Of course there are other E-mail services, but if you use gmail, you're mail is on Gmail. You can't just say, "Oh, well, Gmail's down, I'll use Yahoo! or Hotmail". Maybe if they thought about it ahead of time and used Gmail to forward their mail to another service, but I doubt many people were planning on a Google outage.
-They're almost certainly going to run a lot cooler with aluminum case, big fans, and uncluttered cable design -The 2.7 Ghz PowerMac has liquid cooling. -You can't upgrade the video on the iMac -The PowerMacs come with FireWire 800 and optical audio -The 2.3 and 2.7 Ghz come with PCI-X slots -The PowerMacs can support up to 8GB RAM, while the iMacs can go up to 4GB -PowerMacs have 64-bit processors Some stuff I don't quite understand that the PowerMac has: -Parallel data structure supporting up to 215 simultaneous in-flight instructions -Simultaneous issue of up to 10 out-of-order operations -Dual-pipeline Velocity Engine for 128-bit single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) processing -Two independent double-precision floating-point units -Advanced three-stage branch-prediction logic -Point-to-point system controller -128-bit data paths for up to 6.4-GBps memory throughput
As far as I can tell, the PowerMac has stronger hardware even if it's running at the same (or lower) speeds. Plus it's easier to upgrade it.
Or maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better because I just bought a PowerMac.;)
The problem is, who hosts this content? Slashdot? Do you know why the slashdot effect doesn't affect slashdot itself? Because slashdot, for the most part, hosts only text.
... this could be a security risk like the Dreamcast Phone Home project. Just stick a USB drive into the back of a computer where someone is away on vacation and turn the monitor off. That's probably even more "hidden in light" than a dreamcast, plus it would get past efforts to clamp down on such attacks that involve allowing only certain MAC addresses.
I would imagine since Windows Update is always running (At least by default) and checks for updates occasionally, that's what you're seeing.
Just go into your "System" settings in the control panel, and then to the "Automatic Updates" tab and uncheck the box (Or change the settings to whatever suits your preferences)
This hardly seems like an interesting Ask Slashdot. For the first time in my years as a reader, this story smells a bit like aluminum foil on the head type knee-jerk paranoia.
Didn't you read the origional MSNBC article at all?
"The hackers, whose identities are unknown, are believed to have had access to the codes for three months."-MSNBC article
To me, the awnser seems pretty simple. I think the type of people who are drawn to computers are also drawn to the mysterious. Take me for an example. Whenever I play a D&D sort of RPG, I like to be a mage. You have control over something that noone else can control or even understand. Fighting you can understand easily. Theivery you can understand easily. Wizardry, now there's the challenge for the mind.
...which is exactly it. Hackers love a challege. They love to explore the unexplored realm of computers just as the mage explores the unexplored realm of magics.
What am I you (may) ask? As far as theology goes, I'm still exploring. Trying to figure out the unknown and perhaps unknowable. My only tools I have at my disposal in order to take on this challenge responsibly: Science, Math, and Logic. For we can only know more when we know what is known. Ya know?
I assume from your disrespectful tone that you're an atheist, as such people seem to delight in the baseness of human nature that they believe in.
I know a lot of atheists who would disagree with you, and would have good reason for doing so.
The person you responded to wasn't speaking in a disrespectful tone. They were just stating a couple of facts. The soul (assuming it's existence) is a supernatural entity. That means that is is ABOVE the natural or physical world (The world "science" studies (Good way to be disrespectful, don't you think? Putting quotes around a word.)) Therefore, since the soul is a supernatural entity, I first can't understand how it's the vehicle of the soul unless there is some sort of bridge that links the natural entity of the body and the supernatural entity of the soul. Either way, the body is still a natural entity, and therefore during and after the time it carries a soul, it's not part of the supernatural and is, as the other person said, meat, bones, and miscellaneous scrap. Guess we arn't much more than hot dogs (other than our "soul" of course;)
Sincerly not an atheist but getting closer and closer the more he talks to people like you,
Moi!
You know what, if someone took my brain after I was dead, I would care.
Wait a minute, no I wouldn't, because I'm dead!
Come to think of it, I don't even care right now if someone took my brain after I was dead. Cause I'd be dead!
Hehe, I just read the thing then I looked at the picture of Gates that went along with the story and I thought, "You will be innovated. Restistance is usless."
