I caught that as well. But they said June 23rd, which I think was suppose to be July 23rd. Because they are claiming the hoax was only alive for 8 days, and that is the date it was posted here. I don't think they realize their hits came from slashdot and not JUST newsgroups. Then again, a point they might have been making is that they only posted it on a newsgroup and look how many hits they got. (Which caused someone to submit it to slashdot). Oh well, it would have been nice if they would have mentioned being posted here.
Read the very articles which you are commenting on. The problem is in how the DRAM works. DRAM must be refreshed to keep its contents. In this case, the DRAM fails if refreshed in one fashion versus another. The software patch changes the way the DRAM is refreshed so that the contents are not corrupted. That is how a software patch can fix the hardware. You do NOT lose any memory, because indiviual bits are NOT remapped.
Instead of just posting for attention, why not read the articles which are referring to first?
In college I had a roommate that always said he was going to start talking sexy to them if they were a woman. Now, he was a nice guy and couldn't bring himself to do it... Well he and I stayed up for like 2 days studing for something. (He was the brightest, but he tried hard). So it was like 10am and we had both been asleep for *maybe* 5 hours (after nearly 48 of being awake).
Phone rings, and I answer: me: "what?" [5 second pause...i knew it was coming] her: "good morning, I'm calling for...blah blah blah blah" [i let her talk for about 30 seconds... I was about to hang up and then I got an idea..] me: "wait a second...let me ask you a question about the interest rate, I'm confused. Is that okay?" her: "Sure!" me: [deep i-want-you voice]"what are you wearing?" her: "what?" me: "what are you wearning? is it pink. i like pink." her: "am I wearing anything PINK? THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS." me: "huh. geez. you could at least talk dirty to me... just like mom use to."
at that point she got all upset and hung up.
nonetheless, we got a kick out of it... reminded me of the Seinfield episode.
I don't buy this. Why? Because it doesn't make sense really. I don't think ATI is in a position where they are seriously hurt if Apple doesn't ship their card. It seems to me that Apple is shooting its own foot (in terms of performance) for going with a lesser card. So why would they do that? It seems to me, they would use the other card because its cheaper. Besides, did Jobs really lose that much thunder? I mean, if anything people were waiting to see if the stuff was real or not.... you know, maybe even made people want to hear his keynote to see what was going on.
Did you read the even read the article before posting this? When he said we are lacking resuable code he mentioned APPLICATIONS like Acrobat, Staroffice, and Netscape. Aside from the C libraries, there is *NO* re-used code between any of those applications. His example was Printing. Each application has its OWN printing system, configuration, and method of working. The sad thing is, they all pretty much do the same thing... generate a Postscript file.
He isn't talking about ls, grep, cat, cut, paste, and UTILITIES like that. He's talking full-blown applications. You know, applications...the things that people have to have to USE their computers.
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Is it possible to actually sell stuff through spam drops? Is there any evidence that anyone can actually make cash through it? It seems to me that almost all the spam I get is just offers for buying more spam lists.
I think its like the banner ad idea. Everyone knows it doesn't work, but for some reason it drives much of the Internet Economy (well the porn side of it anyway)...
Of course if you have the mentality to believe that the SPAM you are sending out is going to ACTUALLY work, then you probably don't realize how much time you are wasting.
I think the two most popular peices I get are "new mortage for your home" and "buy an email list." Neither of which seem to relate to me. (I love the mortage ones because I get them to my UNIVERSITY account.... yeah, as if I have a home to refinance anyway).
Oh well, I guess I'm just lucky I'm good at hitting D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D every morning.
Was the comment about Cease and desist orders suppose to be a joke? or serious? Because this story on themacjunkie mentions receiving one early this morning. The article it refers to has a picture (which they presume if fake) of the G4 Cube. If you check out this story it says the picture was removed because of the Apple Legal department.
Are these are serious, or is this one big joke because of what happened a week or so ago?
Doesn't it bother anyone that Earthlink is doing this because of customer disruption rather than privacy concerns?
Boy ol' boy, you've got me laughing right now. You actually think that people who are posting "Go Earthlink!!!" read the article to see what it actually says?
Don't you know that slashdot ALWAYS posts the perfect view of an article in the paragraph of the headline page? I mean, it'd be silly to waste your time to read (or even SKIM) an article to see what the author is saying, before posting something about it!
