I'm amazed at how easy it is to fly with a knife, especially one that's not just a swiss army knife.
Shirley lots of slashdotters have tales of being able to fly with full network-installing (especially cable-installing) kits in carryon? I imagine you can kill someone pretty dead with a screwdriver, if you're desperate enough.
You just have to profile right. I, the short female sort, never got messed with when I had a purse full of technological toys, but my tech, a biker type, didn't get to bring a Black and Decker *electric* screwdriver. (It was wise of them, but not for the reasons they thought... he'd be liable to use it to take the plane apart just out of curiosity...)
Finally, I don't know what they're going to do about accomodations! I don't see how we can possibly have enough hotels by the airport for this, so they're going to have to send people far afield. That's going to be a real problem.
You said it. Guess there are a lot of planes that got directed to land in what's usually flyover country. Wichita's hotels, according to the radio, are full, and they'll be putting Mid-Continent passengers (or unpassengers, as it turns out) in hotels clear out to Salina. Salina's something like an hour away. (But it's on I-70, so if you're not able to fly, at least you're on a major highway. Although I hear Greyhound isn't running now, either.)
Or an expectation of a short-term high demand as everyone panics. (I filled up the twenty-five-gallon tank on the van promptly this morning. Should last me six weeks. Somehow, I doubt that's going to be long enough to outlast the fallout from this. Sigh.)
I'm finding message boards filled with frothing hatred, wanting bloody revenge against entire countries.
Not just countries. There was a caller on one of the stations I flipped past (DirecTV swore it was the Senate channel, but nobody was doing their regular programming, excepting the Weather Channel, whose weatherfolks are probably saying "And the weather on the East Coast looks like... oh, who cares, nobody there is watching *me* anyway") explaining that we should get all the Muslims out of the US. Now, maybe she was completely clueless and didn't realize that not all of them are here on visas, y'know? Heck, all the Muslims I know were born here.
As long as you don't get one of the *interior* hollowcore doors, yeah. Some of them, you can put a fingertip through if you push hard enough.
Nor do you really have to treat the desk, untreated wood works fine.
What kind of geek are you, that you don't have liquids near your computer desk? Liquids that periodically get spilled on the desk?
(My computer desk is a billion-year-old O'Sullivan or Sauder or one of those. And I never use a mousemat, so the pseudo-woodgrain has comletely worn off where the mouse is, and there are ripply spots where drinks have spilled and soaked into the particleboard, and the drawer bottom has been replaced because my cat, about the same age as the desk, slept in it from kittenhood up to his sixteen-plus-pound adult weight and fell through it, and...
The computers, though, live on one of those spiffy wire racks with particleboard shelving.
some stores insist on a phone # (Circuit City for one). Just give them 555-1212
I sort of miss the pre-broadband days when I had a dedicated modem connection. I always gave out that phone number. Let the telemarketers call all they want, it's always busy...
I know a few people who are running non-infected Web Servers and they're still getting a fair amount of traffic related to the Code Red (and variants) virus.
Yea, verily. While I was waiting for this article to load, I popped out to the shell to grep my Apache logs, and sho nuf I'm still seeing Code Red requests. Last one was, um, about twenty minutes ago. It's quieted down to about one an hour, but still.
Except that the strange HTTP requests it puts out cause problems with some embedded webservers
Yabbut that's *still* not "all of us," as with SirCam.
Though, interestingly enough, I haven't seen SirCam. I run a mailing list server, and usually I get a nice sampling of darn near everything caught in the spamtrap... I saw Melissa from a European subscriber way in the wee hours of the morning, which was handy since my then-employer needed a sample to feed to its mail filter. And I still see Snowhite once every couple of days. But no SirCam.
Every email user?!? CmdrTaco must run Windows. Let's get him!
I think the notion is that it affects non-Windows people as recipients of unwanted random files. (Code Red affects non-Windows people as port 80 hits, too, but that's relatively trivial, and unlikely for minimally-connected dialup people.)
The idea is nice, the intention is louvable, but I believe it would be considered illegal in most countries. After all, you are actually using their machine without permission.
If it was initiated by their machine (that is, by the default.ida request), that might be questionable, though. Not that *I'd* want to test it out in court, but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
Okay, I'm dredging up really old memories here, but wasn't that essentially the same critter? There were three or four variants (a friend had the Olivetti version, with a hinged LCD instead of the dial-adjust "brightness" control), and the Shack's was just the best-selling one. (The ROMs were different, as well; I forget who made the Olive's BASIC.)
There's nothing stopping people, including myself, including false information in their whois entries.
Sometimes there is. If someone didn't particularly like you, and they confirmed that your data was incorrect, and they checked with your registrar, and their TOS included verbage to the effect of "we can take back your domain if you lie in your whois," and they wrote to your registrar and said "This domain seems to be abandoned... its contact information is no longer valid. I'd like to buy it," then you're SOL if your registrar is mercenary enough.
