Give each dorm room its own unique IP address and then force the users to register all of the MAC address for their equipment.
This way you can isolate individual users from the network and cut off their access if problems arise. Sure, DCHP is better in a perfect world but we're not talking about a perfect world, we're talking about a college network.
Hell.... we should all go back to playing Zork, Deadline and Leather Goddess of Phobos! I had more fun playing Adventure on the mainframe at Fermilab then anything that has come out recently.
I don't want to watch a mini-movie or blow up demons.... I want to get lost in the game and very few games hold up to that standard today.
The voter fills in the little bubble for the person of their choice. They insert it into a reader and its checks to make sure the voter didn't do anything stupid (voted for multiple individuals, etc...). If there was a mistake it spits the ballot out while making a loud buzzing sound and informs the user about the error. If the user corrects the error or if there was no error to begin with the voting machine accepts the ballot and issues a receipt. This way we get the convenience of a machine count but with a paper trail that can be scored by hand if needed.
I really don't see how SCO can hope to win in the long run.
Lets assume that Linux does in fact have SCO owned code and that they somehow convinve the courts to keep which part of the code they own secret from the public. How long do they think that state of affairs will last? Eventually, it will be leaked and as soon as it is people will patch Linux like crazy to remove the offending code.
The only way SCO can keep this going is if the code DOES NOT exist. The fact that someone from the insided hasn't already leaked the supposedly tainted code is the biggest single fact in my mind that such code does not exist.
could the government use this technique to start on their national DNA database? scary thought...
Wouldn't a national DNA database be a good thing? How many crimes go unsolved even when DNA is found but no match is made? How many people have been released from death row because of advances in DNA tech that didn't even exist when they were wrongly put away? More information is a good thing, people!
Sure.... a few people may misuse it. Maybe my insurance company will raise my tab because they see I carry a gene for heart disease but why shouldn't they? They're gambling that I don't get sick. They're proving a service. If you think they shouldn't be able to ask for a DNA scan you probably think they have no business asking for your family history or whether you smoke. Please!
Sounds great, but what about monitoring your viewing habits?
Who cares! If you're so ashamed at what you are watching that you're scared somebody might find out then maybe you should stop watching it in the first place.
Frankly, I WANT advertisers to know what I watch. If they can get accurate data maybe the shows me and my friends watch have a chance of surviving beyond the first season.
The story sounds like its using a method that the copper industry has been using for years, expect in this case with microbes that crave uranium instead if copper. They don't eat or destroy the uranium, just chemically transform it into insoluble forms that can be easily filtered out of groundwater.
Biological heap leaching is an inexpensive way to extract the metal from low-grade ores where copper is bound in a sulfide matrix. As the microbes chew up the ore, which has been treated with sulfuric acid to encourage them, the copper is released and concentrated in a solution that flows into a catch basin. The metal is extracted, and the acid solution is recycled.
Want to make some money, here's all you have to do:
Step 1: Buy a computer Step 2: Use the P2P program of your choice Step 3: Take a bunch of files that *YOU* have the copyright for or that are in the public domain and share them to the world. Step 4: Make sure a few files are named something like b-spears.mp3, metallica,mp3 or harlanellison.doc. Step 5: Document everything! Step 6: Wait to get sued. Step 7: Legal stuff Step 8: Profit!
I, for one, welcome our new robot masters. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted online personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground titanium mines.
But seriously, any work that can be done better by a machine should be done by a machine and not a man, otherwise the man becomes a machine.
One of the biggest problems in the future will most likely be finding creative and fulfilling jobs for the masses. That is until the machines take over and kill us all.
Dean's only economic package is lowering the defecit. Thats it! Go to his website and prove me wrong?
Hell, that's all I want! How can anyone expect our economy to grow when we've saddled ourselves with so much debt. Face it, the economy is too large and complex for anyone to control. A program here, a tax break there is not going to do anyone any good in the long run. However, paying down our debt to free up money for future generations will pay out real dividends.
Don't blame me when my killer robot attacks your town... I couldn't afford the royality fees to build the ethical mechanical servant I wanted. This man has doomed us all!
I wonder how many requests they get and what kind of verification they do to make sure that the requests are legit?
