There was, and still is, great fun to be had with a 7/16" hex wrench.
I'm not old enough to have played with the Blue Boxes, but I sure got my kicks from Red Boxing calls all over the planet, and screwing with the COSMOS system.
Of course, I suppose your digicam would suck because you spent all of your money on a S2000.
Screw the digicam, get a supercharger instead.
Also, did anyone else notice that the domain the S2000 pics are being hosted from is called "familycar.com"? I don't think that two seat cock-rocket is much of a grocery getter.
We're not trying for a man-in-the-middle attack, we're looking for life explicitly trying to contact another civilization.
While the rest of the planet is busy with this, I'll be spoofing the Milky Way's default gateway using dsniff to intercept all the SSH/SSL traffic between the Grays and the Martians. Civilization will be mine!
I may read this, but I certainly get more of my information from elsewhere now. Ever used NewsForge? It's nice and quiet, and seems to actually care about delivering the news, while it can still be called 'new'.
Sure, if they don't care about their hits, then Slashdot can do anything they damn well feel like. I'm just pointing out that this will most likely lead to a senario of Slashdot being seen as even less functional, repelling users more than any flood of banner ads ever could. It seems like horrible business sense to do something like this.
Sure, they're free to do anything they like and I'm also free to go away, but if you think that people will now pay for something that they previously got without charge, I think you're mistaken.
The problem is all in principal, I'll be the first to admit. I realize the Slashdot always has been, and always will be a meta-news service, but it still should have an obligation to get things out to its users in a timely fashion.
There are many other "value-added" features that we currently get for free on Slashdot, and the actual news truly should not be one of them. Maybe some people would want to pay a fee to remove ads, prehaps more would pay to hear CowboyNeal and CmdrTaco ramble in MP3 format. Prehaps you would have to click through a page of ads before your story selection is displayed. Any of these, I could accept as honest methods of creating profit.
As it stands right now, this is like Grease Monkey saying that an oil change costs $39.95, but for $59.95, we'll do it quicker. They should change my oil as quick as they can, and if they want more money, try to convince me my transmission fluid should be replaced.
In reference to "First Post" trolls: There are only a handful of FPs on any story. I would worry more about just regular old trolls (or worse yet, Anonymous Cowards).
For starters, go back to old style user handling. No pretty games to suck down bandwidth means higher availibility for the rest of us.
Also, in regards your "back under your bridge" comment: I've been around since the only thing it occured to people to troll with was "First Post!", there was *NO* moderation, and the news got to you as soon as possible.
That was a pretty bold statement for someone with a UID over 140,000, don't you think?
I'm sorry Malda, but the idea of subscription service really sucks.
I am not at all impressed with deletion of ads, I can do that all by my little ol' lonesome, thank you.
I am also not impressed by "stories before others can see them". You are simply making Slashdot look like even less of a reliable news service, and though you may get a few users to subscribe to this nonsense, you will even further alienate those who are on the fence about reading Slashdot. News is cheap, and if the standard user feels he's getting a raw deal if he doesn't subscribe, he'll just go somewhere else. I could spend all day listing sites which put priority on getting the news to their users as quickly as possible, but I suppose that Slashdot could no longer be included.
It seems that you are trying to turn this forum into a role-playing game. It started with Karma, and I can now list who I feel is a "friend", "freak", or "foe". But, can I get the news in a timely fashion?
I've done some research on hearing loss, and I discovered that drinkers have lower levels of hearing loss when exposed to damaging noises. This might not be politically correct, but the Irish are known to be drinkers. I was just wondering if this might be true of your family as well.
I suffer from pretty severe hearing loss after being exposed to a number of rock concerts for my job with a radio station. I used to be able to hear the TV on downstairs, CRT monitors, and other various higher-register noises. I would give anything to be able to do it now.:(
I doubt the original "Little Mermaid" box is worth very much. I have a copy of the Rescuers with two frames of soft porn viewable in a certain sequence (sliding down a railing in a sardine can). I never could find anyone to buy it for much more than I paid for it.
For the record, there isn't "SEX" shown in the Lion King, it's actually "SFX", the effects team that was working with Disney at the time.
