> Could you give me a hint of which financial company?
The entire banking and finance industry is riddled top to bottom with morons of this order. They are usually either a) creaking fossils who are still on the fence about this whole "electric lights" thing, or b) Newly minted MBA's with neatly pressed ties, freshly scrubbed faces, and thoroughly washed brains.
Thankfully, the change control process in these institutions will prevent any such decree-like memos from actually reaching any kind of realization within your current generation or the next.
> Are you suggesting that I should toss out the Old one?
A lot of evangelical Christians think so (oddly the evangelicals tend to be the fire and brimstone types, go fig). At any rate, you were crucifying (ahem) Christianity for a story that isn't part of its canon.
> Well, making up a number and then never providing hard data worked well for Joseph McCarthy.
Actually it completely demolished his reputation and career and probably contributed directly to his demise. Yes, he swept some up in a temporary hysteria, but the end result is that McCarthyism is now an eponym of the worst order. If only patent politics were to follow that path.
And what about the Sierra Club? What about the Nature Conservancy? What about the National Arbor Day Foundation?
Why is it only the left that has to answer for its flat-earthers? Hell, why should it even be the left? Take a look at which president created the national parks.
Most languages for the CLR work on Mono, and some like Nemerle are developed primarily on Mono. But thanks for bringing your informed expertise to the discussion.
Not just broken by the spammers, though they're in large part responsible for making much info inaccessible, it's also broken by the lack of standards and registrar greed.
Just try to write a tool to automatically parse WHOIS output to get the registration date of a domain (a good heuristic when determining whether a domain is spammy -- a 1-day old domain merits a little more investigation than a 1-year old one). Assuming the info is available at all and not hidden behind some captcha-enabled web page (not just to shield from spammer harvesting, but also to throw sales pitches at you), the date field could be anywhere, and in any format. Hell, I've even seen registrars use MM/DD/YY format, two-digit years no less. Some even use multiple formats. It's crazy insane.
RIPE appears to actually have their shit together, and uses a pretty good uniform format. Bully for RIPE, but that's generally only good for IP WHOIS, and the rest is being eroded as the rest of the WHOIS system decays at the seams.
We already have such feedback loops as you describe. One of them is called "panic". It's not impossible to train the brain to ignore such loops, and probably even easier to train the machine.
It is amazing to me how many people do not believe that we have a sixth sense, the ability to know someone is looking at you even though they are not in your field of vision. I have yet to see science explain this...
Science doesn't have to explain it. That part comes after proving that it actually exists.
> You might call this "justice", or you might call it "revenge"
When it comes to the manner in which states have administered the death penalty, I call it "murderous incompetence". Thus stems my opposition to most applications the death penalty: it's a capricious piece of showmanship that ultimately has no utility.
At the risk of sounding callous, I don't give a shit about the "victim's rights". The rule of law is a cold technical thing not intended to be slanted toward the aggrieved.
They have to get re-chipped or get their faceplates replaced. Means having to fence them and not just sell them on a blanket on the sidewalk. And the console is such a cheap commodity these days that it's hardly even worth it.
> you can either address a problem, or you can talk about how cool it would be if a gadget would make it go away.
We do the same in the USA, it's just that the gadget is a gun. Thus all the states in where the NRA is strong have zero crime, and mass shootings never happen in their HQ state.
I think making iPods work more like modern car stereos (which aren't theft-immune, but stealing them is much less profitable nowadays) would be a great idea, remove the incentive of the crime rather than posture and puff about it. If such a solution were actually feasable, convenient, and inexpensive, I'm sure there would be a race to market. As it is, I'm not seeing it -- the whole point of the blasted things is convenience.
> Kevin originally approached Taco about adding what would become Digg to Slashdot
Half-Empty was doing "everybody votes" years before Digg was even thought of (even doing it AJAX-style before the buzzword was coined -- I remember being impressed by that). And I'm sure.5e wasn't the first to think of such a blindingly obvious idea either.
