They don't understand Missiles, they don't care they're still gonna try to shoot it down... if you wanna fight terrorists with such a sweet device, you have to THINK like one and then translate this into a weapon to which they'll fear.
Let me explain: How do terrorists commit their acts? They have bombs, they strap their body with bombs and go kamikaze, same with hijaacks. So what do they understand? "if we have something that can destroy them all, they won't touch us", put that into practice and put a nuclear detonator on the device:), you shoot? Blam! wrong move.
Hmm this started as a joke, but the more I think of it, heh, the more I'd almost laugh seeing their face taken in pictures by a spy plane of all their camps and them looking at it without daring shooting it down in case it might release something nasty over them. That way you gather all the intelligence needed without killing to many soldiers, of course some are totally stupid and will shoot it down and get blown up to bits (so less troubles for the millitary to close down the camps).
This might almost work;) and besides, it's their own evil conceptual creation.
I don't see what the fuss is all about, I patched my system when prompted to, I updated my Norton antivirus when prompted to, I've went on some websites which had the virus, It detected it, I've received e-mails with it, it detected it.
I'm not a rocket scientist, I've acted like any Net user should do, patching and antivirus are something common in the windows world, bitch as much as you want, if you've done you're homework properly, chances are you didn't get affected by this. Of COURSE some will (people that got it before let's say the Norton update was available), but if everybody would have done his job right, the threat would have been contained and not as big as it is right now.
Paying for norton antivirus? well last time I checked it was about 30$ for an OEM copy, that's nothing compared to paying 40$ for a C00l K-RaD cooler or overpriced pentium IV is it? If you're able to spend 1000$ on a box, spending 30$ for protecting it is an investment.
What I find unacceptable is people that, one week after code red was announced, were still infected and probing my servers. That's irresponsible, and I agree with shutting them down until they fix the problem. Please don't bullshit with freedom and similar crap related issues, if your freedom means slowing down or crashing other people's net experience, it's called BEING SELF-CENTERED and irresponsible. ISP have a responsibility to ensure that the maximum of their userbase aren't affected by any crisis, a complete shutdown may be a bit drastic, but if it's the way to educate people (since it seems that people didn't learn from code red) well, I'm all for it.
I guess I'll be modded as a troll or flamebait, but I do think I'm making sense:)
The version supplied is a new advanture... it's really cool, but what's best is you can play the original dungeon master I levels as well. Grab the levels at http://bigcalm.freeservers.com
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There's been allot of WAP smack these days, some kicking of the WAP dog when he is down, and even some spitting in the eye of WAP
PR: After much consideration, we've decided that the WAP 2.0 technology should reflect current market and reputation, therefore the resolution was accepted with a majority, and WAP 2.0 shall be named WACK!.
Most north american watch too much tv and are ready to beleive whatever the media tells them.
They get frustrated at how bad the information is when it refers to their center of competence/interests (therefor missleading the others who don't know much), but they forget that little detail rapidly when they watch information about something they are less familiar with, and gobble everything sent to them.
Encryption is not something common, everybody knows the word, but not everyone uses it or understand the technology, nor the fact that it won't change ANYTHING to put backdoor since there's a lot of stuff already available to create your own crypto package without backdoors. So, basically, if you're a terrorist, it's way too easy to bypass that system.
In that perspective, the govs. are only stepping in a little bit more onto you privacy, and 99% of the people will accept it because "it sounds good the way it's explained, and besides, who cares, doesn't affect them as individuals".
God I hate those terrorists, not only we suffer because of human loss, but we'll suffer because of paranoia and liberty loss too.
I've reserved a few.biz for the company where I work, and I've received an email today sounding like "you've been challenged to another apllicant with IP trademark and yadi yadah... (basically he payed the extra for the IP claim). And now, from what I understand, I would have to send in the trademarks papers (or #s) and all that stuff, plus (guess what) pay extra fees... for what....BIZ? oh right, and then.buizness will come out,.company,.whatevertomakemorecashquiquickreservenow, I simply said 2 words to resume my application: F*ck it! (ok ok, "forget it!" was more like it:) )
I might as well be creative creating a new.com than going thru all that hassle, heck if I want to go thru that kind of problem, might as well negociate the.com I want with current holder (friendly buy or attack), it'll round up to the same thing with all the legal fees and trademark claims added up.
