First point. SW is definitely for nerds; SW nerds. The overlap between SW nerds and computer nerds is very high.
Second point. Unless you think that news about a newsletter counts as news, this wasn't news. News is information about something. This story wasn't about anything.
Third point. Frankly, because of Slashdot editor fanboyism on the part of many/. readers, I have "gone away" from this site. I return occasionally to see what's changed, but I'm almost always disappointed.
It is obvious what Slashdot ought to post. News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters. It's written right up there at the top of the page.
Let's assume that a news item only has to meet one of those criteria to be worthy of posting. In that case, we can see how Star Wars Ep. 3 trailers would be posted; it is News for Nerds. And we can see how 9/11 coverage would be posted; it is Stuff that Matters. It is difficult to see how a newsletter that people are already subscribed to would fall under either of those categories.
If all it takes to make something Slashdot Frontpage-worthy is an editor's opinion, then maybe you can be satisfied. Take a look at the other stories currently on the front page. They are all easily classifiable under News For Nerds. Then look at this story. It is a piece of crap. Not because the newsletter isn't interesting, but because it isn't news and it doesn't matter.
Slashdot's aim is to post news and information that it's readers can benefit from
I think you've misinterpreted what Slashdot is all about.
The aim of the/. editors is to generate as many page hits by posting stories that generate discussions. In geek parlance, this is called trolling.
This "article" isn't even a real article. It's a newsletter from the BSD camp. Perhaps there is something interesting posted in the issue, but you'd never know it from reading the writeup which just gives a shotgun blast overview of the topics covered.
We don't get updated every time Dr. Dobbs releases a new issue. Why should Ezine be any different?
Maybe they don't have these where you're from, but there are cleverly disguised commercials run late at night that last half an hour to an hour and are virtually indistinguishable from normal programming. Infomercials go to great length to veil the fact that they are simply lengthy adverts.
If you live in a country that adheres to the Berne Convention, then you are indeed bound by the copyright. It's one of those little things that makes international trade easier.
I realize that you are trolling, but that's a good question. It comes down to what you consider "sharing" to mean. If it means playing the CD in your car with your friends or lending a CD to your friend, then that is totally within your rights. If you mean making it freely available to everyone who may cross your path, that is quite illegal, as Napster (and soon Gnutella and Kazaa) learned.
Copyright, right or wrong, exists and prohibits the kind of file sharing that P2P networks makes easy. Your violation of copyright is a violation of the law. You can justify it to yourself however you like, whether the tired excuse that you wouldn't have paid for the media anyway so the companies won't be losing anything, or the common claim that you are simply "trying out" the product before actually buying it, or the lamest of all excuse that companies are evil and don't deserve your money.
I do not work for any media company, though I am a software engineer at an embedded systems company. What I do seem to have is a mature sense of right and wrong which anyone who tries to legitimize piracy simply doesn't yet possess.
I don't mean to sound like a troll, but please consider that your right to rip and burn your own CDs has never been infringed. The only thing that has been blunted is your ability to illegally share those files.
I'd say the title "Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions" is a little misleading then, if it doesn't include instructions on building those munitions or at the very least the plans of the munitions. This could have easily been titled "Harvesting Capacitors to put in a black plastic bag" and the article wouldn't have had to change one bit.
* 2002-05-16 09:55:39 Time to upgrade your Internet Explorer (articles,news) (rejected) * 2002-05-30 07:32:28 Who do you feel is a good Domain Registrar? (apple,internet) (rejected) * 2002-05-31 04:06:04 The official word on P2P (articles,media) (rejected) * 2002-06-07 06:00:46 Tired of Java? Try C# (developers,programming) (rejected) * 2002-07-03 06:23:20 Michael, my sensors are picking up a large audienc (articles,movies) (rejected)
So you are willing to say that genetics plays a part in the performance of an athlete, but are not willing to say that the West African heritage of American black does not have any bearing over their numbers on the American Olympic track and field team? I think you are mistaken.
