We're also extremely fortunate that the Electronic Frontier Foundation was around to fund our defense. If anything has proven the value of the EFF in looking after civil liberties in the modern age, this has. I can't emphasize enough the importance of heading over to http://www.eff.org/support/joineff.html and donating as much as you possibly can to keep this case going. Explain this to as many people as possible and get them to do the same.
1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals. 2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to sense 1) to someone who knows what's really important and interesting and doesn't care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status games. Compare the two senses of computer geek.
The word itself appears to derive from the lines "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!" in the Dr. Seuss book "If I Ran the Zoo" (1950). (The spellings `nurd' and `gnurd' also used to be current at MIT.) How it developed its mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1 seems to have entered mass culture in the early 1970s (there are reports that in the mid-1960s it meant roughly
"annoying misfit" without the connotation of intelligence).
An IEEE Spectrum article (4/95, page 16) once derived `nerd' in its variant form `knurd' from the word `drunk' backwards, but this bears all the hallmarks of a bogus folk etymology.
Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later, and some actually wear "Nerd Pride" buttons, only half as a joke. At MIT one can find not only buttons but (what else?) pocket protectors bearing the slogan and the MIT seal.
computer geek n.
1. One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfills all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. Cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black vs. white-on-black usage of `nigger'. A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. Also called `turbo nerd', `turbo geek'. See also propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
2. Some self-described computer geeks use this term in a positive sense and protest sense 1 (this seems to have been a post-1990 development). For one such argument, see http://samsara.circus.com/~omni/geek.html . See also geek code.
McLaughlin determined his connection rate to e-mail and newsgroups was at 128 kilobits per second while SBC guaranteed a minimum access rate of 384 kilobits per second.
In my contract with SWB for home DSL, they do not guarantee the service or available bandwidth.
Recently, I've heard several people say Linux SMP is superior to BSD's SMP yet my FreeBSD box is running fine with ACPI. Why isn't ACPI working with Linux?
This is a test to see if Slashdot moderators are doomed to repeat history. This post was originally written by evilpenguin on Wednesday November 24, 1999 @ 07:27AM EST
I think the law has to treat the person who uses a product for illegal means as the "guilty" party. The person who makes it bears no automatic culpability.
This is my general take. Gun manufacturers are not responsible for murders committed with guns. Now, I'm not a gun nut, but I think this is legally right.
The same should hold true for the authors of nmap and queso (to name a couple tools that system crackers might use) and the authors of pgp and gpg (to name a couple tools that criminals or terrorists might use).
Now, if it is a question of ethics, you've opened an entirely different can of worms. Ethically, I think several guns need a closer look. I think teflon tips are something that raise ethical questions. I think nmap has a few grey areas
(what legitimate use requires the micro-fragmentation feature? That's there just to avoid string scanning intrusion detection.), but in each of these cases (except maybe those teflon tips) I think the law has to protect the author/maker and hold the user accountable.
If we hold that the maker/author is responsible for all of the ways in which their product/idea is used, then we should have locked up Darwin because his ideas contributed to holocaust. We should lock up the inventor of the circular saw because it has maimed and killed. And so on...
Ethics lies behind law, but the cliched figure of justice that adorns so many government buildings (at least so many American ones) wields a scale, a sword, and she is blindfolded. The sword is two edged as well. It may be a cliche, but it is an apt one. The law is not ethics. The law is the minimum interference to maintain the social order. While many conservatives in this country will argue with me about the law being minimal, it is certainly not the opposite. You can write and buy a book about how to crack safes. That's legal. Crack somebody else's safe, and you've broken the law. It seems absurd, but it isn't. To write a book on how to crack safes (so long as you believe in the idea of private property) is unethical, but I for one would not want to see it made illegal.
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Unix was designed in the 70's, and it included a wide range of very interesting conceptual features. At the time it was designed it definitely set a new standard for the ways we thought of operating system. A great accomplishment.
It would be foolish to think that the current abstractions we have deployed in Unix are sufficient and that they are good enough, and that we are doing just fine.
It's impossible to keep UNIX from sucking.
