A nation hell bent on suppressing free speech (China) embracing an operating system thats underlying belief structure is pure free speech. What next? Microsoft using the BSD TCP/IP stack? Oh... wait...;-)
I seriously doubt the internet has 6.5 times the number of users it had a year ago. In fact, the UCLA report mentioned on Slashdot yesterday shows that internet usage by Americans grew by 66.9%.
Assuming the rest of the world's internet growth mirrors that of the U.S. (which I assure you it hasn't), the amount of spam being sent is growing 10x faster than the number of new users coming online.
Funny. I submitted this story and had it rejected. I never thought VA might be involved with the unveiling process. I understand/. has a fairly broad range with what they publish but maybe CmdrTaco knows what's going to be revealed and doesn't want to let anything slip.;-)
My university apparently decided to block access to FastTrak clients.
A quick tip for others afflicted with the same problem, find a program called Proxy Hunter and scan other.edu's for unsecured proxies. That's how I get on now. I know that makes me an asshole but a) I want my MP3s, dammit and b) it's partly the fault of whoever is silly enough to leave an open proxy server sitting on their network.
Of course it is! I can't count the number of times I've wanted to shoot a manager after being stuck in meetings all day. I also can't count the number of times I've wanted to go and shoot the idiot at Sun who invented Java. The list goes on and on.
Paintball is naturally geeky. It's just like Quake but *gasp* outdoors. For many geeks it's one of the only outdoor/sport activities they take part in.
It was a dark and gloomy night in a freshman dorm. I had gone to bed "early" that night (somewhere around 2am) while my roommate stayed up toiling through the eve'. I was awoken to the most shrill, womanly scream I have ever heard from another man as my roommate threw himself out of his chair and onto the pizza box covered floor.
Apparently while playing Doom II, a "scary monster jumped out of nowhere at [him] and went BLAAAH BLAAAH and started shooting fireballs" (accompanied by amusing bodily motions). We still make fun of his womanly scream to this day. (Sorry Mike, I couldn't resist!!!)
I'd be curious to know how he got the plexiglass to stick... I wanted to build a plexiglass enclosure once but the man at HomeDepot looked at me like I had 4 heads when I told him that I needed plexiglass so small and that I'd need to bond it together.
He told me it'd cost a fortune because 1) I would need a plexiglass cutting tool (they wouldn't cut plexiglass as small as I wanted it) and 2) there is only one kind of glue to bond plexiglass and it's very expensive and they don't carry it. Granted this is coming from some random HomeDepot employee who I don't know from god. Is what he said true?
Although I would have no problem if ATI spent time optimizing for many games, ATI obviously knows that many benchmarks are based upon the Quake3 engine. They're trying to score higher on those benchmarks to appeal to more people.
Another important question to ask would be "How does this impact other performance in other games?" Are people getting fewer FPS in Unreal because of these optimizations?
Instead of saying "put me on your do-not-call list" first. Try listening to about 30 seconds of their jibber jabber then interrupt and say "hmmm, interesting... I might be more interested if you talk dirty."
Now, I've only got a lot of really disgusted female telemarketers and some really confused male ones but one of my roommates claims a Bell South telemarketer actually did talk dirty to him. badly.
If nothing else, it's really quite satisfying to have THEM hang up on your for once!
On the other hand Mac users are spoiled... what Windows OS comes with CD burning and DVD playback out of the box? Or even CD ripping and mp3 encoding, movie making, DVD burning software, and web server software out of the box? Windows users have to settle for Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer, on the average...
Standard Disclaimer: I REALLY hate Microsoft but...
In all fairness to Microsoft, if they were to include CD burning capabilites and DVD playback (although that may not be as hot of an issue as CD burning), the DoJ would be on them quicker than Jon Katz on a box of Krispy Kremes.
Besides, if you were a Windows user, would you want MS trying to tell you what kinds of data you can and can't copy from your local disk to a CD in the name of copyright protection? I certainly wouldn't... but then again, that's just me.
