When 9/11 happened, my wife called to me from her computer, asking if I heard anything about NY. She had been in a chat room when people where talking about it. It wasn't until about 1:00 when she first heard about it and we turned on the TV. We only got broadcast channels, but KING came in well, so we watched it then.
Today we can't even get broadcast, and we won't pay for satalite, so if it happened again, I'd only be able to get my news from the internet. (no radio in the house, and my truck doesn't get very good reception)
But it has me curious. How did you go for a week of internet use without hearing about NY? Or didn't you have internet access at the time?
I don't watch TV, but not because I think it makes me a better person. Like most people here mention, there's just not that much good content on. Sitting down and reading a book, watching a movie, or playing video games is just as much a waste of time as watching TV is.
But for the price of cable, I can get a video game each month. And I enjoy it more. For the few shows I do watch, it's cheaper to buy the DVD sets for the season. Then you also get the cool commentary.
I do have skills I can be working on: drawing, glass etching, sculpting. But I'm too lazy. I may not sit around and watch TV, but I sit around and play games.
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While you're at it, don't forget to make your order for viagralax, the only viagra alternative that's also a laxative. I'm not only a peddler, I'm also a satisfied customer!
(As if you could really trust someone who said they got paid.)
5% sales tax? Dang, wish I lived there. Here (Seattle, wa) our sales tax is 8.6%
Personally, I think if the states are worried about not getting their tax money, just have income and property tax. That should pay for the local services. Luxery (car/boat) and gas tax could also stick around.
Before we had an internet connection, I had to use the relay to talk to my wife. There where times I'd ask the operator a legitamite question but they'd type it out to her instead of answering.
I can't remember the questions right now though. But I do remember trying to talk to my wife (girlfriend at the time) with a male operator made it really hard talking bf/gf stuff.
I was SO glad when I found out my 2400 baud modem could connect to her TDD directly over the phone lines. (But only if she called me and my modem answered)
My wife's deaf, and back in '94, when we where dating, that was the only way we had to communicate too. (For a while, I wanted to type "GA" at the end of all my emails) I was supprised that the service existed, since you could basically make a long distance call without paying any fees. So it's no supprise that people have finally begun to misuse it.
Since it's only the online service that seems to be effected, probably because it can be used in conjunction with translation programs, I think it'd be appropriate to put a loggin on the web site. But use cookies, so you don't have to re-loggin each time.
Instead of tracking conversations word-for-word, they could give the operators the option of flagging a conversation as a possible scam. If an account has too many flags, close it and block the IP address. In fact, if the IP addresses are stored, you might not even need a username/password.
That's why they need to make more farmers into surgeons. As a small farmer, I slaughter chickens, rabbits, and goats.
If you can take a bunny, break it's neck, cut off it's head, skin it, then pull out it's organs, then the sight of human blood won't be an issue.
Chickens are the bloodiest though. After you cut off their heads, their necks twist around and they flap their wings, that causes the blood to squirt out everywhere! You should see my chicken slaughtering pants!
Then again, a red-neck MD with a roll of ductape would be a scary sight.
"Nurse! I dun run outta ductape, fetch me a nudda 'un!"
Expanding the data to 64 bits has no effect on existing code, whereas the big-endian case will have to change all the pointer values
So, you're reading in an array of integers, which are now 64 bit vs 32 bit and no code change is needed?
Programs NEED to know the size of the data they're working with. Simply pulling data from an address without caring for it's size is a recipee for disaster!
I just moved to a new house, and the only TV I'd be able to get is satalite. No cable, no broadcast. So we decided to forget it since the only thing we watch it "That 70's Show" and "Fear Factor".
We have a large collection of DVDs, and I have my Futurama (s1-3) and Red Dwarf (s1-2) sets, so I'm happy.
My wife spends most of her day on the farm or on the net. When I come home, I'm usually playing my PS2 or watching a movie.
Customer base isn't the issue. How many people have and internet connection to connect to iTMS? I don't use Comcast, but I do have an iTMS account. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
For Comcast to be successful, they'd have to allow the music to be downloaded to devices, not just played at home, and they'll still be restricted to about $.99 per download, just like everyone else. At $.25 - $.50 per download, they're loosing money to RIAA's cut.
My wife has a goat hobby farm, and she moves the 100# bales of hay and 80# bags of feed by herself. The only time I need to help her is when we have to unload an entire truck load of hay/feed.
