I admit, I was wrong about the deep space listening network. (opens mouth and temporarily inserts foot)
Taking foot out now...
1) If Voyager is passing out of the Solar System into a region of space that has less material than the greatest vaccuum man has ever made. This means there's virtually nothing to interfere with signal transmission out there. Meaning there won't be much signal degradation once it passes this barrier
2) Signal attenuation due to distance is on a logarithmic scale, meaning that the further it gets away, the signal loss in dB is less and less. Again, meaning there isn't going to be much signal degradation for the next 17 years.
3) Offtopic slightly but, Since the antenna on Voyager is directional, the more out of whack it is over there, the less chance you have of getting signal to and from. Bigger antennas aren't going to help if the signal is hitting the antenna from the wrong direction. Anything done on Voyager's end would have lots more effect than anything done here.
Here is a link to a free space loss calculator. What it would show you is that the scale of free space loss in logarithmic. EG. Attenuation of signal is less and less the further it gets from Earth. Try taking a look at the difference in signal loss between a trillion miles, a billion miles, and a million miles. There are only going to be about 6dB of signal loss if Voyager doubles its distance in the next 17 years. Here is a link about Voyager and its 23 watt radios and directional antennas.
In essence, building some really big antennas down here will do just about dick. You can try and paint me as numbnuts, but you'd be wrong.
I presume we can keep contact until then by just simply building bigger transmitters and receivers if/as needed
Sure dude,
We'll just drive the repair truck out to the site and slap on a newer larger transmitter? It's 8.5 billion fucking miles away, how exactly do you propose making a larger transmitter for the thing and getting it ther? Oh wait...the robotic arm and onboard smelter, and onboard chip fabricator?
I'm not saying they couldn't just push more power to the transmitter though.
Oh and the receiver item....Sure, since we use the Deep Space Antenna grid to field communications for this thing, I'm sure we'll just throw a few more antennas into space. Anybody got a slingshot nearby?
Developers who are not thinking (like this chump) are the reason our jobs are getting outsourced to India. Grrr...end rant.
Now, I'm sure that NASA engineers (who are loads more intelligent than the parent poster at www.codesweep.com) would know to throw enough fuel in the thing to last long enough to get Voyager out of communication range, or fill it up with as much fuel as possible, to give it the longest life possible.
If you really wanna read this whole thread, go ahead but, here it is in a nutshell.
1. 98% of the posts say, "The new flick isn't as good as the first one (no shit?, one asks).
2. You could say the readership of slashdot is split almost evenly as to whether or not it's better than the second.
3. Bunch of posts saying hollywood sux.
4. Will there be another Matrix movie and money making media releases?
5. Some asswipe who wasn't modded down to hell for saying Glendale CA rocks in response to a post by a user who says they saw the new flick in Glendale.
6. If you're reading this much Matrix material on slashdot, you should burn pictures of 'Trinity' under your mattress and take a shower.
7. If you're writing this list, jesus go away bitter old man thoughts...
8. A Star Wars / Matrix / Lord of the Rings is better flamewar/circlejerk.
9. Someone probably suggesting they do an edit to the Matrix trilogy removing Neo like they did with Jar-Jar Binks.
10. People bitching that they should do an apt-get/emerge/beowulf parallel compile on their freebsd based G5 cluster with --Matrix-Flags=disable-neo-fuck-scenes.
In Soviet Slashdot, sigs are posts and non-sigs are sigs.
Hey,
If people wanna kill themselves in order to make sure they look good, let them do so. I'm all for more hot chix...-oh wait, this is about hackers losing weight, never mind that last part.
Here's my reason for endorsing the atkins diet. Women are using it to keep themselves slim and trim and are killing themselves in the process. That means if I'm dating one, she'll die before she starts to get bag ugly and I can go pickup a replacement...-oh wait, I'm posting on slashdot, I must not have a girlfriend and am most likely never to find one.
I've ended my sarcasm, let the hackers have their cake and eat it too! Stop berating people and telling them that they're stupid for their choice of food. He'll we have enough of that over OS choices.
1. Lots of posts saying that Symantec is a private corp and can do what they want.
2. A Few retorts saying that even though Symantec is private, their software is being used in libraries, thereby censoring or applying their views to government funded institutions that are supposed to be neutral.
3. Huge flamewar about how gun control is good or bad.
4. People bitching about the ACLU and whether or not it will defend second ammendment rights and if it's a second ammendment issue or a first ammendement issue.
