I used to love those days when we could play a game of tradewars for days on end, literally!!! Now the closest you can come is something like Solar Empire (for free anyway). The problem with games now in the luser effect. Why do people find it fun/funny to disrupt the gameplay and abuse the system. They're he reason we can't play the great games we used to like we used to.
I think it's stupid that our national security services spent time and resources spying on international coorporations. They had a justified reason that I agree with, but the fact remains, if they had something they could use against those companies they still wouldn't beable to use it because they they'd have to admit they were monitoring communications. It would spawn a firestorm in the political world. Surely someone had to realize this...that even if we did get some good dirt we'd have a hard time using it against anyone, what do we pay those goons for anyway? Heh, i still think it's better that they're spying on someone besides me, can't argue with that....
I've been having trouble running ANY distro of Linux on my machine because Dell packed my system with winware crap. I wish there were a distro to work with hardware that's only supposed to work with windoze.
First of all, you can say whatever you want about a company, to say otherwise would impede on First Amendment rights (unless you signed some type of anti-deflamatory clause when you were hired). Secondly, if you take your employer's computer, reformat it and install linux. Also, depending on who actually owns the computer, they might not beable to legally search it, is it a free computer from your employer(gift) or is it a computer so you can work at home(work computer @ home) yes, there's a difference.
<blockquote>Underlying message: read the fine print and possibly get a second opinion first.<blockquote>
Hey, don't bash Lander's Airbags...it's thru looking down the line from the other end that we will discover new ways to do things, things that were not possible before. Here's another crazy invention: you put people in it and go up in the sky and fly around. It's called an airplane, and yes I did rip that from Contact.
I did about 90% of my christmas shopping online this year. From site amazon.com to the obscure paragongifts.com. The only bad experience was when I ordered a book from bn.com then realized it was backordered. I had a little trouble canceling it, but nonetheless it was canceled by the next day. I didn't get a tracking number from all the vendors, but the ones I did get, the shipping companies gave pretty good timeframes for shipping. I really don't see where AC gets all their 'statistics' and after the cnn article and this back to back, I think we need to urge the media to be more responsible, if you don't understand it, don't try to report on it. Mabye they can all learn a little fron Jane's.
The article discussed using a HTTP request for a gif to send your email address to the web server. Then the server would set a cookie on your system. With Outlook in the "Restricted' zone, cookies are disabled (unless you messed with the settings) and thus, a cookie would not be set(unless there's another bug somewhere I don't know about). When you later visit the site that spammed you, there is no cookie because outlook didn't save it.
I send all my spam to spamrecycle@chooseyourmail.com; which is inherently a huge mistake, but I hope they're doing something constructive with the info...
This has prompted me to switch my Outlook98 settings to put Email in the 'Restricted Sites' Zone. I would suggest anyone else using Outlook/Outlook Express do the same. You can still enjoy the safe features of HTML Email (however pointless they may be) and be protected from most of the recent Outlook Exploits at the same time.
I have been using plain text email for years and I see no reason to switch to HTML Email. I have outlook to send HTML Mail automatically, unless I'm replying to someone who sent mail to me in plain text. This way, basically all I'm using HTML Email for is to tell how sophificated the software of the reciepent/sender is;-) I don't see a need for HTML Email, but I assume the 36 million people (99.9% lamers, unless they read/. of course) demand backgrounds and the ability to send emails to their friends with big, underlined annoying text. Tthat's my opinion on the matter anywhoo.
I would like to see another distrubuted project on this. If it gets the same publictiy as the Seti Program it could have wonderful results. The only problem I could see is that the community's distrubuted-willing resources are already streched to the bone. I would say this does take presedence, eh? I don't want no stinkin' coperation owning my genes!
Another thing, you don't need a permenant connection to run distuibuted. I run seti at home on a computer with a dialup that goes on about once a week. It works wonders! Cheers:)
I have yet to see Toy Story 2, but the prviews look pretty awsome. I'm not so sure for the content of the movie, btu the graphics will surely be cool! I saw TS1 and in that day, those graphic were 'cutting-edge' I remeber it being the first full legnth movie to be fully computer modelded.
