At first I thought it was a dolphin jumping in front of the sun getting whacked in the ribs with a baseball bat. Or is it maybe just a combination of the two universal symbols of cooling - a dolphin holding a pickaxe?
Which is why it pays for the studio to release a poor-quality DivX weeks before release in the cinemas:D
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You also have to make the distinction between "stupid decisions" - and "stupid mistakes" - very different IMO
Also, where I live there is a really serious drug problem, and every day, several shops/people are robbed by junkies who use a bloody needle as their weapon - i.e. "gimme the cash or you're gonna have a very long, painful death and a fucking lonely one too."
Then there are people who get into drunken fights, scuffle a bit and wind up with another persons blood in their cuts, etc... etc... You aren't always presented with a choice, some people are just unlucky. No pulling the trigger on themselves, just going through a normal day and having something unfortunate happen.
Hmm, also I guess, I *want* my books to be new - don't most people in the working world? Sure we buy used cars, but how many of us can afford brand-spanking-new cars? (and if we could afford them with our disposable income, don't you think we'd all be driving new cars too?)
Students and the poor/unemployed have got just as much of a right to read as the rest of us (and your point above is what made me think of this - at the end of term are students going to keep all the books they don't need and buy brand new books for the next term?), it also strikes me that the used books are being displayed before the new books because maybe they get a lot less interest in the used stuff they sell and are *forcing* us to notice they "do 2nd hand stuff" every time we want to buy something.
Have authors actually noticed a significant drop in sales? Or is this really just some crazy crusade?
Anonymous Coward, huh? You've never even seen it. That much is evident from your comments about big eyes and a loose plot.
Anonymous Coward riling people up again? Jeez, seems to be he posts in *every* story, a hell of a lot too - I think it's time he started looking for a job.
The way I see it, some parts of Mars are a *lot* hotter *now* than where I live gets during summer (they're consistenly up at ~20 ***centigrade***!) and *I've* got liquid water:)
Seriously, it's not like it's too cold for water all over the planet, and from looking at the hubble pics I'm pretty convinced those clouds have got liquid in them. More stuff for your perusal though...
Big image, sorry... Look at the bottom though - this is by *far* the most convincing pic of a lake I've found yet.
More lakes, this time cropped appropriately:) (original nasa image is here
Oh look, a waterfall... I suppose that's not really liquid either:) (taken from same nasa image as above)
I had a link to the tech specs for the ships they were putting up too and I'm pissed that I've lost it because it had some pretty incriminating stuff on it (the colour cameras they've got up there just now don't 'do' blue IIRC) - I'm convinced there's liquid water up there right now and they're holding back on telling us...
And I can't believe those damn martians get hotter weather than me:/
I've used Redhat from version 5 to the most recent, the last 3 or 4 versions of Suse, and the last couple of Mandrake distros, every time they've been my 'secondary OS' to Windows, but I put Mandrake 8 on a few weeks ago and Windows came off the same day - Mandrake 8 is IMO the most convincing case for Linux as a desktop OS I've seen to date, only problem is it's a but fux0red with the iFeel mouse and GeForce 2 'out of the box', but that's nothing that can't be fixed with a bit of patching and a kernel upgrade.
I thought that too, but if you think about it, all the virus would have to do is analyse log files or wait for incoming CR attacks, then patch the *known* infected machines, and look at it this way, you've got a testbed of machines with 60 boxes in it, lets say each one sends out 10 CR attacks a second (only within the range of the 60 machines), that's 600 http requests a second, now if you introduce a counter-worm to one of those machines, you've not only reduced that number to 590, but within the next 6 seconds (or so), you've reduced it to 0 - explain to me how this increases the strain on bandwidth again please?:)
All you have to do then is tell the worm to wait like 4 hours, then pop up a message saying "patch me bitch!" then wait another 4 hours, check to see if it's patched and then self destruct if it is...
There was a very similar exploit out in 99, I only remember the year because there was a 'client' for it called NCX99 - I can't remember where, who or why, but I've still got NCX99 lying around somewhere, it used exactly the same technique, buffer overflow with junk characters, then arbitrary code (on an htx file though IIRC).
As far as I know, noone made a 'proper' self-replicating virus out of it though.
