Personally I install it on any friends or familys computers that require my support. Its part of the price for free tech support. If I find they have been using IE they get a 1 strike & they're out. If I find they have been using it a second time. "Sorry, my time is more important to me & I prefer not to keep fixing the same ol' same ol'"
After upgrading a few hours ago, I opened up the appropriate UDP prts as requested (pol;itely I might add) & watched the number of clients that I was trackerlessly connected to rise from ~50,000 ot more than 76,000
I've used it for a long time now, but the latest itteration just seems to go beyond the call of duty.
Thats the thing, how can paying fees year after year to get "must have" upgrades (& pay for the additional hardware to run it) be considered cheaper than a permanently free option that is perfectly extensible & likely to run well on the same hardware for much longer.
I agree as long as they dont legislate a requirement for its inclusion & there is no state monitored list of whats approved, this seems fine & dandy for parents on the go today.
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in Formats, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Profits good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
Me too, Im a 99 year old grandmother of 30 from Albania, who also owns a multi-million dollar IT company that survived the.com bubble & employs over 1000 people.
I still get porn spam though.
It even has the spelling errors!
Posted by brian on
Wed April 13, 03:24 PM from the have fun hitting reload page dept.
Cityslicker asks "I
used to be a coder fro Cisco until I got laid off three months ago. Now
that I have some free time I'd like to spend it finding a way to stop
global terrorism. I've thought about rounding up some immature
creationists to use them as alligator food. Do you think this would be
helpful? Have any other Slashdotters had any experience in this area,
or are most of you just interested in overthrowing the government? I'd
love to haer your ideas."
The dont panic bit is pretty universal. But I can only imagine how great it would be if content could be added by users. Just like a wiki, an always on, digital guide to everything around you. Although if that were ever implemented it would probably be raped by spam.
Dont just live on one planet. Seriously, if we had the technology to spread the species beyond our solar system, we wouldnt be taken out in one cosmic hit. Admittedly a gamma burst from coliding neutron stars would still take out a large portion of a galaxy.
I seem to recall a sci fi novella about something like this. I must go look it up
IIRC The Red, green, Blue Mars series
[war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk] has a great sub plot involving the space
elevator for Mars becoming detached (Terrorists) & due to its
length wrapping around the planet twice
After the second orbit, the tail end was whipping into the ground at
many kilometers per second & causing quakes that disrupted nearby
settlements.
Then the slope they ascended grew less steep, in a perfect sine curve,
until they were on the flat land of the round summit plateau. Here they
saw tent towns ringing the edge of the giant caldera, clustered in
particular around the foot of the space elevator, some thirty
kilometers to the south of them.
They stopped their cars. The silence in the cabins had shifted from
reverent to grim. Ann stood at one upper-cabin window, looking south to
Sheffield, that child of the space elevator: built because of the
elevator, smashed flat when the elevator fell, built again with the
elevator's replacement. This was the city she had come to destroy, as
thoroughly as Rome had Carthage; for she meant to bring down the
replacement cable too, just as they had the first one in 2061. When
they did that, much of Sheffield would again be flattened. What
remained would be located uselessly on the peak of a high volcano,
above most of the atmosphere; as time passed the surviving structures
would be abandoned and dismantled for salvage, leaving only the tent
foundations, and perhaps a weather station, and, eventually, the long
sunny silence of a mountain summit. The salt was already in the ground.
* * *
A cheerful Tharsis Red named Irishka joined them in a small rover, and
led them through the maze of warehouses and small tents surrounding the
intersection of the equatorial piste with the one circling the rim. As
they followed her she described for them the local situation. Most of
Sheffield and the rest of the Pavonis rim settlements were already in
the hands of the Martian revolutionaries. But the space elevator and
the neighborhood surrounding its base complex were not, and there lay
the difficulty. The revolutionary forces on Pavonis were mostly poorly
equipped militias, and they did not necessarily share the same agenda.
That they had succeeded as far as they had was due to many factors:
surprise, the control of Martian space, several strategic victories,
the support of great majority of the Martian population, the
unwillingness of the United Nations Transitional Authority to fire on
civilians,
IIRC The Red, green, Blue Mars series has a great sub plot involving the space elevator for Mars becoming detached (Terrorists) & due to its length wrapping around the planet twice
After the second orbit, the tail end was whipping into the ground at many kilometers per second & causing quakes that disrupted nearby settlements.
