Science: BASF Shows Off Some Tantalizing Nanotech Posted by timothy on Sunday January 19, @07:52PM from the tech-porn dept.
First off, your joke is barely even laughable. Secondly, it's downright innappropriate for any kids or young teenagers to be reading on a site like this.
I have filters on our home machine in the Mozilla set-up that only allow certains sites to be read by my children (we all have our own user profiles).
I have always allowed them to read the Slashdot front page and all the links that are pointed to by the stories. I've never let them read the comments.pl page because of all the sex and violence talk at the 0 and -1 levels.
But with this talk about pornography from the Slashdot editors now, I don't think I'll even let my children read your site. Sure, you may think it's innocent, but some of us are very offended by pornography in general and the connotation it gives females and the sickening thoughts it gives males about domination and bossing around women.
You should be ashamed of yourself. I ask of you to please change the department title and reconsider what you write in the future.
Thank you, -- A concerned Slashdot reader and parent
Phoenix is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Chimera, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform.
I've heard nothing but good things about it, and you could even just leave a public folder with the executable in it and let everyone browse with ease.
Nothing beats a small lightweight browser that features tabbed browsing and automatic pop-up window blocking. IE can't come close, and your employees will thank you!
There is a great PDF (HTML version) of a research paper by Jeff Kato and Ryan Zojonc on all the issues of massive multiplayer gaming systems and leagues and why/when/what security breaches have occured and could occur in the future.
Why do people attack games? - To get private info about others - They pirate a game and want to play it online - To get credit card numbers - To cheat - To delete others' characters
I work on the net code for CounterStrike and can say with 100% accuracy that any and all exploits detailed in the linked write-up no longer are valid against any newly-patched versions of CounterStrike for Windows PCs.
I'm one of the many contractors that Yahoo hires out once or twice every year to perform maintainance on their systems.
Normally it's just straightforward backups and security updates on certain network applications, but this past month we were working to actually upgrade to this most recent version of FreeBSD. It was hard enough to do since we're already converting to a PHP-based system for all the customizable Web pages, but couple that with new unforeseen FreeBSD bugs and you have a hell of a problem on your hands.
If our experience at Yahoo has been any indication, I strongly encourage any administrators out there to hold off a bit until an update to 5.0 is presented. I know we have a ton of machines and are probably more complex than most software dev houses, it sure isn't pretty to see 20% of your old data go up in smoke due to a weird package dependency conflict with certain libraries.
... occasionally the SCSI BIOS will hang because of an IRQ conflict
You see, that's the problem. People keep trying to insist on putting a SCSI card in their machines.
SCSI is obsolete. Your storage drives haven't needed to be interfaced over a 'smart controller card' since the motherboard's expansion stopped being through 8 MHz ISA slots.
Forget BSD. SCSI is indeed what is dead.
More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed each year
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More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide each year. For no reason.
Pork is an unhealthy food source. Most people who eat pork also have access to other, non-meat foods.
Pigs are some of the most intelligent beings on our planet. Why do we kill them by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of tasting their flesh?
It's now common knowledge in most academic circles that one can customize their email client to block spam via the utilization of a standard Bayesian filtering mechanism that keeps a document corpus of messages that have been marked as spam by the recipient of the emails. Any further emails received are then fed through the Bayesian filtering subroutine and marked as spam if they're tested as such.
As Paul Graham writes, "A few simple rules will take a big bite out of your incoming spam. Merely looking for the word "click" will catch 79.7% of the emails in my spam corpus, with only 1.2% false positives.
One idea that I haven't tried yet is to filter based on word pairs, or even triples, rather than individual words. This should yield a much sharper estimate of the probability. For example, in my current database, the word "offers" has a probability of.96. If you based the probabilities on word pairs, you'd end up with "special offers" and "valuable offers" having probabilities of.99 and, say, "approach offers" (as in "this approach offers") having a probability of.1 or less."
More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide each year. For no reason.
Pork is an unhealthy food source. Most people who eat pork also have access to other, non-meat foods.
Pigs are some of the most intelligent beings on our planet. Why do we kill them by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of tasting their flesh?
Now that Apple has entered the area of Unix computing, they would make an excellent customer to buy out all of Mandrake's capital such as software, hardware, office furnishings, etc.
Apple could take Mandrake's slick new graphical installer, Konqueror Web browser, and other great pieces of software made by the French developers and really make their OS X product shine.
