I set up a movable type blog on my home server. Five Fucking Days later, it got a penis spam. I implemented some rudimentary spam blocking, and I haven't had a spam in about a month, but I'm sure that won't last.
This morning I emptied my spam folders like I do every morning. The one SpamAssassin-caught spam goes into has 2100 peices of spam. The one Bogofilter-caught spam goes into had 150 pieces of spam. Now do you understand why some people kick up a fuss about spam?
I can't find anywhere on that first link, the Sony site, that actually mentions whether it's a phone or not - the only clue is a link that says "Try the phone".
I agree. I recently acquired a 24" SGI GDM-90W11, which I run at 1920x1200, and it's really sweet. On my "Internet" desktop, I've got a web browser, mail client and an SSH window into my home machine all arranged nicely. On my 3 development windows (all different versions of the same product) I've got kterms on one side, and gvim windows on the other. On another desktop, I've got a Mozilla window open to the Java API spec.
I don't know where you come from, but the only place I commuted by train was in the UK. I know I'm going to get my ass flamed off for this, but it seems to be that petty theft and vandalism are *far* bigger problems in the UK cities than they are in Canadian cities, and I wouldn't expect a bike chained up near a train station in the UK to last a whole day without being stolen or vandalized into unusability.
Yes, all those "ridiculously lazy people" who can't even be bothered to get eye transplants, or who can't be bothered to invent a high resolution screen that fits on a PDA so they could use a graphic browser on your site. Damn them all.
A long time ago, the company I worked for had a training room with 15 identical SparcStations in it. One of those machines was named "bovine", so I installed a cron job that every 15 minutes it had a one in four chance of doing a "cat moo.au >/dev/audio".
The funny thing is that even though one of the machines was named bovine, nobody ever figured out which machine it was that was mooing. But they knew it had to be me right away.
Yes, right. Sorry about that. The friends had their data backed up (or at least, the smart one did), but the web hosting company couldn't tell whether they had an account or not.
The problem wasn't their web site content, it was the fact that the ISP lost their customer records. It's hard to get your web site back up and running when the ISP doesn't even know if you're a customer or not.
A couple of friends of mine were badly burned because the web hosting company they were using lost all their data (customer and their own) in one humungous crash, and didn't have any backups. They didn't even have a spare copy of their customer database, so they couldn't even contact their customers to tell them what was going on. Nor could they tell what customers they had and how much service they'd paid for, etc.
Pilots go solo on many fewer hours than drivers go solo
You don't get your license as soon as you solo. And unlike a driver, you have to prove to a certified flight instructor that you're still a safe pilot every two years. Compare and contrast to drivers, who in most jurisdictions get their licenses when they're 16 and are still driving without anybody retesting or recertifying them when they're 96.
and when near airports you are under instructions from the tower, who keep a lookout for any potential problems
You're not a pilot, are you? At most airports, the tower has one, and only one function - to make sure that there is only one airplane on the runway at a given time. They don't "keep a lookout for potential problems" any more than a traffic light does.
Private aircraft have to submit flight plans so the FAA will know where they are at any given moment
Sorry, but that's utter bullshit. I can get in my plane here in Rochester NY, and besides talking to the control tower and departure controller until I'm 10 miles away from the airport, I could fly all the way to the Pacific Ocean without telling anybody where I am going or even turning on my radio.
The difference between flying and driving is that pilots actually have to demonstrate some skill and judgement in order to get and keep their licenses. There are bad pilots, but nowhere near as high a percentage as there are bad drivers.
Yeah, that's what I need, some asshole distracting me all day because his need to keep his desk clear of wires is more important than my need to get some work done. And because even though he's supposedly in tech, he's never heard of bluetooth.
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I worked at Frontier/Global Crossing, and it was the worst environment I've ever worked. Besides the fucktards who used the speaker phone to check voice mail, and the two women who used speaker phone to talk to each other when they sat 10 feet apart (which I've already mentioned), I also had the following. Note that instead of desks, we had these overgrown shelves that hung off the cube walls. 1. The guy opposite me used to drum on his desk, hard enough to make my monitor shake. When he wasn't drumming on the desk, he was stamping on the floor hard enough that I could feel the shaking through the floor. 2. The woman next to me had a poorly sheilded fan that she put right on the other side of my monitor which on hot days would turn my display into a bad drug trip. 3. She also had frequent visitors who would sit on her "desk", causing my entire desk and monitor to bounce up and down when they sat down or shifted weight. Just leaning forward or back would be an annoyance. 4. When "Little Drummer Boy" left, he was replaced by a guy who spent most of his work day on the phone talking to prospective buyers of his car, or talking to his former neighbours and coworkers back in New Jersey or arranging tee times.
