A good book has to
a) Provoke thought
and/or
b) Stimulate the imagination
Scenario (a) often applies to the non-fiction works, or works based on comtemporary/historic/near-futuristic reality. You have events that happened, or events that very possible could have happened, had things been a bit different, or could happen in the future. It gives you that sense of "what if" that makes you think, and also leads you into scenario (b).
Scenario (b) works often start in the fictionous/fantasy realm. Characters are very far out, not believable in physical definition, but (for their fictive archetype), believable in action. Things like being able to fly, or use magic, etc are often based around childhood imaginations or fantasy. It doesn't really make for a "what if this happened today", but more of a scenario where the reader thinks: I wish life were more like this.
A prior employer of mine ran 486/33's (and maybe 386's, not sure) as nameservers, and also as webservers too I think. Biggest complaint was compile-time for apache/etc
It was a TV episode not a real event (unless the episode was based on the event). He was arguing that he saw a bunch of girls smoking, and - to get noticed - had written an anti-smoking message on his fleshy little friend.
But yeah, perhaps these guys saw that episode as well and decided to try it for mooning?
Back in the day, when I was connecting to BBS's on an old 14.4kbps modem, I used to be able to troubleshoot line conditions by sound. By playing with some of the initializating strings, one could set the modem speaker to "always on" even after connect. Doing so allowed me to listen for off-sounding noises, which indicated line degradation.
Surprisingly, when I was having a sluggish connection, these noises were, in fact, audible. I wouldn't really think of doing this for a high-speed connecting, that's just odd, but it was useful back then - so who knows!
How about the effects of "retread" tires on the environment? Here in BC, we have a lot of big trucks going through. Since new tires are expensive, they get continuous retreads (basically old tires with new tread applied). You see a lot of "gators" on the side of the road, in the road, etc where large portions of the retread have simply come loose and spun away.
Granted, retreading a tire is probably nicer on the environment than bringing out a whole new tire, but not when these retreads are laying along roadsides polluting etc.
Not to mention that some of these suckers are quite large. When they come flying off of big-rig towards you, it would be somewhat of a safety hazard?
Hmmm, I was wondering what the "flavor" of the current staroffice CD was, so I licked a few. Blah, they don't taste very good. I guess a java-flavor would be an improvement, even though I'm not a huge coffee fan anyways.
After reading the title, I just had to post this regardless of any possible karma-burning involved...
Not to mention that if somebody sees a card that says ATI, runs it, and it sucks (due to drivers or whatever)... they'll probably just get the impression that ATI sucks anyways.
Oh yes, and I run a true ATI Radeon, and a OEM GeForce... guess which one ran better out of the box (or ever with driver updates, for that matter):-)
Creepy little spiders
on
Giant Spider Web
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
I'm not a huge fan of spiders, but I'm not completely freaked out by them and this is pretty cool. With the amount of little arachnids crawling around,wouldn't the entire area around this web also be infested by spiders? Just walking near it would probably have a bunch of little eight-legged wonders crawling up your pantleg (yoiks). 60 acres is a lot of land... so a few things I would like to know are:
Are these spiders migrating, or rebuilding their silken home?
How long did it take these spiders to make the web, it says early October, so maybe a little over a month?
How fast are they spreading, and what's the estimated spider-count?
What variety/breed of spiders are these. They all seem the same in the pictures, but are there more than one?
Ummm yeah, and lots of spiders. Hopefully they'll find out why they decided to build this megaweb (shelter in winter, perhaps?) - keep us informed eh?
But then you must question yourself, is it really worth it to do so. And then you go beyond the point of somebody who is simply "trading music" to being somebody who is making a conscious effort to rip the company off (after they supply - to some extent - what many have been asking for, no less!).
Meaning: We understand that after a whole bunch of people sent us pissed off emails, we understand that perhaps thief was not the most diplomatic term to use, but we're still too anal to change or apologize...
I'd imagine that some of this is still in *cough* support contracts, add-ons, etc etc.
Of course, that's often how many linux systems get money, that and donation.
Microsoft support is about as strong as a bra with a broken strap - phorm
Why would they allow pinging anyways? Really, as a root DNS server, one would think that All they should allow are DNS queries and related. I suppose pinging might suck bandwidth, but just ignoring the pings helps on the server end?
