You're telling me that Multics^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe Sun Grid Utility is a failure? But systems like this have always been commercial successes in the past! Just ask Bell Labs or GE.
Because zombies sned you spam, flood your servers, and eat your brains.
People may use any web browser they'd like, for all I care, on one condition: they mustn't connect to the Internet. If you're online, you have a responsibility not to attack other computers.
The wiring that the phone companies pretend is theirs alone really belongs to the people. It's common infrastructure - if everyone had to attempt to duplicate it to compete, the result would be an expensive mess.
Don't take this the wrong way--I'm honestly curious--but is this a non-sequiter, or am I misinterpreting it? If I build something other people can't easily duplicate, that doesn't make my product common infrastructure.
I'm depressing ignorant of this subject matter, but if it's public infrastructure, shouldn't that be simply because it's built on public land (or under random people's front yards)?
I want it to be open, so we have lots of ISPs to choose from, but I'm not willing to force privately-funded stuff to be forced open by the government unless there's a better justification than 'people will be better off'. I'd benefit from free [insert commercial project here].
They've discussed just this to a great extent over the past several years, and I suspect that's what Jimbo was talking about. Here's one post about it from 2002. and there's plenty more where that came from. Sounds like maybe they're finally doing something about it.
For years, we've been discussing having two versions of the articles, a 'stable' and a 'development', the stable version often being refered to as 'Wikipedia 1.0' (Google for that or for stable on the mailing list). I'm not sure if this is what Jimbo was talking about (I'm long out of the Wikipedia loop), but if so, it may not be too bad.
Yes, there are concerns over who gets to mark it stable, but I don't think it's that big of a deal. So long as it's easy to trigger a re-review to put the current development version as the new stable, Wikipedia will still be very dynamic and Free.
Microsoft: reducing you from hundreds and one of choices to one choice. This method: reducing you from hundreds and one of choices to hundreds of choices.
The difference is hundreds of choices.
I think this is called math.
Still a dumb idea. But certainly not identical to locking people into a single browser.
Boring! You should've seen some of the launches back in the good ol' days. They really put on an amazing show, with massive explosions and everything. This thing just had a boring, unchanging tail of fire trailing behind it. Nothing interesting happened at all. No plot; no character development; nothing.
The RIAA is always complaining about piracy hurting sales, but if this is the best blockbuster they can come up with using that billion dollar budget, then I have no sympathy for their plight. Now I'm glad I didn't pay to see it in the cinema.
So, tell me, do you think the Earth is flat? I think it's roughly spherical, but let's have a scientific debate on the topic. I don't want to be accused of zealotry, after all.
Firefox has incremental search and "type to search" (although the latter is disabled by default). I'm not sure what else Opera does, but I can't really think of a way to make firefox's search any better than it is.
Well I certainly can. My kingdom for Regular Expressions!
> Since the slashdot effect is almost always guaranteed here at slashdot, what can really be done to avoid it? We do really need a solution to this effect.
Google, as always, has the answer.
Why, of course I write down my passwords. All except one: my GPG password never gets written down, and it's used to encrypt my password list.
Does kind of make for a 'break one; break them all' system, but I'm quite careful with nmy GPG key.In fact, it's currently sitting on a broken hard disk, along with my password list. D'oh!
Another alternative would be to use a non-obvious system ties to the site. Slashdot password could be calculated by hashing the word 'Slashdot'. The only problem is that it must be hard for a person to take my Slashdot password and derive the system, and it's quite nice if I can calculate the passwords quickly and in my head.
> Answer the question! Is abortion morally acceptable, or is it murder?
No, see, we have a problem here:
> > You seem to conflate the ability to know what's right/wrong with what is
> > right/wrong.
What I was trying to say was that you're conflating them and you should not, because they are quite different. The answer to the question is 'I don't know'. Your conclusion seems to be 'Therefore, there is no fact of the matter'. That's what I object to.
However, I think we're getting all screwed up here. I'm not saying abortion (or whatever) is moral (or not) in every situation. I'm simply saying that once the situation is pinned down, it's not up to any person as to whether it's right or wrong. But that's merely a materr of categorisation. What is morally relevant is not relative. I'm not sure if this is contrary to what you meant to say, but you comment about the individual deciding suggested otherwise to me. The answer may vary from individual to individual for many moral questions (the little girl should not run into the house to save the 200KG man; the fireman perhaps should), but what they don't get to decide what the moral course of action is and we just all say 'well, if that's what you think, then that's what it is'.
Sorry for my lack of clarity in my original reply. (And in advance for my lack of clarity in this post.:-)
Googlebomb, yes. The word 'war', however, is a war 'metaphor':
Google's sweeping changes confirm the search giant has launched a full out assault against artificial link inflation & declared war against search engine spam
Slashdot Mirror
You're telling me that Multics^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe Sun Grid Utility is a failure? But systems like this have always been commercial successes in the past! Just ask Bell Labs or GE.
Don't worry. We killed Ra. Now we just have the rest of the System Lords to deal with.
Thank you! I'm a member of Al Qaeda, but that doesn't mean I support their supposedly criminal activies.