She also pounds all of our fence posts by hand. Her hands are rougher then mine. Heh
She's only 5'3" (a foot shorter then me) but she's tough!
You're just like my wife. She has two pairs of shoes. A pair of rubber shoes for the farm, and a pair of hushpuppies for when we go anywhere else.
She also has just one pair of pants that she cuts into shorts in summer, before buying a new pair of pants in the fall. (since the current pair will be falling apart by then)
It's not that she's being frugal, it's just that's all she wants. Plus, she hates stores. They're too crowded.
On the downside, her goat farm costs $350 a month. Sometimes I wonder if it'd be cheaper if she just went shopping like a normal woman. But probably not.
They could be using a HD solution. Not a Microdrive, but maybe a 2" model.
Another possiblility is they're using RAM. If they manufactured some cheap, low power, low speed RAM, they could get it to work cheaply with little drain on the battery.
"A series of seemingly innocuous default settings can cause an affected Mac OS X machine to trust a malicious machine on a network for user, group, and volume mounting settings.
So an attacker who can gain access to your network -- over a wired connection or wirelessly -- can trick an affected system into trusting a rogue machine, and when the compromised machine reboots, take it over and even attack other systems on the network."
However, Macs have a "startup disk" setting, so the only way for this to work would be to connect to the computer's network, mark your computer as a bootable HD, wait for the user to restart with their option key held down, wait for the user to select your HD as one to boot from, then your HD and it's startup items are now running from that person's computer. So what exactly have you accomplished there?
I love unbiased reporting:
"Who's Crowing Now?
Ultimately, those on the Mac fringe have to face facts: Panther and Jaguar were not better at outrunning vulnerabilities than Windows.
I expect other gaps will emerge, and while the Mac OS may still draw far fewer attacks, this discovery might suck a little wind (or is it Windows?) out of Mac radicals' sails. They can scarcely claim this was a minor hole. OS root access is serious stuff.
How cocky are you feeling now, Mac elite? Hmm. Suddenly it's gotten pretty quiet around here."
Actually, the "slaves" in the bible were different then those of recent years. People went into slavery to pay off a debt. Others became slaves for free room and board. Slaves where basically working homeless people.
Believe it or not, women are declared equal to men in the bible. When it says "All men are created equal", it means all mankind, not just men. God has spoken to women many times in the bible, and even had one woman (Debrah) kill the king of an invading army. Another woman, married to a king, helped prevent the Jews from being persecuted.
The bible says women should submit their bodies to their husbands, so they're not led into temptation. (don't withhold sex, or they may be tempted to cheat) But it also says men should submit their bodies to their wifes for the same reason.
It does say the man is the head of the household, but in those days, it was the man that brought home the money. (for the most part) And without some form of declared leadership in the home, there's often be a lot of fighting over decisions. Personally, however, I never see myself as the head of my home. My wife and I are able to agree on what needs to be done without arguing.
btw: I don't believe these chips are the mark of the beast, but I still wouldn't take one. Not until they've been in use for many years without any problems.
Afterwards, the tribulation occurs and people curse God for it. They then accept someone who's against God, and refuse money from those who worship God.
So who are the 144,000? Children to young to speak. Too young to have lied yet. They won't be made to go through the tribulation and the people will hate God for taking them away. Only the truely faithfull will remain faithfull. God will show his powers at that time and people will believe in him. But most won't follow him.
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When 9/11 happened, my wife called to me from her computer, asking if I heard anything about NY. She had been in a chat room when people where talking about it. It wasn't until about 1:00 when she first heard about it and we turned on the TV. We only got broadcast channels, but KING came in well, so we watched it then.
Today we can't even get broadcast, and we won't pay for satalite, so if it happened again, I'd only be able to get my news from the internet. (no radio in the house, and my truck doesn't get very good reception)
But it has me curious. How did you go for a week of internet use without hearing about NY? Or didn't you have internet access at the time?
I don't watch TV, but not because I think it makes me a better person. Like most people here mention, there's just not that much good content on. Sitting down and reading a book, watching a movie, or playing video games is just as much a waste of time as watching TV is.
But for the price of cable, I can get a video game each month. And I enjoy it more. For the few shows I do watch, it's cheaper to buy the DVD sets for the season. Then you also get the cool commentary.
