that's not the implementors primary concern, really. but if you have a design to begin with, atleast you can backtrack and see why the contract is wrong. change it, and implement the right contract.
no, i'm running linux at home and actually have no network connection at all. at work we use Symantec stuff. ZoneAlarm on a quick look looks good. maybe i'll have to buy my parents a copy. they need something.
i just hate the fact that they are subscription based. will they continue to work, granted with out of data data perhaps, without continued "Updates and Support" or does it also phone home to determine if it is allowed to function?
If they are a good smart company, they will write their software as platform independent as possible, allowing easier (probably not easy enough) porting to various OS.
we need a "button clickable" interface to allow us to turn off outgoing network traffic for individual processes. something that detects outgoing traffic and asks "do you want to allow this process to send data?", and maybe advanced options of "would you like to see what data this process is sending?"
if a local search using googles tool starts sending out data, i want to stop it and see what data it is sending out. nothing should be leaving my local computer without me knowing.
of course you could have some processes always registered to be allowed to send, or else the system would be unusable. but it should be a default of "don't send" until you change it.
there are probably existing tools to do something like this. i have not looked. i imagine an anti-spyware program might have a similar feature.
last year, one of the NFL pregame shows used EA Sports "Madden" (i think, could have been a different game) for help in visualizing team formations and strategies. it was kind of funny.
On a similar note. My old "Running Linux" book from god knows when says to make a cup of coffee after you run "make" on a kernel compilation since it will take a long time. That use to be the case on my Cyrix 486 and maybe on my p350. Now it only takes like 10 minutes. Thats hardly enough time to boil water. By the time the coffee is ready, i need to start typing again.
running "make xconfig" or whatever should check for a coffee machine attached to the parallel port and try to make some coffee automatically so it's ready by the time you run make.
Great! for you maybe. in the home desktop scheme of things, QNX is irrelevant. Linux is hardly relevant, Linux has dreams of being relevant... and may be some day soon.
telling home desktop users to run QNX, sheesh. good luck on this one, pal.
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as for JavaScript, most slashdotters probably have popups blocked already. a lot of them also probably don't even bother installing Flash with firefox. i tried once, firefox slowed down considerably even on pages that don't have flash in them, and my cpu usage never went below 40% even when i wasn't doing anything. I'll blame the technology for that one.
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Something already has that title... it's the E3 gaming convention.
yeah, good for residential, highways, and school zones, but what's wrong with a little saturday afternoon, back-country, open road speeding? then again, when is the last time i saw a road reflector on a country road?
and what about scenarios of quick acceleration, causing you to go over the speed limit, but necesary to avoid a collision? flaws, flaws, everywhere are flaws. just put more cops on the streets, it would solve a lot of problems and create some jobs. they're more expensive, but they can do a lot more than make you slow down.
offtopic!? wtf, this article is about ROBOTS PATROLLING THE WATER. Offtopic would be if this were posted in the extremely exciting thread about Metric Paper Sizes...
some mods... it makes me wonder how they got mod points. time to metamoderate, i hope i get this message.
Well you take visionary and apply a bad connotation to it. I meant in in the sense of the founding fathers of this country who had enough sense to draft a constitution that was general enough to be applicable for centuries but specific enough to be enforced.
you are right though, there are different categories of visionaries. a better word may have been, what? i'm struggling to find one. someone who can see the effects of their actions well in advance and is able to determine if it is a good or bad decision for the general public.
It is goddamn scary that a U.S. citizen even has to consider posting information on foreign ground to acheive freedom of speech and press. What has gone so wrong...? Are there no longer visionaries in government?
FFS, if you do have such a page, host it in the U.S.A. Don't run off to India with your tail between your legs. Chrissake, take over a government website and host it there, then print out a copy, walk up Capitol Hill and tape it to the wall.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought car whores are the girl who pose for all the car magazines. Or the ones that sleep with the guy with the coolest car.
i ride the subway, who do i get to sleep with? (eeewwwwwww, i don't want to know)
that's not the implementors primary concern, really. but if you have a design to begin with, atleast you can backtrack and see why the contract is wrong. change it, and implement the right contract.
no, i'm running linux at home and actually have no network connection at all. at work we use Symantec stuff. ZoneAlarm on a quick look looks good. maybe i'll have to buy my parents a copy. they need something.
i just hate the fact that they are subscription based. will they continue to work, granted with out of data data perhaps, without continued "Updates and Support" or does it also phone home to determine if it is allowed to function?
