I am all for this type of law enforcement. I think this type of sting operation ought to be cheap enough to manage with centralized administration and small teams. Maybe this will be a decent deterrent, as jail time obviously isn't enough.
I am sure that there are many art, piercings, and other sites that don't feel they are porn that would be forced to get a.prn domain. I mean, would Playboy be considered a porn site, being put in the same category as a site like All Ladies Shaven? Is this going to be forcing sites that link to said web pages (Fark, CyberCrime, or Slashdot)?
And, this does nothing for other countries. And, this does nothing but group porn where it will be easier to find. For example, if I am wanting to go to the White House, but instead put in http://www.whitehouse.com, then I hit a porn site. Or, I can just put ".com" after phrases like "blowjob", "sexydancers", etc., and be fairly assured of porn sites. Now, just tack on ".prn" to any group of words in the english language? A kid won't be able to type in ".prn"?
The problem I have with calling these huge clusters supercomputers is that they really don't seem to fit the mold of the term. I prefer to call them supercomputing networks. When I think of a supercomputer, I am thinking of one entity that is hugely multi-processor or multi-boxed in an enclosure. These systems usually have matrixed processing technology and perform a specialized task for the hardware wrapped around them.
I am impressed, however, with any of these clusters, and am amazed at the cost savings. But, you have other concerns with a huge cluster: redundancy, heat, energy usage, space requirements, etc.
Just that learning is not always what college is about. Some profs care more about conformity or rules, and others want inovation and ambition to learn something new.
When I was at Texas A&M, I was a physics major. To have a better time in college, and because I like to learn, I took many computer programming courses.
For the bonehead award, Programming I was basically just Pascal on personal computers. Well, I had gotten into "trouble" for not commenting my source code. So, for my final program, I wrote it in Pascal, compiled, disassembled, rewrote the assembler code to Pascal inline assembly statements, and lined up the original Pascal as the assembly inline comments. My prof wasn't amused.
But, on the other end, I took another programming course which was supposed to be COBOL, c, and FORTRAN. The first day, the prof said that we will not need our FORTRAN book and would not write any FORTRAN programs or be tested on FORTRAN. However, we were instructed to learn FORTRAN on our own. Well, almost no one kept their FORTRAN book or even bothered learning FORTRAN. I was lucky enough to have already learned most FORTRAN working on physics stuff. Our final program was to write a source converter in c to convert FORTRAN programs to c. Not only did we have to know FORTRAN, but we had to KNOW FORTRAN!
So, in a film about the past, it must be completely accurate or be liable for suit? What about historical fiction? What about movie mistakes? If I showed a movie depicting some town in 1989 and showed kids coming from the library, but at that week the library was closed for some reason, I could be sued?
This is especially funny because of the totally unreal Spiderman character. Kinda like the churchies getting up in arms about kids learning evil sorcery from Harry Potter. Let's see, to become an evil wizard you just need to follow the Harry Potter formula -- oh, yeah, I will go kill a unicorn now.
If someone violates the GPL on your program, you can go to a court and point out that you own the copyright on this piece...
My point exactly! People that write software and free software foundations do not have the funds to muscle many commercial ventures that abuse the GPL. Right and wrong has nothing to do with expensive discovery and an ignorant public/court system. The people that buy most commercial software products do not understand the ins and outs of the free-software movement. Hell, most think shareware means you have to download the program once a month or it stops working.
Yes, I have. But, what I was saying is that the majority of software purchasers have not. And, if someone comes out with a popular piece of commercial software and breaks the GPL, most people would not really care about the free software plights. It would take some heavy money to sue, and unfortunately, there just is not that much to go around.
With most people following the GPL not making tons of money from their efforts, who will enforce the following of the GPL? I mean, boycotts do not work, and the masses will purchase something without knowing what it means. "Excuse me sir, what is the GPL?" The response would be, "Huh?".
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Be careful about using titanium for your wedding rings (or any ring for that matter). The ring cannot be resized, and is fairly-much useless if your finger grows or shrinks.
Living near water makes a lot of sense for easy living. And, being away from it does not save you from weather: hail, tornados, earthquakes, mudslides, etc. Since 2/3 of the Earth's surface is H20, we need to figure that a decent percent of people will be affected by it.
Our voice response system runs on OS/2 Warp, and IBM has stated they have a contract for driver and os support until 2015!
In other news, here in Texas the state ordered an OS/2 solution for their license plate services. Partly because it was cheaper than a proposed UNIX solution (good, because it was OpenServer), and partly because they figured people wouldn't attempt to install software from home on the machines (OS/2 does not run most Windows stuff now).
The bank I work for every year has an alternative examination in which we bitch about what it costs to stay with Microsoft. We recently thought that we could escape it by switching to Citrix, and only buying a few Office licenses with a software metering system. Microsoft has changed their rules on this again, and if the client has access and ability to Office, they need a license. I have suggested StarOffice (that is what I run on the only Linux client in the bank), but it is hard to get people to focus on anything but Microsoft. I counter every objection:
We want a commercial alternative StarOffice is commercially available from Sun. Training is an issue Hardly anyone uses all the features of Office, and StarOffice mimics Office almost perfectly (at least Office 97, which we run)
By the end of the meeting, the answer is to stay with Microsoft for no good reason -- does anyone else experience this?
I'm not sure if you where joking but thats not what they where saying
It was a long way to go for the +1 funny moderation. I didn't know all that about going gold, but I understood what was meant. I am very much ready to check out the new Apache.
