There is a reason the world went off of the gold standard (as determined at the Brentonwoods agreement). The problem with the gold standard is that there is only a fixed amount of gold in the world and hence a fixed supply of money. This has a tendancy to actually increase inflation since having a country's currency backed by it gold, which would essentially be fixed at a maximum amount, since there is no infinite amount of gold in the world, would mean that for every extra dollar that the treasury prints out, the overall value of the currency would decrease. In short as the money supply grew, so would inflation.
Aslo this would mean the regulation of gold as a national resource. You can kiss any amount of gold greater then 6 troy ounces good buy in that case because it would be necessary for government to keep tabs on large quantities of gold (aka lock in in Fort Knox) in order to prevent any schemes to corner the global market for gold.
Also if any sudden discovery/excavation of gold, like all of the stuff that's sitting in Russia and the former Soviet states would devestate the world economy since a sudden rush of gold onto the world scene would be the equivalent of creating trillions of dollars in cash. It's just like how large money laudring schemes which introduce unaccountable new cash into the economy causes inflation. Oh speaking of inflation, the inflation you speak of was mainly caused by a spike in energy prices during the 70s and a major decrease in worker productivity (I think a drop from 2% to 1% which is a lot, billions of dollars, for an economy the size of the US's).
For those of you who think I'm blowing smoke all this stuff I got out of my college economics book (Baulmer and Blinder are the authors I think ).
Just like to remind people that all that's gold doesn't necessarily produce economic glitter.
How else can I stick to the Man. I pirate his music, rip his movies, burn his tv shows, and oh nothing like having Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0-6.0. And so what if I download everyfile I can find, I'm backing it up for postarity.
Seriously though, I know one person who is all 3 of those things you describe. He has over 300 CD-Rs burned, so those people exist out there. He has so many failed burns that we play frisbee with them or pop them in the microwave.
will they bring back the good old card board sets and cheesey phaser effects. I mean if the original was like that, whats this show gonna be like? I can just imagine a fight involving a bunch of Star Trek models bought from Hobbytown flying around on strings. Now that would be worth watching
After spending 366 days online (most of it in IRC I imagine), I can just imagine how his speech patterns have changed:
Reporter: DotComGuy, how do you feel finally being out after 12 months locked in your house?
DCG: 1t f33lz 1337. tH1s r0x0rS!
Reporter: And what do you have to say to the people who may contemplate emulating you in the coming months.
DCG: d0n't 3v3n t|2y d00dz. 1'm 1337, 1 w1ll 0wn j00!! 1'll h4x0r j00r b0xes!!
Reporter: "Haxor", "elite"? Sir what do you mean by this?
DCG: 1'm 1337, 1 d0wnl04d3d 13 g1gz 0f w4r3z 0ff my 1337 c4bl3 c0nexi0n!
Note: I saw a news story on CNN (TV not web) on this so of course it was dumbed down, and reader-freindly but from what I could gather this is what it was trying to say:
Apparently what they do is something like current absentee ballots where you put your name on the envelop then seal the ballot in a seperate envelop and put that in the first. When the government gets that ballot it takes down your name and tosses the sealed ballot to the side to count on election day. The result for the absentee is that they get that you voted but no one know who you voted for.
For "e-ballots" what I heard was that they split the vote up, meaning when you click send (or whatever it is) the vote is broken up and sent to two diffrent locations. That means that they send the fact that you voted and all your information to one server, while the vote itself is sent to another.
How this works I couldn't exactly explain because the article was so vague, but I think that since you have to fill this out by multiple pages (the ballot is not on the same page as the personal info) I'm assuming that they automatically transition servers after you submit the personal info, and of course if the company doing this is even remotely legit, they do this via SSL/SQL (I don't do web security correct me if this is wrong) so you can't hit back and vote a gazillion times.
Also, the location of the servers for this election were kept secret and out of state to prevent tampering. They story also said something of encryption 4000 times more powerful than the current web standard (128-bit?), but of course they didn't explain how it was implemented and I have know idea how you'd implement it if the client side is still only 128-bit, 56-bit or whatever.
