Why would you possibly moderate this up? Somebody posted a name/pass in the first couple of comments, if you don't want to login you should use that. Rewarding people for copying and pasting is not what the karma system is about.
Also, did you stop to think that maybe if the NYTimes gets enough hits on this article that they might want to do more stories about topics like this?
You're right. The worm just attacks anything with a webserver looking for an unpatched IIS. The Cisco units have an old bug where any URL with a ? in it will hang the whole unit.
I think this is the same unit a friend of mine was trying out before the release (he's a friend of the main developer) and it's not just a touchscreen controller. The buttons you create on the screen can also be programmed to do macros. For example, you could setup a Buy button for Counter-Strike that would automatically buy all the stuff you need at the beginning of the round. Those of you who are RTS players can probably already taste the possibilites of that. It's pretty darn cool device and it's just a couple of guys who created it in their spare time, from what I understand.
An OC12 is 3gigs per second and those are deployed all over the place. Qwest has already deployed OC768 which is 400gigs per second IIRC. And this is all to support the original internet. Fatter pipes doesn't make Internet version 2, it just makes a faster Internet v1.
I fail to see what the big deal is with Internet2. If I had an OC3 (the 155mbit link they talked about in the article) from my house to my work, I could do cool videoconferencing too, using the plain old Internet1. QOS can be implemented lots of different ways (MPLS, ATM, various IP only schemes) using today's technology and lots of bigger network providers already have enough pipe to give people tons of bandwidth. I haven't seen anything that would convince me that I2 is anything more than I1 with way less users (which doesn't mean those things don't exist, I just haven't seen them).
As a (transplanted) New Mexican, I can only say that I'm saddened but not surprised. This state has a long history of completely rolling over for Corporate America. Our PRC (Public Regulatory Committee) has pretty much been completely bought by USWest/QWest which does whatever it wants, including stealing $50million in illegal profits and stifling competition in DSL and phone services, much to the detriment of consumers. The Intel plant here uses more water than half the city of Albuquerque every single day, and we're a bigtime desert community. Basically, this sell-out is nothing new and it's a shame that one of the poorest states in the nation is saddled with various levels of government that are so eager to ditch the interests of the populace in favor of whichever corporate entity with a big checkbook that happens to come along.
One of the main misconceptions about paying for web content is that people won't pay for stuff they can get elsewhere for free. This is wrong. People pay for Windows when they can get Linux for free, people pay for porn when they can get it for free, people pay for lots of stuff when they get it for free. The difference is convienience and quality. Windows is easier to use for most people than Linux, for-pay porn sites are (usually) better then free, etc. If a hardware site were to charge for content but then provide better reviews, help, etc., than Joe Schmoe's Hardware Page, people would pay for the quality site. The for-pay site would just have to prove their worth. Your example of Google is a perfect one, they've proven (to you and I at least) that they're worth some money even though other sites provide essentially the same service for free.
Wow, I like GnuCash even more now than I did 5 minutes ago. That was about the most informative interview I've read here in awhile. Even moreso than the infamous Alex Chiu interview:) (which, I have to admit, I was one of the people who emailed Roblimo about getting).
Slashdot should start doing a series of interviews with "important" Linux/BSD developers/groups. Just to start things off, I'd like to see interviews with the main people behind MySQL, The GIMP, and maybe some of the unknown-to-most-of-us heroes in the Linux kernel hacking arena. What developers would others like to see?
I said this same thing in response to another post but since so many people seem be under the same impression (including michael), I've reposted it.
The ending of the movie (after David takes the copter into the water) is not a Spielberg add-on as many people have said. Kubrick had it in the script since the beginning. I'm sure Kubrick would have done it a bit differently but Spielberg didn't just tack it on to give the film a better ending.
