This reminds of that Instant Ramen-cups in Cowboy Bebop. (I believe it was in the movie)...They just ripped a strip, and presto, instantaneous hot Ramen cups...
Of course, everybody wasn't exactly thrilled with having to eat cheap instant Ramen.. It seems that even as technology gets more convient and cooler, low quality mass products will still taste the same.
Strangely, a few days back i wanted to know the weather in Phoenix. So I just typed in (without knowing about this feature yet)
"phoenix weather" and was surprised that I got a google answer back.
However, a normal person would've typed in
"what is the weather in phoenix?", which won't return a google answer.
Hmm
Speaking of Fringe Gamers
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D&D Is 30
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· Score: 1, Interesting
I play with a group of about 5 players, including myself. With our work schedules, plus the fact that one member (who also part-time DMs) has two kids, we can only play on Saturday nights from about 11pm to 2am. At the end of the week, we are tired from studying and working, so our games are really just dungeon crawl slash'em. No role-playing at all, alignment rules are thrown out the window. We're just about XP. Except for me, because my character is a drunken monk, and we do drink. I'm not knocking it, it is a lot of fun and allows us to get together on a weekly basis and catch up on each other's lives.
As an adult gamer, I've found schedules with other mature adults to be very hard to co-ordinate for some serious D&D games. Does anybody else out there have the same problem?
Interestingly, the concept of having video survelience on our faces or the general area of a cyber-cafe computer doesn't phase me. If it would, then i would want a seperate room and a seperate enterance to the computer terminal so patrons and employees of the coffee shop couldn't ID me as i used _their_ publically available computer.
What matters most to me would be the use of those tapes and who gets access to them. Would any law official be allowed to just willy-nilly peak at those video logs? How about employees? Are they stored in a safe location, or could someone go in, alter the tapes, then report so-and-so and base the proof for illegal activity on hacked tapes?
yes, and i ran Windows XP so i can float around and have an XP experience. Yup, the logo and mascott of a software company determines what i recommend to my boss.
Management: What should we use, Windows or this Linux thing?
user: Don't use Linux. Their penguin mascot sucks. Use BSD. I have a fetish for devils.
Management: Hm...devils are evil, right? Naw, we'll use Microsoft. What's their logo?
user: $$$
cygwin runs apps....this project proposes to run the linux kernel and the windows kernel on the same hardware at the same time...which means that you can run native x86 apps, without recompiling or porting a ton of apps.
Analysis of the MediaMax CD3 Copy-Prevention System
I went through it, and it is pretty blatant in showing others how to circumvent the CD for copying it (which, BTW, is my god damn right). Though i hardly think it's enough to sue somebody over. Come on, just thinking about it for 5 minutes could get you as far as he did! If i was a greedy multi-million publicaly traded company, i'd rather invest my time and money going after REAL software pirates and 'hackers'.
I worked in a national bank as a teller about 5 years ago, and i remeber when the new 20's came out then. Our branch received a poster that detailed the many security features of the new bill, including the nylon strip, the off-center potrait, the colour changing numeric, the anit-counterfiet pen, the water-mark, and the ridged coat jacket of the president.
The US Government's Flashsite only details about 4 things, the only "new" thing is the background colour and the yellow tiny 20's on the back of the bill.
Does anybody else have more features the new bills would have? Few people new about the jacket thing of the now-old 20's, and it was a quick way to check those bills.
Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix. <SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich! <novell>/msg atnt haha. idiot. <novell> whoops. was that out loud? <atnt> rotfl <ibm> lol <SCO> why r u laffin at me? <novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now. <SCO> wtf? <SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now. <red_hat> haha, your linux sucks. <novell> lol <atnt> lol <ibm> lol <SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u! <ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE <SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux für IBM. <SCO> can we do linux with you? <SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher... <ibm> *cough* <SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen. * SuSE is now SuSE[UL] * SCO is now caldera[UL] <turbolinux> can we play? <conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too. <ibm> sure! * turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL] * conectiva is now conectiva[UL] <ibm> redhat: you should join! <SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich. <red_hat> haha. no. <red_hat> lamers. <ibm> what about you debian? <debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years. <caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux! <turbolinux[UL]> i got owned. <caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame. * caldera[UL] is now known as SCO <SCO> i'm going back to unix. <SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me? <SCO> haha. no. lamer. <novell> lol <ibm> snap! <SGI>:~( <SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm. <ibm> wtf? <SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix. <red_hat> lol <SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen <ibm> lol <SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck. <ibm> go ahead. baby. <SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that? <ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever. <novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that. <SCO> wtf? we bought it from u. <novell> whoops. our bad. <SCO> i own u. haha <SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now! <ibm> whatever. lamer. * ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@* * SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
Here in an AMC in Phoenix, we didn't get X-men 2, we got a preview for Terminator 3...looked wicked.
