I often try to not reply to obvious trolling, but I think it is important to say that not EVERYONE over 18 is qualified to vote. For example, if you are incarcerated on a felony charge, you are not allowed to vote. There may be others, but the point is, not everyone is allowed to vote.
Did anybody else hear about the new Linux kernel having a built-in web server? I found it to be rather odd myself, but then some coworkers began getting emails about it. Anybody have any insight?
So let me get this straight, when I do research for a university, I am a employee, thus work-for-hire applies... but if I play sports, I'm not an employee, thus cannot collect workman's compensation when being injured? That is bull.
Simply look at some of the job requirements on various Government websites. Including agencies like the NSA, FBI, and ATF... They want to pay you next to nothing for your 4, 6, or 8 year degree. Something needs to give, and for a long time, it's rarely been big-brother.
Honestly, I would have liked to, but oddly enough, the prevelant material concerning distances in the stellar and micronic fields were in english measures,... and converting would have only obscured the outcome.
Well, according to this, the farthest object we can see is about 1 billion light years away. Now, there are 5,865,696,000,000 miles in a light year.
So we'll say that the farthest object we can see is five sextillion, eight hundred sixty-five quintillion, six hundred ninety-six quadrillion miles away.
Now, at 56 digits, we're going to say that it can calculate to a precision of 10^-56.
10^-56 * 5865696000000000000000 = 5.865696*10^-35
So, a decimel at 10^-56 will represent a unit on this scale of 5.865696*10^-35 miles.
Now, there are 63,660 inches in a mile, so...
(5.865696*10^-35)*63660=3.7341020736*10^-30
So, a decimel at 10^-56 will represent a unit on this scale of 3.7341020736*10^-30 inches.
Now, the estimated size of a proton is 0.22 trillionth of an inch. That is twenty two hundred quadrillionths.
Size of Proton =.00000000000000022 inches
Size of Known Universe * 10^-56 =.0000000000000000000000000000037341020736
So, 56 digits of pi, as you can see,... is TOO accurate.
The FBI managed to get a search warrant based on logs from a firewall, that showed my IP only connecting, not even logging in, hours after news of the cracking had appeared on news sites.
So essentially the FBI doesn't have a hard time getting a warrant. Does this scare anyone else concerning Carnivore? I mean, if they can get a physical search warrant this easily, what's to say it'd be more difficult to get an internet-sniff warrant?
This is going to make good material about why Slackware isn't dead. Remember back in the day when Slackware and Redhat were the only real distros in competition. I guess Slackware still holds a grudge =)
Anyway, although I'd agree that Slackware isn't the best distro for all applications, I think porting it to the Sparc is what it's best for.
I mean, Slackware is so stripped down with it's tar-based package management and so forth. When Slackware is sucessully ported, other distros will follow.
Does this mean that I can put out a blank disk, claiming to have a really cool game, but it just be a few lines of java,... but when smacking a shrinkwrap on it, claim no warranty, and be covered by the UCITA?
In order for laws to be passed, they need to be taken to their extremes, and then tested. Enough with this intent and legal interpretation shit.
Theoretically, an exploit could cause death,... if the exploit were against NASA, or a hospital. I mean, imagine an exploit which screws up a medical record database, and suddenly they give you a medicine you're allergic to.
Jon, I don't know what newspapers you subscribe to, but perhaps you should find out who the local employee-owned papers are and read a few of them.
But to be perfectly honest, yourself, and Slashdot as a whole are not perfect. In fact, I would say/. is far from it. You yourself overstate things a tad too much. It's less often we see real news, instead seeing the sorry excuses for editorial content on this site.
If I had it my way, when news was posted in order to inject a topic of discussion, it would be kept to "simply the facts". If the poster wanted to put in an opinion, he can put it in as a comment, and see how it's moderated.
