I know LJ has a very complex system, but is it documented somewhere? I know there are several database clusters, and lots of cache servers, and several webservers and such...
I think your solution does work properly for blocking hotlinking from a certain known list of sites. The antihotlink general solutions I have seen sometimes don't.
The only problem with antihotlink stuff is generally it goes too far, and stops things like bookmarks, wget, or reload from working (because then there is no Referer). Instead of requiring that Referer matches the proper site, antihotlink stuff should just ensure that Referer does not match any site besides the proper one (because it may not match a site at all!)
(On a side note, things like frames and shockwave are evil for similar reasons... navigation and bookmarking difficulties. what ever happened to a consistent interface? isn't that what we strive for?)
But you'd think not copying, and simply linking, would be the nicer thing to do, since you're not actually copying something that may potentially be copyrighted:)
Standards provide a wonderful basis to work from when developing a new idea. Once your idea is developed, you can make a standard out of it, and patent it like crazy, so that everybody who likes your idea will now either be poor or be Microsoft.
Without standards, innovation would be slowed. If the design of gears was non-standard, mechanical engineering would be a nightmare. How long would it take to develop a clock? If there was no von Neumann machine, complex algorithm development would be a nightmare. If there was no central idea for an operating system...
There is a trade-off, too. Rigid standards can restrict freedom for breathing. Loose, extensible standards are a good way to go, BUT developers will proprietarize their ideas and not document things properly.
I think the best world is one of standardized consumer systems, standardized business systems, free software for almost everything, and a few, non-standard (but interoperable) proprietary systems and software packages for doing very specialized, high-end tasks. Microsoft probably does not agree with my vision.
No, we'll just post the hole to slashdot, and it'll get slashdotted out of existence, like normal.
Wait... the goatse hole didn't quite get slashdotted.. but then again, that wasn't a front page story. Any Slashematicians who can ponder this delicate rump-roast of a question?
"Evilhack", the main cheat for America's Army, for example, is freely available on the web. It makes all hostiles bright red, while computer-controlled "aimbots" ensure the player's gun never misses its targets. The undetectable program will even throw your M67 frag grenade for you if you accidentally hold it too long.
Ugh, no WONDER I get so many gaming morons asking why my Aol Instant Messenger Bot doesn't work for Counterstrike.
Hmm.. I'm curious: When did you start using computers? Did you read a lot as a child? What color eyes do you have? Do you wear sunglasses? How well do you see in the dark? What brand/model of monitor do you have? What's your brightness setting? Contrast setting? Is your screen gamma-corrected and/or color-corrected?
I prefer paper to monitor. I believe it is because it is much less busy/distracting and my eyes are sensitive to bright light.
Yes, it was long, but it emphasized a big important philosophical element: machines are boring! Machines can't enjoy life, and there's nothing enjoyable innate to them. The scene showed that humans are emotionally rich by their nature; sex and dancing are fairly low-level things but they shape us in important ways, and they have *meaning* that goes beyond their raw definitions. In other words, we were shown that humans know how to have fun. This is important because, within the Matrix, humans and programs (=machines) often appear identical.
I think the original poster meant that generic RIGOROUS mathematics is a new field. Geometry has always tended to be rigorous, but many mathematical "discoveries" in the middle ages were conjectures, not proofs. Proofs were not popular until the 1800s in France, if I remember correctly. Now, mathematics is largely a creative sport, so the lack of rigorous proofs isn't necessarily a bad thing, because lots of important mathematical ideas aren't based on anything other than observation; the ideas behind calculus, automata, set theory, and fractals were creative products. There are many proofs *involved* in these fields, but the fields themselves are not the result of proofs. In short, mathematics is very old, and has always been developing, but rigorous mathematics is mostly a recent concept. What interests me more is what ages people tend to excel at either (a) testing and proving nifty things or (b) coming up with new, nifty ideas. Seems like (a) is easier when you're young and energetic... (b) is probably easier when you're older and wiser. Besides, older mathematicians probably expect younger ones to do all the heavy, ugly proof-work, and I imagine that they generally stay away from that, and let graduate students handle it;)
I've found slackware tends to be nice to slower hardware. Slack 3.0, for example, is running quite briskly on my 386 now that I upgraded from 3 to 7 Megs of RAM. Plus, I could fit lots of development tools and a minimalist X in 80 megs of HD and 17 megs of swap.
Of course, thanks to glibc, such things are now very tough. But, don't forget, slack used to use BSD libc (which is small and fast!), and guess what still uses it? that's right, *BSD. So if you'll consider more than just linux, don't be afraid to look at NetBSD (which is a little smaller and lighter than FreeBSD.... not sure how OpenBSD compares).
You might also want to test-run Knoppix, since it doesn't even need to be installed (so it can't hurt!).
For window managers, OpenLook VWM, FVWM, Blackbox (probably the best), or mwm. Please don't force them to use twm... they'll never want to look at a computer again!
