And I'm prepared to accept Time Travel paradoxes at face value, as long as they're consistent.
O.T., I know, but I loveBill and Ted's Excellent Adventure because it's the first/only movie where the characters make intellegent use of a time machine. "Geeze, we need the keys" "OK, later we'll go back to the past and hide them here" "There they are! Cool!"
LOL! Yeah, right. Let's see: We'll make fertilizer from natural gas, use it to grow corn, then use the corn to make plastic, thus reducing the demand for oil! Brilliant! This is much better than our previous scheme to use natural-gas-derived fertilizer on corn to make alcohol.
Maybe it's because I'm using Netscape, but the NYT random login generator doesn't work for me. Takes me to a blank NYT registration page, with none of the fields filled in.
File trading networks seem perfect for distributing i.e. linux ISOs, taking the load off organizations like Debian that don't have the money and don't deserve to have to pay for a lot of bandwidth.
Interesting idea. IANAL, so anyone care to offer opinions on whether stating "The source is available on Kazaa/Grokster/gnutella" would meet the obligations of the GPL?
"This past month, VanLUG went to Comdex, as we usually do... What kinds of methods and focuses have other LUGs had for their presence at Comdex? Or are there any other LUGs at all that have been toComdex?"
Uh, if you usually go to Comdex and you haven't noticed any other LUGs, why would you want to emulate their "methods and focuses"? Obviously they didn't work.
"The NIC costs $120 list price, and the embedded firewall is another $50 for each client." My last NIC cost me $4.95. So it's really $165 for the firewall.What if you need to VPN into work, and your employer's VPN won't work through the firewall firmware? Not that it would be a problem, but if it were a problem can you turn the firewall off?
Sheesh! This is getting out of hand. GoldenScrewdriver writes
"A colleague of mine has written an excellent article on how to secure your wireless network using an IPSEC VPN tunnel, NAT, and a FreeBSD firewall. With the inherent weaknesses of WEP, I thought this article might be interesting to those who prefer some privacy on their wireless link."
OK, I admit, I missed the last word there, "link", and concentrated on the previous phrase "wireless network", which also appears in the subject ("Securing Wireless Networks with IPSEC and FreeBSD"). But, true to Slashdot form lately, this is not about securing wireless networks, it's about securing a wireless link between your firewall and your ISP. Yeah, right -- that applies to what, five people? V.s. hundreds running actual wireless LANs on the other side of the firewall?
GIVE US A FUCKING BREAK. PLEASE make the subjects reflect what the story's really about, so we won't waste our time!
"If this might fit your situation, you might also find this earlier article interesting as well."
No, I didn't. That earlier article had nothing about encrypting wireless LANs, other than the helpful suggestion that you might want to consider it, and concludes with "Configuring IPsec is beyond the scope of this article." No shit.
Why in the hell do the editors constantly accept story submissions that are blatant cut-and-pastes from the story itself? Do people have no creativity at all? No words of their own??
Shouldn't that be "Smart Card drivers for Linux?" rather than "Building a Smart Card Based Linux System?" I thought the story was about fitting Linux onto a smart card, or using a smart card to boot linux, or something interesting. The other posters are right -- Use Google!
No shit. From personal experience, I have to say that if you or your ISP gets on the vigilantiesshit list, you're fucked and might as well give up. Unless you have deep pockets, those bastards won't let you clear your name. They won't even talk to you (naturally, they block your email, so you can't talk to them).
Come the revolution, they'll be the first up against the wall -- someday Denial of Service will be illegal, and then they'll get theirs.
I think he means that Adobe for Linux on the Mac would be a simple recompile of Adobe for Linux on Intel (or visa-versa). Personally, I suspect we'll see a Linux port of Mac OS X code rather than a port of Mac OS 9 code, in which case they may just ignore Linux on the Mac.
Oh, and if their behavior on Mac/PC is any indication, you won't be able to switch your license. I had Pagemaker for the Mac and when I got my upgrade notice I asked if I could upgrade to Pagemaker for Windows instead (same price, so why not?) but they refused. That's when I stopped using Pagemaker and learned to make due with Word for Windows, which did most of what I wanted anyway. Mind you, I'd have made the switch if I were desktop publishing for a living (I was just doing a simple newsletter for a club) but I'd still have been pissed about their policy.
We know Vader lost an arm (and several other bits) in his past, so you know we're gonna see Anakin lose that arm (and several other bits) before the series is over. As much as you might dislike it, Lucas can't leave that out. Sorry.
