I know you were sticking up for me, rusty; I'm responding pseudo-directly to all the people who have been pointing fingers at me as having "DDoSed Slashdot" and making the implication that I would have done this to Kuro5hin.
I (== fluffy grue, incase you couldn't guess) trolled here only briefly. I quickly got tired of it, after I discovered Kuro5hin. This is the first time I've been to Slashdot in several months, because someone on Everything2 asked me if what was being said about me is true.
I was quite open on Kuro5hin about having been the President Clinton spammer. My handiwork is visible at the top of the Hall of Fame page. Aside from that, I haven't caused any permanent damage, and my relatively-harmless prank DID lead to some necessary changes in the way that anonymous posts on here were dealt with. I resent that it was called a DDoS, because it never even slowed down Slashdot's server, and it wasn't from multiple IP addresses (it was only from a single IP address, hence it was not distributed).
I resent being called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Any conspiracy theories I ever spouted off about were meant to be purely tongue-in-cheek. I never believed or stated that K5 and/. were at war, I just stated that I disliked/. and felt I had no reason to ever go back. And, aside from hearing about and finding this thread concerning me, I haven't come back, and I haven't had any reason to come back, and I will not continue to have any reason to come back, so I, most likely, will not come back.
Yes, it sucks that I trolled and spammed here (for a WHOLE THREE DAYS, no less). In the long run, what harm did it do? Not a whole lot; it did more good than harm (as it gave Rob&co. a bit of a clue regarding the notion of 'throttling').
If I hadn't done the spambot, someone else would have. In fact, other people have, since then, and I know I wasn't the first to write any sort of auto-trolling thing. The only differences were a matter of scale (it was obvious that these problems needed to be POINTED OUT to the administration here) and the fact that I released my source.
FWIW, my original idea was to mirror the Linux kernel source in comments, using comment parenting as a directory hierarchy, but I got caught up in the moment and did all that fortune crap instead.:)
I think that my only regret was that my "State of the Spam address" got moderated down and therefore nuked. I should have saved a copy; I personally thought it was brilliant, as did RL friends of mine who were there at the time. (In case you missed it, I took the post-Monica Lewinsky speech and changed just enough words that it vaguely referred to the spambot instead of the sex scandal.)
Oh, though I've heard that someone else has started posting Clintonesque speeches as their troll shpiel. It was kinda flattering to hear that.:)
Anyway. Not to get too carried away in talking about my last few days on Slashdot... If you must discuss this with me, email me (use my academic account address, joshagam at cs dot nmsu dot edu, since I wouldn't want the good friend who hosts my personal account to have his relatively-small connection frotzed up because of someone who has a vendetta against me deciding to spam me at it). I'm trying my hardest to be civil and forthcoming. I'd hope that anyone who feels like continuing this discussion to feel the same.
Now if you don't mind, I'm leaving/. again. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Sort of. You pay them some money and tell them the IP address(es) of one or more DNS server which serves your domain. Some registrars (register.com, for example) and many ISPs provide a DNS service, usually at an extra but nominal fee, or if you're willing to learn how to set up domain records yourself, you can go to free DNS services such as Granite Canyon, whom I use to serve the nameserver records for trikuare.cx (mostly since I need the flexibility of maintaining the DNS myself, since I have a bunch of different systems I keep under this domain, some of which are dynamic, some of which aren't, and I've also got my mail exchanging handled by a friend of mine, who is separate than the friend who runs the webserver which my homepage is on, etc.etc.etc.) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
More people use AOL than any other ISP in the world.
More people are willing to accept everything they're told as though it's gospel, rather than think for themselves. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Hey, wow, that's pretty damned cool... I'm going to have to start running it. (If you've ever seen my desktop you know I'm into odd color schemes which I find pleasing to the eye and have the nice side-effect of making it difficult for others to look over my shoulder without getting a headache:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
What crack are you smoking? You start off with a relatively weak argument, lose all credibility when you call Betamax "absurdly inadequate," imply that Visual Basic is a better language than ANSI C, and then lose what little coherent sense of any potential argument you ever had.
Either this ramble was created by a very good rant generator, a passable troll, or a woefully-misinformed severaly-brain-damaged political activist who doesn't know the difference between free trade and anarchy.