Then the slope they ascended grew less steep, in a perfect sine curve, until they were on the flat land of the round summit plateau. Here they saw tent towns ringing the edge of the giant caldera, clustered in particular around the foot of the space elevator, some thirty kilometers to the south of them.
They stopped their cars. The silence in the cabins had shifted from reverent to grim. Ann stood at one upper-cabin window, looking south to Sheffield, that child of the space elevator: built because of the elevator, smashed flat when the elevator fell, built again with the elevator's replacement. This was the city she had come to destroy, as thoroughly as Rome had Carthage; for she meant to bring down the replacement cable too, just as they had the first one in 2061. When they did that, much of Sheffield would again be flattened. What remained would be located uselessly on the peak of a high volcano, above most of the atmosphere; as time passed the surviving structures would be abandoned and dismantled for salvage, leaving only the tent foundations, and perhaps a weather station, and, eventually, the long sunny silence of a mountain summit. The salt was already in the ground.
* * *
A cheerful Tharsis Red named Irishka joined them in a small rover, and led them through the maze of warehouses and small tents surrounding the intersection of the equatorial piste with the one circling the rim. As they followed her she described for them the local situation. Most of Sheffield and the rest of the Pavonis rim settlements were already in the hands of the Martian revolutionaries. But the space elevator and the neighborhood surrounding its base complex were not, and there lay the difficulty. The revolutionary forces on Pavonis were mostly poorly equipped militias, and they did not necessarily share the same agenda. That they had succeeded as far as they had was due to many factors: surprise, the control of Martian space, several strategic victories, the support of great majority of the Martian population, the unwillingness of the United Nations Transitional Authority to fire on civilians, even when they were mak
"how big is your botnet?"
thats one reason a school would be good, so that you can educate against this kind of attitude.
Table of contents & Glossary Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 01 - Being a Hacker Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 02 - Windows and Linux Dec. 14, 04
Lesson 03 - Ports and Protocols Dec. 14, 04
Lesson 04 - Services and Connections Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 05 - System Identification Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 06 - Malware (Viruses, Trojans, etc.) Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 07 - Attack Analysis Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 08 - Digital Forensics Dec. 8, 04
Lesson 09 - E-mail Security and Privacy Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 10 - Web Security and Privacy
Lesson 11 - Passwords Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 12 - Internet Legalities and Ethics
Notice Etics last? I wonder how many will ADHD out & use their skills for evil before completing the course.
Anyone else laugh at the recent interview where he commented that he had succeded enough in his life so far, that he could afford to fail for the rest of his life...
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Personally I install it on any friends or familys computers that require my support. Its part of the price for free tech support.
If I find they have been using IE they get a 1 strike & they're out. If I find they have been using it a second time.
"Sorry, my time is more important to me & I prefer not to keep fixing the same ol' same ol'"
I would, but I dont live in america...
I totally had to mod this up, politicians don't really represent the "people" anymore (if they ever have)
If anyone cares, its up to exactly ~85,058
Its the Estimated number of peers I can see.
After upgrading a few hours ago, I opened up the appropriate UDP prts as requested (pol;itely I might add) & watched the number of clients that I was trackerlessly connected to rise from ~50,000 ot more than 76,000
I've used it for a long time now, but the latest itteration just seems to go beyond the call of duty.
Thats the thing, how can paying fees year after year to get "must have" upgrades (& pay for the additional hardware to run it) be considered cheaper than a permanently free option that is perfectly extensible & likely to run well on the same hardware for much longer.
Personally, I don't see how any government can in good conscience spend money on a solution, when there is a free, standards based alternative.
If by "parents who can't be bothered to raise their own kids" you mean 90% of the population of the planet, then yes. you broke my cunning code :-)
all statistics rigorously made up on the spot
I agree as long as they dont legislate a requirement for its inclusion & there is no state monitored list of whats approved, this seems fine & dandy for parents on the go today.
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in Formats, we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island,
whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,
and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving,
then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until,
in Profits good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
Me too, Im a 99 year old grandmother of 30 from Albania, who also owns a multi-million dollar IT company that survived the .com bubble & employs over 1000 people.
I still get porn spam though.
