I fail to see how this is a flamebait. Sure, the opinion of the poster might not be the same as the opinion of the moderator, but it's definately not flamebait.
Seems more posts in this topic have been similarly moderated. Is this perhaps a sensitive subjects for some slashdot visitors?
I wouldn't say that too fast if I were you...
That site is loaded with viagra spam due to the login-free posting, so infact the crawler just might think you have a *ahem* rubber ducky.... if you know what I'm saying:P
You must feel mighty powerful now after calling someone a dumbass and a fucktard over the internet, especially while safely behind the Anonymous Coward mask.
Congratulations big boy!
That might work for you, but you're a minority in that.
The majority of people aren't that tech-savvy, and just click on every button, link, and attachment they can get their hands on. Installing a system like that for my folks would get them infected before they can say "wha?". The last time I reinstalled their pc, they had been infected with about 20 virusses, on 1000+ files, with updated symantec virusscanner and firewall installed.
Never underestimate the ingenuity of human stupidity. Most of the people still don't understand crap of computers. My neighbur upstairs hadn't even heard about virusscanning when I asked her while fixing a problem.
If all people would follow your advice, we'd be in our necks with botnets before _we_ can say "wha?"
The fact that I read this article thru my iGoogle homepage, and the fact that google actually took the US government to court when they wanted to have google's search commands, shows me enough.
Google might have done stuff like cooporating with the Chinese government in censuring search results on the google.cn webpage, but I happen to agree with google there. If a company wants to do business in a foreign country, they'll have to agree with those foreign laws. In the case of China, that means certain subjects are taboo, and talking about certain subjects could get you killed. Is that fair? No ofcourse not, but it's the way that country works. Atleast they have a good search engine now.
If you hate Google for cooporating with this stuff, you'd better also hate Apple, for manufacturing there, and about every toy manufacturer.
Quite likely all bolts and screws in your car are probably manufactured in china aswell. Or how about the casing of your computer speakers and monitor?
If you hate google for that, hate all the companies for dealing with china, because the simple fact is, they all have to comply with Cn. laws and hence all do stuff that would make the hairs in our neck stand straight up.
We should be glad that there is one responsible company who has decided to put an end to this mess: News Corporation, the great company responsible for Fox news has decided to put in a bid of $5Bn for Dow Jones, the company that owns the Wall Street Journal. That may seem an awful lot to pay for a bunch of angry liberals with a grudge against the U.S. Economy, but knowing those guys, its bound to be a smart move. I just hope they bring the same level of morality and respect for the Truth that Fox News is famous for to the world of business.
I mean, whoever can take that serious needs a good checkup:)
In the words of.... I think it was Jon Steward of the Daily Show, but I can be mistaken...
Fox news shows you both sides of the story. The President's side, and the Vice President's side.
How would it work if you have a certain file of n nodes, and you insert data at the start of the file. Does it shift the data adding a node at the start? Or does it read it as all new blocks adding n+1 new nodes...
The first would cost a bit more performance, to check what actually did change, and what not, but the latter would cost a lot of diskspace.
Ohw lol yeah, I've been in one of those.... one that actually was smart enough to place the motion sensor _outside_ of the toilet cubicle thingy...
Does make you strife to stay under the 2min cutoff time like nothing else... good for the companies time-management:D
Didn't know that about NX, but I'm not using CATIA myself. I've so far worked with (and still working with) NX, SOLIDWorks + COSMOSWorks, and Autodesk Inventor, and mainly using the latter two, so that's my main interrest. Those are sadly still windows-only, infact, Autodesk Inventor needs Excel, which is really sad because now you need to have excel anyway, so there's not much point in using open office or some other alternative.
Believe me... It isn't voluntary. The minute Solidworks Corporation, Dassault Systèmes, UGS and thelike start porting their products to Linux, I'm gone.
Countless times have I been working on a design, only to find windows feeling like it's BSOD time, or it going unresponsive on me resulting in me having to reboot. It's rather frustrating (major understatement).
Well, it may be a bit ghetto, but you could take a look at FreeSCO and assorted add-ons.
I used it as a firewall/router for a small network (6 users using p2p, ftp, ssh, web etc, the whole shebang) on a pentium 75 with 16MB memory for quite some time and never had any issues with it.
