This is not flamebait at all - this is a valid comment on the us-centricity of slashdot when people read it from all over the world.
when 9/11 happened and a front page news story was posted on slashdot about it, this was relevant to probably everybody in the world, because this was the most spectacular "terrorist" attack that has ever occurred, potentially threatening everybody in the west at least.
several states and a province of canada losing electricity is of no interest to and has absolutely no relevance to anybody outside of the US/Canada.
In addition there was a small attack on deregulation of power in USA as a possible cause.
If there was a story on slashdot saying "UK trains in disarray after massive signal failure", this would also be a non-story.
As I said, the comment was not flamebait, merely expressing with brevity the concepts and ideas in this post.
this review was the shortest i've ever seen! I want a full review, maybe a chat with the ceo about novell's future strategy. (anybody got a link for one?)
And what was the mysterious comment about "we never said the copyright thing between us and sco is over"? I wanna hear more about this!
its one thing being a geek, but being such a complete nerd as this is somethign else... "If you buy this thing, use it safely. None of us want auto PC users to end up in the same category as annoying cell phone users."
yeah me too, then after I while I thought this geezer's got a bad attitude. Then I realised some of the rude stuff he said was quite funny and I ended up with lots of respect for coming on a big public interview forum and putting people down. hehe
Even my Mom can use it, which says a lot. It's better than any alternatives I've seen which require too much geek knowledge to operate. yeah I agree with you up to the point at which my mum put IE6 on her computer (when it was 5.01 before which ran fine on her 400MHz) because windows update said it was a critical update. Now her computer runs really slow.
The RIAA isn't fighting P2P because of lost record sales. They're fighting it because it hints at a new model, where artists bring their music directly to their fans.
This argument is BULLSHIT. I would bet my entire life wages on this. Look what happened to the web. 8 years ago it was all "everyone has the power to publish". Now 90% of web traffic goes to 10% of websites. Corporations have co-opted the web.
Why do you think that internet music promotion and distribution will be different? Maybe there will be a different set of 5 major labels, but within 10 years the music distribution and promotion channels will have been bought up or destroyed by whichever companies win. (apple's a player at the moment, although I suspect that it will get sidelined to about a 4% market share, as usual). Face it, this is what coroporations do best. I don't know who will win, and it probably won't be the RIAA, but it sure as hell isn't going to be the individual artists!!!!
it's basically saying "Go ahead and break into wireless networks, because if they're not completely secure, it's not your fault."
I think that this is more like saying that it is legal to view a web page, unless the owner has taken specific steps to restrict access (.htpasswd e.g.).
I think that this is a good thing because radio is ultimately a broadcast medium. Say that I was surfing satellite channels and I found a porno channel that was not encrypted and watched it, then subsequently the broadcaster of that channel said actually you were not allowed to watch that because you did not pay to use it, therefore I am going to sue you. I would say well you didn't tell me that I wasn't allowed to use it - hell, you didn't even bother to encrypt it! (so sue my ass mo fo!)
I think the presumption that something that is broadcast is free unless the broadcaster has taken steps to restrict access is a reasonable one to make.
Thank you this is the most salient comment so far I have read on this article. To add s ome further thoughts:
I believe there will also be the attack of exploiting a known buffer overflow, in order to be able to execute code with the (trusted) credentials of the attacked process. [question: what steps can palladium take to prevent this attack?]
This would lead to the situation where you would have to have a certain vulnerable version of the OS/privileged software in order to execute unsigned software in a trusted context. It is not too hard to imagine a scenario where tools which exploit known buffer overflows are the preferred method to execute one's own applications for sage computer users. M$'s only way to mitigate this would be to force mandatory windows updates so that the user does not control which (vulnerable) subversion of their software they are using. (At the present time, for example, the user has the choice not to install win2k sp3).
10000 calories was not intended to be taken literally. (If anyone ate 10000 calories a day I expect they would explode. This is something like 5 times the amount of energy your body uses in a day).
My "diet" plan was written in the style of other diets, a lot of which say e.g. eat anything you like as long as you don't eat more than 1800 calories etc. the 10000 was intended to signify that as long as you do some exercise every day, you can more or less eat what you want.
The sedentary western lifestyle is the reason that so many people are obese. The huge prevalance of cancer in the western world is a symptom of people eating more food than their body needs (in addition to constant exposure to small quantities of many harmful chemicals in city air and in food/water etc.) People who exercise live longer, healthier lives. It is as simple as that.
