^H is essentially a shortcut to send a chr(8) i.e. backspace... used on very old TTY terminals I believe.
Used here instead of strikethrough to allow posters to type something bad and then appear to have corrected it to something more pleasant before posting.
The effects in Terminator 2 was the pinnacle of CGI in it's day.
Remember Robert Patrick walking out of the fire as a silver blob and transforming back into a humanoid ? I was in the cinema the first day that movie came out, and I remember being gob-smacked by that one scene.
However, the story has been done to death already... it was groundbreaking in 1984 and 1992, but these days, meh... even Southpark had Goobacks (although Simpsons did it, Simpsons did it)...
And they have already built a working model: 'Because chiral molecules reflect light in a way that indicates their handedness, the research team built a device to shine light on plant leaves and bacteria, and then detect the polarized reflections from the organisms' chlorophyll from a short distance away
Newsflash, the closest possible planet that *might* be a candidate is something like 9 light years away.
Bit of a stretch from some science geek shining a torch onto his pet cactus. Smells of a "fund me, or PhD me" non-story.
Their idea of "innovation" is making cheap rip-offs of what others have designed.
I have to disagree... that might have been true 20 years ago, but these days (choosing a common tech example), the so called "china phones" take the best bits from ALL the competitors and produce an item that IS better feature-wise.
It is so technically advanced, there is even a customisable hardware expiry date, after which point it will no longer charge or work at all (although most seem preset on 3 months and 1 microsecond after you purchased it).
It wouldn't surprise me at all if China reached the moon before the US did it (again). Hell even Mars for that matter. And if the astronauts die on the way, they die for the greater good of the humble PRC... none of that pesky grounding the fleet while they try a new kind of glue on the tiles or try to stop a bit of foam from puncturing the wing.
It's gratifying to know that/. allows people with no background in the subject matter have an editorial voice.
There, fixed that for you.
I thought this was news for nerds, not the forum for paid-up members of NASA ?
The moderation system is fine as it is, it gives the common person the same ability to make a complete ass of himself as the poster of this^H^H^H^Hthe comment itself.
Let's assume that we limit ourselves to conditions that *we* consider suitable for life, i.e. Sunlight, Oxygen, Water, and Carbon in abundance, and a similar development from complex molecules to single-celled organisms, all the way up to intelligent life as we know it.
What makes you think that any other civilization, on any other planet, doesn't have exactly the same problems as we do i.e. overpopulation, scarcity of basic resources such as food and clean water, lack of funding for their space program etc etc ?
The attack works best on a Linux system with an Intel DQ35 motherboard with 2GB of memory. It turns out that Linux allows the root user to access MTR registers incredibly easily. With Windows this exploit can be used, but requires much more work and skill and so while the Linux exploit code is readily available now, no Windows exploit code has, so far, been released or seen
But hell, don't let FACTS get in the way of your anti-MS ranting !
Latvian Cheese Industry, Mating Rituals of the Lesser Spotted Lemming, The History of Salt, is there no topic that is safe from the obligatory "M$ is teh evilz" comments ?
Donald Knuth (creative / scientific genius at least in my books) had some serious interest in HTML / CSS issues, and was quick to take W3C to task over messing with them.
The other day I saw a comment in an article that said most TOR exit nodes seem to come out in China. Now we see "most hack attempts come from China"... well duh...
Any unsecure proxy is going to get spidered in 24 hours, and then it'll be the source of all attacks until such time as the server admin realises and shuts it down.
IP addresses are a useless guide to *who* is actually using the connection, regardless of the country it is located in.
The trick is to bulk up on prawn crackers and fried rice, so there's no way you can finish the beef in oyster sauce in one sitting.
Actually, you know the irony ?... I moved from UK to Asia about 12 years ago, and the Chinese food STILL tastes better when served in silver foil containers at 3am in Manchester.
God I miss pineapple rings in batter with golden syrup... you simply can't get it here:-(
Pfft... tell that to my cable provider (Sky Cable Philippines), who not only make you pay for the cable, but are now running ads also in the breaks of popular primetime shows. Bastards.
I hate to be pedantic, but the ISO 8859-1 (latin) character set, that just about every browser can handle, does in fact cover all western european languages, and pretty much all eastern european languages, with the exception of a few Czech characters and other obscure accents on consonants.
Now I know you said ASCII, but that's a throwback to the TTY days, any modern character set can support 256 different characters, not just 128, hence the vast array of accented vowels and the Spanish ñ available without any problem using this charset.
Slashdot Mirror
The paragraph is your friend ... oh dear, it appears you only have 1 friend then.
pot, kettle, black ?
Slashdot authors in flamewar, WTF ?
What's the matter kdawson, duped everything already, so now you're resorting to criticising other authors comments ?
How about doing a slashdot poll on which author has been marked as "ignore posts by" the most ... (hint), Cowboy Neal will NOT be the top vote !!!
Rob Schneider is ... a stapler ... a carrot ... de dum de dum di tiddly dum de dum dum
Rob Schneider is
Rob Schneider is
Sorry, got Southpark on the brain today.
^H is essentially a shortcut to send a chr(8) i.e. backspace ... used on very old TTY terminals I believe.
Used here instead of strikethrough to allow posters to type something bad and then appear to have corrected it to something more pleasant before posting.
The effects in Terminator 2 was the pinnacle of CGI in it's day.