Mr. Katz, you've always been against the mass stereotyping of geeks, such that I find it rude that you would do the same to real news outlets
Normal countries? Like, Australia, where their crime rate shot through the roof after the prohibition of guns. Or like Nazi Germany, where there was no way for it's citizens to fight against a nation run by a dictator. Or perhaps you were thinking about Cuba, where you can be put to death for owning a gun. Yeah, in normal countries, there is gun control, and people just don't get killed,... give me a break.
How about the town in Georgia, which required all residents to own a gun, and the crime rate hit zero. Now, I don't think mandatory gun ownership is right, but I do think that voluntary gun ownership is a right, and one which should be protected.
Jon, the internet is not without fault. The net can "turn a child's heart dark and murderous". The net is just another form of media, and it has the same disadvantages that other media has.
Television, newspapers, and even radio has the same ability to change a person, even motivate them to do something stupid. The thing with the internet, is that it's not as hard to become a broadcaster (all you need is some know-how and a net connection).
And what about the hypocrisy? When there is a story about net censoring using technology, everybody agrees that parents, not the government should be in the control seat. But god forbid a presidential candidate realize the potential impact the internet can have on a child, and suggest that parents get involved.
Personally, my choice is Bush. And this isn't because I like him, but to be honest, I will do anything to keep Gore from becoming president. I am a gun-carrying, voting citizen of the United States. I don't take my freedom for granted, and I volunteer in a lot of areas where I can help.
The issue of gun control, is more important to me then internet control. Wow, just pawned a new phrase. I can honestly see Gore pushing "Internet Control" laws. If you look at the big picture, the two issues are quite the same. Parents can teach their children safe gun practice, just as they can teach them safe internet use.
I just think Bush is most likely to fight for our freedoms,... complete, and unabridged.
You know, I'm really growing tired of this Al Gore invented the internet debate. Why are people making excuses for his lies? And why is Slashdot being so hypocritical.
Basically, if I understand correctly, Darpa created computer networking on a widescale. Sure, it wasn't called the "internet" then, but still, they accomplished something important.
But then Al Gore claims internet creatorship because he sponsored finance bills which helped turn Darpanet into the internet?
So, isn't this a lot like patenting Kerberos, or 1-click shopping? Isn't it like all of those lousy patents where all they are is different implementations of the same technology?
I mean, Slashdot attacks those patents, but supports Al Gore. Am I wrong to think they're being hypocritical?
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Back in the day, when you sat yourself down in front of the TV, your parents said too much of it will rot your brain. And they were correct, you were simply vegetating in front of the tube, not expressing any creativity.
Now, how many people who spend a lot of time on the net, or even the computer, are being told by their parents to come out and watch TV with them? When computers are actualy promoting an interactive medium of entertainment, much better then vegetating.
While Gore won the backing of some of high-tech's biggest names, Republican foe George W. Bush has managed to get more of the industry's campaign donations.
A democrat communist might say that while the industry wants Gore to win, they want to pay off Bush in case he wins. Honestly, soft money, and the ability of corporations to buy legislation is a problem which Gore has hypocritcally addressed, and Bush has kinda let slide.
A republican nazi might venture to say that the 420 high-tech leaders are probably CEOs of companies, and are interested in seeing their pockets get bigger as a result of Gore's new targetted tax cuts. As for the money, there is something to say about actions speaking louder than words, and $972,199 is a lot of action.
Less we not forget, Vint Cerf is a high level executive of MCI Worldcomm, and is on the ICANN board of directors. Both organizations having their own agendas. And I really don't think Mr. Cerf's recommendation of Al Gore is of the same rational as we think.
One more thing. Ralph Nader really seems to "get it". This makes him dangerous, to the other candidates, and to big business.
This right exists in the US only to a very limited extent, in the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and it is time to expand this right to other areas of commerce.
Interesting that he mentions the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which only allows you to access your credit information under certain conditions, otherwise you have to pay for it. Some states have expanded this, and I think something should be done on the federal level.