The shrinkage of the hole isn't the only problem and could partly be overcome by taking a larger drillhead than the drillshaft (or tube or whatever connection between the higher part and the drillhead).
If you take a really long straw and place it vertically in your beverage, you can only lift the water so much before the weight of the water becomes higher than you could lift by sucking your mouth vacuum.
This same effect happens with the rock deposit you drill up. You need to remove it to somewhere, and the deeper the hole is, the more weight you'll have to lift out of the drillhole.
Another thing is the weight of the drillhead and connection. If you lift a long enough cable or wire high enough it'll collapse under it's own weight. You'll have that same risk with drilling very long holes.
Also, the drillhead won't last forever. Certainly not under those rock hardnesses at several km's deep. And then there's the stability of the shaft. Chances are it wants to collapse. Many problems, many issues. it's not as easy as just drilling down:)
Indeed, Unix isn't 100% secure. No operating system is.
The weak point of every computer, no matter what operating system it's running, is the end-user. If a user is using a linux computer in root, or just blatantly enters the root password if asked for it, ofcourse, the PC would be compromised.
Atleast it's still a lot more secure than windows though, where malware can install without asking the user for a password or anything.
The pi is needed because 0.5 rad is something totally different from 0.5 * pi rad. It's about, ohw, I'd say a factor 3.14 difference:)
You're right that there's no significant difference between 4.98 and 5, but how would you make a measuring triangle for instance? It would be really annoying to have to measure in parts in Pi/180.
I agree, for maths radians is much much easier, but trust me on the degree for engineering...
A draft angle of 5 ±1 deg
or
a draft angle of (0.0277~ * Pi) ±(0.0055~ * Pi) rad
No, really, for engineering angle's are easier. Not because the calculations are much different, but because you'd need to find a hellofalot room in technical drawings for all the angular measurements, and measuring the angles is much much easier in degrees.
Microsoft and SFLC are both supporting the position that U.S. software patents have no right to cover activity outside of the United States, especially in places that have specifically rejected software patents.
How does AT&T get the idea that it can extend their US laws and rights to other countries? They have no governing rights here.
Patents by themselves are (with good reason) already region bound, and the US patent system is a farce. I would rather not have that system here thank you very much.
PS. nice to see that microsoft for once does the right thing:)
I'm sorry, but that's not google doing that. It's some hacker trying to be funny and doing it, while ruining the name for all hackers out there.
I myself can barely program "hello world" so I don't know exactly what happened, but it atleast is clear to me that the attack of recently was done from the clients end thru the browser (they all reported their browsers going nuts for a while, taking up 100% resources etc).
This could probably be prevented by a good virusscanner and firewall, perhaps by using a router inbetween the internet and your pc.
I was referring to it being a server-side option. You can have a "safesite" setting at the top of your page similar to the way Google does the "SafeSearch is off" link on its image search page.
Well, the one doesn't exclude the other ofcourse, but what if instead of a hidden div or filtered content script on the server, have a tag-adding script that adds the NSFW tags. The users can just as easily select the hide/show option, but then not in the browserwindow on the top of the screen, but in the options of the browser. The difference for the user is that they just don't have to set the option a multitude of times, once for each site and cookie duration, but just once in the options menu of the browser.
I don't think that many adult advertisers or forum pranksters would voluntarily use an "NSFW" tag, so a browser option wouldn't be that useful IMHO.
You could add a pagerank-like system that checks for NSFW-like words and links and for instance, give it a grade for the NSFW-ness the post shows, like spam-filters for your mail work now. You can then set your browser options from no filter, weak filter etc, up to extra high filter if you wish.
Fact is, running Firefox with NoScript and AdBlock is very, very effective at blocking most adult images unless you are on a site that specifically is oriented towards adults, which you shouldn't be on at work;p
Depends on the job type really, I could imagine a few jobs that have to do exactly that;)
Besides, I'm not too fond of Firefox. I prefer Opera myself, and at work I don't visit too many sites. Mostly just the few forums, and the few internet shops:)
It's actually gotten bad for me, since I'll send out a funny link without turning on javascript and disabling AdBlock first only to find out that all of the Explorer users got pop-ups and porn ads... oops!
I work in a small office, so I usually just turn my screen so they can see it:p
Yeah, but that wouldn't block spamposts in a forum with big goatse images flashing on screen, or 50pt font text screaming about some odd sexual preference based on leather and latex...
