Only old people float to 16,000 feet in lawnchairs!
Stupid jokes aside, who else thinks that's freaking INSANE? Poor guy. I can't imagine what i would do if suddenly i was 16,000 feet high in a freaking LAWN CHAIR
I like how they state, even though that this screensaver overwhelms the server with requests, and can from many different sources, IT IS NOT A DDOS!
Actually, it's a great idea, now only if a cool Open source dev would make an open version of this and take away that whole throttling thing.. who would they sue?
--- Global logistics service provider DHL Solutions Fashion is offering the French fashion industry a way to test and facilitate shipments of individually tagged garments. ---
Isn't this one of the reasons we (We as in Slashdot) hate RFID? (but only on Saturdays!) Will these tags be deactivated once the garment is purchased? Or will my new $900 french neck-tie tell those rat bastards where i'm at 24/7?
Okay, you can mod me down, I know it's offtopic, but I'm out of options.
I recently took a mom's friend to Fry's and he paid $800 for parts et cetera... I put the box together for him. AMD 2500+ (in a barebones system) Radeon 9800 Pro, 512mb mushkin ram... put the "Cool Gear" turbine looking fan on it, attatched firmly and in place..
Boot up, install windows, everything is peachy
Two days later, after his Comcast cable is installed, the computer won't turn on.. I go over there thinking it was some trivial problem, to my horror, when you hit the power switch, the LED just blinks real fast and turns off, no activity.. Thinking it was a power issue, I switched the little red switch on the back of the power supply to 215v instead of 115v... the computer turns on! Fans come on, hard drive spins! But.. no post, monitor showing default test screen (For the monitor) nothing, nada.. lights are on but nobody's home.
Now, I have my theories (power supply issue mainly, shoddy barebones system.. dunno about the powersupply in it) but I'm wondering if anyone could give me any advice? Could it be a burnt processor? (I inspected the processor, no signs of burning, smell, arcing, nothing) any help would be greatly appreciated..
I feel like a slimebag, I built them this computer (they even paid me) and now it doesn't work and i'm at a loss of what to do about it, and with no system to troubleshoot it with, please help!
Wouldn't this cause mass-unionization? I mean, if it required bidding by the employees, a unionized workforce could easily keep the rates high or all-out force the employer to stop this outrageous practice
Holy cow, hopefully they'll make it a reality TV show... I can see it now...
Six strangers live inside the star wars universe (A huge studio in Hollywood) for six months, where they can become a bounty hunter, pod racer, force-user (only for the very gifted!) Smuggler (Please, no real 'spice' or other illegal substances on the set) among many other professions!
Each 'period' consists of a voting day, where each player votes "the most annoying" player off the studio.
The winner recieves royalty rights to the Star Wars franchise after George Lucas has died, but 50% of the profits MUST be used to beautify his burial ground.
This link was slashdotted with less than 30 posts, holy crap!
Editors, shouldn't it be taken into consideration (the enormous ddos that is slashdot) when linking to sites? posting mirrors or something.. At least a good warning to the site owners is needed! Can you imagine if someone's bandwidth bill just went up from $50 to a couple hundred.... it would be terrible
He's not a very good stalker if he was under her car changing the battery to the cell-phone!
I mean, he could of spent a little time and hooked it up to the car battery (it's possible) and on TOP of that, he could have used a phone that auto-accepts incoming calls when a hands-free headset is used, and just short the HF plug-in spot to make the phone think one is plugged in.. and
whalla, you have a tracker/voice-listener thingy-ma-jigger!
I don't think the stigma is unfair. I mean, fission reactors of modern times are much better than their ancestors.
But if a new technology (let's say, nanotechnology) went haywire and infected a whole town with some crazy nano-plague that turned them into mush, how quick would we be to use that technology in the future?
Nuclear Fission is by no means the savior of humanity. Nuclear fission is not the answer. There is some hope with fusion, which would be a much safer alternative.
Although modern fission reactors are pretty good and stable, it's just absurd to split atoms when you could be smashing them into eachother.
Imagine if Doom 3 had been just like the original Doom, but with a better engine
From what I've heard (reviews, people, and the like) this is what Doom 3 pretty much turned out to be, with a little bit TOO much emphasis on the "fear" factor.
