Systems Inc., in Atlanta, discovered the vulnerability in mid-February and immediately notified officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security.
The government quietly spread the word among federal agencies and, along with ISS, began contacting the affected vendors. After the vendors developed patches, the fixes were deployed quickly on critical government, military and private-sector machines before the official announcement of the vulnerability.
You are right in that most colleges are assigned more address space than they use. My school of 1600 has a handful of class C nets, and maybe 30 systems that actually need to be routable.
I disagree that forcing them to squeeze into less space is going to buy much of an extension to ipv4, however. In fact I think it's the wrong idea entirely. Any system where saving address space is such a high priority needs to be changed, especially since an alternative already exists in ipv6.
Even forcing all the schools to use a Class C network would buy only a few hundred million addresses, which is a drop in the pond at the rate that the net is growing worldwide, what with phones, PDAs, and toasters needing their own network connections these days.
As a resident, let me tell you a few secrets about South Florida. The bikini-clad females range from about West Palm Beach and northwards, and Ft Lauderdale and southwards. Boca Raton, which fortunately is right inbetween these two fine locations, has only geriatrics and fat, white, snowbirds who migrate seasonally to escape the colder winter of New York.
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Alright, I will grant you that reading every/. story (or at least the summaries and a brief look at the URL like everyone else does) is certainly possible for the editors.
The thing about an automated system is that there is still a human to check the output...the system could just find a few uncommon words in the story (example: 'IETF') and then just use the existing code search function to display the summary of the best (or most recent) hits. The editor just glances at them and should be able to tell in seconds if he's posting a dupe or not (humans are good like that). If it catches 50% that's still a good improvement with little effort, and there is plenty of room for improvement (bayesian filters?) Just a thought. That's what the comment system is here for, right
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I'm sure they *do* read each of their own postings, but it is extremely difficult to read every story/article posted on Slashdot, and even then the sheer volume would cause people to forget and post dupes anyway. Why not just code a simple hook in Slashcode that automatically searches for fairly recent articles containing the same URLs, or submitter name, or just scans for repeated words that don't show up all the time in normal language. It would run and show matches (if any) after *anyone* puts a story in the queue. I doubt it would miss many obvious dupes, of which we have many at present.
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>Are our immune systems the only reason any animals survived?
Insects, like dinosaurs and humans, are also animals.
And here I was thinking that the reason people went out to work in the first place was so that they and their families could eat. Silly me.
Its harder to get a job when you are already so far in the hole that you or your family can't eat, or you can't afford to have a car to drive around looking for a job. That's when it becomes much easier to go hold up a liquor store, which generally ends up being counterproductive.
1) Has a computer
:p
There are many programs/orgs who give older computers to familes who can not otherwise afford them. I volunteer for one: http://www.witsinc.org/.
2) Is interested in Internet access
Part of the point is to get them interested.
3) Can't afford $20 / month dial-up
Which is $20 more than $0 WiFi.
4) Doesn't smoke
5) Doesn't drink
6) Doesn't use other recreational drugs
8) Owns a car with the stock stereo system in it
9) Spends not more than I do on shoes (around $20 every 3 months)
10) Doesn't buy lottery tickets
No comment
7) Doesn't have cable or satellite TV
Believe it or not, everybody can't afford cable.
I also note that this project probably won't raise taxes in any way. It has a far greater chance of taking state funds that would have just gone into a corporate pocket somewhere.
By the way, most economists (even conservative ones) consider education and information to be public goods.
Yes, but unfortunately they often genuinely believe that the best way to increase the effectiveness of these goods is to subject them to the free market.
Why should the vast majority of the population subsidize the small percentage of people who are interested in this stuff? It's not like Internet connectivity is *that* expensive.
This is why government-regulated industries and socialist ideas exist in the first place: Because some people as a group are willing to provide subsidized {access to new technology, farm aid, health care, social security} to those who are not able to afford it, in hopes that their efforts will eventually give economic stability to those being helped.
If you can't afford to eat, then clearly you can't even begin to worry about finding a job. Hence we have welfare. This application of the idea is little different: This "socialist" WiFi allows people access to technology that they would otherwise not have a prayer of seeing...which helps teach them English if they don't speak it, prepares them for the future, and makes them much more employable. This in turn boosts the economy.
Actually the current article isn't about the breakup, it's specifically about AOL dumping their broadband service.
They too were unable to see financially more than a few months into the future. I was sorry when they killed the program, though, because at least they provided near-flawless speed and service. In that case customers were also directed towards BellSouth, who have since managed to provide inferior service over the same physical lines.
I'm wondering what specifically about providing quality broadband is so difficult.
Actually it doesn't seem like they're using parallax, though that's what I first thought as well. I think it actually has to do with the fact that all transparent or semi-transparent substances change the phase of light passing through them.
As far as I can tell, the three images are taken slightly out of focus from each other. One is in focus, and the other two are positively and negatively defocused.
You then use fourier analysis to take the difference in phase of the images viewed from the three lenses and produce a "cleaned up" image where as much of the stuff that is shifting the light frequency is removed.
That's not necessarily true. There is no requirement that the information must come from your own personal expertise.
If you see a stub and have the time to donate, you can add a summary using information gathered from another source. The information is already there--the point of the encyclopedia is to put it in a place and format where it is easily accessible.
major project to understand animals' most distinguishing trait: how they move without falling over.
