As soon as I get a piece of garbage email, as long as I happen to be around, I check the originating IP in the headers. Usually, within a few runs of "targa2" or "pimp", I'm satisfied and their machine is running Checkdisk.:)
Or just do what everyone else does, and burn your CDs on your computer CD-R using normal "data-grade" CD-R blanks. They work in about 100% of all CD players on the face of the planet.
Let's say that you take a normal Hi-8 camera to the zoo.
What happens if the monkey reaches up and hits the camera? Dirty camera. Probably the same thing that would happen to the DVD camera, assuming adequate shock protection.
What happens if an elephant sprays the camera? Ruined camera.
What happens if your son is using it to record the bears in the pit and then drops it into the pit? Ruined tape, AND ruined camera. THEN son thrown into pit to retrieve remnants.
...is that AMD, like Transmeta and unlike Intel, does power-stepping properly. Intel just slows the chip down, but it still eats just as much power as usual. A powerful, CHEAP processor like the Duron should be *very* popular in notebooks. I'm definitely considering one myself.
What happens when a hard drive dies, taking an entire county's vote with it? Imagine if it had happened in Florida this past election? Do we have a revote, or do those votes mysteriously "not count" either?
If electronic systems become widespread, this kind of thing could decide an election.
The problem with Usenet is that it was designed back in the '80s, when the only people on the Internet were researchers and college students and the fastest connection was a T-1. Typical lack of foresight: nobody expected this kind of bandwidth to be available back when colleges had 9600bps serial ports in every dorm room.
The easiest thing for most feeds to do is simply drop their alt.binaries.* groups (or at the very least, the binaries groups with the largest article counts); why bother having what effectively amounts to a local mirror of Napster? I fully expect to see most ISPs do something like this, if they haven't already.
The "nicer" providers might decrease the expire time on binaries groups to a day (I've seen half-day expires even) in order to raise expire times on other, more meaningful groups.
Bose artificially (through EQ) inflates the midrange, leading to a "pleasing" sound, at first, to the casual listener (say, someone browsing in the audio department at a big chain store). Eventually, though, the accentuated midrange leads to fatigue, and the frequency response of those tiny little cube speakers is absolutely atrocious. You can pick up much better speakers for the $1500 you'd spend on a Bose mini-system.
Did you see the price of the 733 MHz G4? $3500! The average consumer will look at the price, probably throw up, then walk across CompUSA to the PC section where they'll find 800 and 900 MHz x86-based systems for well under $1500.
These days, when any moron can hook up a DSL or cable modem box and any moron can have his shitty unsecured Linux box hosted at a lousy datacenter with a fat pipe to the Internet, is it any wonder Distributed Denial of Service attacks are as common as they are?
Think about this: DDoS attacks can do much more monetary damage than car accidents can, yet we have no system of regulating just who can and cannot get onto the Internet. Would you let twelve-year-old get behind the wheel of a McLaren F1? Why, then, do we let them (and people of their maturity level) onto our global networks unsupervised? There needs to be some system of accountability and a standardized measure of competence in order to be allowed onto the Internet.
Maybe I'm elitist, but that's how I feel about it all.
...and it was just two extra bits in the DAT signal that would get flipped on or off depending on the status of the recording. An SCMS stripper -- generally cheap -- just stripped off those two bits and made every recording appear to be a SCMS-free DAT. Pro-level DATs never had the SCMS restriction anyway. I'm assuming the copy-protection on consumer-level HDTV equipment will be a lot harder to break than this.
Then again, this is the entertainment industry we're talking about. These are the same jackoffs who thought 40-bit encryption would be enough to protect their (generally worthless, come on, who would want to protect "a very brady sequel"?) intellectual property on DVDs.
Rob, please visit the fucking links before you post a story. This is complete bullshit, but, since you didn't do even a cursory fact-check, you didn't know. Now we've got a bunch of people here posting pissed-off drivel, and the rest of us shaking our heads in awe of the complete and utter breakdown of slashdot's submission system.
They had a verbal agreement with me at one salary, then I got the offer letter, and it was $10K below the agreed-upon salary. "Fuck that," I said, and signed with someone else for $15K *more* than CSC offered me.
Companies can do whatever the hell they want, and it's usually the HR department that decides what you'll make, not the recruiters, as nice as they may seem.
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- What happens if the monkey reaches up and hits the camera? Dirty camera. Probably the same thing that would happen to the DVD camera, assuming adequate shock protection.
- What happens if an elephant sprays the camera? Ruined camera.
- What happens if your son is using it to record the bears in the pit and then drops it into the pit? Ruined tape, AND ruined camera. THEN son thrown into pit to retrieve remnants.
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You'd rather entrust them to ever-reliable tape? You've never had a VCR eat an important tape, have you?
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If electronic systems become widespread, this kind of thing could decide an election.
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The easiest thing for most feeds to do is simply drop their alt.binaries.* groups (or at the very least, the binaries groups with the largest article counts); why bother having what effectively amounts to a local mirror of Napster? I fully expect to see most ISPs do something like this, if they haven't already.
The "nicer" providers might decrease the expire time on binaries groups to a day (I've seen half-day expires even) in order to raise expire times on other, more meaningful groups.
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Like protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking?
if you want these features that are only available on Macs today, you pay for it.
I can't think of a single thing that's only available on a Mac, besides perhaps an eye-poppingly high price tag.
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Think about this: DDoS attacks can do much more monetary damage than car accidents can, yet we have no system of regulating just who can and cannot get onto the Internet. Would you let twelve-year-old get behind the wheel of a McLaren F1? Why, then, do we let them (and people of their maturity level) onto our global networks unsupervised? There needs to be some system of accountability and a standardized measure of competence in order to be allowed onto the Internet.
Maybe I'm elitist, but that's how I feel about it all.
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Problem solved.
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Then again, this is the entertainment industry we're talking about. These are the same jackoffs who thought 40-bit encryption would be enough to protect their (generally worthless, come on, who would want to protect "a very brady sequel"?) intellectual property on DVDs.
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Companies can do whatever the hell they want, and it's usually the HR department that decides what you'll make, not the recruiters, as nice as they may seem.
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