At the LOTR in Tulsa a member of the local 2600 group smuggled an entire 24 case of mountain dew under his jacket. It was real obvious, but no employees 'noticed'.
Um, there was an article about some guy from NSync not going into space. I clicked it, and it said "Nothing to see here, move along." I go back and now it's gone...anyone know anything?
Louisiana has declared PayPal to be a money transfer system (dah!) and that they require licensing from the state to do business in the state. Since they don't have such a license, they have to quit doing business in Louisiana. Other states are following, SO NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE YOUR COMPLAINTS TO YOUR STATE AUTHORITIES! All of you who have problems with paypal need to contact their local banking and regulatory agencies and make "paypal" a very well known name to them.
Full article here: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020211/tc/payp al _problems_3.html
Think that's bad? With Cox, they reserve the right to come into your house if they want:
5. Access to Customer's Premises Customer authorizes CoxCom, and its employees, agents, contractors, and representatives to enter Customer's premises (the "Premises") at mutually agreed upon times in order to install, maintain, inspect, repair and remove any CoxCom-owned Equipment and/or the Service. If Customer is not the owner of the Premises, upon request, Customer will supply CoxCom with the owner's name and address, evidence that Customer is authorized to grant access to the Premises on the owner's behalf, and (if needed) written consent from the owner of the Premises>
I really do like the idea of MMORPG's; they give you the chance to live another life, so to speak. It would seem that they are the 'way forward' too, what with titles such as Planetside and Final Fantasy XI on the way and superb games such as Dark Ages of Camelot and Everquest already here. The only thing that I really feel is lacking from these great games is a familiar setting, one that we all know and love; a setting with intense character and charm, somewhere that we have all wanted to be a part of... so what would you say if I told you of a MMORPG set in the Star Wars universe, with every detail complete (hopefully, anyhow) and all of your favourite characters? It seems too good to be true doesn't it? Well, LucasArts Entertainment (with Everquest creators, Verant) aim to deliver you the ultimate Star Wars experience, ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Star Wars Galaxies.
Star Wars Galaxies is currently under development by LucasArts Entertainment and Sony Online; with Verant lending their skills. It has a certain pedigree, too, with these developers behind it, can they pull off such a mammoth task without upsetting thousands of Star Wars fans? We'll take a look...
Obviously, the game will be set in the Star Wars universe (duh), but is not confined to just a single planet (hence the 'Galaxies' bit), LucasArts hint at many planets being used in the title, but as of the moment only Tatooine, Naboo and Yavin IV have been confirmed. I don't doubt for a second that all of the other famous Star Wars planets will make an appearance, I expect to see Hoth, Endor (I know it's a moon, really) and others popping up soon. LucasArts have stated that they want many smaller planets in the title (each one around 16km in size), rather than just one huge world to circumnavigate, which wouldn't give that Star Wars 'feel' to the game, instead giving a more diverse ambience to the proceedings. It would seem that LucasArts want you to explore in this title, but on a much grander scale than anything before it.
night_flyer writes: "Stale Beer may be used to clean up one of the worst superfund sites in the U.S.... Now the question is, who leaves beer in the fridge long enough to go stale?" The site in question is a former zinc mine in Oklahoma which is full of toxic leavings, and has been on the EPA's Superfund hotlist for a few decades. A University of Tulsa professor named Tom Harris, who originally considered mollasses, is quoted as saying that "a wetlands treated with beer would be more effective in removing zinc and lead from runoff water than an untreated wetlands."
It's the same guy, the same research, but just a different application!
I remember the huge snafu that happened when they went over to EDS's way of buying equipment for work PC's off a webpage. No one understood it, so the manager's authorized anything that came on their desk. Within six months they where $14 million over budget for PC upgrades. They laid off almost all the contractors doing upgrades there off.
During those six months, I personally upgraded hundreds of PC's with ram/HD combos, doing 4-8 per day. It was insane.
I too remember when they fired all those people. I had freinds working at the Williams' Solution Center, when Williams still did the password security for WCOM (they still do for legacy mainframe). Suddenly, all these people where calling in saying "my password doesn't work". They found out it was because they where to be fired the next day, but WCOM security screwed up and cut them off too early. They where told not to tell them, but did anyway (because my freinds thought it was crappy and didn't work for WCOM anyway). Sometimes I wonder.
The good place to work for in Williams is WMB, not WCG.
We where actually behind the mods near the loading area, then got moved to 3.2. It was fun, because I was all over the complex all day...much of it just trying to figure out wonderfull location descriptions like "1.2 #218" and such. The only good thing was when the Starbucks went in...