And I always thought it was the fact that they demonstrated life. Boy have I been misled!
I disagree with your analogy, because you are implying that by paying less than I currently am for an album, I'm getting something for free, and somebody else is getting shafted. I don't think that's true. It shouldn't cost 90% of my $17 to edit the tracks, produce the album art, make the product, and advertise it. That's an incredible profit margin.
That system was created before the technology to do all of that cheaply became commonplace. Excellent software exists to record, edit, and mix tracks, and the hardware needed to do so well doesn't cost that much more than a high-end audio card. There are plenty of very talented artists and graphics designers who would jump at the chance to do cover art. The cost of the physical media and case is marginal. The last hurdle is advertising and promiting the album, but the internet provides an incredible medium for this. All we need is apropriate demand, which the record companies are doing their best to stifle.
That is why I don't feel that paying a little less for a CD (and still giving the artists more than they get now) is a bad thing.
Phew, so the artists aren't really starving, but we still can't all go back to "borrowing" music from our friends instead of each purchasing our own copy.
I'll stop doing that when I feel the price for an album has settled to a more reasonable price point.
Under the guise of appreciating my sysadmin, I emailed him this morning to notify him that our Exchange server had crashed again.
Fortunately, he's taken his own appreciation to heart and is on vacation until the 9th of August. I guess hearing back from my new Nigerian friend will have to wait a few weeks!
God bless you!!
The more wire you use, the greater the signal loss. Good (low loss) cable can also be amazingly expensive, especially in Spain where it is likely not made locally.
Over short distances it doesn't really matter, but when you start having to run 75 or 100m of cable then you cut into your effective wifi range significantly, and it gets expensive.
Plus this is cooler. Pun intended.
Haha ok I apologize. Sorry. I just assumed they would provide one for releases.
I suppose it would be possible to get a checksum from a trusted friend, but in that case he could probably get me the file too.
Go ahead and demonstrate for me how you can generate an arbitrary file with the same MD5 checksum as the Mozilla tarball.
Still waiting.
No?
$150? Man you got worked. Next time tell her you're socially conscious and wouldn't dare infringing on her right to pay her own meal.
You know the Cigarette Man gets off on the kinky stuff. "Take it off...slowly...now tell me how weak the Flouride has made your will to resist. Tell me! Oh yea....that hits the spot."
They probably could be. I'm sure 99% of systems on the 'net could be NATed and not even notice. But let's pretend that we had enough addresses to make your PDA or phone routable. Wouldn't it be cool to be run a webserver on your phone? Or that you could access your PDA's calendar (left on your desk, of course) from work via ssh or IP?
I notice in the article that the Feds et al. were notified of the sendmail security flaw before the official release. Um. Not that I have anything against the FBI perusing my pr0n collection (Leanna Hart -- Locker Room.avi is quite good if y'all are listening), but this scares the fuck out of me.
Sachs, speaking at the conference here, which was put on by The SANS Institute, pointed to last week's handling of the critical vulnerability in the Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent package as a prime example of how such back-channel communication between vendors, researchers and the government can help protect end users. Researchers at Internet Security Systems Inc., in Atlanta, discovered the vulnerability in mid-February and immediately notified officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security.
The government quietly spread the word among federal agencies and, along with ISS, began contacting the affected vendors. After the vendors developed patches, the fixes were deployed quickly on critical government, military and private-sector machines before the official announcement of the vulnerability.
You are right in that most colleges are assigned more address space than they use. My school of 1600 has a handful of class C nets, and maybe 30 systems that actually need to be routable.
I disagree that forcing them to squeeze into less space is going to buy much of an extension to ipv4, however. In fact I think it's the wrong idea entirely. Any system where saving address space is such a high priority needs to be changed, especially since an alternative already exists in ipv6.
Even forcing all the schools to use a Class C network would buy only a few hundred million addresses, which is a drop in the pond at the rate that the net is growing worldwide, what with phones, PDAs, and toasters needing their own network connections these days.
As a resident, let me tell you a few secrets about South Florida. The bikini-clad females range from about West Palm Beach and northwards, and Ft Lauderdale and southwards. Boca Raton, which fortunately is right inbetween these two fine locations, has only geriatrics and fat, white, snowbirds who migrate seasonally to escape the colder winter of New York.
Alright, I will grant you that reading every /. story (or at least the summaries and a brief look at the URL like everyone else does) is certainly possible for the editors.
The thing about an automated system is that there is still a human to check the output...the system could just find a few uncommon words in the story (example: 'IETF') and then just use the existing code search function to display the summary of the best (or most recent) hits. The editor just glances at them and should be able to tell in seconds if he's posting a dupe or not (humans are good like that). If it catches 50% that's still a good improvement with little effort, and there is plenty of room for improvement (bayesian filters?) Just a thought. That's what the comment system is here for, right
I'm sure they *do* read each of their own postings, but it is extremely difficult to read every story/article posted on Slashdot, and even then the sheer volume would cause people to forget and post dupes anyway. Why not just code a simple hook in Slashcode that automatically searches for fairly recent articles containing the same URLs, or submitter name, or just scans for repeated words that don't show up all the time in normal language. It would run and show matches (if any) after *anyone* puts a story in the queue. I doubt it would miss many obvious dupes, of which we have many at present.
I shed a tear for you.