So apparently it works for the one article you are looking at, but save doesn't actually save anything. Always nice to see a site become even less relevant and useful D'oh!
Oh and while I'm here, slashdot's web designers are somewhat retarded as of the last few months. Seriously, and ad that takes up 1/3rd of the page? Who thinks of this shit? And now to make things worse, the user pane scrolls with the page when reading the comments, so you have to scroll heavily just to read the comments. The first dumbfuck idea can be fixed with adblock, but the second dumbfuck idea requires outright disabling javascript just to make the page readable.
Or you could take the 5 seconds required to hit options in the userbox and disable slashboxes. It's still a stupid design idea, but if you're on a site claiming to be news for nerds, spending 30 seconds looking for tweakable widgets seems like a reasonable expectation.
I think you are over looking the potential for municipal broadband to choke change and growth. Say what you will about Comcast and friends but we have things like 100Mbps down 75Mpbs up links at affordable prices. Compare that to what you could get in your home a decade ago. Now think about how fast your local municipality does changes anything. Consider the article about Flit Michigan's water system the other day. The issue was really not the water source but the infrastructure. How many places have over crowed schools, etc?
I have had 100Mbps down and up in my house for over 10 years now, so the fact that Comcast & other monopolies are offering it now shows how slowly change occurs when there is no competition. An easy way to do municipal broadband would be for a public utility to run the infrastructure (cables, fiber, pipes, etc,) and bring connections to a central location where multiple content and connectivity providers could be available for customers to choose between.
I believed that until a Slashdot admin deleted a fairly well-written summary I wrote about the debunking of the UN "cyber violence" report while giving sjw fluff pieces a pass. There is bias and it is administrative.
The problem wasn't the debunking of the report, it was the well-written summary. We can't have those showing up on slashdot
ICE, FBI, and other law enforcement agencies can only seize domains that are managed by registrars or registries in countries in which they have jurisdiction. Very easy to seize a.com or a.biz (Verisign and Neustar are both in the US,) a bit rarder to seize a.cn (unless China wants to allow them to.)
It works out to 30 or fewer average 10G Internet links. Depending on where it hits it could take out a good chunk of many smaller peering exchanges, but any of the Major (Tier 1) ISP's run 80Gbps+ between nodes with 100Gbps links becoming more common, and the larger peering fabrics run multiple Tbps across their peering fabrics. Basically, it is large to many individual sites, but tiny for Internet scale.
I've always preferred the theory of noone being paid from tax dollars should be eligible to run for office. i.e. once you're elected, you are not allowed to run for office until after your term of office is complete. No limit on number of terms or offices, but if someone is being paid to be a legislator or executive from the public coffers, they should focus on doing their job rather than running for office.
All registrars have to go through Verisign for com/net/name, and a few others (org is someone else now.) Verisign no longer runs a registrar business, Network Solutions was spun back off from Verisign a few years ago, keeping the registry with Verisign, and making Network Solutions just another registrar.
I have the problem with dual monitor support. I'd love to find a Linux distro that could drive both monitors off the main video card automagically. Until this is doable, it'll be hard to persuade the general public that *nix is a valid alternative to Mac or Windows. (Of course, I've gotten it to work now, it's just annoying to have to disconnect a monitor during install, then hunt down the appropriate method of getting the proprietary nvidia drivers for the distro I'm on, then set everything up and hope that nvidia-settings actually writes the xorg.conf file properly so that I still have dual screen support after a reboot.) So far, only RHEL4 and Ubuntu 7.04 have managed to properly keep my resolution between reboots, so I'm on Ubuntu 7.04 now on this machine.
Compared to the $5000+/mo a 1.5 Mbit T1 used to run, $30,000/mo for 10,000 Mbit with an SLA is pretty cheap. For that matter, compared to the $30-70/mo.3 to 7 Mbit runs for DSL or cable in the US, $#/Mbit is still fairly cheap. Just my opinion.
Depending on the terms of the news provider, most state they do not log downloads. Whether they log or not, however, downloading from usenet is perfectly legal. Uploads are logged, and it's very easy to hunt down the larger posters of copyright-challenged material to sue for damages and/or press criminal charges. The usenet providers themselves will not be sued provided they maintain appropriate DMCA contact information and promptly remove material that is claimed to be infringing, but they will generally actively avoid trying to locate infringing material themselves to remain a common carrier rather than a publisher/editor, which may be sued potentially for aiding any material they don't catch.
Of course, I am not a lawyer, but I've been reading usenet for over a decade including high volume binary groups.
PCs can be set up to boot to HDD first, lock the BIOS, and even password protect the hdd. While anything can be bypassed, there are ways to make systems somewhat more secure.
