I'm on Earthlink DSL in Northern VA, and my server has been going crazy (on the 4.0.0.0 net).
Most of my Code Red hits have been from 4.0.0.0 and 24.0.0.0.
Up past 1200 hits so far just since Sunday. My Code Red hit log can be found here (wonderful Perl script provided by a fellow Slashdotter):
http://stealthboy.dyndns.org/report.html
RIT is a decent product, but for plastics, there is some other kind of dye that was around 10 years ago used for RC car wheels. You'd mix this stuff in water, but your plain-old white nylon plastic RC car wheels in overnight, and it would dye the plastic very nicely. Anyone remember what this stuff was? Sounds like that's what you would want to use for plastics.
The courts move too slowly to affect anything in the 'net-realm anyways. By the time a "final" decision is made Microsoft will own the Internet, TV, cable, and video gaming systems.
That's why it is up to us, the consumer, to provide the judgment through our wallets.
I'm seeing a lot of posts just saying "Big deal, it's a Photoshop filter". But that's not the point. The point of this is that given the source and the final image, the algorithm learned to reproduce the filter. In otherwords, it dynamically generated the "Photoshop filter" based on the input and output of the sample set. That's pretty cool!
It's not just using the filter; it is creating the filter.
I agree. I've been tyring to update my Gnome installation for a while, and every "update" causes more crashes and incompatibilities. It's a nightmare. And, using the Ximian tool, I sometimes get random errors (with no messages!) in the middle of a download/install. That then leaves my Gnome installation in a Bad Place(TM).
I've been a heavy GIMP user for years, and it really is a great tool. I use it for web-page production, digital photo touch-up, CD liner creation, just about anything...
> and ruled that cops can take you to jail when
> they pull you over for any reason they feel
> like
No, get it straight. What they did was uphold the police action of taking a particular woman into custody, and threw her suit out. You have no idea what the woman did; she may have been mouthing off to the police officer, or resisting in other ways. Sure, the INITIAL incident was not having a seat belt fastenend, but that's not what eventually caused her to be taken to jail.
The supreme court does not legislate, so it's not like they just invented a law that says police can take you into custody for anything. All the supreme court does is uphold or strike down the enforcement of laws.
What I really hate about spam is the fact that they provide this statement at the end going on and on about how this mail conforms to bill such and such, and if you want removed, just send an e-mail to remove@blaablaa.com.
So I send an e-mail, and of course a minute later get it bounced back because it's an unknown address.
How do you fight that besides sorting through headers and writing to abuse@blaa.com or whatever? Even if they pass some $500 fine per piece of spam, how can you enforce it?
Let's see...
Yesterday was 15 hours. Today will be about 14. It comes and goes in waves; from 8 to 18, depending on the current software demo/crisis.
Average is 55 a week, I'd say. It's tough when you're in a startup because sometimes there's just no more money to hire people to do more work, but we need to do more work to get the money. Catch-22.
Every app should work fine on that large display. I know that the new Handera with a 320x320 uses pixel doubling if the app doesn't explicitely take advantage of the larger res, and will even do font replacement to use a better font instead of just doubling the pixels in the font.
That was my first though when the Handera came out; how would they handle the old apps that are only designed for 160x160?
The *next* Yopy? Is the first one even out? I was thinking about buying one back when they said it'd be available June 2000, but it seemed to be in indefinite developer testing status.
As upheld in court, the Police are NOT responsible for protecting an individual citizen. They are for the protection of society.
Basically, someone was being attacked, and someone called the police, and the police didn't show up in time to stop the person from being killed. The family sued the police, and they LOST, because the police were under no obligation to protect that individual citizen.
Yes, the Virginia reps are pretty good at that. I have gotten a response to every letter or e-mail that I have sent to Allen and Warner.
Just sent a letter to Warner this morning about
the DMCA.
I've been trying to get an iPaq for a month now, and can't find them for less than $600 on eBay. How dare they talk about a new model when they can't even fill the orders on the current model? Apparently it's because of a shortage of the color screens (hence their release of a greyscale version), and they say they won't be caught up for another 4 months or so. How will this new model's production affect that?
I love my N64. Dreamcast and PS2 don't hold a candle to it, because of the games. I really cannot find a decent PlayStation game. Of all the systems I own (Atari 2600, Genesis, Nintendo 8-bit, SNES, N64, Atari Jaguar, Dreamcast, PlayStation, Sega Game Gear), the Nintendo 64 is the best by far.
