...that if you don't buy "Genuine Quality Nokia Batteries", your phone will burst into flames!!! Come'on people, don't we see a little self-serving FUD here? Doesn't Lexmark claim that off-brand ink catridges will make your printer burst into flames?
BATTERY ERROR! Non-Nokia battery detected! This phone will self-destruct in 10 seconds...9, 8...
Open source needs more CAREFUL representation. If one quotes this article to literate people, putting the '[sic]' disclaimer after every pitiful grammar and spelling mistake, it becomes a sic, sic article. A good cause and informed debate can carry the day, Mr. Stevenson, but why handicap yourself with such juvenile writing? How about asking your English-major girlfriend, of SOMEBODY, to look things over before you publish them? Did the information on that CD contain such poor and distracting writing?
[troll]
Maybe if he had at least typed it in Word, he would have gotten some spelling and grammar checking?
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I'm sorry, but open source word processors have spelling and grammar checking too. You couldn't tell from this article. If that CD Ken Barber is passing around is this pathetic, he is hurting the cause at least a little.
Oh yea! And what's going to happen when we run out of IPs for them all!?
No sweat! Microsoft's new IPv2006.Net, while incompatible with all non-microsoft hardware and software, will provide a 16 Peta-address block for every city block on the planet. It will, therefore be implemented by the new UN office: World Addressing Helpfullness Hierarchy (WAHH). We can then have a population of trillions and STILL have internet connected toasters! (Whew, I feel better now.)
New from O'Reilly "SCO in a Nutshell", or more affectionately known as "The Weasel Book."
I have it on authority that Apu uses a Linux-based register at the Kwik-E-Mart! I can't remember if he uses SuSe, or if that was the name of one of his kids...
If a company that handles sensitive information can't use ssh and scp, or some other secure mechanism, aren't they liable for legal action? Isn't financial data required to be protected by something equivelent to HIPPA?
If each piece of mail had a GUID, you could call up its tracking from their web site without them having to know who was tracking it, or why. For someone to trace your mail, they would have to know the GUID for that envelope, which does not have your ID in it. According to the USPS web site: "In fiscal year 2002, the USPS sorted and delivered nearly 203 billion pieces of mail, about 670 million pieces a day." A 38-bit GUID gives you 256G GUIDs, enough to tag every piece for a year. Make it a little bigger, say 64-bits and you have plenty of room for all US Mail. Make it 128-bit and you can tag every piece of mail on the planet.
This could be very enlightening, as the listed annoyances could be checked again a year after the book comes out. I would dearly love to see a comparison with other O'Reilly Annoyances books, which are ALL about M$ products, to see what percentage of the problems listed actually got dealt with after one year, two years...etc, and at what cost.
NO! Down, Sig! Bad Sig! Down! Get off the screen...!
No mold or mildew involved because there doesn't have to be water vapor involved. The mist does not get things wet, according to the article. That means it is not water. More like the fake smoke used for special effects, probably.
Two posts in one article and I already used my sig, now what...?
I wonder how well a laminar flow smoke curtain would do with images projected on BOTH sides? The cool effect I imagine is walking down a corridor with several of these screens crossing it. As you walk through the image of a wall with a door in it, you turn around and see the image of the other side of the "wall". Look forward again and you see the next "wall", which you can also walk through to see what's on the other side. The series of images could give a tourist a walk right through a virtual pryramid, or some other interesting tour, like the entrance hall in the opening sequence of 'Get Smart' or MST3K.
...think of a sig, quick! Oh no! Too late... arrrrrgh!!!
Governor Grey Davis of California today proposed a controversial plan to ease the state's energy woes by placing a 10% tax on all blood donations. The controversial part is that it is 10% of the blood itself that is to be turned over to the state. "This is a way for patriotic Californians to help others," said the Governor, "and I hope to get some value out our burgeoning homeless population." An annonymous source in the Governor's office claimed Davis, who had been depressed over calls for his ouster because of bizzare policy decisions, became excited about the idea after reading an article on Slashdot, a nerdy-geek web site.
"The Linux community, having made it clear they consider most people too stupid to use Linux, tried again today to figure out why Microsoft is so popular..."