I suppose you think copyrights and trademarks are wrong and unnecessary too, huh? --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I personally prefer.cx, myself; they're cheaper, have great service, VERY nice policies (particularly when it comes to namespace conflicts such as in the case of trademark disputes - they'll only remove/freeze a registration with a court order), and, recently, have taken to providing free service for free(speech) and open source software projects. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Yes, I KNOW they're NOPs on big-endian, but they actually DO stuff on little-endian... the problem is that a lot of code out there assumes the endianness of the machine, so rather than storing it in network byte order it stores in host byte order. The reason I said to properly-encapsulate all data in ntohl and htonl is so that the same code would work on both types of platform, which is, of course, the whole POINT. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Why do people keep on saying this? It's untrue. In Quake, the only difference between the various models and skins is, well, the model and skin. The female characters aren't any faster or more agile, don't have any difference in the amount of armor, aren't any harder to hit (the collission bounding box is the SAME FOR EVERYONE)... granted, they're a little harder to see because the MODEL is slightly smaller, but as far as gameplay goes, there's *NO DIFFERENCE*. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
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Not quite the same userbase. I know several people who still have old 68k-based macs which they try to keep using, mostly because they don't want to go to x86 but they don't want to spend too much money on a modern Mac (or because of other circumstances, like my housemate who doesn't want to upgrade from his old and dying '040-based Performa because after this semester he's going to have to sell everything since he's going on an outreach program where he needs to be very mobile). --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Well, the "justification" for little-endian machines was, back in the Good Old Days, it was very useful to be able to have a free downward typecast on pointers (with big-endian you have to either add some value to your index, or AND with a bitmask after the read, whereas with little-endian you just take the same pointer and use a smaller-sized read).
I never said it was a good justification.:) After all, in situations like that, you usually aren't using pointers anyway...
Unfortunately, because of x86's influence, a lot of other vendors have bastardized their architectures. For example, newer Alphas have both big- and little-endian modes, and apparently AlphaLinux runs in the little-endian mode simply for easy compatability with x86. IMO, they should do it in big-endian so that fun bugs show up causing them to need to properly ntohl() and htonl() all their data. It'd make for much more consistency with the porting efforts to REAL platforms, such as PPC and Sparc (that isn't to say that Alpha isn't a real platform, of course, but it can hardly be treated with respect when it's got a little-endian mode simply to pander to x86 apologists).
At least IA-64 is switchable endian, though (except in IA-32 mode, obviously), so at least there's some validation on that front. Hopefully the IA-64 Linux porting effort is doing the Right Thing and using the big-endian mode. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
The GPL does not allow you to link a GPLed piece of code against a non-GPLed piece of code, even if it's dynamically-linked. You're likely thinking of the LGPL (library/lesser GPL), which does allow you to split up a project in such a way.
As long as all of your libraries are LGPLed (and most of them out there are), you're fine, and you only have to distribute modifications to the libraries you're using. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
The issue isn't about pornography, but about legitimate content which is being filtered out by the anti-porn filters. Imagine you're a 15-year-old who is feeling unsure about his or her sexuality, and thinks he or she might be gay, and that you come from a VERY oppressive/'protective' household where your parents scrutinize every single URL in your browser's history, and at the very moment they see "lesbians, gays, bisexuals and friends" on their screen, they immediately decide to sign you up to be shipped off to some "gender identity center" (basically an insane asylum for people with gender-related "diseases").
Imagine you don't want that to happen, so you go to the library, and do a search on homosexuality, and because of the word 'sex' in your search terms, SurfWatch automatically blocks your Google query.
This example is trite and hackneyed, but it seems that people like you, my AC friend, just don't get it and need to have this same argument drilled into your collective heads. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Ah, yes, something like that, but more interactive. I was thinking something more along the lines of Everything2, except geared towards recipes, and with some modifications to make it more understandable, at least to geeks (i.e. for things with parallel execution, allow to have multiple pipelines, VLIW-style) and with an ingredient search engine (like idrink.com, but less-restrictive). It might even be extended eventually to have a place to keep track of your ingredients for you, make suggestions, etc.
Of course, I'm busy with other things right now, but if someone like, say, andover.net were to offer me funding to setup a site like this...;) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
And, of course, being open source, people can submit patches to it, like the one I immediately got sent after posting this recipe, suggesting adding mirin and bonito flakes to the broth.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
It's actually a traditional Japanese noodle, and is quite good as a basis for various recipes. Usually I throw out the "flavor" packet (MSG gives me migraines) and use the noodles as a base for some Japanese-style dish, such as teriyaki beef or the like. Plenty of easy-but-good cooking opportunities there. Here's my favorite easy Ramen-based soup recipe:
One package ramen noodles One Steak-um philly steak One egg, beaten Green onions, finely chopped Soy sauce
Bring 2 cups water to a boil. Add ramen noodles, stir occasionally for two and a half minutes. While noodles are cooking, cut philly steak into strips and fry in its own juices; drain fat. Pour egg into noodles and stir for 30 seconds, reduce heat, add steak and onions. Add soy sauce to taste (I usually use 2-3 tablespoons), remove from heat, and serve. Serves 1.
