Is there any site that you can go to to see what traffic loads are currently like on the major backbones and ISPs? My connection has been really slow for a couple of days, and I'm wondering if it's just my connection or if there's some huge DDoS going on right now....
Norway had a similar case not long ago, where one politician was caught on camera playing games on his cellphone while in session with the parliament.It certainly didn't go down well;-)
As I recall, wasn't that guy playing games while the parliment was debating whether to support the U.S. war in Iraq? 0_o I can see why they'd be pissed...
There really is a shortage of good soft porn nowadays.
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Okay, I feel dirty having posted that... may Asimov forgive me...
Actually, the Air Force has a term for that; it's called "Air Dominance". It's become a part of their war-fighting doctrine, actually. It denotes when they have overwhelming superiority in the air and total coverage of the skies such that the enemy can't use any of his air assets, and the US can choose targets with godlike impunity. That, btw, is why the new F-22 is called an "air dominance fighter" - it is expected to deliver total dominance over the enemy in battle.
Remember, it's not the military's job to "fight fair" - it's mission is to win as decisively as possible.
Well, check out their Souvenier music catalog - they have a bunch of CDs and a DVD for "Mass Gymnastics, 60th Birthday Kim Jong Il" listed... interestingly, all the prices are in euros, which I think tells you what kind of people go there. Or maybe they're just too proud to ask for yen or dollars, who knows. I bet they don't ship to the U.S., either. Although I don't encourage (cr|h)acking, it'd be pretty funny to sniff the CC numbers of people who buy that shit...
Well, I got out of high school a few years ago, and my friends and I tended to be computer geeks. My experiences went like this:
Middle school: Our school was lucky enough to get a network full of 486s when they were new, and we got a bunch of classes using them. Mostly it consisted of "How to use Word/Excel/PowerPoint" type classes. My friends, however, figured out how to: Accidentally crash the ccMail system by setting an auto-reply loop between accounts, filling the HD on the server; Fake a login prompt for Novell using Basic to steal passwords; Play Doom;)
Our net admin there was a volunteer, and I don't think she really got the network tightened in terms of security - but that was back in the DOS/Win 3.1 days, so I don't blame her. I wonder if they still have that 486 lab...
High School: A more ad-hoc network of machines(mostly HPs, 486 to P2 by the time I left) that was admined by the CS/IT teacher. Classes consisted of more Office technology stuff, plus actual programming classes in Basic and C++. The C++ class was better than some community college classes I've taken on programming. We did use the computers in some other classes, like running java applet simulations in physics, but for the most part the computers were used to teach computer skills.
The usual account-jacking, cracking, and general mischief went on for a year or two, but at some point they installed FoolProof and some other stuff, which effectively locked down the machines. Even my friends(who were network support by then) could not crack it.
In short, I think that computers do have a place in teaching, but they're often misused and they are definitely not more important than teachers, nor are they going to replace traditional teaching tools. I suspect that it will be another generation or so before we get teachers that are comfortable integrating computers into their curriculum, and we might have a stable, secure-out-of-the-box operating system standard by then:P To geeks, however, just having a network to play with can be a valuable learning process, where they can learn the ins and outs of network security.
P.S. about open schools - the rival school across town was built in the 70s apparently as an 'open school', and while I like its campus design, its buildings are definitely poor. They literally didn't have walls seperating classrooms. After a while, they installed cubicle-like walls that reach up to the ceiling but are pretty thin. I hear it was a pretty good school, but I can't imagine liking it there, where you can hear other classes around you... What were those architects thinking?!
To be fair, she *is* a math geek, and there have been times when the subject of a story here has posted a comment his/her self... Didn't want people to get the impression she was trolling Slashdot after a hard day of math problems:)
Okay, I read the article and it said that at least one machine was at a remote location that couldn't be accessed - can anyone tell me what kind of physical setup debian project uses? I always get the impression that they're based out of some dude's dorm or basement, like in this OpenBSD image. Do they have any physical security measures at all around their boxes?
Hi, I'm Elin. Let's see if you can figure this out...
Imagine that my bra size is 30B, dress size is 8, and pants size is 30, and I'm changing clothes on a train going from New York to Stockholm at 80 mph that leaves at 8pm local time. Meanwhile another train going the oppisite direction at 70mph leaves Stockholm at 6am local time the same day with you inside. If my boyfriend who is infinitely hotter and smarter than you leaves Chicago on a flight to Stockholm at 7pm local time and takes 10 hours to get there, what is the area of naked skin under my clothes, and what are your chances of ever getting sight of it as our trains pass one another, taking me to heaven in the arms of Jean-Claude and you to hell in the bowels of Slashdot trolls? Show your work with your answer.
