Argh! McCain lost my vote and Slashdot declined a story when I read that a while ago. McCain wants to cut funding for any library or school without mandatory ineffectual filtering software?
Arrrrrrgh! Enforce things you know! Not sequester things you fear! Arrrrrgh!
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One of my best friends is from Japan and he didn't seem to have any troubles schlupping down the sake while getting a PhD in discrete mathematics.
Besides! Who wants to have willpower when you can buy pr0n and beer on the street, anonymously, and then retire to your own personal party safely at home?
What about those suffering Too-Many-Hours-Close-To-The-Vending-Machine syndrome? The people know just how to jiggle each machine, and which machine has the best stuff on each day.
In Japan they sell beer in the vending machines. I don't know how the hell they get any coding done.
Can't accept criticism? that's a new one to me -- but entirely true.
Bullied? Oh hell yes. Not for being smart, but aggresively and persistently harrassed for about a year and a half. To defend my best friend. Who promptly never spoke to me again. Fscker.
Nothing else to say except 'yes' to almost every single question.
and you can make a valid HTTP request without sending the user-agent
Do you? Ever?? Have you? Ever??
Do you revel in the glory of raw socket binding and accepting in order to send only the bytestream you decide? Or do you let someone else do that for you, and consequently accept the effects of the other decisions they make?
So, let's see, if we can read it it's bad? You can read it AND you can see what's being sent. So ask yourself, of what you know is being sent, is it that revealing?
Worry about what you can't see being sent -- which is potentially anything. Or everything.
Freak out about this if you like, but it doesn't seem all that conspiratic-al. But what's to wonder is what's encoded in the 1's and 0's that you don't have the format to decode?
What a kick ass car. I would LOVE to own/drive a Supra Turbo. DAMN.
I had an encounter w/ one back when I had a 96 Mustang GT (1st year for new engine, 'nuff said). I got passed doing 100 mph on an onramp. I was doing 100, he just came from behind and KICKED MY ASS. (We were playing around before; I do not drive 100mph for my own benefit). In my heart of hearts, I have to believe it had major mods internally, because of the small and tasteful (!!!) TRD sticker, 18" chrome wheels, shiny exhaust, etc.
I just sighed and remembered when a Miata tried to cut me off earlier that day. Ha ha ha!
Finally! A sight-driven cursor! I can tape this to the top of my head and look where I want to click. There'd have to be some sort of chin strap that could be used to push the buttons on the pen...... and some sort of pr0n mode where you can look at one thing and click something completely else.
While I agree with most of the points above, I respectfully disagree with the first point, that new employees completely replace their previous counterparts.
The previous employees have the day-to-day functional knowledge for that particular work environment. Need to get a computer / peripheral quickly? They know which admin assistant is the most responsive. They know which boss will "invite" you to meetings, and which will shield you from as many as possible. They even know where you can get a lunch without waiting the whole hour in a line.
My point-de-resistance is... almost all documentation for almost all software lives in the author's mind. Losing the sole source of an obsure or crucial piece of code sucks really hard. It makes life hard.
I believe that while eager new employees certainly _can_ equal the productivity of their predecessors, they certainly do not do so right away. And when deadlines are tight (haha! always!) that can do Bad Things to the project.
(It can, however, lead to very profitable "consultancy" tasks for the former author. Unless they for some reason don't like the company any longer =)
Since when did any major innovation in war technology stay in the bottle? Agreed, it should, buuuuuttt Warmongers won't go for this:
Me can swing club. Him can throw heavy rock. Oh *&@$@!!
What about gunpowder, biological warfare, and nuclear warfare? Why should cheap, sneaky, and very effective tactics go unused in this the ineffectively protected electronic age?
How long before People With Dangerous Intentions start thinking ''if bored people with scripts can easily deface government and military computers, what can a ruthless moral outrage propel me to do? Muahahahahaha!!''
Agreed, it's not much use to post when people tend to (probably, just a guess) skip to the highest-rated comments.
I'm confused, what does being Down Under (apologies if that's offensive, it's a common term in the US) have to do with missing the news rush? Don't Slashdot articles appear as quickly from Australia? Or are there inter-contintental caching problems, or am I just completely confused?
ObApology: no offense intended on the smartass comment. It's just the downside of a severly humor-impaired person.
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I used to have a Nokia 6190 (GREAT phone) and I'm pretty sure it had an option to not send its own number. Looking through a Qualcomm QCP-1920 I don't see that option but I also forgot the password to the security menu.
I wonder if that might work, or if for some Nefarious Reason (cough marketing cough) it would automagically re-enable itself.
-- The best proof of ownership is if the software will only run on Apple's hardware --
Wow, good point. No point in buying an expensive bookend I s'pose.
-- Hopefully there is still some ability of recent versions of MacOS to run on some of the clones ( e.g. UMAX, StarMax, Motorola,...) --
Hmm, well, there's a PowerComputing PowerTower Pro 180e around here which runs 8.1 happily, but forget about anything past it. I tried 8.5 and seem to recall it wasn't a happy experience.
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Argh! McCain lost my vote and Slashdot declined a story when I read that a while ago. McCain wants to cut funding for any library or school without mandatory ineffectual filtering software?
Arrrrrrgh! Enforce things you know! Not sequester things you fear! Arrrrrgh!
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that Kevin won't be able to read...
They oughta take some of those thar nifty lookin' boxes and make webservers out of 'em -- the site's /.'ed ater 45 comments.
Maybe they have some willpower.
One of my best friends is from Japan and he didn't seem to have any troubles schlupping down the sake while getting a PhD in discrete mathematics.
Besides! Who wants to have willpower when you can buy pr0n and beer on the street, anonymously, and then retire to your own personal party safely at home?
