what a great way to kick Office XP (or maybe even Office 2000) sales way up. Remember when Office XP came out, and everyone said that there weren't enough new features or incentives to upgrade? Some people reported that they still used Office 97. Well, here's your incentive. Miscellaneous people 'stealing' Word docs.
It makes me wonder if MS marketing is blowing the bug way out of proportion -- the average user hears 'Word 97 will let people STEAL your documents' and runs down frantically to the local CompUSA and buys a copy (or 2 or 3, depending on how many machines, of course:).
I haven't seen a proof of concept or anything, but I wonder how serious this bug really is. Just my $0.02 US.
2. If so, do you know other people who have your level of expertise with these chips?
3. If you answered yes to number 3, provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of all of these people. We're interested in prosecuting^H^H^H^H^H contacting them.
What better way to beat the mod chip makers then to recruit them.
The only thing related to cellphones that may make you stupid (or look stupid, at least) is walking around with the full headset on, without talking, like a complete tool. Many of you know who I'm talking about.:)
There's the rub. Micro fuel cells may not be allowed on airplanes because the hydrogen-based devices use a highly flammable gas, while the methanol-based devices include an inflammable liquid.
No thanks, I'll stick to my shitty laptop with the one battery that lasts about two hours. Better to have a laptop that sucks down the battery than one that EXPLODES IN YOUR LAP.
As far as technology has come and will go, I shudder to think that we would become lazy enough to not flush the toilet after utilization, especially after dootie.
Bringing DDR to the home is a huge step I think. It could be a more exciting and entertaining party game than say, Twister.
On second thought, I don't know if you can play naked DDR and have the same amount of fun as you would naked Twister.
At least if DDR makes it into the home, maybe the other 98% in here can get girls over to their houses/apartments (without any form of trickery or force). Everytime I see that game, there's always girls playing it. Then again, I don't think I've ever seen any guys playing it.
I listen to a lot of talk radio too and I record shows everyday. I have an Avermedia Studio, which consists of TV, radio, VCR, CD player, etc. Included is a scheduler which allows recording on both TV channels and radio frequencies.
Odd though, I don't think this one can handle AM. FM only. Not sure why that is, but I've been pretty satisfied with the whole deal. The (Windows) software that comes with it is kinda flaky at times, though.
Definitely worth the money, around $70-$80 depending on where you're shopping. But with this model, Linux support isn't there yet, in my opinion. The radio portion of the card works fine in Linux, but I've had issues with TV. Your milage may vary, of course.
Interestingly, I know a white guy who runs the 800m for his high school's track team. From time to time he'll run the 400m, which is normally dominated by the black guys (African-American is not the PC term anymore, btw).
He won't win the 400, because it's an all out sprint, essentially, and the black guys beat him (although he's close). But put him in the 800 against the same guys, and he'll blow them away in the stretch. Why? Who knows. I'll just keep my simpleton view and say that different people excel in different events and that's it. I'm not going to get into this race discussion.:)
Kan was severely depressed, i.e. Prozac, suicide hotlines, the whole thing.
From the article:
The signs of impending awfulness were there, Oliver said. Very recently, Gene had changed his resume, which was stored on the University of California at Berkeley's server, to read: "Summary: Sad example of a human being. Specializing in failure."
Sad. I think this pretty much dismisses the conspiracy theory...
I've seen this theory tossed about on/. and a lot of other websites but I think this is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in awhile. Perhaps I'll be sacrificing karma by not posting AC but I think that the mere thought of Kan being murdered by the RIAA or the MPAA is incredibly outlandish.
Kan played a part in making P2P what it is today, but why would they have him killed? There were a lot of others who developed Gnutella. WHy not whack them too? It makes zero fucking sense.
While it may be straying offtopic even further, I thought it was interesting that Kan had a weblog entitled "This place sucks." Underneath the title, he added, "Earth sucks. Let me enumerate the ways." The last entry is dated at June 28th. It's eerie -- the posts, which Kan philosophized about various subjects -- religion, US-Israel relations, etc -- get shorter and shorter in length until the last one.
I guess we can only imagine what was going through his mind; it's a shame that he believed things in his life were so bad that the only solution was to end it himself.
Gentoo Linux 1.2 also comes with a patch for 2.4.19 (although it's an 'optimized' Gentoo version). 2.4.19 patches have been out for a while, I believe...
Perhaps the reason why 'gaming is no longer the province for children and teenagers' is because that when gaming consoles became popular (i.e. in the day of Atari/Colecovision and then NES/SMS) these same people were children/teenagers themselves? (Ok, that may be stating the obvious)
And why didn't NEO-GEO make it into the chart? That was by far the best console during that time...too bad it was $100 a game (or some ungodly price like that) and some ridiculous amount for the console. I knew a kid who had one, but he was a prick and never invited me over to play it, because he was a spoiled brat.
