So terrible he still performs it for his shows?;) Saw him earlier this year and he didn't seem to regret performing a song the audience obviously enjoyed.
Don't forget to mention that Fermilab (with a piddly 4 mile ring collider) is already heavily involved in the international scene. Sometimes it seems like more people speak russian there than english.
Problem with that kind of system is the amount of content required to keep players playing.
The game would have to be reasonably easy, and reasonably fast paced. Most games these days keep people tagging along by installing longer and more involved advancement methods. If jimbob spends 6 months getting to a high level, then dies to a dragon somewhere, he's going to quit. If he spends 2 days getting to the same level and dies, he'll be just as likely to start over as quit.
There is also the min/maxing problem that many modern gamers fixate on. They see two states for their character: max level/stats, and newbie. The entire point of the game is to be the best they can be. Everything accomplished on that route is considered "work" and is what makes the game "lame".
"Journey" type systems where the point of the game is having fun exploring a world are doomed to failure because of this mindset. Nethack is the best example of this type of game.
I find it a hilarious no-win situation on the part of the developers. I also find it hilarious that players are only happy with a game when they are the highest level, and fail to see that if the "level grind" were completely removed, they wouldn't have played the game to begin with.
Right! Just get a bunch of fibre optic cards and plug a loopback into each of them. Pipe your data into the interface, and it'll go 'round and 'round until you need to access it later.
Need more capacity? Just fashion a longer loopback cable, so it can hold more light.
> You know that, to save the children, eventually these things will be mandatory by law.
They couldn't enforce any such law on older vehicles. In this particular case, it would be any vehicle older than 1996, which is when the diagnostic adapter that this device uses started appearing.
I drive an early 60's, when I bought it it wasn't equipped with seat belts because at that point in history there were no seatbelt laws. First time I got pulled over for not wearing one it was quite fun to point out how I was exempt. I eventually installed some aftermarket ones because driving with no belt is plain out stupid, but the blank look the officer briefly gave me was well worth it.;)
Considering the availability of vehicles, especially 1995 and earlier, you could go a long, long time snubbing any such law that was put in place.
I took typing in high school, didn't get diddly out of it other than the proper way to type.
Few years later when I discovered MUDs and I had dialup available at the university, now THAT'S when my typing took off. Lump that sucker on the pile of stories where gaming improves your life.
Course I eventually dropped out of said university too, because of MUDding. So lump it on the pile of stories where games ruin your life, too.
> Better low-level access, as well as being able to > intercept attempts by something like Outlook to > execute arbitrary files.
Yes, because that's such a major improvement over just fixing Outlook itself.:P Maybe financially that makes sense, they get to sell you Outlook AND the anti-virus, but technically speaking it's just plugging holes in the dam.
The only AV software that Windows needs is Microsoft to stop making so many bloody ways to infect the system.
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My server was set up to forward anything sent to one of my domains to get dumped into a common inbox. I noticed a ways back (before I changed my config to just bounce all this crap) that I'd get a lot of those dictionary emails to random email accounts.
So either it's some kind of probe to find working addresses, or a filter clogger. Or maybe both.
For a few of the random emails I would later start getting "real" spam. Not a majority though.
> Whenever any project ran out of hours, they > charged it to the shuttle, even if it was > unrelated. Private industry is supposed to *save* > us money?
It will when private industry is footing the bill. There's a difference in the situation you described of a contractor stealing money from a government agency, and a company being paid by customers to get something into space, competing with other companies offering to do the same thing.
It will at that point be in their best interests to spend less. Not that it would matter, because if they experience overruns it won't show up in our taxes.
At least until they gets so large and integral to the economy that the government bails them out with huge grants whenever the economy goes tits up, aka the airline industry.;)
I've lived in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago over the last ten years.
Whenever my mind turns to where I would like to go if I could live anywhere, Portland always pops into my head first (though I wouldn't mind a chance to try Denver out).
> I'm using Gnome and sometimes KDE for Mandrake and > when I'm in WinXP the system is a lot more fluid > then in KDE or Gnome.
I did the KDE/Gnome thing for a while, until one day when I was dorking around with some opengl stuff and playing with some test apps.. I think at the point I noticed the problems with KDE or Gnome the most was when I was testing a physics library that's out there.
