You're right, we should all stick to VB6 or VB.NET. Much safer that way really.//ducks//
The plus side of seeing distruction loom, loosing entire sites to these guys, is the head of our local IT department is pushing for people to move away from Windows. In fact, we've already got one Certified RH geek on staff and I'm sure plenty more lurking around the corner.
Not that I'm looking forward to porting all my bosses code from VB6 to something a little more, um... better. But it will be nice when/if we get there.
It would be interesting to find out how much he paid if he's getting a 250k tax cut.
What seems shitty to me, is that my ex-wife paid exactly $0 in Federal taxes, got a refund back for over $2,000 and she's pissed that she didn't get a check from the government this summer. It's hard to justify giving someone a tax relief check when they don't pay any taxes.
Umm... are you saying that sacrificing small animals to get computers working correctly isn't an already widely used practice? Hmmm... Might have to take that part out of our system troubleshooting manual, as it comes right after making sure the computer has been rebooted.
Sorry your part of the network seems to be bad my friend. I have Verizon and have wonderful coverage nearly everywhere I go. Including my 6 times a year trips to Kansas. I'd suggest that you might have a problem with your phones, and should consider upgrading to a tri-mode phone if you haven't already - makes all the difference. Before switching to Verizon, I had T-Mobile back when they were voice stream. One freq - I could only use my phone between work and home - never ever ever to be used in the house or at work.
Or maybe Verizon just sucks down there, I honestly don't know.
"Woman's right to choose". To choose what? I fully support a woman's right to choose what to wear, what to eat, where to work, whom to marry, whether to conceive babies, etc
This isn't a popular point to bring up you know. I agree, I support a woman's choice as to if she wishes to have a child or not. However, much like you I believe the choice needs to be made in the bedroom, NOT after. It's not like we don't know where babies come from and what act causes them to be born (ok, this is/., some of you may not know first hand how this happens), it's not like free birth control isn't availble for the asking, regardless of age. So yes, the woman should have EVERY right to choose. If you don't want to run the risk of having a baby, keep your pants on. Good thing this is only/. and I'm NOT running for president in 04.
Are you positive it would be the first space screwing? We've been sending people up of both sexes, the cameras don't cover EVERY part of the ship and you have to imagine the novelity of it all would have a lot of appeal for either sex.
I know it would be one of the *first* things I'd want to try in space.
Nope, ran out of mod points on Friday, so that was my own little mod scheme. My own mod system has 3 catagories. +1 you RTFA, +1 on topic (this is/. after all) and -1 WTF are you talking about?
Ok, so as a rule I don't repsond to.sigs - however...
This web site kinda scares me. I took several minutes to browse the site and several more to read the text of the pdf file. Spelling errors aside, some of the comments really make me wonder for example:
SALOON OPERATOR replacement of defective BEER PUMP that fosters alcoholism, mate-battering, drunk driving, and other crimes: Deductible
FAMILY replacement of defective STOVE to feed family: NOT deductible
Never mind that the beer pump replacement is a legit business expense, that the bar keep employees people, probably does a fair ammount of good in the community just by being there and needs to turn a profit to stay in business. The point this statement makes to me, isn't that we need reform of tax laws, but that anyone who ownes a business is EVIL. Especially any business that might cater to a audience that doesn't fit into what the author of this crap thinks is right. Thankfully, the author's rights to spew forth such waste *IS* protected and defended by myself and countless others.
So, no. I don't want a new constitution. I've read mine and it seems to be just fine. I've sworn to defend it more than once, and I have defended it, against all enemies, both forign and domestic and I shall continue to do so.
If you have to ask questions of the Frys salespersons, you shouldn't be in Frys.
While we don't have a Fry's near where I live, I have a rule of thumb that goes along with that idea. If I need to know something about a product on the shelf, I'll first ask a question I know the answer to - ie "Can I run a USB and PS/2 mouse on the same system." Nothing too hard, just gives me a chance to guage their tech savy.
