Yes, you have the first post, but edit your hosts file to point slashdot.org to 69.16.232.239, then log in with your username and password and comment for yet another first post! I promise it'll be worth your while, just like your twitter is!
And in case your browser does not stop you, do NOT actually log in to the access-login page above, unless you drool and make funny noises. And the IP used for the hosts file joke was random and does not VHost-phish slashdot.org. Disclaimers suck, don't they?
Oh yes, the article makes it sound like they'd rather apply at Wal*Mart for shelf-stocking rather than phish, but honestly - having a myspace password or five is probably less paying than stocking shelves and fetching (or pretending to fetch) an item or two every now and then. And IMHO, Wal*Mart stockers (at least in my area) are probably more competent than most phishers, at least from the obvious fakes I've seen.
Sorry if I was an insensitive clod and offended any/.ers that happen to stock shelves for a living.
Well I did everything except actually post the Seinfeld slap-bass outro - which is still possible, I just don't think/. mods would take kindly to an entire comment comprised of my pasting the binary output of `cat ~/Music/seinfeldoutro.ogg`.
I get sick of explaining this, but the sig (which could not completely fit because of/.) is supposed to infinitely loop like that. I'm fully aware that getch() is only found in DOS's conio.h (and the ncurses lib), but even The C Programming Language references it, without providing the code for it (or even a header inclusion, for that matter). The full code snippet (forgive me, mods) is this:
void PAUSE(){ printf("\nPress any key to continue. .."); while(1) getch(); }// enforce the 'any' key
And this was used in an old app I wrote (a long time ago) - a fake COMMAND.COM/cmd.exe used to prank anyone who used it religiously, mainly a teacher I had that pinged something every about five minutes.
Now can we move on? (And if thats you, peter, then you obviously are new here).
Well thats a relief, I'd hate to know (in these economic times) that some information could not be retrieved because of inability to pay the transfer fees, and not, in my opinion, the more important cost of storage size.
The only way this could be a loss to amazon is if somebody stores a ton of stuff (say, gigs and gigs of videos) and after initially storing it sits on it and transfers continuously without paying for more space. Other than that, I consider this a suddenoutbreakofcommonsense.
Well the article does not say Ex-employees, so that means we should also consider employees still part of the "team" (as my manager puts it).
In a recession, somebody employed yet still enduring paycuts would probably be somewhat disgruntled too, even if not "terminated" per se (but with terminations all around said employee, or the looming fear of termination imminent). An employee with access to something worth anything would still be able to take it and run, and the possibility of him/her doing so in a recesssion/depression with constant paycuts and the constant threat of layoff is rather high, so this is where it gets hairy - how much do you trust your fellow employees? You can't cut present employees' access!
Well, now that I've struck fear into the heart of any employers/administrators reading this, I don't think this recession is quite to that point yet, but it may be something to watch down the road if things keep getting progressively worse.
Bill gates makes money off of his virus. I guess I could have done the same with a little marketing and a commercial with an ape convincing you to buy it.
Yeah, many years ago (in my teens) I had the ambition to be "the next bill gates", and now as I write small to medium websites and private applications from my couch, covered in empty red bull cans and small food bags, I think I managed pretty well!
They already have it. I just got a twitter the other day, and every single URL is SSL encrypted by default. This also means I can access it from work, where we (I'm the one who set it up, ironically) are filtered from this rubbish by Websense usually.
Macworld Boston - that's the one. If the collection starts from 1998 then it must not include this one.
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_jobs#Return_to_Apple (doesn't mention the keynote, but although the collection starts from 1998 he actually came back in 1996, announcing it in 1997 at Macworld Boston.)
Well at first it appeared that the tag was read as "rip steve" rather than the (hopefully implied) "R.I.P Steve" and I was a little scared, but yes apparently you are the one who tagged this because he is not _dead_ per se, just removing himself from the Mac scene a little (you can't expect him to completely leave what he loves/does best, now can you?)
That is something that still bothers me about all of this - FF is cross-platform, yet Chrome, Google's new brainchild, is Win-only. "Upgrade! Upgrade!" they cry, but us Linux, Mac, and misc. *nix users are still left in the complete dust! I hope Google releases at least a binary pretty soon, else its going to turn into a FF vs. Chrome battle, the new epic flame war, no doubt with a Google-fund-less Mozilla Foundation struggling to compete!
It appears that it is related to the hardware clock in the Zune 30. People are reporting that by disabling the Windows Time Service on their PC, resetting the date on their PC (to something like 12/04/2008) , and stopping all Zune-related Windows services (and hard-resetting the Zune device [which involves opening it up]) they are able to get it all working again.
Unfortunately this also voids your warrenty, and may also... break your Zune. But if you have to have your music now, and don't feel like buying an iPod...
- Mario Kart Wii - the Mario Kart formula is looking very tired now
Funny, I thought the same thing when Super Mario 64 and the original Super Smash Brothers came out. But people keep buying (and enjoying) the games, and the younger generations are apparently still enjoying it so Mario's legend still continues to live on (although Donkey Kong strangely disappeared).
I can't knock it if the majority of people enjoy it, but come on - at least enhance his graphics a little bit, you know? Add some textures to Mario for once, even though the idea of a half-life 2 looking Italian plumber would kind of kill the whole thing for me.
Yeah, a reference to his alzheimer's. Even worse/ruder - he might rewrite some of his old books, thinking it is new material, and either make more money or lose his publisher.
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Yes, you have the first post, but edit your hosts file to point slashdot.org to 69.16.232.239, then log in with your username and password and comment for yet another first post! I promise it'll be worth your while, just like your twitter is!
