I know it's gonna take some real wunder-spin, but I'm expecting that they will coo on about interoperability, co-work, and lots of nice management platitudes.
In other words, I'm expecting that they're looking on this as a mild publicity stunt. Kudos, though; gutsy move.
Oh, and as for the people Taco thinks will make us look bad, don't think for one second that the people manning the booth will not be prepared.
They have the funds to prepare such that they come out smelling like roses.
Money, in decent quantities, buys perceived reality these days. Remember the last presidential election?:)
Here is where you can plug a URL in to see if it gets filtered or not. And indeed, sourceforge turns out to be a wicked MP3-peddler. Oddly enough, freshmeat is not in there yet.
They also have another interesting and potentially more controversial filtering category: "Anonymizer". Try plugging http://www.anonymizer.com into that box on the link above. Thin legal ice, if you ask me.
I lose patience fast with your kind of unwarranted aggression.
And I will, despite this, still concede that you may unwittingly be right; as posted on/. most readers are thoroughly familiar with the bnetd issue; further mention is unnecessary.
However.
I do believe the general public needs to be 'spoonfed propagandist pablum'. Such words you choose. This is media, and these are average people; messages come across with repetition and spin. This works.
I must encourage you, Mr. caferace, not to look at things too simplistically. I say this while puffing on Marlboros myself.
I can see where you're coming from, but I must disagree. There's a case to be made that the WCIII release and bnetd thing should be mentioned together.
I look at it a little like a kind of responsible advertising/reporting. It's like a cigarette advertisement; a full-page spread about how cool you are if you smoke, and then you have some fine print on the bottom telling you that "Oh, and hey, it'll kill you too."
Yea, that's what I was looking for, actually. Interesting. Coverage where I live atm (Egypt) is patchy beyond belief, and that is what triggered my skepticism gland.
Now we just need to know how coverage is over there, seems to me.
I'll admit to not having very much of a clue how cell coverage works outside my region, but if someone told me that a cell phone was reachable on top of a fucking mountain, I'd take some convincing.
If I'm wrong, I'd like to know. Is this something along the lines of Iridium? I don't gather so from the article.
Because mainstream media covered it first? Nope, nothing to do with it. What I'm saying is that I go to mainstream media sites for this kind of news, and I come to/. for another kind.
That is most definately slashdot material. Hell slashdot does it all the time. Well, if/. does it all of the time is it news? Conceivably, this could be news the first time or three around, but we're well past that.
I knew we shouldn't have let thore Norsemen have their own king and all. This is what happens; they lose passwords left and right.
Besides, I'm sure that the password is just a misspelt danish word. I mean, c'mon, if you can't pronounce danish properly, don't go and call it something else, like Swedish or Norwegian...
The mufti is appointed by the government. And the government here is not exactly, ahem, how shall I put this, a perfect representation of the people's will.
In any case, the mufti will say what the pols tell him to.
Add this up with the fact that MS has the IP police here all stitched up and you'll begin to see where I'm going.
The IP police get tipoffs directly from MS; they get addresses and expected number of licenses/machines that they can expect to find. And let's not call them tipoffs. Let's call them directions.
It can get pretty bad. We're working on setting up a small LUG round here, and I actually met with a contact in the MCIT (IT ministry) about getting them to consider linux. 2 weeks later, they signed a massive deal with MS, upgrading all their boxes to XP.
Do you have any idea how frustrating that is?
Are there any journalists willing to look into this? I hear that sleaze sells rags; plenty of that here.
I'm flabbergasted that the parent is at +4 _insightful_ as I type this... C'mon people, an infinite loop writing to/dev/null to see how much you can cram in there?
I'd rather thought that/dev/null was the most elegant WOM out there...
Heck, they even coded it such that it has infinite capacity, or a very high capacity in any case.
Could someone dedicate a machine for a few years with a shell script running an infinite loop writing data to/dev/null? I personally think it's about time we found out how much you can stash in there.
The way that democracy and judicial system of yours works at the moment, just about the only thing that will get lawmakers to stick up for Joe and Jane is public outrage/ridicule.
Basically, I think the EFF should throw the DMCA at the people who make Crayola. Sue the pirating bastards.
Don't tell me that wouldn't make headlines. And headlines would raise public awareness of the DMCA issue.
If the DMCA is ridiculed in public over its potential uses, I don't think it'll last long.
Never mind whether the EFF would win or lose; the whole point is to showcase the idiocy of this law.
Slashdot Mirror
A few here and there
Cannibalism is what it is.
On the internet scale?
Something along these lines?
There's no nudity. I looked everywhere. What's wrong with you, chrisd?
I know it's gonna take some real wunder-spin, but I'm expecting that they will coo on about interoperability, co-work, and lots of nice management platitudes.
:)
In other words, I'm expecting that they're looking on this as a mild publicity stunt. Kudos, though; gutsy move.
Oh, and as for the people Taco thinks will make us look bad, don't think for one second that the people manning the booth will not be prepared.
They have the funds to prepare such that they come out smelling like roses.
Money, in decent quantities, buys perceived reality these days. Remember the last presidential election?
If there are some good independent media outlets out there, the ones that don't get much press, why don't you write a story about them?
He did.
Here is where you can plug a URL in to see if it gets filtered or not. And indeed, sourceforge turns out to be a wicked MP3-peddler. Oddly enough, freshmeat is not in there yet.
