... the fact that ESR apparently doesn't know what Amicus Curiae means, or that he obviously reads too much/., since the first thing he could think of was Anonymous Coward.
... CowboyNeal is posting...... is this right? I thought he was only a mythical figure featured prominently in Slashdot polls since the beginning of Slashtime?
At least from a "We're a company, we exist to make money" standpoint. Symantec maintains that privledged list precisely so they can make money - they offer a "tell you before I tell anyone else" service, and people are obviously willing to pay for that.
Besides, I highly doubt Symantec is the cause of slammer, and because of that, they don't have any moral obligation to let anybody know about it. On top of that, we're talking about a matter of hours, not days or weeks. They probably told their clients "Uh, we think something's coming, so watch out". I highly doubt they would have had specifics.
Not trying to flame here or anything, but let's be a little realistic. If anyone's to blame, it should be Microsoft, for releasing the buggy program in the first place, or the sysadmins for not applying the paches, yadda yadda yadda.
... and it's been my experience that there are cheaper and more reliable alternatives out there now. Samsung in particular is what we use most of the time. They're inexpensive and reliable, and we've had maybe 1 bad unit in 500. I don't remember exact numbers, but we used to have a pretty high DOA or >6mo failure on the Yamaha IDE burners (their SCSI burners were always great, but then again they were expensive, too).
On a broader view, I see that burners are becoming commodized (sp?). Anyone can make a burner these days. Perhaps they'll stay in the semi-cutting edge markets like DVD burning?
Well, short of going in and holding a gun to Thwate's head, they have several options, as I see it:
1. Setup www.parliment.govt.uk, and have the webserver that handles www.parliment.uk redirect/(.*) to www.parliment.govt.uk/$1.
2. Sign their own cert.
3. Farm out the credit card transactions themselves to another site.
I guess if they got smart about it they could go through some sort of legal process that confirms that they have "ownership" of the netblock that the DNS servers for parliment.uk are on, and therefore they are the defacto owners (posession is 9/10ths of the law?) of parliment.uk.
To preface this, I live in Alameda, which is right across the bay from San Francisco.
I will grant that the rents are a little higher in SF proper than they are in some of the suburbs in other areas of the bay area, but rents aren't that bad, and have been going down par the economy (despite what we renters might think, owners are still keen on renting their spots out, even at reduced rates). For example, a 1000 sq ft apartment rents for about $850/mo here in Alameda. You could definitely afford that on $47k a year (if, as other posters mentioned, you don't spend a grand each month on uneccesary expendatures).
I'm a fan of William Gibson (and other authors like him), but I don't have the time or the inclination to crawl the web for every bit of news about new books. That's what/. is for. A central place to collate news about stuff "we" like.
Akky
P.S. The story body ever so kindly provided you with a link to William Gibson's own website, where there is information about the new novel. I suggest you start there. You might even like some of his books.
It sounds basically like when you want to find a file, you go type in a few pieces of meta-data, and then hit "search". It's a way to do it, but it seems to me (and it's early, so bear with me) that it's easier for me to remember one piece of meta-data (i.e. the path to the file) than several (as it would seem with this setup, as you would have to present more than one piece of data to differentiate between different documents, let's say, created by the same author on the same day). Maybe I'm just used to a HFS, but I find it simple to open up a command prompt and type "pico/documents/foo/bar/fubar.txt".
Anyway, an interesting concept.
I dunno about modding the robot...
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It may know Kung Fu, but will it remember Feng Shui? I mean, what is a balancing robot without Feng Shui?
I admit that I haven't played around with the booster, but I have deployed a few of the WAP/Router combos in the field, and they do seem to be a little on the short-ranged side. It might have something to do with it being a combo - I honestly don't know. Anyway, I'd consider that unit above.
802.11b: The first widely available wireless networking spec. Up to 11Mbps at 2.4GHz. Widely adopted by people who really wanted wireless NOW.
802.11a: The second available wireless spec. Up to 54Mbps at 5GHz. This had the advantage of placing the transmissions in a less populated band. However, most people who wanted wireless networking already had 802.11b equipment, and didn't feel that the faster speed was really worth it, hence the slower adoption.
