Incidents like this illustrate the absurd litigious reactionaryism of the current music industry.
1. Music Industry hears of application/service/person doing anything new related to music
2. SUE SUE SUE I SAY!!!!!!!!!
3. Oh wait, you mean this application/service/person might actually be doing something legal/useful/beneficial to us??? oh ok we're sorry
The never expiring password might be bad, but I think security policies that enforce password expiration after too short a period are perhaps even worse, because they lead to insecure passwords being selected. Never changing a password can certainly be a security risk, but if it is a very secure password, that is still better than rotated ones that are constantly insecure IMO.
I'm not sure what you are referring to, but I'm talking about the alt universe one when alt Kira and Leeta were hitting on each other. They were definitely lesbian, and there was nothing about a previous life mentioned.
From reading the book, I got the impression that being gay was something that would be around in the 24th century, but not something anybody particularly cared about. They wanted to indicate that it was there, but not have a big dazzling fireworks show about it.
There was one episode of DS9 where two women were pretty forward about being lesbians.
You'll be unaffected with any kind of satellite or cable subscription. Only people receiving analog OTA broadcasts will have to buy (or obtain) new equipment (either a TV or converter box).
Several analysts pointed out that John C Dvorak might not be fully qualified to analyze Apple either due to his prolific tendency to spew forth useless garbage completely devoid of any logic or insightful content.
I typically do all my sites in CSS and then if I need to use a javascript hack to fix IE I just put it in a conditional comment so I don't have to worry about other browsers choking on it, and I can even use IE specific javascript that way if needed.
Nope, they run on CPUs also. Operating systems do to. Operating systems and programs are both software. They both run on CPUs. The operating system schedules what programs get to run when, and when the OS itself runs, but everything happens on the CPU.
Now what you may have been trying to say is that programs are built to be run with certain operating systems, which would be correct.
There is still a lot of interesting work going on in CS and will continue to be for some time. CS is a relatively new scientific field. There will be no shortage of new work to be done for a long time.
You could make the same argument about math. After all haven't Newton, Gauss, Lagrange, Leibnitz, et al already discovered everything there is to know hundreds of years ago? Is math a dead end field too? No, but math is basically the same way today as you are describing CS. It's combining and reevaluating what we already know in new ways, but there are completely new things still being discovered, as with CS. Read some of the ACM journals and you will find some interesting stuff (if you're into CS).
Private citizens are launching themselves into space. Anyone with 20 million to spare can go hang out on the space station. It's hardly prestigous for a country that contains the majority of the world's population to acheive something that private citizens of other countries can beat.
Correction, private citizens can pay a government (Russia) to launch them into space. They cannot do it by themselves. Only two governments currently have the capability. China being only the third to do it puts them in an elite group. It may not be a significant achievement by today's measure of technology, but it is certainly nontrivial.
PeerGuardian and PeerGuardian 2 are free and open source software firewalls capable of blocking incoming and outgoing IP addresses. The application uses a blocklist of IP addresses to filter the computers of several organisations, including the RIAA and MPAA while using filesharing networks such as FastTrack and BitTorrent. The system is also capable of blocking advertising, spyware, government and educational ranges, depending upon user preferences.
I don't think I have ever seen a P4 for that much. Looking at pricewatch, it looks like almost all variety of P4s can be had for under $300.
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On the basis of the book jacket, this might seem more appropriate material for iVillage than Slashdot
No, I'm pretty sure the/. readership usually welcomes any story that lets them post countless old porn jokes and anecdotes about how they can never get laid.
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Incidents like this illustrate the absurd litigious reactionaryism of the current music industry.
1. Music Industry hears of application/service/person doing anything new related to music
2. SUE SUE SUE I SAY!!!!!!!!!
3. Oh wait, you mean this application/service/person might actually be doing something legal/useful/beneficial to us??? oh ok we're sorry
This is a 15 min presentation someone did setting up a weblog using it. I think this example better explains it than most descriptions I've read.
The never expiring password might be bad, but I think security policies that enforce password expiration after too short a period are perhaps even worse, because they lead to insecure passwords being selected. Never changing a password can certainly be a security risk, but if it is a very secure password, that is still better than rotated ones that are constantly insecure IMO.
