Watched it from the driveway of the house here in South Patrick Shores.
Clear as a bell, and the lox/kerosene flame of the first stage was a beautiful brilliant orange coming out of the engine, tapering away to a bluish tip. It arced into the cloudless sky and went right between the two endmost bowl stars of the little dipper as I watched through binoculars. Not much rumble. Along toward the end of the first stage burn, it started emitting these pale streamers of exhaust that flared out far away from the bright light of the engine. Very beautiful. And then at MECO, a rapidly widening black circle seemed to emanate from where the doused flame was a split second before, and then grew and expanded till it gobbled up the last little bit of the streamers. Weird effect. Never seen one do anything quite like that before. After a short pause, another puff of gas, and then the RL-10 kicked into gear as a star-like pinpoint of white light. With the northern launch azimuth, the apparent motion across the sky slowed down to a crawl as the slowly fading pinpoint seemed to drift horizonward in ever-increasingly slow motion. Finally lost it visually somewhere around T-plus nine or ten minutes, just over the roof of the house. By then it was getting out there, more or less a thousand miles away from where I leaned against my car in the driveway to help steady the binocs.
Once Vista hits the streets in its final incarnation, and the Bad Guys get to working on it, my money is on the premise that third party antivirus solutions to whatever problems that inevitably must arise, will continue to be a necessity.
After all, it's not like we don't already have a pretty good track record to examine, with the folks who are producing Vista, eh?
What if Microsoft went as far as the encode the sound in the actual code of vista? That way it can't be changed without a patch.
tinfoil hat
At which point all machines that fail to squeal like a pig every time they start become beacons for those who might be interested in the pirated/hacked status of the entire operating system.
"Citizen, please reboot your machine." /tinfoil hat
If they keep this up, Windows may only be able to run Microsoft Software.
This is precisely what they're looking to do, and it would appear as if their short-term vision has completely blinded them to the long-term consequences of what they're doing. I wish them all the success in the world with it.
If outfits like Britannica and other professionally edited sources of information are subject to the slings and arrows of political agenda and false facts, then there's no reason to expect Wikipeia to be somehow immune to this stuff as well.
Strive to improve, but realize that it's impossible to hit it right every last time.
pre-load Linux onto ThinkPads on a custom-order basis for customers who purchase licenses on their own.
Pretty tepid "support" if you ask me.
The Great Swarm isn't going to be doing much special requesting, which means there's not going to be all that many machines that actually wind up with linux on the hard drive.
more and more restrictive with patents and all the rest of the current nonsense, they're going to have to find a way to create a new one, because they will have successfully snuffed the life force out of the one we have right now.
You morons couldn't figure out how to vote...you get no sympathy....
Erm....actually, none of those fucking idiots are actually from Florida. Every last one of them drove down here from damnyankeeland, bought a condo, and are now claiming resident status. God grant the few true Floridians a few category five eyewalls to smash the whole fucked up thing all the way back to palmettos, rattlesnakes, and mosquitos.
It'd suck to steal the identity of a mass murderer and then get pulled over for speeding.
This is silly, but I'll go along. You're only the "mass murderer" whilst committing your crime while using her identity. Identity theft crimes do not involve outdoors mayhem with a mask and six shooter. You're inside, in a nice air-conditioned room somewhere. After you're done committing your crime of stolen identity, you immediately revert to being Jane Normal, and as long as you don't make a habit of going down to the local police station to make an in-person withdrawal from your bogus account, you'll be fine and dandy. Later on, when you get pulled over by the cop, there's no outstanding warrants for Jane Normal, so after signing for your citation, you go along on your merry way. Sigh. People, some of us need a refresher course in "street smarts" here. Or at least just try to get outside and blink your eyes and look around for a few moments every once in a while before retiring once again to your steel bubble.
