Now that's a headline for ya. If the only thing valuable about a coder is their technical skill, then this makes a lot of sense. But for those of you who went to college, I'm sure you can relate when I say that the other thing required to be a responsible professional is a code of ethics. Many of us have often wondered "who is the RIAA getting to do its' dirty work?" "who would write something like "Windows Media Player" or "Digital Rights Management". The truth is that finding people with technical skills and the ruthlnessness to create socially irresponsible malicious software for profit (like, say, DVD players that only change regions 5 times) is not easy.
I can't disprove the argument, but I don't like it. The first tenet (with which I agree the least) is that the software market's natural "stable state" is a state with one OS:
These companies spend a lot of money on market analysis, and they understand that, in the end, there will be a monopoly again. The one-winner principle still applies.
So they're hoping to replace Microsoft with "open source" - though they mean by that an open source operating system that is ruled by industrial comittee:
This will be a different kind of monopoly--an "open monopoly"--from which no vendor can be excluded from participating, including the big companies
This sure sounds a lot like the industrial comittee process that got us the "7 layer network model" and the SSSCA.
At the same time, anything would be better than Microsoft, so have at it.
Electronic items, such as laptop computers, have so many different items packed into a relatively small area that it can be difficult to determine if a bomb is hidden within the device. That's why you may be asked to turn your laptop or PDA on. But even this is not sufficient evidence since a skilled criminal could hide a bomb within a working electronic device. For that reason, many airports also have a chemical sniffer.
In short, it raises the bar. It is necessary but not sufficient. Packing a windows emulator and a bomb into a notebook is harder than just packing a bomb. Unless you're got a dell inspiron 8000, in which case just remove one of the dual 20 pound batteries and replace it with C4. But I digress.
There are enough posts already claiming that "my web server should yell for help when it gets slashdotted" that it's pretty obvious no one has read the article yet.
VXML does not make your browser "talk". It is a markup language which allows a client known as a "voice browser" to interpret this markup language and speak to you locally.
obligatory google cache of slasdotted article here.
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Subscribers can get an @slashdot.org email address or web page with no dynamic content
This is a great idea. I would pay a yearly fee for a web-configurable forward that would allow me to forward someaccount@slashdot.org to whatever email address I was reading that week. I have yet to find a reliable web service to do this.
Set this one up and you will have a winner. We don't need email@slashdot, just a forward.
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That is, the people who are attempting to break, say, the comment posting form and post 500 comments at once are logged and may be banned by IP if they try hard enough.
Who would do something like that? Geez, what an asshole.
Anyway, I think that most of us have seen the "please grow up" message enough times without trying to break, fool, or flood any forms whatsoever that we know that you are lying. In fact, we are quite aware that the main offense for which users are ip or ip-subnet banned is for being moderated down, and a signifigant percentage of that time it's because they were moderated down by editors. Which is why I posted the question.
Have a nice day,
-me.
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You'd be surprised how many NON AC's are far worse than AC's. For instance, this guy's journal is really terrible. Not trolling, I'm warning you now, don't read his journal. DO NOT CLICK ON IT. I'm serious.
I just wanted to point out that that is a user! Banning AC's isn't going to cut out even the very worst of the crap. For that, you'll need to ban people by account, by IP and by subnet.
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Desktop computing? Don't they know? The war is over. Microsoft has won.
Well, yes, but it's far more sudden than the author makes out. I think a lot of us believed that the Linux desktop could compete after Microsoft was broken up or destroyed for the monopoly that it is.
Now that the government has surrendered, he has a good point.
"Profit-making relies on how many cameras we can collect and how many times we can recycle them, which can be recycled for several times," says Katsuhiko Miyata, an Asahi Optical spokesperson, noting that the manufacturing cost of the camera, even at this quality level, is still more than the service fee.
This is going to have the same problem those subscription-based internet appliances had. As soon as someone figures out how to hack these into a webcam, people are going to buy them and not return them.
As the company spokesperson admitted, the problem is the cost differential. They're depending on a certain percentage of customers actually returning the cameras X number of times. If they can hit that percentage and that X, they're good.