The reason, in my opinion, is that they really think they have their philosophy right. They are striving for quality over quanity, whereas Sony is the other way around.
Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Zelda: Majora's Mask are great games. I would much rather have my N64 with two or three great games than a PlayStation 2 with lots of mediocre games and ports. Who needs all these new sports games? Seriously... all they do is update the stats.
I agree. It's a standard practice of "scienticians" to jump the gun and apply findings way beyond what logical conclusions can be drawn. For example, here's one argument:
1) Fundamentalist Christians believe the universe was created in 7 days.
2) Science proves it is more like 10 billion years.
3) Therefore, God doesn't exist.
They take jumps such as those that are just as laughable as they call us Christians. Now, I'm not a "fundamentalist", and believe science is the pursuit of examining the miracle of God's creation. If we share 90% of the DNA of all other living beings, that proves that we share 90% of the DNA of other living beings, NOTHING else!
Why make such an illogical jump to "prove Darwin" or whatever that means?
There are many different views Christians have on Creation. Some, in fact, believe in what is called "evolutionary creation". These "findings" certainly don't disprove Creation, because creation is about the "why", not the "how".
... The US Constitution really is amazing. It's quite an impressive synthesis of the ideas of Locke and other contemporaries in the realm of political science in the late 1700's. Very cutting edge political science. It's a perfect Republic system; and if you actually read the Constitution and Hamilton's Federalist Papers (written along with Jay and Madison to get New York to ratify the document), you'd see they really went through A LOT of work to get it that way.
So, what went wrong?
1) The Constitution, as much as people these days hate to admit it, was built upon the ASSUMPTION that people would remain religious and moral.
Adams, Washington, Jefferson (even a Diest) admitted that the system would fail if there was no moral base of Christian ethics.
2) The Constitution outlined a REPUBLIC, not a democracy. People somehow got the impression that the Constitution says every citizen should have their individual voice heard.
So, the U.S. is a great country, but would be SO MUCH BETTER if people would just actually read the Constitution!!!! It pains me to hear people so blatantly misquote and misinterpret, as well as the politicians that just don't care about freedoms as long as they please the majority and
get re-elected. If we actually treated this country as a republic of united states, with a federal system for union-specific issues such as defense, foreign policy, and commerce, we'd be much better off.
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I'm on Earthlink DSL in Northern VA, and my server has been going crazy (on the 4.0.0.0 net).
Most of my Code Red hits have been from 4.0.0.0 and 24.0.0.0.
Up past 1200 hits so far just since Sunday. My Code Red hit log can be found here (wonderful Perl script provided by a fellow Slashdotter):
http://stealthboy.dyndns.org/report.html
Yep, I've had 4 of these today already.
Looks just like that.
I'm partial to the Speed Racer vs. Mystery Machine bit. Mystery Machine goes flying over a cliff and explodes. Nice one.
Can someone tell us what this does exactly? Just curious...
> If you didn't use *shudder* XP you wouldn't have
> this problem, now would you?
You mean *shutter*.
Sorry, bad pun.
"Have you ever had the feeling of deja vu?"
"Didn't you just ask me that?"
See here
RIT is a decent product, but for plastics, there is some other kind of dye that was around 10 years ago used for RC car wheels. You'd mix this stuff in water, but your plain-old white nylon plastic RC car wheels in overnight, and it would dye the plastic very nicely. Anyone remember what this stuff was? Sounds like that's what you would want to use for plastics.
The courts move too slowly to affect anything in the 'net-realm anyways. By the time a "final" decision is made Microsoft will own the Internet, TV, cable, and video gaming systems.
That's why it is up to us, the consumer, to provide the judgment through our wallets.
It's not just using the filter; it is creating the filter.
-Mike
-Mike
Why?
1) Cost.
2) It's on-par with Photoshop.
I've been a heavy GIMP user for years, and it really is a great tool. I use it for web-page production, digital photo touch-up, CD liner creation, just about anything...
> and ruled that cops can take you to jail when
> they pull you over for any reason they feel
> like
No, get it straight. What they did was uphold the police action of taking a particular woman into custody, and threw her suit out. You have no idea what the woman did; she may have been mouthing off to the police officer, or resisting in other ways. Sure, the INITIAL incident was not having a seat belt fastenend, but that's not what eventually caused her to be taken to jail.
The supreme court does not legislate, so it's not like they just invented a law that says police can take you into custody for anything. All the supreme court does is uphold or strike down the enforcement of laws.
