Aha. They put a photo of the building online from down the street as if to say "see, we have offices now". Mind you, anyone can take the photo they have. I know that building. I live practically down the street from it. I'll give them a week before I go in with my camera and find out the truth of the matter, hehheh.
I could be wrong, but from what I just heard on the radio, it appears that the terrorists learned to fly in an American flight school in Florida. This sounds to me like a good place to find out about that little transponder trick and make plans to counteract it.
Perhaps a single-press panic button, one that cannot be turned off in flight, is in order?
Probably because of the Microsoft publicity machine. They probably sent huge press release materials to newspapers, magazines and TV shlock, I mean TV news programs. I'm betting they diddn't send one to Slashdot. Why? Well, considering all the negative press they've earned here, and the fact that their target audience is the mass consumer market (of which Slashdot readers are just a teeny tiny sliver), they probably figured that slashdot could get the stuff second hand, and it did.
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If we charge right onto the moon and try to exploit it, we could damage it as severely as we have the Earth. We never know what we might want to use the moon for in the future -- and disturbing its natural balance might ruin future plans.
But, um, wouldn't 'using it in the future' just be exploiting it at a later date? Rather than deciding to 'charge right onto the moon and try to exploit it' we'd 'procrastinate for a while AND THEN try to exploit it.'
I'm sorry, but it's the same thing. And how do you know that this kind of fuel supply, if implemented right away, might not avert some global catastrophy shortly afterwards, one that might've gone on unimpeded if we just sat around and refused to put this new gift to use?
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Y'know, skepticism about feasability aside, this whole 'Moon as Power Supply' could easily turn life as we know it into a sci fi movie, complete with starfighters and spacebattles that light up the night sky like fireworks if nations (or even large corporations) were to start bickering over this new resource.
Now watch it all happen (yeah right) and the military adopts Terminus as the basis for their space flight simulation programs...
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I just double checked and Lysator is, in fact, where Roxen and Pike originated from, according to this page, though its exact words in regards to Roxen are "developed mostly by Lysator members."
The world's largest amateur fantasy and sci fi art/writing site is powered by it. Every page is automatically generated by pike whenever one of the thousands of artists on board update their page. The URL is http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se and yes, I'm a member (though my gallery shall remain anonymous as my intention here is not to plug myself though I will say I joined when there was less than 100 people involved) and a voulentier staff member on the webpage.
I'm not sure, but I THINK that Roxen and Pike were created at the Lysator computer club at Linkopeg university in Sweeden, who as you can see in the above link, are hosting Elfwood. The URL for the Lysator computer club is http://www.lysator.liu.se Of course, there's a high probability of me being wrong about that being where Roxen and pike came from.. but I seem to remember that's what someone told me.
Forgive me if it's done already, but how about a feature that blocks annoying popup windows? Like the ones that, when you close the browser or hit back, it pops up a new window, making it VERY difficult to get rid of? Everyone knows these things, everyone hates these things.
Yeah, I know turning off javascript in general would do the trick, but there's alot of sites out there that use javascript in more legit, the-way-it-was-intended-to-be ways, and I don't want to block them out too.
And yes, I know there's software out there that blocks those (I use one, though it doesn't block 100%) but I'm talking about a feature integrated into the browser to kill that sort of thing. Like maybe a window could come up and warn you about the page trying to pop up a window, then ask if it should be allowed, disallowed, or ALWAYS disallow and never bug me with the question again.
I hereby announce that I am soon to aquire a patent for my website's innovation of the viewing of visual data over the internet. I'm calling it "Image viewing." I'm retaining a full legal team and preparing to file litigation against several major websites, including Slashdot.org, Amazon.com, MP3.com, CDnow.com, Napster.com, netscape.com and darpa.mil among a few million others, for violating my patent which doesn't exist yet.
I feel this is an unfortunate but necessary and innovative action in order to innovatively protect my innovation.
side note: Since when did innovation turn into a doubletalk word used by underhanded corporations to make themselves look like a victim when they get caught running around stealing ideas that other people had?
Ethical squatting: Buying a domain so that unscrupulous types can't get it before the right people can.
Evil squatting: Buying a domain that you know people will want and then selling it back to them for thousands or millions of dollars.
Buying a domain that you know people will want and then selling it back to them for thousands or millions of dollars and then telling them that you're doing them a favor by selling it to them? Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.
Honestly if he was out to do a good deed, he would've sold it to them for the same ammount he spent registering and retaining the domain name. Kinda like what that guy who renewed the hotmail.com domain when Microsoft was caught, once again, with their pants down. So they send him a thank you check, he auctions it, doubles the auction price with his own money, and gives it all to charity. THAT is a good, ethical thing to do.
