Just think of all the children that could have been fed with this $400 million.:( Or all the landmines that could be removed. Instead, we get playtoys for stupid white men. Micheal Moore needs to do his next expose on "science".
Ok, do you think we get anything useful from the rovers?
Ok, should we stop spending $30+ billion a year on movies? (box office ~10, DVD and video sales and rentals 22+) How about what we spend on sports tickets for multi-millionaire athletes? Nah, a healthy psyche needs its recreation, right? So why isn't a productive scientific pursuit accepted in the same manner? Curiosity... the thirst to see 'what is beyond that hill' is part of a healthy psyche.
How about focusing on how much Americans waste on truly useless trash, such as junk food. And I won't even bring up they then spend weight-loss measures...
I am still a fan of the venerable Saratoga Apple keyboard.
Unfortunately a muscle condition requires that I use an ergonomic keyboard (or suffer in pain). I really wish this company, or Apple, would make a good, inexpensive ergonomic keyboard.
I *really* *really* wish they would use that extra room in the 17" powerbook to put in an ergonomic keyboard... (I'll live with just the slant, and do without the tilt...)
There is a related article about the changing chairmanship of the Judiciary committee, from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), a great advocate for the People, to Orrin Hatch (R-UT), a major supporter of DMCA.
The article's coverage on the "News for Nerds" issues of that committee starts in pargraph sixteen, which begins "The entertainment industry's quest for legislation to stamp out the growing problem of Internet piracy..." and also touches on providing digital content online including webcaster royalties.
Ok, I may be clueless here, but given this comment from Linus:
The TLB invalidate rewrite will likely have broken all other architectures (at least performance-wise, if not in any other way), so architecture maintainers look out!
Since it sounds like this was a P4 specific issue, and a P4 specific fix, shouldn't it have been #ifdef'ed for the architecture?
We have heard that all the Congress Critters have heard from their constituents are negative comments about this bill. Thus, were the supporters actually to take it to a vote, it would die, and MPAA, et al would have practically zero negotiating power remaining when talking with the hardware manufacturers.
So, instead, paying attention to this comment:
In a speech last week, Rogan said that "negotiations are presently underway among hardware manufacturers and content owners to develop improved means for protecting online content," and legislators should wait for results before voting on a proposal such as the Hollings bill.
We see that the Bush administration instead wants this settled out of public view, in secret negotiations.
Yes, that would technically leave hardware manufacturers free to produce unencumbered devices, but that won't do any good when the mainstream media has copyright protections in the path of accessibility. Then it just becomes the whole deCSS case to view DVD's on unencumbered Linux all over again.
As long as so-called content providers (MPAA, et al) can get a reasonable majority of the mainstream manufacturers to go along, there will be insufficient public outcry to stop them and those who don't wish to give up their fair use liberties will be left out in the cold.
-Robert
Good to see this idea return
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Last year Google temporarily had an XML interface available using a query like: http://www.google.com/xml?q=slashdot
Of course, now it's just forbidden. I am surprised they would go back to such a service, it would seem to wind up losing revenue for them depending upon whether or not people are good about passing along whatever Ad-words Google returns. They could expect the traffic to be low enough to not matter compared to the continued word-of-mouth benefit. Or access to the SOAP interface could be offered as a subscription model (pure speculation on my part).
>They're getting close, php 4.2.0 should work I suspect, > whenever it or any other previewish release comes out.
php 4.2.0RC1 was released March 21st, RC2 April 4th, so they are there on the preview releases but on the web sites I don't see any mention of being Apache 2.0 capable.
> Someone reported it to Microsoft and they admitted it's a bug. This is a clash?
I'd say that it is a clash in that obviously Microsoft did not then do compatibility testing with any non-MS products it seems. Not to mention that for everybody else to have interpreted some other way implies to me that there was discussion about the issue. Strangely enough, that's one of the purposes of the working group mailing lists, to help implementors iron out deficiencies in the spec.
IIRC, the spec isn't supposed to become a true standard until there are two independent implementations. So, again, if MS had a question about an inconsistency in the spec, they should have been able to test against those implementations.
