it's pretty easy to find the things you can't say on slashdot - just change your preferences to give flamebait a +5 bonus.
The author mentions labels such as "indecent", "improper", and "unamerican". On/. it's "troll" and "flamebait". Crap-flooding aside, seasoned trolls have a fine-tuned expertise in the "unspeakable". Whether a given troll is right or (more likely) not, this article made me realize that they actually have their place within the ecosystem of ideas. Strange.
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:02:31 +0100 From: Rejo Zenger [...] Very very good. I'll try to do that tonight and put it online in a couple of hours. Thanks for the idea. Stupid I didn't think of it myself.
One thing that I haven't included in my analysis is the number of addresses of individuals as opposed to the number of addresses of non-individuals (but not limited to just the role accounts). If you have a good idea on how to tackle this problem for over 10,000,000 addresses, I would be more than grateful.
Pick, say, 1000 of the addresses at random. Then classify them manually. Unless you've got very few addresses in each class the distribution will mirror the real one closely. (You could perhaps do with just doing 100 addys manually). Just make sure the selection is truly random.
Edit the CD to include the email address of every politician the wolrd over
You don't need to. I heard from someone who had seen the inboxes of EU parliament members that they get a lot of spam, including the ugly pornographic sort.
I suppose it's the same for politicians elsewhere. It's impossible to "stay connected" in terms of having a very public addres where you may receive important mail from unknown people without getting loads of spam. The secretary may filter it out though - or SpamAssasin if they're clued.
One might think spammers would filter such "sensible" addresses from their list, but Rejo's analysis tells another story.
Patents currently work on a per-country basis.
The Chinese can develop whatever they like under their own system.
Then what is
Section 5 of the TRIPS agreement about?
I also claim that TRIPS has mostly been pushed through by the US (and the EU) lead by multinational corporations. For documentation you should read Drahos & Braithwaite: Information Feudalism especially chapters 7-9.
KDE vs. Gnome (QT vs. GTK) is really about two business models competingAE:
KDE: TrollTech pays for library development, but for proprietary software it'll cost you.
Gnome: No (direct) profit from libraries, but they can be used in commercial apps freely.
Both business models make sense, but Perens has chosen his favourite. So have I - and it's KDE. No need to flame Perens for that reason though, if he wants to do something stupid it's not my problem;-)
Two danish companies are jointly patenting "snail mail from computer". At the click of a button the mail is printed, enveloped, stamped and sent by the mailhandling company.
I don't know much about it yet, but the article (danish, sorry) mentions a "printer driver" so it might presumably utilize the Windows printing API.
If not before, then when they've lost their case, their market and their reputation and the shareholders agree to give what's left of SCO to ESR in return for his VA Linux stock;-)
The last Mandrake release had a bunch of bugfix updates right after the ISOs went golden requiring the users to download many megabytes of updates. Could this be a result of firing developers? Has anyone seen the lay-offs impacting quality?
Since when is it illegal to import a legal copy of a video from another country?
In Denmark, since december 2002. An EU directive forced through that giving or selling copyrighted works imported into the EU is illegal without the consent of the "rights holder". Several small countries including Denmark had voted against it - the danish minister claimed that it had been forced through by english publishers. Several other EU countries have implemented the directive as well. (They should have done it by Dec 2002)
This post is a troll. It should have been given away by the linux reference, but anyway:
Exporting wheat from Holland to Africa? I'd think the very densely populated Netherlands would be an importer of raw basic foodstuffs. (Not processed foods).
That aside nothing is transported by land through the Middle Eastern route described. With current politics it'd definitely not be the "cheapest". Get a clue: long haul bulk transports are done by sea. YHBT. IHBT. WHABT.
Please, can we stop calling it "nanotechnology" and start calling it what it really is?
No way!. You know, once it became a buzzword billions in research grants flowed into "nanotech". Thousands of groups in physics, chemistry and engineering slapped "nanoscience" signs on their doors and kept doing what they always did. All of these researchers would lose their jobs if they stopped uttering the N-word. How likely is that?
They've already been sued for spamming
on
The Life of a Spammer
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· Score: 4, Informative
Wouldn't that make it pretty easy getting a verified address?
Re:What to Say to Flo When You Call Her ...
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The Life of a Spammer
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I thought the old grammar nazi needed an update, so here i present the theology nazi:
If she tells you, "The Devil can quote Scripture to his purpose," then point out that that's Shakespeare
Yes, but it's a biblical principle nonetheless - see
Matthew 4,1-11
the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6"If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:
" 'He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone."
The international press (for example the press in my country, Austria) is assuming the opposite to happen.
