Well we can laugh about it now (What DOS? my instinct when I read about this was to flip the unsuccessful hax0rs the bird) but my concern is that this could be a test run for something more unpleasant. Maybe to cause a false sense of security, maybe to analyse how those crucial networks cope with DOS attacks so as to be more successful next time. Whether these people were Bin Laden's boys or garden variety hax0rs don't get too comfortable. The worst is yet to come.
I've had two Palms, a iiie (no problems, I sold it recently) and a couple of iiics. The iiic had quality control issues out the wazzo. Between touchscreen issues to creeping case cracks, they pretty much suck in actual use. My current iiic is fine (touch wood) but I don't know if I'd go with Palm again. There are more interesting and durable options, esp if you live in the US of A. With the more recent Palms, the quality control issues seem to have increased (perhaps cost-cutting in manufacture). Its a shame because I remember when the Palm Pro, Palm iii and Palm V were the duck's nuts for durability and usability. I think it's yet another unwritten but widely acknowledged rule... every new thing, no matter how innovative and well-thought out, eventually turns to crap. Restaraunts, movies (through sequels and prequels), technology companies...
My fiance bought me a Leatherman XE6 (alright it was after he busted me looking at it longingly through the plexiglass in King Of Knives). It is smaller than a wave, has every tool going, is on special at Thinkgeek (I think) and the external metal is anodized in a lovely metallic purple. It is the most useful damn tool I have ever owned. The other things you need to give her are ibuprofen, the address of the nearest Planned Parenthood, a Sharpie marker (VERY useful), and a good torch. Also the book called 'When I say no, I feel guilty' so she can confidently knock back those begging college guys.
Not necessarily true. I lasted six months at my first job, and a year (and counting) at my second real gig. Of course if you count my two weeks at WeConsultDodgily and another two weeks in the glorious fast food industry inbetween jobs you probably come out with an *average* more like three months, but if the job isn't an obvious deathtrap it would be unusual for IT folks in Au lasting shorter than that.
This is typical in rurual areas everywhere. $2ndlargest_Au_city, here I come!
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Hehe I bagged a copy of Galax off a Visor with my Palm iiic. Not warez but still nifty. I don't think Palms beam apps that are not freeware, the MMC card might be a loophole.
They should have fed Celine to the damn sharks. Followed by every other medicore torch-singer (there's not much meat on Celine). Phil Collins would be next.
Billions of cells die in your body every day, and are replaced. Not every gamete gets a chance to participate in the creation of Yet Another Human Life. Embryos get miscarried every day.
A clump of cells is about as sacred as any other clump of cells before sentience is involved. If you guys want to jump up and down about something, do something to help the kids who are here, living in poverty or abuse or God knows what, and shouldn't be.
How much does it suck to have your career terminated or suspended due to pregnancy? Now parents can take an equal part in the *creation* and raising of their kids. I don't want to risk my health carrying a child, and I'm sick of women not being taken seriously in their jobs because it's assumed that they'll get knocked up, require matenity leave, and most likely terminate their employment? In this situation, either party can take the time off and care for the children, or split it between them, because it will be a non-issue until the child is actually born.
This is also a necessary step in a world where men can become parents in seconds (and indeed that sometimes is the limit of their involvement). Women can choose to be sterilized, assume full reproductive control, and when they choose to have a child, choose when and in what situation it is concieved.
It could be misused, but so can most technological advances. I like to think of this device ending gender disparity. I don't think vomiting, varicose veins and stretch marks are a necessary condition for femininity:)
Look, where is all this wonderful service that you city folk are supposed to be subsidising? Around here, if you are very lucky, you can get Telstra ADSL. No cable, and in fact most phone lines around here don't reliably support more than V.34. I won't even get into the joy of non-integrated RIMs or the effects on copper phone lines of a hot climate. We in regional areas (I'm in FNQ) get totally overlooked. Everybody might be getting screwed by Telstra but don't make the mistake of thinking you're 'suffering' because we diverted facilities away from you. Not bloody likely.
Aunt Tillie can do anything she wants, as long as the software she's using to do it will automatically back up the current, working kernel with *no prompting* (because you know she'll just click past it if it takes too long, right?), and if the OS has the 'newbie' flag set, it also won't let her do it without a working boot disk. This isn't so much for her, more for the poor person who has to make the computer boot after Tillie's had her way with it.
