Well, I think Slashdotting as it is now, is still in the realm of:
"Sucks to be you. Your servers should have been better prepared."
If you solicit geeks to help you crash a well-loved website, then I think it enters the realm of a DoS attack. Not to mention what calls of mutiny must do to your karma.
How about you solicit geeks to write a how to on how to avoid a slashdotting with apache or something. Load-balancing sounds pretty tricky to me, but maybe I've just never tried it before.
Purpose - A project of this magnitude will undoubtedly take on new meanings and visions as hurdles are passed and obstacles are overcome, but today, the purpose of LL is to setup a wireless lan infrastructure in the homes of average people that spiderwebs and interconnects coast to coast using store bought wifi equipment and not at any point connect to the real Internet. A successful test of this experiment will be to ping remote hosts the farthest that is possible.
Why - Imagine, more privacy, free long distance, and no charge for Internet usage - that anyone can use, managed by volunteers. Can an experiment such as this shake up the telecommunication industry any more than it already is? This "Great Experiment" as a whole is not owned by any single individual or company. You own your own equipment and therefore are a part of the great link, in essence, your own ISP.
Who is the GE? - It's you, if you decide to participate. This is not a commercial venture but a venture in resourcefulness and education. By joining, there is nothing financial to gain. You are a volunteer and volunteer your own hardware and time. At the moment, there are no standards for this idea set in stone, mostly just ideas. I would like to formally request that those with networking backgrounds (ie Networks admins and engineers, etc) and/or wisp experience who are interested in getting in at the grass roots level of this project to contact me at once!
Timeline - By mid May, I would like to have hammered out a routing plan, lan ip block assignment, have a general idea about how things will be done, and have a growing population.
Requirements - May not at any point attach to the real Internet. To be part of LL, a member must abide by any rules or guidelines laid out. In order for a project of this magnatude to work, there must be standards and rules followed.
A few spurts of overvalued acquisitions does not make for a dot.renaissance.
Also, as mentioned in earlier threads on different stories, there are a few real profit-generating (though I think overvalued) companies (eBay & the like) that have a proven business model and have expressed stable, steady growth.
People will still be "eBaying", or something like it in 20 years.
People in 20 years will still go to the grocery store and not buy their groceries online. It's inefficient, and to me represents the sheer economic waste that went along with the dot.bomb.
And will anyone be paid $100/hour to make crappy webpages ever again? I don't think so.
I doubt the third world's living standards will ever come close to the first in our lifetimes. the third world is the source for most of the first world's resources and cheap labor as it is. the current economic system is 100% dependent on cheap access to oil, minerals, timber, labor and other natural resources that are in third world countries. and continued access to those resources is dependent on an uneducated citizenry both here and abroad in those countries.
It all started with Columbus; he didn't find any gold, but he got the ball rolling for cheap third world labor.
I read somewhere that the female terminator (who was supposed to be Famke Janssen) is made out of "sentient frequency matter." I guess she can just turn into energy whenever she feels like it, which would explain why she can lob energy balls.
heh, reminds me of when Street Fighter II finally got with the '90s and made Chun-Li able to throw fireballs.
I think that since there is a VC behind this venture, the writers of the book are thinking about paying for someone's education or giving them major bling bling inexchange for stock in future achievements.
What do I have to look forward to now? I'm spending years of my life going to school to make the bling bling, and now they tell me I won't be able to ride the sonic boom x2 for possibly decades? How shitty!
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I think Slashdotting as it is now, is still in the realm of:
"Sucks to be you. Your servers should have been better prepared."
If you solicit geeks to help you crash a well-loved website, then I think it enters the realm of a DoS attack. Not to mention what calls of mutiny must do to your karma.
How about you solicit geeks to write a how to on how to avoid a slashdotting with apache or something. Load-balancing sounds pretty tricky to me, but maybe I've just never tried it before.
LanLinkup - The Great Experiment
Welcome! - Here is what we are all about:
Purpose - A project of this magnitude will undoubtedly take on new meanings and visions as hurdles are passed and obstacles are overcome, but today, the purpose of LL is to setup a wireless lan infrastructure in the homes of average people that spiderwebs and interconnects coast to coast using store bought wifi equipment and not at any point connect to the real Internet. A successful test of this experiment will be to ping remote hosts the farthest that is possible.
Why - Imagine, more privacy, free long distance, and no charge for Internet usage - that anyone can use, managed by volunteers. Can an experiment such as this shake up the telecommunication industry any more than it already is? This "Great Experiment" as a whole is not owned by any single individual or company. You own your own equipment and therefore are a part of the great link, in essence, your own ISP.
Who is the GE? - It's you, if you decide to participate. This is not a commercial venture but a venture in resourcefulness and education. By joining, there is nothing financial to gain. You are a volunteer and volunteer your own hardware and time. At the moment, there are no standards for this idea set in stone, mostly just ideas. I would like to formally request that those with networking backgrounds (ie Networks admins and engineers, etc) and/or wisp experience who are interested in getting in at the grass roots level of this project to contact me at once!
Timeline - By mid May, I would like to have hammered out a routing plan, lan ip block assignment, have a general idea about how things will be done, and have a growing population.
Requirements - May not at any point attach to the real Internet. To be part of LL, a member must abide by any rules or guidelines laid out. In order for a project of this magnatude to work, there must be standards and rules followed.
Not dead yet!
Is a mad-lib with "Mr. Ellis" typed in as "person's name?"
Hey, did you see that awesome parody website? I felt like the spam i get was almost worth it.
Woohoo! I'll be able to read the paper (and then use it to wipe up) after I've pooped on microsoft!
Also, as mentioned in earlier threads on different stories, there are a few real profit-generating (though I think overvalued) companies (eBay & the like) that have a proven business model and have expressed stable, steady growth.
People will still be "eBaying", or something like it in 20 years.
People in 20 years will still go to the grocery store and not buy their groceries online. It's inefficient, and to me represents the sheer economic waste that went along with the dot.bomb.
And will anyone be paid $100/hour to make crappy webpages ever again? I don't think so.
Not when Hillary Rosen gets done with Iraq's copyright & trademark laws.
It all started with Columbus; he didn't find any gold, but he got the ball rolling for cheap third world labor.
Given the name of the place, you would think they'd done this years ago!
Stanley, Cram & Harder (Albany, OR)
They're the ones that offer lower rates to businesses that drug test.
I'd imagine super-niche products like this are tres bling bling. Anyone know?
And check my e-mail!!! Woohoo!
Yah, poot eet een mein arse.
Will women have to worry about guys with DNA-computer enhanced sperm, so unprotected sex could mutate a woman into a ninja turtle?
Will I be able to code myself urine that tastes like apple cider and poop that tastes like swiss chocolate?
I read somewhere that the female terminator (who was supposed to be Famke Janssen) is made out of "sentient frequency matter." I guess she can just turn into energy whenever she feels like it, which would explain why she can lob energy balls.
heh, reminds me of when Street Fighter II finally got with the '90s and made Chun-Li able to throw fireballs.
How much of you is Spider Jerusalem? What do you two have in common?
It's just a flesh wound!
Right? Pretty soon we'll all be able to go to the Netherlands for robotsex and crack! Sweet!
Those wacky dutch!
If you _know_ the site is gonna go down when the story gets posted, then it's the same as DDoS'ing, right?
Sweet. Indentured servitude. Yeesh.
What do I have to look forward to now? I'm spending years of my life going to school to make the bling bling, and now they tell me I won't be able to ride the sonic boom x2 for possibly decades? How shitty!
Information is power.
Power corrupts.
Study hard. Be evil.