In fact, it is. Although it's the first time I've submitted an article, too. Don't know if anyone else has submitted anything in the past.
k5 is awesome
Thank you.:-)
and to see/. linking to it, well, it's a sign that the times are changing.
I was surprised myself. I seriously didn't expect this to get posted. So many thanks to michael for not letting (potential) partisanship get in the way of content. There's been far too much general partisanship anyway. And yes, I'm just as guilty of slashdot bashing as anyone else, I suppose. But, now that I've done what they did (or, actually, what they did up to maybe last year or late '98), I have to say, it's not nearly as easy as it looks from the outside. I think/., and Rob and Hemos in particular, should be cut way more slack than they usually are.
Anyway, that's the offtopic bit of my comment-- as for the series, the next article will get into more modern ciphers I believe.
Hogging all the credit? Who submitted the article in the first place! Who wrote all the software and fixed all the bugs and suffered while the whole world critiqued my baby! Hogging all the credi...
Whoah. What just happened? Must be something in the bits of this place that makes you want to flame...;-)
Te next article will include something about one-time pads, which, if done right (not a trivial task!) can be 100% unbreakable. In that potentially, every message is as likely a decryption of the ciphertext as any other message. But I'll let Inoshiro tackle that next week.
I posted it on advogato at around 3:00AM, April 1, EST. Apparently advogato's servers aren't *in* EST. D'oh, my bad. So, overall, I apologize for your April 2nd freeballing, but c'mon, it was pretty funny.:-)
Oy! Hey, I do this.:-) As the last reply pointed out, kuro5hin.org is community-edited, in pretty much the way you describe. People submit stories, all registered users get a vote (+1, 0, -1), and after you vote, you can see what others have voted. A story gets enough votes, it goes up.
So far, it works way better than I, or anyone else, thought it would. The majority of stories do get posted, but so far the majority of submissions have been really good. So no conclusions there yet.
As for promoting an agenda-- people seem to vote for stories that they think would engender good discussion, or at least that they'd like to talk about. There doesn't seem to be too much "agenda-whoring" going on so far.
Will it scale? Well, I'm dealing with a little over 500 users, so far. So nowhere near slashdot-scale numbers. For the users I have, it works pretty well. It's starting to get a little bit creaky, though-- people want sections, they want to be able to vote for a story to be rewritten or edited... many small needs. But on the whole, it's worked well.
Welcome to the jungle. Advogato wasn't the only one. See this article for what they're doing to kuro5hin.org as well. Looks like it'll be "One World, One, Web, One News Site" if slashdot and andover have their way. If you'd like to join the boycott of andover-owned media, you may discuss this issue on kuro5hin.
I urge you all to spread the word about this heinous tripe, and to boycott this site and all andover holdings until they stop trying to sue the competition out of existence.
As you mention below, it was kuro5hin who ran this story, not advogato. And thanks for pointing us out.:-) But regardless, we *all* stole this story from rootprompt.org, where it was originally posted. My readers just liked it enough to post a link to it, before/.'s "editors" sifted through enough repeat submissions to get wind of it. Whatever. My point is, it doesn't really matter who gets what story from where. The reason people go to my site instead of slashdot, or to advogato instead of kuro5hin, is all about the community. The content is likely to be very similar, but people tend to post on one site, and just lurk on others, because they feel the community reflects their interests, and consists of people they want to talk to.
As someone else pointed out in this thread, the "pros" steal stories from each other all the time. Kuro5hin's run many a story that someone first found on slashdot (a recent dual-story about the transparent tape drive and IBM's nano-drive ran, and I'm pretty sure *both* of the leads came from here). Most of slashdot's content, and slightly less (but still most) of mine, consists of links to stories on other news sites. So everyone's stealing stories, because the stories aren't really the point. The point is the discussions.
Ok, this is rambling now. Anyway, that's my take. If slashdot steals stories from me, well, I'm pleased, cause someone's bound to point it out and get me some traffic:-) But it's not something to be ashamed of, really. There's a lot of room in the market here-- no reason slashdot and kuro5hin can't share roughly the same topic-space, now is there?
Don't troll for me please. I'm perfectly happy getting my audience through word of mouth, but this is just lame. I don't need people wrecking slashdot on my behalf.
And, besides, kuro5hin.org is *not* slashdot, and never will be. So if all you want is a replacement for/., you might be disappointed.