Also, the beings at the end are not aliens. They're super advanced robots. Gigolo Joe alludes to this when he says that robots will be the only ones left when the world ends but Spielberg does a very poor job of communicating it. I believe if you listen closely they say David is their ancestor but I can totally understand the confusion since they chose for some reason to make the future AI look a lot like the idea of aliens that we all know.
The ending (after he goes into the ocean) has apparentlly been in the script since Kubrick started developing it. It went through various revisions but it's not a Spielberg add-on, as much as it might seem so.
Also, they're not aliens. They're super-advanced robots. Spielberg does a horrible job of communicating that but it's a fact.
I wish I hadn't just used up my last moderator point.
I think it does have to do with Media though. Especially the news and commercials. Our 30min news broadcasts have taught us to expect all of our information to come in 30sec bite-sized chunks with a visual and a talking head telling us what to think. Commercials have trained us to think in those 30sec chunks also, just reinforcing the behavior.
You've just demonstrated why so-called "pure logic" is difficult to use as a good basis for making decisions. Both of you have "logical" arguments that come to very different conclusions, opposite conclusions actually. One of you is no more "right" than the other, but you both think the other is wrong.
Just to add my own $0.02, you'd be hard pressed to say that farms are not nature. They're just a small part of nature contained but still subject to the larger overall system that includes sunlight, rain, soil, and many other things that are hard (or impossible) to replicate on a large enough scale to feed everyone.
If you can get a cable provider to peer with you using BGP, I'll dance a jig. There are so many issues involved that even SDSL (usually a business service) providers will very rarely run BGP with you. It's the best option for your situation IMO but like I said, I'll be very surprised if you can get any cable ISP (let alone 2) to peer with you.
I've heard a lot of people say that typing "correctly" with your fingers on the home row and all that causes them a lot more pain than just typing any old way they feel like it. I personally touch-type but my hands go where they are comfortable and I rarely have any pains in my wrists. I also don't use the ergonomic keyboards. Have there ever been any real studies of the effect of "correct" typing on wrist strain?
So according to your logic, because I've personally never heard voices that means schizophrenia doesn't exist? Wow, my discovery is going to save a lot of people a lot of hassles with all that dimentia and hallucinations they've been putting themselves through.
It's impossible to blame someone for behavior they had no way of knowing was hurting them. The tobacco industry and chemical companies have a decades long history of bald-faced lies about the dangers of their products. I agree that people who started smoking 10 years ago really has no leg to stand on blaming the tobacco industry but the other millions of people who were hooked when every voice in that industry said their product was harmless have a case. Nothing is completely black & white.
That's nice to think but the chemical companies, tobacco industry, and automobile industry (to name a few) have been killing people for decades with little or no repercusions. Granted, MS has (probably) not killed anyone but thinking that no businesses are "above the law" is a tad naive.
Thank you for rehashing the same tired, stupid arguments that bad trolls always post everytime something about a big project comes up on Slashdot. Just as the arguments you make have been made a million times before, so have the refuatations so please, nobody try to educate this guy, just mod him down and move along. Nothing to see here.
I didn't really want to read this book in the first place but now that the author has gone through the trouble of summarizing the whole thing for me I know I won't buy it.:) Thanks!
I found a guy on the Visorcentral.com message board that sells a cable to connect a Motorola Startac to the Visor through the ports on the bottom of each. It then uses the phone as the modem as if you had a regular modem on the Visor. I haven't gotten one yet but tons of others have and it seems to work fine. They may make something like that for your phone. I'd search the visorcentral.com boards, there's usually a ton of other people with the same needs as you have.
I'd like to know if there are any Springboard modules that will allow you to connect to your cell phone. Since the SixPak was cancelled I don't know of any others available and I'd like to use a keyboard and modem at the same time, which isn't possible with the little cable.
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Why would you possibly moderate this up? Somebody posted a name/pass in the first couple of comments, if you don't want to login you should use that. Rewarding people for copying and pasting is not what the karma system is about.
Also, did you stop to think that maybe if the NYTimes gets enough hits on this article that they might want to do more stories about topics like this?