Not so in Denmark. Everybody sees it as a good thing. Attack will probably not cease, but be a bit dampened. One expert warned though that Islamists might actually increase their attacks that will now not be seen as "pro-Saddam"
For comparison: Denmark (press included) was rather lukewarm on the whole Iraq war. Without knowing I'd suspect the austrian press of being very strongly anti-war like the german. (Am I right?)
This article is well worth a read - the subsection headings say a lot:
Lesson 1: Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
Lesson 2: Piracy is progressive taxation
Lesson 3: Customers want to do the right thing, if they can. Lesson 4: Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy.
Lesson 5: File sharing networks don't threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten existing publishers Lesson 6: "Free" is eventually replaced by a higher-quality paid service Lesson 7: There's more than one way to do it.
The story about King Canute goes in two versions. The first version is the one referred to in the submission:
King Canute had very high thoughts of himself. Once he had his throne placed at the shoreline, and ordered the waves to stop. Of course they washed over his toes, humiliating him.
I like the second version better. From the linked Wikipedia article:
King Canute grew tired of flattery from his courtiers. When one such flatterer gushed that the king could even command the obedience of the sea, Canute proved him wrong by practical demonstration, his point being that even a king's powers have limits.
DISCLAIMER: I'm danish, so of course i prefer the more favourable version. Anyway, the English owe us nearly 900 years of danegeld. (If you pay up now we might even give you a discount for the very handy assistance in WWII!)
Or, if it's something I really oughta know, tell me that I'm a typical narrow-minded european who thinks crossing into the neighbouring country (which incidentally is 5 miles away) is a major accomplishment.
Method and apparatus for writing a Windows application in HTML.
So, everyone using Mac and Linux are free to use chrome?
Read the claims. Not the headline, not the abstract, not the description, THE CLAIMS! The claims and nothing else decide what the patent covers, so it's really the only thing you should read. The rest of the patent is probably designed to be worthless to competitors (while still having the patent granted) whereas the claims are drawn up to be the broadest possible.
I apologize for being a bit harsh about this, but it's quite important. It's also worth remembering that if your implementation changes one single thing in the claims you're not infringing on the patent. In fact you could probably patent the adjusted idea yourself (obvious or not).
I think currently El Gamal is regarded as slightly more secure, if only because more progress has been made with factorization (probably because its better known and easier accessible/explainable)
What is the logic here? I'd think that the more studied system would be considered most secure? Posters here seem to agree it's easy to pick an RSA key long enough to stop Eve - even when she has the spiffiest math and fastest computers. Then why not choose RSA when it's been attacked with some success but still holds up beautifully?
Hope you can clarify a bit - after all you're the Dr. rer.nat.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
it's pretty easy to find the things you can't say on slashdot - just change your preferences to give flamebait a +5 bonus.
/. it's "troll" and "flamebait". Crap-flooding aside, seasoned trolls have a fine-tuned expertise in the "unspeakable". Whether a given troll is right or (more likely) not, this article made me realize that they actually have their place within the ecosystem of ideas. Strange.
The author mentions labels such as "indecent", "improper", and "unamerican". On
Michael wrote: There's also a story on the dot.
:-)
He really should have linked to the story on dot.kde.org
"The dot" is "news for KDE-freaks - stuff that matters" so to speak. Hop on over, it's a nice place
From the article:
One thing that I haven't included in my analysis is the number of addresses of individuals as opposed to the number of addresses of non-individuals (but not limited to just the role accounts). If you have a good idea on how to tackle this problem for over 10,000,000 addresses, I would be more than grateful.
Pick, say, 1000 of the addresses at random. Then classify them manually. Unless you've got very few addresses in each class the distribution will mirror the real one closely. (You could perhaps do with just doing 100 addys manually). Just make sure the selection is truly random.
Edit the CD to include the email address of every politician the wolrd over
You don't need to. I heard from someone who had seen the inboxes of EU parliament members that they get a lot of spam, including the ugly pornographic sort.
I suppose it's the same for politicians elsewhere. It's impossible to "stay connected" in terms of having a very public addres where you may receive important mail from unknown people without getting loads of spam. The secretary may filter it out though - or SpamAssasin if they're clued.
One might think spammers would filter such "sensible" addresses from their list, but Rejo's analysis tells another story.
Patents currently work on a per-country basis. The Chinese can develop whatever they like under their own system.
Then what is Section 5 of the TRIPS agreement about?
I also claim that TRIPS has mostly been pushed through by the US (and the EU) lead by multinational corporations. For documentation you should read Drahos & Braithwaite: Information Feudalism especially chapters 7-9.
the seed is COMSTOCK.
KDE vs. Gnome (QT vs. GTK) is really about two business models competingAE:
;-)
KDE: TrollTech pays for library development, but for proprietary software it'll cost you.
Gnome: No (direct) profit from libraries, but they can be used in commercial apps freely.