I think this sounds pretty feasible, and could at least serve as a nice parting gift to the Mandrake creators as they enter unemployment.
It's sad things have come to this, but at least get out while you can. I admire the Mandrake folks and think they changed the Linux world, community, and followers forever.
Computing will never be the same, and we have Mandrake to thank. It's just a shame things didn't end up better.
I'm not sure if this post will end up funny, insightful, informative, or interesting, but here goes anyway.
1) The name Hillary has serious connotations to it. I immediately think of annoying, overzealous, stuck-up bitches like Ms. Clinton and Ms. Rosen.
2) Every CD-R disc that you buy is taxed and portions of the money you pay are given to the RIAA and similar organizations. So don't tax my Internet bill as well, and don't take my portable MP3 player either. Some of us actually use our own bought music to listen to.
3) With every new inane law or result of a lawsuit that I hear, I get one step closer to leaving the United States. It's becoming a bloody corporate rape scene here in the States and I for one am just about at the end of my rope.
4) Corporations should not control the government. We need to run the country, it's supposed to be our government. Let's let the citizens reign free and make America the best country it's ever been but without excessive taxation for wanting to listen to music or chat on the Intranet.
I think this is a cut and dry case of a company prematurely jumping into a matter whole, hog.
Any system or forum administrator worth his salt could easily block a range of IP addresses as well as some of the more popular proxy servers that allow deviant trolls to sneak through and continue posting.
Just look at Slashdot and Kuro5hin. Rob and Rusty both, respectfully, understand the dynamics of Web communities and know that court isn't how to solve trivial little troll problems. All you do is give a person a very friendly time out period during which they can't post and you're home free.
The problem here is not trolls or Internet arguers. The problem here is talent, and this pest control company doesn't have anyone in their IT department with half a brain.
K5 and Slash are still running strong through years of low budgets, high troll/contributor ratios, and Dot Com busts. It's not rocket scientry, folks, it's just simple, kind administration on the part of Rusty and Rob Malda.
Jon Katz, a freelance writer and dog enthusiast, was arrested and jailed with no bail for attempting to delete an old work of his that falls under the new anti-troll act.
If found guilty, his punishment could range anywhere from a fine of $500 to a sentence of 2 years of jail time during which he would be forced to read his old Slashdot articles 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday, until released.
If you're walking down 5th Avenue in Manhattan and some homeless guy is beating away at a drum and chanting "Fuck the USA. Don't bomb Iraq" you cannot sue him because it would breech the freedom of speech laws.
All people have a right to say whatever they want as long as it doesn't directly interfere with you personally. As the saying goes, one's right to swing their arms stops at the end of my nose.
In this case, he was no more troublesome than that homeless guy on the street, so if he annoys you, cover your ears so to speak.
The medium doesn't matter, it's all the same. Speech is speech, so I give a big "FUCK YOU" to all the troll haters out there.
Grow up. Courts are for real problems, not for settling your little Internet tiffs.
Court Rules Against Network Associates' Software Review Policy By Travis P. Scholtens
A New York court has ruled that Network Associates, a maker of popular antivirus and computer security software, may not require people who buy the software to get permission from the company before publishing reviews of its products.
The decision, which the company has vowed to appeal, could carry a penalty in the millions of dollars, according to Ken Dreifach, chief of the Internet bureau of the office of the New York State attorney general, Eliot Spitzer. Advertisement
Last spring, Mr. Spitzer sued Network Associates, which has its headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., asserting that the company's software included an unenforceable clause that effectively violated consumers' free speech. The clause, which appeared on software products and the company's Web site, read: "The customer will not publish reviews of this product without prior consent from Network Associates Inc."
In a decision the parties received late Thursday, Justice Marilyn Shafer of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ruled that the clause was deceptive and that it warranted a fine, which she wrote that she would determine in the future.
Mr. Dreifach said the decision had implications beyond Network Associates. "These types of clauses are not uncommon," he said. The decision "raises the issue of whether these types of clauses -- whether they restrict use, resale or the right to criticize -- are enforceable," he added.
Indeed, other software makers, including Microsoft, have been criticized by product reviewers for including prohibitions in their users' licenses.
But Mr. Dreifach said the State of New York singled out Network Associates because, he asserted, "it was the most egregious example we saw." He said that before New York pursued other cases, the attorney general would wait and see whether companies changed their policies, and whether consumers used the decision to address concerns with companies.