I do have skills I can be working on: drawing, glass etching, sculpting. But I'm too lazy. I may not sit around and watch TV, but I sit around and play games.
I have a TV, but I don't get any channels. I can't get cable, and there's nothing on TV worth paying satalite for.
But I have a butt load of DVDs!
On an animation forum I'm on, we talked about this. If you get enough artists together, and do the animatics ahead of time, you can actually do it.
But you'd need 3600 animators, each given 5 minutes to finish a frame, or 720 animators with 1 minute per frame.
I got paid! No, really, I got lots of money from them! I got rich, and I did it quick! Now go sign up and tell them luser#29766628 sent you!
While you're at it, don't forget to make your order for viagralax, the only viagra alternative that's also a laxative. I'm not only a peddler, I'm also a satisfied customer!
(As if you could really trust someone who said they got paid.)
And what is "program_name"?
Say I want to create an email from the command prompt. Do I type "man email"?
What if I have a MS Word document I want to open, do I type "man MS Word"?
What if I want to update the software on my HD, do I type "man update"?
"GA" stands for "Go Ahead", like saying "over" on a CB.
"SK" stands for "Stop Keying", same as "over and out" on a CB.
5% sales tax? Dang, wish I lived there. Here (Seattle, wa) our sales tax is 8.6%
Personally, I think if the states are worried about not getting their tax money, just have income and property tax. That should pay for the local services. Luxery (car/boat) and gas tax could also stick around.
Ah, so you're one of those jerk operators! ;)
Before we had an internet connection, I had to use the relay to talk to my wife. There where times I'd ask the operator a legitamite question but they'd type it out to her instead of answering.
I can't remember the questions right now though. But I do remember trying to talk to my wife (girlfriend at the time) with a male operator made it really hard talking bf/gf stuff.
I was SO glad when I found out my 2400 baud modem could connect to her TDD directly over the phone lines. (But only if she called me and my modem answered)
My wife's deaf, and back in '94, when we where dating, that was the only way we had to communicate too. (For a while, I wanted to type "GA" at the end of all my emails) I was supprised that the service existed, since you could basically make a long distance call without paying any fees. So it's no supprise that people have finally begun to misuse it.
;)
Since it's only the online service that seems to be effected, probably because it can be used in conjunction with translation programs, I think it'd be appropriate to put a loggin on the web site. But use cookies, so you don't have to re-loggin each time.
Instead of tracking conversations word-for-word, they could give the operators the option of flagging a conversation as a possible scam. If an account has too many flags, close it and block the IP address. In fact, if the IP addresses are stored, you might not even need a username/password.
GA SK
That's why they need to make more farmers into surgeons. As a small farmer, I slaughter chickens, rabbits, and goats.
If you can take a bunny, break it's neck, cut off it's head, skin it, then pull out it's organs, then the sight of human blood won't be an issue.
Chickens are the bloodiest though. After you cut off their heads, their necks twist around and they flap their wings, that causes the blood to squirt out everywhere! You should see my chicken slaughtering pants!
Then again, a red-neck MD with a roll of ductape would be a scary sight.
"Nurse! I dun run outta ductape, fetch me a nudda 'un!"
Yeah, it's all about me. Apparently, I'm the only "Mick Michalski" on earth. Big supprise.
Expanding the data to 64 bits has no effect on existing code, whereas the big-endian case will have to change all the pointer values
So, you're reading in an array of integers, which are now 64 bit vs 32 bit and no code change is needed?
Programs NEED to know the size of the data they're working with. Simply pulling data from an address without caring for it's size is a recipee for disaster!
I just moved to a new house, and the only TV I'd be able to get is satalite. No cable, no broadcast. So we decided to forget it since the only thing we watch it "That 70's Show" and "Fear Factor".
We have a large collection of DVDs, and I have my Futurama (s1-3) and Red Dwarf (s1-2) sets, so I'm happy.
My wife spends most of her day on the farm or on the net. When I come home, I'm usually playing my PS2 or watching a movie.
Calvin & Hobbes quote:
Calvin: Mom, why would someone pay money to talk to a lady in her underwear?
Mom: WHERE DID YOU SEE THAT?
Calvin: Ummm, Saturday morning cartoons?
Or the gaming industry. Imagine playing a FPS with depth perception.
Games have always pushed the boundries of technology. I'm supprised VR isn't widely used in games yet.
I'd pay $300 for glasses for my PS2 if I had games that would work with them too. (just add another camera angle, how hard is that?)
