I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Slashdot fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Slashdot screen for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 line troll from one message thread on the hard drive to another thread. 20 minutes. At home, on my Kur05hin account, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Slashdot, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this troll transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even fuckedcompany.net is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Slashdots, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Slashdot that has run faster than its Kuro5hin counterpart, despite the Slashdot's faster troll architecture. my.yahoo.com with 8 categories of Rueters Top News runs faster than this site at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Slashdot is a superior forum.
Slashdot addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Slashdot over other faster, cheaper, more stable forums.
Nice. Although, the real reason was because land owners were the only ones with a vested interest in the well-being of the fledgling government and could therefore be trusted to make informed and reasoned decisions.
Furthermore, there was another layer of insulation thrown in via the Electoral College, which was a brake against tidal swings in public opinion which might lead to "Fad" government (see: Perot, Ross).
...isn't this a re-do of an old Charlton Heston film named "Omega Man", where a plague strikes the Earth and the infected turn into homicidal Edgar Winter impersonators? Heston plays the lone scientist who is apparently immune, and he meets a band of uninfected persons holding out against the organized night fighters.
I think I'll save $7 (diff between new movie and old rental) and just see Omega Man again.
An EMP would be great, except perhaps for the fact that generating an EMP would be quite hazardous to anything near the generator (typically a low-yield thermonuclear device).
It's not intended for GA. As was proven shortly after 9/11 when that kid flew a Cessna-150 into the 9th floor of a building, it takes a large (commercial) aircraft to do anything more than destroy one office and a couple of nearby cubicles.
A typical GA craft (including executive jets), even loaded to the spars with explosive, would never be more than a minor threat to a commercial building. It would surely cause a mess, but nothing approaching the total devastation (a la 9/11) contemplated by this prevention system.
I do like the anti-hijack capabilities. A hijack happens and the pilot activates the system (one-way, no deactivation from within the cockpit). All of a sudden the hijackers have extremely limited options. All the ground controller needs to do is execute a few snap-rolls and the hijack party would be quickly over...;-)
Designed to fly high and fast, out of range of Soviet SAMs and strike aircraft.
Shortly thereafter, the Soviets designed SAMs that could reach high enough that focus switched instead to terrain-following in order to avoid radar detection altogether.
The MPAA/RIAA had a chance years ago to work *with* this wonderful new decentralized distribution system which obviously had consumer appeal. The rewards would have been enormous for corporation and consumer alike.
However, threatened by a new distribution method which would (necessarily) erode their absolute control over unit pricing, artist contracts, and royalty payments, they chose the ignorant and paranoid method of attempting to hold water in their fists merely by gripping tighter.
Instead of meekly returning to their easily-predictable demographic marketing boxes as demanded by the Media Masters, many consumers chose instead to exercise this new-found freedom. An economic downturn decimated the disposable income of hundreds of millions who could no longer afford to gamble on whether the contents of a CD matched the quality of the lone song pushed in heavy rotation by related radio stations across the country.
In a further effort to reign in the unmanaged masses, the RIAA/MPAA turned to ridiculous claims of speculative "loss of potential income" and outrageous lawsuits which only served to alienate higher numbers of consumers. Some who were merely curious grew bolder and some who like to sample prior to purchase became dedicated pirates. Too late, some industry entities released anemic and over-priced "services" that were mere shadows of the technology embraced and demanded by the consumers.
So now we have artists denied the ability to manage their own work (ie when Sony denied The Offspring the right to release their upcoming album via MP3), multi-million dollar lawsuits against private individuals, and blatantly illegal activities (release of virii into the wild, attempts to hack into suspected "offenders'" systems). The hypocrisy and greed of the corporations becomes more evident with every action and every press release.
The RIAA/MPAA made this a problem. They have only themselves to blame.
IANARS,BIKSWA (I Am Not A Rocket Scientist, But I Know Some Who Are)
The amount of fuel required to slow the Orbiter to that degree is prohibitive both in terms of weight and storage. You'd need about the same amount of fuel to slow the craft as it took to accelerate it to the required velocity to achieve orbit.
And the human body has a terminal velocity of around 130 mph - not enough to generate significant heat from friction.
Your statement is analogous to a body struggling to overcome cancer. Sure a few cancer cells will get destroyed, but if you don't see the mortal peril then you have your head in the sand.
