But hey, we have Aimster... why not say: "outlookster" or "muttster" or "pinester" etc.
Build what basically amounts to list management software into an email plugin. You 'log in' to the network by emailing one of the 'peers', it replies with a list of other peers that it knows about, with maybe a timestamp. You then email your 'request' or search string, they pass it round via email, and the server answering the request emails you the file.
Further refinements are possible etc etc.
While this may be insane in actual practice, in theory it further demonstrates the idiocy of attempts to stop the internet doing what is was originally set up to do, ie, share files.
Actually, I am a professional, trained whinger. I have whinged and whinged and whinged on a few things in my time, with a near 100% success rate, most recently kicking out a government and getting their policies reversed.
First thing that often needs to be done is to point out the problems, and I will probably continue to do this, so get used to it. It is obvious that there are some problems with various things here at/. and if I can, I would like to help change them. Whinging can help, imnsho.
Can anyone explain to me why PEOPLE ALWAYS WHINGE AND WHINGE ABOUT NOT GETTING THEIR STORIES POSTED?
Simple really.
We like/. We like to contribute to the site and it's community. In return, we like to recognized. And nobody likes queue jumpers. And it galls, and demoralizes when our submissions are initially rejected and then later accepted. It seems silly, illogical and it pisses ppl off.
We have multiple desktops to escape micros~1 hegemony. If we win the desktop marketshare war, fine, if not, fine also. I now have choice, something gates & co would like to remove.
I said it before, and I'll prolly say it again, there AIN'T NO TURING TEST
Turing once talked about 'The Imitation Game' however.
And anyway, as the supposed 'test' has the flaw that it can't even tell humans from humans (ie, people pretending to be computers) how can it tell computers from humans.
It's a typical arms race. So, in the grand tradition, here is yet another strategy.
Write software, perhaps similar to a 'honey trap' that runs in your browser, and passes back the results to the 'bludger detector' that make it look like you are reading the ads. This could happen silently as a service, downloading the ad's, but blocking them out on your page, so you don't have to see them. Ho hum... I am sure there are tons of ways to defeat this.
A large proportion of Governments and Judges worldwide has demonstrated that they are not fit to govern/adjudicate in this new age, the so called 'Information Age'.
The laws they are making (by and large) are wrong, and many of the decisions are wrong.
Things must change. We need a new system. New methods of choosing our rulers (or even doing away with them entirely) new methods of deciding right and wrong in cases, to fit our new methods of communication and the new global reach of these communications.
This court is insane, or demonstrably incompetent. But the system that created it is also culpable, and must change or be replaced.
Turing said the following, in his famous paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence":
"I shall replace the question [can machines think] by another..." and goes on to describe the 'Imitation Game', which is so often now mis-labeled 'The Turing Test'.
He then goes on to say, after describing the imitation game;
"We now ask the question, 'What will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game?' Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman?"
The problem these days is that when the Imitation Game is played, the interrogator has sometimes picked humans as machines. So, basically, the Imitation Game is worthless as an indicator of intelligence.
If it can't tell humans from humans then it is useless to try and tell humans from machines.
This is exactly what we need on the 'net for us sysadmins to read. Failure stories. Why? You don't learn much from success stories, because things worked the first time.
IIRC, Boeing equipped all their maintenance staff a few years ago with laptops, camera's and video editing software. The engineers then made training vids for each other, in particular noting the fuckups. ie, they were not edited out, but deliberately left in so ppl could know what went wrong
I have to wonder what motivates the cheaters, but the fact is that they are out there, they use every cheat they can find, and giving them access to the source is the worst possible thing I can imagine.
Dood, they are just extending the conflict out of the game proper into the real world. Look at it as a challenge of wits and skill...
Yeah, I know what you mean... Shakespeare was crap, as the following proves:
I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory;
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Act II. Scene II
The real battels to validate the legitimacy of "Intellectual Propery".
Do not be confused by the feints against Linux, the GPL and Open Source, the real agenda is the extension of Perpetual Copyright and Worldwide Patents, the restrictions on reverse engineering and other forms of innovating and creative thought.
Actually, its possibly the best piece of political satire I have ever seen. It's damn funny, and cuts right to the real issues.
And the main point is: USE ALTERNATIVE ROOTS
Use em, and encourage others to use em (eg, your ISP, or your network admin).
Just as Linux and BSD's freed us from the hegemony of Micros~1, so the alternative roots can do the same to Netsol/Verisign and the ICANN mobsters.
For that matter, I would like to see/. and other sites register on alternative domains, or even offer up some of their excess advertising inventory to publicise them.
Slashdot Mirror
If not our modesty, or one-upmanship
Designers do everything as a flash movie, and you cannot link to the individual 'pages', only the movie.
Kinda destroys the point of the internet.
Does the new Flash fix this in any way?