802.11g: Basically, faster 802.11b. Up to 54Mbps at 2.4GHz. This has the advantage of running in the same frequency range. I believe that 802.11g equipment may interoperate with 802.11b, but I'm not sure. I also believe that 2.4GHz wireless has a bit of a distance advantage over 5GHz, but don't quote me on that.
Sorry if I was confusing. I used the term co-op purely in the sense of "lots of people in a common goal", not that I thought they should start using these kinda cards at co-op grocerey stores.
That's right. Most stores, you don't even need the actual card. You just key in your phone number. So setup a card with someone's phone number (it doesn't even need to be a valid number), and give it out to all your friends. The more it is used, the more you get savings, and if you give it out to enough people, the demographics become to skewed to be of any use.
*shrug* It's what me and my family do, and we don't seem to have any problems with using it.
Having SF Bay Area experience, not surprised...
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I live in Alameda (near SF), and I can tell you that the article is not stretching the truth at ALL. I personally have DSL thru a small local ISP who partners with Covad, but when I moved to my new apartment, I still had to get a landline from SBC (as they've apparently cut off the likes of Covad from getting dry pairs with no phone account associated for DSL). More on topic, several of my customers have switched to other local carriers, and either had to give up DSL (for cable, which in Alameda is run by the very excellent Alameda Power & Telecom, but I digress), or keep one SBC line.
I guess having AT&T and MCI on "our" side is a good thing, though with the Yahoo!/SBC DSL crap SBC is giving out now, I don't know why anyone would want to stay with 'em.
...a world where MSN did this, and geeks rushed to become mechanical Lepidoptera experts, running around with nets trying to catch these things and hack them (load linux, perhaps?) for their own use. I can imagine MSN suddenly thinking this was not such a bright idea...
Slashdot Mirror
... the fact that ESR apparently doesn't know what Amicus Curiae means, or that he obviously reads too much /., since the first thing he could think of was Anonymous Coward.
I actually hope we're an old fashioned doughnut with chocolate frosting.
Mmm... doughnuts...
Canada is a Perl conference?
That would explain so many things on so many levels.
I wonder what the Perl syntax for "... eh?" is...
Netcraft confirms it.
dfenstrate is dying.
*looks down*
Er, make that dead.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/18/science/space/18 TRAF.html?ex=1046149200&en=f39397b7a99dc415&ei=506 2&partner=GOOGLE
*watches server go down in slashdotting induced flames*
There were pictures.
>:)
... CowboyNeal is posting... ... is this right? I thought he was only a mythical figure featured prominently in Slashdot polls since the beginning of Slashtime?
Mommy, I'm scared...
At least from a "We're a company, we exist to make money" standpoint. Symantec maintains that privledged list precisely so they can make money - they offer a "tell you before I tell anyone else" service, and people are obviously willing to pay for that.
Besides, I highly doubt Symantec is the cause of slammer, and because of that, they don't have any moral obligation to let anybody know about it. On top of that, we're talking about a matter of hours, not days or weeks. They probably told their clients "Uh, we think something's coming, so watch out". I highly doubt they would have had specifics.
Not trying to flame here or anything, but let's be a little realistic. If anyone's to blame, it should be Microsoft, for releasing the buggy program in the first place, or the sysadmins for not applying the paches, yadda yadda yadda.
... and it's been my experience that there are cheaper and more reliable alternatives out there now. Samsung in particular is what we use most of the time. They're inexpensive and reliable, and we've had maybe 1 bad unit in 500. I don't remember exact numbers, but we used to have a pretty high DOA or >6mo failure on the Yamaha IDE burners (their SCSI burners were always great, but then again they were expensive, too).
On a broader view, I see that burners are becoming commodized (sp?). Anyone can make a burner these days. Perhaps they'll stay in the semi-cutting edge markets like DVD burning?
Members of the Government are usually either members of the House of Commons or House of Lords.
Parliment's not part of the government? I'm confused. I always thought it was.
Persons appearing in pictures definitely not clinically sane.
