Additionally, the U.S. is in a legal state of war. There is no formal procedure or document required to create this condition and there never has been.
I have no idea where you get your information from. The last "legal state of war" the U.S. has been in was World War 2. As Congress never declared war, I'm afraid this assertion is patently false. Consequently, any wartime powers conferred on the executive are irrelevant and inapplicable.
Any other absurd right-wing talking points you want me to debunk?
Of course I know. Interspersed throughout all those articles are ones Slashdot makes up, too, you know. Excuse me: you pinhead. Every year you whiny apologists turn out to voice support for this mindfuckingly stupid tradition and that shit gets old, too.
You don't get it -- there are no amusing bits to be gathered. None. When presented with the spam of threads in prior to unheard of volume, the humor gets lost in the depravity of it all. I do spend many days a year without slashdot, and in fact have not posted a comment in a year and 4 months prior to this. But it's so absolutely lame that I felt I had to say something. And you're part of the problem.
Every year on April 1, you spam your front page with these joke articles. Every year, they get more repetitive, more irritating, and less funny. Are you familiar with the concept of moderation? A single well executed joke amidst a dozen legitimate articles is immeasurably more effective than a torrential flood of lameass spam stories.
And it would be different if you (or your submitters) had a sense of humor. But you fucking don't. Paris Hilton promoting open source, hoo boy! That's some top notch writing right there. And hey, coming up with 1000 fake Google things, each more wildly zany than the last, that's qualit.... no, really, it's just mindfuckingly stupid.
Any particular reason NASA went with a B&W CCD for this one? I seem to recall earlier Mars missions being in full color -- then again, it may have been this 'pseudocolor' stuff as well.
Like most Americans, I like my free money right here, right now -- mostly because I won't remember the purchase when I finally get the rebate. Getting a check for $50 in the mail three months after I bought that hard drive is like winning the beauty contest in Monopoly. Wow, fifty bucks out of thin air, cool!
So for that reason I don't like rebates. I like my savings at the register, not in my personal cash-flow analysis at the end of the quarter.
While you're clearly a troll, I hate to see this sort of crap go unchallenged.
It is an industry standard in the telecom world to provide a blatantly-obvious default password. As a poster mentioned below, cisco/cisco is pretty well known. I work for another large network equipment provider, and our default password is also our company name. Why? --because it saves us some headaches when we're doing initial installs, and it is the user's responsibility to insure their equipment is properly secured.
Whoever was responsible for leaving the default passwords unchallenged in a situation that can yield $12k losses should be fired (Well, maybe not quite that drastic). And their company should be responsible for the victims' bills. But I don't see how this oversight by the end-user can be the equipment manufacturer's problem. If you set up an ISP and left your router's default cisco/cisco u/p active, and then were immediately compromised, how would that be the fault of Cisco?
Users are given a brand new phone system, with some default password used to set voicemail messages. Users did not change that default password. Enterprising na'er-do-wells realize this is going on, use the default password to change the voicemail greetings to "yes, yes, I will accept the charges, yes, yes" and proceed to make free collect calls.
We have a classic case of stupid users.
It's not that I don't feel for them. And I certainly think AT&T/SBC will start provisioning these systems with pseudorandom passwords as defaults. But if you don't change your password, and someone else finds out about it... that's no one's fault but your own.
Should the people who did this be punished? Absolutely, they clearly broke the law. But now, maybe people will begin to realize that security isn't something that they can leave up to third parties -- it's something they need to take in their own hands, lest they find themselves $12,000 up shit creek and lacking any means of locomotion.
At about 31 million times the size of today's fastest IDE hard drive caches, that's one gigantic freakin' buffer. I wonder what the throughput on one of those babies is...
AIM uses a significant amount of bandwidth, even idling. Run Ethereal on any machine with AIM up and running, doing nothing - on my W2k box, about 2/3 of the idle traffic was domain/workgroup/etc broadcasts, and 1/3 was AIM acknowledgements, signons, signoffs, etc.
...have been doing this for awhile now. I've seen download sites giving you the option of grabbing game demos from their site or through some small P2P client that they offer, which snags parts of the file from other users and combines them all on your end.