What I'm really hearing here, is that AMD won't be shelling out tons of bucks in competing with Intel to crank out the latest 9-gazillahertz equivilent chips. It's not to say that they're backing out of making processors, or even that they won't make fast chips, just that it will no longer be their target focus.
As many may notice, Intel's been cranking out higher-gigahertz chips on a fairly regular basis. AMD can probably hit the same numbers, just not in the same amount of time. Fine by me, how many people would actually *USE* a 3.2Ghz chip?
If they're expanding their market, perhaps we can forsee AMD moving into more intelligent chips, and perhaps assisting more in other peripherals (video cards, etc).
If this switch is successful, perhaps we'll see a happy ending. AMD gaining a stronger market in other areas could give them a bigger push in comsumer processor market a few years from now, whereas at the current time it's costing them money to compete.
Does this go on the client machine? This the only way I could think of that this would work. In such case, sounds like a trojan to me, and I'm fairly sure the Kazaa people already figured this one out...
Ralsky, meanwhile, is looking at new technology. Recently he's been talking to two computer programmers in Romania who have developed what could be called stealth spam.
It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.
"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.
One of the ways SPAM manages to propogate so readily is the fact that it is often bounced off systems with open relays. This is done unknown to many of the remote sysadmins, who either don't know or don't really care about their open relays.
"I've gone overseas," he said. "I now send most of my mail from other countries. And that's a shame. I pay a fortune to providers to do this...
This article does indicate that there are a certain amount of foreign ISP's willing to allow the spamcrap through though, some in Canada no less (which means me, as a Canadian, very unhappy).
Is there an equivilent "open relay" for Windows Messaging Service? If not, addresses could probably be much easier to block via IP, as they would have to be broadcast by "willing" recipients (or those trojan infected, etc). As above, I suppose some scummy ISPS would be willing to host the infectious service, but hopefully they wouldn't be as hard to blacklist as the fluxuous number of open relays?
I've had a lot of problems with inhaling allergens during burning season. Sucking in sagebrush particles whilst the farmers were burning gave me 3 months of nasty symptoms. I'd imaging that sucking radiative tree smoke right into your lungs etc might be a little worse than solar radiation, isn't out external dermal layer intended to protect the more sensitive internals?
Unfortunately, my government tends to "follow the leader" as well. But every now and then we get the impression that they feel the same way. Unforunately, as soon as such comments are made, they get stomped on... but perhaps it's a start to standing up and saying how we actually feel.
Seems to me that even a lot of the American population on slashdot realized Bush's lack of intelligence in many areas, and that 9-11, while tragic, was a foreseeable situation.
I'm hoping that "you" doesn't include me. Since I'm not an American, and last time I heard one of our gov't members was being shit upon for calling him a moron in public (regardless of whether the majority of the population agreed, I suppose it's bad politics to speak what's more or less globally accepted).
I seem to remember hearing that to actually produce at a potent level, men require a certain temperature, etc in their nether-regions. Way back when button-up tight-pants were in style (we're talking very tight, and not designed to be loose on your boys), there was a marked problem with childlessness. Seems that when the pants mashed everything together, it was too close to the body's heat and thus less production.
I believe it's also related to why you drop down in hot climate and "tuck in" in hot weather. Perhaps something that offset the temperature balance would also act as a control method? Of course, I'm not sure if those x-century men recovered after going back to normal pants, so it may still be too permanent a solution.
Seven years for testing isn't extremely huge. If you find out that after 8 years of use it causes permanent sterility, impotence, etc etc.
For myself, I'd find 15 years a short time to test something before I go swallowing a pill, or jamming a needle in my leg, no knowing the long-term side-effects.
Possibly, but it's also a good way to get yourself in trouble. I somewhat liked the idea of the guy that mentioned the Mafia. Organized crime probably uses the internet a fair bit. Many of them probably also use (for personal or otherwise) and/or get spam. Just passing on his personal info to a guys named "Vinny" and "Vito" might help
*shrugs*
I figured that was somewhat of a given. It would be poetic, but it's probably also anticipated and thus blocked somehow (in which case it might also be ironic)
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A good book has to
a) Provoke thought
and/or
b) Stimulate the imagination
Scenario (a) often applies to the non-fiction works, or works based on comtemporary/historic/near-futuristic reality. You have events that happened, or events that very possible could have happened, had things been a bit different, or could happen in the future. It gives you that sense of "what if" that makes you think, and also leads you into scenario (b).