For all of you that hadn't listened, all they did was play Linus' keynote from last weeks Linux Expo, New York. While I liked the keynote, I was pissed for obvious reasons that what I listened to was not exactly a live interview. IMHO michael should get his facts straight next time.
Why don't we put that up a Slashdot poll. My personal favorite was the cat herding commercial. It's funny watching all those cats run through the river. The budweiser commercial with the dog and man was also funny.
All we need now is the p0rn industry to start claiming damages because sites other then theirs appears when someone types in the word "sex," and pretty soon all that nasty smut on the net will be gone!
By my watch it took about 20 minutes for crazyeddy.com to be overun by the/. effect.
What/. needs is a better way of doing this. Especially if your linking a 37 MB video. Granted CmdrTaco, Hemos, et. al. don't exactly have all the time in the world, but I think that for movie files like this,/. should at least set up a mirror for the file. It would save us, and the webmasters of the other site a great deal of pain. We could watch and laugh our heads off, the webmasters wouldn't crap in their pants when they find out they were/.'ed.
Intrestingly enough if you look up MSN.com on Netcraft you get this. Well at least we know M$N isn't doing that well if they can run a server off of Win95.
Slashdot Mirror
There is a reason the world went off of the gold standard (as determined at the Brentonwoods agreement). The problem with the gold standard is that there is only a fixed amount of gold in the world and hence a fixed supply of money. This has a tendancy to actually increase inflation since having a country's currency backed by it gold, which would essentially be fixed at a maximum amount, since there is no infinite amount of gold in the world, would mean that for every extra dollar that the treasury prints out, the overall value of the currency would decrease. In short as the money supply grew, so would inflation.
Aslo this would mean the regulation of gold as a national resource. You can kiss any amount of gold greater then 6 troy ounces good buy in that case because it would be necessary for government to keep tabs on large quantities of gold (aka lock in in Fort Knox) in order to prevent any schemes to corner the global market for gold.
Also if any sudden discovery/excavation of gold, like all of the stuff that's sitting in Russia and the former Soviet states would devestate the world economy since a sudden rush of gold onto the world scene would be the equivalent of creating trillions of dollars in cash. It's just like how large money laudring schemes which introduce unaccountable new cash into the economy causes inflation. Oh speaking of inflation, the inflation you speak of was mainly caused by a spike in energy prices during the 70s and a major decrease in worker productivity (I think a drop from 2% to 1% which is a lot, billions of dollars, for an economy the size of the US's).
For those of you who think I'm blowing smoke all this stuff I got out of my college economics book (Baulmer and Blinder are the authors I think ).
Just like to remind people that all that's gold doesn't necessarily produce economic glitter.
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How else can I stick to the Man. I pirate his music, rip his movies, burn his tv shows, and oh nothing like having Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0-6.0. And so what if I download everyfile I can find, I'm backing it up for postarity.
Seriously though, I know one person who is all 3 of those things you describe. He has over 300 CD-Rs burned, so those people exist out there. He has so many failed burns that we play frisbee with them or pop them in the microwave.
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will they bring back the good old card board sets and cheesey phaser effects. I mean if the original was like that, whats this show gonna be like? I can just imagine a fight involving a bunch of Star Trek models bought from Hobbytown flying around on strings. Now that would be worth watching
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For the client we have DemoNews. Windows only here, sorry.
I haven't got anything for the VISS, but if I find it i'll reply back.
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Hehe, now instead of falling asleep at board meetings, me and the rest of the tech team will spend the entire time playing Quake.
Boss: Great job gentlemen, all of you have your PDA's out taking notes I see.
HUMILIATION!
Me: Dammit! Er... um I mean, ya that's what we should do witht the leak in HR, dam it!
Boss: Good idea man, you'll get a raise for that!
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Gamespot by far has the best coverage of this thing. They even got to play with it, more then gamecenter or the register can say, for the moment.
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After spending 366 days online (most of it in IRC I imagine), I can just imagine how his speech patterns have changed:
Reporter: DotComGuy, how do you feel finally being out after 12 months locked in your house?
DCG: 1t f33lz 1337. tH1s r0x0rS!
