"Corporate Windows machines infected by a worm", "redirector in Eastern Europe" and, of course, the not-so-well-hidden hint that "using Windows potentially leads to serious legal problems"... Appparently, it's been a long time since the previous mandatory made-up Linux-fanboy Slashdot story. This one is pretty lame, meaning that its fakeness is rather obvious, but I'd say that after that robot and the talking pie disaster it's well above the todays Hollywood standards.
Wrong. Moore's law never predicted a doubling in performance. Moore's law predicts doubling of level of integration. The perofrmance might even decrease, Moore's law doesn't care about that even a slightest bit.
Huh? Worms that erase other worms have been around for quite a while already. This one is notable not for the sheer ability to erase other worms, but for the fact that it simply uses a commercial anti-virus solution to do that. That's both weird and ingenious!
Of course, of course... Now, when the actual success was achieved in Russia, America will quickly switch to a "damage control" mode. That Russian scamster defintely wanted to do it in America the first time. LOL.
You gotta love those Americans and their inferiority complexes...
Every american lander is nothnig more and nothing less than an attempt to reproduce some (sometimes decades old) Russian success. The recent Mars rovers are just a we-can-finally-do-it-too gig for Russian's Lunokhods. (So much for your "zero going to the moon", BTW). And video feed was, of course, first translated from Venus by Russian landers.
No mentioning the fact that the Venus landing alone in its difficulty and success surpasses everything else ever done in this respect in the world combined.
How is that relevant? The Wikipedia article clearly states that he used liquid nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin will be easily detected by regular modern airport explosives-detection means, which puts nitroglycerin out of consideration. The whole point of The Register article, if you read it carefully, is to research the possibilty to create explosives from apparently _innocent_ liquids.
I'm just amazed how many posters decide to spew their ignorant nonsense without even trying to understand the issue first! Several posetrs here referred to some "mosquito problem". What mosquito problem??? Do you have any idea about the purpose of "mosquito noise device"? Did you care to follow the link and get a clue first before posting?
For the lazy clueless types: the mosquito noise device has nothing to do with any actual mosquitos or "mosquito problems". The purpose of the device is to annoy young people in order to prevent them from congregating in certain areas. For example, some store owners don't like seeing teenagers gather in front of their stores (drives away customers). The mosquito noise device is specifically designed for the purpose of creating unbearable conditions for those teenagers in order to drive them away. The idea is that young people hear and get extermely annoyed by high frequency (mosquito) noise, while older people simply don't hear it.
So stop embarassing yourself with references to "mosquito problem". If the old man is really using that specific device, then the only reason he is using it is to annoy and harass those young people. The device has no other use of purpose.
Of course, the mention of the man-trap setup (which is, obviously, irrelevant) as well as the entire rerefence to the security system being misconfigured is nothing more than an attempt to hide the painful truth: both the grocery store (the one that issued the card) and the secure facility being tested belong to and run by the same corporation! And the verification requests from the door locks are processed by the same system that processes the shopper card swipes in the store, which immediately explains why the door opened.
This simple attempt at cover-up can only fool a naive individual that believes that "Bed, Batch and Beyound" and "Linens and Things" are competing stores:)
LOL. "Linux finally making a long expected breakthrough into common desktops". LOL again. As a desktop OS Linux, died long time ago: around 2003 time frame. It failed for the very same reason Mac OS is approaching the same death now: it is a "naked" OS, there's no software for it. Today Linux is a firmware/temporary server platform with absolutely no prespects of returning to the desktop in the future. In 2006 a Linux machine with a vidocard is a geek's hobby, a curiosity, nothing more.
The American approach to celebrating Easter is noting more and noting less that a relatively recent invention with purely commercial roots. As it is with most of the holidays in the US, it is trageted at the most vulnerable group - children. It doesn't have any genuine historical or religious background. The idea of that nonsense "ruling the world" is hilarious at best.
While this weapon has some "autonomous" capability, like tracking the target after the command to fire is issued, it is still no more a robot than any heat-seeking missile. In that sense any self-guided missile (SAMs or even cruise missiles) can be called "a robot that viloates the First Law". The First Law can only be applied to systems that autonomously make the critical decision "to harm ot not to harm". This system doesn't.
I several implementations of C language RTL functions like 'sprintf' will insert sequence "null" (or "(null)", or someting similar) in response to null-pointer value passed for '%s' format specifier. That's one possible explanation of how null-pointer values can turn into "null" strings.
Yeah, I also saw a one-button mouse once. Must've been someone's failed prototype design. Not surprising that it failed. Who would ever even think about buying something as useless as an one-button mouse?
I wasn't aired live on TV. There was a couple of local live feeds and, supposedly, a satellite feed for schools, but there was no nationwide live coverage for this event. If you are not local, whatever you saw was taped, not live.
