I hope, for MS's sake, that they at least come out with a keyboard to match the mouse. No matter how pretty designer peripherals may be individually, they tend to look silly togeather on a desk without some sort of preplanned coordination.
Which leads to the question why this guy had to collect 10000 screen names + user data?
Although I don't suspect this to be the case, some people just don't get the fact that they are vulnerable until you slap them in the face with something big. I recently tried to show a client two exploits-- the bigger one was that I could sniff all the usernames and logins into his payroll DB, and the other was that that I could crash the client app and bluescreen windows. He was more impressed by the flashy blue screen than the sniffed packets... probably because the BSoD was a lot "prettier" than the text output of my proof of concept program.
Well, they can't cold call as many people at dinner time anymore because of the Do Not Call list, and I really doubt Carrot Top would actually attract new customers...
I found the proposition of Math as an Olympic event hilarious. Not only are most people (at least here in the US) terrified to death of math, the average non-math expert isn't going to be able to follow a math-based competition.
I can just imagine the guys gathering around for the math world championship with a few six packs and chips, yelling "GO USA! INVERT THAT MATRIX, BABY! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
I didn't get the chance to get my slashdot fix at work and now you're telling me the server will be down tonight? I can feel the shakes coming on already... maybe I can scour my cache files to keep my withdrawal symptoms down.
Maybe if you installed from the 50 diskettes it used to take 10 years ago, you'd know why it was considered 'hard'.
Tedious, yes, but not 'hard'... to me, a hard install would be having to spend hours upon hours configuring/tweaking/swearing at the thing to get it to do even just a basic install. At least I can watch a movie while popping in disk after disk.
Slackware has always been my favorite distro, so I'm really excited to see what's in store in this release. For a supposedly "hard" distro, I've always found it quite easy and painless to install.
Who the heck hangs on to their computer receipt for two weeks, much less two years?
What did their mothers teach them?
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I can feel bad if these victims if the scammers are taking advantage of people in a weakened state that would inhibit judgement or lend itself to gullibility, such as the elderly. However, I keep reading more and more about "average Joes" falling for this crap, which leads me to wonder-- didn't they ever hear the phrase "if it's too good to be true, it probably is"? Weren't they, at least once in their life, warned about get-rich-quick schemes?
Doesn't an alarm ever go off in their head that just screams "holy crap, this is totally sketchy!!!"??
I've been wired on McBride, but it made my nose bleed and I felt completely awful the next day. I'll stick to smoking crack... cheaper and less of a hangover.
This seems like a pretty clever plan to get people to try their distro. They give the user the "comfort" of being able to thing "Oh, this is good... at least if I don't like Linspire I can try out the others... there's bound to be one distro I'll like," and even if that person does end up choosing one of the others, at least they made a profit.
Were I a newbie looking to try out Linux, I would probably test drive Mandrake or Fedore before giving Linspire a spin, so this seems like a clever way to profit off that tendency.
Excellent point. I really like the way my current provider is handling spam-- putting all the messages it thinks is spam in an IMAP folder, and then letting me file false positives and false negatives in special folders to help train the filters. However, the filtering model they're using now is really shabby, and doesn't even catch half of the spam I get. I'd love to see them keep the filing system and just replace whatever algorithm they're using to flag the spam.
I'm sure a lot of universities are agreeing to this in the hopes that it will keep students from "pirating" music and thus keep the RIAA off their backs, but seeing as the students will still have to pay for the songs if they want to burn them to CD or listen to them on a mobile device, just how useful will this be?
I was really excited about getting a Prius in a few months, but if it's going to eat up as much gas as a similar non-electric model, I won't bother. However, I'll still get one if they have a somewhat better mileage, even if they're not as high as the numbers advertised.
That being said, how much of an improvement are hybrids over conventional autos? Are the EPA ratings similarly unaccurate for regular cars, or just for the hybrids?
Lycos is currently re-inventing itself as a portal for the new generation with the link to Playboy affiliate placed right on the front page (click on "Adults 18+ only").
While I'm familiar with many a washed-out pop musician turning to Playboy to boost an aching career, I'd never imagine this trend to extend to websites...
My freshman class was the first in this new program, and I was given an IBM Thinkpad 4 years ago. Since my sophomore year it has been sitting on a shelf, collecting dust.
The school started the program requiring that the laptops be utilized in some way in every course. The professors shrugged and said "they're probably typing their reports/compiling their homework on them" to get past the requirement.
In reality, no one was using the laptops in the classroom, except to chat on AIM and play videogames on the wireless network. It's much easier for most people to write out their notes on paper than it is to fiddle around with a word processor, especially when you're trying to draw graphs or write out formulas. The professors who tried using them in the class (mostly "type this code into your compiler and see what happens" demos) quickly went back to simple lecturing.
I've found reading anything on my laptop to be a PITA. The screen doesn't sit at eye level, so my neck was constantly bent downward to look at the screen. If I'm reading about Chemistry, for example, it's awful hard to flip back a couple pages to find the formula/proof I want, and then flip back to the chapter I'm on and find my place quickly. The teachers know this, so very few try to push electronic material on the students.
My point is... if college professors don't even utilize the required laptops properly during classtime, how many grade/high school teachers will end up doing the same thing, either because their students are getting terribly distracted, are being slowed down, or because it's just plain easier to do things the old-fashioned way?
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The burning sensation's from the LAPTOP... I was wondering how the hell a geek like myself (can't get laid to save my life) caught an STD...
I hope, for MS's sake, that they at least come out with a keyboard to match the mouse. No matter how pretty designer peripherals may be individually, they tend to look silly togeather on a desk without some sort of preplanned coordination.
What exactly is the point of a pretty mouse when your hand is going to be covering it most of the time, anyway?
