While I am aware that barcodes have been implemented in my lifetime, I've never seen any grocery store in the United States not using them...
Ever been to a Costco? Up until only 4-6 years ago they still did everything based on a 5 digit number. No scanners or conveyor belts. One person would move items from one cart to another and tell another person the number, who would then key it into the register.
Sounds cumbersome, but it was actually a pretty efficient system. Since then there's times I would swear that the conveyor belt and barcode scanner has actually slowed down checkout lines at Costco. The difference comes when you compare new experienced employees (who know where the numbers are and have many of them memorized) and new ones who have to check each item.
Now we can have a Flash ad with an embedded PDF document which plays a RealMedia clip!
Besides, "a real powerhouse competitor to Microsoft"? Um.... Microsoft makes office software and operating systems. They make almost zippo from Windows Media Player. Two big multimedia-oriented companies and a pain-in-the-ass-that-just-won't-die video tech company have what influence on Microsoft?
Then I'll take an island filled with naked women (real nice tits please), with an all-you-can-eat buffet, an obscenely active metabolism, and a foot long pecker.
Google technicians have lost the ability to administer part of their server farm. It appears that a group of systems has independently begun buying up unused networks for a yet unknown purpose. Wireless access points popping up all over the world with the SSID GoogleNet have prompted some paranoid conspiratorialist to claim an autonomous attack on privacy is underway. Others claim it's a plan create an alternative network, and once completed will overcome and destroy the Internet. At this point Google could levy any access fees they feel like and reach total network dominance.
When asked for a comment, a Google representative just shrugged and said, "Uhhh, dunno, but if I don't run I'm going to miss my free lunch."
The irony of venting on a blog about how much blogs suck and expecting other people to read with interest is apparently lost on many of these blog-haters.
See, I don't view/. as a blog at all. It is a niche news media site, owned by a corporation, with a commenting system to allow readers to discuss whatever has been posted. It's not a [web] log of anything.
Kind of like CSPAN when they let people call in after a televised debate, but for nerds instead of old ladies.
It's too bad I don't have mod points right now because you'd get them.
I've always looked at "blogs" as an annoying fad which has recently gotten the attention of almost every corner of the media. No real "blog" has the attentive audience that traditional media does, nor does it have anywhere near the impact. If some shmuck's "blog" did reach the same influence as something akin to CNN it stopped being a "blog" a long time ago and has transformed into a form of independent author's rhetorical column.
When it comes down to it, nobody really want's to hear what you had for dinner, how your date went, or if your hemorrhoids are clearing up. If there's a shared interest it might invoke some discussions, and that's the only valuable attribute of a "blog". People have always fawned over celebrities, so when Brad Pitt starts a public "blog" fanatics don't get excited because he's "blogging", it would be the same as if he was yelling out his window. I'm not sure what's more depressing, when some average Sally "blogs" about what she's going to wear today, or when somebody actually *reads* that crap regularily.
Just because everyone now has an easy and free way to express their opinion to billions of people doesn't make their opinions any better. The only influence change is in those who don't really matter anyway. Opinions are still like assholes... everyone has one and they all stink.:)
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It would appear that he isn't the only one around here...
What would be really nice is to see this grow past a simple MD5 database. If you're going to get traffic, you really should get an NTLM database up and start populating it as soon as possible.
A few other places have these, in differing amounts. Rainbowcrack has tons of them, but require you to submit some before being allowed to query the system. I did submit a few NTLM hash tables, but it took the better part of a week to get my query back (it's supposed to be a lot faster than that).
There's also Ophcrack which uses tables similar to rainbow tables. It has a web interface to query NTLM hashes for simple passwords.
With these pre-computed hash tables, basic password security is starting to take a hit and it's becoming more and more worthwhile to use a simple but long password rather than a short and complex one. If you're on Windows, it's also VERY worthwhile to read about forcing Windows to store only the NTLM hash and drop the LM hash. It breaks old compatibility with Win 9x but is very worth it if you don't need that. This helps against precomputed attackes but has an even bigger impact agains brute-force attacks.
Which probably attract 1 customer out of 100 free CDs.
1 in 100? I have to think the return on those discs is way lower than 1 in 100. I'd put it at more like 5,000 discs in return for a single year-long contract.
