Seriously, I think it might be because nerds are largely homosexual. I did CS once, and quickly got out. As a heterosexual male, I simple found myself unable to cope with spending every day being completely surrounded by no women.
Have you never been to a SuperBowl party? Bar? Pool hall? Guys like to hang around each other. They like women too.
Most men in computers complain about the fact that there are few women, but their love for the profession is greater than their love for getting laid. It doesn't mean that they love men.
What was really so hard for you about 8 hours without women? Was is specifically the lack of females or the environment that often follows a mixed workplace - social, chatty, flirty - instead of work-focused-work?
Oh, and another poster brought up a good issue - some other professions are mostly male dominated - police, firemen, construction - are they all gay too?
Technically its almost impossible [...] I am not niave enough to assume we will never ever ever have that capability.
Almost impossible = not impossible = possible
So it's possible, and we will have the capability. , the only question is whether we will use that capability. Awesome.
I agree, cloning is rather retarded, and I doubt there will widespread cloning. But there's always somebody who will think it's a great idea, so I figure there will be at least a few clones, even if it's both difficult and illegal.
there will *never* be *complete* cloning of human beings.
Why not? And since you are able to look into the future and predict all progress and scientific discovery, can you tell me when I'll finally get my flying car?
For plain old browsing, Speakeasy's often not the cheapest. In fact, in my area I can get cable internet for $50/mo by itself, which is faster and cheaper for browsing.
However, my requirements were a static IP (or two), the express ability to run my own servers - web, mail, etc, and a high upload speed (6.0 down/768 up in my case). With those requirements, Speakeasy was the cheapest; most other places (BellSouth, Time Warner) would only give me a static and the blessing to run servers with their $150+ a month business offerings, and then their speed stunk.. 384k upload at best.
Yes, there's DynDNS and friends, and most places won't complain about you running a server. Until the day they decide to change your DHCP lease every day.. or they shut you down because you have port 80 open and there's a worm going around.. you get the point.
Failure is predictable. You won't be able to point to a specific machine and say, "I decree this machine will fail!"
That is my definition of unpredictable - you can't predict when it's going to die.
study duty cycle ratings and read tech sites.
A hard drive with a MTBF of 50,000 hours can still die in hour 50.
My point, which you seem to be agreeing with, is that no matter how reliable your hardware may be, you have to plan for it to fail sometime. My other point was that since you're planning for it to fail anyways, if it fails twice as often but at 1/3 the price, that's a bargain (assuming you've planned successfully for hardware failures and they won't hurt you)
Hmm, 1/3 the cost, 1/2 the longevity.
Sounds like a good deal to me!
I think you're trying to be funny, but it is a good deal - if you buy two in a year instead of one, each at 1/3 price, you pay 2/3 the price - thus saving 1/3 the price. Since failure is unpredictable even in expensive equipment, you're going to buy two of your servers for redundancy anyways (right?) - so the longevity argument doesn't even factor in.
Just because they're not a Microsoft shill, doesn't mean they're not a shill. Who would care about open source databases? Maybe Oracle, IBM (DB2), etc?
not really supposed to be a speaker, but a mechanism to create vibration
That would be a speaker. All a speaker does is vibrate, which vibrates the air, which through the magic of sound waves vibrates your eardrum. WTF else would you use besides a speaker?
It is exactly that type of thinking that was the argument against the Bill of Rights - that enumerating them would cause people to think that the amendments granted the rights as opposed to simply recognized them.
It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration, and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the general government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard urged against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the 4th resolution.
You have to catch the virgin first. Sadly, this should prove very difficult for those reading this article.
How so? I figure stringing up a fishing net over the cubicle next door should take care of this. I just hope he doesn't get the same idea first...
For example, I've got my own wildcard domain -- anything at this domain goes to me. In addition, my MUA (mutt) is configured to automatically make my replies come from the address to which the email had been sent. I consider this useful to me, and a way to give out specific addresses so as to see how spam ends up getting to me.
