I know, it's not REALLY Pong, but it does bare the name, lisencing, and if you do well enough, a replica of the original... Curious they don't even mention it.
When I saw this, I SWORE it was going to be a Jon Katz article.
The question then is, will colleges start reimplementing their own admissions exams as they start dropping the SAT/ACTs? **Might** help get rid of some of the script kiddies in the world, you know.
Being from Missouri, I can say I've seen the warehouse, and the boxes are there. Some are in great condition, some boxes are beat up, but everything appears to be in good shape, and there are a few boxes which you'd probably want a warranty/guarentee on before purchasing. But those are few and far between. 90% of you are going to get great quality, and I'm prety sure the other 10% will get deals/refunds upon request.
Now, if I'd just convinced my father to keep our atari and C64 when I was in third grade, and still had everything to play today. I miss them damnit.
Well, not that it's worth too much, but let me say this, then you can flame me all you like. My family lives in the bum friggin middle of missouri (the state of misery). We're talking cow pattie central here. Because my family is heavy into politics, I've gotten several chances to meet Sen. Ashcroft. While I do not at all agree with many of his views, I can say that I think he'll be FAIR. Perhaps more friendly than we'd like to see, but less friendly than what everyone seems to expect from us conservatives (liberals in missouri hardly exist..even the so called "liberals" are relatively conservative). He's certainly in the middle of the politics of Washington, but he is still interested in actually doing his job and trying to do it right.
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised that it SEEMS that the conservatives heading into congress and Washington are saying that they'll take a look at liscensing issues, and hopefully try to put an end to the M$BS we've been seeing.
While I remember opting out of everything (as the only good spam is that in a ziploc baggie with an m-150 firecracker tied to your enemy's light socket..), I never got this message.
They at least gave you time to reset your preferences- I get the impression that possibly a file system went corrupt, so they just reset everyone's profiles to their ideal profile, and then let you reset it if you wanted to (but prayed you let them send spam.)
Ebay's been good to me- recently had to appeal a non-paying bidder warning where the putz had an invalid email address and never contacted me, and they responded quickly, professionally, etc.
Anyone had any other bad experiences with Ebay itself? Or good ones? Almost everyone I know is fairly impartial...
What would you think about creating a file system instead of hardware encoded protection? Perhaps some way to make copy protection workable in a file system (and non-transferable to unprotected file systems) would work better, and with less commotion.
To get many of the user's email addresses, you gotta click on a userid name to get info. Then you have to login again (or use the damned cookie) to get the info.
If you store information requests, and cross reference with bids, you have a list of people who are contacting outside of the auction.. supposedly (God forbid I email for more info on an item!)
Fine and dandy if they want to stop fraud. It's simple: Put up a big letter disclaimer that says for sure "WE CAN'T GUARENTEE ANYTHING NOT THROUGH US!" If you can't read the words on the page, then it's your own damn fault if you get scammed.
I gotta say, though, that while that has helped me, and rereading man pages every five minutes for 24 hours helps some, another big source is IRC. They're not very helpful, in general, to newbies (like I can still be considered) but almost always they will point you to somewhere which will get you started. That foot in the door is all you need.
Another thing that helps: Install dos 6.2 somewhere. Get used to it, forget the gui. After getting reoriented with a command prompt, linux isn't as big of a jump (still a leap across the grand canyon though..)
Check the links before you moderate! Read the full comment, check the link, and THEN moderate. Hell, the link could be broken, or worse (like this case.) Once again, the goatse.cx troll fooled you, adding the @ at the end...
Ummm.. hello.. did you read the last line of the article..
Said something about "This is a piece of SATIRE brought..." (not exact quote..)
Come on.. Use your heads, and read the article! OBVIOUSLY IT'S A HOAX!
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OT, but what the hell...
I remember someone had a sig on here once, something that I found (sadly) hillarious. It just seemed too true, not to be trolling. What was it?
