I remember how terrifying downloading and uploading to particular BBS sites in my local areas use to be. Some BBS operators had such strict policies to maximize their only 1 line and to keep noobs and lamers away that if you kept being disconnected during a file transfer they'd blacklist you! This was extremely threatening as every BBS site pretty much shared the same community, thus the same blacklist.
My family could not for the life of them understand my reactions if one of them came home and picked up the phone without getting clearance from me - the hermit upstairs:P
PS for Canadian Slashdot'ers: Voting is as easy as ABC, Anybody But Conservative
This is invitation for and OFFTOPIC to this discussion. Sure...why bother to mess with a decade of dictatorship? I think the Liberal government burned their good name with the Ontario's provincial election. May I suggest you look at the realistic value of each party making good on their campaign promises before your vote is bought and sold with a cute slogan and/or flakey commercial.
I'd rather have a government tell me they're gonna screw me, than one that lies and screws me anyways!
well cruise on over to a site like packetnews.com where hackers, crackers, and those that know the loops holes will still find ways to hit you with pop-ups.
I was surprised a couple of days ago when my Mozilla was lettn' through some pop-ups.
Besides the fact that Mozilla was the first on the scene to include an option to block out pop-ups (I haven't bother to check has IE included that option yet?) that alone should be a reason for people to download a separate browser.
I laugh when I see a cheesy newbie ISP commercial that promotes "We have pop-up blocker technology!!!" Shit no kidding, so does my free Mozilla browser.
Alrighty this will no doubt be redundant, but where do they propose Linux came from, and if accused party is named does it really matter?
The only thing they're attempting here is:
1) Sell a book
2) Take away Linus's thunder
I hope they get burned on the cost of a BS book and get a taste of the Linux community's rath.
...it sounds like one web site was distributing more songs per year all by itself, than the entire CD industry released put together...
Yup, I can't say I miss the days of even trying to find a particular song, off a particular CD, in some hidden obscure part of a music store...or bothering to ask the min wage working brian child behind the counter for help.
Payback continues to be a bitch for the CD industry.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned that BSDCan started today at the University of Ottawa. If I wasn't working this weekend I would've gone (I think I'm only 3 or 4 hours away):(.
Don't forget, you never purchase the DVD directly from the production company itself. The DVD must go through channels, as this is an easier model of doing business.
At the risk of incriminating myself, I'm currently purchasing a discounted copy of "Kill Bill" through various contacts, that's apparently coming from a China manufacturing outfit that's running after hours to make these "extras"...suppose to come with color sleeve with Chinese writing on it. I'll have to see it for myself when it arrives.:P
Begging the question is the logical fallacy where the matter at hand is assumed to be true (or in the favor the arguing party desires) and then taken as accepted fact.
"Goddamnit Spock, not now! The Klingons are attacking!
If the movie is on a VHS tape then I can still do it.
Have you forgotten those old FBI warnings that wanted ppl to snitch for copying VHS? There's similar warnings of it on DVDs today...but nothing quite captures the eye like it use to than having that big *F*B*I* on the TV screen.
The question is how do you give your buddy the access he needs after you have died...
You immediately reminded me of the movie with Patrick Stewart, Safehouse, in which he plays a hermit that's slightly paranoid and is convinced he'll be killed before he can leak information regarding a dirty gov't or secret agency cover-up. So he builds a "dead-man switch" on his computer, which unless he enter a code in everyday to deactivate, will launch an application that'll ftp and email all the dirty secrets to all the major US newspapers.
Excellent movie I thought, had Kimberly Williams in it if anything else!:P
"...Both flights must be completed by January 1st, 2005."
Inspired by such a generous challenge I would like to announce that I will contribute my life savings (and of coarse any change in the couch) up for grabs to the three volunteers that can go back in time (yes, a list of various times, dates, and various embarrassing events of mine that are to be altered...namely all of high school) - in addition they must find the jade monkey before the next full moon!
I suppose employers would be more concerned about applying proper theory than actually accomplishing the work....no wait....I guess they don't seem to care either....hmmm,interesting.