You might not trust it but these kinds of systems are already widely used, like with peerguardian or spammail filters etc.
Who would be managing the database? Everyone and noone. Managing it could/would be based on a system like google pageranking etc.
Yes, that would definately be possible, however now you'd have to have set the nsfw preferences for each site which has to be saved in cookies (so you've got to (be able to) allow cookies aswell), And the hiding should be done by messing with hiding div frames and such. If it's a browser option you'd only have to set it once in the browseroptions, so there's less chance of being surprised by a new site.
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I fail to see how this is a flamebait. Sure, the opinion of the poster might not be the same as the opinion of the moderator, but it's definately not flamebait.
Seems more posts in this topic have been similarly moderated. Is this perhaps a sensitive subjects for some slashdot visitors?
Nice find :) ;)
This is the best first post I've seen so far
I wouldn't say that too fast if I were you... :P
That site is loaded with viagra spam due to the login-free posting, so infact the crawler just might think you have a *ahem* rubber ducky.... if you know what I'm saying
You must feel mighty powerful now after calling someone a dumbass and a fucktard over the internet, especially while safely behind the Anonymous Coward mask.
Congratulations big boy!
That might work for you, but you're a minority in that.
The majority of people aren't that tech-savvy, and just click on every button, link, and attachment they can get their hands on. Installing a system like that for my folks would get them infected before they can say "wha?". The last time I reinstalled their pc, they had been infected with about 20 virusses, on 1000+ files, with updated symantec virusscanner and firewall installed.
Never underestimate the ingenuity of human stupidity. Most of the people still don't understand crap of computers. My neighbur upstairs hadn't even heard about virusscanning when I asked her while fixing a problem.
If all people would follow your advice, we'd be in our necks with botnets before _we_ can say "wha?"
The fact that I read this article thru my iGoogle homepage, and the fact that google actually took the US government to court when they wanted to have google's search commands, shows me enough.
Google might have done stuff like cooporating with the Chinese government in censuring search results on the google.cn webpage, but I happen to agree with google there. If a company wants to do business in a foreign country, they'll have to agree with those foreign laws. In the case of China, that means certain subjects are taboo, and talking about certain subjects could get you killed. Is that fair? No ofcourse not, but it's the way that country works. Atleast they have a good search engine now.
If you hate Google for cooporating with this stuff, you'd better also hate Apple, for manufacturing there, and about every toy manufacturer.
Quite likely all bolts and screws in your car are probably manufactured in china aswell. Or how about the casing of your computer speakers and monitor?
If you hate google for that, hate all the companies for dealing with china, because the simple fact is, they all have to comply with Cn. laws and hence all do stuff that would make the hairs in our neck stand straight up.
I mean, whoever can take that serious needs a good checkup
In the words of.... I think it was Jon Steward of the Daily Show, but I can be mistaken...
Fox news shows you both sides of the story. The President's side, and the Vice President's side.
Also, if you look at the Linux story, it's so full of bullshit.... well, it speaks for itself
http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/category/educ
How would it work if you have a certain file of n nodes, and you insert data at the start of the file. Does it shift the data adding a node at the start? Or does it read it as all new blocks adding n+1 new nodes...
The first would cost a bit more performance, to check what actually did change, and what not, but the latter would cost a lot of diskspace.
Ohw lol yeah, I've been in one of those.... one that actually was smart enough to place the motion sensor _outside_ of the toilet cubicle thingy... :D
Does make you strife to stay under the 2min cutoff time like nothing else... good for the companies time-management
Didn't know that about NX, but I'm not using CATIA myself. I've so far worked with (and still working with) NX, SOLIDWorks + COSMOSWorks, and Autodesk Inventor, and mainly using the latter two, so that's my main interrest. Those are sadly still windows-only, infact, Autodesk Inventor needs Excel, which is really sad because now you need to have excel anyway, so there's not much point in using open office or some other alternative.
Believe me... It isn't voluntary. The minute Solidworks Corporation, Dassault Systèmes, UGS and thelike start porting their products to Linux, I'm gone.
Countless times have I been working on a design, only to find windows feeling like it's BSOD time, or it going unresponsive on me resulting in me having to reboot. It's rather frustrating (major understatement).
Please.... Speak for yourself.
