Moderated as funny, but I know that I have learned more working through Linux from Scratch than any of my previous linux adventures on systems such as Mandrake or Debian. And the resulting system is Fast. No more pre-packaged distros for me! To get back on-topic, I wonder how many fledgling admins use RedHat support as a crutch, and how many systems will be left with failing security as a result of RedHat's withdrawl of support.
I was under the impression that the Honda "Cog" commercial wasn't released in the US was because the car which was being advertised was a UK-only model!
Anyway, I've seen it, and it's very impressive if you can stand the low-quality file from the Honda site.
You're the sysadmin, why not just delete it? After all, the employee can't complain about it without divulging the fact that he had illegal pictures on his computer.
Anti-aircraft going off above Saddam Hussein International Airport now. (At least in the US we wait until after a president is out of office or dead before we name public places for him, e.g. Reagan National Airport in DC.)
Sealand is actually based on an old anti-aircraft platform a few miles off the south-east coast of the UK. It's story is fascinating, and you can learn more at Sealandgov.com. They don't issue passports as far as I know, though there is the entirely virtual Republic of Lomar that does. A company called HavenCo is currently investing in Sealand, hoping to tap into a market for government jurisdiction-free hosting, co-location, etc.
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I agree. Spam is just another form of advertising that is perfectly legal.
However, it becomes illegal the moment the spammer attempts to bypass an obstacle put in place by the receiver for the purpose of blocking spam. If you are a door-to-door salesman, knocking on my front door is fine. But if the front door is locked or I'm not answering, it does not mean you can go through the rear bedroom window.
He also hunts for new ways to get around software that tries to filter out spam and to get people to open his e-mails.
The right to send spam ends the moment someone sets up the equivelent of a "No Trespassing" sign. To use an analogy, spamming a public, well-known email address is like walking to someone's front door, politely ringing the doorbell, and making a sales pitch to whoever answers the door. However, if the homeowner has set up a No-Trespassing sign, or has bolted his door shut, this does not mean the solicitor can walk around the house and enter through the back door, or crawl through the bedroom window. If the recepient has set up an email-blocking program or has otherwise expressed his desire to not receive solicitations, the spammers have lost their right to spam that person.
You're a movie producer. You need some automobiles for a scene in your movie. What do you do? You call up a local car dealer and have them send over some cars. You use the cars in the movie and you pay the car dealer. End of story. At no time are you required to make any payment to Ford or General Motors (the creators of the cars).
Now you need some music for your movie. You go to a local store, you buy a CD and use the music in your movie. Guess what, you're getting sued big time because you didn't pay the creator of the music. Despite the fact that you legitimately purchased and paid for the music, just as you paid for the automobiles.
Except that automobiles are intented for driving. CD's are purchased for that sound. Movies can produce sound, they cannot produce "you driving a car". That's all CD's do, make music, so by playing it in a movie, you've just taken what the cd was intented for for a single person and broadcasted to everyone watching the movie.
I loathe all this IP/Copyright crap, but I'm just pointing out just why auto-manufactures aren't bringing out the lawyers over this.
Some tech recently invented by Larry Fullerton could make this feasible. It uses pulses instead of continuous sine waves, and uses 1/1000 the power of sine transcievers. Fullerton's company Time Domain is working on building commercial products. Apparently it can support "almost unlimited" bandwidth. Now if only it was available.....
"By existing in the same time-space continuum as this license agreement, you automatically transfer entire ownership of your being, body and belongings to ^Evil^ Inc. You now exist to serve ^Evil^ Inc, and therefor must comply will all commands. You will like, love, and worship ^Evil^ Inc. Click 'OK' below to relay your coordinates to our 'New Slave Arrival Department' for immediate pickup."
Can you imagine the mess if different companies were to build and were able to charge for the highway system?
Actually, I can. Roads owned by private companies would be more efficient! After all, they can't have you using the competitor's side road because Interstate Foo is jammed with traffic, so it would be in their best interests to redesign the roads more efficiently.
Toll booths may sound like a bummer, but the Road Co.'s would realize this, developing new technology to speed things up. Inventions and such would be considered in most circles to be "Progress". Go figure.
And maybe you don't like tolls. Lots of people don't. So maybe they'd start using mass transportation (also privately owned), which leads to less pollution. It all balances out in a truely free trade economy.
This'll probrobly be labeled as off-topic, but I just can't stand people thinking the government can fix problems.
