You are seriously misinformed. I mean, what is this "384kbs" bullshit? Last time I checked I was browsing the net at 10Mbps+
Are you sure? That sounds suspiciously like the default ethernet connection speed some apps report, regardless of the speed of the Internet connection.
Try some speedtest sites, or Netstat, freeware (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/nsl.htm).
Ah, it looks like it's a monopoly and not socialized. I must have been thinking of the rest of Asia.:)
Not this part of Asia, or for that matter, ANY part of Asia (including China) I can think of. Do you have any basis for this interesting claim, or are you just assuming furriners are all commies?
"The machines, rebranded 'Magellan,' will also come with Linux pre-installed as opposed to Windows XP. This order alone is 50% bigger than the entire OLPC project has managed to sell worldwide."
But despite the quotemarks, this is NOT in TFA. No mention of Linux, or the name "Magellan". Hopefully the anonymous submitter didn't just make it up, it would be nice the source was cited. We all know how carefully Slashdot is in vetting its articles, after all, so I'm sure it's all verifiable.
Forgive my skepticism, but this is exactly the sort of thing that China commonly lies about.
No it's not. China lies about internal dissent and such when it's embarrassing. They don't make up achievements out of whole cloth. (Not since the era of Chairman Mao, anyway. If you go back 50 years to the Great Leap Forward, there was a lot of bullshit propaganda. Not so much now, they know they couldn't get away with it.)
Are there any sources of information on the validity of this that aren't controlled by the Chinese government, that verify their claims?
Look up in the sky with a telescope. I'm sure that the military authorites of dozens of countries monitored the launch and orbit. You think they would all go along with China if it was fake?
Yeah, so no one knows if they REALLY did a spacewalk. That's pretty trivial compared to getting them in orbit, no real reason to fake that. Thay use a Russian spacesuit, thay certainly work.
I suppose this ridiculous assertion is based on Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. He is an avowed Christian. However, not a Creationist.
It's only ONE person, and he DOES NOT believe in Intelligent Design.
"Unfortunately, the intelligent-design argument is scientifically flawed. My premise, which is shared by virtually all scientists who are believers and thats about 40% of scientists is that evolution is true, and it was Gods method of creation."
, I believe that the biologists who worked on the human genome project are probably among the most qualified of all. Funny thing, though... by the time they finally finished mapping the human genome, every last one of them believed in Intelligent Design,
Please document this incredible claim. Because, really, it is
COMPLETE BULLSHIT AND LIES.
Sorry, emails asking you to "forward this to all your Christian friends" don't count as "proof".
No it can't, because the state doesn't own the media in the US.
There are plenty of media in the US that uncritically presented statements made by the government. Just remember the runup to the Iraqi invasion; completely unsupported bullshit published as fact in major newspapers and TV news services.
Also one must consider the situation. The students were placed in front of a screen and given a task. If it were me I wouldn't be to concerned about error messages if I could just click them away, finish the job and collect my $5 or whatever. If it was my own PC, or one I used every day for work, I would indeed take much more care. But a machine used by many people is probably going to get fucked up in very short order regardless of what I personally do, so why bother.
Pretty reliable, but not up 100% of the time -- it's just run by one guy as a hobby,
Teranews, http://www.teranews.com/, has a full service for several dollars a month, but also a free server you can download up to 50MB/day. You need to register and pay a one-time $3.95 fee.
There are many other servers that come and go, but these have both been around for several years.
SDI doesn't need to be 100% effective to change the way a rational enemy with a few missiles will behave.
You can spend hundreds of billions on SDI and end up with a "shield" that can be easily penetrated, or just sidestepped.
Your "rational enemy with a few nukes" can rent a van. A little bit of forethought and he can have a bomb in place close enough to any target to wipe it out. SDI is no deterrence; it's the expectation of retaliation and having their own country turned to molten slag that gives even people like Kim Il Sung pause.
I'm not a spammer, I don't know how they do it. However, the captcha for opening a Google account (GMail, Groups, etc) has been broken so it could be totally automated; they can create accounts as fast as they need them. The results are obvious. E.g., see
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming/ Page back a few days and you'll see a deluge of fake watch and sportshoe ads.
google shuts-down accounts that share the same IP address.
I doubt that. My wife, daughter and myself share the same IP, many legitimate users do the same. Besides, dynamic IPs make that pretty pointless.
