Considering the mutual feelings about Microsoft within the Slashdot community, I'm sure you can take that to the bank that it was humour.:)
as far as winxp doing that, your not alone. Hell, just out of the blue, win2k started telling me I had an improper line in my boot.ini, and nothing was added or removed. (ever!)
Considering source code is available for nearly everything Linux related, I'd say you just didn't try. Everything on Linux (well, mostly) will compile on it.
not unclear, just don't do that enough to warrant my care. telnet (popsite) 110 or pine isn't done by me enough. Obviously it's not that tough to figure out.
especially those checkcard types that are a debit card with a visa logo.
They offer no fraud protection, and absolutely NO protection whatsoever. I was in dispute once with an ISP that kept putting 40 dollars charges every week on my card. (setup fee... every week!) and I talked to my bank. They said, "we cannot do anything about it, you will have to talk to the company performing the transactions." (Bank of America, for those who want to know)
Now, I did speak with a customer service rep a couple of times (got it resolved a couple times also...) and when it brought my account down to negative and I had a 20 dollar service charge luckily the ISP paid that fee for me and refunded the money they took out. (course then I cancelled, harshly)
End result? I now wonder what would happen if some business wasn't exactly in the right side of the law and used my card continuously to charge the same item once a week. Bank of America obviously wouldn't be doing anything about it (at least you can do a stop payment with a check!) and the company could easily wipe my account out without a thought... leaving me to scrounge enough money together for legal assistance while they do that.
It is scarey. Unfortunately, I seem stuck using the checkcards, but I use primarily debit now because it's a one time fee and it's *immediate*. (doesn't wait a couple days to show on the ledger)
eh, it's obvious it's a troll. Just lost my attention around the part where they said, " proof that awful programs can become popular based soley on their price" when talking about GCC.
This sentence is akin to someone writing, "I have the most powerful xyz in the country." Well, which country?
The last time I checked we didn't have a colony on Mars yet, nor do we have intergalactic internet traffic, yet. (wow, would that ping time suck!)
We do have more than one country on this planet, so that would be one reason to specify which country. Guess what? Most of those countries do have internet access of some kind.
Let's try not to get too carried away. Next you'll wonder why people don't specify which solar system they are talking about when we say "the solar system", or which moon we're talking about when we say, "the moon".
Well, we did have an ice age not too long ago back in the early years of America. It's not that uncommon. Now, a complete freeze of the world, that's another issue all together.
Gee, why would you want to do that? I thought everyone who broke into insecure systems was a good-natured Robin Hood, a "white hat" who was just trying to help the poor stupid admins out of the goodness of his or her heart.
Enough sarcasm, this *was* malicious simply because this could have been a setup for a DDoS attack.
Theres a big difference between breaking into a system then reporting the issue to the admin, and breaking into a system via a trojaned makefile/config only to gain root/user shell access for no other reason than to use them for some other purpose.
now you know the difference between black hat, and white hat. of course then you have those individuals that make tools that encompass an entire OS, leaving the original interface a complete mystery to the user. These hackers are known as red hat:) *sorry, joke*
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Wasn't that a goal of Tesla, to be able to draw electricity from the air?
Well yeah, kinda. Tesla was developing a way to harness energy from the earth if I'm not mistaken and channel it over the air from one location to another. Scientists laughed at him and called him a quack, refusing to fund him any further.
Some think thats how the tunguska incident happened, and I personally don't think it's very far off from the data retrieved. (electromagnetic waves "bending" trees in some parts, and not cracking them, so forth)
It's a good read: http://www.galisteo.com/tunguska/bbs/messages/110. html and http://www.parascope.com/en/0996/tesla4 .htm (I trust this one better myself)
A quick search for "tesla incident" brings up alot of stuff on it, and quite a few other things that are direct tangents from Nikola Tesla's work.
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Well, one upside to Linux is that the system restore disk usually consists of:
/mnt/cdrom/restore-08-01-2002.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/sysmount
tar -xvjpf
or something along that route if you use bzip2 to compress your tarball before burning it to cd.
Considering the mutual feelings about Microsoft within the Slashdot community, I'm sure you can take that to the bank that it was humour. :)
as far as winxp doing that, your not alone. Hell, just out of the blue, win2k started telling me I had an improper line in my boot.ini, and nothing was added or removed. (ever!)
Might want to uncomment that sarcasm flag :)
Considering source code is available for nearly everything Linux related, I'd say you just didn't try. Everything on Linux (well, mostly) will compile on it.
It must be a monday... :)
Mod this to funny.. it's supposed to be
not unclear, just don't do that enough to warrant my care. telnet (popsite) 110 or pine isn't done by me enough. Obviously it's not that tough to figure out.
I thought about OG2, but O2G just sounds cooler :)
if you're pulling a couple tons, you want an automatic.
When was the last time you saw an automatic transmission in a semi?
