My Linux box does not play well with my wireless drivers, so I find myself stuck in Linux more than I'd like. However, I hardly notice this, because most of my attention is being directed towards PuTTY, which is running SSH to my nice shiny server. I can carry on almost all my affairs with that, FireFox, Thunderbird (or sometimes, just pine), and occasionally OpenOffice. I don't know exactly what kind of work you do, but that may be enough to let you live in Windows. You could even rig up Cygwin to let you run X applications remotly- though I'd hate to think of the latency that would have (I'm fortunate enough to be really close to my server).
Netscape the company went foom I don't know. Around my area they seem to have a lot of advertisements for their internet connection service, where they seem to be competing primarily with NetZero.
While it may be corrected fairly quickly, that's little consolation to little Johnny who turned in a report on the "Holocaust hoax" because some neo-Nazi nutjob replaced the Wikipedia writeup with something that accommodated his views better.
That is the absolute least likely thing to happen. Holocaust articles, Judaism, US election/political figures, and articles about the Middle East are subject to the most scrutiny of any article type on Wikipedia. Massive vandalism of the type you indicate to fool little Johnny would be instantaneously reverted, and the user vigorously blocked without warning. Little Johnny would never have a chance to glance it.
It is the small, subtle changes to data on obscure topics which is to be feared, not a broad sweeping alterations of a major topic.
I am sorry, but you appear to be a member of the "GNAA" and it has long been decided that friends of gays should not edit Wikipedia:
Friends of gays: The last and most active group of vandals is, unfortunately, overly proud friends and acquaintances of gays and lesbians. Note that it's not gays or lesbians themselves who tend to vandalize, but rather people who know them. While being proud of one's gay acquaintances is a positive characteristic, Wikipedia is not the place to publicly announce a friend's sexual orientation or proclivities. Some examples:
"BRANDON IS GAY"
"Judy Anderson is a lesbian."
"Mr. Carpenter at Hamilton High likes to suck big wangs. Pass it on!"
Note that there are exactly zero vandalism instances that say, "I AM VERY GAY" or "I, Anita Flugelhorn, appreciate a good roll in the hay every once in a while with a member of my own sex." It can be inferred that gays and lesbians are exceptionally good Wikipedia contributors, and only their very proud but misguided acquaintances feel the need to broadcast their friends' sexual orientation.
To the anonymous coward's credit, this particular criticism isn't particularly new, though it has not been raised so visibly before. And there are already validation schemes and versioning systems being planned to prevent these issues which he has raised. They are not in place yet (the software for this has not yet been fully implemented, tested, and installed on Wikipedia proper) but they are coming.
There are mechanisms for dealing with keeping nice articles nice which are currently being explored and programmed by the MediaWiki developers and which may be enabled as early as MediaWiki v1.4 (the next planned release). The main one, currently, is an article approval mechanism whereby articles can be marked as good or bad, right or wrong, completely comprehensive or mostly sketchy, brilliant prose or the work of a talentless hack. Versioning plans are not far behind.
The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him.
That's what the Page History is for. It lists the people who have "used the facilities" before him. These names may be meaningless, but they can be investigated readily enough. The talk page may also contain notes from a debate about the article. What is truly untracable and unknowable is the authorship of J Random Webpage, which the user would presumably be using if not for Wikipedia.
As an educator, I'm sure that you've had some dealings with teaching your inmates^Wstudents (sorry) about checking the validity of an Internet source. Deal with Wikipedia the same way as the rest of the Internet. Look at the talk page and page history for signs of major dispute about the article. (Heck, look at the contributors' talk pages and see if the contributers have major problems with other people, if you want...) Check elsewhere, on the Internet and otherwise, for the same information and see if it agrees.
His whole point is that the article started off reasonably good and through haphazard editing sounds like a highschool student wrote it.
You must have have better high schools 'round your parts than we do 'round here. @&$!@*$&#&* Yankees with their high pollutin' private schools and all that.
is that it's only three (soon to be four) years old. Britannica is how old, do you say? Wikipedia says its first edition was published in 1768.