Kent Roberts, the general counsel for Network Associates, said last February that the company had decided to update the language on its products. At that time, he said the new language would address Network Associates' real concern, namely, that reviewers did not publish reviews of old or outdated versions of the software.
Yesterday, Mr. Roberts said the company was still in the process of changing the language. "It's a process to change the physical product," he said. "We're trying to get it done as quickly as possible."
Still, Mr. Roberts said he disagreed with the court's reasoning. He said that Network Associates had never intended to restrict speech, but wanted to make sure that reviewers did not publish misleading information about its current release of products.
"I still fail to see -- having read the opinion several times -- how we are being deceptive," he said.
The State of New York asked the court to impose a fine of 50 cents for each product sold with the license. Mr. Dreifach estimated the numbers of products to be in the millions, but said Network Associates had not complied with a request to provide the precise number sold.
Mr. Roberts said the clause had appeared on "almost all of our products," which includes three product lines with several software versions on each line. But he said he did not have an estimate of how many products had been sold with the clause.
They tried to trick thousands of members of GoDaddy hosting into signing up with their services. I'm sure they converted many of them with their convincing and official-looking mailings that indicated the account was expired, but eventually GoDaddy got enough emails from customers who weren't tricked that they notified everyone to be wary.
I don't like people/companies that play dirty.
Please take my advice
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I'm not sure if SVG sucks yet since it's incredibly new and everything, but no one I know has used it.
In theory, it is a good idea, but it is only "widely accepted" (pronounced: "anticipated") by programmers who have been talking trash about Flash usability and want to play with vector art without losing face.
Stick to Flash until SVG picks up some steam. The World Wide Web Consortium has been very optimistic about it, promoting its native-ness in future browsers, but my money's on Flash until it gets all sorted out.
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Science: BASF Shows Off Some Tantalizing Nanotech
Posted by timothy on Sunday January 19, @07:52PM
from the tech-porn dept.
First off, your joke is barely even laughable. Secondly, it's downright innappropriate for any kids or young teenagers to be reading on a site like this.
I have filters on our home machine in the Mozilla set-up that only allow certains sites to be read by my children (we all have our own user profiles).
I have always allowed them to read the Slashdot front page and all the links that are pointed to by the stories. I've never let them read the comments.pl page because of all the sex and violence talk at the 0 and -1 levels.
But with this talk about pornography from the Slashdot editors now, I don't think I'll even let my children read your site. Sure, you may think it's innocent, but some of us are very offended by pornography in general and the connotation it gives females and the sickening thoughts it gives males about domination and bossing around women.
You should be ashamed of yourself. I ask of you to please change the department title and reconsider what you write in the future.
Thank you,
-- A concerned Slashdot reader and parent
You ripped my God damn heart out.
Bury yourselves in the Vet's rubble, please.
I would use its leaner & meaner cousin, Phoenix.
Phoenix is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Chimera, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform.
I've heard nothing but good things about it, and you could even just leave a public folder with the executable in it and let everyone browse with ease.
Nothing beats a small lightweight browser that features tabbed browsing and automatic pop-up window blocking. IE can't come close, and your employees will thank you!
Leave all the Eagles & their coaches inside the Vet
Let it all crumble to the ground
There is a great PDF (HTML version) of a research paper by Jeff Kato and Ryan Zojonc on all the issues of massive multiplayer gaming systems and leagues and why/when/what security breaches have occured and could occur in the future.
Why do people attack games?
- To get private info about others
- They pirate a game and want to play it online
- To get credit card numbers
- To cheat
- To delete others' characters
I work on the net code for CounterStrike and can say with 100% accuracy that any and all exploits detailed in the linked write-up no longer are valid against any newly-patched versions of CounterStrike for Windows PCs.
I'm one of the many contractors that Yahoo hires out once or twice every year to perform maintainance on their systems.
Normally it's just straightforward backups and security updates on certain network applications, but this past month we were working to actually upgrade to this most recent version of FreeBSD. It was hard enough to do since we're already converting to a PHP-based system for all the customizable Web pages, but couple that with new unforeseen FreeBSD bugs and you have a hell of a problem on your hands.
