I got the crazy idea from Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt... said the detail on the new map-linked satellite imagery is deliberately limited. "We cannot see your swing set, and we're not trying to,"
He did say "swing set"; you made up the "paedophile" part.
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" Is it any wonder they're still living like the fucking Flintstones in predominantly Muslim countries?"
Yeah, Singapore is like the least advanced country of all time!
Singapore has a Muslim minority, but most are Chinese.
In 1988 the Ministry of Community Development reported the religious distribution to be 28.3 percent Buddhist, 18.7 percent Christian, 17.6 percent no religion, 16 percent Islam, 13.4 percent Daoist, 9 percent Hindu, and 1.1 percent other religions (Sikhs, Parsis, Jews)
People so easily forget the days of autoexec.bat, config.sys and all the other config files you were once required to play with in pre Win 95 days.
How I wish Windows could be configured so simply. I had the same setup from DOS 3.1 on, cloned from machine to machine, upgraded to DOS 6.22 in place; it didn't get flakier as time went by, didn't have a registry that grew like cancer and got more and more screwed up with every day. And Win 3.1 was almost as stable, just keep backups of your ini files then look for changes and revert if anything went nuts.
To my interest, someone explained to me the other day that chopsticks originated not in Asia as most suspect but were invented by immigrants to American mining communities in the early 1800s
Bollocks. "While the precise origins of chopsticks are unknown (the first chopsticks may have been twigs used to spear a roast cooked over an open fire) they were definitely in use by the Shang dynasty (1766 BC - 1122 BC)."
If it takes 4 hours to totally clean off an severely infested PC, then they might as well get a new PC.
That's assuming it takes zero time for the (l)user to select, order, and then take delivery of, unpack, plug in and connect, then turn on, the PC; then click through all the EULAs, then set up his network, reinstall his apps....
It is not just "people". The article says that Tucker, the internet executive
How did this guy get quoted by anme anyway? Sounds like he just liked the idea of getting his name in the press, people do dumb humiliating things for that (eg, see any "reality" TV show). Anyway, he's probably getting his new PC paid for by his company, so any excuse to upgrade to something sexier will do. Though if he were serious about his stated reasons he'd be buying a Mac Mini.
You know what would be way cooler? Go to the hardware store and buy lead. It's really cheap, and with a half-life of 4.5 billion years
?? "Natural lead is a mixture of four stable isotopes: 204Pb (1.48%), 206Pb (23.6%), 207Pb (22.6%), and 208Pb (52.3%)." You were probably thinking of Uranium-238, which does have a half-life of 4.51 billion years.
I think it's more an excuse to update their PC. (Like getting a new BMW when the ash trays are full.) Possibly one reason people don't just wipe and reinstall is that many PCs now come with some weird OEM installer that uses files stored on the harddisk; if that's screwed you have to buy a new OS at retail, and for not much more you can get a new PC with an OEM Windows and repeat. One might suspect planned obsolescence. I might have expected a mention of the Mac mini here; but it seems like many abusive relationships, no matter how many times they beat you up you convince yourself that they've turned a new leaf and go back for more punishment rather than breaking away.
. Why has "wintel" been even more behind the curve when it comes to booting from alternate drives?
It's not Windows or Intel, but the BIOS; i.e. the mobo manufacturers. However, my last three PCs have had a "boot from CD" option in the BIOS, I thought that was a rather universal feature. And unlike Macs, which can be choosy about which brand of CDR drive you have, just about any self-installed CDR or CDRW will boot a PC. Thus the success of Knoppix.
I cannot figure out how to install Windows XP on my only computer capable of running it. Windows just blue-screens while trying to format the hard drive. I assume it needs drivers for my SATA chipset, since my computer is newer than XP SP2, but my PC doesn't have a floppy
See nLite, a method of customising Windows installers, that among other things lets you add your own drivers to the CD image. (You will need to prepare this on a PC running 2k or XP though.) There's a forum if you have any problems.
"Nigerian court has sentenced a woman to two and half years in jail after she pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the country's biggest e-mail scam case, the anti-fraud agency said on Saturday.
Amaka Anajemba, one of three suspects in a $242 million fraud involving a Brazilian bank, would return $48.5 million to the bank, hand over $5 million to the government and pay a fine of 2 million naira ($15,000), the agency said."
Which leaves almost $200 million unaccounted for.
If i were in the 419 business i'd seriously think about getting out.
I'd do two and a half years for $200 million, though maybe that was already recoved, as below:.
"The anti-fraud agency has arrested over 200 junk mail scam suspects since 2003. It says it has also confiscated property worth $200 million and secured 10 other convictions."
But "10 convictions"? I get that many 419 spams in two weeks.
