I don't think it's happened to me yet, but I've seen other comments in the past few weeks that looked as though they belonged in a different current story, so I guess it's a "feature" of the latest Slashdot code update.
If IBM wanted to own a DOS instead of just licensing it, why did they do a deal with Gates that left him free to license DOS to other manufacturers?
Is there any truth at all that when they tried to talk to Kildall he wasn't around and since they wanted to keep it secret that IBM was developing a PC they wouldn't tell his wife who they were and she didn't feel like bothering Gary for or with a bunch of mysterious strangers?
The original gets modded down to 0, so I repost at +2 so that it's visible to those who browse higher, so somebody mods it down as redundant, thus lowering its visibility and rendering it redundant when it wasn't redundant before it was modded down. Sheeesh!
Okay, perhaps now that the original Excite-AP page is finally available it's redundant, but I really wonder about people who go through stories several hours or more old looking for something to mod down. Wonder if they ever go to that much trouble looking for stuff that deserves modding up?
They probably didn't go back there to die. They were probably installed new and have been sitting there doing the job ever since (kinda like WP 5.1), and since they're still doing the job, and there's always plenty of other stuff to blow the budget on, nobody sees a need to upgrade just for the sake of being able to say that they upgraded.
Almost 2 hours later it's still unavailable, so thanks. Since some moderator considers the story being discussed to be offtopic I'm re-posting your post below. Maybe a few more people will get to see it before I get modded down.
Hate to be a karma whore... (Score:0, Offtopic)
by CtrlPhreak on 08:01 PM October 30th, 2001 (#2500364)
(User #226872 Info | http://ist05.ma.psu.edu/~bld168 | Last Journal: 11:53 PM October 1st, 2001)
But people are already complaining about it being slashdotted. So here's the excite AP story.
NEW YORK (AP) - Patriotism is about to get easier online.
The Commerce Department selected NeuStar Inc. on Monday to run
domain names ending in ".us." With the announcement comes the
ability to get non-geographic addresses such as
"clothingstore.us," rather than the more cumbersome
"clothingstore.los-angeles.ca.us."
The new rules, expected to take effect early next year, are
designed to get more use out of ".us." Country code suffixes such as ".fr" for France have been sources of national pride
worldwide, but in the United States it is the forgotten stepchild compared with ".com."
NeuStar officials are hoping to change that attitude and said
recent terrorism events may give ".us" even more of a boost.
"The fact is right now,... American identification is of
increased importance," said Jeff Ganek, NeuStar's chairman and
chief executive.
Also Monday, the department announced a five-year agreement with
Educause, a nonprofit consortium, to run the ".edu" suffix.
Community colleges will be able to claim ".edu" names
beginning Nov. 12. In the past, ".edu" was limited primarily to four-year colleges and universities in the United States.
The ".us" domain name will be restricted to U.S. residents and
companies or organizations that operate in the United States,
though the system will rely partly on self-certification and isn't
foolproof.
Many details also remain unresolved.
Public-interest groups worry that ".us" - historically the
domain of state or local governments, nonprofit organizations and schools - will become yet another frontier dominated by commercial
interests.
"A lot of people are very supportive of opening `.us' for more
commercial, small business and individual use," said Alan Davidson, associate director for the Center for Democracy and
Technology. "What's tricky is how you make sure the policies...
are fair and equitable."
NeuStar officials said existing ".us" users will get to keep
their names, and local entities that now assign geographically oriented names like "anyname.los-angeles.ca.us" can continue
doing so.
In addition, a number of names have been set aside, including
"kids.us" as a possible children's channel and "parks.us" as a
central resource for parks in the United States.
The company will establish a policy advisory council to address
usage issues, said James Casey, NeuStar's director of policy and
business development. The council's composition and other details
are still pending.
In the past, ".us" policy was handled by the University of
Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, which delegated assignments of specific names to some 800 individuals and
organizations.
To accommodate the distributed assignments, names became long
and cumbersome. It was also difficult to figure out where to go to
get them. Though businesses were allowed to claim ".us" names,
few did.
The change in ".us" is separate from last year's decision by
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to create
seven Internet suffixes to relieve overcrowding in ".com."
A NeuStar subsidiary, NeuLevel Inc., is the operator of
".biz," one of the new suffixes. NeuStar's ".us" database will
share some of the security and technical developments being used in
".biz."
NeuStar, based in Washington, D.C., also runs databases of area
codes and telephone prefixes for the nation's phone system.
The Commerce contract with NeuStar will run four years, with
options for two one-year extensions
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Note to moderators: This *is* ontopic, because it *is* the topic (despite the Slashdot tendency to post with reading the story first) and I've got enough karma left to lather, rinse, repeat a bunch of times.
Re:I have a suggestion for the internet.
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MS DOS: A Eulogy
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Anybody who has IE 5 for 3.1 and doesn't want it, or anybody who knows where it might still be available for download, please get in touch with me.