You know, it's really sad to see someone try to make excuses for a crooked politician who has no clue about internet culture, nor has the first idea of how to fix it's faults. Personally, by electing Al Gore, you're promising America a regime which will pass legistlation for big recording industries (seeing that Gore is in bed with the entertainment industry), will place citizens in harm's way (through anti-gun legislation similair to California's new ban on semi-automatic weapons, which doesn't stop criminals, but makes it harder for law-abiding citizens to own guns), and will thrust America into a global government and political system which will corrupt our way of life (our commitment to the United Nations has gone farther than that which is established under the constitution, unfortunately there is no provision for the supreme court to overturn these treaties without court challenges).
I wonder if any of the DoD scientists were watching when Al Gore claimed responsibility for creating the internet? I bet they weren't too happy.
Now I don't disagree that Al Gore did some things which helped the internet grow. But he didn't CREATE it. And your political ranting about him securing finance for it is somehow attributed to a creation which occured 20 years before makes me sick. Get it through your thick skull, you can only create something once.
Of course, democratic nazis (those who vote democratic for the sake of democrats), would have you believe that without Al Gore, the internet would still University run. In my personal opinion, the Clinton-Gore administration has done more to striffle internet growth. Sure they've given money to universities, but they also deregulated public utility and telephone companies to the point where we're still paying too much for a 14.4kbps connection to the net (14.4 is all the phone company will normally gurantee, if you get more, good for your they say).
During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Ok dude. In this quote he is saying that he created the internet while he was in Congress.
"I" is possesive, and suggests that he himself was the one who did this. He could have said "We took the initiative", or "I urged other congressmen to take the initiative", but he didn't. He claimed sole responsiblility for an act which he played a very small role in.
GORE is not Congress. There are a whole array of other congressmen, and I doubt they'd give him as much credit as he gives himself.
Gore did claim to have invented the internet, and I suggest you learn english.
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I often try to not reply to obvious trolling, but I think it is important to say that not EVERYONE over 18 is qualified to vote. For example, if you are incarcerated on a felony charge, you are not allowed to vote. There may be others, but the point is, not everyone is allowed to vote.
And also, the instructions on the ballot say very clearly "Vote for Group"... putting two holes in the ballot is idiocy.
Did anybody else hear about the new Linux kernel having a built-in web server? I found it to be rather odd myself, but then some coworkers began getting emails about it. Anybody have any insight?
So let me get this straight, when I do research for a university, I am a employee, thus work-for-hire applies... but if I play sports, I'm not an employee, thus cannot collect workman's compensation when being injured? That is bull.
Simply look at some of the job requirements on various Government websites. Including agencies like the NSA, FBI, and ATF... They want to pay you next to nothing for your 4, 6, or 8 year degree. Something needs to give, and for a long time, it's rarely been big-brother.
Honestly, I would have liked to, but oddly enough, the prevelant material concerning distances in the stellar and micronic fields were in english measures,... and converting would have only obscured the outcome.
Well, according to this, the farthest object we can see is about 1 billion light years away. Now, there are 5,865,696,000,000 miles in a light year.
So we'll say that the farthest object we can see is five sextillion, eight hundred sixty-five quintillion, six hundred ninety-six quadrillion miles away.
Now, at 56 digits, we're going to say that it can calculate to a precision of 10^-56.
10^-56 * 5865696000000000000000 = 5.865696*10^-35
So, a decimel at 10^-56 will represent a unit on this scale of 5.865696*10^-35 miles.
Now, there are 63,660 inches in a mile, so...
(5.865696*10^-35)*63660=3.7341020736*10^-30
So, a decimel at 10^-56 will represent a unit on this scale of 3.7341020736*10^-30 inches.
Now, the estimated size of a proton is 0.22 trillionth of an inch. That is twenty two hundred quadrillionths.
Size of Proton = .00000000000000022 inches
Size of Known Universe * 10^-56 = .0000000000000000000000000000037341020736
So, 56 digits of pi, as you can see,... is TOO accurate.
The FBI managed to get a search warrant based on logs from a firewall, that showed my IP only connecting, not even logging in, hours after news of the cracking had appeared on news sites.
