I don't think birds have a large enough radar or infrared signature to make that possible, let alone worthwhile. Possibly anti-aircraft guns, but that's still an awfully big expenditure for something you don't know is "hostile", and proximity fuzes won't get a big enough radar return to be effective, so it's fairly likely you'd miss anyway.
Back in the Olden Days, they'd use falcons/hawks or shotguns, depending on how high the birds were flying.
That top 1% owns a lot more wealth, percentage-wise, than that 40% you say they pay in taxes.
I say the rich people can afford to pay more.
I don't think we'd be having this conversation, mind, if Bush the Lesser hadn't been stupid enough to get us into a 2-front war for nothing, though. How many trillions have gone down that hole, now?
Yes, isn't it funny that the Republicans are doing the usual ideological stuff like trying to gut environmental protections and protecting their fellow homophobes from teh g4yz0rs, but haven't come up with a plan to create jobs or get the economy on track?
I mean, the whole reason the Dems lost the last election was the economy.
Speaker Doom was a distribution of Doom for Linux, with Linux that'd been equipped with a PC Speaker driver, so you could get Sound Blaster-like sound effects without an actual sound card.
Basically you got it as a zipfile and extracted it (UMSDOS filesystem), then ran a batch file to boot Linux from DOS, and/then/ Doom would launch. I think this came with v2.0.32 of the kernel. Don't know which distro it was derived from; Slackware maybe.
This would have been 1998, and it's still available:
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Anthrax Leprosy Mu best of all.
The verbosity, mostly. It's like C++ and Cobol had a love child.
I prefer C++ syntax myself, but Java's take on it is /shit/. Between the two, I'll take Bjarne's language any day.
More to the point, this Ruby-style syntax is a hell of a lot easier to write and understand than Java's verbosity.
I don't think birds have a large enough radar or infrared signature to make that possible, let alone worthwhile. Possibly anti-aircraft guns, but that's still an awfully big expenditure for something you don't know is "hostile", and proximity fuzes won't get a big enough radar return to be effective, so it's fairly likely you'd miss anyway.
Back in the Olden Days, they'd use falcons/hawks or shotguns, depending on how high the birds were flying.
You might be able to implement PAR2 over this transport.
Who'd look twice at some pigeons?
I'm kind of ashamed to be posting that meme, but at last it's somewhat appropriate.
Occam's Razor: more likely they're tired of dealing with spam going to Hotmail/Live, and this is an expedient way to reduce it.
Kraft durch Schadenfreude.
Ever done any programming, ever?
They wanted to use new APIs and features that are found in modern versions of Windows, in an effort to make IE suck less.
Use a different browser at work and IE9 at home, if you must.
Great lulz when your house burns down and you're left destitute.
But passing that on won't guarantee page hits from outraged nerds.
That top 1% owns a lot more wealth, percentage-wise, than that 40% you say they pay in taxes.
I say the rich people can afford to pay more.
I don't think we'd be having this conversation, mind, if Bush the Lesser hadn't been stupid enough to get us into a 2-front war for nothing, though. How many trillions have gone down that hole, now?
Yes, isn't it funny that the Republicans are doing the usual ideological stuff like trying to gut environmental protections and protecting their fellow homophobes from teh g4yz0rs, but haven't come up with a plan to create jobs or get the economy on track?
I mean, the whole reason the Dems lost the last election was the economy.
Of course they know that it means: it means they're booing the other team. American politics is a blood sport, and the objective is to win.
You could take the expedient of running Chrome and Java in a SandboxIE sandbox.
Maybe you could just sandbox Java, but I don't know if that will work.
Maybe I misremember, but ISTR that the unregistered version was supposed to kick you off your connection after a certain time.
OTOH, maybe that's just Windows 3.1 I'm remembering.
He's no R. Daneel Olivaw, but he certainly might /look/ like him.
Webmin/Usermin was bad enough that Debian ended up dropping it.
It still is, if you're willing to use tools from back then.
Gerrof my lawn. I've got a 64MB Pentium-90 which runs Damn Small Linux and on which Firefox 2.0 is usable.
Speaker Doom was a distribution of Doom for Linux, with Linux that'd been equipped with a PC Speaker driver, so you could get Sound Blaster-like sound effects without an actual sound card.
Basically you got it as a zipfile and extracted it (UMSDOS filesystem), then ran a batch file to boot Linux from DOS, and /then/ Doom would launch. I think this came with v2.0.32 of the kernel. Don't know which distro it was derived from; Slackware maybe.
This would have been 1998, and it's still available:
http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=9704
As much as a duck!
The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.