I read somewhere a trick to reduce the load on your Apache: Set the caducity (word? I mean the time after it is no longer valid) to a date in the future (say after 1 month) for constant images. Thus, people will cache (locally o proxily) the images and they won't request them from your browser, and images are a lot of bytes per file.
Of course, this is for constant images (formatting pixels, topics,...) not for banner ads, counters and doubleclick bigbrothers. __
One difference between gene and code virusmakers is that it's easier to protect yourself against your own computer viruses than against medical ones.
Though, I just had the idea of targetting the virus aginst anybody who doesn't share some particular genetic trait of mine. E.g.: against males or females or younger people or people on a certain diet,... (shiver) __
[...] Who's really responsible for genetically-engineered virus? Conventional wisdom would blame one of these groups:
1. The virus author 2. Clueless victims 3. Microsoft 4. Public health systems
[...]
these are all wrong.
1. It takes one mad scientist to create a virus, there are 6,000,000,000 people on the planet. A policy of trying to dissuade anyone from engineering a virus is unlikely to be successful.
2. You can't really expect everybody to become a medical expert, they're unaware of the dangers until they've been hit. Also, not all viruses propagate through people stupidity.
3. Microsoft is only partly to blame. Their main crime here is encouraging user ignorance (you get your medical information form Encarta?).
4. Public health systems do what they can, but there will always be a trade-off between how much power the patient has and how much damage they can cause through carelessness. Also, goverments won't pay for the extra care unless they know it's necessary, ie illnesses will only be cured after they're extended.
[...]
Suppose the FBI manages to catch and prosecute almost every mad scientist who puts together a virus. A strong chance of getting caught will discourage legions of mostly harmless experimenters from trying out new viruses. This will certainly cut down on the number of weaknesses explored. Patient carelessness will steadily grow, security measures will become half hearted and forgotten, meanwhile reliance on body health will increase, healthy habits will be ignored. However, someone sometime is going to put together a truly effective, malicious virus. Even AIDS was not deliberately malicious, and furthermore only relied on a single propogation exploit. Without a constant flow of new viruses a dedicated team will be able to exploit multiple unguarded vulnerabilities.
[...]
Trouble is, this policy has left her child sickly and pitifully devoid of natural defences.
[...]
If you want your children to grow up healthy and strong they must be exposed to viruses. Instead of clamping down on virus developers, we should reward them. Encourage a legalised virus industry. Everybody periodically gets injected which would occasionally pop into existence with symptoms along the lines of:
HI, YOUR LEFT KIDNEY HAS CAUGHT A VIRUS FROM VIRAL INFECTIONS CORPORATION A CURE FOR THIS VIRUS CAN BE PURCHASED FROM WWW.VIRALINFECTIONS.COM AT $2 PER PERSON, YOUR ID FOR THIS MACHINE IS 239884623. THANK YOU FOR GETTING CAUGHT. WE'RE OUT TO HELP YOU (tm)
[...]
It's worth reflecting that the AIDS virus achieved far more in protecting society from careless sex, junkies and Third World people than the FBI could possibly hope to achieve. So a would-be author gets blamed for "billions of dollars" worth of damage, and gets a longer jail sentence than the average rapist. There is no way of directly calculating how much more money would have been lost if AIDS had arrived on the scene before smallpox.
but the entire POINT of the post i'm complaining about was to complain about moderators not thinking and applying "offtopic" to a post that should have been either "troll", "overrated" or not moderated at all.. and the post itself gets hit by a moderator who doesn't think and applies "insightful" where it should have been either "interesting", "underrated" or not moderated at all..
So the post I'm responding to should be marked as Funny, isn't it? but it is +3 insightful. Or am I the only one that finds self-reference funny? What about the moderation of this very post? __
Depending on how active the development is the code may be found in a day, or a year or even more. No-one knows as this has never been done before.
