Just a side note: BeOS has support for files up to 18 exabytes, not 18 petabytes, as stated in the article. This is roughly 18,000 petabytes, or 2^64 bytes.
Ever heared what metrologists call the butterfly effect?
Okay, so this is off topic, moderate me down if you must... but an earlier pair of posters mentioned the "butterfly effect" - which I'd not heard of - and the first thing that popped into my mind was Ray Bradbury's story "A Sound of Thunder". Granted, it's a different "butterfly effect", but it's the same basic ideas. Very small things (or differences) can have a devastating effect over the long haul.
At least you have 56K modems! In my area, we have to use tin cans and string, and I have to write down the 1's and 0's on a piece of cardboard, strip off the start & stop bits, and convert to ASCII before I can read the postings. And it takes a helluva long time to post a message like this.
The article says that some students are teaching others "techniques of erasing files without a trace, keeping hidden backup files, and
even smashing one's own hard drive in the event of a police search in school dorms." Those sound like pretty good things to encourage anyhow to me.
(emphasis mine)
I wonder if these raids are co-sponsored by Maxtor or Western Digital?
That also ignores people who (like myself) may have decided that they already too many clocks in their house that need setting after each power outage, and who don't bother programming their VCR's to tape anything, because there's nothing worth taping...
Also, even the post office and telephone companies have laws to deal with certain abuses (i.e. mail fraud, harrassing phone calls, etc.)
Yes, but the phone company and post office don't get sued when I make a threatening telephone call or I send a cleverly disguised bomb. Those are simply self-imposed restrictions (just like slashdot's moderation system) that are simply meant to filter out the majority of idiots.
Yes, but I bet if the box had bigger lettering saying "Contents: one bomb" and the post office delivered it anyway, they might get calls from a lawyer or three. (I'm assuming that people from Andover/Slashdot actually read messages on the site, and therefore would have known about the message(s) in question.)
I think that Fox is suing over that name because they plan to release a sequel to "X Files", with the name "Y Files" or "Why Files"!!! Think about it, could that be possible?
To me, "common carrier" status just doesn't seem to apply to a forum like Slashdot, especially if you try to compare it to telephone companies or the post office. Both of those examples are primarily private conversations, and Slashdot is "written by one, read by all", more like TV or radio, with the user feedback being a sort of "call in show".
Also, even the post office and telephone companies have laws to deal with certain abuses (i.e. mail fraud, harrassing phone calls, etc.)
Each EMU [space suit] has two oxygen tanks (similar to scuba diving tanks) that work with a carbon dioxide removal system to allow a 6 to 8.5 hour spacewalk. -From the web site mentioned in the parent.
So, the suit has oxygen for 8.5 hours, (the web site also said battery power and whatever else was designed to be able to last that long), how did they stay out 9 hours?
Maybe the numbers quoted on that web site are analogous to the "74 minute maximum" length for CDs, which have in recent times been upped to 80 minutes (and more). So perhaps they have upped the limits via new space suit design.
Or to use a different metaphor, perhaps the astronauts are "overclocking" their suits...
So far most of the comments here are along the lines of "this won't work, it's too hard to debug, etc.". But it seems to me that the human brain is a pretty good example of asynchronous computing? The last time I checked, there wasn't any sort of high frequency clock signal running down my spine.
In further news, the publishers of the White Pages in thousands of cities nationwide were added to the list of defendents, since their published phone books list the telephone numbers of many of the ISP's who have been known to host the aforementioned DeCSS files. Film at 11.
... or is this "contest" being implemented in a very archaic way? Would it have taken the/. wizards that long to put together a poll-like form, with little drop-down forms with the year/month/day/hour/minute/second, and a box for the person's user ID/email address? This would certainly have saved someone a lot of grep'ing and such.
It appears that the IP address for www.slashdot.org (and just plain slashdot.org) changed in the last 24 hours or so - my nameserver hadn't sync'd up with the change until sometime yesterday afternoon. But people on other name servers were apparently able to connect just fine. I must have a slow nameserver here...
Regarding the punctuation flame, I was under the impression that the spelling "free'd" was acceptable (and proper) in English (not American) speaking countries. Given that the poster is from Scotland (as stated in her User Info), this would seem to support this hypothesis.
It's sad that some people seem to feel that flames of this sort are necessary.
