Yeah, my bad. I knew that, but medieval just sounded too good. And look, if you are gonna get all pedantic on my ass, please do it without hiding. If you really wanted to defend Beowulf's name, you'd do it showing your login.
Oh, and speaking of being pedantic, you say he was possibly the greatest warrior to ever live, but there is little in the historical record to corroborate what has been written of him. That's akin to saying King Arthur was possibly the greatest warrior of all time.
I love the Beowulf epic as much as the next thinking, reading person (like you, for instance), and I think the best way to celebrate his story (whether true or fictional) is to think about it in terms other than canned jokes.
Man, if Beowulf was alive today he'd so kick Slashdot's ass. Seriously, this dude killed monsters, saved villages and killed a dragon. He has armor that would make any slashdotter cream their jeans when they look at the armor's tag and it says AC -9. Don't even get me started on the weapons.
If you were a medieval ass-kicker, would you want your moniker to be the butt of thousands of canned-jokes that weren't even funny to begin with?
Hmm...that's like a Beowulf cluster of usb thumb drives...
Yeah. Maybe the cheap super-computer idea Beowulf would find cool, but not the jokes and the impossible-to-Beowulf devices.
So those jokes aren't funny and probably won't get you (not you in particular, Pingular) modded up. If you want to talk about networked clusters of non-networkable devices, say:
"That's like a Duke Nukem Forever/Bit Boys graphics card/Mac OS X on a 386 cluster"
No wait, on second thought, that's not funny either.
I found the original code on usenet, modified it and left the original french comments in. Heh, originally they made the referer the cia to scare unsuspecting webmasters. silly french:) this could easily be made to cycle through the robot.txt file, but i don't have the time right now, i'm in lab:)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent("Mozilla/4.0 \(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;.NET CLR 1.1.4322\)"); # super browser !
my $req = new HTTP::Request 'GET' => 'http://www.whitehouse.gov/pathtostuff'; $req->he ader(
'Accept' => 'text/html',
'Referer' => 'http://www.yahoo.com' # pour faire flipper le webmestre:-) );
my $res = $ua->request($req);
if ($res->is_success) {
# traitement resultat $res
}
else {
print "Erreur : ".$res->status_line."\n";
}
Re:Today's kids = tomorrow's workers. Prepare them
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Reading, Writing, RFID
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· Score: 2, Insightful
The "security age" is crap. It's just a way to further the whole producer-consumer paradigm to it's final destination. Yeah, I'd know where my kids are any given moment, but they'd also be adding rows in someone's DB and sending targeted ad-banners to my web browser..
Oh, and your analogy with cattle & ranchers? You got it backwards. We are the ranchers and the politicians are the cattle. We tell them what to do, they listen to us. Yeah, it may seem like it's getting close to what you described, but once the pendulum swings over enough, it'll swing back and the people will be firmly in the driver's seat.
And with regards to children, how are little kids gonna be able to grow up and realize that not all people are bad people, if they start with the assumption that all people are bad people, even fellow students? Potential relationships will be lost, friends won't be made, etc all because tommy is a yellow threat while jimmy is red.
The worst thing is your comment reads like you are ok with all of this stuff going down. You've just resigned yourself to living in a place where freedom is a memory, and privacy an afterthought.
Tell that to the forward-thinking, range-extending, hardware-tinkering, soldering-iron wielding, woman-fearing, microsoft hating, RIAA loathing, SCO bashing, tinfoil hat-wearing, troll-posting, penguin-loving, overlord-welcoming, beowulf-clustering, and russia-sovieting slashdot reader of the future, who happens to be living in said desert, accidentally punctures your so called non-corroding, nuclear waste containing, no harm, buried in said desert container with his home-brew whiz bang self contained 2"x3" fission reactor, for his Linux kernel 9.3 beowulf mame cluster that needs underground desert radiant cooling pipes!
Uhhh, I think he'd say, "DUPE! And since this is the slashdot reader of the future you forgot a few things:
space elevator travelling, robot-screwing, lord of the rings prequel watching, indy 4 reminising, word misspelling, copyright expiring (yeah, right), skycar flying, duke nukem forever playing, 3d pr0n watching, hybrid mammal pet playing, mars visiting, i'm sure i haven't thought of everything-ing...
