'Speaking of which... Everybody remembers typing in dates on a computer, right? Most of the time, you type 03-23-94... or an unreasonable facsimile thereof, right?
Anybody wanna guess how many programs will suddenly stop working on January 1st, 2000? (Even ANSI doesn't seem to have figured it out. Their EDI standard avoids all mention of centuries... -- Only six years, folks!)
-Jim "But what will the [banking] checks be like?" Little
and possible the best use of the built in clock on a machine ever
I did the following... (under Linux)
biafra:~# date 011903122038 Tue Jan 19 03:12:00 GMT 2038 biafra:~# date Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 GMT 2038 biafra:~# !! date Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 GMT 2038 biafra:~# !! date Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 GMT 1901
At around 3:14, my modem program (seyon) started to eat memory like crazy, until all 16Megs of RAM and most of my swap partition got filled. Maybe this "bug" should be looked into, though I guess there is no rush...
That was kind of freaky... As the clock ticked towards final Armageddon, my harddrive light lit up and went crazy. Other than that and my xclock locking up (and using 90% of the CPU), I haven't noticed any serious problems.
Greg
i love the quote about there being no rush.... hehehehe if only they knew......
You obviuosly dont come form the UK then, the most you get is crappy junk mail saying you can have one. Even when i order a card or get a replacement card it arrives and i have to make a free phone call to get the thing activated before i start unsing it. Check your facts before you talk out of your arse..
i think you will find that they are called polling stations mate:)
Simon
Re:What about homeland security?
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TAM 5 Has landed
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
This is helping terrorists gods damn it..
S
Re:The American spelling is objectively correct
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Flavor vs. Flavour
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· Score: 1
(Of course, they still have their funny habit of leaving off the 'r' in those words, saying 'FLAVE-uh' and 'CUL-uh', which is obviously wrong as well. If a word isn't supposed have an 'r', there wouldn't be any 'r'.)
What just like your hill billy red necks from down south...
Incidentally i recall that americans promounce the word herb as 'erb and drop that h off...
Whenever i see sometihng like this i always remember the immortal Bill Hicks
'How long has the wwar on drugs been going on for.....years. Do you know what that means, that the government is losing........ to a bunch of dropouts... that are high hehehehe'
Yes let us remember the heady days gone by, remember if you will the playground and chatting with your mates about how good blakes 7 was....
then remember things like thunderbirds 2017 and all the other failed programmes that tried to make a triumphant return.
If it does come back (i sort of hope is does not) the only way it will survive is if it gets real good real fast, i mean lets face it the first season of ST:TNG was bollox (bad acting, wobly sets terrible sfx) but look how great it was in the end.
I think i agree with one of the earlier postings, i think a new twist on Dr Who would be a lot better.
The longer you wait the higher the expectation is going to be, call me mr 'glass-half-empty' but i have this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach that this game will definatly not own all my base.
It will be wicked to actually see a level and see what all the hype and build up has been but at the end of the day we will all buy it just becuase it is doom3 no matter how it plays.
For gut never lies, and at the moment it is saying, leave work, kill the database and go home.
I know this will be trolled but i just know it will suck after all this time
Lets face it, in out time we have all had the free email addy's from these places, i mean i have had (too name but a few)
hotmail.com yahoo.com lycos.co.uk britneyspea rs.com (freaked a few people out) fcuk-me.co.uk etcetc
how many of the other big name free email providers out there are gleefully handing out any details that you registered (like any were real) and say to the cops
"theres an adress here you might want to check something_horrible@some-email.com" and then the police sit there and track all the emails for a while.
How much worse would this be is you encrypted your emails so it looked really suspicious ?
Are there any really good free web based email clients out there that you can suggest where this thing might not be an issue, what do you use ?????
This is not really what the data protection act is meant to mean, a company has an entry under the data protection act which tells both the public and workers what may or may not be held by the company legally.
For example the company i work for has many enteries under the data protection act (what details they may hold on staff, what info they hold on clients etc etc)when i started as i have access to the data base (as would hospital staff) i sign the data protection act which says that i have access to the information and could in effect see the information that is contained in any persons entry but am not allow by law to misuse or divulge this information in any way.
Example when i worked for the TV licencing in the UK i had access to the database and wrote reports that braught in the CC nums of all the people that payed their licence by debit or credit card, beucase we were allowed to hold that information and i was legally allowed to view it then thats fine, if i was to corrupt that or sell it then i would be proseccuted under the data protection act (very very very bad, would probably not get another IT job ever) and the computer misuse act amongst others.
I have also signed the offical secrets act at a higher level which technically means i am not supposed to tell you that i signed it, this is basicly for government and secret data, this would be the place to use the honeytokens.
I beleive that in this country (UK) that any person using medical records has to,by law, sign the data protection act which gives them the right to browse through all records but doesnot allow them to use or disclose the information found with the prosecution.
i may be wrong, who knows or really licks giraffes bottoms:)
We no longer have the death penalty in the UK, our last colony in the carribean has cancelled its right to the death penalty (for piracy on the high seas and high Treason) as when ever they asked for the house of lords to ratify the judgement it was always turned down.
