[ed. note: in the following text, former TV developer Master Controll Program gives his reasons for abandoning TV]
When I stood for election to the TV core team nearly two years ago, many of you will recall that it was after a long series of debates during which I maintained that too much organisation, too many rules and too much formality would be a bad thing for the project.
Today, as I read the latest discussions on the future of the TV project, I see the same problem; a few new faces and many of the old going over the same tired arguments and suggesting variations on the same worthless schemes. Frankly I'm sick of it.
[ed. note: in the following text, former Slashdot developer Mike Hunt gives his reasons for abandoning Slashdot]
When I stood for election to the Slashdot core team nearly two years ago, many of you will recall that it was after a long series of debates during which I maintained that too much organisation, too many rules and too much formality would be a bad thing for the project.
Today, as I read the latest discussions on the future of the Slashdot project, I see the same problem; a few new faces and many of the old going over the same tired arguments and suggesting variations on the same worthless schemes. Frankly I'm sick of it.
Slashdot used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.
It's not anymore. It's about bylaws and committees and reports and milestones, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can rant the longest or shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a bloc in order to legitimise doing what they think is best. Individuals notwithstanding, the project as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics.
So I'm leaving core. I don't want to feel like I should be "doing something" about a project that has lost interest in having something done for it. I don't have the energy to fight what has clearly become a losing battle; I have a life to live and a job to keep, and I won't achieve any of the goals I personally consider worthwhile if I remain obligated to care for the project.
Discussion
I'm sure that I've offended some people already; I'm sure that by the time I'm done here, I'll have offended more. If you feel a need to play to the crowd in your replies rather than make a sincere effort to address the problems I'm discussing here, please do us the courtesy of playing your politics openly.
for anyone thinking of posting this type of post, perhaps this information would be a little more useful if you indicated the particulars of your system. the fact that this kernel "works" for a particular slashdot reader is not much to go on, by its self.
because of the huge number of electrical power lines running under 14th st., it would have been possible to protect yourself by wearing a large iron plate on your head. This would have actually caused you to levitate. the other option would have been to quickly magnetize the cab, by wrapping it with several turns of copper wire and biasing the coil using current from a nearby street lamp. too bad you did not think of that.
That's sort of what I was hoping this would be. Using FOAF, you control your own information, which is a node on a directed graph. Your FOAF file points to other FOAF files, forming a web. The only problem is that these FOAF files are just as spiderable as anything else on the WWW, so people don't generally put their email addresses in them. If you could come up with some sort of access control scheme, you'd be part-way to getting FOAF web to be a sort of distributed address book. You'd (well, not you necessarily, but someone) also have to figure out how the average user is going to host the FOAF file so that it's accessible on the internet.
Serious question. Searching the entire site, there's no explanation of how these agents are programmed, whether they use AI, or what approach to analyzing the data are used that makes these agents better.
For those of you running the SourceForge version, I HIGHLY recommend you stop
running it. Were you aware that all of your chats are logged by default? Does
it not seem odd that your ENCRYPTED application logs all of your chat in plain
text? That is NOT good. This is a change that will be added back in later as a
preference, but is disabled in the GDA version. It also has several crash
symptoms in various configurations. It also logs your downloads to your first
SHARED directory, that's not good. You can download the WASTE.exe available on
the GDA (
http://waste.globaldisarray.org) website and copy it directly over
your existing one. The libraries in use are identical.
Slashdot Mirror
oh, it's on!
jesus christ, you are an idi0t.
[ed. note: in the following text, former TV developer Master Controll Program gives his reasons for abandoning TV]
When I stood for election to the TV core team nearly two years ago, many of you will recall that it was after a long series of debates during which I maintained that too much organisation, too many rules and too much formality would be a bad thing for the project.
Today, as I read the latest discussions on the future of the TV project, I see the same problem; a few new faces and many of the old going over the same tired arguments and suggesting variations on the same worthless schemes. Frankly I'm sick of it.
TV used to be fun. ...
I'm sorry. I can't go on. It's too fuckin easy.
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[ed. note: in the following text, former Slashdot developer Mike Hunt gives his reasons for abandoning Slashdot]
When I stood for election to the Slashdot core team nearly two years ago, many of you will recall that it was after a long series of debates during which I maintained that too much organisation, too many rules and too much formality would be a bad thing for the project.
Today, as I read the latest discussions on the future of the Slashdot project, I see the same problem; a few new faces and many of the old going over the same tired arguments and suggesting variations on the same worthless schemes. Frankly I'm sick of it.
Slashdot used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.
It's not anymore. It's about bylaws and committees and reports and milestones, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can rant the longest or shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a bloc in order to legitimise doing what they think is best. Individuals notwithstanding, the project as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics.
So I'm leaving core. I don't want to feel like I should be "doing something" about a project that has lost interest in having something done for it. I don't have the energy to fight what has clearly become a losing battle; I have a life to live and a job to keep, and I won't achieve any of the goals I personally consider worthwhile if I remain obligated to care for the project.
Discussion
I'm sure that I've offended some people already; I'm sure that by the time I'm done here, I'll have offended more. If you feel a need to play to the crowd in your replies rather than make a sincere effort to address the problems I'm discussing here, please do us the courtesy of playing your politics openly.
From a technical perspective, ...
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for anyone thinking of posting this type of post, perhaps this information would be a little more useful if you indicated the particulars of your system. the fact that this kernel "works" for a particular slashdot reader is not much to go on, by its self.
obviously you have little experience.
That's sort of what I was hoping this would be. Using FOAF, you control your own information, which is a node on a directed graph. Your FOAF file points to other FOAF files, forming a web. The only problem is that these FOAF files are just as spiderable as anything else on the WWW, so people don't generally put their email addresses in them. If you could come up with some sort of access control scheme, you'd be part-way to getting FOAF web to be a sort of distributed address book. You'd (well, not you necessarily, but someone) also have to figure out how the average user is going to host the FOAF file so that it's accessible on the internet.
Anybody got a link?
typical liberal response. the interskjorsk is full of you.
yeah. fuck the end users. most of them don't really like computers anyway.
it's all about having fun.
Second, it's possible to analyze the threat and design a p2p filesharing system with security and anonymity in mind.
What about spelling? Will this subject be stressed in schools?
perhaps you should get better at giving blowjobs. then you would get paid more for it.
M.A.T.R.I.X. ('Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange'). where is the fucking R?