My guess is the first person to put out information on how to hack one of these is going to get slapped with a lawsuit.
Mumbleton, this is your 700th post to slashdot. that's right, you have posted 700 totally useless incomprehensible nuggets of bullshit to what is intended to be an intelligent forum.
The rest of us would like to request that you put a fucking sock in it. Your posts are polluting this forum. Grease up your thumb and sit on it, or something.
Right now fiberoptics are a little scary for consumer grade appliances. They may look like ordinary wires, but they can shatter when you drop them, and it's impossible to tell. In addition, you have to clean the connectors with a special cleaning cloth (one-time use silk) every time you plug them into a new connector to prevent dust buildup.
So to me the real problem is a cheap fiberoptic motherboard connector that won't have shatter or dust buildup problems. I couldn't find any mention of this in the EETimes article - but then, it's not a real product yet, so how could it have technical challenges yet? (-;
CD industry in one form or another is here to stay
Does anyone know if it is possible for the mentally retarded people who post to Slashdot to get special accounts? We could call them "handicapped accounts", and put a special blue wheelchair icon next to each post. Also, in user options, we check "filter retarded posts", and not have to read shit like this.
Anyway, mimbleton, for the record: the CD industry is NOT here to stay. 20,000 years from now, not a single CD will exist. Try running these ideas past your mommy next time.
ALPHA: I can't go in to too much detail, as it's a highly proprietary process. However, the copper is embedded in the base at the same time that the fins are formed during the forging process. This takes place under a tremendous force.
That's their way of saying they've got Superman locked in the basement crushing heatsinks with his fists. They're holding him hostage with Kryptonite.
Free Superman!
Seriously though, here's the megacorp that just got some free but arguably useless press.
Yes. 801.11b and 802.11a are physical layer protocols. Toms hardware has more details, but basically they operate in different frequency bands but once you get to link layer the differences begin to dissolve. by the time you get to network layer, it's the same protocol. which means it has all the same security holes outlined by the recent paper on the subject and exploitable by airsnort.
So yes, you can use NetStumbler to steal more bandwidth now. Whether or not someone will figure out how to solve the solved problem of mutual authentication for the wireless community remains to be seen.
Will slashdot delete all those unused and bitchslapped troll accounts?
Why is it that people just instantly assume they can discriminate against bitchslapped accounts? Bitchslapped accounts are like normal accounts, but different. You need to work with them a little longer to get them to the point where they can talk to everyone else, but the feeling of satisfaction you get from working with the bitchslapped is well worth the effort. We need to become a more understanding society. Comments about throwing the bitchslapped away like household garbage really get me going.
How would you like it if you were bitchslapped and everyone started talking about throwing you away! Speaking as a heavily bitchslapped American, I can honestly say that my bitchslapping has made me a better person.
This got them money from rich geeks, but made the product even less pleasant and fun for average, non-technological kids.
Legos are hardly the place for taking pot-shots in the Class Warfare struggle in America. For every nine year old child building remote controlled cars out of legos, there are working class children too, building oil rigs, monster trucks, and freight trains, powerful symbols of blue collar existence. The extensive flexibility introduced by the newer legos do not extend new possibilities just to upper middle class science-fiction fans, but to children everywhere with a solid engineering background and about a hundred dollars.
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The profit of turning thugs into programmers
Now that's a headline for ya. If the only thing valuable about a coder is their technical skill, then this makes a lot of sense. But for those of you who went to college, I'm sure you can relate when I say that the other thing required to be a responsible professional is a code of ethics. Many of us have often wondered "who is the RIAA getting to do its' dirty work?" "who would write something like "Windows Media Player" or "Digital Rights Management". The truth is that finding people with technical skills and the ruthlnessness to create socially irresponsible malicious software for profit (like, say, DVD players that only change regions 5 times) is not easy.
My guess is that these folks aren't being recruited and trained for no reason. They're being trained to work for their peers in the intimidation industry.
All I'm saying is, wait a few months, go to whatever new RIAA initiative is launched, and check the HTML source for gang signatures.
