Given how much fun it is to read large amounts of text on a computer screen, it's a wonder they didn't spring this on Eye Doctors first.
I know very few people who've work with computers for more than a year that don't need (glasses|contacts).
I wonder if forcing college students to read electronic text books could be challenged, constitutionally, on the grounds that it causes harm.
If using the technology is going to cause damage to the students, being forced sounds like grounds for a class action suit in 10+ years.
Of course you'll want to copy the data side of the CDs to ensure you don't violate the copyright on the design side;)
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This slider concept might make sense within highly focused areas ("C Development") or perhaps even within broader use-for-machine categories ("Graphics Workstation")...
I hope the Mandrake guys are reading this. This would make something useful out of the slider idea. Having multiple sliders allowing you to focus the arbitrary priorities would be better.
If your use of the system will be at all specialized, there is little probability that everything you need will make the cut causing you to go hunting for packages to remove to make space for the ones you want. Multiple sliders allowing you to emphasize role would definitely increase your chances of getting what you'd expect.
But you mised one important point here, it's the cops that shoot out the tires of your car, NOT you.
More correctly, it is not the bank shooting out the tires.
Given this scenario, the robber has committed two crimes: bank robbery and auto theft. It matters not how accessible the car was, it was still stolen.
Getting back to the point, if a hacker compromises a bystanders box to hack at another, they are committing two crimes. Having the second victim trash the compromised box to stop the hack may not be a third crime. The hacker should be at fault for whatever happens to the box he's 'stolen' in committing his crime.
I think that it is for this reason that it gets stopped dead in its tracks if it pops up in a developed country. You see the symptoms in a dying patient, quarantine them, and that's it.
It needs to spread in asymptomatic people if it has any chance of being a world-wide epidemic.
I'm pretty sure the 20 hour thing was that the cure wouldn't work after that. If the virus wasn't contagious until/after/ your showing symptoms, it doesn't stand a chance of being the menace they wanted.
The big thing with the big epidemics is person A gives it to person B, person B gives it to person C. Person A starts to show symptoms. And so on...
She was already looking like death warmed over as the 20 hour mark approached.
I doubt that posting as an AC waives your responsibilities. It's a healthy avenue for whistleblowing or disagreeing with the Slashdot continuum or anything else that might bring reprisals.
It is not, however, a license to break the law. Slashdot should remove AC posts of an illegal nature if they are truely 'anonymous'. Obviously, they cannot go looking for the stuff, but when it is brought to their attention, they really have to comply as there is no poster to point the finger at.
They're retrofiting these things because they're trying to run a business.
Retrofiting accomplishes all of the following tasks: 1. More press coverage. 2. Provides a back-up if the new vehicles don't work right at first. 3. Provides additional payload capacity.
Besides, what are we gonna use after we wreck the X-33s blowing up a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
Pick a pallet of colors you like and get a contrast by shifting the brightness.
Example: 737373 is five shades brighter than 232323 and is the same basic color. This kind of 'complimentary' coloring using different brightness of the same hues is a simple solution.
In theory you can route traffic however you want. Here's the problem though:
When you open a connection from one computer to another, it is done as a socket. When done using IP, you have a socket between IP.A:port1 and IP.B: port2. So, if you send a packet out your T1 with an address that belongs on that network, your return traffic will come back over the T1, because that's the correct route to get to the socket.
To do what you want to do, you'd have to send the packets on the T1 network with your IP address from your Cable connection. That is called spoofing and/should/ be blocked by the ISP that services the T1.
As for fail-over: 1. Determine the IP address of your preferred gateway. 2. Ping it once a minute.(using cron) 3. When the ping fails, change your default route to the other gateway with a route command.
This requires a bit of shell scripting, but should work. Note that all your connections will reset. Of course, this will happen whether you fail-over manually or automatically unless you are spoofing your cable IP and the T1 fails in which case you'd go back to using your cable IP the way it was intended.
If you want to archive any reasonable amount of USENET, you'll need some bandwidth.
If you don't already have it, the good news is that nearly all web hosting companies use a lot of bandwidth in the other direction. Find one and co-locate your news server with them. Chances are, they'll have more than enough incoming bandwidth for you to have an incoming (from the server's point of view) feed.
