Who says you have to muck with anything internal? Most folks didn't crack open Furbies to figure out how to control them, they just grocked the IR signals. Same here. To make it act more intelligently, you put microphones and cameras on it and wire the remote to a computer. Now the "brain" can see, hear, and has a body to move around.
The virus' name is "Andy." The virus is apologizing for doing its job. Think about it.
This 1ee7 hax0r (script kiddie) has provided a glimpse inside his feeble mind. He's proud of his creation, enough to name it and give it an emotional context. He's feeling invincible.
Can anybody think of any kind of new technology that has been abandoned, or even significantly delayed, through alleged (or real) risks ?
Genetically engineered foods. Cloning. Some already mentioned nuclear energy.
Anyone else?
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I too have a vanity domain, one in which email going to any name @ my domain comes to me, and I've also see various names in front of the domain. I have a theory about this: I would imagine that the virus not only scans your address book, it scans your folders for old mail. And if you're like me, you've had spammers send messages with emails with spoofed headers using your domain and various user names. In that case, there are thousands/millions of people around the world with messages in their Trash folders from spammers which contain your domain name.
Ok, *that* guy is a freak. Y'know for a fact that this gent has no love interests or, especially, kids in his life. No way, no how. I'm lucky if I can manage to keep the lawn decent with the time my kids leave me. And I have no time for movies or television either unless it's Spongebob, Ed, Edd and Eddy, or the Power Puff Girls (yippee skip).
He says at the end that he feels like he has the power to blow up any planet he wishes. This guy is one girlfriend away from having that "power" rechanneled into fixing the brakes on the car, painting the house, helping out with Girl Scout cookie site sales, coaching T-ball, weeding, spackeling, changing diapers, folding mountains of laundry, etc., etc....
You're kidding, right? For dial-up users, this will be absolute murder.
Myself, I have a cable connection, and I do not want to have commercials force fed to me.
So this will work in spite of pop-up blocking? Then the next feature I'd like to request from Mozilla is commercial blocking. I have more important things to do with my bandwidth.
Educate yourself and your kids before you fly off the handle.
Right back atcha. So your definition of a pedophile is someone that has sex only with prepubescent individuals? At 14, most girls have more than reached puberty. Does that make it ok for a 30 year old man to try to have sex with them? Give me a break.
Think before you write.
And anyway, that's not what I wrote. Go back and read it again. I don't want my kids exposed to some of the utter crap on the 'net. I think the service being offered is excellent. And I honestly feel that anyone that would expend energy to remove such protections from their child's cell phone is guilty of a criminal action. It would be like expending energy to get the police to stop arresting crack dealers in your neighborhood because you want protect your 17 year old's "right" to choose whether to engage in illegal activities.
Look, if the worst porn on the 'net was Playboy... well, that would be a different discussion, wouldn't it?
But there are sites out there espousing illegal or just plain twisted activities. To argue otherwise is either grossly naive or stupid.
Said like a true optimist. Too bad the world doesn't work that way. Grow up yourself. Don't call troll, call parent. I am one, and I take my responsibilities in that regard seriously. Even at 17, there are going to be things on the 'net that I don't want my kid to see. Perhaps that's being a bit too protective, but I think it's ridiculous to assume that my kid is only going to be exposed to lesser degrees of harmful material given free reign on the 'net.
As another poster stated, if he could also somehow block older guys from calling his underage daughters, he'd pay triple. I'm right there with him.
Then you should be arrested and your child should be placed in protective custody.
Don't like it? Tough. That's the society we live in, one in which pedophiles are the lowest form of criminal we have, and a parent that would opt to allow their child access to the porn on the 'net should have their rights as parents permanently curtailed.
We're not just talking Playboy here. The 'net is nothing if not the highest of the high and the lowest of the low in terms of morally measurable content. Legal and illegal, it's all there, and unless you plan to stand behind your kid as he peruses EelSex.com, FcukDeadNuns.org, or KillAndRapeKiddies.net and explain to him that it's generally considered bad etiquette to take a dump in his date's mouth or that, while they show it on the 'net, attempting to have sex with someone in kindergarten will land you in prison, then you've abdicated your position as your child's parent already.
But to actively take steps to put access to that kind of material in your child's hands is criminal. And if you feel otherwise and you have kids, you should seek counseling immediately.
That's a pretty weak view of the movie making industry as a whole. Yes, the majority of movies are made with the almight dollar as the goal. Some movies, on the other hand, are crafted to tell the truth, no matter how ugly.
