With the amount of paranoia already in place, even the few die-hard passengers will stay home. As if SARS wasn't enuff to scare them off in the first place.
1. sane.slashdot.org (Linux, GNU etc..) 2. inane.slashdot.org (NASA, Service Packs:-) 3. insane.slashdot.org (Throwing pies, personal submarines) 4. microsoft.slashdot.org (isn't it already?) 5. slashdot.slashdot.org (figure this one out!) 6. music.slashdot.org (should've been up before games, methinks) 7. troll.slashdot.org (let's give them a separate space) 8. moderators.slashdot.org (we'd like to see the faces of our faceless foes!) 9. joke.slashdot.org (LOL!) 10. follow-up.slashdot.org (actually this is the one serious suggestion I'm making. Often, we read several articles that need review and follw-up. Slashback is inadequate since many un-related reviews get bunched. The recent Lance vs Sasha reg MS VS.Net Student edition comes to mind. The review was drowned amongst other junk).
" Yes, obtaining a patent in every country in the world is a huge mess and expensive, but there is benefit behind it. "
The meagre benefits that this could entail, far outweigh the potential confusion and misuse/abuse. If the Internet had been set up and administered country-wise, we would have had total chaos. Lawyers and politicians would've become insanely rich, and very little public interest would have been served.
"I think one can safely say that Intellect is EXTERNAL... you don't have a clue what you're talking about."
Think of the computer as an entity. Now, where does it get it's intellect from? The software - OS right? Now, who wrote the OS for the computer - a human being, right? Now, is the human being a part of the computer? Doesn't he exist independently of the computer?
It's likewise with human beings. Yes, we have the OS and the software (loosely called the mind), but the intellect is quite independent of the mind. Sort of like the radio, which tunes to signals available around. Ten different radios tuning in to the same signal will get the same content. Ten persons thinking about the same topic will get the same idea.
In fact, the very word 'thought' has a synonym in 'reflection'. Reflection implies the existence of an EXTERNAL object (intellect) which is mirrored into one's consciousness, by the mirror (Mind).
"Try studyiung philosophy before making ridiculous comments like that." If you read "The Tao of Physics", you will understand that most systems of philosophy concur with this opinion.
I've seldom seen any debate on Slashdot regarding the Properties of Intellect. Numerous articles, such as this one, talk about Intellectual Property though.
I think one can safely say that Intellect is EXTERNAL to the physical human body, and exists independent of it. Couple of quotes: 1. Learning is Finding Out what you Already Know - Richard Bach. 2. Education is Drawing Out - not Putting In. 3. The word 'Guru' - or teacher, past-master etc. Gu - remover, Ru - Darkness. Thus a Guru does not shed light on a topic, he merely removes the darkness surrounding it.
Enuff of the rant... to get back on topic, I'd like to think that intellect is COMMON to all humanity (indeed the Universe) and one merely tunes to it. Unlike real estate, money etc., intellect is NOT a physical commodity. Different people thinking about the SAME topic would come to the SAME conclusions.
Thus, if patents are granted to intellectual processes, they must be for a highly limited duration (say 3 years)- this alone can restrict damage done to the ENTIRE universe by corporations who hoard IP and adopt the dog-in-the-manger attitude. After this period of 3 years, the patent must fall into public domain. (Incidentally MS grants a mere 3 months for WinCE based ideas, owned by the programmers)!
Obviously, patents must also be world-wide for the same reason. Like the internet, the patent process has to be democratic, free (almost) and transparent. The stakes with IP are much much larger compared to the Internet.
Also, if patents and IP had been awarded and enforced with the same vigor as of now, say, even 10 years ago, the Desktop PC may have never happened! We need to have a Global System of Patents in place as early as possible, to foster innovation. Currently, innovation seems to be about blocking others rather than doing things better (Qualcomm-GSM, Intel-Via, MS-Sun, MS-Rest etc.).
Why did we divide the world into three parts? Third World countries seem to be creating big headaches for the other two.
Now, we have politically correct phrases like "Developing Countries" etc. Centuries old Third World ideas / patents are not honored by so-called Advanced Nations.
The tech world has got the greatest lopsidedness in it's structure - Third World folks sitting in the First World and taking their creamy jobs.
Knowledge is Power. If you have the Power to assert it.
Do people ask you this question often? Please note, I didn't ask "Are you are AN American"...a few of your actions make us think otherwise:
1. You are one of the very few, if not the only one, to actually take on Microsoft, in their own game. Surprisingly, you have enjoyed a lot of success.
2. You have exposed Intel and their designs (pun intended) with the Centrino. OSF, EFF or FSF just kept quiet about this.