Another piece that pushes the "explosion" theory, as if the ET explosion was the reason for orbither disintegration. The reality is that at the moment of "explosion" the orbither was already in pieces. Read the recent Jim Oberg's "7 myths"
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How old stuff has to get in order to be posted on Slashdot as something new and "amazing"? Ability of HP scanners to play music is, like, first thing you know when you start working with HP scanners. In the 90's HP scanners even came with HP-supplied utility called "HP Jukebox" and a couple of "music" files that could be played on stepper motor. Later they stopped shipping the utility, but the "feature" was always there. And now you have people on Slashdot who never heard about it? That's what's actually amazing...
That's, probably, the most stupid question I ever heard! Why would anyone care how many people the music they are buying appeals to? Are you one of those imbeciles driving around with their car windows rolled all the way down and the car stereo colume all the way up thinking that people around them enjoy listening to the shit they are listening to?
As long as the music appeals to _you_, you should be happy to have it for $0.99. How many more people like the same kind of music doesn't matter at all.
Well, they would probably follow the standard "political" approach. Since the Russian capital is in Europe, it should be 'ru.euro', even though geographically most of Russia is in Asia.
Not true. Starting the EBCG process - that's what normally limits the worker's ability to switch jobs. H1B by itself does not prevent anybody from switching. It's just a matter of filing some paperwork and it's easy to do.
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Utter nonsense. The number of home-grown workers for really HIGH tech industries is not just low, it's ZERO. Today's US education system does not produce anything worth considering seriously in this field.
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If they exceed the stay of the term of their visas, they are not here legally, and they are not obeying "all laws". Or at least, that's the view of the Department of Homeland Security.
Well, your original statement sounded as if they will be unconditionally denied any opportunity to stay in US _legally_ (through EBGC, for example).
True- but since the H- and L- class visas are "Guest Worker" visas, not intended to be a path to permanent residency, when those visas expire they become illegal aliens and have 21 days to either return home or be sent there.
Not exactly. Once again, H1Bs are officially "dual-intent" visas. By design they assume the possibility that the worker might decide to immigrate. For example, a tourist might be denied a visa on the basis that he/she failed to convice the officer that he/she will come back home. An H1B applicant cannot be denied visa for such a reason.
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"Corporate Windows machines infected by a worm", "redirector in Eastern Europe" and, of course, the not-so-well-hidden hint that "using Windows potentially leads to serious legal problems"... Appparently, it's been a long time since the previous mandatory made-up Linux-fanboy Slashdot story. This one is pretty lame, meaning that its fakeness is rather obvious, but I'd say that after that robot and the talking pie disaster it's well above the todays Hollywood standards.
Wrong. Moore's law never predicted a doubling in performance. Moore's law predicts doubling of level of integration. The perofrmance might even decrease, Moore's law doesn't care about that even a slightest bit.
Huh? Worms that erase other worms have been around for quite a while already. This one is notable not for the sheer ability to erase other worms, but for the fact that it simply uses a commercial anti-virus solution to do that. That's both weird and ingenious!
Of course, of course... Now, when the actual success was achieved in Russia, America will quickly switch to a "damage control" mode. That Russian scamster defintely wanted to do it in America the first time. LOL.
You gotta love those Americans and their inferiority complexes...
Every american lander is nothnig more and nothing less than an attempt to reproduce some (sometimes decades old) Russian success. The recent Mars rovers are just a we-can-finally-do-it-too gig for Russian's Lunokhods. (So much for your "zero going to the moon", BTW). And video feed was, of course, first translated from Venus by Russian landers.
No mentioning the fact that the Venus landing alone in its difficulty and success surpasses everything else ever done in this respect in the world combined.
Of course! We just have to wait for USA and Cuba to join in.
How is that relevant? The Wikipedia article clearly states that he used liquid nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin will be easily detected by regular modern airport explosives-detection means, which puts nitroglycerin out of consideration. The whole point of The Register article, if you read it carefully, is to research the possibilty to create explosives from apparently _innocent_ liquids.
I'm just amazed how many posters decide to spew their ignorant nonsense without even trying to understand the issue first! Several posetrs here referred to some "mosquito problem". What mosquito problem??? Do you have any idea about the purpose of "mosquito noise device"? Did you care to follow the link and get a clue first before posting?
For the lazy clueless types: the mosquito noise device has nothing to do with any actual mosquitos or "mosquito problems". The purpose of the device is to annoy young people in order to prevent them from congregating in certain areas. For example, some store owners don't like seeing teenagers gather in front of their stores (drives away customers). The mosquito noise device is specifically designed for the purpose of creating unbearable conditions for those teenagers in order to drive them away. The idea is that young people hear and get extermely annoyed by high frequency (mosquito) noise, while older people simply don't hear it.