Well, short of going in and holding a gun to Thwate's head, they have several options, as I see it:
/(.*) to www.parliment.govt.uk/$1.
1. Setup www.parliment.govt.uk, and have the webserver that handles www.parliment.uk redirect
2. Sign their own cert.
3. Farm out the credit card transactions themselves to another site.
I guess if they got smart about it they could go through some sort of legal process that confirms that they have "ownership" of the netblock that the DNS servers for parliment.uk are on, and therefore they are the defacto owners (posession is 9/10ths of the law?) of parliment.uk.
Nonetheless, an interesting situation.
To preface this, I live in Alameda, which is right across the bay from San Francisco.
I will grant that the rents are a little higher in SF proper than they are in some of the suburbs in other areas of the bay area, but rents aren't that bad, and have been going down par the economy (despite what we renters might think, owners are still keen on renting their spots out, even at reduced rates). For example, a 1000 sq ft apartment rents for about $850/mo here in Alameda. You could definitely afford that on $47k a year (if, as other posters mentioned, you don't spend a grand each month on uneccesary expendatures).
You're a troll, but I'll bite.
/. is for. A central place to collate news about stuff "we" like.
I'm a fan of William Gibson (and other authors like him), but I don't have the time or the inclination to crawl the web for every bit of news about new books. That's what
Akky
P.S. The story body ever so kindly provided you with a link to William Gibson's own website, where there is information about the new novel. I suggest you start there. You might even like some of his books.
It sounds basically like when you want to find a file, you go type in a few pieces of meta-data, and then hit "search". It's a way to do it, but it seems to me (and it's early, so bear with me) that it's easier for me to remember one piece of meta-data (i.e. the path to the file) than several (as it would seem with this setup, as you would have to present more than one piece of data to differentiate between different documents, let's say, created by the same author on the same day). Maybe I'm just used to a HFS, but I find it simple to open up a command prompt and type "pico /documents/foo/bar/fubar.txt".
Anyway, an interesting concept.
It may know Kung Fu, but will it remember Feng Shui? I mean, what is a balancing robot without Feng Shui?
Wireless Signal Booster
I admit that I haven't played around with the booster, but I have deployed a few of the WAP/Router combos in the field, and they do seem to be a little on the short-ranged side. It might have something to do with it being a combo - I honestly don't know. Anyway, I'd consider that unit above.
Hope this helps.
AFAIK, 802.11g is the spec that allows up to 54Mbps at 2.4GHz, as opposed to 802.11a, which is 54Mbps at 5GHz.
Sorry if I was confusing. I used the term co-op purely in the sense of "lots of people in a common goal", not that I thought they should start using these kinda cards at co-op grocerey stores.
That's right. Most stores, you don't even need the actual card. You just key in your phone number. So setup a card with someone's phone number (it doesn't even need to be a valid number), and give it out to all your friends. The more it is used, the more you get savings, and if you give it out to enough people, the demographics become to skewed to be of any use.
*shrug* It's what me and my family do, and we don't seem to have any problems with using it.
I live in Alameda (near SF), and I can tell you that the article is not stretching the truth at ALL. I personally have DSL thru a small local ISP who partners with Covad, but when I moved to my new apartment, I still had to get a landline from SBC (as they've apparently cut off the likes of Covad from getting dry pairs with no phone account associated for DSL). More on topic, several of my customers have switched to other local carriers, and either had to give up DSL (for cable, which in Alameda is run by the very excellent Alameda Power & Telecom, but I digress), or keep one SBC line.
I guess having AT&T and MCI on "our" side is a good thing, though with the Yahoo!/SBC DSL crap SBC is giving out now, I don't know why anyone would want to stay with 'em.
...a world where MSN did this, and geeks rushed to become mechanical Lepidoptera experts, running around with nets trying to catch these things and hack them (load linux, perhaps?) for their own use. I can imagine MSN suddenly thinking this was not such a bright idea...
http://www.akardam.net/media/news/anti-leech-funny .png
That's all I'm going to say... this is too funny.
Sometimes, there are some sane Californians.