The modern slashdot nerd trembles in the presence of those ancient USENET nerds of old
A 300 pound slashdot weakling is easily flung aside by the 500 pound USENET god. Who at slashdot keeps taped archives of every post for the nerds of future generations? Truly those were nerds.
The Lord of the Rings Movie didn't really make me feel much. A lot of the effects were well done, and they obviously tried hard, but the characters didn't manage to move me. There was nothing there that made my think -- in contrast to the book -- and no really grand themes that stood out in the plot -- again in contrast to the book. I think the weak points would have been much more evident if the movie hadn't had such a wonderful established fantasy world to draw from. I guess the worst thing I can say about the movie is that I wasn't really captivated by it at any point during the showing.
They actually managed to restore the sight of a tadpole which had had its eye surgically removed. The new eye reacted to light a week later. The tadpole was later disected, and the researchers confirmed that the optic nerve had reattached itself.
I am sceptical of this working for more developmentally mature organisms, especially in adult mammals, however. The nerve reattachment is tricky, and there is other stuff besides. Nerve cells need to be trained early in development. There have been experiments on kittens, where one eye is sown shut after birth, and then allowed to open normally several weeks later. The kittens are always blind in that eye. Even if a human adult had sight in childhood, and lost his eyes later, I wonder if the nerve cells could be retrained for newly grown eyes.
In plain English, does this mean that the whole 'warning' by the FBI was FUD, plain and simple?
Whoever moded this as a troll is on crack. According to this story in The Register, the FBI warning was not correct, and the steps they advocated for fixing the security hole did nothing. How's that for FUD?
Okay, who works for the Global Linux Escalation Team? I'm imagining a set of MS techs in Star Wars Stormtrooper gear.
The sad part is the quote at the end.
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The article took five pages without going into much relevant detail.
At the end, he tells us that Daikatana flopped and Deus Ex was awesome, but fails to say why.
Deus Ex was an awesome game. I think that the first person shooter has a tremendous amount of potential to surpass its origins, and Deus Ex is a glimpse into the beginnings of that future.
There will always be money in p0rn. Don't say that all dot.coms are bust.
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The differences between American states are pretty great, and economic unity is hardly assured. But they do have a (more or less) soverign federal government which makes laws about interstate commerce. The EU does not yet have a counterpart.
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This probably won't happen in Europe because European countries have been integrating their economies over the last half decade. With common regulations, and free-flowing goods, the economies should grow (or shrink) together. As long as that's true things should work out.
In a perfect world you would be right. But not in reality. There is no way that, for example, Ireland is ever going to be synched up to the rest of Europe. The EU economies simply are not synched enough. The fact is that the EU doesn't have 'common regulations', and won't unless it get a far higher degree of political unity than appears probable. And any degree out-of-synchness from EU member states will be exacerbated by a common monetary policy. And then the Americans will have to come in and clean up like they always do.
There isn't too much reason to get a HDTV as far as broadcast channels go. But it sure makes DVDs look great. I'm surprised more slashdotters haven't mentioned it. Oh, I forgot, they're all running ripped VCDs;)
If a court orders Maytag refrigerators illegal, (Anthrax storage enablers) does that give Maytag the right to go into your house and smash them? Or to punch the self-destruct button they have hidden in their office?
Is software a good that is bought, or a service that can be discontinued?
Do you have a better indicator for life than water? What chemical should we be looking for?
Researchers don't believe that water is absolutely necessary for life. But is sure has facilitated our kind of life, and that is the only kind of life we know. So where should we start looking for extraterrestial life? In places with lots of silicon? Not likely. Where there is water seems to be a good place to start.
And that thing about discovering life and probably not recognizing it is bunk. The chances are actually very slim that we could'nt recognize it. Sure, we might think it's some sort of funny chemical reaction that needs investigation at first. But as soon as we know that there is reproduction with information being passed on, we know that it is life.
They still use the RC4 algorithm, but now they claim to be implementing it right.
Might actually keep the bad folk out if they can get the patches out to everybody.
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This is just an excuse for designers to make CPU's less efficent and more power hungry.
Imagine
Washington Post: Dec 13, 2018. Details are now emerging about the accident that irradiated much of Germany on Tuesday. Nothing is as yet confirmed, however, initial reports indicate that a heatsink was somehow removed from an AMD processor (PR rating 10,000,000). A bizzare terrorist group with the initials THG may have been involved. Containment was lost, and critical mass was reached almost immediately. AMD representatives have issued a statement in the wake of the carnage: "Obviously, they were using an improperly designed motherboard."
This probably saves MS some money. They are currently evangelizing passport as a central repository for user information on the net, and it doesn't make sense for MS to use two different formats for saving user information, one for gamezone and then passport on top of that. Saving money this way is exactly what they want passport to be used for. Now, I for one, would like the heyday of anonymous browsing to continue forever, but I forsee a future where you have fewer and fewer options available to you on the internet without giving up at least some user information.
