Bad: If all work was done by AI and robots, why would the general population have any claim to the income produced? The robots and AI would be owned by the corporations that built or purchased them. Corporations would get richer and people who own large portions of corporations would become more fabulously wealthy. However, there would be very few jobs left for humans. Those who can't live off their investments (almost everyone) will have to make do with jobs the robots can't or won't do. Prostitution(well, maybe robots can do this too), drug dealing, and burglary come to mind. If middle class jobs were performed by robots society would be destrored.
The average cost varies widely since there's more than one way of freezing you. According to other articles I've seen on the subject, freezing your severed head (which contains your brain, so they can just clone a new body and stick it on with future technology) runs about $20-30k. Freezing your entire body, which takes up much more space and requires much more power, is usually around $150k. A high cost would be building your own cryogenics lab and then constructing a magnificent pyramid to house your body in, usually estimated at about $13.2 billion.
Hey, I was in 251 with him last year. Jason from the post above was in that class too. (Ha Ha, try to guess who I am) He's a pretty good professor, occasionally a bit boring but much better than many I've had, and he knows what he's talking about. Here's his homepage. Mod me up to 4 too, please.
We covered these AIM tricks in a college class last year, but unfortunately they seem to have removed the handout from the webpage. Oh, and yes, I am a karma whore.
The front page post says that this feature was unused until now. Not so: AOL used this technique to stop MSN's instant messenger from connecting to AIM. MS and AOL went back and forth, imitating the handshake and changing it, for quite a while. I don't have the links to information on that right now, but I'll go look it up.
I agree that the moderation of the nazi thread as offtopic is wrong. A few bad moderations from this discussion: 61,74 should be modded down, 17, 22, 44, 45 are offtopic but should be flamebait, 25 is offtopic but should be troll, 54 is 0 troll but should be -1 troll, and 43 is unmodded whereas it should be +5 informative (mod me up! please! i need karma! up up!).
This sort of thing isn't isolated to discussions with no article to read. The problem is a flaw in the moderation system. To make sure all bad posts are moderated and poor moderations can be fixed we need more moderation points. Perhaps allocating 7-10 instead of 5 (with a limit on how many can be applied to a single user to prevent vendettas) would improve the situation.
As the parent post pointed out, there is a need for a "stupid" rating. This should be added. There is also the problem of 2 moderators applying different ratings resulting in a poor description of the post, so 2 ratings should be displayed.
Yes, the -1 layer does seem to be getting worse. We need a new layer for particularly bad posts. This way, those who wish to read the highly entertaining things like the panty thread can see that in -1, while people who post the same screen space wasting neonazi porn 5 times a day can get slapped down to -2.
I do think anonymous posting should be kept, however. There are occasional good posts from AC's, as well as quite a few amusing ones, and the people who post crap can and do get accounts. They have enough free time not to be deterred by having to set up a new hotmail account every week. Above you suggest required registration with registered users being allowed to post anonymously, but still allowing the account to get trashed. This is unworkable for the simple reason that anonymity is lost: slashdot must keep a record of who posted in order to trash the account. If the post, for example, pisses off a corporation whose unethical practices are discussed they could sue the poster and have the court require slashdot to turn over all information about the poster. If they don't have information the poster is safe, but if their email or ip address is turned over they could be in a lot of trouble.
Oh, another thing. Moderators, failed first post attempts should be modded down as redundant, not offtopic or troll.
Finally, I think I should be given an infinite number of moderation points. And no, contrary to rumor I will NOT mod first posts up to +5 Informative. Really. That's not why I want mod points so much, I swear.
btw, please don't mod this down, my karma is precious! I'm a karma whore and i have no shame whatsoever!
Yours and the other replies bring up interesting points. My expectation for an ISP is that they should notify law inforcement immediately, cooperate with them and archive relevant data, and provide some level of feedback to whoever filed the complaint. If AOL had done this the mother wouldn't have named them as a defendant in the lawsuit. In this way they can shut down pedophiles without violating user privacy or causing additional uncertainty and stress for the mother.
Basically, the difference is that Open Source is only required to be open. It can still be commercial, they can still include oppressive EULA's, they can still do anything as long as they make the source available. Free software, by contrast, is actually free.
As for RMS, why don't we do the next slashdot interview with him to ask things like that?
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I can just imagine what all those people who refuse to read the article are going to do with this one, so I think someone should point out the real issue: The plaintiff told AOL about the child pornography, identified the criminal, and provided evidence, yet AOL (which has policies against child pornography) refused to take action. This is a case of a willfully irresponsible ISP, NOT trying to force the ISP to monitor everything that goes on.
A good place to start would be this article. With quantum encryption you can determine whether there's an eavesdropper due to quantum entangled particles. Any eavesdropping will create a detectable effect on the message. There's relevant slashdot articles here and here.
This is just asking for a point by point analysis, so here we go:
1,2. A standard default windows manager/shell or standard interface features to remove the learning curve would help, but since when is forcibly removing all choice supposed to be a good thing? "No one cares what is whose favorite when it comes to the marketplace"? Gee I thought Linux was supposed to win by becoming everyone's favorite, not by being more generic than the competition.
