This really sounds like an april fools joke.
If it's accurate, it's interesting, because there were also painting tools and a "stunning" carved female figurine.
So this place was either an arts university, or a nightclub. Probably a nightclub, since I don't think they had McDonalds back then to hire arts graduates.
I suspect the programming would be quite tedious, and then Opera would have to slavishly follow firefox wherever it went, or would have to have a kludgy slow emulator. Since one of Opera's main features is it's speed, this would really make it more trouble than it's worth.
Meanwhile, it is completely reasonable to run Opera and Firefox simultaneously. I do it all the time, and for exactly the reasons you are mentioning above. In fact, I'm doing it right now on an XP system.
There are some websites that I want firefox for, and there are others that opera works better for. With the advent of tabbed browsing and the ability to open a folder full of links on each, bookmark sharing is much less a concern.
If you're completely uninterested in this browser, why are you reading this thread? let alone posting. If you're truly bored, there's an ascii goatse link in an earlier thread above.
That goatse link, plus some tissues, should afford you at least an hour's relaxation and enjoyment. And if you're using Opera, you can go to the Tools -> "Delete Private Data" after you're done cleaning the floor and your screen. Nobody will ever know.
I'm posting this from Opera 10.
It seems quite different from the last version. Slashdot looks very, very good.
To enable the file sharing, you have to click the "+" tab at the bottom and explicitly enable the web serving goodness. It includes a media player, to share your music collection around.
I think we might have a game changer here.
hanzie.
I expect our shiny new government is going to start taxing us on carbon soon. They are throwing money at failing businesses by the billions, while the tax base is collapsing. They are going to need to try to replace that cash somehow.
A scientific theory can be tested for falsity. If it continually passes tests, it's 'useful' and eventually becomes 'law'. If it doesn't pass any test, it gets modified or scrapped.
Creationism has hypotheses that can be disproven.
Experimentally verify any of the following hypotheses as false, and you've falsified creationism.
God created the universe in 6 days
The bible has a chronology dating the earth. It's not very specific, but addition attempts have been made. The planet is some age probably greater than 6000 years, but certainly less than 60,000 (some early first millenium monk added up dates in the bible, it is reasonable to assume an order of magnitude will cover any errors or skips)
If one order of magnitude isn't enough, 2 will cover any doubt: No life existed more than 600,000 years ago.
Nothing of terrestrial origin can be older than 600,000 years. INCLUDING ROCKS
All animals and humans species were created within 6 days of each other, so there should be evidence of all animals simultaneously existing from the beginning, or at least within a week of each other
Come on, I can't be the only one to have come up with this. The scientific method can be applied to the Bible. All of the above are directly derived from the old testament. All these hypotheses are experimentally testable for falsity.
A scientific theory is something that has the possibility of being tested false. That's science. Creationism is a scientific theory, just like the spontaneous generation of germs and rats.
I'd love to see this covered in schools.
Oh baby, YES, I want this debate in schools!
hanzie
P.S.
This doesn't test for the existence of God, just creation theory. Testing the theory of God's existence is outside the scope of this article.
Maybe this is too subtle a point, but the process of actually running for a major party's nomination and winning, then running for and winning the presidency is in itself probably the most important experience a President brings to office.
It means going to a lot of places you would never have gone, meeting an talking to people you'd never have talked to, crafting a message and seeing it crash, then going back to the drawing board and starting again.
The kind of experience you get by holding a safe seat in the senate for two or three terms is valuable too, but it's the kind of experience you can hire.
Given your argument, McCain and Obama are tied on the campaign experience bit.
As far as going places you'd never have gone, meeting and talking to people you'd never have talked to, and seeing your message crash part, you must really be rooting for McCain, since his POW experience wins him that hands down.
You must consider the 'safe senate seat for 2 or 3 terms' just an added bonus.
I'm sure they've made it clear to her that she'll need to resign if there's ever any risk of President McCain needing to be replaced.
