It's pretty bad when people who reply don't read the article, but shouldn't the poster himself at least read it? Excerpt from the article:
"The Linux, NetBSD and Microsoft Windows operating systems are known to have vulnerable link layer implementations, and it is extremely likely that other operating systems are also affected."
I see the most realistic violence in the News.. Sure, I think that it is important to realize what's going on around the world, but do we really have to hear every detail about the latest suicide bombing, including close-ups of bloody bodies? But few people will go out and kill or bomb someone from this, because it is so graphic. That is not to say that no one will..
Maybe if you make the games realistic enough, and if we show enough blood and gore, people will be so turned off that they won't kill people. A far fetched argument, but you never know.
Element 118 has not been proven (as mentioned in the list), but has Element 116? It was apparantly seen by the same group that saw 118, but from what I could find, it was also seen by some Russians..
Does anyone have any more information on Element 116?
From now on, I'm just going to download all my music off of the Internet. If i listen to more than just the first 15 seconds of the song before deciding that it's crap, I'm going to mail $5 to the band. That's probably 10x more than what they would have gotten had I bought the CD. Screw the record label. The band can distribute the money as they see fit.
Of course, I am aware that there are some problems with this plan.. It is still illegal, and there is no way to make sure that the record companies don't usurp the money from the band..
Funny, where I work doing tech support, most people are scrambling TO work christmas, boxing day (a stat holiday in Canada) and New Years, because of the double-time-and-a-half.
If I wanted to, I could have traded my shift away, and gotten cash for it, and still been payed for the holiday.
But, doesn't bother me, I worked the graveyard shift, so now I'm relaxing at 11:00 am, drinking some wine, and celebrating. My family doesn't really celebrate Christmas until the 28th anyways (let's us get the last minute boxing day shopping in.. been that way since as long as I can remember - suprised more people don't celebrate this commercial holiday later.)
I'm sure that most of the people in starving nations would gladly move to somewhere like the United States or Canada (insert other country here) or elsewhere, but its not like they can just go buy a plane ticket, fly there, buy a house, and start a new life..
It's a question of cost.. What's cheaper and easiest, moving everyone, or just shipping them some food once in a while?
Also, as for the fact that most people in impoverished have more children than those in other nations, that's because there's not much else to do.. I mean, what would you do if you and your girlfriend were sitting around the house, and there was no Nintendo, Slashdot, or Back to the Future DVDs?
.. And you probably wouldn't have the money to afford the condoms or birth control either.
"The issue of trying to do a targeted response to this is just lending credibility to something that is, on its face, asinine," NASA chief Sean O'Keefe said in late November after the dust settled."
Why bother trying to convince the "crackpots"? What percentage of the population are they, and does it really concern NASA? Maybe the most telling thing about the whole story is that NASA does seem concerned.
If they really want to prove them wrong, then take me (and everyone else) to the moon, and we'll check out that flag and footprints to see if they're there.
Nasa will not be able to convince all the "crackpots" until there is a viable station on the moon that people can go to for vacation.
Actually, the argument was more along the lines of, "do we really need another Exchange client" or "do [most] Linux users really want or need to connect to an Exchange server".
I think that the software, as shown in the preview pictures, does look useful to Linux people who need to connect to Exchange servers, but do the number of people who need to do this really justify an expendature of 5 million dollars, especially when there are other packages working to do the same thing. I know where I wouldn't spend my extra $5 million, but if he thinks its worth it, then I wish him the best of luck.
Since when is "Microsoft Outlook shipped with most Windows computers"?
Seems to me that if Outlook was shipped, Microsoft wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to work Outlook Express into the OS as they have.
It seems like a well funded project, and seems 'noble' enough, but is it really needed? I just use KMail for e-mail. Even at work where I do use Outlook for Exchange connectivity, we don't really use the Calender features. Maybe if I had a PDA and could sync back and forth, but then I'd have to get used to entering all my appointments into the calender. It's easier to just write it down on a piece of paper or use my brain.
