blah blah blah Ford gives computers to employees...
How is this an "astounding better idea"? Better than what? How is it even relevant to the business they're in? It's nice and all, but wouldn't raises accross the board be a better idea? I mean, it's not going to be some great boon to internet society that an extra few thousand or hundred thousand come online. If I were a Ford employee I'd feel screwed. What if I/already/ had a computer and internet access? I sure would rather get a raise or better health coverage. This is just a ploy. Sort of like how dumping tons of money into computers for public schools was supposed to be some sort of panacea that would magically make everything better.
Copyleft is an application of Copyright to subvert copyright itself.
Could this be an "Open"Patent...an application of the patent system intended to subvert the patent? Essentially patenting it with the express permission for anybody to use/modify/distribute it...as the Copyleft copyrights something with the express permission for anybody to use/modify/distribute it.
Quark-Gluon Plasma brand glue is the product of space-age technology. It is excellent for bonding all forms of matter together, porous or non-porous. If you need to bond matter, we have the gluon for you!
This amazing product of atom smashing is yours for the low low price of $19.20.
(Keep away from children, oxygen, and other gaseous metalloids. Store in a cold (10K), dark, highly compressed place. If product is imbibed, rinse with talc, and self-immolate quickly. Use only in a well-ventilated noble gas atmosphere.)
It's really sad how conciousless and amnesiac humanity as a whole is (well, maybe just Americans). Good old Edison was the king of electricity (not that dirty Eastern European), Native Americans peacably let us have this continent and have been our friends for centuries, which we celebrate by "Thanks" Giving (not brutally slaughtered and persecuted up to modern times in a "manifest destiny" that still lingers today), and black slaves were our happy-go-lucky companions grateful for being "civilized" by us, and fortunate to be able to drink from the same fountains and use the same restrooms (not robbed from cradles, herded with wooden yokes, and stuffed like cattle into a ship so they could slaves, then indentured servants, then lesser citizens, then prime targets for hate crimes).
I wonder who we'll "rediscover" 104 years from now.
Here at Cornell we use Kerberos for authentication for virtually every network service. We've haven't really ever been able to maintain *nix support as well as Windows and Mac, which the majority of users have. We've sort of left the Linux bunch out in the dark because there are only kludgy Kerberos implementations for *nix. It would be great if there was an effort to create a standard University distro, catering to the more idiosynchratic university needs.
I came home yesterday to hear the news proclaim "Yahoo Hacked!"...I thought somebody had actually "cracked" into Yahoo. I thought I heard Yahoo runs OpenBSD, so I wanted to hear this. I waited for the story, and it just turns out to be a DoS! Albeit a more cluefull distributed one, but still...
"Geek: A member of the new cultural elite, a pop-culture-loving, techno-centered"
Um, unless I'm grossly missing it, aren't geeks more inclined to hate or be disgusted with pop culture? After all, is the the popular culture that has rejected many of us and made us what we are. I can't stand pop culture...filled we Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys, Pokemon, and all the other worthless trappings of rampant commercialism. The only form of pop-culture I can stand is the Andy Warhol take, in which pop-culture is its own comedic and tragic art.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. A database-like file system, support attribute-rich data. I mentioned this a while back on another article. I have got to get a copy of Be and stick it on a partition. I think BeOS is the hottest thing since grits-down-your-pants...I gotta stop being lazy and look into it. The developement environment/API sounds heavenly too.
They say they use multiple clocks to increase speed. Sometimes the best inventions are those that simply make sense. I mean, most commodity chips heretofore are locked down to one clock. That means the tiniest circuit still has to wait for clock to compute another value. That doesn't make any sense. Have independent smaller clocks, and make the computing asynchronous and have each component just fill up a queue. Match up the results with their ids/stamps and there you go. Without independent clocks, the slowest component will dictate the overall cpu speed.
In your example, though, there is a distinct children's area where it would make sense to use filtering, and where it wouldn't affect any other adult's use of the internet.