My copy of Netscape 4.71 under Linux can happily view PNG images.
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Nowhere in that statement do I see, "Is there nothing the 12 year old Amiga with 1 meg of RAM can't do?", a quote you attributed to me here.
Frankly, you snide cocksucker, it's not surprising you know the URL to that English as a Second Language site. How long ago did you graduate?
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Glad to see you are still full of shit.
There is no quote that matches, "Is there nothing the 12 year old Amiga with 1 meg of RAM can't do?" in this entire thread, so nice try.
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Fine, then I will point this out with more venom.
If you really knew shit, or at least read "Amazing Computing" you would know you can install NetBSD on an Amiga 3K and do everything you can do under a normal UN*X system. That includes burning of CD-Rs and decoding MP3s. Sure, the Amiga might not be able to do everything in realtime, but you can still do everything that needs to be done.
...on the Amiga I had you couldn't play MP3, much less record CD-RW.
You could easily modernize your hardware with one of the many upgrade packages on the Amiga after-market and perform all the tasks that you claim you can't perform on your current hardware. If you don't perform the upgrades, whose fault is that, the Amiga engineers'?
Later on when I was President of an Amiga Users' Group we had these fancy things called 40 Meg harddrives from Supra. Zip disks? What era did your Amiga exist in?
I saw this box for the first time in 1999. You make it sound like I was claiming that Commodore was packaging Zip Drives with their computers in 1989. Geez.
The machine was an Amiga 3000 with a PCI bridge and a decent graphics card. Sure, the box wasn't stock, but the upgrades done to it weren't very extensive, it was still a ten-year-old computer completing modern tasks. The machine I got to play with was utilizing a Zip-100 Parallel drive for storage, contained 16MB of RAM, and would do basic video playback and minor editing. One of the members of the users' group where this machine was spotted had rendered a demo of a generated woman showing off a rotating rendered Jeep.
Just because your Amiga sucks, doesn't mean that everyone else's does, too.
"Is there nothing the 12 year old Amiga with 1 meg of RAM can't do?"
When in doubt, misquote. You're not fooling anyone, I never said that.
If you're running your Amiga with a pitiful 1MB of RAM then you don't deserve to be able to do anything else.
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If you were really the president of your Amiga Users' Group, I hope they impeached you for being a lying asshole.
What I Said: "Is there nothing this machine can't do?"
What You Claim I Said: "Is there nothing the 12 year old Amiga with 1 meg of RAM can't do?"
"He/She/It specifically mentioned a machine with 1 Meg of RAM."
I never explicitly mentioned which Amiga machine was decoding MP3s and doing rendering, you just misquoted me and then dared to claim I was incorrect because of your misquote.
Nice try, you miserable son of a bitch.
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I would have pointed the same thing out, but with more venom.
One would also note that you can run NetBSD on the Amiga, so any UN*X code that you could use to burn a CD or play an MP3 would compile under an Amiga running *BSD. I believe there was also an unsupported version of Red Hat which ran happily on Amiga boxes.
It seems like only yesterday I went to an Amiga Users' Group meeting and saw fully-rendered 3D demos, brought in on Zip disk, running on ten-year-old Amiga hardware. Is there nothing this machine can't do?
I remember trying to beat the 8-bit color character "Rabbit" from Nintendo's World Class Track Meet as well. I've beaten the whole game legitimately when I was younger, but I had to push myself to the brink of cardiac arrest to do so.
The problem with the input device, a big plastic mat with embedded pressure sensors, is that the sensors weren't all that accurate. You could be running in place as fast as your legs would let you, but the mat itself wouldn't pick up all of the impacts, so your on-screen character would resort to a sort of one-leg plodding.
What did work pretty well was the ability to jump hurdles, but "Hop, Skip, Jump" was downright impossible simply due to the timings of the game.
I'm sure you could fool around with one of these devices yourself for $15 or so.
I can testify on behalf of the character and behavior of the officers I know. Abuse of power is inconsistant with how they conduct their lives. Unless you can provide hard evidence that suggests they have abused their power, their behavior suggests otherwise.
This means all you can claim is that you don't think these police officers are corrupt. This is merely your opinion, not the fact you were previously trying to sell it as.
