Sorry about the all caps, but this is really starting to get ridiculous. Sure, it's very funny for all of us reading to know that we can bring a site to its knees. But, this persistent slashdotting has got to come to an end! Would it really be that had for Slashdot to mirror the submitted site in cases where the editors know that it is going to get slaughtered?
Don't say that they would have to ask for permission. They have no qualms with devastating a site, so why should they worry about the repurcussions of mirroring the site?
There is an op-ed over at Kuroshin that deals with this subject.
Come on people, can't we try and be a little bit more responsible?
Not to sound crass or anything, but is that really what people would want? If an historic monument is destroyed, replacing it doesn't mean that it never happenend, it just means that it was replaced.
I would think that if something like this were to happen, then some new, awe-inspiring monument could be built. However, It seems to me that there has been a dearth in people eligible for immortalization in a mountain face (for example) for quite a while now.
Being a resident of Montreal, I've encountered these folks numerous times as they try and sell their *ahem* books to pedestrians outside of downtown malls.
One day, just for the hell of it, I decided to try and speak with one of the "believers." I'm a molecular biologist, so I have an idea of what they are trying to do, but I approached it from a simplistic view and confronted the pair with some facts. Within a minute they were trying to chase me away, no doubt because I was scaring off the cattle.
It goes without saying that these folks--at least at the recruiter level--have absolutely no idea of what they are purporting to have done. The two I spoke two acted exactly like brain-washed zombies. Needless to say, the whole endeavour was an exercise in futility.
Also, and more importantly, the TLDs are needed in order to make name resolution easier. If, as you suggested, we did away with TLDs, then the "root" servers would have to know about every single web site on the now-flat internet. Needless to say, that would be slow as all getout.
Don't forget, this $1500 fee, which might just seem a tad expensive to labs in North America, is oftentimes backbreaking to struggling third-world labs. Science has already strayed from discovery to business. The last thing we need is financial discrimination to totally exclude certain sections of the scientific community.
At Lok, which I was using, the private key is generated and stored on the server at sign-up, using hints that make sure that you provide a decent passphrase. Neither the email account password nor the GPG passphrase are stored by the company. They specifically tell you not to be a dumbass and forget it, because they can't get you back in if you do.
Also, there is a login history available (logs time and IP address) that you can use to make sure that no one else has accessed your account.
The reason I stated that I don't want to use Hushmail is precisely because of the need for Java. The reason I want webmail is so that I can access it from anywhere, and I don't want to have to rely on the presence of Java on the machine I happen to be using.
On a side not, I got an email from the CTO of Lok Technology today, and it appears that they will be back up by the end of the week.
I completely agree with you, but unfortunately that is the catch 22 that is required to get new users right now. You average Mary Jane Rottencrotch (thanks, Stanley) is too scared to try something other than Windows, so in order to get her attention, GUI developers try their best to provide a Linux version of Windows.
You mentioned OpenOffice. I was totally shocked when I first saw screenshots of it and saw how closely it visually mimiced Office. The thing is, as has been stated here a thousand times, people don't want to learn a new interface. So, what choice to GUI designers have?
Personally I like Enlightenment. It's very clean, no clutter, and reasonably easy to manage once you get into it. Anyone could use it if they just took the time to figure it out, but most people just don't want to.
It seems to me that the ultimate goal of a lot of developers is merely to provide a new backend to Windows. I understand why they are doing it, but I still think that it's pretty sad.
Just a snippet of info for those that don't know. Spoofing the MAC address of an Xbox is trivial, since as soon as the Xbox Live software is installed, an option is available for manually inputting a new MAC address. Right now I am spoofing my laptop NIC MAC so that I don't need to restart my cable modem every time I go online with the Xbox.
Actually, after hearing the phrase "Weapons of Mass Destruction" over and over and over again over the past couple months, I think that it should be immediately obvious by now.
I don't know how things are in the States, but in South Africa, med students start learning anatomy (on cadavers) and some surgery from the second year of the six year program. Yes, there is a lot of cramming to do, but at least from my experience, there is a ton of hands-on stuff that gets done as well.
