Here's the NYTimes' fairly long piece on it(free reg. req.).
While there is great potential for helping people with paralysis there is also potential to use such technology for military purposes. This is a small step in the direction of creating Terminators.
The NYTimes is carrying the AP story. It starts "Microsoft acknowledged a security flaw Thursday in its popular Internet Passport service that left 200 million consumer accounts vulnerable to hackers and thieves -- an admission that could expose the company to a hefty fine from U.S. regulators."
I'd like to suggest that moderation and meta-moderation pages are free. If not, you immediately remove a significant reason for bothering to moderate or meta-moderation. I tend to spend a few minutes a day moderation each day - say 250 days a year. Use up 1/4 of my pages? I don't think so!
This is in my opinion an important and very good suggestion. I hope it is adopted.
NYTimes article on the situation and economics
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Apparently Adcritic had a huge bandwidth bill to pay following a spike in interest with last year's Superbowl and they were never able to pay off this debt. NYTimes article...
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I agree. The highend 1.4GHz Athlon Thunderbird is right with the top P4's in performance and the price of Thunderbirds is much lower.
I was wondering that too... I think it was added automatically by Slashcode... Slashdot just upgraded to Slashcode 2.2... you may notice that the comments are also numbered differently... instead of being like comment #60 it is #22148xx
The new news is that Judge Collen Kollar-Kotelly was the specific judge selected to hear the case. I believe everything else has been known already. NYTimes story (no login link)
I agree that in this case candidates should have free access to the addresses of relevent registered voters, but is it necessary to also have the names rather than just the addresses? This also relates to the website where one can find out if someone is a registered voter. The address is unnecessary information that can be abused. The question is simply is Jane Doe a registered voter, not where does Jane Doe live. Also I think that access to the addresses of registered voters should be restricted to those who have a civic interest in having that information. This would prevent the potential for mass marketing campaigns based on address lists of registered voters.
Why don't you make it Code Red Hat... the worm finds machines infected and then reformats them and installs Redhat. That would take care of the MS infinite bug problem.
Seriously though it should be Microsoft releasing a antidote virus that cleans up all their crappy infected servers. It seems like Microsoft is allowing this to continue because they get a ton of free media coverage... any publicity is good publicity.
Good question. I would assume it would have to be, but it is not clear from Dell's website. They are advertising the new mobile 1.13 P-III's here. But here you have a Dell Dimension 4100 with either a P-III at 1.0 GHz or 1.1 GHz (add $40) and there is no additional explaination. The only P-III's that exist right now above 1.0GHz are the new Tualatins so that must be it.
Taken from the Times article... Mr. Largent said in his letter to the attorney general. He also wrote: "The Lord has blessed us both immensely, and I am willing to stand with you in any way you feel necessary to begin eliminating this scourge from our nation's soul. I believe that Jesus asks no less of us."
Man read all the way through that report and it is hilarious once you get to the second appendex. Thanks Representatives Waxman and Largent. This is the funniest thign ever produced by the US government.
The comment from the submitter makes it seem as if this is something new and important. This is actually really old news. Intel's 845 (Brookdale) chipset, which supports regular SDRAM and DDR has been in the works and well known for a while now and even benchmarked. Intel is probably initially only releasing it in the SDRAM flavor because of exclusive contracts with Rambus Inc. It is expected that in less than a year the DDR version will be out. Intel publically stated they are less than pleased with Rambus Inc. a long time ago.
As another poster mentioned the performance of the P4 with SDRAM is terrible. This is because the P4 was designed for memory with high bandwidth such as Rambus RAM and DDR as opposed to regular SD RAM. Tom's Hardware, perhaps the foremost Rambus hater, has an article on the 845 chipset and its very poor performance with SDRAM. Ace's Harware also has a summary.
All and all Intel's relationship with Rambus and use of Rambus RAM has been very foolish. The P-III was not designed to take advantage of the high bandwidth of Rambus so the improvements versus SDRAM were limited and the price of Rambus made VIA's competing SDRAM chipsets and AMD's solutions much more attractive. Now that Intel finally has a chip (P4) for which it makes sense to use Rambus RAM, Intel is slowly moving toward abandoning Rambus probably in favor of DDR. Although, given how hated Rambus is among RAM makers and the continued superior price-performance of DDR RAM, Intel's moving away from Rambus makes a lot of sense.