No, read the article. They aren't running it mainly because it causes service disruptions. The article also claims they are worried about privacy issues, but will work with the FBI. So that means its very likely that if the "software issues" are resolved, and Reno (who apparently is now versed in SMTP and other various related subject areas) says privacy is "ok", Earthlink WILL use the system.
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said she will review the FBI's Carnivore system for intercepting email from criminal suspects to address privacy concerns.
Boy! I hope she gets Al Gore to help her out... She'll probably need it and since he invented the internet, I'm sure he can help her understand how it works.
Actually, I don't know if this is FUD or not since I'm not sure I even understand what is or isn't... but this article is just plain dumb. Let me get this straight (the article seemed awefully short, so maybe I missed something)... Mandrake, RedHat, and SuSE are being "charged" with giving reviewers FREE software in exchange for better reviews. Huh. Those bastards.
Let's ignore for a second that you can DOWNLOAD all of the software for free. (Somehow I doubt that RedHat sends a Win2000 Server CD with every reviewer's package).
This is something that has gone on for a LONG time in every industry...the SOFTWARE industry isn't the first... Car's...there is a SHINNING example where bribes buy the awards. The companies that hand out car awards get free vacations and trips and other things like that... Of course these aren't for good reviews...its just because the reviewers are "friends" with the car company. uh huh, yeah that's it.
Further more... I think the author of this article might be mis interpreting what is going on. Perhaps reviewers are reluctant to say "oh and by the way, there is this minor issue with an applet you probably won't use" because they say in their review "Mandrake is available for free." Furthermore, it has been my experience that the major distributions are generally pretty well put together (upon release). If reviewers were ignoring HUGE problems, then I can see where this article would have some ground. (Huge problems being something like, the utility to partition the drives won't work with IDE disk drives, or installing Gnome means your mouse doesn't work).
As far as I know, the same kind of reviews happen in the Windows and Macintosh world... So why pick on Free software? Sounds to me like someone needed an article topic.......
Uh... go to Crutchfield's Website look under the Kenwood CD-In Dash Players, and look for one that is like really expensive... but says CALL for the price. I don't remember the model number, but I'm sure in the description page it says "cdr/rw mp3 player."
If you call Crutchfield, their automated system says the price is $649
"ICANN is not considering TLD proposals.... (We) are still considering the policies for considering them," Dyson said in an email message to Wired News.
As the article states, ICANN is not really accepting proposals for new TLDs. They are still developing policies for considering them. So although new TLDs like.gnu or.kids might sound like a good idea... its going to be a while before they even CONSIDER them....
Check out crutchfield... they have both of the ones from Awia and Kenwood ($299 and $649 respectivly). You can order the kenwood, but the Awia is "out of stock" (I've never seen it *in* stock)
Crutchfield has the one from Awia and the one from Kenwood. You can order the one from Kenwood (I called its $649)... the one from Awia changed from "Available in June" to "Temporarily out of stock." There sales-people are equally unhelpful as their web page about the status of it...but at $299, it sounds a little better to me than the kenwood....
The only solution is to allow all people to transmit, without censorship
It just came back to me. Back a long time ago when Mosiac was the only web browser you could get, there was a book published titled "The Internet Yellow Pages." It was pretty much Yahoo! in print. I think you can still get it, but I'm not sure if it'd be any good nowadays. Anyway, I remember reading the introduction and it had the most golden quote I've ever seen...
There is no censorship on the Internet, therefore Censor YOURSELF
Simply put, it was telling people that if they saw something they didn't like, CLOSE YOUR EYES.... but be warned that you might SEE something you don't want to... and because of THAT you should watch your children.
Of course, now the discussion is moving towards censorship and not anonymous protocols....
Just a thought - I could, of course, be completely wrong!
No you are completely right. Look at the comments above about censorship. The same idea applies here. How do HONEST (honest being a generic term here) people stay anonymous on the web, while not allowing the warez/mp3 doodz, child porn lovers, and the companies like you're talking about to enjoy the same anonymity? Sure I'd love to surf the web (even though this isn't what the protocols are for, its just an example) knowing that nobody knows who I am, but at the same time, I don't want some script kiddie cracking away at my box because he knows I'll never find him.
Well, we're not really willing to simply *trust* that the law will protect us. We want to ensure that the scumbags can never be censored. If that happens, then we find upstanding citizens can also never be censored.