Honestly, how hard is it to photoshop up some letterhead and fax it to eBay claiming you're a member of law enforcement? This could be an easy way for crooks to get the credit info of some of eBay's powersellers, who likely have some excess cash.
2003-06-22
LRP == R.I.P. (1997-2002)
With great pain, I must now state:
The operating system that helped to create the embedded Linux marketplace, the
Linux Router Project (LRP), is dead.
Ummmm..... dude, you are mistaken. If the Linux Router Project is truly GPL
then it cannot die. It really does not make a difference whether the creator
of a GPL program decides to call it quits or not. In the long term you do not
matter anymore. Under the GPL your program will live as long as other people
are interested in developing and maintaining the code, your feelings are not
important to its survival. In fact, your complains just sound like sour grapes.
If your life sucks then make yourself a new life, don't blame other people for
not acting the way you wish they would for your own benefit.
"The rest is dictated to them by managament, which in turn is dictated by how much the labels are willing to pay the station. Payola is well and truly still alive."
So.... its not that the labels promote their clients its that they prevent radio stations from playing who they want via massive and illegal bribes. Tell me again why the record labels are a good thing?
From what I have seen there is nothing that QNX does that Linux can't do
that would justify the license cost.
Except not crash.....
I'm sorry but as much as I like linux I want something a little more robust
running my nuclear power plants and laser eye-surgery machines. I think that
warrants a little extra cost.
Find a new job and when you leave make sure they know why you quit.
If you can't find a new job then try to gather as many fellow employes into a work slowdown. It is of the upmost important that management be made to understand that their behavior will not result in increased productivity at no additional cost.
Trust me.... if they see that they can get away with using the stick without the added incentive of the carrot they will continue to do so. Why should they pay you more if they can get additional work from you for free?
Why does this just not quite add up to me. I mean, our ancestors were not
stupid, they posessed the same intuition and logic that we do today. Whay did
it take so long to get where we are now though?
Because they started with nothing, not even language. Think how hard it would
have been for early humans to pass on knowledge about their world without a
fully developed language to facilitate the transfer. How many thousands of years
did it take our early ancestors to evolve a language that could express concepts
more complex than Ogg smash!? I'm sure if we forced five
thousand Slashdot readers on a remote island without any tools or books their
descendants will have developed a complex civilization in just a few hundred
years. But they'll be able to do that because they're standing on the shoulders
of giants and already posses the greatest tool Mankind has, language.
...came to Earth with the promise to solve the world's problems through
their high technology, but after gaining control of the planet through subterfuge
and media manipulation, began to methodically kill their hosts.
So.... it's a story about the United States' liberation of the Middle East?
We interrupt your regular programming to inform you that five Muslim men were arrested earlier today on a Boeing 747 heading to New York after they attempted to turn on all of their cell phones at the same time. Following this aborted terrorist attempt the President has raised the Terror Alert to the color Indigo. More news at 11.
"My buddy bought some Imac with firewire for $150 bucks. AV version I think it was called. Anyways he brought it over, I patched his OS9 to its latest patches. He had it for about 2 weeks until the monitor gave out."
Put two and two together, buddy. The reason your friend was able to buy a firewire AV iMac for just $150 was because the previous owner must have realized that the video was goign flaky.
Apple warned them that their rates were too high. They had to fight tooth and nail to get MPEG-LA to drop its rates to their current level, maybe now they'll listen...
"This is too scary. I am now ready for a little less convenience and a little more privacy. How about you?"
Hey... the genie is already out of the bottle, the only question left is who will he serve? The rich, powerful, well-connected or crooked could always find out whatever they wanted to about you. The only difference now is they can do it a lot faster. Privacy laws only prevent us from spying on them.
What we need are sunshine laws that allow everybody to spy on everyone. I don't care if I live in a fishbowl as long as everybody else does too. Big deal if they put cameras on every street corner, in the police departments, at my work. If you want to se how much I earn or what I bought last week fine. Just set up the system so everybody can see all of the info, not just the rich and powerful. That will give us true freedom. Who will watch the watchmen, the watched.
Slashdot Mirror
Give each dorm room its own unique IP address and then force the users to register all of the MAC address for their equipment.
