For a variety of reasons ranging from contract disputes among network operators to simple router misconfiguration, over five percent of the Internet's routable address space lacks global connectivity.
For weeks i've tried to get to somethingawful.com, i've pinged it, traceroute, i could never get anything. That is the only site that i know up which i can't reach.
If anyone here has read Linus'es book, just for fun, he talks about why he hates micro kernels. Basicly, because while theoreticly superior, they become a lot less effecient because data has to be passed around to a whole bunch of different parts. In fact Heres a link of Linus and microkernels.
anyone have any news of whether this one will also be ported to linux? if so, then it would be almost 100% chance that the final version would be out for linux too. If not, well, thats one less game which takes me away from Half-life and Alpha Centauri
4. For what its worth monitoring the populous for doing stupid illegal things doesn't even bother me, as I do my best to act within the law. Our representivies passing laws that the people never get a say in, or are many times not even aware are happening, annoys me!
You gotta remember, that the U.S. was first created, it was extremely liberal, it allowed the populace to interact on some level. The only way to do what you want is to, 1) Make everyone aware (unlikely) 2) start a revolution (not likely either). All your voting only tweaks the system at most.
the constitution states that all new laws must come from the House and not the senate, so if the house has passed another 2 yr ban, what can the senate do?
k, just call me a n00b or something, but is it totally free as in i lose $0, or is the cost of registering $0, but each day still has multi houndred dollar costs?
if someone replies to this, then include the above statement, so people will understand since i shouldn't be modded up.
They actually do recheck old data (even, before 3.x all data pieces where sent to at least 2 people) Quote from seti's website: SETI@home has enough volunteers such that we can process each piece of data more than once and compare the potential signals detected by different computers to one another. And: There are also many work units that were processed by more than one version of the SETI@home client.
Considering i opened the story almost immidaitly after it was posted (only 2 posts at that time) and am still able to click prev and next, i'd say the site ISN'T slashdotted and this guy is just a karma whore. Any moderators reading this, don't mod the parent up.
I truely wish to thank you, i am not an articulate person, and havn't writtian my representative because i worried that I could accidently hurt the cause I supported. Thanks to you, i was able to add and edit a few things and send it on its merry way. If anyone with moderator points is listening, mod the parent up.
I hope you do check replies to your posts, otherwise you'll never see this ):
just a little reminder, congress people consider email to be a waste of time, any old idiot can spam 300 emails, but most of the idiots don't write on a PIECE of PAPER and MAIL it. We still have a few days before congress reconvenes, a piece of mail will get there in time.
for example, i once tried to email a senator, it took 1 month for me to get a generic reply (thank you in writing to me and showing you care....) and never did i get a human writtin responce.
So, who wants to bet on how long till it crashes? i give it 3 weeks uptime.
Lets just hope they don't mix the Zepllin CE, and version ME with the version NT, or things will just stop flying
note to modorators: this was the forced stupid NT joke(s), now everyone else who does lame NT jokes can be called redundant,
yup, you are missing something, Atmohsphere! you just need a think enough atmoshpere for the temperature to not be too extreme. And, i cant remember which, but some of jupiter's moon's have atmospheres, so it is possible
sometimes it can enable crimes and I think we have to be careful about how far we take the demands for internet privacy
Well DUH! Sorry, but the entire point of all this thie ranting on slashdot is that there are laws being made that are taking away all of our freedoms just to ptotect us. Remember the almost law about how hand-drawn kiddie porn would of also become illegal? (it was posted here). The reason was the same, protect the childern, but how does hand drawn kiddie porn hurt children anymore than regular adult porn? Whenever anyone has a choice some people will use that choice to commit a crime, does that mean that people shouldn't be given a choice at all?
1.You vote not just for one person, but you rank the candidates in order of preference. ie. Ralph Nader first, Al Gore second, dubya third (see where I'm going with this?)
2.a candidate wins by being preferred to the others the most often, as opposed to having the most votes.
Its fine to read stories glazing your eyes over, but dont post anything unless you actually read carefully, this is from the furst article:
[the A.C.T]
uses the complex Hare-Clark preferential voting system
A quick search on google shows what it is:
Hare-Clark is a 'quota-preferential' system which attempts to elect MPs to represent parties in Parliament in proportion to the vote achieved. To be elected, a candidate must achieve a quota of votes, which can be achieved either with primary votes or after the complex distribution of preferences.
"Oh my God!" said the Queen, "I'm pregnant, i wonder who did it."
Come on people, its not that hard.
