Ah - you've been caught out. You're not a real script kiddie after all! A real script kiddie would be like all the others and write '0wnz0r' - you left out that crucial 'z', giving away that you're probably a normal person after all (well, as normal as anyone on/. )
A few years ago my appartment was broken in to while my flatmate and I were away over a weekend. Anyway, I had a bunch of CDs and videos stolen, but since I wasn't insured (soon rectified) and didn't think anything could be done, I didn't report it to the police at first. Anyway, after a few days I decided to report it, and they asked for a list of everything that was taken, which I could actually provide, since I kept a spreadsheet with a list of all my CDs. A few days after that a detective called back and asked me to come in to identify and pick up my CDs - basically, the thief had sold them all at the local CD exchange, and I got about 75% of them back. I was quite surprised but very impressed. And because you need to show your drivers license or similar ID in order to sell second hand goods, they could track down the guy.
I don't know what happened to the thief in the end, as they never called me to testify in court or anything, but I was particularly impressed at the good work of the local police. And since then, I've seen the police in the same shop either picking up stolen property, or have seen the shop confiscate a bunch of CDs from someone who was trying to sell them, because they exactly matched a list of stolen items that the police had provided to them.
Another reason I'm glad I live here and not in the USA.
and the PM is unlikley to call a Double Dissolution, because they always result in more Senate seats being won by minor parties. The current Government is already behind in the polls and can't afford to give more power to minor parties who are likely to vote against it.
No - I don't mean dumbed down. I don't think that using a narrator (or, for that matter, devoting 1/3 of a book getting into a detailed, arcane history of neuro-linguistics) equates to something being dumbed down. I just think that it's a different style of writing. And, I believe, the intent behind 'Snow Crash' was not as much to write a thought-provoking book but to write a cool sci-fi novel.
Anyway, to use a truism (bad debating technique, but hey) just look at the number of people, even on Slashdot, who say "I liked Snow Crash, but it took me so many re-readings to get/get into Neuromancer". I'm saying that Neuromancer was less accessible, and I'm basing that on my observations of the number of people who found it that way.
I think that's a bit harsh. It's probably fair to assume that Neal Stephenson had read Neuromancer before he wrote Snow Crash, but they are quite different. Snow Crash should belong in a different sub-genre of sci-fi than Neuromancer - it's only marginally cyberpunk in the way Gibson is, and it's a lot funnier and plays on that side of things more. Also, Snow Crash deliberately tries to be 'cool', and succeeds, while Neuromancer is much more serious and sedate.
Compared to Stephenson's later work (especially The Diamond Age, which could almost count as a sequel), Snow Crash also feels very much like an early novel - and it was. Anyway, I found it much more accessible and enjoyable than Neuromancer when I read them both back in the early-ish 90s - and I've re-read it more often since.
with the most frivolous claims over in the states (warning: coffee is hot).
Actually, the facts of that case are more often that not misrepresented. The truth is, however, that McDonalds served their coffee at a temperature unfit for human consumption (185F or 85C) and the woman in question had third degree burns and required skin grafts. This is the first link I could find from a quick google for it: http://thespleen.com/thelaw/whoscrewsubaby/index.p hp?artID=223
Mind you, the more commonly reported version (woman sued because coffee was hot - how silly!) is very much in McDonald's interests. Conspiracy theory anyone?
That all said, we still get some pretty frivolous cases here in Aust as well - maybe not as many as in the US, but that's possibly just a matter of proportion given our respective populations.
Sounds like Snow Crash. Maybe, following your logic, Snow Crash is The Name of the Rose Part 2, except with a bit more hacking and a bit less postmodern semiotics.
Not to mention the Indiana Jones franchise (although Indy 4 might be a bit dubious), or X-Men (so far).
And in the eyes of many, the original Star Wars trilogy still stands as a frnachise in it's own right. By this I mean that even though the new films are crap, it hasn't caused people to sour from the whole franchise. We still love the original films, and will still play the video games, hell - we even think that Darth Maul is one of the coolest villains ever (even if he only has about 3 lines - he just looked damn cool). My point being, the new films haven't soured the whole franchise the way the latter two Matrix films did with their series. They haven't, at the end of the day, caused the whole franchise to let fans/audiences down. And we srill maintain hope for a SW4:ANH DVD where Han Solo shoots first.
