3. The threat to our national security. I assert that Open Source Software - available widely through the internet - has the potential to provide our nation's enemies, or potential enemies, with computing capabilities that are restricted by U.S. law. He goes on to complain that terrorists can set up a cheap cluster using off the shelf parts and Linux.
Darl adds, for the good of the economy, we would prefer that terrorists buy MS Bomb for UNIX.
Agreed that legs are better than wheels. But are 2 legs better than 4 or 6? It seems to me that a quadruped is more stable and can run faster too. The current advantage we have over animals is that we use 2 of our 4 limbs for manipulating objects. But a robot can be easily fitted with 4 legs and 2 or 4 arms. In other words, it's better to make a robot that doesn't necessarily look humanoid.
Yeah, but who wants to get laid from a three armed, six legged headless pleasurebot? I'll take the Blade Runner version any day.
Some poor NSF grant application reviewer will be saying, "WTF is with all of these grad student projects dealing with 'researching and networking simultaneous transfer of multiple large binary multimedia files'. "
Oops - first, Slashdot lamenessly placed a space in the URL just before nova_eu_3012c01_hi_100.mov
Second, once the movie finished loading I did not have the option of saving as a quicktime file.
However, I found an easy workaround - use Netscape to load the link, and then pluck and rename the file from your Netscape cache folder. Each movie is about 17MB in size.
If you haven't RTFA, I suggest you do. Here's why:
After nine years on the net, this is the first scam that I believe I might (though probably not, as I always show the address bar and look for the secure connection icon) have fell for.
Having your web browser load Citibank's home page, and then swiping the info via a rogue pop-up is the sneakiest tactic I've seen.
Even the link in the email appears to be from Citibank upon first glance.
"The system allows the parents to establish 'fences,' which, when entered by the child, cause a notification to be sent to the parents in the form of either an SMS message or an email."
WTF? Now we even need tin foil hats for our frickin' Game Boys?
One researcher, who would speak only on the condition on anonymity, stated, "Well, even we were a bit surprised that Windows XP and Outlook are susceptible to this new virus. I mean, here we were drinking our morning coffee and we started to get all of these emails from bacteriophages about movie reviews and what not. It was unrelenting, and we didn't have a Petri dish version of Norton, so we just had to endure it until some intern Lysol'ed the whole operation."
SCO's Stowell said his company provided about a million pages of documents in response to IBM's requests. "They are trying to coerce and intimidate," Stowell said, referring to Big Blue's subpoenas. "I think what they're trying to do is that if you're a potential investor in our company or an industry analyst that says anything even remotely favorable toward SCO, you're going to be subpoenaed by IBM."
Hmmmm.... Sounds eerily familiar to some company trying to extort money by saying that if you use Linux, you may be violating our IP and subject to a big ass lawsuit. Unless you fork over $699 that is.
This was the guy who was going to give me millions. I should have known he wasn't a genuine Nigerian when I read his email:
HON. RAYMOND ETIEBET(DR).
ATTN: Bobdotorg,
DEAR SIR
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP EH
FIRST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION. THIS IS VIRTURE OF IT'S NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET EH.
WE ARE TOP OFFICIALS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA CONTRACT REVIEW PANEL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN IMPORTATION OF GOODS INTO OUR COUNTRY AND INVESTING IN EUROPE WITH FUNDS WHICH ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN NIGERIA EH.
IN ORDER TO COMMENCE THIS BUSINESS WE SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANTANCE, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE TO ENABLE US RECIEVE THE SAID TRAPPED FUNDS ABROAD, FOR THE SUBSEQUENT PURCHASE AND INVENTORY OF THE GOODS TO BE IMPORTED AND THE INVESTMENT IN EUROPE EH.
THE SOURCE OF THIS FUND IS AS FOLLOWS: DURING THE PREVIOUS MILITARY REGIMES IN OUR COUNTRY, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS SET UP COMPANIES AND AWARDED THEMSELVES CONTRACTS WHICH WERE GROSSLY OVER-INVOICED IN VARIOUS MINISTRIES. THE NEW CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT NOW SETUP A CONTRACT REVIEW PANEL WHICH I AND MY COLLEAGUES ARE MEMBERS AND WE HAVE IDENTIFIED A LOT OF INFLATED SUM, DUE TO OUR POSITION AS CIVIL SERVANTS AND MEMBERS OF THIS PANEL, WE CANNOT AQUIRE THIS MONEY IN OUR NAMES EH. I HAVE THEREFORE, BEEN DELEGATED AS A MATTER OF TRUST BY MY COLLEAGUES OF THE PANEL TO LOOK FOR AN OVERSEA PATNER INTO WHOSE ACCOUNT THE SUM OF US$31,000 000,00 (THIRTY-ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) WILL BE PAID BY TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER. HENCE WE ARE WRITTING YOU THIS LETER EH.
WE HAVE AGREED TO SHARE THE MONEY THUS: 1. 70% FOR US (THE OFFICIALS) EH 2. 20% FOR THE FOREIGN PATNER(YOU) EH 3. 10% TO BE USED IN SETTLING TAXATION AND LOCAL AND FOREIGN EXPENSES EH.
