And would anybody really want to place control of entire TLDs in the hands of one private company?
So when the UN wants some control over com, net and org because it's in the hands of one private company, US slashdotters complain because the Internet is "theirs".
Now suddenly when a non-US company offer a service, it's suddently bad for the Internet to give a single private company the control.
If you disagree with this, e-mail the EU representatives (MEPs). Complaining at slashdot won't help. Here's a list of all the email addresses from http://www.europarl.eu.int/.
Translation: I work for a PR firm and I would really like you to buy more different clothes so my employer will get more money. Be a good consumer and buy a real shirt, not a polyester one. Then the firm will be happy, and you will perhaps get laid!
"Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.
I don't mind dupes. I don't really think about spelling- or grammatical errors (queue jokes because I'm not careful here). But do we, readers of slashdot, really need to be lectured what AJAX is?
Google uses it, and Microsoft is pursuing it, so there's a lot of hype and hubbub surrounding AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). AJAX brings together some hot properties, Javascript, HTML/DHTML and HTML, according to Julie Hanna Farris, founder of Scalix, a Linux-based, e-mail systems vendor
What's next, summary teaching us what programming languages or computer is?
What I really dislike about DRM is the general consensus that everything actually will have DRM in the future. Even many hardcore geeks at Slashdot seem to reason DRM is here to stay and, if anything, we should try to use the lesser of all the evils. Well, I don't agree (and I didn't vote for Bush either, *shrug*) and the sooner the consumers unite somehow and nicely tell the record- and movie industry we don't want their freaking DRM the better.
Microsoft, being a maker of software based DRM-solutions, plays along nicely by reinforcing the record/movie industry's "threat" that they are "forced" to use DRM if future content should be playable at all in the future. This is _untrue!_ Even if many content industries want DRM, it's not needed, and we shouldn't give up and let them have it that way. Think about it, if a CD can be played in a stereo, even if the stereo has some kind of DRM, any competent taiwanese manufacutrer should be able to create a player for the computer, regardless if RIAA, MPAA or Microsoft likes that or not. That's the way it should be.
I am worried someday, somewhere, some freaking moron political figures will rule the computer is an "entertainment device" and must be managed with DRM (think Vista, Trusted Computing etc). That's the day we are all fucked, even if don't actually listen to music or watch TV.
Wonder what happened to that Japanese kid who solved it in 12 seconds in 2003 (2004?) There's a really cool video of it here somewhere. http://cubefreak.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
When I was young I thought USA was a really cool country. For whatever reason, probably because of pop culture export, USA seemed great and my own country (Sweden) boring. I remember a kid on my block was really into the marines, he had a US flag above his bed. He knew lots of presidents, pretty good for someone not native to the country.
Then I grew older. I realized no country is inherently cool, when you look at the society and politics and not just action movies. USA seemed reasonable though, I remember a history (or geography) lesson in elementary school when a teacher described the basic ideas of the constitution, and the emigration from Sweden->America in the previous centuries. Inspiring.
Fast forward til now. Do I awe you? No, because in my opinion (which will be modded down really freaking fast), your country is going downhill. You are teaching religion as science, I don't even think fundamentalist muslims do that. Then you sort-of ban freedom of speech by forbidding blogging, of all stupid things to ban (whatever happened to land of the free?), introduce laws like DMCA, and are actively trying to destroy the whole worlds intellectual property laws.
The ransom model works pretty well in RPG communities and is already used for programs, but I don't remember where. What, you may ask, is the ransom model? Joel from Joel on software (who is a much better writer than me), says this about the subject:
Have you ever heard of the ransom model?
In short it works like this: you create some sort of downloadable product and set a date at which a specific amount of money (the ransom) has to be donated. If that amount will be collected before the deadline, the product will be released for free for everyone. If not, the money will be donated to a charity organisation and the product will never be released.
I wonder how this would work for software. It is, after all, a different beast entirely than Dungeons & Dragons books.
