The same could be said for all the different cultures and languages of the world. We're all pretty much the same, so let's just unify the the whole shebang and be done with it.
In reality, there is so much to be learned by doing, living and creating stuff. If we all only created the same stuff, we wouldn't be able to diversify progress.
Personally, I am continually amazed at how little I have understood of a problem until I solve it my way. I imagine lots of groups of people have different approaches, different learning styles, best modes of operation. What is useful to one is confusing to another. With choices and configuration options, we can deliver solutions to users whatever their mindset. And cross pollination of ideas among the various projects can make them ALL better, just like genetic variation makes a species stronger.
Nature does not reward single pardigms, why should we?
It's not US customs. US customs doesn't give a shit what you leave with. They care what you bring in, "Hey there boy, you've been to Am-ster-dam lately? Why are you here, how long will you be here, got any drugs? Got any Cubans?"
Now a British subject would get hit up fer taxes on the way back into Britain. Depends what their exemptions are, not US's feds.
Do they make you fill out paperwork on the way out? Like, hey, you didn't declare that laptop on the way out, and now you're coming back with one? Nice try buddy, pay up the VAT.
That's okay, if only one person is downloading, then that person will get it from original source, right? I believe this is how it works.
If the download is not popular, than the orginator of the content can handle the bandwidth. Bittorrent's benefits kick in when something is popular, where there are simultaneous downloads at any given moment. If demand trickles back to one request every hour, than obviously the originator can handle it. Once it is no longer relevant, the orginator of the content can disable the tracker.
Bittorrent is a p2p network that works BETTER the more people are using it. Once everyone disconnects, then you revert to the worst case scenario, which is just straight downloading.
So don't worry, disconnecting after you finish is okay. You did your civic duty by sharing the bits while your download was in process. Enjoy your game guilt free.
I believe this is how bittorrent works. If I'm wrong, I'm sure I'll be corrected within - 3 - 2 -1 NOW
Just to put a little moderating spin on this whole discussion (not necessarily you) - We seem to have this "us" vs. "them" mentality. The government _is_ "us". If we see "us" as "them" and disengage then it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. If we engage "them", become involved, vote, write letters, campaign, hold public office, serve in the armed forces, etc. then the government becomes "us." Isn't that how it works?
I think perhaps we've swung a little too far into paranoia because so few Americans currently serve in the armed forces. I am a captain in the army reserves, and I get the strangest questions from people who have NO idea what being in the military is like. This wasn't true during my parent's generation.
What I'm saying is this: if we want war and an uncertain future, the best way to achieve this is to not serve, to not care, and to put the power to control such decisions in an increasingly smaller and smaller circle of "good ol' boys."
Being a soldier means as much about loving war as being a firefighter does about loving fire.
Now, first things first, we need to get a new fire captain soon... he keeps saying to us, can of gasoline in hand, that, "I'll have some work for you guys in a sec."
from my web log, I think it's appropriate and strangely enough, quasi-religious...
We all strive to be big monolithic programs, with fancy buttons, big memory footprints, environments where people, if they want to do anything, must go through us. We strive to be pre-eminent on the desktop, world stage. We crave fame. Look at me we say. Look how important I have become. I am an Office Suite, hear me roar. Look how much I can do. If you want to do any work, you must come through me.
[snip]
We must teach our brethren the ways of the Unix shell, for if we don't we will forever be trapped handcuffed in that big shiny plastic bubble of modern life, where we see but we can't interact. We must go back, back to the beginning and learn the first lessons.
Copyrights are rights granted to copy something... and copying it into your mind by reading it doesn't qualify. This is why we get all into talking about fair use etc. What constitutes copying? Partial copying, quoting with attribution, backup copy for personal use?
Anyone know what the default copyright's are? Are all rights reserved by default? What rights are granted by not explicitely stating what the right to copy is.
And in closing, I think copying a slashdot comment will more likely get you bitch-slapped than sued... but that's just my two cents.
They stealing our mantra? Sounds like they've been reading the _Cathedral and the Bazaar_
OR
They want to keep the hounds slavering and aware of their hunger. You want that, boy? You want that? Take a good sniff. Hmmm. You can have it later, though.
