1. Yes, comments are theoretically owned by the poster -- it says so at the bottom of the page. That's why there was such a storm when/. wanted to publish "voices from the hellmouth"; at first, they didn't actually ask each individual poster for permission. This, IMHO, is an example of pedantism getting in the way of what's right (others may disagree, of course). The other side of the issue is that if slashdot claims to own copyright, they technically can be held liable for inappropriate and/or copyrighted material posted on the site (like the deCSS code or M$-kerberos)
2. That's a very good question. Remember the DVD case? 2600.com was forced to take down their hyperlinks and replace them with text URLs. Will the insanity never end? --
Of course slashdot posted this article -- they have a vested interest in seeing this scheme fail.
Why?
Because theynowowe the albequerque journal $150.00:-) --
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Robert L. Forward also does a lot with tethers/elevators and other radical propulsion systems (including monopole magnets) in his books, too. I highly recommend his book Dragon's Egg, about contact between humans and aliens living on the surface of a neutron star(!)
No amazon url due to patent madness. Choose any online source you want for more info... --
Your user id is low enough that one would think you'd have discovered by now that this "worthless piece of crap" can be excluded from your front page (under the section "exclude sections from homepage").
Based on your attitude about "newsworthiness", I suggest you check off every section except for "news" and "linux business".
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Having looked it up, BTW, the full cycle is 600,000-something years.
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The Hebrew calendar is actually really cool. It, BTW, is also incredibly complicated -- much more than just changing things every 17 days. It has to accomodate certain holidays not falling on certain days of the week while still keeping accurate time. It also has essentially been the same for a very long time -- No messy Julian-Gregorian switch, although leap seconds may or may not be needed (I don't know about this one), as nobody back then could keep time to sub-milliseconds.
A great (Unix) Hebrew calendar program is Hebcal. More info about the Hebrew calendar can be found at this site
Finally, with half-meter resolution I can finally tell if my mom's left yet to pick me up from the high school!
Now all I need to do is find a site wtih a 15-minute refresh of, say, the entire world. But just my house would be ok too. Starting tomorrow, I'm opening a fund to put a satellite right above my house.
I agree. I also think that we should just let people die when they are sick instead of trying to cure them; after all, if all sick people die, we will have practically eliminated disease from the world. I'm not sick right now and I made my health the way it is because of my integrity and All-American hard work, so why should I care if some poor slob dies?
Who honestly thinks that anyone would want to use this service?
Raise your hands.
Come on, I know there's a few of you... one? Never mind.
It's quite obvious what the point of this is. The RIAA, by requiring a solution such as this, is trying to drive mp3.com out of business. With such a money-drainer as my.mp3.com, the company as a whole would be suffering. The remaining competition to the RIAA is being knocked out, one by one. --
Wow! You mean they actually solved it in logarithmic time? This marks a major breathrough in cryptography. I thought these things took a long time to solve, like exponential or worse.
... and I'm not just talking about the mail program, either.
What the author previewing is a development version of whistler -- one that will be available to everyone in 2001 or later. In contrast, the versions of GNOME and KDE he's using are most likely the current, stable ones (1.2 and whatever the KDE stable is (2.0?) ). So currently, Whistler is ahead in the few points the reviewer touches on.
However:
By 2001, Nautilus will be out and have the preview feature the reviewer wanted, plus many others.
By 2001, HelixCode's Red Carpet will provide even easier updates than the current packagers.
By 2001, GNOME and KDE both will have radically improved interfaces.
I don't remember any other specific complaints the reviewer had, but this is clear: With whistler, we'll see that one interface in 2001 and then no improvements until the next version -- maybe '03 or '04. OTOH, GNOME and KDE both are progressing at a rapid rate. What they already have in devel will surely be out way before whistler, and the improvements will be a steady trickle of bugfixes and enhancements, instead of seasonal service packs and enhancements only every two years. So while Whistler may be ahead for now in what was reviewed, but this will be radically different by the time whistler is actually released. --
This works with cars and businesses with a high initial cost. OTOH, anyone with a decent OS can run an Internet service. You probably run a few at home. We've tried to stop Napster, drugs, and alcohol; so far, one out of three has been only slightly better than a huge failure. In addition, even well-known servers have holes discovered in them after they've been out for quite some time.
