Oh to have mod points and to give them to a person who deserves them. While the bandwidth greedy part of me wants a gigbit hookup to my room, and a pipe the size of something....large (can you tell I'm not an english major?). But the part of me that wants to learn wishs that there were better virtual classrooms, or at the least audio recordings of lectures and scans of all the notes on a intranet. Thats whats needed, not a network to make my p0rn gathering more efficent, but away to review lectures, or see what you missed.
Can that happen?
I know this sounds a bit naïve, but there are some places were I feel
I shouldn't have to see ads. My taxes (as much of a pittance that they are)
pay for post offices among other things. Why should the post office then need
get funding from elsewhere? I would be willing to pay 35 cents for a stamp if
it meant not having to see ads in the post office, just as I would pay more
taxes to make sure there aren't
any ads in schools
Conflict of intrest only happens, I belive, when the diffrence of intrests can or does effect the outcome. Since Timmy is posting the artical, it means that even though he doesn't agree with it, he still thinks that it falls under the "news for nerds" part of/. (Something tells me this isn't "Stuff that matters".) If he, say, didn't post this story because the cluster wasn't sexy enough, then it would be a conflict of intrest.
Why do we need an interstate highway system. Before that there were side roads and routes that could get you anywere, only you couldn't top 30MPH in most places, and there were a lot of bumps and pot holes and the occasinal dirt road? Back in the 50's, who could have imanged the trucking industry being as large as it is. The improved transportation allowed an expansion of the econmy as more things could be transported quickly. I'm not saying highways and broadband are a one to one corliation, but there are some striking simlaritys.
Agreed. It was interesting at first, even though it was off topic in the first place, but at least the first time I saw it was vaguly interesting. But when you place it in every thread, you lose any authoirty you once had. If you want to get your point accross, document your research and make a web page or put it in your jounal.
Wow, there are a whole lot of pissed off mods today. I'm all in favor of moderation, just look at all the -1 posts to see why, but when it gets abused like this, I can only wonder how many truly good posts have been moded down by moderators who think that the mere fact that they don't agree with some one's opinions makes that post a troll. Thank god for metamoding.
What about instead of creating a law that would allow civil suits over defective code, the FTC or the FCC (because technicly we are talking about communication produts, but this seems more like an FTC thang) could intiate recalls over defective software. I'm not sure about the legality of recalls when they do not directly effect the safty of the device (havn't heard about any one hacking a pacemaker), but if the product is seriously defective, coudn't the FTC at least force Microsoft or any other componey, to distribute recall or update notices to registered users?
I see that your under the assumption that the Goverment actualy fully supports PBS. IIRC from their last funding campaign, they get some were in the area of 8-9% of their overall funding from the goverment, the rest from corpret underwriters and viewers like you. And I wound't say that no one watches is, they have Ken Berns to make some of the best documentrys, and lets not forget the best children's programing avalible, plus some of the best commentary as well. If only America had a truely independent public meida alterintive, like the BBC's of England, then we would have a choice in the media, but right now we have Fox with its Chamber of Death, and CNN with its Don't comment on the bad stuff polocy.
the problem about the free apps is that they must be downloaded. If the people getting the computers don't have internet accsess, how will they get the program. I know if their poor they might not be able to afford computer software, but at least with MS they have the oppertunity to get, say a cheep game or some other program and not have to pay for internet accsess.
If any one can produce a secure, stable, OS, or for that matter any product that is head and sholders above the rest, it will do very well, possibly to the point of destroying the rest of the compotition because it is so perfect it makes you want to cry with joy. However, the compotition will not go away if this maigc OS is 10K a pop, or if it can only be run on a 10ghtz machine with a gig of ram and a terrbyte of harddrive space, and some sort of reverse enginered UFO technology. No matter how good a product is, there is usaly some reason for compotion to exist, if only to fill the nitch markets of people with out the 10k and super computer needed.
Haveing 30 odd thousand mac v. windows flame wars might not seem like a great thing to save now (espicly if you were invovled with them), hell, no one might care in 100 years, but a lot of histroy is based on reading the common writings of everyday people. How great is it to be able to read the dirary entries of a Frenchmen durring the middle of the revolution, or to look at the account book of a middle ages merchent. Most of it may seem mundane, but histroy is made up of many mundane momments. Thats why we have grad students, to sift thrugh all the "Me to" posts and "M$ Sux" posts to find the really meaningfull stuff. You must admit, its great to look at the google archives of the birth of Linux or the first mention of AIDS.
