Additionally there is a moon of Jupiter that has these properties:
S/1999 J 1 (a provisional name) The seventeenth and outermost moon; S/1999 J 1 is the smallest-known moon orbiting a major planet. This moon is 3 miles (5 km) in diameter and has an irregular orbit roughly 15 million miles (24 million km) from Jupiter. It orbits Jupiter in 774 (Earth) days and is in a retrograde orbit (orbiting opposite to the direction of Jupiter). It was discovered by Robert S. McMillan et al (at the Spacewatch program at the University of Arizona ) in 2000.
Actually its from "Hey You" by Pink Floyd and the line goes "together we stand, divided we fall"... not United, together.
But the sentiment is the same and no, it doesn't piss me off. I am a fan of Pink Floyd and their music.
"United we stand, divided we fall" was used by Abraham Lincoln in reference to the Bible quote in Matthew 12:25. 'And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand'.
My point is that we should not look at Kingdom or House in the literal sense.... look at our planet as one house. When you realize that we're all on this mud ball together, then you'll know what I mean.
Today more than ever should be a day where we realize that united we stand, divided we fall.
Not as a nation, not as a religious group, not as a terrorist organization.
Today we need to stand together as human beings.
We all live on this planet together and if we can learn to live together in peace, man to man, woman to woman, country to country, religion to religion, then there is nothing that we can't achieve.
We are one house and a house divided cannot stand.
Lets say I have a computer that is infected with a virus. This virus (say Klez) looks for network shared drives to copy itself to.
I also have a 802.11b network.
Someone has a laptop with a shared network drive with, for some reason (ignorance), full permissions turned on.
Said person logs into my network because they are nearby and their network card finds the network (windows XP does this nicely) and then Klez, running on my machine, finds your network drive and copies itself there as "readme.txt.exe" or something else like that.
Could be more likely than you might want to think. Only involves two stupid people in proximity who have technology they don't understand to have it happen. I can't even swing a dead keyboard* and not hit two idiots with Technology around here.
People get viruses delivered the their computers via email, the net, etc...
What is to stop viruses now becoming "airborne" and people who use an open wireless network unwittingly picking them up or (knowingly or unknowingly) transmitting them into open wireless networks?
Surely most people who wardrive would be smart enough to avoid them through various means... but most people who use computers are fairly clueless about security and virus protection.
Just because Apple spent $60M on their GUI development doesn't mean that they got it right. (Not claiming they got it wrong)
Just because what is out there is working doesn't mean that you shouldn't question it and try to come up with something better.
The best developments come when people challenge the establishment. Those ideas that are good will live and those that are bad will fall over eventually to be replaced by something better. Corporate America does NOT have a monopoly on good ideas. Some of the best ideas come out of the heads of college students, patent clerks, or physics researchers in other countries.
Sometimes all you need to do is lose your shaving bag and invent email to get it back.
... one, be original. Two, give away your best song from one album for free. This will give you exposure.
Assuming that you have more than one good song you will soon find that some people are buying your CD.
You could also try offering a low cost CD that has high quality music and good production. After all, isn't that what everyone wants?
Do not, under any circumstances, accuse your fans of "stealing" from you unless they break into your house to steal your toilet seats or something else like that.
I certainly get tired of "Dim Somevar as sometype" and "sometype somevar" when somebody makes an extremely ambiguous name which doesn't differentiate an array from a scalar or reference variable.
This is why good coding styles arise.
And no, I'm not talking about Hungarian Notation.
I'm talking about variable names that are meaningful and method names that are meaningful. Some people take pride in Obfuscating their code. Me, I take pride in knowing that I can come back to a set of code a year later and still know what it does either by documentation (rarely) or good coding style and good variable names (less rarely:-) ).
Online Communities are not just made up of people who have met online. Sometimes real life friends organize to get together online to enjoy a game together.
I don't know Warsinger or his player. Never met him in real life or in DaoC.
But I find that this gesture is a very nice one, and probably not the only gesture to commemorate this individual's passing. I'm sure his face to face friends met face to face to lay him to rest. His online gaming friends met online to commemorate his passing.
I was forwarded that story by a friend too and nearly posted it. But I also figured that it would have already been a dup or someone else would beat me to the punch so I didn't...
I'm disappointed that the video games banished in Greece didn't make Slashdot yet.