This way you can isolate individual users from the network and cut off their access if problems arise. Sure, DCHP is better in a perfect world but we're not talking about a perfect world, we're talking about a college network.
No agreements necessary
1. Boot from floppy
2. fdisk
3. Install OS of your choice
And how does this solve anything if the EULA is in the BIOS as is the case with the new Dell Inspiron 5100 notebooks?
Hell.... we should all go back to playing Zork, Deadline and Leather Goddess of Phobos! I had more fun playing Adventure on the mainframe at Fermilab then anything that has come out recently.
I don't want to watch a mini-movie or blow up demons.... I want to get lost in the game and very few games hold up to that standard today.
What's wrong with using scantron voting ballots?
The voter fills in the little bubble for the person of their choice. They insert it into a reader and its checks to make sure the voter didn't do anything stupid (voted for multiple individuals, etc...). If there was a mistake it spits the ballot out while making a loud buzzing sound and informs the user about the error. If the user corrects the error or if there was no error to begin with the voting machine accepts the ballot and issues a receipt. This way we get the convenience of a machine count but with a paper trail that can be scored by hand if needed.
I really don't see how SCO can hope to win in the long run.
Lets assume that Linux does in fact have SCO owned code and that they somehow convinve the courts to keep which part of the code they own secret from the public. How long do they think that state of affairs will last? Eventually, it will be leaked and as soon as it is people will patch Linux like crazy to remove the offending code.
The only way SCO can keep this going is if the code DOES NOT exist. The fact that someone from the insided hasn't already leaked the supposedly tainted code is the biggest single fact in my mind that such code does not exist.
could the government use this technique to start on their national DNA database? scary thought...
Wouldn't a national DNA database be a good thing? How many crimes go unsolved even when DNA is found but no match is made? How many people have been released from death row because of advances in DNA tech that didn't even exist when they were wrongly put away? More information is a good thing, people!
Sure.... a few people may misuse it. Maybe my insurance company will raise my tab because they see I carry a gene for heart disease but why shouldn't they? They're gambling that I don't get sick. They're proving a service. If you think they shouldn't be able to ask for a DNA scan you probably think they have no business asking for your family history or whether you smoke. Please!
Sounds great, but what about monitoring your viewing habits?
Who cares! If you're so ashamed at what you are watching that you're scared somebody might find out then maybe you should stop watching it in the first place.
Frankly, I WANT advertisers to know what I watch. If they can get accurate data maybe the shows me and my friends watch have a chance of surviving beyond the first season.
The story sounds like its using a method that the copper industry has been using for years, expect in this case with microbes that crave uranium instead if copper. They don't eat or destroy the uranium, just chemically transform it into insoluble forms that can be easily filtered out of groundwater.
Biological heap leaching is an inexpensive way to extract the metal from low-grade ores where copper is bound in a sulfide matrix. As the microbes chew up the ore, which has been treated with sulfuric acid to encourage them, the copper is released and concentrated in a solution that flows into a catch basin. The metal is extracted, and the acid solution is recycled.
Want to make some money, here's all you have to do:
Step 1: Buy a computer
Step 2: Use the P2P program of your choice
Step 3: Take a bunch of files that *YOU* have the copyright for or that are in the public domain and share them to the world.
Step 4: Make sure a few files are named something like b-spears.mp3, metallica,mp3 or harlanellison.doc.
Step 5: Document everything!
Step 6: Wait to get sued.
Step 7: Legal stuff
Step 8: Profit!
I, for one, welcome our new robot masters. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted online personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground titanium mines.
But seriously, any work that can be done better by a machine should be done by a machine and not a man, otherwise the man becomes a machine.
One of the biggest problems in the future will most likely be finding creative and fulfilling jobs for the masses. That is until the machines take over and kill us all.
Dean's only economic package is lowering the defecit. Thats it! Go to his website and prove me wrong?
Hell, that's all I want! How can anyone expect our economy to grow when we've saddled ourselves with so much debt. Face it, the economy is too large and complex for anyone to control. A program here, a tax break there is not going to do anyone any good in the long run. However, paying down our debt to free up money for future generations will pay out real dividends.
Don't blame me when my killer robot attacks your town... I couldn't afford the royality fees to build the ethical mechanical servant I wanted. This man has doomed us all!
