I'm sure that Verisign can do pretty much whatever they want. They're a private company in the US, AFAIK and can therefore refuse service to anyone who ticks them off... Brant
It's usually not hard to figure out if you're getting a MS product online. The files tend to come from domains like, oh, say, microsoft.com or mechwarrior4.com... Now, of course, if you are trying to download 'http://ftp.goatse.cx/hotgaypr0n.exe' and it's signed by MS you a) have other problems and b) deserve whatever you get if you accept the file.
Of course, this is probably not too good for Verisign, as they now look like dumbasses, and have probably pissed off MS to boot.
Yeah, I got one of those bad boys. Overclocked it to just over 2ghz, I'm cooling it with liquid oxygen. I run at about 35 kelvin Had a little problem with open flames, tho. Foom! No more box. Course, I did manage to decapitate one of the blue men in the ensuing explosion. I made his little blue head into a hat for my dog.
One thing that seems to be missing from this whole Mir deal is the sprout-eatin' sandal wearer's complaining. I checked greenpeace.org, earthfirst.org, and yahoo's/environment/orginizations/hippies, and randomly clicked around and saw nothing. This seems somewhat odd, as I imagine a couple tons of stuff hitting the ocean at 17k m/h is going to kill a couple of fish. Plus, who knows what sort of nastiness is in the materiels of the ship, screaming out of the sky in a red hot rocket of pollution. I just thought that was wierd. Has anyone else seen anything from the greenies about this?
There's another, different purpose for this than that mentioned above.. Your average PFC doesn't *need* a radio. All that PFC bob having a radio would do would be to clutter both the freq and the minds of the higher-ups. All soldiers are given training in the use of the radio, but only the squad leader really needs one to communicate with base. One thing that I wanted when I was slogging around in the mud was an inter-squad only radio. Me being able to communicate with my squad and not have to broadcast above squad level would have been quite helpful.
I just called my state reps and senators (I live in Austin), and the person I spoke with said that she had recieved quite a few calls on this bill, and that, from what she had heard around the capitol, it is quite unlikely to pass. It's too bad pieces of legislation like this actaully make it this far.
If you live in Texas and you want to call your reps, go to this right here and it will give you the phone numbers of your reps by zip code. Your rep will have a local (district) number for you to call.
Innovation has never happened in leaps and bounds.. It takes baby steps. Take, for instance, the genetic modification of goats to produce spider silk instead of milk. That could be a world-changer, and is certianly innovative, but it is going to take some time. The cellular industry: Instead of paying hundreds a month for a 4 pound, foot long phone, I can pay 40 bucks a month and I have a phone that could (if I was so motivated) hide in my mouth. I am right now wearing a SkyTel 2-way pager. Wow.. I mean this stuff is really cool...
It just takes some hindsight to figure out what it all means.
According to the article in question, the congressfolk have access to the CRM software, but don't use it, perhaps out of apathy.
I saw This article earlier today, and it really got my guts frothing. Congress works for *us*, not the other way around, but they sometimes forget that sort of stuff.
Thetans, aliens.
they make you do bad bad things
pay the church, they leave.
Thetans are these little aliens that suck your karma. They can only be removed by paying the asschurch of sienbichology lots of money. Stupid church.
As an aside, I was at a flea market last weekend. This flea market is populated by poor hispanics, mostly, and is not one of those 'classy' flea markets like those of you on the east coast are used to. Strangely enough, there was a scientology guy there. I'm not sure, but I think he was doing penance for something.
It looks like a star with the numeral '1' in the middle, and above that is a top hat with '1', '2' and '3' arrayed around it, starting from quad IV and proceeding clockwise.
Word around here (here being an RBOC/LD Company based in Cinci, OH)is that 2002 is when the fiber shortage is going to happen. To combat this, the 'players' in the fiber industry (Qwest, Broadwing, AT&T, PacBell, etc.) are finding thier best fiber supplier and tying them into agreements for up to 100% of thier multi-strand/multimode fiber output until 2003.
Yeah, it does... and the part, nearly halfway in, where he talks a bunch of sh1t about some other company and thier pitiful excuse for a document securing system.
They will have to continue the CD-sized packaging... ease of theivery is too high for a quarter.. you could feasibly walk out of the store with 300 bucks worth of music without making a pocket dent.. and where are the liner notes and pictures going to go, and how would you be able to find what you wanted on the racks if it were just thousands of rows, 1.5 inches wide?
Now these guys are serious dorks. This being said I am *so* jealous I didn't think of doing this first.
And this could have practical applications, too: Fr'instance, you could use it to have an autopilot on wheelchairs.. Oh, what am I talking about. This is just nifty. Brant
As far as I can understand, this is merely a little muscle flexing by the TX legislature to see what will be tolerated by the people of texas. I don't think that we Texans will tolerate this kind of nonsense..