I've been thinking of starting up an open recipe archive which caters to the geek population (none of that "better homes and gardens"-type crap as you find on recipes.com and the like). Anyone interested? --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Personally, I love Quaker Corn Bran. That's one hell of a kick-ass cereal, and most people don't know about it simply because they gloss over it while shopping. It's not as nutritionally-complete as Total, but IMO it's very geeky - how many cereals out there are also a topology experiment? (Get some and cut them in half if you want to understand what I mean.) It's also high in fiber. I could probably live on corn bran, peanuts, and vitamin pills for basic nutrition and high-sugar, caffeinated beverages for energy, maybe with an occasional sports bar. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Actually, the cereal you're thinking of was called "King Vitaman." I vaguely remember that being available when I was a kid, but I never had the pleasure(?) of trying it. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
No hidden data. You can see my (very sparse) site for the engine at http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~joshagam/Solace/ though. More screenshots, at least.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
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I (== fluffy grue, incase you couldn't guess) trolled here only briefly. I quickly got tired of it, after I discovered Kuro5hin. This is the first time I've been to Slashdot in several months, because someone on Everything2 asked me if what was being said about me is true.
I was quite open on Kuro5hin about having been the President Clinton spammer. My handiwork is visible at the top of the Hall of Fame page. Aside from that, I haven't caused any permanent damage, and my relatively-harmless prank DID lead to some necessary changes in the way that anonymous posts on here were dealt with. I resent that it was called a DDoS, because it never even slowed down Slashdot's server, and it wasn't from multiple IP addresses (it was only from a single IP address, hence it was not distributed).
I resent being called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Any conspiracy theories I ever spouted off about were meant to be purely tongue-in-cheek. I never believed or stated that K5 and /. were at war, I just stated that I disliked /. and felt I had no reason to ever go back. And, aside from hearing about and finding this thread concerning me, I haven't come back, and I haven't had any reason to come back, and I will not continue to have any reason to come back, so I, most likely, will not come back.
Yes, it sucks that I trolled and spammed here (for a WHOLE THREE DAYS, no less). In the long run, what harm did it do? Not a whole lot; it did more good than harm (as it gave Rob&co. a bit of a clue regarding the notion of 'throttling').
If I hadn't done the spambot, someone else would have. In fact, other people have, since then, and I know I wasn't the first to write any sort of auto-trolling thing. The only differences were a matter of scale (it was obvious that these problems needed to be POINTED OUT to the administration here) and the fact that I released my source.
FWIW, my original idea was to mirror the Linux kernel source in comments, using comment parenting as a directory hierarchy, but I got caught up in the moment and did all that fortune crap instead. :)
I think that my only regret was that my "State of the Spam address" got moderated down and therefore nuked. I should have saved a copy; I personally thought it was brilliant, as did RL friends of mine who were there at the time. (In case you missed it, I took the post-Monica Lewinsky speech and changed just enough words that it vaguely referred to the spambot instead of the sex scandal.)
Oh, though I've heard that someone else has started posting Clintonesque speeches as their troll shpiel. It was kinda flattering to hear that. :)
Anyway. Not to get too carried away in talking about my last few days on Slashdot... If you must discuss this with me, email me (use my academic account address, joshagam at cs dot nmsu dot edu, since I wouldn't want the good friend who hosts my personal account to have his relatively-small connection frotzed up because of someone who has a vendetta against me deciding to spam me at it). I'm trying my hardest to be civil and forthcoming. I'd hope that anyone who feels like continuing this discussion to feel the same.
Now if you don't mind, I'm leaving /. again.
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Nah, the world's already been auctioned off on eBay several times.
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Or maybe Emmett was just making a joke, based on the fact that sort of thing always happens on eBay.
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That was the point.
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The music industry lost negative 1.4 billion. That is, they gained 1.4 billion.
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Sort of. You pay them some money and tell them the IP address(es) of one or more DNS server which serves your domain. Some registrars (register.com, for example) and many ISPs provide a DNS service, usually at an extra but nominal fee, or if you're willing to learn how to set up domain records yourself, you can go to free DNS services such as Granite Canyon, whom I use to serve the nameserver records for trikuare.cx (mostly since I need the flexibility of maintaining the DNS myself, since I have a bunch of different systems I keep under this domain, some of which are dynamic, some of which aren't, and I've also got my mail exchanging handled by a friend of mine, who is separate than the friend who runs the webserver which my homepage is on, etc.etc.etc.)
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More people use AOL than any other ISP in the world.
More people are willing to accept everything they're told as though it's gospel, rather than think for themselves.
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Hey, wow, that's pretty damned cool... I'm going to have to start running it. (If you've ever seen my desktop you know I'm into odd color schemes which I find pleasing to the eye and have the nice side-effect of making it difficult for others to look over my shoulder without getting a headache :)
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Either this ramble was created by a very good rant generator, a passable troll, or a woefully-misinformed severaly-brain-damaged political activist who doesn't know the difference between free trade and anarchy.
