But that's exactly the thing. You can't filter it out, as it filed under the generic Linux section. There should be a software releases seciton. This could even be a collaboration with freshmeat (As they are both owved by Andover, this would work out well)
Unfortunatly, you hurt your claim that your post was not a flame, but at the end you include a needlessly attackful comment about "whining about them like a 5 year old". sigh.
Anyway- I am NOT saying that the amterial shouldn't be posted. I'm saying it should be filed better. Slashdot has a system in place to make it my slashdot, as well as your slashdot. Story sections.
If this story were placed into a Software Releases section, such as the BSD section, and the Your Rights Online Section, Things would be easier for everyone.
I think your rant about people wanting slashdot to please everyone is valid, but misplaced. Also, I agree that technocrat.net is more discerning, and they seem to have clear focus, but I like the slashdot crowd as well. I just think Rob & Crew need to use the tools that are in place.
I'm not sure of the exact number, but I Rob has quoted it in the past. Only so many stories can make it to the front page. If you keep adding more it becomes cluttered.
I'm sure if you did a little digging, you could find it. Try looking in the last interview with him. (don't have URL anymore)
Sure, don't get me wrong, I agree with them being posted here! I just thought they might go into their own section, so that they could be filtered out, as some people do not like them. That's all!
I'm a little confused. Are you asking if this development kernel will be put into woody, the next version of Debian?
I am fairly sure they will be using kernel 2.4 and Xfree 4.0 when they release it. Look at the current release times. The last version (slink or 2.1) was released on 9 March 1999.
I know they have said they indent to speed up their release times, but I don't see any reason why they would have to use a development kernel.
IS there anything particulary noteworthy about this kernel?
ObRant: I suggest that Slashdot creates a software release section, as they have with BSD, and Your Rights Online, and move these stories there. We only get 10 or so stories a day, I do not want them used to point out every development kernel...
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A Slashdot like moderation system for Usenet.
(this is a rough draft) Project Proposer: Colin Davis Project Name: www.MyUsenet.com Basic Project Description: Create and publicize a newshost (nntp server) named 'news.myusenet.com' . In accordance to user's customizations, this news server will answer requests for headers/bodies in any public newsgroup. Attached to the end of the header will be a terminator, which signals end of the original header, then gives then gives the current rating of the message, as assigned by readers.
(Begin Example 1) Subject: Read me
From: cdavis@thepentagon.com
Organization: little;)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
X-Rating: 3
This is the text of my message
(End example 1)
Users will log in to the NNTP server, which then only sends the headers which meet their preferences.
Explanation of Ratings Users will be able to post to a pseudo-newsgroup named 'alt.myusenet.ratings'. (Cf. alt.config). The news server program would accept a post to the news-group, not post as usual. Each message is parsed by scripts, and acted upon. Each message contains either in the subject or the body the string "message idnum rating +1" or the string "message: idnum rating -1". If the string appears twice, the first case will be used.
(Begin Example 2)
Subject: (no subject given)
From: cdavis@thepentagon.com
Organization: little;)
Newsgroup: alt.yourusenet.ratings
message rating +1
(End Example 2)
The news server will then apply this rating to the existing average for each message and modify the header, as explained above. Users will be allowed to rate one message per 50 messages in group per day. Explanation of Website: www.myusenet.com
On the website, users must create their accounts for use of the system. These Username/password accounts are both to verify identity, and so establish preferances for message download. Examples of preferences may be:
(Begin Example 3)
Download only messages with a rating of at least : download all messages(*) 0() 1() 2() 3() 4+()
Download replies with a rating of : download all replies(*) 1() 2() 3() 4+()
Number of generations of replies: __10__
Limit: Only this many messages/day/group.
(*) no limit
() Limited to __500__
Chosen by time (*)
Chosen by rating ()
x-no-repub=yes
(End Example 3)
By default, My usenet will honor X-no-archive=yes, and not republish these articles. If a user wants a message to be carried over on to the myusenet system, but archived on a system such as Dejanews they may add: x-no-repub=no
to their message.
If a user wishes Dejanews to archive their messages, but NOT my usenet, they can affix the header
x-no-repub=yes to their message.
Additional Explanation:
This system is not terribly confusing. We will assume by default that the people who do not want their messages archived will also not want them carried over. This can be overruled by using the new 'x-no-repub.' header. In order to incourage growth of the system, the system will placed under the GPL. This will incourage porting and rapid adoption.
