>Circuit City is still trying to sell people @home
Saw a tv spot last night for AT&T @Home! Sheesh, wanted to to call the 800 number just to hear what they would say. This was seen on a cable channel (I have AT&T) and I have to wonder how long it takes to go and pull all these ads. Sure pissed me off (I lost @home Saturday morning, we're supposed to be hooked up to attbi today in Chicago).
>so unless you have found out what your mail server's name really is
it isn't that hard, and if you are using linux you almost certainly have already figured that out.
we went from mediaone to AT&T @home a month ago in chicago and they wanted me to install their 'software' which pretty much just changed all the windows network settings.
of course, i planned to hook my linux masq box back up as soon as the switch was over so i sacrificed a windows box to do the initial setup. they did tell you to use 'mail' for the pop and smtp servers in my mail client, the actual fqdn could be determined by looking in the windows networking properties.
their 'software' had set up *.rdms2.il.home.com (obviously a local domain - rdms is rolling meadows in illinois) as the default domain to search, so I had simply to add that to 'mail' in my email client setup. conversion done, i unplugged the NT box I had set up for the purpose and hooked my little linux masq box back to the cable modem, released the dhcp release, got a new one, and was back in business.
of course now i am fscked (AT&T @home went dark around 9 yesterday) i had mediaone for about 3 years with virtually no problems. the pointy heads at AT&T really screwed the pooch on this. @home has been in trouble for months, and they switched us over last month anyway. i've never gotten so much porn spam in my life.
now i am one of the 'within ten days' customers. i can get to the web by dialing into work and then out on the http proxy server. i am pissed - if i had any real alternative, i would be dropping at&t and getting something else right now.
I guess that's what they're saying by not upping the offer at this point.
>then the network will be worth zero
I dunno, every day the network is shut down, the more AT&T would potentially lose subs to DSL (where available, of course), the more pressure there would be within AT&T to make a deal (up the offer).
I know that if my AT&T cable modem goes out and is still off come Monday, I'm making calls to get DSL hookup. DSL service in my area isn't really comparable to cable, but I ain't doing dialup!
Far as I can tell from checking out the article and then trying this myself on Google is that you can now target your search to specific filetypes. If you are dumb enough to store passwords or creditcard numbers in an xls file on your website, google makes it easy to find.
I'm at a loss to explain how someone puts sensitive information on the web in an unprotected location and then points the finger at google because they made it easier to find.
"We have a problem, and that is that people don't design software to behave itself," said Gary McGraw, chief technology officer of software risk-management company Cigital, and author of a new book on writing secure software.
"The guys at Google thought, 'How cool that we can offer this to our users' without thinking about security. If you want to do this right, you have to think about security from the beginning and have a very solid approach to software design and software development that is based on what bad guys might possibly do to cause your program grief."
Yah, except they didn't actually produce a cloned embyro, they produced a ball of cloned embryonic cells, right? I know it doesn't sound as controversial as making a viable human embryo clone.
A U.S. company said on Sunday it had cloned a human embryo in a breakthrough aimed not at creating a human being but at mining the embryo for stem cells used to treat disease.
Advanced Cell Technology said it had used cloning technology to grow a tiny ball of cells that could then be used as a source of stem cells. Embryonic stem cells are a kind of master cell that can grow into any kind of cell in the body.
I think the headline 'First Cloned Human Embryo' is slightly misleading. If one were to read only that, one might draw the conclusion that they were making a human 'Dolly'. A more accurate, if less attention-grabbing tagline might be 'Scientists produce cloned embryonic cells'.
Actually, I tried to include a less-than sign in my post but since I didn't remember to do < to force it to appear as '<', slashdot discarded it. I think I got mine for something like $89 as well.
Uh, go to OSNews's front page and see that Eugenia Loli-Queru appears as the author for many of the stories. Seems he submitted a story currently running on his site to both slashdot and debianplanet. The summary is straight from the article intro (including the incorrect first name of Michael Shafer).
>what about the hardware to support them? That's not mentioned at all
Yes it is.
Microsoft also would be responsible for making available 200,000 reconditioned computers and laptop computers during that period, $90 million in teacher training and $38 million in technical support.
Makes me wonder though who is lining up to get this contract for 200,000 'reconditioned' computers? I've always wondered what happens to the leased machines like the ones our company gets. We have a 3rd-party leasing company that gets the boxes from Dell which we lease for 18 months. We ghost the drives and put them on people's desks. When they go off lease, we wipe the drives and the leasing company takes them away.
My first guess would be that MS is going to source these from multiple leasing companies that operate in the areas where these 14,000 schools are?
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>they still aren't allowed to see doctors
I thought the problem was the male Doctors aren't allowed to see the women unclothed, but the Taliban doesn't allow female Doctors either.