That's the problem. It's too easy. Periodically spammers flood newsgroups -- eg thousands of messages promoting sportshoes, fake Rolexes, etc, etc, -- all posted from Google accounts. Many seem to be based in China, but who knows. The really awful thing is that Google makes no attempt to prevent spam being posted from its servers. If you go to the trouble of reporting spam, maybe a day later the account will be closed. Big deal, they can open a new one in a minute. The spam has already been sent out and again, Google makes no attempt to even filter it out from its own servers. In self-defence, many serious news hosts just block all articles posted from Google.
Since Google obviously does have anti-spam technology, as used in GMail, many suspect it is deliberately poisoning Usenet to encourage users to switch to "Google Groups", their own forums. I don't really think there is a conspiracy, but they obviously do not give a flying fuck for Usenet as a whole.
Use it for searching, not posting. There are many cheap and some free news hosts, limited to text news groups, which you can use.
Additionally, an easily-viewable bandwidth meter would in all probability only encourage customers to get much closer to the limit than they would otherwise.
Doesn't seem too hard. NetStat Live seems quite reliable. Of course, the ISP isn't going to just roll over if this contradicts their (secret) meter level, but it gives you some idea of what's gong on.
If you were too stupid to understand that the characterization was absurd when the right wing of politics was pushing it, then you might be too stupid to understand that the same characterization on the cover of the New Yorker is a parody.
Yes, some people are that dumb. But they aren't the audience of the New Yorker. If they are that dumb, no cartoon is going to make them reflect on their ideas.
If it were a good/successful political parody, it might give someone pause at some point and say, "Is the way I think really that silly?"
I'd think the aim was more just to make fun of these people, not to try to educate them. I think it was successful in that.
Say you want to carry them because you want to be able to kill people who annoy or frighten you.
.... You are mistaken about who they are meant to kill, or at least you have generalized to the point of absurdity.
I wasn't talking about who they are MEANT to kill, but who they actually kill.
It is the wet dream of every tyrant, strong man, and one party state to take from the people the power of armed resistance.
This is a peculiar American fantasy. Lots of countries have instituted "strong man, one-party government", in countries awash with guns (often in post-war regimes with an AK-47 under every ex-soldier's bed). It makes it easier for the "strong man" to increase police powers, reduce civil rights, with the aim of protecting people from armed gangsters or insurgents. Look how far your own government has come in that regard recently. You're not Zimbabwe yet, but you've certainly been going in that direction.
I CAN carry them to kill people who threaten me or my family. People who annoy or frighten me aren't in the equation.
Sure. It's so easy to tell the difference.
There have been plenty of cops who have killed people in the belief, later proven incorrect, that they were a threat. You think you can do this infallibly? Of course you do, in the same way that 90% of people think they are above-average in driving skill.
Your assertion is ridiculous, and you are either a liar or an idiot to have made it.
It must be wonderful to see the world with such clarity. No self doubt, no concern that any opposing viewpoint could have any merit.
There have already been calls in this country to ban kitchen knives with a point, I shit you not.
I have no problem in opposing silly extremism like that.
Others point out that gang violence in China simply involves fatal hackings instead of fatal stabbings.
Kitchen choppers are designed to cut through meat and bones. So very effective at close quarters, but not easy to conceal. I'd point out though that there are many non-lethal "hackings". It's often used to send a message ("pay your debt") rather than assassinate, for which more conventional weapons are used. (I do know a bit about this, living in Hong Kong. Been years since any gun murders here, though.)
I'm looking forward to the upcoming Brick Epidemic, the following Cobblestone Conundrum, and finally the Pointy-stick Problem.
If rocks and sticks are just as lethal and effective as guns and knives, as you claim, then why do you Americans insist you have to have the right to carry handguns, assault rifles, etc, etc? Just put a pointy stick in your back pocket.
Don't be a hypocrite: Guns and knives are designed to kill people (before you start sneering about butter knives, pop guns, etc; just assume the words are defined sensibly as the lethal kind of offensive weapon). Say you want to carry them because you want to be able to kill people who annoy or frighten you. Don't claim they are no more dangerous than "pointy sticks".
The problem was, the representation wasn't any more absurd that the right-wing characterization, and so people weren't sure how serious the cover was.
That's not a "problem". That was the whole point. I think the fact that it was on the cover of the New Yorker was a pretty clear indication that it was meant to be absurd. All that hand-wringing about how "people might take it literally" because they were too stupid to realise it was a joke -- anyone who did get that message already believed Obama was Saddam's love-child. And if they did email it around taking it at face value they would be left with egg on their faces in short order.
