I really don't think that this is the case for the extended version of Return of the King. Its not as if they didn't tell us a extended version was on its way.
In one of the special features on the FOTR extended DVD set, there's a scene where Peter Jackson is staking out the location where hobbiton was eventually built. He has his little handheld camcorder and you hear him say something like, "Yup, this is going into the DVD." This leads me to believe that Peter Jackson knew right from the very beginning that he wanted the home version of the movie to contain lots of extra stuff that the theatrical version didn't. One could even speculate that he knew full well all along that the extended DVD editions would comprise the "real" movie.
Hiking up bandwidth costs of spammers will certainly not solve any portion of the problem, as we've seen how much these people rake in.
If I understand the article correctly, the screensaver does not do a thing to spammers. Rather, it is meant to discourage those who hire spammers to do their "direct marketing" for them. Most people who buy spam runs these days are scammers themselves and only need a few hundred sales at most (out of millions of messages sent) in order to pay for the minimal web hosting costs and the spam run and get a nice tidy profit.
This screensaver targets that cheap web hosting part of the equation. The whole scheme becomes absurdly unaffordable when the traffic shoots up from a few dozen megbytes a week to a few dozen terabytes.
I've always felt that monkeying with the net's mailing system was an extremely poor (but eventually necessary) way to deal with the problem of spam. I think this way is not so bad, because all it does is hit web sites which are already very much public, and have already made an active effort at promoting themselves. They should be so happy that Lycos is willing to help them out.:)
A lot of people are saying that this drives up costs for the ISPs, but I honestly fail to see how. Site that use spam for their marketing have to pay their hosting bill just like anyone else.
Two pixels? Have you looked recently? Most LCD manufacturers have dead-pixel policies now where they will only take back screens with 8 to 10 of the pixels dead or stuck (or even a certain number with a 1cm radius) and because of this, your liklihood is actually very high of purchasing a monitor or laptop with many dead pixels and being stuck with a defective display.
Some online stores have "zero dead pixel" guarantees if you'd like to pay an extra fee. I know I sure will when I buy my twin 19" LCDs after the new year.
Yeah, but you don't have physical control over the pipes between yor server and all your clients. How do you think your bits get sent back and forth? I just have to put an intercept between you and your clients to grab all the data I want.
OpenSSL. Many IRCds and clients these days support encryption.
This would be some sort of program that can sit on an ISP's trunks, and grab all traffic that looked like IRC traffic and dump it in a log. Since it is the CIA, (And they are in theory, the Intelligence 'Offense') it might be a small embedded hardware solution that has a built in microdrive. It would be very handy to have a CIA controled operative slip in to a NOC in a hostile country, snap it onto a trunk in an unobtrusice location and pick it up a month later.
They already have this, it's called Carnivore. It's not a secret from the ISPs, either, they know it's there. But they are prohibited by law from telling the public whether or not a Carnivore box is monitoring their traffic. Additionally, Carnivore is not only for email these days.
Er, companies have always sold consoles at a loss, especially during launch. I just played a Gameboy DS yesterday and I have to say that Sony has a long road ahead of them if they want to top it.
Well, you're the parent, do something about it! You don't mention what you've tried to get them unhooked so I can only assume that you haven't done anything yet. Take the initiative. Lay down the rules. Don't know what the rules should be? Make some up. It's more important to have rules at all than to have perfect ones.
Oh, and you probably waited too long.
If it were my kids in this situation and it had gotten this far out of hand and they got all up in arms over a few limitations, I would say this:
"Okay, fine. Your computer time is limited to 2 hours per day during the week and 3 hours per day on the weekend. Homework counts towards it. If you want more time than that, you'll have to use this computer right here. There is no operating system on it. You may only install FreeBSD on it. Cooperation is encouraged. Have fun."
Oh yes, they would hate me. With a passion. But they just might thank me eventually.
