Yeah, actually, I read that all the jails are so overcrowded that the Justice Department has started to outsource some penal institutions. They said they were going to transfer this guy to the Bangkok Hilton:7
Re:Why P2P is not like the printing press
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Printing presses are large, expensive, hard to hide, and easy to suppress.
The only reason why printing presses are so large nowadays is that the smaller ones have, at least in some parts of the world, been replaced by printers and copier machines, as these are easier to operate (and cheaper) than a printing press is. But I have no doubt that there's still some revolutionaries out there, printing leaflets in candle light in the cellar of daddy's house:7
It would have also been interesting to see the video traffic broken down into subcategories -- ie porn vs non-porn. Yeah, it would be difficult, but you could probably get at least some rough estimates based on certain keywords...
Sheesh...How come you people always take everything so seriously? I saw that AC's comment and found it funny, so I decided to play along*. So I searched the net for the "Moon hoax" and simply copy-pasted (without actually bothering to read past the first sentence) the first link that wasn't a refutation of the infamous Fox show. I guess the mod must have been on crack or something, as I was really aiming for 'Funny' mods...
* What's the harm in posting something that everyone should know is absurd -- especially on a tech news site?
You know what? The 'post-modern' society actually works so great that there isn't actually any more problems to solve. The whole system is pretty much as good as it can get; no radical change can make it any better. At the same time, however, there has to be some change -- otherwise, the society will stagnate. To create some dynamics in the system, some changes are constantly made in it by random. This is how it's done. All those bills are actually created by monkeys randomly pounding on typewriters. The "voting" charade they do in the congress is actually a sort of a Turing test: if a bill passes the test, it gets signed.
You forgot some of the "irony-marks". The "passage" should "read": The "problem" with "post-modern" "society" is there are too many "people" with nothing "meaningful" to do, building "careers" around "controlling" the "lives" of others and generally making "social" "nuisances" of themselves. They "justify" their meddling by "discovering" "social" "problems" and "getting" the "media" to "magnify" them "out of all proportion".
Wanna bet that this bill will increase software piracy? Kind of ironic that by preventing imaginary crime (killing people in games), they'll end up encouraging kids to commit real crimes...
I do believe some of the commercial distros are aimed at staying in the commercial Linux distro business -- by separating you, the client, from your money:7
How about Vista Dvorak edition? It would try -- and always fail -- to predict what you want to do, and then "do" it. The only way to turn this option off would be to wipe the hard disk.
Let's see: Countless Linux distros = good, as it gives you the liberty to choose between many distros. But different versions* of Windows Vista = bad, as it's confusing???
What am I not getting here?
* How about Vista Dvorak edition, automatically spouting bullshit every few days?
I just had a frightening thought. The Trollblacklists both have 200 foes. Assuming that half the names on both lists are the same, this makes 300 troll accounts. The mods have marked me a troll above, so we can safely bet that there's 300/3 = 100 trolls on Slashdot. This also means that roughly one third of 333 active users are [tt]rolls. This number (1/3) corresponds to the signal-to-noise ratio according to AlterSlash.
The reason your idea will never take off is that if this scheme turned out to be profitable to both the racketeers and the people paying for "protection", the government would step in and demand a monopoly in the "protection" racket. Now, you don't want the government installing their rootkits on your computer, do you?
If one monkey on a keyboard can make so many mistakes in such a short blurb, then million monkeys on typewriters will never be able to reproduce "Hamlet" -- they'll invariably end up producing "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" instead. Even the laws of probability will fail there.
It is official; daniil confirms it: Slashdot is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot leader CmdrTaco states that there are 914,000 users of Slashdot. How many users of Slashdot are there? Let's see. The total number of Slashdot posts is currently 13,545,370. The total number of comments posted by me (I have three Slashdot accounts) is 2421 -- averaging to 807 per account. There are about 13,545,370/807 = 16785 active user accounts on Slashdot. The number of users of Slashdot is, therefore, 16785/3 = 5595, which is, by the way, less than Fark has.
All major surveys show that Slashot has steadily declined in market share. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slashdot is to survive at all it will be among news dilettante dabblers. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.
