Across the street at the Windows Reverse-Engineering Hardware Conference, a group of hackers got one of the Lithium-Sulpher batteries to work in a laptop running Linux.
Yes google already runs on OSS even though the search software itself is proprietary. If you wanted to truly put the search engine in the hands of the people, consider this idea. You could use P2P technology to distribute the search index across millions of systems worldwide. If someone wants to use the search engine, they must download the client software and donate, say, 100 MB to the project. Of course, you would have to have the system set up so that it has massive redundency to handle cases where individual nodes are offline. Also, the logistics of distributing the search across so many systems would need to be worked out. Furthermore, there is the possibility that users may attempt to tweak the client handling their node to increase the score for various pages or decrease the score for others. These issues would have to be worked out, but it could be feasible. Frankly, I'm too lazy to implement it, but you are welcome to credit me for the idea when its all done.
We Americans call ourselves Americans because America is the name of our country. Consider how the name of our country fits into the following pattern:
Peoples Republic OF China United Kingdom OF Great Britain Democratic Republic OF the Congo Commonwealth OF Australia United States OF America
I suppose the confusion arises because it shares its name with two continents that contain other countries as well. In conclusion, America needs a new name dammit! Given the amount of corporate influence and corruption, I vote we call it "The United States of Enronia".
"To be patentable an invention must be novel, inventive and have a commercial use."
I would think that to be patentable, an invention would have to be, well, an invention. You shouldn't be able to patent a naturally occuring plant because nobody invented it, rather it evolved. You can discover it and maybe patent a novel way of cultivating or processing it, but that is about it.
Maybe somebody should patent the idea of inventing itself. Then we all should just sit on our hands for twenty years and then start innovating unhindered in a new unending golden age of technology. Something like this:
Patent No. 3,141,592,653,589,793 - Novel Product or Method of Production
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Patents allow you to do 1% of the work and sue the guy who does the other 99%.
The problem is not all the features. Rather, the problem is that all the features are part of the OS which means that a security hole in some feature gives an attacker kernel level priveleges which is a Bad Thing. They need to go with the Unix model wherein the bulk of the features are in user space and the kernel handles basics like file i/o and scheduling. I mean, come on now, why is the WEB BROWSER part of the OS in Windows? Putting something which parses and displays downloaded documents of unknown origin inside the kernel is just asking for trouble. I think that their desire to destroy Netscape overpowered their common sense in this case.
Say its got a 100ft radius, and you were flying (or driving) ahead of me... I was following... at 120ft... would I pick up the 'trail'?
It does not have a "radius" per se, but rather the signal strength drops off at a rate proportionate to the square of the distance. As such, the "radius" depends on the sensitivity of the receiving antenna. There may be a slight doppler shift if the signal is eminating from a moving vehicle, but given that the speed of the vehicle is likely several orders of magnitude lower than the speed of the signal, the effect would likely be unnoticeable.
Great idea. I've always liked the idea of shooting shallow, obnoxious, good-looking people into space. Put Ryan Secrest or some other icon of triteness on there to host, then fire the whole capsule into space. You can add some extra drama by "missing" Mars and crashing the probe into Jupiter Shoemaker-Levy style.
Imagine that, up until now, license plates were not issued. In fact, the concept had never even been conceived of. You could drive anywhere anonymously. Then suddenly, the government announces that everyone must display unique numbers on their cars. The outcry from privacy advocates would be deafening. But we've had license plates for almost a century, and no one brings it up as an issue. If this technology had existed since the inception of automobiles, people would just accept as a given just like license plates.
Lycos is the eighth largest web portal, with over three hundred subscribers. Their site features time and weather, email, search, an "About Us" page and a Terms of Service page.
Definitely a bargain at $200 million.
Maybe someone could turn it into a sort of "living museum" so future generations can experience an actual late 20th century web portal. Little footnotes* indicating areas of historical interest could be added.
*Like this one. Footnotes are used to convey additional information without interrupting the flow of the text.
Under the "start" menu on whatever desktop you choose, name all the shortcuts after their Windows counterparts.
e.g. Clicking on Word launches OO.org Writer. Clicking Internet Explorer launches Mozilla. Clicking Outlook launches KMail. Clicking My Documents launches Nautilus or Konqueror. etc.
