Consumer rail would directly compete, especially now with air travel requiring hours at each end for security
I mostly agree with you but I think this assumption that we can avoid security theatre by taking the train will end when terrorists start targeting rail travel.
With the decline of Usenet and and the rise of a huge heterogeneous, chaotic and tangled network of Web "Forums" to take its place we have a problem :
The loss of any standardized search capability,
Google?
no consistent archiving mechanism
Google?
the necessity that one have a separate profile password and username etc. for each forum
Yeah thats an issue, but a small one I suppose. There are single sign on systems around but who wants to give that much control aaway?
no standard interchange format,(eg. different posting, editing, and formatting rules)
I suppose so but RSS helps.
and a jumbled mass of different rules, Terms of Service, and copyright policies.
Wasn't always consistent on usenet either.
I submitted a story which asked the question of how this problem might be addressed, but it was rejected unfortunately.
Technocrat was my solution to this problem. All my submissions were accepted, and they site had reasonably good readership.
Nonetheless there needs to be a discussion on this matter in the Internet standards community. Excepting the voluntary adoption of OpenID, I haven't seen any other solutions to these problems proposed, and now they are starting to bite us.
I kind of like the current disorganised status quo. It is harder to control centrally, and I think that is a good thing.
For me the site was a good balance between slashdot, where it is almost impossible to get an article posted, and a personal weblog, where it is dead easy, but will be read by very few people.
His advocacy for the party is one of the things that led me to lose interest in the site. I didn't mind him using his site to voice support for his chosen candidates, and I accepted the ads as part of that. However, for both the 2006 and 2008 federal elections, he made posts that essentially said that if you didn't vote Democrat, you were stupid, evil, or both. This resulted in some very strong words from Libertarians, whom he suggested were just wasting their votes. A few of the editors had similarly strong political views with just as little inclination to listen to the views of others.
I think the editors were too keen to delete posts, and I thought it was really bad that they were editing and deleting posts in discussions they were involved in.
I am working on my own site. Details are in my journal if anybody is interested.
Bruce, if you're out there, look: thanks for all the work you've done. it was great. i'd really like to keep it going. let me know if we can talk about options.
I sent an email to Bruce after he shut the site down basically saying the same thing. He doesn't seem interested in selling the domain name. I have a plan to set up a new site. I have written about the in my journal. If you want to hear more about it when it is ready let me know.
Certain elements of the community that developed here, unfortunately, creep me out.
I am not familiar with the community at Technocrat or the site itself for that matter. Anyone care to elaborate?
I don't know what elements creeped Bruce out but I thought there was a fairly strong right wing undercurrent among the regulars. Perhaps a few libertarians. Bruce seems to be a strong Democrat supporter so maybe that was it.
If the example of managed funds is any example, a disturbingly large component of the world's wealth lives nowhere else but the common spreadsheet. Oh there are registries, of course, the ledger is there -- but I've seen a lot of institutional financial reporting that is based entirely on opaque spreadsheet macros. It isn't like the information isn't there, it's just bloody inaccessible due to the medium. The stuff is largely written in VBA with less than perfect QA. At least the stuff is portable, anyway.
Yes I wonder how auditors could get reliable data. In the old days you had centralised mainframe based accounting. Now the code is contolled by in house financial people and the spreadsheets can be made to report anything you want.
Slashdot Mirror
There is nothing to stop you running your own news server. I am sure you will get a lot of takers.
There are infinitely many prime numbers.
The GP said the number of primes is essentially fixed which is consistent with the number of primes being infinite, I suppose.
Consumer rail would directly compete, especially now with air travel requiring hours at each end for security
I mostly agree with you but I think this assumption that we can avoid security theatre by taking the train will end when terrorists start targeting rail travel.
In fact various stores and also porn sites would be great at showing prior art to this BS patent.
Yes I can confirm from personal experience that porn sites in the mid 1990's used thumbnails.
I worry about sites that have a 'preview' option before posting content, they must be next ...
We should all agree not to preview for the time being, lest sourceforge get sued.