*Maybe* 1 in 100 will put the disc in the drive, perhaps 1 in 500 will begin the trial. However, once the 10 million hours of free* Internet access expire, I expect very few will pony up the $21.95 or whatever the hell they're charging for "special" Internet today.
*10 million hours of free slower-than-hell dialup access expire 10 days after activation. Social security number, date of birth, full name, and valid credit card with a minimum of $20,000 credit limit required. AOL reserves the right to do whatever the hell we want, anytime, anywhere. By agreeing to these terms, you acknowledge you are a complete dumbass.
Call me a n00b, but this sounds like crap. I don't think software had such specific control over something like a monitor, even in the 80's. Even if it did have more control than today, isn't the CRT physically designed to spread the electron beams evenly as to display a picture? What possible reason would there be to allow manual focusing of the beams?
I'm trying to find information about this but not having much success. Any links to validate this "Turkey Virus"?
Actually it is, with a competent administrator. I've managed a medium-sized company's IT deptartment, including Exchange server for years, from 5.5 to 2000 to 2003. All in all it's worked solidly for a huge majority of the time, increasingly so with each new version.
Not what I've seen on Google.
"Results 1 - 10 of about 5,200,000 for Microsoft Exchange problem"
Wow. Talk about a good source of information about a product's stability, the number of Google query results. "Let's see how many pages show up for a vague term like 'Microsoft Exchange Problem'. I'm sure there were no pages with something like: "I switched to Microsoft Exchange because of my problems with Linux".
If that's the case then I'm glad I'm not a Linux webserver admin:
Results 1 - 30 of about 15,700,000 for linux email server problem
Security? Let's ask the Stat-O-Matic!
Results 1 - 30 of about 12,200,000 for microsoft exchange security
Results 1 - 30 of about 28,200,000 for linux email server security
Typical Microsoft product as far as I can tell.
Why? It's popular, has amazing integration, and works very well? I see.
Give me a break and get off the typical Slashdot "Microsoft all bad! Bad, bad, bad!" bandwagon.
SUVs are still selling since many people have the idea that size=safety
I'm tired of hearing this. While that might be part of it, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to own an SUV.
My family has 7 people in it. To travel semi-comfortably on vacation, we pretty much have to use a Suburban. A minivan, while it does have room for 7, doesn't have room for luggage. We're not anywhere near alone in this.
My family also enjoys camping and using a shared family boat. Both of these require a vehicle that can tow a lot of weight. There's not many options for a even a family of 5 to travel and tow something this size besides a large SUV. We're not anywhere near alone in this.
It's not something we really like. After all, ~15 MPG with a 45 gallon gas tank and $2.50 per gallon add up to some pretty big numbers for a trip. Because of this we also have a smaller vehicle for everyday use. This isn't to say that SUVs are always used for a good reason. I'm sure there's plenty of people who just like the big cars, same as they like big houses. But SUVs also have many valid purposes.
...which Microsoft thought was between them and Google.
I think it still is pretty much between them (and perhaps Yahoo) as IBM is obviously not actively persuing this market. From first glance it appears that they wanted to give search engines a swing, and in the end decided not to go after it. However being IBM, instead of burying their research they released it into the public so others can benefit from it.
While this is good, but Microsoft and Google really have nothing to worry about. It's not like Big Blue is starting up it's own web search portal.
Speaking of "do-gooders", at least that moron Jack Thompson isn't mentioned in the article. That guy is so full of shit that he doesn't even care if anyone really takes him seriously as long as the morons in the media pay attention to him.
Interestingly enough, the most recent VG Cats deals with this topic, as does a recent Penny Arcade. It's nice to see a funny spin on this continuing GTA and "videogames kill!" bullshit.
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Somebody actually read all that crap before clicking OK?
Maybe somebody is hoping?
Wow. 15 minutes and you still haven't been modded Flamebait or Troll. Very impressive.
While I am aware that barcodes have been implemented in my lifetime, I've never seen any grocery store in the United States not using them...
Ever been to a Costco? Up until only 4-6 years ago they still did everything based on a 5 digit number. No scanners or conveyor belts. One person would move items from one cart to another and tell another person the number, who would then key it into the register.
Sounds cumbersome, but it was actually a pretty efficient system. Since then there's times I would swear that the conveyor belt and barcode scanner has actually slowed down checkout lines at Costco. The difference comes when you compare new experienced employees (who know where the numbers are and have many of them memorized) and new ones who have to check each item.
