Maybe you're thinking of the 1910 - I think all Nokia's end in '0'. I've got mine sitting on my desk right in front of me, I've had it over 3 years and the only problem I've had with it was when the battery connectors were a bit loose and it would switch itself off. That was 2.5 years ago now.
I would love to have one of those compact chrome phones. They look the bollocks.
Special Wedding Mod PAK...
on
Quake Wedding
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· Score: 2
You need the special Wedding PAK to be able to attend.
I wonder if all weapons are replaced with rice and conffetti?
Where's the respawn point? And could you still telefrag?
When I first heard about it (it was on our 'superficial' morning TV news), I realised that it wasn't a 'hack' but just a DoS attack with some script kiddies not having enough time on their hands.
But now I'm realising that it would have been a large, very organised 'team' effort. After all, it's going to take more than just a couple of computers to put through 500 million page requests in such a short period of time.
The more worrying thing is this: If it was possible to take down Yahoo, what else are they going to try and take down? Was this just a one off, to see if it can be done? Or was this just the first.
A possible way to try and stop all this is to get the mainstream media to accept the term 'script-kiddie' and make sure they know what the meaning of it is, i.e. so that the next time a major DoS attack occurs, the media recognises that it was just script-kiddies playing around. This way, the script-kiddies will less likely to pull these stunts because they know they won't get called 'hackers', which is they're goal, but this derogatory term which makes them look uncool.
Yeah, but why were the ports broken in the first place? They worked in SP5, and every release before that.
Somebody somewhere in the bowels of MS must have made a decision to 'disable' ports above 1024 for whatever reason - debugging, etc. - thereby causing the problem to be by design. Even though it was overlooked to put that functionality back.
It's pretty hard to write software that deletes 'unneeded' files by accident. Therefore, this 'functionality' was designed.
I actually wouldn't have a clue, having not used this. I'm only relaying what a friend of mine from work told me. She hopped on to watch Star Trek on NBC or whoever...
But they're not broadcasting to the States. They have a service on Canadian based (I'm guessing here) servers. IIRC, you need to enter a valid Canadian postal code (to validate your Canadian nationality) to be able to watch it. It doesn't stop anyone from watching it, but if you're in the US and you enter a valid Canadian postal code, then it's you that's commiting fraud. iCrave can't do much about people who commit fraud in order to use their service.
Although they could ban people who aren't in a particular IP address range, so technically they could be done for negligence because there is available technology to help prevent them from "breaking the law".
Yeah, look at Peter B Lewis, chairman and chief of Cleveland-based insurance company Progressive Corporation. He donated $50 million to the Guggenheim museum, the largest donation they've ever received.
I only mention this because recently, this person was arrested in Auckland, New Zealand for importing 100g of marijuana and hashhish into the country. The charges were dropped without anything appearing on his record and was granted permanent name suppression if he made a donation to a drug rehab clinic.
Because I'm in New Zealand, I have just broken the law and can be charged with Contempt of Court, but because I'm posting this onto a US-based server, it gets nice and muggy.
OH MY GOD!!! THEY'RE BREAKING DOWN THE DOOR!!!! CAN I GET TO THE SUBMIT BUTT&%@#^
Is it? 60s to the min, 60min to the hour, 24hr to the day. I don't think so.
To get time truely metric, we need to change it to:
100 seconds to the minute 100 minutes to the hour 10 hours to the day x days to the month 10 months to the year
At 365.25 days to the year, there are currently 31557600 seconds in a year. Under metric time, there would be 36525000 seconds in a year, with an average of 36.525 days in a month.
Posted at 3.60NZST on this day, 35th day of December, 1999
Okay, the article says that the high and low tides are going to be a bit extreme because of the three events, but it doesn't say how much. 25% higher/lower than normal? An extreme neap tide?
I remember seeing a documentary a few years ago about the technical problems arising from creating a "Jurassic Park", and the main problem that would be present is giving them enough food and space to actually survive. IIRC, for the dinosaurs on the island in JP, the amount of food you would need each day would feed the population of NY for a week, or something like that.
No, no. It should just be Poke-win. Funny, everytime I see that yellow blob, I want to beat the living crap out of it. Maybe the same will happen with my toaster when it tells me that I need Windows-compatible bread to operate it.