I can't disprove the argument, but I don't like it. The first tenet (with which I agree the least) is that the software market's natural "stable state" is a state with one OS:
These companies spend a lot of money on market analysis, and they understand that, in the end, there will be a monopoly again. The one-winner principle still applies.
So they're hoping to replace Microsoft with "open source" - though they mean by that an open source operating system that is ruled by industrial comittee:
This will be a different kind of monopoly--an "open monopoly"--from which no vendor can be excluded from participating, including the big companies
This sure sounds a lot like the industrial comittee process that got us the "7 layer network model" and the SSSCA.
At the same time, anything would be better than Microsoft, so have at it.
Isn't it possible to hide a weapon or explosive inside of a working device?
From How Airport Security Works:
Electronic items, such as laptop computers, have so many different items packed into a relatively small area that it can be difficult to determine if a bomb is hidden within the device. That's why you may be asked to turn your laptop or PDA on. But even this is not sufficient evidence since a skilled criminal could hide a bomb within a working electronic device. For that reason, many airports also have a chemical sniffer.
In short, it raises the bar. It is necessary but not sufficient. Packing a windows emulator and a bomb into a notebook is harder than just packing a bomb. Unless you're got a dell inspiron 8000, in which case just remove one of the dual 20 pound batteries and replace it with C4. But I digress.
There are enough posts already claiming that "my web server should yell for help when it gets slashdotted" that it's pretty obvious no one has read the article yet.
VXML does not make your browser "talk". It is a markup language which allows a client known as a "voice browser" to interpret this markup language and speak to you locally.
obligatory google cache of slasdotted article here.
Subscribers can get an @slashdot.org email address or web page with no dynamic content
This is a great idea. I would pay a yearly fee for a web-configurable forward that would allow me to forward someaccount@slashdot.org to whatever email address I was reading that week. I have yet to find a reliable web service to do this.
Set this one up and you will have a winner. We don't need email@slashdot, just a forward.
That is, the people who are attempting to break, say, the comment posting form and post 500 comments at once are logged and may be banned by IP if they try hard enough.
Who would do something like that? Geez, what an asshole.
Anyway, I think that most of us have seen the "please grow up" message enough times without trying to break, fool, or flood any forms whatsoever that we know that you are lying. In fact, we are quite aware that the main offense for which users are ip or ip-subnet banned is for being moderated down, and a signifigant percentage of that time it's because they were moderated down by editors. Which is why I posted the question.
Have a nice day,
-me.
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Perhaps a massive amount of censoring is needed.
You're right, but not just about AC's.
You'd be surprised how many NON AC's are far worse than AC's. For instance, this guy's journal is really terrible. Not trolling, I'm warning you now, don't read his journal. DO NOT CLICK ON IT. I'm serious.
I just wanted to point out that that is a user! Banning AC's isn't going to cut out even the very worst of the crap. For that, you'll need to ban people by account, by IP and by subnet.
Microsoft has had some high ranking people repetitively and forcefully claim that open source software is unamerican.
Salon's piece summarizes the criticism neatly.
Desktop computing? Don't they know? The war is over. Microsoft has won.
Well, yes, but it's far more sudden than the author makes out. I think a lot of us believed that the Linux desktop could compete after Microsoft was broken up or destroyed for the monopoly that it is.
Now that the government has surrendered, he has a good point.
"Profit-making relies on how many cameras we can collect and how many times we can recycle them, which can be recycled for several times," says Katsuhiko Miyata, an Asahi Optical spokesperson, noting that the manufacturing cost of the camera, even at this quality level, is still more than the service fee.
This is going to have the same problem those subscription-based internet appliances had. As soon as someone figures out how to hack these into a webcam, people are going to buy them and not return them.
As the company spokesperson admitted, the problem is the cost differential. They're depending on a certain percentage of customers actually returning the cameras X number of times. If they can hit that percentage and that X, they're good.
My guess is the first person to put out information on how to hack one of these is going to get slapped with a lawsuit.
I've got a disposable digital camera right here. My friend called it an "Imac", but whatever.
Do we really need another secret, unaccountable court?
No. The slashdot moderation system is bad enough.
