Also coming this season, kid shows us the inside of a TV (Warning: Contains Graphic Footage of idiot getting fried)and the fan favorite: "Screwdrivers and Electrical Outlets: A match made in Heaven?"
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"...they don't even realize that probably *half* the showtimes are *after* work hours. I know a lot of people that are catching the Thursday or Friday evening of the show. Granted, there is a hit to production, but it's nowhere *near* the figure they speculate in the article."
Dammit Jinsaku, you make an excellent point. Perhaps the lost productivity is not from people taking time off from work to see it, but instead using their work time to post on Slashdot when they *should* be unclogging that problem crapper in the ladies room.
Do I have to spell it out to you, Jinsaku? We're experiencing our own "Return of the Shit" (or "Revenge", whatever) in the john. Now take care of it.
"The 64-bit servers will demonstrate increased responsiveness in displaying the enhanced Stop Errors (aka BSOD). These new Stop Errors have been enhanced in two aspects:
1. The even more cryptic Stop Error Codes will increase Microsoft revenue by 38%, as even less people will have any idea what application has crashed and why, thereby increasing Technical Support calls.
2. We have implemented a different shade of blue associated with the Stop Errors. This will give give System Administrators a brief respite before they realize that their weekend and social life is utterly f*cked as result having to bring the servers back on-line."
That's a customer assistance address for TigerDirect customers, which for your purpose of swamping them with threats will merely fall on deaf ears. Next thing you know, TigerDirect will mention in court how Apple hired people to flame them, kind of what SCO asserted/is asserting against IBM. Real mature, people.
Whilst reading all the replies to Mr. Hamm's blog, I ran across one respondent who said he's used Linux the past two years and hadn't found a need to use Windows.
I have a dual-boot XP/Gentoo box. I love Gentoo (and Linux in general) to death. Why do I persist in keeping XP on my box? For the games. I am a games fiend to the point that only XP can feed the passion. Do I keep any critical information on the XP side? Hell, no! I use XP for games, nothing more. Linux is what I use when I need to get work done.
That having been said, I remember someone from the Microsoft camp (Ballmer?) claiming that "Linux is a toy." Well, MS if I only use XP for games, which OS do you think is more deserving of being called "a toy?" Although, I'm sure Yankee Group and her collection of didiots could put a different spin on it.
"The Motion Picture Association of America estimates that it loses $3.5 billion in potential worldwide revenue because of movie piracy. Emphasis added.
WTF does that mean? I know that in wrongful death lawsuits, it is common to claim the deceased's earning potential when figuring out damages, but how do the **AA's justify the same thing. Maybe I will just disregard the fact that I was lazy in school and proceed to sue all of my previous teachers claiming that the stuff they taught was "just too hard," and as a result of my not being able to comprehend that stuff, I have lost potentially billions and billions of dollars in earning potential. (There's that word again)
Put into that context, it sounds a little silly doesn't it? Now read the first line of my post again and see if it doesn't seem silly as well.
MS and Linux interoperability as a result of efforts on MS's part? That's unnatural.
I can foresee that this will cause every Linux system to experience a "Kernel Panic" as a matter of principle, not because of anything buggy in the software (although I'm not saying that MS will produce anything bug-free).
I didn't spell it out in my previous post, but since I don't use XP for anything other than P2P and Games, I won't hesitate to install the latest XP patches to protect my system. I also use alternatives to the built-in XP "features" like Firefox, Thunderbird and third-party apps to minimize risks. I fully agree with you that the inability to view MS source is a security risk in itself. It explains why many IT Pros are reluctant to install SP2. But if a third party app fails to work under an OS as a result of that OS's updates that is NOT the OS manufacturer's fault. The 3rd-party app must be modified to work with the patch or rival vendors will update theirs and gain market share.