Newbie flag, you say? I say Linux should have a newbie flag set in the system somewhere (selectable on installation) which is basically linux with training wheels. It provides detailed prompting, hand-holding, and will try to let the user be able to recover from Really Stupid Mistakes.
Applications which support it will also have additional prompting, plus a training mode, perhaps. This adds usuability for newbies and stays out of the way of those of us who vaguely know what we're doing.
Hey, it's a thought.... at the moment, there are no gradations. It's Win9x or WinMe for newbies, and linux for us. If linux had a training mode, wouldn't it be better for both Aunt Tillie and Slashdotters in training?
Actually my point was that the new units will fulfill most (if not all) of the functions of the older units, but they have to innovate to differentiate themselves from Palm, Royal, MSI (yes they have a low-end PDA), and everyone else making organisers. Notice I left out PocketPCs - its not quite the same market.
And what's wrong with geek appeal? We buy the gadgets and recommend technology to our employers, after all.
Handspring are doing something quite smart. The next generation of Handspring units will no doubt still have organiser functions, sync to PC capability, etc etc, and will probably also have add-on hardware, but its a new and very cool niche market that they're after. The pure organisers are dead. I mean, the nifty applications on your Palm are *not* the standard apps, are they?
Palm tried this with the VII series but they got it horribly wrong (tied to one kind of network, webclipping, graffitti sucks as an interface for communication, *only* usuable in the US). Maybe Handspring will get it right.
Say what you want about MacOS, the new imac design is sweet! Of course, by the time you add a pile of plug -in peripherals it won't look half as cool...but if I had money to throw around, I'd buy one. It makes more sense on a cramped desk, in 35 degree (Celsius) heat, than my giant beige AMD behemoth with the extra-toasty 17" monitor.
It would be nice to be able to squeak the whole machine in the space you'd put a vase.
Small is the future for home and office pcs. I love powerful, expandable workstations as much as anybody but they're horribly inefficient in power and in the heat and waste they produce. Bring on the (small, cute) future!
As a girl geek, I'll just point out that there are some geeks who are sweet, but there are a lot of geekboys about who don't know how to treat their women. They're not going to stick around to watch the back of your head, or be impressed by you bragging about your knowledge, guys. Try doing a few of the things your (potential?)gf likes to do (*not* just sex!).
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Its always been preached, and I always believed, that hatred came from ignorance. Cruelty is only possible if you never think of your victims as human beings. From day to day insensitivity, to political propaganda, hatred has depended on ignorance.
Or not. The terrorists knew America. They knew procedures and policies for hijackings. They knew how to fly a commercial airliner. They had classmates who are Americans. They would have to have been in the States a reasonable amount of time, and interacted with Americans every day they were there, up until the final moments when they told their helpless cargo to call their loved ones.
They knew us, they knew how we westerners think. They were not ignorant. They knew there were human beings involved. Yet they were capable of this atrocity anyway.
So much for 'tolerance through education'.
So much of what we all believed is wrong.:( Its only been true of westerners like me who thought these people were too barbaric and ignorant to get under the skin of our society and destroy us.
Evil can't be ended with education. Evil is evil.
A lot of us do this anyway, especially if we have long legs, as its cheaper than buying the more expensive women's brands with longer leg lengths.
Besides, where I keep my gadgets (cherry cargos) was $20 cheaper from the guys section than the girls. They're not out of fashion here yet (Au)!
Ugly green case? Sounds like you have an eMate there. I almost bought one for $1000 Au but couldn't raise the cash. I later bought a Palm iiie to do the things I intended for the eMate.:)
There's no doubt that Newton series were impressive machines at the time, but they were hideously expensive, especially across the pond. If I stumbled across a second hand one around here I'd snap it up, just to see what the fuss is about:).
Why get into these holy wars, Newton vs PocketPC vs Palm? Just buy the one that does what you need it to at the time, at a reasonable price point, and be happy with what you have. If I'd bought the eMate, I'd still be using it. Now I have a Palm iiic. It's just the luck of the draw.
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Well we can laugh about it now (What DOS? my instinct when I read about this was to flip the unsuccessful hax0rs the bird) but my concern is that this could be a test run for something more unpleasant.
