Leaving aside the fabricated "matter in controversy", the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, USA, does not have jurisdiction over the United Kingdom.
"Jeffrey Kosseff", jeffkosseff@news.oregonian.com, has written us a wonderful article short on facts and sadly devoid of technical information. This reminds me of one other Jeff K. I know--coincidence? Methinks not.
Eh, stop whining...that's a price reduction of 12%!
"Old price was $1,595.00
New for 2002, only $1,400.00 "
If they ever notice it's 2003, another price cut like that will bring this down to an affordable $1229--$70 less than a new iMac and infinity times more useful. Hoorah!
Rebates are actually pretty nice. I scan everything I'm about to send in, save it and any avilable contact information, and usually do OK--although I just got a November rebate last week.
One of the nice thing about rebates is they're the last Luddite remnant of marketing that simply can't survive online--cf. the CyberRebate.comfiasco. On the offline, we conscientious [poorer] people make a profit because of the lazy [richer] people, and there's nothing wrong with that. Yay.
12:11 EST, and it's dead.
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I bet the server admins were really happy about your hosting a Slashdotted site...it was kind of fun to reload the page and watch the tally jump from 9,000 to 16,000 to 36,000--kind of. I miss my rank:/
Since Brokensaint isn't a slashdot user, I guess the article author will remain anonymous. It's hard to tell whether their intentions were good or bad; I pulled down 131mb of zipped episodes (1-22, plus trailer) from http://bs.brokensaints.com/av/downloads/ just now, and so in a sense I guess that's a bit of bandwidth hurt.
It seems kind of odd that the second-to-last episode, and not any of the others (like, say, the first) would merit a Slashdotting, but really now is a good time since there's more to see--better late than never.
But if even nine other people do what I did then that's 1.31gigs of data transfer; someone's got to pay for that. With any luck there'll be a benevolent user somewhere among the mix who's willing to contribute. The benefits of willfully Slashdotting are thus mixed at best: greater exposure but probably a low click to pay ratio.
At any rate, the comic is good. Hooray for pseudo-animation.
is Google. "ethical dilemmas" technology yields some good ones, and some false positives; here's an interesting paper.
The first hit and one of my favorite questions, which I've debated to some length with friends in the past, is to what extent you can observe your workers' use of the Internet. After all, their traffic runs through your servers in a manner akin to a person shouting cell-phone conversations; but should you accept that those 8 hours a day will not all be spent filling TPS reports, or should you employ Draconian tactics to monitor users' porn-site usage?
Another interesting one, less IT-related but also interesting, is the economic issue: if the application of certain expensive technology can save human lives, should it be used, to whom should it be offered, and who should have to pay?
Perhaps one day SETI will present us with another dilemma: If you know a religion to be false, should you tell its followers? Some would say this is already an issue in the modern information-enabled world.
The correct website is http://www.iraqbodycount.net or http://www.iraqbodycount.org. When I was linked from iraqbodycount.com to the current count page, I was greeted with a notice (probably checking referrer tags) that said "WARNING: You may have been sent to this page by iraqbodycount.com, a website that is illegally masquerading as the Iraq Body Count Project for commercial gain. To visit the true Iraq Body Count site, please Follow this link to iraqbodycount.org (and.net). (And then close this window and the one that sent you here!)"
Their claim appears to be supported by fact: iraqbodycount.com brings up two pop-up windows on visit (which my hosts file blocks: both are from media.popuptraffic.com); and all of the "news" links are on www.interestalert.com, a web site which hosts free (and questionably reliable/plagiarized "news"--most of it copyright United Press International) and has banner ads. Nasty. The.net and.org versions do not suffer this same problem.
I do not think that this article means what you think it means.
This article describe the ability of a DDoS'd server to ignore the DoS'ing going on around it with a bunch of funny acronyms. It is not about a program continuing to work even after being infected by a virus, as the/. article suggests; besides, a good virus wants its host program to function mostly properly--a DDoS attack does not. The technology sounds interesting but flashy.
And the article is not terribly informative. You know something is wrong when you see "History supports Wang's view." and it gets worse from there: "SITAR's first line of defense consists of "proxy servers"...
So please read the article before you comment; the focus on redundancy instead of IDS is certainly not new--in fact, it's the more "old school" approach, unlike what the article suggests--but it's an interesting acronym-ridden approach we see here.
at least in terms of PR.
Microsoft: "Um, we don't want to fix this. But here's the kernel source, so why don't you fix it for us?"