The worst thing a sales drone can do is agrue with the customer over something. For example - I was looking for a CD polishing kit to get some data off of all things - a CD that had a few scratches. After explaining my needs the sales drone and asking the location of said kit, he looked at me and told me that "You obiously have no idea how CD technology works", and that by polishing the scratches out of the CD that I would ruin the data because "it's all stored in little pits and stuff on the CD". After debating the finer points of where the data was stored on a CD (not in the protective plastic coating) I urged the guy to work with technology that he might be able to understand, like floor tile and walked away.
On a side note, I actually encountered a helpful Fry's employee last week
I hope you reported this guy to his manager. Enough people report this type of behavior and management will have to do something about it - like give the guy a raise or some other form of punishment for leaving all those happy customers around.
As the article points out, one of the dangers would be the use of this in a malicious denial of service attack engineered by sending out a spam message which includes URLs on the targeted system. For example, sending out a penis enlargement spam that includes a Microsoft URL.
Hey, now that might be a long term plus. While the spammers won't have much legal recourse for everyone loading the links they send, using this system to DDOS someone probably would not be viewed lightly in the eyes of the law. Where the effect of this program might cause some network problems, that's not it's goal - using spam to DDOS someone has no real defense.
I guess that depends on how you define fake. Faked headers and email addresses? Sure, that's the norm.
OTOH - if you mean faked spam to mean that the spammer works for company A and actually includes a link to company B in their spam to get them in trouble/DDOS/Annoy them - this type of fake spam I've never seen.
Well thank goodness, something has to be done about all these freak'n "innocent" people around the world. Seems like they are everyplace anymore, and if this keeps up, there isn't going to be room for the Bastards like me.
If I can help thin the hurd a little by keeping my system up to date, then by all means, it's money well spent!
Not even close. There are TONS of things faster than light. The focal point on a pair of fast-closing scissors, shadows across the moon, etc.
If the focal point on a pair of scissors is the point at which the two blades meet, the for the focal point to move, would not each of the blades have to be traveling at > 1/2 C to have that point move faster than C? The focal point really isn't an object, just a point that appears to move as the blades cross.
Here, imagine this, you are point a super powerful laser at the moon and you move your laser in an arc. Now, from your perspective, the laser dot on the moon moves from one side to the other side in a fraction of a second. The dot tranveled faster than the speed of light!
Hmmm... I see where you're going with this one, but there are a few problems in your example. The beam from a laser must travel from your location on earth, to the moon and back again for you to see it. Not positive how far the moon is in light seconds, but I can imagine it's a few seconds away. The distance from the earth to the moon is MUCH farther than any two points on the moon's surface, thus the image of the dot you see on the moon cannot "travel" at even a fraction of C.
If two objects are traveling at near the speed of light, but in opposite directions and you were on one of them as the other was approaching in on a collision course, would you see it comming? Or would it look like a black hole?
Could they collide if they were traveling in opposite directions? I guess they could, but that would it might make it clearer if you said they were traveling towards each other at the start.
Ok, so I poked a little fun of the question, but really, unless the object travelling towards you is emitting light, the I don't think you'd see it until it was close enough to reflect light from what ever sorce you're seeing things with, or you might pick up a bit of reflected light from someother source before it got to you. Since the object is traveling slower than the speed of light, light reflected in it's direction of travel should still be visible, unless it's a black hole.
Here is one I've never heard a good answer to. Now, most people think right away they have the answer, but then pause to think about it...
"Imagine you're in a self contained space suit. You are placed by "magic" (doesn't matter how you got there, you just are) in a perfectly round sphere, and the inside of it is perfectly reflective. The sphere and you are at a point of perfect zero gravity. You turn on your flashlight - what do you see and what happens if you turn off the flashlight?"
From the site: The Centibots project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is aimed at developing new technology to support the coordinated deployment of as many as 100 robots for missions such as urban surveillance.
I would hardly call them peaceful.... This is a project for war.
I think the grandparent to this was trying to say "peaceful as in non-flesh eating and unarmed" rather than "peaceful as in not used for any military purpose" - but since I'm not him, I could be wrong.
I live in Ft. Collins, CO - it's got one of the last drive ins operating in the US - I think there are less than 500 left. Best of luck finding a good job here tho....
