I agree, everyone should be running antivirus software with honeypot capabilities. We could seriously impinge espionage efforts because it would be a risk to spy on someone, they'd build up an impressive set of tricks but be to concerned to use them in less than the most dire situations.
Clam AV is the only open source, honeypot enabled virus scanner I've found for windows. I'd love some links, deliverancelev4hotmailcm.
Um, where does right enter into this? So now America knows it can win any war using robotic soldiers, the only people who fight back would simply rather die than be dictated to.
Look dude, here's your solution. Get a cell phone with an unlimited data connection and tether. I'm selling them in Canada and it can work for you too.
You can get a used Android phone and put Cyanogen on it for about $130.
Latency isn't great for gaming but otherwise you can put all your bills into a single low phone bill.
If the data leaving your computer for the Internet isn't encrypted it's unprotected anyway. Even data moving around your home network should be encrypted.
Now for the bigger issue, what are the ADVANTAGES to sharing, first you get a level of indemnification against prosecution for say - file sharing or subversive communications. Second you put up a barrier against bandwidth pricing, if we're sharing bandwidth then high usage might represent families or groups of people, not necessarily super evil Internet yahoos, which isn't really fair to the telecoms but when was the last time they were fair? Finally sharing shows that there are some people who might be able to act as ISPs buying big bandwidth and distributing it if a cap ever was put in place (UBB was debated in Canada at 25GB a month).
As far as HOW to do it, it used to be somewhat painful, you couldn't keep data from trusted and public users seperate, now there are some DD-WRT/Tomato routers that can run 2 secured wireless networks at once, the 610N and the E3000. They're the same hardware, and quite expensive, but they're available if you want a "secure" and shared wireless network running easily.
Sure old slashcode. Before they broke it Slashcode rewarded successful posters, encouraged a tight knit community, did a good job of formulating the debate (full story) but didn't force it (just reading the summary. Knocked out trolls (-1) forced a decent contribution so people wouldn't join just to post on a hot button issue (+1 Karma Mod). Most important points were distributed by early users, this has the effect of insulating the community and maintaining it's original focus (news for nerds). It would be even better if we could peruse users past posts based on say Tags. If the search function worked and if they developed a system to allow new comments to be added to old discussions without breaking the thread of the original discussion.
Also the new filtering settings are more complex, I'm not sure why half the posts are shown (not score, not preference [informative, funny, etc]) now.
If you let a Slashdot argument run long enough and encouraged mods to centralize key talking points into a few posts you could get to the heart of the rhetorical debate and start correlating that with facts. (How has the Internet gone on for so long without a central factual database? It could be paid for by taking 10% of the drunken bar bets it resolves:P)
The thing to remember is that arguments are rarely binary, usually there are true and valid arguments on both sides, democracy is helpful because it breaks these down by numbers.
What I still don't understand is arguments that aren't valid, are counter factual, blatantly say they do harm to the larger group and are still supported, like Republicanism.
I'm all about the hours saved. People commuting for more than 3 hours a day are usually stuck in stop and go traffic, where they need to concentrate for 3 hours a day on a totally menial chore.
People are concerned about driver less vehicles. Largely because they just can't see how they'd be integrated with drivers.
A lot of times people are thinking about cars using GPS or other complex sensor systems that would go into an automated car and which are prone to failure, more likely will be reflective strips or other indicative marking system with a standardized driving system.
This way other drivers know where the car is going (and where it makes a decision), it can simply stop (because people know what it's trying to do and can see why it had to stop), further it'll be easy to develop these strips because they are either successful in allowing a car to follow them or they aren't.
Personally I think there should always be an option for the driver to do what they want. Obviously for trips to the cottage.Also a car is one of the most deadly tools for people. And politicians and credit card companies largely deserve being run over:).
Moderators are doing less, almost no story breaks 20 +5 comments.
We can't filter as well as we used to be able to now this?
I don't want to point out that the comments are getting worse as well, but they are, straw man arguments and people who appear to be shills for government and big business are running amok. So instead of trying to fix the place, make search better, show all of a users comments, make stories editable longer (with whatever usability tweaks are required to show what the original discussion looked like) we get new little features based on social media?
I'm involved with a site that's trying to raise their level of discourse, I'm recommending an old version of slashcode and that's sad.
Just upgraded drivers on my 4850, it can handle games at the highest resolutions my monitor supports. Or at least it could, new drivers have it crashing all the time. Had to lower settings, not good AMD not good.
Every major politic and philosophy falls to corruption at some point. Google search is no different, results have been getting worse with domain parking search engines filling results and result depth reduced. Many searches have only 6 or 7 results and some searches that should produce results not doing so.
