Why? Isn't the answer to that obvious? Because the public pays for NASA, the public and their attitude towards space exploration is a lever they can use to move Congress, and considering the waste of decades projects like the space station have turned into, they need all the public support they can get.
Its not modding or patching Linux, its just setting a couple keys in their MFS database to get it to work.
Alternately, if you want to fix your IR blaster, all you nneed to do is open the tivo, look behind the black "eye" on the front -- there is an IR transmitter and IR receiver there. Cover the transmitter with electrical tape. Channel change problems will be gone.
I've been doing direct serial control of the Motorola boxes with my series 1 for years...
The internet is your friend, the instructions on how to set it up are out there... its a ten line TCL script you have to run once to set things up for it.
Better suggestion: scan the systems and disable the port on the switch/router when you find one that is unpatched. If a college student can't follow basic instructions, they shouldn't be online.
When I was in school, we didn't hesitate to shut off a port when something was wrong with a PC -- and this was seven or eight years ago when this kind of crap was rare.
Deregulated energy markets and deregulated energy companies aren't the same thing... the former means I can buy electricity from the lowest cost supplier (which to some extent, you are right, we can do in MA), but thats not what the US Govt did when they deregulated the electric companies... they just got out of the role of directly managing how the companies had to spend the money they collected. As a result, they money we all pay went to stockholders, not to infrastructure improvements that had previously been mandatory.
So, do I get your $10,000 prize for pointing out that you didn't understand what "deregulation" means in the context of energy companies?
Keep in mind that while some people will get rich betting on SCO, most people will lose their shirts doing it -- and those people will result in class action lawsuits, and perhaps criminal charges when the fit hits the shan.
It should also be mentioned that he 714mph figure is considered unreliable these days... aparently calculations and modeling shows he would've needed to jump a mile or two higher to have hit supersonic speeds.
Um, in case you didn't notice, its an auction, not a sale. So you your answer is right there... whoever buys it can aparently afford it. The prices aren't rediculous if someone out there who wants it can afford it. Just because you, your friends or everyone on/. can't doesn't mean the prices are rediculous.
I can find far more well qualified statements with far more substantiation than yours that says otherwise.
Evidence? It doesn't take long to find support both ways, but the numbers seem to fall on the side of Chile, because percipitation DOES happen in the central regions of Antartica, but its always frozen, and always blown away before it can be measured.
I'm not sure I'd agree that is the same as "no percipitation".
You're wrong. It doesn't matter how old the stuff is, or what they're trying to do. They win if we don't participate. We can't critisize them using 30 year old technology to do what we did 30 years ago, because we're not even using that technology to do it today, much less anything new.
If you are hosting files that you don't own the copyright on for others to download, you're breaking the law.
What is there to stand up to? Its illegal to break and enter, and there are millions in jail for doing it but I don't see any protests in the streets trying to get a groundswell of support for the idea that its okay to do that.
Ran a little Win95 back in the day, and I'm stuck using Windows at work... but suffice it to say, I've got a LOT of Linux experience.
I can say, its not ever going to happen. Every single person I've ever talked to about it who believed otherwise hasn't used OSX.
I bought a mac, and haven't touched my Linux desktop since then. I run some programs off it via X once in a while, but there's no way in a matter of a year, or even likely five years Linux can catch up to the quality of a desktop OS produced by a company that actually hires UI experts.
Linux will always run my servers, but I'd be shocked if it ever runs one of my real desktops again. (Its happily running on my webplayers, though)
Strange, Boston managed to screw up their highway interchanges without redefining Pi.
They did, however, redefine "Speed Limit" to mean "speed we shall taunt you during your commute with" during daylight hours, and "speed you should drive to ensure you will be violently rear-ended at" during night hours.
Project Orion was the real origin of the concept of using nuclear power in space... and while the political environment changed and didn't allow it to come to being, any of you who've never heard of it and are interested in spaceflight ought to check it out. (The link is just the first link I found on Google, there's actually a great book about it here.
I could care less if someone can afford a phone or not.
Their house cost 1/5 what mine does living near Boston. I have no desire to pay a DIME of my money so their phone bill is the same as mine. If you want a cheap phone bill, move. Period.
Phones are a luxury, cable is a luxury... and I have a real problem paying taxes for welfare, more taxes for social security, and yet more taxes for damn phone service, medicare and all the other crap I have to pay. Why the hell should I donate two days a week of work so people in these rural areas, whose cost of living is a tiny fraction of mine, can afford these luxuries?
In regards to schools, etc, how about instead the federal government requires the telcos or cable companies to provide access to schools and libraries? We the people give them the right to run their lines on *public* land. Make them pay for it out of their grossly overinflated profits.
You clearly have never seen me play. Eyes, heads, jockers... its all fair game when I'm on the table... can't block my shot if you're busy protecting your eyes or family jewels!
Okay, I have to agree with you that there has been a drastic decline in the last ten to fifteen years of the number of people in the field who would be considered old-school "hackers" -- the kind of guys who created these systems that people now think they're eleet for using.
But what the HELL do you mean by "Where have all the talented white men gone?"
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Why? Isn't the answer to that obvious? Because the public pays for NASA, the public and their attitude towards space exploration is a lever they can use to move Congress, and considering the waste of decades projects like the space station have turned into, they need all the public support they can get.
Its not modding or patching Linux, its just setting a couple keys in their MFS database to get it to work.
Alternately, if you want to fix your IR blaster, all you nneed to do is open the tivo, look behind the black "eye" on the front -- there is an IR transmitter and IR receiver there. Cover the transmitter with electrical tape. Channel change problems will be gone.
