3 seconds? No, that's physically impossible. Was that a typo for 23? The (unofficial) world record for the fastest average is about 17 seconds, and if the solver got lucky I guess they can shave off a couple of seconds off that, but not any less.
It's understandable for marketeers and Microsoft to say 'software product' as a euphemism for 'computer program', but do hackers have to start doing it as well?
euphemism n. The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive.
Excuse me, since when exactly has the term 'computer program' been considered harsh, blunt, or offensive?
Why would anyone call their product waste? I thought it must be an acronym, since they've spelt it in all caps, but they haven't said what it stands for.
Why is it a bad thing? I mean, saying your access will be cut off if you go over a limit is one thing, but charging you in proportion to what you download/upload seems perfectly reasonable to me. What could be simpler to grasp than "you get what you pay for"? Do you pay for fuel for your automobile "per month" irrespective of how much you drive? Or pay the same amount when you step into a restaurant irrespective of what you consume? Why should bandwidth be any different? It costs the ISP money, and obviously they should recover those costs from the users, in proportion to the usage.
In related news, an RIAA spokesperson has announced that they will be filing suit against Sharman Networks Ltd. for contributory infringement over the Kazaa filesharing program. The damages are being calculated based on RIAA's estimates that each user downloaded 1000 songs using the Kazaa network, valued at $150,000 per song, and download.com's figures of 229,150,955 downloads for the program. The spokesperson refused to comment on the total damages sought, but Detroit Free Press columnist Heather Newman has estimated the amount to $34,350,000,000,000,000, or 34 million billion dollars, which, she assures us, is enough to buy all the music CDs every produced in the galaxy since the big bang several thousand times over.
RIAA senior vice president for business and legal affairs Matthew Oppenheim has said: "Stealing is stealing. Piracy contributes to terrorism and eats away from the profits of the music industry, driving up costs for everyone." Industry analysts worry that in the future, software makers will not be the sole target of the behemoth's notoriously aggressive copyright defenses. Some have speculated that vendors of popular operating systems on which these software run may be next, and that hardware manufacturers may not be far behind. One of our anonymous correspondents wondered: "what happens if they decide to outlaw the internet?"
Same story here. That's got to be the worst website design I've come across in weeks.
I seriously thought that calling it a clean and intuitive design was meant to be a joke, until I read the parent post.
If anything, this lends even more credibility to the theory that M$ was behind this all along.
Actually there could never have been much doubt. SCO by itself doesn't have either much reason or power to play with IBM without covert backing from Redmond. Was there any other reason for their going directly after IBM and ignoring RH/SuSE?
IBM, just go ahead and buy SCO, GPL everything they own, and let's put this silliness behind us.
That's where we hit a snag. If IBM wants to buy SCO, M$ will offer to do so as well, and who do you think SCO will sell out to?
I strongly feel that there are many planets harboring life in the galaxy. Consider this: what are the planets that we can directly observe to test for life? Clearly only those in the solar system. What have we found? It is thought to be a significant possibility that Mars had primitive life at some point in the past. Of course, the earth itself must be discounted because of the anthropic principle: if there weren't life on earth we wouldn't be around to ask the question. So out of a single observable planetary system we find one planet with the possibility of life. While this isn't statistically significant, it does makes it very unlikely that we are the only planet with life on it.
Everyone take a pledge and put up the lyrics of any one song in your personal web space. Suppose 100000 of these turn up overnight, what can they do about it? If they send you a C&D then take the page off; there will still be 99999 sites left.
Finding them will still be easy: if you know 2 or 3 words of a song, type those words + authorname + songtitle + the word lyrics into google and you're still going to find it just as easily.
As an apology for the inconvenience caused by being unable to play the CD, he'll be getting a Norah Jones T-shirt and DVD. However, for making an unauthorized copy of the CD, he'll be sued for $97 trillion.
Today you ridicule this researcher and poke fun at the whole exercise, but in a couple of weeks, she'll post a followup saying that it was all a hoax. Then what will you do??!!
A very valid point, mod parent up. I've faced the same problem. Incidentally, I haven't faced any problem from "mountains of blogs" clogging up the "ratings system": few people will link to a blog if it is content-free, so IMHO pagerank is enough for filtering out useless blogs. OTOH, pagerank doesn't work very well on mailing list archives, because links to the archives as a whole say nothing about how useful an individual post is likely to be.
I was wondering about that too. Its not black and white, of course, especially when you want to automate it. I can think of several indications that a page is a blog, some weighted linear combination of these factors should work well enough in practice if you spend some time tweaking the weights:
Updated frequently
Keywords like "blog", "weblog", "posted by", "comments", "permanent link", and so on.
Got dates all over the place
Is hosted on one of the popular blogging sites (blogspot, lj,/. journals...)
Links to and is linked from other weblogs.
This last factor is important. If you start from a rough heuristic and execute an iterative algorithm, similar to how they calculate pagerank, your blog detection algorithm will get better.
