What if we have two such automated news services and they scan each other? Wouldn't they get stuck in some sort of infinite loop where they repeatedly pass the same story back and forth, summarizing it over and over again?
The public still often thinks of the Net in terms of thievery, retailing, pornography, and hacking and cracking
Actually, the public thinks of the Net in terms of flashy annoying banner adverts, pop-up windows, and the 500 "MAKE MONEY TODAY!" spam emails they get every day in thier AOL email box (And AOL 7.0 is FAST!)
Jon, you really need to avoid the broad, sweeping generalizations that portray the world from your own, rather isolated and biased point of view. "The Public" ain't as naive and stupid as you'd like to portray them as in this website review.
No, it's more like saying we should take cars away from people who have them stolen over and over again and yet consistently leave them unlocked, park them in unguarded lots with a posted theft rate of over 50% and leave a big sign on the car that says "Steal me. I'm unlocked." I would wholeheartedly support preventing anybody like this from owning a car, as their negligence is only causing my insurance rates to go up. That's basically what a blacklist is doing for people who refuse to close their open relays.
I guess the valid comparison would be that the RIAA is correct in it's harassment campaign to shutdown Napster and similar file-sharing services, as they(Napster, etc) leave the door unlocked to trading copyrighted software.
It's NOT illegal to leave an open relay, not as far as I know.
Portraying his open relay as a "Public Health Hazard" of the Internet is all fine and dandy if there are clear and precise regulations detailing what constitutes a hazard. Those restrictions/laws/regulations don't yet exist, people shouldn't be randomly forming organizations to "police" the internet using strongarm and blackmail tactics.
BUT, the entire Internet community has said "Close your servers, they are being abused." The guy hasn't. It's being abused. Negligence? Aparently so. Conspiracy to spam? Maybe. The server's listed on blocklists. The guy hasn't fixed it yet. He's virtually required, or his ISP gets wind. His ISP is Verio. They've been sent notice. Neither he nor Verio has fixed the problem in a timely matter. The only recorse is to block all of Verio, because they're not playing nice.
Whoa, hold on a second here! Gilmore's server is abused by spammers, so he's a victim, right? Why are we blaming the victim?
All this blacklisting like saying we should weld car doors shut for people who have thier cars stolen. Gilmore's arguement is that SPAMMING is illegal, not the running of an open relay server, and he's entirely correct, IMHO.
The whole concept of "enabling criminals" is patently false. Criminals commit crimes because there is inadequate deterrance, not because the tools are readily available. Hardware stores are not at fault for selling crowbars if criminals use them to break into our houses. Crowbars have MANY legitimate uses. Don't boycott a store that sells them, similarly, don't knee-jerk and blacklist this dude without hearing him out.
The penalties for the crimes need to be applied to the criminals, not the people that are as much innocent victims as us.
How the heck was this long and informative post about slashdot subscriptions (attached to a story about slashdot subscriptions) modded "Offtopic"?
Man, I wish I had meta-mod or moderation privs... I don't, because I apparently haven't been around long enough? Or mebbie it was because I/friend'ed the dude who posted the infamous Slashdot troll post from hell that got modded 5 billion times and resulted in everyone who modded, posted, or read that story to lose moderation privs.
I wonder if/when I'd know if I lost those privs, since I never had 'em.
I fully expected to be modded "-1, Offtopic" fairly soon for this post, but I had to say what I had to say.
the hearing is meant to discuss whether the government must step in and mandate standards -- which Hollywood believes will allow movies to be distributed safely online, spur high-speed Internet access, and boost hardware sales.
A Hollywood spokesman was later heard to also profess strong belief in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and honest politicians.
OK. I want somebody to explain just why these guys are figuring out how much anti-matter it takes to heat a cup of coffee.
Arbitrary choice of energy consumption for comparison. They obviously chose between that, and the amount of energy required to refridgerate a Jolt Cola.
True geeks like these are tremendously concerned about getting thier caffine fix in a world where oil supplies are dwindling (Oil=Heat=Hot Water=Java)
Obviously, the fact that they drink thier Jolt at room temperature like some of us influenced thier decision.
Well, 6.02e23 hydrogen atoms weigh 1 gram, so 1e6 hydrogen atoms should weigh 1.66e-18 grams. A standard paperclip weighs about a gram. If anti-matter exhibits anti-gravity, then it would weigh -1.66e-18 grams.
I dunno, let's follow this logic a little further...
Reverse gravity implies that antimatter is repelled from normal matter by a gravity-like force, and in all likelyhood is attracted in a similar manner to other antimatter. I wonder how the rules of gravity function with this substance, but on the same premise... How does one measure it's MASS? Is it anti-mass? Does it therefore require less than zero force to accellerate it in a straight line?...