So if you were NASA's next director, what would you do with the agency? Men on Mars? Probes on Europa? Trans-warp drives?
Um... detox gel.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
Mumbleton, this is your 700th post to slashdot. that's right, you have posted 700 totally useless incomprehensible nuggets of bullshit to what is intended to be an intelligent forum.
The rest of us would like to request that you put a fucking sock in it. Your posts are polluting this forum. Grease up your thumb and sit on it, or something.
Thanks.
. Enough memory capacity is provided to store up to 80 images and infrared data communication
How do you store infrared data communication?
Just curious.
Right now fiberoptics are a little scary for consumer grade appliances. They may look like ordinary wires, but they can shatter when you drop them, and it's impossible to tell. In addition, you have to clean the connectors with a special cleaning cloth (one-time use silk) every time you plug them into a new connector to prevent dust buildup.
So to me the real problem is a cheap fiberoptic motherboard connector that won't have shatter or dust buildup problems. I couldn't find any mention of this in the EETimes article - but then, it's not a real product yet, so how could it have technical challenges yet? (-;
Sure would be nice, though.
IBM: Dear friends of Linux: we don't give a god damn about your ideals. Go to hell.
CD industry in one form or another is here to stay
Does anyone know if it is possible for the mentally retarded people who post to Slashdot to get special accounts? We could call them "handicapped accounts", and put a special blue wheelchair icon next to each post. Also, in user options, we check "filter retarded posts", and not have to read shit like this.
Anyway, mimbleton, for the record: the CD industry is NOT here to stay. 20,000 years from now, not a single CD will exist. Try running these ideas past your mommy next time.
More info about the personal human assistant concept available here.
You know, those companies bombed so hard, it's hard to find any trace of them anymore. Thanks for the update.
My big problem with this controller is, when I throw it at my television in frustration, it might break something.
I hope they work hard to keep the weight down. Maybe it's made of carbon fiber?
ALPHA: I can't go in to too much detail, as it's a highly proprietary process. However, the copper is embedded in the base at the same time that the fins are formed during the forging process. This takes place under a tremendous force.
That's their way of saying they've got Superman locked in the basement crushing heatsinks with his fists. They're holding him hostage with Kryptonite.
Free Superman!
Seriously though, here's the megacorp that just got some free but arguably useless press.
Does it work with NetStumbler?
Yes. 801.11b and 802.11a are physical layer protocols. Toms hardware has more details, but basically they operate in different frequency bands but once you get to link layer the differences begin to dissolve. by the time you get to network layer, it's the same protocol. which means it has all the same security holes outlined by the recent paper on the subject and exploitable by airsnort.
So yes, you can use NetStumbler to steal more bandwidth now. Whether or not someone will figure out how to solve the solved problem of mutual authentication for the wireless community remains to be seen.
Will slashdot delete all those unused and bitchslapped troll accounts?
Why is it that people just instantly assume they can discriminate against bitchslapped accounts? Bitchslapped accounts are like normal accounts, but different. You need to work with them a little longer to get them to the point where they can talk to everyone else, but the feeling of satisfaction you get from working with the bitchslapped is well worth the effort. We need to become a more understanding society. Comments about throwing the bitchslapped away like household garbage really get me going.
How would you like it if you were bitchslapped and everyone started talking about throwing you away! Speaking as a heavily bitchslapped American, I can honestly say that my bitchslapping has made me a better person.
Shame on you.
Wil,
You mention in this LA Times article that you dumped Linux for Windows because
"While I'm a champion of open source, I don't think Linux is there yet"
Was there a specific bug in Linux that prompted you to dump it, or was it just the entire operating system?
Thanks!
This got them money from rich geeks, but made the product even less pleasant and fun for average, non-technological kids.
Legos are hardly the place for taking pot-shots in the Class Warfare struggle in America. For every nine year old child building remote controlled cars out of legos, there are working class children too, building oil rigs, monster trucks, and freight trains, powerful symbols of blue collar existence. The extensive flexibility introduced by the newer legos do not extend new possibilities just to upper middle class science-fiction fans, but to children everywhere with a solid engineering background and about a hundred dollars.
Pure left wing nonsense!