Yes and then we will need something to erase the memory of Batman. Which is why the next Warner Bros. movie will be Batman Vs. Catwoman. Only when they go for the epic battle they will get really attracted to eachother and have a love child named ManWoman. Which will be the central character of a future Hollywood blockbuster starring Janet Reno.
More and more of the small consumer gadgets are being folded into the phone: camera, music player, PDA, GPS, etc. So the market for non-phone gadgets is slowly going away as the phone picks up more functions.
Here's a simple solution. Build a camera with a cellphone in it. Build a music player with a cellphone in it. Build a PDA with a cellphone in it. Build a GPS with a cellphone in it. And quit your kvetching.
Seriously though, all of these cellphone toys are such crap. This is what I want. A cellphone that makes phone calls. And when it rings I want it to sound like a phone ringing, not Paris hilton getting fucked to german techno porn music. And I want it to be black and white. With no camera, games, or web browser. That has excellent reception and battery life, that does not accept text messages, that is easy to set to vibrate mode, that does not take 20 seconds to start up and shut down while playing an animated movie that is impossible to disable. Can someone please point me to this phone?
If you've ever seen the movie High Fidelity the main character decides to organize his albums not by title or genre, but by autobiographical so that if he wanted to find an album he had to remember when he bought it. Well just for fun I decided to do the same thing with my porn collection using iPhoto. Now I can see how my tastes in porno have changed and grown more sophisticated over the last 7 years. And wow I was into some pretty kinky shit as a 12 year old.
A DoubleClick spokeswoman said the attack targeted the company's domain name servers -- machines that help direct Internet traffic -- causing "severe service disruptions" for all 900 of its customers.
Wait I thought doubleclick was one the thirtieth most visited site on the internet, how could they only have 900 customers? It's almost as if they don't think of the people visiting their site as customers, as if they're only there to be bent over and take it in the behind.
For example, the book tells you what kind of numbers can be usefully entered into the Google search window: you can search for area codes, ISBN numbers, UPC numbers, flight numbers, Fedex/UPS/USPS tracking numbers as well as vehicle ID numbers (btw, the car is for sale).
Actually, this entire book review was just a way for this guy to advertise his car on slashdot.
What Real has done here is a Good Thing! Now let me first say that I consider Real's software to be a plague on the internet. And if I made a cool device like the iPod I would sure as hell be pissed off if Real tried to ruin its perfectness by getting their abominable ad-ridden crap to play on it.
But...Here is the good news. If Apple wants to get Reals crap off their players then it will have to upgrade their firmware. Now you might ask yourself, well who would be stupid enough to update their iPod if all it does is remove functionality and make it harder to interoperate with? Well thats an excellent point, which is why if Apple wants us users to upgrade then they'll have to give us something in return.
Feeling royally screwed because you bought an iPod capable of having a 12 hour battery life that only lasts 8 hours? Well now that Apple needs a way to get us to upgrade to their new software to break Real, guess what is probably going to happen.
I dunno what the hell is wrong with wikipedia, but try actually searching google for a phrase from my article. for example when i google for ""signal the long decline of the republic of Rome." it comes up with 2 results from derivative works of wikipedia. Why is wikipedia fucked up? I dunno. But I shit you not, I really wrote this.
Why would Visa cancel your account unless you "validated" the account once a month? What if you're on a two month vacation? You lose your account? Why would Citibank send you an email saying "Unless you click this link and enter all your info, your credit card will expire!" If my card's about to expire, I get a new one in the mail. Be cynical and suspicious. It's healthy.
Why would paypal send me an email saying that if I don't renew my credit card right now which doesn't expire for 4 years then they will suspend my account? I understand how you tell the ones are fake in the context of a real email, but I don't see how you can PROVE without a shadow of a doubt that the paypal one is real unless you actually click on the link and it takes you to https://www.paypal.com
I don't get it, can someone explain this to me. How is it possible to tell which emails are real and which are fraud just but looking at them in this test? For example I marked the paypal one as fraud when it was actually real, but how could I tell that? For all the fake ones the email came from support@domainname.com or whatever with no email header, and all of the links looked accurate. How could one possibly tell where the email came from without looking at the header? How could you tell whether the paypal email linked to https://www.paypal.com or http://www.geocities.com/~paypal.html without being able to click the link? I got these all right except for the paypal which I thought was fraud, but that was only because I recognized them from real email where I was able to look at the headers. Someone please explain to me why it is so bad that 28% of people couldn't pass an unfair test. To me this says nothing about the test takers, only that the people who made this test are morons.
