Hey, if they can make these things cheap enough, maybe AOL will just start sending Matchbox computers to everyone in the mail just like they used to send CD's. Just think, in a month, you'd have enough for a Beowulf cluster.
"Given public concerns about privacy issues in this era of advanced and constantly changing technology, I have chosen an approach that addresses future threats to privacy," she said.
I don't see how dismantling this current project is really addressing future threats. The change of an administration can change this policy fully and this decision will have had no effect whatsoever.
The other thing that strikes me as strange, is that there wasn't really a big protest about this database, it was simply people asking to see their data which caused them to shut it down. Why does the government not want the people to know what the government knows about them? That is the thing that scares me.
At my old house out in Pittsburgh, when the concrete on our back porch needed to be redone, we came up with a better solution. We tore up the old crete and laid done about 15 old Sun 3 cases that we had gotten from School. From desktop to porchtop. If I can dig up some picture I'll post a link.
The problem may be Bell Atlantic in general. We get our DSL directly from them and the service just royally sucks. There are often times during the day when things are flaky and service requests are always slow. So it comes as no surprise to me that your third-party service through them is even worse. Unfortunately for me, it's my only high-speed access option, so I have to put up with it.
I predict that it will be approximately 3 minutes (the time to checkout and drive home after purchase) for the first slashdotter to install linux on their xbox upon it's release.
Okay slashdotters, who's gonna set up the "Boycott EBay" site. We seem to have a boycott page for every other significant Internet Company, so how about Ebay.
On a related note, is there an index page somewhere which lists all of the current boycotts going on?
My former co-worker's ex-boyfriend's brother works at TransMeta, an incredibly smart fellow. He absolutely loves it there. An amazingly talented and intelligent group of people to be working with. If smart people are your thing, you couldn't be happier at the place. Personalities on the other hand...
Oh yeah, well I own the registered trademark "" so all of you webpage authors out there better cease a desist or I'm going to sue you all into oblivion. Or you can pay me a 1-cent royalty for each use of the trademark. With 100 billion web pages out there, that would poke my kitty to $1 billion. Or maybe I should charge you for each copy that is sent over the web. Every hit you get, a penny for me. I'd be richer than Bill. BWAHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHH!!!!
While I think that having a working Windows API is all well and good, what I'd really love to see is for someone to port the DirectX API over to linux. Think of all the games that would open up.
I can only think that this development will make it easier/cheaper for organizations like GeekCorps to help rollout internet access in other countries. Anytime the price of internet access for anyone comes down, it's a good thing.
if this were a closed-source program, how long would it have taken the security problem to come to light? And the point is by that time, there have been more layering of important code coming from the one piece of buggy code.
I really didn't find this to be a debate so much as idiot on parade. If the patent officer had said one straight-forward intelligent thing during the entire thing, I'd be more lenient.
just get an espresso instead. All of the benefits this guy was after, and more. I can't imagine having many problems with transferring a machine as small as the espresso.
With the increasing bus speeds and DDR ram, rambus' incremental performance at huge cost is unwanted. If Intel wants to dick-over it's customers in order to turn a penny, let them. It's just more incentive for me to go out and make my next system an AMD box.
Personally, I'm a really big fan of DUX. Mostly because of the amazing compilers and tools that come with it. I would love to see some of this open-sourced. I only hesitate to think that Compaq would release YAOSL (yet another open source license) onto the world.
Note that he, too, is using a term solely for propaganda value. "Sharing" something you don't own isn't generally viewed in very positive terms.
He's right though, we should all abandon the word piracy and simply resort to the term "stealing." Surely theft makes people feel all happy and rosy inside while piracy just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
Language is for understanding, and trying to replace commonly used words with nicer substitues only serves to muddy the language.
And you thought laws were difficult in the first place. What happens when a law, which is clearly defined under current definitions of verbiage. What happens when people start changing the definitions of words? We need to keep our eyes on unseen effects. What if there were a law (this is a hypethetical and simplified example) which made it illegal to be a hacker. (Here where hacker is the common definition often used in the pressed.) Then all coders who deemed to take on that definition would ultimately be incriminating themselves, even though what they are doing (hacking) is nothing like the criminal behavior formerly known as hacking. What then?