IT IS THIS 70% THAT WE WISH TO COMMENCE THE IMPORTATION BUSINESS AND THE INVESTMENT IN EUROPE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% SAFE AND WE HOPE THAT THE FUNDS CAN ARRIVE YOUR ACCOUNT IN LATEST TEN(10) BANKING DAYS FROM THE DATE OF RECIEPT OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION EH. A SUITABLE COMPANY NAME AND BANK ACCOUNT(COMPANY OR PERSONEL) INTO WHICH THE FUNDS CAN BE PAID EH.
THE ABOVE INFORMATION WILL ENABLE US WRITE LETTERS OF CLAIM AND JOB DESCRIPTION RESPECTIVELY EH. THIS WAY WE WILL USE YOUR COMPANY'S NAME TO APPLY FOR PAYMENTS AND RE-AWARD THE CONTRACT TO YOUR COMPANY NAME EH.
WE ARE LOOKING FOWARD TO DOING BUSINESS WITH YOU AND SOLICIT YOUR CONFIDENTIALITY IN THIS TRANSACTION EH.
PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE RECIEPT OF THIS LETTER USING THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS EH. I WILL BRING YOU INTO THE COMPLETE PICTURE OF THIS PENDING PROJECT WHEN I HAVE HEARD FROM YOU EH.
Slashdot Mirror
I am to disclose to the company anything that I create wether or not during company time, and wether or not it relates to the company
So does the company get first dibs on your first born?
After a loud shouting match with Pixar executives, Michael Eisner was quoted as saying, "Hey guys, by the way, you can tell Jobs that I found Nemo!"
Darl sez:
3. The threat to our national security. I assert that Open Source Software - available widely through the internet - has the potential to provide our nation's enemies, or potential enemies, with computing capabilities that are restricted by U.S. law. He goes on to complain that terrorists can set up a cheap cluster using off the shelf parts and Linux.
Darl adds, for the good of the economy, we would prefer that terrorists buy MS Bomb for UNIX.
Sorted for your convenience:
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Agreed that legs are better than wheels. But are 2 legs better than 4 or 6? It seems to me that a quadruped is more stable and can run faster too. The current advantage we have over animals is that we use 2 of our 4 limbs for manipulating objects. But a robot can be easily fitted with 4 legs and 2 or 4 arms. In other words, it's better to make a robot that doesn't necessarily look humanoid.
Yeah, but who wants to get laid from a three armed, six legged headless pleasurebot? I'll take the Blade Runner version any day.
Blinkenlights servers network cards are running a blinkenlight version 'Matrix: Slashdotted'
Microsoft DOJ Consent Decree Compliance 1.0
Microsoft DOJ Consent Decree Compliance 2.0
The best part is that MS was able to sell people the 2.0 version after many years of the version 1.0 vapor.
So how many people will pre-order MS DOJ Consent Decree XP?
Some poor NSF grant application reviewer will be saying, "WTF is with all of these grad student projects dealing with 'researching and networking simultaneous transfer of multiple large binary multimedia files'. "
I was one of the naive fools who actually believed that Microsoft would follow the terms of any of their antitrust settlements.
after reading the website, it's clear to me that if Piccard were to make an ego powered craft he could probably land on the Moon.
I am going to shoot the president . . .
(when addressing Congress)
How about I give you the finger, and you give me my civil rights back.
So the entire chip must be about 10 square meters? ... and running hot at 10Hz?
... and illegal to operate in California, 'cos it draws too much current!
Dude - don't diss the Pentium V.
Oops - first, Slashdot lamenessly placed a space in the URL just before nova_eu_3012c01_hi_100.mov
Second, once the movie finished loading I did not have the option of saving as a quicktime file.
However, I found an easy workaround - use Netscape to load the link, and then pluck and rename the file from your Netscape cache folder. Each movie is about 17MB in size.
OK, it took a bit of minor sleuthing, but if you would like to DL the raw videos here's a link to the first one:
e u/ nova_eu_3012c01_hi_100.mov
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/wgbh/http/nova_
If you haven't RTFA, I suggest you do. Here's why:
After nine years on the net, this is the first scam that I believe I might (though probably not, as I always show the address bar and look for the secure connection icon) have fell for.
Having your web browser load Citibank's home page, and then swiping the info via a rogue pop-up is the sneakiest tactic I've seen.
Even the link in the email appears to be from Citibank upon first glance.
A exceptionally clever and well-crafted scam.
"The system allows the parents to establish 'fences,' which, when entered by the child, cause a notification to be sent to the parents in the form of either an SMS message or an email."
WTF? Now we even need tin foil hats for our frickin' Game Boys?
One researcher, who would speak only on the condition on anonymity, stated, "Well, even we were a bit surprised that Windows XP and Outlook are susceptible to this new virus. I mean, here we were drinking our morning coffee and we started to get all of these emails from bacteriophages about movie reviews and what not. It was unrelenting, and we didn't have a Petri dish version of Norton, so we just had to endure it until some intern Lysol'ed the whole operation."