In general, the community needs to decide if, and how much, filtering it needs. In ALL cases, any adult should be able to come to a counter and say "I am a competent adult. I request filtering turned off my my session only." In small town public libraries where there is a low ratio of people expected to actually request this, it makes sense to turn on the filtering by default according to what the community decides. In large state or federal public libraries, where the populace is a lot larger and generic, and it is not possible to know the ratio of people who actually want filtering, keep it off by default. In all cases, any adult should be allowed to use the internet censorship-free, if at least on request (I suppose if they are/really/ sensitive, they could request that it be turned/on/ in cases when it is not). This of course only applies to public libraries...private institutions can do whatever they please.
Algorithm for filtering:
const float MAJORITY = 66.666;// two thirds
boolean shouldwefilter(person) {
if (person.isAdult && person.requestsNoFiltering) return false;
Borland has been around a long time and has a very large and successful product line. How long has Corel been around, and what does it have besides a relatively recent Linux distro? It would seem to me to make more sense the other way around, Borland buying Corel. Not saying it's good or bad...just weird.
I expect tomorrow Winzip (Niko Mak) will buy Microsoft in order to leverage their product.
I think this is a technical issue. It/would/ definately be great to backend weblog-like frontends with traditional "open" communications mediums like USENET. I wouldn't get on VA's case too much. They/do/ have mailing lists. I don't think anybody is intentionally attempting to appropriate or make it difficult for others to access discussions. It is just a technical matter of/how/ to "open" it up.
I think it is just a matter of integrating communications mediums. I think XML has a great potential for facilitating this.
Re:Why UseNet will remain popular
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I agree...usenet is unbeatable as a discussion medium. It is somewhere between uninteractiveness of email, and the short but high-interactiveness of chat/IM.
In fact, look at slashdot. I use "nested" mode, which is exactly what usenet does; discussions are threaded.
I think usenet is a very large and important type of electronics communications medium.
Is it just me or is this just a big pile of incoherent 1950s sci-fi pulp fiction? It sounds awfully hokey to me.
The review says that the probability of life originating "by chance" are like the probability of a tornado constructing a 747. First of all, what the reviewer quips as "chance", physicists call the laws of physics. And second of all, continuing the 747 analogy, how more probable would it be for the tornado to build a 747 if dust particles could move through a "multiverse"? Would they pop out, read up on 747s, and then pop back in and build one?
It all seems way to far fetched for me to swallow. At least the theory that life originated from a highly improbably combination of physical circumstances/makes sense/.
I was just thinking about steganography with images. But you can certainly do the same thing with a story.
Find a very large and unrelated text. At random intervals introduce "typos" which are the correct character shifted by the ascii code of the desired character (or, where this makes unprintable characters restrict your destination alphabet to printable characters). Given a sufficiently large text, the typos should be pretty unnoticeable on the whole, but if you know what you are doing you can rediscover the hiddend text. Or run an intelligent program with the output text against a dictionary, or original document, looking for typo's.
Does anybody have a large manifesto in which to hide the code?;]
Everybody is going nuts over "journalistic integrity". I look at it this way:
Rob and the guys have been doing this as a hobby for fun for quite a long time. Now lots of peripheral things have happened, but Slashdot is still a bunch of techies writing news for techies. Do you really think any of the admins would really stand for it if Andover or VA attempted to pollute their integrity with gratuitous articles? So Andover "bought" Slashdot and VA "bought" Andover. It just means the checks have different return addresses on them, that's all. I think it is quite obvious that techies and the open-source community are the MOST touchy when comes to exploitation or commercialization. Why would VA or Andover want to shoot themselves in the foot by pissing off their whole target audience? The only way you win in this new market is by the good graces of the community. Nobody wants to piss anybody off.
Um, isn't the whole basis of the defense that merely cracking the CSS does not circumvent copy protection, because there/is no/ copy protection, unless of course you consider regional coding "protection", which itself is illegal by international law???
I TOTALLY AGREE. WE SHOULD NOT WORRY ABOUT ANDOVER CONTROLLING CONTENT. PEOPLE SHOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT AND INSTEAD START READING THE MAIN ARTICLES MORE. AND ALSO CLICK THE BANNERS. THEY ARE COOL. REMEMBER, YOU CONTROL THE CONTENT, NOT US, I MEAN ANDOVER.