Also Google ad-words, a traditionally good way of finding new innovative businesses has been largely bought out by the giant corporations. It was inevitable that it would fail eventually. It's failure has been different from Yahoo's in that it happened slowly. Low quality search results becoming the norm over the last few years. Google is smart enough to improve their results but it would offend their advertisers, I'm not sure Google can get out of this.
On the other hand I don't have a better option to switch to.their "moats" are brilliant, Android in particular seems to be shaping up as the premier computing platform of the coming decade (beating out the iPhone with the inclusion of keyboards for email and search).
We're seeing some of the major services on the internet, Google, Facebook, Slashdot, e-mail, IM etc. degrading. I feel this is largely because they are overly concerned with competition instead of providing users with new features and automating out existing headaches.
I use Cyanogen, a community modified Android. Best parts of both closed and open source models for security.
Oh and I put a pretty nice VOIP set up on there and sell them too!
Someone should point out that with Ethernet Over Powerlines the government could use an 800kb connection to record how long there is between each voltage draw on your PC. Or you know, run a keylogger. Open source power supplys!
Oh, also my phones use inter-operable (open source SIP clients, Nimbuzz instead of Skype) parts so you can change with no trouble (best I can do considering I can't secure the POTS).
Facepalm! Guess I told you how to make one, no reason to buy from me:P
I'm sure your install will go smooth:P
phaistoscommunications.com - 647-247-8336.
I think it's a bit different actually. IP4 can be easily eaten into IP6. If you upgrade you just have access to both. Domain names are a different animal, either you have the same domain space as everyone else or you split off.
The Ip6 address space is exponentially bigger than IPv4 (obviously) but any successful domains in a separated Internet would only have to "better"(in a capitalist sense, which assumes you can buy IPs) than one of the 2^12-1, addresses.
How often do you type IPs? Domain names get x^26 more complex with each iteration so if you have a 12 letter domain and you're moving to a 11 letter one you need to be financially more successful than 25 other companies.
This is a assuming everyone starts running little businesses all over the net of course:)
FIGHT THIS NOW AND HARD. It's not about cost savings for these companies. In 2-3 years they'll offer unlimited again for 5x the cost.
Shouldn't they be guaranteeing an improvement in ping times? How about guaranteeing a 40ms ping to anywhere. Now that they've freed up all this bandwidth! I mean they aren't saying what will be improved in ANY way by this they're just taking and saying it's for our benefit, then not telling us what the benefit is!
Already we can't review really old slashdot articles. The search implementation is shoddy and ineffective and we can't continue to post on closed discussions. It makes sense to stop allowing people to moderate older discussions but not allowing them to comment is horrible.
I know this touches upon some of the advantages of being a paid member but it really sucks that the gathering point for nerds on the internet is organized for advertisers not it's users.
The three Rs of environmentalism: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
I'm Canadian and was always taught that trips to the dump and "not letting anyone do anything for you you could do yourself" were parts of my family.
One time at my cottage I got these cross country skiis, 50 years old. But they were high end back then and damned if they weren't 100x better than my new skiis.
Computers in particular offer a lot of advantages to standing still. Open driver and codec support. Better hardware support. More developer time properly invested (rad apps!). Not paying a Microsoft tax. Customization that takes time to replicate. And from a paranoid perspective less security features (Intel Inside)(Egyptian phone and Internet systems). Software bloat. You get the idea.
I'm a bit pissed at how many people replaced Windows XP, Microsoft nailed us with DirectX 10/11 and with OpenGL closing it's doors they'll get us with Windows 8 too. Support for proprietary and closed systems. Which generate bugs/less features/more sales and "upgrades".
We need to break out of the walled garden and figure out why applications need gigs of memory, I bet a lot of those features don't have the user in mind.
The CRTC wanted to FORCE a 25 gig cap on broadband users. When the idea came under fire they "postponed" it for 2 months to avoid criticism. We should continue campaigning against it regardless because they intend to do it once we turn our backs and schedule it so it doesn't affect the next federal election.
There is no good reason for the decision to implement such a cap which makes the scary possibilities even more poignant.
Keep up to date on freedom of speech rallies in Canada and remember to vote for a party that supports net-neutrality!
Agreed, Slashdot is clearly under attack. Who mandated this? Who is responsible, who goes against the wall when the revolution comes.
HOW DO I REVERT. I could revert in version 2.0.
I feel so betrayed.
Any comment saying you can change this back in preferences seems to be a lie.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree, everyone should be running antivirus software with honeypot capabilities. We could seriously impinge espionage efforts because it would be a risk to spy on someone, they'd build up an impressive set of tricks but be to concerned to use them in less than the most dire situations.
Clam AV is the only open source, honeypot enabled virus scanner I've found for windows. I'd love some links, deliverancelev4hotmailcm.
