anyone who would tarnish my view of the night sky. I like to go backpacking and hunting. One of the best parts of a trip is looking up at the stars and seeing the galaxy without interference from city light pollution. Stretch a big banner add across that view and I will be pissed. If it were cheap enough to be worthwhile for advertisers, then it would be just as cheap (or cheaper) to launch a small missile to blow the add out of the sky.
Ah, I didn't pick that up the first time, thanks. I can see how the number of 'hits' is a useful statistic for log analyzers to display, but to use that as a way of convincing advertisers (or the court in this case) that a site is getting lots of visitors is unethical. I guess I was tricked by the tactic applied here to fool people into thinking that a site is getting lots of traffic, when in fact the number of unique visits is relativly small. Stupid people and their stupid websites... When I measure stats for my sites, I look mostly at how many actual people hit the site and how long they stayed interested, not just how many resources were accessed.
About time someone did Appleseed AGAIN. The first effort was not so good, I didn't like it at all. It's very, very difficult to pull off Shirow's style in animation, you would almost need him to draw every 10th frame to get it right. I was just thinking yesterday that if someone where to animate Appleseed , they should use the book's illustrations as a starting point and build it out from there. I don't know why the characters have to be completely redrawn for animation, it seems like it would be less work to use more of the original art. Fans would love it if the characters 'came to life' off the pages instead of being restyled for the screen. In short, too bad Shirow does not have more to do with the artwork when his works are put on screen.
The article makes no mention of the operating systems profiled, just the spyware programs that were listened for (Gator, Cydoor, SaveNow, eZula).
AFAIK, all of these are Windows native and would not be found on machines that are not running Windows and IE.
Windows itself is not fully to blame for the abundance of spyware and viruses on the internet, but it's generally the people who use Windows that allow viruses to propagate and make spyware feasible due to their ignorance of their own working environment.
If operating systems are to become more transparent, user friendly and powerful, the problems of spyware and viruses will have to be dealt with decisively.
The average Windows user has no idea that there are malicious TSRs lurking in the corners, doing whatever they please. They don't have fine grained control or access to processes, because Windows assumes (correctly) they would not know what to do with that level of control. Operating systems are complex enough without badly implemented security policies, threading models, filesystems and applications, the cruft of years of application and user backwards compatibility making them worse. I don't know if Windows will get a re-write on the level that Mac OS did. It was very important for Apple to move forward and leave the old OS behind, it's way past time for Windows to follow suit. Spyware and viruses could be eliminated if the user was aware of EVERYTHING the machine was doing. Don't give applications a way to hide, and they won't be able to.
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What the hell would over 3 million people a month (worldwide?) care about the macomb sheriffs department? I suspect some heavy stats tampering here.. I can't see them getting more than 50-100 hits per day, if that. The current macomb county sheriff's site has recieved around 20k hits since January.
I don't care how much bandwith or server space you think you have, you are ill advised to offer site hosting for free to anyone. If folks are really that cheap and need cost effective hosting they can pay $9 a month (see sig...). You won't have any trouble from them later on, and you probably won't end up in jail as a result. $9 is not a lot.
The quality of life continues to improve for the rhesus monkey. Such fortunate creatures, now they have but to think it and their wish is granted. If only we could be so lucky. I read an article a little while ago about a man who used something like an EEG to control the navigation system in his sailboat. Talk about lazy. Think left and the boat would go left, right and the boat would go right. Maybe he was anticipating some kind of dismemberment that would keep him from steering with his arms, I dont know...
I believe they are talking about making an open source project for the JVM. The binaries are free for supported platforms, but only the APIs are really open source.
That's Standard Operating Procedure. The FBI doesn't say 'Hey, can we please get root on your servers for a minute?'. They come in with a SWAT team and say 'keep your hands where I can see them'. If they have reason to believe crimes are being committed, then they have the jurisdiction to apprehend criminals and collect evidence. Here is a hint:
Don't break the law and don't allow your hosting clients to commit crimes using your servers. If you don't know what's going on on your machines, it's your own fault.
Foonet are a bunch of spammers anyway, the feds are doing us all a favor.
Why not bring a few Large asteroids into a maintainable stable orbit around Earth? Landing on large asteroids is probably difficult for many reasons. Assuming a few major difficulties were overcome, swing a few large boulders into orbit and attatch booster engines that would allow you to accelerate them out of orbit, using their momentum to launch them at inbound objects, hoping that the collisions would destroy or sufficiently alter their paths.
An alternate method would use space elevators kind of like cosmic trebuchets. You could lift pieces of a massive object up the elevator to be assembled and then fling it at the threatening meteor.