The case in this article is a large-scale bank fraud, not the spam-based crap we all get. "Amaka Anajemba admitted helping her late husband to persuade an employee of a Brazilian bank to transfer millions of dollars into overseas accounts." Additionally, this all happened in 1998. Don't hold your breath for any relief from the 419 spam.
How many hot water heaters, air conditioners, and electric ovens run off a computer power cable?
The OP didn't say "computer power supply"; he actually said "bloody power supply". Sorry I'm not au fait with this technology, in my ignorance I assumed he was referring to mains power, as data centres and the like have backups (generators, etc) for.
for anyone else out there who doesn't know what a power supply is,
From that I guess you and the OP were talking about a COMPUTER power supply, not the household one that the ambiguity of his phrasing suggested to me. Try not to assume I'm completely stupid because I couldn't read his mind.
You might not be suprised to find that the floppy "article" is from Flexbeta.net, just like this "article". Can people please stop submitting this sort of rubbish?
It's perfectly fine for people to submit articles from anywhere; however the job of an editor is to winnow the wheat from the chaff. Not to post the first six stories in the queue and go back to playing video games.
Since your server is fucked and none of the usual mirrors have a complete copy, how about pasting the whole artilce here? Then we could abuse you for what you actually said.
I completely agree with you. Worst. Article. Ever.
That's a pretty broad claim to make. I liked this recent piece, a post by an anonymous high-schooler about how useless he thought floppies were, described as an "editorial". And there have been some completelyfalse stories published without apparently anyone bothering to read the linked articles through. But, yes, the vapidity index for this one is pretty high.
Did you ever stop to think that you're corrections of other peoples' miss-speling's is just as annoying to us
There are so many trolls and crap flooders and assorted monomaniacs here that I find it hard to believe mine significantly degrades your experience, and if it does, tough. You can make me a "foe" and give foes a -6 on your scoring; you'll never see me again.
NB -- I hardly ever make a post correcting another poster's typos and grammatical errors; life is too short. I make enough typos myself. I do feel that the editors of this site, who collect a cheque for doing this, should be held to a basic standard of literacy, and pointing out their failure to do so may prod them to do so (a faint hope, I know). My seven-year-old daughter would not get a passing grade if she wrote as carelessly as they do.
Why aren't the message times marked by the SMTP server itself?
They are; if you can look at all the headers on a mail message you'll see the arrival times as it hops from server to server. But the recipient normally only sees the "Date:" header, which is set by the mail client, and this is easily hacked, as TFA says.
Some related anecdotes:
I have a friend whose PC clock is about 20 minutes past, it's disconcerting to receive messages from the future, and weird when my reply is 10 minutes ahead of the question (hard to make sense of the mailbox later too). He ignores my pleas to get a simple NTP client.
A few months ago I found some of my messages were taking a very long time to get through to certain people. Getting them to bounce back the complete message showed their ISP had rejected my message temporarily (I forget the error number), which prompted my ISP's mail server to wait several hours before retrying. It turned out this was a braindead anti-spam measure, if any mail server sent "too many" messages" in a given period they were throttled. Of course, since my ISP is very large it was easy to trigger this with a spike in normal message traffic, let alone any rogue spammer.
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Read the names on the posts. I didn't call him a fool; he wasn't replying to me.
He did say "swing set"; you made up the "paedophile" part.
Yeah, Singapore is like the least advanced country of all time!
Singapore has a Muslim minority, but most are Chinese.
How I wish Windows could be configured so simply. I had the same setup from DOS 3.1 on, cloned from machine to machine, upgraded to DOS 6.22 in place; it didn't get flakier as time went by, didn't have a registry that grew like cancer and got more and more screwed up with every day. And Win 3.1 was almost as stable, just keep backups of your ini files then look for changes and revert if anything went nuts.
Bollocks. "While the precise origins of chopsticks are unknown (the first chopsticks may have been twigs used to spear a roast cooked over an open fire) they were definitely in use by the Shang dynasty (1766 BC - 1122 BC)."
That's assuming it takes zero time for the (l)user to select, order, and then take delivery of, unpack, plug in and connect, then turn on, the PC; then click through all the EULAs, then set up his network, reinstall his apps....
How did this guy get quoted by anme anyway? Sounds like he just liked the idea of getting his name in the press, people do dumb humiliating things for that (eg, see any "reality" TV show). Anyway, he's probably getting his new PC paid for by his company, so any excuse to upgrade to something sexier will do. Though if he were serious about his stated reasons he'd be buying a Mac Mini.
?? "Natural lead is a mixture of four stable isotopes: 204Pb (1.48%), 206Pb (23.6%), 207Pb (22.6%), and 208Pb (52.3%)." You were probably thinking of Uranium-238, which does have a half-life of 4.51 billion years.