I dunno, you can wander around this in logical circles, throwing the words "Anti-this" and "Anti-that" around, but I don't believe that Anti-matter is directly related in any way to "Anti-gravity" in the context that you describe it here.
Honestly? I want less managers. Become a programmer instead.
Failing that, learn to take long, far-off business trips to different countries. Sandwich those business trips between weeks of vacation and offsite conference attendances.
Just stay out of the office and let me code in peace!
Granted, online voting wouldn't be more secure, but provided the one-person-one-vote limit could be enforced, it would be a helluva lot more accurate than a room full of people searching for hanging chad.
The most interesting part of this whole award to these programmers is that it comes roughly 40 years after the accomplishments have taken place.
Even in a world where it seems technology is evolving at a tremendous pace, it seems that the most basic and innovative aspects of certain technologies take a long time to take hold.
Object oriented programming has been around a long time, but only recently has it become the mainstream method of choice. I wonder what current non-mainstream technologies will end up being considered revolutionary 40 years from TODAY.
Is there a way to "opt out" of TiVo's data collection nonsense or do the units automatically report to the mothership? I'm not really interested in buying a box that spends significant time spying on me.
At least with this system, I have a firewall to warn me when software tries to communicate information to home-base.
Add to the timeline :
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A Loki Timeline
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· Score: 1, Funny
January 31st, 2002 :
Loki Timeline Slashdotted.
And the disturbing thought is...
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EverQuest and the UN
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· Score: 2, Interesting
And the disturbing thought is, if all of this commerce is going on in a virtual environment, what is the "gold standard" for the monetary unit and how stable is that economy?
I'm also curious as to how an "online economy" can function in a complete abscence of necessity. Every item in EQ is essentially a luxury item, there is no food/water/shelter requirement being satisfied.
Slashdot Mirror
An anonymous reader notd a bit running on LinuxGram about Lineo about ready to croak.
And this slashdot user notd a bit ago that the slashdot effect caused LinuxGram to croak.
The company's name, if not it's plan, is a stroke of genius...
then again, it is a Brilliant plan to take over the computing power of the world.
Hey... one of my most common keystrokes is "Alt-tab". How exactly do I do that quickly with pen input?
What if we have two such automated news services and they scan each other? Wouldn't they get stuck in some sort of infinite loop where they repeatedly pass the same story back and forth, summarizing it over and over again?
The public still often thinks of the Net in terms of thievery, retailing, pornography, and hacking and cracking
Actually, the public thinks of the Net in terms of flashy annoying banner adverts, pop-up windows, and the 500 "MAKE MONEY TODAY!" spam emails they get every day in thier AOL email box (And AOL 7.0 is FAST!)
Jon, you really need to avoid the broad, sweeping generalizations that portray the world from your own, rather isolated and biased point of view. "The Public" ain't as naive and stupid as you'd like to portray them as in this website review.
Yeah, and the review neglects to mention the overpowering hints on the DVD regarding "Tron 2.0".
The sequel is coming.
No, it's more like saying we should take cars away from people who have them stolen over and over again and yet consistently leave them unlocked, park them in unguarded lots with a posted theft rate of over 50% and leave a big sign on the car that says "Steal me. I'm unlocked." I would wholeheartedly support preventing anybody like this from owning a car, as their negligence is only causing my insurance rates to go up. That's basically what a blacklist is doing for people who refuse to close their open relays.
I guess the valid comparison would be that the RIAA is correct in it's harassment campaign to shutdown Napster and similar file-sharing services, as they(Napster, etc) leave the door unlocked to trading copyrighted software.
It's NOT illegal to leave an open relay, not as far as I know.
Portraying his open relay as a "Public Health Hazard" of the Internet is all fine and dandy if there are clear and precise regulations detailing what constitutes a hazard. Those restrictions/laws/regulations don't yet exist, people shouldn't be randomly forming organizations to "police" the internet using strongarm and blackmail tactics.
BUT, the entire Internet community has said "Close your servers, they are being abused." The guy hasn't. It's being abused. Negligence? Aparently so. Conspiracy to spam? Maybe. The server's listed on blocklists. The guy hasn't fixed it yet. He's virtually required, or his ISP gets wind. His ISP is Verio. They've been sent notice. Neither he nor Verio has fixed the problem in a timely matter. The only recorse is to block all of Verio, because they're not playing nice.
Whoa, hold on a second here! Gilmore's server is abused by spammers, so he's a victim, right? Why are we blaming the victim?
All this blacklisting like saying we should weld car doors shut for people who have thier cars stolen. Gilmore's arguement is that SPAMMING is illegal, not the running of an open relay server, and he's entirely correct, IMHO.
