They're just a bunch of jumped up nerds with way too much power, and rapidly falling credibility.
That's alright. The more high-profile blockings like this get publicized, the sooner more and more people will stop using them. It won't matter if the "jumped up nerd" in network engineering at an ISP thinks it is beneficial when management gets wind of the bad publicity being associated with such an organization provides. They'll either have the option of removing these stupid blacklists from that ISP or joining the unemployment line with the rest of the web coding monkeys.
I'm surprised that anyone does still use SPEWS. There are much better solutions from organisations that are not a bunch of amateurs.
I agree. I'm amazed anybody still uses the SPEWS lists. I would imagine the only thing they have going in their favor is that they're free and the cheapskates use them. There are plenty of legitimate companies offering much better anti-spam solutions than SPEWS.
Is it really that much trouble to wind the window down by hand?
Uhhh, yea, it is. Especially when I'm driving down the road at 60mph and want to roll down my back windows and the passenger window (or roll them up in the case of a thunderstorm). You must've been caught by this a few times since you probably don't believe in silly things like air conditioning either. Complaining about automatic locks and windows is just silly. They're conveniences and just because your car doesn't have them is no reason to bash them. Are you jealous?
... on 56k or lessser modems. You know, customers? The people that pay for your crap? Or at least, used to pay...
Heck, I'm on broadband and I will bail too. I am already really annoyed by those full screen ads on Yahoo Groups that you have to sit and look at or click a link to get past them. They're just intrusive and rude. I understand a site's need to advertise and I feel sorry for them, but the day they animated those single banner ads at the top of the major sites is the day people started fighting back. Any sane person can't browse the web these days without animated GIFs disabled, Flash turned off, Javascript disabled, popups blocked, etc. I accidently hit a site I go to a lot with a vanilla IE install on a new machine and almost had seizures from the flashing popup advertisement EVERYWHERE.
And they are sweet boxes. They are just making sure the kick ass.
Knowing Sun they'll release a single processor 1GHz Opteron system in a dual processor motherboard for $7995 and then have the balls to charge you an extra fee for Solaris because it's "dual processor capable". Asshats.
What are these called then in the "industry standard" terms?
17" laptops? We call them boat anchors. They seem to appeal to people with too much money and not enough sense. When I buy a laptop I don't want a screen bigger than 12" and the machine shouldn't weigh more than 5lbs WITH a battery. If I need a bigger display I'll buy an external 17" monitor for a hundred bucks and keep it on my desk.
Our department at uni used to run all of the submitted coding assignments in the first year through a script that would normalise the ident style, remove the comments and change all the variables names so they they could be diffed to check for cheating.
That's kind of unfair considering with most first-year assignments if they DIDN'T look similar then the student probably did the assignment wrong. At least most of our first year programming assignments were very simple things and we were expected to use similar structures to the concepts we learned in class to accomplish it. As a result, I would be amazed if your little cheating detector didn't pick out 90% of the class as copying off of each other. It's not because we were cheating, we were following the professor's mandated coding style.
getting the information(and guessing what the prof wants there to be in the text) in the first place is the biggest bitch anyways and not the actual writing.
Exactly. How is "plagiarising" any different than reading a book on the subject and writing it in your own wordS? It's one thing to copy it word-for-word, but it's another to read it and restructure the paper into your own wording. With other people's papers you can get all the facts you need for your paper and then just write a new one using your wording. There's no harm in that. Just don't turn in a word-for-word copy.
Now, show me a theatre PC style case for one of these and I'll buy it tomorrow.
My home theater PC is quiet enough to be inaudible from 5 feet away. A simple Zalman flower cooler with the fan turned all the way down cooling an Athlon XP 2400+, and another adjustable speed case fan turned all the way down, and a Nexus power supply from quietpc. A couple of 200GB Maxtor drives with fluid dynamic bearings round out the machine. The most noise it makes is if I play a DVD and even that is nearly silent with the DVD drive I bought. Unfortunately I had an idea of buying an Epia Nehemiah M10000 system to make it even quieter until I got it and found out that the case and CPU fans on the system were louder than my current rig! Not to mention the CPU fan seems to be failing already and makes a scraping noise. Cheap 40mm crap fans. I wonder if that's covered under warranty.
It's a museum piece so the components don't have to be kept in working order; it just has to look intact wherever they are visible.
