Can you imagine the results of accidental cross-pollinization with 'Terminator' crops and regular??? (It's been proven to happen) It could've resulted in the accidental genocide of, say, corn. Good riddance. That's probably why Mosanto has ditched the plan. ---
When I first saw it I said - WTF??? I'm glad they talk about it... it really deserves Bad GUI Design of the Year. How many of us had to endure it while watching our Phantom Menace trailes back in spring? Raise your hand!
It's almost as bad as e-forms, where a clueless programmer takes a paper form and paints it verbatim on a gui. ---
The Royal Canadian Air Farce has a recurring sketch about a bunch of canucks discussing current events in the donut shop. In small towns (well, big ones too>, the donut shop is where people gather and spread gossip. It sounds no more ludicrous than Sociological research of Tea Rooms or Pubs in the British Isles. ---
Air Canada Flight 143 (23 July 1983) from Ottawa to Edmonton, which came extremely close to becoming a major disaster when the airplane (a Boeing 767) ran completely out of fuel while in the air. The cause of the near-crash was partly due to a faulty fuel gauge AND the fact that B-767s as the first to use metric. Read about it.
The World should really ditch imperial once and for all. ---
The '98 Ice Storm in NY/Quebec, Floyd in NC, Taiwan, Turkey quakes. I was in the Quebec dark zone and was cut off for about two days. But it made me realize how fscked we are without our darling technology. The other thing that happenned during that time is the enhanced sense of community -- helping out STRANGERS. Sure, some nutty survivalists will lock themselves up and shoot anything approaching, but I believe most realize that self-preservation comes thru cooperation. So after the initial shell-shock of tech withdrawal, we'll get our act together and *cooperate*. Actually, by that time, something else will come and replace the InfoAge (Like InfoAge replaces Industrial Age) and it'll all fade away quietly. ---
Someone has hacked an email account that belongs to two young prostitute girls and sent out their correspondance on Internet. There is revealed the name and telephone number of many of their clients. "I want only to know if they were prostitutes for real", says a medium director whose name appears on the correspondence.
On Monday the Express revealed that anyone could read other's email at Microsoft's email without entering a password. After that the Microsoft staff took the whole ten hours to fix the problem before it could work safely again. During this time, someone accessed the email account of two prostitute girls, then posted the messages on an anonymous homepage on an american server where who that everyone could read them.
Intimate details On the homepage is revealed many intimate details about those who wrote the messages. "I am a pleasant and kind person, married, who needs more then what I get at home", writes a man whose name and telephone number appears on the homepage. Many of the persons who wrote to the girls explained that they are businessman who sometimes seek escorts in Stockholm and want to have contacts. The person behind the homepage request readers write email and call the men. A director in a well known medium company appears on homepage. He has written email to the girls and wrote "I am seriously interested in french lessons with you on a continuing basis. Can you tell more about your lessons, it would be nice if you also could attach a picture with the course plan". When the Express contacted him he knew already that his name and phone number was on the webpage "It is horrible and I understand that it is easy to ruin one's reputation" he said. He maintains that he did not buy sexual services and he only was curious to find out if they really were prostitutes.
Anonymous homepage
The homepage where the names appearede is on an american webserver there who everyone can log on tanonymously for free. Therefore it is impossible to find out who is behind the page with the sensitive information. "What has happened with Hotmail is regrettable, but it is a whole other thing to take someone else's information and publish it on a website", says Lars Backhans, Microsoft's highest official for Hotmail in the Nordic Countries. "This here is abominable" ---
I remember reading about someone recovering his PC the same way coz the lamebrain who had bought it from the thieves just plugged it in, connected to the net and ICQ connected to ICQ server. The owner discovered his ICQ account was active, tracerouted back, and called the ISP. Can anyone find a link to that story? ---
The big-screen adaptation of the best-selling SF game Doom has met its own demise, according to the IGN Sci-Fi site. TriStar has reportedly let its option on the project drop, and no other studio appears to be interested.
Whew. We'll be spared from another Craptacular movie adaptation. I guess some good DID come out of WC... ---
Your questions actually go to a shrink who's going to analyze them, send you a polite response then make millions by doing a lecture tour denouncing internet addiction. Oh and let's not forget the geek profiling... ---
... don't just happen in the Gaming industry. I hear of lots of high-tech companies that "love to exploit 19 year old programmers", "fail to actually apply the principles [of project management]" and slot multi-talented people in a (mismatched) very narrow job description. Seems to me that it's a quasi-universal problem!
I wish there was, that would spare us from forking $2000-$5000 per seat... On the bright side, IBM does have an MQ Client for Linux, the Server can't be that far off. ---
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'Arobas' is what we call the @. Sick dude. Sounds stupid when said out loud.
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Can you imagine the results of accidental cross-pollinization with 'Terminator' crops and regular??? (It's been proven to happen)
It could've resulted in the accidental genocide of, say, corn.
Good riddance. That's probably why Mosanto has ditched the plan.
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I'm glad they talk about it... it really deserves Bad GUI Design of the Year. How many of us had to endure it while watching our Phantom Menace trailes back in spring? Raise your hand!