I heard through the grapevine (and it probably is just hopeful Firefly fans talking here) that if the movie did well, they would consider bringing the series back. I would presume this delay would obliterate the chances of that, as most of the actors probably can't afford (nor desire to) wait a year to see if the Firefly will fly again.
Forking another kernel tree will split the developers apart and slow down the developement of the 2.6 kernel.
Ideally, actual development should have been all over with at 2.6.0. Patchlevels would only fix bugs, not introduce new capabilities and thus unstable code.
Too bad it doesn't work that way with Linux.:(
What seems to me like a good idea is to modularize the code so that you can just plug things in and out. That way, if the kernel got forked it wouldn't be much work to remove and add support.
Well, those are the breaks with a monolithic kernel.
I would also like to see projects dedicated to only certain parts of the kernel. For exampmle, one group does networking and another does video and maybe one that check and approves the code. From then on the code would be piecet together in whatever way it suits people and because there's ony one group working on a particular part of the kernel, there would be no repetition. "One fit's all" sort of spreak.
I can't help but notice that what you're asking for is a microkernel. These feats would not be nearly so easy with a monolithic kernel. Also, you'd have all these factions bitching that they can't innovate since they don't have "commit" authority over other parts of the kernel that they need to change in order to add a new whiz-bang feature.
One "driver" or piece of code to support some hardware would work an all forks. Then each fork would be kind of like a distribution of pieced together code.
That is, until someone forks the underlying glue that binds the pieces together.
Here, we call this one Slashdot. There are other, smaller, close-knit fraternities all over the place as well that massquerade as Linux/BSD user groups, mailing lists, IRC channels, web forums, and newsgroups.
(Point being that geeks are no less capable of socilization, organization, and banding together for a cause, they just prefer to do so through primarily electronic means. There are also cons that are sorta like ad-hoc fraternities, when you think about it.)
No it doesn't. My wife is playing it right now on Mozilla 1.7. It looks like it does require windows, however, as it made her install a Pop Cap Games browser plugin which they say works with Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera.
Amongst all the pyramid schemes, \/iagra, and business opportunies from my good Nigerian friends, here's a message from "George W. Bush" that arrived in the old Inbox this morning.
This is the first spam that I can recall receiving that was purely politically motivated. (And also the first one in a very long time that I read all the way through.) The message discusses all the various conspiracy theories that have popped up on Slashdot over the past few weeks (months, years). While I'm skeptical how much is fact and how much is fiction, I thought it interesting enough to paste here, especially as it relates to this Slashdot article. There does not seem to be any copy of it on the web yet, or I'd have just linked to it instead.
What are the chances that we'll start seeing a lot more political spam of this variety in the future?
Subject: How I stole your election (ha ha ha ha!!!) From: "George W.Bush" Date: Tue, November 9, 2004 5:46 pm
How I Stole Your Election by George W. Bush
The first thing I did to steal your election was to make friends with ALL the manufacturers and code-verifyers of the Electronic Voting Machines. They were really nice, especially Diebold who gave me $600,000 for my campaign. Wow, thanks dude!
http://nuclearfree.lynx.co.nz/stealing.htm
Next, I had my attack dog, Karl Rove, convince these companies to either alter the vote totals on the central tabulator machines (simple PCs running windows using Remote Access Server -- RAS), or reprogram (via a downloadable software patch) the voting machines themselves so that they would give the advantage to ME! Isn't America great?!? A little money and some religious zealotry goes a looooong, loooong way. Oh, the religious zealotry thing? That's just a cover. I'm not really a Christian -- or at least I don't act like one. Anyway, I digress.
http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-25.htm#rig
Did you ever hear the media complaining about how inaccurate the exit polls were in prior elections? No. That's because they basically ARE accurate. But this election, the exit polls showed Kerry WAY ahead. No problem. My buddies rigged the machines (and all they needed to do was rig it in one state, Ohio, but they took care of at least Florida for me too) not only to make me squeak by in the important battleground states, like Florida and Ohio, but they also made sure that when I did get a state that I was expected to win, the margin was HUGE so that my "popular" vote would make it look like I had a mandate.
