The reason Intel, Cisco et. al. are interested is because P2P adds value to their hardware. A large portion of Intel just exists to create neat software that require more powerful server and client hardware. So Intel may indirectly make money off P2P, just like they made money off B2C, B2B, ASP, etc - by providing the underlying infrastructure. ----
I think its great. It gives the suits some justification to throw money at technology, including geeks like you & I. Of course we all know its total BS (i.e. one of the main benefits of P2P is that it is virtually free.. how does anyone expect to make money off that??). But as long as the buzzwords attract venture capital and big IPOs, who cares? ----
This is really embarrassing... repeat posting have been happening on almost a daily basis for the past few weeks. What the hell is going on it Andover? Is it such a chore for a/. editor to actually read/. before hitting "Submit"??
Also, anyone else notice that trolling/flamebaiting has gotten really bad lately? Especially the clever AC who launching personal attacks against active posters (maybe its Signal 11...) I'd hate to adjust my threshold to +2, but it looks like there isn't much choice anymore, since moderation sure as shit doesn't seem to be making a difference.
Moderators are chosen based on karma. According to the IRC log, that's the only reason for karma. The higher your karma, the more likely you can moderate. Think about this for a moment - the people who are most likely to moderate are those who have been moderated up in the past. That means those that follow Signal 11's "groupthink" ideal are more likely to be moderated up. These people are then most likely to moderate up people who agree
I see your point here, but the flip side of the coin is that people who get moderated up consistently are clearly contributing something to slashdot. Joe Average Lurker, who read/. religiously but never posts, may be a great moderator but how is the system ever supposed to know that? Perhaps tracking how often a given user reads each page (how often they drill down into discussions, etc) would be a nice way to do this.
Personally, I think that everyone should have moderator access, all the time. Everyone can vote on a comment, and the average of all the votes becomes the score. There are enough people reading Slashdot so that the troll moderators would be filtered out.
I doubt that.. some troll(s) would just abuse the hell out of that too (how hard would it be to write a script to autmatically moderate up every post that was previously modded down?). ----
I'm glad to see Gamefan die. If Lowtax @ Something Awful is telling the truth, they screwed him out of thousands of $$$ in banner ad revenue. Its nice to see a big corporate sleaze hole get screwed in return.
If its not the FCC, its going to be someone else.
Wherever there is the potential for lots of money to be made, a big corporation (or a few big corps) will arise and try to capitalize on it. Don't fool yourself by thinking "The 'Net is different! They can never regulate that!!" History dictates that every mass communication medium (print, radio, TV...) eventually comes to be ruled by a few, powerful corporations. The Net will not be any different.... ----
I've read somewhere (not sure where, maybe TheRegister) that AMD et al are afraid to hire ex-Intel employees because of the threat of legal entanglements. Too bad, really... I'm sure Intel has some of the best chip engineers in the world, but they are being stifled by Intel's lack-luster management staff. ----
You underestimate how many fucking idiots are on the web:) The security measures I am talking about would have been almost trivial to implement (I think signal 11 provided the meat of the code right in this thread), and would protect the/. crew from (correct) accusations of lax security.
Like I said, when this type of thing happens to other major sites that don't encrypt user data, everyone is quick to say how stupid it is. ----
If any other website had there unencrypted password database stolen, everybody here would be outraged. I can recall more than one story on/. involving such elementary security mistakes. What if I used the same username/assword on every website? Now the hacker has access to my ebay, amazon, buy.com, etc accounts, all because Rob never fixed a major, 3-year-old security glitch. ----
...And have Microsoft's vast hordes of lawyers (which probably outnumber linux kernel developers) get an injunction against the entire 2.4 kernel? ----
This is not a review, its a preview. The distinction is important, because many initial revs of chipset and mobos have numerous performance and compatibility bugs. I wouldn't be suprised if memory throughput increases by 10-15% after a few "mature" revs of the BIOS and chipset. (Didn't something similar happen with the AMD750 "super-bypass" feature, as well as new BIOS revs on Via KX113 based boards?) At any rate, I'm glad to see some improvement in memory bandwidth without a disproportionate increase in cost. Running with an 11x multiplier (on Athlon 1.1ghz chips) is just way too ridiculous. ----
BTW, Netcraft shows this site as running Stronghold/3.0 Apache/1.3.12 C2NetEU/3012 (Unix) PHP/3.0.16 mod_ssl/2.6.4 OpenSSL/0.9.5a mo So, so much for Microsoft-bashing.
Don't forget, Netcraft can be thrown off by firewalls, routers, etc in the way... ----
One important feature that got left out of the article is the "Classic" mode of OSX. It basically emulates MacOS 9, and does a damn good job of it (think WINE written by Microsoft, instead of a bunch of reverse-engineering hackers). This, to me, is one of the most impressive elements of OSX. Never before has an operating system vendor so completely been able to offer full backward compatibility.
