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That'll usually just about do it. I've seen it before with the AIM viruses which have been common lately. It's actually a bit funny when it happens on a MacOS 9 machine:-)
ActiveX controls I'm told are actually a great way to make this happen automatically and without notice (erm, on Windows), but I have no idea about the actual method.
No, it's not really that possible or easy. It would take a lot of energy to change orbits that radically. Things don't go around the Earth at the same height (and I'm not talking a few hundred feet, either) the same direction (angle), and for that matter, the same speed. Hell, some orbits are highly eliptical and some are circular. To match an orbit with an object you pretty much have to launch into that orbit. Slight corrections can be made in-flight, like moving up close to it, but this also pushes you to a higher altitude due to your increased speed. Likewise, if you slow down, you tend to fall as well. The Hubble is quite a ways out there IIRC, now imagine the ISS being on the other side of the planet when the crew needs to get there, and you quickly see how this becomes pretty impossible. Unfortunate, but that's physics for ya.
PS: Gratuitous rant about America becomming more tightwad'd every day has been *BAHLEETED!*
...CAPPS II is, of course, a slight improvement from it's predecessor, the Computer Aided Reporting of Passengers System, which was deemed a little fishy, and a vast improvement over the original project, the Computed-Risk of Airline Passengers System, which was a bunch of bullshit, to say it nicely.
If I where buying a new computer, I'd but the absolute fastest, most maxed out machine I could, but only because it's such a rare occurance that I have the money to make such a purchase, I'd need my machine to last me a few years.
the only thing that can really get you fired is if you opened a new security vulnerability. The way the admins deal with that is by not allowing any changes to occur under their watch.
...Yeah, sounds like that policy is working out nicely for them...
The problem there is when you've got Joe Discount Lawfirm and the defendant gets Johnny Cochran. You lose, you pay, and they where at fault but had a slick lawyer? Hmmm...
No one said it'd be Doom 5. However, it's better than "Gee, I'm stupid and I can't set the system time on this thing, let alone know what it is! Hey Mr. Computer Guy, please fix everything on every computer that everyone I know owns!"
We can't, in the one hand, wish for people tobe more computer literate and, with the other hand, not attempt to teach them. Be l33t, not elitist.:-D
Speaking of which, I'm suprised we haven't seen more awsome, innovative games from Open Source, or at least running on Linux. What's stopping everyone?
This is why I think that for debugging builds (and perhaps this day in age, when it's usually acceptable to waste a few extra cycles, for final builds as well) C/C++ should have runtime array bounds checking built in. You could always do pointer arithmatic to get around that when it's nessesary, anyway.
Also, better tools would be an editor that allows you to make macros for common stuff like the for you mentioned.
/observe ensuing vi vs. emacs flamewar;-)
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It may not return on Fox, but that is one of the unknown details still being worked out.
It also sounds trivial to make a Flash animation load pictures from yuor webserver dynamically though PHP scripts and integrate it with a MySQL database for captions and such, until you try to implement it.
Easy to plan, but takes careful planning and time to implement, I speak from my own current project, which is not even a fraction of the size/complexity of Hotmail. Then again, I'm working with tools I've never used before in my spare time.
Point is, with something the size of Hotmail, anything can co wrong. I really am suprised they've had as little downtime as they have, and I meant what I said about MS knowing how to properly run their own software.
Microsoft is very good at maintining their own products and services. Imagine how well Hotmail and MSN have to be configured to be in proper working order to gain respectible uptimes.
With that in mind, just remember: All those Windows boxes have to be restarted at some point. Hats off to MS for holding out as long as they did.;-)
Yes, let's fire back at the machines attacking and DOUBLE the number of packets on the network while breaking the law! That'll solve it! As if the bandwidth from DoSnets and spam wasn't choking the internet down enough already...
How in the hell do ideas like this make it long enough to be publicly announced? It makes me sad that morons have tech jobs making crap and I couldn't even get hired changing toner if I wanted too...
The parent is from Canada. Perhaps Canada should be propelled to #1 in making excuses why the US isn't so stupid after all?
Either way, this case is rediculous. Unless the French are going to sue every single external hard disk manufacturer, they have no case. iPods won't upload their music library to another computer after syncing, and even though they can be used as FireWire disks to hold straight-up files, how many people actually know/do that? Why is the iPod then singled out for that function as opposed to all the other hard disks you can buy?
Now for the things I do not know in making this argument: Is there already a tax on external hard disks in France?
I notice under Slashdot subculture that "Trolling and Flamebaiting" is the first heading in the table of contents. Perhaps it is accurate after all...;-)
USA Today ran this story in November, and Planet Family Guy, a large fansite, just 5 days ago posted a link to a video interview (RealPlayer required) with the creator, Seth MacFarlane. I had a text transcription of it somewhere, but I can't find the link.
It isn't 100% certain yet, but things seem to be looking up. I really hope it happens, Family Guy is such an awsome show.
OXFORD, UK - The International Encyclopedia Industry Association (IEIA) today filled 250 lawsuits in US Federal Court against various websites, citing copyright infringement. "If you look closely, you'll see that the information availible on the World Wide Web is an exact copy of our works, with the comments removed," said spokeperson Darrel McGroom. "We believe this has been done with the full knowledge of Tim Berners-Lee, who we expect to name in an upcomming lawsuit."
The IEIA is also expected to file suit against Microsoft, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, AT&T, MCI Worldcom, AOL Time-Warner, and AutoZone in comming months, citing DMCA violations for creating tools which can be used to cirrcumvent their copyrights, but no official word was given.
