If I was an American I would be screaming "CLASS ACTION SUIT!" against these compandies. But I am a Canadian, so can I just have another beer and a backbacon sandwich please?
Being a fan of both your works, and Tolkien's, I am curious if the ongoing project to film the LOTR has in any way made you consider a larger film project for the HHG series using state of the art effects?
...true land of the Free....nothing like this could ever happen...hey, wait, who are you? What? Canadian Security and Intelligence Services? what is that...no I will not come with you,hey, stop pointing that thing at me....ack! my eyes.....I can't see! [please diregrard this message, the author has been taken to our "offices" in the arctic]
Easy to blame site defacing script kiddies for stuff like this, but I wonder if it is not a bit more complicated than that. My understanding of DoS attacks is that 100's if not 1000's of machines have "agents" installed on them which are controlled from a centralized group of machines which in turn are controlled by a few master machines. It must take quite a bit of work to get these agents installed, and coordinate an attack....just my $2 worth;-)
*Bah! 9 hours to get a linux box going? and in 1997? What a lamer, I did my first years before that, took as long as reading the diskettes on the the newly repartioned HDD on my 95 preview box. Oh, and you logged in as root, how novel of you. Let me ask, when you first set up a linux box what other account might you login with the first time! Doh! Sounds like a case of the pot calling the kettle black!*
Seems some people look for any excuse to lash out at others. In the paragraph above, all the points are valid, my experience is true, but what is the use of berating this poor sod over his experience, or the way he related it? Is anything gained? Knowledge of value shared?
Being a bit older than many of those who frequent these pages (or so I think:-), I have noticed in recent years an almost complete vanishing of public politeness. People in cars cut you off on the highway, people on the street push in front of you to get on a bus.Somehow our sense of community has gotten seriously skewed. It is as if everyone is one of "them", and it's just me who is one of "us". I wish I could put it into better words, but I sense aggression/competition in even the mildest of social situations. I am not sure if it aired in the US, but last year there was an ad for a SUV which states "in the game of life winning is everything" and, unspoken are the words winning at all costs, have no heart, take no prisoners, beat on them before they beat you, sue them before they sue you, kill them before they kill you. I find it very sad, and am more and more sure I will never get my christmas wish...Peace on Earth;-)
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Was, I think, called "Hardware Wars", and was absolutely hilarious...the hardware was small kitchen appliance, Princess Leigh had dansishes for hair "buns".....I beleive it was done by some film students in LA, anyone seen it on the net?
No servers of any kind are permitted to be run by customers on the network. If I was at home, I could give you the exact wording. Perhaps they are merely trying to discourage the ignorant who might install insecure servers, or provide legal muscle in case they decide to cut your service off. I was a bit dismayed when I read the contract, as I wanted to host my own website.
No servers of any kind are permitted to be run by customers on the network. If I was at home, I could give you the exact wording. Perhaps they are merely trying to discourage the ignorant who might install insecure servers, or provide legal muscle in case they decide to cut your service off. I was a bit dismayed when I read the contract, as I wanted to host my own website.
I realize I am entering the fray a bit late here, but how can/. be held accountable for a link posted by a person? It clearly states all comments are owned by the poster.It is not as if the supposed "illegal" propietary information is being stored or served from the/. site itself. I wonder if there is any precedence in the case(s) the COS brought/brings/will bring against those who post their also supposed propietary information, specifically, if any of those with links to this informaiton have been prosecuted. And if so, what are the results?
Well, if you are looking for a slighlty less personal, and more more theoretical interview with Mr Hawking, try this link: http://www.myna.com/~davidck/hawking.htm Personally, I found the insight into his day to day life to be interesting, and it gave me a greater appreciation for the challenges he faces. As for his appearance in TNG -it was the intro segment to one of the borg epsisodes I think - Riker is playing poker with Data, Hawking (playing a holo-representation of himself), Einsten and Newton. Newton is all pissed at Einstein and Hawking, and says something about the apple falling, to which Data replies that the story is considered apocryphal. LOL...I actually had to look the word up in the dictionary!
This sounds like another case of might is right, but perhaps more so, the saddly North American idea that commerce comes before all. The current WTO protests are as good sign that some people on this contintent at least are wise to this fallacious thinking. I find it tragic and sad that in a supposed democracy, money wins over law in a court, intimidation by Federal law enforcement agencies supercedes the right of free speech (the recent shutdown of the Times Square News Year's video sight....was reported in the village voice...) Alas it appears the internet is being coopted, as we knew it eventually would, in the name of power and money. I have often thought it ironic that a technology, the roots of which are encased firmly in military research, should prove to be so liberating to citizens of the world. I now am beginning to think this hope was short sighted, it seems that even if they let us play with it for a while, now that it is firmly entrenched in popular culture, they want ownership back again.
Are these things programmed with Asimov's 3 laws?...and I can see Disney buyin this guy out in a hurry...can you see "Westworld" for real in the near future?
I have read a number of the comments here, including the one which regurgitates a definition memorized in College. In so many of the responses, the shell, or user interface, be it a GUI or not is included as part of the Operating System. To my thinking, an operating system is that which provides low level services to the various basic devices which comprise the system. This could include hardware drivers as required, but not the shell or user interface. I take my thinking from old MS-DOS, where MSDOS.SYS, and IO.SYS as well as the BIOS comprised the OS, and Command.com comprised the default user interface. As Command.com could be replaced with an alternate shell (albeit one written to work with the OS)it should not be considered part of the OS itself. But hey, all in all, it's semantics;-)and I just wanted to post something!
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If I was an American I would be screaming "CLASS ACTION SUIT!" against these compandies. But I am a Canadian, so can I just have another beer and a backbacon sandwich please?
