They are trying to make the deadline for the Top 500 list of supercomputers here. The conference is in early November and they need to be able to run the LinPack benchmarks on the system in order to get a spot. They will hopefully make it into the Top 5.
750K jobs lost in the USA to the H1B Visa program and the L1 visa program. With 325,000 H1B visas and 329,000 L1 visas in 2001, this can only mean that U.S. citizens are losing their jobs to imported labor. As someone who has a couple friends still looking for work int eh tech industry, I think its a shame that we are sending our jobs overseas and then bringing workers here to take the jobs we still have here. Yeah, it sucks for labor, but it rocks for corporations.
Hmm... maybe it's time we start to ask our congressmen to reduce the number of visas issued.
EM's Mission Statement
Our mission is threefold:
1) To get banned by the Christian Right
2) To get Slashdotted/Farked at least once
3) To make lots of money And of course to have fun in the mean time.
Get some legal advice for your situation. You can usually call an attorney and talk with him/her for 30 min for free. Then ask them if you have a case and whether they think they can win for you. Also, ask if you really have a chance to win some increased compensation and how much they think it would be. Figure out your cost-benefit in all this, and then decide whether or not to proceed.
Age Explorer is a Elderly-discriminating Machine
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Simulate arthritis? Make all of you joints ache? Is this what being old is for all of the elderly? I think not, my friend's father is well over 70 years old, but he bikes everyday, works out, and lives an active lifestyle. Sure he doesn't rave every weekend like a 20 year old, but he lives a very fulfilling life. I'm going skiing with him in a week. This article paints a picture that this machine shows how elderly feel, but in my opinion it paints an extreme case. The elderly can have productive pain free lives.
How they do this, is by taking care of themselves while they are young. Eating right and exercising are great ways to keep you body working at peak performance, so when you do get old, everything still works.
This machine would have the people who try it believe that all the elderly feel this bad all the time. It might lead some to think that euthanasia is the answer or that we should treat the elderly as helpless people, unable to even get onto a bike. Perhaps we shouldn't even let them drive.
A better machine would be one that would show the effects of aging based on the wearer's health, fitness, and diet today and project how they would be in 40 years or so with those same habits. It may reinforce their good health now, or for those who are overweight, show them how diabetes, arthritis, and other diseases will stem from their current state. Then the wearer could see how it would feel if they actually took better care of themselves now. Now that would be a good machine for exploring old age.
Taxation without Representation is what this breaks down to. What is to prevent your local legislature from heavily taxing all out of state transactions? Their constituents shouldn't care, the people affected are not in their districts! Then we get a war of continually raised levies on interstate goods. Then we revert back to colonial times. We might as well just print our own local currencies...
If you have a chance, contact your local and state representatives and let them know that this is the worst thing you've heard of. Otherwise, we'll all be screwed.
Researchers at Massey University in New Zealand unveiled a new defense against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Popuar tech website, Slashdot is a well known attacker to many small sites. The defense employs a technique known as broken links to prevent such attacks. The groups plans to patent the technique and license the technology to several security firms.
My name is Daniel Paul from Fractal Graphics">Fractal Graphics. I'm pretty sure I'm about to commit some type of IP violation of another company. So, I'm posting this on Slashdot the only place where a web site/reader confidentiality rule exists. So please send your free legal advice and subpoenas to:
Fractal Graphics P.O. Box 1675 Western Australia 6872
or just email me at: daniel.paul@fractalgraphics.com.au
Next time I will ask my manager before I reveal possibly damaging company information to the public.
Despite how well their plan to monitor the internet has gone up until this point, did the Chinese governement really expect to keep certain parts of the internet from a billion people?
In a word, Yes. Why shouldn't they after they've had control over all other media. This is just another flow of information. For the Chinese government, this one is even easier to localize. It's a lot harder to have an illegal fiber optic cable network than an illegal anti-government paper distribution system.
Actually the most ironic thing is that a US software company will probably sell them some new whizbang software so they can better filter all that incoming traffic.
The FAA program office is now distinguishing between trouble reports it classifies as critical, which will not necessarily be fixed, and those that it considers "truly critical" that will be fixed. The criteria for making the distinction between "critical" and "truly critical" hardware and software problems is not self-defining and is vague, especially for an air traffic control system.
When the bugs mean the possible deaths of hundreds of people and millions of dollars in damages for the airlines, you'd think that the FAA would try to get this program "truly correct". If I were living in Philadelphia, I would expect longer delays at the airport and the occasional flight traffic controller going Postal at an airport.
For those of you who don't know what gopher is or where it's being used, here is a little info and some links to projects and sites related to this good old protocol.
