The cause of aging is very simple. The breaking down of the cellular reproduction process. As the cells in the body reproduce they have the potential to make a bad copy (also where cancer comes from). The bad copy may not be able to reproduce anymore. Over time these non-reproducing cells add up. It's called aging. (Anything that could possibly influence the reproduction process is a cause.)
What I don't know is if the scientists see it this clearly, and are looking for specific mechanisms behind the degredation (to see if they can help prevent the problems), or think that there is some preprogrammed mechanism that forces aging (still a possibility, just not without standard wear and tear).
I wonder what rational will support the prevention of retrevial of the maps through the Freedom of Information Act? National Security? (they are planning on releasing the hires image of the US)
I like te suggestion that an ISP can collect the email and sue for the bulk of them.
Basically that will violate the premise that ISP's do not monitor the content on their systems and thusly are not liable for it. They had better not touch this one with a 100' section of CAT5.
What's the problem? If the software is GPLed, they have to release the code of the work that they do, and the origional maintainers can fold any useful changes into their version after bugfixes when and if they want to.
Even in a worst case scenario, what you'll get is a GNU Emacs vs.X-Emacs type split. Doesn't sound like a problem to me...
I suppose what I a saying is that corporate development has the potential to outpace the community development, and bit by bit, through developers getting frustrated at receiving no credit (a la sun and blackdown) and the users (yes there will be the original community that will stay with it, but they currently represent about 1% of the total market) ignoring the original development efforts and buying into only the commercial and well hyped products, could stand to push our efforts into the background, and possibly render them invisible.
I'm not saying it will happen, just forwarding it as a possibility. (who would want poorly developed code thats covered under the gpl that would take as long to fix as to write from scratch?)
They've lost right there. Who want's to go to the store and wonder how fast they want their gaming console to be? One of the great things about it was that there was only one choice (per vendor). You'll buy a game, have a blast playing it on your 1GHZ machaine at home and then take it over to a friends to show him/her, and it will play like shit 'cause they could only afford the $149 400MHZ console.
Just remember 1GHZ chips arent out yet (perhaps kryotech or alpha). When they are they will probably cost upwards of $800-900. One year later (2001 launch date for Xbox) the average chip prices will be nowhere near making this economically feasible for microsoft.
Wealthy organizations, accustomed to getting their way, will demand impossible schedules from you, and then complain if the quality is not perfect.
What needs to be carefully watched is the hijacking of the software. There is nothing currently preventing a large corporation from taking the software and branching away from the current devlopment efforts and developing it faster (with more bugs) and hyping it more than the community built version.
With proper marketing and gimmicks it could become the standard distribution leaving the original package in the shadows, to be harvested periodically for bugfixes and innovation.
Corporations have the capability to be arrogant and insensitive to the fates of individuals.
How can you claim that? You are more arrogant that I ever imagined! So I guess you are the end-all of writers in every community. NSA spooks pull up Katz reviews of movies to find out where technology is headed. What the hell are you talking about? With the exception of the high school students and the NSA (best I ever did was ex-NSA) I have traded email or spoken with all the types of people he mentioned. It's not really all that unheard of or difficult to do. (I'll also bet you never realized the NSA has satellite offices all over the country.)
You seem to thing that you have an unlimited forum here. So do you.
Everyone join me in going to your preferences and blocking everythign by Jon Katz. You are abusive of your rights on slashdot and posts things that are definitly not News For Nerds. So you are a fan of censorship? I'll bet if you could, would have all of Jon's articles removed (perhaps burned?) and prevent him from ever submitting again. It looks like you would be more abusive if you had the rights. I happen to think his posts (not all) are interesting and entertaining.
Also, How do you claim that you are read by highly technical linux geeks, when you rarely write about anything technical, much less a topic that can be highly technical. So you're stereotyping "highly technical linux geeks" into drones who only read highly technical stuff? Come back to reality.
You shouldn't abuse your position. Contrary to what world you have created in your mind, you sir are not a technocrat. He's abusing his position? How? I find it hard to believe you are a technocrat (what the hell is a technocrat, except the buzzword of the day) except in _your_own mind.
You are not respected, Yes he is, just not by you. There are people out there who respect him.
your opinions are not well founded or much less explained in any fashion. And yours are even less founded. (support at least one of your assertions)
All you do is sum up stories, dumb them down, then post them on slashdot. A valuable resource for people who don't have the time to read through x hundred posts.
There is the moderation aspect where posts are given/taken points in accordance with the moderators opinion of it. Rob's moderation systems have definitely made this better, and he thinks quite a bit about this issue.
The other part is the users preferences setting where you can ignore all posts below a certain threshold. To me, steering software is the anti-thesis of community. I consider it self-censorship...
Perhaps it is that not enough people have asked for an interview with any of the other members of slashdot. I'll be that at the least Bruce Perens will have the opportunity for an interview sooner or later.