He's always told them to E-Mail before, so obviously they're able to E-Mail therefore get to a web page. There are loads and loads of problems that don't involve the ability to get to a web page. Various program information request (IE, how do I do this in Word/Excel/Acess), I need something installed in my computer, I need something removed, my monitor is acting funny, I got a weird error message, I can't connect to the LAN, disk drive isn't working, etc.... That doesn't even count the weird stuff users find wrong;P The system does work. I work at a place where we have a web page form (Really easy to set up, only slightly harder if you want to make it look really good). It sends to an E-Mail address that sends to everyone at out office so we're all aware of the problem. It's also good for us since we're very large so they can put in if they're on a PC or Mac and what their specs are. You can put in all kinds of stuff that you might forget to ask for over the phone or they might not think to tell you about in a service request.
Ya, just use the embed tag in HTML. Should work. For the people with slow connections, it won't work right away, but it'll work. As for streaming, they have that in the new winamp. People run servers and play mp3s (Which I think are compressed for transmission)
Since Linux makes it harder for a virus to spread, it would take a "supervirus" to make an epidemic. Then Linux makes for an environment for creating more superviruses. In windows, almost any 'ol virus will spread at least some havoc. And since we're relating it to evolution, we're not talking about random mutations here. We're talking programers who SET OUT to make viruses that will last and spread havoc as much as possible. Just something to think about;P
Yes and No. Here at The Ohio State University, any servers we create are only accessible to other people on ResNet (Residential Network for dorms and whatnot, does not include offices at the University) It's been that way since I got here at the beginning of Fall quarter. Recently UTS (University Technology Services) banned Napster. So really, it's probably the same firewall but it's just an extra rule that needs to be added on to ban napster. Doesn't really have anything to do with running servers and them being accessible to the rest of the internet
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> Other email services
Of course there are other E-mail services, but if you use gmail, you're mail is on Gmail. You can't just say, "Oh, well, Gmail's down, I'll use Yahoo! or Hotmail". Maybe if they thought about it ahead of time and used Gmail to forward their mail to another service, but I doubt many people were planning on a Google outage.
There are some advantages to the PowerMac:
;)
-They're almost certainly going to run a lot cooler with aluminum case, big fans, and uncluttered cable design
-The 2.7 Ghz PowerMac has liquid cooling.
-You can't upgrade the video on the iMac
-The PowerMacs come with FireWire 800 and optical audio
-The 2.3 and 2.7 Ghz come with PCI-X slots
-The PowerMacs can support up to 8GB RAM, while the iMacs can go up to 4GB
-PowerMacs have 64-bit processors
Some stuff I don't quite understand that the PowerMac has:
-Parallel data structure supporting up to 215 simultaneous in-flight instructions
-Simultaneous issue of up to 10 out-of-order operations
-Dual-pipeline Velocity Engine for 128-bit single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) processing
-Two independent double-precision floating-point units
-Advanced three-stage branch-prediction logic
-Point-to-point system controller
-128-bit data paths for up to 6.4-GBps memory throughput
As far as I can tell, the PowerMac has stronger hardware even if it's running at the same (or lower) speeds. Plus it's easier to upgrade it.
Or maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better because I just bought a PowerMac.
According to this pdf:f (or view as HTML with Google)
http://www.dvmug.org/ApplePRESS/ApplePRESS1002.pd
"Apple has strictly forbidden engineering staff to create Easter Eggs in software created at Apple's campus"
Can anyone confirm?
RFC=Request for Comments
Meaning, they care what people have to say. They want to get community input to make this a community standard, not just something they make up.
Has MS ever made an RFC?
The problem is, who hosts this content? Slashdot? Do you know why the slashdot effect doesn't affect slashdot itself? Because slashdot, for the most part, hosts only text.
... this could be a security risk like the Dreamcast Phone Home project. Just stick a USB drive into the back of a computer where someone is away on vacation and turn the monitor off. That's probably even more "hidden in light" than a dreamcast, plus it would get past efforts to clamp down on such attacks that involve allowing only certain MAC addresses.
XEmacs for Windows!
http://www.xemacs.org/Download/win32/
I feel much better being sane while using Windows now
I would imagine since Windows Update is always running (At least by default) and checks for updates occasionally, that's what you're seeing.
Just go into your "System" settings in the control panel, and then to the "Automatic Updates" tab and uncheck the box (Or change the settings to whatever suits your preferences)
This hardly seems like an interesting Ask Slashdot. For the first time in my years as a reader, this story smells a bit like aluminum foil on the head type knee-jerk paranoia.
