Cool...you mean individual citizens can populate earths orbit will small metal objects which will turn into supersonic bullets with the capability of destroying any useful things out there (space stations, rockets). "This is the international space station *copy* we are in the process of fixing the *click* HOLY SHIT WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT AHHHHHH *sshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*""
Oh stop trolling. Taxation of transactions on the internet is orthogonal to political/social "freedom" on the net. Think of it this way: if electronic commerce was taxed, then wouldn't the internet revert to the "golden days" of the eighties (and the web, the nineties), where there were much fewer idiot, AOLers, and banner ads throwing us into seizures? The evil "government", in fact, is the thing that is responsible for whatever freedoms you have on the net. We *cannot* naively ignore government. Idiot politicians will always pass stupid laws. People like ourselves, and the handful of ethical lawyers out there, *have* to be involved.
Your analogy is braindead. Since when does receiving radio signals the "pollute" or "divert" or "dam up" the signal?? You are not harming *anybody* in *any* manner by merely decrypting signals you are already receiving. Talk about pollution and diversion are rubbish.
Just saying "descrambling dss signals is illegal" doesn't *explain* anything. We know it's illegal. But why?? These signals are already passing through our very bodies. It's ridiculous.
Well, I can't find the original Raskin article (if there even was one). Basically he says we got it all wrong...but then he doesn't clarify what he actually meant! So what *does* he mean by the OS being unnecessarily in the way?
Aren't you fscking sick of seeing so many gay people paraded around on TV? I mean, it's like a fad now. It started with Will and Grace, which was a shallow and horrendously unfunny show to begin with. Now every sitcom has to have some fricken gay angle to it. Take "Normal Ohio". What else was this other than an attempt at taking a tired old sitcom star, and "magically" creating a successful sitcom by making his character implausibly gay? I mean, who really thinks John Goodman plays a convincing gay person? It's just painful.
I have nothing whatsoever against homosexuality, but I think people are started to feel "gay fatigue".
The way it is decribed on their site, is that one node can only call another node? Can you not call a normal anolog phone? That would reduce its practicality a lot.
"Not only don't I work on window managers anymore, I haven't really used a UNIX system in a significant way for about four years," he explained. I'm sure some of the Linux users out there are thinking 'he's old, he's sold out, and he's lost touch with his open source roots.' That's OK, I have some younger co-workers that think the same thing..."
So, basically the internet is not (yet) television...a vast wasteland of advertising sprinkled with mind numbing "programming". Man, I am *so* crying for all those CEOs-to-be who want to co-opt the internet and turn it into another flavor of tv.
But wouldn't a user spidering your site (partially or entirely) and then browsing it offline, end up in reduced traffic? I mean, they're not flipping back and forth and repeatedly requesting pages (especially dynamically generated ones). If you are complaining because this loses you ad revenue, I think the whole banner ad system is pretty much a failed endeavour. In any case, it's nothing as drastic as throwing toxic chemicals in a stream.
"Who ever thought that sending encrypted streams of data across the Internet
could produce a map on the other end saying 'this is where your target is' or
'here's how to kill them'?" says Paul Beaver, spokesman for Jane's Defense
Weekly in London, which reports on defense and cyberterrorism issues. "And
who ever thought it could be done with near perfect security? The Internet has
proven to be a boon for terrorists."
This could easily be mis-interpreted as a hacker attack.
Oh yeah, uploading via FTP to a mistyped ip address. REAL hacker attack there!
They are living on University property, the campus cops can do what they like.
No, cops cannot do what they like. We have people called judges who are supposed to use their wisdom to determine whether police can enter and search people's quarters. Unfortunately the police in their overreactionary stupidity probably blew this "threat" out of proportion to the judge who was probably all to willing to comply.
If anything bad had really happened, if this country were going into totalitarian meltdown as the/. editors would have us believe, we wouldn't hear about it in the first place.
But if we were, you'd be ignoring it right?
Nobody knows what real problems are anymore.
I consider steady erosion of rights by incompetents in power "real".
Hey, I like this planet...now if people would just stop indulging in such conspicuous consumption, and dumping their shit all over the place, maybe it would be a decent place to hang around.
