If 99% of the world uses "hacker" in a negative context, I think the real hackers had better find a new term
But which term? An earlier discussion showed that alternatives such as "programming enthousiast" and "codesmith" do not really carry the same associations.
Many words have two meanings depending on context. If 99% of the world uses hacker in a pejorative sense, fine. Coming from fellow hackers, here on Slashdot, at LAN parties, etc... it is a term of respect. Since the two "worlds" rarely overlap, the context (and thus the meaning) should always be clear.
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I once knew a guy how said he met Bill Gates once. He (Gates) was handing out free Windows 1.0 disks at Comdex. Apparently it was just a single 1.4" disk, but I guess it existed.
Its been a decade since college, so correct me if I'm wrong here...
Since the current is flowing in the wires, there is no point charge or "line" charge and so static electric field formulas do not come in to play. Well, there must be some capacitance charge in the wires, but it would be dwarfed by other factors. After all, current can't stack up too much or you get lightening bolts.
I'm thinking Maxwell's laws of a changing current creating a changing magnetic field. So what we are dealing with here is electro-magnetic radiation at 60hz rather than static electric fields. Electro-magnetic radiation would follow inverse square laws I believe, but with photons of such low energy, why bother?
I must drink beer. Beer is the mind-killer. Beer is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. When the beer has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Dish Network carries the NASA-TV channel as part of its basic package. DirectTV does not, according to their website. It looks like ComCast here doesn't have NASA-TV either. YMMV.
With the ISS, the current space shuttle is redundant. The ISS is already a manned space platflorm. Why have a shuttle too? All that is needed is transportation between the earth and the ISS, which would ironically be a real "shuttle" service, but the current shuttle is way overkill for that. I think Delta rockets could serve the purpose much more cheaply.
2.6.1 always freezes on me. Within ~10 minutest of boot. I'm not talking oops or panic. The only thing that gets a response is the reset button. Always during heavy disk access. 2.6.0-pretests did not have this problem and Win2k is rock solid and memtest shows no errors so its not hardware. Athlon 2500 nforce2 asus board.
3) Change the rules. Don't like the hand your dealt in the game? Change the rules so you have a winning hand. (See one James T Kirk and the Kobayashi Maru Scenario)
Corollary 3a) Make up the rules as you go along to confuse your opposition. (See one James T Kirk and the fizzbin card game)
The theory of evolution, combined with evidence that the chance of transmitting AIDS in any given sex act is approx. 1/500, will tell you that AIDS can only spread rapidly in extremely promiscuous populations. This apparently includes much of Africa and the homosexual population in the US.
There is anecdotal evidence of this promiscuity, but I discount that in favor of the above reasoning. Now, why are homosexuals in th US so promiscuous? I would suggest it is because they do not form pair bonds as heterosexuals do, but I have no evidence to back that up.
To sum up: I dislike homosexuals not becuase I give a rat's ass about their sexual preference, but because they are insanely promiscuous and that leads to prevalence of diseases like AIDS and whatever may come next (in such situations, almost anything can spread, and will).
NASA is basically saying that Shuttle is not reliable enough to return people from orbit.
The shuttle is safe. NASA shuttle management is not.
What do you do when someone repeatedly proves they can't make good decisions? You give them rules to follow -- i.e. you take the decisions away from them. The resulting lack of flexibility inevitably makes the program much more expensive, so then you cancel it.
...news reports correctly attribute the Hubble abandonment to Bush's boondoggle.
not solely, maybe not even mostly. The previous shuttle accidents contribute heavily. This is from a Yahoo news story at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=58 5&e=2&u=/nm/20040117/sc_nm/space_hubble_dc
New safety requirements put in place following the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's stinging rebuke of the shuttle program's management and culture make it hard to launch a shuttle anywhere except to the International Space Station (news - web sites), where the crew could remain, awaiting a rescue mission, if the shuttle was damaged similarly to Columbia.
