Have you seen "A beautiful mind"? (If not go and rent it ASAP). Pay special attention to the scene where our hero tries to get out that numeric code thingy from his wrist. That's the way to handle negative reactions...
Ooooh a deft karma-doubling trick.:)Can I try too?
And damn, it worked for him, it worked for you. Now it's my turn...
[homeshopping_TV_salespersonvoice] You don't get one link, you don't get one value-enhanced link, we are not even going to give you two links, no, for the meager price of your modpoints YOU WILL GET THREE LINKS! All of them VALUE-ENHANCED and clickable...if that won't please you, NOTHING WILL![/homeshopping_TV_salespersonvoice]
Just line them up properly and use a high-velocity gun. Even normal assault rifles will have the bullets go through several people in a row... If you can get 50 of them with a single shot it might pay off. Maybe you will even get away with bullets that are merely silver-plated.
With a car as ugly as that you can only hope the cell blows up very, very soon.
Self-destruction mechanims should be wired to the parking sensors, now that I think of it, thus allowing the car to commit suicide when no one is around to be injured by flying debris.
Well, about replacing battery packs on existing laptop models, I can see a pretty aftermarket developing pretty fast. Think of Nokia cell phone batt packs. Everyone and their dog manufactures them, and what worries me is: those are stuck to the physics and electricity and actually they occasionally blow up. I don't want to imagine how those aftermarket packs will behave when there is actually something pressurized and flammable in there.
Also, anotherissue will be planes. They don't allow pressurized cartridges and stuff like that on a plane. Will the airlines ban laptops or will they just bow down to customer's wishes (which might not actually be a good thing in this respect).
We could choose to disallow AOL urls into weblogs. We could prevent anybody with an AOL account having an RSS feed to a Blogger or LiveJournal. We could ban them from our conferences. Sounds like we're being assholes or "closed" [...]
Weird. Just a few days ago you could read about the supposed "balkanization of the net" and here it comes along in the fast lane...
Most of these spammers want to drag you into some sleazy website.
If anyone started making a hobby out of the following procedure (could even be automated) one could push spammers to the brink of profitability and insanity:
1) You receive spam 2) you cut'n'paste the URL to their site into list file 3) you start wegt'ing their websites recursively and repeatedly (say, 50megs on each occasion) 4) you rejoice at the spammer getting a gigantic volume cost
If only 1000 people did this a few times on each spam-advertised website (and on their unmetered flatrate accounts) things would weed out pretty quickly, I guess.
I don't know. I see headless NT boxes from time to time. They make pretty good routers and web servers, after all. A "free" machine that could run IIS would be a killer in some Windows shops.
Excuse my pessimistic bashing, but how would one proceed in "configuring" the IIS or other apps. This would basically only allow running software specifically designed for command-line use (like a seti-client:) ) on this box. 95% of NT4 software is relying on a clickety-click setup.
And with these real NT4 headless boxes - well there's always VNC, which will allow to setup and administer the box as if you were actually sitting in front of it woth mon/key/mouse attached.
look up some DJ Demo Tapes - most of these guys will prolly cherish the thought of lightening theirbandwidth load with further distribution - give attribution in filename
movie trailers which are downloadable will prolly not (C)-free but are gray zone - no one will honesty try to subpoena you because of it, their case would be kinda weak (not sure about that)
look for serious abandonware sites - sites that specialize i software/emulator images that are indeed released by their former makers (mostly inexistant now)
host linux distros (not sure about that)
watch/. and wget/archive the referenced web sites with a distinctive name, then posting a link in the/. discussion with the filename (would be coolest if you had it on several p2p networks)
Most of these are still gray area to some extent. Hard question actually...:)
To me this stuff is at least 99,999% bunk. There is the universal claim that these circls are too symmetrical or spiritual to be handmade. The believers claim that there is no way for human beings to make these symbols without leaving obvious trace to human presence.
Last year a german TV magazin (stern tv) decided to evaluate that. After finding out that it was possible, they... well, they became alien and just did it. A large field was picked, the "impressions" were made with such other-worldly gadgets as tree logs, rope and a bunch of carbon-based glucose operated water bags.
The result: crop circles indistinguishable from all the other ones that are worshipped all the time. All the german esoteric elite piled up at that field, people sold the t-shirts and posters, and everyone believed that the god-forsaken place of Schönwalde was location to extra-terrestrial visits.
http://www.fosar-bludorf.com/kornkreis/ Scroll down a bit to see a picture of the circle in question. Interestingly enough (and although the creation of the circle was filmed) the site which has the picture is part of the "believers" who are not going to abstain from their initial belief that it is the work of alien visitors. Notice any weird feelings when looking at it? Well, if it is hunger it might be for a reason, the pattern has been taken from a salami pizza, the weird thingy coming out of one of the outer circles is a deplaced pepperoni.
