So you're using Slashdot, a site that likely wouldn't exist if not for Linus Torvalds, to call for his exit from this country and to make offensive remarks about him?
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Thank you for telling me what I need to know to know that I don't want any part of this product.
uh, wait a minute
I certainly won't be involved in any purchase/licensing of a *new* one, but I'd *love* to find someone with a no longer licensed unit looking to sell it cheap so I could take it apart and make something usable out of it.:-)
Actually, Slashdot is a great place to get smart answers to "stupid" questions.
Unfortunately, the quality of the answers varies over a wide range and the person asking the question (who wouldn't be asking if they were already experts in the area) can have difficulty separating the wheat from the chaff, especially since so many of the answers fall somewhere in between.
Here's one helpful hint: the more a particular post flames previous posters as idiots, et cetera, the more likley it is that *their* answer is based on an incomplete understanding of the issue at hand.
"Find illegal porn producers and bust them...hard."
The problem with that approach is that someone can be a legal producer of legal porn when and where the porn is produced and 2 or 3 years later find themselves on trial by some politically ambitious district attorney half way across the country in a jurisdiction they've never even physically been in before.
The only way for censorware to work perfectly is for humans to view all the sites on the 'Net and decide which age groups should be allowed to see what. No machine, no algorithm, no program, can unerringly make up the lists of sites to block.
Therefore, for GNUwatch to work, the open source/free software (you know who I mean) community will have to volunteer their services to sort through all the possibly objectionble sites, all the rich panoply of porn out there. Perhaps some sort of distributed effort, a SEXI@home, so to speak, could be implemented. Fellow Slashdotters, it will be your solemn civic duty to wade through Terabytes of firm, perky breasts, pert buttocks, and throbbing steamy lust. Are you "up" to the challenge?
How could anyone consider the above as off-topic? Why didn't you moderate any of the parent comments as off-topic since they're all discussing the same topic? If you think it wasn't worth the bonus point usually used by Frac, why not just moderate it as overrated? Did you not care what you called it as long as you reduced Frac's score and karma?
Yeah, but if Hearst actually had the Maine sunk (and I have no idea if he did or didn't), then that's a whole different kettle of fish than just stirring people up with words.
I want nice, thick, complete, well written, and printed by "someone who knows what the bleep they're doing" documentation, service manuals, owner's manuals, et cetera. "Here's your software, hardware, source code, whatever, you need expensive display hardware if you want to be able to read about it for more than a few minutes at a time, sorry about that, chief." If hardware (including stuff like VCR's) came with a service manual with every unit shipped, they could print them more cheaply per unit because of volume, making it possible to include it in the price of the unit without increasing the price of the unit too horribly, which would increase your chances of fixing that hardware or finding someone who could take your service manual and do it for you. Of course nowadays they just want to sell you something that you'll have to buy a new one of in a couple of years. It's the same with commercial software. Earlier versions of DOS and Windows came with bigger books and smaller price tags, then the software got bigger and more complicated, the manuals skimpier and more comic book like, the price higher, and the expense of aftermarket documentation necessary to get full value out of the software increased. The less you sell to a knowledgeable minority and the more to the general public, the easier it is to screw the customer.
I'm going to go lie down and take slow, deep breaths now.
"... an electronic device that produces random static noise may be affected by an observer..." In other words, when your old radio or televsion set gets static-y, smack it.:-)
"These random devices also respond to group activities of larger numbers of people, even when they are unaware of the machine's presence.... Venues that appear to be particularly conducive to such field anomalies include small intimate groups, group rituals, sacred sites, musical and theatrical performances, and charismatic events. In contrast, data generated during academic conferences or business meetings show no deviations from chance."
Unfortunately you can't attribute the field anomalies to mass hysteria due to the lack of them at academic conferences and business meetings any more.:-)
But seriously, when I saw the part about group activity, group rituals, sacred sites, et cetera, I immediately thought about something I read a couple of years ago about some experiment some doctor in California did with prayer groups praying for sick people that they didn't know, that didn't know that they were being prayed for, where those patients did better than a control group. Maybe prayer works with or without God.
As someone with a relative experiencing increasing "packet loss" between legs and brain (myelin sheath deterioration), I'm wondering if there's any "routing around the spinal cord" application this could be part of.
"That would be like blaming the Washington Post for Watergate or the Hearst newspapers for the Spanish-American War!" I'm sure Nixon blamed the Post, even though they couldn't have invented those oval office tapes, just found out about their existence (don't shoot the messenger), but Hearst has *long* been suspected of having started that war in order to boost circulation.
S/he probably felt strongly enough about what they were saying as to want to be sure to be heard above the din of the crowd. I took a look at some of FascDot Killed My Pr's last 50 posts. Apparently s/he routinely posts without the extra point. Out of 6 Score:2 's, the other 5 were all submitted as Score:1 and moderated up. 6 Score:1 's I checked at random started out that way and were not submitted as 2's and modded down. S/he also has 2 +5's, 2 +4's, 3 +3's, 1 =0, and 1 -1. Seems like a judicious use of a fairly well deserved bonus point. Do you realise that you are one of *14* moderators who wasted points on a post that wound up with the same score it started at?
Since I rarely use my bonus point either, I won't use it here. (watch Taco's code hiccup and make a liar of me. Why can't he set it up as default off, check the box for on?)
Slashdot Mirror
me miss real MEEPT!!!!!
He'd go to Disney World!
I was just wondering, how do you know that most people browse at +1?
