Yawn. I don't know about a virus, but you've just put me to sleep like Data did to the Borg in episode 128 where he issues a low-priority regeneration command to the Borg collective and then they revive Captain Picard who was actually named Locutus of Borg when he was merged into the Borg identity as he was captured on the Borg Cube after a mission of reconaissance in the... zzzzzzzz
A 40 MB file on the front page. Way to go douchebags, thanks for taking our server out. Here's the text of the article:
The Royal Navy's survey ship HMS Scott has collected unique images of the Indian Ocean seabed in the vicinity of the devastating tsunami earthquake epicentre.
The work, announced last month by the Ministry of Defence, is being carried out in order to further the understanding of earthquakes and assist prediction of such events in the future. It will be of considerable benefit to the Asia region as a whole and potentially give a global perspective.
HMS Scott's tasking is a non-military role that will provide bathymetric ( measuring the depth of water ) and geological assessment of the Asian earthquake epicentre and extended fracture zone. To assist with this, scientists from the Southampton Oceanography Centre and the British Geological Survey have embarked in the ship.
The depth of water in the vicinity of the epicentre varies between 200m to 5000m which is well within HMS Scott's capability using her high-resolution multi-beam sonar.
The epicentre lies within the Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone, and the survey itself follows discussions with the Indonesian Government about HMS Scott's potential value in furthering the understanding of the earthquake and future risk prediction. The survey falls under the definition of Marine Scientific Research under United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Survey imagesHMS Scott's survey will provide the 'base map' for future extensive research into the process of how earthquakes work; this is a crucial moment to conduct such research.
While HMS Scott is not directly involved in the humanitarian relief effort, her survey work in the vicinity of the epicentre is of significance to the scientific community in furthering the understanding of the tsunami.
HMS Scott deployed from the UK in November 2004 in order to undertake a programme of work in the North Atlantic, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean and is scheduled to return to the UK in June 2005.
My name is Julian Gilby Mulahmulah, son of the late King Abwar Mulahmulah III of Ivory Coast.
As it happens, my country's underground torrent has been taken over by evil Movie Picture Association Rebels and have taken hostage my father, the former king, and other members of the royal palace. Praise be to Allah, before the takeover I was able to smuggle out the kings royal coffers, totalling in the amount $10,000,000 (ten million United States Dollars).
Sadly and with a broken heart, I cannot deposit this money in a local bank account, as every move made in the country is done under the watchful scrutiny of the MPAA rebels. I humbly and most abashadly ask that you help me in this matter. If you could provide me with the name and universal resource indicator of your underground torrent, I will gladly offer you 5% of the royal king's coffers in exchange for your assistance in this most urgent matter.
I most humbly and anxiously await your speedy reply.
this guy a) had more than 400 complaints from within the company to Google's HR department asking that he be removed, and b) was obviously a complete idiot in the things he posted about in his blog.
What? Did you even read his blog? Or are you just spreading FUD, hoping no one will actually look at the facts? Stop being a blindless google supporter. A snippet from Mark Jen's blob, and the 'idiotic' and supposed inflammatory things he said:
So lots of people have been asking me what my job actually is. contrary to some people's beliefs, my job is not to blog about google; that's what i do in my free time. i'm actually an associate product manager on adsense. that means i'm sandwiched in between being the customer advocate and harnessing all the cool stuff happening through engineers' 20% time. in my opinion, this is the best job in the industry, especially given that i'm a google customer too. so basically, i spend the bulk of my time thinking of new features or products that customers would want (read: stuff that i want) and then i organize people to build it. it's great!
then they kept removing things. With every cut I got more and more disappointed
What has been cut? WinFS from the initial release, sure, cry me a river. But Avalon, Indigo, the new WinFX API, NGSCB, 64 bit support, just to name a few, are all still scheduled to make the final cut.
Despite it being modded as funny, my original post was meant to be taken seriously. Using versioned components on Windows has already been attempted and failed quite miserably, something Microsoft has aimed to change with.NET's global assembly cache.
Irokitt, I like your thinking. You have a suprisingly opened mind, which is something truely refreshing here on Slashdot. I have to agree that with all the hype built up over several years, will it truely be worth it? As a developer coming from a programming standpoint, I've already tried out the Avalon and WinFX APIs, and for me it is worth it. The real question is will it be worth it for the end users and will security finally be a first class feature rather than a footnote. I certainly hope it will on both counts.