5. Nobody talking about how they could use a gun to go hunting and get food.
6. I hate Sementec / I love Symantec flamewar, what's the best firewall?.
7. Conservative Bashing / Liberal Bashing / George Bush = Adolf Hitler posts.
8. Are you still reading this list?
9. A LOT of posts about how the US sucks and the Euros and Japanese are doing everyting right with guns, crime, patents, and any other government regulation issues.
10. I have no sig, so I thought I'd make number 10 some kind of question on how to make a recursive post sig. How would it be done?
As for unknown companies doing stuff that IBM, Intel, and AMD aren't...Xilinx anybody? Check out Star Bridge Systems and their computer at NASA's Langeley Research Facility.
I've yet to see a Transmeta box in action, but I know their chips were in some of the first blade systems a year or two ahead of HP's or any other major manufacturers. You definitely can't deny that they've been successful.
Maybe I'm a tech optimist, but I'd be willing to put money on Clearspeed's technology. It sounds cool to boot.
Gee whiz Gomer,
Barney from Microsoft says that it's the users fault for not patching their systems. (Partially agree)
Barney from MS says that security companies shouldn't tell anyone about MS software problems. (Disagree)
Barney from MS says that they're really, really going to focus on security this time. (Vehemently Disbelieve)
Head of MS security, Gomer, reiterates that security is number one at MS. (Denying urge to vomit)
Smart people from around the world say "Bullshit, MS hasn't done shit, and are just giving users lipservice."(Pounding head into desk with agreement and frustration)
Sigh, what's news in this article here?
-justify my non-sig-
Honestpuck writes more reviews than I've ever seen anyone do in my life.
Does he have a job? Is he a book reviewer for someone other than slashdot? Where the hell does he find the time?
How much coffee does this man drink? How many words per minute can this guy read? What kind of comprehension level does he read at?
Does he have a life, (he only reviews tech books and sci-fi weeniebooks)? Is he some kind of super ultra mega genetically modified genius after reading all this material?
I don't know why I wrote this post because it seems like a bunch of drivel, but I needed to satisfy my slashdot posting urge today. I also needed to show my amazement at Honestpuck's mad reading skillz.
-non siggers will become your new overlords in soviet russia.
"When mentioning PAM support his comment was "finally!". A crowd member picked up on this & asked "when you say 'PAM - finally!', who are you implying you are behind?".
Maybe it was my undersexed mind, but I had some image of a desparate SCO exec trying to fuck a girl from behind and then yelling "Finally!" when he actually got it in there.
-non sig all your linux belong to us-
Fucking AC eurotrash weasel. I bet you've never heard of Bob Edwards, a famous US commentator on NPR news, and nobody here cares. The fact that you care enough to post about the fact that I didn't know some punk your no good, tea swilling, country that couldn't hold it's colonies, is evidence that you're an ass. You sir are a spineless poofter.
Are you trying to tell me that you knew everyone on the list? Yeah right, you stuck up chump. I'd be willing to bet you didn't even know 7 of the top ten.
Anonymous Cowards like you, who berate someone for not knowing something that you may think is trivial violates the spirit of learning and just makes a lot more noise on/. Kinda like this post you AC prick.
Mod me down for having the guts to post as myself unlike the wasted load of sarcastic semen who this post responds to. I can't believe the parent was modded up as informative. The original aricle has links to who the guys are anyway.
Great, now you'll have lazy cops using a bunch of drunk tired witnesses rather than beating the street looking for the perpetrators or sober people who saw the incident.
There should be a privacy policy to let me know how my information is used. I think that might even be a legal requirement, at least in the US.
The challenge isn't going to be getting everyone to go through the system. It's going to be keeping government hands off data they shouldn't have access to. It's also going to be a challenge for these clubs to keep their customers.
Don't get me wrong, if I open a business, I should be able to require whatever I want from my clientele. If I want a user to tattoo "I'm an ass" on their forehead to come into my establishment, it's my right. If a potential client doesn't want the tattoo, fuck 'em.
They also have the right to say "fuck you" to me and walk right over to my competitor. It's competition. I'm personally against the idea of data collection in any way. The thrill of chasing tail far outweighs most people's urges to refuse data collection. I for one won't be chasing tail in BC.
For all the bashing US citizens take for their lack of education, why am I responding to a Canadian who writes "bystandards" rather than bystanders?