Under Gnome or KDE (default config, though under Gnome I did kill off as many services as I could) I would quite literally get 3-5 fps on a test app that was dropping blocks out of the air and bouncing them around. It was unusable. On a lark, I swapped to twm for a few minutes to see if the issue was my machine or the window manager.. instant 50 fps boost running the same program. I've now sworn away using KDE or Gnome, and settled on one of the "lightweight" managers out there.
I'm sorry, but if the desktop software is that inefficient then there's no way linux is ever going to improve its status.
They can give you incentives for using plastic, but they cannot refuse to accept cash.
Actually yes they can. The rules for it are a bit convoluted, but what it amounts to is that as long as it's made clear cash won't be accepted prior to any services, they can reject it as a payment.
If that isn't adhered to, the eventual result is that any debt is forgiven by the courts.
I may be sketchy a bit on some of that, but I looked it up a year or so ago and the point was that there are some situations where one doesn't have to accept cash.
I did up a silly perl script, using curses, that ran an ascii art animation of stick figure A throwing a grenade at stick figure B.
I, the guy that owned the machine, was figure A. The guy trying to telnet to my machine was figure B. After figure B was reduced to a crater I printed some message along the lines of "you aren't welcome here, go away".
Ran it out of hosts.deny and left it up for quite a while. I was bored, sounded more fun than setting up a firewall like I should have.;)
It worked surprisingly well, even with the windows telnet client.
Because that's the point where the people who are tired of these silly logs clogging up web searches form up into groups, hunt down the "loggers" and, well, flog them.
These are the things I amuse myself with while falling asleep at night.
> Phoning in a bomb threat to your school from your > cell phone...how do you expect not to get caught?
Actually, he got away with it. Several times.
He fell prey to the number one rule of getting caught though; not stopping. If the kid had only done it once or twice, the officer would have never sought Mitnick, would have never figured out how to query the phone companies, and the kid would have made the perfect crime.
Eh, this is a bit of a peeve of mine. Hitler did NOT design the beetle. While Hitler was instrumental in getting the Volkswagen into production, he in fact did not create the beetle as those links would claim.
Ferdinand Porche had been designing automobiles for some 10 years when WWI ended, and as Germany's economy collapsed he realized the need for a family type car would be developing. For the next 15 years he pushed the idea, but at the time car makers were more interested in high-dollar luxury vehicles. It wasn't until 1934 he actually got a prototype built, an aircooled flat four-powered vehicle that almost anyone would recognize as a beetle. He had been working on the plans for several years prior.
In 1933/1934 Hitler came into power and started vocalizing his plans for the autobahn and the Volksauto. When Porche's employeer exited the automobile industry in that period, Porche basically panicked because he did not want his pet project to die. He did the letter writing campaign, and eventually Hitler heard about it. Through 1934 Porche and Hitler met, and found they both had similar views about building a "people's car". In the course of several meetings they settled on the specifications of what the car would be capable of.
From there Hitler funded Porche's prototyping and research.
There was a lot of simultaneous development going on here, Hitler had read much of Henry Ford's success, and was quite a car enthusiast. Hitler's idea of the volkswagen was his own, as much as it was Porche's own.
The design and engineering, however, is almost exclusively Porche's (though there are some allegations he stole some of the body design from another designer, I don't rightly remember who that would be though).
Later on, after WWII, the US saw the value of Volkswagen to rebuilding Germany's shattered economy, and put significant effort into rebuilding the destroyed factories and getting cars built again. In some ways, the US was as instrumental in VW's success as anyone else was.
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> Al still feels terrible about it.
;) Saw him earlier this year and he didn't seem to regret performing a song the audience obviously enjoyed.
So terrible he still performs it for his shows?
> Well, you won't be browsing the web for quite some
/sarcasm
> time while you restore from backup.
Because tossing in a tomsrtbt and clearing out the root password is not possible, right?
Don't forget to mention that Fermilab (with a piddly 4 mile ring collider) is already heavily involved in the international scene. Sometimes it seems like more people speak russian there than english.
Quick, start up the conspiracy theories!
Problem with that kind of system is the amount of content required to keep players playing.
The game would have to be reasonably easy, and reasonably fast paced. Most games these days keep people tagging along by installing longer and more involved advancement methods. If jimbob spends 6 months getting to a high level, then dies to a dragon somewhere, he's going to quit. If he spends 2 days getting to the same level and dies, he'll be just as likely to start over as quit.
