While we're at it, I'm having trouble finding a starbucks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Can Slashdot help? Please send me the addresses of the one closest to me. I'd also like a free Frappucino.
Grab your resume. Look at the top for your address. Add any integer to the street address shown there. Go to that address, walk inside, and ask for a free frappucino.
Oh, and make sure you have a coupon or something. Otherwise they'll actually make you pay.
Not only that, but they put it right beside the floppy drive. You could tell if someone was a PC user because they restarted the computer every time they tried to eject a disk...
That's okay, because you can always tell a Mac user if they start jamming a paper clip into your PC in order to get their floppy back.
...is, when will Sony cut the MSRP on the PS2 to compete? I could give a rat's ass about the GC, but would really like to play the.hack series, and have about $130 worth of "points" on a credit card that I'd redeem for a PS2 if the price came down.
While a nice, extremely far-fetched thought that would work in theory, when you figure out how to replicate the content of Homestar Runner in text, let me know!
This is completely beside the point of what he was saying. The point is that people aren't just using Flash for content presentation, but they use it for all of the navigation on a site as well. And even worse, some people use Flash for a small widget off in the corner that provides neither content nor navigation functionality, but they *require* that you have Flash installed in order to view the website (and somehow you have to find a URL deeper into the site in order to view the actual content).
If that is the case, then this bill would never make it out of committee, thus never providing the opportunity for Most Republicans to vote on it.
Personally, I would rather see this legislation amended and then passed. 2024 seems a bit on the ambitious side to me, for a project that ostensibly won't have additional support from the various European and Asian nations on the verge of this sort of technology.
The only problem I and some friends have had with this is that we tell someone, hey, you want to play a board game? They look at us apprehensively and ask what game. We tell them it's Advanced Civilization, and they say, uhhh... what's that? We explain the basic principles of the game and they sound interested, but then they say, when do you want to play? We say, uh, well, actually we were thinking of playing half on Saturday and the other half on Sunday, because it takes so frickin' long to play.
They say, uh, sorry, no thanks.
Maybe we're playing the "other" wrong games, though. We played Cosmic Encounter the other day and had a blast (so to speak) - each game of that takes a half hour to an hour.
"And really, truly, don't get me started on the original 3 movies STILL not being available on DVD."
Considering that they probably won't come with the original footage available (you know, like the original Jabba's Palace dance number, for example), I really wouldn't want them on DVD or any other medium.
"To equate an overbroad subpoena to breaking in is outrageous," says Mark Rasch, an attorney and former Justice Department cybercrime prosecutor. "The real crime here is the ISP getting the subpoena didn't contact the customer immediately and say, 'what do you want to do?' Every subpoena is overbroad. It's the responsibility of the party receiving the subpoena to try and narrow it."
This comment ignores the fact that the oldest form of hacking is social engineering. Doing something to sound official, or to appear to have clout that you don't have, in order to get what you want (generally, to get something you're not supposed to have) is definitely a form of hacking, used in some cases for nefarious purposes. The case mentioned in the article definitely has nefarious outcomes, and so, this sort of social engineering should definitely be prohibited.
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"But then I waited to find out what the financial aid was, and they are "ridiculously" generous. They have grants and low interest loans for those who are not rich going in."
Exactly. The fundamental reason why so many people in inner-city and rural areas (where money is hard to come by) don't go to college is money, and the reason that money is the fundamental reason is because of a public misperception that going to college is impossible without money.
You evidently miss the point of these lists. The point is to apply pressure to ISPs by causing them to lose customers if they do not change their ways.
The logical step for you would be to change ISPs to one that isn't listed. That's how it's supposed to work.
DeBeers has something to worry about because there is nothing illegal about making artificial diamonds. (In fact, it's far less morally reprehensible than the virtual slavery of people in Africa caused by the bloodshed and civil wars that occur over diamonds and other gemstones.)
On the other hand, while music sharing causes a significant problem for the RIAA, they can still do something about it. The issue of the RIAA's price fixing will never be resolved until some method is devised and implemented successfully to bring independently-produced music to the fore.
As one of many in the "new guard" of AI researchers, I say that Minsky's ideas, while important in their historical perspective, overshadow the vast possibilities of artificial and computational intelligence by overemphasizing their importance due to the fame and mystique surrounding the name "Minsky".
Yes, this particular research project is very cool.
However, since it was mentioned in the original post, I will say that USN&WR's rankings are flawed, and do not necessarily reflect the quality of research taking place at a particular institution. In fact, a significant portion of their rankings are based on name recognition alone, which has nothing to do with quality of research.
