I am not flamebaiting you here, but it needs to be pointed out that in saying that we should have flattened Iran in 1977, you are advocating killing hundreds of thousands of people - how is that morally superior to restricting the Saudis' net access? Seems to me that living people who are mildly opressed have a better chance of long term improvement of their conditions than dead ones.
That won't help... If someone really wanted to huff, what would stop them from just driving home then "siphoning". Of course, they could pass a law against "reverse engineering" your fuel tank... but those who got to the Nitrous would probably not be in any state to care *grin*
You are forgetting one important thing: The ReplayTV even at lowest quality uses up about a GB per hour of recording... most broadband customers can download at 256Kbps to 1.5Mbps, but very few can upload faster than 128Kbps... so, assuming you have a decent connection, 1GB/128Kbps = 17.36 HOURS to send to a buddy per hour of programming.
That means running it 24/7, you can share approximately 9 full shows per week... Somehow, I don't think this sharing is really going to hurt the networks.
The real use the sharing is likely to be put to is the following:
Let's say that my friend who lives 2 hours drive from me and also has a ReplayTV 4000 loves some TV show as much as I do. We both religiously record it, but something happens this week... I have a power failure, or the IR blaster messes up, and I miss recording my favorite show. I could call her and ask her to send it to me... 24 hours later, I am sitting in front of my TV watching the missed episode. Maybe I will return the favor for her next month.
What about all the happy-meal aliens(JarJar et al) and MidiChlorines and the blonde super-genius in Ep 1 - they were as bad as Ewoks
*I never got a troll before - personally I think the moderator was a little harsh... criticize Lucas and BOOM! you're a zero. (I would not have been so taken aback if you had rated me offtopic)
Actually, what really scares me is that if you use the WINGDINGS font and type "NYC" you get a scull and crossbones, then a Star of David, then a Thumb's Up.
I used to use PCs for Digital Audio and MIDI sequencing, but I got really tired of the system "barfing" in the middle of 50% of my takes. I Finally came to the decision that if I was going to record music digitally, I would really need a dedicated device.
I ended up plunking down the cash for a Roland VS-1880 and have never looked back since. They are not cheap, but dedicated hard disk based digital recorders are rock solid. I still use a PC for creating/warping out samples before I load them into a keyboard, and of course, I use them to take my final tracks and rip them to MP3, but I don't think I will ever trust a PC again for digital multitrack audio recording.
At first, I was not able to comprehend how Excite@home could be losing money when so many people were marching to broadband - unless they were running an Amazon.com-lose-money-on-every-transaction-and-mak e-it-up-in-volume business model. It remained a mystery until I found out that the only thing they do is provide all that useless crap "if you miss AOL, you will like this" content, and something about help(less)desk.
I certainly never cared for the former, and the latter is so bad that I would have to spend 30 minutes on the phone proving I had a clue and the problem was on their end before they would bother to look and see if the problem was on their end (it always was when I called because I knew enough to troubleshoot my own network first)
The most annoying thing about Excite is that I originally signed up under MediaOne RoadRunner - the Terms Of Service were great! I could run any server/OS I wanted to as long as I wasn't reselling their service or causing configuration/security problems. I had a good firewall and I ran an NT4 server with IIS, MS SQL server, and Cold Fusion for development purposes for over a year - never a problem. Once they switched to Excite, the TOS says I can't run any of that, soI shut down outside access to those services.
Actually, Scott.com is a great example - it is NOT owned by the paper products company - it is owned by Scott Software Systems, Inc which is a one-man show run by a guy named Gregory Scott. In fact, the paper products company with the same name DID try to sue him, but because his last name was Scott and he was using the site for legitimate business (not trying to rip off the trademark) he got to keep it.
(I knew wbout this because of the old "friend of a friend")
I am aware that there is a LOT of documentation on the physics of Star Trek, I realize it doesn't matter on the scale of things, but hey, they used numbers in their dialog and I thought it would be fun to see for myself what they worked out to.
My guess is that they didn't bother to check their own consistancy - maybe the makers of Star Trek figure that anyone who bothers to do the numbers is just far too geeky to bother trying to please... maybe they have something there *blush*
Yeah - I thought as much... That article just seemed to scripted - like someone wrote
it for the "Made for TV Movie" It's like dialog that sounds good in a drama, but you realize that nobody talks that way in real life. It's to put yer finger on though until the Monday Morning Quarterbacking.
If you use IE and want to be safe from those hacked pages, just go into your security settings and change the "Launching Programs and Files in IFRAME" to disable and disable all ActiveX scripts. If you run into a site that you trust, add it to your trusted sites (you'll have to enable non SSL encrypted sites being placed into trusted, but That's not too much trouble.)
My real fear is that the US government will wildly overreact to this. You think security was annoying to go through at airports before? And if you look at all Arabic, prepare for a body-cavity search before they let you on a plane - okay, not really, but there are a lot of folks with misguided anger.
Let us try to keep in mind that most people of Arabic descent and most people living in Middle-Eastern countries are not terrorists. The Slashdot community doesn't seem too bad on this one, but I have talked with several friends and co-workers who appear a bit more reactionary.
