Weren't bin Laden and al-Queda still "good guys" when they trained Adid's men? Remember, that would have been back in 1991-2 or so, if not earlier. Back then, bin Laden was still a "freedom fighter" and a "hero".
I'm glad to finally see them finally protecting the CD logo. When I go to buy CDs I want to know that the profuct I'm buying is what I'm actually getting. IMO, a "CD" that won't play on any of my CD players but contains this logo is nothing less than deceptive and misleading advertising.
2002-01-18 21:50:48 Xbox emulator trojan confirmed (articles,security) (rejected)
Well...I tried to submit this as a story but it was rejected within 10 minutes. It seems that the Xbox "emulator" featured on Slashdot a few days back contains a trojan (though it must be said that it is relatively harmless).
The trojan in question is called Badcon and causes unpatched Win9x boxes to crash to the point of requiring a restart. Info and removal instructions can be found here
I've been reading/. for well over a year now and have never seen such a petty, small-minded display of chicanery on the part of the editors like this. This thread is a disgrace to a site that claims to be an open and user moderated forum. I know I'm burning a karma point by posting here but, like others here, I don't care since I feel the need to express my (logged in) opinion.
Shame on the/. editors for their juvenille behavior.
I forget all of the spyware that it uses but I do know that it uses Cydoor for caching ads locally. Adaware will detect all of the spyware modules Kazaa contains.
Not because of any difference in the clients (they're virtually identical and are both on the Fasttrack network) but because it doesn't contain the spyware that Kazaa does.
Like the article says, brown dwarves cannot be considered stars since they do not generate energy from a thermonuclear reaction. Having said that though, they DO give off more energy than they receive from outside sources, much like Jupiter does but on a far larger scale. A good primer site for brown dwarves can be found here .
Lastly, it is important to not confuse brown dwarves (almost stars) with white dwarves (dying stars).
I find it funny that Warcraft 3 made the list on the same day that beta test signups for WC3 are being accepted. Mind you, the site seems to be completely down at the moment.
I would go even further to say that Apple even encouraged this "scoop". Didn't (as others have already pointed out) Time also leak the Ginger/IT details? Isn't Steve Jobs a backer of Ginger's too? Something smells a little fishy here if you ask me.
It's probably just a marketing technique. Get Time to run the "leak" and freak out about it a little so people get caught up in the shitstorm that follows. A good fight, especially between a big company and a well known media publication keeps peoples' attention. This still keeps them thinking about the main story though, which is basically about selling the product.
How would a company that makes crappy software be expected to produce quality hardware?
I fail to see the correlation between the two entirely different beasts. Microsoft hardware is actually known for being some of the best around (mice, keyboards, joysticks). The RMA rate quoted in the article is around 1% which is definitely in line with the acceptable rate (would you rather buy a MS Intellimouse Explorer or an IBM Deskstar HDD?)
The whole issue in the article is the poor (outsourced) customer support. The only thing they seem to have done wrong here is pick lousy companies to offer support for their product.
Okay enough of that. I'll gladly admit that Sega's lack of diversity and creativity in content are what killed the Dreamcast,
Hrrmm...seems you either have a short memory as far as Sega is concerned or else you're just not familiar with their long and sordid history of dropping support for products way before they should. Witness SegaCD, 32X (3 whole months of support for that one!), and the Saturn.
Sega--always first out of the gate with a new system and the first to drop support. They were always just in it to make the quick bucks off of next gen hardware before the others got it out and then when the competition released theirs, they promptly dropped it and moved on to the next latest greatest thing. I owned a Genesis and got MANY hours of playtime out of it. After seeing what they did with the SegaCD and 32X my judgement told me not to go for a Saturn. My judgement was good.
Great idea for an optical scope but have you ever seen the size of the Arecibo dish in Puerto Rico?
They would be looking at building a dish perhaps as big as a few kilometres across.
I've seen the discussions on the Fasttrack forums about this problem. The creators have consistently denied knowledge that the programs were indeed spyware. My question: when the sales people from these spyware vendors were offering Kazaa et al money to include these programs in the clients, what did the Kazaa creators THINK the purpose of said programs were? It seems just a little too easy to claim total ignorance on this.