This should be at least a 1... it's a valid point.
Hey now, that hits a little too close to home there.
I'm married, I have a reason to be on slashdot on saturday =)
but nowhere does it require your social security number to be used as a password.
But if it's not real, it's a forgery.
Ahhh the law, wonderful catchall, don't you think?
especially those checkcard types that are a debit card with a visa logo.
They offer no fraud protection, and absolutely NO protection whatsoever. I was in dispute once with an ISP that kept putting 40 dollars charges every week on my card. (setup fee... every week!) and I talked to my bank. They said, "we cannot do anything about it, you will have to talk to the company performing the transactions." (Bank of America, for those who want to know)
Now, I did speak with a customer service rep a couple of times (got it resolved a couple times also...) and when it brought my account down to negative and I had a 20 dollar service charge luckily the ISP paid that fee for me and refunded the money they took out. (course then I cancelled, harshly)
End result? I now wonder what would happen if some business wasn't exactly in the right side of the law and used my card continuously to charge the same item once a week. Bank of America obviously wouldn't be doing anything about it (at least you can do a stop payment with a check!) and the company could easily wipe my account out without a thought... leaving me to scrounge enough money together for legal assistance while they do that.
It is scarey. Unfortunately, I seem stuck using the checkcards, but I use primarily debit now because it's a one time fee and it's *immediate*. (doesn't wait a couple days to show on the ledger)
My real-life ranting here.
PS2 is different from the Intel chipset because it is dedicated to one specific task: graphically enhanced games in a 3d environment.
Given that specific task, it's very well suited.
eh, it's obvious it's a troll.
Just lost my attention around the part where they said, " proof that awful programs can become popular based soley on their price" when talking about GCC.
This sentence is akin to someone writing, "I have the most powerful xyz in the country." Well, which country?
The last time I checked we didn't have a colony on Mars yet, nor do we have intergalactic internet traffic, yet. (wow, would that ping time suck!)
We do have more than one country on this planet, so that would be one reason to specify which country. Guess what? Most of those countries do have internet access of some kind.
Let's try not to get too carried away. Next you'll wonder why people don't specify which solar system they are talking about when we say "the solar system", or which moon we're talking about when we say, "the moon".
1.3 times farther away than the moon means:
(moon distance) * 1.3 = (Distance of asteroid)
It's pretty simple. Although, I don't know how far away the moon is right off-hand.
Well, we did have an ice age not too long ago back in the early years of America. It's not that uncommon. Now, a complete freeze of the world, that's another issue all together.
nice quote.
Where'd you pull that one from?
I hardly believe something like that to be in the Protestant christian bible.
guess it's time to break out a calculator and figure out what 3:00 UTC is for your timezone then, eh?
For Arizona, it'll be 8:00PM August 17th as far as I can tell, so work from there.
It's all downhill after Clinton Bush Sr. got into office, I'm tellin' ya!
I remember learning the differences between the two words very often in my younger years.
There's nothing better then a good education!
(please, the above is a joke... don't think I'm serious with the "then" in there...)
and that your password on a server is m@st3rb@t10n.
Hell, screw the NSA... any script kiddie could find that out through telnet.
Besides, when was the last time your wife typed for you to pick up a bottle of milk on your way home through telnet?
Gee, why would you want to do that? I thought everyone who broke into insecure systems was a good-natured Robin Hood, a "white hat" who was just trying to help the poor stupid admins out of the goodness of his or her heart.
:) *sorry, joke*
Enough sarcasm, this *was* malicious simply because this could have been a setup for a DDoS attack.
Theres a big difference between breaking into a system then reporting the issue to the admin, and breaking into a system via a trojaned makefile/config only to gain root/user shell access for no other reason than to use them for some other purpose.
now you know the difference between black hat, and white hat.
of course then you have those individuals that make tools that encompass an entire OS, leaving the original interface a complete mystery to the user. These hackers are known as red hat
Wasn't that a goal of Tesla, to be able to draw electricity from the air?
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Well yeah, kinda. Tesla was developing a way to harness energy from the earth if I'm not mistaken and channel it over the air from one location to another. Scientists laughed at him and called him a quack, refusing to fund him any further.
Some think thats how the tunguska incident happened, and I personally don't think it's very far off from the data retrieved. (electromagnetic waves "bending" trees in some parts, and not cracking them, so forth)
It's a good read: http://www.galisteo.com/tunguska/bbs/messages/110
and
http://www.parascope.com/en/0996/tesla
(I trust this one better myself)
A quick search for "tesla incident" brings up alot of stuff on it, and quite a few other things that are direct tangents from Nikola Tesla's work.
Just tell them your listening to music :)
Christ, when was the last time someone asked you what media of music you are listening to?
If they ask, and you feel (oddly) embarrassed about saying OGG Vorbis, just say "O2G". That works for the w3 consortium, why not you?