Sure they do. The one at Kennedy is in beautiful shape. If we're going back to the moon and need a heavy launch rocket I wouldn't be suprised if they reverse engineer some stuff from the Saturn V down there (since supposedly the plans have all been lost to time). Personally I would think that if they could build a Saturn V rocket in the 1960's then today's rocket scientists could build it without reverse engineering one, but who knows. They had a lot of trial and error back then we may not be willing to suffer.
And, your post is *not* insightful to the topic at hand - it is Offtopic: What does a rating system for movies based upon "fair and balanced Christian" views have to do with a P2P summit? Nothing.
Apparently you've never learned to look past the absurdity of posts to understand the true nature of what the author's intent was. If I had wanted to troll I would have hidden a goatse.cx link in there or something. Believe it or not, my intentions are not to troll, only evoke some thought in otherwise boring lurking people. See, my post was completely ridiculous, but not because I advocated using Christians for a rating system. The lunacy of the idea is that our government would enact legislation against the very same organizations who have for the past few decades had them entirely in their pocket writing laws that screw US. I say give them a taste of their own idiotic laws and shove some good old fashioned fascism up the collective asses of Hollywood.
I imagine myself dying a gentle carbon monoxide death watching the sunset after the most incredible journey one could ever make and having spent a couple of days at the most unimaginable place of all.
It's far more likely you'd die screaming as your lander erupts into a fireball and crashes into the surface (or vice versa).
are finding themselves in favor of more regulations. Whatever happened to letting the market decide?
I don't know, but perhaps it's time for citizens to start calling for the government to enact a tough rating system on Hollywood and the music industry. They don't seem to think people can decide for themselves between right and wrong, so why should we assume Hollywood can judge the ratings of their own movies? There should be two government mandated ratings: SFC (safe for children) and NSFC (not safe for children). Basically NSFC would be anything a fair and balanced Christian wouldn't show to their 10 year old. Then we just ban all NSFC movies from theaters within a 50 mile radius of a school and only allow them to be shown between the hours of 11pm and midnight.
Wait......they aren't going to take down Mindstorms, but then they say right there that Mindstorms is a product they want to stake on. That's the most confusing thing I've heard all day.
Why is that confusing? Do you not understand what "stake on" means? Think "focus on" as an alternative.
Boston to NYC. LA to San Fran. maybe even a network of the major cities.
And instead of magnetic waves to levitate the trains we could use air! Imagine fast moving flying buses that could carry hundreds of passengers at a time from coast to coast in a matter of hours. A pipe dream surely, but just imagine the possibilities. A businessman in NYC could wake up in the morning, drive to some sort of aero bus depot and be transported through the air to California in 3 or 4 hours! These things and more will be possible in the fabulous future world of tomorrowland!:-)
But they want to get away from religious figures in their logo. I think it'd be best to come up with a simple text "NetBSD" in Gimp and then add a lens-flare effect. $100 here I come!
I propose that NASA be authorized to create a lottery for supplemental funding. It could either be a traditional cash lottery, or perhaps they could make the prizes NASA related, such as getting your name on a space probe, or give away some NASA merchandise.
I'm sorry, but there is already a NASA lottery in place. It's called becoming a government employee. If you "win" a position (which is hard this past decade with hiring freezes) you get a lifetime job worth millions, pension plan and other retirement benefits. It's like welfare for scientists. (yes, I'm serious).
If we're smart, we downsize the existing operations staff, so that the next vehicle program has to create its ops group from the ground up so it doesn't have all the institutional baggage of the shuttle.
You know, you may think you're clever, but if we were to put some of these rocket scientists out of work they'd just end up going to work for North Korea designing better ICBMs. There's a reason NASA exists and it's to keep rocket scientists out of foreign hands.
I have to agree -- there is no garuntee that SkyOS will remain (and be current) in say 3 years, but it seems likely that RedHat, Mandrake, etc will -- and almost positively Debian due to this
I can believe Debian will still be around in even 20 years, but Red Hat and Mandrake will likely fade away after their companies go out of business. That's the flaw in using commercial Linux distributions. If the shareholders decide they want to get out of the Linux business and sell their assets to Microsoft you're shit out of luck. That's one of the reasons I love Debian.