Well you were doing fine and then you kinda stalled out a couple of hundred feet short of the runway. Sign the thing as John Dillinger, sign the thing as Joe Doakes, sign the thing as A.T.Hun. It doesn't matter. Nobody actually looks at those signatures anyway. Try it if you don't believe what I'm saying. Later on, should things get touchy, a completely different name is always better than an altered real name. If you're worried, then sign A.T.Hun scribbly enough to make it less than legible on first glance. It's a signature, after all, right?
we get to see what happens when the RIAA face off against the Department for Homeland Security and the CIA
These outfits are the same side of the same coin, so there will be no "face off." They're all in cahoots together and you can rely on the fact that the RIAA or any other *AA will fall all over themselves attempting to give the DHS or whomever, any little thing their hearts desire, including whatever keys to whatever algorithm they may be interested in at any given time. It's YOU AND I who are on the outside looking in, here.
Sorry, sunshine, some people actually do need to be continually accessible.
I'm calling bullshit on that. And don't even get me started on members of the medical profession, ok? They're right down there with lawyers, preachers, politicians, and all the rest of those self-important bastards who all live by one set of (selfish) rules, even as they attempt to impose a second set of (sacrificing) rules on everyone else. Take your little gizmo and shove it, cellphone boy, 'cause nobody else really gives a shit.
what you're talking about, but there's an obscure little book out there called Free Computers that may be of some use as a guide for your newbie folks. It's out of date, and covers W98 for the most part, but it has some interesting things in it.
Because the dumb sonofabitches think that by blowing even more smoke, they can more perfectly control the thoughts of the (obviously) completely ignorant and obedient masses, the better to further their own selfish ends.
In so doing, they're attempting to invoke technological means to stifle free speech and control people's thoughts. Last time I checked, technology and free speech are both fairly mainstream items for Slashdot, and once I've donned my shiny new tinfoil hat, the thought control part kinda fits the bill, too.
turn into something a bit more substantial than what it is right now, but golly gee whiz, what happens if the the mini black holes don't behave quite exactly like they're supposed to?
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Pretty shoot.
Watched it from the driveway of the house here in South Patrick Shores.
Clear as a bell, and the lox/kerosene flame of the first stage was a beautiful brilliant orange coming out of the engine, tapering away to a bluish tip. It arced into the cloudless sky and went right between the two endmost bowl stars of the little dipper as I watched through binoculars. Not much rumble. Along toward the end of the first stage burn, it started emitting these pale streamers of exhaust that flared out far away from the bright light of the engine. Very beautiful. And then at MECO, a rapidly widening black circle seemed to emanate from where the doused flame was a split second before, and then grew and expanded till it gobbled up the last little bit of the streamers. Weird effect. Never seen one do anything quite like that before. After a short pause, another puff of gas, and then the RL-10 kicked into gear as a star-like pinpoint of white light. With the northern launch azimuth, the apparent motion across the sky slowed down to a crawl as the slowly fading pinpoint seemed to drift horizonward in ever-increasingly slow motion. Finally lost it visually somewhere around T-plus nine or ten minutes, just over the roof of the house. By then it was getting out there, more or less a thousand miles away from where I leaned against my car in the driveway to help steady the binocs.
Like I said earlier, "Pretty shoot."
....fundamentally flawed devices.
Kinda like the people who build and operate them.
about nothing.
Once Vista hits the streets in its final incarnation, and the Bad Guys get to working on it, my money is on the premise that third party antivirus solutions to whatever problems that inevitably must arise, will continue to be a necessity.
After all, it's not like we don't already have a pretty good track record to examine, with the folks who are producing Vista, eh?
Well it's certainly not as smooth or polished as Gmail, but I definitely prefer it to Windows Live Mail.
Well there's damning it with faint praise, eh?
"You can't copy it."
Close.
"You can't use it." (unless you fork over the cash to buy our hardware to play it on)
What if Microsoft went as far as the encode the sound in the actual code of vista? That way it can't be changed without a patch.
/tinfoil hat
tinfoil hat
At which point all machines that fail to squeal like a pig every time they start become beacons for those who might be interested in the pirated/hacked status of the entire operating system.
"Citizen, please reboot your machine."
If they keep this up, Windows may only be able to run Microsoft Software.
This is precisely what they're looking to do, and it would appear as if their short-term vision has completely blinded them to the long-term consequences of what they're doing. I wish them all the success in the world with it.