Plus, this would kill (without special exemptions and such): * Mailing lists * Free web->mail, ftp->mail, and news->mail gateways * Free webmail and personal mail servers run off of DSL (now we will be e-mailing our friends every time we switch ISPs or our ISPs get bought out and change domain names... which will cost us!) * E-mail query systems... probably other things too?
After posting anonymously the other day, my "post anonymously" button disappeared for a day or two. I think my post was modded down, but I don't know if this has anything to do with it. Of course, one thing that worries me is that slashdot seems to be able to "know" when you post something anonymously, which is *not* how it ought to be. Ever noticed that, if you have mod points, you can't mod up your own anonymous posts? Curious..
I suppose not being able to post anonymously would be either to discourage anon posting or cut down on trolling by members, or something.
Or, maybe it's something like: ! Save all registers. push eax push ebx push ecx push edx jmp somewhere
"Hey, wow, we have that in our code too! And it's not just a minor copying, because they used the same comment!"
C and assembler have a much smaller vocab (orders of magnitude) than English, and accidental things like this go on in English all the time.
Also, they're comparing two unix-based kernels.. don't you think similar code would show up? After all, both are derived (either directly (SCO) or indirectly (Linux)) from the same original operating system (duh!).
Whenever my sister is on her cell phone in the car, you hear this godawful screeching sound from the stereo. My cell is even worse. I wish I had an EM meter... I'm really curious about the size of these EM pulses, too Large EM pulses always fuck with electronics equipment, and planes have many, many electronics, some of them rather sensitive.
I have $1000 in my hand right here! And Bill Gates is waving goodbye from his helicopter! It's real! I also have a 50% larger penis now too! Thanks, Bill! What a pal!
12? Man.... I was BBS'ing at 8, and I already knew that I shouldn't be giving out too much info, especially not to creepy people acting over-friendly.
An option could be to require sites that allow children to submit information to have that information moderated by some sort of government committee approved moderator with some special license/certification.
cat/dev/consciousness >/dev/slashdot: Actually, who knows---maybe the Appendix is really there as a scratch organ for virus therapy techniques! Kind of like a/tmp ?
Slashdot Mirror
I know LJ has a very complex system, but is it documented somewhere? I know there are several database clusters, and lots of cache servers, and several webservers and such...
Who can tell me how it all cums together?
I think your solution does work properly for blocking hotlinking from a certain known list of sites. The antihotlink general solutions I have seen sometimes don't.
The only problem with antihotlink stuff is generally it goes too far, and stops things like bookmarks, wget, or reload from working (because then there is no Referer). Instead of requiring that Referer matches the proper site, antihotlink stuff should just ensure that Referer does not match any site besides the proper one (because it may not match a site at all!)
(On a side note, things like frames and shockwave are evil for similar reasons... navigation and bookmarking difficulties. what ever happened to a consistent interface? isn't that what we strive for?)
But you'd think not copying, and simply linking, would be the nicer thing to do, since you're not actually copying something that may potentially be copyrighted :)
Speaking of which... where is the Linux clone of this?!?! I miss my TIM!!! :( :( :(
Standards provide a wonderful basis to work from when developing a new idea. Once your idea is developed, you can make a standard out of it, and patent it like crazy, so that everybody who likes your idea will now either be poor or be Microsoft.
Without standards, innovation would be slowed. If the design of gears was non-standard, mechanical engineering would be a nightmare. How long would it take to develop a clock? If there was no von Neumann machine, complex algorithm development would be a nightmare. If there was no central idea for an operating system...
There is a trade-off, too. Rigid standards can restrict freedom for breathing. Loose, extensible standards are a good way to go, BUT developers will proprietarize their ideas and not document things properly.
I think the best world is one of standardized consumer systems, standardized business systems, free software for almost everything, and a few, non-standard (but interoperable) proprietary systems and software packages for doing very specialized, high-end tasks. Microsoft probably does not agree with my vision.
No, we'll just post the hole to slashdot, and it'll get slashdotted out of existence, like normal.
Wait... the goatse hole didn't quite get slashdotted.. but then again, that wasn't a front page story. Any Slashematicians who can ponder this delicate rump-roast of a question?
"Evilhack", the main cheat for America's Army, for example, is freely available on the web. It makes all hostiles bright red, while computer-controlled "aimbots" ensure the player's gun never misses its targets. The undetectable program will even throw your M67 frag grenade for you if you accidentally hold it too long.
Ugh, no WONDER I get so many gaming morons asking why my Aol Instant Messenger Bot doesn't work for Counterstrike.
Must.... restrain.... anger....
Hardy boys rock :) I also read a lot of Tom Swift. Blue eyes are more sensitive to bright light, generally.
No, what would be cool is a Beowulf cluster of these! Now that's REAL messaging power!!
[This stupid comment brought to you by a Beowulf cluster of neurons.]
Hmm.. I'm curious:
When did you start using computers? Did you read a lot as a child? What color eyes do you have? Do you wear sunglasses? How well do you see in the dark? What brand/model of monitor do you have? What's your brightness setting? Contrast setting? Is your screen gamma-corrected and/or color-corrected?
