...why do you need a CDRW for a TV system? I mean, if you're going to watch DVDs you don't need to do any writing, and if you're going to use it as a PVR then a CDRW will (a) hold negligible amounts and (b) be way too slow to stream to.
Eh. Probably some favourable DVD characteristics of the drive then.
And I've just finished clearing up a script kiddie attack from MY site >_< (People who leave open proxies running on their servers ought to be shot repeatedly)
My heart goes out to those sysadmins I can tell you that.
I saw something smaller but essentially much the same when I was in RUSSIA for heavens sake;) it just showed a spinning globe with some text orbiting around it but it still looked very neat.
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...and there aren't even any debs for 3.0.0 yet!
Look, at the risk of being labelled a troll, could the Debian packagers PLEASE sort themselves out? I can understand slippage, I can understand that you've got other things to do but this is an absolute joke! if your life's busy, DELEGATE.
I guess the core of the problem is that nobody else has stepped forward to package them... though it can't be that difficult. If this takes much longer though maybe I'll do some (nevermind the fact that it takes me six hours to compile KDE on my puny box =\)
Here's a convincing argument: If you don't close it, you might very well get sued when some 1337 h4xx0r kiddie uses your network as a jumpoff point.
I should know - this happened to my site literally an hour ago, the database got quite comprehensively trashed. Your domain name wouldn't happen to end in infogroup.com by any chance, would it?;)
It's your duty to the internet community to fix this and fast.
What kind of flag? a GIF flag, JPEG flag? does it have to be compressed to 75% quality as opposed to 90%?
I dunno if it's possible to factorize the key into some random bits such that it can be combined with _any possible image of the US flag_. If it isn't then it's not the American flag, it's just a sequence of bits that can be interpreted as a JPEG that looks like a particularly compressed particular view of a particular flag.
Highest? eh, not for long. This'll get smashed down to Troll soon enough I'm sure. Still, I couldn't resist. And for all the demand for subscriptions on/. you'd think the editors would at least check the title.
When I was little I used to ride on these a lot of the time. I'm not sure if it was a proper WIG craft but it's basically like a normal boat with three fins sticking downward that can do something like 50 mph. I was told they worked on some sort of aerodynamic principle anyway. I thik they were called 'Rocket' (well, ok in rus that's raketta or close enough in roman characters)
Are there any real practical compiled languages out there other than C and C++? serious question here. I want to write a fairly high performance app, what lang do I use? C isn't that great to be fair, it's standard library is a joke and doing tons of memory management isnt really up my street. This leaves the lesser of two evils C++. Java is... not that great cause it takes forever to load and tons of stuff is done on the heap (please don't flame me Java programmers, for now all I care about is that most people regard Java as slow whether or not that's justified... that and it's controlled by one company anyway which I dont much like either). Python and Perl require interpreters so you need to have the whole shebang installed on the client's system and... well, let's be frank here it just looks extremely unprofessional if it isn't a CGI script. Someone hit me with a clue-by-four if I'm talking out of my arse or if not, tell me what decent compiled languages exist out there =)
Lemme get this straight, they're going to fly around some 3D pylons inside US mainframes and rifle through garbage files? give me a break. There's enough script kiddies running around to keep most sysadmins jumping, what's China going to do? make a full scale attack coming from.cn? America's got China by the balls inetwise and they know it. Piss the US off and they'll just pull the plug; considering the direction of the economy at the moment that would not be a good thing for China.
Of course, everyone in this world is such a scrooge they'll download a book and then sit in front of a bloody computer screen for hours on end reading it.
Perhaps it is questionable what value a 'hard copy' of an MP3 has but the difference here is that books have a very solid hard copy value; print it yourself and you get a wad of paper several inches thick that cost you a bomb to print, so after you've convinced yourself that the story's interesting you can buy a book. Seems simple enough to me.