Meanwhile the poor dog who had forgotten his growling belly is now killing himself trying to get at the bone.
Yeah, I do... I've got all my 9th grade reports saved on one. You'd be typing along, *pause*... whirrr, whirr whirrr. Bzzz, whirrr. Cute little things, but we kept losing them.
I was curious later and tried to rig up a special serial cable to interface with an XT and retrieve the information. Never got it to work though.
Sinclair was a nice little machine. My dad bought about 6 of them.
It takes a real man-geek to admit "issues" when installing new software or configuring devices. He loses points for his longish rant though.
However, I found myself nodding in affirmative at EVERY single step he took during his trouble shooting. I made a lot of the same assumptions (wrongly). The funniest was when he finally figured out he had to configure the server machine to broadcast, and then he couldn't connect to it. HAHA, it took at least 15 minutes of loud swearing for me to figure out how to configure the &*#&#((#&$&^/etc/cups/cupsd.conf file.
You know you're in trouble when the first like in the man page is RTFM.
I swear, if I have to configure another CUPS network, I'll go postal. It works... ssssh, don't touch it, and speak in hushed tones when in the vicinity.
I disaggree. The problem with proprietary drivers is they never keep pace with OSS development, hell, I can't even submit a patch before somebody else has done it nearly 99.9% of the time. Things just move too fast.
You want to upgrade to new fancy-schmancy kernel 2.7.x and you can't because your CPU-centr-a-yummy needs 2.6.x to install properly. They never keep up or give anything more than half-assed support. I had an nVidia TNT2, and I gave up on nVidia stuff, because I hated being locked in to THEIR schedule... and it crashed a lot, would corrupt the video (you could log in remotely though) and the only thing I could do was reset. I moved on.
Except my old versions of Micrografx Designer (4) and FormFlow, and MSWorks don't run under wine. All crash upon launch with 16 bit violation errors. Seems wine has lost some of its 16 bit compatibility.
It's really simple. The ONLY way spammers can defeat Bayesian filters is if they imitate what you call ham. ham = What you want; spam = what you don't want. Unless they custom tailor each message or random words to each user and guess (through some form of magical powers) what kind of email you call ham, then they fail.
Besides, if they could guess what your ham looked like, then they wouldn't be spammers... they'd be advertising folks pulling in 7 figures.
gives you a list of the misspelled word. You could fiddle with the capitalization rules for things like DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP etc. to lower your false positives.
We could wrap that into spamd and generate a weighted score. Problems would be speed of course as ispell would have to start up each time to check an email (is there a daemon mode for ispell or aspell?)
Anyway, I ran it on a bunch of aforementioned spam and it gives convincing results.
Of course, slashdotters would probably rate a lot of false positives, so maybe we shouldn't push this until we better our spelling.
With technology has come a multitude of conveniences, time savers, and capabilities of which our primitive ancestors could never have conceived. Take for example, the instant message. It is instantaneous, travels at the speed of light to its intended recipient, delivering important potentially critical information at the click of a button. It can be sent across the world, around the block, or to the next room.
Laura at 15:01:18: Jaimito is poopie
Jim at 15:01:43: Roger, I'll change him.
Toxic waste disposal emergencies such as the one above could have not been addressed with such efficiency before the days of IM. Thank the Lord!
Well, while we're contradicting ourselves, let's talk about animal rights groups. "Trees have rights. Dogs cannot be owned (only cared for). etc" While at the same time saying that human beings in fetal form have NO rights and are useless, disregarding the fact that they WILL become adults if allowed to.
All the contradictions only serve to confirm one fact: Human's will do what they want to do in any given circumstance because we believe we have the right to what we want.
When we needed land, we decided that the native inhabitants were only savages and killed them, moved them. When we needed manual labor for agricultural work, we went and got slaves because we had conveniently deemed them non-human. When we (humanity) decided that our woes were jew-induced, we decided they were not human and killed them.
And the list goes on and on and on. Instead of elevating our lives, our aspirations, we debase them, pawning our tiny little hearts for a bit of instant gratification at someone elses expense.