3. You built MP3.com, and quite successully - and MP3 is not an officially blessed standard.
In short, most of us think about you as a non-conformist, and indeed, a revolutionary. My more serious question to you is this: Of late, no one in the computing industry is willing to champion the cause of Open Source, or even Linux. Even IBM is quite ambivalent, what with their alliance with the Trustworthy Computing Group. HP, despite taking over Compaq, is losing out to Dell - probably due to Dell's closer equations with MS. Intel has recently squared off with Via, who will stop making pin-compatible CPUs - vital for Linux and low-cost chips. AMD's Linux efforts are nothing big to speak of. Even Mr.Linus Torvalds seems unsure what his stance towards DRM should be.
This being the scenario, would you: 1. Expand your operations to the global markets (Europe, China, India for instance) rather than be just US-centric? 'Cos of the image you've built up, you could be quite successful if you did. 2. Help build an Intel PIII equivalent CPU (and open-source the design,as well)! - this could be more crucial than Lindows, for the desktop. 3. Tie up with big name vendors - presently HP gives us RedHat and Mandrake, no Lindows. Can you simplify the whole desktop market and standardize with about 3 models, like Apple - standard, professional and premium say.
" Hey man, *YOU* go to the moon, then i will listen to your opinions."
What've we learnt after going to the moon? It's thrilling, terrific, giant leap blah blah, but what else? Have we learnt ANYTHING about the moon, which we couldn't have done, sitting here? The weight of the moon? Chemical composition? Life on the moon?
What about the space shuttle experiments? Zero ravity, zero pressure experiments.. anything useful out there? Very little, IMO.
Going by the no. of articles on Slashdot, one would think NASA is a huge, highly successful org., and one intent on extending the frontiers of technology. Cutting off all the chaff, I guess there's very little NASA's doing that's relevant. The hype built around them is not matched by anything they've turned out, over the last 3 decades.
Microsoft's Palladium, now renamed "Next Generation Secure Computing Services" Opera's Bork edition targeting MSN Mozilla Firebird, Thunderbird chaos... Banias codename - Centrino branding by Intel Windows.Not Server is Windows Server System 2003 and Trustworthy Computing Platform Alliance is now Trustworthy Computing Group.
Should be interesting to see actual market share/ market penetration vs. Confusion. Methinks Mozilla would be lucky to have as many downloads as posts on Slashdot, more so the database chaps.
" a new breed of intellectually and physically superior people. "
Genes affect the body, but not the other two. The mind affects and is affected by the body and intellect- but mind-trigerred mutation / evolution is gradual and reversible. Intellect is actually external to both mind and body - the mind tunes to intellect. (Richard Bach: Learning is finding out what you already know)
To sum up, it is not possible to create intellectually superior people by manipulating gene sequences. It can even be argued that physically superior people generally have inferior intellect - but don't tell them so!
"You need to keep a compromised Windows box around. " er.. excuse me, is there an uncompromised Windows box? The Windows auto-update and GoToMyPC can puch thru the built-in firewall!
It is safe only when you switch off your Windows computer.
Re:Acquitted - but...
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"the prevailing mood in the UK is such that he will still find himself stigmatised for a very long time."
And OTOH, I think he will shortly become a Consultant. Naming defendants in such cases is a double-edged sword - it can backfire... he has defended himself successfully against a criminal case, citing viruses and trojans. That makes him a valuable commodity for other crooks as well.
Secondly, this could open up a new avenue for viruses... new versions could be written and loaded by the user himself, as a defense tactic..
Simple defence... I have Windows XP!
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· Score: 3, Funny
Need I say more?
Re:This story is a duplicate...let's record facts.
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At 9:10 am the parent post is rated: Score 5 - Informative. Let's watch how long this holds up at the top. My earlier reply to this post has already been docked a point - I guess by the MS sharks circling around here.
Re:This story is a duplicate....and this is why..
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Slashdot articles having anything to do with MS have been heavily..well, slashdotted. Coupla' days back, I posted something to the Oregon bill stuff, and within 5 minutes, there was a databse crash at Slashdot...took a whole hour before the site was up, and then way too slow, as well.
Interestingly, my post which was a reply to a 'Good' post, mostly made of styrofoam peanuts, got relegated 5 pages down, by clever manipulative modding! Getting very curious these days. Should be interesting to see how long this article holds up.
Slashdot & Microsoft - something wrong?