It depends where you work, and if you are at a legacy MCI site or a legacy WCOM site. I worked at the Cherokee plant in Tulsa, with about 4,000 employees. I did both t2 deployment and fiber monitoring in the NOC. It was one of the main locations of legacy WCOM.
As far as I could tell, the culture was cool until the EDS deal. They took most of their tech staff and switched them to EDS payroll, which resulted in a massive loss of stock options, authority, and senority. I know many people who left WCOM at that time.
They weren't the best pay in the world, and the loss of stock hurt. Then again, that was when their stock was $70/share...Another thing to watch for it that WCOM makes no counteroffers when you try to work somewhere else. There are many people here who shuffle from WCOM to WCG, then back...raising their pay $15,000 in a few years.
Not yet, because subsection B states "does not apply to the offer for sale or provision of, or other trafficking in, any previously-owned interactive digital device". How long will that last?
How long until you have to buy a new VCR, tape recorder, and such because the old one is illegal? It's not farfetched: in some states (CA) it is illegal to operate a car w/o proper emmissions controls. If it was manufactured before they exisitied, it has to be retrofitted.
Also, once this is passed, there is a good chance that all the new software will not work on devices without said "scheme" installed.
Of course, this will be a major boon to our economy. Everyone buying new consumer devices, more law enforcment, etc etc etc.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin
I live in OK. Never trust what the Oklahoman says. It has been judged one of the WORST newspapers in America (http://www.cjr.org/year/99/1/worst.asp). They are racist, homophobic, and very skewed on all their reporting.
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If they where caught, paying for the clean up of the site would be the least of their concerns. Going to prison for many years would probably far outweigh any monetary awards to the dealership.
Netscape has realized that end-users aren't where the money is: Iplanet products are. Microsoft's "enterprise" software doesn't even begin to compete against the likes of Enterprise Portal, ECXpert, Directory Server, and such. M$ is just now making a foray into such technologies. Netscape has been selling them for years.
I have been working with Iplanet software for about six months now, and now see why no one who really knows anything aobut enterprise-level systems considers Microsoft a contender. Active Directory is an attempt, but it's still not nearly as powerful or flexible as directory. Nor is it mature or as stable.
Everyone is talking about AOL fighting M$ on the end-user connectivity side. No one seems to notice the enterprise-level battle going on between win2k and Iplanet, who is also owned by Microsoft and AOL/Time-Warner, respectivly.
By looking at the comments, I see that M$ feels that not immediatly loosing their anit-trust case is a large win, and in fact they are now going to use the government on their side.
I see M$ trying to get the government to pass various laws to limit where open-source software can be used, because it's paid for "with tax dollars". They will try and force Linux out of the academic system through legistlature, in trying to make everything "even".
I don't know what your running, but we where using a 166 for a firewall. It was fine until we went over 2mb on the connection, and upgraded to a 300. For a server, any Pentium Pro or higher class system should work fine, unless you've got more than 10-15 users on it.
This also came off of CNN's site about the guy who reviewed The Matrix, which I think explains quite a bit:
Paul Tatara was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 17, 1963. Tatara and his family moved to Arab, Alabama (pop. 6,800) when he was 4 years old. During his formative years, he focused almost solely on playing baseball, basketball, and football.
Actually, the cost isn't the dish but the amps. For a simple 802.11 11mb system, the dish only runs $150-$250, a card around $150...and the amp around $600. The amp has to be finely tuned, bidirectional. It can't add interference to the signal it's boosting.
The equipment for a 100mb (5 GHz) link runs about $20,000 per side. Most of that goes into the transevier and the amp.
Another cost for making links is renting tower space. In Oklahoma, it runs around $600+ per month. I don't even want to guess how much it is in CA.
I don't know what kind of database your running for your backend, but I don't see why you couldn't "tamper" with the posts...even if you had to log into the box and UPDATE table SET xxx=xxx you could modify them, unless you intentionall forgot the passwords to access the machine!
Actually, you can run Apache/PHP locally anyway in windows by running the Apache for win32. We do it all the time here on laptops that don't have proper Linux support.
What will happen to companies that have established pages at a.org? Do they just loose all the money they have put into the site, into brand development, and such when their registration is up? If I was such a company, I would probably end up sueing over it.
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At the LOTR in Tulsa a member of the local 2600 group smuggled an entire 24 case of mountain dew under his jacket. It was real obvious, but no employees 'noticed'.
Wait...it reappeared...seven hours later. Odd.
