C'mon now, no more making fun of Windows for being buggy. That's like making fun of a retarded kid wearing a crash helmet. Sure, it's worth a laugh, but the laugh isn't socially acceptable. Keep it on the inside.
I resent that! Those little pillboxes are very handy when you have an aversion to overdosing. Especially in the programming/engineering world where your day is often filled with constant interruptions... nothing like going back to your desk and thinking "Hmm... did I take the red pill yet? Wait, did I already take it twice? Shit!"
My understanding is that 420 was chosen because that is the temperature at which marijuana ignites. But I can't find any links to back that up. *shrug* Kinda like the title Fahrenheit 451 was supposed to come from the temperature at which paper ignites.
That's just silly. A house is assumed to be private, unless you see a "Garage Sale" or "Auction Today" sign in the front yard. On the Internet there is no front yard, and no sign, just the general assumption that a computer on the Internet is there to communicate over the Internet. As far as I'm concerned, putting a server on the Internet is an invitation to knock on its door and say hello.
What if you had never heard of Yahoo? For example, you are from a country that just got Internet access. Yahoo is out there, just waiting for you to knock on the door so it can say hello, but it never actually invited you to knock. Should you be afraid to? Of course not. Yahoo wants nothing more than for you to stop by for a cup of tea.
You say "That's stupid, everybody knows Yahoo". Ok, make it something else. JoeSearchEngine, same story. You never saw a commercial or link for it, but you see it is on the Internet (you checked registered domain names, snooped network traffic, heard via word of mouth, etc.). Is it still ok to knock? How is this different from Mr. Third World querying port 80 on Yahoo?
Now expand that. You're using something besides the web, some application that uses a different port (or the web on a different port, whatever). Is it ok to query *that* port? I say yes. These servers have been placed on the Internet to communicate, but unfortunately they don't have the ability to hang the "Garage Sale" sign in the front yard. If they don't want to talk to you, they'll say "Go away" or flat out ignore you when you knock. That is the responsibility of the server admin. If the admin put up a server, and on port 7777 it says "Hey, c'mon in and enjoy the root!" then that's the admin's fault. Not the fault of the poor schmuck who knocked.
I will agree that if a port says "Go away" and the person keeps poking at that port, then the person poking should be poked right back (preferrably in the eye). But if your port says "Hi! Come in!" then that is your own problem.
St. Patrick's Day, a perfectly valid and socially acceptable excuse to get rip-roaring pissed, and you say it's *only* for the Irish? I'm sorry, please hand in your geek membership card. You aren't allowed to post here anymore.
That ain't a troll, it's Funny +1. Unless you're French and have no sense of humor, in which case it's Le Troll -0. Zero because the French never use force to change a situation.;)
A highly available, highly redundant data warehouse for storing customer information, product inventory, supplier status, and outstanding orders in a lightning fast database format with a user-friendly front-end, adding to worker productivity while decreasing maintenance downtime, thereby lowering total cost of ownership and increasing company profit.
However, you throw Linux at some white-trash spawned half-brained twits that are filing through our public education system, and they will be like "what the fuck is this?" and avoid computers altogether.
Good. Somebody has to work the McDonalds drive-thru.
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BOOTSY! GROOVE IS IN THE HEART BABY!
Ok, I'm better now. (At least I had the balls to post as myself and not AC.)
Sweet! Finally we'll have the technology to invade Canada!
C'mon now, no more making fun of Windows for being buggy. That's like making fun of a retarded kid wearing a crash helmet. Sure, it's worth a laugh, but the laugh isn't socially acceptable. Keep it on the inside.
Sure, it's neat to look at, but at the end of the day all you can really say is "Look where I stuck *MY* motherboard!"
Please Hazem, remember that you are posting on Slashdot. There is no room for a voice of reason here. ;)
I resent that! Those little pillboxes are very handy when you have an aversion to overdosing. Especially in the programming/engineering world where your day is often filled with constant interruptions... nothing like going back to your desk and thinking "Hmm... did I take the red pill yet? Wait, did I already take it twice? Shit!"
