The 'researchers' CLAIM that microbes are eating the lava-glass because there are 'tubular gaps' in the glass...
I would think that with a mining operation as extensive as this that they would be able to FIND at LEAST 1 little tiny microbe instead of 'traces of'...we have TRACES of dinosaurs...but do they actually exist today? umm nope. Show me a microbe THEN tell me they actually exist instead of guessing that since there is 'biological matter' attached to the glass that there must be a microbe eating it.
This as well as the 'close' pop-up crap should finally be banned...
as for the FCC dictating standards and then trying to uphold them as far as Browsers are concerned and the 'control' factors...
Walmart uses Linux for their inventory tracking and the like...
Meanwhile at Fred Myers last night, I was at the 'do-it-yourself' checkout and witnessed a station reboot...sadly enough what I saw was the Windows NT 4.0 start-up screen...Thus I understood why the system was rebooting...
Which is why I never figured out what they do with people with prosthetic limbs...
I mean...a prosthetic leg could EASILY house a handgun of many calibers/sizes etc...
Find a big fat bin ladin fanatic...
chop his leg off...
get him a prosthetic...
let him walk through...
sure they have metal in them for support right?
so that's what triggers the alarm..piece of cake..
then they board and hi-jack the plane...
but maybe they make them remove the limb and put it through the xray machine thingie..*shrugs*
Sending things to friends...
wow...as for fair use...as long as you aren't charging for the viewing you can tape and let friends watch...nothing wrong with that...
As for ethernet requirement...
umm...what's this going to do to bandwidth say if I'm on a cable or dsl connection, and my neighbor is also on that cable segment for instance and "sends" something to his friend in alabama...
does this mean I get bogged down big time? Hope not...
first off, i'd just like to say, i love it when a hardcore networking article gets posted to slashdot, the number of responses is so much lower due to the userbase having no experience with the subject; and mindless pontificating and chest beating (as in anti microsoft/pro linux articles) doesn't cut it with this subject matter.
I couldn't agree more...unfortunately I sometimes get lost in the banter of techno-babble that spews forth from the fingertips of those who know not how to write a technical article in 'understandable' english for those who might not know everything there is to know about networking and the like. But a very big KUDOS to you sir for providing links where those who are interested can learn more. Thanks!
I like #2...but mostly I've seen women work'n the security checkpoints at the airports I've encountered...so might not wanna be gender specific on that one =)
#3 could help the airport's loss of revenues over the past month and rejuvinate some of those fugly people's skin...GREAT IDEA!
#5 Nixon? I think Elvis would be more fun =)
Then the 'sightings' would be even more often, and his loyal supporters could keep thinking he was alive!
These top doods were prolly overpaid =)
and now can get the opportunity to put
in some time for good 'ole opensource!
Wheeeeee!!! Let the good times roll!
Besides, they probably needed some vacation time too...locked up in a dev. lab all the time with no one to fraternize with...*shudder*...and in Jersey of all places...*double shudder*
I consider these ppl LUCKY! Now they can go somewhere they will be appreciated.
"Someone better come up with a way to get better and better at protecting the rights of the artists, because without doing that, I think that the art and the ability to distribute the art goes away. If somebody can show me that I'm wrong, I'll be out of this business in two days. But I don't think that I'm wrong."
Napster was the ULTIMATE distribution center, we NON-CD purchasers could finally find complete albums that were decent instead of CDs with 2 good songs and 14 pieces that a 3yr old with kitchen utensils could sound better than(vocals included). FIRST think about the needs and wants of the LISTENERS...find out WHAT they want and start providing it instead of just flooding the market with shitty CD's that have 1 or 2 good songs...
As for the 'art' going away...who the hell is he trying to kid? maybe we'll get more quality instead of quantity...is that so bad? I think not, I think it is what needs to happen to the music/record industry...they have enjoyed exploiting listeners for long enough, and it's time we all stood up for our rights.
What more could you ask for in a woman?
Lil Ms. Vulcan lady might get nicknamed
"lil Ms. Vulva lady"
*drool*
As for the pointy ears...
"My Ms Vulva, What nice handles you have..."
As for the other personages...
The 'medical development' is going to be GREAT!
I can just see now, mutant starfish cauterizing wounds...that was fabulous! And marsupial dung for something else...the possibilities are endless! And the clumsy, slow learning pilot dude...Hahaha bumped into 2 ships in the first episode...you KNOW this will continue...
For a NON-Trekkie(taped the show for my trekkie roommate), it was quite enjoyable and didn't seem like 2hrs at all.
