I actually had bork set as my language for awhile, but then i noticed that "news" isn't linked to on the google buttons. Forced me to go back to english.
True. While preparing my mostly facetious post, I started browsing around the site. babelfish is competent enough that you can actually understand the issues quite clearly. And not all comments are unintelligble.... it appears that babelfish has a big problem with idiom and different writing styles, but it indeed has come a long way. (and I freaking love that it's built into konqueror)
to wit: This sight (Slashdot Japan), use was started on 2001 May 28th as the Japanese edition of Slashdot which is the popularity sight of US.
Slashdot is news for the high-tech mania which is started in 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates and the sight for chatting. It is the mammoth sight which starts hitting 3000 ten thousand page views in month, but to tell the truth most is supported by many volunteers and enthusiastic ???? and the user which repeats comment.
It has such enlightening articles that you just can't get in the states. Like:
The mouse which designates "the swallow" as motif
Amendment plan such as virus compilation crime and the criminal law Code of Criminal Procedure which includes mail log 90 day retention
Comet probe Rosetta it launches, or the distance where is long to the comet
To jump on the most current mythology, how about we call this one Sauron?
I second the motion! Although to be perfectly accurate, Sauron wasn't the god of the underworld in tolkien-land. That was mandos. Sauron was originally a maia of limited importance, until he inherited melkor's place (after melkor was cast into the void).
The article in question addresses the use of 60hz radiation, which is of course the frequency of AC in the US. So my guess is all your equipment is suspect.
The flux densities (0.01- 0.5 mT) used in our studies are within the levels that one could encounter in the environment. Household and office levels of extremely low frequency can vary from 0.01-1 T. Intermittent levels can reach more than 10 T. Levels near a power transmission line can be 10-30 T, whereas the magnetic flux density can vary between 0.1 and 1 mT near some electrical appliances (e.g., electric blankets, hair dryers). Much higher levels are expected in occupational exposures.
The whole "magic is indistinguishable..." bit, as well as 'uploading' yourself into a computer, as well as 'let's see what happens when old fashioned cultures collide with new cultures' is all old hat. Already been done many times before.
This is nothing new. The man you extol as being a fresh creative force for the beleagured sci-fi genre is doing the same thing every author has done for the bast 80 years.
"After the object is numbered, then the discoverers (that's us) have one decade to propose a name to the Internation Astronomical Union. There are even more rules about the name of the object. 2004 DW, for instance, must be named after an underworld diety because it is in a Pluto-like orbit."
Okay, everyone... we have 10 years to come up with a better name than Quaoar. Get to it.
Oh well, I guess I was wrong. Time to drop the bluff: I make up lies to impress people on/.
Because obviously you know that running experimental networking services on your computer that require you to punch holes in your firewall, and allowing you to receive hundreds of connections per second, is obviously secure... because they only know your IP, after all.
fdisk just monks the partition table. What you really want to do is use wipe or shred. Then overwrite the entire disk with random data. Then you go get your drill, and make some holes in the platters. Then you go get your sledgehammer, and beat the demons out of that sucker.
And yes, i have done this for hard drives that have been used to store sensitive financial and work-product data.
And yes, I have found the fabled unwiped disk in the trash/salvage store/forgotten closet, complete with such goodies as unrequited love letters and pr0n-cache.
"Don't mess with Microsoft, they have the money and the power to track you down, even on Internet and through P2P networks. And they will, this is just an example and a warning."
I have the power to track people through P2P, too. I've found people in my apartment complex on the networks. I've even met a few friends that way. Too bad that doesn't mean that I'm a multi-billion dollar company.
Please note, it is absurdly easy to track people on the networks. It is not indicative MS power, or their legal muscle.
As for seeing & having it, one major point is that you CAN. What was once taboo is now freely available (sorta), and people are reveling in like. To draw a completely inaccurate parallel, it's like the sexual revolution of the 70s/80s in the US.
I assure you, if i hadn't, i would have gotten a number of responses informing me of my mistake, as well as the people pointing out that OSS is still included in the kernel, due to bugs in ALSA (Australiasian Law Students Association) and continued need of backwards compatibility for legacy OSS (Office of Strategic Services) programs.