Perhaps you should take a look at her record before being sure that she'll resign if presidency looms. 'Barracuda' Palin couldn't care less if the GOP demanded her resignation. Her reply would be something along the lines of "Fuck off and die."
On the extremely bright side, if McCain wins, I see no chance of a male president in 2012. McCain is 72 now. He won't run for re-election at 76. President of the US is a very high stress job: just look at Bill Clinton's before, during, and after pics, and he's a pretty low-stress guy. There's even a very real chance that McCain won't last the full 4 years.
As VP Palin will the heir-presumptive for the GOP nomination. Hillary won't make the same mistakes in four years as she did this time, expecting an automatic nomination. Her 2012 campaign started last night.
A very dear friend of mine is both pro-choice and pro-life. She was very brutally gang-raped at 14 and impregnated.
She carried the child to term and put it up for adoption.
She wasn't willing to kill her own baby, regardless of whichever piece of shit the father was. But she refuses to force other women to make the same decision she finally reached.
Sarah Palin: "I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class."
Yeah, we can't have any of that debating going on in the classroom.
???
You seem to be saying Sarah Palin is against debate. As I read it, she rejects "a prohibition against debate". Which means, she's in favor of a debate.
Should they teach Astrology too? I mean, people should be able to make up their own minds. Or at least have the planets do it for them.
I was taught astrology in high school. One class. It was covered in Physics. Astrology says the gravitational influences of the heavenly bodies are important to determine your future.
We calculated the gravitational attractions of the sun, moon, planets and some rough guesses about the stars.
Then we calculated the attraction of the nurses, OB/GYN and the upper floors of the local hospital above the birthing rooms.
We proved that traditional astrology wasn't even close to the largest gravitational attractions.
If the debate on creationism is held in the same way, I'm all for it in schools.
The username/password combos were apparently functioning sets. The DA is saying they found them on Child's own computer. The DA is all in a tizzy because Child's could then use these accounts to sneak into the system and cause mischief without getting tracked back.
Right. The only guy in the world with God level access to this network needs fake usernames/passwords so he can 'cause mischief'?
Give me a fucking break. I can think of many reasons for him to have those combos on his personal system.
He's checking to see what naughtiness has already happened with those accounts
He's got accounts so he can log in with a lower level of access and see what's accessible
These are usernames/password combos that he sniffed off the network, during routine security testing.
These are people with accounts that have had some kind of trouble, and he's got them so he can attempt to diagnose problems linked to user level access.
It's a list of post-it pad's he's seen while walking around at work, and he'd been planning to inform the users to change their passwords.
They're the output list of a password security checker.
Apparently the less than brilliant DA's office is unaware that the GOD level admin has the ability to do anything at all on the network and REMOVE ALL TRACES IN THE LOGS afterwards. It's trivial, when you're the one who runs the tattletales.
Dear DA office: IF YOU LOOK HARD YOU'LL UNDOUBTEDLY FIND EVIDENCE TRACY EAVESDROPPING ON THE NETWORK SNIFFING AND ATTEMPTING TO ILLEGALLY PENETRATE THE SYSTEM. IT'S PART OF HIS JOB, MORONS. IF YOU KEEP BRINGING THIS CRAP UP, YOU'LL ONLY LOOK STUPIDER.
Keep this up, and Nifong will have company in the 'worlds dumbest DA's club'
No, his network hadn't been hammered while he was gone. That's the amazing part. The news reports were quite clear that everything worked while he was in jail.
It'll be fun to see what happens, now that he's been removed from the loop.
If you have any other opinions you'd really like entered into the public record, have at it. I'd say there's a very good chance that this discussion will be entered as evidence by the defense.:)
If anyone is counting, add my vote for the VPN passwords' disclosure being hard evidence that the IT admin was perfectly correct.
That and the fact that the SF network stayed up while the world's hackers KNEW that the network was completely unsupervised.