At the very least, you ought to have the option of leaving your phone number off. We have a bunch of different sites hosted on our server, and our name has gotten onto a bunch of business telemarketing lists. While on the one hand, it's kind of amusing talking to B2B telemarketers who don't seem to know what to do (except grovel pathetically) when they find out they've reached a residence (especially when there's the sound of an awakened-by-the-telephone baby crying in the background...), on the other hand, I'm really not fond of *anything* that adds to the number of telemarketers who call me.
You're oversimplifying here. First off, a lot of dreck gets published professionally: books about pyramid power and astrology, for example.
You're misunderstanding the meaning of "dreck." Even someone who *wants* to read about pyramid power and astrology wants to know he's getting something that's of reasonable quality... it's at least had a token proofreading and maybe even copy editing, and so on.
If you think everyone who would self-publish meets that quality standard, you've never run/read an APAzine...
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I'm surprised that nobody remembered that Steve was also one of the first to take his business to the net, before there was even a web.
That wasn't Steve's doing so much as it was geeks working for him talking him into it, though, wasn't it? I mean, I remember asking Steve when the Illuminati BBS was going to get a QWK packet option, and he told me it sounded good but he "wouldn't know a QWK packet if it committed an indiscretion on [his] shoe." Heh.
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Sorry as a long time Car Wars fan this really dissapoints me
Especially as they are/were about to come out with a new version. Though I'm not sure I'm altogether happy about it; they've thrown some anime-style covers out and announced that that reflects the style of the new version. Car Wars has always bordered on not-quite-gritty-enough (I would really rather see the Chassis & Crossbow timeframe done right), and happy big-eyed goofy-armored anime characters just push it over the edge for me.
I've often thought it would be beneficial to have unmarked cars roving around with trained observers from the local motor vehicle authority doing real time grading of current driver's license holders.
Ooh, you're onto something. Moderated driving:
Score: -1 Off-Road
Would it be a good thing to have a high Driving Karma, if it were all due to +1 Funny scores, though?
M3 T00. (I was about to post my story, but I see it'd be -1 Redundant. Except for the vi part. I still use Boxer (via Samba.))
For me, the switch to Perl was mainly about libraries. I got tired of reinventing the wheel every time I wanted to do something Internet-related (more modern versions of VB are more net-savvy, but Back In The Day I was having trouble doing stuff without third-party add-ons).
My early Perl looked a whole lot like VB-with-semicolons, but that was the cool thing... I could use Baby Talk Perl until I was comfortable with more efficient, more "native" ways to do things.
But sending it to the "From" address isn't appropiate either
No, the SMTP MAIL FROM address, which isn't necessarily the one in the message itself.
But the problem there is still that some errors don't happen during the SMTP transaction, they happen later on, inside the receiver's network or something strange like that. Then all the deliverer has to go on is what's in the From/Sender/Reply-To headers.
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I'm amazed at how easy it is to fly with a knife, especially one that's not just a swiss army knife.
Shirley lots of slashdotters have tales of being able to fly with full network-installing (especially cable-installing) kits in carryon? I imagine you can kill someone pretty dead with a screwdriver, if you're desperate enough.
You just have to profile right. I, the short female sort, never got messed with when I had a purse full of technological toys, but my tech, a biker type, didn't get to bring a Black and Decker *electric* screwdriver. (It was wise of them, but not for the reasons they thought... he'd be liable to use it to take the plane apart just out of curiosity...)
Finally, I don't know what they're going to do about accomodations! I don't see how we can possibly have enough hotels by the airport for this, so they're going to have to send people far afield. That's going to be a real problem.
You said it. Guess there are a lot of planes that got directed to land in what's usually flyover country. Wichita's hotels, according to the radio, are full, and they'll be putting Mid-Continent passengers (or unpassengers, as it turns out) in hotels clear out to Salina. Salina's something like an hour away. (But it's on I-70, so if you're not able to fly, at least you're on a major highway. Although I hear Greyhound isn't running now, either.)
Or an expectation of a short-term high demand as everyone panics. (I filled up the twenty-five-gallon tank on the van promptly this morning. Should last me six weeks. Somehow, I doubt that's going to be long enough to outlast the fallout from this. Sigh.)
I'm finding message boards filled with frothing hatred, wanting bloody revenge against entire countries.
Not just countries. There was a caller on one of the stations I flipped past (DirecTV swore it was the Senate channel, but nobody was doing their regular programming, excepting the Weather Channel, whose weatherfolks are probably saying "And the weather on the East Coast looks like... oh, who cares, nobody there is watching *me* anyway") explaining that we should get all the Muslims out of the US. Now, maybe she was completely clueless and didn't realize that not all of them are here on visas, y'know? Heck, all the Muslims I know were born here.
You don't even need the solid core doors
As long as you don't get one of the *interior* hollowcore doors, yeah. Some of them, you can put a fingertip through if you push hard enough.
Nor do you really have to treat the desk, untreated wood works fine.
What kind of geek are you, that you don't have liquids near your computer desk? Liquids that periodically get spilled on the desk?
