It would be nice to have a poll to find out how many/.ers actually skipped AotC.
I waited to get out on DVD.... from the library (a good deal you can take out
a DVD for a week for £2.20 more than enough time to poke round all the extras watch
it again etc)
Work out the most you can afford, use half to buy a cheap (pref new) laptop
and put the other half it in a good savings account as insurance (and keep backups
of your work!). If you work on a particular computer you will become
very dependent on it, and students computer is vulnerable
both to rough treatment and theft, the loss of your computer could mean
loss of a grades, you want to be in a position to buy again the same day
A laptop is the ideal student computer because its small which is good cos
your flat is going to be small and being small you can easily lock it up when your
out and take it with you if you go home for a weekend.
As for taking notes, I don't think you can take good notes directly onto
a laptop (I've tried) because good notes frequently involve quick diagrams or
annotatting leacture hand outs. That and paper boots faster when your late:-)
You make it sound like I could drive by your house, sense that you have an WAP, and crack your WEP with out stopping. <snip>Chances are, no one is going to sit in your driveway for 36 hours for some free internet.
I would not be too worried about wardrivers. I would be much more worried about the
neighbours teenager who's looking for a free (both as in beer and speech) channel to pr0n.
To be honest I'd think that would be the biggest urban wireless threat, a second hand
wireless card is $10-20, the software can be got from 'legitimate' (ie not netnannied)
sites and a pringles can is not that hard to get hold of.... I wonder what the extent
of the problem is... I'd normally google to find out but for some reason searching on teen
AND porn seems to get a lot spurious hits:-)
...and my name will be changed to something lame like Winston.
No, a satistical analysis of the TIA databases indicates that people called Winston
are trouble makers. All people called Winston will be taken away and inhumed without trial
[Silverman draws a standard dog] Myers: No, no, no! He was supposed to have attitude. Silverman: Um... wh-what do you mean, exactly? Myers: Oh, you know, attitude, attitude! Uh... sunglasses! Lady: Could we put him in more of a "hip-hop" context? Krusty: Forget context, he's gotta be a surfer. Give me a nice shmear of surfer. Lady: I feel we should Rasta-fy him by... 10 percent or so.
[the resulting dog is rather... proactive]
[all stare at it w/o any expression] Myers: Hmm... I think he needs a little more attitude.
[Silverman blackens in Poochie's sunglasses] All Three: [variously] Oh, yeah, bingo. Yeah, that's it! There it is, right there! I love it!
-- Another cartoon character created in less than 15 minutes,
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
It would be very simple for a company to defend against being used in
a scripted mail DOS attack.
Move the order forms to another location and slap a robots.txt on them to try and keep them out of Google et al
Some simple question/answer system to demonstrate the user is human
What is this a picture of? (multiple choice)
Enter the word in this picture
Could you type the company name in backwards (for lynx users)
etc
Use obscure names for the CGI paramaters
Perhaps some sort of tripwire paramater called 'postcode' that actually
holds the phone number, if a postcode is entered it causes the submission to fail
With a bit of imagination the authentication could be turned into a compatition...
You have again missed the point. Smail mail DOS can be targed against
people who arn't spammers!!! (Gasp!) The article (if you care to read it) mentions
it is a farily trivial script would automate the signup process to some 250,000
sources of junk mail. The fallout from such an attack would affect everyone in
the area causing lost and delayed mail as well as exploiting many legitamate
companys sending the mail.
I think The Economist has the easiest and cheapest answer to the problem of spammers. Charge large emailers per send.. the economic disadvantage of sending out wasted emails would then help reduce the number and encourage targetted sending...
You missed the point here. The problem is not spam email, its a DOS attack using snail mail
which damages both the target and the bulk mailers.
My son (4) is totally hooked on boomerang (Cartoon Networks 'classic toons' channel)
we are quite happy about this and regard it as less mentally corrosive than most
of the other childrens/cartoon channels, apart from cbeebies
with is more or less a clone of how BBC did childrens programs in my day
By making the layout different from other distros, GoboLinux effectivly locks in its users
to its (and derived) system by denying them skills transferable to other Linux's
Does this matter? Probably not either people will use it
(and at a wild guess there the sort turned off by the cryptic Linux argo
and thus new recruits to Open Source) or it will be road kill on the information
superhighway
> My son (4)
>Ok, so I knew you were talking about your son, but at the same time,
>I thought, "Wow, is there really a son command? I don't even know what
>section 4 of the man pages is about."