This could also be put to use to assault the new Chinese Moon and Mars colonies. Trebuchets can be extremely effective weapons. I'm sure the Chinese will quickly surrender their colonies after being bombarded by frozen cows for a week or so.
Well, ok so they are not better, but the are cheaper. Plus, you are almost guaranteed to get shot down accidentally in a Mig in most places in the world.
This one's only $3.5 million.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =3079433732&category=4672
We have tried that at my company, with some success. It worked for a while, but it was prone to locking up. The only way to restart it was to find and delete a socket lock file which prevents it from restarting after a crash.
Now we are trying Web Notes, which is also a complete pile of crap. It claims that it works under redhat/latest stable mozilla version, but this is not true.
Allow me to chime in, Enderle is a tool. I'm suprised that anyone pays this guy to write anything. What a complete moron. I'm less and less suprised that articles written by this fool are being posted on slashdot.
The quality of posts is somewhat lessened of late...
Any scientist worth his salt grinds his axes outside the laboratory. Calling the study 'biased' sounds like a relfexive reaction to me. A single scientist's leaning towards a conclusion without absolute proof could be attributed to bias, but when a group of scientist get together to lean in a certain direction, it's generally safe to say that they are on to something. Marburger should be less concerned that the study may be biased, and more concerned that it may hold a great deal of merit. Compare the records of the scientists to the Bush administration, I'd say the truth in these matters lies nearest to the scientists.
I skipped the proposed reason behind the Church's destruction of goddess worship. And no, they were not the first or last religious group to try to abolish goddess worship, BUT they were probably the most effective. But on to the reason: Some early pagan religions believed that the only way for man to communicate with God (or gods) was through sexual union with a woman. At the point of orgasm, it was thought that man and woman reached a state of nirvana (however temporary) that allowed them to get a brief view of God. The early Roman Catholic Church did'nt like the idea that people could communicate with God without first going through the Church. If the Church could establish the belief that the only way to speak to God was through the Church, they would be in a position of almost absolute power. The Church borrowed ideas and symbology from early religions, turning them to it's advantage. All men and women were guilty of Originial Sin, and could only be absolved by being baptised into the Church. Almost anything you can think of was considered a sin, and if you died before being completely absolved of all your sins, you would go to Hell. This gave the church a whole lot of power, and for a long time the only way to be absolved was to pay the church money to see and maybe touch a holy relic, which would guarantee your safety from Hell and Purgatory until you committed another sin.
So, in order to keep folks from communicating with God through more conventional means, the Church made women evil, sex even more evil, thinking of sex something you will go to hell for, and so on.
Judaism actually had a pretty liberal policy towards sex until much later in it's history, the Temple used to be a place where clerics and regular people would screw like rabbits until they reached a state of nirvana. This ended at some point, as all good things do, I'm not exactly sure when.
Women were probably considered weaker to some degree for many thousands of years in many different religious contexts. It is interesting to look at how religion has shaped that perception, and how it has shaped the evolution of mankind (or womankind in this case)
Is responsible for the adoptation of Linux. Bear with me here.
The idea of women being the 'weaker sex' is a product of the 1000+ year old war on pagan goddess worship waged by the Catholic Church. Women in ancient times were revered as sacred vessels of fertility. Constantine, later rulers and the Catholic Popes did their best to destroy the idea of goddess worship and make the women a secondary being, which was a major factor in shaping our society today.
So when men are amazed at women's ability to use Linux, their amazement can be attributed to the work of the early Roman Catholic Church, which continues today.
IFO was sold on Linux not by a woman, but by a penguin. I don't know how where the Church comes in there. The nuns in the catholic school I went to as a kid looked a lot like penguins. But I was never attracted to them. Really.
Nice mustache. People who get geeked about automobile themed laptops should be drowned in a bucket, especially mustachioed ones. This guy is worried about people 'fondling' his shiny red laptop. Does this piece of crap require $6500+ in maintainance per year? Are it's energy requirements anything like the Ferrari's? It does not appear to have significant performance over any other laptop, how much of a technical challenge was it to paint red and create a desktop theme? The article is a waste of bytes. Nothing about this is even remotely 'cool'. If you still dream like a spoiled teenager of ferraris and other exotic wastes, I hope one runs you over and you die, Enderle.
...Starfleet can communicate over extremely long distances with out an lag. Apparently, the lag is encountered occasionally when it is necessary to fill plot holes. But otherwise, not at all. The laws governing subspace communication elude me.
