"The pending Iraqi war promises to deliver quite the display of modern, smart technology well beyond what we saw in '91."... "the US will use soldiers in office chairs to disrupt Iraqi infrastructure."
Will give a great footage on CNN
I pictured three or four soldiers on high-backed leather office chairs with castors. And they're in the middle of a road, in Iraq, forming a road block.
No, they're not. They're necessary purchases if the US is going to have an effective military.
If I may say so, America's military isn't exactly weak at the moment.
There aren't many countries that have more or better weapons than America. Assuming we don't plan war with, say, the entire of Europe, I'd say we're pretty well stocked.
After about 2 weeks of what the average person goes through, we'd see stronger anti-spam legislation/penalties.
Unfortunately, the UK government's laws wouldn't affect the united states (where most of my spam comes from), or china, or any of the other big spamming countries.
I doubt spammers would be extradited, so apart from stopping them entering the country, there's not much that a law would do.
Admit it, Sun: your best bet for survival against the Microsoft Juggernaut is not just to pay lip service to Open Source. It is to be truly open.
If I was sun, my concern would be that closed source has worked fine up until now... but there aren't many examples of highly succesful Linux companies.
Is there any proof that open source works, as a company model?
this time, the cache contains information pertaining to "national security" (that great new buzzword). I wonder, what will happen? Will these URLs be silently deleted from the cache?
I'm guessing they'll follow the clear, easy-to-use instructions here, and hide/edit/erase the page on thier servers, then use this tool to get the googlebot to spider the page again, overwriting the current cached copy.
That would seem the sensible option to me, anyway.
reverting back to the original copyright term of 14 years, renewable once.
Just remind me... what is the problem with long copright terms? It's not like there are hundreds of shakespear-grade works out there that are covered by copyright.
We won't be able to legally exchange free copies of Britney Spears for many years... do I care? Not really. I doubt anyone will remember her in that time.
what really got me where the two most important features someone could ever want in a Web Browser - it can play dvd's [it incorporates ever media player!], and also has a handy animated assisant called Pheobe.
If it's on Windows, he could have just called in external components, like Microsoft Agent. And there are loads of media players that can embed in other programs.
in my honest experience, females (especially younger ones) seem more influenced by social pressures 'n wut-not than guys are.
Guys are too, just in different areas. I know I NEVER considered studying and becoming a professional ballet dancer. The thought never even entered my mind.
I never really considered any emasculating fields of work, like dancing. And I don't expect many girls look into masculing fields like engineering, CS etc.
In other words, a writer and a magazine who made themselves by proclaiming that the only worthwhile use of your life is starting a dot-com, going public and keeping your stock price elevated until the lockup period ends and you can bail out are now embracing "money won't make you happy".
One could easily interpret the article snippet you offered as meaning 'Risking taking speed while working will make you happy'.
Clit source - The source code for clit and associated library. This should compile cleanly on linux and BSD, and should be easily portable. The source code is released under the GPL.
If you're in a city you don't know, your phone is still right in your pocket; you can find it instantly, and without a long walk etc.
Costs take care of themselves (in the UK, we can pre-pay for our calls, and with no monthly fees), so you don't have to piss around with a pocket full of change.
If you're up to no good, you can use an unregistered* prepaid mobile phone from the comfort of your own home.
Recieving calls on a mobile phone is easy. Particularly because where ever you are, you still have the same number.
Pre-paid phones are availiable with no long-term commitments, or credit checks.
You can call emergency services without leaving the site of an accident, and the dispatcher can ask you questions which you can check and stuff.
You won't get to your mobile phone and find it's been vandalised.
If you have a problem with your mobile, you can borrow someone else's... they're usually pretty good about it.
Mobile phones can be digital, meaning they don't suffer from static.
You can get mobile phone calls while you are using your wired phone line (Useful if broadband is unavailiable where you live, as is the case with me).
If you're meeting someone, or picking them up, you can call them when you arrive, from the comfort of you car.
You can send 'text messages' - short phone-to-phone messages - so you don't have to make a full call.
I could go on and on... I quite like my mobile phone.
Michael
*you can buy the phone in a shop, and get it activated without giving an address
Can someone from the UK answer this please? Is it the people or just the government that is so opposed to doing anything that involves the European Union?
Well, to many britons, the european parliment seems obscure and far away. People don't pay much attention in EU elections, often don't know who thier representatives in the european parliment are, etc. As such, people feel disconnected from the political process.
It is rare for people to hear about the european parliment making exciting, good, beneficial decisions; there are often stories about people being arrested for not using metric measures, and other buracratic rulings. Furthermore, quite often when important legal decisions are made by top courts, there is a european court that overturns the decision.