The larger point was that simply stating "common patterns are not enforceable trademarks" is not accurate.
My point was this is irrelevant, as the "pattern" names do not belong to any single entity. Actually, I'm dubious about the "Mc" prefix as well, and tend to think that McDonald's vs any small company will not be decided on the merits; but at least "Mc" is based on a person's name. The name of a city and a year are much, much more generic and do not belong to any of the parties.
Here on/. we tend to root for the little guy and boo the big companies
Yes. But here I have no sympathy for either party. The owner of the site was just speculating the name will be valuable. But the committee have no right (IMHO) to the site, and really no one is going to confuse their site, which properly, for once, is on a.org now. They don't sell click through ads so bulking up their traffic should be of no concern to them.
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Are you sure? That sounds suspiciously like the default ethernet connection speed some apps report, regardless of the speed of the Internet connection.
Try some speedtest sites, or Netstat, freeware (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/nsl.htm).
Uh?P> None of these are "socialized". They're all listed companies.
Not this part of Asia, or for that matter, ANY part of Asia (including China) I can think of. Do you have any basis for this interesting claim, or are you just assuming furriners are all commies?
But despite the quotemarks, this is NOT in TFA. No mention of Linux, or the name "Magellan". Hopefully the anonymous submitter didn't just make it up, it would be nice the source was cited. We all know how carefully Slashdot is in vetting its articles, after all, so I'm sure it's all verifiable.
No it's not. China lies about internal dissent and such when it's embarrassing. They don't make up achievements out of whole cloth. (Not since the era of Chairman Mao, anyway. If you go back 50 years to the Great Leap Forward, there was a lot of bullshit propaganda. Not so much now, they know they couldn't get away with it.)
Are there any sources of information on the validity of this that aren't controlled by the Chinese government, that verify their claims?
Look up in the sky with a telescope. I'm sure that the military authorites of dozens of countries monitored the launch and orbit. You think they would all go along with China if it was fake?
Yeah, so no one knows if they REALLY did a spacewalk. That's pretty trivial compared to getting them in orbit, no real reason to fake that. Thay use a Russian spacesuit, thay certainly work.
It's only ONE person, and he DOES NOT believe in Intelligent Design.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/15/science/sci-collins15
"Unfortunately, the intelligent-design argument is scientifically flawed. My premise, which is shared by virtually all scientists who are believers and thats about 40% of scientists is that evolution is true, and it was Gods method of creation."
Please document this incredible claim. Because, really, it is COMPLETE BULLSHIT AND LIES.
Sorry, emails asking you to "forward this to all your Christian friends" don't count as "proof".
There are plenty of media in the US that uncritically presented statements made by the government. Just remember the runup to the Iraqi invasion; completely unsupported bullshit published as fact in major newspapers and TV news services.
tl;dr
Also one must consider the situation. The students were placed in front of a screen and given a task. If it were me I wouldn't be to concerned about error messages if I could just click them away, finish the job and collect my $5 or whatever. If it was my own PC, or one I used every day for work, I would indeed take much more care. But a machine used by many people is probably going to get fucked up in very short order regardless of what I personally do, so why bother.
AIOE is completely free and anonymous. http://news.aioe.org/ Only text groups.
Pretty reliable, but not up 100% of the time -- it's just run by one guy as a hobby,
Teranews, http://www.teranews.com/, has a full service for several dollars a month, but also a free server you can download up to 50MB/day. You need to register and pay a one-time $3.95 fee.
There are many other servers that come and go, but these have both been around for several years.
You can spend hundreds of billions on SDI and end up with a "shield" that can be easily penetrated, or just sidestepped.
Your "rational enemy with a few nukes" can rent a van. A little bit of forethought and he can have a bomb in place close enough to any target to wipe it out. SDI is no deterrence; it's the expectation of retaliation and having their own country turned to molten slag that gives even people like Kim Il Sung pause.
google shuts-down accounts that share the same IP address.
I doubt that. My wife, daughter and myself share the same IP, many legitimate users do the same. Besides, dynamic IPs make that pretty pointless.
That's the problem. It's too easy. Periodically spammers flood newsgroups -- eg thousands of messages promoting sportshoes, fake Rolexes, etc, etc, -- all posted from Google accounts. Many seem to be based in China, but who knows. The really awful thing is that Google makes no attempt to prevent spam being posted from its servers. If you go to the trouble of reporting spam, maybe a day later the account will be closed. Big deal, they can open a new one in a minute. The spam has already been sent out and again, Google makes no attempt to even filter it out from its own servers. In self-defence, many serious news hosts just block all articles posted from Google.