We are refering to the same company that offered an online account for ppl's personal passwords?
Anyone here willing to admit of having use this service? I'm not overly paranoid but I like to consider myself educated enough not to hand out my PIN to anyone online.
They have also made a logic element out of a pair of leech neurons (nerve cells from blood-sucking worms) placed on a microchip.
I remember for my System's Analyst and Design class my teacher mentioning how they were already wiring organic matter to computer chips. One unfortunate student who made the great mistake to vocalized his complete shock over this, from which this cynical and suggestive instructor bluntly responded to him, "Read a book!" Mind you this particular student had the appearance of a squeegee-kid roadie.
Although I was not the one told off by the teacher that I should enlighten myself,I am very amazed over the use of organic matter is even possible. Are they running some sort of voltage through these fibers? Do they obviously react differently than say a copper wire, and why? Will it be just a matter of time before some medical students at a frat party get bored and hook up a cadaver's brain up to laptop to string search and download what the deceased use to listen to?
Yes and imagined how shock I was to find we have a Heritage Minister (yes I'm Candian (Tory minded)). She should stick to making them cute little "Part of our Heritage" commercials and Molson Canadian commercials. Her sticking her ass in the door-jam of music listeners is gonna hurt her large. I suppose her Yes people forgot to inform her what the voters actually felt.
Why is it these female in power here in Canada always look like the mothers of the kids I use to play against in houseleague? You know, the ones that bitch and complain and yelled at the ref to do his job. Yet they're far from being able to strap on skates and do the job better. Why is that?
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I remember how terrifying downloading and uploading to particular BBS sites in my local areas use to be. Some BBS operators had such strict policies to maximize their only 1 line and to keep noobs and lamers away that if you kept being disconnected during a file transfer they'd blacklist you! This was extremely threatening as every BBS site pretty much shared the same community, thus the same blacklist.
My family could not for the life of them understand my reactions if one of them came home and picked up the phone without getting clearance from me - the hermit upstairs:P
PS for Canadian Slashdot'ers: Voting is as easy as ABC, Anybody But Conservative
This is invitation for and OFFTOPIC to this discussion. Sure...why bother to mess with a decade of dictatorship? I think the Liberal government burned their good name with the Ontario's provincial election. May I suggest you look at the realistic value of each party making good on their campaign promises before your vote is bought and sold with a cute slogan and/or flakey commercial.
I'd rather have a government tell me they're gonna screw me, than one that lies and screws me anyways!
well cruise on over to a site like packetnews.com where hackers, crackers, and those that know the loops holes will still find ways to hit you with pop-ups.
I was surprised a couple of days ago when my Mozilla was lettn' through some pop-ups.
Not to be redundant wasn't this already covered in a Ask Slashdot quite recently? [gasp]Does that mean New York Times ripped off /.?! [/gasp]
I suppose worrying about one's own data is as relevant as to picking the design of one's own casket.
I have an oversized army jacket that I use for when I want to carry gadgets around without a bag.
Yup, nothing let's you blend in and scare off the criminal elements than dressing like DeNiro in Taxi Driver.
Besides the fact that Mozilla was the first on the scene to include an option to block out pop-ups (I haven't bother to check has IE included that option yet?) that alone should be a reason for people to download a separate browser.
I laugh when I see a cheesy newbie ISP commercial that promotes "We have pop-up blocker technology!!!" Shit no kidding, so does my free Mozilla browser.
Thanks, I was one coffee short when I read that post.:P
my bad.
Alrighty this will no doubt be redundant, but where do they propose Linux came from, and if accused party is named does it really matter?
The only thing they're attempting here is:
1) Sell a book 2) Take away Linus's thunder
I hope they get burned on the cost of a BS book and get a taste of the Linux community's rath.
What did he get a divorce from his hot wife?
Dang...that rip's a hole in my universe.:(
...it sounds like one web site was distributing more songs per year all by itself, than the entire CD industry released put together ...
Yup, I can't say I miss the days of even trying to find a particular song, off a particular CD, in some hidden obscure part of a music store...or bothering to ask the min wage working brian child behind the counter for help.
