The slashdot effect differs from a tornado in a few subtle ways:
1) You can't see it coming (unless you pay money to be a subscriber)
2) It doesn't hurt anything, except for webservers, the occasional OC line lit up like New Year's Eve, spammers, and the odd *IAA executive.
3) A tornado doesn't typically smell like armpits, cheetos, empty 64oz soda cups, burning plastic, your parent's basement and/or too much cologne for that first date.
4) It travels at the speed of light, a lot quicker than a tornado.
5) Does not require specific atmospheric conditions to be present...just a link on the front page.
"Unfortunately, most of the available dark matter on the Earth was devoured by Dr. Emmett Brown's steam-powered time-travelling locomotive. Dr. Brown split the hoverboard Marty left behind and placed the two disks mounted to the bottom of the hoverboard against each other to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of energy needed for temporal displacement," Dr. Susskind said as he finished an equaition on the room's chalkboard.
"...the reaction allowed time travel to occur, but the cast iron structure of the locomotive devoured all the dark matter it came into contact with. Fortunately, recent satellite data has told us that dark matter springs back to life from nowhere, violating the laws of conservation and maintaing the equilibrium that prevents the universe from shooting away in all directions."
Dr. Susskind finishes by saying, "Just imagine if everyone had time-travelling locomotives! What a problem that would be!"
Yeah, maybe now they'll have color-coded Star Trek-esque alerts for the Torino scale. I can see it now...
Yellow alert today, Torino 1. 0.0034% chance of asteroid hitting sometime in the next decade. Stay alert and watch for suspicious activity. If anyone starts looting, shoot them.
People: aaaagghh!!!
Orange alert today, Torino 1.03. 0.0040% chance of asteroid hitting sometime in the next decade. Keep your eyelids peeled and call the authorities if you see anything fall out of the sky
People: whatever...they were wrong last time..
Finally...
Red alert today. 100% chance of asteroid hitting sometime the day after tomorrow.
FYI, Mt. Megiddo really exists and more information can be found here. IIRC, I think it's the site of the final battle between good & evil when the messiah finally comes 'round in judaism.
In Oregon at least, you need to have at least $1 million in liability insurance to incorporate a company. IIRC, it's like $300/year or something that was pretty decent.
Thanks for all the ideas!!!!
*runs* to the patent office...
Yeah, I agree with you. The system is totally broken. The patent system is running on flat tyres and eventually the rims will start to grind against the pavement and shatter.
On a related note, I think the broken-ness of the patent system would be more obvious if members of the hard drive industry and other oligopolous industries didn't collude and cross-license patents with each other.
If this failure (and others) of the patent system was more apparent, then people might start to ask questions...
Man, they made me put my slackware box up in the bathroom! IN THE BATHROOM! "The basement is full" they said. I already have to sleep Harry Potter-style under the stairs! You may have to run complicated networks, but I bet your Big Iron doesn't need a freakin' de-humidifier!
This has been a joke. If it were other anything than a joke, you have laughed would have.
I think the decaying attention spans of slashdot users has to do with the rise of modern media and the fast-paced moving images in the contemporary media paradigm. Further, I think that A.D.D. is the result of HEY!!! LET'S GO SWING!!!!!!
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
it's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Hey, hey!
Twelve yards long, two lanes wide,
sixty five tons of American pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
she's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine
Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero!
After reading the article, this plan to use sun-tracking mirrors to melt salt sounds a little more complicated than this Australian plan. Not only that, but the Australian plan scores more points in the coolness department as the project intends to build the world's tallest structure -- a tower 1 kilometer high. BTW, IANAA (I am not an australian)
Well, if nanotech ever comes of age, 1,000 IPv6 devices per person on planet Earth might not be enough. Maybe we should start drafting IPv7...
Frankfurt June 5th, 2005: German nanotechnology consortium Nanowerks is pleading with the U.N. to hasten implementation of IPv7 to greatly enlarge the number of IP-enabled devices by 2060.