I'm in the same boat.. any pointers on how to make mutt do this?
IMP (webmail client) already does this, but you have to set up each address individually (ugh). I haven't tried the 4.0 release yet, though.
A Google search turned up this document that shows that the Cisco VPN client is cabable of split tunneling [cisco.com].
The AskSlashdotter needs to RTFM.
From that link: You enable split tunneling and configure the network list on the VPN device.
In other words, the admin who controls the VPN device (not the client) controls whether the client can do split tunnelling. It's probably off - it should be to be prevent the VPN client being a conduit for the outside world into the company.
Assuming he is not allowed by company policy and/or technical enforcement to do split tunneling, the AskSlashdot question is valid - how does he access data residing on a Windows machine without using the network?
they set the VPN interface to be the default route, and then they remove any other routes.
Too true. and adding a host route or two resolves the issue.
Some VPNs do more than just change routing; they block all non-VPN traffic, route or not. Checkpoint can do this, for example (it can also be configured not to do this).
I've always wondered why a virus writter couldn't just wrap a virus in a self-extracting encryption algorithm? [...] How could scanning for a virus figure that as a virus (unless you block all executables)?
You've answered your own question - most corporations and free email providers block executables.
He's referring to a photo, frequently seen on Fark, of some guy holding a sign saying "Get a brain, morans!" and another saying "Go USA". It's also why he put it in quotes.
Also, the reason why she's suing Sony is because Sony won't release information about what happened to her son within the last week of his death due to privacy issues. [...] If her son had been living at a friend's house a week before his death, she would want to take a look at the house and ask his friend what had happened.
And both Sony and the hypothetical friend have the legal right to say "fuck off" to the mom. More, I'd say the obligation to not tell her anything. Why should they care about what the mother wants more than what the son wanted? If the son had wanted her to know, he would have told her. This was a 21 yr old - an adult. He made the decision to keep his family out of his life; people (including the mother) should respect that.
I've often wondered if Linksys could include a coupon with their wireless routers that allowed you to become a hotspot on their network. You would sign up, it would turn your router into a captive portal, you would be able to add your own computers, and other people would be charged a monthly fee and authenticated against Linksys's servers. Then you'd get a share of the profits. Given how widespread their routers are, this could be a good situation for the router owners, the users, and Linksys.
Like this? except of course done by the mfr, and national.
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Have you never been to a SuperBowl party? Bar? Pool hall? Guys like to hang around each other. They like women too.
Most men in computers complain about the fact that there are few women, but their love for the profession is greater than their love for getting laid. It doesn't mean that they love men.
What was really so hard for you about 8 hours without women? Was is specifically the lack of females or the environment that often follows a mixed workplace - social, chatty, flirty - instead of work-focused-work?
Oh, and another poster brought up a good issue - some other professions are mostly male dominated - police, firemen, construction - are they all gay too?
Almost impossible = not impossible = possible
So it's possible, and we will have the capability. , the only question is whether we will use that capability. Awesome.
I agree, cloning is rather retarded, and I doubt there will widespread cloning. But there's always somebody who will think it's a great idea, so I figure there will be at least a few clones, even if it's both difficult and illegal.
Why not? And since you are able to look into the future and predict all progress and scientific discovery, can you tell me when I'll finally get my flying car?
For plain old browsing, Speakeasy's often not the cheapest. In fact, in my area I can get cable internet for $50/mo by itself, which is faster and cheaper for browsing.
However, my requirements were a static IP (or two), the express ability to run my own servers - web, mail, etc, and a high upload speed (6.0 down/768 up in my case). With those requirements, Speakeasy was the cheapest; most other places (BellSouth, Time Warner) would only give me a static and the blessing to run servers with their $150+ a month business offerings, and then their speed stunk.. 384k upload at best.
Yes, there's DynDNS and friends, and most places won't complain about you running a server. Until the day they decide to change your DHCP lease every day.. or they shut you down because you have port 80 open and there's a worm going around.. you get the point.
So, it all depends on what you want.
