The barrier to individuals broadcasting news isn't censorship, it's credibility
A few points there are debatable. First off, even so called free world press is censored to portray certain views. A recent example, the dragging of american civilians ambushed in iraq wasn't shown on american network stations. I understand the reasons, but that was censorship.
In places w/ decidedly less freedom of press (Big Red, I am looking in your direction) this is much more of an issue. You can configure many p2p apps to run on selected ports and get around most firewalls. Masquerading as web traffic or even DNS traffic wouldn't be that hard. What would be hard would be for the censorers to try and inspect all the traffic to see what to block. So yeah, there is a good use there.
The credibility point is a real one. I think in addition to PGP signing, some sort of web of trust will be necessary. It is great if I know who the news is coming from but if it is coming from many sources I expect I would quickly lose sight of who is who. (sort of like here on slashdot.) I would want to get a feel if anybody I trust trusts this guy. Follow me? Maybe some sort of guild structure where people join news guilds and I trust their organization to weed out the gross factual inaccuracies.
And of course, I will always remember that everything I read from the internet is always 100% true. Why else would somebody put it there?
The price is only going to drop. Every time I have "bought for the future" in computing terms, i have gotten bitten in the ass (whee!) For example, when I spent more on a better MB that could take a higher class cpu. By the time I had the money/inclination to get the upgrade, there was yet another class of cpu out and the board was no longer sufficient either.
At this point, w/ gigE prices only coming down, he may well be able to buy a 100mb solution now and later, if needed, buy a gigE solution for the same price w/ the same or better quality than getting a gigE rig now.
Though, if you love it so much and it does so much for your organization, why don't you buy the distro every year or so. Continue funding the development you like so much.
I worked for a world known brand that took these very seriously. They took a bunch of Jupiter reports (IIRC, they are basically the same thing). They based the whole IT strategy on a these things. All handed down from the global management team "The new direction". "We will use only best of breed" (MS and cisco) "no linux on the desktop" (surprised me that that was mentioned specifically) and a bunch of other things that basically came directly out of a bunch of these reports.
I think this is similar to people who watch fox news and think it is telling the whole truth. (if you have to proclaim yourself fair and balanced you probably aren't. think honest eddy at the used car dealership is honest?) These reports claim to be objective, but as other posters have pointed out, they tend to follow the money.
something similar to this is in the works now. Cars w/ satellite navigation consoles are being tied into the traffic data so the route that is suggested is suggested to route around congested areas. This is similar to network routing in that capacity is maximized as you send traffic on all available roadways. Anybody who doesn't have the system will still be helped out b/c of the lesser use of the "normal" roadways.
I read about tests of this, i don't think it is wide use, or indeed, i doubt if there is enough penetration of satellite navs to make much of a difference
Who submitted a story and thought they needed to point out that linux was open source. Not only that, but they felt the need to explain that linux could be "copied and modified freely"
An amusing antedote comes to mind: In my consultant days I did some work for McGrawHill Corporate. I started a project in perl and the person who took over (after I moved on) extended it greatly. Mainly a targeted mail log parser. THey absolutely loved it but couldn't accept it until they "bought" perl. Mostly to have somebody to sue if something went wrong. I told them to send larry wall a couple hundred bucks but that didn't go over so well. They ended up finding some company w/ an impressive looking sales pitch they could pay to get support.
please point out the uptime on your site. or are you just bitching....
fanboy sites, as you put it, make the internet great. people spending their own time on something they are interested in and offering it to the community. other than that we basically only have corporate sites. while some are good (like/.) that isn't the only thing I want to see on teh network.
his site looks like they are having a party. he isn't running a 911 dispatch where 5 9's+ uptime is required. you are probably right, he may have things higher on his list than stability. good enough may be just that, good enough
So what, he said NYC and there isn't a Frye's in NYC. The big stores are CompUSA on 5th and 37thish and J and R downtown. J and R is decent. Since you are going to be leaving the country and aren't going to be expecting any support anyway, why not check out one of the electronic stores around the city. Go to 42nd and 5th and work your way downtown. You will need to know what you want and what you want to pay for it. The sales men are good so do your research or you will be talked into something you didn't mean. know how much you want to spend. If you do buy, make sure you test the major functionality at the store. Buy w/ a credit card w/ a good protection policy and you should be good to go.