It is true that athletes at the world class level must have a sense of dedication and training par excellence, but to discount the role of genetics in achieving success is foolhardy. Training of a genetically unendowed athlete will most certainly make him better, but it will never raise him to the level of excellence necessary to seriously compete at the upper echelon of athletic competition. To achieve that level the athlete must have a combination of dedication, training, coaching, facilities, and a genetic predisposition to excellence in the field. My point was that on average blacks have this genetic predisposition in greater numbers than whites, regardless of the availability of the other factors in their environment.
Even in women's figure skating, a sport conspicuously dominated by whites and asians, we see this. Arguably the most athletic women's skater is not Kwan or Kerrigan or Slutskaya. It's undoubtedly Surya Bonaly whose athleticism is unmatched by any other skater on the ice. Her only problem is a reluctance to fire her coach who is unable to teach her grace and fluidity which are both needed to excel at figure skating.
Likewise, cultural differences can account for an athlete choosing one sport over another. Hence, Brazilians tend to gravitate towards soccer, Kenyans towards long distance running, and Chinese and former Soviet states to gymnastics. Each of these fields have top class coaches and facilities for training and they can cull the cream of the crop from the many athletes who compete at lower levels. Given the accessibility to training facilities that Americans enjoy, Africans would most certainly gain a substantial lead over Americans in almost every Olympic event.
Now if they could distribute some bulgogi!
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I could really go for some dolsot bibim bap right now... Yum!
Anything that's worth backing up has already been backed up on tape.
You honestly don't think that the contents of your hard drive have any sort of historical importance, do you?
Just because you've saved every free pr0n pic you've ever downloaded and categorized them neatly doesn't mean that some future archeologist is going to find them interesting. I can find them useful immediately. Please send any such collection to me at my hotmail address. Thank you.
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First point. SW is definitely for nerds; SW nerds. The overlap between SW nerds and computer nerds is very high.
/. readers, I have "gone away" from this site. I return occasionally to see what's changed, but I'm almost always disappointed.
Second point. Unless you think that news about a newsletter counts as news, this wasn't news. News is information about something. This story wasn't about anything.
Third point. Frankly, because of Slashdot editor fanboyism on the part of many
Sorry, I'm not interested in searching for a date.
Please.
It is obvious what Slashdot ought to post. News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters. It's written right up there at the top of the page.
Let's assume that a news item only has to meet one of those criteria to be worthy of posting. In that case, we can see how Star Wars Ep. 3 trailers would be posted; it is News for Nerds. And we can see how 9/11 coverage would be posted; it is Stuff that Matters. It is difficult to see how a newsletter that people are already subscribed to would fall under either of those categories.
If all it takes to make something Slashdot Frontpage-worthy is an editor's opinion, then maybe you can be satisfied. Take a look at the other stories currently on the front page. They are all easily classifiable under News For Nerds. Then look at this story. It is a piece of crap. Not because the newsletter isn't interesting, but because it isn't news and it doesn't matter.
Slashdot's aim is to post news and information that it's readers can benefit from
/. editors is to generate as many page hits by posting stories that generate discussions. In geek parlance, this is called trolling.
I think you've misinterpreted what Slashdot is all about.
The aim of the
This "article" isn't even a real article. It's a newsletter from the BSD camp. Perhaps there is something interesting posted in the issue, but you'd never know it from reading the writeup which just gives a shotgun blast overview of the topics covered.
We don't get updated every time Dr. Dobbs releases a new issue. Why should Ezine be any different?
Don't point your readers to newsletters. Find the interesting articles and point to that.
Thank you.
They could have used their cell phones and done Voice over Cell Phone. Also, VoCP is clearer than VoIP. There's no downside!
I didn't even notice that it was another ad from O'Reilly.
I can't get enough of those stealth ads!
Maybe they don't have these where you're from, but there are cleverly disguised commercials run late at night that last half an hour to an hour and are virtually indistinguishable from normal programming. Infomercials go to great length to veil the fact that they are simply lengthy adverts.
Are you worse off for it?
Today, Habib, a great man named kipple has posted a comment on something called the Internet. You shall not hunger today. Praise Vishnu!
Noos fo da nahds, stof dat mattahs.
If you live in a country that adheres to the Berne Convention, then you are indeed bound by the copyright. It's one of those little things that makes international trade easier.
