It always seems that easy. And, of course, one of the greatest things about the internet is that at bottom it is ip, tcp and http...or about a quarters worth of study at community college.
But then, of course there is Murphy's Law...hardware breaks, constantly debugging scripts, adding new pages, crazy Discordian programmers smoking weed in the bathrooms, climate controlled server rooms, bandwidth, advertising departments. Stuff gets complicated like that.
Maybe if instead of being ran by a central source, the de facto web directory was just run by a diffuse organization connecting one page to another, then it would take little money and few employees to link the web together, but then "coonecting one page to another" is kind of what the web is about anyway, right?
A reliable/dev/random!
Now if only I could get a/dev/null that can hook up to a USB port, everything would be fine.
Re:The true effects of quantum computers
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Um, how did this get modded down to -1 with no explanation? This looks to be totally on-topic and interesting. Did some moderatorscatrun across the keyboard again?
When I first read this article, I thought, hey , no problem, doesn't everyone select "automatically hide exe, vbs files" during installation? But I have certainly seen this 8192 bug even though I have this option selected. What's up with this? Does the file hide itself as another file type?
Yeah, I have heard about this thing called Napster...someday I might check it out for nostalgia, like the Atari 2600 emulator I have or something. Wasn't Napster, like, some kind of music program for the first 286s? Or maybe it was programmed by that one Navy Lady who coined the term bug? I think I heard about it in a computer history textbook, or something.
Captain: What happen?
Operator: Somebody set up us the time cube!
Captain: Main screen turn on
Gene Ray: Hello Teachers!
Captain: What you say?
Gene Ray: It is useless to resist squared truth! God-Men no longer dispute me!!!
Gene Ray: False teachers on their way to hanging!
Captain: What you say?
Gene Ray: You have no chance to survive in false time.
Captain: All teachers, take off every 'zig'
If Windows ever goes free for home, or any other type of, use, I am sure their will be a great outcry on Slashdot and maybe in the justice department about how Micro$oft is destroying competition by giving its product away for free.
Okay, both y'all got me. This link was OT and silly, I admit it. I was just looking for an opportunity to point out how silly the w3c's hard ass guidelines are, and this story seemed like the place to do it. So sue me.
You see, there was a time, believe it or not, where nobody knew what Napster was, either!
No kidding dude. I first heard about Napster in October 99, I think it was, and at the time I thought the friend who told me about it was trying to trick me into putting a trojan or some other kind of 31337 trick into my system.
A year later, I'm working at an ISP in Middle of Nowhere, Montana. A middle ages Montana comes in and says "fix this computer so I can get Napster".
The point is, the internet changes quickly. Not that I need to point that out on/.
I know I should have finished filling up that second harddrive last week!!!
Anyway, I haven't been using gnutella because it is slower, less reliable and seems to have less of a selection. But as soon as Napster goes to pay, it's probably going to have more of a selection, leading more people to use it, leading more people to use it, until nobody cares about NApster anymore anyway.
These people must be speaking a different language then I do. when I think of anime, I think fo Ranma 1\2 (which is violent, I guess) and Maisson Ikkokku (which definitly isn't), not DragonballZ or Pokemon. I think of anime\manga as being a form of literarture, not as a form of entertainment. But that is just because I am a member of the non-television owning cultural 31337:-)
Of course, by now, almost all cartoons are done in Anime fashion, so it is kind of silly to speak as anime as just one thing. And to say it is dying because one commercialized aspect of it is dying is like those people who said the internet was dying when the e-commerce boom went away.
Everyone has missed the really scary thing...
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People are going on and on about why this is scary because it is selling out our children to corporations. I think these people are missing the point.
The real scary thing is at least some of these children are going to be reading Slashdot and clicking on links here...and when they do, and the marketting drones finally get this information, we are going to have...Goatsex Cola!
I think this is a good thing. I was always annoyed seeing perfect good astological predictions messed up by the addition of all these new planets. Seven planets is nice and symetrical.
If Isaac Newton didn't need Pluto for his astrology, we shouldn't need it for ours.
I would have to agree that simply rendering a program into ascii art is not itself obfuscation, and therefore, does not properly belong in this contest. On the other hand, I would tip my hat (if I had one handy) to anyone who can write a workable C program that doubles as ASCII art. This probably deserves a contest all of its own.
Remember, you saw it on Slashdot first.
Slashdot Mirror
Freedom is the freedom to say 2 and 2 is 4, everything else follows from there.
We can convince the scientologists that Senor Goat is a copyrighted scientology secret.
It always seems that easy. And, of course, one of the greatest things about the internet is that at bottom it is ip, tcp and http...or about a quarters worth of study at community college.
But then, of course there is Murphy's Law...hardware breaks, constantly debugging scripts, adding new pages, crazy Discordian programmers smoking weed in the bathrooms, climate controlled server rooms, bandwidth, advertising departments. Stuff gets complicated like that.