I think it's more an excuse to update their PC. (Like getting a new BMW when the ash trays are full.) Possibly one reason people don't just wipe and reinstall is that many PCs now come with some weird OEM installer that uses files stored on the harddisk; if that's screwed you have to buy a new OS at retail, and for not much more you can get a new PC with an OEM Windows and repeat. One might suspect planned obsolescence. I might have expected a mention of the Mac mini here; but it seems like many abusive relationships, no matter how many times they beat you up you convince yourself that they've turned a new leaf and go back for more punishment rather than breaking away.
It's not Windows or Intel, but the BIOS; i.e. the mobo manufacturers. However, my last three PCs have had a "boot from CD" option in the BIOS, I thought that was a rather universal feature. And unlike Macs, which can be choosy about which brand of CDR drive you have, just about any self-installed CDR or CDRW will boot a PC. Thus the success of Knoppix.
See nLite, a method of customising Windows installers, that among other things lets you add your own drivers to the CD image. (You will need to prepare this on a PC running 2k or XP though.) There's a forum if you have any problems.
Probably too long.
Try Allofmp3.com. (See The Register's story.)
"Nigerian court has sentenced a woman to two and half years in jail after she pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the country's biggest e-mail scam case, the anti-fraud agency said on Saturday. Amaka Anajemba, one of three suspects in a $242 million fraud involving a Brazilian bank, would return $48.5 million to the bank, hand over $5 million to the government and pay a fine of 2 million naira ($15,000), the agency said."
Which leaves almost $200 million unaccounted for.
If i were in the 419 business i'd seriously think about getting out.
I'd do two and a half years for $200 million, though maybe that was already recoved, as below:.
"The anti-fraud agency has arrested over 200 junk mail scam suspects since 2003. It says it has also confiscated property worth $200 million and secured 10 other convictions."
But "10 convictions"? I get that many 419 spams in two weeks.
The case in this article is a large-scale bank fraud, not the spam-based crap we all get. "Amaka Anajemba admitted helping her late husband to persuade an employee of a Brazilian bank to transfer millions of dollars into overseas accounts." Additionally, this all happened in 1998. Don't hold your breath for any relief from the 419 spam.
The OP didn't say "computer power supply"; he actually said "bloody power supply". Sorry I'm not au fait with this technology, in my ignorance I assumed he was referring to mains power, as data centres and the like have backups (generators, etc) for.
From that I guess you and the OP were talking about a COMPUTER power supply, not the household one that the ambiguity of his phrasing suggested to me. Try not to assume I'm completely stupid because I couldn't read his mind.
And he did post it, here.
It's perfectly fine for people to submit articles from anywhere; however the job of an editor is to winnow the wheat from the chaff. Not to post the first six stories in the queue and go back to playing video games.
Becasue people would have things like hot water heaters, air-cons and electric ovens connected to them and drain them in a few seconds.
Since your server is fucked and none of the usual mirrors have a complete copy, how about pasting the whole artilce here? Then we could abuse you for what you actually said.
That's a pretty broad claim to make. I liked this recent piece, a post by an anonymous high-schooler about how useless he thought floppies were, described as an "editorial". And there have been some completely false stories published without apparently anyone bothering to read the linked articles through. But, yes, the vapidity index for this one is pretty high.
There are so many trolls and crap flooders and assorted monomaniacs here that I find it hard to believe mine significantly degrades your experience, and if it does, tough. You can make me a "foe" and give foes a -6 on your scoring; you'll never see me again.
NB -- I hardly ever make a post correcting another poster's typos and grammatical errors; life is too short. I make enough typos myself. I do feel that the editors of this site, who collect a cheque for doing this, should be held to a basic standard of literacy, and pointing out their failure to do so may prod them to do so (a faint hope, I know). My seven-year-old daughter would not get a passing grade if she wrote as carelessly as they do.
Sigh.
They are; if you can look at all the headers on a mail message you'll see the arrival times as it hops from server to server. But the recipient normally only sees the "Date:" header, which is set by the mail client, and this is easily hacked, as TFA says.
Some related anecdotes:
I have a friend whose PC clock is about 20 minutes past, it's disconcerting to receive messages from the future, and weird when my reply is 10 minutes ahead of the question (hard to make sense of the mailbox later too). He ignores my pleas to get a simple NTP client.
A few months ago I found some of my messages were taking a very long time to get through to certain people. Getting them to bounce back the complete message showed their ISP had rejected my message temporarily (I forget the error number), which prompted my ISP's mail server to wait several hours before retrying. It turned out this was a braindead anti-spam measure, if any mail server sent "too many" messages" in a given period they were throttled. Of course, since my ISP is very large it was easy to trigger this with a spike in normal message traffic, let alone any rogue spammer.