You're right. The worm just attacks anything with a webserver looking for an unpatched IIS. The Cisco units have an old bug where any URL with a ? in it will hang the whole unit.
I never said it was the best example, I only thought of Counter-Strike since that's about the only online game I play. :)
I think this is the same unit a friend of mine was trying out before the release (he's a friend of the main developer) and it's not just a touchscreen controller. The buttons you create on the screen can also be programmed to do macros. For example, you could setup a Buy button for Counter-Strike that would automatically buy all the stuff you need at the beginning of the round. Those of you who are RTS players can probably already taste the possibilites of that. It's pretty darn cool device and it's just a couple of guys who created it in their spare time, from what I understand.
Whoops, I meant OC48 is 3gigs. And I also meant OC768 is 40gbps. It's been a long day. :) But my point remains the same.
An OC12 is 3gigs per second and those are deployed all over the place. Qwest has already deployed OC768 which is 400gigs per second IIRC. And this is all to support the original internet. Fatter pipes doesn't make Internet version 2, it just makes a faster Internet v1.
I fail to see what the big deal is with Internet2. If I had an OC3 (the 155mbit link they talked about in the article) from my house to my work, I could do cool videoconferencing too, using the plain old Internet1. QOS can be implemented lots of different ways (MPLS, ATM, various IP only schemes) using today's technology and lots of bigger network providers already have enough pipe to give people tons of bandwidth. I haven't seen anything that would convince me that I2 is anything more than I1 with way less users (which doesn't mean those things don't exist, I just haven't seen them).
As a (transplanted) New Mexican, I can only say that I'm saddened but not surprised. This state has a long history of completely rolling over for Corporate America. Our PRC (Public Regulatory Committee) has pretty much been completely bought by USWest/QWest which does whatever it wants, including stealing $50million in illegal profits and stifling competition in DSL and phone services, much to the detriment of consumers. The Intel plant here uses more water than half the city of Albuquerque every single day, and we're a bigtime desert community. Basically, this sell-out is nothing new and it's a shame that one of the poorest states in the nation is saddled with various levels of government that are so eager to ditch the interests of the populace in favor of whichever corporate entity with a big checkbook that happens to come along.
Who the hell would report a teacher for putting Office on 5 computers? Does the BSA have a reward system in place for tips or what?
One of the main misconceptions about paying for web content is that people won't pay for stuff they can get elsewhere for free. This is wrong. People pay for Windows when they can get Linux for free, people pay for porn when they can get it for free, people pay for lots of stuff when they get it for free. The difference is convienience and quality. Windows is easier to use for most people than Linux, for-pay porn sites are (usually) better then free, etc. If a hardware site were to charge for content but then provide better reviews, help, etc., than Joe Schmoe's Hardware Page, people would pay for the quality site. The for-pay site would just have to prove their worth. Your example of Google is a perfect one, they've proven (to you and I at least) that they're worth some money even though other sites provide essentially the same service for free.
How is a misspelling ironic?
Wow, I like GnuCash even more now than I did 5 minutes ago. That was about the most informative interview I've read here in awhile. Even moreso than the infamous Alex Chiu interview :) (which, I have to admit, I was one of the people who emailed Roblimo about getting).
Slashdot should start doing a series of interviews with "important" Linux/BSD developers/groups. Just to start things off, I'd like to see interviews with the main people behind MySQL, The GIMP, and maybe some of the unknown-to-most-of-us heroes in the Linux kernel hacking arena. What developers would others like to see?
I said this same thing in response to another post but since so many people seem be under the same impression (including michael), I've reposted it.
The ending of the movie (after David takes the copter into the water) is not a Spielberg add-on as many people have said. Kubrick had it in the script since the beginning. I'm sure Kubrick would have done it a bit differently but Spielberg didn't just tack it on to give the film a better ending.