So let's recap how the popular vote thing worked again. Let's say we didn't want it to look suspicious by taking states that Kerry really would have won (except for Ohio and Florida, gotta take those! heh heh). So we let him win there, but in order once again to boost the "popular" vote (I put that in quotes because as you know, I'm not REALLY popular), we bring my vote tallies RIGHT UP NEXT to Kerry's, to jack up the "popular" vote as much as possible, even if I didn't win the state.
Then, with states like North Carolina, we know we're going to steal the state anyway (at least according to what the exit polls were telling everyone.... and according to the long, long lines of new voters were telling everyone... because we all know most of those people were voting for Kerry, not the status quo), so we just jack the crap out of the vote total to REALLY stuff a crapload of "popular" votes in my pocket. You see, this way I can get on the TV and declare that I have a "mandate" and that I'm going to "cash in" on my political "capital" (which I don't really have of course, but we made it look that way).
Here's a nice chart to show you what I mean. Take special note of how the electronic voting machine totals compare to the paper ballot totals. And see what I mean about North Carolina? http://www.bandsagainst
Have you encountered many problems with hardware compatibility, particularly USB, RAID, and audio?
Most kinds of hardware that you would put into a server are well-supported in FreeBSD. USB devices generally work well. Ditto for RAID. Audio can be hit-and-miss, unfortunately, as FreeBSD is first and foremost a server OS. My SB Live works pretty well on my workstation, but I often hear annoying clicks and pops in the output that I know are not in the original file and while the system is under negligable load.
This isn't the first time that a food company has gotten all up-in-arms over the use of one of their trademarks.
In 2001, Pillsbury sent a cease-and-decist order to a numerous number of colleges IT companies detesting their use of the term "bake-off" to mean an event where developers get together to test their latest code and networking protocols.
Talk about silly. At least SPAM is actually a trademark and was never a commonly-used word well before it became "protected" by corporate interests.
I'm a FreeBSD advocate and all, but lets everyone bear in mind that this does not, I repeat NOT, come from any sort of official channel either in Berkeley or the FreeBSD project. It is a freaking OS Opinion editorial. Calling it a "State of the Daemon Address" is deliberately misleading and in extremely poor taste.
Aside from a few vocal "Linux is teh sux0r" zealots, the FreeBSD community doesn't really worry itself too much about what the other BSDs or Unix-alikes are doing and certainly don't typically engage in penis-length matches such as this editorial.
The wording is inflammatory, the facts are wrong, and a quick Google reveals with near certainty that the author isn't actually involved with the FreeBSD Project on any level.
those look *nothing* like a notebook (IDE) hard drive, with their aluminum foil-quality shell almost no real structure. They look like 3.5" hard drives scaled down: still rugged, just small.
I wouldn't be so quick to knock notebook drives. I have a friend who uses 2.5" notebook drive RAIDs *exclusively* in all of his servers and most of his workstations. Why?
Their performance is more than adequate for most server applications, especially in a RAID configuration.
They're very quiet. Handy when your server rack is located in the office closet.
They run cool. They do not contribute much to normal system heat, requiring fewer fans to keep the servers cool. This reduces the chance of a box overheating should a fan fail. Fewer fans also mean less noise.
They're more rugged than 3.5" disks. Think about it. Regular 3.5" disks are designed to operate for a particular span of time in an environment where they will very rarely, if ever be so much as jostled or bumped. Laptop disks, on the other hand, *must* be able to withstand all sorts of abuse. Not only do people regularly tip, bump, and throw their laptop bags around, they also take quite a bit of abuse while *running*.
In other words, sitting around all day in an air-conditioned server is a piece of cake for these guys.
The biggest downfall is that notebook disks are roughly two times the price of a regular 3.5" disk. I too would likely convert my servers over to 2.5" disks, but I'm too much of a cheap ass.
