That sounds like a great idea. Upside: the cost might keep folks from paying too much and losing a job/marriage/social life. Downside: the compulsive player with financial difficulties might go bankrupt (though perhaps a more ethical MMO might cap the fee, knowing their game has cracklike properties).
Also probably inefficient as hell, but I've used SSH's port-redirection capabilities to remotely access machines that are behind a firewall. I haven't tried any big file transfers, but I can't imagine it would be too bad.
As far as your VPN (or SSH or whatever you end up using) concerns: unless you're doing a vpn between two old, slow computers, I can't imagine the processing overhead would be more than a blip compared to the relative smallness of a broadband pipe; especially if the 'host' you use is reasonably well-connected.
Yes, and as the article says, "To attribute a single cause to an accident is usually a serious mistake." Though I guess it's more typically satisfying to find one person and baste them for it. (And I find attitudes on Slashdot to lean sadly towards typicality more and more as time goes by.)
I was just about to post the fact that I have no fucking clue what all those acronyms mean.
I will not bitch about slashdot's editorial policies. I will not bitch about slashdot's editorial policies. I will not bitch about slashdot's editorial policies.
When I was in high school, we had a supplementary text in our AP European History class that was full of primary sources from throughout Western history.
Nestled in the back of this book, I found a Catholic Church document from the 60's or so addressing the Catholic position on ministry and evangelism to extraterrestrials (if any were found).
I don't know if it constituted a doctrine or a dogma or what have you, but the gist was that the Church assumes that God's plan of salvation for other worlds may, in fact, be completely unlike His plan of salvation for this one--and thus it is probably inappropriate to evangelize to aliens.
Thanks for the well wishing and support of free speech, which you have so manfully espoused.
I'm confused, though, by your tone. You seem to be suggesting that it's wrong for the FBI to investigate things they deem suspicious. In lieu of such shenannigans, what would you suggest the FBI investigate?
What would you rather have: investigations of people who make suspicious requests under the FOIA, or some Ashcroft lackey-led team rifling through the records for stuff to be classified out of public access altogether? Because in today's world, you're going to have one or the other. (In all likelihood, we have both, in some malliable ratio of one to the other.)
Or perhaps you'd prefer neither, and when something gets blown to hell you can get on some Web forum and bitch about how the government did nothing to stop it.
I don't know what the current process is, but around 1998 or so, I did some support work for a data entry firm, and I noticed that the job they were doing at that time were federal income taxes.
Specifically, they were reading tax forms off of microfiche and entering the data off of them.
So, the IRS has: paid time and materials to have tax forms photographed and developed onto microfiche, paid to ship said microfiche reels to data entry firms, and then contracted with those firms to enter the data in computerized form, presumably before even processing the returns (I suppose they could have been 'old' taxes that had been processed by hand and then recorded digitally for archival purposes, but still...).
I know very little about TV and filmmaking, but do have a friend who does freelance production. I've seen some of the work he's done on a "Insomnia"-like show which he hopes to sell to a network or cable channel.
So my suggestion is: find a freelancer who's willing and able to do a professional documentary, do it, and THEN hawk it to whomever you please. Depending on how well "sold" your idea is to this potential producer you might have to help finance the work, but it sounds like you believe in your idea; if he or she does, too, perhaps they'd even do it just for a share in the profits.
I'm a professor, and I care, thou insensible clod.
This semester we chose one particular text because it covers the material for two required classes to save our students a bit of money.
I feel foolish for bothering to refute a boneheaded comment like "professors don't care." But this is Slashdot after all.
How dare you, you putrid muck-dwelling grub! How dare you use the honored name of the Scorched Earth Party for one of your infantile headline puns? I'm wating for Herr Vogel's estimate of how many heads will be bashed into a gory mess with the traditional lead pipe as we speak.
The Scorched Earth Party:
Filing Amicus Plumbem briefs upside the weak on behalf of the strong.
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That sounds like a great idea. Upside: the cost might keep folks from paying too much and losing a job/marriage/social life. Downside: the compulsive player with financial difficulties might go bankrupt (though perhaps a more ethical MMO might cap the fee, knowing their game has cracklike properties).
That's a damn expensive IBM PC unit. The clones are a lot cheaper, people.
It might have been easier reading up upon if one didn't have to cull through juvenile bull to get to the meat.
Certinly puts a new spin on 'memory leak.'