Scenario (b) works often start in the fictionous/fantasy realm. Characters are very far out, not believable in physical definition, but (for their fictive archetype), believable in action. Things like being able to fly, or use magic, etc are often based around childhood imaginations or fantasy. It doesn't really make for a "what if this happened today", but more of a scenario where the reader thinks: I wish life were more like this.
Don't cross me boy, you'd make an ugly toad!
A prior employer of mine ran 486/33's (and maybe 386's, not sure) as nameservers, and also as webservers too I think. Biggest complaint was compile-time for apache/etc
It was a TV episode not a real event (unless the episode was based on the event). He was arguing that he saw a bunch of girls smoking, and - to get noticed - had written an anti-smoking message on his fleshy little friend.
But yeah, perhaps these guys saw that episode as well and decided to try it for mooning?
You mean you haven't case-modded your toilet yet? Hmmm, and you call yourself a slashdotter :-)
Back in the day, when I was connecting to BBS's on an old 14.4kbps modem, I used to be able to troubleshoot line conditions by sound. By playing with some of the initializating strings, one could set the modem speaker to "always on" even after connect. Doing so allowed me to listen for off-sounding noises, which indicated line degradation.
Surprisingly, when I was having a sluggish connection, these noises were, in fact, audible. I wouldn't really think of doing this for a high-speed connecting, that's just odd, but it was useful back then - so who knows!
How about the effects of "retread" tires on the environment? Here in BC, we have a lot of big trucks going through. Since new tires are expensive, they get continuous retreads (basically old tires with new tread applied). You see a lot of "gators" on the side of the road, in the road, etc where large portions of the retread have simply come loose and spun away.
Granted, retreading a tire is probably nicer on the environment than bringing out a whole new tire, but not when these retreads are laying along roadsides polluting etc.
Not to mention that some of these suckers are quite large. When they come flying off of big-rig towards you, it would be somewhat of a safety hazard?
Sun To Give StarOffice Java Flavor
Hmmm, I was wondering what the "flavor" of the current staroffice CD was, so I licked a few. Blah, they don't taste very good. I guess a java-flavor would be an improvement, even though I'm not a huge coffee fan anyways.
After reading the title, I just had to post this regardless of any possible karma-burning involved...
Not to mention that if somebody sees a card that says ATI, runs it, and it sucks (due to drivers or whatever)... they'll probably just get the impression that ATI sucks anyways.
:-)
Oh yes, and I run a true ATI Radeon, and a OEM GeForce... guess which one ran better out of the box (or ever with driver updates, for that matter)
- Are these spiders migrating, or rebuilding their silken home?
- How long did it take these spiders to make the web, it says early October, so maybe a little over a month?
- How fast are they spreading, and what's the estimated spider-count?
- What variety/breed of spiders are these. They all seem the same in the pictures, but are there more than one?
Ummm yeah, and lots of spiders. Hopefully they'll find out why they decided to build this megaweb (shelter in winter, perhaps?) - keep us informed eh?But then you must question yourself, is it really worth it to do so. And then you go beyond the point of somebody who is simply "trading music" to being somebody who is making a conscious effort to rip the company off (after they supply - to some extent - what many have been asking for, no less!).
- Not tying up the phone
- Not paying for an extra line (alternately)
- Streaming media over 56k
There's also:And the bad:
A lot of things that we don't think about, they'd just be as inconvenient as hell. Geeks/gamers are not the only ones who enjoy broadband!
Meaning: We understand that after a whole bunch of people sent us pissed off emails, we understand that perhaps thief was not the most diplomatic term to use, but we're still too anal to change or apologize...
I'd imagine that some of this is still in *cough* support contracts, add-ons, etc etc.
Of course, that's often how many linux systems get money, that and donation.
Microsoft support is about as strong as a bra with a broken strap - phorm
Why would they allow pinging anyways? Really, as a root DNS server, one would think that All they should allow are DNS queries and related. I suppose pinging might suck bandwidth, but just ignoring the pings helps on the server end?
