yeah man, didn't you hear about that invasive species of Japanese that can flop on land for fifteen miles and fashion crude tools out of stones, twigs, and beer empties? they practically own the eastern seaboard at this point. i hear the govmint is giving subsidies to fishermen and poachers too...
...RMS made quite a fool of himself at MIT's recent Palladium discussion. Highlights include taking the podium uninvited, having Ron Rivest (the "R" in RSA) tell him to please stay on-topic, and delivering his stock rant under the guise that it was topical.
RMS is a dork. A principled dork, but a dork nonetheless.
Expect some totally sick compiler optimizations for this processor....and since Apple's compiler is now gcc, expect some totally sick, totally Free compiler optimizations.
Interpersonal politics are just large-scale politics in microcosm. From monkeys jockeying for top billing with the lady-monkeys, to kids beating on each other in a schoolyard to gain social standing, to the Slashdot trolls souring the broth for the rest of the users, to the fortunate son of an oilman from Texas gearing up to throw 500000 American boys to go beat up a fortunate son of an oilman in Baghdad and his crew.... cogitation breeds deception.
It's not that OSS is a 'movement'. It's that it's run by humans, and humans are mammals. Mammals really suck sometimes.
My head's out of the clouds, and it still sucks
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Of course I don't expect to eat sushi twice a week and buy everything in sight anymore. When it was 1999, we all knew it would end. I socked away money then.... and guess what? All the jobs went away and I slowly spent all the money on rent and food. Now I have a part-time job without benefits because I can't find a real job anywhere, and not because I'm holding out for the $85000/yr perl-and-html gig. And I have $100 in the bank and am living check-to-check.
We're not all bitching and moaning because the Guvmint took away our precious foosball jobs. It is actually hard to scrape by today.
Being a semi-pro photographer, I've considered moving to digital for a while now. Lately I've been getting really close:
* similar image quality, with very expensive digital cameras, to medium format
* zero printing/developing cost
* high capacity for 35mm-quality shots...but I've resisted so far. I shoot a medium-format Yamica and a 35mm Leica M4P, both dazzling in quality. Digital currently cannot match:
* flexibility in color response and grain afforded by different kinds of film
* quality of final print (photo printers haven't caught up yet)
* artistic manipulation. Photoshop does not count.
Until it's really worth it to blow $10000 on a top-shelf digital, I'll stick with my film.
repeats are a serious problem here, and would have to be hammered out before a user can be expected to pay a subscription. this could be Slashdot's downfall.
1. Sell out your construction company to an Irish mafia project 2. Chill out for about 20 years. Take your time doing anything. Make sure you hugely overstep your price quote. 3. PROFIT !!
Most of us up here in Boston just want the damn thing to end. It's getting there -- they've finished the bridge and lots of ventilation buildings, and they are starting to close up some of the massive holes they've dug.
Mass transit in Boston is pretty good. you can go anywhere on the subway for $1, and the buses do a decent job of coverage too. The thing that sucks is that the subway turns into a pumpkin around 12:30am.
Can you believe this shit? Complaining that they can't spooge Gnutella packets all over the network 24 hours a day. Meow meow.
I have a box on a popular dorm network in Cambridge, MA. The net had become basically unusable because P2P file-sharing programs were chattering all the time. Even ssh connections to my machine were sluggish. Then the school decided to rate-limit the P2P traffic to 1Mbps. All problems vanished.
Free ethernet is a good thing. If you're at a hip school you may even be able to run servers on your machines. Recognize a good thing when you've got it!@
Peri-rectal abscess Also known as: Anal Abscess, Ischio-Rectal Abscess
One gay man - who feared being outed - was too afraid to see a doctor for the severe pain and swelling he felt in his lower rectum. He waited until the infection ruptured up into his abdomen and he collapsed at home with peritonitis.
Intro
A perirectal abscess is an infection that most often begins in your anal or rectal canal and spreads to the fatty tissue surrounding it. The abscess can burrow toward your skin where - if untreated - it can rupture.
What is it?
A perirectal abscess is a bacterial infection that most often begins in the small glands inside your anus. Your pain worsens as the infection grows and spreads to the area around your rectum. A cavity filled with pus (yuck) develops and the skin over it becomes red and swollen. The infection can become so severe that you develop high fevers and other signs of infection.