I think you have a really good point here. I find myself not wanting to agree with you, because I think (and I'm sure most people do) that "scumbags" should be censored. But as you say, how can we censor them, without censoring ourselves? And if we could find a way to do so, then how do we go about determining who is a scumbag and who isn't?
this project is less than a week old and consists of some theories bandied about by a developer and he's friend
yeah, looking at the little information that is available, i'm not sure anyone should be getting too excited yet. It doesn't seem like there is anything more than some descriptions of protocols that don't really exist. Not only that, I think credibility is hurt by what "Fling is deliberately designed to protect":
Porn and the sex trade Political dissidents Unpopular opinions Free (libre) online traders answerable only to trustability guarantors Sale of government-disapproved goods Anonymous, unreported e-cash transactions Anyone whose rights are being ignored or legislated away
To me, those aren't the REAL reasons anyonmous protocols are needed. I think the first one, "Porn and Sex Trade" should worry us. Do we really need a way for people to pass around child pornography without having a way to find out who they are (so we can stop them)?
This might have just been attempt to get some attention on slashdot....
Rambus handily outperforms PC133 DIMMs, and is worth the extra expense
I think that the benchmarks make you step back and think. Do you really need to spend the money on Rambus? Think of it this way, if you were about to invest in a Rambus system just because you thought it was faster than PC133... you might be surprised to find out that whatever your application is, SDRAM performs just as good.
So, think of it in that respect, it all depends on the application and if the application warrents the cost. If your specific application won't gain anything out of it, why spend the money? On the otherhand, you might be able to rest assured that the money is well spent.......(which I know most people here won't think that way, they'll just look at the numbers, but hey that's life).
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I caught that as well. But they said June 23rd, which I think was suppose to be July 23rd. Because they are claiming the hoax was only alive for 8 days, and that is the date it was posted here. I don't think they realize their hits came from slashdot and not JUST newsgroups. Then again, a point they might have been making is that they only posted it on a newsgroup and look how many hits they got. (Which caused someone to submit it to slashdot). Oh well, it would have been nice if they would have mentioned being posted here.
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Read the very articles which you are commenting on. The problem is in how the DRAM works. DRAM must be refreshed to keep its contents. In this case, the DRAM fails if refreshed in one fashion versus another. The software patch changes the way the DRAM is refreshed so that the contents are not corrupted. That is how a software patch can fix the hardware. You do NOT lose any memory, because indiviual bits are NOT remapped.
Instead of just posting for attention, why not read the articles which are referring to first?
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In college I had a roommate that always said he was going to start talking sexy to them if they were a woman. Now, he was a nice guy and couldn't bring himself to do it... Well he and I stayed up for like 2 days studing for something. (He was the brightest, but he tried hard). So it was like 10am and we had both been asleep for *maybe* 5 hours (after nearly 48 of being awake).
Phone rings, and I answer:
me: "what?"
[5 second pause...i knew it was coming]
her: "good morning, I'm calling for...blah blah blah blah" [i let her talk for about 30 seconds... I was about to hang up and then I got an idea..]
me: "wait a second...let me ask you a question about the interest rate, I'm confused. Is that okay?"
her: "Sure!"
me: [deep i-want-you voice]"what are you wearing?"
her: "what?"
me: "what are you wearning? is it pink. i like pink."
her: "am I wearing anything PINK? THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS."
me: "huh. geez. you could at least talk dirty to me... just like mom use to."
at that point she got all upset and hung up.
nonetheless, we got a kick out of it... reminded me of the Seinfield episode.
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Some elite kid is probally going to get some free porn off using your account
Dammit. Someone else always takes the good ideas... I guess I'll just stick to the free sites.
I give whoever did it credit for creativity though...
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I don't buy this. Why? Because it doesn't make sense really. I don't think ATI is in a position where they are seriously hurt if Apple doesn't ship their card. It seems to me that Apple is shooting its own foot (in terms of performance) for going with a lesser card. So why would they do that? It seems to me, they would use the other card because its cheaper. Besides, did Jobs really lose that much thunder? I mean, if anything people were waiting to see if the stuff was real or not.... you know, maybe even made people want to hear his keynote to see what was going on.
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We've got reusable code running out our ears.