It's fairly obvious to me - they want to track which kids are visiting all of the videogaming sites, so they can recruit them in the upcoming intergalactic war...
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Just a side note: BeOS has support for files up to 18 exabytes, not 18 petabytes, as stated in the article. This is roughly 18,000 petabytes, or 2^64 bytes.
Just wanted to set the record straight.
Ever heared what metrologists call the butterfly effect?
Okay, so this is off topic, moderate me down if you must... but an earlier pair of posters mentioned the "butterfly effect" - which I'd not heard of - and the first thing that popped into my mind was Ray Bradbury's story "A Sound of Thunder". Granted, it's a different "butterfly effect", but it's the same basic ideas. Very small things (or differences) can have a devastating effect over the long haul.
... however, if you get the NI error, then it means you must bring your computer... a shrubbery!
This can, of course, never work, since everyone knows TANSTAAFL. But, of course, that still leaves breakfast and dinner open for discussion.
You forgot the cassette interface on the back of my original IBM Personal Computer.
At least you have 56K modems! In my area, we have to use tin cans and string, and I have to write down the 1's and 0's on a piece of cardboard, strip off the start & stop bits, and convert to ASCII before I can read the postings. And it takes a helluva long time to post a message like this.
I wonder if these raids are co-sponsored by Maxtor or Western Digital?
I just rented "Frequency" the other night, what an interesting coincidence. Maybe I should crank up the old ham radio ...
Wow, I guess we'll be seeing a flurry of stories about it now :-)
That also ignores people who (like myself) may have decided that they already too many clocks in their house that need setting after each power outage, and who don't bother programming their VCR's to tape anything, because there's nothing worth taping...
Whatever.
I think that Fox is suing over that name because they plan to release a sequel to "X Files", with the name "Y Files" or "Why Files"!!! Think about it, could that be possible?
To me, "common carrier" status just doesn't seem to apply to a forum like Slashdot, especially if you try to compare it to telephone companies or the post office. Both of those examples are primarily private conversations, and Slashdot is "written by one, read by all", more like TV or radio, with the user feedback being a sort of "call in show".
Also, even the post office and telephone companies have laws to deal with certain abuses (i.e. mail fraud, harrassing phone calls, etc.)
Maybe the numbers quoted on that web site are analogous to the "74 minute maximum" length for CDs, which have in recent times been upped to 80 minutes (and more). So perhaps they have upped the limits via new space suit design.
Or to use a different metaphor, perhaps the astronauts are "overclocking" their suits...
So far most of the comments here are along the lines of "this won't work, it's too hard to debug, etc.". But it seems to me that the human brain is a pretty good example of asynchronous computing? The last time I checked, there wasn't any sort of high frequency clock signal running down my spine.
In further news, the publishers of the White Pages in thousands of cities nationwide were added to the list of defendents, since their published phone books list the telephone numbers of many of the ISP's who have been known to host the aforementioned DeCSS files. Film at 11.
I wonder how long this monster would take to do a "make world".
Six days?
... or is this "contest" being implemented in a very archaic way? Would it have taken the /. wizards that long to put together a poll-like form, with little drop-down forms with the year/month/day/hour/minute/second, and a box for the person's user ID/email address? This would certainly have saved someone a lot of grep'ing and such.
Whatever...
It appears that the IP address for www.slashdot.org (and just plain slashdot.org) changed in the last 24 hours or so - my nameserver hadn't sync'd up with the change until sometime yesterday afternoon. But people on other name servers were apparently able to connect just fine. I must have a slow nameserver here...
I thought that Steganography was the art of being a dinosaur with big heat-dissipating plates and a spiked tail.
That's strange, I thought that SDRAM DIMM's were 168 pin, unless this unit uses the so-called "notebook" DIMMs.
Oops, my bad, somebody else DID already post it, I missed it on my first pass through the messages. My apologies for the redundant post.
... of course, there was that Tom the Dancing Bug strip from last August.
Regarding the punctuation flame, I was under the impression that the spelling "free'd" was acceptable (and proper) in English (not American) speaking countries. Given that the poster is from Scotland (as stated in her User Info), this would seem to support this hypothesis.
It's sad that some people seem to feel that flames of this sort are necessary.
Why does the DOD want this information?
It's fairly obvious to me - they want to track which kids are visiting all of the videogaming sites, so they can recruit them in the upcoming intergalactic war...
Oh wait, didn't they do a movie about that?