What I'd like to see is a game where you're a U.S. soldier during the early stages of the WWII Battle of the Bulge and you're actually running away from tank divisions rather than cutting through hundreds of mindless, deaf guards.
How about the Close Combat series, including: Close Combat III: The Eastern Front, or Close Combat IV: The Battle of the Bulge - games in which you can play either side (Russians or Germans in the former, Allies or Germans in the latter) and whichever side you play, you have ups and downs - times when you should win, and times when you're very much on the defensive.
Granted, these are strategy games and not FPS, but they do what you were describing.
Yes, but think of how long it would have taken to make that movie - it was probably more than a week, but probably not month.
Anyway, I can forgive them for not knowing about the ipodbattery.com site, and their retort is based on the 'official' response they received from Apple
Assassinations never deter anyone - it didn't work when they assassinated Lincoln, or Gandhi, or terrorists, or doctors performing abortions or just about anything else. And what are you going to do, destroy a whole organisation, given that it would be the organisation suing you (which is a person in law, but not in flesh) rather than an individual.
Not a very well thought out theory, besides which it just means that you're breaking more laws and you're going to go to gaol for a lot longer than you would have for file-sharing (I don't think anyone has been imprisoned for it yet), assuming you don't get the death penalty.
The thing is, there's a risk with any medication you take, no matter what form it's delivered in. Injections can go wrong, you can accidentally forget or overdose on pills, and people can develop nasty side-affects to just about any medication at different times.
And as someone else has pointed out, I've never heard of any woman using birth control implants-in-the-arm who wants to go back to the pill. I think that's an example, as good as any, that implants (whether chips or not) are going to be popular with patients who need to take the medication every day.
Yes, I did mean "...Williams may not be as much of a Luddite in his attitudes towards technology...". Thanks for picking that up. It's been a long day.
While Alston may not be as much of a Luddite in his attitudes towards technology, he certinaly appears to present more of a 'danger' to Australian's rights, given his views on censorship and privacy. Only this year, the Australian Privacy Foundation gave him their Big Brother Award for Lifetime Menace to Privacy.
While this award wasn't linked to Williams' views or actions in relation to technology it still doesn't bode well for us Aussies given his new role.
They do like aides, political staff or advisors they call them - but regardless, aides don't write legislation. And they still go to the public service for most of their policy advice.
If a luddite is someone who is anti-technology, named after people who actually broke machinery, how can someone who spends large amounts of money on technology be a ludite.
Not to defend it, but a $4 million (about USD2.6 million) web site represents a big investment in a form of technology and would seem to infer, therefore, that he is the opposite of a luddite, whatver that is called.
Actually, as he is a senior Minister in the Australian government, he would have had the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts write the bill. And after they did the initial drafting, it would have gone to the Attorney General's Dept for conversion into legalese, i.e. to keep the language tight and to make sure it only allows/disallows the things that it is intended to.
Regardless, Alston would still have had the final say and would have checked off on every aspect of the bill before it went to Parliament.
It's not like America here - there aren't a great number of aides (political staff) and they don't generally write bills - most of that kind of work is done by public servants.
Actually, Neverwinter Nights is also a turn based game masked as real time.
On that point, I was quite surprised to see Neverwinter Nights at number 25 on the list. It may be one of the most over-hyped games, but I don't think it was over-rated - it was actually a very, very good game.
Well, obviously they are in some ways. As I understand it, the big issue is about licensing arrangements being different for different countries. But there's nothing stopping me from buying CDs from Amazon (in the US) and having them shipped to Australia.
In some (a lot of?) ways that's not too much different than buying music through the iTunes store and downloading it from Apple's servers (in the US) to my computer (in Australia).
It's not quite true that Telstra re-sells all the ADSL in Australia. I can't remember the exact break-down, but this is true for some of them, and others run their own networks over the telephone lines, which are leased from Telstra.
Regardless, you can get better prices and better service from most of the other ADSL providers.
