see Kuro5in.org for moderation technology that actually works
Or one that promotes cliques. Accountability in moderation produces the same abuses it does in voting -- ganging up on people who see things differently from you.
Agreed. K5's system sucks. Basically, you can't say anything beyond a certain level of complexity, because most people don't take the time to consider it, and vote on gut reactions provided by their culture.
Isn't it great how with one little change of definition, "privacy" can now mean "we keep private everything we know about you, which is everything."
This guy really should be fired. Out of a cannon. At a wall.
That's possibly the best comment I've read on slashdot in a LONG time.
I also find it interesting how they're trying to merge the concepts of privacy and anonymity, and then reject one, as if anonymity was just an accident that has come along with privacy up to now. It's not. It's a valuable, inalieable right, just like privacy.
Put white noise hardware and real random number hardware on PCs, and this whole problem goes away.
How do these work? Electromagnetics? Background radiation? Quantum unknowns? Even without being a physicist, I can imagine flaws in systems based on most of these.
Precisely. That's why we should learn to notice peace, and not war. Peace is our default state, and it's the good one. THAT's what's worth remembering, not the few bad times when we screwed up and forgot that.
If you ask me, google had it right the first time.
I didn't know this. I thought search engines were selected on some combination of technical merit and status quo. If they're really placing search engines in mozilla because they're being paid to do so, then that's one more reason I'm looking forward to webkit in kde.
I don't know why you'd be suspicious. Huge evil megacorp, known for bribery and corruption, is facing it's worst nightmare in the form of ODF. It's tried everything to get rid of it, and ODF is still slowly but surely progressing. Suddenly, one of the big organisations behind ODF declares that ODF is somehow a failure when it's on top, and then decides to blink out of existence altogether.
Nope. Nothing fishy there. I'm sure the OpenDoc Foundation just accidentally ate a ring of teleportation or something.
Oh, you said based on DISK SPACE. Sorry, missed that. No, they don't. I do I agree: it'd be nice to just allocate a partition, and say, "OK, use that to keep my work as safe as you can." I guess it wouldn't be TOO hard to write a script that checks how much space backups are taking with faubackup, and to automatically adjust faubackup's config to not go overboard. It's also entirely possible to just delete any old copies that you don't want to keep from faubackup's store, as it makes hardlinks that act just like regular files. Not perfect though, no.
A more useful version would be one that used solar cells on the top of the LCD to absorb the already expended energy of ambient lighting.
Not quite. A more useful version would be just very efficient in standby, with a centralised and highly-specialised solar power plant doing very efficient solar power conversion that couldn't be afforded in home devices.
For the hundredth time, Time Machine is automated, very easy to setup, and very easy to use. It isn't doing, or claiming to be doing anything new or special in terms of backup method. Apple still did a great job.
You seem angry, friend. Don't read complete coverage into my posts about one particular aspect; it'll give you a hernia or something;)
I look at things like this, and my first response is never: "Oh gosh, we should have seen it coming!" For every real nutjob, there are a hundred others who are just being young, alienated, and angry.
Exactly. And we need to start recognising this as a society. Kids like that are trying to tell us something. In the past, it's been hard for them, because shooting a lot of people doesn't tend to get you a prime spot on TV to air your point of view. Now that things like youtube are available, this will probably happen more often, until people pay attention and sort out the troubles kids have.
In my experience, the parents who would be responsible enough to use such a feature don't need it anyways.
...if by "it", you mean "Microsoft". No one who cares about their kids becoming slaves to corporate corruption should let Microsoft products anywhere near them.
Yes. When you tell faubackup that you want X days and Y weeks, it keeps X snapshots for each of the last X days, and Y snapshots for each of the last Y weeks; no more. I assume dirvish works the same way.
What's the deal with all these weird diseases originating in that dark continent?
For one thing, Africa is a BIG place, with high temperatures, etc.
More importantly though... people are dying of AIDS and starvation, and we do nothing about it. What do you expect to happen, when you ignore an entire continent's need of help. The answer is: it comes back and bites you in the ass.
dirvish and (my favourite, and the one I've tested) faubackup do this. In the debian package, you just edit the config file for how many days, weeks, months, and/or years of snapshots to keep, pick a (possibly remote) directory to put the backups in, and then add lines to a cron job for each directory to backup. Leave it alone, and whenever something goes wrong, you just go back to the date-labelled dirs and copy the files back.
