I eagerly watched the first episode with unbridled anticipation. It was to be the dawn of old era in the Star Trek universe. The plot was chugging along with a few doses of intrigue and suddenly knee deep in vulcan nipples. Heck, at the time I was more than enthused with the scene. But, immediately after I'm left think "WTF!?"
Star Trek isn't supposed to be like the rest of mainstream survivor/fear factor smut, it's supposed to be alternate dimensions, time travel, omnipotent aliens, and intra-galactic battles brain candy. On the other hand, maybe the green babe in TOS was considered racy back in the 60's? Needless to say that was the first and last episode I fully watched. The rest only required 2 minutes to tell the plot sucked.
No point in doing that. They give you a receipt for anything they take
the poster mentioned there were other items missing besides what was claimed to be taken
"Hey guys. I thought I'd let you know, there's a bunch of cops searching my apartment right now, so if I end up missing by the end of the day, you'll know what happened. In that case, could you please call a lawyer for me?"
he was told he was not being arrested, why have a friend call a lawyer when he could do it himself?
ah the joy of having spent a few hours downloading all the service packs, critical updates, and upgrades until I'm met with a pleasing O - critical updates 0 - windows 2000 updates
system secure...yes?
no!
a week later that system was serving up the latest harry potter
I too have been at a dot com for about two years now, and it seems that every day a new "revenue stream" is thought up. As the head sys admin working with a skeleton IT team the responsibility is much greater while job satisfaction has tanked. Not that I cringe at a hard days work, but more and more of what I do is in support of the latest crazy scheme to generate another dollar. Lately I have been yearning of the pre dot com days I spent at an ivy league university where my pay was half what it is now, but the cutting edge technology and technical challenges were teeming. Now, what's it all for? Making my 30 something CE0 rich is not the mark I want to leave on society.
It's obvious this is named after Palermo Sicily, the mafia capital of the world. Basically this is a new tactic developed by the mob in an attempt to strong arm the scientists of the world into paying for protection against Asteroids.
so instead of destroying and recreating, what about just recreating? Seems like a simple way to create clones at will. Just like when Riker's (STNG) transport signal was split in two, thereby creating an exact copy of him.
got a 10% pay cut last November
been testing the waters for a new position ever since - no luck
2 years ago, a posting on monster.com would get me 20 phone calls and 30-40 emails in the first week alone. This time I have received a total of 4 emails and 2 phone calls in about 2 months.
on the plus side the dot-com i work for is still chuggin along
I sit on my ass 2 hours a day commuting, plus 9 hours staring at a monitor, the last thing I or most of the slashdot community needs is a way to further limit physical activity. Screw the segway and get a bike/rollerblades/a pair of sneakers.
I really wouldn't mind to tell you the truth. Not sure why everyone is so anti-government around here, but if this system would help better secure our society, whether it be a national firewall or face recognition system, I'd say give it a try. I know I can't rely on you to protect me and my family and the american way of life, that's why I'm thankful to have a government that is concerned with national security and a military to make the sacrifice that numbnuts like you wouldn't dream of making, except to bitch about not being able to connect to a site in denmark to download your porn.
Considering the fact that the DOD is a monster beauracracy with more security holes that swiss cheese, the task of pinning down info sec is monumental. The manpower required to really get the job would be 10 fold the proposed graduating class. As a former member of Air Force communications squadron, I cringe when thinking about the lack of sophistication involved in managing their networks. NT is embraced as the desktop OS of choice but so is it amongst a majority of large corporations. The difference is the backend, also NT based couple with Novell, or so it was 5 years ago. Network outages were common place, I remember one time email and internet access being down the entire day! I wasn't behind the scenes to give actual specifics, but I was close enough to say it was a two bit operation. Take into account that this sort of operation is found in every squadron (20 or so) on each base and we at the communication squadron were supposed to be the experts. Now take this scenario and apply it to the rest of the bases throughout the world and don't forget to factor in the Army, Navy, Marines, and you end up with a nightmare of a situation.
A little outdated are we?
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I must have read a story like this at least 4 times in the last year. Here's an example - http://hackensackhigh.org/light.html
Looks like one of the monkeys at/. was playing with his bannana
Now that the web has or is beginning to mature, we have lost all those idiotic sites that have been mentioned in the article, e.g. "Goldfish cam", "Cofee Pot cam", and so forth. The web used to be a place where novices from all over the world would put something up and say "hey look! I made a web page!", without the slightest care of its content. Hell, I must have put up 5 different sites in the last few years just because it was cool to make and send to friends. But, I haven't touched html or the like in the last year. Mainly because I really have nothing worthwhile to put up (except some baby pics).
Gone are the days of cruising the web just to find the "cool site of the day". Today the majority of internet use has some purpose - news, research, porn,....not necessarily in that order.
it's ridiculous people such yourself that started off this thread. You have a few years of UNIX experience behind you and becuase of this you feel this is great need to exercise your superiority over the average windows user. This all stems from a massive and widespread intellectual inferiority complex amongst the UNIX community most applicable to the beginner and intermediate users. An advanced user merely enjoys his trade and understands that it took years of hard work to get there and DOES NOT mock those who are still learning the intricacies of the OS (ideally). Newbies and intermediates say "hey look what I know that you don't, you suck!" Can't we all just get along?
this is what it's gonna take to get the planet's space programs out of the shitter and headed towards a bright bold future as a space faring species. Defense r&d has taken it as far as it can go we need the private sector to take part if I will be able to someday enroll in star fleet academy or at least my grand kid.