Counter-strike was great until beta 6 on... (at least in my opinion) but bringing it to source might make it fun once again (For at least a few months) while the lamers figure out the new way to h4x0r source.... so, bring it on!
Re:Registering to get rid of ads? (Score:0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 15, @07:19PM (#9977312) JAY OH KAY EEE
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Re:Registering to get rid of ads? (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 15, @07:22PM (#9977322) Why pay to remove something you can simply choose to not install in the first place?
How would the patches reuin the medical systems? Sure, there's a small chance the cruical security patch will mess something up, but what is that chance? I know windows isn't great, but everything of mine still works after I install a critical patch. Is there a reason these machines are hooked up to the internet at all, anyways? I could see the usage, but if security is an issue, why wouldn't they opt for a more secure network solution instead?
what about making a client that just uses bittorrent files to get the RSS data, use 1 random client to get the RSS feed, then he seeds it to all the others requesting using BT, would be pretty awesome and really fast
This is gobily-gook! How can the Ars Technica crew POSSIBLY provide me with insight (and a possible cure, please?) to mono! These guys have been a member of the biggest sausage party since 2000! (Besides the Bush/Cheney whitehouse). I don't trust a group of hackers to my mono research, no-sir-ee
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Only old people float to 16,000 feet in lawnchairs!
Stupid jokes aside, who else thinks that's freaking INSANE? Poor guy. I can't imagine what i would do if suddenly i was 16,000 feet high in a freaking LAWN CHAIR
Overrated? How the heck can I be modded overrated when I haven't even been modded in the first place!
Man karma is going to strike you down angry mod
I like how they state, even though that this screensaver overwhelms the server with requests, and can from many different sources, IT IS NOT A DDOS!
Actually, it's a great idea, now only if a cool Open source dev would make an open version of this and take away that whole throttling thing.. who would they sue?
It would be the gnutella of ddos's!
Is this the slight amount of force needed to budge the processor tug-of-war?
I have an entire small wall in humble abode that's made of entirely AOL cds (on small tacks, of course) ooooo shiny...
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Global logistics service provider DHL Solutions Fashion is offering the French fashion industry a way to test and facilitate shipments of individually tagged garments.
---
Isn't this one of the reasons we (We as in Slashdot) hate RFID? (but only on Saturdays!) Will these tags be deactivated once the garment is purchased? Or will my new $900 french neck-tie tell those rat bastards where i'm at 24/7?
At least it'll have frickin' laser beams.
Okay, you can mod me down, I know it's offtopic, but I'm out of options.
I recently took a mom's friend to Fry's and he paid $800 for parts et cetera... I put the box together for him. AMD 2500+ (in a barebones system) Radeon 9800 Pro, 512mb mushkin ram... put the "Cool Gear" turbine looking fan on it, attatched firmly and in place..
Boot up, install windows, everything is peachy
Two days later, after his Comcast cable is installed, the computer won't turn on.. I go over there thinking it was some trivial problem, to my horror, when you hit the power switch, the LED just blinks real fast and turns off, no activity.. Thinking it was a power issue, I switched the little red switch on the back of the power supply to 215v instead of 115v... the computer turns on! Fans come on, hard drive spins! But.. no post, monitor showing default test screen (For the monitor) nothing, nada.. lights are on but nobody's home.
Now, I have my theories (power supply issue mainly, shoddy barebones system.. dunno about the powersupply in it) but I'm wondering if anyone could give me any advice? Could it be a burnt processor? (I inspected the processor, no signs of burning, smell, arcing, nothing) any help would be greatly appreciated..
I feel like a slimebag, I built them this computer (they even paid me) and now it doesn't work and i'm at a loss of what to do about it, and with no system to troubleshoot it with, please help!
Eh? I have plenty of sense.
I'm just glad i'm not one of the poor saps who shelled out $50 for the game when I thought it would be good.
Now that I know it's crap, who cares?
Carmack, stick with rockets!
Was out a week before the actual game :)
What's the point of this when I can just go to Suprnova and get it in an hour or so?