With any authority bigger is better, so is farther away. If Jesus was around today and stubbed his toe millions of Christians would wake up instantly.
There will only be one voice operating System. Google wants to get there first.
Um, where does right enter into this? So now America knows it can win any war using robotic soldiers, the only people who fight back would simply rather die than be dictated to.
Look dude, here's your solution. Get a cell phone with an unlimited data connection and tether. I'm selling them in Canada and it can work for you too.
You can get a used Android phone and put Cyanogen on it for about $130.
Latency isn't great for gaming but otherwise you can put all your bills into a single low phone bill.
It hasn't felt like the UI is designed for usability in a long while. Now there's restrictions on posting URLs and all kinds of other crappola.
How about Slashdot admin's put Slashdot back to where it was 3 years ago and go make a "social networking site".
I'd sign up.
for a LONG LONG time.
If the data leaving your computer for the Internet isn't encrypted it's unprotected anyway. Even data moving around your home network should be encrypted.
Now for the bigger issue, what are the ADVANTAGES to sharing, first you get a level of indemnification against prosecution for say - file sharing or subversive communications. Second you put up a barrier against bandwidth pricing, if we're sharing bandwidth then high usage might represent families or groups of people, not necessarily super evil Internet yahoos, which isn't really fair to the telecoms but when was the last time they were fair? Finally sharing shows that there are some people who might be able to act as ISPs buying big bandwidth and distributing it if a cap ever was put in place (UBB was debated in Canada at 25GB a month).
As far as HOW to do it, it used to be somewhat painful, you couldn't keep data from trusted and public users seperate, now there are some DD-WRT/Tomato routers that can run 2 secured wireless networks at once, the 610N and the E3000. They're the same hardware, and quite expensive, but they're available if you want a "secure" and shared wireless network running easily.
Lol, um if your power supply is 75% efficient then to provide 75W it needs 100W, try math again.
We could have just pooled the resources to mod it and keep it upgrading.
They're not robots, but remote controlled machines.
Time for you guys to get laid. Here's the line - "When I fuck I'm not an intellectual."
Sure old slashcode. Before they broke it Slashcode rewarded successful posters, encouraged a tight knit community, did a good job of formulating the debate (full story) but didn't force it (just reading the summary. Knocked out trolls (-1) forced a decent contribution so people wouldn't join just to post on a hot button issue (+1 Karma Mod).
:P)
Most important points were distributed by early users, this has the effect of insulating the community and maintaining it's original focus (news for nerds). It would be even better if we could peruse users past posts based on say Tags. If the search function worked and if they developed a system to allow new comments to be added to old discussions without breaking the thread of the original discussion.
Also the new filtering settings are more complex, I'm not sure why half the posts are shown (not score, not preference [informative, funny, etc]) now.
If you let a Slashdot argument run long enough and encouraged mods to centralize key talking points into a few posts you could get to the heart of the rhetorical debate and start correlating that with facts. (How has the Internet gone on for so long without a central factual database? It could be paid for by taking 10% of the drunken bar bets it resolves
The thing to remember is that arguments are rarely binary, usually there are true and valid arguments on both sides, democracy is helpful because it breaks these down by numbers.
What I still don't understand is arguments that aren't valid, are counter factual, blatantly say they do harm to the larger group and are still supported, like Republicanism.
I'm all about the hours saved. People commuting for more than 3 hours a day are usually stuck in stop and go traffic, where they need to concentrate for 3 hours a day on a totally menial chore.
:).
People are concerned about driver less vehicles. Largely because they just can't see how they'd be integrated with drivers.
A lot of times people are thinking about cars using GPS or other complex sensor systems that would go into an automated car and which are prone to failure, more likely will be reflective strips or other indicative marking system with a standardized driving system.
This way other drivers know where the car is going (and where it makes a decision), it can simply stop (because people know what it's trying to do and can see why it had to stop), further it'll be easy to develop these strips because they are either successful in allowing a car to follow them or they aren't.
Personally I think there should always be an option for the driver to do what they want. Obviously for trips to the cottage.Also a car is one of the most deadly tools for people. And politicians and credit card companies largely deserve being run over
WTF is happening around here?
Moderators are doing less, almost no story breaks 20 +5 comments.
We can't filter as well as we used to be able to now this?
I don't want to point out that the comments are getting worse as well, but they are, straw man arguments and people who appear to be shills for government and big business are running amok. So instead of trying to fix the place, make search better, show all of a users comments, make stories editable longer (with whatever usability tweaks are required to show what the original discussion looked like) we get new little features based on social media?
I'm involved with a site that's trying to raise their level of discourse, I'm recommending an old version of slashcode and that's sad.
Just upgraded drivers on my 4850, it can handle games at the highest resolutions my monitor supports. Or at least it could, new drivers have it crashing all the time. Had to lower settings, not good AMD not good.