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Ah - you've been caught out. You're not a real script kiddie after all! A real script kiddie would be like all the others and write '0wnz0r' - you left out that crucial 'z', giving away that you're probably a normal person after all (well, as normal as anyone on /. )
A few years ago my appartment was broken in to while my flatmate and I were away over a weekend. Anyway, I had a bunch of CDs and videos stolen, but since I wasn't insured (soon rectified) and didn't think anything could be done, I didn't report it to the police at first. Anyway, after a few days I decided to report it, and they asked for a list of everything that was taken, which I could actually provide, since I kept a spreadsheet with a list of all my CDs. A few days after that a detective called back and asked me to come in to identify and pick up my CDs - basically, the thief had sold them all at the local CD exchange, and I got about 75% of them back. I was quite surprised but very impressed. And because you need to show your drivers license or similar ID in order to sell second hand goods, they could track down the guy.
I don't know what happened to the thief in the end, as they never called me to testify in court or anything, but I was particularly impressed at the good work of the local police. And since then, I've seen the police in the same shop either picking up stolen property, or have seen the shop confiscate a bunch of CDs from someone who was trying to sell them, because they exactly matched a list of stolen items that the police had provided to them.
Another reason I'm glad I live here and not in the USA.
and the PM is unlikley to call a Double Dissolution, because they always result in more Senate seats being won by minor parties. The current Government is already behind in the polls and can't afford to give more power to minor parties who are likely to vote against it.
No - I don't mean dumbed down. I don't think that using a narrator (or, for that matter, devoting 1/3 of a book getting into a detailed, arcane history of neuro-linguistics) equates to something being dumbed down. I just think that it's a different style of writing. And, I believe, the intent behind 'Snow Crash' was not as much to write a thought-provoking book but to write a cool sci-fi novel.
Anyway, to use a truism (bad debating technique, but hey) just look at the number of people, even on Slashdot, who say "I liked Snow Crash, but it took me so many re-readings to get/get into Neuromancer". I'm saying that Neuromancer was less accessible, and I'm basing that on my observations of the number of people who found it that way.
I think that's a bit harsh. It's probably fair to assume that Neal Stephenson had read Neuromancer before he wrote Snow Crash, but they are quite different. Snow Crash should belong in a different sub-genre of sci-fi than Neuromancer - it's only marginally cyberpunk in the way Gibson is, and it's a lot funnier and plays on that side of things more. Also, Snow Crash deliberately tries to be 'cool', and succeeds, while Neuromancer is much more serious and sedate.
Compared to Stephenson's later work (especially The Diamond Age, which could almost count as a sequel), Snow Crash also feels very much like an early novel - and it was. Anyway, I found it much more accessible and enjoyable than Neuromancer when I read them both back in the early-ish 90s - and I've re-read it more often since.
If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of internet zealots who believe that code should be free to all (open source)
Mac users who think that a dual G5 was turned into a PC have much more anger
with the most frivolous claims over in the states (warning: coffee is hot).
Actually, the facts of that case are more often that not misrepresented. The truth is, however, that McDonalds served their coffee at a temperature unfit for human consumption (185F or 85C) and the woman in question had third degree burns and required skin grafts. This is the first link I could find from a quick google for it: http://thespleen.com/thelaw/whoscrewsubaby/index.p hp?artID=223
Mind you, the more commonly reported version (woman sued because coffee was hot - how silly!) is very much in McDonald's interests. Conspiracy theory anyone?
That all said, we still get some pretty frivolous cases here in Aust as well - maybe not as many as in the US, but that's possibly just a matter of proportion given our respective populations.
Sounds like Snow Crash. Maybe, following your logic, Snow Crash is The Name of the Rose Part 2, except with a bit more hacking and a bit less postmodern semiotics.
Not to mention the Indiana Jones franchise (although Indy 4 might be a bit dubious), or X-Men (so far).
And in the eyes of many, the original Star Wars trilogy still stands as a frnachise in it's own right. By this I mean that even though the new films are crap, it hasn't caused people to sour from the whole franchise. We still love the original films, and will still play the video games, hell - we even think that Darth Maul is one of the coolest villains ever (even if he only has about 3 lines - he just looked damn cool). My point being, the new films haven't soured the whole franchise the way the latter two Matrix films did with their series. They haven't, at the end of the day, caused the whole franchise to let fans/audiences down.
And we srill maintain hope for a SW4:ANH DVD where Han Solo shoots first.
What I'd like to see is a game where you're a U.S. soldier during the early stages of the WWII Battle of the Bulge and you're actually running away from tank divisions rather than cutting through hundreds of mindless, deaf guards.