It probably depends on where you live. I did three years of high school completely online in Sweden, only visited the actual school building once. My grades I got from that school are no different than my brothers grades he got in a "regular school" (only mine are higher, but that's because I didn't drink so much beer, anyhow). I know there are several, real, universities here where you can read different courses and get lesser degrees. So it's certainly possible. If you are talking about the kind of "university" you get spam from ("get a prestigious degree from uni. of liverpool" or something) then you should of course stay away.
I think I speak for all of us when I say someone should sue their fucking ass off. Talk about a double standard! Sony doesn't want the people to infringe on their content, but they themself are perfectly fine with destroying a users system. I don't live in the US, but weren't there laws passed against malware in several states? I do hope so.
Heck, Sony and RIAA treat their CD's as physical property (for example, they use the word theft and stealing instead of copyright infringement). Isn't this the equivilance, using their logic, of breaking into my house and installing cameras (or whatever the rootkit actually does).
1) They didn't transfer 1 Tbit/s in an actual network, at least it appears that way if you RTFA. I am more impressed with Bell Labs 100 Gbit/s in actual ethernet reported a few weeks ago. As far as I know they could have measured the rate photons got from point A to point B in the cable, worthless statistics, like measuring the speed of electricity.
2) According to other news entries like RTFA, they don't contain any info whatsoever about how the company actually conducted the test. One source, Returters IIRC, says it's "secret". Right.
Sounds like Microsoft alright. They are not trying to create a better search engine, they are trying to "beat the competition". Haven't they learned yet this rarely works?
This reminds me of an old simpsons episode. Burns made a bet with another nuclear plant his baseball team would win in a baseball contest. Too win Burns hired several famous baseball players. Anyhow, somewhere in this episode Bart and Millhouse plays baseball at school. They are chosing teams. Bart picks one of the kids in school, Nelson or so. Suddenly Mike Scioscia or someone walks by. Millhouse asks if Mike wants to play in his team. He accepts. Now Bart (slightly annoyed) picks another of the school kids. Another famous baseball player walks by. Millhouse picks him. Repeat, and Millhouse team is full of awesome, famous baseball players, and Barts team has a bunch of kids.
Now, this is relevant if we by "Bart", mean "Microsoft", with "Millhouse" mean "Google", and with "famous baseball player" mean "good ideas". Is it just me, or are pretty much every single one of Microsofts ideas simply _bad_? Google comes up with an awesome idea. Microsoft figures out something imensly stupid. Repeat.
Stop referring to the root DNS servers as "control of the Internet!". Absolutely anyone can set up their own DNS-servers and call them root (in fact, I set up my own DNS and redirected all ".test"-domains to another computer in the network, just to show a friend it could be done). The only reason the current root servers are considered important is because everyone use them.
We've had 10 mbit up/down no caps since the 90's, 24 mbit for several years and you can also get 100 mbit connections (both up and down, no limitations or caps) for a mere $30 / month in some places. I myself live in a very small town of 3000 people in the middle of the woods, and almost all of us have 8 mbit, or at least 2 mbit. It's even better in the universities.
Slashdot Mirror
And would anybody really want to place control of entire TLDs in the hands of one private company?
So when the UN wants some control over com, net and org because it's in the hands of one private company, US slashdotters complain because the Internet is "theirs".
Now suddenly when a non-US company offer a service, it's suddently bad for the Internet to give a single private company the control.
Right.
If you disagree with this, e-mail the EU representatives (MEPs). Complaining at slashdot won't help. Here's a list of all the email addresses from http://www.europarl.eu.int/ .
List of emails
I have already e-mailed and called my countries. You should do the same.
So.. Will they really open everything, or just wrap their proprietary implementation inside XML and therefore claim their format is "open"?
I hope they really open up the format. Otherwise it'd be as bad as RIAA promoting DRM "for freedom". Sigh.
Translation: I work for a PR firm and I would really like you to buy more different clothes so my employer will get more money. Be a good consumer and buy a real shirt, not a polyester one. Then the firm will be happy, and you will perhaps get laid!
Seriously, Paul Graham has an essay about this (sort of) here: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
"Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.