Nope, I'm really not. I go to our local drive in that has back to back first run movies for five bucks a person, reasonable prices on food and drinks (for a theater) and I don't ever recall seeing an ad there. No one gets pissed if I have a smoke in the middle of the movie, I have a comfortable seat and let me tell you, in the privacy of your own car, you're more likely to get a little side action if the movie stinks than you will in a crowed theater. The ONLY time I see a movie anywhere else is if the drive in is closed for the season.
You drive a Yugo and I'll give you the crumple "advantage" by driving an M1 Abrams tank. We'll drive into each other head-on each going 50.
Interesting idea. However, there are a few problems with your theory. The max speed of an unaltered M1A1 Main Battle Tank around 70kmph, so If I did that math right, that's about a max speed of 43mph. Now, you're nuts drive one that fast, but that's not the point.
Also - if you're to do a head on with a Yugo, you'll have to raid the bumper up to the hight of the front slope, and that's 48" IIRC, or else the tank will tent to try and climb over it or push the Yugo under it.
Don't believe that hitting something Yugo sized is painless if you're in a tank. You'll survive, but with no seatbelts it's pretty easy to get tossed around in a tank.
So this is a pretty good question really. I would presume, rather than what our AC friend is thinking - with everyone switching over at the start of Q2 2004. I think that some sights and services are rolling over to it now (as a test), and as time goes on, more and more IPv4 IPs will be moved over to IPv6.
Now, I have a couple of questions about IPv6 that I haven't been able to find answers to. Will they be able to flash the hardware in NICs/Routers to support IPv6 or will existing hardware have to be replaced or form an IPv6 tunnel over IPv4 (or is this handled at the software level anyway?)
Who will be issuing IPv6 blocks of IPs? Can I get my own block now? What will happen to all the blocks of IPv4 IPs? What will a block cost - and will I be required to use the one my ISP gives me, or will I be able to use my own?
So many questions, so few english resources for IPv6 on the web (that I found anyway).
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You're right, we should all stick to VB6 or VB.NET. Much safer that way really. //ducks//
The plus side of seeing distruction loom, loosing entire sites to these guys, is the head of our local IT department is pushing for people to move away from Windows. In fact, we've already got one Certified RH geek on staff and I'm sure plenty more lurking around the corner.
Not that I'm looking forward to porting all my bosses code from VB6 to something a little more, um... better. But it will be nice when/if we get there.
It would be interesting to find out how much he paid if he's getting a 250k tax cut.
What seems shitty to me, is that my ex-wife paid exactly $0 in Federal taxes, got a refund back for over $2,000 and she's pissed that she didn't get a check from the government this summer. It's hard to justify giving someone a tax relief check when they don't pay any taxes.
Kind of stands out in my mind that Neo neglected to wear his ESD shoes and wrist strap.
Umm... are you saying that sacrificing small animals to get computers working correctly isn't an already widely used practice? Hmmm... Might have to take that part out of our system troubleshooting manual, as it comes right after making sure the computer has been rebooted.
Sorry your part of the network seems to be bad my friend. I have Verizon and have wonderful coverage nearly everywhere I go. Including my 6 times a year trips to Kansas. I'd suggest that you might have a problem with your phones, and should consider upgrading to a tri-mode phone if you haven't already - makes all the difference. Before switching to Verizon, I had T-Mobile back when they were voice stream. One freq - I could only use my phone between work and home - never ever ever to be used in the house or at work.
Or maybe Verizon just sucks down there, I honestly don't know.
"Woman's right to choose". To choose what? I fully support a woman's right to choose what to wear, what to eat, where to work, whom to marry, whether to conceive babies, etc
/., some of you may not know first hand how this happens), it's not like free birth control isn't availble for the asking, regardless of age. So yes, the woman should have EVERY right to choose. If you don't want to run the risk of having a baby, keep your pants on. Good thing this is only /. and I'm NOT running for president in 04.
This isn't a popular point to bring up you know. I agree, I support a woman's choice as to if she wishes to have a child or not. However, much like you I believe the choice needs to be made in the bedroom, NOT after. It's not like we don't know where babies come from and what act causes them to be born (ok, this is
electricity wasnt invented > 1900
Umm.... Electricity wasn't invented. Period.
Are you positive it would be the first space screwing? We've been sending people up of both sexes, the cameras don't cover EVERY part of the ship and you have to imagine the novelity of it all would have a lot of appeal for either sex.