"The fast-talking ex-spammer, at a sturdy 6 feet... Duncan Shiels, 41, was raised in an upscale neighborhood in Portland's West Hills. Wide glasses, light brown hair and a neatly trimmed goatee frame a genial face."
Now if you just happen to run into him on a lonely road, you know exactly what to do:-)
Why is kazaa spelt as kazza in the story? Is it an honest spelling error, or is it the result of being indoctrinated by reading slashdot that "*AA is evil" ?
Slashdot Mirror
euphemism n. The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive.
Excuse me, since when exactly has the term 'computer program' been considered harsh, blunt, or offensive?
Why would anyone call their product waste? I thought it must be an acronym, since they've spelt it in all caps, but they haven't said what it stands for.
Why is it a bad thing? I mean, saying your access will be cut off if you go over a limit is one thing, but charging you in proportion to what you download/upload seems perfectly reasonable to me. What could be simpler to grasp than "you get what you pay for"? Do you pay for fuel for your automobile "per month" irrespective of how much you drive? Or pay the same amount when you step into a restaurant irrespective of what you consume? Why should bandwidth be any different? It costs the ISP money, and obviously they should recover those costs from the users, in proportion to the usage.
RIAA senior vice president for business and legal affairs Matthew Oppenheim has said: "Stealing is stealing. Piracy contributes to terrorism and eats away from the profits of the music industry, driving up costs for everyone." Industry analysts worry that in the future, software makers will not be the sole target of the behemoth's notoriously aggressive copyright defenses. Some have speculated that vendors of popular operating systems on which these software run may be next, and that hardware manufacturers may not be far behind. One of our anonymous correspondents wondered: "what happens if they decide to outlaw the internet?"
Same story here. That's got to be the worst website design I've come across in weeks. I seriously thought that calling it a clean and intuitive design was meant to be a joke, until I read the parent post.
Actually there could never have been much doubt. SCO by itself doesn't have either much reason or power to play with IBM without covert backing from Redmond. Was there any other reason for their going directly after IBM and ignoring RH/SuSE?
IBM, just go ahead and buy SCO, GPL everything they own, and let's put this silliness behind us.
That's where we hit a snag. If IBM wants to buy SCO, M$ will offer to do so as well, and who do you think SCO will sell out to?
Nice try. MS has already patented that as part of the iLoo.
SHUT UP! Don't give them ideas!
When the user starts typing PO, obviously your first suggestion should be PORN :)
I strongly feel that there are many planets harboring life in the galaxy. Consider this: what are the planets that we can directly observe to test for life? Clearly only those in the solar system. What have we found? It is thought to be a significant possibility that Mars had primitive life at some point in the past. Of course, the earth itself must be discounted because of the anthropic principle: if there weren't life on earth we wouldn't be around to ask the question. So out of a single observable planetary system we find one planet with the possibility of life. While this isn't statistically significant, it does makes it very unlikely that we are the only planet with life on it.
MWAHAHAHAHA
Finding them will still be easy: if you know 2 or 3 words of a song, type those words + authorname + songtitle + the word lyrics into google and you're still going to find it just as easily.
Uhh... you really want to buy pics that you're allowed to jack off to only once?
As an apology for the inconvenience caused by being unable to play the CD, he'll be getting a Norah Jones T-shirt and DVD. However, for making an unauthorized copy of the CD, he'll be sued for $97 trillion.
Where do I complain more? The link is missing ;^)
You meant: A little off the norm for Slashdot
Dropping the article negates the meaning :)
Wars ------ 2
Killed ---- 5
Wounds ---- 3
Legs ------ 2
Arms ------ 1
Wives ----- 2
Children -- 6
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Total ---- 21
A very valid point, mod parent up. I've faced the same problem. Incidentally, I haven't faced any problem from "mountains of blogs" clogging up the "ratings system": few people will link to a blog if it is content-free, so IMHO pagerank is enough for filtering out useless blogs. OTOH, pagerank doesn't work very well on mailing list archives, because links to the archives as a whole say nothing about how useful an individual post is likely to be.
I was wondering about that too. Its not black and white, of course, especially when you want to automate it. I can think of several indications that a page is a blog, some weighted linear combination of these factors should work well enough in practice if you spend some time tweaking the weights:
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Updated frequently
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Keywords like "blog", "weblog", "posted by", "comments", "permanent link", and so on.
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Got dates all over the place
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Is hosted on one of the popular blogging sites (blogspot, lj,
/. journals...)
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Links to and is linked from other weblogs.
This last factor is important. If you start from a rough heuristic and execute an iterative algorithm, similar to how they calculate pagerank, your blog detection algorithm will get better.Too many kids reading slashdot? (at least from reading the postings here that's what it looks like...)
Now if you just happen to run into him on a lonely road, you know exactly what to do :-)
Sorry, couldn't resist :)