These are hoaxes, but how do I convince the people that send me these, that this is the case?
I used to get a lot of these. First find a case of that letter on a anti hoax site saying that it is a hoax. Reply and tell them they have been hoaxed. If they are forwarding it to a lot of people then forward the anti-hoax information as well. Having backup from a anti-hoax site reinforces your statement and they will look like an ass and think twice before sending such letters again.
Some Anti-hoax sites Hoax Busters Virus Myths Just search on google for urban legends and you will get more sites.
But he's talking about an enormous brush fire with "30 foot high flames"
The wind can move small bits of burning material further and not where the front is. These can be put out fairly easily. But if left to burn they will start another fire even on the other side of a break. High wind enables the fire to jump in this method. I suppose you haven't watched many bush fires before. Fire burns in all directions if there is fuel, wind just pushes it faster.
Not in the actual observatory site. They where killed in other places by the same fire. I think 3 were killed in the Canberra Suburb of Duffy and another in the Uriarra forest settlement. But I'm not certain about the exact facts.
Branches have a lot of leaves at the end. They are normally green because they are still connected to the plant. They are quite flat and can sort of be used like a fire blanket to smother the fire.
I'm trying to think of how they could alter the game to make it harder or easier without simply just choosing the order of the cards in the deck
It is possible. The number of possible hands is known. Just look at freecell, you can choose which hand to play. They actually know the number of unplayable deals in freecell by using mathematics. It would be just as easy to work it out in solitaire.
The reason you are seeing patterns in the game is because you mind cannot make sense of the randomness and tries to make a pattern depending on other things rather than just what is happening in the game. This is also why it appears different at different times of the day. It is a cognitive illusion.
If the authorities fail to do anything about it then the country can be sanctioned (shipping wise, not the CIA type). Months of no cop movies to inspire them may help motivate some action on infringement and help ring countries into line.
If only this could come true. Fellow aussies pirate away and we shall be rid of hollywood forever. (Well not quite)
Just select several pieces of text from an escrows site and put it in google and see if another site comes up. Make sure to use double quotes in google like this piece
"in the case of the latter, an additional fee of"
Wow I just found another site that has identical text. escrow-set.com
Thats because most ads are for crap products. If they advertised stuff you where interested in you'd look. I'd look at criminal wanted and missing people ads. Escpecially if a reward is offered. A few seconds of my time each day to help make the world a better place.
Then, would it become a requirement to do a certain amount of testing for security weaknesses before releasing software?
If that happens, would sharing "in-development" source code (sourceforge) become illegal for "security reasons"?
You probably would have to put big disclaimers on it saying "not fit for real world use, development version only". I actually think making sure that software is secure is a good thing. Of course having stupid laws enforce it won't make it so.
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No, but go try and find security patches for a Slackware 1.0 system... or anything running the 1.x series of kernels. Good luck!
And exactly what year do you think this is? The 1.X series kernel was no longer used by Slackware in 1996 which was 6 years ago, you are talking about 4 years. I don't know when slackware 1.0 was released but it was around 1993 or so. 9 years ago, not 4.
The reason Microsoft still supports windows 98 is that people still use it. If people still used the older versions on Linux they would be supported. But since everyone has moved on there is no point.
The boot floppy is not the point. How easy it is to repair the system is the point. When all you need is to edit config files things are much easier than changing registry keys in text mode.
I would be GLAD to give several hundred dollars to any company that can make a consistent, user-friendly, non-MS OS for my x86 hardware (all of it, not just some). Is this possible? Apple - where are you?
Linux will be ready for the desktop when Gnome or KDE drop dead (I can't wait) and some consistency settles in. Until then, I'll run BSD on my servers (the documentation is much better as a result of the consistency) and Windows on the desktop.
Then you should look at Xandros Linux
Which is based on debian/corel linux and is quite good
All of these are quite good Windows replacments and they will get better. Have a look at each and their prices/policies. Lindows has click'n'run which you have heard of. Lycoris I have used and is quite good.
There's much more to human intelligence than doing math really fast. Thats why this is a ton of horseshit.
You misunderstand the singularity. It doesn't have to come about because of AI. It can also come about because of human augmentation with computers, let me give you some examples.