Well except for tulips in the 17th century, banks in the 1930's, car manufactures in the 70's. All industries will go through a boom and bust periods, the strong ones survive (like Ford) and the week one dies (when's the last time you heard of a country surviving on tulips?). Internet companies will come and go, the stupid ones will die, the good ones will stay, some people get screwed in the short term, but eventually, when we're all dead, this internet death spiral will be as well known as the Danish Tulip Crisis, quoted by losers in alternative media forums.
I just love the idea of having a little super computer (and not just buying a Mac cube which claims to be a super computer, or a Dreamcast which can't be sold to Iraq because it qualifies as a supercomputer). Making a super computer must qualify as one of the ultimate hacks, a combination of technical skill, imagination, and pure unadulterated tech balls. This seems like one of those projects that I would do if I had the spare 6k needed.
And oh yah, imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Amen, all vaction means for high school students (not you lazy "ohh I'm so board with notthing to do with my month of winter vacation" college student) is more time to write papers.
in their present stage, these chips can carry about 6 lines of text, accoridng to the NYtimes artical, so right now I wound't be to worried about satlights tracking my everymove. But technology does progress, and while I don't see any danger at this present moment, I woudn't want one of theose things in my arm.
According to the artical, the technology needs exactly the right kind of equation (or what ever this technology uses to get information) according to the repersentive quoted in this artical, if you got 98% of the packets, you don't have the file. I supose this means theres a large chance that network conditions can completly mess up a download, say interference on a router somewere in Kalamazoo, or even on local ethernet line. Not sure if this is a big thing or not, but who knows.
Not that we are creating super babies, but in many cases, we are training olypic athletes from birth. If I recall the old Sovit Union held try outs in all the elementry schools and then took the promosing youth to athletic camps and proceded to train the hell out of them. This is most notrotious among women's gymnastics and figure skating, but it can also been seen in swiming. I mean in these sports we have 14 or 15 year olds traing 10 hours a day. We may not be genticly enginering them, but we certenly determen their fate from a suprisingly younge age.
As any math teacher who is asked the question "What the hell do we need with sine waves?" will answer, it doesn't matter what you know, it matters what you do with that. Sure, if we had these implants, we can be walking encycopedias (in fact, we could even spell encycopedia), that that would be just hanky-dory. But applying that information and creating more information will still take human intelligence. Look at it this way, any one can learn C++ Pearl, ect. from a book, you can memorize the commands, the syntax, what ever. But in order to make a great program, a killer app, you need to combine that knowledge with a spark of creativity and inginuity that is distincly human.
That is an interesting point. 2 diffrent trasnslations would make tech support a whole lot more difficult. Translation is not easy, and often requires profisinals to do it correctly, how many of us have seen the horrible translaitons of Anime DVD imports or Kung Fu movies?
I've delt with the Civ3 tech support crew, they have enugh problems dealing with English. While I don;t think that this problem required the services of lawyers, I do see why Ifogrames saw it nessesary to do this.
well, in many cases you are. My sister goes to Drew U, where each student gets a free (read: 5,000 fee built into tuition) laptop. If say she or someone else at Drew wants to upgrade, they'll have to get Windows becuse the programs that the school runs, the propritary softwear distributed by the school for classes and suchnot, are windows. She _cannot_ get a mac (though considering she's an Art Histroy major, don't think she'll be taking the X challange anytime soon). This goes for many other colleges that distribute laptops to their students.
One more person who says they invented the internet (or in this case, the Neo-Internet)
Do I need to say that the only network that can't be hacked is the network isn't connected to anything? All this will be doing is creating a new challenge for a new generation of hackers and crakers. But then again, it will result in some interesting technological develpments, so I can think of things that could be worse wastes of taxes.
Just becuase they are hard to understand doesn't make them bad, remember, unless you are reading it in the orginal germen, your reading an imperfect translation. The Trial was one of the best books I've ever read, it spoke of frustration about being unable to change your future, even when you are given the chance to. And yes I know this is flamebait, but what is the point of Karmna if we can't waste it horribly?
Even though I firmly belive that no e-mail messege from a citizen to a goverment angency hasn't changed anything, at any time, anywere, we can only shoot ourselves in the foot all thoes script kiddys outthere start flaming the DOJ. So lets all no make complete idots of our selves, thats what IRC is for anyways.
On Page 5 of the Doc. form, slashdot.org gets a callout
Finally, Bunner submitted his own declaration. He admitted that he had become aware of DeCSS by "reading and participating in discussions held on a news web site entitled 'slashdot.org.' "
Basicly it's Burnner saying that he had prior knowedlge of DeCSS thanks to us here. So, what is this, the 2en time that/. has been mentioned in court decsions (the first being the scientology thing?). Well, just thought I'd mention it.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh to have mod points and to give them to a person who deserves them. While the bandwidth greedy part of me wants a gigbit hookup to my room, and a pipe the size of something....large (can you tell I'm not an english major?). But the part of me that wants to learn wishs that there were better virtual classrooms, or at the least audio recordings of lectures and scans of all the notes on a intranet. Thats whats needed, not a network to make my p0rn gathering more efficent, but away to review lectures, or see what you missed.