So essentially the FBI doesn't have a hard time getting a warrant. Does this scare anyone else concerning Carnivore? I mean, if they can get a physical search warrant this easily, what's to say it'd be more difficult to get an internet-sniff warrant?
This is going to make good material about why Slackware isn't dead. Remember back in the day when Slackware and Redhat were the only real distros in competition. I guess Slackware still holds a grudge =)
Anyway, although I'd agree that Slackware isn't the best distro for all applications, I think porting it to the Sparc is what it's best for.
I mean, Slackware is so stripped down with it's tar-based package management and so forth. When Slackware is sucessully ported, other distros will follow.
Now, can we please get Slackware on Mac? *smile*
Does this mean that I can put out a blank disk, claiming to have a really cool game, but it just be a few lines of java,... but when smacking a shrinkwrap on it, claim no warranty, and be covered by the UCITA?
In order for laws to be passed, they need to be taken to their extremes, and then tested. Enough with this intent and legal interpretation shit.
Thank you for proving my point.
Theoretically, an exploit could cause death,... if the exploit were against NASA, or a hospital. I mean, imagine an exploit which screws up a medical record database, and suddenly they give you a medicine you're allergic to.
I can't believe how our society avoids prosecuting actual criminals, and focuses on nazi-like prevention instead.
Saying that bugtraq causes hacking is like saying a pencil causes spelling mistakes.
I don't know if this counts, but my hometown's newspaper The Monroe Evening News publishes the telephone number and email address of it's writers.
Jon, you don't post your business telephone number, do you?
Jon, I don't know what newspapers you subscribe to, but perhaps you should find out who the local employee-owned papers are and read a few of them.
But to be perfectly honest, yourself, and Slashdot as a whole are not perfect. In fact, I would say /. is far from it. You yourself overstate things a tad too much. It's less often we see real news, instead seeing the sorry excuses for editorial content on this site.
If I had it my way, when news was posted in order to inject a topic of discussion, it would be kept to "simply the facts". If the poster wanted to put in an opinion, he can put it in as a comment, and see how it's moderated.
Mr. Katz, you've always been against the mass stereotyping of geeks, such that I find it rude that you would do the same to real news outlets
How about the town in Georgia, which required all residents to own a gun, and the crime rate hit zero. Now, I don't think mandatory gun ownership is right, but I do think that voluntary gun ownership is a right, and one which should be protected.
Saying that deaths are caused by guns, is like saying pencils cause spelling mistakes.
Jon, the internet is not without fault. The net can "turn a child's heart dark and murderous". The net is just another form of media, and it has the same disadvantages that other media has.
Television, newspapers, and even radio has the same ability to change a person, even motivate them to do something stupid. The thing with the internet, is that it's not as hard to become a broadcaster (all you need is some know-how and a net connection).
And what about the hypocrisy? When there is a story about net censoring using technology, everybody agrees that parents, not the government should be in the control seat. But god forbid a presidential candidate realize the potential impact the internet can have on a child, and suggest that parents get involved.
Personally, my choice is Bush. And this isn't because I like him, but to be honest, I will do anything to keep Gore from becoming president. I am a gun-carrying, voting citizen of the United States. I don't take my freedom for granted, and I volunteer in a lot of areas where I can help.
The issue of gun control, is more important to me then internet control. Wow, just pawned a new phrase. I can honestly see Gore pushing "Internet Control" laws. If you look at the big picture, the two issues are quite the same. Parents can teach their children safe gun practice, just as they can teach them safe internet use.
I just think Bush is most likely to fight for our freedoms,... complete, and unabridged.
You know, I'm really growing tired of this Al Gore invented the internet debate. Why are people making excuses for his lies? And why is Slashdot being so hypocritical.
Basically, if I understand correctly, Darpa created computer networking on a widescale. Sure, it wasn't called the "internet" then, but still, they accomplished something important.