Microsoft makes a half-assed product and they have no real incentive to change that because there is no one in a position to challenge in the consumer desktop market (MS' flagship product, and the vast majority of their revenue). Microsoft has, does, and will continue to do their best by any means possible to stop the growth of competition.
Therefore, true innovation has really stagnated. Superior peripheral projects such as Linux are only now starting to move into the mainstream, but only because of applications which mimic the functionality of the apps which run native on Windows (which comes native on 99% of the PCs sold).
So Microsoft may not have owned *ALL* of the roads, but they owned the expressways, boulevards, and avenues over which the majority of the population traveled, all because those were custom-built to accomodate Microsoft's cars.
"Andrew Hannah, a network administrator for the district, admitted security was an afterthought when the first open wireless networks were installed at the Jordan and Jane Lathrop Stanford middle schools and the district office between 2000 and 2002."
This is the problem with DeVry's, et al, ginning millions of Win32-morons out into the world of computer administration. You get a bunch of clownpunchers who know how to press shiny buttons but who don't have a clue about the underlying principles (and responsibilities) of the computer networks they are in charge of administering.
Mod me troll, but I'm tired of the polluted job market, and absolutely sick to death of cleaning up the puke left behind at countless small companies by these nimrods.
Slashdot Mirror
I cannot be stamped, filed, categorized... aw fuckit. Gimme the bong.
Hey.. -5 is still an integer...
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Slashdot fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Slashdot screen for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 line troll from one message thread on the hard drive to another thread. 20 minutes. At home, on my Kur05hin account, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Slashdot, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this troll transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even fuckedcompany.net is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Slashdots, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Slashdot that has run faster than its Kuro5hin counterpart, despite the Slashdot's faster troll architecture. my.yahoo.com with 8 categories of Rueters Top News runs faster than this site at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Slashdot is a superior forum.
Slashdot addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Slashdot over other faster, cheaper, more stable forums.
Ahhh.. the old Magic Bus. I remember that.. helped work on it a little. Nice VR helicopter game inside, too.
Those were the days to be working at SGI. I still have my "3 Billion" towel and a couple of tshirts (out of the hundred or so which came my way).
you mean the guy who wrote "The Count of Monte Cristo"?
I'd recommend "Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition" from O'Reilly & Associates. It can be found here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fire2/
Then read the FAQ for your particular firewall implementation and by all means join a relevant mailing list for that implementation.
We're the Internet; we're here to help.
Nice. Although, the real reason was because land owners were the only ones with a vested interest in the well-being of the fledgling government and could therefore be trusted to make informed and reasoned decisions.
Furthermore, there was another layer of insulation thrown in via the Electoral College, which was a brake against tidal swings in public opinion which might lead to "Fad" government (see: Perot, Ross).
I would never hit Big Blue in the face.
I might step on a toe (I'm not the most graceful dancer, I'm afraid) but would graciously apologize afterward and offer to fetch a cup of fruit punch.
We penguins are a generally polite crowd (misrepresentation in various "Batman" franchise products and Microsoft FUD notwithstanding).
I believe the only evidence he has seen was a few zeros to the left of the decimal on a check drawn on a SCO bank account.
Yeah. They trained him to stay the fuck out of the way.
However.. if I had 20 mil to burn you can bet your ass I'd be on the next flight up there.
Wow.. so you REALLY are an old fart... ;-)
...isn't this a re-do of an old Charlton Heston film named "Omega Man", where a plague strikes the Earth and the infected turn into homicidal Edgar Winter impersonators? Heston plays the lone scientist who is apparently immune, and he meets a band of uninfected persons holding out against the organized night fighters.
I think I'll save $7 (diff between new movie and old rental) and just see Omega Man again.
Hmm.. this might explain the sudden massive shift in Dentistry toward exclusive use of ceramics in tooth fillings.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Drop your panties, Sir William, I cannot wait until lunchtime.
An EMP would be great, except perhaps for the fact that generating an EMP would be quite hazardous to anything near the generator (typically a low-yield thermonuclear device).
"Most crashes are due to pilot error, but I'm not quite ready to hand the controls over to a computer. I think it would be a disaster."
The FAA has long held that controlled flight into terrain is almost always pilot error...
It's not intended for GA. As was proven shortly after 9/11 when that kid flew a Cessna-150 into the 9th floor of a building, it takes a large (commercial) aircraft to do anything more than destroy one office and a couple of nearby cubicles.