Good point, I concede that it isn't the same. I still wonder whether a public forum, where the public is mostly uninformed and politically motivated, is a good place to consider the question.
Me personally? No, that would be too great a blanket statement. In general? Yes, I'd say about as much as the left believes the right to be a bunch of fundy moralists.:-)
The disclaimer was necessary so as to avoid flames by others on the right.
Nah. Moratoriums, conferences, public "should we or shouldn't we" questions like these seem to do little to promote science.
I'm software developer. When I'm unfamiliar with a subject, I tend to try things out, discover how they work, then get a basic working example built from scratch. To me, at least, I find this approach much more suitable then asking around, having other people tell me what is the best way, searching the web, and so on.
Are embryonic sciences that much different; do scientists really need to hear what other people have to say before poking around, discovering how it works, researching it, get a basic example working?
(Note: I am not a left wing amoralist by any means. On the contrary, I am a Bush supporter and a proud believer in Christ. So I, too, and saying this without regard to the "should we play god" argument; as far as I'm concerned, we aren't playing god until we can create life from scratch rather than manipulate or duplicate.)
Wow, finally some clarity and truth here at Slashdot. Well said, you hit the mark on several points including Slashdot's 'follow the leader' mentality, be secular or else, be anti-Republican or else, be running Linux or else, be running Firefox or else, you pointed out the obvious Roland connection, the hypocritical unethical nature of Slashdot and slashbotters, you pointed out, damn well if I might add, how people here don't argue based on facts but on biases and prejudices.
Amen man, good to see some truth posted on this site for once.
He doesn't just say that software should be given away for $0, he's written a prolific amount of software that is used right at this moment by many millions of people and he DID give it away for $0. He is the 'starving artist' of the software world, an artist that does it for the love of his art. I don't see why you have a problem with that.
I don't have a problem with him doing it. I have a problem with him doing it, then telling the FOSS world that they should do the same, or be considered unethical. That's lunancy. How 'ethical' would it be for me to write software, then starve my wife and 4 year old so as not to commit the 'unethical' act of selling software?!
This is the lunacy of which I speak! And here you are defending the 'starving artist'! When it comes down to 'making money == evil', that IS socialistic, un-capitialistic bull shit, and it doesn't work despite being tried many times the world over.
Gizmodo: Do you think that it's critical to protect IP--software, music, whatever... Do you think it's critical to protect those things with DRM or do you think that, or do you feel like you have to provide the DRM so that the companies that are distributing that stuff will allow it on your systems?
Gates: Well, ignore DRM for a second. Should an artist that creates a great song be paid for that song? That's where you have to start. You don't start with DRM. DRM is just like a speed bump that reminds you whether you're staying within the scope of rights that you have or you don't. So you don't start with DRM. That's like saying, 'Do you believe in speed bumps?' You have to say, 'Should people drive at 80mph in parking lots?' If you think they should, then of course you don't like speed bumps.
Gizmodo: I think that's sort of disingenuous. Obviously people think that artists, or you know, whoever creates software should be paid...
Gates: No, no, no. That's not true! Many people don't believe that. [They] absolutely don't believe that.
Got to hand it to Bill, he had the interviewer backpedalling wit that one because he had a valid point -- there are too many extremists and extremist views in the Linux/OSS community. Take for instance RMS, who says not only should software be given away for $0, but if you charge money for software, you are committing an unethical act. Or, in his last interview publicized on/., RMS was quoted as saying people ought to quit their jobs if it requires them to use 'un-free' software.
This extremism is what is being picked by the MSFT et al crowd. It's high time the OSS community seperates itself from such lunacy.
Slashdot Mirror
Yawn. I don't know about a virus, but you've just put me to sleep like Data did to the Borg in episode 128 where he issues a low-priority regeneration command to the Borg collective and then they revive Captain Picard who was actually named Locutus of Borg when he was merged into the Borg identity as he was captured on the Borg Cube after a mission of reconaissance in the ... zzzzzzzz
Simply cannot be, because Windows is more secure than Linux. So you see, there's nothing to worry about. Move along.
A 40 MB file on the front page. Way to go douchebags, thanks for taking our server out. Here's the text of the article:
The Royal Navy's survey ship HMS Scott has collected unique images of the Indian Ocean seabed in the vicinity of the devastating tsunami earthquake epicentre.