But seriously, 299$ for a monochrome unit that will basically do what I can already do with my palm III (ok ok plus some plus and minus), I mean, might as well spend the extra $ to get an iPAQ which is loaded with features plus COLOR, if the argument is "I don't need all that extra junk" well you can buy a used palm III for a fraction of the price too... so I don't see where a 300$Us unit like this can fit...
If Id be stucked under I'd contact in intervals of hours, I wouldn't leave it on all the time to try to save some battery time. I'm sure some of them thought about that issue.
This is totally lame, if people want to use encryption to go around being detected, there's enough groundwork posted on the internet to get source to make your own "unbrakable" algo... so why doing this? it's totally taking an excuse to put more strain to each legit individual/buisness, and spying on legitimate users.
This is like drugs, it's not because it's illegal, that it suddently ceased to exist!
I find it really hard when governing people think they are talking to a bunch of sheeps and clueless retards...
In a perfect world with mature people, we'd take the blame for the damage we cause and apologize for it. Even if it's a mistake, an honnest mistake is far easier to swallow than covering up and taking no responsibility or throwing the ball left and right. Taking the customer/client for a total retard, that is not only hard because of the mistake itself, but the added insult to the intelligence of the victim is really not needed especially in these cases.
If you're a doctor, you're supposed to be intelligent, if you fear something might be screwed up (Y2k was such an issue that you *CAN'T* claim you never heard of it), you take actions (paperwork instead of computer database for a short while, or even better, continue using the computer database while keeping a backup on paper and see if there's anything wrong comparing). I'm sorry but there's simply no excuses for this, oh you won't admit your mistake because you're scared you'll get sued? Well not only you'll get sued anyways, but you'll have a lot of media reporting your mistake AND your actions making you look not only incompetent (which you feared in the first place and tried to avoid), but also like an irresponsible immature child that will blame anyone but himself.
That said, I blame and will sue the heck out of the tooth fairy for not pulling out my teeth that got me a painful root canal treatment!
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Here where I work, I've sent an email to everyone saying "if you want to donate but don't want to use your credit card, come to see me to give your donation and I will issue the whole payment as 1 transaction with my credit card, if everyone could donate 5$ or 10$, it's not much, but together we can make a difference".
Some people do lunches on friday or order pizza, well maybe for juste one week they should be grateful for living and escaping that inhuman act, and bring a lunch and donate the money they'd usually spend.
Just some ideas... I'm sure some people are reading this right now and wish to pay but don't want to give their CCs because of security in electronic transactions, or go to the trouble of signing up, well now you can do a difference.
No but seriously, you're right, but that's what people want.... someone to blame, someone to shoot at so they can more secure knowing that the people behind this are out of the streets. It's a false sense of security, reminds me of Arlington Road movie....
This might be off-topic but In my book it's not, since its about the information covered.
Slashdot has been my primary source of information, just about all the biggest news feed were jammed, didn't have any tv to watch, and the progress at which people posted here and all the links given, plus the overall stability of the site, I mean, I'm impressed.... I was sure at some point when the server started being overloaded that it would be down for hours, instead, it was just for minutes or simple slowdown but nothing critical like the big feeds which were totaly busted.
Unfortunately. this is not the kind of event you'd want to happen to test the overall stability of a server and the quality of it's content, but at least it hanged in there, where others that have way more financial power and supposely professionnal staff to do the job, failed.
Thanks to all the Slashdot team, and us, readers/contributors.
My questions are because I'm unwilling to think that 40,000 people in the building = 40,000 deaths. There was a good period of time between the first plane hitting and the second hitting, and then a period of time before the buildings collapsed. It is my hope that many survived and made it out.
Dude, do you know how much time it takes to evacuate a 120 store building???
NEWS ALERT: FOX News is reporting that the Democratic Front For The Liberation Of Palestine is claiming responsibility for the destruction of the twin towers at the World Trade Center in New York City.
And an article:
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWorldTrade0109/11_scene -a p.html
'I just saw the top of Trade Two come down.'
By HELEN O'NEILL-- The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP)-- It was the scene of a nightmare: people on fire jumping in terror from the Trade Towers just before the buildings collapsed.