Diagnosis
Your doctor can usually diagnose the infection just by seeing the swollen, red skin beside your anus. If the abscess is early or burrowing away from your skin (up along your rectum toward your abdomen) your doctor may need to get a CT scan to see the infection.
Symptoms
Early on you may only notice a feeling of pressure in your rectum. As the infection progresses, you will probably feel a tender, hot to the touch, lump under the skin beside your anus.
How is it acquired? Although it can develop from an injury during sex, this is very rare. By far, the most common cause is a piece of stool that gets caught in your anal glands and starts a small infection that grows and grows. The infection is caused by bacteria in your stool.
How to treat it?
If the infection is caught very early (before a true cavity filled with pus develops), antibiotics and warm soaks might do the trick. But when an abscess has fully developed, you need to have the pus drained. This usually requires surgery to fully eradicate the infection. Antibiotics alone are not sufficient.
If your abscess is large, your doctor may suggest that you have the surgery in an operating room with full anesthesia. This is a good suggestion because draining a large abscess can be quite painful.
If your abscess bursts on its own, you might think that you don't have to go to a doctor because it is already drained. WRONG! When an abscess ruptures on its own, it does not drain enough to heal the infection. A surgeon needs to open the skin wide enough to get out all of the pus.
Once the abscess is drained, you will need to keep it clean and open. This often requires soaking in sitz baths. If the skin closes before the abscess heals from the inside out, another infection will develop. Occassionaly, an abscess does not fully heal after it is drained and a fistula-in-ano develops. You will then need another operation to cure the fistula.
Myths dispelled
Here are some facts to clear up some common misconceptions.
A perirectal abscess is rarely (and I mean rarely) caused by rough sex or toys. And even if a perirectal abscess bursts on its own, it still needs to be evaluated by a doctor.
Prevention
There is no way to prevent it. If you have severe pain in your anus or rectum, your doctor might give you antibiotics to cure the infection before the abscess has a chance to develop. It is, however, very rare to catch the infection at this early stage.
Incubation period
An abscess begins as a tiny infection that gradually grows. Most patients experience increasing pain and swelling for almost a week before going to the doctor.
Sex
A peri-rectal abscess is rarely caused by an injury during sex or an STD.
I'd say the only reason that pay-for-music services exist is that there's nothing that comes close to Napster in terms of selection and ease of use. Gnutella (LimeWire, etc) is a bandwidth hog with too few users with good taste in music -- you can't find anything there. Then there's the Kazaa-type "free" clients who opt to inject spyware into their product. Freenet is only used by privacy dorks and child pornographers.
I'd pay a few bucks to use OpenNap, circa April 2000. But it's never going to happen that way again.
Remember the Simpsons arcade game? That was a good conversion to game -- people had fun playing it. If people have fun playing the Futurama game, why would you stand in their way?
I, for one, am in support of child pronography on the Internet. If it were my child, I would oil up my AK-74 and grease the disgusting bastards who created and hosted it. But in order to ensure the continued freedom of Information itself, I would never support a law specifically blocking child porn.
Once they lock up the child pornographers, who's next? Hackers? Sysadmins? How long until they come for me, and there is no one to stand up for me?
Slashdot to change? Not likely
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Despite the immediate speed increase which could come from migrating to a real database which supports grown-up DB features like subselects, etc, I don't see it happening on Slashdot anytime soon.
Not to flamebait here, but if you've gone through Slashcode source, you know that it's a pile of spaghetti. It doesn't lend itself to a redesign of the database access methods to take advantage of an industry-quality DB's featureset, at least not without redesigning much of Slashcode itself.
The resulting weblog software could be really badass, but seeing as this site's gone since 1998 without a significant redesign (Slash 2 is Slash 1 with lipstick on), I don't see it suddenly happening now.
Slashdot Mirror
insert the word 'fish' above, wherever you like.
yeah man, didn't you hear about that invasive species of Japanese that can flop on land for fifteen miles and fashion crude tools out of stones, twigs, and beer empties? they practically own the eastern seaboard at this point. i hear the govmint is giving subsidies to fishermen and poachers too...
