It's a shame, because I'm pretty sure that ceaseless, unrelenting, brutal torture of known spammers would be equally effective, but is unfortunately illegal. -- --- evil adrian
You call yourself evil? You couldn't evil your way out of a paper bag. You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil.You're the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie, not evil enough.
It takes little effort to realize that Numenor, from which the race of kings from which Aragorn is descended comes, is the Isle of Britain and that Eressea, the final stop before the Undying Lands, is Ireland.
Tolkien repeatedly stated that he did not intend his story to be represetative of anything. Isn't it possible that you're reading too much into it?
One could say that the Harry Potter series is about how if you want to succeed in life, you need the right parents, connections in the establishment, and natural sporting ability. But this would be, well, silly.
It's easy to 'read in' undertones that aren't there. Sometimes it's better to enjoy a book as nothing more than fiction.
You wouldn't have to unload your shopping trolley at the supermarket. You'd just have to roll it through a gateway, and it could automatically scan in all your goods.
In the UK, there are a few main providers, who have a communal database of stolen phones' IMEI numbers (Individual serial numbers). They can be automatically banned.
This could be a help if you had one in a climate where you needed to make sure something you posted on the web, for example, would be far more difficult to trace.
Or you could put it on a floppy and post it from a cybercafe. Unless it was more than a 1.44Mb, in which case it would cost a bloody fortune with the amount most providers charge for data services.
Thieves simply cut a chunk out of the wheel and remove the club.
That tends to hurt the resale value a bit.
Over here in the UK, we have a product called 'Disclock' (or something) which is a big hardened steel disk, which completely covers your steering wheel, locking all around it.
My uncle put one on his hours-old new car... then found he'd given in the keys when he part-exchanged his old car. It took well over an hour to hacksaw it off.
If my provider is giving me 1.5Mb/down, and 256kb up (burstable), then it shouldn't matter if I'm using it all day or not.
The problem is they don't sell you all the bandwidth; they have a comtention ratio of (say) 40:1. They buy a 1.5Mbps backbone linkup, and let you use at for 1/40th of the time. You get the (non-sustained) speed of a 1.5Mbps backbone linkup, for 1/40th the cost (plus a little profit). This provides what most consumers want: Fast, small transfers, and occasional fast large transfers.
If all the users run P2P clients, they will either face a 40x increase in costs, or each user will get 1/40th of the speed.
Ultimately, if you want a 24/7 1.5Mbps backbone linkup, you have to pay the whole cost, which is HUGE (or at least, it is in my country).
Too many people running P2P constantly create a 'tragedy of the commons' situation, where normal users get bad performance. If the ISP wants to discourage people from doing this, that is entirely within thier rights.
it's glaringly obvious that UK Brits are systematically ripped off on everything
Yeah, but the UK government levies special taxes on Petrol, Cigarettes and Beer. Taxes are, somewhat obviously, not the fault of buisnesses.
To give an objective impression, you would have to take a broad cross-section of different goods, subtract tax from thier prices, and then divide by median national income.
That would give a real impression of the price of goods.
anyone's who's been awake in the past 2-3 years knows that W2K is incredibly stable.
D4C5CE writes "Slashdot's ceaseless "success" in bringing bias, rumour and unfounded criticism as well as a deplorable lack of spelling skills to almost Every Desktop on Earth has now earned them an "Oscar" for Data Leeches, the Lifetime Award for "outstanding mis-achievement" from the BigBrotherAwards 2002 in Germany. Slashdot's CowboyNeal actually attended the ceremony to collect the prize (probably delighted that there was free food availiable), and this unlucky winner took the opportunity to make some critical remarks on the site's communications regarding the Windows Media Player and Digital Rights (or, euphemistically, in his words: Restrictions) Management technologies which he deemed a terrible infringement on his right to pirate music, rather than bothering to learn anything about the technology, acknowledging that it's in fact not just one article but the editing body itself which is fundamentally flawed."
these two static images sit at the bottom "provided by COSM" and a bad "Folding@home" graphic. They look ugly
On the Windows version you can switch them off. On the 'preferences' window, 'advanced' tab, under 'graphics' there's a checkbox labeled 'logos enabled'. Deselect it and have no logos.
Personally, I don't use the screensaver, though. I power down my screen. But that's just me.
Don't know if the no logo option is there on the mac version, but it can'r hurt to look.
Given that they treated reusable media with such discontempt
I think you mean contempt.
It's quite comment at computer fairs to get offers of 50 floppies for $5 and suchlike. Wen you get them home, you find they have old drivers on them.
I've always assumed that the companies bulk-buy floppies from the manufacturer, who puts the data on them. It takes ages while to clear a floppy and put all-new data on it, and if you had to do 10,000 of them, it would take bloody hours... it simply doesn't make sense for a company to reuse floppies.
The onus of looking out for possible infringement lies enrtirely with the patent holder.
Surely this would pander to the needs of big buisness, because large companies could have lots of lawyers looking at every product, but small companies and individual inventors would be unable to finance such a search?