I suppose you think copyrights and trademarks are wrong and unnecessary too, huh?
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I personally prefer .cx, myself; they're cheaper, have great service, VERY nice policies (particularly when it comes to namespace conflicts such as in the case of trademark disputes - they'll only remove/freeze a registration with a court order), and, recently, have taken to providing free service for free(speech) and open source software projects.
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- [ 2.3.36 ] - Released 04-Jan-00 14:00 (patch [bz2]) (source [bz2])
Seems reasonable enough to me.Notes: I'm not dead, just slow.
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The fact it's out now doesn't mean it's any less late.
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Yes, I KNOW they're NOPs on big-endian, but they actually DO stuff on little-endian... the problem is that a lot of code out there assumes the endianness of the machine, so rather than storing it in network byte order it stores in host byte order. The reason I said to properly-encapsulate all data in ntohl and htonl is so that the same code would work on both types of platform, which is, of course, the whole POINT.
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Why do people keep on saying this? It's untrue. In Quake, the only difference between the various models and skins is, well, the model and skin. The female characters aren't any faster or more agile, don't have any difference in the amount of armor, aren't any harder to hit (the collission bounding box is the SAME FOR EVERYONE)... granted, they're a little harder to see because the MODEL is slightly smaller, but as far as gameplay goes, there's *NO DIFFERENCE*.
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Not quite the same userbase. I know several people who still have old 68k-based macs which they try to keep using, mostly because they don't want to go to x86 but they don't want to spend too much money on a modern Mac (or because of other circumstances, like my housemate who doesn't want to upgrade from his old and dying '040-based Performa because after this semester he's going to have to sell everything since he's going on an outreach program where he needs to be very mobile).
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I never said it was a good justification. :) After all, in situations like that, you usually aren't using pointers anyway...
Unfortunately, because of x86's influence, a lot of other vendors have bastardized their architectures. For example, newer Alphas have both big- and little-endian modes, and apparently AlphaLinux runs in the little-endian mode simply for easy compatability with x86. IMO, they should do it in big-endian so that fun bugs show up causing them to need to properly ntohl() and htonl() all their data. It'd make for much more consistency with the porting efforts to REAL platforms, such as PPC and Sparc (that isn't to say that Alpha isn't a real platform, of course, but it can hardly be treated with respect when it's got a little-endian mode simply to pander to x86 apologists).
At least IA-64 is switchable endian, though (except in IA-32 mode, obviously), so at least there's some validation on that front. Hopefully the IA-64 Linux porting effort is doing the Right Thing and using the big-endian mode.
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As long as all of your libraries are LGPLed (and most of them out there are), you're fine, and you only have to distribute modifications to the libraries you're using.
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Imagine you don't want that to happen, so you go to the library, and do a search on homosexuality, and because of the word 'sex' in your search terms, SurfWatch automatically blocks your Google query.
This example is trite and hackneyed, but it seems that people like you, my AC friend, just don't get it and need to have this same argument drilled into your collective heads.
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Of course, I'm busy with other things right now, but if someone like, say, andover.net were to offer me funding to setup a site like this... ;)
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And, of course, being open source, people can submit patches to it, like the one I immediately got sent after posting this recipe, suggesting adding mirin and bonito flakes to the broth. :)
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One package ramen noodles
One Steak-um philly steak
One egg, beaten
Green onions, finely chopped
Soy sauce
Bring 2 cups water to a boil. Add ramen noodles, stir occasionally for two and a half minutes. While noodles are cooking, cut philly steak into strips and fry in its own juices; drain fat. Pour egg into noodles and stir for 30 seconds, reduce heat, add steak and onions. Add soy sauce to taste (I usually use 2-3 tablespoons), remove from heat, and serve. Serves 1.
I've been thinking of starting up an open recipe archive which caters to the geek population (none of that "better homes and gardens"-type crap as you find on recipes.com and the like). Anyone interested?
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Personally, I love Quaker Corn Bran. That's one hell of a kick-ass cereal, and most people don't know about it simply because they gloss over it while shopping. It's not as nutritionally-complete as Total, but IMO it's very geeky - how many cereals out there are also a topology experiment? (Get some and cut them in half if you want to understand what I mean.) It's also high in fiber. I could probably live on corn bran, peanuts, and vitamin pills for basic nutrition and high-sugar, caffeinated beverages for energy, maybe with an occasional sports bar.
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Actually, the cereal you're thinking of was called "King Vitaman." I vaguely remember that being available when I was a kid, but I never had the pleasure(?) of trying it.
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No hidden data. You can see my (very sparse) site for the engine at http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~joshagam/Solace/ though. More screenshots, at least. :)
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