The name won't be changing btw. It amuses me greatly to see people slowly learn how to spell it.:-)
But please, I ask you, stop trolling. No one needs this.
Seriously, I just got back from long checkout lines at the grocery store, staring at the Star and the Enquirer, and Weekly World News. And here's this headline, right on the front page of/. How tragically similar...
Personally, I think the satire's better at segfault.
Hey! Believe it or don't, but that actually wasn't me. I own kuro5hin.org, and I never post anonymously. You'll recognize when I'm posting by all the convenient links to the site sprinkled around my user info and sig. I never would have included the url without making it active anyway. Face it, there are a few people who like my site enough to promote it without being told to. That's kinda nifty.:-)
Someone released an app Sunday called fscktv, which descrambles NTSC cable signals in software. It's a modified bttv kernel module. See the story on kuro5hin.org for more info. Is descrambling cable signals any different from swiping network signals and redistributing them? Whether you think the law is right or not, it seems like what iCraveTV is doing is illegal. Using this software cable descrambler in doubtless also illegal. And it seems pretty clear that even if the intent was not to illegally copy DVD's (which I actually kinda doubt, having seen some of the early announcements of DeCSS), decrypting them is also illegal, at least in the US.
So, all moral righteousness aside, how do people here defend their stance that all of these things should be legal? Basically, my question is, why shouldn't the MPAA have the right to use whatever boneheaded methods they want to prevent people from seeing their media?
Oh my. My bad. People who can't contact apache NameVirtualHosts are going to have issues with this, I guess. Not that that's your problem. Your problem should be fixed now.
Interestingly, for anyone who cares, that error is what happens when you try to install the sourceforge code. My site doesn't use any php.
Umm, honestly I don't know. My hosting setup is not the greatest (ok, ok, it's hosted on my workstation in the office). But things should generally work. DNS issues, I don't know what that'd be about. I'll look into it.
Forget about slashdot. Submit them to kuro5hin.org, and let the people decide whether they're interesting or not. Hint: You can moderate the submission queue.
Oh for christ's sake. I was going to post a sensible response to this, but the hell with it.
Fuck off. Your attitude is bullshit. You're not the only person who can read, you know. I like a thoughtful book as much as the next guy, and I don't think I implied that I was reading for "mindless gratification." But Tad Williams writes sci-fi. He's interesting, but frankly, not particularly deep. Everything he said about human nature and the world around us in River, he could have easily said in half the pages.
It's an enjoyable book. But if you're taking Tad Williams as your guide to the deep mysteries of human existence, boy are you shallow.
Yeah, I gotta agree with that. It's a good review, except for avoiding the fact that this is by far the weakest of the three books. I'd give it 6/10, maybe even 5. The first one's terriffic, and the third is very good as well (and avoids most of the problems of the second). The problem with River is that the same damn things happen over and over. Somewhere around the cartoon-world I started thinking "Ok, when will this go somewhere." And basically, the problem is what Garpenlov says. Williams gets way too caught up in the "I can create an infinite number of random worlds, and make my characters go through every damn one of them!"
But, mind you, it's not a bad book. I did read the whole thing. And if you want to third one to make sense, it's a good idea to get through the second. And yes, the third one is much better:-).
Slashdot Mirror
In fact, it is. Although it's the first time I've submitted an article, too. Don't know if anyone else has submitted anything in the past.
k5 is awesome
Thank you. :-)
and to see /. linking to it, well, it's a sign that the times are changing.
I was surprised myself. I seriously didn't expect this to get posted. So many thanks to michael for not letting (potential) partisanship get in the way of content. There's been far too much general partisanship anyway. And yes, I'm just as guilty of slashdot bashing as anyone else, I suppose. But, now that I've done what they did (or, actually, what they did up to maybe last year or late '98), I have to say, it's not nearly as easy as it looks from the outside. I think /., and Rob and Hemos in particular, should be cut way more slack than they usually are.
Anyway, that's the offtopic bit of my comment-- as for the series, the next article will get into more modern ciphers I believe.
PS: Inoshiro rocks. :-)
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Whoah. What just happened? Must be something in the bits of this place that makes you want to flame... ;-)
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You're welcome, BTW. :-)
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I posted it on advogato at around 3:00AM, April 1, EST. Apparently advogato's servers aren't *in* EST. D'oh, my bad. So, overall, I apologize for your April 2nd freeballing, but c'mon, it was pretty funny. :-)
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I am so glad someone got the joke about the name. I was wondering if anyone else was gonna pick up on that. :-)
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...and the server fell over. D'oh. Hey, it is still alpha software :-)
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Andover tried to use that patent on me, but I just laughed and laughed and laughed. Do you know what it's like to laugh like that? :-)
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So far, it works way better than I, or anyone else, thought it would. The majority of stories do get posted, but so far the majority of submissions have been really good. So no conclusions there yet.