"1,000 devices per person sounds like a lot, but when 1,000 devices can fit into a thimble, that's not quite enough," said Dr. Smith, director of advanced research for the consortium.
IPv6 was first implemented globally in 2010, allowing for 1,000 devices per person, instead of the less than 1 device per person the 20th century design, IPv4 allowed. IPv7 would allow for a forseeably unlimited number of devices per person, roughly equal in total to the number of molecules that make up the Earth.
Typically the U.N. endorses technological evolutions, such as the adoption of IPv7. There has been some concern though, about allowing such a huge number of addresses for nanomachinery to appropriate.
"The fear is, that if there can be as many nanobots as molecules, then another Frankfurt could happen. Only this time, it wouldn't be kept in check long enough to stop it," said Sarah Gerkenholler, referring to the 2045 outbreak of virulet nanobots in Frankfurt, Germany. The outbreak was stemmed only by limitations in the IPv6 infrastruction, limiting the number of addresses the nanobots could appropriate. Without enough addresses, the nanobots only took over a square block and were destroyed immediately.
Removing the limitations of IPv6 could theoretically allow for a global outbreak of nanobots, removing any constraints to their manufacure.
When asked about a new Frankfurt incident, Dr. Smith said, "We are aware of people's concerns with removing the limitations of IPv6. We would like to take care to remind the public that no one was harmed in 2045 and the machines were put down quickly."
The U.N. is expected to endorse the changeover within the next 6 months.
Slashdot Mirror
hey, check out this Sean Conneryizer. Connery is the one, true Bond, who likes his martinish shaken, not shtirred.
Hey there brlancer-
Yeah, I was rounding:) I think the speed of electrons in copper wire is something like 0.95c. I take it you'll let me know if I'm wrong.
Thanks!
macshune
Can they recover from the slashdot effect???
The slashdot effect differs from a tornado in a few subtle ways:
1) You can't see it coming (unless you pay money to be a subscriber)
2) It doesn't hurt anything, except for webservers, the occasional OC line lit up like New Year's Eve, spammers, and the odd *IAA executive.
3) A tornado doesn't typically smell like armpits, cheetos, empty 64oz soda cups, burning plastic, your parent's basement and/or too much cologne for that first date.
4) It travels at the speed of light, a lot quicker than a tornado.
5) Does not require specific atmospheric conditions to be present...just a link on the front page.
Anything else?
He made a cool movie before he died, right?
Hey, we got the bomb now! We'll never surrender! Screw you EMI!
"Unfortunately, most of the available dark matter on the Earth was devoured by Dr. Emmett Brown's steam-powered time-travelling locomotive. Dr. Brown split the hoverboard Marty left behind and placed the two disks mounted to the bottom of the hoverboard against each other to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of energy needed for temporal displacement," Dr. Susskind said as he finished an equaition on the room's chalkboard.
"...the reaction allowed time travel to occur, but the cast iron structure of the locomotive devoured all the dark matter it came into contact with. Fortunately, recent satellite data has told us that dark matter springs back to life from nowhere, violating the laws of conservation and maintaing the equilibrium that prevents the universe from shooting away in all directions."
Dr. Susskind finishes by saying, "Just imagine if everyone had time-travelling locomotives! What a problem that would be!"
Yeah, maybe now they'll have color-coded Star Trek-esque alerts for the Torino scale. I can see it now...
Yellow alert today, Torino 1. 0.0034% chance of asteroid hitting sometime in the next decade. Stay alert and watch for suspicious activity. If anyone starts looting, shoot them.
People: aaaagghh!!!
Orange alert today, Torino 1.03. 0.0040% chance of asteroid hitting sometime in the next decade. Keep your eyelids peeled and call the authorities if you see anything fall out of the sky
People: whatever...they were wrong last time..
Finally...
Red alert today. 100% chance of asteroid hitting sometime the day after tomorrow.
People: Yeah, right...
FYI, Mt. Megiddo really exists and more information can be found here. IIRC, I think it's the site of the final battle between good & evil when the messiah finally comes 'round in judaism.
"Yes, we should steal the Burst technology and then.. .
