Blissful ignorance means we'll be writing stupid comments on Slashdot as it happens.
Informed people will be victims of the mass hysteria. Myself, I'd prefer to at least move away from the point of impact, and continue writing stupid comments on Slashdot.:)
About the time they say "there's an object the size of the moon coming at the earth", people will be selling anti-apocalypse kits, cans of powdered water, and other imaginary but expensive emergency supplies just in case they survive and money is worth something on post-apocalyptic earth.:)
I caught the story about 1/2 hour after it was suppose to strike. I'm still wondering if we survived. I guess they didn't feel like running the follow up story. At least a picture would be nice.:)
I'm not sure what the screenshot is that you're mentioning (nor am I bothering to look), but from what I had seen before (months ago, when I signed up for the beta), it appeared that you could make your character as any Stargate character. Just like in the show where you'll see characters running around with enemy weapons (who doesn't intuitively know how to use a staff weapon accurately?), I'd guess that you can buy, trade, or steal pretty much anything you want.
I gotta wonder if I can just "borrow" an Asgard ship.:) I can't imagine those little gray guys can really put up much of a fight once you're on board.
I'm curious to see how the game will be. I'm not a huge gamer, I'm actually an adult with a job, but it may be a nice distraction from real life on occasion.
That may have something to do with the studio being in Vancouver.:) Hmmm, and I'll be about 150 miles from the studio for the next few days for work. I wonder if anyone would notice if I took off for a few hours in the company rented car.:)
I still wonder how they shoot the desert scenes in Vancouver. ahh, the magic of CGI.
Unless the kernel was patched, or the rc files in your distro explicitly enable them, the default is 0 (off).
From the kernel config help under IP: TCP syncookie support (disabled per default)
" If you say Y here, note that SYN cookies aren't enabled by default; you can enable them by saying Y to "/proc file system support" and "Sysctl support" below and executing the command
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
at boot time after the/proc file system has been mounted. "
Syncookies limit the effectiveness of a TCP Synflood (where people open lots of connections, but do nothing with them). Now syncookies are bad? Hrm. I'm sure a bunch of script kiddies will be dusting off their old synflood scripts now. Damned if you do.. Damned if you don't. Nice.
WHG III is "William Henry Gates III", Bill's full name.
I don't know where you're from, but just about everywhere it's rude to show that you don't like a gift, even if you don't like it. You're suppose to smile and say "thank you". Not "Didn't we have this yesterday?" and "I need to drown your food in catsup to eat it".
I agree. But, they're trying to soften up their image. Ooohh, poor Bill.
I recently started getting emails on "rules" of dating. More like, what women do and don't like in general. They may say they want a guy with a soft heart, but they don't like a wimp.
They are staying with a family. The family obviously boards other people. The grandmother has been living there for 12 years. Maybe this is a reference to Windows 95 being ancient, but still kicking around the house.
While they are there, the little girl gets upset that she lost her room. Here they are calling non-Microsoft OS's bratty little girls.
The little girl gets her revenge by planting the stolen item in Gates' pack. This is either saying that other OS's use deception to get what they want. Gates, being the better man just leaves to let the bratty girl have her way, because there are bigger things to come.
I like understanding subtle undertones to what appears to be obvious. I also like listening to the words of "Hotel California".:)
I don't know how it happened, but somehow the bookmark on my phone (Blackberry) got switched from what I set it to, to a Google link. This may help you by pumping the request through Google, rather than letting Avantgo handle it. I haven't had any problems this way. I'd worry about privacy, but since all I can do is read, it doesn't really matter. The big brothers at Google can only see that some computer geek carries a blackberry.:)
I have my own news site, and there's one major thing that Slashdot and my site have in common. We own our sites, therefore we can do anything we please on them.
I could declare tomorrow "random bullshit day", and run insignificant news from all over the world.
But, I'm sure they do like we do. We listen to our uses comments. We don't necessarily like them, but if we want our sites to grow, we listen and grow accordingly. We can't please anyone, so our own opinions have a lot to do with it.