Your argument if flawed by the simple fact that there is evidence against Adolph Hitler.
There is evidence against police officers at large.
...your wife/mother/daughter is a whore. Can you provide me any proof that they aren't, using irrefutable evidence?
You mean other than the fact that I keep the bitch tied up 24/7?
Accusations aren't the same thing as statements. As I said before, this whole f*cking scenario is flawed just because you stated your police officer buddies were not corrupt, and tried to sell this statement as fact. It was merely pointed out that you have no way of backing these statements at all.
To truly create a proper scenario, I would have to claim that my wife/daughter/mother is not a whore, just as you claimed your police officer pals were not corrupt...
...which I'm not going to do.
I never stated the nature of which I know the police officers.
Would you agree that your relationship to these people is pretty damn important, especially when considering possible biases?
One of the four officers I know is my cousin. The other three are not casual friends.
So the other three are formal friends?
Me: Though no one can say anything with 100% certainty, in my experiences with my wife/daughter/mother, I have never found her to be a whore.
Is this consistant with your earlier judging criteria that stated that since a person does not observe another person 24 hours a day, it is impossible to establish someone isn't something?
Yes, it is. I said that in my experiences, I have never found her to be a whore. She could be slurpin' knob by night, but my statement has nothing to do with that. You see, I clearly stated where my experience with the person in question ended, which you did not do when vouching for the legitimacy of these officers. You just claimed that your friends weren't corrupt, and that you knew this which, of course, you didn't and still don't.
Me: This has nothing to do with your corrupt cop cronies.
Floating a shroud of doubt over someone is different than spreading libel. Can you provide any evidence to back up the accusation that the police I know are "corrupt cop cronies"?
I have a reason for suspicion when you start vouching for their integrity religiously.
The purpose of the question has been to establish that police officers do not have a job that can be considered a lap of luxury.
I don't have a job that could be called the "lap of luxury". I think that if you're in the lap of luxury, whatever you're doing probably can't be called work.
Dumbing down my question: would you agree or disagree that police officers are looked down upon, and disrespected, by the citizens they are assigned to protect?
Customer service representatives are disrespected. Wendy's workers are looked down upon. Construction workers, urinal maintainance managers, and toll booth operators are looked down upon as well. All of these people have to put up with their fair share of flak.
The reason I continue to refuse to answer that damned question is that it is completely irrelevant to the topic. You're trying to bring emotions and sympathy into play.
First, the ISP is under no obligation to do anything.
Second, the ISP doesn't know what the caller's address is, they could only give the phone number to the police, and the police would have to reverse look-up the number themselves.
Third, finding a caller's phone number from just an IP isn't as easy as everyone thinks it is, even for the ISP. There is still a considerable amount of leg work to be done to find a number, not to mention the red tape that larger ISPs will have to cut through to do so. A case of beer for the inconvenienced tech would be merely a start.
...your post has stirred the desire for Vegemite, perhaps I'll buy some tomorrow if I still feel this way.
So Australians actually enjoy consuming Vegemite? The web site seems to imply that Vegemite should be appriciated more for its health benefits, as opposed to its taste or colo(u)r.
What exactly is in Vegemite, anyway? It seems to be some sort of bizarre yeast-extract brown toast paste, that doesn't look at all appitizing, even in the publicity photos. Even more bothering is the fact that Vegemite is produced by Kraft, a company that we in America still trust to make edible food products, despite the fact that they're pushing cancer sticks on us, and what appears to be toxic waste in their Austrailian market.
Hmmmmmm...
That's it! It's cigarette tar!
If I have seemed pedantic with you it is because I am being pedantic.
* Shrug *
If you're looking for something wrong with my posts, you're bound to find it. Nothing new...
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Wow! You too, huh?
There was, and still is, great fun to be had with a 7/16" hex wrench.
I'm not old enough to have played with the Blue Boxes, but I sure got my kicks from Red Boxing calls all over the planet, and screwing with the COSMOS system.
Last time I checked, you could still get the Captain Crunch whistles from the classifieds in 2600.
Seems appropriate considering the magazine's name.