I wonder if when we talk about outsourcing, we talk about Free Software. A LOT of it is produced outside of the USA. If company A wants to pay some guy in Finland to implement a feature so they can use that software more effectively in their enterprise, is that outsourcing that we can complain about? Frankly, I think that's the kind of outsourcing that we are looking for. Work on what you want and get paid for it. No matter where you are.
Since I see programming as an art, maybe we'll see a day where programmers will hire agents to represent them. You'll mount up an project and then send your agent to pimp it for you. Agents will represent a lot of programmers. Instead of going door to door with his shrink wrapped prepackaged boxes, he'll have feature lists from all sorts of project with associated costs for implementation of client requests. He'll be a walking talking actively seeking to get you SOLD version of Freshmeat.
Not necessarily. The rear break always makes for a more stable (less unstable) stop (provided you put some weight on it). The front wheel is the the upside down pendulum, statically indeterminate, and by virtue of the wheel axle and the headset it is indeterminate in all planes (except of course -y, where all the blood and mangled bones will end up). Using the front brake makes the rear wheel want to pivot about it (up or to the sides).
Now, of while braking (with whichever wheel), the vehicle's momentum will tend to lift the rear wheel up as you shift forward or the vehicles suspension surges forward. This will cause it to lose its braking power. Downhill mountain bikers ride extremely low and back in the saddle and ride the back brake almost exclusively.
Front brake is a recipe for disaster. And in bicycles at least, the rear brake is less effective just because the cable is longer and has more give. It is not transmit the stopping power very well.... or there's something I complete missed and I'm full of it *G*.
I currently run a gtk-gnutella client with ~5 Gig of stuff I've downloaded from mp3.com since it started in the early years. I was also present for the first mp3 conference in San Diego back in 1998.
I have have the IMO the best of the following genres:
alternative electronic irish latin rock-pop synthpop techno trance
I'll probably put it in a more browseable fashion when I get more bandwidth at some point. There are a lot of other people out there that are hosting this stuff on p2p as well, as I run into it from time to time.
I suppose you're also the type that likes to see 192.168.x.x in a traceroute from the Internet? Hmmm?
The HELO check was a life saver during sobig. And I don't care who you are, reporting yourself as microsoft.msft is just stupid even through a nat'd connection.
I agree. The only way to stop spam is by filtering it at the ISP or end user level. Email is too entrenched and too important for us to be mucking around with whitelists and trusted senders and whatnot. Reverse lookups would really do the trick, but since in my experience 99% of ISP's/bandwidth providers are just too uncooperative in updating their reverse DNS, that is out. Couldn't do virtual domains either.
You could utilize some minimal checks like forward dns or just a HELO name check, which my company used for a while. But, there are SOOO many exchange servers out there that identify themselves as "microsoft.msft" (which is of course not correct) that some of our clients couldn't get their mail. They'd call, "Hey, so and so can't send me email." I'd telnet to their port 25 and check what they returned in their HELO... sure enough, it was incorrect, so I'd notify the administrator and our client that their email server is not configured correctly (and it's an open relay to boot). A couple of days later this client would call again saying, "Other people can receive this guy's email, but I can't. What's wrong with your server?"
After a while, it's just a perception problem. You've got to be able to receive from everybody (except the absolute worst spammers). So we accept all mail and tag it with spamassassin using the X-Spam-Status tag. Clients then can filter it and check at their leisure. If they have a little more no-how, we tell them to download and install mozilla-mail or thunderbird with built in spam filtering. You've got to train it, but it works.
Email is too important and too ubiquitous to be screwed around with. The surest and best way to deal with spam is to filter/tag at the end user or ISP. Legislation won't cut it. Threats won't cut it. Whitelists/Blacklists won't work. You can't even rely on first line HELO identification checks. There are just too many monkeys who've set up email servers out there.
And just think about this: even ipv6 STILL isn't widely deployed.
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The same could be said for all the different cultures and languages of the world. We're all pretty much the same, so let's just unify the the whole shebang and be done with it.
In reality, there is so much to be learned by doing, living and creating stuff. If we all only created the same stuff, we wouldn't be able to diversify progress.