Humans (particularly males, hence the size/strength adaptations) evolved in an environment where they would be physically exerting themselves a lot of the time. Humans did not evolve to sit in front of the telly/at a desk/on the internet for 70% of their waking life.
Diets are all totally bogus! If you want to lose weight, the ONLY thing you have to do is some exercise! If you exercise every day you will not be fat! Its as simple as this. There is a big myth that you need to diet to lose weight.
Therefore I propose a new diet: The Exercise Diet. In this diet you can eat anything you want, whenever you want as long as the daily total is less than ten thousand calories.. The only stipulation is that you do some exercise each day - whether you go skateboarding, go to the gym, ride a bike etc.
SIMPLE AS!!!
If people realised this, the diet industry would die. Actually I think the diet industry knows this, and plays on people's unwillingness to make an effort exercise. Worse than this, the industry presents diets as the only way to lose weight!
I thought that anybody who tried to pull an april fool's joke after midday was the fool themselves.we have 12 solid hours of april fools, guaranteeing that the slashdot crew has at once ensured that they have fooled everyone in the world, and in addition the whole world knows that the slashdot crew are APRIL FOOLS!
this geezer spends ages pontificating, yet at the end of the article he has not said anything specific. For example he says nothing about how one is expected to implement the new sorts of interfaces he is talking about anyway.
He doesn't give any examples. None of the interview is more than subjective waffle.
I am not knocking this man's ideas, its just he's going to need to do more than talk vaguely about a "paradigm shift" to sell his ideas to me!
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this article is *REALLY* funny.
This is not flamebait at all - this is a valid comment on the us-centricity of slashdot when people read it from all over the world.
when 9/11 happened and a front page news story was posted on slashdot about it, this was relevant to probably everybody in the world, because this was the most spectacular "terrorist" attack that has ever occurred, potentially threatening everybody in the west at least.
several states and a province of canada losing electricity is of no interest to and has absolutely no relevance to anybody outside of the US/Canada.
In addition there was a small attack on deregulation of power in USA as a possible cause.
If there was a story on slashdot saying "UK trains in disarray after massive signal failure", this would also be a non-story.
As I said, the comment was not flamebait, merely expressing with brevity the concepts and ideas in this post.
along with 97% of the world's population.
and probably more than half of the people who read this.
It's your own stupid fault. ha
this review was the shortest i've ever seen! I want a full review, maybe a chat with the ceo about novell's future strategy. (anybody got a link for one?)
And what was the mysterious comment about "we never said the copyright thing between us and sco is over"? I wanna hear more about this!
(shaggy voice) it wasn't me
its one thing being a geek, but being such a complete nerd as this is somethign else...
"If you buy this thing, use it safely. None of us want auto PC users to end up in the same category as annoying cell phone users."
get a grip!
"If you buy this thing, use it safely. None of us want auto PC users to end up in the same category as annoying cell phone users."
F U C K O F F you dweeb
or (3) the bandwidth costs would be phenomenal. doh!
...why not use latitude and longitude then?
and why are they so arrogant as to think that people would get rid of an address and just use this code!!
and they reckon going from a 6 letter code to 1 10 letter code is only a small increase? pffff
Here's a channel for everyone - fucking hard drum'n'bass mixes! you know you want some.
Really? I just thought he came off like a dick.
yeah me too, then after I while I thought this geezer's got a bad attitude. Then I realised some of the rude stuff he said was quite funny and I ended up with lots of respect for coming on a big public interview forum and putting people down. hehe
Even my Mom can use it, which says a lot. It's better than any alternatives I've seen which require too much geek knowledge to operate.
yeah I agree with you up to the point at which my mum put IE6 on her computer (when it was 5.01 before which ran fine on her 400MHz) because windows update said it was a critical update. Now her computer runs really slow.
You obviously didn't bother to read the article you supplied if you recommending 352x240!!!!!!
you ripped that idea off of maddox! And everything he says is so much funnier than the way you say it!!!
no offence mate, its just true. Can't believe you got modded +5 for that!!!!
America has the lowest level of social mobility out of all the western liberal democracies. This is a UN statistic.
The RIAA isn't fighting P2P because of lost record sales. They're fighting it because it hints at a new model, where artists bring their music directly to their fans.