Why is it that issues brought up articles such as these that could have far-reaching implications for privacy and even the day-to-day functioning of people in general, are always an afterthought? I mean, c'mon, does this, "Once the passive-radar cat is out of the bag, there's even a chance it could evolve into a means of tracking people on the street," really cover all the ground for an advanced technology such as this?
Maybe I'm just expecting too much from Business Week and the like.
At any rate, at least the passive radar functionality is mostly software. That means it'll be on Usenet the day before it's released, so we can get a jump on all the action.
"...a list of the theaters whose seats will soon be smooshed for far longer than usual under the weight of those dedicated enough to sit through 10 hours of Lord of the Rings"
And also those large folks that will play an inspired game of D&D after the movie.
3 Gigs? I averaged just over half that much per day this month. I wonder if my provider will be amused...
3 gigs upstream in a few hours is probably more than you can do with a 128/256k upload cap:)
The technical reason they capped the upstream (besides the economic reasons) is that one person can hog all the upstream bandwidth, making the network molasses for everyone else.
Also the fastest install ever (that I witnessed) was 8mbps upstream
Right when cable came to my neighborhood about 4 year ago, there wasn't an upstream cap (or a tv cable block, either:). No one else on my node had @home, so it was the de-facto way to send & receive files between my roommates computers (why we just didn't use the local network is beyond me).
Later on when I worked for @Home/AT&T Broadband, I almost got my access shut off because I'd uploaded 3 gigs of mp3s to my girlfriend's iMac. But since I worked there, they let it slide.
I think the fastest connection we ever observed installing those modems was 8mbps.
Without France, Americans would still be saying "Cheerio my good slave, old chap".
I don't mean to speak for FreedomOfSpea-MMNnnf, but I think he meant we'd still be the Bitches of Britain if France hadn't come to our aid (thanks to Ben Franklin and others). Remember that France bankrupted its treasury saving our butts and this in turn brought about that whole french revolution thing.
And yeah, IIRC, they did it because we promised them preferential trading status or something and they did hate Britain (that's why they drive on the CORRECT side of the road:), but helping us out was still a leap of faith and they ended up getting burned...and French Republic #2? emerged from the ashes.
MY NAME IS RUSSELL LEWIS AND I POLITELY REQUEST YOUR ASSISTANCE IN RECOVERING US$100,000,000,000 FROM WEB ADVERTISING SALES IN THE NEXT MONTH. MY COLLEAGUES AND I HAVE DEVELOPED A SYSTEM TO GET 1 PENNY FOR EVERY MISTYPED DOMAIN NAME ON THE INTERNET.
I AM PREPARED TO GIVE YOU $1,000,000,000 OF THE REVENUES IF YOU PROMISE TO LET ME IMPLEMENT MY SYSTEM. PLEASE SEND YOR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER AND I WILL SEE THAT THE MONEY IS DEPOSITED TO YOUR ACCOUNT IN SHORT ORDER.
THANK YOU,
RUSSEL LEWIS
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL MANAGER
Ok. Yeah, life might be difficult for the average 70-80 year old compared to when they were younger, but when I'm 70 years old in 2050 all I can say is:
BIONIC IMPLANTS, BABY!
Seriously, in 47 years medical technology (provided the world's scientific knowledge continues to grow like it does today) will have advanced so that it will offer at least a stepping stone to greater technology down the road.
Good things come to those who wait (and take care of themselves in the meantime).
"...the f-22 has been plagued by uptime problems for a while now"
What? Like in flight, Mach-2 rebooting? bah! Back in my day, we had to do barrel-rolls to empty out the carbs! And pop the clutch just to get it off the ground! You youngins have it sooooo easy!
Damn, we didn't even have helmets, just eatin' bowls...on our heads!
Posting a link on slashdot to a page that has links to a huge amount of the world's (public-sphere-invading big-brother) web cams is a great way to help prevent those cameras from being used.
Slashdot Mirror
The young? I expect to see Bob Dole buying a helluva lot more Mickey D's if Britney's in the Happy Meals...
He'd buy a lot more happy meals if there was Viagra in the boxes... Not only that, he'd be in the commercials too!
Thanks for vindicating me:)
Yeah, my bad. I knew that, but medieval just sounded too good. And look, if you are gonna get all pedantic on my ass, please do it without hiding. If you really wanted to defend Beowulf's name, you'd do it showing your login.
