Noisy Machinery? Try working in a factory. Or in a server room...
In another article (tree form), it says that the machinery (carbon filter thingy to provide breathable air) is right next to the sleeping quarters and goes "ka-chunk!" every 10 minutes.
No Shampoo? Aww... I really feel for ya buddy.
They found that the soap was difficult to use in zero-g so they used the shampoo to clean themselves instead, so they ran out quicker. NASA refused to send up fresh supplies in the next cargo shipment.
Velcro pads are supposed to stick to things.
Yeah, but not food.
There's other wonderful things like the detailed instructions for reattaching a panel are printed on the back of the said panel, service nooks that are inaccessable without breaking things, etc.
I assume this extra info is published on New Scientist (who have the uncensored bits), but they've been/.ed...
My current role is administrator for a website (no ftp) and every so often I go through the stats to see what clients are connecting.
Ignoring all the boring Mozilla agents I look out for the 'different' agents and I try to find out who or what they are (googlebot is self explanatory). I get a bit paranoid when I see ones I can't find out info about, others there is ready information - I've have seen email harvesters come through, which sparked off my paranoia.
I had one case where I wrote to the admin of the incoming domain, politely 'demanding' that they provide an explanation for an access and the answer was that they had a user who modified his agent tag to '007'. And you wonder why I'm jumpy.
I am not a server admin. I admit I'm not trained for it. It's just that there is no one else in the organisation who can do it, c'mon it's only IIS!!! --
Risin' above the city, blocking out the noonday sun
It dwarfs the mighty redwoods and it towers over everyone
I still remember when that delivery truck came down our block
What a lucky guy, I hear he got the last one in stock
And the neighbors are just green
They say, "That's the biggest screen we've ever seen!"
It's Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
Frank's 2000" TV
There's Frank's remote control, you can look at it but don't touch it, please
'Cause Frank's the one in charge and he decides what everybody sees
The picture's crystal clear and everything is magnified
Robert DeNiro's mole has got to be ten feet wide
Everybody in the town
Can hear those 90,000 watts of Dolby Sound
And I'm mighty proud to say
Now I can watch "The Simpsons" from 30 blocks away
On Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
I'm gonna get one of my own real soon
It's like having a drive-in movie in your own living room
Whoa, hey now, hey no na na na now
Hey now, Hey now na na now
Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
You won't believe it
Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
Frank's 2000" TV
Get a 2-year warranty on parts and labor
Frank's 2000" TV
Frank's 2000" TV --
Unless Demon Internet have changed their policy, they shunt off any users website that gets too much traffic onto a "high-use" server which runs on a smaller pipe.
Of course it doesn't help when there's several animated gifs on an image-laden page.
You're kidding me right? BE has got to have been the worst movie I've ever attempted to see.
I rented it on DVD just to see how bad it was. I stopped it after 20 minutes. The thing that annoyed me the most aside from the crap dialog/acting and the stupid camera angles, was the pathetic transitions that the director used between _every_ scene. He must have seen Star Wars and thought that GL had a great idea.
I guess that means that the poor schmoe who's color blind and payed out $25 for a version of a deliberate B&W movie that Ted Turner's got his grubby hands on.
(This post would make more sense if the reference to Turner in the transcript is the same - after all, how else do you explain CNN's Linden Scholes' hair?) --
If there's any factual errors, I can assure you that it was purely unintentional. I just took the opportunity to respond to the parent with something I remembered reading about when seti@home started which states:
"Multiplying all the numbers gives us N = L. In other words, the number of intelligent communicating civilizations in the galaxy equals the number of years such a civilization lasts!"
- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/about_seti/abou t_seti_4.html
Of course when you choose the values that the seti@home team chose, you are going to come up with N=L. I apologise if I have misrepresented the equation. I must have "tuned out", even though the article says I shouldn't.
However the seti@home team are not likely to put up an article with the conclusion that the chances of finding life is zero. Not exactly in their best interest, is it? --
Internet Explorer 5 and above has the DHTML editor built in which you can use. It's not java, but you can set up a bunch of icons of your choosing to control formatting (including bullets). It supports copy/paste, but not right-click menu.
You could use the ocx version for IE4 if you needed to support that.
However the big drawback is that it is IE only, so probably not good for internet, but ideal for intranet if IE is standard. --
It could be similar to terraserver.com. If you right-click on the sat image and go save picture, you end up with a tiled image of the company's name instead of the sat image. (can't remember the name as terraserver is offline at the moment). Even Alt-Printscrn or screen capture from Paint Shop Pro wouldn't reveal the picture.
