This is really more of a touchy feel-good move than a substantive move in cutting back on the more dangerous parts of the motherboard.
This doesn't do a thing about the lethal levels of sheel negceba that go through most boards, not to mention the chemicals used in most non-paper capacitors, which are not only lethal poisons, but as tasty as anti-freeze to most animals.
Add to this the PCBs in the transformer that go with their power supply, and you've pretty much only addressed the fourth worst problem. The real problems have several orders of magnitude more impact on the environtment and worse -- solutions already exist to solve all three for prices only 5-10% higher than what they pay for existing chemicals!
If curious, most Movable Type sites (i.e. foo.com/bar) have the MT program at foo.com/bar/mt/mt.cgi -- if they've neglected to lock it down, then Melody is the default user and Nelson is the default password.
If you see a site like this, please let the person running it know before a spammer finds it, because you can use the interface panel to upload files, even cgi.:/
You can find fresh MT sites by searching Google for "powered by movable type" including the quotes, then skipping some random number of thousand hits forward.
MT3 is coming out, and it's really harshing our fun. It supports a central login server with Turing test at sign up (type the twisty word you see here), which makes crap flooding less productive. If someone floods, all current and future posts from that account can be invalidated at once.
The current Movable Type also supports plugins for local Turing tests. 99% of users don't install them because they don't know to look for them, just as over half the MT sites still have the Melody (default user) account still active or the install directory still executable because they don't read the damned instructions.
I ordered a PowerBook 1.25ghz 15" SuperDrive on Friday. I awoke this morning to see that my order had been cancled, but re added. I was pretty confused until I saw this post on slashdot, and I checked some emails, and bam! They switched my order for me! Why do I think this wouldn't have happened with a company whose name begins with M and ends with -onopoly.
They like to try and sell through all older models as much as they can. You're benefiting from their manufacturing and sales model, not from benevolence on their part.
On the flip side, when I ordered my 30g iPod, I had to wait nearly two months for it. It was shipped directly from the Chinese factory, so that they could commit all units before releasing the 40g units at the same price. The same supply model that got you your upgrade made me wait to receive my 30g while 40g were being shipped next-day from within the US. People who ordered just a couple days after me got larger units sooner.
Great. Way to give them free advertising on a very popular website. As much as Slashdot has users that for the most part hate spam, we also have trolls and people who just don't care and see this as a way to make money. I can hear them cheering right now.
Oh, tish tosh. They're now very much in the public eye because of articles like this, which means a better chance of a politician spotting them. And, being an election year, they'll be tripping over themselves to be the one to legislate this monkey into the ground.
Believe me -- they would very much have preferred to have the URL passed around by naive high-schoolers on AIM than have had it thrown so far and wide as this.
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It looks like you prepared two posts and accidentally posted both at once? There's a funny post. And there's an informative post after the 'tough guy' part
I did. It's still early here in Utah, so I'm still quite rather drunk and I botched my posting script.
Thanks for pointing this out.
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You can bet that you'll never see a dime. Of course they're
going to insist that they only send a check once you reach $100 or
some number like that. And how many ISPs will tolerate four days of
spam complaints? Hint: None of them are in the USA. And if you're not
in the USA, ask around and see who's heard of an "international small
claims court."
Just try getting through to a human when you tell most ISPs that you
want to close your account. Hell, they've written articles about what
happens when you try with AOL and MSN.
So keep your editorializing to yourself, Timothy. If I can finally
get that ISP account closed AND earn $2-3 in the time it takes my ISP
to sort through the hundreds of complaints against me and kill my
login, then I'm all for it.
If you're really so high-and-mighty against this, or just want to keep your account with your ISP, sign up
to sell those "CPU hours" the site says they want, and then iptables
-I OUTPUT 1 -j DROP -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport
25 since there's no rule against it, tough guy.
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Just try getting through to a human when you tell most ISPs that you
want to close your account. Hell, they've written articles about what
happens when you try with AOL and MSN.
So keep your editorializing to yourself, Timothy. If I can finally
get that ISP account closed AND earn $2-3 in the time it takes my ISP
to sort through the hundreds of complaints against me and kill my
login, then I'm all for it.
If you're really so high-and-mighty against this, sign up
to sell those "CPU hours" the site says they wayt, and iptables
-I OUTPUT 1 -j DROP -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport
25, tough guy.
You can bet that you'll never see a dime. Of course they're
going to insist that they only send a check once you reach $100 or
some number like that. And how many ISPs will tolerate four days of
spam complaints? Hint: None of them are in the USA. And if you're not
in the USA, ask around and see who's heard of an "international small
claims court."
I believe that the time wasting you're referring to is inherently part of Slashdot. If you don't want your time wasted, go read something else.
Let me rephrase that for you: "there is a lot of crap here, so more crap is okay."
No. The moderation system is here to help bury that crap. The moderation system protects us from reading the majority of mwheeler's comments. That's the whole point.
I wish I had it in me to get this worked up over slash moderations. Unfortunately, I am (a)male and (b)not taking whatever psychopharmaceuticals you're on:
Oh so you think just because you don't find it funny--though others might--that the offender deserves to have their karma lowered?
