I like your idea... of course, amazon.com is not the best source of info. I have been advocating isbn.nu for years for this sort of thing. They're not perfect, but pretty nice. Of course, you could always just look something up in The Library of Congress (Search their catalog Here).
I personally thought Oath of Fealty was a wonderful book. I have been fascinated by arcologies since (yes I admit it) Sim City 2000. It was a great example of sf that doesn't have to have a lot of space travel, futurism, etc. It was a good mix of plausible current/near-future tech and speculation. I also liked the interpersonal and political aspects.
in fact, the inch is precisely defined as well. The definition of an inch is in terms of centimeters! In other words, the US has really been using the metric system all along (since 1964 at least)! Here is an article about it
time_t on many systems is a 32 bit signed integer that counts the number of seconds since (for instance) midnight of January 1,1970. This counter will rollover about February of 2038 (I don't remember the exact number, but it would be easy enough to find out), which might theoretically create some problems (anyone remember Y2K?). Of course, even with 64-bit times, we still have to worry about the year 5 billion or so iirc:-)
:-) yet another reason to be running distributed.net or some otherways to tie up your cpu. After all, if you are not using your processor, those cycles are just going to waste.
reminds me of an old unix admin who tee'd his syslog to/dev/audio, so he could hear a tick when something happened. Sort of like a Geiger counter, if it starts happening fast, you know something is going on (automated break-in attempt, DOS, slashdotting, etc.)
SPAM: Trademark for spiced, chopped ham manufactured by Hormel.
spam: Unsolicited, Bulk E-mail, where e-mail can be interpreted generally to mean electronic messages designed to be read by an individual, and it can include Usenet, SMS, AIM, etc. But if it is not all three of Unsolicited, Bulk, and E-mail, it simply is not spam. Misusing the term plays into the hands of the spammers, since it causes confusion, and spammers thrive on confusion. If you were not confused, would you patronize a spammer? (blatantly ripped from Nick Simicich)
Yeah, I have noticed that too. I think they increased the percent chance of modding, either that or the chances of modding are increased by good metamods.
yes, I know how you feel. I just did exactly the same thing, didn't read slashdot for a few days, log in, *woo* I have mod points! read some comments, got ready to mod, *oops* no mod points:-(
I thought that there was a reserved range of IPv6 addresses that corresponded to IPv4 addresses. In other words, I thought that IPv6 was a superset of IPv4, and all the old IPv4 stuff would still work. Now I know.
This sounds like a serious issue in and of itself. I had never heard of it except for this comment. I think that would be a good one for the FSF to try to take on, since they actually own the copyright to GNU tar, gz, etc. It would be cool if it could get submitted as a story, instead of just a comment, to get more exposure.
There was an interesting quote in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash about the Yakuza. When the main character, Hiro Protagonist, was thinking of joining them, some representatives from the Mafia said, "You never hear the Mafia described as the Sicicilian Yakuza"
Perhaps I may have been a little hasty in labelling the poster a troll. I just figured it was common knowledge that slashdot does not answer pings, and therefore anyone saying it was trying to get a reaction. It may not be as common of knowledge as I believed.
Ping slashdot.org to find out the latency of your connection.
ok, I'll bite this troll. Slashdot hasn't answered pings (ICMP echo requests) for a very long time. The poster obviously didn't actually try to ping slashdot.org... food for thought, or just innocent mistake?:-)
If I use security measures (such as encrypting all my traffic) I have something to hide, and must be a terrorist. If I don't, I am allowing others to use my network, so I must be a terrorist.
Slashdot Mirror
I like your idea... of course, amazon.com is not the best source of info. I have been advocating isbn.nu for years for this sort of thing. They're not perfect, but pretty nice. Of course, you could always just look something up in The Library of Congress (Search their catalog Here).
I personally thought Oath of Fealty was a wonderful book. I have been fascinated by arcologies since (yes I admit it) Sim City 2000. It was a great example of sf that doesn't have to have a lot of space travel, futurism, etc. It was a good mix of plausible current/near-future tech and speculation. I also liked the interpersonal and political aspects.
in fact, the inch is precisely defined as well. The definition of an inch is in terms of centimeters! In other words, the US has really been using the metric system all along (since 1964 at least)! Here is an article about it
I thought it was Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley...
don't forget about .int, a specifically mandated tld for things which are international in scope.
That was actually useful! Thanks.
I agree with you. Modding down is a waste of time. There are a few stupid exceptions such as blatantly obvious trolls, but normally, I just mod up.
I am sure that I am not the only one who thought that the famous sf book by heinlein could be applicable here.
time_t on many systems is a 32 bit signed integer that counts the number of seconds since (for instance) midnight of January 1,1970. This counter will rollover about February of 2038 (I don't remember the exact number, but it would be easy enough to find out), which might theoretically create some problems (anyone remember Y2K?). Of course, even with 64-bit times, we still have to worry about the year 5 billion or so iirc :-)
:-) yet another reason to be running distributed.net
or some other ways to tie up your cpu. After all, if you are not using your processor, those cycles are just going to waste.
reminds me of an old unix admin who tee'd his syslog to /dev/audio, so he could hear a tick when something happened. Sort of like a Geiger counter, if it starts happening fast, you know something is going on (automated break-in attempt, DOS, slashdotting, etc.)
SPAM: Trademark for spiced, chopped ham manufactured by Hormel.
spam: Unsolicited, Bulk E-mail, where e-mail can be interpreted generally
to mean electronic messages designed to be read by an individual, and it
can include Usenet, SMS, AIM, etc. But if it is not all three of
Unsolicited,
Bulk, and E-mail, it simply is not spam. Misusing the term plays into the
hands of the spammers, since it causes confusion, and spammers thrive on
confusion. If you were not confused, would you patronize a spammer?
(blatantly ripped from Nick Simicich)
Yeah, I have noticed that too. I think they increased the percent chance of modding, either that or the chances of modding are increased by good metamods.
yes, I know how you feel. I just did exactly the same thing, didn't read slashdot for a few days, log in, *woo* I have mod points! read some comments, got ready to mod, *oops* no mod points :-(
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Here is the original presentation on the topic: Peppercorn Micropayments via Better Lottery Tickets by Rivest which gives some more details.
I thought that there was a reserved range of IPv6 addresses that corresponded to IPv4 addresses. In other words, I thought that IPv6 was a superset of IPv4, and all the old IPv4 stuff would still work. Now I know.
This sounds like a serious issue in and of itself. I had never heard of it except for this comment. I think that would be a good one for the FSF to try to take on, since they actually own the copyright to GNU tar, gz, etc. It would be cool if it could get submitted as a story, instead of just a comment, to get more exposure.
There was an interesting quote in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash about the Yakuza. When the main character, Hiro Protagonist, was thinking of joining them, some representatives from the Mafia said, "You never hear the Mafia described as the Sicicilian Yakuza"
Perhaps I may have been a little hasty in labelling the poster a troll. I just figured it was common knowledge that slashdot does not answer pings, and therefore anyone saying it was trying to get a reaction. It may not be as common of knowledge as I believed.
Ping slashdot.org to find out the latency of your connection.
:-)
ok, I'll bite this troll. Slashdot hasn't answered pings (ICMP echo requests) for a very long time. The poster obviously didn't actually try to ping slashdot.org... food for thought, or just innocent mistake?
it's called Net::TCP
*duck*
ok, my bad. I didn't know about the term rectangular distribution, but it makes sense.
If I use security measures (such as encrypting all my traffic) I have something to hide, and must be a terrorist. If I don't, I am allowing others to use my network, so I must be a terrorist.