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Slashdot articles having anything to do with MS have been heavily..well, slashdotted. Coupla' days back, I posted something to the Oregon bill stuff, and within 5 minutes, there was a databse crash at Slashdot...took a whole hour before the site was up, and then way too slow, as well.\
Interestingly, my post which was a reply to a 'Good' post, mostly made of styrofoam peanuts, got relegated 5 pages down, by clever manipulative modding! Getting very curious these days. Should be interesting to see how long this article holds up.
Especially considering we did find a habitable planet 450 light years away, and started travelling NOW, and travelled at the speed of light, we'd still arrive 450 years from now.
Very dead, I suppose. Or we'd need to travel in families, reproduce and multiply enroute, and our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren MIGHT make it! Wow... We first need to research extending life spans first.
How can someone else except me decide what's good? My moods change, sometimes rapidly as well. And taste is acquired only after sampling... so will this s/w provide some new stuff ocassionally to check my preferences?
I'd rather listen to random music on the radio.. I don't like the idea of someone out there, sitting and monitoring me.... like MS does.
For the past 42 minutes, the number of posts to this article stands stalled at "66 out of 90". I got logged out automatically, and couldn't post or do anything during this period.
I did something crazy - went to news.google.com and tried to search for "Microsoft Slashdot Oregon" and got this:
Oregon Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration Slashdot - 1 hour ago... hear quite a bit about the horrible shape Oregon... fact that this pending bill gets attention on Slashdot will only force Microsoft... The open source...
with the link: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/06/18152 39.shtm l?tid=103
For the past 42 minutes, the number of posts to this article stood at "66 out of 90". I got logged out automatically, and couldn't post or do anything during this period.
I did something crazy - went to news.google.com and tried to search for "Microsoft Slashdot Oregon" and got this:
Oregon Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration Slashdot - 1 hour ago... hear quite a bit about the horrible shape Oregon... fact that this pending bill gets attention on Slashdot will only force Microsoft... The open source...
with the link: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/06/18152 39.shtm l?tid=103
Slashdot Mirror
With the amount of paranoia already in place, even the few die-hard passengers will stay home. As if SARS wasn't enuff to scare them off in the first place.
Okay.. here's a list:
:-)
1. sane.slashdot.org (Linux, GNU etc..)
2. inane.slashdot.org (NASA, Service Packs
3. insane.slashdot.org (Throwing pies, personal submarines)
4. microsoft.slashdot.org (isn't it already?)
5. slashdot.slashdot.org (figure this one out!)
6. music.slashdot.org (should've been up before games, methinks)
7. troll.slashdot.org (let's give them a separate space)
8. moderators.slashdot.org (we'd like to see the faces of our faceless foes!)
9. joke.slashdot.org (LOL!)
10. follow-up.slashdot.org (actually this is the one serious suggestion I'm making. Often, we read several articles that need review and follw-up. Slashback is inadequate since many un-related reviews get bunched. The recent Lance vs Sasha reg MS VS.Net Student edition comes to mind. The review was drowned amongst other junk).
Cheers.
As a compulsive gamer, my eyes are already in a pretty bad shape. Please, please change the color. Dark green perhaps?
" Yes, obtaining a patent in every country in the world is a huge mess and expensive, but there is benefit behind it. "
The meagre benefits that this could entail, far outweigh the potential confusion and misuse/abuse. If the Internet had been set up and administered country-wise, we would have had total chaos. Lawyers and politicians would've become insanely rich, and very little public interest would have been served.
Worse, there wouldn't have been Slashdot!
"I think one can safely say that Intellect is EXTERNAL... you don't have a clue what you're talking about."
Think of the computer as an entity. Now, where does it get it's intellect from? The software - OS right? Now, who wrote the OS for the computer - a human being, right? Now, is the human being a part of the computer? Doesn't he exist independently of the computer?
It's likewise with human beings. Yes, we have the OS and the software (loosely called the mind), but the intellect is quite independent of the mind. Sort of like the radio, which tunes to signals available around. Ten different radios tuning in to the same signal will get the same content. Ten persons thinking about the same topic will get the same idea.
In fact, the very word 'thought' has a synonym in 'reflection'. Reflection implies the existence of an EXTERNAL object (intellect) which is mirrored into one's consciousness, by the mirror (Mind).
"Try studyiung philosophy before making ridiculous comments like that."
If you read "The Tao of Physics", you will understand that most systems of philosophy concur with this opinion.
I've seldom seen any debate on Slashdot regarding the Properties of Intellect. Numerous articles, such as this one, talk about Intellectual Property though.