About gopher: Gopher is an infoserver which can deliver text, graphics, audio, and multimedia to clients. Keeping documents "link clean", making linking a function of the server info-tree and not in the doc, layout is kept to its most frugal minimum, and is standard across all docs. No graphic design means its the ideal navigable interface, a hypertext Eden. It gives simplified usage for sight-impaired users, same contents for wired/wiredless, and requires no capital investments in layout and "design". Gopher is real -- and it was fully functional in 1992, even without advertisements! Taken from the gopher manifesto
For those that want to go gopher hunting. Here's a link to a gopher server at the University of MN. I don't think they will install BackOrifice or something, but user beware!
Moore's Law predicts that this will happen which is that we will see the doubling of hardware capacity per dollar every 18 months. It looks like Intel has just finally decided to shift down it's prices. I guess the gravy train of overcharging on processers is over for now, until they release another model chip (which is really based on the last one). What will they call this one? Pentium V? Pentium Squared? Pentium Pentium?
Nintendo realy has to drop their price now because their unit doesn't have a DVD player and has a much smaller library of games. In order to have any console sales this summer, they need to reduce prices in order to come closer to competing with the PS2.
The PS2 is using the price drop to build momentum for Christmas. If Nintendo doesn't want to get left behind the race, they'll need to drop prices and start dishing out the games. I really have yet to see a flagship game for the Gamecube. Whereas PS2 has GTA3, GT A-spec, MGS2, and quite a few other ones that make you want to buy the platform just to play that game.
The XBox has a serious pressure now as the PS2 takes it to Microsoft. Looks like the XBox will have to follow suit for the same reasons. Although Halo rules, they do need a few more jaw-droppers. Sorry Oddworld just didn't do it for me.
For the ATA133 not to beat the ATA 100 must mean that the systems stested have their processing bottleneck elsewhere. Maybe it's the RAM bandwidth or one of the bus bridges. I would've liked to see this test done with some different motherboard chipsets to see if different architectures make more sense.
It seems that although they remove a really useful program, it does mean that the Core group and committers will have more control of everything that goes into installing and operating the system.
I suppose that some may complain because they are so used to the Windows style bloat ware where someone else makes the choices for you. Ex: Windows Media Player, I prefer Quicktime. Plus I prefer Python over Perl. But not to get into some religious war, it's nice to see that FreeBSD will leave the choice to us. After all, someone who is going to the trouble of installing FreeBSD will probably want to roll it exactly the way they want. Besides, someone can always put an ISO together will some version of Perl and other goodies.
Do you really think that June will be so much different? Don't accept the paycut! Workers unite!
Accepting this paycut will limit your legal rights to your full salary. Plus, what real belief do you have that once management finds that this little jewel of a tactic works, that they won't use it every quarter'e end? If you are going to accept this paycut, you should at least agree with your management that the other 50% is a debt owed to you. Write a lien and file it with your county's recorder office. This way, if they go bankrupt, you can at least collect this part through bankruptcy court.
It's one thing for them to pay you 50% now and the rest later. It's an unconscionable thing to let them just pay you 50% and have you throw away the other 50%.
Also, start floating your resume around. This ship is showing some leaks.
Digital Freedom
Aww shucks...
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Didn't get first post and didn't get proposed to on the internet.
Well this is turning out to be a rotten Valentine's day now isn't it.
Microsoft entering Gameboy's territory. This seems so crazy to me. Sure the XBox can get the older gamers, but I don't see a lot of them playing with GBAs. I saw three little kids in carts this weekend playing their GBAs and I think that shows that the GBA is really for younger kids. The XBox is really geared to an older audience, wherease the GBA and the Gamecube have offerings for a younger audience.
I haven't seen a viable comepetitor to the Gameboy in long time. Last I saw was the Sega Game thingy and maybe that Playstation portable some guy hacked together. Now Gameboy has a huge library of established hits to really provide a barrier to new entries. Any new entrants to the portable game console market are in for a rough time.
I guess this is what you do with a $36 Billion dollar war chest. They're gonna need it.
Whoever proved that an NP problem could be solved in some linear time would probably end up getting put in jail by Verisign or RSA as publishing a way to defeat their software. Then the FSF would have to step in, we would see a bunch of posts on/. about it, and then the Feds would finally get some brains and let that person go.
Doesn't this seem vaguely familiar? Are we in an environment today that really allows us to do what we want with computers or even our minds?
Slashdot Mirror
They are trying to make the deadline for the Top 500 list of supercomputers here. The conference is in early November and they need to be able to run the LinPack benchmarks on the system in order to get a spot. They will hopefully make it into the Top 5.
(pointing at engineers with jaws dropped)
Ha Ha!
Homer says, "D'oh!"