I prefer paper to monitor. I believe it is because it is much less busy/distracting and my eyes are sensitive to bright light.
Yes, it was long, but it emphasized a big important philosophical element: machines are boring! Machines can't enjoy life, and there's nothing enjoyable innate to them. The scene showed that humans are emotionally rich by their nature; sex and dancing are fairly low-level things but they shape us in important ways, and they have *meaning* that goes beyond their raw definitions. In other words, we were shown that humans know how to have fun. This is important because, within the Matrix, humans and programs (=machines) often appear identical.
I think the original poster meant that generic RIGOROUS mathematics is a new field. Geometry has always tended to be rigorous, but many mathematical "discoveries" in the middle ages were conjectures, not proofs. Proofs were not popular until the 1800s in France, if I remember correctly. Now, mathematics is largely a creative sport, so the lack of rigorous proofs isn't necessarily a bad thing, because lots of important mathematical ideas aren't based on anything other than observation; the ideas behind calculus, automata, set theory, and fractals were creative products. There are many proofs *involved* in these fields, but the fields themselves are not the result of proofs. In short, mathematics is very old, and has always been developing, but rigorous mathematics is mostly a recent concept. What interests me more is what ages people tend to excel at either (a) testing and proving nifty things or (b) coming up with new, nifty ideas. Seems like (a) is easier when you're young and energetic... (b) is probably easier when you're older and wiser. Besides, older mathematicians probably expect younger ones to do all the heavy, ugly proof-work, and I imagine that they generally stay away from that, and let graduate students handle it ;)
I've found slackware tends to be nice to slower hardware. Slack 3.0, for example, is running quite briskly on my 386 now that I upgraded from 3 to 7 Megs of RAM. Plus, I could fit lots of development tools and a minimalist X in 80 megs of HD and 17 megs of swap.
Of course, thanks to glibc, such things are now very tough. But, don't forget, slack used to use BSD libc (which is small and fast!), and guess what still uses it? that's right, *BSD. So if you'll consider more than just linux, don't be afraid to look at NetBSD (which is a little smaller and lighter than FreeBSD.... not sure how OpenBSD compares).
You might also want to test-run Knoppix, since it doesn't even need to be installed (so it can't hurt!).
For window managers, OpenLook VWM, FVWM, Blackbox (probably the best), or mwm. Please don't force them to use twm... they'll never want to look at a computer again!
Plus, this would kill (without special exemptions and such): ... probably other things too?
* Mailing lists
* Free web->mail, ftp->mail, and news->mail gateways
* Free webmail and personal mail servers run off of DSL (now we will be e-mailing our friends every time we switch ISPs or our ISPs get bought out and change domain names... which will cost us!)
* E-mail query systems
a-HA! It's a random bug. slashcode@sourceforge
After posting anonymously the other day, my "post anonymously" button disappeared for a day or two. I think my post was modded down, but I don't know if this has anything to do with it. Of course, one thing that worries me is that slashdot seems to be able to "know" when you post something anonymously, which is *not* how it ought to be. Ever noticed that, if you have mod points, you can't mod up your own anonymous posts? Curious..
I suppose not being able to post anonymously would be either to discourage anon posting or cut down on trolling by members, or something.
Turning the paperless office into a huge junk bin!
"Mike, do you have the financial data for 2002?"
"Somewhere. Help me look for the squeaky red clown nose."
Of course "Silicon Valley has learned to love the bust", why do you think pr0n is so popular?
Or, maybe it's something like:
! Save all registers.
push eax
push ebx
push ecx
push edx
jmp somewhere
"Hey, wow, we have that in our code too! And it's not just a minor copying, because they used the same comment!"
C and assembler have a much smaller vocab (orders of magnitude) than English, and accidental things like this go on in English all the time.
Also, they're comparing two unix-based kernels.. don't you think similar code would show up? After all, both are derived (either directly (SCO) or indirectly (Linux)) from the same original operating system (duh!).
Whenever my sister is on her cell phone in the car, you hear this godawful screeching sound from the stereo. My cell is even worse.
I wish I had an EM meter... I'm really curious about the size of these EM pulses, too
Large EM pulses always fuck with electronics equipment, and planes have many, many electronics, some of them rather sensitive.
I have $1000 in my hand right here! And Bill Gates is waving goodbye from his helicopter! It's real! I also have a 50% larger penis now too! Thanks, Bill! What a pal!
12? Man.... I was BBS'ing at 8, and I already knew that I shouldn't be giving out too much info, especially not to creepy people acting over-friendly.
An option could be to require sites that allow children to submit information to have that information moderated by some sort of government committee approved moderator with some special license/certification.
I bet the finished product would look awesome.. especially once the finished product got finished!
*cough*
Story dupes, grammar dupes.. what'll they think of next?
cat /dev/consciousness >/dev/slashdot: /tmp ?
Actually, who knows---maybe the Appendix is really there as a scratch organ for virus therapy techniques! Kind of like a