Normally, a true "AOL" brand broadband customer will be tunneled through AOL, otherwise it's parental controls (part of it's selling point) wouldn't work. So they'd show up as being in AOL's network space.
A person who's running AOL on another ISP's network and using the AOL client as a simple TCP app wouldn't (and shouldn't) be considered an AOL zombie for this study, otherwise the zombie would be counted twice.
You're absolutely right that overall, from a moral and legal standpoint, striking back at people who try to hack you by hacking them back is wrong in just about the entire civilized world. But there's a part of the equation that's missing here. It's wrong because there's suppossed to enforcement of that due process on the side of the government, and we don't get it on teh intarweb.
Have you ever tried to call your local police when your box gets hacked? Pointless. You're left feeling frustrated and powerless. The security experts just tell you to harden your defenses, but that's like telling you to put a moat and wall around your house (and builds a business for same said security experts). You're totally on your own out there when you should have the support of the authorities, despite having paid them your taxes and freedoms.
So until governments actually start prosecuting the common internet criminal, you're left alone with your interfaces exposed to any idjit with nmap and some root kits, all you can rely on is yourself and other people you know who've been in the same boat. And hey, if the gov-mint aint prosecuting the people that attack you, they ain't gonna do shit about you attacking back either.
The ultimate solution would be punishing all the assholes that are scripting exploits across the web with real, visceral penalties. Until then you'll have to get justice where you can. Be it street or fiber, it's all you can get.
Uhm, why? You can get all the content off aol.com and you can use IMAP with AOL to get your mail. The only thing that they don't have (that they should) is a Linux dialer.
Remember that space is a vacuum. Much like a thermos bottle. Unless there's energy being transmitted to an object (like from sunlight), the hot stays hot and the cold stays cold.
Unfortunately there's almost always sunlight to add some heat into your system.
Open source software is written by people that see a need, and actually get off their butts and make something to fulfill that need. Maybe that need is just to play around with code, but hey, good for them.
This is a good thing. Lack of attention takes care of the projects that aren't really worth anything, while the ones with promise get mindshare, bug reports, enhancements contributed, and slowly become valuable additions to the community. Sure, usually someone doing something again their way ends up in a dead end, but sometimes it really adds value in fulfilling a need.
Eventually almost all 'needs' condense down into just a few projects for each niche. For example, all those shitty audioplayers you talk about are almost all interfaces to two or three different libraries.
The debate against black holes isn't new, I mean in 2002 we heard a good bit about gravastars as a possibility for what a black hole really is.
It's fairly incontrovertable that there *are* objects in the universe with gravity so intense that light can't escape them (at least visible light), but as for what actually happens at the 'event' horizon, it's all a guess. Gravastars, Dark Energy stars, and Black Holes all would look about the same in a radio telescope. There's no reason this can't be true.
Besides, uninformed dismissal based on previous works is what put Galileo in the pokey. Proper management of a paper like this would be to determine an experiment and examine the results.
Aw, that's not really fair. You're trying to paint Solaris as a server only operating system, when it's definetly part of Sun's strategy to use it as a workstation OS. What about Sun Blades? Or Tadpoles? Obviously they'd like part of the desktop market.
And they play movies and music just fine too. Heck, you can even get a USB player/drive fob for solaris at nextcomeurope
Informative? AOL may be a lot of things, but it made almost a BILLION dollars in profit last year. The declining stock price is the result of the bubble and a shrinking member base, but they're getting better and better at squeezing green out of the stones they have left.
More like the merger completed right at the time the bubble burst, and Time Warner was really pissed off that the 'money' they'd been bought with was suddenly worthless. Couple that with AOL's haughty attitude in trying to unify the technology of the company, and you get a blind hatred of the AOL unit by the rest of TW. That hatred, more than anything else, is what's sabotaged AOL from becoming anything better in the past five years.
I mean, c'mon. AOL can't even get the rest of TWX to put any syndicated content other than People and a snippet or two of CNN in it's bowels, when the whole point of merging was to do just that. Time Warner hasn't given it any of the cable access promised, no real content except movie trailers, no access to it's music holdings, and no respect in it's press. I think they WANT it to die rather than realize they were as gullible as everyone else back in 1999.
Hopefully this'll help turn them around. I mean, yeah, it's AOL. Not very exciting of a tech company. But they've done a lot of open source work (yes, seriously. Mozilla, TCL Aim, AOLServer) and they're one of the most powerful litigants against spam and for online privacy. They've also been a good stepping stone for millions of people before heading out to the 'real' internet. Having them around has probably done more good than harm to the geek community.