A Hubble mission would have required launching one shuttle and having a second on standby, ready to launch if a rescue was needed, said NASA spokesman Al Feinberg. "Tying up two shuttles that way wouldn't work with the construction schedule for the international space station," he said.
What you say is all correct. However, I think it is important to note the fact that SPAM has risen to the level where congress has taken note. If this does nothing (as you suggest), they will do more next year. And the year after that...
All your points are correct. Spammers can do all these things, but they must be done on ALL the spam they send, not just some. That makes their job more difficult. ActiveX controls take up a lot more bandwidth than a web-only form, for example.
I'm just sitting here watching the bits go round and round...
The mortgage company (or the spammer, if he's weeding) will quickly realize that "Felix Thecat" and "Kiss M'Ass" are bogus. "Heywood Jablowme" might get by a weeder, but won't last too long at the mortgage ccompany
Having been unfortunate enough to be assigned an IP block from a previous spammer and having gone through the subsequent...
Quit whining. You probably got that IP block real cheap. There is a reason why. You got what you paid for so shut up.
Maybe next time maybe you will check first and get a clause in your contract that lets you out if you ever get put on a blacklist. At that point, ISPs will start getting *serious* about spam because it actually DEGRADES THE FUTURE VALUE OF THEIR SERVICES. Then thing may change.
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Probably because the trolley crashed, he just failed to mention that. Book sales and all.
Of course it crashed. I mean the conductor died and it crashed into the station at the end of the line.
If 99% of the world uses "hacker" in a negative context, I think the real hackers had better find a new term
But which term? An earlier discussion showed that alternatives such as "programming enthousiast" and "codesmith" do not really carry the same associations.
Many words have two meanings depending on context. If 99% of the world uses hacker in a pejorative sense, fine. Coming from fellow hackers, here on Slashdot, at LAN parties, etc... it is a term of respect. Since the two "worlds" rarely overlap, the context (and thus the meaning) should always be clear.
I once knew a guy how said he met Bill Gates once. He (Gates) was handing out free Windows 1.0 disks at Comdex. Apparently it was just a single 1.4" disk, but I guess it existed.
Its been a decade since college, so correct me if I'm wrong here...
Since the current is flowing in the wires, there is no point charge or "line" charge and so static electric field formulas do not come in to play. Well, there must be some capacitance charge in the wires, but it would be dwarfed by other factors. After all, current can't stack up too much or you get lightening bolts.
I'm thinking Maxwell's laws of a changing current creating a changing magnetic field. So what we are dealing with here is electro-magnetic radiation at 60hz rather than static electric fields. Electro-magnetic radiation would follow inverse square laws I believe, but with photons of such low energy, why bother?
I must drink beer. Beer is the mind-killer. Beer is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. When the beer has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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This is clearly ripped from Frank Herber's DUNE.
People occasionally cite Godwin's Law as Goodwin's Law.
Dish Network carries the NASA-TV channel as part of its basic package. DirectTV does not, according to their website. It looks like ComCast here doesn't have NASA-TV either. YMMV.
With the ISS, the current space shuttle is redundant. The ISS is already a manned space platflorm. Why have a shuttle too? All that is needed is transportation between the earth and the ISS, which would ironically be a real "shuttle" service, but the current shuttle is way overkill for that. I think Delta rockets could serve the purpose much more cheaply.
2.6.1 always freezes on me. Within ~10 minutest of boot. I'm not talking oops or panic. The only thing that gets a response is the reset button. Always during heavy disk access. 2.6.0-pretests did not have this problem and Win2k is rock solid and memtest shows no errors so its not hardware. Athlon 2500 nforce2 asus board.
YMMV.
3) Change the rules. Don't like the hand your dealt in the game? Change the rules so you have a winning hand. (See one James T Kirk and the Kobayashi Maru Scenario)
Corollary
3a) Make up the rules as you go along to confuse your opposition. (See one James T Kirk and the fizzbin card game)
The theory of evolution, combined with evidence that the chance of transmitting AIDS in any given sex act is approx. 1/500, will tell you that AIDS can only spread rapidly in extremely promiscuous populations. This apparently includes much of Africa and the homosexual population in the US.
