USA? Well, we invented the damn thing, but no. A single sovereign nation should not be censored by another(America) nation. No country should be given control.
Each nation does their part? Well how should Censorasia(a hypotheical nation) censor out information from a non-Censorasia based website?
UN: F* that. who gets to decide what is 'censored' or what is 'illegal' a bunch of politicians in a completely non-militaristic group? That is like appointing a six-year-old girl to guard a keg of beer in the middle of a major university, with her old defense being 'hey, that isn't yours, stop it!'...
answer: There is, and should be no censorship, governing body, or central point on the internet. Period.
A Star Trek fan from Poland was 1. Smart enough to track his IP and 2. Pissed off enough to visit his house and 'break a few bones'....
Wow, a star trek fan capable of grabbing someone's IP would, logically, be smart enough to fix much of the problem from his own computer, but no. The (as we all know trekkies are quite muscular and athletic) pissed off irc-er visited the dude's house and cause physical injury....
Think about that... an online, virtual gathering about a science-fiction show no longer on the air, caused an irate fan and internet user to physically assult and batter another internet user for disrupting an online chat...
Next time, fork the channel, make yourself an OP, and ban the moron for goodnes sake... *Shakes head*
I always wondered why humans were the only form of 'advanced' intelligence... Seems odd, compared to all the life out their in the forests, plains and wilderness.
With the growing power and bandwidth of the internet, how far away are we from a streaming video(and audio) peercast server? With bittorrent like relay capabilities and powerful scalability?
THAT is how I would start the next INN (Internet News Network).
Agreed. That is why I adimently believed in the breaking up of Microsoft: It was the only way the monopoly could be truly broknen. Again, with competition comes better prices at lower prices, if Apple and Redhat/IBM/Novell(SuSe)/etc. had to fight against a Baby Bill(Gates, that is) for just the OS market, and the Baby Bill Office company had the freedom to, I don't know, port to other Operating Systems WHO KNOWS what would happen?
A linux version of MS Office? Highly unlikely, but if MS Office was its own company, atleast the option would be there.
What would you consider to fall into this category.
PS: Mac, and I believe Linux with the NSA patches(maybe, not?!) gets rid of the 'root' concept, and just uses sudo/su for doing former root-only tasks... Very good design, in my opinion.
Yes, I see a growing trend for an Open Source Software possibility... Write a program/patch that locks down any windows machine that has an open relay/spam on them. Give it away for free, and have every local tech fall in love with it as they clean computers..
What he is saying is true, regardless of how odd a place he is coming from. AOL-TW is too large a business to be allowed to exist, along with companies like Disney that hold (what? ABC, some magazines, a newspaper or 2 maybe?).
Competition brings 2 things: Better quality product at lower prices. We have believed this since Adam Smith convinced our Founding Fathers, now why don't we apply it to Big Business?
The second is trademarks. For example, Firewire is trademarked by Apple. This doesn't stop anyone from making Firewire ports on their laptop, but it does stop them from calling them Firewire ports, without paying a fee. Likewise, anyone can impliment ISO-9001, but you have to get certified if you want to call yourself that. (Technically, I don't think these are trademarks, they're 'seal of approval' marks, but they're under trademark law somewhere.)
Apple released the trademark/seal of approval/whatever name of 'firewire' and it has become the standard name in place of 1394 or whatever is was before... Firewire now is the proper name for all firewire products, PC or Mac.
why not each client RSS reader be offset a random ammount during install... 1 client might check on 13 minutes after the hour, while another might check 57 minutes after the hour... randomly distributing the load.
Lets make this open source project, and make it great... Take an existing p2p project, and fork it... Change/break compatability with all other nodes(the gov wouldn't want 1,000 terabytes of songs to be among the search results), give it a clean interface, and let it use plugins...
Say, a.gov website could use a g2p:// (government-to-people) protocol, and have IE be able to handle the download as if it were a search result in the g2p software... There are atleast 1 p2p program that already does this...
I mean really, take the latest CVS snapshot of every major/minor p2p project(including MUTE and Freenet) copy and paste for X hours, to have every feature implemented(and the best code used for duplicate features) and then bugfix...
Want encrypted links? no problem. Want cryptic(non-direct to peer) routing? Piece of cake.
Heck, lets try and migrate the Gutenberg project's archive to g2p, while we are at it!
and they seem a lot like the Lord of the Ring evil-doers that Frodo was being chased by...
I have high hopes, but low expectations from what I have scene thus far... Atlantis? They jump to another side of the galaxy(for new plot/enemies and to be independent of the Stargate show)... Wow, sounds like Voyager all over again!
how about make the manual an FAQ, where you setup a bunch of question, and release a 1.0 version of the wiki-style faq, then leave it open for users to adjust and update and expand on?
distribution?! Why a distro, they shouldn't be thinking of an OS, but a cd/dvd set... This would be a great idea, actually. Esspecially with the size, could we have categories? A network/computer category, including protocols, design, hardware, comapnies, etc...