I read your link regarding SP2 breaking NMAP, but how can you have increased security without losing some functionality? In your first paragraph you mention, "for remote exploits disable all unused services which open ports". Fine, you shut the unused ports preventing their exploitation. But used services that open ports will still require constant updating, because how long will it be before another vulnerability will be found. What if the fix to that vulnerability is to break another app like, say, NMAP? Do you keep using NMAP and refuse to patch your system or do you plug the open hole, so to speak, and find another app that performs similar functions or, better yet persuade the author(s) of the broken app (in this case NMAP) to fix it?
Don't get me wrong, I'm no MS flunkie. I use XP and Linux for two separate, distinct functions. And they work for me as such. It's the Joe Walmart user that accepts MS's default fixes without looking for alternatives that needs education.
Good Point. Running XP without SP2 is like installing any flavor of OS and then not updating it. Sooner or later your box is going to get "pwned". Personally, I use the XP-side of my home box exclusively for P2P and games. No exploitable information to be had. The Gentoo-side is used for productivity.
Will upgrading to SP2 break some apps? Yes. It is not unlike upgrading to new major version of an app in your Linux distro and finding there have been huge changes that require reconfiguring said app or sometimes these issues come as the malaise known as "dependency hell".
If 3rd party software vendors don't update their apps to support SP2 or other OS's system updates, then that is an indication to me of poor customer support. Who gives a rat's ass what the vendor's opinion of the OS's update is? They stay in business by supporting their customers, not by forcing their (perceived) laziness onto them by maintaining a status quo.
Slashback: Because you enjoyed these articles the first TWO times around.
or Slashback: The nice way to say DUPE!!!
or Slashback: This time we realized we've duped a story before we posted it.
OTOH, what's to prevent unscrupulous editors from going back and editing the topic from Linux, YRO, etc. to Slashback in an attempt to cover their butts?
The website you cite is obviously in error. Any small child could tell you that the moon is made of cheese. Therefore, it is a strategic location for astronauts to stop and indulge in a little fondue before continuing on to Mars.
Disregard my previous post. I finally read the blurb and the article and saw that the base will be near the north pole and therefore almost constantly illuminated.
What constant light? The moon makes revolutions around its own axis just like the Earth does. What gets people is that it is always the same side always faces the us.
For example, when you see a full moon and a couple of weeks later, when you see a new moon (if you can make it out), you're actually looking at the same "side" of the moon; one illuminated by sunlight the other not.
Notice to Airmen (NOTAMs) also serve as constructive notice to pilots of restricted and prohibited airspace. Any pilot not adhering to or not reading NOTAMs is liable for the cost of any intercept.
Everyone is a little too unimaginative concerning the use of lasers. I'm thinking of a huge, frickin' Laser Floyd show in the sky. That should put pilots on notice, while we, the taxpayers footing the bill for this system, would at least get quality entertainment. For the holiday season, you could have a huge red Santa holding a green sign advising wayward pilots that "You're stewed, buttwad." This will let them know that they've just incurred the aforementioned $30-50K cost of scrambling a set of fighters.
"Microsoft promises that Longhorn will make better use of user permissions in what sounds exactly like what UNIX/Linux users have been doing for years."
You misspelled Macintosh. As any Mac user could tell you, ALL innovations were originated by Apple. Since Mac users hate the fact that anything was originally developed by anyone other than Apple, I will now use their bizarro logic to make my case.
1 - BSD was derived from AT&T's Unix. The settlement prevents BSD from legally being called "Unix"
2 - AT&T's Unix predates Linux.
3 - Apple's OS X uses BSD.
There you have it. I don't think I can get any clearer than that.
Slashdot Mirror
Also coming this season, kid shows us the inside of a TV (Warning: Contains Graphic Footage of idiot getting fried)and the fan favorite: "Screwdrivers and Electrical Outlets: A match made in Heaven?"
"...they don't even realize that probably *half* the showtimes are *after* work hours. I know a lot of people that are catching the Thursday or Friday evening of the show. Granted, there is a hit to production, but it's nowhere *near* the figure they speculate in the article."
Dammit Jinsaku, you make an excellent point. Perhaps the lost productivity is not from people taking time off from work to see it, but instead using their work time to post on Slashdot when they *should* be unclogging that problem crapper in the ladies room.