The work, announced last month by the Ministry of Defence, is being carried out in order to further the understanding of earthquakes and assist prediction of such events in the future. It will be of considerable benefit to the Asia region as a whole and potentially give a global perspective.
HMS Scott's tasking is a non-military role that will provide bathymetric ( measuring the depth of water ) and geological assessment of the Asian earthquake epicentre and extended fracture zone. To assist with this, scientists from the Southampton Oceanography Centre and the British Geological Survey have embarked in the ship.
The depth of water in the vicinity of the epicentre varies between 200m to 5000m which is well within HMS Scott's capability using her high-resolution multi-beam sonar.
The epicentre lies within the Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone, and the survey itself follows discussions with the Indonesian Government about HMS Scott's potential value in furthering the understanding of the earthquake and future risk prediction. The survey falls under the definition of Marine Scientific Research under United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Survey imagesHMS Scott's survey will provide the 'base map' for future extensive research into the process of how earthquakes work; this is a crucial moment to conduct such research.
While HMS Scott is not directly involved in the humanitarian relief effort, her survey work in the vicinity of the epicentre is of significance to the scientific community in furthering the understanding of the tsunami.
HMS Scott deployed from the UK in November 2004 in order to undertake a programme of work in the North Atlantic, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean and is scheduled to return to the UK in June 2005.
Dear Kind Mr. Dancinsanta Sir
My name is Julian Gilby Mulahmulah, son of the late King Abwar Mulahmulah III of Ivory Coast.
As it happens, my country's underground torrent has been taken over by evil Movie Picture Association Rebels and have taken hostage my father, the former king, and other members of the royal palace. Praise be to Allah, before the takeover I was able to smuggle out the kings royal coffers, totalling in the amount $10,000,000 (ten million United States Dollars).
Sadly and with a broken heart, I cannot deposit this money in a local bank account, as every move made in the country is done under the watchful scrutiny of the MPAA rebels. I humbly and most abashadly ask that you help me in this matter. If you could provide me with the name and universal resource indicator of your underground torrent, I will gladly offer you 5% of the royal king's coffers in exchange for your assistance in this most urgent matter.
I most humbly and anxiously await your speedy reply.
Kindly,
Julian Gilby Mulahmulah
Who removed the controversial comments? Google? Isn't that censorship?
this guy a) had more than 400 complaints from within the company to Google's HR department asking that he be removed, and b) was obviously a complete idiot in the things he posted about in his blog.
What? Did you even read his blog? Or are you just spreading FUD, hoping no one will actually look at the facts? Stop being a blindless google supporter. A snippet from Mark Jen's blob, and the 'idiotic' and supposed inflammatory things he said:
So lots of people have been asking me what my job actually is. contrary to some people's beliefs, my job is not to blog about google; that's what i do in my free time. i'm actually an associate product manager on adsense. that means i'm sandwiched in between being the customer advocate and harnessing all the cool stuff happening through engineers' 20% time. in my opinion, this is the best job in the industry, especially given that i'm a google customer too. so basically, i spend the bulk of my time thinking of new features or products that customers would want (read: stuff that i want) and then i organize people to build it. it's great!
Gee, what an insightful post. With so many facts backing up your argument, how can I possibly argue against you?
then they kept removing things. With every cut I got more and more disappointed
What has been cut? WinFS from the initial release, sure, cry me a river. But Avalon, Indigo, the new WinFX API, NGSCB, 64 bit support, just to name a few, are all still scheduled to make the final cut.
Despite it being modded as funny, my original post was meant to be taken seriously. Using versioned components on Windows has already been attempted and failed quite miserably, something Microsoft has aimed to change with .NET's global assembly cache.
Irokitt, I like your thinking. You have a suprisingly opened mind, which is something truely refreshing here on Slashdot. I have to agree that with all the hype built up over several years, will it truely be worth it? As a developer coming from a programming standpoint, I've already tried out the Avalon and WinFX APIs, and for me it is worth it. The real question is will it be worth it for the end users and will security finally be a first class feature rather than a footnote. I certainly hope it will on both counts.
I will happily recant my view if you could you point me to some facts proving otherwise.
So what makes this June Release by one Microsoft executive more believable than other announcements?