Um, there was an article about some guy from NSync not going into space. I clicked it, and it said "Nothing to see here, move along." I go back and now it's gone...anyone know anything?
Well that's one down and 49 to go.
Louisiana has declared PayPal to be a money transfer system (dah!) and that they require licensing from the state to do business in the state. Since they don't have such a license, they have to quit doing business in Louisiana. Other states are following, SO NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE YOUR COMPLAINTS TO YOUR STATE AUTHORITIES! All of you who have problems with paypal need to contact their local banking and regulatory agencies and make "paypal" a very well known name to them.
Full article here:p al _problems_3.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020211/tc/pay
Think that's bad? With Cox, they reserve the right to come into your house if they want:
5. Access to Customer's Premises
Customer authorizes CoxCom, and its employees, agents, contractors, and representatives to enter Customer's premises (the "Premises") at mutually agreed upon times in order to install, maintain, inspect, repair and remove any CoxCom-owned Equipment and/or the Service. If Customer is not the owner of the Premises, upon request, Customer will supply CoxCom with the owner's name and address, evidence that Customer is authorized to grant access to the Premises on the owner's behalf, and (if needed) written consent from the owner of the Premises>
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I really do like the idea of MMORPG's; they give you the chance to live another life, so to speak. It would seem that they are the 'way forward' too, what with titles such as Planetside and Final Fantasy XI on the way and superb games such as Dark Ages of Camelot and Everquest already here. The only thing that I really feel is lacking from these great games is a familiar setting, one that we all know and love; a setting with intense character and charm, somewhere that we have all wanted to be a part of... so what would you say if I told you of a MMORPG set in the Star Wars universe, with every detail complete (hopefully, anyhow) and all of your favourite characters? It seems too good to be true doesn't it? Well, LucasArts Entertainment (with Everquest creators, Verant) aim to deliver you the ultimate Star Wars experience, ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Star Wars Galaxies.
Star Wars Galaxies is currently under development by LucasArts Entertainment and Sony Online; with Verant lending their skills. It has a certain pedigree, too, with these developers behind it, can they pull off such a mammoth task without upsetting thousands of Star Wars fans? We'll take a look...
Obviously, the game will be set in the Star Wars universe (duh), but is not confined to just a single planet (hence the 'Galaxies' bit), LucasArts hint at many planets being used in the title, but as of the moment only Tatooine, Naboo and Yavin IV have been confirmed. I don't doubt for a second that all of the other famous Star Wars planets will make an appearance, I expect to see Hoth, Endor (I know it's a moon, really) and others popping up soon. LucasArts have stated that they want many smaller planets in the title (each one around 16km in size), rather than just one huge world to circumnavigate, which wouldn't give that Star Wars 'feel' to the game, instead giving a more diverse ambience to the proceedings. It would seem that LucasArts want you to explore in this title, but on a much grander scale than anything before it.
This sounds familiar...
old article:
night_flyer writes: "Stale Beer may be used to clean up one of the worst superfund sites in the U.S. ... Now the question is, who leaves beer in the fridge long enough to go stale?" The site in question is a former zinc mine in Oklahoma which is full of toxic leavings, and has been on the EPA's Superfund hotlist for a few decades. A University of Tulsa professor named Tom Harris, who originally considered mollasses, is quoted as saying that "a wetlands treated with beer would be more effective in removing zinc and lead from runoff water than an untreated wetlands."
It's the same guy, the same research, but just a different application!
I remember the huge snafu that happened when they went over to EDS's way of buying equipment for work PC's off a webpage. No one understood it, so the manager's authorized anything that came on their desk. Within six months they where $14 million over budget for PC upgrades. They laid off almost all the contractors doing upgrades there off.
During those six months, I personally upgraded hundreds of PC's with ram/HD combos, doing 4-8 per day. It was insane.
I too remember when they fired all those people. I had freinds working at the Williams' Solution Center, when Williams still did the password security for WCOM (they still do for legacy mainframe). Suddenly, all these people where calling in saying "my password doesn't work". They found out it was because they where to be fired the next day, but WCOM security screwed up and cut them off too early. They where told not to tell them, but did anyway (because my freinds thought it was crappy and didn't work for WCOM anyway). Sometimes I wonder.
The good place to work for in Williams is WMB, not WCG.
We where actually behind the mods near the loading area, then got moved to 3.2. It was fun, because I was all over the complex all day...much of it just trying to figure out wonderfull location descriptions like "1.2 #218" and such. The only good thing was when the Starbucks went in...