Alternatively, pick a manufacturer/model and search pricegrabber. I bought two laptops a month or so ago and had each w/i a week of purchase. One was from a company through ebay. If you are staying in a real hotel, do what another poster suggested, call em and tell 'em that you are expecting a package and to hold it for you.
I wouldn't expect to be able to target a mail order w/i 3 days, w/i 2 weeks is a safer bet. If you are not staying in a huge hotel that you feel safe sending a laptop to, you are going to have to buy on teh street. J and R and compUSA are both reputable and will take the machine back if there is a problem. (There is a datavision across from compusa but it seems expensive to me) Either of these reputable stores will charge a premium. Random guy electronics store will be as cheap as you can get online (in fact, if you show them online deals you can usually get them to give it to you for that) and are about as reliable as small computer stores online (maybe moreso since you know where they work) but I wouoldn't count on a return to one of these stores. But you are leaving town, what do you care about return policy? THese stores are basically everywhere. As I said above, 5th ave has a bunch. 14th str has a bunch. Times square, but I would probably check those last just b/c they get so many tourists they are more likely to try to rip you off. YOu can tell them from outside. They have cameras and computers and all manner of electronics in the window.
I like your idea of interchangable cable types. One thing I would add is that the retractable ones need a lock. I have retractable rj11 but it is a contsant pull. I can't put the laptop down when I have it connected b/c it will pull it off of a table. That is the one that stopped working anyway (probably pulled a connection out) so I have gone back to basic rj11 wires.
I am on a road trip. A no shit, give up the house, buy a car, hit the road, no permanent address, couch surfing road trip. W/ the wife.
These are the gadgets I have: 40gb Ipod w/ belkin fm transmitter gps two tablet/laptop combos (acer and toshiba) talking pedometer compass cell phone old palm III AA/AAA battery charger w/ batteries usb light walkie talkies (motorolla) laptop bag (this doesn't count as a gadget) book light (for my wife's note taking in teh dark) digital camera (pentax IV) cdrw/dvd fw drive USB thumb drive 256mb wireless Access point computer speakers emergency flashlight toolbox gizmo projection atomic time sync clock self inflating air bed massaging heated car seat DC/AC converter cat5/telephone cable (way too many cables, not sure why the article had to mention the cables. I have the fancy rolly kind too but my rj11 one was a piece of shit and I ditched it)
No, you are close minded b/c you are butting into a discussion that doesn't involve you and bitching.
If you just want to turn on teh computer and use photoshop, any OS, once installed, will do for you. This is a discussion about OS design decisions. Tradeoffs inherent in differing design philosophies. Not whether it will run photoshop but how well it will support the large paging operations asked of it.
So go back to your brightly colored design chair and let us worry about keeping your computer running.
Does the difference between 50 and 51% really matter? Especially if it only becomes apparent after 10,000 flips. I would say it is close enough to "even" as to not matter. Especially given the situations most people use the coin toss for. "Wendy's or BK?"
I read an interesting article a couple years ago on why open elections will always tend towards a two party system. Too vastly simplify a long article it goes something like this.
You can start w/ as many parties as you wish but for brevities sake we will use three parties: A, B, and C
There is an open election and party A receives the most votes. Now, unless party A is much stronger than the other two, it won't win by a majority but say it gets 40% of the vote. Now parties B and C, in order to garner strength will agree on some like principals and join forces to promote their ideas. The form party BC. Now you are down to 2 parties.