I know it would be one of the *first* things I'd want to try in space.
Nope, ran out of mod points on Friday, so that was my own little mod scheme. My own mod system has 3 catagories. +1 you RTFA, +1 on topic (this is /. after all) and -1 WTF are you talking about?
The following is OFF TOPIC Please disregard.
.sigs - however...
Want a new constitution?
Ok, so as a rule I don't repsond to
This web site kinda scares me. I took several minutes to browse the site and several more to read the text of the pdf file. Spelling errors aside, some of the comments really make me wonder for example:
SALOON OPERATOR replacement of defective BEER PUMP that fosters alcoholism, mate-battering, drunk driving, and other crimes: Deductible
FAMILY replacement of defective STOVE to feed family: NOT deductible
Never mind that the beer pump replacement is a legit business expense, that the bar keep employees people, probably does a fair ammount of good in the community just by being there and needs to turn a profit to stay in business. The point this statement makes to me, isn't that we need reform of tax laws, but that anyone who ownes a business is EVIL. Especially any business that might cater to a audience that doesn't fit into what the author of this crap thinks is right. Thankfully, the author's rights to spew forth such waste *IS* protected and defended by myself and countless others.
So, no. I don't want a new constitution. I've read mine and it seems to be just fine. I've sworn to defend it more than once, and I have defended it, against all enemies, both forign and domestic and I shall continue to do so.
My view of Frys is...
If you have to ask questions of the Frys salespersons, you shouldn't be in Frys.
While we don't have a Fry's near where I live, I have a rule of thumb that goes along with that idea. If I need to know something about a product on the shelf, I'll first ask a question I know the answer to - ie "Can I run a USB and PS/2 mouse on the same system." Nothing too hard, just gives me a chance to guage their tech savy.
The worst thing a sales drone can do is agrue with the customer over something. For example - I was looking for a CD polishing kit to get some data off of all things - a CD that had a few scratches. After explaining my needs the sales drone and asking the location of said kit, he looked at me and told me that "You obiously have no idea how CD technology works", and that by polishing the scratches out of the CD that I would ruin the data because "it's all stored in little pits and stuff on the CD". After debating the finer points of where the data was stored on a CD (not in the protective plastic coating) I urged the guy to work with technology that he might be able to understand, like floor tile and walked away.
On a side note, I actually encountered a helpful Fry's employee last week
I hope you reported this guy to his manager. Enough people report this type of behavior and management will have to do something about it - like give the guy a raise or some other form of punishment for leaving all those happy customers around.
I thus mod you +1 because you RTFA. Thank you.
As the article points out, one of the dangers would be the use of this in a malicious denial of service attack engineered by sending out a spam message which includes URLs on the targeted system. For example, sending out a penis enlargement spam that includes a Microsoft URL.
Hey, now that might be a long term plus. While the spammers won't have much legal recourse for everyone loading the links they send, using this system to DDOS someone probably would not be viewed lightly in the eyes of the law. Where the effect of this program might cause some network problems, that's not it's goal - using spam to DDOS someone has no real defense.
"there is no 'fake' spam"
I guess that depends on how you define fake. Faked headers and email addresses? Sure, that's the norm.
OTOH - if you mean faked spam to mean that the spammer works for company A and actually includes a link to company B in their spam to get them in trouble/DDOS/Annoy them - this type of fake spam I've never seen.
Well thank goodness, something has to be done about all these freak'n "innocent" people around the world. Seems like they are everyplace anymore, and if this keeps up, there isn't going to be room for the Bastards like me.
If I can help thin the hurd a little by keeping my system up to date, then by all means, it's money well spent!
Not even close. There are TONS of things faster than light. The focal point on a pair of fast-closing scissors, shadows across the moon, etc.
If the focal point on a pair of scissors is the point at which the two blades meet, the for the focal point to move, would not each of the blades have to be traveling at > 1/2 C to have that point move faster than C? The focal point really isn't an object, just a point that appears to move as the blades cross.
Here, imagine this, you are point a super powerful laser at the moon and you move your laser in an arc. Now, from your perspective, the laser dot on the moon moves from one side to the other side in a fraction of a second. The dot tranveled faster than the speed of light!
