We have these in Louisville. Basically you buy a scratch-off ticket with a serial number on it. You enter that into the computer game and click the shiny buttons. Then, after wasting 10 minutes, find out what your prize is. Then you take the ticket to your local gas station and tell them it's a winner. They scan it and give you $3 or so.
I suppose you could put in serial numbers until you find the $25,000 winner. You wouldn't get anything out of it.
Microsoft has announced in a press release that it will be suing Wiley and Eric Greenberg for attempted copyright infringement. Microsoft claims that the "MCSP" consolidated title is trying to compete with a yet unannounced revision for a product name: "Microsoft Certified Service Pack (MCSP)."
"This is nothing against Mr. Greenberg," said Bill Gates when asked to comment. "We just don't want any competi- excuse me, confusion."
I wonder if I can make a set of clothes out of this stuff to power a wearable computer. It might get hot, but in kentucky the winters are abnormally cold.
Wait, this means that I would have to go outside to use it. Nevermind
The title to this article is not really accurate in this case. The person who was arrested stole $2000. He was arrested for that (or should have been). The keylogging software in this case was just the means to commit the crime. It shouldn't be illegal to install keylogging software (unless he's breaking the user agreement by installing software on that computer, etc.). To say he was "arrested for installing keylogging software" to represent theft could be compared to saying a murderer was "arrested for buying a gun and ammo."
Using a computer to commit a crime is no different than just commiting the crime. There should be no elevated charge just because he used a computer and software instead of a forged check or stolen credit card.
The real fun in LAN parties is not the games, the food, or the ability to tell that guy next to you, "HEY! Suck my plasma orb."
No....
It's trying your damndest to get that Windows 98 computer to see your frined's 2000 computer and finding that network cable that you thought you left under your bed for emergencies when the guy with XP is complaining that he needs your DSL connection to get drivers for his new video card that is sitting on your drying X-Wing Model while spilling the bean dip in your shag carpet from the 70s. Suddeny, skippy (your dog) pukes up what was the burgers you got 15 minutes earlier for dinner, on your new dual athalon server.
Even better was when one of the male CDC members went up there and a bunch of people(guys adn girls I think) screamed "Show us your tits." Oh, and that tunneling protocol was cool too.
Personally, I don't really want to see the Ender series made into a movie. There is more to that series than just a kid fighting some aliens. The first book would be ok to see, but it will probably lose the political edge that was put in by Valentine and Peter.
The other books in that series are more along the lines of metaphysical texts. The whole aspect of religion and first contact and the concequences that go along with it. I thought they would be honored more to stay on text.
As far as the Ender's Shadow route... there is more hope for that series to (once it ends) make it on the silver screen. More of a political thriller / mystery, Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon would appeal to people that don't really enjoy science fiction.
It's really rather ironic. I was reading the Ender's game series (Speaker for the Dead, etc.) while on a religious retreat (curse you catholic school!) and the Ender's Shadow books around the September 11th events. I guess fate was all about putting me in the mood for these books.
Yay, new way to waste time at work
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Hopefully, this edition will have the Amulet of Yendor in it.
The system works like this. A teacher (or school) creates an account where they can manage "classes" and assignments in that class. The students create accounts and submit papers (in raw text) to the assignment. The report is generated and a copy is sent to you and the teacher.
This is not the final word on this, I haven't seen it from the teacher's side, and I'm just going on what she told the class in the introduction.
I'm a senior in a "college-prep" Catholic high school, and the English teachers at my school found this website and started using it. The first thing that I did after performing the mandatory account creation was to read the guidelines. It did say that they keep all student papers that were submitted in their database, then later on they go on to say that anything on their site is copyright them.
I told my teacher this and she seemed unconcerned. So I am planning to meet with the higher ups to show them the problem with the system.
By the way, my school's website can be found here Saint Xavier High School. . I can't wait until graduation comes and I can get out of that place. Anyone who says single gender education is a good thing should be smacked silly.
The tax on the roads would be a horrible roadblock (no pun intended) on a poor person trying to step up a few rungs on the social-economic latter. Not only is a car and gas expensive, but you also have to factor in insurance and the maintence on the car.
Due to urban sprawl, many good paying jobs (i.e. not Fast Food) are away from the inner city and lower income parts of the city. This creates the need for independant transportation (at least in my city, where the public transportation is almost non-existant).
Why not use a bit of the huge percentage of the taxes used for millitary spending and use that for improvement of roads and other infastructure. Even after the attacks against America (tm) on 9/11 (c), American millitary spending needs to decrease. No more multi-million dollar cruise missles, and cut the amount of nuclear arms in half to help decrease the load spent on maintaining them.
Ok, are you a military fan? How about taxes on SUVs and other High Fuel Consumption vehicles (tax the fuel, as stated in the article). You don't need a 4 wheel drive urban tank to get to point B from point A in a city.