Both business models make sense, but Perens has chosen his favourite. So have I - and it's KDE. No need to flame Perens for that reason though, if he wants to do something stupid it's not my problem
Could you be more specific? What exactly did they do?
Two danish companies are jointly patenting "snail mail from computer". At the click of a button the mail is printed, enveloped, stamped and sent by the mailhandling company.
I don't know much about it yet, but the article (danish, sorry) mentions a "printer driver" so it might presumably utilize the Windows printing API.
If not before, then when they've lost their case, their market and their reputation and the shareholders agree to give what's left of SCO to ESR in return for his VA Linux stock ;-)
The last Mandrake release had a bunch of bugfix updates right after the ISOs went golden requiring the users to download many megabytes of updates. Could this be a result of firing developers? Has anyone seen the lay-offs impacting quality?
I'm quite curious since I use Mdk myself.
Since when is it illegal to import a legal copy of a video from another country?
In Denmark, since december 2002. An EU directive forced through that giving or selling copyrighted works imported into the EU is illegal without the consent of the "rights holder". Several small countries including Denmark had voted against it - the danish minister claimed that it had been forced through by english publishers. Several other EU countries have implemented the directive as well. (They should have done it by Dec 2002)
This post is a troll. It should have been given away by the linux reference, but anyway:
Exporting wheat from Holland to Africa? I'd think the very densely populated Netherlands would be an importer of raw basic foodstuffs. (Not processed foods).
That aside nothing is transported by land through the Middle Eastern route described. With current politics it'd definitely not be the "cheapest". Get a clue: long haul bulk transports are done by sea. YHBT. IHBT. WHABT.
Please, can we stop calling it "nanotechnology" and start calling it what it really is?
No way!. You know, once it became a buzzword billions in research grants flowed into "nanotech". Thousands of groups in physics, chemistry and engineering slapped "nanoscience" signs on their doors and kept doing what they always did. All of these researchers would lose their jobs if they stopped uttering the N-word. How likely is that?
See it here
Wouldn't that make it pretty easy getting a verified address?
If she tells you, "The Devil can quote Scripture to his purpose," then point out that that's Shakespeare
Yes, but it's a biblical principle nonetheless - see Matthew 4,1-11
the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6"If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:
The international press (for example the press in my country, Austria) is assuming the opposite to happen.
Not so in Denmark. Everybody sees it as a good thing. Attack will probably not cease, but be a bit dampened. One expert warned though that Islamists might actually increase their attacks that will now not be seen as "pro-Saddam"
For comparison: Denmark (press included) was rather lukewarm on the whole Iraq war. Without knowing I'd suspect the austrian press of being very strongly anti-war like the german. (Am I right?)
As Tim O'Reilly puts it.
This article is well worth a read - the subsection headings say a lot:
Lesson 1: Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
Lesson 2: Piracy is progressive taxation
Lesson 3: Customers want to do the right thing, if they can.
Lesson 4: Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy.
Lesson 5: File sharing networks don't threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten existing publishers
Lesson 6: "Free" is eventually replaced by a higher-quality paid service
Lesson 7: There's more than one way to do it.
I like the second version better. From the linked Wikipedia article:
DISCLAIMER: I'm danish, so of course i prefer the more favourable version. Anyway, the English owe us nearly 900 years of danegeld. (If you pay up now we might even give you a discount for the very handy assistance in WWII!)
Or, if it's something I really oughta know, tell me that I'm a typical narrow-minded european who thinks crossing into the neighbouring country (which incidentally is 5 miles away) is a major accomplishment.
One click away
Method and apparatus for writing a Windows application in HTML.
So, everyone using Mac and Linux are free to use chrome?
Read the claims. Not the headline, not the abstract, not the description, THE CLAIMS! The claims and nothing else decide what the patent covers, so it's really the only thing you should read. The rest of the patent is probably designed to be worthless to competitors (while still having the patent granted) whereas the claims are drawn up to be the broadest possible.
I apologize for being a bit harsh about this, but it's quite important. It's also worth remembering that if your implementation changes one single thing in the claims you're not infringing on the patent. In fact you could probably patent the adjusted idea yourself (obvious or not).
after a code review by Christoph Hellwig
Incidentally, this is the Christoph Hellwig who contributed code to the kernel on Calderas behalf. His contributions may become an important point in the SCO-IBM-RedHat battle.
I think currently El Gamal is regarded as slightly more secure, if only because more progress has been made with factorization (probably because its better known and easier accessible/explainable)
:-)
What is the logic here? I'd think that the more studied system would be considered most secure? Posters here seem to agree it's easy to pick an RSA key long enough to stop Eve - even when she has the spiffiest math and fastest computers. Then why not choose RSA when it's been attacked with some success but still holds up beautifully?
Hope you can clarify a bit - after all you're the Dr. rer.nat.