Hmmm... I see where you're going with this one, but there are a few problems in your example. The beam from a laser must travel from your location on earth, to the moon and back again for you to see it. Not positive how far the moon is in light seconds, but I can imagine it's a few seconds away. The distance from the earth to the moon is MUCH farther than any two points on the moon's surface, thus the image of the dot you see on the moon cannot "travel" at even a fraction of C.
Disclamer:: IANAP
If two objects are traveling at near the speed of light, but in opposite directions and you were on one of them as the other was approaching in on a collision course, would you see it comming? Or would it look like a black hole?
Could they collide if they were traveling in opposite directions? I guess they could, but that would it might make it clearer if you said they were traveling towards each other at the start.
Ok, so I poked a little fun of the question, but really, unless the object travelling towards you is emitting light, the I don't think you'd see it until it was close enough to reflect light from what ever sorce you're seeing things with, or you might pick up a bit of reflected light from someother source before it got to you. Since the object is traveling slower than the speed of light, light reflected in it's direction of travel should still be visible, unless it's a black hole.
Here is one I've never heard a good answer to. Now, most people think right away they have the answer, but then pause to think about it...
"Imagine you're in a self contained space suit. You are placed by "magic" (doesn't matter how you got there, you just are) in a perfectly round sphere, and the inside of it is perfectly reflective. The sphere and you are at a point of perfect zero gravity. You turn on your flashlight - what do you see and what happens if you turn off the flashlight?"
From the site:
The Centibots project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is aimed at developing new technology to support the coordinated deployment of as many as 100 robots for missions such as urban surveillance.
I would hardly call them peaceful.... This is a project for war.
I think the grandparent to this was trying to say "peaceful as in non-flesh eating and unarmed" rather than "peaceful as in not used for any military purpose" - but since I'm not him, I could be wrong.
I live in Ft. Collins, CO - it's got one of the last drive ins operating in the US - I think there are less than 500 left. Best of luck finding a good job here tho....
Are you willing to pay an extra $5 per ticket?
Nope, I'm really not. I go to our local drive in that has back to back first run movies for five bucks a person, reasonable prices on food and drinks (for a theater) and I don't ever recall seeing an ad there. No one gets pissed if I have a smoke in the middle of the movie, I have a comfortable seat and let me tell you, in the privacy of your own car, you're more likely to get a little side action if the movie stinks than you will in a crowed theater. The ONLY time I see a movie anywhere else is if the drive in is closed for the season.
You drive a Yugo and I'll give you the crumple "advantage" by driving an M1 Abrams tank. We'll drive into each other head-on each going 50.
Interesting idea. However, there are a few problems with your theory. The max speed of an unaltered M1A1 Main Battle Tank around 70kmph, so If I did that math right, that's about a max speed of 43mph. Now, you're nuts drive one that fast, but that's not the point.
Also - if you're to do a head on with a Yugo, you'll have to raid the bumper up to the hight of the front slope, and that's 48" IIRC, or else the tank will tent to try and climb over it or push the Yugo under it.
Don't believe that hitting something Yugo sized is painless if you're in a tank. You'll survive, but with no seatbelts it's pretty easy to get tossed around in a tank.
Or were you making a point and I've missed it?
My friend, after robots learn believeable sex, all is lost!
/.er and my will to leave the house!
Including the virginity of many a
So this is a pretty good question really. I would presume, rather than what our AC friend is thinking - with everyone switching over at the start of Q2 2004. I think that some sights and services are rolling over to it now (as a test), and as time goes on, more and more IPv4 IPs will be moved over to IPv6.
Now, I have a couple of questions about IPv6 that I haven't been able to find answers to. Will they be able to flash the hardware in NICs/Routers to support IPv6 or will existing hardware have to be replaced or form an IPv6 tunnel over IPv4 (or is this handled at the software level anyway?)
Who will be issuing IPv6 blocks of IPs? Can I get my own block now? What will happen to all the blocks of IPv4 IPs? What will a block cost - and will I be required to use the one my ISP gives me, or will I be able to use my own?
So many questions, so few english resources for IPv6 on the web (that I found anyway).
Not sure what's worse - that ad or that it started giving me ideas of what I can do next time I want something approved by the boss man.