If a good number of the slashdotters here donated that old box in the closet as a dedicated nodes this could easily be the next step in secure, anonymous communications for everyone. It's stable, runs on several different platforms and just may be an answer.
Oh, and get out and vote sometime as well. That always helps.
In a stunning speech a few hours ago, President George Bush declared Denmark a "den of malcontents and terrorists". And announcing to the UN in an emergency security session the need to: "bomb the hell out of them" for obvious stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and denying their people American software, goods and services.
Denmark, whose main exports include those silly little wooden shoes and tulips, was unavailable for comment.
In other news, Microsoft led a resounding stock rally.
With my new dual USB iBook, on the default install, there's something like 600 megs of MP3's by various big name artists (can't remember them all, since I reloaded with my new 10.2 cd I forgot to back them up), spoken word stuff from Henry Rollins I remember, perhaps someone else can fill/. in on what's all on there. Pretty neat I think.
Yep, they're 100% unencrypted, copy them anywhere MP3 files. They're installed when you do a full system restore. No DRM here. Not needed or wanted.
...Out of standard, considering each one of these storage units integrates two hard disks and a bridge FW/RAID, it is possible to configure them in RAID 1 (Mirroring) or RAID 0 (Stripping).
Charles Sheffield, for one. Of all the Sci-Fi authors I have read over the years I would have to say he had the formula down the best. Hard science fiction, believeable characters and the odd McAndrew made for exellent storytelling I could read over and over again.
Too bad he passed away here lately and I won't get to hear any more of his ideas but in order of prefrence I would have to say:
hard science. Sure, you have to extrapolate a bit, but make it believable and intelligent.
Humor. That's always good. Like the alien Hollus, in his first meeting with humans. The humans thought it was all a prank at first...: "...Of course, if you want, I could give you an anal probe . .." There were gasps from the small crowd that had assembled in the lobby. I tried to raise my nonexistent eyebrows.
(in Robert J. Sawyer's exellent Calculating God)
And finally characters you can get behind and understand. This is a lot more ephemeral and it dosn't happen to fall into a nice neat little package. Normally, you gravitate towards Sci-Fi characters you can see yourself in (or how you would like for yourself to be someday). Idealized supermen are silly.
Seeing that all these companies are publicly traded entities answerable ultimately to the shareholders for their actions, perhaps the first place Amnesty International should put their reports in the hands of ones who invested in the companies to begin with.
Oh, the shareholders don't care? Carry on then. There's no news here.
Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.
Hehe. Looks like someone is going to get some hatemail. Nice of Mike Wendland to slip that in there like that.
1) Set up story about new site accepting spam to assist in creating better anti-spam tools. 2) accept all the submissions from the teeming millions(tm) at a popular tech site or two. 3) cull all the email addresses from those duped to forward spam to you. 4) sell said email addresses to spammers. 5) PROFIT!!!!
Seriously. My wife ended up with one last year sometime. Looks like a little controller with all the games burned in on a chip. It's got a little select screen you can choose btween different games. Hooks up to a tv via RCA, video and audio.
What's it like? In a word.. Shit.
Prone to graphics glitches, controller is cheaply made, and it's interesting for all of 18 seconds and you're done with your blast from the past. There's better things to throw money at.
Aah, the Free Software Song. Am I alone in saying the first time I heard it I contemplated anything from mass murder to autocanibalism to get.away.from.that.awful.noise?
sorry, RMS. Absolutely the worst.song.evar
That being said, anyone know where I can pick up a copy of Virtual(void) from the BeOS cd? I may have to look on my cd's to see if it's there.I still find myself humming...you'll never find love down a T1 line... Perhaps the best geek song in existence.
Back when I worked for Gateway they began shipping StarOffice with all their low-end boxes and laptops- the consumer models. Went through with a training session on it (dull) and we were officially supporting boxes with Sun's StarOffice!
For about a week.
Looks like MS got wind of it and made some phone calls because in no time flat all those models shipping with StarOffice was re-imaged with a load using Microsoft Works (an oxymoron if I ever heard one).
I don't expect this to last any time at all. Once MS gets wind of it, phone calls will be made and things will quietly go back to the status quo.
In better news, I heard a while back Gateway finally got rid of Vantive. Yippie!
If you use Chimera in OS X, browse to your: /Users/*your username*/Library/Application Support/Chimera/Profiles/default/*salted name*.slt/ directory and edit the prefs.js file with vi, or BBEdit (which is the default editor on mine).
Add the line: user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.onunlo ad","noAccess"); To the bottom on the file,save your changes and restart your browser. Careful of the space slashcode likes to put in there! Should be no spaces in the line you past into the file.
Sounds like a scam of the most nefarious sort. Picture the MPAA, sending out little releases in the same vein as this one each time a new movie comes out- sure, they're crying wolf and the file really isn't there, but that's not the point.
Picture later on the MPAA whimpering and bitching to congress sometime next year that "we are losing money hand over fist because of that damned internet filesharing! We've had 10 of the last 12 blockbusters released early! The Internet Terrorists may already have won!" Ad nauseum.
Later on, Congress enacts stiffer penalities for file sharing, forces ISP's to block every port but port 80 and the MPAA laughs till it pisses itself. It's won this P2P battle by crying wolf.:wq!
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously.
http://freenetproject.org/
If a good number of the slashdotters here donated that old box in the closet as a dedicated nodes this could easily be the next step in secure, anonymous communications for everyone.
It's stable, runs on several different platforms and just may be an answer.
Oh, and get out and vote sometime as well. That always helps.
In a stunning speech a few hours ago, President George Bush declared Denmark a "den of malcontents and terrorists". And announcing to the UN in an emergency security session the need to: "bomb the hell out of them" for obvious stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and denying their people American software, goods and services.