Beady-eyed kernel hacker: "OK!"
It's not such a silly idea with a practically end-of-life'd product; bugs and exploits would get found and fixed and since Microsoft doesn't seem to want to support certain OS changes, we'd do it for them. And it would be a great PR boost. "Microsoft supports freedom to innovate!". Hm.
Slashdot just got trolled!
Wowzer. Good writing and sure to prompt plenty of 'wtf'-esque discussion.
This is one of those funny-once jokes, though. Too bad--I was just about to write up a review comparing my G3 with my PIII...
It's even better with diagrams.
(The patent application number is 20020019834--you forgot a 2 at the beginning) pretty picture version
In particular I like the diagram: START -> VIEWING A FIRST DISPLAY IN A FIRST PLATFORM OF THE MEDIA -> INITIATING A LOAD TRIGGERING EVENT -> OPENING A POST-SESSION PLATFORM IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE MEDIA -> INITIATING A VIEW TRIGGERING EVENT -> VIEWING A POST-SESSION DISPLAY IN THE POST-SESSION PLATFORM
Sheer BS, of course. I like parent's JavaScript better.
...altough your point about insurance is well-taken--still not a lot of money. Moreover, still better deals can be gotten at local retailers which intermittently have cheap-after-rebate sales; these are still far more common and far less expensive for the same size display.
As for eyes, it's already been noted that LCDs refresh more slowly than CRT screens; and despite what lackluster experience you may have had with cheap CRTs, my ~$100 17" (bought two years ago) has served me well. I hope that with invested time and resources, affordable, useful LCDs will come soon; the key to this is demonstrated profit.
Higher revenue leads to companies thinking this is a viable (desktop) technology. That will stimulate more research, more development, and more production.
And that means that one day they'll be cheap enough for me to own; a simple pricewatch check shows that I could get a 17-inch LCD monitor for $333 OR spend $329 on a 21-inch CRT monitor. Which do you think (given only $350) I'd rather do?
Also, this article makes an interesting claim that LCDs haven't done as well as they might've because "the human eye needs to see 25 frames per second to be tricked into thinking that motion is continuous, and LCD monitors have often failed to meet this specification". Um, my laptop LCD has a fixed 60Hz refresh rate. If that's what Computerworld is talking about, they're full of it.
It's the new, improved, Happy Fun Silicon Ball!
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Silicon Ball.
Discontinue use of Happy Fun Silicon Ball if any of the following occurs:
Chipping
Scratching
Spontaneous degeneration
Conversion from matter to energy (E = mc^2 = c^2 energy!)
Sudden change in mass of everything around you
Happy Fun Silicon Ball has been shipped to our troops in Kuwait and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq. Our Westernization process of SI imperialism will defeat them!
When not in use, Happy Fun Silicon Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration...
Do not taunt Happy Fun Silicon Ball.
I've played MUDs and I've talked on BBSes and I've collaborated on all sorts of projects with AIM and cellphones (anyone catch the reference to "smart mobs" in the linked BBC article?). But I can't see how this could be fun, since the individual's efforts are always subjugated to solving someone else's computer-aided puzzle. The BBC article compares this online fake problem-solving effort to EverCrack, perhaps unfairly:
Already multiplayer games such as EverQuest struggle to cope with the groups that play and the creative communal tactics used to tackle each challenge.
But really, this isn't special. It's just people seeking an outlet for their otherwise desperate life-empty frustrations; they'd be far better off contributing talent somewhereworthwhile rather than playing with someone else's hacked-together Flash animation. It's nothing to write home about--just Internet puzzles that take away your individual exploration and innovation and replace it with someone else's idea of a good time.
No offense, of course, intended to anyone who does in fact derive a good time from this kind of thing; but please remember if you're that desperate to express your smartness, there are much more productive and creative things you could be doing. Read...Write. Scram.
I didn't see where this is a full webserver. The documentation seemed to indicate that it's a TCP/IP handler.
The brief indicates that this thingamajig has an internal web server which "serves Web pages and Java applets; it doesn't mention what the server software is (possibly proprietary, so you've got to worry about security updates unless it's open-source), but it claims to have 128-bit encryption support (hm, export restrictions). Cum grano salis: only 384 kilobytes of space and a 186 processor. So as a standalone server this thing obviously won't cut it, and as to claims of stealth, as far as I can tell it requires external power input, so no matter how tiny you'd probably notice the 120V AC -> 3.3V DC power adapter). Shame, because otherwise if it had Internet access it could make a decent sized Ethernet "repeater" with all sorts of exciting implications.
