>>I was sitting on a 204GB collection of music. That's approximately 44,190 tracks for the curious. My main Media Center Edition PC has a 250GB HDD which at any given time has about 200GB of recorded TV. Then there's about 500 or so DVDs as well.
>>Your spouse and kids will be taken care of, too -- with smart toilets analyzing their urine...
Here's my prediction...
A chap had a very painful elbow. He went to see his own doctor, who told him to rest it: no treatment was required, it was just tennis elbow.
Rather dissatisfied, he decided to go to a new computer-based medical service that had just opened up. He went inside the building and found the terminal, but there were no people in sight. The instructions told him to slide his credit card through the slot, and that $150 would be debited. When he had done this, he was asked screen after screen of questions about himself, until eventually a specimen bottle appeared. The instructions on the screen said, "Produce urine specimen and pour into slot on left," so he did. A few seconds later, the screen read:
Diagnosis: Tennis elbow
Treatment: Rest
Well, he wasn't happy. $150 wasted just to be told the same thing again. He thinks, "I'm going to confuse the hell out of that smug machine." He went home, took a bottle and put a scooped-up turd from his dog, some of his daughter's and wife's urine, some crankcase oil from his car and some of his own semen into the bottle and mixed it thoroughly. Then he went back to the computer.
He waved his card through the slot, answered the questions again and poured his mixture through the slot when asked. There was a very long pause.
About half an hour later, the screen read:
Diagnosis:
1. Your dog has rabies 2. Your daughter is on heroin 3. Your wife is pregnant, and your not the father 4. Your car is going to throw a rod 5. If you don't stop wanking, your tennis elbow will never get better.
You can get Newsnight, broadcast every week day. It's a very different take on world news than you will get from CNN/Fox/ABC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/ de fault.stm
During the 9-11 attacks the BBC managed to keep a live video stream running the whole time, and keep their news site up. The only other news site I saw that stayed up was slashdot.
The Star Wars Holiday Special.
Not a lot of people know this, but there is another 'secret' star wars movie out there. George lucus tryed to have every copy destroyed, but one guy must have taped it, kept the video, and relesed in on the file-sharing networks.
Highlights inlude the first half hour is being in wookie, with no sub titles, itchy, and scratchy, chewies relatives, wookie porn, Gefferson Starship, and princess lea singing. You have to check it out...
I took my first ride on a fuel cell bus in Stockholm on Thursday. They have started a trial here in the city, it's free to take a ride, and they take a route from outside my office, and through the city center.
The bus is feels great to ride on, all the heavy stuff (cells, tanks etc) is up in the roof, so there is plenty of space inside. The design is modern, and it's a quiet ride.
There are a few other citys in Europe taking part, more info here.
Maybe one day even the good ole USA will start to catch up on ideas like this. (Low emission flames please;-)).
I agrre with the above. Also creating a honeypot will give these guys something to play with, something fun to do, which will mean they will be more likely to come back.
If they can't get anywhere, they will move on somewhere else...
Microsoft are just going to hire about 20 high-class escort girls and covertly target them at the most important open source developers. The costs involved in this strategy will be peanuts compared with the total devastation it will bring upon the open source community, which will be left completely defenseless.
They have already started a trial program. You have been warned.
"Perhaps more interesting is the idea that the iPod is an expendable pawn in a larger battle of who will control the gateway of all legal content to the user."
More like:
"Expendable porn will control the gateway of all legal content to the user."
If you have one of these (Grandstand Astro Wars) lying about, you'll find a great fresnel lens inside. I was a kid when I discovered it, so I'm not sure of the dimensions, but it was danm powerful. Even in England, it could set wood alight easily.
What's odd: The password returned by my tool of choice is not the same as the one actually stored - but when I enter this new password OR the original password into Word, the document is successfully unprotected. Some sort of odd math that makes more than one password work?
I think thats 'cause thay use a hashing algorythm to store the password. It's usually not possible to get back the password form a hash, you have to brute-force to find a password that generates the same hash. It's also possible that a number of passwords can produce the same hash, if the hash is shorter, the chances of this are greater.
I once took a Linn power amp in my hand luggage. Two security guards spent about 10 minutes looking at the X-Ray picture of the inside. I saw the screen and there was a big 6 inch ferite core for the power supply that did look rather like a chunk of high explosive, with lots of wires around it. I was lucky they didn't take the whole thing appart.
Id go for that too (well I am doing at the moment). I got laid off a month ago in Stockholm. When I moved here six years ago, it was the IT capital of Europe, now it seems to be the IT black hole of Europe. I applied for a couple of jobs here and there were over 300 people going for the same job. A friend of mine sugested contracting in London, it looks like I should be able to pick up a couple of three month contracts that will pay double what I was earning before. And when things get better in Stockholm again, I'll have another six months more experience, and a couple more big projects under my belt.
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>>I was sitting on a 204GB collection of music. That's approximately 44,190 tracks for the curious. My main Media Center Edition PC has a 250GB HDD which at any given time has about 200GB of recorded TV. Then there's about 500 or so DVDs as well.
This is the RIAA.
You are surounded.
Come out with your hands up.
>>Anyone else here just dying for a grammar checker?
I'd like one, my grammar is in an old peepals holme, and is sumtimes quite ill. It wood be good to have a thing that kan check on her.
>>Your spouse and kids will be taken care of, too -- with smart toilets analyzing their urine...
Here's my prediction...
A chap had a very painful elbow. He went to see his own doctor, who told him to rest it: no treatment was required, it was just tennis elbow.