Given that most popular FOSS productivity software is functionally equivalent to its MS counterparts, the only major barrier for the non-technical user is learning new names for everything.
This certifies that (name here) is hearby entitled to launch one (1) spacecraft into suborbital flight. Bearer assumes all responsibility for accidents. This permit is provided AS IS without warranty, including the implied warranties of airworthiness or suborbital flight capability. The liability of the FAA is limited to the cost of the permit fees. Some states do not allow limitations of liability, so the above may not apply to you. Void where prohibited. If you do not agree to the terms of this permit, please pack your spacecraft in the original carton and return it to the store where it was purchased for a refund. You should have received a copy of the FAA's Suborobital Flight Guidelines along with this permit. If not, please write to: Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Suborbital Flight, Box 5050, Washington, DC 31416
A lot of people on here build up their karma by reposting the article text. I have a different approach inspired by Office Space:
Peter: No, you don't understand. So, everyday, Slashdot gets these anonymous posts with mod points that just go away. It's called aggregate. Samir and Michael and me wrote a program that drops those into an account we own.
Joanna: So you're stealing.
Peter: I don't think I'm explaining it right. You take a penny from a dish by the register right?
Joanna: From the crippled children?
Peter: No, not the jar, the dish. we just take a fraction of the mod points, and take them a couple of million times.
If spammers have connections to virus writers and do all these malicious things, why weren't there cops waiting to arrest them when they showed up? Were they granted immunity to visit the conference or something?
Slashdot Mirror
Bacon grease cures heart disease!
I just created a clone combining the DNA of Ken Thompson and Julius Caesar. It's first words were:
When in doubt, et tu Brute force!
wakka wakka wakka! Is this thing on? Yes, I'll be here all week ladies and gentlemen!
The US census is now counting every possible sperm-egg combination as a "potential" citizen.
Across the street at the Windows Reverse-Engineering Hardware Conference, a group of hackers got one of the Lithium-Sulpher batteries to work in a laptop running Linux.
Q. what would the battery industry give me if I developed a lightweight, portable, inexhaustible power supply?
A. A horse's head in my bed.
The second rule of PATRIOT act is you DO NOT TALK about PATRIOT act.
Yes google already runs on OSS even though the search software itself is proprietary. If you wanted to truly put the search engine in the hands of the people, consider this idea. You could use P2P technology to distribute the search index across millions of systems worldwide. If someone wants to use the search engine, they must download the client software and donate, say, 100 MB to the project. Of course, you would have to have the system set up so that it has massive redundency to handle cases where individual nodes are offline. Also, the logistics of distributing the search across so many systems would need to be worked out. Furthermore, there is the possibility that users may attempt to tweak the client handling their node to increase the score for various pages or decrease the score for others. These issues would have to be worked out, but it could be feasible. Frankly, I'm too lazy to implement it, but you are welcome to credit me for the idea when its all done.
We Americans call ourselves Americans because America is the name of our country. Consider how the name of our country fits into the following pattern:
Peoples Republic OF China
United Kingdom OF Great Britain
Democratic Republic OF the Congo
Commonwealth OF Australia
United States OF America
I suppose the confusion arises because it shares its name with two continents that contain other countries as well. In conclusion, America needs a new name dammit! Given the amount of corporate influence and corruption, I vote we call it "The United States of Enronia".
"To be patentable an invention must be novel, inventive and have a commercial use."
I would think that to be patentable, an invention would have to be, well, an invention. You shouldn't be able to patent a naturally occuring plant because nobody invented it, rather it evolved. You can discover it and maybe patent a novel way of cultivating or processing it, but that is about it.
Maybe somebody should patent the idea of inventing itself. Then we all should just sit on our hands for twenty years and then start innovating unhindered in a new unending golden age of technology. Something like this:
Patent No. 3,141,592,653,589,793 - Novel Product or Method of Production
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Patents allow you to do 1% of the work and sue the guy who does the other 99%.