How exactly would you propose they port nethack when the controller on goes in the four cardinal directions? I suppose you could hit B and then scroll up and across to where you wanted to go, but that would sort of take the fun out of it...
After a successful military career, Tiberius Gracchus went into politics trying to bring massive reforms to the military to its strength and morale.
In the last hundred years, there had been several wars. The standard time served in the Roman army being twenty years, often times soldiers would leave their farms in the hands of their wives and children. As farms in this situation went steadily into bankruptcy and were bought up by the wealthy upper class large plantations were formed.
When the soldiers returned they had no where to go, so they went to Rome to join the mob of thousands of unemployed who roamed the city. Faced with this, the option of joining the army was unattractive, and number of soldiers and thus the power of Rome was shrinking.
Tiberius proposed a law called Lex Agraria saying that the government would buy out most of the land of the Patricians and the Patricians would be reimbursed. The land would then be distributed to soldiers upon completion of their service. This would solve two problems, attracting new recruits and also taking care of homeless war veterans.
There was no question that the Patricians would get reimbursed because the Senate approved finances and they were also the ones who held most of the land. However, the bill was still unfeasible because there was not enough money currently to reimburse the Patricians without disrupting other activities. Then by chance king Attalus died and left his entire fortune to Rome. Tiberius proposed that Attalus' fortune be used to fund the new law.
Tiberius was one tribune and then there was one other. Each tribune had the power to veto the law, thus both had to agree. As Tiberius proposed the bill to the senate, the other tribune threatened to veto, so Tiberius had him removed from the senate by means of his thugs so that he would be unable to deliver the veto, and the bill became law.
This represents the first instance where the man with the most thugs was the one to gain power. This set a dangerous precedent, one that would signal the long decline of the replic of Rome.
Alex Krupp September 25th, 2001
And yes I know it was a horribly shitty article which is why I was always amused that it lasted as long as it did.
When the wikipedia project was first announced on/. a number of years ago I remember I was writing a paper on Tiberius Gracchus. Currently there was nothing on wikipedia about him so I decided to edit my paper into an encyclopedia-ish form and upload it. This is when I was a sophomore in HS by the way. Anyway the article actually stayed as is for about two years before someone else rewrote it to make it not suck. However there are one or two sentences that bear just a hint of my original writing. Kind of neat I think.
I also am a college student who used to play every halfway decent game. Now I haven't purchased a game in years: the last game I bought was black and white which I got bored of after a couple hours and never played again. The reason is partly that every game that comes out is exactly the same, only with better graphics and less plot and interactivity.
The only two games that can keep my attention these are Nethack and Go.
The reason warranties were lowered was because people would purposely destroy their hard drives toward the end of the warranty period to get a free bigger one. However with this plan if the hard drive fails at the end of the warranty period then the company can offer to subtract the cost of replacement old drive from the cost of a new bigger drive. However now that hard drives are often 200GB this is less of an issue.
This is just like trading in your old car for a new car and saving a thousand bucks, it locks you into buying the same brand again and again.
You're taking this too literally. It's really just a metaphor. Let's say to the north of the intersection is the United States. To the south is Iraq. To the west is our ally Great Britain and to the right is terrorist Michael Moore. Does this make any sense to you? Of course it doesn't.
Now these cars are like diplomats all trying to make peace with eachother. If this doesn't make sense it's because it's complete nonsense.
Next we have the pedestrians and bicycles as mentioned in your post. Let these represent terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. If you're confused then clearly its because this entire situation makes no sense.
To conclude while you may think this simple simulation is designed to control cars, it's really something much larger designed to make the world a more friendly place. And if this doesn't make sense to you, you must buy the product.
In all seriousness though, this has applications far beyond cars, such as increasing the efficiency at factories with conveyor belts and robots, routing data over the internet, more efficient combustion engines, etc. While it would be ideal to evolve the perfect solutions using genetic algorithms, this is a good fix in a less than perfect world.
Not true. Hotmail isn't free, it just doesn't cost any money. You have to look at advertisements every time you check you email and this is how you pay. If Microsoft can make me forget all the advertisements I've ever seen from them so I can be 100% positive they no longer can influence my buying decisions, then I'd say it would be perfectly fair for Microsoft to suspend service of its email.
