I don't think that faster than light travel is possible. Additionally I do not think that intelligent life is the inevitable result of evolution. I would predict that life is fairly common, but that intelligent life would be rare in the extreme. Intelligence is not necessary to be a "success" at evolving.
I admit I *am* curious; but I would not mind this money being spent elsewhere. The article was not totally clear, but at least some of the funding is private.
You wiped a computer because of spyware? What would you say if someone wiped their Linux box because Mozilla would not start.
Just about the same thing. I have not found any spyware that could not be removed. Maybe you actually have to look something up on the internet; but I guess it is a better story if "it was so bad that I had to wipe the box!".
Looks like everyone out there on slashdot think this is not really a problem. Remember when it was discovered that you could get into a xp installation locally with a win 2000 boot cd? Oh, the howling that was heard.
Here is a issue that can be done remotely with only a user account.
Exactly what are YOU bringing to the discussion? He did not say that Slashdotters are Luddites or anything close to it. He said that this subject would likely BRING OUT the luddites of slashdot.
Quite a different thing really. It implies that Ludditees make up a minority of the slashdot population. So, if you believe that being a luddite is a bad thing then this is a compliment.
>>while you get modded up over asking people to answer your questions more than once.
If his posts are modded up then it is because they are defined as valuable in some way by the slashdot "system". If you have a issue with that then your fight is with slashdot; not the parent.
>>We need a swashbuckler like Harrison Ford to be captain.
Yes, a 70 year old captain would be quite dashing - perhaps we could make him a pedophile too; but he would be a smart one who just went after anorexic woman who could pass for young girls.
>>Being sexy is more than being endowed with breasts;
The hell you say!
>>Enterprise should take homosexuality
You mean like wrestling that gets out of control? I guess this wish of your explains the "breasts" not being "sexy" comment.
>>The main strength of ST-TOS is that it dealt directly with the social issues of the day.
Uh, no - I am sure it was because it was good TV. The interplay of the characters was the draw. The preaching was what you had to endure to follow the series. Check anyone's list of favorite episodes and I doubt the "preachy" ones are on the list.
Getting political is what KILLS a successful series. Watch the last season of MASH or Quincy sometime if you can bear it.
>> You should also delete their AOL account since AOL is for noobs.
I do.
I usually remove ANYTHING that the user has inadvertantly installed. I hope you were not inferring that either I do not like Yahoo or that you can not use the features you described WITHOUT their toolbar - that is not what you are saying; right?
If you were not saying that; why did you post? I did not say anything bad about the services that Yahoo provides - it seems like you were replying to the post you thought it was; not the post that it was.
When cleaning up customer's computers, the Yahoo toolbar is on my list of things to uninstall. I find that most times users have no idea how it got there. I replace it with the google toolbar.
It seems to me that the google toolbar is there to help the user find information whereas the yahoo toolbar is there to promote yahoo and it's many services.
You can't tell me that you can have global warming with mankind! It takes pure evil to cause global warming and that evil is MAN!
To infer that ANYTHING BAD on this planet happens despite and in disregard to man's efforts is a afront to the basic narcisism that all liberalism is based.
That prevents me from hearing this information and now I cannot even remember what we were talking about.
This is all mindless propaganda from right-wing religeous fanatics -
shit, wait a sec. Michael Moore is on and I have to go - last time I missed him I was unable to know how to think on a particular issue and it was quite frightening!
What, they want to take the joy out of life? What about all past gloating; surely there is enough of that - enough to more than make up for any future gloating deficit.
http://tinyurl.com/6pkzc
"Daystrom felt that such an act was an offense against the laws of God and man, and the computer that carried his engrams also believed it."
--Kirk
Just someone else to get sued
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I hate frivilous lawsuits, but at least with a human doing the filling of drugs there is some common sense that can be a fail-safe. With a machine all it takes is a bug to have 300 vials of poison dealt to unsuspecting patients.
Won't there still need to be human oversight?
Here is my plan:
1. Announce that anyone who sends a spam or releases a new virus will be hunted down and killed by the US Navy Seals or Army Special Forces.
2. Follow through
Think about it; if there is a very real possibility that you will die if you spam or release viruses - maybe you won't.
If someone still ignores this and continues to be a bad Internet "citizen" they obviously they are deranged and should be considered a threat to others. Killing them is a mercy at that point.
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I don't think that faster than light travel is possible. Additionally I do not think that intelligent life is the inevitable result of evolution. I would predict that life is fairly common, but that intelligent life would be rare in the extreme. Intelligence is not necessary to be a "success" at evolving.
I admit I *am* curious; but I would not mind this money being spent elsewhere. The article was not totally clear, but at least some of the funding is private.
I did not understand why it was based on 1.03 anyway; were they completely unaware of what was going on at the firefox project?
I can see it now:
Chekov: Excuse me I'm looking for the nuclear wessels
Chekov: Nuclear wessels.
If a zombied computer wins; who gets the xBox? The person that owns the computer? The zombie "author"?
This needs to be resolved!