Maybe if instead of being ran by a central source, the de facto web directory was just run by a diffuse organization connecting one page to another, then it would take little money and few employees to link the web together, but then "coonecting one page to another" is kind of what the web is about anyway, right?
A reliable /dev/random! /dev/null that can hook up to a USB port, everything would be fine.
Now if only I could get a
Um, how did this get modded down to -1 with no explanation? This looks to be totally on-topic and interesting. Did some moderatorscatrun across the keyboard again?
I am using Bearshare. v 2.05 I believe.
When I first read this article, I thought, hey , no problem, doesn't everyone select "automatically hide exe, vbs files" during installation? But I have certainly seen this 8192 bug even though I have this option selected. What's up with this? Does the file hide itself as another file type?
Yeah, I have heard about this thing called Napster...someday I might check it out for nostalgia, like the Atari 2600 emulator I have or something. Wasn't Napster, like, some kind of music program for the first 286s? Or maybe it was programmed by that one Navy Lady who coined the term bug? I think I heard about it in a computer history textbook, or something.
Gnutella for the 3rd milenium!
Captain: What happen?
Operator: Somebody set up us the time cube!
Captain: Main screen turn on
Gene Ray: Hello Teachers!
Captain: What you say?
Gene Ray: It is useless to resist squared truth! God-Men no longer dispute me!!!
Gene Ray: False teachers on their way to hanging!
Captain: What you say?
Gene Ray: You have no chance to survive in false time.
Captain: All teachers, take off every 'zig'
If Gnutella was giving me more then 50 gigs of files right now, I would go on their and search for richardsimmonschestshaving.smc right now.
If Windows ever goes free for home, or any other type of, use, I am sure their will be a great outcry on Slashdot and maybe in the justice department about how Micro$oft is destroying competition by giving its product away for free.
Somewhere in here is the perfect /. troll... get to work you slackers!!!!1
Okay, both y'all got me. This link was OT and silly, I admit it. I was just looking for an opportunity to point out how silly the w3c's hard ass guidelines are, and this story seemed like the place to do it. So sue me.
The W3C does have a tool you can use to see if web pages are compliant with their html specifications. Which, of course, almost no one's are.
As far as I am concerned, if this guy's web page is not html compliant, I am not going to worry if mine isn't.
And then when the hyberbolic nonsense about anything doesn't do it for me anymore, I read hyperbolic nonsense about Everything
Maybe they passed it through the Brunching Shuttlecocks sarcasticizer
No kidding dude. I first heard about Napster in October 99, I think it was, and at the time I thought the friend who told me about it was trying to trick me into putting a trojan or some other kind of 31337 trick into my system.
A year later, I'm working at an ISP in Middle of Nowhere, Montana. A middle ages Montana comes in and says "fix this computer so I can get Napster". /.
The point is, the internet changes quickly. Not that I need to point that out on
I know I should have finished filling up that second harddrive last week!!!
Anyway, I haven't been using gnutella because it is slower, less reliable and seems to have less of a selection. But as soon as Napster goes to pay, it's probably going to have more of a selection, leading more people to use it, leading more people to use it, until nobody cares about NApster anymore anyway.
BTW, get a gnutella program here... freepeer's bearshare program
These people must be speaking a different language then I do. when I think of anime, I think fo Ranma 1\2 (which is violent, I guess) and Maisson Ikkokku (which definitly isn't), not DragonballZ or Pokemon. I think of anime\manga as being a form of literarture, not as a form of entertainment. But that is just because I am a member of the non-television owning cultural 31337 :-)
Of course, by now, almost all cartoons are done in Anime fashion, so it is kind of silly to speak as anime as just one thing. And to say it is dying because one commercialized aspect of it is dying is like those people who said the internet was dying when the e-commerce boom went away.
Maybe this is what Ginger is.
I suppose there is, and then you can make snowflakes!
Don't forget Heroes of Might and Magic 2, 3 or 4
People are going on and on about why this is scary because it is selling out our children to corporations. I think these people are missing the point.
The real scary thing is at least some of these children are going to be reading Slashdot and clicking on links here...and when they do, and the marketting drones finally get this information, we are going to have...Goatsex Cola!
I think this is a good thing. I was always annoyed seeing perfect good astological predictions messed up by the addition of all these new planets. Seven planets is nice and symetrical.
If Isaac Newton didn't need Pluto for his astrology, we shouldn't need it for ours.
I would have to agree that simply rendering a program into ascii art is not itself obfuscation, and therefore, does not properly belong in this contest. On the other hand, I would tip my hat (if I had one handy) to anyone who can write a workable C program that doubles as ASCII art. This probably deserves a contest all of its own.
Remember, you saw it on Slashdot first.