Maybe to cause a false sense of security, maybe to analyse how those crucial networks cope with DOS attacks so as to be more successful next time.
Whether these people were Bin Laden's boys or garden variety hax0rs don't get too comfortable. The worst is yet to come.
I've had two Palms, a iiie (no problems, I sold it recently) and a couple of iiics. The iiic had quality control issues out the wazzo. Between touchscreen issues to creeping case cracks, they pretty much suck in actual use. My current iiic is fine (touch wood) but I don't know if I'd go with Palm again.
There are more interesting and durable options, esp if you live in the US of A. With the more recent Palms, the quality control issues seem to have increased (perhaps cost-cutting in manufacture). Its a shame because I remember when the Palm Pro, Palm iii and Palm V were the duck's nuts for durability and usability.
I think it's yet another unwritten but widely acknowledged rule... every new thing, no matter how innovative and well-thought out, eventually turns to crap. Restaraunts, movies (through sequels and prequels), technology companies...
My fiance bought me a Leatherman XE6 (alright it was after he busted me looking at it longingly through the plexiglass in King Of Knives). It is smaller than a wave, has every tool going, is on special at Thinkgeek (I think) and the external metal is anodized in a lovely metallic purple. It is the most useful damn tool I have ever owned. The other things you need to give her are ibuprofen, the address of the nearest Planned Parenthood, a Sharpie marker (VERY useful), and a good torch.
Also the book called 'When I say no, I feel guilty' so she can confidently knock back those begging college guys.
Not necessarily true. I lasted six months at my first job, and a year (and counting) at my second real gig. Of course if you count my two weeks at WeConsultDodgily and another two weeks in the glorious fast food industry inbetween jobs you probably come out with an *average* more like three months, but if the job isn't an obvious deathtrap it would be unusual for IT folks in Au lasting shorter than that.
This is typical in rurual areas everywhere.
$2ndlargest_Au_city, here I come!
Hehe I bagged a copy of Galax off a Visor with my Palm iiic. Not warez but still nifty.
I don't think Palms beam apps that are not freeware, the MMC card might be a loophole.
There wasn't anything left of that computer but a box, from reading the article. It's a very cool mod.
They should have fed Celine to the damn sharks. Followed by every other medicore torch-singer (there's not much meat on Celine). Phil Collins would be next.
*poing poing poing*
There! SEE! One of you Slashdot boys is not single, bitter or miserable. It's possible!!!
Billions of cells die in your body every day, and are replaced. Not every gamete gets a chance to participate in the creation of Yet Another Human Life. Embryos get miscarried every day.
A clump of cells is about as sacred as any other clump of cells before sentience is involved. If you guys want to jump up and down about something, do something to help the kids who are here, living in poverty or abuse or God knows what, and shouldn't be.
How much does it suck to have your career terminated or suspended due to pregnancy? Now parents can take an equal part in the *creation* and raising of their kids. I don't want to risk my health carrying a child, and I'm sick of women not being taken seriously in their jobs because it's assumed that they'll get knocked up, require matenity leave, and most likely terminate their employment? In this situation, either party can take the time off and care for the children, or split it between them, because it will be a non-issue until the child is actually born.
:)
This is also a necessary step in a world where men can become parents in seconds (and indeed that sometimes is the limit of their involvement). Women can choose to be sterilized, assume full reproductive control, and when they choose to have a child, choose when and in what situation it is concieved.
It could be misused, but so can most technological advances. I like to think of this device ending gender disparity. I don't think vomiting, varicose veins and stretch marks are a necessary condition for femininity
Hell yeah!!! In fact...... Dave... are you reading this? ;p
Look, where is all this wonderful service that you city folk are supposed to be subsidising? Around here, if you are very lucky, you can get Telstra ADSL. No cable, and in fact most phone lines around here don't reliably support more than V.34. I won't even get into the joy of non-integrated RIMs or the effects on copper phone lines of a hot climate. We in regional areas (I'm in FNQ) get totally overlooked. Everybody might be getting screwed by Telstra but don't make the mistake of thinking you're 'suffering' because we diverted facilities away from you. Not bloody likely.
