Assuming these guys are 'white hats', and they are not _necessarily_ the most able or l337 hax0rs out there, then why has someone not already attempted to take the internet down in 30 minutes already? For, say, 1 million dollars? I call hubris..
A company I visited as an FAE back as far (actually is it far?) as 2003 (Splashpower, Cambridge, UK) demonstrated a pad that with specially adapted battery packs would recharge any handheld electronics placed upon it, without wires. I know they didn't survive. I wonder what happened to them, anyone know? I do remember their chief engineer was one of the Atari Jaguar 2 designers, so he must have been fairly used to canned projects.. Yes that's right, the Jaguar 2!
Couple of things - this wasn't redundant when I wrote it - by the time I had come back to the main thread two other people had mentioned it. I *did* actually check first - I hate being redundant. Secondly, if you read the moderation recommendations, you are supposed to use mod points in general to mod up. If I see something redundant, I don't waste mod points on it, I simply don't mark it up. Simple really. Think about it next time.
.... but the time for the LHC to come online is getting scarily closer to 2012 each time one of these hiccups happens. And did anyone else wonder how lead could leak out of a vacuum?
I find it OK because the 33% (and even if that, not 50%, unless you include Moyles) chatter is of reasonable quality, plus the commitment the BBC make to new music (not exclusively on radio 1), festival coverage, in new music we trust etc. I'd say its pretty excellent... And I would prefer chat over ads any day, especially when the quality of chat is above and beyond that of any commercial channel.
Yeah! Screw trying a simulation first! We all know simulations are *perfect* - so why bother at all? I appreciate what you are saying, but I think you miss the point. Simulations are just that - simulations, and not the real thing. But they at least let you collect a subset of data *before* you try the real thing. You know, so they don't get hot for each other flesh around the van allen belt.
Don't know about anyone else... I've been with gmail since it really *was* a beta, and it has been pretty good about not letting spam through. Past couple of months though and I have been getting three to four a day through. Are the spammers getting better or is the filter getting worse?
BMW iDrive is a nightmare. Seemed like a good idea when I got it as an option.... But very distracting if you want to do anything when you are actually moving. Fortnuantely, the roads are so bad here in the UK, it's not a problem.
As ever, with any subject, its easy for someone who has never experienced something for themselves to have an opinion that is not entirely informed. I can say, sadly, with some confidence this has happened throughout this entire forum.
Well, you all have valid points. But what I would agree with the most is the stabiliser part. I no longer (well for now at least) seem to have the bad mood swings I had six years ago. The prozac *seems* to have clamped them down, but also clamped down normal feelings. Without the prozac I am finding myself enjoying life again, without the absolute highs and the dreadful lows. YMMV.
Strangely enough I have just recently weaned myself off prozac after a six year period, and I too have got my emotional breadth and creative mojo back again. I'm sure it helped at the time I started but I feel a lot more like myself again now. For instance listening to certain music puts shivers down my spine again, whereas it had stopped affecting me like that for a long time.
Codepunk has the balls to post with his UID at least. Never had a single infection with XP, used it since it came out. Same with Vista. Oh, and by the way, I use Ubuntu too. My point is, if you can't configure and use any OS without getting your little panties in a twist, don't come on here trying to score easy points on/. slating another OS without [citation needed]. Asshat is a pretty lame thing to call someone too.
If you think by using windows in any form will get you 'assimilated by a botnet' by default, then are you sure you can administer any OS that well? Once again, users of any minority OS will see less attacks, simply because they don't have the market share. Simple as that really.
This is funny because I was thinking just the other day about the cheesy overused lyric 'when two worlds collide' - I mean, it just doesn't happen that often does it?
This is exactly why we need to be resisting these digital download services starting now. While it is nice to get the retro downloads etc (and there is some great stuff out there, granted), this is the way digital distribution will reach critical mass, bricks and mortar stores will fail, and we will have no physical copy in the first place to do with what we want. Just say no now, before it's too late (though it probably is).
I, for one, would take a large pinch of salt with our UK tabloid overlords articles. They are the worst as they are the 'respectable' face of the UK newspapers which millions of middle class Englanders believe, but are the worst of the 'think of the children' brigade.
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Assuming these guys are 'white hats', and they are not _necessarily_ the most able or l337 hax0rs out there, then why has someone not already attempted to take the internet down in 30 minutes already? For, say, 1 million dollars? I call hubris..
