I just had to buy my wife a Palm, as she liked mine so much. Ebay is ridiculous, but I managed to find a refurbished III one for $99.95 at redgorilla.com
I don't get it. Saying that they're giving away up to $10 for every new recruit, and then going on to comment that they "might actually make a profit"? Unless they start selling their services to businesses, who would willingly pay to have this automate their various money operations, they're not gonna turn a profit right now just by giving cash away.
They hope to act like a real bank, and hope that people keep a balance in their accounts.
Paypal would make interest on the balance, their customer's wouldn't, and if the aggregate balances are enough, PayPal makes a profit.
Yeah but, I'm about as geeky and nerdy as your average nerd, but there are things about Microsoft that I like and admire. Granted, some of these things are due to their monopoly status (drivers, etc).
Also, since Microsoft is so prevalent, ignoring them is dangerous, Windows and Explorer are going to be competition for Linux for the near future.
I don't like the way anything remotely positive about MS generate a troll response. That's a little myopic, IMHO.
Surely this spells trouble for Palm. Not just from the increased competition, but the Nerd factor is definitely in favor of Linux now.
Part of the Palm's success was its appeal to nerds; and when one nerd brought his to a LUG, suddenly everyone else had to have one too.
I doubt that this means trouble for Palm, the web page doesn't look nearly as portable as a Palm.
I have a Palm III, 486 subnotebook, and a Pentium laptop from work. Unless I have a very specific need for a laptop, I bring my Palm. I like having something I can hang off my belt and forget about, if I wanted to schlep a pad sized thing around all day, I'd become a Sherpa.
Different market niches, different uses, different levels of convenience.
So there is absolutely no chance that Jon Erikson is using the Socratic Method to start a dialog? Or perhaps he's playing the Devil's Advocate to start a dialog?
Believe what you want, I honestly believe he's trying to start a constructive dialog.
Or perhaps he'll learn to increase the inflammatory nature of his posts, check fewer references, and buck for Katz's job.
Ooh, there's a good slogan, Replace Katz with Erikon.
Maybe when the troll makes a higher point, engages in a Socratic discussion, provides a koan-like illumination, or even acts as a devil's advocate.
So many of the slashbots think anyone who espouses anything remotely controversial is a troll. Boy, I'd love to see a Slashbot debate team.
On one side, Linux is good.
Taking the other side, Linux is great.
Shame, shame, shame on Jon Erickson, some of his posts make us think about our assumptions, and make us clarify our thoughts to defend our opinions.
Go away Jon Erickson, let us rot in the stink of our own reflections, Linux is doubleplusgood, Open Source is doubleplusgood, free MP3s are doubleplusgood, Microsoft is bad, war is peace.
As Ben Franklin said, I may not agree with what Jon Erickson says, but I will defend to his death the right for him to say it.
Could you at least make them electronic Quarters? Pennies are rapidly being phased out by inflation. I doubt even quarters would be usefull or long lasting at this point.
But then how are you going to get the Freshman women drunk, if you don't have real quarters?
I am going anonymous to ask this off topic question. In Unix/Linux world what is/.? I know what./ is current directory. I'm sorry but I have been wondering awhile.
I'm assuming you're not a troll.
/. is the root directory. /. is also 'l333t shorthand for slashdot
Rosen argues that new software..encryption, pseudonymous e-mails, etc. will return a sense of privacy to the Net. Is this so? Do any of you think software can really protect privacy from government surveillance and corporate tracking programs.
I think software theoretically can give you some privacy on the net (as long as the NSA doesn't crack it), but it would have to be easy to set up, easily available, and totally transparent to use.
As a corollary, consider real world privacy. While you can theoretically increase your privacy by wearing disguises when you go out, and you could sweep your house for bugs, and you could keep a log off all the license plate numbers you see on the cars behind you, do you? Do you know anyone who does? So why would online privacy be different?
I don't worry about the loss of kharma for myself, I have lots to spare, but I worry about,
the children.
What if a young child had posted here, a young child of little kharma, eager to impress the moderators with a literary reference that they thought was directly relevant to the discussion.
Instead, they get a -1 offtopic. Their spirits would be crushed, they would disillusioned, they had played by the rules, tried to make/. a better place, and only got slapped down for it.
A few, well adjusted children could shake that off, but some, well, some might feel angry and bitter, and give into the dark side, and start posting about grits, or Natalie Portman.
Please, moderators, consider, when you mark down a poster as off-topic, they may rise up again as a troll.
Let's see, the/.'ed article talks about a worm/virus that coordinates it's attacks through several web sites, and becomes unstoppable.
I describe a book, in 1975, that had a very similar subject.
This is offtopic?
I could care less about the kharma loss, I have tons, but really, is watching Barney and having the intellect of a 2 year old a pre-requesite to be a moderator now?
Let me try to shamelessly get my kharma back now.
Killer virus possible becuase of too many Windows.
Brunner describes a similar scheme in Shockwave Rider, way back in 1975.