I have to agree. I used to have a Toshiba 1640 cdt, which was an okay laptop, but was hell on the shoulders. Two months ago I got a Fujitsu P-2110, and since then, I haven't gone anywhere without this little beauty.
It may cost quite a bit ($1600), and the specs aren't that fantastic (this is not a desktop replacement), but for anyone who needs/wants to have a computer with them all the time, this thing rocks. Battery life is a big issue with laptops, and if you cough up the extra cash for the long-life battery and the modular battery, you could get about 12 hours out of it.
Another aspect that I really like is that the screen has a native resolution of 1280X768, which makes it just about perfect for watching DVDs in widescreen. And since the DVD drive is an internal, modular drive, and it doesn't weigh very much, you'll be watching lots of movies on the go.
And for the Linux fiends, the P series works well. I've had Slackware 8.1 running for a couple months now, and everything works pretty well.
I don't think that you can make that conclusion, at least not in a general sense. I know a lot of people who have emotional issues who then gravitated towards the activities like videogames or D&D. These people had social skills that are sorely lacking, and thus they tend to rather spend their time doing something that they enjoy. I agree with you that the time is better spent trying to work through their issues, but how many people do that? I see videogames as an avenue--specifically for the people that I am referring to--to just get away from the struggle that is associating with other human beings.
As for you last statement, it seems to me that any activity can be done to excess, so faulting games is hardly fair. How many people reading Slashdot are where they are today because they obsessed about their chosen subject instead of dealing with life? I would wager that there are quite a few.
I heard a story about a biological researcher who went to some lengths to forge his results. When confronted with the accusation he produced his raw data and even autoradiograms. It eventually came out that he had decided where he wanted his results, and had then used an iodine isotope to create the bands on his blot.
Due to the extreme competition that exists in most research these days, forged results are only going to become more and more common.
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I read this over at GameSpot. Seems that SoFII is Xbox bound as well. The game will support Xbox Live and have multiple online modes.
I'm no huge fan of the Beast, but I have to concede that they are positioning themselves really well with the Xbox.
I think that this is one of the biggest problems when it comes to "hackers." There is no universally-accepted definition for a hacker, which leads to the media calling anyone that knows what TCP/IP is a hacker. You just said, "You mean Cracker.", but there are a lot of hackers that don't like this term either.
I think that the most important step is making sure we can define the point where someone crosses from hacker to criminal. The rest of the monikers are then basically superfluous.
I always thought that Henry Rollins (from Black Flag and Rollins Band) would make an awesome Superman. He looks the part, as both Clark and Supes, and he is an actor. Ok, not a brilliant actor, but then they're thinking of casting Keanu...
As for Batman, Alec Baldwin is Bruce Wayne. I don't think he'd be able to pull of Batman however.
I just have one question for the original poster and those of you who are in a similar situation:
Was it worth it?
Now, I don't mean "Are you making more money now?" That much is a foregone conclusion. I mean, "Are you fundamentally a happier person after pushing yourself to the limit?"
There is way more to life than just money. If this is really what you want to do, and you are happy while doing it, cool. But we're only on this planet for a little while, and afterwards, that's it. The Universe carries on as you lie in the ground as bacterial fodder. Is it really worth skipping time with your SO and friends, or not reading a book you wanted to read or seeing a movie you wanted to see, or just not being able to laze about and think?
These all sound like really trivial things, but do you really want to be lying on your death-bed and think to yourself, "Shit man, I made a ton of dough." Maybe I'm just being naive, but I definitely don't want to end up like that.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry about the all caps, but this is really starting to get ridiculous. Sure, it's very funny for all of us reading to know that we can bring a site to its knees. But, this persistent slashdotting has got to come to an end! Would it really be that had for Slashdot to mirror the submitted site in cases where the editors know that it is going to get slaughtered?
Don't say that they would have to ask for permission. They have no qualms with devastating a site, so why should they worry about the repurcussions of mirroring the site?