ANFSCD (And Now For Something Completely Different) Multiple Sciences Unnamed Course 8C Botanical Physics with Computing Computational Physics with Botany Help! My pants are glued to this lecture theatre seat! Computing with Physics and Botany Does anyone remember what course I'm on? Drug Ring Management Studies PhyBot C.P. Interdisciplinary studies
The geeks amongst us should... rise up and use our voice for progress and not petty squabbling.
He's right, you know. People in the computer industry need to rise up and use our voice for progress, not petty squabbling! Death to Microsoft!
That was sarcasm, you see? Rather than using our voices for progress, slashdotters engage in petty squabbling with Microsoft. An I the only one who finds this ironic?
So let me get this straight; all the dark fibre we have in the states is now obsolete and therefore useless? Great, thanks, just checking.
"Don't bother lighting it up now, boys, just chop it up good when we start laying the new stuff."
I don't think old fibre is obsolete, just there might be a new, cheaper fibre also availiable. Which will be useful, because there are many places that don't have fibre running to them, and running it is expensive. Like £200,000 per mile expensive.
They may take our lives, but they will never take our FREEDOM!!!
Given the current political situation, a more appropriate quote may be "They may take our freedom, but they will never take our LIVES!!!"
Slashdot Mirror
It's a shame, because I'm pretty sure that ceaseless, unrelenting, brutal torture of known spammers would be equally effective, but is unfortunately illegal.
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evil adrian
You call yourself evil? You couldn't evil your way out of a paper bag. You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil.You're the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie, not evil enough.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
It takes little effort to realize that Numenor, from which the race of kings from which Aragorn is descended comes, is the Isle of Britain and that Eressea, the final stop before the Undying Lands, is Ireland.
Tolkien repeatedly stated that he did not intend his story to be represetative of anything. Isn't it possible that you're reading too much into it?
One could say that the Harry Potter series is about how if you want to succeed in life, you need the right parents, connections in the establishment, and natural sporting ability. But this would be, well, silly.
It's easy to 'read in' undertones that aren't there. Sometimes it's better to enjoy a book as nothing more than fiction.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
Comments as to why it wouldn't work?
Most spamming outfits charge more than $1 for 10,000 e-mails (If $0.01 = 100 e-mails)
The per-message price would have to be quite high.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
Why cant they throw in that small and desperately needed thing? It must be waterproof... so I can wear it swimming,snorkling,in the shower...
Uh... why would you want a PDA in the shower?
Having it rainproof I could understand, but who takes thier PDA with them into the shower?
Michael
Hey,
Why is RFID better than using bar codes?
You wouldn't have to unload your shopping trolley at the supermarket. You'd just have to roll it through a gateway, and it could automatically scan in all your goods.
Which would be neat!
Michael
Hey,
But there's NO EXCUSE not to use a Mac.
How about that one button puck mouse?
God, I hate it.
Michael
Hey,
cell phone theft is a problem in Europe
In the UK, there are a few main providers, who have a communal database of stolen phones' IMEI numbers (Individual serial numbers). They can be automatically banned.
This could be a help if you had one in a climate where you needed to make sure something you posted on the web, for example, would be far more difficult to trace.
Or you could put it on a floppy and post it from a cybercafe. Unless it was more than a 1.44Mb, in which case it would cost a bloody fortune with the amount most providers charge for data services.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
Thieves simply cut a chunk out of the wheel and remove the club.
That tends to hurt the resale value a bit.
Over here in the UK, we have a product called 'Disclock' (or something) which is a big hardened steel disk, which completely covers your steering wheel, locking all around it.
My uncle put one on his hours-old new car... then found he'd given in the keys when he part-exchanged his old car. It took well over an hour to hacksaw it off.
So, there are some decent products out there.
Cheers,
Michael
Hey,
Sure, the poles flipping is a very rapid thing on geologic timescales, but we're still talking decades or more.
According to this article, at current rates, the Earth's dipole will disappear within just two millennia.
So I'd say we have a while, yes.
Cheers,
Michael
Hey,
Could this be the end of the GNU project?!
No, but HURD will definately be delayed.
Michael
Hey,
If my provider is giving me 1.5Mb/down, and 256kb up (burstable), then it shouldn't matter if I'm using it all day or not.
The problem is they don't sell you all the bandwidth; they have a comtention ratio of (say) 40:1. They buy a 1.5Mbps backbone linkup, and let you use at for 1/40th of the time. You get the (non-sustained) speed of a 1.5Mbps backbone linkup, for 1/40th the cost (plus a little profit). This provides what most consumers want: Fast, small transfers, and occasional fast large transfers.
If all the users run P2P clients, they will either face a 40x increase in costs, or each user will get 1/40th of the speed.
Ultimately, if you want a 24/7 1.5Mbps backbone linkup, you have to pay the whole cost, which is HUGE (or at least, it is in my country).
Too many people running P2P constantly create a 'tragedy of the commons' situation, where normal users get bad performance. If the ISP wants to discourage people from doing this, that is entirely within thier rights.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
I think it'd be cool as hell to have a blue LED light under my mouse.
When I first read that I thought you said house, and I pictures a building raised up, with blue light eminating from under it, like a modded car.