If our experience at Yahoo has been any indication, I strongly encourage any administrators out there to hold off a bit until an update to 5.0 is presented. I know we have a ton of machines and are probably more complex than most software dev houses, it sure isn't pretty to see 20% of your old data go up in smoke due to a weird package dependency conflict with certain libraries.
Just a heads up.
... occasionally the SCSI BIOS will hang because of an IRQ conflict
You see, that's the problem. People keep trying to insist on putting a SCSI card in their machines.
SCSI is obsolete. Your storage drives haven't needed to be interfaced over a 'smart controller card' since the motherboard's expansion stopped being through 8 MHz ISA slots.
Forget BSD. SCSI is indeed what is dead.
More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide each year. For no reason.
Pork is an unhealthy food source. Most people who eat pork also have access to other, non-meat foods.
Pigs are some of the most intelligent beings on our planet. Why do we kill them by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of tasting their flesh?
It's now common knowledge in most academic circles that one can customize their email client to block spam via the utilization of a standard Bayesian filtering mechanism that keeps a document corpus of messages that have been marked as spam by the recipient of the emails. Any further emails received are then fed through the Bayesian filtering subroutine and marked as spam if they're tested as such.
.96. If you based the probabilities on word pairs, you'd end up with "special offers" and "valuable offers" having probabilities of .99 and, say, "approach offers" (as in "this approach offers") having a probability of .1 or less."
As Paul Graham writes, "A few simple rules will take a big bite out of your incoming spam. Merely looking for the word "click" will catch 79.7% of the emails in my spam corpus, with only 1.2% false positives.
One idea that I haven't tried yet is to filter based on word pairs, or even triples, rather than individual words. This should yield a much sharper estimate of the probability. For example, in my current database, the word "offers" has a probability of
More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide each year. For no reason.
Pork is an unhealthy food source. Most people who eat pork also have access to other, non-meat foods.
Pigs are some of the most intelligent beings on our planet. Why do we kill them by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of tasting their flesh?
"We conclude that spam sucks."
;-D
Tax money well-spent
Now that Apple has entered the area of Unix computing, they would make an excellent customer to buy out all of Mandrake's capital such as software, hardware, office furnishings, etc.
Apple could take Mandrake's slick new graphical installer, Konqueror Web browser, and other great pieces of software made by the French developers and really make their OS X product shine.
I think this sounds pretty feasible, and could at least serve as a nice parting gift to the Mandrake creators as they enter unemployment.
It's sad things have come to this, but at least get out while you can. I admire the Mandrake folks and think they changed the Linux world, community, and followers forever.
Computing will never be the same, and we have Mandrake to thank. It's just a shame things didn't end up better.
Start charging money for your products!
I'm not sure if this post will end up funny, insightful, informative, or interesting, but here goes anyway.
1) The name Hillary has serious connotations to it. I immediately think of annoying, overzealous, stuck-up bitches like Ms. Clinton and Ms. Rosen.
2) Every CD-R disc that you buy is taxed and portions of the money you pay are given to the RIAA and similar organizations. So don't tax my Internet bill as well, and don't take my portable MP3 player either. Some of us actually use our own bought music to listen to.
3) With every new inane law or result of a lawsuit that I hear, I get one step closer to leaving the United States. It's becoming a bloody corporate rape scene here in the States and I for one am just about at the end of my rope.
4) Corporations should not control the government. We need to run the country, it's supposed to be our government. Let's let the citizens reign free and make America the best country it's ever been but without excessive taxation for wanting to listen to music or chat on the Intranet.
I think this is a cut and dry case of a company prematurely jumping into a matter whole, hog.
Any system or forum administrator worth his salt could easily block a range of IP addresses as well as some of the more popular proxy servers that allow deviant trolls to sneak through and continue posting.
Just look at Slashdot and Kuro5hin. Rob and Rusty both, respectfully, understand the dynamics of Web communities and know that court isn't how to solve trivial little troll problems. All you do is give a person a very friendly time out period during which they can't post and you're home free.
The problem here is not trolls or Internet arguers. The problem here is talent, and this pest control company doesn't have anyone in their IT department with half a brain.
K5 and Slash are still running strong through years of low budgets, high troll/contributor ratios, and Dot Com busts. It's not rocket scientry, folks, it's just simple, kind administration on the part of Rusty and Rob Malda.
from the not-not-this-web-site dept.
Could you please eliminate one of those extraneous nots?
