Come on, if you get a hit again, or even if it's your first time getting hit with the virus, You really deserve it. For starters, there has been so much media coverage on this worm that I hardley know anyone who hasn't heard about it. And secondly, if it's your job to admin these servers, WHY THE HELL HAVN'T YOU PATCHED IT YET!!! My servers were correctly patched before even the first wave came through. Someone must not being doing what they are being paid to do. Come on people, it only takes a few minutes a day to go to microsofts website and check for updates.
Ever since Duchoveny left the show I have hardley bothered to watch anymore. Personally I think the management bigwigs are trying to string along a dying program. It was a great show when it was in its prime. I think most will agree with me in saying that show has really lost its edge.
I only agree on half of the issue. That part being, Microsoft has used it corporate might to push around a few companies. The part I absolutely DO NOT agree with is that the government should be decideing what can and cannot be bundled with an OS. This is just plain dumb. Limiting what can be bundled with it just not just apply to MS. It could be extended to include other OS's, Mac, Linux, etc. Does the Linux community want to be told that they cannot bundle a given app because it may impead another apps growth. HELL NO. So, think about how judgments rules against Microsoft may affect others.
Would it be possible to triangulate the position of a satelite based on signals from other atomic based clock satelites? If this could be done you could narrow the error margins down from both sides. Where you are, and where the satelites are. Or maybe they just broadcast the time down to earth and not into space.
Also, If the two satelites, or maybe three, knew where each other where and also broadcast that information to a gps unit, would it be possible to triangulate a position with fewer satelites?
Have you ever seen so many posts from people claiming that they 'know' the answer. So there is no point for them to 'read' the article. I'm mean, in the off chance that they might actually be 'wrong'.
Ahh, typical slashdotters, post first, read later. Always after that elusive first post.
Reminds me of a line in 'armaggedon' where the Russion cosmonaut bangs on the equipment to fire it and say "American components, Russian components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
No sense blaming anyone because I bet a lot of things are made oneplace else and assembled at another place.
I always get a kick out of the people who build their houses along the bancks of a river or in a flood plain and have their house wiped out by a flood. They rebuild. Then next year the same thing happens to them. People like that will blame everyone except themselves. I've heard everything from bridge, sewer systems, political conspiracies, and yes, 'global warming' for being the cause of the floods.
Of course if you build your house there for the view and are aware of the risks. All the more to you.
I believe that global warming as a theory is a 'fairly' sound basis. I believe that the effects are what they say they will be. Although, it is still just theory hand has yet to be fine tuned.
But, I do not believe that the effect of global warming will happen to the extent that the environmentalist wackos have lead people to believe.
If you sift through the evidence. Figure out the good science from the bad science. Ignore the politics involved in the issue and you will see that at the core, fundamentally, global warming exists. But the numbers really don't show shit. Not to mention all of the new discoveries that are being made about how our planet regulates itself.
Environmental issues in general have been vastly bastardized by politics to the extent that it is hard to find unbiased scientific evidence any just about anything.
"Sometimes it's not as simple a matter as assigning a price and paying for it. Just how should one charge for information, especially when the worth of such information is subjective? "
I'm with you on charging for information. Just how do you put a price on information. But I think a meaningful price could be put on the packaging of that information. Such as the cost of distributing that information over the web, mail, newspaper, etc.
For example, You may have the newspaper delivered to you. you pay a fee for the paper and to have it delivered, but you are not neccessarily paying for the information contained within.
However the method be to distribute the information, there is probably a legitimate cost associated with its method of distribution. That is where the costs and fees should come from.
Heck, if you're a cheap bastard you can always go out and find the information yourself. But usually it's easier just to pay someone else who has already pre-packaged what you need.
That is isn't as wierd as you think. When I turn my reciever off I have my dish rotate back to the satelite with the NASA feed on it. Every time I turn on my dish I get NASA feeds.
If I'm really in the mood I can go outside and adjust the dishes elevation by hand and tap into even more feeds on some other sats that are floating around out there.
I'm am honestly surprised that more tech savvy people are not into this sort of thing. But I suppose a 'big ugly dish' isn't hip anymore in the 90's and 00's. Such ashame to. The signal power coming of a C-Band satelite is incredible. The signals are very clear and hot.
I have an 8 ft Paraclips dish in my back yard. I've had it for wel over a decade and it is still chugging along. When you tune into a digital C-Band station the signals are so hot that they put the little dishes to shame. For a affordabilty and ease of use though, the little dishes have it made. But for a true sat enthusiast you have to have the big dish. There are zillions of news feeds to tap into. I've been able to get lead news stories hours before they are even aired. I would put a big dish up against the itty bitty ones any day.