What's the point of boycotting the contest. S, somewhere, will hack SDMI (mayeb some 15-year old kid in the Netherlands), as part of the contest or just for fun/challenge. Even if SDMI revises the standard, someone will hack that too, and its DeCSS all over again. I say we should *all* try to hack SDMI, and every other fascist copy protection scheme out there. Not just so information can be free, but to show the idiots that come up with these things (and the even bigger idiots that trust them) how futile the effort is. The simple fact is, if I have data on my machine, I can do whatever I want with that data. Period. It may not be legal, it may not be easy, but there is always a way to crack copy protection, and only by continually defeat these schemes can we fight against them.
This is a link from a/. banner ad, and it redirects you to another site! Oh my god! Evil Andover is tracking my browsing!
Sorry, just feeling a bit paranoid this morning... web redirects are nothing new. They can be used for a variety of legitimate features such as load balancing, randomizing, hit tracking, etc etc. Why is it inherently evil when Microsoft does it?
Yes, but, at some point the user has to enter the card number initially. It could be that the cracker's were intercepting this stuff, before it hit the secure database server.
Forget the traditional route of submitting a bug report and waiting for Linus to accept it... instead, write a quick, half-assed article for ZDnet or Cnet about the major Linux bug/vulnerability you've found, and the resulting controversy will certainly grab the developers attention. I'm sure the now-infamous Mindcraft web benchmarks had something to do with the fact that kernel 2.4 includes a fully revamped, SMP-aware TCP/IP stack.
Seriously, though, Linux does need some sort of central bug repository, and this type of thing was recently address by ESR himself in a linux kernel mailing list post. For Linux to continue as a strong player in the Server OS market, some level of professionalism and organization must be achieved...
Not really, a DoS attack is anything that Denies Service, its just so happens that what you describe (I believe its called a smurf attack) is one common way to do that on the net.
Also, cell phones are mission critical, for some people anyway. Emergency workers (firefighters, cops, ambulance drivers, etc) are beginning to rely more & more on cell phones for communication. The fact that someone can send my phone a message that forced me to manually reset the phone is pretty pitiful. IF something like this occured in, say, Pine or Elm, its would be considered a pretty big flaw.
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hehe, good point...
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The reason Intel, Cisco et. al. are interested is because P2P adds value to their hardware. A large portion of Intel just exists to create neat software that require more powerful server and client hardware. So Intel may indirectly make money off P2P, just like they made money off B2C, B2B, ASP, etc - by providing the underlying infrastructure.
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I think its great. It gives the suits some justification to throw money at technology, including geeks like you & I. Of course we all know its total BS (i.e. one of the main benefits of P2P is that it is virtually free.. how does anyone expect to make money off that??). But as long as the buzzwords attract venture capital and big IPOs, who cares?
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I have a lot of free time :)
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This is really embarrassing... repeat posting have been happening on almost a daily basis for the past few weeks. What the hell is going on it Andover? Is it such a chore for a /. editor to actually read /. before hitting "Submit"??
Also, anyone else notice that trolling/flamebaiting has gotten really bad lately? Especially the clever AC who launching personal attacks against active posters (maybe its Signal 11...) I'd hate to adjust my threshold to +2, but it looks like there isn't much choice anymore, since moderation sure as shit doesn't seem to be making a difference.
rant mode off... for now
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Why did you post this? Are you just another stupid troll, or did you think this was actually useful?
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...that Richard Seed is never going to become extinct? Crap.
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Moderators are chosen based on karma. According to the IRC log, that's the only reason for karma. The higher your karma, the more likely you can moderate. Think about this for a moment - the people who are most likely to moderate are those who have been moderated up in the past. That means those that follow Signal 11's "groupthink" ideal are more likely to be moderated up. These people are then most likely to moderate up people who agree
/. religiously but never posts, may be a great moderator but how is the system ever supposed to know that? Perhaps tracking how often a given user reads each page (how often they drill down into discussions, etc) would be a nice way to do this.
I see your point here, but the flip side of the coin is that people who get moderated up consistently are clearly contributing something to slashdot. Joe Average Lurker, who read
Personally, I think that everyone should have moderator access, all the time. Everyone can vote on a comment, and the average of all the votes becomes the score. There are enough people reading Slashdot so that the troll moderators would be filtered out.
I doubt that.. some troll(s) would just abuse the hell out of that too (how hard would it be to write a script to autmatically moderate up every post that was previously modded down?).
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Do you really believe that? Why do you think the DMCA was passed? For the good of society?
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I'm glad to see Gamefan die. If Lowtax @ Something Awful is telling the truth, they screwed him out of thousands of $$$ in banner ad revenue. Its nice to see a big corporate sleaze hole get screwed in return.
Jeff K. Rluez!!!
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If its not the FCC, its going to be someone else.