A smart person connected to the internet can research a problem faster than one in a library. As the software for research on the net gets better and better more research can be done. Hence better software and hardware can be made and people can study previous research.
This doesn't mean we will increase forever but that at the current rate we are increasing exponentially. Also the singularity is not judgment day. Some people see it that way because they don't understand. We will not be enslaved or lose our souls any more than we do so today.
Which is the exact scenario out of the beginning of Vinges book 'A fire upon the deep'
The new Power had no weapons on the ground, nothing but a comm laser. That could not even melt steel at the frigate's range. No matter, the laser was aimed, civilly on the retreating warship's receiver. No acknowledgment. The humans knew what communication would bring. The laser light flickered here and there across the hull, lighting smoothness and inactive sensors, sliding across the ship's ultradrive spines. Searching probing. The Power had never bothered to sabotage the external hull, but that was no problem. Even this crude machine had thousands of robot sensors scattered across its surface, reporting status and danger, driving utility programs. Most were shut down now, the ship fleeing nearly blind. They thought by not looking that they could be safe. One more second and the frigate would attain interstellar saftey. The laser flickered on a failure sensor, a sensor that reported critical changes in one of the ultradrive spines. Its interrupts could not be ignored if the star jump were to succeed. Interrupt honored. Interrupt handler running, looking out, receiving more light from the laser far below... a backdoor into the ship's code, installed when the newborn had subverted the humans' groundside equipment.... ...and the Power was aboard, with milliseconds to spare. Its agents -- not even human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's automation, shutting down, aborting. There would be no jump. Cameras in the ship's bridge showed widening of eyes, the beginning of a scream. The humans knew, to the extent that horror can live in a fraction of a second.
How do they know the singularity society won't go after them?
No, it IS telling me how long a distance I can travel. At maximum allowable speed in New Mexico (75mph) I can travel at most 55,800 miles in month (75x24x31) and THAT PISSES ME OFF!
What if they told you, you could only drive 500Miles a month, how would you feel then?
Sling rocks all you like, but VB isn't one of the most popular development environments on the planet today by accident, either. For its time, it was revolutionary, and it's hardly fair to accuse MS of ripping off ideas without noting the number of other "visual" development environments that sprang from that one. Too bad they couldn't do it themselves with VC++, and Borland had to do it for them, but hey, you can't have everything.;-)
Microsoft didn't create VB This guys company did. Cooper.com Microsoft just bought it off them.
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And not forgetting the one at linux questions
Linux Help Network
Linux Entre Amis Which is french
Linux Pro Nederland
There must be more as well.
And I sit at my desk reading this wearing a Atomic T-shirt from the first issue of atomic magazine. What a co-incidence.
I used to get a lot of these. First find a case of that letter on a anti hoax site saying that it is a hoax. Reply and tell them they have been hoaxed. If they are forwarding it to a lot of people then forward the anti-hoax information as well. Having backup from a anti-hoax site reinforces your statement and they will look like an ass and think twice before sending such letters again.
Some Anti-hoax sites
Hoax Busters
Virus Myths
Just search on google for urban legends and you will get more sites.
Oh A obviously must stand for American musn't it? Bloody ethnocentric USAians.
The wind can move small bits of burning material further and not where the front is. These can be put out fairly easily. But if left to burn they will start another fire even on the other side of a break. High wind enables the fire to jump in this method. I suppose you haven't watched many bush fires before. Fire burns in all directions if there is fuel, wind just pushes it faster.
Not in the actual observatory site. They where killed in other places by the same fire. I think 3 were killed in the Canberra Suburb of Duffy and another in the Uriarra forest settlement. But I'm not certain about the exact facts.
Branches have a lot of leaves at the end. They are normally green because they are still connected to the plant. They are quite flat and can sort of be used like a fire blanket to smother the fire.
Why Read CNN when you can read the real australian news at the ABC site.
It is possible. The number of possible hands is known. Just look at freecell, you can choose which hand to play. They actually know the number of unplayable deals in freecell by using mathematics. It would be just as easy to work it out in solitaire.
The reason you are seeing patterns in the game is because you mind cannot make sense of the randomness and tries to make a pattern depending on other things rather than just what is happening in the game. This is also why it appears different at different times of the day. It is a cognitive illusion.