I'd like to see a snippets site using reddit-style voting and an advogato-style trust metric. I'd build it myself but for two reasons:
1) It'd be unaffordable to host unless I somehow "monetized" it, and I don't want to start a business
2) Content is only as good as the community. You cannot create a quality community with technology alone.
3) I'm lazy (yes, that's the third of two reasons)
As for slashdot remaining relevant: I think not falling over with 503 errors every minute might be somewhat important to retaining visitors.
Aside from the morality and legality of all the kiddie porn on Freenet, such content amounts to a crapflooding sort of DOS attack. A bedrock principle of press freedom is being free to choose what to publish and what not to. Freenet forces you to be part of what is basically an already wrecked commons. Decentralized torrents seem to me to be a much more palatable alternative.
> This is not to say it's nothing, but it doesn't by itself mean that the company is going down in flames.
Dell is not going to trade below a buck -- Dell got its notice because its filings are deficient. SCO is getting the notice because essentially, SCO itself is deficient.
In the grand scheme, SCO is a pissant flyspeck that investors don't care about, so no it's not really big news. But it is a rich source of schadenfreude for us folks who have been waiting for this moment going on four years.
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> Could you give me a hint of which financial company?
The entire banking and finance industry is riddled top to bottom with morons of this order. They are usually either a) creaking fossils who are still on the fence about this whole "electric lights" thing, or b) Newly minted MBA's with neatly pressed ties, freshly scrubbed faces, and thoroughly washed brains.
Thankfully, the change control process in these institutions will prevent any such decree-like memos from actually reaching any kind of realization within your current generation or the next.
Let me distill Heinlein's philosophy into its essential points:
* Government = Bad
* Power = Good
* Money = Good
* No Money = Die
Oh and doesn't that Lazarus Long say the most profound things.
At least he's more entertaining than Rand, but he probably puts even less thought into political praxis.
> Are you suggesting that I should toss out the Old one?
A lot of evangelical Christians think so (oddly the evangelicals tend to be the fire and brimstone types, go fig). At any rate, you were crucifying (ahem) Christianity for a story that isn't part of its canon.
Not that I'm a fan of religion, but Lot was a character in the Old Testament.
Dude, dysons work better. And they're clear so you can tell when to empty them.
"In my day sonny, we didn't have this fancy dancy transparent crap, our windows were opaque and we liked it!"
> Well, making up a number and then never providing hard data worked well for Joseph McCarthy.
Actually it completely demolished his reputation and career and probably contributed directly to his demise. Yes, he swept some up in a temporary hysteria, but the end result is that McCarthyism is now an eponym of the worst order. If only patent politics were to follow that path.
> could it be considered libel with the explicit intention to damage a competitor's business?
Considerably worse penalties than libel, actually. Google for "Lanham Act".
This crappy slanted submission is barely even diggworthy. I'd call it yellow journalism, but it insults the name of journalism.
Seriously, this is fucking trash.
And what about the Sierra Club? What about the Nature Conservancy? What about the National Arbor Day Foundation?
Why is it only the left that has to answer for its flat-earthers? Hell, why should it even be the left? Take a look at which president created the national parks.
Even more impressive are these videos that show PowerShell Analyzer, an add-on for powershell.
l for the videos (more choices than direct links would give you, and static screenshots too)
Hit up http://www.powershellanalyzer.com/demos/index.htm
I can't see those movies, so perhaps they're the same thing?
Most languages for the CLR work on Mono, and some like Nemerle are developed primarily on Mono. But thanks for bringing your informed expertise to the discussion.
Not just broken by the spammers, though they're in large part responsible for making much info inaccessible, it's also broken by the lack of standards and registrar greed.
