"The opening story in Gensis resembles a Pharaonic Drama"
And its funny how it uses the plural when refering to God... It reads, in literal translation "In the beginning, the Gods..." (BRAShIT BRA ELHIM where ELHIM is the plural form of ELOH (God)).
Its a wonder that Christians, Jews and Moslems aren't in the least bit suspicious about that.
"it impersonates all 2**64 possible serial numbers"
Oh gee, I can see that being *really* helpful when the Homeland Defense automated luggage checking system asks your luggage "Are you a suitcase nuke?" and it answers "Why, yes I am!"
I have to look after a large network of VPNs across a small country and a lot of things about FreeSWAN bite bad wind.
For one thing, not only does it encrypt network traffic; it encrypts its error messages as well. They are all but unintelligible, even after looking at the sourcecode.
Actually, after looking at the sourcecode one is frequently more confused than ever.
And googling for the error messages often seems to find threads where the FreeSWAN developers burble to the effect of "yeah its confusing but I can't be bothered fixing it".
I'm not a developer, but my (highly competent) developer colleague assures me that its 'spaghetti code'.
For another thing, running it over ADSL is a pain in the proverbial; it seems highly intolerant of the so-called 'micro-outages' that pervades ADSL.
Good riddance.
I just hope that we can shift everything over to KAME before the next gaping security hole in FreeSWAN makes its appearance.
This is what puzzles me about the whole spam 'problem'.
In order for spam to make a profit there must be a way to get money from the spam recipient to the spammers client.
There must, surely, be a way to send something other than money to the spammers client, something that they would rather not receive.
One has to make buying the services of a spammer more trouble than its worth.
If one in a million spam recipients forking out cash is enough to make spam profitable, then 999,999 out of a million spam recipients 'forking out' something undesirable would surely be enough to make spam unprofitable?
IIRC, the guys at CERN are about to start pumping out black holes on the assumption that this is safe since the Emminent Mr Hawkings Predicts that they will 'evaporate' before they can eat anything and that Mr Hawkings couldn't *possibly* be wrong about something like that...
Does this 'discovery' change anything in this regard?
MIDI is also almost entirely useless for anything other than western classical influenced music.
Try doing Chinese, Indian or African music in MIDI.
It just isn't going to work; the qualities of sound, the rhythms and scale systems just arn't part of the MIDI standard.
If you want to do pop, rock or classical music, MIDI is great. And after all, even death metal is essentially a development of western classical music.
"The flu can be quite deadly to those living with AIDS."
If a disease came along that killed everyone living with AIDS (and didn't kill off the rest of the human race) then, however ugly an idea it might sound, that disease would have done the human race a favor (purely in evolutionary terms). After such a pandemic, AIDS would no longer be a problem.
Cold, but then nature knows no compassion.
Not that I'm advocating development and release of such a disease... phew.
Slashdot Mirror
"My shitty site gets in the order of 50-70k hits a month and I know its only my mom."
Should've posted the URL here, dude.
under the DMCA or something?
"every new dvd I've rented over the past few months has allowed me to hit chapter forward to skip past them."
I thought this sort of thing was up to the player.
For example, in PowerDVD in windows XP I can't avoid watching whatever the DVD maker wanted me to watch, but in Linux DVD players I can.
Would the same thing not apply to hardware DVD players?
This ones even better.
I think I'd call that precipitous
But... that would explain almost every aspect of human behavior...
Democracy, capitalism, conspiracytheorism, advertising, religion, the lot; all explainable by stupidity.
"masking tape."
For the sake of submariners everywhere, I hope Gaffa tape is allowed... its the Universal Panacea!
I once had the misfortune to visit a diesel sub.
The first thing I noticed was the foul, *foul* odor.
Its a wonder people could crew those things without having their noses cauterised.
"The opening story in Gensis resembles a Pharaonic Drama"
And its funny how it uses the plural when refering to God... It reads, in literal translation "In the beginning, the Gods..." (BRAShIT BRA ELHIM where ELHIM is the plural form of ELOH (God)).
Its a wonder that Christians, Jews and Moslems aren't in the least bit suspicious about that.
the Soviets *should* have embraced open source.
"Of course I fully expect now to be told that my government only wants me to think that that's just a metal strip."
Thinking is Unpatriotic and leads to conspiratorial behaviors.