I just took a look at the site, completely expecting to see mudslinging on the same level as a television commercial, but was pleasantly surprised.
While I doubt how much of the information is truthful, the page does inform you several times that it's not Van Hollen's official site and in fact they even link to his official site in the navigation menu.
View it while you can, though, because as candidates start taking the Internet seriously as a campaign medium, you won't see to many "civil" sites like these left.
Tell me that any of these aren't easily provable facts. Sorry, but facts *do* exist and are the foundataion of our thinking and most everything we do. You don't have to be "one with the universe" to understand the simple concept of a fact.
Just because some people (the media, to include Slashdot editors) present us with premises that they call facts, but are actually very hard to conclusively prove doesn't nullify the existence of facts in any way.
I find that the most glaring error in firefox. The plugins that need updating EVERY SINGLE VERSION of it. I mean, how hard can it be to make the plugins work across versions?
Okay, Mr. Smartypants, you go ahead and design a whole web browser from scratch, and while you're at it, why don't you write the extension system and make it the World's Most Perfect Browser Extension System Ever in less than a week, okay?
Either you're a troll or the whole point of pre-1.0 releases has flown right over your head. The code and API's should be continuously changing, especially right now before 1.0 so that they can finally get it right in time for 1.0 and not have to break extensions for 1.1, and again at 1.2, and yet again at 1.3, etc.
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I really don't think that this is the case for the extended version of Return of the King. Its not as if they didn't tell us a extended version was on its way.
In one of the special features on the FOTR extended DVD set, there's a scene where Peter Jackson is staking out the location where hobbiton was eventually built. He has his little handheld camcorder and you hear him say something like, "Yup, this is going into the DVD." This leads me to believe that Peter Jackson knew right from the very beginning that he wanted the home version of the movie to contain lots of extra stuff that the theatrical version didn't. One could even speculate that he knew full well all along that the extended DVD editions would comprise the "real" movie.
When pipes need to be upgraded to account for more traffic (regardless of said traffic being "good" or "bad") we all pay the price.
Er, no, the sites who resort to spam for their marketing are actually the ones who will pay the price via a very large hosting bill.
Hiking up bandwidth costs of spammers will certainly not solve any portion of the problem, as we've seen how much these people rake in.
:)
If I understand the article correctly, the screensaver does not do a thing to spammers. Rather, it is meant to discourage those who hire spammers to do their "direct marketing" for them. Most people who buy spam runs these days are scammers themselves and only need a few hundred sales at most (out of millions of messages sent) in order to pay for the minimal web hosting costs and the spam run and get a nice tidy profit.
This screensaver targets that cheap web hosting part of the equation. The whole scheme becomes absurdly unaffordable when the traffic shoots up from a few dozen megbytes a week to a few dozen terabytes.
I've always felt that monkeying with the net's mailing system was an extremely poor (but eventually necessary) way to deal with the problem of spam. I think this way is not so bad, because all it does is hit web sites which are already very much public, and have already made an active effort at promoting themselves. They should be so happy that Lycos is willing to help them out.
A lot of people are saying that this drives up costs for the ISPs, but I honestly fail to see how. Site that use spam for their marketing have to pay their hosting bill just like anyone else.
Two pixels? Have you looked recently? Most LCD manufacturers have dead-pixel policies now where they will only take back screens with 8 to 10 of the pixels dead or stuck (or even a certain number with a 1cm radius) and because of this, your liklihood is actually very high of purchasing a monitor or laptop with many dead pixels and being stuck with a defective display.
Some online stores have "zero dead pixel" guarantees if you'd like to pay an extra fee. I know I sure will when I buy my twin 19" LCDs after the new year.
Er, except the CIA can use SSL-enabled clients too.
(You could make the room invite-only, though.)
Yeah, but you don't have physical control over the pipes between yor server and all your clients. How do you think your bits get sent back and forth? I just have to put an intercept between you and your clients to grab all the data I want.
