You're right. I knew that it was wrong, but I couldn't come up with "poorly". That's what happens when you give up caffeine and turn 30. Ah, to return to the days of my youth when I really knew everything...
Guys, first rule of journalism (and for that matter, of getting an "A" on any paper you had to write after, say, the 4th grade): make sure you cover
* who
* what
* where
* when * [for bonus points] how & why
But that would take time away from making snide little comments in the submission/story.
Seriously, if you have just now realized how badly Slashdot is run, you must be new here. Half the accepted submissions are trolls (designed only to get a knee-jerk, emotional reaction out of people), and the remainder are so poorly editted that they make no sense at all.
I only read Slashdot for the amusement factor now.
SETI? If you believe aliens are going to reply to your PC's "hello, universe!", shouldn't you be at least a little worried that the government is secretly peeping in all your documents?
Let me guess... 'free' is such an important word because of the freedom that's connotated. Well, in that case, why not call it 'freedom source' or 'freedom software' or 'freedomsoft'. Hell, "freedom" probably resonates a lot more with today's nationalistic populations than "free".
This may be off-topic. However, the Linux kernel is an interesting topic.
If Linux were a microkernel, then I'd probably say that it could actually be "finished", as far as any software project can be said to be finished. A microkernel basically provides the minimum necessary services for an operating system, such as a scheduler and memory management.
Monolithic kernels, which provide much more than absolutely necessary, do not seem able to achieve any degree of being finished. Look at khttpd, the the kernel httpd implementation. Is this necessary? No, of course not, not even in anyone's wildest dreams. Is it nifty or useful? Sure. Could we stick anything else in the kernel that's nifty or useful? Sure. So, by my way of thinking, there is no time that a "bloated", (to use a loaded word - maybe "inclusive" or "feature-rich" would be better) monolithic kernel could ever be close to finished.
Specific parts of the kernel may very well be finished, with only tweaks and bug-fixes necessary. Most drivers are in this state. SCSI, TCP/IP packet filtering, SMP (especially high-end SMP with 8+ processors), and the filesystem code are in constant flux. None of them have stayed even remotely similar between any recent major kernel versions (2.0 through 2.4). However, look at how stable the Alpha port is or how little the IDE subsystem has changed from 1.0 to 2.4 (one major change, which basically added EIDE support and Ultra DMA).
So, there's no prayer of the kernel being finished, but there is a good chance that the SCSI subsystem will be finally etched in stone, much like the IDE subsystem.
The web didn't impress me much when I saw a demonstration of it in a computer lab. My friend said, "Hey, Matt, check this out! You can throw a snowball at these scientists when you click on this link!"
I'm waiting for special internet keyboards that can send a shock to people to say something stupid. Now that would be cool.
Most overclockers just do it because it can be done. They don't really care about price/performance, although they will sometimes claim that as a benefit of all their time and money spent (wasted?) on overclocking.
I don't really see much point in it, since I'm only interested in price/performance. I can find much better solutions than overclocking (usually, switching software or CPU architecture).
If someone wants to create the ultimate desktop system, I'd suggest investing in server technology rather than pushing consumer technology to its limits. You can get some really cool stuff off ebay for pennies on the dollar... too bad that there's nothing really pushing consumer technology to its limits, except for benchmarks.
Unfortunately, there isn't really any place where you can get information on it anymore, since nobody wants to admit that it was so revolutionary!
Digital Equipment Corp (RIP) designed a 64 bit processor that ran at speeds in the hundreds of megahertz back when Intel and AMD were busy fighting over who had the best Pentium-class chip. One of the last few DEC Alpha chips on the market was the 600 MHz 21264. It was easily twice as fast as the 600 MHz AMD Athlon, which was in it's place quite a bit speedier than the 600 MHz Pentium III.
Two reasons why AMD didn't go bankrupt after the abysmal K5 processor:
1) They bought out NexGen, who designed the K6 2) They hired most of DEC's original Alpha engineers, who designed the Athlon
AMD's engineers were always worthless until they bought out everyone else's engineers.