Sooo, If a dumb Ogre gets stuck in the doorway while I get my ass whooped by an undead train, AND, I hold a grudge, good things will happen in the real world?
Really? Tell me. What did the gun companies have to do with it. Was it the gun company who told them to do it? Was it the gun company who pulled the trigger? I suppose in your view the gun companies are that little devil that sits on your shoulder and tells you to do the 'bad things'. Right? That is what you are implying. Are you not?
I swear, society has a lets blame someone else attitude. It's never your fault. Or in this case, those nutcases fault. Society is always looking for someone to blame regardless of whether they are to blame or not.
I've been playing violent video games for most of my life. I view violent movies on a regular basis. Heck, I grew up watching Rambo movies. (First Blood kicks ass!) I got my ass kicked once in Junior High School. Yet, I've never laid a finger on anyone else. Sure, there have been people who I would have liked to push into oncoming traffic, but I don't. That's the definitive line between your normal person and your nutcase. The crazy person would push them. But why? Because they played a violent video game? I don't think so. Tens of thousands of people have played shoot-em-up games. They turned out fine. So it must not be the games.
Legally I don't see any reason why they would have to give up their patents. Just because something contains a 'piece' of something else shouldn't make the whole patent null. As long as they didn't copyright that little 'piece' in question individually then they should have no problems.
but, I do have a serious question. Should I be able to own bits that are sent from my machine. I created them (in a sense), and I paid for them (electricty). Should I not be able to own those bits? If I don't own any bits of data, is it okay for others to tamper with bits that I don't own?
But then again, is there any real sense in owning something that doesn't really exist (so to speak).
Slashdot Mirror
"This is not a load test"
Of course not, because there is nothing loading to even attempt a test. That's not a good way to start off.
Come on, if you get a hit again, or even if it's your first time getting hit with the virus, You really deserve it. For starters, there has been so much media coverage on this worm that I hardley know anyone who hasn't heard about it. And secondly, if it's your job to admin these servers, WHY THE HELL HAVN'T YOU PATCHED IT YET!!! My servers were correctly patched before even the first wave came through. Someone must not being doing what they are being paid to do. Come on people, it only takes a few minutes a day to go to microsofts website and check for updates.
Ever since Duchoveny left the show I have hardley bothered to watch anymore. Personally I think the management bigwigs are trying to string along a dying program. It was a great show when it was in its prime. I think most will agree with me in saying that show has really lost its edge.
I only agree on half of the issue. That part being, Microsoft has used it corporate might to push around a few companies. The part I absolutely DO NOT agree with is that the government should be decideing what can and cannot be bundled with an OS. This is just plain dumb. Limiting what can be bundled with it just not just apply to MS. It could be extended to include other OS's, Mac, Linux, etc. Does the Linux community want to be told that they cannot bundle a given app because it may impead another apps growth. HELL NO. So, think about how judgments rules against Microsoft may affect others.
Welcoming the trolls? I don't know if I can do that.
Would it be possible to triangulate the position of a satelite based on signals from other atomic based clock satelites? If this could be done you could narrow the error margins down from both sides. Where you are, and where the satelites are. Or maybe they just broadcast the time down to earth and not into space.
Also, If the two satelites, or maybe three, knew where each other where and also broadcast that information to a gps unit, would it be possible to triangulate a position with fewer satelites?
Maybe I should sharpen my pencils and see.
Shower Door
You know, the sliding glass types.
Have you ever seen so many posts from people claiming that they 'know' the answer. So there is no point for them to 'read' the article. I'm mean, in the off chance that they might actually be 'wrong'.
Ahh, typical slashdotters, post first, read later. Always after that elusive first post.
Reminds me of a line in 'armaggedon' where the Russion cosmonaut bangs on the equipment to fire it and say "American components, Russian components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
No sense blaming anyone because I bet a lot of things are made oneplace else and assembled at another place.
For real.
I always get a kick out of the people who build their houses along the bancks of a river or in a flood plain and have their house wiped out by a flood. They rebuild. Then next year the same thing happens to them. People like that will blame everyone except themselves. I've heard everything from bridge, sewer systems, political conspiracies, and yes, 'global warming' for being the cause of the floods.
Of course if you build your house there for the view and are aware of the risks. All the more to you.
I believe that global warming as a theory is a 'fairly' sound basis. I believe that the effects are what they say they will be. Although, it is still just theory hand has yet to be fine tuned.
