With a name like that, I'd expect to logon by typing "By the Power of Greyskull!". (Skellitor might explain the haunting part.) Or start some quest to boldly go where no one has gone before!
Universe does not exactly suit the cozy pub atmosphere I'd be looking for.
Oh yeah, but they have gold plated connectors! (rolls eyes) Like I plan to do printing on Mars or need milspec business cards... I'm sure that the whisper of gold used makes all the ones and zeros have a much fuller and rich tone.
It has (11/2002) three modes: Super-Remote Control Mode, Guard Dragon Mode, Pet Mode. (Don't mix them up when watching the kids.) It can move at a scary 15 meters per minute. Any burglars using walkers are toast if they're not quick about it!
And I submitted a Banryu story 11/06/2002. (There may have been an accepted article about it as well.) Here's a link to Dino-robot promises mobile assistance from 13th November 2002. "They plan to begin selling it in Japan by the end of next year." Hmm.
Bobvila.com was initially a joint venture with Sears, which held a majority interest. But that relationship ended earlier this year when Sears, no longer enamored of the Internet, unceremoniously pulled out.
Perhaps that's when the slide to the spammy side started?
Not all binary groups exist to violate copyright, and what's to stop some jerk from posting a Harlan story to rec.food.cooking? Is every NNTP server operator supposed to drop everything and delete his story from their servers? What happens if they get hundreds of requests for this a day, many of them bogus requests (like from $cientology)? Thousands?
It wasn't posted from AOL. He got some people with AOL accounts to read the post there. That was AOL's whole involvement--until they fscked up their email registration with the copyright office.
I have no problems with Harlan Ellison going after jerks who post his stuff to Usenet. Hang'em high! But if he wins against AOL, I'm sure that he'll try to work his way down the list of news servers in order of bankroll size--perhaps regardless of where it was posted from. (I don't think Google carries binaries groups, so they're safe for the moment.) That would be just plain wrong, and would put him in the camp of groups like $cientology.
Probably a lot involve security restrictions like locking down %windows% directories for non-admin users, as well as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the registry. These were supposed to be done years ago, but many app writers weren't going to do it until Microsoft cracked the whip.
It's not just backwards compatability that's been a problem. A lot of new features for IE/Outlook/Internet have been shoveled on top a basically secure OS core without any thought about security. I hope this means that security people at Microsoft have some power now; so that the next time some marketoid in clown pants says something like "Let's make email auto-executable by preview!", they can shoot him right away rather than slowly removing the feature over years.
Hopefully they're cracking down on all the apps that have to run as admin. If all those users who open up strange attachments didn't have authority to play with the %windows% directories, there'd be a lot less 0wn3d boxes on the net.
I bet that most of the things broken should have been fixed back in the NT5 guidelines pre-Win2000.
Slashdot Mirror
That's why geeks start social networking computer companies.
Universe does not exactly suit the cozy pub atmosphere I'd be looking for.
Oh yeah, but they have gold plated connectors! (rolls eyes) Like I plan to do printing on Mars or need milspec business cards... I'm sure that the whisper of gold used makes all the ones and zeros have a much fuller and rich tone.
That printer could be the core of your new killer robot!
It has (11/2002) three modes: Super-Remote Control Mode, Guard Dragon Mode, Pet Mode. (Don't mix them up when watching the kids.) It can move at a scary 15 meters per minute. Any burglars using walkers are toast if they're not quick about it!
Sanyo said Banryu means "guard-dragon", but as you say, ryu is also dinosaur.
Dang, messed up the link, sorry.
It looked better when I submitted it in Nov 2002. They seem to have moved the sensors aft to give it more of a Cylon look. (Or should that be Cowlon?)
Surely you want a Reason 2.0?
And I submitted a Banryu story 11/06/2002. (There may have been an accepted article about it as well.) Here's a link to Dino-robot promises mobile assistance from 13th November 2002. "They plan to begin selling it in Japan by the end of next year." Hmm.
Until Bilbo returns to the Shire at the end, but that could always be cut, again. *grumble*grumble*
From a Dec 2001 article:
Perhaps that's when the slide to the spammy side started?General article on Bob Vila's ebiz
Not all binary groups exist to violate copyright, and what's to stop some jerk from posting a Harlan story to rec.food.cooking? Is every NNTP server operator supposed to drop everything and delete his story from their servers? What happens if they get hundreds of requests for this a day, many of them bogus requests (like from $cientology)? Thousands?
It wasn't posted from AOL. He got some people with AOL accounts to read the post there. That was AOL's whole involvement--until they fscked up their email registration with the copyright office.
I have no problems with Harlan Ellison going after jerks who post his stuff to Usenet. Hang'em high! But if he wins against AOL, I'm sure that he'll try to work his way down the list of news servers in order of bankroll size--perhaps regardless of where it was posted from. (I don't think Google carries binaries groups, so they're safe for the moment.) That would be just plain wrong, and would put him in the camp of groups like $cientology.
If computer geeks always have to add IANAL disclaimers when talking about the law, can we get lawyers to use I Know Jack About Computers disclaimers?
I see the problem: His original email to AOL was probably ALLCAPS, so their spam-filter ate it.
M. Christine Valada, Esq seems to think that newsgroups have "mirror sites".
Am I missing anything if I skip the shouting part in the first half? Oops, that would be all of Harlan's text.
How about this: Harlan Ellison Can Sue AOL Under DMCA
Probably a lot involve security restrictions like locking down %windows% directories for non-admin users, as well as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the registry. These were supposed to be done years ago, but many app writers weren't going to do it until Microsoft cracked the whip.
The kind of moron who needs an excuse for why his midterm wasn't ready? :^P
It's not just backwards compatability that's been a problem. A lot of new features for IE/Outlook/Internet have been shoveled on top a basically secure OS core without any thought about security. I hope this means that security people at Microsoft have some power now; so that the next time some marketoid in clown pants says something like "Let's make email auto-executable by preview!", they can shoot him right away rather than slowly removing the feature over years.
I bet that most of the things broken should have been fixed back in the NT5 guidelines pre-Win2000.