Not sure what smoking can do to a computer, the company I work at has a strict policy about only smoking outside. But we have a cafe here with a computer for them to take email orders on. They used to keep the poor thing next to a deap fryer till it died.
Now everyone, all at once eewww for poor me when I had to open it to diagnose it.
We ended up throwing it out, but I was always curious what would happen if I took a match to it.
You could put it on a tether and use it like a morning star with no need to lose space inside.
Granted you'd be screwed when your weapon got cut off, but it'd still be cool
No, you aren't. I have an external scsi-1 40meg Quantum rebranded with by Apple. The case is about phonebook size, but its not too heavy. I use it for swapspace sometimes.
I've heard this one somewhere before as well. I think it had something to with trying to drive another company group out of business. Like companies A and B both sell Mr. Widget (TM). It costs both company roughly the same (say $5) to make them. Company A sells them for $7 while Company B is rich and sells them at $1 per because they can absorb the loss w/o a problem and want to drive company A out of business.
Actually, I think it could be a number as long as its not 0 to 255. so you could have like 333.333.333.333 as a domain name but just mapped to an ip addy the same way the current names are.
I read this in a book (illusions, don't remember the author) about the golden rule that I always think is pretty funny. Suppose we have a worshiper of the great crocadile god who's greatest aspiration in life is to be thrown (as a sacrafice) kicking and screaming into a pit of hurngy crocs. Should this worshipper go and do it to others because this is what he wants done to himself.
Part of the point is that not everyone wants the same thing, so that rule is just a bit to broad (or maybe peoples beleivfs are too broad to be covered by one simple rule)
The above makes no sense within the context of itself.
Time to go find a plush cthullu doll.
When someone on dawson's creek gets a pet rabbit looking thing that turns into a spaceship, i'm sure more people here will probably watch it, till then, why bother?
Other Person: What that means, is that if you decode CSS, you're stealing information that doesn't belong to you. If you play the DVD in an unlicensed player, (like a Linux player written to use DeCSS) you are circumventing licensing agreements.
Me: Now maybe your DVDs are different than mine, but I don't recall seeing anything on them stating I could only play them in an approved player, nor did I sign anything to that affect when I bought any of them. It would be like buying a certian movie on VHS and being allowed only to play it in Brand X VCRS.
I used to know a guy that moved to the USA from Britian and had aplied for a green card. But it was being held up because his fingure prints were very similiar to a wanted serial killer's even though at the time of the crime, he was too young to commit them. And this was only 3 or 4 years ago. At least he was not arrested and charged, but it was still a screw up that cost him a lot of time.
At my previous job, it was routine to install PCAnyWhere on everyones machine. And I can assure you that it can be set to run in silent mode just like BO. So whats the difference there?
well, as far as ways to go are, that wouldn't be to bad. I mean think how many people die in shootings, hit by a bus, car crashes, etc. No one knows their names and such, but if your the first person to die by such an odd event, i think it'd get written down and published a lot.
(Standing in line to the afterlife) ME: Hey man, how'd you get here? Other: Hit by a bus, you? ME: First person ever known to be swallowed by a black hole. Other: What a way to go.
Something that came to mind a while ago was what if they heros never really made it out of the matrix? It goes something like this, the AI relizes that some of its, um, parts aren't quite fitting in right so creates a seperate reality for them to function in. Its still a crappy enough life to keep the parts convinced its real and the matrix gets a few more parts to use.
Of course this could lead to all sorts of plot nightmares, but its an idea.
Has anyone thought of setting up a counsling/mentor program for the lonely people like this who use the internet?
Granted it would require thosew who need help to seek it out, but something like that would (hopefully) allow for: getting people to meet other people at least over the internet, maybe once its grown, and there are enough people in one area allow them to get together physically. The reasoning behind this is, as more than a few stated, these kids were almost completely disconnected from the rest of there school, their fellow students just didn't seem real at best and if they could be shown that people are real, maybe it would help balance them out or at least give them someone to talk to.
