Now that the Huffington Post is online, perhaps Hilary Rosen should be joined by over there with Maureen O'Gara, Mary Mapes and Michelle Delio. Or would that lead to the birth of a black hole on the internet?
Perhaps they could branch off to create their own blog "Fem-Hacks", the gender-correct alternative to "Stud-Hacks" of Jeff Gannon/Guckert, Jyason Blair and Dan Rather fame? I think the market potential would be huge!
This is obviously a cunning plan by toupsz to bring down the site. Why else would he include the link to the website twice? Turn your caches off, and don the tin foil people!
Your congressmen will be thankfull for you putting a stop to their offices being slashdotted with faxes.
What Ziviyr (95582) is referring to, are errors even worse than the Guru Meditation (software failure).
Certain hardware errors would turn the screen into one single color like red, yellow and green.
Red : ROM Error - Reseat or replace Green : CHIP RAM error (reset AGNUS and re-test) Blue : Custom Chip(s) Error Yellow : 68000 detected error before software trapped it (GURU) Black : No CPU
Personally, I've seen a lot of red screens on an Amiga 600 that I sent in for replacement. I've seen the yellow screen a couple of times, and I think I might have seen the green one. I've never seen an Amiga blue-screen or black-screen.
I did see the Guru Meditation (later renamed Software Failure) many times, and its less serious brother, the "Recoverable Alert" -- a Guru Meditation with yellow text and frame on black background that you could just click away to let the program continue.
In the new Amiga OS4, the crash handler is called the "Grim Reaper" and comes with several functions for debugging, as well as choices to kill the offending application, contiue running, or rebooting the system.
Other commenters told about how you can change the color of the SOD. Personally, I remember using peek and poke commands to change the color values of the text and background registers on the Commodore 64.:-)
From your comment: "In South Florida, only Broward, Miami/Dade and Palm Beach counties voted Democrat and Kerry lead Bush by only 6% of the votes in Miami/Dade."
From the article in the story (TFA): "Together, Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties are home to more spammers than any country on Earth. "
(my emphasis)
Ooops:-)
Correlation isn't necessarily correlation, but I found it rather funny that they were the same counties.:-)
I wonder about this too. "Voluntary" age limits are a good start, and something to help the parents. But I'll bet there's some stupid store clerk here and there that will sell anything to minors to be "cool", because (s)he thinks the age limits are stuid, or becuase it's more revenue. OMG, earn $$$$ fast! Perhaps a state law will make those people abide by the rules.
Of course the kids will keep trying, though.. Just as they're after alcohol, tobacco, firearms, heroin etc.
System Userd ID's and passwords ID password description root sc0root1 system admin ID scoid sc0cmvc1 cmvc ID
You remember how VAX systems came with a "field" user with a default password of "service"?
I propose that all future Linux systems come with the user "scoid", password "sc0cmvc1".
It's chrooted. When you log in, it displays some fireworks, and contains some ASCII-art of when Darl McBride and his friends at Cannopy were arrested.:-)
If you read the article, you'd see that one of the tactics of DDoS-attackers is to attack a domain that is their own, but points to the victim. So the FBI would have a hard time separating the DDoS-attackers from a victim that's silly enough to re-route to the FBI.
(And as others said: Re-routing or null-routing means that your site is down anyway, giving the DDoS'ers the victory.)
Hey...That is obviously wrong, but it's an easy mistake to make. Not every Commodore is an Amiga.
I'm writing this on my Amiga, with Apache running comfortably on it, actually. It pumps out large files too (around 100 MB), with upstream bandwith the limiting factor to speed.
You've confused the Amiga with the Commodore 64, which actually does have a webserver: Contiki;-)
Well, yeah, with the armed robots allready in place, all we need now is some whiny teenager to top it off.
Perhaps the UCLA will succeed in seperating religion and state? Unfortunately, that won't save us. They'll just succeed in getting the "angels/apostles" renamed into "the differently DNA sequenced"...
TigerDirect are in a different business area than Apple's main business area, although Apple is also a music store, a computer store, a web service provider etc., etc. Remember that Apple, the record company, sued Apple Computer when iTunes came along?
What does your sig mean? I was trying to translate it, but my German is pretty weak.
