I don't know if I'm the only one feeling that way. But after reading these answers a first time I really feel like Bush carefully wrote his answers to make sure no slashdot reader would vote for him. Am I the only one feeling that way?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Yeah you're right... that's probably not the way TV and radio stations make money. Who said advertisment was profitable anyway.:o)
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Re:See what happens when you rely on NT
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Those things were supposedly made more secure with Outlook patches after the I Love You problems. Now if Microsoft themselves didn't apply their own patch to their softwares and are paying the price of it I can't help but smile and shake my head at how ridiculous this is.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Re:See what happens when you rely on NT
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This has nothing to do with the OS used. It's an employee who introducedd the Trojan by opening an attachment.
Once again this prooves the weakest link in any security is the human factor.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Not so indestructable I fear. I have 3 NES controllers (2 standard and the good old NES Max) and only one is still working properly:o(
Now the main problem is that it's hard to find one to buy these days. But you are right... they were indeed much more resilient than everything currently on the market. The closest would be IMHO the gravis gamepads.
No matter how old that thing is, I still get the kicks from going through the 2 first Megaman. The megaman are among the best games ever.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
You can... vote for them all and it will have the exact same result.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Re:Demographics of game players?
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The gamers age median is about 28, not the ONLINE gamers age median. I think it would be surprising to see a study of the demography of different types of game. I am pretty sure that youngre player would end up more attracted to online games where they can socialise with huge numbers of people (or crush them in power trips) and older players would end up playing more intrigue, puzzle and storyine oriented games.
Anyone knows if such a study exists?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
This is not a bad thing as long as you are in the "good DNA" side. But take it from the point of view of the person who actually needs insurance and gets screened out. As long as the state has its own programs of medical insurances it's not that bad, but imagine that tomorrow they decide to turn over all medical insurances to private business. You end up being someone who might very well need insurance but can't get it.
I mean... what's the point of selling insurances only to those who won't need it??
I am also a bit scared about possible abuses of this, but I guess I will have to wait and hope I'm wrong.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I really don't see what makes that porn site more "geeky" than any other. What? It's the math formulas all over the girl and the glasses of the guy?? Of course... I should have known that because the girl is in front of the MIT it has to be geeky...
Come on... who are they trying to bring in with that name? I mean... just because I am a geek I should somehow think this porn site is more appealing than any other?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Just as people can get shredders to destroy their paper correspondance, there are some softwares that you can get which make your deleting much more permanent. What it does is hash and scramble the content of your file several times before finally deleting it. So while there might still be some way to retrieve the file chances are that what you can read from it has no sense at all.
Now for e-mail it's another story but I'm pretty sure that the same process could be implemented in a mail client. Anybody looking for a cool project to do?:o)
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I really can't understand why or how the whole Signal 11 vs CmdrTaco thing became so big. To make a long story short it's one guy thinking the/. moderation system is flawed, telling it to the/. head guys who do not agree with his points. Correct me if I'm wrong or if I missed something somewhere but I really can't understand why it had to take such proportion?!? Who slapped who first? Who was the first to take an aggressive tone in their private discussions?!?!
Please people realise that this whole thing is a non-issue currently turning into an holy war where both sides just hope to make the other guy look ridiculous. I really don't see why this has become such an issue and why every single comment-thread on/. AND k5 these days include some comments about how Signal 11 is a Troll or a karma whore and CmdrTaco is a tyranic dickhead.
Let's all just forget that and let it become nothing more than it should have been and move on with constructive things...
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I don't think that when we finally colonize Mars we will really get away from corporations and government. I have read an interesting theory in a fiction book (ok it was fiction... so what). The colonization effort will require a HUGE amount of resources. The various governments, space agencies and all will look for private funding to achieve that goal effectivly selling parts of Mars or whatever planet we decide to colonize.
Even if this is coming straight out of fiction book I don't think it's too crazy a possibility. I sure hate to break your dream of a martian utopia but whether what I just described happens or not, I am pretty sure someone, somewhere will find a way to either profit from a planet colonization or to abuse it and put himself in a position of power.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
The problem with this is that if the storyboards on the sites were bogus and not the true one than Lucas has NO RIGHTS AT ALL ro ask them to remove them. Now if they are truly genuine he is only confirming it and telling everyone who saw those boards what the story is.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I just thought of something, I don't know if this has been seen so if anyone saw something like what I will describe please tell me. I'm curious.
Imagine a cross breed between spam and the now infamous VBScript "virus" like the famed 'I Love you" virus. Each advertisement the user receive also has a small attachment with it. If the user opens the attachment (lets be realistic here... lots of clueless users would do it) it resends the spammed message (or even messages??) to everyone in his adress book...