I realize that you are trolling, but that's a good question. It comes down to what you consider "sharing" to mean. If it means playing the CD in your car with your friends or lending a CD to your friend, then that is totally within your rights. If you mean making it freely available to everyone who may cross your path, that is quite illegal, as Napster (and soon Gnutella and Kazaa) learned.
Copyright, right or wrong, exists and prohibits the kind of file sharing that P2P networks makes easy. Your violation of copyright is a violation of the law. You can justify it to yourself however you like, whether the tired excuse that you wouldn't have paid for the media anyway so the companies won't be losing anything, or the common claim that you are simply "trying out" the product before actually buying it, or the lamest of all excuse that companies are evil and don't deserve your money.
I do not work for any media company, though I am a software engineer at an embedded systems company. What I do seem to have is a mature sense of right and wrong which anyone who tries to legitimize piracy simply doesn't yet possess.
I don't mean to sound like a troll, but please consider that your right to rip and burn your own CDs has never been infringed. The only thing that has been blunted is your ability to illegally share those files.
I feel like a broken record.
The pragmatic quote would have been, "Give me pragmatism or let's talk about my situation here."
Between Liberty and Pragmatism.
I'd say the title "Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions" is a little misleading then, if it doesn't include instructions on building those munitions or at the very least the plans of the munitions. This could have easily been titled "Harvesting Capacitors to put in a black plastic bag" and the article wouldn't have had to change one bit.
something smells fishy around here, and it's not his wife!
She actually smells shitty. Don't ask me about these burn marks.
No pictures of the final product?
Cave when faced with possible lawsuits.
* 2002-05-16 09:55:39 Time to upgrade your Internet Explorer (articles,news) (rejected)
* 2002-05-30 07:32:28 Who do you feel is a good Domain Registrar? (apple,internet) (rejected)
* 2002-05-31 04:06:04 The official word on P2P (articles,media) (rejected)
* 2002-06-07 06:00:46 Tired of Java? Try C# (developers,programming) (rejected)
* 2002-07-03 06:23:20 Michael, my sensors are picking up a large audienc (articles,movies) (rejected)
So you are willing to say that genetics plays a part in the performance of an athlete, but are not willing to say that the West African heritage of American black does not have any bearing over their numbers on the American Olympic track and field team? I think you are mistaken.
It is true that athletes at the world class level must have a sense of dedication and training par excellence, but to discount the role of genetics in achieving success is foolhardy. Training of a genetically unendowed athlete will most certainly make him better, but it will never raise him to the level of excellence necessary to seriously compete at the upper echelon of athletic competition. To achieve that level the athlete must have a combination of dedication, training, coaching, facilities, and a genetic predisposition to excellence in the field. My point was that on average blacks have this genetic predisposition in greater numbers than whites, regardless of the availability of the other factors in their environment.
Even in women's figure skating, a sport conspicuously dominated by whites and asians, we see this. Arguably the most athletic women's skater is not Kwan or Kerrigan or Slutskaya. It's undoubtedly Surya Bonaly whose athleticism is unmatched by any other skater on the ice. Her only problem is a reluctance to fire her coach who is unable to teach her grace and fluidity which are both needed to excel at figure skating.
Likewise, cultural differences can account for an athlete choosing one sport over another. Hence, Brazilians tend to gravitate towards soccer, Kenyans towards long distance running, and Chinese and former Soviet states to gymnastics. Each of these fields have top class coaches and facilities for training and they can cull the cream of the crop from the many athletes who compete at lower levels. Given the accessibility to training facilities that Americans enjoy, Africans would most certainly gain a substantial lead over Americans in almost every Olympic event.
I could really go for some dolsot bibim bap right now... Yum!
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FP!
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*BSD is dying!
Submit
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(continue for 6 hours as all editors seem to be asleep)
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FP!!! Eat my frosty piss, muthafuckas!!
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Anything that's worth backing up has already been backed up on tape.
You honestly don't think that the contents of your hard drive have any sort of historical importance, do you?
Just because you've saved every free pr0n pic you've ever downloaded and categorized them neatly doesn't mean that some future archeologist is going to find them interesting. I can find them useful immediately. Please send any such collection to me at my hotmail address. Thank you.