Is that really how it works? That's flipping cool! I want that.
It would certainly thin out the ranks of ambulance-chasers and the people who pay them. It'll never happen, though, considering that our government is run by lawyers.
*sigh*
ps - I like yer anti-spam system... One of the most creative that I've seen around here.
I've been using pobox.com for about three years now (*boggle* or is it four??), and it works well for me. They give me three email aliases plus http forwarding and spam filtering for $15/yr.
I'd pay $15-$20 for an @slashdot.org address, even if it were only one alias and no other fancy stuff. Just to be cool. hehe. loser.
So I don't know for sure, but I really don't think that Sun depends on MS.
You think ol' Scott McNealy fires up Outlook to send out his companywide messages? Heh. Yeah, right. This is SUN we're talking about! The first company to make personal *NIX workstations practical.
Now I'm curious, though. Anyone who does work for sun want to comment?
the point of democracy is to keep no one faction from totally dominating (and thus destroying) any other faction
Your example makes sense for a government, but it doesn't really apply to/. moderation. The moderators here are supposed to be anonymous (to each other, as well, not just to the non-moderator readers). There are no factions among the moderators, because there can't be.
Besides, it's all just an experiment. If it's not working, then I'm sure that Rob'll change things so that they do work. I do wish that some of you people would just sit back and breathe every once in awhile.
Who do they pay to beta-test?
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They never talk about that stuff in the Sci-Fi novels. Everything always works, and nobody ever turns into a drooling slob because some programmer somewhere wrote if(foo = 1) instead of if(foo == 1).
I'm all for the neural shunt installed behind my right ear, but I want to make damn sure that the bugs have been worked out first.
The other thing I wonder about is what all that EMF energy would do to one's innards. Even with wearable computers, does anyone test this sort of thing? I dunno, but sometimes when I'm talking on my little Nokia I feel a distinctly strange sensation on the side of my head that the phone is on. I know that radio wireless is lower energy than microwave wireless, but still.
I guess I'm caught somewhere between techno-lust and paranoia. Leaning more toward the former these days.
I don't think it's our Puritan heritage. As Americans we are really a mongrel people; they don't call this place the big melting pot for nothing. My heritage is mostly British Isles with a Lithuanian grandfather. My last girlfriend was mostly AmerIndian. My best friend growing up was Vietnamese....
It's really a product of isolation. Urban Americans aren't usually as bad as rural Americans when it comes to intolerance. Racial and class inequities are still a problem everywhere, but most city folk are used to dealing every day with other people who didn't grow up with the same set of values and beliefs. Particularly in the northeast and on the west coast, which is why the rest of the country condemns those areas as dens of iniquity. The common frame of reference in those places is much more relaxed, so it's attacked by narrow minded and inflexible people.
In short, I think that most Americans aren't actively conservative as much as they are culturally stagnant. There's a big difference. I know that it's not just an American thing, either. We're just more noticeable because of our economy.
AMD has always been playing catch-up. Here, they have a chance to take the lead and get a jump on Intel.
The previous lines of AMD chips also had crappy FP compared to Intel. 3DNow was cool, when you could find software that was written to take advantage of the instructions (good luck). The K7, on the other hand, looks like it has damn good normal FP, and even better MMX/3DNow FP.
I thought that this review was pretty good. They never said that it was going to kill Intel or anything, just that the K7 might be a temporary leapfrog over Intel until Intel gets its seventh-gen technology out the door. And it'll be cheaper, probably.
The other thing is that AMD is pushing this new motherboard type. Could be a good thing, could be bad. One hand: faster FSB speeds. Other hand: maybe less companies making Slot A boards in quantity, so they're more expensive.
Dunno. 'Tis all speculation until we get them in our hot little hands, but I'm optimistic about AMD getting this one right. (Now, let's hope their one-and-only fab doesn't blow up or something)
I'm so used to 24-hr clock that I arrogantly think that everyone else should be using it.:) I'm an American who has never been in the military, so I guess I'm just odd. I decided a couple of years ago that it was less ambiguous and use it all the time (hrm, not intended...) now, much to the consternation of people who can't mentally subtract 12 from a number.
...that changing a curse word to something other than a curse word is just silly. So what if the kid hears "fuck" instead of a bleep? The effect is the same. Only someone raised without ever hearing a good cussing-out would not know what the bleeps and asterisks are being substituted for.