Since Google obviously does have anti-spam technology, as used in GMail, many suspect it is deliberately poisoning Usenet to encourage users to switch to "Google Groups", their own forums. I don't really think there is a conspiracy, but they obviously do not give a flying fuck for Usenet as a whole.
Use it for searching, not posting. There are many cheap and some free news hosts, limited to text news groups, which you can use.
Doesn't seem too hard. NetStat Live seems quite reliable. Of course, the ISP isn't going to just roll over if this contradicts their (secret) meter level, but it gives you some idea of what's gong on.
Yes, some people are that dumb. But they aren't the audience of the New Yorker. If they are that dumb, no cartoon is going to make them reflect on their ideas.
If it were a good/successful political parody, it might give someone pause at some point and say, "Is the way I think really that silly?"
I'd think the aim was more just to make fun of these people, not to try to educate them. I think it was successful in that.
I wasn't talking about who they are MEANT to kill, but who they actually kill.
It is the wet dream of every tyrant, strong man, and one party state to take from the people the power of armed resistance.
This is a peculiar American fantasy. Lots of countries have instituted "strong man, one-party government", in countries awash with guns (often in post-war regimes with an AK-47 under every ex-soldier's bed). It makes it easier for the "strong man" to increase police powers, reduce civil rights, with the aim of protecting people from armed gangsters or insurgents. Look how far your own government has come in that regard recently. You're not Zimbabwe yet, but you've certainly been going in that direction.
Sure. It's so easy to tell the difference.
There have been plenty of cops who have killed people in the belief, later proven incorrect, that they were a threat. You think you can do this infallibly? Of course you do, in the same way that 90% of people think they are above-average in driving skill.
Your assertion is ridiculous, and you are either a liar or an idiot to have made it. It must be wonderful to see the world with such clarity. No self doubt, no concern that any opposing viewpoint could have any merit.
Others point out that gang violence in China simply involves fatal hackings instead of fatal stabbings.
Kitchen choppers are designed to cut through meat and bones. So very effective at close quarters, but not easy to conceal. I'd point out though that there are many non-lethal "hackings". It's often used to send a message ("pay your debt") rather than assassinate, for which more conventional weapons are used. (I do know a bit about this, living in Hong Kong. Been years since any gun murders here, though.)
If rocks and sticks are just as lethal and effective as guns and knives, as you claim, then why do you Americans insist you have to have the right to carry handguns, assault rifles, etc, etc? Just put a pointy stick in your back pocket.
Don't be a hypocrite: Guns and knives are designed to kill people (before you start sneering about butter knives, pop guns, etc; just assume the words are defined sensibly as the lethal kind of offensive weapon). Say you want to carry them because you want to be able to kill people who annoy or frighten you. Don't claim they are no more dangerous than "pointy sticks".
That's not a "problem". That was the whole point. I think the fact that it was on the cover of the New Yorker was a pretty clear indication that it was meant to be absurd. All that hand-wringing about how "people might take it literally" because they were too stupid to realise it was a joke -- anyone who did get that message already believed Obama was Saddam's love-child. And if they did email it around taking it at face value they would be left with egg on their faces in short order.
Should be "MHz". m = milli, .001. M = mega, 1000000.
Browse slashdot.org/tags/spellingmistake and slashdot.org/tags/typo.
Spam is Back With A Vengence
D2 Updates, Text Message Notifcation
US Missle Interceptor Tests a Success
The CPU Redefined: AMD Torrenze and Intel CSI
The 700mhz Spectrum Auction In Perspective
There have been many more, some do get fixed after a few hours.
My point was this is irrelevant, as the "pattern" names do not belong to any single entity. Actually, I'm dubious about the "Mc" prefix as well, and tend to think that McDonald's vs any small company will not be decided on the merits; but at least "Mc" is based on a person's name. The name of a city and a year are much, much more generic and do not belong to any of the parties.
Here on /. we tend to root for the little guy and boo the big companies
Yes. But here I have no sympathy for either party. The owner of the site was just speculating the name will be valuable. But the committee have no right (IMHO) to the site, and really no one is going to confuse their site, which properly, for once, is on a .org now. They don't sell click through ads so bulking up their traffic should be of no concern to them.