First time I got into quake or unreal deathmatches it was with teams of experts at the game company I had just started working at. The clans there had some of the top ranked internet players, including the #1 rated player on the internet (for UT or Quake3, I can't remember). My team would play against another game team, who apparently never worked after 3pm (afternoons were set aside for quake). I got killed often. Best way to learn to dominate is on a local network with a bunch of really good players. It will take time. You will die often. Eventually I got better, but was only good, not exceptional. Then I realized how much time I was wasting and that my shooting skills in the real world had improved little....
Who used sitefinder? It was one of those ambiguous sites we all hate which claimed to be the 'portal to everything'. It should stay dead. I don't want to be redirected to sitefinder everytime I mistype a url. The only 'users' they had were misled into thinking they found what they were looking for. Once they realized they had stumbled across a useless 'portal', they usually would go hit google.
you better believe my hours will follow suite. In fact, I will gladly take a pay cut. Just don't expect to see my ass in the office, or expect me to be available at all for 6 months out of the year.
OptInBig has the freshest opt-in, co-registered names in the industry.
which should be read: "We have the most up to date email database in the spam industry"
'freshest' = most recently plucked, usually by a web crawler
'opt-in' = annoying sales jargon, to agree to be a part of something.
'co-registered' = someone else agreed to be a part of something for you! Really, I'm not sure what co-registered means in this sales pitch context.
Spammers have a very loose definition of the term 'unsolicited'. I can't believe this guy claims he is not a spammer. His business model is by definition, Spamming.
[optinrealbig.com] Possesses over 45 million online consumers in its database
I would bet that none of these 'online consumers' are aware that they are part of this list, or have ever willingly agreed to be a part of any 'consumer list'. How often does anyone agree to recieve "commercial advertising and informational announcements"? Yes please, sign me up, I want to know about every discount viagra and male organ enhancement offer available. While you are at it, make sure I know about all the breast enhancement products out there as well.
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because it costs them nothing to include software that was already developed for previous products. They don't re-write all of the system and application level code for every new phone developed. They are building on a base of previously developed code, which includes all the stuff from the last version, plus newly developed apps for the new version. My cell phone cost $9, it has no camera or built in mp3 player, but it does have a color screen and text messaging, games, etc. That's apparently as simple as it gets these days.
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anyone who would tarnish my view of the night sky. I like to go backpacking and hunting. One of the best parts of a trip is looking up at the stars and seeing the galaxy without interference from city light pollution. Stretch a big banner add across that view and I will be pissed. If it were cheap enough to be worthwhile for advertisers, then it would be just as cheap (or cheaper) to launch a small missile to blow the add out of the sky.
Ah, I didn't pick that up the first time, thanks. I can see how the number of 'hits' is a useful statistic for log analyzers to display, but to use that as a way of convincing advertisers (or the court in this case) that a site is getting lots of visitors is unethical. I guess I was tricked by the tactic applied here to fool people into thinking that a site is getting lots of traffic, when in fact the number of unique visits is relativly small. Stupid people and their stupid websites... When I measure stats for my sites, I look mostly at how many actual people hit the site and how long they stayed interested, not just how many resources were accessed.
About time someone did Appleseed AGAIN. The first effort was not so good, I didn't like it at all. It's very, very difficult to pull off Shirow's style in animation, you would almost need him to draw every 10th frame to get it right. I was just thinking yesterday that if someone where to animate Appleseed , they should use the book's illustrations as a starting point and build it out from there. I don't know why the characters have to be completely redrawn for animation, it seems like it would be less work to use more of the original art. Fans would love it if the characters 'came to life' off the pages instead of being restyled for the screen. In short, too bad Shirow does not have more to do with the artwork when his works are put on screen.
The article makes no mention of the operating systems profiled, just the spyware programs that were listened for (Gator, Cydoor, SaveNow, eZula). AFAIK, all of these are Windows native and would not be found on machines that are not running Windows and IE.
Windows itself is not fully to blame for the abundance of spyware and viruses on the internet, but it's generally the people who use Windows that allow viruses to propagate and make spyware feasible due to their ignorance of their own working environment.
If operating systems are to become more transparent, user friendly and powerful, the problems of spyware and viruses will have to be dealt with decisively.
The average Windows user has no idea that there are malicious TSRs lurking in the corners, doing whatever they please. They don't have fine grained control or access to processes, because Windows assumes (correctly) they would not know what to do with that level of control. Operating systems are complex enough without badly implemented security policies, threading models, filesystems and applications, the cruft of years of application and user backwards compatibility making them worse. I don't know if Windows will get a re-write on the level that Mac OS did. It was very important for Apple to move forward and leave the old OS behind, it's way past time for Windows to follow suit. Spyware and viruses could be eliminated if the user was aware of EVERYTHING the machine was doing. Don't give applications a way to hide, and they won't be able to.