Oh, and speaking of being pedantic, you say he was possibly the greatest warrior to ever live, but there is little in the historical record to corroborate what has been written of him. That's akin to saying King Arthur was possibly the greatest warrior of all time.
I love the Beowulf epic as much as the next thinking, reading person (like you, for instance), and I think the best way to celebrate his story (whether true or fictional) is to think about it in terms other than canned jokes.
and that he's building a *rocket*. I'm sure this will inspire a lot of kids to go into science if it works.
I'm also sure it's good for him because he can turn around and make action figures of himself and his rocket!
Man, if Beowulf was alive today he'd so kick Slashdot's ass. Seriously, this dude killed monsters, saved villages and killed a dragon. He has armor that would make any slashdotter cream their jeans when they look at the armor's tag and it says AC -9. Don't even get me started on the weapons.
If you were a medieval ass-kicker, would you want your moniker to be the butt of thousands of canned-jokes that weren't even funny to begin with?
Hmm...that's like a Beowulf cluster of usb thumb drives...
Yeah. Maybe the cheap super-computer idea Beowulf would find cool, but not the jokes and the impossible-to-Beowulf devices.
So those jokes aren't funny and probably won't get you (not you in particular, Pingular) modded up. If you want to talk about networked clusters of non-networkable devices, say:
"That's like a Duke Nukem Forever/Bit Boys graphics card/Mac OS X on a 386 cluster"
No wait, on second thought, that's not funny either.
I found the original code on usenet, modified it and left the original french comments in. Heh, originally they made the referer the cia to scare unsuspecting webmasters. silly french:) this could easily be made to cycle through the robot.txt file, but i don't have the time right now, i'm in lab:)
.NET CLR 1.1.4322\)"); # super browser !
e ader( :-)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent("Mozilla/4.0 \(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;
my $req = new HTTP::Request 'GET' => 'http://www.whitehouse.gov/pathtostuff';
$req->h
'Accept' => 'text/html',
'Referer' => 'http://www.yahoo.com' # pour faire flipper le webmestre
);
my $res = $ua->request($req);
if ($res->is_success) {
# traitement resultat $res
}
else {
print "Erreur : ".$res->status_line."\n";
}
The "security age" is crap. It's just a way to further the whole producer-consumer paradigm to it's final destination. Yeah, I'd know where my kids are any given moment, but they'd also be adding rows in someone's DB and sending targeted ad-banners to my web browser..
Oh, and your analogy with cattle & ranchers? You got it backwards. We are the ranchers and the politicians are the cattle. We tell them what to do, they listen to us. Yeah, it may seem like it's getting close to what you described, but once the pendulum swings over enough, it'll swing back and the people will be firmly in the driver's seat.
And with regards to children, how are little kids gonna be able to grow up and realize that not all people are bad people, if they start with the assumption that all people are bad people, even fellow students? Potential relationships will be lost, friends won't be made, etc all because tommy is a yellow threat while jimmy is red.
The worst thing is your comment reads like you are ok with all of this stuff going down. You've just resigned yourself to living in a place where freedom is a memory, and privacy an afterthought.
Yeah, the site looks professional and all up until the "Bigfoot Crossing" comes up.
Please show me the mass cases of sterility, mutation, birth defects, etc. rampaging across that continent right now.
Ok, here you go
Tell that to the forward-thinking, range-extending, hardware-tinkering, soldering-iron wielding, woman-fearing, microsoft hating, RIAA loathing, SCO bashing, tinfoil hat-wearing, troll-posting, penguin-loving, overlord-welcoming, beowulf-clustering, and russia-sovieting slashdot reader of the future, who happens to be living in said desert, accidentally punctures your so called non-corroding, nuclear waste containing, no harm, buried in said desert container with his home-brew whiz bang self contained 2"x3" fission reactor, for his Linux kernel 9.3 beowulf mame cluster that needs underground desert radiant cooling pipes!
Uhhh, I think he'd say, "DUPE! And since this is the slashdot reader of the future you forgot a few things:
space elevator travelling, robot-screwing, lord of the rings prequel watching, indy 4 reminising, word misspelling, copyright expiring (yeah, right), skycar flying, duke nukem forever playing, 3d pr0n watching, hybrid mammal pet playing, mars visiting, i'm sure i haven't thought of everything-ing...
Short people earn less?
mod parent up. even though i'm probably the only other person that will get that joke.