Anyone heard of something like that??
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Every sunday when I wake up I see hanging on my door knob a nifty plastic bag full of ads from the local grocery store, electronic shop and so much more. I take it and throw it right away.
Why am I saying this? It's not that I am for spam and that I like it. I just think that your comparison is a bit exagerated. Spam would be much more like those plastic bags me and countless other people receive on sunday. And deleting spam from your mailbox is probably as much of an effort as throwing that bag to the garbage. Unless it takes you countless hours of intense scrubbing to remove the spam from your inbox like it would to remove that Coke banner you're talking about. If so then I have a magic trick for you... hit the "delete" key. It's much easier.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Here is what might have just happened :
1) This is one heck of a boring day with nothing happening at all.
2) HeUnique just received the rights to post and wanted to post something, anything quickly before those rights faded away.
3) Someone evil took controle of/. and decided to focus our attentions by confusing us with that headline while he's kidnaping CmdrTaco and Hemos.
4) I was really bored at work and decided to reply to that headline even if it didn't hold much interests.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Is probably because I hate to buy complete systems from companies like Dell or Compaq or whatever... I prefere to go to a local store and buy my PC piece by piece and build it myself. I think it gives you more freedom and sometimes even better prices than to buy prebuild PCs.
Now to come back to my point I asked a couple of retailers in here (Montreal, Canada) and none of them can get any Ghz Pentium but all answered telling me that they could get an athlon.
Sure no one even needs that much raw power on the desktop, but god if you say you will release a CPU please release it and make it available!
We will see how things turn out but I have not been impressed by Intel lately...
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
With the recent problems with 1Ghz supplies and the instability of the 1.13 Ghz how credible is that roadmap?
I mean, sure they might release those CPUs at those given time... but they also released 1Ghz about 8 months ago and I still have troubles finding one. I don't think AMD should be really worried by that.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Funny but I bet the problems that kuro5hin had will bring them even more traffic then they had before. I mean, I never once went to that site before but now that I saw so much things about it here I can't wait it to be back to see what it looks like and how cool it is. I bet I'm not the only one...
Slashdot Mirror
about OS embedding to gain performance and entangle IE in the OS
:o)
And how is that bad ? I like the software I use to be more performant. Don't you?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I don't know if I'm the only one feeling that way. But after reading these answers a first time I really feel like Bush carefully wrote his answers to make sure no slashdot reader would vote for him. Am I the only one feeling that way?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
how else could they make money? Ads?
:o)
Yeah you're right... that's probably not the way TV and radio stations make money. Who said advertisment was profitable anyway.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Those things were supposedly made more secure with Outlook patches after the I Love You problems. Now if Microsoft themselves didn't apply their own patch to their softwares and are paying the price of it I can't help but smile and shake my head at how ridiculous this is.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
This has nothing to do with the OS used. It's an employee who introducedd the Trojan by opening an attachment.
Once again this prooves the weakest link in any security is the human factor.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
How much do you think I would have to pay the Russian Gov. just to make sure they throw MIR into the ocea and never ever talk about it again?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Not so indestructable I fear. I have 3 NES controllers (2 standard and the good old NES Max) and only one is still working properly :o(
Now the main problem is that it's hard to find one to buy these days. But you are right... they were indeed much more resilient than everything currently on the market. The closest would be IMHO the gravis gamepads.
No matter how old that thing is, I still get the kicks from going through the 2 first Megaman. The megaman are among the best games ever.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
You can... vote for them all and it will have the exact same result.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
The gamers age median is about 28, not the ONLINE gamers age median. I think it would be surprising to see a study of the demography of different types of game. I am pretty sure that youngre player would end up more attracted to online games where they can socialise with huge numbers of people (or crush them in power trips) and older players would end up playing more intrigue, puzzle and storyine oriented games.
Anyone knows if such a study exists?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
This is not a bad thing as long as you are in the "good DNA" side. But take it from the point of view of the person who actually needs insurance and gets screened out. As long as the state has its own programs of medical insurances it's not that bad, but imagine that tomorrow they decide to turn over all medical insurances to private business. You end up being someone who might very well need insurance but can't get it.
I mean... what's the point of selling insurances only to those who won't need it??
I am also a bit scared about possible abuses of this, but I guess I will have to wait and hope I'm wrong.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I definitly think we should definitly try and register the wining patent to see how ridiculous things are getting.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I really don't see what makes that porn site more "geeky" than any other. What? It's the math formulas all over the girl and the glasses of the guy?? Of course... I should have known that because the girl is in front of the MIT it has to be geeky...
