Do yourself a favor and LEARN SOMETHING. I don't know what fantasy land you live in, but Social Security was NEVER meant to push older people out of the workforce.
If you want a dead OS go install BSD. I don't see what all the fuss is about dead OSes anyway... I happen to like my OSes like I like my women: dressed in black and cold as ice. Yeah, I have a thing for "goth girls".
Nice in theory, but it all falls apart when the economy goes bust. I had a nice $6000 sitting in a pre-tax retirement plan in 1999. I opened the thing in 1997. After the.bomb burst sometime in the early 2000s, all I had left was a little over $2000. Today I'm back at about $4000 with a good chunk of that being money that *I* paid into it. Not any interest. Now I know that you're supposed to take the long view on these things, but damn. Am I ever going to get that missing $4000 back? I doubt it. And I expect that this will happen a few more times over the rest of my career. I think I'll be lucky to MAYBE have $30,000 or so by the time I retire. It just ain't right.
(I'm a Star Trek fan so don't get too miffed at this fanboy parody)
{To be read in a quick and breathless voice of a teen fanboy}
I just heard that the new Star Trek XI is going to be the bestest Trek movie ever!!!! I read the article and it didn't say much, but it doesn't take to much to guess what he's up to! He plans to make it bigger than any of the previous movies budget wise! And it's going to have an all new cast!! And it's just going to be bigger than ever! Those are direct quotes of paraphrases. So to recap... he basically said, it will cost a lot of money, will contain a new crew, but will also bring in familiar faces like Kirk, Scotty, Bones, Picard, Doctor Crusher (ROWR!!), and some of the more memorable away mission red shirt people. There's going to be Chewbac... (catches breath) err... a few Klingons too. Gene and Majel are also expected to make appearances (we're all on first name basis with them) since they wil be using a lot of money to bring him back from beyond the grave. And so um.. it's just gonna be grrreat! Yes it is! It's going to blow away anything that those cyberhumping twins the Matrix borthers ever put out yet!
My thoughts exactly. It's a free kernel. Anyone is damned well welcome to rewrite it. Now, the technical issues are many. All this talk of "complete rewrite from the ground up" tend to be bad ideas. The reason is that the original code may have some very good bits to it that you may bollocks if you write a completely new implementation. What is more needed from a technical point of view is a re-architecture. You keep the good stuff, replace the bad stuff and you're done. Keep in mind that it will take a long time to do, but it may be worth it in the end.
... they were refering to some kind of twisted BSD based romance chick flick. You know what I mean, the whole May-December romance plot. Oh... you don't? I should have figured.;P
I'm too sexy for a haircut Too sexy for a haircut So sexy it hurts! Yow!!;p
Actually, to be completely fair, he doesn't exactly look thrilled to be posing for the pictures. Imagine if Torvalds were cornered to do this. Or... in some frightening parallel universe where geeks are considered the ultimate sex objects: Stallman. (Brrr... I shudder at the thought):) Just kidding. As I've said before, I kid because I love.
What the hell are you doing here if you don't have an interest in either computer programming, electronic circuit design or soe other aspect of engineering? If you don't have an interest in any of that, then you are personally one of the reasons why Slashdot sucks so bad these days. There was a time when they actually had "news for nerds, stuff that matters". Now it's just news for poseurs.
Maybe because you're a fucking retard? Ever thought of that? For the record, this is exactly the kind of article that should be on Slashdot. Not crap about the G4 network, improperly filed articles in "Your Rights Online" that don't pertain to online matters, or crap reviews of movies by assholes (Southpark creators).
Leaving out the unnecessary eye-candy? Wouldn't that be just about all of KDE? If they want to be truly thin, they can use twm. I don't get this contradiction though. KDE is anything but lightweight. Hell, even GNOME is lighter than KDE and it's still a beast.
I don't want my child being poisoned by religious fools. I came from a mixed catholic/protestant background and I can tell you that most people involved in any christian religion are fools. Fortunately, I was able to escape the clutches of those anti-intellectual religions and learn the truth about the world. I am not an aetheist either. I have my own personal set of beliefs and they have nothing to do with being religious.