Considereing that the major XFree86 versions get incremented only every few years or so, now is as good a time as any (and no, i really don't think any time is a good time for this)
For a second there, i though you said it came with a subwoofer.... holy shit, you did.
Subwoofer on a laptop? That's like putting nitrous boosters on a vespa.
And integrating it into a battery? Heaven help you if your battery dies, and you have to get it replaced. I'd hate to see the replacement charge for that unique oem component.
Last time I checked, intense vibrations were definateley not good for, well, anything.
My actual point, before i got sidetracked, related to the individual who was complaining about the price of his comcast service. It had nothing to do with the disney purchase at all. Nor with stock, nor with mortgages.
When you buy that car, is your total buying power the liquid assets you have in the bank? Or do you also have access to money you can raise by selling your old car, taking out a loan, agreeing to a financing contract, collecting on old debts...
Comcast's revenue for the year ending December 2003 was 18.347 billion US$ from it's cable services. That does not take into consideration it's other forms of income, or cash that it could raise by other means. Feel free to adjust my figures accordingly (approximately a factor of 4), or check out their SEC filings.
They don't care about your principles. That's why they raise rates. They know that there will be enough customers that will pay the increases to cover the small percentage of customers who abandon ship.
Considering they have 66B to spend on this deal, and you pay probably about 75 to them each month, over the course of a year, that's a ratio of 1:73,333,333.
That's right. You're not even a millionth part of their empire. They don't care about you.
Now, if you could convince a million of your friends to jump ship with you (and I would gladly toss my hat in, too), then maybe they'd consider not raising rates.
Slashdot Mirror
I actually had bork set as my language for awhile, but then i noticed that "news" isn't linked to on the google buttons. Forced me to go back to english.
True. While preparing my mostly facetious post, I started browsing around the site. babelfish is competent enough that you can actually understand the issues quite clearly. And not all comments are unintelligble
slashdot.jp is great.
to wit: This sight (Slashdot Japan), use was started on 2001 May 28th as the Japanese edition of Slashdot which is the popularity sight of US.
Slashdot is news for the high-tech mania which is started in 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates and the sight for chatting. It is the mammoth sight which starts hitting 3000 ten thousand page views in month, but to tell the truth most is supported by many volunteers and enthusiastic ???? and the user which repeats comment.
It has such enlightening articles that you just can't get in the states. Like:
The mouse which designates "the swallow" as motif
Amendment plan such as virus compilation crime and the criminal law Code of Criminal Procedure which includes mail log 90 day retention
Comet probe Rosetta it launches, or the distance where is long to the comet
I love the fish.
To jump on the most current mythology, how about we call this one Sauron?
I second the motion! Although to be perfectly accurate, Sauron wasn't the god of the underworld in tolkien-land. That was mandos. Sauron was originally a maia of limited importance, until he inherited melkor's place (after melkor was cast into the void).
Regardless, I like it.
The article in question addresses the use of 60hz radiation, which is of course the frequency of AC in the US. So my guess is all your equipment is suspect.
The flux densities (0.01- 0.5 mT) used in our studies are within the levels that one could encounter in the environment. Household and office levels of extremely low frequency can vary from 0.01-1 T. Intermittent levels can reach more than 10 T. Levels near a power transmission line can be 10-30 T, whereas the magnetic flux density can vary between 0.1 and 1 mT near some electrical appliances (e.g., electric blankets, hair dryers). Much higher levels are expected in occupational exposures.
The whole "magic is indistinguishable ..." bit, as well as 'uploading' yourself into a computer, as well as 'let's see what happens when old fashioned cultures collide with new cultures' is all old hat. Already been done many times before.
This is nothing new. The man you extol as being a fresh creative force for the beleagured sci-fi genre is doing the same thing every author has done for the bast 80 years.
From the article:
... we have 10 years to come up with a better name than Quaoar. Get to it.
"After the object is numbered, then the discoverers (that's us) have one decade to propose a name to the Internation Astronomical Union. There are even more rules about the name of the object. 2004 DW, for instance, must be named after an underworld diety because it is in a Pluto-like orbit."
Okay, everyone
Oh well, I guess I was wrong. Time to drop the bluff: I make up lies to impress people on /.
... because they only know your IP, after all.
Because obviously you know that running experimental networking services on your computer that require you to punch holes in your firewall, and allowing you to receive hundreds of connections per second, is obviously secure
Traceroute is your friend. Port scanning is your friend. Social Engineering will make you a new best friend at the ISP central office.