Since when is California an Australian state? We don't want it, take it back.
If only this could come true. Fellow aussies pirate away and we shall be rid of hollywood forever. (Well not quite)
Just select several pieces of text from an escrows site and put it in google and see if another site comes up. Make sure to use double quotes in google like this piece
"in the case of the latter, an additional fee of"
Wow I just found another site that has identical text. escrow-set.com
Thats because most ads are for crap products. If they advertised stuff you where interested in you'd look. I'd look at criminal wanted and missing people ads. Escpecially if a reward is offered. A few seconds of my time each day to help make the world a better place.
You probably would have to put big disclaimers on it saying "not fit for real world use, development version only". I actually think making sure that software is secure is a good thing. Of course having stupid laws enforce it won't make it so.
And that is why fsck is used as a swear word.
And exactly what year do you think this is? The 1.X series kernel was no longer used by Slackware in 1996 which was 6 years ago, you are talking about 4 years. I don't know when slackware 1.0 was released but it was around 1993 or so. 9 years ago, not 4.
The reason Microsoft still supports windows 98 is that people still use it. If people still used the older versions on Linux they would be supported. But since everyone has moved on there is no point.
Have you ever used Linux?
The boot floppy is not the point. How easy it is to repair the system is the point. When all you need is to edit config files things are much easier than changing registry keys in text mode.
Linux will be ready for the desktop when Gnome or KDE drop dead (I can't wait) and some consistency settles in. Until then, I'll run BSD on my servers (the documentation is much better as a result of the consistency) and Windows on the desktop.
Then you should look at
Xandros Linux
Which is based on debian/corel linux and is quite good
Or
Lindows
Or
Lycoris
All of these are quite good Windows replacments and they will get better. Have a look at each and their prices/policies. Lindows has click'n'run which you have heard of. Lycoris I have used and is quite good.
Reviews are available from
Xandros Review
Lycoris Review
Xandros Review
Xandros Review
Xandros Review
Lindows Review
Xandros Review
Lycoris Review
Xandros Review
Lycoris Review
Lindows Review
You misunderstand the singularity. It doesn't have to come about because of AI. It can also come about because of human augmentation with computers, let me give you some examples.
A smart person connected to the internet can research a problem faster than one in a library. As the software for research on the net gets better and better more research can be done. Hence better software and hardware can be made and people can study previous research.
This doesn't mean we will increase forever but that at the current rate we are increasing exponentially. Also the singularity is not judgment day. Some people see it that way because they don't understand. We will not be enslaved or lose our souls any more than we do so today.
The new Power had no weapons on the ground, nothing but a comm laser. That could not even melt steel at the frigate's range. No matter, the laser was aimed, civilly on the retreating warship's receiver. No acknowledgment. The humans knew what communication would bring. The laser light flickered here and there across the hull, lighting smoothness and inactive sensors, sliding across the ship's ultradrive spines. Searching probing. The Power had never bothered to sabotage the external hull, but that was no problem. Even this crude machine had thousands of robot sensors scattered across its surface, reporting status and danger, driving utility programs. Most were shut down now, the ship fleeing nearly blind. They thought by not looking that they could be safe. ... a backdoor into the ship's code, installed when the newborn had subverted the humans' groundside equipment....
One more second and the frigate would attain interstellar saftey.
The laser flickered on a failure sensor, a sensor that reported critical changes in one of the ultradrive spines. Its interrupts could not be ignored if the star jump were to succeed. Interrupt honored. Interrupt handler running, looking out, receiving more light from the laser far below
...and the Power was aboard, with milliseconds to spare. Its agents -- not even human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's automation, shutting down, aborting. There would be no jump. Cameras in the ship's bridge showed widening of eyes, the beginning of a scream. The humans knew, to the extent that horror can live in a fraction of a second.
How do they know the singularity society won't go after them?
It isn't plagiarism just because you re-order your phrases.
What if they told you, you could only drive 500Miles a month, how would you feel then?
What about viruses? They can come as embedded code in a web page sent as email.
Microsoft didn't create VB
This guys company did. Cooper.com
Microsoft just bought it off them.