Or it could be similar to lyrics.ch - the lyrics you can view (which are owned by the Fox Agency), can only be viewed through a java applet that won't allow you to select the text to copy (surprise). --
If you're building and you're not sure what you want in there exactly, I'd suggest putting in lots of ducts - 1" pvc piping would be ideal. Even if you don't put any wires down initially, it'll probably be a good idea to put some string or something similar to make it easier to pull the cables through when you do decide to wire in. --
Novell Inc. experts helped IT workers at the University of North Carolina solve the mystery of the missing network server. Though it hadn't missed a packet in four years, nobody knew physically where the machine existed until the joint team followed the clues in the form of the actual physical cable that connected it through a wall that maintenance workers had inadvertently put up, sealing off the server. --
Just need to change one word, and it'll fit in with the context nicely:
"There are some things that money can't buy. For everything else there's Blastercard"
MC wouldn't be able to do anything as in their C&D letter, "TASTTMCB.FEET" is not one of their trademarks. Adding MasterCard to the end is. Which means that anyone can say "There are some things that money can't buy. For everything else there's x", where x is any noun, except MasterCard. --
Apparently, Red Bull had nothing to do with the placement - the developers just put it in. Red Bull didn't pay for the placement, nor did the developers pay a license fee.
I guess they must have been drinking a lot of it on those late-night coding sessions...
Here's an idea: You purchase/download an online game that features in-game advertising. Because everyone has to connect to a central place, it'll be easy to update the ads - sell advertising slots just like TV - increased rates for periods of heavy gameplay. Targeted advertising (like the local Dominos as mentioned in the article).
"Level 23 of Dungeon Master Online is brought to you by Eveready Torches."
"Fit Bridgestone Tyres? Y/N"
"Welcome to k-mart. You have 5634 credits. BFG-10000 is available for purchase!"
I declare that this business model is in the public domain 20010409 1230 NZST. --
IANAKAR (I am not a kitchen appliance repairman) From my limited knowledge of microwave ovens, the reason that food heats up is because of friction between the microwave particles and the food molecules, which is why stuff doesn't brown in a microwave...
Or I could be talking totally out of my ring piece - but this is just a moo point. --
"For traditional shops this should be all that necessary to prevent this."
Of course. How many shops these days ring up the price from what's written on the product? They scan the barcode and pull the price out of their database. Swapping bar codes is tricky to get away with expecially if the bar code is part of the packaging - an exception is the shops that have to have their own bar code stickers on everything. --
How can talking about the New Zealand Census and the marking of "Jedi" in the religion question be marked Offtopic not once, but twice in this article? --
Is this series before or after the set up of the UFP? If it is after, then logically the Enterprise would have an NCC designation.
However, we know that the TOS Enterprise must be the first NCC Enterprise, otherwise they wouldn't keep putting on the A, B, C suffix...
And another thing... in ST:TMP after the alien intelligence infilitrated the crew member's body, they took her on a tour of the Enterprise and they passed through a rec lounge (or similar) and mentioned "all these craft were called Enterprise" with pictures of the AC, Space Shuttle, and a few others. I can't remember the details exactly, but is this new Enterprise going to look like one of those, or are they going to fix that in the Directors Cut? --
I see lots of comments here about how easy it is to spot, it doesn't do much, etc. But don't forget that this is the first.
The Melissa virus was (I believe) the first major virus to take advantage of the vulnerabilities of having Windows Scripting Host running (read: Outlook), and while all it did was forward an attachment to everyone in your address book, it didn't 'do much', it just so happened to clog up mail servers. Just recently we had ILOVEYOU which did a lot of damage.
Virii development is getting more and more sophisticated and as it has been said, this is just the first. Look out for greater levels of sophistication as the virus developers learn what they can do with this new platform. --
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Noisy Machinery? Try working in a factory. Or in a server room...
/.ed...
In another article (tree form), it says that the machinery (carbon filter thingy to provide breathable air) is right next to the sleeping quarters and goes "ka-chunk!" every 10 minutes.
No Shampoo? Aww... I really feel for ya buddy.
They found that the soap was difficult to use in zero-g so they used the shampoo to clean themselves instead, so they ran out quicker. NASA refused to send up fresh supplies in the next cargo shipment.
Velcro pads are supposed to stick to things.
Yeah, but not food.
There's other wonderful things like the detailed instructions for reattaching a panel are printed on the back of the said panel, service nooks that are inaccessable without breaking things, etc.