750K jobs lost in the USA to the H1B Visa program and the L1 visa program. With 325,000 H1B visas and 329,000 L1 visas in 2001, this can only mean that U.S. citizens are losing their jobs to imported labor. As someone who has a couple friends still looking for work int eh tech industry, I think its a shame that we are sending our jobs overseas and then bringing workers here to take the jobs we still have here. Yeah, it sucks for labor, but it rocks for corporations.
Hmm... maybe it's time we start to ask our congressmen to reduce the number of visas issued.
Looks like this little stunt helped them get #2.
Go get your Mac groove on!
Get some legal advice for your situation. You can usually call an attorney and talk with him/her for 30 min for free. Then ask them if you have a case and whether they think they can win for you. Also, ask if you really have a chance to win some increased compensation and how much they think it would be. Figure out your cost-benefit in all this, and then decide whether or not to proceed.
Simulate arthritis? Make all of you joints ache? Is this what being old is for all of the elderly? I think not, my friend's father is well over 70 years old, but he bikes everyday, works out, and lives an active lifestyle. Sure he doesn't rave every weekend like a 20 year old, but he lives a very fulfilling life. I'm going skiing with him in a week. This article paints a picture that this machine shows how elderly feel, but in my opinion it paints an extreme case. The elderly can have productive pain free lives.
How they do this, is by taking care of themselves while they are young. Eating right and exercising are great ways to keep you body working at peak performance, so when you do get old, everything still works.
This machine would have the people who try it believe that all the elderly feel this bad all the time. It might lead some to think that euthanasia is the answer or that we should treat the elderly as helpless people, unable to even get onto a bike. Perhaps we shouldn't even let them drive.
A better machine would be one that would show the effects of aging based on the wearer's health, fitness, and diet today and project how they would be in 40 years or so with those same habits. It may reinforce their good health now, or for those who are overweight, show them how diabetes, arthritis, and other diseases will stem from their current state. Then the wearer could see how it would feel if they actually took better care of themselves now. Now that would be a good machine for exploring old age.
Taxation without Representation is what this breaks down to. What is to prevent your local legislature from heavily taxing all out of state transactions? Their constituents shouldn't care, the people affected are not in their districts! Then we get a war of continually raised levies on interstate goods. Then we revert back to colonial times. We might as well just print our own local currencies...
If you have a chance, contact your local and state representatives and let them know that this is the worst thing you've heard of. Otherwise, we'll all be screwed.
Adobe has ported Photoshop 7.0 to OS X. Here's the link.
It's been out for a few months now.
Researchers at Massey University in New Zealand unveiled a new defense against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Popuar tech website, Slashdot is a well known attacker to many small sites. The defense employs a technique known as broken links to prevent such attacks. The groups plans to patent the technique and license the technology to several security firms.
Here's another one that sill has pictures of the MCC: IBM Research article. It looks pretty small and cool.
Google cache for Antelope Technologies and their product. Also, I'd post OQO's cached site, but it is all Flashed up.
Sue me!
My name is Daniel Paul from Fractal Graphics">Fractal Graphics. I'm pretty sure I'm about to commit some type of IP violation of another company. So, I'm posting this on Slashdot the only place where a web site/reader confidentiality rule exists. So please send your free legal advice and subpoenas to:
Fractal Graphics
P.O. Box 1675
Western Australia 6872
or just email me at:
daniel.paul@fractalgraphics.com.au
Next time I will ask my manager before I reveal possibly damaging company information to the public.
Despite how well their plan to monitor the internet has gone up until this point, did the Chinese governement really expect to keep certain parts of the internet from a billion people?
In a word, Yes. Why shouldn't they after they've had control over all other media. This is just another flow of information. For the Chinese government, this one is even easier to localize. It's a lot harder to have an illegal fiber optic cable network than an illegal anti-government paper distribution system.
Actually the most ironic thing is that a US software company will probably sell them some new whizbang software so they can better filter all that incoming traffic.
The FAA program office is now distinguishing between trouble reports it classifies as critical, which will not necessarily be fixed, and those that it considers "truly critical" that will be fixed. The criteria for making the distinction between "critical" and "truly critical" hardware and software problems is not self-defining and is vague, especially for an air traffic control system.
When the bugs mean the possible deaths of hundreds of people and millions of dollars in damages for the airlines, you'd think that the FAA would try to get this program "truly correct". If I were living in Philadelphia, I would expect longer delays at the airport and the occasional flight traffic controller going Postal at an airport.
For those of you who don't know what gopher is or where it's being used, here is a little info and some links to projects and sites related to this good old protocol.