Besides the poor working environment, the whole place was a massive cluster fuck of mismanagement, but that's a story for another time.
As my little domain was exactly equidistant from these two harpies....I got both sides of the conversation, in stereo.
You didn't work for Global Crossing, did you? Because I was in the same situation there - listen to 4 sides of a two sided conversation BETWEEN TWO WOMEN WHO SAT 10 FEET APART!
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I worked in a cube farm where somebody was always using his speaker phone to check his voice mail. One day while he was doing that, a bunch of us went into an empty office, dialed his voice mail number, and left a message where we screamed at the tops of our lungs "STOP FUCKING USING YOUR FUCKING SPEAKER PHONE TO CHECK YOUR FUCKING VOICE MAIL, YOU INCONSIDERATE FUCKTARD". We all went back to our desks and when he got to the end of the messages, we heard the "beep - you have one new message", and grinned as he pushed the button to listen to it.
At Oshkosh, there was somebody showing a VariEze with a Pulse Detonation Wave engine. I didn't catch whether it had actually flown with it. I took some pictures here. Don't be fooled by the USAF markings on the plane - I didn't see any indication that it had any sort connection to the military.
I started racing soon after fibreglass skis were turning the race world upside down. Winning times had been pretty steady for decades, and suddenly in the first Olympics where fibreglass skis appeared, times went down by 10%. In the course of a few years, we went to aluminum poles to fibreglass to carbon fibre. Skis also started using carbon fibres and other advanced composites. The technology war got so bad that they had to limit the minimum width of skis to stop people trying to come up with stronger materials to get away with narrower skis.
Meanwhile, the biggest change came about with plastic soled ski boots. The Salomon Nordic System boot/binding system turned the world upside down. These boots gave you so much control over your skis that skiers invented a "skating" technique. This technique is much, much faster than the old classic technique, and lead to further technological changes in the construction of skis, poles, and boots. Unfortunately, the skating technique is also murder on my knees, and so I had to quit skiing.
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I set up a movable type blog on my home server. Five Fucking Days later, it got a penis spam. I implemented some rudimentary spam blocking, and I haven't had a spam in about a month, but I'm sure that won't last.
This morning I emptied my spam folders like I do every morning. The one SpamAssassin-caught spam goes into has 2100 peices of spam. The one Bogofilter-caught spam goes into had 150 pieces of spam. Now do you understand why some people kick up a fuss about spam?
I can't find anywhere on that first link, the Sony site, that actually mentions whether it's a phone or not - the only clue is a link that says "Try the phone".
Whenever I see that headline, I keep hoping the answer is "In hell, sharing hot lava enemas with Canter and Seigel".
Does anybody have a source for those pictures that *doesn't* require the Viewpoint Player (which isn't supported on Linux)?
I agree. I recently acquired a 24" SGI GDM-90W11, which I run at 1920x1200, and it's really sweet. On my "Internet" desktop, I've got a web browser, mail client and an SSH window into my home machine all arranged nicely. On my 3 development windows (all different versions of the same product) I've got kterms on one side, and gvim windows on the other. On another desktop, I've got a Mozilla window open to the Java API spec.
I don't know where you come from, but the only place I commuted by train was in the UK. I know I'm going to get my ass flamed off for this, but it seems to be that petty theft and vandalism are *far* bigger problems in the UK cities than they are in Canadian cities, and I wouldn't expect a bike chained up near a train station in the UK to last a whole day without being stolen or vandalized into unusability.
Yes, all those "ridiculously lazy people" who can't even be bothered to get eye transplants, or who can't be bothered to invent a high resolution screen that fits on a PDA so they could use a graphic browser on your site. Damn them all.
A long time ago, the company I worked for had a training room with 15 identical SparcStations in it. One of those machines was named "bovine", so I installed a cron job that every 15 minutes it had a one in four chance of doing a "cat moo.au > /dev/audio".
The funny thing is that even though one of the machines was named bovine, nobody ever figured out which machine it was that was mooing. But they knew it had to be me right away.
No, he doesn't plug spamming. The only way to plug spamming is with a Glock 9mm, or maybe a Desert Eagle.
the power that a gaseous orb a zillion miles away exhibits upon my laptop
That's not a nice way to refer to Bill Gates.
Yes, right. Sorry about that. The friends had their data backed up (or at least, the smart one did), but the web hosting company couldn't tell whether they had an account or not.
The problem wasn't their web site content, it was the fact that the ISP lost their customer records. It's hard to get your web site back up and running when the ISP doesn't even know if you're a customer or not.