OpenSSL. Many IRCds and clients these days support encryption.
This would be some sort of program that can sit on an ISP's trunks, and grab all traffic that looked like IRC traffic and dump it in a log. Since it is the CIA, (And they are in theory, the Intelligence 'Offense') it might be a small embedded hardware solution that has a built in microdrive. It would be very handy to have a CIA controled operative slip in to a NOC in a hostile country, snap it onto a trunk in an unobtrusice location and pick it up a month later.
They already have this, it's called Carnivore. It's not a secret from the ISPs, either, they know it's there. But they are prohibited by law from telling the public whether or not a Carnivore box is monitoring their traffic. Additionally, Carnivore is not only for email these days.
Er, companies have always sold consoles at a loss, especially during launch. I just played a Gameboy DS yesterday and I have to say that Sony has a long road ahead of them if they want to top it.
Well, you're the parent, do something about it! You don't mention what you've tried to get them unhooked so I can only assume that you haven't done anything yet. Take the initiative. Lay down the rules. Don't know what the rules should be? Make some up. It's more important to have rules at all than to have perfect ones.
Oh, and you probably waited too long.
If it were my kids in this situation and it had gotten this far out of hand and they got all up in arms over a few limitations, I would say this:
"Okay, fine. Your computer time is limited to 2 hours per day during the week and 3 hours per day on the weekend. Homework counts towards it. If you want more time than that, you'll have to use this computer right here. There is no operating system on it. You may only install FreeBSD on it. Cooperation is encouraged. Have fun."
Oh yes, they would hate me. With a passion. But they just might thank me eventually.
I heard through the grapevine (and it probably is just hopeful Firefly fans talking here) that if the movie did well, they would consider bringing the series back. I would presume this delay would obliterate the chances of that, as most of the actors probably can't afford (nor desire to) wait a year to see if the Firefly will fly again.
Forking another kernel tree will split the developers apart and slow down the developement of the 2.6 kernel.
Ideally, actual development should have been all over with at 2.6.0. Patchlevels would only fix bugs, not introduce new capabilities and thus unstable code.
Too bad it doesn't work that way with Linux.
What seems to me like a good idea is to modularize the code so that you can just plug things in and out. That way, if the kernel got forked it wouldn't be much work to remove and add support.
Well, those are the breaks with a monolithic kernel.
I would also like to see projects dedicated to only certain parts of the kernel. For exampmle, one group does networking and another does video and maybe one that check and approves the code. From then on the code would be piecet together in whatever way it suits people and because there's ony one group working on a particular part of the kernel, there would be no repetition. "One fit's all" sort of spreak.
I can't help but notice that what you're asking for is a microkernel. These feats would not be nearly so easy with a monolithic kernel. Also, you'd have all these factions bitching that they can't innovate since they don't have "commit" authority over other parts of the kernel that they need to change in order to add a new whiz-bang feature.
One "driver" or piece of code to support some hardware would work an all forks. Then each fork would be kind of like a distribution of pieced together code.
That is, until someone forks the underlying glue that binds the pieces together.
I wonder if he had planned to profit from this innovative idea of his before it was posted to slashdot.
Geeks already have many fraternities.
Here, we call this one Slashdot. There are other, smaller, close-knit fraternities all over the place as well that massquerade as Linux/BSD user groups, mailing lists, IRC channels, web forums, and newsgroups.
(Point being that geeks are no less capable of socilization, organization, and banding together for a cause, they just prefer to do so through primarily electronic means. There are also cons that are sorta like ad-hoc fraternities, when you think about it.)
It requires ActiveX.
No it doesn't. My wife is playing it right now on Mozilla 1.7. It looks like it does require windows, however, as it made her install a Pop Cap Games browser plugin which they say works with Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera.
Be careful, there's porn ads in that link.