I'd be tempted to give you any information you wanted, but then I'd probably have to cancel my credit card and go through the bother of changing that in every stupid online store I use.
I'm really just not that impressed with any argument I've heard for the existence of "identity theft". I think it's amusing that I get moderated down as a troll or for flamebaiting, really. It just goes to show that most people on Slashdot can't formulate an argument or rebuttal -- they resort to moderating you down when they disagree.
It was well written, but it wasn't anything that I haven't seen before. You never wrote (or read?) a long message on UseNet in comp.os.linux.advocacy?
Granted, I did most of my best flame-baiting (youthful indescetions), essay-length rebuttals, and such many years ago (well before the Attack of the Spammers), but you can probably still dig up some good stuff from UseNet even now.
The guy gets attention because he's a Very Important Person, not because he's a great writer.
The internet didn't make it possible. This is simple file swapping, information sharing, and press releases.
The printing press, telegraph, telephone, radio, and organized mail delivery caused revolutionary changes. The internet is just incremental or even incidental, except in very few circumstances. This is not really one of them.
You haven't become cynical enough. Maybe in another five years or so. True cynicism knows no bounds.
BTW, watch out for nihilism. It sneaks up on you once you've become truly cynical.
You can't get a credit card in my name unless you've managed to get more than my personal information: you've managed to take over my personal home phone number and intercept all telephone calls to me; you've managed to steal all my USPS mail and e-mail; you've managed to forge my signature exactly.
Sorry, but that doesn't happen.
Identity theft is urban folklore and one thief getting very lucky with his social engineering.
Nothing that I ever read about ends up being used. I'm convinced it's just "look at what we did in the lab!" press releases that are saved up for whenever there's a slow news day at Reuters.
Blah blah blah. Where's all that cool stuff I read about five years ago? Haven't seen a single bit of that technology used yet.
Intel STILL hasn't made a chip that compares with the DEC Alpha, and the Alpha is essentially dead now.
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Yeah, if you tell the whole world about the hack, then everyone will know about it, rather than just the hackers.
I don't get it. Exactly what are we protecting here?
In order to get the full story, you have to hang out with the people who commit the crimes, hack the servers, or whatever else people are trying to hide from you. They are very free with their information, unlike the supposed "good guys", who want to make it all proprietary.
Sometimes I truly do wonder who the "black hats" are.
You're assuming that the problem is people stealing credit card numbers. That doesn't happen at the mall? (Hint: it does.)
You had a great post up until you started advocating shopping at the mall. That doesn't solve anything. It just makes your credit card number a tiny bit harder to steal.
Why should I really care if someone steals my credit card number anyways? It's not my problem. It's the credit card company's problem. If someone charges hundreds of dollars of merchandise on my card without my authorization, I call the credit card company and the police, report it to both of them, then go on my merry way without another thought. Yes, this did happen to me. Yes, this is exactly what I did. No, I wasn't lucky. Yes, it really is this simple, and, no, there is no such thing as "identity theft".
I never even understood where this whole "identity theft" thing came from. I don't lose anything. I still have my identity, regardless of how many other people have fake ID's that share my name. For a bunch of people who cry foul at the word "piracy", I'd expect the same outcry over "identity theft".
Oh well. The real problem here is that people are cheating. They cheat at games, they cheat at auctions, they cheat at score rankings, and they cheat on their taxes. The solution is get people to stop cheating. Good luck... it's not a technological problem; it's a problem with society.
I don't believe in a person with a problem If there's a problem, it's a problem with society
- KMFDM
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no, really..
If any post deserved a Score:6, this one does. This is a masterpiece.
You're right. I knew that it was wrong, but I couldn't come up with "poorly". That's what happens when you give up caffeine and turn 30. Ah, to return to the days of my youth when I really knew everything...
But that would take time away from making snide little comments in the submission/story.
Seriously, if you have just now realized how badly Slashdot is run, you must be new here. Half the accepted submissions are trolls (designed only to get a knee-jerk, emotional reaction out of people), and the remainder are so poorly editted that they make no sense at all.
I only read Slashdot for the amusement factor now.
If you think Redhat is unbearable, you have no clue what 'unbearable' is.