With multi-user colaberative text editors? SubEthaEdit (on the mac) and others, i am sure, allow you to edit a document, on a LAN at the same time with multiple people.... With the advancement of web technologies, maybe similar features could be incorporated with Wikipedia to have more advanced (color coded) editting features... wether they are webbased, or some ftp/syncing feature with your favorite text editor.
"Google knows everything, therefore includes any book, just like sea water contains sugar (and almost any known chemical compound) but it's so diluted it would make a lousy sweetener."
Wow... this 'Goo-gel' sounds pretty interesting. if you ask me, these guys should make some sort of filtering software based on keywords found in all that 'diluted' seawater, so as to be able to retrieve only relavant information for a person... maybe if they used some web-based application, or interface.... but they would have to kepp it simple! Not too many pictures or links or crap on the frontpage, just an area to type and a button, or something...
NO, because they just keep making their search technology more adaptive, letting it evolve and be more efficient when it sorts various things (webpages, email, usenet archives, news articles)... The different situations gives Google the ability to have a ongoing test of their algorithms in various situations with various goals... and they can tweak accordingly... Besides, if Microsoft wants to start competing with Google, Google will required more than a textfield and a results page to their profile...
I think the frontpage of Google will never drasticly change, and their main service (www search) will never change... But these markets help them diversify to be more stable, and not so reliant on a single thing that, as has been done in the past, can be stolen or overshadowed by Microsoft or others.
"Microsoft isn't a bad company. People here really do care about satisfying customers and making the best stuff in the world. I really hate the false accusations so many people make about this company."
It is only 'untrue' if the accusations aren't actually factual... Microsoft, I truly believe, has some of the smartest engineers in the world, and many if not most of good intentions. HOWEVER, that does not mean that, time and time again, Microsoft as a company has not done unethical, illegal, underhanded or otherwise non-nice things to bolster its position in a given market while supressing the competition...
Microsoft is not hte only company that has done these tactics, many, many companies do. Microsoft has done it most recently, most blatantly, and in the most hurtful way, and the stigma of poor security and ethics about Microsoft are fully justified as a whole.
Slashdot Mirror
"Until there is a real sheriff on the net"
OK, so who should be the sheriff?
USA? Well, we invented the damn thing, but no. A single sovereign nation should not be censored by another(America) nation. No country should be given control.
Each nation does their part? Well how should Censorasia(a hypotheical nation) censor out information from a non-Censorasia based website?
UN: F* that. who gets to decide what is 'censored' or what is 'illegal' a bunch of politicians in a completely non-militaristic group? That is like appointing a six-year-old girl to guard a keg of beer in the middle of a major university, with her old defense being 'hey, that isn't yours, stop it!'...
answer: There is, and should be no censorship, governing body, or central point on the internet. Period.
A Star Trek fan from Poland was 1. Smart enough to track his IP and 2. Pissed off enough to visit his house and 'break a few bones'....
Wow, a star trek fan capable of grabbing someone's IP would, logically, be smart enough to fix much of the problem from his own computer, but no. The (as we all know trekkies are quite muscular and athletic) pissed off irc-er visited the dude's house and cause physical injury....
Think about that... an online, virtual gathering about a science-fiction show no longer on the air, caused an irate fan and internet user to physically assult and batter another internet user for disrupting an online chat...
Next time, fork the channel, make yourself an OP, and ban the moron for goodnes sake... *Shakes head*
"So why do you call humans intelligent?"
We are self-aware?
I always wondered why humans were the only form of 'advanced' intelligence... Seems odd, compared to all the life out their in the forests, plains and wilderness.
With the growing power and bandwidth of the internet, how far away are we from a streaming video(and audio) peercast server? With bittorrent like relay capabilities and powerful scalability?
THAT is how I would start the next INN (Internet News Network).
Agreed. That is why I adimently believed in the breaking up of Microsoft: It was the only way the monopoly could be truly broknen. Again, with competition comes better prices at lower prices, if Apple and Redhat/IBM/Novell(SuSe)/etc. had to fight against a Baby Bill(Gates, that is) for just the OS market, and the Baby Bill Office company had the freedom to, I don't know, port to other Operating Systems WHO KNOWS what would happen?
A linux version of MS Office? Highly unlikely, but if MS Office was its own company, atleast the option would be there.
AOL-Time Warner HAD a heyday?
"real secure operating system"
What would you consider to fall into this category.
PS: Mac, and I believe Linux with the NSA patches(maybe, not?!) gets rid of the 'root' concept, and just uses sudo/su for doing former root-only tasks... Very good design, in my opinion.