Reasons for going into Europe are typically complicated economic reasons, like no currency fluxuations helping buisness trading within europe, and suchlike. These issues are complicated and hard to understand. It is easy, on the other hand, to talk about how "there'll always be an england"; jingoistic flag-waving is easy, while teaching a population about economics is not.
So, to summarise, people feel independance stands for:
Tradition
Election system that people understand
While people feel integration with europe stands for:
Unelected buracracy
Our elected representatives being over-ruled
Ending up getting dragged into a european super-state
I wonder what network visualization tools they're using? It'd be interesting to see what visualization tools are compelling enough to use in a spectator sport.
According to the (not very impressive) website, they're using HackerPacket 1.0.
Description: HackerPacket is a tcpdump utility inspired by "The Gibson"
Features: Uses Winpcap for packet trapping New Towers spring up on new host connections Packets are designated by particles coming from the buildings. Raw incoming packet information is displayed on the towers, along with IP address w,s,a,d to move and e to lock the camera.
So apparently it will literally include animations like in the movie 'Hackers.'
My main question would be: How are they going to make this interesting?
I mean, computer security usually means good network structure, strong passwords, turning off services that aren't required, and keeping up to date with patches. And they almost certainly won't allow rewiring (i.e. firewall installation).
And the red team institutes a password requiring passwords to be 18 charachters long, and not found in any dictionary! The crowd goes wild!
Oh, and the blue team schedules an automatic twice daily apt-get of all updates! Surely the red team are done for?!
But no, the Red team have found a finger daemon they missed, and deactivated it! This is turning into a very close contest!...
It makes me wonder what the poster thinks a weblog is... because by most definitions, Slashdot is one.
If I may say so, that's rather like saying "The world is basically a giant grain of sand, only larger".
Also, a lot of weblogs are one person documenting thier own lives... which are frequently trivially boring to people who don't know the authors. There ain't much of that on slashdot.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
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Hey,
Remember -- when you double the complexity of something you reduce its reliabilty by more than an equivalent amount.
Modern jumbo jets are much, much more complicated than the Wright Brothers' first plane, but arguably much safer and more reliable.
Would you, as a presumably anti-gun person, be willing to put a sign in your front yard "This house is gun free!" ?
Y'know what would be damn funny? To buy a house, put up a sign like that, then rig it with mechanical metal jaws beneath the windows, circular cutting disks that pop up from the floor, gigantic catapaults that fling criminals hundreds of feet in the air, etc.
I can just imagine a criminal entering the house, then a snap, a crash of metal, a scream, and a body flying out and landing hundreds of meters away.
Well, I think the law's opinion is that the burglar took some stuff, while the farmer killed someone.
If he had been victimised before, he could have got better locks, or a security camera. The criminals could have been caught by the police and convicted, and his property could have been replaced by insurance.
He, however, decided to wait up with a shotgun, after boasting to friends that he planned to kill burglers, and shoot one of them in the back.
Amazon's web-bots are looking for outdated links to books that don't exist, etc.
Wouldn't a better solution be to modify the software at amazon.com, so that every time there was a book not found/out of date error, it logged the refering affiliate and HTTP_REFERER request header?
I can't see why they would need bots and suchlike for such a simple procedure...
If you live in a city for instance, there are many who pass within a few yards of you each day who could give you a blow job, hand job, or kick in the jimmy (the fun way).
-- Find yer sex remotely [tilegarden.com]
I hope you've patented the concept of finding your sex remotely; there could be some royalties there.
Slashdot without sensationalism would be like chocolate-chip cookies without mustard and lead shot.
If we let them take away our freedom to be sensationalist, it's a slippery slope which ends in a fascist state of indentured servitude to corperations!
Before you know it, we won't be able to criticise windows ME about Windows 95's instability, and people will start denying that Linux is the best OS for all platforms, from embedded devices to supercomputers! People might even suggest that linux has some minor imperfections!
"He who would give up vital liberty for a little temporary accuracy will get and deserve nothing" -- Benjamun Franklin.
You can take me sensationalism when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!
Slashdot Mirror
"The pending Iraqi war promises to deliver quite the display of modern, smart technology well beyond what we saw in '91." ... "the US will use soldiers in office chairs to disrupt Iraqi infrastructure."
Will give a great footage on CNN
I pictured three or four soldiers on high-backed leather office chairs with castors. And they're in the middle of a road, in Iraq, forming a road block.
THAT would be a funny image.
Michael
Hey,
No, they're not. They're necessary purchases if the US is going to have an effective military.
If I may say so, America's military isn't exactly weak at the moment.