Going on means going far
Being a fan of both your works, and Tolkien's, I am curious if the ongoing project to film the LOTR has in any way made you consider a larger film project for the HHG series using state of the art effects?
Going on means going far
...true land of the Free....nothing like this could ever happen...hey, wait, who are you? What? Canadian Security and Intelligence Services? what is that...no I will not come with you,hey, stop pointing that thing at me....ack! my eyes.....I can't see! [please diregrard this message, the author has been taken to our "offices" in the arctic]
Going on means going far
Easy to blame site defacing script kiddies for stuff like this, but I wonder if it is not a bit more complicated than that. My understanding of DoS attacks is that 100's if not 1000's of machines have "agents" installed on them which are controlled from a centralized group of machines which in turn are controlled by a few master machines. It must take quite a bit of work to get these agents installed, and coordinate an attack....just my $2 worth ;-)
Going on means going far
*Bah! 9 hours to get a linux box going? and in 1997? What a lamer, I did my first years before that, took as long as reading the diskettes on the the newly repartioned HDD on my 95 preview box. Oh, and you logged in as root, how novel of you. Let me ask, when you first set up a linux box what other account might you login with the first time! Doh! Sounds like a case of the pot calling the kettle black!*
:-), I have noticed in recent years an almost complete vanishing of public politeness. People in cars cut you off on the highway, people on the street push in front of you to get on a bus.Somehow our sense of community has gotten seriously skewed. It is as if everyone is one of "them", and it's just me who is one of "us". I wish I could put it into better words, but I sense aggression/competition in even the mildest of social situations. I am not sure if it aired in the US, but last year there was an ad for a SUV which states "in the game of life winning is everything" and, unspoken are the words winning at all costs, have no heart, take no prisoners, beat on them before they beat you, sue them before they sue you, kill them before they kill you. I find it very sad, and am more and more sure I will never get my christmas wish...Peace on Earth ;-)
Seems some people look for any excuse to lash out at others. In the paragraph above, all the points are valid, my experience is true, but what is the use of berating this poor sod over his experience, or the way he related it? Is anything gained? Knowledge of value shared?
Being a bit older than many of those who frequent these pages (or so I think
Going on means going far
Was, I think, called "Hardware Wars", and was absolutely hilarious...the hardware was small kitchen appliance, Princess Leigh had dansishes for hair "buns".....I beleive it was done by some film students in LA, anyone seen it on the net?
Going on means going far
No servers of any kind are permitted to be run by customers on the network. If I was at home, I could give you the exact wording. Perhaps they are merely trying to discourage the ignorant who might install insecure servers, or provide legal muscle in case they decide to cut your service off. I was a bit dismayed when I read the contract, as I wanted to host my own website.
Going on means going far
No servers of any kind are permitted to be run by customers on the network. If I was at home, I could give you the exact wording. Perhaps they are merely trying to discourage the ignorant who might install insecure servers, or provide legal muscle in case they decide to cut your service off. I was a bit dismayed when I read the contract, as I wanted to host my own website.
Going on means going far
I realize I am entering the fray a bit late here, but how can /. be held accountable for a link posted by a person? It clearly states all comments are owned by the poster.It is not as if the supposed "illegal" propietary information is being stored or served from the /. site itself. I wonder if there is any precedence in the case(s) the COS brought/brings/will bring against those who post their also supposed propietary information, specifically, if any of those with links to this informaiton have been prosecuted. And if so, what are the results?
Going on means going far
Well, if you are looking for a slighlty less personal, and more more theoretical interview with Mr Hawking, try this link:
http://www.myna.com/~davidck/hawking.htm
Personally, I found the insight into his day to day life to be interesting, and it gave me a greater appreciation for the challenges he faces. As for his appearance in TNG -it was the intro segment to one of the borg epsisodes I think - Riker is playing poker with Data, Hawking (playing a holo-representation of himself), Einsten and Newton. Newton is all pissed at Einstein and Hawking, and says something about the apple falling, to which Data replies that the story is considered apocryphal. LOL...I actually had to look the word up in the dictionary!
Going on means going far
This sounds like another case of might is right, but perhaps more so, the saddly North American idea that commerce comes before all. The current WTO protests are as good sign that some people on this contintent at least are wise to this fallacious thinking. I find it tragic and sad that in a supposed democracy, money wins over law in a court, intimidation by Federal law enforcement agencies supercedes the right of free speech (the recent shutdown of the Times Square News Year's video sight....was reported in the village voice...) Alas it appears the internet is being coopted, as we knew it eventually would, in the name of power and money. I have often thought it ironic that a technology, the roots of which are encased firmly in military research, should prove to be so liberating to citizens of the world. I now am beginning to think this hope was short sighted, it seems that even if they let us play with it for a while, now that it is firmly entrenched in popular culture, they want ownership back again.
Are these things programmed with Asimov's 3 laws? ...and I can see Disney buyin this guy out in a hurry...can you see "Westworld" for real in the near future?
I have read a number of the comments here, including the one which regurgitates a definition memorized in College. In so many of the responses, the shell, or user interface, be it a GUI or not is included as part of the Operating System. To my thinking, an operating system is that which provides low level services to the various basic devices which comprise the system. This could include hardware drivers as required, but not the shell or user interface. I take my thinking from old MS-DOS, where MSDOS.SYS, and IO.SYS as well as the BIOS comprised the OS, and Command.com comprised the default user interface. As Command.com could be replaced with an alternate shell (albeit one written to work with the OS)it should not be considered part of the OS itself. But hey, all in all, it's semantics ;-)and I just wanted to post something!