If any religion in the world is "the answer", then why do they all put up barriers to learning truths from outside of that particular religion? Perhaps because they are all based on the idea that you need to keep members uninformed? Trust me... I remember weirdos in the protestant church I went to claiming that they could tell when people were posessed by demons just by looking at them. And this was NOT in the south! It's a good thing I finally shed my religious shackles and read up on buddhism, demonology and witchcraft, judaism, astrology, etc... Learning about things from "the other side" really helps you to discover what the truth really is. I found that most christians are deceitful hypocrites. Especially the ones who are more involved with the church.
This has been going on solidly for days now. A few days ago we had the worthless story about "the bestest DVDs EVAR!!!! List", then we had a story that the_mad_poster commented on which was also worthless, and now this crap. I'm starting to think that someone should go over to Slashdot central and make sure they haven't all been gassed to death by a faulty heater or something. Maybe the editors have been replaced with a shell script? Whatever the case, Slashdot has had some pretty worthless stories that are beyond belief this week. Many of them under the "your rights online" heading. Someone needs to put down the crackpipe and get to editing...;P
Odd this should come up. Last week, I just finished installing Fedora Core 3 on my laptop and saw that it comes with Sound Juicer instead of GRIP. I also noticed that it can rip to Ogg Vorbis, FLAC or uncompressed WAV. I decided to do a quick comparison of file size since I'd never tried FLAC before. I ripped a CD (the first 13 tracks of the Wild Palms soundtrack) and wound up with three directories:
I would have to guess that your choice should be based on your needs. If you are interested in portability, then space is probably a bigger issue than quality. So Ogg Vorbis at 192K should be just fine. If you are more interested in the highest quality and want to save on some space, then FLAC should be a perfect fit. If you just need the absolute purest audio you can get from a CD, then WAV (or some other uncompressed format) is the way to go. Base you choice on the need.
Kiddies. Way back in the years before the FCC or even the FRC, radio spectrum was free. You would think that people would have approached this with wisdom and respected each others rights in using the spectrum. But this didn't happen. In the early days of radio, there was a lot of fierce disagreement about the best modulation schemes (AM vs. FM), frequency bands and other related issues. There was also a lot of corporate crap going on where one company would make a radio that would only recieve stations that used their transmitters (again a modulation scheme roadblock). So if you wanted to listen to certain programs, you had to buy more than one brand of radio. On top of that, without any regulation, people just picked the frequency they wanted and used it while paying no mind to their competitors. The reult was a completely unworkable radio scheme. This is WHY the FRC (which eventually became the FCC) was created. They wanted to prevent the kinds of interference that all of this bad behavior caused.
The frequencies were divided up by region in order to ensure that there wouldn't be two stations operating on the same or even close frequencies within a certain distance. This is why you will see that if a large city has a n FM station at 107.9 MHz, you won't see another station at that frequency for a very good distance. In the past it used to be better because the FCC didn't used to bend over and spread them for the broadcasters like they do today. Now the geographic regions are smaller so the distance isn't quite so great and you hear more interference where you have bigger cities close together.
If you like wild west style shoot-em-ups then you'll love unregulated radio spectrum. But if you just want to properly use the technology, then you need to have regulations. The flipside to this is that you also need to make sure those regulations benefit the end user and not the broadcaster. The FCC has certainly been corrupted, but don't throw away the concept of controlled spectrum usage because of that. Otherwise we'll have the same unusable mess that old fashioned radio was before the FRC (remember most people are just laughable boxes of jizzrags) affecting our newly re-invented radios.
I fail to see how a symphonic rock band that lonely teen boys listen to in their parent's basements has anything to do with this. (snerk) Oh... THAT Rush...
As I said in another post yesterday. We can never expect to be secure without full disclosure at every turn. Bring pressure to bear upon the developers, whether it's Microsoft or Google or Linus of the BSD coding corpses, whenever there is a vulnerability. Keeping it a secret only protects the black hats.
Is today a slow news day or what? We've got this non-story. Then we have the one about "Your Call May Be Recorded" and the useless "Bestest DVDs of All Time!!!!1111!!!!! LOL!!!" non-story from yesterday. Is it really THAT dead in the land of technology? Aren't there any more important news items worth posting regarding new *nix applications ro something? Geez!!! This place really grates on my nerves sometimes.