In what perhaps can be taken to representative of a sign of the times, the "We the People" category has not been used in over 3 years. So for all of you who think this is a new category, it's not, it just hasn't been getting all that much attention lately.
This is true. My parents told me the story once about how great grandma and great grandpa used to take puffs on their crack pipes on the way to school. The crack pipes were, of course, made out of the radio antennas stolen off Model-T's.
Atak uses a variety of tactics in its attempts to escape antivirus analysis. Its main trick is to check to see if it's being run in a debugging environment. If so, it exits to avoid detection.
Ironically enough the link in this article isn't to this supposed interview, it's actually an advertising referral link. The poster just counted on Taco reading something about Mitnick and greenlighting the article without actually listening to the 'interview'.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes and then we will need something to erase the memory of Batman. Which is why the next Warner Bros. movie will be Batman Vs. Catwoman. Only when they go for the epic battle they will get really attracted to eachother and have a love child named ManWoman. Which will be the central character of a future Hollywood blockbuster starring Janet Reno.
Here's a simple solution. Build a camera with a cellphone in it. Build a music player with a cellphone in it. Build a PDA with a cellphone in it. Build a GPS with a cellphone in it. And quit your kvetching.
Seriously though, all of these cellphone toys are such crap. This is what I want. A cellphone that makes phone calls. And when it rings I want it to sound like a phone ringing, not Paris hilton getting fucked to german techno porn music. And I want it to be black and white. With no camera, games, or web browser. That has excellent reception and battery life, that does not accept text messages, that is easy to set to vibrate mode, that does not take 20 seconds to start up and shut down while playing an animated movie that is impossible to disable. Can someone please point me to this phone?
If you've ever seen the movie High Fidelity the main character decides to organize his albums not by title or genre, but by autobiographical so that if he wanted to find an album he had to remember when he bought it. Well just for fun I decided to do the same thing with my porn collection using iPhoto. Now I can see how my tastes in porno have changed and grown more sophisticated over the last 7 years. And wow I was into some pretty kinky shit as a 12 year old.
Watson, theres a Crick in my DNA!
Wow. You just got modded +1 Informative for blatantly missing the joke. I sure wish I could be that dumb.
Wait I thought doubleclick was one the thirtieth most visited site on the internet, how could they only have 900 customers? It's almost as if they don't think of the people visiting their site as customers, as if they're only there to be bent over and take it in the behind.
Actually, this entire book review was just a way for this guy to advertise his car on slashdot.
But...Here is the good news. If Apple wants to get Reals crap off their players then it will have to upgrade their firmware. Now you might ask yourself, well who would be stupid enough to update their iPod if all it does is remove functionality and make it harder to interoperate with? Well thats an excellent point, which is why if Apple wants us users to upgrade then they'll have to give us something in return.
Feeling royally screwed because you bought an iPod capable of having a 12 hour battery life that only lasts 8 hours? Well now that Apple needs a way to get us to upgrade to their new software to break Real, guess what is probably going to happen.
Just imagine what ultra-broadband Goatse would look like. You could see INSIDE the guys ass. Oh... Wait... Yeah.......
Well he was always nice to me. Oh...wait....yeah.....
I dunno what the hell is wrong with wikipedia, but try actually searching google for a phrase from my article. for example when i google for ""signal the long decline of the republic of Rome." it comes up with 2 results from derivative works of wikipedia. Why is wikipedia fucked up? I dunno. But I shit you not, I really wrote this.
Why would paypal send me an email saying that if I don't renew my credit card right now which doesn't expire for 4 years then they will suspend my account? I understand how you tell the ones are fake in the context of a real email, but I don't see how you can PROVE without a shadow of a doubt that the paypal one is real unless you actually click on the link and it takes you to https://www.paypal.com
I don't get it, can someone explain this to me. How is it possible to tell which emails are real and which are fraud just but looking at them in this test? For example I marked the paypal one as fraud when it was actually real, but how could I tell that? For all the fake ones the email came from support@domainname.com or whatever with no email header, and all of the links looked accurate. How could one possibly tell where the email came from without looking at the header? How could you tell whether the paypal email linked to https://www.paypal.com or http://www.geocities.com/~paypal.html without being able to click the link? I got these all right except for the paypal which I thought was fraud, but that was only because I recognized them from real email where I was able to look at the headers. Someone please explain to me why it is so bad that 28% of people couldn't pass an unfair test. To me this says nothing about the test takers, only that the people who made this test are morons.