Which leads to the question why this guy had to collect 10000 screen names + user data?
Although I don't suspect this to be the case, some people just don't get the fact that they are vulnerable until you slap them in the face with something big. I recently tried to show a client two exploits-- the bigger one was that I could sniff all the usernames and logins into his payroll DB, and the other was that that I could crash the client app and bluescreen windows. He was more impressed by the flashy blue screen than the sniffed packets... probably because the BSoD was a lot "prettier" than the text output of my proof of concept program.
Well, they can't cold call as many people at dinner time anymore because of the Do Not Call list, and I really doubt Carrot Top would actually attract new customers...
it would seem to me that intelligence would always be a selective factor in all species.
Intelligence is helpful in survival, but not always in furthering the species. Case in point: the invention (and successful use of) birth control.
I found the proposition of Math as an Olympic event hilarious. Not only are most people (at least here in the US) terrified to death of math, the average non-math expert isn't going to be able to follow a math-based competition.
I can just imagine the guys gathering around for the math world championship with a few six packs and chips, yelling "GO USA! INVERT THAT MATRIX, BABY! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
I didn't get the chance to get my slashdot fix at work and now you're telling me the server will be down tonight? I can feel the shakes coming on already... maybe I can scour my cache files to keep my withdrawal symptoms down.
So... cold...
Maybe if you installed from the 50 diskettes it used to take 10 years ago, you'd know why it was considered 'hard'.
Tedious, yes, but not 'hard'... to me, a hard install would be having to spend hours upon hours configuring/tweaking/swearing at the thing to get it to do even just a basic install. At least I can watch a movie while popping in disk after disk.
Slackware has always been my favorite distro, so I'm really excited to see what's in store in this release. For a supposedly "hard" distro, I've always found it quite easy and painless to install.
Is there even any wildlife capable of living in the East River??
Who the heck hangs on to their computer receipt for two weeks, much less two years?
I can feel bad if these victims if the scammers are taking advantage of people in a weakened state that would inhibit judgement or lend itself to gullibility, such as the elderly. However, I keep reading more and more about "average Joes" falling for this crap, which leads me to wonder-- didn't they ever hear the phrase "if it's too good to be true, it probably is"? Weren't they, at least once in their life, warned about get-rich-quick schemes?
Doesn't an alarm ever go off in their head that just screams "holy crap, this is totally sketchy!!!"??
I've been wired on McBride, but it made my nose bleed and I felt completely awful the next day. I'll stick to smoking crack... cheaper and less of a hangover.
This seems like a pretty clever plan to get people to try their distro. They give the user the "comfort" of being able to thing "Oh, this is good... at least if I don't like Linspire I can try out the others... there's bound to be one distro I'll like," and even if that person does end up choosing one of the others, at least they made a profit.
Were I a newbie looking to try out Linux, I would probably test drive Mandrake or Fedore before giving Linspire a spin, so this seems like a clever way to profit off that tendency.
Excellent point. I really like the way my current provider is handling spam-- putting all the messages it thinks is spam in an IMAP folder, and then letting me file false positives and false negatives in special folders to help train the filters. However, the filtering model they're using now is really shabby, and doesn't even catch half of the spam I get. I'd love to see them keep the filing system and just replace whatever algorithm they're using to flag the spam.
Looks really promising, and I'll probably install it on my own e-mail server to give it a try. Now, how do we convince our ISPs to do the same?
Now I can email spammers back with a fresh scented fart!
You can e-mail spammers back?!?
I'm sure a lot of universities are agreeing to this in the hopes that it will keep students from "pirating" music and thus keep the RIAA off their backs, but seeing as the students will still have to pay for the songs if they want to burn them to CD or listen to them on a mobile device, just how useful will this be?
I was really excited about getting a Prius in a few months, but if it's going to eat up as much gas as a similar non-electric model, I won't bother. However, I'll still get one if they have a somewhat better mileage, even if they're not as high as the numbers advertised.
That being said, how much of an improvement are hybrids over conventional autos? Are the EPA ratings similarly unaccurate for regular cars, or just for the hybrids?
Am I the only one who thought e-mail for homies and not google mail upon first hearing the name "gmail"?
A campy, old-school web portal for sale! I hope they accept COD.
How about Beenz?
Lycos is currently re-inventing itself as a portal for the new generation with the link to Playboy affiliate placed right on the front page (click on "Adults 18+ only").
While I'm familiar with many a washed-out pop musician turning to Playboy to boost an aching career, I'd never imagine this trend to extend to websites...
My freshman class was the first in this new program, and I was given an IBM Thinkpad 4 years ago. Since my sophomore year it has been sitting on a shelf, collecting dust.
The school started the program requiring that the laptops be utilized in some way in every course. The professors shrugged and said "they're probably typing their reports/compiling their homework on them" to get past the requirement.
In reality, no one was using the laptops in the classroom, except to chat on AIM and play videogames on the wireless network. It's much easier for most people to write out their notes on paper than it is to fiddle around with a word processor, especially when you're trying to draw graphs or write out formulas. The professors who tried using them in the class (mostly "type this code into your compiler and see what happens" demos) quickly went back to simple lecturing.
I've found reading anything on my laptop to be a PITA. The screen doesn't sit at eye level, so my neck was constantly bent downward to look at the screen. If I'm reading about Chemistry, for example, it's awful hard to flip back a couple pages to find the formula/proof I want, and then flip back to the chapter I'm on and find my place quickly. The teachers know this, so very few try to push electronic material on the students.
My point is... if college professors don't even utilize the required laptops properly during classtime, how many grade/high school teachers will end up doing the same thing, either because their students are getting terribly distracted, are being slowed down, or because it's just plain easier to do things the old-fashioned way?
Unless the teachers are mindless sheep
You haven't been to a typical middle school recently, have you?