Oh and the 'first klingon impression' remember..
translator lady(kind cute too!) saying "You don't want to know" to Quantum Leap boy...so it MIGHT have been a bad impression eh?
I teach comp lit at the High School level...
many kids each day want to be doing ANYTHING
but studying the required material for the day...
Sooo...they try web browsing, e-mailing, chatting, and yes...even Mine Sweeper...
The easiest way to deter them from doing this is to have a hefty part of their grade considered 'daily work/participation' and to state upfront that if they are going off on their own tangent instead of doing the assigned work in class...well they lose ALL of those points for the day...and when they see 20% of their grade slip away and all of a sudden have a C or D when they could have had an A or B...they wise up and take the RESPONSIBILITY into their own hands...
It is better to make a THINKER and a CHOICE maker out of a student than a regurgitating robotic mind...
What a waste of perfectly good gaming system.
But hrm...maybe the next Nintendo will come with a CD-ROM design and perhaps they will team up with some linux distribution team to release a product on their console...and have Tux Racer for the game =) Woo!!!
Not too shabby a thought, for only $250 YOU TOO can be playing Tux Racer, have your own e-mail server, web server, and much much more!
Then have a disclaimer: Dumb-asses need not purchase.
when using cash...you KNOW what you have in your hand...therefore what you can spend...
it is MUCH MORE advantageous for BANKS to have you use paperless money...their workforce shrinks...thus profits increase...not only that..but due to overdraft protection because of the number of people who don't keep track of their exact balance...so the bank gets to levy fines and fees and all that crap just to make an extra buck...
I think MS OWES it to the millions of users to take the entirety of their products off the shelf, and to keep them off the shelf until they are fully fully fully tested and THEN release them...
I'm tired of buying software and having to update it the next day because of 40 new security issues and then having to do it again the next week...
DEVELOPMENT time and BETA release time is when you should be scouring these monoliths of megabytes for their faults...not after MS as a company has INFESTED millions of computers.
Most *nix users I know take an active role in the administration of their machines and are generally more educated in computers than MS product users. This alone makes it more difficult to create a general havoc exploit such as CodeRed and Nimda, let alone the fact that people were coding and developing *nix OS's before MS was a twinkle in Bill's eye. Thus, if a worm were to be made, the very nature of *nix's is a defense in and of itself, because the OS has forced the 'home user' to become more aware and knowledgeable about the beast of a machine they are using instead of taking everything for granted(the very reason *nix is not in every household and most likely never will be)...people don't want to come home from a long day of work and have to THINK about maintaining their computers...they want the quick and easy way out...which just so happens to have a quick and easy way to enter/attack...but that is the tradeoff for ignorance...and as we say...it is bliss.
Ahem...After all, these people have shown a blatant distregard of basic sysadmin responsibilies...
to have shown a blatant disregard of basic sysadmin responsibilities one has to ASSUME that these ignorant grandma's and grandpa's and the baby boomer generation that has little knowledge and exposure to computers in fact have any clue about what is happening to their machines.
How can a person who uses a machine for the sole purpose of keeping in contact with their loved ones and playing card games be showing a blatant disregard of sysadmin responsibilities?
I don't remember reading anything dictating that once you buy a computer that you are expected to maintain it's system integrity, constantly patch vulnerabilities, and check for viruses after every download or e-mail attachment you receive...
Perhaps a couple of free weekend seminars at the local town-hall/community center for free...sponsor'd by local ISP's or technology businesses is a better response to just cutting them off. The DMZ idea is great , but the users need to be EDUCATED not punished because of their ignorance.
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The 'researchers' CLAIM that microbes are eating the lava-glass because there are 'tubular gaps' in the glass...
I would think that with a mining operation as extensive as this that they would be able to FIND at LEAST 1 little tiny microbe instead of 'traces of'...we have TRACES of dinosaurs...but do they actually exist today? umm nope. Show me a microbe THEN tell me they actually exist instead of guessing that since there is 'biological matter' attached to the glass that there must be a microbe eating it.
Bahumbug
Thats great! For $0.59(price of 1 bean burrito) I can recharge my cell-phone!! I bet Taco Bell sees a direct co-related increase in burrito sales!
This as well as the 'close' pop-up crap should finally be banned...
as for the FCC dictating standards and then trying to uphold them as far as Browsers are concerned and the 'control' factors...
I'm not sure which I'm more comfortable with...
alt-f4
or more Federal Control
Walmart uses Linux for their inventory tracking and the like...