Why do I get the feeling, that if they had their choice, that the entire slashdot-esque community would completely redefine the entire english language, replacing any derogatory terms describining their activities with ones that are more glowing in nature. Replacing piracy with sharing, when piracy is a well understood term for the stealing and dissemination of copyrighted materials. Just the same as the general public understands what the press means when they call someone a "hacker." You really can't force somebody to use whatever language you see fit. Language is for understanding, and trying to replace commonly used words with nicer substitues only serves to muddy the language.
The very first thing I envision about the future is that we will have/need much speedier access to the net. MOst people are still llanguishing on dial-ups. DSL is a step in the right direction. But I forsee in the future almost instantaneous access to all information. It may not be truly instantaneous, but the perception of so: Streaming video/audio, etc.
The second thing I'd be looking for is a better interface. The browser metaphor really is at the edge of its abilities. Whatever interface comes along will be amazing compared to the abilities of today. As I'm typing this, there is an ad for those I-Glasses from thinkgeek which let you immerse yourself in your computing environment. That is totally cool. Add to that some sort of VR input device and you would be sitting pretty for interacting with the new interface, whatever it may be.
The last thing I envisage happening is that the "One Great Internet" will really be split up into several specialized networks. We've seen it happen before in other areas. Specialization vs. Generalization. I can't imagine in what ways things will be split up, but it will happen.
I used to think that this cartoon was a hilarious and accurate reflection of Metallica and their actions against Napster. Now though I'm actually seeing it a little more clearly and not through the info-anarchists eyes.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, if they can make these things cheap enough, maybe AOL will just start sending Matchbox computers to everyone in the mail just like they used to send CD's. Just think, in a month, you'd have enough for a Beowulf cluster.
Personally, I much prefer the HotWheels server compared to this matchbox server. They always seemed to have a lot more detail.
Hoorah! Now we can create microwave ovens which cook you're food before you even see it!
"Given public concerns about privacy issues in this era of advanced and constantly changing technology, I have chosen an approach that addresses future threats to privacy," she said.
I don't see how dismantling this current project is really addressing future threats. The change of an administration can change this policy fully and this decision will have had no effect whatsoever.
The other thing that strikes me as strange, is that there wasn't really a big protest about this database, it was simply people asking to see their data which caused them to shut it down. Why does the government not want the people to know what the government knows about them? That is the thing that scares me.
It used to be just women who lied about their ages. Get ready for the Programmer who is 23 with 18 years experience.
At my old house out in Pittsburgh, when the concrete on our back porch needed to be redone, we came up with a better solution. We tore up the old crete and laid done about 15 old Sun 3 cases that we had gotten from School. From desktop to porchtop. If I can dig up some picture I'll post a link.
The problem may be Bell Atlantic in general. We get our DSL directly from them and the service just royally sucks. There are often times during the day when things are flaky and service requests are always slow. So it comes as no surprise to me that your third-party service through them is even worse. Unfortunately for me, it's my only high-speed access option, so I have to put up with it.
I predict that it will be approximately 3 minutes (the time to checkout and drive home after purchase) for the first slashdotter to install linux on their xbox upon it's release.
You have to admit though, that the Itsy would be an amazing device to use as the controlled for a mobile robot.
Okay slashdotters, who's gonna set up the "Boycott EBay" site. We seem to have a boycott page for every other significant Internet Company, so how about Ebay.
On a related note, is there an index page somewhere which lists all of the current boycotts going on?
My former co-worker's ex-boyfriend's brother works at TransMeta, an incredibly smart fellow. He absolutely loves it there. An amazingly talented and intelligent group of people to be working with. If smart people are your thing, you couldn't be happier at the place. Personalities on the other hand...