Frankly, if I were looking to hire somebody, I'd be chipping into this guy's defense fund. Speaking as a real-world IT manager, I'd say this guys judgement is spot on, and his admin skills are amazing.
In my own humble opinion, then SF DA's office is full of idiots.
Can a moderator or two give a +1 informative to the parent of this post, please?
The below contact info was posted by an AC whom I believe to be the Netgear gentleman in question.
Here it is again (because lots of folks will never see an AC post)
My email address is som.choudhury@netgear.com. Please do send me your address.
Regards
-Som Pal Choudhury
Senior Product Line Manager, Advanced Wireless
NETGEAR Inc.
Off: 408-367-7884
Cell: 408-910-2936
Mr. Choudhury, I recommend registering for an account here and posting. If you don't, someone else will.
Thank you very much for proactively working to fix the problem. It gives me confidence that your company's equipment might be worth trying.
May 16, 2008 3:36 PM
Sean,
I am the Product Line Manager for Wireless Products at NETGEAR and I apologize.
Please do send me your contact information and I will send you a WGR614L version out immediately. There had been an issue with one of our distributors and a few V9 versions was shipped out by mistake. We have recalled, but I guess you were one of the unfortunate ones to get a V9.
Again, I apologize. My email address is **DELETED** Please do send me your address.
Regards
-Som Pal Choudhury
Senior Product Line Manager, Advanced Wireless
NETGEAR Inc.
I removed his contact numbers and email address. They're on the page I linked to, and he really doesn't need a slashdot post of his vitals, he's got enough problems right now.
Nice to see Netgear's on the ball.
Apparently Netgear's guy responsible is personally taking care of the problem.
There are tons of studies showing that people act differently when they know they're being watched or recorded.
I'd say that the 11% figure is a huge understatement, 89% of users are clueless, or, most likely, most folks have been assuming a lack of privacy all along.
I'm in the 'lack of privacy from the beginning' camp.
hanzie
A source inside HP told me that the variable cost of x86 chips was about $10 each. That is, the price to make one more. This didn't count any of the R&D or any other coding, just the duplication cost.
What if you could plug a chip into a slot on a board, and after a few hours, and were able to make your own?
Anyway, we need a new analogy. I bought a buggy whip a few years ago; they're still available.
And I didn't buy it because I wanted transport. I wanted a buggy whip to play with.
In the film "Other People's Money" Danny DiVito made some excellent points about how capitalism and greed have some good uses. However, he was wrong about the buggy whip being extinct.
Picasa Software is made available to you for your non-commercial use only. This means that you may use it at work or at home, but you first need to obtain Google's permission if you want to sell the Picasa Software or any information, services, or software associated with or derived from the Picasa Software, or if you want to modify, copy (except as explicitly provided below), license, or create derivative works from the Picasa Software (collectively, "Commercial Use").
The only reasonable explanation I can see is that Google means the same for Star Office as the above.
Slashdot Mirror
This really sounds like an april fools joke. If it's accurate, it's interesting, because there were also painting tools and a "stunning" carved female figurine. So this place was either an arts university, or a nightclub. Probably a nightclub, since I don't think they had McDonalds back then to hire arts graduates.
Meanwhile, it is completely reasonable to run Opera and Firefox simultaneously. I do it all the time, and for exactly the reasons you are mentioning above. In fact, I'm doing it right now on an XP system.
There are some websites that I want firefox for, and there are others that opera works better for. With the advent of tabbed browsing and the ability to open a folder full of links on each, bookmark sharing is much less a concern.
If you're completely uninterested in this browser, why are you reading this thread? let alone posting. If you're truly bored, there's an ascii goatse link in an earlier thread above.
That goatse link, plus some tissues, should afford you at least an hour's relaxation and enjoyment. And if you're using Opera, you can go to the Tools -> "Delete Private Data" after you're done cleaning the floor and your screen. Nobody will ever know.
