In other news, president bush shook hands with the ambassador of their galaxy. He didn't know that by coming in contact with dark matter, he would be disintigrated.
I hate the self checkout things. Our family usually gets a entire basket full of grocerys, this takes forever because every 10th item sets off some alarm and then a cashier comes over quickly and asks what we need to scan.
The way they run over it's like we commited some crime or something, and they always ask us what we're trying to scan in an incriminating voice.
Until they can get that shit to stop mis-scanning items as a theft attempt (damn, you just put the barcode accross it from a can of beans and an alarm goes off) then I don't think it's a good idea.
'If you're 12 it might seem like a prank, and you don't want to ruin the kid's life but hit him hard enough that he realizes that what he did is dead serious and never thinks of doing it again. He certainly deserves to be punished, but not as severely as a 43 year old who should be capable of fully understanding the consequences of his actions.'
What if he is like Michial Jackson, and has the 'mind of a child'?;-)
"I wouldn't have known Enterprise existed if I hadn't read about it being created on Slashdot."
How didn't you? Near the end of voyager they had 'Enterprise is coming!" ads before every commercial brake, and during the credits at the end of every episode.
"This cannot be allowed to be considered evidence in any criminal case. We all know that software exists to place people in places they aren't."
But if it's a picture of you, it doesn't matter if you've been placed in the statue of liberty or your bedroom digitally.
They were trying to trace the location of the photographs being taken, they were found on the internet -- and they want to try and trace who took them.
The first step is to find the location the photographs were taken, then hotel room number, then names of people who have checked in that room. Etc etc, hopefully then to compare haircolor in the photograph to suspects. etc etc
"Why bother? As a gamer, 80% of my home computer-using time is spent playing games (90% of which don't run in Linux). The remaining 20% is taken up by web browsing (using FireFox) and email (using Thunderbird). "
It's kind of like slavery, you have to say fuck windows and use linux -- when enough people do it, things will change.
If you revolted against your slavemaster you got beaten almost to death -- but if everyone were to do it, they'd have no more control.
If enough people use linux games will be made for linux.
"If it passes within the orbits of geosynchronous satellites, what's the chance of it striking one of them? If it does, might it lose enough momentum to enter earth orbit?"
I don't think so, imagine a car hitting a shopping cart full of grocerys at 50MPH. The car's not going to go off it's path much (unless driver swerves to avoid basket)
My Texas city has a program like this (HEB Hurst Euless Bedford city district) and the stores charge a 30 dollar fee for recycle efforts. I don't see where the extra charge comes in though, as nobody seems to actually -RECYCLE- the computers they buy.
"If they are, I would sue the government for distributing child porn. I'm pretty sure I did some things in front of my computer that would qualify as porn before I was 18.
Pretty damn sure."
Even if this was a semi-joke, FYI the government is immune to civil lawsuits. (And do you really think the government would allow a criminal trial against itself?)
"Firefly was the only SciFi TV with some innovations at all in the past few years."
Firefly was great, I tuned in every week. It was like a wild-west in space, just a group of people thrown togeather who were just trying to make a living to get by, keep their ship in working condition and getting food. Along their travels they land on worlds for missions and supplys, and that was the basis of the show...
Really unique view of what it would be like to be a trader/freighter/mercanery in our possible future.
Not the look and view of space from a huge battleship/exploration ship by Military H.Q., but rather from the perspective of normal civilians trying to make a living.
I loved the show..., beats Battlestar, Startrek, Stargate, B5 and all the rest imho
" Your math is a little flawed. there are not 9 positions, but 10. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 so it should be 10^4(10,000), not 9^4(6,561)."
Thanks for the correction, was thinking 'now don't forget to include the 0 as a digit' to myself, got sidetracked and lost the thought. Now it's come to haunt me.;-)
The mirror is already down so I can't tell, but isn't this the 1984 superbowl commercial where the lady throws the mallot in to the 'big brother' screen? Article says 'never before released' but latley you can't tell if the./ articles have errors in them or not.
Well, I hope the 30 char password doesn't have too many numbers on it.
A password "7398" has 9x9x9x9 = 6561 combinations to crack
A password "dqbx" has 26x26x26x26 = 256976 combinations
As you can see, an all alphabet password should be more secure but you put numbers in there to help throw a brute force attack off. Just dont put too many numbers. I'd also put a period and exclamation mark somewhere in the password too.
Then again, if you're running windows -- passwords can be bypassed.