You may actually be legally required to hire a licensed electrician to wire that panel for you. He or she will know (or should know) all the required specifications (wire gauge, circuit breakers, etc.) for such an installation.
But if you were to undertake that yourself, you would want to turn off the circuit breaker immediately upstream from that panel, put a tag on it so that nobody would reactivate it while you were working on the panel, and then check the mains coming into the box for voltage using a meter.
From the sounds of it, though, there may be some special requirements for that panel aside from a simple circuit-breaker power distribution panel. The big thing wrapped in electrical tape sounds rather suspicious, and may be desired or undesired at this point, and you probably wouldn't know until you found out what it was.
P.S. An old electricians' saying is to keep one hand in your back pocket. At least then, you won't provide a current path across your chest....
Which *obviously* means that nuclear weapons are required, in order to threaten to decimate a population whose military India could crush if it decided to do so?
You're not *supposed* to trust it. Cleanup worms are intended to clean up and patch machines whose owners are too stupid or ignorant to do it themselves.
Assuming it works properly, a little bit of pain now will save the entire Internet from many more months, if not years, of pain in the future as new worms pop up and proliferate.
"If anything, I see bundled MMO service networks that are modeled like Direct TV - where you pay a monthly subscription and get at least 5 MMOs."
Evidently, Mr. McMillan is under the impression that each day contains 96 hours instead of the normal 24, because that is what would be required for anyone to balance successfully the play of five MMOGs.
Hardcore gamers will not be satisfied with the amount of advancement they will achieve if they split up their time among five different games (especially compared to their compatriots who focus exclusively on one game), and casual gamers will simply not have the time for more than one (not to mention five).
"In other words, India will end up with nuclear ICBMs."
Of course, this isn't surprising news coming from the crackpot Prime Minister who decided he needed nuclear toys to "defend" his nation from a far less advanced/far less populous neighbor in the first place.
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Actually, I'd say 8, 9, and 12 would in all cases be criminal acts.
As for the rest, you would have to be more specific about 3, 4, 5, 10, and 11 in order to know whether they were criminal.
The rest would be up to the company running the game to police.
While we're at it, I'm having trouble finding a starbucks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Can Slashdot help? Please send me the addresses of the one closest to me. I'd also like a free Frappucino.
Grab your resume. Look at the top for your address. Add any integer to the street address shown there. Go to that address, walk inside, and ask for a free frappucino.
Oh, and make sure you have a coupon or something. Otherwise they'll actually make you pay.
Not only that, but they put it right beside the floppy drive. You could tell if someone was a PC user because they restarted the computer every time they tried to eject a disk...
That's okay, because you can always tell a Mac user if they start jamming a paper clip into your PC in order to get their floppy back.
Azathoth prefers to have his mindless din created by flutes.
...is, when will Sony cut the MSRP on the PS2 to compete? I could give a rat's ass about the GC, but would really like to play the .hack series, and have about $130 worth of "points" on a credit card that I'd redeem for a PS2 if the price came down.
While a nice, extremely far-fetched thought that would work in theory, when you figure out how to replicate the content of Homestar Runner in text, let me know!
This is completely beside the point of what he was saying. The point is that people aren't just using Flash for content presentation, but they use it for all of the navigation on a site as well. And even worse, some people use Flash for a small widget off in the corner that provides neither content nor navigation functionality, but they *require* that you have Flash installed in order to view the website (and somehow you have to find a URL deeper into the site in order to view the actual content).
If that is the case, then this bill would never make it out of committee, thus never providing the opportunity for Most Republicans to vote on it.
Personally, I would rather see this legislation amended and then passed. 2024 seems a bit on the ambitious side to me, for a project that ostensibly won't have additional support from the various European and Asian nations on the verge of this sort of technology.
"You are aware, Congress, that you can't legislate the advace of technology right?"
Sure you can. When President Kennedy was sworn into office in 1961,
Of course, last I checked, President != Congress.
The only problem I and some friends have had with this is that we tell someone, hey, you want to play a board game? They look at us apprehensively and ask what game. We tell them it's Advanced Civilization, and they say, uhhh... what's that? We explain the basic principles of the game and they sound interested, but then they say, when do you want to play? We say, uh, well, actually we were thinking of playing half on Saturday and the other half on Sunday, because it takes so frickin' long to play.
They say, uh, sorry, no thanks.
Maybe we're playing the "other" wrong games, though. We played Cosmic Encounter the other day and had a blast (so to speak) - each game of that takes a half hour to an hour.
"And really, truly, don't get me started on the original 3 movies STILL not being available on DVD."
Considering that they probably won't come with the original footage available (you know, like the original Jabba's Palace dance number, for example), I really wouldn't want them on DVD or any other medium.