Nick Halflinger (an uberhacker who can cracka system using a touchtone phone) travels the world coding a giant worm designed to be launched as a simultaneous, distributed attack from hundreds of different computers, quaintly visiting each site in person.
Portions of the head of the worm are used for replication, other parts are used to detect and deter anti-virus attempts, the middle part breaks into secret archives, and the tale is the contents of the secret archives.
How about 15 miles each way, in winter, about 3 inches of fresh snow on the ground, and it's dark in the morning and at night, so you need a generator running of your wheel, or batteries.
Fer instance, unlike most every other substance we know of, water gets less dense in it's solid phase. This means that ice floats.
Think of a world where ice was denser than water. When the temperature was below 0 C, the ice would form, and sink. More ice would form, and sink. Eventually, your world would be solid ice.
Since ice is less dense than water, ice forms on top of the water, and the water below is someone insulated, making a sort of haven for life to exist.
Also, since water is a liquid, it makes a nice media for the transport of useful chemicals, and the removal of dangerous chemicals. An organism that is not suspended in water needs some sort of motivational method (legs, wings, rippling snail muscles) to get to food,and to mate. A waterborn critter can just float and hope for the best.
Someone else mentioned water being a solvent, which helps for little critters getting foodies and stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
I just had to buy my wife a Palm, as she liked mine so much. Ebay is ridiculous, but I managed to find a refurbished III one for $99.95 at redgorilla.com
George
I don't get it. Saying that they're giving away up to $10 for every new recruit, and then going on to comment that they "might actually make a profit"? Unless they start selling their services to businesses, who would willingly pay to have this automate their various money operations, they're not gonna turn a profit right now just by giving cash away.
They hope to act like a real bank, and hope that people keep a balance in their accounts.
Paypal would make interest on the balance, their customer's wouldn't, and if the aggregate balances are enough, PayPal makes a profit.
George
An E-money site that let's you buy things with an online account, or your credit card.
Sign up now and get $5.00.
Say you got referred and the referree gets $5.00.
This is a web based business that might actually make a profit.
George
Yeah but, I'm about as geeky and nerdy as your average nerd, but there are things about Microsoft that I like and admire. Granted, some of these things are due to their monopoly status (drivers, etc).
Also, since Microsoft is so prevalent, ignoring them is dangerous, Windows and Explorer are going to be competition for Linux for the near future.
I don't like the way anything remotely positive about MS generate a troll response. That's a little myopic, IMHO.
George
)
Its not a hoax. It handles the cgi scripts on my potato powered webserver.
Though you can run Linux on an ear of corn, thanks to all the kernels.
ba-dum-dump!
I kill myself
George
Not Found /articles/00/07/20/1117233.shtml was not found on this server.
The requested URL
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Surely this spells trouble for Palm. Not just from the increased competition, but the Nerd factor is definitely in favor of Linux now.
Part of the Palm's success was its appeal to nerds; and when one nerd brought his to a LUG, suddenly everyone else had to have one too.
I doubt that this means trouble for Palm, the web page doesn't look nearly as portable as a Palm.
I have a Palm III, 486 subnotebook, and a Pentium laptop from work. Unless I have a very specific need for a laptop, I bring my Palm. I like having something I can hang off my belt and forget about, if I wanted to schlep a pad sized thing around all day, I'd become a Sherpa.
Different market niches, different uses, different levels of convenience.
George
So there is absolutely no chance that Jon Erikson is using the Socratic Method to start a dialog? Or perhaps he's playing the Devil's Advocate to start a dialog?
Believe what you want, I honestly believe he's trying to start a constructive dialog.
Or perhaps he'll learn to increase the inflammatory nature of his posts, check fewer references, and buck for Katz's job.
Ooh, there's a good slogan, Replace Katz with Erikon.
George
Maybe when the troll makes a higher point, engages in a Socratic discussion, provides a koan-like illumination, or even acts as a devil's advocate.
So many of the slashbots think anyone who espouses anything remotely controversial is a troll. Boy, I'd love to see a Slashbot debate team.
On one side, Linux is good.
Taking the other side, Linux is great.
Shame, shame, shame on Jon Erickson, some of his posts make us think about our assumptions, and make us clarify our thoughts to defend our opinions.
Go away Jon Erickson, let us rot in the stink of our own reflections, Linux is doubleplusgood, Open Source is doubleplusgood, free MP3s are doubleplusgood, Microsoft is bad, war is peace.
As Ben Franklin said, I may not agree with what Jon Erickson says, but I will defend to his death the right for him to say it.
George
Could you at least make them electronic Quarters? Pennies are rapidly being phased out by inflation. I doubt even quarters would be usefull or long lasting at this point.
But then how are you going to get the Freshman women drunk, if you don't have real quarters?
George
For Mindstorms, an expansion set to make rovers and retriever arms.
I don't have any Mindstorms yet, butmay be down the road.