About gopher:
Gopher is an infoserver which can deliver text, graphics, audio, and
multimedia to clients. Keeping documents "link clean", making linking a
function of the server info-tree and not in the doc, layout is kept to
its most frugal minimum, and is standard across all docs. No graphic
design means its the ideal navigable interface, a hypertext Eden. It
gives simplified usage for sight-impaired users, same contents for
wired/wiredless, and requires no capital investments in layout and
"design". Gopher is real -- and it was fully functional in 1992, even
without advertisements!
Taken from the gopher manifesto
Google's Gopher stuff
Yahoo's Gopher stuff
For those that want to go gopher hunting. Here's a link to a gopher server at the University of MN. I don't think they will install BackOrifice or something, but user beware!
I wonder how secure a gopher server is?
Moore's Law predicts that this will happen which is that we will see the doubling of hardware capacity per dollar every 18 months. It looks like Intel has just finally decided to shift down it's prices. I guess the gravy train of overcharging on processers is over for now, until they release another model chip (which is really based on the last one). What will they call this one? Pentium V? Pentium Squared? Pentium Pentium?
don't say what another speaker said a few minutes before you go up. I'm sure the conference attendees will appreciate a repost free conference.
Nintendo realy has to drop their price now because their unit doesn't have a DVD player and has a much smaller library of games. In order to have any console sales this summer, they need to reduce prices in order to come closer to competing with the PS2.
The PS2 is using the price drop to build momentum for Christmas. If Nintendo doesn't want to get left behind the race, they'll need to drop prices and start dishing out the games. I really have yet to see a flagship game for the Gamecube. Whereas PS2 has GTA3, GT A-spec, MGS2, and quite a few other ones that make you want to buy the platform just to play that game.
The XBox has a serious pressure now as the PS2 takes it to Microsoft. Looks like the XBox will have to follow suit for the same reasons. Although Halo rules, they do need a few more jaw-droppers. Sorry Oddworld just didn't do it for me.
For the ATA133 not to beat the ATA 100 must mean that the systems stested have their processing bottleneck elsewhere. Maybe it's the RAM bandwidth or one of the bus bridges. I would've liked to see this test done with some different motherboard chipsets to see if different architectures make more sense.
It seems that although they remove a really useful program, it does mean that the Core group and committers will have more control of everything that goes into installing and operating the system.
I suppose that some may complain because they are so used to the Windows style bloat ware where someone else makes the choices for you. Ex: Windows Media Player, I prefer Quicktime. Plus I prefer Python over Perl. But not to get into some religious war, it's nice to see that FreeBSD will leave the choice to us. After all, someone who is going to the trouble of installing FreeBSD will probably want to roll it exactly the way they want. Besides, someone can always put an ISO together will some version of Perl and other goodies.
switch over to crack. More addictive than ever.
The only way to get them of this version will be to put them on something less stimulating like Flight Simulator. God help us all.
Do you really think that June will be so much different? Don't accept the paycut! Workers unite!
Accepting this paycut will limit your legal rights to your full salary. Plus, what real belief do you have that once management finds that this little jewel of a tactic works, that they won't use it every quarter'e end? If you are going to accept this paycut, you should at least agree with your management that the other 50% is a debt owed to you. Write a lien and file it with your county's recorder office. This way, if they go bankrupt, you can at least collect this part through bankruptcy court.
It's one thing for them to pay you 50% now and the rest later. It's an unconscionable thing to let them just pay you 50% and have you throw away the other 50%.
Also, start floating your resume around. This ship is showing some leaks.
Digital Freedom
Didn't get first post and didn't get proposed to on the internet.
Well this is turning out to be a rotten Valentine's day now isn't it.
Microsoft entering Gameboy's territory. This seems so crazy to me. Sure the XBox can get the older gamers, but I don't see a lot of them playing with GBAs. I saw three little kids in carts this weekend playing their GBAs and I think that shows that the GBA is really for younger kids. The XBox is really geared to an older audience, wherease the GBA and the Gamecube have offerings for a younger audience.
I haven't seen a viable comepetitor to the Gameboy in long time. Last I saw was the Sega Game thingy and maybe that Playstation portable some guy hacked together. Now Gameboy has a huge library of established hits to really provide a barrier to new entries. Any new entrants to the portable game console market are in for a rough time.
I guess this is what you do with a $36 Billion dollar war chest. They're gonna need it.
Whoever proved that an NP problem could be solved in some linear time would probably end up getting put in jail by Verisign or RSA as publishing a way to defeat their software. Then the FSF would have to step in, we would see a bunch of posts on /. about it, and then the Feds would finally get some brains and let that person go.
Doesn't this seem vaguely familiar? Are we in an environment today that really allows us to do what we want with computers or even our minds?