A company I visited as an FAE back as far (actually is it far?) as 2003 (Splashpower, Cambridge, UK) demonstrated a pad that with specially adapted battery packs would recharge any handheld electronics placed upon it, without wires. I know they didn't survive. I wonder what happened to them, anyone know? I do remember their chief engineer was one of the Atari Jaguar 2 designers, so he must have been fairly used to canned projects.. Yes that's right, the Jaguar 2!
Couple of things - this wasn't redundant when I wrote it - by the time I had come back to the main thread two other people had mentioned it. I *did* actually check first - I hate being redundant. Secondly, if you read the moderation recommendations, you are supposed to use mod points in general to mod up. If I see something redundant, I don't waste mod points on it, I simply don't mark it up. Simple really. Think about it next time.
.... but the time for the LHC to come online is getting scarily closer to 2012 each time one of these hiccups happens. And did anyone else wonder how lead could leak out of a vacuum?
If you have so little faith in the future of technology, and the improvements it brings daily, then I have little faith about your future on slashdot.
I find it OK because the 33% (and even if that, not 50%, unless you include Moyles) chatter is of reasonable quality, plus the commitment the BBC make to new music (not exclusively on radio 1), festival coverage, in new music we trust etc. I'd say its pretty excellent... And I would prefer chat over ads any day, especially when the quality of chat is above and beyond that of any commercial channel.
Yeah! Screw trying a simulation first! We all know simulations are *perfect* - so why bother at all? I appreciate what you are saying, but I think you miss the point. Simulations are just that - simulations, and not the real thing. But they at least let you collect a subset of data *before* you try the real thing. You know, so they don't get hot for each other flesh around the van allen belt.
Not if you live in the UK and have access to the BBC radio network.
Gary McKinnon?
once more you are spot on. kudos.
where is badanalogyguy when you need him?
Don't know about anyone else... I've been with gmail since it really *was* a beta, and it has been pretty good about not letting spam through. Past couple of months though and I have been getting three to four a day through. Are the spammers getting better or is the filter getting worse?
Easy. Has slightly less temperature than a truck full of tapes on the highway, simple really.
BMW iDrive is a nightmare. Seemed like a good idea when I got it as an option.... But very distracting if you want to do anything when you are actually moving. Fortnuantely, the roads are so bad here in the UK, it's not a problem.
As ever, with any subject, its easy for someone who has never experienced something for themselves to have an opinion that is not entirely informed. I can say, sadly, with some confidence this has happened throughout this entire forum.
Well, you all have valid points. But what I would agree with the most is the stabiliser part. I no longer (well for now at least) seem to have the bad mood swings I had six years ago. The prozac *seems* to have clamped them down, but also clamped down normal feelings. Without the prozac I am finding myself enjoying life again, without the absolute highs and the dreadful lows. YMMV.
Strangely enough I have just recently weaned myself off prozac after a six year period, and I too have got my emotional breadth and creative mojo back again. I'm sure it helped at the time I started but I feel a lot more like myself again now. For instance listening to certain music puts shivers down my spine again, whereas it had stopped affecting me like that for a long time.
Codepunk has the balls to post with his UID at least. Never had a single infection with XP, used it since it came out. Same with Vista. Oh, and by the way, I use Ubuntu too. My point is, if you can't configure and use any OS without getting your little panties in a twist, don't come on here trying to score easy points on /. slating another OS without [citation needed]. Asshat is a pretty lame thing to call someone too.
If you think by using windows in any form will get you 'assimilated by a botnet' by default, then are you sure you can administer any OS that well? Once again, users of any minority OS will see less attacks, simply because they don't have the market share. Simple as that really.
This is funny because I was thinking just the other day about the cheesy overused lyric 'when two worlds collide' - I mean, it just doesn't happen that often does it?
This is exactly why we need to be resisting these digital download services starting now. While it is nice to get the retro downloads etc (and there is some great stuff out there, granted), this is the way digital distribution will reach critical mass, bricks and mortar stores will fail, and we will have no physical copy in the first place to do with what we want. Just say no now, before it's too late (though it probably is).
I totally agree - never underestimate the power .... OoooooH SHINY!
If he fakes his shit, probably fakes his own urine too. Mountain Dew?
I, for one, would take a large pinch of salt with our UK tabloid overlords articles. They are the worst as they are the 'respectable' face of the UK newspapers which millions of middle class Englanders believe, but are the worst of the 'think of the children' brigade.
Just don't let them on the ISS. Give it a week and all their mates will turn up with their backpacks...