Oh we're a religion of peace, sentence to death Sentence to death, sentence to death We're a religion of peace, sentence to death Rapture, raise me up!
If a church is "public" or "private" could well depend on exactly how it is run. There certainly are churches which operate as "private members clubs". I know of one church that seems to have a very exclusive membership policy. It has a very prominent sign that reads "JESUS ONLY".
[Hetch appears on the monitor, but the camera reads him as a multi-colored blob.] "Hetch sewed himself a fiber-optic suit!" "His name is Hesh, Shake, not Hetch."
"Um, the video distortion affected the audio too, making `Hesh' sound like `Hetch'. Yeah, that's it. I didn't look up the series on IMDb and then completely fail to check the how to spell characters' names, both in dialog and stage direction."
"Yeah, right."
"Get back to da story, Shake."
"Right, so Stormy, he says:"
"Dude, you look like one of those pure-energy creatures from Star Trek!"
You must be new here. The US _is_ the source of all evil, according to Slashdot received wisdom. I'm not sure if this modding as troll contradicts that or just says it isn't the source of all stupidity.
"Hey, Quinn! Check out my new raver's wig!" [He flips a switch and fiber optic cables coming out of his hair start glowing and flowing in multiple colors)
"Stormy, where'd you find the cables for that wig? Tell me you didn't pull them out of the control panels."
"Control panels? Hell no, I'm not stupid! No, I got them outside. There's a whole lot of them out there on the sea floor."
"Outsi-- you idiot! Those are Internet cables! You can't just steal them!"
"But everyone's else is doing it!"
[Hetch appears on the monitor, but the camera reads him as a multi-colored blob.] "Hetch sewed himself a fiber-optic suit!"
"Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines, their telephones, their lawnmowers, throw them into darkness for a few hours, and then sit back and watch the pattern."
"This pattern is always the same?"
"With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find.... and it's themselves. All we need do is sit back and watch."
"I take it that this place...this Maple Street...is not unique."
"By no means. Their world is full of Maple Streets, and we'll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves."
There's no kind of official certification of the process, so what's to differentiate a company specializing in this (such as MediaSentry) from a group of Computer Science freshmen churning out a polished but entirely inaccurate report detailing an individual's illicit filesharing? Presumably that MediaSentry has a Private Investigator's license and the CS freshmen do not, seeing as how states are seeking to make it illegal for non-PIs to do computer forensics. A followup story.
I've been watching it slowly evolve. I think it is supposed to have an unpolished feel, though I liked the variation of the Slashdot logo with the peeling "t" better.
This is though the first Idle story I've seen on the front page!
Now if I could only get the Firehose to default to listing all submissions like it used to by default instead of only stories. ?fhfilter= treats the empty value as equivalent to ?fhfilter=story. (I also use &color=indigo as undetermined parts of my client-side stylesheet prevent the proper positioning of the color slider, and clicking the highlight color of a story has stopped working for me.)
Ah yes, AppleTrek, flying the USS Endeavour against the Klarnons, blowing up stars with a single torpedo. I remember trying to modify the game to use the names Enterprise and Klingons and it would self-destruct. I hadn't yet learned how that Integer BASIC program was able to store machine code inside the BASIC code without using DATA statements. And, though ProDOS supported the files, I never found an environment that would allow running Integer BASIC programs under ProDOS.
One of my favorite games was SABOTAGE. So much fun making enemies fall to their death by shooting their parachutes off of them, also killing whoever they landed on. Also killing them with helicopter debris.
I actually went to the lengths of disassembling the entire program and analyzing it to find out why it would self-destruct if you ran it on an Apple IIgs and entered the Classic Control Panel. It stored data in the screen holes of the text screen memory and if it detected modification of that data, it would proceed to wipe the memory. Presumably it was to counter memory-dumping programs, but the way I received it it was already a BRUN-able file under DOS 3.3. The Classic Control Panel didn't take care to preserve that information. Once patched to not care about modification of that data, I could enter the Control Panel with ease and change the processor speed.
At the same time I converted it to run as a ProDOS SYS file so I could run it from a 3.5" disk without a full boot into ProDOS. Just a matter of getting it to know where it now needed to be loaded and relocating itself to where it wanted to be run in memory. It was easier than some games that would not BLOAD completely, which I never got around to investigating why.
