So how soon until Norton or Mcafee market something to protect your sims from the virus, keep it from spreading to the rest of your computer, and keep your computer from getting it from the Internet?:-)
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"...the most fun I ever had was when I got bored with the city and unleased death and destruction upon my paradise."
It's kind of scary how much this does to explain all the suffering in the world.
Take another look at *the* picture
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Take another look at *the* picture, and imagine it with a caption that says "Federal agents rescue kidnapped child".
I looked at the page source and the less than sign-frontslash-capital a-greater than sign wasn't there. That doesn't mean that you left it out, necessarily. Slashdot's being a little weird this morning. Don't know if it has anything to do with the beta server or not.
The reason I wrote out the above instead of ampersand el tee and such is that *sometimes* Slashdot will show everything looking right in preview, but change your actual text where you use the ampersand to give the appearance of HTML *into* HTML, so that when you actually submit it comes out looking like a real link.
The best time to avoid looking like an idiot in a post is when discussing imperfections in someone else's post.
after it, but when you follow that with the text that you want to be the underlined clickable part, you aren't following *that* with
</A>
so that everything that follows is treated as part of what you wanted to be the underlined, clickable part.
Oh, one other thing. Apparently Slashdot doesn't like it if the A or the HREF or the other letters, like P, or I, or BR in between the less than and greater than signs are not uppercase.
Now that the link has been fixed on the Slashdot main page, all of these posts are irrelevant and "redundant". Shouldn't they all be modded down to -2 to spare everyone browsing from seeing them? After all, if you're going to punish people karma-wise for not forseeing that someone else would post the same thing a few seconds sooner, shouldn't anybody not forseeing that Slashdot would fix the link also have their karma stomped on?
Who actually signed the ABM and other treaties? Russia, or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? Are any other former USSR members obligated in any way by any of those treaties?
Think "hidden insights". In this case hidden from the person who had them. (you're right about the less than universally excellent quality of moderation these days, though)
Who in their right corporate minds is going to subject a bunch of old people rich enough to afford it, and therefore rich enough to afford trained attack lawyers, to several G's of acceleration at liftoff?
They are paying you to be the one smart enough and knowledgeable enough to know that you need end user feedback. You should be *telling* them that you need access to and co-operation from the end users-to-be, and that without it you can't turn out the quality of work that you want to be known for, the quality that they are supposed to be getting by hiring you instead of someone else.
There's a story over at The Register about a memory stick by another company that you can attach to via USB. Current models range from 16MB to 128, with 1 Gig expected sometime in 2001.
I'm afraid the word "liberal" has suffered the same fate as the word "hacker" with regard to the perceptions of the general public. You'll have to find a new label for the same ideas/ideals to get them a fair and impartial hearing.
"don't cheapen the word "Nazi" with your juvenille tripe."
If you're serious and sincere, please suggest alternatives that convey the idea desired to to be conveyed. For instance, would "sig_fascist" convey the same "feel" as "sig_nazi"?
Please note that I am not attacking you, I'm looking for a reasonable compromise in the interest of keeping Slashdot a site worth participating in.
Anyone running a dictionary attack would probably not be expecting the password to be left as default, but when the attack revealed that it had been, they would no doubt consider the installer of the software clue-impaired and assume that they were attacking a site with almost no security whatsoever and hit it with everything they've got. I'd think that even worse than being cracked would be being cracked by somebody who stays to do as much damage as possible.
I checked the link you gave and, yeah, it should either have been moderated up as funny or just left alone. I've seen AC comments moved down to -1 that should have been upped or left alone as well, but it seems to be logged-in users that draw attack moderation.
Moderators don't have to browse at any particular level, but they aren't doing the job properly unless they browse at -1.
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Apparently someone who thinks that they are beta-moderating marked down the above perfectly reasonable post.
So how soon until Norton or Mcafee market something to protect your sims from the virus, keep it from spreading to the rest of your computer, and keep your computer from getting it from the Internet? :-)
It's kind of scary how much this does to explain all the suffering in the world.
Looks different now, doesn't it?
The reason I wrote out the above instead of ampersand el tee and such is that *sometimes* Slashdot will show everything looking right in preview, but change your actual text where you use the ampersand to give the appearance of HTML *into* HTML, so that when you actually submit it comes out looking like a real link.
The best time to avoid looking like an idiot in a post is when discussing imperfections in someone else's post.
<A HREF="
in front of the URL and
">
after it, but when you follow that with the text that you want to be the underlined clickable part, you aren't following *that* with
</A>
so that everything that follows is treated as part of what you wanted to be the underlined, clickable part.
Oh, one other thing. Apparently Slashdot doesn't like it if the A or the HREF or the other letters, like P, or I, or BR in between the less than and greater than signs are not uppercase.
Now that the link has been fixed on the Slashdot main page, all of these posts are irrelevant and "redundant". Shouldn't they all be modded down to -2 to spare everyone browsing from seeing them? After all, if you're going to punish people karma-wise for not forseeing that someone else would post the same thing a few seconds sooner, shouldn't anybody not forseeing that Slashdot would fix the link also have their karma stomped on?
"foliate" as in "to cover with foliage"? In other words, opposite of defoliate?
Who actually signed the ABM and other treaties? Russia, or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? Are any other former USSR members obligated in any way by any of those treaties?
Search on the terms "South Vietnam" and "self-immolation". Always seemed pretty extreme to me.
Think "hidden insights". In this case hidden from the person who had them. (you're right about the less than universally excellent quality of moderation these days, though)
Who in their right corporate minds is going to subject a bunch of old people rich enough to afford it, and therefore rich enough to afford trained attack lawyers, to several G's of acceleration at liftoff?
Is there an original version of the above somewhere written in coherent,non-paranoid English? It sounds as though it would be interesting.
They are paying you to be the one smart enough and knowledgeable enough to know that you need end user feedback. You should be *telling* them that you need access to and co-operation from the end users-to-be, and that without it you can't turn out the quality of work that you want to be known for, the quality that they are supposed to be getting by hiring you instead of someone else.
There's a story over at The Register about a memory stick by another company that you can attach to via USB. Current models range from 16MB to 128, with 1 Gig expected sometime in 2001.
But did they latch on to every new buzzword and write a column about it?
The Register says Hell.com is being offered. 'Course they're looking to get 8 mil.
Extremely uneven moderation of your posts on Slashdot.
I thought that *was* the way to make them cynical.
I'm afraid the word "liberal" has suffered the same fate as the word "hacker" with regard to the perceptions of the general public. You'll have to find a new label for the same ideas/ideals to get them a fair and impartial hearing.
If you're serious and sincere, please suggest alternatives that convey the idea desired to to be conveyed. For instance, would "sig_fascist" convey the same "feel" as "sig_nazi"?
Please note that I am not attacking you, I'm looking for a reasonable compromise in the interest of keeping Slashdot a site worth participating in.
It hasn't been that long, but in Internet time it has been a *long* time. Good to see him back.
Anyone running a dictionary attack would probably not be expecting the password to be left as default, but when the attack revealed that it had been, they would no doubt consider the installer of the software clue-impaired and assume that they were attacking a site with almost no security whatsoever and hit it with everything they've got.
I'd think that even worse than being cracked would be being cracked by somebody who stays to do as much damage as possible.
Moderators don't have to browse at any particular level, but they aren't doing the job properly unless they browse at -1.
At the time "he" *was* Walter. There was no Wendy Carlos at the time.