For example, I had people complain about our column layout. I ran a poll to find out what our users would prefer. They were all over the place. I stuck with what I felt fit best (two columns of news). Slashdot obviously uses one. TheRegister users 3. NYTimes uses 2-ish. LAtimes uses 3. I satisfied some of our users, and the rest were either annoyed, or got over it.
If you don't like they way a place does their business, you don't have to shop there.:)
They went extinct about 1500 years ago, stomped out of existence by the rapid expansion of the human population and their quest to spread their theology to others. You're probably familiar with the theology that killed off the trolls and other ancient religions.
I was playing with open proxies on day quite a while back. While I was taking a break, I stayed on the last proxy I was on, and went to Slashdot. I got a banned page. I don't remember the text verbatum, but it had something about the IP was detected to have been abusing, and was blocked. It's probably automatic, and probably kicks in when trolls post too much from one IP. Really, the abuses here aren't too bad considering how many people read and write here.
I'm guessing they were using a bad proxy, or they were posting so much crap that they tripped the abuse system and it blocked them. Being psychic, they should have seen it coming.:)
I used to run an amazingly high traffic site. It required quite a few GigE pipes to run the network. The datacenters combined would have required an OC192 to stay within acceptable growth potential.
I had the urge to switch or run IPv6 in parallel. I found out what was proposed to be mandatory was quite a bit harder than it appeared.
I never did find the clear path of "this is what you need to do."
The only way I found to get my traffic to other IPv6 users was to tunnel IPv6 over IPv4. If (if, if) we had done it, it would have likely swamped those gateway services. Sure, some people want to make it happen, but what happens when many multiple big companies do it. I know Google set up the IPv6 version of their site, but they have quite a bit of negotiation power. My negotiation power was in that I could say "I'm going to need lots of bandwidth, make it available to me", and the provider would ensure it was available and that the standard growth potential was available. We had our growth down to a science, almost so much as I could tell you our aggregate 95th percentile for 12 months in the future +-5%
If I, senior tech guy at a large bandwidth customer couldn't get it done, why do we think every home user, T1 user, and average Joe Slashdot User could get it done.
If IPv6 is what we're SUPPOSE to be migrating towards, a clear well defined path must be established, and some sort of encouragement must be provided.
IPv6 for us was just a play toy, even though I wanted it done. There was absolutely no demand for it. We were only using 6 to 8/24's, so we weren't a huge burden on the available address space. Even still, I wanted to do it, and never got it done. Queries were left unanswered. No firm responses were ever given. Even the senior techs at the Tier 1 ISP's gave vague answers like "I think we can. Ya, we should be able to support it, but we don't know. We'll try to find out."
Now I work for a company with even less pull. We discussed it, but it's a much different product, and was put together in such a way that you can't be fuzzy with it's addressing. Things are very specific. Clients will connect to exactly where you tell them, and there's no room for "and you could do this...." I no longer have the opportunity to even attempt to switch, and since the client base isn't prepared, it won't happen.
I was looking forward to the change. I know there were neat proposals involved. Unfortunately, we were never able to implement it, and most people won't be able to.
Slashdot Mirror
I like goth, but I don't like fat. But, as a good citizen, I will do my duty. :)
I accept my fate. I will propagate with younger women, if for nothing else than to save our species. :)
Then suicide is a valid option. There's only so much my good genes can do with a gene pool like that. :)
At 99.9999999%, if I'm the only male survivor, and the other 5 are hot chicks, I'm going to really dig repopulating the planet. Let the games begin. :)
Blissful ignorance means we'll be writing stupid comments on Slashdot as it happens.