Build what basically amounts to list management software into an email plugin. You 'log in' to the network by emailing one of the 'peers', it replies with a list of other peers that it knows about, with maybe a timestamp. You then email your 'request' or search string, they pass it round via email, and the server answering the request emails you the file.
Further refinements are possible etc etc.
While this may be insane in actual practice, in theory it further demonstrates the idiocy of attempts to stop the internet doing what is was originally set up to do, ie, share files.
First thing that often needs to be done is to point out the problems, and I will probably continue to do this, so get used to it. It is obvious that there are some problems with various things here at
Simple really.
We like
2001-11-01 06:48:17 Windows XP slow slow slow (articles,news) (rejected)
got me buggered.
f you're upgrading from the previous Red Hat 7.1 and you're using Ximian GNOME, then you might want to erase all Ximian GNOME RPMS
Hrrrm
does redcarpet piss anyone else as much as it pisses me? Getting evolution to work is waaaay harder than it needed to be
We have multiple desktops to escape micros~1 hegemony. If we win the desktop marketshare war, fine, if not, fine also. I now have choice, something gates & co would like to remove.
Turing once talked about 'The Imitation Game' however.
And anyway, as the supposed 'test' has the flaw that it can't even tell humans from humans (ie, people pretending to be computers) how can it tell computers from humans.
Write software, perhaps similar to a 'honey trap' that runs in your browser, and passes back the results to the 'bludger detector' that make it look like you are reading the ads. This could happen silently as a service, downloading the ad's, but blocking them out on your page, so you don't have to see them. Ho hum
The laws they are making (by and large) are wrong, and many of the decisions are wrong.
Things must change. We need a new system. New methods of choosing our rulers (or even doing away with them entirely) new methods of deciding right and wrong in cases, to fit our new methods of communication and the new global reach of these communications.
This court is insane, or demonstrably incompetent. But the system that created it is also culpable, and must change or be replaced.
Turing said the following, in his famous paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence":
"I shall replace the question [can machines think] by another ..." and goes on to describe the 'Imitation Game', which is so often now mis-labeled 'The Turing Test'.
He then goes on to say, after describing the imitation game;
"We now ask the question, 'What will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game?' Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman?"
The problem these days is that when the Imitation Game is played, the interrogator has sometimes picked humans as machines. So, basically, the Imitation Game is worthless as an indicator of intelligence.
If it can't tell humans from humans then it is useless to try and tell humans from machines.
A couple of things that passport does could be done better, but there will always be idiots and ignoramus's.
As the saying goes: "We can make it foolproof, but not bloody-fool proof"
Passport's biggest problems are that it is a single point of failure, and also that it tends to extend Microsoft's monopoly.
I am still waiting for xnsorg to deliver some source code, hopefully addressing both these issues.
All depends on the much debated definition of what is 'Intelligence'.
Certainly, pattern recognition is a sign (symptom?) of intelligence.
So, what are you actually saying? What do you mean when you say 'intelligence' ?
Good work tho, it seems to catch a heap of ppl's.
It's the supertroll site, v funny
I honestly can't tell. Or is is 'more of the same', ie a spoof of these people. Is Chris Morris actually behind it?
The 'Open Letter to Channel 4' is fucking hilarious, it had me pissing myself.
Has anyone ever paid any money whatsoever to Microsoft for using Hotmail?
(clue: no)
Hotmail is free, fuckwit. My point stands. You have paid them nothing, no transaction took place, they are not obligated to you.
Like I said, people who whinge about free services really should go and pay for something that can be contractually bound.
Jesus, you are an ungrateful son of a bitch, aren't you?
HOTMAIL IS FREE!
Go whinge to your ISP about the email address you actually pay for, or shut the hell up.
IIRC, Boeing equipped all their maintenance staff a few years ago with laptops, camera's and video editing software. The engineers then made training vids for each other, in particular noting the fuckups. ie, they were not edited out, but deliberately left in so ppl could know what went wrong
http://www.geopolymer.org/archaeo1a.html
http://www.paradigm.nu/icann/icannstage.html
Dood, they are just extending the conflict out of the game proper into the real world. Look at it as a challenge of wits and skill ...
Have fun!
I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory;
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Act II. Scene II
Do not be confused by the feints against Linux, the GPL and Open Source, the real agenda is the extension of Perpetual Copyright and Worldwide Patents, the restrictions on reverse engineering and other forms of innovating and creative thought.
This is the article to read: http://www.consultingtimes.com/ms_infowar.html
And the main point is: USE ALTERNATIVE ROOTS
Use em, and encourage others to use em (eg, your ISP, or your network admin).
Just as Linux and BSD's freed us from the hegemony of Micros~1, so the alternative roots can do the same to Netsol/Verisign and the ICANN mobsters.
For that matter, I would like to see /. and other sites register on alternative domains, or even offer up some of their excess advertising inventory to publicise them.