>And to top that off, to check that out, I had to type man son.
Humph so you think were the Manson family do you????
>>When I first started with technology I was shocked to learn that you had to pay for upgrades >Yes, I was also shocked when I found out auto makers wouldn't give me the latest car model every time they upgraded the design.
A better analogy would be Car makers recalling and repairing serious design flaws in
their product for free... which is what they do (in the UK at least).
One guideline I find helpful (for photographing the moon)is the "Sunny 16 rule": For a subject in direct sunlight set your f-stop to 16, and your shutter speed to closely match the speed of your film. Eg ISO 200 and shutter speed of 1/250.
There is also the loony f4 rule for shooting fullmoon lit landscapes. Set the
aperture to f/4 and open the shutter for 1/ASA days. ie 100 speed film
=1/100*24*60 ~ 15 minutes. Shoot a landscape 1/3rd + 2/3rds sky without the moon,
then double expose with the eclipsed moon somewhere in the sky
Spammers are doing this because they're desperate, with fewer and fewer spam friendly havens. And what they're doing is illegal and opens them up for prosecution.
Is it the writing of viruses or sending the spam that is illegal and opens them up
for prosecution? Either way writing a virus that says 'Hey the writers has some link
with that web page over there!!!!!' does not sound like an act of desperation more
like stupidity
<conspiricy>
Unless the virus was written by one of the more rabid Anti-Spam types as a method
of harrising an 'innocent' spammer/dodgy webpage
</conspiricy>
The real revolution waiting to happen is solid state hard drives that are affordable.
Solid state hard drives are already affordable. (as a price point on flash RAM USB key
drives are about 1$/Mb). Say a 128Mb of Flash RAM cache on a 20Gb hard disk could provide
instant access to frequently used files and come to think of it, would be able to
defragment itself. I guess would not cost more than $200 (?)
Does such a product exist? and if not <Bangs table> Why not??
Slashdot Mirror
Only audio/video, the library still has to pay royalties and I think Blockbuster would complain if it was free
I waited to get out on DVD.... from the library (a good deal you can take out a DVD for a week for £2.20 more than enough time to poke round all the extras watch it again etc)
It went back the next day :-(
Work out the most you can afford, use half to buy a cheap (pref new) laptop and put the other half it in a good savings account as insurance (and keep backups of your work!). If you work on a particular computer you will become very dependent on it, and students computer is vulnerable both to rough treatment and theft, the loss of your computer could mean loss of a grades, you want to be in a position to buy again the same day
A laptop is the ideal student computer because its small which is good cos your flat is going to be small and being small you can easily lock it up when your out and take it with you if you go home for a weekend.
As for taking notes, I don't think you can take good notes directly onto a laptop (I've tried) because good notes frequently involve quick diagrams or annotatting leacture hand outs. That and paper boots faster when your late :-)
<snip>Chances are, no one is going to sit in your driveway for 36 hours for some free internet.
I would not be too worried about wardrivers. I would be much more worried about the neighbours teenager who's looking for a free (both as in beer and speech) channel to pr0n.
To be honest I'd think that would be the biggest urban wireless threat, a second hand wireless card is $10-20, the software can be got from 'legitimate' (ie not netnannied) sites and a pringles can is not that hard to get hold of.... I wonder what the extent of the problem is... I'd normally google to find out but for some reason searching on teen AND porn seems to get a lot spurious hits :-)
This is a really pat answer but:- :->
Occam was never the victim of a conspiracy
No, a satistical analysis of the TIA databases indicates that people called Winston are trouble makers. All people called Winston will be taken away and inhumed without trial
I'd withold judgement till Ep 3 is out, they need cartoons
to bridge the gap between Ep2 and Ep3 I have a bad feeling about this.
Slashdot moderators don't like original humor.
He should've made a 'joke' about slashdotting or bluescreens. That's a sure +5.
