Google "Pavel Tsatsouline" or just go to dragondoor.com. The Russians have known about stuff like this for decades. If you're looking to lose the nerd physique like I did, pickup some kettlebells from the site. Mine are worth their weight in gold.
I've run earlier versions of XBMC for linux and they were hopelessly unstable. I hope this stuff is better, because it's just a nice app to have on your Linux laptop.
How long ago was this? Personally, I've been running XBMC on Ubuntu 7.10 since early this Spring, don't think I've had a single crash.
Wait a sec...did you apply any updates before giving up? The only DRM that ever existed on Supreme Commander was the requirement to have the cd in the drive while playing, and that is what got patched out. It's possible that the copy you downloaded just needed the standard patches from GPG in order to work properly.
That's true, it's definitely related. I personally wouldn't call it an engine issue because I recall reading a large amount of information about the crash being related to excessive amounts of water in the fuel from China. Apparently, lots of water in the fuel is a common thing over there, which doesn't shock me in the least.
Jesus Christ...nitpicking the phrase "fall out of the sky"? Seriously? I am well aware of what happens when an engine problem occurs and how often it happens. I was making a point.
I recently graduated from an aviation program at Purdue and I can tell you every single person I've ever sat down in a classroom with can read METARs, TAFs, and any other weather report just as quickly as if they were reading plain english.
Car engines are more reliable then aircraft engines.
More horseshit. I see cars on the side of the road almost daily on my commute. How often do you see a plane fall out of the sky because the engine died?
TCAS isn't so much "in flight radar" as it is "holy shit last minute saver of your ass". TCAS doesn't do anything until a collision is basically imminent, at which point it gives instructions on how to avoid said collision.
Not just the new IE8 blocking, but all forms of ad blocking? Seems unfair to destroy the business models of so many websites. Maybe it's just me, but ads on sites like Digg or Slashdot don't even remotely bother me. Who am I to block their ads when I'm receiving free content?
I admit I do run a site myself and this sort of thing worries me. I have just two ads per page, both google ads, one leaderboard and a wide skyscraper. They aren't even remotely intrusive, and are there just to pay the bandwidth bills. For those complaining about bloated sites, my biggest page is just 10k without the ads. I'm currently a long way away from being affected by this, as 90% of my users are still using IE6, but it does concern me that I might have to shut down a free service because people can't handle two ads.
I know things like adblock are designed for really intrusive ads like those obnoxious animated overlays, but the problem is reasonable ads get blocked as well.
I wonder if there is any legal recourse for sites like Digg or companies like Google who are hurt by this sort of thing. Especially Google, as I highly doubt this whole thing is an "accident".
I suppose I was thinking in terms of monetary value, which is probably even harder to pin down. How much is an identity worth versus a credit card number? etc.
I'm almost certain it's a matter of compromised passwords. Whenever I get it, I would check the person's profile for new apps before I remove them from my list. I've seen it on many other people's walls as well.
Interestingly enough, almost 75% of the cases I've seen on other people's walls, it's from whatever popular sports star happens to be the big man on campus at the time. I suspect they make for easy targets as they usually have many, many facebook friends.
At least once a week I get a message on my wall from a friend that reads something like "Oh man you have to check out these awesome ringtones, they have all your favorites at (some random address).blogspot.com!!!!"
My policy is that if you're dumb enough to get your facebook hacked by a spammer, you don't get to be my friend anymore (online or in reality).
Thanks for clearing that up. I totally get why that would be necessary for underground pipes and whatnot. Still seems fucked up to me for above ground stuff though.
My parents have had one of these things in their backyard right on the property line for at least two decades. Must be a cable box. Anyway, they put up a nice white fence around it and littered the fence with ivy, so it doesn't look like total garbage. Of course, they did it out of their own pockets.
My question is (and I did RTFA...) what legal right does a phone company have to dig up someone's property and put up a huge piece of equipment? As far as I can tell, it sounds like these things are going up on private property. Is there some kind of eminent domain issue at play?
Slashdot Mirror
Whats the Japanese word for "That would make good tentacle porn"?
Please don't question my logic, I need it in order to hate rap music.
Yeah, or a worse candidate could have been appointed, and we'd have to put up with "Senator Palin"'s bullshit for years to come.
Google "Pavel Tsatsouline" or just go to dragondoor.com. The Russians have known about stuff like this for decades. If you're looking to lose the nerd physique like I did, pickup some kettlebells from the site. Mine are worth their weight in gold.