George
I am going anonymous to ask this off topic question. In Unix/Linux world what is
I'm assuming you're not a troll.
/. is the root directory.
/. is also 'l333t shorthand for slashdot
George
how refreshing, a narrative. Keeps me checking all the /. stories just to get the latest chapter.
George
What would be different is the computer doing all the work, not you.
That would be great, if the computer was easily set up to do the privacy work.
If J. Random Surfer can buy a computer at Circuit City that comes with privacy software loaded and configured, great.
Though I have scary visions of clippy.
"Hi, it looks like you are sending a sexually explicit love letter to your cyber honey. Do you want to encrypt it?"
George
Rosen argues that new software..encryption, pseudonymous e-mails, etc. will return a sense of privacy to the Net. Is this so? Do any of you think software can really protect privacy from government surveillance and corporate tracking programs.
I think software theoretically can give you some privacy on the net (as long as the NSA doesn't crack it), but it would have to be easy to set up, easily available, and totally transparent to use.
As a corollary, consider real world privacy. While you can theoretically increase your privacy by wearing disguises when you go out, and you could sweep your house for bugs, and you could keep a log off all the license plate numbers you see on the cars behind you, do you? Do you know anyone who does? So why would online privacy be different?
George
...moderate me down and be done with it, alright?
You're gonna have to work a little bit harder to lost that triple digit kharma, try adding some hot grits next time.
Did you get the Exploration Mars addon yet?
George
I read it.
Some day, when I have an extra 20 k floating around, I'm going to get an old 911.
That day may never come, though.
George
Hmm, do you suppose Katz will write a column about oppressed /.'ers?
/., they get disenfranchised, discouraged and then bitchslapped.
Their views are a little too outside the mainstream of
He could call it the Trollmouth series.\
George
Thanks for the support.
/. a better place, and only got slapped down for it.
I don't worry about the loss of kharma for myself, I have lots to spare, but I worry about,
the children.
What if a young child had posted here, a young child of little kharma, eager to impress the moderators with a literary reference that they thought was directly relevant to the discussion.
Instead, they get a -1 offtopic. Their spirits would be crushed, they would disillusioned, they had played by the rules, tried to make
A few, well adjusted children could shake that off, but some, well, some might feel angry and bitter, and give into the dark side, and start posting about grits, or Natalie Portman.
Please, moderators, consider, when you mark down a poster as off-topic, they may rise up again as a troll.
George
Let's see, the /.'ed article talks about a worm/virus that coordinates it's attacks through several web sites, and becomes unstoppable.
I describe a book, in 1975, that had a very similar subject.
This is offtopic?
I could care less about the kharma loss, I have tons, but really, is watching Barney and having the intellect of a 2 year old a pre-requesite to be a moderator now?
Let me try to shamelessly get my kharma back now.
Killer virus possible becuase of too many Windows.
Use Linux to stop this.
Linux good, Windows bad.
George
Brunner describes a similar scheme in Shockwave Rider, way back in 1975.
Nick Halflinger (an uberhacker who can cracka system using a touchtone phone) travels the world coding a giant worm designed to be launched as a simultaneous, distributed attack from hundreds of different computers, quaintly visiting each site in person.
Portions of the head of the worm are used for replication, other parts are used to detect and deter anti-virus attempts, the middle part breaks into secret archives, and the tale is the contents of the secret archives.
I can't recommend this book highly enough.
George
We're on our fourth (78 Mercury Zephyr, 88 Ford Escort, currently a 88 Subaru and a 92 Volvo 960).
They haul almost as much as a mini-van, yet handle like a car.
Plus they're very stealthy, no cop ever expects trouble to come in a station wagon.
George
How about 15 miles each way, in winter, about 3 inches of fresh snow on the ground, and it's dark in the morning and at night, so you need a generator running of your wheel, or batteries.
You might get 5 mph.
George
When it's 10 F (-5 C) out, I like being protected from the elements.
When the road is covered in ice and snow, I like having 4 wheels on the ground instead of two.
When it gets dark out at 4:30 pm, I like having a portable generator with lights to let drivers no where I am.
When the road/parking lot is covered in an inch of slush, I prefer being in an encased vehicle.
Oh yeah, I live in Rochester, NY.
George
Fer instance, unlike most every other substance we know of, water gets less dense in it's solid phase. This means that ice floats.
Think of a world where ice was denser than water. When the temperature was below 0 C, the ice would form, and sink. More ice would form, and sink. Eventually, your world would be solid ice.
Since ice is less dense than water, ice forms on top of the water, and the water below is someone insulated, making a sort of haven for life to exist.
Also, since water is a liquid, it makes a nice media for the transport of useful chemicals, and the removal of dangerous chemicals. An organism that is not suspended in water needs some sort of motivational method (legs, wings, rippling snail muscles) to get to food,and to mate. A waterborn critter can just float and hope for the best.
Someone else mentioned water being a solvent, which helps for little critters getting foodies and stuff.
George