I'm surprised that no one's touched on this, so I think I can post without being too redundant...
An old economics axiom about the value of an object: The value of something is not what it cost to produce, but what someone is willing to pay for it. (I wish I could find out who said this).
I'd say it's pretty fair that most of the/. community is at least a little bit capitalistic, we all like to buy new computers don't we?! I'd say that domain squatting is a bad thing, but it's really no different than any real estate speculation that goes on. To whoever put the real estate analogy up in the earlier posts, kudos! Good comparison. Same for the mining claims issue.
I'd have to say that my opinion on squatting is fairly open. If you happen to get a domain name first, it's yours, but. Well, no but...If some of these huge companies who are bitching about squatters would have gotten to the party a little earlier, we wouldn't be having this problem.
A really good way to solve domain name legal issues might just be to let whoever holds the registration do as they please with it. McDonalds can certainly afford to buy McDonalds.com from whomever may have registered it first...you might even consider these domain name squatters to be visionaries. At least in the sense that they were a hell of a lot more forward looking than the companies that try to sue for copyright infringement.
You could start with not publicizing your domain name in conjunction with a security article on Slashdot. You now have your name/address linked to the firewall you use and the domain name on which it is hosted.
I wonder how long it'll take before some script kiddie reads this and decides to take a shot at you. It may have already happened, as your site IS currently down...
I understand that USENET has it's positives, but it's not the actual USENET that I have a problem with, it's the model. The current model requires a great deal of maintenance by relatively few individuals as compared to the/. model of little maintenance from a lot of users. I'm not writing it off because I don't like it, I most sincerely do. I've found it to be an extremely useful tool. The problem is that the moderation is weak and the user base is relatively small. Most people don't even know that USENET exists (which is, I believe, why the proliferation of porn there has been allowed to continue). You're right on the mailing lists for dist comp, though. I'm in one...Hey, all interested in dist comp, check out Lightbulb on Sourceforge.
I'm sorry I have to be the one to say this, but USENET sucks. I've used it to varying degrees of success, and certainly obtained and published my meager knowledge of Linux, but by and large, USENET is spam and porn.
I've recently become interested in distributed computing, and looked on USENET for a dist comp group. I did find ONE, with about a dozen messages in it. About three of those messages were valid. The other 80% was divided equally betwixt spam and porn.
Sites like Slashdot, while not providing the same forum as USENET, (i.e. I cannot just post on/. my inane Linux questions), but/. does provide a publicly moderated forum for discussion. In many ways,/. is better than USENET, one, because it is moderated by the members of/. and therefore not subject to the whim of a single USENET moderator, and two,/. ACTUALLY GETS MODERATED. Many usenet groups I've seen cannot keep up with the garbage that is posted there./. moderators eliminate the Natalie Portman troll posts almost as quickly as they are posted.
Also, with the/. moderation scheme, the moderated messages are not actually removed, they are just lowered to an ignorable level. The burden of the moderation is on the/. community, and I have to say that the/. community has gone above and beyond the call of duty on this one! Good show, give yourselves a pat on the back!
And let's not forget the ability of the/. community to moderate the moderators. I occasionally find a comment moderated down that shouldn't be, and have the priviledge of being able to do something about it.
I've never seen a better public forum than/., so don't make it out to be an evil that it isn't.
Did anyone else go to the site and see the marketing-ese about "non-skip technology"? Who do they think they are trying to fool? What would you need to make an mp3 player skip? A hammer?
Aside from the fact that they dont have a NAP in Russia, and that commercial networks are only going to route information to where it needs to go. The Internet is a big network of switches, not hubs. Your email is not being routed from Orlando, through Moscow, on it's way to Denver.
Now to the really funny stuff. Does anyone have any idea how much money it would cost to monitor everything that comes through the pipe in Moscow alone? More than they have. I really have a hard time believing that the NSA can do it, because it's such a monumental task. I figure, though, if the CIA can sell cocaine to fund itself, than the NSA has probably gotten the heroin end of the deal covered...
The National Archives identified this problem several years ago. Most data archived to CD is going to be useless within 10 years anyway. If it needs to be kept longer, what recourse have we? Yeah, magnetic tape lasts longer, but not that much longer in the big scheme of things. If the Consitution of the United States of America were stored on DLT, we'd have lost it 180 years ago.
