Something from 8 Million years ago? Has anybody bothered to call in Professor Bernard Quatermass? But since it's 8 Million he's Three million years too late.
Making that sort of pledge is rather rash. I am not saying it can't be done, but I don't see it as simple to fix anything anytime.
Questions you have to ask are;
Is it really a bug?
Can it really be reproduced?
etc etc
Being timely in bugs is good. But not all crashes are the result of bad software. You have to be sure your fix doesn't turn another thing into a bug. They would soon end up chasing after every little bit of dust and lose sight of their real work.
So how does one prove that the computer in question had been/was infected? Unless they kept detailed logs at the ISP then only an analysis of the traffic would be proof.
I would guess the ISP would balk at that due to;
1. The unlikelihood they had these on file. (if they did they would see a mass exodus of customers on GP)
2. The in-house costs of doing this analysis likely outside of the skill sets of the usual NOC staffers. Meaning Who is going to pay for said work? (See reason 1)
3. The Lawyers for the ISP refusing and standing on the grounds that they as a Common Carrier are not required to keep/give this sort of info without a search warrant in a CRIMINAL case. (by the way who are they we should shine some light on them)
But other claims could be made, like claiming that the wireless Linksys router the had didn't have any security or was provably crackable. [read as walk in the park]
Mars was the original home of Humanity before the great collapse of the atmosphere that protected the early Martian People. This was 70 thousand years (earth) ago.
They narrowly avoided the disaster in time thanks to their Chief Scientist AlGor who warned of the impending doom.
"A teaser? Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them."
"Buzz them?" Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him.
"Yeah", said Ford, "they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor soul whom no one's ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennae on their heads and making beep beep noises. Rather childish really."
Or it's The Mind Parasites as in Colin Wilson [mention this twice in one thats odd]
Lets just lay the blame on the knucklehead that got us into this disaster of depleted local resources and the rest of his gang of cronies. His little war has cost devastated the resources and personnel needed to deal with this. this is symptomatic of Katrina and the Iraq War. They were too busy with their wet dreams to pay attention to wet people and cities.
The Dems may be effective but nobody can match a Republican for Naked Greed.
See Delay, Stevens, Foley, Rupert Murdoch, Ad nauseam
Agreed, I walked away from over 2000 rollover minutes that Cingular (oh now its AT&T) swindled me out of paying for.
my phone is a Treo with a Sim Card so I just went online and got a unlock code for it. Now it's just pay as you go when ever I need it. Next phone will be sim card and I will pay the full price for it. Its is the only way to really keep your costs and your freedom.
Considering that ZFS (it's freeware) is about to eat Veritas Volume Manager's lunch. I would say it's high time to jump ship. Symantec has bloated everything they ever bought. re: Norton Utilities....
Its a good time to be a Solaris Admin, and luckily for you Linux folk they finally got the licensing worked out. Oh, BTW, Apple too.
By then I figure I'm going to be a disembodied intelligence powered by solar energy. This will be a great high. How about by reflection? You would be wise to pick up a copy of the Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson (author behind Lifeforce (1985)) An amazing author.
Trolling aside I think it's a misstep. Ad supported services have failed and failed. At some point somebody has to pony up some duckets to somebody for Cell service. But as it stands it will likely just drive down the price of the already bloated cell service costs.
And when the ball inside went so did the control. I use one all the time and unless you pony up $30+ for a mousepad that works they tend to do unusual things like fly into the corner for no reason. Even then the control is not suited for gaming.
Now I use the back of a Composition book that also doubles as a notebook. The random blotch pattern in black and white is ideal. At a buck or two these are great.
They do eat batteries. NiCad don't last but a good fast charger w/ a four pack of AAAs do well enough.
The article is a fluff piece with no real info, the findings from that study didn't yield anything as its redundant. And there is evidence in an article I read last year in GQ (of all places) that mice are the main targets of the infection that it thought to cause Schizophrenia.