If they're interested in USENET, and can access your box, they may not charge you anything at all for the bandwidth.
As the article says, the holiday season should be considered anomalous.
If you add all AOL services together, they ended Q3 1999 with 19.0m and ended Q3 2000 with 25.75m. An increase of 6.75m. Spread evenly over 4 quarters, that would be 1.69/Q. Since all services together added 1.95 this quarter, you could say they are actually accelerating.
Doing just AOL.com we get an annual increase of 5.2m or 1.3/Q. AOL added 1.69m this quarter (previous post was wrong).
Just for fun, try subtracting their annual increase from the total and see how many times you can do it before you reach 0. AOL was founded in 1985.
It is true that their percentage increase is slowing, but that's not hard. Example: If I start with 1000 and add 1000, I've had an increase of 100%. If I then add 1500 (500 more than last time), I now have an increase of 75%.
(Be very afraid of||Invest heavily in) the company that keeps growing at the same percentage rate year after year.
Slashdot Mirror
They say they'll only accept bids from inside the US so as not to annoy the commerce dep't.
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Given how much fun it is to read large amounts of text on a computer screen, it's a wonder they didn't spring this on Eye Doctors first. I know very few people who've work with computers for more than a year that don't need (glasses|contacts). I wonder if forcing college students to read electronic text books could be challenged, constitutionally, on the grounds that it causes harm. If using the technology is going to cause damage to the students, being forced sounds like grounds for a class action suit in 10+ years.
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Just alias the stop command to something memorable like:
KlatuVeradaNicto --now
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Of course you'll want to copy the data side of the CDs to ensure you don't violate the copyright on the design side ;)
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This slider concept might make sense within highly focused areas ("C Development") or perhaps even within broader use-for-machine categories ("Graphics Workstation")...
I hope the Mandrake guys are reading this. This would make something useful out of the slider idea. Having multiple sliders allowing you to focus the arbitrary priorities would be better.
If your use of the system will be at all specialized, there is little probability that everything you need will make the cut causing you to go hunting for packages to remove to make space for the ones you want. Multiple sliders allowing you to emphasize role would definitely increase your chances of getting what you'd expect.
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But you mised one important point here, it's the cops that shoot out the tires of your car, NOT you.
More correctly, it is not the bank shooting out the tires.
Given this scenario, the robber has committed two crimes: bank robbery and auto theft. It matters not how accessible the car was, it was still stolen.
Getting back to the point, if a hacker compromises a bystanders box to hack at another, they are committing two crimes. Having the second victim trash the compromised box to stop the hack may not be a third crime. The hacker should be at fault for whatever happens to the box he's 'stolen' in committing his crime.
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I think that it is for this reason that it gets stopped dead in its tracks if it pops up in a developed country. You see the symptoms in a dying patient, quarantine them, and that's it.
It needs to spread in asymptomatic people if it has any chance of being a world-wide epidemic.
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I'm pretty sure the 20 hour thing was that the cure wouldn't work after that. If the virus wasn't contagious until /after/ your showing symptoms, it doesn't stand a chance of being the menace they wanted.
The big thing with the big epidemics is person A gives it to person B, person B gives it to person C. Person A starts to show symptoms. And so on...
She was already looking like death warmed over as the 20 hour mark approached.
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Am I the only one who finds this a little strange?
;)
Surely you weren't hoping to give it a public key and get the private key on stout?
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I submitted a link to an article about this key point on Friday. It was, of course, rejected. C'est la vie.
Here's a quote from the article:
The paper also proposed giving judges greater flexibility in granting injunctions against services being used for copyright infringement.
Seems to me, if this is adopted, Slashdot could be affected as well. Not sure how far these injunctions could go, but it sounds ominous.
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I doubt that posting as an AC waives your responsibilities. It's a healthy avenue for whistleblowing or disagreeing with the Slashdot continuum or anything else that might bring reprisals.
It is not, however, a license to break the law. Slashdot should remove AC posts of an illegal nature if they are truely 'anonymous'. Obviously, they cannot go looking for the stuff, but when it is brought to their attention, they really have to comply as there is no poster to point the finger at.
