Maybe a bigger obstacle is branding. Intel is such a widely recognized name that higher ups who don't know any better keep buying Intel. AMD may be cheaper and faster, but Intel owns the mindshare. As long as Intel keeps billing themselves as they have been for the last 10 years, there will be a market for Intel.
Really expensive snacks ($4 for a Coke? Fuck You Cineplex!)
Keep in mind that of that $9.25 you pay for the ticket, the Cineplex gets between $.50 and $1. The rest goes to our second favorite group of money grubbing thieves, the MPAA. The Cineplex has to make money SOMEWHERE in the equation. Because of that, I make sure that I buy stuff at the snack counter when I see a movie.
I agree with you on the overall cost of a movie. I think I saw 3 movies last year, all carefully picked (Revenge of the Sith, Charlie and the chocolate factory, Walk the Line). Good choices, but considering the 200 or so movies that come out in a year, only 3 interested me enough to go (actually 4, Wallace and Grommit looked good but I couldn't go for other reasons).
If a REALLY good movie comes out, be a good sport and support your local cinema. For anything else, there's Netflix.
I'm confused by Lisa's comment about "It's a bit of a mystery, yes, but if you look at the clues, you can figure it out." If the town doesn't exist. I've seen many debates on the subject, and the only logical conclusion is that it doesn't exist. We do however have probability.
Your site missed a clue, I consider it a big one. In ep 8F08 (Flaming Moe's) Steven Tyler mistakingly screams out "Hello, St Louis!", implying that he may be near St. Louis. Of course, large bands often have no idea where they are. Maybe he was either in St. Louis the night before, or will be tomorrow night, or the road manager was just plain lost. I think it was intentional on the part of Matt Groening, and gives us another point for Springfield, MO.
Why does my phone need to have the ability to execute malicious code in the first place? A phone does not need a web browser, chat client, and e-mail client. A phone certainly DOES NOT need any sort of scripting engine. Why did the cell phone manufactures go and add vulnerabilities into the phone in the first place?
It's referring to user stupidity. It implies that there is no fix for a stupid user who is REALLY intent on doing stupid things, despite education otherwise. It's not aimed at any particular entity, FWIW.
Because it's anti-Bush. Since 80%+ of/. readership is liberal, it gets posted.
In response to the article, I think it's the general consensus of everyone involved that we invaded Iraq for no good reason. Problem is, now that we've done so, we have to stick it out until Iraq is able to run themselves again.
One source I saw (was it/. yesterday?) actually suggested keeping your computers turned off today. All too familiar with the big Michroangelo scare of 1990 (oh geez I'm old...)
Does this mean A) we've done a good job training our users or B) no one infected with this worm is willing to admit it?
Most of the users I support would rather reconstruct their documents than admit they clicked on a "free pr0n" e-mail. Wonder how accurate this news really is.
Typically if you were going to send a message to another party, you would give the message to a ham operator. The ham operator would join one of the two daily national nets and send your encoded message. A ham near the intended recipYou're looking at 3 hops, on average, so a traceroute probably wouldn't look very interesting.
You could set a handling instruction of HXB using short expiration times in hours (TTLs, essentially). Format multiple messages to the same source using varying TTLs, and you have yourself a traceroute. Considering that each message may take a different path, this may not give you the desired result. Now you've peaked my interest, this may be worth trying out.
Western union may have ended thier telegram service, but radio telegrams are still alive and well. Amateur radio service still uses RTs in emergency communications. The art of "traffic handling" as it's called is still encouraged by the ARRL. Here's a document that explains proper formatting of a radio telgram.
Why does Slashdot continue with fruitless attempts to revise history by using the term "cracker"? It's not "cracker" and never has been. NEVER.
I think you're confused. In the beginning, there were "hackers" and there were "crackers". "Hackers" were geeks who built, tested, used, and otherwise understood the inner workings of things. Linus is a hacker. He wanted an OS for the PC that didn't suck, and used his knowledge to build a true hacker OS.