Of course, I suppose your digicam would suck because you spent all of your money on a S2000.
Screw the digicam, get a supercharger instead.
Also, did anyone else notice that the domain the S2000 pics are being hosted from is called "familycar.com"? I don't think that two seat cock-rocket is much of a grocery getter.
That was 640K of RAM, d00d.
We're not trying for a man-in-the-middle attack, we're looking for life explicitly trying to contact another civilization.
While the rest of the planet is busy with this, I'll be spoofing the Milky Way's default gateway using dsniff to intercept all the SSH/SSL traffic between the Grays and the Martians. Civilization will be mine!
Cheating is an easy problem to remedy, though.
No more stats.
I may read this, but I certainly get more of my information from elsewhere now. Ever used NewsForge? It's nice and quiet, and seems to actually care about delivering the news, while it can still be called 'new'.
Sure, I can PAY for a newspaper, PAY for a news article, and PAY for a stock ticker as well. Do I PAY for any of these things? Of course not.
With free news on tap from so many different sources, Slashdot simply cannot afford to lose readership and stay profitable.
And, I still wouldn't let CmdrTaco near my dog.
Sure, if they don't care about their hits, then Slashdot can do anything they damn well feel like. I'm just pointing out that this will most likely lead to a senario of Slashdot being seen as even less functional, repelling users more than any flood of banner ads ever could. It seems like horrible business sense to do something like this.
Sure, they're free to do anything they like and I'm also free to go away, but if you think that people will now pay for something that they previously got without charge, I think you're mistaken.
You may or may not be.
The problem is all in principal, I'll be the first to admit. I realize the Slashdot always has been, and always will be a meta-news service, but it still should have an obligation to get things out to its users in a timely fashion.
There are many other "value-added" features that we currently get for free on Slashdot, and the actual news truly should not be one of them. Maybe some people would want to pay a fee to remove ads, prehaps more would pay to hear CowboyNeal and CmdrTaco ramble in MP3 format. Prehaps you would have to click through a page of ads before your story selection is displayed. Any of these, I could accept as honest methods of creating profit.
As it stands right now, this is like Grease Monkey saying that an oil change costs $39.95, but for $59.95, we'll do it quicker. They should change my oil as quick as they can, and if they want more money, try to convince me my transmission fluid should be replaced.
In reference to "First Post" trolls: There are only a handful of FPs on any story. I would worry more about just regular old trolls (or worse yet, Anonymous Cowards).
For starters, go back to old style user handling. No pretty games to suck down bandwidth means higher availibility for the rest of us.
Also, in regards your "back under your bridge" comment: I've been around since the only thing it occured to people to troll with was "First Post!", there was *NO* moderation, and the news got to you as soon as possible.
That was a pretty bold statement for someone with a UID over 140,000, don't you think?
I'm sorry Malda, but the idea of subscription service really sucks.
I am not at all impressed with deletion of ads, I can do that all by my little ol' lonesome, thank you.
I am also not impressed by "stories before others can see them". You are simply making Slashdot look like even less of a reliable news service, and though you may get a few users to subscribe to this nonsense, you will even further alienate those who are on the fence about reading Slashdot. News is cheap, and if the standard user feels he's getting a raw deal if he doesn't subscribe, he'll just go somewhere else. I could spend all day listing sites which put priority on getting the news to their users as quickly as possible, but I suppose that Slashdot could no longer be included.
It seems that you are trying to turn this forum into a role-playing game. It started with Karma, and I can now list who I feel is a "friend", "freak", or "foe". But, can I get the news in a timely fashion?
CmdrTaco says, "You'll have to pay for that."
I've done some research on hearing loss, and I discovered that drinkers have lower levels of hearing loss when exposed to damaging noises. This might not be politically correct, but the Irish are known to be drinkers. I was just wondering if this might be true of your family as well.
:(
I suffer from pretty severe hearing loss after being exposed to a number of rock concerts for my job with a radio station. I used to be able to hear the TV on downstairs, CRT monitors, and other various higher-register noises. I would give anything to be able to do it now.
I doubt the original "Little Mermaid" box is worth very much. I have a copy of the Rescuers with two frames of soft porn viewable in a certain sequence (sliding down a railing in a sardine can). I never could find anyone to buy it for much more than I paid for it.