I'm far from a libertarian, and I'll probably will never be, and to be honest I seriously doubt your statement that most on slashdot are libertarians.
Well, it may be a bit ghetto, but you could take a look at FreeSCO and assorted add-ons.
I used it as a firewall/router for a small network (6 users using p2p, ftp, ssh, web etc, the whole shebang) on a pentium 75 with 16MB memory for quite some time and never had any issues with it.
FreeSCO: http://www.freesco.org/
FreeSCO add-ons: http://www.freescosoft.org/
The shrinkage of the hole isn't the only problem and could partly be overcome by taking a larger drillhead than the drillshaft (or tube or whatever connection between the higher part and the drillhead). :)
If you take a really long straw and place it vertically in your beverage, you can only lift the water so much before the weight of the water becomes higher than you could lift by sucking your mouth vacuum.
This same effect happens with the rock deposit you drill up. You need to remove it to somewhere, and the deeper the hole is, the more weight you'll have to lift out of the drillhole.
Another thing is the weight of the drillhead and connection. If you lift a long enough cable or wire high enough it'll collapse under it's own weight. You'll have that same risk with drilling very long holes.
Also, the drillhead won't last forever. Certainly not under those rock hardnesses at several km's deep. And then there's the stability of the shaft. Chances are it wants to collapse. Many problems, many issues. it's not as easy as just drilling down
Indeed, Unix isn't 100% secure. No operating system is.
The weak point of every computer, no matter what operating system it's running, is the end-user. If a user is using a linux computer in root, or just blatantly enters the root password if asked for it, ofcourse, the PC would be compromised.
Atleast it's still a lot more secure than windows though, where malware can install without asking the user for a password or anything.
The pi is needed because 0.5 rad is something totally different from 0.5 * pi rad. It's about, ohw, I'd say a factor 3.14 difference :)
You're right that there's no significant difference between 4.98 and 5, but how would you make a measuring triangle for instance? It would be really annoying to have to measure in parts in Pi/180.
I agree, for maths radians is much much easier, but trust me on the degree for engineering...
A draft angle of 5 ±1 deg
or
a draft angle of (0.0277~ * Pi) ±(0.0055~ * Pi) rad
No, really, for engineering angle's are easier. Not because the calculations are much different, but because you'd need to find a hellofalot room in technical drawings for all the angular measurements, and measuring the angles is much much easier in degrees.
I'd rather have support for the mainstream CAD programs like those in the subject or CATIA, Unigraphics....
:/
I'd love to steer clear of Windows, but I'm just still bound to it sadly
Patents by themselves are (with good reason) already region bound, and the US patent system is a farce. I would rather not have that system here thank you very much.
PS. nice to see that microsoft for once does the right thing
I'm sorry, but that's not google doing that. It's some hacker trying to be funny and doing it, while ruining the name for all hackers out there.
I myself can barely program "hello world" so I don't know exactly what happened, but it atleast is clear to me that the attack of recently was done from the clients end thru the browser (they all reported their browsers going nuts for a while, taking up 100% resources etc).
This could probably be prevented by a good virusscanner and firewall, perhaps by using a router inbetween the internet and your pc.
You could add a pagerank-like system that checks for NSFW-like words and links and for instance, give it a grade for the NSFW-ness the post shows, like spam-filters for your mail work now. You can then set your browser options from no filter, weak filter etc, up to extra high filter if you wish.
Depends on the job type really, I could imagine a few jobs that have to do exactly that
Besides, I'm not too fond of Firefox. I prefer Opera myself, and at work I don't visit too many sites. Mostly just the few forums, and the few internet shops
I work in a small office, so I usually just turn my screen so they can see it
Yes, that is a very important error debunking my entire point made....
Yeah, but that wouldn't block spamposts in a forum with big goatse images flashing on screen, or 50pt font text screaming about some odd sexual preference based on leather and latex...
You might not trust it but these kinds of systems are already widely used, like with peerguardian or spammail filters etc.
Who would be managing the database? Everyone and noone. Managing it could/would be based on a system like google pageranking etc.
Yes, that would definately be possible, however now you'd have to have set the nsfw preferences for each site which has to be saved in cookies (so you've got to (be able to) allow cookies aswell), And the hiding should be done by messing with hiding div frames and such. If it's a browser option you'd only have to set it once in the browseroptions, so there's less chance of being surprised by a new site.