But, I do not believe that the effect of global warming will happen to the extent that the environmentalist wackos have lead people to believe.
If you sift through the evidence. Figure out the good science from the bad science. Ignore the politics involved in the issue and you will see that at the core, fundamentally, global warming exists. But the numbers really don't show shit. Not to mention all of the new discoveries that are being made about how our planet regulates itself.
Environmental issues in general have been vastly bastardized by politics to the extent that it is hard to find unbiased scientific evidence any just about anything.
"Sometimes it's not as simple a matter as assigning a price and paying for it. Just how should one charge for information, especially when the worth of such information is subjective? "
I'm with you on charging for information. Just how do you put a price on information. But I think a meaningful price could be put on the packaging of that information. Such as the cost of distributing that information over the web, mail, newspaper, etc.
For example, You may have the newspaper delivered to you. you pay a fee for the paper and to have it delivered, but you are not neccessarily paying for the information contained within.
However the method be to distribute the information, there is probably a legitimate cost associated with its method of distribution. That is where the costs and fees should come from.
Heck, if you're a cheap bastard you can always go out and find the information yourself. But usually it's easier just to pay someone else who has already pre-packaged what you need.
A fee for slashdot? hmm...
That is isn't as wierd as you think. When I turn my reciever off I have my dish rotate back to the satelite with the NASA feed on it. Every time I turn on my dish I get NASA feeds.
If I'm really in the mood I can go outside and adjust the dishes elevation by hand and tap into even more feeds on some other sats that are floating around out there.
I'm am honestly surprised that more tech savvy people are not into this sort of thing. But I suppose a 'big ugly dish' isn't hip anymore in the 90's and 00's. Such ashame to. The signal power coming of a C-Band satelite is incredible. The signals are very clear and hot.
I have an 8 ft Paraclips dish in my back yard. I've had it for wel over a decade and it is still chugging along. When you tune into a digital C-Band station the signals are so hot that they put the little dishes to shame. For a affordabilty and ease of use though, the little dishes have it made. But for a true sat enthusiast you have to have the big dish. There are zillions of news feeds to tap into. I've been able to get lead news stories hours before they are even aired. I would put a big dish up against the itty bitty ones any day.
Um... and the moral of that story was?
Sooo, If a dumb Ogre gets stuck in the doorway while I get my ass whooped by an undead train, AND, I hold a grudge, good things will happen in the real world?
too wierd.
Really? Tell me. What did the gun companies have to do with it. Was it the gun company who told them to do it? Was it the gun company who pulled the trigger? I suppose in your view the gun companies are that little devil that sits on your shoulder and tells you to do the 'bad things'. Right? That is what you are implying. Are you not?
I swear, society has a lets blame someone else attitude. It's never your fault. Or in this case, those nutcases fault. Society is always looking for someone to blame regardless of whether they are to blame or not.
I've been playing violent video games for most of my life. I view violent movies on a regular basis. Heck, I grew up watching Rambo movies. (First Blood kicks ass!) I got my ass kicked once in Junior High School. Yet, I've never laid a finger on anyone else. Sure, there have been people who I would have liked to push into oncoming traffic, but I don't. That's the definitive line between your normal person and your nutcase. The crazy person would push them. But why? Because they played a violent video game? I don't think so. Tens of thousands of people have played shoot-em-up games. They turned out fine. So it must not be the games.
Sure, Mach 5 at 5000 mph might be a heck of a feat. But I dare someone to try to break Mach 1 in a vacuum. I dare ya.
Boy, those crazy engineers. It must have taken some real convincing to sell the military a leaky plane.
Logic Bomb, you couldn't have picked a worse name. Going by what you sent into the slashdot crew, it really is a 'Logic Bomb.'
Legally I don't see any reason why they would have to give up their patents. Just because something contains a 'piece' of something else shouldn't make the whole patent null. As long as they didn't copyright that little 'piece' in question individually then they should have no problems.
"All Your Bits Are Belong To Us"
Tell me I'm not just freaking out...
but, I do have a serious question. Should I be able to own bits that are sent from my machine. I created them (in a sense), and I paid for them (electricty). Should I not be able to own those bits? If I don't own any bits of data, is it okay for others to tamper with bits that I don't own?
But then again, is there any real sense in owning something that doesn't really exist (so to speak).
I thought April fools jokes were suppose to be funny. Stupid humor doesn't count... and that was definatly stupid.
I thought I've heard some stoopid things... but that just takes the cake.
OK, now I realize, it was suppose to be funny. Gee, when did I lose my sense of humor?