From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Mutation \Mu*ta"tion\, n. [L. mutatio, fr. mutare to change: cf. F. mutation. See Mutable.] Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.
The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument. --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Mutation \Mu*ta"tion\, n. 1. (Biol.) Gradual definitely tending variation, such as may be observed in a group of organisms in the fossils of successive geological levels.
2. (Biol.)
(a) As now employed (first by de Vries), a sudden variation (the offspring differing from its parents in some well-marked character or characters) as distinguished from a gradual variations in which the new characters become fully developed only in the course of many generations. The occurrence of mutations, and the hereditary transmission, under some conditions, of the characters so appearing, are well-established facts; whether the process has played an important part in the evolution of the existing species and other groups of organisms is a disputed question.
(b) The result of the above process; a suddenly produced variation.
From WordNet (r) 1.6 :
mutation n 1: an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration [syn: mutant, sport] 2: the process or event of mutating
So much for Evolution being over in humans. Seriously, it's adaptation to your surroundings not mutation, it's not like the games are hacking up the poor kids index finger or something.
Next thing you know we'll start seeing class action lawsuits to Nintendo and Nokia for making devices that are "mutalating" the youth of america.
Either that or go to rpmfind.net, it's a great resource, as long as you use the right RPM for your dist. Just look for the pretty green ones for RH/Intel:)
Why don't you just go install cups? Why must you not use something just because it doesn't come with the dist? I agree, CUPS rocks, and I use it, on my RH7.2 box.
That's a good point. Wouldn't it be nice if there was even 10,000 of us geeks outside of congress protesting this crap. And I'm sure we could get more then that if somebody set it up right.
The Register never said that they were going to charge for free WEB based mail, just pop and forwarded. So did the email that Yahoo sent to it's users. The guy that wrote the slashdot article is just a moron..
Xenu.net WANTS to be in the seach engine. They are ANTI-Scientology. The Church of Scientology is the one that's asking for it to be removed from the search listings, not xenu.net.
Scientolgy has so much money that they'll just keep going after you, keep you tied up in court, even if they lost they'll keep trying and doing more and more to either suck up all your money for layers to protect yourself, or to just drive you so crazy that you give up.
Even if the DMCA doesn't hold up in this case, they'll find some other way to drive google nuts and remove the links. They'll blame it on copyright, slander, ANYTHING just so Google has to spend money on protecting their interests..
Depends. Mass has some law that says you have to help people in trouble or you can get sued. They made fun of that in the last Sienfeld episode, that's how they all get locked up at the end.
I think it would be more likely that they would notify geocities or the other free host to remove the site or they will notify the authoritites.. Geocities (Yahoo!) is a US company. If it's outside the US, then they'll probably block that specific user.
There's a BIG difference between child porn and normal porn/hate sites. Normal porn is legal in all states to some degree (nudie pics and alike). child porn is totally illegal. You can't take/look at/show/display child porn. Hate sites are legal via the 1st ammendment, as much as you might hate Nazi's and the KKK, they have every right to speak.
Well lets see, while researching this somebody must have to look at child porn. If the site is in the US, I'm sure they'll go raid the site, or contact the proper people to raid the site and shut it down. If the site is outside the US, they should also notify the local government where the site is hosted and request that they be shut down if they have a law against child porn.
As long as there's a decent oversight so they only block access to child porn I don't have a problem with this. If they start blocking other stuff, that would be bad. It would also be bad if they used some kind of automated system, because that can go wrong. A person must verify these sites before they get put on the ban list.
Of course the big problem with this.. There is now a nice and complete list of child porn sites.. and you have people looking at this stuff all day.
A biology teacher I had in HS was big into saving the rainforest.. but there was one thing she didn't like them doing. Saying that they produced 60% of the oxygen for the earth or something like that. Why did she not like this claim? Because 90% of the oxygen we get comes from alge in the ocean, not from trees and stuff on the ground.
I remember reading a study that said that when a volcano blasts that crap it launches as much CO2 into the air as the ENTIRE human race does in 50 years..
