"There's no way that Comcast can require users of their cable Internet services to use cable modems provided by them. The FCC simply doesn't allow that..."
Even if that were the case, is the FCC going to force Comcast to provide every user with exactly the same quality of service regardless of what kind of modem they use? Somehow I doubt that.
"Oh, you are only getting 64 kilobits of bandwidth and can't connect to any site outside of our domain? And the last eighteen people in our tech support group you complained to had no clue what you were talking about? That's probably because your cable modem doesn't support the 4LOM protocol. You'll need to either buy a supported modem from us or just wait until we have a chance to upgrade the equipment in your area. It shouldn't take more than a few years. Thank you, and don't ever call me again."
It's even older than that. Going back to some time around 1950 some nutjob named J. R. R. Tolkien was writing about how evil, greedy, corrupt, industrialized nations were at war with the peaceful, kind, gentle, treehuging fairie creatures who lived in harmony with nature.
And you know what? He didn't invent the idea either.
Carl Sagan put it best: "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
Being persecuted for your beliefs doesn't make them right. Sometimes, it just means that you really are a crackpot and that the other children are right to laugh at you.
[...] most importantly, once the patch was released, the exploit was released the very next day. This wasn't a coincidence where the exploiters just missed having a zero-day exploit. If the patch had been released a week earlier, the worm also would have come out a week earlier.
He's arguing that they should slow down the patch cycle because all exploits come from reverse engineering patches. Slow down the patches, and you slow down the exploits.
Because, you know, nobody ever figures these things out on their own. It sure is a good thing we live in a world where exploits are never found in the wild before a nice, safe, 100% effective patch is released to counter them.
No, but in keeping with the traditions started by other Skiffy channel productions they will be replacing Speaker to Animals with a sexy female robot.
Nessus will be replaced by a sexy female alien. You will be able to tell she is an alien because she has a ridge on her forehead and very large breasts.
In an interesting plot twist, Louis Wu will be replaced by a cigar smoking, sexy female explorer.
The character of Teela Brown will be cut from this version entirely. Lucky her.
The Lying Bastard will be replaced with a large blue Police Box. None of the characters will comment on this, and hopefully nobody watching will notice.
Aside from that they will be completely faithful to the original.
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"The same old discussion, with no implementation in site."
Site (n)
Etymology: Middle English, place, position, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin situs, from sinere to leave, allow
1 a : the spatial location of an actual or planned structure or set of structures (as a building, town, or monuments) b : a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by a building
2 a : the place, scene, or point of something b : one or more Internet addresses at which an individual or organization provides information to others often including links to other locations where related information may be found
Sight (n)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gesiht faculty or act of sight, thing seen; akin to Old High German gisiht sight, Old English sEon to see
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6 a : a perception of an object by or as if by the eye "never lost sight of the objective" b : the range of vision "was nowhere in sight"
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"Dragon Pants" is an epic that develops multiple plot lines that can be read in any order based on what books you read after the first 3. Name one other serial novel with that feature.
That sounds like Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time". After the first few books they were all the same anyway.
It used to be that you had to use email worms to conscript people's PCs into your private army of DDoS zombies. By packaging the trojan and calling it a security product you can avoid all that hassle.
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Even if that were the case, is the FCC going to force Comcast to provide every user with exactly the same quality of service regardless of what kind of modem they use? Somehow I doubt that.
"Oh, you are only getting 64 kilobits of bandwidth and can't connect to any site outside of our domain? And the last eighteen people in our tech support group you complained to had no clue what you were talking about? That's probably because your cable modem doesn't support the 4LOM protocol. You'll need to either buy a supported modem from us or just wait until we have a chance to upgrade the equipment in your area. It shouldn't take more than a few years. Thank you, and don't ever call me again."
Welcome to Slashdot, where reading comprehension is optional.
And you know what? He didn't invent the idea either.
Carl Sagan put it best: "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
Being persecuted for your beliefs doesn't make them right. Sometimes, it just means that you really are a crackpot and that the other children are right to laugh at you.
A story about a chandelier which displays text messages has been up for almost twenty minutes, and not a single "All your base..." joke has gone up?
Is this still Slashdot?
That's true, but you just can't go wrong with a redneck tree.
Shouldn't we have slashdot2 first?
Having all 100+ conversations being "Hey, guess where I'm calling you from!" and "Can you hear me now?" would be even worse.
He's arguing that they should slow down the patch cycle because all exploits come from reverse engineering patches. Slow down the patches, and you slow down the exploits.
Because, you know, nobody ever figures these things out on their own. It sure is a good thing we live in a world where exploits are never found in the wild before a nice, safe, 100% effective patch is released to counter them.
Wow, that's the same combination I have on my luggage.
No, but in keeping with the traditions started by other Skiffy channel productions they will be replacing Speaker to Animals with a sexy female robot.
Nessus will be replaced by a sexy female alien. You will be able to tell she is an alien because she has a ridge on her forehead and very large breasts.
In an interesting plot twist, Louis Wu will be replaced by a cigar smoking, sexy female explorer.
The character of Teela Brown will be cut from this version entirely. Lucky her.
The Lying Bastard will be replaced with a large blue Police Box. None of the characters will comment on this, and hopefully nobody watching will notice.
Aside from that they will be completely faithful to the original.
What makes me even sadder is that we can look forward to a duplicate of this story tomorrow.
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have the right to be speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning.
If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense.
You have the right to receive exciting new offers from spamvertise.com.
If you choose to opt out of our mailing list, your user preferences will be reset some time in the future.
Site (n)
Etymology: Middle English, place, position, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin situs, from sinere to leave, allow
1 a : the spatial location of an actual or planned structure or set of structures (as a building, town, or monuments) b : a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by a building
2 a : the place, scene, or point of something b : one or more Internet addresses at which an individual or organization provides information to others often including links to other locations where related information may be found
Sight (n)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gesiht faculty or act of sight, thing seen; akin to Old High German gisiht sight, Old English sEon to see
[... other definitions elided...]
6 a : a perception of an object by or as if by the eye "never lost sight of the objective" b : the range of vision "was nowhere in sight"
But now it's available in flavours other than just "Poon".
Most asteroids come in dull earthy tones, so I don't thinkg you're in much danger or being hit by a rouge one.
I'm not sure if you know this, but most genuine watches go all the way up to twelve.
The "Make $3000 a month using Adwords" link looks like the closest thing to what we were searching for.
I wonder how long it will take for my Adword to make it to the top of the list and people to start sending me tons of money...
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So I guess "the most annoying habit of lame-ass RPGers" would be "interacting with other people".
And there was only one sequel to Alien. And only one Highlander.
Watching them on the Sci-Fi channel can do that too.
That sounds like Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time". After the first few books they were all the same anyway.
It used to be that you had to use email worms to conscript people's PCs into your private army of DDoS zombies. By packaging the trojan and calling it a security product you can avoid all that hassle.