There is some promise in storage of data in plastic blocks. I remember reading that IBM had been working on a tech that would use a laser to change the color of individual molecules within a small block of translucent plastic, thus giving one 1's and 0's. I don't happen to know the lifetime of such a technology, but it seems that it would be less susceptible to decay.
Wasn't it about two-tree (yes, tree) weeks ago that I wrote to/. suggesting someone begin an Open Patent Bank? I also suggested it in the last/. article about Amazon one-click. It's nice to know that story ideas are posted on the merit of the idea alone.
Read your post again to yourself. Now consider it from the perspective of an American male. Now realize why we are all going to go to another country to find a wife, you self centered, self important, self righteous human being.
Okay, this is not about bundling, or innovation, or any such tripe. It is about the fact that Microsoft told IBM that unless it dropped OS/2, it would not sell IBM lisenses for Windows 95.Unless IBM stopped pushing OS/2, it would not be allowed to buy Windows 95 from Microsoft. Did you hear me? Do I need to say it again. That is what this case is about.
You've missed my point. Garage engineering is still possible. Remember how Steve Wozniak built an IBM threatening technology? That's what I'm talking about.
I'd like to agree with you there, so I will. Time-Warner-AOL-Other-Entirely-Too-Large companies can merge and partner all they want. How much will being so bloody big matter when some 19 year old kid working in his bedroom comes up with MP3 for video and open sources it? It won't matter a bit, in fact, the stockholders of those companies are going to suffer because such big companies are extremely vulnerable to quick technological shifts.
I'd like to see some stats (prolly won't be available for a couple of years) about how the invention of MP3 has influenced CD sales. It probably hasn't put a big dent in the number, but I'll bet it's killed growth. The RIAA is more pissed off that MP3 is killing a portion of their market, i.e. the dumbasses like myself who buy CD's again because they've lost or scratched one to hell. Well, the RIAA can eat my shorts, and I will dance on their grave when they go bankrupt!
Thanks for the constructive answer to my question. Perhaps you might be so kind as to point out the exact place where I may find the infomation which I seek, and then when I learn to read, I may enlighten myself.
I found that there was no "Linux" link for my CPi either. Quite annoying. The link that I posted above is very useful for the CP series of laptop though, so through its use you should have no probs.
May we have your opinion on Blacklight Power Inc. and Dr. Randall Mills seemingly quackish Universal Theory of Everything? Reference www.blacklightpower.com. It has been in the news the last couple of months, and I am curious to hear a REAL physicist's view on the subject.
No, sorry, once I got the driver config'd correctly, everything was hunky-dory. To tell you the truth, it's been a couple of months since I've had a chance (gotten off my lazy ass that is) to play with it, I can't remember too much about the config or any particular problems I had. I will say that the Redhat installer, well, nevermind, that's another story altogether.
The Dell latitude series works very well with Linux. I don't know if they'll pre-install, but my latitude works great with the Redhat 6.0 installer and GNOME. Plus, the hard drive is 6GB (they do at least 10GB now), so I have enough room to dual boot. Also, I've got 64MB RAM.
I've had wonderful experience with dell laptops and linux. I've had a Latitude CPi and now a CPia and have had no trouble whatsoever with the laptop itself. It sets up fairly easily for X, and the Redhat installer picked just about everything up on it's own. Hell, I think the X video driver that whoever wrote for the Neomagic in the Dell is better than the Windows driver.
Yeah, it is definitely a shame. I didn't catch the fact that she was 60. I still have to say that if I disagreed with her position I would think her jump to be poetically ironic, being a protest against the ban.
Personally, if you want to BASE jump, go ahead, but you should have to put a deposit down to cover the expense of some unlucky soul having to scrape you off the ground.
I read an article in "Outside" (I think) magazine last night that would qualifiy for the Darwin Award. This year a BASE jumper was killed jumping off of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The jumper was killed when her parachute failed to deploy during her 3000' fall. Oddly enough, the jumper was killed during a jump to memorialize another jumper that was killed, not by the jump off of El Capitan, but by drowning in the Merced River trying to flee park rangers.
Why don't we all get together and file for patents on as many software processes as possible and store them in an OPEN patent bank? Put the stuff online, and let anyone who wants to use the stuff, use it.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm surprised that no one's touched on this, so I think I can post without being too redundant...
