That was an udder disgrace! I've made better puns off-the-hoof, Oh so long as you tried your dairy best, I suppose that's the best I can expect. Even if the pun wasn't Moo-sic to my ears.
I'm really glad I'm not to much of a cow-ard to let you see my terrible puns:)
Or we can have REAL fun and call our GNU boxes (with the Hurd) Linux, or Hurd Linux or something... Not a speck of Linux, but Stallman's name still not on there...
You should have taken a lesson from Scottie, given your initial estimation of the time required exagerated, then if you could get it done in less time you'd be a miricle worker. (Or in your case, employed)
For those of you to lazy to write a real letter try this:http://www.nick.com/blab/write_nick/index.jht ml. It is a web-based comment submission form from nick.com. If possible, however, write with real paper, neatly typed and signed. (Primary tablet and crayon would also be good, but make sure, if you do sign it "love" instead of sincerly hehe)
What if the kid (horrible as this must sound) is already intrested in some really really bizzare kink? Unless you're truly the exception, the kid WON'T want to talk to you about it. If there are to many filters in place the kid will NEVER know that there are other people with the same fetish/intrest/perversion/whatever. From personal experience I know that thinking yourself alone in the world is much more dangerous to a child's psyche than all but the worst of the available porn. (The only exceptions I can think of is peda-necrophillia and possibly peda-zoophilia (I'm not sure how to spell that last one and am NOT going to look it up on the internet hehe))
Yes, I am saying it actualy might be more healthfull to allow children to see the more bizzare porn than to filter it. And while there are no scientific studies I know to support my point, there are also no scientific studies I know of to refute it. Yes, in spite of all the media hoopla, I have been unable to find a single study saying any form of porn damages kids...
We may vary well be protecting our children from what they need to be healthy...
If you can find any of the studies I cannot, please email me, bluenail@sailormoon.com or bluenail@hushmail.com (the latter offers free, 1028bit encryption, try it out)
Oh and while I'm at it, don't bother emailing me and asking what form of kinky sex I am into, I ain't telling.
Hey, I am presently in the proud position to be mentoring a Geek-Teen in training. She is eleven and codes html and is beginning Java, although I realize this may not be as impressive as what some of us could do at her age, it is extremly impressive to me considering I showed her how to save images from netscape and how to use "My Computer" in windows95. She is extremly proud of the titles geek, and geek in training.
Now the question. Do you think that in introducing her to geekdom I am doing her a disservice. Will the vary fact that she knows how to operate a computer make her social life more difficult in school. She generaly makes friends extremly easily, but I'm wondering, if she gets stuck with the geek stigmata, will her personal skills suddenly amount to nothing? I beleive as an intelegent person, closer to her age level than I, you would have more insights into this discussion. I thank you if you would let me know.
RealityMaster101 claims, "There's no such thing as a 'white hat cracker.'" However I beleive I was such a creature (I am now, mostly retired) Back in the days of BBSes I used to send electronic mail to varrious sysops stating my intent to attempt to compromise their BBS, I said that if I do I would tell them how I did it, possibly suggust a fix, and not tell anyone else. I would then await a responce, usualy I got a go-ahead. I would then crack the system, or try to, then send in my results to the sysop.
So, RealityMaster101, I ask, do you consider my actions "White Hat Cracker" actions or "Black Hat?" Or something completly different?
BTW I realize that what I did is not what most people who claim the title "White Hat Cracker" do, and I do not mean to imply that they do or do not deserve their claimed title.
I am not sure but I would speculate it would be something like the following:
1. Ions* are suspended in a gas.
2. Laser or ion gun is focused at an area of the gas making it cationic*
3. The difference in charges draws ions to the area in question forming a structure.
*I might be backwards about the placement of cations and ions, or I could be just plain wrong
BTW my sigfile is old, new email address is bluenail@sailormon.com, except that there are two o's in moon. will change that sigfile now
Usenet was one of the first internet services I used regularly. In idea it is still one of the most usefull services. However it has, in my experience, one fatal weekness. It is extremly vunerable to spam. When usenet began the internet was a non-corperate INFORMATION source. Usenet was excellent because it allowed communication between groups of similar intrests from around the world, and people who didn't share that intrest would not have reason to interfear. (Yes, there were the occasional flames in alt.religion and such, but that was comparativly small-scale) So it was designed so that anybody could post to any group, and post anything, and could even post anonymously. This was excellent for free speech, open discussion and the spread of information.