Reporter: And what do you have to say to the people who may contemplate emulating you in the coming months.
DCG: d0n't 3v3n t|2y d00dz. 1'm 1337, 1 w1ll 0wn j00!! 1'll h4x0r j00r b0xes!!
Reporter: "Haxor", "elite"? Sir what do you mean by this?
DCG: 1'm 1337, 1 d0wnl04d3d 13 g1gz 0f w4r3z 0ff my 1337 c4bl3 c0nexi0n!
Reporter: Right...
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Four words...
Don't worry, it's invisible.
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Now all I'll do is bring my laptop to school and play games in class.
Teacher: Johnson, what are doing with those sun glasses.
Me: Sir these, aren't sunglasses, it's a computer monitor
Teacher: Let me see... Well I'll be damned, by the way you have detention afterschool.
Me: Why?
Teacher: We don't play Unreal-Tournament in the middle of a lecture.
Me: Note to self, next time alt-tab out of game before handing over glasses.
Note: I saw a news story on CNN (TV not web) on this so of course it was dumbed down, and reader-freindly but from what I could gather this is what it was trying to say:
Apparently what they do is something like current absentee ballots where you put your name on the envelop then seal the ballot in a seperate envelop and put that in the first. When the government gets that ballot it takes down your name and tosses the sealed ballot to the side to count on election day. The result for the absentee is that they get that you voted but no one know who you voted for.
For "e-ballots" what I heard was that they split the vote up, meaning when you click send (or whatever it is) the vote is broken up and sent to two diffrent locations. That means that they send the fact that you voted and all your information to one server, while the vote itself is sent to another.
How this works I couldn't exactly explain because the article was so vague, but I think that since you have to fill this out by multiple pages (the ballot is not on the same page as the personal info) I'm assuming that they automatically transition servers after you submit the personal info, and of course if the company doing this is even remotely legit, they do this via SSL/SQL (I don't do web security correct me if this is wrong) so you can't hit back and vote a gazillion times.
Also, the location of the servers for this election were kept secret and out of state to prevent tampering. They story also said something of encryption 4000 times more powerful than the current web standard (128-bit?), but of course they didn't explain how it was implemented and I have know idea how you'd implement it if the client side is still only 128-bit, 56-bit or whatever.
Well that's my explaination hope you like!
OakLEE
For all of you that hadn't listened, all they did was play Linus' keynote from last weeks Linux Expo, New York. While I liked the keynote, I was pissed for obvious reasons that what I listened to was not exactly a live interview. IMHO michael should get his facts straight next time.
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Why don't we put that up a Slashdot poll. My personal favorite was the cat herding commercial. It's funny watching all those cats run through the river. The budweiser commercial with the dog and man was also funny.
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>Can this stuff be put into a saline solution and made into eye drops that would make my eyes glow?
I believe they already have glow in the dark contacts. I saw some kids with them on halloween.
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Isn't it intresting that Linus beet out the likes of Steve Case and has more then 25% of the vote (at last check.) Keep up the good work slashdoters.
All we need now is the p0rn industry to start claiming damages because sites other then theirs appears when someone types in the word "sex," and pretty soon all that nasty smut on the net will be gone!
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I just got mandrake 6.1 fully working!!!!! Damn you mandrake, now i have to download this and upgrade!!!!!
By my watch it took about 20 minutes for crazyeddy.com to be overun by the /. effect.
/. needs is a better way of doing this. Especially if your linking a 37 MB video. Granted CmdrTaco, Hemos, et. al. don't exactly have all the time in the world, but I think that for movie files like this, /. should at least set up a mirror for the file. It would save us, and the webmasters of the other site a great deal of pain. We could watch and laugh our heads off, the webmasters wouldn't crap in their pants when they find out they were /.'ed.
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>I've heard some Microsloth sites are running Linux. Anybody got any facts on this?
I can't say that any of them run Linux, but if your looks at Netcraft readings for Hotmail.com it shows they are running FreeBSD.
Intrestingly enough if you look up MSN.com on Netcraft you get this. Well at least we know M$N isn't doing that well if they can run a server off of Win95.