This works better if you start out w/ lots of parties which keep creating alliances to strengthen their agenda but I trust you guys to extrapolate the logic. In this case, now that party BC has a winning share party A will incorporate parties D and J (and potentially Bers who stray from the BC party line) and will try to balance the power. Back and forth, again and again.
I can't speak to whether or not there are really only two parties in other free elections (other nations) but I would bet we see similar trends. This is just a basic strength in numbers proposition.
Well, as a short peer review I followed your link and tried myself: Searching for: Apache - 206 IIS - 78 But of course, IIS means Windows, and apache could be windows, linux, solaris and a host of other Un*x. (Yes and BSDs too) Linux - 851 Windows - 525 Solaris - 315 etc... Windows security has been getting better. The reason these idiot worms spread is b/c idiots run unknown attachements. It would be trivial to write a linux script that would mail a bunch of people. I would guess, by virtue of running linux, the linux user pop would be less likely to run an unknown attachment but that is just b/c we are so 'l33t
I had actually used X10 to buy a host of addressable electric gear. Before the "pop under revolution" they had. I haven't bought from them in years now. It was too bad b/c their site, while not user friendly, did have a bunch of good stuff, in a Radio shack kind of way. (good, if you knew the part number).
Since their ad campaigned destined them for an eternity of fiery suffering I have turned to smarthome.com. They are more expensive but they do have a bunch of great products.
Slashdot Mirror
Can I just say, this is why i love slashdot. I never would have heard this interesting view except through a community like this.
Mod me off topic if you will but posts like the parent are what makes all the FPs, trolls, and patriotic pissing matches worthwhile.
Thanx, Justin, for your post
most engineering schools do this.
New challenge. 10kg worth of padding to deliver an egg to the moon. Now that would be impressive.
The barrier to individuals broadcasting news isn't censorship, it's credibility
A few points there are debatable. First off, even so called free world press is censored to portray certain views. A recent example, the dragging of american civilians ambushed in iraq wasn't shown on american network stations. I understand the reasons, but that was censorship.
In places w/ decidedly less freedom of press (Big Red, I am looking in your direction) this is much more of an issue. You can configure many p2p apps to run on selected ports and get around most firewalls. Masquerading as web traffic or even DNS traffic wouldn't be that hard. What would be hard would be for the censorers to try and inspect all the traffic to see what to block. So yeah, there is a good use there.
The credibility point is a real one. I think in addition to PGP signing, some sort of web of trust will be necessary. It is great if I know who the news is coming from but if it is coming from many sources I expect I would quickly lose sight of who is who. (sort of like here on slashdot.) I would want to get a feel if anybody I trust trusts this guy. Follow me? Maybe some sort of guild structure where people join news guilds and I trust their organization to weed out the gross factual inaccuracies.
And of course, I will always remember that everything I read from the internet is always 100% true. Why else would somebody put it there?
The price is only going to drop. Every time I have "bought for the future" in computing terms, i have gotten bitten in the ass (whee!) For example, when I spent more on a better MB that could take a higher class cpu. By the time I had the money/inclination to get the upgrade, there was yet another class of cpu out and the board was no longer sufficient either.
At this point, w/ gigE prices only coming down, he may well be able to buy a 100mb solution now and later, if needed, buy a gigE solution for the same price w/ the same or better quality than getting a gigE rig now.
Isn't this very similar to basic mathematical proofs? Prove it in the simple cases. verify that it works, prove it in the abstract case and move on.
hehehehe
thanx
Though, if you love it so much and it does so much for your organization, why don't you buy the distro every year or so. Continue funding the development you like so much.
I only wish.
I worked for a world known brand that took these very seriously. They took a bunch of Jupiter reports (IIRC, they are basically the same thing). They based the whole IT strategy on a these things. All handed down from the global management team "The new direction". "We will use only best of breed" (MS and cisco) "no linux on the desktop" (surprised me that that was mentioned specifically) and a bunch of other things that basically came directly out of a bunch of these reports.
