Seriously, my girlfriend and I were just talking about whether or not Nintendo would cave in to the mountain of people throwing their wiimotes through their big screen tv's or no. I'm glad that I don't have one right now, because she definitely would....
I guess that's one way of putting it. The mayan calendar predicts a massive change in the earth every 640 years, of which the next is 2012, as you noted. I suppose the end of the world "as we know it" would technically be correct, but a major planetary change, however initially subtle, is definitely coming up according to them.
I remember reading something about this in Popular Science a few years ago (like 4-5). They had this guy, who used ground glass and other forms of carbon in his steel, and a unique forging process, to eventually replicate Damascus steel. It was really cool, really cool looking, and just as sharp and durable as those legendary blades of yesteryear.
The forging process was something about forging and reforging until the heat drew trace elements of carbide to the surface and eventually to the edge, where they would be immensely hard and sharp, and with acid, form a beautiful finish. Very cool!
I worked in the IT of a smaller school, where we did infected student machines for free (It was a private school). So, we routinely got some pretty bad ones. A few of them would take nearly an hour to start up, overheat before completing startup, etc. Some of them had in the neighborhood of 15,000-20,000 separate infected files. It was insane how badly some of these kids had messed up their machines, and a lot of them were freshmen ( I cry a little at night thinking of all that beautiful hardware being wasted:
Sometimes it took me a few days, but I never sent a single one back having to reformat or reinstall. I wrote a lot of block scripts with Group Policy Editor, used Process Explorer from SysInternals alot (goodbye Mark! I miss you already!). Most of the time, however, XClean, Spybot and Ewido were plenty to remove the adware that was crippling the machine.
I, for one, hope that America gets off it's ass today and realizes how shockingly corrupt they have allowed their government to become while waiting in the wings for the "moral obligation". I'm sick and tired of hearing about how Republican pundits are willing to "give up a little freedom" to ensure that we still keep invading foreign countries for oil, lying, torturing people, eliminating habeas corpus after 150 years...I could go on and on.
I quit watching the news for a while some time ago, because I literally couldn't believe that there are people who know about the above behavior and would still support it. But then throngs of Bush supporters and hard-line Repblicans answered my question for me.
I sincerely hope America does something about her problems today, before it's too late.
Same shit, different day. Wasn't it yesterday that Didiot came out with an anti-Linux statistical analysis? (Yes, it was).
Let's please get with the "right tool for the right job" program, and start spending our money on innovation and development. I'm just as much of a zealot for open source, GNU/Linux as the next guy, but I'd much rather see our time and energy go into making new technologies.
Inasmuch as I would love to believe that this is going to happen, I have to say that I have completely lost faith in the American. The fact that pro-Bush polls are 32% still, the fact that America voted him back in 2004 after all of his atrocities before then, and all the atrocities that he has committed since then....I cannot accept.
I feel defeated, worthless, helpless. The family and friends that claim to be Republican are blind to anything that the party and it's leaders do, just as long as they can hold onto the hope that abortion might get overturned someday. Never mind that countless thousands of people are tortured or murdered for corrupt foreign investment opportunities, "if Bush wasn't there, the gays could get married and we'd never overturn abortion".
When will the evangelical/fundamentalist right wake up, and realize that the favors they're trying to call in aren't working out. Yes, you amassed and put up with his bullshit, and all of his charade of cabinet leaders and their corporate influence. But, now you're finally starting to see the fruit of your ill-advised vote, and the real atrocities are starting to pour out more and more.
So yes, even though I hate to say it, I don't see the end coming soon, if ever. It would serve the fundy/evangelicals right if the government suffered a severe meltdown during the next term (which I am seeing as more of a possibility more and more all the time). Then, history could finally point and laugh at the monumental stupidity that people are willing to exhibit to try and get their religious agendas fulfilled.
Just another disillusioned American/slashdotter....
My parents always wanted to control everything in my life, too. They didn't allow computers for a while, because they could potentially induce pornography, etc.
However, my parents never took away 2 of the greatest cultural phenomenons in the last 2 years, simply because they are competitors with you. I know that my dad's tool shop would rather me not use the other company's competing tool, but they don't stop me from being curious and knowing the customer.
Ballmer needs to stop being an absolute control freak...I can't believe he's even letting it bleed into his family life.
I wonder if he screams "Developers! Developers!" at his kids, too...
I use GoDaddy for my hundreds of domain registrations....too bad to see them make this decision. Not to be a blatant Microsoft troll, but it is nearly generally recognized in the server community that Linux/Apache is a more secure solution than Windows. Why would GoDaddy site security as their reason to change vendors?
I'm with you there. I often su to root inside a shell and remain there for some time, until I'm finishing executing commands that require root. I don't feel the need to secure my 2 Ubuntu boxes at home enough to only sudo in and out. It's irritating having to type that command over and over again.
Now, the servers at the workplace are a different story, though I tend to ssh in as root at times as well.
