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So, when are you dropping the Napster lawsuit?
Never, apparently. Not only are they bullying people with smaller wallets around, they're being vindictive sons of bitches too. A couple of weeks ago, Georgia Tech refused to ban Napster, claiming that they are just another ISP. Try to sue Gatech, and you have to go up against wallets such as AOL's and MSN's.
Anyway, this must have pissed them off, because they've been scanning port 21s here at Tech constantly. My server logged them trying to get in around 2:30pm today, around the same time that they tried on all my friends. If they find a server they can get into (they tried 6 or 7 passwords with mine), they send Tech a nasty letter and Tech shuts down your ethernet port until they can give you a slap on the wrist for violating the computer usage policy. Has anyone at other colleges (those who have or haven't tried to block Napster) noticed this? I'm now keeping logs for all login attempts for longer than just a day to see how many times this happens. The outcome could be interesting, especially if they keep trying to crack my password. If I find a list of IPs that look suspicious, I'll post them and we can all add them to our ban lists. --
Damn straight. I wonder if you can get the cash value of that iMac to use toward a more versatile machine, a down payment on a car or another semester at GT. Be careful who you give your code to, this whole thing reeks of Apple. --
I've got a PII-350 OCed to 392 with a 2-year-old install of 98 and it usually stays up for weeks at a time. The Half-Life server-select screen is the only thing that ever takes it down. Try Norton Utilities for the dll problem, it's not that expensive and extremely prevalent on warez sites. --
I know I left that asbestos suit around here somewhere...ah, here it is.
"It is no different than with an operating system. People on/. do not say that Windows is a low quality operating system because it is popular- well, some of them do, but they are for the most part ignorant in many respects, but regardless, it is labeled as being that way, not because it is "bad", but because it is poorly designed, inefficient, unstable, and insecure, and leaves much to be desired for those who want powerful tools- to sum it up, it is looked down on because it is a cheap product. The point is, it is popular because anyone can use it, "understand" it per se- it is taylored for the masses. It is very poor though, if you want a well designed program."
Or maybe some people want an OS that can be used without having to to go the lengths of learning all the eccentricities of *nix. Most people can use windows 98 fairly well right out of the box. For those who understand windows and *nix, there are also other reasons:
-Only one distro, meaning everything is STANDARDIZED
-Highly optimized drivers written by someone who is depending on them for money, not by some 1337 h4x0r in their spare time.
-More drivers and software than any other platform.
-Nice little pieces of hardware, like Winmodems (my dialup ping is 95ms).
-Nice multimedia support. The ability to encode movies in real time, VHS quality on a PII-350 is a "powerful tool" that I don't see linux having in the near future, if at all. Linux's current idea of a "powerful tool" is grep.
-DVDs
-Half-Life
If there are any I haven't mentioned, feel free to add them. The Linux community can't get it's collective head far enough out of it's collective ass to figure out that there are REASONS that windows is on top. Try giving something a chance before attacking it, or at least give it its own paragraph. Now where's my extinguisher...
The preceding was composed while listening to the best music ever: no music. --
And even better, a little "cancel" button that you could hit if you feel like driving dangerously. Going weaving through traffic hopped up on PCP? Hit the button and the video the cops look at would be unfortunately "corrupted." That way you don't have to worry about your little device coming back to haunt you. --
...worth it to get unlimited funding for NASA! Here's how:
Like the garbace they're cleaning up, these nanothingies make really small holes if the shuttle were to hit them. But what if we could make even smaller robots (picothingies) to clean up the unused nanothingies? Of course that will create a similar cleanup problem and harder-to-find leaks when they hit the shuttle. But wait...even smaller robots could get rid of these robots!
