I don't think this project is as cool as you think. Just recently, I was
cut off from my ISP for sending too many TTL expired messages and port
unreachables back to random places in the Internet. My ISP thought that
I was the target of illegal hackers. I did not ask for this traffic to be
sent to me, yet it was. If Barrett is reading this, I am located behind
66.35.250.0/24.
The volumes of useless traffic (traffic that is not used to communicate with
anyone) he sending is causing a Denial of Socket (DoS) to networks across the world.
I just want my network connection to be left alone. The art he is producing
is entirely abstract and no use for judging the effects of natural disasters
on the Internet as he suggests.
Winners were announced in three categories: Commercial for industrial/medical/transportation/other; Commercial for military/aerospace/COTS;
I'm not comfortable with linux and open source being seen to be cosy with the military. We're effectively supporting state sponsored terrorism around the world. I can only hope that Theo maintains his views of the military steadfast in this dark time.
I look around at the comments in this story and see a lot of people complaining about not being able to get a job. Perhaps if you people got off your asses and stopped reading sites with zero content in order to pass time you could find a job.
I know i'm not having a trouble keeping my job. Perhaps you should keep your websurfing until you get home.
reveals that spam has little to do with the issue. In fact, he provides two reasons why anti-spam tools cause more unnecessary queries to the root servers than spam emails.
So this is yet another reason not to block spam.
Not only do we delete legitimate mail when this anti-spam software gets a false negative, we place load on the fragile root servers.
Please stop using spam assassin, for the good of the Internet.
The BBC has a story on NASA's plans for a successor to the Space Shuttle. From the article: Nasa has revealed its first set of mission criteria for the Orbital Space Plane (OSP) - the series of space vehicle expected to replace the space shuttle from 2012. The new spacecraft's primary function will be to ferry crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS) and serve as a lifeboat if the station has to be evacuated.
the International Space Station is no longer relevant in this post-columbia age where spage exploration is dangerous. We put peoples lives at risk routinely for 3rd grade science experiments to see how a hamster behaves in zero gravity.
Instead of focusing on the dangerous space station, we should revive our plans to walk on Mars. Mars is virgin territory, and that excites me.
I'm glad there is competition in the search engine marketplace. For too long, google has held an illegal monopoly, forcing geeks with a social conscience like myself to use a second-rate search engine that cannot afford google's patent royalties.
I can only hope that overture remedies this situation.
I tend to prefer people not taking the law into their own hands. Lynch mobs seem to come to mind.
how is this different from P2P users taking the law into their own hands? P2P users should NOT have safety in numbers like the nazis, the kkk, and the catholic priests.
to anyone who has ever written a piece of code that is not trivial. There is no way that the courts system could cope with the millions of theives who use P2P daily. While two wrongs do not make a right, perhaps corporations that have millions of offences committed against them daily should be able to take revenge.
I've never understood why people want to write anything in a scripted language, given that compiled languages (C, C++, Java) are, without exception, faster than interpreted languages (Perl, PHP, Python). Perhaps people who write real software resent those who try to take shortcuts with their software engineering.
It's a lengthy but engaging writeup of that chamber of horrors we call high school and why being smarter than the average bear is more of a liability than an asset during that stage in life.
that is one way to read the article and account for the horrors that some geeks go through.
another is to say that if geeks are so smart, then why do they not see how to stop the torment? conform!!
we can see clearly by looking at the photos on that article that the geeks look bad. get a haircut, put a smile on your face, and lose the braces for crying out loud!
instead of joining the debating team and being masterful at chess - why not go to the gym, lose some weight, and join the football team.
in a world where the fittest survive, i'm surprised that more geeks do not do this already.
instead of watching anime and star trek, why don't we watch friends and survivor instead. at least that will give us something in common with mainstream society.
we geeks need to conform, sell-out, and fit into mainstream society if linux is to advance beyond the server.
Currently we rely on positioning techniques such as cell cite triangulation for solving murders and the like. Imagine if we could identify everyone who was close to the scene of a murder or rape?
Surely the privacy implications should be balanced with the crime fighting implications?
It is a shame that OSNews did not question the UI designers about the removal of the taiwanese flag from redhat. It is even more shameful that no one on slashdot cares about it.
The average reader appears to take the stance that "Redhat exists to make money, and if this is what they have to do, then so be it." I find this insulting coming from a
movement which is supposedly all about freedom.
It appears that free software is merely all about not paying for software and the downfall of microsoft.
The average slashbot is going to say "Redhat exist to make money, and if this is what they have to do, so be it. It doesn't hurt anyone". I find this insulting coming from a movement which is supposedly all about freedom. Given slashdot still has not covered this issue with a story, it appears that free software is all about not paying for software and the downfall of microsoft.