Now, sadly, the internet is a corperate money making buzzword. Companys try to reach any audience with advertising they can, and the internet is a cheep way of reaching millions of potential customers. However in the need and greed of modern sociaty. People wanting to make a quick buck outnumber the people wanting a nice place for discussion, and it is easy for the money-grubbing people to write one message to hundereds or thousands of groups. Thus many many groups are significantly more spam than relavant posts. This drives off the people who would otherwise have been frequent posters, makes good posts hard to find and generaly makes the experience to un-enjoyable for a large part of the public to continue to have any intrest in. True, fringe groups will continue for a decade or more, but sooner or later the nntp protocal will become to much a bandwidth hog (thousands of spam email messages can do that) and most servers will close down.
Hey, they might have a good reason to fear such things as pings, traceroutes, portscans, and telnet connections. They might be running NT servers and are afraid that the ping will overload them...:-)
I serriously doubt that only Linux machines were responsible for the attacks against Yahoo, Ebay et all. However having not been able to read the article in question (/. effect) I cannot say for sure that it was sloppy journalism or FUD.
However even if it is MS-FUD, the idea behind it raises some points. Linux systems are server-oriented. They have all the power of major UNIX of yesterday. They bring power of computing to the masses. But the masses may well not be the best people to have this power.
System securtiy on a Linux box, in someone's home is usualy directly porportianal to their paranoia (or healthy fear, depends on who you ask). Their paranoia (or fear) is in turn often directly based on how important the data on their systems is. However more and more people with only non-essentiual data are getting what once would have qualified as server-class systems. They have no reason to hire a security analyst, no reason to give security a worry, (ok so someone might see their Quake scores, big whoop). Thus we have an increasing number of insecure network servers capable of supporting crackers' need of shells from which to wreak havoc. With the upsergance of cablemodems and other static IP set systems, these crackers can come back to the same systems very easily after setting up backdoors. Perhaps we should think about how much security we need when we have systems with the amazing raw network power Linux offers.
Forgot to talk about the other half of my last topic. With mobile systems, and new devoloping network and internet hook-ups, a distributed.net type cluster might be possible except that it only donates clock cycles when attached to AC power. Is anything like this in the making?
Ok, so we have tiny processors that use barly any power. Does anyone besides me see this as the ulimate beowulf cluster builder? The Beowulfs I've either built or worked on were made mostly of first generation pentium or earlier architectures. Nevertheless I've gotten benchmarks over one GigaFlop. However having several full power processors running at once is a huge power drain. One system we worked on we calculated a $5.50/hour cost of running, based soly on electricity consumption. It also put off enough heat to fully heat the room in the dead of winter.
With processors like the Crusoe, and other late make mobile processors, the power cunsumption would be dramaticly reduced, the heat output will be less, and if you have a good powersaving scheme in each processor, the power needs would dynamicly vary depending on the number of seperate threads needed at a given time.
True, this isn't a mobile system, but it is a definant possible side-effect of these new processors.
What I meant is that there was no mp3-2.thesync.com:8000 link just in case we have browsers that auto . Not that the URL is not posted.
URL: The "address" of a site
Link: A thing-a-ma-bob you click on to go to a URL
However, I realize that such a link might or might not work, can an http connection spawn a streaming vidio connection? Sorry, I'm not as big in the internet browser (formerly web browser) area of things as I could be.
Ok, So I'm not talking about bigfoot here, but there is definantly a missing link problem. Souldn't the mentioned address for streaming vidio be a link to the site it mentions?
Hey, Be carefull what you say about faeries!
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OK, so one important photograph of faeries was proven false. Considering that new species of animals are found in mainland Europe fairly regularly, it is definantly possible that a few Faries have managed to hide out the times. Probably, not, but you said that the faeries were proven to be a hoax, please prey tell, how can you prove something NOT to exist?