I guess I should have waited a month or so for SuSE to come out with a distro containing this. Hopefully they will also have fixed the strange problems I get while trying to configure and install GTK+. I am so overdependant on Gkrellm , it's not even funny. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait for my bank account to reach double digits again.
Thinkgeek has a nice MP3 player for only $330. That player stores 20 Gigs worth of MP3s. Strange that there would be hype about a $250 1gig drive.
Maybe they got it wrong and forgot a decimal point. That must be it! These HDs are just like RAM. $2.50 for 1 gig. It's funny, RAM is cheaper than these dirves.
For those who want to see it in action.
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A really nice demonstration of this can be seen in the movie 2010 (the sequel to the famous 2001). The Russian spacecraft uses this technique to slow down for an orbit around Jupiter. It's really fun to watch. If the science only partially intrigues you, then watch the movie just because it has John Lithgow. I like that actor more than Keanu Reeves.
I have seen the original Magic Knight Rayearth in fansubbed form. Once I found that my feel-good anime rental store had the professional dubbed release, I had to check it out.
What I found out...they pretty much raped the theme-songs (which I absolutley LOVED!), the voices were annoying, and they took out some other small things. I hope that Toonami goes with standard procedure and cuts the opening and closing songs. Now, it they would only play it in subtitled, maybe we could reinforce reading yet!
Get your subtitled on before you get your dub on. That's the #1 rule of anime.
I have been working on a computer lab that will give youth the chance to try out other operating systems without making their parents crap their pants about reformatting. The problem is, I don't know that much about those systems. I guess I'm a bit pathetic.
Anywho...this website will (hopefully) start to let me put this OS in my information bank. Now, only if I could get a good book on OpenBSD that is less than $20.
In case you might be interested, this lab is part of the youth-run youth center located in Louisville, KY called the BRYCC House (Bardstown Road Youth Culture Center). Just this saturday, they started a webstreaming radio station(It's RealPlayer, but only becasue of a bandwidth donation we got). Please check it out.
Now that we are in the age of mergers, I think that this would be a wonderful time to get out the defibulators and jolt Atari back into existance. Sony would be the best canidate for this. In fact, the Playstation had a game that was ported from the Atari 7800: Ballblazer.
If you don't know what ballblazer is, allow me to explain. The game had better graphics than most NES games. If you haven't played it, go download the ROM.
I know I'm probably going to be moderated down for being offtopic, I just wanted to start an Atari revolution.
This has been flying in my mind ever since I started working at the Library. The combination of Nanites capable of restructuring genetic code would be great for all those genetic diseases like cancer, sickle-cell anemia, and countless others. Reality come back to me and I realized that this is just going to be a new wave of cosmetics.
Nanotech can make you look like you've always wanted!!!! Yes, for only 3 payments of $44.95 you can have your DNA changed to give you what you always wanted. Now choose from our database of 500 celebrity bueaty genes, pick from stars like Tom Cruse, Kathy Ireland, Keanu Reeves.
The process is simple. A few injections of our nanites and you'll look like who you always wanted to. Guarenteed!
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We have these in Louisville. Basically you buy a scratch-off ticket with a serial number on it. You enter that into the computer game and click the shiny buttons. Then, after wasting 10 minutes, find out what your prize is. Then you take the ticket to your local gas station and tell them it's a winner. They scan it and give you $3 or so.
I suppose you could put in serial numbers until you find the $25,000 winner. You wouldn't get anything out of it.
Microsoft has announced in a press release that it will be suing Wiley and Eric Greenberg for attempted copyright infringement. Microsoft claims that the "MCSP" consolidated title is trying to compete with a yet unannounced revision for a product name: "Microsoft Certified Service Pack (MCSP)."
"This is nothing against Mr. Greenberg," said Bill Gates when asked to comment. "We just don't want any competi- excuse me, confusion."
More on this as details develop.
I wonder if I can make a set of clothes out of this stuff to power a wearable computer. It might get hot, but in kentucky the winters are abnormally cold.
Wait, this means that I would have to go outside to use it. Nevermind
The title to this article is not really accurate in this case. The person who was arrested stole $2000. He was arrested for that (or should have been). The keylogging software in this case was just the means to commit the crime. It shouldn't be illegal to install keylogging software (unless he's breaking the user agreement by installing software on that computer, etc.). To say he was "arrested for installing keylogging software" to represent theft could be compared to saying a murderer was "arrested for buying a gun and ammo."
Using a computer to commit a crime is no different than just commiting the crime. There should be no elevated charge just because he used a computer and software instead of a forged check or stolen credit card.
I need it for my calculus homework. Geez!
As of now, the slashdot stats box is reporting over 405 days of uptime. You're not going to lose that over a move are you?! *sob* I hope not.
We make a great team.
Before any comments are up, this site is already slashdotted. Google's mirror. No pictures, but better than nothing.
