"Could it be because you already know that I'm right?"
No, it just might be due to the fact that you are putting forth falsehoods as generally accepted facts. This is actually in the troll HOW-TO somewhere, though I'm too lazy to find it at the moment.
"Why don't you argue my points instead of making false accusations."
" I guarantee that just blocking sites containing the words "sex," "breast," and so on will remove over 50% of the objectionable sites.[...]The PROBLEM is that filtering sites this way will also remove unobjectionable sites as well. We have the same problem on slashdot when the "lameness filter" blocks legitimate posts."
I've always wondered why filters don't do a multiple and to block by keyword.
Example:(in javascript because I don't know perl)-:
if (((strMETA.indexof("sex")!=-1) && (strMETA.indexof("fuck")!=-1)) || ((strMETA.indexof("sex")!=-1) && (strMETA.indexof("breast")!=-1))){
//probably a porn site
site.Block();
}else{
//maybe breast cancer research
site.Allow();
}
One of the coolest things I've ever seen was a project (in R/C Modeling, I think) to build a quarter scale Harrier and reproduce the ducting and all that.
Well, they do have cameras and transmitters small enough to be able to fit in an R/C plane. Size and weight aren't your major problems.
Vibration: You're going to have to insulate the smeg out of the equipment
Batteries: R/C planes use a bunch of battery juice as it is. Adding a `fly by camera' interface would probably double the battery requirements.
Flying: Unless you're going to put in four cameras (along with instruments (altitude, artificial horizon, pitch/yaw/roll rate, etc)), you're going to have a cast iron bitch of a time controlling the beast. Think about how much information it takes for a real pilot in a real plane to fly - 360 degree vision, a dozen instruments, and his sense of equlibrium(sp?). To duplicate that in a {quarter|fith|tenth} scale model that flys at a simulated speed of 1000 mph (200 mph ground speed in a fifth-scale model) would be very, very expensive and very difficult to control. Not only that, but you'd likely need a friend watching the plane to tell you when it was about to pancake into the runway...
If you still wanted to try, here's what I would do. First, practice your flying skills. Make sure you're good at it, as you don't want to crash models that cost 5k a pop. Build a quarter scale Bear D with the largest engines you can find. Insulte the fuselage. Stick all of you equipment (altimeter, airspeed indicator, artificial horizon, cameras, transmitters, batteries, extra batteries, receivers, etc) in the fuselage, then make your ground rig (I'll leave that one up to you:-). Then, carefully, teach yourself how to fly this thing (it'll be big, so be careful).
Then, take what you've learned and invest in something insane, like a dual jet Mig-29 , or a Hornet, or an F-15.
"First of all, every city has laws and permits governing where and when people can gather en masse to protest, speachify, or otherwise make their voices heard."
One little problem with that:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
If Congress can't do it, neither can the states (especially when it's set forth in the Constitution).
For God's sake, if a bobby asks to see your hard drive encryption key, show it to him. You look damned suspicious otherwise. If you don't have any {bomb making plans|kiddie pr0n|nuclear secrets} on you box, why bother hiding it.
The (very badly made) point is that you cannot be arrested for failing to show id. This is an important point that most people are missing. While I totally agree that this dink needed story material, I don't think that he should have been arrested for not showing id.
"Sure, but you have permission to break your own access control device."
Not really. Err, not under the DMCA.
<#include stddisclaim.h> From my understanding of the DMCA (anyone, feel free to correct me), it would be illegal (under section 1201a, I believe) to circumvent any access control device. Your ACD, my ACD, MSFT's ACD, the DVDCCA's ACD, any single one.
That's the danger in the DMCA. It's written so broadly that it cannot be enforced in any other manner than selectively. I mean, really, are you going to file suit for breaking your own ACD? Probably not. Could Novell sue you for breaking their ACD for {personal use|study and critique|anything that doesn't actually affect their bottom line}? Potentially. Could Plymouth sue you for pulling a General Lee on one of their cars (under an automotive equivilant of the DMCA)? Probably.
The important point to remember is that, unless you are the distribution channel, the DMCA says that you have almost no rights whatsoever. </rant>
"I WILL have a disaster-recovery-copy of my OS, whether MS likes it or not..."
How often will you back up? Daily? Weekly? Whenever there's new data on the drive?
What if you have to support several {hundred|thousand} users. Back all of then up at night? (Something like that would require massive amounts of disk space. Hrmmm...MS may have just given a nifty nich market to the likes of Sun or Compaq...)
For home power users, backing up the image daily is one thing. For home `honey, how do I get to my email' users, backups are things you do in a car.