Personally, I am continually amazed at how little I have understood of a problem until I solve it my way. I imagine lots of groups of people have different approaches, different learning styles, best modes of operation. What is useful to one is confusing to another. With choices and configuration options, we can deliver solutions to users whatever their mindset. And cross pollination of ideas among the various projects can make them ALL better, just like genetic variation makes a species stronger.
Nature does not reward single pardigms, why should we?
It's not US customs. US customs doesn't give a shit what you leave with. They care what you bring in, "Hey there boy, you've been to Am-ster-dam lately? Why are you here, how long will you be here, got any drugs? Got any Cubans?"
Now a British subject would get hit up fer taxes on the way back into Britain. Depends what their exemptions are, not US's feds.
Do they make you fill out paperwork on the way out? Like, hey, you didn't declare that laptop on the way out, and now you're coming back with one? Nice try buddy, pay up the VAT.
That's okay, if only one person is downloading, then that person will get it from original source, right? I believe this is how it works.
If the download is not popular, than the orginator of the content can handle the bandwidth. Bittorrent's benefits kick in when something is popular, where there are simultaneous downloads at any given moment. If demand trickles back to one request every hour, than obviously the originator can handle it. Once it is no longer relevant, the orginator of the content can disable the tracker.
Bittorrent is a p2p network that works BETTER the more people are using it. Once everyone disconnects, then you revert to the worst case scenario, which is just straight downloading.
So don't worry, disconnecting after you finish is okay. You did your civic duty by sharing the bits while your download was in process. Enjoy your game guilt free.
I believe this is how bittorrent works. If I'm wrong, I'm sure I'll be corrected within - 3 - 2 -1 NOW
Or put differently, when you work for yourself you have a son-of-a-bitch for a boss.
Being a soldier means as much about loving war as being a firefighter does about loving fire.
Nope, that's an Uggy slashdot original. Thanks for the comment. Feel free to use it, 'cause it's true.
Just to put a little moderating spin on this whole discussion (not necessarily you) - We seem to have this "us" vs. "them" mentality. The government _is_ "us". If we see "us" as "them" and disengage then it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. If we engage "them", become involved, vote, write letters, campaign, hold public office, serve in the armed forces, etc. then the government becomes "us." Isn't that how it works?
I think perhaps we've swung a little too far into paranoia because so few Americans currently serve in the armed forces. I am a captain in the army reserves, and I get the strangest questions from people who have NO idea what being in the military is like. This wasn't true during my parent's generation.
What I'm saying is this: if we want war and an uncertain future, the best way to achieve this is to not serve, to not care, and to put the power to control such decisions in an increasingly smaller and smaller circle of "good ol' boys."
Being a soldier means as much about loving war as being a firefighter does about loving fire.
Now, first things first, we need to get a new fire captain soon... he keeps saying to us, can of gasoline in hand, that, "I'll have some work for you guys in a sec."
from my web log, I think it's appropriate and strangely enough, quasi-religious...
We all strive to be big monolithic programs, with fancy buttons, big memory footprints, environments where people, if they want to do anything, must go through us. We strive to be pre-eminent on the desktop, world stage. We crave fame. Look at me we say. Look how important I have become. I am an Office Suite, hear me roar. Look how much I can do. If you want to do any work, you must come through me.
[snip]
We must teach our brethren the ways of the Unix shell, for if we don't we will forever be trapped handcuffed in that big shiny plastic bubble of modern life, where we see but we can't interact. We must go back, back to the beginning and learn the first lessons.
Take copyright and turn it around...
Right to copy.
Copyrights are rights granted to copy something... and copying it into your mind by reading it doesn't qualify. This is why we get all into talking about fair use etc. What constitutes copying? Partial copying, quoting with attribution, backup copy for personal use?
Anyone know what the default copyright's are? Are all rights reserved by default? What rights are granted by not explicitely stating what the right to copy is.
And in closing, I think copying a slashdot comment will more likely get you bitch-slapped than sued... but that's just my two cents.
They stealing our mantra? Sounds like they've been reading the _Cathedral and the Bazaar_
OR
They want to keep the hounds slavering and aware of their hunger. You want that, boy? You want that? Take a good sniff. Hmmm. You can have it later, though.