Try SCO Open Server.
SETI? If you believe aliens are going to reply to your PC's "hello, universe!", shouldn't you be at least a little worried that the government is secretly peeping in all your documents?
Amazingly, it was just as boring then as it is now.
Although, this page is somewhat interesting for the Dude, Where's My Car-style "Sweet!" we get multiple times from CmdrTaco.
Let me guess... 'free' is such an important word because of the freedom that's connotated. Well, in that case, why not call it 'freedom source' or 'freedom software' or 'freedomsoft'. Hell, "freedom" probably resonates a lot more with today's nationalistic populations than "free".
I trust him a lot more than you, because HE works in a music store and can speak from authority! I doubt you can say the same, Mr. Smarty Pants.
This may be off-topic. However, the Linux kernel is an interesting topic.
If Linux were a microkernel, then I'd probably say that it could actually be "finished", as far as any software project can be said to be finished. A microkernel basically provides the minimum necessary services for an operating system, such as a scheduler and memory management.
Monolithic kernels, which provide much more than absolutely necessary, do not seem able to achieve any degree of being finished. Look at khttpd, the the kernel httpd implementation. Is this necessary? No, of course not, not even in anyone's wildest dreams. Is it nifty or useful? Sure. Could we stick anything else in the kernel that's nifty or useful? Sure. So, by my way of thinking, there is no time that a "bloated", (to use a loaded word - maybe "inclusive" or "feature-rich" would be better) monolithic kernel could ever be close to finished.
Specific parts of the kernel may very well be finished, with only tweaks and bug-fixes necessary. Most drivers are in this state. SCSI, TCP/IP packet filtering, SMP (especially high-end SMP with 8+ processors), and the filesystem code are in constant flux. None of them have stayed even remotely similar between any recent major kernel versions (2.0 through 2.4). However, look at how stable the Alpha port is or how little the IDE subsystem has changed from 1.0 to 2.4 (one major change, which basically added EIDE support and Ultra DMA).
So, there's no prayer of the kernel being finished, but there is a good chance that the SCSI subsystem will be finally etched in stone, much like the IDE subsystem.
ouch... I mean "who say something stupid".
The web didn't impress me much when I saw a demonstration of it in a computer lab. My friend said, "Hey, Matt, check this out! You can throw a snowball at these scientists when you click on this link!"
I'm waiting for special internet keyboards that can send a shock to people to say something stupid. Now that would be cool.
Most overclockers just do it because it can be done. They don't really care about price/performance, although they will sometimes claim that as a benefit of all their time and money spent (wasted?) on overclocking.
I don't really see much point in it, since I'm only interested in price/performance. I can find much better solutions than overclocking (usually, switching software or CPU architecture).
If someone wants to create the ultimate desktop system, I'd suggest investing in server technology rather than pushing consumer technology to its limits. You can get some really cool stuff off ebay for pennies on the dollar... too bad that there's nothing really pushing consumer technology to its limits, except for benchmarks.
Not my bank. I called the cops, my credit card company, and my bank... and it was basically settled that very afternoon.
I didn't lose a dime from my checking account, even though I had my debit card, credit card, and checkbook stolen.
Come on, guys, this whole "identity theft" thing is getting a little tedious. How many times does it have to be debunked?
The system just isn't that easy to break. The financial world would fall down tomorrow if any moron could get rich quick off a debit card.
Unfortunately, there isn't really any place where you can get information on it anymore, since nobody wants to admit that it was so revolutionary!
Digital Equipment Corp (RIP) designed a 64 bit processor that ran at speeds in the hundreds of megahertz back when Intel and AMD were busy fighting over who had the best Pentium-class chip. One of the last few DEC Alpha chips on the market was the 600 MHz 21264. It was easily twice as fast as the 600 MHz AMD Athlon, which was in it's place quite a bit speedier than the 600 MHz Pentium III.
Two reasons why AMD didn't go bankrupt after the abysmal K5 processor:
1) They bought out NexGen, who designed the K6
2) They hired most of DEC's original Alpha engineers, who designed the Athlon
AMD's engineers were always worthless until they bought out everyone else's engineers.