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Which doesn't matter so much when the maximum infantry effective range is 400m, and most combat involves indirect fire. That's why we don't use the M14 any more ourselves in the US (which was a VERY tolerant and VERY accurate weapon). It's silly to nitpick on the AK's accuracy when it's still more accurate than anyone holding it. Better things to nitpick would be the wood stock, the weight, the exposed gas system, the way it can't keep the bolt locked in the open position or the awkward safety. Those are the real tradeoffs that it took in it's design. But the point is that when you're making a design for something you want to do a certain thing, it's ok to diss all those aspects that aren't all that important to the design goal. Who cares if it's a little heavy, has a cheap stock, or it can't keep the bolt open? Of course it'll have shortcomings, but those aren't really relevant if you do it right. Same thing applies to just about any design concept.
The sad thing is that when I used to work at a large ISP, we really did have a lot more calls come in whenever there was a big solar flare. Modems are sensitive littls sons-a-bitches. Of course nobody would believe us if we told them "sunspots", but you had to try.
Well, of course, it's part of what they're selling. It doesn't do them any good to present their supercomputer as "pedestrian". They want to maintain an air of exclusivity to owning one, it lets them pad the bottom line. Lots of organizations like to say "We can do it on our Cray". It sounds more prestegious.
I bet if you asked a lot of computer dilletantes out there what the fastest computer in the world was, they'd still say "Cray 2".
Er, did you read the article? AOL made a billion last year, and will make 1.5 billion this year. It brings in more dough than any other single part of Time Warner. It's problem is that it's *not growing*, or rather, shriking, which makes everyone afraid it's going to collapse. That's depresssing the stock price like hell.
Am I the only one who's noticed on this FAQ that they're planning on using a French launch vehicle (Ariane 5)? While I'm not one of those twits eating "freedom fries" for lunch, I'm a little upset that we'd be outsourcing something like a launch vehicle.
That's like the French importing Wisconsin cheese and Californian wines.
I seem to remember felony theft as being $300 or more, no matter if the money was taken from a house or a register or via fraud. Felony doesn't mean "federal crime".
I'd like to make some small points that don't completely negate the less than stellar (ha ha) experience of the shuttle and the ISS, but soften it a little.
The billions of dollars that are spent of course go straight back into the American economy (since we use US contractors almost exclusively), and provide an enormous amount of scientific and engineering wealth. Maybe not as many astronomical observastions as we should be getting for our bucks, but lots of engineering, electronic, and metallurgical know how.
AOL makes craploads of money, it's just not increasing it's revenues (and that's what you want to invest in, a growing company). Last quarter they brought in 2 billion, with an operating income before deprecitaton and amortization of about 330 million. That means that if someone DID buy AOL for a billion, they'd have made it all back in a year.
Toss in that they're about to go after the 10$ a month crowd with their Netscape brand and their new 9.0 client is very popular with the high end crowd, there's no reason to think that they won't make at least a little more money for the next year or so.
Time Warner would have to be idiots to do sell for that little. Hell, the AOL infrastructure is worth far more than a billion.
Brave man. You do have to get props for Canada though, they're a pretty decent country. They did, of course, send troops to Afghanistan (right or wrong). They've also been involved in just about every conflict that the UK has been involved in for a few hundred years (again, right or wrong).
It's not like we've forgotten that you once burned Washington:)
POVRay is an excellent raytracer, but it doesn't have a modeller, and the learning curve is very very steep. The third party Moray just doesn't cut it for very complicated scenes, and there's no good Linux modeller at all. But if you like programming AND you like raytracing, writing your own POVRay scripts and rendering them across a cluster with PVM can be very cool, and is, of course, very cheap.
Maya is a whole different story. Most users do everything through the modeller interface, can create complicated and lifelike animations after a week or so of training. It's also built so that multiple people can be working on a single project at the same time and accepts all sorts of cool plugins. It's stupidly, insanely expensive too, with per seat licenses in the thousands of dollars.
I love POVRay, it's definetly got a niche, but you don't see them making Final Fantasy movies with it for a reason. Speaking of Final Fantasy, if you get the DVD, there's a lot of really cool stuff on there showing the animators interacting with Maya.
Responsibility is essential, and yes it's enforced here. The pivotal point being that an opinion, any opinion, no matter how off-base it might seem, is a basic human right. However, acting in an illegal manner, or claiming to actually intend an illegal manner, certainly is illegal in the United States. The laws against that are quite clear. You can say "We should kill everyone who's different" all you want, but actually saying "We're going to kill" is illegal.