First, this will only go somewhere with people who are aficionados of the music they are listening to. Thinking that it will create new listeners because it gives them more detail is like telling me I'll like this guacamole because the salsa in it has cilantro. I fucking hate avocados, and you won't convince someone who doesn't like to listen to classical because there is some interesting part of the music, because they can watch a PDA at a concert.
Look at Metallica and their classical gig. I'm sure Metallica freaks were all over it. In terms of your general trashy Ratt listener who owns one Metallica album, the classical one is not the next one they're going to buy.
It's like trying to sell slashdot subscriptions to an IT manager with a business degree who doesn't care about tech when he gets home from his job.
Second, I go to the symphony to watch the symphony, not some cheesedick PDA screen that's going to give me error messages. I know that eventually, I'd find something that wasn't working and spend the whole concert trying to figure out what was wrong with my PDA. Or, I'd spend the time trying to get to shit I shouldn't, then my Girlfriend will punch my balls, take my PDA, and play solitaire at the concert I made her go to.
Third, I go to a concert to listen to the music cause, I like the music. Live notes would detract from the listening experience. I'd much rather have a recording with some annotations to see what is technically cool about the music I'm listening to. There are places technology and the internet just don't belong. I think this one goes in the dump with the dumb terminal on a microwave idea.
Another thing and most importantly, if there's going to be a link in a story that says read or look here, by god I want it to be a link. If everyday weren't amateur night on the front page, I imagine subscriber count would be higher.
In incomprehensible slashdot estonia, the non sig overlord's to your bow?
Putting Darl McTurd on that list is equivalent to putting the Iraqi Information Minister on a list of the most influential politicians in the Middle East. e.g. stupid.
I'm surprised at Number 3...I've never heard of him. Come on, Sklyarov above Ellison? Why weren't any networking or ISP execs mentioned in the top 5. It's obvious that networking and services are the biggest growth technologies. The guys who wrote this are stuck in the past with software developers. I'm not a good programmer, but I think I can safely say that there have been no major advances or paradigm shifts in software recently.
I believe hardware and networking guys should be making the top 5 or ten people in that list. Paradigm shifts in hardware are being seen all the time. Shifts to broadband, wi-fi, miniaturization, networking technologies, these are the future.
- Not writing a sig bows to your overlords on incomprehensible slashdot estonia...
Jesus, tv companies are private industry and they can program whatever they want. You don't see anybody calling and bitching about QVC. All they are is one giant advertisement. It's private industry and shouldn't be regulated.
Unfortunately the government has gotten into regulating the "morality" of programming to some degree. tv stations should have been able to display and say whatever they wanted from the beginning. It'd create a market for all the uptight morality pushing screwballs. It'd foster competition and make better tv.
Really, what kind of moron puts this shit together and ties up government resources with this bunk. TIME/WARNER/AOL and DISNEY practically own your tv. tv viewers have been constantly bombarded with product placement and advertisement within shows since tv began. It's in the nature of the media and how it makes it's money. The beauty of it, is that media has updated their business model, unlike the RIAA. Because of this slashdotters and tv viewers have their panties in a bunch.
Seriously, if the RIAA started to put advertisements on CD's to make revenue, who would care in the slightest. Nobody...as nobody should care if business is buying advertising space on our bland reality show of the week.
The fact that the tv viewers of this country are so lazy that they have to bitch about their tv programming to the government just shows that we have become complacent weenies. The patriot act has just passed, your rights are going out the window. I just read Farenheit 454. I think I'm going to go out and read 1984 from a library soon.
non sig - posting is like playing Press your luck, no trolly, no trolly, no trolly!
I think it would be great to see how students at other so-called "second-rate" or state schools are able to do in these courses. I think it would provide a great comparison of school difficulty.
I found the #1 party school in the nation to have a difficult engineering and math departments. I've also heard a lot of people say that the only tough thing about Stanford, Harvard, or even MIT is getting in. Once you're in, apparently it's no more difficult than other schools.
Granted you're reading the rantings and ravings of a CS dropout.
Not that I am trying to be a jerk. This parent needs to be modded down. Doesn't the slashdot FAQ mention something about not reposting the text of an article?
The has nothing to do with the fact that you put slashdot at risk for posting a copyrighted Associated Press article, the thing isn't going to get slashdotted anytime soon, and there must be a million links to some AP text out there you could post instead.
You also degrade the spirit of the slashdot community. Didn't you know you aren't supposed to RTFA before you post?