So a movement that is all about freedom stops short when dealing with real freedoms? No one can take open source hippies seriously if they can only think about lame software bullshit?
I have been using this for about 9 months now for doing xdmcp to a freebsd box running xdm, such as how they suggest. i have found it to be rock solid.
i run the latest server in the server test series. they recently added -nodecoration, which makes the x server use as much of your screen as possible, without any title bar or borders. My xdmcp command line, setup as a shortcut on my win2k desktop, looks like this:
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The volumes of useless traffic (traffic that is not used to communicate with anyone) he sending is causing a Denial of Socket (DoS) to networks across the world.
I just want my network connection to be left alone. The art he is producing is entirely abstract and no use for judging the effects of natural disasters on the Internet as he suggests.
I look around at the comments in this story and see a lot of people complaining about not being able to get a job. Perhaps if you people got off your asses and stopped reading sites with zero content in order to pass time you could find a job.
I know i'm not having a trouble keeping my job. Perhaps you should keep your websurfing until you get home.
- linux is superior to windows,
- we should be allowed to steal music and be left alone by the MPAA,
- we should be allowed to steal movies and be left alone by the RIAA.
Before we all go off on a tirade about how unoriginal hollywood is, perhaps we should examine what happens on this very board.Not only do we delete legitimate mail when this anti-spam software gets a false negative, we place load on the fragile root servers.
Please stop using spam assassin, for the good of the Internet.
Instead of focusing on the dangerous space station, we should revive our plans to walk on Mars. Mars is virgin territory, and that excites me.
I can only hope that overture remedies this situation.
to anyone who has ever written a piece of code that is not trivial. There is no way that the courts system could cope with the millions of theives who use P2P daily. While two wrongs do not make a right, perhaps corporations that have millions of offences committed against them daily should be able to take revenge.
I've never understood why people want to write anything in a scripted language, given that compiled languages (C, C++, Java) are, without exception, faster than interpreted languages (Perl, PHP, Python). Perhaps people who write real software resent those who try to take shortcuts with their software engineering.
Or we may find ourselves without the ability to enforce the GPL.
we geeks need to conform, sell-out, and fit into mainstream society if linux is to advance beyond the server.
The baby bells do not own the lines, so I don't see why they should go crying to the state like little boys.
The same argument applies to software vendors who want to force Microsoft to include their application software on the Windows installation CD.
And that is because I have nothing to hide.
Currently we rely on positioning techniques such as cell cite triangulation for solving murders and the like. Imagine if we could identify everyone who was close to the scene of a murder or rape?
Surely the privacy implications should be balanced with the crime fighting implications?
you forget that linux is a unix clone, and that a clone by definition does not do anything new.
you are a moron. just how egotistical are you? stick to linux - unix for tools.
show me where in the GNU Free Software philosophy it says anything about market forces. I'm sorry, but you've got open source and free software mixed up thanks to the king of flatulence
It is a shame that OSNews did not question the UI designers about the removal of the taiwanese flag from redhat. It is even more shameful that no one on slashdot cares about it.
The average reader appears to take the stance that "Redhat exists to make money, and if this is what they have to do, then so be it." I find this insulting coming from a movement which is supposedly all about freedom.
It appears that free software is merely all about not paying for software and the downfall of microsoft.
Redhat removed the taiwan flag from KDE so that they can sell in china.
The average slashbot is going to say "Redhat exist to make money, and if this is what they have to do, so be it. It doesn't hurt anyone". I find this insulting coming from a movement which is supposedly all about freedom. Given slashdot still has not covered this issue with a story, it appears that free software is all about not paying for software and the downfall of microsoft.
How lame.
So a movement that is all about freedom stops short when dealing with real freedoms? No one can take open source hippies seriously if they can only think about lame software bullshit?
By the way, your hemp analogy is flawed. Stoner.
seriously, what are you going to do when you have the source? grep for spyware?
I have been using this for about 9 months now for doing xdmcp to a freebsd box running xdm, such as how they suggest. i have found it to be rock solid.
i run the latest server in the server test series. they recently added -nodecoration, which makes the x server use as much of your screen as possible, without any title bar or borders. My xdmcp command line, setup as a shortcut on my win2k desktop, looks like this:
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe -screen 0 1600x1200 -from spandex -query lycra -once -emulate3buttons -nowinkill -nounixkill -nodecoration -fp "tcp/lycra:7100"
The -fp option is for a font server, so cygwin/xfree86 will get the necessary fonts from the machine you tell it.
HTH
the metric time story has nearly 1000 posts.
this brings a tear to my eye.
- mjl
Jon Katz is going to be on letterman. watch the man make bad arguments in real life!
cry me a river