And that is how you develop excellently implemented but outdated technology. Don't flame, I'm not being a troll...but the path you cite takes/time/. According to this path, a Cathedral model would just start after the consolidation stage and finish faster (although it might be crappier code). This is a problem then...if you allow things to be too chaotic too early you end up with a/really/ long path like this, while all the Cathedral-goers will have already invented and implemented many new things.
It's obvious that/too/ much diversity in the face of scarce developer resources is bad. There are no absolutes...this isn't an issue of the Bazaar being "absolutely" better than the "cathedral", because "diversity is categorically better under all circumstances".
We should be more conscious of splintering and further fractioning developer resources, and stop being so arrogant as to think that spawning hundreds of identical projects isn't really going to hurt us. According to the path you describe, it will, because the consolidation period will be very long, at which point the Cathedral has just got a head start on us.
When you start an open-source project, there is a very crucial first-step in which the basis of the project is created by a certain minimum core of developers. After this the project has the foundation required to attract and support new developers and developments.
I think your argument is not exactly sound. If not enough developer mass is gained within this crucial first stage, then the project stagnates. To extrapolate, if many similar projects are started and concurrently compete with each other for developers at an early stage (in which none of them are well-defined) they will stunt each other and not be able to attract any substantive amount of developers, and it will be very hard to escape the stagnation. Eventually developers will get tired and bored and go away (not necessarily to other projects either).
Slashdot Mirror
blah blah blah
/already/ had a computer and internet access? I sure would rather get a raise or better health coverage. This is just a ploy. Sort of like how dumping tons of money into computers for public schools was supposed to be some sort of panacea that would magically make everything better.
Ford gives computers to employees...
How is this an "astounding better idea"? Better than what? How is it even relevant to the business they're in? It's nice and all, but wouldn't raises accross the board be a better idea? I mean, it's not going to be some great boon to internet society that an extra few thousand or hundred thousand come online. If I were a Ford employee I'd feel screwed. What if I
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Copyleft is an application of Copyright to subvert copyright itself.
Could this be an "Open"Patent...an application of the patent system intended to subvert the patent? Essentially patenting it with the express permission for anybody to use/modify/distribute it...as the Copyleft copyrights something with the express permission for anybody to use/modify/distribute it.
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Quark-Gluon Plasma (as seen on TV)
Quark-Gluon Plasma brand glue is the product of space-age technology. It is excellent for bonding all forms of matter together, porous or non-porous. If you need to bond matter, we have the gluon for you!
This amazing product of atom smashing is yours for the low low price of $19.20.
(Keep away from children, oxygen, and other gaseous metalloids. Store in a cold (10K), dark, highly compressed place. If product is imbibed, rinse with talc, and self-immolate quickly. Use only in a well-ventilated noble gas atmosphere.)
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It's really sad how conciousless and amnesiac humanity as a whole is (well, maybe just Americans). Good old Edison was the king of electricity (not that dirty Eastern European), Native Americans peacably let us have this continent and have been our friends for centuries, which we celebrate by "Thanks" Giving (not brutally slaughtered and persecuted up to modern times in a "manifest destiny" that still lingers today), and black slaves were our happy-go-lucky companions grateful for being "civilized" by us, and fortunate to be able to drink from the same fountains and use the same restrooms (not robbed from cradles, herded with wooden yokes, and stuffed like cattle into a ship so they could slaves, then indentured servants, then lesser citizens, then prime targets for hate crimes).
I wonder who we'll "rediscover" 104 years from now.
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Here at Cornell we use Kerberos for authentication for virtually every network service. We've haven't really ever been able to maintain *nix support as well as Windows and Mac, which the majority of users have. We've sort of left the Linux bunch out in the dark because there are only kludgy Kerberos implementations for *nix. It would be great if there was an effort to create a standard University distro, catering to the more idiosynchratic university needs.
