Because we all know Corporations policing is a VERY GOOD THING!tm
Well, a coworker brought in his virus-ridden computer for me to take a look at, precisely because Comcast threatened to turn off his pipe. The interesting thing is that he knew he had a problem, but because he could work with a slower computer he didn't take care of it. So at least one zombie box that would have been 'put up with' by its owner is now off the net.
OTOH, I'm worried about the precedent this sets. Who knows what other things will bring the 'death penalty' from the ISPs? What ports will be shut down because 'you don't need them'?
This sounds like the traveling Videotopia exhibit.
It's quite a hoot to play games you used to rock at. I think they had Pac Man (not a fave of mine), although it's been a year or two since they came to my town.
I wonder how much different blogs are in this respect than
"traditional" journalism.
Not very, from what I can see. And, I think, for the same reason: they all read each other's stuff.
The nice thing about blogs is that they'll call each other out on errors. You won't see the Wall Street Journal run a correction on something the New York Times wrote (even when Jason Blair happened, the NYT did the bulk of the reporting.)
The downside of blogs is that they're like HyperCard Stacks: Anyone can write one, but it takes talent and effort to write one well.
terror suspects, alert to the phones' vulnerability,
had largely abandoned them for important communications and instead
were using e-mail, Internet phone calls and hand-delivered messages.
Hmmmm... looks like they (both 'they's) are moving on to VOIP. Is this going to impact it in any way that I would notice (or, rather, would want to notice?)
Uberblogger Stephen Den Beste has a post in which he raises doubts that Apple's high margins on hardware (thus, high profits) can continue. He thinks there will be a WinIBM platform in the near future. (WinNT is already running on G5s as an XBox dev platform.) Apple, in his estimation, will be forced to cut margins to compete.
I don't entirely agree with him. Apple has always commanded a premium because its software was good, not its hardware. Plus, I think he underappreciates OSX's BSD underbelly (odd, for an engineer.) But a WinG5 computer would provide an alternative to people who might otherwise make the switch.
(I thought I posted this earlier, but it doesn't seem to be showing up. Sorry if this winds up being a repeat post.)
It's interesting to compare countries like Germany and Japan before and after consumer electronics saturated society. TVs, VCRs, and Video Games may have spared us from another major war!
Radio, on the other hand, is obviously a bad influence.
Interactive books might be the ultimate geek test.
If you were willing to try and figure out the world-view of the game designer by hit-and-miss selection, congratulations: you're a geek. If you read it once or twice, and chucked it because too much of it was the same as the last time you read it... well, I guess you'd be a 'trusted user' or somesuch.
Same goes with text adventures (or whatever the kids call them thesedays. BTW, how do you get by the bulldozer?)
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Does it? Couldn't it be a "soft whitelist" until widely adopted? E.g., Everything coming from .mail gets a bonus in my e-mail filtering.
100% Redundant? Sorry, guy. I wish I had mod points for you.
Of course, this IS /. and it seems oddly fitting that the moderators don't RTFP.
... is the "custom application written by Sam Greenfield" Open Source?
This story is about Richard Hoagland.
Three words, "Moderators on Crack."
They also seem to think that talking about moderation is -1 Offtopic DoublePlusUnGood. (Yes, I'm talking about you! Put down the pipe!)
There, that ought to burn off some of this cumbersome Karma.
And in other news, NASA's Mission to the Giant Turtle has been canceled.
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
Still, someone's going to have to move, assemble and disassemble that gantry, someone will also have to make the material they build with.
Well, they're already working on transportation.
I say we blot out the sun now!
Since distance could be removed from the equation, how about the architect does the programming, and he or she could be anywhere in the world...
Great, now we're outsourcing construction jobs.
Because we all know Corporations policing is a VERY GOOD THING!tm
Well, a coworker brought in his virus-ridden computer for me to take a look at, precisely because Comcast threatened to turn off his pipe. The interesting thing is that he knew he had a problem, but because he could work with a slower computer he didn't take care of it. So at least one zombie box that would have been 'put up with' by its owner is now off the net.