It's almost as bad as e-forms, where a clueless programmer takes a paper form and paints it verbatim on a gui.
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Ah, you figured that out by using BabelPez, did you? ;-)
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Uh oh,
CmdrTaco used the word "columnist" in the context of "Dvorak"
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... of Graham Chapman's death. b. Jan 8, 1941 d. Oct 4, 1989
He would've been be 58 this year.
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It means they dropped the 'T' off titanium and ran with it.
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itanium. ecause e ike o rop he irst etter ff ords.
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The Royal Canadian Air Farce has a recurring sketch about a bunch of canucks discussing current events in the donut shop.
In small towns (well, big ones too>, the donut shop is where people gather and spread gossip.
It sounds no more ludicrous than Sociological research of Tea Rooms or Pubs in the British Isles.
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The cause of the near-crash was partly due to a faulty fuel gauge AND the fact that B-767s as the first to use metric. Read about it.
The World should really ditch imperial once and for all.
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No. That would be marge narrowly escaping the Village Security bubble and Hans Moleman getting caught.
I can see the infomercial already: "Hello, I'm Patrick McGoohan. Today, I'd like to introduce Zorb...."
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"No way. We designed ProductX to be absolutely secure for ALL customers."
"Fine. We're out of here. Bye now."
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The '98 Ice Storm in NY/Quebec, Floyd in NC, Taiwan, Turkey quakes. I was in the Quebec dark zone and was cut off for about two days. But it made me realize how fscked we are without our darling technology. The other thing that happenned during that time is the enhanced sense of community -- helping out STRANGERS. Sure, some nutty survivalists will lock themselves up and shoot anything approaching, but I believe most realize that self-preservation comes thru cooperation. So after the initial shell-shock of tech withdrawal, we'll get our act together and *cooperate*. Actually, by that time, something else will come and replace the InfoAge (Like InfoAge replaces Industrial Age) and it'll all fade away quietly.
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Hotmail Scandal - Sexbuyer identity revealed?
Someone has hacked an email account that belongs to two young prostitute girls and sent out their correspondance on Internet. There is revealed the name and telephone number of many of their clients. "I want only to know if they were prostitutes for real", says a medium director whose name appears on the correspondence.
On Monday the Express revealed that anyone could read other's email at Microsoft's email without entering a password. After that the Microsoft staff took the whole ten hours to fix the problem before it could work safely again. During this time, someone accessed the email account of two prostitute girls, then posted the messages on an anonymous homepage on an american server where who that everyone could read them.
Intimate details
On the homepage is revealed many intimate details about those who wrote the messages. "I am a pleasant and kind person, married, who needs more then what I get at home", writes a man whose name and telephone number appears on the homepage. Many of the persons who wrote to the girls explained that they are businessman who sometimes seek escorts in Stockholm and want to have contacts. The person behind the homepage request readers write email and call the men. A director in a well known medium company appears on homepage. He has written email to the girls and wrote "I am seriously interested in french lessons with you on a continuing basis. Can you tell more about your lessons, it would be nice if you also could attach a picture with the course plan". When the Express contacted him he knew already that his name and phone number was on the webpage "It is horrible and I understand that it is easy to ruin one's reputation" he said. He maintains that he did not buy sexual services and he only was curious to find out if they really were prostitutes.
The homepage where the names appearede is on an american webserver there who everyone can log on tanonymously for free. Therefore it is impossible to find out who is behind the page with the sensitive information. "What has happened with Hotmail is regrettable, but it is a whole other thing to take someone else's information and publish it on a website", says Lars Backhans, Microsoft's highest official for Hotmail in the Nordic Countries. "This here is abominable"
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Yesterday in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper
See it here
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Wow! It just blew right to the front page!!!
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'10061 connection refused'
"Oh fsck! What do we do ???"
"Pull the plug!!!"
"You want me to--"
"NOW!!!"
YANK!
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"ending up in prison married to the inmate with the most cigarettes"
-- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
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I remember reading about someone recovering his PC the same way coz the lamebrain who had bought it from the thieves just plugged it in, connected to the net and ICQ connected to ICQ server. The owner discovered his ICQ account was active, tracerouted back, and called the ISP.
Can anyone find a link to that story?
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Whew. We'll be spared from another Craptacular movie adaptation. I guess some good DID come out of WC...
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Your questions actually go to a shrink who's going to analyze them, send you a polite response then make millions by doing a lecture tour denouncing internet addiction.
Oh and let's not forget the geek profiling...
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... don't just happen in the Gaming industry.
I hear of lots of high-tech companies that "love to exploit 19 year old programmers", "fail to actually apply the principles [of project management]" and slot multi-talented people in a (mismatched) very narrow job description.
Seems to me that it's a quasi-universal problem!
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"Okay. Okay. I take it back. Un-fSck you." -- Full Metal Jacket
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I wish there was, that would spare us from forking $2000-$5000 per seat ...
On the bright side, IBM does have an MQ Client for Linux, the Server can't be that far off.
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I haven't got some for over a week -- and I'm married!
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