But then Al Gore claims internet creatorship because he sponsored finance bills which helped turn Darpanet into the internet?
So, isn't this a lot like patenting Kerberos, or 1-click shopping? Isn't it like all of those lousy patents where all they are is different implementations of the same technology?
I mean, Slashdot attacks those patents, but supports Al Gore. Am I wrong to think they're being hypocritical?
Spot checking the comments, I nearly dismised you as being a smokedot regular. ;)
Wireless Electricity has been around, in theory, or a while.
Of course, Nikola Tesla was way before his time.
Back in the day, when you sat yourself down in front of the TV, your parents said too much of it will rot your brain. And they were correct, you were simply vegetating in front of the tube, not expressing any creativity.
Now, how many people who spend a lot of time on the net, or even the computer, are being told by their parents to come out and watch TV with them? When computers are actualy promoting an interactive medium of entertainment, much better then vegetating.
While Gore won the backing of some of high-tech's biggest names, Republican foe George W. Bush has managed to get more of the industry's campaign donations.
A democrat communist might say that while the industry wants Gore to win, they want to pay off Bush in case he wins. Honestly, soft money, and the ability of corporations to buy legislation is a problem which Gore has hypocritcally addressed, and Bush has kinda let slide.
A republican nazi might venture to say that the 420 high-tech leaders are probably CEOs of companies, and are interested in seeing their pockets get bigger as a result of Gore's new targetted tax cuts. As for the money, there is something to say about actions speaking louder than words, and $972,199 is a lot of action.
Less we not forget, Vint Cerf is a high level executive of MCI Worldcomm, and is on the ICANN board of directors. Both organizations having their own agendas. And I really don't think Mr. Cerf's recommendation of Al Gore is of the same rational as we think.
One more thing. Ralph Nader really seems to "get it". This makes him dangerous, to the other candidates, and to big business.
This right exists in the US only to a very limited extent, in the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and it is time to expand this right to other areas of commerce.
Interesting that he mentions the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which only allows you to access your credit information under certain conditions, otherwise you have to pay for it. Some states have expanded this, and I think something should be done on the federal level.
You know, it's really sad to see someone try to make excuses for a crooked politician who has no clue about internet culture, nor has the first idea of how to fix it's faults. Personally, by electing Al Gore, you're promising America a regime which will pass legistlation for big recording industries (seeing that Gore is in bed with the entertainment industry), will place citizens in harm's way (through anti-gun legislation similair to California's new ban on semi-automatic weapons, which doesn't stop criminals, but makes it harder for law-abiding citizens to own guns), and will thrust America into a global government and political system which will corrupt our way of life (our commitment to the United Nations has gone farther than that which is established under the constitution, unfortunately there is no provision for the supreme court to overturn these treaties without court challenges).
I wonder if any of the DoD scientists were watching when Al Gore claimed responsibility for creating the internet? I bet they weren't too happy.
Now I don't disagree that Al Gore did some things which helped the internet grow. But he didn't CREATE it. And your political ranting about him securing finance for it is somehow attributed to a creation which occured 20 years before makes me sick. Get it through your thick skull, you can only create something once.
Of course, democratic nazis (those who vote democratic for the sake of democrats), would have you believe that without Al Gore, the internet would still University run. In my personal opinion, the Clinton-Gore administration has done more to striffle internet growth. Sure they've given money to universities, but they also deregulated public utility and telephone companies to the point where we're still paying too much for a 14.4kbps connection to the net (14.4 is all the phone company will normally gurantee, if you get more, good for your they say).
During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Ok dude. In this quote he is saying that he created the internet while he was in Congress.
"I" is possesive, and suggests that he himself was the one who did this. He could have said "We took the initiative", or "I urged other congressmen to take the initiative", but he didn't. He claimed sole responsiblility for an act which he played a very small role in.
GORE is not Congress. There are a whole array of other congressmen, and I doubt they'd give him as much credit as he gives himself.
Gore did claim to have invented the internet, and I suggest you learn english.