"Everyone was screaming, crying, running, cops, people, firefighters, everyone," said Mike Smith, a fire marshal from Queens, as he sat by the fountain outside the Supreme Court building, shortly after the second tower collapsed. "A couple of marshals just picked me up and dragged me down the street."
"It's like a war zone. There are many injured."
This was the horror unfolding in New York City in the wake of an apparent terrorist attack.
"I just saw the building I work in come down," said businessman Gabriel Ioan, shaking in shock outside City Hall a cloud of smoke and ash from the World Trade Center behind him. "I just saw the top of Trade Two come down."
Nearby a crowd mobbed a man on a pay-phone, screaming at him to get off the phone so that they could call relatives. Dust and dirt flew everywhere. Ash was 2 to 3 inches deep in places. People wandered dazed and terrified.
"People were jumping out of windows," said an unidentified crying woman. "I guess people were trying to save themselves. Oh my God!"
"I was in the World Financial Center looking out the window," said one woman. "I saw the first plane and then 15 minutes later saw the other plane just slam into the World Trade Center."
Another eyewitness, AP newsman Dunstan Prial, described a strange sucking sound from the Trade Center buildings after the first building collapsed.
"Windows shattered. People were screaming and diving for cover. People walked around like ghosts, covered in dirt, weeping and wandering dazed."
"It sounded like a jet or rocket," said Eddie Gonzalez, a postal worker at a post office on West Broadway. "I looked up and saw a huge explosion. I didn't see the impact. I just saw the explosion."
Morning commuters heading into Manhattan were stranded as the Lincoln Tunnel was shut down to incoming traffic. Many left their cars and stood on the ramp leading to the tunnel, staring in disbelief at the thick cloud of smoke pouring from the top of the two buildings.
On the streets of Manhattan, people stood in groups talking quietly or watching on television at ground-level network studios.
Joan Goldstein, communications project leader for The Associated Press, was on a bus from New Jersey at about 8:50 a.m. when she saw "smoke pouring out of the World Trade Center building. We said, 'Oh, my God! The World Trade Center's on fire!"
Perhaps 10 minutes later, "All of a sudden, there was an orange plume, a huge explosion. It shot out the back of the building. Everybody on the bus was just moaning and gasping," said Goldstein, who wept and trembled as she spoke.
The plume was from the second plane, but she didn't see the plane because of the thick smoke.
She tried to call friends who work there, but couldn't get through.
"It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen in my life," said Goldstein.
A place where you have a list of all the applications that has spyware and ways to go around them (plus doing heavy damage to people putting that in their software without any mention (should I add, CLEAR mention). Winamp ASKS you if you want to contribute, that's fine with me, bearshare?? installed shit that I didn't know about and it's my firewall that told me there was a software trying to access a website that gatters data, now that's just plain immoral. With such a site, you could have a database and groups of people that could protest (you'd know where to send your email/faxes).
Then again, having 1000s of users sending them emails to say how pissed they are would be totally to their advantage because they could build an EMAIL database to spam you back....
This is lame, one guy gets his ass busted helping adobe to make it's encryption more secure, and everyday we can see our freedom being attacked "for better security" but for shit like that, that IS plainly illegal and unethical, nothing protects us, or barely nothing.
Wake up goverments, if you want to get some credits and not only look like a bad corporation and money sucker, how about some socialism and putting that same energy used to arrest innocent people, to do something worthwhile like jailing (or better yet, burning alive) these people or companies that contribute to deteriorating our mail servers, privacy, and the overall internet experience?
I wonder how much lobbying efforts it took standard builders (like IBM when they wanted to introduce the digital encryption technology in their hard drives) and org. like RIAA MPAA to get them to write such a bill.
Not only it's completely crazy and stepping on freedom, but that hysteria is making the US gov. look more and more like communist country where the state tells what you can and cannot do... The only difference is that it's happening on a technological and cultural level. Has US "won" against communism to be worse than them?
