I've seen a number of times articles on slashdot taking an accusatory stance against those who have sued customers for "slander." Frankly, there are a lot of companies who abuse the law, but also a lot of people that attempt to hide-behind semi-anonymity as well. If you could nail another company for slander it might work out, if it's a private individual or group with a grudge you'll possibly end up looking like a litigious asshat.
Just FYI, if you're not a GAIM user but like the videoconferencing etc features of your various IM's, keep a watch. The 2.x version of GAIM is supposed to re-merge the GAIM-VV (Voice+Video) forks so that it not only supposed multicliented goodness, but many of the media features as well.
My last experience with a RAID array: A client wanted to use a multidisk SCSI cabinet array for his server (although really all he needed was a few RAIDed drives in the case). After testing the configuration I passed along the info: the RAID arrays works great, but it was completely unfeasible to use in his office due to the fact that it sounded like a jet engine firing up.
Can anyone comment on the volume level of this array? Quiet, loud? Quiet enough for a server room but too loud for an office desk?
Well, if you're just trying to keep away younger audiences from your venue, then one could assume that you're trying to attract the older audiences. In this case, such things as old German oompah music would do quite a good job of attracting older customers and sending the young packing.
What, you thought only the younger generation's music was annoying to the older?
How many people know what ports are/do? More people could figure out that.xxx was porn. For those reasons, they probably don't want people to have an.xxx domain as it makes the porn that much easier to get (for those bleeding-heart anti-porn crusaders)
Does anyone use an F-Secure antivirus program and have experience with the rootkit. We use some of their products at work, but I haven't as of yet run into a rootkitted machine so I'm unsure of whether the antivirus does anything about it.
My laptop (an HP zd7000) is a 2.8Mhz P4 with a 17" widescreen, and an FX5600 mobile chipset. I've used it for LAN games without a problem. Just watch that you don't leave it on your crotch too long unless you want to disable your ability to produce children.
For games such as Half Life 2 and BattleField (1942, I don't own BF2 yet) it ran just fine. Today's laptops really aren't like the laptops of old... there are definately some that more qualify as mobile desktops.
How many commercial servers are based on "sold distributions." We have more than a dozen sites with Linux servers running Debian, which were not bought from anywhere and thus basically untraceable as a purchase. We have a few windows servers as well, which we pay for license for.
Therefore, you could easily say we've bought more windows servers than linux, even though it's probably greater than a 10-1 ratio of actual use.
Pick a season then. In the summer it's about 25-30c (77-86f), in the winter I've been as low as -40c/f, but generally we're in the -10 to -20 (14 to -4) range or milder. Right now it's about 4c (39.2f)
I wonder what spiked the sudden interest in extrarrestrial issues and politics? Is there something we don't know, or is it just pandering to those that believe in the possibility?
When they drink your blood, they actually distill it in real time, excreting out what they do not need as they drink
We used to play a game when I was younger. If you were bit by a mosquito in the right place, you could flex your muscles and tense the skin around the mosquitos beak. If you did it right, the mosquito would keep filling until it exploded (although in most cases you just got a bigger nasty itchy mark).
Seems to be that mosquitos can't exactly extrete out blood as they're taking it in, otherwise they wouldn't blow up when 'stuck'
Personally, I'd think it's more a sign that some lube company saw how uptight he was (it's amazing the guy's head hasn't exploded), figured that he probably hadn't gotten laid in a very long time, and decided to capitalize on the situation.
What you really have to look at is the price that microsoft is paying for components, etc. There are many products where the sum value of the individual parts may in fact exceed the item value (for example, car parts individually can be incredible expensive).
When they are buying at volume from parts sellers, they could be getting quite a cut on the cost of components. I doubt that MS is about to reveal the actual cost of components too, though they might be happy to go along with the idea of "selling at high loss" to make the 360 look like more of a bargain.
For that that would like to watch, it is subtitled (or at least the version I saw was) and also quite good. There's a little lost sometimes in the translation, but the overall plot is interesting, FX are decent (and quite good in some places) and there are a lot of funny additions/quirks.
Heat is bad for the card, yes. Bad for the inside of the case yes. Adding fans controls is yes... but you must factor many other things.
a) Where does the heat come from: Electricity, generally being wasted, and therefore upping your power bill
b) Where does the heat go: In the summer my main machine if left on overnight would noticable raise the temperature in the room. Over a few days it would become sweltering. Getting the heat out of the case doesn't always get rid of the overall problems of heat.
Personally, I'd like to see cards rated for heat emissions along with FPS etc. How about "average temperature after a game of Quake IV?" Fan noise would be another nice thing to factor in.
$100,000 per violation, multiplied by how many people may have been rooted by this rootkit?
