Now THIS is the kind of comment I read Slashdot for! Bravo:-)
Oh yeah, and, um, sorry. About your story.
I have a story too, but it's one somebody else told me. But oh well:
Back when this guy was in high school (~4 years ago I guess), somebody decided that it would be fun if he could set up a chat program for the students. So he codes up a simple program that writes lines of text to a file on the hard drive.
So far, so good. Now anybody who has a copy of the program can chat with everybody else. But for one reason or another, he made it so the program would, whenever ran, copy itself:
If not present on the C: drive, from the network to C:
If not on the network drive, from C: to network
Unfortunately, this triggered a little-known warning bell in the campus antivirus software. The first copy would go fine, but when it tried to write the file back to where it had come from, the antivirus program would permanently lock the user account. Not even the admins could reset it; they had to make new user accounts.
And since it copied itself from C: to the user's personal network partition, it in effect spread itself to a new user account each time someone new logged on. So before long, there were people who were starting to complain about getting locked out of their account.
Well, since this was an underground chat program to begin with, pretty much all the computer nerds got locked out of their accounts in a matter of hours. Eventually they had to go help the IT guys disable the program because IT couldn't fix it on their own. In the end, like a quarter of the students needed new user accounts.
PS: I got this story secondhand, so I'm sure it doesn't make sense in places. The guy I heard it from couldn't remember all the details either.
By definition, no evidence can really be presented as to what happens after death unless you believe the people who say they've had near-death experiences.
4 I also have a problem with - have you been knocked unconscious or gone under a general anasthetic? Perhaps you've done meditation until you felt a dissolution of the "self". They'd all seem to provide counter evidence towards your contention here.
He was saying that it's unarguable that everyone has, at one point, been born. He didn't say anything about any experiences one may have had since then. One must, by definition, be alive in order to observe that one is so.
Or some kind of elaborate mechanical device! For when you desire the use of both your hands for some other activity! Come on, this is Slashdot, we should have tons of engineers around here:-)
"I see your attempt to provoke thoughtful philosophical comment, and I call you an idiot! That will show everyone how much smarter I am!"
I mean, geez, man, you could at least explain yourself a little.
Okay, yes, background radiation is there, but it's beside the point. Technically, wheelchairs and motorcycles both have wheels, so wheelchairs should be banned for disturbing the peace, too.
Agreed. What the heck is the term "default search engine" even supposed to refer to? If you type some random text in the address bar and hit enter, where it goes? I don't see why anybody would even do that, with the searchbar thingie on the right having selectable search engines and all. Or if you really feel the need to type queries in the address bar, there's the whole "add keyword for this search" thing.
Coal explosions kinda don't have the ability to cause cancer and fuck up a lot of people genetically for generations...and besides, anything nuclear is way more exciting. Conventional explosions just aren't as awesome:)
If the area really was more or less "unusable," would the Soviets really have abandoned the place? Any idea what the average lifespan was of the operators at the other reactors?
I don't consider the attacks which ended World War 2 a disaster.
Neither would I consider them an accident, though how disastrous they were depends on your viewpoint. So if they're neither a disaster nor an accident, how is this relevant to the parent post?
Don't take it as an affront to your sexual orientation. It's pretty much an unwritten rule that whenever anyone mentions sex in any context, they are accused of not getting any.
How do you even cite a generalization? If I say "the sky is blue," do I need to cite that? It's kind of common knowledge...but yes, he should have dug up a sampling of some of the bogus court cases that have dragged out. God knows we've seen a bazillion of them on Slashdot. Oh wait, they never actually get solved, they just sit around for a few years while the lawyers get paid, then the evil corporation settles out of court to shut up the guy.
Actually, according to Wikipedia, 2.6.0 came out December of 2003. So only 7 years. And if by "Linux" you probably mean "J Random GNU/Linux Distribution," Ubuntu releases every 6 months, etc...
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Hey, this may be the perfect time to force entry into the cloud! No local applications allowed. :-)
Quickly, to the torrents! ...Oh wait, I'm living on campus and they block bittorrent.
...Oh wait, that's blocked too.
No prob, no prob...then to IRC!
Hmmm...maybe I could host FTP...Oh wait, we're not allowed to host servers of any kind.
Well...um...er...I still support FOSS! Down with oppression!
TCM only
Do you mean TPM? Trusted Platform Module?