This makes perfect sense, and should be, to anyone in the world, "self evident". Calling it dogma doesn't make it any less an "inalienable right".
It's just you bleeding-heart left-wing whinger liberal traitors who always see something wrong in a militarily strong and economically prosperous country.
Hmm. Nixon. Gas lines and "Peace with Honor" military reductions. Hmm. Reagan. Deficits and stock market crashes, with Government Cheese. Hmm. Bush I. New taxes and recession. Hmm.
What I think you really want there Coward is a return to the good old days of FDR. I mean, that is if you want a powerful military AND economic prosperity. That is what you want, right?
I know I'm only adding to the list of outdated word processors here, but I really think I found writing the easiest on the C64's classic SpeedScript, and later on, GEOS's word processor. Moving up to Word 2.0 wasn't that big of a deal, but everything after that has been more of a pain in the ass than anything else.
Sometimes, a program just doesn't need to be better than it currently is. I know that's an anathema to companies that make their money by capitalizing on a brand name and an upgrade cycle, but really, is there anything more than those simple programs that you need? It's not like printed text has really changed all that much (compared to other communication technology) in the last thousand years.
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Normally, a true "AOL" brand broadband customer will be tunneled through AOL, otherwise it's parental controls (part of it's selling point) wouldn't work. So they'd show up as being in AOL's network space.
A person who's running AOL on another ISP's network and using the AOL client as a simple TCP app wouldn't (and shouldn't) be considered an AOL zombie for this study, otherwise the zombie would be counted twice.
You're absolutely right that overall, from a moral and legal standpoint, striking back at people who try to hack you by hacking them back is wrong in just about the entire civilized world. But there's a part of the equation that's missing here. It's wrong because there's suppossed to enforcement of that due process on the side of the government, and we don't get it on teh intarweb.
Have you ever tried to call your local police when your box gets hacked? Pointless. You're left feeling frustrated and powerless. The security experts just tell you to harden your defenses, but that's like telling you to put a moat and wall around your house (and builds a business for same said security experts). You're totally on your own out there when you should have the support of the authorities, despite having paid them your taxes and freedoms.
So until governments actually start prosecuting the common internet criminal, you're left alone with your interfaces exposed to any idjit with nmap and some root kits, all you can rely on is yourself and other people you know who've been in the same boat. And hey, if the gov-mint aint prosecuting the people that attack you, they ain't gonna do shit about you attacking back either.
The ultimate solution would be punishing all the assholes that are scripting exploits across the web with real, visceral penalties. Until then you'll have to get justice where you can. Be it street or fiber, it's all you can get.
Uhm, why? You can get all the content off aol.com and you can use IMAP with AOL to get your mail. The only thing that they don't have (that they should) is a Linux dialer.
Remember that space is a vacuum. Much like a thermos bottle. Unless there's energy being transmitted to an object (like from sunlight), the hot stays hot and the cold stays cold.
Unfortunately there's almost always sunlight to add some heat into your system.
Open source software is written by people that see a need, and actually get off their butts and make something to fulfill that need. Maybe that need is just to play around with code, but hey, good for them.
This is a good thing. Lack of attention takes care of the projects that aren't really worth anything, while the ones with promise get mindshare, bug reports, enhancements contributed, and slowly become valuable additions to the community. Sure, usually someone doing something again their way ends up in a dead end, but sometimes it really adds value in fulfilling a need.
Eventually almost all 'needs' condense down into just a few projects for each niche. For example, all those shitty audioplayers you talk about are almost all interfaces to two or three different libraries.
At least I didn't say I was a grammar 'looser'.
It's fairly incontrovertable that there *are* objects in the universe with gravity so intense that light can't escape them (at least visible light), but as for what actually happens at the 'event' horizon, it's all a guess. Gravastars, Dark Energy stars, and Black Holes all would look about the same in a radio telescope. There's no reason this can't be true.
Besides, uninformed dismissal based on previous works is what put Galileo in the pokey. Proper management of a paper like this would be to determine an experiment and examine the results.
And they play movies and music just fine too. Heck, you can even get a USB player/drive fob for solaris at nextcomeurope
More like the merger completed right at the time the bubble burst, and Time Warner was really pissed off that the 'money' they'd been bought with was suddenly worthless. Couple that with AOL's haughty attitude in trying to unify the technology of the company, and you get a blind hatred of the AOL unit by the rest of TW. That hatred, more than anything else, is what's sabotaged AOL from becoming anything better in the past five years.