Computer Science at my college required both Assemblers and Introduction to Computer Engineering. We had to build a 4 bit computer out of chips and wires on a breadboard and then demonstrate it working to do math operations. Then we had to program it to do operations that were not wired into it.
Other classes that I took that I would highly recommend to anyone else studying Computer Science. Operating Systems, Compilers, Comparative Languages, Artificial Intelligence.
Sure, Assembly is tough. It is unforgiving and you know what? It is a good thing to learn the proper way to do things. High level languages make it easy for people to program a computer. They also make it easy to program a computer badly.
Program a computer badly in assembly and you generally don't get the desired results.
The CEO of my company was holding a meeting for the whole company and told everyone to turn off their cell phones (salesmen included) because if it rang they'd have to stand in the corner.
Of course someone's did ring and they were made to stand in the corner.
About 6 months later at another company wide meeting. Someone was speaking and a cell phone rings. Turns out it was his the CEO's.
He turned it off and went and stood in the corner.
When I search on a search engine I EXPECT that that data will be sold.
If you want to be truely anonymous, go watch "Conspiracy Theory", "Enemy of the State" and other such films, never go home the same way, never use the same computer twice, never give your real name, live inside a copper shielding cage, etc...
The last place you want to put yourself when you want privacy is in the spotlight of the Internet where...
How about the the protection against illegal search and seizure.
Yes, that keeps the police from walking into your house/searching your car, etc... without probable cause.
How does that apply in this instance? The hotmail account is mine, I signed up for it, I use it for personal reasons.
The fact that I access it electronically is besides the point. Would you want your employer to know what the contents of your bank account are just because you did a little online banking from work? How about the contents of your safe deposit box because you went there during lunch hours? Are they allowed to fire you for the contents of your car while its parked in their parking lot? (Ok, bad example, they probably could if you had explosives or naked pictures of the boss as a windshield sun shade) But how about the trunk?
What if you and some co-workers decide to play some network games after hours?
Companies usually reserve the right to terminate you for inappropriate behavior. Fine, thats their right. But I believe that I do have a right to privacy in this country and any company that intends to read my email had better tell me that they reserve the right to do it. That way at least I can make the choice of wether or not to work there.
"...or you just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git."
Is it just me, or is this very immature speach? It certainly doesn't do anything to make me respect Linus.
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I used to do exactly that.
Then I would go use someone elses computer and be almost completely lost.
Now I try to maintain a computer that is as near vanilla as possible so as to be able to sit down and use a vanilla machine when presented with one without swearing and cursing or hitting the wrong key/expecting a certain macro to work.
Just a different approach to a different problem.
How does the RIAA feel about this?
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Wouldn't a collision with a meteor large enough to wipe out life as we know it steal money from the RIAA?
At the very least I'm pretty sure that melting CDs is not in the RIAA's best interests and is therefor not considered to be a permissable use of the media that you have.
Maybe we should just have the RIAA sue all Asteroids...
Or perhaps they can Denial of Service Attack them so that they can never actually get to the Earth...
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It sure does. The amazing thing about Settlers and other games of its like is that they are cooperative/competitive games where people have to work together to get ahead collectively. But the key is to always come out slightly ahead in the deals.
The first thing you learn in Settlers of Catan is that if you screw over one person then you get screwed over by everyone else in the game and never get anywhere. If you never do equitable trades then you don't ever do any trades because nobody trusts you.
Maybe some of the folks at the RIAA or the MPAA could learn something by playing Settlers of Catan!
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Good for you!
It truely is amazing how much free time you have when you aren't wasting it watching TV.
Me, I would write if I were inspired. Usually I'm inspired to create something physical (you know, build it, bake it etc...) rather than writing. If I had a good subject though I might consider writing a book or two.
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11) Volunteer for something, preferably something involving people you normally wouldn't hang out with. Great socially, lends you credibility when you speak on tech issues, and makes you feel good.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, cool, self cleaning windows.
Best application for these will probably be cars.
Question though, what happens if you get something non-organic on it... like spraypaint?
I would buy a giant LEGO clone of myself
From the Dictionary:
Moon -- a natural satellite of a planet
Additionally there is a moon of Jupiter that has these properties:
S/1999 J 1 (a provisional name)
The seventeenth and outermost moon; S/1999 J 1 is the smallest-known moon orbiting a major planet. This moon is 3 miles (5 km) in diameter and has an irregular orbit roughly 15 million miles (24 million km) from Jupiter. It orbits Jupiter in 774 (Earth) days and is in a retrograde orbit (orbiting opposite to the direction of Jupiter). It was discovered by Robert S. McMillan et al (at the Spacewatch program at the University of Arizona ) in 2000.