Slashdot, where people come for the comments and not the stories
/.'s visitors read or post comments.
I attended a presentation Taco gave last year in which he said that only about 25% of
Something like half only view the front page.
I really don't see the point of this. Every true geek has already seen all of that anyway. It's not something they really need.
On the other hand $2500 will pay for a lot of hookers.
Well I would hope not, he's fucking 8 years old.
That would be disturbing.
I'm not sure what you are referring to, but I'm talking about the alt universe one when alt Kira and Leeta were hitting on each other. They were definitely lesbian, and there was nothing about a previous life mentioned.
From reading the book, I got the impression that being gay was something that would be around in the 24th century, but not something anybody particularly cared about. They wanted to indicate that it was there, but not have a big dazzling fireworks show about it.
There was one episode of DS9 where two women were pretty forward about being lesbians.
To whoever modded this as troll, you obviously missed the Ballmer rage reference.
Well, nasa.gov is usually a pretty stable site.
As I recall they recently upgraded it to support a very large influx of traffic during the shuttle launch a few months ago.
You'll be unaffected with any kind of satellite or cable subscription. Only people receiving analog OTA broadcasts will have to buy (or obtain) new equipment (either a TV or converter box).
Will you please just screw the real technical implications of this and please think of the children?!!!!!
Several analysts pointed out that John C Dvorak might not be fully qualified to analyze Apple either due to his prolific tendency to spew forth useless garbage completely devoid of any logic or insightful content.
I typically do all my sites in CSS and then if I need to use a javascript hack to fix IE I just put it in a conditional comment so I don't have to worry about other browsers choking on it, and I can even use IE specific javascript that way if needed.
Not possible. A huge number of parts used on the Saturn Vs are no longer made. We can't just build more.
IE supports :hover but only on anchors. There are simple Javascript hacks that will allow it to work with other elements though.
Programs run on operating systems, not CPUs.
Nope, they run on CPUs also. Operating systems do to. Operating systems and programs are both software. They both run on CPUs. The operating system schedules what programs get to run when, and when the OS itself runs, but everything happens on the CPU.
Now what you may have been trying to say is that programs are built to be run with certain operating systems, which would be correct.
There is still a lot of interesting work going on in CS and will continue to be for some time. CS is a relatively new scientific field. There will be no shortage of new work to be done for a long time.
You could make the same argument about math. After all haven't Newton, Gauss, Lagrange, Leibnitz, et al already discovered everything there is to know hundreds of years ago? Is math a dead end field too? No, but math is basically the same way today as you are describing CS. It's combining and reevaluating what we already know in new ways, but there are completely new things still being discovered, as with CS. Read some of the ACM journals and you will find some interesting stuff (if you're into CS).
Werd. The CS dept here is basically all Apple/*nix right now.
Why Computer Science? Why Now?
Because we need people with more skill to fix up all your shit Bill.
Private citizens are launching themselves into space. Anyone with 20 million to spare can go hang out on the space station. It's hardly prestigous for a country that contains the majority of the world's population to acheive something that private citizens of other countries can beat.
Correction, private citizens can pay a government (Russia) to launch them into space. They cannot do it by themselves. Only two governments currently have the capability. China being only the third to do it puts them in an elite group. It may not be a significant achievement by today's measure of technology, but it is certainly nontrivial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerGuardian
PeerGuardian and PeerGuardian 2 are free and open source software firewalls capable of blocking incoming and outgoing IP addresses. The application uses a blocklist of IP addresses to filter the computers of several organisations, including the RIAA and MPAA while using filesharing networks such as FastTrack and BitTorrent. The system is also capable of blocking advertising, spyware, government and educational ranges, depending upon user preferences.
The summary mentions the P4 as costing that much, not the Xeon.
The Xeon is a higher end server chip so that price is not as surprising.
I don't think I have ever seen a P4 for that much. Looking at pricewatch, it looks like almost all variety of P4s can be had for under $300.
On the basis of the book jacket, this might seem more appropriate material for iVillage than Slashdot
/. readership usually welcomes any story that lets them post countless old porn jokes and anecdotes about how they can never get laid.
No, I'm pretty sure the