There is an op-ed over at Kuroshin that deals with this subject.
Come on people, can't we try and be a little bit more responsible?
Not to sound crass or anything, but is that really what people would want? If an historic monument is destroyed, replacing it doesn't mean that it never happenend, it just means that it was replaced.
I would think that if something like this were to happen, then some new, awe-inspiring monument could be built. However, It seems to me that there has been a dearth in people eligible for immortalization in a mountain face (for example) for quite a while now.
This is just what the world needs; another way for people to get even less exercise.
Being a resident of Montreal, I've encountered these folks numerous times as they try and sell their *ahem* books to pedestrians outside of downtown malls.
One day, just for the hell of it, I decided to try and speak with one of the "believers." I'm a molecular biologist, so I have an idea of what they are trying to do, but I approached it from a simplistic view and confronted the pair with some facts. Within a minute they were trying to chase me away, no doubt because I was scaring off the cattle.
It goes without saying that these folks--at least at the recruiter level--have absolutely no idea of what they are purporting to have done. The two I spoke two acted exactly like brain-washed zombies. Needless to say, the whole endeavour was an exercise in futility.
Since most of you are probably going to check out Lord of the Rings this weekend anyway, you'll notice that the T3 trailer is showing there too.
Just try not too groan or laugh in dismay at the end of the trailer...
Also, and more importantly, the TLDs are needed in order to make name resolution easier. If, as you suggested, we did away with TLDs, then the "root" servers would have to know about every single web site on the now-flat internet. Needless to say, that would be slow as all getout.
Don't forget, this $1500 fee, which might just seem a tad expensive to labs in North America, is oftentimes backbreaking to struggling third-world labs. Science has already strayed from discovery to business. The last thing we need is financial discrimination to totally exclude certain sections of the scientific community.
Fraid not. It was the poster who checked the dictionary. Guess we'll have to wait for Jesus a little longer.
At Lok, which I was using, the private key is generated and stored on the server at sign-up, using hints that make sure that you provide a decent passphrase. Neither the email account password nor the GPG passphrase are stored by the company. They specifically tell you not to be a dumbass and forget it, because they can't get you back in if you do.
Also, there is a login history available (logs time and IP address) that you can use to make sure that no one else has accessed your account.
The reason I stated that I don't want to use Hushmail is precisely because of the need for Java. The reason I want webmail is so that I can access it from anywhere, and I don't want to have to rely on the presence of Java on the machine I happen to be using.
On a side not, I got an email from the CTO of Lok Technology today, and it appears that they will be back up by the end of the week.
I completely agree with you, but unfortunately that is the catch 22 that is required to get new users right now. You average Mary Jane Rottencrotch (thanks, Stanley) is too scared to try something other than Windows, so in order to get her attention, GUI developers try their best to provide a Linux version of Windows.
You mentioned OpenOffice. I was totally shocked when I first saw screenshots of it and saw how closely it visually mimiced Office. The thing is, as has been stated here a thousand times, people don't want to learn a new interface. So, what choice to GUI designers have?
Personally I like Enlightenment. It's very clean, no clutter, and reasonably easy to manage once you get into it. Anyone could use it if they just took the time to figure it out, but most people just don't want to.
It seems to me that the ultimate goal of a lot of developers is merely to provide a new backend to Windows. I understand why they are doing it, but I still think that it's pretty sad.
Just a snippet of info for those that don't know. Spoofing the MAC address of an Xbox is trivial, since as soon as the Xbox Live software is installed, an option is available for manually inputting a new MAC address. Right now I am spoofing my laptop NIC MAC so that I don't need to restart my cable modem every time I go online with the Xbox.
Actually, after hearing the phrase "Weapons of Mass Destruction" over and over and over again over the past couple months, I think that it should be immediately obvious by now.
Poor sap. Until you use all 5 ears and a good 5.1 system, you will never appreciate music the way it is meant to be heard.
I'm scared to think where you're considering plugging in the subwoofer...