Give it some time, and in the meanwhile: don't use it as a major source. Use it as a source of convenience. Chatting in IRC about something that doesn't matter? Go look it up in Wikipedia. Starting a project and want to get an overview of a topic? Go look it up in Wikipedia, and see if it fits with what you've found elsewhere.
And people who say "don't cite it in your research paper" are missing something: research paper? You're not supposed to be citing an encyclopedia anyway.
Shouldn't this be filed under OCILA? COH could be construed as an "access provider" hosting content for its uses, and if the Marvel people find them, they should file a takedown complaint against the individual user.
A few words of reassurance. Remember, a black hole doesn't have any magical sucking power. It's just gravity. If a star collapsed into a black hole, its gravitational pull doesn't get any stronger. It's still the same mass, it's just a lot denser. Contrary to what science fiction shows will tell you, it won't start "sucking in" anything that the star it collapsed from wasn't already "sucking in".
Now consider how often you see planets and stars collide. You ever hear about it? Even when two galaxies run into each other, they tend to just fly apart into a rather incoherent mess instead of individual stars going anywhere- due to gravity, orbital mechanics, density, all that.
Remember: space is very, very, very, unimaginably big. I believe in the book Einstein's Universe (excellent explanation of relativity, including some stuff on black holes, for the nonexperts) they discussed the density of matter which would be required if the universe were to reach a steady state, not expanding or contracting, and they came up with a ballpark figure of about a baseball-size mass every cubic light year (pun optional), and went on to say that current observations of the universe indicated that this seems to be much more than actually exists.
Libertarians are all about liberty, and about getting the government out of everything. To that end, they are somewhat interested in Republican goals (theoretically, smaller government, tax cuts, less regulation stuff) but are also interested in some Democratic ones as well (positions on matters such as gay marriage).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Libertarianism is a political philosophy which advocates individual rights and a limited government. Libertarians believe that individuals should be free to do anything they want, so long as they do not infringe upon what they believe to be the equal rights of others. In this respect they agree with many other modern political ideologies. The difference arises from the definition of "rights". For libertarians, there are no material "positive rights" (such as to food, shelter, or health care), only "negative rights" (such as to not be assaulted, abused or robbed). Libertarians further believe that the only legitimate use of force, whether public or private, is to protect these rights.
If Maxis is indicative of the rest of their corporate culture, EA Games is concerned only about getting your money, and do not do any quality assurance and testing... and will only fix the most extreme of bugs. Remember SimCity 3000? It had a bug in it regarding water-deals rendering them useless. Remember SC3K Unlimited? It had the exact same bug. Seen the Sims 2? It has that nasty "jump" bug which keeps your Sims from ever talking to anyone when their memories get full. And then they have the gall on their site to blame it on the user: "you're probably either cheating or have been using the Elixir of Life too much". Yeah, really fine job there. (Apparently they're caving in to fix it because it really is debilitating and they hope to sell a few dozen expansion packs, so...)
Well, if you want to make the privacy advocates panic... The player will report back your music prefrences to Google, who will put it into your marketing profile attached to the Immortal Cookie. The OpenOffice version would be integrated with their existing desktop search. The browser would be trivially easy (rebranding Firefox is not hard) and ensure search traffic (and send them a list of every URL you visit, I'm sure =b)
Granted, I'm on gigabit Ethernet behind an OC-12, but still. I'm just disappointed that I couldn't get too much uploading action done, since it seems a bit saturated. =/
What about Worms?
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Worms! If the idea of a worm with a bazooka isn't funny enough, you can blow up the other team with a sheep or banana bomb or the Holy Hand Grenade... not to mention the insane chain-reactions where you meant to kill the other guy's worm but ended up blowing up about three or four of your own instead, and then he finishes you off with the Prod.
It's not really the same- the Virgin Birth is a traditional doctrine, endorsed by conservatives, and has been around for longer than this nation has. Psychic teleportation is New Age stuff, and the people associated with it generally take a much more liberal standpoint... and are usually a bit further away from the army.
That's an interesting lie^Wdamned lie^W^Wstatistic about the population, by the way. Was it made up on the spot like 80% of statistics are, or is there somewhere I can see it backed up?