Actually its from "Hey You" by Pink Floyd and the line goes "together we stand, divided we fall"... not United, together.
But the sentiment is the same and no, it doesn't piss me off. I am a fan of Pink Floyd and their music.
"United we stand, divided we fall" was used by Abraham Lincoln in reference to the Bible quote in Matthew 12:25. 'And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand'.
My point is that we should not look at Kingdom or House in the literal sense.... look at our planet as one house. When you realize that we're all on this mud ball together, then you'll know what I mean.
United We Stand...
Today more than ever should be a day where we realize that united we stand, divided we fall.
Not as a nation, not as a religious group, not as a terrorist organization.
Today we need to stand together as human beings.
We all live on this planet together and if we can learn to live together in peace, man to man, woman to woman, country to country, religion to religion, then there is nothing that we can't achieve.
We are one house and a house divided cannot stand.
Nice scary theory, but...
Lets say I have a computer that is infected with a virus. This virus (say Klez) looks for network shared drives to copy itself to.
I also have a 802.11b network.
Someone has a laptop with a shared network drive with, for some reason (ignorance), full permissions turned on.
Said person logs into my network because they are nearby and their network card finds the network (windows XP does this nicely) and then Klez, running on my machine, finds your network drive and copies itself there as "readme.txt.exe" or something else like that.
Could be more likely than you might want to think. Only involves two stupid people in proximity who have technology they don't understand to have it happen. I can't even swing a dead keyboard* and not hit two idiots with Technology around here.
(*swinging dead cats is just too hard)
People get viruses delivered the their computers via email, the net, etc...
What is to stop viruses now becoming "airborne" and people who use an open wireless network unwittingly picking them up or (knowingly or unknowingly) transmitting them into open wireless networks?
Surely most people who wardrive would be smart enough to avoid them through various means... but most people who use computers are fairly clueless about security and virus protection.
Any known cases of wifi virus infection?
Money != Success
Oldest != Best
Just because Apple spent $60M on their GUI development doesn't mean that they got it right. (Not claiming they got it wrong)
Just because what is out there is working doesn't mean that you shouldn't question it and try to come up with something better.
The best developments come when people challenge the establishment. Those ideas that are good will live and those that are bad will fall over eventually to be replaced by something better. Corporate America does NOT have a monopoly on good ideas. Some of the best ideas come out of the heads of college students, patent clerks, or physics researchers in other countries.
Sometimes all you need to do is lose your shaving bag and invent email to get it back.
... one, be original. Two, give away your best song from one album for free. This will give you exposure.
Assuming that you have more than one good song you will soon find that some people are buying your CD.
You could also try offering a low cost CD that has high quality music and good production. After all, isn't that what everyone wants?
Do not, under any circumstances, accuse your fans of "stealing" from you unless they break into your house to steal your toilet seats or something else like that.
I certainly get tired of "Dim Somevar as sometype" and "sometype somevar" when somebody makes an extremely ambiguous name which doesn't differentiate an array from a scalar or reference variable.
:-) ).
This is why good coding styles arise.
And no, I'm not talking about Hungarian Notation.
I'm talking about variable names that are meaningful and method names that are meaningful. Some people take pride in Obfuscating their code. Me, I take pride in knowing that I can come back to a set of code a year later and still know what it does either by documentation (rarely) or good coding style and good variable names (less rarely
Online Communities are not just made up of people who have met online. Sometimes real life friends organize to get together online to enjoy a game together.
I don't know Warsinger or his player. Never met him in real life or in DaoC.
But I find that this gesture is a very nice one, and probably not the only gesture to commemorate this individual's passing. I'm sure his face to face friends met face to face to lay him to rest. His online gaming friends met online to commemorate his passing.
This is no weirder than running a marathon to remember someone who ran marathon's or launching Gene Roddenberry's ashes into space.
If you know someone in a certain context you tend to want to memorialize them in that context.
Rest in Peace
The sick thing is that when I read the last line "HA HA HA HA" above I only read "HA HA"...
I need a life...