It was only cancelled earlier this year however and up to that point we still technically had a death penalty.
But seriously, there is no mention of what this all cost, how can it be an article telling us the best way to do stuff and then not go in to the price that was splashed out.
With scrounged cables and second hand routers and the like i have my home network set up, 3 pcs, hifi equip etc for less than a hundred quid.
Things like this just get my goat, was i blind or was there actually mention of the price, please help me out here, i put a starting bid in of £3000 (just shy of $5000) for the whole lot including labour, any advances or better guess's.
im bored and tired, never use siebel data warehouse's, that that be a lesson to you
Becuase quite frankly once you've heard 'We will rock you' , 'Radio Ga Ga' and 'Who Wants To Live Forever' and the immortal 'Bohemian Rhapsody' there could not be another choice.
I was reading the article and although it was nice to see/. on there id did seem to be portrayed in a kind of negative light. Yes if it something we dont like we seriously crucify it.
like SCO for example
And when you do look back over the new and the articles that make on here there is about 60 rant about how bad whatever x is, 30 take the piss out of whatever x is and the last 10 is good natured honest to goodness praise.
Are we really becoming know as the cynical ass of the internet body or should we use the collective voice that we have as a wake up call for all those that read and never ever contribute (you know who you are you cowards).
I certainly acknowledge the fact that in most cases our whinges are fully justified and the rant does us and any one who reads it the power of good but there are times when a whingey little post is just so posted out of a stereotypical knee jerk reaction to a head line (some times without reading) that it makes us, as professionals, look quiet childish.
Slashdot Mirror
It may be offtopic and it only goes up to number 103 but this really is the most fantastic periodic table i have ever scene...
Any one out there teachers ? this would be a nice little interactive site for the students to look at..
MOD THIS UP
S
my two favourite quotes from the whole thing are
'Speaking of which... Everybody remembers typing in dates on a computer,
right? Most of the time, you type 03-23-94... or an unreasonable facsimile
thereof, right?
Anybody wanna guess how many programs will suddenly stop working on
January 1st, 2000? (Even ANSI doesn't seem to have figured it out. Their
EDI standard avoids all mention of centuries... -- Only six years, folks!)
-Jim "But what will the [banking] checks be like?" Little
and possible the best use of the built in clock on a machine ever
I did the following... (under Linux)
biafra:~# date 011903122038
Tue Jan 19 03:12:00 GMT 2038
biafra:~# date
Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 GMT 2038
biafra:~# !!
date
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 GMT 2038
biafra:~# !!
date
Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 GMT 1901
At around 3:14, my modem program (seyon) started to eat memory like crazy,
until all 16Megs of RAM and most of my swap partition got filled. Maybe
this "bug" should be looked into, though I guess there is no rush...
That was kind of freaky... As the clock ticked towards final Armageddon,
my harddrive light lit up and went crazy. Other than that and my xclock
locking up (and using 90% of the CPU), I haven't noticed any serious problems.
Greg
i love the quote about there being no rush....
hehehehe if only they knew......
You obviuosly dont come form the UK then, the most you get is crappy junk mail saying you can have one. Even when i order a card or get a replacement card it arrives and i have to make a free phone call to get the thing activated before i start unsing it. Check your facts before you talk out of your arse..
S
i think you will find that they are called polling stations mate :)
Simon
This is helping terrorists gods damn it..
S
(Of course, they still have their funny habit of leaving off the 'r' in those words, saying 'FLAVE-uh' and 'CUL-uh', which is obviously wrong as well. If a word isn't supposed have an 'r', there wouldn't be any 'r'.)
:)
What just like your hill billy red necks from down south...
Incidentally i recall that americans promounce the word herb as 'erb and drop that h off...
so yaa boo sucks to you
damn..
:)
you must have a shed load of pr)n to need an entire attic to store it in...
can i come round some time
i assume you meant addict ?
s
is this what they call vapor-ware ?
S
This is just another thinly veiled attempt at giving my mother yet more bloody methods to call me up and find out why she has no bloody grandkids yet.
I dispare i really do..
Whenever i see sometihng like this i always remember the immortal Bill Hicks
'How long has the wwar on drugs been going on for.....years. Do you know what that means, that the government is losing........ to a bunch of dropouts... that are high hehehehe'
Gosh...
that means you have seen lock,stock and two smoking barrels
oh yeah cos the American Legal system is soooooo super fast....
:)
its more like watching the European System in Bullet Time (TM)
where music.taste 'Good'
true, lame but opened fine using openoffice 1.1
but like you say, its hardley the worlds best spreadsheet, i wonder if this was a spool file
set pages 9999
spool c:\boring.csv
select artist||','||band from riaa.fact_table
spool off
great now i can open this in excel and save it as an excel file, that'll fox those slashdotters.