(There are three stick figure images of a simple comuter model of a pitcher pitching with the path of the ball shown as a line.)
A commuter model? I don't know; whether you're pitching a baseball in a subway or on the freeway, it sounds a little dangerous. Someone could get hurt.
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My Linux box does not play well with my wireless drivers, so I find myself stuck in Linux more than I'd like. However, I hardly notice this, because most of my attention is being directed towards PuTTY, which is running SSH to my nice shiny server. I can carry on almost all my affairs with that, FireFox, Thunderbird (or sometimes, just pine), and occasionally OpenOffice. I don't know exactly what kind of work you do, but that may be enough to let you live in Windows. You could even rig up Cygwin to let you run X applications remotly- though I'd hate to think of the latency that would have (I'm fortunate enough to be really close to my server).
Netscape the company went foom
I don't know. Around my area they seem to have a lot of advertisements for their internet connection service, where they seem to be competing primarily with NetZero.
You need to be running them both at once, I assume? Otherwise, why not just dual-boot?
- Provide medical advice?
- Drive him to the hospital?
- Send money to pay for his treatment?
- Develop a miracle drug to cure him?
- Contribute time or money to Slackware Linux?
With TFA slashdotted, I don't know exactly what he wants. How do I know if I can help?That is the absolute least likely thing to happen. Holocaust articles, Judaism, US election/political figures, and articles about the Middle East are subject to the most scrutiny of any article type on Wikipedia. Massive vandalism of the type you indicate to fool little Johnny would be instantaneously reverted, and the user vigorously blocked without warning. Little Johnny would never have a chance to glance it.
It is the small, subtle changes to data on obscure topics which is to be feared, not a broad sweeping alterations of a major topic.
Friends of gays: The last and most active group of vandals is, unfortunately, overly proud friends and acquaintances of gays and lesbians. Note that it's not gays or lesbians themselves who tend to vandalize, but rather people who know them. While being proud of one's gay acquaintances is a positive characteristic, Wikipedia is not the place to publicly announce a friend's sexual orientation or proclivities. Some examples:
- "BRANDON IS GAY"
- "Judy Anderson is a lesbian."
- "Mr. Carpenter at Hamilton High likes to suck big wangs. Pass it on!"
Note that there are exactly zero vandalism instances that say, "I AM VERY GAY" or "I, Anita Flugelhorn, appreciate a good roll in the hay every once in a while with a member of my own sex." It can be inferred that gays and lesbians are exceptionally good Wikipedia contributors, and only their very proud but misguided acquaintances feel the need to broadcast their friends' sexual orientation.To the anonymous coward's credit, this particular criticism isn't particularly new, though it has not been raised so visibly before. And there are already validation schemes and versioning systems being planned to prevent these issues which he has raised. They are not in place yet (the software for this has not yet been fully implemented, tested, and installed on Wikipedia proper) but they are coming.
There are mechanisms for dealing with keeping nice articles nice which are currently being explored and programmed by the MediaWiki developers and which may be enabled as early as MediaWiki v1.4 (the next planned release). The main one, currently, is an article approval mechanism whereby articles can be marked as good or bad, right or wrong, completely comprehensive or mostly sketchy, brilliant prose or the work of a talentless hack. Versioning plans are not far behind.
That's what the Page History is for. It lists the people who have "used the facilities" before him. These names may be meaningless, but they can be investigated readily enough. The talk page may also contain notes from a debate about the article. What is truly untracable and unknowable is the authorship of J Random Webpage, which the user would presumably be using if not for Wikipedia.
As an educator, I'm sure that you've had some dealings with teaching your inmates^Wstudents (sorry) about checking the validity of an Internet source. Deal with Wikipedia the same way as the rest of the Internet. Look at the talk page and page history for signs of major dispute about the article. (Heck, look at the contributors' talk pages and see if the contributers have major problems with other people, if you want...) Check elsewhere, on the Internet and otherwise, for the same information and see if it agrees.
You must have have better high schools 'round your parts than we do 'round here. @&$!@*$&#&* Yankees with their high pollutin' private schools and all that.