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.
.
.
.
.
.
but that would be wrong!"
Go back to the old standby...hard-A
In Oregon at least, you need to have at least $1 million in liability insurance to incorporate a company. IIRC, it's like $300/year or something that was pretty decent.
Thanks for all the ideas!!!!
*runs* to the patent office...
Yeah, I agree with you. The system is totally broken. The patent system is running on flat tyres and eventually the rims will start to grind against the pavement and shatter.
On a related note, I think the broken-ness of the patent system would be more obvious if members of the hard drive industry and other oligopolous industries didn't collude and cross-license patents with each other.
If this failure (and others) of the patent system was more apparent, then people might start to ask questions...
SoBig!!!
Ugh...I hate this virus.
if ($PhD eq "desired"){
moveToEngland();
}
Sounds good to me! And girls with english accents too!
SCO is responsible for the other half of crappy windows code. This is why Microsoft was so eager to buy a license.
Like it would be someone else's code? C'mon people! We should know better!
Man, they made me put my slackware box up in the bathroom! IN THE BATHROOM! "The basement is full" they said. I already have to sleep Harry Potter-style under the stairs! You may have to run complicated networks, but I bet your Big Iron doesn't need a freakin' de-humidifier!
This has been a joke. If it were other anything than a joke, you have laughed would have.
I think the decaying attention spans of slashdot users has to do with the rise of modern media and the fast-paced moving images in the contemporary media paradigm. Further, I think that A.D.D. is the result of HEY!!! LET'S GO SWING!!!!!!
They give me a copy of Duke Nukem Forever to play around with.
Hey, check out I what found earlier in the day!
The Sean Conneryizer.
When am I gonna be able to purchase a Canyonero?
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down, it's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Hey, hey!
Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, sixty five tons of American pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports, unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
She blinds everybody with her super high beams, she's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine
Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero!
Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!
Linux is now a verb, not a noun!
After reading the article, this plan to use sun-tracking mirrors to melt salt sounds a little more complicated than this Australian plan. Not only that, but the Australian plan scores more points in the coolness department as the project intends to build the world's tallest structure -- a tower 1 kilometer high. BTW, IANAA (I am not an australian)
the post should read:
Frankfurt June 5th, 2050
Well, if nanotech ever comes of age, 1,000 IPv6 devices per person on planet Earth might not be enough. Maybe we should start drafting IPv7...
Frankfurt June 5th, 2005: German nanotechnology consortium Nanowerks is pleading with the U.N. to hasten implementation of IPv7 to greatly enlarge the number of IP-enabled devices by 2060.
"1,000 devices per person sounds like a lot, but when 1,000 devices can fit into a thimble, that's not quite enough," said Dr. Smith, director of advanced research for the consortium.
IPv6 was first implemented globally in 2010, allowing for 1,000 devices per person, instead of the less than 1 device per person the 20th century design, IPv4 allowed. IPv7 would allow for a forseeably unlimited number of devices per person, roughly equal in total to the number of molecules that make up the Earth.
Typically the U.N. endorses technological evolutions, such as the adoption of IPv7. There has been some concern though, about allowing such a huge number of addresses for nanomachinery to appropriate.
"The fear is, that if there can be as many nanobots as molecules, then another Frankfurt could happen. Only this time, it wouldn't be kept in check long enough to stop it," said Sarah Gerkenholler, referring to the 2045 outbreak of virulet nanobots in Frankfurt, Germany. The outbreak was stemmed only by limitations in the IPv6 infrastruction, limiting the number of addresses the nanobots could appropriate. Without enough addresses, the nanobots only took over a square block and were destroyed immediately.
Removing the limitations of IPv6 could theoretically allow for a global outbreak of nanobots, removing any constraints to their manufacure.
When asked about a new Frankfurt incident, Dr. Smith said, "We are aware of people's concerns with removing the limitations of IPv6. We would like to take care to remind the public that no one was harmed in 2045 and the machines were put down quickly."
The U.N. is expected to endorse the changeover within the next 6 months.