"there is nothing in the posters question to indicate where the company they outsourced to is located. they may be in the sae building, or accross the street for all you know..."
Yes, it could be, but you know the current economic trends as well as I do.
How would it be any cheaper for the company accross the street in NYC to code it than your own companys workers? Or a contracter?
Usually people outsource so they can get it cheap cheap CHEAP. Cheap is in the countries outside of the U.S.
So, when you outsource to save money 90% of the time you outsource to another country.
"" Not necessarily fake. Here's why you wouldn't link to it: As noted by numerous posters in this thread, and also on a Slashdot FPP just days ago, Google oftentimes rolls out features only to specific subnets.""
Why? Google suggest is a beta anyways... how would only certain subnets get any real feedback on the usefulness of a new feature?
What advantages does releasing to a certain subnet have?
Slashdot Mirror
In other news, president bush shook hands with the ambassador of their galaxy. He didn't know that by coming in contact with dark matter, he would be disintigrated.
"What are the chances it'll be available for non-Windows people too?
Slim and none."
They won't get my ad seeing then!!!
GNU/Linux or bust.
"Also I know a few people who send rar files through their work address's because zip is blocked."
.zip?
Couldn't you in essence rename "documents.zip" to something like "documents.html" and save-as, then rename back to
I hate the self checkout things. Our family usually gets a entire basket full of grocerys, this takes forever because every 10th item sets off some alarm and then a cashier comes over quickly and asks what we need to scan.
The way they run over it's like we commited some crime or something, and they always ask us what we're trying to scan in an incriminating voice.
Until they can get that shit to stop mis-scanning items as a theft attempt (damn, you just put the barcode accross it from a can of beans and an alarm goes off) then I don't think it's a good idea.
" I haven't tried this particular file, but Media Player Classic plays Real stuff ok"
You didn't read his post. he said: "And when I try the link in MPlayer, it immediately says "Stream EOF detected"."
MPlayer is a linux only app, suggesting he uses linux. Media Player Classic is windows only.
It won't work in linux.
'If you're 12 it might seem like a prank, and you don't want to ruin the kid's life but hit him hard enough that he realizes that what he did is dead serious and never thinks of doing it again. He certainly deserves to be punished, but not as severely as a 43 year old who should be capable of fully understanding the consequences of his actions.'
;-)
What if he is like Michial Jackson, and has the 'mind of a child'?
"And it wouldn't surprise me at all to see Starbuck get her in bed."
Wasn't Starbuck a guy in the new BSG...?
I haven't seen the new one, but it seems like they must have *REALLY* changed some of the main characters dramatically.
"I wouldn't have known Enterprise existed if I hadn't read about it being created on Slashdot."
How didn't you? Near the end of voyager they had 'Enterprise is coming!" ads before every commercial brake, and during the credits at the end of every episode.
"The problem isn't enterprise, the problem is that nobody watches UPN, no matter what UPN has on tv."
;[
The problem with that though is paramount owns UPN. Paramount owns the rights to trek and all the logos and ideas associated with trek.
Fox and WB are not owned by paramount.
Thats why that can never be
"Shareholders will not allow them to develop their OS if nobody will use it. And people will stop using it [Windows] the second they don't have to."
Linux, Mac OS, FreeBSD
There are alternatives, people don't _have_ to use Windows to:
* visit websites [konqueror]
* do spreadsheets [gnumeric spreadsheet]
* write a novel [Openoffice.org/writer]
* program [bash/perl/python/gcc/g++/tcl]
* voice communications [teamspeak, skype]
* web conferencing [gnomemeeting]
Seems like people DONT have to use windows anymore, yet they do it anyways. Oh well, I'm not part of that populice.
The only time Windows is in our house is when tax season comes around, then we go straight back to 100% Debian Linux
"This is a myth. I can fire up IE5 under Wine on Suse 9.2, and it is still faster than Firefox."
Well I sure as hell don't know what you did to accomplish that.
I run IE under wine and if it doesn't crash completley under wine trying to load a page, it takes up to 60/70 seconds to load one.
I got this script off the net that configured wine for IE, then you could get the exe off the MS website etc.
Author neglected to test Galeon and Dillo for linux. Shame.
GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 is the first pre-release intended for wide public scrutiny before the final release in March.
This release is a feature frozen snapshot primarily intended for wide public scrutiny before the final GNOME 2.10 release in March.
Isn't the slashdot article a bit redundant?