I wonder if his database could stop Slashdot from posting duplicate stories. This was posted yesterday, man!
I wonder how many requests they get and what kind of verification they do to make sure that the requests are legit?
Honestly, how hard is it to photoshop up some letterhead and fax it to eBay claiming you're a member of law enforcement? This could be an easy way for crooks to get the credit info of some of eBay's powersellers, who likely have some excess cash.
Seller was awesome! Totally fast shipping! Great communication! I love my sticker and will buy again! A+++++++
2003-06-22
LRP == R.I.P. (1997-2002)
With great pain, I must now state:
The operating system that helped to create the embedded Linux marketplace, the Linux Router Project (LRP), is dead.
Ummmm..... dude, you are mistaken. If the Linux Router Project is truly GPL then it cannot die. It really does not make a difference whether the creator of a GPL program decides to call it quits or not. In the long term you do not matter anymore. Under the GPL your program will live as long as other people are interested in developing and maintaining the code, your feelings are not important to its survival. In fact, your complains just sound like sour grapes. If your life sucks then make yourself a new life, don't blame other people for not acting the way you wish they would for your own benefit.
"The rest is dictated to them by managament, which in turn is dictated by how much the labels are willing to pay the station. Payola is well and truly still alive."
So.... its not that the labels promote their clients its that they prevent radio stations from playing who they want via massive and illegal bribes. Tell me again why the record labels are a good thing?
From what I have seen there is nothing that QNX does that Linux can't do that would justify the license cost.
Except not crash.....
I'm sorry but as much as I like linux I want something a little more robust running my nuclear power plants and laser eye-surgery machines. I think that warrants a little extra cost.
Find a new job and when you leave make sure they know why you quit.
If you can't find a new job then try to gather as many fellow employes into a work slowdown. It is of the upmost important that management be made to understand that their behavior will not result in increased productivity at no additional cost.
Trust me.... if they see that they can get away with using the stick without the added incentive of the carrot they will continue to do so. Why should they pay you more if they can get additional work from you for free?
Why does this just not quite add up to me. I mean, our ancestors were not stupid, they posessed the same intuition and logic that we do today. Whay did it take so long to get where we are now though?
Because they started with nothing, not even language. Think how hard it would have been for early humans to pass on knowledge about their world without a fully developed language to facilitate the transfer. How many thousands of years did it take our early ancestors to evolve a language that could express concepts more complex than Ogg smash!? I'm sure if we forced five thousand Slashdot readers on a remote island without any tools or books their descendants will have developed a complex civilization in just a few hundred years. But they'll be able to do that because they're standing on the shoulders of giants and already posses the greatest tool Mankind has, language.
So.... it's a story about the United States' liberation of the Middle East?
NEWS ALERT!
We interrupt your regular programming to inform you that five Muslim men were arrested earlier today on a Boeing 747 heading to New York after they attempted to turn on all of their cell phones at the same time. Following this aborted terrorist attempt the President has raised the Terror Alert to the color Indigo. More news at 11.
"My buddy bought some Imac with firewire for $150 bucks. AV version I think it was called. Anyways he brought it over, I patched his OS9 to its latest patches. He had it for about 2 weeks until the monitor gave out."
Put two and two together, buddy. The reason your friend was able to buy a firewire AV iMac for just $150 was because the previous owner must have realized that the video was goign flaky.
Apple warned them that their rates were too high. They had to fight tooth and nail to get MPEG-LA to drop its rates to their current level, maybe now they'll listen...
"This is too scary. I am now ready for a little less convenience and a little more privacy. How about you?"
Hey... the genie is already out of the bottle, the only question left is who will he serve? The rich, powerful, well-connected or crooked could always find out whatever they wanted to about you. The only difference now is they can do it a lot faster. Privacy laws only prevent us from spying on them.
What we need are sunshine laws that allow everybody to spy on everyone. I don't care if I live in a fishbowl as long as everybody else does too. Big deal if they put cameras on every street corner, in the police departments, at my work. If you want to se how much I earn or what I bought last week fine. Just set up the system so everybody can see all of the info, not just the rich and powerful. That will give us true freedom. Who will watch the watchmen, the watched.