SCO's Stowell said his company provided about a million pages of documents in response to IBM's requests. "They are trying to coerce and intimidate," Stowell said, referring to Big Blue's subpoenas. "I think what they're trying to do is that if you're a potential investor in our company or an industry analyst that says anything even remotely favorable toward SCO, you're going to be subpoenaed by IBM."
Hmmmm.... Sounds eerily familiar to some company trying to extort money by saying that if you use Linux, you may be violating our IP and subject to a big ass lawsuit. Unless you fork over $699 that is.
This is just like poker... And IBM finally called... now SCO is gonna have to lay down the cards or fold...
Let's hope their hand is a king high.
I'm hoping McBride's holding Aces and Eights.
The funny part is this line "This Website is powered by PostNuke." I guess slashdot is now more powerful than a nuke?
No - it just means that their IT staff employs cockroaches, which explains how their site went from zero to slashdeath in 3.7 comments.
At any salary, how did porn actress auditioner not make the freakin' list?
C'mon man - the cheese. What about the cheese. Geez.
In all fairness, it must be noted that when I bought the tabloid, the NY Post vendor said, "Would you like lies with that?"
So just before the raid, did the FTC send them a pop-up saying, "You are SO busted."?
This was the guy who was going to give me millions. I should have known he wasn't a genuine Nigerian when I read his email:
HON. RAYMOND ETIEBET(DR).
ATTN: Bobdotorg,
DEAR SIR
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP EH
FIRST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION. THIS IS VIRTURE OF IT'S NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET EH.
WE ARE TOP OFFICIALS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA CONTRACT REVIEW PANEL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN IMPORTATION OF GOODS INTO OUR COUNTRY AND INVESTING IN EUROPE WITH FUNDS WHICH ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN NIGERIA EH.
IN ORDER TO COMMENCE THIS BUSINESS WE SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANTANCE, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE TO ENABLE US RECIEVE THE SAID TRAPPED FUNDS ABROAD, FOR THE SUBSEQUENT PURCHASE AND INVENTORY OF THE GOODS TO BE IMPORTED AND THE INVESTMENT IN EUROPE EH.
THE SOURCE OF THIS FUND IS AS FOLLOWS: DURING THE PREVIOUS MILITARY REGIMES IN OUR COUNTRY, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS SET UP COMPANIES AND AWARDED THEMSELVES CONTRACTS WHICH WERE GROSSLY OVER-INVOICED IN VARIOUS MINISTRIES. THE NEW CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT NOW SETUP A CONTRACT REVIEW PANEL WHICH I AND MY COLLEAGUES ARE MEMBERS AND WE HAVE IDENTIFIED A LOT OF INFLATED SUM, DUE TO OUR POSITION AS CIVIL SERVANTS AND MEMBERS OF THIS PANEL, WE CANNOT AQUIRE THIS MONEY IN OUR NAMES EH. I HAVE THEREFORE, BEEN DELEGATED AS A MATTER OF TRUST BY MY COLLEAGUES OF THE PANEL TO LOOK FOR AN OVERSEA PATNER INTO WHOSE ACCOUNT THE SUM OF US$31,000 000,00 (THIRTY-ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) WILL BE PAID BY TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER. HENCE WE ARE WRITTING YOU THIS LETER EH.
WE HAVE AGREED TO SHARE THE MONEY THUS:
1. 70% FOR US (THE OFFICIALS) EH
2. 20% FOR THE FOREIGN PATNER(YOU) EH
3. 10% TO BE USED IN SETTLING TAXATION AND LOCAL AND FOREIGN EXPENSES EH.
IT IS THIS 70% THAT WE WISH TO COMMENCE THE IMPORTATION BUSINESS AND THE INVESTMENT IN EUROPE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% SAFE AND WE HOPE THAT THE FUNDS CAN ARRIVE YOUR ACCOUNT IN LATEST TEN(10) BANKING DAYS FROM THE DATE OF RECIEPT OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION EH. A SUITABLE COMPANY NAME AND BANK ACCOUNT(COMPANY OR PERSONEL) INTO WHICH THE FUNDS CAN BE PAID EH.
THE ABOVE INFORMATION WILL ENABLE US WRITE LETTERS OF CLAIM AND JOB DESCRIPTION RESPECTIVELY EH. THIS WAY WE WILL USE YOUR COMPANY'S NAME TO APPLY FOR PAYMENTS AND RE-AWARD THE CONTRACT TO YOUR COMPANY NAME EH.
WE ARE LOOKING FOWARD TO DOING BUSINESS WITH YOU AND SOLICIT YOUR CONFIDENTIALITY IN THIS TRANSACTION EH.
PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE RECIEPT OF THIS LETTER USING THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS EH. I WILL BRING YOU INTO THE COMPLETE PICTURE OF THIS PENDING PROJECT WHEN I HAVE HEARD FROM YOU EH.
YOURS FATHFULLY EH,
HON. RAYMOND ETIEBET(DR).
FAX:234-1-7596980 TEL:234-1-4701056 EH