My personnal feeling always been, if these people (RIAA/MPAA/etc) would have been COMPETENT and not sitting on their cashcow strategy, and would have been LISTENING and OPENED to new technologies to advance their mean of distribution, they would have seen MP3 comming, heck it took MP3 over 2 years to slowly take off... they would have had enough (WAY enough) time to strike a deal to kill it while it was still little, or better yet, do something better than mp3 and strike deals with hardware manufacturer and instore their digital right things in a non-intrusive way, aka, make it so it's exactly the same trouble than copying cds, not worse. (It took quite a while for 3rd party to come out with mp3 cdplayers, and all the gadgets)... They could have catched up and beat mp3 before it's popularity.
DIVX? well MPAA is even worse, they looked at what happened to mp3, for years, didn't see it comming neither, (how blind can you be??) and now blam! same thing with video, god, this is so pathetic, I cannot beleive that there's not even ONE compentent person in their administration that didn't see all this comming and prepare for it, their reaction right now is like if they were pinned onto a wall and reacted with a bazoka with all the lobbying.
Yeah it's all good on a screen but in real life? Well, for a start, internet is going faster and faster, broadband is cheaper, etc etc... that is nothing new, so how about changing mentality and mean of distribution over the net... donations paypal subscribtion.. what? paying a buck for an album is stealing the artist?? what if the artist didn't even have a CD for sale in my country or region? that's a dollar he wouldn't have got. Plus, how much does he receives for each cd sold anyways?
Right, well big corporations are always too slow to react so they are like incompetent CEOs, react AFTER the dommage is done, well you can make someone smoke crack for 2 years non-stop and tell him to stop the next day after he got used to it (I see jokes comming;) ). Now the only thing they try to do is not innovating or comming up with something better, they are acting a-la-rambus and playing plain dirty. "If we can't stop it, we'll control/contain it" just like a virus.
That won't work, if it passes in the US and consumers are stupid enough to buy hardware like that, well, we'll all move to russia because freedom and choice there will still mean something. Plus, we won't get arrested for having files that looks like 10010101010 instead of j2m2lm3947udh:)
How about having balls and develop and MARKET a true 64 bits processor, I.e. the alpha!?
Compaq had all the ammos to fight intel and microsoft... but they didn't have the balls.
I guess HP won't do it neither since they're in bed with Intel.
The only thing that pisses me off is to see money winning again over technology, Intel's release in a year from now will be what alpha would have been a YEAR ago if it would have kept the same pace than pre-compaq. Intel really doesn't deserve ANY credits for "innovation". Maybe in 4 years from now they'll "innovate" enough to catch up with the theorical bar that alpha would have been at in the same timeframe, then again, not without stealing some alpha technology. (I mean.. licensing probably for peanuts, as we know compaq).
I remember when they had a speech with Digital Domain (special effects house) people at the Alpha Workstation launch party 2 years ago, they were claiming all the speed performance this and that, BUT NEVER would compare it to an Intel workstation (everybody knew it was HEAPLOAD faster with native apps and relatively equal speed with FX32 recompiling). They NEVER DARED touching intel's marketshare.
Anyways, no more compaq. That name brought shame and destruction to another "amiga" platform, a platform that was too much in advance for it's time, and will be copied and ripped to death for some years to come.
They keep announcing products with underperforming processor, low number of colors, lack of features and an overpriced tag for the high-end when you compare them to the WinCE equivalent.
It's sad to say, PALM was the first company to really do a big market penetration and bring PDA to every rich person that could afford one back then, but now, clearly, microsoft is catching up rapidly, and I'd tend to see PALM pulling a netscape within a few years.
If PALM was such in a good shape, It wouldn't be that low eventho the market is flatlining.
Of course I'd love to see some competition, but right now the only place they can compete is putting their high-end to the "mid" or "lowend" of the PDA branch and pricing accordingly.
Heck I've seen toys with about the same features then their newer "lowcost" one, for half the price:)
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>what a small cadre of highly trained and motivated fighters can do againt increadable odds
I agree, let's send TANYA!
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:), you shoot? Blam! wrong move.
;) and besides, it's their own evil conceptual creation.
They don't understand Missiles, they don't care they're still gonna try to shoot it down... if you wanna fight terrorists with such a sweet device, you have to THINK like one and then translate this into a weapon to which they'll fear.
