..All this talk of 'hackers' and 'zombies' shutting down websites.. Don't you understand? They're going to shut down Slashdot!! Where else do thousands of hackers gather together to load a single webpage all at one time, blocking 'legitimate' access? Oh! whats to be done! Won't somebody please think of the children!
For the anti-DDoS vendors, the partnership with McAfee is a golden opportunity to show that their nascent solutions can detect and shut down these attacks before they cripple corporate networks.
We did it.. Yep, we saved you from a huge attack that would have crippled your network.. No, honestly, we did.. Please see attached invoice.
..Don't forget these are "child language language experts".. Thats not just any ordinary language expert - Thats a child language language expert, which means they are twice the ordinary child language expert.
Why when I was a kid we did'nt have these fancy laptop computers and tiny digital memory cards.. Nosir, we had punchcards, and we liked 'em.. If you wanted to type up a business proposal you had to punch it up on paper cards using a hydraulic press operated by connecting cables on a patch bay..
And if you ever wanted to read one of those proposals you had to spread the cards out on your big-ol conference table-top and get way up on ladders to be able to read it all.. Yep.. Then some smart sumbitch invented the pneumatic chair which could get you up there to read the punchcards without the ladder.. yep. those were the days..
I think I'm gonna go down in the basment and bang on my altair..
"If you just keep at something like this, beating your brains out, eventually you can figure it out," said John Verhoeven, the Iowa State professor. "But it took us an embarrassingly long time to do it."
..Probably faster to beat the metal, but whatever works for you..
The solution? "You heat it up really hot and beat on it really hard," Verhoeven said.
*The News* is not necessarily about informing you of anything important. *The News* is about selling your eyeballs to advertisers. *The News* has therefore got to grab your attention and get your eyeballs in front of the advertising. You can always print a 'correction' on page 3, or just nevermind that 'facts' got 'distorted' in the 'reporting'.
It seems to me that this could be used to focus attention on the DMCA and other important, but non-sexy issues. We just have to come up with new wording that grabs attention.. Hm.. I dunno, can you relate the DMCA's limits on reproduction to sex?
Well, as long as we're trolling for hits I might as well see if I can slashdotmy server as well. PopeAlien.Comics is a half-assed weakly comic completely unrelated to the Pope, Aliens, or indeed even this discussion topic. I like to get drunk on the weekend and give half-assed advice to strangers.
Please.. visit in an orderly fashion, one at a time. I don't think the server can handle anything more. There. I've promoted the site, done my geek duty. Can I go home now?
Comics are for young children, not for computers or commuters. Computers are serious business. The Internet is serious business. How are we to find a way to increase profits if you are spending all your time reading comic-books. If you were my employees, I'd have you all flogged.
Hm.. I can read ebooks on my iPaq, and the problem there is not that the reader is huge, its nice and tiny.. maybe a bit too tiny, and though I appreciate the screen technology it's still not paper. It's fragile, expensive and won't last as long as a ten dollar book..
Your second point is just true. Ebooks should cost less than a buck, or cost ten and allow you to pass them on like a 'real book'.. untill then, I don't see them getting popular real quick.
I agree with you. Paper will be a far superior read for quite some time, However One of the benefits of online comics is the interaction between artist and reader. There is an instant line of communication that is opened up with online comics, which enables 'Joe Sixpack' to become more of a part of the comic he/she is viewing.
Whether McCloud is right or wrong, I think the debate is the most interesting thing.
... the comics debate exhibits an intensity unmatched in other arenas. McCloud quickly published a strong rebuttal to Groth's review, while Groth is considering another essay on the subject and just about every comics artist, online and offline, is more than ready to jump into the fray.
I think this is the coolest thing. People get drawn into the debate. Stories are written, comments made, rebuttals and re-rebuttals, the end result is more people checking out the online comics mentioned in these stories. Thinking, debating, and discovering new comics is never a bad thing.. Unless they're bad comics.
But the problem is, for every little strip, you have to wait for at least a day. When you but a book, you get hundreds of strips in one step.
Oh come on now, thats just silly. You only have to wait a day because you're seeing the comic as its being created. If you want to see all the material at once, wait for year and then check the archives out (if the site is still there).
You can wait a day for each comic to come out in the newspaper as well, or you can wait a year or so and see if the whole collection gets bound into a book.
This seems a bit like complaining that with comics in a book I can't give instant feedback to the artist.. Its a completely different medium.
I work for a shadowy conspiracy group working to bring down the US government.. We've been working on a Worm/Virus to accomplish this task. We gave it a snappy name, hired the best shadowy hackers to put it all together, but our investors were pushing for results.. Imagine our embarrasment when we realized we released it with the Whitehouse IP address instead of the domain name.. They changed their IP and I'm looking for work again..
The real strengths of mine are apparent as soon as you take it online. As a dedicated Internet device, mine gives you the power to distribute, share and exchange data securely from anywhere in the World, and to automatically backup and synchronize the digital information it stores with your online archive.
Does this mean it would act as a server in your pocket?
What does the average American know or care about the DMCA. Pracically none.