After IBM initially filed a countersuit on August 7, SCO stock fell for about 3 days from $12 to about $8.75. That's almost %30 percent there. You could've said Wall Street was on to them earlier, but I think you're still wrong. Darl just wiped his ass called it a press release and suddenly his stock price jumped over the next few...erm, well until today.
The more I look at it, the better the deal for Darl and Pals, they can let IBM sue them or amend their case every once in a while. They let the stock drop a little the buy it back. Then they can sell it again after some more press (fecal)releases.
Never overestimate the intelligencia on Wall ST. or Joe Daytrader, they eat press releases up. That's why stock scams are successfull. It almost makes me wanna be a conservative, investor that is.
When the MsBlast worm hit our place in August and I saw the Slashdot story, I saw a spike in our call volume about two minutes before. I immediately notified my manager and told her that something needed to be done. She said, "huh, what's slashdot?" called her manager and said an employee got a message off some unauthorized site. Then she promptly did nothing.
We are still taking calls about that virus, and the bass ackwards crap they did to remedy the fallout. Managers are paid to make a team go in a direction and be productive. Not to ignore the people they "manage". Part of being productive is knowing that you listen to your team.
I can kind of sympathize with dumb managers though. If everyone who thought there was a major issue came to them and bitched their ears off, they'd never get anything done. Adding another layer between the management and team seems asinine too, because inevitably there just become too many layers to communicate through. As evidenced in the article, where Mr. Rocha ignored protocol and wrote directly to the head honcho of NASA (god forbid!). I think it goes to reinforce the fact that business managers and people who go to business school to become managers are worthless. Moving up through the ranks and cutting your teeth is the only way to find a good manager who will consistently know when a team member is talking out there ass or should worry when confronted.
Oh, well, I guess one day I'll have seniority, over somebody, somewhere, somehow.
With regards to the quote..."Only the attorneys win. "
Reginald Broughton, the Senior VP of SCO, has made approximately $1,493,650 since June 20, 2003 in stock sale.
Man, I wish I had the balls/money to perpetuate this scam. The worst they'll get is a slap on the wrist. If the Enron execs have gotten as little punishment as they have, what makes slashdotters think that the Federal SEC is gonna give a crap. Especially since it's a puny company perpetuating a stock scam based on a computer OS barely anybody outside of the technical realm has heard of.
Not trolling, but at least it makes a lot of publicity for Linux in the business world and no publicity is bad publicity.
-non trolling sig- You're already read this...it's too late not to finish.
I tried to read the minutiae link and was thoroughly confused. Granted IANAL. Could someone who IAL please put up a post in english of what is so interesting/funny about the "minutiae".
There is something interesting about this artice/post to me though. It's the number of posts saying this is boring/confusing/not funny when just about everyone on slashdot in general is willing to give legal advice/suggestions/jokes regarding the topics at hand.
Here we have a classic, slashdot pessimist. That's ok. Going off at the handle is the stereotype we slashdotters fit best. Now, if you RTFP, you'd note the question in the first paragraph saying I remember reading the piece but not where it was.
Now that you've opened your mouth, please insert foot... Here,, here, and of course, here. (The CNN article references U of Wisconsin research)
Let alone the fact that the main slashdot story references the National Acadamy of science and Scientific American.
I believe this is where the mods rate you a troll.
-begin non sig- This is not a troll, I repeat this is not a troll.
When 9/11 occurred, I remember seeing an article saying that during the 4 days that worldwide flights were grounded, there was a 3-5%(I think) decrease in cloud cover. I presume this is because of con trails and exhaust conglomeration in the sky. It led to a rise in temperature during the day, and less insulation so it was colder at night. Does anyone have any links? I couldn't find anything.
I always used to fantasize that, "If I became king, I would outlaw all auto usage for one day a month at least." Maybe scientific validation won't lead me to begin my brutal takeover of the world...
Maybe Apple Records, and Apple computer could take a page from SCO's idiocy playbook. They should retroactively sue for copyright/trademark/ip infringement for having the "APL" programming environment...
Bow to my will and be forced to read my non sig! Ha Ha Ha...-your slashdot overlord
I see the newest Slashdot cliche after SCO. Gosh I hope this one doesn't stick...
I must say it's a cool effect right up to the word ceehiro, I couldn't get that word right away.
Can you just see the encouragement the future generations will get when they are told they don't have to order letters correctly?
-Non sig- Negative sir, I am a meat popsicle. -The Fifth Element.
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Ok, smart guy...