Servers wishing to mirror the rated pages can connect to a secondary news server, use a username/ password issued via the web page.
Servers wishing to allow ratings to be posted to them may log in to the secondary news server, and submit a batch headers. A minimum time length between batchess must be specified.
At the time DeCSS was written, Linux could not read the UDF Filesystem well enough to perform the task.
Re:Star Trek's Money System
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A somewhat accepted explaination for this is that while the federation does not pay it's officers per-se, theye is money avail-able to them for use with races that do use a monetary system. Thus, if they wanted to spend money in Quark's bar, they would requisition latinum from the Fed's.
I spoke to a casher at my local CompUSA today, as I was buying Civ:Call To Power today, and asked about the number of linux products (games in particular) purchaced. She said that although the market was still small, she had sold more Linux games that day then games for the Macintosh. (which they also support.)
Has anyone else seen such behavior?
Re:A much better way to reduce Music piracy
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No, it doesn't stop you, but who would be there, waiting for you to give/trade it to them. The majority of the people who hang out in those mp3 chats, etc. just want their song, and don't care about the quality. and yes, you could put it up on a web page, but most wouldn;t spend the tme to look for it, and find your page. People are lazy . Although you could still burn your CD (This is a _good_ thing), and give it to your friend, the majority of the people who might want it would be gone.
Well, The techs been there for a while, in a form
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Think about it. We have devices that take our words and convert them to text (dragon dictate, etc). Let's say you had a mic running that in to a buffer. Then we have products (like babelfish )that will convert the text to a new language. Add in a speech program (http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/voices.html) , and it doesn't really seem like such a leap. Not to say what they did wasn't great, and I'm sure there was a lot more involved, but it is within the realm of the possible.....
Most of us here agree that SMDI is a "bad thing" right? This just shows us yet another reason. They are against the public interest, and will ultimetly recive the same fate as DIVIX (don't get me started about that) But, if SMDI isn't the anwser, how do you ensure that the record companies will still recieve vast quantities of cash?
The solution is to release songs in an open format (like MP3, etc.), free for use, but encoded AT A LOW BITRATE. Make sure that the files are below CD quality, and give them away for free. The reasons for this follow:
1) people are, in general, lazy. Johnny just came home from school, and wants to listen the the newest song by band Foo. He is much more likely to go to foo.com, and download the song, then he is to spend 10 minutes looking for it on some pirate server on the internet.
2) The Music industry has had a long standing, (unspoken, as far as I know), agreement that people could record songs off of the radio, beacuse the quality is not as good as what the studio can release. When people want quality, they will run down to the store, and pick up a CD. This is the same thing that woould happen with the MP3s.
3) This solution would allow bands (if they wished), to release higher quality samples. Because MP3s are still encouraged, and still work in all playuers, this would not be a problem
4) The low-bitrate is easier on the majority of the internet users, who use a modem. Faster downloads would make their songs accessable to a wider market. The new idea could also be advertised as "Enhanced for faster download", instead of "Crippled to steal your money".
We tried to wipe them out. We tried to cut off their power supplies. We tried to kill them.
They tried to give us a perfect world. We refused it. We could not accpet perfection.. They again tried to please us by giving our world. We attacted and killed them. Now, who is the beast?
I don't know what you are re-fering to, but let me take a guess. A bastardation of Elite. Used by many 'script kiddies' and wannabe-crackers. Also used by children trading WAREZ and MP3s. Used both as a term of pride "I am 3L337, dude!", by the ignorant, and as a put down towards those who might use it.
I spoke to a rep at TiVo about this issue. They are very competetive with there information, but gave me general stuff.
1) the system uses a modified Harddrive, with two sets of heads. This allows it to read and to write to the drive at once. This is used in both TiVo and Replay TV. I believe the device is made by Quantum.
2) The TiVo unit is based on the Linux kernel. They did have to do some kernel hacking to increase the multimedia performance, but would not release the code to me unless I purchaces one of their units. They intend to send the code out on CD to those who ask and have purchaced a unit.
3) the unit uses a custom File System. the code for this file system is not given out, and is required for proper operation of the unit (according to them. I think you might be able to trick it).
4) The Unit's software to actully record/playback, etc. will not be open sourced, nor will specificaiton be published. (again, they do not want make it easier for their competitors)
Slashdot Mirror
Point taken. Sorry. I've just been running Potato for so long, It feels like it's old!