(My computer desk is a billion-year-old O'Sullivan or Sauder or one of those. And I never use a mousemat, so the pseudo-woodgrain has comletely worn off where the mouse is, and there are ripply spots where drinks have spilled and soaked into the particleboard, and the drawer bottom has been replaced because my cat, about the same age as the desk, slept in it from kittenhood up to his sixteen-plus-pound adult weight and fell through it, and...
The computers, though, live on one of those spiffy wire racks with particleboard shelving.
I sort of miss the pre-broadband days when I had a dedicated modem connection. I always gave out that phone number. Let the telemarketers call all they want, it's always busy...
Yea, verily. While I was waiting for this article to load, I popped out to the shell to grep my Apache logs, and sho nuf I'm still seeing Code Red requests. Last one was, um, about twenty minutes ago. It's quieted down to about one an hour, but still.
Yabbut that's *still* not "all of us," as with SirCam.
Though, interestingly enough, I haven't seen SirCam. I run a mailing list server, and usually I get a nice sampling of darn near everything caught in the spamtrap... I saw Melissa from a European subscriber way in the wee hours of the morning, which was handy since my then-employer needed a sample to feed to its mail filter. And I still see Snowhite once every couple of days. But no SirCam.
Not that I'm complaining, mind you...
I think the notion is that it affects non-Windows people as recipients of unwanted random files. (Code Red affects non-Windows people as port 80 hits, too, but that's relatively trivial, and unlikely for minimally-connected dialup people.)
If it was initiated by their machine (that is, by the default.ida request), that might be questionable, though. Not that *I'd* want to test it out in court, but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
Okay, I'm dredging up really old memories here, but wasn't that essentially the same critter? There were three or four variants (a friend had the Olivetti version, with a hinged LCD instead of the dial-adjust "brightness" control), and the Shack's was just the best-selling one. (The ROMs were different, as well; I forget who made the Olive's BASIC.)
Actually, it was just an Expedition, in Team Knight Rider. And rumor has it it's still going to be a car in the rumored new series.
Bottom left. Wave your cursor around until one of the graphics gives you a "QUICKTIME MOVIE" alt tag. (Or just look at the source, or whatever.)
Sometimes there is. If someone didn't particularly like you, and they confirmed that your data was incorrect, and they checked with your registrar, and their TOS included verbage to the effect of "we can take back your domain if you lie in your whois," and they wrote to your registrar and said "This domain seems to be abandoned... its contact information is no longer valid. I'd like to buy it," then you're SOL if your registrar is mercenary enough.
Maybe Slashdot should have changed the threshold for that one to about 3-4 seconds, at least for articles discussing heavy caffeine usage.
("It's been 19 seconds since you hit 'reply' 47 times!")
You're misunderstanding the meaning of "dreck." Even someone who *wants* to read about pyramid power and astrology wants to know he's getting something that's of reasonable quality... it's at least had a token proofreading and maybe even copy editing, and so on.
If you think everyone who would self-publish meets that quality standard, you've never run/read an APAzine...
That wasn't Steve's doing so much as it was geeks working for him talking him into it, though, wasn't it? I mean, I remember asking Steve when the Illuminati BBS was going to get a QWK packet option, and he told me it sounded good but he "wouldn't know a QWK packet if it committed an indiscretion on [his] shoe." Heh.
Especially as they are/were about to come out with a new version. Though I'm not sure I'm altogether happy about it; they've thrown some anime-style covers out and announced that that reflects the style of the new version. Car Wars has always bordered on not-quite-gritty-enough (I would really rather see the Chassis & Crossbow timeframe done right), and happy big-eyed goofy-armored anime characters just push it over the edge for me.
Oh, if you're geeky enough, you find a way to devote fifteen years of your life to automating RPG's, like, say, running the Phoenyx.
Ooh, you're onto something. Moderated driving:
Score: -1 Off-Road
Would it be a good thing to have a high Driving Karma, if it were all due to +1 Funny scores, though?
Hallucigenia sparsa. The Smithsonian seems to agree with you: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/shale/phallu.htm.
M3 T00. (I was about to post my story, but I see it'd be -1 Redundant. Except for the vi part. I still use Boxer (via Samba.))
For me, the switch to Perl was mainly about libraries. I got tired of reinventing the wheel every time I wanted to do something Internet-related (more modern versions of VB are more net-savvy, but Back In The Day I was having trouble doing stuff without third-party add-ons).
My early Perl looked a whole lot like VB-with-semicolons, but that was the cool thing... I could use Baby Talk Perl until I was comfortable with more efficient, more "native" ways to do things.
What do you call what N611FE did in EWR in 1997?
I mean, okay, it was landing already, and "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing," but still...
No, the SMTP MAIL FROM address, which isn't necessarily the one in the message itself.
But the problem there is still that some errors don't happen during the SMTP transaction, they happen later on, inside the receiver's network or something strange like that. Then all the deliverer has to go on is what's in the From/Sender/Reply-To headers.