Maybe you can, but others can't. nspluginwrapper isn't 100% reliable, and at best, it's a hack that's only necessary because o the very fact that there isn't a proper open reference implementation based on standards.
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Agreed. K5's system sucks. Basically, you can't say anything beyond a certain level of complexity, because most people don't take the time to consider it, and vote on gut reactions provided by their culture.
No, it doesn't!
But that part, and the first part, I agree with
That's possibly the best comment I've read on slashdot in a LONG time.
I also find it interesting how they're trying to merge the concepts of privacy and anonymity, and then reject one, as if anonymity was just an accident that has come along with privacy up to now. It's not. It's a valuable, inalieable right, just like privacy.
How do these work? Electromagnetics? Background radiation? Quantum unknowns? Even without being a physicist, I can imagine flaws in systems based on most of these.
You've gotta admit... it's better than "Bill's new sextoy".
That's no argument. The "default" has a lot of power, and can easily be used for bad things. In this case though, point taken
Precisely. That's why we should learn to notice peace, and not war. Peace is our default state, and it's the good one. THAT's what's worth remembering, not the few bad times when we screwed up and forgot that.
If you ask me, google had it right the first time.
Good luck sticking with the company that's shown itself to disrespect your rights, and gradually eat away at them. Keep us updated
I didn't know this. I thought search engines were selected on some combination of technical merit and status quo. If they're really placing search engines in mozilla because they're being paid to do so, then that's one more reason I'm looking forward to webkit in kde.
I don't know why you'd be suspicious. Huge evil megacorp, known for bribery and corruption, is facing it's worst nightmare in the form of ODF. It's tried everything to get rid of it, and ODF is still slowly but surely progressing. Suddenly, one of the big organisations behind ODF declares that ODF is somehow a failure when it's on top, and then decides to blink out of existence altogether.
Nope. Nothing fishy there. I'm sure the OpenDoc Foundation just accidentally ate a ring of teleportation or something.
Oh, you said based on DISK SPACE. Sorry, missed that. No, they don't. I do I agree: it'd be nice to just allocate a partition, and say, "OK, use that to keep my work as safe as you can." I guess it wouldn't be TOO hard to write a script that checks how much space backups are taking with faubackup, and to automatically adjust faubackup's config to not go overboard. It's also entirely possible to just delete any old copies that you don't want to keep from faubackup's store, as it makes hardlinks that act just like regular files. Not perfect though, no.
I think you mean that the first big OS vendor to bribe Paramount is often the winner.
Not quite. A more useful version would be just very efficient in standby, with a centralised and highly-specialised solar power plant doing very efficient solar power conversion that couldn't be afforded in home devices.
Sure. And the poverty gap isn't growing, and slavery is less common than ever before.
You seem angry, friend. Don't read complete coverage into my posts about one particular aspect; it'll give you a hernia or something
Then you preceeded from a false assumption.
Exactly. And we need to start recognising this as a society. Kids like that are trying to tell us something. In the past, it's been hard for them, because shooting a lot of people doesn't tend to get you a prime spot on TV to air your point of view. Now that things like youtube are available, this will probably happen more often, until people pay attention and sort out the troubles kids have.
Yes. When you tell faubackup that you want X days and Y weeks, it keeps X snapshots for each of the last X days, and Y snapshots for each of the last Y weeks; no more. I assume dirvish works the same way.
For one thing, Africa is a BIG place, with high temperatures, etc.
More importantly though... people are dying of AIDS and starvation, and we do nothing about it. What do you expect to happen, when you ignore an entire continent's need of help. The answer is: it comes back and bites you in the ass.
Actually, this is already finished. Once it hit milestone version 0.34, it went to the future, to bring back it's 3.0 version.
You lights only go at light-speed? Pfft.
dirvish and (my favourite, and the one I've tested) faubackup do this. In the debian package, you just edit the config file for how many days, weeks, months, and/or years of snapshots to keep, pick a (possibly remote) directory to put the backups in, and then add lines to a cron job for each directory to backup. Leave it alone, and whenever something goes wrong, you just go back to the date-labelled dirs and copy the files back.
It's almost as good as faubackup?
Maybe you can, but others can't. nspluginwrapper isn't 100% reliable, and at best, it's a hack that's only necessary because o the very fact that there isn't a proper open reference implementation based on standards.