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Why does everyone moan and groan about email when it is very easy to not get any. I've had the same primary email address for 8months now and i've gotten 7spams during that period. Here are some simple steps:
1)Never, NEVER type your primary address ANYWHERE on the Net (see my email address above? thats not my primary).
2)Fight Back. Every single time i get spam, i go through the headers and send it to the abuse@*.* address with the email as an attachment. If that address bounces i send it to root@*, webmaster@*, admin@*. I make sure it gets seen.
3) Dont use any major email provider email as your primary email. I recently got pacbell DSL, without even using the account i started getting spam. I then realized that, all of these ISPs are giving free webspace, using your *username* as the folder to hold it all, so spambots just need to read the contents from one folder and BAM!.
If anyone cares, i use mail.com, they bought up tons of addresses which allows me to have the @techie.com address. I wouldn't fully recommand it because they're currently doing a server switch (which has lasted for over a month) and things dont fully work.
there is one thing you are forgetting. Say some hardware gets a bad review, so the compony doesn't give them any more stuff, now the site will not be able to compare that product with other similar products. In comes random customer X, is X more likely to buy the hardware that wasn't reviewed (if (s)he actually finds it exists from some other site) or go for one that was heavily benchmarked, i recently ordered all the parts for a new comp, what do you think i did. The one catch to this is that, if the site isn't big, the comp doesn't care, but places like Tom's are very important to hardware producers.
But does anyone out there really know what DDR memory is ?
DDR ram is double the rate of SDRAM because it uses not onlt the rising part of the clock, but the falling part too. Where did i learn this? i learned it from Hardware sites. Your right that many sites arn't really qualified to fully test hardware, but, who are you? you are an end user. How are they? End users that can compare model X to other models. These people cant tell you all the complexities that went into making the devise, but they can tell you the benchmarks it got while running Quake 3 1600x1200 32bit, and really, what is more important to you?
I just ordered all the parts for my new computer i'm going to build, how did i descide to choose everything? i started off with sharkyextreme that gave me a general guide, i went to hardocp and tom's hardware for more info and for comparisons of different products, which i then bought from pricewatch. Conclusion: I am getting an OUTRAGOUSLY good system for ~$1300, and i owe it all to the sites that you dismiss as pointless.
For something to be provable in science it must be testable everywhere. Black holes, _by definition_ devour all light [information] that crosses the event horizon, and anything outside the event horizon isn't part of a black hole. Black hole can never be "proved" in the traditional sense, but that doesn't stop people from accepting that the overwhelming amount of circumstancial evidense, none of the info proves black holes, but the only thing that could do all of the proof is black hole [the proofs i'm talking about, are the light curvature around them, x-ray jet streams, and other random stuff like that.
in fact I believe they had more power in the "Robber barron" period.
Your quite correct, but how many of those corperations could tell people what to think? obviouisly MS cant really do that, but when so many people use msn.com, and only MS Approved(r) info goes up, it doesn't look pretty. As i'm sure Katz has once posted in some doomsday thing, computers are ultra powerful (Nahhh, really??), people still have simplistic attitudes about them. Just think right now, how many lusers do you know that actually change their homepage? I.E. is aimed at people who just want it to work.
P.S. yes, i know my post is just a rehash of some old ideas, but they are important.
I hope those lousy reporters get fired for the horrible mistake they made:
"EverQuest" -- an online version of Dungeons and Dragons.
They could of even done a little fact checking, it was so obvious that this just couldn't be, because everyone knows that in AD&D, you just cant have a Dwarf Paladin, only humans can be paladins.
Man, i'm not going to ever read their site again untill they write an apology for their error,.... or untill they put up pictures from the next swimsuit edition, whichever comes first.
I see all these people posting about how screwed up the entire school system is, but i have never been bullied/teased/exiled(i was gonna use alianated, but i am somewhat self-alienated) ever at school. I go to an ultra expensive private school ($17,000 a year with tons of scholership money available). I actually have had a 1/2 bully who would say idiot things taht would annoy me, but otherwise nothing. And i could definitly be considered "asking for it," i'm always in the comp lab, i semi regularly carray around hardware. And its not just me either, there is a kid in my grade, cuacasion male, 16yr, always dresses in black (sometimes black with skulls) pointy hair, a gun freak, totally right wing, am i afraid of him? no. I know him, i seriously doubt that he would ever attack the school. I wonder if there really is such a big diff between public and private. I have never gone to a pub in my life, expecially since where i am (bay area, california, usa) local pubs are rated worse in the state (and the state is like #47 out of 50 in usa). Man this entire thing has no point what so ever, sigh, time to go back to that paper on the declaration of the rights of man that was due 12 hours ago. (ph33r the 2am of it all)
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For a variety of reasons ranging from contract disputes among network operators to simple router misconfiguration, over five percent of the Internet's routable address space lacks global connectivity.
