I hate to make generalizations, but these radical anarchist types are all alike.
On February 3rd of this year, the New York Times had a picture of a teen with grungy clothes and long hair being arrested for inciting an out-of-control protest at the WEF. That teen, Chris Villanella, used to attend my middle school. Back in 8th grade, he was your everyday dirty hippie in the making. Because of his poor grades and general misdemeanor, he was to leave the school in 9th grade. Eventually, he became a habitual drug user, was kicked out of his home, and somehow ended up as the leader of an anarchist 'black block' protesting at the WEF.
Though he says that the protest was completely peaceful and lawful, he marched his 'block' (mob?) with 20 riot shields, obviously disturbing the police forces there. After his block was broken up and he after he was placed under arrest, he was detained with his comrades in a filthy bus. After about 24 hours, they started rocking the bus, breaking windows, and causing general havoc. He was later moved to jail, and was eventually rescued by his parents (after they saw him on the front cover of the newspaper).
Of course, now he thinks that he's some sort of fucking hero who endured the oppression of our totalitarian government. He and his cell-mates are going to write a collective essay on their experiences. Considering that they haven't had one full year of high school combined, I can only imagine what kind of tripe they'll be pushing.
I see the Raisethefist guy in the same light. Fine, he's some guy running a webserver with anarchist material directing against the Feds. Now that he's been detained for 'absolutely no reason', he'll try to put all the blame on the Big Bad Government. Anyone else see why this is *really* lame?
I don't like anarchism, but anarchists are even fucking worse.
the storage review reliability index should serve you well. Unfortunately the site itself may be taken down soon (due to financial reasons), so get there quick.
i don't know if the software is still in beta or something, but I didn't see anything about cheat preventing. He says that the client records the number of keypresses and connects to a CGI which transmits the info.
It seems like it would be *really* easy to cheat. What prevents me from typing
No sir. I'm affraid (SP) I've seen fit to NOT attend English class ever since I realized I was literate. Yes, I am attending a state (coerced) public university. Oh come all ye lovers of mediocrity to the institutions which so epitomize (FAULY USAGE OF TRANSITIVE VERB) such, and into the throes of socialism that has long plagued the United States. I am not exaggerating either. It was a very sad day indeed when I realized that half of my English 112 class (the final course of the sequence (SP)) did not possess the ability to read, but (INCORRECT CONJUNCTION) stumbled on nearly ever (SP) word. Then into the treachory (SP) that was "fellow student evaluation" wherewith (WC) I had to suffer through the rough drafts of my fellow classmates, drawing upon their papers in the neighborhood of 200 circles.
Oh come all ye lovers of mediocrity to the institutions which so epitomize such, and into the throes of socialism that has long plagued the United States. - An incredibly obtuse sentence. This isn't 17th century England, so no one says 'ye.' Exactly how has socialism plagued the United States? Are you *sure* that you weren't reading Ayn Rand during English?
my English which has become most proficient with help from no one. Indeed.
Has some great information on the topic, plus links to some studies. Plus, by reading from a real source, Katz can't waste your time convincing you that he reads this stuff.
It doesn't take a psych major to know what the id and the ego are, moron.
This reminds me of...
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Does anybody else remember the South Park in which Mr. Garrison builds a device which goes at 300MPH and 150MPG? He does this because of the piss poor service at airlines. The government bans use of his device because otherwise the sagging airline industry will suffer.
Not to be a troll, but slashdot posts are like linux kernel releases - they're rapid, but aren't very well polished, and ocasionally major bugs like this (duplicates) are present.