But that's exactly the thing. You can't filter it out, as it filed under the generic Linux section. There should be a software releases seciton. This could even be a collaboration with freshmeat (As they are both owved by Andover, this would work out well)
Anyway- I am NOT saying that the amterial shouldn't be posted. I'm saying it should be filed better. Slashdot has a system in place to make it my slashdot, as well as your slashdot. Story sections.
If this story were placed into a Software Releases section, such as the BSD section, and the Your Rights Online Section, Things would be easier for everyone.
I think your rant about people wanting slashdot to please everyone is valid, but misplaced. Also, I agree that technocrat.net is more discerning, and they seem to have clear focus, but I like the slashdot crowd as well. I just think Rob & Crew need to use the tools that are in place.
I'm not sure of the exact number, but I Rob has quoted it in the past. Only so many stories can make it to the front page. If you keep adding more it becomes cluttered.
I'm sure if you did a little digging, you could find it. Try looking in the last interview with him. (don't have URL anymore)
I just thought they might go into their own section, so that they could be filtered out, as some people do not like them. That's all!
I am fairly sure they will be using kernel 2.4 and Xfree 4.0 when they release it. Look at the current release times. The last version (slink or 2.1) was released on 9 March 1999.
I know they have said they indent to speed up their release times, but I don't see any reason why they would have to use a development kernel.
ObRant: I suggest that Slashdot creates a software release section, as they have with BSD, and Your Rights Online, and move these stories there. We only get 10 or so stories a day, I do not want them used to point out every development kernel...
A Slashdot like moderation system for Usenet.
;)
;)
(this is a rough draft)
Project Proposer: Colin Davis
Project Name: www.MyUsenet.com
Basic Project Description:
Create and publicize a newshost (nntp server) named 'news.myusenet.com' . In accordance to user's customizations, this news server will answer
requests for headers/bodies in any public newsgroup. Attached to the end of the header will be a terminator, which signals end of the original header,
then gives then gives the current rating of the message, as assigned by readers.
(Begin Example 1)
Subject: Read me
From: cdavis@thepentagon.com
Organization: little
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
X-Rating: 3
This is the text of my message
(End example 1)
Users will log in to the NNTP server, which then only sends the headers which meet their preferences.
Explanation of Ratings
Users will be able to post to a pseudo-newsgroup named 'alt.myusenet.ratings'. (Cf. alt.config). The news server program would accept a post to the
news-group, not post as usual. Each message is parsed by scripts, and acted upon. Each message contains either in the subject or the body the string
"message idnum rating +1" or the string "message: idnum rating -1". If the string appears twice, the first case will be used.
(Begin Example 2)
Subject: (no subject given)
From: cdavis@thepentagon.com
Organization: little
Newsgroup: alt.yourusenet.ratings
message rating +1
(End Example 2)
The news server will then apply this rating to the existing average for each message and modify the header, as explained above. Users will be allowed to
rate one message per 50 messages in group per day.
Explanation of Website: www.myusenet.com
On the website, users must create their accounts for use of the system. These Username/password accounts are both to verify identity, and so establish
preferances for message download. Examples of preferences may be:
(Begin Example 3)
Download only messages with a rating of at least
: download all messages(*) 0() 1() 2() 3() 4+()
Download replies with a rating of
: download all replies(*) 1() 2() 3() 4+()
Number of generations of replies: __10__
Limit: Only this many messages/day/group.
(*) no limit
() Limited to __500__
Chosen by time (*)
Chosen by rating ()
x-no-repub=yes
(End Example 3)
By default, My usenet will honor X-no-archive=yes, and not republish these articles. If a user wants a message to be carried over on to the myusenet
system, but archived on a system such as Dejanews they may add:
x-no-repub=no
to their message.
If a user wishes Dejanews to archive their messages, but NOT my usenet, they can affix the header
x-no-repub=yes
to their message.
Additional Explanation:
This system is not terribly confusing. We will assume by default that the people who do not want their messages archived will also not want them carried
over. This can be overruled by using the new 'x-no-repub.' header.
In order to incourage growth of the system, the system will placed under the GPL. This will incourage porting and rapid adoption.
Servers wishing to mirror the rated pages can connect to a secondary news server, use a username/ password issued via the web page.