Also the Wikipedia entry point out that a realistic study say that the real infection rate is 0.55% of the population. [I guess we are not as crazy a planet as first mentioned]
on the whole I would give this article a 0 for points and both a REDUNDANT and OVERRATED tag
In a revolutionary step the WarezOv will also use the spare cycles of users desktops and advanced botfarming technologies to bring you Live Streaming broadbrain and new ways of using connected computing for Pornography and online gaming at hundreds of times the speed of your normal advertising service provider! It's so easy to use, and the surgery to implant it in the base of your skull is so painless.
Population about 6-7 Billion now. So lets figure that only one in 6 is gullible enough to buy Windows.
To do first line Tech Support they will need at least 250 Million people to answer phones with 'Is the powercord plugged in?" and "Hit Ctrl-alt-delete several times till it reboots" These are the lucky ones they will have jobs for life! [till somebody builds a Linux-based AI to use an Eliza strategy to answer calls]
We will also need a crack team of at least 50 Million Linux/Mac Users to mock Window Users full time. Honestly I think it pretty much have of the user base that engages in this. But these people will be trained professionals dammit! {I should start a magazine devoted to Pr0n and Windows Mockery, it will be bigger then Playboy, Penthouse and Southern Baptist Monthly. Talk about a wankfest)
Coders, well need lots of them. Coders can work for anybody C++ is universal as is Java. C# and.Net programmers will be useful we just need a lot of those little yellow school buses.
And Garbage Haulers, We're gonna need them badly!
Finally we'll need Al Gore. (Thats an obvious one)
The Doctor: Rose Tyler, I was gonna take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You'll love it, fantastic place, they've got dogs with no noses! [laughs] The Doctor: Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's still funny!
Well, that aside but because it had to be done. But to business. I remember when 64bit cpus came out Sun and a few others had them (12 years ago) the programming took forever to catch up. They are still selling 32bit processors as new. I think I will leave that hanging in the air.
Slashdot Mirror
Something from 8 Million years ago? Has anybody bothered to call in Professor Bernard Quatermass? But since it's 8 Million he's Three million years too late.
Making that sort of pledge is rather rash. I am not saying it can't be done, but I don't see it as simple to fix anything anytime.
Questions you have to ask are;
Is it really a bug?
Can it really be reproduced?
etc etc
Being timely in bugs is good. But not all crashes are the result of bad software. You have to be sure your fix doesn't turn another thing into a bug. They would soon end up chasing after every little bit of dust and lose sight of their real work.
Hello William Gibson.
The rest is inferred.
"walk in the park "
meaning as simple as.
55 Mhz that's the law, exceed it and your looking at a speeding ticket.
So how does one prove that the computer in question had been/was infected? Unless they kept detailed logs at the ISP then only an analysis of the traffic would be proof.
I would guess the ISP would balk at that due to;
1. The unlikelihood they had these on file. (if they did they would see a mass exodus of customers on GP)
2. The in-house costs of doing this analysis likely outside of the skill sets of the usual NOC staffers. Meaning Who is going to pay for said work? (See reason 1)
3. The Lawyers for the ISP refusing and standing on the grounds that they as a Common Carrier are not required to keep/give this sort of info without a search warrant in a CRIMINAL case. (by the way who are they we should shine some light on them)
But other claims could be made, like claiming that the wireless Linksys router the had didn't have any security or was provably crackable. [read as walk in the park]
Mars was the original home of Humanity before the great collapse of the atmosphere that protected the early Martian People. This was 70 thousand years (earth) ago.
They narrowly avoided the disaster in time thanks to their Chief Scientist AlGor who warned of the impending doom.
"A teaser? Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them."
"Buzz them?" Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him.
"Yeah", said Ford, "they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor soul whom no one's ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennae on their heads and making beep beep noises. Rather childish really."
Or it's The Mind Parasites as in Colin Wilson [mention this twice in one thats odd]
Lets just lay the blame on the knucklehead that got us into this disaster of depleted local resources and the rest of his gang of cronies. His little war has cost devastated the resources and personnel needed to deal with this. this is symptomatic of Katrina and the Iraq War. They were too busy with their wet dreams to pay attention to wet people and cities.
The Dems may be effective but nobody can match a Republican for Naked Greed.
