The Japanese probably didn't think it was very wise to let the americans have a weapon they could use to blow away an entire city. Stop being so self-centered.
btw, I'd say Japan is one of the few countries I'd trust to use such a device wisely. (Except maybe that they'd use it to blow whales right out of the sea into the Sushi bar)
from grc.com : "... my post-attack forensic analysis, and the results of my subsequent infiltration into the networks and technologies being used by some of the Internet's most active hackers."
Pffff, who is this guy, Ethan Hunt?
SG: WOW, I've just been hax0red by some L33t d00d. Fortunatly, my superior security knowledge enables me to find him, and address his irresponsible behaviour.
script kiddie: I d00 th15 ju5t f0r kix! U can't st0p m33!
SG: [pads the boy on the shoulder to comfort him for the obvious lack of parental guidance] Ok, I'm not a bad guy, see, I wrote hackers are cool once.
sk: You're right! Hey why don't you unleash your mad programming skills and write something to protect us all from further havoc caused by people like me?
SG: I just might do that
nearly all successful attacks against IRC servers are DoS attacks, which cost a lot of bandwidth, and apparantly the University of Colorado is tired of supplying it.
Ow come on, Disney, Coca Cola and MacDonalds are symbols of America (at least for non-americans), not Apple.
By the way, exactly what of their press release do you think I missed? They don't say anything apart from "We're sorry to disappoint our users and developers, but their safety is our primary concern." Not very specific IMHO.
They targeted WTC because it's the biggest and best known thing in the NY area, not because they're interested in the businesses. Why would they go for the Pentagon then? So any attack on europe would involve things like the eiffel tower in Paris or the Canary Wharf building in London, or some other phallus symbol, not some congress center with a bunch of mac lovers.
Still, I've got the uncanny feeling there's some very simple explanation for the universe and everything (and I doubt it's 42), and we just don't see it.
Why? Whats easist to type? www.slashdot.org, (31 characters) or 64.28.67.150 (10 characters). Can't people remember these things unless they spell out words?
can't people count characters anymore?
the only way slashdot requires more than 30 keystrokes is when you type goatse.c^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwww.slashdot.org
And 64.28.67.150 is 12 keystrokes on MY keyboard.
btw, try slashdot.org without the www, that works too (and is exactly as long as the ip#
"Heck, consumers do the same thing, and pay less when there is bigger supply"
When was the last time you haggled over the price of a coke with a vending machine? "Ok, if you don't sell it to me for $1, I'll go to the one next to you!"
It's competitors looking for a bigger marketshare that lower prices, and in the case of themeparks and places like that, there are no competitors (inside the park at least), so you don't have the option to pay less.
Anyway, a themepark is not going to let the drinks run out on a hot day. It's one of their main sources of income, and they are likely to anticipate a hot day by stocking up.
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This wouldn't work, since solar panels are highly inefficient at the moment
The Japanese probably didn't think it was very wise to let the americans have a weapon they could use to blow away an entire city. Stop being so self-centered.
btw, I'd say Japan is one of the few countries I'd trust to use such a device wisely. (Except maybe that they'd use it to blow whales right out of the sea into the Sushi bar)
This would have been a nice power plant in simcity. Then again, it would have the same drawbacks as that dish thingy
Steve Gibson is a gibbering idiot.
from grc.com : "... my post-attack forensic analysis, and the results of my subsequent infiltration into the networks and technologies being used by some of the Internet's most active hackers."
Pffff, who is this guy, Ethan Hunt?
SG: WOW, I've just been hax0red by some L33t d00d. Fortunatly, my superior security knowledge enables me to find him, and address his irresponsible behaviour.
script kiddie: I d00 th15 ju5t f0r kix! U can't st0p m33!
SG: [pads the boy on the shoulder to comfort him for the obvious lack of parental guidance] Ok, I'm not a bad guy, see, I wrote hackers are cool once.
sk: You're right! Hey why don't you unleash your mad programming skills and write something to protect us all from further havoc caused by people like me?
SG: I just might do that
hey, minesweeper is played without computers or electricity by millions of kids around the world too! Now there's a fun game for all to enjoy.
Particularly the version where the mines are actually disguised as really neat wristwatches and stuff like that.
Steve Gibson is a moron, and to be ignored in serious conversation
(see here and here)
nearly all successful attacks against IRC servers are DoS attacks, which cost a lot of bandwidth, and apparantly the University of Colorado is tired of supplying it.
So, you're complaining about a first post that's on-topic and doesn't have a goatse link, ascii art or "* is dead" statements?
sheesh indeed
Ow come on, Disney, Coca Cola and MacDonalds are symbols of America (at least for non-americans), not Apple.
By the way, exactly what of their press release do you think I missed? They don't say anything apart from "We're sorry to disappoint our users and developers, but their safety is our primary concern." Not very specific IMHO.
They targeted WTC because it's the biggest and best known thing in the NY area, not because they're interested in the businesses. Why would they go for the Pentagon then? So any attack on europe would involve things like the eiffel tower in Paris or the Canary Wharf building in London, or some other phallus symbol, not some congress center with a bunch of mac lovers.
>IMHO how can u say that something is the funniest joke in the world !! all you can say is which is the joke most people find funny !
Jesus, it's a joke. It's funny. Laugh.
Either you are taking things WAY too seriously, or there's some subtle humour in your post I've missed.
Oh no, we're surrounded by SlashDot!
At least is has decent comments
AUS$160m, not US$160m
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That's a rethorical question, right? This is Slashdot, ofcourse they're taking potshots at MS for absolutely no reason.
I spend weeks designing a program once. And when it was ready, the output was "Hello wordl!"
damn!
well spank me for not checking my links
Yeah, for sufficiently small 2's
Still, I've got the uncanny feeling there's some very simple explanation for the universe and everything (and I doubt it's 42), and we just don't see it.
Come to think of it, pi probably WAS 3 in biblical times.
Yeah my 23 byte hello world program rules big time
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>On our university we could all send in our pictures that were then turned into a huge mosaic hanging in the main hall
Hehe cool, when I read this, I thought, hey I've just seen a thing just like it! Then looking at the link, it turned out to BE the thing I just saw.
This one is REALLY cool to look at (particularly since you can see it from all the way across the building.)
Eindhoven de gekste!
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Come to think of it, they probably made the virus themselves. What better way to boost revenue than to generate random calls?
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Pluto is about 5.7E12 meters away. 15 years is about 4.7E8 seconds. That gives an average speed of 12 km/s (thats 7.6 miles/s for all non-SI people)
I strongly doubt the speed this thing has when passing pluto equals the average speed over the entire trip.
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I don't think it was Yahoo
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can't people count characters anymore? the only way slashdot requires more than 30 keystrokes is when you type goatse.c^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwww.slashdot.org
And 64.28.67.150 is 12 keystrokes on MY keyboard.
btw, try slashdot.org without the www, that works too (and is exactly as long as the ip#
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"Heck, consumers do the same thing, and pay less when there is bigger supply"
When was the last time you haggled over the price of a coke with a vending machine? "Ok, if you don't sell it to me for $1, I'll go to the one next to you!"
It's competitors looking for a bigger marketshare that lower prices, and in the case of themeparks and places like that, there are no competitors (inside the park at least), so you don't have the option to pay less.
Anyway, a themepark is not going to let the drinks run out on a hot day. It's one of their main sources of income, and they are likely to anticipate a hot day by stocking up.
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