Try this on for size, have you ever had a marathon reading session and had trouble stepping away from the book? Not from a "I wonder what happens next!" perspective but more of a "my mind is wrapped up in these characters and mannerisms". You might find yourself thinking like one of the characters.
That's exactly my point. The last time I got really wrapped up in a book was in the early 90s reading Snow Crash. But my level of being wrapped up was at the "what happens next" level. I never started thinking like the characters. Another example, when I was playing Myst or Riven for a long time, when I would stop playing, I had a feeling like I had just come back from visiting a park. But, I didn't feel like I was still in the game. Just as you wouldn't start listening for the sound of birds or try to find acorns in your kitchen after coming back from a park, there is no reason why people should be this affected by a game once they exit the program. In my opinion it's a sign that there are some mental issues happening there. I have a firm grasp on the line between reality and a game and it's very easy to switch contexts. I don't see why others don't appear to have this same ability. It may not be connected to intelligence, but I'll bet there is some psychology that explains this freakish phenomena.
These people must have a lower level of intelligence. I can't see any other explanation. I've had some massively long gaming sessions in the past (Myst, Doom, Doom2, Quake I/II/III) and NEVER have I confused reality for the game or started looking at reality with game eyes. I'm not saying I'm a genius, I most certainly am not. But, I'll bet the people who experience this must have some sort of cognitive issues and likely it manifests in a large percentage of the population.
It provides incentive (reputation) to fix the problem. If the incentive is primarily profit based, then things like features, eye candy or coolness are going to prevail over security every time. By using full disclosure to threaten a company's reputation, it BECOMES a financial incentive. And by them knowing that there are skript k1dd13z waiting in the wings to exploit a vulrnerability, the level of importance in fixing the problem increases dramatically because the damage to that company's reputation increases dramatically. A bad reputation for security can mean a loss of profit in most cases except for monopolies.
Hehehe. I like you're sense of humor. My laptop at home has a shitty keyboard and I didn't preview. I tend to do better when typing on my desktop. Oh well... the context stood out anyway.
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Are you really THAT stupid?
Do yourself a favor and LEARN SOMETHING. I don't know what fantasy land you live in, but Social Security was NEVER meant to push older people out of the workforce.
It's just pining for the fjords! ;P
If you want a dead OS go install BSD. I don't see what all the fuss is about dead OSes anyway... I happen to like my OSes like I like my women: dressed in black and cold as ice. Yeah, I have a thing for "goth girls".
Great Scott!! The man got it right for once!!! ;P
(Seriously. No offence meant. I just have no respect for politics in general. Especiall with a right slant.)
Nice in theory, but it all falls apart when the economy goes bust. I had a nice $6000 sitting in a pre-tax retirement plan in 1999. I opened the thing in 1997. After the .bomb burst sometime in the early 2000s, all I had left was a little over $2000. Today I'm back at about $4000 with a good chunk of that being money that *I* paid into it. Not any interest. Now I know that you're supposed to take the long view on these things, but damn. Am I ever going to get that missing $4000 back? I doubt it. And I expect that this will happen a few more times over the rest of my career. I think I'll be lucky to MAYBE have $30,000 or so by the time I retire. It just ain't right.
(I'm a Star Trek fan so don't get too miffed at this fanboy parody)
{To be read in a quick and breathless voice of a teen fanboy}
I just heard that the new Star Trek XI is going to be the bestest Trek movie ever!!!! I read the article and it didn't say much, but it doesn't take to much to guess what he's up to! He plans to make it bigger than any of the previous movies budget wise! And it's going to have an all new cast!! And it's just going to be bigger than ever! Those are direct quotes of paraphrases. So to recap... he basically said, it will cost a lot of money, will contain a new crew, but will also bring in familiar faces like Kirk, Scotty, Bones, Picard, Doctor Crusher (ROWR!!), and some of the more memorable away mission red shirt people. There's going to be Chewbac... (catches breath) err... a few Klingons too. Gene and Majel are also expected to make appearances (we're all on first name basis with them) since they wil be using a lot of money to bring him back from beyond the grave. And so um.. it's just gonna be grrreat! Yes it is! It's going to blow away anything that those cyberhumping twins the Matrix borthers ever put out yet!