Informed people will be victims of the mass hysteria. Myself, I'd prefer to at least move away from the point of impact, and continue writing stupid comments on Slashdot. :)
About the time they say "there's an object the size of the moon coming at the earth", people will be selling anti-apocalypse kits, cans of powdered water, and other imaginary but expensive emergency supplies just in case they survive and money is worth something on post-apocalyptic earth. :)
I caught the story about 1/2 hour after it was suppose to strike. I'm still wondering if we survived. I guess they didn't feel like running the follow up story. At least a picture would be nice. :)
I'm not sure what the screenshot is that you're mentioning (nor am I bothering to look), but from what I had seen before (months ago, when I signed up for the beta), it appeared that you could make your character as any Stargate character. Just like in the show where you'll see characters running around with enemy weapons (who doesn't intuitively know how to use a staff weapon accurately?), I'd guess that you can buy, trade, or steal pretty much anything you want.
I gotta wonder if I can just "borrow" an Asgard ship. :) I can't imagine those little gray guys can really put up much of a fight once you're on board.
I'm curious to see how the game will be. I'm not a huge gamer, I'm actually an adult with a job, but it may be a nice distraction from real life on occasion.
That may have something to do with the studio being in Vancouver. :) Hmmm, and I'll be about 150 miles from the studio for the next few days for work. I wonder if anyone would notice if I took off for a few hours in the company rented car. :)
I still wonder how they shoot the desert scenes in Vancouver. ahh, the magic of CGI.
Have you ever tried her? I thought "liquid awesome" was a strange name for a stripper, but ...
Oh, that's probably not what they mean.
That was an awesome weekend though. At least I got first there early (and often).
Unless the kernel was patched, or the rc files in your distro explicitly enable them, the default is 0 (off).
From the kernel config help under IP: TCP syncookie support (disabled per default)
"
If you say Y here, note that SYN cookies aren't enabled by default;
you can enable them by saying Y to "/proc file system support" and
"Sysctl support" below and executing the command
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
"
Syncookies limit the effectiveness of a TCP Synflood (where people open lots of connections, but do nothing with them). Now syncookies are bad? Hrm. I'm sure a bunch of script kiddies will be dusting off their old synflood scripts now. Damned if you do.. Damned if you don't. Nice.
These devices are great. They're great at developing one thing. Cash for the "inventors".
I always liked the magnets that you can put on the fuel line, that "align the atoms for coherent flow into ...." :)
Yet another fuel scam, and for some reason they posted it.
Oddly enough, I took that one at face value. :) Damn, now I have to listen more carefully. :)
WHG III is "William Henry Gates III", Bill's full name.
I don't know where you're from, but just about everywhere it's rude to show that you don't like a gift, even if you don't like it. You're suppose to smile and say "thank you". Not "Didn't we have this yesterday?" and "I need to drown your food in catsup to eat it".
Good point. :) I hadn't really noticed that. Well, I noticed that she was doing things, but I assumed it was just to get her into the scene.
I agree. But, they're trying to soften up their image. Ooohh, poor Bill.
I recently started getting emails on "rules" of dating. More like, what women do and don't like in general. They may say they want a guy with a soft heart, but they don't like a wimp.
No, no. There's an underdog spin on it.
They are staying with a family. The family obviously boards other people. The grandmother has been living there for 12 years. Maybe this is a reference to Windows 95 being ancient, but still kicking around the house.
While they are there, the little girl gets upset that she lost her room. Here they are calling non-Microsoft OS's bratty little girls.
The little girl gets her revenge by planting the stolen item in Gates' pack. This is either saying that other OS's use deception to get what they want. Gates, being the better man just leaves to let the bratty girl have her way, because there are bigger things to come.
I like understanding subtle undertones to what appears to be obvious. I also like listening to the words of "Hotel California". :)
You haven't seen Michael Jackson then, have you?
The libraries prefer to be known as "Libraries of Congrii", if you don't mind.
I don't know how it happened, but somehow the bookmark on my phone (Blackberry) got switched from what I set it to, to a Google link. This may help you by pumping the request through Google, rather than letting Avantgo handle it. I haven't had any problems this way. I'd worry about privacy, but since all I can do is read, it doesn't really matter. The big brothers at Google can only see that some computer geek carries a blackberry. :)
Try http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fpalm
I hope that shows up properly. Lots of % characters. :)
Want to know a secret?