I mean, c'mon. AOL can't even get the rest of TWX to put any syndicated content other than People and a snippet or two of CNN in it's bowels, when the whole point of merging was to do just that. Time Warner hasn't given it any of the cable access promised, no real content except movie trailers, no access to it's music holdings, and no respect in it's press. I think they WANT it to die rather than realize they were as gullible as everyone else back in 1999.
Hopefully this'll help turn them around. I mean, yeah, it's AOL. Not very exciting of a tech company. But they've done a lot of open source work (yes, seriously. Mozilla, TCL Aim, AOLServer) and they're one of the most powerful litigants against spam and for online privacy. They've also been a good stepping stone for millions of people before heading out to the 'real' internet. Having them around has probably done more good than harm to the geek community.
If only it were true.
Which doesn't matter so much when the maximum infantry effective range is 400m, and most combat involves indirect fire. That's why we don't use the M14 any more ourselves in the US (which was a VERY tolerant and VERY accurate weapon).
It's silly to nitpick on the AK's accuracy when it's still more accurate than anyone holding it. Better things to nitpick would be the wood stock, the weight, the exposed gas system, the way it can't keep the bolt locked in the open position or the awkward safety. Those are the real tradeoffs that it took in it's design.
But the point is that when you're making a design for something you want to do a certain thing, it's ok to diss all those aspects that aren't all that important to the design goal. Who cares if it's a little heavy, has a cheap stock, or it can't keep the bolt open? Of course it'll have shortcomings, but those aren't really relevant if you do it right. Same thing applies to just about any design concept.
Er, what good is a missile lock when no missile you could fire could possibly catch it?
The sad thing is that when I used to work at a large ISP, we really did have a lot more calls come in whenever there was a big solar flare. Modems are sensitive littls sons-a-bitches. Of course nobody would believe us if we told them "sunspots", but you had to try.
I bet if you asked a lot of computer dilletantes out there what the fastest computer in the world was, they'd still say "Cray 2".
Savages.
Er, did you read the article? AOL made a billion last year, and will make 1.5 billion this year. It brings in more dough than any other single part of Time Warner. It's problem is that it's *not growing*, or rather, shriking, which makes everyone afraid it's going to collapse. That's depresssing the stock price like hell.
That's like the French importing Wisconsin cheese and Californian wines.
I seem to remember felony theft as being $300 or more, no matter if the money was taken from a house or a register or via fraud. Felony doesn't mean "federal crime".
The billions of dollars that are spent of course go straight back into the American economy (since we use US contractors almost exclusively), and provide an enormous amount of scientific and engineering wealth. Maybe not as many astronomical observastions as we should be getting for our bucks, but lots of engineering, electronic, and metallurgical know how.
Better than a total loss
Toss in that they're about to go after the 10$ a month crowd with their Netscape brand and their new 9.0 client is very popular with the high end crowd, there's no reason to think that they won't make at least a little more money for the next year or so.
Time Warner would have to be idiots to do sell for that little. Hell, the AOL infrastructure is worth far more than a billion.
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POVRay is an excellent raytracer, but it doesn't have a modeller, and the learning curve is very very steep. The third party Moray just doesn't cut it for very complicated scenes, and there's no good Linux modeller at all. But if you like programming AND you like raytracing, writing your own POVRay scripts and rendering them across a cluster with PVM can be very cool, and is, of course, very cheap.
Maya is a whole different story. Most users do everything through the modeller interface, can create complicated and lifelike animations after a week or so of training. It's also built so that multiple people can be working on a single project at the same time and accepts all sorts of cool plugins. It's stupidly, insanely expensive too, with per seat licenses in the thousands of dollars.
I love POVRay, it's definetly got a niche, but you don't see them making Final Fantasy movies with it for a reason. Speaking of Final Fantasy, if you get the DVD, there's a lot of really cool stuff on there showing the animators interacting with Maya.
This makes perfect sense, and should be, to anyone in the world, "self evident". Calling it dogma doesn't make it any less an "inalienable right".
Hmm. Nixon. Gas lines and "Peace with Honor" military reductions. Hmm. Reagan. Deficits and stock market crashes, with Government Cheese. Hmm. Bush I. New taxes and recession. Hmm.
What I think you really want there Coward is a return to the good old days of FDR. I mean, that is if you want a powerful military AND economic prosperity. That is what you want, right?
Sometimes, a program just doesn't need to be better than it currently is. I know that's an anathema to companies that make their money by capitalizing on a brand name and an upgrade cycle, but really, is there anything more than those simple programs that you need? It's not like printed text has really changed all that much (compared to other communication technology) in the last thousand years.