Mod this up. This is the right answer. If this email exists, post it so we can figure out what it is, cause it seems rather unlikely that it is authentic.
To: isp-satellites@isp-satellites.com
X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v.3.4.6
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 14:42:50 +0000
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1256"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hi all,
We are looking for a provider of Internet and VOIP from the UK, Holland
, Germany.
We want to establish Internet connectivity to 3 locations in Iran and
one in Afghanistan.
We prefer on KU Band , to use small antennas.
Please, contact me off line.
Best Regards,
Dr. Salim Vareze
General Manager
AE Communication Co.
I was somewhat dissapointed, though. It is difficult to locate a specific bit (the episode index is incomplete and there is no 'scene index' available to browse) and there is virtually no supplementary material.
Still, it will make for a great geek NYE party python marathon!
When our company was young and small, we did do a lot together outside work.
Back then, everyone knew everyone and we all worked closely together under difficult circumstances (we were among the first to build and run billing services software for the nacent cellular industry in the mid 80's). Our work was very stressful and the demands were high.
Nearly every Friday we would gather at the local establishment and wash our cares away with a variety of brews and distillations. We had a bowling league, we arranged picnics and softball/volleyball outings. We were all pretty young (many of us, this was our first job out of school) and we didn't have families and our work pretty much consumed us. We worked long hours in very chaotic conditions. We shared many common experiences and many of us were very close.
Then something happended. Not all at once, but over time our company got bigger and more stable. We had more and more employees and more work but and we became much more corporate. We moved into a different building further away from the city. People working for the company tended now to have families and such and the climate became much more professional and calm.
Now, employee gatherings outside of work are mostly team outings during the workday that happen 2-3 times a year. I don't know many of the faces I see everyday (as opposed to 10 years ago when I knew _everyone_). I have a family of my own now. Most people (like myself) put in our workday and go home to a busy life outside of work.
As I recall, the Cylon's only interest in humanity was to fly around and shoot at them (mostly exploding dramatically).
No, no... there is something much more insidious about Borg's MO. Turning you into one of them while wiping out the one's they can't assimilate. *That* is evil.
"We are the Borg. All attempts to modify our proprietary technology have been reversed. Your technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile, have a nice day."
You are technically correct, although Hogwarts claims to be for "Witchcraft and Wizardry".
I always though Harry was a Wizard, not a warlock. I'm uncertain of the finer points of the the difference, but I had always assumed wizzards were the "white hats" of the magical world (obviously there are evil wizzards, so I'm not sure what the true distinction is).
I hafta admit the Drew Carey version is a lot more watchable than I expected, but I don't find it better. The original BBC version was brilliant, but a lot of the Brit references were lost on American audiences.
My biggest criticism of the Drew show is that the skits/games/improv situations/whathaveyou appear to be repeated in the same exact sequence each week. I'm not sure if the original series followed this format, it seems like there was *some* variety.
>lucas had the scripts finished BEFORE the first "trilogy" came out
Actually, the way I remember the interview with Lucas, he did have an entire story that spanned from Anakin to Luke and Leia on to Leia and Han's offspring, but that was just too much to ever make into a single movie.
So, instead of starting at the beginning, he picked a rather pivotal section within his overall story, the dawning of Luke's jedi destiny and his role in the rebellion's destruction of the imperial "moff" establishment (embodied in Tarkin's DeathStar) to develop as his first movie "E4".
Saying he had the scripts written all along is an overstatement. He certainly had the "back story" developed, but the screenplay(s) for episodes 1-3 were almost certainly not finshed (or even begun?) until after ROTJ was in the can.
Yeah, my son (8) has one of those oversized picture books that has exploded diagrams of SW stuff and short write-ups of things. On the Darth page they show his respirator and explain that he was critically injured in a lightsaber battle with Kenobi. Apparently, among other things, his lungs were scortched from breathing fumes down in a pit of lava after getting smacked-down by Obi-Wan.
This movie (or the next, I suppose) might actually be interesting if Lucas gives us a good look at Anakin's battle with Obi-Wan and the resulting transformation into Vader.
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>Circuit City is still trying to sell people @home
Saw a tv spot last night for AT&T @Home! Sheesh, wanted to to call the 800 number just to hear what they would say. This was seen on a cable channel (I have AT&T) and I have to wonder how long it takes to go and pull all these ads. Sure pissed me off (I lost @home Saturday morning, we're supposed to be hooked up to attbi today in Chicago).