Payback continues to be a bitch for the CD industry.
I think I know more geeks that're couch jockeys than any sports just mentioned.
I would be mighty scared if I had the cure for cancer...probably for the outcomes that I wouldn't know would have resulted.
I wonder if all truly great discoveries will be blanketed with pessimism?
I'm surprised nobody mentioned that BSDCan started today at the University of Ottawa. If I wasn't working this weekend I would've gone (I think I'm only 3 or 4 hours away):(.
My first reaction to your post was "someone left COMPUTER NOTEBOOK in the woods?!"
My bad.
Yes, Bambi will get better response time than thou.
Don't forget, you never purchase the DVD directly from the production company itself. The DVD must go through channels, as this is an easier model of doing business.
At the risk of incriminating myself, I'm currently purchasing a discounted copy of "Kill Bill" through various contacts, that's apparently coming from a China manufacturing outfit that's running after hours to make these "extras"...suppose to come with color sleeve with Chinese writing on it. I'll have to see it for myself when it arrives.:P
Begging the question is the logical fallacy where the matter at hand is assumed to be true (or in the favor the arguing party desires) and then taken as accepted fact.
"Goddamnit Spock, not now! The Klingons are attacking!
If the movie is on a VHS tape then I can still do it.
Have you forgotten those old FBI warnings that wanted ppl to snitch for copying VHS? There's similar warnings of it on DVDs today...but nothing quite captures the eye like it use to than having that big *F*B*I* on the TV screen.
The question is how do you give your buddy the access he needs after you have died...
You immediately reminded me of the movie with Patrick Stewart, Safehouse, in which he plays a hermit that's slightly paranoid and is convinced he'll be killed before he can leak information regarding a dirty gov't or secret agency cover-up. So he builds a "dead-man switch" on his computer, which unless he enter a code in everyday to deactivate, will launch an application that'll ftp and email all the dirty secrets to all the major US newspapers.
Excellent movie I thought, had Kimberly Williams in it if anything else!:P
"...Both flights must be completed by January 1st, 2005."
Inspired by such a generous challenge I would like to announce that I will contribute my life savings (and of coarse any change in the couch) up for grabs to the three volunteers that can go back in time (yes, a list of various times, dates, and various embarrassing events of mine that are to be altered...namely all of high school) - in addition they must find the jade monkey before the next full moon!
I suppose employers would be more concerned about applying proper theory than actually accomplishing the work....no wait....I guess they don't seem to care either....hmmm,interesting.
We are refering to the same company that offered an online account for ppl's personal passwords?
Anyone here willing to admit of having use this service? I'm not overly paranoid but I like to consider myself educated enough not to hand out my PIN to anyone online.
They have also made a logic element out of a pair of leech neurons (nerve cells from blood-sucking worms) placed on a microchip.
I remember for my System's Analyst and Design class my teacher mentioning how they were already wiring organic matter to computer chips. One unfortunate student who made the great mistake to vocalized his complete shock over this, from which this cynical and suggestive instructor bluntly responded to him, "Read a book!" Mind you this particular student had the appearance of a squeegee-kid roadie.
Although I was not the one told off by the teacher that I should enlighten myself,I am very amazed over the use of organic matter is even possible. Are they running some sort of voltage through these fibers? Do they obviously react differently than say a copper wire, and why? Will it be just a matter of time before some medical students at a frat party get bored and hook up a cadaver's brain up to laptop to string search and download what the deceased use to listen to?
Yes and imagined how shock I was to find we have a Heritage Minister (yes I'm Candian (Tory minded)). She should stick to making them cute little "Part of our Heritage" commercials and Molson Canadian commercials. Her sticking her ass in the door-jam of music listeners is gonna hurt her large. I suppose her Yes people forgot to inform her what the voters actually felt.
Why is it these female in power here in Canada always look like the mothers of the kids I use to play against in houseleague? You know, the ones that bitch and complain and yelled at the ref to do his job. Yet they're far from being able to strap on skates and do the job better. Why is that?