So lets say a company that rents software goes under...And they are required to give the keys to another company so you can keep running your software. What if no company will take the offer? If the business failed in the first place, it may just be that there is no money in the software...So whos gonna want to take on a losing product?
If no other company will touch the software, are you then just S.O.L?
FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS
UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App Doesn't Like
Atlanta, Ga. (SatireWire.com) -- Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus.
"Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected," said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit.
The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. "Up until now we have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were spread by Microsoft Outlook," said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture Minister. "By eliminating it, we can focus our resources elsewhere."
However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook, which has been the progenitor of viruses such as "I Love You," "Bubbleboy," "Anna Kournikova," and "Naked Wife," to name but a few.
Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden University: "It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that as scientists, we are trained to be skeptical of any finding that flies in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a blind drunk sparrow."
Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth.
Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more humiliated by the study than she is. "Only last week, I had a reporter ask if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told him, 'Doesn't everything?'" she recalled. "Who would've thought?"
Groucho Marx did make a movie called "A Night in Casablanca" That was released May 10 of 1946 however. So I'm not sure how this fits with your letter written in 1948.
Who else is Blizzard going to sue? Lets look at other movies with "Diablo" in the title:
I think they should start with sueing the makers of "El Diablo" which was a comedy with Anthony Edwards released in 1990. (I think it was made for tv maybe..not sure?)
After that they can check out the list of 146 movies with "diablo" in their title. Mostly Spanish movies, big suprise.
Looking at the summary that IMDB has for the movie the lawsuit is about...its about a DRUG lord, nothing like the Video game.
Thats not really a mouse, it is a point device however, so you got that part right.
You don't move the durapoint around on your desk, you actually move the pad thing ontop of the mouse with your finger.
It doesn't use a battery. This looks like the same product they used to make called the Expresso, I think. It is not a portable, you still need to plug it into the wall.
At the arcade near me they have all the standalone typical arcade games. Then in one corner they have around 20 PCs. You rent them for a certain amount of time and can play online games against people on the internet, not just at the same arcade.
It's kind of neat, they are really nice PC's with 21 inch monitors. If I didn't have a PC I might be tempted, however all the games are just standard stuff you can buy over the counter. Counter Strike seems to be the most popular there.
I have a PocketPc. I've never had to reboot it. I've never had corrupted files. I'll agree with imcompatablities, but you've always got that (the box says version x or higher, and I have x-1).
As far as having no control, Out of the box maybe not, but with some 3rd party apps, I'm doing just fine there too.
I don't necessarily like Microsoft. But I don't think you should spread FUD about them. Slashdot users and linux users are always complaining about microsoft spreading FUD about linux, well, if you don't like it, don't spread FUD about microsoft.
I might have not minded so much if you had written, "I have a WINCE device, and IM used to restarting all the time, etc etc..."
Don't speak for all of us.
Actually, according to the special the largest solar flare in recorded history took place while the astronauts were on the moon. For you space people, was that true?
Just to be interesting, I'd like anyone who watched the show to include that when they say the show was trash...I'll admit a couple of the "experts" they had just seemed a bit crazy.
I watched the show to laugh at it. I wanted to see if it would just be plain silly. While watching it however, some of the people raised some good questions and points. I am not very familiar with space, as I've never been that interested in it. So I was wondering if some Slashdot people could refute some of the evidence presented.
The nasa guy on the show commonly said that their arguements did not make sense, but he never actually said why. He never gave any explanation for their arguements, just a general, that guys crazy.
The ones I found the most interesting were:
1. The lack of any dust on the landing feet of the lunar lander. (It would seem to me a landing like that would kick up quite a bit of dust, some of which would setttle on the landing feet)
2. The cameras the astronauts had crosshairs permanantly in the frames. In some moon photos the crosshairs are BEHIND objects on the moon.
3. The lack of a blast crater. (This one was partial explained, an expert said that the lander didn't need much actual blast force to land... however i would have thought in the lower gravity of space, it would have made an indentation because of how the entire surface seemed to be just a dust or sand.)
4. There is no engine noise on the tape during the landing. Wouldn't there be a lot of engine noise?
So, can anyone explain to me why these things happened? Or explain any of the other evidence in the show?
Overall I found the show interesting and entertianing, and it left me puzzled due to my lack of knowledge on the subject.