NT, Security, Networking. Chose two of the three. You can't have them all.
On a side note, you notice how short MSNBC's article was? Obviously, enough text there for them to claim that they are still a news organization, but short enough to try to keep the stock for MS up. Nothing insightful there, but I still have to wonder how they will cover it in the future.
The best thing for their PR really would be for them just to come out and say, "Yes, we got hacked, and this is how it was done. It may be very good for everyone to change their passwords now." (Credit to/., et al., for handling theirs in the same manner.)
What about places using DHCP/dynamic addressing? Our university rotates our IP addies every so often to prevent us from having personal servers, but we can still run one if we use the name bound to our leases (I'd be someone.students.umr.edu, for example). How would they deal with these constantly rotating IPs? You could have a porn server on an IP, and all of the sudden instead have a Christian reading literature online. I bet that could be a real pain for them. If a government uses this to track, suddenly one of the nicest gals I know down the hall becomes a kiddie pronographer and gets arrested!
Of course, I don't know how many places rotate the IPs like we do.. Either way, it would make an incomplete map: They either have it mapped one way, or the other, but can't be dynamically mapping all of the IPs out there at once as to keep my computer name with my ip, and list me as the Pr0n surfing champ. (oh! oh! Do I win a trip to nationals in Hawaii? no? damn..) Just think about it, all sorts of potentials to make a mess here...
You can run an ftp server here **if** you keep your traffic low enough not to get caught (which is rather high, I must mention, before they get upset about it..)
Nice thing about being at a tech school: helluh bandwidth, and the expectation that we will run servers to "learn" umm.. pr0n I guess. Napster's blocked, of course, but there are some others that work.
Perhaps emailing me in the future about UMR would be appropriate, to avoid OT.. remember, I'm karma whoring this story.
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Really, the town of Rolla sucks beyond having a Waffle House, ethernet, and St. Pat's.
It's 1.5 hours from St. Louis, the lake, and Springfield (read women).
The town and classes suck. The college experience, the good stuff, and about 98.72% of your education comes from the people here. Honestly, the people are great, I've made many friends who are dear for life (as in I had none at HS), and THOSE are the people you learn stuff from. As in most colleges I imagine.
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Unfortunately, I learned too much, set up linux and an FTP server, and got my account shut off for a while because of a stupid little agreement between the school and the RIAA, and the fact I had too much traffic. Sigh again. But never, ever, will I put up with B^HMS again.
Well, if UMR Rulez so much, get off yer AC ass and be proud of UMR. And yes, Rapid Prototyping's been around a while, just this is a different approach being taken with some different results and uses. It even has the chance to be cheaper/smaller/faster/blah blah blah. That's what makes this so interesting.
Here's the official link, while I'm karma whoring. Nothing new in there.. just different presentation.
Sigh.. if only I were in a different department, I could claim this..
Acutally, I've seen some of the BASIC stuff for this, it's quite cool. But, I must protest, the article has it wrong, the work was NOT done in the mechanical engineering building. And actually, no, the ink isn't completely reusable.. just mostly- evaporation, contamination, and other things have to be taken into account.
Sigh again. If I were in a different department, I'd know enough to provide quite a bit insight.
(PS- UMR's other claims to fame is the National Champion Solar Car, and a huge arse St. Pat's festival that can only be described as... Animal House.)
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The most recent release by Hasbro/Atari...
I know, it's not REALLY Pong, but it does bare the name, lisencing, and if you do well enough, a replica of the original... Curious they don't even mention it.
When I saw this, I SWORE it was going to be a Jon Katz article.
The question then is, will colleges start reimplementing their own admissions exams as they start dropping the SAT/ACTs? **Might** help get rid of some of the script kiddies in the world, you know.
Being from Missouri, I can say I've seen the warehouse, and the boxes are there. Some are in great condition, some boxes are beat up, but everything appears to be in good shape, and there are a few boxes which you'd probably want a warranty/guarentee on before purchasing. But those are few and far between. 90% of you are going to get great quality, and I'm prety sure the other 10% will get deals/refunds upon request.