Let me explain: How do terrorists commit their acts? They have bombs, they strap their body with bombs and go kamikaze, same with hijaacks. So what do they understand? "if we have something that can destroy them all, they won't touch us", put that into practice and put a nuclear detonator on the device
Hmm this started as a joke, but the more I think of it, heh, the more I'd almost laugh seeing their face taken in pictures by a spy plane of all their camps and them looking at it without daring shooting it down in case it might release something nasty over them. That way you gather all the intelligence needed without killing to many soldiers, of course some are totally stupid and will shoot it down and get blown up to bits (so less troubles for the millitary to close down the camps).
This might almost work
I don't see what the fuss is all about, I patched my system when prompted to, I updated my Norton antivirus when prompted to, I've went on some websites which had the virus, It detected it, I've received e-mails with it, it detected it.
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I'm not a rocket scientist, I've acted like any Net user should do, patching and antivirus are something common in the windows world, bitch as much as you want, if you've done you're homework properly, chances are you didn't get affected by this. Of COURSE some will (people that got it before let's say the Norton update was available), but if everybody would have done his job right, the threat would have been contained and not as big as it is right now.
Paying for norton antivirus? well last time I checked it was about 30$ for an OEM copy, that's nothing compared to paying 40$ for a C00l K-RaD cooler or overpriced pentium IV is it? If you're able to spend 1000$ on a box, spending 30$ for protecting it is an investment.
What I find unacceptable is people that, one week after code red was announced, were still infected and probing my servers. That's irresponsible, and I agree with shutting them down until they fix the problem. Please don't bullshit with freedom and similar crap related issues, if your freedom means slowing down or crashing other people's net experience, it's called BEING SELF-CENTERED and irresponsible. ISP have a responsibility to ensure that the maximum of their userbase aren't affected by any crisis, a complete shutdown may be a bit drastic, but if it's the way to educate people (since it seems that people didn't learn from code red) well, I'm all for it.
I guess I'll be modded as a troll or flamebait, but I do think I'm making sense
That's the job of the administrator to check if he's updated. Microsoft post them, admin should do his job.
Enuff said.
3D rendering, I'd rather buy motherboards with dual or even octal beasts than single cpu systems. Saves on space.
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Faster is better... until I can rayrace/radiosity/caustics/etc in realtime, I won't be satisfied
Anti-Virus Norton Anti-virus Not required with Linux, according to the experts.
Enuff said.
Dungeon master was remade in java
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~alandale/dmjava/
The version supplied is a new advanture... it's really cool, but what's best is you can play the original dungeon master I levels as well. Grab the levels at http://bigcalm.freeservers.com
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There's been allot of WAP smack these days, some kicking of the WAP dog when he is down, and even some spitting in the eye of WAP
PR: After much consideration, we've decided that the WAP 2.0 technology should reflect current market and reputation, therefore the resolution was accepted with a majority, and WAP 2.0 shall be named WACK!.
Most north american watch too much tv and are ready to beleive whatever the media tells them.
They get frustrated at how bad the information is when it refers to their center of competence/interests (therefor missleading the others who don't know much), but they forget that little detail rapidly when they watch information about something they are less familiar with, and gobble everything sent to them.
Encryption is not something common, everybody knows the word, but not everyone uses it or understand the technology, nor the fact that it won't change ANYTHING to put backdoor since there's a lot of stuff already available to create your own crypto package without backdoors. So, basically, if you're a terrorist, it's way too easy to bypass that system.
In that perspective, the govs. are only stepping in a little bit more onto you privacy, and 99% of the people will accept it because "it sounds good the way it's explained, and besides, who cares, doesn't affect them as individuals".
God I hate those terrorists, not only we suffer because of human loss, but we'll suffer because of paranoia and liberty loss too.
I've reserved a few .biz for the company where I work, and I've received an email today sounding like "you've been challenged to another apllicant with IP trademark and yadi yadah... (basically he payed the extra for the IP claim). And now, from what I understand, I would have to send in the trademarks papers (or #s) and all that stuff, plus (guess what) pay extra fees... for what... .BIZ? oh right, and then .buizness will come out, .company, .whatevertomakemorecashquiquickreservenow, I simply said 2 words to resume my application: F*ck it! (ok ok, "forget it!" was more like it :) )
.com than going thru all that hassle, heck if I want to go thru that kind of problem, might as well negociate the .com I want with current holder (friendly buy or attack), it'll round up to the same thing with all the legal fees and trademark claims added up.