And in case your browser does not stop you, do NOT actually log in to the access-login page above, unless you drool and make funny noises. And the IP used for the hosts file joke was random and does not VHost-phish slashdot.org. Disclaimers suck, don't they?
Oh yes, the article makes it sound like they'd rather apply at Wal*Mart for shelf-stocking rather than phish, but honestly - having a myspace password or five is probably less paying than stocking shelves and fetching (or pretending to fetch) an item or two every now and then. And IMHO, Wal*Mart stockers (at least in my area) are probably more competent than most phishers, at least from the obvious fakes I've seen.
/.ers that happen to stock shelves for a living.
Sorry if I was an insensitive clod and offended any
well you might also find your FBI record interesting as well.
Well I did everything except actually post the Seinfeld slap-bass outro - which is still possible, I just don't think /. mods would take kindly to an entire comment comprised of my pasting the binary output of `cat ~/Music/seinfeldoutro.ogg`.
But hey, the option is certainly still there.
...because I still use an 80-character TTY terminal, you insensitive clod!
void PAUSE(){ printf("\nPress any key to continue. . ."); while(1) getch(); } // enforce the 'any' key
And this was used in an old app I wrote (a long time ago) - a fake COMMAND.COM/cmd.exe used to prank anyone who used it religiously, mainly a teacher I had that pinged something every about five minutes.
Now can we move on? (And if thats you, peter, then you obviously are new here).
Yes, hence the second paragraph. I was actually posting from a consumer standpoint since I am shopping around for some data storage, myself.
Well thats a relief, I'd hate to know (in these economic times) that some information could not be retrieved because of inability to pay the transfer fees, and not, in my opinion, the more important cost of storage size.
The only way this could be a loss to amazon is if somebody stores a ton of stuff (say, gigs and gigs of videos) and after initially storing it sits on it and transfers continuously without paying for more space. Other than that, I consider this a suddenoutbreakofcommonsense.
(mumbles to self) Well the life support machine called... Wait! Thats it! You just screwed yourself Riley!
This is not flamebait - its a classic seinfeld episode: Synopsis full episode.
Yeah? Well the jerk store called and they're running out of you!
Well the article does not say Ex-employees, so that means we should also consider employees still part of the "team" (as my manager puts it).
In a recession, somebody employed yet still enduring paycuts would probably be somewhat disgruntled too, even if not "terminated" per se (but with terminations all around said employee, or the looming fear of termination imminent). An employee with access to something worth anything would still be able to take it and run, and the possibility of him/her doing so in a recesssion/depression with constant paycuts and the constant threat of layoff is rather high, so this is where it gets hairy - how much do you trust your fellow employees? You can't cut present employees' access!
Well, now that I've struck fear into the heart of any employers/administrators reading this, I don't think this recession is quite to that point yet, but it may be something to watch down the road if things keep getting progressively worse.
Bill gates makes money off of his virus. I guess I could have done the same with a little marketing and a commercial with an ape convincing you to buy it.
Yeah, many years ago (in my teens) I had the ambition to be "the next bill gates", and now as I write small to medium websites and private applications from my couch, covered in empty red bull cans and small food bags, I think I managed pretty well!
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They already have it. I just got a twitter the other day, and every single URL is SSL encrypted by default. This also means I can access it from work, where we (I'm the one who set it up, ironically) are filtered from this rubbish by Websense usually.
Well we could economize the situation by placing the stockbrokers in the chairs before handing them to Ballmer.
Oh yes, chairs are a-flying in Redmond now, and if you listen slightly to the West, you just might hear some of them land...
Macworld Boston - that's the one. If the collection starts from 1998 then it must not include this one.
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_jobs#Return_to_Apple (doesn't mention the keynote, but although the collection starts from 1998 he actually came back in 1996, announcing it in 1997 at Macworld Boston.)
Well at first it appeared that the tag was read as "rip steve" rather than the (hopefully implied) "R.I.P Steve" and I was a little scared, but yes apparently you are the one who tagged this because he is not _dead_ per se, just removing himself from the Mac scene a little (you can't expect him to completely leave what he loves/does best, now can you?)
What about the one from 1997, when he came back from Apple after leaving/getting fired?
That is something that still bothers me about all of this - FF is cross-platform, yet Chrome, Google's new brainchild, is Win-only. "Upgrade! Upgrade!" they cry, but us Linux, Mac, and misc. *nix users are still left in the complete dust! I hope Google releases at least a binary pretty soon, else its going to turn into a FF vs. Chrome battle, the new epic flame war, no doubt with a Google-fund-less Mozilla Foundation struggling to compete!
I shall soon follow suite with a little browser sniffing on future sites I design! I can finally stop supporting that shitty browser after all!
It appears that it is related to the hardware clock in the Zune 30. People are reporting that by disabling the Windows Time Service on their PC, resetting the date on their PC (to something like 12/04/2008) , and stopping all Zune-related Windows services (and hard-resetting the Zune device [which involves opening it up]) they are able to get it all working again.
Unfortunately this also voids your warrenty, and may also... break your Zune. But if you have to have your music now, and don't feel like buying an iPod...
- Mario Kart Wii - the Mario Kart formula is looking very tired now
Funny, I thought the same thing when Super Mario 64 and the original Super Smash Brothers came out. But people keep buying (and enjoying) the games, and the younger generations are apparently still enjoying it so Mario's legend still continues to live on (although Donkey Kong strangely disappeared).
I can't knock it if the majority of people enjoy it, but come on - at least enhance his graphics a little bit, you know? Add some textures to Mario for once, even though the idea of a half-life 2 looking Italian plumber would kind of kill the whole thing for me.
Yeah, a reference to his alzheimer's. Even worse/ruder - he might rewrite some of his old books, thinking it is new material, and either make more money or lose his publisher.