This argument is BULLSHIT. I would bet my entire life wages on this. Look what happened to the web. 8 years ago it was all "everyone has the power to publish". Now 90% of web traffic goes to 10% of websites. Corporations have co-opted the web.
Why do you think that internet music promotion and distribution will be different? Maybe there will be a different set of 5 major labels, but within 10 years the music distribution and promotion channels will have been bought up or destroyed by whichever companies win. (apple's a player at the moment, although I suspect that it will get sidelined to about a 4% market share, as usual). Face it, this is what coroporations do best. I don't know who will win, and it probably won't be the RIAA, but it sure as hell isn't going to be the individual artists!!!!
it's basically saying "Go ahead and break into wireless networks, because if they're not completely secure, it's not your fault."
I think that this is more like saying that it is legal to view a web page, unless the owner has taken specific steps to restrict access (.htpasswd e.g.).
I think that this is a good thing because radio is ultimately a broadcast medium. Say that I was surfing satellite channels and I found a porno channel that was not encrypted and watched it, then subsequently the broadcaster of that channel said actually you were not allowed to watch that because you did not pay to use it, therefore I am going to sue you. I would say well you didn't tell me that I wasn't allowed to use it - hell, you didn't even bother to encrypt it! (so sue my ass mo fo!)
I think the presumption that something that is broadcast is free unless the broadcaster has taken steps to restrict access is a reasonable one to make.
Thank you this is the most salient comment so far I have read on this article. To add s ome further thoughts:
I believe there will also be the attack of exploiting a known buffer overflow, in order to be able to execute code with the (trusted) credentials of the attacked process. [question: what steps can palladium take to prevent this attack?]
This would lead to the situation where you would have to have a certain vulnerable version of the OS/privileged software in order to execute unsigned software in a trusted context. It is not too hard to imagine a scenario where tools which exploit known buffer overflows are the preferred method to execute one's own applications for sage computer users. M$'s only way to mitigate this would be to force mandatory windows updates so that the user does not control which (vulnerable) subversion of their software they are using. (At the present time, for example, the user has the choice not to install win2k sp3).
any comments?
10000 calories was not intended to be taken literally. (If anyone ate 10000 calories a day I expect they would explode. This is something like 5 times the amount of energy your body uses in a day).
My "diet" plan was written in the style of other diets, a lot of which say e.g. eat anything you like as long as you don't eat more than 1800 calories etc. the 10000 was intended to signify that as long as you do some exercise every day, you can more or less eat what you want.
The sedentary western lifestyle is the reason that so many people are obese. The huge prevalance of cancer in the western world is a symptom of people eating more food than their body needs (in addition to constant exposure to small quantities of many harmful chemicals in city air and in food/water etc.) People who exercise live longer, healthier lives. It is as simple as that.
Humans (particularly males, hence the size/strength adaptations) evolved in an environment where they would be physically exerting themselves a lot of the time. Humans did not evolve to sit in front of the telly/at a desk/on the internet for 70% of their waking life.
Diets are all totally bogus! If you want to lose weight, the ONLY thing you have to do is some exercise! If you exercise every day you will not be fat! Its as simple as this. There is a big myth that you need to diet to lose weight.
Therefore I propose a new diet: The Exercise Diet.
In this diet you can eat anything you want, whenever you want as long as the daily total is less than ten thousand calories..
The only stipulation is that you do some exercise each day - whether you go skateboarding, go to the gym, ride a bike etc.
SIMPLE AS!!!
If people realised this, the diet industry would die. Actually I think the diet industry knows this, and plays on people's unwillingness to make an effort exercise. Worse than this, the industry presents diets as the only way to lose weight!
I thought that anybody who tried to pull an april fool's joke after midday was the fool themselves.we have 12 solid hours of april fools, guaranteeing that the slashdot crew has at once ensured that they have fooled everyone in the world, and in addition the whole world knows that the slashdot crew are APRIL FOOLS!
That would NEVER fly in the US.
Over sensitivity to issues of racism is AS RACIST as discriminating against people on account of their skin colour.
No they don't.
don't believe the hype
what's the motivation for building this, it must cost a phenomenal amount? What's the benefit to the military of building this?
He doesn't give any examples. None of the interview is more than subjective waffle.
I am not knocking this man's ideas, its just he's going to need to do more than talk vaguely about a "paradigm shift" to sell his ideas to me!