Some British dude does the following:
freebsd-box$ telnet smtp.wackybritisp.net
Connecting to smtp.wackybritisp.net
220 smtp.wackybritisp.net ESMTP
MAIL FROM:<junis@afghanistan.af>
250 OK
RCPT TO:<katz@morons.slashdot.org>
250 OK
DATA
354 go ahead
Hello Mr. Jon Katz. I am from Afghanistan, and you and your country have just liberated me. I am very in much liking your news stories. I love your journalistic style and am predicting that it will be the most popular in my country. I am wondering if you are able to send me apple ipod. Please send it to London, for my mail is being routed from London, to Islamabad, to Afghanistan. You are god of open source
^C
freebsd-box$ lynx http://www.slashdot.org
(breaks out into laughter)
Remember that load average is not as clear an indicator of overall performance as it seems. Load average is based upon the average number of processes that are waiting for kernel execution time. So, if you are IO-bound, a very common problem even in the server market, then load average won't accurately monitor performance. If you're old school, use sar (System V) or vmstat (BSD) for performance monitoring. Of course, more modern tools exist.
By identifying yourself as a SOHO user, you have implicitly set your level of tolerance for backup failure. You just want safe recovery of your data in the event of a malfunctioning disk; you don't need to prevent against natural disasters, etc.
Dedicated backup hardware (i.e. tape drive arrays) costs too much - you already know that. Because you don't *require* all the securities offered by tape backup (i.e. the ability to dump data, store media in an offsite location, etc), the best backup solution would simply be a machine located on your existing network (yes, 100Mbit ethernet is fine) with enough hard disk space to hold your data. Remember, its your backup process that needs to be fault tolerant, not the backup machine itself.
So, if you have an extra Pentium or Pentium II lying around, equip it with an IDE Raid card and enough IDE disks to hold your data. I would suggest RAID 0 - well supported, fast, and inexpensive. Install your OS of choice (this is slashdot, so i guess its linux for you. My personal inclination would be a BSD, and in this case I would choose FreeBSD, simply because my experience with OpenBSD and IDE disks hasn't been great). On Day 0, completely synchronize the backup machine (i.e. cp -R/my/data/*/nfs/$BACKUP/$HOSTNAME). From there you can use rsync for daily backups. Hell, you could do them every half an hour, rsync is very fast for these sort of things.
This way lies madness...I used to do this for schoolwork in 9th grade. Trust me, after a while, you start feeling really guilty, not to mention suspicious that your (teachers/bosses) are catching on to your tricks.
We performed this experiment last year in my sophomore physics class. All you really need is a laser (one of my classmates had one of those pointing devices), and a few plastic sheets. Arrange them according to the diagram given in any high-school physics textbook. You will see clear patters of wave interference on the screen. This is a crude form of the experiment, if you seek to conduct this in a more professional manner you can upgrade the materials accordingly.
Of course. I was actually making an obscure reference to the doctrine of Schessenbecker, which argued (and failed to establish) that hierarchical view of nature and man is inherently wrong. Philosophically, his work is unsound. Alas, nobody understands my humor...
I am going to equip myself with *every item* from thinkgeek strapped to my torso in one form or the other. I think that the general geek aura (think: radiation) sent off by all of these devices when turned on would discourage any ruffians.
It's still a fascinating, damn good idea. I'm being honest when I've been thinking of a similar OS design, though I haven't ironed out particulars. Anyone care to make it a reality?
not a troll, but there are certainly better reviews out there. Check out salon for an honest review that goes beyond plot summary. As always, rotten tomatoes has a plethora of opinions. Remember, there's more than Katz out there (thank god)
Depending on his grandma for insight?
I think you're just spinning his words into flat, impotent insults. Your failure to produce a reasonable argument is compounded by your terrible handle on the English language. Absolutely pathetic.
You don't deserve to post this horseshit. Milwaukee may be in the middle of nowhere, but *you* are offered no additional insight even if you *do* happen to live in a big city. You're only given the illusion that you somehow belong to a group that actually 'knows how the world really is.' Perhaps the reason you associate insight into life with living in a big city is your (readily shown) stupidity. Your own inadequacy leads you to mistakently identify yourself with a successful, happening, big-city lifestyle, and you are closest to it only when moaning about it on slashdot. Instead of saying anything of value, you post a worthless, unintelligible string of letters onto our monitors, annoying our intellects with its idiocy and wasting our bandwidth with its very existence.