Well, I'm not a MS fan to say the least but I didn't see anything in the EULA saying what I could or could not publish using FP2002. To top it off, apparently Slashdot REALLY doesn't like MS EULAs... every time I tried to post it here I get: Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! so I've put the EULA up at http://www.perplexion.org/fp2002eula.htm complete with MS's stylesheets so it looks just as it does in Frontpage's help.
You're missing the point!!! They're all terrorists! If we bomb the hell out of Osama Bin Laden's camps and he isn't responsible, is that wrong?
NO!!
Why? Because he already has ordered the deaths of Americans in other circumstance (e.g. the embassies in Africa and possibly the U.S.S. Cole, to name two examples) and he is probably training men as we speak to do it again. This man is a murderer. Why does ANYONE see anything wrong with making him pay for the things he's done?
I would think you could argue sucessfully that you were covered under the good samaritan law (what is it? go here: What is the good samaritan law?). It is basically the law that says it's ok for you to break into a burning building to help people inside. It also protects you if, for example, you're trying to help an injured person and inadvertantly cause them more harm. Food for thought.
The problem isn't the supply and demand... it's the fact that all of a sudden, http servers running on ZX80's are going to be gettin 50,000 hits an hour! Poor old things, leave them alone!!!
You must not submit stories very often... it's not the admins but the people who submit the stories who insert the links. If you're going to yell at anyone, yell at the person who submitted the story. -- Dave
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A nation hell bent on suppressing free speech (China) embracing an operating system thats underlying belief structure is pure free speech. What next? Microsoft using the BSD TCP/IP stack? Oh... wait... ;-)
I seriously doubt the internet has 6.5 times the number of users it had a year ago. In fact, the UCLA report mentioned on Slashdot yesterday shows that internet usage by Americans grew by 66.9%.
Assuming the rest of the world's internet growth mirrors that of the U.S. (which I assure you it hasn't), the amount of spam being sent is growing 10x faster than the number of new users coming online.
I bet I could hack one of these things to make it go 50mph instead of 18mph!!
Funny. I submitted this story and had it rejected. I never thought VA might be involved with the unveiling process. I understand /. has a fairly broad range with what they publish but maybe CmdrTaco knows what's going to be revealed and doesn't want to let anything slip. ;-)
My university apparently decided to block access to FastTrak clients. A quick tip for others afflicted with the same problem, find a program called Proxy Hunter and scan other .edu's for unsecured proxies. That's how I get on now. I know that makes me an asshole but a) I want my MP3s, dammit and b) it's partly the fault of whoever is silly enough to leave an open proxy server sitting on their network.
This just smacks of irony seeing how the third reich routinely used censorship and "information manipulation" to maintain popular support.
Of course it is! I can't count the number of times I've wanted to shoot a manager after being stuck in meetings all day. I also can't count the number of times I've wanted to go and shoot the idiot at Sun who invented Java. The list goes on and on.
Paintball is naturally geeky. It's just like Quake but *gasp* outdoors. For many geeks it's one of the only outdoor/sport activities they take part in.
It was a dark and gloomy night in a freshman dorm. I had gone to bed "early" that night (somewhere around 2am) while my roommate stayed up toiling through the eve'. I was awoken to the most shrill, womanly scream I have ever heard from another man as my roommate threw himself out of his chair and onto the pizza box covered floor.
Apparently while playing Doom II, a "scary monster jumped out of nowhere at [him] and went BLAAAH BLAAAH and started shooting fireballs" (accompanied by amusing bodily motions). We still make fun of his womanly scream to this day. (Sorry Mike, I couldn't resist!!!)
"What's worse - we were accused of equating Internet piracy with terrorism. We may take Internet piracy seriously, but we're not insane."
Oh, I beg to differ... ;-)
"It's one thing to be criticized for what we do - that's fair game. But to be vilified for what we don't do - that's very disheartening."
Maybe if we vilify them even more, they'll be so disheartened that they'll give up! Wouldn't that be the day?
I'd be curious to know how he got the plexiglass to stick... I wanted to build a plexiglass enclosure once but the man at HomeDepot looked at me like I had 4 heads when I told him that I needed plexiglass so small and that I'd need to bond it together.