"The way things work in capitalistic society is, you do the work, you get paid."
Only if the capitalists can't figure out how to get out of having to pay you or don't handle their finances so that paying the workers comes before other expenses and other creditors.
If you've got a little one on the way the major toy purchases are only beginning. They just won't be your toys. Seriously, before you know it that kid'll be big enough that the 50" set and he or she will need protecting from each other (kid damages TV, kid topples TV stand and gets crushed), so plan ahead to keep them apart without resorting to barbed wire and landmines.
"...the Taliban banned all movies and TV, besides, the third world flaunts such things as a habit..."
And flaunting them (putting them out where the public is exposed to them, even if it's only yourself in your own home) is what enrages people like the Taliban. Flouting them (the IP laws about unauthorized copies) is what enrages people like the MPAA and the RIAA.
That new Slashcode thingy that shows where links lead to makes it look like you said that the Taliban banned slashdot.org, which would certainly come as no surprise.
Come to think of it, maybe it was a look at Slashdot that lead them to ban the entire internet.
The only hack I see mentioned was by Myrv, who said "...I could boot into Linux, copy the registry files from the fubar'd Win2K install, and write my own utility to repair it...", but before that said "I love people who say, just boot into the recovery console and fix stuff from there. Well let me tell you that that does NOT always work.", and concluded with "2) Don't trust the recovery console, it relies too much on the registry."
You left unanswered the qusestion of what FAT/NTFS have to do with Registry rot.
You're talking about a situation that moves control out of the hands of the cable company and into the subscriber's.
Holdeth not thy breath.
There aren't enough tech-savvy subcribers to create the demand to make mass-production of the necessary hardware feasible. Telling the local cable company that you want to kludge together their hardware and some do-it-yourself stuff of yours will not be met with enthusiasm.
If you want to descramble more than one premium channel at a time, you have to rent a separate box from them. If you want remote control over the process, you have to rent a remote control from them. If you don't subscribe to premium channels and have an older TV or VCR that only tunes up to cable channel 36, you'll find that the extra unscrambled channels that you're paying for (CNN, Nickelodeon, etc.) will get shifted up above 36 and the premium channels shifted down so that you have to rent a converter box and remote control from them to get what you're already paying for.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find that it came from an episode of the old "Rockford Files" television show. He (Jim Rockford) did stuff like that all the time, and it has the ring of the dialog they used to write for the character.
Perhaps the moderator who decided to label the parent to this post as "flamebait" would be kind enough to explain, either here or in an email to me, just what it was about the post which struck them that way. They must have a much different perspctive on it than do I.
Slashdot Mirror
I've got a redundant moderation someone gave me by mistake that you can have.
What could be scarier than looking like Jon Katz?
I'm serious, some idiot's gonna go out looking like that tonight and some other idiot's gonna decide that's all the excuse they need.
I don't think it's happened to me yet, but I've seen other comments in the past few weeks that looked as though they belonged in a different current story, so I guess it's a "feature" of the latest Slashdot code update.
Is there any truth at all that when they tried to talk to Kildall he wasn't around and since they wanted to keep it secret that IBM was developing a PC they wouldn't tell his wife who they were and she didn't feel like bothering Gary for or with a bunch of mysterious strangers?
Okay, perhaps now that the original Excite-AP page is finally available it's redundant, but I really wonder about people who go through stories several hours or more old looking for something to mod down. Wonder if they ever go to that much trouble looking for stuff that deserves modding up?
They probably didn't go back there to die. They were probably installed new and have been sitting there doing the job ever since (kinda like WP 5.1), and since they're still doing the job, and there's always plenty of other stuff to blow the budget on, nobody sees a need to upgrade just for the sake of being able to say that they upgraded.
Hate to be a karma whore... (Score:0, Offtopic)
... American identification is of
...
/bin/laden
by CtrlPhreak on 08:01 PM October 30th, 2001 (#2500364)
(User #226872 Info | http://ist05.ma.psu.edu/~bld168 | Last Journal: 11:53 PM October 1st, 2001)
But people are already complaining about it being slashdotted. So here's the excite AP story.
NEW YORK (AP) - Patriotism is about to get easier online.
The Commerce Department selected NeuStar Inc. on Monday to run
domain names ending in ".us." With the announcement comes the
ability to get non-geographic addresses such as
"clothingstore.us," rather than the more cumbersome
"clothingstore.los-angeles.ca.us."
The new rules, expected to take effect early next year, are
designed to get more use out of ".us." Country code suffixes such as ".fr" for France have been sources of national pride
worldwide, but in the United States it is the forgotten stepchild compared with ".com."
NeuStar officials are hoping to change that attitude and said
recent terrorism events may give ".us" even more of a boost.
"The fact is right now,
increased importance," said Jeff Ganek, NeuStar's chairman and
chief executive.