From the article:
"To equate an overbroad subpoena to breaking in is outrageous," says Mark Rasch, an attorney and former Justice Department cybercrime prosecutor. "The real crime here is the ISP getting the subpoena didn't contact the customer immediately and say, 'what do you want to do?' Every subpoena is overbroad. It's the responsibility of the party receiving the subpoena to try and narrow it."
This comment ignores the fact that the oldest form of hacking is social engineering. Doing something to sound official, or to appear to have clout that you don't have, in order to get what you want (generally, to get something you're not supposed to have) is definitely a form of hacking, used in some cases for nefarious purposes. The case mentioned in the article definitely has nefarious outcomes, and so, this sort of social engineering should definitely be prohibited.
"But then I waited to find out what the financial aid was, and they are "ridiculously" generous. They have grants and low interest loans for those who are not rich going in."
Exactly. The fundamental reason why so many people in inner-city and rural areas (where money is hard to come by) don't go to college is money, and the reason that money is the fundamental reason is because of a public misperception that going to college is impossible without money.
"Nothing quite so enjoyable as flogging an expired equine mammal on a quiet Thursday afternoon..."
...in Soviet Russia, spammers blacklist YOU!
Well, as long as we're doing that....
You evidently miss the point of these lists. The point is to apply pressure to ISPs by causing them to lose customers if they do not change their ways.
The logical step for you would be to change ISPs to one that isn't listed. That's how it's supposed to work.
...is there going to be a bus on desktop machines that can read or write that fast?
Probably not. But I could definitely see it being useful for top-end server systems with hugely parallel storage and memory access.
DeBeers has something to worry about because there is nothing illegal about making artificial diamonds. (In fact, it's far less morally reprehensible than the virtual slavery of people in Africa caused by the bloodshed and civil wars that occur over diamonds and other gemstones.)
On the other hand, while music sharing causes a significant problem for the RIAA, they can still do something about it. The issue of the RIAA's price fixing will never be resolved until some method is devised and implemented successfully to bring independently-produced music to the fore.
As one of many in the "new guard" of AI researchers, I say that Minsky's ideas, while important in their historical perspective, overshadow the vast possibilities of artificial and computational intelligence by overemphasizing their importance due to the fame and mystique surrounding the name "Minsky".
Yes, this particular research project is very cool.
However, since it was mentioned in the original post, I will say that USN&WR's rankings are flawed, and do not necessarily reflect the quality of research taking place at a particular institution. In fact, a significant portion of their rankings are based on name recognition alone, which has nothing to do with quality of research.
You may actually be legally required to hire a licensed electrician to wire that panel for you. He or she will know (or should know) all the required specifications (wire gauge, circuit breakers, etc.) for such an installation.
But if you were to undertake that yourself, you would want to turn off the circuit breaker immediately upstream from that panel, put a tag on it so that nobody would reactivate it while you were working on the panel, and then check the mains coming into the box for voltage using a meter.
From the sounds of it, though, there may be some special requirements for that panel aside from a simple circuit-breaker power distribution panel. The big thing wrapped in electrical tape sounds rather suspicious, and may be desired or undesired at this point, and you probably wouldn't know until you found out what it was.
P.S. An old electricians' saying is to keep one hand in your back pocket. At least then, you won't provide a current path across your chest....
Which *obviously* means that nuclear weapons are required, in order to threaten to decimate a population whose military India could crush if it decided to do so?
You're not *supposed* to trust it. Cleanup worms are intended to clean up and patch machines whose owners are too stupid or ignorant to do it themselves.
Assuming it works properly, a little bit of pain now will save the entire Internet from many more months, if not years, of pain in the future as new worms pop up and proliferate.
"If anything, I see bundled MMO service networks that are modeled like Direct TV - where you pay a monthly subscription and get at least 5 MMOs."
Evidently, Mr. McMillan is under the impression that each day contains 96 hours instead of the normal 24, because that is what would be required for anyone to balance successfully the play of five MMOGs.
Hardcore gamers will not be satisfied with the amount of advancement they will achieve if they split up their time among five different games (especially compared to their compatriots who focus exclusively on one game), and casual gamers will simply not have the time for more than one (not to mention five).
"In other words, India will end up with nuclear ICBMs."
Of course, this isn't surprising news coming from the crackpot Prime Minister who decided he needed nuclear toys to "defend" his nation from a far less advanced/far less populous neighbor in the first place.
Maybe Slashdot should start posting the year as part of the date under the article headlines. I could have sworn this was news... in 1999.
So because it's a difficult field to study, we should ignore it altogether?
Brilliant.