The problem is not all the features. Rather, the problem is that all the features are part of the OS which means that a security hole in some feature gives an attacker kernel level priveleges which is a Bad Thing. They need to go with the Unix model wherein the bulk of the features are in user space and the kernel handles basics like file i/o and scheduling. I mean, come on now, why is the WEB BROWSER part of the OS in Windows? Putting something which parses and displays downloaded documents of unknown origin inside the kernel is just asking for trouble. I think that their desire to destroy Netscape overpowered their common sense in this case.
It does not have a "radius" per se, but rather the signal strength drops off at a rate proportionate to the square of the distance. As such, the "radius" depends on the sensitivity of the receiving antenna. There may be a slight doppler shift if the signal is eminating from a moving vehicle, but given that the speed of the vehicle is likely several orders of magnitude lower than the speed of the signal, the effect would likely be unnoticeable.
43% of respondents weren't home.
39% of respondents pretended they weren't home.
20% of respondents were unsure/undecided.
Margin of error was 2%
Great idea. I've always liked the idea of shooting shallow, obnoxious, good-looking people into space. Put Ryan Secrest or some other icon of triteness on there to host, then fire the whole capsule into space. You can add some extra drama by "missing" Mars and crashing the probe into Jupiter Shoemaker-Levy style.
Imagine that, up until now, license plates were not issued. In fact, the concept had never even been conceived of. You could drive anywhere anonymously. Then suddenly, the government announces that everyone must display unique numbers on their cars. The outcry from privacy advocates would be deafening. But we've had license plates for almost a century, and no one brings it up as an issue. If this technology had existed since the inception of automobiles, people would just accept as a given just like license plates.
Lycos is the eighth largest web portal, with over three hundred subscribers. Their site features time and weather, email, search, an "About Us" page and a Terms of Service page.
Definitely a bargain at $200 million.
Maybe someone could turn it into a sort of "living museum" so future generations can experience an actual late 20th century web portal. Little footnotes* indicating areas of historical interest could be added.
*Like this one. Footnotes are used to convey additional information without interrupting the flow of the text.
Emacs?
I think it's the Smucker's theory of marketing:
With a logo like this, it MUST be good.
Under the "start" menu on whatever desktop you choose, name all the shortcuts after their Windows counterparts.
e.g.
Clicking on Word launches OO.org Writer.
Clicking Internet Explorer launches Mozilla.
Clicking Outlook launches KMail.
Clicking My Documents launches Nautilus or Konqueror.
etc.
Given that most popular FOSS productivity software is functionally equivalent to its MS counterparts, the only major barrier for the non-technical user is learning new names for everything.
Bruce Willis and Jeremy Irons go head to head in...
"DIE BOLD, with a Vengeance."
A Jerry Bruckhiemer Production
This certifies that (name here) is hearby entitled to launch one (1) spacecraft into suborbital flight. Bearer assumes all responsibility for accidents. This permit is provided AS IS without warranty, including the implied warranties of airworthiness or suborbital flight capability. The liability of the FAA is limited to the cost of the permit fees. Some states do not allow limitations of liability, so the above may not apply to you. Void where prohibited. If you do not agree to the terms of this permit, please pack your spacecraft in the original carton and return it to the store where it was purchased for a refund. You should have received a copy of the FAA's Suborobital Flight Guidelines along with this permit. If not, please write to: Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Suborbital Flight, Box 5050, Washington, DC 31416
Those who would give up security for chocolate deserve neither.
Maybe that was the plan all along. Maybe Darl will take his remaining money and invest in OSRM.
Probably not though.
A lot of people on here build up their karma by reposting the article text. I have a different approach inspired by Office Space:
Peter: No, you don't understand. So, everyday, Slashdot gets these anonymous posts with mod points that just go away. It's called aggregate. Samir and Michael and me wrote a program that drops those into an account we own.
Joanna: So you're stealing.
Peter: I don't think I'm explaining it right. You take a penny from a dish by the register right?
Joanna: From the crippled children?
Peter: No, not the jar, the dish. we just take a fraction of the mod points, and take them a couple of million times.
Joanna: How's that not stealing?
If spammers have connections to virus writers and do all these malicious things, why weren't there cops waiting to arrest them when they showed up? Were they granted immunity to visit the conference or something?