It depends where you work, and if you are at a legacy MCI site or a legacy WCOM site. I worked at the Cherokee plant in Tulsa, with about 4,000 employees. I did both t2 deployment and fiber monitoring in the NOC. It was one of the main locations of legacy WCOM.
As far as I could tell, the culture was cool until the EDS deal. They took most of their tech staff and switched them to EDS payroll, which resulted in a massive loss of stock options, authority, and senority. I know many people who left WCOM at that time.
They weren't the best pay in the world, and the loss of stock hurt. Then again, that was when their stock was $70/share...Another thing to watch for it that WCOM makes no counteroffers when you try to work somewhere else. There are many people here who shuffle from WCOM to WCG, then back...raising their pay $15,000 in a few years.
Actually, it's a quote out of the "old testement", so I view is as more of a Jewish/Christian quote, not just Christian.
Not yet, because subsection B states "does not apply to the offer for sale or provision of, or other trafficking in, any previously-owned interactive digital device". How long will that last?
How long until you have to buy a new VCR, tape recorder, and such because the old one is illegal? It's not farfetched: in some states (CA) it is illegal to operate a car w/o proper emmissions controls. If it was manufactured before they exisitied, it has to be retrofitted.
Also, once this is passed, there is a good chance that all the new software will not work on devices without said "scheme" installed.
Of course, this will be a major boon to our economy. Everyone buying new consumer devices, more law enforcment, etc etc etc.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin
It's 10 million for the earth-orbit mission, not a mission to mars.
I live in OK. Never trust what the Oklahoman says. It has been judged one of the WORST newspapers in America (http://www.cjr.org/year/99/1/worst.asp). They are racist, homophobic, and very skewed on all their reporting.
If they where caught, paying for the clean up of the site would be the least of their concerns. Going to prison for many years would probably far outweigh any monetary awards to the dealership.
Netscape has realized that end-users aren't where the money is: Iplanet products are. Microsoft's "enterprise" software doesn't even begin to compete against the likes of Enterprise Portal, ECXpert, Directory Server, and such. M$ is just now making a foray into such technologies. Netscape has been selling them for years. I have been working with Iplanet software for about six months now, and now see why no one who really knows anything aobut enterprise-level systems considers Microsoft a contender. Active Directory is an attempt, but it's still not nearly as powerful or flexible as directory. Nor is it mature or as stable. Everyone is talking about AOL fighting M$ on the end-user connectivity side. No one seems to notice the enterprise-level battle going on between win2k and Iplanet, who is also owned by Microsoft and AOL/Time-Warner, respectivly.
By looking at the comments, I see that M$ feels that not immediatly loosing their anit-trust case is a large win, and in fact they are now going to use the government on their side.
I see M$ trying to get the government to pass various laws to limit where open-source software can be used, because it's paid for "with tax dollars". They will try and force Linux out of the academic system through legistlature, in trying to make everything "even".
I don't know what your running, but we where using a 166 for a firewall. It was fine until we went over 2mb on the connection, and upgraded to a 300. For a server, any Pentium Pro or higher class system should work fine, unless you've got more than 10-15 users on it.
Metlife (the insurance company that has snoopy as their mascot) uses Lotus Notes quite a bit.
This also came off of CNN's site about the guy who reviewed The Matrix, which I think explains quite a bit:
Paul Tatara was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 17, 1963. Tatara and his family moved to Arab, Alabama (pop. 6,800) when he was 4 years old. During his formative years, he focused almost solely on playing baseball, basketball, and football.
Actually, the cost isn't the dish but the amps. For a simple 802.11 11mb system, the dish only runs $150-$250, a card around $150...and the amp around $600. The amp has to be finely tuned, bidirectional. It can't add interference to the signal it's boosting.
The equipment for a 100mb (5 GHz) link runs about $20,000 per side. Most of that goes into the transevier and the amp.
Another cost for making links is renting tower space. In Oklahoma, it runs around $600+ per month. I don't even want to guess how much it is in CA.
I don't know what kind of database your running for your backend, but I don't see why you couldn't "tamper" with the posts...even if you had to log into the box and UPDATE table SET xxx=xxx you could modify them, unless you intentionall forgot the passwords to access the machine!
Like I did. If some of those are plain, I'd like to be in your world. I didn't mean all of them where hot, just some of them.
Actually, you can run Apache/PHP locally anyway in windows by running the Apache for win32. We do it all the time here on laptops that don't have proper Linux support.
What will happen to companies that have established pages at a .org? Do they just loose all the money they have put into the site, into brand development, and such when their registration is up? If I was such a company, I would probably end up sueing over it.