No I don't beleive in faries, however I get a bit touchy when I hear someone say anything has been PROVED not to exist. Sorry guys you can't prove the inexistance of anything, only the inprobibility.
What is easy for you and me, even if you're not a programmer. Is probably VERY different from what is easy for the old lady down the street. While I was in high school I earned spending money as independent tech-support, advising and systems repairs for the town in which I live. I learned quickly that there are things that we take completly for granted that many people have a difficulty learning. The people I worked with were primarly college graduates and none were paticularly dense, nevertheless here are some of the problems I came accross:
Someone didn't know what double-click meant, thought it meant clicking with BOTH mouse buttons. (Makes as much or more sense than clicking with one button twice.)
Someone didn't know that Windows 95 wouldn't run very well on his 386DX system. (how should he know?)
Someone didn't know that return and enter mean the same thing.
Someone didn't know what I meant when I said "monitor."
Someone didn't know what I meant by "Icon"
Someone didn't know how to access the file menu.
Someone didn't know that he had to turn on his external modem seperatly from his computer system.
Someone didn't know what a link was
Someone didn't know how to turn on his monitor. (I had a bit of trouble finding the hidden switch.)
Someone didn't know the difference between memory and disk space (many don't actualy)
These are but a few examples of things that are EXTREMLY basic to us. However few of them are intuitive in actuality. Most "geeks" I've talked to don't understand the mindset of the non-computer literate user. They could write a user-friendly program, if only they knew what the user might need.
Oh and by the way, most extremly new users I worked with prefered keystrokes to mouse strokes, so why do all the manufactuarers rush to put GUI's on all desktops? A simple arrow key oriented shell (in the msdos shell sense of the word) would be better for many of them and applications with a printed list of ctrl commands may well be more usefull than one with confusing pictures.
Disclaimer: this post is a joke, in real life I understand that this research is a large step ahead for the disabled and intend no disrespect to those who work on it or who volunteer themselves as test subjects.
Now sir, we thank you for volunteering for this research. After the operation you will have vision just like the rest of us...
later
What? All I see is a bunch of letters and stuff, what happened.
That's just the licence agreement, say I agree and you can continue using the implants, otherwise we will have to shut them down and you can go back to how you were.
But, but this license agreement says I cannot use the apperatus to look at any system running software not made by microsoft!
Well isn't that a resonable price to pay for sight?
I suppose so. I accept.
Oh and by the way, that license agreement, if you read enough of it, also said you agree to hand over all your assets to Bill Gates, you read that part didn't you?
I don't even want to know what new meanings this brings to "blue screen of death"...
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Of course people would pay 40 million to risk loosing life and limb. People have been doing the small-scale equivelent for years. Safari's into Lion country, Deep Sea Diving with sharks, Sky diving, and snorting cocaine are all expencive endevours that people willingly and gladly go into. Some of them are more expensive than others, some of them are more dangerous than others. But there are fanitics who would pay any price to continue doing any of them. Considering the potential gratification of space travel, which many would find greater than all my mentioned activities put together, it would be more surprising if people DIDN'T want to spend all they had to do it than if they did.
PS Rumor has it that someone is constructing a cruise ship from Titanic's blueprints. I expect that if they do there will be a flood of people wanting to ride...
Sure a gameboy can run Linux! All you need to do is make an attachment with a Crusoe processor, (or AMD if you have to) PCI bus, 128MB Ram, membrane keyboard, and 100BTX connection.
ISDN modems require the user to set up the local spids to work with local infrastructure. These spids are only good in the house of the person who ordered the ISDN service.
Cablemodems are set up by the cable company so that they only function on the node they were assigned to. Thus they can only be used inside the house of the person who ordered the cablemodem.
I don't know about dsl, but I wouldn't be supprised if a user can't log in to his ISP using DSL from areas other than where they ordered the service (can someone tell me about this?)
Why does this matter? Because not every computer user always uses his computer from home. Many have laptops, palmtops, or even occasionaly move their desktops. (I have an uncle who travels with his desktop computer).