Give it some time, and in the meanwhile: don't use it as a major source. Use it as a source of convenience. Chatting in IRC about something that doesn't matter? Go look it up in Wikipedia. Starting a project and want to get an overview of a topic? Go look it up in Wikipedia, and see if it fits with what you've found elsewhere.
And people who say "don't cite it in your research paper" are missing something: research paper? You're not supposed to be citing an encyclopedia anyway.
Shouldn't this be filed under OCILA? COH could be construed as an "access provider" hosting content for its uses, and if the Marvel people find them, they should file a takedown complaint against the individual user.
Remember, a black hole doesn't have any magical sucking power. It's just gravity. If a star collapsed into a black hole, its gravitational pull doesn't get any stronger. It's still the same mass, it's just a lot denser. Contrary to what science fiction shows will tell you, it won't start "sucking in" anything that the star it collapsed from wasn't already "sucking in".
Now consider how often you see planets and stars collide. You ever hear about it? Even when two galaxies run into each other, they tend to just fly apart into a rather incoherent mess instead of individual stars going anywhere- due to gravity, orbital mechanics, density, all that.
Remember: space is very, very, very, unimaginably big. I believe in the book Einstein's Universe (excellent explanation of relativity, including some stuff on black holes, for the nonexperts) they discussed the density of matter which would be required if the universe were to reach a steady state, not expanding or contracting, and they came up with a ballpark figure of about a baseball-size mass every cubic light year (pun optional), and went on to say that current observations of the universe indicated that this seems to be much more than actually exists.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Libertarianism is a political philosophy which advocates individual rights and a limited government. Libertarians believe that individuals should be free to do anything they want, so long as they do not infringe upon what they believe to be the equal rights of others. In this respect they agree with many other modern political ideologies. The difference arises from the definition of "rights". For libertarians, there are no material "positive rights" (such as to food, shelter, or health care), only "negative rights" (such as to not be assaulted, abused or robbed). Libertarians further believe that the only legitimate use of force, whether public or private, is to protect these rights.
Coal may be "bad", gas may be worse... but you know what's really dirty? Burning wood.
If Maxis is indicative of the rest of their corporate culture, EA Games is concerned only about getting your money, and do not do any quality assurance and testing... and will only fix the most extreme of bugs. Remember SimCity 3000? It had a bug in it regarding water-deals rendering them useless. Remember SC3K Unlimited? It had the exact same bug. Seen the Sims 2? It has that nasty "jump" bug which keeps your Sims from ever talking to anyone when their memories get full. And then they have the gall on their site to blame it on the user: "you're probably either cheating or have been using the Elixir of Life too much". Yeah, really fine job there. (Apparently they're caving in to fix it because it really is debilitating and they hope to sell a few dozen expansion packs, so...)
Well, if you want to make the privacy advocates panic... The player will report back your music prefrences to Google, who will put it into your marketing profile attached to the Immortal Cookie. The OpenOffice version would be integrated with their existing desktop search. The browser would be trivially easy (rebranding Firefox is not hard) and ensure search traffic (and send them a list of every URL you visit, I'm sure =b)
Granted, I'm on gigabit Ethernet behind an OC-12, but still. I'm just disappointed that I couldn't get too much uploading action done, since it seems a bit saturated. =/
Worms! If the idea of a worm with a bazooka isn't funny enough, you can blow up the other team with a sheep or banana bomb or the Holy Hand Grenade... not to mention the insane chain-reactions where you meant to kill the other guy's worm but ended up blowing up about three or four of your own instead, and then he finishes you off with the Prod.
Careful, you'll end up shipped to the Alpha Site like the guy in tonight's Stargate episode.
That's an interesting lie^Wdamned lie^W^Wstatistic about the population, by the way. Was it made up on the spot like 80% of statistics are, or is there somewhere I can see it backed up?
The thing is... it doesn't.
A commuter model? I don't know; whether you're pitching a baseball in a subway or on the freeway, it sounds a little dangerous. Someone could get hurt.
It does. Can someone tell me what AOT is so that I don't need to RTFA?