A couple of friends of mine were badly burned because the web hosting company they were using lost all their data (customer and their own) in one humungous crash, and didn't have any backups. They didn't even have a spare copy of their customer database, so they couldn't even contact their customers to tell them what was going on. Nor could they tell what customers they had and how much service they'd paid for, etc.
Pilots go solo on many fewer hours than drivers go solo
You don't get your license as soon as you solo. And unlike a driver, you have to prove to a certified flight instructor that you're still a safe pilot every two years. Compare and contrast to drivers, who in most jurisdictions get their licenses when they're 16 and are still driving without anybody retesting or recertifying them when they're 96.
and when near airports you are under instructions from the tower, who keep a lookout for any potential problems
You're not a pilot, are you? At most airports, the tower has one, and only one function - to make sure that there is only one airplane on the runway at a given time. They don't "keep a lookout for potential problems" any more than a traffic light does.
Private aircraft have to submit flight plans so the FAA will know where they are at any given moment
Sorry, but that's utter bullshit. I can get in my plane here in Rochester NY, and besides talking to the control tower and departure controller until I'm 10 miles away from the airport, I could fly all the way to the Pacific Ocean without telling anybody where I am going or even turning on my radio.
The difference between flying and driving is that pilots actually have to demonstrate some skill and judgement in order to get and keep their licenses. There are bad pilots, but nowhere near as high a percentage as there are bad drivers.
Don't you just hate those people who answer a question with a question?
Why would anybody do that?
Anybody who is so stupid that they click on random attachments in vaguely worded emails doesn't belong in college.
Yeah, that's what I need, some asshole distracting me all day because his need to keep his desk clear of wires is more important than my need to get some work done. And because even though he's supposedly in tech, he's never heard of bluetooth.
I worked at Frontier/Global Crossing, and it was the worst environment I've ever worked. Besides the fucktards who used the speaker phone to check voice mail, and the two women who used speaker phone to talk to each other when they sat 10 feet apart (which I've already mentioned), I also had the following. Note that instead of desks, we had these overgrown shelves that hung off the cube walls.
1. The guy opposite me used to drum on his desk, hard enough to make my monitor shake. When he wasn't drumming on the desk, he was stamping on the floor hard enough that I could feel the shaking through the floor.
2. The woman next to me had a poorly sheilded fan that she put right on the other side of my monitor which on hot days would turn my display into a bad drug trip.
3. She also had frequent visitors who would sit on her "desk", causing my entire desk and monitor to bounce up and down when they sat down or shifted weight. Just leaning forward or back would be an annoyance.
4. When "Little Drummer Boy" left, he was replaced by a guy who spent most of his work day on the phone talking to prospective buyers of his car, or talking to his former neighbours and coworkers back in New Jersey or arranging tee times.
Besides the poor working environment, the whole place was a massive cluster fuck of mismanagement, but that's a story for another time.
I NEED! both hands when trying to address such a phone call.
So get a headset, and stop being such an asshole.
As my little domain was exactly equidistant from these two harpies....I got both sides of the conversation, in stereo.
You didn't work for Global Crossing, did you? Because I was in the same situation there - listen to 4 sides of a two sided conversation BETWEEN TWO WOMEN WHO SAT 10 FEET APART!
I worked in a cube farm where somebody was always using his speaker phone to check his voice mail. One day while he was doing that, a bunch of us went into an empty office, dialed his voice mail number, and left a message where we screamed at the tops of our lungs "STOP FUCKING USING YOUR FUCKING SPEAKER PHONE TO CHECK YOUR FUCKING VOICE MAIL, YOU INCONSIDERATE FUCKTARD". We all went back to our desks and when he got to the end of the messages, we heard the "beep - you have one new message", and grinned as he pushed the button to listen to it.
He transferred soon afterwards.
At Oshkosh, there was somebody showing a VariEze with a Pulse Detonation Wave engine. I didn't catch whether it had actually flown with it. I took some pictures here.
Don't be fooled by the USAF markings on the plane - I didn't see any indication that it had any sort connection to the military.
I started racing soon after fibreglass skis were turning the race world upside down. Winning times had been pretty steady for decades, and suddenly in the first Olympics where fibreglass skis appeared, times went down by 10%. In the course of a few years, we went to aluminum poles to fibreglass to carbon fibre. Skis also started using carbon fibres and other advanced composites. The technology war got so bad that they had to limit the minimum width of skis to stop people trying to come up with stronger materials to get away with narrower skis.
Meanwhile, the biggest change came about with plastic soled ski boots. The Salomon Nordic System boot/binding system turned the world upside down. These boots gave you so much control over your skis that skiers invented a "skating" technique. This technique is much, much faster than the old classic technique, and lead to further technological changes in the construction of skis, poles, and boots. Unfortunately, the skating technique is also murder on my knees, and so I had to quit skiing.