Microsoft business strategy as usual. WordPerfect might pose a threat or competition or maybe Corel owns a particularly juicy software patent? (eww) -- buy them. Nothing new under the sun--business as usual--move along, nothing to see here.
You may -still- have trouble finding the press release describing their proposed business model. It's at http://www.thehonestthief.com/pressroomarticle-003.asp, and the software is ironically named "ThankYou". As far as I can tell the mechanism they outline (sketchy indeed) says that your processor power goes to research facilities who pay (perhaps with micropayments? they call it "electronic bill presentment and payment") for the processor time they use; money goes to the artists, but THT skims a graft off the top.
A whole lot of the rest of the website is amusing banter about how the Netherlands is the only place to be if you want to be free from evil courts because of the recent Kazaa ruling (cough cough Sealand cough cough), and they make the hokey assertion that "The Netherlands is viewed as the gateway to Europe. For Internet file sharing services, the Netherlands might very well prove to be the gateway to the world.". Wow--it's like a drug dealer resort, only it's actually for music trade. These people only want to license their software (like FastTrack), to be a sort of meta-Kazaa ("We have no direct ties with any particular file sharing service and it is not our goal to participate in ventures of this kind. What we can do is help you set up operations in the Netherlands fast.") Lovely.
Whoa. Umm. Is this a troll? You posted as Anonymous Coward instead of "the real Seth Finklestein" who has "uid#582901". Interestingly, however, on www.slashdot.org/~Seth%20Finkelstein (that's how the NY Times article spells Seth's last name), I notice that the real UID appears to be 90154; #582901 has the same user info (including a pointer to #90154) but less highly modded comments. Hm.
Your post has the kind of shameless self-aggrandizement we're supposed to suspect coming from Seth; this seems like too easy of a setup, too obvious a troll waiting for someone to say "shut up Seth". Anyway, it's hard for the rest of us to figure out what's going on but michael makes a decent case at www.stalkedbyseth.com, and if they keep him around they must think he's right at least a little.
Slashdot Mirror
"Temp employee" is kind of a vague term. Much of Microsoft's staff could be interpreted as being "temp employee"s.
Before I needed 2600Hz to get free phone calls--but it was integrated into my Cap'N Crunch whistle, so it was no big deal.
Now I need 2.4Ghz to get free Internet, and I can only get it integrated with a new Centrino processor. So much for 'technology for the masses'.
(In all seriousness, though, this is a kind of a wet dream for 2600NYC and anyone else who figures out how to h4xor the payphone network)
"Jeffrey Kosseff", jeffkosseff@news.oregonian.com, has written us a wonderful article short on facts and sadly devoid of technical information. This reminds me of one other Jeff K. I know--coincidence? Methinks not.
yes there really are only 10 types of people in this world, those who think in binary and those who do not... :)
What the hell? Binary thinking messed up your head, dude. That's only two!!!
"Old price was $1,595.00
If they ever notice it's 2003, another price cut like that will bring this down to an affordable $1229--$70 less than a new iMac and infinity times more useful. Hoorah!New for 2002, only $1,400.00 "
Rebates are actually pretty nice. I scan everything I'm about to send in, save it and any avilable contact information, and usually do OK--although I just got a November rebate last week.
One of the nice thing about rebates is they're the last Luddite remnant of marketing that simply can't survive online--cf. the CyberRebate.com fiasco. On the offline, we conscientious [poorer] people make a profit because of the lazy [richer] people, and there's nothing wrong with that. Yay.
12:11 EST, and it's dead.
:/
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I bet the server admins were really happy about your hosting a Slashdotted site...it was kind of fun to reload the page and watch the tally jump from 9,000 to 16,000 to 36,000--kind of. I miss my rank
Since Brokensaint isn't a slashdot user, I guess the article author will remain anonymous. It's hard to tell whether their intentions were good or bad; I pulled down 131mb of zipped episodes (1-22, plus trailer) from http://bs.brokensaints.com/av/downloads/ just now, and so in a sense I guess that's a bit of bandwidth hurt.
It seems kind of odd that the second-to-last episode, and not any of the others (like, say, the first) would merit a Slashdotting, but really now is a good time since there's more to see--better late than never.
But if even nine other people do what I did then that's 1.31gigs of data transfer; someone's got to pay for that. With any luck there'll be a benevolent user somewhere among the mix who's willing to contribute. The benefits of willfully Slashdotting are thus mixed at best: greater exposure but probably a low click to pay ratio.