DSL with no phone line. I have this in BellSouth territory.
It'd be nice.
Will you be inconvenienced by the inability to run setuid scripts on MacOS X?
Not at all. SUID scripts are a huge hole. See What security problems exist with SUID scripts and programs? for an example. SUID scripts are usually created by lazy people who can't be bothered to figure out permissions.
Which other features/capabilities (in any OS) would you like to have removed?
I'd like to see the instant-flamewar generator removed.
That is my definition of unpredictable - you can't predict when it's going to die.
study duty cycle ratings and read tech sites.
A hard drive with a MTBF of 50,000 hours can still die in hour 50.
My point, which you seem to be agreeing with, is that no matter how reliable your hardware may be, you have to plan for it to fail sometime. My other point was that since you're planning for it to fail anyways, if it fails twice as often but at 1/3 the price, that's a bargain (assuming you've planned successfully for hardware failures and they won't hurt you)
Sounds like a good deal to me!
I think you're trying to be funny, but it is a good deal - if you buy two in a year instead of one, each at 1/3 price, you pay 2/3 the price - thus saving 1/3 the price. Since failure is unpredictable even in expensive equipment, you're going to buy two of your servers for redundancy anyways (right?) - so the longevity argument doesn't even factor in.
Just because they're not a Microsoft shill, doesn't mean they're not a shill. Who would care about open source databases? Maybe Oracle, IBM (DB2), etc?
That would be a speaker. All a speaker does is vibrate, which vibrates the air, which through the magic of sound waves vibrates your eardrum. WTF else would you use besides a speaker?
It is exactly that type of thinking that was the argument against the Bill of Rights - that enumerating them would cause people to think that the amendments granted the rights as opposed to simply recognized them.
It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration, and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the general government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard urged against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the 4th resolution.
from http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/jm4/speeches/amend.h tm
How so? I figure stringing up a fishing net over the cubicle next door should take care of this. I just hope he doesn't get the same idea first...
A fishing net? More like a harpoon gun!
I doubt that many slashdotters will make it to heaven.
It's only heaven for the receiver, not the 72 slashdotters!
I'm in the same boat.. any pointers on how to make mutt do this?
IMP (webmail client) already does this, but you have to set up each address individually (ugh). I haven't tried the 4.0 release yet, though.
Not true - Sprint/Nextel does not either.
Cingular is GSM (w/SIM cards)
Verizon and Sprint are CDMA - no SIM card.
Nextel is iDen - no SIM card.
It's Poker-mon!!
The AskSlashdotter needs to RTFM.
From that link: You enable split tunneling and configure the network list on the VPN device.
In other words, the admin who controls the VPN device (not the client) controls whether the client can do split tunnelling. It's probably off - it should be to be prevent the VPN client being a conduit for the outside world into the company.
Assuming he is not allowed by company policy and/or technical enforcement to do split tunneling, the AskSlashdot question is valid - how does he access data residing on a Windows machine without using the network?
Too true. and adding a host route or two resolves the issue.
Some VPNs do more than just change routing; they block all non-VPN traffic, route or not. Checkpoint can do this, for example (it can also be configured not to do this).
That is a SQUARE resolution, not widescreen.
They mentioned that the model with that resolution had non-square pixels. So 1024 fat pixels by 768 skinny pixels.
Holy crap that is some seriously large text!
But what about Lineage, the other Korean religion?
You've answered your own question - most corporations and free email providers block executables.
He's referring to a photo, frequently seen on Fark, of some guy holding a sign saying "Get a brain, morans!" and another saying "Go USA". It's also why he put it in quotes.
See here
And both Sony and the hypothetical friend have the legal right to say "fuck off" to the mom. More, I'd say the obligation to not tell her anything. Why should they care about what the mother wants more than what the son wanted? If the son had wanted her to know, he would have told her. This was a 21 yr old - an adult. He made the decision to keep his family out of his life; people (including the mother) should respect that.
Like this? except of course done by the mfr, and national.