I don't know how things are in the States, but in South Africa, med students start learning anatomy (on cadavers) and some surgery from the second year of the six year program. Yes, there is a lot of cramming to do, but at least from my experience, there is a ton of hands-on stuff that gets done as well.
Except of course that the Beast is losing money on each Xbox sold.
I have to agree. I used to have a Toshiba 1640 cdt, which was an okay laptop, but was hell on the shoulders. Two months ago I got a Fujitsu P-2110, and since then, I haven't gone anywhere without this little beauty.
It may cost quite a bit ($1600), and the specs aren't that fantastic (this is not a desktop replacement), but for anyone who needs/wants to have a computer with them all the time, this thing rocks. Battery life is a big issue with laptops, and if you cough up the extra cash for the long-life battery and the modular battery, you could get about 12 hours out of it.
Another aspect that I really like is that the screen has a native resolution of 1280X768, which makes it just about perfect for watching DVDs in widescreen. And since the DVD drive is an internal, modular drive, and it doesn't weigh very much, you'll be watching lots of movies on the go.
And for the Linux fiends, the P series works well. I've had Slackware 8.1 running for a couple months now, and everything works pretty well.
Check out the P-series forums for a lot more info.
Obviously you've never been to Paris. They won't even notice.
I don't think that you can make that conclusion, at least not in a general sense. I know a lot of people who have emotional issues who then gravitated towards the activities like videogames or D&D. These people had social skills that are sorely lacking, and thus they tend to rather spend their time doing something that they enjoy. I agree with you that the time is better spent trying to work through their issues, but how many people do that? I see videogames as an avenue--specifically for the people that I am referring to--to just get away from the struggle that is associating with other human beings.
As for you last statement, it seems to me that any activity can be done to excess, so faulting games is hardly fair. How many people reading Slashdot are where they are today because they obsessed about their chosen subject instead of dealing with life? I would wager that there are quite a few.
I heard a story about a biological researcher who went to some lengths to forge his results. When confronted with the accusation he produced his raw data and even autoradiograms. It eventually came out that he had decided where he wanted his results, and had then used an iodine isotope to create the bands on his blot.
Due to the extreme competition that exists in most research these days, forged results are only going to become more and more common.
I read this over at GameSpot. Seems that SoFII is Xbox bound as well. The game will support Xbox Live and have multiple online modes.
I'm no huge fan of the Beast, but I have to concede that they are positioning themselves really well with the Xbox.
I think that this is one of the biggest problems when it comes to "hackers." There is no universally-accepted definition for a hacker, which leads to the media calling anyone that knows what TCP/IP is a hacker. You just said, "You mean Cracker.", but there are a lot of hackers that don't like this term either.
I think that the most important step is making sure we can define the point where someone crosses from hacker to criminal. The rest of the monikers are then basically superfluous.
I always thought that Henry Rollins (from Black Flag and Rollins Band) would make an awesome Superman. He looks the part, as both Clark and Supes, and he is an actor. Ok, not a brilliant actor, but then they're thinking of casting Keanu...
As for Batman, Alec Baldwin is Bruce Wayne. I don't think he'd be able to pull of Batman however.
I just have one question for the original poster and those of you who are in a similar situation:
Was it worth it?
Now, I don't mean "Are you making more money now?" That much is a foregone conclusion. I mean, "Are you fundamentally a happier person after pushing yourself to the limit?"
There is way more to life than just money. If this is really what you want to do, and you are happy while doing it, cool. But we're only on this planet for a little while, and afterwards, that's it. The Universe carries on as you lie in the ground as bacterial fodder. Is it really worth skipping time with your SO and friends, or not reading a book you wanted to read or seeing a movie you wanted to see, or just not being able to laze about and think?
These all sound like really trivial things, but do you really want to be lying on your death-bed and think to yourself, "Shit man, I made a ton of dough." Maybe I'm just being naive, but I definitely don't want to end up like that.
Geez, and I used to get pissed just having to rewind a movie before watching it...