I think this is similar to people who watch fox news and think it is telling the whole truth. (if you have to proclaim yourself fair and balanced you probably aren't. think honest eddy at the used car dealership is honest?) These reports claim to be objective, but as other posters have pointed out, they tend to follow the money.
something similar to this is in the works now. Cars w/ satellite navigation consoles are being tied into the traffic data so the route that is suggested is suggested to route around congested areas. This is similar to network routing in that capacity is maximized as you send traffic on all available roadways. Anybody who doesn't have the system will still be helped out b/c of the lesser use of the "normal" roadways.
I read about tests of this, i don't think it is wide use, or indeed, i doubt if there is enough penetration of satellite navs to make much of a difference
Who submitted a story and thought they needed to point out that linux was open source. Not only that, but they felt the need to explain that linux could be "copied and modified freely"
/. right?
this is still
An amusing antedote comes to mind:
In my consultant days I did some work for McGrawHill Corporate. I started a project in perl and the person who took over (after I moved on) extended it greatly. Mainly a targeted mail log parser. THey absolutely loved it but couldn't accept it until they "bought" perl. Mostly to have somebody to sue if something went wrong. I told them to send larry wall a couple hundred bucks but that didn't go over so well. They ended up finding some company w/ an impressive looking sales pitch they could pay to get support.
please point out the uptime on your site. or are you just bitching....
/.) that isn't the only thing I want to see on teh network.
fanboy sites, as you put it, make the internet great. people spending their own time on something they are interested in and offering it to the community. other than that we basically only have corporate sites. while some are good (like
his site looks like they are having a party. he isn't running a 911 dispatch where 5 9's+ uptime is required. you are probably right, he may have things higher on his list than stability. good enough may be just that, good enough
lighten up
Not even close to Fry's
So what, he said NYC and there isn't a Frye's in NYC. The big stores are CompUSA on 5th and 37thish and J and R downtown. J and R is decent. Since you are going to be leaving the country and aren't going to be expecting any support anyway, why not check out one of the electronic stores around the city. Go to 42nd and 5th and work your way downtown. You will need to know what you want and what you want to pay for it. The sales men are good so do your research or you will be talked into something you didn't mean. know how much you want to spend. If you do buy, make sure you test the major functionality at the store. Buy w/ a credit card w/ a good protection policy and you should be good to go.
Alternatively, pick a manufacturer/model and search pricegrabber. I bought two laptops a month or so ago and had each w/i a week of purchase. One was from a company through ebay. If you are staying in a real hotel, do what another poster suggested, call em and tell 'em that you are expecting a package and to hold it for you.
I wouldn't expect to be able to target a mail order w/i 3 days, w/i 2 weeks is a safer bet. If you are not staying in a huge hotel that you feel safe sending a laptop to, you are going to have to buy on teh street. J and R and compUSA are both reputable and will take the machine back if there is a problem. (There is a datavision across from compusa but it seems expensive to me) Either of these reputable stores will charge a premium. Random guy electronics store will be as cheap as you can get online (in fact, if you show them online deals you can usually get them to give it to you for that) and are about as reliable as small computer stores online (maybe moreso since you know where they work) but I wouoldn't count on a return to one of these stores. But you are leaving town, what do you care about return policy? THese stores are basically everywhere. As I said above, 5th ave has a bunch. 14th str has a bunch. Times square, but I would probably check those last just b/c they get so many tourists they are more likely to try to rip you off. YOu can tell them from outside. They have cameras and computers and all manner of electronics in the window.
good luck
I like your idea of interchangable cable types. One thing I would add is that the retractable ones need a lock. I have retractable rj11 but it is a contsant pull. I can't put the laptop down when I have it connected b/c it will pull it off of a table. That is the one that stopped working anyway (probably pulled a connection out) so I have gone back to basic rj11 wires.
except for the amount of space they take. Why bundle 100 ft of coax when I only need 4 feet?