This technology's out there, but it's nice to see it gaining some fairly widespread adoption.
I have to second an above poster's question. A mylar disc, in a credit card sized plastic vessel, with the read head and motor in the 'reader' (the 'floppy disk drive'), initially only at 100MB...
Congratulations, you've re-engineered a LS120 disk to be slightly smaller and have its reader connect via USB.
The problem with the 9x00 series is that ATi still has a long, long way to go in the driver department. I cannot tell you how many "cutting edge" gamers I've run into who cannot extract a decent picture or more than 5FPS out of this card due to horrible driver problems. To the best of my recollection, this has pretty much always been the case with ATi, and although they have been better recently they stil have a long way to go before they match nVidia's stability.
Just a warning to those of you who (inexplicably) want to pay a gigantic premium for the fastest card on the market for about another quarter.
Because Slashdot does not properly utilize the Heading tags.
The concept of the H1-H6 tags is to subdivide a page into distinct sections, like the headings of a paper. Therefore, perhaps the title of your blog would be in H1 brackets, each post you make to it having its title in H2, and if you wanted to sub-divide your posts into logical divisions you could use H3-H6.
Not to toot my own horn, but I've accomplished this sort of thing on my own at http://thirtyfour.org - the website is entirely readable without any extraneous formatting whatsoever. Content should be seperate from design: if you remove the "design" from your site your "content" should still be accessible. On Slashdot this is impossible: the content is shoehorned into tables and divisions which make things difficult.
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Additionally, the U.S. is in a legal state of war. There is no formal procedure or document required to create this condition and there never has been.
I have no idea where you get your information from. The last "legal state of war" the U.S. has been in was World War 2. As Congress never declared war, I'm afraid this assertion is patently false. Consequently, any wartime powers conferred on the executive are irrelevant and inapplicable.
Any other absurd right-wing talking points you want me to debunk?
Or one that's 12 years old...
(You're right, they do!)
Anyone who was on the verge of switching before now have virtually no reason not to.
Yeah, cause I was just biding my time with Firefox until Opera was free. Right.
Clever boy!
Of course I know. Interspersed throughout all those articles are ones Slashdot makes up, too, you know. Excuse me: you pinhead. Every year you whiny apologists turn out to voice support for this mindfuckingly stupid tradition and that shit gets old, too.
You don't get it -- there are no amusing bits to be gathered. None. When presented with the spam of threads in prior to unheard of volume, the humor gets lost in the depravity of it all. I do spend many days a year without slashdot, and in fact have not posted a comment in a year and 4 months prior to this. But it's so absolutely lame that I felt I had to say something. And you're part of the problem.
No, I know Merlin and had an email account and webspace there until the site was shut down.
Every year on April 1, you spam your front page with these joke articles. Every year, they get more repetitive, more irritating, and less funny. Are you familiar with the concept of moderation? A single well executed joke amidst a dozen legitimate articles is immeasurably more effective than a torrential flood of lameass spam stories.
And it would be different if you (or your submitters) had a sense of humor. But you fucking don't. Paris Hilton promoting open source, hoo boy! That's some top notch writing right there. And hey, coming up with 1000 fake Google things, each more wildly zany than the last, that's qualit.... no, really, it's just mindfuckingly stupid.
Give it a fucking rest. Please. I'm begging you.
Owned.
Any particular reason NASA went with a B&W CCD for this one? I seem to recall earlier Mars missions being in full color -- then again, it may have been this 'pseudocolor' stuff as well.
levine
And here I thought ESR was a level-headed, objective advocate of OSS.
levine
My letter writing campaign has paid off!
Like most Americans, I like my free money right here, right now -- mostly because I won't remember the purchase when I finally get the rebate. Getting a check for $50 in the mail three months after I bought that hard drive is like winning the beauty contest in Monopoly. Wow, fifty bucks out of thin air, cool!
So for that reason I don't like rebates. I like my savings at the register, not in my personal cash-flow analysis at the end of the quarter.
levine
While you're clearly a troll, I hate to see this sort of crap go unchallenged.