Then why have the damn case? Make a nice aluminum tray to screw the board to with just enough supports to hold the cards in. Then put this in the middle of the room, go to Home Depot and blow about $200 on a fan-in-a-barrel. Now place the board inside the barrel as close to the blades as possible without touching them, therefore getting rid of all that pesky silence. --
The HVAC units at Georgia Tech are extremely accessible, and the thought has crossed many minds and has even been attempted by a few. The biggest problem (aside from condensation) is when they unexpectedly change over from air conditioning to heat therefore making your room hot as hell, not to mention any processors connected to the pipes:) --
But wouldn't the small fire produced by this counteract the cooling effects of the fan? I guess that's the power supply's problem, so someone else can deal with it. Too bad they outlawed halon systems. --
All those AOL CDs now come with 2 registration numbers so you can pass them on to a friend (or enemy). Since the software on the CD could be considered a virus because it totally dicks your DUN settings, does this mean that there will be a great rounding up of prisoners sometime soon? Does it mean I can report the next 1337 d00d who offers me one of those goddamn CDs to the cops? I'm going to write my congressman about it. --
Evil! I told you it was evil, but did you listen? Noooooooooo! Anything but go against our charismatic leader, the Paperclip! You people are pathetic, how else could you just sit there while that thing winks at you and makes faces every time you look away? I've seen it at night when it thought I was sleeping. It was stealing my keys and taking money out of my wallet. Then it laughs when people think I lost my keys and spent all that money on cheap beer and hookers. God, that laugh, the mocking laugh. I'll kill it though. I better start formatting before it finds it's way into the boot sector... --
Do not hide behind the mask of an AC! Come out into the light and tell me to my face that I'm not funny and help me to be a hilarious bringer of levity like yourself. If you do not I shall continue to believe that I am the funniest person on earth!
Dear Captain Flame, Please observe my email address, more specifically the ".edu" part. I'm a college student, so of course I'm cheap, dammit. ASFs and MPEGs are cheap (duh), convenient to watch, and always out before VHS or DVD. Do you have any illegal MP3s?
Matrix had a lot of good qualities that are usually overlooked in favor of the special effects and whoopass:
- It has an involving plot in which the main character is as clueless as the audience, therefore eliminating the need to explain everything that goes on.
- People can identify with the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar. Most everyone likes to see the underdog win, people sometimes betray others for their own good, and it would be cool if you didn't have to dodge bullets.
- It was well directed, IMHO, and the use of sound effects and music (which sometimes are indistinguishable) to enhance emotion. The rotating POV visual effect not only looks really cool, it is a good way to quickly describe the entire scene to the audience.
I've always thought that a good movie is one that is interesting enough to understand without having to conciously take note of things, and Matrix is a good example of this. Maybe this helps explain why The Matrix is so popular, however it still is a mystery why American Beauty got off the ground. --
I liked ExistenZ, but I thought the "are we back in reality yet?" theme had been done even more than some themes in The Matrix. ExistenZ didn't have any of the Oscar qualities that Matrix did, such as outstanding sound and visual effects. Maybe if they had a Best Sci-Fi category...
Can anyone else think of a movie besides The Matrix with good amounts of gratuitous violence that also got an academy award?
I sure as hell hope it's dying. I installed 4.72 around an hour and a half ago and it just died for the first time, taking an hour and a half of physics homework with it. Now there's no way I can get the assignment done in time. Thanks a lot, guys. I looked at what has been fixed in this version (using IE because I'm pissed), and I see little things like the spell checker in Composer and other things that 90% of Netscrape users never use. The big error that causes it to crash out randomly and take the rest of my machine with it that everyone I know hates isn't even on the list even though I've submitted it multiple times. I'm not so pissed anymore so i'm posting this using Netscape; please don't make me permanently switch to IE.
Religion is a big hoax - but not necessarily a malicious one. If your people are eating tainted pork and dying and they won't listen to you when you tell them to stop, then what do you do? You tell them that GOD wants them to stop and if not several horrible things will happen to them. This worked wonderfully until science came along, providing us not only with good, clean pork but with enough technology to see that the omnipresent, all-controling god that told us not to eat it probably doesn't exist. Belief in a supreme deity was also a way of controlling the masses so they wouldn't kill and steal from each other (2 of the most popular commandments) or overthrow the current government and cause anarchy. I thank religion for helping humanity get past those first few years of civilization without destroying itself, but enough is enough. Now that most of the things that can harm us are well understood (germs make you sick, not pork) and governments can do more harm than good, religion has become obsolete like my 486 that hasn't worked in years. It scares the hell out of me to see so many people blindly following a "charismatic leader" instead of thinking for themselves. I don't know of any religious figure that doesn't skim some off the top of the collection plates (some much more than others) and the presence of multiple religions has just turned the whole thing into a big war of denial. Religion, please stop messing with us so that science can make the world a better place.