I think one can safely say that Intellect is EXTERNAL to the physical human body, and exists independent of it. Couple of quotes:
1. Learning is Finding Out what you Already Know - Richard Bach.
2. Education is Drawing Out - not Putting In.
3. The word 'Guru' - or teacher, past-master etc. Gu - remover, Ru - Darkness. Thus a Guru does not shed light on a topic, he merely removes the darkness surrounding it.
Enuff of the rant... to get back on topic, I'd like to think that intellect is COMMON to all humanity (indeed the Universe) and one merely tunes to it. Unlike real estate, money etc., intellect is NOT a physical commodity. Different people thinking about the SAME topic would come to the SAME conclusions.
Thus, if patents are granted to intellectual processes, they must be for a highly limited duration (say 3 years)- this alone can restrict damage done to the ENTIRE universe by corporations who hoard IP and adopt the dog-in-the-manger attitude. After this period of 3 years, the patent must fall into public domain. (Incidentally MS grants a mere 3 months for WinCE based ideas, owned by the programmers)!
Obviously, patents must also be world-wide for the same reason. Like the internet, the patent process has to be democratic, free (almost) and transparent. The stakes with IP are much much larger compared to the Internet.
Also, if patents and IP had been awarded and enforced with the same vigor as of now, say, even 10 years ago, the Desktop PC may have never happened! We need to have a Global System of Patents in place as early as possible, to foster innovation. Currently, innovation seems to be about blocking others rather than doing things better (Qualcomm-GSM, Intel-Via, MS-Sun, MS-Rest etc.).
Why did we divide the world into three parts? Third World countries seem to be creating big headaches for the other two.
Now, we have politically correct phrases like "Developing Countries" etc. Centuries old Third World ideas / patents are not honored by so-called Advanced Nations.
The tech world has got the greatest lopsidedness in it's structure - Third World folks sitting in the First World and taking their creamy jobs.
Knowledge is Power. If you have the Power to assert it.
Do people ask you this question often? Please note, I didn't ask "Are you are AN American"...a few of your actions make us think otherwise:
1. You are one of the very few, if not the only one, to actually take on Microsoft, in their own game. Surprisingly, you have enjoyed a lot of success.
2. You have exposed Intel and their designs (pun intended) with the Centrino. OSF, EFF or FSF just kept quiet about this.
3. You built MP3.com, and quite successully - and MP3 is not an officially blessed standard.
In short, most of us think about you as a non-conformist, and indeed, a revolutionary. My more serious question to you is this:
Of late, no one in the computing industry is willing to champion the cause of Open Source, or even Linux. Even IBM is quite ambivalent, what with their alliance with the Trustworthy Computing Group. HP, despite taking over Compaq, is losing out to Dell - probably due to Dell's closer equations with MS. Intel has recently squared off with Via, who will stop making pin-compatible CPUs - vital for Linux and low-cost chips. AMD's Linux efforts are nothing big to speak of. Even Mr.Linus Torvalds seems unsure what his stance towards DRM should be.
This being the scenario, would you:
1. Expand your operations to the global markets (Europe, China, India for instance) rather than be just US-centric? 'Cos of the image you've built up, you could be quite successful if you did.
2. Help build an Intel PIII equivalent CPU (and open-source the design,as well)! - this could be more crucial than Lindows, for the desktop.
3. Tie up with big name vendors - presently HP gives us RedHat and Mandrake, no Lindows. Can you simplify the whole desktop market and standardize with about 3 models, like Apple - standard, professional and premium say.
Thanks for your time.
" Hey man, *YOU* go to the moon, then i will listen to your opinions."
What've we learnt after going to the moon? It's thrilling, terrific, giant leap blah blah, but what else? Have we learnt ANYTHING about the moon, which we couldn't have done, sitting here? The weight of the moon? Chemical composition? Life on the moon?
What about the space shuttle experiments? Zero ravity, zero pressure experiments.. anything useful out there? Very little, IMO.
Going by the no. of articles on Slashdot, one would think NASA is a huge, highly successful org., and one intent on extending the frontiers of technology. Cutting off all the chaff, I guess there's very little NASA's doing that's relevant. The hype built around them is not matched by anything they've turned out, over the last 3 decades.
Too much hype, too little advancement.
A poll on this topic should be interesting... my train of thought goes like this:
:-). There are many ways my assumptions could be wrong.. I'd like to hear some.
Most Slashdotters have BIG ideals.
Most Corporate types hate BIG ideals, (except as in BIG money!)
Few idealists are moneyed, fewer can employ others.
I guess it follows that most Slashdotters are not employed
Microsoft's Palladium, now renamed "Next Generation Secure Computing Services" .Not Server is Windows Server System 2003
Opera's Bork edition targeting MSN
Mozilla Firebird, Thunderbird chaos...