Can that happen?
I know this sounds a bit naïve, but there are some places were I feel
I shouldn't have to see ads. My taxes (as much of a pittance that they are)
pay for post offices among other things. Why should the post office then need
get funding from elsewhere? I would be willing to pay 35 cents for a stamp if
it meant not having to see ads in the post office, just as I would pay more
taxes to make sure there aren't
any ads in schools
Conflict of intrest only happens, I belive, when the diffrence of intrests can or does effect the outcome. Since Timmy is posting the artical, it means that even though he doesn't agree with it, he still thinks that it falls under the "news for nerds" part of /. (Something tells me this isn't "Stuff that matters".) If he, say, didn't post this story because the cluster wasn't sexy enough, then it would be a conflict of intrest.
Why do we need an interstate highway system. Before that there were side roads and routes that could get you anywere, only you couldn't top 30MPH in most places, and there were a lot of bumps and pot holes and the occasinal dirt road? Back in the 50's, who could have imanged the trucking industry being as large as it is. The improved transportation allowed an expansion of the econmy as more things could be transported quickly. I'm not saying highways and broadband are a one to one corliation, but there are some striking simlaritys.
Agreed. It was interesting at first, even though it was off topic in the first place, but at least the first time I saw it was vaguly interesting. But when you place it in every thread, you lose any authoirty you once had. If you want to get your point accross, document your research and make a web page or put it in your jounal.
Wow, there are a whole lot of pissed off mods today. I'm all in favor of moderation, just look at all the -1 posts to see why, but when it gets abused like this, I can only wonder how many truly good posts have been moded down by moderators who think that the mere fact that they don't agree with some one's opinions makes that post a troll. Thank god for metamoding.
What about instead of creating a law that would allow civil suits over defective code, the FTC or the FCC (because technicly we are talking about communication produts, but this seems more like an FTC thang) could intiate recalls over defective software. I'm not sure about the legality of recalls when they do not directly effect the safty of the device (havn't heard about any one hacking a pacemaker), but if the product is seriously defective, coudn't the FTC at least force Microsoft or any other componey, to distribute recall or update notices to registered users?
I see that your under the assumption that the Goverment actualy fully supports PBS. IIRC from their last funding campaign, they get some were in the area of 8-9% of their overall funding from the goverment, the rest from corpret underwriters and viewers like you. And I wound't say that no one watches is, they have Ken Berns to make some of the best documentrys, and lets not forget the best children's programing avalible, plus some of the best commentary as well. If only America had a truely independent public meida alterintive, like the BBC's of England, then we would have a choice in the media, but right now we have Fox with its Chamber of Death, and CNN with its Don't comment on the bad stuff polocy.
the problem about the free apps is that they must be downloaded. If the people getting the computers don't have internet accsess, how will they get the program. I know if their poor they might not be able to afford computer software, but at least with MS they have the oppertunity to get, say a cheep game or some other program and not have to pay for internet accsess.
If any one can produce a secure, stable, OS, or for that matter any product that is head and sholders above the rest, it will do very well, possibly to the point of destroying the rest of the compotition because it is so perfect it makes you want to cry with joy. However, the compotition will not go away if this maigc OS is 10K a pop, or if it can only be run on a 10ghtz machine with a gig of ram and a terrbyte of harddrive space, and some sort of reverse enginered UFO technology. No matter how good a product is, there is usaly some reason for compotion to exist, if only to fill the nitch markets of people with out the 10k and super computer needed.
One defaults on a pap smear when one does not pay for a pap smear
Haveing 30 odd thousand mac v. windows flame wars might not seem like a great thing to save now (espicly if you were invovled with them), hell, no one might care in 100 years, but a lot of histroy is based on reading the common writings of everyday people. How great is it to be able to read the dirary entries of a Frenchmen durring the middle of the revolution, or to look at the account book of a middle ages merchent. Most of it may seem mundane, but histroy is made up of many mundane momments. Thats why we have grad students, to sift thrugh all the "Me to" posts and "M$ Sux" posts to find the really meaningfull stuff. You must admit, its great to look at the google archives of the birth of Linux or the first mention of AIDS.
