Ditto this for Sliders, and Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Scifi has gone dramatically down the tubes from a science ficiton perspective since Bonnie Hammer took over the network in 1998. It's a real shame that they are no longer concerned with actual Scifi content, instead, they strive entirely for ratings (Ahem, John Edwards show.)
It's no longer about fun, its all about the money now.
Aside from old MST reruns, and the occasional B-Movie, I can't say I've watched much of Scifi in the past few years.
My university patches things only when something goes wrong. When the whole campus went down because of blaster, they then decided it would be a good idea to patch all of the lab computers with windows update.
They're still running lots of old Apache incarnations as well... from 2.0.40 to 1.3.6.
I'm consistantly amazed by their seeming retardation.
But computers are not real. They are machines. I think there's a rule somewhere on the books that non-humans can't sue. After all, if non-humans could sue, there would be a lot of roadkill chasing lawyers.
This is a question that the group of students that run a similar website at my university are facing.
Does the university own the rights to it's acronym? Does the university also own rights to abbreviations of it's name (Think Uni. of Cali.) Would that be the same thing as printing the full name?
It's an interesting quesiton.
He states that the internet should be commercialized, and infers that Verisigns servers are more resiliant because they are commercial, yet he says regarding the root attack last year:
"The reason the root server problem was a big one was because they were attacking the underbelly of the addressing system. Yes, we could have lived 24 to 48 hours. You could say that in that time, we can fix anything--but maybe not. Microsoft was down for four days with a much simpler denial-of-service attack. "
So the company that controls 95% of the PC market was down for 4 days. The volunteers that control most of the root servers were out for several hours.
Am I missing something here?
With the nightmare that it is to install certain browser plugins in the downloadable version of SuSE 8.2, this is a feat in and of itself which makes the OS worth checking out.
I am so glad someone else noticed this!!! I've been so pissed I haven't been able to get any speaker bracelets recently.
God google... forcing me to use other search engines to get my fix.
Mod parent up!
Also, if you don't have an OBD II reader, places like Advance Auto will hook one up to your car and read you the diagnostic codes for free.
Product placement is used to uphold the realism in television and movies. Chances are, even without advertising, that movies would contain scenes where characters drink Coke or go to Wal-Mart. With product placement, shows get to generate some extra cash to make their show for something they were likely to do in the first place.
Back in the old old old Edison days, there wasn't product placement. In films characters held bottles labeled 'Beer' and ate from boxes labeled 'Cereal.' Things like that just wouldn't cut it today.
One of the number one things in movies that kills realism to me is when someone gives their phone number as 555-1234. Most all movies are guilty of this, and it destroys the suspension of disbelief when no matter where in America the film is set, they have the same phone number.
It's fairly easy to put a robots.txt file in your top level server tree to tell google to mind its own business.
You could also password protect stuff.
Do what I do.... list your email address as bob@dole.com
Sure, ole Bob probably gets quite a bit of needless spam, but hey, it's not like he has anything else to do.
Slashdot Mirror
Ditto this for Sliders, and Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Scifi has gone dramatically down the tubes from a science ficiton perspective since Bonnie Hammer took over the network in 1998. It's a real shame that they are no longer concerned with actual Scifi content, instead, they strive entirely for ratings (Ahem, John Edwards show.)
It's no longer about fun, its all about the money now.
Aside from old MST reruns, and the occasional B-Movie, I can't say I've watched much of Scifi in the past few years.
My university patches things only when something goes wrong. When the whole campus went down because of blaster, they then decided it would be a good idea to patch all of the lab computers with windows update. They're still running lots of old Apache incarnations as well... from 2.0.40 to 1.3.6. I'm consistantly amazed by their seeming retardation.
Token Ring Ethernet
Ethernet: Cheap and ubiquitous.
Token Ring: Expensive, with limited vendor sources. Any questions?
People still use token ring? Did people ever really use token ring?
Regardless of the things he ignored... 7 minutes to 1.5 minutes is a huge difference.
SCSI has it's uses... you don't have to pay for them if you don't want to.
But computers are not real. They are machines. I think there's a rule somewhere on the books that non-humans can't sue. After all, if non-humans could sue, there would be a lot of roadkill chasing lawyers.
This is a question that the group of students that run a similar website at my university are facing.
Does the university own the rights to it's acronym? Does the university also own rights to abbreviations of it's name (Think Uni. of Cali.) Would that be the same thing as printing the full name?
It's an interesting quesiton.
He states that the internet should be commercialized, and infers that Verisigns servers are more resiliant because they are commercial, yet he says regarding the root attack last year: "The reason the root server problem was a big one was because they were attacking the underbelly of the addressing system. Yes, we could have lived 24 to 48 hours. You could say that in that time, we can fix anything--but maybe not. Microsoft was down for four days with a much simpler denial-of-service attack. " So the company that controls 95% of the PC market was down for 4 days. The volunteers that control most of the root servers were out for several hours. Am I missing something here?
Apple.com says it best, "Hell froze over. Introducing iTunes for Windows."
Followed by the awesome, "The best Windows app ever."
Anyone else picture Comic Book Guy when they read this?
I call BS. If your case is public record, link us to it.
(Don't tell this guy, but Audi's are simply overpriced Volkswagons.)
Slashdot is definitely having issues, I just spent 10 minutes trying to submit a story before it finally took. It's been flaking out all weekend.
How long before this is a classification that geeks strive for?
"Getting the google counter and endless slashdot mod points is not enough... I want to be an internet terrorist!!!!"
With the nightmare that it is to install certain browser plugins in the downloadable version of SuSE 8.2, this is a feat in and of itself which makes the OS worth checking out.
The Java Desktop System will be available in December 2003.
I can't wait this long!!! By that time RedHat could be on release 12!!
I am so glad someone else noticed this!!! I've been so pissed I haven't been able to get any speaker bracelets recently. God google... forcing me to use other search engines to get my fix.
Mod parent up! Also, if you don't have an OBD II reader, places like Advance Auto will hook one up to your car and read you the diagnostic codes for free.
Product placement is used to uphold the realism in television and movies. Chances are, even without advertising, that movies would contain scenes where characters drink Coke or go to Wal-Mart. With product placement, shows get to generate some extra cash to make their show for something they were likely to do in the first place.
Back in the old old old Edison days, there wasn't product placement. In films characters held bottles labeled 'Beer' and ate from boxes labeled 'Cereal.' Things like that just wouldn't cut it today.
One of the number one things in movies that kills realism to me is when someone gives their phone number as 555-1234. Most all movies are guilty of this, and it destroys the suspension of disbelief when no matter where in America the film is set, they have the same phone number.
You forgot you insensitive clod, you insensitive clod!!!11!!
This is a disgusting press release, it's not even a real article. I hunger for real information, not PR babblings.
I better call up Lynyrd Skynyrd and tell them to get outa Dodge.
Ten bucks says they postpone the voting a 9th time.
It's fairly easy to put a robots.txt file in your top level server tree to tell google to mind its own business. You could also password protect stuff.
Do what I do.... list your email address as bob@dole.com Sure, ole Bob probably gets quite a bit of needless spam, but hey, it's not like he has anything else to do.
As usual, the google link thwarting the NYtimes registration:
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10 Q Darl McBrides IQ anyone?