[BLOCKQUOTE]And the PR is great. This guy is quite obviously doing something a huge number of people want to do, and he's doing something useful whilst he's there. Which is of course irrelevant, but true. Now the point is that he's not an idiot; he's likely to have a slant on what he sees there which is both different to the average selected astronaut, and useful. Clearly he's good at making money. [/BLOCKQUOTE][P]
Who cares what slant he has on what he sees? This is about wasting billions in US capital investment so the Russians can make a few million using the ISS as a hotel instead of a research facility. Sure, if I were this guy, I'd be doing the same thing. And if I could get the USAF to sell me a F-14 under the table for $50 bucks, I'd do that too. But it is graft either way. The people going up to the ISS should be selected based on who will perform the best science there. Anything else is misappropriation of taxpayer money. Of course, the Russians don't care, because it's really American taxpayer money. The Clinton administration used ISS for years as a cheap foreign aid package. I guess the Russians still view it that way.[/P]
This is not real space tourism. This is about Russians making a quick buck off of American tax money. We (and some other countries in less important spots on the earth's surface) spent billions in captial to build the ISS, and the Russians are wasting the investment by sending up tourists instead of scientists to perform experiments and astronauts to run the station. Sure the Russians make a few million, but only because the billions were spent by someone else.
If this were really about making space profitable, I'd be all for it. But its not profit, it's graft. It's like a supply seargent in the army selling stolen equipment, and then claiming when caught that he's doing his part to make war profitable.
Sure, these tourists will be trained, but does anyone think for a second that the person who slaps down a few million dollars for the ride can equal the performance of people who honestly competed for the posisitions?
Hardly. All the verification code for the update system is on the user side of the box. Fifteen minutes and a beer, and I'll reverse engineer it for you.
If the FBI wanted to get really snazzy they would go to your ISP and start monkeying with your internet connection. It should be a snap to take over windows on one of the automatic updates, without the user ever being the wiser. Or even do the same with one of McAffee's automatic updates. Could even be possible to do similar things with a Linux box.
And in the case where the user does not update his machine, well, there are plenty of holes to exploit then, anyway.
So, anyway, I want my FBI to work smarter, not harder.
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By your definition, a geek is a subset of the set of nerds. This still leaves my statements regrading USENET nerds valid.
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The modern slashdot nerd trembles in the presence of those ancient USENET nerds of old
A 300 pound slashdot weakling is easily flung aside by the 500 pound USENET god. Who at slashdot keeps taped archives of every post for the nerds of future generations? Truly those were nerds.
The Lord of the Rings Movie didn't really make me feel much. A lot of the effects were well done, and they obviously tried hard, but the characters didn't manage to move me. There was nothing there that made my think -- in contrast to the book -- and no really grand themes that stood out in the plot -- again in contrast to the book. I think the weak points would have been much more evident if the movie hadn't had such a wonderful established fantasy world to draw from. I guess the worst thing I can say about the movie is that I wasn't really captivated by it at any point during the showing.
They actually managed to restore the sight of a tadpole which had had its eye surgically removed. The new eye reacted to light a week later. The tadpole was later disected, and the researchers confirmed that the optic nerve had reattached itself.
I am sceptical of this working for more developmentally mature organisms, especially in adult mammals, however. The nerve reattachment is tricky, and there is other stuff besides. Nerve cells need to be trained early in development. There have been experiments on kittens, where one eye is sown shut after birth, and then allowed to open normally several weeks later. The kittens are always blind in that eye. Even if a human adult had sight in childhood, and lost his eyes later, I wonder if the nerve cells could be retrained for newly grown eyes.
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Capping out the system. Karma: 50
Jon Katz, Foe, -5. Priceless
How do you write a million lines of maintainable code in six months with 5 programmers in Silicon Valley and 50 in Turkey? Hint: You don't do it in C.
Okay, who works for the Global Linux Escalation Team? I'm imagining a set of MS techs in Star Wars Stormtrooper gear.
The sad part is the quote at the end.
The article took five pages without going into much relevant detail.
At the end, he tells us that Daikatana flopped and Deus Ex was awesome, but fails to say why.
Deus Ex was an awesome game. I think that the first person shooter has a tremendous amount of potential to surpass its origins, and Deus Ex is a glimpse into the beginnings of that future.
Not if we can't shut it down first!
Too late. I thought this would be pretty interesting, too.
There will always be money in p0rn. Don't say that all dot.coms are bust.
The differences between American states are pretty great, and economic unity is hardly assured. But they do have a (more or less) soverign federal government which makes laws about interstate commerce. The EU does not yet have a counterpart.
