It sounds like science is catching up with the glass blades Raven carries in Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash.
Dmitri "Raven" Ravinoff -- An Aleut native who works as a mercenary. His preferred weapons are glass knives - undetectable by security systems and reputed to be molecule-thin at the edges - and throwing spears. He travels on a motorcycle whose sidecar has been replaced with a hydrogen bomb that will automatically detonate if his heart stops beating.
On another technicality, isn't pencil lead actually made up of sheets a single molecule thick?
We could arm minjas (midget ninjas) with these molecular spears and graphite shurikens to make the real ultimate killing power even more ultimaterer.
The thing which has made the biggest difference and actually moved people from Win98 hasn't been the machine dying or the OS getting corrupted, its been Norton Antivirus is no longer supported on it.
One of our customers has a policy that Norton must be installed on every machine (whole other story as to why there is no corporate version...) and now NAV will no longer offer a 12 month subscription to NAV 2002 (the version they all had installed). I cannot obtain NAV 2003-2005 simply and am forced to "upgrade" to the 2005 shitpile, however oh lookie here (after purchasing and downloading...) it cannot run on 98.
grrrrrrr @ them, but as customers they bought new machines, so woohooo @ norton for that I suppoose:S
The management and presentation of data on wikipedia is good, but it should be built upon. Just like we have meta moderations and discussion2 (some of us) to filter the good from the bad, so should wikipedia.
Let the viewer decide if they want neutral POV articles, whether they want partisan tagged elements, personal facts, myths and gossip or just the facts.
Wikipedia SHOULD be open to everyone and whilst we strive for equality and "as-one" its quite easy to see cultural differences happen, political, religious, fanatical and personal elements combine to mean something slightly different to the reader of that article (vi vs emacs anyone *).
Inserting sections of football club preference (calling your town rivals rubbish for instance) into it should allow all local supporters to see an informative and possibly illuminating article with a bias towards supporting the local team. A person viewing the same page from (for instance) another country doesn't really have a bias toward either team so just wants the facts. And finally a person from the other side of town supporting the opposing team, they also want some bias but with a different focus.
However this is not what wikipedia strives for, the current overlords want none point of view. With everyone in the world having a point of view, boiling the information down so all parties are happy can be difficult.
Since all the information is given from local interested parties we of course would expect biased information. The supporters of the opposing team will be up in arms when a none neutral portion is added and an edit war will commence. If they could all insert they bias and mark the others in a similar way, then BOTH viewpoints can remain and yet the information presented is proper and correct.
* I use notepad but pine for a port of the amiga version of CygnusEd.
Why don't you just do what everyone else does and either buy a cam designed for outdoor use, or put it inside an enclosure? There are MANY available and cams are in use in all places in the world.
Where would you need your webcamera to operate in such extremes?
Amazing footage of the inside of the oven? Deep underwater bath coverage ? (actually, some folks might appreciate that, but you can buy waterproof kit) Freezer cam, lets you know when your ice cream has been raided.
Every time you create a file with a long file name, NTFS creates a second file entry that has a similar 8.3 short file name. A file with an 8.3 short file name has a file name containing 1 to 8 characters and a file name extension containing 1 to 3 characters. The file name and file name extension are separated by a period.
If you have a large number of files (300,000 or more) in a folder, and the files have long file names with the same initial characters, the time required to create the files increases. The increase occurs because NTFS bases the short file name on the first six characters of the long file name. In folders with more than 300,000 files, the short file names start to conflict after NTFS uses all the 8.3 names that are similar to the long file names. Repeated conflicts between a generated short file name and existing short file names cause NTFS to regenerate the short file name from 6 to 8 times.
To reduce the time required to create files, use the fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 command to disable the creation of 8.3 short file names. (You must restart your computer for this setting to take effect.) For more information about disabling 8.3 short file names, see "MS-DOS-Readable File Names on NTFS Volumes" later in this chapter.
If you want NTFS to generate 8.3 names, improve performance by using a naming scheme in which long file names differ at the beginning of the name instead of at the end.
For more information about short file names, see "File Names in Windows XP Professional" later in this chapter.
I believe the anti virus firms are doing normal users a service by keeping lists of known bad software and preventing its spread. That software might come in from an exploitable hole in the OS or it can come just as easily by invitation through the front door because the user believed the catch line.
3 simple words: i love you have been enough in the past, what will it take in future...
Its that slashdot is a massive site with large readership and no protections for the younger people here. Will slashdot and other similar communities be forced to comply with the logging requirements of a new law?
The user is the most infectious part of any system.
If a user has permissions to run any program he wants then malware will remain. In a corporate environment, the users' rights should be such that unknown applications cannot run.
Home users don't have the same protections and must rely on virus checkers and spyware scanning to tell them that "this screensaver your mum sent you is infact a trojan which will send itself out to all your friends".
Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD are all susceptible to users' bad decisions.
(and the critical mass of malicious folks exist in Windows, but that could change quite quickly)
On the chinese side who receives multiple packets telling him he has been searching for contraliterature?