I might as well be creative creating a new
read iMAC. :)
But seriously, 299$ for a monochrome unit that will basically do what I can already do with my palm III (ok ok plus some plus and minus), I mean, might as well spend the extra $ to get an iPAQ which is loaded with features plus COLOR, if the argument is "I don't need all that extra junk" well you can buy a used palm III for a fraction of the price too... so I don't see where a 300$Us unit like this can fit...
At least there's one guy who's banner ads are paying off...
:)
"well computer news aren't really running these days, let's fry a few processors"
Either that or the AMD parts are REALLY cheap.
Oh... they are
If Id be stucked under I'd contact in intervals of hours, I wouldn't leave it on all the time to try to save some battery time. I'm sure some of them thought about that issue.
>about how Slashdot handled the gigantic load
:) ) You've just found an attractive title without even knowing it :)
Taco, if you ever want to make a XXX movie for nerds (with 'stuff' that matters
This is totally lame, if people want to use encryption to go around being detected, there's enough groundwork posted on the internet to get source to make your own "unbrakable" algo... so why doing this? it's totally taking an excuse to put more strain to each legit individual/buisness, and spying on legitimate users.
This is like drugs, it's not because it's illegal, that it suddently ceased to exist!
I find it really hard when governing people think they are talking to a bunch of sheeps and clueless retards...
In a perfect world with mature people, we'd take the blame for the damage we cause and apologize for it. Even if it's a mistake, an honnest mistake is far easier to swallow than covering up and taking no responsibility or throwing the ball left and right. Taking the customer/client for a total retard, that is not only hard because of the mistake itself, but the added insult to the intelligence of the victim is really not needed especially in these cases.
If you're a doctor, you're supposed to be intelligent, if you fear something might be screwed up (Y2k was such an issue that you *CAN'T* claim you never heard of it), you take actions (paperwork instead of computer database for a short while, or even better, continue using the computer database while keeping a backup on paper and see if there's anything wrong comparing). I'm sorry but there's simply no excuses for this, oh you won't admit your mistake because you're scared you'll get sued? Well not only you'll get sued anyways, but you'll have a lot of media reporting your mistake AND your actions making you look not only incompetent (which you feared in the first place and tried to avoid), but also like an irresponsible immature child that will blame anyone but himself.
That said, I blame and will sue the heck out of the tooth fairy for not pulling out my teeth that got me a painful root canal treatment!
Here where I work, I've sent an email to everyone saying "if you want to donate but don't want to use your credit card, come to see me to give your donation and I will issue the whole payment as 1 transaction with my credit card, if everyone could donate 5$ or 10$, it's not much, but together we can make a difference".
Some people do lunches on friday or order pizza, well maybe for juste one week they should be grateful for living and escaping that inhuman act, and bring a lunch and donate the money they'd usually spend.
Just some ideas... I'm sure some people are reading this right now and wish to pay but don't want to give their CCs because of security in electronic transactions, or go to the trouble of signing up, well now you can do a difference.
Gives a whole new meaning to my Nick :)
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The Canadian Connection
No but seriously, you're right, but that's what people want.... someone to blame, someone to shoot at so they can more secure knowing that the people behind this are out of the streets. It's a false sense of security, reminds me of Arlington Road movie....
This might be off-topic but In my book it's not, since its about the information covered.
Slashdot has been my primary source of information, just about all the biggest news feed were jammed, didn't have any tv to watch, and the progress at which people posted here and all the links given, plus the overall stability of the site, I mean, I'm impressed.... I was sure at some point when the server started being overloaded that it would be down for hours, instead, it was just for minutes or simple slowdown but nothing critical like the big feeds which were totaly busted.
Unfortunately. this is not the kind of event you'd want to happen to test the overall stability of a server and the quality of it's content, but at least it hanged in there, where others that have way more financial power and supposely professionnal staff to do the job, failed.
Thanks to all the Slashdot team, and us, readers/contributors.
My questions are because I'm unwilling to think that 40,000 people in the building = 40,000 deaths. There was a good period of time between the first plane hitting and the second hitting, and then a period of time before the buildings collapsed. It is my hope that many survived and made it out.