I'm hoping at least 1000, as $100,000,000 would be a noticable sum even to Sony, and certainly serve as a deterrant to them and others against future idiocy. Even if it were just Texas that put a few extra nails in Sony's coffin. Such a lawsuit will seem profitable, which will probably engage the interest of more states, which will be baaaad news for Sony. Blood in the shark filled waters.
Ah well, live by the buck...
what are evil companies to do in the future. Not sell their wares in Texas? It would become pretty identifyable which wares were infested if they excluded them all from the Texam market. This is a case where the mariad of individual state laws is going to possibly be good for everyone.
As an international entity, I'm hoping that Sony will have to bend over to the courts in at least a few countries. Anyone who expected the RIAA to accept blame raise their hands? How about we let a judge decide instead.
When you lift weights, you gradually increase the weight. When you do many activities, you increase the difficulty as you increase your ability.
You could create a conspirary theory detailing 'levelling' as a behavior intended to addict, however it's been around since NES games and earlier... long before MMORPGS. Sometimes there's a line between "make interesting" and "make addicting." Sometimes whether something does one or the other depends mainly on the person involved in the activity as well.
Certainly. Love off the internet is not any worse than perhaps looking for love in a bar. Chances are it won't happen... or something will happen but it won't be love. The problem is that people go searching for Mr/Mrs right,chat with somebody and think they know him/her, and get unrealistic expectations.
But then, people nowadays expect all sorts of instant gratification... the problem is that they think they can click a girlfriend as easy as bidding on ebay. If you have social issues in real life the internet will not necessarily solve those, though it may give you chances to know somebody better before you hit the meeting part.
I guess one could look at overall lifetime of the test subjects, to see how long it would take to test these. After all, if you test on something that lives a few weeks and make it live a few months, that's good and you've only used a few months work. Now move to something with a few months lifetime, and give it a year... good, and we've only used an extra year. Now to something that lives 2-3+ years (say, a mouse) and extend it to 9+ years... suddenly you're a decade down just in proven research.
Human research wouldn't necessarily be proven applicable until you have a human live up to several centuries... without adverse reactions to the process.
I won't self rate, if you wanted you could find my pics online and find for yourself, but most people wouldn't consider me unattractive. There are, however, many no-so-attractive specimens of either gender to be found in the world of online dating. The problem is that for many people internet dating is a last resort. Currently, it seems to be mostly populated by second-comers (30-40something, out of a relationship/marriage, don't know how to get back into the scene), as it's not quite hip with those younger.
For people like me, I'm not a bar person, there aren't many social places around here, and I'm just too bloody busy. I've had quite good success at meeting people online (and later offline) since I can trade emails etc at my own pace. Online also tends to give you a 'social distance' wherein you can learn if others are worth meeting in person (there are some crazy crazy people out there), and people tend to divulge more personal information, etc when they don't have to look you in the eye and be embarrassed.
My advice to those male geeks who find themselves girlfriendless... go find more female friends and try to not date them. If you find yourself able to talk with various women without becoming a drooling idiot, they'll probably improve your social skills and/or point you in the right direction. Heck, some of them might even have cute+interesting friends.
Lawyers don't have any better understanding of technology than a cow does algebra
It's not the lawyers at fault here, it's the courts. Judges (and moreso juries) are people too. Even if this case went before a judge, there is a lot of technicality that would probably need to be very much reworded in order for him/her to understand. One of the problems with law is that one not only need to understand law (a difficult task in itself), but how it applies to the case at hand. In technology we've been getting by using laws pieced together from non-technical applications - sometimes coming out OK but often ending in disaster.
Even if the lawyers understand tech (Lessig, for example), you still need a judge and/or jury that understands it... and possibly more importantly laws that actual deal with tech rather than vaguely related scenarios/applications that have been applied to tech.
What I wonder is how they know that the kid was reenacting a scene from the game. I mean, was the kid dressed up in a fricking elf suit with feathers pasted to his arms or something like that? Did they sit and watch while he said "look mom, I'm a harpy" and jumped off an embankment.
If one of your kids pulls a glock out of dad's sock drawer and shoots the other while pretending to be "John Wayne" do they sue the makers of "stagecoach."
I have complaints from female friends that online dating sites will often retain the profiles despite them having removed their accounts (to inflate the number of purported users, I'd assume). On the other hand, many of the sites I've used (lavalife being the biggest, also one of the above accused) have enabled me to meet many 'real' people.
For all those seeking, I would offer advice. Don't look for love on the internet. Look for people of similar interest to hang around with, if things work out it might go further. If you go expecting something more however, you'll probably seem way too needy and throw off a negetive vibe.
No, most of the geeks I know are well off enough to afford such bad habits, just smart enough to avoid them. Certainly many of them like their women etc, they're just not into such things as hookers and crack.
