I'm not so sure how i feel about something i own being used for something i don't.
What if the computer you bought for US$2000 was largely subsidized by the colation of entities that wanted to use your CPU and mass storage when you weren't so that it only cost you like US$1000 or even US$500. Would you participate then? Even if you wouldn't, could you see how someone else might?
Frankly, we're kind of bored by all these spyware/shareware stories (don't people learn?) so we let it sit around in the submissions bin for a few days, until, say, a slow Saturday night.
Quick Mr. Bezos, get those profitability press releases out before the justice department gets their no-one-else-can-pull-an-Enron-but-us legislation on.
I'm sorry to be bitter but after a hundred "new linux pda" articles, we have yet to see the "this linux pda is the shiznit!" type article from popular media press which details exacty how cool it is and why it is better than palm or wince.
When the "average" Chinese middle class citizen can suddenly afford expensive consumer electronics with public internet access and a credit card to buy stuff with, then we might see the kind of shit this article posits.
Well before that happens, if ever, I think we'll see other more progressive language groups migrate to the public internet with disposable incomes. I have a feeling that we'll be seeing a lot more Spanish language (optional or primary) internet resources before we'll be seeing Chinese.
I am a Michigan Comcast@home subscriber who has been affected by the statewide DNS outage today. This isn't a complaint! I want to give Comcast@home a HUGE thank you for disabling DNS service in my state today.
Because Mom and Pop McDonalds can't figure out how to set their own DNS servers, they aren't online clogging up the tubes with eBay bids on salt and pepper shakers, forwarding the same damn racist joke emails to mailing lists, downloading pr0n, sending stupid 2MB RTF greeting card emails, and instant messaging with Kristy about how much of an asshole Brad was at the bar last night.
Thank you so much for cutting out all that crap. Today has been the fastest day since I hooked up 2 years ago. I can now reload my Slashdot user page to check my karma with great speed and justice.
As of 01-DEC-2001 10:00 AM EST according to the message at the Comcast Online Customer Information Hotline 1-888-433-6963, they are currently unaware of any interuptions in service. They advise that should your service become interupted, call the Customer Service Hotline at 1-888-793-0800.
I am a Comcast@home subscriber in the Metro Detroit area and had unresponsive DNS this morning but they're responding now.
I live in metro Detroit. Since yesterday morning all commercial air traffic around the airport here has stopped. The only planes flying over head are military aircraft out of the nearby Selfridge Air Force base. I just woke up on what should be a cloudless morning and I can see several fading contrails of the jet fighters cris-crossing the sky. I can hear two high-speed jets in the distance and one is getting louder.
I am so profoundly sad for the people and families of those who died.
No one else got it? The link for "Mono" points to a Center for Disease Control (CDC) article on the Epstein-Barr Virus and Infectious Mononucleosis. Very funny IE SmartTag joke, guys.
Was spray painting ideograms for "peace", "love", and "linux" on sidewalks in San Francisco and Chicago an affective strategy for advertising? Was the campaign successful?
Wow.. actually does sound useful and quite cool. I'm sure lawyers who do a lot of printing for hardcopies would LOVE something like this. Good luck with the idea.
How can this possibly be off topic? It's exactly what this thing is.
That was the irony in the joke. A beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters. Doesn't anyone see the humor (or perhaps usefullness) of the idea? I guess distributed computing concepts are only valid for finding alien communications among "I Love Lucy" reruns.:P
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... and all I got was this lousy lawsuit.
Is hide your pr0n on a separate computer. OpenBSD's learning curve is so high, my girlfriend will never find it.
Trust me, she already knows its there.
Could these out of work bnetd developers go to work on the Magic the Gathering Online server please?
What if the computer you bought for US$2000 was largely subsidized by the colation of entities that wanted to use your CPU and mass storage when you weren't so that it only cost you like US$1000 or even US$500. Would you participate then? Even if you wouldn't, could you see how someone else might?
Now THAT'S quality journalism.
Time is running out. Get those books cooking!
Durnit! I'm 2 stories behind...
Check out Total Recorder.
I'm sorry to be bitter but after a hundred "new linux pda" articles, we have yet to see the "this linux pda is the shiznit!" type article from popular media press which details exacty how cool it is and why it is better than palm or wince.
:P
Bleah.
Well before that happens, if ever, I think we'll see other more progressive language groups migrate to the public internet with disposable incomes. I have a feeling that we'll be seeing a lot more Spanish language (optional or primary) internet resources before we'll be seeing Chinese.
I am a Michigan Comcast@home subscriber who has been affected by the statewide DNS outage today. This isn't a complaint! I want to give Comcast@home a HUGE thank you for disabling DNS service in my state today.
Because Mom and Pop McDonalds can't figure out how to set their own DNS servers, they aren't online clogging up the tubes with eBay bids on salt and pepper shakers, forwarding the same damn racist joke emails to mailing lists, downloading pr0n, sending stupid 2MB RTF greeting card emails, and instant messaging with Kristy about how much of an asshole Brad was at the bar last night.
Thank you so much for cutting out all that crap. Today has been the fastest day since I hooked up 2 years ago. I can now reload my Slashdot user page to check my karma with great speed and justice.
Keep up the good work!
I am a Comcast@home subscriber in the Metro Detroit area and had unresponsive DNS this morning but they're responding now.
Has Zone Alarm weighed in on the issue?
http://www.geocities.com/placebic/2001-10-19-wmacr ack.html
I am so profoundly sad for the people and families of those who died.
I want my old world back.
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http://www.geocities.com/placebic/2001-09-06-menu
No one else got it? The link for "Mono" points to a Center for Disease Control (CDC) article on the Epstein-Barr Virus and Infectious Mononucleosis. Very funny IE SmartTag joke, guys.
Wait a second, I viewed this page in IE...
Was spray painting ideograms for "peace", "love", and "linux" on sidewalks in San Francisco and Chicago an affective strategy for advertising? Was the campaign successful?
Wow.. actually does sound useful and quite cool. I'm sure lawyers who do a lot of printing for hardcopies would LOVE something like this. Good luck with the idea.
That was the irony in the joke. A beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters. Doesn't anyone see the humor (or perhaps usefullness) of the idea? I guess distributed computing concepts are only valid for finding alien communications among "I Love Lucy" reruns. :P