From reading many of the replies, I can only offer sympathy to these people. Our provision's been getting better every year though; in 99 I just had a 56K modem to myself with unmetered access after 6pm or on weekends (which was the only time I could ever use it, horrible to imagine now isn't it?). Sept 2000 saw us getting ISDN on surftime via Demon; this set us back 80gbp a month or so but it was fantastic - a real permanent internet connection! with a static IP as well! ISDN is just a digital phone service but if it's unmetered and Demon has no qualms about you being connected 24/7 then why bother hanging up. I even ran a webserver off this system. Now, whilst on holiday in August I idly checked the BT rollout page and it told me that I finally could get DSL. One month later we had a 512/256kbit link, 5 static ip's and this was for 100gbp/mo. Now they've lowered the cost too. I agree this is probably peanuts bandwidthwise compared to what the yanks are getting, but come on how many of you have more bandwidth than that AND still have unlimited use w/static IP and a green card for running servers? probably quite a few but a priviledged few nonetheless.
Ah well, I'm sure someone will put up a separate apt source or something for it. I'd be pretty disappointed if they stuck KDE3 in there to be honest... that's the sort of thing that requires a ton of testing.
Short and to the point I suppose but clearly the lameness filter has a problem with that. So what, I'm going to be lame today, at least I won't be the only one.
Major hit? Read the story mate, 1908 doesnt sound like 50k years ago. That hit Siberia, and be damn glad too else you'd probably be living in New New York by now.
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"Sex" is a keyword? there goes about 80% of the internet's traffic then.
Odd that the EFF would use the proprietary Flash format.
(someone shoot the lameness filter please. Cheers. *fears for all those CPU cycles burned doing gzip compression*)
Ergonomic my arse
Anyone else find it incredibly hard to grip without depressing the right mouse button?
...why do you need a CDRW for a TV system? I mean, if you're going to watch DVDs you don't need to do any writing, and if you're going to use it as a PVR then a CDRW will (a) hold negligible amounts and (b) be way too slow to stream to.
Eh. Probably some favourable DVD characteristics of the drive then.
And I've just finished clearing up a script kiddie attack from MY site >_< (People who leave open proxies running on their servers ought to be shot repeatedly)
My heart goes out to those sysadmins I can tell you that.
I saw something smaller but essentially much the same when I was in RUSSIA for heavens sake ;) it just showed a spinning globe with some text orbiting around it but it still looked very neat.
...and there aren't even any debs for 3.0.0 yet!
Look, at the risk of being labelled a troll, could the Debian packagers PLEASE sort themselves out? I can understand slippage, I can understand that you've got other things to do but this is an absolute joke! if your life's busy, DELEGATE.
I guess the core of the problem is that nobody else has stepped forward to package them... though it can't be that difficult. If this takes much longer though maybe I'll do some (nevermind the fact that it takes me six hours to compile KDE on my puny box =\)
Here's a convincing argument: If you don't close it, you might very well get sued when some 1337 h4xx0r kiddie uses your network as a jumpoff point.
;)
I should know - this happened to my site literally an hour ago, the database got quite comprehensively trashed. Your domain name wouldn't happen to end in infogroup.com by any chance, would it?
It's your duty to the internet community to fix this and fast.
"Wiretapping" and "Won't someone think of the children!??"
This makes me ill.
Play the resultant VHS tape
Observe the pretty noise (Courtesy of Macrovision(R)(C)(TM)(SM))
What kind of flag? a GIF flag, JPEG flag? does it have to be compressed to 75% quality as opposed to 90%?
;)
I dunno if it's possible to factorize the key into some random bits such that it can be combined with _any possible image of the US flag_. If it isn't then it's not the American flag, it's just a sequence of bits that can be interpreted as a JPEG that looks like a particularly compressed particular view of a particular flag.
... </nitpick>
Highest? eh, not for long. This'll get smashed down to Troll soon enough I'm sure. Still, I couldn't resist. And for all the demand for subscriptions on /. you'd think the editors would at least check the title.