Untill broadband access is mobile there will always be a place for the modem. A traveler can almost always find a phone outlet to plug the modem into. He can often find a local access number if he's chosen the right ISP.
both vendors would be challenged to improve TCP/IP Performance in order to keep pace with Linux
Ok, you might be right about Apple, but I doubt Microsoft would try to improve their tcp/ip stack. Microsoft would instead realease anther FUD saying that it (Microsoft) has a better overall performance or even better stack for some obscure reason other than standard benchmarks or tests.
Those who don't study history will repeat its errors.
OK, so I admit that one of the most common complaints that new Linux users have is that they can't get their winmodem to work in Linux. Most of them go out and buy real modems and are then happy. Allowing them to use winmodems in linux however will keep them from ever buying a full modem and seeing that it is remarkably better. Also people will no longer make sure the new system they are getting does NOT have a winmodem. This has one major disadvantage, the companies that make the winmodems will get more and more buisness. Thus the already difficult task of finding a modem that isn't a winmodem will become significanlty MORE difficult. (See your high school economics textbook)
On another note: has anyone figured out how to make an external winmodem yet?
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That was an udder disgrace!
:)
I've made better puns off-the-hoof,
Oh so long as you tried your dairy best, I suppose that's the best I can expect.
Even if the pun wasn't Moo-sic to my ears.
I'm really glad I'm not to much of a cow-ard to let you see my terrible puns
Or we can have REAL fun and call our GNU boxes (with the Hurd) Linux, or Hurd Linux or something... Not a speck of Linux, but Stallman's name still not on there...
You should have taken a lesson from Scottie, given your initial estimation of the time required exagerated, then if you could get it done in less time you'd be a miricle worker. (Or in your case, employed)
For those of you to lazy to write a real letter try this:http://www.nick.com/blab/write_nick/index.jht ml. It is a web-based comment submission form from nick.com. If possible, however, write with real paper, neatly typed and signed. (Primary tablet and crayon would also be good, but make sure, if you do sign it "love" instead of sincerly hehe)
Yes, I am saying it actualy might be more healthfull to allow children to see the more bizzare porn than to filter it. And while there are no scientific studies I know to support my point, there are also no scientific studies I know of to refute it. Yes, in spite of all the media hoopla, I have been unable to find a single study saying any form of porn damages kids...
We may vary well be protecting our children from what they need to be healthy...
If you can find any of the studies I cannot, please email me, bluenail@sailormoon.com or bluenail@hushmail.com (the latter offers free, 1028bit encryption, try it out)
Oh and while I'm at it, don't bother emailing me and asking what form of kinky sex I am into, I ain't telling.
Hey, I am presently in the proud position to be mentoring a Geek-Teen in training. She is eleven and codes html and is beginning Java, although I realize this may not be as impressive as what some of us could do at her age, it is extremly impressive to me considering I showed her how to save images from netscape and how to use "My Computer" in windows95. She is extremly proud of the titles geek, and geek in training.
Now the question. Do you think that in introducing her to geekdom I am doing her a disservice. Will the vary fact that she knows how to operate a computer make her social life more difficult in school. She generaly makes friends extremly easily, but I'm wondering, if she gets stuck with the geek stigmata, will her personal skills suddenly amount to nothing? I beleive as an intelegent person, closer to her age level than I, you would have more insights into this discussion. I thank you if you would let me know.
RealityMaster101 claims, "There's no such thing as a 'white hat cracker.'" However I beleive I was such a creature (I am now, mostly retired) Back in the days of BBSes I used to send electronic mail to varrious sysops stating my intent to attempt to compromise their BBS, I said that if I do I would tell them how I did it, possibly suggust a fix, and not tell anyone else. I would then await a responce, usualy I got a go-ahead. I would then crack the system, or try to, then send in my results to the sysop.
So, RealityMaster101, I ask, do you consider my actions "White Hat Cracker" actions or "Black Hat?" Or something completly different?
BTW I realize that what I did is not what most people who claim the title "White Hat Cracker" do, and I do not mean to imply that they do or do not deserve their claimed title.
No! No! Not THAT kind of binaries! We mean working programs not alt.binaries.erotica.pictures.