I'm glad the world hasn't become this bad...yet.;-)
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Begin HTTP dump:That'll usually just about do it. I've seen it before with the AIM viruses which have been common lately. It's actually a bit funny when it happens on a MacOS 9 machine
ActiveX controls I'm told are actually a great way to make this happen automatically and without notice (erm, on Windows), but I have no idea about the actual method.
*rimshot*
*crickets chirp*
Tough crowd.
No, it's not really that possible or easy. It would take a lot of energy to change orbits that radically. Things don't go around the Earth at the same height (and I'm not talking a few hundred feet, either) the same direction (angle), and for that matter, the same speed. Hell, some orbits are highly eliptical and some are circular. To match an orbit with an object you pretty much have to launch into that orbit. Slight corrections can be made in-flight, like moving up close to it, but this also pushes you to a higher altitude due to your increased speed. Likewise, if you slow down, you tend to fall as well. The Hubble is quite a ways out there IIRC, now imagine the ISS being on the other side of the planet when the crew needs to get there, and you quickly see how this becomes pretty impossible. Unfortunate, but that's physics for ya.
PS: Gratuitous rant about America becomming more tightwad'd every day has been *BAHLEETED!*
...CAPPS II is, of course, a slight improvement from it's predecessor, the Computer Aided Reporting of Passengers System, which was deemed a little fishy, and a vast improvement over the original project, the Computed-Risk of Airline Passengers System, which was a bunch of bullshit, to say it nicely.
IANAC
If I where buying a new computer, I'd but the absolute fastest, most maxed out machine I could, but only because it's such a rare occurance that I have the money to make such a purchase, I'd need my machine to last me a few years.
...as there should be in the US.
"He's alright I guess."
"Ha! That's NOT what you where GONNA say!"
;-)
The problem there is when you've got Joe Discount Lawfirm and the defendant gets Johnny Cochran. You lose, you pay, and they where at fault but had a slick lawyer? Hmmm...
Strong bad gets $0.25 per e-mail!
Ugh, I think I broke my calvicus...majoras.
No one said it'd be Doom 5. However, it's better than "Gee, I'm stupid and I can't set the system time on this thing, let alone know what it is! Hey Mr. Computer Guy, please fix everything on every computer that everyone I know owns!"
We can't, in the one hand, wish for people tobe more computer literate and, with the other hand, not attempt to teach them. Be l33t, not elitist.
Speaking of which, I'm suprised we haven't seen more awsome, innovative games from Open Source, or at least running on Linux. What's stopping everyone?
This is why I think that for debugging builds (and perhaps this day in age, when it's usually acceptable to waste a few extra cycles, for final builds as well) C/C++ should have runtime array bounds checking built in. You could always do pointer arithmatic to get around that when it's nessesary, anyway.
Also, better tools would be an editor that allows you to make macros for common stuff like the for you mentioned.
/observe ensuing vi vs. emacs flamewar
It may not return on Fox, but that is one of the unknown details still being worked out.
It also sounds trivial to make a Flash animation load pictures from yuor webserver dynamically though PHP scripts and integrate it with a MySQL database for captions and such, until you try to implement it.
Easy to plan, but takes careful planning and time to implement, I speak from my own current project, which is not even a fraction of the size/complexity of Hotmail. Then again, I'm working with tools I've never used before in my spare time.
Point is, with something the size of Hotmail, anything can co wrong. I really am suprised they've had as little downtime as they have, and I meant what I said about MS knowing how to properly run their own software.
So what if I am a lesbian?
Microsoft is very good at maintining their own products and services. Imagine how well Hotmail and MSN have to be configured to be in proper working order to gain respectible uptimes.
With that in mind, just remember: All those Windows boxes have to be restarted at some point. Hats off to MS for holding out as long as they did.
(Flamewar disclaimer: It's a joke. Laugh.)
Animated using blinking characters? That was always good for a laugh.
You're more deserving of mod points than I, sir. Hats off.
Are they really supposed to, though?
Yes, let's fire back at the machines attacking and DOUBLE the number of packets on the network while breaking the law! That'll solve it! As if the bandwidth from DoSnets and spam wasn't choking the internet down enough already...
How in the hell do ideas like this make it long enough to be publicly announced? It makes me sad that morons have tech jobs making crap and I couldn't even get hired changing toner if I wanted too...
The parent is from Canada. Perhaps Canada should be propelled to #1 in making excuses why the US isn't so stupid after all?
Either way, this case is rediculous. Unless the French are going to sue every single external hard disk manufacturer, they have no case. iPods won't upload their music library to another computer after syncing, and even though they can be used as FireWire disks to hold straight-up files, how many people actually know/do that? Why is the iPod then singled out for that function as opposed to all the other hard disks you can buy?
Now for the things I do not know in making this argument:
Is there already a tax on external hard disks in France?
...don't get royalties on copies made, you insensitive clod!
I notice under Slashdot subculture that "Trolling and Flamebaiting" is the first heading in the table of contents. Perhaps it is accurate after all...
USA Today ran this story in November, and Planet Family Guy, a large fansite, just 5 days ago posted a link to a video interview (RealPlayer required) with the creator, Seth MacFarlane. I had a text transcription of it somewhere, but I can't find the link.
It isn't 100% certain yet, but things seem to be looking up. I really hope it happens, Family Guy is such an awsome show.