I'm not really sure that this a feature that most people will ever use. Sucks that they felt the need to install a block. Strange that Intel has a block against it somewhere, rather than AMD.
Believe me, it's no myth. I've had one on my cars for years. There are also various types and grades of sponsorship.
If you're a premium member, they give you what looks like a Sherrif's badge. That pretty much makes you God on the highways, unless you get somebody that a State or not in the FOP.
I totally agree with this. My school was wi-fi saturation in the classrooms, and some of the profs here have taken to implementing a no-laptop policy. Granted, the main prof who is causing problems found a student watching Desperado last year, but the rest of us actually benefit from it. It's the responsibility of the school nor the professor, but the student of their own education.
No, but that's how crappy movies really work in the United States. Yes, someone greenlighted that movie.
Oh well, it's soon to break into the IMDB Bottom 100.
I said right off the bat, that the Sony DRM package would be full of other's code. Seems to me that Sony hired some blackhats to get the job done for them. Violating the GPL is definitely the least of their worries, but just another strike against what is becoming an increasingly corrupt music giant.
Mod parent up. I feel exactly the same way. I, too, fear that I will take the fond memory of an open Internet system to the grave with me and my generation. That the machinations of controls that are already in place will take away from freedom from us once and for all.
that all the Mac zealots came out to bash Linux and how OS X is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Right tool for the right job, is the mantra. In this case, these $100 machines aren't exactly robust. An operating system as robust as OS X may work well on pricey, narrow-field hardware that's engineered specifically for the OS. But in this case, these are your run of the mill, low-spec machines, so a customizable OS would work much better.
And the point above all points: It's NOT free. The kernel may be free, the underlying system may be free, but the OS isn't.
Dupe! Dupe, I say. Seriously, though. This was one of the more commented on stories of the past week. I and other slashdotters are sensing subterfuge.
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Technically, there is a Springfield in Missouri, and one in Illinois. I have absolutely no reference for this, but I've heard some rumor about the one in Illinois being the inspiration. But grandparent was right, it really doesn't matter. Springfield is supposed to be any place in America.
Yet another tool underneath the vast governmental race towards 1984 esque society. Let's all applaud Big Brother Bush for him stopping both the unique pr0n industry and now people from::gasp:: talking over the internet without eavesdropping.
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Seriously, my girlfriend and I were just talking about whether or not Nintendo would cave in to the mountain of people throwing their wiimotes through their big screen tv's or no. I'm glad that I don't have one right now, because she definitely would....
I guess that's one way of putting it. The mayan calendar predicts a massive change in the earth every 640 years, of which the next is 2012, as you noted. I suppose the end of the world "as we know it" would technically be correct, but a major planetary change, however initially subtle, is definitely coming up according to them.
Bravo! that's the hardest I've laughed in a few weeks from Slashdot. Very good, sir.
I remember reading something about this in Popular Science a few years ago (like 4-5). They had this guy, who used ground glass and other forms of carbon in his steel, and a unique forging process, to eventually replicate Damascus steel. It was really cool, really cool looking, and just as sharp and durable as those legendary blades of yesteryear.
The forging process was something about forging and reforging until the heat drew trace elements of carbide to the surface and eventually to the edge, where they would be immensely hard and sharp, and with acid, form a beautiful finish. Very cool!
But....SMTP isn't a TLA (Three Letter Acronym)...
I worked in the IT of a smaller school, where we did infected student machines for free (It was a private school). So, we routinely got some pretty bad ones. A few of them would take nearly an hour to start up, overheat before completing startup, etc. Some of them had in the neighborhood of 15,000-20,000 separate infected files. It was insane how badly some of these kids had messed up their machines, and a lot of them were freshmen ( I cry a little at night thinking of all that beautiful hardware being wasted :
Sometimes it took me a few days, but I never sent a single one back having to reformat or reinstall. I wrote a lot of block scripts with Group Policy Editor, used Process Explorer from SysInternals alot (goodbye Mark! I miss you already!). Most of the time, however, XClean, Spybot and Ewido were plenty to remove the adware that was crippling the machine.
I, for one, hope that America gets off it's ass today and realizes how shockingly corrupt they have allowed their government to become while waiting in the wings for the "moral obligation". I'm sick and tired of hearing about how Republican pundits are willing to "give up a little freedom" to ensure that we still keep invading foreign countries for oil, lying, torturing people, eliminating habeas corpus after 150 years...I could go on and on.
I quit watching the news for a while some time ago, because I literally couldn't believe that there are people who know about the above behavior and would still support it. But then throngs of Bush supporters and hard-line Repblicans answered my question for me.
I sincerely hope America does something about her problems today, before it's too late.
Same shit, different day. Wasn't it yesterday that Didiot came out with an anti-Linux statistical analysis?
(Yes, it was).
Let's please get with the "right tool for the right job" program, and start spending our money on innovation and development. I'm just as much of a zealot for open source, GNU/Linux as the next guy, but I'd much rather see our time and energy go into making new technologies.