Thanks jht and Eric Green for some insightful posts. I was originally thinking that getting rid of a successful hardware business in favor of making money of the OSDN and friends made little sense, but I can see how the hardware would be getting squeezed. On the highend VA Linux has to compete with a huge movement into linux from IBM on the lowend Dell and Compaq are going to be supporting linux as well and in the niche its really really linux market there is Penguin Computing. Given that the PC market and the market for hardware in general is looking weak, getting out of hardware makes sense. What I am still having trouble with is the idea of getting rich off of OSDN and friends. The sites are popular, but so many other companies have failed in trying to support themselves with bannerads.
This is redundant, but I don't care. Some new person male or female rushes into to this huge slashdot meltdown pile of shit on a weekend... sees how totally fucked up their system's configuration is... sees what a collection of morons work for slashdot... realizes that this could lead to days of pure hell in close quarters with the morons... decides that quitting is the only option available to retain sanity.
AOL signs a major deal with Microsoft to support IE for 5 years. Soon after the 1.0 release of Mozilla is delayed. LAUNCH ALL CONSPIRACY THEORISTS. Of course let us ignore the comment above by the creator of the Mozilla roadmap, I want to read some crazy conspiracy theories. World domination is at stake here!
The BBC also had an article on it a few days ago here.
The Washington Post has this little piece on the creature.
The NYTimes didn't seem to have anything. Discover as linked in the story has the best coverage, but the font the story is in is really small.
The US at least isn't on the right track to reducing emissions/pollution. A lot of pollution comes from smaller very very dirty gasoline engines used in things like lawnmowers and leafblowers. These should simply be powered by electric engines.
Buses in the US do often use diesel. This is also foolish at this point as Hydrogen works well as a fuel for buses and is infinitely less polluting. Munich, Germany already uses Hydrogen powered buses and they are being taken up in other European cities. I think a few American cities are exploring the concept as well.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's the NYTimes' fairly long piece on it(free reg. req.).
While there is great potential for helping people with paralysis there is also potential to use such technology for military purposes. This is a small step in the direction of creating Terminators.
The NYTimes is carrying the AP story. It starts "Microsoft acknowledged a security flaw Thursday in its popular Internet Passport service that left 200 million consumer accounts vulnerable to hackers and thieves -- an admission that could expose the company to a hefty fine from U.S. regulators."
I'd like to suggest that moderation and meta-moderation pages are free. If not, you immediately remove a significant reason for bothering to moderate or meta-moderation. I tend to spend a few minutes a day moderation each day - say 250 days a year. Use up 1/4 of my pages? I don't think so!
This is in my opinion an important and very good suggestion. I hope it is adopted.
Apparently Adcritic had a huge bandwidth bill to pay following a spike in interest with last year's Superbowl and they were never able to pay off this debt. NYTimes article...
I agree. The highend 1.4GHz Athlon Thunderbird is right with the top P4's in performance and the price of Thunderbirds is much lower.
I was wondering that too... I think it was added automatically by Slashcode... Slashdot just upgraded to Slashcode 2.2... you may notice that the comments are also numbered differently... instead of being like comment #60 it is #22148xx
The new news is that Judge Collen Kollar-Kotelly was the specific judge selected to hear the case. I believe everything else has been known already.
NYTimes story (no login link)
I agree that in this case candidates should have free access to the addresses of relevent registered voters, but is it necessary to also have the names rather than just the addresses? This also relates to the website where one can find out if someone is a registered voter. The address is unnecessary information that can be abused. The question is simply is Jane Doe a registered voter, not where does Jane Doe live. Also I think that access to the addresses of registered voters should be restricted to those who have a civic interest in having that information. This would prevent the potential for mass marketing campaigns based on address lists of registered voters.
Anybody know of protests scheduled in New York? If you do, email me and of course post.
Why don't you make it Code Red Hat... the worm finds machines infected and then reformats them and installs Redhat. That would take care of the MS infinite bug problem.
Seriously though it should be Microsoft releasing a antidote virus that cleans up all their crappy infected servers. It seems like Microsoft is allowing this to continue because they get a ton of free media coverage... any publicity is good publicity.
Good question. I would assume it would have to be, but it is not clear from Dell's website. They are advertising the new mobile 1.13 P-III's here. But here you have a Dell Dimension 4100 with either a P-III at 1.0 GHz or 1.1 GHz (add $40) and there is no additional explaination. The only P-III's that exist right now above 1.0GHz are the new Tualatins so that must be it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/ne wsid_1463000/1463172.stm
I suppose now we can blow up the Chinese embassy by mistake from outer space the next time we are bombing some obscure country into the stone age.