All I'd really need if I was in a Linux shop would be a mail client that could connect to Exchange (and there are already several projects working on this), but if it were a Linux shop, we wouldn't have Exchange, would we?
Also, a little off topic, Slashdot is soo slow (so slow as to be unusable) every day from about 2:30 AM to about 3:30 AM [EST].. I had to post this comment twice, since I lost it the first time due to a server timeout.
What countries do have their country name as a domain?
USA.com,.UnitedStates.com, and United States of America.com all lead to sites not affiliated to the government.
Canada.com leads to another site thats non affiliated with the government..
Really, you should just be able to go to the top level domain of the country, and get a page that's useful, like www.ca or www.us and find a listing of important/useful sites. As it stands, www.ca and www.us seem to lead to the registrar for the domain.
How about you setup a seperate computer that automatically browses to any URL that is displayed in an ad?
I'm sure that you could configure Squid with some ad-blocking software, and just modify it so that it uses lynk to open the ad and output the data to/dev/nul or something. That way, every time you visit a page with an ad, the ad gets clicked.
If enough people did this (or imagine a beow... n/m), you could really screw advertisers over.
Oh, goody. I can't wait to see some next generation products from Hercules, Cirrus Logic, and S3.
I have an ISA VGA Trident Video Card in my Linux router. It has 256k of video memory, and let me tell you, when I used to use it on a Windows 2000 server, it used to take 5 seconds to redraw the page.
BUT, on a related note, it is still working, and has been working for almost 10 years straight.
Much better than the Radeon that I bought 2 years ago, which has now been moved to by web server, because it only works half the time.
Trident makes cards that may not be quick, but they are pretty cheap, and seem to last forever. Never had a problem with one. If I'm looking for a video card for a server, I don't want to have to spend $60-80 on an ATI card. I want a $30 Trident card.
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It's pretty bad when people who reply don't read the article, but shouldn't the poster himself at least read it? Excerpt from the article:
"The Linux, NetBSD and Microsoft Windows operating systems are known to have vulnerable link layer implementations, and it is extremely likely that other operating systems are also affected."
I see the most realistic violence in the News.. Sure, I think that it is important to realize what's going on around the world, but do we really have to hear every detail about the latest suicide bombing, including close-ups of bloody bodies? But few people will go out and kill or bomb someone from this, because it is so graphic. That is not to say that no one will ..
Maybe if you make the games realistic enough, and if we show enough blood and gore, people will be so turned off that they won't kill people. A far fetched argument, but you never know.
Element 118 has not been proven (as mentioned in the list), but has Element 116? It was apparantly seen by the same group that saw 118, but from what I could find, it was also seen by some Russians..
Does anyone have any more information on Element 116?
DAC has already sold about 7 PARAM 10000 supercomputers with 100-gigaflop memory to eight countries so far..
That's some freaking fast memory..
Even better, do this all (including the downloading and burning) at a big national chain, preferably teaching lots of other users at the same time.
From now on, I'm just going to download all my music off of the Internet. If i listen to more than just the first 15 seconds of the song before deciding that it's crap, I'm going to mail $5 to the band. That's probably 10x more than what they would have gotten had I bought the CD. Screw the record label. The band can distribute the money as they see fit.
Of course, I am aware that there are some problems with this plan.. It is still illegal, and there is no way to make sure that the record companies don't usurp the money from the band..
Funny, where I work doing tech support, most people are scrambling TO work christmas, boxing day (a stat holiday in Canada) and New Years, because of the double-time-and-a-half.
If I wanted to, I could have traded my shift away, and gotten cash for it, and still been payed for the holiday.
But, doesn't bother me, I worked the graveyard shift, so now I'm relaxing at 11:00 am, drinking some wine, and celebrating. My family doesn't really celebrate Christmas until the 28th anyways (let's us get the last minute boxing day shopping in.. been that way since as long as I can remember - suprised more people don't celebrate this commercial holiday later.)
Anyways, happy holidays to all!
I'm sure that most of the people in starving nations would gladly move to somewhere like the United States or Canada (insert other country here) or elsewhere, but its not like they can just go buy a plane ticket, fly there, buy a house, and start a new life..