How do you know? Maybe it's part of Microsoft's policy to introduce such an innocent backdoor with every program. And maybe some open source superhacker is grinning to himself knowing that nobody noticed his supercleverly-disguised harmless backdoor in the Linux kernel.
Even if we didn't find it, it doesn't mean it isn't there:). __
Clifford Stoll's "Silicon Snake Oil" and "Heretic"
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Laptops In Education
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Clifford Stoll, the hacker and astronomer that wrote "The Cuckoo's Nest" on his adventures chasing crackers, also wrote "Silicon Snake Oil" (1996) and "High Tech Heretic" (1999) on this very subject of "who needs computers". He makes interesting points, that probably you won't share.
(The links are to Amazon, if that's not kosher to you, find better links, I couldn't.)
(To non-+1ers: you can win karma by linking to that Mexican project to bring Linux into schools. You are welcome.) __
JenniCam is newsworthy because, as Salon (?) said she is the first cyberstar. See, whatever star you can think of, Ronaldo, Pamela, Clinton, Gates, Torvalds and Tux (not that good example), the Pope, they are popular in the net and outside of the net. Their fame was enhanced by the net, but Jenni was created by the Internet. It showed that you could be a mere student and get worldwide famous, a dedicate followership, even alt.fans.jennicam and only by some pieces of networked hardware.
It couldn't happen before the net.
Besides, it's the only webcam available as a Slashbox. (What about some statistics about Slashboxes people choose?)
I gather that Germany ban everything scientologic, because of some law against organizations aiming at world domination (Linux?:) ). Then, would (could?) the German government ban the film to block revenues to Travolta, Hubbard and other Scientologists? __
if the games contained a real economic system which was open to player to player and player to NPC sales Well, you could have an online game where you could be a hacker that goes every day to work and, every now and then, you would trance to a higher plane and do some things that, according to the will of some superior (and whimsy) beings ("moderators" would be a good name), would give you good karma. To spice up the game, there could be some trolls that would try to ruin your day. After that, you would go back to your normal state and see how your virtual economy shares fall free in the market (let's call it Nasdaqh-Ur-Nyse). Then you would put your character to sleep. Next session, you would repeat.
My point, when a game is too much like real life, you always have real life, that is cheaper. __
Consistency. A problem (or is it a feature?) with OS/2 is that you can have PM apps, WPS apps, DOS apps, WinOS/2 apps, VIO (textmode) apps, Java AWT apps, Java Swing apps, X apps. Very useful but each with a different UI.
Being CORBA based (SOM was an early CORBA) Umm. Since DSOM is distributed SOM (ergo, distributed CORBA), would it be very difficult to interact WPS and Gnome through Corba? __
Thanks, no, I don't want my secret identity published in Slashdot, it's full of scary people (like myself:) ).
Yes, it's my creation:) . The problem is that the only Cockney I have is from the Internet Oracle postings, so I gather that th->f and "quid (singular!)" are Cockney enough, but I am not sure about "'undred". Can somebody confirm?
Why should the strength of a spell be linked to how well you can sweep the mouse in a circle? Well, if you cannot spell, you could use some spellchecking software. __
Look at the man in white in the photos. He is Q from the 007 series. In "The World is not Enough", he retired. And this is what he's doing with his engineering ability! __
They often release more than one fixpack a year That is, if you have OS/2 in English, other languages have to pray some big customer will request a fix. __
I have seen nobody mentioning the presence or not of trade unions in companies. Maybe in the US, it's different, but in Europe, it would be suspectful if a company has no unions. But I know that IT is different in that aspect. Unions are stronger in industry than services. __
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I read somewhere a trick to reduce the load on your Apache:
Set the caducity (word? I mean the time after it is no longer valid) to a date in the future (say after 1 month) for constant images.
Thus, people will cache (locally o proxily) the images and they won't request them from your browser, and images are a lot of bytes per file.
Of course, this is for constant images (formatting pixels, topics,...) not for banner ads, counters and doubleclick bigbrothers.