Remember Robert Patrick walking out of the fire as a silver blob and transforming back into a humanoid ? I was in the cinema the first day that movie came out, and I remember being gob-smacked by that one scene.
However, the story has been done to death already ... it was groundbreaking in 1984 and 1992, but these days, meh ... even Southpark had Goobacks (although Simpsons did it, Simpsons did it) ...
Will Smith basically repeats every line twice in that movie ... oh, wait, he does that in EVERY movie.
1 Potato
2 Potatoes
3 ????
4 Profit !
Sorry, my grammar nazi tendencies are competing with my lame meme tendencies ... hence the resulting post.
And they have already built a working model: 'Because chiral molecules reflect light in a way that indicates their handedness, the research team built a device to shine light on plant leaves and bacteria, and then detect the polarized reflections from the organisms' chlorophyll from a short distance away
Newsflash, the closest possible planet that *might* be a candidate is something like 9 light years away.
Bit of a stretch from some science geek shining a torch onto his pet cactus. Smells of a "fund me, or PhD me" non-story.
Their idea of "innovation" is making cheap rip-offs of what others have designed. I have to disagree ... that might have been true 20 years ago, but these days (choosing a common tech example), the so called "china phones" take the best bits from ALL the competitors and produce an item that IS better feature-wise.
It is so technically advanced, there is even a customisable hardware expiry date, after which point it will no longer charge or work at all (although most seem preset on 3 months and 1 microsecond after you purchased it).
It wouldn't surprise me at all if China reached the moon before the US did it (again). Hell even Mars for that matter. And if the astronauts die on the way, they die for the greater good of the humble PRC ... none of that pesky grounding the fleet while they try a new kind of glue on the tiles or try to stop a bit of foam from puncturing the wing.
It's gratifying to know that /. allows people with no background in the subject matter have an editorial voice.
There, fixed that for you.
I thought this was news for nerds, not the forum for paid-up members of NASA ?
The moderation system is fine as it is, it gives the common person the same ability to make a complete ass of himself as the poster of this^H^H^H^Hthe comment itself.
Let's assume that we limit ourselves to conditions that *we* consider suitable for life, i.e. Sunlight, Oxygen, Water, and Carbon in abundance, and a similar development from complex molecules to single-celled organisms, all the way up to intelligent life as we know it.
What makes you think that any other civilization, on any other planet, doesn't have exactly the same problems as we do i.e. overpopulation, scarcity of basic resources such as food and clean water, lack of funding for their space program etc etc ?
From TFA ...
The attack works best on a Linux system with an Intel DQ35 motherboard with 2GB of memory. It turns out that Linux allows the root user to access MTR registers incredibly easily. With Windows this exploit can be used, but requires much more work and skill and so while the Linux exploit code is readily available now, no Windows exploit code has, so far, been released or seen
But hell, don't let FACTS get in the way of your anti-MS ranting !
We got it already, you hate M$.
Latvian Cheese Industry, Mating Rituals of the Lesser Spotted Lemming, The History of Salt, is there no topic that is safe from the obligatory "M$ is teh evilz" comments ?
Nitrogen is the bulk of normal air so it has no smell.
Tomatoes are the bulk of any good pasta sauce, and it usually tastes of tomatoes ...
Your breathing is controlled by the CO2 level, not the oxygen content
Surely your breathing is controlled by the lack of oxygen ? I'm pretty sure your body reacts to the lack of oxygen, not the excess of carbon dioxide.
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Donald Knuth (creative / scientific genius at least in my books) had some serious interest in HTML / CSS issues, and was quick to take W3C to task over messing with them.
http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/CommentView.aspx?guid=76608c5d-f71a-440e-be87-165fa8b6f2f0
the important thing is fitting inside lucy liu somehow
There, fixed that for you !
The other day I saw a comment in an article that said most TOR exit nodes seem to come out in China. Now we see "most hack attempts come from China" ... well duh ...
Any unsecure proxy is going to get spidered in 24 hours, and then it'll be the source of all attacks until such time as the server admin realises and shuts it down.
IP addresses are a useless guide to *who* is actually using the connection, regardless of the country it is located in.
Nah, gotta be Jet Li ... even his smile is sinister as fuck !
The trick is to bulk up on prawn crackers and fried rice, so there's no way you can finish the beef in oyster sauce in one sitting.
Actually, you know the irony ? ... I moved from UK to Asia about 12 years ago, and the Chinese food STILL tastes better when served in silver foil containers at 3am in Manchester.
God I miss pineapple rings in batter with golden syrup ... you simply can't get it here :-(
Or even an agenda ?
It's not that I'm a grammar nazi as such, but come on ... you usually learn to stop spelling things as they are pronounced when you are six-and-a-half.
Pfft ... tell that to my cable provider (Sky Cable Philippines), who not only make you pay for the cable, but are now running ads also in the breaks of popular primetime shows. Bastards.
RIP Geocities, the Friendster of the 90's generation.
I hate to be pedantic, but the ISO 8859-1 (latin) character set, that just about every browser can handle, does in fact cover all western european languages, and pretty much all eastern european languages, with the exception of a few Czech characters and other obscure accents on consonants.
Now I know you said ASCII, but that's a throwback to the TTY days, any modern character set can support 256 different characters, not just 128, hence the vast array of accented vowels and the Spanish ñ available without any problem using this charset.
I GET 100% OF EVERYTHING.
Yes, because we all want to make that call ! "Hello, BT Customer Service, can you unblock goatse please ?".