Although it is too late for the waste being stored at Yucca Mountain, we need to stop making more. ANY nuclear waste will take tens of thousands of years to decay to safe levels. Think about it! Human civilization has been around for Maybe 4000-5000 years. Think of all the political changes: The rise and fall of the Roman empire. The dark ages with feudal lords and serfs. Entire civilizations can span much less than a thousand years, let alone ten thousand.
Basically, one cannot expect the current political landscape to last for that long! Entire civilizations have mysteriously dissapeared less than a thousand years ago, and we don't know why. My point is that way before the waste is no longer radioactive, we may have forgotten that it is even there. THAT is a major safety hazard. Of course, we do have to deal with the waste we have already made, but I'm saying we shouldnt make more.
The fact that this technology prohibits playing the CD on DVD players will present a problem. People out buying new home theater systems these days often leave out the CD player simply because the DVD player already plays CD's! Makes sense! Think of all the unhappy people popping new Universal CD's into their new DVD home theater setup this Christmas:)
NASA out of business?! Impossible... After commercial space flight is proved pratical, I see NASA moving from space-flight to space-regulation, and becoming exactly like the FAA. Rescritions, laws, and regulations would soon be rampant, and nobody could build or launch anything without heavy government influence and a huge wad of cash.
A few years back a guy swam accross... He pushed a covered sled that had a bed, radio, GPS, etc... Took him about a month to get across. Sorry I dont have more info, does anybody remember this guy? He might be on the rowing team.
Wow.... everybody here seems to have cable television. Back when I was searching for a broadband provider, I was disheartened to find that you had to have cable television in order to have cable broadband.... $50 a month for net access + $20 for the bare minimum tv plan = $70. What's worse is that all the channels I'd get in that plan I already get with my dinky antenna. All my friends have 200+ channels, and guess what and there's nothing on:) I chose DSL and it works great. You couldn't pay me to use my modem again.
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Hey, a few of us are already living the drea-.... uh...... d-r-e-a-.... crap, where is that letter after 'L'?!
On the other hand, that would explain Ballmer...
Moderated as funny, but I know that I have learned more working through Linux from Scratch than any of my previous linux adventures on systems such as Mandrake or Debian. And the resulting system is Fast. No more pre-packaged distros for me! To get back on-topic, I wonder how many fledgling admins use RedHat support as a crutch, and how many systems will be left with failing security as a result of RedHat's withdrawl of support.
I was under the impression that the Honda "Cog" commercial wasn't released in the US was because the car which was being advertised was a UK-only model! Anyway, I've seen it, and it's very impressive if you can stand the low-quality file from the Honda site.
I think we can all agree that the real reason we geeks have invented this NOC stuff is so we can act like commanders of our own personal starships:
*beep beep beep*
Underling: "Sir, incoming connections are increasing..."
You: "What?! What is the nature of the increase?"
U: "Exponential!"
Y: "By the gods..... bring up all status displays, throttle incoming connections, make sure engineering has that backup DNS online!"
U: "Yes, sir!"
*fast forword to the NOC is dissarray, sparks flying, servers dying*
Engineering: "She canna hold much longer!"
Y: "That does it.... time for the last resort... ban all links coming from the reference slashdot.org, authorization omega 8 pi!"
Would it ruin anything if one watched these new animated eps without seeing *any* of the original series?
You're the sysadmin, why not just delete it? After all, the employee can't complain about it without divulging the fact that he had illegal pictures on his computer.
Then please explain what a recently commisioned aircraft carrier is doing with former President Bush's name.
Sealand is actually based on an old anti-aircraft platform a few miles off the south-east coast of the UK. It's story is fascinating, and you can learn more at Sealandgov.com. They don't issue passports as far as I know, though there is the entirely virtual Republic of Lomar that does. A company called HavenCo is currently investing in Sealand, hoping to tap into a market for government jurisdiction-free hosting, co-location, etc.
However, it becomes illegal the moment the spammer attempts to bypass an obstacle put in place by the receiver for the purpose of blocking spam. If you are a door-to-door salesman, knocking on my front door is fine. But if the front door is locked or I'm not answering, it does not mean you can go through the rear bedroom window.
I've seen the commercials for this. They actually call it "Internet that logs onto You." I almost did a spit-take when I heard it.