If anything, it demonstrates that Hollywood on their own has the means to correct the sources of piracy without the government mandating a chip designed to extend the MPAA's and the RIAA's monopoly basically forever.
Sorry, I mispoke. I'm not for Palladium itself, but I do believe Hollywood has a right to take actions necessary to uniquely identify content in situations like this so that if they do end up on Kazaa they can provide evidence as to where the leak occurred. I know, two totally different things with DRM vs. watermarking. In this instance it's an example of a good copy protection mechanism. Perhaps they should use it in games and other software (they probably do) so you'd need to activate your copy and it'd be uniquely tied to you so if it ended up on Kazaa they could easily point you out as the culprit.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Palladium! (different technology, same application)
Wow, that's a horrible point you're trying to make. This kind of thing is exactly why we DO need Palladium. This is a shining example of the MPAA catching the real criminal in the act instead of blaming everyone who happens to buy blank media or downloads porn off the Internet for stealing MPAA member company movies.
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That's alright. The more high-profile blockings like this get publicized, the sooner more and more people will stop using them. It won't matter if the "jumped up nerd" in network engineering at an ISP thinks it is beneficial when management gets wind of the bad publicity being associated with such an organization provides. They'll either have the option of removing these stupid blacklists from that ISP or joining the unemployment line with the rest of the web coding monkeys.
I agree. I'm amazed anybody still uses the SPEWS lists. I would imagine the only thing they have going in their favor is that they're free and the cheapskates use them. There are plenty of legitimate companies offering much better anti-spam solutions than SPEWS.
Uhhh, yea, it is. Especially when I'm driving down the road at 60mph and want to roll down my back windows and the passenger window (or roll them up in the case of a thunderstorm). You must've been caught by this a few times since you probably don't believe in silly things like air conditioning either. Complaining about automatic locks and windows is just silly. They're conveniences and just because your car doesn't have them is no reason to bash them. Are you jealous?
Heck, I'm on broadband and I will bail too. I am already really annoyed by those full screen ads on Yahoo Groups that you have to sit and look at or click a link to get past them. They're just intrusive and rude. I understand a site's need to advertise and I feel sorry for them, but the day they animated those single banner ads at the top of the major sites is the day people started fighting back. Any sane person can't browse the web these days without animated GIFs disabled, Flash turned off, Javascript disabled, popups blocked, etc. I accidently hit a site I go to a lot with a vanilla IE install on a new machine and almost had seizures from the flashing popup advertisement EVERYWHERE.
Wow, what a coincidence. You have a KISS FM station too? Those guys really get around.
Interesting. Thanks for the link. I'll pass it along to the friend-of-a-friend who told me they were lost. :-) Should've checked snopes.com I guess.
Knowing Sun they'll release a single processor 1GHz Opteron system in a dual processor motherboard for $7995 and then have the balls to charge you an extra fee for Solaris because it's "dual processor capable". Asshats.
17" laptops? We call them boat anchors. They seem to appeal to people with too much money and not enough sense. When I buy a laptop I don't want a screen bigger than 12" and the machine shouldn't weigh more than 5lbs WITH a battery. If I need a bigger display I'll buy an external 17" monitor for a hundred bucks and keep it on my desk.
That's kind of unfair considering with most first-year assignments if they DIDN'T look similar then the student probably did the assignment wrong. At least most of our first year programming assignments were very simple things and we were expected to use similar structures to the concepts we learned in class to accomplish it. As a result, I would be amazed if your little cheating detector didn't pick out 90% of the class as copying off of each other. It's not because we were cheating, we were following the professor's mandated coding style.
Exactly. How is "plagiarising" any different than reading a book on the subject and writing it in your own wordS? It's one thing to copy it word-for-word, but it's another to read it and restructure the paper into your own wording. With other people's papers you can get all the facts you need for your paper and then just write a new one using your wording. There's no harm in that. Just don't turn in a word-for-word copy.
Buy an iBook for $1100 and spend the other $300 on beer and strippers. Or more likely Dr. Pepper and Farscape posters in this crowd's case.