You can download the hardware specs (supposedly everything you need to build one), but they say some components are not commercially available (LCD, touchscreen, etc...) Were did they get them? Were can I get them?
Interestingly enough there is a license agreement attached to the downloading of the specs.
Well, someone is in a world of trouble at ZDNet. The article just got yanked.
If anyone read through the affiliate program materials, there is no mention of any source code. Just the program itself. You put code to reference the toold/search on Altavista's site, and get paid $3 per clickthrough! Not all that lucrative unless you have alot of traffic.
The biggest problem, probably, is that the companies could sue you whether or not they thought they could win, to frighten you into submission. Assuming you live in the US of A where everyone has the God given right to sue anyone else, there is nothing you can do to prevent this, only fight and win.
I was wondering about this one. Large corporations sue with the expectation that the individual will run out of money. What would happen if they had to sue a hundred (or a thousand)different people, each putting up a small defense. (admittedly this would take alot of potential martyrs, but Gahndi succeded in the end, didn't he?) How long could they last? Are public defenders available for such cases?
Buy placing "..." at the end of the domain being set, some browsers (i don't know if this has been fixed yet) can get confused as to the top level domain being set, and let everyone read the cookie.
And you are correct about second level domains sharing cookies. It depends on how you set the cookie. If you were to set it to "somerandomsite.com" it can be shared. If you were to set it to "www.somerandomsite.com" only www.somerandomsite.com can read it.
Here is the reference I use anytime I need to use cookies: Cookie FAQ
I ever really considered Gartner's comments to be anti-linux. Everything I read had some truth to it, and usually made a good point. It just didn't happen to jive with most linux advocates beliefs at the time (that still doesn't make them wrong).
I have been thinking about something along those lines for a while now.
My idea was to create a repository of "prior art" that would become so vast as to contain via brute force many of the items people might patent, but probably shouldn't because they are obvious.
It would work something like this:
-Create a website with a form. Let anyone submit ideas/plans/anything to it to get it into public record. -Utilize some legally acceptable mechanism to prove the date of submission (possibly weekly batch mailings of all submissions via registered mail, or other) -Have the submissions be moderated by a group of moderators (a-la/.). Once they reach a certain threshold, they are accessible to the public domain to use and view. (and hopefully prevent stupid patents, or at least make members exempt from them)
There are a few problems as best I can tell. -A reliable, inexpensive way to validate/verify submission date -There is a chance to receive patented information (part of the reason behind the moderation system is to try to catch things like that) -Getting community support (this includes myself, i just don't have the time for something like this right now)
Slashdot Mirror
What I don't know is if the scientists see it this clearly, and are looking for specific mechanisms behind the degredation (to see if they can help prevent the problems), or think that there is some preprogrammed mechanism that forces aging (still a possibility, just not without standard wear and tear).
I wonder what rational will support the prevention of retrevial of the maps through the Freedom of Information Act? National Security? (they are planning on releasing the hires image of the US)
Basically that will violate the premise that ISP's do not monitor the content on their systems and thusly are not liable for it. They had better not touch this one with a 100' section of CAT5.
Even in a worst case scenario, what you'll get is a GNU Emacs vs.X-Emacs type split. Doesn't sound like a problem to me...
I suppose what I a saying is that corporate development has the potential to outpace the community development, and bit by bit, through developers getting frustrated at receiving no credit (a la sun and blackdown) and the users (yes there will be the original community that will stay with it, but they currently represent about 1% of the total market) ignoring the original development efforts and buying into only the commercial and well hyped products, could stand to push our efforts into the background, and possibly render them invisible.
I'm not saying it will happen, just forwarding it as a possibility. (who would want poorly developed code thats covered under the gpl that would take as long to fix as to write from scratch?)
Yep. (although the problem was a corrupted dll)
I've also had win98 crash during the install process. (haven't figured that one out yet)
and
Up to 1 GHz CPU
They've lost right there. Who want's to go to the store and wonder how fast they want their gaming console to be? One of the great things about it was that there was only one choice (per vendor). You'll buy a game, have a blast playing it on your 1GHZ machaine at home and then take it over to a friends to show him/her, and it will play like shit 'cause they could only afford the $149 400MHZ console.
Just remember 1GHZ chips arent out yet (perhaps kryotech or alpha). When they are they will probably cost upwards of $800-900. One year later (2001 launch date for Xbox) the average chip prices will be nowhere near making this economically feasible for microsoft.
What needs to be carefully watched is the hijacking of the software. There is nothing currently preventing a large corporation from taking the software and branching away from the current devlopment efforts and developing it faster (with more bugs) and hyping it more than the community built version.
With proper marketing and gimmicks it could become the standard distribution leaving the original package in the shadows, to be harvested periodically for bugfixes and innovation.