Meanwhile at Fred Myers last night, I was at the 'do-it-yourself' checkout and witnessed a station reboot...sadly enough what I saw was the Windows NT 4.0 start-up screen...Thus I understood why the system was rebooting...
1. Get Married, Have Wife Push Buttons, Fetch Grub
2. Have kids, Have kids push buttons, fetch food while wife...(I can think of a few things for the wife here) =)
Which is why I never figured out what they do with people with prosthetic limbs...
I mean...a prosthetic leg could EASILY house a handgun of many calibers/sizes etc...
Find a big fat bin ladin fanatic...
chop his leg off...
get him a prosthetic...
let him walk through...
sure they have metal in them for support right?
so that's what triggers the alarm..piece of cake..
then they board and hi-jack the plane...
but maybe they make them remove the limb and put it through the xray machine thingie..*shrugs*
Just seems simplex to me..
Sending things to friends...
wow...as for fair use...as long as you aren't charging for the viewing you can tape and let friends watch...nothing wrong with that...
As for ethernet requirement...
umm...what's this going to do to bandwidth say if I'm on a cable or dsl connection, and my neighbor is also on that cable segment for instance and "sends" something to his friend in alabama...
does this mean I get bogged down big time? Hope not...
first off, i'd just like to say, i love it when a hardcore networking article gets posted to slashdot, the number of responses is so much lower due to the userbase having no experience with the subject; and mindless pontificating and chest beating (as in anti microsoft/pro linux articles) doesn't cut it with this subject matter.
I couldn't agree more...unfortunately I sometimes get lost in the banter of techno-babble that spews forth from the fingertips of those who know not how to write a technical article in 'understandable' english for those who might not know everything there is to know about networking and the like. But a very big KUDOS to you sir for providing links where those who are interested can learn more. Thanks!
I like #2...but mostly I've seen women work'n the security checkpoints at the airports I've encountered...so might not wanna be gender specific on that one =)
#3 could help the airport's loss of revenues over the past month and rejuvinate some of those fugly people's skin...GREAT IDEA!
#5 Nixon? I think Elvis would be more fun =)
Then the 'sightings' would be even more often, and his loyal supporters could keep thinking he was alive!
These top doods were prolly overpaid =)
and now can get the opportunity to put
in some time for good 'ole opensource!
Wheeeeee!!! Let the good times roll!
Besides, they probably needed some vacation time too...locked up in a dev. lab all the time with no one to fraternize with...*shudder*...and in Jersey of all places...*double shudder*
I consider these ppl LUCKY! Now they can go somewhere they will be appreciated.
1. I like a song on a sucky album that they did not release a single for. Now I'm S.O.L.
2. X artist might work for B company, and X artist rocks, but I don't want to support B company...therefore a dilema =)
"Someone better come up with a way to get better and better at protecting the rights of the artists, because without doing that, I think that the art and the ability to distribute the art goes away. If somebody can show me that I'm wrong, I'll be out of this business in two days. But I don't think that I'm wrong."
Napster was the ULTIMATE distribution center, we NON-CD purchasers could finally find complete albums that were decent instead of CDs with 2 good songs and 14 pieces that a 3yr old with kitchen utensils could sound better than(vocals included). FIRST think about the needs and wants of the LISTENERS...find out WHAT they want and start providing it instead of just flooding the market with shitty CD's that have 1 or 2 good songs...
As for the 'art' going away...who the hell is he trying to kid? maybe we'll get more quality instead of quantity...is that so bad? I think not, I think it is what needs to happen to the music/record industry...they have enjoyed exploiting listeners for long enough, and it's time we all stood up for our rights.
What more could you ask for in a woman?
Lil Ms. Vulcan lady might get nicknamed
"lil Ms. Vulva lady"
*drool*
As for the pointy ears...
"My Ms Vulva, What nice handles you have..."
As for the other personages...
The 'medical development' is going to be GREAT!
I can just see now, mutant starfish cauterizing wounds...that was fabulous! And marsupial dung for something else...the possibilities are endless! And the clumsy, slow learning pilot dude...Hahaha bumped into 2 ships in the first episode...you KNOW this will continue...
For a NON-Trekkie(taped the show for my trekkie roommate), it was quite enjoyable and didn't seem like 2hrs at all.
Oh and the 'first klingon impression' remember..
translator lady(kind cute too!) saying "You don't want to know" to Quantum Leap boy...so it MIGHT have been a bad impression eh?