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I came home yesterday to hear the news proclaim "Yahoo Hacked!"...I thought somebody had actually "cracked" into Yahoo. I thought I heard Yahoo runs OpenBSD, so I wanted to hear this. I waited for the story, and it just turns out to be a DoS! Albeit a more cluefull distributed one, but still...
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hukt on foniks dint werk fer me...
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"Geek: A member of the new cultural elite, a pop-culture-loving, techno-centered"
Um, unless I'm grossly missing it, aren't geeks more inclined to hate or be disgusted with pop culture? After all, is the the popular culture that has rejected many of us and made us what we are. I can't stand pop culture...filled we Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys, Pokemon, and all the other worthless trappings of rampant commercialism. The only form of pop-culture I can stand is the Andy Warhol take, in which pop-culture is its own comedic and tragic art.
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Yes, IMO the Lone Gunmen stink. They reinforce every bad stereotype about geeks/hackers. Socially inept, wacko conspiracy theorists, dangerous...etc.
I don't watch X-Files, but the times I've had to I've groaned whenever the Lone Gunmen appear.
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This is exactly what I'm talking about. A database-like file system, support attribute-rich data. I mentioned this a while back on another article. I have got to get a copy of Be and stick it on a partition. I think BeOS is the hottest thing since grits-down-your-pants...I gotta stop being lazy and look into it. The developement environment/API sounds heavenly too.
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They say they use multiple clocks to increase speed. Sometimes the best inventions are those that simply make sense. I mean, most commodity chips heretofore are locked down to one clock. That means the tiniest circuit still has to wait for clock to compute another value. That doesn't make any sense. Have independent smaller clocks, and make the computing asynchronous and have each component just fill up a queue. Match up the results with their ids/stamps and there you go. Without independent clocks, the slowest component will dictate the overall cpu speed.
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Chameleon: "Brookesia spectrum/perarmata"
Brooks?
Brookie?
Or how about "Camile" the Chameleon?
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How about SuSiE/suzy/susie/suzie the SuSE mascot?
(You know...after you spell and say the name "suzy" a couple of times it loses all meaning)
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In your example, though, there is a distinct children's area where it would make sense to use filtering, and where it wouldn't affect any other adult's use of the internet.
/really/ sensitive, they could request that it be turned /on/ in cases when it is not). This of course only applies to public libraries...private institutions can do whatever they please.
// two thirds
In general, the community needs to decide if, and how much, filtering it needs. In ALL cases, any adult should be able to come to a counter and say "I am a competent adult. I request filtering turned off my my session only." In small town public libraries where there is a low ratio of people expected to actually request this, it makes sense to turn on the filtering by default according to what the community decides. In large state or federal public libraries, where the populace is a lot larger and generic, and it is not possible to know the ratio of people who actually want filtering, keep it off by default. In all cases, any adult should be allowed to use the internet censorship-free, if at least on request (I suppose if they are
Algorithm for filtering:
const float MAJORITY = 66.666;
boolean shouldwefilter(person) {
if (person.isAdult && person.requestsNoFiltering) return false;
if (populace_requesting_filtering / total_populace >= MAJORITY)
return true;
else
return false;
}
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Ok...the markets are /really/ wacky now.
Borland has been around a long time and has a very large and successful product line. How long has Corel been around, and what does it have besides a relatively recent Linux distro? It would seem to me to make more sense the other way around, Borland buying Corel. Not saying it's good or bad...just weird.
I expect tomorrow Winzip (Niko Mak) will buy Microsoft in order to leverage their product.
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I wonder if the moderator who moderated that post as "redundant" realized it was satire.
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I think this is a technical issue. It /would/ definately be great to backend weblog-like frontends with traditional "open" communications mediums like USENET. I wouldn't get on VA's case too much. They /do/ have mailing lists. I don't think anybody is intentionally attempting to appropriate or make it difficult for others to access discussions. It is just a technical matter of /how/ to "open" it up.
I think it is just a matter of integrating communications mediums. I think XML has a great potential for facilitating this.
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I agree...usenet is unbeatable as a discussion medium. It is somewhere between uninteractiveness of email, and the short but high-interactiveness of chat/IM.