But once you see boobies so real, they'll knock your socks off?
It even has the spelling errors!
Posted by brian on Wed April 13, 03:24 PM
from the have fun hitting reload page dept.
Cityslicker asks "I used to be a coder fro Cisco until I got laid off three months ago. Now that I have some free time I'd like to spend it finding a way to stop global terrorism. I've thought about rounding up some immature creationists to use them as alligator food. Do you think this would be helpful? Have any other Slashdotters had any experience in this area, or are most of you just interested in overthrowing the government? I'd love to haer your ideas."
The dont panic bit is pretty universal.
But I can only imagine how great it would be if content could be added by users. Just like a wiki, an always on, digital guide to everything around you. Although if that were ever implemented it would probably be raped by spam.
Dont just live on one planet. Seriously, if we had the technology to spread the species beyond our solar system, we wouldnt be taken out in one cosmic hit. Admittedly a gamma burst from coliding neutron stars would still take out a large portion of a galaxy. I seem to recall a sci fi novella about something like this. I must go look it up
Fair enough, if the curriculum is focused on the ethical approach. It will be good to have a counterbalance to all those Russian hackers.
IIRC The Red, green, Blue Mars series [war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk] has a great sub plot involving the space elevator for Mars becoming detached (Terrorists) & due to its length wrapping around the planet twice
After the second orbit, the tail end was whipping into the ground at many kilometers per second & causing quakes that disrupted nearby settlements.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. - Amazon.com [amazon.com]
At a certain moment before dawn the sky always glowed the same bands of pink as in the beginning, pale and clear in the east, rich and starry in the west. Ann watched for this moment as her companions drove them west, toward a mass of black land rearing into the sky--the Tharsis Bulge, punctuated by the broad cone of Pavonis Mons. As they rolled uphill from Noctis Labyrinthus they rose above most of the new atmosphere; the air pressure at the foot of Pavonis was only 180 millibars, and then as they drove up the eastern flank of the great shield volcano it dropped under 100 millibars, and continued to fall. Slowly they ascended above all visible foliage, crunching over dirty patches of wind-carved snow; then they ascended above even the snow, until there was nothing but rock, and the ceaseless thin cold winds of the jet stream. The bare land looked just as it had in the prehuman years, as if they were driving back up into the past. It wasn't so. But something fundamental in Ann Caybome warmed at the sight of this ferric world, stone on rock in the perpetual wind, and as the Red cars rolled up the mountain all their occupants grew as rapt as Ann, the cabins falling silent as the sun cracked the distant horizon behind them.
Then the slope they ascended grew less steep, in a perfect sine curve, until they were on the flat land of the round summit plateau. Here they saw tent towns ringing the edge of the giant caldera, clustered in particular around the foot of the space elevator, some thirty kilometers to the south of them.
They stopped their cars. The silence in the cabins had shifted from reverent to grim. Ann stood at one upper-cabin window, looking south to Sheffield, that child of the space elevator: built because of the elevator, smashed flat when the elevator fell, built again with the elevator's replacement. This was the city she had come to destroy, as thoroughly as Rome had Carthage; for she meant to bring down the replacement cable too, just as they had the first one in 2061. When they did that, much of Sheffield would again be flattened. What remained would be located uselessly on the peak of a high volcano, above most of the atmosphere; as time passed the surviving structures would be abandoned and dismantled for salvage, leaving only the tent foundations, and perhaps a weather station, and, eventually, the long sunny silence of a mountain summit. The salt was already in the ground.
* * *
A cheerful Tharsis Red named Irishka joined them in a small rover, and led them through the maze of warehouses and small tents surrounding the intersection of the equatorial piste with the one circling the rim. As they followed her she described for them the local situation. Most of Sheffield and the rest of the Pavonis rim settlements were already in the hands of the Martian revolutionaries. But the space elevator and the neighborhood surrounding its base complex were not, and there lay the difficulty. The revolutionary forces on Pavonis were mostly poorly equipped militias, and they did not necessarily share the same agenda. That they had succeeded as far as they had was due to many factors: surprise, the control of Martian space, several strategic victories, the support of great majority of the Martian population, the unwillingness of the United Nations Transitional Authority to fire on civilians,
That would be naughty. The Man & the other man is watching.
