The more the merrier. So now we have the Mer^H^H^HItanium, now the HP processor...
Well, best of luck geeks. Heres hoping that Linux will run on another platform soon.
On an offtopic note: I tried posting this story earlier, but/. was down (or/.ed). Rob, could you please inform us of possible downtimes before hand. Not all of us have free local calls.:(
Zip codes are designed to make life easier for the postal department. You look at the code and know which PO is being referred to. You could send a letter without zip codes, with the postal dept having to take the trouble of vgrepping a text based list.(I'm not a US resident, so I can't be sure). They could sell the information by charging for the media, but not for the information itself. But if they are putting up the data on a website, they might as well make it free. Or are they making a profit by selling public information?
There is *no* compulsory voting in India, though I do desparately long for such a system. The preferential voting system is restricted to only a few seats for reserved groups, like teachers, etc....
So now stealing becomes a capital offfence? Much as I would like to severe punishment for *crackers*, I don't think that the death penalty is going to work. And his brother was let off for turning state witness? How many years is he going to spend in prison? Capital punishment should be reserved for murder (and maybe rape) but not for simple stealing. Even Islamic law is not as bad as this. You merely lose your hand.
Actually, why don't we do something like the great renaming of 1986. Say 1st Jan 2000. IPV6 and forced change of domain names together? This should clean up a huge mess. Disclaimer, I am not familiar with the details of 1986, except what I got from the jargon file.
The child is in Thailand, not in India. So the question of breaking Indian laws does not arise, but the question is of Thai laws. Slightly offtopic, how many protests are we going to see in the US against Micro$oft for employing children and supporting child labour? This is not a troll, but a serious question. Here in India, we keep getting these reports about putting bans on imports from here because child labour is employed in their making. So now a ban on M$ or protests against them or what? I would really like to know how many people are actually going to stand up for this.
The problem is not that patents are short lived, they are too long lived. Now how about defining the time in internet years? Anybody in favour of defining the time based on the technological rate of change?
Actually just an OS which allows for monitoring of all transactions fron that machine, without user permission. Thats not a good OS, thats a bad one, since that program will by definition be a trojan..
Or they could use echelon to do such a thing maybe? Hmmm, a civilian use for echelon?
Actually just an OS which allows for monitoring of all transactions fron that machine, without user permission. Thats not a good OS, thats a bad one, since that program will by definition be a trojan.. Or they could use echelon to do such a thing maybe? Hmmm, a civilian use for echelon?
Why don't we write a EULA and post it to Corel (and any other company which wants it)?. This should clear out the boiler plate that Corel is currently using.
On topic: this is dangerous, really dangerous. How about all of us writing *polite* emails to the Australian government asking them to cancel this law, since the web is borderless. All good men must hang together or each of them will hang alone.
This is really offtopic but calling *cracking* as hacking on/. is really a courageous decision (to paraphrase Sir Humphrey Applebey).
Exactly. The commercial licence that is proposed is very similar to the SCSL. So can we term it as open source without the right to fork? But that is what SUN is claiming the SCSL is (approximately). So the third point must necessarily imply a license like the SCSL.
You forgot that the EU and the USA do *not* comprise the entire world. Asia is going to be a huge powerhouse as regards the net, not just the Pacific rim. And you know exactly what position India and China take with respect to US laws (the rest are more inclined to follow the US lead). So whether the US and the EU agree or disagree will not matter very much if around half the world's population disagrees with their views.
Speech Processing may be good enough if you only have slight variations in speech. Here in India, the speech/accent changes completely every few hundred kilometres. (Try yum-yai-yun-yai-yum-you-yum said extremely nasally as pronounciation for minimum -- I spelled it out for clarity. This is one extreme, the other being uncommunicable through written text). The pointer is good if only to overcome these variations in speech.
This sounds like a good idea. Check out www.experts-exchange.com for some ideas. Look at the concept, not the interface (I think its lousy >> No clear site map).
"Dackin, the principal here, said Mosaic's immediate virtue would be in producing detailed documentation of its evaluation of a troubled student so that doubting parents could no longer challenge an administrator's judgment as too subjective."
So all that this program is going to do is produce a lot of dead trees and label students as different. When human beings cannot be that acccurate because *we* dont know all the variables involved, a computer is going to do the judging?
The best solution will be for the parents to judge and take corrective action, not the schools.
The game would actually have been won by the world team. I don't have the exact position in front of me right now, but this is just before Kxg6: ... Nh8 (instead of queening) Now g6 Nxg6 wins Kf6 loses by a tempo.(White cannot queen because blacks queen reaches f8 first).
Quite interesting reading. So now we know that the brain improves itself. So with the proper technology applied, in some distant future, it should be possible to increase intelligence (a function of neural connections) without limit. HEADLINE: The entire human race turns geek.
This is getting more and more ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned, cookies do this anyway. All that is being added here is that the cookie has a counterpart on the server, which stores the data. This is going to be a canonical example of how *BAD* software patents really are. Lets hope that it falls in court.
This is probably offtopic, but isn't this exactly what was being done in Jurassic park? There blood from dinosaurs was used to provide DNA, here its a wooly mammoth. What the hell happens if something goes wrong? And this isn't an isolated Cuban island either.
Slashdot Mirror
The more the merrier. So now we have the Mer^H^H^HItanium, now the HP processor...
/. was down (or /.ed). Rob, could you please inform us of possible downtimes before hand. Not all of us have free local calls. :(
Well, best of luck geeks. Heres hoping that Linux will run on another platform soon.