The whole concept of "enabling criminals" is patently false. Criminals commit crimes because there is inadequate deterrance, not because the tools are readily available. Hardware stores are not at fault for selling crowbars if criminals use them to break into our houses. Crowbars have MANY legitimate uses. Don't boycott a store that sells them, similarly, don't knee-jerk and blacklist this dude without hearing him out.
The penalties for the crimes need to be applied to the criminals, not the people that are as much innocent victims as us.
And how many of those 500 million "people" are actually 'bots, spam-email accounts, and extra slashdot troll accounts?
How the heck was this long and informative post about slashdot subscriptions (attached to a story about slashdot subscriptions) modded "Offtopic"? Man, I wish I had meta-mod or moderation privs... I don't, because I apparently haven't been around long enough? Or mebbie it was because I /friend'ed the dude who posted the infamous Slashdot troll post from hell that got modded 5 billion times and resulted in everyone who modded, posted, or read that story to lose moderation privs.
I wonder if/when I'd know if I lost those privs, since I never had 'em.
I fully expected to be modded "-1, Offtopic" fairly soon for this post, but I had to say what I had to say.
I really feel that these case mod stories should be restricted to the extremely new or innovative. There are web sites for this type of thing.
I mean, if someone turned an old Volkswagon Beetle into a modded case, I'd be impressed. Beyond that, it's all just pretty bells and whistles to me.
the hearing is meant to discuss whether the government must step in and mandate standards -- which Hollywood believes will allow movies to be distributed safely online, spur high-speed Internet access, and boost hardware sales.
A Hollywood spokesman was later heard to also profess strong belief in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and honest politicians.
I can almost imagine CmdrTaco recieving a cease-and-desist letter to get him to remove the link and cease this denial of service attack.
OK. I want somebody to explain just why these guys are figuring out how much anti-matter it takes to heat a cup of coffee.
Arbitrary choice of energy consumption for comparison. They obviously chose between that, and the amount of energy required to refridgerate a Jolt Cola.
True geeks like these are tremendously concerned about getting thier caffine fix in a world where oil supplies are dwindling (Oil=Heat=Hot Water=Java)
Obviously, the fact that they drink thier Jolt at room temperature like some of us influenced thier decision.
Yep, the smallest virus would still be about twice as heavy as the cluster of antimatter atoms
Yeah, but at the rate that we increase space-to-weight ratios on hard drives, that won't hold true for long.
Well, 6.02e23 hydrogen atoms weigh 1 gram, so 1e6 hydrogen atoms should weigh 1.66e-18 grams. A standard paperclip weighs about a gram. If anti-matter exhibits anti-gravity, then it would weigh -1.66e-18 grams. I dunno, let's follow this logic a little further... Reverse gravity implies that antimatter is repelled from normal matter by a gravity-like force, and in all likelyhood is attracted in a similar manner to other antimatter. I wonder how the rules of gravity function with this substance, but on the same premise... How does one measure it's MASS? Is it anti-mass? Does it therefore require less than zero force to accellerate it in a straight line? ...
I dunno, you can wander around this in logical circles, throwing the words "Anti-this" and "Anti-that" around, but I don't believe that Anti-matter is directly related in any way to "Anti-gravity" in the context that you describe it here.
This wouldn't have happened if they had thier servers clustered to handle the load-balancing issues.
Honestly? I want less managers. Become a programmer instead.
Failing that, learn to take long, far-off business trips to different countries. Sandwich those business trips between weeks of vacation and offsite conference attendances.
Just stay out of the office and let me code in peace!
Ok, that makes a helluva lot more sense now.
I don't see how they would make sure some jerk doesn't steal the ballots from the street and vote for several people at once
And the point of voting for more than one candidate would be.... effectively cancelling out your own vote?
Sorry, you lost me on that one.
Granted, online voting wouldn't be more secure, but provided the one-person-one-vote limit could be enforced, it would be a helluva lot more accurate than a room full of people searching for hanging chad.
The most interesting part of this whole award to these programmers is that it comes roughly 40 years after the accomplishments have taken place. Even in a world where it seems technology is evolving at a tremendous pace, it seems that the most basic and innovative aspects of certain technologies take a long time to take hold. Object oriented programming has been around a long time, but only recently has it become the mainstream method of choice. I wonder what current non-mainstream technologies will end up being considered revolutionary 40 years from TODAY.
Is there a way to "opt out" of TiVo's data collection nonsense or do the units automatically report to the mothership? I'm not really interested in buying a box that spends significant time spying on me. At least with this system, I have a firewall to warn me when software tries to communicate information to home-base.
January 31st, 2002 : Loki Timeline Slashdotted.
And the disturbing thought is, if all of this commerce is going on in a virtual environment, what is the "gold standard" for the monetary unit and how stable is that economy? I'm also curious as to how an "online economy" can function in a complete abscence of necessity. Every item in EQ is essentially a luxury item, there is no food/water/shelter requirement being satisfied.