Maybe such a program isn't feasable and I know its no substitute for good parenting but maybe those of us who have been in (or close to)a similiar situation could help before something like this happens again.
Its not dead, or losing, or anything like that. And I doubt its going to go anywhere soon. The reason is because too many people support it. I don't mean really big companies, I mean the oridary people.
I doubt people are going to just dump there MP3 collection just cause MS says that hey we got something better only you gotta pay $200 for the OS, who knows about the player, and you owe us $5000.94 if you want your exsisting collection.
Besides, how many want to bet that it will be an MS only application?
I stumbled on to the jargon file a few years ago while researching for an english paper, I found it very helpful for a lot of things, but much of it predates me and my use of computers. Its nice to see alot of new terms that I understand and have been using.
Ok, this may be slightly off topic, but I wanna mention it now while I'm thinking on in.
You may want to limit how many times a moderator can alter someones score. Reason: Someone may just not like someone and keep lowering there score or raise the score of their friends.
Although I suppose with 4000 moderators and 75000 readers it would take a lot of storage space to keep track of it. But it is something to think about.
Like someone way above mentioned, I've been reading/. for months, but only recently bothered to make an account because of all the neato customizations you had. I'm somewhere in the 24ks as far as user numbers go. So that might not be the best solution for weeding out newbies, but I suppose you need to figure out somewhere to make a cut.
I'd like to voice my vote for moderators not being able to moderate the thread they're posting to, not the entire article.
While I'll agree its not nice what Theos software was trying to do, is it really ethical to unleash a slashdot effect over it? I mean such a thing can cause down time, possibly totally fsck up a system and many people think its a good thing.
hmm, wonder if its possible to sue someone for cause a/. to happen...
Slashdot Mirror
Not sure what smoking can do to a computer, the company I work at has a strict policy about only smoking outside. But we have a cafe here with a computer for them to take email orders on. They used to keep the poor thing next to a deap fryer till it died.
Now everyone, all at once eewww for poor me when I had to open it to diagnose it.
We ended up throwing it out, but I was always curious what would happen if I took a match to it.
You could put it on a tether and use it like a morning star with no need to lose space inside.
Granted you'd be screwed when your weapon got cut off, but it'd still be cool
No, you aren't. I have an external scsi-1 40meg Quantum rebranded with by Apple. The case is about phonebook size, but its not too heavy. I use it for swapspace sometimes.
I've heard this one somewhere before as well. I think it had something to with trying to drive another company group out of business. Like companies A and B both sell Mr. Widget (TM). It costs both company roughly the same (say $5) to make them. Company A sells them for $7 while Company B is rich and sells them at $1 per because they can absorb the loss w/o a problem and want to drive company A out of business.
Then again, I could have that completely wrong.
Actually, I think it could be a number as long as its not 0 to 255. so you could have like 333.333.333.333 as a domain name but just mapped to an ip addy the same way the current names are.
All of them hate it when people make broad, sweeping statements that are supposed to apply accurately to every hacker.
Am I the only one who started cracking up with that line?
I read this in a book (illusions, don't remember the author) about the golden rule that I always think is pretty funny. Suppose we have a worshiper of the great crocadile god who's greatest aspiration in life is to be thrown (as a sacrafice) kicking and screaming into a pit of hurngy crocs. Should this worshipper go and do it to others because this is what he wants done to himself.
Part of the point is that not everyone wants the same thing, so that rule is just a bit to broad (or maybe peoples beleivfs are too broad to be covered by one simple rule)
The above makes no sense within the context of itself.
Time to go find a plush cthullu doll.
shouldn't it be more like "serviam >/dev/null" ? or maybe just "rm serviam"
When someone on dawson's creek gets a pet rabbit looking thing that turns into a spaceship, i'm sure more people here will probably watch it, till then, why bother?