"Many experts believe information overload is making it difficult for some people to absorb new information, as they have reached a limit of what they can store in their brains. These people forget things because they were too distracted to absorb them in the first place."
Holy sh*t. This is *so* me. I have been getting increasingly scatterbrained over the last couple of years (coincidentally since I've taken a full-time software development position). I can't remember discussions I've had, or specifics of meetings. I can't stand to read much except to-the-point news and manuals. I even keep a friggen sticky note with my phone number and address near the telephone so that I'm not flustered when I order out, for Christ's sake. Man, and I thought I had like early-onset alzeimers or something. I need one of those daily brain teaser calendars or something.
Thank you for clearing that up. The article was kind of vague on that.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken The simplest of competing theories should preferred to the more complex. -- Occam's Razor.
Imagine: a government doing something to help poor people get access to the internet.
And not with sneaky proprietary companies that want to monitor your usage and sell information, but instead with that mysterious free "communist" open source operating system, Linux!
Well, if you are getting "free" Juno service (if such a thing still exists), you should really just get a decent job and kick out $15-$20 a month for a real dialup account.
On the one hand, this is an egregious violation of the consumer, but on the other hand, it does present the possibility of really harnessing the power of every computer connected to the net. I think if ISPs start programs like this, they should either be opt-in (e.g., for some discount), or have some very strict limitations, like most of the distributed computing projects.
But I thought the point is not to see the difference between the SMP kernel using one processor and the SMP kernel using two processors, but instead, between a non-SMP kernel using one processor (really, who would use an SMP kernel for 1 processor?), and an SMP kernel with 2 processors. The test is really between SMP and non-SMP.
Isn't the problem (and benefit) with neural networks, that they are somewhat non-deterministic? I mean, it's all well and great if 99% of the time the plane behaves correctly according to its training, but what about that 1% of the time where some rogue neuron determins that the pilot *really* means to do a 180?
And what if, say, a stewardess given the pilot his coffee bumps him, and causes the plane to spiral out of the control? There is something to be said for good old fashioned mechanical controls.
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Man, and think of the explosion the plasma (hot air) could produce ;)
No ads. Simple interface. Valuable results. No ads.
This is so cool. Now *this* I would put some money into an electronic tip jar. Google r0x0rs.
Yeah, I am *so* glad Microsoft is just a forgotten relic. I mean, who even *remembers* that company these days?
Cool...you mean individual citizens can populate earths orbit will small metal objects which will turn into supersonic bullets with the capability of destroying any useful things out there (space stations, rockets). "This is the international space station *copy* we are in the process of fixing the *click* HOLY SHIT WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT AHHHHHH *sshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*""
Oh stop trolling. Taxation of transactions on the internet is orthogonal to political/social "freedom" on the net. Think of it this way: if electronic commerce was taxed, then wouldn't the internet revert to the "golden days" of the eighties (and the web, the nineties), where there were much fewer idiot, AOLers, and banner ads throwing us into seizures? The evil "government", in fact, is the thing that is responsible for whatever freedoms you have on the net. We *cannot* naively ignore government. Idiot politicians will always pass stupid laws. People like ourselves, and the handful of ethical lawyers out there, *have* to be involved.
Your analogy is braindead. Since when does receiving radio signals the "pollute" or "divert" or "dam up" the signal?? You are not harming *anybody* in *any* manner by merely decrypting signals you are already receiving. Talk about pollution and diversion are rubbish.
Just saying "descrambling dss signals is illegal" doesn't *explain* anything. We know it's illegal. But why?? These signals are already passing through our very bodies. It's ridiculous.
Well, I can't find the original Raskin article (if there even was one). Basically he says we got it all wrong...but then he doesn't clarify what he actually meant! So what *does* he mean by the OS being unnecessarily in the way?
Seeing as you're gay, let me ask you a question:
Aren't you fscking sick of seeing so many gay people paraded around on TV? I mean, it's like a fad now. It started with Will and Grace, which was a shallow and horrendously unfunny show to begin with. Now every sitcom has to have some fricken gay angle to it. Take "Normal Ohio". What else was this other than an attempt at taking a tired old sitcom star, and "magically" creating a successful sitcom by making his character implausibly gay? I mean, who really thinks John Goodman plays a convincing gay person? It's just painful.