Chafing.
Informative? Only on Slashdot are such pearls of wisdom to be found...
Very nice! Best turnaround I've seen in quite a while. :)
Now we can have a Flash ad with an embedded PDF document which plays a RealMedia clip!
Besides, "a real powerhouse competitor to Microsoft"? Um.... Microsoft makes office software and operating systems. They make almost zippo from Windows Media Player. Two big multimedia-oriented companies and a pain-in-the-ass-that-just-won't-die video tech company have what influence on Microsoft?
And if Google applies their anti-free speech engine to network nodes, freedom virtually faces extinction.
Who cares!
What if Google applies their SafeSearch filtering alghorithm to network nodes, porn virtually faces extinction!
oh teh noes!!!11!
Then I'll take an island filled with naked women (real nice tits please), with an all-you-can-eat buffet, an obscenely active metabolism, and a foot long pecker.
Oh, and lube. Lots of lube.
I'll let you know if anything else comes to mind.
I like cheese.
Google technicians have lost the ability to administer part of their server farm. It appears that a group of systems has independently begun buying up unused networks for a yet unknown purpose. Wireless access points popping up all over the world with the SSID GoogleNet have prompted some paranoid conspiratorialist to claim an autonomous attack on privacy is underway. Others claim it's a plan create an alternative network, and once completed will overcome and destroy the Internet. At this point Google could levy any access fees they feel like and reach total network dominance.
When asked for a comment, a Google representative just shrugged and said, "Uhhh, dunno, but if I don't run I'm going to miss my free lunch."
The irony of venting on a blog about how much blogs suck and expecting other people to read with interest is apparently lost on many of these blog-haters.
/. as a blog at all. It is a niche news media site, owned by a corporation, with a commenting system to allow readers to discuss whatever has been posted. It's not a [web] log of anything.
See, I don't view
Kind of like CSPAN when they let people call in after a televised debate, but for nerds instead of old ladies.
It's too bad I don't have mod points right now because you'd get them.
:)
I've always looked at "blogs" as an annoying fad which has recently gotten the attention of almost every corner of the media. No real "blog" has the attentive audience that traditional media does, nor does it have anywhere near the impact. If some shmuck's "blog" did reach the same influence as something akin to CNN it stopped being a "blog" a long time ago and has transformed into a form of independent author's rhetorical column.
When it comes down to it, nobody really want's to hear what you had for dinner, how your date went, or if your hemorrhoids are clearing up. If there's a shared interest it might invoke some discussions, and that's the only valuable attribute of a "blog". People have always fawned over celebrities, so when Brad Pitt starts a public "blog" fanatics don't get excited because he's "blogging", it would be the same as if he was yelling out his window. I'm not sure what's more depressing, when some average Sally "blogs" about what she's going to wear today, or when somebody actually *reads* that crap regularily.
Just because everyone now has an easy and free way to express their opinion to billions of people doesn't make their opinions any better. The only influence change is in those who don't really matter anyway. Opinions are still like assholes... everyone has one and they all stink.
Cringely is a Slashdot Karma Whore
It would appear that he isn't the only one around here...
Yeah, I saw Stargate too. Looky, looky, we all have an expanded volcabulary now.
What would be really nice is to see this grow past a simple MD5 database. If you're going to get traffic, you really should get an NTLM database up and start populating it as soon as possible.
A few other places have these, in differing amounts. Rainbowcrack has tons of them, but require you to submit some before being allowed to query the system. I did submit a few NTLM hash tables, but it took the better part of a week to get my query back (it's supposed to be a lot faster than that).
There's also Ophcrack which uses tables similar to rainbow tables. It has a web interface to query NTLM hashes for simple passwords.
With these pre-computed hash tables, basic password security is starting to take a hit and it's becoming more and more worthwhile to use a simple but long password rather than a short and complex one. If you're on Windows, it's also VERY worthwhile to read about forcing Windows to store only the NTLM hash and drop the LM hash. It breaks old compatibility with Win 9x but is very worth it if you don't need that. This helps against precomputed attackes but has an even bigger impact agains brute-force attacks.
I wonder what the people at /..jp think about it.
/..jp is somewhat interesting.
:)
Not sure seeing as the Google translation doesn't do all that hot, but the translation of
"It has been said that the anonymous person..." I like that a lot better than what we've got
Which probably attract 1 customer out of 100 free CDs.