I assume this extra info is published on New Scientist (who have the uncensored bits), but they've been
--
My current role is administrator for a website (no ftp) and every so often I go through the stats to see what clients are connecting.
Ignoring all the boring Mozilla agents I look out for the 'different' agents and I try to find out who or what they are (googlebot is self explanatory). I get a bit paranoid when I see ones I can't find out info about, others there is ready information - I've have seen email harvesters come through, which sparked off my paranoia.
I had one case where I wrote to the admin of the incoming domain, politely 'demanding' that they provide an explanation for an access and the answer was that they had a user who modified his agent tag to '007'. And you wonder why I'm jumpy.
I am not a server admin. I admit I'm not trained for it. It's just that there is no one else in the organisation who can do it, c'mon it's only IIS!!!
--
In that scene of Holy Grail, Sir Galahad (Michael Palin) replies to the question of his favourite colour as:
"Blue! No, yellow...aarrgghhhhh!"
--
Risin' above the city, blocking out the noonday sun
It dwarfs the mighty redwoods and it towers over everyone
I still remember when that delivery truck came down our block
What a lucky guy, I hear he got the last one in stock
And the neighbors are just green
They say, "That's the biggest screen we've ever seen!"
It's Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
Frank's 2000" TV
There's Frank's remote control, you can look at it but don't touch it, please
'Cause Frank's the one in charge and he decides what everybody sees
The picture's crystal clear and everything is magnified
Robert DeNiro's mole has got to be ten feet wide
Everybody in the town
Can hear those 90,000 watts of Dolby Sound
And I'm mighty proud to say
Now I can watch "The Simpsons" from 30 blocks away
On Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
I'm gonna get one of my own real soon
It's like having a drive-in movie in your own living room
Whoa, hey now, hey no na na na now
Hey now, Hey now na na now
Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
You won't believe it
Frank's 2000" TV
Everybody come and see
Frank's 2000" TV
Get a 2-year warranty on parts and labor
Frank's 2000" TV
Frank's 2000" TV
--
Unless Demon Internet have changed their policy, they shunt off any users website that gets too much traffic onto a "high-use" server which runs on a smaller pipe.
Of course it doesn't help when there's several animated gifs on an image-laden page.
Get those mirrors up quick...
--
A quick easy way to protect against most of them would be to add a line to your hosts file like so:
127.0.0.1 goatse.cx
Your mileage may vary.
--
You're kidding me right? BE has got to have been the worst movie I've ever attempted to see.
I rented it on DVD just to see how bad it was. I stopped it after 20 minutes. The thing that annoyed me the most aside from the crap dialog/acting and the stupid camera angles, was the pathetic transitions that the director used between _every_ scene. He must have seen Star Wars and thought that GL had a great idea.
Never again. JT has ruined his rep again.
--
"One can always hope that space program technology will eventually trickle down to us."
Hello! They're called Teflon coated frying pans.
One thing though, if you're up in the weightlessness of space, wouldn't you want your eggs to stick to the frying pan?
--
I guess that means that the poor schmoe who's color blind and payed out $25 for a version of a deliberate B&W movie that Ted Turner's got his grubby hands on.
(This post would make more sense if the reference to Turner in the transcript is the same - after all, how else do you explain CNN's Linden Scholes' hair?)
--
If there's any factual errors, I can assure you that it was purely unintentional. I just took the opportunity to respond to the parent with something I remembered reading about when seti@home started which states:
u t_seti_4.html
"Multiplying all the numbers gives us N = L. In other words, the number of intelligent communicating civilizations in the galaxy equals the number of years such a civilization lasts!"
- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/about_seti/abo
Of course when you choose the values that the seti@home team chose, you are going to come up with N=L. I apologise if I have misrepresented the equation. I must have "tuned out", even though the article says I shouldn't.
However the seti@home team are not likely to put up an article with the conclusion that the chances of finding life is zero. Not exactly in their best interest, is it?
--
Internet Explorer 5 and above has the DHTML editor built in which you can use. It's not java, but you can set up a bunch of icons of your choosing to control formatting (including bullets). It supports copy/paste, but not right-click menu.
You could use the ocx version for IE4 if you needed to support that.
However the big drawback is that it is IE only, so probably not good for internet, but ideal for intranet if IE is standard.
--
According to the Drake equation, the number of communicable civilisations in the galaxy increases by one per year of our looking.