And some god awfull looking movie about saving the planet by drilling to it's core. Ben laughed out loud when a character said, "The Earth's core has stopped spinning".
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/98/301300/ 2002-11-24/2002-11-30/0
I was watching this thread a while back that started out as "Are Bad developer libraries the problem with M$ software" and evolved into "Security Education in the Workplace".
Last night, i was wearing my defcon shirt while doing some christmas shopping, and the kid behind the counter at Bookman's commented on it. Well, he turned out to be a THIRD year C.S student from ASU...he bitched how ASU and his last professor stressed (crammed down his throat, he said) security, so now he doesn't care about writing with security in mind. No, he said he would never write code with security in mind.
He said he'd write the code but never personally use it.
I really lost all respect for him, and at first i was pissed, but then again, that can't be such a Bad thing.
I'm competing against the likes of him, and he just lowered the bar.
As the threads mentioned above point out, it's really about programmers and the entire IT infrastructure being educated about security. At least, our CTO and CIOs should be aware about security, and have the knowledge to know that the kid from ASU would be a liability to a company and their clients.
That's the second half of the problem. The second half is just lazy developers who just copy structures blindly or move strings blindly without any checks.
If the Matrix is a "classic" scifi movie, then this post is a "classic" post in the same sense.
Classics _must_ stand up to the test of time in order to be a classic.
yes, Wizard of Oz is a classic, and so is Homer's Illiad. Blade Runner is nearing classic status.
Matrix needs a few more decades under its belt in order to be called a classic.
Slashdot Mirror
This reminds of that Instant Ramen-cups in Cowboy Bebop. (I believe it was in the movie)...They just ripped a strip, and presto, instantaneous hot Ramen cups... Of course, everybody wasn't exactly thrilled with having to eat cheap instant Ramen.. It seems that even as technology gets more convient and cooler, low quality mass products will still taste the same.
Strangely, a few days back i wanted to know the weather in Phoenix. So I just typed in (without knowing about this feature yet) "phoenix weather" and was surprised that I got a google answer back. However, a normal person would've typed in "what is the weather in phoenix?", which won't return a google answer. Hmm
I play with a group of about 5 players, including myself. With our work schedules, plus the fact that one member (who also part-time DMs) has two kids, we can only play on Saturday nights from about 11pm to 2am. At the end of the week, we are tired from studying and working, so our games are really just dungeon crawl slash'em. No role-playing at all, alignment rules are thrown out the window. We're just about XP. Except for me, because my character is a drunken monk, and we do drink. I'm not knocking it, it is a lot of fun and allows us to get together on a weekly basis and catch up on each other's lives.
As an adult gamer, I've found schedules with other mature adults to be very hard to co-ordinate for some serious D&D games. Does anybody else out there have the same problem?
unfortuanetly, Deer Valley isn't know for rich parents...things would have been different if they had raided a school 20 miles east of them.
instead of a k-12 school, then the national safety level would be ORANGE. Thank god those free-thinking voting students weren't at fault!
The ewoks were origionally going to be...oh crap, I shat myself!
Is this for real?
or
"God, I'm so lame I can't enjoy a joke. I can't believe I pay (subscribe)slashdot for this shit. Slashdot is sooo, like, lame. "
and we know that arm-linux-gcc-3.2 doesn't mean it's gcc.
and we all know that gcc is very stable for obscure embedded processors.
because i know my desktop OS uses the same processor and the same glibc versions as my palm pilot.
kinda brings up the issue about giving bored teens something to do. Other than shoot each other.