"it impersonates all 2**64 possible serial numbers"
Oh gee, I can see that being *really* helpful when the Homeland Defense automated luggage checking system asks your luggage "Are you a suitcase nuke?" and it answers "Why, yes I am!"
FreeSWAN sucks.
I have to look after a large network of VPNs across a small country and a lot of things about FreeSWAN bite bad wind.
For one thing, not only does it encrypt network traffic; it encrypts its error messages as well. They are all but unintelligible, even after looking at the sourcecode.
Actually, after looking at the sourcecode one is frequently more confused than ever.
And googling for the error messages often seems to find threads where the FreeSWAN developers burble to the effect of "yeah its confusing but I can't be bothered fixing it".
I'm not a developer, but my (highly competent) developer colleague assures me that its 'spaghetti code'.
For another thing, running it over ADSL is a pain in the proverbial; it seems highly intolerant of the so-called 'micro-outages' that pervades ADSL.
Good riddance.
I just hope that we can shift everything over to KAME before the next gaping security hole in FreeSWAN makes its appearance.
Answer;
1. Find someone who wants to buy WP.
2. 'Upgrade' from Openoffice to WP for $150.
3. Sell WP to the stooge in (1) for $200.
4. Profit (to the tune of $50).
This assumes that Corel sees Openoffice as a competing product. They might quibble about whether its 'competing' or whether its 'a product'.
This is what puzzles me about the whole spam 'problem'.
In order for spam to make a profit there must be a way to get money from the spam recipient to the spammers client.
There must, surely, be a way to send something other than money to the spammers client, something that they would rather not receive.
One has to make buying the services of a spammer more trouble than its worth.
If one in a million spam recipients forking out cash is enough to make spam profitable, then 999,999 out of a million spam recipients 'forking out' something undesirable would surely be enough to make spam unprofitable?
IIRC, the guys at CERN are about to start pumping out black holes on the assumption that this is safe since the Emminent Mr Hawkings Predicts that they will 'evaporate' before they can eat anything and that Mr Hawkings couldn't *possibly* be wrong about something like that...
Does this 'discovery' change anything in this regard?
"Thrill to the computers, the clothes, and the haircuts of 1984."
I wonder if those same clothes, computers and haircuts are still in use at NASA...
MIDI is also almost entirely useless for anything other than western classical influenced music.
Try doing Chinese, Indian or African music in MIDI.
It just isn't going to work; the qualities of sound, the rhythms and scale systems just arn't part of the MIDI standard.
If you want to do pop, rock or classical music, MIDI is great. And after all, even death metal is essentially a development of western classical music.
Yeah but then you'd also have PATRIOTA as well. :-/
Too latino-sounding
Not knowing anything about physics, would it not help to have two parallel cables and drop something down one as something rises up the other?
Or is it not possible to drop something down the cable? (it sort of sounds like it wouldn't be...)
Or how about if the cable-top station had station-keeping rockets? I guess that would sort of defeat the purpose though...
"would float back to Earth like paper and no one would get hurt."
Except for the mass injuries from paper cuts.
"Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act (PROTECT) of 2003"
And the PATRIOT act as well...
Do they have some software that generates acronyms that also happen to be (seemingly) appropriate words??
"The flu can be quite deadly to those living with AIDS."
If a disease came along that killed everyone living with AIDS (and didn't kill off the rest of the human race) then, however ugly an idea it might sound, that disease would have done the human race a favor (purely in evolutionary terms). After such a pandemic, AIDS would no longer be a problem.
Cold, but then nature knows no compassion.
Not that I'm advocating development and release of such a disease... phew.
That would be fantastic; a wall to keep the yanks out (of the rest of the world)! ;-)
yeah yeah troll, flamebait, yeah whatever
to the dustbin of history the better.
Q. Why does the 'sendmail book' have a bat on the cover?
A. The diet of the North American brown bat is principally composed of bugs. Sendmail is a software package principally composed of bugs.
or;
A. Bat guano is a source of ammonium nitrate, a principal ingredient of things that blow up in your face, like sendmail.
(And many others, courtesy of 'the unix haters handbook' (worth a read)).
Obviously, the people who designed the sendmail configuration file system can't have been smoking crack, it wasn't invented back then.
So what was it that they were on? LSD?
"Compare this to Canada"
;)
yeah, until the USA decides to annex Canada.
Watch the intro to the game Fallout some time