For the record, there isn't "SEX" shown in the Lion King, it's actually "SFX", the effects team that was working with Disney at the time.
Oh, but wait. This is horribly off-topic. Whoops.
My copy of Netscape 4.71 under Linux can happily view PNG images.
Nowhere in that statement do I see, "Is there nothing the 12 year old Amiga with 1 meg of RAM can't do?", a quote you attributed to me here.
Frankly, you snide cocksucker, it's not surprising you know the URL to that English as a Second Language site. How long ago did you graduate?
Glad to see you are still full of shit.
There is no quote that matches, "Is there nothing the 12 year old Amiga with 1 meg of RAM can't do?" in this entire thread, so nice try.
Fine, then I will point this out with more venom.
...on the Amiga I had you couldn't play MP3, much less record CD-RW.
If you really knew shit, or at least read "Amazing Computing" you would know you can install NetBSD on an Amiga 3K and do everything you can do under a normal UN*X system. That includes burning of CD-Rs and decoding MP3s. Sure, the Amiga might not be able to do everything in realtime, but you can still do everything that needs to be done.
You could easily modernize your hardware with one of the many upgrade packages on the Amiga after-market and perform all the tasks that you claim you can't perform on your current hardware. If you don't perform the upgrades, whose fault is that, the Amiga engineers'?
Later on when I was President of an Amiga Users' Group we had these fancy things called 40 Meg harddrives from Supra. Zip disks? What era did your Amiga exist in?
I saw this box for the first time in 1999. You make it sound like I was claiming that Commodore was packaging Zip Drives with their computers in 1989. Geez.
The machine was an Amiga 3000 with a PCI bridge and a decent graphics card. Sure, the box wasn't stock, but the upgrades done to it weren't very extensive, it was still a ten-year-old computer completing modern tasks. The machine I got to play with was utilizing a Zip-100 Parallel drive for storage, contained 16MB of RAM, and would do basic video playback and minor editing. One of the members of the users' group where this machine was spotted had rendered a demo of a generated woman showing off a rotating rendered Jeep.
Just because your Amiga sucks, doesn't mean that everyone else's does, too.
"Is there nothing the 12 year old Amiga with 1 meg of RAM can't do?"
When in doubt, misquote. You're not fooling anyone, I never said that.
If you're running your Amiga with a pitiful 1MB of RAM then you don't deserve to be able to do anything else.
If you were really the president of your Amiga Users' Group, I hope they impeached you for being a lying asshole.
What I Said: "Is there nothing this machine can't do?"
What You Claim I Said: "Is there nothing the 12 year old Amiga with 1 meg of RAM can't do?"
"He/She/It specifically mentioned a machine with 1 Meg of RAM."
I never explicitly mentioned which Amiga machine was decoding MP3s and doing rendering, you just misquoted me and then dared to claim I was incorrect because of your misquote.
Nice try, you miserable son of a bitch.
I would have pointed the same thing out, but with more venom.
One would also note that you can run NetBSD on the Amiga, so any UN*X code that you could use to burn a CD or play an MP3 would compile under an Amiga running *BSD. I believe there was also an unsupported version of Red Hat which ran happily on Amiga boxes.
It seems like only yesterday I went to an Amiga Users' Group meeting and saw fully-rendered 3D demos, brought in on Zip disk, running on ten-year-old Amiga hardware. Is there nothing this machine can't do?
I remember trying to beat the 8-bit color character "Rabbit" from Nintendo's World Class Track Meet as well. I've beaten the whole game legitimately when I was younger, but I had to push myself to the brink of cardiac arrest to do so.
The problem with the input device, a big plastic mat with embedded pressure sensors, is that the sensors weren't all that accurate. You could be running in place as fast as your legs would let you, but the mat itself wouldn't pick up all of the impacts, so your on-screen character would resort to a sort of one-leg plodding.
What did work pretty well was the ability to jump hurdles, but "Hop, Skip, Jump" was downright impossible simply due to the timings of the game.
I'm sure you could fool around with one of these devices yourself for $15 or so.