Explanation here
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It could be similar to terraserver.com. If you right-click on the sat image and go save picture, you end up with a tiled image of the company's name instead of the sat image. (can't remember the name as terraserver is offline at the moment). Even Alt-Printscrn or screen capture from Paint Shop Pro wouldn't reveal the picture.
Or it could be similar to lyrics.ch - the lyrics you can view (which are owned by the Fox Agency), can only be viewed through a java applet that won't allow you to select the text to copy (surprise).
--
If you're building and you're not sure what you want in there exactly, I'd suggest putting in lots of ducts - 1" pvc piping would be ideal. Even if you don't put any wires down initially, it'll probably be a good idea to put some string or something similar to make it easier to pull the cables through when you do decide to wire in.
--
But in the context of the parody (Columbine), "BlasterCard" is a much more appropriate substitute.
--
Server missing for 4 years found, still ticking
Novell Inc. experts helped IT workers at the University of North Carolina solve the mystery of the missing network server. Though it hadn't missed a packet in four years, nobody knew physically where the machine existed until the joint team followed the clues in the form of the actual physical cable that connected it through a wall that maintenance workers had inadvertently put up, sealing off the server.
--
Just need to change one word, and it'll fit in with the context nicely:
"There are some things that money can't buy. For everything else there's Blastercard"
MC wouldn't be able to do anything as in their C&D letter, "TASTTMCB.FEET" is not one of their trademarks. Adding MasterCard to the end is. Which means that anyone can say "There are some things that money can't buy. For everything else there's x", where x is any noun, except MasterCard.
--
Apparently, Red Bull had nothing to do with the placement - the developers just put it in. Red Bull didn't pay for the placement, nor did the developers pay a license fee.
I guess they must have been drinking a lot of it on those late-night coding sessions...
Here's an idea: You purchase/download an online game that features in-game advertising. Because everyone has to connect to a central place, it'll be easy to update the ads - sell advertising slots just like TV - increased rates for periods of heavy gameplay. Targeted advertising (like the local Dominos as mentioned in the article).
"Level 23 of Dungeon Master Online is brought to you by Eveready Torches."
"Fit Bridgestone Tyres? Y/N"
"Welcome to k-mart. You have 5634 credits. BFG-10000 is available for purchase!"
I declare that this business model is in the public domain 20010409 1230 NZST.
--
IANAKAR (I am not a kitchen appliance repairman) From my limited knowledge of microwave ovens, the reason that food heats up is because of friction between the microwave particles and the food molecules, which is why stuff doesn't brown in a microwave...
Or I could be talking totally out of my ring piece - but this is just a moo point.
--
The screenshots of the dialog boxes (I assume that's what they are) with the white text on the slightly off-white background. Good one cnet/MS...
Or is this just 'disabled' items because they haven't implemented them yet...
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Why not display the UPC for the product on screen then wave your Cue-cat over it. 0-click shopping.
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"For traditional shops this should be all that necessary to prevent this."
Of course. How many shops these days ring up the price from what's written on the product? They scan the barcode and pull the price out of their database. Swapping bar codes is tricky to get away with expecially if the bar code is part of the packaging - an exception is the shops that have to have their own bar code stickers on everything.
--
How can talking about the New Zealand Census and the marking of "Jedi" in the religion question be marked Offtopic not once, but twice in this article?
--
I'm not totally clued up on my ST History, but:
Is this series before or after the set up of the UFP? If it is after, then logically the Enterprise would have an NCC designation.
However, we know that the TOS Enterprise must be the first NCC Enterprise, otherwise they wouldn't keep putting on the A, B, C suffix...
And another thing... in ST:TMP after the alien intelligence infilitrated the crew member's body, they took her on a tour of the Enterprise and they passed through a rec lounge (or similar) and mentioned "all these craft were called Enterprise" with pictures of the AC, Space Shuttle, and a few others. I can't remember the details exactly, but is this new Enterprise going to look like one of those, or are they going to fix that in the Directors Cut?
--
I see lots of comments here about how easy it is to spot, it doesn't do much, etc. But don't forget that this is the first.
The Melissa virus was (I believe) the first major virus to take advantage of the vulnerabilities of having Windows Scripting Host running (read: Outlook), and while all it did was forward an attachment to everyone in your address book, it didn't 'do much', it just so happened to clog up mail servers. Just recently we had ILOVEYOU which did a lot of damage.
Virii development is getting more and more sophisticated and as it has been said, this is just the first. Look out for greater levels of sophistication as the virus developers learn what they can do with this new platform.
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