The real fun in LAN parties is not the games, the food, or the ability to tell that guy next to you, "HEY! Suck my plasma orb."
No....
It's trying your damndest to get that Windows 98 computer to see your frined's 2000 computer and finding that network cable that you thought you left under your bed for emergencies when the guy with XP is complaining that he needs your DSL connection to get drivers for his new video card that is sitting on your drying X-Wing Model while spilling the bean dip in your shag carpet from the 70s. Suddeny, skippy (your dog) pukes up what was the burgers you got 15 minutes earlier for dinner, on your new dual athalon server.
AAAAGGHHH!
Lan parties are fun...
Even better was when one of the male CDC members went up there and a bunch of people(guys adn girls I think) screamed "Show us your tits." Oh, and that tunneling protocol was cool too.
Fag is English slang for a cigarette. It's originally a burning ember or a pile of sticks.
Personally, I don't really want to see the Ender series made into a movie. There is more to that series than just a kid fighting some aliens. The first book would be ok to see, but it will probably lose the political edge that was put in by Valentine and Peter.
The other books in that series are more along the lines of metaphysical texts. The whole aspect of religion and first contact and the concequences that go along with it. I thought they would be honored more to stay on text.
As far as the Ender's Shadow route... there is more hope for that series to (once it ends) make it on the silver screen. More of a political thriller / mystery, Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon would appeal to people that don't really enjoy science fiction.
It's really rather ironic. I was reading the Ender's game series (Speaker for the Dead, etc.) while on a religious retreat (curse you catholic school!) and the Ender's Shadow books around the September 11th events. I guess fate was all about putting me in the mood for these books.
Hopefully, this edition will have the Amulet of Yendor in it.
This is not the final word on this, I haven't seen it from the teacher's side, and I'm just going on what she told the class in the introduction.
I told my teacher this and she seemed unconcerned. So I am planning to meet with the higher ups to show them the problem with the system.
By the way, my school's website can be found here Saint Xavier High School. . I can't wait until graduation comes and I can get out of that place. Anyone who says single gender education is a good thing should be smacked silly.
Due to urban sprawl, many good paying jobs (i.e. not Fast Food) are away from the inner city and lower income parts of the city. This creates the need for independant transportation (at least in my city, where the public transportation is almost non-existant).
Why not use a bit of the huge percentage of the taxes used for millitary spending and use that for improvement of roads and other infastructure. Even after the attacks against America (tm) on 9/11 (c), American millitary spending needs to decrease. No more multi-million dollar cruise missles, and cut the amount of nuclear arms in half to help decrease the load spent on maintaining them.
Ok, are you a military fan? How about taxes on SUVs and other High Fuel Consumption vehicles (tax the fuel, as stated in the article). You don't need a 4 wheel drive urban tank to get to point B from point A in a city.
I guess I should have waited a month or so for SuSE to come out with a distro containing this. Hopefully they will also have fixed the strange problems I get while trying to configure and install GTK+. I am so overdependant on Gkrellm , it's not even funny. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait for my bank account to reach double digits again.
Maybe they got it wrong and forgot a decimal point. That must be it! These HDs are just like RAM. $2.50 for 1 gig. It's funny, RAM is cheaper than these dirves.
A really nice demonstration of this can be seen in the movie 2010 (the sequel to the famous 2001). The Russian spacecraft uses this technique to slow down for an orbit around Jupiter. It's really fun to watch. If the science only partially intrigues you, then watch the movie just because it has John Lithgow. I like that actor more than Keanu Reeves.
What I found out...they pretty much raped the theme-songs (which I absolutley LOVED!), the voices were annoying, and they took out some other small things. I hope that Toonami goes with standard procedure and cuts the opening and closing songs. Now, it they would only play it in subtitled, maybe we could reinforce reading yet!
Get your subtitled on before you get your dub on. That's the #1 rule of anime.
Anywho...this website will (hopefully) start to let me put this OS in my information bank. Now, only if I could get a good book on OpenBSD that is less than $20.
In case you might be interested, this lab is part of the youth-run youth center located in Louisville, KY called the BRYCC House (Bardstown Road Youth Culture Center). Just this saturday, they started a webstreaming radio station(It's RealPlayer, but only becasue of a bandwidth donation we got). Please check it out.
If you don't know what ballblazer is, allow me to explain. The game had better graphics than most NES games. If you haven't played it, go download the ROM.
I know I'm probably going to be moderated down for being offtopic, I just wanted to start an Atari revolution.
Nanotech can make you look like you've always wanted!!!!
Yes, for only 3 payments of $44.95 you can have your DNA changed to give you what you always wanted. Now choose from our database of 500 celebrity bueaty genes, pick from stars like Tom Cruse, Kathy Ireland, Keanu Reeves.
The process is simple. A few injections of our nanites and you'll look like who you always wanted to. Guarenteed!
People of any age could help out though.