This may be compaq's backyard, but they only have two cities that they run major ops in (Austin and Houston, I believe), and I don't think the four million other counties will toleratet his sort of nonsense. Of course, I've been wrong before.
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Call me dumb, but where do the batteries go? How is this bad boy powered? Brant
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"Sorry boss, couldn't get back to you, my phone was stuck to the bottom of my shoe"
"Oh, yeah, your phone... thanks for letting me borrow it, but I ran out of TP the other day and used it to wipe my ass... those buttons feel kinda good"
Umm, sorry.. my phone melted in the rain.
*sigh* sorry. This story just kinda hit my funnybone.
but sir, the Kernel is consistently updated and redistributed, no? Wouldn't linus or the Linux teams be able to take out, say, telnet, or HTTP support or PERL, which would eliminate the crackish possibities? Linux, in my mind, could qualify as a service... but of course, that is a loose definition.
Okay, the doubleclick thing is cool and all and I'm glad to see them get thier asses stomped, but I had *never* seen this BountyQuest thing before. That is just about as cool as can be.
Of course, finding this site means that I'm not going to get any more work done this afternoon... Going to be looking for bounties, and then ill quit my job and then i'll have a bevy of prostitutes to cater to my every whim. Yep, all part of my master plan.
Is just about the most bullshit thing I can think of. Does that mean that Linus T. is responsible for every little skr1pt k1dd13 who hacks a website using linux? Today in salon I saw a great quote: Are the makers of pantyhose liable for bank robberies, because they are fully aware that robbers use thier products for concealment?
There is a far cry from providing a service taht has numerous non-infringing uses and giving someone a gun to rob a bank with. (I know, ended sentance with preposition, but I'm ranting)
Furthermore, we have no idea where this technology can go, and no idea what can happen with it and if we start stomping it into the ground, it will die. Ooh. this makes me so mad.
It's manually guided. Uses a ~3cm dia. umbilical with video and miscellaneous telemetry feeds.
A funny but I almost missed in the article: The drivers of the poopmobile use the remote arm to kill roaches when they're bored. That would be fun as heck.
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This will also allow you to run MS Outlook...
They are trying to implement the virus execution layer from MS outlook, so here it comes!
Welcome to the world of the love bug, linux.
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Okay, how is this not a troll? Moderators?
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I'm sure that Verisign can do pretty much whatever they want. They're a private company in the US, AFAIK and can therefore refuse service to anyone who ticks them off...
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It's usually not hard to figure out if you're getting a MS product online.
The files tend to come from domains like, oh, say, microsoft.com or mechwarrior4.com...
Now, of course, if you are trying to download 'http://ftp.goatse.cx/hotgaypr0n.exe' and it's signed by MS you a) have other problems and b) deserve whatever you get if you accept the file.
Of course, this is probably not too good for Verisign, as they now look like dumbasses, and have probably pissed off MS to boot.
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Yeah, I got one of those bad boys. Overclocked it to just over 2ghz, I'm cooling it with liquid oxygen. I run at about 35 kelvin
Had a little problem with open flames, tho. Foom! No more box.
Course, I did manage to decapitate one of the blue men in the ensuing explosion. I made his little blue head into a hat for my dog.
Brant
One thing that seems to be missing from this whole Mir deal is the sprout-eatin' sandal wearer's complaining. I checked greenpeace.org, earthfirst.org, and yahoo's /environment/orginizations/hippies, and randomly clicked around and saw nothing.
This seems somewhat odd, as I imagine a couple tons of stuff hitting the ocean at 17k m/h is going to kill a couple of fish. Plus, who knows what sort of nastiness is in the materiels of the ship, screaming out of the sky in a red hot rocket of pollution. I just thought that was wierd. Has anyone else seen anything from the greenies about this?
Brant
There's another, different purpose for this than that mentioned above.. Your average PFC doesn't *need* a radio. All that PFC bob having a radio would do would be to clutter both the freq and the minds of the higher-ups.
All soldiers are given training in the use of the radio, but only the squad leader really needs one to communicate with base. One thing that I wanted when I was slogging around in the mud was an inter-squad only radio. Me being able to communicate with my squad and not have to broadcast above squad level would have been quite helpful.
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Probably the same way that california does, what with the 'california emissions' package.
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I just called my state reps and senators (I live in Austin), and the person I spoke with said that she had recieved quite a few calls on this bill, and that, from what she had heard around the capitol, it is quite unlikely to pass. It's too bad pieces of legislation like this actaully make it this far.
If you live in Texas and you want to call your reps, go to this right here and it will give you the phone numbers of your reps by zip code. Your rep will have a local (district) number for you to call.
