The copyright construct is artificial, and is a balance between stimulating creation and restricting society. This balance should be reasonable - neither party should get fucked.
If I write a book, and get it published, I have a right to be financially rewarded for my creative work.
Bullshit. You have no such right. Show me where you gain that right. The *only* 'right' that you have (which is, of course, a completely artificial right) is the right to restrict most kinds of copyiing for the limited (sort of) time granted by congress. That's it. No rights to profit. No rights to fucking your users to get that profit.
Copyright is artificial. I think information *does* have a tendency towards freeflowingness. I'm not sure whether I think copyright is a good idea or not. I certainly don't think it's a good idea in its current form. Completely b0rked.
I'd like to see Red Hat & c. (IBM is doing this a bit) play up the HUGE upgrade free software means when it comes to complexity, ongoing costs, etc.
I dunno about you, but I like to downgrade my complexity and ongoing costs.:-)
Blech. Most of them are pretty bad.
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I've worked extensively in both Jbuilder (2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0) and more recently Netbeans (an offshoot of Forte).
Every version of JBuilder, I hope that it gets faster. It never did. And they changed their licencing for their free version, so i moved away from it.
Netbeans is dog slow, too.
If I were building a java IDE, it would be slim and trim. I don't use debuggers - proper logging and the occasional use of system.out.println()'s is enough for me. I want syntax highlighting, PROPERLY FLEXIBLE code reformatting, and name-completion. And I want it fast. I guess the problem with most Java IDEs are that they're written in Java (which makes sense) but without enough attention to writing fast java (which _is_ possible.)
Netbeans has some really nice simple features like abbreviations (Think autocorrect in MS-Word) so impj expands to "import java." and "psf" expands to "private static final" (how many times have you typed _that_?) but it doesn't have much for code reformatting. And it's stupidly huge.
And no, I don't like emacs. I'm a GUI guy, and emacs (or xemacs or whatever) doesn't cut it for me.
By their nature, harddrive stories are almost always anecdotal - I used to work in a computer shop, and all we saw failing were fujitsu. "Man, Fujitsu sucks", I though.
Oops. All we sold were Fujitsu's.:-)
Moreover, the reason that IBM should get a black eye for this is not for releasing a shitty product - that happens. But their response has been less than stellar. My work has had two (of four) of these drives fail. Purportedly, the refurbs that they send out don't last much longer than the originals, so they're patching the problem and not fixing it. Their turnaround time on these is really bad, too. That's sorta okay if they have to check the drive and stuff like they might with a normal RMA, but when the drives are known to be bad, they should just turn around and ship good ones, with the underlying problem *fixed*, not just patched.
I was actually considering this a little the other day - the script that I thought up would take the last article in whatever topic things are in (ie: the last AOL article) and grab the ten highest moderated comments, and repost them on the current AOL article. probably 7 or 8 out of ten would be detected as off topic, and one might just hit things right and have close enough content that it would get the same moderation as the first time.
This would work really well with all of the long-running oft-revisited debates (e.g. anything about Napster, the RIAA, DeCSS, Microsoft all have the same 4 comments explanations of what's going on and why this is "bigger than it seems", why this judge or that judge doesn't know what he's doing, why the microsoft breakup is good/bad/unimportant to linux, etc. )...
With a bit of tweeking (say, ignoring articles that don't seem related to each other through some heuristic) you could probably get a fairly good karma-whoring success ratio out of this.:-)
A lot of the content is also based over there, so the WWW would instantly (if we are talking a big Carnivore-style switch-off) lose a heck of a lot of information. Perhaps enough to severely cripple its use as a tool.
And the search engines, too. Most (all?!) of the biggees (Excite, Hotbot, Altavista, Google, Yahoo, Inktomi) are hosted in the USA. What good's the web without a search engine? Even if the technology is available, it would take someone a long time to index the billion pages that google has...
Looks like they do. Granted, there're more MS security holes posted. However, I would say that there are more MS security holes. The problem only arises when/if they are posting in a proportion (MS vs. Open Source) that is not close to the real proportion of significant problems.
Come on now folks. You don't really think slashdot can take out the APPLE website do you? It's awfully egotistical to think that there are more slashdotters than APPLE FANS. geezus, we need to get off our collective high horses. There are 200,000 registered users of Slashdot. I would guess that fewer than that read the site. You think Apple didn't prepare for more than a million people slamming their site?