1. computer : one that computes; specifically : a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data
(I'm leaving out the definitions that don't apply)
2. sex 3 a : sexually motivated phenomena or behavior b : SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
From the definition of "sex" we get "sexual intercourse" which we see is defined as:
1. sexual intercourse 1 : heterosexual intercourse involving penetration of the vagina by the penis : COITUS
2 : intercourse involving genital contact between individuals other than penetration of the vagina by the penis
(I'm going to skip the definition of COITUS,since I think the definition of sexual intercourse is good enough for our purposes.)
So...now we just combine them
So, it involves genital contact either with or without penetration of a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data.
Notice: I used http://www.ispep.cx/dictionary.php to look up all definitions. Check it out, Its pretty nice..runs linux, and very handy when you need definitions(like this instance).
"this page has some pictures, one of Capt'n crunch holding a small device up to a phone... hrm, according to this goggle search it's still possible to blue box in Chile "
If you are looking at the same picture I am, The one saying its a recent photo, thats not a blue box. It looks more like a Radio Shack tone dialer. FYI: by replacing one crystal in a radio shack tone dialer you get a red box. (box which makes the tones for the different coins in a pay phone) Red boxing still works in quite a few areas in the US too.
They've been doing 10-digit dialing in Maryland for years now. It sucked at first, but now I don't even think about typing the area code for locals calls,it just happens.
DOH! You are right.The Shinoc868, from the reviews I saw on several sites has a MegaDrive/Genesis emulator, while the "Dulux" says it has a Master system...Sorry about that, just got a little confused:)
You can find a good review of this product at:
http://www.cdrinfo.com/hardware/shinco868/index. sh tml
yeah, yeah, before you flame me, the actual name of this Dvd/Genesis is the Shinco 868:)
I've also heard some people in the thread say that these dont sound like Master System games, they sound like Genesis games...Well...thats cause they are...this comes with a MEGA DRIVE. That was the name for the Genesis in other places than the US.
It was Sega's Hologram Time Traveler. The interesting thing is that there is going to be a home version soon. Well, according to this webpage:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/001017/digital_le.html
excerpts from page for the lazy:
"Oct. 17, 2000--Revolutionary hologram technology made Hologram Time Traveler an instant hit in the arcades in 1991 and now Digital Leisure has brought the 3D experience to your home computer or DVD movie player for the first time ever"
Oh yeah, the company putting this out is at:
http://www.digitalleisure.com/
and
"To maintain this hologram feel, Digital Leisure is including free 3D glasses with its CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and DVD-Video versions. A 2D version is included on the same disc that may be played without the 3D glasses"
Where I voted (MD) once you had filled in your ballot, it went into a little R2D2 computer. If you had marked incorrectly(voted for more than 1 candidate etc) it told the attendant who gave you the choice of starting over, or having your vote not count. I watched 2 people get errors on their presidential candidate choices,and both chose NOT to fill out a new ballot, making their choices null.
I didn't have to have any sort of card to vote. I went to the polling place, gave them my name. They did nothing to verify this. They gave me a ballot. I voted. I found it very unsettling. When they looked me up, I saw they still had my sister in the book of voters. She moved years ago. I thought it was wierd.
I am enrolled at a small college in Maryland. I was utterly depressed by the amount of students who did not vote.
The only thing that depressed me more was reading quotes in the school newspaper where people talked about who they were going to vote for and why. None of them had ANY idea about how that candidate stood on ANY issues. I am embarassed to simply be a part of the age group I am.
Why is it that young people don't vote? Im 20, and due to some kind of screw up with my absentee ballot, I drove 6 hours round trip today to vote, and managed to get back to attend classes.
The only positive thing I noticed was that a high percentage of computer science students I know voted. Why is this? Can anyone explain it to me?
I used to live near the Pumpkin Chunkin, now in school. I had planned to take a bunch of people back home for it. Someone told me that this year it was cancelled because they couldnt do it at the airport anymore....So any information about when/where or if it is still going on this year would be a big help! thanks!
Slashdot Mirror
"Kinda like how the Space program gave us Tang."
and here I am.
So lets say a company that rents software goes under...And they are required to give the keys to another company so you can keep running your software. What if no company will take the offer? If the business failed in the first place, it may just be that there is no money in the software...So whos gonna want to take on a losing product?