Let me tell you, because apparently your drunken, absentee parents never did: there are losers everywhere in this country, even in your big-ass city, and you are counted among their ranks. Now fuck off!
I am not the guy you've been bitching at in this thread. I'm just appalled at your ignorance.
I've decided to lump them together as they deal with Java's use as a learning language, as opposed it's traditional use as an application language, and in many cases, which looks to be replacing C/C++ in this role
You're not the only one.
The AP Computer Science Course for high schoolers announced this year that in 2003, they will be replacing C/C++ with Java.
And as you said, for the 99.99% of users who aren't "aware" of any possible web options, they're going to absent-mindedly click OK, thinking that it's some required part of the internet.
Historically, Microsoft has maintained its power and forced its proprietary standards because it *makes* proprietary technology required. Amazon.com doesn't care if Smart Tags are a terrible infringement upon freedom on the internet; they just want to stay afloat and make MONEY. Companies like Amazon will incorporate these technologies into their website because it allows them to reach the customer in a new way. Eventually, content and "Smart Tags" will become so blurred that the latter will be required to view essentially any modern site on the internet.
That is how Microsoft establishes its proprietary, abusive technologies. Its also making liasons with the recording industry (see: built in copyright protection); just another example. If Microsoft was the only company that tramples over rights for a profit, then their technology would never take off. It is the collection of *all* companies forming a veritable "Establishment" that is depriving us of a free internet.
Slashdot Mirror
I hate to make generalizations, but these radical anarchist types are all alike.
On February 3rd of this year, the New York Times had a picture of a teen with grungy clothes and long hair being arrested for inciting an out-of-control protest at the WEF. That teen, Chris Villanella, used to attend my middle school. Back in 8th grade, he was your everyday dirty hippie in the making. Because of his poor grades and general misdemeanor, he was to leave the school in 9th grade. Eventually, he became a habitual drug user, was kicked out of his home, and somehow ended up as the leader of an anarchist 'black block' protesting at the WEF.
Though he says that the protest was completely peaceful and lawful, he marched his 'block' (mob?) with 20 riot shields, obviously disturbing the police forces there. After his block was broken up and he after he was placed under arrest, he was detained with his comrades in a filthy bus. After about 24 hours, they started rocking the bus, breaking windows, and causing general havoc. He was later moved to jail, and was eventually rescued by his parents (after they saw him on the front cover of the newspaper).
Of course, now he thinks that he's some sort of fucking hero who endured the oppression of our totalitarian government. He and his cell-mates are going to write a collective essay on their experiences. Considering that they haven't had one full year of high school combined, I can only imagine what kind of tripe they'll be pushing.
I see the Raisethefist guy in the same light. Fine, he's some guy running a webserver with anarchist material directing against the Feds. Now that he's been detained for 'absolutely no reason', he'll try to put all the blame on the Big Bad Government. Anyone else see why this is *really* lame?
I don't like anarchism, but anarchists are even fucking worse.
the storage review reliability index should serve you well. Unfortunately the site itself may be taken down soon (due to financial reasons), so get there quick.
i don't know if the software is still in beta or something, but I didn't see anything about cheat preventing. He says that the client records the number of keypresses and connects to a CGI which transmits the info.
u m= 38948937492837493824793824792
It seems like it would be *really* easy to cheat. What prevents me from typing
http://dolphin.bitdevil.com/cgi-bin/count.cgi?n
into my Moz address bar?
grammar:
No sir. I'm affraid (SP) I've seen fit to NOT attend English class ever since I realized I was literate. Yes, I am attending a state (coerced) public university. Oh come all ye lovers of mediocrity to the institutions which so epitomize (FAULY USAGE OF TRANSITIVE VERB) such, and into the throes of socialism that has long plagued the United States. I am not exaggerating either. It was a very sad day indeed when I realized that half of my English 112 class (the final course of the sequence (SP)) did not possess the ability to read, but (INCORRECT CONJUNCTION) stumbled on nearly ever (SP) word. Then into the treachory (SP) that was "fellow student evaluation" wherewith (WC) I had to suffer through the rough drafts of my fellow classmates, drawing upon their papers in the neighborhood of 200 circles.