He told me it'd cost a fortune because 1) I would need a plexiglass cutting tool (they wouldn't cut plexiglass as small as I wanted it) and 2) there is only one kind of glue to bond plexiglass and it's very expensive and they don't carry it. Granted this is coming from some random HomeDepot employee who I don't know from god. Is what he said true?
Although I would have no problem if ATI spent time optimizing for many games, ATI obviously knows that many benchmarks are based upon the Quake3 engine. They're trying to score higher on those benchmarks to appeal to more people.
Another important question to ask would be "How does this impact other performance in other games?" Are people getting fewer FPS in Unreal because of these optimizations?
Could you imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
Oh... wait... nevermind. ;-)
Instead of saying "put me on your do-not-call list" first. Try listening to about 30 seconds of their jibber jabber then interrupt and say "hmmm, interesting... I might be more interested if you talk dirty."
Now, I've only got a lot of really disgusted female telemarketers and some really confused male ones but one of my roommates claims a Bell South telemarketer actually did talk dirty to him. badly.
If nothing else, it's really quite satisfying to have THEM hang up on your for once!
On the other hand Mac users are spoiled... what Windows OS comes with CD burning and DVD playback out of the box? Or even CD ripping and mp3 encoding, movie making, DVD burning software, and web server software out of the box? Windows users have to settle for Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer, on the average...
Standard Disclaimer: I REALLY hate Microsoft but...
In all fairness to Microsoft, if they were to include CD burning capabilites and DVD playback (although that may not be as hot of an issue as CD burning), the DoJ would be on them quicker than Jon Katz on a box of Krispy Kremes.
Besides, if you were a Windows user, would you want MS trying to tell you what kinds of data you can and can't copy from your local disk to a CD in the name of copyright protection? I certainly wouldn't... but then again, that's just me.
Well, I'm not a MS fan to say the least but I didn't see anything in the EULA saying what I could or could not publish using FP2002. To top it off, apparently Slashdot REALLY doesn't like MS EULAs... every time I tried to post it here I get: Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! so I've put the EULA up at http://www.perplexion.org/fp2002eula.htm complete with MS's stylesheets so it looks just as it does in Frontpage's help.
Wow... brilliant... I can just imagine Microsoft's response to the IIS vulnerabilities.
From [future edition of] MSDN:
"To secure IIS, do the following:
Go to Tools > Options > Security and check the box labeled 'Do not allow connections to this machine'."
You're missing the point!!! They're all terrorists! If we bomb the hell out of Osama Bin Laden's camps and he isn't responsible, is that wrong?
NO!!
Why? Because he already has ordered the deaths of Americans in other circumstance (e.g. the embassies in Africa and possibly the U.S.S. Cole, to name two examples) and he is probably training men as we speak to do it again. This man is a murderer. Why does ANYONE see anything wrong with making him pay for the things he's done?
I would think you could argue sucessfully that you were covered under the good samaritan law (what is it? go here: What is the good samaritan law?). It is basically the law that says it's ok for you to break into a burning building to help people inside. It also protects you if, for example, you're trying to help an injured person and inadvertantly cause them more harm. Food for thought.
The problem isn't the supply and demand... it's the fact that all of a sudden, http servers running on ZX80's are going to be gettin 50,000 hits an hour! Poor old things, leave them alone!!!
You must not submit stories very often... it's not the admins but the people who submit the stories who insert the links. If you're going to yell at anyone, yell at the person who submitted the story. -- Dave
I can't send money or add money to my account due to the following error: Unexpected error: 3004. We are currently experiencing heavy traffic to our site. Your request was not completed. Please hit the refresh button on your browser to try again. We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your patience. If this problem continues please try again at a later time. Please tell me that every other ./ reader has gone to donate $20 to the GAIM defense! Save GAIM!
On a side note, I *am* serious and yes, I did get the joke... just to clear up any confusion. ;-)
Our college paper may soon be moving to Linux. I want us to move to OpenBSD for its increased security. Can anyone give me some ammo other than security to back up my stance?