How exactly would you propose they port nethack when the controller on goes in the four cardinal directions? I suppose you could hit B and then scroll up and across to where you wanted to go, but that would sort of take the fun out of it...
After a successful military career, Tiberius Gracchus went into politics trying to bring massive reforms to the military to its strength and morale.
In the last hundred years, there had been several wars. The standard time served in the Roman army being twenty years, often times soldiers would leave their farms in the hands of their wives and children. As farms in this situation went steadily into bankruptcy and were bought up by the wealthy upper class large plantations were formed.
When the soldiers returned they had no where to go, so they went to Rome to join the mob of thousands of unemployed who roamed the city. Faced with this, the option of joining the army was unattractive, and number of soldiers and thus the power of Rome was shrinking.
Tiberius proposed a law called Lex Agraria saying that the government would buy out most of the land of the Patricians and the Patricians would be reimbursed. The land would then be distributed to soldiers upon completion of their service. This would solve two problems, attracting new recruits and also taking care of homeless war veterans.
There was no question that the Patricians would get reimbursed because the Senate approved finances and they were also the ones who held most of the land. However, the bill was still unfeasible because there was not enough money currently to reimburse the Patricians without disrupting other activities. Then by chance king Attalus died and left his entire fortune to Rome. Tiberius proposed that Attalus' fortune be used to fund the new law.
Tiberius was one tribune and then there was one other. Each tribune had the power to veto the law, thus both had to agree. As Tiberius proposed the bill to the senate, the other tribune threatened to veto, so Tiberius had him removed from the senate by means of his thugs so that he would be unable to deliver the veto, and the bill became law.
This represents the first instance where the man with the most thugs was the one to gain power. This set a dangerous precedent, one that would signal the long decline of the replic of Rome.
Alex Krupp
September 25th, 2001
And yes I know it was a horribly shitty article which is why I was always amused that it lasted as long as it did.
When the wikipedia project was first announced on /. a number of years ago I remember I was writing a paper on Tiberius Gracchus. Currently there was nothing on wikipedia about him so I decided to edit my paper into an encyclopedia-ish form and upload it. This is when I was a sophomore in HS by the way. Anyway the article actually stayed as is for about two years before someone else rewrote it to make it not suck. However there are one or two sentences that bear just a hint of my original writing. Kind of neat I think.
The only two games that can keep my attention these are Nethack and Go.
This is just like trading in your old car for a new car and saving a thousand bucks, it locks you into buying the same brand again and again.
Now these cars are like diplomats all trying to make peace with eachother. If this doesn't make sense it's because it's complete nonsense.
Next we have the pedestrians and bicycles as mentioned in your post. Let these represent terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. If you're confused then clearly its because this entire situation makes no sense.
To conclude while you may think this simple simulation is designed to control cars, it's really something much larger designed to make the world a more friendly place. And if this doesn't make sense to you, you must buy the product.
In all seriousness though, this has applications far beyond cars, such as increasing the efficiency at factories with conveyor belts and robots, routing data over the internet, more efficient combustion engines, etc. While it would be ideal to evolve the perfect solutions using genetic algorithms, this is a good fix in a less than perfect world.
This is not the mirror we're looking for. You may go about your business. Move along, Move along.
Not true. Hotmail isn't free, it just doesn't cost any money. You have to look at advertisements every time you check you email and this is how you pay. If Microsoft can make me forget all the advertisements I've ever seen from them so I can be 100% positive they no longer can influence my buying decisions, then I'd say it would be perfectly fair for Microsoft to suspend service of its email.
In what perhaps can be taken to representative of a sign of the times, the "We the People" category has not been used in over 3 years. So for all of you who think this is a new category, it's not, it just hasn't been getting all that much attention lately.
This is true. My parents told me the story once about how great grandma and great grandpa used to take puffs on their crack pipes on the way to school. The crack pipes were, of course, made out of the radio antennas stolen off Model-T's.
Atak uses a variety of tactics in its attempts to escape antivirus analysis. Its main trick is to check to see if it's being run in a debugging environment. If so, it exits to avoid detection.
Would that make this worm a 'night crawer'?
Badum Ching!
Ironically enough the link in this article isn't to this supposed interview, it's actually an advertising referral link. The poster just counted on Taco reading something about Mitnick and greenlighting the article without actually listening to the 'interview'.