Well, the wackos running the site are currently bashing the TV magazine people for obstructing the truth and stuff like that. A bunch of the wackos have found magnetic anomalies ("up to 1000%"), dehydrated soil but no burned plant matter, silicium chipping ("broken off a spaceship") or measured modulated signals on obscure frequencies. Some people just WANT to believe...
There seems to be some misunderstanding to the concept of "banned games" in Germany, and while the concept may be highly disputable, it is a far cry from being censorship...
Germany has an instance for checking and handling books, videos, games and other media that might be considered harmful to the youth (Bundesprüfstelle für jugengefährdende Schriften). It is is not pro-active, that means it does not require each new release to be checked. When some game is "banned" (indiziert) it means that some over-worrysome parent has submitted this special release to be checked. Games that are particularly bloody will get on the Index, just like movies like "Faces of Death" or "Evil Dead".
If Quake is on the index, it means that it was obvious to the testers that the only way of archieving goals is killing humans.
Tomb Raider was not forced to have blue-blooded animals. The software company did it on their own behalf (see below for the why).
Same goes for Command & Conquer.
If the game/movie is indexed it means the following, just the following and nothing more:
dealers have to check age at all sales/rentals of said game (18+ is required)
advertising of this game is not allowed anymore
the game may not be displayed publicly in shops anymore, but it is still legal to sell/rent it in any amounts the dealer wishes
AA not being indexed means that no one has submitted it for checking as of now. It is interesting to know that, though. Even if it was indexed, it would have about no effect, as the game itself is not sold anywhere in Germany. It would be nice to see the govt try to force an mandatory age check onto the AA distribution servers for downloads from Germany... hehe.
To me, this system makes far more sense than the public outrage ensuing over Shakira music videos and the like. And it is far from being censorship, because "banning" and "censoring" implies that no one is legally able to get/own/use these products.
Ah, americans bragging about "old Europe". It will make them look like a Dummkopf every time.
With the current state of russia's copyrights and the enforcement of these you can probably expect to see a source code pack up on p2p networks. Someone _will_ leak it.
Humvee a 30yo design? Do you have any references for that? I think the first Humvees were built around 1982 or 1981. So took them another 10 years to get from blueprint to prototype? And I thought the german army was a bunch of lazy bastards...
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Have you seen "A beautiful mind"? (If not go and rent it ASAP). Pay special attention to the scene where our hero tries to get out that numeric code thingy from his wrist. That's the way to handle negative reactions...
You say this as if an online petition has ever been observed to change a decision...
And damn, it worked for him, it worked for you. Now it's my turn...
[homeshopping_TV_salespersonvoice] You don't get one link, you don't get one value-enhanced link, we are not even going to give you two links, no, for the meager price of your modpoints YOU WILL GET THREE LINKS! All of them VALUE-ENHANCED and clickable...if that won't please you, NOTHING WILL![/homeshopping_TV_salespersonvoice]
The whole site and the original mirror
Whole site again, the newcoming copycat
And for the verbally inclined here just the multimedia content
I think that after being shot one is clerically excused from that "turn the other cheek"-practice.
SCNR
Just line them up properly and use a high-velocity gun. Even normal assault rifles will have the bullets go through several people in a row... If you can get 50 of them with a single shot it might pay off. Maybe you will even get away with bullets that are merely silver-plated.
SCNR
God... Before reading this thread I would never have thought that the /. geek crowd contains elements of the gun nut movement....
Damn, I want one...
Anyone need a kidney?
With a car as ugly as that you can only hope the cell blows up very, very soon.
Self-destruction mechanims should be wired to the parking sensors, now that I think of it, thus allowing the car to commit suicide when no one is around to be injured by flying debris.
Well, about replacing battery packs on existing laptop models, I can see a pretty aftermarket developing pretty fast. Think of Nokia cell phone batt packs. Everyone and their dog manufactures them, and what worries me is: those are stuck to the physics and electricity and actually they occasionally blow up. I don't want to imagine how those aftermarket packs will behave when there is actually something pressurized and flammable in there.
Also, anotherissue will be planes. They don't allow pressurized cartridges and stuff like that on a plane. Will the airlines ban laptops or will they just bow down to customer's wishes (which might not actually be a good thing in this respect).
Here is a quick rundown on the gist of the Kittinger/Excelsior story that should give you an overview... and more terms for googling the backgrounds:
p e. htm
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/coldwar/
Weird. Just a few days ago you could read about the supposed "balkanization of the net" and here it comes along in the fast lane...
Maybe the announcement was filtered as well...
Most of these spammers want to drag you into some sleazy website.
If anyone started making a hobby out of the following procedure (could even be automated) one could push spammers to the brink of profitability and insanity:
1) You receive spam
2) you cut'n'paste the URL to their site into list file
3) you start wegt'ing their websites recursively and repeatedly (say, 50megs on each occasion)
4) you rejoice at the spammer getting a gigantic volume cost
If only 1000 people did this a few times on each spam-advertised website (and on their unmetered flatrate accounts) things would weed out pretty quickly, I guess.