Damn fast, too. Google Docs works very well, and is very quick.
I'm posting this from Opera 10. It seems quite different from the last version. Slashdot looks very, very good. To enable the file sharing, you have to click the "+" tab at the bottom and explicitly enable the web serving goodness. It includes a media player, to share your music collection around. I think we might have a game changer here. hanzie.
parent +1 clearly and concisely replying with well thought out examples and intelligent discussion
I expect our shiny new government is going to start taxing us on carbon soon. They are throwing money at failing businesses by the billions, while the tax base is collapsing. They are going to need to try to replace that cash somehow.
Actually, Asia Carrera has a slashdot account.
Money. HDD's will keep getting cheaper. I'm betting on 2010.
A scientific theory can be tested for falsity. If it continually passes tests, it's 'useful' and eventually becomes 'law'. If it doesn't pass any test, it gets modified or scrapped.
Creationism has hypotheses that can be disproven.
Experimentally verify any of the following hypotheses as false, and you've falsified creationism.
Come on, I can't be the only one to have come up with this. The scientific method can be applied to the Bible. All of the above are directly derived from the old testament. All these hypotheses are experimentally testable for falsity.
A scientific theory is something that has the possibility of being tested false. That's science. Creationism is a scientific theory, just like the spontaneous generation of germs and rats.
I'd love to see this covered in schools.
Oh baby, YES, I want this debate in schools!
hanzie
P.S.
This doesn't test for the existence of God, just creation theory. Testing the theory of God's existence is outside the scope of this article.
Maybe this is too subtle a point, but the process of actually running for a major party's nomination and winning, then running for and winning the presidency is in itself probably the most important experience a President brings to office.
It means going to a lot of places you would never have gone, meeting an talking to people you'd never have talked to, crafting a message and seeing it crash, then going back to the drawing board and starting again.
The kind of experience you get by holding a safe seat in the senate for two or three terms is valuable too, but it's the kind of experience you can hire.
Given your argument, McCain and Obama are tied on the campaign experience bit.
As far as going places you'd never have gone, meeting and talking to people you'd never have talked to, and seeing your message crash part, you must really be rooting for McCain, since his POW experience wins him that hands down.
You must consider the 'safe senate seat for 2 or 3 terms' just an added bonus.
hanzie
because candidates for President don't want running mates who outshine them.
If you're right, then McCain REALLY screwed up...
I'm sure they've made it clear to her that she'll need to resign if there's ever any risk of President McCain needing to be replaced.
Perhaps you should take a look at her record before being sure that she'll resign if presidency looms. 'Barracuda' Palin couldn't care less if the GOP demanded her resignation. Her reply would be something along the lines of "Fuck off and die."
On the extremely bright side, if McCain wins, I see no chance of a male president in 2012. McCain is 72 now. He won't run for re-election at 76. President of the US is a very high stress job: just look at Bill Clinton's before, during, and after pics, and he's a pretty low-stress guy. There's even a very real chance that McCain won't last the full 4 years.
As VP Palin will the heir-presumptive for the GOP nomination. Hillary won't make the same mistakes in four years as she did this time, expecting an automatic nomination. Her 2012 campaign started last night.
hanzie
She carried the child to term and put it up for adoption.
She wasn't willing to kill her own baby, regardless of whichever piece of shit the father was. But she refuses to force other women to make the same decision she finally reached.
Yes, she's pro-choice AND pro-life.
hanzie.
Sarah Palin: "I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class."
Yeah, we can't have any of that debating going on in the classroom.
???
You seem to be saying Sarah Palin is against debate. As I read it, she rejects "a prohibition against debate". Which means, she's in favor of a debate.
Should they teach Astrology too? I mean, people should be able to make up their own minds. Or at least have the planets do it for them.
I was taught astrology in high school. One class. It was covered in Physics. Astrology says the gravitational influences of the heavenly bodies are important to determine your future.
We calculated the gravitational attractions of the sun, moon, planets and some rough guesses about the stars.