I am not sure but I would speculate it would be something like the following:
1. Ions* are suspended in a gas.
2. Laser or ion gun is focused at an area of the gas making it cationic*
3. The difference in charges draws ions to the area in question forming a structure.
*I might be backwards about the placement of cations and ions, or I could be just plain wrong
BTW my sigfile is old, new email address is bluenail@sailormon.com, except that there are two o's in moon. will change that sigfile now
Normaly go they second.
All german sentences have a verb as the second element.
Now, sadly, the internet is a corperate money making buzzword. Companys try to reach any audience with advertising they can, and the internet is a cheep way of reaching millions of potential customers. However in the need and greed of modern sociaty. People wanting to make a quick buck outnumber the people wanting a nice place for discussion, and it is easy for the money-grubbing people to write one message to hundereds or thousands of groups. Thus many many groups are significantly more spam than relavant posts. This drives off the people who would otherwise have been frequent posters, makes good posts hard to find and generaly makes the experience to un-enjoyable for a large part of the public to continue to have any intrest in. True, fringe groups will continue for a decade or more, but sooner or later the nntp protocal will become to much a bandwidth hog (thousands of spam email messages can do that) and most servers will close down.
Alas poor usenet, I new it well
Hey, they might have a good reason to fear such things as pings, traceroutes, portscans, and telnet connections. They might be running NT servers and are afraid that the ping will overload them... :-)
I serriously doubt that only Linux machines were responsible for the attacks against Yahoo, Ebay et all. However having not been able to read the article in question (/. effect) I cannot say for sure that it was sloppy journalism or FUD.
However even if it is MS-FUD, the idea behind it raises some points. Linux systems are server-oriented. They have all the power of major UNIX of yesterday. They bring power of computing to the masses. But the masses may well not be the best people to have this power.
System securtiy on a Linux box, in someone's home is usualy directly porportianal to their paranoia (or healthy fear, depends on who you ask). Their paranoia (or fear) is in turn often directly based on how important the data on their systems is. However more and more people with only non-essentiual data are getting what once would have qualified as server-class systems. They have no reason to hire a security analyst, no reason to give security a worry, (ok so someone might see their Quake scores, big whoop). Thus we have an increasing number of insecure network servers capable of supporting crackers' need of shells from which to wreak havoc. With the upsergance of cablemodems and other static IP set systems, these crackers can come back to the same systems very easily after setting up backdoors. Perhaps we should think about how much security we need when we have systems with the amazing raw network power Linux offers.
Forgot to talk about the other half of my last topic. With mobile systems, and new devoloping network and internet hook-ups, a distributed.net type cluster might be possible except that it only donates clock cycles when attached to AC power. Is anything like this in the making?
With processors like the Crusoe, and other late make mobile processors, the power cunsumption would be dramaticly reduced, the heat output will be less, and if you have a good powersaving scheme in each processor, the power needs would dynamicly vary depending on the number of seperate threads needed at a given time.
True, this isn't a mobile system, but it is a definant possible side-effect of these new processors.
Or am I missing something?
What I meant is that there was no mp3-2.thesync.com:8000 link just in case we have browsers that auto . Not that the URL is not posted.
URL: The "address" of a site
Link: A thing-a-ma-bob you click on to go to a URL
However, I realize that such a link might or might not work, can an http connection spawn a streaming vidio connection? Sorry, I'm not as big in the internet browser (formerly web browser) area of things as I could be.
Ok, So I'm not talking about bigfoot here, but there is definantly a missing link problem. Souldn't the mentioned address for streaming vidio be a link to the site it mentions?
No I don't beleive in faries, however I get a bit touchy when I hear someone say anything has been PROVED not to exist. Sorry guys you can't prove the inexistance of anything, only the inprobibility.
Someone didn't know what double-click meant, thought it meant clicking with BOTH mouse buttons. (Makes as much or more sense than clicking with one button twice.)
Someone didn't know that Windows 95 wouldn't run very well on his 386DX system. (how should he know?)
Someone didn't know that return and enter mean the same thing.
Someone didn't know what I meant when I said "monitor."