The Chevy Tantrum
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30431
I for one have been waiting for a non-pants story for far too long.
"few boards of directors" implies that some do, I'm gonna go not buy some of their stock.
How long ago was this? Personally, I've been running XBMC on Ubuntu 7.10 since early this Spring, don't think I've had a single crash.
http://xkcd.com/401/
Also, the Zerg, in a manner of speaking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerg#Zerg
Wait a sec...did you apply any updates before giving up? The only DRM that ever existed on Supreme Commander was the requirement to have the cd in the drive while playing, and that is what got patched out. It's possible that the copy you downloaded just needed the standard patches from GPG in order to work properly.
That's true, it's definitely related. I personally wouldn't call it an engine issue because I recall reading a large amount of information about the crash being related to excessive amounts of water in the fuel from China. Apparently, lots of water in the fuel is a common thing over there, which doesn't shock me in the least.
I don't disagree at all. What I was trying to get across is that TCAS is really there for the purpose of avoiding collisions and not much else.
Jesus Christ...nitpicking the phrase "fall out of the sky"? Seriously? I am well aware of what happens when an engine problem occurs and how often it happens. I was making a point.
No, just pretend to mod him up.
I recently graduated from an aviation program at Purdue and I can tell you every single person I've ever sat down in a classroom with can read METARs, TAFs, and any other weather report just as quickly as if they were reading plain english.
More horseshit. I see cars on the side of the road almost daily on my commute. How often do you see a plane fall out of the sky because the engine died?
TCAS isn't so much "in flight radar" as it is "holy shit last minute saver of your ass". TCAS doesn't do anything until a collision is basically imminent, at which point it gives instructions on how to avoid said collision.
ADS-B is the real in flight radar.
Not just the new IE8 blocking, but all forms of ad blocking? Seems unfair to destroy the business models of so many websites. Maybe it's just me, but ads on sites like Digg or Slashdot don't even remotely bother me. Who am I to block their ads when I'm receiving free content?
I admit I do run a site myself and this sort of thing worries me. I have just two ads per page, both google ads, one leaderboard and a wide skyscraper. They aren't even remotely intrusive, and are there just to pay the bandwidth bills. For those complaining about bloated sites, my biggest page is just 10k without the ads. I'm currently a long way away from being affected by this, as 90% of my users are still using IE6, but it does concern me that I might have to shut down a free service because people can't handle two ads.
I know things like adblock are designed for really intrusive ads like those obnoxious animated overlays, but the problem is reasonable ads get blocked as well.
I wonder if there is any legal recourse for sites like Digg or companies like Google who are hurt by this sort of thing. Especially Google, as I highly doubt this whole thing is an "accident".
I suppose I was thinking in terms of monetary value, which is probably even harder to pin down. How much is an identity worth versus a credit card number? etc.
Not necessarily. I think they're using "greatest" in the sense of "largest". So the largest cyber-heist might not automatically be undetectable.
I think you're saying greatest as in "Most awesome", which would infer not a single person noticing anything was wrong.
In response to your sig (in case you haven't seen it yet...)
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/michael_phelps_returns_to_his_tank
I'm almost certain it's a matter of compromised passwords. Whenever I get it, I would check the person's profile for new apps before I remove them from my list. I've seen it on many other people's walls as well.
Interestingly enough, almost 75% of the cases I've seen on other people's walls, it's from whatever popular sports star happens to be the big man on campus at the time. I suspect they make for easy targets as they usually have many, many facebook friends.
At least once a week I get a message on my wall from a friend that reads something like "Oh man you have to check out these awesome ringtones, they have all your favorites at (some random address).blogspot.com!!!!"
My policy is that if you're dumb enough to get your facebook hacked by a spammer, you don't get to be my friend anymore (online or in reality).
Thanks for clearing that up. I totally get why that would be necessary for underground pipes and whatnot. Still seems fucked up to me for above ground stuff though.
My parents have had one of these things in their backyard right on the property line for at least two decades. Must be a cable box. Anyway, they put up a nice white fence around it and littered the fence with ivy, so it doesn't look like total garbage. Of course, they did it out of their own pockets.
My question is (and I did RTFA...) what legal right does a phone company have to dig up someone's property and put up a huge piece of equipment? As far as I can tell, it sounds like these things are going up on private property. Is there some kind of eminent domain issue at play?