Amongst all the pyramid schemes, \/iagra, and business opportunies from my good Nigerian friends, here's a message from "George W. Bush" that arrived in the old Inbox this morning.
This is the first spam that I can recall receiving that was purely politically motivated. (And also the first one in a very long time that I read all the way through.) The message discusses all the various conspiracy theories that have popped up on Slashdot over the past few weeks (months, years). While I'm skeptical how much is fact and how much is fiction, I thought it interesting enough to paste here, especially as it relates to this Slashdot article. There does not seem to be any copy of it on the web yet, or I'd have just linked to it instead.
What are the chances that we'll start seeing a lot more political spam of this variety in the future?
Subject: How I stole your election (ha ha ha ha!!!)
From: "George W.Bush"
Date: Tue, November 9, 2004 5:46 pm
How I Stole Your Election
by George W. Bush
The first thing I did to steal your election was to make friends with ALL the
manufacturers and code-verifyers of the Electronic Voting Machines. They were
really nice, especially Diebold who gave me $600,000 for my campaign. Wow,
thanks dude!
http://nuclearfree.lynx.co.nz/stealing.htm
Next, I had my attack dog, Karl Rove, convince these companies to either alter
the vote totals on the central tabulator machines (simple PCs running windows
using Remote Access Server -- RAS), or reprogram (via a downloadable software
patch) the voting machines themselves so that they would give the advantage to
ME! Isn't America great?!? A little money and some religious zealotry goes a
looooong, loooong way. Oh, the religious zealotry thing? That's just a
cover. I'm not really a Christian -- or at least I don't act like one.
Anyway, I digress.
http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-25.htm#rig
Did you ever hear the media complaining about how inaccurate the exit polls
were in prior elections? No. That's because they basically ARE accurate.
But this election, the exit polls showed Kerry WAY ahead. No problem. My
buddies rigged the machines (and all they needed to do was rig it in one
state, Ohio, but they took care of at least Florida for me too) not only to
make me squeak by in the important battleground states, like Florida and Ohio,
but they also made sure that when I did get a state that I was expected to
win, the margin was HUGE so that my "popular" vote would make it look like I
had a mandate.
So let's recap how the popular vote thing worked again. Let's say we didn't
want it to look suspicious by taking states that Kerry really would have won
(except for Ohio and Florida, gotta take those! heh heh). So we let him win
there, but in order once again to boost the "popular" vote (I put that in
quotes because as you know, I'm not REALLY popular), we bring my vote tallies
RIGHT UP NEXT to Kerry's, to jack up the "popular" vote as much as possible,
even if I didn't win the state.
Then, with states like North Carolina, we know we're going to steal the state
anyway (at least according to what the exit polls were telling everyone....
and according to the long, long lines of new voters were telling everyone
because we all know most of those people were voting for Kerry, not the status
quo), so we just jack the crap out of the vote total to REALLY stuff a
crapload of "popular" votes in my pocket. You see, this way I can get on the
TV and declare that I have a "mandate" and that I'm going to "cash in" on my
political "capital" (which I don't really have of course, but we made it look
that way).
Here's a nice chart to show you what I mean. Take special note of how the
electronic voting machine totals compare to the paper ballot totals. And see
what I mean about North Carolina?
http://www.bandsagainst
Does the upgrade work for FC1 as well? Have they fixed the Windows/FC2 dual-boot bug?
Have you encountered many problems with hardware compatibility, particularly USB, RAID, and audio?
Most kinds of hardware that you would put into a server are well-supported in FreeBSD. USB devices generally work well. Ditto for RAID. Audio can be hit-and-miss, unfortunately, as FreeBSD is first and foremost a server OS. My SB Live works pretty well on my workstation, but I often hear annoying clicks and pops in the output that I know are not in the original file and while the system is under negligable load.
For full details, see the 5.3-RELEASE Hardware Notes.
This isn't the first time that a food company has gotten all up-in-arms over the use of one of their trademarks.