Now THIS is the kind of comment I read Slashdot for! Bravo :-)
Oh yeah, and, um, sorry. About your story.
I have a story too, but it's one somebody else told me. But oh well:
Back when this guy was in high school (~4 years ago I guess), somebody decided that it would be fun if he could set up a chat program for the students. So he codes up a simple program that writes lines of text to a file on the hard drive.
So far, so good. Now anybody who has a copy of the program can chat with everybody else. But for one reason or another, he made it so the program would, whenever ran, copy itself:
Unfortunately, this triggered a little-known warning bell in the campus antivirus software. The first copy would go fine, but when it tried to write the file back to where it had come from, the antivirus program would permanently lock the user account. Not even the admins could reset it; they had to make new user accounts.
And since it copied itself from C: to the user's personal network partition, it in effect spread itself to a new user account each time someone new logged on. So before long, there were people who were starting to complain about getting locked out of their account.
Well, since this was an underground chat program to begin with, pretty much all the computer nerds got locked out of their accounts in a matter of hours. Eventually they had to go help the IT guys disable the program because IT couldn't fix it on their own. In the end, like a quarter of the students needed new user accounts.
PS: I got this story secondhand, so I'm sure it doesn't make sense in places. The guy I heard it from couldn't remember all the details either.
By definition, no evidence can really be presented as to what happens after death unless you believe the people who say they've had near-death experiences.
4 I also have a problem with - have you been knocked unconscious or gone under a general anasthetic? Perhaps you've done meditation until you felt a dissolution of the "self". They'd all seem to provide counter evidence towards your contention here.
He was saying that it's unarguable that everyone has, at one point, been born. He didn't say anything about any experiences one may have had since then. One must, by definition, be alive in order to observe that one is so.
Or some kind of elaborate mechanical device! For when you desire the use of both your hands for some other activity! Come on, this is Slashdot, we should have tons of engineers around here :-)
So you're saying "Christianity = stupidity"?
"I see your attempt to provoke thoughtful philosophical comment, and I call you an idiot! That will show everyone how much smarter I am!"
I mean, geez, man, you could at least explain yourself a little.
Have you ever used Dillo? ;-)
Okay, yes, background radiation is there, but it's beside the point. Technically, wheelchairs and motorcycles both have wheels, so wheelchairs should be banned for disturbing the peace, too.
Agreed. What the heck is the term "default search engine" even supposed to refer to? If you type some random text in the address bar and hit enter, where it goes? I don't see why anybody would even do that, with the searchbar thingie on the right having selectable search engines and all. Or if you really feel the need to type queries in the address bar, there's the whole "add keyword for this search" thing.
Coal explosions kinda don't have the ability to cause cancer and fuck up a lot of people genetically for generations...and besides, anything nuclear is way more exciting. Conventional explosions just aren't as awesome :)
If the area really was more or less "unusable," would the Soviets really have abandoned the place? Any idea what the average lifespan was of the operators at the other reactors?
I don't consider the attacks which ended World War 2 a disaster.
Neither would I consider them an accident, though how disastrous they were depends on your viewpoint. So if they're neither a disaster nor an accident, how is this relevant to the parent post?
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf clusters running Linux are virgins and...um...hot grits. And stuff. Never mind.
Don't take it as an affront to your sexual orientation. It's pretty much an unwritten rule that whenever anyone mentions sex in any context, they are accused of not getting any.
There is a picture. RTFA.
Because you can say anything with them?
How do you even cite a generalization? If I say "the sky is blue," do I need to cite that? It's kind of common knowledge...but yes, he should have dug up a sampling of some of the bogus court cases that have dragged out. God knows we've seen a bazillion of them on Slashdot. Oh wait, they never actually get solved, they just sit around for a few years while the lawyers get paid, then the evil corporation settles out of court to shut up the guy.
Exactly my point. I've been saying all along that it is NOT infinity. You aren't listening.
Oops. Actually 29. Math fail...
I like how you waited a full 41 minutes before you condemned Slashdot for its hypocritical complete silence.
"Sir Nick Knack"? Really? He might as well have gone with Oddjob or Jaws.
Actually, according to Wikipedia, 2.6.0 came out December of 2003. So only 7 years. And if by "Linux" you probably mean "J Random GNU/Linux Distribution," Ubuntu releases every 6 months, etc...
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