Of course, with the disassembly I also discovered where all the bitmapped graphics were stored in the game and the lookup table for the display. I had planned to update the graphics to use Apple IIgs graphics while not affecting the game logic. It was going to have improved color without compromising the collision detection code and a changing background. Choppers would fly by day, jet levels would be night, and it was going to include weather patterns, clouds, lightning storms, etc. animated just by changing the color palette. I also had plans for the extra screen real-estate.
However, the lack of a 65c816 assembler for the platform prevented the completion of that conversion. I'd love to get my hands on a free cross-compiler environment that could run on Mac OS X or Linux and a suitable IIgs emulator. (Though I have retained the hardware to get files onto 3.5" discs readable by a real IIgs, it is impracticable.)
Anyway, apart from my attempt at Funny above (now buried between pages or subsequent pages due to excessive metadiscussion over the tag whatcouldpossiblygowrong), I might as well try to be Informative now. (It still won't be found.)
Despite claims to the contrary, The Fine Article does name these two new letters. They are "d5SICS" and "dMMO2", and apparently the bolding is part of their names as the article is consistent about that.
Its much easier to spell things when you have more letters than just AGTC. However, for now we just have to guess what the new ones are as the article doesn't say. Pat, I'd like to engineer a vowel.
Burns: Ah, I suppose that's normal background radiation? The kind you'd find at any well-maintained nuclear facility, or for that matter, playgrounds and hospitals.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that those strange beings who landed in the Jersey farmlands tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from the planet Mars.
I'd actually never heard of this program, but I'm going to download it and put the source up for download on my website Bart: To pull the source now would be twisted, Jimbo, Dolph & Kearney: We just heard this code existed!
All I wanted was a Pepsi! Nice Suicidal Tendencies reference! I guess I should listen to more music. It might increase my enjoyment of movies like Back to the Future Part II.
The irony? Slashdot dove into 503 and 500 errors a few minutes after you posted that. Not only that but also "There was an unknown error in the submission" errors on Submit (but not on Preview) that also seemed to count against you in the "Slow down, cowboy!" messages.
The announcement though sounds more like it came from the Coroner of Munchkin Land:
"We really are sincerely sorry for having had this happen and do apologize to all those folks who were affected by the error." We're not only merely sorry / We're really most sincerely sorry.
Although no levels of radon gas are considered safe, it is a fact of life that radon is found everywhere in the environment. The outside air that we breathe contains approximately 0.4 pCi/L (picoCuries per liter of air).
Why do people admit to not reading the articles and post anyway? IO is clearly defined in the first sentence of the second outbound link. Coming late to the party, I can say that loading the page of Slashdot comments was faster than the loading of the first outbound link (second link in the article), and I was able to find the answer here faster, which is generally the case considering the load Slashdot at times cripplingly places on other sites.
I was willing to post a joke about the strategic significance a moon of Jupiter in order to ask the question, or make an observation that someone was being clever in making IO resemble one and zero. But if I had known the answer definitively, I would have also told people instead of telling them to RTFAs (Information Operations).
Undefined abbreviations shouldn't be used as stick and/or carrot to get people to read articles they may not be interested in reading otherwise had they known the abbreviation. It also turns away some that might have had interest but for an opaque abbreviation thrown in their face, sending the message that if you don't know what this stands for, you shouldn't bother reading any further nor participate in any discussion.
Obviously, they devoted their time in school to protesting and changing the world, instead of studying history textbooks..;) Some who learn from history seek to improve upon a repetition of it.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh we're a religion of peace, sentence to death
Sentence to death, sentence to death
We're a religion of peace, sentence to death
Rapture, raise me up!
There's heathens off the starboard bow...
I really should get those photos uploaded.
"Hetch sewed himself a fiber-optic suit!" "His name is Hesh, Shake, not Hetch."
"Um, the video distortion affected the audio too, making `Hesh' sound like `Hetch'. Yeah, that's it. I didn't look up the series on IMDb and then completely fail to check the how to spell characters' names, both in dialog and stage direction."
"Yeah, right."
"Get back to da story, Shake."
"Right, so Stormy, he says:"
"Dude, you look like one of those pure-energy creatures from Star Trek!"
The latency for writes though would suck.
Note to self: don't paraphrase Yoda.
"Hey, Quinn! Check out my new raver's wig!"
[He flips a switch and fiber optic cables coming out of his hair start glowing and flowing in multiple colors)
"Stormy, where'd you find the cables for that wig? Tell me you didn't pull them out of the control panels."
"Control panels? Hell no, I'm not stupid! No, I got them outside. There's a whole lot of them out there on the sea floor."