Oh come all ye lovers of mediocrity to the institutions which so epitomize such, and into the throes of socialism that has long plagued the United States. - An incredibly obtuse sentence. This isn't 17th century England, so no one says 'ye.' Exactly how has socialism plagued the United States? Are you *sure* that you weren't reading Ayn Rand during English?
my English which has become most proficient with help from no one.
Indeed.
Loneliness and the Internet
Has some great information on the topic, plus links to some studies. Plus, by reading from a real source, Katz can't waste your time convincing you that he reads this stuff.
Part of it has to do with attitude of course. If you act like you belong, they assume you do, and I consider myself a Master of Social Engineering
:)
Only on slashdot can one call social interaction social engineering
It doesn't take a psych major to know what the id and the ego are, moron.
Does anybody else remember the South Park in which Mr. Garrison builds a device which goes at 300MPH and 150MPG? He does this because of the piss poor service at airlines. The government bans use of his device because otherwise the sagging airline industry will suffer.
Hey, it could happen.
Entropy reigns supreme! God will smite any scientists researching these technologies and will thus preserve the laws of thermodynamics!
Not to be a troll, but slashdot posts are like linux kernel releases - they're rapid, but aren't very well polished, and ocasionally major bugs like this (duplicates) are present.
Some British dude does the following: freebsd-box$ telnet smtp.wackybritisp.net Connecting to smtp.wackybritisp.net 220 smtp.wackybritisp.net ESMTP MAIL FROM:<junis@afghanistan.af> 250 OK RCPT TO:<katz@morons.slashdot.org> 250 OK DATA 354 go ahead Hello Mr. Jon Katz. I am from Afghanistan, and you and your country have just liberated me. I am very in much liking your news stories. I love your journalistic style and am predicting that it will be the most popular in my country. I am wondering if you are able to send me apple ipod. Please send it to London, for my mail is being routed from London, to Islamabad, to Afghanistan. You are god of open source ^C freebsd-box$ lynx http://www.slashdot.org (breaks out into laughter)
Remember that load average is not as clear an indicator of overall performance as it seems. Load average is based upon the average number of processes that are waiting for kernel execution time. So, if you are IO-bound, a very common problem even in the server market, then load average won't accurately monitor performance. If you're old school, use sar (System V) or vmstat (BSD) for performance monitoring. Of course, more modern tools exist.
and now they Rest in Peace...
Let me expound upon what he is recommending.
/my/data/* /nfs/$BACKUP/$HOSTNAME). From there you can use rsync for daily backups. Hell, you could do them every half an hour, rsync is very fast for these sort of things.
By identifying yourself as a SOHO user, you have implicitly set your level of tolerance for backup failure. You just want safe recovery of your data in the event of a malfunctioning disk; you don't need to prevent against natural disasters, etc.
Dedicated backup hardware (i.e. tape drive arrays) costs too much - you already know that. Because you don't *require* all the securities offered by tape backup (i.e. the ability to dump data, store media in an offsite location, etc), the best backup solution would simply be a machine located on your existing network (yes, 100Mbit ethernet is fine) with enough hard disk space to hold your data. Remember, its your backup process that needs to be fault tolerant, not the backup machine itself.