I don't know, I was trying to rename my C:\ drive label to 'Toby', but it kept rejecting it with the message "Error: My name... is Kunta Kinte! [OK] [Cancel]"
Conservative: The institution of cable plugging is a sacred gift from God!! We shall not let this homo-endian agenda destroy the sacred union of RS-232 plug & socket!
Liberal: Just because some plugs like other plugs does not make the data connections any less legitamite! Plug-to-plug and socket-to-socket connections work just as well as plug-and-socket connections! We must stop those bigoted engineers from 'fixing' them, and allow civil connections between them!
Okay, I agree that this is way too PC, and furthermore, the gov't should *not* be mandating technical terms just because they might offend.
That said, why do we use the master/slave terminology in the first place? It has negative connotations even if you're not black, jewish, etc. and it does not fit the actual situation in some cases. For example, as I understand it the 'master' IDE drive does not control the 'slave', they are both 'slaves' to the IDE controller. How did this terminology start?
If you're seeing Slashdot as Big5, then that means IE thought that the character frequency matched Big5 most closely.
A sad testament to how bad Slashdot grammar is... Next time someone asks you how bad the writing is on Slashdot, you can tell them "It's so bad my browser thinks it's Chinese!"
I disagree. Everyone here is taking the opinion that all that goes into games is programming and art, forgetting the one thing that makes games great: design. I don't mean the design of the code, I mean the ruleset by which the game operates, and the game mechanics. Programming is about implementing that design, and art is about giving it a coherent look. Unfortunately, I think most open-source games come from a programming pradigm where the coder starts writing stuff, and plugging problems as he goes, with no real 'feel' for the overall design and game mechanics.
For example, I have been playing FreeCiv a lot lately. For those that don't know, FreeCiv is a free/open source game based on Sid Meier's Civilization series. I really like it, but let's face it, it's just a clone. Now, I'm willing to bet that when Sid Meier made the original Civilization, the majority of work went into gameplay & balance, not into coding. It's that kind of vision of how a game should *work* that most free/open game projects seem to lack. I'm not saying that they're all bad or unoriginal - it's just the nature of the free/open source community to be made up mostly of coders honing their skills rather than game designers.
Some other data: Linuz Journal's 2003 user choice awards picked out Frozen Bubble as their best game - a clone of an old arcade game. Second was Quake 3, and third was Tux Racer. Tux Racer at least seems to have an original concept and design, so at least it shows the community can come up with some original ideas.
I believe that the popularity of Red Hat with business users early on was the promise of a workstation/server that was much cheaper than Windows, combined with decent support not available for the other Linuxes and BSDs. Now, I see that the 'basic edition' of Enterprise Linux Workstation is $179 and for Enterprise Server is $349. All that for a distro without even web-based support, or a printed manual? While I still believe that RH is a superior OS distro to Windows, I think the price increases and limited support are hampering adoption by businesses, and some that embraced RH earlier might be feeling a bit betrayed. Do you care to comment on this?
Okay, I'm not a beer nut, but I have read that tere's an interesting story behind that slogan...
Apparently, there is a Czech town called Budweis where they have been brewing a beer called "Budejovicky" or "Budweiser"(Which means 'from Budweis') since 12th century or so. Since the 16th century, they have been called "The beer of kings", presumably because actual kings drank it. In the 19th century, the Anheuser-Busch company decided to make a beer styled after the Budweis beers, and called it Budweiser. Apparently they did not have a very creative marketing staff, so their slogan became "The king of beers", which they use to this day.
Anheuser-Busch has apparently been strongarming people over that particular trademark, as well as suing over the 'Budweiser' trademark. That second link is particularly interesting, it has facts like how American Budweiser can't legally be called a 'beer' in Germany because they use rice in brewing and so forth.
Speaking of 'Beer of Presidents', I wonder what Mr. Bush actually drinks?
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Is there any site that you can go to to see what traffic loads are currently like on the major backbones and ISPs? My connection has been really slow for a couple of days, and I'm wondering if it's just my connection or if there's some huge DDoS going on right now....
Thankfully, no one was shot in this incident. Although 20 shots were fired, no one was hit due to what police described as 'rapid bunnyjumping'
Hmm, that's interesting. the [address bracket] thingie is not present on your link... what did you do to link there?
Norway had a similar case not long ago, where one politician was caught on camera playing games on his cellphone while in session with the parliament.It certainly didn't go down well ;-)
As I recall, wasn't that guy playing games while the parliment was debating whether to support the U.S. war in Iraq? 0_o I can see why they'd be pissed...