I've been doing direct serial control of the Motorola boxes with my series 1 for years...
The internet is your friend, the instructions on how to set it up are out there... its a ten line TCL script you have to run once to set things up for it.
Better suggestion: scan the systems and disable the port on the switch/router when you find one that is unpatched. If a college student can't follow basic instructions, they shouldn't be online.
When I was in school, we didn't hesitate to shut off a port when something was wrong with a PC -- and this was seven or eight years ago when this kind of crap was rare.
That would just confuse me... at least do it DNS order:
moon.earth.sol.milkyway
Deregulated energy markets and deregulated energy companies aren't the same thing... the former means I can buy electricity from the lowest cost supplier (which to some extent, you are right, we can do in MA), but thats not what the US Govt did when they deregulated the electric companies... they just got out of the role of directly managing how the companies had to spend the money they collected. As a result, they money we all pay went to stockholders, not to infrastructure improvements that had previously been mandatory.
So, do I get your $10,000 prize for pointing out that you didn't understand what "deregulation" means in the context of energy companies?
You should practice moving your finger side to side, as well as the traditional up and down scrolling mition. Girls find that a good skill to have.
Keep in mind that while some people will get rich betting on SCO, most people will lose their shirts doing it -- and those people will result in class action lawsuits, and perhaps criminal charges when the fit hits the shan.
It should also be mentioned that he 714mph figure is considered unreliable these days... aparently calculations and modeling shows he would've needed to jump a mile or two higher to have hit supersonic speeds.
Um, in case you didn't notice, its an auction, not a sale. So you your answer is right there... whoever buys it can aparently afford it. The prices aren't rediculous if someone out there who wants it can afford it. Just because you, your friends or everyone on /. can't doesn't mean the prices are rediculous.
You've been waiting for years to use that joke on here, haven't you?
I can find far more well qualified statements with far more substantiation than yours that says otherwise.
Evidence? It doesn't take long to find support both ways, but the numbers seem to fall on the side of Chile, because percipitation DOES happen in the central regions of Antartica, but its always frozen, and always blown away before it can be measured.
I'm not sure I'd agree that is the same as "no percipitation".
When I'm in the car, the Pr0n is happening in the front seat.
30 minutes from MIT? Clearly you've never tried to get over to 93 north during the day...
They have a lot to worry about if they cave without calling a lawyer.
Exactly... I use Mozilla at work for browsing, but use Pine for e-mail. Mozilla's e-mail app is painfully bad. At home its Safari and Apple's Mail.
You're wrong. It doesn't matter how old the stuff is, or what they're trying to do. They win if we don't participate. We can't critisize them using 30 year old technology to do what we did 30 years ago, because we're not even using that technology to do it today, much less anything new.
One question...
Does the user-switching work when the screensaver has the screen locked? Ie, if I lock my screen and my girlfriend wants to log in, can she?
Not much use if I have to leave the computer unlocked all the time anyway!
If you are hosting files that you don't own the copyright on for others to download, you're breaking the law.
What is there to stand up to? Its illegal to break and enter, and there are millions in jail for doing it but I don't see any protests in the streets trying to get a groundswell of support for the idea that its okay to do that.
Ran a little Win95 back in the day, and I'm stuck using Windows at work... but suffice it to say, I've got a LOT of Linux experience.
I can say, its not ever going to happen. Every single person I've ever talked to about it who believed otherwise hasn't used OSX.
I bought a mac, and haven't touched my Linux desktop since then. I run some programs off it via X once in a while, but there's no way in a matter of a year, or even likely five years Linux can catch up to the quality of a desktop OS produced by a company that actually hires UI experts.
Linux will always run my servers, but I'd be shocked if it ever runs one of my real desktops again. (Its happily running on my webplayers, though)
Strange, Boston managed to screw up their highway interchanges without redefining Pi.
They did, however, redefine "Speed Limit" to mean "speed we shall taunt you during your commute with" during daylight hours, and "speed you should drive to ensure you will be violently rear-ended at" during night hours.
Project Orion was the real origin of the concept of using nuclear power in space... and while the political environment changed and didn't allow it to come to being, any of you who've never heard of it and are interested in spaceflight ought to check it out. (The link is just the first link I found on Google, there's actually a great book about it here.
I could care less if someone can afford a phone or not.
Their house cost 1/5 what mine does living near Boston. I have no desire to pay a DIME of my money so their phone bill is the same as mine. If you want a cheap phone bill, move. Period.
Phones are a luxury, cable is a luxury... and I have a real problem paying taxes for welfare, more taxes for social security, and yet more taxes for damn phone service, medicare and all the other crap I have to pay. Why the hell should I donate two days a week of work so people in these rural areas, whose cost of living is a tiny fraction of mine, can afford these luxuries?
In regards to schools, etc, how about instead the federal government requires the telcos or cable companies to provide access to schools and libraries? We the people give them the right to run their lines on *public* land. Make them pay for it out of their grossly overinflated profits.
You clearly have never seen me play. Eyes, heads, jockers... its all fair game when I'm on the table... can't block my shot if you're busy protecting your eyes or family jewels!
Okay, I have to agree with you that there has been a drastic decline in the last ten to fifteen years of the number of people in the field who would be considered old-school "hackers" -- the kind of guys who created these systems that people now think they're eleet for using.
But what the HELL do you mean by "Where have all the talented white men gone?"
That racist shit got moderated up to +4?