And in general, knowing the topography of the network you are on is a good idea.
Trust me on this
fdisk just monks the partition table. What you really want to do is use wipe or shred. Then overwrite the entire disk with random data. Then you go get your drill, and make some holes in the platters. Then you go get your sledgehammer, and beat the demons out of that sucker.
And yes, i have done this for hard drives that have been used to store sensitive financial and work-product data.
And yes, I have found the fabled unwiped disk in the trash/salvage store/forgotten closet, complete with such goodies as unrequited love letters and pr0n-cache.
boh! you beat me by two minutes.
krunk. now i'm redundant.
It's already been disclosed that it was apparently Mainsoft, a microsoft partner who ports code to *nix.
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Check out: http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Arti
Yeah, not a great article, but that was the first link that came up on google news.
"Don't mess with Microsoft, they have the money and the power to track you down, even on Internet and through P2P networks. And they will, this is just an example and a warning."
I have the power to track people through P2P, too. I've found people in my apartment complex on the networks. I've even met a few friends that way. Too bad that doesn't mean that I'm a multi-billion dollar company.
Please note, it is absurdly easy to track people on the networks. It is not indicative MS power, or their legal muscle.
As for seeing & having it, one major point is that you CAN. What was once taboo is now freely available (sorta), and people are reveling in like. To draw a completely inaccurate parallel, it's like the sexual revolution of the 70s/80s in the US.
Otherwise, I agree with your post.
I assure you, if i hadn't, i would have gotten a number of responses informing me of my mistake, as well as the people pointing out that OSS is still included in the kernel, due to bugs in ALSA (Australiasian Law Students Association) and continued need of backwards compatibility for legacy OSS (Office of Strategic Services) programs.
And yes, I am now offtopic.
I believe he's talking about the Open Sound System, which has been deprecated in the linux kernel 2.6 branch.
/sarcasm
Were the tides ever not in their favour?
Considereing that the major XFree86 versions get incremented only every few years or so, now is as good a time as any (and no, i really don't think any time is a good time for this)
Oftentimes, humour is borne out of the introspection into one's own world.
That's insight.
For a second there, i though you said it came with a subwoofer .... holy shit, you did.
Subwoofer on a laptop? That's like putting nitrous boosters on a vespa.
And integrating it into a battery? Heaven help you if your battery dies, and you have to get it replaced. I'd hate to see the replacement charge for that unique oem component.
Last time I checked, intense vibrations were definateley not good for, well, anything.
But Civilization has tought us that the best tactic is to build your cities on fertile ground, thus assuring a free bonus to food production.
Maybe NASA should investigate the effects of granary production, and in-city irrigation.
My actual point, before i got sidetracked, related to the individual who was complaining about the price of his comcast service. It had nothing to do with the disney purchase at all. Nor with stock, nor with mortgages.
When you buy that car, is your total buying power the liquid assets you have in the bank? Or do you also have access to money you can raise by selling your old car, taking out a loan, agreeing to a financing contract, collecting on old debts
Comcast's revenue for the year ending December 2003 was 18.347 billion US$ from it's cable services. That does not take into consideration it's other forms of income, or cash that it could raise by other means. Feel free to adjust my figures accordingly (approximately a factor of 4), or check out their SEC filings.
I never said it was exclusively a file sharing system. And while broad definitions are often damaging, ignoring components of a system is ignorant.
Do you share files on the system? Yes? Then it is, at least in part, a file sharing system.
All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
Ah, my friend, you forget the fact that USENET is indeed made up up many different distributed peers.
.... go check out the alt.* hierarchy.
From the servers' points of view, it is P2P. That's why your experience on any one server my be drastically different than another.
As for file sharing
They don't care about your principles. That's why they raise rates. They know that there will be enough customers that will pay the increases to cover the small percentage of customers who abandon ship.
Considering they have 66B to spend on this deal, and you pay probably about 75 to them each month, over the course of a year, that's a ratio of 1:73,333,333.
That's right. You're not even a millionth part of their empire. They don't care about you.
Now, if you could convince a million of your friends to jump ship with you (and I would gladly toss my hat in, too), then maybe they'd consider not raising rates.