At any rate, the comic is good. Hooray for pseudo-animation.
(the truth, revealed slightly below the post)
< - Fishing for Ideas
is Google. "ethical dilemmas" technology yields some good ones, and some false positives; here's an interesting paper.
The first hit and one of my favorite questions, which I've debated to some length with friends in the past, is to what extent you can observe your workers' use of the Internet. After all, their traffic runs through your servers in a manner akin to a person shouting cell-phone conversations; but should you accept that those 8 hours a day will not all be spent filling TPS reports, or should you employ Draconian tactics to monitor users' porn-site usage?
Another interesting one, less IT-related but also interesting, is the economic issue: if the application of certain expensive technology can save human lives, should it be used, to whom should it be offered, and who should have to pay?
Perhaps one day SETI will present us with another dilemma: If you know a religion to be false, should you tell its followers? Some would say this is already an issue in the modern information-enabled world.
The correct website is http://www.iraqbodycount.net or http://www.iraqbodycount.org. When I was linked from iraqbodycount.com to the current count page, I was greeted with a notice (probably checking referrer tags) that said "WARNING: You may have been sent to this page by iraqbodycount.com, a website that is illegally masquerading as the Iraq Body Count Project for commercial gain. To visit the true Iraq Body Count site, please Follow this link to iraqbodycount.org (and .net). (And then close this window and the one that sent you here!)" .net and .org versions do not suffer this same problem.
Their claim appears to be supported by fact: iraqbodycount.com brings up two pop-up windows on visit (which my hosts file blocks: both are from media.popuptraffic.com); and all of the "news" links are on www.interestalert.com, a web site which hosts free (and questionably reliable/plagiarized "news"--most of it copyright United Press International) and has banner ads. Nasty.
The
I do not think that this article means what you think it means. /. article suggests; besides, a good virus wants its host program to function mostly properly--a DDoS attack does not. The technology sounds interesting but flashy.
This article describe the ability of a DDoS'd server to ignore the DoS'ing going on around it with a bunch of funny acronyms. It is not about a program continuing to work even after being infected by a virus, as the
And the article is not terribly informative. You know something is wrong when you see "History supports Wang's view." and it gets worse from there: "SITAR's first line of defense consists of "proxy servers"...
So please read the article before you comment; the focus on redundancy instead of IDS is certainly not new--in fact, it's the more "old school" approach, unlike what the article suggests--but it's an interesting acronym-ridden approach we see here.
at least in terms of PR.
Microsoft: "Um, we don't want to fix this. But here's the kernel source, so why don't you fix it for us?"
Beady-eyed kernel hacker: "OK!"
It's not such a silly idea with a practically end-of-life'd product; bugs and exploits would get found and fixed and since Microsoft doesn't seem to want to support certain OS changes, we'd do it for them. And it would be a great PR boost. "Microsoft supports freedom to innovate!". Hm.
Slashdot just got trolled!
Wowzer. Good writing and sure to prompt plenty of 'wtf'-esque discussion.
This is one of those funny-once jokes, though. Too bad--I was just about to write up a review comparing my G3 with my PIII...
It's even better with diagrams.
(The patent application number is 20020019834--you forgot a 2 at the beginning)
pretty picture version
In particular I like the diagram: START -> VIEWING A FIRST DISPLAY IN A FIRST PLATFORM OF THE MEDIA -> INITIATING A LOAD TRIGGERING EVENT -> OPENING A POST-SESSION PLATFORM IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE MEDIA -> INITIATING A VIEW TRIGGERING EVENT -> VIEWING A POST-SESSION DISPLAY IN THE POST-SESSION PLATFORM
Sheer BS, of course. I like parent's JavaScript better.
...altough your point about insurance is well-taken--still not a lot of money. Moreover, still better deals can be gotten at local retailers which intermittently have cheap-after-rebate sales; these are still far more common and far less expensive for the same size display.
As for eyes, it's already been noted that LCDs refresh more slowly than CRT screens; and despite what lackluster experience you may have had with cheap CRTs, my ~$100 17" (bought two years ago) has served me well. I hope that with invested time and resources, affordable, useful LCDs will come soon; the key to this is demonstrated profit.
Higher revenue leads to companies thinking this is a viable (desktop) technology. That will stimulate more research, more development, and more production.
And that means that one day they'll be cheap enough for me to own; a simple pricewatch check shows that I could get a 17-inch LCD monitor for $333 OR spend $329 on a 21-inch CRT monitor. Which do you think (given only $350) I'd rather do?