Denmark, whose main exports include those silly little wooden shoes and tulips, was unavailable for comment.
In other news, Microsoft led a resounding stock rally.
Who's there?
*60 second pause....*
CSIRAC!
With my new dual USB iBook, on the default install, there's something like 600 megs of MP3's by various big name artists (can't remember them all, since I reloaded with my new 10.2 cd I forgot to back them up), spoken word stuff from Henry Rollins I remember, perhaps someone else can fill /. in on what's all on there. Pretty neat I think.
Yep, they're 100% unencrypted, copy them anywhere MP3 files. They're installed when you do a full system restore. No DRM here. Not needed or wanted.
...Out of standard, considering each one of these storage units integrates two hard disks and a bridge FW/RAID, it is possible to configure them in RAID 1 (Mirroring) or RAID 0 (Stripping).
And the answer, dear asshat, is yes
Charles Sheffield, for one.
."
:wq!
Of all the Sci-Fi authors I have read over the years I would have to say he had the formula down the best.
Hard science fiction, believeable characters and the odd McAndrew made for exellent storytelling I could read over and over again.
Too bad he passed away here lately and I won't get to hear any more of his ideas but in order of prefrence I would have to say:
hard science. Sure, you have to extrapolate a bit, but make it believable and intelligent.
Humor. That's always good. Like the alien Hollus, in his first meeting with humans. The humans thought it was all a prank at first...:
"...Of course, if you want, I could give you an anal probe . .
There were gasps from the small crowd that had assembled in the lobby. I tried to raise my nonexistent eyebrows.
(in Robert J. Sawyer's exellent Calculating God)
And finally characters you can get behind and understand. This is a lot more ephemeral and it dosn't happen to fall into a nice neat little package. Normally, you gravitate towards Sci-Fi characters you can see yourself in (or how you would like for yourself to be someday). Idealized supermen are silly.
whew! time to get back to work.
Seeing that all these companies are publicly traded entities answerable ultimately to the shareholders for their actions, perhaps the first place Amnesty International should put their reports in the hands of ones who invested in the companies to begin with.
Oh, the shareholders don't care? Carry on then. There's no news here.
That, my man, was an exellent Astroturfing job. Kudos!
"I don't do any porn or sexual messages," he said, citing a promise he made to his wife, Irmengard.
Thank *god* we have a man of such impeccable character handling business like that!
Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.
Hehe. Looks like someone is going to get some hatemail. Nice of Mike Wendland to slip that in there like that.
MS:DOS:
Celebrating 21 years without a remote root exploit!
Take that OpenBSD! =)
It's a trap!!!
1) Set up story about new site accepting spam to assist in creating better anti-spam tools.
2) accept all the submissions from the teeming millions(tm) at a popular tech site or two.
3) cull all the email addresses from those duped to forward spam to you.
4) sell said email addresses to spammers.
5) PROFIT!!!!
Please place all the "Dude! you're getting a..." missives right under this thread for accurate accounting. Thanks!
If it's not available in OGG, I want nothing to do with it.
yes, this is a joke. Seems to be the prevailing whine on slashdot for OGG to I thought i'd throw my 0.02 in as well
Seriously.
My wife ended up with one last year sometime. Looks like a little controller with all the games burned in on a chip. It's got a little select screen you can choose btween different games.
Hooks up to a tv via RCA, video and audio.
What's it like? In a word.. Shit.
Prone to graphics glitches, controller is cheaply made, and it's interesting for all of 18 seconds and you're done with your blast from the past. There's better things to throw money at.
My fortune at the bottom of the page on this story:
Stenderup's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up.
Yep, 19 years sounds about right.
I wanted to bad to clear out the text box and put in "Here at AA, we love our lawyer's cock."
That I would have accepted.
sorry, RMS. Absolutely the worst.song. evar
That being said, anyone know where I can pick up a copy of Virtual(void) from the BeOS cd? I may have to look on my cd's to see if it's there.I still find myself humming ...you'll never find love down a T1 line... Perhaps the best geek song in existence.
Knock Knock!
...
...
Who's there?
15 second wait...
Intel
Back when I worked for Gateway they began shipping StarOffice with all their low-end boxes and laptops- the consumer models.
Went through with a training session on it (dull) and we were officially supporting boxes with Sun's StarOffice!
For about a week.
Looks like MS got wind of it and made some phone calls because in no time flat all those models shipping with StarOffice was re-imaged with a load using Microsoft Works (an oxymoron if I ever heard one).
I don't expect this to last any time at all. Once MS gets wind of it, phone calls will be made and things will quietly go back to the status quo.
In better news, I heard a while back Gateway finally got rid of Vantive. Yippie!
If you use Chimera in OS X, browse to your:
/Users/*your username*/Library/Application Support/Chimera/Profiles/default/*salted name*.slt/ directory and edit the prefs.js file with vi, or BBEdit (which is the default editor on mine).o ad","noAccess");
Add the line:
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.onunl
To the bottom on the file,save your changes and restart your browser. Careful of the space slashcode likes to put in there! Should be no spaces in the line you past into the file.
Sounds like a scam of the most nefarious sort. Picture the MPAA, sending out little releases in the same vein as this one each time a new movie comes out- sure, they're crying wolf and the file really isn't there, but that's not the point. Picture later on the MPAA whimpering and bitching to congress sometime next year that "we are losing money hand over fist because of that damned internet filesharing! We've had 10 of the last 12 blockbusters released early! The Internet Terrorists may already have won!" Ad nauseum. Later on, Congress enacts stiffer penalities for file sharing, forces ISP's to block every port but port 80 and the MPAA laughs till it pisses itself. It's won this P2P battle by crying wolf. :wq!