Also probably inefficient as hell, but I've used SSH's port-redirection capabilities to remotely access machines that are behind a firewall. I haven't tried any big file transfers, but I can't imagine it would be too bad.
As far as your VPN (or SSH or whatever you end up using) concerns: unless you're doing a vpn between two old, slow computers, I can't imagine the processing overhead would be more than a blip compared to the relative smallness of a broadband pipe; especially if the 'host' you use is reasonably well-connected.
Yes, and as the article says, "To attribute a single cause to an accident is usually a serious mistake." Though I guess it's more typically satisfying to find one person and baste them for it. (And I find attitudes on Slashdot to lean sadly towards typicality more and more as time goes by.)
AskSlashdot: Building a homebrew prosthetic foot?
You just formulated an argument that racism causes envy and greed. Try again, comrade.
If you think envy and greed are the first cause of racism, then you're...uh...wrong.
...and cancer! Don't forget about the cancer!
I was just about to post the fact that I have no fucking clue what all those acronyms mean.
I will not bitch about slashdot's editorial policies.
I will not bitch about slashdot's editorial policies.
I will not bitch about slashdot's editorial policies.
When I was in high school, we had a supplementary text in our AP European History class that was full of primary sources from throughout Western history.
Nestled in the back of this book, I found a Catholic Church document from the 60's or so addressing the Catholic position on ministry and evangelism to extraterrestrials (if any were found).
I don't know if it constituted a doctrine or a dogma or what have you, but the gist was that the Church assumes that God's plan of salvation for other worlds may, in fact, be completely unlike His plan of salvation for this one--and thus it is probably inappropriate to evangelize to aliens.
This has always struck me as remarkably sensible.
Thanks for the well wishing and support of free speech, which you have so manfully espoused. I'm confused, though, by your tone. You seem to be suggesting that it's wrong for the FBI to investigate things they deem suspicious. In lieu of such shenannigans, what would you suggest the FBI investigate?
What would you rather have: investigations of people who make suspicious requests under the FOIA, or some Ashcroft lackey-led team rifling through the records for stuff to be classified out of public access altogether? Because in today's world, you're going to have one or the other. (In all likelihood, we have both, in some malliable ratio of one to the other.)
Or perhaps you'd prefer neither, and when something gets blown to hell you can get on some Web forum and bitch about how the government did nothing to stop it.
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I don't know what the current process is, but around 1998 or so, I did some support work for a data entry firm, and I noticed that the job they were doing at that time were federal income taxes.
Specifically, they were reading tax forms off of microfiche and entering the data off of them.
So, the IRS has: paid time and materials to have tax forms photographed and developed onto microfiche, paid to ship said microfiche reels to data entry firms, and then contracted with those firms to enter the data in computerized form, presumably before even processing the returns (I suppose they could have been 'old' taxes that had been processed by hand and then recorded digitally for archival purposes, but still...).
Yikes.
If anyone (like me) needs a refresher on what the Higgs Boson entails from the perspective of physics, there's a nice collection of one-page explanations at http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/courses/phy400w/particle/ higgs.htm.
So my suggestion is: find a freelancer who's willing and able to do a professional documentary, do it, and THEN hawk it to whomever you please. Depending on how well "sold" your idea is to this potential producer you might have to help finance the work, but it sounds like you believe in your idea; if he or she does, too, perhaps they'd even do it just for a share in the profits.
Good luck!
What she said. GRAH! I want my fabulous cash prize! Does anybody know where we should notify for an address change? RIAA accounts payable?
"Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel."
--J. Jonah Jameson
I was about to reply, it sounds like it would be a major pain w/o BIOS support for it. With, though, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
I'm a professor, and I care, thou insensible clod. This semester we chose one particular text because it covers the material for two required classes to save our students a bit of money. I feel foolish for bothering to refute a boneheaded comment like "professors don't care." But this is Slashdot after all.
Tried it (from a Virginia community college) in IE and Mozilla, and got the same error.
Snot jus yew.
That's no maiden, that's the Greek goddess of valor, you insensitive clod.
How dare you, you putrid muck-dwelling grub! How dare you use the honored name of the Scorched Earth Party for one of your infantile headline puns? I'm wating for Herr Vogel's estimate of how many heads will be bashed into a gory mess with the traditional lead pipe as we speak.
The Scorched Earth Party: Filing Amicus Plumbem briefs upside the weak on behalf of the strong.