How SETI works is that your client processes one packet at a time. What is proposed with the Beowulf, is that the single packet is distributed amongst the wearables so that the packet is processed by all wearables at the same but shorter time.
Even though there's not much on the site. (anyone tried putting in random page names?/contact.html,/products.html, etc) This is still quite cool, especially as TM is riding the hype wagon.
Now to start the analysis: Crusoe logo = Debian logo (prob. coincidence) Sand = Silicon Crusoe = castaway = Throw away your old processors?
In my way of thinking, the super-accurate time of the new millennium is 00:00:00 01/01/2001. But a good way of celebrating is to make the period 00:00:00 01/01/2000 to 23:59:59 31/12/2000 the "new" millennium.
Given that this event happens only every 1000 years, why not take a year to celebrate it?
Physically, I'm in New Zealand, working for a large multi-national company, based out of the US. I'm using the internal network to get to a firewall based in Texas. When it comes to doing anything on the Internet, where am I?
I was thinking along the similar lines of the official/. lightbulb joke:
Q: How many/.er's does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 65 5 to say "First Bulb", 2 to propose hooking up lightbulbs into a Beowulf cluster, 3 to say that the lightbulb was already changed, 4 to say that the ability to change a lightbulb isn't new, 2 to say "Linux Rules" 3 to say "Linux Sux" 9 to say "What about XYZ OS?" 12 to complain about the how the quality of/. has dropped 23 Moderation complaints And Rob & Hemos to change the bulb
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe you're thinking of the 1910 - I think all Nokia's end in '0'. I've got mine sitting on my desk right in front of me, I've had it over 3 years and the only problem I've had with it was when the battery connectors were a bit loose and it would switch itself off. That was 2.5 years ago now.
I would love to have one of those compact chrome phones. They look the bollocks.
You need the special Wedding PAK to be able to attend.
I wonder if all weapons are replaced with rice and conffetti?
Where's the respawn point? And could you still telefrag?
"Four Funerals and a Wedding"
etc...
When I first heard about it (it was on our 'superficial' morning TV news), I realised that it wasn't a 'hack' but just a DoS attack with some script kiddies not having enough time on their hands.
But now I'm realising that it would have been a large, very organised 'team' effort. After all, it's going to take more than just a couple of computers to put through 500 million page requests in such a short period of time.
The more worrying thing is this: If it was possible to take down Yahoo, what else are they going to try and take down? Was this just a one off, to see if it can be done? Or was this just the first.
A possible way to try and stop all this is to get the mainstream media to accept the term 'script-kiddie' and make sure they know what the meaning of it is, i.e. so that the next time a major DoS attack occurs, the media recognises that it was just script-kiddies playing around. This way, the script-kiddies will less likely to pull these stunts because they know they won't get called 'hackers', which is they're goal, but this derogatory term which makes them look uncool.
Yeah, but why were the ports broken in the first place? They worked in SP5, and every release before that.
Somebody somewhere in the bowels of MS must have made a decision to 'disable' ports above 1024 for whatever reason - debugging, etc. - thereby causing the problem to be by design. Even though it was overlooked to put that functionality back.
It's pretty hard to write software that deletes 'unneeded' files by accident. Therefore, this 'functionality' was designed.
I actually wouldn't have a clue, having not used this. I'm only relaying what a friend of mine from work told me. She hopped on to watch Star Trek on NBC or whoever...
But they're not broadcasting to the States. They have a service on Canadian based (I'm guessing here) servers. IIRC, you need to enter a valid Canadian postal code (to validate your Canadian nationality) to be able to watch it. It doesn't stop anyone from watching it, but if you're in the US and you enter a valid Canadian postal code, then it's you that's commiting fraud. iCrave can't do much about people who commit fraud in order to use their service.
Although they could ban people who aren't in a particular IP address range, so technically they could be done for negligence because there is available technology to help prevent them from "breaking the law".
P.S. IANALNDIPOOTV
Yeah, look at Peter B Lewis, chairman and chief of Cleveland-based insurance company Progressive Corporation. He donated $50 million to the Guggenheim museum, the largest donation they've ever received.
I only mention this because recently, this person was arrested in Auckland, New Zealand for importing 100g of marijuana and hashhish into the country. The charges were dropped without anything appearing on his record and was granted permanent name suppression if he made a donation to a drug rehab clinic.