Henious.net is a Pokemon BBS!!! Can we please keep Japan's latest attempt to brainwash American Children off slashdot?? If you consider that slanderous, it wasn't intended to be, just my opinion on those little thingamabobbers. I don't see what their good points are, we had trading cards, btu those were superheroes and villians, not cuddly little animals. Anyway, back to BBS. I know in my neighborhood anyway, there were a few active BBSes until about 3 years ago. Who wants to log onto a sheltered place with 20 people when you can log onto the internet just as eaisly and reach millions. I believe it is the growth of the internet that has been the death of the BBS. There's my take on it all.
We have to balance safety and need here. Frankly, I don't trust the Ukranians to do that impartially. During the cold war, Wester Culture made the Russians look like stupid, dirty fools. I dunno on what I base this, but I think they are. I do not trust them with the welfare of Eastern Europe. The plant has enough problems, If they need power then shut down some of their polluting industrial factories, more power for everyone else. They can also buy power, the US buys power from canada on a daily basis, and at other times, we sell it to them, a country's power grid is not 'closed.' I think they're making excuses just so they have another chance to irridiate Europe. My two cents.
I hope it safe, and I suppose it is. After all, the 1986 accident that spewed radation all over europe was caused by operator error. Hopefully they've learned, but it seems that they're being quite arrogant about it. Hold your breath europe...when we US people are partying New Year's Eve, you'll be in your radation bunkers.
Red Hat may have won the most awards, and is difenatly the most publicized dist. of Linux, but is it the best? What really matters? Being known or being the best? That's a tough one....
How come nothing ever happens for Floridians? The only things we get are tourists and snowbirds. Noone does anything for us, they just move down her, clog our streets, and pollute our air with their swearing. Go back to New York/New Jersey, New... wherever you came from. You're welcome to come and visit, but when your money runs out, so does your welcome. If we want more people to come to our state, we'll just stop sending the rafters back. They're nicer than you new-englanders anyway. Cheers from sunny Florida:-)
Some people have way too much free time:) A year ago, I would have said it would be a paradise world if we could do exactly this, but now, even without reading the article, I can tell it would suck. I actually enjoy exercise, and I really feel crummy when I don't get my daily 3 mile run in. I don't run to stay in shape, I run because I feel that I need to do something other than sit infront of the computer 24/7. I actually feel guilty if I spend all day on the computer. I usuall spend about 5 hours a day online, but I do other things also, though, it is rarely homework. One thing I have noticed is that the internet is cutting into my homework time. My grades are staying pretty much the same, but I am doing less homework and spending more time reading/. and playing Half-Life and chatting with friends. Well, that's a glimpse in to my pathetic little world, and I hope noone I know in person reads this:D~
I say everyone be a script kiddie New Year's eve, and take NBC out. If every/. reader attacks them some, it could cause some big problems, and might show the media to stop being idiots and start acting responsibly:)
We don't know for a fact where the chineese got this technology. It's quite possible that they developed it themselves. In the past few years, they have shown great desire to catch up in the technological world. They've been working on programs to use the internet, stealing secret technologies from us, and while we sit here making jokes about them and the bum in the whitehouse our own space agency if working on a plan to send our children's names to Mars(http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2001/). How cute!
Why did we win the Gulf War? We were so far advanced from the Iraquis that they didn't stand a chance. That was when we realized we have to stay ahead(or at least some of us did). I would say that we should keep this advantage. Hopefully now that we have a little competition, our own ingenuity will kick in and start cranking out some cool new stuff.
Anyway, back to China...They're becomming a bigger threat to us now that they can send manned missions into space (don't ask me how, that just sounded good). We need to stop lolly-gagging around in the China-policy area, and stop ingoring everything they do against us and create a policy to keep them in check. My two cents:-)
Last time I d/l Q3 it was something like 25 megs, now it's 52??? How could a new build jump 25 megs in size??? Did they fusion power it or something? geez!!!
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I used to love those days when we could play a game of tradewars for days on end, literally!!! Now the closest you can come is something like Solar Empire (for free anyway). The problem with games now in the luser effect. Why do people find it fun/funny to disrupt the gameplay and abuse the system. They're he reason we can't play the great games we used to like we used to.