It's Norwegian, not German.
"--- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass""
This button is a power on switch, the other is [a] Bender voice button "Bite my shiny metal arse".
Certainly, the research is about using the pyroelectric effect. The submitter was right about that.
What the submitter was wrong about was this: "a type of crystal used in cell phones to filter signals." That is, as the parent post correctly points out, using the piezoelectric effect. So it is informative, although it should have pointed out exactly in what part of the write-up was wrong.
(My other reply down as -1 Wrong. Sorry, Anonymous Coward.)
I know/. has been getting a bit of an anti-Scientific leaning as of late, focusing more on the trend of Geekdom moreso than the reality, but you don't have to call them Bird Brains...
The scientists doing the study explain in their paper how humans learn to talk. The poster is referring to the headline of the story "Bird Brains Explain How Humans Learn to Talk". As in The Scientists == Bird Brains. Ha, ha? Funny?
I guess there are some dumb fouls moderating too....
the whole point of moderation is to keep the thread from getting bogged down in complete crap, not to make sure there are no posts which do not have 100% relevance, insight, and humor, with perfect writing style.
And which one of those characteristics was my post lacking?
You bastard.;-)
Uhm. Thanks for explaining it for those who moderate without even reading the slashdot story, much less the article.:-)
Actually, there are Commodore 64s that are online, both client-side and server-side. Contiki gives you a text web browser, an irc client, a web server, and more.
You could connect with a modem, or with an ethernet plug with the Retro Replay expansion.
Oh, it's not that slashdot readers don't read the articles, it's just that the posters and readers rarely mix. If you want a comment to be noticed, you can't go wasting time actually reading articles, can you?
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Because Groklaw corrects errors and values facts over sensationalism, for starters.
Hey,
Now that the Huffington Post is online, perhaps Hilary Rosen should be joined by over there with Maureen O'Gara, Mary Mapes and Michelle Delio. Or would that lead to the birth of a black hole on the internet?
Perhaps they could branch off to create their own blog "Fem-Hacks", the gender-correct alternative to "Stud-Hacks" of Jeff Gannon/Guckert, Jyason Blair and Dan Rather fame? I think the market potential would be huge!
Wasn't it this kind of digging into the past that brought down Gannon/Guckert too?
Hm, that means there's a similarity between Gannon and PJ... eew!
This is obviously a cunning plan by toupsz to bring down the site. Why else would he include the link to the website twice? Turn your caches off, and don the tin foil people!
Your congressmen will be thankfull for you putting a stop to their offices being slashdotted with faxes.
What Ziviyr (95582) is referring to, are errors even worse than the Guru Meditation (software failure).
Certain hardware errors would turn the screen into one single color like red, yellow and green.
Red : ROM Error - Reseat or replace
Green : CHIP RAM error (reset AGNUS and re-test)
Blue : Custom Chip(s) Error
Yellow : 68000 detected error before software trapped it (GURU)
Black : No CPU
Amiga System Startup Colours
Personally, I've seen a lot of red screens on an Amiga 600 that I sent in for replacement. I've seen the yellow screen a couple of times, and I think I might have seen the green one. I've never seen an Amiga blue-screen or black-screen.
I did see the Guru Meditation (later renamed Software Failure) many times, and its less serious brother, the "Recoverable Alert" -- a Guru Meditation with yellow text and frame on black background that you could just click away to let the program continue.
In the new Amiga OS4, the crash handler is called the "Grim Reaper" and comes with several functions for debugging, as well as choices to kill the offending application, contiue running, or rebooting the system.
Other commenters told about how you can change the color of the SOD. Personally, I remember using peek and poke commands to change the color values of the text and background registers on the Commodore 64. :-)
Whoops. Correlation isn't necessarily causation, is what I meant.
From your comment: "In South Florida, only Broward, Miami/Dade and Palm Beach counties voted Democrat and Kerry lead Bush by only 6% of the votes in Miami/Dade."
:-)
:-)
From the article in the story (TFA): "Together, Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties are home to more spammers than any country on Earth. "
(my emphasis)
Ooops
Correlation isn't necessarily correlation, but I found it rather funny that they were the same counties.
Why are the publishers against this law?
I wonder about this too.
