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If this were a case of commercially developed software and the government said that the creator-owner couldn't sell it "for security reasons" or even if it were a patent on some technology the government wanted to supress "for security reasons", would this constitute a "taking" and would the government then be obligated to fairly compensate the author/inventor? And how would a fair level of compensation be determined?
If the Linux version of Office works very poorly compared to the Windows version, then MS can tell all the PHB's, "See, Linux just isn't ready for the demanding business environment yet.".
Digital information can probably be preserved in the same manner as any other. I believe the problem here is preserving information (of many types) that's been recorded digitally.
Are you sure the "turbo switch" isn't accidently switched off? Seriously, that's what the symptoms suggest. (since modern motherboards don't really have turbo switches look for something else causing the system to run at about 5 or 8 MHz)
So if they make a 5 1/4 version the outer tracks would be moving faster than the speed of light? Does that mean you could read files that haven't been written yet, or just the ones that have already been erased?
Actually the disappearing story didn't become a regular feature until money started heading Slashdot's way, around the time of the Red Hat IPO. Anybody besides me feel like there's a considerable difference between pulling a story and explaining why and just "disappearing" it?
Judging by all the nice things Katz has to say about newspapers I'm sure none of them have ever rejected any of his submissions or criticized his writing talents in any way.
If there are a bunch of people out there who think (or hope) that problems with buggy software can't be solved without shooting somebody then we've got bigger problems than buggy software.
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And now, a day or so later, while good posts in newer articles await up-moderation, someone else has come along and marked it "overrated", putting it back at the +1 where it started, so a total of 4 moderators have each wasted a point squabbling with each other on a post that would have been just fine where it was originally. I think the moderation system isn't working out exactly as planned.
There are so many uses for the non-renewable resource petroleum (besides the inevitable Vaseline as personal lubricant trolls)--plastics, including vinyl, medicines, and all sorts of other synthetics--that it's really almost a sin to burn it.
There was a little noise made a year or three ago about re-cycling deep fat fryer oil for use in Diesel engines. Apparently after it's been used to fry stuff until it's no longer any good for frying stuff (it gets broken down by heat, light, water, and salt), it can still be "combusted" in a Diesel and the exhaust smells like french fries.
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Then they need to be taught to think of it as "cracker, like in safecracker". They don't seem to have a problem with safecracker.
Of course, what they really want is a buzzword, so looks like it'll have to be "cybercracker".
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It started as the usual +1 that anybody gets for being logged in, then 2 people moderated it as "funny", bringing it up to a +3 (my first time abouve +2, so it caught my attention), then somebody else (at whom I have poked gentle fun elswhere in this thread) moderated it as "troll", so that's how it got a negative label and a positive score.
The Dilbert story was almost a year old, this one's only almost a week old. At this rate the stories will be up a few seconds before they happen in just another day or so. Just another example of the non-linear nature of time in The Slashdot Zone.
I really hate to be one of those people who bitch about stuff being too old to be considered *news*, but this one must have been lost in the submissions pile for a _lo-o-ong_ time.
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If you're going to cut and paste straight out of The Register (or anywhere else) at least credit the source.
If this were a case of commercially developed software and the government said that the creator-owner couldn't sell it "for security reasons" or even if it were a patent on some technology the government wanted to supress "for security reasons", would this constitute a "taking" and would the government then be obligated to fairly compensate the author/inventor? And how would a fair level of compensation be determined?
Probably depends on your definition of old timer.
If the Linux version of Office works very poorly compared to the Windows version, then MS can tell all the PHB's, "See, Linux just isn't ready for the demanding business environment yet.".
Digital information can probably be preserved in the same manner as any other. I believe the problem here is preserving information (of many types) that's been recorded digitally.
Wasn't the whole point here that you *were* noticing a considerable speed difference?
"Nothing exceeds c." That you know of.
Are you sure the "turbo switch" isn't accidently switched off? Seriously, that's what the symptoms suggest. (since modern motherboards don't really have turbo switches look for something else causing the system to run at about 5 or 8 MHz)
And the game you're playing is "Pin the tail on the cyber-donkey" where you post blindfolded to see whether or not you can hit the right story?
So if they make a 5 1/4 version the outer tracks would be moving faster than the speed of light? Does that mean you could read files that haven't been written yet, or just the ones that have already been erased?
Hope this is the return of the one, true, original MEEPT!!!!!
Actually the disappearing story didn't become a regular feature until money started heading Slashdot's way, around the time of the Red Hat IPO.
Anybody besides me feel like there's a considerable difference between pulling a story and explaining why and just "disappearing" it?
Judging by all the nice things Katz has to say about newspapers I'm sure none of them have ever rejected any of his submissions or criticized his writing talents in any way.
It is kind of annoying to have the site finally back up but with no explanation. At least with the newspaper you eventually find out what went wrong.
If there are a bunch of people out there who think (or hope) that problems with buggy software can't be solved without shooting somebody then we've got bigger problems than buggy software.
And now, a day or so later, while good posts in newer articles await up-moderation, someone else has come along and marked it "overrated", putting it back at the +1 where it started, so a total of 4 moderators have each wasted a point squabbling with each other on a post that would have been just fine where it was originally. I think the moderation system isn't working out exactly as planned.
There are so many uses for the non-renewable resource petroleum (besides the inevitable Vaseline as personal lubricant trolls)--plastics, including vinyl, medicines, and all sorts of other synthetics--that it's really almost a sin to burn it.
There was a little noise made a year or three ago about re-cycling deep fat fryer oil for use in Diesel engines. Apparently after it's been used to fry stuff until it's no longer any good for frying stuff (it gets broken down by heat, light, water, and salt), it can still be "combusted" in a Diesel and the exhaust smells like french fries.
Of course, what they really want is a buzzword, so looks like it'll have to be "cybercracker".
Or else he smoked so much dope that he *thinks* he invented the internet.
forgot the :) at the end of that sentence. My bad.
It started as the usual +1 that anybody gets for being logged in, then 2 people moderated it as "funny", bringing it up to a +3 (my first time abouve +2, so it caught my attention), then somebody else (at whom I have poked gentle fun elswhere in this thread) moderated it as "troll", so that's how it got a negative label and a positive score.
The moderator who modded me down from 3 points to 2.
The Dilbert story was almost a year old, this one's only almost a week old. At this rate the stories will be up a few seconds before they happen in just another day or so. Just another example of the non-linear nature of time in The Slashdot Zone.
I really hate to be one of those people who bitch about stuff being too old to be considered *news*, but this one must have been lost in the submissions pile for a _lo-o-ong_ time.