While you may call the webmaster's motives underhanded, I don't blame him. He registered Whitehouse.com, and tried to turn it into a profitable site covering politics. That didn't work; he tried porn and is rolling in the green.
Let's face it - the Simpsons have been far from funny for the past three to four years. I am a huge Simpsons fan, and am a big fan of the syndication, but I find myself changing the channel midway through the new episodes.
I don't know why the new ones suck, I've always assumed the good writers left and moved on. For example Conan O'Brien, author of a couple of great episodes (Marge vs. the Monorail, for example), obviously left to go do his own thing. Also, I suspect Groening has little to do with the Simpsons since moving on to Futurama.
In any case, I think a Simpsons movie would be great, but only if they brought back the great writers from earlier seasons. Otherwise, I think the movie would be a waste of time and money.
Let's see... the Navy is up for the rebidding process w/Microsoft soon. I think this is their attempt to try to get MS to accept a lower bid. Nothing more.
What would be really funny would be to see the Navy running on Shareware products!:)
Having used it myself, and having friends who have used it heavily for development, let me tell you that Win2K is well written, and is a very stable OS.
I, and others, have had Win2K running for months without a reboot. Furthermore, I've not been able to crash Win2k. With NT or 9X, there were certain things you could do, especially in code development, that you knew would bring down the OS. I yet to have Win2K crash.
Finally, remember that there are only 28,000 "real" bugs, and we don't know what MS means by "real." Does it mean the OS will crash? If so, that sucks. But perhaps a "real" bug is something like:
If the user opens up the Control Panel, right clicks on Multimedia, and then right clicks on the Sounds tab, the dialog box will close.
While that wouldn't be too much fun for the person who enacted these three steps, it is not a serious bug, and very few people would run into it.
Of course. The people were purposely trying to bring a large web site to its knees - malicious intent.
Furthermore, they illegally employed the use of other people's computers to purpotrate their crime.
Imagine you did some action to congest the highways of a large city with road blocking thingies. Imagine you got caught. Would you be arrested? I'd bet so... and you'd probably be fined or put in jail for a short while.
Another good example is eBay. Imagine you couldn't get in the last two hours to place a higher bid on an item you really wanted. Now you are PO'd, and the guy who was selling the item is out $$$.
According to an article, US government agengies had warned of such a DDos more than a month ago. Supposedly, a "US Government agency warned more than a month ago that it had information that unidentified "intruders" were preparing for massive denial of service assault in the US."
What I am curios to know is, say that you have this foresight, that these attacks are likely to come. What could large sites, such as Yahoo!, do to help prepare for the coming onslaught?
Personally I'd like to see Richard Simmons dressed up as a relative of Jar Jar
Homer:... What are you going to do? Release the hounds? Or release the bees? Or release the hounds that have bees in the mouths, so when they bark bees come shooting out? Well do your worse.
Burns: Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons.
Maybe the DoS guys are upset with the direction the WWW has taken. I am
What are you displeased with? It seems to have everything. Sure, you may not like the capitalization of it all, but there are still tons of sites that are like the good ol' days...
Usually its just an enormous deluge of requests. At some point, these requests fill up all the resources available to that machine. It basically stops responding or even reboots
Well, duh. I know what a DOS is, just not how to stop it... How would a site like Yahoo! stop such a DOS attack?
OK, I know what a denial of service attack is, and how it can bring drag a site to a stop-still... what I don't understand is how would one stop such an attack?
Not that I am complaining really. I think it's sorta neat that you could track someone 24-7. As an earlier poster mentioned, someone with great wealth could rent this baby full time, and have it follow a certain person.
It's interesting what freedoms we surrender in the name of technology. Again, not complaining, I just find it interesting.
With other satellite companies sending similar projects up into orbit, the prices for the service ought to come down. A neat use for this would be to take aerial photos of a long enough event (one that lasted all day or longer), like some large sports tournament or something like that.
TerraServer shows very old pictures, right? Something like 15 years old. They were taken a long time ago. If I want to see what our boys in Bosnia are doing right now, TerraServer won't help. If I want to get a snapshot of Bin Laden's terrorist camp in Afganistan, TerraServer won't help.
The military isn't concerned over TerraServer due to this out-of-datedness.
Ford is not the only company giving away free PCs to their employees: Delta airlines is too. Similar stats as w/Ford, from PeoplePC, for $12/month for 36 months.