Inasmuch as I would love to believe that this is going to happen, I have to say that I have completely lost faith in the American. The fact that pro-Bush polls are 32% still, the fact that America voted him back in 2004 after all of his atrocities before then, and all the atrocities that he has committed since then....I cannot accept.
I feel defeated, worthless, helpless. The family and friends that claim to be Republican are blind to anything that the party and it's leaders do, just as long as they can hold onto the hope that abortion might get overturned someday. Never mind that countless thousands of people are tortured or murdered for corrupt foreign investment opportunities, "if Bush wasn't there, the gays could get married and we'd never overturn abortion".
When will the evangelical/fundamentalist right wake up, and realize that the favors they're trying to call in aren't working out. Yes, you amassed and put up with his bullshit, and all of his charade of cabinet leaders and their corporate influence. But, now you're finally starting to see the fruit of your ill-advised vote, and the real atrocities are starting to pour out more and more.
So yes, even though I hate to say it, I don't see the end coming soon, if ever. It would serve the fundy/evangelicals right if the government suffered a severe meltdown during the next term (which I am seeing as more of a possibility more and more all the time). Then, history could finally point and laugh at the monumental stupidity that people are willing to exhibit to try and get their religious agendas fulfilled.
Just another disillusioned American/slashdotter....
My parents always wanted to control everything in my life, too. They didn't allow computers for a while, because they could potentially induce pornography, etc.
However, my parents never took away 2 of the greatest cultural phenomenons in the last 2 years, simply because they are competitors with you. I know that my dad's tool shop would rather me not use the other company's competing tool, but they don't stop me from being curious and knowing the customer.
Ballmer needs to stop being an absolute control freak...I can't believe he's even letting it bleed into his family life.
I wonder if he screams "Developers! Developers!" at his kids, too...
I use GoDaddy for my hundreds of domain registrations....too bad to see them make this decision. Not to be a blatant Microsoft troll, but it is nearly generally recognized in the server community that Linux/Apache is a more secure solution than Windows. Why would GoDaddy site security as their reason to change vendors?
I'm with you there. I often su to root inside a shell and remain there for some time, until I'm finishing executing commands that require root. I don't feel the need to secure my 2 Ubuntu boxes at home enough to only sudo in and out. It's irritating having to type that command over and over again.
Now, the servers at the workplace are a different story, though I tend to ssh in as root at times as well.
I'm not really sure that this a feature that most people will ever use. Sucks that they felt the need to install a block. Strange that Intel has a block against it somewhere, rather than AMD.
Believe me, it's no myth. I've had one on my cars for years. There are also various types and grades of sponsorship.
If you're a premium member, they give you what looks like a Sherrif's badge. That pretty much makes you God on the highways, unless you get somebody that a State or not in the FOP.
Haha, well put. I thought it strange that I had a similar manner of impression, albeit perhaps less verbose and profane.
I totally agree with this. My school was wi-fi saturation in the classrooms, and some of the profs here have taken to implementing a no-laptop policy. Granted, the main prof who is causing problems found a student watching Desperado last year, but the rest of us actually benefit from it. It's the responsibility of the school nor the professor, but the student of their own education.
Yeah, even Bush has to run to the bathroom in the presence of the mighty UN.
No, but that's how crappy movies really work in the United States. Yes, someone greenlighted that movie. Oh well, it's soon to break into the IMDB Bottom 100.
I said right off the bat, that the Sony DRM package would be full of other's code. Seems to me that Sony hired some blackhats to get the job done for them. Violating the GPL is definitely the least of their worries, but just another strike against what is becoming an increasingly corrupt music giant.
Mod parent up. I feel exactly the same way. I, too, fear that I will take the fond memory of an open Internet system to the grave with me and my generation. That the machinations of controls that are already in place will take away from freedom from us once and for all.
that all the Mac zealots came out to bash Linux and how OS X is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Right tool for the right job, is the mantra. In this case, these $100 machines aren't exactly robust. An operating system as robust as OS X may work well on pricey, narrow-field hardware that's engineered specifically for the OS. But in this case, these are your run of the mill, low-spec machines, so a customizable OS would work much better.
And the point above all points: It's NOT free. The kernel may be free, the underlying system may be free, but the OS isn't.
Dupe! Dupe, I say. Seriously, though. This was one of the more commented on stories of the past week. I and other slashdotters are sensing subterfuge.
Technically, there is a Springfield in Missouri, and one in Illinois. I have absolutely no reference for this, but I've heard some rumor about the one in Illinois being the inspiration. But grandparent was right, it really doesn't matter. Springfield is supposed to be any place in America.
Yet another tool underneath the vast governmental race towards 1984 esque society. ::gasp:: talking over the internet without eavesdropping.
Let's all applaud Big Brother Bush for him stopping both the unique pr0n industry and now people from
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