Dude, do you know how much time it takes to evacuate a 120 store building???
2 items:
NEWS ALERT: FOX News is reporting that the Democratic Front For The Liberation Of Palestine is claiming responsibility for the destruction of the twin towers at the World Trade Center in New York City.
And an article:
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWorldTrade0109/11_scen
'I just saw the top of Trade Two come down.'
By HELEN O'NEILL-- The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP)-- It was the scene of a nightmare: people on fire jumping in terror from the Trade Towers just before the buildings collapsed.
"Everyone was screaming, crying, running, cops, people, firefighters, everyone," said Mike Smith, a fire marshal from Queens, as he sat by the fountain outside the Supreme Court building, shortly after the second tower collapsed. "A couple of marshals just picked me up and dragged me down the street."
"It's like a war zone. There are many injured."
This was the horror unfolding in New York City in the wake of an apparent terrorist attack.
"I just saw the building I work in come down," said businessman Gabriel Ioan, shaking in shock outside City Hall a cloud of smoke and ash from the World Trade Center behind him. "I just saw the top of Trade Two come down."
Nearby a crowd mobbed a man on a pay-phone, screaming at him to get off the phone so that they could call relatives. Dust and dirt flew everywhere. Ash was 2 to 3 inches deep in places. People wandered dazed and terrified.
"People were jumping out of windows," said an unidentified crying woman. "I guess people were trying to save themselves. Oh my God!"
"I was in the World Financial Center looking out the window," said one woman. "I saw the first plane and then 15 minutes later saw the other plane just slam into the World Trade Center."
Another eyewitness, AP newsman Dunstan Prial, described a strange sucking sound from the Trade Center buildings after the first building collapsed.
"Windows shattered. People were screaming and diving for cover. People walked around like ghosts, covered in dirt, weeping and wandering dazed."
"It sounded like a jet or rocket," said Eddie Gonzalez, a postal worker at a post office on West Broadway. "I looked up and saw a huge explosion. I didn't see the impact. I just saw the explosion."
Morning commuters heading into Manhattan were stranded as the Lincoln Tunnel was shut down to incoming traffic. Many left their cars and stood on the ramp leading to the tunnel, staring in disbelief at the thick cloud of smoke pouring from the top of the two buildings.
On the streets of Manhattan, people stood in groups talking quietly or watching on television at ground-level network studios.
Joan Goldstein, communications project leader for The Associated Press, was on a bus from New Jersey at about 8:50 a.m. when she saw "smoke pouring out of the World Trade Center building. We said, 'Oh, my God! The World Trade Center's on fire!"
Perhaps 10 minutes later, "All of a sudden, there was an orange plume, a huge explosion. It shot out the back of the building. Everybody on the bus was just moaning and gasping," said Goldstein, who wept and trembled as she spoke.
The plume was from the second plane, but she didn't see the plane because of the thick smoke.
She tried to call friends who work there, but couldn't get through.
"It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen in my life," said Goldstein.
A place where you have a list of all the applications that has spyware and ways to go around them (plus doing heavy damage to people putting that in their software without any mention (should I add, CLEAR mention). Winamp ASKS you if you want to contribute, that's fine with me, bearshare?? installed shit that I didn't know about and it's my firewall that told me there was a software trying to access a website that gatters data, now that's just plain immoral. With such a site, you could have a database and groups of people that could protest (you'd know where to send your email/faxes).
Then again, having 1000s of users sending them emails to say how pissed they are would be totally to their advantage because they could build an EMAIL database to spam you back....
This is lame, one guy gets his ass busted helping adobe to make it's encryption more secure, and everyday we can see our freedom being attacked "for better security" but for shit like that, that IS plainly illegal and unethical, nothing protects us, or barely nothing.
Wake up goverments, if you want to get some credits and not only look like a bad corporation and money sucker, how about some socialism and putting that same energy used to arrest innocent people, to do something worthwhile like jailing (or better yet, burning alive) these people or companies that contribute to deteriorating our mail servers, privacy, and the overall internet experience?
I wonder how much lobbying efforts it took standard builders (like IBM when they wanted to introduce the digital encryption technology in their hard drives) and org. like RIAA MPAA to get them to write such a bill.