My thoughts exactly. It's a free kernel. Anyone is damned well welcome to rewrite it. Now, the technical issues are many. All this talk of "complete rewrite from the ground up" tend to be bad ideas. The reason is that the original code may have some very good bits to it that you may bollocks if you write a completely new implementation. What is more needed from a technical point of view is a re-architecture. You keep the good stuff, replace the bad stuff and you're done. Keep in mind that it will take a long time to do, but it may be worth it in the end.
First Post? (Going olde school here) ;P I'm such a joker.
... they were refering to some kind of twisted BSD based romance chick flick. You know what I mean, the whole May-December romance plot. Oh... you don't? I should have figured. ;P
I'm too sexy for a haircut ;p
:) Just kidding. As I've said before, I kid because I love.
Too sexy for a haircut
So sexy it hurts! Yow!!
Actually, to be completely fair, he doesn't exactly look thrilled to be posing for the pictures. Imagine if Torvalds were cornered to do this. Or... in some frightening parallel universe where geeks are considered the ultimate sex objects: Stallman. (Brrr... I shudder at the thought)
You mean you only have one account? I've been here since the 50000s. Get a life asshole.
What the hell are you doing here if you don't have an interest in either computer programming, electronic circuit design or soe other aspect of engineering? If you don't have an interest in any of that, then you are personally one of the reasons why Slashdot sucks so bad these days. There was a time when they actually had "news for nerds, stuff that matters". Now it's just news for poseurs.
Maybe because you're a fucking retard? Ever thought of that? For the record, this is exactly the kind of article that should be on Slashdot. Not crap about the G4 network, improperly filed articles in "Your Rights Online" that don't pertain to online matters, or crap reviews of movies by assholes (Southpark creators).
Leaving out the unnecessary eye-candy? Wouldn't that be just about all of KDE? If they want to be truly thin, they can use twm. I don't get this contradiction though. KDE is anything but lightweight. Hell, even GNOME is lighter than KDE and it's still a beast.
I don't want my child being poisoned by religious fools. I came from a mixed catholic/protestant background and I can tell you that most people involved in any christian religion are fools. Fortunately, I was able to escape the clutches of those anti-intellectual religions and learn the truth about the world. I am not an aetheist either. I have my own personal set of beliefs and they have nothing to do with being religious.
If any religion in the world is "the answer", then why do they all put up barriers to learning truths from outside of that particular religion? Perhaps because they are all based on the idea that you need to keep members uninformed? Trust me... I remember weirdos in the protestant church I went to claiming that they could tell when people were posessed by demons just by looking at them. And this was NOT in the south! It's a good thing I finally shed my religious shackles and read up on buddhism, demonology and witchcraft, judaism, astrology, etc... Learning about things from "the other side" really helps you to discover what the truth really is. I found that most christians are deceitful hypocrites. Especially the ones who are more involved with the church.
This has been going on solidly for days now. A few days ago we had the worthless story about "the bestest DVDs EVAR!!!! List", then we had a story that the_mad_poster commented on which was also worthless, and now this crap. I'm starting to think that someone should go over to Slashdot central and make sure they haven't all been gassed to death by a faulty heater or something. Maybe the editors have been replaced with a shell script? Whatever the case, Slashdot has had some pretty worthless stories that are beyond belief this week. Many of them under the "your rights online" heading. Someone needs to put down the crackpipe and get to editing... ;P
Odd this should come up. Last week, I just finished installing Fedora Core 3 on my laptop and saw that it comes with Sound Juicer instead of GRIP. I also noticed that it can rip to Ogg Vorbis, FLAC or uncompressed WAV. I decided to do a quick comparison of file size since I'd never tried FLAC before. I ripped a CD (the first 13 tracks of the Wild Palms soundtrack) and wound up with three directories:
Ogg Vorbis (192K): 43 Megs
FLAC: 325 Megs
Uncompressed WAV: 575 Megs
I would have to guess that your choice should be based on your needs. If you are interested in portability, then space is probably a bigger issue than quality. So Ogg Vorbis at 192K should be just fine. If you are more interested in the highest quality and want to save on some space, then FLAC should be a perfect fit. If you just need the absolute purest audio you can get from a CD, then WAV (or some other uncompressed format) is the way to go. Base you choice on the need.
