That's like Merimac Caverns at midnight calling the kettle black.
I like how you fixed the traditionally erroneous quote. At least, in my experience, the pot has always been green (perhaps tinged with a bit of red, if I'm lucky).
Oh, so there should be a central hub where the virus/worm can talk to other copies of itself. Any place it could talk to itself would quickly be located and shutdown.
Regarding 2), I've actually written custom scripts to pause a certain amount of time, and then launch AdAware (and other boot-time CPU hogs).
The scripts also set them to low priority, so you can start getting things done as soon as possible (still some "lag" time when logging in, but a lot less than before).
To "sleep" without a sleep.exe, a neat trick I saw a few months ago is this: ping yourself for N+1 times (where N is the number of seconds you want to sleep). So to sleep 60 seconds, do a "ping -n 61 127.0.0.1". Since it pauses 1 second between pings, and you're not even going out over the network, it's a very CPU-less way of sleeping.
If NASA had a program where they built a great new space ship that would travel to alpha centuri and back, and we were told it would take more than our lifetime, I would go. Have a family on the ship. Make it there, let the next generation study it. Eventually they would come back to earth. We would learn so much.
The best part is, generation ships are a thing of the (sci-fi) past.
Within 20 years, we'll have full-blown nanotech, and can then start augmenting ourselves, not worrying about dying, taking apart the planets to make a Dyson sphere (or Matrioshka Brain), and sending seeds out in all directions to ensure that, when we land, it'll be habitable.
So you can sleep the whole way, or play chess or go or something. By then your thought processes will be so far removed from what they currently are that you'll effectively be a different person (perhaps different life form), and will likely have different games (like Star Wars chess). You'll still remember when you were in the chrysalis stage, like we remember childhood (when "God" was a big beard in the sky).
I love the times we live in. I just hope we can stop warring because oil is pointless; we've got enough to last 20 years, and alternative fuels will blossom once we have complete control over physical matter. All those kids dying for nothing, it's really sad.
I, too, am so glad that we aren't judged by the cows who share our genetic material.
(To think, I almost believed that idiot backwoods of Maine aunt (at least it was by marriage!) who burned (fucking burned!!!) the Madonna tapes my sister gave her daughter, saying they were evil. It's so easy to blame your destructive behavior on evil, but in the end, well, you're just behaving destructively towards the people your God told you to protect and serve, so you're not really setting up a good future relationship, are you? </rant>)
Anyway, it doesn't matter how the information was presented. Bush DOESN'T READ these reports. He has his staff read them to him [...]
Actually, Bush doesn't matter much in this topic. The author's point was simply to keep the existence of the document in the news. By that measure, he's done a good job, regardless of what he chose to highlight about the document.
Yes, I was kidding. No I will not (and I believe, can not) change my nickname. Thanks for the idea though, wish I had thought of it before I joined up!
Peopl state that "a change of 0.1% in the tax rate doesn't make a difference" and then go on to make that change fifty billion times--and then, of course, it does make a difference.
Same argument with minimum wages: if they were such a good idea, why not set them to $200/hour and everyone can be wealthy?
Because, obviously, they're not such a good idea in the first place. (If your skills are worth $1.50 an hour, then you will never be hired and will have to live on the dole. Is that preferable?)
I think you misunderstood: they were saying "IT just works" but the marketing spelling nazis corrected the first word.
They were trying to tell everyone that the only thing IT workers are capable of doing is supporting Microsoft software since it sucks so badly. Other departments get to play occasionally.
Ram is pretty cheap as it is, it's gonna be awesome if somehow prices drop even more because of this.
I bought 4 x 512 GB PC133 RAM 4 years ago for $42 apiece (including shipping).
Pricewatch now has them at $40. I haven't checked in the interim, but they basically haven't budged, judging solely from these two data points.
My though is actually the opposite: this fine will increase the cost of doing business to the suppliers. The coming class-action suits will add to their expenses. I wouldn't be surprised to see them pass these expenses on to the consumers. "We were gouging you before, but we got caught and have to pay all these fines and can't afford them, so we're passing them on to you US citizens who purchase the bulk of our sales."
Which, in the end, boils down to the US government fining their citizens.
And spending how many millions in taxpayer dollars to set up the fine? ("to set up the fine" == using the court system.)
No, I'm not cynical; I've come to expect this from my wonderful, best-that-money-can-buy government.
This reminds me of an SQL tutorial. On tables, it had the chapter-opening quote: "To assemble table: stand the four legs up, put top on, and glue liberally."
Heh, you'd think a President-destroying fighter would be protected by more than a "dead is ok" fingerprint detector!
But 24 aside, "something you have, something you know" isn't likely to be replaced by biometrics.
And your example seems misguided as well; if you fire someone, surely you can remove their access.
Someone stealing something, that's a different issue, but if it's a decent system it can ask relevant questions like, "what projects were you working on last week? (give any four)" or something similar, like "You got an email with the words 'wine festival'. Do you remember who it was from?" It would ask several such questions, with enough different information, to prove that you were you (or you were you with a gun to your head, which is a tricky situation: should we deny your access, ensuring that the bullet leaves the chamber; or should we allow it, ensuring that security is breached and more than one life is potentially at risk?).