I have my own news site, and there's one major thing that Slashdot and my site have in common. We own our sites, therefore we can do anything we please on them.
I could declare tomorrow "random bullshit day", and run insignificant news from all over the world.
But, I'm sure they do like we do. We listen to our uses comments. We don't necessarily like them, but if we want our sites to grow, we listen and grow accordingly. We can't please anyone, so our own opinions have a lot to do with it.
For example, I had people complain about our column layout. I ran a poll to find out what our users would prefer. They were all over the place. I stuck with what I felt fit best (two columns of news). Slashdot obviously uses one. TheRegister users 3. NYTimes uses 2-ish. LAtimes uses 3. I satisfied some of our users, and the rest were either annoyed, or got over it.
If you don't like they way a place does their business, you don't have to shop there. :)
They went extinct about 1500 years ago, stomped out of existence by the rapid expansion of the human population and their quest to spread their theology to others. You're probably familiar with the theology that killed off the trolls and other ancient religions.
I was playing with open proxies on day quite a while back. While I was taking a break, I stayed on the last proxy I was on, and went to Slashdot. I got a banned page. I don't remember the text verbatum, but it had something about the IP was detected to have been abusing, and was blocked. It's probably automatic, and probably kicks in when trolls post too much from one IP. Really, the abuses here aren't too bad considering how many people read and write here.
I'm guessing they were using a bad proxy, or they were posting so much crap that they tripped the abuse system and it blocked them. Being psychic, they should have seen it coming. :)
It just did a beautiful dance around us here in Tampa. Clouds and light wind, but no storm.
The track shows we may still have a chance though, but it'll be from a summer shower by the time it gets back here.
You must be in S. Florida. That's the storm blowing them around. Duke Nukem Forever wasn't released. :)
I disagree.
I used to run an amazingly high traffic site. It required quite a few GigE pipes to run the network. The datacenters combined would have required an OC192 to stay within acceptable growth potential.
I had the urge to switch or run IPv6 in parallel. I found out what was proposed to be mandatory was quite a bit harder than it appeared.
I never did find the clear path of "this is what you need to do."
The only way I found to get my traffic to other IPv6 users was to tunnel IPv6 over IPv4. If (if, if) we had done it, it would have likely swamped those gateway services. Sure, some people want to make it happen, but what happens when many multiple big companies do it. I know Google set up the IPv6 version of their site, but they have quite a bit of negotiation power. My negotiation power was in that I could say "I'm going to need lots of bandwidth, make it available to me", and the provider would ensure it was available and that the standard growth potential was available. We had our growth down to a science, almost so much as I could tell you our aggregate 95th percentile for 12 months in the future +-5%
If I, senior tech guy at a large bandwidth customer couldn't get it done, why do we think every home user, T1 user, and average Joe Slashdot User could get it done.
If IPv6 is what we're SUPPOSE to be migrating towards, a clear well defined path must be established, and some sort of encouragement must be provided.
IPv6 for us was just a play toy, even though I wanted it done. There was absolutely no demand for it. We were only using 6 to 8 /24's, so we weren't a huge burden on the available address space. Even still, I wanted to do it, and never got it done. Queries were left unanswered. No firm responses were ever given. Even the senior techs at the Tier 1 ISP's gave vague answers like "I think we can. Ya, we should be able to support it, but we don't know. We'll try to find out."
Now I work for a company with even less pull. We discussed it, but it's a much different product, and was put together in such a way that you can't be fuzzy with it's addressing. Things are very specific. Clients will connect to exactly where you tell them, and there's no room for "and you could do this...." I no longer have the opportunity to even attempt to switch, and since the client base isn't prepared, it won't happen.
I was looking forward to the change. I know there were neat proposals involved. Unfortunately, we were never able to implement it, and most people won't be able to.
0. It never managed to get off the ground. :)