In 2001, Pillsbury sent a cease-and-decist order to a numerous number of colleges IT companies detesting their use of the term "bake-off" to mean an event where developers get together to test their latest code and networking protocols.
Talk about silly. At least SPAM is actually a trademark and was never a commonly-used word well before it became "protected" by corporate interests.
Indeed, some of us use the FreeBSD distribution.
I'm a FreeBSD advocate and all, but lets everyone bear in mind that this does not, I repeat NOT, come from any sort of official channel either in Berkeley or the FreeBSD project. It is a freaking OS Opinion editorial. Calling it a "State of the Daemon Address" is deliberately misleading and in extremely poor taste.
Aside from a few vocal "Linux is teh sux0r" zealots, the FreeBSD community doesn't really worry itself too much about what the other BSDs or Unix-alikes are doing and certainly don't typically engage in penis-length matches such as this editorial.
The wording is inflammatory, the facts are wrong, and a quick Google reveals with near certainty that the author isn't actually involved with the FreeBSD Project on any level.
those look *nothing* like a notebook (IDE) hard drive, with their aluminum foil-quality shell almost no real structure. They look like 3.5" hard drives scaled down: still rugged, just small.
I wouldn't be so quick to knock notebook drives. I have a friend who uses 2.5" notebook drive RAIDs *exclusively* in all of his servers and most of his workstations. Why?
Their performance is more than adequate for most server applications, especially in a RAID configuration.
They're very quiet. Handy when your server rack is located in the office closet.
They run cool. They do not contribute much to normal system heat, requiring fewer fans to keep the servers cool. This reduces the chance of a box overheating should a fan fail. Fewer fans also mean less noise.
They're more rugged than 3.5" disks. Think about it. Regular 3.5" disks are designed to operate for a particular span of time in an environment where they will very rarely, if ever be so much as jostled or bumped. Laptop disks, on the other hand, *must* be able to withstand all sorts of abuse. Not only do people regularly tip, bump, and throw their laptop bags around, they also take quite a bit of abuse while *running*.
In other words, sitting around all day in an air-conditioned server is a piece of cake for these guys.
The biggest downfall is that notebook disks are roughly two times the price of a regular 3.5" disk. I too would likely convert my servers over to 2.5" disks, but I'm too much of a cheap ass.
I just took a look at the site, completely expecting to see mudslinging on the same level as a television commercial, but was pleasantly surprised.
While I doubt how much of the information is truthful, the page does inform you several times that it's not Van Hollen's official site and in fact they even link to his official site in the navigation menu.
View it while you can, though, because as candidates start taking the Internet seriously as a campaign medium, you won't see to many "civil" sites like these left.
There are no facts.
"Addition is cumulative."
"Our planet has satellites orbiting it."
"HTML 4.01 is a W3C recommendation."
Tell me that any of these aren't easily provable facts. Sorry, but facts *do* exist and are the foundataion of our thinking and most everything we do. You don't have to be "one with the universe" to understand the simple concept of a fact.
Just because some people (the media, to include Slashdot editors) present us with premises that they call facts, but are actually very hard to conclusively prove doesn't nullify the existence of facts in any way.
The fact that the country did not break into civil war is because we ARE a model democracy.
Ahem, did you skip out on your history class the week they discussed the years 1861 though 1865?
I find that the most glaring error in firefox. The plugins that need updating EVERY SINGLE VERSION of it. I mean, how hard can it be to make the plugins work across versions?
Okay, Mr. Smartypants, you go ahead and design a whole web browser from scratch, and while you're at it, why don't you write the extension system and make it the World's Most Perfect Browser Extension System Ever in less than a week, okay?
Either you're a troll or the whole point of pre-1.0 releases has flown right over your head. The code and API's should be continuously changing, especially right now before 1.0 so that they can finally get it right in time for 1.0 and not have to break extensions for 1.1, and again at 1.2, and yet again at 1.3, etc.