Then we calculated the attraction of the nurses, OB/GYN and the upper floors of the local hospital above the birthing rooms.
We proved that traditional astrology wasn't even close to the largest gravitational attractions.
If the debate on creationism is held in the same way, I'm all for it in schools.
The username/password combos were apparently functioning sets. The DA is saying they found them on Child's own computer. The DA is all in a tizzy because Child's could then use these accounts to sneak into the system and cause mischief without getting tracked back.
Right. The only guy in the world with God level access to this network needs fake usernames/passwords so he can 'cause mischief'?
Give me a fucking break. I can think of many reasons for him to have those combos on his personal system.
Apparently the less than brilliant DA's office is unaware that the GOD level admin has the ability to do anything at all on the network and REMOVE ALL TRACES IN THE LOGS afterwards. It's trivial, when you're the one who runs the tattletales.
Dear DA office: IF YOU LOOK HARD YOU'LL UNDOUBTEDLY FIND EVIDENCE TRACY EAVESDROPPING ON THE NETWORK SNIFFING AND ATTEMPTING TO ILLEGALLY PENETRATE THE SYSTEM. IT'S PART OF HIS JOB, MORONS. IF YOU KEEP BRINGING THIS CRAP UP, YOU'LL ONLY LOOK STUPIDER.
Keep this up, and Nifong will have company in the 'worlds dumbest DA's club'
It'll be fun to see what happens, now that he's been removed from the loop.
If you have any other opinions you'd really like entered into the public record, have at it. I'd say there's a very good chance that this discussion will be entered as evidence by the defense.:)
If anyone is counting, add my vote for the VPN passwords' disclosure being hard evidence that the IT admin was perfectly correct.
That and the fact that the SF network stayed up while the world's hackers KNEW that the network was completely unsupervised.
Frankly, if I were looking to hire somebody, I'd be chipping into this guy's defense fund. Speaking as a real-world IT manager, I'd say this guys judgement is spot on, and his admin skills are amazing.
In my own humble opinion, then SF DA's office is full of idiots.
hanzie.
The below contact info was posted by an AC whom I believe to be the Netgear gentleman in question.
Here it is again (because lots of folks will never see an AC post)
Mr. Choudhury, I recommend registering for an account here and posting. If you don't, someone else will.
Thank you very much for proactively working to fix the problem. It gives me confidence that your company's equipment might be worth trying.
hanzie.
This page:
WGR614L really a WG614v9?
talks about it.
I removed his contact numbers and email address. They're on the page I linked to, and he really doesn't need a slashdot post of his vitals, he's got enough problems right now.
Nice to see Netgear's on the ball.
Apparently Netgear's guy responsible is personally taking care of the problem.
hanzie
There are tons of studies showing that people act differently when they know they're being watched or recorded. I'd say that the 11% figure is a huge understatement, 89% of users are clueless, or, most likely, most folks have been assuming a lack of privacy all along. I'm in the 'lack of privacy from the beginning' camp. hanzie
With waaaaaay too much torque on tap, I'd expect big brother to start leaning on cobra manufacturers like Kirkham Motorsports.
Gov't agencies don't generally like people to have fun.
Folks,
forget duplicating cars. Think duplicating microprocessors.
A source inside HP told me that the variable cost of x86 chips was about $10 each. That is, the price to make one more. This didn't count any of the R&D or any other coding, just the duplication cost.
What if you could plug a chip into a slot on a board, and after a few hours, and were able to make your own?
Anyway, we need a new analogy. I bought a buggy whip a few years ago; they're still available.
And I didn't buy it because I wanted transport. I wanted a buggy whip to play with.
In the film "Other People's Money" Danny DiVito made some excellent points about how capitalism and greed have some good uses. However, he was wrong about the buggy whip being extinct.
hanzie
The only reasonable explanation I can see is that Google means the same for Star Office as the above.
hanzie.