So, if you have an extra Pentium or Pentium II lying around, equip it with an IDE Raid card and enough IDE disks to hold your data. I would suggest RAID 0 - well supported, fast, and inexpensive. Install your OS of choice (this is slashdot, so i guess its linux for you. My personal inclination would be a BSD, and in this case I would choose FreeBSD, simply because my experience with OpenBSD and IDE disks hasn't been great). On Day 0, completely synchronize the backup machine (i.e. cp -R
This way lies madness...I used to do this for schoolwork in 9th grade. Trust me, after a while, you start feeling really guilty, not to mention suspicious that your (teachers/bosses) are catching on to your tricks.
We performed this experiment last year in my sophomore physics class. All you really need is a laser (one of my classmates had one of those pointing devices), and a few plastic sheets. Arrange them according to the diagram given in any high-school physics textbook. You will see clear patters of wave interference on the screen. This is a crude form of the experiment, if you seek to conduct this in a more professional manner you can upgrade the materials accordingly.
Of course. I was actually making an obscure reference to the doctrine of Schessenbecker, which argued (and failed to establish) that hierarchical view of nature and man is inherently wrong. Philosophically, his work is unsound. Alas, nobody understands my humor...
Tiny X-rays of Tiny Animals
Fruit flies aren't animals. They're insects....
I am going to equip myself with *every item* from thinkgeek strapped to my torso in one form or the other. I think that the general geek aura (think: radiation) sent off by all of these devices when turned on would discourage any ruffians.
It's still a fascinating, damn good idea. I'm being honest when I've been thinking of a similar OS design, though I haven't ironed out particulars. Anyone care to make it a reality?
not a troll, but there are certainly better reviews out there. Check out salon for an honest review that goes beyond plot summary. As always, rotten tomatoes has a plethora of opinions. Remember, there's more than Katz out there (thank god)
Depending on his grandma for insight?
I think you're just spinning his words into flat, impotent insults. Your failure to produce a reasonable argument is compounded by your terrible handle on the English language. Absolutely pathetic.
You don't deserve to post this horseshit. Milwaukee may be in the middle of nowhere, but *you* are offered no additional insight even if you *do* happen to live in a big city. You're only given the illusion that you somehow belong to a group that actually 'knows how the world really is.' Perhaps the reason you associate insight into life with living in a big city is your (readily shown) stupidity. Your own inadequacy leads you to mistakently identify yourself with a successful, happening, big-city lifestyle, and you are closest to it only when moaning about it on slashdot. Instead of saying anything of value, you post a worthless, unintelligible string of letters onto our monitors, annoying our intellects with its idiocy and wasting our bandwidth with its very existence.
Let me tell you, because apparently your drunken, absentee parents never did: there are losers everywhere in this country, even in your big-ass city, and you are counted among their ranks. Now fuck off!
I am not the guy you've been bitching at in this thread. I'm just appalled at your ignorance.
i've always wanted to know where this post originaly came from. where was this copied from?
I've decided to lump them together as they deal with Java's use as a learning language, as opposed it's traditional use as an application language, and in many cases, which looks to be replacing C/C++ in this role
You're not the only one.
The AP Computer Science Course for high schoolers announced this year that in 2003, they will be replacing C/C++ with Java.
And as you said, for the 99.99% of users who aren't "aware" of any possible web options, they're going to absent-mindedly click OK, thinking that it's some required part of the internet.
Historically, Microsoft has maintained its power and forced its proprietary standards because it *makes* proprietary technology required. Amazon.com doesn't care if Smart Tags are a terrible infringement upon freedom on the internet; they just want to stay afloat and make MONEY. Companies like Amazon will incorporate these technologies into their website because it allows them to reach the customer in a new way. Eventually, content and "Smart Tags" will become so blurred that the latter will be required to view essentially any modern site on the internet.
That is how Microsoft establishes its proprietary, abusive technologies. Its also making liasons with the recording industry (see: built in copyright protection); just another example. If Microsoft was the only company that tramples over rights for a profit, then their technology would never take off. It is the collection of *all* companies forming a veritable "Establishment" that is depriving us of a free internet.