"Cracker" refers to someone who breaks into things, usually with malicious intent. If an attacker installs a rootkit on your webserver, you have been cracked, not hacked.
In the recent years the mass media morons have blurred the line, and the word "cracker" virtually doesn't exist. Now there's good (white hat) hackers and bad (black hat) hackers. Even that is starting to change, with words like "penetration testing" starting to redefine the white hats.
Back to your original point, I agree with you that it's not worth fighting over anymore. The word "cracker" is pretty much gone forever, and eventually the word hacker will mean only "bad guy", with the good guys using the new terminology to distinguish themselves from hackers.
The article you link to was the announcement that the change was coming. This article (written 2 days ago) states that Best Buy is finally starting the process. Same topic, but different articles.
If Linus announced that "kernel 2.8 is coming", then a year later said "2.8 has come", that would be a dupe in your flawed logic.
I'm surprised no one else mentioned this. Madwifi support is a ray of hope in a seemingly dismal stretch of crappy wifi cards. More and more manufacturers are switching the the Atheros chipset, which is a rock solid design. Add in the instant "just works" madwifi driver and you have the ingredients for good WLAN on linux.
The complexity comes in the fact that madwifi isn't GPL'd. Madwifi contains some code of unknown origin. Since they can't package the madwifi driver in the kernel, you get the messy job of building madwifi against kernel source. My hope is that the code gets "cleansed" and added to the kernel tree. Then the madwifi stuff will be the defacto driver for wireless.
I bought a new wireless card for Christmas. I was working on getting the madwifi stuff working in Debian and I decided not to set up my AP until I had my wireless card working. Besides, I'm a n00b to wireless under linux so I wanted to take appropriate precauitons.
I got the card working, and iwlist brought up two APs in my neighborhood. One name "simpsons" and one name "zr45ytg" or something similar with WEP enabled. Not being 1337, I left the WEP one alone (for now) and decided to hop onto simpsons. As you can probably guess, I was given a private IP and internet access. A quick nmap showed two Windows machines connected, using smbclient I found an open printer share.
Digging farther, I tried to log into the AP itself. Linksys WRT54G with, you guessed it, defult passwords. Oh, let the fun begin! I changed his SSID to "0wn3d" and sent the relevant sections of the Linksys WRT54G manual to his printer. This guy now should know how to set up WEP and change his admin password. He should also notice that his SSID changed.
One week later, still broadcasting an SSID of 0wn3d, no WEP, and default admin password. Either he didn't get the message or he's illiterate. Oh well, free internet for me!
What geek doesn't already know about Newegg, CDW, HP, or Dell? I've had good luck with HP's service and CDW's "gotta get it there this second" shipping for in stock items. Big companies + someone willing to pay for shipping == good service. If you can drop $50 or more to have that [drive|cable|controller|motherboard|power supply|blinky light], just about everyone will give you same day service as long as the parts are in stock.
I get sick of you whiny brats. This isn't even a Slashvertisement. Notice that there's not a single link or company mentioned in the post? Notice that you're already familiar with the companies mentioned in the various posts? Nothing to see here, just good advice for a poster who needs a clue.
If you're still in the store, there's a few options. The clerk may remember you or at the very least, they should be able to swipe your CC and pull up your last purchase.
But yes, it's an inconvenience. That piece of paper saves a lot of time and hassle.
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2) I will learn what number comes after 2.
Advices on Learning Japanese?
How's abouts ya learn English first?
Most people have a hard time remembering if their CPU is made by Pentium or made by Intel. They won't have a clue whether it's i386 or AMD64
This is true, however:
If you want to know if a specific hardware component is supported..
If you're concerned about a particular piece of hardware, then you probably know what CPU you're running. Your point is moot.