Interestingly, the concept of having video survelience on our faces or the general area of a cyber-cafe computer doesn't phase me. If it would, then i would want a seperate room and a seperate enterance to the computer terminal so patrons and employees of the coffee shop couldn't ID me as i used _their_ publically available computer.
What matters most to me would be the use of those tapes and who gets access to them. Would any law official be allowed to just willy-nilly peak at those video logs? How about employees? Are they stored in a safe location, or could someone go in, alter the tapes, then report so-and-so and base the proof for illegal activity on hacked tapes?
yes, and i ran Windows XP so i can float around and have an XP experience. Yup, the logo and mascott of a software company determines what i recommend to my boss. Management: What should we use, Windows or this Linux thing? user: Don't use Linux. Their penguin mascot sucks. Use BSD. I have a fetish for devils. Management: Hm...devils are evil, right? Naw, we'll use Microsoft. What's their logo? user: $$$
cygwin runs apps....this project proposes to run the linux kernel and the windows kernel on the same hardware at the same time...which means that you can run native x86 apps, without recompiling or porting a ton of apps.
Curious:
how much power is typically used up by a standard CRT monitor vs. LCD, and how much power is used by the same but when in power saving mode?
visit kernelnewbies.org
Uhm, no...
1 .0/0651.html
read http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/031
. Linus resonds exactly to this.
Analysis of the MediaMax CD3 Copy-Prevention System
I went through it, and it is pretty blatant in showing others how to circumvent the CD for copying it (which, BTW, is my god damn right). Though i hardly think it's enough to sue somebody over. Come on, just thinking about it for 5 minutes could get you as far as he did! If i was a greedy multi-million publicaly traded company, i'd rather invest my time and money going after REAL software pirates and 'hackers'.
I worked in a national bank as a teller about 5 years ago, and i remeber when the new 20's came out then. Our branch received a poster that detailed the many security features of the new bill, including the nylon strip, the off-center potrait, the colour changing numeric, the anit-counterfiet pen, the water-mark, and the ridged coat jacket of the president.
The US Government's Flashsite only details about 4 things, the only "new" thing is the background colour and the yellow tiny 20's on the back of the bill.
Does anybody else have more features the new bills would have? Few people new about the jacket thing of the now-old 20's, and it was a quick way to check those bills.
Found this little gem on Spot's LiveJournal Account:
/msg atnt haha. idiot. :~(
Repeated here to avoid slashdot affect:
Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell>
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux für IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI>
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
So, how does this compare to
Emdebian QPlus whatever Monta Vista has this year.
But wouldn't that violate copyrights of Disney? Why, if you sold them, you'd be stealing from Disney! :)
Here in an AMC in Phoenix, we didn't get X-men 2, we got a preview for Terminator 3...looked wicked.
And some god awfull looking movie about saving the planet by drilling to it's core. Ben laughed out loud when a character said, "The Earth's core has stopped spinning".
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/98/301300/ 2002-11-24/2002-11-30/0
I was watching this thread a while back that started out as "Are Bad developer libraries the problem with M$ software" and evolved into "Security Education in the Workplace".
Last night, i was wearing my defcon shirt while doing some christmas shopping, and the kid behind the counter at Bookman's commented on it. Well, he turned out to be a THIRD year C.S student from ASU...he bitched how ASU and his last professor stressed (crammed down his throat, he said) security, so now he doesn't care about writing with security in mind. No, he said he would never write code with security in mind.
He said he'd write the code but never personally use it.
I really lost all respect for him, and at first i was pissed, but then again, that can't be such a Bad thing.
I'm competing against the likes of him, and he just lowered the bar.
As the threads mentioned above point out, it's really about programmers and the entire IT infrastructure being educated about security. At least, our CTO and CIOs should be aware about security, and have the knowledge to know that the kid from ASU would be a liability to a company and their clients.
That's the second half of the problem. The second half is just lazy developers who just copy structures blindly or move strings blindly without any checks.
If the Matrix is a "classic" scifi movie, then this post is a "classic" post in the same sense. Classics _must_ stand up to the test of time in order to be a classic. yes, Wizard of Oz is a classic, and so is Homer's Illiad. Blade Runner is nearing classic status. Matrix needs a few more decades under its belt in order to be called a classic.