I am on a road trip. A no shit, give up the house, buy a car, hit the road, no permanent address, couch surfing road trip. W/ the wife.
These are the gadgets I have:
40gb Ipod w/ belkin fm transmitter
gps
two tablet/laptop combos (acer and toshiba)
talking pedometer
compass
cell phone
old palm III
AA/AAA battery charger w/ batteries
usb light
walkie talkies (motorolla)
laptop bag (this doesn't count as a gadget)
book light (for my wife's note taking in teh dark)
digital camera (pentax IV)
cdrw/dvd fw drive
USB thumb drive 256mb
wireless Access point
computer speakers
emergency flashlight toolbox gizmo
projection atomic time sync clock
self inflating air bed
massaging heated car seat
DC/AC converter
cat5/telephone cable (way too many cables, not sure why the article had to mention the cables. I have the fancy rolly kind too but my rj11 one was a piece of shit and I ditched it)
and of course the car is pretty technical too.
No, you are close minded b/c you are butting into a discussion that doesn't involve you and bitching.
If you just want to turn on teh computer and use photoshop, any OS, once installed, will do for you. This is a discussion about OS design decisions. Tradeoffs inherent in differing design philosophies. Not whether it will run photoshop but how well it will support the large paging operations asked of it.
So go back to your brightly colored design chair and let us worry about keeping your computer running.
Exist but go to a fund. THis fund could be for any number of things (something should be picked) but I prefer free legal consultation services.
This all being true, I still don't understand why punitive damages should go to the victim. In any case, not just this one.
That is the funniest thing I have read all day. Thank you.
Does the difference between 50 and 51% really matter? Especially if it only becomes apparent after 10,000 flips. I would say it is close enough to "even" as to not matter. Especially given the situations most people use the coin toss for. "Wendy's or BK?"
Hmmmm.... Not dumb enough to get the virus but I would still like to do my part. Should I just hammer at sco.com starting on Feb 1?
kidding!
I read an interesting article a couple years ago on why open elections will always tend towards a two party system. Too vastly simplify a long article it goes something like this.
You can start w/ as many parties as you wish but for brevities sake we will use three parties: A, B, and C
There is an open election and party A receives the most votes. Now, unless party A is much stronger than the other two, it won't win by a majority but say it gets 40% of the vote.
Now parties B and C, in order to garner strength will agree on some like principals and join forces to promote their ideas. The form party BC. Now you are down to 2 parties.
This works better if you start out w/ lots of parties which keep creating alliances to strengthen their agenda but I trust you guys to extrapolate the logic. In this case, now that party BC has a winning share party A will incorporate parties D and J (and potentially Bers who stray from the BC party line) and will try to balance the power. Back and forth, again and again.
I can't speak to whether or not there are really only two parties in other free elections (other nations) but I would bet we see similar trends. This is just a basic strength in numbers proposition.
Well, as a short peer review I followed your link and tried myself:
Searching for:
Apache - 206
IIS - 78
But of course, IIS means Windows, and apache could be windows, linux, solaris and a host of other Un*x. (Yes and BSDs too)
Linux - 851
Windows - 525
Solaris - 315
etc...
Windows security has been getting better. The reason these idiot worms spread is b/c idiots run unknown attachements. It would be trivial to write a linux script that would mail a bunch of people. I would guess, by virtue of running linux, the linux user pop would be less likely to run an unknown attachment but that is just b/c we are so 'l33t
I had actually used X10 to buy a host of addressable electric gear. Before the "pop under revolution" they had. I haven't bought from them in years now. It was too bad b/c their site, while not user friendly, did have a bunch of good stuff, in a Radio shack kind of way. (good, if you knew the part number).
Since their ad campaigned destined them for an eternity of fiery suffering I have turned to smarthome.com. They are more expensive but they do have a bunch of great products.