There aren't many countries that have more or better weapons than America. Assuming we don't plan war with, say, the entire of Europe, I'd say we're pretty well stocked.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
windows leaves all kinds of shit all over your system
Would a house without Windows not be a prison?
Michael
Hey,
After about 2 weeks of what the average person goes through, we'd see stronger anti-spam legislation/penalties.
Unfortunately, the UK government's laws wouldn't affect the united states (where most of my spam comes from), or china, or any of the other big spamming countries.
I doubt spammers would be extradited, so apart from stopping them entering the country, there's not much that a law would do.
Michael
Hey,
Admit it, Sun: your best bet for survival against the Microsoft Juggernaut is not just to pay lip service to Open Source. It is to be truly open.
If I was sun, my concern would be that closed source has worked fine up until now... but there aren't many examples of highly succesful Linux companies.
Is there any proof that open source works, as a company model?
Michael
Hey,
this time, the cache contains information pertaining to "national security" (that great new buzzword). I wonder, what will happen? Will these URLs be silently deleted from the cache?
I'm guessing they'll follow the clear, easy-to-use instructions here, and hide/edit/erase the page on thier servers, then use this tool to get the googlebot to spider the page again, overwriting the current cached copy.
That would seem the sensible option to me, anyway.
Michael
Hey,
reverting back to the original copyright term of 14 years, renewable once.
Just remind me... what is the problem with long copright terms? It's not like there are hundreds of shakespear-grade works out there that are covered by copyright.
We won't be able to legally exchange free copies of Britney Spears for many years... do I care? Not really. I doubt anyone will remember her in that time.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
never can have enough screws
You got that right.
Michael
Hey,
what really got me where the two most important features someone could ever want in a Web Browser - it can play dvd's [it incorporates ever media player!], and also has a handy animated assisant called Pheobe.
If it's on Windows, he could have just called in external components, like Microsoft Agent. And there are loads of media players that can embed in other programs.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
in my honest experience, females (especially younger ones) seem more influenced by social pressures 'n wut-not than guys are.
Guys are too, just in different areas. I know I NEVER considered studying and becoming a professional ballet dancer. The thought never even entered my mind.
I never really considered any emasculating fields of work, like dancing. And I don't expect many girls look into masculing fields like engineering, CS etc.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
trust me, nothing in work can compare to the satisfaction to be gained from raising your own kid
So, you don't have a teenager yet?
(TWAJS)
Michael
Hey,
In other words, a writer and a magazine who made themselves by proclaiming that the only worthwhile use of your life is starting a dot-com, going public and keeping your stock price elevated until the lockup period ends and you can bail out are now embracing "money won't make you happy".
One could easily interpret the article snippet you offered as meaning 'Risking taking speed while working will make you happy'.
That's how I'm interpreting it, anyway.
Cheers,
Michael
Hey,
I doubt that the source code has been made available to "Dan Jackson".
Unless one goes to the webpage of Dan Jackson Software and download:
Clit source - The source code for clit and associated library. This should compile cleanly on linux and BSD, and should be easily portable. The source code is released under the GPL.
Michael
Hey,
Reasons mobile phones are better than pay phones:
If you're in a city you don't know, your phone is still right in your pocket; you can find it instantly, and without a long walk etc.
Costs take care of themselves (in the UK, we can pre-pay for our calls, and with no monthly fees), so you don't have to piss around with a pocket full of change.
If you're up to no good, you can use an unregistered* prepaid mobile phone from the comfort of your own home.
Recieving calls on a mobile phone is easy. Particularly because where ever you are, you still have the same number.
Pre-paid phones are availiable with no long-term commitments, or credit checks.
You can call emergency services without leaving the site of an accident, and the dispatcher can ask you questions which you can check and stuff.
You won't get to your mobile phone and find it's been vandalised.
If you have a problem with your mobile, you can borrow someone else's... they're usually pretty good about it.
Mobile phones can be digital, meaning they don't suffer from static.
You can get mobile phone calls while you are using your wired phone line (Useful if broadband is unavailiable where you live, as is the case with me).
If you're meeting someone, or picking them up, you can call them when you arrive, from the comfort of you car.
You can send 'text messages' - short phone-to-phone messages - so you don't have to make a full call.
I could go on and on... I quite like my mobile phone.
Michael
*you can buy the phone in a shop, and get it activated without giving an address
Can someone from the UK answer this please? Is it the people or just the government that is so opposed to doing anything that involves the European Union?
Well, to many britons, the european parliment seems obscure and far away. People don't pay much attention in EU elections, often don't know who thier representatives in the european parliment are, etc. As such, people feel disconnected from the political process.