Of course, now that I think about it, the censoring is probably a bit of psychology in action. Perhaps the silly bleeping sound reinforces the idea that the censored words are "bad."
Hrm... *ponder* I'd still rather make my own choices as to what's a good word and a bad one. If you're concerned about your children, sit down with them and explain why curse words can be bad. Or change the damn channel.
Why the hell should he care much about you? Does he know you personally? No, I didn't think so. I sure don't care about you much, and I don't know you, either. Even if I did know you, I probably wouldn't care much about you, because it doesn't sound like you're the sort of person I care about.
You're the sort of person who would get miffed because {insert celebrity here} doesn't wave back at you in the crowd.
Geez, he's just being honest. He didn't say that he wished the crowd would rot in hell or something.
I ran it on my ol' p60/64MB NT 4.0 machine for kicks. To its credit, it didn't die, but it opened about 300 processes and slowed to a crawl before the OS realized that something was going on and refused to allocate any more resources.
Hehe. The main use of this NT box is for running WhatsUp and Visio. Scotty is neat but the pitchers it makes ain't as pretty.
Is there a name for that object? Maybe it's because I just woke up, but I've been staring at it in fascination for a couple of minutes. It's not nearly as paradoxical as a klein bottle, but it's still neat.
I'm struck with the sudden urge to try and build one out of straws or something.
Regardless of whether or not Clinton did actually perjure himself, what he was accused of wasn't an impeachable offence. Remember, impeachable offences are defined by the Constitution, not Jerry Falwell or Rush Limbaugh or Joe Sixpack.
If you don't like the definition, then by all means lobby your representative bureaucrats to get the Constitution changed. Otherwise, play within the same set rules that the rest of us americans do.
This was not a normal trial, folks. It was a PRESIDENTIAL IMPEACHMENT TRIAL! The rules are different because the outcome could involve the abrupt removal of our country's president. That is not something to be done lightly.
I'm not defending President Clinton. I am, however defending the part of our Constitution that protects our government from upheaval over trivial (in the grand scheme of things) things.
I'm frustrated by a lot of what goes on in D.C., but in this case, I think they (the Senate) did the right thing.
I can't defend the president's apparent perjury, nor his delaying tactics. I wish that he had just from the start said something like, "yeah, I shagged her. I shagged her rotten, baby!"
It would have saved us all some money and we would have been spared this embarassment. However, I get really angry with the hypocritical bastards who masterminded this whole thing to begin with. The fact that the president answered the questions untruthfully is shameful. What's unforgivable is that the questions were asked to begin with. Especially by people like that multiply-remarried-fat-fuck gingrich. There was no interest in justice. All they wanted was a political lynching, and the dems would have done it to a republican if they'd been in similar situation.
I love my country, but sometimes it's embarassing to live here. Sorta like that love-hate relationship one has with one's fambly.
I'm a bit biased, because I like Brin, and I've read some of his other essays on the subject, so perhaps I have a bit more experience with the topic. However, I get the impression that you just skimmed the article and then posted a quick reaction before thinking about what he said.
If the majority of the public doesn't want cameras, then the majority of the public won't have access to the cameras that the minority put in place. Nevermind silly Orwellian ideas of Big Brother... I'm not suggesting that there is/would be some shadow organization with cameras. There are and will be cameras and other monitoring devices used, with growing frequency, in the future. Stores and banks have had CCTV for years. Do you refuse to shop or bank because you might be caught on tape?
I agree with Brin that we should accept the technology and demand access to the data on ourselves and our neighbors. If everybody has access to the same information, then we all start from ground zero together.
The technology is here. It is being used. Deal with it. Sticking your head in the sand won't stop the steamroller that is technology.
Is it really too difficult to remember one username/password for all 'net accounts? If someone hax0rs my nytimes account and is somehow able to post as me on infoworld electric and slashdot, I'm not going to have my world crumble around me.
Besides, there are plenty of well-known public accounts for those sites (cypherpunks, for one). I don't usually bother to create a personal account if I'm just reading stuff. I get enough spam as it is.
I get annoyed with people who make dumb excuses. Don't bother. Just say that you don't want to do something and be done with it.
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Just have to remember the traps when you're putting in that new Empeg, or paying someone else to do it for you...
The only real problem is that the prick'll bleed all over the inside of your car.