;-)
A typical GA craft (including executive jets), even loaded to the spars with explosive, would never be more than a minor threat to a commercial building. It would surely cause a mess, but nothing approaching the total devastation (a la 9/11) contemplated by this prevention system.
I do like the anti-hijack capabilities. A hijack happens and the pilot activates the system (one-way, no deactivation from within the cockpit). All of a sudden the hijackers have extremely limited options. All the ground controller needs to do is execute a few snap-rolls and the hijack party would be quickly over...
I thought "frosty piss" was an Australian slang for cold beer...?
Isn't that Mrs. Gates' pet-name for Bill?
Some where there is a small group of Vikings who are very pleased...
Check out the 60s-vintage Mach-3 XB-70..
http://www.labiker.org/xb70.html
Designed to fly high and fast, out of range of Soviet SAMs and strike aircraft.
Shortly thereafter, the Soviets designed SAMs that could reach high enough that focus switched instead to terrain-following in order to avoid radar detection altogether.
The MPAA/RIAA had a chance years ago to work *with* this wonderful new decentralized distribution system which obviously had consumer appeal. The rewards would have been enormous for corporation and consumer alike.
However, threatened by a new distribution method which would (necessarily) erode their absolute control over unit pricing, artist contracts, and royalty payments, they chose the ignorant and paranoid method of attempting to hold water in their fists merely by gripping tighter.
Instead of meekly returning to their easily-predictable demographic marketing boxes as demanded by the Media Masters, many consumers chose instead to exercise this new-found freedom. An economic downturn decimated the disposable income of hundreds of millions who could no longer afford to gamble on whether the contents of a CD matched the quality of the lone song pushed in heavy rotation by related radio stations across the country.
In a further effort to reign in the unmanaged masses, the RIAA/MPAA turned to ridiculous claims of speculative "loss of potential income" and outrageous lawsuits which only served to alienate higher numbers of consumers. Some who were merely curious grew bolder and some who like to sample prior to purchase became dedicated pirates. Too late, some industry entities released anemic and over-priced "services" that were mere shadows of the technology embraced and demanded by the consumers.
So now we have artists denied the ability to manage their own work (ie when Sony denied The Offspring the right to release their upcoming album via MP3), multi-million dollar lawsuits against private individuals, and blatantly illegal activities (release of virii into the wild, attempts to hack into suspected "offenders'" systems). The hypocrisy and greed of the corporations becomes more evident with every action and every press release.
The RIAA/MPAA made this a problem. They have only themselves to blame.
IANARS,BIKSWA (I Am Not A Rocket Scientist, But I Know Some Who Are)
The amount of fuel required to slow the Orbiter to that degree is prohibitive both in terms of weight and storage. You'd need about the same amount of fuel to slow the craft as it took to accelerate it to the required velocity to achieve orbit.
And the human body has a terminal velocity of around 130 mph - not enough to generate significant heat from friction.
Your statement is analogous to a body struggling to overcome cancer. Sure a few cancer cells will get destroyed, but if you don't see the mortal peril then you have your head in the sand.
Microsoft makes a half-assed product and they have no real incentive to change that because there is no one in a position to challenge in the consumer desktop market (MS' flagship product, and the vast majority of their revenue). Microsoft has, does, and will continue to do their best by any means possible to stop the growth of competition.
Therefore, true innovation has really stagnated. Superior peripheral projects such as Linux are only now starting to move into the mainstream, but only because of applications which mimic the functionality of the apps which run native on Windows (which comes native on 99% of the PCs sold).
So Microsoft may not have owned *ALL* of the roads, but they owned the expressways, boulevards, and avenues over which the majority of the population traveled, all because those were custom-built to accomodate Microsoft's cars.
uh oh.. boss is coming...
"Andrew Hannah, a network administrator for the district, admitted security was an afterthought when the first open wireless networks were installed at the Jordan and Jane Lathrop Stanford middle schools and the district office between 2000 and 2002."
This is the problem with DeVry's, et al, ginning millions of Win32-morons out into the world of computer administration. You get a bunch of clownpunchers who know how to press shiny buttons but who don't have a clue about the underlying principles (and responsibilities) of the computer networks they are in charge of administering.
Mod me troll, but I'm tired of the polluted job market, and absolutely sick to death of cleaning up the puke left behind at countless small companies by these nimrods.