The story is on the main page of the NYTimes website... http://www.NYTimes.com/2001/07/28/technology/28SW
Taken from the Times article...
Mr. Largent said in his letter to the attorney general. He also wrote: "The Lord has blessed us both immensely, and I am willing to stand with you in any way you feel necessary to begin eliminating this scourge from our nation's soul. I believe that Jesus asks no less of us."
There you have it... Gnutella makes Jesus cry.
Read the report yourself because it is funny, but here is brief coverage in the Washington Post.
:)
And for P2P pleasure...
Gnutella clients...
http://www.bearshare.com/
http://www.limewire.com/
Not based on Gnutella protocol...
http://www.aimster.com/
http://www.edonkey2000.com/
Or just go to CNET's downloads and select from many P2P flavors
Man read all the way through that report and it is hilarious once you get to the second appendex. Thanks Representatives Waxman and Largent. This is the funniest thign ever produced by the US government.
The comment from the submitter makes it seem as if this is something new and important. This is actually really old news. Intel's 845 (Brookdale) chipset, which supports regular SDRAM and DDR has been in the works and well known for a while now and even benchmarked. Intel is probably initially only releasing it in the SDRAM flavor because of exclusive contracts with Rambus Inc. It is expected that in less than a year the DDR version will be out. Intel publically stated they are less than pleased with Rambus Inc. a long time ago.
As another poster mentioned the performance of the P4 with SDRAM is terrible. This is because the P4 was designed for memory with high bandwidth such as Rambus RAM and DDR as opposed to regular SD RAM. Tom's Hardware, perhaps the foremost Rambus hater, has an article on the 845 chipset and its very poor performance with SDRAM. Ace's Harware also has a summary.
All and all Intel's relationship with Rambus and use of Rambus RAM has been very foolish. The P-III was not designed to take advantage of the high bandwidth of Rambus so the improvements versus SDRAM were limited and the price of Rambus made VIA's competing SDRAM chipsets and AMD's solutions much more attractive. Now that Intel finally has a chip (P4) for which it makes sense to use Rambus RAM, Intel is slowly moving toward abandoning Rambus probably in favor of DDR. Although, given how hated Rambus is among RAM makers and the continued superior price-performance of DDR RAM, Intel's moving away from Rambus makes a lot of sense.
Jesus Christ. Can they get their Webby for microsoft's update site taken back!
lookout for riots and looting on the streets of San Jose and Austin tonight.
Thanks jht and Eric Green for some insightful posts. I was originally thinking that getting rid of a successful hardware business in favor of making money of the OSDN and friends made little sense, but I can see how the hardware would be getting squeezed. On the highend VA Linux has to compete with a huge movement into linux from IBM on the lowend Dell and Compaq are going to be supporting linux as well and in the niche its really really linux market there is Penguin Computing. Given that the PC market and the market for hardware in general is looking weak, getting out of hardware makes sense. What I am still having trouble with is the idea of getting rich off of OSDN and friends. The sites are popular, but so many other companies have failed in trying to support themselves with bannerads.
This is redundant, but I don't care. Some new person male or female rushes into to this huge slashdot meltdown pile of shit on a weekend... sees how totally fucked up their system's configuration is... sees what a collection of morons work for slashdot... realizes that this could lead to days of pure hell in close quarters with the morons... decides that quitting is the only option available to retain sanity.
AOL signs a major deal with Microsoft to support IE for 5 years. Soon after the 1.0 release of Mozilla is delayed. LAUNCH ALL CONSPIRACY THEORISTS. Of course let us ignore the comment above by the creator of the Mozilla roadmap, I want to read some crazy conspiracy theories. World domination is at stake here!
The BBC also had an article on it a few days ago here.
The Washington Post has this little piece on the creature.
The NYTimes didn't seem to have anything. Discover as linked in the story has the best coverage, but the font the story is in is really small.
Here is the BBC's article on it...1 351000/1351431.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_
The US at least isn't on the right track to reducing emissions/pollution. A lot of pollution comes from smaller very very dirty gasoline engines used in things like lawnmowers and leafblowers. These should simply be powered by electric engines.
Buses in the US do often use diesel. This is also foolish at this point as Hydrogen works well as a fuel for buses and is infinitely less polluting. Munich, Germany already uses Hydrogen powered buses and they are being taken up in other European cities. I think a few American cities are exploring the concept as well.