I admit, I was wrong about the deep space listening network. (opens mouth and temporarily inserts foot)
Taking foot out now...
1) If Voyager is passing out of the Solar System into a region of space that has less material than the greatest vaccuum man has ever made. This means there's virtually nothing to interfere with signal transmission out there. Meaning there won't be much signal degradation once it passes this barrier
2) Signal attenuation due to distance is on a logarithmic scale, meaning that the further it gets away, the signal loss in dB is less and less. Again, meaning there isn't going to be much signal degradation for the next 17 years.
3) Offtopic slightly but, Since the antenna on Voyager is directional, the more out of whack it is over there, the less chance you have of getting signal to and from. Bigger antennas aren't going to help if the signal is hitting the antenna from the wrong direction. Anything done on Voyager's end would have lots more effect than anything done here.
Here is a link to a free space loss calculator. What it would show you is that the scale of free space loss in logarithmic. EG. Attenuation of signal is less and less the further it gets from Earth. Try taking a look at the difference in signal loss between a trillion miles, a billion miles, and a million miles. There are only going to be about 6dB of signal loss if Voyager doubles its distance in the next 17 years.
Here is a link about Voyager and its 23 watt radios and directional antennas.
In essence, building some really big antennas down here will do just about dick. You can try and paint me as numbnuts, but you'd be wrong.
I presume we can keep contact until then by just simply building bigger transmitters and receivers if/as needed
Sure dude,
We'll just drive the repair truck out to the site and slap on a newer larger transmitter? It's 8.5 billion fucking miles away, how exactly do you propose making a larger transmitter for the thing and getting it ther? Oh wait...the robotic arm and onboard smelter, and onboard chip fabricator?
I'm not saying they couldn't just push more power to the transmitter though.
Oh and the receiver item....Sure, since we use the Deep Space Antenna grid to field communications for this thing, I'm sure we'll just throw a few more antennas into space. Anybody got a slingshot nearby?
Developers who are not thinking (like this chump) are the reason our jobs are getting outsourced to India. Grrr...end rant.
Now, I'm sure that NASA engineers (who are loads more intelligent than the parent poster at www.codesweep.com) would know to throw enough fuel in the thing to last long enough to get Voyager out of communication range, or fill it up with as much fuel as possible, to give it the longest life possible.
If you really wanna read this whole thread, go ahead but, here it is in a nutshell.
1. 98% of the posts say, "The new flick isn't as good as the first one (no shit?, one asks).
2. You could say the readership of slashdot is split almost evenly as to whether or not it's better than the second.
3. Bunch of posts saying hollywood sux.
4. Will there be another Matrix movie and money making media releases?
5. Some asswipe who wasn't modded down to hell for saying Glendale CA rocks in response to a post by a user who says they saw the new flick in Glendale.
6. If you're reading this much Matrix material on slashdot, you should burn pictures of 'Trinity' under your mattress and take a shower.
7. If you're writing this list, jesus go away bitter old man thoughts...
8. A Star Wars / Matrix / Lord of the Rings is better flamewar/circlejerk.
9. Someone probably suggesting they do an edit to the Matrix trilogy removing Neo like they did with Jar-Jar Binks.
10. People bitching that they should do an apt-get/emerge/beowulf parallel compile on their freebsd based G5 cluster with --Matrix-Flags=disable-neo-fuck-scenes.
In Soviet Slashdot, sigs are posts and non-sigs are sigs.
Hey,
If people wanna kill themselves in order to make sure they look good, let them do so. I'm all for more hot chix...-oh wait, this is about hackers losing weight, never mind that last part.
Here's my reason for endorsing the atkins diet. Women are using it to keep themselves slim and trim and are killing themselves in the process. That means if I'm dating one, she'll die before she starts to get bag ugly and I can go pickup a replacement...-oh wait, I'm posting on slashdot, I must not have a girlfriend and am most likely never to find one.
I've ended my sarcasm, let the hackers have their cake and eat it too! Stop berating people and telling them that they're stupid for their choice of food. He'll we have enough of that over OS choices.
In Soviet Slashdot, the non-sig posts you!
1. Lots of posts saying that Symantec is a private corp and can do what they want.
2. A Few retorts saying that even though Symantec is private, their software is being used in libraries, thereby censoring or applying their views to government funded institutions that are supposed to be neutral.
3. Huge flamewar about how gun control is good or bad.
4. People bitching about the ACLU and whether or not it will defend second ammendment rights and if it's a second ammendment issue or a first ammendement issue.