With the decline of Usenet and and the rise of a huge heterogeneous, chaotic and tangled network of Web "Forums" to take its place we have a problem : The loss of any standardized search capability,
Google?
no consistent archiving mechanism
Google?
the necessity that one have a separate profile password and username etc. for each forum
Yeah thats an issue, but a small one I suppose. There are single sign on systems around but who wants to give that much control aaway?
no standard interchange format,(eg. different posting, editing, and formatting rules)
I suppose so but RSS helps.
and a jumbled mass of different rules, Terms of Service, and copyright policies.
Wasn't always consistent on usenet either.
I submitted a story which asked the question of how this problem might be addressed, but it was rejected unfortunately.
Technocrat was my solution to this problem. All my submissions were accepted, and they site had reasonably good readership.
Nonetheless there needs to be a discussion on this matter in the Internet standards community. Excepting the voluntary adoption of OpenID, I haven't seen any other solutions to these problems proposed, and now they are starting to bite us.
I kind of like the current disorganised status quo. It is harder to control centrally, and I think that is a good thing.
But certainly not "most of the posts" were made by him as the previous poster asserted.
For sure.
How about over head power like high speed rail and some bus systems?
Great idea. You could get ready built electric cars from a fair ground.
Orson Scott Card must have a thicker skin than Bruce.
BTW does anybody have a contact for GF?
For me the site was a good balance between slashdot, where it is almost impossible to get an article posted, and a personal weblog, where it is dead easy, but will be read by very few people.
His advocacy for the party is one of the things that led me to lose interest in the site. I didn't mind him using his site to voice support for his chosen candidates, and I accepted the ads as part of that. However, for both the 2006 and 2008 federal elections, he made posts that essentially said that if you didn't vote Democrat, you were stupid, evil, or both. This resulted in some very strong words from Libertarians, whom he suggested were just wasting their votes. A few of the editors had similarly strong political views with just as little inclination to listen to the views of others.
I think the editors were too keen to delete posts, and I thought it was really bad that they were editing and deleting posts in discussions they were involved in.
I am working on my own site. Details are in my journal if anybody is interested.
Bruce, if you're out there, look: thanks for all the work you've done. it was great. i'd really like to keep it going. let me know if we can talk about options.
I sent an email to Bruce after he shut the site down basically saying the same thing. He doesn't seem interested in selling the domain name. I have a plan to set up a new site. I have written about the in my journal. If you want to hear more about it when it is ready let me know.
I am not familiar with the community at Technocrat or the site itself for that matter. Anyone care to elaborate?
I don't know what elements creeped Bruce out but I thought there was a fairly strong right wing undercurrent among the regulars. Perhaps a few libertarians. Bruce seems to be a strong Democrat supporter so maybe that was it.
I am pretty sure I saw "twitter" posting on technocrat a couple of times.
Cheddar, a class of cheese we all know, is in reality a particular type of cheese, from a particular location (not too far from where I live).
Cheddar is also much less obvious a term as "netbook".
Why? Cheddar is a real place. Netbook is a made up (and not very accurate) term.
Honestly, does anyone know? This is just stupid and it completely inhibits progress.
Why? Nobody is going to take my eeepc from my cold dead hands.
If the example of managed funds is any example, a disturbingly large component of the world's wealth lives nowhere else but the common spreadsheet. Oh there are registries, of course, the ledger is there -- but I've seen a lot of institutional financial reporting that is based entirely on opaque spreadsheet macros. It isn't like the information isn't there, it's just bloody inaccessible due to the medium. The stuff is largely written in VBA with less than perfect QA. At least the stuff is portable, anyway.
Yes I wonder how auditors could get reliable data. In the old days you had centralised mainframe based accounting. Now the code is contolled by in house financial people and the spreadsheets can be made to report anything you want.
This just came up.
both cars died on the track, first one ran out of joice after 50 miles, second one lost power due to engine overheating.
Not according to the register.
It is unlikely that you would survive to complete step 2, since the high voltage will likely be able to travel through the rope.
Well I wouldn't try it in the rain. Better to wear rubber boots too.
Well, given how much time federal politicians actually spend here in Canberra, you may as well march on Adelaide as anywhere else
It would certainly liven the place up!
So as long as Conroy keeps trying we are safe!
That is _if_ the car doesnt die before those 50 miles (it did in Top Gear test).
It didn't. The car never ran out of charge.
There will be millions of properties in the UK with a 40A or higher rated shower circuit.
Coming from Australia I have to say that those electric shower heaters in the UK give me the creeping horrors.