While I agree with you in general, in specific I have to take exception: driving a car is not something you can do on autopilot.
We have too many drunk-driving accidents as refutation.
Once we have autonomous cars, then I agree, it will be auto-pilot (and I can start making the same use of my time as I would if I took the "finishing-the-project-stealing" train).
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I like how you fixed the traditionally erroneous quote. At least, in my experience, the pot has always been green (perhaps tinged with a bit of red, if I'm lucky).
You know, I think you're right: I don't recall ever seeing cartoon characters wearing self-modifying old-school long johns.
Get ready to see landfills become a thing of the past, as well.
Not if it's on freenet...
I hear guns and money work real well...
The scripts also set them to low priority, so you can start getting things done as soon as possible (still some "lag" time when logging in, but a lot less than before).
To "sleep" without a sleep.exe, a neat trick I saw a few months ago is this: ping yourself for N+1 times (where N is the number of seconds you want to sleep). So to sleep 60 seconds, do a "ping -n 61 127.0.0.1". Since it pauses 1 second between pings, and you're not even going out over the network, it's a very CPU-less way of sleeping.
The best part is, generation ships are a thing of the (sci-fi) past.
Within 20 years, we'll have full-blown nanotech, and can then start augmenting ourselves, not worrying about dying, taking apart the planets to make a Dyson sphere (or Matrioshka Brain), and sending seeds out in all directions to ensure that, when we land, it'll be habitable.
So you can sleep the whole way, or play chess or go or something. By then your thought processes will be so far removed from what they currently are that you'll effectively be a different person (perhaps different life form), and will likely have different games (like Star Wars chess). You'll still remember when you were in the chrysalis stage, like we remember childhood (when "God" was a big beard in the sky).
I love the times we live in. I just hope we can stop warring because oil is pointless; we've got enough to last 20 years, and alternative fuels will blossom once we have complete control over physical matter. All those kids dying for nothing, it's really sad.
Thanks. Really.
Throw pumpkins at stoned cocksuckers, and if he throws hard enough, he gains his independence!
(To think, I almost believed that idiot backwoods of Maine aunt (at least it was by marriage!) who burned (fucking burned!!! ) the Madonna tapes my sister gave her daughter, saying they were evil. It's so easy to blame your destructive behavior on evil, but in the end, well, you're just behaving destructively towards the people your God told you to protect and serve, so you're not really setting up a good future relationship, are you? </rant>)
These are people who get multiple ad impressions when Slashdot "readers" write rants decrying the "editors".
Reparable: just wait 1,368 days.
Actually, Bush doesn't matter much in this topic. The author's point was simply to keep the existence of the document in the news. By that measure, he's done a good job, regardless of what he chose to highlight about the document.
Peopl state that "a change of 0.1% in the tax rate doesn't make a difference" and then go on to make that change fifty billion times--and then, of course, it does make a difference.
Same argument with minimum wages: if they were such a good idea, why not set them to $200/hour and everyone can be wealthy?
Because, obviously, they're not such a good idea in the first place. (If your skills are worth $1.50 an hour, then you will never be hired and will have to live on the dole. Is that preferable?)
They were trying to tell everyone that the only thing IT workers are capable of doing is supporting Microsoft software since it sucks so badly. Other departments get to play occasionally.
16 ... and counting!
I bought 4 x 512 GB PC133 RAM 4 years ago for $42 apiece (including shipping).
Pricewatch now has them at $40. I haven't checked in the interim, but they basically haven't budged, judging solely from these two data points.
My though is actually the opposite: this fine will increase the cost of doing business to the suppliers. The coming class-action suits will add to their expenses. I wouldn't be surprised to see them pass these expenses on to the consumers. "We were gouging you before, but we got caught and have to pay all these fines and can't afford them, so we're passing them on to you US citizens who purchase the bulk of our sales."
Which, in the end, boils down to the US government fining their citizens.
And spending how many millions in taxpayer dollars to set up the fine? ("to set up the fine" == using the court system.)
No, I'm not cynical; I've come to expect this from my wonderful, best-that-money-can-buy government.
Thanks for that! I'm now going to name my first child "Information". ;-)
Me too! It's doubleplusgood to be aware of dangerous three-letter-agencies!
What could be worse than a collision?
You're not sure whether you're sure?
Okay then, let's set it to 100% and stop arguing!
Obviously, not very well though through! ;-)
But 24 aside, "something you have, something you know" isn't likely to be replaced by biometrics.
And your example seems misguided as well; if you fire someone, surely you can remove their access.
Someone stealing something, that's a different issue, but if it's a decent system it can ask relevant questions like, "what projects were you working on last week? (give any four)" or something similar, like "You got an email with the words 'wine festival'. Do you remember who it was from?" It would ask several such questions, with enough different information, to prove that you were you (or you were you with a gun to your head, which is a tricky situation: should we deny your access, ensuring that the bullet leaves the chamber; or should we allow it, ensuring that security is breached and more than one life is potentially at risk?).
We have too many drunk-driving accidents as refutation.
Once we have autonomous cars, then I agree, it will be auto-pilot (and I can start making the same use of my time as I would if I took the "finishing-the-project-stealing" train).