Aunt Tillie can do anything she wants, as long as the software she's using to do it will automatically back up the current, working kernel with *no prompting* (because you know she'll just click past it if it takes too long, right?), and if the OS has the 'newbie' flag set, it also won't let her do it without a working boot disk. This isn't so much for her, more for the poor person who has to make the computer boot after Tillie's had her way with it.
Newbie flag, you say? I say Linux should have a newbie flag set in the system somewhere (selectable on installation) which is basically linux with training wheels. It provides detailed prompting, hand-holding, and will try to let the user be able to recover from Really Stupid Mistakes.
Applications which support it will also have additional prompting, plus a training mode, perhaps. This adds usuability for newbies and stays out of the way of those of us who vaguely know what we're doing.
Hey, it's a thought.... at the moment, there are no gradations. It's Win9x or WinMe for newbies, and linux for us. If linux had a training mode, wouldn't it be better for both Aunt Tillie and Slashdotters in training?
Actually my point was that the new units will fulfill most (if not all) of the functions of the older units, but they have to innovate to differentiate themselves from Palm, Royal, MSI (yes they have a low-end PDA), and everyone else making organisers. Notice I left out PocketPCs - its not quite the same market.
And what's wrong with geek appeal? We buy the gadgets and recommend technology to our employers, after all.
Handspring are doing something quite smart. The next generation of Handspring units will no doubt still have organiser functions, sync to PC capability, etc etc, and will probably also have add-on hardware, but its a new and very cool niche market that they're after. The pure organisers are dead. I mean, the nifty applications on your Palm are *not* the standard apps, are they?
Palm tried this with the VII series but they got it horribly wrong (tied to one kind of network, webclipping, graffitti sucks as an interface for communication, *only* usuable in the US). Maybe Handspring will get it right.
Say what you want about MacOS, the new imac design is sweet! Of course, by the time you add a pile of plug -in peripherals it won't look half as cool...but if I had money to throw around, I'd buy one. It makes more sense on a cramped desk, in 35 degree (Celsius) heat, than my giant beige AMD behemoth with the extra-toasty 17" monitor.
It would be nice to be able to squeak the whole machine in the space you'd put a vase.
Small is the future for home and office pcs. I love powerful, expandable workstations as much as anybody but they're horribly inefficient in power and in the heat and waste they produce. Bring on the (small, cute) future!
As a girl geek, I'll just point out that there are some geeks who are sweet, but there are a lot of geekboys about who don't know how to treat their women. They're not going to stick around to watch the back of your head, or be impressed by you bragging about your knowledge, guys. Try doing a few of the things your (potential?)gf likes to do (*not* just sex!).
Its always been preached, and I always believed, that hatred came from ignorance. Cruelty is only possible if you never think of your victims as human beings. From day to day insensitivity, to political propaganda, hatred has depended on ignorance. :( Its only been true of westerners like me who thought these people were too barbaric and ignorant to get under the skin of our society and destroy us.
Or not. The terrorists knew America. They knew procedures and policies for hijackings. They knew how to fly a commercial airliner. They had classmates who are Americans. They would have to have been in the States a reasonable amount of time, and interacted with Americans every day they were there, up until the final moments when they told their helpless cargo to call their loved ones.
They knew us, they knew how we westerners think. They were not ignorant. They knew there were human beings involved. Yet they were capable of this atrocity anyway.
So much for 'tolerance through education'.
So much of what we all believed is wrong.
Evil can't be ended with education. Evil is evil.
Link?
That's amazing.
A lot of us do this anyway, especially if we have long legs, as its cheaper than buying the more expensive women's brands with longer leg lengths. Besides, where I keep my gadgets (cherry cargos) was $20 cheaper from the guys section than the girls. They're not out of fashion here yet (Au)!
Who the hell are you?
Ugly green case? Sounds like you have an eMate there. I almost bought one for $1000 Au but couldn't raise the cash. I later bought a Palm iiie to do the things I intended for the eMate. :)
There's no doubt that Newton series were impressive machines at the time, but they were hideously expensive, especially across the pond. If I stumbled across a second hand one around here I'd snap it up, just to see what the fuss is about :).
Why get into these holy wars, Newton vs PocketPC vs Palm? Just buy the one that does what you need it to at the time, at a reasonable price point, and be happy with what you have. If I'd bought the eMate, I'd still be using it. Now I have a Palm iiic. It's just the luck of the draw.