I could have sworn I heard one of the leonids burn up, in the same fashion described here. I confusingly turned to my friend, not believing what I thought I just heard (as has been pointed out, shouldn't make a sound at all and if it does, it would be several minutes later) and asked him if he heard it. Of course, he didn't and said I was crazy. It was strange because it was perfectly clear to me, all though kind of quiet.
Now this article comes out. You people can not imagine my elation. I HAVE BEEN VINDICATED!!!!
Re:Fond .bat memories
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True that. I remember spending hours learning the various ansi escape sequences (ansi.sys? anyone remember?) to have a fancy command prompt and colors on my little batch file menu system.
Are you implying that just because code was once compiled for (and probably written on) on a windows machine it somehow makes that code less good and tainted? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You have taken the "windows sux0rs l1nux is g00d d00d" mentality to a whole new level of ignorance.
716 (my area code) had hundreds of BBSes active up until it started declining around 1996-1997.
In fact, we have this nifty little webpage where what's left of us local bbsers (who haven't dropped off the face of the earth) sit around and talk about stupid stuff. Just like old times.. www.716bbs.com
Umm, no. With your mp3 example, when you install any major mp3 capable application it will prompt to you switch over to their program as the default. The same is true for all major file types. Archive files (.zip) come to mind as a good example.
The author of the original article has no point what so ever. It is either badly written satire, or an honest attempt at Microsoft bashing written by an extremely uneducated person.
Oh, and I'd like to point out by the way that Nautalius does the same thing on my gnome box. I don't see anyone bitching about that.
I'm starting to feel old reading through these messages, and I'm only 21. I remember dialing up to BBSes circa 1992 on a 2400 modem and waiting for one text message to load after another, play Lord, download pr0n gif pics. In fact, I remember a zmodem protocol someone made that actually allowed you to view the gif pics as they're downloaded. That was the coolest thing in the world 8 years ago.
*sigh*
Does the term gamer scum strike a cord with any other former BBSers?
And did anyone else use WWIV as their BBS software of choice, or just me?
I'm not advocating a Totalitarian government. Try reading my post again, I'm just saying we need to be open to the possibility that we got the balance of rights vs. safety wrong.
I knew issues such as this would come up when I heard news reporters on Tuesday comment on how this attack was only possible because of our "open" society.
The irrational way to look at this is "This is just another attempt by THE MAN to take our rights away". I think it is clear that in our society there is a balance between the rights of the individual citizen and the safety of the masses. Previously, most of us have asserted that this is not true without reason - that more rights does not mean less safety, and less rights does not mean more safety - because that is the "american way" and how we were brought up. I have been forced to admit in the past days that this just isn't true, on one end of the spectrum we can have zero rights and have our safety assured (strip searches at airports, every phone call monitored, 1984 etc etc) and at the other end we have anarchy and the ability to do whatever we want but our saftey is always in question.
I think this/. story is just part of a greater question we need to ask. Did we, as a country, get the balance of rights vs. safety wrong? In all seriousness, are some of the rights we hold dear REALLY that important now that we're forced to realize that tuesdays events are possible? Are we willing to give up some of our rights (not limited to privacy) to lessen the odds of this happening again?
If you are sitting there shaking your head and thinking I am a troll, what will it take to have you consider this question? Does someone need to walk into downtown LA or San Fransico with a suitcase mininuke and kill 300,000 people before you wonder if search and seizure without just cause is REALLY that big of a deal?
Just something to think about. In the meantime, the CIA is more than welcome to read my email and laugh at the list of porn sites I visit.
Thanks for ruining the damn book for me. I was in the middle of reading it. Dick.
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Franky, this post and posts like this disgust me. This is *SLASHDOT* for god sakes; the haven of all geeks, dorks, and nerds. I would have assumed that at least 75% of us know how to solve a Rubik's cube! Why all these clearly nongeeky posts talking about taking apart the cube and putting it back together in order, or peeling off the stickers and putting them on correctly? We should be complaining about how inefficent his program at solving the cube is (40 moves? Please!!) and bragging about how fast and frequently we each individually can solve a cube.
I, for instance, did my rubik's cube three times in the two minutes it took me to write this post. Without looking. Beat that.
That wouldn't work - Anyone who is skilled at solving a cube will realize that it's unsolvable (aka someone screwed with it) once they get near completion.
And, of course, anyone who is unskilled at solving a cube would never get close to completion in the first place -- so there is no point is taking it apart and flipping a block.
Flamebait? Please. I know the moderators here moderate based on if they agree with the poster or not, but if you're going to mod me down mod it correctly as "Offtopic".
As well you should as well as everyone else who heeded slashdot's call to bombard them with nasty emails without knowing all the details.
Of course, the biggest ass here is slashdot. They don't seem to realize or accept the fact that because of their size and reach they have a responsibility to fact check their stories. SOMEONE should have called trident for a comment, and definately not advocated that we bombard them with emails right in the damn story. And not even so much as an appology in this "update".