Also, the beings at the end are not aliens. They're super advanced robots. Gigolo Joe alludes to this when he says that robots will be the only ones left when the world ends but Spielberg does a very poor job of communicating it. I believe if you listen closely they say David is their ancestor but I can totally understand the confusion since they chose for some reason to make the future AI look a lot like the idea of aliens that we all know.
The ending (after he goes into the ocean) has apparentlly been in the script since Kubrick started developing it. It went through various revisions but it's not a Spielberg add-on, as much as it might seem so.
Also, they're not aliens. They're super-advanced robots. Spielberg does a horrible job of communicating that but it's a fact.
I wish I hadn't just used up my last moderator point.
I think it does have to do with Media though. Especially the news and commercials. Our 30min news broadcasts have taught us to expect all of our information to come in 30sec bite-sized chunks with a visual and a talking head telling us what to think. Commercials have trained us to think in those 30sec chunks also, just reinforcing the behavior.
You've just demonstrated why so-called "pure logic" is difficult to use as a good basis for making decisions. Both of you have "logical" arguments that come to very different conclusions, opposite conclusions actually. One of you is no more "right" than the other, but you both think the other is wrong.
Just to add my own $0.02, you'd be hard pressed to say that farms are not nature. They're just a small part of nature contained but still subject to the larger overall system that includes sunlight, rain, soil, and many other things that are hard (or impossible) to replicate on a large enough scale to feed everyone.
If you can get a cable provider to peer with you using BGP, I'll dance a jig. There are so many issues involved that even SDSL (usually a business service) providers will very rarely run BGP with you. It's the best option for your situation IMO but like I said, I'll be very surprised if you can get any cable ISP (let alone 2) to peer with you.
I've heard a lot of people say that typing "correctly" with your fingers on the home row and all that causes them a lot more pain than just typing any old way they feel like it. I personally touch-type but my hands go where they are comfortable and I rarely have any pains in my wrists. I also don't use the ergonomic keyboards. Have there ever been any real studies of the effect of "correct" typing on wrist strain?
So according to your logic, because I've personally never heard voices that means schizophrenia doesn't exist? Wow, my discovery is going to save a lot of people a lot of hassles with all that dimentia and hallucinations they've been putting themselves through.
It's impossible to blame someone for behavior they had no way of knowing was hurting them. The tobacco industry and chemical companies have a decades long history of bald-faced lies about the dangers of their products. I agree that people who started smoking 10 years ago really has no leg to stand on blaming the tobacco industry but the other millions of people who were hooked when every voice in that industry said their product was harmless have a case. Nothing is completely black & white.
That's nice to think but the chemical companies, tobacco industry, and automobile industry (to name a few) have been killing people for decades with little or no repercusions. Granted, MS has (probably) not killed anyone but thinking that no businesses are "above the law" is a tad naive.
Thank you for rehashing the same tired, stupid arguments that bad trolls always post everytime something about a big project comes up on Slashdot. Just as the arguments you make have been made a million times before, so have the refuatations so please, nobody try to educate this guy, just mod him down and move along. Nothing to see here.
One word of advise about these back chairs.
Don't wear shorts while you're using one.
I used my back chair for a year in college and when summer came around it had rubbed all the hair off my shins. Seriously.
I didn't really want to read this book in the first place but now that the author has gone through the trouble of summarizing the whole thing for me I know I won't buy it. :) Thanks!
I found a guy on the Visorcentral.com message board that sells a cable to connect a Motorola Startac to the Visor through the ports on the bottom of each. It then uses the phone as the modem as if you had a regular modem on the Visor. I haven't gotten one yet but tons of others have and it seems to work fine. They may make something like that for your phone. I'd search the visorcentral.com boards, there's usually a ton of other people with the same needs as you have.
I'd like to know if there are any Springboard modules that will allow you to connect to your cell phone. Since the SixPak was cancelled I don't know of any others available and I'd like to use a keyboard and modem at the same time, which isn't possible with the little cable.