A few comments: What the hell would over 3 million people a month (worldwide?) care about the macomb sheriffs department? I suspect some heavy stats tampering here.. I can't see them getting more than 50-100 hits per day, if that. The current macomb county sheriff's site has recieved around 20k hits since January.
I don't care how much bandwith or server space you think you have, you are ill advised to offer site hosting for free to anyone. If folks are really that cheap and need cost effective hosting they can pay $9 a month (see sig...). You won't have any trouble from them later on, and you probably won't end up in jail as a result. $9 is not a lot.
The quality of life continues to improve for the rhesus monkey. Such fortunate creatures, now they have but to think it and their wish is granted. If only we could be so lucky. I read an article a little while ago about a man who used something like an EEG to control the navigation system in his sailboat. Talk about lazy. Think left and the boat would go left, right and the boat would go right. Maybe he was anticipating some kind of dismemberment that would keep him from steering with his arms, I dont know...
I believe they are talking about making an open source project for the JVM. The binaries are free for supported platforms, but only the APIs are really open source.
It will need to be Fixed Or Repaired Daily. If not, it will be Found On Road Dead soon enough.
Is microsoft going to go after Gnome for their 'Workspace Switcher'? Or whatever KDE calls theirs? Software patents suck.
That's Standard Operating Procedure. The FBI doesn't say 'Hey, can we please get root on your servers for a minute?'. They come in with a SWAT team and say 'keep your hands where I can see them'. If they have reason to believe crimes are being committed, then they have the jurisdiction to apprehend criminals and collect evidence. Here is a hint: Don't break the law and don't allow your hosting clients to commit crimes using your servers. If you don't know what's going on on your machines, it's your own fault.
Foonet are a bunch of spammers anyway, the feds are doing us all a favor.
Why not bring a few Large asteroids into a maintainable stable orbit around Earth? Landing on large asteroids is probably difficult for many reasons. Assuming a few major difficulties were overcome, swing a few large boulders into orbit and attatch booster engines that would allow you to accelerate them out of orbit, using their momentum to launch them at inbound objects, hoping that the collisions would destroy or sufficiently alter their paths.
An alternate method would use space elevators kind of like cosmic trebuchets. You could lift pieces of a massive object up the elevator to be assembled and then fling it at the threatening meteor.
This could also be put to use to assault the new Chinese Moon and Mars colonies. Trebuchets can be extremely effective weapons. I'm sure the Chinese will quickly surrender their colonies after being bombarded by frozen cows for a week or so.
Well, ok so they are not better, but the are cheaper. Plus, you are almost guaranteed to get shot down accidentally in a Mig in most places in the world. This one's only $3.5 million. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =3079433732&category=4672
We have tried that at my company, with some success. It worked for a while, but it was prone to locking up. The only way to restart it was to find and delete a socket lock file which prevents it from restarting after a crash. Now we are trying Web Notes, which is also a complete pile of crap. It claims that it works under redhat/latest stable mozilla version, but this is not true.
Allow me to chime in, Enderle is a tool. I'm suprised that anyone pays this guy to write anything. What a complete moron. I'm less and less suprised that articles written by this fool are being posted on slashdot.
The quality of posts is somewhat lessened of late...
Any scientist worth his salt grinds his axes outside the laboratory. Calling the study 'biased' sounds like a relfexive reaction to me. A single scientist's leaning towards a conclusion without absolute proof could be attributed to bias, but when a group of scientist get together to lean in a certain direction, it's generally safe to say that they are on to something. Marburger should be less concerned that the study may be biased, and more concerned that it may hold a great deal of merit. Compare the records of the scientists to the Bush administration, I'd say the truth in these matters lies nearest to the scientists.
I skipped the proposed reason behind the Church's destruction of goddess worship.
And no, they were not the first or last religious group to try to abolish goddess worship, BUT they were probably the most effective.
But on to the reason: Some early pagan religions believed that the only way for man to communicate with God (or gods) was through sexual union with a woman. At the point of orgasm, it was thought that man and woman reached a state of nirvana (however temporary) that allowed them to get a brief view of God. The early Roman Catholic Church did'nt like the idea that people could communicate with God without first going through the Church. If the Church could establish the belief that the only way to speak to God was through the Church, they would be in a position of almost absolute power. The Church borrowed ideas and symbology from early religions, turning them to it's advantage. All men and women were guilty of Originial Sin, and could only be absolved by being baptised into the Church. Almost anything you can think of was considered a sin, and if you died before being completely absolved of all your sins, you would go to Hell. This gave the church a whole lot of power, and for a long time the only way to be absolved was to pay the church money to see and maybe touch a holy relic, which would guarantee your safety from Hell and Purgatory until you committed another sin.