That's one point that's interesting.. The US as a whole probably has the cleanest vehicals around. God, we have enough regulations and stuff. Sure we have gas hogging SUVs, but they have all kinds of emmisions and we have states that have gas with MTBE in it (that stuff is so bad if it gets into the water, they're trying to ban it). But you look at stuff on discovery channel or whatever going to all these third world countries and they're driving these cars that just have black nasty ass smoke flying out of them, they have no emmisions control.. one of those cars must put out as much pollution at 10 or so of the US's automobiles.
Get over it. The earth will change if we do anything or not. In fact what most enviromentalists want is for it to stay exactly the same and never change, or so it seems. They don't want species to die, yet they do on their own even when we leave them totally alone, the want the climate to stay the same, yet that changes to if we were using our cars and factories or not.
Would it happen as fast? Probably not, but the fact is that the earth will change if we do anything or not.
If I requested a statue of say, myself, I would expect a completion date. He should be able to figure out how long it would take to finish a statue of somebody my size. Equally he should beable to finish a painting of a subject that's been selected prior to him starting his job. Just as a programmer should be able to estimate how to finish a project if he knows what's involved up front. Of course this isn't exact, it's within a few days or weeks, but there should be a ballpark figure, also, changes to the design should be expected to set things back.
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Sure, it's a great idea, but it has a lot of implications. For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. If I cache one of their pages, this will mess with their statistics, and mess with their banner ads. In other words, this will piss them off.
Of course, most of the time, the commercial sites that actually have income from banner ads easily withstand the Slashdot Effect. So perhaps we could draw the line at sites that don't have ads. They are, after all, much more likely to buckle under the pressure of all those unexpected hits. But what happens if I cache the site, and they update themselves? Once again, I'm transmitting data that I shouldn't be, only this time my cache is out of date!
I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.
Slashdot Mirror
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Mutation \Mu*ta"tion\, n. [L. mutatio, fr. mutare to change: cf. F. mutation. See Mutable.]
Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.
The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument. --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Mutation \Mu*ta"tion\, n.
1. (Biol.) Gradual definitely tending variation, such as may be observed in a group of organisms in the fossils of successive geological levels.
2. (Biol.)
(a) As now employed (first by de Vries), a sudden variation (the offspring differing from its parents in some well-marked character or characters) as distinguished from a gradual variations in which the new characters become fully developed only in the course of many generations. The occurrence of mutations, and the hereditary transmission, under some conditions, of the characters so appearing, are well-established facts; whether the process has played an important part in the evolution of the existing species and other groups of organisms is a disputed question.
(b) The result of the above process; a suddenly produced variation.
From WordNet (r) 1.6 :
mutation
n 1: an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration [syn: mutant, sport]
2: the process or event of mutating
Next thing you know we'll start seeing class action lawsuits to Nintendo and Nokia for making devices that are "mutalating" the youth of america.
Go to rpm find, search for linuxconf, install, enjoy and quit your bitchin'
rpm -ivh ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.2/en/os/i386/Red
Or go and install linuxconf, just because RH doesn't come with you can still get it. Or try another package like webmin or something similar.
Even if the DMCA doesn't hold up in this case, they'll find some other way to drive google nuts and remove the links. They'll blame it on copyright, slander, ANYTHING just so Google has to spend money on protecting their interests..
As long as there's a decent oversight so they only block access to child porn I don't have a problem with this. If they start blocking other stuff, that would be bad. It would also be bad if they used some kind of automated system, because that can go wrong. A person must verify these sites before they get put on the ban list.
Of course the big problem with this.. There is now a nice and complete list of child porn sites.. and you have people looking at this stuff all day.
Would it happen as fast? Probably not, but the fact is that the earth will change if we do anything or not.
"I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone? "
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Sure, it's a great idea, but it has a lot of implications. For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. If I cache one of their pages, this will mess with their statistics, and mess with their banner ads. In other words, this will piss them off.
Of course, most of the time, the commercial sites that actually have income from banner ads easily withstand the Slashdot Effect. So perhaps we could draw the line at sites that don't have ads. They are, after all, much more likely to buckle under the pressure of all those unexpected hits. But what happens if I cache the site, and they update themselves? Once again, I'm transmitting data that I shouldn't be, only this time my cache is out of date!
I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.
Answered by: CmdrTaco
Last Modified: 6/14/00