Servers wishing to allow ratings to be posted to them may log in to the secondary news server, and submit a batch headers. A minimum time length
between batchess must be specified.
At the time DeCSS was written, Linux could not read the UDF Filesystem well enough to perform the task.
A somewhat accepted explaination for this is that while the federation does not pay it's officers per-se, theye is money avail-able to them for use with races that do use a monetary system. Thus, if they wanted to spend money in Quark's bar, they would requisition latinum from the Fed's.
But when HDTV comes out, that will change. Current games will be line doubled, etc.
Newer systems (playstation 3?) will support the higher resolution.
I spoke to a casher at my local CompUSA today, as I was buying Civ:Call To Power today, and asked about the number of linux products (games in particular) purchaced. She said that although the market was still small, she had sold more Linux games that day then games for the Macintosh. (which they also support.)
Has anyone else seen such behavior?
No, it doesn't stop you, but who would be there, waiting for you to give/trade it to them. The majority of the people who hang out in those mp3 chats, etc. just want their song, and don't care about the quality. and yes, you could put it up on a web page, but most wouldn;t spend the tme to look for it, and find your page. People are lazy . Although you could still burn your CD (This is a _good_ thing), and give it to your friend, the majority of the people who might want it would be gone.
Think about it. We have devices that take our words and convert them to text (dragon dictate, etc). Let's say you had a mic running that in to a buffer. Then we have products (like babelfish )that will convert the text to a new language. Add in a speech program (http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/voices.html) , and it doesn't really seem like such a leap.
Not to say what they did wasn't great, and I'm sure there was a lot more involved, but it is within the realm of the possible.....
Most of us here agree that SMDI is a "bad thing" right? This just shows us yet another reason. They are against the public interest, and will ultimetly recive the same fate as DIVIX (don't get me started about that) But, if SMDI isn't the anwser, how do you ensure that the record companies will still recieve vast quantities of cash?
The solution is to release songs in an open format (like MP3, etc.), free for use, but encoded AT A LOW BITRATE. Make sure that the files are below CD quality, and give them away for free. The reasons for this follow:
1) people are, in general, lazy. Johnny just came home from school, and wants to listen the the newest song by band Foo. He is much more likely to go to foo.com, and download the song, then he is to spend 10 minutes looking for it on some pirate server on the internet.
2) The Music industry has had a long standing, (unspoken, as far as I know), agreement that people could record songs off of the radio, beacuse the quality is not as good as what the studio can release. When people want quality, they will run down to the store, and pick up a CD. This is the same thing that woould happen with the MP3s.
3) This solution would allow bands (if they wished), to release higher quality samples. Because MP3s are still encouraged, and still work in all playuers, this would not be a problem
4) The low-bitrate is easier on the majority of the internet users, who use a modem. Faster downloads would make their songs accessable to a wider market. The new idea could also be advertised as "Enhanced for faster download", instead of "Crippled to steal your money".
We tried to wipe them out. We tried to cut off their power supplies. We tried to kill them.
They tried to give us a perfect world. We refused it. We could not accpet perfection.. They again tried to please us by giving our world. We attacted and killed them.
Now, who is the beast?
I don't know what you are re-fering to, but let me take a guess.
A bastardation of Elite. Used by many 'script kiddies' and wannabe-crackers. Also used by children trading WAREZ and MP3s. Used both as a term of pride "I am 3L337, dude!", by the ignorant, and as a put down towards those who might use it.
I spoke to a rep at TiVo about this issue. They are very competetive with there information, but gave me general stuff.
1) the system uses a modified Harddrive, with two sets of heads. This allows it to read and to write to the drive at once. This is used in both TiVo and Replay TV. I believe the device is made by Quantum.
2) The TiVo unit is based on the Linux kernel. They did have to do some kernel hacking to increase the multimedia performance, but would not release the code to me unless I purchaces one of their units. They intend to send the code out on CD to those who ask and have purchaced a unit.
3) the unit uses a custom File System. the code for this file system is not given out, and is required for proper operation of the unit (according to them. I think you might be able to trick it).
4) The Unit's software to actully record/playback, etc. will not be open sourced, nor will specificaiton be published. (again, they do not want make it easier for their competitors)
Nevermind, Found them at:
http://www.ufaq.org/commonly/userprefs.html
Is there a list anywhere of the tweaks you can add to the file?