If outfits like Britannica and other professionally edited sources of information are subject to the slings and arrows of political agenda and false facts, then there's no reason to expect Wikipeia to be somehow immune to this stuff as well.
Strive to improve, but realize that it's impossible to hit it right every last time.
Pretty tepid "support" if you ask me.
The Great Swarm isn't going to be doing much special requesting, which means there's not going to be all that many machines that actually wind up with linux on the hard drive.
Better than nothing, I guess. Sigh.
more and more restrictive with patents and all the rest of the current nonsense, they're going to have to find a way to create a new one, because they will have successfully snuffed the life force out of the one we have right now.
Too true.
Let's just face the facts, shall we?
Humans aren't computer-ready.
And the great majority of them never will be.
Which then tends to make me question the whole underlying paradigm of computers as tools for people.
Solution? Beats the fuck out of me.
Erm....actually, none of those fucking idiots are actually from Florida. Every last one of them drove down here from damnyankeeland, bought a condo, and are now claiming resident status. God grant the few true Floridians a few category five eyewalls to smash the whole fucked up thing all the way back to palmettos, rattlesnakes, and mosquitos.
cool SCO logo that used to grace these stories? How you people expect me to find 'em without that nifty logo?
This is silly, but I'll go along. You're only the "mass murderer" whilst committing your crime while using her identity. Identity theft crimes do not involve outdoors mayhem with a mask and six shooter. You're inside, in a nice air-conditioned room somewhere. After you're done committing your crime of stolen identity, you immediately revert to being Jane Normal, and as long as you don't make a habit of going down to the local police station to make an in-person withdrawal from your bogus account, you'll be fine and dandy. Later on, when you get pulled over by the cop, there's no outstanding warrants for Jane Normal, so after signing for your citation, you go along on your merry way. Sigh. People, some of us need a refresher course in "street smarts" here. Or at least just try to get outside and blink your eyes and look around for a few moments every once in a while before retiring once again to your steel bubble.
What better identity to commit a crime under could there possibly be?
Well you were doing fine and then you kinda stalled out a couple of hundred feet short of the runway. Sign the thing as John Dillinger, sign the thing as Joe Doakes, sign the thing as A.T.Hun. It doesn't matter. Nobody actually looks at those signatures anyway. Try it if you don't believe what I'm saying. Later on, should things get touchy, a completely different name is always better than an altered real name. If you're worried, then sign A.T.Hun scribbly enough to make it less than legible on first glance. It's a signature, after all, right?
These outfits are the same side of the same coin, so there will be no "face off." They're all in cahoots together and you can rely on the fact that the RIAA or any other *AA will fall all over themselves attempting to give the DHS or whomever, any little thing their hearts desire, including whatever keys to whatever algorithm they may be interested in at any given time. It's YOU AND I who are on the outside looking in, here.
Wouldn't have made any difference anyway. So you're ok.
Ah, but will the things that aren't incriminating today always remain so? Therein lies the rub.
I'm calling bullshit on that. And don't even get me started on members of the medical profession, ok? They're right down there with lawyers, preachers, politicians, and all the rest of those self-important bastards who all live by one set of (selfish) rules, even as they attempt to impose a second set of (sacrificing) rules on everyone else. Take your little gizmo and shove it, cellphone boy, 'cause nobody else really gives a shit.
Find it here.
Methinks the Bad Guys have been improving at a faster rate. Just an opinion, mind you.
Perhaps the sarcasm itself contains something insightful? It could happen.
Because the dumb sonofabitches think that by blowing even more smoke, they can more perfectly control the thoughts of the (obviously) completely ignorant and obedient masses, the better to further their own selfish ends.
In so doing, they're attempting to invoke technological means to stifle free speech and control people's thoughts. Last time I checked, technology and free speech are both fairly mainstream items for Slashdot, and once I've donned my shiny new tinfoil hat, the thought control part kinda fits the bill, too.
turn into something a bit more substantial than what it is right now, but golly gee whiz, what happens if the the mini black holes don't behave quite exactly like they're supposed to?