For weeks i've tried to get to somethingawful.com, i've pinged it, traceroute, i could never get anything. That is the only site that i know up which i can't reach.
If anyone here has read Linus'es book, just for fun, he talks about why he hates micro kernels. Basicly, because while theoreticly superior, they become a lot less effecient because data has to be passed around to a whole bunch of different parts. In fact Heres a link of Linus and microkernels.
anyone have any news of whether this one will also be ported to linux? if so, then it would be almost 100% chance that the final version would be out for linux too. If not, well, thats one less game which takes me away from Half-life and Alpha Centauri
anyone know what about italian law Luigi Genoni is talking about when he says:
ufff! I tend to belive that politicians make law without a real knoledge
of what they are doing (see Italian law on copyrights)
4. For what its worth monitoring the populous for doing stupid illegal things doesn't even bother me, as I do my best to act within the law. Our representivies passing laws that the people never get a say in, or are many times not even aware are happening, annoys me!
You gotta remember, that the U.S. was first created, it was extremely liberal, it allowed the populace to interact on some level. The only way to do what you want is to, 1) Make everyone aware (unlikely) 2) start a revolution (not likely either). All your voting only tweaks the system at most.
the constitution states that all new laws must come from the House and not the senate, so if the house has passed another 2 yr ban, what can the senate do?
k, just call me a n00b or something, but is it totally free as in i lose $0, or is the cost of registering $0, but each day still has multi houndred dollar costs?
if someone replies to this, then include the above statement, so people will understand since i shouldn't be modded up.
They actually do recheck old data (even, before 3.x all data pieces where sent to at least 2 people) Quote from seti's website:
SETI@home has enough volunteers such that we can process each piece of data more than once and compare the potential signals detected by different computers to one another.
And: There are also many work units that were processed by more than one version of the SETI@home client.
This picture shows what has been scanned, and how many times.
Considering i opened the story almost immidaitly after it was posted (only 2 posts at that time) and am still able to click prev and next, i'd say the site ISN'T slashdotted and this guy is just a karma whore. Any moderators reading this, don't mod the parent up.
I truely wish to thank you, i am not an articulate person, and havn't writtian my representative because i worried that I could accidently hurt the cause I supported. Thanks to you, i was able to add and edit a few things and send it on its merry way. If anyone with moderator points is listening, mod the parent up.
I hope you do check replies to your posts, otherwise you'll never see this ):
just a little reminder, congress people consider email to be a waste of time, any old idiot can spam 300 emails, but most of the idiots don't write on a PIECE of PAPER and MAIL it. We still have a few days before congress reconvenes, a piece of mail will get there in time.
for example, i once tried to email a senator, it took 1 month for me to get a generic reply (thank you in writing to me and showing you care....) and never did i get a human writtin responce.
So, who wants to bet on how long till it crashes? i give it 3 weeks uptime.
Lets just hope they don't mix the Zepllin CE, and version ME with the version NT, or things will just stop flying note to modorators: this was the forced stupid NT joke(s), now everyone else who does lame NT jokes can be called redundant,
yup, you are missing something, Atmohsphere! you just need a think enough atmoshpere for the temperature to not be too extreme. And, i cant remember which, but some of jupiter's moon's have atmospheres, so it is possible
sometimes it can enable crimes and I think we have to be careful about how far we take the demands for internet privacy
Well DUH! Sorry, but the entire point of all this thie ranting on slashdot is that there are laws being made that are taking away all of our freedoms just to ptotect us. Remember the almost law about how hand-drawn kiddie porn would of also become illegal? (it was posted here). The reason was the same, protect the childern, but how does hand drawn kiddie porn hurt children anymore than regular adult porn? Whenever anyone has a choice some people will use that choice to commit a crime, does that mean that people shouldn't be given a choice at all?
Its fine to read stories glazing your eyes over, but dont post anything unless you actually read carefully, this is from the furst article:
[the A.C.T] uses the complex Hare-Clark preferential voting system
A quick search on google shows what it is:
Source
No, no no, its not violence, its mystery
"Oh my God!" said the Queen, "I'm pregnant, i wonder who did it."
Why does everyone moan and groan about email when it is very easy to not get any. I've had the same primary email address for 8months now and i've gotten 7spams during that period. Here are some
simple steps:
1)Never, NEVER type your primary address ANYWHERE on the Net (see my email address above? thats not my primary).