3. First of all, "a company or consortium of companies"? WTF? Apparently someone fails to realize Linux is all about "for the users by the users" and removing control from companies, who are often out of touch with users and usually produce lousy looks and feels. Also, why would we want a standardized look when everyone can have their preferred look and feel?
4. Remove options? Crippleware is supposed to be better than allowing the user to actually use the OS? Oh, and apparently somebody has never used a Mac. Right now I'm typing this on a Mac with a theme installed (nonstandard look and feel) and so many modifications and customizations it's barely recognizable compared to the default. The Mac OS provides a variety of options, and that's still not enough for everyone.
5. "and God help us, it should never crash and dump a user into a shell" As opposed to some operating systems which dump users into the far superior Blue Screen of Death...
If I didn't know better I'd swear the article was one giant troll.
While this post might be a troll, it brings up some valid points. "People" in general are likely to accept division of the PC into appliances, but can you really consider them true PC users now? Think of all the people who only use email, instant messaging, and basic web browsing.
They have no need for a PC, but many others do. The typical slashdot reader uses a PC in ways that could never be duplicated by multiple devices, as do millions of business users. Anyone who does processor intensive work needs a PC-after all, a PC is just an appliance with enough power to handle multiple functions. PCs are also perfect as hubs to link and control other appliances using wireless technologies like Bluetooth. Who wants to fool around with 10 different systems when you can control everything from one device?
In any case, the parts needed to build a PC will be used in other appliances, so even if prices are raised to where they were a few years ago premium manufacturers and do it yourselfers will be able to make PCs.
Don't worry, it won't be a deterrent: according to the article, school officials are looking for another site, and they may set it up in the student center. If you know anyone at MIT they'll tell you the school would never be allowed to close it permanently.
This sort of thing is already done by the US government, but for different reasons. I have a friend who lives near the CIA headquarters, and in some areas (such as the high school parking lot, that was very amusing) cell phones won't work. They also use cell phone jamming as a security measure at many installations and military bases.
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Bad: If all work was done by AI and robots, why would the general population have any claim to the income produced? The robots and AI would be owned by the corporations that built or purchased them. Corporations would get richer and people who own large portions of corporations would become more fabulously wealthy. However, there would be very few jobs left for humans. Those who can't live off their investments (almost everyone) will have to make do with jobs the robots can't or won't do. Prostitution(well, maybe robots can do this too), drug dealing, and burglary come to mind. If middle class jobs were performed by robots society would be destrored.
The average cost varies widely since there's more than one way of freezing you. According to other articles I've seen on the subject, freezing your severed head (which contains your brain, so they can just clone a new body and stick it on with future technology) runs about $20-30k. Freezing your entire body, which takes up much more space and requires much more power, is usually around $150k. A high cost would be building your own cryogenics lab and then constructing a magnificent pyramid to house your body in, usually estimated at about $13.2 billion.
For information on tomcat, check out the tomcat site and an example of a default tomcat page.
Don't forget to take a look at this paper by Hunter Christophersen. Woohoo, I'm replying to my reply to my own post!
Hey, I was in 251 with him last year. Jason from the post above was in that class too. (Ha Ha, try to guess who I am) He's a pretty good professor, occasionally a bit boring but much better than many I've had, and he knows what he's talking about. Here's his homepage. Mod me up to 4 too, please.
1. How it works, and AOL vs. MS
2. We've heard about all of this crap more than once before
3. Relevant FCC deal and more about it here
We covered these AIM tricks in a college class last year, but unfortunately they seem to have removed the handout from the webpage. Oh, and yes, I am a karma whore.
The front page post says that this feature was unused until now. Not so: AOL used this technique to stop MSN's instant messenger from connecting to AIM. MS and AOL went back and forth, imitating the handshake and changing it, for quite a while. I don't have the links to information on that right now, but I'll go look it up.
I agree that the moderation of the nazi thread as offtopic is wrong. A few bad moderations from this discussion: 61,74 should be modded down, 17, 22, 44, 45 are offtopic but should be flamebait, 25 is offtopic but should be troll, 54 is 0 troll but should be -1 troll, and 43 is unmodded whereas it should be +5 informative (mod me up! please! i need karma! up up!).
This sort of thing isn't isolated to discussions with no article to read. The problem is a flaw in the moderation system. To make sure all bad posts are moderated and poor moderations can be fixed we need more moderation points. Perhaps allocating 7-10 instead of 5 (with a limit on how many can be applied to a single user to prevent vendettas) would improve the situation.
As the parent post pointed out, there is a need for a "stupid" rating. This should be added. There is also the problem of 2 moderators applying different ratings resulting in a poor description of the post, so 2 ratings should be displayed.
Yes, the -1 layer does seem to be getting worse. We need a new layer for particularly bad posts. This way, those who wish to read the highly entertaining things like the panty thread can see that in -1, while people who post the same screen space wasting neonazi porn 5 times a day can get slapped down to -2.