<comment type="me too" src="AOL"> I think that the age of general computer ignorance is about to end. I think it has to, considering just how many people will be devastated by this. It's one thing to have Win9x crash - the general populace is used to that. However, when we (the geeks) get to explain to general users that the reason why all of their email, documents, and pictures of their grandkids are gone (forever, never getting them back) is because of the way Microsoft does business, they will think long and hard about actually reinstalling MS-OS again. </comment>
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Well, let's say your SSN is 123-45-6789.
First things first, I need a card. So I go to my post office and grab a request for a replacement social security card. It want's a copy of your birth certificate. Well, I can match up the SSN to a name pretty easy (trivial if I know what state you live in, even easier if I know what city). All I have to do is call the DMV and say that I'm in HR for the Yoyodyne corp and I'm doing a background check. I need to verify this SSN as belonging to Joe R Public. Oh, it's not him? Who is it?
Bingo. I have your name and your SSN.
Call the county courthouse and ask for a copy of your birth certificate (I'm doing genological research on my family). Weren't born there? Where were you born?
Bingo. I have your name, place of birth, and SSN.
So I call up the county courthouse where you were born and ask for a copy of your birth cirtificate (using the above story). It'll cost me, like, $1.50.
Bingo. I have your name, place of birth, DOB, DL#, SSN, social security card, parent's names, mother's maiden name, and just about any other piece of information that I want.
Hrmmm, let's go shopping, shall we?
Better yet, let's get some warrants out for your arrest.
Hell, let's go all the way and start getting your mail, your paper, your pension, your 401k, your health insurance, your life insurance, a job in your name...
That, my dear bribecka, is what I can do with a SSN.
"Unless you get "bitchslapped" by CmdrTaco, and your posts default to -2. I think excessive down moderation may also get you a -2. At that point, your posts cannot be read."
"I agree that the moderation system is more good than harm. But isn't the same rationalization made in F451? That the book burning is good for society?"
Hrmmm...slipery analysis indeed. I think that the context of `good' needs to be more clearly defined.
Good in the Slashdot sense: high S/N ratio, ability to post freely, ability to excercise Free Speech(tm).
Good in the F-451 sense: protection of society from itself, lack of dissent, conformity amongst the masses.
While the general rationalization is the same (good for posters, good for society), I think that the `good' means two totally different things given the differing contexts. Therefore, I must conclude that one can only compare/. moderation to F-451 in a very shallow sense, as the goals of each are diametrically opposed.
Or, in other words, no, that isn't the same rationalization as was made in F-451 (at least not directly the same).
"COM has been around in one form or another since the 1990s..."
Didn't COM evolve (indirectly) from OLE? Or am I on the/.Moderator Brand $3.00 Crack(tm)?
"It was developed to allow objects to be called remotely, and sortta, transparently"
Really transparently. I don't need to know anything about a remote {method|object|property} other than what it wants and what it returns. That's the whole point behind CORBA.
"...byut(sic) a majority of the the ideas for embedding, object exposing, persistance, monikers etc are all based on COM."
and
"...Microsoft should get a nod for COM since it's being copied left and right by the OSS community."
<MEANDERING THOUGHT> Is it really being copied, per se? Or is it just generally a Good Idea(tm)? I mean, who wouldn't want to be able to expose API to whatever needs it?
Kinda like the standard C classes (stdio and the like (except that you don't have to #include them)) - it's simply a natural progression of good programming practice.
Do you have examples to show that OSS is outright copying COM? (Not a flame - I'm genuinely interested) </MEANDERING THOUGHT>
Slashdot Mirror
"Could it be because you already know that I'm right?"
No, it just might be due to the fact that you are putting forth falsehoods as generally accepted facts. This is actually in the troll HOW-TO somewhere, though I'm too lazy to find it at the moment.
"Why don't you argue my points instead of making false accusations."
Why don't you start making some rational points?
"Personally, I'm in favor of the Ni! particle. The comic value is almost too good to pass up."
Don't forget about Ni!'s antiparticle...
...wait for it...
It!
It is, in fact, my right to do just that. Here's a bit more on rights:
Here's some more...
While I'm sorry these guys didn't IPO and make a billion dollars, I will not, repeat,
WILL NOT
allow them to bypass my rights (see above for a refresher) for the sake of making a buck.
Clear?
" I guarantee that just blocking sites containing the words "sex," "breast," and so on will remove over 50% of the objectionable sites.[...]The PROBLEM is that filtering sites this way will also remove unobjectionable sites as well. We have the same problem on slashdot when the "lameness filter" blocks legitimate posts."