Cute, but in Pascal, strings are delimited by ', not "
Hehe, knew I'd make a mistake somewhere! It's been over four years since I've typed in the Ctrl-F9 combination to have my Borland TurboPascal compiler compile away!:) Ah, I miss those days. Pascal is a good mix of C and BASIC. It's both powerful and readable.
C is cool BASIC is easy Pascal is for those who like to make comprimises COBOL is for those who like to type a lot
Just stick the classic Eliza bot in IRC. Here is a dialog I had with Eliza based on usual IRC comments (Eliza test available at http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html, among other sites...)
Me: A/S/L? Eliza: Please go on Me: Uh, I am 21/m/usa Eliza: How long have you been 21musa? Me: What the fuck? Do you want to cyber or not? Eliza: Does that question interest you? Me: You suck. Eliza: You are sure? Me: Yes. Everyone, Eliza is a man. Don't cyber with Eliza, it's a homo man. Stupid queer. Eliza: Surely not everyone? Me:/boot Eliza
I'd heartily agree that government censorship doesn't work when the people are against such censorship. However, if the people do not mind the censorship, than one would expect the Chinese government's censoring to work.
Now, I am not saying that the Chinese people want to be censored, but I think they don't view the Chinese government as censoring the Internet. Rather, they view it as the government protecting the people from a Western lifestyle that is full of greed and shy of morals.
I had a friend who was a diplomat in Russia. A couple years ago, he came home, and we discussed Russia's future. He thought Russia would revert to Communism before year 2000. His argument was that the Russian populace liked the Communist system, and had come to expect a big government, big brother type of authority in charge. Granted, it's past 2000, and Russia isn't Communist... yet. Who knows what Putin has up his sleeves, though.:)
In summary... while we Westerners might find any restriction of free speech as unforgiving, other cultures see protection from outside thoughts and ideals as comforting.
HotJobs.com CEO Richard Johnson said the name brand recognition earned from the Super Bowl commercial last year made it easier to raise funds from venture capitalists. The company's revenues for the first nine months of 1999 jumped from $2.2 million to $12.1 million for the same period in 1998
I find it funny, though, that the vast majority of the commercials were.com related. It seemed all commercials fit into one of three categories:
.com/Technology
Beer/Soda
Cars
One thing I thought was interesting, were the couple of commercials geared towards women (the Oxygen.com commercial, for example). That seems like wasted money, since the demographics for the SuperBowl viewer, I'd assume, are heavily skewed toward the male gender.
Eventually, an Oldsmobile Aurora careens onto the screen, and the vaguely strung-out looking teens all have to run out of the way, or something like that
Yeah, that was a good commercial, although it would have been better had a couple of those annoying kids been hit by the Olds.
Slashdot Mirror
Hehe, shows you where the money is at.
Full frontal nudity of Marge.
I don't know why the new ones suck, I've always assumed the good writers left and moved on. For example Conan O'Brien, author of a couple of great episodes (Marge vs. the Monorail, for example), obviously left to go do his own thing. Also, I suspect Groening has little to do with the Simpsons since moving on to Futurama.
In any case, I think a Simpsons movie would be great, but only if they brought back the great writers from earlier seasons. Otherwise, I think the movie would be a waste of time and money.
What would be really funny would be to see the Navy running on Shareware products! :)
I, and others, have had Win2K running for months without a reboot. Furthermore, I've not been able to crash Win2k. With NT or 9X, there were certain things you could do, especially in code development, that you knew would bring down the OS. I yet to have Win2K crash.
Finally, remember that there are only 28,000 "real" bugs, and we don't know what MS means by "real." Does it mean the OS will crash? If so, that sucks. But perhaps a "real" bug is something like:
If the user opens up the Control Panel, right clicks on Multimedia, and then right clicks on the Sounds tab, the dialog box will close.
While that wouldn't be too much fun for the person who enacted these three steps, it is not a serious bug, and very few people would run into it.
Of course. The people were purposely trying to bring a large web site to its knees - malicious intent.
Furthermore, they illegally employed the use of other people's computers to purpotrate their crime.
Imagine you did some action to congest the highways of a large city with road blocking thingies. Imagine you got caught. Would you be arrested? I'd bet so... and you'd probably be fined or put in jail for a short while.
Another good example is eBay. Imagine you couldn't get in the last two hours to place a higher bid on an item you really wanted. Now you are PO'd, and the guy who was selling the item is out $$$.