We have here to my knowledge the first known /. misspelling of a story TITLE
;)
Yeah, well done, 'editors'
- S_D
Has Karma to blow
When I was little I used to ride on these a lot of the time. I'm not sure if it was a proper WIG craft but it's basically like a normal boat with three fins sticking downward that can do something like 50 mph. I was told they worked on some sort of aerodynamic principle anyway. I thik they were called 'Rocket' (well, ok in rus that's raketta or close enough in roman characters)
Are there any real practical compiled languages out there other than C and C++? serious question here. I want to write a fairly high performance app, what lang do I use? C isn't that great to be fair, it's standard library is a joke and doing tons of memory management isnt really up my street. This leaves the lesser of two evils C++. Java is... not that great cause it takes forever to load and tons of stuff is done on the heap (please don't flame me Java programmers, for now all I care about is that most people regard Java as slow whether or not that's justified ... that and it's controlled by one company anyway which I dont much like either). Python and Perl require interpreters so you need to have the whole shebang installed on the client's system and... well, let's be frank here it just looks extremely unprofessional if it isn't a CGI script. Someone hit me with a clue-by-four if I'm talking out of my arse or if not, tell me what decent compiled languages exist out there =)
Lemme get this straight, they're going to fly around some 3D pylons inside US mainframes and rifle through garbage files? give me a break. There's enough script kiddies running around to keep most sysadmins jumping, what's China going to do? make a full scale attack coming from .cn? America's got China by the balls inetwise and they know it. Piss the US off and they'll just pull the plug; considering the direction of the economy at the moment that would not be a good thing for China.
Of course, everyone in this world is such a scrooge they'll download a book and then sit in front of a bloody computer screen for hours on end reading it.
Perhaps it is questionable what value a 'hard copy' of an MP3 has but the difference here is that books have a very solid hard copy value; print it yourself and you get a wad of paper several inches thick that cost you a bomb to print, so after you've convinced yourself that the story's interesting you can buy a book. Seems simple enough to me.
...it's not april 1st anymore you know.
And if Wolf source has been released where's the Q3 source, hmmn?
From reading many of the replies, I can only offer sympathy to these people. Our provision's been getting better every year though; in 99 I just had a 56K modem to myself with unmetered access after 6pm or on weekends (which was the only time I could ever use it, horrible to imagine now isn't it?). Sept 2000 saw us getting ISDN on surftime via Demon; this set us back 80gbp a month or so but it was fantastic - a real permanent internet connection! with a static IP as well! ISDN is just a digital phone service but if it's unmetered and Demon has no qualms about you being connected 24/7 then why bother hanging up. I even ran a webserver off this system. Now, whilst on holiday in August I idly checked the BT rollout page and it told me that I finally could get DSL. One month later we had a 512/256kbit link, 5 static ip's and this was for 100gbp/mo. Now they've lowered the cost too. I agree this is probably peanuts bandwidthwise compared to what the yanks are getting, but come on how many of you have more bandwidth than that AND still have unlimited use w/static IP and a green card for running servers? probably quite a few but a priviledged few nonetheless.
SWEEET
Man, I've been looking for something like this for years.
Now, maybe when the dust settles from the slashdotting I'll have a closer look. This descripition fits what I've been after uncannily well.
It'll be in your PDA in ten years time ;)
This suit's so ridiculous it would actually have a chance of defeating the DMCA and we wouldn't want that would we?
So much for seeing KDE3 in there.
Ah well, I'm sure someone will put up a separate apt source or something for it. I'd be pretty disappointed if they stuck KDE3 in there to be honest... that's the sort of thing that requires a ton of testing.
MAKE IT STOP ALREADY!
Short and to the point I suppose but clearly the lameness filter has a problem with that. So what, I'm going to be lame today, at least I won't be the only one.
Major hit? Read the story mate, 1908 doesnt sound like 50k years ago. That hit Siberia, and be damn glad too else you'd probably be living in New New York by now.