Do I have to spell it out to you, Jinsaku? We're experiencing our own "Return of the Shit" (or "Revenge", whatever) in the john. Now take care of it.
Sincerely,
Your Boss
...Nanotechnology + Superconductivity = Supertechnonanocondoexpialidocious
Anakin Torvalds?
"They have a farm of those to serve those 30 millions, so if one of them crashes and you lose one connection is not a big deal"
Hmmm...a Beowulf cluster of BSODs...
"The 64-bit servers will demonstrate increased responsiveness in displaying the enhanced Stop Errors (aka BSOD). These new Stop Errors have been enhanced in two aspects:
1. The even more cryptic Stop Error Codes will increase Microsoft revenue by 38%, as even less people will have any idea what application has crashed and why, thereby increasing Technical Support calls.
2. We have implemented a different shade of blue associated with the Stop Errors. This will give give System Administrators a brief respite before they realize that their weekend and social life is utterly f*cked as result having to bring the servers back on-line."
That's a customer assistance address for TigerDirect customers, which for your purpose of swamping them with threats will merely fall on deaf ears. Next thing you know, TigerDirect will mention in court how Apple hired people to flame them, kind of what SCO asserted/is asserting against IBM. Real mature, people.
Recently, there have been many articles on Slashdot about (insert subject here).
/. for a couple of hours; you're bound to run into plenty of them.
Around here, we call those either "dupes" or "Slashbacks". Either way, stick around
...or have there been a few too many Star Wars articles lately. Could we please have a couple of articles about Tiger to round things out nicely?
he starts using "CENSORED BY THE DMCA" so we'll all cry fowl
Uhmm....Chicken! Albatross! Swallow (African and European)! Emu! Canary! Oh, you meant foul.
Whilst reading all the replies to Mr. Hamm's blog, I ran across one respondent who said he's used Linux the past two years and hadn't found a need to use Windows.
I have a dual-boot XP/Gentoo box. I love Gentoo (and Linux in general) to death. Why do I persist in keeping XP on my box? For the games. I am a games fiend to the point that only XP can feed the passion. Do I keep any critical information on the XP side? Hell, no! I use XP for games, nothing more. Linux is what I use when I need to get work done.
That having been said, I remember someone from the Microsoft camp (Ballmer?) claiming that "Linux is a toy." Well, MS if I only use XP for games, which OS do you think is more deserving of being called "a toy?" Although, I'm sure Yankee Group and her collection of didiots could put a different spin on it.
"The Motion Picture Association of America estimates that it loses $3.5 billion in potential worldwide revenue because of movie piracy. Emphasis added.
WTF does that mean? I know that in wrongful death lawsuits, it is common to claim the deceased's earning potential when figuring out damages, but how do the **AA's justify the same thing. Maybe I will just disregard the fact that I was lazy in school and proceed to sue all of my previous teachers claiming that the stuff they taught was "just too hard," and as a result of my not being able to comprehend that stuff, I have lost potentially billions and billions of dollars in earning potential. (There's that word again)
Put into that context, it sounds a little silly doesn't it? Now read the first line of my post again and see if it doesn't seem silly as well.
MS and Linux interoperability as a result of efforts on MS's part? That's unnatural.
I can foresee that this will cause every Linux system to experience a "Kernel Panic" as a matter of principle, not because of anything buggy in the software (although I'm not saying that MS will produce anything bug-free).
...he said he wants the phrase "Cool It" back.
I didn't spell it out in my previous post, but since I don't use XP for anything other than P2P and Games, I won't hesitate to install the latest XP patches to protect my system. I also use alternatives to the built-in XP "features" like Firefox, Thunderbird and third-party apps to minimize risks. I fully agree with you that the inability to view MS source is a security risk in itself. It explains why many IT Pros are reluctant to install SP2. But if a third party app fails to work under an OS as a result of that OS's updates that is NOT the OS manufacturer's fault. The 3rd-party app must be modified to work with the patch or rival vendors will update theirs and gain market share.