5. Nobody talking about how they could use a gun to go hunting and get food.
6. I hate Sementec / I love Symantec flamewar, what's the best firewall?.
7. Conservative Bashing / Liberal Bashing / George Bush = Adolf Hitler posts.
8. Are you still reading this list?
9. A LOT of posts about how the US sucks and the Euros and Japanese are doing everyting right with guns, crime, patents, and any other government regulation issues.
10. I have no sig, so I thought I'd make number 10 some kind of question on how to make a recursive post sig. How would it be done?
As for unknown companies doing stuff that IBM, Intel, and AMD aren't...Xilinx anybody? Check out Star Bridge Systems and their computer at NASA's Langeley Research Facility.
I've yet to see a Transmeta box in action, but I know their chips were in some of the first blade systems a year or two ahead of HP's or any other major manufacturers. You definitely can't deny that they've been successful.
Maybe I'm a tech optimist, but I'd be willing to put money on Clearspeed's technology. It sounds cool to boot.
-non sig here-
Gee whiz Gomer, Barney from Microsoft says that it's the users fault for not patching their systems. (Partially agree)
Barney from MS says that security companies shouldn't tell anyone about MS software problems. (Disagree)
Barney from MS says that they're really, really going to focus on security this time. (Vehemently Disbelieve)
Head of MS security, Gomer, reiterates that security is number one at MS. (Denying urge to vomit)
Smart people from around the world say "Bullshit, MS hasn't done shit, and are just giving users lipservice."(Pounding head into desk with agreement and frustration)
Sigh, what's news in this article here?
-justify my non-sig-
Honestpuck writes more reviews than I've ever seen anyone do in my life.
Does he have a job? Is he a book reviewer for someone other than slashdot? Where the hell does he find the time?
How much coffee does this man drink? How many words per minute can this guy read? What kind of comprehension level does he read at?
Does he have a life, (he only reviews tech books and sci-fi weeniebooks)? Is he some kind of super ultra mega genetically modified genius after reading all this material?
I don't know why I wrote this post because it seems like a bunch of drivel, but I needed to satisfy my slashdot posting urge today. I also needed to show my amazement at Honestpuck's mad reading skillz.
-non siggers will become your new overlords in soviet russia.
"When mentioning PAM support his comment was "finally!". A crowd member picked up on this & asked "when you say 'PAM - finally!', who are you implying you are behind?".
Maybe it was my undersexed mind, but I had some image of a desparate SCO exec trying to fuck a girl from behind and then yelling "Finally!" when he actually got it in there. -non sig all your linux belong to us-
Fucking AC eurotrash weasel. I bet you've never heard of Bob Edwards, a famous US commentator on NPR news, and nobody here cares. The fact that you care enough to post about the fact that I didn't know some punk your no good, tea swilling, country that couldn't hold it's colonies, is evidence that you're an ass. You sir are a spineless poofter.
/. Kinda like this post you AC prick.
...
Are you trying to tell me that you knew everyone on the list? Yeah right, you stuck up chump. I'd be willing to bet you didn't even know 7 of the top ten.
Anonymous Cowards like you, who berate someone for not knowing something that you may think is trivial violates the spirit of learning and just makes a lot more noise on
Mod me down for having the guts to post as myself unlike the wasted load of sarcastic semen who this post responds to. I can't believe the parent was modded up as informative. The original aricle has links to who the guys are anyway.
-non sig-
Great, now you'll have lazy cops using a bunch of drunk tired witnesses rather than beating the street looking for the perpetrators or sober people who saw the incident.
There should be a privacy policy to let me know how my information is used. I think that might even be a legal requirement, at least in the US.
The challenge isn't going to be getting everyone to go through the system. It's going to be keeping government hands off data they shouldn't have access to. It's also going to be a challenge for these clubs to keep their customers.
Don't get me wrong, if I open a business, I should be able to require whatever I want from my clientele. If I want a user to tattoo "I'm an ass" on their forehead to come into my establishment, it's my right. If a potential client doesn't want the tattoo, fuck 'em.
They also have the right to say "fuck you" to me and walk right over to my competitor. It's competition. I'm personally against the idea of data collection in any way. The thrill of chasing tail far outweighs most people's urges to refuse data collection. I for one won't be chasing tail in BC.
For all the bashing US citizens take for their lack of education, why am I responding to a Canadian who writes "bystandards" rather than bystanders?