All I have to say is: Windows 3.1
I'm really starting to think that ignorance is bliss!
In my opinion, it's always good to be a skeptic. It's rarely good (At least IMHO) to be a cynic.
Of course, being a skeptic might be what he was talking about
Didn't you read the origional MSNBC article at all? "The hackers, whose identities are unknown, are believed to have had access to the codes for three months."-MSNBC article
To me, the awnser seems pretty simple. I think the type of people who are drawn to computers are also drawn to the mysterious. Take me for an example. Whenever I play a D&D sort of RPG, I like to be a mage. You have control over something that noone else can control or even understand. Fighting you can understand easily. Theivery you can understand easily. Wizardry, now there's the challenge for the mind.
...which is exactly it. Hackers love a challege. They love to explore the unexplored realm of computers just as the mage explores the unexplored realm of magics.
What am I you (may) ask? As far as theology goes, I'm still exploring. Trying to figure out the unknown and perhaps unknowable. My only tools I have at my disposal in order to take on this challenge responsibly: Science, Math, and Logic. For we can only know more when we know what is known. Ya know?
Kingpin
;P
I assume from your disrespectful tone that you're an atheist, as such people seem to delight in the baseness of human nature that they believe in.
;)
I know a lot of atheists who would disagree with you, and would have good reason for doing so.
The person you responded to wasn't speaking in a disrespectful tone. They were just stating a couple of facts. The soul (assuming it's existence) is a supernatural entity. That means that is is ABOVE the natural or physical world (The world "science" studies (Good way to be disrespectful, don't you think? Putting quotes around a word.)) Therefore, since the soul is a supernatural entity, I first can't understand how it's the vehicle of the soul unless there is some sort of bridge that links the natural entity of the body and the supernatural entity of the soul. Either way, the body is still a natural entity, and therefore during and after the time it carries a soul, it's not part of the supernatural and is, as the other person said, meat, bones, and miscellaneous scrap. Guess we arn't much more than hot dogs (other than our "soul" of course
Sincerly not an atheist but getting closer and closer the more he talks to people like you, Moi!
You know what, if someone took my brain after I was dead, I would care.
;P
Wait a minute, no I wouldn't, because I'm dead! Come to think of it, I don't even care right now if someone took my brain after I was dead. Cause I'd be dead!
Lighten up, it's just a book.
Hehe, I just read the thing then I looked at the picture of Gates that went along with the story and I thought, "You will be innovated. Restistance is usless."
He's always told them to E-Mail before, so obviously they're able to E-Mail therefore get to a web page. There are loads and loads of problems that don't involve the ability to get to a web page. Various program information request (IE, how do I do this in Word/Excel/Acess), I need something installed in my computer, I need something removed, my monitor is acting funny, I got a weird error message, I can't connect to the LAN, disk drive isn't working, etc.... That doesn't even count the weird stuff users find wrong ;P The system does work. I work at a place where we have a web page form (Really easy to set up, only slightly harder if you want to make it look really good). It sends to an E-Mail address that sends to everyone at out office so we're all aware of the problem. It's also good for us since we're very large so they can put in if they're on a PC or Mac and what their specs are. You can put in all kinds of stuff that you might forget to ask for over the phone or they might not think to tell you about in a service request.
Ya, just use the embed tag in HTML. Should work. For the people with slow connections, it won't work right away, but it'll work. As for streaming, they have that in the new winamp. People run servers and play mp3s (Which I think are compressed for transmission)
Since Linux makes it harder for a virus to spread, it would take a "supervirus" to make an epidemic. Then Linux makes for an environment for creating more superviruses. In windows, almost any 'ol virus will spread at least some havoc. And since we're relating it to evolution, we're not talking about random mutations here. We're talking programers who SET OUT to make viruses that will last and spread havoc as much as possible. Just something to think about ;P
These two games look awsome. I'll probably buy both as soon as they hit the shelf
Yes and No. Here at The Ohio State University, any servers we create are only accessible to other people on ResNet (Residential Network for dorms and whatnot, does not include offices at the University) It's been that way since I got here at the beginning of Fall quarter. Recently UTS (University Technology Services) banned Napster. So really, it's probably the same firewall but it's just an extra rule that needs to be added on to ban napster. Doesn't really have anything to do with running servers and them being accessible to the rest of the internet