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I never realized the Gap implied a country protecting rulers from the people. :)
So apparently it works for the one article you are looking at, but save doesn't actually save anything. Always nice to see a site become even less relevant and useful D'oh!
Oh and while I'm here, slashdot's web designers are somewhat retarded as of the last few months. Seriously, and ad that takes up 1/3rd of the page? Who thinks of this shit? And now to make things worse, the user pane scrolls with the page when reading the comments, so you have to scroll heavily just to read the comments. The first dumbfuck idea can be fixed with adblock, but the second dumbfuck idea requires outright disabling javascript just to make the page readable.
Or you could take the 5 seconds required to hit options in the userbox and disable slashboxes. It's still a stupid design idea, but if you're on a site claiming to be news for nerds, spending 30 seconds looking for tweakable widgets seems like a reasonable expectation.
I think you are over looking the potential for municipal broadband to choke change and growth. Say what you will about Comcast and friends but we have things like 100Mbps down 75Mpbs up links at affordable prices. Compare that to what you could get in your home a decade ago. Now think about how fast your local municipality does changes anything. Consider the article about Flit Michigan's water system the other day. The issue was really not the water source but the infrastructure. How many places have over crowed schools, etc?
I have had 100Mbps down and up in my house for over 10 years now, so the fact that Comcast & other monopolies are offering it now shows how slowly change occurs when there is no competition. An easy way to do municipal broadband would be for a public utility to run the infrastructure (cables, fiber, pipes, etc,) and bring connections to a central location where multiple content and connectivity providers could be available for customers to choose between.
I believed that until a Slashdot admin deleted a fairly well-written summary I wrote about the debunking of the UN "cyber violence" report while giving sjw fluff pieces a pass. There is bias and it is administrative.
The problem wasn't the debunking of the report, it was the well-written summary. We can't have those showing up on slashdot
ICE, FBI, and other law enforcement agencies can only seize domains that are managed by registrars or registries in countries in which they have jurisdiction. Very easy to seize a .com or a .biz (Verisign and Neustar are both in the US,) a bit rarder to seize a .cn (unless China wants to allow them to.)
It works out to 30 or fewer average 10G Internet links. Depending on where it hits it could take out a good chunk of many smaller peering exchanges, but any of the Major (Tier 1) ISP's run 80Gbps+ between nodes with 100Gbps links becoming more common, and the larger peering fabrics run multiple Tbps across their peering fabrics. Basically, it is large to many individual sites, but tiny for Internet scale.
I've always preferred the theory of noone being paid from tax dollars should be eligible to run for office. i.e. once you're elected, you are not allowed to run for office until after your term of office is complete. No limit on number of terms or offices, but if someone is being paid to be a legislator or executive from the public coffers, they should focus on doing their job rather than running for office.
All registrars have to go through Verisign for com/net/name, and a few others (org is someone else now.) Verisign no longer runs a registrar business, Network Solutions was spun back off from Verisign a few years ago, keeping the registry with Verisign, and making Network Solutions just another registrar.
I have the problem with dual monitor support. I'd love to find a Linux distro that could drive both monitors off the main video card automagically. Until this is doable, it'll be hard to persuade the general public that *nix is a valid alternative to Mac or Windows. (Of course, I've gotten it to work now, it's just annoying to have to disconnect a monitor during install, then hunt down the appropriate method of getting the proprietary nvidia drivers for the distro I'm on, then set everything up and hope that nvidia-settings actually writes the xorg.conf file properly so that I still have dual screen support after a reboot.) So far, only RHEL4 and Ubuntu 7.04 have managed to properly keep my resolution between reboots, so I'm on Ubuntu 7.04 now on this machine.
Compared to the $5000+/mo a 1.5 Mbit T1 used to run, $30,000/mo for 10,000 Mbit with an SLA is pretty cheap. For that matter, compared to the $30-70/mo .3 to 7 Mbit runs for DSL or cable in the US, $#/Mbit is still fairly cheap. Just my opinion.
Depending on the terms of the news provider, most state they do not log downloads. Whether they log or not, however, downloading from usenet is perfectly legal. Uploads are logged, and it's very easy to hunt down the larger posters of copyright-challenged material to sue for damages and/or press criminal charges. The usenet providers themselves will not be sued provided they maintain appropriate DMCA contact information and promptly remove material that is claimed to be infringing, but they will generally actively avoid trying to locate infringing material themselves to remain a common carrier rather than a publisher/editor, which may be sued potentially for aiding any material they don't catch. Of course, I am not a lawyer, but I've been reading usenet for over a decade including high volume binary groups.
That or the mods felt the typo was amusing.
PCs can be set up to boot to HDD first, lock the BIOS, and even password protect the hdd. While anything can be bypassed, there are ways to make systems somewhat more secure.