I'd be tempted to give you any information you wanted, but then I'd probably have to cancel my credit card and go through the bother of changing that in every stupid online store I use.
I'm really just not that impressed with any argument I've heard for the existence of "identity theft". I think it's amusing that I get moderated down as a troll or for flamebaiting, really. It just goes to show that most people on Slashdot can't formulate an argument or rebuttal -- they resort to moderating you down when they disagree.
It was well written, but it wasn't anything that I haven't seen before. You never wrote (or read?) a long message on UseNet in comp.os.linux.advocacy?
Granted, I did most of my best flame-baiting (youthful indescetions), essay-length rebuttals, and such many years ago (well before the Attack of the Spammers), but you can probably still dig up some good stuff from UseNet even now.
The guy gets attention because he's a Very Important Person, not because he's a great writer.
Oh yeah, that's going to work.
"Deer Congresman,
Please stop using Micro$uck's software in the federel stuff. GNU/LINUX ROX!! Like that letter in Peru. They got it write!
Sinceerly,
Anonymous Coward
p.s. BAN MICRO$HAFT!!!!"
The internet didn't make it possible. This is simple file swapping, information sharing, and press releases.
The printing press, telegraph, telephone, radio, and organized mail delivery caused revolutionary changes. The internet is just incremental or even incidental, except in very few circumstances. This is not really one of them.
You haven't become cynical enough. Maybe in another five years or so. True cynicism knows no bounds.
BTW, watch out for nihilism. It sneaks up on you once you've become truly cynical.
You can't get a credit card in my name unless you've managed to get more than my personal information: you've managed to take over my personal home phone number and intercept all telephone calls to me; you've managed to steal all my USPS mail and e-mail; you've managed to forge my signature exactly.
Sorry, but that doesn't happen.
Identity theft is urban folklore and one thief getting very lucky with his social engineering.
This is the best question I have ever seen in a Slashdot interview thread.
I'd like to know how to make a living off free software, too. It's supposed to be so easy...
Nothing that I ever read about ends up being used. I'm convinced it's just "look at what we did in the lab!" press releases that are saved up for whenever there's a slow news day at Reuters.
Blah blah blah. Where's all that cool stuff I read about five years ago? Haven't seen a single bit of that technology used yet.
Intel STILL hasn't made a chip that compares with the DEC Alpha, and the Alpha is essentially dead now.
Yeah, if you tell the whole world about the hack, then everyone will know about it, rather than just the hackers.
I don't get it. Exactly what are we protecting here?
In order to get the full story, you have to hang out with the people who commit the crimes, hack the servers, or whatever else people are trying to hide from you. They are very free with their information, unlike the supposed "good guys", who want to make it all proprietary.
Sometimes I truly do wonder who the "black hats" are.
Exactly! We should repeal every law on the books. They don't stop criminals from committing crimes, and everyone knows that's why we have laws.
You're assuming that the problem is people stealing credit card numbers. That doesn't happen at the mall? (Hint: it does.)
You had a great post up until you started advocating shopping at the mall. That doesn't solve anything. It just makes your credit card number a tiny bit harder to steal.
Why should I really care if someone steals my credit card number anyways? It's not my problem. It's the credit card company's problem. If someone charges hundreds of dollars of merchandise on my card without my authorization, I call the credit card company and the police, report it to both of them, then go on my merry way without another thought. Yes, this did happen to me. Yes, this is exactly what I did. No, I wasn't lucky. Yes, it really is this simple, and, no, there is no such thing as "identity theft".
I never even understood where this whole "identity theft" thing came from. I don't lose anything. I still have my identity, regardless of how many other people have fake ID's that share my name. For a bunch of people who cry foul at the word "piracy", I'd expect the same outcry over "identity theft".
Oh well. The real problem here is that people are cheating. They cheat at games, they cheat at auctions, they cheat at score rankings, and they cheat on their taxes. The solution is get people to stop cheating. Good luck... it's not a technological problem; it's a problem with society.
I don't believe in a person with a problem
If there's a problem, it's a problem with society
- KMFDM