Take you have a email account just for SPAM trapping that you basicaly just leave alone. Now somebody hacks into that account and starts defrauding people on Ebay. Next thing you know, people call your neighbors and family and tell them you're a crook. Somebody robs your PayPal account, sends thepolice on your trail and (what they didn't do in this case, but could have) even does other things like cancel your contract with your ISP.
If the criminal justice system DID THEIR JOB (125k isn't chicken-feed), these people wouldn't have felt the need to do it themselves.
Who says the justice system didn't do it's job? From the article:Fearing the worst, auction winners [auctions were in mid-December] contacted officials at EBay, who said they would not accept complaints until 30 days after an auction's closing date. Local law enforcement officials in Arizona said they did not have the resources to handle the case. And the FBI told them to fill out a form and wait. What did those people expect, that they call the police and immediately get their money back? It is obvious that the local police couldn't handle the case (asking dozens of people all over the US is not an easy task) - but the case probably wasn't in their cognizance anyway. The FBI basically said them they would get on the case as soon as possible, but those vigilantes just couldn't wait for a week or two.
that the usual evil-government-electronic-surveilance paranoids will not care that a group of vigilantes can fuck up somebodies (real) life - guilty or not.
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My point is that Zuse build and designed his computer, Hard- and Software, almost completely alone (with the help of some students). And since he build it for personal reasons - he was tired of calculating the same stuff over and over again by hand - one could say that it was the first personal computer.
Actually AMD processors gwt quite a boost too. In issue 23/01 of the German computer magazin c't (article not online - www.heise.de/ct/ ), there is an article about Intel's C compiler for Linux. Testing with SPECInt2000 , they get an average increase of 20% over gcc.
Heise Newsticker reports (in German), that the compiler switch -ipo (inter procedural optimization) with the Intel C++ compiler can seriously mess up the compiled program. An example given (with image) is Povray under both Windows and Linux, which can tint some images.
What good is a fast running kernel, when it has more bugs than something from Microsoft?
It sure as hell doesn't mean that alfred Nobel would have O.K.ed the "Nobel Prize for Economy" either.
But anyway, I'll grant you a "Nobel Prize for the posting answering the very parent posting" (no money or object or right is given with said prize). You may now call yourself a Nobel laureate, I'm sure Alfred won't mind.
IOW somebody doing works in economics do not qualify for a Nobel prize, because they never benefit mankind. Heck, they don't even benefit actual economics (or the capitalists if you want), because "economics" is not a real science and nothing they come up with actually works in the real world.
Anyway, since the family of Nobel and the executor of the will don't think that the economics prize should be given in Nobels name - well, it probably shouldn't. Source: original article from the "Svenska Dagbladet" (in Swedish), translation from the "Post-Keynesian Thought List Archives"
Not quite ontopic, but it reminded me of this article (in German) on how the number 8 means good luck to Chines and Japanese and that Chinese would pay quite big sums for phone numbers with lots of 8s in them. One guy with a number ending in 88899888 even got kind of famous just because of it. A little Googleing gives me this, which seems to be the original basis of the first article.
For those of you who didn't bother to read the review (now there's a new thought):
The game's story involves a Peacekeeper attack on the ship Moya - all but two of the ship's seven crew escape the Moya and crash land on a strange planet. The objective is to get the escape pod fixed, fly back up to the Moya, wrest control of her away from the Peacekeepers and get out of Dodge.
The scientist don't plan to put the organism there, they say that if this organism could live there, there could infact already be life on Mars or Europa.
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If the criminal justice system DID THEIR JOB (125k isn't chicken-feed), these people wouldn't have felt the need to do it themselves.
Who says the justice system didn't do it's job? From the article:Fearing the worst, auction winners [auctions were in mid-December] contacted officials at EBay, who said they would not accept complaints until 30 days after an auction's closing date. Local law enforcement officials in Arizona said they did not have the resources to handle the case. And the FBI told them to fill out a form and wait. What did those people expect, that they call the police and immediately get their money back? It is obvious that the local police couldn't handle the case (asking dozens of people all over the US is not an easy task) - but the case probably wasn't in their cognizance anyway. The FBI basically said them they would get on the case as soon as possible, but those vigilantes just couldn't wait for a week or two.
Yet the Intel compiler is still faster for Athlons than gcc.
Those pictures are patented by Microsoft, you say?
that the usual evil-government-electronic-surveilance paranoids will not care that a group of vigilantes can fuck up somebodies (real) life - guilty or not.
My point is that Zuse build and designed his computer, Hard- and Software, almost completely alone (with the help of some students). And since he build it for personal reasons - he was tired of calculating the same stuff over and over again by hand - one could say that it was the first personal computer.
P4/1.7 +26%, P3/866 +23%, Athlon/1.2 +16%, AthlonXP/1.2 +19% (due to SSE).
What good is a fast running kernel, when it has more bugs than something from Microsoft?
But anyway, I'll grant you a "Nobel Prize for the posting answering the very parent posting" (no money or object or right is given with said prize). You may now call yourself a Nobel laureate, I'm sure Alfred won't mind.
Anyway, since the family of Nobel and the executor of the will don't think that the economics prize should be given in Nobels name - well, it probably shouldn't. Source: original article from the "Svenska Dagbladet" (in Swedish), translation from the "Post-Keynesian Thought List Archives"
What do you mean, "nobody's fault" - that's unamerican!
I wouldn't say Woz was the first person to design and build a computer by himself, that would be Konrad Zuse, hence my Sig. Though Woz also rules ;-)
Not quite ontopic, but it reminded me of this article (in German) on how the number 8 means good luck to Chines and Japanese and that Chinese would pay quite big sums for phone numbers with lots of 8s in them. One guy with a number ending in 88899888 even got kind of famous just because of it. A little Googleing gives me this, which seems to be the original basis of the first article.
Let's not forget Wil Wheaton, who has been Slashdoted a couple of times already.
Yeah, but that was because it was too little like classic MacOS and not because it wasn't Unixy.
You expect Slashdot to do an article about an exclusive for Mac game? That'll be the day.
Sturgeon's Law applies.
But Wing Commander also proves that going from Game to Movie usualy sucks more than the other way.
Err, no. The "loot" from their heist in episode "Liars, Guns And Money - Part I: A Not So Simple Plan" contained those "bugs", but after they (or rather Talyn) destroyed the Depository in "Liars, Guns And Money - Part III: Plan B", they got all the riches in it.
Unless he hits something with his head once too often choking on Pretzels, he'll remain what he is, was and will be - an Oil-Man.
Well, being able to wake up to the noise of a normal alarm clock (instead of an extra loud one) when you're 40 seems to beat that.
There stillis a legal way - use the American verion of the apps.
Of course it won't kill piracy. But it will save them the money ($750,000) to make the Chinese version.
We lose money on every unit sold, but we make that up through volume.
The scientist don't plan to put the organism there, they say that if this organism could live there, there could infact already be life on Mars or Europa.