I do think anonymous posting should be kept, however. There are occasional good posts from AC's, as well as quite a few amusing ones, and the people who post crap can and do get accounts. They have enough free time not to be deterred by having to set up a new hotmail account every week. Above you suggest required registration with registered users being allowed to post anonymously, but still allowing the account to get trashed. This is unworkable for the simple reason that anonymity is lost: slashdot must keep a record of who posted in order to trash the account. If the post, for example, pisses off a corporation whose unethical practices are discussed they could sue the poster and have the court require slashdot to turn over all information about the poster. If they don't have information the poster is safe, but if their email or ip address is turned over they could be in a lot of trouble.
Oh, another thing. Moderators, failed first post attempts should be modded down as redundant, not offtopic or troll.
Finally, I think I should be given an infinite number of moderation points. And no, contrary to rumor I will NOT mod first posts up to +5 Informative. Really. That's not why I want mod points so much, I swear.
btw, please don't mod this down, my karma is precious! I'm a karma whore and i have no shame whatsoever!
While we're waiting for the article to come back, take a look at this site about p2p, this article with statistics on gnutella and links, and of course this list of p2p clients. There might be some interesting things in this slashdot article. And yes I am a filthy karma whore, and no I have no shame whatsoever.
Yours and the other replies bring up interesting points. My expectation for an ISP is that they should notify law inforcement immediately, cooperate with them and archive relevant data, and provide some level of feedback to whoever filed the complaint. If AOL had done this the mother wouldn't have named them as a defendant in the lawsuit. In this way they can shut down pedophiles without violating user privacy or causing additional uncertainty and stress for the mother.
Basically, the difference is that Open Source is only required to be open. It can still be commercial, they can still include oppressive EULA's, they can still do anything as long as they make the source available. Free software, by contrast, is actually free.
As for RMS, why don't we do the next slashdot interview with him to ask things like that?
This is an insightful post: insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight insight
I can just imagine what all those people who refuse to read the article are going to do with this one, so I think someone should point out the real issue: The plaintiff told AOL about the child pornography, identified the criminal, and provided evidence, yet AOL (which has policies against child pornography) refused to take action. This is a case of a willfully irresponsible ISP, NOT trying to force the ISP to monitor everything that goes on.
A good place to start would be this article. With quantum encryption you can determine whether there's an eavesdropper due to quantum entangled particles. Any eavesdropping will create a detectable effect on the message. There's relevant slashdot articles here and here.
This is just asking for a point by point analysis, so here we go:
1,2. A standard default windows manager/shell or standard interface features to remove the learning curve would help, but since when is forcibly removing all choice supposed to be a good thing? "No one cares what is whose favorite when it comes to the marketplace"? Gee I thought Linux was supposed to win by becoming everyone's favorite, not by being more generic than the competition.
3. First of all, "a company or consortium of companies"? WTF? Apparently someone fails to realize Linux is all about "for the users by the users" and removing control from companies, who are often out of touch with users and usually produce lousy looks and feels. Also, why would we want a standardized look when everyone can have their preferred look and feel?
4. Remove options? Crippleware is supposed to be better than allowing the user to actually use the OS? Oh, and apparently somebody has never used a Mac. Right now I'm typing this on a Mac with a theme installed (nonstandard look and feel) and so many modifications and customizations it's barely recognizable compared to the default. The Mac OS provides a variety of options, and that's still not enough for everyone.
5. "and God help us, it should never crash and dump a user into a shell" As opposed to some operating systems which dump users into the far superior Blue Screen of Death...
If I didn't know better I'd swear the article was one giant troll.
(btw, my user id is higher than yours!)
Mac OS has had anti-aliased fonts since...before EVER. maybe someday you will learn that windows sucks.
While this post might be a troll, it brings up some valid points. "People" in general are likely to accept division of the PC into appliances, but can you really consider them true PC users now? Think of all the people who only use email, instant messaging, and basic web browsing.
They have no need for a PC, but many others do. The typical slashdot reader uses a PC in ways that could never be duplicated by multiple devices, as do millions of business users. Anyone who does processor intensive work needs a PC-after all, a PC is just an appliance with enough power to handle multiple functions. PCs are also perfect as hubs to link and control other appliances using wireless technologies like Bluetooth. Who wants to fool around with 10 different systems when you can control everything from one device?
In any case, the parts needed to build a PC will be used in other appliances, so even if prices are raised to where they were a few years ago premium manufacturers and do it yourselfers will be able to make PCs.
Don't worry, it won't be a deterrent: according to the article, school officials are looking for another site, and they may set it up in the student center. If you know anyone at MIT they'll tell you the school would never be allowed to close it permanently.
This sort of thing is already done by the US government, but for different reasons. I have a friend who lives near the CIA headquarters, and in some areas (such as the high school parking lot, that was very amusing) cell phones won't work. They also use cell phone jamming as a security measure at many installations and military bases.