Meanwhile the poor dog who had forgotten his growling belly is now killing himself trying to get at the bone.
Yeah, I do... I've got all my 9th grade reports saved on one. You'd be typing along, *pause*... whirrr, whirr whirrr. Bzzz, whirrr. Cute little things, but we kept losing them.
I was curious later and tried to rig up a special serial cable to interface with an XT and retrieve the information. Never got it to work though.
Sinclair was a nice little machine. My dad bought about 6 of them.
Here's why your machine is crashing
It takes a real man-geek to admit "issues" when installing new software or configuring devices. He loses points for his longish rant though.
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf file.
However, I found myself nodding in affirmative at EVERY single step he took during his trouble shooting. I made a lot of the same assumptions (wrongly). The funniest was when he finally figured out he had to configure the server machine to broadcast, and then he couldn't connect to it. HAHA, it took at least 15 minutes of loud swearing for me to figure out how to configure the &*#&#((#&$&^
You know you're in trouble when the first like in the man page is RTFM.
I swear, if I have to configure another CUPS network, I'll go postal. It works... ssssh, don't touch it, and speak in hushed tones when in the vicinity.
I disaggree. The problem with proprietary drivers is they never keep pace with OSS development, hell, I can't even submit a patch before somebody else has done it nearly 99.9% of the time. Things just move too fast.
You want to upgrade to new fancy-schmancy kernel 2.7.x and you can't because your CPU-centr-a-yummy needs 2.6.x to install properly. They never keep up or give anything more than half-assed support. I had an nVidia TNT2, and I gave up on nVidia stuff, because I hated being locked in to THEIR schedule... and it crashed a lot, would corrupt the video (you could log in remotely though) and the only thing I could do was reset. I moved on.
Except my old versions of Micrografx Designer (4) and FormFlow, and MSWorks don't run under wine. All crash upon launch with 16 bit violation errors. Seems wine has lost some of its 16 bit compatibility.
cue
<voice style="character: Andy Rooney;">
Didcha ever notice how sometimes
they write code that is supposed
to be better?
Better than what?!?!
</voice>
It's really simple. The ONLY way spammers can defeat Bayesian filters is if they imitate what you call ham. ham = What you want; spam = what you don't want. Unless they custom tailor each message or random words to each user and guess (through some form of magical powers) what kind of email you call ham, then they fail.
Besides, if they could guess what your ham looked like, then they wouldn't be spammers... they'd be advertising folks pulling in 7 figures.
gives you a list of the misspelled word. You could fiddle with the capitalization rules for things like DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP etc. to lower your false positives.
We could wrap that into spamd and generate a weighted score. Problems would be speed of course as ispell would have to start up each time to check an email (is there a daemon mode for ispell or aspell?)
Anyway, I ran it on a bunch of aforementioned spam and it gives convincing results.
Of course, slashdotters would probably rate a lot of false positives, so maybe we shouldn't push this until we better our spelling.
True Story
With technology has come a multitude of conveniences, time savers, and capabilities of which our primitive ancestors could never have conceived. Take for example, the instant message. It is instantaneous, travels at the speed of light to its intended recipient, delivering important potentially critical information at the click of a button. It can be sent across the world, around the block, or to the next room.
Toxic waste disposal emergencies such as the one above could have not been addressed with such efficiency before the days of IM. Thank the Lord!
What if Abe had use Powerpoint to "present" the Gettysburg Address?
Well, while we're contradicting ourselves, let's talk about animal rights groups. "Trees have rights. Dogs cannot be owned (only cared for). etc" While at the same time saying that human beings in fetal form have NO rights and are useless, disregarding the fact that they WILL become adults if allowed to.
All the contradictions only serve to confirm one fact: Human's will do what they want to do in any given circumstance because we believe we have the right to what we want.
When we needed land, we decided that the native inhabitants were only savages and killed them, moved them.
When we needed manual labor for agricultural work, we went and got slaves because we had conveniently deemed them non-human.
When we (humanity) decided that our woes were jew-induced, we decided they were not human and killed them.