Oh yeah, well I own the registered trademark "" so all of you webpage authors out there better cease a desist or I'm going to sue you all into oblivion. Or you can pay me a 1-cent royalty for each use of the trademark. With 100 billion web pages out there, that would poke my kitty to $1 billion. Or maybe I should charge you for each copy that is sent over the web. Every hit you get, a penny for me. I'd be richer than Bill. BWAHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHH!!!!
While I think that having a working Windows API is all well and good, what I'd really love to see is for someone to port the DirectX API over to linux. Think of all the games that would open up.
Hi, and welcome to our preliminary planning pre-meeting meeting to help decide on our project name.
Do you think it's safe to just jump in like that?
I can only think that this development will make it easier/cheaper for organizations like GeekCorps to help rollout internet access in other countries. Anytime the price of internet access for anyone comes down, it's a good thing.
if this were a closed-source program, how long would it have taken the security problem to come to light? And the point is by that time, there have been more layering of important code coming from the one piece of buggy code.
I really didn't find this to be a debate so much as idiot on parade. If the patent officer had said one straight-forward intelligent thing during the entire thing, I'd be more lenient.
just get an espresso instead. All of the benefits this guy was after, and more. I can't imagine having many problems with transferring a machine as small as the espresso.
With the increasing bus speeds and DDR ram, rambus' incremental performance at huge cost is unwanted. If Intel wants to dick-over it's customers in order to turn a penny, let them. It's just more incentive for me to go out and make my next system an AMD box.
Personally, I'm a really big fan of DUX. Mostly because of the amazing compilers and tools that come with it. I would love to see some of this open-sourced. I only hesitate to think that Compaq would release YAOSL (yet another open source license) onto the world.
Note that he, too, is using a term solely for propaganda value. "Sharing" something you don't own isn't generally viewed in very positive terms.
He's right though, we should all abandon the word piracy and simply resort to the term "stealing." Surely theft makes people feel all happy and rosy inside while piracy just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
Language is for understanding, and trying to replace commonly used words with nicer substitues only serves to muddy the language.
And you thought laws were difficult in the first place. What happens when a law, which is clearly defined under current definitions of verbiage. What happens when people start changing the definitions of words? We need to keep our eyes on unseen effects. What if there were a law (this is a hypethetical and simplified example) which made it illegal to be a hacker. (Here where hacker is the common definition often used in the pressed.) Then all coders who deemed to take on that definition would ultimately be incriminating themselves, even though what they are doing (hacking) is nothing like the criminal behavior formerly known as hacking. What then?
Why do I get the feeling, that if they had their choice, that the entire slashdot-esque community would completely redefine the entire english language, replacing any derogatory terms describining their activities with ones that are more glowing in nature. Replacing piracy with sharing, when piracy is a well understood term for the stealing and dissemination of copyrighted materials. Just the same as the general public understands what the press means when they call someone a "hacker." You really can't force somebody to use whatever language you see fit. Language is for understanding, and trying to replace commonly used words with nicer substitues only serves to muddy the language.
The very first thing I envision about the future is that we will have/need much speedier access to the net. MOst people are still llanguishing on dial-ups. DSL is a step in the right direction. But I forsee in the future almost instantaneous access to all information. It may not be truly instantaneous, but the perception of so: Streaming video/audio, etc.
The second thing I'd be looking for is a better interface. The browser metaphor really is at the edge of its abilities. Whatever interface comes along will be amazing compared to the abilities of today. As I'm typing this, there is an ad for those I-Glasses from thinkgeek which let you immerse yourself in your computing environment. That is totally cool. Add to that some sort of VR input device and you would be sitting pretty for interacting with the new interface, whatever it may be.
The last thing I envisage happening is that the "One Great Internet" will really be split up into several specialized networks. We've seen it happen before in other areas. Specialization vs. Generalization. I can't imagine in what ways things will be split up, but it will happen.
I used to think that this cartoon was a hilarious and accurate reflection of Metallica and their actions against Napster. Now though I'm actually seeing it a little more clearly and not through the info-anarchists eyes.