/. community is at least a little bit capitalistic, we all like to buy new computers don't we?! I'd say that domain squatting is a bad thing, but it's really no different than any real estate speculation that goes on. To whoever put the real estate analogy up in the earlier posts, kudos! Good comparison. Same for the mining claims issue.
An old economics axiom about the value of an object: The value of something is not what it cost to produce, but what someone is willing to pay for it. (I wish I could find out who said this).
I'd say it's pretty fair that most of the
I'd have to say that my opinion on squatting is fairly open. If you happen to get a domain name first, it's yours, but. Well, no but...If some of these huge companies who are bitching about squatters would have gotten to the party a little earlier, we wouldn't be having this problem.
A really good way to solve domain name legal issues might just be to let whoever holds the registration do as they please with it. McDonalds can certainly afford to buy McDonalds.com from whomever may have registered it first...you might even consider these domain name squatters to be visionaries. At least in the sense that they were a hell of a lot more forward looking than the companies that try to sue for copyright infringement.
You could start with not publicizing your domain name in conjunction with a security article on Slashdot. You now have your name/address linked to the firewall you use and the domain name on which it is hosted.
I wonder how long it'll take before some script kiddie reads this and decides to take a shot at you. It may have already happened, as your site IS currently down...
Do any of you who've replied to my original post even remember USENET when it was good? Say, back in 1994? Compared to then, it sucks...
I understand that USENET has it's positives, but it's not the actual USENET that I have a problem with, it's the model. The current model requires a great deal of maintenance by relatively few individuals as compared to the /. model of little maintenance from a lot of users. I'm not writing it off because I don't like it, I most sincerely do. I've found it to be an extremely useful tool. The problem is that the moderation is weak and the user base is relatively small. Most people don't even know that USENET exists (which is, I believe, why the proliferation of porn there has been allowed to continue). You're right on the mailing lists for dist comp, though. I'm in one...Hey, all interested in dist comp, check out Lightbulb on Sourceforge.
I'm sorry I have to be the one to say this, but USENET sucks. I've used it to varying degrees of success, and certainly obtained and published my meager knowledge of Linux, but by and large, USENET is spam and porn.
/. my inane Linux questions), but /. does provide a publicly moderated forum for discussion. In many ways, /. is better than USENET, one, because it is moderated by the members of /. and therefore not subject to the whim of a single USENET moderator, and two, /. ACTUALLY GETS MODERATED. Many usenet groups I've seen cannot keep up with the garbage that is posted there. /. moderators eliminate the Natalie Portman troll posts almost as quickly as they are posted.
/. moderation scheme, the moderated messages are not actually removed, they are just lowered to an ignorable level. The burden of the moderation is on the /. community, and I have to say that the /. community has gone above and beyond the call of duty on this one! Good show, give yourselves a pat on the back!
/. community to moderate the moderators. I occasionally find a comment moderated down that shouldn't be, and have the priviledge of being able to do something about it.
/., so don't make it out to be an evil that it isn't.
I've recently become interested in distributed computing, and looked on USENET for a dist comp group. I did find ONE, with about a dozen messages in it. About three of those messages were valid. The other 80% was divided equally betwixt spam and porn.
Sites like Slashdot, while not providing the same forum as USENET, (i.e. I cannot just post on
Also, with the
And let's not forget the ability of the
I've never seen a better public forum than
Ohhh, that's the funniest Lewenski joke I've heard yet.
I wonder what that would sound like?
Did anyone else go to the site and see the marketing-ese about "non-skip technology"? Who do they think they are trying to fool? What would you need to make an mp3 player skip? A hammer?
Aside from the fact that they dont have a NAP in Russia, and that commercial networks are only going to route information to where it needs to go. The Internet is a big network of switches, not hubs. Your email is not being routed from Orlando, through Moscow, on it's way to Denver.
Now to the really funny stuff. Does anyone have any idea how much money it would cost to monitor everything that comes through the pipe in Moscow alone? More than they have. I really have a hard time believing that the NSA can do it, because it's such a monumental task. I figure, though, if the CIA can sell cocaine to fund itself, than the NSA has probably gotten the heroin end of the deal covered...
The National Archives identified this problem several years ago. Most data archived to CD is going to be useless within 10 years anyway. If it needs to be kept longer, what recourse have we? Yeah, magnetic tape lasts longer, but not that much longer in the big scheme of things. If the Consitution of the United States of America were stored on DLT, we'd have lost it 180 years ago.