"Outsi-- you idiot! Those are Internet cables! You can't just steal them!"
"But everyone's else is doing it!"
[Hetch appears on the monitor, but the camera reads him as a multi-colored blob.]
"Hetch sewed himself a fiber-optic suit!"
"Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines, their telephones, their lawnmowers, throw them into darkness for a few hours, and then sit back and watch the pattern."
"This pattern is always the same?"
"With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find.... and it's themselves. All we need do is sit back and watch."
"I take it that this place...this Maple Street...is not unique."
"By no means. Their world is full of Maple Streets, and we'll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves."
MediaSentry does have a PI license, right?
I've been watching it slowly evolve. I think it is supposed to have an unpolished feel, though I liked the variation of the Slashdot logo with the peeling "t" better.
This is though the first Idle story I've seen on the front page!
Now if I could only get the Firehose to default to listing all submissions like it used to by default instead of only stories. ?fhfilter= treats the empty value as equivalent to ?fhfilter=story. (I also use &color=indigo as undetermined parts of my client-side stylesheet prevent the proper positioning of the color slider, and clicking the highlight color of a story has stopped working for me.)
Ah yes, AppleTrek, flying the USS Endeavour against the Klarnons, blowing up stars with a single torpedo. I remember trying to modify the game to use the names Enterprise and Klingons and it would self-destruct. I hadn't yet learned how that Integer BASIC program was able to store machine code inside the BASIC code without using DATA statements. And, though ProDOS supported the files, I never found an environment that would allow running Integer BASIC programs under ProDOS.
One of my favorite games was SABOTAGE. So much fun making enemies fall to their death by shooting their parachutes off of them, also killing whoever they landed on. Also killing them with helicopter debris.
I actually went to the lengths of disassembling the entire program and analyzing it to find out why it would self-destruct if you ran it on an Apple IIgs and entered the Classic Control Panel. It stored data in the screen holes of the text screen memory and if it detected modification of that data, it would proceed to wipe the memory. Presumably it was to counter memory-dumping programs, but the way I received it it was already a BRUN-able file under DOS 3.3. The Classic Control Panel didn't take care to preserve that information. Once patched to not care about modification of that data, I could enter the Control Panel with ease and change the processor speed.
At the same time I converted it to run as a ProDOS SYS file so I could run it from a 3.5" disk without a full boot into ProDOS. Just a matter of getting it to know where it now needed to be loaded and relocating itself to where it wanted to be run in memory. It was easier than some games that would not BLOAD completely, which I never got around to investigating why.
Of course, with the disassembly I also discovered where all the bitmapped graphics were stored in the game and the lookup table for the display. I had planned to update the graphics to use Apple IIgs graphics while not affecting the game logic. It was going to have improved color without compromising the collision detection code and a changing background. Choppers would fly by day, jet levels would be night, and it was going to include weather patterns, clouds, lightning storms, etc. animated just by changing the color palette. I also had plans for the extra screen real-estate.
However, the lack of a 65c816 assembler for the platform prevented the completion of that conversion. I'd love to get my hands on a free cross-compiler environment that could run on Mac OS X or Linux and a suitable IIgs emulator. (Though I have retained the hardware to get files onto 3.5" discs readable by a real IIgs, it is impracticable.)
Anyway, apart from my attempt at Funny above (now buried between pages or subsequent pages due to excessive metadiscussion over the tag whatcouldpossiblygowrong), I might as well try to be Informative now. (It still won't be found.)
Despite claims to the contrary, The Fine Article does name these two new letters. They are "d5SICS" and "dMMO2", and apparently the bolding is part of their names as the article is consistent about that.
I'd prefer puritycontrol.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that those strange beings who landed in the Jersey farmlands tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from the planet Mars.
Jimbo, Dolph & Kearney: We just heard this code existed!
It's not Slashdot without a car analogy.
I was willing to post a joke about the strategic significance a moon of Jupiter in order to ask the question, or make an observation that someone was being clever in making IO resemble one and zero. But if I had known the answer definitively, I would have also told people instead of telling them to RTFAs (Information Operations).
Undefined abbreviations shouldn't be used as stick and/or carrot to get people to read articles they may not be interested in reading otherwise had they known the abbreviation. It also turns away some that might have had interest but for an opaque abbreviation thrown in their face, sending the message that if you don't know what this stands for, you shouldn't bother reading any further nor participate in any discussion.
Would you like some dam milk with your buckling?