2) License ISPs Can be done, but remember that the big ISPs are just as bad. Remember today's spam article? The top sources of spam were all massive ISPs.
3) Make spoofed packets illegal See #1. In fact, this would be harder to track down than #1, since the packets are spoofed:-)
4) Authenticate everything Like you said, Duh!:-)
5) Criminalize all scanning, including pings and probes Re pings: The author has obviously never played Quake before. And about probes, where do you draw the line between legal and illegal? Is trying a few ports illegal? What if I go to a server and connect to telnet, http, and sendmail? Those ports all have legitimate uses; see #1. Ah ha, you (or the author) say, but I would only outlaw automated attacks. This is dubious at best, and it still runs into the same issues as #1.
Again, like you said, the Internet is structured as to be vulnerable. At this point, no amount of words can change that fact. --
Sorry, the background info on halakha was mainly for the general/.-reading public.
Yes, he has been espousing this view for a while, but it hasn't become an issue until now. The only other excommunication I remember learning about, some guy in Germany near the beginning of the Reform movement, was also mainly because of his _public_ spreading of opinions that in their belief were heretical. This is the same thing here -- he was excommunicated once he began to speak his views to a wider audience.
As for me, I think it's right that he keeps his religious views separate from his political votes. Judaism teaches its rulings on abortion the same way as the ones on kashrut; we don't go around trying to keep Christians from eating pork. So with the exception of the 7 Noachide laws, everything else is a personal, religious decision -- not a decision to make for the rest of the nation. Imposing one's religion on others (*cough*republicans*cough*) is tyranny of the worst sort.
it sends a strong message of religious intolerance and political partisanship in these final two weeks before the election
Just for your knowledge, the rabbinic court's decision has very little to do with political partisanship upcoming election. He was not excommunicated because the rabbis really supported Bush (G-d forbid!:-) ) or anything like that. This had to do with specific issues of halakha (Jewish law). Like Islam and unlike Christianity, Judaism has a legal tradition of interpreting the Torah, dating back from the times of the Talmud. "Legal" means that it is similar to modern law in that it follows the Torah (constitution) and precedent, in about that order. What excommunication means is that he is espousing positions that disagree with Jewish law. Note again that this law has evolved through 2000 years of careful study and interpretation -- it's far more than these guys happening to disagree with Lieberman (unlike what happened to, say, Galileo).
If anyone who is more informed (I am Jewish, but not orthodox) disagrees, please say so.
(there is a space in your link that needs to be removed for the article to work -- slashdot does that.) --
If I understand you right, you're saying that kids would only be able to use the.kids domain? So who would put their site there?
Not commentary sites. Not humor sites. Not science sites.
Nor anything else, for that matter. Who really would want a.kids domain? By saying.kids, you project the impression of being _only_ for kids. Therefore, the only sites that would exist on.kids would be kiddie portals. Of course, those sites wouldn't actually be able to link to anything...
In addition, this idea wouldn't cover the billions of pages already out on the web that are appropriate for all ages. --
Thanks, v2os, for placing a bunch of 'hidden' keywords at the top of your page. These "hidden" keywords sure look great (and hide themselves really well) in my text-based browser.
Seriously, that's what the keyword meta tag is for. Please don't stuff your page full of words like that. If your project is good, people will find you.
FYI, a tool called "autorpm" will do automatic updates for you. Rumor also has it that rpm 4.0 will have auto updates and some other features apt-get had that were sorely needed in rpm.
Slashdot Mirror
That's actually a quite interesting issue.
/. wanted to publish "voices from the hellmouth"; at first, they didn't actually ask each individual poster for permission. This, IMHO, is an example of pedantism getting in the way of what's right (others may disagree, of course). The other side of the issue is that if slashdot claims to own copyright, they technically can be held liable for inappropriate and/or copyrighted material posted on the site (like the deCSS code or M$-kerberos)
1. Yes, comments are theoretically owned by the poster -- it says so at the bottom of the page. That's why there was such a storm when
2. That's a very good question. Remember the DVD case? 2600.com was forced to take down their hyperlinks and replace them with text URLs. Will the insanity never end?
