What happened to them anyway? One minute addresses from that domain seemed to be everywhere (whether you wanted to see them or not) and the next minute poof.
Remember tahoo.com, with its short message "Tahoo is not Yahoo"? It's now a Japanese search engine.... how long is it going to take for the real Yahoo and the real Yahoo! to shut them down:)?
A post? On/.? That *doesn't* point out the obvious?...... that would mean... people would have to come up with original thought! Oh the thought is just too much to bear, I'm going to bed.
It's not the CPU you need to worry about, it's the other cards sitting beneath the cooler that would react poorly to a cold shower. Remember what you spent on your GEForce 2 card? Wanna spend it again?
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Let's not also forget that those static CNN and NBC serve up *huge* pics and streaming video. They may save some time by not personalizing everyone's web viewing experience, but can you picture what a thousand monkeys on a thousand AOL connections could do if they all decided to refresh the same 30-second clips over and over again?
Not to trivialize the admittedly great task the/. team has accomplished, but this site specializes in text, little icon pics and the occasional banner ad. Relatively speaking that's pretty light demand. You'd need a LOT of people requesting information for content like that to tire out the gerbils inside/.'s server.
That's life I guess. I didn't write that to be inflammatory. What happened in NY is very unfortunate*, and I hope no more unnecessary deaths come from what happened after the fact.
(*This is not a tragedy. A tragedy is a play or story in which the protagonist undoes himself with his own flaws. A whole lot of people dying at once is mass misfortune.)
People say "this isn't funny"; and I'm very sorry to say that's bullpucky. It may not be funny to the person reading it because they're in a sensitive state, but everything is funny to someone. This happened to amuse me, and a few people agreed. To the rest of you: Blah.
The Canadian military has also been scrambled; I saw the two bicycles go by my place about a half-hour ago. I know more than a few of us up here who'd love to drive south and enlist just to kick the arse of whoever did this.
People, what's the density of water? Is it not one kilogram per litre? One of the reasons this definition was chosen is because water is available to even the most ill-equipped of chemists! Certainly ET would have access to a fair quantity of it.
Water has a molar mass of 18.016, meaning that one mole (6.0221367 X 10^23) of water molecules has a mass of 18.016 grams. Get the little green men to divide the 1000 grams in a kilogram by 18.016 to whatever degree of precision they wish, and have them assemble that many moles of water. Call it a kilogram. End of problem.
(My admittedly imperfect monkey-man calculations tell me that 3.334 X 10^25 water molecules has a mass of approximately one kilogram)
When you sign up for an ISP's service, you're agreeing to pay them money in exchange for permission to use their computers. In return, the ISP dictates the terms under which those computers can be used.
If you don't like the idea of someone reading the information you send through their machine, then don't use their machine. Nothing compels you to use @Home; it's not a monopoly like the phone company.
(Well.. telcos are a monopoly in Canada, I'm not sure who owns the lines in the states)
I'm surprised at the number of people who expect complete privacy and anonymity when they send their information to a computer whose purpose is to associate what you're downloading with who you are.
Most @Home contracts specifically prohibit running servers and packet sniffers from residential accounts. I wouldn't be at all surprised if these port scans were meant to expose users who don't take the rules seriously.
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What happened to them anyway? One minute addresses from that domain seemed to be everywhere (whether you wanted to see them or not) and the next minute poof.
Remember tahoo.com, with its short message "Tahoo is not Yahoo"? It's now a Japanese search engine.... how long is it going to take for the real Yahoo and the real Yahoo! to shut them down :)?
Yes, but did you honestly expect the musician Madonna to win a lawsuit forcing people to stop saying Christ's mother was "like, a virgin"?
A post? On /.? That *doesn't* point out the obvious? ...... that would mean... people would have to come up with original thought! Oh the thought is just too much to bear, I'm going to bed.
It's not the CPU you need to worry about, it's the other cards sitting beneath the cooler that would react poorly to a cold shower. Remember what you spent on your GEForce 2 card? Wanna spend it again?
Let's not also forget that those static CNN and NBC serve up *huge* pics and streaming video. They may save some time by not personalizing everyone's web viewing experience, but can you picture what a thousand monkeys on a thousand AOL connections could do if they all decided to refresh the same 30-second clips over and over again?
/. team has accomplished, but this site specializes in text, little icon pics and the occasional banner ad. Relatively speaking that's pretty light demand. You'd need a LOT of people requesting information for content like that to tire out the gerbils inside /.'s server.
Not to trivialize the admittedly great task the
That's life I guess. I didn't write that to be inflammatory. What happened in NY is very unfortunate*, and I hope no more unnecessary deaths come from what happened after the fact.
(*This is not a tragedy. A tragedy is a play or story in which the protagonist undoes himself with his own flaws. A whole lot of people dying at once is mass misfortune.)
People say "this isn't funny"; and I'm very sorry to say that's bullpucky. It may not be funny to the person reading it because they're in a sensitive state, but everything is funny to someone. This happened to amuse me, and a few people agreed. To the rest of you: Blah.
The Canadian military has also been scrambled; I saw the two bicycles go by my place about a half-hour ago. I know more than a few of us up here who'd love to drive south and enlist just to kick the arse of whoever did this.
Oh, and btw: Somebody set up U.S. the plane.
People, what's the density of water? Is it not one kilogram per litre? One of the reasons this definition was chosen is because water is available to even the most ill-equipped of chemists! Certainly ET would have access to a fair quantity of it.
Water has a molar mass of 18.016, meaning that one mole (6.0221367 X 10^23) of water molecules has a mass of 18.016 grams. Get the little green men to divide the 1000 grams in a kilogram by 18.016 to whatever degree of precision they wish, and have them assemble that many moles of water. Call it a kilogram. End of problem.
(My admittedly imperfect monkey-man calculations tell me that 3.334 X 10^25 water molecules has a mass of approximately one kilogram)
To play devil's advocate here for a moment:
When you sign up for an ISP's service, you're agreeing to pay them money in exchange for permission to use their computers. In return, the ISP dictates the terms under which those computers can be used.
If you don't like the idea of someone reading the information you send through their machine, then don't use their machine. Nothing compels you to use @Home; it's not a monopoly like the phone company.
(Well.. telcos are a monopoly in Canada, I'm not sure who owns the lines in the states)
I'm surprised at the number of people who expect complete privacy and anonymity when they send their information to a computer whose purpose is to associate what you're downloading with who you are.
Most @Home contracts specifically prohibit running servers and packet sniffers from residential accounts. I wouldn't be at all surprised if these port scans were meant to expose users who don't take the rules seriously.
Am I the only one who finds it strange that hydrofoils would have fansites? I'm a Bluenoser myself... should I set up a sailpage?
He hasn't been castrated, he's just lost his plugin.