Banias codename - Centrino branding by Intel
Windows
and
Trustworthy Computing Platform Alliance is now Trustworthy Computing Group.
Should be interesting to see actual market share/ market penetration vs. Confusion. Methinks Mozilla would be lucky to have as many downloads as posts on Slashdot, more so the database chaps.
Good fun all, while it lasted.
Which spammer would pay these amounts for his junk?
...more like comparing sweet apples to sour apples!
" a new breed of intellectually and physically superior people. "
Genes affect the body, but not the other two. The mind affects and is affected by the body and intellect- but mind-trigerred mutation / evolution is gradual and reversible. Intellect is actually external to both mind and body - the mind tunes to intellect. (Richard Bach: Learning is finding out what you already know)
To sum up, it is not possible to create intellectually superior people by manipulating gene sequences. It can even be argued that physically superior people generally have inferior intellect - but don't tell them so!
"You need to keep a compromised Windows box around. "
er.. excuse me, is there an uncompromised Windows box? The Windows auto-update and GoToMyPC can puch thru the built-in firewall!
It is safe only when you switch off your Windows computer.
"the prevailing mood in the UK is such that he will still find himself stigmatised for a very long time."
And OTOH, I think he will shortly become a Consultant. Naming defendants in such cases is a double-edged sword - it can backfire... he has defended himself successfully against a criminal case, citing viruses and trojans. That makes him a valuable commodity for other crooks as well.
Secondly, this could open up a new avenue for viruses... new versions could be written and loaded by the user himself, as a defense tactic..
Need I say more?
At 9:10 am the parent post is rated: Score 5 - Informative. Let's watch how long this holds up at the top. My earlier reply to this post has already been docked a point - I guess by the MS sharks circling around here.
Slashdot articles having anything to do with MS have been heavily..well, slashdotted. Coupla' days back, I posted something to the Oregon bill stuff, and within 5 minutes, there was a databse crash at Slashdot...took a whole hour before the site was up, and then way too slow, as well.
4 20 2&tid=103
Interestingly, my post which was a reply to a 'Good' post, mostly made of styrofoam peanuts, got relegated 5 pages down, by clever manipulative modding! Getting very curious these days. Should be interesting to see how long this article holds up.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/205
Windows is a sexy OS
AIDS is a sexy DISEASE!
Slashdot articles having anything to do with MS have been heavily..well, slashdotted. Coupla' days back, I posted something to the Oregon bill stuff, and within 5 minutes, there was a databse crash at Slashdot...took a whole hour before the site was up, and then way too slow, as well.\
4 20 2&tid=103
Interestingly, my post which was a reply to a 'Good' post, mostly made of styrofoam peanuts, got relegated 5 pages down, by clever manipulative modding! Getting very curious these days. Should be interesting to see how long this article holds up.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/205
Windows is a sexy OS
AIDS is a sexy DISEASE!
Especially considering we did find a habitable planet 450 light years away, and started travelling NOW, and travelled at the speed of light, we'd still arrive 450 years from now.
Very dead, I suppose. Or we'd need to travel in families, reproduce and multiply enroute, and our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren MIGHT make it! Wow... We first need to research extending life spans first.
How can someone else except me decide what's good? My moods change, sometimes rapidly as well. And taste is acquired only after sampling... so will this s/w provide some new stuff ocassionally to check my preferences?
I'd rather listen to random music on the radio.. I don't like the idea of someone out there, sitting and monitoring me.... like MS does.
For the past 42 minutes, the number of posts to this article stands stalled at "66 out of 90". I got logged out automatically, and couldn't post or do anything during this period.
... hear quite a bit about the horrible shape Oregon ... fact that this pending bill gets ... The open source ...
2 39.shtm l?tid=103
I did something crazy - went to news.google.com and tried to search for "Microsoft Slashdot Oregon" and got this:
Oregon Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration
Slashdot - 1 hour ago
attention on Slashdot will only force Microsoft
with the link:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/06/1815
which is not 1 hour ago, but actually March 6th!
Very curious.
For the past 42 minutes, the number of posts to this article stood at "66 out of 90". I got logged out automatically, and couldn't post or do anything during this period.
... hear quite a bit about the horrible shape Oregon ... fact that this pending bill gets ... The open source ...
2 39.shtm l?tid=103
I did something crazy - went to news.google.com and tried to search for "Microsoft Slashdot Oregon" and got this:
Oregon Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration
Slashdot - 1 hour ago
attention on Slashdot will only force Microsoft
with the link:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/06/1815
which is not 1 hour ago, but actually March 6th!
Very curious.