How about the Close Combat series, including: Close Combat III: The Eastern Front, or Close Combat IV: The Battle of the Bulge - games in which you can play either side (Russians or Germans in the former, Allies or Germans in the latter) and whichever side you play, you have ups and downs - times when you should win, and times when you're very much on the defensive.
Granted, these are strategy games and not FPS, but they do what you were describing.
Yes, but think of how long it would have taken to make that movie - it was probably more than a week, but probably not month.
Anyway, I can forgive them for not knowing about the ipodbattery.com site, and their retort is based on the 'official' response they received from Apple
And that's going to help how?
Assassinations never deter anyone - it didn't work when they assassinated Lincoln, or Gandhi, or terrorists, or doctors performing abortions or just about anything else. And what are you going to do, destroy a whole organisation, given that it would be the organisation suing you (which is a person in law, but not in flesh) rather than an individual.
Not a very well thought out theory, besides which it just means that you're breaking more laws and you're going to go to gaol for a lot longer than you would have for file-sharing (I don't think anyone has been imprisoned for it yet), assuming you don't get the death penalty.
So, that would make SCO the Nazi's in the 1930s, which would make McBride Hitler.
Interesting analogy
Maybe not - but given IBM's history, it might be great at playing chess.
Or Tic-Tac-Toe, given the nuclear weapons simulation angle.
The thing is, there's a risk with any medication you take, no matter what form it's delivered in. Injections can go wrong, you can accidentally forget or overdose on pills, and people can develop nasty side-affects to just about any medication at different times.
And as someone else has pointed out, I've never heard of any woman using birth control implants-in-the-arm who wants to go back to the pill. I think that's an example, as good as any, that implants (whether chips or not) are going to be popular with patients who need to take the medication every day.
Yes, I did mean "...Williams may not be as much of a Luddite in his attitudes towards technology...". Thanks for picking that up.
It's been a long day.
Agreed.
While Alston may not be as much of a Luddite in his attitudes towards technology, he certinaly appears to present more of a 'danger' to Australian's rights, given his views on censorship and privacy. Only this year, the Australian Privacy Foundation gave him their Big Brother Award for Lifetime Menace to Privacy.
While this award wasn't linked to Williams' views or actions in relation to technology it still doesn't bode well for us Aussies given his new role.
They do like aides, political staff or advisors they call them - but regardless, aides don't write legislation. And they still go to the public service for most of their policy advice.
If a luddite is someone who is anti-technology, named after people who actually broke machinery, how can someone who spends large amounts of money on technology be a ludite.
Not to defend it, but a $4 million (about USD2.6 million) web site represents a big investment in a form of technology and would seem to infer, therefore, that he is the opposite of a luddite, whatver that is called.
Actually, as he is a senior Minister in the Australian government, he would have had the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts write the bill. And after they did the initial drafting, it would have gone to the Attorney General's Dept for conversion into legalese, i.e. to keep the language tight and to make sure it only allows/disallows the things that it is intended to.
Regardless, Alston would still have had the final say and would have checked off on every aspect of the bill before it went to Parliament.
It's not like America here - there aren't a great number of aides (political staff) and they don't generally write bills - most of that kind of work is done by public servants.
Actually, Neverwinter Nights is also a turn based game masked as real time.
On that point, I was quite surprised to see Neverwinter Nights at number 25 on the list. It may be one of the most over-hyped games, but I don't think it was over-rated - it was actually a very, very good game.
I wonder, how much of an elephant's weight is water?
Well, obviously they are in some ways. As I understand it, the big issue is about licensing arrangements being different for different countries. But there's nothing stopping me from buying CDs from Amazon (in the US) and having them shipped to Australia.
In some (a lot of?) ways that's not too much different than buying music through the iTunes store and downloading it from Apple's servers (in the US) to my computer (in Australia).
Out of interest, what's to stop someone outside of the USA just inventing or copying a US postal address in order to use the iTunes service?
It's not quite true that Telstra re-sells all the ADSL in Australia. I can't remember the exact break-down, but this is true for some of them, and others run their own networks over the telephone lines, which are leased from Telstra.
Regardless, you can get better prices and better service from most of the other ADSL providers.