Maryland Votes To Ban Diebold Voting Machines
The big question is, did they use Diebold machines to count the votes? *ducks*
Maybe a bigger obstacle is branding. Intel is such a widely recognized name that higher ups who don't know any better keep buying Intel. AMD may be cheaper and faster, but Intel owns the mindshare. As long as Intel keeps billing themselves as they have been for the last 10 years, there will be a market for Intel.
Really expensive snacks ($4 for a Coke? Fuck You Cineplex!)
Keep in mind that of that $9.25 you pay for the ticket, the Cineplex gets between $.50 and $1. The rest goes to our second favorite group of money grubbing thieves, the MPAA. The Cineplex has to make money SOMEWHERE in the equation. Because of that, I make sure that I buy stuff at the snack counter when I see a movie.
I agree with you on the overall cost of a movie. I think I saw 3 movies last year, all carefully picked (Revenge of the Sith, Charlie and the chocolate factory, Walk the Line). Good choices, but considering the 200 or so movies that come out in a year, only 3 interested me enough to go (actually 4, Wallace and Grommit looked good but I couldn't go for other reasons).
If a REALLY good movie comes out, be a good sport and support your local cinema. For anything else, there's Netflix.
I'm confused by Lisa's comment about "It's a bit of a mystery, yes, but if you look at the clues, you can figure it out." If the town doesn't exist. I've seen many debates on the subject, and the only logical conclusion is that it doesn't exist. We do however have probability.
Your site missed a clue, I consider it a big one. In ep 8F08 (Flaming Moe's) Steven Tyler mistakingly screams out "Hello, St Louis!", implying that he may be near St. Louis. Of course, large bands often have no idea where they are. Maybe he was either in St. Louis the night before, or will be tomorrow night, or the road manager was just plain lost. I think it was intentional on the part of Matt Groening, and gives us another point for Springfield, MO.
Why does my phone need to have the ability to execute malicious code in the first place? A phone does not need a web browser, chat client, and e-mail client. A phone certainly DOES NOT need any sort of scripting engine. Why did the cell phone manufactures go and add vulnerabilities into the phone in the first place?
It's referring to user stupidity. It implies that there is no fix for a stupid user who is REALLY intent on doing stupid things, despite education otherwise. It's not aimed at any particular entity, FWIW.
Superbowl? Didn't know they were still running that. Figured everyone was watching Daytona 500 now.
Microsoft reported earlier today that Windows performs better with your PC shut off.
Because it's anti-Bush. Since 80%+ of /. readership is liberal, it gets posted.
In response to the article, I think it's the general consensus of everyone involved that we invaded Iraq for no good reason. Problem is, now that we've done so, we have to stick it out until Iraq is able to run themselves again.
One source I saw (was it /. yesterday?) actually suggested keeping your computers turned off today. All too familiar with the big Michroangelo scare of 1990 (oh geez I'm old...)
Does this mean A) we've done a good job training our users or B) no one infected with this worm is willing to admit it?
Most of the users I support would rather reconstruct their documents than admit they clicked on a "free pr0n" e-mail. Wonder how accurate this news really is.
Typically if you were going to send a message to another party, you would give the message to a ham operator. The ham operator would join one of the two daily national nets and send your encoded message. A ham near the intended recipYou're looking at 3 hops, on average, so a traceroute probably wouldn't look very interesting.
You could set a handling instruction of HXB using short expiration times in hours (TTLs, essentially). Format multiple messages to the same source using varying TTLs, and you have yourself a traceroute. Considering that each message may take a different path, this may not give you the desired result. Now you've peaked my interest, this may be worth trying out.
How can this be? How can BETA software have bugs? This must be a conspiracy. Call CNN. Get Faux News on the phone. this is a STORY!!!!
Of course it has bugs. Grow up already.
Western union may have ended thier telegram service, but radio telegrams are still alive and well. Amateur radio service still uses RTs in emergency communications. The art of "traffic handling" as it's called is still encouraged by the ARRL. Here's a document that explains proper formatting of a radio telgram.