So you're using Slashdot, a site that likely wouldn't exist if not for Linus Torvalds, to call for his exit from this country and to make offensive remarks about him?
uh, wait a minute
I certainly won't be involved in any purchase/licensing of a *new* one, but I'd *love* to find someone with a no longer licensed unit looking to sell it cheap so I could take it apart and make something usable out of it.:-)
Snide, the laundry detergent that makes cutting comments about how tacky your clothes are.
Mercedes Benz had at least one model with gull-wing doors back in the 50s or 60s.
It did get read. I wasted my time. :-)
If people need to know all that power user command line interface stuff, that just means that computers aren't good enough yet.
I know there's a steam iron or toaster or something with that look that predates the iMac, but where and on what did that look first appear?
When I first saw the iMac my reaction was more "Haven't seen that look in a long time" than it was "Finally, something new under the sun".
But, what was first? 50's concept cars? Art Deco? A perspiring mind wants to know.
Is there anything in that documentation about what sources you're "allowed" to record from?
Or 1024 bit Navajo Code Talkers?
Unfortunately, the quality of the answers varies over a wide range and the person asking the question (who wouldn't be asking if they were already experts in the area) can have difficulty separating the wheat from the chaff, especially since so many of the answers fall somewhere in between.
Here's one helpful hint: the more a particular post flames previous posters as idiots, et cetera, the more likley it is that *their* answer is based on an incomplete understanding of the issue at hand.
Have you tried sid=slashdot, sid=moderation, or sid=metamoderation yet?
Ever get the feeling that the people who obsess about sex and porn the most aren't necessarily the ones in favor of them?
The problem with that approach is that someone can be a legal producer of legal porn when and where the porn is produced and 2 or 3 years later find themselves on trial by some politically ambitious district attorney half way across the country in a jurisdiction they've never even physically been in before.
Therefore, for GNUwatch to work, the open source/free software (you know who I mean) community will have to volunteer their services to sort through all the possibly objectionble sites, all the rich panoply of porn out there. Perhaps some sort of distributed effort, a SEXI@home, so to speak, could be implemented. Fellow Slashdotters, it will be your solemn civic duty to wade through Terabytes of firm, perky breasts, pert buttocks, and throbbing steamy lust. Are you "up" to the challenge?
How could anyone consider the above as off-topic? Why didn't you moderate any of the parent comments as off-topic since they're all discussing the same topic? If you think it wasn't worth the bonus point usually used by Frac, why not just moderate it as overrated? Did you not care what you called it as long as you reduced Frac's score and karma?
Yeah, but if Hearst actually had the Maine sunk (and I have no idea if he did or didn't), then that's a whole different kettle of fish than just stirring people up with words.
Well, that's about where Microsoft prices will be soon, but you'll need much more expensive hardware to get it to work at all.
"Here's your software, hardware, source code, whatever, you need expensive display hardware if you want to be able to read about it for more than a few minutes at a time, sorry about that, chief."
If hardware (including stuff like VCR's) came with a service manual with every unit shipped, they could print them more cheaply per unit because of volume, making it possible to include it in the price of the unit without increasing the price of the unit too horribly, which would increase your chances of fixing that hardware or finding someone who could take your service manual and do it for you.
Of course nowadays they just want to sell you something that you'll have to buy a new one of in a couple of years.
It's the same with commercial software.
Earlier versions of DOS and Windows came with bigger books and smaller price tags, then the software got bigger and more complicated, the manuals skimpier and more comic book like, the price higher, and the expense of aftermarket documentation necessary to get full value out of the software increased.
The less you sell to a knowledgeable minority and the more to the general public, the easier it is to screw the customer.
I'm going to go lie down and take slow, deep breaths now.
"These random devices also respond to group activities of larger numbers of people, even when they are unaware of the machine's presence. ... Venues that appear to be particularly conducive to such field anomalies include small intimate groups, group rituals, sacred sites, musical and theatrical performances, and charismatic events. In contrast, data generated during academic conferences or business meetings show no deviations from chance."
Unfortunately you can't attribute the field anomalies to mass hysteria due to the lack of them at academic conferences and business meetings any more.:-)
But seriously, when I saw the part about group activity, group rituals, sacred sites, et cetera, I immediately thought about something I read a couple of years ago about some experiment some doctor in California did with prayer groups praying for sick people that they didn't know, that didn't know that they were being prayed for, where those patients did better than a control group. Maybe prayer works with or without God.
As someone with a relative experiencing increasing "packet loss" between legs and brain (myelin sheath deterioration), I'm wondering if there's any "routing around the spinal cord" application this could be part of.
Well, it's on princeton.edu, so you better tell their sysadmin that their server's been owned.
"That would be like blaming the Washington Post for Watergate or the Hearst newspapers for the Spanish-American War!"
I'm sure Nixon blamed the Post, even though they couldn't have invented those oval office tapes, just found out about their existence (don't shoot the messenger), but Hearst has *long* been suspected of having started that war in order to boost circulation.
I took a look at some of FascDot Killed My Pr's last 50 posts. Apparently s/he routinely posts without the extra point.
Out of 6 Score:2 's, the other 5 were all submitted as Score:1 and moderated up.
6 Score:1 's I checked at random started out that way and were not submitted as 2's and modded down.
S/he also has 2 +5's, 2 +4's, 3 +3's, 1 =0, and 1 -1.
Seems like a judicious use of a fairly well deserved bonus point.
Do you realise that you are one of *14* moderators who wasted points on a post that wound up with the same score it started at?
Since I rarely use my bonus point either, I won't use it here. (watch Taco's code hiccup and make a liar of me. Why can't he set it up as default off, check the box for on?)
What if they branched out and picked up some bucks on the side creating and selling bug-free software? How cool would it be to run NASA-WARE ?