First, this will only go somewhere with people who are aficionados of the music they are listening to. Thinking that it will create new listeners because it gives them more detail is like telling me I'll like this guacamole because the salsa in it has cilantro. I fucking hate avocados, and you won't convince someone who doesn't like to listen to classical because there is some interesting part of the music, because they can watch a PDA at a concert.
Look at Metallica and their classical gig. I'm sure Metallica freaks were all over it. In terms of your general trashy Ratt listener who owns one Metallica album, the classical one is not the next one they're going to buy.
It's like trying to sell slashdot subscriptions to an IT manager with a business degree who doesn't care about tech when he gets home from his job.
Second, I go to the symphony to watch the symphony, not some cheesedick PDA screen that's going to give me error messages. I know that eventually, I'd find something that wasn't working and spend the whole concert trying to figure out what was wrong with my PDA. Or, I'd spend the time trying to get to shit I shouldn't, then my Girlfriend will punch my balls, take my PDA, and play solitaire at the concert I made her go to.
Third, I go to a concert to listen to the music cause, I like the music. Live notes would detract from the listening experience. I'd much rather have a recording with some annotations to see what is technically cool about the music I'm listening to. There are places technology and the internet just don't belong. I think this one goes in the dump with the dumb terminal on a microwave idea.
Another thing and most importantly, if there's going to be a link in a story that says read or look here, by god I want it to be a link. If everyday weren't amateur night on the front page, I imagine subscriber count would be higher.
In incomprehensible slashdot estonia, the non sig overlord's to your bow?
Putting Darl McTurd on that list is equivalent to putting the Iraqi Information Minister on a list of the most influential politicians in the Middle East. e.g. stupid.
I'm surprised at Number 3...I've never heard of him. Come on, Sklyarov above Ellison? Why weren't any networking or ISP execs mentioned in the top 5. It's obvious that networking and services are the biggest growth technologies. The guys who wrote this are stuck in the past with software developers. I'm not a good programmer, but I think I can safely say that there have been no major advances or paradigm shifts in software recently.
I believe hardware and networking guys should be making the top 5 or ten people in that list. Paradigm shifts in hardware are being seen all the time. Shifts to broadband, wi-fi, miniaturization, networking technologies, these are the future.
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Jesus, tv companies are private industry and they can program whatever they want. You don't see anybody calling and bitching about QVC. All they are is one giant advertisement. It's private industry and shouldn't be regulated.
Unfortunately the government has gotten into regulating the "morality" of programming to some degree. tv stations should have been able to display and say whatever they wanted from the beginning. It'd create a market for all the uptight morality pushing screwballs. It'd foster competition and make better tv.
Really, what kind of moron puts this shit together and ties up government resources with this bunk. TIME/WARNER/AOL and DISNEY practically own your tv. tv viewers have been constantly bombarded with product placement and advertisement within shows since tv began. It's in the nature of the media and how it makes it's money. The beauty of it, is that media has updated their business model, unlike the RIAA. Because of this slashdotters and tv viewers have their panties in a bunch.
Seriously, if the RIAA started to put advertisements on CD's to make revenue, who would care in the slightest. Nobody...as nobody should care if business is buying advertising space on our bland reality show of the week.
The fact that the tv viewers of this country are so lazy that they have to bitch about their tv programming to the government just shows that we have become complacent weenies. The patriot act has just passed, your rights are going out the window. I just read Farenheit 454. I think I'm going to go out and read 1984 from a library soon.
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I think it would be great to see how students at other so-called "second-rate" or state schools are able to do in these courses. I think it would provide a great comparison of school difficulty.
I found the #1 party school in the nation to have a difficult engineering and math departments. I've also heard a lot of people say that the only tough thing about Stanford, Harvard, or even MIT is getting in. Once you're in, apparently it's no more difficult than other schools.
Granted you're reading the rantings and ravings of a CS dropout.
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Not that I am trying to be a jerk. This parent needs to be modded down. Doesn't the slashdot FAQ mention something about not reposting the text of an article?
The has nothing to do with the fact that you put slashdot at risk for posting a copyrighted Associated Press article, the thing isn't going to get slashdotted anytime soon, and there must be a million links to some AP text out there you could post instead.
You also degrade the spirit of the slashdot community. Didn't you know you aren't supposed to RTFA before you post?
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After IBM initially filed a countersuit on August 7, SCO stock fell for about 3 days from $12 to about $8.75. That's almost %30 percent there. You could've said Wall Street was on to them earlier, but I think you're still wrong. Darl just wiped his ass called it a press release and suddenly his stock price jumped over the next few...erm, well until today.