I don't care what the squatter's credentials are, or who he diddn't sell to. He's still a rich scumbag who got rich by being a squatter.
I thought you could already do that in Netscape.. under the mail sending options tab (to the left of where you'd type in the address you're sending to) there's a bunch of check boxes, including ones for encrypted and signed.
I realise I'm probably way out in left field with this, stating something that everyone already knew, and that there's more to encrypting and signing email than this. If I am, I apologise.
Well you see, that's the trick. Technology has this weird way of following what science fiction predicts.
Case in point, on some episodes of the original Star Trek series, Spock had little data units that were, basically, 3.5 inch multicolored thin squares. That episode was made in the 60s (I think, I could be wrong) but the little data units or whatever they called them were identical to modern 3.5" floppies, and the slot he put them in looked alot like the corresponding floppy drive. It even had an eject button.
I'm not saying fall on your knees before star trek or anything, just using them as an example of how technology tends to follow what science fiction authors predict/make up. Life imitating art and all that.
Okay. So lets say it does come into existance. Whoopee. Barring that it crashes and burns like DIVX, it's success will be limited, and nowhere near as blanketing as M$ says it would be. THink about what would have to happen: Internet access would have to be ALL cable and xDSL worldwide. That's laughable right there. Especially when you consider areas in the USA like where I live, in which xDSL is impossible untill the entire phone system is overhauled (which wont happen) and cable service is slower and less reliable than in other locations. So lets say that, by some miracle, the entire world gets highspeed internet access. It's still not going to replace retail stores. Case in point: video rental stores. Sure, you can go out and buy a VCR and just rent movies and never actually own one, but most people have their own copy of at least one of their favorite movies, and video stores are all over the place. Software rental will no more replace Software retail than video rental replaces video retail. Same thing with console games. You can rent them all over the place but everyone still buys them.
Besides.. the outlined vision of the future from one of Billy-boy's lackeys said nothing of Linux and Open Source software.. and how they're slowly but surely stealing people away from M$'s clutches.. and now that games are starting to be made compatible with Linux, there's less and less reasons for folx like me to have any M$ products cluttering their hard drive at all..
Slashdot Mirror
Aha. They put a photo of the building online from down the street as if to say "see, we have offices now". Mind you, anyone can take the photo they have. I know that building. I live practically down the street from it. I'll give them a week before I go in with my camera and find out the truth of the matter, hehheh.
Oogabooga
I could be wrong, but from what I just heard on the radio, it appears that the terrorists learned to fly in an American flight school in Florida. This sounds to me like a good place to find out about that little transponder trick and make plans to counteract it.
Perhaps a single-press panic button, one that cannot be turned off in flight, is in order?
Probably because of the Microsoft publicity machine. They probably sent huge press release materials to newspapers, magazines and TV shlock, I mean TV news programs. I'm betting they diddn't send one to Slashdot. Why? Well, considering all the negative press they've earned here, and the fact that their target audience is the mass consumer market (of which Slashdot readers are just a teeny tiny sliver), they probably figured that slashdot could get the stuff second hand, and it did.
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Foolish human! Feel the Dolphin Brain Blast!
Nah. Why stop charging you for those IPs when they know you'll pay? All it means is more profit for them.
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Foolish human! Feel the Dolphin Brain Blast!
If we charge right onto the moon and try to exploit it, we could damage it as severely as we have the Earth. We never know what we might want to use the moon for in the future -- and disturbing its natural balance might ruin future plans.
But, um, wouldn't 'using it in the future' just be exploiting it at a later date? Rather than deciding to 'charge right onto the moon and try to exploit it' we'd 'procrastinate for a while AND THEN try to exploit it.'
I'm sorry, but it's the same thing. And how do you know that this kind of fuel supply, if implemented right away, might not avert some global catastrophy shortly afterwards, one that might've gone on unimpeded if we just sat around and refused to put this new gift to use?
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Foolish human! Feel the Dolphin Brain Blast!
Y'know, skepticism about feasability aside, this whole 'Moon as Power Supply' could easily turn life as we know it into a sci fi movie, complete with starfighters and spacebattles that light up the night sky like fireworks if nations (or even large corporations) were to start bickering over this new resource.
Now watch it all happen (yeah right) and the military adopts Terminus as the basis for their space flight simulation programs...
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Foolish human! Feel the Dolphin Brain Blast!
I just double checked and Lysator is, in fact, where Roxen and Pike originated from, according to this page, though its exact words in regards to Roxen are "developed mostly by Lysator members."
The world's largest amateur fantasy and sci fi art/writing site is powered by it. Every page is automatically generated by pike whenever one of the thousands of artists on board update their page. The URL is http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se and yes, I'm a member (though my gallery shall remain anonymous as my intention here is not to plug myself though I will say I joined when there was less than 100 people involved) and a voulentier staff member on the webpage.
