Am I the only one who takes the COMPLETE paranoid view that Code Red (and all the other IIS virii) are going to be used as a rallying cry for Microsoft to take patching/updating out of the sysadmins hands and into XP, where it will be handled automatically? I can almost hear the marketroids..."Save hundreds of man-hours and millions of dollars by freeing your SysAdmins of the responsibility of constantly monitoring security lists and keeping up with the latest patches." Jeez.
I hear that around the time the XBox and Gamecube start shipping, Sony will be cutting the price of the PS2. I'd held off buying one because of this....anyone have any concrete facts?
Every time this topic is discussed, I think the same thing. This will introduce handshake authentication between your DBS/Cable box and your Digital TV (or TiVo). There is no way that there are enough people using Digital televisions that this should be a problem. As long as there are still analog sets, they can't implement this technology across the board. How upset would the consumers be if they wake up one morning and they have an AOL symbol on their $2,500 RPTV. "We're sorry, this cable service is no longer compatible with this television/device. Please upgrade to a Digital Television to experience this service." Spare me.
I've said it before, and I'lls ay it again. Stay the hell out of my living room.
"Show stopper" bugs, security holes, etc. are always backported to the stable build tree. Adding security.debian.org to your sources.list and running a cron job that 'apt-get update's daily for you will solve that problem.
It's been my experience that bugfixes and security hole plugs are published in the stable tree before I even get e-mails about them from various security lists.
This scene (and several others) are detailed in the novel 'The Phantom Menace' by Terry Bridges, which I personally enjoyed a lot more than I did the movie. Didn't have to deal with Anakin's piss-poor acting, or Jar-Jar's...existence.
All true, but with PGP (or whatever encryption method), they would HAVE to have all those computers and Math Ph.D's TRYING to decrypt your e-mail. I prefer that than for my e-mail to be casually viewable by whoever decides to glance at it.
...to CORRECT an infertility problem. On an overpopulated planet. Great.
Did it ever occur to anyone that perhaps there's a REASON some people are infertile?
I might sound overly harsh, but if this continues, we'll have lots and lots of perfectly healthy, long-lived, incredibly weak and fragile human beings walking this planet.
Lafayette is a street in Chicago. The Wachowski brothers (who are from Chicago) named all the streets in the movie after streets in Chicago (There's an exit at Madison and Lake). 'The Lafayette scene' prboably refers to the scene where Apoc, Switch, and Trinity took Neo for a drive and debugged him.
...my last reason to reboot into Windows on my home box. FINALLY freedom from Microsoft Money! Hopefully, if decently imports Microsoft's crappy.QIF implementation, or better yet, maybe someone reverse-engineered the.MNY format. Regardless, this is all I need. Oh, happy happy day!
P.S.-->Hrm. Guess I'll have to switch to KDE...is it worth it? I happen to like Window Maker....
I read the article at El Reg before it popped up here. The way this story is being presented by ZDNet, the Register, AND Slashdot is terribly misleading. As near as I can tell, Linus has nothing bad to say about OS X in particular...just it's usage of the Mach microkernel which he (and lots of other kernel hackers) have dismissed as crap.
Reading anything else to it just turns the whole thing into a "Ooooh...the Linux guy HATES OS X! He must be threatened by it!" media frenzy. That single out-of-context quote, combined with "Linux as insofar failed to bring UNIX to the desktop, which is what Apple believes OS X WILL do", makes it even worse.
...I think that's spot on. The great technological achievements were not created with the idea of "Let's do this, so we can make a million bucks off of it.". In fact, the idea of applying a business model to technological ideas has done nothing but cripple the movement. Example: UNIX is born at Bell Labs. Ritchie and the crew didn't create UNIX to make money...they built it because they had the 'programmers itch'. Bell Labs took it over, seeing that they could make a wad of cash off of it, and UNIX has been evolving at a snails pace ever since.