Wherever there is the potential for lots of money to be made, a big corporation (or a few big corps) will arise and try to capitalize on it. Don't fool yourself by thinking "The 'Net is different! They can never regulate that!!" History dictates that every mass communication medium (print, radio, TV...) eventually comes to be ruled by a few, powerful corporations. The Net will not be any different....
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I've read somewhere (not sure where, maybe TheRegister) that AMD et al are afraid to hire ex-Intel employees because of the threat of legal entanglements. Too bad, really... I'm sure Intel has some of the best chip engineers in the world, but they are being stifled by Intel's lack-luster management staff.
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You underestimate how many fucking idiots are on the web :) The security measures I am talking about would have been almost trivial to implement (I think signal 11 provided the meat of the code right in this thread), and would protect the /. crew from (correct) accusations of lax security.
Like I said, when this type of thing happens to other major sites that don't encrypt user data, everyone is quick to say how stupid it is.
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If any other website had there unencrypted password database stolen, everybody here would be outraged. I can recall more than one story on /. involving such elementary security mistakes. What if I used the same username/assword on every website? Now the hacker has access to my ebay, amazon, buy.com, etc accounts, all because Rob never fixed a major, 3-year-old security glitch.
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...And have Microsoft's vast hordes of lawyers (which probably outnumber linux kernel developers) get an injunction against the entire 2.4 kernel?
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This is not a review, its a preview. The distinction is important, because many initial revs of chipset and mobos have numerous performance and compatibility bugs. I wouldn't be suprised if memory throughput increases by 10-15% after a few "mature" revs of the BIOS and chipset. (Didn't something similar happen with the AMD750 "super-bypass" feature, as well as new BIOS revs on Via KX113 based boards?) At any rate, I'm glad to see some improvement in memory bandwidth without a disproportionate increase in cost. Running with an 11x multiplier (on Athlon 1.1ghz chips) is just way too ridiculous.
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BTW, Netcraft shows this site as running Stronghold/3.0 Apache/1.3.12 C2NetEU/3012 (Unix) PHP/3.0.16 mod_ssl/2.6.4 OpenSSL/0.9.5a mo So, so much for Microsoft-bashing.
Don't forget, Netcraft can be thrown off by firewalls, routers, etc in the way...
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Check out Exadrive. They're not shipping yet (AFAIK), but its 1.8 terabytes in 3U.
One important feature that got left out of the article is the "Classic" mode of OSX. It basically emulates MacOS 9, and does a damn good job of it (think WINE written by Microsoft, instead of a bunch of reverse-engineering hackers). This, to me, is one of the most impressive elements of OSX. Never before has an operating system vendor so completely been able to offer full backward compatibility.
What's the point of boycotting the contest. S, somewhere, will hack SDMI (mayeb some 15-year old kid in the Netherlands), as part of the contest or just for fun/challenge. Even if SDMI revises the standard, someone will hack that too, and its DeCSS all over again. I say we should *all* try to hack SDMI, and every other fascist copy protection scheme out there. Not just so information can be free, but to show the idiots that come up with these things (and the even bigger idiots that trust them) how futile the effort is. The simple fact is, if I have data on my machine, I can do whatever I want with that data. Period. It may not be legal, it may not be easy, but there is always a way to crack copy protection, and only by continually defeat these schemes can we fight against them.
check this out:
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/. banner ad, and it redirects you to another site! Oh my god! Evil Andover is tracking my browsing!
http://images.slashdot.org/cgi-bin/adlog.pl?art
This is a link from a
Sorry, just feeling a bit paranoid this morning... web redirects are nothing new. They can be used for a variety of legitimate features such as load balancing, randomizing, hit tracking, etc etc. Why is it inherently evil when Microsoft does it?
Yes, but, at some point the user has to enter the card number initially. It could be that the cracker's were intercepting this stuff, before it hit the secure database server.
Forget the traditional route of submitting a bug report and waiting for Linus to accept it... instead, write a quick, half-assed article for ZDnet or Cnet about the major Linux bug/vulnerability you've found, and the resulting controversy will certainly grab the developers attention. I'm sure the now-infamous Mindcraft web benchmarks had something to do with the fact that kernel 2.4 includes a fully revamped, SMP-aware TCP/IP stack.
Seriously, though, Linux does need some sort of central bug repository, and this type of thing was recently address by ESR himself in a linux kernel mailing list post. For Linux to continue as a strong player in the Server OS market, some level of professionalism and organization must be achieved...
I think it was repealed somewhere in the DMCA....
Not really, a DoS attack is anything that Denies Service, its just so happens that what you describe (I believe its called a smurf attack) is one common way to do that on the net.
Also, cell phones are mission critical, for some people anyway. Emergency workers (firefighters, cops, ambulance drivers, etc) are beginning to rely more & more on cell phones for communication. The fact that someone can send my phone a message that forced me to manually reset the phone is pretty pitiful. IF something like this occured in, say, Pine or Elm, its would be considered a pretty big flaw.