What I am curios to know is, say that you have this foresight, that these attacks are likely to come. What could large sites, such as Yahoo!, do to help prepare for the coming onslaught?
Homer: ... What are you going to do? Release the hounds? Or release the bees? Or release the hounds that have bees in the mouths, so when they bark bees come shooting out? Well do your worse.
Burns: Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons.
What are you displeased with? It seems to have everything. Sure, you may not like the capitalization of it all, but there are still tons of sites that are like the good ol' days...
See: http://abcnews.go.co m/sections/tech/DailyNews/yahoo000208.html
Well, duh. I know what a DOS is, just not how to stop it... How would a site like Yahoo! stop such a DOS attack?
My question was more along the lines of, "How would Yahoo! or any other large Internet site stop such a DOS attack?"
OK, I know what a denial of service attack is, and how it can bring drag a site to a stop-still... what I don't understand is how would one stop such an attack?
It's interesting what freedoms we surrender in the name of technology. Again, not complaining, I just find it interesting.
With other satellite companies sending similar projects up into orbit, the prices for the service ought to come down. A neat use for this would be to take aerial photos of a long enough event (one that lasted all day or longer), like some large sports tournament or something like that.
The military isn't concerned over TerraServer due to this out-of-datedness.
Article available at: http:// www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/deltaco mputers000204.html
Hehe, knew I'd make a mistake somewhere! It's been over four years since I've typed in the Ctrl-F9 combination to have my Borland TurboPascal compiler compile away! :) Ah, I miss those days. Pascal is a good mix of C and BASIC. It's both powerful and readable.
C is cool
BASIC is easy
Pascal is for those who like to make comprimises
COBOL is for those who like to type a lot
Me: A/S/L? /boot Eliza
Eliza: Please go on
Me: Uh, I am 21/m/usa
Eliza: How long have you been 21musa?
Me: What the fuck? Do you want to cyber or not?
Eliza: Does that question interest you?
Me: You suck.
Eliza: You are sure?
Me: Yes. Everyone, Eliza is a man. Don't cyber with Eliza, it's a homo man. Stupid queer.
Eliza: Surely not everyone?
Me:
It's sure to be a winner! :)
#define begin {
#define end }
#define procedure void
#define writeln printf
procedure main()
begin
writeln("Pascal is easy to read!");
writeln("Although boring to write.");
end
Disable JavaScript. :) Couldn't be easier...
Ad effectiveness article, and a quick ad summary:r ads000131.html
http://ww w.abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/supe
Now, I am not saying that the Chinese people want to be censored, but I think they don't view the Chinese government as censoring the Internet. Rather, they view it as the government protecting the people from a Western lifestyle that is full of greed and shy of morals.
In fact, I think the greatest piece of evidence to show that censorship in China will indeed work is the fact that ordinary Chinese citizens are helping censor the Internet! See:c e000125.html
http://abc news.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/china_webpoli
I had a friend who was a diplomat in Russia. A couple years ago, he came home, and we discussed Russia's future. He thought Russia would revert to Communism before year 2000. His argument was that the Russian populace liked the Communist system, and had come to expect a big government, big brother type of authority in charge. Granted, it's past 2000, and Russia isn't Communist... yet. Who knows what Putin has up his sleeves, though. :)
In summary... while we Westerners might find any restriction of free speech as unforgiving, other cultures see protection from outside thoughts and ideals as comforting.
For example, OurBeginning.com, which spent over $3.5 million dollars, saw a spike on their web site today, from 40 connections per second to over 500 connections per secondb Kby teWmJu&Topic=Internet-News&Nav=na-search-&StoryTit le=Internet-News)
(see http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cojpfu
Another advantage of the commercials is name/brand recognition. According to an article (http ://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/supe rbowl_netads_000113.html) on ABCNews.com, HotJobs.com, which had commercials in last year's SuperBowl, found it was much easier to raise VC funds. To quote the article:
I find it funny, though, that the vast majority of the commercials were .com related. It seemed all commercials fit into one of three categories:
One thing I thought was interesting, were the couple of commercials geared towards women (the Oxygen.com commercial, for example). That seems like wasted money, since the demographics for the SuperBowl viewer, I'd assume, are heavily skewed toward the male gender.
Yeah, that was a good commercial, although it would have been better had a couple of those annoying kids been hit by the Olds.