"No, of course getting all the facts in a story or reaching out for both sides of the story is out of the question. We're slashdot! We jump at every chance to whip up a fury in the name of open source! We love to make it look like and bitch about how our operating system is being oppressed, when in reality it's just commericially unviable!"
What is wrong with you people? This is a huge site owned by a large and publicly traded company, so why is the attitude of the editors still akin to an immature high schooler? Grow up Slashdot.
The AC is absolutely right. I know first hand that a hardware company I was recently associated with was getting a kickback to release several products for the iMac and mac platform in general. And this was a large hardware company. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Nvidia, Creative, and maybe some software companys like idsoftware (do you think Carmack was showing Doom3 at Macworld early this year because him and Jobs are buddies?) are getting similar kickbacks in exchange for the support of the platform as well.
You said, "but what has truely been stolen? It's not like the NY Times (NYT) is being cheated out of a paid account, they make these articles available free of charge"
They are only "free of charge" if you consider your name, address, and other contact information of no value. That is the price you're paying, you are allowing yourself to be placed into their marketing database for various demographic purposes in exchange for their content - and that comes back to my original point.
You don't "have" to register for their site, just like you don't "have" to visit their site. They are providing a wonderful service in exchange for (in addition to being subject to their ads) your name, address, phone number or whatever to be used presumably for marketing purposes. It is a service they are providing and they can set the rules as they please.
Circumventing their registration system basically amounts to stealing. Although it is incredibly simple to do (do you feel like a l33t hax0r?), and everyone knows you would never get caught, it's still wrong and childish.
Fill out the fucking form. Or, if your privacy is that important to you, buy a subscription to the print paper.
I disagree. A team of properly programmed bots, complete with 100% accuracy using hitscan weapons and almost unhittable with projectile weapons would be unbeatable by a human team. You don't need strategy to win if you never miss and can't be shot.
Your car makes a chussssssh sound while backing up? You shoudl get that checked out, maybe it's the rear brakes or something. Mine doesn't make any noise.
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I AM SO GLAD I'M NOT CRAZY
I could have sworn I heard one of the leonids burn up, in the same fashion described here. I confusingly turned to my friend, not believing what I thought I just heard (as has been pointed out, shouldn't make a sound at all and if it does, it would be several minutes later) and asked him if he heard it. Of course, he didn't and said I was crazy. It was strange because it was perfectly clear to me, all though kind of quiet.
Now this article comes out. You people can not imagine my elation. I HAVE BEEN VINDICATED!!!!
*dances*
I think you'd make a good Arthur.
True that. I remember spending hours learning the various ansi escape sequences (ansi.sys? anyone remember?) to have a fancy command prompt and colors on my little batch file menu system.
or a "ren" and "move" commands which do basically the same thing?
Are you implying that just because code was once compiled for (and probably written on) on a windows machine it somehow makes that code less good and tainted? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You have taken the "windows sux0rs l1nux is g00d d00d" mentality to a whole new level of ignorance.
716 (my area code) had hundreds of BBSes active up until it started declining around 1996-1997.
In fact, we have this nifty little webpage where what's left of us local bbsers (who haven't dropped off the face of the earth) sit around and talk about stupid stuff. Just like old times.. www.716bbs.com
Umm, no. With your mp3 example, when you install any major mp3 capable application it will prompt to you switch over to their program as the default. The same is true for all major file types. Archive files (.zip) come to mind as a good example.
The author of the original article has no point what so ever. It is either badly written satire, or an honest attempt at Microsoft bashing written by an extremely uneducated person.
Oh, and I'd like to point out by the way that Nautalius does the same thing on my gnome box. I don't see anyone bitching about that.
I'm starting to feel old reading through these messages, and I'm only 21. I remember dialing up to BBSes circa 1992 on a 2400 modem and waiting for one text message to load after another, play Lord, download pr0n gif pics. In fact, I remember a zmodem protocol someone made that actually allowed you to view the gif pics as they're downloaded. That was the coolest thing in the world 8 years ago.
*sigh*
Does the term gamer scum strike a cord with any other former BBSers?
And did anyone else use WWIV as their BBS software of choice, or just me?
Oh, ok ok. But that's just a minor detail, it wasn't the point I was trying to make.
I'm not advocating a Totalitarian government. Try reading my post again, I'm just saying we need to be open to the possibility that we got the balance of rights vs. safety wrong.
I knew issues such as this would come up when I heard news reporters on Tuesday comment on how this attack was only possible because of our "open" society.
/. story is just part of a greater question we need to ask. Did we, as a country, get the balance of rights vs. safety wrong? In all seriousness, are some of the rights we hold dear REALLY that important now that we're forced to realize that tuesdays events are possible? Are we willing to give up some of our rights (not limited to privacy) to lessen the odds of this happening again?