In a perfect world you would be right. But not in reality. There is no way that, for example, Ireland is ever going to be synched up to the rest of Europe. The EU economies simply are not synched enough. The fact is that the EU doesn't have 'common regulations', and won't unless it get a far higher degree of political unity than appears probable. And any degree out-of-synchness from EU member states will be exacerbated by a common monetary policy. And then the Americans will have to come in and clean up like they always do.
There isn't too much reason to get a HDTV as far as broadcast channels go. But it sure makes DVDs look great. I'm surprised more slashdotters haven't mentioned it. Oh, I forgot, they're all running ripped VCDs ;)
If a court orders Maytag refrigerators illegal, (Anthrax storage enablers) does that give Maytag the right to go into your house and smash them? Or to punch the self-destruct button they have hidden in their office? Is software a good that is bought, or a service that can be discontinued?
Do you have a better indicator for life than water? What chemical should we be looking for? Researchers don't believe that water is absolutely necessary for life. But is sure has facilitated our kind of life, and that is the only kind of life we know. So where should we start looking for extraterrestial life? In places with lots of silicon? Not likely. Where there is water seems to be a good place to start. And that thing about discovering life and probably not recognizing it is bunk. The chances are actually very slim that we could'nt recognize it. Sure, we might think it's some sort of funny chemical reaction that needs investigation at first. But as soon as we know that there is reproduction with information being passed on, we know that it is life.
They still use the RC4 algorithm, but now they claim to be implementing it right. Might actually keep the bad folk out if they can get the patches out to everybody.
This is just an excuse for designers to make CPU's less efficent and more power hungry.
ImagineWashington Post: Dec 13, 2018. Details are now emerging about the accident that irradiated much of Germany on Tuesday. Nothing is as yet confirmed, however, initial reports indicate that a heatsink was somehow removed from an AMD processor (PR rating 10,000,000). A bizzare terrorist group with the initials THG may have been involved. Containment was lost, and critical mass was reached almost immediately. AMD representatives have issued a statement in the wake of the carnage: "Obviously, they were using an improperly designed motherboard."
This probably saves MS some money. They are currently evangelizing passport as a central repository for user information on the net, and it doesn't make sense for MS to use two different formats for saving user information, one for gamezone and then passport on top of that. Saving money this way is exactly what they want passport to be used for. Now, I for one, would like the heyday of anonymous browsing to continue forever, but I forsee a future where you have fewer and fewer options available to you on the internet without giving up at least some user information.
I am also a self-declared candidate for this non-existent position for a yet to be agreed upon settlement.
If you were Bill Gates, how would you go about expanding your monopoly to true world domination?
Theologians work for centuries to finely craft their ideas about God.
And the best you can come up with is, 'He's the Mayor from Sim City.'
I hate the fact that scientific papers never say, "God did it. We don't have to bother with this anymore, it's just too complicated."
[BLOCKQUOTE]And the PR is great. This guy is quite obviously doing something a huge number of people want to do, and he's doing something useful whilst he's there. Which is of course irrelevant, but true. Now the point is that he's not an idiot; he's likely to have a slant on what he sees there which is both different to the average selected astronaut, and useful. Clearly he's good at making money. [/BLOCKQUOTE][P] Who cares what slant he has on what he sees? This is about wasting billions in US capital investment so the Russians can make a few million using the ISS as a hotel instead of a research facility. Sure, if I were this guy, I'd be doing the same thing. And if I could get the USAF to sell me a F-14 under the table for $50 bucks, I'd do that too. But it is graft either way. The people going up to the ISS should be selected based on who will perform the best science there. Anything else is misappropriation of taxpayer money. Of course, the Russians don't care, because it's really American taxpayer money. The Clinton administration used ISS for years as a cheap foreign aid package. I guess the Russians still view it that way.[/P]
This is not real space tourism. This is about Russians making a quick buck off of American tax money. We (and some other countries in less important spots on the earth's surface) spent billions in captial to build the ISS, and the Russians are wasting the investment by sending up tourists instead of scientists to perform experiments and astronauts to run the station. Sure the Russians make a few million, but only because the billions were spent by someone else. If this were really about making space profitable, I'd be all for it. But its not profit, it's graft. It's like a supply seargent in the army selling stolen equipment, and then claiming when caught that he's doing his part to make war profitable. Sure, these tourists will be trained, but does anyone think for a second that the person who slaps down a few million dollars for the ride can equal the performance of people who honestly competed for the posisitions?
Hardly. All the verification code for the update system is on the user side of the box. Fifteen minutes and a beer, and I'll reverse engineer it for you.
If the FBI wanted to get really snazzy they would go to your ISP and start monkeying with your internet connection. It should be a snap to take over windows on one of the automatic updates, without the user ever being the wiser. Or even do the same with one of McAffee's automatic updates. Could even be possible to do similar things with a Linux box. And in the case where the user does not update his machine, well, there are plenty of holes to exploit then, anyway. So, anyway, I want my FBI to work smarter, not harder.