As a tech working on DOS and WfW3.11 machines on a Netware network in the Navy, I knew nothing of OSS in the early 90's. For intranet email, we were running a 100 user license for Lotus cc:Mail that didn't even have an internet mail connector, which they quoted us several thousand dollars for. A wiser-man-than-me told me to look into Pegasus and Mercury by David Harris. I downloaded it for free, downloaded the free manuals, read them, installed it, and it worked perfectly! What a shock! It was better than cc:Mail in every way, and it was free! David Harris joined ADM Grace Hopper on my hero list. Pegasus may not fit the OSS definition exactly, but it introduced me to the concept in a project that saved my command thousands of dollars while working better and having more usefull features than the commercial competitor. I think it interesting that this was learned in a very commercial DOS/Win/Netware shop with no Linux in sight.
This post was randomly generated by man on too much coffee and too little sleep beating on a keyboard.
This oldie-but-goodie was an intelectual break through for me. It consists of three 1966 Asimov texts in one volume. The three books, "Motion, Sound and Heat", "Light, Magnatism and Electricity", and "The Electron, Proton and Neutron", were put into one volume as "Understanding Physics" in 1993 by Barnes and Nobel. I read it myself about 1995 because it showed up on the bargain rack at about $5 for the hardback. It is still only $9.98 from their web site (see link above).
The book reads chronologicaly from ancient Greece through the sixties and show how we came to believe and/or prove what we know of these subjects. In a chapter on the "Ether" and the Michalson-Morely experiment, I had in my mid-thirties the "Aha!" moment I never had in school about General Relativity. Also particularly valuable to me was the description of exactly how Mendelev arrived at the periodic table, and how that lead us to predict the properties of elements we hadn't even discovered yet! This book was specifically written for non-scientists who wanted to know some of the big ideas that were driving the discussion of the day, and it has Asimov's quality writing and historical perspective to make it very readable.
I say "we" and "us" because Asmimov wrote of how the human race, not just and individual, devised ways of thinking and investigating that lead to thing no one individual could have dreamed of. Anyway, its my favorite "science" book, and I highly recommend it.
Which, interpreted, means: "I want someone else to tell me who to like/dislike."
Q: Why does the web-phone NOT tell you the nearest restraunt to your current location?
A: Because only certain restraunts have PAID the phone company to be available that way.
In other words, if you let someone else compile a database and then use it to make decisions, you give them the power to adjust that database in accordance with THEIR AGENDA. If you know and support the specific group and their ideals, that can be a good thing. But if you don't know how many groups are involved? How did they make their decisions? How was it keyed in? What are all their agendas?
This kind of thing comes under the heading of believing everything you hear/read/download...
It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time... They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.
I was destined to be an actor. The day I was born I stood up and took a bow. Really. When the doctor slapped me, I thought it was applause!
This is such FUD!!! There is a pure sales agenda behind the drive for v6. V6 has advantages over v4, but they come at extreme costs and the customers DON'T WANT IT! The garbage about 100 addresses for every person is just stupid hype that harkens back to the internet-connected-toaster days! AAAARRRRRrrrrgh!!!
Warning - Blood pressure exessive. Bleed me before my head explodes!
I don't see this as a big deal. I spent 20 years in the US Navy, and would assume my fingerprints and photo were available forever to anyone with the right access. The DNA does not seem like an escalation. I wouldn't want any of it to be public or EASY to get to mind you...
No pain, no gain: So if I keep automating with NT shell scripts, I should be a bizzlionare in no time!
Same fatal flaw as every free product info model - business-based info (ads) vice the info wanted by the user. Every form of this idea has the same problem.
My local newspaper web site has a business pages link, but only pulls up those who are paying to be there, so it is not usefull at all. The local yellow pages are only usefull in this way because almost EVERYBODY is listed. When shopping for anything, I don't wish for access to the vacuuous drivel on the products web site, I wish for instant lookup in Consumer Reports or other independant review. Ask your OnStar system for the nearest Mexican restraunt and it will drive you right passed three of them to take you to the one that paid to be listed in OnStar's system.
Stupid question of the day: How do you get Slashcode to not put the web site name in square brackets next to a link?
"In a democratic republic, WE are the government."