Rather dissatisfied, he decided to go to a new computer-based medical service that had just opened up. He went inside the building and found the terminal, but there were no people in sight. The instructions told him to slide his credit card through the slot, and that $150 would be debited. When he had done this, he was asked screen after screen of questions about himself, until eventually a specimen bottle appeared. The instructions on the screen said, "Produce urine specimen and pour into slot on left," so he did. A few seconds later, the screen read:
Diagnosis: Tennis elbow
Treatment: Rest
Well, he wasn't happy. $150 wasted just to be told the same thing again. He thinks, "I'm going to confuse the hell out of that smug machine." He went home, took a bottle and put a scooped-up turd from his dog, some of his daughter's and wife's urine, some crankcase oil from his car and some of his own semen into the bottle and mixed it thoroughly. Then he went back to the computer.
He waved his card through the slot, answered the questions again and poured his mixture through the slot when asked. There was a very long pause.
About half an hour later, the screen read:
Diagnosis:
1. Your dog has rabies
2. Your daughter is on heroin
3. Your wife is pregnant, and your not the father
4. Your car is going to throw a rod
5. If you don't stop wanking, your tennis elbow will never get better.
Hi,
/ de fault.stm
You can get Newsnight, broadcast every week day. It's a very different take on world news than you will get from CNN/Fox/ABC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight
During the 9-11 attacks the BBC managed to keep a live video stream running the whole time, and keep their news site up. The only other news site I saw that stayed up was slashdot.
No, if your HDTV has DVD, VCD and a VHS VCR on RGB via SCART or UHF, then RGBCMY is not an option.
Unless, of course, you are using NTSC.
I'd go for this.
The Star Wars Holiday Special.
Not a lot of people know this, but there is another 'secret' star wars movie out there. George lucus tryed to have every copy destroyed, but one guy must have taped it, kept the video, and relesed in on the file-sharing networks.
Highlights inlude the first half hour is being in wookie, with no sub titles, itchy, and scratchy, chewies relatives, wookie porn, Gefferson Starship, and princess lea singing. You have to check it out...
I took my first ride on a fuel cell bus in Stockholm on Thursday. They have started a trial here in the city, it's free to take a ride, and they take a route from outside my office, and through the city center.
;-)).
The bus is feels great to ride on, all the heavy stuff (cells, tanks etc) is up in the roof, so there is plenty of space inside. The design is modern, and it's a quiet ride.
There are a few other citys in Europe taking part, more info here.
Maybe one day even the good ole USA will start to catch up on ideas like this. (Low emission flames please
I agrre with the above. Also creating a honeypot will give these guys something to play with, something fun to do, which will mean they will be more likely to come back.
If they can't get anywhere, they will move on somewhere else...
Microsoft are just going to hire about 20 high-class escort girls and covertly target them at the most important open source developers. The costs involved in this strategy will be peanuts compared with the total devastation it will bring upon the open source community, which will be left completely defenseless.
They have already started a trial program. You have been warned.
Slashdot claims it has a moderation system to prevent people abusing the discussions.
Not only are abusive posts about me not removed, they are consistently moderated up to "+5 Funny".
>>Cool, time for me to release a hardcore gay movie called microsoft.com. I mean, what grounds would they have to object?
Ha ha ha,
This has been done already.
Check out www.hotmale.com
"Perhaps more interesting is the idea that the iPod is an expendable pawn in a larger battle of who will control the gateway of all legal content to the user."
More like:
"Expendable porn will control the gateway of all legal content to the user."
>>Irony is one of those words that's very quickly being redefined by modern usage.
Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?
Yes, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made out of iron.
The real reaon they are doing it is to reduce costs.
1 The main expense with the system will be admin costs.
2 After the tech slump there are loads of unix admins working at McDonnalds earning minimum wage.
3 Take a guess...
4 Porfit!
"Hardcore is implementing coroutines in assembly language or creating a full-fledged OO system in 6K."
Didn't the word, or phrase originate from porn? Or was it in use before that? It certanly pre-dates assembly language.
If you have one of these (Grandstand Astro Wars) lying about, you'll find a great fresnel lens inside. I was a kid when I discovered it, so I'm not sure of the dimensions, but it was danm powerful. Even in England, it could set wood alight easily.
>>"Vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha 600 Mbit"
More like: "Vi vill ha porn, vi vill ha porn, vi vill ha 600 Mbit"
>>If you have sex in a public place and you get arrested for indecency
The projectionist with the night vision goggles usually keeps pretty quiet about that one.
What he actually said was:
"We have never had vulnerabilities exploited before Apachi was available."
What's odd: The password returned by my tool of choice is not the same as the one actually stored - but when I enter this new password OR the original password into Word, the document is successfully unprotected. Some sort of odd math that makes more than one password work?
I think thats 'cause thay use a hashing algorythm to store the password. It's usually not possible to get back the password form a hash, you have to brute-force to find a password that generates the same hash. It's also possible that a number of passwords can produce the same hash, if the hash is shorter, the chances of this are greater.
I once took a Linn power amp in my hand luggage. Two security guards spent about 10 minutes looking at the X-Ray picture of the inside. I saw the screen and there was a big 6 inch ferite core for the power supply that did look rather like a chunk of high explosive, with lots of wires around it. I was lucky they didn't take the whole thing appart.
...he's got a job with the FBI now.
Id go for that too (well I am doing at the moment). I got laid off a month ago in Stockholm. When I moved here six years ago, it was the IT capital of Europe, now it seems to be the IT black hole of Europe. I applied for a couple of jobs here and there were over 300 people going for the same job.
A friend of mine sugested contracting in London, it looks like I should be able to pick up a couple of three month contracts that will pay double what I was earning before. And when things get better in Stockholm again, I'll have another six months more experience, and a couple more big projects under my belt.
I know we've slashdotted LEGO links to death, but...
I'm not too worried about Saruman being cut, it's the addition of this character that scares me.