The 4 month beta deadline, maybe? All previous announcements have been almost a year ahead of time.
If you need some component installed, just make sure it's prereq's are there. Oh wait - this sounds a lot like Linux.
We tried that. It was called DLL Hell.
Good point, I concede that it isn't the same. I still wonder whether a public forum, where the public is mostly uninformed and politically motivated, is a good place to consider the question.
Me personally? No, that would be too great a blanket statement. In general? Yes, I'd say about as much as the left believes the right to be a bunch of fundy moralists. :-)
The disclaimer was necessary so as to avoid flames by others on the right.
Don't forget we pollute the air more than any other country, and output more physical garbage than most nations combined.
It's sad (being a US citizen myself) but true.
Nah. Moratoriums, conferences, public "should we or shouldn't we" questions like these seem to do little to promote science.
I'm software developer. When I'm unfamiliar with a subject, I tend to try things out, discover how they work, then get a basic working example built from scratch. To me, at least, I find this approach much more suitable then asking around, having other people tell me what is the best way, searching the web, and so on.
Are embryonic sciences that much different; do scientists really need to hear what other people have to say before poking around, discovering how it works, researching it, get a basic example working?
(Note: I am not a left wing amoralist by any means. On the contrary, I am a Bush supporter and a proud believer in Christ. So I, too, and saying this without regard to the "should we play god" argument; as far as I'm concerned, we aren't playing god until we can create life from scratch rather than manipulate or duplicate.)
But alas another DotCom fatality, we went from 12 employees to 165 in a year
Gee, what a failure. I suppose it went bankrupt from the excessive cash inflow?
Don't worry, Slashbot mods and owners will mod this thing down to -1 flamebait page before you can say 'censorship'.
Wow, finally some clarity and truth here at Slashdot. Well said, you hit the mark on several points including Slashdot's 'follow the leader' mentality, be secular or else, be anti-Republican or else, be running Linux or else, be running Firefox or else, you pointed out the obvious Roland connection, the hypocritical unethical nature of Slashdot and slashbotters, you pointed out, damn well if I might add, how people here don't argue based on facts but on biases and prejudices.
Amen man, good to see some truth posted on this site for once.
A great read.
-Ethical and moral degredation? Check
He doesn't just say that software should be given away for $0, he's written a prolific amount of software that is used right at this moment by many millions of people and he DID give it away for $0. He is the 'starving artist' of the software world, an artist that does it for the love of his art. I don't see why you have a problem with that.
I don't have a problem with him doing it. I have a problem with him doing it, then telling the FOSS world that they should do the same, or be considered unethical. That's lunancy. How 'ethical' would it be for me to write software, then starve my wife and 4 year old so as not to commit the 'unethical' act of selling software?!
This is the lunacy of which I speak! And here you are defending the 'starving artist'! When it comes down to 'making money == evil', that IS socialistic, un-capitialistic bull shit, and it doesn't work despite being tried many times the world over.
Gizmodo: Do you think that it's critical to protect IP--software, music, whatever... Do you think it's critical to protect those things with DRM or do you think that, or do you feel like you have to provide the DRM so that the companies that are distributing that stuff will allow it on your systems?
/., RMS was quoted as saying people ought to quit their jobs if it requires them to use 'un-free' software.
Gates: Well, ignore DRM for a second. Should an artist that creates a great song be paid for that song? That's where you have to start. You don't start with DRM. DRM is just like a speed bump that reminds you whether you're staying within the scope of rights that you have or you don't. So you don't start with DRM. That's like saying, 'Do you believe in speed bumps?' You have to say, 'Should people drive at 80mph in parking lots?' If you think they should, then of course you don't like speed bumps.
Gizmodo: I think that's sort of disingenuous. Obviously people think that artists, or you know, whoever creates software should be paid...
Gates: No, no, no. That's not true! Many people don't believe that. [They] absolutely don't believe that.
Got to hand it to Bill, he had the interviewer backpedalling wit that one because he had a valid point -- there are too many extremists and extremist views in the Linux/OSS community. Take for instance RMS, who says not only should software be given away for $0, but if you charge money for software, you are committing an unethical act. Or, in his last interview publicized on
This extremism is what is being picked by the MSFT et al crowd. It's high time the OSS community seperates itself from such lunacy.
Query Eye for the Oracle guy
Next time I'll remember to put you in there.