They also have another interesting and potentially more controversial filtering category: "Anonymizer". Try plugging http://www.anonymizer.com into that box on the link above. Thin legal ice, if you ask me.
I lose patience fast with your kind of unwarranted aggression.
/. most readers are thoroughly familiar with the bnetd issue; further mention is unnecessary.
And I will, despite this, still concede that you may unwittingly be right; as posted on
However.
I do believe the general public needs to be 'spoonfed propagandist pablum'. Such words you choose. This is media, and these are average people; messages come across with repetition and spin. This works.
I must encourage you, Mr. caferace, not to look at things too simplistically. I say this while puffing on Marlboros myself.
I can see where you're coming from, but I must disagree. There's a case to be made that the WCIII release and bnetd thing should be mentioned together.
I look at it a little like a kind of responsible advertising/reporting. It's like a cigarette advertisement; a full-page spread about how cool you are if you smoke, and then you have some fine print on the bottom telling you that "Oh, and hey, it'll kill you too."
soccer/football (or was it rugby? I forget) that was forced to resort to cannibalism
I don't think there has ever been a verified case of one football eating another.
Are you sure you got your facts straight?
Yea, that's what I was looking for, actually. Interesting. Coverage where I live atm (Egypt) is patchy beyond belief, and that is what triggered my skepticism gland.
Now we just need to know how coverage is over there, seems to me.
I'll admit to not having very much of a clue how cell coverage works outside my region, but if someone told me that a cell phone was reachable on top of a fucking mountain, I'd take some convincing.
If I'm wrong, I'd like to know. Is this something along the lines of Iridium? I don't gather so from the article.
Is any /.'er really surprised?
:)
I'm sure we could have told them that. We know these people quite well.
Time to find some sturdy cover, probably.
... at the top of the msnbc page the post links to, and you know Palladium won't make it.
4 guys posing for a picture, looking like they just broke into your house and liked what they saw.
Not for me, thank you indeed.
Saint Aardvark writes "I just came across VillainSupply.com, and I'm sold.
Robotic Tiger pricetag: $1.2 billion, batteries not included.
You're sold? *scratches head*
Bill, you're not welcome on slashdot. We don't even like your operating system.
Shoo.
Is a moderate mechanical response; a gentle but reassuring clackety-clack when I press the keys.
That's something we haven't had since when, the XT keyboards? All this membrane bollocks is so impersonal.
I don't need new layouts, I need a back to basics keyboard...
Good. Going by that standard, we should also be covering the mideast conflict, inter alia?
I must respectfully disagree, CodeMonky.
/. for another kind.
/. does it all of the time is it news? Conceivably, this could be news the first time or three around, but we're well past that.
Because mainstream media covered it first?
Nope, nothing to do with it. What I'm saying is that I go to mainstream media sites for this kind of news, and I come to
That is most definately slashdot material. Hell slashdot does it all the time.
Well, if
Guess this will be my first trolling mod here, but I do not see what this is doing on slashdot.
I got this days ago from the mainstream media.
This is not what I expect from slashdot. Yet another testament to the need for a more democratic story acceptance system.
I knew we shouldn't have let thore Norsemen have their own king and all. This is what happens; they lose passwords left and right.
Besides, I'm sure that the password is just a misspelt danish word. I mean, c'mon, if you can't pronounce danish properly, don't go and call it something else, like Swedish or Norwegian...
The mufti is appointed by the government. And the government here is not exactly, ahem, how shall I put this, a perfect representation of the people's will.
In any case, the mufti will say what the pols tell him to.
Add this up with the fact that MS has the IP police here all stitched up and you'll begin to see where I'm going.
The IP police get tipoffs directly from MS; they get addresses and expected number of licenses/machines that they can expect to find. And let's not call them tipoffs. Let's call them directions.
It can get pretty bad. We're working on setting up a small LUG round here, and I actually met with a contact in the MCIT (IT ministry) about getting them to consider linux. 2 weeks later, they signed a massive deal with MS, upgrading all their boxes to XP.
Do you have any idea how frustrating that is?
Are there any journalists willing to look into this? I hear that sleaze sells rags; plenty of that here.
I'm flabbergasted that the parent is at +4 _insightful_ as I type this... C'mon people, an infinite loop writing to /dev/null to see how much you can cram in there?
:-)
:-) Oh well, it's your party
I'd rather thought that /dev/null was the most elegant WOM out there...
/dev/null? I personally think it's about time we found out how much you can stash in there.
Heck, they even coded it such that it has infinite capacity, or a very high capacity in any case.
Could someone dedicate a machine for a few years with a shell script running an infinite loop writing data to
Sounds good. Just one little addendum: if she's gonna need hammers and screwdrivers to make friends, then I think you can skip the condoms.
Let's see what you folks make of this.
The way that democracy and judicial system of yours works at the moment, just about the only thing that will get lawmakers to stick up for Joe and Jane is public outrage/ridicule.
Basically, I think the EFF should throw the DMCA at the people who make Crayola. Sue the pirating bastards.
Don't tell me that wouldn't make headlines. And headlines would raise public awareness of the DMCA issue.
If the DMCA is ridiculed in public over its potential uses, I don't think it'll last long.
Never mind whether the EFF would win or lose; the whole point is to showcase the idiocy of this law.
Anyone listening?