This is a great idea, in spite of the fact that elements of Microsoft are in it.
Have you ever tried to write a website that takes people's zipcodes, etc and finds the direct distance between them. It's fairly easy when it comes to the US considering that you can get Lat. and Long. of every zip code fairly easily online.
But try doing it on a worldwide basis. Not only are the listings only available by country, it also uses the *country's* zipcode. UGH! Plus, a list of information on a global scale costs around a thousand dollars to purchase (unless you feel like getting the information for a couple million locations by yourself.
It's about time we started thinking globally. Now if only we could get the U.S. to switch to the metric system...
AOL Time Warner (IIRC, owners of the second biggest recording company, not to mention one of the major recording studios) owns Nullsoft, which releases a program that the RIAA and MPAA will undoubtedly call a tool whose sole purpose is to illicitly distribute copyrighted works....
*cough* *cough* Let me fix this for you:
AOL Time Warner (IIRC, owners of the second biggest recording company, not to mention one of the major recording studios) owns Nullsoft, which released a program CALLED WINAMP that the RIAA and MPAA will undoubtedly call a tool whose sole purpose is to illicitly PLAY copyrighted works....
This is, of course, when they start using encryption to hide the data from the customer...
Like just about anything out there, the more something comes under the public eye, the more measures are used to secure it.
Nobody ever thought of methods of proving a users identity back when email was first used. This was back when most of the people who used the net were actually honorable, and spam was a reprocessed meat, not an annoying message.
This patch solves a vulnerability with Microsoft Internet Explorer Versions 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0. A missing validation allowed snippits of code such as <form><input type cras.....
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This program has had a critical error and must be shut down...
Speaking from experience, I can tell you that the best way to fix any problem is to modify the sensor array to emit an inverse tachyon pulse into the heart of the anomaly.
I honestly think that episode of Mr. Data's way of committing suicide, and taking out of the universe with him.
Seven years without getting laid. It was his way of getting back at a universe that wouldn't sleep with him.
Somebody should have made Data a female somewhere in Season 7. I don't mean pretty makeup and boobs style... I mean Fistful of Data's-woman-at-the-end style.
That, or they somehow mix it up with the Dukes of Hazard... Imagine the voice of Waylon Jennings going: "Hooo weeeeee! 'Dem Federation Boys just blasted out of there like shotguns at a Wal-Mart sale!"
Any show that is enough of a car wreck, people will watch. It's sad, it's pathetic, and most of all, it's true.
Slashdot Mirror
That's nice. Now all I need is a server that shocks me every time there's a security hole announced in it.
Now they'll need radio tags to do the job right.
Either that or they're loaning it to New Zealand to study and see if banning intercourse with sheep increases their country's population.
I somehow suspect the latter.
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Hmmm, considering that you're a subscriber to slashdot, something tells me you'd sign the NDA, yes? ;)
Have you ever tried to write a website that takes people's zipcodes, etc and finds the direct distance between them. It's fairly easy when it comes to the US considering that you can get Lat. and Long. of every zip code fairly easily online.
But try doing it on a worldwide basis. Not only are the listings only available by country, it also uses the *country's* zipcode. UGH! Plus, a list of information on a global scale costs around a thousand dollars to purchase (unless you feel like getting the information for a couple million locations by yourself.
It's about time we started thinking globally. Now if only we could get the U.S. to switch to the metric system...
*cough* *cough* Let me fix this for you:
AOL Time Warner (IIRC, owners of the second biggest recording company, not to mention one of the major recording studios) owns Nullsoft, which released a program CALLED WINAMP that the RIAA and MPAA will undoubtedly call a tool whose sole purpose is to illicitly PLAY copyrighted works....
Hmmmmmm.....
WHAT?? My FX 5800 Leaf Blower only has a range of five feet and not six? I want a refund!
Yes, and get nagged even more after being married that it's not a real diamond.
Like just about anything out there, the more something comes under the public eye, the more measures are used to secure it.
Nobody ever thought of methods of proving a users identity back when email was first used. This was back when most of the people who used the net were actually honorable, and spam was a reprocessed meat, not an annoying message.
A real ultimate computer chair has a toilet... It also wipes.
They got it all wrong. The Traveller crushes him.
Troll?
You slashdotters are interesting folk.
Bwahahahahhahahahhahhah
BugFix Q3823982
This patch solves a vulnerability with Microsoft Internet Explorer Versions 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0. A missing validation allowed snippits of code such as <form><input type cras.....
-----
This program has had a critical error and must be shut down...
I honestly think that episode of Mr. Data's way of committing suicide, and taking out of the universe with him.
Seven years without getting laid. It was his way of getting back at a universe that wouldn't sleep with him.
Somebody should have made Data a female somewhere in Season 7. I don't mean pretty makeup and boobs style... I mean Fistful of Data's-woman-at-the-end style.
That, or they somehow mix it up with the Dukes of Hazard... Imagine the voice of Waylon Jennings going: "Hooo weeeeee! 'Dem Federation Boys just blasted out of there like shotguns at a Wal-Mart sale!"
Any show that is enough of a car wreck, people will watch. It's sad, it's pathetic, and most of all, it's true.
I know how to cure SARS.
You give 8 of the most powerful businessmen in America SARS.
In two months, there will be 3 or 4 different cures.
Later, a fellow by the name of Rob Malda helped fashion SlashCode, a piece of code so bloated and confusing that it could disable a whole server.
http://www.imdb.com/Title?0181852
Mark Famiglietti .... Scott Peterson
Isn't that the guy who just murdered his wife and unborn child?
Some cameo :P
I found the whole mental institute part utterly amusing in T2.
I only use my palm when I don't get RAM...
When I get some RAM, my hand gets to rest for a while.
And when I don't get RAM, I use my palm a lot... Sometimes it gets hairy, and I have to shave it. Then I have a Shaved Palm.
I don't know where the Pilot bit came in. I've never RAMmed a pilot before.
I've used my Palm while thinking about a stewardess, but not a Pilot. That's sick.
My Schwartz IS bigger than yours.
Oh wait, wrong movie...
SonOfTheSnake.saddam.iq
MrBush.saddam.iq
ChemicalAli.saddam.iq
Damn, that'd make some cool naming for a warez se--- errr, linux distribution site.
Knowing them, they'll probably make the TiVo think I'm a gay, pregnant male.