Anyone remember the car security system from the beginning of RoboCop? *bzzzzzzrrrzzzrrrzap* *thud* *smoke*
It would certainly thin out the ranks of ambulance-chasers and the people who pay them. It'll never happen, though, considering that our government is run by lawyers.
*sigh*
ps - I like yer anti-spam system... One of the most creative that I've seen around here.
I'd pay $15-$20 for an @slashdot.org address, even if it were only one alias and no other fancy stuff. Just to be cool. hehe. loser.
You think ol' Scott McNealy fires up Outlook to send out his companywide messages? Heh. Yeah, right. This is SUN we're talking about! The first company to make personal *NIX workstations practical.
Now I'm curious, though. Anyone who does work for sun want to comment?
Or maybe I'm wrong. I know that some imaging techniques use radioactive dye, but I think that's for imaging blood vessels.
The whole concept of MRIs fascinate me. Making images from upset hydrogen atoms...
Not nitpicking... Just thought the word misuse was amusing. I think the word you're looking for was invasive, not evasive.
"Damnit! The glucometer got away again!"
Your example makes sense for a government, but it doesn't really apply to /. moderation. The moderators here are supposed to be anonymous (to each other, as well, not just to the non-moderator readers). There are no factions among the moderators, because there can't be.
Besides, it's all just an experiment. If it's not working, then I'm sure that Rob'll change things so that they do work. I do wish that some of you people would just sit back and breathe every once in awhile.
Stress kills. Relax.
Gimme a good IPA or stout anyday...
I'm all for the neural shunt installed behind my right ear, but I want to make damn sure that the bugs have been worked out first.
The other thing I wonder about is what all that EMF energy would do to one's innards. Even with wearable computers, does anyone test this sort of thing? I dunno, but sometimes when I'm talking on my little Nokia I feel a distinctly strange sensation on the side of my head that the phone is on. I know that radio wireless is lower energy than microwave wireless, but still.
I guess I'm caught somewhere between techno-lust and paranoia. Leaning more toward the former these days.
It's really a product of isolation. Urban Americans aren't usually as bad as rural Americans when it comes to intolerance. Racial and class inequities are still a problem everywhere, but most city folk are used to dealing every day with other people who didn't grow up with the same set of values and beliefs. Particularly in the northeast and on the west coast, which is why the rest of the country condemns those areas as dens of iniquity. The common frame of reference in those places is much more relaxed, so it's attacked by narrow minded and inflexible people.
In short, I think that most Americans aren't actively conservative as much as they are culturally stagnant. There's a big difference. I know that it's not just an American thing, either. We're just more noticeable because of our economy.
Feh.
The previous lines of AMD chips also had crappy FP compared to Intel. 3DNow was cool, when you could find software that was written to take advantage of the instructions (good luck). The K7, on the other hand, looks like it has damn good normal FP, and even better MMX/3DNow FP.
I thought that this review was pretty good. They never said that it was going to kill Intel or anything, just that the K7 might be a temporary leapfrog over Intel until Intel gets its seventh-gen technology out the door. And it'll be cheaper, probably.
The other thing is that AMD is pushing this new motherboard type. Could be a good thing, could be bad. One hand: faster FSB speeds. Other hand: maybe less companies making Slot A boards in quantity, so they're more expensive.
Dunno. 'Tis all speculation until we get them in our hot little hands, but I'm optimistic about AMD getting this one right. (Now, let's hope their one-and-only fab doesn't blow up or something)
Umm... Is this a joke? How else would he implement user preferences?
I'm so used to 24-hr clock that I arrogantly think that everyone else should be using it. :) I'm an American who has never been in the military, so I guess I'm just odd. I decided a couple of years ago that it was less ambiguous and use it all the time (hrm, not intended...) now, much to the consternation of people who can't mentally subtract 12 from a number.
Eh.
...that changing a curse word to something other than a curse word is just silly. So what if the kid hears "fuck" instead of a bleep? The effect is the same. Only someone raised without ever hearing a good cussing-out would not know what the bleeps and asterisks are being substituted for.
Of course, now that I think about it, the censoring is probably a bit of psychology in action. Perhaps the silly bleeping sound reinforces the idea that the censored words are "bad."
Hrm... *ponder* I'd still rather make my own choices as to what's a good word and a bad one. If you're concerned about your children, sit down with them and explain why curse words can be bad. Or change the damn channel.