Kiddies. Way back in the years before the FCC or even the FRC, radio spectrum was free. You would think that people would have approached this with wisdom and respected each others rights in using the spectrum. But this didn't happen. In the early days of radio, there was a lot of fierce disagreement about the best modulation schemes (AM vs. FM), frequency bands and other related issues. There was also a lot of corporate crap going on where one company would make a radio that would only recieve stations that used their transmitters (again a modulation scheme roadblock). So if you wanted to listen to certain programs, you had to buy more than one brand of radio. On top of that, without any regulation, people just picked the frequency they wanted and used it while paying no mind to their competitors. The reult was a completely unworkable radio scheme. This is WHY the FRC (which eventually became the FCC) was created. They wanted to prevent the kinds of interference that all of this bad behavior caused.
The frequencies were divided up by region in order to ensure that there wouldn't be two stations operating on the same or even close frequencies within a certain distance. This is why you will see that if a large city has a n FM station at 107.9 MHz, you won't see another station at that frequency for a very good distance. In the past it used to be better because the FCC didn't used to bend over and spread them for the broadcasters like they do today. Now the geographic regions are smaller so the distance isn't quite so great and you hear more interference where you have bigger cities close together.
If you like wild west style shoot-em-ups then you'll love unregulated radio spectrum. But if you just want to properly use the technology, then you need to have regulations. The flipside to this is that you also need to make sure those regulations benefit the end user and not the broadcaster. The FCC has certainly been corrupted, but don't throw away the concept of controlled spectrum usage because of that. Otherwise we'll have the same unusable mess that old fashioned radio was before the FRC (remember most people are just laughable boxes of jizzrags) affecting our newly re-invented radios.
I fail to see how a symphonic rock band that lonely teen boys listen to in their parent's basements has anything to do with this. (snerk) Oh... THAT Rush...
As I said in another post yesterday. We can never expect to be secure without full disclosure at every turn. Bring pressure to bear upon the developers, whether it's Microsoft or Google or Linus of the BSD coding corpses, whenever there is a vulnerability. Keeping it a secret only protects the black hats.
Is today a slow news day or what? We've got this non-story. Then we have the one about "Your Call May Be Recorded" and the useless "Bestest DVDs of All Time!!!!1111!!!!! LOL!!!" non-story from yesterday. Is it really THAT dead in the land of technology? Aren't there any more important news items worth posting regarding new *nix applications ro something? Geez!!! This place really grates on my nerves sometimes.
And some of us would say that the "grapchis media" people are the only people who matter... :)
That's exactly my point. The last time I got really wrapped up in a book was in the early 90s reading Snow Crash. But my level of being wrapped up was at the "what happens next" level. I never started thinking like the characters. Another example, when I was playing Myst or Riven for a long time, when I would stop playing, I had a feeling like I had just come back from visiting a park. But, I didn't feel like I was still in the game. Just as you wouldn't start listening for the sound of birds or try to find acorns in your kitchen after coming back from a park, there is no reason why people should be this affected by a game once they exit the program. In my opinion it's a sign that there are some mental issues happening there. I have a firm grasp on the line between reality and a game and it's very easy to switch contexts. I don't see why others don't appear to have this same ability. It may not be connected to intelligence, but I'll bet there is some psychology that explains this freakish phenomena.
These people must have a lower level of intelligence. I can't see any other explanation. I've had some massively long gaming sessions in the past (Myst, Doom, Doom2, Quake I/II/III) and NEVER have I confused reality for the game or started looking at reality with game eyes. I'm not saying I'm a genius, I most certainly am not. But, I'll bet the people who experience this must have some sort of cognitive issues and likely it manifests in a large percentage of the population.
It provides incentive (reputation) to fix the problem. If the incentive is primarily profit based, then things like features, eye candy or coolness are going to prevail over security every time. By using full disclosure to threaten a company's reputation, it BECOMES a financial incentive. And by them knowing that there are skript k1dd13z waiting in the wings to exploit a vulrnerability, the level of importance in fixing the problem increases dramatically because the damage to that company's reputation increases dramatically. A bad reputation for security can mean a loss of profit in most cases except for monopolies.
Hehehe. I like you're sense of humor. My laptop at home has a shitty keyboard and I didn't preview. I tend to do better when typing on my desktop. Oh well... the context stood out anyway.