Argh. Maybe someone's posted something to this effect already, but they hadn't when I read the comments an hour ago. Now, supposing Slashdot had posted a story about the hole being fixed after 3 years. Would people have complained? Maybe, but I would guess not. However, they went one step further, got some information from the person that made the news about it or whatever, and you chose to read it. you know who he was about halfway through the interview, or less. So they provided something relevant, went further (doing an interview that is perhaps "iffy" but it was about censorship, which is what Jamie normally posts about (or posts a lot about)). I don't see where the complaint is.
It's semantic, but what you're saying is that pure water naturally becomes impure, and then conducts electricity. the statement stands - pure water does not conduct electricity.
of course, I'm in over my head - I only have first year physics and chem.:-)
> This is cool, but wouldn't it short out the motherboard? Could somebody explain why this works?
N_2 (as well as pure water, contrary to popular perception) does not conduct electricity. They are both very good insulators. Only when water is impure (salt, chlorine and fluorine are found in normal tap-water) does it conduct electricity.
There were some people not too long ago that immersed their motherboard into a mineral oil to move the heat away from the CPU faster - similar idea.
My curiousity is how brittle the components become when immersed - I would assume that most things would become quite brittle. shouldn't matter since nothing's moving, but you'd still have to be careful. (Ever seen a liquid nitrogen cooled banana hit the floor? that's cool. it's like T1000, except it's a banana.:-) )
I seem to remember this project having a projected completion date of 2001 or later. Does anyone know how the projections changed as computing power and the analysis techniques got better?
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A Matter Of Trust?
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Apparently a lot of stolen credit cards were used to ring up over 100 million dollars in charges. Amex got suspicious when they noticed that all these cards had been used in a particular restaurant in NYC. When the feds went to the restaurant in one of the back rooms they saw a card swipe machine hooked up to a laptop. The crooks used to swipe the card and get the persons info, the card #, etc etc and would make duplicate cards which they would use to make purchases. The victim never knew that he/she was victimised till 30-60 days later...
They're pretty stupid. If they were smart, they would never have done the transaction at all. Then the way they were caught would never have worked, because as far as the CC companies were concerned, those people had never been to that restaurant. Stupid stupid stupid. Sometimes I think I should become a criminal.:-)
here I thought this was some wacky free-for-all posting site, or something strange like that. of course there are rules! you must submit only one kind of data - that which is a URL. This is hardly free form. I mean, I see what he's doing, and I think it's neat, but to claim that he has created something "without rules" is hardly true. he has just created a simple (albeit cool) engine for word/concept association. Certainly interesting, but hardly rule-less.
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Maryland consumer laws apply to consumer computer transactions. Specifically, the Maryland version of UCITA prohibits software licensors from modifying or disclaiming implied warranties of merchantability.
1. Multiple overlapping windows are very hard to sort out for someone who's not used to it. Notice that on video games, ATM's and the like that everything is completely modal; you're not distracted by everything else that's going on.
This is a biggy when i'm helping out my dad. I just "know" which window to be dealing with, but he doesn't. perhaps an optional dim-everything-but-the-window-in-focus feature would be good, to make it clear.
or, perhaps neater, dim-everything-except-what-you -need-to-read-or-can-click-on. ie: window titlebars would not be dimmed (unless they had an overriding modal window up), nor would the text in your current window, but everything else would be.
might have some interesting consistency problems (under windows, I can do a single click to ICQ to pull up their menu, even though it's in a window that is not the current window.
certainly I think we have enough horsepower to do this, considering it would be a reasonably rare occurence with the kind of person that would be helped with it. I can deal with most dialog boxes without looking, using only keyboard shortcuts, so they're gone as fast as they're up. but my dad usually takes a few seconds, so this sort of background-fading wouldn't be so bad.
That's funny. I can read just fine on a monitor. In fact, I find it/more/ comfortable to read on a monitor than from a book. I like the continuity of scrolling rather than page turning, I'm pretty sure I read faster, and I get neither eyestrain nor wriststrain from it.
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I never said that.
The copyright construct is artificial, and is a balance between stimulating creation and restricting society. This balance should be reasonable - neither party should get fucked.
Hey Rothfuss, I tried every single one of your links! None of them worked. The site seemed really slow or something, so I hit reload a few times.
heh...
If I write a book, and get it published, I have a right to be financially rewarded for my creative work.