//probably a porn site
//maybe breast cancer research
I've always wondered why filters don't do a multiple and to block by keyword.
Example:(in javascript because I don't know perl)-:
if (((strMETA.indexof("sex")!=-1) && (strMETA.indexof("fuck")!=-1)) || ((strMETA.indexof("sex")!=-1) && (strMETA.indexof("breast")!=-1))){
site.Block();
}else{
site.Allow();
}
One of the coolest things I've ever seen was a project (in R/C Modeling, I think) to build a quarter scale Harrier and reproduce the ducting and all that.
:-)
Imagine a VTOL model with a turbojet
If you still wanted to try, here's what I would do. First, practice your flying skills. Make sure you're good at it, as you don't want to crash models that cost 5k a pop. Build a quarter scale Bear D with the largest engines you can find. Insulte the fuselage. Stick all of you equipment (altimeter, airspeed indicator, artificial horizon, cameras, transmitters, batteries, extra batteries, receivers, etc) in the fuselage, then make your ground rig (I'll leave that one up to you
Then, take what you've learned and invest in something insane, like a dual jet Mig-29 , or a Hornet, or an F-15.
Enjoy!
(Yes, I've looked into this
"Not EVERYthing you say can be +5, Insightful!"
Yeah, but a lot of it can be +1 Insightful, or +2 Funny, or +1 Interesting, or +3 Informative. It all adds up.
"First of all, every city has laws and permits governing where and when people can gather en masse to protest, speachify, or otherwise make their voices heard."
One little problem with that:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
If Congress can't do it, neither can the states (especially when it's set forth in the Constitution).
For God's sake, if a bobby asks to see your hard drive encryption key, show it to him. You look damned suspicious otherwise. If you don't have any {bomb making plans|kiddie pr0n|nuclear secrets} on you box, why bother hiding it.
The (very badly made) point is that you cannot be arrested for failing to show id . This is an important point that most people are missing. While I totally agree that this dink needed story material, I don't think that he should have been arrested for not showing id.
That's all.
(Damn, I'm responding to a troll)
Back in the day, the fledgeling apostles used `X' to represent `Christ'. When used in this context, the x translates to Christ and thus
> eval(print(Xian));
> Christian
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
"Since the terrestrial version of this thing has to be contained, however, I don't know if this is possible."
Magnetic field. Figure out a way to attract the shield, then tweak the hull (magnetically) to attract the field with x amount of pull.
Of course, you would have to figure out a way to push the shield out uniformly, but that doesn't seem too dificult...
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
FWIW, you might want to search cryptome.org later.
It's currently very down...
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
"Sure, but you have permission to break your own access control device."
Not really. Err, not under the DMCA.
<#include stddisclaim.h>
From my understanding of the DMCA (anyone, feel free to correct me), it would be illegal (under section 1201a, I believe) to circumvent any access control device. Your ACD, my ACD, MSFT's ACD, the DVDCCA's ACD, any single one.
That's the danger in the DMCA. It's written so broadly that it cannot be enforced in any other manner than selectively. I mean, really, are you going to file suit for breaking your own ACD? Probably not. Could Novell sue you for breaking their ACD for {personal use|study and critique|anything that doesn't actually affect their bottom line}? Potentially. Could Plymouth sue you for pulling a General Lee on one of their cars (under an automotive equivilant of the DMCA)? Probably.
The important point to remember is that, unless you are the distribution channel, the DMCA says that you have almost no rights whatsoever.
</rant>
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
Just a thought (always the mediator)...
How bout a veggie BBQ? Grilled portabella shrooms make great burgers (as an example). Aparagus is yummy grilled too.
That way, you still get the charred smell (Mmmm...ribs) and you get the support of the less asinine vegetarians.
Hrmm?
(Me spill chucker work grate. Knead gramma chicken.)
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
Forgot something...
productLeft = 10;
useProduct(&productLeft) {
If (!productLeft) {
buymoreProduct(productLeft);
return;
}
lather();
rinse();
productLeft--;
useProduct(productLeft);
}
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
""Anyone else have the same problem?"
Nope. Wroks for me (NN4.72).
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Quoth jekk,
"Do you have anything like this to recommend? If so, please let me know by email..."
<content type="me too" src="AOL">
zantispam@netscape.net
</content>
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I second the motion.
.Bruce Perens, _Bruce Perens, BrucePerens, or Bruce Perens_.
Thats Bruce Perens, not Bruce Perens.,
Bruce_Perens is ok too.
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"I WILL have a disaster-recovery-copy of my OS, whether MS likes it or not..."