Did you read the even read the article before posting this? When he said we are lacking resuable code he mentioned APPLICATIONS like Acrobat, Staroffice, and Netscape. Aside from the C libraries, there is *NO* re-used code between any of those applications. His example was Printing. Each application has its OWN printing system, configuration, and method of working. The sad thing is, they all pretty much do the same thing... generate a Postscript file.
He isn't talking about ls, grep, cat, cut, paste, and UTILITIES like that. He's talking full-blown applications. You know, applications...the things that people have to have to USE their computers.
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Is it possible to actually sell stuff through spam drops? Is there any evidence that anyone can actually make cash through it? It seems to me that almost all the spam I get is just offers for buying more spam lists.
I think its like the banner ad idea. Everyone knows it doesn't work, but for some reason it drives much of the Internet Economy (well the porn side of it anyway)...
Of course if you have the mentality to believe that the SPAM you are sending out is going to ACTUALLY work, then you probably don't realize how much time you are wasting.
I think the two most popular peices I get are "new mortage for your home" and "buy an email list." Neither of which seem to relate to me. (I love the mortage ones because I get them to my UNIVERSITY account.... yeah, as if I have a home to refinance anyway).
Oh well, I guess I'm just lucky I'm good at hitting D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D every morning.
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Oops.
Guess I missed that yesterday...
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Was the comment about Cease and desist orders suppose to be a joke? or serious? Because this story on themacjunkie mentions receiving one early this morning. The article it refers to has a picture (which they presume if fake) of the G4 Cube. If you check out this story it says the picture was removed because of the Apple Legal department.
Are these are serious, or is this one big joke because of what happened a week or so ago?
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if your side mirrors have been replaced with LCD screens, wouldn't that make this thing illegal to drive?
No. Take the doors off a Jeep and guess where the mirrors go? In the garage with the doors.
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Consider using other operating systems, like Line or BSD.
Is this a case of a unenlighten spell checker, or is Line an operating system I've never heard of?
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Doesn't it bother anyone that Earthlink is doing this because of customer disruption rather than privacy concerns?
Boy ol' boy, you've got me laughing right now. You actually think that people who are posting "Go Earthlink!!!" read the article to see what it actually says?
Don't you know that slashdot ALWAYS posts the perfect view of an article in the paragraph of the headline page? I mean, it'd be silly to waste your time to read (or even SKIM) an article to see what the author is saying, before posting something about it!
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Wow, they have some serious balls.
No, read the article. They aren't running it mainly because it causes service disruptions. The article also claims they are worried about privacy issues, but will work with the FBI. So that means its very likely that if the "software issues" are resolved, and Reno (who apparently is now versed in SMTP and other various related subject areas) says privacy is "ok", Earthlink WILL use the system.
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U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said she will review the FBI's Carnivore system for intercepting email from criminal suspects to address privacy concerns.
Boy! I hope she gets Al Gore to help her out... She'll probably need it and since he invented the internet, I'm sure he can help her understand how it works.
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Actually, I don't know if this is FUD or not since I'm not sure I even understand what is or isn't... but this article is just plain dumb. Let me get this straight (the article seemed awefully short, so maybe I missed something)... Mandrake, RedHat, and SuSE are being "charged" with giving reviewers FREE software in exchange for better reviews. Huh. Those bastards.
Let's ignore for a second that you can DOWNLOAD all of the software for free. (Somehow I doubt that RedHat sends a Win2000 Server CD with every reviewer's package).
This is something that has gone on for a LONG time in every industry...the SOFTWARE industry isn't the first... Car's...there is a SHINNING example where bribes buy the awards. The companies that hand out car awards get free vacations and trips and other things like that... Of course these aren't for good reviews...its just because the reviewers are "friends" with the car company. uh huh, yeah that's it.
Further more... I think the author of this article might be mis interpreting what is going on. Perhaps reviewers are reluctant to say "oh and by the way, there is this minor issue with an applet you probably won't use" because they say in their review "Mandrake is available for free." Furthermore, it has been my experience that the major distributions are generally pretty well put together (upon release). If reviewers were ignoring HUGE problems, then I can see where this article would have some ground. (Huge problems being something like, the utility to partition the drives won't work with IDE disk drives, or installing Gnome means your mouse doesn't work).