.. And you probably wouldn't have the money to afford the condoms or birth control either.
It's a question of cost.. What's cheaper and easiest, moving everyone, or just shipping them some food once in a while?
Also, as for the fact that most people in impoverished have more children than those in other nations, that's because there's not much else to do.. I mean, what would you do if you and your girlfriend were sitting around the house, and there was no Nintendo, Slashdot, or Back to the Future DVDs?
"The issue of trying to do a targeted response to this is just lending credibility to something that is, on its face, asinine," NASA chief Sean O'Keefe said in late November after the dust settled."
Why bother trying to convince the "crackpots"? What percentage of the population are they, and does it really concern NASA? Maybe the most telling thing about the whole story is that NASA does seem concerned.
If they really want to prove them wrong, then take me (and everyone else) to the moon, and we'll check out that flag and footprints to see if they're there.
Nasa will not be able to convince all the "crackpots" until there is a viable station on the moon that people can go to for vacation.
Actually, the argument was more along the lines of, "do we really need another Exchange client" or "do [most] Linux users really want or need to connect to an Exchange server".
I think that the software, as shown in the preview pictures, does look useful to Linux people who need to connect to Exchange servers, but do the number of people who need to do this really justify an expendature of 5 million dollars, especially when there are other packages working to do the same thing. I know where I wouldn't spend my extra $5 million, but if he thinks its worth it, then I wish him the best of luck.
Since when is "Microsoft Outlook shipped with most Windows computers"?
Seems to me that if Outlook was shipped, Microsoft wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to work Outlook Express into the OS as they have.
It seems like a well funded project, and seems 'noble' enough, but is it really needed? I just use KMail for e-mail. Even at work where I do use Outlook for Exchange connectivity, we don't really use the Calender features. Maybe if I had a PDA and could sync back and forth, but then I'd have to get used to entering all my appointments into the calender. It's easier to just write it down on a piece of paper or use my brain.
All I'd really need if I was in a Linux shop would be a mail client that could connect to Exchange (and there are already several projects working on this), but if it were a Linux shop, we wouldn't have Exchange, would we?
Also, a little off topic, Slashdot is soo slow (so slow as to be unusable) every day from about 2:30 AM to about 3:30 AM [EST].. I had to post this comment twice, since I lost it the first time due to a server timeout.
What countries do have their country name as a domain?
USA.com,.UnitedStates.com, and United States of America.com all lead to sites not affiliated to the government.
Canada.com leads to another site thats non affiliated with the government..
Really, you should just be able to go to the top level domain of the country, and get a page that's useful, like www.ca or www.us and find a listing of important/useful sites. As it stands, www.ca and www.us seem to lead to the registrar for the domain.
How about you setup a seperate computer that automatically browses to any URL that is displayed in an ad? I'm sure that you could configure Squid with some ad-blocking software, and just modify it so that it uses lynk to open the ad and output the data to /dev/nul or something. That way, every time you visit a page with an ad, the ad gets clicked.
If enough people did this (or imagine a beow... n/m), you could really screw advertisers over.
Sure thing, but, I didn't get it from the article itself, instead I got it from a discussion board - this website (http://www.gamecube-uk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t= 1722)
.. and yes, I did post the previous article, just my account is messed up, and Slashdot allows you to post with an invalid nick.
Having a computer in the bathroom isn't sanitary, that's what dumb terminals are for.
Oh, goody. I can't wait to see some next generation products from Hercules, Cirrus Logic, and S3.
I have an ISA VGA Trident Video Card in my Linux router. It has 256k of video memory, and let me tell you, when I used to use it on a Windows 2000 server, it used to take 5 seconds to redraw the page.
BUT, on a related note, it is still working, and has been working for almost 10 years straight. Much better than the Radeon that I bought 2 years ago, which has now been moved to by web server, because it only works half the time. Trident makes cards that may not be quick, but they are pretty cheap, and seem to last forever. Never had a problem with one. If I'm looking for a video card for a server, I don't want to have to spend $60-80 on an ATI card. I want a $30 Trident card.