As for Art Bell, I have heard pieces of his show when I get up to take my dog outside in the morning, and for the most part its just as valuable as this article.
Oh come on. Art Bell can be way more entertaining than Slashdot. "Antichrist Line", anyone?
Another time he left a box which had a ticking sound in it. The principal ended up rushing the thing into the middle of the football field thinking it was a bomb. The person saying this was laughing about it
This remids me of something that happened when I was in highschool, prolly around '95 or so...
Someone in the library typed "THIS COMPUTER HAS A BOMB IN IT" at the C:\ prompt, and then left the machine.
Me and a friend had walked by the machine, seen the message, and didn't really think much of it.
Until they evacuated the library.
So, by now, me and my friend[1] are ROFL at the principal, vice principal, and librarians milling about trying to decide what they were gonna do.
So, naturally, we get noticed, and questioned.
They think we're psychos or something, laughing about a bomb planted in the computer.
After explaining that we'd seen the message, we didn't do it, how to get rid of it ("cls"), and that there was NO THREAT, they let us go with a stern warning [2].
And then re-opened the library.
I think the SA was out of town so there was
nobody to explain to the utterly clueless admins that it was just a DOS prompt...
Nobody, that is, aside from the students.
Funniest thing is that by my senior year I was prolly the most trusted[3] student in the school...
Even was given r00t on the Netware servers at one point...
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[1] Also nerdy...fuck, we were in the library after lunch, is there really any question?
[2] Good thing this was pre-columbine. They prolly woulda had us arrested. Especially considering this was in Littleton, about five miles from columbine.
[3] In a network security sense, anyway...
Clean burning fossil fuel plants don't solve the main problem with fossil fuels - finite supply.
What good is clean burning if you've got nothing to burn?
Too bad people (USians in particular) have such an irrational fear of anything nuclear...
I put in a request for a new battery today (I have an I5000, and despite what Taco may say, it's been a great machine. Even survived a couple drops with no damage...), and it appears to work like this:
They send me a new one.
I send back my potentially pyrotechnic one.
When they get my old one, they send me *another* one.
So, I get two batteries out of this recall.
I'm happy.
I was actually thinking about getting a couple big Honda "[H]" stickers, some vinyl kanji characters,
a huge fan (closest thing to an exhast tip I can think of...), and,
of course, several "Type R" stickers, so I could then "rice up" my tired old P120...
I figure those "performance mods" should kick the performance up to the level of, say, a PIII 300...
I don't smoke, but I think the 'truth' ads are some of the most obnoxious and grating of all time.
The sheer pretentiousness of the campaign just annoys the hell out of me.
If I were selling laptops to businesses I'd recommend windoze, too.
Why? MS Office. It's the only thing out there that can reliably read MS Office files,
and chances are, business customers are already using it on Win or Mac.
Linux just doesn't have the app support to make it viable on many corporate networks.
Sure, StarOffice and friends are nice programs, and have most of the capability of Office,
but until they can flawlessly exchange files from MS Office, they won't be able to compete.
It seems that whenever there's a cool technology that benefits consumers, some greedy dickhead(s) has to come in and tear it down.
Net radio is pretty nifty, I mean how else could I listen to another station hundreds of miles away, that might have a different format or wider variety of music than any of the stations in my area.[1]
Not to mention, net radio is nice for cubicle-dwellers stuck inside, where bandwidth is available, but radio signals are weak.
The radio stations are already paying a license fee so they can broadcast, why should they have to pay another one just because a transmission media has been added?
Greed sucks.
[1] IMO, Denver radio bites. KBPI has a couple good DJs, but the playlists are too repetitive.
KTCL used to be pretty good, 'till they sold out, and KXPK has that annoying ex-MTV chick. Ugh.
The only station I remember as being really good was 92X (KNRX, I think) but they only lasted a couple years.
But somehow any old guy on the street can add modifications into OpenBSD?
Uhh...Yeah, actually he can.
His patches might not get into the main tree, but he is free to fork the whole damn thing if he likes.
There's nothing stopping you from adding to any of the BSDs, you just won't necessarily get into the official tree.
Linux is the same way, pretty much.
I kinda like the comittee better, as personal bias ("I think foo sucks and won't consider any ideas from foo, regardless of how good they may be") is less of a factor in deciding what goes in or not.
Slashdot Mirror
Chatfield, class of '98.
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As for Art Bell, I have heard pieces of his show when I get up to take my dog outside in the morning, and for the most part its just as valuable as this article.
Oh come on. Art Bell can be way more entertaining than Slashdot. "Antichrist Line", anyone?
Fuck ya if ya can't take a joke.
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Another time he left a box which had a ticking sound in it. The principal ended up rushing the thing into the middle of the football field thinking it was a bomb. The person saying this was laughing about it
This remids me of something that happened when I was in highschool, prolly around '95 or so...
Someone in the library typed "THIS COMPUTER HAS A BOMB IN IT" at the C:\ prompt, and then left the machine.
Me and a friend had walked by the machine, seen the message, and didn't really think much of it.
Until they evacuated the library.
So, by now, me and my friend[1] are ROFL at the principal, vice principal, and librarians milling about trying to decide what they were gonna do.
So, naturally, we get noticed, and questioned.
They think we're psychos or something, laughing about a bomb planted in the computer.