There is also the min/maxing problem that many modern gamers fixate on. They see two states for their character: max level/stats, and newbie. The entire point of the game is to be the best they can be. Everything accomplished on that route is considered "work" and is what makes the game "lame".
"Journey" type systems where the point of the game is having fun exploring a world are doomed to failure because of this mindset. Nethack is the best example of this type of game.
I find it a hilarious no-win situation on the part of the developers. I also find it hilarious that players are only happy with a game when they are the highest level, and fail to see that if the "level grind" were completely removed, they wouldn't have played the game to begin with.
Right! Just get a bunch of fibre optic cards and plug a loopback into each of them. Pipe your data into the interface, and it'll go 'round and 'round until you need to access it later.
Need more capacity? Just fashion a longer loopback cable, so it can hold more light.
> You know that, to save the children, eventually these things will be mandatory by law.
;)
They couldn't enforce any such law on older vehicles. In this particular case, it would be any vehicle older than 1996, which is when the diagnostic adapter that this device uses started appearing.
I drive an early 60's, when I bought it it wasn't equipped with seat belts because at that point in history there were no seatbelt laws. First time I got pulled over for not wearing one it was quite fun to point out how I was exempt. I eventually installed some aftermarket ones because driving with no belt is plain out stupid, but the blank look the officer briefly gave me was well worth it.
Considering the availability of vehicles, especially 1995 and earlier, you could go a long, long time snubbing any such law that was put in place.
I took typing in high school, didn't get diddly out of it other than the proper way to type.
Few years later when I discovered MUDs and I had dialup available at the university, now THAT'S when my typing took off. Lump that sucker on the pile of stories where gaming improves your life.
Course I eventually dropped out of said university too, because of MUDding. So lump it on the pile of stories where games ruin your life, too.
Kind of a double edged sword I suppose.
I hit ctl-s the other day, does it stand for "slow" or something? :( Been waiting 48 hours for a ps -eaf to finish.
> Most of the games found on them are rudimentary,
;)
> with flat, cartoonish graphics and simple scenes.
Yes, because as we all know, the only way to make a fun game is to make it photorealistic.
Sure am glad it took a cell phone to teach me all the fun I've had the past 20 years with gaming really wasn't.
> Better low-level access, as well as being able to
:P Maybe financially that makes sense, they get to sell you Outlook AND the anti-virus, but technically speaking it's just plugging holes in the dam.
> intercept attempts by something like Outlook to
> execute arbitrary files.
Yes, because that's such a major improvement over just fixing Outlook itself.
The only AV software that Windows needs is Microsoft to stop making so many bloody ways to infect the system.
My server was set up to forward anything sent to one of my domains to get dumped into a common inbox. I noticed a ways back (before I changed my config to just bounce all this crap) that I'd get a lot of those dictionary emails to random email accounts.
So either it's some kind of probe to find working addresses, or a filter clogger. Or maybe both.
For a few of the random emails I would later start getting "real" spam. Not a majority though.
> Whenever any project ran out of hours, they
;)
> charged it to the shuttle, even if it was
> unrelated. Private industry is supposed to *save*
> us money?
It will when private industry is footing the bill. There's a difference in the situation you described of a contractor stealing money from a government agency, and a company being paid by customers to get something into space, competing with other companies offering to do the same thing.
It will at that point be in their best interests to spend less. Not that it would matter, because if they experience overruns it won't show up in our taxes.
At least until they gets so large and integral to the economy that the government bails them out with huge grants whenever the economy goes tits up, aka the airline industry.
I've lived in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago over the last ten years.
Whenever my mind turns to where I would like to go if I could live anywhere, Portland always pops into my head first (though I wouldn't mind a chance to try Denver out).
Talk about an awesome place to live.
Normal or not, it sure colored my impression of "the state of the art" by quite a bit. ;)
I'm not against the notion that something was horribly misconfigured, I just didn't feel like dicking with it to find out what the hangup was.
I've never really liked the monolithic behavior of KDE or Gnome anyways, I'm probably happier in the long run with one of the lesser wm's.
> I'm using Gnome and sometimes KDE for Mandrake and
> when I'm in WinXP the system is a lot more fluid
> then in KDE or Gnome.