See Delay, Stevens, Foley, Rupert Murdoch, Ad nauseam
Agreed, I walked away from over 2000 rollover minutes that Cingular (oh now its AT&T) swindled me out of paying for.
my phone is a Treo with a Sim Card so I just went online and got a unlock code for it. Now it's just pay as you go when ever I need it. Next phone will be sim card and I will pay the full price for it. Its is the only way to really keep your costs and your freedom.
Considering that ZFS (it's freeware) is about to eat Veritas Volume Manager's lunch. I would say it's high time to jump ship. Symantec has bloated everything they ever bought. re: Norton Utilities....
Its a good time to be a Solaris Admin, and luckily for you Linux folk they finally got the licensing worked out. Oh, BTW, Apple too.
Trolling aside I think it's a misstep. Ad supported services have failed and failed. At some point somebody has to pony up some duckets to somebody for Cell service. But as it stands it will likely just drive down the price of the already bloated cell service costs.
Free isn't a good price.
I hate every monkey from ChimpanA to Chipanzee
I used a Yellowray on the disk and got greenlit. Copy away!
It's a series of Tubes.
Do you mean like what happened to Archibald Buttle,Something like this.
/ you may note the Official. It was the guy who played Arthur Dent in the TV version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
And when the ball inside went so did the control. I use one all the time and unless you pony up $30+ for a mousepad that works they tend to do unusual things like fly into the corner for no reason. Even then the control is not suited for gaming.
Now I use the back of a Composition book that also doubles as a notebook. The random blotch pattern in black and white is ideal. At a buck or two these are great.
They do eat batteries. NiCad don't last but a good fast charger w/ a four pack of AAAs do well enough.
The article is a fluff piece with no real info, the findings from that study didn't yield anything as its redundant. And there is evidence in an article I read last year in GQ (of all places) that mice are the main targets of the infection that it thought to cause Schizophrenia.
also here http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=12372
Also the Wikipedia entry point out that a realistic study say that the real infection rate is 0.55% of the population. [I guess we are not as crazy a planet as first mentioned]
on the whole I would give this article a 0 for points and both a REDUNDANT and OVERRATED tag
Spies? Who said anything about Spies Comrade. Natasha bring some nice tea for Moose and Squirrel here. - Boris Badenov
/soto voice/ Remember to put truth serum in it this time /
Yes dollink -Natasha Fatale
Had a dollar for everything I've heard that one he'd be as rich as Bill Gates.
In a revolutionary step the WarezOv will also use the spare cycles of users desktops and advanced botfarming technologies to bring you Live Streaming broadbrain and new ways of using connected computing for Pornography and online gaming at hundreds of times the speed of your normal advertising service provider! It's so easy to use, and the surgery to implant it in the base of your skull is so painless.
Population about 6-7 Billion now. So lets figure that only one in 6 is gullible enough to buy Windows.
.Net programmers will be useful we just need a lot of those little yellow school buses.
To do first line Tech Support they will need at least 250 Million people to answer phones with 'Is the powercord plugged in?" and "Hit Ctrl-alt-delete several times till it reboots" These are the lucky ones they will have jobs for life! [till somebody builds a Linux-based AI to use an Eliza strategy to answer calls]
We will also need a crack team of at least 50 Million Linux/Mac Users to mock Window Users full time. Honestly I think it pretty much have of the user base that engages in this. But these people will be trained professionals dammit! {I should start a magazine devoted to Pr0n and Windows Mockery, it will be bigger then Playboy, Penthouse and Southern Baptist Monthly. Talk about a wankfest)
Coders, well need lots of them. Coders can work for anybody C++ is universal as is Java. C# and
And Garbage Haulers, We're gonna need them badly!
Finally we'll need Al Gore. (Thats an obvious one)
You Slashdotted YouTube.
Yeah man, now we know who the big dogs are now. Yep.
The Doctor: Rose Tyler, I was gonna take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You'll love it, fantastic place, they've got dogs with no noses!
[laughs]
The Doctor: Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's still funny!
Well, that aside but because it had to be done. But to business. I remember when 64bit cpus came out Sun and a few others had them (12 years ago) the programming took forever to catch up. They are still selling 32bit processors as new. I think I will leave that hanging in the air.