The irrational way to look at this is "This is just another attempt by THE MAN to take our rights away". I think it is clear that in our society there is a balance between the rights of the individual citizen and the safety of the masses. Previously, most of us have asserted that this is not true without reason - that more rights does not mean less safety, and less rights does not mean more safety - because that is the "american way" and how we were brought up. I have been forced to admit in the past days that this just isn't true, on one end of the spectrum we can have zero rights and have our safety assured (strip searches at airports, every phone call monitored, 1984 etc etc) and at the other end we have anarchy and the ability to do whatever we want but our saftey is always in question.
I think this
If you are sitting there shaking your head and thinking I am a troll, what will it take to have you consider this question? Does someone need to walk into downtown LA or San Fransico with a suitcase mininuke and kill 300,000 people before you wonder if search and seizure without just cause is REALLY that big of a deal?
Just something to think about. In the meantime, the CIA is more than welcome to read my email and laugh at the list of porn sites I visit.
He'll ignore your emails. Make sure you either call and leave a message, or write a snail mail letter.
Thanks for ruining the damn book for me. I was in the middle of reading it. Dick.
Franky, this post and posts like this disgust me. This is *SLASHDOT* for god sakes; the haven of all geeks, dorks, and nerds. I would have assumed that at least 75% of us know how to solve a Rubik's cube! Why all these clearly nongeeky posts talking about taking apart the cube and putting it back together in order, or peeling off the stickers and putting them on correctly? We should be complaining about how inefficent his program at solving the cube is (40 moves? Please!!) and bragging about how fast and frequently we each individually can solve a cube.
I, for instance, did my rubik's cube three times in the two minutes it took me to write this post. Without looking. Beat that.
That wouldn't work - Anyone who is skilled at solving a cube will realize that it's unsolvable (aka someone screwed with it) once they get near completion.
And, of course, anyone who is unskilled at solving a cube would never get close to completion in the first place -- so there is no point is taking it apart and flipping a block.
Flamebait? Please. I know the moderators here moderate based on if they agree with the poster or not, but if you're going to mod me down mod it correctly as "Offtopic".
As well you should as well as everyone else who heeded slashdot's call to bombard them with nasty emails without knowing all the details.
Of course, the biggest ass here is slashdot. They don't seem to realize or accept the fact that because of their size and reach they have a responsibility to fact check their stories. SOMEONE should have called trident for a comment, and definately not advocated that we bombard them with emails right in the damn story. And not even so much as an appology in this "update".
"No, of course getting all the facts in a story or reaching out for both sides of the story is out of the question. We're slashdot! We jump at every chance to whip up a fury in the name of open source! We love to make it look like and bitch about how our operating system is being oppressed, when in reality it's just commericially unviable!"
What is wrong with you people? This is a huge site owned by a large and publicly traded company, so why is the attitude of the editors still akin to an immature high schooler? Grow up Slashdot.
The AC is absolutely right. I know first hand that a hardware company I was recently associated with was getting a kickback to release several products for the iMac and mac platform in general. And this was a large hardware company. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Nvidia, Creative, and maybe some software companys like idsoftware (do you think Carmack was showing Doom3 at Macworld early this year because him and Jobs are buddies?) are getting similar kickbacks in exchange for the support of the platform as well.
You said, "but what has truely been stolen? It's not like the NY Times (NYT) is being cheated out of a paid account, they make these articles available free of charge"
They are only "free of charge" if you consider your name, address, and other contact information of no value. That is the price you're paying, you are allowing yourself to be placed into their marketing database for various demographic purposes in exchange for their content - and that comes back to my original point.
Keyloggers have been around for quite some time. Check out www.keyghost.com for an example. It's really not that complicated.
Of course then there are software keyloggers as well, but I'm sure everyone here has heard of them or can imagine how they'd work.
You don't "have" to register for their site, just like you don't "have" to visit their site. They are providing a wonderful service in exchange for (in addition to being subject to their ads) your name, address, phone number or whatever to be used presumably for marketing purposes. It is a service they are providing and they can set the rules as they please.
Circumventing their registration system basically amounts to stealing. Although it is incredibly simple to do (do you feel like a l33t hax0r?), and everyone knows you would never get caught, it's still wrong and childish.
Fill out the fucking form. Or, if your privacy is that important to you, buy a subscription to the print paper.
Wrong, Half-life is built fully on the Q1 engine.
I disagree. A team of properly programmed bots, complete with 100% accuracy using hitscan weapons and almost unhittable with projectile weapons would be unbeatable by a human team. You don't need strategy to win if you never miss and can't be shot.
Your car makes a chussssssh sound while backing up? You shoudl get that checked out, maybe it's the rear brakes or something. Mine doesn't make any noise.
Oh come on, they have homing beacon type stuff in movies all the time.