I thought "Saving Private Ryan" was spectacular simply because it showed not only the U.S. troops' bravery, but their cowardice as well. It showed both sides showing no regard for human life in the war zone. It showed both sides killing and being killed with equal alacrity, sympathy, and gore.
As for your grudge -- were you there? And even if you were, why would you hold a grudge against a people who, on the whole, didn't do the fighting?
Certainly, the firebombing of German cities was an atrocity; but these acts were conducted in response to previous deliberate targetting of UK cities by the Luftwaffe.
And that makes it ok. Right?
A little vengeance on a group, seen only as a number. I would suppose that it would be different if you had to look each and every one of those civilians in the eyes. Or maybe it wouldn't.
Those civilians did not bomb London. Hitler's military did. One thing I have a problem with is equating civilians with dictatorial governments. Or even non-representative governments. For instance, I should not be held responsible for the crap that the Monkey Faced Frat Boy (George Bush aka MFFB) has pulled while in office, especially the war in Iraq. But do you feel that the Iraqi people would be justified in seeking the deaths of U.S. citizens on their home turf in retaliation for the deaths of Iraqi civilians during our invasion of their country? Somehow I think the concept of someone blowing up your home, the school your kids are in, the hospitals, the churchs, the community centers, the coffee shop you stop in every morning, etc., probably doesn't sit well with you.
Dresden was unnecessary and unjustified. Don't make lame excuses for a horrible crime.
The progress that maglev trains or vacuum tunnel trains (also magnetic, I believe) create for the ways we transport ourselves today, is worth a lot, in my opinion. Therefor, my view is that the world should finance China in creating this. Not as a good deed, but as scientific collaboration in making maglev trains publicly accessible and, in the future, cheaper.
Your suggestion makes sense if you believe that contractors can produce the same productivity edge over permanent hires that I claimed really good local permanent hires would have had over the overseas resources we used. Unfortunately, in my experience this is not true. Contract personnel are generally equivalent to really good permanent hires in terms of productivity. The numbers, therefore, don't work.
I think what you meant to say was that contract personnel are *not* as productive as good permanent hires.
I would agree that statement. On the other hand, another writer pointed out that the problem domains would a large effect on the off-shored result. With most B2B, portal, and simple dedicated applications, offshoring may prove effective in the long-term. But with specialized or niche market applications, a fundamental understanding of the problem domain that may be cultural in some aspects will result in frustration and loss of time and money.
I understand why offshoring has taken off, and I can calmly sympathize even though I'm one of those that suddenly finds himself with LOTS of time to read slashdot.... But I can also objectively foresee a backlash, for wont of a better term, in which corporations begin to better understand the parameters involved in making the decision to offshore or to use local talent.
Simple coding is indeed a commodity. System design and implementation is not.
Rest your weary mind -- the author is uninformed, to be polite. I've got internal Zip drives on all my desktop machines and an external USB Zip drive for my laptop. I still buy the cartridges, and I still rely on Zip technology for sneaker-net data transfers. It's fast, simple, easy.
On the other hand, when was the last time I used a 1.44 meg floppy disk? Mmmmmm... can't remember...
"a total output of 144 V and 6.5 amp-hours" for the Honda Insight... about 6.0amp/hr for the Civic. The batteries themselves are Nickel Metal Hydride "D" cells.
Actually, the batteries themselves are "144 V nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) batteries (weighing about 20 kg)."
While it would be awfully neat-o to be able to pull into 7-11 and buy out their entire stock of "D" batteries if I find myself in a pinch (and probably spending the next hour popping batteries out of my trunk, then unwrapping and popping in brand new ones), no "D" cell I've ever heard of weighs in a 20kg.
And you do what? I'm assuming that you're keeping within the context of the discussion and you have an IT position, and quite likely programming. So what language would that be? What technologies?
Is there something that prevents you from suing that company? On what grounds did they make the assessment that you posed a viable and possible threat to your (old) company's security? I think your first move should be to fire an answering shot. You been treated as guilty until proven innocent, and there are laws against that.
According to the editor in chief of Mental Floss magazine who was on CNN about an hour ago, calling birds are actually crows, and the golden rings refers to another type of bird, a golden ringed pheasant or some such. So if you trace those back to their original meaning, the price goes *way* down.
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Who says you have to muck with anything internal? Most folks didn't crack open Furbies to figure out how to control them, they just grocked the IR signals. Same here. To make it act more intelligently, you put microphones and cameras on it and wire the remote to a computer. Now the "brain" can see, hear, and has a body to move around.
You know it's going to happen...
The virus' name is "Andy." The virus is apologizing for doing its job. Think about it.