Ah! but is this a case of not caring or not knowing? This is a tricky complicated issue, not quite as simple as who the president is boffing. It seems to me though, that what makes it complicated in part is the lingo.. How many people know what DMCA stands for, and how it affects rights they think they have?
The front page of my daily paper this morning had a huge headline 'How to protect yourself against CODE RED Virus'. The concept of a 'virus' is simple. It can affect our bodies, so it grabs our attention- We need a simple language equivelent to describe these issues. I'm not saying we shouldn't go into detail on the DMCA, just that perhaps there should be a balance of simply worded letters to the editor- Not worded for simpletons, but worded for people that haven't spent the last ten years of their life in front of a monitor.
I dunno, I use Removable Hard Drive Trays, which make more sense for me.. I not only want to be able to switch drives, but move the drives between home/office etc.. I picked up several removable trays for $20 each (canadian even!) and am quite happy with them.
This lock switch seems overpriced at $16.95. Parts would cost you about $6 or less I imagine..
I found the repeated references to a 'Software Ecosystem' in Mundies letter amusing. I am supposing this goes along with the use of the term 'viral' when refering to the GPL. I can just picture a healthy MS landscape, where everything works together in harmony.. little 'VB script' bees pollinate outlook encouraging the growth of communication ("uh.. hey everybody - Don't open any mail from me that asks for your help, or says I love you..). Text Farmers have heathly Word crops with only the occasional paper-clip infestation.
Then..
GPL WILDFIRE! Good lord! its heading towards our profits! The crops will be ruined! Won't somebody *please* think of the children!!
If only those damn university could leave well enough alone, and ONLY allow certain businesses access to source code, this could all be prevented. Lets not waste anymore public money on projects that can't be closed up and profited from by poor lil' old MS..
..Yep.. In a round-a-bout way thats what I meant. Corporate law is made purely by profit motive.. And what your talking about (in terms of inconvenience) is a form of profit motive. If I paid $200 bucks for a fancy new digital music player, and then find out that it won't play anything but Celine Dion music, I'd be pissed.. Lost money is a negative profit motive, but it's still a profit motive.
The problem here is that there is no profit motive in being right. The funny thing is, the way you get profit motive on this side of the argument is to crack protection, pirate mass quantities of 'intellectual property' and sell it for a profit. Since this is *not* whats happening, there is no cash-payback for fighting the DMCA. The distribution industries have *mucho* profit motive to do what they do, and all you get for all your effort is the same rights you had ten years ago.
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..do you really need a $150 device to spread cooties?
..All this talk of 'hackers' and 'zombies' shutting down websites.. Don't you understand? They're going to shut down Slashdot!! Where else do thousands of hackers gather together to load a single webpage all at one time, blocking 'legitimate' access? Oh! whats to be done! Won't somebody please think of the children!
We did it.. Yep, we saved you from a huge attack that would have crippled your network.. No, honestly, we did.. Please see attached invoice.
..Don't forget these are "child language language experts".. Thats not just any ordinary language expert - Thats a child language language expert, which means they are twice the ordinary child language expert.
..So fooling them really is quite the feat..
Why when I was a kid we did'nt have these fancy laptop computers and tiny digital memory cards.. Nosir, we had punchcards, and we liked 'em.. If you wanted to type up a business proposal you had to punch it up on paper cards using a hydraulic press operated by connecting cables on a patch bay ..
And if you ever wanted to read one of those proposals you had to spread the cards out on your big-ol conference table-top and get way up on ladders to be able to read it all.. Yep.. Then some smart sumbitch invented the pneumatic chair which could get you up there to read the punchcards without the ladder.. yep. those were the days..
I think I'm gonna go down in the basment and bang on my altair..
He does it on purpose you know.. *Nobody* can spell *that* bad.
Hee jist deos it too git a reeacshus out of yoo al.
This works for computers too!
*The News* is not necessarily about informing you of anything important. *The News* is about selling your eyeballs to advertisers. *The News* has therefore got to grab your attention and get your eyeballs in front of the advertising. You can always print a 'correction' on page 3, or just nevermind that 'facts' got 'distorted' in the 'reporting'.
It seems to me that this could be used to focus attention on the DMCA and other important, but non-sexy issues. We just have to come up with new wording that grabs attention.. Hm .. I dunno, can you relate the DMCA's limits on reproduction to sex?
(and the $2.56 finder's fee for every typo is still there :)."
Man! I wish that was availiable for Slashdot.. I'd be rich!
Well, as long as we're trolling for hits I might as well see if I can slashdot my server as well. PopeAlien.Comics is a half-assed weakly comic completely unrelated to the Pope, Aliens, or indeed even this discussion topic. I like to get drunk on the weekend and give half-assed advice to strangers.
Please.. visit in an orderly fashion, one at a time. I don't think the server can handle anything more. There. I've promoted the site, done my geek duty. Can I go home now?
Comics are for young children, not for computers or commuters. Computers are serious business. The Internet is serious business. How are we to find a way to increase profits if you are spending all your time reading comic-books. If you were my employees, I'd have you all flogged.