I agree with the sentiment, but it is technically wrong. If WE were the government, it would be a strict democracy, which the US never was. As a republic, WE ELECT the government. Once they are in office we can only depend on the rule of law to hold them accountable until the next election. The American form of government has always been based on the assumption that we send people we trust to go to the capital and act on our behalf. Individual decisions are not returned to the electorate for decision, presumably because that is not practical.
Geek Dictionary: "KEYBOARD - A standard device used to generate computer errors."
Why do so many of them simulate analog displays? All of the displays are digitaly generated, of course, but the majority simulate and analog watch face. What's the point? Digital time is easier to read and can be clearly displayed on less screen area, leaving more room for other usefull(?) functions. I'm not surprised they'd have SOME analog displays, but why MOST?
You said this watch would tell! It don't tell nuth'n, I still have to LOOK at it!
From Congressman Berman's own web site, you can see how chummy he is with the Holywood crowd, and even the BSA thrown in for good measure. Quoting from his own summaries:
"...Congressmen David Dreier (R-San Dimas) and Howard Berman (D-Van Nuys) joined by a bipartisan group of 44 Members of the House of Representatives today re-introduced legislation that provides wage-based tax relief for film and television projects produced in the United States..."
"...Rep. Howard Berman lauded the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Business Software Alliance (BSA), and Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) for their announcement of joint policy principles..."
Slashdot Mirror
...that if you don't buy "Genuine Quality Nokia Batteries", your phone will burst into flames!!! Come'on people, don't we see a little self-serving FUD here? Doesn't Lexmark claim that off-brand ink catridges will make your printer burst into flames?
BATTERY ERROR! Non-Nokia battery detected! This phone will self-destruct in 10 seconds...9, 8...
I, uh... for one..., err... WELCOME our new, umm... Borg overlords! Yeah..., I really do..., um... Go Bill!
Mr. Bill? Can I please have my data back now?
How about asking your English-major girlfriend, of SOMEBODY...
Ummm...that was supposed to be "or SOMEBODY..."
My...err...English-major girlfriend would not answer my calls...and I didn't see what that Preview was for...and...uhh...
Open source needs more CAREFUL representation. If one quotes this article to literate people, putting the '[sic]' disclaimer after every pitiful grammar and spelling mistake, it becomes a sic, sic article. A good cause and informed debate can carry the day, Mr. Stevenson, but why handicap yourself with such juvenile writing? How about asking your English-major girlfriend, of SOMEBODY, to look things over before you publish them? Did the information on that CD contain such poor and distracting writing?
[troll]
Maybe if he had at least typed it in Word, he would have gotten some spelling and grammar checking?
[/troll]
I'm sorry, but open source word processors have spelling and grammar checking too. You couldn't tell from this article. If that CD Ken Barber is passing around is this pathetic, he is hurting the cause at least a little.
I prefer swimsuit models! But then I'm new to /., and will probably lose interest after a few more weeks of geek indocrination...
This sig is covered by the MyPL. Anyone who reads it owes me money!
1. Get a brush.
2. Brush Schrodinger's cat.
3. Count the hairs in the brush.
4. Patent stupid idea.
5. Profit!
BTW, how do you make the square brackets "[site]" after a web link go away in your post?
Oh yea! And what's going to happen when we run out of IPs for them all!?
No sweat! Microsoft's new IPv2006.Net, while incompatible with all non-microsoft hardware and software, will provide a 16 Peta-address block for every city block on the planet. It will, therefore be implemented by the new UN office: World Addressing Helpfullness Hierarchy (WAHH). We can then have a population of trillions and STILL have internet connected toasters! (Whew, I feel better now.)
New from O'Reilly "SCO in a Nutshell", or more affectionately known as "The Weasel Book."
I have it on authority that Apu uses a Linux-based register at the Kwik-E-Mart! I can't remember if he uses SuSe, or if that was the name of one of his kids...
If a company that handles sensitive information can't use ssh and scp, or some other secure mechanism, aren't they liable for legal action? Isn't financial data required to be protected by something equivelent to HIPPA?
