...a whole new generation of skr1p7 k1dd13z is pondering ways to twist this around for fun and profit. I wonder who will be the first to "sign" CmdrTaco up for a lifetime subscription to MSN.
On the other hand, the whole concept of signatures is pretty ridiculous in the first place. How does putting one's name down in ink make something more valid than anything else?
The hardcore research journalism was almost as amusing as a typical MSNBC story; They took a few case studies, twisted some statistics, and turned it into a story. Their figures, for example, have nothing to do with technology, but instead are merely circumstantial: Young people use drugs (they fail to give statistics for other age groups), or people in certain areas use drugs (again, failing to describe the figures for other areas), and therefore "Drug use is rampant in the high-tech work force." QED -- Not. They're pulling stories out of their butts.
The other reason it made me laugh is that it's about ten hours past my bedtime, I'm hopped up on Perl and Diet Coke, and I'm quite sure that taking any sort of non-prescription drug right now would quite possibly kill me on the spot.
The biggest problem with Red Hat is also their best quality: They're the spiffiest, most commercial Linux distro available. They're all about the money, and while that benefits us in terms of support, etc., it can also result in them dropping projects like sparc support because they aren't profitable enough.
You know, I used to have ICANN membership before I started rallying for the.sucksbutslashdotrules TLD. Then for some reason I was no longer able to login to the site.
If there really do turn out to be serious privacy issues with IPv6, perhaps someone might want to start investing in an "anonymizing network" which would act as a sort of middle-man for internet activity. You view websites through a special browser, for example, that channels HTTP data through a network of dummy sites with IPs that are useless to big companies.
Even dynamic IPs as they exist now are not difficult to trace when the need arises (e.g., the Feds are trying to track someone down).
As the internet grows and your grandma's curling iron gets its own IP address, there has to be some way to organize those addresses and make it possible for them to interact in some sort of logical way; Unfortunatly, this inevitably will lead to a loss in privacy, because we're leaving the "primal chaos" stage of internet history that made anonymity so much easier.
Whether you like it or not, everything you do is being monitored anyway. It's just how America works. Companies want money (it's their whole purpose for existing, you know), and the best way to get it is to track exactly who you are and what you do. Every time you buy groceries, you're just a number in some great big SQL database in the sky.
I think that this, in addition to recent outburst of repeated posts, is a clear indication that the editors of/. have had a *long* week and are getting delirious.
Image what it would be like to run servers in outer space...talk about CPU cooling! Just install an overclocked server farm on the far side of the moon, and watch how fast they go in the insane temperatures.
It'd be really cool if there was more than just one silly page. This could be a whole project. I'd love to see some sort of real IT olympics, with contestants from various countries. We already have coding contests and such...why not go the extra mile, get some sort of Linux sponsor, and have a huge event!?:o)
Here it is in English, per Babelfish (you'll have to muddle through a bit...German never translates well):
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Web inquiry: Windows quite far in front
In the inquiry after the best operating system on MSNBC the page turned in wondrous way. If morning was appropriate still for Linux, like reported , with 28% of 18.500 voices in guidance on Friday, then the voice proportion of the free operating system sank until Sunday evening on 3% of 384.848 voices.
The inquiry took a strange process: Thus Linux achieved a high on Saturday mornings against 3 o'clock with 39% - from that up to then delivered 29,100 voices approximately 11,350 was allotted to the free operating system. In the following 20 hours 126,500 voices were then added, from which however 800 (according to 0.6%) was surprisingly only allotted to Linux. Thus the being correct proportion doubled itself both from Windows 95/98/ME and NT/2000. now moves with some the suspicion , there must have been manipulated. Trust no statistics, which you did not falsify... ( odi / c't)
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On the other hand, the whole concept of signatures is pretty ridiculous in the first place. How does putting one's name down in ink make something more valid than anything else?
It's the nature of the beast.
Thanks. I thought so, too.
Privacy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I think that this, in addition to recent outburst of repeated posts, is a clear indication that the editors of /. have had a *long* week and are getting delirious.
Building telescopes won't stop it either.
Yes, that's right. Earthquakes are harmless.
Hollywood releases a few movies, now suddenly everyone is freaked out about asteroids destroying the earth.
Maybe they're just making way for a bypass. You've got to build bypasses.
I think it's funny, though, that my browser shows the title of the page as "Cannot Find Server."
Slashdot: "I'm going to pet him, and love him, and call him Kuro5hin..." *squash*
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Web inquiry: Windows quite far in front
In the inquiry after the best operating system on MSNBC the page turned in wondrous way. If morning was appropriate still for Linux, like reported , with 28% of 18.500 voices in guidance on Friday, then the voice proportion of the free operating system sank until Sunday evening on 3% of 384.848 voices.
The inquiry took a strange process: Thus Linux achieved a high on Saturday mornings against 3 o'clock with 39% - from that up to then delivered 29,100 voices approximately 11,350 was allotted to the free operating system. In the following 20 hours 126,500 voices were then added, from which however 800 (according to 0.6%) was surprisingly only allotted to Linux. Thus the being correct proportion doubled itself both from Windows 95/98/ME and NT/2000. now moves with some the suspicion , there must have been manipulated. Trust no statistics, which you did not falsify... ( odi / c't)