My home theater PC is quiet enough to be inaudible from 5 feet away. A simple Zalman flower cooler with the fan turned all the way down cooling an Athlon XP 2400+, and another adjustable speed case fan turned all the way down, and a Nexus power supply from quietpc. A couple of 200GB Maxtor drives with fluid dynamic bearings round out the machine. The most noise it makes is if I play a DVD and even that is nearly silent with the DVD drive I bought. Unfortunately I had an idea of buying an Epia Nehemiah M10000 system to make it even quieter until I got it and found out that the case and CPU fans on the system were louder than my current rig! Not to mention the CPU fan seems to be failing already and makes a scraping noise. Cheap 40mm crap fans. I wonder if that's covered under warranty.
Sure they do. The one at Kennedy is in beautiful shape. If we're going back to the moon and need a heavy launch rocket I wouldn't be suprised if they reverse engineer some stuff from the Saturn V down there (since supposedly the plans have all been lost to time). Personally I would think that if they could build a Saturn V rocket in the 1960's then today's rocket scientists could build it without reverse engineering one, but who knows. They had a lot of trial and error back then we may not be willing to suffer.
Apparently you've never learned to look past the absurdity of posts to understand the true nature of what the author's intent was. If I had wanted to troll I would have hidden a goatse.cx link in there or something. Believe it or not, my intentions are not to troll, only evoke some thought in otherwise boring lurking people. See, my post was completely ridiculous, but not because I advocated using Christians for a rating system. The lunacy of the idea is that our government would enact legislation against the very same organizations who have for the past few decades had them entirely in their pocket writing laws that screw US. I say give them a taste of their own idiotic laws and shove some good old fashioned fascism up the collective asses of Hollywood.
It's far more likely you'd die screaming as your lander erupts into a fireball and crashes into the surface (or vice versa).
I don't know, but perhaps it's time for citizens to start calling for the government to enact a tough rating system on Hollywood and the music industry. They don't seem to think people can decide for themselves between right and wrong, so why should we assume Hollywood can judge the ratings of their own movies? There should be two government mandated ratings: SFC (safe for children) and NSFC (not safe for children). Basically NSFC would be anything a fair and balanced Christian wouldn't show to their 10 year old. Then we just ban all NSFC movies from theaters within a 50 mile radius of a school and only allow them to be shown between the hours of 11pm and midnight.
You have a huge problem with kids hitting balls through your windows or something? How often does that really happen?
Why is that confusing? Do you not understand what "stake on" means? Think "focus on" as an alternative.
And instead of magnetic waves to levitate the trains we could use air! Imagine fast moving flying buses that could carry hundreds of passengers at a time from coast to coast in a matter of hours. A pipe dream surely, but just imagine the possibilities. A businessman in NYC could wake up in the morning, drive to some sort of aero bus depot and be transported through the air to California in 3 or 4 hours! These things and more will be possible in the fabulous future world of tomorrowland! :-)
But they want to get away from religious figures in their logo. I think it'd be best to come up with a simple text "NetBSD" in Gimp and then add a lens-flare effect. $100 here I come!
I'm sorry, but there is already a NASA lottery in place. It's called becoming a government employee. If you "win" a position (which is hard this past decade with hiring freezes) you get a lifetime job worth millions, pension plan and other retirement benefits. It's like welfare for scientists. (yes, I'm serious).
You know, you may think you're clever, but if we were to put some of these rocket scientists out of work they'd just end up going to work for North Korea designing better ICBMs. There's a reason NASA exists and it's to keep rocket scientists out of foreign hands.
I can believe Debian will still be around in even 20 years, but Red Hat and Mandrake will likely fade away after their companies go out of business. That's the flaw in using commercial Linux distributions. If the shareholders decide they want to get out of the Linux business and sell their assets to Microsoft you're shit out of luck. That's one of the reasons I love Debian.
Sorry, I mispoke. I'm not for Palladium itself, but I do believe Hollywood has a right to take actions necessary to uniquely identify content in situations like this so that if they do end up on Kazaa they can provide evidence as to where the leak occurred. I know, two totally different things with DRM vs. watermarking. In this instance it's an example of a good copy protection mechanism. Perhaps they should use it in games and other software (they probably do) so you'd need to activate your copy and it'd be uniquely tied to you so if it ended up on Kazaa they could easily point you out as the culprit.
Wow, that's a horrible point you're trying to make. This kind of thing is exactly why we DO need Palladium. This is a shining example of the MPAA catching the real criminal in the act instead of blaming everyone who happens to buy blank media or downloads porn off the Internet for stealing MPAA member company movies.