Slashdot Mirror
I've seen a number of times articles on slashdot taking an accusatory stance against those who have sued customers for "slander." Frankly, there are a lot of companies who abuse the law, but also a lot of people that attempt to hide-behind semi-anonymity as well. If you could nail another company for slander it might work out, if it's a private individual or group with a grudge you'll possibly end up looking like a litigious asshat.
Just FYI, if you're not a GAIM user but like the videoconferencing etc features of your various IM's, keep a watch. The 2.x version of GAIM is supposed to re-merge the GAIM-VV (Voice+Video) forks so that it not only supposed multicliented goodness, but many of the media features as well.
My last experience with a RAID array: A client wanted to use a multidisk SCSI cabinet array for his server (although really all he needed was a few RAIDed drives in the case). After testing the configuration I passed along the info: the RAID arrays works great, but it was completely unfeasible to use in his office due to the fact that it sounded like a jet engine firing up.
Can anyone comment on the volume level of this array? Quiet, loud? Quiet enough for a server room but too loud for an office desk?
Well, if you're just trying to keep away younger audiences from your venue, then one could assume that you're trying to attract the older audiences. In this case, such things as old German oompah music would do quite a good job of attracting older customers and sending the young packing.
What, you thought only the younger generation's music was annoying to the older?
How many people know what ports are/do? More people could figure out that .xxx was porn. For those reasons, they probably don't want people to have an .xxx domain as it makes the porn that much easier to get (for those bleeding-heart anti-porn crusaders)
Does anyone use an F-Secure antivirus program and have experience with the rootkit. We use some of their products at work, but I haven't as of yet run into a rootkitted machine so I'm unsure of whether the antivirus does anything about it.
My laptop (an HP zd7000) is a 2.8Mhz P4 with a 17" widescreen, and an FX5600 mobile chipset. I've used it for LAN games without a problem. Just watch that you don't leave it on your crotch too long unless you want to disable your ability to produce children.
For games such as Half Life 2 and BattleField (1942, I don't own BF2 yet) it ran just fine. Today's laptops really aren't like the laptops of old... there are definately some that more qualify as mobile desktops.
How many commercial servers are based on "sold distributions." We have more than a dozen sites with Linux servers running Debian, which were not bought from anywhere and thus basically untraceable as a purchase. We have a few windows servers as well, which we pay for license for.
Therefore, you could easily say we've bought more windows servers than linux, even though it's probably greater than a 10-1 ratio of actual use.
Pick a season then. In the summer it's about 25-30c (77-86f), in the winter I've been as low as -40c/f, but generally we're in the -10 to -20 (14 to -4) range or milder. Right now it's about 4c (39.2f)
I wonder what spiked the sudden interest in extrarrestrial issues and politics? Is there something we don't know, or is it just pandering to those that believe in the possibility?
When they drink your blood, they actually distill it in real time, excreting out what they do not need as they drink
We used to play a game when I was younger. If you were bit by a mosquito in the right place, you could flex your muscles and tense the skin around the mosquitos beak. If you did it right, the mosquito would keep filling until it exploded (although in most cases you just got a bigger nasty itchy mark).
Seems to be that mosquitos can't exactly extrete out blood as they're taking it in, otherwise they wouldn't blow up when 'stuck'
Personally, I'd think it's more a sign that some lube company saw how uptight he was (it's amazing the guy's head hasn't exploded), figured that he probably hadn't gotten laid in a very long time, and decided to capitalize on the situation.
What you really have to look at is the price that microsoft is paying for components, etc. There are many products where the sum value of the individual parts may in fact exceed the item value (for example, car parts individually can be incredible expensive).
When they are buying at volume from parts sellers, they could be getting quite a cut on the cost of components. I doubt that MS is about to reveal the actual cost of components too, though they might be happy to go along with the idea of "selling at high loss" to make the 360 look like more of a bargain.
For that that would like to watch, it is subtitled (or at least the version I saw was) and also quite good. There's a little lost sometimes in the translation, but the overall plot is interesting, FX are decent (and quite good in some places) and there are a lot of funny additions/quirks.
I might add something to this:
Heat is bad for the card, yes. Bad for the inside of the case yes. Adding fans controls is yes... but you must factor many other things.
a) Where does the heat come from: Electricity, generally being wasted, and therefore upping your power bill
b) Where does the heat go: In the summer my main machine if left on overnight would noticable raise the temperature in the room. Over a few days it would become sweltering. Getting the heat out of the case doesn't always get rid of the overall problems of heat.
Personally, I'd like to see cards rated for heat emissions along with FPS etc. How about "average temperature after a game of Quake IV?" Fan noise would be another nice thing to factor in.
Lawsuits :-)
$100,000 per violation, multiplied by how many people may have been rooted by this rootkit?
