I work at a decent sized regional ISP. If a customer is disrupting the network with blatantly viral traffic (like tens of thousands of simultaneous SMTP connections) we shut them off and have tech support walk them through disinfecting their PC. The exception is if they also have VOIP through us since we don't want to be in the position of having cut off someone's only link to 911.
The network engineers don't sit around all day looking for infected boxes, but if performance issues are traced to an infected customer they definitely get cut off.
There doesn't need to be a Wikipedia article on every internet meme some stoned freshman come up with. Urban Dictionary and Encyclopedia Dramatica have that market covered nicely. I agree that Wikipedia sometimes errs on the side of "delete first and ask questions later", but some YouTube video where a guy sits there saying "bitch" for 10 minutes isn't even a little notable (even if it is a damn funny video).
Yeah I have to call bullshit on this guy. My girlfriend just had a couple cavities filled, and it cost less than $200 (we live in Boston). Most of which was covered by insurance. Not sure what insurance he has that costs hundreds of dollars for the co-pay, but he should look into changing providers...
I do agree that our healthcare system needs a lot of work, but this particular story seems pretty ridiculous.
I took the post to mean he was Venezuelan, and that his countrymen wanted to give Chavez the boot. Not that the US govt is trying to forcibly remove him (as much as I'm sure they'd like to).
I know this is Slashdot and all, but the article summary is grossly misleading. This is a public newsgroup. A random person, not affiliated with Mozilla, posted a message saying "hey, you guys should make Mozilla into an OS!!"
Mike Beltzner and Stuart Parmenter, who actually work for Mozilla, respond by saying "no, that idea actually sucks".
Somehow, this makes it onto Slashdot as "ZOMG Mozilla is making an os CONFIRMED!!!!!111oneeleventy!!11" Please stop spreading ridiculous, baseless claims.
Out of curiosity, why the pre-wetted bit? Being an unwashed American heathen, I've not heard of that one. I do enjoy Good Beer®, so I'm always looking for tips.
In my limited sample, the first round of Macbook Pros was pretty junky. We bought about 5 of them for the developers here, and they all get REALLY hot, one randomly had all the fans fail, and another had to have a stick of bad RAM swapped out.
Fast forward about 9 months, and we have a few new developers. The senior devs passed their first-gen Macbook Pros onto the new guys, and got the updated Core 2 Duo models. So far, these have been leaps and bounds better than the initial rev. Quite cool and stable, none has had to be shipped back. Apple definitely seems to have listened to the outcry about the MBP's shoddiness, and has taken care of most if not all of the problems.
Hot compared to who? Tubgirl? I don't have anything to go on except that pic at the top of the page you linked, but yowza, that's not my idea of "total babe".
The closest I've found is Dia, but frankly it's not ready for non-techie users yet. It suffers from GIMP syndrome, where each palette of widgets is its own window in the taskbar, commands have non-standard names for no good reason, etc. We're on a tight IT budget so I tried to win over the couple of users who were asking for Visio, but Dia wasn't up to it and we had to bite the bullet and buy some Visio licenses. If someone turned a couple of UI and process engineers loose on Dia for a while it'd probably be a great niche product.
>Is that still there? I heard it was having difficulty. It was awesome.
Apparently not. Which is too bad; I remember going there several times as a kid, too, and loving it. I hadn't thought about it in a long time, though now I actually live fairly near where it used to be. Looks like it shut down in '99.
No, the commuter rail (purple) still runs. Some parts of the subway have been scaled back, though. And the "Silver Line", which was initially supposed to be a new subway line with temporary busing, has become permanently bus-only. For all its flaws, the T is still one of the better mass-transit systems in America. But I think that's saying more about how shitty other places are doing--it's still not that hot.
Apparently the developer who was working on this feature got reassigned to help make Firefox 2.0 happen. Hopefully he or another enterprising hacker will be able to pick this up now, although it's probably too late to make TB 2.0 at this stage.
Bug 297379 has the last working patch, but PLEASE resist the urge to make any "ZOMG thundarburd NEEDS this feature or it's useless" comments.
For what it's worth, there's an open feature request for this in Bugzilla, if you would like to track its progress. But for the love of God, don't go spamming it with more "me too" messages. It already has more than enough. There's also mention of an extension that helps with this.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25473 9
As with the kernel bugs project, Apple will be given no advance notice with the Month of Apple bugs, LMH said in an interview conducted over instant message.
So yeah, assuming Apple hasn't already found these bugs independently, they are 0-day and previously undisclosed.
I think they are VERY, VERY slowly changing it, but at my University it was your student ID number. You could go through an overly complicated process to change it to a randomly assigned number, but that was 100% guaranteed to screw up your financial aid, course registrations, etc. so no one did it. Absolutely moronic system, but that's kinda the school's hallmark.
Completely off-topic, but I wholeheartedly agree with your signature. When was the last time you saw a story whose tag set didn't have at least 2 of these memes: "fud notfud, yes no maybe, itsatrap, tubes"? It's become the new Beowulf / ??? Profit / Natalie Portman craze.
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Except 5.3 is the latest version, so that doesn't make sense.
I work at a decent sized regional ISP. If a customer is disrupting the network with blatantly viral traffic (like tens of thousands of simultaneous SMTP connections) we shut them off and have tech support walk them through disinfecting their PC. The exception is if they also have VOIP through us since we don't want to be in the position of having cut off someone's only link to 911. The network engineers don't sit around all day looking for infected boxes, but if performance issues are traced to an infected customer they definitely get cut off.