Here is a link for ASCI Red @ Sandia National Labs.
From the article: The system uses two operating systems to make the computer both familiar to the user (UNIX) and non-intrusive for the scalable application (Cougar). And it makes use of Commercial Commodity Off The Shelf (CCOTS) technology to maintain affordability.
if you could install the clients on this thing, you could find the cure to cancer, crack RC5-64 and OGR-25, decipher all of the SETI@Home work units (but you still wouldn't find any aliens:)...hell, you could solve ALL of the distributed computing applications on this machine.
Stating the obvious, that's a shitload of CPU power.:)
Not trying to go offtopic but I agree. The Challenger explosion back in 1986 (or was it 85) was caused by the decision to launch in extremely cold weather by the contractor, Morton-Thiokol (not sure on the exact name, but that's close).
There was a documentary recently about the explosion and they interviewed the head engineer of the project, who fought to abort the launch but was overridden by management, but they wouldn't listen to him.
IANARS(I am not a rocket scientist), but looking at the picture of the first rocket, it looks like an American flag was tied on to the side of it. I don't know anything about rockets, but wouldn't this flag cause problems as far as aerodynamics and wind, etc?
The first try was brought down by wind shear, but the article didn't go into explicit detail about the crash. Just based on watching NASA shuttle launches, I never saw anything like that hanging off the side of the rocket. Maybe this would have caused a problem? Or is the flag so insignificant compared to the propulsion of the rocket?
Closing their service to outsiders increases the security of their system overall and "prevents hackers from scaling beyond one machine," the company claims. "Xbox Live has military grade security to ensure no cheaters, no hackers, and no viruses."
Now only if they could apply this theory to their OS strategy...
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what a great way to kick Office XP (or maybe even Office 2000) sales way up. Remember when Office XP came out, and everyone said that there weren't enough new features or incentives to upgrade? Some people reported that they still used Office 97. Well, here's your incentive. Miscellaneous people 'stealing' Word docs.
:).
It makes me wonder if MS marketing is blowing the bug way out of proportion -- the average user hears 'Word 97 will let people STEAL your documents' and runs down frantically to the local CompUSA and buys a copy (or 2 or 3, depending on how many machines, of course
I haven't seen a proof of concept or anything, but I wonder how serious this bug really is. Just my $0.02 US.
Isn't there some kind of filter for what you're asking?
from the job application...
1. Do you have expertise with modification chips?
2. If so, do you know other people who have your level of expertise with these chips?
3. If you answered yes to number 3, provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of all of these people. We're interested in prosecuting^H^H^H^H^H contacting them.
What better way to beat the mod chip makers then to recruit them.
They're Judas Priest fans? Sweeeet!
:-)
sorry...couldn't resist
not an article. Hard up for news today, ./ guys?
:)
The only thing related to cellphones that may make you stupid (or look stupid, at least) is walking around with the full headset on, without talking, like a complete tool. Many of you know who I'm talking about.
There's the rub. Micro fuel cells may not be allowed on airplanes because the hydrogen-based devices use a highly flammable gas, while the methanol-based devices include an inflammable liquid.
No thanks, I'll stick to my shitty laptop with the one battery that lasts about two hours. Better to have a laptop that sucks down the battery than one that EXPLODES IN YOUR LAP.
Now I wonder if I could remotely flush my toliet?
As far as technology has come and will go, I shudder to think that we would become lazy enough to not flush the toilet after utilization, especially after dootie.
Bringing DDR to the home is a huge step I think. It could be a more exciting and entertaining party game than say, Twister.
On second thought, I don't know if you can play naked DDR and have the same amount of fun as you would naked Twister.
At least if DDR makes it into the home, maybe the other 98% in here can get girls over to their houses/apartments (without any form of trickery or force). Everytime I see that game, there's always girls playing it. Then again, I don't think I've ever seen any guys playing it.
I listen to a lot of talk radio too and I record shows everyday. I have an Avermedia Studio, which consists of TV, radio, VCR, CD player, etc. Included is a scheduler which allows recording on both TV channels and radio frequencies.
Odd though, I don't think this one can handle AM. FM only. Not sure why that is, but I've been pretty satisfied with the whole deal. The (Windows) software that comes with it is kinda flaky at times, though.
Definitely worth the money, around $70-$80 depending on where you're shopping. But with this model, Linux support isn't there yet, in my opinion. The radio portion of the card works fine in Linux, but I've had issues with TV. Your milage may vary, of course.
I didn't know Jimmy the Greek read Slashdot...