Now, if I'd just convinced my father to keep our atari and C64 when I was in third grade, and still had everything to play today. I miss them damnit.
No.... I die.
Well, not that it's worth too much, but let me say this, then you can flame me all you like. My family lives in the bum friggin middle of missouri (the state of misery). We're talking cow pattie central here. Because my family is heavy into politics, I've gotten several chances to meet Sen. Ashcroft. While I do not at all agree with many of his views, I can say that I think he'll be FAIR. Perhaps more friendly than we'd like to see, but less friendly than what everyone seems to expect from us conservatives (liberals in missouri hardly exist..even the so called "liberals" are relatively conservative). He's certainly in the middle of the politics of Washington, but he is still interested in actually doing his job and trying to do it right.
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised that it SEEMS that the conservatives heading into congress and Washington are saying that they'll take a look at liscensing issues, and hopefully try to put an end to the M$BS we've been seeing.
Just my two cents.
AND AAAAAAA PARTRIDDDDDDGE IN A PEEEEEEEAAAARRRR TRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Oh shit.. a bit late for that. Sorry.
While I remember opting out of everything (as the only good spam is that in a ziploc baggie with an m-150 firecracker tied to your enemy's light socket..), I never got this message.
They at least gave you time to reset your preferences- I get the impression that possibly a file system went corrupt, so they just reset everyone's profiles to their ideal profile, and then let you reset it if you wanted to (but prayed you let them send spam.)
Ebay's been good to me- recently had to appeal a non-paying bidder warning where the putz had an invalid email address and never contacted me, and they responded quickly, professionally, etc.
Anyone had any other bad experiences with Ebay itself? Or good ones? Almost everyone I know is fairly impartial...
What would you think about creating a file system instead of hardware encoded protection? Perhaps some way to make copy protection workable in a file system (and non-transferable to unprotected file systems) would work better, and with less commotion.
Here's how they do it:
To get many of the user's email addresses, you gotta click on a userid name to get info. Then you have to login again (or use the damned cookie) to get the info.
If you store information requests, and cross reference with bids, you have a list of people who are contacting outside of the auction.. supposedly (God forbid I email for more info on an item!)
Fine and dandy if they want to stop fraud. It's simple: Put up a big letter disclaimer that says for sure "WE CAN'T GUARENTEE ANYTHING NOT THROUGH US!" If you can't read the words on the page, then it's your own damn fault if you get scammed.
Well, it was said he is a Slashdot reader...
So can't we assume he's reading ALL of these? Please, Clinton, take a good sense of humor and forgive us for the trolls...
A guess then a good question would be: Did you read the questions in advance??
I gotta say, though, that while that has helped me, and rereading man pages every five minutes for 24 hours helps some, another big source is IRC. They're not very helpful, in general, to newbies (like I can still be considered) but almost always they will point you to somewhere which will get you started. That foot in the door is all you need.
Another thing that helps: Install dos 6.2 somewhere. Get used to it, forget the gui. After getting reoriented with a command prompt, linux isn't as big of a jump (still a leap across the grand canyon though..)
Check the links before you moderate! Read the full comment, check the link, and THEN moderate. Hell, the link could be broken, or worse (like this case.) Once again, the goatse.cx troll fooled you, adding the @ at the end...
I know I'm going down as flamebait, but still....
OK.. So I'm a dumb ass, and missed this post...
/me sits on stupid couch...
Please mod down my other comment..
Ummm.. hello.. did you read the last line of the article..
Said something about "This is a piece of SATIRE brought..." (not exact quote..)
Come on.. Use your heads, and read the article! OBVIOUSLY IT'S A HOAX!
OT, but what the hell...
I remember someone had a sig on here once, something that I found (sadly) hillarious. It just seemed too true, not to be trolling. What was it?