OTOH, I'm worried about the precedent this sets. Who knows what other things will bring the 'death penalty' from the ISPs? What ports will be shut down because 'you don't need them'?
This sounds like the traveling Videotopia exhibit.
It's quite a hoot to play games you used to rock at. I think they had Pac Man (not a fave of mine), although it's been a year or two since they came to my town.
It's not exactly a representative group, is it?
New Scientist reports that researchers at the University of Washington carried out a scan of the campus network...
The same researchers noted that 90% of all computers have an inordinate number of "Phish" MP3s.
I wonder how much different blogs are in this respect than "traditional" journalism.
Not very, from what I can see. And, I think, for the same reason: they all read each other's stuff.
The nice thing about blogs is that they'll call each other out on errors. You won't see the Wall Street Journal run a correction on something the New York Times wrote (even when Jason Blair happened, the NYT did the bulk of the reporting.)
The downside of blogs is that they're like HyperCard Stacks: Anyone can write one, but it takes talent and effort to write one well.
terror suspects, alert to the phones' vulnerability, had largely abandoned them for important communications and instead were using e-mail, Internet phone calls and hand-delivered messages.
Hmmmm... looks like they (both 'they's) are moving on to VOIP. Is this going to impact it in any way that I would notice (or, rather, would want to notice?)
that would be fine with me if they welded it shut. It obviously wouldn't be a gasoline-powered car, maybe some kind of electric.
Sounds good, until you try to change the battery!
The document below was emailed to me by an anonymous whistleblower inside SCO. He tells me the typos and syntax bobbles were in the original.
Wave bye-bye to the nice whistleblower. I bet the 'typos and syntax bobbles' are part of a document tracking system. SCO will know who released this.
Uberblogger Stephen Den Beste has a post in which he raises doubts that Apple's high margins on hardware (thus, high profits) can continue. He thinks there will be a WinIBM platform in the near future. (WinNT is already running on G5s as an XBox dev platform.) Apple, in his estimation, will be forced to cut margins to compete.
I don't entirely agree with him. Apple has always commanded a premium because its software was good, not its hardware. Plus, I think he underappreciates OSX's BSD underbelly (odd, for an engineer.) But a WinG5 computer would provide an alternative to people who might otherwise make the switch.
(I thought I posted this earlier, but it doesn't seem to be showing up. Sorry if this winds up being a repeat post.)
That did the trick. Thanks!
will the ghosts specifically tell perspective women students that they are victims of a male dominated society?
Nah, they got teachers for that. The ghosts will tell them that those jeans really do make them look fat.
It's interesting to compare countries like Germany and Japan before and after consumer electronics saturated society. TVs, VCRs, and Video Games may have spared us from another major war!
Radio, on the other hand, is obviously a bad influence.
It's a good read, even if you have to watch a ten second ad to get access.
I use lynx, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, I do. There doesn't seem to be a way to get to the advert. Is there a way around? (Aside from waiting for someone to post TFA.)
or perhaps a bodice-ripping romance, if anybody's done one of those, which I strongly believe they should,
'nuff said.
This part might be easier for you if you had the manual
I did have the manual. Obviously, I didn't read it . What self-respecting geek Rs the FM? (OK, me, ideally)
The peril-sensitive sunglasses worked, though!
Lie down in front of it, just like in the book.
Yeah, that was the obvious (having read the book) thing to do. But then what? I would just be lieing there. Nobody came along to take me to a pub :-(
On an ancient UNIX terminal in my Mom's cubicle (some 20 years back).. there was a text adventure game where you walked around a space ship...
These kids today... When I was a whelp, we'd crash our lunar landers into the moon to see how big a crater we could make!
AND WE WERE GLAD TO DO IT!
Anyone remember interactive books?
Remember them? I still have them...
Interactive books might be the ultimate geek test.
If you were willing to try and figure out the world-view of the game designer by hit-and-miss selection, congratulations: you're a geek. If you read it once or twice, and chucked it because too much of it was the same as the last time you read it... well, I guess you'd be a 'trusted user' or somesuch.
Same goes with text adventures (or whatever the kids call them thesedays. BTW, how do you get by the bulldozer?)