Well except for tulips in the 17th century, banks in the 1930's, car manufactures in the 70's. All industries will go through a boom and bust periods, the strong ones survive (like Ford) and the week one dies (when's the last time you heard of a country surviving on tulips?). Internet companies will come and go, the stupid ones will die, the good ones will stay, some people get screwed in the short term, but eventually, when we're all dead, this internet death spiral will be as well known as the Danish Tulip Crisis, quoted by losers in alternative media forums.
I just love the idea of having a little super computer (and not just buying a Mac cube which claims to be a super computer, or a Dreamcast which can't be sold to Iraq because it qualifies as a supercomputer). Making a super computer must qualify as one of the ultimate hacks, a combination of technical skill, imagination, and pure unadulterated tech balls. This seems like one of those projects that I would do if I had the spare 6k needed. And oh yah, imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Amen, all vaction means for high school students (not you lazy "ohh I'm so board with notthing to do with my month of winter vacation" college student) is more time to write papers.
in their present stage, these chips can carry about 6 lines of text, accoridng to the NYtimes artical, so right now I wound't be to worried about satlights tracking my everymove. But technology does progress, and while I don't see any danger at this present moment, I woudn't want one of theose things in my arm.
According to the artical, the technology needs exactly the right kind of equation (or what ever this technology uses to get information) according to the repersentive quoted in this artical, if you got 98% of the packets, you don't have the file. I supose this means theres a large chance that network conditions can completly mess up a download, say interference on a router somewere in Kalamazoo, or even on local ethernet line. Not sure if this is a big thing or not, but who knows.
Not that we are creating super babies, but in many cases, we are training olypic athletes from birth. If I recall the old Sovit Union held try outs in all the elementry schools and then took the promosing youth to athletic camps and proceded to train the hell out of them. This is most notrotious among women's gymnastics and figure skating, but it can also been seen in swiming. I mean in these sports we have 14 or 15 year olds traing 10 hours a day. We may not be genticly enginering them, but we certenly determen their fate from a suprisingly younge age.
As any math teacher who is asked the question "What the hell do we need with sine waves?" will answer, it doesn't matter what you know, it matters what you do with that. Sure, if we had these implants, we can be walking encycopedias (in fact, we could even spell encycopedia), that that would be just hanky-dory. But applying that information and creating more information will still take human intelligence. Look at it this way, any one can learn C++ Pearl, ect. from a book, you can memorize the commands, the syntax, what ever. But in order to make a great program, a killer app, you need to combine that knowledge with a spark of creativity and inginuity that is distincly human.
That is an interesting point. 2 diffrent trasnslations would make tech support a whole lot more difficult. Translation is not easy, and often requires profisinals to do it correctly, how many of us have seen the horrible translaitons of Anime DVD imports or Kung Fu movies?
I've delt with the Civ3 tech support crew, they have enugh problems dealing with English. While I don;t think that this problem required the services of lawyers, I do see why Ifogrames saw it nessesary to do this.
well, in many cases you are. My sister goes to Drew U, where each student gets a free (read: 5,000 fee built into tuition) laptop. If say she or someone else at Drew wants to upgrade, they'll have to get Windows becuse the programs that the school runs, the propritary softwear distributed by the school for classes and suchnot, are windows. She _cannot_ get a mac (though considering she's an Art Histroy major, don't think she'll be taking the X challange anytime soon). This goes for many other colleges that distribute laptops to their students.
One more person who says they invented the internet (or in this case, the Neo-Internet)
Do I need to say that the only network that can't be hacked is the network isn't connected to anything? All this will be doing is creating a new challenge for a new generation of hackers and crakers. But then again, it will result in some interesting technological develpments, so I can think of things that could be worse wastes of taxes.
Just becuase they are hard to understand doesn't make them bad, remember, unless you are reading it in the orginal germen, your reading an imperfect translation. The Trial was one of the best books I've ever read, it spoke of frustration about being unable to change your future, even when you are given the chance to. And yes I know this is flamebait, but what is the point of Karmna if we can't waste it horribly?
Even though I firmly belive that no e-mail messege from a citizen to a goverment angency hasn't changed anything, at any time, anywere, we can only shoot ourselves in the foot all thoes script kiddys outthere start flaming the DOJ. So lets all no make complete idots of our selves, thats what IRC is for anyways.
On Page 5 of the Doc. form, slashdot.org gets a callout /. has been mentioned in court decsions (the first being the scientology thing?). Well, just thought I'd mention it.
Finally, Bunner submitted his own declaration. He admitted that he had become aware of DeCSS by "reading and participating in discussions held on a news web site entitled 'slashdot.org.' "
Basicly it's Burnner saying that he had prior knowedlge of DeCSS thanks to us here. So, what is this, the 2en time that