>so unless you have found out what your mail server's name really is
it isn't that hard, and if you are using linux you almost certainly have already figured that out.
we went from mediaone to AT&T @home a month ago in chicago and they wanted me to install their 'software' which pretty much just changed all the windows network settings.
of course, i planned to hook my linux masq box back up as soon as the switch was over so i sacrificed a windows box to do the initial setup. they did tell you to use 'mail' for the pop and smtp servers in my mail client, the actual fqdn could be determined by looking in the windows networking properties.
their 'software' had set up *.rdms2.il.home.com (obviously a local domain - rdms is rolling meadows in illinois) as the default domain to search, so I had simply to add that to 'mail' in my email client setup. conversion done, i unplugged the NT box I had set up for the purpose and hooked my little linux masq box back to the cable modem, released the dhcp release, got a new one, and was back in business.
of course now i am fscked (AT&T @home went dark around 9 yesterday) i had mediaone for about 3 years with virtually no problems. the pointy heads at AT&T really screwed the pooch on this. @home has been in trouble for months, and they switched us over last month anyway. i've never gotten so much porn spam in my life.
now i am one of the 'within ten days' customers. i can get to the web by dialing into work and then out on the http proxy server. i am pissed - if i had any real alternative, i would be dropping at&t and getting something else right now.
bleah
>OK, fine, shut it down;
I guess that's what they're saying by not upping the offer at this point.
>then the network will be worth zero
I dunno, every day the network is shut down, the more AT&T would potentially lose subs to DSL (where available, of course), the more pressure there would be within AT&T to make a deal (up the offer).
I know that if my AT&T cable modem goes out and is still off come Monday, I'm making calls to get DSL hookup. DSL service in my area isn't really comparable to cable, but I ain't doing dialup!
>Kyle Gass, not Glass
Appears to be a common mistake
The band consists of Jack Black and Kyle Glass who both play acoustic guitar and sing
In fact, I get more hits with google using 'Glass' than 'Gass'.
But, in fact the name is Gass according to the band's site
Far as I can tell from checking out the article and then trying this myself on Google is that you can now target your search to specific filetypes. If you are dumb enough to store passwords or creditcard numbers in an xls file on your website, google makes it easy to find.
I'm at a loss to explain how someone puts sensitive information on the web in an unprotected location and then points the finger at google because they made it easier to find.
"We have a problem, and that is that people don't design software to behave itself," said Gary McGraw, chief technology officer of software risk-management company Cigital, and author of a new book on writing secure software.
"The guys at Google thought, 'How cool that we can offer this to our users' without thinking about security. If you want to do this right, you have to think about security from the beginning and have a very solid approach to software design and software development that is based on what bad guys might possibly do to cause your program grief."
Yah, except they didn't actually produce a cloned embyro, they produced a ball of cloned embryonic cells, right? I know it doesn't sound as controversial as making a viable human embryo clone.
Reuters has a bit less sensational headline: U.S. Company Says It Cloned Human Embryo for Cells
A U.S. company said on Sunday it had cloned a human embryo in a breakthrough aimed not at creating a human being but at mining the embryo for stem cells used to treat disease.
Advanced Cell Technology said it had used cloning technology to grow a tiny ball of cells that could then be used as a source of stem cells. Embryonic stem cells are a kind of master cell that can grow into any kind of cell in the body.
I think the headline 'First Cloned Human Embryo' is slightly misleading. If one were to read only that, one might draw the conclusion that they were making a human 'Dolly'. A more accurate, if less attention-grabbing tagline might be 'Scientists produce cloned embryonic cells'.
Doesn't have quite the same ring, though.
Actually, I tried to include a less-than sign in my post but since I didn't remember to do < to force it to appear as '<', slashdot discarded it. I think I got mine for something like $89 as well.
:-)
I got my set at costco for < $100
There, how is that?
Uh, go to OSNews's front page and see that Eugenia Loli-Queru appears as the author for many of the stories. Seems he submitted a story currently running on his site to both slashdot and debianplanet. The summary is straight from the article intro (including the incorrect first name of Michael Shafer).
>both texts are very similar to the article intro
Similar? More like identical except that OSNews has fixed their misstatement of Schaefer's first name being Michael instead of Steve...
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=317
>what about the hardware to support them? That's not mentioned at all
Yes it is.
Microsoft also would be responsible for making available 200,000 reconditioned computers and laptop computers during that period, $90 million in teacher training and $38 million in technical support.
Makes me wonder though who is lining up to get this contract for 200,000 'reconditioned' computers? I've always wondered what happens to the leased machines like the ones our company gets. We have a 3rd-party leasing company that gets the boxes from Dell which we lease for 18 months. We ghost the drives and put them on people's desks. When they go off lease, we wipe the drives and the leasing company takes them away.
My first guess would be that MS is going to source these from multiple leasing companies that operate in the areas where these 14,000 schools are?