It is rare for people to hear about the european parliment making exciting, good, beneficial decisions; there are often stories about people being arrested for not using metric measures, and other buracratic rulings. Furthermore, quite often when important legal decisions are made by top courts, there is a european court that overturns the decision.
Reasons for going into Europe are typically complicated economic reasons, like no currency fluxuations helping buisness trading within europe, and suchlike. These issues are complicated and hard to understand. It is easy, on the other hand, to talk about how "there'll always be an england"; jingoistic flag-waving is easy, while teaching a population about economics is not.
So, to summarise, people feel independance stands for:
While people feel integration with europe stands for:
That's my take on it, anyway.
Michael
Hey,
I wonder what network visualization tools they're using? It'd be interesting to see what visualization tools are compelling enough to use in a spectator sport.
According to the (not very impressive) website, they're using HackerPacket 1.0.
Description:
HackerPacket is a tcpdump utility inspired by "The Gibson"
Features:
Uses Winpcap for packet trapping
New Towers spring up on new host connections
Packets are designated by particles coming from the buildings.
Raw incoming packet information is displayed on the towers, along with IP address
w,s,a,d to move and e to lock the camera.
So apparently it will literally include animations like in the movie 'Hackers.'
Michael
Hey,
My main question would be: How are they going to make this interesting?
I mean, computer security usually means good network structure, strong passwords, turning off services that aren't required, and keeping up to date with patches. And they almost certainly won't allow rewiring (i.e. firewall installation).
And the red team institutes a password requiring passwords to be 18 charachters long, and not found in any dictionary! The crowd goes wild!
Oh, and the blue team schedules an automatic twice daily apt-get of all updates! Surely the red team are done for?!
But no, the Red team have found a finger daemon they missed, and deactivated it! This is turning into a very close contest!...
Of course, the website talks about support by models from Hot-Tool Fashion Crew. So it could be good.
But it'll be hard.
Michael
Hey,
It makes me wonder what the poster thinks a weblog is... because by most definitions, Slashdot is one.
If I may say so, that's rather like saying "The world is basically a giant grain of sand, only larger".
Also, a lot of weblogs are one person documenting thier own lives... which are frequently trivially boring to people who don't know the authors. There ain't much of that on slashdot.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
Remember -- when you double the complexity of something you reduce its reliabilty by more than an equivalent amount.
Modern jumbo jets are much, much more complicated than the Wright Brothers' first plane, but arguably much safer and more reliable.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
Would you, as a presumably anti-gun person, be willing to put a sign in your front yard "This house is gun free!" ?
Y'know what would be damn funny? To buy a house, put up a sign like that, then rig it with mechanical metal jaws beneath the windows, circular cutting disks that pop up from the floor, gigantic catapaults that fling criminals hundreds of feet in the air, etc.
I can just imagine a criminal entering the house, then a snap, a crash of metal, a scream, and a body flying out and landing hundreds of meters away.
So yeah, I would.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
The burglar got out of jail before the farmer.
Well, I think the law's opinion is that the burglar took some stuff, while the farmer killed someone.
If he had been victimised before, he could have got better locks, or a security camera. The criminals could have been caught by the police and convicted, and his property could have been replaced by insurance.
He, however, decided to wait up with a shotgun, after boasting to friends that he planned to kill burglers, and shoot one of them in the back.
That's one possible point of view, anyway.
Michael
Hey,
Amazon's web-bots are looking for outdated links to books that don't exist, etc.
Wouldn't a better solution be to modify the software at amazon.com, so that every time there was a book not found/out of date error, it logged the refering affiliate and HTTP_REFERER request header?
I can't see why they would need bots and suchlike for such a simple procedure...
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
If you live in a city for instance, there are many who pass within a few yards of you each day who could give you a blow job, hand job, or kick in the jimmy (the fun way).
--
Find yer sex remotely [tilegarden.com]
I hope you've patented the concept of finding your sex remotely; there could be some royalties there.
Michael
Hey,
/.
sensationalist news-reporting has to go stop on
Slashdot without sensationalism would be like chocolate-chip cookies without mustard and lead shot.
If we let them take away our freedom to be sensationalist, it's a slippery slope which ends in a fascist state of indentured servitude to corperations!
Before you know it, we won't be able to criticise windows ME about Windows 95's instability, and people will start denying that Linux is the best OS for all platforms, from embedded devices to supercomputers! People might even suggest that linux has some minor imperfections!
"He who would give up vital liberty for a little temporary accuracy will get and deserve nothing" -- Benjamun Franklin.
You can take me sensationalism when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!
Michael
Hey,
Don't developers know how to program in an embedded space any more?
I may be asking a silly question, but why would they want to?
Cheers,
Michael