What I'm really hearing here, is that AMD won't be shelling out tons of bucks in competing with Intel to crank out the latest 9-gazillahertz equivilent chips. It's not to say that they're backing out of making processors, or even that they won't make fast chips, just that it will no longer be their target focus.
As many may notice, Intel's been cranking out higher-gigahertz chips on a fairly regular basis. AMD can probably hit the same numbers, just not in the same amount of time. Fine by me, how many people would actually *USE* a 3.2Ghz chip?
If they're expanding their market, perhaps we can forsee AMD moving into more intelligent chips, and perhaps assisting more in other peripherals (video cards, etc).
If this switch is successful, perhaps we'll see a happy ending. AMD gaining a stronger market in other areas could give them a bigger push in comsumer processor market a few years from now, whereas at the current time it's costing them money to compete.
Does this go on the client machine? This the only way I could think of that this would work. In such case, sounds like a trojan to me, and I'm fairly sure the Kazaa people already figured this one out...
Ralsky, meanwhile, is looking at new technology. Recently he's been talking to two computer programmers in Romania who have developed what could be called stealth spam.
It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.
"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.
One of the ways SPAM manages to propogate so readily is the fact that it is often bounced off systems with open relays. This is done unknown to many of the remote sysadmins, who either don't know or don't really care about their open relays. "I've gone overseas," he said. "I now send most of my mail from other countries. And that's a shame. I pay a fortune to providers to do this... This article does indicate that there are a certain amount of foreign ISP's willing to allow the spamcrap through though, some in Canada no less (which means me, as a Canadian, very unhappy).
Is there an equivilent "open relay" for Windows Messaging Service? If not, addresses could probably be much easier to block via IP, as they would have to be broadcast by "willing" recipients (or those trojan infected, etc). As above, I suppose some scummy ISPS would be willing to host the infectious service, but hopefully they wouldn't be as hard to blacklist as the fluxuous number of open relays?
I've had a lot of problems with inhaling allergens during burning season. Sucking in sagebrush particles whilst the farmers were burning gave me 3 months of nasty symptoms. I'd imaging that sucking radiative tree smoke right into your lungs etc might be a little worse than solar radiation, isn't out external dermal layer intended to protect the more sensitive internals?
Unfortunately, my government tends to "follow the leader" as well. But every now and then we get the impression that they feel the same way. Unforunately, as soon as such comments are made, they get stomped on... but perhaps it's a start to standing up and saying how we actually feel.
Seems to me that even a lot of the American population on slashdot realized Bush's lack of intelligence in many areas, and that 9-11, while tragic, was a foreseeable situation.
I'm hoping that "you" doesn't include me. Since I'm not an American, and last time I heard one of our gov't members was being shit upon for calling him a moron in public (regardless of whether the majority of the population agreed, I suppose it's bad politics to speak what's more or less globally accepted).
I seem to remember hearing that to actually produce at a potent level, men require a certain temperature, etc in their nether-regions. Way back when button-up tight-pants were in style (we're talking very tight, and not designed to be loose on your boys), there was a marked problem with childlessness. Seems that when the pants mashed everything together, it was too close to the body's heat and thus less production.
I believe it's also related to why you drop down in hot climate and "tuck in" in hot weather. Perhaps something that offset the temperature balance would also act as a control method? Of course, I'm not sure if those x-century men recovered after going back to normal pants, so it may still be too permanent a solution.
Seven years for testing isn't extremely huge. If you find out that after 8 years of use it causes permanent sterility, impotence, etc etc.
For myself, I'd find 15 years a short time to test something before I go swallowing a pill, or jamming a needle in my leg, no knowing the long-term side-effects.
Possibly, but it's also a good way to get yourself in trouble. I somewhat liked the idea of the guy that mentioned the Mafia. Organized crime probably uses the internet a fair bit. Many of them probably also use (for personal or otherwise) and/or get spam. Just passing on his personal info to a guys named "Vinny" and "Vito" might help
*shrugs*
I figured that was somewhat of a given. It would be poetic, but it's probably also anticipated and thus blocked somehow (in which case it might also be ironic)
Sign him up in their list... nuff said