Oh, silly me. You don't have to convert, just split the MD5 into four and append each part with 0x so the program understands you are writing in hex.
For example: program 0x098f6bcd 0x4621d373 0xcade4e83 0x2627b4f6
If you get the error "error getting crypto context..." replace
if(!CryptAcquireContext(&cryptHandle, NULL, NULL, PROV_RSA_FULL, CRYPT_NEWKEYSET ))
with
if(!CryptAcquireContext(&cryptHandle, NULL, NULL, PROV_RSA_FULL, 0 ))
To actually run the program you have to convert your MD5 to four ints. Take your MD5, such as 098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6
Divide it in four pieces and convert them to dec.
Hex
=======
098f6bcd
4621d373
cade4e83
2627b4f6
Dec
=======
160394189
1176621939
3403566723
640136438
Good luck.
Neutrophils, a form of white blood cells, play a key role in anthrax infections.
And here I was thinking a neutrophil was someone who was sexually aroused by the science of food.
I do that every night!
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Oh wait, said Wars.
http://www.dvdworld.co.uk/shopimages/products/nor
I don't mind dupes. I don't really think about spelling- or grammatical errors (queue jokes because I'm not careful here). But do we, readers of slashdot, really need to be lectured what AJAX is?
Google uses it, and Microsoft is pursuing it, so there's a lot of hype and hubbub surrounding AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). AJAX brings together some hot properties, Javascript, HTML/DHTML and HTML, according to Julie Hanna Farris, founder of Scalix, a Linux-based, e-mail systems vendor
What's next, summary teaching us what programming languages or computer is?
Bah, this is slightly annoying.
What I really dislike about DRM is the general consensus that everything actually will have DRM in the future. Even many hardcore geeks at Slashdot seem to reason DRM is here to stay and, if anything, we should try to use the lesser of all the evils. Well, I don't agree (and I didn't vote for Bush either, *shrug*) and the sooner the consumers unite somehow and nicely tell the record- and movie industry we don't want their freaking DRM the better.
Microsoft, being a maker of software based DRM-solutions, plays along nicely by reinforcing the record/movie industry's "threat" that they are "forced" to use DRM if future content should be playable at all in the future. This is _untrue!_ Even if many content industries want DRM, it's not needed, and we shouldn't give up and let them have it that way. Think about it, if a CD can be played in a stereo, even if the stereo has some kind of DRM, any competent taiwanese manufacutrer should be able to create a player for the computer, regardless if RIAA, MPAA or Microsoft likes that or not. That's the way it should be.
I am worried someday, somewhere, some freaking moron political figures will rule the computer is an "entertainment device" and must be managed with DRM (think Vista, Trusted Computing etc). That's the day we are all fucked, even if don't actually listen to music or watch TV.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
That was highly appropriate.
Wonder what happened to that Japanese kid who solved it in 12 seconds in 2003 (2004?) There's a really cool video of it here somewhere. http://cubefreak.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
When I was young I thought USA was a really cool country. For whatever reason, probably because of pop culture export, USA seemed great and my own country (Sweden) boring. I remember a kid on my block was really into the marines, he had a US flag above his bed. He knew lots of presidents, pretty good for someone not native to the country.
Then I grew older. I realized no country is inherently cool, when you look at the society and politics and not just action movies. USA seemed reasonable though, I remember a history (or geography) lesson in elementary school when a teacher described the basic ideas of the constitution, and the emigration from Sweden->America in the previous centuries. Inspiring.
Fast forward til now. Do I awe you? No, because in my opinion (which will be modded down really freaking fast), your country is going downhill. You are teaching religion as science, I don't even think fundamentalist muslims do that. Then you sort-of ban freedom of speech by forbidding blogging, of all stupid things to ban (whatever happened to land of the free?), introduce laws like DMCA, and are actively trying to destroy the whole worlds intellectual property laws.
Think about it.
Regards,
Swedish citizen.
It's about (= 'Google 'good), but also about (= 'patents 'evil), what to do, what to THINK!!!