2)Fight Back. Every single time i get spam, i go through the headers and send it to the abuse@*.* address with the email as an attachment. If that address bounces i send it to root@*, webmaster@*, admin@*. I make sure it gets seen.
3) Dont use any major email provider email as your primary email. I recently got pacbell DSL, without even using the account i started getting spam. I then realized that, all of these ISPs are giving free webspace, using your *username* as the folder to hold it all, so spambots just need to read the contents from one folder and BAM!.
If anyone cares, i use mail.com, they bought up tons of addresses which allows me to have the @techie.com address. I wouldn't fully recommand it because they're currently doing a server switch (which has lasted for over a month) and things dont fully work.
http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/06/13/technology/13L OHR.html
there is one thing you are forgetting. Say some hardware gets a bad review, so the compony doesn't give them any more stuff, now the site will not be able to compare that product with other similar products. In comes random customer X, is X more likely to buy the hardware that wasn't reviewed (if (s)he actually finds it exists from some other site) or go for one that was heavily benchmarked, i recently ordered all the parts for a new comp, what do you think i did. The one catch to this is that, if the site isn't big, the comp doesn't care, but places like Tom's are very important to hardware producers.
But does anyone out there really know what DDR memory is ?
DDR ram is double the rate of SDRAM because it uses not onlt the rising part of the clock, but the falling part too. Where did i learn this? i learned it from Hardware sites. Your right that many sites arn't really qualified to fully test hardware, but, who are you? you are an end user. How are they? End users that can compare model X to other models. These people cant tell you all the complexities that went into making the devise, but they can tell you the benchmarks it got while running Quake 3 1600x1200 32bit, and really, what is more important to you?
I just ordered all the parts for my new computer i'm going to build, how did i descide to choose everything? i started off with sharkyextreme that gave me a general guide, i went to hardocp and tom's hardware for more info and for comparisons of different products, which i then bought from pricewatch. Conclusion: I am getting an OUTRAGOUSLY good system for ~$1300, and i owe it all to the sites that you dismiss as pointless.
every [sic] prove they exist in the first place.
For something to be provable in science it must be testable everywhere. Black holes, _by definition_ devour all light [information] that crosses the event horizon, and anything outside the event horizon isn't part of a black hole. Black hole can never be "proved" in the traditional sense, but that doesn't stop people from accepting that the overwhelming amount of circumstancial evidense, none of the info proves black holes, but the only thing that could do all of the proof is black hole [the proofs i'm talking about, are the light curvature around them, x-ray jet streams, and other random stuff like that.
in fact I believe they had more power in the "Robber barron" period.
Your quite correct, but how many of those corperations could tell people what to think? obviouisly MS cant really do that, but when so many people use msn.com, and only MS Approved(r) info goes up, it doesn't look pretty. As i'm sure Katz has once posted in some doomsday thing, computers are ultra powerful (Nahhh, really??), people still have simplistic attitudes about them. Just think right now, how many lusers do you know that actually change their homepage? I.E. is aimed at people who just want it to work.
P.S. yes, i know my post is just a rehash of some old ideas, but they are important.
I hope those lousy reporters get fired for the horrible mistake they made: "EverQuest" -- an online version of Dungeons and Dragons.
.... or untill they put up pictures from the next swimsuit edition, whichever comes first.
They could of even done a little fact checking, it was so obvious that this just couldn't be, because everyone knows that in AD&D, you just cant have a Dwarf Paladin, only humans can be paladins.
Man, i'm not going to ever read their site again untill they write an apology for their error,
I see all these people posting about how screwed up the entire school system is, but i have never been bullied/teased/exiled(i was gonna use alianated, but i am somewhat self-alienated) ever at school. I go to an ultra expensive private school ($17,000 a year with tons of scholership money available). I actually have had a 1/2 bully who would say idiot things taht would annoy me, but otherwise nothing. And i could definitly be considered "asking for it," i'm always in the comp lab, i semi regularly carray around hardware. And its not just me either, there is a kid in my grade, cuacasion male, 16yr, always dresses in black (sometimes black with skulls) pointy hair, a gun freak, totally right wing, am i afraid of him? no. I know him, i seriously doubt that he would ever attack the school. I wonder if there really is such a big diff between public and private. I have never gone to a pub in my life, expecially since where i am (bay area, california, usa) local pubs are rated worse in the state (and the state is like #47 out of 50 in usa). Man this entire thing has no point what so ever, sigh, time to go back to that paper on the declaration of the rights of man that was due 12 hours ago. (ph33r the 2am of it all)
http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/04/15/weekinreview/1 5BOXA.html