NT, Security, Networking. Chose two of the three. You can't have them all.
On a side note, you notice how short MSNBC's article was? Obviously, enough text there for them to claim that they are still a news organization, but short enough to try to keep the stock for MS up. Nothing insightful there, but I still have to wonder how they will cover it in the future.
The best thing for their PR really would be for them just to come out and say, "Yes, we got hacked, and this is how it was done. It may be very good for everyone to change their passwords now." (Credit to /., et al., for handling theirs in the same manner.)
Umm just a thought...
What about places using DHCP/dynamic addressing? Our university rotates our IP addies every so often to prevent us from having personal servers, but we can still run one if we use the name bound to our leases (I'd be someone.students.umr.edu, for example). How would they deal with these constantly rotating IPs? You could have a porn server on an IP, and all of the sudden instead have a Christian reading literature online. I bet that could be a real pain for them. If a government uses this to track, suddenly one of the nicest gals I know down the hall becomes a kiddie pronographer and gets arrested!
Of course, I don't know how many places rotate the IPs like we do.. Either way, it would make an incomplete map: They either have it mapped one way, or the other, but can't be dynamically mapping all of the IPs out there at once as to keep my computer name with my ip, and list me as the Pr0n surfing champ. (oh! oh! Do I win a trip to nationals in Hawaii? no? damn..) Just think about it, all sorts of potentials to make a mess here...
Ugh.
You can run an ftp server here **if** you keep your traffic low enough not to get caught (which is rather high, I must mention, before they get upset about it..)
Nice thing about being at a tech school: helluh bandwidth, and the expectation that we will run servers to "learn" umm.. pr0n I guess. Napster's blocked, of course, but there are some others that work.
Perhaps emailing me in the future about UMR would be appropriate, to avoid OT.. remember, I'm karma whoring this story.
Ahh.. It's not that bad
<shameless ad>
Really, the town of Rolla sucks beyond having a Waffle House, ethernet, and St. Pat's.
It's 1.5 hours from St. Louis, the lake, and Springfield (read women).
The town and classes suck. The college experience, the good stuff, and about 98.72% of your education comes from the people here. Honestly, the people are great, I've made many friends who are dear for life (as in I had none at HS), and THOSE are the people you learn stuff from. As in most colleges I imagine.
</shameless ad>
Unfortunately, I learned too much, set up linux and an FTP server, and got my account shut off for a while because of a stupid little agreement between the school and the RIAA, and the fact I had too much traffic. Sigh again. But never, ever, will I put up with B^HMS again.
Here's the scoop.
This is the department's real page on the project.
This is the Virtual Reality and Prototyping Lab's page, with other links of interest..
Here's the scoop.
This is the department's real page on the project.
This is the Virtual Reality and Prototyping Lab's page, with other links of interest..
Well, if UMR Rulez so much, get off yer AC ass and be proud of UMR. And yes, Rapid Prototyping's been around a while, just this is a different approach being taken with some different results and uses. It even has the chance to be cheaper/smaller/faster/blah blah blah. That's what makes this so interesting.
Here's the official link, while I'm karma whoring. Nothing new in there.. just different presentation.
Sigh.. if only I were in a different department, I could claim this..
Acutally, I've seen some of the BASIC stuff for this, it's quite cool. But, I must protest, the article has it wrong, the work was NOT done in the mechanical engineering building. And actually, no, the ink isn't completely reusable.. just mostly- evaporation, contamination, and other things have to be taken into account.
Here is the official link from UMR. Nothing too detailed in there, I'll warn you. Basically what you read at Discover.
Sigh again. If I were in a different department, I'd know enough to provide quite a bit insight.
(PS- UMR's other claims to fame is the National Champion Solar Car, and a huge arse St. Pat's festival that can only be described as... Animal House.)
Sounds like time to notify f*ed company!!!
I was the one knocked off..
Damn ping floods.
Slashdotted in 13 comments.. One of the quicker ones we've had recently...