I read your link regarding SP2 breaking NMAP, but how can you have increased security without losing some functionality? In your first paragraph you mention, "for remote exploits disable all unused services which open ports". Fine, you shut the unused ports preventing their exploitation. But used services that open ports will still require constant updating, because how long will it be before another vulnerability will be found. What if the fix to that vulnerability is to break another app like, say, NMAP? Do you keep using NMAP and refuse to patch your system or do you plug the open hole, so to speak, and find another app that performs similar functions or, better yet persuade the author(s) of the broken app (in this case NMAP) to fix it?
Don't get me wrong, I'm no MS flunkie. I use XP and Linux for two separate, distinct functions. And they work for me as such. It's the Joe Walmart user that accepts MS's default fixes without looking for alternatives that needs education.
Good Point. Running XP without SP2 is like installing any flavor of OS and then not updating it. Sooner or later your box is going to get "pwned". Personally, I use the XP-side of my home box exclusively for P2P and games. No exploitable information to be had. The Gentoo-side is used for productivity.
Will upgrading to SP2 break some apps? Yes. It is not unlike upgrading to new major version of an app in your Linux distro and finding there have been huge changes that require reconfiguring said app or sometimes these issues come as the malaise known as "dependency hell".
If 3rd party software vendors don't update their apps to support SP2 or other OS's system updates, then that is an indication to me of poor customer support. Who gives a rat's ass what the vendor's opinion of the OS's update is? They stay in business by supporting their customers, not by forcing their (perceived) laziness onto them by maintaining a status quo.
Something along the lines of:
Slashback: Because you enjoyed these articles the first TWO times around.
or
Slashback: The nice way to say DUPE!!!
or
Slashback: This time we realized we've duped a story before we posted it.
OTOH, what's to prevent unscrupulous editors from going back and editing the topic from Linux, YRO, etc. to Slashback in an attempt to cover their butts?
"Are we supposed to pay for their wares"?
Actually, I find game companies' products much more cost effective to me when I find them on BT sites listed as "warez."
The website you cite is obviously in error. Any small child could tell you that the moon is made of cheese. Therefore, it is a strategic location for astronauts to stop and indulge in a little fondue before continuing on to Mars.
Disregard my previous post. I finally read the blurb and the article and saw that the base will be near the north pole and therefore almost constantly illuminated.
What constant light? The moon makes revolutions around its own axis just like the Earth does. What gets people is that it is always the same side always faces the us.
For example, when you see a full moon and a couple of weeks later, when you see a new moon (if you can make it out), you're actually looking at the same "side" of the moon; one illuminated by sunlight the other not.
Q: Is this flight smoking or non-smoking?
A: Depends on how powerful their laser is.
Notice to Airmen (NOTAMs) also serve as constructive notice to pilots of restricted and prohibited airspace. Any pilot not adhering to or not reading NOTAMs is liable for the cost of any intercept.
Everyone is a little too unimaginative concerning the use of lasers. I'm thinking of a huge, frickin' Laser Floyd show in the sky. That should put pilots on notice, while we, the taxpayers footing the bill for this system, would at least get quality entertainment. For the holiday season, you could have a huge red Santa holding a green sign advising wayward pilots that "You're stewed, buttwad." This will let them know that they've just incurred the aforementioned $30-50K cost of scrambling a set of fighters.
"I'm doing grampa, and gushing about it to my engineering, and gaming friends and they are all like: "'oh good, show me how'"
This quote taken so far out of context as to make it unbelievable.
"Microsoft promises that Longhorn will make better use of user permissions in what sounds exactly like what UNIX/Linux users have been doing for years."
You misspelled Macintosh. As any Mac user could tell you, ALL innovations were originated by Apple. Since Mac users hate the fact that anything was originally developed by anyone other than Apple, I will now use their bizarro logic to make my case.
1 - BSD was derived from AT&T's Unix. The settlement prevents BSD from legally being called "Unix"
2 - AT&T's Unix predates Linux.
3 - Apple's OS X uses BSD.
There you have it. I don't think I can get any clearer than that.