1 in 100? I have to think the return on those discs is way lower than 1 in 100. I'd put it at more like 5,000 discs in return for a single year-long contract.
*Maybe* 1 in 100 will put the disc in the drive, perhaps 1 in 500 will begin the trial. However, once the 10 million hours of free* Internet access expire, I expect very few will pony up the $21.95 or whatever the hell they're charging for "special" Internet today.
*10 million hours of free slower-than-hell dialup access expire 10 days after activation. Social security number, date of birth, full name, and valid credit card with a minimum of $20,000 credit limit required. AOL reserves the right to do whatever the hell we want, anytime, anywhere. By agreeing to these terms, you acknowledge you are a complete dumbass.
Call me a n00b, but this sounds like crap. I don't think software had such specific control over something like a monitor, even in the 80's. Even if it did have more control than today, isn't the CRT physically designed to spread the electron beams evenly as to display a picture? What possible reason would there be to allow manual focusing of the beams?
I'm trying to find information about this but not having much success. Any links to validate this "Turkey Virus"?
As I've said numerous times before:
:)
1) Windows is CRAP.
2) Linux is ALSO CRAP.
3) BUT Linux is FREE CRAP.
I like that
"It's very stable."
Actually it is, with a competent administrator. I've managed a medium-sized company's IT deptartment, including Exchange server for years, from 5.5 to 2000 to 2003. All in all it's worked solidly for a huge majority of the time, increasingly so with each new version.
Not what I've seen on Google.
"Results 1 - 10 of about 5,200,000 for Microsoft Exchange problem"
Wow. Talk about a good source of information about a product's stability, the number of Google query results. "Let's see how many pages show up for a vague term like 'Microsoft Exchange Problem'. I'm sure there were no pages with something like: "I switched to Microsoft Exchange because of my problems with Linux".
If that's the case then I'm glad I'm not a Linux webserver admin:
Results 1 - 30 of about 15,700,000 for linux email server problem
Security? Let's ask the Stat-O-Matic!
Results 1 - 30 of about 12,200,000 for microsoft exchange security
Results 1 - 30 of about 28,200,000 for linux email server security
Typical Microsoft product as far as I can tell.
Why? It's popular, has amazing integration, and works very well? I see.
Give me a break and get off the typical Slashdot "Microsoft all bad! Bad, bad, bad!" bandwagon.
SUVs are still selling since many people have the idea that size=safety
I'm tired of hearing this. While that might be part of it, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to own an SUV.
My family has 7 people in it. To travel semi-comfortably on vacation, we pretty much have to use a Suburban. A minivan, while it does have room for 7, doesn't have room for luggage. We're not anywhere near alone in this.
My family also enjoys camping and using a shared family boat. Both of these require a vehicle that can tow a lot of weight. There's not many options for a even a family of 5 to travel and tow something this size besides a large SUV. We're not anywhere near alone in this.
It's not something we really like. After all, ~15 MPG with a 45 gallon gas tank and $2.50 per gallon add up to some pretty big numbers for a trip. Because of this we also have a smaller vehicle for everyday use. This isn't to say that SUVs are always used for a good reason. I'm sure there's plenty of people who just like the big cars, same as they like big houses. But SUVs also have many valid purposes.
...which Microsoft thought was between them and Google.
I think it still is pretty much between them (and perhaps Yahoo) as IBM is obviously not actively persuing this market. From first glance it appears that they wanted to give search engines a swing, and in the end decided not to go after it. However being IBM, instead of burying their research they released it into the public so others can benefit from it.
While this is good, but Microsoft and Google really have nothing to worry about. It's not like Big Blue is starting up it's own web search portal.
If you want to read another interesting take on this entire thing visit Maddox's site. He has quite the story up on it.
Oh, duh. I meant to link to that as well.
I didn't want a Ticket to Hell!
Speaking of "do-gooders", at least that moron Jack Thompson isn't mentioned in the article. That guy is so full of shit that he doesn't even care if anyone really takes him seriously as long as the morons in the media pay attention to him.
Interestingly enough, the most recent VG Cats deals with this topic, as does a recent Penny Arcade. It's nice to see a funny spin on this continuing GTA and "videogames kill!" bullshit.
The fad now is goatse.ca
*Sigh*
I always knew that Canada was involved somewhere in goatse. Blame Canada!