The only people I know with one use it to watch their kids. When their kids are playing in the den they can "spy" on them from the kitchen TV. A novelty at first, now they only use it when they hear screams from the den, to see which kid is hitting which so they can add the correct name when they yell "Knock it off!" Much better than when I was a kid, and Mom always blamed the wrong brother.
This is not a foldable LCD. That would be cool, but this is not foldable. This is two LCDs mounted edge-to-edge along a hinge. I suspect the 'breakthrough' is an LCD with virtually no border (along one edge, at least), so you can put them next to each other with very little gutter. But they don't try to use it as one display; they put one page on one screen and the next page on the other, like a book. It reminds me of the LeapPad.
R2D2 is present at the battle of Naboo. I said one or the other is present at all major plot points. For example, R2D2 goes with Luke when he searches for this "Yoda" character, while C-3PO stays with Leia.
If C-3PO's memory is wiped, how can he tell us the story? Naturally I thought of that, but it doesn't fit. C-3PO and R2D2 are the only characters present in all nine episodes (at least, according to Lucas). C-3PO must remember the whole storyline or he can't be the storyteller.
Anakin doesn't become Darth Vader until Episode III; we don't (yet) know if either C-3PO or R2D2 witness this transformation, or even know that Anakin has children. But I'll grant you that George Lucas will probably mess that up, too, leaving the droid's apparant memory loss in Episode IV a more obvious mistake.
Either that or Anakin's children are born sometime between Episodes III and IV (and not witnessed by either droid), which would leave a big gap in the story IMO. I've aways wondered how Anakin could have two children and only know of one. Leia is Luke's sister, but are they twins, and Anakin assumed there was only one child? Was Luke born before Anakin becomes Vader, and Leia after (Anakin didn't know Padmé was pregnant again)? We may never know.
Or perhaps Lucas will re-re-edit Episode IV to "fix" this error: C-3PO - "Master Owen, how good to see you again, sir!" Owen - "Good lord, not C-3PO. [turns to the Jawas] Are you sure you don't have any other droids that can speak binary to my condensers?"
Thanks for the link! (but turn off the background image or you can't read it)
Minor spoiler: If the movie follows this plot then George has forgotton the bottom line premise of the series: R2D2 and C-3PO are our witnesses (C-3PO tells us the story, as shown at the end of Episode VI). They are present at every major plot point, but in Episode II (as presented at the above link) neither is with Obi-Wan when he goes to Kamino and Geonosis, and I don't see any way around that in post-production. Oops!
(Yes, I know they can learn of those events from Obi-Wan, as they must learn of the minor side events from others in all the movies, but this is the first major story segment that one or the other of them doesn't personally witness. Watch I, IV, V, and VI again and you'll see what I mean.)
More minor spoilage: Oh, and why the heck doesn't C-3PO recognize his former home and Uncle Owen in Episode IV? R2D2 might recognize them, but he's keeping his mouth shut because he's looking for Obi-Wan; C-3PO knows nothing of Leia's instructions to R2D2 and has no reason to stay mum if he recognizes Owen, which means he doesn't. OK, Owen's older, but he should at least recognize Tatooine in general and the farm in particular. I wondered about that when I saw Episode I, and this plot for II confirms it.
JetBlue is only paying $9/hr.? A little low, even for part-time. Good to see a company that's finally figuring out that there are benefits (and not all economic) to telecommuting.
Oh, I think the benefits are economic, all right. Jet Blue not only doesn't pay for an office for their reservation staff, they make the staff pay the telephone bill! $45/month out of a $975/month paycheck. That's before taxes! Such a great company! I wish my employer made me pay the phone bill -- NOT! I sure hope they get a tax deduction for it.
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Not to mention the problem of conservation of mass in such classics as "Innerspace" and "Fantastic Voyage"
"Hey, Arnold, how was your trip to Mars?"
"I forget."
LOL! Yeah, right. Let's see: We'll make fertilizer from natural gas, use it to grow corn, then use the corn to make plastic, thus reducing the demand for oil! Brilliant! This is much better than our previous scheme to use natural-gas-derived fertilizer on corn to make alcohol.
Maybe it's because I'm using Netscape, but the NYT random login generator doesn't work for me. Takes me to a blank NYT registration page, with none of the fields filled in.
Or is it because I've disabled cookies?