While I agree many ISP's, rightfully, do transparent caching (and I say rightfully as one who seven years ago was running CERN's server as a caching proxy for the department and kept trying to convince the university to set one up), there are other purposes, possibly evil, lurking here.
We all know that many corporations are drooling at QoS possibilities in terms of having their sites be more responsive than competitors'. According to the Inktomi product pages, for example Traffic Core:
"Allocate bandwidth usage based on business objectives by prioritizing streaming content based on author, title, department, content category, etc."
Sigh. I just ordered my cable modem this morning to finally switch from dial-up 56k to comcast cable internet... (It's not the bandwidth I mind as much as the latency....)
okay, once I click in the main window upon start-up so that I can hit space-bar to get through the page, going to any other page causes it to lose the keyboard focus for the display window (space-bar and page-down do not work for example), but backspace works to go back to the previous page.
I have to click in the main window begin for each page to be able to use the standard page display keyboard controls? How f****** bogus is that?
Three years and they cannot even release something that keeps the keyboard focus appropriately?
You want more keyboard fun? Go into preferences, go into advanced/proxies, click on the radio button for manual set up, then tried to tab into the fields that you want to edit. Once you make it into a field, tried navigating through the filled using the left and right arrow keys and watch the radio buttons cycle as well...
(yes, I would submit a bug, but last time I went to do that I found it too be way too onerous... why should I, who knows nothing about the project internals, have to pick a sub project for the bug to be assigned to?)
you know, reading over the release notes is really scary... how has this major data loss bug, first submitted almost four months ago, been allowed to make it into the release versions:
(It seems that nobody has looked at it in the past six weeks from the sudden stop to the discussion.)
I just hope all the keyboard shortcuts work appropriately on Windows, since I need to use assistive technologies, that has really been a difficulty. Wouldn't be so bad if it was using native interface widgets...
Only if the Mozilla folks finally start to see the big picture...
I downloaded 110904, and upon first start it asked if I wanted to open Web shortcuts with it, I told it no. This of course did not stop it from associating all my images and XML files with it.
And the next time I started up, it did not even ask and went ahead and associated all my HTML files with it. (Windows)
and don't even get me started about the keyboard shortcuts not working well, and the nonstandard user interface so my assistive technology (Dragon) does not work with it...
I was a Unix system administrator who had the freedom to explore new technologies and thus got into Web development in August of 1993. Being there during the buildup, and of the many years of experience sense, have given me a much better understanding and deeper background of how the Web operates than the vast majority of people in the field.
I have administered four different types of Web servers, can tell you several things wrong with any Web site, have done CGI programming (rolling my own since frameworks were not yet available), worked with WebObjects and StoryServer, and done project management, including being a team leader.
My current personal work is with Cascading Style Sheets, XML, and XSL Transformations. Heck, two weeks ago I found a fundamental bug in how opera 4.02 handles style sheets.
Despite this, I have been unable to find a job here in Washington D.C. for the past year. Why? Seems I do not have the exact experience people are looking for. Despite my vast experience with many other Web servers is seems to be a strike against me when I do not have experience specifically with IIS, for example.
I also do not fit into their current categories easily, having both front-end and back-end experience and interests.
I would also suggest that part of the problem is that these places do not know how bad their Web efforts are. They don't care that they are generating invalid HTML, that their site is difficult to use, and they are not not paying attention to the user errors in their Web logs, and many other things.
It's built its own set of widgets, with the goal of making them completely cross platform. Which makes it impossible (in a practical sense) for those of us who need to use assistive technologies (Dragon NaturallySpeaking). A rather shortsighted choice on their part it seems. -Robert "I really wish there was an alternative to Internet Explorer..."
holding lawyers accountable for their abuses
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Given the abuses of lawyers covered in this and other stories, what kind of remedies exist or can we make exist by reporting them to the bar or changing it so they do not get to govern themselves?
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You forgot to mention how you'd get your ass whoopped!
-Robert
Just think of all the children that could have been fed with this $400 million. :( Or all the landmines that could be removed. Instead, we get playtoys for stupid white men. Micheal Moore needs to do his next expose on "science".