"This cannot be allowed to be considered evidence in any criminal case. We all know that software exists to place people in places they aren't."
But if it's a picture of you, it doesn't matter if you've been placed in the statue of liberty or your bedroom digitally.
They were trying to trace the location of the photographs being taken, they were found on the internet -- and they want to try and trace who took them.
The first step is to find the location the photographs were taken, then hotel room number, then names of people who have checked in that room. Etc etc, hopefully then to compare haircolor in the photograph to suspects. etc etc
see?
"Why bother? As a gamer, 80% of my home computer-using time is spent playing games (90% of which don't run in Linux). The remaining 20% is taken up by web browsing (using FireFox) and email (using Thunderbird).
"
It's kind of like slavery, you have to say fuck windows and use linux -- when enough people do it, things will change.
If you revolted against your slavemaster you got beaten almost to death -- but if everyone were to do it, they'd have no more control.
If enough people use linux games will be made for linux.
proud debian user
"If it passes within the orbits of geosynchronous satellites, what's the chance of it striking one of them? If it does, might it lose enough momentum to enter earth orbit?"
I don't think so, imagine a car hitting a shopping cart full of grocerys at 50MPH. The car's not going to go off it's path much (unless driver swerves to avoid basket)
My Texas city has a program like this (HEB Hurst Euless Bedford city district) and the stores charge a 30 dollar fee for recycle efforts. I don't see where the extra charge comes in though, as nobody seems to actually -RECYCLE- the computers they buy.
Where's this extra charge come in?
"If they are, I would sue the government for distributing child porn. I'm pretty sure I did some things in front of my computer that would qualify as porn before I was 18.
Pretty damn sure."
Even if this was a semi-joke, FYI the government is immune to civil lawsuits. (And do you really think the government would allow a criminal trial against itself?)
"You can shove it down people's throats, because the majority of them want it."
If you rephrase that a little you get
"You CAN shove your genitals down womans throats without permission, because the majority of them want it."
If the people of china wanted their government to give them more freedoms, there would be a civil war.
"Firefly was the only SciFi TV with some innovations at all in the past few years."
Firefly was great, I tuned in every week. It was like a wild-west in space, just a group of people thrown togeather who were just trying to make a living to get by, keep their ship in working condition and getting food. Along their travels they land on worlds for missions and supplys, and that was the basis of the show...
Really unique view of what it would be like to be a trader/freighter/mercanery in our possible future.
Not the look and view of space from a huge battleship/exploration ship by Military H.Q., but rather from the perspective of normal civilians trying to make a living.
I loved the show..., beats Battlestar, Startrek, Stargate, B5 and all the rest imho
" Your math is a little flawed. there are not 9 positions, but 10.
;-)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
so it should be 10^4(10,000), not 9^4(6,561)."
Thanks for the correction, was thinking 'now don't forget to include the 0 as a digit' to myself, got sidetracked and lost the thought. Now it's come to haunt me.
The mirror is already down so I can't tell, but isn't this the 1984 superbowl commercial where the lady throws the mallot in to the 'big brother' screen? Article says 'never before released' but latley you can't tell if the ./ articles have errors in them or not.
Well, I hope the 30 char password doesn't have too many numbers on it.
A password "7398" has 9x9x9x9 = 6561 combinations to crack
A password "dqbx" has 26x26x26x26 = 256976 combinations
As you can see, an all alphabet password should be more secure but you put numbers in there to help throw a brute force attack off. Just dont put too many numbers. I'd also put a period and exclamation mark somewhere in the password too.
Then again, if you're running windows -- passwords can be bypassed.
"there is nothing in the posters question to indicate where the company they outsourced to is located. they may be in the sae building, or accross the street for all you know..."
Yes, it could be, but you know the current economic trends as well as I do.
How would it be any cheaper for the company accross the street in NYC to code it than your own companys workers? Or a contracter?
Usually people outsource so they can get it cheap cheap CHEAP. Cheap is in the countries outside of the U.S.
So, when you outsource to save money 90% of the time you outsource to another country.
Makes sense?
"" Not necessarily fake. Here's why you wouldn't link to it: As noted by numerous posters in this thread, and also on a Slashdot FPP just days ago, Google oftentimes rolls out features only to specific subnets.""
Why? Google suggest is a beta anyways... how would only certain subnets get any real feedback on the usefulness of a new feature?
What advantages does releasing to a certain subnet have?