BinLauden on the other hand, I say send in the SEALs!
I had always been under the impression that those dark patches were dust storms. As a matter of fact, I was just watching something to that effect on Discovery Channel last night.
This is yet another useless JavaScript Web Bug that I for one can do without. When I am surfing the web, I have a "One Popup or other annoying trait and they're out" rule. Specifically, I will immediately set the site as a member of the Restricted group.
As a web developer myself, I strongly believe that one should never build a page that REQUIRES JavaScript or some other plug-in/client-side technology with the exception of pages whose purpose is to show a Flash or QuickTime thingame (a-la joecartoon.com). It's okay to add those things to make your site stand out or have a nice interface, but if I can't navigate around the site with Javascript and ActiveX turned off, I probably don't need to be there... Period
I fully support Dmitry and agree with your sentiments, but I gotta say... the bit in the beginning about disabled people is a little bit intellectually dishonest.
I mean, yes this is a possible use, but Dmitry was not thinking about helping little Timmah be able to read books when he wrote his eBook Processor.
However on the same token, he was probably not thinking "oh boy, I will make millions by helping people illegally pirate eBooks and Put Adobe out of business."
Well, the boycott site got slashdotted but good... and it looks like the webmaster is currently on a plane.
That being the case, I have mirrored it at www.viciousbastard.com until the tide has passed.
WT News: "Internet Worm goes BushWhacking"
NYT News:"HeartWorm for Cheney"
WT News: "MS Worm XP"
NYT News: "Nematodes Invade Cyberspace: Bush off fishing"
Slashdot Mirror
ahhh - On that point, we can agree *grin*
I am not flamebaiting you here, but it needs to be pointed out that in saying that we should have flattened Iran in 1977, you are advocating killing hundreds of thousands of people - how is that morally superior to restricting the Saudis' net access? Seems to me that living people who are mildly opressed have a better chance of long term improvement of their conditions than dead ones.
That won't help... If someone really wanted to huff, what would stop them from just driving home then "siphoning". Of course, they could pass a law against "reverse engineering" your fuel tank... but those who got to the Nitrous would probably not be in any state to care *grin*
You are forgetting one important thing: The ReplayTV even at lowest quality uses up about a GB per hour of recording... most broadband customers can download at 256Kbps to 1.5Mbps, but very few can upload faster than 128Kbps... so, assuming you have a decent connection, 1GB/128Kbps = 17.36 HOURS to send to a buddy per hour of programming.
That means running it 24/7, you can share approximately 9 full shows per week... Somehow, I don't think this sharing is really going to hurt the networks.
The real use the sharing is likely to be put to is the following:
Let's say that my friend who lives 2 hours drive from me and also has a ReplayTV 4000 loves some TV show as much as I do. We both religiously record it, but something happens this week... I have a power failure, or the IR blaster messes up, and I miss recording my favorite show. I could call her and ask her to send it to me... 24 hours later, I am sitting in front of my TV watching the missed episode. Maybe I will return the favor for her next month.
What about all the happy-meal aliens(JarJar et al) and MidiChlorines and the blonde super-genius in Ep 1 - they were as bad as Ewoks
*I never got a troll before - personally I think the moderator was a little harsh... criticize Lucas and BOOM! you're a zero. (I would not have been so taken aback if you had rated me offtopic)
Anyone ever get the feeling that Lucasfilms is the Microsoft of the movie industry?
They are so brilliant at marketing their wares that you almost forget that their actual product it crap.
Actually, what really scares me is that if you use the WINGDINGS font and type "NYC" you get a scull and crossbones, then a Star of David, then a Thumb's Up.
That is disturbing.
I used to use PCs for Digital Audio and MIDI sequencing, but I got really tired of the system "barfing" in the middle of 50% of my takes. I Finally came to the decision that if I was going to record music digitally, I would really need a dedicated device.
I ended up plunking down the cash for a Roland VS-1880 and have never looked back since. They are not cheap, but dedicated hard disk based digital recorders are rock solid. I still use a PC for creating/warping out samples before I load them into a keyboard, and of course, I use them to take my final tracks and rip them to MP3, but I don't think I will ever trust a PC again for digital multitrack audio recording.
At first, I was not able to comprehend how Excite@home could be losing money when so many people were marching to broadband - unless they were running an Amazon.com-lose-money-on-every-transaction-and-mak e-it-up-in-volume business model. It remained a mystery until I found out that the only thing they do is provide all that useless crap "if you miss AOL, you will like this" content, and something about help(less)desk.
I certainly never cared for the former, and the latter is so bad that I would have to spend 30 minutes on the phone proving I had a clue and the problem was on their end before they would bother to look and see if the problem was on their end (it always was when I called because I knew enough to troubleshoot my own network first)
The most annoying thing about Excite is that I originally signed up under MediaOne RoadRunner - the Terms Of Service were great! I could run any server/OS I wanted to as long as I wasn't reselling their service or causing configuration/security problems. I had a good firewall and I ran an NT4 server with IIS, MS SQL server, and Cold Fusion for development purposes for over a year - never a problem. Once they switched to Excite, the TOS says I can't run any of that, soI shut down outside access to those services.