I'm hoping at least 1000, as $100,000,000 would be a noticable sum even to Sony, and certainly serve as a deterrant to them and others against future idiocy. Even if it were just Texas that put a few extra nails in Sony's coffin. Such a lawsuit will seem profitable, which will probably engage the interest of more states, which will be baaaad news for Sony. Blood in the shark filled waters.
Ah well, live by the buck...
what are evil companies to do in the future. Not sell their wares in Texas? It would become pretty identifyable which wares were infested if they excluded them all from the Texam market. This is a case where the mariad of individual state laws is going to possibly be good for everyone.
As an international entity, I'm hoping that Sony will have to bend over to the courts in at least a few countries. Anyone who expected the RIAA to accept blame raise their hands? How about we let a judge decide instead.
When you lift weights, you gradually increase the weight. When you do many activities, you increase the difficulty as you increase your ability.
You could create a conspirary theory detailing 'levelling' as a behavior intended to addict, however it's been around since NES games and earlier... long before MMORPGS. Sometimes there's a line between "make interesting" and "make addicting." Sometimes whether something does one or the other depends mainly on the person involved in the activity as well.
Certainly. Love off the internet is not any worse than perhaps looking for love in a bar. Chances are it won't happen... or something will happen but it won't be love. The problem is that people go searching for Mr/Mrs right,chat with somebody and think they know him/her, and get unrealistic expectations.
But then, people nowadays expect all sorts of instant gratification... the problem is that they think they can click a girlfriend as easy as bidding on ebay. If you have social issues in real life the internet will not necessarily solve those, though it may give you chances to know somebody better before you hit the meeting part.
I guess one could look at overall lifetime of the test subjects, to see how long it would take to test these. After all, if you test on something that lives a few weeks and make it live a few months, that's good and you've only used a few months work. Now move to something with a few months lifetime, and give it a year... good, and we've only used an extra year. Now to something that lives 2-3+ years (say, a mouse) and extend it to 9+ years... suddenly you're a decade down just in proven research.
Human research wouldn't necessarily be proven applicable until you have a human live up to several centuries... without adverse reactions to the process.
I won't self rate, if you wanted you could find my pics online and find for yourself, but most people wouldn't consider me unattractive. There are, however, many no-so-attractive specimens of either gender to be found in the world of online dating. The problem is that for many people internet dating is a last resort. Currently, it seems to be mostly populated by second-comers (30-40something, out of a relationship/marriage, don't know how to get back into the scene), as it's not quite hip with those younger.
For people like me, I'm not a bar person, there aren't many social places around here, and I'm just too bloody busy. I've had quite good success at meeting people online (and later offline) since I can trade emails etc at my own pace. Online also tends to give you a 'social distance' wherein you can learn if others are worth meeting in person (there are some crazy crazy people out there), and people tend to divulge more personal information, etc when they don't have to look you in the eye and be embarrassed.
My advice to those male geeks who find themselves girlfriendless... go find more female friends and try to not date them. If you find yourself able to talk with various women without becoming a drooling idiot, they'll probably improve your social skills and/or point you in the right direction. Heck, some of them might even have cute+interesting friends.
Lawyers don't have any better understanding of technology than a cow does algebra
It's not the lawyers at fault here, it's the courts. Judges (and moreso juries) are people too. Even if this case went before a judge, there is a lot of technicality that would probably need to be very much reworded in order for him/her to understand. One of the problems with law is that one not only need to understand law (a difficult task in itself), but how it applies to the case at hand. In technology we've been getting by using laws pieced together from non-technical applications - sometimes coming out OK but often ending in disaster.
Even if the lawyers understand tech (Lessig, for example), you still need a judge and/or jury that understands it... and possibly more importantly laws that actual deal with tech rather than vaguely related scenarios/applications that have been applied to tech.
What I wonder is how they know that the kid was reenacting a scene from the game. I mean, was the kid dressed up in a fricking elf suit with feathers pasted to his arms or something like that? Did they sit and watch while he said "look mom, I'm a harpy" and jumped off an embankment.
If one of your kids pulls a glock out of dad's sock drawer and shoots the other while pretending to be "John Wayne" do they sue the makers of "stagecoach."
Darwin never counted on the lawyers...
I have complaints from female friends that online dating sites will often retain the profiles despite them having removed their accounts (to inflate the number of purported users, I'd assume). On the other hand, many of the sites I've used (lavalife being the biggest, also one of the above accused) have enabled me to meet many 'real' people.
For all those seeking, I would offer advice. Don't look for love on the internet. Look for people of similar interest to hang around with, if things work out it might go further. If you go expecting something more however, you'll probably seem way too needy and throw off a negetive vibe.
No, most of the geeks I know are well off enough to afford such bad habits, just smart enough to avoid them. Certainly many of them like their women etc, they're just not into such things as hookers and crack.