Bittorrent is evil & no one would Battlestar Galactica
IIRC The Red, green, Blue Mars series has a great sub plot involving the space elevator for Mars becoming detached (Terrorists) & due to its length wrapping around the planet twice
After the second orbit, the tail end was whipping into the ground at many kilometers per second & causing quakes that disrupted nearby settlements.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. - Amazon.com
At a certain moment before dawn the sky always glowed the same bands of pink as in the beginning, pale and clear in the east, rich and starry in the west. Ann watched for this moment as her companions drove them west, toward a mass of black land rearing into the sky--the Tharsis Bulge, punctuated by the broad cone of Pavonis Mons. As they rolled uphill from Noctis Labyrinthus they rose above most of the new atmosphere; the air pressure at the foot of Pavonis was only 180 millibars, and then as they drove up the eastern flank of the great shield volcano it dropped under 100 millibars, and continued to fall. Slowly they ascended above all visible foliage, crunching over dirty patches of wind-carved snow; then they ascended above even the snow, until there was nothing but rock, and the ceaseless thin cold winds of the jet stream. The bare land looked just as it had in the prehuman years, as if they were driving back up into the past. It wasn't so. But something fundamental in Ann Caybome warmed at the sight of this ferric world, stone on rock in the perpetual wind, and as the Red cars rolled up the mountain all their occupants grew as rapt as Ann, the cabins falling silent as the sun cracked the distant horizon behind them.
Then the slope they ascended grew less steep, in a perfect sine curve, until they were on the flat land of the round summit plateau. Here they saw tent towns ringing the edge of the giant caldera, clustered in particular around the foot of the space elevator, some thirty kilometers to the south of them.
They stopped their cars. The silence in the cabins had shifted from reverent to grim. Ann stood at one upper-cabin window, looking south to Sheffield, that child of the space elevator: built because of the elevator, smashed flat when the elevator fell, built again with the elevator's replacement. This was the city she had come to destroy, as thoroughly as Rome had Carthage; for she meant to bring down the replacement cable too, just as they had the first one in 2061. When they did that, much of Sheffield would again be flattened. What remained would be located uselessly on the peak of a high volcano, above most of the atmosphere; as time passed the surviving structures would be abandoned and dismantled for salvage, leaving only the tent foundations, and perhaps a weather station, and, eventually, the long sunny silence of a mountain summit. The salt was already in the ground.
* * *
A cheerful Tharsis Red named Irishka joined them in a small rover, and led them through the maze of warehouses and small tents surrounding the intersection of the equatorial piste with the one circling the rim. As they followed her she described for them the local situation. Most of Sheffield and the rest of the Pavonis rim settlements were already in the hands of the Martian revolutionaries. But the space elevator and the neighborhood surrounding its base complex were not, and there lay the difficulty. The revolutionary forces on Pavonis were mostly poorly equipped militias, and they did not necessarily share the same agenda. That they had succeeded as far as they had was due to many factors: surprise, the control of Martian space, several strategic victories, the support of great majority of the Martian population, the unwillingness of the United Nations Transitional Authority to fire on civilians, even when they were mak
Thats the auto defense system that was secretly installed in Firefox. Where the idea was stolen from we will leave as an exercise for the reader.
"how big is your botnet?"
thats one reason a school would be good, so that you can educate against this kind of attitude.
Table of contents & Glossary Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 01 - Being a Hacker Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 02 - Windows and Linux Dec. 14, 04
Lesson 03 - Ports and Protocols Dec. 14, 04
Lesson 04 - Services and Connections Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 05 - System Identification Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 06 - Malware (Viruses, Trojans, etc.) Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 07 - Attack Analysis Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 08 - Digital Forensics Dec. 8, 04
Lesson 09 - E-mail Security and Privacy Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 10 - Web Security and Privacy
Lesson 11 - Passwords Dec. 3, 04
Lesson 12 - Internet Legalities and Ethics
Notice Etics last? I wonder how many will ADHD out & use their skills for evil before completing the course.
Because they didnt think of it & didnt want to until it was a success.
Its the same old story with success breeding success.
I forsee this propigating accross the internets,
I for one welcome our new Perpendicular Overlords.
Please dont hurt me.
Anyone else laugh at the recent interview where he commented that he had succeded enough in his life so far, that he could afford to fail for the rest of his life...