Yes let us remember the heady days gone by, remember if you will the playground and chatting with your mates about how good blakes 7 was....
then remember things like thunderbirds 2017 and all the other failed programmes that tried to make a triumphant return.
If it does come back (i sort of hope is does not) the only way it will survive is if it gets real good real fast, i mean lets face it the first season of ST:TNG was bollox (bad acting, wobly sets terrible sfx) but look how great it was in the end.
I think i agree with one of the earlier postings, i think a new twist on Dr Who would be a lot better.
just my two pence worth (3.2 cents)
The longer you wait the higher the expectation is going to be, call me mr 'glass-half-empty' but i have this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach that this game will definatly not own all my base.
It will be wicked to actually see a level and see what all the hype and build up has been but at the end of the day we will all buy it just becuase it is doom3 no matter how it plays.
For gut never lies, and at the moment it is saying, leave work, kill the database and go home.
I know this will be trolled but i just know it will suck after all this time
Lets face it, in out time we have all had the free email addy's from these places, i mean i have had (too name but a few)
a rs.com (freaked a few people out)
hotmail.com
yahoo.com
lycos.co.uk
britneyspe
fcuk-me.co.uk
etcetc
how many of the other big name free email providers out there are gleefully handing out any details that you registered (like any were real) and say to the cops
"theres an adress here you might want to check something_horrible@some-email.com" and then the police sit there and track all the emails for a while.
How much worse would this be is you encrypted your emails so it looked really suspicious ?
Are there any really good free web based email clients out there that you can suggest where this thing might not be an issue, what do you use ?????
S
To the best of my knowledge....
:)
This is not really what the data protection act is meant to mean, a company has an entry under the data protection act which tells both the public and workers what may or may not be held by the company legally.
For example the company i work for has many enteries under the data protection act (what details they may hold on staff, what info they hold on clients etc etc)when i started as i have access to the data base (as would hospital staff) i sign the data protection act which says that i have access to the information and could in effect see the information that is contained in any persons entry but am not allow by law to misuse or divulge this information in any way.
Example when i worked for the TV licencing in the UK i had access to the database and wrote reports that braught in the CC nums of all the people that payed their licence by debit or credit card, beucase we were allowed to hold that information and i was legally allowed to view it then thats fine, if i was to corrupt that or sell it then i would be proseccuted under the data protection act (very very very bad, would probably not get another IT job ever) and the computer misuse act amongst others.
I have also signed the offical secrets act at a higher level which technically means i am not supposed to tell you that i signed it, this is basicly for government and secret data, this would be the place to use the honeytokens.
I beleive that in this country (UK) that any person using medical records has to,by law, sign the data protection act which gives them the right to browse through all records but doesnot allow them to use or disclose the information found with the prosecution.
i may be wrong, who knows or really licks giraffes bottoms
S
lawks sir, in the spirit of slashdothood i decided to help you, either i was just too darn late or you have set up the first slashdotted emulator....
glad to be of help
S
yes, they are stiff competition
We no longer have the death penalty in the UK, our last colony in the carribean has cancelled its right to the death penalty (for piracy on the high seas and high Treason) as when ever they asked for the house of lords to ratify the judgement it was always turned down.
It was only cancelled earlier this year however and up to that point we still technically had a death penalty.
S
Blah blah blah shameless plug
But seriously, there is no mention of what this all cost, how can it be an article telling us the best way to do stuff and then not go in to the price that was splashed out.
With scrounged cables and second hand routers and the like i have my home network set up, 3 pcs, hifi equip etc for less than a hundred quid.
Things like this just get my goat, was i blind or was there actually mention of the price, please help me out here, i put a starting bid in of £3000 (just shy of $5000) for the whole lot including labour, any advances or better guess's.
im bored and tired, never use siebel data warehouse's, that that be a lesson to you
Becuase quite frankly once you've heard 'We will rock you' , 'Radio Ga Ga' and 'Who Wants To Live Forever' and the immortal 'Bohemian Rhapsody' there could not be another choice.
If you dont get it...age.. its the only way
S
I was reading the article and although it was nice to see /. on there id did seem to be portrayed in a kind of negative light. Yes if it something we dont like we seriously crucify it.
:)
like SCO for example
And when you do look back over the new and the articles that make on here there is about 60 rant about how bad whatever x is, 30 take the piss out of whatever x is and the last 10 is good natured honest to goodness praise.
Are we really becoming know as the cynical ass of the internet body or should we use the collective voice that we have as a wake up call for all those that read and never ever contribute (you know who you are you cowards).
I certainly acknowledge the fact that in most cases our whinges are fully justified and the rant does us and any one who reads it the power of good but there are times when a whingey little post is just so posted out of a stereotypical knee jerk reaction to a head line (some times without reading) that it makes us, as professionals, look quiet childish.
Dont worry, be happy
i am prepared for your flames so birng it on
S
seriously, as i read this all i could imagine was Gates himself sat in a huge leather chair dictating this word for work to Kramer his Be-atch.
Fingers steepled.... excellllleeeennntt
S