Come on... who are they trying to bring in with that name? I mean... just because I am a geek I should somehow think this porn site is more appealing than any other?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Yes it is :o)
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
If so then I do not dare imagine what would the Enter or Insert keys do... But I'd sure hit the Break key quite often.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Just as people can get shredders to destroy their paper correspondance, there are some softwares that you can get which make your deleting much more permanent. What it does is hash and scramble the content of your file several times before finally deleting it. So while there might still be some way to retrieve the file chances are that what you can read from it has no sense at all.
:o)
Now for e-mail it's another story but I'm pretty sure that the same process could be implemented in a mail client. Anybody looking for a cool project to do?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I really can't understand why or how the whole Signal 11 vs CmdrTaco thing became so big. To make a long story short it's one guy thinking the /. moderation system is flawed, telling it to the /. head guys who do not agree with his points. Correct me if I'm wrong or if I missed something somewhere but I really can't understand why it had to take such proportion?!? Who slapped who first? Who was the first to take an aggressive tone in their private discussions?!?!
/. AND k5 these days include some comments about how Signal 11 is a Troll or a karma whore and CmdrTaco is a tyranic dickhead.
Please people realise that this whole thing is a non-issue currently turning into an holy war where both sides just hope to make the other guy look ridiculous. I really don't see why this has become such an issue and why every single comment-thread on
Let's all just forget that and let it become nothing more than it should have been and move on with constructive things...
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
And Al Gore invented the internet. Everyone knows that!
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I don't think that when we finally colonize Mars we will really get away from corporations and government. I have read an interesting theory in a fiction book (ok it was fiction... so what). The colonization effort will require a HUGE amount of resources. The various governments, space agencies and all will look for private funding to achieve that goal effectivly selling parts of Mars or whatever planet we decide to colonize.
Even if this is coming straight out of fiction book I don't think it's too crazy a possibility. I sure hate to break your dream of a martian utopia but whether what I just described happens or not, I am pretty sure someone, somewhere will find a way to either profit from a planet colonization or to abuse it and put himself in a position of power.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
The problem with this is that if the storyboards on the sites were bogus and not the true one than Lucas has NO RIGHTS AT ALL ro ask them to remove them. Now if they are truly genuine he is only confirming it and telling everyone who saw those boards what the story is.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I just thought of something, I don't know if this has been seen so if anyone saw something like what I will describe please tell me. I'm curious.
Imagine a cross breed between spam and the now infamous VBScript "virus" like the famed 'I Love you" virus. Each advertisement the user receive also has a small attachment with it. If the user opens the attachment (lets be realistic here... lots of clueless users would do it) it resends the spammed message (or even messages??) to everyone in his adress book...
Anyone heard of something like that??
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Every sunday when I wake up I see hanging on my door knob a nifty plastic bag full of ads from the local grocery store, electronic shop and so much more. I take it and throw it right away.
Why am I saying this? It's not that I am for spam and that I like it. I just think that your comparison is a bit exagerated. Spam would be much more like those plastic bags me and countless other people receive on sunday. And deleting spam from your mailbox is probably as much of an effort as throwing that bag to the garbage. Unless it takes you countless hours of intense scrubbing to remove the spam from your inbox like it would to remove that Coke banner you're talking about. If so then I have a magic trick for you... hit the "delete" key. It's much easier.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Here is what might have just happened : /. and decided to focus our attentions by confusing us with that headline while he's kidnaping CmdrTaco and Hemos.
1) This is one heck of a boring day with nothing happening at all.
2) HeUnique just received the rights to post and wanted to post something, anything quickly before those rights faded away.
3) Someone evil took controle of
4) I was really bored at work and decided to reply to that headline even if it didn't hold much interests.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Is probably because I hate to buy complete systems from companies like Dell or Compaq or whatever... I prefere to go to a local store and buy my PC piece by piece and build it myself. I think it gives you more freedom and sometimes even better prices than to buy prebuild PCs.
Now to come back to my point I asked a couple of retailers in here (Montreal, Canada) and none of them can get any Ghz Pentium but all answered telling me that they could get an athlon.
Sure no one even needs that much raw power on the desktop, but god if you say you will release a CPU please release it and make it available!
We will see how things turn out but I have not been impressed by Intel lately...
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
With the recent problems with 1Ghz supplies and the instability of the 1.13 Ghz how credible is that roadmap?
I mean, sure they might release those CPUs at those given time... but they also released 1Ghz about 8 months ago and I still have troubles finding one. I don't think AMD should be really worried by that.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Funny but I bet the problems that kuro5hin had will bring them even more traffic then they had before. I mean, I never once went to that site before but now that I saw so much things about it here I can't wait it to be back to see what it looks like and how cool it is. I bet I'm not the only one...