And the list goes on and on and on. Instead of elevating our lives, our aspirations, we debase them, pawning our tiny little hearts for a bit of instant gratification at someone elses expense.
Don't kid yourselves.
I wonder if when we talk about outsourcing, we talk about Free Software. A LOT of it is produced outside of the USA. If company A wants to pay some guy in Finland to implement a feature so they can use that software more effectively in their enterprise, is that outsourcing that we can complain about? Frankly, I think that's the kind of outsourcing that we are looking for. Work on what you want and get paid for it. No matter where you are.
Since I see programming as an art, maybe we'll see a day where programmers will hire agents to represent them. You'll mount up an project and then send your agent to pimp it for you. Agents will represent a lot of programmers. Instead of going door to door with his shrink wrapped prepackaged boxes, he'll have feature lists from all sorts of project with associated costs for implementation of client requests. He'll be a walking talking actively seeking to get you SOLD version of Freshmeat.
Not necessarily. The rear break always makes for a more stable (less unstable) stop (provided you put some weight on it). The front wheel is the the upside down pendulum, statically indeterminate, and by virtue of the wheel axle and the headset it is indeterminate in all planes (except of course -y, where all the blood and mangled bones will end up). Using the front brake makes the rear wheel want to pivot about it (up or to the sides).
... or there's something I complete missed and I'm full of it *G*.
Now, of while braking (with whichever wheel), the vehicle's momentum will tend to lift the rear wheel up as you shift forward or the vehicles suspension surges forward. This will cause it to lose its braking power. Downhill mountain bikers ride extremely low and back in the saddle and ride the back brake almost exclusively.
Front brake is a recipe for disaster. And in bicycles at least, the rear brake is less effective just because the cable is longer and has more give. It is not transmit the stopping power very well.
I currently run a gtk-gnutella client with ~5 Gig of stuff I've downloaded from mp3.com since it started in the early years. I was also present for the first mp3 conference in San Diego back in 1998.
I have have the IMO the best of the following genres:
alternative
electronic
irish
latin
rock-pop
synthpop
techno
trance
I'll probably put it in a more browseable fashion when I get more bandwidth at some point. There are a lot of other people out there that are hosting this stuff on p2p as well, as I run into it from time to time.
I suppose you're also the type that likes to see 192.168.x.x in a traceroute from the Internet? Hmmm?
The HELO check was a life saver during sobig. And I don't care who you are, reporting yourself as microsoft.msft is just stupid even through a nat'd connection.
One more thing... magic must defeat magic!!
I agree. The only way to stop spam is by filtering it at the ISP or end user level. Email is too entrenched and too important for us to be mucking around with whitelists and trusted senders and whatnot. Reverse lookups would really do the trick, but since in my experience 99% of ISP's/bandwidth providers are just too uncooperative in updating their reverse DNS, that is out. Couldn't do virtual domains either.
You could utilize some minimal checks like forward dns or just a HELO name check, which my company used for a while. But, there are SOOO many exchange servers out there that identify themselves as "microsoft.msft" (which is of course not correct) that some of our clients couldn't get their mail. They'd call, "Hey, so and so can't send me email." I'd telnet to their port 25 and check what they returned in their HELO... sure enough, it was incorrect, so I'd notify the administrator and our client that their email server is not configured correctly (and it's an open relay to boot). A couple of days later this client would call again saying, "Other people can receive this guy's email, but I can't. What's wrong with your server?"
After a while, it's just a perception problem. You've got to be able to receive from everybody (except the absolute worst spammers). So we accept all mail and tag it with spamassassin using the X-Spam-Status tag. Clients then can filter it and check at their leisure. If they have a little more no-how, we tell them to download and install mozilla-mail or thunderbird with built in spam filtering. You've got to train it, but it works.
Email is too important and too ubiquitous to be screwed around with. The surest and best way to deal with spam is to filter/tag at the end user or ISP. Legislation won't cut it. Threats won't cut it. Whitelists/Blacklists won't work. You can't even rely on first line HELO identification checks. There are just too many monkeys who've set up email servers out there.
And just think about this: even ipv6 STILL isn't widely deployed.