Ok, do you think we get anything useful from the rovers?
Ok, should we stop spending $30+ billion a year on movies? (box office ~10, DVD and video sales and rentals 22+) How about what we spend on sports tickets for multi-millionaire athletes? Nah, a healthy psyche needs its recreation, right? So why isn't a productive scientific pursuit accepted in the same manner? Curiosity... the thirst to see 'what is beyond that hill' is part of a healthy psyche.
How about focusing on how much Americans waste on truly useless trash, such as junk food. And I won't even bring up they then spend weight-loss measures...
-Robert
I am still a fan of the venerable Saratoga Apple keyboard.
Unfortunately a muscle condition requires that I use an ergonomic keyboard (or suffer in pain). I really wish this company, or Apple, would make a good, inexpensive ergonomic keyboard.
I *really* *really* wish they would use that extra room in the 17" powerbook to put in an ergonomic keyboard... (I'll live with just the slant, and do without the tilt...)
-Robert
There is a related article about the changing chairmanship of the Judiciary committee, from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), a great advocate for the People, to Orrin Hatch (R-UT), a major supporter of DMCA.
The article's coverage on the "News for Nerds" issues of that committee starts in pargraph sixteen, which begins "The entertainment industry's quest for legislation to stamp out the growing problem of Internet piracy..." and also touches on providing digital content online including webcaster royalties.
-Robert
NTLM auth is bug 23679, and is scheduled for Mozilla 1.3 alpha which will be out in about one month.
Except that it was also scheduled for 1.2 alpha, then beta, then... despite 107 votes and being topembed+ it keeps slipping.
Want to have NTLM support? Vote for it! http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23679 (Bugzilla doesn't allow slashdot.org referers anymore...)
-Robert
Ok, I may be clueless here, but given this comment from Linus:
The TLB invalidate rewrite will likely have broken all other architectures (at least performance-wise, if not in any other way), so architecture maintainers look out!
Since it sounds like this was a P4 specific issue, and a P4 specific fix, shouldn't it have been #ifdef'ed for the architecture?
-Robert
So, instead, paying attention to this comment:
In a speech last week, Rogan said that "negotiations are presently underway among hardware manufacturers and content owners to develop improved means for protecting online content," and legislators should wait for results before voting on a proposal such as the Hollings bill.
We see that the Bush administration instead wants this settled out of public view, in secret negotiations.
Yes, that would technically leave hardware manufacturers free to produce unencumbered devices, but that won't do any good when the mainstream media has copyright protections in the path of accessibility. Then it just becomes the whole deCSS case to view DVD's on unencumbered Linux all over again.
As long as so-called content providers (MPAA, et al) can get a reasonable majority of the mainstream manufacturers to go along, there will be insufficient public outcry to stop them and those who don't wish to give up their fair use liberties will be left out in the cold.
-Robert
Last year Google temporarily had an XML interface available using a query like: http://www.google.com/xml?q=slashdot
Of course, now it's just forbidden. I am surprised they would go back to such a service, it would seem to wind up losing revenue for them depending upon whether or not people are good about passing along whatever Ad-words Google returns. They could expect the traffic to be low enough to not matter compared to the continued word-of-mouth benefit. Or access to the SOAP interface could be offered as a subscription model (pure speculation on my part).
-Robert
>They're getting close, php 4.2.0 should work I suspect,
> whenever it or any other previewish release comes out.
php 4.2.0RC1 was released March 21st, RC2 April 4th, so they are there on the preview releases but on the web sites I don't see any mention of being Apache 2.0 capable.
-Robert
> Someone reported it to Microsoft and they admitted it's a bug. This is a clash?
I'd say that it is a clash in that obviously Microsoft did not then do compatibility testing with any non-MS products it seems. Not to mention that for everybody else to have interpreted some other way implies to me that there was discussion about the issue. Strangely enough, that's one of the purposes of the working group mailing lists, to help implementors iron out deficiencies in the spec.
IIRC, the spec isn't supposed to become a true standard until there are two independent implementations. So, again, if MS had a question about an inconsistency in the spec, they should have been able to test against those implementations.
