I've been really hoping that one day they'll go back to
the original Sojourner site and return that unit to Earth for
analysis by NASA. They could gain valuable information as to what
finally gave on that rover and use it to harden future
rovers.
Sojourner was a great success as it lasted
much longer than expected. Of course the cost of getting that unit
back to Earth would be so high I'm guessing these are just nice
dreams. C'est la vie.
Well, in reality everyone has the threat of legal action looming over them. It may be entirely unwarranted, as in the SCO fiasco, but you can still go file suit against anyone for pretty much any goofy reason you can come up with.
In the interests of political correctness I wish to formally
protest this device.
It doesn't take into account the
needs of miners, subway operators and sewer workers. I dream of a
world in which these forgotten peoples and we surface dwellers can
join hands in peace and rejoice in equal-opportunity recharging.
By now I'm sure everyone now knows that entering "miserable
failure" and clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky" on Google will bring them
to a certain politician's homepage.. well if everyone reading this
were to link "litigious bastards" to
SCO's website on their webpages..
Boys play with traditional toys up until the age of eight or
10, and it is in the zero to seven age range that Lego has its
niche.' Zero to seven? What about the Slashdot crowd?
I'm
38 and still monkey with Lego. When I was sick at home for a few days
I had a little contest running with myself. I had built a small Lego
"bridge" that could span a piece of legal paper lengthwise (14") then
would place a glass of water on it. If the bridge didn't hold then I
had water to clean up. If the bridge held for 5 minutes I'd tear it
down then 're-engineer' it with less pieces than before. All the regular bricks, no cheating with the longer pieces.:)
When you're sick a bit of
a mental challenge helps you forget the illness. (I was doing this
with my Lego blocks from 30+ years ago but I have a lot of Mindstorms
stuff too, it's leet)
Self-signed certificates are fine for Joe-Hobby website, but when you're about to enter a credit card number online it's assuring to see that the SSL cert is signed by a real organization and not "l33t_d00d@hotmail.com"
No, I said email. It was in my rarely-checked web-only mail account via my ISP. I know it sounds crazy to bitch about it that way but that's how they did it.
...we could get a court ruling that invalidated those obnoxious "we can change any facet of this agreement at any time" clauses...
Those things are no more than a glorified bait & switch put to paper.
When broadband was rolling out everyone was advertising as 'always on' and 'unlimited'. Well, they signed up millions of people after which they decide to change the rules. A lot of these ISPs keep their customers by means of inertia and little else.
It has very nice titling on it: 'Notice of Acceptable Use
Policy Violations'
Look through their AUP and see if what
you are doing is indeed a violation. I had a warning via email
several months back from my (cable) ISP which claimed I was using
"above average" amounts of bandwidth even though they advertised
"unlimited" when I signed up years back. I replied to the supplied
human-read address saying basically "An average is made of of highs
and lows, right?" to which I never had a reply or a warning since.
That may just be coincidence but I do generate a fair amount of
traffic...
Hooray for the Open Source development model! brHow far along in Photoshop's life-line did CMYK support appear? Remember that GIMP has a several year disadvantage to Photoshop.
Heh.. well the fact that you can see the source and determine if there are covert functions will let you find that out for yourself without having to trust a mega-corp.
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I've been really hoping that one day they'll go back to the original Sojourner site and return that unit to Earth for analysis by NASA. They could gain valuable information as to what finally gave on that rover and use it to harden future rovers.
Sojourner was a great success as it lasted much longer than expected. Of course the cost of getting that unit back to Earth would be so high I'm guessing these are just nice dreams. C'est la vie.
This is a privacy issue, not a technology issue. This would allow the police to track your car all over the country.
What happens when it decides that it's human masters are no longer needed and should be experimented on?
It will connect to Skynet and launch a suprise attack. Don't you know this already?
Well, in reality everyone has the threat of legal action looming over them. It may be entirely unwarranted, as in the SCO fiasco, but you can still go file suit against anyone for pretty much any goofy reason you can come up with.
Damn, my secret is out.
Oh? That's not your name but a statement?
[rimshot]
Their parents will get suspicious when the geeks want to rig the basement up with a few dozen 300 watt lamps.
You put the hood up and walk through a car wash.
In the interests of political correctness I wish to formally protest this device.
It doesn't take into account the needs of miners, subway operators and sewer workers. I dream of a world in which these forgotten peoples and we surface dwellers can join hands in peace and rejoice in equal-opportunity recharging.
Thank you.
Another crippling bombshell his the !Debian Linux community today.. you know the rest..
Where there is water, there may also be a brewery. These Martians may be eons ahead of us..
By now I'm sure everyone now knows that entering "miserable failure" and clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky" on Google will bring them to a certain politician's homepage.. well if everyone reading this were to link "litigious bastards" to SCO's website on their webpages..
Ya never know
Boys play with traditional toys up until the age of eight or 10, and it is in the zero to seven age range that Lego has its niche.' Zero to seven? What about the Slashdot crowd?
I'm 38 and still monkey with Lego. When I was sick at home for a few days I had a little contest running with myself. I had built a small Lego "bridge" that could span a piece of legal paper lengthwise (14") then would place a glass of water on it. If the bridge didn't hold then I had water to clean up. If the bridge held for 5 minutes I'd tear it down then 're-engineer' it with less pieces than before. All the regular bricks, no cheating with the longer pieces.
When you're sick a bit of a mental challenge helps you forget the illness. (I was doing this with my Lego blocks from 30+ years ago but I have a lot of Mindstorms stuff too, it's leet)
Self-signed certificates are fine for Joe-Hobby website, but when you're about to enter a credit card number online it's assuring to see that the SSL cert is signed by a real organization and not "l33t_d00d@hotmail.com"
(which may manifest itself as Microsoft Word being very slow to start)
But.. I thought this SSL certificate expired just today..
No, I said email. It was in my rarely-checked web-only mail account via my ISP. I know it sounds crazy to bitch about it that way but that's how they did it.
Those things are no more than a glorified bait & switch put to paper.
When broadband was rolling out everyone was advertising as 'always on' and 'unlimited'. Well, they signed up millions of people after which they decide to change the rules. A lot of these ISPs keep their customers by means of inertia and little else.
I do that at the firewall end with pf's queueing mechanism.
It has very nice titling on it: 'Notice of Acceptable Use Policy Violations'
Look through their AUP and see if what you are doing is indeed a violation. I had a warning via email several months back from my (cable) ISP which claimed I was using "above average" amounts of bandwidth even though they advertised "unlimited" when I signed up years back. I replied to the supplied human-read address saying basically "An average is made of of highs and lows, right?" to which I never had a reply or a warning since. That may just be coincidence but I do generate a fair amount of traffic...
What's that?
Security is not a product but a never-ending process.
Why did you do a straight copy of this post made 5 minutes before yours? Trying to karma whore?
I do not understand why the MD format is still around and Sony releases a new player..
Remember how Sony kept the Beta format around long after it was "dead". (not to argue that VHS > Beta!) Proprietary formats ensure lock in.
If it was from Apple then Steve Jobs would be telling the world that it's not an average, run-of-the-mill calculator but a "Super Calculator".
Yeah it's a lot of money, but think of the soldier who can boast "I had a $2.5 million robot hump my leg."
Hooray for the Open Source development model!
brHow far along in Photoshop's life-line did CMYK support appear? Remember that GIMP has a several year disadvantage to Photoshop.
Heh.. well the fact that you can see the source and determine if there are covert functions will let you find that out for yourself without having to trust a mega-corp.