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At first I thought it was a dolphin jumping in front of the sun getting whacked in the ribs with a baseball bat. Or is it maybe just a combination of the two universal symbols of cooling - a dolphin holding a pickaxe?
Obscure.
Which is why it pays for the studio to release a poor-quality DivX weeks before release in the cinemas :D
You also have to make the distinction between "stupid decisions" - and "stupid mistakes" - very different IMO
Also, where I live there is a really serious drug problem, and every day, several shops/people are robbed by junkies who use a bloody needle as their weapon - i.e. "gimme the cash or you're gonna have a very long, painful death and a fucking lonely one too."
Then there are people who get into drunken fights, scuffle a bit and wind up with another persons blood in their cuts, etc... etc... You aren't always presented with a choice, some people are just unlucky. No pulling the trigger on themselves, just going through a normal day and having something unfortunate happen.
Hmm, also I guess, I *want* my books to be new - don't most people in the working world? Sure we buy used cars, but how many of us can afford brand-spanking-new cars? (and if we could afford them with our disposable income, don't you think we'd all be driving new cars too?)
Students and the poor/unemployed have got just as much of a right to read as the rest of us (and your point above is what made me think of this - at the end of term are students going to keep all the books they don't need and buy brand new books for the next term?), it also strikes me that the used books are being displayed before the new books because maybe they get a lot less interest in the used stuff they sell and are *forcing* us to notice they "do 2nd hand stuff" every time we want to buy something.
Have authors actually noticed a significant drop in sales? Or is this really just some crazy crusade?
Anonymous Coward riling people up again? Jeez, seems to be he posts in *every* story, a hell of a lot too - I think it's time he started looking for a job.
:)
Is there much point, I think the only files I can't play with Xine+plenty o' plugins are wma's - and do I really want to be able to?
The way I see it, some parts of Mars are a *lot* hotter *now* than where I live gets during summer (they're consistenly up at ~20 ***centigrade***!) and *I've* got liquid water :)
:) (original nasa image is here
:) (taken from same nasa image as above)
:/
Seriously, it's not like it's too cold for water all over the planet, and from looking at the hubble pics I'm pretty convinced those clouds have got liquid in them. More stuff for your perusal though...
Big image, sorry... Look at the bottom though - this is by *far* the most convincing pic of a lake I've found yet.
More lakes, this time cropped appropriately
Oh look, a waterfall... I suppose that's not really liquid either
I had a link to the tech specs for the ships they were putting up too and I'm pissed that I've lost it because it had some pretty incriminating stuff on it (the colour cameras they've got up there just now don't 'do' blue IIRC) - I'm convinced there's liquid water up there right now and they're holding back on telling us...
And I can't believe those damn martians get hotter weather than me
I've used Redhat from version 5 to the most recent, the last 3 or 4 versions of Suse, and the last couple of Mandrake distros, every time they've been my 'secondary OS' to Windows, but I put Mandrake 8 on a few weeks ago and Windows came off the same day - Mandrake 8 is IMO the most convincing case for Linux as a desktop OS I've seen to date, only problem is it's a but fux0red with the iFeel mouse and GeForce 2 'out of the box', but that's nothing that can't be fixed with a bit of patching and a kernel upgrade.
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I thought that too, but if you think about it, all the virus would have to do is analyse log files or wait for incoming CR attacks, then patch the *known* infected machines, and look at it this way, you've got a testbed of machines with 60 boxes in it, lets say each one sends out 10 CR attacks a second (only within the range of the 60 machines), that's 600 http requests a second, now if you introduce a counter-worm to one of those machines, you've not only reduced that number to 590, but within the next 6 seconds (or so), you've reduced it to 0 - explain to me how this increases the strain on bandwidth again please? :)
All you have to do then is tell the worm to wait like 4 hours, then pop up a message saying "patch me bitch!" then wait another 4 hours, check to see if it's patched and then self destruct if it is...
Jado
http://www.jado.org
There was a very similar exploit out in 99, I only remember the year because there was a 'client' for it called NCX99 - I can't remember where, who or why, but I've still got NCX99 lying around somewhere, it used exactly the same technique, buffer overflow with junk characters, then arbitrary code (on an htx file though IIRC).
As far as I know, noone made a 'proper' self-replicating virus out of it though.
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Jado
http://www.jado.org