In fact, look at slashdot. I use "nested" mode, which is exactly what usenet does; discussions are threaded.
I think usenet is a very large and important type of electronics communications medium.
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Is it just me or is this just a big pile of incoherent 1950s sci-fi pulp fiction? It sounds awfully hokey to me.
/makes sense/.
The review says that the probability of life originating "by chance" are like the probability of a tornado constructing a 747. First of all, what the reviewer quips as "chance", physicists call the laws of physics. And second of all, continuing the 747 analogy, how more probable would it be for the tornado to build a 747 if dust particles could move through a "multiverse"? Would they pop out, read up on 747s, and then pop back in and build one?
It all seems way to far fetched for me to swallow. At least the theory that life originated from a highly improbably combination of physical circumstances
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I was just thinking about steganography with images. But you can certainly do the same thing with a story.
;]
Find a very large and unrelated text. At random intervals introduce "typos" which are the correct character shifted by the ascii code of the desired character (or, where this makes unprintable characters restrict your destination alphabet to printable characters). Given a sufficiently large text, the typos should be pretty unnoticeable on the whole, but if you know what you are doing you can rediscover the hiddend text. Or run an intelligent program with the output text against a dictionary, or original document, looking for typo's.
Does anybody have a large manifesto in which to hide the code?
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Everybody is going nuts over "journalistic integrity". I look at it this way:
Rob and the guys have been doing this as a hobby for fun for quite a long time. Now lots of peripheral things have happened, but Slashdot is still a bunch of techies writing news for techies. Do you really think any of the admins would really stand for it if Andover or VA attempted to pollute their integrity with gratuitous articles? So Andover "bought" Slashdot and VA "bought" Andover. It just means the checks have different return addresses on them, that's all. I think it is quite obvious that techies and the open-source community are the MOST touchy when comes to exploitation or commercialization. Why would VA or Andover want to shoot themselves in the foot by pissing off their whole target audience? The only way you win in this new market is by the good graces of the community. Nobody wants to piss anybody off.
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Um, isn't the whole basis of the defense that merely cracking the CSS does not circumvent copy protection, because there /is no/ copy protection, unless of course you consider regional coding "protection", which itself is illegal by international law???
Hummm?? Anybody??
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I TOTALLY AGREE. WE SHOULD NOT WORRY ABOUT ANDOVER CONTROLLING CONTENT. PEOPLE SHOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT AND INSTEAD START READING THE MAIN ARTICLES MORE. AND ALSO CLICK THE BANNERS. THEY ARE COOL. REMEMBER, YOU CONTROL THE CONTENT, NOT US, I MEAN ANDOVER.
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"Pioneer -> Diversity -> Consolidation -> Maturity"
/time/. According to this path, a Cathedral model would just start after the consolidation stage and finish faster (although it might be crappier code). This is a problem then...if you allow things to be too chaotic too early you end up with a /really/ long path like this, while all the Cathedral-goers will have already invented and implemented many new things.
/too/ much diversity in the face of scarce developer resources is bad. There are no absolutes...this isn't an issue of the Bazaar being "absolutely" better than the "cathedral", because "diversity is categorically better under all circumstances".
And that is how you develop excellently implemented but outdated technology. Don't flame, I'm not being a troll...but the path you cite takes
It's obvious that
We should be more conscious of splintering and further fractioning developer resources, and stop being so arrogant as to think that spawning hundreds of identical projects isn't really going to hurt us. According to the path you describe, it will, because the consolidation period will be very long, at which point the Cathedral has just got a head start on us.
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When you start an open-source project, there is a very crucial first-step in which the basis of the project is created by a certain minimum core of developers. After this the project has the foundation required to attract and support new developers and developments.
I think your argument is not exactly sound. If not enough developer mass is gained within this crucial first stage, then the project stagnates. To extrapolate, if many similar projects are started and concurrently compete with each other for developers at an early stage (in which none of them are well-defined) they will stunt each other and not be able to attract any substantive amount of developers, and it will be very hard to escape the stagnation. Eventually developers will get tired and bored and go away (not necessarily to other projects either).
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