Also Monday, the department announced a five-year agreement with
Educause, a nonprofit consortium, to run the ".edu" suffix.
Community colleges will be able to claim ".edu" names
beginning Nov. 12. In the past, ".edu" was limited primarily to four-year colleges and universities in the United States.
The ".us" domain name will be restricted to U.S. residents and
companies or organizations that operate in the United States,
though the system will rely partly on self-certification and isn't
foolproof.
Many details also remain unresolved.
Public-interest groups worry that ".us" - historically the
domain of state or local governments, nonprofit organizations and schools - will become yet another frontier dominated by commercial
interests.
"A lot of people are very supportive of opening `.us' for more
commercial, small business and individual use," said Alan Davidson, associate director for the Center for Democracy and
Technology. "What's tricky is how you make sure the policies
are fair and equitable."
NeuStar officials said existing ".us" users will get to keep
their names, and local entities that now assign geographically oriented names like "anyname.los-angeles.ca.us" can continue
doing so.
In addition, a number of names have been set aside, including
"kids.us" as a possible children's channel and "parks.us" as a
central resource for parks in the United States.
The company will establish a policy advisory council to address
usage issues, said James Casey, NeuStar's director of policy and
business development. The council's composition and other details
are still pending.
In the past, ".us" policy was handled by the University of
Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, which delegated assignments of specific names to some 800 individuals and
organizations.
To accommodate the distributed assignments, names became long
and cumbersome. It was also difficult to figure out where to go to
get them. Though businesses were allowed to claim ".us" names,
few did.
The change in ".us" is separate from last year's decision by
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to create
seven Internet suffixes to relieve overcrowding in ".com."
A NeuStar subsidiary, NeuLevel Inc., is the operator of
".biz," one of the new suffixes. NeuStar's ".us" database will
share some of the security and technical developments being used in
".biz."
NeuStar, based in Washington, D.C., also runs databases of area
codes and telephone prefixes for the nation's phone system.
The Commerce contract with NeuStar will run four years, with
options for two one-year extensions
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Note to moderators: This *is* ontopic, because it *is* the topic (despite the Slashdot tendency to post with reading the story first) and I've got enough karma left to lather, rinse, repeat a bunch of times.
Anybody who has IE 5 for 3.1 and doesn't want it, or anybody who knows where it might still be available for download, please get in touch with me.
Maybe not.
Only if the capitalists can't figure out how to get out of having to pay you or don't handle their finances so that paying the workers comes before other expenses and other creditors.
You realize of course that the lawyers from NewNeatStuffThatsCool are going to be all over you.
Now the government is saying that they bombed the same Red Cross warehouse twice on purpose because the Taliban was stealing the food inside.
How much it costs depends on whether you also subscribe to their listing and software update service (which requires an internet connection).
It's tired and I'm getting late.
Are you sure that the U.S. standard isn't NTSC?
Except for gadgets like lawnmowers, etc.? :-)
If you've got a little one on the way the major toy purchases are only beginning. They just won't be your toys. Seriously, before you know it that kid'll be big enough that the 50" set and he or she will need protecting from each other (kid damages TV, kid topples TV stand and gets crushed), so plan ahead to keep them apart without resorting to barbed wire and landmines.
And flaunting them (putting them out where the public is exposed to them, even if it's only yourself in your own home) is what enrages people like the Taliban. Flouting them (the IP laws about unauthorized copies) is what enrages people like the MPAA and the RIAA.
"Obvious solution: genetically engineer a watermelon in a container similar to a banana. Result: the Waternana!
Or, depending upon what was meant by ease of use, the dildo-melon.
Come to think of it, maybe it was a look at Slashdot that lead them to ban the entire internet.
You left unanswered the qusestion of what FAT/NTFS have to do with Registry rot.
Holdeth not thy breath.
There aren't enough tech-savvy subcribers to create the demand to make mass-production of the necessary hardware feasible. Telling the local cable company that you want to kludge together their hardware and some do-it-yourself stuff of yours will not be met with enthusiasm.
If you want to descramble more than one premium channel at a time, you have to rent a separate box from them. If you want remote control over the process, you have to rent a remote control from them. If you don't subscribe to premium channels and have an older TV or VCR that only tunes up to cable channel 36, you'll find that the extra unscrambled channels that you're paying for (CNN, Nickelodeon, etc.) will get shifted up above 36 and the premium channels shifted down so that you have to rent a converter box and remote control from them to get what you're already paying for.
Beginning to see a trend yet?
I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find that it came from an episode of the old "Rockford Files" television show. He (Jim Rockford) did stuff like that all the time, and it has the ring of the dialog they used to write for the character.
Perhaps the moderator who decided to label the parent to this post as "flamebait" would be kind enough to explain, either here or in an email to me, just what it was about the post which struck them that way. They must have a much different perspctive on it than do I.