"The idea was to sprinkle thousands of tiny wireless sensors on a battlefield to monitor enemy movements without alerting the enemy to their presence."
If the enemy ever did find out their presence, couldn't they use some kind of microwaves or something to disable the sensors?
Having heard of these new potato guns that fire spuds at speeds close to those of rockets, terrorists have begun flocking to Idaho, where potatos are grown by the millions and starting their own potato farms.
In a crazy incident, American soldiers came under heavy potato fire while during a training mission in the Middle East. The American soldiers managed to escape unharmed, except for one who was turned into a human mashed potato. The attackers were captured and taken to Guantanomo Bay, Cuba, where they are being held indefinitely and treated poorly. After ten hours of being asked where the odd weapons came from, one Arab replied, "We got the guns from Germany, but Habeeb the potato farmer in Idaho supplied the ammunition!"
And also in related news, Iraq has begun importing more and more potatos, under the cover of "food for humanitarian aid."
Great... just what we need. Instead of firing SCUDS, Iraq will just fire SPUDS at us.:)
Wow, I had no clue there was all that. I thought Antarctica was a huge block of ice, with maybe some oil buried deep within it. Thanks for informing me. =D
"And the road is unlikely to pave the way to exploitation of Antarctic natural resources, as this is banned under the Antarctic Treaty until 2041."
Okay.. I know nothing about Antarctica, except it's really cold. What natural resources are there? Is there oil hidden deep beneath the ice or something? I imagine that would have to be the only thing down there. Not like there's coal to mine or trees to chop down...
They're gonna have to do a LOT of convincing to pay for something that's still free. But even if they did convince people to pay for it, I'm sure *someone* would still have a way to share music "illegally" or "underground", for free too.
Yeah, they are greedy. Your comment about "what they want is total control" kinda made me think... Microsoft got busted for being a monopoly, why isn't something done about the RIAA, because it's OBVIOUS they *want* to be like a monopoly, even if they aren't one already.
I suspect that if Kazaa charged $5 per month per user, with unlimited downloads and people knew they couldn't be prosecuted for downloading and burning.mp3s then people would stay in droves.
Very valid point. I know I'd stay for only $5 a month. But I bet the RIAA would say that even then they'd be losing money. RIAA seems like a bunch of bullying crybabies. "Our record sales are down, lets sue people who download music! Wahhhh!"
He's saying that all of the "elsewhere" will become "legitimate online services."
Eh, you're probably right about that. Even if the company doesn't want to be part of the RIAA's legitimate service or whatever, the RIAA would probably give them the choice of becoming part of our legitimate service, or being sued into the ground.
"The industry rightly believes that if it can make file-swapping more difficult, and legitimate online services easier and less expensive, it can turn the kids on Kazaa into paying customers."
Umm.. They just mention Kazaa. I imagine that if Kazaa became pay only, people would just get their music elsewhere.
Maybe there should be a law stating that if you want to send bulk email over a certain number, say more than 1000 or so, you are REQUIRED to pay a $.02 tax on each email sent. I think that would make spammers think twice about sending any spam.
Yeah, but paper has no moving parts or anything. You can fold or ball up paper, and still be able to read it. You can't fold something with moving parts and expect it to work 100% again. It's the same thing as bending a floppy disk, almost. You can bend it just a tad, but if you bend it to for, your disk is gone.
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Knowing Slashdot, someone would have made a copy of the newsletter and filed that too...
In Soviet Russia, dust sprinkles you!
If the enemy ever did find out their presence, couldn't they use some kind of microwaves or something to disable the sensors?
In a crazy incident, American soldiers came under heavy potato fire while during a training mission in the Middle East. The American soldiers managed to escape unharmed, except for one who was turned into a human mashed potato. The attackers were captured and taken to Guantanomo Bay, Cuba, where they are being held indefinitely and treated poorly. After ten hours of being asked where the odd weapons came from, one Arab replied, "We got the guns from Germany, but Habeeb the potato farmer in Idaho supplied the ammunition!"
And also in related news, Iraq has begun importing more and more potatos, under the cover of "food for humanitarian aid."
Great... just what we need. Instead of firing SCUDS, Iraq will just fire SPUDS at us. :)
Sure it is. It'll still be viable when it's reposted in a couple weeks. :)
Apparently, a distribution of Linux comes on the CD as well... Here is the book on linux.org
404 File Not Found
The requested URL (books/03/01/24/0152206.shtml?tid=169&tid=156) was not found.
If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.
hmm... does that count as a Slashdot article getting Slashdotted before it was even fully posted?
1 (ham) "You can now increase your performance, having ordered Viagra."
and
2 (spam) "You can increase your performance with Viagra, have you ordered?"
I'm in class, and I'm bored... :)
So.. does this mean that we'll be seeing e-mail specific programs from companies that make software like gzip and such?
Lmao. Good point there. I forgot about the pages on Geocities. But if you're lucky, you'll see a good one or two.
How can they tell? Wouldn't they have to actually look at the page itself, instead of the DNS request for a site?
Until his book ends up on Slashdot and then *EVERYONE* knows his name... =)
Wow, I had no clue there was all that. I thought Antarctica was a huge block of ice, with maybe some oil buried deep within it. Thanks for informing me. =D
Okay.. I know nothing about Antarctica, except it's really cold. What natural resources are there? Is there oil hidden deep beneath the ice or something? I imagine that would have to be the only thing down there. Not like there's coal to mine or trees to chop down...
They're gonna have to do a LOT of convincing to pay for something that's still free. But even if they did convince people to pay for it, I'm sure *someone* would still have a way to share music "illegally" or "underground", for free too.
Yeah, they are greedy. Your comment about "what they want is total control" kinda made me think... Microsoft got busted for being a monopoly, why isn't something done about the RIAA, because it's OBVIOUS they *want* to be like a monopoly, even if they aren't one already.
Maybe the music industry should get their music into pornos. Wait, no... *imagines watching porno, then hearing Avril* ahhhhhh!
Very valid point. I know I'd stay for only $5 a month. But I bet the RIAA would say that even then they'd be losing money. RIAA seems like a bunch of bullying crybabies. "Our record sales are down, lets sue people who download music! Wahhhh!"
Eh, you're probably right about that. Even if the company doesn't want to be part of the RIAA's legitimate service or whatever, the RIAA would probably give them the choice of becoming part of our legitimate service, or being sued into the ground.
Umm.. They just mention Kazaa. I imagine that if Kazaa became pay only, people would just get their music elsewhere.
So.. is that what they call the key to the KKK headquarters?
Eh.. I'm surprised that nobody has done "IN SOVIET RUSSIA... spam jams Monsterhut!"
Maybe there should be a law stating that if you want to send bulk email over a certain number, say more than 1000 or so, you are REQUIRED to pay a $.02 tax on each email sent. I think that would make spammers think twice about sending any spam.
Yeah, but paper has no moving parts or anything. You can fold or ball up paper, and still be able to read it. You can't fold something with moving parts and expect it to work 100% again. It's the same thing as bending a floppy disk, almost. You can bend it just a tad, but if you bend it to for, your disk is gone.