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Yeah, actually, I read that all the jails are so overcrowded that the Justice Department has started to outsource some penal institutions. They said they were going to transfer this guy to the Bangkok Hilton :7
The only reason why printing presses are so large nowadays is that the smaller ones have, at least in some parts of the world, been replaced by printers and copier machines, as these are easier to operate (and cheaper) than a printing press is. But I have no doubt that there's still some revolutionaries out there, printing leaflets in candle light in the cellar of daddy's house :7
It would have also been interesting to see the video traffic broken down into subcategories -- ie porn vs non-porn. Yeah, it would be difficult, but you could probably get at least some rough estimates based on certain keywords...
* What's the harm in posting something that everyone should know is absurd -- especially on a tech news site?
Remember, oil isn't everything. Neither is science, but it's still important enough to spend money on.
Good to see that NASA are finally planning to actually send a man to the Moon. It's been way overdue for years now.
I always thought "web log" stood for a log of web sites you had recently visited. That would make Slashdot a collective web log.
You know what? The 'post-modern' society actually works so great that there isn't actually any more problems to solve. The whole system is pretty much as good as it can get; no radical change can make it any better. At the same time, however, there has to be some change -- otherwise, the society will stagnate. To create some dynamics in the system, some changes are constantly made in it by random. This is how it's done. All those bills are actually created by monkeys randomly pounding on typewriters. The "voting" charade they do in the congress is actually a sort of a Turing test: if a bill passes the test, it gets signed.
You forgot some of the "irony-marks". The "passage" should "read": The "problem" with "post-modern" "society" is there are too many "people" with nothing "meaningful" to do, building "careers" around "controlling" the "lives" of others and generally making "social" "nuisances" of themselves. They "justify" their meddling by "discovering" "social" "problems" and "getting" the "media" to "magnify" them "out of all proportion".
Wanna bet that this bill will increase software piracy? Kind of ironic that by preventing imaginary crime (killing people in games), they'll end up encouraging kids to commit real crimes...
I am?!? Cool! It means I got that job *dance of joy* Though it is a bit strange that they called you not me... Are you pulling my leg?
I do believe some of the commercial distros are aimed at staying in the commercial Linux distro business -- by separating you, the client, from your money :7
How about Vista Dvorak edition? It would try -- and always fail -- to predict what you want to do, and then "do" it. The only way to turn this option off would be to wipe the hard disk.
What am I not getting here?
* How about Vista Dvorak edition, automatically spouting bullshit every few days?
I just had a frightening thought. The Troll blacklists both have 200 foes. Assuming that half the names on both lists are the same, this makes 300 troll accounts. The mods have marked me a troll above, so we can safely bet that there's 300/3 = 100 trolls on Slashdot. This also means that roughly one third of 333 active users are [tt]rolls. This number (1/3) corresponds to the signal-to-noise ratio according to AlterSlash.
The reason your idea will never take off is that if this scheme turned out to be profitable to both the racketeers and the people paying for "protection", the government would step in and demand a monopoly in the "protection" racket. Now, you don't want the government installing their rootkits on your computer, do you?
You see, I told you even a million monkeys would never get anything quite right :7
...which is not necessarily a bad thing.
If one monkey on a keyboard can make so many mistakes in such a short blurb, then million monkeys on typewriters will never be able to reproduce "Hamlet" -- they'll invariably end up producing "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" instead. Even the laws of probability will fail there.
Even the brightest minds make mistakes. It's about time to suck it up, instead of touting it as a "clever tactical move".
It is official; daniil confirms it: Slashdot is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot leader CmdrTaco states that there are 914,000 users of Slashdot. How many users of Slashdot are there? Let's see. The total number of Slashdot posts is currently 13,545,370. The total number of comments posted by me (I have three Slashdot accounts) is 2421 -- averaging to 807 per account. There are about 13,545,370/807 = 16785 active user accounts on Slashdot. The number of users of Slashdot is, therefore, 16785/3 = 5595, which is, by the way, less than Fark has.
All major surveys show that Slashot has steadily declined in market share. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slashdot is to survive at all it will be among news dilettante dabblers. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.
Fact: Slashdot is dying.
The Bay of Pigs! Baby Elian!
In Hell, sharing a small room with two other people.
And so is this (parent) post about that post being a dupe :p
Will Slashdot keep posting stories from Gamespy, now that Gamespy is owned by Fox?