The great things [UNIX, the Web, e-mail...hell,e ven Slashdot] were created because some geek thought it would be cool, or as a tool to get something done more effectively. All capitilization of technology has done is sloooow it down.
I thought the same thing until I saw Audrey the last time I was in Best Buy. Five hundred bucks. I couldn't see myself using one, but at least it's pretty.:-)
Now you TOO can have banner ads streamed to you...even in the bathroom!
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker who turns his computer off every now and again.
"In the real world - planet Earth, Reality - there are somewhere between six and ten billion people. At any given time, most of them are making mud bricks or field-stripping their AK-47s. Perhaps a billion of them have enough money to own a computer; these people have more money than all the others put together. Of these billion potential computer owners, maybe a quarter of them actually bother to own computers, and a quarter of these have machines that are powerful enough to handle the Street protocol. That makes for about sixty million people who can be on the Street at any given time. Add in another sixty million or so who can't really afford it but go there anyway, by using public machines, or machines owned by their school or their employer, and at any given time the Street is occupied by twice the population of New York City. That's why the damn place is so overdeveloped. Put in a sign or a building on the Street and the hundred million richest, hippest, best-connected people on earth will see it every day of their lives."
--Snow Crash
Completely uncalled for, I know...but I thought it was topical.:-)
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker who'll be First against the wall when the revolution comes
Dude, I can only assume that you're just starting out as a troll. Now, you've got the inflammatory part right, but you have to be more subtle on your blatant factual inaccuracies. For example:
until the president of Japan...
Now, no one's going to take you seriously if you insist on sounding like an angry 4th grader who's dad beat up on him too much. Japan is a parliamentary democracy (sound it out, it's not as hard as it looks). What this means is, there's been an Emperor in Japan since around the 7th century. He's rather symbolic nowadays but, still there.
I live near a college campus (University of Michigan) in a college town (Ann Arbor). Townies and students alike tend to congregate en masse at one of four places: 1)Movies, 2)Bowling, 3)Bars, 4)Pinball Pete's (video arcade). You're just as likely to meet women at ANY one of these places as you are the other. If you're having a good night, you'll hit all 4 of the above in that order.:-)
Check Ebay's listings for 'Pinball machines' and tell me again their going out of style.
I'd love to see an environment that actually is a world... a place where people can actually talk with each other by talking, or even smiling, and frowning, and gesturing, instead of typing.
Dude. Step away from your computer. Walk towards an immediate exit. Exit. Look around. Thos funny looking avatars in khakis with ID badges on? No they're not crabheads, put that rocket launcher down. Those are called PEOPLEv.2.1(GPL). You can have all the interaction you just described and more with them!
P.S.-->The sweet-smelling ones are called girls. I'll let you figure that one out.
what does the arcade really have to offer any more?
You know, people have been saying that as long as I can remember. The analogy that I think fits best is, What do movie theaters have to offer anymore Home theater technology is to the point now where you can get an equivalent (or superior) experience sitting in your living room in your underpants.
Video arcades, just like movie thaters, benefit from the fact that they get first-run games. Before PS2 was even finalized as a system, I was destroying people left and right in Tekken Tag Tournament. As long as powerful video boards are cheaper to mass manufacture for video arcades, arcades will receive the first slew of 'hot new games'.
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker
P.S.-->Oh, the other reasons that traditional arcades will never die out. You can play pool, pinball, and meet girls in them. Girls are good.
Slashdot Mirror
(Well maybe not) Speaking of that...
Am I the only one who takes the COMPLETE paranoid view that Code Red (and all the other IIS virii) are going to be used as a rallying cry for Microsoft to take patching/updating out of the sysadmins hands and into XP, where it will be handled automatically? I can almost hear the marketroids..."Save hundreds of man-hours and millions of dollars by freeing your SysAdmins of the responsibility of constantly monitoring security lists and keeping up with the latest patches." Jeez.
I hear that around the time the XBox and Gamecube start shipping, Sony will be cutting the price of the PS2. I'd held off buying one because of this....anyone have any concrete facts?