I have nothing whatsoever against homosexuality, but I think people are started to feel "gay fatigue".
The way it is decribed on their site, is that one node can only call another node? Can you not call a normal anolog phone? That would reduce its practicality a lot.
So, basically the internet is not (yet) television...a vast wasteland of advertising sprinkled with mind numbing "programming". Man, I am *so* crying for all those CEOs-to-be who want to co-opt the internet and turn it into another flavor of tv.
But wouldn't a user spidering your site (partially or entirely) and then browsing it offline, end up in reduced traffic? I mean, they're not flipping back and forth and repeatedly requesting pages (especially dynamically generated ones). If you are complaining because this loses you ad revenue, I think the whole banner ad system is pretty much a failed endeavour. In any case, it's nothing as drastic as throwing toxic chemicals in a stream.
This could easily be mis-interpreted as a hacker attack.
/. editors would have us believe, we wouldn't hear about it in the first place.
Oh yeah, uploading via FTP to a mistyped ip address. REAL hacker attack there!
They are living on University property, the campus cops can do what they like.
No, cops cannot do what they like. We have people called judges who are supposed to use their wisdom to determine whether police can enter and search people's quarters. Unfortunately the police in their overreactionary stupidity probably blew this "threat" out of proportion to the judge who was probably all to willing to comply.
If anything bad had really happened, if this country were going into totalitarian meltdown as the
But if we were, you'd be ignoring it right?
Nobody knows what real problems are anymore.
I consider steady erosion of rights by incompetents in power "real".
Hey, I like this planet...now if people would just stop indulging in such conspicuous consumption, and dumping their shit all over the place, maybe it would be a decent place to hang around.
It's a tradeoff...do you want knowledgable dumb kids or smart ignorant kids? Both are extremes and we need to hit a happy middle.
"Many experts believe information overload is making it difficult for some people to absorb new information, as they have reached a limit of what they can store in their brains. These people forget things because they were too distracted to absorb them in the first place."
Holy sh*t. This is *so* me. I have been getting increasingly scatterbrained over the last couple of years (coincidentally since I've taken a full-time software development position). I can't remember discussions I've had, or specifics of meetings. I can't stand to read much except to-the-point news and manuals. I even keep a friggen sticky note with my phone number and address near the telephone so that I'm not flustered when I order out, for Christ's sake. Man, and I thought I had like early-onset alzeimers or something. I need one of those daily brain teaser calendars or something.
Thank you for clearing that up. The article was kind of vague on that.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
The simplest of competing theories should preferred to the more complex. -- Occam's Razor.
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Disney is a plaintiff in the DeCSS case.
Imagine: a government doing something to help poor people get access to the internet.
And not with sneaky proprietary companies that want to monitor your usage and sell information, but instead with that mysterious free "communist" open source operating system, Linux!
Well, if you are getting "free" Juno service (if such a thing still exists), you should really just get a decent job and kick out $15-$20 a month for a real dialup account.
On the one hand, this is an egregious violation of the consumer, but on the other hand, it does present the possibility of really harnessing the power of every computer connected to the net. I think if ISPs start programs like this, they should either be opt-in (e.g., for some discount), or have some very strict limitations, like most of the distributed computing projects.
But I thought the point is not to see the difference between the SMP kernel using one processor and the SMP kernel using two processors, but instead, between a non-SMP kernel using one processor (really, who would use an SMP kernel for 1 processor?), and an SMP kernel with 2 processors. The test is really between SMP and non-SMP.
But didn't Linux first *define* BogoMIPS?
Isn't the problem (and benefit) with neural networks, that they are somewhat non-deterministic? I mean, it's all well and great if 99% of the time the plane behaves correctly according to its training, but what about that 1% of the time where some rogue neuron determins that the pilot *really* means to do a 180?
And what if, say, a stewardess given the pilot his coffee bumps him, and causes the plane to spiral out of the control? There is something to be said for good old fashioned mechanical controls.