Some amused little craphead from whereever in the world floods this firewall and lets it log thousands of illicit requests for the info from an internal address leaving some poor chinese family to try and tell the police it wasn't them.
You would be surprised. It used to be the case, but now it seems to be getting harder (at least on google) Theres more spam and lyrics and legal sites coming up tops.
By the time you find anything your on page 97 and searching in foreign languages on random domains.
I just gave an example of looking for a specific ebook and not managing to find it by direct filename and other common things on google, but managing to get it very easily from yahoo.
I was looking for a pdb (ebook) of snowcrash recently and whilst its getting harder to find things using google, yahoo came up with results for it.
Now this just isn't right, can I sue google for NOT finding the things I'm looking for?
Speaking of lawsuits for stupid things, can I sue yahoo myself for their stupid new frontpage?
I thought the slash redesign was a bit wonky, but the yahoo one actually does make my eyes bleed, it keeps sliding downwards under some java shit which makes me feel sick. Anyway, I've changed homepage now so bye bye yahoo its been good knowing ya.
Considering how slashdot is designed to cross post, I don't see how this can be avoided. After all submissions are made based upon what users of websites find, so its inevitable that some of those sites are on your bookmarks list.
As it happens I read 2/3 of the sites you listed, but hadn't read this interview so slash is doing its job.
I really want to know what happens when they run out of power though?
Are they inert or do they revert to a dangerous stepper? The inert option would seem the best since they can be tended to for the duration of the war then afterwards no children will lose their legs or anything.
The site tried to claim before that they were a content site and that google unfairly removed them from the results. However it appeared to everyone with eyes that this site was just a crappy linkfarm/google optimising pile of crap with no reasonable content of its own (it did however appear to use a derivative of slashcode for some of its pages).
Now they are crying that they were a search engine, they are just tosspots crying because google stopped their shit (it was all removed when google refreshed their rules about valid sites and removed thousands of crap from their results).
Slashdot Mirror
It sounds like science is catching up with the glass blades Raven carries in Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash.
Dmitri "Raven" Ravinoff -- An Aleut native who works as a mercenary. His preferred weapons are glass knives - undetectable by security systems and reputed to be molecule-thin at the edges - and throwing spears. He travels on a motorcycle whose sidecar has been replaced with a hydrogen bomb that will automatically detonate if his heart stops beating.
On another technicality, isn't pencil lead actually made up of sheets a single molecule thick?
We could arm minjas (midget ninjas) with these molecular spears and graphite shurikens to make the real ultimate killing power even more ultimaterer.
Eolas = 1 off payment, this Europe thing could be ongoing.
94 million redeemable copies of XP/Office/Visual Studio should be good ;)
Bob the bacteria.
Can we build it?
Yes we can!
Sorry, not enough caffeine
A good starting point would probably be The Yahoo abuse reporting subsystem.
if (typo) { foot.shoot(); }
I read more since as well and from what I can gather its not actually late, but it reminds me of the half life 2 code theft.
If ((CodeLate==TRUE) && hacker.holding( yourcode ))
{
Panic();
}
The thing which has made the biggest difference and actually moved people from Win98 hasn't been the machine dying or the OS getting corrupted, its been Norton Antivirus is no longer supported on it.
:S
One of our customers has a policy that Norton must be installed on every machine (whole other story as to why there is no corporate version...) and now NAV will no longer offer a 12 month subscription to NAV 2002 (the version they all had installed).
I cannot obtain NAV 2003-2005 simply and am forced to "upgrade" to the 2005 shitpile, however oh lookie here (after purchasing and downloading...) it cannot run on 98.
grrrrrrr @ them, but as customers they bought new machines, so woohooo @ norton for that I suppoose
Shhhhhhhh its about the only thing we aren't taxed for.
The management and presentation of data on wikipedia is good, but it should be built upon.
Just like we have meta moderations and discussion2 (some of us) to filter the good from the bad, so should wikipedia.
Let the viewer decide if they want neutral POV articles, whether they want partisan tagged elements, personal facts, myths and gossip or just the facts.
Wikipedia SHOULD be open to everyone and whilst we strive for equality and "as-one" its quite easy to see cultural differences happen, political, religious, fanatical and personal elements combine to mean something slightly different to the reader of that article (vi vs emacs anyone *).
Inserting sections of football club preference (calling your town rivals rubbish for instance) into it should allow all local supporters to see an informative and possibly illuminating article with a bias towards supporting the local team.
A person viewing the same page from (for instance) another country doesn't really have a bias toward either team so just wants the facts.
And finally a person from the other side of town supporting the opposing team, they also want some bias but with a different focus.
However this is not what wikipedia strives for, the current overlords want none point of view. With everyone in the world having a point of view, boiling the information down so all parties are happy can be difficult.
Since all the information is given from local interested parties we of course would expect biased information. The supporters of the opposing team will be up in arms when a none neutral portion is added and an edit war will commence.
If they could all insert they bias and mark the others in a similar way, then BOTH viewpoints can remain and yet the information presented is proper and correct.