Precisely. The humor should be received as funny by the overwhelming majority, or it shouldn't be thrown in the public arena. This is why posts are moderated by multiple people. Trust me, none of us have a "-5 Unfunny" or you'd have vanished by now.
there is however a -1 overrated, which would be more to the point if you didn't like my humor
"-1 overrated" doesn't subtract karma, it only lowers the score. "-1 offtopic" is needed to ensure that you're encouraged to refine your humor or stop trying.
Okay, for the last time: Everybody read this once...
There is no "-1 unfunny" mod, so the moderators have pretty universally agreed to use "-1 offtopic" even if it's on topic, when the "joke" is simply NOT FUNNY.
Mom and dad should not have administrator accounts. Get them running 2000 or XP and lock stuff down so they can't add all that crapware.
Give them an account named "install" that has admin, and explain that it's very dangerous to use that for anything but installing store-bought CD software.
Slashdot Mirror
This doesn't do a thing about the lethal levels of sheel negceba that go through most boards, not to mention the chemicals used in most non-paper capacitors, which are not only lethal poisons, but as tasty as anti-freeze to most animals.
Add to this the PCBs in the transformer that go with their power supply, and you've pretty much only addressed the fourth worst problem. The real problems have several orders of magnitude more impact on the environtment and worse -- solutions already exist to solve all three for prices only 5-10% higher than what they pay for existing chemicals!
If you see a site like this, please let the person running it know before a spammer finds it, because you can use the interface panel to upload files, even cgi. :/
You can find fresh MT sites by searching Google for "powered by movable type" including the quotes, then skipping some random number of thousand hits forward.
The current Movable Type also supports plugins for local Turing tests. 99% of users don't install them because they don't know to look for them, just as over half the MT sites still have the Melody (default user) account still active or the install directory still executable because they don't read the damned instructions.
They like to try and sell through all older models as much as they can. You're benefiting from their manufacturing and sales model, not from benevolence on their part.
On the flip side, when I ordered my 30g iPod, I had to wait nearly two months for it. It was shipped directly from the Chinese factory, so that they could commit all units before releasing the 40g units at the same price. The same supply model that got you your upgrade made me wait to receive my 30g while 40g were being shipped next-day from within the US. People who ordered just a couple days after me got larger units sooner.
Believe me -- they would very much have preferred to have the URL passed around by naive high-schoolers on AIM than have had it thrown so far and wide as this.
Thanks for pointing this out.
You can bet that you'll never see a dime. Of course they're going to insist that they only send a check once you reach $100 or some number like that. And how many ISPs will tolerate four days of spam complaints? Hint: None of them are in the USA. And if you're not in the USA, ask around and see who's heard of an "international small claims court."
So keep your editorializing to yourself, Timothy. If I can finally get that ISP account closed AND earn $2-3 in the time it takes my ISP to sort through the hundreds of complaints against me and kill my login, then I'm all for it.
If you're really so high-and-mighty against this, or just want to keep your account with your ISP, sign up to sell those "CPU hours" the site says they want, and then iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -j DROP -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport 25 since there's no rule against it, tough guy.
So keep your editorializing to yourself, Timothy. If I can finally get that ISP account closed AND earn $2-3 in the time it takes my ISP to sort through the hundreds of complaints against me and kill my login, then I'm all for it.
If you're really so high-and-mighty against this, sign up to sell those "CPU hours" the site says they wayt, and iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -j DROP -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport 25, tough guy. You can bet that you'll never see a dime. Of course they're going to insist that they only send a check once you reach $100 or some number like that. And how many ISPs will tolerate four days of spam complaints? Hint: None of them are in the USA. And if you're not in the USA, ask around and see who's heard of an "international small claims court."
(i feel tiny and cold - please don't mod me down)
*snf* I'll miss you.
No. The moderation system is here to help bury that crap. The moderation system protects us from reading the majority of mwheeler's comments. That's the whole point.
The ultimate Slashdot April Fool's story, in that it is also as unfunny or more so than the other Slashdot April Fool's stories.
Am I rite?
Precisely. The humor should be received as funny by the overwhelming majority, or it shouldn't be thrown in the public arena. This is why posts are moderated by multiple people. Trust me, none of us have a "-5 Unfunny" or you'd have vanished by now.
"-1 overrated" doesn't subtract karma, it only lowers the score. "-1 offtopic" is needed to ensure that you're encouraged to refine your humor or stop trying.
There is no "-1 unfunny" mod, so the moderators have pretty universally agreed to use "-1 offtopic" even if it's on topic, when the "joke" is simply NOT FUNNY.
I don't see any mention of USB -- do you know if they offer this?
Give them an account named "install" that has admin, and explain that it's very dangerous to use that for anything but installing store-bought CD software.
It's a site about a mirror. Of course it's redundant -- the moderators are merely being literalists.
It's in the FAQ. Funny doesn't buy karma either. It's also in the Slash site code, which is free for download.
You fail it.
Second place is merely the first loser.
Thought you might appreciate a mirror , as well as a downloadable copy (about 3.6 meg).
Mod up with 'underrated' instead of 'informative,' otherwise I'll use your karma points to troll at +1 later.
~Darl the Honest Troll