Excuse my pessimistic bashing, but how would one proceed in "configuring" the IIS or other apps. This would basically only allow running software specifically designed for command-line use (like a seti-client
And with these real NT4 headless boxes - well there's always VNC, which will allow to setup and administer the box as if you were actually sitting in front of it woth mon/key/mouse attached.
look up some DJ Demo Tapes - most of these guys will prolly cherish the thought of lightening theirbandwidth load with further distribution - give attribution in filename
movie trailers which are downloadable will prolly not (C)-free but are gray zone - no one will honesty try to subpoena you because of it, their case would be kinda weak (not sure about that)
look for serious abandonware sites - sites that specialize i software/emulator images that are indeed released by their former makers (mostly inexistant now)
host linux distros (not sure about that)
watch /. and wget/archive the referenced web sites with a distinctive name, then posting a link in the /. discussion with the filename (would be coolest if you had it on several p2p networks)
Most of these are still gray area to some extent. Hard question actually...:)
trains pretty much have two directions to go in normal operation
trains do not carry armed cruise missiles
trains get additional signalling from devices embedded on the track which could override internal commands
This is a far cry from controlling a warship...
To me this stuff is at least 99,999% bunk. There is the universal claim that these circls are too symmetrical or spiritual to be handmade. The believers claim that there is no way for human beings to make these symbols without leaving obvious trace to human presence.
Last year a german TV magazin (stern tv) decided to evaluate that. After finding out that it was possible, they... well, they became alien and just did it. A large field was picked, the "impressions" were made with such other-worldly gadgets as tree logs, rope and a bunch of carbon-based glucose operated water bags.
The result: crop circles indistinguishable from all the other ones that are worshipped all the time. All the german esoteric elite piled up at that field, people sold the t-shirts and posters, and everyone believed that the god-forsaken place of Schönwalde was location to extra-terrestrial visits.
http://www.fosar-bludorf.com/kornkreis/
Scroll down a bit to see a picture of the circle in question. Interestingly enough (and although the creation of the circle was filmed) the site which has the picture is part of the "believers" who are not going to abstain from their initial belief that it is the work of alien visitors. Notice any weird feelings when looking at it? Well, if it is hunger it might be for a reason, the pattern has been taken from a salami pizza, the weird thingy coming out of one of the outer circles is a deplaced pepperoni.
Well, the wackos running the site are currently bashing the TV magazine people for obstructing the truth and stuff like that. A bunch of the wackos have found magnetic anomalies ("up to 1000%"), dehydrated soil but no burned plant matter, silicium chipping ("broken off a spaceship") or measured modulated signals on obscure frequencies. Some people just WANT to believe...
Germany has an instance for checking and handling books, videos, games and other media that might be considered harmful to the youth (Bundesprüfstelle für jugengefährdende Schriften). It is is not pro-active, that means it does not require each new release to be checked. When some game is "banned" (indiziert) it means that some over-worrysome parent has submitted this special release to be checked. Games that are particularly bloody will get on the Index, just like movies like "Faces of Death" or "Evil Dead".
If Quake is on the index, it means that it was obvious to the testers that the only way of archieving goals is killing humans.
Tomb Raider was not forced to have blue-blooded animals. The software company did it on their own behalf (see below for the why).
Same goes for Command & Conquer.
If the game/movie is indexed it means the following, just the following and nothing more:
dealers have to check age at all sales/rentals of said game (18+ is required)
advertising of this game is not allowed anymore
the game may not be displayed publicly in shops anymore, but it is still legal to sell/rent it in any amounts the dealer wishes
AA not being indexed means that no one has submitted it for checking as of now. It is interesting to know that, though. Even if it was indexed, it would have about no effect, as the game itself is not sold anywhere in Germany. It would be nice to see the govt try to force an mandatory age check onto the AA distribution servers for downloads from Germany... hehe.
To me, this system makes far more sense than the public outrage ensuing over Shakira music videos and the like. And it is far from being censorship, because "banning" and "censoring" implies that no one is legally able to get/own/use these products.
Ah, americans bragging about "old Europe". It will make them look like a Dummkopf every time.
Great... now some idiots with too much money can cut you off from the left and the right side of the road and from above.
The future sure looks bright.
What good is rating system if it does not allow negative feedback?
Great Britain
Argentinia
Chile
New Zealand
Australia
France
Norway
Nations with (temp or perm) stations:
Argentinia
Chile
New Zealand
USA
Germany
Italy
France
Australia
China
Japan
India
South Africa
With the current state of russia's copyrights and the enforcement of these you can probably expect to see a source code pack up on p2p networks. Someone _will_ leak it.
Humvee a 30yo design? Do you have any references for that? I think the first Humvees were built around 1982 or 1981. So took them another 10 years to get from blueprint to prototype? And I thought the german army was a bunch of lazy bastards...
...the key was just something obvious along the lines of "All work and no play makes Bill a dull boy" repeated until the bit count was reached.
Whatever, is anyone really surprised over the outcome of this? That/B would really surprise me...