Actually, Scott.com is a great example - it is NOT owned by the paper products company - it is owned by Scott Software Systems, Inc which is a one-man show run by a guy named Gregory Scott. In fact, the paper products company with the same name DID try to sue him, but because his last name was Scott and he was using the site for legitimate business (not trying to rip off the trademark) he got to keep it.
(I knew wbout this because of the old "friend of a friend")
I am aware that there is a LOT of documentation on the physics of Star Trek, I realize it doesn't matter on the scale of things, but hey, they used numbers in their dialog and I thought it would be fun to see for myself what they worked out to.
My guess is that they didn't bother to check their own consistancy - maybe the makers of Star Trek figure that anyone who bothers to do the numbers is just far too geeky to bother trying to please... maybe they have something there *blush*
Distance from Earth to Neptune (shortest)
/3 minutes = 1,435,300,000 km/min = 23,921,700 km/sec
Minimum (10^6 km) 4305.9
Time at Warp 4.5 = 6 minutes round trip = 3 minutes one way
4,305,900,000km
therefore, Warp 4.5 = 23.9217 * 10^6 km/sec
Now, Earth to Kronos was given at 80 hours at Warp 4.5 so
80 hours = 4800 Minutes = 288,000 seconds
288,000 sec * 23,921,700 km/sec = 6,889,449,600,000 km to Kronos (6.8894496 * 10^12) (6 Trillion KM)
Light travels at 300,000 km/sec
6,889,449,600,000 km / 300,000 = 22,964,832 LightSeconds
Light seconds to light years:
60 seconds in 1 minute
60 minutes in 1 hour
24 hours in 1 day
365 days in 1 year
60 * 60 * 24 * 365 = 31,536,000 seconds/year
THEREFORE:
22,964,832 / 31,536,000 = 0.728210045662100456621005 light years
Since the closest star to Earth is some 4 light years away, the Klingons are SURE some CLOSE neighbors!
Yeah - I thought as much... That article just seemed to scripted - like someone wrote
it for the "Made for TV Movie" It's like dialog that sounds good in a drama, but you realize that nobody talks that way in real life. It's to put yer finger on though until the Monday Morning Quarterbacking.
If you use IE and want to be safe from those hacked pages, just go into your security settings and change the "Launching Programs and Files in IFRAME" to disable and disable all ActiveX scripts. If you run into a site that you trust, add it to your trusted sites (you'll have to enable non SSL encrypted sites being placed into trusted, but That's not too much trouble.)
What about .NET?
.net for some time now and very few use it.
.org,.edu,.gov,.mil, and .com
I mean, it's been possible for anyone to get a
I only bring it up because everyone is mentioning
My real fear is that the US government will wildly overreact to this. You think security was annoying to go through at airports before? And if you look at all Arabic, prepare for a body-cavity search before they let you on a plane - okay, not really, but there are a lot of folks with misguided anger.
Let us try to keep in mind that most people of Arabic descent and most people living in Middle-Eastern countries are not terrorists. The Slashdot community doesn't seem too bad on this one, but I have talked with several friends and co-workers who appear a bit more reactionary.
BinLauden on the other hand, I say send in the SEALs!
I had always been under the impression that those dark patches were dust storms. As a matter of fact, I was just watching something to that effect on Discovery Channel last night.
This is yet another useless JavaScript Web Bug that I for one can do without. When I am surfing the web, I have a "One Popup or other annoying trait and they're out" rule. Specifically, I will immediately set the site as a member of the Restricted group.
As a web developer myself, I strongly believe that one should never build a page that REQUIRES JavaScript or some other plug-in/client-side technology with the exception of pages whose purpose is to show a Flash or QuickTime thingame (a-la joecartoon.com). It's okay to add those things to make your site stand out or have a nice interface, but if I can't navigate around the site with Javascript and ActiveX turned off, I probably don't need to be there... Period
if you are having trouble getting to the site, try it like this
I believe the term you're looking for is "fell down"
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Eyewhitnesses accounts are often the least reliable method of determining the truth of events. Ask any cop...
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I fully support Dmitry and agree with your sentiments, but I gotta say... the bit in the beginning about disabled people is a little bit intellectually dishonest.
I mean, yes this is a possible use, but Dmitry was not thinking about helping little Timmah be able to read books when he wrote his eBook Processor.
However on the same token, he was probably not thinking "oh boy, I will make millions by helping people illegally pirate eBooks and Put Adobe out of business."
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Well, the boycott site got slashdotted but good... and it looks like the webmaster is currently on a plane. That being the case, I have mirrored it at www.viciousbastard.com until the tide has passed.
+++++++++++++++++++++
WT News: "Internet Worm goes BushWhacking"
NYT News:"HeartWorm for Cheney"
WT News: "MS Worm XP"
NYT News: "Nematodes Invade Cyberspace: Bush off fishing"
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Another boring one I guess, but I just want to know what system I'm on, where I am, and whether I am root or merely mortal...
SYSTEM=`hostname`
PS1='[$SYSTEM]-$PWD# '
[dev-serv]-/etc/init.d/#
Simple and effective
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