* I use notepad but pine for a port of the amiga version of CygnusEd.
Why don't you just do what everyone else does and either buy a cam designed for outdoor use, or put it inside an enclosure?
There are MANY available and cams are in use in all places in the world.
Where would you need your webcamera to operate in such extremes?
Amazing footage of the inside of the oven?
Deep underwater bath coverage ? (actually, some folks might appreciate that, but you can buy waterproof kit)
Freezer cam, lets you know when your ice cream has been raided.
From here:
Use Short File Names
Every time you create a file with a long file name, NTFS creates a second file entry that has a similar 8.3 short file name. A file with an 8.3 short file name has a file name containing 1 to 8 characters and a file name extension containing 1 to 3 characters. The file name and file name extension are separated by a period.
If you have a large number of files (300,000 or more) in a folder, and the files have long file names with the same initial characters, the time required to create the files increases. The increase occurs because NTFS bases the short file name on the first six characters of the long file name. In folders with more than 300,000 files, the short file names start to conflict after NTFS uses all the 8.3 names that are similar to the long file names. Repeated conflicts between a generated short file name and existing short file names cause NTFS to regenerate the short file name from 6 to 8 times.
To reduce the time required to create files, use the fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 command to disable the creation of 8.3 short file names. (You must restart your computer for this setting to take effect.) For more information about disabling 8.3 short file names, see "MS-DOS-Readable File Names on NTFS Volumes" later in this chapter.
If you want NTFS to generate 8.3 names, improve performance by using a naming scheme in which long file names differ at the beginning of the name instead of at the end.
For more information about short file names, see "File Names in Windows XP Professional" later in this chapter.
No matter what OS exists.
I believe the anti virus firms are doing normal users a service by keeping lists of known bad software and preventing its spread.
That software might come in from an exploitable hole in the OS or it can come just as easily by invitation through the front door because the user believed the catch line.
3 simple words: i love you have been enough in the past, what will it take in future...
We are great at spelin and stuf.
Whilst you are a bit of a troll, you hit upon something I pondered upon reading Congress May Add Record Requirements to MySpace here a couple of days ago.
Its that slashdot is a massive site with large readership and no protections for the younger people here.
Will slashdot and other similar communities be forced to comply with the logging requirements of a new law?
The user is the most infectious part of any system.
If a user has permissions to run any program he wants then malware will remain.
In a corporate environment, the users' rights should be such that unknown applications cannot run.
Home users don't have the same protections and must rely on virus checkers and spyware scanning to tell them that "this screensaver your mum sent you is infact a trojan which will send itself out to all your friends".
Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD are all susceptible to users' bad decisions.
(and the critical mass of malicious folks exist in Windows, but that could change quite quickly)
On the chinese side who receives multiple packets telling him he has been searching for contraliterature?
Some amused little craphead from whereever in the world floods this firewall and lets it log thousands of illicit requests for the info from an internal address leaving some poor chinese family to try and tell the police it wasn't them.
You would be surprised.
It used to be the case, but now it seems to be getting harder (at least on google)
Theres more spam and lyrics and legal sites coming up tops.
By the time you find anything your on page 97 and searching in foreign languages on random domains.
I just gave an example of looking for a specific ebook and not managing to find it by direct filename and other common things on google, but managing to get it very easily from yahoo.
I was looking for a pdb (ebook) of snowcrash recently and whilst its getting harder to find things using google, yahoo came up with results for it.
Now this just isn't right, can I sue google for NOT finding the things I'm looking for?
Speaking of lawsuits for stupid things, can I sue yahoo myself for their stupid new frontpage?
I thought the slash redesign was a bit wonky, but the yahoo one actually does make my eyes bleed, it keeps sliding downwards under some java shit which makes me feel sick. Anyway, I've changed homepage now so bye bye yahoo its been good knowing ya.
Considering how slashdot is designed to cross post, I don't see how this can be avoided.
After all submissions are made based upon what users of websites find, so its inevitable that some of those sites are on your bookmarks list.
As it happens I read 2/3 of the sites you listed, but hadn't read this interview so slash is doing its job.
These fucking mines HOP.
I swear I use the same things in Half-Life 2.
from the site though, the best part has to be:
Technical Support for your hopping mines!
I really want to know what happens when they run out of power though?
Are they inert or do they revert to a dangerous stepper?
The inert option would seem the best since they can be tended to for the duration of the war then afterwards no children will lose their legs or anything.
Thats an awfully clever maap you've made.
How on earth did you know I was wearing my blue sombrero today?
The site tried to claim before that they were a content site and that google unfairly removed them from the results.
However it appeared to everyone with eyes that this site was just a crappy linkfarm/google optimising pile of crap with no reasonable content of its own (it did however appear to use a derivative of slashcode for some of its pages).
Now they are crying that they were a search engine, they are just tosspots crying because google stopped their shit (it was all removed when google refreshed their rules about valid sites and removed thousands of crap from their results).
DMCA = America.
Wimbledon = England.