The ISS is hardly a stable or large enough platform for this technology, but I think your idea is in the right direction. Why not put one of these on the moon (aside from cost of course)? A few problems would have to be solved, namely power generation on the moon. Solar power, with a MUCH higher intensity than on earth's might do the trick.
This would be a long term (15-20 year) project. If the technology makes its way around maybe it could be an idea in the future.
I doubt they'll get very far with that much money, perhaps not even to the end of the maglev rail.
It's really sad what's happened over the years to the once mighty space program like the US had that was fuelled by imagination, both public and governmental. Now it's run by short-sighted penny pinching bureaucrats.
Scary, isn't it? The Taliban have won their real war: turning this world closer to a 1984-esque planet.
No, what's scary is that the brainwashed masses don't see that their own governments have already made 1984 a reality. Your belief that the Taliban are doing that is proof of your own ignorance. Don't get me wrong, I'm not flaming you. It's hard for anyone to know the truth when we're surrounded by so many lies. Here's somewhere you may want to start looking if you feel so inclined...
As well as what the first reply to your post said, the CRTC actually limited what cable/telcos can charge for residential broadband to $49.99/ month. If they ever want to charge more for the services (out of greed and/or necessity) they'll have to go to the CRTC to get the rate cap raised.
I routinely build many major wonders (and now minor wonders with Civ3). Not a week goes by where I don't build the Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens, the Sistine Chapel, the Manhattan Project etc.
In response to you and Greymalkin (above reply) it would seem that the astronomer does have it a bit wrong. Sun synchronous and geosynchronous (obviously) aren't the same thing. His description is of a sun synchronous orbit.
A satellite in geosynchronous orbit can only be one distance from the earth, that of its circumference (22,500 miles at the equator). At this distance the satellite orbits once every 24 hours, thus staying in the same apparent position in the sky.
With a geosynchronous orbit, it would be possible to get a steady video capture but the resolution would be measured in the kilometres, not centimetres.
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Weren't bin Laden and al-Queda still "good guys" when they trained Adid's men? Remember, that would have been back in 1991-2 or so, if not earlier. Back then, bin Laden was still a "freedom fighter" and a "hero".
I sure wish I could make it down to LA that weekend, but unfortunately I will be in Cancun for the whole of May :)
Oh well, I just hope that the West shows the East who's the baddest. Too bad I won't be there to help my team frag them.
I'm glad to finally see them finally protecting the CD logo. When I go to buy CDs I want to know that the profuct I'm buying is what I'm actually getting. IMO, a "CD" that won't play on any of my CD players but contains this logo is nothing less than deceptive and misleading advertising.
2002-01-18 21:50:48 Xbox emulator trojan confirmed (articles,security) (rejected)
Well...I tried to submit this as a story but it was rejected within 10 minutes. It seems that the Xbox "emulator" featured on Slashdot a few days back contains a trojan (though it must be said that it is relatively harmless).
The trojan in question is called Badcon and causes unpatched Win9x boxes to crash to the point of requiring a restart. Info and removal instructions can be found here
Well...so much for my karma.
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I've been reading /. for well over a year now and have never seen such a petty, small-minded display of chicanery on the part of the editors like this. This thread is a disgrace to a site that claims to be an open and user moderated forum. I know I'm burning a karma point by posting here but, like others here, I don't care since I feel the need to express my (logged in) opinion.
/. editors for their juvenille behavior.
Shame on the
I forget all of the spyware that it uses but I do know that it uses Cydoor for caching ads locally. Adaware will detect all of the spyware modules Kazaa contains.
Not because of any difference in the clients (they're virtually identical and are both on the Fasttrack network) but because it doesn't contain the spyware that Kazaa does.
Like the article says, brown dwarves cannot be considered stars since they do not generate energy from a thermonuclear reaction. Having said that though, they DO give off more energy than they receive from outside sources, much like Jupiter does but on a far larger scale. A good primer site for brown dwarves can be found here .
Lastly, it is important to not confuse brown dwarves (almost stars) with white dwarves (dying stars).
I find it funny that Warcraft 3 made the list on the same day that beta test signups for WC3 are being accepted. Mind you, the site seems to be completely down at the moment.
I would go even further to say that Apple even encouraged this "scoop". Didn't (as others have already pointed out) Time also leak the Ginger/IT details? Isn't Steve Jobs a backer of Ginger's too? Something smells a little fishy here if you ask me.