-Robert
While I agree many ISP's, rightfully, do transparent caching (and I say rightfully as one who seven years ago was running CERN's server as a caching proxy for the department and kept trying to convince the university to set one up), there are other purposes, possibly evil, lurking here.
We all know that many corporations are drooling at QoS possibilities in terms of having their sites be more responsive than competitors'. According to the Inktomi product pages, for example Traffic Core:
"Allocate bandwidth usage based on business objectives by prioritizing streaming content based on author, title, department, content category, etc."
Sigh. I just ordered my cable modem this morning to finally switch from dial-up 56k to comcast cable internet... (It's not the bandwidth I mind as much as the latency....)
-Robert
(on Windows...)
okay, once I click in the main window upon start-up so that I can hit space-bar to get through the page, going to any other page causes it to lose the keyboard focus for the display window (space-bar and page-down do not work for example), but backspace works to go back to the previous page.
I have to click in the main window begin for each page to be able to use the standard page display keyboard controls? How f****** bogus is that?
Three years and they cannot even release something that keeps the keyboard focus appropriately?
You want more keyboard fun? Go into preferences, go into advanced/proxies, click on the radio button for manual set up, then tried to tab into the fields that you want to edit. Once you make it into a field, tried navigating through the filled using the left and right arrow keys and watch the radio buttons cycle as well...
(yes, I would submit a bug, but last time I went to do that I found it too be way too onerous... why should I, who knows nothing about the project internals, have to pick a sub project for the bug to be assigned to?)
-Robert
you know, reading over the release notes is really scary... how has this major data loss bug, first submitted almost four months ago, been allowed to make it into the release versions:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49180
(It seems that nobody has looked at it in the past six weeks from the sudden stop to the discussion.)
I just hope all the keyboard shortcuts work appropriately on Windows, since I need to use assistive technologies, that has really been a difficulty. Wouldn't be so bad if it was using native interface widgets...
-Robert
Only if the Mozilla folks finally start to see the big picture...
I downloaded 110904, and upon first start it asked if I wanted to open Web shortcuts with it, I told it no. This of course did not stop it from associating all my images and XML files with it.
And the next time I started up, it did not even ask and went ahead and associated all my HTML files with it. (Windows)
and don't even get me started about the keyboard shortcuts not working well, and the nonstandard user interface so my assistive technology (Dragon) does not work with it...
-Robert
I was a Unix system administrator who had the freedom to explore new technologies and thus got into Web development in August of 1993. Being there during the buildup, and of the many years of experience sense, have given me a much better understanding and deeper background of how the Web operates than the vast majority of people in the field.
I have administered four different types of Web servers, can tell you several things wrong with any Web site, have done CGI programming (rolling my own since frameworks were not yet available), worked with WebObjects and StoryServer, and done project management, including being a team leader.
My current personal work is with Cascading Style Sheets, XML, and XSL Transformations. Heck, two weeks ago I found a fundamental bug in how opera 4.02 handles style sheets.
Despite this, I have been unable to find a job here in Washington D.C. for the past year. Why? Seems I do not have the exact experience people are looking for. Despite my vast experience with many other Web servers is seems to be a strike against me when I do not have experience specifically with IIS, for example.
I also do not fit into their current categories easily, having both front-end and back-end experience and interests.
I would also suggest that part of the problem is that these places do not know how bad their Web efforts are. They don't care that they are generating invalid HTML, that their site is difficult to use, and they are not not paying attention to the user errors in their Web logs, and many other things.
-Robert
It's built its own set of widgets, with the goal of making them completely cross platform. Which makes it impossible (in a practical sense) for those of us who need to use assistive technologies (Dragon NaturallySpeaking). A rather shortsighted choice on their part it seems. -Robert "I really wish there was an alternative to Internet Explorer..."
Given the abuses of lawyers covered in this and other stories, what kind of remedies exist or can we make exist by reporting them to the bar or changing it so they do not get to govern themselves?
-Robert
Here I thought we were going to be reminded about W3C's own effort, Amaya. -Robert