Why the hell should he care much about you? Does he know you personally? No, I didn't think so. I sure don't care about you much, and I don't know you, either. Even if I did know you, I probably wouldn't care much about you, because it doesn't sound like you're the sort of person I care about.
You're the sort of person who would get miffed because {insert celebrity here} doesn't wave back at you in the crowd.
Geez, he's just being honest. He didn't say that he wished the crowd would rot in hell or something.
Silly hysterical people.
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"Oh, bother," said Pooh, as he hid Piglet's mangled corpse.
Ok, that's just twisted. Demented. Sick.
And it made me laugh.
I ran it on my ol' p60/64MB NT 4.0 machine for kicks. To its credit, it didn't die, but it opened about 300 processes and slowed to a crawl before the OS realized that something was going on and refused to allocate any more resources.
Hehe. The main use of this NT box is for running WhatsUp and Visio. Scotty is neat but the pitchers it makes ain't as pretty.
Is there a name for that object? Maybe it's because I just woke up, but I've been staring at it in fascination for a couple of minutes. It's not nearly as paradoxical as a klein bottle, but it's still neat.
I'm struck with the sudden urge to try and build one out of straws or something.
*stumbles out for some coffee*
Regardless of whether or not Clinton did actually perjure himself, what he was accused of wasn't an impeachable offence. Remember, impeachable offences are defined by the Constitution, not Jerry Falwell or Rush Limbaugh or Joe Sixpack.
If you don't like the definition, then by all means lobby your representative bureaucrats to get the Constitution changed. Otherwise, play within the same set rules that the rest of us americans do.
This was not a normal trial, folks. It was a PRESIDENTIAL IMPEACHMENT TRIAL! The rules are different because the outcome could involve the abrupt removal of our country's president. That is not something to be done lightly.
I'm not defending President Clinton. I am, however defending the part of our Constitution that protects our government from upheaval over trivial (in the grand scheme of things) things.
I'm frustrated by a lot of what goes on in D.C., but in this case, I think they (the Senate) did the right thing.
"Do you like our owl?"
Hrmm... The owl's Ok, but I really like your Rachel... Do I get one?
*drool*
I can't defend the president's apparent perjury, nor his delaying tactics. I wish that he had just from the start said something like, "yeah, I shagged her. I shagged her rotten, baby!"
It would have saved us all some money and we would have been spared this embarassment. However, I get really angry with the hypocritical bastards who masterminded this whole thing to begin with. The fact that the president answered the questions untruthfully is shameful. What's unforgivable is that the questions were asked to begin with. Especially by people like that multiply-remarried-fat-fuck gingrich. There was no interest in justice. All they wanted was a political lynching, and the dems would have done it to a republican if they'd been in similar situation.
I love my country, but sometimes it's embarassing to live here. Sorta like that love-hate relationship one has with one's fambly.
What exactly does "to hell and gone" mean, anyhow?
Real nerds just fork()...
hehe.
I'm a bit biased, because I like Brin, and I've read some of his other essays on the subject, so perhaps I have a bit more experience with the topic. However, I get the impression that you just skimmed the article and then posted a quick reaction before thinking about what he said.
If the majority of the public doesn't want cameras, then the majority of the public won't have access to the cameras that the minority put in place. Nevermind silly Orwellian ideas of Big Brother... I'm not suggesting that there is/would be some shadow organization with cameras. There are and will be cameras and other monitoring devices used, with growing frequency, in the future. Stores and banks have had CCTV for years. Do you refuse to shop or bank because you might be caught on tape?
I agree with Brin that we should accept the technology and demand access to the data on ourselves and our neighbors. If everybody has access to the same information, then we all start from ground zero together.
The technology is here. It is being used. Deal with it. Sticking your head in the sand won't stop the steamroller that is technology.
Is it really too difficult to remember one username/password for all 'net accounts? If someone hax0rs my nytimes account and is somehow able to post as me on infoworld electric and slashdot, I'm not going to have my world crumble around me.
Besides, there are plenty of well-known public accounts for those sites (cypherpunks, for one). I don't usually bother to create a personal account if I'm just reading stuff. I get enough spam as it is.
I get annoyed with people who make dumb excuses. Don't bother. Just say that you don't want to do something and be done with it.