On an offtopic note: I tried posting this story earlier, but
Zip codes are designed to make life easier for the postal department. You look at the code and know which PO is being referred to. You could send a letter without zip codes, with the postal dept having to take the trouble of vgrepping a text based list.(I'm not a US resident, so I can't be sure). They could sell the information by charging for the media, but not for the information itself. But if they are putting up the data on a website, they might as well make it free. Or are they making a profit by selling public information?
:)).
(Or is there a patent on zip codes?
Check out comment #233. It seems like you are allowed to do it.
There is *no* compulsory voting in India, though I do desparately long for such a system. The preferential voting system is restricted to only a few seats for reserved groups, like teachers, etc....
So now stealing becomes a capital offfence? Much as I would like to severe punishment for *crackers*, I don't think that the death penalty is going to work. And his brother was let off for turning state witness? How many years is he going to spend in prison? Capital punishment should be reserved for murder (and maybe rape) but not for simple stealing. Even Islamic law is not as bad as this. You merely lose your hand.
Actually, why don't we do something like the great renaming of 1986. Say 1st Jan 2000. IPV6 and forced change of domain names together?
This should clean up a huge mess.
Disclaimer, I am not familiar with the details of 1986, except what I got from the jargon file.
great hack. Now only if they made the imac affordable....
The child is in Thailand, not in India. So the question of breaking Indian laws does not arise, but the question is of Thai laws.
Slightly offtopic, how many protests are we going to see in the US against Micro$oft for employing children and supporting child labour?
This is not a troll, but a serious question. Here in India, we keep getting these reports about putting bans on imports from here because child labour is employed in their making. So now a ban on M$ or protests against them or what? I would really like to know how many people are actually going to stand up for this.
You forgot slashdot, which is more dangerous. Its a group of like minded people out to change the world by their work.
The problem is not that patents are short lived, they are too long lived.
Now how about defining the time in internet years? Anybody in favour of defining the time based on the technological rate of change?
Actually just an OS which allows for monitoring of all transactions fron that machine, without user permission. Thats not a good OS, thats a bad one, since that program will by definition be a trojan..
Or they could use echelon to do such a thing maybe? Hmmm, a civilian use for echelon?
Actually just an OS which allows for monitoring of all transactions fron that machine, without user permission. Thats not a good OS, thats a bad one, since that program will by definition be a trojan..
Or they could use echelon to do such a thing maybe? Hmmm, a civilian use for echelon?
Why don't we write a EULA and post it to Corel (and any other company which wants it)?. This should clear out the boiler plate that Corel is currently using.
On topic:
/. is really a courageous decision (to paraphrase Sir Humphrey Applebey).
this is dangerous, really dangerous. How about all of us writing *polite* emails to the Australian government asking them to cancel this law, since the web is borderless. All good men must hang together or each of them will hang alone.
This is really offtopic but calling *cracking* as hacking on
Exactly. The commercial licence that is proposed is very similar to the SCSL. So can we term it as open source without the right to fork? But that is what SUN is claiming the SCSL is (approximately).
So the third point must necessarily imply a license like the SCSL.
Doesn't the third licence sound like the SCSL?
You forgot that the EU and the USA do *not* comprise the entire world. Asia is going to be a huge powerhouse as regards the net, not just the Pacific rim. And you know exactly what position India and China take with respect to US laws (the rest are more inclined to follow the US lead). So whether the US and the EU agree or disagree will not matter very much if around half the world's population disagrees with their views.
Speech Processing may be good enough if you only have slight variations in speech. Here in India, the speech/accent changes completely every few hundred kilometres. (Try yum-yai-yun-yai-yum-you-yum said extremely nasally as pronounciation for minimum -- I spelled it out for clarity. This is one extreme, the other being uncommunicable through written text). The pointer is good if only to overcome these variations in speech.
This sounds like a good idea.
Check out www.experts-exchange.com for some ideas. Look at the concept, not the interface (I think its lousy >> No clear site map).
"Dackin, the principal here, said Mosaic's immediate virtue would be in producing detailed documentation of its evaluation of a troubled student so that doubting parents could no longer
challenge an administrator's judgment as too subjective."
So all that this program is going to do is produce a lot of dead trees and label students as different.
When human beings cannot be that acccurate because *we* dont know all the variables involved, a computer is going to do the judging?
The best solution will be for the parents to judge and take corrective action, not the schools.
The game would actually have been won by the world team.
I don't have the exact position in front of me right now, but this is just before Kxg6:
... Nh8 (instead of queening)
Now g6 Nxg6 wins
Kf6 loses by a tempo.(White cannot queen because blacks queen reaches f8 first).
Quite interesting reading.
So now we know that the brain improves itself.
So with the proper technology applied, in some distant future, it should be possible to increase intelligence (a function of neural connections) without limit.
HEADLINE: The entire human race turns geek.
Evolution anybody?
this is a link to an article at wired about jam echelon day.
This is getting more and more ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned, cookies do this anyway. All that is being added here is that the cookie has a counterpart on the server, which stores the data. This is going to be a canonical example of how *BAD* software patents really are. Lets hope that it falls in court.
This is probably offtopic, but isn't this exactly what was being done in Jurassic park? There blood from dinosaurs was used to provide DNA, here its a wooly mammoth. What the hell happens if something goes wrong? And this isn't an isolated Cuban island either.