;) ). Now the only thing they try to do is not innovating or comming up with something better, they are acting a-la-rambus and playing plain dirty. "If we can't stop it, we'll control/contain it" just like a virus.
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Not only it's completely crazy and stepping on freedom, but that hysteria is making the US gov. look more and more like communist country where the state tells what you can and cannot do... The only difference is that it's happening on a technological and cultural level. Has US "won" against communism to be worse than them?
My personnal feeling always been, if these people (RIAA/MPAA/etc) would have been COMPETENT and not sitting on their cashcow strategy, and would have been LISTENING and OPENED to new technologies to advance their mean of distribution, they would have seen MP3 comming, heck it took MP3 over 2 years to slowly take off... they would have had enough (WAY enough) time to strike a deal to kill it while it was still little, or better yet, do something better than mp3 and strike deals with hardware manufacturer and instore their digital right things in a non-intrusive way, aka, make it so it's exactly the same trouble than copying cds, not worse. (It took quite a while for 3rd party to come out with mp3 cdplayers, and all the gadgets)... They could have catched up and beat mp3 before it's popularity.
DIVX? well MPAA is even worse, they looked at what happened to mp3, for years, didn't see it comming neither, (how blind can you be??) and now blam! same thing with video, god, this is so pathetic, I cannot beleive that there's not even ONE compentent person in their administration that didn't see all this comming and prepare for it, their reaction right now is like if they were pinned onto a wall and reacted with a bazoka with all the lobbying.
Yeah it's all good on a screen but in real life? Well, for a start, internet is going faster and faster, broadband is cheaper, etc etc... that is nothing new, so how about changing mentality and mean of distribution over the net... donations paypal subscribtion.. what? paying a buck for an album is stealing the artist?? what if the artist didn't even have a CD for sale in my country or region? that's a dollar he wouldn't have got. Plus, how much does he receives for each cd sold anyways?
Right, well big corporations are always too slow to react so they are like incompetent CEOs, react AFTER the dommage is done, well you can make someone smoke crack for 2 years non-stop and tell him to stop the next day after he got used to it (I see jokes comming
That won't work, if it passes in the US and consumers are stupid enough to buy hardware like that, well, we'll all move to russia because freedom and choice there will still mean something. Plus, we won't get arrested for having files that looks like 10010101010 instead of j2m2lm3947udh
How about having balls and develop and MARKET a true 64 bits processor, I.e. the alpha!?
Compaq had all the ammos to fight intel and microsoft... but they didn't have the balls.
I guess HP won't do it neither since they're in bed with Intel.
The only thing that pisses me off is to see money winning again over technology, Intel's release in a year from now will be what alpha would have been a YEAR ago if it would have kept the same pace than pre-compaq. Intel really doesn't deserve ANY credits for "innovation". Maybe in 4 years from now they'll "innovate" enough to catch up with the theorical bar that alpha would have been at in the same timeframe, then again, not without stealing some alpha technology. (I mean.. licensing probably for peanuts, as we know compaq).
I remember when they had a speech with Digital Domain (special effects house) people at the Alpha Workstation launch party 2 years ago, they were claiming all the speed performance this and that, BUT NEVER would compare it to an Intel workstation (everybody knew it was HEAPLOAD faster with native apps and relatively equal speed with FX32 recompiling). They NEVER DARED touching intel's marketshare.
Anyways, no more compaq. That name brought shame and destruction to another "amiga" platform, a platform that was too much in advance for it's time, and will be copied and ripped to death for some years to come.
They keep announcing products with underperforming processor, low number of colors, lack of features and an overpriced tag for the high-end when you compare them to the WinCE equivalent.
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It's sad to say, PALM was the first company to really do a big market penetration and bring PDA to every rich person that could afford one back then, but now, clearly, microsoft is catching up rapidly, and I'd tend to see PALM pulling a netscape within a few years.
If PALM was such in a good shape, It wouldn't be that low eventho the market is flatlining. Of course I'd love to see some competition, but right now the only place they can compete is putting their high-end to the "mid" or "lowend" of the PDA branch and pricing accordingly.
Heck I've seen toys with about the same features then their newer "lowcost" one, for half the price