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Of course slashdot posted this article -- they have a vested interest in seeing this scheme fail.
:-)
Why?
Because they now owe the albequerque journal $150.00
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Robert L. Forward also does a lot with tethers/elevators and other radical propulsion systems (including monopole magnets) in his books, too. I highly recommend his book Dragon's Egg, about contact between humans and aliens living on the surface of a neutron star(!)
No amazon url due to patent madness. Choose any online source you want for more info...
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Your user id is low enough that one would think you'd have discovered by now that this "worthless piece of crap" can be excluded from your front page (under the section "exclude sections from homepage").
Based on your attitude about "newsworthiness", I suggest you check off every section except for "news" and "linux business".
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s/17 days/19 years/ (type)
Having looked it up, BTW, the full cycle is 600,000-something years.
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The Hebrew calendar is actually really cool. It, BTW, is also incredibly complicated -- much more than just changing things every 17 days. It has to accomodate certain holidays not falling on certain days of the week while still keeping accurate time. It also has essentially been the same for a very long time -- No messy Julian-Gregorian switch, although leap seconds may or may not be needed (I don't know about this one), as nobody back then could keep time to sub-milliseconds.
A great (Unix) Hebrew calendar program is Hebcal. More info about the Hebrew calendar can be found at this site
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This wouldn't have anything to do with Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics, now, would it?
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This is amazing.
;-)
Finally, with half-meter resolution I can finally tell if my mom's left yet to pick me up from the high school!
Now all I need to do is find a site wtih a 15-minute refresh of, say, the entire world. But just my house would be ok too. Starting tomorrow, I'm opening a fund to put a satellite right above my house.
Donate! Come on, you know you want to.
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I agree. I also think that we should just let people die when they are sick instead of trying to cure them; after all, if all sick people die, we will have practically eliminated disease from the world. I'm not sick right now and I made my health the way it is because of my integrity and All-American hard work, so why should I care if some poor slob dies?
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Who honestly thinks that anyone would want to use this service?
Raise your hands.
Come on, I know there's a few of you... one? Never mind.
It's quite obvious what the point of this is. The RIAA, by requiring a solution such as this, is trying to drive mp3.com out of business. With such a money-drainer as my.mp3.com, the company as a whole would be suffering. The remaining competition to the RIAA is being knocked out, one by one.
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someone did have a log of time on there hands
Wow! You mean they actually solved it in logarithmic time? This marks a major breathrough in cryptography. I thought these things took a long time to solve, like exponential or worse.
Oh, wait, it was a typo, nevermind.
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... and I'm not just talking about the mail program, either.
What the author previewing is a development version of whistler -- one that will be available to everyone in 2001 or later. In contrast, the versions of GNOME and KDE he's using are most likely the current, stable ones (1.2 and whatever the KDE stable is (2.0?) ). So currently, Whistler is ahead in the few points the reviewer touches on.
However:
By 2001, Nautilus will be out and have the preview feature the reviewer wanted, plus many others.
By 2001, HelixCode's Red Carpet will provide even easier updates than the current packagers.
By 2001, GNOME and KDE both will have radically improved interfaces.
I don't remember any other specific complaints the reviewer had, but this is clear: With whistler, we'll see that one interface in 2001 and then no improvements until the next version -- maybe '03 or '04. OTOH, GNOME and KDE both are progressing at a rapid rate. What they already have in devel will surely be out way before whistler, and the improvements will be a steady trickle of bugfixes and enhancements, instead of seasonal service packs and enhancements only every two years. So while Whistler may be ahead for now in what was reviewed, but this will be radically different by the time whistler is actually released.
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#4 (English actors as good guys): Right, because we all know how much of an evil, scheming, all-around bad guy-type that James Bond was.
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Try OpenNIC. It's small, but they have their ideas right and could use your support.
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I was referring to the more general process of pinging someone to calculate latency.
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This is already answered in the faq.
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Right...