Corporations have the capability to be arrogant and insensitive to the fates of individuals.
As in:
I'll bet that at the least Bruce Perens will have the opportunity for an interview sooner or later.
(kinder butcher grammar)
Why?, because they are the systems the attacker was probably most comfortable with. (and had experience with)
What the hell are you talking about? With the exception of the high school students and the NSA (best I ever did was ex-NSA) I have traded email or spoken with all the types of people he mentioned. It's not really all that unheard of or difficult to do. (I'll also bet you never realized the NSA has satellite offices all over the country.)
You seem to thing that you have an unlimited forum here.
So do you.
Everyone join me in going to your preferences and blocking everythign by Jon Katz. You are abusive of your rights on slashdot and posts things that are definitly not News For Nerds.
So you are a fan of censorship? I'll bet if you could, would have all of Jon's articles removed (perhaps burned?) and prevent him from ever submitting again. It looks like you would be more abusive if you had the rights. I happen to think his posts (not all) are interesting and entertaining.
Also, How do you claim that you are read by highly technical linux geeks, when you rarely write about anything technical, much less a topic that can be highly technical.
So you're stereotyping "highly technical linux geeks" into drones who only read highly technical stuff? Come back to reality.
You shouldn't abuse your position. Contrary to what world you have created in your mind, you sir are not a technocrat.
He's abusing his position? How? I find it hard to believe you are a technocrat (what the hell is a technocrat, except the buzzword of the day) except in _your_own mind.
You are not respected,
Yes he is, just not by you. There are people out there who respect him.
your opinions are not well founded or much less explained in any fashion.
And yours are even less founded. (support at least one of your assertions)
All you do is sum up stories, dumb them down, then post them on slashdot.
A valuable resource for people who don't have the time to read through x hundred posts.
There is the moderation aspect where posts are given/taken points in accordance with the moderators opinion of it.
Rob's moderation systems have definitely made this better, and he thinks quite a bit about this issue.
The other part is the users preferences setting where you can ignore all posts below a certain threshold.
To me, steering software is the anti-thesis of community. I consider it self-censorship...
I found this article interesting.
Jon Kats Discovers Slashdot
Perhaps it is that not enough people have asked for an interview with any of the other members of slashdot. I'll be that at the least Bruce Perens will have the opportunity for an interview sooner or later.
Interestingly enough there is a license agreement attached to the downloading of the specs.
Actually it looks like they ahve a running gpl or the most recent out of date version (something like 2 versions behind the current one).
what about descriptions (not code) of the encryption system.
Too bad, we could have put them out of business at the government's expense...
Actually it's $.03 per clickthrough.
The article just got yanked.
If anyone read through the affiliate program materials, there is no mention of any source code. Just the program itself. You put code to reference the toold/search on Altavista's site, and get paid $3 per clickthrough! Not all that lucrative unless you have alot of traffic.
I was wondering about this one. Large corporations sue with the expectation that the individual will run out of money. What would happen if they had to sue a hundred (or a thousand)different people, each putting up a small defense. (admittedly this would take alot of potential martyrs, but Gahndi succeded in the end, didn't he?) How long could they last? Are public defenders available for such cases?
If only it weren't offtopic(at least by posting i won't have to moderate it down). I found much humor in that post.
Here is where I read about it.
And you are correct about second level domains sharing cookies. It depends on how you set the cookie. If you were to set it to "somerandomsite.com" it can be shared. If you were to set it to "www.somerandomsite.com" only www.somerandomsite.com can read it.
Here is the reference I use anytime I need to use cookies: Cookie FAQ
I ever really considered Gartner's comments to be anti-linux. Everything I read had some truth to it, and usually made a good point. It just didn't happen to jive with most linux advocates beliefs at the time (that still doesn't make them wrong).
Best I can tell they are trying to do at least 2 separate things. (yes, i've had to help build things like this before)
The answer is supposed to be no (only the domain that sets it can read it), but if a cookie is set with esentially a null domain anyone can read it.
My idea was to create a repository of "prior art" that would become so vast as to contain via brute force many of the items people might patent, but probably shouldn't because they are obvious.
It would work something like this:
-Create a website with a form. Let anyone submit ideas/plans/anything to it to get it into public record. /.). Once they reach a certain threshold, they are accessible to the public domain to use and view. (and hopefully prevent stupid patents, or at least make members exempt from them)
-Utilize some legally acceptable mechanism to prove the date of submission (possibly weekly batch mailings of all submissions via registered mail, or other)
-Have the submissions be moderated by a group of moderators (a-la
There are a few problems as best I can tell.
-A reliable, inexpensive way to validate/verify submission date
-There is a chance to receive patented information (part of the reason behind the moderation system is to try to catch things like that) -Getting community support (this includes myself, i just don't have the time for something like this right now)