The more I look at it, the better the deal for Darl and Pals, they can let IBM sue them or amend their case every once in a while. They let the stock drop a little the buy it back. Then they can sell it again after some more press (fecal)releases.
Never overestimate the intelligencia on Wall ST. or Joe Daytrader, they eat press releases up. That's why stock scams are successfull. It almost makes me wanna be a conservative, investor that is.
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When the MsBlast worm hit our place in August and I saw the Slashdot story, I saw a spike in our call volume about two minutes before. I immediately notified my manager and told her that something needed to be done. She said, "huh, what's slashdot?" called her manager and said an employee got a message off some unauthorized site. Then she promptly did nothing.
We are still taking calls about that virus, and the bass ackwards crap they did to remedy the fallout. Managers are paid to make a team go in a direction and be productive. Not to ignore the people they "manage". Part of being productive is knowing that you listen to your team.
I can kind of sympathize with dumb managers though. If everyone who thought there was a major issue came to them and bitched their ears off, they'd never get anything done. Adding another layer between the management and team seems asinine too, because inevitably there just become too many layers to communicate through. As evidenced in the article, where Mr. Rocha ignored protocol and wrote directly to the head honcho of NASA (god forbid!). I think it goes to reinforce the fact that business managers and people who go to business school to become managers are worthless. Moving up through the ranks and cutting your teeth is the only way to find a good manager who will consistently know when a team member is talking out there ass or should worry when confronted.
Oh, well, I guess one day I'll have seniority, over somebody, somewhere, somehow.
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With regards to the quote..."Only the attorneys win. "
Reginald Broughton, the Senior VP of SCO, has made approximately $1,493,650 since June 20, 2003 in stock sale.
Man, I wish I had the balls/money to perpetuate this scam. The worst they'll get is a slap on the wrist. If the Enron execs have gotten as little punishment as they have, what makes slashdotters think that the Federal SEC is gonna give a crap. Especially since it's a puny company perpetuating a stock scam based on a computer OS barely anybody outside of the technical realm has heard of.
Not trolling, but at least it makes a lot of publicity for Linux in the business world and no publicity is bad publicity.
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I tried to read the minutiae link and was thoroughly confused. Granted IANAL. Could someone who IAL please put up a post in english of what is so interesting/funny about the "minutiae".
There is something interesting about this artice/post to me though. It's the number of posts saying this is boring/confusing/not funny when just about everyone on slashdot in general is willing to give legal advice/suggestions/jokes regarding the topics at hand.
Bow to your overlords without sigs.
Here we have a classic, slashdot pessimist. That's ok. Going off at the handle is the stereotype we slashdotters fit best. Now, if you RTFP, you'd note the question in the first paragraph saying I remember reading the piece but not where it was.
Now that you've opened your mouth, please insert foot...
Here,, here, and of course, here.
(The CNN article references U of Wisconsin research)
Let alone the fact that the main slashdot story references the National Acadamy of science and Scientific American.
I believe this is where the mods rate you a troll.
-begin non sig- This is not a troll, I repeat this is not a troll.
Ahhhhh.... Here it is. It's a Chicago Tribune article.
-non sig- You're stuck with my non sig in your brain cells now. I guess you could drink it away.
When 9/11 occurred, I remember seeing an article saying that during the 4 days that worldwide flights were grounded, there was a 3-5%(I think) decrease in cloud cover. I presume this is because of con trails and exhaust conglomeration in the sky. It led to a rise in temperature during the day, and less insulation so it was colder at night. Does anyone have any links? I couldn't find anything.
I always used to fantasize that, "If I became king, I would outlaw all auto usage for one day a month at least." Maybe scientific validation won't lead me to begin my brutal takeover of the world...
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Maybe Apple Records, and Apple computer could take a page from SCO's idiocy playbook. They should retroactively sue for copyright/trademark/ip infringement for having the "APL" programming environment...
Bow to my will and be forced to read my non sig! Ha Ha Ha...-your slashdot overlord
I see the newest Slashdot cliche after SCO. Gosh I hope this one doesn't stick...
I must say it's a cool effect right up to the word ceehiro, I couldn't get that word right away.
Can you just see the encouragement the future generations will get when they are told they don't have to order letters correctly?
-Non sig- Negative sir, I am a meat popsicle.
-The Fifth Element.