If each piece of mail had a GUID, you could call up its tracking from their web site without them having to know who was tracking it, or why. For someone to trace your mail, they would have to know the GUID for that envelope, which does not have your ID in it. According to the USPS web site: "In fiscal year 2002, the USPS sorted and delivered nearly 203 billion pieces of mail, about 670 million pieces a day." A 38-bit GUID gives you 256G GUIDs, enough to tag every piece for a year. Make it a little bigger, say 64-bits and you have plenty of room for all US Mail. Make it 128-bit and you can tag every piece of mail on the planet.
This could be very enlightening, as the listed annoyances could be checked again a year after the book comes out. I would dearly love to see a comparison with other O'Reilly Annoyances books, which are ALL about M$ products, to see what percentage of the problems listed actually got dealt with after one year, two years...etc, and at what cost.
NO! Down, Sig! Bad Sig! Down! Get off the screen...!
No mold or mildew involved because there doesn't have to be water vapor involved. The mist does not get things wet, according to the article. That means it is not water. More like the fake smoke used for special effects, probably.
Two posts in one article and I already used my sig, now what...?
I wonder how well a laminar flow smoke curtain would do with images projected on BOTH sides? The cool effect I imagine is walking down a corridor with several of these screens crossing it. As you walk through the image of a wall with a door in it, you turn around and see the image of the other side of the "wall". Look forward again and you see the next "wall", which you can also walk through to see what's on the other side. The series of images could give a tourist a walk right through a virtual pryramid, or some other interesting tour, like the entrance hall in the opening sequence of 'Get Smart' or MST3K.
...think of a sig, quick! Oh no! Too late... arrrrrgh!!!
Sacramento
Governor Grey Davis of California today proposed a controversial plan to ease the state's energy woes by placing a 10% tax on all blood donations. The controversial part is that it is 10% of the blood itself that is to be turned over to the state. "This is a way for patriotic Californians to help others," said the Governor, "and I hope to get some value out our burgeoning homeless population." An annonymous source in the Governor's office claimed Davis, who had been depressed over calls for his ouster because of bizzare policy decisions, became excited about the idea after reading an article on Slashdot, a nerdy-geek web site.
"The Linux community, having made it clear they consider most people too stupid to use Linux, tried again today to figure out why Microsoft is so popular..."
As a tech working on DOS and WfW3.11 machines on a Netware network in the Navy, I knew nothing of OSS in the early 90's. For intranet email, we were running a 100 user license for Lotus cc:Mail that didn't even have an internet mail connector, which they quoted us several thousand dollars for. A wiser-man-than-me told me to look into Pegasus and Mercury by David Harris. I downloaded it for free, downloaded the free manuals, read them, installed it, and it worked perfectly! What a shock! It was better than cc:Mail in every way, and it was free! David Harris joined ADM Grace Hopper on my hero list. Pegasus may not fit the OSS definition exactly, but it introduced me to the concept in a project that saved my command thousands of dollars while working better and having more usefull features than the commercial competitor. I think it interesting that this was learned in a very commercial DOS/Win/Netware shop with no Linux in sight.
This post was randomly generated by man on too much coffee and too little sleep beating on a keyboard.
This oldie-but-goodie was an intelectual break through for me. It consists of three 1966 Asimov texts in one volume. The three books, "Motion, Sound and Heat", "Light, Magnatism and Electricity", and "The Electron, Proton and Neutron", were put into one volume as "Understanding Physics" in 1993 by Barnes and Nobel. I read it myself about 1995 because it showed up on the bargain rack at about $5 for the hardback. It is still only $9.98 from their web site (see link above).
The book reads chronologicaly from ancient Greece through the sixties and show how we came to believe and/or prove what we know of these subjects. In a chapter on the "Ether" and the Michalson-Morely experiment, I had in my mid-thirties the "Aha!" moment I never had in school about General Relativity. Also particularly valuable to me was the description of exactly how Mendelev arrived at the periodic table, and how that lead us to predict the properties of elements we hadn't even discovered yet! This book was specifically written for non-scientists who wanted to know some of the big ideas that were driving the discussion of the day, and it has Asimov's quality writing and historical perspective to make it very readable.
I say "we" and "us" because Asmimov wrote of how the human race, not just and individual, devised ways of thinking and investigating that lead to thing no one individual could have dreamed of. Anyway, its my favorite "science" book, and I highly recommend it.