I dropped in on them the other day; it was totally boring; just a bunch of nerds yanking themselves. Don't know why I bothered. -Zaxxor, 2568 A.D.
You wiped a computer because of spyware? What would you say if someone wiped their Linux box because Mozilla would not start.
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Just about the same thing. I have not found any spyware that could not be removed. Maybe you actually have to look something up on the internet; but I guess it is a better story if "it was so bad that I had to wipe the box!".
Check out:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/killbox.php
and
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description
And read a bit:
http://www.pchell.com/support/spyware.shtml
Not so hard if you really *want* to be able to do it.
Hey, fuck you. I live here too you know. If it does hit us I hope it drops right on top of your fucking head you idiot.
A billion or so people dying so we can be "taught a lesson"?!?
Maybe if we are all lucky - someone will come along and teach you a lesson about always wearing body armor. Because you never know.
Looks like everyone out there on slashdot think this is not really a problem. Remember when it was discovered that you could get into a xp installation locally with a win 2000 boot cd? Oh, the howling that was heard.
Here is a issue that can be done remotely with only a user account.
This is simply brilliant. Good work
At 20 - 30 quatloos per criminal collar; we will use up all of our gambling money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatloo
Exactly what are YOU bringing to the discussion? He did not say that Slashdotters are Luddites or anything close to it. He said that this subject would likely BRING OUT the luddites of slashdot.
Quite a different thing really. It implies that Ludditees make up a minority of the slashdot population. So, if you believe that being a luddite is a bad thing then this is a compliment.
>>while you get modded up over asking people to answer your questions more than once.
If his posts are modded up then it is because they are defined as valuable in some way by the slashdot "system". If you have a issue with that then your fight is with slashdot; not the parent.
Before I found memtest my computers were VERY unpredicable.
>>We need a swashbuckler like Harrison Ford to be captain.
Yes, a 70 year old captain would be quite dashing - perhaps we could make him a pedophile too; but he would be a smart one who just went after anorexic woman who could pass for young girls.
>>Being sexy is more than being endowed with breasts;
The hell you say!
>>Enterprise should take homosexuality
You mean like wrestling that gets out of control? I guess this wish of your explains the "breasts" not being "sexy" comment.
>>The main strength of ST-TOS is that it dealt directly with the social issues of the day.
Uh, no - I am sure it was because it was good TV. The interplay of the characters was the draw. The preaching was what you had to endure to follow the series. Check anyone's list of favorite episodes and I doubt the "preachy" ones are on the list.
Getting political is what KILLS a successful series. Watch the last season of MASH or Quincy sometime if you can bear it.
>> You should also delete their AOL account since AOL is for noobs.
I do.
I usually remove ANYTHING that the user has inadvertantly installed. I hope you were not inferring that either I do not like Yahoo or that you can not use the features you described WITHOUT their toolbar - that is not what you are saying; right?
If you were not saying that; why did you post? I did not say anything bad about the services that Yahoo provides - it seems like you were replying to the post you thought it was; not the post that it was.
When cleaning up customer's computers, the Yahoo toolbar is on my list of things to uninstall. I find that most times users have no idea how it got there. I replace it with the google toolbar.
It seems to me that the google toolbar is there to help the user find information whereas the yahoo toolbar is there to promote yahoo and it's many services.
You can't tell me that you can have global warming with mankind! It takes pure evil to cause global warming and that evil is MAN! To infer that ANYTHING BAD on this planet happens despite and in disregard to man's efforts is a afront to the basic narcisism that all liberalism is based. That prevents me from hearing this information and now I cannot even remember what we were talking about. This is all mindless propaganda from right-wing religeous fanatics - shit, wait a sec. Michael Moore is on and I have to go - last time I missed him I was unable to know how to think on a particular issue and it was quite frightening!
What, they want to take the joy out of life? What about all past gloating; surely there is enough of that - enough to more than make up for any future gloating deficit.
It's full of starrrrssss.... http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MyGodItsFullOfStars
All my customers are set up this way unless they are technical enough to notice.
http://tinyurl.com/6pkzc
"Daystrom felt that such an act was an offense against the laws of God and man, and the computer that carried his engrams also believed it."
--Kirk
I hate frivilous lawsuits, but at least with a human doing the filling of drugs there is some common sense that can be a fail-safe. With a machine all it takes is a bug to have 300 vials of poison dealt to unsuspecting patients. Won't there still need to be human oversight?
"Four legs good, two legs bad!"
"Four legs good, two legs bad!"
"Four legs good, two legs bad!"
You work for Dell; right?
Setting Up a Spam-Filtering Mail Gateway For Microsoft Exchange Using Fedora Core 1, Postfix 2.0.19, Amavisd-New and Razor2 http://tinyurl.com/3khzk
Here is my plan:
1. Announce that anyone who sends a spam or releases a new virus will be hunted down and killed by the US Navy Seals or Army Special Forces.
2. Follow through
Think about it; if there is a very real possibility that you will die if you spam or release viruses - maybe you won't.
If someone still ignores this and continues to be a bad Internet "citizen" they obviously they are deranged and should be considered a threat to others. Killing them is a mercy at that point.