Hm.. I can read ebooks on my iPaq, and the problem there is not that the reader is huge, its nice and tiny.. maybe a bit too tiny, and though I appreciate the screen technology it's still not paper. It's fragile, expensive and won't last as long as a ten dollar book..
Your second point is just true. Ebooks should cost less than a buck, or cost ten and allow you to pass them on like a 'real book'.. untill then, I don't see them getting popular real quick.
Whether McCloud is right or wrong, I think the debate is the most interesting thing.
I think this is the coolest thing. People get drawn into the debate. Stories are written, comments made, rebuttals and re-rebuttals, the end result is more people checking out the online comics mentioned in these stories. Thinking, debating, and discovering new comics is never a bad thing.. Unless they're bad comics.
But the problem is, for every little strip, you have to wait for at least a day. When you but a book, you get hundreds of strips in one step.
Oh come on now, thats just silly. You only have to wait a day because you're seeing the comic as its being created. If you want to see all the material at once, wait for year and then check the archives out (if the site is still there).
You can wait a day for each comic to come out in the newspaper as well, or you can wait a year or so and see if the whole collection gets bound into a book.
This seems a bit like complaining that with comics in a book I can't give instant feedback to the artist.. Its a completely different medium.
It was discovered that the PDF had a virus..
..Oh, and that virus was protected by international copyright law. By spreading the virus without charge, you may run into some legal problems.
..I hope thats not something you have to ask for specifically.. Can I get the pizza *without* wires? They're really hard on my digestive system.
I work for a shadowy conspiracy group working to bring down the US government.. We've been working on a Worm/Virus to accomplish this task. We gave it a snappy name, hired the best shadowy hackers to put it all together, but our investors were pushing for results.. Imagine our embarrasment when we realized we released it with the Whitehouse IP address instead of the domain name.. They changed their IP and I'm looking for work again..
..Yeah, its about as suprising as Sony selling hardware to rip CD's on one hand and releasing CD's protected against ripping on the other hand..
I'm sorry, I forgot.. Who's ripping who off?
Looks like real good advice.
Be careful unpacking that mine Billy, It may be dangerous.. Looks like it's sustained some shipping damage and the detonater's a little loose..
The real strengths of mine are apparent as soon as you take it online. As a dedicated Internet device, mine gives you the power to distribute, share and exchange data securely from anywhere in the World, and to automatically backup and synchronize the digital information it stores with your online archive.
Does this mean it would act as a server in your pocket?
Can you imagine a be-Oh.. Nevermind.
What does the average American know or care about the DMCA. Pracically none.
Ah! but is this a case of not caring or not knowing? This is a tricky complicated issue, not quite as simple as who the president is boffing. It seems to me though, that what makes it complicated in part is the lingo.. How many people know what DMCA stands for, and how it affects rights they think they have?
The front page of my daily paper this morning had a huge headline 'How to protect yourself against CODE RED Virus'. The concept of a 'virus' is simple. It can affect our bodies, so it grabs our attention- We need a simple language equivelent to describe these issues. I'm not saying we shouldn't go into detail on the DMCA, just that perhaps there should be a balance of simply worded letters to the editor- Not worded for simpletons, but worded for people that haven't spent the last ten years of their life in front of a monitor.
I dunno, I use Removable Hard Drive Trays, which make more sense for me.. I not only want to be able to switch drives, but move the drives between home/office etc.. I picked up several removable trays for $20 each (canadian even!) and am quite happy with them.
This lock switch seems overpriced at $16.95. Parts would cost you about $6 or less I imagine..
I found the repeated references to a 'Software Ecosystem' in Mundies letter amusing. I am supposing this goes along with the use of the term 'viral' when refering to the GPL. I can just picture a healthy MS landscape, where everything works together in harmony.. little 'VB script' bees pollinate outlook encouraging the growth of communication ("uh.. hey everybody - Don't open any mail from me that asks for your help, or says I love you..). Text Farmers have heathly Word crops with only the occasional paper-clip infestation.
Then..
GPL WILDFIRE! Good lord! its heading towards our profits! The crops will be ruined! Won't somebody *please* think of the children!!
If only those damn university could leave well enough alone, and ONLY allow certain businesses access to source code, this could all be prevented. Lets not waste anymore public money on projects that can't be closed up and profited from by poor lil' old MS..
Don't confuse a 'Geektivist' with a Geek or an IP Pirate.. These are all different critters, and you as a slashdot reader should know better.
..Yep.. In a round-a-bout way thats what I meant. Corporate law is made purely by profit motive.. And what your talking about (in terms of inconvenience) is a form of profit motive. If I paid $200 bucks for a fancy new digital music player, and then find out that it won't play anything but Celine Dion music, I'd be pissed.. Lost money is a negative profit motive, but it's still a profit motive.
The problem here is that there is no profit motive in being right. The funny thing is, the way you get profit motive on this side of the argument is to crack protection, pirate mass quantities of 'intellectual property' and sell it for a profit. Since this is *not* whats happening, there is no cash-payback for fighting the DMCA. The distribution industries have *mucho* profit motive to do what they do, and all you get for all your effort is the same rights you had ten years ago.