Why is it that issues brought up articles such as these that could have far-reaching implications for privacy and even the day-to-day functioning of people in general, are always an afterthought? I mean, c'mon, does this, "Once the passive-radar cat is out of the bag, there's even a chance it could evolve into a means of tracking people on the street," really cover all the ground for an advanced technology such as this?
Maybe I'm just expecting too much from Business Week and the like.
At any rate, at least the passive radar functionality is mostly software. That means it'll be on Usenet the day before it's released, so we can get a jump on all the action.
>>>I remember it distinctly because my girlfriend's Yahoo wasn't working
>>Don't worry, it happens to everyone.
>He said Yahoo.. Not her HooHa
C'mon, what you really mean is her Cho-Cha.
"...a list of the theaters whose seats will soon be smooshed for far longer than usual under the weight of those dedicated enough to sit through 10 hours of Lord of the Rings"
And also those large folks that will play an inspired game of D&D after the movie.
3 Gigs? I averaged just over half that much per day this month. I wonder if my provider will be amused...
3 gigs upstream in a few hours is probably more than you can do with a 128/256k upload cap:)
The technical reason they capped the upstream (besides the economic reasons) is that one person can hog all the upstream bandwidth, making the network molasses for everyone else.
Also the fastest install ever (that I witnessed) was 8mbps upstream
Right when cable came to my neighborhood about 4 year ago, there wasn't an upstream cap (or a tv cable block, either:). No one else on my node had @home, so it was the de-facto way to send & receive files between my roommates computers (why we just didn't use the local network is beyond me).
Later on when I worked for @Home/AT&T Broadband, I almost got my access shut off because I'd uploaded 3 gigs of mp3s to my girlfriend's iMac. But since I worked there, they let it slide.
I think the fastest connection we ever observed installing those modems was 8mbps.
I really needed to be reminded that after reading 10 pages of conjecture. Thanks.
+1 virtual Insightful
"Work smarter, not harder!"
Without France, Americans would still be saying "Cheerio my good slave, old chap".
I don't mean to speak for FreedomOfSpea-MMNnnf, but I think he meant we'd still be the Bitches of Britain if France hadn't come to our aid (thanks to Ben Franklin and others). Remember that France bankrupted its treasury saving our butts and this in turn brought about that whole french revolution thing.
And yeah, IIRC, they did it because we promised them preferential trading status or something and they did hate Britain (that's why they drive on the CORRECT side of the road:), but helping us out was still a leap of faith and they ended up getting burned...and French Republic #2? emerged from the ashes.
DEAR PAUL
MY NAME IS RUSSELL LEWIS AND I POLITELY REQUEST YOUR ASSISTANCE IN RECOVERING US$100,000,000,000 FROM WEB ADVERTISING SALES IN THE NEXT MONTH. MY COLLEAGUES AND I HAVE DEVELOPED A SYSTEM TO GET 1 PENNY FOR EVERY MISTYPED DOMAIN NAME ON THE INTERNET.
I AM PREPARED TO GIVE YOU $1,000,000,000 OF THE REVENUES IF YOU PROMISE TO LET ME IMPLEMENT MY SYSTEM. PLEASE SEND YOR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER AND I WILL SEE THAT THE MONEY IS DEPOSITED TO YOUR ACCOUNT IN SHORT ORDER.
THANK YOU,
RUSSEL LEWIS
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL MANAGER
Ok. Yeah, life might be difficult for the average 70-80 year old compared to when they were younger, but when I'm 70 years old in 2050 all I can say is:
BIONIC IMPLANTS, BABY!
Seriously, in 47 years medical technology (provided the world's scientific knowledge continues to grow like it does today) will have advanced so that it will offer at least a stepping stone to greater technology down the road.
Good things come to those who wait (and take care of themselves in the meantime).
This whole thing feels like a pump and dump from the very beginning.
*COUGH*SCO*COUGH*
"...the f-22 has been plagued by uptime problems for a while now"
What? Like in flight, Mach-2 rebooting? bah! Back in my day, we had to do barrel-rolls to empty out the carbs! And pop the clutch just to get it off the ground! You youngins have it sooooo easy!
Damn, we didn't even have helmets, just eatin' bowls...on our heads!
Posting a link on slashdot to a page that has links to a huge amount of the world's (public-sphere-invading big-brother) web cams is a great way to help prevent those cameras from being used.
Woohoo!