The right to send spam ends the moment someone sets up the equivelent of a "No Trespassing" sign. To use an analogy, spamming a public, well-known email address is like walking to someone's front door, politely ringing the doorbell, and making a sales pitch to whoever answers the door. However, if the homeowner has set up a No-Trespassing sign, or has bolted his door shut, this does not mean the solicitor can walk around the house and enter through the back door, or crawl through the bedroom window. If the recepient has set up an email-blocking program or has otherwise expressed his desire to not receive solicitations, the spammers have lost their right to spam that person.
Now you need some music for your movie. You go to a local store, you buy a CD and use the music in your movie. Guess what, you're getting sued big time because you didn't pay the creator of the music. Despite the fact that you legitimately purchased and paid for the music, just as you paid for the automobiles.
Except that automobiles are intented for driving. CD's are purchased for that sound. Movies can produce sound, they cannot produce "you driving a car". That's all CD's do, make music, so by playing it in a movie, you've just taken what the cd was intented for for a single person and broadcasted to everyone watching the movie.
I loathe all this IP/Copyright crap, but I'm just pointing out just why auto-manufactures aren't bringing out the lawyers over this.
Naw, that'll just validate your time zone to them, and before you know it, BAM, you've got ads for 'hot alien escorts' and the like:)
Some tech recently invented by Larry Fullerton could make this feasible. It uses pulses instead of continuous sine waves, and uses 1/1000 the power of sine transcievers. Fullerton's company Time Domain is working on building commercial products. Apparently it can support "almost unlimited" bandwidth. Now if only it was available.....
"By existing in the same time-space continuum as this license agreement, you automatically transfer entire ownership of your being, body and belongings to ^Evil^ Inc. You now exist to serve ^Evil^ Inc, and therefor must comply will all commands. You will like, love, and worship ^Evil^ Inc. Click 'OK' below to relay your coordinates to our 'New Slave Arrival Department' for immediate pickup."
Can you imagine the mess if different companies were to build and were able to charge for the highway system?
Actually, I can. Roads owned by private companies would be more efficient! After all, they can't have you using the competitor's side road because Interstate Foo is jammed with traffic, so it would be in their best interests to redesign the roads more efficiently.
Toll booths may sound like a bummer, but the Road Co.'s would realize this, developing new technology to speed things up. Inventions and such would be considered in most circles to be "Progress". Go figure.
And maybe you don't like tolls. Lots of people don't. So maybe they'd start using mass transportation (also privately owned), which leads to less pollution. It all balances out in a truely free trade economy.
This'll probrobly be labeled as off-topic, but I just can't stand people thinking the government can fix problems.
Although it is too late for the waste being stored at Yucca Mountain, we need to stop making more. ANY nuclear waste will take tens of thousands of years to decay to safe levels. Think about it! Human civilization has been around for Maybe 4000-5000 years. Think of all the political changes: The rise and fall of the Roman empire. The dark ages with feudal lords and serfs. Entire civilizations can span much less than a thousand years, let alone ten thousand. Basically, one cannot expect the current political landscape to last for that long! Entire civilizations have mysteriously dissapeared less than a thousand years ago, and we don't know why. My point is that way before the waste is no longer radioactive, we may have forgotten that it is even there. THAT is a major safety hazard. Of course, we do have to deal with the waste we have already made, but I'm saying we shouldnt make more.
Think of the possibilities! 50mb wireless backbone! And then, like said previously, set up omnidirectional antennas at each relay!
The fact that this technology prohibits playing the CD on DVD players will present a problem. People out buying new home theater systems these days often leave out the CD player simply because the DVD player already plays CD's! Makes sense! Think of all the unhappy people popping new Universal CD's into their new DVD home theater setup this Christmas:)
NASA out of business?! Impossible... After commercial space flight is proved pratical, I see NASA moving from space-flight to space-regulation, and becoming exactly like the FAA. Rescritions, laws, and regulations would soon be rampant, and nobody could build or launch anything without heavy government influence and a huge wad of cash.
A few years back a guy swam accross... He pushed a covered sled that had a bed, radio, GPS, etc... Took him about a month to get across. Sorry I dont have more info, does anybody remember this guy? He might be on the rowing team.
Wow.... everybody here seems to have cable television. Back when I was searching for a broadband provider, I was disheartened to find that you had to have cable television in order to have cable broadband.... $50 a month for net access + $20 for the bare minimum tv plan = $70. What's worse is that all the channels I'd get in that plan I already get with my dinky antenna. All my friends have 200+ channels, and guess what and there's nothing on:) I chose DSL and it works great. You couldn't pay me to use my modem again.