I did the KDE/Gnome thing for a while, until one day when I was dorking around with some opengl stuff and playing with some test apps.. I think at the point I noticed the problems with KDE or Gnome the most was when I was testing a physics library that's out there.
Under Gnome or KDE (default config, though under Gnome I did kill off as many services as I could) I would quite literally get 3-5 fps on a test app that was dropping blocks out of the air and bouncing them around. It was unusable. On a lark, I swapped to twm for a few minutes to see if the issue was my machine or the window manager.. instant 50 fps boost running the same program. I've now sworn away using KDE or Gnome, and settled on one of the "lightweight" managers out there.
I'm sorry, but if the desktop software is that inefficient then there's no way linux is ever going to improve its status.
They can give you incentives for using plastic, but they cannot refuse to accept cash.
Actually yes they can. The rules for it are a bit convoluted, but what it amounts to is that as long as it's made clear cash won't be accepted prior to any services, they can reject it as a payment.
If that isn't adhered to, the eventual result is that any debt is forgiven by the courts.
I may be sketchy a bit on some of that, but I looked it up a year or so ago and the point was that there are some situations where one doesn't have to accept cash.
It's always been "et-see" to me.
I just sumbitted a patent for this jamming device.
We'll see how it goes. In tests so far it's been 100% effective.
control-u blasts all of it. I know I've seen this convention somewhere I just can't place it. ;)
Many of the bash control sequences do the same thing in web browsers. In most text editing situations, really.
LKML is hardly private. Type darn near anything about linux into google and 50% of the results (or more) are going to be hits off that mailing list.
It's gotta be one of the most mirrored lists out there.
I did up a silly perl script, using curses, that ran an ascii art animation of stick figure A throwing a grenade at stick figure B.
;)
I, the guy that owned the machine, was figure A. The guy trying to telnet to my machine was figure B. After figure B was reduced to a crater I printed some message along the lines of "you aren't welcome here, go away".
Ran it out of hosts.deny and left it up for quite a while. I was bored, sounded more fun than setting up a firewall like I should have.
It worked surprisingly well, even with the windows telnet client.
We call it "flog".
Because that's the point where the people who are tired of these silly logs clogging up web searches form up into groups, hunt down the "loggers" and, well, flog them.
These are the things I amuse myself with while falling asleep at night.
Or just block out longer sections, like the article said this attack was weak for solving.
Two or three words, especially meaningless words, should baffle most attempts.
> Phoning in a bomb threat to your school from your
> cell phone...how do you expect not to get caught?
Actually, he got away with it. Several times.
He fell prey to the number one rule of getting caught though; not stopping. If the kid had only done it once or twice, the officer would have never sought Mitnick, would have never figured out how to query the phone companies, and the kid would have made the perfect crime.
Eh, this is a bit of a peeve of mine. Hitler did NOT design the beetle. While Hitler was instrumental in getting the Volkswagen into production, he in fact did not create the beetle as those links would claim.
Ferdinand Porche had been designing automobiles for some 10 years when WWI ended, and as Germany's economy collapsed he realized the need for a family type car would be developing. For the next 15 years he pushed the idea, but at the time car makers were more interested in high-dollar luxury vehicles. It wasn't until 1934 he actually got a prototype built, an aircooled flat four-powered vehicle that almost anyone would recognize as a beetle. He had been working on the plans for several years prior.
In 1933/1934 Hitler came into power and started vocalizing his plans for the autobahn and the Volksauto. When Porche's employeer exited the automobile industry in that period, Porche basically panicked because he did not want his pet project to die. He did the letter writing campaign, and eventually Hitler heard about it. Through 1934 Porche and Hitler met, and found they both had similar views about building a "people's car". In the course of several meetings they settled on the specifications of what the car would be capable of.
From there Hitler funded Porche's prototyping and research.
There was a lot of simultaneous development going on here, Hitler had read much of Henry Ford's success, and was quite a car enthusiast. Hitler's idea of the volkswagen was his own, as much as it was Porche's own.
The design and engineering, however, is almost exclusively Porche's (though there are some allegations he stole some of the body design from another designer, I don't rightly remember who that would be though).
Later on, after WWII, the US saw the value of Volkswagen to rebuilding Germany's shattered economy, and put significant effort into rebuilding the destroyed factories and getting cars built again. In some ways, the US was as instrumental in VW's success as anyone else was.