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Eeeewww. Thanks for clearing that up though.
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Attribute value pairs cannot be minimised. So instead of tags like you must instead write .
You do realize that Slashdot strips most html, right? Could you try that again substituting parenthesis or something?
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These guys are local to the Albany, NY area, but might do e-mail order. They specialize in stocking old parts and systems.
Just A Second
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Is it necessary to promote the PerlMonks site every time perl gets mentioned? I know it's a slashdot site. but still.
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Ok, but wouldn't it be better if violent people didn't have the benefit of simulator training before they went on actual killing sprees?
If they're still violent after playing these games, it would suggest that they are not providing a release, as has been suggested.
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This is almost certainly being picked up/pushed as a lead in for the movie release. See IMDb and the official WOTC pages for more info.
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They're retrofiting these things because they're trying to run a business.
Retrofiting accomplishes all of the following tasks:
1. More press coverage.
2. Provides a back-up if the new vehicles don't work right at first.
3. Provides additional payload capacity.
Besides, what are we gonna use after we wreck the X-33s blowing up a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
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With any luck, it'll kill that inane practice, but more likely it'll keep doing .com.
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Oh what great fun these TLDs will be. Imagine taking your free Kmart Internet access and trying to visit anyone-else.shop.
Heck maybe we can have another big fight between etoy.shop and etoys.shop not to mention the poor sucker who rushes to get the genric toy.shop.
We're all doomed. Feh.
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Pick a pallet of colors you like and get a contrast by shifting the brightness.
Example: 737373 is five shades brighter than 232323 and is the same basic color. This kind of 'complimentary' coloring using different brightness of the same hues is a simple solution.
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Anyone else reminded of that old cheech and chong skit. Can't find a link, but it ended with:
... well?
Cheech: Taste it.
Chong: What?!
Cheech: Taste it!
Chong: Tastes like dog s--t.
Cheech: Good thing we didn't step in it.
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In theory you can route traffic however you want. Here's the problem though:
/should/ be blocked by the ISP that services the T1.
When you open a connection from one computer to another, it is done as a socket. When done using IP, you have a socket between IP.A:port1 and IP.B: port2. So, if you send a packet out your T1 with an address that belongs on that network, your return traffic will come back over the T1, because that's the correct route to get to the socket.
To do what you want to do, you'd have to send the packets on the T1 network with your IP address from your Cable connection. That is called spoofing and
As for fail-over:
1. Determine the IP address of your preferred gateway.
2. Ping it once a minute.(using cron)
3. When the ping fails, change your default route to the other gateway with a route command.
This requires a bit of shell scripting, but should work. Note that all your connections will reset. Of course, this will happen whether you fail-over manually or automatically unless you are spoofing your cable IP and the T1 fails in which case you'd go back to using your cable IP the way it was intended.
--
If you want to archive any reasonable amount of USENET, you'll need some bandwidth.
If you don't already have it, the good news is that nearly all web hosting companies use a lot of bandwidth in the other direction. Find one and co-locate your news server with them. Chances are, they'll have more than enough incoming bandwidth for you to have an incoming (from the server's point of view) feed.
If they're interested in USENET, and can access your box, they may not charge you anything at all for the bandwidth.
--
As the article says, the holiday season should be considered anomalous.
If you add all AOL services together, they ended Q3 1999 with 19.0m and ended Q3 2000 with 25.75m. An increase of 6.75m. Spread evenly over 4 quarters, that would be 1.69/Q. Since all services together added 1.95 this quarter, you could say they are actually accelerating.
Doing just AOL.com we get an annual increase of 5.2m or 1.3/Q. AOL added 1.69m this quarter (previous post was wrong).
Just for fun, try subtracting their annual increase from the total and see how many times you can do it before you reach 0. AOL was founded in 1985.
It is true that their percentage increase is slowing, but that's not hard. Example: If I start with 1000 and add 1000, I've had an increase of 100%. If I then add 1500 (500 more than last time), I now have an increase of 75%.
(Be very afraid of||Invest heavily in) the company that keeps growing at the same percentage rate year after year.
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