I was forwarded that story by a friend too and nearly posted it. But I also figured that it would have already been a dup or someone else would beat me to the punch so I didn't...
I'm disappointed that the video games banished in Greece didn't make Slashdot yet.
Computer Science at my college required both Assemblers and Introduction to Computer Engineering. We had to build a 4 bit computer out of chips and wires on a breadboard and then demonstrate it working to do math operations. Then we had to program it to do operations that were not wired into it.
Other classes that I took that I would highly recommend to anyone else studying Computer Science. Operating Systems, Compilers, Comparative Languages, Artificial Intelligence.
Sure, Assembly is tough. It is unforgiving and you know what? It is a good thing to learn the proper way to do things. High level languages make it easy for people to program a computer. They also make it easy to program a computer badly.
Program a computer badly in assembly and you generally don't get the desired results.
The CEO of my company was holding a meeting for the whole company and told everyone to turn off their cell phones (salesmen included) because if it rang they'd have to stand in the corner.
Of course someone's did ring and they were made to stand in the corner.
About 6 months later at another company wide meeting. Someone was speaking and a cell phone rings. Turns out it was his the CEO's.
He turned it off and went and stood in the corner.
Damn... he is smoking his own ego fumes isn't he.
When I search on a search engine I EXPECT that that data will be sold.
If you want to be truely anonymous, go watch "Conspiracy Theory", "Enemy of the State" and other such films, never go home the same way, never use the same computer twice, never give your real name, live inside a copper shielding cage, etc...
The last place you want to put yourself when you want privacy is in the spotlight of the Internet where...
"all your base are belong to us."
How about the the protection against illegal search and seizure.
Yes, that keeps the police from walking into your house/searching your car, etc... without probable cause.
How does that apply in this instance? The hotmail account is mine, I signed up for it, I use it for personal reasons.
The fact that I access it electronically is besides the point. Would you want your employer to know what the contents of your bank account are just because you did a little online banking from work? How about the contents of your safe deposit box because you went there during lunch hours? Are they allowed to fire you for the contents of your car while its parked in their parking lot? (Ok, bad example, they probably could if you had explosives or naked pictures of the boss as a windshield sun shade) But how about the trunk?
What if you and some co-workers decide to play some network games after hours?
Companies usually reserve the right to terminate you for inappropriate behavior. Fine, thats their right. But I believe that I do have a right to privacy in this country and any company that intends to read my email had better tell me that they reserve the right to do it. That way at least I can make the choice of wether or not to work there.
Amen Bruce, Amen.
Of course notice how we get flamed just because we disagree with the "master".
You are absolutely correct AND you have the guts to post not anonymously.
"...or you just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git."
Is it just me, or is this very immature speach? It certainly doesn't do anything to make me respect Linus.
I used to do exactly that.
Then I would go use someone elses computer and be almost completely lost.
Now I try to maintain a computer that is as near vanilla as possible so as to be able to sit down and use a vanilla machine when presented with one without swearing and cursing or hitting the wrong key/expecting a certain macro to work.
Just a different approach to a different problem.
Wouldn't a collision with a meteor large enough to wipe out life as we know it steal money from the RIAA?
At the very least I'm pretty sure that melting CDs is not in the RIAA's best interests and is therefor not considered to be a permissable use of the media that you have.
Maybe we should just have the RIAA sue all Asteroids...
Or perhaps they can Denial of Service Attack them so that they can never actually get to the Earth...
</sarcasm>
It sure does. The amazing thing about Settlers and other games of its like is that they are cooperative/competitive games where people have to work together to get ahead collectively. But the key is to always come out slightly ahead in the deals.
The first thing you learn in Settlers of Catan is that if you screw over one person then you get screwed over by everyone else in the game and never get anywhere. If you never do equitable trades then you don't ever do any trades because nobody trusts you.
Maybe some of the folks at the RIAA or the MPAA could learn something by playing Settlers of Catan!
Good for you!
It truely is amazing how much free time you have when you aren't wasting it watching TV.
Me, I would write if I were inspired. Usually I'm inspired to create something physical (you know, build it, bake it etc...) rather than writing. If I had a good subject though I might consider writing a book or two.
11) Volunteer for something, preferably something involving people you normally wouldn't hang out with. Great socially, lends you credibility when you speak on tech issues, and makes you feel good.
Great addition to the list!