Every major politic and philosophy falls to corruption at some point. Google search is no different, results have been getting worse with domain parking search engines filling results and result depth reduced. Many searches have only 6 or 7 results and some searches that should produce results not doing so.
Also Google ad-words, a traditionally good way of finding new innovative businesses has been largely bought out by the giant corporations. It was inevitable that it would fail eventually. It's failure has been different from Yahoo's in that it happened slowly. Low quality search results becoming the norm over the last few years. Google is smart enough to improve their results but it would offend their advertisers, I'm not sure Google can get out of this.
On the other hand I don't have a better option to switch to.their "moats" are brilliant, Android in particular seems to be shaping up as the premier computing platform of the coming decade (beating out the iPhone with the inclusion of keyboards for email and search).
We're seeing some of the major services on the internet, Google, Facebook, Slashdot, e-mail, IM etc. degrading. I feel this is largely because they are overly concerned with competition instead of providing users with new features and automating out existing headaches.
I use Cyanogen, a community modified Android. Best parts of both closed and open source models for security.
:P :P
Oh and I put a pretty nice VOIP set up on there and sell them too!
Someone should point out that with Ethernet Over Powerlines the government could use an 800kb connection to record how long there is between each voltage draw on your PC. Or you know, run a keylogger. Open source power supplys!
Oh, also my phones use inter-operable (open source SIP clients, Nimbuzz instead of Skype) parts so you can change with no trouble (best I can do considering I can't secure the POTS).
Facepalm! Guess I told you how to make one, no reason to buy from me
I'm sure your install will go smooth
phaistoscommunications.com - 647-247-8336.
I think it's a bit different actually. IP4 can be easily eaten into IP6. If you upgrade you just have access to both. Domain names are a different animal, either you have the same domain space as everyone else or you split off.
:)
The Ip6 address space is exponentially bigger than IPv4 (obviously) but any successful domains in a separated Internet would only have to "better"(in a capitalist sense, which assumes you can buy IPs) than one of the 2^12-1, addresses.
How often do you type IPs? Domain names get x^26 more complex with each iteration so if you have a 12 letter domain and you're moving to a 11 letter one you need to be financially more successful than 25 other companies.
This is a assuming everyone starts running little businesses all over the net of course
Isn't capitalism supposed to be in support of freedom?
FIGHT THIS NOW AND HARD. It's not about cost savings for these companies. In 2-3 years they'll offer unlimited again for 5x the cost.
Shouldn't they be guaranteeing an improvement in ping times? How about guaranteeing a 40ms ping to anywhere. Now that they've freed up all this bandwidth! I mean they aren't saying what will be improved in ANY way by this they're just taking and saying it's for our benefit, then not telling us what the benefit is!
Already we can't review really old slashdot articles. The search implementation is shoddy and ineffective and we can't continue to post on closed discussions. It makes sense to stop allowing people to moderate older discussions but not allowing them to comment is horrible. I know this touches upon some of the advantages of being a paid member but it really sucks that the gathering point for nerds on the internet is organized for advertisers not it's users.
The three Rs of environmentalism: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
I'm Canadian and was always taught that trips to the dump and "not letting anyone do anything for you you could do yourself" were parts of my family.
One time at my cottage I got these cross country skiis, 50 years old. But they were high end back then and damned if they weren't 100x better than my new skiis.
Computers in particular offer a lot of advantages to standing still. Open driver and codec support. Better hardware support. More developer time properly invested (rad apps!). Not paying a Microsoft tax. Customization that takes time to replicate. And from a paranoid perspective less security features (Intel Inside)(Egyptian phone and Internet systems). Software bloat. You get the idea.
I'm a bit pissed at how many people replaced Windows XP, Microsoft nailed us with DirectX 10/11 and with OpenGL closing it's doors they'll get us with Windows 8 too. Support for proprietary and closed systems. Which generate bugs/less features/more sales and "upgrades".
We need to break out of the walled garden and figure out why applications need gigs of memory, I bet a lot of those features don't have the user in mind.
The CRTC wanted to FORCE a 25 gig cap on broadband users. When the idea came under fire they "postponed" it for 2 months to avoid criticism. We should continue campaigning against it regardless because they intend to do it once we turn our backs and schedule it so it doesn't affect the next federal election.
There is no good reason for the decision to implement such a cap which makes the scary possibilities even more poignant.
Keep up to date on freedom of speech rallies in Canada and remember to vote for a party that supports net-neutrality!
Agreed, Slashdot is clearly under attack. Who mandated this? Who is responsible, who goes against the wall when the revolution comes. HOW DO I REVERT. I could revert in version 2.0. I feel so betrayed. Any comment saying you can change this back in preferences seems to be a lie.