Typhoon proof? It can take a steel bar shot at 100 mph? Links ?
Help, anyone? I cannot remember the commercial. Basically shows a series of neat thinks a company is working on; dent-resistant car doors, etc. It then shows a high-rise apartment building with a family peering through the floor to ceiling window into the storm, and it says "typhoon-proof glass: done". I think it was BASF or 3M or Du Pont. Anyone remember?
When will congress realize that where we are today is due largely to the inquizitiveness of hackers? Do they not realize that when they make these laws they aren't stopping criminals, just detouring the very people that make life better for all of us? You have to admit that the personal computer, cell phones, radar, etc., has made life better, not worse.
...the waitress came over with something that looked like a bar code scanner, but no laser, she waved it vaguely at the pile of plates from several feet away, and the thing printed out an itemised list of everything we had eaten.
Actually, that is pretty cool. I always liked the BASF or 3M commercial where it talked about inventions of the future, and then said "DONE" to Typhoon-proof glass. I guess I would rather have more genius people working on things other than automated sushi calculators.
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And, this does nothing for other countries. And, this does nothing but group porn where it will be easier to find. For example, if I am wanting to go to the White House, but instead put in http://www.whitehouse.com, then I hit a porn site. Or, I can just put ".com" after phrases like "blowjob", "sexydancers", etc., and be fairly assured of porn sites. Now, just tack on ".prn" to any group of words in the english language? A kid won't be able to type in ".prn"?
I am impressed, however, with any of these clusters, and am amazed at the cost savings. But, you have other concerns with a huge cluster: redundancy, heat, energy usage, space requirements, etc.
Just that learning is not always what college is about. Some profs care more about conformity or rules, and others want inovation and ambition to learn something new.
For the bonehead award, Programming I was basically just Pascal on personal computers. Well, I had gotten into "trouble" for not commenting my source code. So, for my final program, I wrote it in Pascal, compiled, disassembled, rewrote the assembler code to Pascal inline assembly statements, and lined up the original Pascal as the assembly inline comments. My prof wasn't amused.
But, on the other end, I took another programming course which was supposed to be COBOL, c, and FORTRAN. The first day, the prof said that we will not need our FORTRAN book and would not write any FORTRAN programs or be tested on FORTRAN. However, we were instructed to learn FORTRAN on our own. Well, almost no one kept their FORTRAN book or even bothered learning FORTRAN. I was lucky enough to have already learned most FORTRAN working on physics stuff. Our final program was to write a source converter in c to convert FORTRAN programs to c. Not only did we have to know FORTRAN, but we had to KNOW FORTRAN!
This is especially funny because of the totally unreal Spiderman character. Kinda like the churchies getting up in arms about kids learning evil sorcery from Harry Potter. Let's see, to become an evil wizard you just need to follow the Harry Potter formula -- oh, yeah, I will go kill a unicorn now.
My point exactly! People that write software and free software foundations do not have the funds to muscle many commercial ventures that abuse the GPL. Right and wrong has nothing to do with expensive discovery and an ignorant public/court system. The people that buy most commercial software products do not understand the ins and outs of the free-software movement. Hell, most think shareware means you have to download the program once a month or it stops working.
Yes, I have. But, what I was saying is that the majority of software purchasers have not. And, if someone comes out with a popular piece of commercial software and breaks the GPL, most people would not really care about the free software plights. It would take some heavy money to sue, and unfortunately, there just is not that much to go around.
With most people following the GPL not making tons of money from their efforts, who will enforce the following of the GPL? I mean, boycotts do not work, and the masses will purchase something without knowing what it means. "Excuse me sir, what is the GPL?" The response would be, "Huh?".
I am not saying it is correct...
Living near water makes a lot of sense for easy living. And, being away from it does not save you from weather: hail, tornados, earthquakes, mudslides, etc. Since 2/3 of the Earth's surface is H20, we need to figure that a decent percent of people will be affected by it.
This study was completed April 5, 2002. The previous articles have nothing about the results, just the information going into the study.
It is not cancer, but there is much noted on ASCI White being used for Weather prediction, which does save countless lives yearly.
In other news, here in Texas the state ordered an OS/2 solution for their license plate services. Partly because it was cheaper than a proposed UNIX solution (good, because it was OpenServer), and partly because they figured people wouldn't attempt to install software from home on the machines (OS/2 does not run most Windows stuff now).
We want a commercial alternative StarOffice is commercially available from Sun.
Training is an issue Hardly anyone uses all the features of Office, and StarOffice mimics Office almost perfectly (at least Office 97, which we run)
By the end of the meeting, the answer is to stay with Microsoft for no good reason -- does anyone else experience this?
I had forgotten about Stronghold....
It was a long way to go for the +1 funny moderation. I didn't know all that about going gold, but I understood what was meant. I am very much ready to check out the new Apache.
When did they sell 100,000 copies?
Microsoft Client for Windows
Microsoft Client for Netware
Microsoft Client for What Windows Should Be
World Standard Client (CIFS)
I found a link!
Help, anyone? I cannot remember the commercial. Basically shows a series of neat thinks a company is working on; dent-resistant car doors, etc. It then shows a high-rise apartment building with a family peering through the floor to ceiling window into the storm, and it says "typhoon-proof glass: done". I think it was BASF or 3M or Du Pont. Anyone remember?
Actually, that is pretty cool. I always liked the BASF or 3M commercial where it talked about inventions of the future, and then said "DONE" to Typhoon-proof glass. I guess I would rather have more genius people working on things other than automated sushi calculators.