Which, interpreted, means: "I want someone else to tell me who to like/dislike."
Q: Why does the web-phone NOT tell you the nearest restraunt to your current location?
A: Because only certain restraunts have PAID the phone company to be available that way.
In other words, if you let someone else compile a database and then use it to make decisions, you give them the power to adjust that database in accordance with THEIR AGENDA. If you know and support the specific group and their ideals, that can be a good thing. But if you don't know how many groups are involved? How did they make their decisions? How was it keyed in? What are all their agendas?
This kind of thing comes under the heading of believing everything you hear/read/download...
It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time... They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.
I was destined to be an actor. The day I was born I stood up and took a bow. Really. When the doctor slapped me, I thought it was applause!
Bobe Hope - 1903-2003
This is such FUD!!! There is a pure sales agenda behind the drive for v6. V6 has advantages over v4, but they come at extreme costs and the customers DON'T WANT IT! The garbage about 100 addresses for every person is just stupid hype that harkens back to the internet-connected-toaster days! AAAARRRRRrrrrgh!!!
Warning - Blood pressure exessive. Bleed me before my head explodes!
I don't see this as a big deal. I spent 20 years in the US Navy, and would assume my fingerprints and photo were available forever to anyone with the right access. The DNA does not seem like an escalation. I wouldn't want any of it to be public or EASY to get to mind you...
No pain, no gain: So if I keep automating with NT shell scripts, I should be a bizzlionare in no time!
Same fatal flaw as every free product info model - business-based info (ads) vice the info wanted by the user. Every form of this idea has the same problem.
My local newspaper web site has a business pages link, but only pulls up those who are paying to be there, so it is not usefull at all. The local yellow pages are only usefull in this way because almost EVERYBODY is listed. When shopping for anything, I don't wish for access to the vacuuous drivel on the products web site, I wish for instant lookup in Consumer Reports or other independant review. Ask your OnStar system for the nearest Mexican restraunt and it will drive you right passed three of them to take you to the one that paid to be listed in OnStar's system.
Stupid question of the day: How do you get Slashcode to not put the web site name in square brackets next to a link?
I know I've seen him somewhere... Isn't PHOTO 10 a spokesman for SCO?
I want to die in my sleep, like my dear old great-grandad... not like all the screaming wusses in the car he hit!
"In a democratic republic, WE are the government."
I agree with the sentiment, but it is technically wrong. If WE were the government, it would be a strict democracy, which the US never was. As a republic, WE ELECT the government. Once they are in office we can only depend on the rule of law to hold them accountable until the next election. The American form of government has always been based on the assumption that we send people we trust to go to the capital and act on our behalf. Individual decisions are not returned to the electorate for decision, presumably because that is not practical.
Geek Dictionary: "KEYBOARD - A standard device used to generate computer errors."
I wasn't hitting my sister in the head... I was trying to call mommy!
Works as a shutter release for the phone-cam too, but you always seem to get blurry pictures... hmmm...
I may not be funny, but at least I'm... well, not not funny...
Why do so many of them simulate analog displays? All of the displays are digitaly generated, of course, but the majority simulate and analog watch face. What's the point? Digital time is easier to read and can be clearly displayed on less screen area, leaving more room for other usefull(?) functions. I'm not surprised they'd have SOME analog displays, but why MOST?
You said this watch would tell! It don't tell nuth'n, I still have to LOOK at it!
From Congressman Berman's own web site, you can see how chummy he is with the Holywood crowd, and even the BSA thrown in for good measure. Quoting from his own summaries:
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DREIER, BERMAN REINTRODUCE RUNAWAY PRODUCTION LEGISLATION
"...Congressmen David Dreier (R-San Dimas) and Howard Berman (D-Van Nuys) joined by a bipartisan group of 44 Members of the House of Representatives today re-introduced legislation that provides wage-based tax relief for film and television projects produced in the United States..."
REP. BERMAN LAUDS AGREEMENT BETWEEN RECORDING INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
"...Rep. Howard Berman lauded the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Business Software Alliance (BSA), and Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) for their announcement of joint policy principles..."
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