Every time this topic is discussed, I think the same thing. This will introduce handshake authentication between your DBS/Cable box and your Digital TV (or TiVo). There is no way that there are enough people using Digital televisions that this should be a problem. As long as there are still analog sets, they can't implement this technology across the board. How upset would the consumers be if they wake up one morning and they have an AOL symbol on their $2,500 RPTV. "We're sorry, this cable service is no longer compatible with this television/device. Please upgrade to a Digital Television to experience this service." Spare me.
I've said it before, and I'lls ay it again. Stay the hell out of my living room.
"Show stopper" bugs, security holes, etc. are always backported to the stable build tree. Adding security.debian.org to your sources.list and running a cron job that 'apt-get update's daily for you will solve that problem.
It's been my experience that bugfixes and security hole plugs are published in the stable tree before I even get e-mails about them from various security lists.
Trust in Debian. Debian is your friend.
This scene (and several others) are detailed in the novel 'The Phantom Menace' by Terry Bridges, which I personally enjoyed a lot more than I did the movie. Didn't have to deal with Anakin's piss-poor acting, or Jar-Jar's...existence.
--MiB
My only problem with the Tampax ads (other than the obvious) is...what in GOD'S NAME is that blue stuff? Sheesh. Just plain disturbing.
--MiB
All true, but with PGP (or whatever encryption method), they would HAVE to have all those computers and Math Ph.D's TRYING to decrypt your e-mail. I prefer that than for my e-mail to be casually viewable by whoever decides to glance at it.
--Insert Witty Thing Here--
...to CORRECT an infertility problem. On an overpopulated planet. Great.
Did it ever occur to anyone that perhaps there's a REASON some people are infertile?
I might sound overly harsh, but if this continues, we'll have lots and lots of perfectly healthy, long-lived, incredibly weak and fragile human beings walking this planet.
Let the flames begin.
Lafayette is a street in Chicago. The Wachowski brothers (who are from Chicago) named all the streets in the movie after streets in Chicago (There's an exit at Madison and Lake). 'The Lafayette scene' prboably refers to the scene where Apoc, Switch, and Trinity took Neo for a drive and debugged him.
I'm obviously not the only one excited... :-)
...my last reason to reboot into Windows on my home box. FINALLY freedom from Microsoft Money! Hopefully, if decently imports Microsoft's crappy .QIF implementation, or better yet, maybe someone reverse-engineered the .MNY format. Regardless, this is all I need. Oh, happy happy day!
P.S.-->Hrm. Guess I'll have to switch to KDE...is it worth it? I happen to like Window Maker....
And Matrix 2. And Star Wars: Episode 2.
I read the article at El Reg before it popped up here. The way this story is being presented by ZDNet, the Register, AND Slashdot is terribly misleading. As near as I can tell, Linus has nothing bad to say about OS X in particular...just it's usage of the Mach microkernel which he (and lots of other kernel hackers) have dismissed as crap.
Reading anything else to it just turns the whole thing into a "Ooooh...the Linux guy HATES OS X! He must be threatened by it!" media frenzy. That single out-of-context quote, combined with "Linux as insofar failed to bring UNIX to the desktop, which is what Apple believes OS X WILL do", makes it even worse.
I say humbug.
...I think that's spot on. The great technological achievements were not created with the idea of "Let's do this, so we can make a million bucks off of it.". In fact, the idea of applying a business model to technological ideas has done nothing but cripple the movement. Example: UNIX is born at Bell Labs. Ritchie and the crew didn't create UNIX to make money...they built it because they had the 'programmers itch'. Bell Labs took it over, seeing that they could make a wad of cash off of it, and UNIX has been evolving at a snails pace ever since.
The great things [UNIX, the Web, e-mail...hell,e ven Slashdot] were created because some geek thought it would be cool, or as a tool to get something done more effectively. All capitilization of technology has done is sloooow it down.