That'd be kinda cool...
Michael
Hey,
Wood desks? Leather chairs? What the fuck for?
What would you make tables out of?
Michael
Hey,
it's glaringly obvious that UK Brits are systematically ripped off on everything
Yeah, but the UK government levies special taxes on Petrol, Cigarettes and Beer. Taxes are, somewhat obviously, not the fault of buisnesses.
To give an objective impression, you would have to take a broad cross-section of different goods, subtract tax from thier prices, and then divide by median national income.
That would give a real impression of the price of goods.
Michael
Hey,
anyone's who's been awake in the past 2-3 years knows that W2K is incredibly stable.
D4C5CE writes "Slashdot's ceaseless "success" in bringing bias, rumour and unfounded criticism as well as a deplorable lack of spelling skills to almost Every Desktop on Earth has now earned them an "Oscar" for Data Leeches, the Lifetime Award for "outstanding mis-achievement" from the BigBrotherAwards 2002 in Germany. Slashdot's CowboyNeal actually attended the ceremony to collect the prize (probably delighted that there was free food availiable), and this unlucky winner took the opportunity to make some critical remarks on the site's communications regarding the Windows Media Player and Digital Rights (or, euphemistically, in his words: Restrictions) Management technologies which he deemed a terrible infringement on his right to pirate music, rather than bothering to learn anything about the technology, acknowledging that it's in fact not just one article but the editing body itself which is fundamentally flawed."
You see? it's a parody of the article!
Michael
Hey,
these two static images sit at the bottom "provided by COSM" and a bad "Folding@home" graphic. They look ugly
On the Windows version you can switch them off. On the 'preferences' window, 'advanced' tab, under 'graphics' there's a checkbox labeled 'logos enabled'. Deselect it and have no logos.
Personally, I don't use the screensaver, though. I power down my screen. But that's just me.
Don't know if the no logo option is there on the mac version, but it can'r hurt to look.
Cheers,
Michael
Hey,
If the government refuses to change its position, then there'll probably be panic buying of Xboxes
But if the systems aren't availiable, not many retailers will stock the games... meaning there wouldn't be much point in buying.
Michael
Hey,
Given that they treated reusable media with such discontempt
I think you mean contempt.
It's quite comment at computer fairs to get offers of 50 floppies for $5 and suchlike. Wen you get them home, you find they have old drivers on them.
I've always assumed that the companies bulk-buy floppies from the manufacturer, who puts the data on them. It takes ages while to clear a floppy and put all-new data on it, and if you had to do 10,000 of them, it would take bloody hours... it simply doesn't make sense for a company to reuse floppies.
Cheers,
Michael
Hey,
The onus of looking out for possible infringement lies enrtirely with the patent holder.
Surely this would pander to the needs of big buisness, because large companies could have lots of lawyers looking at every product, but small companies and individual inventors would be unable to finance such a search?
Michael
You could call it...
ANFSCD (And Now For Something Completely Different)
Multiple Sciences
Unnamed Course 8C
Botanical Physics with Computing
Computational Physics with Botany
Help! My pants are glued to this lecture theatre seat!
Computing with Physics and Botany
Does anyone remember what course I'm on?
Drug Ring Management Studies
PhyBot C.P.
Interdisciplinary studies
Or my personal favorite:
BS in BS
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
... rise up and use our voice for progress and not petty squabbling.
The geeks amongst us should
He's right, you know. People in the computer industry need to rise up and use our voice for progress, not petty squabbling! Death to Microsoft!
That was sarcasm, you see? Rather than using our voices for progress, slashdotters engage in petty squabbling with Microsoft. An I the only one who finds this ironic?
Michael
Hey,
.50 or something.
If he seals it up it won't even be a bicycle anymore, but will be like an armored car, except with only 3 wheels. How original.
Except the estimated price is $2,400.
The prototype umbrella is pink.
Featured word: Prototype.
Is the umbrella used to surprise the one or people who don't know that police are armed?
It might be more of a gimmick that's fun to make and use than an actual useful-in-the-field product. You know, like a Desert Eagle
Or it could be for under cover police.
Just my $0.02,
Michael
Hey,
if the general public doesn't want to fund research into XXX, then those scientists should not receive a penny of taxpayer's money.
Now that's one area I'd be happy to 'research' for free...
Michael
Hey,
So let me get this straight; all the dark fibre we have in the states is now obsolete and therefore useless? Great, thanks, just checking.
"Don't bother lighting it up now, boys, just chop it up good when we start laying the new stuff."
I don't think old fibre is obsolete, just there might be a new, cheaper fibre also availiable. Which will be useful, because there are many places that don't have fibre running to them, and running it is expensive. Like £200,000 per mile expensive.
They may take our lives, but they will never take our FREEDOM!!!
Given the current political situation, a more appropriate quote may be "They may take our freedom, but they will never take our LIVES!!!"
Michael
Hey,
"This summer I helped built a Geowall stereoscopic projection (3D) system for the Southern California Earthquake Center."
Do you need any help to test your 3D Quake Simulator? If so, call 1-800-GAMERSINC
Thanks,
Michael