How often will you back up? Daily? Weekly? Whenever there's new data on the drive?
What if you have to support several {hundred|thousand} users. Back all of then up at night? (Something like that would require massive amounts of disk space. Hrmmm...MS may have just given a nifty nich market to the likes of Sun or Compaq...)
For home power users, backing up the image daily is one thing. For home `honey, how do I get to my email' users, backups are things you do in a car.
<comment type="me too" src="AOL">
I think that the age of general computer ignorance is about to end. I think it has to, considering just how many people will be devastated by this. It's one thing to have Win9x crash - the general populace is used to that. However, when we (the geeks) get to explain to general users that the reason why all of their email, documents, and pictures of their grandkids are gone (forever, never getting them back) is because of the way Microsoft does business, they will think long and hard about actually reinstalling MS-OS again.
</comment>
IMHO, IANACE, IANAL, etc.
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
"I went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out until sundown; for by going out, I found I was really going in."
- John Muir
Not the John Muir of the Idiot Book fame is it?
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
So I need to add something like
127.0.0.1 *.doubleclick.net
in my hosts file, correct?
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
"Perhaps the founding fathers should have made provisions for artillary, bombers, missiles, etc."
Not needed.
The populace could defend against a war waged by government. Even one with high-tech munitions at their disposal.
Where's my proof, you ask?
Vietnam.
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
Well, let's say your SSN is 123-45-6789.
First things first, I need a card. So I go to my post office and grab a request for a replacement social security card. It want's a copy of your birth certificate. Well, I can match up the SSN to a name pretty easy (trivial if I know what state you live in, even easier if I know what city). All I have to do is call the DMV and say that I'm in HR for the Yoyodyne corp and I'm doing a background check. I need to verify this SSN as belonging to Joe R Public. Oh, it's not him? Who is it?
Bingo. I have your name and your SSN.
Call the county courthouse and ask for a copy of your birth certificate (I'm doing genological research on my family). Weren't born there? Where were you born?
Bingo. I have your name, place of birth, and SSN.
So I call up the county courthouse where you were born and ask for a copy of your birth cirtificate (using the above story). It'll cost me, like, $1.50.
Bingo. I have your name, place of birth, DOB, DL#, SSN, social security card, parent's names, mother's maiden name, and just about any other piece of information that I want.
Hrmmm, let's go shopping, shall we?
Better yet, let's get some warrants out for your arrest.
Hell, let's go all the way and start getting your mail, your paper, your pension, your 401k, your health insurance, your life insurance, a job in your name...
That, my dear bribecka, is what I can do with a SSN.
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?
"Unless you get "bitchslapped" by CmdrTaco, and your posts default to -2. I think excessive down moderation may also get you a -2. At that point, your posts cannot be read."
2 3233&threshold=-2
/. moderation to F-451 in a very shallow sense, as the goals of each are diametrically opposed.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/05/08/13
Works for me.
"I agree that the moderation system is more good than harm. But isn't the same rationalization made in F451? That the book burning is good for society?"
Hrmmm...slipery analysis indeed. I think that the context of `good' needs to be more clearly defined.
Good in the Slashdot sense: high S/N ratio, ability to post freely, ability to excercise Free Speech(tm).
Good in the F-451 sense: protection of society from itself, lack of dissent, conformity amongst the masses.
While the general rationalization is the same (good for posters, good for society), I think that the `good' means two totally different things given the differing contexts. Therefore, I must conclude that one can only compare
Or, in other words, no, that isn't the same rationalization as was made in F-451 (at least not directly the same).
Just my $0.02US
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"COM has been around in one form or another since the 1990s..."
/.Moderator Brand $3.00 Crack(tm)?
Didn't COM evolve (indirectly) from OLE? Or am I on the
"It was developed to allow objects to be called remotely, and sortta, transparently"
Really transparently. I don't need to know anything about a remote {method|object|property} other than what it wants and what it returns. That's the whole point behind CORBA.
"...byut(sic) a majority of the the ideas for embedding, object exposing, persistance, monikers etc are all based on COM."
and
"...Microsoft should get a nod for COM since it's being copied left and right by the OSS community."
<MEANDERING THOUGHT>
Is it really being copied, per se? Or is it just generally a Good Idea(tm)? I mean, who wouldn't want to be able to expose API to whatever needs it?
Kinda like the standard C classes (stdio and the like (except that you don't have to #include them)) - it's simply a natural progression of good programming practice.
Do you have examples to show that OSS is outright copying COM? (Not a flame - I'm genuinely interested)
</MEANDERING THOUGHT>
Here's my copy of DeCSS. Where's yours?