It is an industry standard in the telecom world to provide a blatantly-obvious default password. As a poster mentioned below, cisco/cisco is pretty well known. I work for another large network equipment provider, and our default password is also our company name. Why? --because it saves us some headaches when we're doing initial installs, and it is the user's responsibility to insure their equipment is properly secured.
Whoever was responsible for leaving the default passwords unchallenged in a situation that can yield $12k losses should be fired (Well, maybe not quite that drastic). And their company should be responsible for the victims' bills. But I don't see how this oversight by the end-user can be the equipment manufacturer's problem. If you set up an ISP and left your router's default cisco/cisco u/p active, and then were immediately compromised, how would that be the fault of Cisco?
levine
Users are given a brand new phone system, with some default password used to set voicemail messages. Users did not change that default password. Enterprising na'er-do-wells realize this is going on, use the default password to change the voicemail greetings to "yes, yes, I will accept the charges, yes, yes" and proceed to make free collect calls.
We have a classic case of stupid users.
It's not that I don't feel for them. And I certainly think AT&T/SBC will start provisioning these systems with pseudorandom passwords as defaults. But if you don't change your password, and someone else finds out about it... that's no one's fault but your own.
Should the people who did this be punished? Absolutely, they clearly broke the law. But now, maybe people will begin to realize that security isn't something that they can leave up to third parties -- it's something they need to take in their own hands, lest they find themselves $12,000 up shit creek and lacking any means of locomotion.
levine
There are probably ten or fifteen leaked keys by now. Finding Windows keys isn't difficult, and never has been. Why is this news?
Google smackdown and Googlewhack? I hadn't heard of these terms before, but after looking at them, perhaps it is for the best...
levine
We musn't let it tempt us with its power. It bends its bearer to its will, and cannot be used as a weapon to fight darker forces.
CAST IT INTO THE FIRE
AIM uses a significant amount of bandwidth, even idling. Run Ethereal on any machine with AIM up and running, doing nothing - on my W2k box, about 2/3 of the idle traffic was domain/workgroup/etc broadcasts, and 1/3 was AIM acknowledgements, signons, signoffs, etc.
levine
...have been doing this for awhile now. I've seen download sites giving you the option of grabbing game demos from their site or through some small P2P client that they offer, which snags parts of the file from other users and combines them all on your end.
This technology's out there, but it's nice to see it gaining some fairly widespread adoption.
levine
I have to second an above poster's question. A mylar disc, in a credit card sized plastic vessel, with the read head and motor in the 'reader' (the 'floppy disk drive'), initially only at 100MB...
Congratulations, you've re-engineered a LS120 disk to be slightly smaller and have its reader connect via USB.
levine
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
Just because your five boards have ample space does not mean that the ATX spec mandates that space to be there.
levine
Dude, seriously. Shut up. You're pandering for karma, it's blatant.
The problem with the 9x00 series is that ATi still has a long, long way to go in the driver department. I cannot tell you how many "cutting edge" gamers I've run into who cannot extract a decent picture or more than 5FPS out of this card due to horrible driver problems. To the best of my recollection, this has pretty much always been the case with ATi, and although they have been better recently they stil have a long way to go before they match nVidia's stability.
Just a warning to those of you who (inexplicably) want to pay a gigantic premium for the fastest card on the market for about another quarter.
levine
Because Slashdot does not properly utilize the Heading tags.
The concept of the H1-H6 tags is to subdivide a page into distinct sections, like the headings of a paper. Therefore, perhaps the title of your blog would be in H1 brackets, each post you make to it having its title in H2, and if you wanted to sub-divide your posts into logical divisions you could use H3-H6.
Not to toot my own horn, but I've accomplished this sort of thing on my own at http://thirtyfour.org - the website is entirely readable without any extraneous formatting whatsoever. Content should be seperate from design: if you remove the "design" from your site your "content" should still be accessible. On Slashdot this is impossible: the content is shoehorned into tables and divisions which make things difficult.
Anyway, there you go.
levine