CmdrTaco, if ya wanna copy lemme know.
Simple solutions:
Get cable.
Get a 56k modem *VIVA BAUD!*
Get a wireless broadband solution =)
Oh oh oh...nevermind forgot what the 4th one was.
Just be happy we don't have to put our phone receiver on a 'docking station' anymore just to link-up.
I teach comp lit at the High School level...
many kids each day want to be doing ANYTHING
but studying the required material for the day...
Sooo...they try web browsing, e-mailing, chatting, and yes...even Mine Sweeper...
The easiest way to deter them from doing this is to have a hefty part of their grade considered 'daily work/participation' and to state upfront that if they are going off on their own tangent instead of doing the assigned work in class...well they lose ALL of those points for the day...and when they see 20% of their grade slip away and all of a sudden have a C or D when they could have had an A or B...they wise up and take the RESPONSIBILITY into their own hands...
It is better to make a THINKER and a CHOICE maker out of a student than a regurgitating robotic mind...
What a waste of perfectly good gaming system.
But hrm...maybe the next Nintendo will come with a CD-ROM design and perhaps they will team up with some linux distribution team to release a product on their console...and have Tux Racer for the game =) Woo!!!
Not too shabby a thought, for only $250 YOU TOO can be playing Tux Racer, have your own e-mail server, web server, and much much more!
Then have a disclaimer: Dumb-asses need not purchase.
Who's scale did they use to measure the weight?
Ophrah's??
Maybe Bill Clinton's bull-shit-o-meter...
It's the end of the world as we know it...
it's the end of the world as we know it...
and I feel fine...
Don't fret the little stuff, just smile and nod,
it will all go away
If I whack my goose nightly and no one catches me, and I deny it if asked, am I still guilty?
I agree drunken_jackass...
when using cash...you KNOW what you have in your hand...therefore what you can spend...
it is MUCH MORE advantageous for BANKS to have you use paperless money...their workforce shrinks...thus profits increase...not only that..but due to overdraft protection because of the number of people who don't keep track of their exact balance...so the bank gets to levy fines and fees and all that crap just to make an extra buck...
Give me CASH thanks =)
This is LOOOOONG past due...
I think MS OWES it to the millions of users to take the entirety of their products off the shelf, and to keep them off the shelf until they are fully fully fully tested and THEN release them...
I'm tired of buying software and having to update it the next day because of 40 new security issues and then having to do it again the next week...
DEVELOPMENT time and BETA release time is when you should be scouring these monoliths of megabytes for their faults...not after MS as a company has INFESTED millions of computers.
Anyone who runs Outlook on a Linux box for their e-mail, when they have PINE(big smile) is a bloody idiot!
Blah...outlook *grumble grumble*
After trying to get past 3 postercomment filters
this is what I had to say =)
Pimp!!! Very Pimp!!!
(those in bold were the 'TWO' words)
Most *nix users I know take an active role in the administration of their machines and are generally more educated in computers than MS product users. This alone makes it more difficult to create a general havoc exploit such as CodeRed and Nimda, let alone the fact that people were coding and developing *nix OS's before MS was a twinkle in Bill's eye. Thus, if a worm were to be made, the very nature of *nix's is a defense in and of itself, because the OS has forced the 'home user' to become more aware and knowledgeable about the beast of a machine they are using instead of taking everything for granted(the very reason *nix is not in every household and most likely never will be)...people don't want to come home from a long day of work and have to THINK about maintaining their computers...they want the quick and easy way out...which just so happens to have a quick and easy way to enter/attack...but that is the tradeoff for ignorance...and as we say...it is bliss.
Ahem...After all, these people have shown a blatant distregard of basic sysadmin responsibilies...
to have shown a blatant disregard of basic sysadmin responsibilities one has to ASSUME that these ignorant grandma's and grandpa's and the baby boomer generation that has little knowledge and exposure to computers in fact have any clue about what is happening to their machines.
How can a person who uses a machine for the sole purpose of keeping in contact with their loved ones and playing card games be showing a blatant disregard of sysadmin responsibilities?
I don't remember reading anything dictating that once you buy a computer that you are expected to maintain it's system integrity, constantly patch vulnerabilities, and check for viruses after every download or e-mail attachment you receive...
Perhaps a couple of free weekend seminars at the local town-hall/community center for free...sponsor'd by local ISP's or technology businesses is a better response to just cutting them off. The DMZ idea is great , but the users need to be EDUCATED not punished because of their ignorance.