Why does Slashdot continue with fruitless attempts to revise history by using the term "cracker"? It's not "cracker" and never has been. NEVER.
I think you're confused. In the beginning, there were "hackers" and there were "crackers". "Hackers" were geeks who built, tested, used, and otherwise understood the inner workings of things. Linus is a hacker. He wanted an OS for the PC that didn't suck, and used his knowledge to build a true hacker OS.
"Cracker" refers to someone who breaks into things, usually with malicious intent. If an attacker installs a rootkit on your webserver, you have been cracked, not hacked.
In the recent years the mass media morons have blurred the line, and the word "cracker" virtually doesn't exist. Now there's good (white hat) hackers and bad (black hat) hackers. Even that is starting to change, with words like "penetration testing" starting to redefine the white hats.
Back to your original point, I agree with you that it's not worth fighting over anymore. The word "cracker" is pretty much gone forever, and eventually the word hacker will mean only "bad guy", with the good guys using the new terminology to distinguish themselves from hackers.
Shut up. Seriously.
The article you link to was the announcement that the change was coming. This article (written 2 days ago) states that Best Buy is finally starting the process. Same topic, but different articles.
If Linus announced that "kernel 2.8 is coming", then a year later said "2.8 has come", that would be a dupe in your flawed logic.
I'm surprised no one else mentioned this. Madwifi support is a ray of hope in a seemingly dismal stretch of crappy wifi cards. More and more manufacturers are switching the the Atheros chipset, which is a rock solid design. Add in the instant "just works" madwifi driver and you have the ingredients for good WLAN on linux.
The complexity comes in the fact that madwifi isn't GPL'd. Madwifi contains some code of unknown origin. Since they can't package the madwifi driver in the kernel, you get the messy job of building madwifi against kernel source. My hope is that the code gets "cleansed" and added to the kernel tree. Then the madwifi stuff will be the defacto driver for wireless.
No they don't. True story:
I bought a new wireless card for Christmas. I was working on getting the madwifi stuff working in Debian and I decided not to set up my AP until I had my wireless card working. Besides, I'm a n00b to wireless under linux so I wanted to take appropriate precauitons.
I got the card working, and iwlist brought up two APs in my neighborhood. One name "simpsons" and one name "zr45ytg" or something similar with WEP enabled. Not being 1337, I left the WEP one alone (for now) and decided to hop onto simpsons. As you can probably guess, I was given a private IP and internet access. A quick nmap showed two Windows machines connected, using smbclient I found an open printer share.
Digging farther, I tried to log into the AP itself. Linksys WRT54G with, you guessed it, defult passwords. Oh, let the fun begin! I changed his SSID to "0wn3d" and sent the relevant sections of the Linksys WRT54G manual to his printer. This guy now should know how to set up WEP and change his admin password. He should also notice that his SSID changed.
One week later, still broadcasting an SSID of 0wn3d, no WEP, and default admin password. Either he didn't get the message or he's illiterate. Oh well, free internet for me!
Shut up, idiot.
What geek doesn't already know about Newegg, CDW, HP, or Dell? I've had good luck with HP's service and CDW's "gotta get it there this second" shipping for in stock items. Big companies + someone willing to pay for shipping == good service. If you can drop $50 or more to have that [drive|cable|controller|motherboard|power supply|blinky light], just about everyone will give you same day service as long as the parts are in stock.
I get sick of you whiny brats. This isn't even a Slashvertisement. Notice that there's not a single link or company mentioned in the post? Notice that you're already familiar with the companies mentioned in the various posts? Nothing to see here, just good advice for a poster who needs a clue.
Get outside. Seriously.
Cool! The Xbox360 comes with a Gamecube?
I find it ironic that you post complaints about spelling to Slashdot. We can't spell, either!
If you're still in the store, there's a few options. The clerk may remember you or at the very least, they should be able to swipe your CC and pull up your last purchase.
But yes, it's an inconvenience. That piece of paper saves a lot of time and hassle.