After explaining that we'd seen the message, we didn't do it, how to get rid of it ("cls"), and that there was NO THREAT, they let us go with a stern warning [2].
And then re-opened the library.
I think the SA was out of town so there was
nobody to explain to the utterly clueless admins that it was just a DOS prompt...
Nobody, that is, aside from the students.
Funniest thing is that by my senior year I was prolly the most trusted[3] student in the school...
Even was given r00t on the Netware servers at one point...
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[1] Also nerdy...fuck, we were in the library after lunch, is there really any question?
[2] Good thing this was pre-columbine. They prolly woulda had us arrested. Especially considering this was in Littleton, about five miles from columbine.
[3] In a network security sense, anyway...
I thought the first one didn't go thru...
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If it's retroactive, my Whitesnake license will have been expired for like 10 years!
My whole collection will be USELESS!
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next thing you know the RIAA is going to move to a three year licensing model for CD's.
If it's retroactive, my Whitesnake license will have been expired for like 10 years!
My whole collection will be USELESS!
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In short, Suck is spewing without understanding
Isn't that what Suck has always done?
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I dunno, I always thought Suck...well...sucked.
I'd rather die from Quake than from a heart attack.
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Clean burning fossil fuel plants don't solve the main problem with fossil fuels - finite supply.
What good is clean burning if you've got nothing to burn?
Too bad people (USians in particular) have such an irrational fear of anything nuclear...
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I put in a request for a new battery today (I have an I5000, and despite what Taco may say, it's been a great machine. Even survived a couple drops with no damage...), and it appears to work like this:
They send me a new one.
I send back my potentially pyrotechnic one.
When they get my old one, they send me *another* one.
So, I get two batteries out of this recall.
I'm happy.
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ya. because everybody's so concerned with impressing this guy.
Yeah, he came off as being quite a dick.
I like smart people, but this sort of arrogance and pretentiousness just annoys the hell outta me.
Musta been fun chatting with 'im on the plane for 2 hours...
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I was actually thinking about getting a couple big Honda "[H]" stickers, some vinyl kanji characters,
a huge fan (closest thing to an exhast tip I can think of...), and,
of course, several "Type R" stickers, so I could then "rice up" my tired old P120...
I figure those "performance mods" should kick the performance up to the level of, say, a PIII 300...
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WTF does someone do with 5 million anyway?
I'd buy a new gaming rig... <g>
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I don't smoke, but I think the 'truth' ads are some of the most obnoxious and grating of all time.
The sheer pretentiousness of the campaign just annoys the hell out of me.
Ugh.
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If I were selling laptops to businesses I'd recommend windoze, too.
Why? MS Office. It's the only thing out there that can reliably read MS Office files,
and chances are, business customers are already using it on Win or Mac.
Linux just doesn't have the app support to make it viable on many corporate networks.
Sure, StarOffice and friends are nice programs, and have most of the capability of Office,
but until they can flawlessly exchange files from MS Office, they won't be able to compete.
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Good Friday ain't a national holiday.
I know this because gubmint people don't get the day off.
Which kinda sucks for me, but you can't really expect the US gov't to let people off on a religious holiday. At least not yet...
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It seems that whenever there's a cool technology that benefits consumers, some greedy dickhead(s) has to come in and tear it down.
Net radio is pretty nifty, I mean how else could I listen to another station hundreds of miles away, that might have a different format or wider variety of music than any of the stations in my area.[1]
Not to mention, net radio is nice for cubicle-dwellers stuck inside, where bandwidth is available, but radio signals are weak.
The radio stations are already paying a license fee so they can broadcast, why should they have to pay another one just because a transmission media has been added?
Greed sucks.
[1] IMO, Denver radio bites. KBPI has a couple good DJs, but the playlists are too repetitive.
KTCL used to be pretty good, 'till they sold out, and KXPK has that annoying ex-MTV chick. Ugh.
The only station I remember as being really good was 92X (KNRX, I think) but they only lasted a couple years.
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Dinosaurs will die.
VA IPOs
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Looks like those NBCi bastards TOS'd the guy.
I just pray that I have the flash bit in my cache at home...it was truly godlike.
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Yeah, the 'save the children' troll is pretty common now, making it easy to spot.
I think if I were doing the trolling, I'd go for the "God" angle, as religion generally
gets lots of bites and starts nice flame wars to boot.
So, just remember, kids, pr0n goes against the LORD.
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Glad I'm not the only one that sees it that way.
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Hey, what can I say?
/found/ lots of alternative fuels...Problem is nobody wants to use 'em.
Things that are big, noisy, dangerous, and fast are just more fun than playing with the fishies.
Or (heaven forbid), they find alternative fuels.
Oh, we've
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Oh geeze, it's the Basic guy again...
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But somehow any old guy on the street can add modifications into OpenBSD?
Uhh...Yeah, actually he can.
His patches might not get into the main tree, but he is free to fork the whole damn thing if he likes.
There's nothing stopping you from adding to any of the BSDs, you just won't necessarily get into the official tree.
Linux is the same way, pretty much.
I kinda like the comittee better, as personal bias ("I think foo sucks and won't consider any ideas from foo, regardless of how good they may be") is less of a factor in deciding what goes in or not.
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What?! Linus hates microkernels? Big news there!
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