Other Person: What that means, is that if you decode CSS, you're stealing information that doesn't belong to you. If you play the DVD in an unlicensed player, (like a Linux player written to use DeCSS) you are circumventing licensing agreements.
Me: Now maybe your DVDs are different than mine, but I don't recall seeing anything on them stating I could only play them in an approved player, nor did I sign anything to that affect when I bought any of them. It would be like buying a certian movie on VHS and being allowed only to play it in Brand X VCRS.
I used to know a guy that moved to the USA from Britian and had aplied for a green card. But it was being held up because his fingure prints were very similiar to a wanted serial killer's even though at the time of the crime, he was too young to commit them. And this was only 3 or 4 years ago. At least he was not arrested and charged, but it was still a screw up that cost him a lot of time.
At my previous job, it was routine to install PCAnyWhere on everyones machine. And I can assure you that it can be set to run in silent mode just like BO. So whats the difference there?
well, as far as ways to go are, that wouldn't be to bad. I mean think how many people die in shootings, hit by a bus, car crashes, etc.
No one knows their names and such, but if your the first person to die by such an odd event, i think it'd get written down and published a lot.
(Standing in line to the afterlife)
ME: Hey man, how'd you get here?
Other: Hit by a bus, you?
ME: First person ever known to be swallowed by a black hole.
Other: What a way to go.
-Yogger
Something that came to mind a while ago was what if they heros never really made it out of the matrix?
It goes something like this, the AI relizes that some of its, um, parts aren't quite fitting in right so creates a seperate reality for them to function in.
Its still a crappy enough life to keep the parts convinced its real and the matrix gets a few more parts to use.
Of course this could lead to all sorts of plot nightmares, but its an idea.
-Yogger
Has anyone thought of setting up a counsling/mentor program for the lonely people like this who use the internet?
Granted it would require thosew who need help to seek it out, but something like that would (hopefully) allow for: getting people to meet other people at least over the internet, maybe once its grown, and there are enough people in one area allow them to get together physically. The reasoning behind this is, as more than a few stated, these kids were almost completely disconnected from the rest of there school, their fellow students just didn't seem real at best and if they could be shown that people are real, maybe it would help balance them out or at least give them someone to talk to.
Maybe such a program isn't feasable and I know its no substitute for good parenting but maybe those of us who have been in (or close to)a similiar situation could help before something like this happens again.
-Yog
yog@end-war.com
Its not dead, or losing, or anything like that. And I doubt its going to go anywhere soon.
The reason is because too many people support it. I don't mean really big companies, I mean the oridary people.
I doubt people are going to just dump there MP3 collection just cause MS says that hey we got something better only you gotta pay $200 for the OS, who knows about the player, and you owe us $5000.94 if you want your exsisting collection.
Besides, how many want to bet that it will be an MS only application?
I stumbled on to the jargon file a few years ago while researching for an english paper, I found it very helpful for a lot of things, but much of it predates me and my use of computers.
Its nice to see alot of new terms that I understand and have been using.
Ok, this may be slightly off topic, but I wanna mention it now while I'm thinking on in.
You may want to limit how many times a moderator can alter someones score. Reason: Someone may just not like someone and keep lowering there score or raise the score of their friends.
Although I suppose with 4000 moderators and 75000 readers it would take a lot of storage space to keep track of it. But it is something to think about.
Like someone way above mentioned, I've been reading /. for months, but only recently bothered to make an account because of all the neato customizations you had. I'm somewhere in the 24ks as far as user numbers go. So that might not be the best solution for weeding out newbies, but I suppose you need to figure out somewhere to make a cut.
I'd like to voice my vote for moderators not being able to moderate the thread they're posting to, not the entire article.
Thats something thats kind of been bothering me.
/. to happen...
While I'll agree its not nice what Theos software was trying to do, is it really ethical to unleash a slashdot effect over it?
I mean such a thing can cause down time, possibly totally fsck up a system and many people think its a good thing.
hmm, wonder if its possible to sue someone for cause a