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I eagerly watched the first episode with unbridled anticipation. It was to be the dawn of old era in the Star Trek universe. The plot was chugging along with a few doses of intrigue and suddenly knee deep in vulcan nipples. Heck, at the time I was more than enthused with the scene. But, immediately after I'm left think "WTF!?"
Star Trek isn't supposed to be like the rest of mainstream survivor/fear factor smut, it's supposed to be alternate dimensions, time travel, omnipotent aliens, and intra-galactic battles brain candy. On the other hand, maybe the green babe in TOS was considered racy back in the 60's? Needless to say that was the first and last episode I fully watched. The rest only required 2 minutes to tell the plot sucked.
No point in doing that. They give you a receipt for anything they take
the poster mentioned there were other items missing besides what was claimed to be taken "Hey guys. I thought I'd let you know, there's a bunch of cops searching my apartment right now, so if I end up missing by the end of the day, you'll know what happened. In that case, could you please call a lawyer for me?"
he was told he was not being arrested, why have a friend call a lawyer when he could do it himself?
ah the joy of having spent a few hours downloading all the service packs, critical updates, and upgrades until I'm met with a pleasing
O - critical updates
0 - windows 2000 updates
system secure...yes?
no!
a week later that system was serving up the latest harry potter
this word does not exist at dictionary.com or websters online dictionary.
I too have been at a dot com for about two years now, and it seems that every day a new "revenue stream" is thought up. As the head sys admin working with a skeleton IT team the responsibility is much greater while job satisfaction has tanked. Not that I cringe at a hard days work, but more and more of what I do is in support of the latest crazy scheme to generate another dollar. Lately I have been yearning of the pre dot com days I spent at an ivy league university where my pay was half what it is now, but the cutting edge technology and technical challenges were teeming. Now, what's it all for? Making my 30 something CE0 rich is not the mark I want to leave on society.
It's obvious this is named after Palermo Sicily, the mafia capital of the world. Basically this is a new tactic developed by the mob in an attempt to strong arm the scientists of the world into paying for protection against Asteroids.
so instead of destroying and recreating, what about just recreating? Seems like a simple way to create clones at will. Just like when Riker's (STNG) transport signal was split in two, thereby creating an exact copy of him.
My question is why do we see Neo fighting when all he has to do is jump into an agent body and explode?
got a 10% pay cut last November been testing the waters for a new position ever since - no luck 2 years ago, a posting on monster.com would get me 20 phone calls and 30-40 emails in the first week alone. This time I have received a total of 4 emails and 2 phone calls in about 2 months. on the plus side the dot-com i work for is still chuggin along
I sit on my ass 2 hours a day commuting, plus 9 hours staring at a monitor, the last thing I or most of the slashdot community needs is a way to further limit physical activity. Screw the segway and get a bike/rollerblades/a pair of sneakers.
I really wouldn't mind to tell you the truth. Not sure why everyone is so anti-government around here, but if this system would help better secure our society, whether it be a national firewall or face recognition system, I'd say give it a try. I know I can't rely on you to protect me and my family and the american way of life, that's why I'm thankful to have a government that is concerned with national security and a military to make the sacrifice that numbnuts like you wouldn't dream of making, except to bitch about not being able to connect to a site in denmark to download your porn.
Considering the fact that the DOD is a monster beauracracy with more security holes that swiss cheese, the task of pinning down info sec is monumental. The manpower required to really get the job would be 10 fold the proposed graduating class. As a former member of Air Force communications squadron, I cringe when thinking about the lack of sophistication involved in managing their networks. NT is embraced as the desktop OS of choice but so is it amongst a majority of large corporations. The difference is the backend, also NT based couple with Novell, or so it was 5 years ago. Network outages were common place, I remember one time email and internet access being down the entire day! I wasn't behind the scenes to give actual specifics, but I was close enough to say it was a two bit operation. Take into account that this sort of operation is found in every squadron (20 or so) on each base and we at the communication squadron were supposed to be the experts. Now take this scenario and apply it to the rest of the bases throughout the world and don't forget to factor in the Army, Navy, Marines, and you end up with a nightmare of a situation.
I must have read a story like this at least 4 times in the last year. Here's an example - http://hackensackhigh.org/light.html Looks like one of the monkeys at /. was playing with his bannana
Now that the web has or is beginning to mature, we have lost all those idiotic sites that have been mentioned in the article, e.g. "Goldfish cam", "Cofee Pot cam", and so forth. The web used to be a place where novices from all over the world would put something up and say "hey look! I made a web page!", without the slightest care of its content. Hell, I must have put up 5 different sites in the last few years just because it was cool to make and send to friends. But, I haven't touched html or the like in the last year. Mainly because I really have nothing worthwhile to put up (except some baby pics). Gone are the days of cruising the web just to find the "cool site of the day". Today the majority of internet use has some purpose - news, research, porn,....not necessarily in that order.
it's ridiculous people such yourself that started off this thread. You have a few years of UNIX experience behind you and becuase of this you feel this is great need to exercise your superiority over the average windows user. This all stems from a massive and widespread intellectual inferiority complex amongst the UNIX community most applicable to the beginner and intermediate users. An advanced user merely enjoys his trade and understands that it took years of hard work to get there and DOES NOT mock those who are still learning the intricacies of the OS (ideally). Newbies and intermediates say "hey look what I know that you don't, you suck!" Can't we all just get along?
this is what it's gonna take to get the planet's space programs out of the shitter and headed towards a bright bold future as a space faring species. Defense r&d has taken it as far as it can go we need the private sector to take part if I will be able to someday enroll in star fleet academy or at least my grand kid.