If the specifications of these probes is correct, I don't think NASA could hide these findings from everyone else. The transmissions from the lander to the orbiter are almost certainly unencrypted, and the orbiter-to-Earth signals are recieved all over the globe so contact can be maintained when Mars goes below the horizon. This leaves an enormous opportunity for any government to get the same data as the US and learn the same things, including evidence of extraterrestrial life. If evidence is found, I think the govt. should disclose that information immediately and try to redeem the trust of its citizens rather than let the press start up the rumor mill when they get word of it. The people should not have to go to an entity as panicky and unreliable as the press to get information about the results of spent tax money. Sorry, this turned out to be more of a rant than I intended. --
I think it's terrible the things these games are doing to our youth. I saw this one little boy who had played too much Quake get angry one day and the kind of monster he turned into was horrific. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a mouse and started clicking it at people screaming "Die! Die! Die!" Then he went and sat in the corner and waited to respawn. Damn those games.
Seriously though, those games (especially HL) are an enormous release of tension after a 30-hour long CS project. Me and most of the people I know would be more violent people if it wasn't for this wonderful outlet that some parents are blaming for every violent tendency they see in their kids. --
Lets make it even more realistic by having everyone at the/. booth stop responding several times a day. "Hey Rob, can I get an autograph?. Rob. ROB!" "Give up, man, he slashdotted himself again." --
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So, when are you dropping the Napster lawsuit?
Never, apparently. Not only are they bullying people with smaller wallets around, they're being vindictive sons of bitches too. A couple of weeks ago, Georgia Tech refused to ban Napster, claiming that they are just another ISP. Try to sue Gatech, and you have to go up against wallets such as AOL's and MSN's.
Anyway, this must have pissed them off, because they've been scanning port 21s here at Tech constantly. My server logged them trying to get in around 2:30pm today, around the same time that they tried on all my friends. If they find a server they can get into (they tried 6 or 7 passwords with mine), they send Tech a nasty letter and Tech shuts down your ethernet port until they can give you a slap on the wrist for violating the computer usage policy. Has anyone at other colleges (those who have or haven't tried to block Napster) noticed this? I'm now keeping logs for all login attempts for longer than just a day to see how many times this happens. The outcome could be interesting, especially if they keep trying to crack my password. If I find a list of IPs that look suspicious, I'll post them and we can all add them to our ban lists.
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They compromised? Dammit, I told them to keep arguing.
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Damn straight. I wonder if you can get the cash value of that iMac to use toward a more versatile machine, a down payment on a car or another semester at GT. Be careful who you give your code to, this whole thing reeks of Apple.
--
I've got a PII-350 OCed to 392 with a 2-year-old install of 98 and it usually stays up for weeks at a time. The Half-Life server-select screen is the only thing that ever takes it down. Try Norton Utilities for the dll problem, it's not that expensive and extremely prevalent on warez sites.
--
I know I left that asbestos suit around here somewhere...ah, here it is.
/. do not say that Windows is a low quality operating system because it is popular- well, some of them do, but they are for the most part ignorant in many respects, but regardless, it is labeled as being that way, not because it is "bad", but because it is poorly designed, inefficient, unstable, and insecure, and leaves much to be desired for those who want powerful tools- to sum it up, it is looked down on because it is a cheap product. The point is, it is popular because anyone can use it, "understand" it per se- it is taylored for the masses. It is very poor though, if you want a well designed program."
"It is no different than with an operating system. People on
Or maybe some people want an OS that can be used without having to to go the lengths of learning all the eccentricities of *nix. Most people can use windows 98 fairly well right out of the box. For those who understand windows and *nix, there are also other reasons:
-Only one distro, meaning everything is STANDARDIZED
-Highly optimized drivers written by someone who is depending on them for money, not by some 1337 h4x0r in their spare time.