Someone didn't know what I meant by "Icon"
Someone didn't know how to access the file menu.
Someone didn't know that he had to turn on his external modem seperatly from his computer system.
Someone didn't know what a link was
Someone didn't know how to turn on his monitor. (I had a bit of trouble finding the hidden switch.)
Someone didn't know the difference between memory and disk space (many don't actualy)
These are but a few examples of things that are EXTREMLY basic to us. However few of them are intuitive in actuality. Most "geeks" I've talked to don't understand the mindset of the non-computer literate user. They could write a user-friendly program, if only they knew what the user might need.
Oh and by the way, most extremly new users I worked with prefered keystrokes to mouse strokes, so why do all the manufactuarers rush to put GUI's on all desktops? A simple arrow key oriented shell (in the msdos shell sense of the word) would be better for many of them and applications with a printed list of ctrl commands may well be more usefull than one with confusing pictures.
Disclaimer: this post is a joke, in real life I understand that this research is a large step ahead for the disabled and intend no disrespect to those who work on it or who volunteer themselves as test subjects.
Now sir, we thank you for volunteering for this research. After the operation you will have vision just like the rest of us...
later
What? All I see is a bunch of letters and stuff, what happened.
That's just the licence agreement, say I agree and you can continue using the implants, otherwise we will have to shut them down and you can go back to how you were.
But, but this license agreement says I cannot use the apperatus to look at any system running software not made by microsoft!
Well isn't that a resonable price to pay for sight?
I suppose so. I accept.
Oh and by the way, that license agreement, if you read enough of it, also said you agree to hand over all your assets to Bill Gates, you read that part didn't you?
I don't even want to know what new meanings this brings to "blue screen of death"...
Of course people would pay 40 million to risk loosing life and limb. People have been doing the small-scale equivelent for years. Safari's into Lion country, Deep Sea Diving with sharks, Sky diving, and snorting cocaine are all expencive endevours that people willingly and gladly go into. Some of them are more expensive than others, some of them are more dangerous than others. But there are fanitics who would pay any price to continue doing any of them. Considering the potential gratification of space travel, which many would find greater than all my mentioned activities put together, it would be more surprising if people DIDN'T want to spend all they had to do it than if they did.
PS Rumor has it that someone is constructing a cruise ship from Titanic's blueprints. I expect that if they do there will be a flood of people wanting to ride...
Sure a gameboy can run Linux! All you need to do is make an attachment with a Crusoe processor, (or AMD if you have to) PCI bus, 128MB Ram, membrane keyboard, and 100BTX connection.
Cablemodems are set up by the cable company so that they only function on the node they were assigned to. Thus they can only be used inside the house of the person who ordered the cablemodem.
I don't know about dsl, but I wouldn't be supprised if a user can't log in to his ISP using DSL from areas other than where they ordered the service (can someone tell me about this?)
Why does this matter? Because not every computer user always uses his computer from home. Many have laptops, palmtops, or even occasionaly move their desktops. (I have an uncle who travels with his desktop computer).
Untill broadband access is mobile there will always be a place for the modem. A traveler can almost always find a phone outlet to plug the modem into. He can often find a local access number if he's chosen the right ISP.
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both vendors would be challenged to improve TCP/IP Performance in order to keep pace with Linux
Ok, you might be right about Apple, but I doubt Microsoft would try to improve their tcp/ip stack. Microsoft would instead realease anther FUD saying that it (Microsoft) has a better overall performance or even better stack for some obscure reason other than standard benchmarks or tests.
Those who don't study history will repeat its errors.
Those who don't will find new ways to error.
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OK, so I admit that one of the most common complaints that new Linux users have is that they can't get their winmodem to work in Linux. Most of them go out and buy real modems and are then happy. Allowing them to use winmodems in linux however will keep them from ever buying a full modem and seeing that it is remarkably better. Also people will no longer make sure the new system they are getting does NOT have a winmodem. This has one major disadvantage, the companies that make the winmodems will get more and more buisness. Thus the already difficult task of finding a modem that isn't a winmodem will become significanlty MORE difficult. (See your high school economics textbook)
On another note: has anyone figured out how to make an external winmodem yet?