...RMS made quite a fool of himself at MIT's recent Palladium discussion. Highlights include taking the podium uninvited, having Ron Rivest (the "R" in RSA) tell him to please stay on-topic, and delivering his stock rant under the guise that it was topical.
RMS is a dork. A principled dork, but a dork nonetheless.
2004 is a year after the big dig will be done.
but then, so is 1986...
No longer just a Ham toy.
:)
Life at 9600baud is more fun anyhow
Expect some totally sick compiler optimizations for this processor. ...and since Apple's compiler is now gcc, expect some totally sick, totally Free compiler optimizations.
Ahhh... Free software. Everybody wins.
flash back to watching my first rip of LOTR... gorgeous love scene in the woods... Liv Tyler looking stunning (in an elven sort of way)...
and the cameraman burps. gawd.
MPEG artifacts, I can deal with. but please no more of this.
give the man a cigar
Interpersonal politics are just large-scale politics in microcosm. From monkeys jockeying for top billing with the lady-monkeys, to kids beating on each other in a schoolyard to gain social standing, to the Slashdot trolls souring the broth for the rest of the users, to the fortunate son of an oilman from Texas gearing up to throw 500000 American boys to go beat up a fortunate son of an oilman in Baghdad and his crew.... cogitation breeds deception.
It's not that OSS is a 'movement'. It's that it's run by humans, and humans are mammals. Mammals really suck sometimes.
Of course I don't expect to eat sushi twice a week and buy everything in sight anymore. When it was 1999, we all knew it would end. I socked away money then.... and guess what? All the jobs went away and I slowly spent all the money on rent and food. Now I have a part-time job without benefits because I can't find a real job anywhere, and not because I'm holding out for the $85000/yr perl-and-html gig. And I have $100 in the bank and am living check-to-check.
We're not all bitching and moaning because the Guvmint took away our precious foosball jobs. It is actually hard to scrape by today.
Being a semi-pro photographer, I've considered moving to digital for a while now. Lately I've been getting really close:
...but I've resisted so far. I shoot a medium-format Yamica and a 35mm Leica M4P, both dazzling in quality. Digital currently cannot match:
* similar image quality, with very expensive digital cameras, to medium format
* zero printing/developing cost
* high capacity for 35mm-quality shots
* flexibility in color response and grain afforded by different kinds of film
* quality of final print (photo printers haven't caught up yet)
* artistic manipulation. Photoshop does not count.
Until it's really worth it to blow $10000 on a top-shelf digital, I'll stick with my film.
I think I'm going to initially recommend that they look at using Linux 8.0
Also worth checking out are BSD 1.6 and UNIX 9. Besides, Linux is already up to version 9.0.
here's that link for the lazy.
repeats are a serious problem here, and would have to be hammered out before a user can be expected to pay a subscription. this could be Slashdot's downfall.
1. Sell out your construction company to an Irish mafia project
2. Chill out for about 20 years. Take your time doing anything. Make sure you hugely overstep your price quote.
3. PROFIT !!
Most of us up here in Boston just want the damn thing to end. It's getting there -- they've finished the bridge and lots of ventilation buildings, and they are starting to close up some of the massive holes they've dug.
Mass transit in Boston is pretty good. you can go anywhere on the subway for $1, and the buses do a decent job of coverage too. The thing that sucks is that the subway turns into a pumpkin around 12:30am.
Can you believe this shit? Complaining that they can't spooge Gnutella packets all over the network 24 hours a day. Meow meow.
I have a box on a popular dorm network in Cambridge, MA. The net had become basically unusable because P2P file-sharing programs were chattering all the time. Even ssh connections to my machine were sluggish. Then the school decided to rate-limit the P2P traffic to 1Mbps. All problems vanished.
Free ethernet is a good thing. If you're at a hip school you may even be able to run servers on your machines. Recognize a good thing when you've got it!@
Peri-rectal abscess
Also known as: Anal Abscess, Ischio-Rectal Abscess
One gay man - who feared being outed - was too afraid to see a doctor for the severe pain and swelling he felt in his lower rectum. He waited until the infection ruptured up into his abdomen and he collapsed at home with peritonitis.
Intro
A perirectal abscess is an infection that most often begins in your anal or rectal canal and spreads to the fatty tissue surrounding it. The abscess can burrow toward your skin where - if untreated - it can rupture.