As for promoting an agenda-- people seem to vote for stories that they think would engender good discussion, or at least that they'd like to talk about. There doesn't seem to be too much "agenda-whoring" going on so far.
Will it scale? Well, I'm dealing with a little over 500 users, so far. So nowhere near slashdot-scale numbers. For the users I have, it works pretty well. It's starting to get a little bit creaky, though-- people want sections, they want to be able to vote for a story to be rewritten or edited... many small needs. But on the whole, it's worked well.
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I urge you all to spread the word about this heinous tripe, and to boycott this site and all andover holdings until they stop trying to sue the competition out of existence.
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As someone else pointed out in this thread, the "pros" steal stories from each other all the time. Kuro5hin's run many a story that someone first found on slashdot (a recent dual-story about the transparent tape drive and IBM's nano-drive ran, and I'm pretty sure *both* of the leads came from here). Most of slashdot's content, and slightly less (but still most) of mine, consists of links to stories on other news sites. So everyone's stealing stories, because the stories aren't really the point. The point is the discussions.
Ok, this is rambling now. Anyway, that's my take. If slashdot steals stories from me, well, I'm pleased, cause someone's bound to point it out and get me some traffic :-) But it's not something to be ashamed of, really. There's a lot of room in the market here-- no reason slashdot and kuro5hin can't share roughly the same topic-space, now is there?
BTW-- the story on kuro5hin ran as "The Once and Future M-Net"
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And, besides, kuro5hin.org is *not* slashdot, and never will be. So if all you want is a replacement for /., you might be disappointed.
The name won't be changing btw. It amuses me greatly to see people slowly learn how to spell it. :-)
But please, I ask you, stop trolling. No one needs this.
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He won't need to beg on the corner. He'll just make one global $quarter and use it over and over, in every store.
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Seriously, I just got back from long checkout lines at the grocery store, staring at the Star and the Enquirer, and Weekly World News. And here's this headline, right on the front page of /. How tragically similar...
Personally, I think the satire's better at segfault.
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Sample generated Katz headlines:
"The Hidden Music Industry, Digital Democracy and Cyber-Terrorism"
"Why Do Sexbots Feel Pain?"
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Hey! Believe it or don't, but that actually wasn't me. I own kuro5hin.org, and I never post anonymously. You'll recognize when I'm posting by all the convenient links to the site sprinkled around my user info and sig. I never would have included the url without making it active anyway. Face it, there are a few people who like my site enough to promote it without being told to. That's kinda nifty. :-)
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...(not even counting weekends!) according to Nitrozac. I gotta get me that job. :-)
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So, all moral righteousness aside, how do people here defend their stance that all of these things should be legal? Basically, my question is, why shouldn't the MPAA have the right to use whatever boneheaded methods they want to prevent people from seeing their media?
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Cause it's just a link to a porn site, as far as I can tell.
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Interestingly, for anyone who cares, that error is what happens when you try to install the sourceforge code. My site doesn't use any php.
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Umm, honestly I don't know. My hosting setup is not the greatest (ok, ok, it's hosted on my workstation in the office). But things should generally work. DNS issues, I don't know what that'd be about. I'll look into it.
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On the main link, or just for story moderation? That's altogether weird.
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Forget about slashdot. Submit them to kuro5hin.org, and let the people decide whether they're interesting or not. Hint: You can moderate the submission queue.
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Fuck off. Your attitude is bullshit. You're not the only person who can read, you know. I like a thoughtful book as much as the next guy, and I don't think I implied that I was reading for "mindless gratification." But Tad Williams writes sci-fi. He's interesting, but frankly, not particularly deep. Everything he said about human nature and the world around us in River, he could have easily said in half the pages.
It's an enjoyable book. But if you're taking Tad Williams as your guide to the deep mysteries of human existence, boy are you shallow.
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But, mind you, it's not a bad book. I did read the whole thing. And if you want to third one to make sense, it's a good idea to get through the second. And yes, the third one is much better :-).
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Right you are. Now I'll have to change my email again.
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