If the total marketsize shrank, what used to be 3% could now be 8%.
Unlikely, though.
Make it and get acquired. Sounds like an easy path to the holy grail: a job at Google.
Grandparent is not refering to the article ,but the blurb itself:
Read before you flame.
That won't protect my children from pornography.
Wow. How many children have $160m to spend?
(Sidenote: Neopets is evil.)
Because zombies sned you spam, flood your servers, and eat your brains.
People may use any web browser they'd like, for all I care, on one condition: they mustn't connect to the Internet. If you're online, you have a responsibility not to attack other computers.
Don't take this the wrong way--I'm honestly curious--but is this a non-sequiter, or am I misinterpreting it? If I build something other people can't easily duplicate, that doesn't make my product common infrastructure.
I'm depressing ignorant of this subject matter, but if it's public infrastructure, shouldn't that be simply because it's built on public land (or under random people's front yards)?
I want it to be open, so we have lots of ISPs to choose from, but I'm not willing to force privately-funded stuff to be forced open by the government unless there's a better justification than 'people will be better off'. I'd benefit from free [insert commercial project here].
They've discussed just this to a great extent over the past several years, and I suspect that's what Jimbo was talking about. Here's one post about it from 2002. and there's plenty more where that came from. Sounds like maybe they're finally doing something about it.
Great minds think alike.
For years, we've been discussing having two versions of the articles, a 'stable' and a 'development', the stable version often being refered to as 'Wikipedia 1.0' (Google for that or for stable on the mailing list). I'm not sure if this is what Jimbo was talking about (I'm long out of the Wikipedia loop), but if so, it may not be too bad.
Yes, there are concerns over who gets to mark it stable, but I don't think it's that big of a deal. So long as it's easy to trigger a re-review to put the current development version as the new stable, Wikipedia will still be very dynamic and Free.
Microsoft: reducing you from hundreds and one of choices to one choice.
This method: reducing you from hundreds and one of choices to hundreds of choices.
The difference is hundreds of choices.
I think this is called math.
Still a dumb idea. But certainly not identical to locking people into a single browser.
Boring! You should've seen some of the launches back in the good ol' days. They really put on an amazing show, with massive explosions and everything. This thing just had a boring, unchanging tail of fire trailing behind it. Nothing interesting happened at all. No plot; no character development; nothing.
The RIAA is always complaining about piracy hurting sales, but if this is the best blockbuster they can come up with using that billion dollar budget, then I have no sympathy for their plight. Now I'm glad I didn't pay to see it in the cinema.
So, tell me, do you think the Earth is flat? I think it's roughly spherical, but let's have a scientific debate on the topic. I don't want to be accused of zealotry, after all.
I've been working on a lame text-based adventure in Javascript, but it will never hold a candle to my previous text-based game.</blatant plug>
Not for the topologist, silly. Never use a doughnut-shaped condom.
Well I certainly can. My kingdom for Regular Expressions!
> Since the slashdot effect is almost always guaranteed here at slashdot, what can really be done to avoid it? We do really need a solution to this effect.
Google, as always, has the answer.
Why, of course I write down my passwords. All except one: my GPG password never gets written down, and it's used to encrypt my password list.
Does kind of make for a 'break one; break them all' system, but I'm quite careful with nmy GPG key .In fact, it's currently sitting on a broken hard disk, along with my password list. D'oh!
Another alternative would be to use a non-obvious system ties to the site. Slashdot password could be calculated by hashing the word 'Slashdot'. The only problem is that it must be hard for a person to take my Slashdot password and derive the system, and it's quite nice if I can calculate the passwords quickly and in my head.
> Answer the question! Is abortion morally acceptable, or is it murder?
No, see, we have a problem here:
> > You seem to conflate the ability to know what's right/wrong with what is
> > right/wrong.
What I was trying to say was that you're conflating them and you should not, because they are quite different. The answer to the question is 'I don't know'. Your conclusion seems to be 'Therefore, there is no fact of the matter'. That's what I object to.
However, I think we're getting all screwed up here. I'm not saying abortion (or whatever) is moral (or not) in every situation. I'm simply saying that once the situation is pinned down, it's not up to any person as to whether it's right or wrong. But that's merely a materr of categorisation. What is morally relevant is not relative. I'm not sure if this is contrary to what you meant to say, but you comment about the individual deciding suggested otherwise to me. The answer may vary from individual to individual for many moral questions (the little girl should not run into the house to save the 200KG man; the fireman perhaps should), but what they don't get to decide what the moral course of action is and we just all say 'well, if that's what you think, then that's what it is'.
Sorry for my lack of clarity in my original reply. (And in advance for my lack of clarity in this post. :-)
> It's no longer a case for the individual to decide?
It was never the case for the individual to decide. Moral relativism is false.
You seem to conflate the ability to know what's right/wrong with what is right/wrong. Why? Do you do this with everythingm, or just morality?
Quick, what's 90% of 25?
I guess that one guy is fully employed only part-time.
I notice it still shows the next block. But does it ever lie about what the next block will be?
And maybe I shouldn't assist in the Slashdotting, but here's the offical page.