So stop embarassing yourself with references to "mosquito problem". If the old man is really using that specific device, then the only reason he is using it is to annoy and harass those young people. The device has no other use of purpose.
Of course, the mention of the man-trap setup (which is, obviously, irrelevant) as well as the entire rerefence to the security system being misconfigured is nothing more than an attempt to hide the painful truth: both the grocery store (the one that issued the card) and the secure facility being tested belong to and run by the same corporation! And the verification requests from the door locks are processed by the same system that processes the shopper card swipes in the store, which immediately explains why the door opened.
:)
This simple attempt at cover-up can only fool a naive individual that believes that "Bed, Batch and Beyound" and "Linens and Things" are competing stores
LOL. "Linux finally making a long expected breakthrough into common desktops". LOL again. As a desktop OS Linux, died long time ago: around 2003 time frame. It failed for the very same reason Mac OS is approaching the same death now: it is a "naked" OS, there's no software for it. Today Linux is a firmware/temporary server platform with absolutely no prespects of returning to the desktop in the future. In 2006 a Linux machine with a vidocard is a geek's hobby, a curiosity, nothing more.
This reminds me of the Homer Simpson's "Mister X" Web site :)
The American approach to celebrating Easter is noting more and noting less that a relatively recent invention with purely commercial roots. As it is with most of the holidays in the US, it is trageted at the most vulnerable group - children. It doesn't have any genuine historical or religious background. The idea of that nonsense "ruling the world" is hilarious at best.
While this weapon has some "autonomous" capability, like tracking the target after the command to fire is issued, it is still no more a robot than any heat-seeking missile. In that sense any self-guided missile (SAMs or even cruise missiles) can be called "a robot that viloates the First Law". The First Law can only be applied to systems that autonomously make the critical decision "to harm ot not to harm". This system doesn't.
I several implementations of C language RTL functions like 'sprintf' will insert sequence "null" (or "(null)", or someting similar) in response to null-pointer value passed for '%s' format specifier. That's one possible explanation of how null-pointer values can turn into "null" strings.
Yeah, I also saw a one-button mouse once. Must've been someone's failed prototype design. Not surprising that it failed. Who would ever even think about buying something as useless as an one-button mouse?
I wasn't aired live on TV. There was a couple of local live feeds and, supposedly, a satellite feed for schools, but there was no nationwide live coverage for this event. If you are not local, whatever you saw was taped, not live.
Another piece that pushes the "explosion" theory, as if the ET explosion was the reason for orbither disintegration. The reality is that at the moment of "explosion" the orbither was already in pieces. Read the recent Jim Oberg's "7 myths"
How old stuff has to get in order to be posted on Slashdot as something new and "amazing"? Ability of HP scanners to play music is, like, first thing you know when you start working with HP scanners. In the 90's HP scanners even came with HP-supplied utility called "HP Jukebox" and a couple of "music" files that could be played on stepper motor. Later they stopped shipping the utility, but the "feature" was always there. And now you have people on Slashdot who never heard about it? That's what's actually amazing...
Finally, Linux occupies a place it deserves. A screensaver...
That's, probably, the most stupid question I ever heard! Why would anyone care how many people the music they are buying appeals to? Are you one of those imbeciles driving around with their car windows rolled all the way down and the car stereo colume all the way up thinking that people around them enjoy listening to the shit they are listening to? As long as the music appeals to _you_, you should be happy to have it for $0.99. How many more people like the same kind of music doesn't matter at all.
Well, they would probably follow the standard "political" approach. Since the Russian capital is in Europe, it should be 'ru.euro', even though geographically most of Russia is in Asia.
I think that "utilize" is a perfectly cromulent word. There's nothing to complain about here.
Not true. Starting the EBCG process - that's what normally limits the worker's ability to switch jobs. H1B by itself does not prevent anybody from switching. It's just a matter of filing some paperwork and it's easy to do.
Utter nonsense. The number of home-grown workers for really HIGH tech industries is not just low, it's ZERO. Today's US education system does not produce anything worth considering seriously in this field.
If they exceed the stay of the term of their visas, they are not here legally, and they are not obeying "all laws". Or at least, that's the view of the Department of Homeland Security. Well, your original statement sounded as if they will be unconditionally denied any opportunity to stay in US _legally_ (through EBGC, for example). True- but since the H- and L- class visas are "Guest Worker" visas, not intended to be a path to permanent residency, when those visas expire they become illegal aliens and have 21 days to either return home or be sent there. Not exactly. Once again, H1Bs are officially "dual-intent" visas. By design they assume the possibility that the worker might decide to immigrate. For example, a tourist might be denied a visa on the basis that he/she failed to convice the officer that he/she will come back home. An H1B applicant cannot be denied visa for such a reason.