If no other company will touch the software, are you then just S.O.L?
FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS
UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App Doesn't Like
Atlanta, Ga. (SatireWire.com) -- Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus.
"Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected," said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit.
The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. "Up until now we have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were spread by Microsoft Outlook," said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture Minister. "By eliminating it, we can focus our resources elsewhere."
However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook, which has been the progenitor of viruses such as "I Love You," "Bubbleboy," "Anna Kournikova," and "Naked Wife," to name but a few.
Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden University: "It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that as scientists, we are trained to be skeptical of any finding that flies in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a blind drunk sparrow."
Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth.
Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more humiliated by the study than she is. "Only last week, I had a reporter ask if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told him, 'Doesn't everything?'" she recalled. "Who would've thought?"
Groucho Marx did make a movie called "A Night in Casablanca" That was released May 10 of 1946 however. So I'm not sure how this fits with your letter written in 1948.
Who else is Blizzard going to sue? Lets look at other movies with "Diablo" in the title:
I think they should start with sueing the makers of "El Diablo" which was a comedy with Anthony Edwards released in 1990. (I think it was made for tv maybe..not sure?)
After that they can check out the list of 146 movies with "diablo" in their title. Mostly Spanish movies, big suprise.
Looking at the summary that IMDB has for the movie the lawsuit is about...its about a DRUG lord, nothing like the Video game.
Steve Jobs is NOT insane.
According to Segfault, Jobs IS on crack however.
As seen on www.segfault.org:
"Steve Jobs Now Officially "On Crack"
Fri 23 Feb 16:29:22 2001 PST
Shortly after the release of the "Flower Power" and "Blue Dalmation" iMacs, Apple officials today confirmed that Steve Jobs is, indeed, on crack. "
Thats not really a mouse, it is a point device however, so you got that part right.
You don't move the durapoint around on your desk, you actually move the pad thing ontop of the mouse with your finger.
It doesn't use a battery. This looks like the same product they used to make called the Expresso, I think. It is not a portable, you still need to plug it into the wall.
At the arcade near me they have all the standalone typical arcade games. Then in one corner they have around 20 PCs. You rent them for a certain amount of time and can play online games against people on the internet, not just at the same arcade.
It's kind of neat, they are really nice PC's with 21 inch monitors. If I didn't have a PC I might be tempted, however all the games are just standard stuff you can buy over the counter. Counter Strike seems to be the most popular there.
I have a PocketPc. I've never had to reboot it. I've never had corrupted files. I'll agree with imcompatablities, but you've always got that (the box says version x or higher, and I have x-1).
As far as having no control, Out of the box maybe not, but with some 3rd party apps, I'm doing just fine there too.
I don't necessarily like Microsoft. But I don't think you should spread FUD about them. Slashdot users and linux users are always complaining about microsoft spreading FUD about linux, well, if you don't like it, don't spread FUD about microsoft.
I might have not minded so much if you had written, "I have a WINCE device, and IM used to restarting all the time, etc etc..."
Don't speak for all of us.
Actually, according to the special the largest solar flare in recorded history took place while the astronauts were on the moon. For you space people, was that true?
The soviets never landed on the moon.
Just to be interesting, I'd like anyone who watched the show to include that when they say the show was trash...I'll admit a couple of the "experts" they had just seemed a bit crazy.
I watched the show to laugh at it. I wanted to see if it would just be plain silly. While watching it however, some of the people raised some good questions and points. I am not very familiar with space, as I've never been that interested in it. So I was wondering if some Slashdot people could refute some of the evidence presented.
The nasa guy on the show commonly said that their arguements did not make sense, but he never actually said why. He never gave any explanation for their arguements, just a general, that guys crazy.
The ones I found the most interesting were:
1. The lack of any dust on the landing feet of the lunar lander. (It would seem to me a landing like that would kick up quite a bit of dust, some of which would setttle on the landing feet)
2. The cameras the astronauts had crosshairs permanantly in the frames. In some moon photos the crosshairs are BEHIND objects on the moon.
3. The lack of a blast crater. (This one was partial explained, an expert said that the lander didn't need much actual blast force to land... however i would have thought in the lower gravity of space, it would have made an indentation because of how the entire surface seemed to be just a dust or sand.)
4. There is no engine noise on the tape during the landing. Wouldn't there be a lot of engine noise?
So, can anyone explain to me why these things happened? Or explain any of the other evidence in the show?