I think it's stupid that our national security services spent time and resources spying on international coorporations. They had a justified reason that I agree with, but the fact remains, if they had something they could use against those companies they still wouldn't beable to use it because they they'd have to admit they were monitoring communications. It would spawn a firestorm in the political world. Surely someone had to realize this...that even if we did get some good dirt we'd have a hard time using it against anyone, what do we pay those goons for anyway? Heh, i still think it's better that they're spying on someone besides me, can't argue with that....
I've been having trouble running ANY distro of Linux on my machine because Dell packed my system with winware crap. I wish there were a distro to work with hardware that's only supposed to work with windoze.
First of all, you can say whatever you want about a company, to say otherwise would impede on First Amendment rights (unless you signed some type of anti-deflamatory clause when you were hired). Secondly, if you take your employer's computer, reformat it and install linux. Also, depending on who actually owns the computer, they might not beable to legally search it, is it a free computer from your employer(gift) or is it a computer so you can work at home(work computer @ home) yes, there's a difference.
<blockquote>Underlying message: read the fine print and possibly get a second opinion first.<blockquote>
Hey, don't bash Lander's Airbags...it's thru looking down the line from the other end that we will discover new ways to do things, things that were not possible before. Here's another crazy invention: you put people in it and go up in the sky and fly around. It's called an airplane, and yes I did rip that from Contact.
I did about 90% of my christmas shopping online this year. From site amazon.com to the obscure paragongifts.com. The only bad experience was when I ordered a book from bn.com then realized it was backordered. I had a little trouble canceling it, but nonetheless it was canceled by the next day. I didn't get a tracking number from all the vendors, but the ones I did get, the shipping companies gave pretty good timeframes for shipping. I really don't see where AC gets all their 'statistics' and after the cnn article and this back to back, I think we need to urge the media to be more responsible, if you don't understand it, don't try to report on it. Mabye they can all learn a little fron Jane's.
If you can't tell when BackOrfice and some other crap is installed on your machines, you shouldn't be working in the network security field.
The article discussed using a HTTP request for a gif to send your email address to the web server. Then the server would set a cookie on your system. With Outlook in the "Restricted' zone, cookies are disabled (unless you messed with the settings) and thus, a cookie would not be set(unless there's another bug somewhere I don't know about). When you later visit the site that spammed you, there is no cookie because outlook didn't save it.
I send all my spam to spamrecycle@chooseyourmail.com; which is inherently a huge mistake, but I hope they're doing something constructive with the info...
I should have previewed that... I meant the 36 million AOL users.
This has prompted me to switch my Outlook98 settings to put Email in the 'Restricted Sites' Zone. I would suggest anyone else using Outlook/Outlook Express do the same. You can still enjoy the safe features of HTML Email (however pointless they may be) and be protected from most of the recent Outlook Exploits at the same time.
;-) I don't see a need for HTML Email, but I assume the 36 million people (99.9% lamers, unless they read /. of course) demand backgrounds and the ability to send emails to their friends with big, underlined annoying text. Tthat's my opinion on the matter anywhoo.
I have been using plain text email for years and I see no reason to switch to HTML Email. I have outlook to send HTML Mail automatically, unless I'm replying to someone who sent mail to me in plain text. This way, basically all I'm using HTML Email for is to tell how sophificated the software of the reciepent/sender is
I would like to see another distrubuted project on this. If it gets the same publictiy as the Seti Program it could have wonderful results. The only problem I could see is that the community's distrubuted-willing resources are already streched to the bone. I would say this does take presedence, eh? I don't want no stinkin' coperation owning my genes!
:)
Another thing, you don't need a permenant connection to run distuibuted. I run seti at home on a computer with a dialup that goes on about once a week. It works wonders! Cheers
I have yet to see Toy Story 2, but the prviews look pretty awsome. I'm not so sure for the content of the movie, btu the graphics will surely be cool! I saw TS1 and in that day, those graphic were 'cutting-edge' I remeber it being the first full legnth movie to be fully computer modelded.
Henious.net is a Pokemon BBS!!! Can we please keep Japan's latest attempt to brainwash American Children off slashdot?? If you consider that slanderous, it wasn't intended to be, just my opinion on those little thingamabobbers. I don't see what their good points are, we had trading cards, btu those were superheroes and villians, not cuddly little animals.