-Mike
What I really hate about spam is the fact that they provide this statement at the end going on and on about how this mail conforms to bill such and such, and if you want removed, just send an e-mail to remove@blaablaa.com.
So I send an e-mail, and of course a minute later get it bounced back because it's an unknown address.
How do you fight that besides sorting through headers and writing to abuse@blaa.com or whatever? Even if they pass some $500 fine per piece of spam, how can you enforce it?
Let's see... Yesterday was 15 hours. Today will be about 14. It comes and goes in waves; from 8 to 18, depending on the current software demo/crisis. Average is 55 a week, I'd say. It's tough when you're in a startup because sometimes there's just no more money to hire people to do more work, but we need to do more work to get the money. Catch-22.
Every app should work fine on that large display. I know that the new Handera with a 320x320 uses pixel doubling if the app doesn't explicitely take advantage of the larger res, and will even do font replacement to use a better font instead of just doubling the pixels in the font.
That was my first though when the Handera came out; how would they handle the old apps that are only designed for 160x160?
The *next* Yopy? Is the first one even out? I was thinking about buying one back when they said it'd be available June 2000, but it seemed to be in indefinite developer testing status.
-Mike
As upheld in court, the Police are NOT responsible for protecting an individual citizen. They are for the protection of society.
Basically, someone was being attacked, and someone called the police, and the police didn't show up in time to stop the person from being killed. The family sued the police, and they LOST, because the police were under no obligation to protect that individual citizen.
That is why I own and carry a gun.
Best one from my college years:
;-) A few keys here and there...
xmodmap a lab computer from across campus.
Start slowly at first, of course...
Yes, Google has never failed to return useful and active links. What a great resource!
AltaVista used to be good until they turned into another www.useless-portal-to-everything.com.
-Mike
Yes, the Virginia reps are pretty good at that. I have gotten a response to every letter or e-mail that I have sent to Allen and Warner. Just sent a letter to Warner this morning about the DMCA.
I've been trying to get an iPaq for a month now, and can't find them for less than $600 on eBay. How dare they talk about a new model when they can't even fill the orders on the current model? Apparently it's because of a shortage of the color screens (hence their release of a greyscale version), and they say they won't be caught up for another 4 months or so. How will this new model's production affect that?
-Mike
I love my N64. Dreamcast and PS2 don't hold a candle to it, because of the games. I really cannot find a decent PlayStation game. Of all the systems I own (Atari 2600, Genesis, Nintendo 8-bit, SNES, N64, Atari Jaguar, Dreamcast, PlayStation, Sega Game Gear), the Nintendo 64 is the best by far.
The reason, in my opinion, is that they really think they have their philosophy right. They are striving for quality over quanity, whereas Sony is the other way around.
Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Zelda: Majora's Mask are great games. I would much rather have my N64 with two or three great games than a PlayStation 2 with lots of mediocre games and ports. Who needs all these new sports games? Seriously... all they do is update the stats.
-Mike
I agree. It's a standard practice of "scienticians" to jump the gun and apply findings way beyond what logical conclusions can be drawn. For example, here's one argument:
1) Fundamentalist Christians believe the universe was created in 7 days.
2) Science proves it is more like 10 billion years.
3) Therefore, God doesn't exist.
They take jumps such as those that are just as laughable as they call us Christians. Now, I'm not a "fundamentalist", and believe science is the pursuit of examining the miracle of God's creation. If we share 90% of the DNA of all other living beings, that proves that we share 90% of the DNA of other living beings, NOTHING else!
Why make such an illogical jump to "prove Darwin" or whatever that means?
There are many different views Christians have on Creation. Some, in fact, believe in what is called "evolutionary creation". These "findings" certainly don't disprove Creation, because creation is about the "why", not the "how".
-Mike
So, what went wrong?
1) The Constitution, as much as people these days hate to admit it, was built upon the ASSUMPTION that people would remain religious and moral. Adams, Washington, Jefferson (even a Diest) admitted that the system would fail if there was no moral base of Christian ethics.
2) The Constitution outlined a REPUBLIC, not a democracy. People somehow got the impression that the Constitution says every citizen should have their individual voice heard.
So, the U.S. is a great country, but would be SO MUCH BETTER if people would just actually read the Constitution!!!! It pains me to hear people so blatantly misquote and misinterpret, as well as the politicians that just don't care about freedoms as long as they please the majority and get re-elected. If we actually treated this country as a republic of united states, with a federal system for union-specific issues such as defense, foreign policy, and commerce, we'd be much better off.
-Mike