I'm not sure, but I THINK that Roxen and Pike were created at the Lysator computer club at Linkopeg university in Sweeden, who as you can see in the above link, are hosting Elfwood. The URL for the Lysator computer club is http://www.lysator.liu.se Of course, there's a high probability of me being wrong about that being where Roxen and pike came from.. but I seem to remember that's what someone told me.
Forgive me if it's done already, but how about a feature that blocks annoying popup windows? Like the ones that, when you close the browser or hit back, it pops up a new window, making it VERY difficult to get rid of? Everyone knows these things, everyone hates these things.
Yeah, I know turning off javascript in general would do the trick, but there's alot of sites out there that use javascript in more legit, the-way-it-was-intended-to-be ways, and I don't want to block them out too.
And yes, I know there's software out there that blocks those (I use one, though it doesn't block 100%) but I'm talking about a feature integrated into the browser to kill that sort of thing. Like maybe a window could come up and warn you about the page trying to pop up a window, then ask if it should be allowed, disallowed, or ALWAYS disallow and never bug me with the question again.
Just a thought.
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I hereby announce that I am soon to aquire a patent for my website's innovation of the viewing of visual data over the internet. I'm calling it "Image viewing." I'm retaining a full legal team and preparing to file litigation against several major websites, including Slashdot.org, Amazon.com, MP3.com, CDnow.com, Napster.com, netscape.com and darpa.mil among a few million others, for violating my patent which doesn't exist yet.
I feel this is an unfortunate but necessary and innovative action in order to innovatively protect my innovation.
side note: Since when did innovation turn into a doubletalk word used by underhanded corporations to make themselves look like a victim when they get caught running around stealing ideas that other people had?
I'm sorry, but I see it like this.
Ethical squatting: Buying a domain so that unscrupulous types can't get it before the right people can.
Evil squatting: Buying a domain that you know people will want and then selling it back to them for thousands or millions of dollars.
Buying a domain that you know people will want and then selling it back to them for thousands or millions of dollars and then telling them that you're doing them a favor by selling it to them? Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.
Honestly if he was out to do a good deed, he would've sold it to them for the same ammount he spent registering and retaining the domain name. Kinda like what that guy who renewed the hotmail.com domain when Microsoft was caught, once again, with their pants down. So they send him a thank you check, he auctions it, doubles the auction price with his own money, and gives it all to charity. THAT is a good, ethical thing to do.
I don't care what the squatter's credentials are, or who he diddn't sell to. He's still a rich scumbag who got rich by being a squatter.
I thought you could already do that in Netscape.. under the mail sending options tab (to the left of where you'd type in the address you're sending to) there's a bunch of check boxes, including ones for encrypted and signed.
I realise I'm probably way out in left field with this, stating something that everyone already knew, and that there's more to encrypting and signing email than this. If I am, I apologise.
Iron Gorilla
Well you see, that's the trick. Technology has this weird way of following what science fiction predicts.
Case in point, on some episodes of the original Star Trek series, Spock had little data units that were, basically, 3.5 inch multicolored thin squares. That episode was made in the 60s (I think, I could be wrong) but the little data units or whatever they called them were identical to modern 3.5" floppies, and the slot he put them in looked alot like the corresponding floppy drive. It even had an eject button.
I'm not saying fall on your knees before star trek or anything, just using them as an example of how technology tends to follow what science fiction authors predict/make up. Life imitating art and all that.
Okay. So lets say it does come into existance. Whoopee. Barring that it crashes and burns like DIVX, it's success will be limited, and nowhere near as blanketing as M$ says it would be. THink about what would have to happen: Internet access would have to be ALL cable and xDSL worldwide. That's laughable right there. Especially when you consider areas in the USA like where I live, in which xDSL is impossible untill the entire phone system is overhauled (which wont happen) and cable service is slower and less reliable than in other locations. So lets say that, by some miracle, the entire world gets highspeed internet access. It's still not going to replace retail stores. Case in point: video rental stores. Sure, you can go out and buy a VCR and just rent movies and never actually own one, but most people have their own copy of at least one of their favorite movies, and video stores are all over the place. Software rental will no more replace Software retail than video rental replaces video retail. Same thing with console games. You can rent them all over the place but everyone still buys them.
Besides.. the outlined vision of the future from one of Billy-boy's lackeys said nothing of Linux and Open Source software.. and how they're slowly but surely stealing people away from M$'s clutches.. and now that games are starting to be made compatible with Linux, there's less and less reasons for folx like me to have any M$ products cluttering their hard drive at all..
IronGorilla