There is some promise in storage of data in plastic blocks. I remember reading that IBM had been working on a tech that would use a laser to change the color of individual molecules within a small block of translucent plastic, thus giving one 1's and 0's. I don't happen to know the lifetime of such a technology, but it seems that it would be less susceptible to decay.
Wasn't it about two-tree (yes, tree) weeks ago that I wrote to /. suggesting someone begin an Open Patent Bank? I also suggested it in the last /. article about Amazon one-click. It's nice to know that story ideas are posted on the merit of the idea alone.
Read your post again to yourself. Now consider it from the perspective of an American male. Now realize why we are all going to go to another country to find a wife, you self centered, self important, self righteous human being.
Okay, this is not about bundling, or innovation, or any such tripe. It is about the fact that Microsoft told IBM that unless it dropped OS/2, it would not sell IBM lisenses for Windows 95.Unless IBM stopped pushing OS/2, it would not be allowed to buy Windows 95 from Microsoft. Did you hear me? Do I need to say it again. That is what this case is about.
You've missed my point. Garage engineering is still possible. Remember how Steve Wozniak built an IBM threatening technology? That's what I'm talking about.
I'd like to agree with you there, so I will. Time-Warner-AOL-Other-Entirely-Too-Large companies can merge and partner all they want. How much will being so bloody big matter when some 19 year old kid working in his bedroom comes up with MP3 for video and open sources it? It won't matter a bit, in fact, the stockholders of those companies are going to suffer because such big companies are extremely vulnerable to quick technological shifts.
I'd like to see some stats (prolly won't be available for a couple of years) about how the invention of MP3 has influenced CD sales. It probably hasn't put a big dent in the number, but I'll bet it's killed growth. The RIAA is more pissed off that MP3 is killing a portion of their market, i.e. the dumbasses like myself who buy CD's again because they've lost or scratched one to hell. Well, the RIAA can eat my shorts, and I will dance on their grave when they go bankrupt!
Thanks for the constructive answer to my question. Perhaps you might be so kind as to point out the exact place where I may find the infomation which I seek, and then when I learn to read, I may enlighten myself.
Are there provisions that GeoWorks is allowing for non-profit WAP sites?
I found that there was no "Linux" link for my CPi either. Quite annoying. The link that I posted above is very useful for the CP series of laptop though, so through its use you should have no probs.
Damnit! Beat by half a second.
May we have your opinion on Blacklight Power Inc. and Dr. Randall Mills seemingly quackish Universal Theory of Everything? Reference www.blacklightpower.com. It has been in the news the last couple of months, and I am curious to hear a REAL physicist's view on the subject.
No, sorry, once I got the driver config'd correctly, everything was hunky-dory. To tell you the truth, it's been a couple of months since I've had a chance (gotten off my lazy ass that is) to play with it, I can't remember too much about the config or any particular problems I had. I will say that the Redhat installer, well, nevermind, that's another story altogether.
The Dell latitude series works very well with Linux. I don't know if they'll pre-install, but my latitude works great with the Redhat 6.0 installer and GNOME. Plus, the hard drive is 6GB (they do at least 10GB now), so I have enough room to dual boot. Also, I've got 64MB RAM.
I've had wonderful experience with dell laptops and linux. I've had a Latitude CPi and now a CPia and have had no trouble whatsoever with the laptop itself. It sets up fairly easily for X, and the Redhat installer picked just about everything up on it's own. Hell, I think the X video driver that whoever wrote for the Neomagic in the Dell is better than the Windows driver.
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For you other laptop users:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-la
Yeah, it is definitely a shame. I didn't catch the fact that she was 60. I still have to say that if I disagreed with her position I would think her jump to be poetically ironic, being a protest against the ban.
Personally, if you want to BASE jump, go ahead, but you should have to put a deposit down to cover the expense of some unlucky soul having to scrape you off the ground.
I read an article in "Outside" (I think) magazine last night that would qualifiy for the Darwin Award. This year a BASE jumper was killed jumping off of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The jumper was killed when her parachute failed to deploy during her 3000' fall. Oddly enough, the jumper was killed during a jump to memorialize another jumper that was killed, not by the jump off of El Capitan, but by drowning in the Merced River trying to flee park rangers.
Why don't we all get together and file for patents on as many software processes as possible and store them in an OPEN patent bank? Put the stuff online, and let anyone who wants to use the stuff, use it.