"This past month, VanLUG went to Comdex, as we usually do... What kinds of methods and focuses have other LUGs had for their presence at Comdex? Or are there any other LUGs at all that have been toComdex?"
Uh, if you usually go to Comdex and you haven't noticed any other LUGs, why would you want to emulate their "methods and focuses"? Obviously they didn't work.
Sheesh! This is getting out of hand. GoldenScrewdriver writesOK, I admit, I missed the last word there, "link", and concentrated on the previous phrase "wireless network", which also appears in the subject ("Securing Wireless Networks with IPSEC and FreeBSD"). But, true to Slashdot form lately, this is not about securing wireless networks, it's about securing a wireless link between your firewall and your ISP. Yeah, right -- that applies to what, five people? V.s. hundreds running actual wireless LANs on the other side of the firewall?
GIVE US A FUCKING BREAK. PLEASE make the subjects reflect what the story's really about, so we won't waste our time!
No, I didn't. That earlier article had nothing about encrypting wireless LANs, other than the helpful suggestion that you might want to consider it, and concludes with "Configuring IPsec is beyond the scope of this article." No shit.Why in the hell do the editors constantly accept story submissions that are blatant cut-and-pastes from the story itself? Do people have no creativity at all? No words of their own??
Geeze, don't ask those people those questions! They would both say: "The death penalty is too good for them, and a life sentence is way too short."
Shouldn't that be "Smart Card drivers for Linux?" rather than "Building a Smart Card Based Linux System?"
I thought the story was about fitting Linux onto a smart card, or using a smart card to boot linux, or something interesting. The other posters are right -- Use Google!
Come the revolution, they'll be the first up against the wall -- someday Denial of Service will be illegal, and then they'll get theirs.
Oh, and if their behavior on Mac/PC is any indication, you won't be able to switch your license. I had Pagemaker for the Mac and when I got my upgrade notice I asked if I could upgrade to Pagemaker for Windows instead (same price, so why not?) but they refused. That's when I stopped using Pagemaker and learned to make due with Word for Windows, which did most of what I wanted anyway. Mind you, I'd have made the switch if I were desktop publishing for a living (I was just doing a simple newsletter for a club) but I'd still have been pissed about their policy.
If C-3PO's memory is wiped, how can he tell us the story? Naturally I thought of that, but it doesn't fit. C-3PO and R2D2 are the only characters present in all nine episodes (at least, according to Lucas). C-3PO must remember the whole storyline or he can't be the storyteller.
Anakin doesn't become Darth Vader until Episode III; we don't (yet) know if either C-3PO or R2D2 witness this transformation, or even know that Anakin has children. But I'll grant you that George Lucas will probably mess that up, too, leaving the droid's apparant memory loss in Episode IV a more obvious mistake.
Either that or Anakin's children are born sometime between Episodes III and IV (and not witnessed by either droid), which would leave a big gap in the story IMO. I've aways wondered how Anakin could have two children and only know of one. Leia is Luke's sister, but are they twins, and Anakin assumed there was only one child? Was Luke born before Anakin becomes Vader, and Leia after (Anakin didn't know Padmé was pregnant again)? We may never know.
Or perhaps Lucas will re-re-edit Episode IV to "fix" this error: C-3PO - "Master Owen, how good to see you again, sir!" Owen - "Good lord, not C-3PO. [turns to the Jawas] Are you sure you don't have any other droids that can speak binary to my condensers?"
Minor spoiler: If the movie follows this plot then George has forgotton the bottom line premise of the series: R2D2 and C-3PO are our witnesses (C-3PO tells us the story, as shown at the end of Episode VI). They are present at every major plot point, but in Episode II (as presented at the above link) neither is with Obi-Wan when he goes to Kamino and Geonosis, and I don't see any way around that in post-production. Oops!
(Yes, I know they can learn of those events from Obi-Wan, as they must learn of the minor side events from others in all the movies, but this is the first major story segment that one or the other of them doesn't personally witness. Watch I, IV, V, and VI again and you'll see what I mean.)
More minor spoilage: Oh, and why the heck doesn't C-3PO recognize his former home and Uncle Owen in Episode IV? R2D2 might recognize them, but he's keeping his mouth shut because he's looking for Obi-Wan; C-3PO knows nothing of Leia's instructions to R2D2 and has no reason to stay mum if he recognizes Owen, which means he doesn't. OK, Owen's older, but he should at least recognize Tatooine in general and the farm in particular. I wondered about that when I saw Episode I, and this plot for II confirms it.