There is anecdotal evidence of this promiscuity, but I discount that in favor of the above reasoning. Now, why are homosexuals in th US so promiscuous? I would suggest it is because they do not form pair bonds as heterosexuals do, but I have no evidence to back that up.
To sum up: I dislike homosexuals not becuase I give a rat's ass about their sexual preference, but because they are insanely promiscuous and that leads to prevalence of diseases like AIDS and whatever may come next (in such situations, almost anything can spread, and will).
I can't decide which horoscope to believe.
NASA is basically saying that Shuttle is not reliable enough to return people from orbit.
The shuttle is safe. NASA shuttle management is not.
What do you do when someone repeatedly proves they can't make good decisions? You give them rules to follow -- i.e. you take the decisions away from them. The resulting lack of flexibility inevitably makes the program much more expensive, so then you cancel it.
I can't decide which horoscope to believe.
...news reports correctly attribute the Hubble abandonment to Bush's boondoggle.
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not solely, maybe not even mostly. The previous shuttle accidents contribute heavily. This is from a Yahoo news story at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=5
New safety requirements put in place following the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's stinging rebuke of the shuttle program's management and culture make it hard to launch a shuttle anywhere except to the International Space Station (news - web sites), where the crew could remain, awaiting a rescue mission, if the shuttle was damaged similarly to Columbia.
A Hubble mission would have required launching one shuttle and having a second on standby, ready to launch if a rescue was needed, said NASA spokesman Al Feinberg. "Tying up two shuttles that way wouldn't work with the construction schedule for the international space station," he said.
I can't decide which horoscope to believe.
Give it up, Japetto.
Who ever you finally _GET_ to vote for is already going to be a Pinochio.
...in Quake.
I object to the next comment.
Second thing that leaps to mind:
"Forrest Gump" over "Shawshank Redemption" (or even "Pulp Fiction" which was the same year (1994)).
Based on the first two movies and DVD Extended versions, I'd suggest skipping the movie and just waiting for the Extended DVD.
The ringwraiths would be top-secret robotic soldiers with lasers on their heads, taken over by a "hacker" (Sauron).
Sauron: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have ringwraiths with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
Witch Doctor: We have some ill-tempered Seabass.
What you say is all correct. However, I think it is important to note the fact that SPAM has risen to the level where congress has taken note. If this does nothing (as you suggest), they will do more next year. And the year after that...
All your points are correct. Spammers can do all these things, but they must be done on ALL the spam they send, not just some. That makes their job more difficult. ActiveX controls take up a lot more bandwidth than a web-only form, for example.
I'm just sitting here watching the bits go round and round...
The mortgage company (or the spammer, if he's weeding) will quickly realize that "Felix Thecat" and "Kiss M'Ass" are bogus. "Heywood Jablowme" might get by a weeder, but won't last too long at the mortgage ccompany
You forgot Phil McCrevis.
I, for one, will only buy equipment that ignores, or can be made to ignore, the broadcast flag.
Who's with me?
Having been unfortunate enough to be assigned an IP block from a previous spammer and having gone through the subsequent...
Quit whining. You probably got that IP block real cheap. There is a reason why. You got what you paid for so shut up.
Maybe next time maybe you will check first and get a clause in your contract that lets you out if you ever get put on a blacklist. At that point, ISPs will start getting *serious* about spam because it actually DEGRADES THE FUTURE VALUE OF THEIR SERVICES. Then thing may change.
A hail storm hit my neighborhood in Atlanta, GA. in April this year.
h ome.mindspring.com/pics/DCP_0014.JPGn dspring.com/pics/DCP_0016.JPGg .com/pics/DCP_0017.JPG
I have a few picture:
wae.home.mindspring.com/pics/DCP_0013.JPG
wae.
wae.home.mi
wae.home.mindsprin
All this with a computer that is old enough to drink
I drank my C64 many years ago. Sold it and bought beer.
I'm just sitting here watching the bits go round and round.