If they are a good smart company, they will write their software as platform independent as possible, allowing easier (probably not easy enough) porting to various OS.
we need a "button clickable" interface to allow us to turn off outgoing network traffic for individual processes. something that detects outgoing traffic and asks "do you want to allow this process to send data?", and maybe advanced options of "would you like to see what data this process is sending?"
if a local search using googles tool starts sending out data, i want to stop it and see what data it is sending out. nothing should be leaving my local computer without me knowing.
of course you could have some processes always registered to be allowed to send, or else the system would be unusable. but it should be a default of "don't send" until you change it.
there are probably existing tools to do something like this. i have not looked. i imagine an anti-spyware program might have a similar feature.
In closing, let me leave you with this thought: Moo.
Moo! is right.
Can we expect game prices to rise with hollywood stars on the credits? probably
better yet, make it into a Junkyard Wars episode. the team to detonate the most land mines by hurling giant rats with a catapult wins.
last year, one of the NFL pregame shows used EA Sports "Madden" (i think, could have been a different game) for help in visualizing team formations and strategies. it was kind of funny.
On a similar note. My old "Running Linux" book from god knows when says to make a cup of coffee after you run "make" on a kernel compilation since it will take a long time. That use to be the case on my Cyrix 486 and maybe on my p350. Now it only takes like 10 minutes. Thats hardly enough time to boil water. By the time the coffee is ready, i need to start typing again.
running "make xconfig" or whatever should check for a coffee machine attached to the parallel port and try to make some coffee automatically so it's ready by the time you run make.
is here ;)
go ahead! mod me offtopic, but we'll see who laughs la&^&!71&$@*[NO CARRIER]
best quote eva:
"Non-scrolling games are teh awesomes!"
She actually printed out my emails and had a bookbinder friend of hers bind them into a journal. It was a really touching gift when I got back.
/., is the definition of sappy love.
and that,
*barf*
Great! for you maybe. in the home desktop scheme of things, QNX is irrelevant. Linux is hardly relevant, Linux has dreams of being relevant... and may be some day soon.
telling home desktop users to run QNX, sheesh. good luck on this one, pal.
as for JavaScript, most slashdotters probably have popups blocked already. a lot of them also probably don't even bother installing Flash with firefox. i tried once, firefox slowed down considerably even on pages that don't have flash in them, and my cpu usage never went below 40% even when i wasn't doing anything. I'll blame the technology for that one.
Something already has that title... it's the E3 gaming convention.
Lets just get it out of the way
F) CowboyNeal
In Soviet Russia, CowboyNeal F's you!
yeah, good for residential, highways, and school zones, but what's wrong with a little saturday afternoon, back-country, open road speeding? then again, when is the last time i saw a road reflector on a country road?
and what about scenarios of quick acceleration, causing you to go over the speed limit, but necesary to avoid a collision? flaws, flaws, everywhere are flaws. just put more cops on the streets, it would solve a lot of problems and create some jobs. they're more expensive, but they can do a lot more than make you slow down.
now that i've ranted, i'll go RTFA.
offtopic!? wtf, this article is about ROBOTS PATROLLING THE WATER. Offtopic would be if this were posted in the extremely exciting thread about Metric Paper Sizes...
some mods... it makes me wonder how they got mod points. time to metamoderate, i hope i get this message.
You're new here aren't you? and by here I mean the U.S.
And by new, i mean about to be secretely detained under the PATRIOT act.
Well you take visionary and apply a bad connotation to it. I meant in in the sense of the founding fathers of this country who had enough sense to draft a constitution that was general enough to be applicable for centuries but specific enough to be enforced.
you are right though, there are different categories of visionaries. a better word may have been, what? i'm struggling to find one. someone who can see the effects of their actions well in advance and is able to determine if it is a good or bad decision for the general public.
It is goddamn scary that a U.S. citizen even has to consider posting information on foreign ground to acheive freedom of speech and press. What has gone so wrong...? Are there no longer visionaries in government?
FFS, if you do have such a page, host it in the U.S.A. Don't run off to India with your tail between your legs. Chrissake, take over a government website and host it there, then print out a copy, walk up Capitol Hill and tape it to the wall.
They said its time to get Mr. Bush and his Nazi party out of the white house.
this is a prime candidate for +5 Flamebait. c'mon mods, you can do it!
iffy...
calling someone a dumbass doesn't make you friends. being friends allows you to call your friend a dumbass.
Hotmail, Msn messenger and WMP are NOT the cutting edge of computer technology.
well, neither is "vi"
*ducks*
a friend would call me a dumbass. a stranger would hopefully take me seriously not knowing what my background on the topic is.
our cultures are still strangers to each other.