-More drivers and software than any other platform.
-Nice little pieces of hardware, like Winmodems (my dialup ping is 95ms).
-Nice multimedia support. The ability to encode movies in real time, VHS quality on a PII-350 is a "powerful tool" that I don't see linux having in the near future, if at all. Linux's current idea of a "powerful tool" is grep.
-DVDs
-Half-Life
If there are any I haven't mentioned, feel free to add them. The Linux community can't get it's collective head far enough out of it's collective ass to figure out that there are REASONS that windows is on top. Try giving something a chance before attacking it, or at least give it its own paragraph. Now where's my extinguisher...
The preceding was composed while listening to the best music ever: no music.
--
And even better, a little "cancel" button that you could hit if you feel like driving dangerously. Going weaving through traffic hopped up on PCP? Hit the button and the video the cops look at would be unfortunately "corrupted." That way you don't have to worry about your little device coming back to haunt you.
--
...worth it to get unlimited funding for NASA!
Here's how:
Like the garbace they're cleaning up, these nanothingies make really small holes if the shuttle were to hit them. But what if we could make even smaller robots (picothingies) to clean up the unused nanothingies? Of course that will create a similar cleanup problem and harder-to-find leaks when they hit the shuttle. But wait...even smaller robots could get rid of these robots!
I wonder how long NASA could keep this going...
--
Then why have the damn case? Make a nice aluminum tray to screw the board to with just enough supports to hold the cards in. Then put this in the middle of the room, go to Home Depot and blow about $200 on a fan-in-a-barrel. Now place the board inside the barrel as close to the blades as possible without touching them, therefore getting rid of all that pesky silence.
--
The HVAC units at Georgia Tech are extremely accessible, and the thought has crossed many minds and has even been attempted by a few. The biggest problem (aside from condensation) is when they unexpectedly change over from air conditioning to heat therefore making your room hot as hell, not to mention any processors connected to the pipes :)
--
But wouldn't the small fire produced by this counteract the cooling effects of the fan? I guess that's the power supply's problem, so someone else can deal with it. Too bad they outlawed halon systems.
--
All those AOL CDs now come with 2 registration numbers so you can pass them on to a friend (or enemy). Since the software on the CD could be considered a virus because it totally dicks your DUN settings, does this mean that there will be a great rounding up of prisoners sometime soon? Does it mean I can report the next 1337 d00d who offers me one of those goddamn CDs to the cops? I'm going to write my congressman about it.
--
Evil! I told you it was evil, but did you listen? Noooooooooo! Anything but go against our charismatic leader, the Paperclip! You people are pathetic, how else could you just sit there while that thing winks at you and makes faces every time you look away? I've seen it at night when it thought I was sleeping. It was stealing my keys and taking money out of my wallet. Then it laughs when people think I lost my keys and spent all that money on cheap beer and hookers. God, that laugh, the mocking laugh. I'll kill it though. I better start formatting before it finds it's way into the boot sector...
--
Maybe they're doing this to try to get enough money to bring back Cliff. If that's the case then I fully support the effort.
--
Do not hide behind the mask of an AC! Come out into the light and tell me to my face that I'm not funny and help me to be a hilarious bringer of levity like yourself. If you do not I shall continue to believe that I am the funniest person on earth!
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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David Fincher didn't add those subliminals, Tyler did. He worked as a projectionist, remember?
Now why does my soup taste funny?
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You're a cheap bastard
Dear Captain Flame,
Please observe my email address, more specifically the ".edu" part. I'm a college student, so of course I'm cheap, dammit. ASFs and MPEGs are cheap (duh), convenient to watch, and always out before VHS or DVD. Do you have any illegal MP3s?
Thank you.
--
Matrix had a lot of good qualities that are usually overlooked in favor of the special effects and whoopass:
- It has an involving plot in which the main character is as clueless as the audience, therefore eliminating the need to explain everything that goes on.
- People can identify with the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar. Most everyone likes to see the underdog win, people sometimes betray others for their own good, and it would be cool if you didn't have to dodge bullets.