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Innovation has never happened in leaps and bounds.. It takes baby steps. Take, for instance, the genetic modification of goats to produce spider silk instead of milk. That could be a world-changer, and is certianly innovative, but it is going to take some time.
The cellular industry: Instead of paying hundreds a month for a 4 pound, foot long phone, I can pay 40 bucks a month and I have a phone that could (if I was so motivated) hide in my mouth. I am right now wearing a SkyTel 2-way pager. Wow.. I mean this stuff is really cool... It just takes some hindsight to figure out what it all means.
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According to the article in question, the congressfolk have access to the CRM software, but don't use it, perhaps out of apathy.
I saw This article earlier today, and it really got my guts frothing. Congress works for *us*, not the other way around, but they sometimes forget that sort of stuff.
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Thetans, aliens.
they make you do bad bad things
pay the church, they leave.
Thetans are these little aliens that suck your karma. They can only be removed by paying the asschurch of sienbichology lots of money. Stupid church.
As an aside, I was at a flea market last weekend. This flea market is populated by poor hispanics, mostly, and is not one of those 'classy' flea markets like those of you on the east coast are used to. Strangely enough, there was a scientology guy there. I'm not sure, but I think he was doing penance for something.
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It looks like a star with the numeral '1' in the middle, and above that is a top hat with '1', '2' and '3' arrayed around it, starting from quad IV and proceeding clockwise.
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Word around here (here being an RBOC/LD Company based in Cinci, OH)is that 2002 is when the fiber shortage is going to happen. To combat this, the 'players' in the fiber industry (Qwest, Broadwing, AT&T, PacBell, etc.) are finding thier best fiber supplier and tying them into agreements for up to 100% of thier multi-strand/multimode fiber output until 2003.
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Yeah, it does... and the part, nearly halfway in, where he talks a bunch of sh1t about some other company and thier pitiful excuse for a document securing system.
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If you read the text of the article, the devices are WORM.. and I didn't see any reference to multisession capability.
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They will have to continue the CD-sized packaging... ease of theivery is too high for a quarter.. you could feasibly walk out of the store with 300 bucks worth of music without making a pocket dent.. and where are the liner notes and pictures going to go, and how would you be able to find what you wanted on the racks if it were just thousands of rows, 1.5 inches wide?
Sorry about the run-on sentance. I'm tired.
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Now these guys are serious dorks. This being said I am *so* jealous I didn't think of doing this first.
And this could have practical applications, too: Fr'instance, you could use it to have an autopilot on wheelchairs.. Oh, what am I talking about. This is just nifty.
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As far as I can understand, this is merely a little muscle flexing by the TX legislature to see what will be tolerated by the people of texas. I don't think that we Texans will tolerate this kind of nonsense..
This may be compaq's backyard, but they only have two cities that they run major ops in (Austin and Houston, I believe), and I don't think the four million other counties will toleratet his sort of nonsense. Of course, I've been wrong before.
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Call me dumb, but where do the batteries go? How is this bad boy powered?
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"Sorry boss, couldn't get back to you, my phone was stuck to the bottom of my shoe"
"Oh, yeah, your phone... thanks for letting me borrow it, but I ran out of TP the other day and used it to wipe my ass... those buttons feel kinda good"
Umm, sorry.. my phone melted in the rain.
*sigh* sorry. This story just kinda hit my funnybone.
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but sir, the Kernel is consistently updated and redistributed, no? Wouldn't linus or the Linux teams be able to take out, say, telnet, or HTTP support or PERL, which would eliminate the crackish possibities? Linux, in my mind, could qualify as a service... but of course, that is a loose definition.
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Okay, the doubleclick thing is cool and all and I'm glad to see them get thier asses stomped, but I had *never* seen this BountyQuest thing before. That is just about as cool as can be.
Of course, finding this site means that I'm not going to get any more work done this afternoon... Going to be looking for bounties, and then ill quit my job and then i'll have a bevy of prostitutes to cater to my every whim.
Yep, all part of my master plan.
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Is just about the most bullshit thing I can think of. Does that mean that Linus T. is responsible for every little skr1pt k1dd13 who hacks a website using linux? Today in salon I saw a great quote: Are the makers of pantyhose liable for bank robberies, because they are fully aware that robbers use thier products for concealment?
There is a far cry from providing a service taht has numerous non-infringing uses and giving someone a gun to rob a bank with. (I know, ended sentance with preposition, but I'm ranting)
Furthermore, we have no idea where this technology can go, and no idea what can happen with it and if we start stomping it into the ground, it will die. Ooh. this makes me so mad.
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It's manually guided. Uses a ~3cm dia. umbilical with video and miscellaneous telemetry feeds.
A funny but I almost missed in the article: The drivers of the poopmobile use the remote arm to kill roaches when they're bored. That would be fun as heck.
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