What does one note, hummed `curiously' sound like?
"Hmmmmmmm...uh...mmmMmmm?"
Ha!
...your wife/mother/daughter is a whore. Can you provide me any proof that they aren't, using irrefutable evidence?
I can testify on behalf of the character and behavior of the officers I know. Abuse of power is inconsistant with how they conduct their lives. Unless you can provide hard evidence that suggests they have abused their power, their behavior suggests otherwise.
This means all you can claim is that you don't think these police officers are corrupt. This is merely your opinion, not the fact you were previously trying to sell it as.
Your argument if flawed by the simple fact that there is evidence against Adolph Hitler.
There is evidence against police officers at large.
You mean other than the fact that I keep the bitch tied up 24/7?
Accusations aren't the same thing as statements. As I said before, this whole f*cking scenario is flawed just because you stated your police officer buddies were not corrupt, and tried to sell this statement as fact. It was merely pointed out that you have no way of backing these statements at all.
To truly create a proper scenario, I would have to claim that my wife/daughter/mother is not a whore, just as you claimed your police officer pals were not corrupt...
...which I'm not going to do.
I never stated the nature of which I know the police officers.
Would you agree that your relationship to these people is pretty damn important, especially when considering possible biases?
One of the four officers I know is my cousin. The other three are not casual friends.
So the other three are formal friends?
Me: Though no one can say anything with 100% certainty, in my experiences with my wife/daughter/mother, I have never found her to be a whore.
Is this consistant with your earlier judging criteria that stated that since a person does not observe another person 24 hours a day, it is impossible to establish someone isn't something?
Yes, it is. I said that in my experiences, I have never found her to be a whore. She could be slurpin' knob by night, but my statement has nothing to do with that. You see, I clearly stated where my experience with the person in question ended, which you did not do when vouching for the legitimacy of these officers. You just claimed that your friends weren't corrupt, and that you knew this which, of course, you didn't and still don't.
Me: This has nothing to do with your corrupt cop cronies.
Floating a shroud of doubt over someone is different than spreading libel. Can you provide any evidence to back up the accusation that the police I know are "corrupt cop cronies"?
I have a reason for suspicion when you start vouching for their integrity religiously.
The purpose of the question has been to establish that police officers do not have a job that can be considered a lap of luxury.
I don't have a job that could be called the "lap of luxury". I think that if you're in the lap of luxury, whatever you're doing probably can't be called work.
Dumbing down my question: would you agree or disagree that police officers are looked down upon, and disrespected, by the citizens they are assigned to protect?
Customer service representatives are disrespected. Wendy's workers are looked down upon. Construction workers, urinal maintainance managers, and toll booth operators are looked down upon as well. All of these people have to put up with their fair share of flak.
The reason I continue to refuse to answer that damned question is that it is completely irrelevant to the topic. You're trying to bring emotions and sympathy into play.
First, the ISP is under no obligation to do anything.
Second, the ISP doesn't know what the caller's address is, they could only give the phone number to the police, and the police would have to reverse look-up the number themselves.
Third, finding a caller's phone number from just an IP isn't as easy as everyone thinks it is, even for the ISP. There is still a considerable amount of leg work to be done to find a number, not to mention the red tape that larger ISPs will have to cut through to do so. A case of beer for the inconvenienced tech would be merely a start.
Nothing's that simple.
...your post has stirred the desire for Vegemite, perhaps I'll buy some tomorrow if I still feel this way.
So Australians actually enjoy consuming Vegemite? The web site seems to imply that Vegemite should be appriciated more for its health benefits, as opposed to its taste or colo(u)r.
What exactly is in Vegemite, anyway? It seems to be some sort of bizarre yeast-extract brown toast paste, that doesn't look at all appitizing, even in the publicity photos. Even more bothering is the fact that Vegemite is produced by Kraft, a company that we in America still trust to make edible food products, despite the fact that they're pushing cancer sticks on us, and what appears to be toxic waste in their Austrailian market.
Hmmmmmm...
That's it! It's cigarette tar!
If I have seemed pedantic with you it is because I am being pedantic.
* Shrug *
If you're looking for something wrong with my posts, you're bound to find it. Nothing new...