What is it?
A perirectal abscess is a bacterial infection that most often begins in the small glands inside your anus. Your pain worsens as the infection grows and spreads to the area around your rectum. A cavity filled with pus (yuck) develops and the skin over it becomes red and swollen. The infection can become so severe that you develop high fevers and other signs of infection.
Diagnosis
Your doctor can usually diagnose the infection just by seeing the swollen, red skin beside your anus. If the abscess is early or burrowing away from your skin (up along your rectum toward your abdomen) your doctor may need to get a CT scan to see the infection.
Symptoms
Early on you may only notice a feeling of pressure in your rectum. As the infection progresses, you will probably feel a tender, hot to the touch, lump under the skin beside your anus.
How is it acquired?
Although it can develop from an injury during sex, this is very rare. By far, the most common cause is a piece of stool that gets caught in your anal glands and starts a small infection that grows and grows. The infection is caused by bacteria in your stool.
How to treat it?
If the infection is caught very early (before a true cavity filled with pus develops), antibiotics and warm soaks might do the trick. But when an abscess has fully developed, you need to have the pus drained. This usually requires surgery to fully eradicate the infection. Antibiotics alone are not sufficient.
If your abscess is large, your doctor may suggest that you have the surgery in an operating room with full anesthesia. This is a good suggestion because draining a large abscess can be quite painful.
If your abscess bursts on its own, you might think that you don't have to go to a doctor because it is already drained. WRONG! When an abscess ruptures on its own, it does not drain enough to heal the infection. A surgeon needs to open the skin wide enough to get out all of the pus.
Once the abscess is drained, you will need to keep it clean and open. This often requires soaking in sitz baths. If the skin closes before the abscess heals from the inside out, another infection will develop. Occassionaly, an abscess does not fully heal after it is drained and a fistula-in-ano develops. You will then need another operation to cure the fistula.
Myths dispelled
Here are some facts to clear up some common misconceptions.
A perirectal abscess is rarely (and I mean rarely) caused by rough sex or toys. And even if a perirectal abscess bursts on its own, it still needs to be evaluated by a doctor.
Prevention
There is no way to prevent it. If you have severe pain in your anus or rectum, your doctor might give you antibiotics to cure the infection before the abscess has a chance to develop. It is, however, very rare to catch the infection at this early stage.
Incubation period
An abscess begins as a tiny infection that gradually grows. Most patients experience increasing pain and swelling for almost a week before going to the doctor.
Sex
A peri-rectal abscess is rarely caused by an injury during sex or an STD.
by Stephen E. Goldstone, M.D., F.A.C.S.
I'd say the only reason that pay-for-music services exist is that there's nothing that comes close to Napster in terms of selection and ease of use. Gnutella (LimeWire, etc) is a bandwidth hog with too few users with good taste in music -- you can't find anything there. Then there's the Kazaa-type "free" clients who opt to inject spyware into their product. Freenet is only used by privacy dorks and child pornographers.
I'd pay a few bucks to use OpenNap, circa April 2000. But it's never going to happen that way again.
Remember the Simpsons arcade game? That was a good conversion to game -- people had fun playing it. If people have fun playing the Futurama game, why would you stand in their way?
The AK-74
The AK-47
The heartbreak of being a tard.
I, for one, am in support of child pronography on the Internet. If it were my child, I would oil up my AK-74 and grease the disgusting bastards who created and hosted it. But in order to ensure the continued freedom of Information itself, I would never support a law specifically blocking child porn.
Once they lock up the child pornographers, who's next? Hackers? Sysadmins? How long until they come for me, and there is no one to stand up for me?
link here
The correct, non-404 link is here
Despite the immediate speed increase which could come from migrating to a real database which supports grown-up DB features like subselects, etc, I don't see it happening on Slashdot anytime soon.
Not to flamebait here, but if you've gone through Slashcode source, you know that it's a pile of spaghetti. It doesn't lend itself to a redesign of the database access methods to take advantage of an industry-quality DB's featureset, at least not without redesigning much of Slashcode itself.
The resulting weblog software could be really badass, but seeing as this site's gone since 1998 without a significant redesign (Slash 2 is Slash 1 with lipstick on), I don't see it suddenly happening now.