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It would be nice to hear a response from SourceForge? Have they been contacted (for example by the editor)?
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Watch me wonder about karma calculation errors in the parent post in the moderation paradiscussion.
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One difference between gene and code virusmakers is that it's easier to protect yourself against your own computer viruses than against medical ones.
Though, I just had the idea of targetting the virus aginst anybody who doesn't share some particular genetic trait of mine. E.g.: against males or females or younger people or people on a certain diet,... (shiver)
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[...]
Who's really responsible for genetically-engineered virus? Conventional wisdom would blame one of these groups:
1. The virus author
2. Clueless victims
3. Microsoft
4. Public health systems
[...]
these are all wrong.
1. It takes one mad scientist to create a virus, there are 6,000,000,000 people on the planet. A policy of trying to dissuade anyone from engineering a virus is unlikely to be successful.
2. You can't really expect everybody to become a medical expert, they're unaware of the dangers until they've been hit. Also, not all viruses propagate through people stupidity.
3. Microsoft is only partly to blame. Their main crime here is encouraging user ignorance (you get your medical information form Encarta?).
4. Public health systems do what they can, but there will always be a trade-off between how much power the patient has and how much damage they can cause through carelessness. Also, goverments won't pay for the extra care unless they know it's necessary, ie illnesses will only be cured after they're extended.
[...]
Suppose the FBI manages to catch and prosecute almost every mad scientist who puts together a virus. A strong chance of getting caught will discourage legions of mostly harmless experimenters from trying out new viruses. This will certainly cut down on the number of weaknesses explored. Patient carelessness will steadily grow, security measures will become half hearted and forgotten, meanwhile reliance on body health will increase, healthy habits will be ignored. However, someone sometime is going to put together a truly effective, malicious virus. Even AIDS was not deliberately malicious, and furthermore only relied on a single propogation exploit. Without a constant flow of new viruses a dedicated team will be able to exploit multiple unguarded vulnerabilities.
[...]
Trouble is, this policy has left her child sickly and pitifully devoid of natural defences.
[...]
If you want your children to grow up healthy and strong they must be exposed to viruses. Instead of clamping down on virus developers, we should reward them. Encourage a legalised virus industry. Everybody periodically gets injected which would occasionally pop into existence with symptoms along the lines of:
HI, YOUR LEFT KIDNEY HAS CAUGHT A VIRUS FROM VIRAL INFECTIONS CORPORATION A CURE FOR THIS VIRUS CAN BE PURCHASED FROM WWW.VIRALINFECTIONS.COM AT $2 PER PERSON, YOUR ID FOR THIS MACHINE IS 239884623. THANK YOU FOR GETTING CAUGHT. WE'RE OUT TO HELP YOU (tm)
[...]
It's worth reflecting that the AIDS virus achieved far more in protecting society from careless sex, junkies and Third World people than the FBI could possibly hope to achieve. So a would-be author gets blamed for "billions of dollars" worth of damage, and gets a longer jail sentence than the average rapist. There is no way of directly calculating how much more money would have been lost if AIDS had arrived on the scene before smallpox.
[...]
Isn't cut 'n' paste great?
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This may be naive, but I gather that military research (atomic bombs, I suppose) is carried by the Department of Energy instead of Defense.
Why? Is it an accounting trick to say "We reduced our military expenses"?
I suppose that the FDA is researching "methanol engines" just to balance. All in all, methanol is sort of a drug.
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So the post I'm responding to should be marked as Funny, isn't it? but it is +3 insightful. Or am I the only one that finds self-reference funny?
What about the moderation of this very post?
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"Information wants to be free" and all that.
What's your view on the anticensorship protocol Freenet?
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Depending on how active the development is the code may be found in a day, or a year or even more. No-one knows as this has never been done before.
:) .
How do you know?
Maybe it's part of Microsoft's policy to introduce such an innocent backdoor with every program. And maybe some open source superhacker is grinning to himself knowing that nobody noticed his supercleverly-disguised harmless backdoor in the Linux kernel.
