At the time, we thought it was pretty crazy that anyone would line up that far in advance to buy a cell phone — but now we know what crazy really looks like.
He's not crazy. It's just some cracked performance art. His Twitter account features pictures of him, amongst other things, tied up in rope bondage aboard a train, wearing an alarmingly tight superhero costume, running in underwear on snowy streets, and a penis crafted of chocolate. He's clearly a prankster and humorist.
I just got this crazy idea. You know those videos in YouTube where Hitler gets worked up about something and there's various fake subtitles people have crafted over that clip. Make one where Hitler discovers Slashdot Beta.
It's not always laziness. I added outgoing filters to my routers so that it only allowed source addresses from my network. That was great at stopping DOS attacks, but as I found-out the hard way, several of my customers were sending outbound traffic with source addresses not on my network.
I'm not a networking wizard so I ask...why did the customers need to send outbound traffic using modified source addresses? Why should that be allowed as part of your service?
As much as I'd like to leave the programmers alone for a while now, I have to say that the second screenshot you posted is hilarious. The beta layout works with a page width of 1920 pixels, but anything lower than that, the comment section becomes a thin strip.
How should people voice their displeasure with the potential death of Slashdot?
They have voiced it already and the engineer team is working on the fixes. Let's be fair and give them some time now. If there is still something to say, do it in the Slashdot Blog or send e-mail to feedback@slashdot.org with the subject "beta_feedback". Littering the article comments with "fuck beta" is not going to help.
There's already an amplification circuit in there. If matched up to the speaker's power limit, nothing additional is necessary to safeguard the speaker.
Agreed. A computer should be able to perform any sequence of instructions the user can come up with. Otherwise it is not functioning as advertised.
Performing a sequence of instructions is an easily quantifiable problem. Playing sound through speakers includes a physical, analog stage and it's much harder to predict all the corner cases. Speakers don't like playing clipped signal at high volumes. Speakers also don't like DC voltage (you could also craft an audio signal like that on a PC too). And so on.
Probably because the safeguards would have to be part of the analog amplification circuit, and anything extra that you put there will potentially hamper sound quality.
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Very true.
Good catch. The singular is actually "datum". Same thing with "medium", "media".
No! We are special snowflakes!
At the time, we thought it was pretty crazy that anyone would line up that far in advance to buy a cell phone — but now we know what crazy really looks like.
He's not crazy. It's just some cracked performance art. His Twitter account features pictures of him, amongst other things, tied up in rope bondage aboard a train, wearing an alarmingly tight superhero costume, running in underwear on snowy streets, and a penis crafted of chocolate. He's clearly a prankster and humorist.
This weird BSD spam has been around for something like a decade already.
+1C, all snow soon melted away.
Seriously, great news!
My congratulations too. Great to hear that they can continue the project.
Chinese have the skill to make both cheap crap and premium components. It's really only about the targeted price point and what the customer orders.
Brilliant. :)
I just got this crazy idea. You know those videos in YouTube where Hitler gets worked up about something and there's various fake subtitles people have crafted over that clip. Make one where Hitler discovers Slashdot Beta.
Then why are you here?
It's not always laziness. I added outgoing filters to my routers so that it only allowed source addresses from my network. That was great at stopping DOS attacks, but as I found-out the hard way, several of my customers were sending outbound traffic with source addresses not on my network.
I'm not a networking wizard so I ask...why did the customers need to send outbound traffic using modified source addresses? Why should that be allowed as part of your service?
As much as I'd like to leave the programmers alone for a while now, I have to say that the second screenshot you posted is hilarious. The beta layout works with a page width of 1920 pixels, but anything lower than that, the comment section becomes a thin strip.
Updates are being applied...
Please do not close your Slashdot.
(spinning pearls animation)
Joe, try reading back your own sentences. They are sometimes incredibly hard to read. :) Add some punctuation there or break them down otherwise.
Those are good points indeed.
How should people voice their displeasure with the potential death of Slashdot?
They have voiced it already and the engineer team is working on the fixes. Let's be fair and give them some time now. If there is still something to say, do it in the Slashdot Blog or send e-mail to feedback@slashdot.org with the subject "beta_feedback". Littering the article comments with "fuck beta" is not going to help.
Sure.
Well, I guess we could simply regulate the current going to the speaker. But I'm not sure how well that would work.
There's already an amplification circuit in there. If matched up to the speaker's power limit, nothing additional is necessary to safeguard the speaker.
You are basically correct.
This is true.
Agreed. A computer should be able to perform any sequence of instructions the user can come up with. Otherwise it is not functioning as advertised.
Performing a sequence of instructions is an easily quantifiable problem. Playing sound through speakers includes a physical, analog stage and it's much harder to predict all the corner cases. Speakers don't like playing clipped signal at high volumes. Speakers also don't like DC voltage (you could also craft an audio signal like that on a PC too). And so on.
Too complicated for the purpose.
It would be expensive to use components that can always handle the worst case for long times.
Exactly.
I do not know why there are not more safeguards
Probably because the safeguards would have to be part of the analog amplification circuit, and anything extra that you put there will potentially hamper sound quality.