What makes UNIX suck for one person are the same reasons it doesn't suck for another person.
UNIX shouldn't try to be everything for everyone.
Instant Messaging Wars for Profit?
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When they [Gnutella] figure out how to filter out ShareZilla, you will need to purchase the next version to keep up with the new technology.
Sounds a lot like someone is making money off something very similar to the Instant-Messaging wars.
The suit alleges that the MAP policy increased CD prices in violation of state and federal antitrust law, kept CD prices artificially high, and penalized retailers who did not participate.
The five labels are:
Warner Brothers
Sony Music Entertainment
Universal Music Group
BMG
EMI Group Plc
Also named as defendants were three retailers:
MusicLand Stores Corp.
Tower Records
Trans World Entertainment Corp.
I hope they burn just like any other organization breaking antitrust laws.:-)
Slashdot has always perplexed me with their usage of logos. For example, they have been asked many times to stop using the "can of spam" picture as their SPAM topic graphic.
Will this post change anything? Probably not, but at least I'll feel better eating my spam burger.:-)
I've owned a 49 since the initial release and after several ROM updates and multiple exchanges of the hardware under warranty, I feel like I paid $180 to beta test their product.
No doubt. Sometimes I wonder if mine can even differentiate correctly.:-(
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As for startup time (always the problem with normal Mozillas) - it is now much, much quicker than Netscape 4 on either Windows of Linux, and getting close to IE5 (which is the fastest starting browser I've ever seen, except maybe Lynx or something).
Internet Explorer 5 seems to start up so fast because it is already loaded. It gets loaded into RAM during the Windows bootup. Of course, this is also why it takes so long to bootup.
There's a lot of more useful things that we could be doing -- exploring other planets, trying to discover a faster means of interstellar travel, searching for artificial intelligence, etc.
The International Space Station is the first logical step in getting to mars and experimenting with better ways of space propulsion.
With that said, we need a "base station" where we can drop off boxes of Legos so the Lego Engineers won't have to bring fresh Legos everytime they go into space and experiment.:-)
/me places the Legos back into the toybox.
By building a reusable infrastructure, this should reduce the cost of our space exploration.
Using a Cyrix processor over a Transmeta processor shouldn't mean that much of a difference in battery time. There has to be other more important factors. I mean, how much CPU usage will a webpad use anyway?
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone have a better Slashdot example of where so many people don't know what is going on?
We're also extremely fortunate that the Electronic Frontier Foundation was around to fund our defense. If anything has proven the value of the EFF in looking after civil liberties in the modern age, this has. I can't emphasize enough the importance of heading over to http://www.eff.org/support/joineff.html and donating as much as you possibly can to keep this case going. Explain this to as many people as possible and get them to do the same.
We routinely upgrade our remote headless FreeBSD boxen without any problems whatsoever.
This was done during the 2000 Times Square New Years Eve broadcast. NBC replaced CBS's logo on a large screen with that of their own.
nerd n.
1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals.
2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to sense 1) to someone who knows what's really important and interesting and doesn't care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status games. Compare the two senses of computer geek.
The word itself appears to derive from the lines "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!" in the Dr. Seuss book "If I Ran the Zoo" (1950). (The spellings `nurd' and `gnurd' also used to be current at MIT.) How it developed its mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1 seems to have entered mass culture in the early 1970s (there are reports that in the mid-1960s it meant roughly "annoying misfit" without the connotation of intelligence).
An IEEE Spectrum article (4/95, page 16) once derived `nerd' in its variant form `knurd' from the word `drunk' backwards, but this bears all the hallmarks of a bogus folk etymology.
Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later, and some actually wear "Nerd Pride" buttons, only half as a joke. At MIT one can find not only buttons but (what else?) pocket protectors bearing the slogan and the MIT seal.
computer geek n.
1. One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfills all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. Cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black vs. white-on-black usage of `nigger'. A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. Also called `turbo nerd', `turbo geek'. See also propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
2. Some self-described computer geeks use this term in a positive sense and protest sense 1 (this seems to have been a post-1990 development). For one such argument, see http://samsara.circus.com/~omni/geek.html . See also geek code.