Just try to write a tool to automatically parse WHOIS output to get the registration date of a domain (a good heuristic when determining whether a domain is spammy -- a 1-day old domain merits a little more investigation than a 1-year old one). Assuming the info is available at all and not hidden behind some captcha-enabled web page (not just to shield from spammer harvesting, but also to throw sales pitches at you), the date field could be anywhere, and in any format. Hell, I've even seen registrars use MM/DD/YY format, two-digit years no less. Some even use multiple formats. It's crazy insane.
RIPE appears to actually have their shit together, and uses a pretty good uniform format. Bully for RIPE, but that's generally only good for IP WHOIS, and the rest is being eroded as the rest of the WHOIS system decays at the seams.
We already have such feedback loops as you describe. One of them is called "panic". It's not impossible to train the brain to ignore such loops, and probably even easier to train the machine.
It is amazing to me how many people do not believe that we have a sixth sense, the ability to know someone is looking at you even though they are not in your field of vision. I have yet to see science explain this...
Science doesn't have to explain it. That part comes after proving that it actually exists.
In soviet slashdot, D84156C5635688C0 09F911029D74E35B's you!
How's this differ from rotor?
> You might call this "justice", or you might call it "revenge"
When it comes to the manner in which states have administered the death penalty, I call it "murderous incompetence". Thus stems my opposition to most applications the death penalty: it's a capricious piece of showmanship that ultimately has no utility.
At the risk of sounding callous, I don't give a shit about the "victim's rights". The rule of law is a cold technical thing not intended to be slanted toward the aggrieved.
They have to get re-chipped or get their faceplates replaced. Means having to fence them and not just sell them on a blanket on the sidewalk. And the console is such a cheap commodity these days that it's hardly even worth it.
I don't get it. Maybe because the punchline was in the first line of the setup?
> you can either address a problem, or you can talk about how cool it would be if a gadget would make it go away.
We do the same in the USA, it's just that the gadget is a gun. Thus all the states in where the NRA is strong have zero crime, and mass shootings never happen in their HQ state.
I think making iPods work more like modern car stereos (which aren't theft-immune, but stealing them is much less profitable nowadays) would be a great idea, remove the incentive of the crime rather than posture and puff about it. If such a solution were actually feasable, convenient, and inexpensive, I'm sure there would be a race to market. As it is, I'm not seeing it -- the whole point of the blasted things is convenience.
No dumbshit, I support someone's freedom of speech to be conveyed by other people who are interested in it. I'm sorry this is beyond your grasp.
> Kevin originally approached Taco about adding what would become Digg to Slashdot
.5e wasn't the first to think of such a blindingly obvious idea either.
Half-Empty was doing "everybody votes" years before Digg was even thought of (even doing it AJAX-style before the buzzword was coined -- I remember being impressed by that). And I'm sure
I'd like to see a snippets site using reddit-style voting and an advogato-style trust metric. I'd build it myself but for two reasons:
1) It'd be unaffordable to host unless I somehow "monetized" it, and I don't want to start a business
2) Content is only as good as the community. You cannot create a quality community with technology alone.
3) I'm lazy (yes, that's the third of two reasons)
As for slashdot remaining relevant: I think not falling over with 503 errors every minute might be somewhat important to retaining visitors.
But it's okay because the state GOP throws out Democrat ballots anyway.
(it's a joke son, laugh)
Aside from the morality and legality of all the kiddie porn on Freenet, such content amounts to a crapflooding sort of DOS attack. A bedrock principle of press freedom is being free to choose what to publish and what not to. Freenet forces you to be part of what is basically an already wrecked commons. Decentralized torrents seem to me to be a much more palatable alternative.
> This is not to say it's nothing, but it doesn't by itself mean that the company is going down in flames.
Dell is not going to trade below a buck -- Dell got its notice because its filings are deficient. SCO is getting the notice because essentially, SCO itself is deficient.
In the grand scheme, SCO is a pissant flyspeck that investors don't care about, so no it's not really big news. But it is a rich source of schadenfreude for us folks who have been waiting for this moment going on four years.