As far as I know, the same kind of reviews happen in the Windows and Macintosh world... So why pick on Free software? Sounds to me like someone needed an article topic.......
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Care to offer any Kenwood hunting tips?
Uh... go to Crutchfield's Website look under the Kenwood CD-In Dash Players, and look for one that is like really expensive... but says CALL for the price. I don't remember the model number, but I'm sure in the description page it says "cdr/rw mp3 player."
If you call Crutchfield, their automated system says the price is $649
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"ICANN is not considering TLD proposals.... (We) are still considering the policies for considering them," Dyson said in an email message to Wired News.
.gnu or .kids might sound like a good idea... its going to be a while before they even CONSIDER them....
As the article states, ICANN is not really accepting proposals for new TLDs. They are still developing policies for considering them. So although new TLDs like
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Kenwood is going to run you $649, from Crutchfield.
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Check out crutchfield... they have both of the ones from Awia and Kenwood ($299 and $649 respectivly). You can order the kenwood, but the Awia is "out of stock" (I've never seen it *in* stock)
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Crutchfield has the one from Awia and the one from Kenwood. You can order the one from Kenwood (I called its $649)... the one from Awia changed from "Available in June" to "Temporarily out of stock." There sales-people are equally unhelpful as their web page about the status of it...but at $299, it sounds a little better to me than the kenwood....
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The only solution is to allow all people to transmit, without censorship
It just came back to me. Back a long time ago when Mosiac was the only web browser you could get, there was a book published titled "The Internet Yellow Pages." It was pretty much Yahoo! in print. I think you can still get it, but I'm not sure if it'd be any good nowadays. Anyway, I remember reading the introduction and it had the most golden quote I've ever seen...
There is no censorship on the Internet, therefore Censor YOURSELF
Simply put, it was telling people that if they saw something they didn't like, CLOSE YOUR EYES.... but be warned that you might SEE something you don't want to... and because of THAT you should watch your children.
Of course, now the discussion is moving towards censorship and not anonymous protocols....
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Just a thought - I could, of course, be completely wrong!
No you are completely right. Look at the comments above about censorship. The same idea applies here. How do HONEST (honest being a generic term here) people stay anonymous on the web, while not allowing the warez/mp3 doodz, child porn lovers, and the companies like you're talking about to enjoy the same anonymity? Sure I'd love to surf the web (even though this isn't what the protocols are for, its just an example) knowing that nobody knows who I am, but at the same time, I don't want some script kiddie cracking away at my box because he knows I'll never find him.
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Well, we're not really willing to simply *trust* that the law will protect us. We want to ensure that the scumbags can never be censored. If that happens, then we find upstanding citizens can also never be censored.
I think you have a really good point here. I find myself not wanting to agree with you, because I think (and I'm sure most people do) that "scumbags" should be censored. But as you say, how can we censor them, without censoring ourselves? And if we could find a way to do so, then how do we go about determining who is a scumbag and who isn't?
Like I said, Good Point.
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this project is less than a week old and consists of some theories bandied about by a developer and he's friend
yeah, looking at the little information that is available, i'm not sure anyone should be getting too excited yet. It doesn't seem like there is anything more than some descriptions of protocols that don't really exist. Not only that, I think credibility is hurt by what "Fling is deliberately designed to protect":
Porn and the sex trade
Political dissidents
Unpopular opinions
Free (libre) online traders answerable only to trustability guarantors
Sale of government-disapproved goods
Anonymous, unreported e-cash transactions
Anyone whose rights are being ignored or legislated away
To me, those aren't the REAL reasons anyonmous protocols are needed. I think the first one, "Porn and Sex Trade" should worry us. Do we really need a way for people to pass around child pornography without having a way to find out who they are (so we can stop them)?
This might have just been attempt to get some attention on slashdot....
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Rambus handily outperforms PC133 DIMMs, and is worth the extra expense
I think that the benchmarks make you step back and think. Do you really need to spend the money on Rambus? Think of it this way, if you were about to invest in a Rambus system just because you thought it was faster than PC133... you might be surprised to find out that whatever your application is, SDRAM performs just as good.
So, think of it in that respect, it all depends on the application and if the application warrents the cost. If your specific application won't gain anything out of it, why spend the money? On the otherhand, you might be able to rest assured that the money is well spent.......(which I know most people here won't think that way, they'll just look at the numbers, but hey that's life).
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