:)
Interestingly, I know a white guy who runs the 800m for his high school's track team. From time to time he'll run the 400m, which is normally dominated by the black guys (African-American is not the PC term anymore, btw).
He won't win the 400, because it's an all out sprint, essentially, and the black guys beat him (although he's close). But put him in the 800 against the same guys, and he'll blow them away in the stretch. Why? Who knows. I'll just keep my simpleton view and say that different people excel in different events and that's it. I'm not going to get into this race discussion.
Read this article.
Kan was severely depressed, i.e. Prozac, suicide hotlines, the whole thing.
From the article:
The signs of impending awfulness were there, Oliver said. Very recently, Gene had changed his resume, which was stored on the University of California at Berkeley's server, to read: "Summary: Sad example of a human being. Specializing in failure."
Sad. I think this pretty much dismisses the conspiracy theory...
I've seen this theory tossed about on /. and a lot of other websites but I think this is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in awhile. Perhaps I'll be sacrificing karma by not posting AC but I think that the mere thought of Kan being murdered by the RIAA or the MPAA is incredibly outlandish.
Kan played a part in making P2P what it is today, but why would they have him killed? There were a lot of others who developed Gnutella. WHy not whack them too? It makes zero fucking sense.
For anyone who is interested, the link to Kan's weblog is here.
While it may be straying offtopic even further, I thought it was interesting that Kan had a weblog entitled "This place sucks." Underneath the title, he added, "Earth sucks. Let me enumerate the ways." The last entry is dated at June 28th. It's eerie -- the posts, which Kan philosophized about various subjects -- religion, US-Israel relations, etc -- get shorter and shorter in length until the last one.
I guess we can only imagine what was going through his mind; it's a shame that he believed things in his life were so bad that the only solution was to end it himself.
Gentoo Linux 1.2 also comes with a patch for 2.4.19 (although it's an 'optimized' Gentoo version). 2.4.19 patches have been out for a while, I believe...
They registered this name too a couple of years ago.
There isn't anything there now, but I do remember something being up there at one point.
Perhaps the reason why 'gaming is no longer the province for children and teenagers' is because that when gaming consoles became popular (i.e. in the day of Atari/Colecovision and then NES/SMS) these same people were children/teenagers themselves? (Ok, that may be stating the obvious)
And why didn't NEO-GEO make it into the chart? That was by far the best console during that time...too bad it was $100 a game (or some ungodly price like that) and some ridiculous amount for the console. I knew a kid who had one, but he was a prick and never invited me over to play it, because he was a spoiled brat.
Yes, NASA wanted to launch, but so did the Thiokol management. It was the Thiokol engineers that didn't want them to launch. (or so i thought...)
Here is a link for ASCI Red @ Sandia National Labs.
From the article:
The system uses two operating systems to make the computer both familiar to the user (UNIX) and non-intrusive for the scalable application (Cougar). And it makes use of Commercial Commodity Off The Shelf (CCOTS) technology to maintain affordability.
Hmm, I see one familiar OS in there...
if you could install the clients on this thing, you could find the cure to cancer, crack RC5-64 and OGR-25, decipher all of the SETI@Home work units (but you still wouldn't find any aliens :)...hell, you could solve ALL of the distributed computing applications on this machine.
:)
Stating the obvious, that's a shitload of CPU power.
I looked at a larger picture. No, the flag is NOT attached to the rocket. Sorry.
Not trying to go offtopic but I agree. The Challenger explosion back in 1986 (or was it 85) was caused by the decision to launch in extremely cold weather by the contractor, Morton-Thiokol (not sure on the exact name, but that's close).
There was a documentary recently about the explosion and they interviewed the head engineer of the project, who fought to abort the launch but was overridden by management, but they wouldn't listen to him.
IANARS(I am not a rocket scientist), but looking at the picture of the first rocket, it looks like an American flag was tied on to the side of it. I don't know anything about rockets, but wouldn't this flag cause problems as far as aerodynamics and wind, etc?
The first try was brought down by wind shear, but the article didn't go into explicit detail about the crash. Just based on watching NASA shuttle launches, I never saw anything like that hanging off the side of the rocket. Maybe this would have caused a problem? Or is the flag so insignificant compared to the propulsion of the rocket?
Closing their service to outsiders increases the security of their system overall and "prevents hackers from scaling beyond one machine," the company claims. "Xbox Live has military grade security to ensure no cheaters, no hackers, and no viruses."
Now only if they could apply this theory to their OS strategy...
If Lindows was an infringement upon the Windows name, then Lycoris has to be basically identical to WinXP (based on the screenshots). Look:
here
here
and here
Perhaps MS can sue them for 'theft of look and feel.'