The ransom model works pretty well in RPG communities and is already used for programs, but I don't remember where. What, you may ask, is the ransom model? Joel from Joel on software (who is a much better writer than me), says this about the subject:
Have you ever heard of the ransom model?
In short it works like this: you create some sort of downloadable product and set a date at which a specific amount of money (the ransom) has to be donated. If that amount will be collected before the deadline, the product will be released for free for everyone. If not, the money will be donated to a charity organisation and the product will never be released.
I wonder how this would work for software. It is, after all, a different beast entirely than Dungeons & Dragons books.
It probably depends on where you live. I did three years of high school completely online in Sweden, only visited the actual school building once. My grades I got from that school are no different than my brothers grades he got in a "regular school" (only mine are higher, but that's because I didn't drink so much beer, anyhow). I know there are several, real, universities here where you can read different courses and get lesser degrees. So it's certainly possible. If you are talking about the kind of "university" you get spam from ("get a prestigious degree from uni. of liverpool" or something) then you should of course stay away.
Firefox Users :-)
Firefox support is coming soon. Please be patient
. Did I read that right? MS supporting Firefox?
Hmm. Cool.
I think I speak for all of us when I say someone should sue their fucking ass off. Talk about a double standard! Sony doesn't want the people to infringe on their content, but they themself are perfectly fine with destroying a users system. I don't live in the US, but weren't there laws passed against malware in several states? I do hope so.
Heck, Sony and RIAA treat their CD's as physical property (for example, they use the word theft and stealing instead of copyright infringement). Isn't this the equivilance, using their logic, of breaking into my house and installing cameras (or whatever the rootkit actually does).
I think it's worth spending that money just so you can say you live in motherlands basement.
1) They didn't transfer 1 Tbit/s in an actual network, at least it appears that way if you RTFA. I am more impressed with Bell Labs 100 Gbit/s in actual ethernet reported a few weeks ago. As far as I know they could have measured the rate photons got from point A to point B in the cable, worthless statistics, like measuring the speed of electricity.
2) According to other news entries like RTFA, they don't contain any info whatsoever about how the company actually conducted the test. One source, Returters IIRC, says it's "secret". Right.
Sounds like Microsoft alright. They are not trying to create a better search engine, they are trying to "beat the competition". Haven't they learned yet this rarely works?
He is already anti-Open Document http://government.zdnet.com/?p=1723 and heavly pro-Microsoft http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/ so this is not unexpected.
This reminds me of an old simpsons episode. Burns made a bet with another nuclear plant his baseball team would win in a baseball contest. Too win Burns hired several famous baseball players. Anyhow, somewhere in this episode Bart and Millhouse plays baseball at school. They are chosing teams. Bart picks one of the kids in school, Nelson or so. Suddenly Mike Scioscia or someone walks by. Millhouse asks if Mike wants to play in his team. He accepts. Now Bart (slightly annoyed) picks another of the school kids. Another famous baseball player walks by. Millhouse picks him. Repeat, and Millhouse team is full of awesome, famous baseball players, and Barts team has a bunch of kids.
Now, this is relevant if we by "Bart", mean "Microsoft", with "Millhouse" mean "Google", and with "famous baseball player" mean "good ideas". Is it just me, or are pretty much every single one of Microsofts ideas simply _bad_? Google comes up with an awesome idea. Microsoft figures out something imensly stupid. Repeat.
Stop referring to the root DNS servers as "control of the Internet!". Absolutely anyone can set up their own DNS-servers and call them root (in fact, I set up my own DNS and redirected all ".test"-domains to another computer in the network, just to show a friend it could be done). The only reason the current root servers are considered important is because everyone use them.
We've had 10 mbit up/down no caps since the 90's, 24 mbit for several years and you can also get 100 mbit connections (both up and down, no limitations or caps) for a mere $30 / month in some places. I myself live in a very small town of 3000 people in the middle of the woods, and almost all of us have 8 mbit, or at least 2 mbit. It's even better in the universities.