So, in order to keep folks from communicating with God through more conventional means, the Church made women evil, sex even more evil, thinking of sex something you will go to hell for, and so on. Judaism actually had a pretty liberal policy towards sex until much later in it's history, the Temple used to be a place where clerics and regular people would screw like rabbits until they reached a state of nirvana. This ended at some point, as all good things do, I'm not exactly sure when.
Women were probably considered weaker to some degree for many thousands of years in many different religious contexts. It is interesting to look at how religion has shaped that perception, and how it has shaped the evolution of mankind (or womankind in this case)
Is responsible for the adoptation of Linux. Bear with me here. The idea of women being the 'weaker sex' is a product of the 1000+ year old war on pagan goddess worship waged by the Catholic Church. Women in ancient times were revered as sacred vessels of fertility. Constantine, later rulers and the Catholic Popes did their best to destroy the idea of goddess worship and make the women a secondary being, which was a major factor in shaping our society today.
So when men are amazed at women's ability to use Linux, their amazement can be attributed to the work of the early Roman Catholic Church, which continues today.
IFO was sold on Linux not by a woman, but by a penguin. I don't know how where the Church comes in there. The nuns in the catholic school I went to as a kid looked a lot like penguins. But I was never attracted to them. Really.
Nice mustache. People who get geeked about automobile themed laptops should be drowned in a bucket, especially mustachioed ones. This guy is worried about people 'fondling' his shiny red laptop. Does this piece of crap require $6500+ in maintainance per year? Are it's energy requirements anything like the Ferrari's? It does not appear to have significant performance over any other laptop, how much of a technical challenge was it to paint red and create a desktop theme? The article is a waste of bytes. Nothing about this is even remotely 'cool'. If you still dream like a spoiled teenager of ferraris and other exotic wastes, I hope one runs you over and you die, Enderle.
...Starfleet can communicate over extremely long distances with out an lag. Apparently, the lag is encountered occasionally when it is necessary to fill plot holes. But otherwise, not at all. The laws governing subspace communication elude me.
First time I got into quake or unreal deathmatches it was with teams of experts at the game company I had just started working at. The clans there had some of the top ranked internet players, including the #1 rated player on the internet (for UT or Quake3, I can't remember). My team would play against another game team, who apparently never worked after 3pm (afternoons were set aside for quake). I got killed often. Best way to learn to dominate is on a local network with a bunch of really good players. It will take time. You will die often. Eventually I got better, but was only good, not exceptional. Then I realized how much time I was wasting and that my shooting skills in the real world had improved little....
Who used sitefinder? It was one of those ambiguous sites we all hate which claimed to be the 'portal to everything'. It should stay dead. I don't want to be redirected to sitefinder everytime I mistype a url. The only 'users' they had were misled into thinking they found what they were looking for. Once they realized they had stumbled across a useless 'portal', they usually would go hit google.
Which is similar to the idea that: Roses are red, Violets are blue, Now you own my house and everything in it.
you better believe my hours will follow suite. In fact, I will gladly take a pay cut. Just don't expect to see my ass in the office, or expect me to be available at all for 6 months out of the year.
OptInBig has the freshest opt-in, co-registered names in the industry.
which should be read: "We have the most up to date email database in the spam industry"
'freshest' = most recently plucked, usually by a web crawler
'opt-in' = annoying sales jargon, to agree to be a part of something.
'co-registered' = someone else agreed to be a part of something for you! Really, I'm not sure what co-registered means in this sales pitch context.
Spammers have a very loose definition of the term 'unsolicited'. I can't believe this guy claims he is not a spammer. His business model is by definition, Spamming.
[optinrealbig.com] Possesses over 45 million online consumers in its database
I would bet that none of these 'online consumers' are aware that they are part of this list, or have ever willingly agreed to be a part of any 'consumer list'. How often does anyone agree to recieve "commercial advertising and informational announcements"? Yes please, sign me up, I want to know about every discount viagra and male organ enhancement offer available. While you are at it, make sure I know about all the breast enhancement products out there as well.
because it costs them nothing to include software that was already developed for previous products. They don't re-write all of the system and application level code for every new phone developed. They are building on a base of previously developed code, which includes all the stuff from the last version, plus newly developed apps for the new version. My cell phone cost $9, it has no camera or built in mp3 player, but it does have a color screen and text messaging, games, etc. That's apparently as simple as it gets these days.