You forgot Simpsons Quotes
What did early life think when it crawled out of the primordial soup?
Who pushed me in?????????
[Silverman draws a standard dog]
Myers: No, no, no! He was supposed to have attitude.
Silverman: Um... wh-what do you mean, exactly?
Myers: Oh, you know, attitude, attitude! Uh... sunglasses!
Lady: Could we put him in more of a "hip-hop" context?
Krusty: Forget context, he's gotta be a surfer. Give me a nice shmear of surfer.
Lady: I feel we should Rasta-fy him by... 10 percent or so.
[the resulting dog is rather... proactive]
[all stare at it w/o any expression]
Myers: Hmm... I think he needs a little more attitude. [Silverman blackens in Poochie's sunglasses]
All Three: [variously] Oh, yeah, bingo. Yeah, that's it! There it is, right there! I love it!
-- Another cartoon character created in less than 15 minutes,
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
It would be very simple for a company to defend against being used in a scripted mail DOS attack.
With a bit of imagination the authentication could be turned into a compatition...
You have again missed the point. Smail mail DOS can be targed against people who arn't spammers!!! (Gasp!) The article (if you care to read it) mentions it is a farily trivial script would automate the signup process to some 250,000 sources of junk mail. The fallout from such an attack would affect everyone in the area causing lost and delayed mail as well as exploiting many legitamate companys sending the mail.
I think The Economist has the easiest and cheapest answer to the problem of spammers. Charge large emailers per send.. the economic disadvantage of sending out wasted emails would then help reduce the number and encourage targetted sending...
You missed the point here. The problem is not spam email, its a DOS attack using snail mail which damages both the target and the bulk mailers.
My son (4) is totally hooked on boomerang (Cartoon Networks 'classic toons' channel) we are quite happy about this and regard it as less mentally corrosive than most of the other childrens/cartoon channels, apart from cbeebies with is more or less a clone of how BBC did childrens programs in my day
I've know people only capable of communicating in quotes from Monty Python and/or The Goon Show
By making the layout different from other distros, GoboLinux effectivly locks in its users to its (and derived) system by denying them skills transferable to other Linux's
Does this matter? Probably not either people will use it (and at a wild guess there the sort turned off by the cryptic Linux argo and thus new recruits to Open Source) or it will be road kill on the information superhighway
1. Build computer out of solid gold
2. take it to bits
3. reassemble
4. melt down screws left over
5. repeat steps 2-4
6. profit!
> My son (4)
>Ok, so I knew you were talking about your son, but at the same time, >I thought, "Wow, is there really a son command? I don't even know what >section 4 of the man pages is about." >And to top that off, to check that out, I had to type man son.
Humph so you think were the Manson family do you????
My son (4) has sight/taste synaesthesia, he able to take one look at a plate of food and declare
I don't like It!
>Yes, I was also shocked when I found out auto makers wouldn't give me the latest car model every time they upgraded the design.
A better analogy would be Car makers recalling and repairing serious design flaws in their product for free... which is what they do (in the UK at least).
By turning on WEP one would be clearly signalling that the network was not for public use...
There is also the loony f4 rule for shooting fullmoon lit landscapes. Set the aperture to f/4 and open the shutter for 1/ASA days. ie 100 speed film =1/100*24*60 ~ 15 minutes. Shoot a landscape 1/3rd + 2/3rds sky without the moon, then double expose with the eclipsed moon somewhere in the sky
Is it the writing of viruses or sending the spam that is illegal and opens them up for prosecution? Either way writing a virus that says 'Hey the writers has some link with that web page over there!!!!!' does not sound like an act of desperation more like stupidity
<conspiricy>
Unless the virus was written by one of the more rabid Anti-Spam types as a method of harrising an 'innocent' spammer/dodgy webpage
</conspiricy>
Solid state hard drives are already affordable. (as a price point on flash RAM USB key drives are about 1$/Mb). Say a 128Mb of Flash RAM cache on a 20Gb hard disk could provide instant access to frequently used files and come to think of it, would be able to defragment itself. I guess would not cost more than $200 (?)
Does such a product exist? and if not <Bangs table> Why not??