It's probably just a marketing technique. Get Time to run the "leak" and freak out about it a little so people get caught up in the shitstorm that follows. A good fight, especially between a big company and a well known media publication keeps peoples' attention. This still keeps them thinking about the main story though, which is basically about selling the product.
How would a company that makes crappy software be expected to produce quality hardware?
I fail to see the correlation between the two entirely different beasts.
Microsoft hardware is actually known for being some of the best around (mice, keyboards, joysticks). The RMA rate quoted in the article is around 1% which is definitely in line with the acceptable rate (would you rather buy a MS Intellimouse Explorer or an IBM Deskstar HDD?)
The whole issue in the article is the poor (outsourced) customer support. The only thing they seem to have done wrong here is pick lousy companies to offer support for their product.
Okay enough of that. I'll gladly admit that Sega's lack of diversity and creativity in content are what killed the Dreamcast,
Hrrmm...seems you either have a short memory as far as Sega is concerned or else you're just not familiar with their long and sordid history of dropping support for products way before they should. Witness SegaCD, 32X (3 whole months of support for that one!), and the Saturn. Sega--always first out of the gate with a new system and the first to drop support. They were always just in it to make the quick bucks off of next gen hardware before the others got it out and then when the competition released theirs, they promptly dropped it and moved on to the next latest greatest thing. I owned a Genesis and got MANY hours of playtime out of it. After seeing what they did with the SegaCD and 32X my judgement told me not to go for a Saturn. My judgement was good.
Great idea for an optical scope but have you ever seen the size of the Arecibo dish in Puerto Rico? They would be looking at building a dish perhaps as big as a few kilometres across.
I've seen the discussions on the Fasttrack forums about this problem. The creators have consistently denied knowledge that the programs were indeed spyware. My question: when the sales people from these spyware vendors were offering Kazaa et al money to include these programs in the clients, what did the Kazaa creators THINK the purpose of said programs were? It seems just a little too easy to claim total ignorance on this.
When you file your taxes this year take special note of the "Federal Individual Surtax". I think this should answer your question.
The ISS is hardly a stable or large enough platform for this technology, but I think your idea is in the right direction. Why not put one of these on the moon (aside from cost of course)? A few problems would have to be solved, namely power generation on the moon. Solar power, with a MUCH higher intensity than on earth's might do the trick.
This would be a long term (15-20 year) project. If the technology makes its way around maybe it could be an idea in the future.
I doubt they'll get very far with that much money, perhaps not even to the end of the maglev rail.
It's really sad what's happened over the years to the once mighty space program like the US had that was fuelled by imagination, both public and governmental. Now it's run by short-sighted penny pinching bureaucrats.
Not really, since you have to validate your choice after that by clicking on the "yup, I'm sure button".
Scary, isn't it? The Taliban have won their real war: turning this world closer to a 1984-esque planet.
No, what's scary is that the brainwashed masses don't see that their own governments have already made 1984 a reality. Your belief that the Taliban are doing that is proof of your own ignorance. Don't get me wrong, I'm not flaming you. It's hard for anyone to know the truth when we're surrounded by so many lies. Here's somewhere you may want to start looking if you feel so inclined...
As well as what the first reply to your post said, the CRTC actually limited what cable/telcos can charge for residential broadband to $49.99/ month. If they ever want to charge more for the services (out of greed and/or necessity) they'll have to go to the CRTC to get the rate cap raised.
English to Chinese to English again:
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I think the "universal translator" has a ways to go.
I routinely build many major wonders (and now minor wonders with Civ3). Not a week goes by where I don't build the Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens, the Sistine Chapel, the Manhattan Project etc.
You just have to know which games to play.
In response to you and Greymalkin (above reply) it would seem that the astronomer does have it a bit wrong. Sun synchronous and geosynchronous (obviously) aren't the same thing. His description is of a sun synchronous orbit.
A satellite in geosynchronous orbit can only be one distance from the earth, that of its circumference (22,500 miles at the equator). At this distance the satellite orbits once every 24 hours, thus staying in the same apparent position in the sky.
With a geosynchronous orbit, it would be possible to get a steady video capture but the resolution would be measured in the kilometres, not centimetres.
Aside from what's covered in the article, what possible applications can anyone see for this?
Nope. Tried it on IE6.0 and IE informs me that the file is of an unknown format or corrupted.