This 1ee7 hax0r (script kiddie) has provided a glimpse inside his feeble mind. He's proud of his creation, enough to name it and give it an emotional context. He's feeling invincible.
He needs a frikkin' girlfriend.
Can anybody think of any kind of new technology that has been abandoned, or even significantly delayed, through alleged (or real) risks ?
Genetically engineered foods.
Cloning.
Some already mentioned nuclear energy.
Anyone else?
I too have a vanity domain, one in which email going to any name @ my domain comes to me, and I've also see various names in front of the domain. I have a theory about this: I would imagine that the virus not only scans your address book, it scans your folders for old mail. And if you're like me, you've had spammers send messages with emails with spoofed headers using your domain and various user names. In that case, there are thousands/millions of people around the world with messages in their Trash folders from spammers which contain your domain name.
Just a thought.
Ok, *that* guy is a freak. Y'know for a fact that this gent has no love interests or, especially, kids in his life. No way, no how. I'm lucky if I can manage to keep the lawn decent with the time my kids leave me. And I have no time for movies or television either unless it's Spongebob, Ed, Edd and Eddy, or the Power Puff Girls (yippee skip).
He says at the end that he feels like he has the power to blow up any planet he wishes. This guy is one girlfriend away from having that "power" rechanneled into fixing the brakes on the car, painting the house, helping out with Girl Scout cookie site sales, coaching T-ball, weeding, spackeling, changing diapers, folding mountains of laundry, etc., etc....
What is your company making? What OS project did you make use of?
Well, lessee.... I haven't needed a reboot in years. Productive and efficient, I take up minimal space, and I don't crash.
Well I sure ain't runnin' Windoze, brother...
Here ya go: http://www.linuxdevices.com
Here ya go: http://www.linuxdevices.com
(humming the tune "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better...")
That's not a bug. That's a feature.
You're kidding, right? For dial-up users, this will be absolute murder.
Myself, I have a cable connection, and I do not want to have commercials force fed to me.
So this will work in spite of pop-up blocking? Then the next feature I'd like to request from Mozilla is commercial blocking. I have more important things to do with my bandwidth.
Educate yourself and your kids before you fly off the handle.
Right back atcha. So your definition of a pedophile is someone that has sex only with prepubescent individuals? At 14, most girls have more than reached puberty. Does that make it ok for a 30 year old man to try to have sex with them? Give me a break.
Think before you write.
And anyway, that's not what I wrote. Go back and read it again. I don't want my kids exposed to some of the utter crap on the 'net. I think the service being offered is excellent. And I honestly feel that anyone that would expend energy to remove such protections from their child's cell phone is guilty of a criminal action. It would be like expending energy to get the police to stop arresting crack dealers in your neighborhood because you want protect your 17 year old's "right" to choose whether to engage in illegal activities.
Look, if the worst porn on the 'net was Playboy... well, that would be a different discussion, wouldn't it?
But there are sites out there espousing illegal or just plain twisted activities. To argue otherwise is either grossly naive or stupid.
Said like a true optimist. Too bad the world doesn't work that way. Grow up yourself. Don't call troll, call parent. I am one, and I take my responsibilities in that regard seriously. Even at 17, there are going to be things on the 'net that I don't want my kid to see. Perhaps that's being a bit too protective, but I think it's ridiculous to assume that my kid is only going to be exposed to lesser degrees of harmful material given free reign on the 'net.
As another poster stated, if he could also somehow block older guys from calling his underage daughters, he'd pay triple. I'm right there with him.
Then you should be arrested and your child should be placed in protective custody.
Don't like it? Tough. That's the society we live in, one in which pedophiles are the lowest form of criminal we have, and a parent that would opt to allow their child access to the porn on the 'net should have their rights as parents permanently curtailed.
We're not just talking Playboy here. The 'net is nothing if not the highest of the high and the lowest of the low in terms of morally measurable content. Legal and illegal, it's all there, and unless you plan to stand behind your kid as he peruses EelSex.com, FcukDeadNuns.org, or KillAndRapeKiddies.net and explain to him that it's generally considered bad etiquette to take a dump in his date's mouth or that, while they show it on the 'net, attempting to have sex with someone in kindergarten will land you in prison, then you've abdicated your position as your child's parent already.
But to actively take steps to put access to that kind of material in your child's hands is criminal. And if you feel otherwise and you have kids, you should seek counseling immediately.
That's a pretty weak view of the movie making industry as a whole. Yes, the majority of movies are made with the almight dollar as the goal. Some movies, on the other hand, are crafted to tell the truth, no matter how ugly.