Bullshit. You have no such right. Show me where you gain that right. The *only* 'right' that you have (which is, of course, a completely artificial right) is the right to restrict most kinds of copyiing for the limited (sort of) time granted by congress. That's it. No rights to profit. No rights to fucking your users to get that profit.
Copyright is artificial. I think information *does* have a tendency towards freeflowingness. I'm not sure whether I think copyright is a good idea or not. I certainly don't think it's a good idea in its current form. Completely b0rked.
I'd like to see Red Hat & c. (IBM is doing this a bit) play up the HUGE upgrade free software means when it comes to complexity, ongoing costs, etc.
:-)
I dunno about you, but I like to downgrade my complexity and ongoing costs.
I've worked extensively in both Jbuilder (2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0) and more recently Netbeans (an offshoot of Forte).
Every version of JBuilder, I hope that it gets faster. It never did. And they changed their licencing for their free version, so i moved away from it.
Netbeans is dog slow, too.
If I were building a java IDE, it would be slim and trim. I don't use debuggers - proper logging and the occasional use of system.out.println()'s is enough for me. I want syntax highlighting, PROPERLY FLEXIBLE code reformatting, and name-completion. And I want it fast. I guess the problem with most Java IDEs are that they're written in Java (which makes sense) but without enough attention to writing fast java (which _is_ possible.)
Netbeans has some really nice simple features like abbreviations (Think autocorrect in MS-Word) so impj expands to "import java." and "psf" expands to "private static final" (how many times have you typed _that_?) but it doesn't have much for code reformatting. And it's stupidly huge.
And no, I don't like emacs. I'm a GUI guy, and emacs (or xemacs or whatever) doesn't cut it for me.
By their nature, harddrive stories are almost always anecdotal - I used to work in a computer shop, and all we saw failing were fujitsu. "Man, Fujitsu sucks", I though.
:-)
Oops. All we sold were Fujitsu's.
Moreover, the reason that IBM should get a black eye for this is not for releasing a shitty product - that happens. But their response has been less than stellar. My work has had two (of four) of these drives fail. Purportedly, the refurbs that they send out don't last much longer than the originals, so they're patching the problem and not fixing it. Their turnaround time on these is really bad, too. That's sorta okay if they have to check the drive and stuff like they might with a normal RMA, but when the drives are known to be bad, they should just turn around and ship good ones, with the underlying problem *fixed*, not just patched.
That's why IBM has a black eye in my books.
That was a link a frame. The actual article is here.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I have the Anime category filtered out.
(Why I'm reading this story and it's comments anyway is another lesson for another time..)
I was actually considering this a little the other day - the script that I thought up would take the last article in whatever topic things are in (ie: the last AOL article) and grab the ten highest moderated comments, and repost them on the current AOL article. probably 7 or 8 out of ten would be detected as off topic, and one might just hit things right and have close enough content that it would get the same moderation as the first time.
:-)
This would work really well with all of the long-running oft-revisited debates (e.g. anything about Napster, the RIAA, DeCSS, Microsoft all have the same 4 comments explanations of what's going on and why this is "bigger than it seems", why this judge or that judge doesn't know what he's doing, why the microsoft breakup is good/bad/unimportant to linux, etc. )...
With a bit of tweeking (say, ignoring articles that don't seem related to each other through some heuristic) you could probably get a fairly good karma-whoring success ratio out of this.
Too bad I don't feel like it.
A lot of the content is also based over there, so the WWW would instantly (if we are talking a big Carnivore-style switch-off) lose a heck of a lot of information. Perhaps enough to severely cripple its use as a tool.
And the search engines, too. Most (all?!) of the biggees (Excite, Hotbot, Altavista, Google, Yahoo, Inktomi) are hosted in the USA. What good's the web without a search engine?
Even if the technology is available, it would take someone a long time to index the billion pages that google has...
Does this look like fucking securityfocus.com? Get a clue /. Why don't you report all of the other vulnerabilities in UNIX/Linux OSs?
while it's obviously a troll, I'll respond.
A quick search for security brings us:
2.2.16 Kernel Released - Fixes Security Hole
Open-Source != Security; PGP Provides Cautionary Tale
Red Hat 'Piranha' Security Risk - And Fix
FreeBSD implicated in HotMail security problems
Looks like they do. Granted, there're more MS security holes posted. However, I would say that there are more MS security holes. The problem only arises when/if they are posting in a proportion (MS vs. Open Source) that is not close to the real proportion of significant problems.