What about those suffering Too-Many-Hours-Close-To-The-Vending-Machine syndrome? The people know just how to jiggle each machine, and which machine has the best stuff on each day.
In Japan they sell beer in the vending machines. I don't know how the hell they get any coding done.
hahahahahahahaha
gasp gasp... pant
muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah hee
tee hee... heeeeeee....
Can't accept criticism? that's a new one to me -- but entirely true.
Bullied? Oh hell yes. Not for being smart, but aggresively and persistently harrassed for about a year and a half. To defend my best friend. Who promptly never spoke to me again. Fscker.
Nothing else to say except 'yes' to almost every single question.
and you can make a valid HTTP request without sending the user-agent
Do you? Ever?? Have you? Ever??
Do you revel in the glory of raw socket binding and accepting in order to send only the bytestream you decide? Or do you let someone else do that for you, and consequently accept the effects of the other decisions they make?
Hmm. I wonder.
So, let's see, if we can read it it's bad? You can read it AND you can see what's being sent. So ask yourself, of what you know is being sent, is it that revealing?
Worry about what you can't see being sent -- which is potentially anything. Or everything.
Freak out about this if you like, but it doesn't seem all that conspiratic-al. But what's to wonder is what's encoded in the 1's and 0's that you don't have the format to decode?
And that's the rest of the story.
What a kick ass car. I would LOVE to own/drive a Supra Turbo. DAMN.
I had an encounter w/ one back when I had a 96 Mustang GT (1st year for new engine, 'nuff said). I got passed doing 100 mph on an onramp. I was doing 100, he just came from behind and KICKED MY ASS. (We were playing around before; I do not drive 100mph for my own benefit). In my heart of hearts, I have to believe it had major mods internally, because of the small and tasteful (!!!) TRD sticker, 18" chrome wheels, shiny exhaust, etc.
I just sighed and remembered when a Miata tried to cut me off earlier that day. Ha ha ha!
http://www.chryslercars.com/pt_cr uiser/index.html
http://www.karmustang.com/
Ack! In Columbus OH (USA) there's a dealership with only classic mustangs. Talk about a room full of 30 year old chrome!
... don't ask
Here's my dream car.
And here's a car I had the good fortune to own for about three weeks. And then sold it.
I swear, m11 changed the link on me. Sigh. (preview didn't help!) here's the real link http://www.cobalt.com/products/qube/index.html
http://www.cobalt.com/products/qube/index.html A 8"x8"x8" blue 64-bit headless linux box!!
Finally! A sight-driven cursor! I can tape this to the top of my head and look where I want to click. There'd have to be some sort of chin strap that could be used to push the buttons on the pen...... and some sort of pr0n mode where you can look at one thing and click something completely else.
While I agree with most of the points above, I respectfully disagree with the first point, that new employees completely replace their previous counterparts.
The previous employees have the day-to-day functional knowledge for that particular work environment. Need to get a computer / peripheral quickly? They know which admin assistant is the most responsive. They know which boss will "invite" you to meetings, and which will shield you from as many as possible. They even know where you can get a lunch without waiting the whole hour in a line.
My point-de-resistance is... almost all documentation for almost all software lives in the author's mind. Losing the sole source of an obsure or crucial piece of code sucks really hard. It makes life hard.
I believe that while eager new employees certainly _can_ equal the productivity of their predecessors, they certainly do not do so right away. And when deadlines are tight (haha! always!) that can do Bad Things to the project.
(It can, however, lead to very profitable "consultancy" tasks for the former author. Unless they for some reason don't like the company any longer =)
Since when did any major innovation in war technology stay in the bottle? Agreed, it should, buuuuuttt Warmongers won't go for this:
Me can swing club. Him can throw heavy rock. Oh *&@$@!!
What about gunpowder, biological warfare, and nuclear warfare? Why should cheap, sneaky, and very effective tactics go unused in this the ineffectively protected electronic age?
How long before People With Dangerous Intentions start thinking ''if bored people with scripts can easily deface government and military computers, what can a ruthless moral outrage propel me to do? Muahahahahaha!!''
Agreed, it's not much use to post when people tend to (probably, just a guess) skip to the highest-rated comments.
I'm confused, what does being Down Under (apologies if that's offensive, it's a common term in the US) have to do with missing the news rush? Don't Slashdot articles appear as quickly from Australia? Or are there inter-contintental caching problems, or am I just completely confused?
ObApology: no offense intended on the smartass comment. It's just the downside of a severly humor-impaired person.
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/offtopic/ How come every time I see a topic that I REALLY can add to on Slashdot, I catch it 4 hours too late?
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ObSmartassComment: You obiously need to slash more dots.
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P.S. Why do you need to send email from a cell phone? Isn't it easier to actually PHONE the person?
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You call them to ask why they haven't responded to your email yet. (what do you mean you didn't get it? You're holding it in your hand!!)
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/orbiter/
(trust me, it's different)
I used to have a Nokia 6190 (GREAT phone) and I'm pretty sure it had an option to not send its own number. Looking through a Qualcomm QCP-1920 I don't see that option but I also forgot the password to the security menu.
I wonder if that might work, or if for some Nefarious Reason (cough marketing cough) it would automagically re-enable itself.
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The best proof of ownership is if the software will only run on Apple's hardware
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Wow, good point. No point in buying an expensive bookend I s'pose.
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Hopefully there is still some ability of recent versions of MacOS to run on some of the clones ( e.g. UMAX, StarMax, Motorola,
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Hmm, well, there's a PowerComputing PowerTower Pro 180e around here which runs 8.1 happily, but forget about anything past it. I tried 8.5 and seem to recall it wasn't a happy experience.