Then file a bug and attach the page as a testcase.
There doesn't need to be a Wikipedia article on every internet meme some stoned freshman come up with. Urban Dictionary and Encyclopedia Dramatica have that market covered nicely. I agree that Wikipedia sometimes errs on the side of "delete first and ask questions later", but some YouTube video where a guy sits there saying "bitch" for 10 minutes isn't even a little notable (even if it is a damn funny video).
Not nearly as aweesome, but this thing exists...
Yeah I have to call bullshit on this guy. My girlfriend just had a couple cavities filled, and it cost less than $200 (we live in Boston). Most of which was covered by insurance. Not sure what insurance he has that costs hundreds of dollars for the co-pay, but he should look into changing providers...
I do agree that our healthcare system needs a lot of work, but this particular story seems pretty ridiculous.
I took the post to mean he was Venezuelan, and that his countrymen wanted to give Chavez the boot. Not that the US govt is trying to forcibly remove him (as much as I'm sure they'd like to).
_Completely_ OT, but you have my new favorite Slashdot nickname. H4x0r Jim Duggan? Genius :)
I meant Simon Paquet, not Stuart Parmenter. The rest of my post stands.
I know this is Slashdot and all, but the article summary is grossly misleading. This is a public newsgroup. A random person, not affiliated with Mozilla, posted a message saying "hey, you guys should make Mozilla into an OS!!"
Mike Beltzner and Stuart Parmenter, who actually work for Mozilla, respond by saying "no, that idea actually sucks".
Somehow, this makes it onto Slashdot as "ZOMG Mozilla is making an os CONFIRMED!!!!!111oneeleventy!!11" Please stop spreading ridiculous, baseless claims.
Out of curiosity, why the pre-wetted bit? Being an unwashed American heathen, I've not heard of that one. I do enjoy Good Beer®, so I'm always looking for tips.
In my limited sample, the first round of Macbook Pros was pretty junky. We bought about 5 of them for the developers here, and they all get REALLY hot, one randomly had all the fans fail, and another had to have a stick of bad RAM swapped out.
Fast forward about 9 months, and we have a few new developers. The senior devs passed their first-gen Macbook Pros onto the new guys, and got the updated Core 2 Duo models. So far, these have been leaps and bounds better than the initial rev. Quite cool and stable, none has had to be shipped back. Apple definitely seems to have listened to the outcry about the MBP's shoddiness, and has taken care of most if not all of the problems.
Hot compared to who? Tubgirl? I don't have anything to go on except that pic at the top of the page you linked, but yowza, that's not my idea of "total babe".
The closest I've found is Dia, but frankly it's not ready for non-techie users yet. It suffers from GIMP syndrome, where each palette of widgets is its own window in the taskbar, commands have non-standard names for no good reason, etc. We're on a tight IT budget so I tried to win over the couple of users who were asking for Visio, but Dia wasn't up to it and we had to bite the bullet and buy some Visio licenses. If someone turned a couple of UI and process engineers loose on Dia for a while it'd probably be a great niche product.
FYI, the study you're referring to was the Milgram Experiment and it raises all sorts of interesting ethical questions for researchers.
>Is that still there? I heard it was having difficulty. It was awesome.
Apparently not. Which is too bad; I remember going there several times as a kid, too, and loving it. I hadn't thought about it in a long time, though now I actually live fairly near where it used to be. Looks like it shut down in '99.
No, the commuter rail (purple) still runs. Some parts of the subway have been scaled back, though. And the "Silver Line", which was initially supposed to be a new subway line with temporary busing, has become permanently bus-only. For all its flaws, the T is still one of the better mass-transit systems in America. But I think that's saying more about how shitty other places are doing--it's still not that hot.
Apparently the developer who was working on this feature got reassigned to help make Firefox 2.0 happen. Hopefully he or another enterprising hacker will be able to pick this up now, although it's probably too late to make TB 2.0 at this stage.
Bug 297379 has the last working patch, but PLEASE resist the urge to make any "ZOMG thundarburd NEEDS this feature or it's useless" comments.
For what it's worth, there's an open feature request for this in Bugzilla, if you would like to track its progress. But for the love of God, don't go spamming it with more "me too" messages. It already has more than enough. There's also mention of an extension that helps with this. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25473 9
It froze mine too...on Windows XP. WTF? Why should WinXP care about Quartz? Perhaps I'll have to file a bug.
Some do. Mozilla, for one. I imagine there are others out there too.
So yeah, assuming Apple hasn't already found these bugs independently, they are 0-day and previously undisclosed.
Have a read over this article in The Atlantic. It pretty much describes me to a T, and it's reassuring to know I'm not the only one :).
I think they are VERY, VERY slowly changing it, but at my University it was your student ID number. You could go through an overly complicated process to change it to a randomly assigned number, but that was 100% guaranteed to screw up your financial aid, course registrations, etc. so no one did it. Absolutely moronic system, but that's kinda the school's hallmark.
Completely off-topic, but I wholeheartedly agree with your signature. When was the last time you saw a story whose tag set didn't have at least 2 of these memes: "fud notfud, yes no maybe, itsatrap, tubes"? It's become the new Beowulf / ??? Profit / Natalie Portman craze.