I thought "Saving Private Ryan" was spectacular simply because it showed not only the U.S. troops' bravery, but their cowardice as well. It showed both sides showing no regard for human life in the war zone. It showed both sides killing and being killed with equal alacrity, sympathy, and gore.
As for your grudge -- were you there? And even if you were, why would you hold a grudge against a people who, on the whole, didn't do the fighting?
Certainly, the firebombing of German cities was an atrocity; but these acts were conducted in response to previous deliberate targetting of UK cities by the Luftwaffe.
And that makes it ok. Right?
A little vengeance on a group, seen only as a number. I would suppose that it would be different if you had to look each and every one of those civilians in the eyes. Or maybe it wouldn't.
Those civilians did not bomb London. Hitler's military did. One thing I have a problem with is equating civilians with dictatorial governments. Or even non-representative governments. For instance, I should not be held responsible for the crap that the Monkey Faced Frat Boy (George Bush aka MFFB) has pulled while in office, especially the war in Iraq. But do you feel that the Iraqi people would be justified in seeking the deaths of U.S. citizens on their home turf in retaliation for the deaths of Iraqi civilians during our invasion of their country? Somehow I think the concept of someone blowing up your home, the school your kids are in, the hospitals, the churchs, the community centers, the coffee shop you stop in every morning, etc., probably doesn't sit well with you.
Dresden was unnecessary and unjustified. Don't make lame excuses for a horrible crime.
The progress that maglev trains or vacuum tunnel trains (also magnetic, I believe) create for the ways we transport ourselves today, is worth a lot, in my opinion. Therefor, my view is that the world should finance China in creating this. Not as a good deed, but as scientific collaboration in making maglev trains publicly accessible and, in the future, cheaper.
You first.
Your suggestion makes sense if you believe that contractors can produce the same productivity edge over permanent hires that I claimed really good local permanent hires would have had over the overseas resources we used. Unfortunately, in my experience this is not true. Contract personnel are generally equivalent to really good permanent hires in terms of productivity. The numbers, therefore, don't work.
I think what you meant to say was that contract personnel are *not* as productive as good permanent hires.
I would agree that statement. On the other hand, another writer pointed out that the problem domains would a large effect on the off-shored result. With most B2B, portal, and simple dedicated applications, offshoring may prove effective in the long-term. But with specialized or niche market applications, a fundamental understanding of the problem domain that may be cultural in some aspects will result in frustration and loss of time and money.
I understand why offshoring has taken off, and I can calmly sympathize even though I'm one of those that suddenly finds himself with LOTS of time to read slashdot.... But I can also objectively foresee a backlash, for wont of a better term, in which corporations begin to better understand the parameters involved in making the decision to offshore or to use local talent.
Simple coding is indeed a commodity. System design and implementation is not.
Rest your weary mind -- the author is uninformed, to be polite. I've got internal Zip drives on all my desktop machines and an external USB Zip drive for my laptop. I still buy the cartridges, and I still rely on Zip technology for sneaker-net data transfers. It's fast, simple, easy.
On the other hand, when was the last time I used a 1.44 meg floppy disk? Mmmmmm... can't remember...
"a total output of 144 V and 6.5 amp-hours" for the Honda Insight... about 6.0amp/hr for the Civic. The batteries themselves are Nickel Metal Hydride "D" cells.
Actually, the batteries themselves are "144 V nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) batteries (weighing about 20 kg)."
While it would be awfully neat-o to be able to pull into 7-11 and buy out their entire stock of "D" batteries if I find myself in a pinch (and probably spending the next hour popping batteries out of my trunk, then unwrapping and popping in brand new ones), no "D" cell I've ever heard of weighs in a 20kg.
Slashdot editors have had this happen to them! That is why they we have repeat stories, sometimes one right after the other!
And you do what? I'm assuming that you're keeping within the context of the discussion and you have an IT position, and quite likely programming. So what language would that be? What technologies?
Is there something that prevents you from suing that company? On what grounds did they make the assessment that you posed a viable and possible threat to your (old) company's security? I think your first move should be to fire an answering shot. You been treated as guilty until proven innocent, and there are laws against that.
I would contact an attorney if I were you.
I already did Ruby. Of course, I had to give her a Perl before I could give her the Python...
Oh, sorry, wrong forum...
According to the editor in chief of Mental Floss magazine who was on CNN about an hour ago, calling birds are actually crows, and the golden rings refers to another type of bird, a golden ringed pheasant or some such. So if you trace those back to their original meaning, the price goes *way* down.