:-)
:-)
1) Secure all servers
This works with cars and businesses with a high initial cost. OTOH, anyone with a decent OS can run an Internet service. You probably run a few at home. We've tried to stop Napster, drugs, and alcohol; so far, one out of three has been only slightly better than a huge failure. In addition, even well-known servers have holes discovered in them after they've been out for quite some time.
2) License ISPs
Can be done, but remember that the big ISPs are just as bad. Remember today's spam article? The top sources of spam were all massive ISPs.
3) Make spoofed packets illegal
See #1. In fact, this would be harder to track down than #1, since the packets are spoofed
4) Authenticate everything
Like you said, Duh!
5) Criminalize all scanning, including pings and probes
Re pings: The author has obviously never played Quake before. And about probes, where do you draw the line between legal and illegal? Is trying a few ports illegal? What if I go to a server and connect to telnet, http, and sendmail? Those ports all have legitimate uses; see #1. Ah ha, you (or the author) say, but I would only outlaw automated attacks. This is dubious at best, and it still runs into the same issues as #1.
Again, like you said, the Internet is structured as to be vulnerable. At this point, no amount of words can change that fact.
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Sorry, the background info on halakha was mainly for the general /.-reading public.
Yes, he has been espousing this view for a while, but it hasn't become an issue until now. The only other excommunication I remember learning about, some guy in Germany near the beginning of the Reform movement, was also mainly because of his _public_ spreading of opinions that in their belief were heretical. This is the same thing here -- he was excommunicated once he began to speak his views to a wider audience.
As for me, I think it's right that he keeps his religious views separate from his political votes. Judaism teaches its rulings on abortion the same way as the ones on kashrut; we don't go around trying to keep Christians from eating pork. So with the exception of the 7 Noachide laws, everything else is a personal, religious decision -- not a decision to make for the rest of the nation. Imposing one's religion on others (*cough*republicans*cough*) is tyranny of the worst sort.
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it sends a strong message of religious intolerance and political partisanship in these final two weeks before the election
:-) ) or anything like that. This had to do with specific issues of halakha (Jewish law). Like Islam and unlike Christianity, Judaism has a legal tradition of interpreting the Torah, dating back from the times of the Talmud. "Legal" means that it is similar to modern law in that it follows the Torah (constitution) and precedent, in about that order. What excommunication means is that he is espousing positions that disagree with Jewish law. Note again that this law has evolved through 2000 years of careful study and interpretation -- it's far more than these guys happening to disagree with Lieberman (unlike what happened to, say, Galileo).
Just for your knowledge, the rabbinic court's decision has very little to do with political partisanship upcoming election. He was not excommunicated because the rabbis really supported Bush (G-d forbid!
If anyone who is more informed (I am Jewish, but not orthodox) disagrees, please say so.
(there is a space in your link that needs to be removed for the article to work -- slashdot does that.)
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Wouldn't work.
.kids domain? So who would put their site there?
.kids domain? By saying .kids, you project the impression of being _only_ for kids. Therefore, the only sites that would exist on .kids would be kiddie portals. Of course, those sites wouldn't actually be able to link to anything...
If I understand you right, you're saying that kids would only be able to use the
Not commentary sites. Not humor sites. Not science sites.
Nor anything else, for that matter. Who really would want a
In addition, this idea wouldn't cover the billions of pages already out on the web that are appropriate for all ages.
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Thanks, v2os, for placing a bunch of 'hidden' keywords at the top of your page. These "hidden" keywords sure look great (and hide themselves really well) in my text-based browser.
Seriously, that's what the keyword meta tag is for. Please don't stuff your page full of words like that. If your project is good, people will find you.
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and it's called slash. I think some of you may have heard of it before. :-)
Seriously, slash is very similar to the system they described and it would be mondo prior art.
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FYI, a tool called "autorpm" will do automatic updates for you. Rumor also has it that rpm 4.0 will have auto updates and some other features apt-get had that were sorely needed in rpm.
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Here is the Postal Service guide to preventing mail fraud in PDF format
Funny, my mail fraud is all on paper. I haven't seen any "make money fast" schemes in PDF format.
;-)
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Gotcha!
You just talked about the case. "They'll throw the book at you, kid. Get while the getting's good."
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