Wouldn't this cause mass-unionization? I mean, if it required bidding by the employees, a unionized workforce could easily keep the rates high or all-out force the employer to stop this outrageous practice
Holy cow, hopefully they'll make it a reality TV show... I can see it now...
Six strangers live inside the star wars universe (A huge studio in Hollywood) for six months, where they can become a bounty hunter, pod racer, force-user (only for the very gifted!) Smuggler (Please, no real 'spice' or other illegal substances on the set) among many other professions!
Each 'period' consists of a voting day, where each player votes "the most annoying" player off the studio.
The winner recieves royalty rights to the Star Wars franchise after George Lucas has died, but 50% of the profits MUST be used to beautify his burial ground.
This link was slashdotted with less than 30 posts, holy crap!
Editors, shouldn't it be taken into consideration (the enormous ddos that is slashdot) when linking to sites? posting mirrors or something.. At least a good warning to the site owners is needed! Can you imagine if someone's bandwidth bill just went up from $50 to a couple hundred.... it would be terrible
Please save the poor webservers!
He's not a very good stalker if he was under her car changing the battery to the cell-phone!
I mean, he could of spent a little time and hooked it up to the car battery (it's possible) and on TOP of that, he could have used a phone that auto-accepts incoming calls when a hands-free headset is used, and just short the HF plug-in spot to make the phone think one is plugged in.. and
whalla, you have a tracker/voice-listener thingy-ma-jigger!
I don't think the stigma is unfair. I mean, fission reactors of modern times are much better than their ancestors.
But if a new technology (let's say, nanotechnology) went haywire and infected a whole town with some crazy nano-plague that turned them into mush, how quick would we be to use that technology in the future?
Nuclear Fission is by no means the savior of humanity. Nuclear fission is not the answer. There is some hope with fusion, which would be a much safer alternative.
Although modern fission reactors are pretty good and stable, it's just absurd to split atoms when you could be smashing them into eachother.
WAY COOLER
There's wonderful other options!
.. My personal favorite mod for half-life (try it, it's awesome)
If you computer is decent, UT2004 is great with a GREAT modding community. Lots of good mods out already, but not a lot of players.
Also for half life check out Natural Selection
Imagine if Doom 3 had been just like the original Doom, but with a better engine
From what I've heard (reviews, people, and the like) this is what Doom 3 pretty much turned out to be, with a little bit TOO much emphasis on the "fear" factor.
Counter-strike was great until beta 6 on... (at least in my opinion) but bringing it to source might make it fun once again (For at least a few months) while the lamers figure out the new way to h4x0r source.... so, bring it on!
... hahahah
Re:Registering to get rid of ads? (Score:0, Offtopic)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 15, @07:19PM (#9977312)
JAY
OH
KAY
EEE
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Re:Registering to get rid of ads? (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 15, @07:22PM (#9977322)
Why pay to remove something you can simply choose to not install in the first place?
Here on Earth, we call this a "joke".
How would the patches reuin the medical systems? Sure, there's a small chance the cruical security patch will mess something up, but what is that chance? I know windows isn't great, but everything of mine still works after I install a critical patch. Is there a reason these machines are hooked up to the internet at all, anyways? I could see the usage, but if security is an issue, why wouldn't they opt for a more secure network solution instead?
The hilarious part is this Parry Aftab character was on the john walsh show which i was associated with (Brandon vedas, aka ripper, long story)
:)
She said IRC was the dark underbelly of the internet where pedophiles give classes on how to lure children
But piracy rocks http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2308/DOOM3(1 ).torrent
A rogue AI infected the popular Slashdot news outlet this morning. The infection led to major downtime and a pretty buggy restart.
what about making a client that just uses bittorrent files to get the RSS data, use 1 random client to get the RSS feed, then he seeds it to all the others requesting using BT, would be pretty awesome and really fast
This is gobily-gook! How can the Ars Technica crew POSSIBLY provide me with insight (and a possible cure, please?) to mono! These guys have been a member of the biggest sausage party since 2000! (Besides the Bush/Cheney whitehouse). I don't trust a group of hackers to my mono research, no-sir-ee