Also, this article makes an interesting claim that LCDs haven't done as well as they might've because "the human eye needs to see 25 frames per second to be tricked into thinking that motion is continuous, and LCD monitors have often failed to meet this specification". Um, my laptop LCD has a fixed 60Hz refresh rate. If that's what Computerworld is talking about, they're full of it.
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Silicon Ball.
Discontinue use of Happy Fun Silicon Ball if any of the following occurs:
- Chipping
- Scratching
- Spontaneous degeneration
- Conversion from matter to energy (E = mc^2 = c^2 energy!)
- Sudden change in mass of everything around you
Happy Fun Silicon Ball has been shipped to our troops in Kuwait and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq. Our Westernization process of SI imperialism will defeat them!When not in use, Happy Fun Silicon Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration...
Do not taunt Happy Fun Silicon Ball.
Happy Fun Silicon Ball
Accept no substitutes!
I've played MUDs and I've talked on BBSes and I've collaborated on all sorts of projects with AIM and cellphones (anyone catch the reference to "smart mobs" in the linked BBC article?). But I can't see how this could be fun, since the individual's efforts are always subjugated to solving someone else's computer-aided puzzle. The BBC article compares this online fake problem-solving effort to EverCrack, perhaps unfairly:
But really, this isn't special. It's just people seeking an outlet for their otherwise desperate life-empty frustrations; they'd be far better off contributing talent somewhere worthwhile rather than playing with someone else's hacked-together Flash animation. It's nothing to write home about--just Internet puzzles that take away your individual exploration and innovation and replace it with someone else's idea of a good time.
No offense, of course, intended to anyone who does in fact derive a good time from this kind of thing; but please remember if you're that desperate to express your smartness, there are much more productive and creative things you could be doing. Read... Write. Scram.
The brief indicates that this thingamajig has an internal web server which "serves Web pages and Java applets; it doesn't mention what the server software is (possibly proprietary, so you've got to worry about security updates unless it's open-source), but it claims to have 128-bit encryption support (hm, export restrictions). Cum grano salis: only 384 kilobytes of space and a 186 processor. So as a standalone server this thing obviously won't cut it, and as to claims of stealth, as far as I can tell it requires external power input, so no matter how tiny you'd probably notice the 120V AC -> 3.3V DC power adapter). Shame, because otherwise if it had Internet access it could make a decent sized Ethernet "repeater" with all sorts of exciting implications.
Microsoft business strategy as usual. WordPerfect might pose a threat or competition or maybe Corel owns a particularly juicy software patent? (eww) -- buy them. Nothing new under the sun--business as usual--move along, nothing to see here.
You may -still- have trouble finding the press release describing their proposed business model. It's at http://www.thehonestthief.com/pressroomarticle-003 .asp, and the software is ironically named "ThankYou". As far as I can tell the mechanism they outline (sketchy indeed) says that your processor power goes to research facilities who pay (perhaps with micropayments? they call it "electronic bill presentment and payment") for the processor time they use; money goes to the artists, but THT skims a graft off the top.
A whole lot of the rest of the website is amusing banter about how the Netherlands is the only place to be if you want to be free from evil courts because of the recent Kazaa ruling (cough cough Sealand cough cough), and they make the hokey assertion that "The Netherlands is viewed as the gateway to Europe. For Internet file sharing services, the Netherlands might very well prove to be the gateway to the world. ". Wow--it's like a drug dealer resort, only it's actually for music trade. These people only want to license their software (like FastTrack), to be a sort of meta-Kazaa ("We have no direct ties with any particular file sharing service and it is not our goal to participate in ventures of this kind. What we can do is help you set up operations in the Netherlands fast.") Lovely.
Whoa. Umm. Is this a troll? You posted as Anonymous Coward instead of "the real Seth Finklestein" who has "uid#582901". Interestingly, however, on www.slashdot.org/~Seth%20Finkelstein (that's how the NY Times article spells Seth's last name), I notice that the real UID appears to be 90154; #582901 has the same user info (including a pointer to #90154) but less highly modded comments. Hm.
Your post has the kind of shameless self-aggrandizement we're supposed to suspect coming from Seth; this seems like too easy of a setup, too obvious a troll waiting for someone to say "shut up Seth". Anyway, it's hard for the rest of us to figure out what's going on but michael makes a decent case at www.stalkedbyseth.com, and if they keep him around they must think he's right at least a little.
So. Um. Mod parent troll?