>they still aren't allowed to see doctors
I thought the problem was the male Doctors aren't allowed to see the women unclothed, but the Taliban doesn't allow female Doctors either.
Catch-22
Mod this up. This is the right answer. If this email exists, post it so we can figure out what it is, cause it seems rather unlikely that it is authentic.
>I too think this email is a fake
What email? Katz doesn't provide any email (or even excerpts). All we get is Jon's story about getting an email.
Would be nice if we could see this email. Judge for ourselves how 'authentic' it is or isn't.
However, the line of reasoning that the Taliban effectively eliminated internet access the the entire country is possibly incorrect.
http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-satellites/
I got mine for $100 at costco
I was somewhat dissapointed, though. It is difficult to locate a specific bit (the episode index is incomplete and there is no 'scene index' available to browse) and there is virtually no supplementary material.
Still, it will make for a great geek NYE party python marathon!
"You can't expect to weild supreme executive power just because some watery tart flung a simitar at you!!"
When our company was young and small, we did do a lot together outside work.
Back then, everyone knew everyone and we all worked closely together under difficult circumstances (we were among the first to build and run billing services software for the nacent cellular industry in the mid 80's). Our work was very stressful and the demands were high.
Nearly every Friday we would gather at the local establishment and wash our cares away with a variety of brews and distillations. We had a bowling league, we arranged picnics and softball/volleyball outings. We were all pretty young (many of us, this was our first job out of school) and we didn't have families and our work pretty much consumed us. We worked long hours in very chaotic conditions. We shared many common experiences and many of us were very close.
Then something happended. Not all at once, but over time our company got bigger and more stable. We had more and more employees and more work but and we became much more corporate. We moved into a different building further away from the city. People working for the company tended now to have families and such and the climate became much more professional and calm.
Now, employee gatherings outside of work are mostly team outings during the workday that happen 2-3 times a year. I don't know many of the faces I see everyday (as opposed to 10 years ago when I knew _everyone_). I have a family of my own now. Most people (like myself) put in our workday and go home to a busy life outside of work.
No, it is very different now.
As I recall, the Cylon's only interest in humanity was to fly around and shoot at them (mostly exploding dramatically).
No, no... there is something much more insidious about Borg's MO. Turning you into one of them while wiping out the one's they can't assimilate. *That* is evil.
Cylons are just chome-plated target drones.
"Xbox 8 of 42 in sector 47 Alpha reports an unauthorized modification attempt underway!"
"Initiate counteraction response 1432 Delta!"
"1432 Delta counteracation successful. Unauthorized technology modification attempt terminated."
"We are the Borg. All attempts to modify our proprietary technology have been reversed. Your technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile, have a nice day."
You are technically correct, although Hogwarts claims to be for "Witchcraft and Wizardry".
I always though Harry was a Wizard, not a warlock. I'm uncertain of the finer points of the the difference, but I had always assumed wizzards were the "white hats" of the magical world (obviously there are evil wizzards, so I'm not sure what the true distinction is).
Well, that's debatable. Mockery is Canadian, isn't he? Ryan Styles makes that show, though.
I hafta admit the Drew Carey version is a lot more watchable than I expected, but I don't find it better. The original BBC version was brilliant, but a lot of the Brit references were lost on American audiences.
My biggest criticism of the Drew show is that the skits/games/improv situations/whathaveyou appear to be repeated in the same exact sequence each week. I'm not sure if the original series followed this format, it seems like there was *some* variety.
>Star Trek novelization
;-)
Facinating. I had no idea there was such a crossover between Roddenberry and Lucas!
>lucas had the scripts finished BEFORE the first "trilogy" came out
Actually, the way I remember the interview with Lucas, he did have an entire story that spanned from Anakin to Luke and Leia on to Leia and Han's offspring, but that was just too much to ever make into a single movie.
So, instead of starting at the beginning, he picked a rather pivotal section within his overall story, the dawning of Luke's jedi destiny and his role in the rebellion's destruction of the imperial "moff" establishment (embodied in Tarkin's DeathStar) to develop as his first movie "E4".
Saying he had the scripts written all along is an overstatement. He certainly had the "back story" developed, but the screenplay(s) for episodes 1-3 were almost certainly not finshed (or even begun?) until after ROTJ was in the can.
Yeah, my son (8) has one of those oversized picture books that has exploded diagrams of SW stuff and short write-ups of things. On the Darth page they show his respirator and explain that he was critically injured in a lightsaber battle with Kenobi. Apparently, among other things, his lungs were scortched from breathing fumes down in a pit of lava after getting smacked-down by Obi-Wan.
This movie (or the next, I suppose) might actually be interesting if Lucas gives us a good look at Anakin's battle with Obi-Wan and the resulting transformation into Vader.