Yes, I see a growing trend for an Open Source Software possibility... Write a program/patch that locks down any windows machine that has an open relay/spam on them. Give it away for free, and have every local tech fall in love with it as they clean computers..
What he is saying is true, regardless of how odd a place he is coming from. AOL-TW is too large a business to be allowed to exist, along with companies like Disney that hold (what? ABC, some magazines, a newspaper or 2 maybe?).
Competition brings 2 things: Better quality product at lower prices. We have believed this since Adam Smith convinced our Founding Fathers, now why don't we apply it to Big Business?
'stable' kernel != 'production' kernel.
Apple released the trademark/seal of approval/whatever name of 'firewire' and it has become the standard name in place of 1394 or whatever is was before... Firewire now is the proper name for all firewire products, PC or Mac.
why not each client RSS reader be offset a random ammount during install... 1 client might check on 13 minutes after the hour, while another might check 57 minutes after the hour... randomly distributing the load.
you ever hear of old growth corn?
me neither.
Lets make this open source project, and make it great... Take an existing p2p project, and fork it... Change/break compatability with all other nodes(the gov wouldn't want 1,000 terabytes of songs to be among the search results), give it a clean interface, and let it use plugins...
.gov website could use a g2p:// (government-to-people) protocol, and have IE be able to handle the download as if it were a search result in the g2p software... There are atleast 1 p2p program that already does this...
Say, a
I mean really, take the latest CVS snapshot of every major/minor p2p project(including MUTE and Freenet) copy and paste for X hours, to have every feature implemented(and the best code used for duplicate features) and then bugfix...
Want encrypted links? no problem.
Want cryptic(non-direct to peer) routing? Piece of cake.
Heck, lets try and migrate the Gutenberg project's archive to g2p, while we are at it!
and they seem a lot like the Lord of the Ring evil-doers that Frodo was being chased by...
I have high hopes, but low expectations from what I have scene thus far... Atlantis? They jump to another side of the galaxy(for new plot/enemies and to be independent of the Stargate show)... Wow, sounds like Voyager all over again!
how about make the manual an FAQ, where you setup a bunch of question, and release a 1.0 version of the wiki-style faq, then leave it open for users to adjust and update and expand on?
distribution?! Why a distro, they shouldn't be thinking of an OS, but a cd/dvd set... This would be a great idea, actually. Esspecially with the size, could we have categories? A network/computer category, including protocols, design, hardware, comapnies, etc...
This would be a great source of income!
With multi-user colaberative text editors? SubEthaEdit (on the mac) and others, i am sure, allow you to edit a document, on a LAN at the same time with multiple people.... With the advancement of web technologies, maybe similar features could be incorporated with Wikipedia to have more advanced (color coded) editting features... wether they are webbased, or some ftp/syncing feature with your favorite text editor.
Need to write a script that creates a thread for every slashdot story, bring the usenet-goodness and the slashdot geek articles together!
"Google knows everything, therefore includes any book, just like sea water contains sugar (and almost any known chemical compound) but it's so diluted it would make a lousy sweetener."
Wow... this 'Goo-gel' sounds pretty interesting. if you ask me, these guys should make some sort of filtering software based on keywords found in all that 'diluted' seawater, so as to be able to retrieve only relavant information for a person... maybe if they used some web-based application, or interface.... but they would have to kepp it simple! Not too many pictures or links or crap on the frontpage, just an area to type and a button, or something...
aw, what do I know, anyway?
um, my gmail account works as a groups-beta account...
NO, because they just keep making their search technology more adaptive, letting it evolve and be more efficient when it sorts various things (webpages, email, usenet archives, news articles)... The different situations gives Google the ability to have a ongoing test of their algorithms in various situations with various goals... and they can tweak accordingly... Besides, if Microsoft wants to start competing with Google, Google will required more than a textfield and a results page to their profile...
I think the frontpage of Google will never drasticly change, and their main service (www search) will never change... But these markets help them diversify to be more stable, and not so reliant on a single thing that, as has been done in the past, can be stolen or overshadowed by Microsoft or others.
actually, with Gmail's site-wide bayesian filtering, spam shouldn't be an issue, and the more you get... well, the less you get(next time around).
It is only 'untrue' if the accusations aren't actually factual... Microsoft, I truly believe, has some of the smartest engineers in the world, and many if not most of good intentions. HOWEVER, that does not mean that, time and time again, Microsoft as a company has not done unethical, illegal, underhanded or otherwise non-nice things to bolster its position in a given market while supressing the competition...
Microsoft is not hte only company that has done these tactics, many, many companies do. Microsoft has done it most recently, most blatantly, and in the most hurtful way, and the stigma of poor security and ethics about Microsoft are fully justified as a whole.