Overall I found the show interesting and entertianing, and it left me puzzled due to my lack of knowledge on the subject.
1. computer : one that computes; specifically : a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data
(I'm leaving out the definitions that don't apply)
2. sex 3 a : sexually motivated phenomena or behavior b : SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
From the definition of "sex" we get "sexual intercourse" which we see is defined as:
1. sexual intercourse 1 : heterosexual intercourse involving penetration of the vagina by the penis : COITUS
2 : intercourse involving genital contact between individuals other than penetration of the vagina by the penis
(I'm going to skip the definition of COITUS,since I think the definition of sexual intercourse is good enough for our purposes.)
So...now we just combine them
So, it involves genital contact either with or without penetration of a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data.
Notice: I used http://www.ispep.cx/dictionary.php to look up all definitions. Check it out, Its pretty nice..runs linux, and very handy when you need definitions(like this instance).
well,now we know what is wrong with you.
"this page has some pictures, one of Capt'n crunch holding a small device up to a phone... hrm, according to this goggle search it's still possible to blue box in Chile "
If you are looking at the same picture I am, The one saying its a recent photo, thats not a blue box. It looks more like a Radio Shack tone dialer. FYI: by replacing one crystal in a radio shack tone dialer you get a red box. (box which makes the tones for the different coins in a pay phone) Red boxing still works in quite a few areas in the US too.
They've been doing 10-digit dialing in Maryland for years now. It sucked at first, but now I don't even think about typing the area code for locals calls,it just happens.
DOH! You are right.The Shinoc868, from the reviews I saw on several sites has a MegaDrive/Genesis emulator, while the "Dulux" says it has a Master system...Sorry about that, just got a little confused:)
It is NOT a sega master system which is included, its a sega MEGA DRIVE. The Mega Drive == genesis
You can find a good review of this product at:. sh tml
http://www.cdrinfo.com/hardware/shinco868/index
yeah, yeah, before you flame me, the actual name of this Dvd/Genesis is the Shinco 868:)
I've also heard some people in the thread say that these dont sound like Master System games, they sound like Genesis games...Well...thats cause they are...this comes with a MEGA DRIVE. That was the name for the Genesis in other places than the US.
It was Sega's Hologram Time Traveler. The interesting thing is that there is going to be a home version soon. Well, according to this webpage:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/001017/digital_le.html
excerpts from page for the lazy:
"Oct. 17, 2000--Revolutionary hologram technology made Hologram Time Traveler an instant hit in the arcades in 1991 and now Digital Leisure has brought the 3D experience to your home computer or DVD movie player for the first time ever"
Oh yeah, the company putting this out is at:
http://www.digitalleisure.com/
and
"To maintain this hologram feel, Digital Leisure is including free 3D glasses with its CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and DVD-Video versions. A 2D version is included on the same disc that may be played without the 3D glasses"
Where I voted (MD) once you had filled in your ballot, it went into a little R2D2 computer. If you had marked incorrectly(voted for more than 1 candidate etc) it told the attendant who gave you the choice of starting over, or having your vote not count. I watched 2 people get errors on their presidential candidate choices,and both chose NOT to fill out a new ballot, making their choices null.
I didn't have to have any sort of card to vote. I went to the polling place, gave them my name. They did nothing to verify this. They gave me a ballot. I voted. I found it very unsettling. When they looked me up, I saw they still had my sister in the book of voters. She moved years ago. I thought it was wierd.
I am enrolled at a small college in Maryland. I was utterly depressed by the amount of students who did not vote.
The only thing that depressed me more was reading quotes in the school newspaper where people talked about who they were going to vote for and why. None of them had ANY idea about how that candidate stood on ANY issues. I am embarassed to simply be a part of the age group I am.
Why is it that young people don't vote? Im 20, and due to some kind of screw up with my absentee ballot, I drove 6 hours round trip today to vote, and managed to get back to attend classes.
The only positive thing I noticed was that a high percentage of computer science students I know voted. Why is this? Can anyone explain it to me?
I used to live near the Pumpkin Chunkin, now in school. I had planned to take a bunch of people back home for it. Someone told me that this year it was cancelled because they couldnt do it at the airport anymore....So any information about when/where or if it is still going on this year would be a big help! thanks!