In my contract with SWB for home DSL, they do not guarantee the service or available bandwidth.
ACPI is not SMP safe under linux...
Recently, I've heard several people say Linux SMP is superior to BSD's SMP yet my FreeBSD box is running fine with ACPI. Why isn't ACPI working with Linux?
Is anyone else still waiting on their confirmation letter?
I don't see how the BSD camps need a unified package format any worse than the Linux distributions do.
I really dread this. Just more trouble for people like like veronica.org. :-(
This is not cool. :-(
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I think the law has to treat the person who uses a product for illegal means as the "guilty" party. The person who makes it bears no automatic culpability.
This is my general take. Gun manufacturers are not responsible for murders committed with guns. Now, I'm not a gun nut, but I think this is legally right.
The same should hold true for the authors of nmap and queso (to name a couple tools that system crackers might use) and the authors of pgp and gpg (to name a couple tools that criminals or terrorists might use).
Now, if it is a question of ethics, you've opened an entirely different can of worms. Ethically, I think several guns need a closer look. I think teflon tips are something that raise ethical questions. I think nmap has a few grey areas (what legitimate use requires the micro-fragmentation feature? That's there just to avoid string scanning intrusion detection.), but in each of these cases (except maybe those teflon tips) I think the law has to protect the author/maker and hold the user accountable.
If we hold that the maker/author is responsible for all of the ways in which their product/idea is used, then we should have locked up Darwin because his ideas contributed to holocaust. We should lock up the inventor of the circular saw because it has maimed and killed. And so on...
Ethics lies behind law, but the cliched figure of justice that adorns so many government buildings (at least so many American ones) wields a scale, a sword, and she is blindfolded. The sword is two edged as well. It may be a cliche, but it is an apt one. The law is not ethics. The law is the minimum interference to maintain the social order. While many conservatives in this country will argue with me about the law being minimal, it is certainly not the opposite. You can write and buy a book about how to crack safes. That's legal. Crack somebody else's safe, and you've broken the law. It seems absurd, but it isn't. To write a book on how to crack safes (so long as you believe in the idea of private property) is unethical, but I for one would not want to see it made illegal.
We plan to add .cx and many other ccTLDs to our current system. If you decide you want to keep your domain, check out our website a few days before it expires.
It would be foolish to think that the current abstractions we have deployed in Unix are sufficient and that they are good enough, and that we are doing just fine.
It's impossible to keep UNIX from sucking.
What makes UNIX suck for one person are the same reasons it doesn't suck for another person.
UNIX shouldn't try to be everything for everyone.
Sounds a lot like someone is making money off something very similar to the Instant-Messaging wars.
Am I mistaken?
The five labels are:
Also named as defendants were three retailers:
- MusicLand Stores Corp.
- Tower Records
- Trans World Entertainment Corp.
I hope they burn just like any other organization breaking antitrust laws.Will this post change anything? Probably not, but at least I'll feel better eating my spam burger. :-)
I have captured your special device.
What am I doing? I need to go back to work. Have a great day! :-)
No doubt. Sometimes I wonder if mine can even differentiate correctly. :-(
Internet Explorer 5 seems to start up so fast because it is already loaded. It gets loaded into RAM during the Windows bootup. Of course, this is also why it takes so long to bootup.
No, but I think images.slashdot.org does. :-)
The International Space Station is the first logical step in getting to mars and experimenting with better ways of space propulsion.
With that said, we need a "base station" where we can drop off boxes of Legos so the Lego Engineers won't have to bring fresh Legos everytime they go into space and experiment. :-)
By building a reusable infrastructure, this should reduce the cost of our space exploration.
If you don't accept it, you're not bound.
There are two problems with this.
You can't make a cheap product when you have to license a Microsoft OS.
A webpad running a Microsoft OS will seem much slower than one running Linux, *BSD, or BeIA.
Using a Cyrix processor over a Transmeta processor shouldn't mean that much of a difference in battery time. There has to be other more important factors. I mean, how much CPU usage will a webpad use anyway?