"Voluntary" age limits are a good start, and something to help the parents. But I'll bet there's some stupid store clerk here and there that will sell anything to minors to be "cool", because (s)he thinks the age limits are stuid, or becuase it's more revenue. OMG, earn $$$$ fast!
Perhaps a state law will make those people abide by the rules.
Of course the kids will keep trying, though.. Just as they're after alcohol, tobacco, firearms, heroin etc.
I propose that all future Linux systems come with the user "scoid", password "sc0cmvc1".
It's chrooted. When you log in, it displays some fireworks, and contains some ASCII-art of when Darl McBride and his friends at Cannopy were arrested.
If you read the article, you'd see that one of the tactics of DDoS-attackers is to attack a domain that is their own, but points to the victim.
So the FBI would have a hard time separating the DDoS-attackers from a victim that's silly enough to re-route to the FBI.
(And as others said: Re-routing or null-routing means that your site is down anyway, giving the DDoS'ers the victory.)
In reality, this site is hosted on an Amiga.
;-)
Hey...That is obviously wrong, but it's an easy mistake to make. Not every Commodore is an Amiga.
I'm writing this on my Amiga, with Apache running comfortably on it, actually. It pumps out large files too (around 100 MB), with upstream bandwith the limiting factor to speed.
You've confused the Amiga with the Commodore 64, which actually does have a webserver: Contiki
I have to admit, one of the funniest products is slippery slime. Should be used in perimiter security around all potential targets of terrorism. :-)
Well, yeah, with the armed robots allready in place, all we need now is some whiny teenager to top it off.
Perhaps the UCLA will succeed in seperating religion and state? Unfortunately, that won't save us. They'll just succeed in getting the "angels/apostles" renamed into "the differently DNA sequenced"...
SPOILERS ahoy
TigerDirect are in a different business area than Apple's main business area, although Apple is also a music store, a computer store, a web service provider etc., etc. Remember that Apple, the record company, sued Apple Computer when iTunes came along?
What does your sig mean? I was trying to translate it, but my German is pretty weak.
It's Norwegian, not German.
"--- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass""
This button is a power on switch, the other is [a] Bender voice button "Bite my shiny metal arse".
Here, and here.
Not made by me.
... as was I.
Certainly, the research is about using the pyroelectric effect. The submitter was right about that.
What the submitter was wrong about was this:
"a type of crystal used in cell phones to filter signals."
That is, as the parent post correctly points out, using the piezoelectric effect. So it is informative, although it should have pointed out exactly in what part of the write-up was wrong.
(My other reply down as -1 Wrong. Sorry, Anonymous Coward.)
They call the study "Observation of nuclear fusion driven by a pyroelectric crystal".
Unless the submitter is one of the researchers, the submitter was correct.
Thanks for making me learn about those electric characteristics of chrystals though.
Here's the final frame of the SVG animation: http://gunnarre.nvg.org/operaswim1.png
I know /. has been getting a bit of an anti-Scientific leaning as of late, focusing more on the trend of Geekdom moreso than the reality, but you don't have to call them Bird Brains...
The scientists doing the study explain in their paper how humans learn to talk. The poster is referring to the headline of the story "Bird Brains Explain How Humans Learn to Talk". As in The Scientists == Bird Brains. Ha, ha? Funny?
I guess there are some dumb fouls moderating too....
the whole point of moderation is to keep the thread from getting bogged down in complete crap, not to make sure there are no posts which do not have 100% relevance, insight, and humor, with perfect writing style.
;-)
:-)
And which one of those characteristics was my post lacking?
You bastard.
Uhm. Thanks for explaining it for those who moderate without even reading the slashdot story, much less the article.
Or charter one of those luxury airliners with a pool on board, and the challenge will take hours instead of days to complete.
Doesn't Virgin Atlantic have planes with pools on board?
Actually, there are Commodore 64s that are online, both client-side and server-side. Contiki gives you a text web browser, an irc client, a web server, and more.
You could connect with a modem, or with an ethernet plug with the Retro Replay expansion.
If nobody reads TFA, how come we /. those sites?
Oh, it's not that slashdot readers don't read the articles, it's just that the posters and readers rarely mix. If you want a comment to be noticed, you can't go wasting time actually reading articles, can you?