- It was well directed, IMHO, and the use of sound effects and music (which sometimes are indistinguishable) to enhance emotion. The rotating POV visual effect not only looks really cool, it is a good way to quickly describe the entire scene to the audience.
I've always thought that a good movie is one that is interesting enough to understand without having to conciously take note of things, and Matrix is a good example of this. Maybe this helps explain why The Matrix is so popular, however it still is a mystery why American Beauty got off the ground.
--
I have to agree. Even though Fight Club was an extremely close second, it didn't leave me thinking "Wow, that kicked ass!" as much as Matrix did.
Plus my copy of The Matrix is 576 MB at VHS quality; Fight Club isn't nearly that nice.
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I liked ExistenZ, but I thought the "are we back in reality yet?" theme had been done even more than some themes in The Matrix. ExistenZ didn't have any of the Oscar qualities that Matrix did, such as outstanding sound and visual effects. Maybe if they had a Best Sci-Fi category...
Can anyone else think of a movie besides The Matrix with good amounts of gratuitous violence that also got an academy award?
--
I sure as hell hope it's dying. I installed 4.72 around an hour and a half ago and it just died for the first time, taking an hour and a half of physics homework with it. Now there's no way I can get the assignment done in time. Thanks a lot, guys. I looked at what has been fixed in this version (using IE because I'm pissed), and I see little things like the spell checker in Composer and other things that 90% of Netscrape users never use. The big error that causes it to crash out randomly and take the rest of my machine with it that everyone I know hates isn't even on the list even though I've submitted it multiple times. I'm not so pissed anymore so i'm posting this using Netscape; please don't make me permanently switch to IE.
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People have been killed by nukes, we have video evidence of it.
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Religion is a big hoax - but not necessarily a malicious one. If your people are eating tainted pork and dying and they won't listen to you when you tell them to stop, then what do you do? You tell them that GOD wants them to stop and if not several horrible things will happen to them. This worked wonderfully until science came along, providing us not only with good, clean pork but with enough technology to see that the omnipresent, all-controling god that told us not to eat it probably doesn't exist. Belief in a supreme deity was also a way of controlling the masses so they wouldn't kill and steal from each other (2 of the most popular commandments) or overthrow the current government and cause anarchy. I thank religion for helping humanity get past those first few years of civilization without destroying itself, but enough is enough. Now that most of the things that can harm us are well understood (germs make you sick, not pork) and governments can do more harm than good, religion has become obsolete like my 486 that hasn't worked in years. It scares the hell out of me to see so many people blindly following a "charismatic leader" instead of thinking for themselves. I don't know of any religious figure that doesn't skim some off the top of the collection plates (some much more than others) and the presence of multiple religions has just turned the whole thing into a big war of denial. Religion, please stop messing with us so that science can make the world a better place.
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If the specifications of these probes is correct, I don't think NASA could hide these findings from everyone else. The transmissions from the lander to the orbiter are almost certainly unencrypted, and the orbiter-to-Earth signals are recieved all over the globe so contact can be maintained when Mars goes below the horizon. This leaves an enormous opportunity for any government to get the same data as the US and learn the same things, including evidence of extraterrestrial life. If evidence is found, I think the govt. should disclose that information immediately and try to redeem the trust of its citizens rather than let the press start up the rumor mill when they get word of it. The people should not have to go to an entity as panicky and unreliable as the press to get information about the results of spent tax money. Sorry, this turned out to be more of a rant than I intended.
--
I think it's terrible the things these games are doing to our youth. I saw this one little boy who had played too much Quake get angry one day and the kind of monster he turned into was horrific. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a mouse and started clicking it at people screaming "Die! Die! Die!" Then he went and sat in the corner and waited to respawn. Damn those games.
Seriously though, those games (especially HL) are an enormous release of tension after a 30-hour long CS project. Me and most of the people I know would be more violent people if it wasn't for this wonderful outlet that some parents are blaming for every violent tendency they see in their kids.
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Lets make it even more realistic by having everyone at the /. booth stop responding several times a day.
"Hey Rob, can I get an autograph?. Rob. ROB!"
"Give up, man, he slashdotted himself again."
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