Come on now folks. You don't really think slashdot can take out the APPLE website do you? It's awfully egotistical to think that there are more slashdotters than APPLE FANS. geezus, we need to get off our collective high horses. There are 200,000 registered users of Slashdot. I would guess that fewer than that read the site. You think Apple didn't prepare for more than a million people slamming their site?
Argh. Maybe someone's posted something to this effect already, but they hadn't when I read the comments an hour ago. Now, supposing Slashdot had posted a story about the hole being fixed after 3 years. Would people have complained? Maybe, but I would guess not. However, they went one step further, got some information from the person that made the news about it or whatever, and you chose to read it. you know who he was about halfway through the interview, or less. So they provided something relevant, went further (doing an interview that is perhaps "iffy" but it was about censorship, which is what Jamie normally posts about (or posts a lot about)). I don't see where the complaint is.
It's semantic, but what you're saying is that pure water naturally becomes impure, and then conducts electricity. the statement stands - pure water does not conduct electricity.
:-)
of course, I'm in over my head - I only have first year physics and chem.
yeah.
that's why I said "shouldn't matter since nothing's moving."
:-)
> This is cool, but wouldn't it short out the motherboard? Could somebody explain why this works?
:-) )
N_2 (as well as pure water, contrary to popular perception) does not conduct electricity. They are both very good insulators. Only when water is impure (salt, chlorine and fluorine are found in normal tap-water) does it conduct electricity.
There were some people not too long ago that immersed their motherboard into a mineral oil to move the heat away from the CPU faster - similar idea.
My curiousity is how brittle the components become when immersed - I would assume that most things would become quite brittle. shouldn't matter since nothing's moving, but you'd still have to be careful. (Ever seen a liquid nitrogen cooled banana hit the floor? that's cool. it's like T1000, except it's a banana.
I seem to remember this project having a projected completion date of 2001 or later. Does anyone know how the projections changed as computing power and the analysis techniques got better?
Apparently a lot of stolen credit cards were used to ring up over 100 million dollars in charges. Amex got suspicious when they noticed that all these cards had been used in a particular restaurant in NYC. ...
:-)
When the feds went to the restaurant in one of the back rooms they saw a card swipe machine hooked up to a laptop. The crooks used to swipe the card and get the persons info, the card #, etc etc and would make duplicate cards which they would use to make purchases. The victim never knew that he/she was victimised till 30-60 days later
They're pretty stupid. If they were smart, they would never have done the transaction at all. Then the way they were caught would never have worked, because as far as the CC companies were concerned, those people had never been to that restaurant.
Stupid stupid stupid. Sometimes I think I should become a criminal.
here I thought this was some wacky free-for-all posting site, or something strange like that. of course there are rules! you must submit only one kind of data - that which is a URL. This is hardly free form. I mean, I see what he's doing, and I think it's neat, but to claim that he has created something "without rules" is hardly true. he has just created a simple (albeit cool) engine for word/concept association. Certainly interesting, but hardly rule-less.
You mean like the GPL does?
So then we'd have:
UNG is Not GNU
GNU is Not UNG
:-)
wouldn't that then be "Unix is Not UNG"? :-)
doesn't have quite the same ring to it as GNU.
"UNG/Linux"
:-)
This is a biggy when i'm helping out my dad. I just "know" which window to be dealing with, but he doesn't. perhaps an optional dim-everything-but-the-window-in-focus feature would be good, to make it clear.
or, perhaps neater, dim-everything-except-what-you -need-to-read-or-can-click-on. ie: window titlebars would not be dimmed (unless they had an overriding modal window up), nor would the text in your current window, but everything else would be.
might have some interesting consistency problems (under windows, I can do a single click to ICQ to pull up their menu, even though it's in a window that is not the current window.
certainly I think we have enough horsepower to do this, considering it would be a reasonably rare occurence with the kind of person that would be helped with it. I can deal with most dialog boxes without looking, using only keyboard shortcuts, so they're gone as fast as they're up. but my dad usually takes a few seconds, so this sort of background-fading wouldn't be so bad.
That's funny. I can read just fine on a monitor. In fact, I find it /more/ comfortable to read on a monitor than from a book. I like the continuity of scrolling rather than page turning, I'm pretty sure I read faster, and I get neither eyestrain nor wriststrain from it.