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker
I thought the same thing until I saw Audrey the last time I was in Best Buy. Five hundred bucks. I couldn't see myself using one, but at least it's pretty. :-)
Now you TOO can have banner ads streamed to you...even in the bathroom!
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker who turns his computer off every now and again.
Don't feel bad...I thought of the pr0n star.
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker with an extensive pr0n archive
"In the real world - planet Earth, Reality - there are somewhere between six and ten billion people. At any given time, most of them are making mud bricks or field-stripping their AK-47s. Perhaps a billion of them have enough money to own a computer; these people have more money than all the others put together. Of these billion potential computer owners, maybe a quarter of them actually bother to own computers, and a quarter of these have machines that are powerful enough to handle the Street protocol. That makes for about sixty million people who can be on the Street at any given time. Add in another sixty million or so who can't really afford it but go there anyway, by using public machines, or machines owned by their school or their employer, and at any given time the Street is occupied by twice the population of New York City. That's why the damn place is so overdeveloped. Put in a sign or a building on the Street and the hundred million richest, hippest, best-connected people on earth will see it every day of their lives."
:-)
--Snow Crash
Completely uncalled for, I know...but I thought it was topical.
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker who'll be First against the wall when the revolution comes
And the Beanie Award for "Best Abuse of Slashcode's support of punctuation in a User Name" goes to...
OK, I'll bite.
Dude, I can only assume that you're just starting out as a troll. Now, you've got the inflammatory part right, but you have to be more subtle on your blatant factual inaccuracies. For example:
until the president of Japan...
Now, no one's going to take you seriously if you insist on sounding like an angry 4th grader who's dad beat up on him too much. Japan is a parliamentary democracy (sound it out, it's not as hard as it looks). What this means is, there's been an Emperor in Japan since around the 7th century. He's rather symbolic nowadays but, still there.
Have a nice day!
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Troll-Killer
Hm. Interesting point.
Let's get into character.
:-)
5. When was the last time you were in an arcade and said, "Man, what's up with the load time?"
I live near a college campus (University of Michigan) in a college town (Ann Arbor). Townies and students alike tend to congregate en masse at one of four places: 1)Movies, 2)Bowling, 3)Bars, 4)Pinball Pete's (video arcade). You're just as likely to meet women at ANY one of these places as you are the other. If you're having a good night, you'll hit all 4 of the above in that order. :-)
Check Ebay's listings for 'Pinball machines' and tell me again their going out of style.
Oh, and GO BLUE!
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker
I'd love to see an environment that actually is a world... a place where people can actually talk with each other by talking, or even smiling, and frowning, and gesturing, instead of typing.
Dude. Step away from your computer. Walk towards an immediate exit. Exit. Look around. Thos funny looking avatars in khakis with ID badges on? No they're not crabheads, put that rocket launcher down. Those are called PEOPLEv.2.1(GPL). You can have all the interaction you just described and more with them!
P.S.-->The sweet-smelling ones are called girls. I'll let you figure that one out.
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker
what does the arcade really have to offer any more?
You know, people have been saying that as long as I can remember. The analogy that I think fits best is, What do movie theaters have to offer anymore Home theater technology is to the point now where you can get an equivalent (or superior) experience sitting in your living room in your underpants.
Video arcades, just like movie thaters, benefit from the fact that they get first-run games. Before PS2 was even finalized as a system, I was destroying people left and right in Tekken Tag Tournament. As long as powerful video boards are cheaper to mass manufacture for video arcades, arcades will receive the first slew of 'hot new games'.
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker
P.S.-->Oh, the other reasons that traditional arcades will never die out. You can play pool, pinball, and meet girls in them. Girls are good.
As long as I'm not the only grown man watching Tiny Toons, I feel a little better about it.
.WAV of this, it'd be much appreciated.
If someone has a
Oh, and dude...I can't BELIEVE you knew the whole song.
--Just Another Pimp A$$ Perl Hacker