Even if we didn't find it, it doesn't mean it isn't there
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And you browse Playboy.com with Lynx, sure.
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Clifford Stoll, the hacker and astronomer that wrote "The Cuckoo's Nest" on his adventures chasing crackers, also wrote "Silicon Snake Oil" (1996) and "High Tech Heretic" (1999) on this very subject of "who needs computers". He makes interesting points, that probably you won't share.
(The links are to Amazon, if that's not kosher to you, find better links, I couldn't.)
(To non-+1ers: you can win karma by linking to that Mexican project to bring Linux into schools. You are welcome.)
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JenniCam is newsworthy because, as Salon (?) said she is the first cyberstar. See, whatever star you can think of, Ronaldo, Pamela, Clinton, Gates, Torvalds and Tux (not that good example), the Pope, they are popular in the net and outside of the net. Their fame was enhanced by the net, but Jenni was created by the Internet.
It showed that you could be a mere student and get worldwide famous, a dedicate followership, even alt.fans.jennicam and only by some pieces of networked hardware.
It couldn't happen before the net.
Besides, it's the only webcam available as a Slashbox.
(What about some statistics about Slashboxes people choose?)
But yes, 4th anniversary is not that exciting.
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Could somebody confirm that audience for the German show has been decreasing since the splash 1st emmission?
But it's being licensed accross Europe.
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Amiga coverage in Slashdot is higher than OS/2, and most of the time it's just vapor.
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I gather that Germany ban everything scientologic, because of some law against organizations aiming at world domination (Linux? :) ).
Then, would (could?) the German government ban the film to block revenues to Travolta, Hubbard and other Scientologists?
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if the games contained a real economic system which was open to player to player and player to NPC sales
Well, you could have an online game where you could be a hacker that goes every day to work and, every now and then, you would trance to a higher plane and do some things that, according to the will of some superior (and whimsy) beings ("moderators" would be a good name), would give you good karma. To spice up the game, there could be some trolls that would try to ruin your day. After that, you would go back to your normal state and see how your virtual economy shares fall free in the market (let's call it Nasdaqh-Ur-Nyse). Then you would put your character to sleep.
Next session, you would repeat.
My point, when a game is too much like real life, you always have real life, that is cheaper.
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http://us.imdb.com/Title?0185183.
Karma!
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Consistency.
A problem (or is it a feature?) with OS/2 is that you can have PM apps, WPS apps, DOS apps, WinOS/2 apps, VIO (textmode) apps, Java AWT apps, Java Swing apps, X apps. Very useful but each with a different UI.
Being CORBA based (SOM was an early CORBA)
Umm. Since DSOM is distributed SOM (ergo, distributed CORBA), would it be very difficult to interact WPS and Gnome through Corba?
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Would "Free as in free 'undred quid, my china" be overkill?
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According to the works of Llewelyn, Desmond Llewelyn, you only live twice, so I resist believing that Q is dead, instead of merely hiding at the Science Museum.
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Thanks, no, I don't want my secret identity published in Slashdot, it's full of scary people (like myself :) ).
:) . The problem is that the only Cockney I have is from the Internet Oracle postings, so I gather that th->f and "quid (singular!)" are Cockney enough, but I am not sure about "'undred".
Yes, it's my creation
Can somebody confirm?
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Why should the strength of a spell be linked to how well you can sweep the mouse in a circle?
Well, if you cannot spell, you could use some spellchecking software.
__
Look at the man in white in the photos.
He is Q from the 007 series. In "The World is not Enough", he retired. And this is what he's doing with his engineering ability!
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They often release more than one fixpack a year
That is, if you have OS/2 in English, other languages have to pray some big customer will request a fix.
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I have seen nobody mentioning the presence or not of trade unions in companies.
Maybe in the US, it's different, but in Europe, it would be suspectful if a company has no unions. But I know that IT is different in that aspect. Unions are stronger in industry than services.
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