There really is a shortage of good soft porn nowadays.
Don't worry, Mr. Clarke has heard your complaint, and decided to take action! View his exciting new webcam and photosets at www.arthurcclarkenude.com! Members get full access to over 300 photos, including group sets with his friend and co-auther, Gentry Lee! View the HOTTEST author-on-author action on the net!
Okay, I feel dirty having posted that... may Asimov forgive me...
More like shooting fish in a barrel.
Actually, the Air Force has a term for that; it's called "Air Dominance". It's become a part of their war-fighting doctrine, actually. It denotes when they have overwhelming superiority in the air and total coverage of the skies such that the enemy can't use any of his air assets, and the US can choose targets with godlike impunity. That, btw, is why the new F-22 is called an "air dominance fighter" - it is expected to deliver total dominance over the enemy in battle.
Remember, it's not the military's job to "fight fair" - it's mission is to win as decisively as possible.
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Well, check out their Souvenier music catalog - they have a bunch of CDs and a DVD for "Mass Gymnastics, 60th Birthday Kim Jong Il" listed... interestingly, all the prices are in euros, which I think tells you what kind of people go there. Or maybe they're just too proud to ask for yen or dollars, who knows. I bet they don't ship to the U.S., either. Although I don't encourage (cr|h)acking, it'd be pretty funny to sniff the CC numbers of people who buy that shit...
Well, I got out of high school a few years ago, and my friends and I tended to be computer geeks. My experiences went like this:
;)
:P To geeks, however, just having a network to play with can be a valuable learning process, where they can learn the ins and outs of network security.
Middle school: Our school was lucky enough to get a network full of 486s when they were new, and we got a bunch of classes using them. Mostly it consisted of "How to use Word/Excel/PowerPoint" type classes. My friends, however, figured out how to: Accidentally crash the ccMail system by setting an auto-reply loop between accounts, filling the HD on the server; Fake a login prompt for Novell using Basic to steal passwords; Play Doom
Our net admin there was a volunteer, and I don't think she really got the network tightened in terms of security - but that was back in the DOS/Win 3.1 days, so I don't blame her. I wonder if they still have that 486 lab...
High School: A more ad-hoc network of machines(mostly HPs, 486 to P2 by the time I left) that was admined by the CS/IT teacher. Classes consisted of more Office technology stuff, plus actual programming classes in Basic and C++. The C++ class was better than some community college classes I've taken on programming. We did use the computers in some other classes, like running java applet simulations in physics, but for the most part the computers were used to teach computer skills.
The usual account-jacking, cracking, and general mischief went on for a year or two, but at some point they installed FoolProof and some other stuff, which effectively locked down the machines. Even my friends(who were network support by then) could not crack it.
In short, I think that computers do have a place in teaching, but they're often misused and they are definitely not more important than teachers, nor are they going to replace traditional teaching tools. I suspect that it will be another generation or so before we get teachers that are comfortable integrating computers into their curriculum, and we might have a stable, secure-out-of-the-box operating system standard by then
P.S. about open schools - the rival school across town was built in the 70s apparently as an 'open school', and while I like its campus design, its buildings are definitely poor. They literally didn't have walls seperating classrooms. After a while, they installed cubicle-like walls that reach up to the ceiling but are pretty thin. I hear it was a pretty good school, but I can't imagine liking it there, where you can hear other classes around you... What were those architects thinking?!
Yes, it's true! My rights are being violated, I swear! Oh wait...
To be fair, she *is* a math geek, and there have been times when the subject of a story here has posted a comment his/her self... Didn't want people to get the impression she was trolling Slashdot after a hard day of math problems :)
Okay, I read the article and it said that at least one machine was at a remote location that couldn't be accessed - can anyone tell me what kind of physical setup debian project uses? I always get the impression that they're based out of some dude's dorm or basement, like in this OpenBSD image. Do they have any physical security measures at all around their boxes?
Was it a stoned beaver?
Hi, I'm Elin. Let's see if you can figure this out...
:)
Imagine that my bra size is 30B, dress size is 8, and pants size is 30, and I'm changing clothes on a train going from New York to Stockholm at 80 mph that leaves at 8pm local time. Meanwhile another train going the oppisite direction at 70mph leaves Stockholm at 6am local time the same day with you inside. If my boyfriend who is infinitely hotter and smarter than you leaves Chicago on a flight to Stockholm at 7pm local time and takes 10 hours to get there, what is the area of naked skin under my clothes, and what are your chances of ever getting sight of it as our trains pass one another, taking me to heaven in the arms of Jean-Claude and you to hell in the bowels of Slashdot trolls? Show your work with your answer.