My understanding is that 420 was chosen because that is the temperature at which marijuana ignites. But I can't find any links to back that up. *shrug* Kinda like the title Fahrenheit 451 was supposed to come from the temperature at which paper ignites.
YMMV.
Remember kids, it's all fun and games until somebody's uncle pops a ventricle.
Then it's just fun.
Nope. A fragmented disk is what you get when you chuck your hard drive against a brick wall.
There's a sucker born every minute. ;)
That's just silly. A house is assumed to be private, unless you see a "Garage Sale" or "Auction Today" sign in the front yard. On the Internet there is no front yard, and no sign, just the general assumption that a computer on the Internet is there to communicate over the Internet. As far as I'm concerned, putting a server on the Internet is an invitation to knock on its door and say hello.
What if you had never heard of Yahoo? For example, you are from a country that just got Internet access. Yahoo is out there, just waiting for you to knock on the door so it can say hello, but it never actually invited you to knock. Should you be afraid to? Of course not. Yahoo wants nothing more than for you to stop by for a cup of tea.
You say "That's stupid, everybody knows Yahoo". Ok, make it something else. JoeSearchEngine, same story. You never saw a commercial or link for it, but you see it is on the Internet (you checked registered domain names, snooped network traffic, heard via word of mouth, etc.). Is it still ok to knock? How is this different from Mr. Third World querying port 80 on Yahoo?
Now expand that. You're using something besides the web, some application that uses a different port (or the web on a different port, whatever). Is it ok to query *that* port? I say yes. These servers have been placed on the Internet to communicate, but unfortunately they don't have the ability to hang the "Garage Sale" sign in the front yard. If they don't want to talk to you, they'll say "Go away" or flat out ignore you when you knock. That is the responsibility of the server admin. If the admin put up a server, and on port 7777 it says "Hey, c'mon in and enjoy the root!" then that's the admin's fault. Not the fault of the poor schmuck who knocked.
I will agree that if a port says "Go away" and the person keeps poking at that port, then the person poking should be poked right back (preferrably in the eye). But if your port says "Hi! Come in!" then that is your own problem.
St. Patrick's Day, a perfectly valid and socially acceptable excuse to get rip-roaring pissed, and you say it's *only* for the Irish? I'm sorry, please hand in your geek membership card. You aren't allowed to post here anymore.
That ain't a troll, it's Funny +1. Unless you're French and have no sense of humor, in which case it's Le Troll -0. Zero because the French never use force to change a situation. ;)
And here come the mods! *ducks*
You don't like butterscotch pudding?
JIHAD! KILL THE INFIDEL!
Damn, that was cheery. Couldn't have kept that last part to yourself? I think a few Slashdotters just hung themselves.
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If they'd been able to dial 9-1-1 faster they might have been saved. Unfortunately...
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What crazy person picked that color scheme? Bleah! I refuse to subject my eyes to such abuse.
Some people just don't understand that white is a perfectly acceptable background color.
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You're all wrong.
A highly available, highly redundant data warehouse for storing customer information, product inventory, supplier status, and outstanding orders in a lightning fast database format with a user-friendly front-end, adding to worker productivity while decreasing maintenance downtime, thereby lowering total cost of ownership and increasing company profit.
Nah, I changed my mind. Porn.
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Nic Rivers: "I'm pleased to meet you. My name's Nic."
Hillary Flammond: "Nic? What does that mean?"
Nic Rivers: "Oh, nothing. My dad thought of it while he was shaving."
(Ok, slightly bastardized...)
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See, and when we told Saddam he wouldn't have a pot to piss in he thought we were joking. ;)
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Ok, now THAT was funny. :)
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CARTMAN: What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody. Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
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However, you throw Linux at some white-trash spawned half-brained twits that are filing through our public education system, and they will be like "what the fuck is this?" and avoid computers altogether.
Good. Somebody has to work the McDonalds drive-thru.
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I passed a Foo on the way to work. He was driving too damn slow. "Foo!" I yelled at him. Then I passed a pointer to a Foo "Get out the way!"
Damn Foos.
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My left mouse button sends ctrl-alt-del. I double-click a lot.
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