Customer base isn't the issue. How many people have and internet connection to connect to iTMS? I don't use Comcast, but I do have an iTMS account. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
For Comcast to be successful, they'd have to allow the music to be downloaded to devices, not just played at home, and they'll still be restricted to about $.99 per download, just like everyone else. At $.25 - $.50 per download, they're loosing money to RIAA's cut.
I agree. Nothing sexier then a geekgirl sitting at a desk programming. :)
Even if she isn't "sexy" looking, there's something about smart girls that realy turn me on.
My wife has a goat hobby farm, and she moves the 100# bales of hay and 80# bags of feed by herself. The only time I need to help her is when we have to unload an entire truck load of hay/feed.
She also pounds all of our fence posts by hand. Her hands are rougher then mine. Heh
She's only 5'3" (a foot shorter then me) but she's tough!
If I were you, I'd email IBM. I bet they'd love to use her for a commercial or two.
You're just like my wife. She has two pairs of shoes. A pair of rubber shoes for the farm, and a pair of hushpuppies for when we go anywhere else.
She also has just one pair of pants that she cuts into shorts in summer, before buying a new pair of pants in the fall. (since the current pair will be falling apart by then)
It's not that she's being frugal, it's just that's all she wants. Plus, she hates stores. They're too crowded.
On the downside, her goat farm costs $350 a month. Sometimes I wonder if it'd be cheaper if she just went shopping like a normal woman. But probably not.
They could be using a HD solution. Not a Microdrive, but maybe a 2" model.
Another possiblility is they're using RAM. If they manufactured some cheap, low power, low speed RAM, they could get it to work cheaply with little drain on the battery.
Actually, he did say:
"A series of seemingly innocuous default settings can cause an affected Mac OS X machine to trust a malicious machine on a network for user, group, and volume mounting settings.
So an attacker who can gain access to your network -- over a wired connection or wirelessly -- can trick an affected system into trusting a rogue machine, and when the compromised machine reboots, take it over and even attack other systems on the network."
However, Macs have a "startup disk" setting, so the only way for this to work would be to connect to the computer's network, mark your computer as a bootable HD, wait for the user to restart with their option key held down, wait for the user to select your HD as one to boot from, then your HD and it's startup items are now running from that person's computer. So what exactly have you accomplished there?
I love unbiased reporting:
"Who's Crowing Now?
Ultimately, those on the Mac fringe have to face facts: Panther and Jaguar were not better at outrunning vulnerabilities than Windows.
I expect other gaps will emerge, and while the Mac OS may still draw far fewer attacks, this discovery might suck a little wind (or is it Windows?) out of Mac radicals' sails. They can scarcely claim this was a minor hole. OS root access is serious stuff.
How cocky are you feeling now, Mac elite? Hmm. Suddenly it's gotten pretty quiet around here."
Actually, the "slaves" in the bible were different then those of recent years. People went into slavery to pay off a debt. Others became slaves for free room and board. Slaves where basically working homeless people.
Believe it or not, women are declared equal to men in the bible. When it says "All men are created equal", it means all mankind, not just men. God has spoken to women many times in the bible, and even had one woman (Debrah) kill the king of an invading army. Another woman, married to a king, helped prevent the Jews from being persecuted.
The bible says women should submit their bodies to their husbands, so they're not led into temptation. (don't withhold sex, or they may be tempted to cheat) But it also says men should submit their bodies to their wifes for the same reason.
It does say the man is the head of the household, but in those days, it was the man that brought home the money. (for the most part) And without some form of declared leadership in the home, there's often be a lot of fighting over decisions. Personally, however, I never see myself as the head of my home. My wife and I are able to agree on what needs to be done without arguing.
btw: I don't believe these chips are the mark of the beast, but I still wouldn't take one. Not until they've been in use for many years without any problems.
Here's my take on it:
144,000 people will be brought up in the rapture.
Those 144,000 people never lied and are virgins.
Afterwards, the tribulation occurs and people curse God for it. They then accept someone who's against God, and refuse money from those who worship God.
So who are the 144,000? Children to young to speak. Too young to have lied yet. They won't be made to go through the tribulation and the people will hate God for taking them away. Only the truely faithfull will remain faithfull. God will show his powers at that time and people will believe in him. But most won't follow him.
When it comes, we'll know it. This isn't it.