Anyway, back to BBS. I know in my neighborhood anyway, there were a few active BBSes until about 3 years ago. Who wants to log onto a sheltered place with 20 people when you can log onto the internet just as eaisly and reach millions. I believe it is the growth of the internet that has been the death of the BBS. There's my take on it all.
We have to balance safety and need here. Frankly, I don't trust the Ukranians to do that impartially. During the cold war, Wester Culture made the Russians look like stupid, dirty fools. I dunno on what I base this, but I think they are. I do not trust them with the welfare of Eastern Europe. The plant has enough problems, If they need power then shut down some of their polluting industrial factories, more power for everyone else. They can also buy power, the US buys power from canada on a daily basis, and at other times, we sell it to them, a country's power grid is not 'closed.' I think they're making excuses just so they have another chance to irridiate Europe. My two cents.
I hope it safe, and I suppose it is. After all, the 1986 accident that spewed radation all over europe was caused by operator error. Hopefully they've learned, but it seems that they're being quite arrogant about it. Hold your breath europe...when we US people are partying New Year's Eve, you'll be in your radation bunkers.
Red Hat may have won the most awards, and is difenatly the most publicized dist. of Linux, but is it the best? What really matters? Being known or being the best? That's a tough one....
How come nothing ever happens for Floridians? The only things we get are tourists and snowbirds. Noone does anything for us, they just move down her, clog our streets, and pollute our air with their swearing. Go back to New York/New Jersey, New... wherever you came from. You're welcome to come and visit, but when your money runs out, so does your welcome. If we want more people to come to our state, we'll just stop sending the rafters back. They're nicer than you new-englanders anyway. Cheers from sunny Florida :-)
Some people have way too much free time :) /. and playing Half-Life and chatting with friends. :D~
A year ago, I would have said it would be a paradise world if we could do exactly this, but now, even without reading the article, I can tell it would suck. I actually enjoy exercise, and I really feel crummy when I don't get my daily 3 mile run in. I don't run to stay in shape, I run because I feel that I need to do something other than sit infront of the computer 24/7. I actually feel guilty if I spend all day on the computer. I usuall spend about 5 hours a day online, but I do other things also, though, it is rarely homework. One thing I have noticed is that the internet is cutting into my homework time. My grades are staying pretty much the same, but I am doing less homework and spending more time reading
Well, that's a glimpse in to my pathetic little world, and I hope noone I know in person reads this
I'm not quite sure what this means, but my processor is supposed to be a Pentium 3 500mhz. It runs at 498.85mhz....
I say everyone be a script kiddie New Year's eve, and take NBC out. If every /. reader attacks them some, it could cause some big problems, and might show the media to stop being idiots and start acting responsibly :)
We don't know for a fact where the chineese got this technology. It's quite possible that they developed it themselves. In the past few years, they have shown great desire to catch up in the technological world. They've been working on programs to use the internet, stealing secret technologies from us, and while we sit here making jokes about them and the bum in the whitehouse our own space agency if working on a plan to send our children's names to Mars(http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2001/). How cute!
:-)
Why did we win the Gulf War? We were so far advanced from the Iraquis that they didn't stand a chance. That was when we realized we have to stay ahead(or at least some of us did). I would say that we should keep this advantage. Hopefully now that we have a little competition, our own ingenuity will kick in and start cranking out some cool new stuff.
Anyway, back to China...They're becomming a bigger threat to us now that they can send manned missions into space (don't ask me how, that just sounded good). We need to stop lolly-gagging around in the China-policy area, and stop ingoring everything they do against us and create a policy to keep them in check. My two cents
CDRom.com has it for all 3 platforms. ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/idstuff/quake3/
Last time I d/l Q3 it was something like 25 megs, now it's 52??? How could a new build jump 25 megs in size??? Did they fusion power it or something? geez!!!
Hehe I'm gonna wire my keyboard to a 1 million amp battery...then I'll lay a thin wire mesh over my keys...touch it and fry pigs!!! hahaha~!
mmmmm...I smell bacon already, someone should sell those things.
We need to get this guy on some national TV News show......then we'd be preaching to the 'un-converted'