Jon Katz, a freelance writer and dog enthusiast, was arrested and jailed with no bail for attempting to delete an old work of his that falls under the new anti-troll act.
If found guilty, his punishment could range anywhere from a fine of $500 to a sentence of 2 years of jail time during which he would be forced to read his old Slashdot articles 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday, until released.
If you're walking down 5th Avenue in Manhattan and some homeless guy is beating away at a drum and chanting "Fuck the USA. Don't bomb Iraq" you cannot sue him because it would breech the freedom of speech laws.
All people have a right to say whatever they want as long as it doesn't directly interfere with you personally. As the saying goes, one's right to swing their arms stops at the end of my nose.
In this case, he was no more troublesome than that homeless guy on the street, so if he annoys you, cover your ears so to speak.
The medium doesn't matter, it's all the same. Speech is speech, so I give a big "FUCK YOU" to all the troll haters out there.
Grow up. Courts are for real problems, not for settling your little Internet tiffs.
Scott "Vladinator" Lockwood has lost his court battle against the Slashdot.org Web site.
His trolls will surely be missed.
Court Rules Against Network Associates' Software Review Policy
By Travis P. Scholtens
A New York court has ruled that Network Associates, a maker of popular antivirus and computer security software, may not require people who buy the software to get permission from the company before publishing reviews of its products.
The decision, which the company has vowed to appeal, could carry a penalty in the millions of dollars, according to Ken Dreifach, chief of the Internet bureau of the office of the New York State attorney general, Eliot Spitzer.
Advertisement
Last spring, Mr. Spitzer sued Network Associates, which has its headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., asserting that the company's software included an unenforceable clause that effectively violated consumers' free speech. The clause, which appeared on software products and the company's Web site, read: "The customer will not publish reviews of this product without prior consent from Network Associates Inc."
In a decision the parties received late Thursday, Justice Marilyn Shafer of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ruled that the clause was deceptive and that it warranted a fine, which she wrote that she would determine in the future.
Mr. Dreifach said the decision had implications beyond Network Associates. "These types of clauses are not uncommon," he said. The decision "raises the issue of whether these types of clauses -- whether they restrict use, resale or the right to criticize -- are enforceable," he added.
Indeed, other software makers, including Microsoft, have been criticized by product reviewers for including prohibitions in their users' licenses.
But Mr. Dreifach said the State of New York singled out Network Associates because, he asserted, "it was the most egregious example we saw." He said that before New York pursued other cases, the attorney general would wait and see whether companies changed their policies, and whether consumers used the decision to address concerns with companies.
Kent Roberts, the general counsel for Network Associates, said last February that the company had decided to update the language on its products. At that time, he said the new language would address Network Associates' real concern, namely, that reviewers did not publish reviews of old or outdated versions of the software.
Yesterday, Mr. Roberts said the company was still in the process of changing the language. "It's a process to change the physical product," he said. "We're trying to get it done as quickly as possible."
Still, Mr. Roberts said he disagreed with the court's reasoning. He said that Network Associates had never intended to restrict speech, but wanted to make sure that reviewers did not publish misleading information about its current release of products.
"I still fail to see -- having read the opinion several times -- how we are being deceptive," he said.
The State of New York asked the court to impose a fine of 50 cents for each product sold with the license. Mr. Dreifach estimated the numbers of products to be in the millions, but said Network Associates had not complied with a request to provide the precise number sold.
Mr. Roberts said the clause had appeared on "almost all of our products," which includes three product lines with several software versions on each line. But he said he did not have an estimate of how many products had been sold with the clause.
They tried to trick thousands of members of GoDaddy hosting into signing up with their services. I'm sure they converted many of them with their convincing and official-looking mailings that indicated the account was expired, but eventually GoDaddy got enough emails from customers who weren't tricked that they notified everyone to be wary.
I don't like people/companies that play dirty.
I'm not sure if SVG sucks yet since it's incredibly new and everything, but no one I know has used it.
In theory, it is a good idea, but it is only "widely accepted" (pronounced: "anticipated") by programmers who have been talking trash about Flash usability and want to play with vector art without losing face.
Stick to Flash until SVG picks up some steam. The World Wide Web Consortium has been very optimistic about it, promoting its native-ness in future browsers, but my money's on Flash until it gets all sorted out.
And a bunch of lonely geeks are reading about getting inside something that's known for sucking really well.