(Yes, that's a joke, I'm not Elin)
I don't know, I was trying to rename my C:\ drive label to 'Toby', but it kept rejecting it with the message "Error: My name... is Kunta Kinte! [OK] [Cancel]"
Not to mention thoroughly freaked out.
I'm sure your computer will be, as well.
We are talking about sucking the computer's breasts, right? Right?
Conservative: The institution of cable plugging is a sacred gift from God!! We shall not let this homo-endian agenda destroy the sacred union of RS-232 plug & socket!
Liberal: Just because some plugs like other plugs does not make the data connections any less legitamite! Plug-to-plug and socket-to-socket connections work just as well as plug-and-socket connections! We must stop those bigoted engineers from 'fixing' them, and allow civil connections between them!
Okay, I agree that this is way too PC, and furthermore, the gov't should *not* be mandating technical terms just because they might offend.
That said, why do we use the master/slave terminology in the first place? It has negative connotations even if you're not black, jewish, etc. and it does not fit the actual situation in some cases. For example, as I understand it the 'master' IDE drive does not control the 'slave', they are both 'slaves' to the IDE controller. How did this terminology start?
Don't worry, just go to the nearest K-Mart and you can find plenty of women crackers... oh wait, you want the other kind?
If you're seeing Slashdot as Big5, then that means IE thought that the character frequency matched Big5 most closely.
A sad testament to how bad Slashdot grammar is... Next time someone asks you how bad the writing is on Slashdot, you can tell them "It's so bad my browser thinks it's Chinese!"
I disagree. Everyone here is taking the opinion that all that goes into games is programming and art, forgetting the one thing that makes games great: design. I don't mean the design of the code, I mean the ruleset by which the game operates, and the game mechanics. Programming is about implementing that design, and art is about giving it a coherent look. Unfortunately, I think most open-source games come from a programming pradigm where the coder starts writing stuff, and plugging problems as he goes, with no real 'feel' for the overall design and game mechanics.
For example, I have been playing FreeCiv a lot lately. For those that don't know, FreeCiv is a free/open source game based on Sid Meier's Civilization series. I really like it, but let's face it, it's just a clone. Now, I'm willing to bet that when Sid Meier made the original Civilization, the majority of work went into gameplay & balance, not into coding. It's that kind of vision of how a game should *work* that most free/open game projects seem to lack. I'm not saying that they're all bad or unoriginal - it's just the nature of the free/open source community to be made up mostly of coders honing their skills rather than game designers.
Some other data: Linuz Journal's 2003 user choice awards picked out Frozen Bubble as their best game - a clone of an old arcade game. Second was Quake 3, and third was Tux Racer. Tux Racer at least seems to have an original concept and design, so at least it shows the community can come up with some original ideas.
Yes, it can only be used by those pure-blooded Aryans... Wait, weren't Aryans a tribe in India!? Oh, shit.
The presentation just blanks out with a generic "we can't show you this" message
No-one can be told what the Matrix parody is... you have to see it for your - D'Oh!
Dear Mr. Szulik,
I believe that the popularity of Red Hat with business users early on was the promise of a workstation/server that was much cheaper than Windows, combined with decent support not available for the other Linuxes and BSDs. Now, I see that the 'basic edition' of Enterprise Linux Workstation is $179 and for Enterprise Server is $349. All that for a distro without even web-based support, or a printed manual? While I still believe that RH is a superior OS distro to Windows, I think the price increases and limited support are hampering adoption by businesses, and some that embraced RH earlier might be feeling a bit betrayed. Do you care to comment on this?
Okay, I'm not a beer nut, but I have read that tere's an interesting story behind that slogan...
Apparently, there is a Czech town called Budweis where they have been brewing a beer called "Budejovicky" or "Budweiser"(Which means 'from Budweis') since 12th century or so. Since the 16th century, they have been called "The beer of kings", presumably because actual kings drank it. In the 19th century, the Anheuser-Busch company decided to make a beer styled after the Budweis beers, and called it Budweiser. Apparently they did not have a very creative marketing staff, so their slogan became "The king of beers", which they use to this day.
Anheuser-Busch has apparently been strongarming people over that particular trademark, as well as suing over the 'Budweiser' trademark. That second link is particularly interesting, it has facts like how American Budweiser can't legally be called a 'beer' in Germany because they use rice in brewing and so forth.
Speaking of 'Beer of Presidents', I wonder what Mr. Bush actually drinks?