Because I'm in New Zealand, I have just broken the law and can be charged with Contempt of Court, but because I'm posting this onto a US-based server, it gets nice and muggy.
OH MY GOD!!! THEY'RE BREAKING DOWN THE DOOR!!!! CAN I GET TO THE SUBMIT BUTT&%@#^
NO CARRIER
Yes, look at all the wonderful things we have in our homes thanks to space research, like the Teflon coated frying pan.
I must have been out when they knocked on my door saying, "Thanks for chipping in, here's your frying pan."
One thing though. If you're in outer space, wouldn't you want your eggs to stick to the pan?
"Slashdot is a good source of information about this effect."
D'uh.... really?
:)
It's nice to see that he's got a good sense of humour. Linus v2.0 :)
Time is already metric, of course.
Is it? 60s to the min, 60min to the hour, 24hr to the day. I don't think so.
To get time truely metric, we need to change it to:
100 seconds to the minute
100 minutes to the hour
10 hours to the day
x days to the month
10 months to the year
At 365.25 days to the year, there are currently 31557600 seconds in a year. Under metric time, there would be 36525000 seconds in a year, with an average of 36.525 days in a month.
Posted at 3.60NZST on this day, 35th day of December, 1999
Okay, the article says that the high and low tides are going to be a bit extreme because of the three events, but it doesn't say how much. 25% higher/lower than normal? An extreme neap tide?
Or am I just semi-paranoid?
I remember seeing a documentary a few years ago about the technical problems arising from creating a "Jurassic Park", and the main problem that would be present is giving them enough food and space to actually survive. IIRC, for the dinosaurs on the island in JP, the amount of food you would need each day would feed the population of NY for a week, or something like that.
Ditto, however it would be nice if the last part became true as well:
:)
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE
The really weird thing is that I rented 2010 this weekend. Trippy, huh?
Lotus still does it.. the Monty Python thing in Notes, the Possum that craps blue M&Ms in Wordpro...
They won't disappear.
"Like colors from the Logo, these are the eggs of our products."
No, no. It should just be Poke-win. Funny, everytime I see that yellow blob, I want to beat the living crap out of it. Maybe the same will happen with my toaster when it tells me that I need Windows-compatible bread to operate it.
How SETI works is that your client processes one packet at a time. What is proposed with the Beowulf, is that the single packet is distributed amongst the wearables so that the packet is processed by all wearables at the same but shorter time.
So that's why M$ buys out other companies. They don't want to give you royalties as part of their "Freedom to Innovate" software development.
MS has released the 'hotfix' patch for the Winsock problem. You can dload either the Alpha or i386 versions, or read their Knowledge Base article.
Even though there's not much on the site. (anyone tried putting in random page names? /contact.html, /products.html, etc) This is still quite cool, especially as TM is riding the hype wagon.
Now to start the analysis:
Crusoe logo = Debian logo (prob. coincidence)
Sand = Silicon
Crusoe = castaway = Throw away your old processors?
Come on, people. There must be more!
In my way of thinking, the super-accurate time of the new millennium is 00:00:00 01/01/2001. But a good way of celebrating is to make the period 00:00:00 01/01/2000 to 23:59:59 31/12/2000 the "new" millennium.
Given that this event happens only every 1000 years, why not take a year to celebrate it?
Now how does this work?
Physically, I'm in New Zealand, working for a large multi-national company, based out of the US. I'm using the internal network to get to a firewall based in Texas. When it comes to doing anything on the Internet, where am I?
I was thinking along the similar lines of the official /. lightbulb joke:
/.er's does it take to change a lightbulb?
/. has dropped
Q: How many
A: 65
5 to say "First Bulb",
2 to propose hooking up lightbulbs into a Beowulf cluster,
3 to say that the lightbulb was already changed,
4 to say that the ability to change a lightbulb isn't new,
2 to say "Linux Rules"
3 to say "Linux Sux"
9 to say "What about XYZ OS?"
12 to complain about the how the quality of
23 Moderation complaints
And Rob & Hemos to change the bulb
Here is the definitive Bastard stuff, his own web site:
http://prime-mover.cc.waikato.ac.n z/Bastard.html