Question 1: What does "httpd" stand for? Correct Answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon
Question 2: What is the primary use for the 224.0.1.24 IP address? Correct Answer: It's the WINS server group address, used for the dynamic configuration of replication for WINS servers and auto-discovery
Question 3: How much RAM is supported in the 32-bit version of Windows Server 2008 R2? Correct Answer: None
Question 4: The names Killing Horizon and Event Horizon are not related to: Correct Answer: Two sci-fi movies from the '90s
Question 5: Which one of these will let you quickly look at the open ports on a machine? Correct Answer: NETSTAT
Question 6: When the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) protocol was popular, which of these was considered one of its primary advantages? Correct Answer: Multiple tokens Your Answer: Multiple tokens
Question 7: What does "GUID" stand for? Correct Answer: Globally Unique Identifier Your Answer: Globally Unique Identifier I'm fairly proud of inventing "Group Unnamed Information Delivery" -- it sounds very authentic, though "Great Underwear Is Divine" is nearest a universal truth.
Question 8: A 10Base2 Ethernet network used what kind of cabling? Correct Answer: Thinnet coaxial Your Answer: Twisted pair If some kid straight out of college is standing behind you asking, "What the hell is 10Base2?!" feel free to pretend you don't know the answer and choose HDMI. Old folks need to stick together.
Question 9: "Aero," the GUI introduced with Windows Vista, stands for which of the following? Correct Answer: Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open
Question 10: Which of these commands will install Windows 2000 Server? Correct Answer: A and B
Question 11: Which of the following network protocols requires a terminator? Correct Answer: 10Base5
Question 12: An example of diametrically opposed alignments in AD&D would be: Correct Answer: CE vs. LG Your Answer: CE vs. LG Paladins vs. anti-Paladins or maybe just snarky journalists. Don't feel bad if you didn’t get this -- it just means you were having sex in high school.
Question 13: On a Windows NT network, what is the maximum name size for a client computer? Correct Answer: 15 Your Answer: 15
Question 14: To restart the printer daemon for a Linux printer, you’ll use the command: Correct Answer: Restart [printer name]
Question 15: What is an Active Directory forest? Correct Answer: A group of domains that share a common schema
Question 16: To which politician do we attribute the quote: "The Internet is a great way to get on the Net"? Correct Answer: Bob Dole
Question 17: The Tombstone-Lifetime Attribute represents which of the following: Correct Answer: The number of days before a deleted objected is removed from directory services Your Answer: The number of days before a deleted objected is removed from directory services
Question 18: What early example of an Internet viral video phenom was used in the "Ally McBeal" TV series in 1998? Correct Answer: The Dancing Baby Your Answer: The Dancing Baby
Question 19: A MIB contains status information for which protocol? Correct Answer: SNMP
Question 20: Which of the following has the best chance to protect your users' identities? Correct Answer: Spyware detector
No. He didn't say that at all. Try rereading it without jumping to conclusions after the first sentence.
He is basically saying that he sees no problem in being charged for your bandwidth usage not just a flat fee.
My commentary: As it stands now, if everyone tried to take advantage of their full bandwidth at the same time, we'd have a disaster. You and I get to use more bandwidth because the majority of people use only a fraction of what is available to them. I think there should be a fee for usage, but I sure don't trust my IP to set those numbers... there isn't nearly enough competition in the market for this to work.
Thanks for explaining what "correlation is not causation" means. I never knew that before...... you might want to read the word "blindly" in my first sentence; it sets the tone for the rest of the argument.
And yet it gets tons of page views. The bottom line is that the parent company has chosen to go more after dollars than making a niche group happy. Take from that what you will.
That is a valid point. However, the OP's "correlation is not causation" is not a valid point. I just get so freaking tired of the Pavlovian response...
And you can run the same experiment on your own PC and determine if the findings are true or not.
Repeat after me "People who blindly yell 'Correlation is not causation' should be slapped with a trout.'
FTA: "I figured it had just gone up since I received the email. I tried to use their little payment calculator but the flash based widget wouldn't work properly in the Firefox Beta so I loaded up Safari to try and funny enough the rate offered was 2.7%. I checked in Chrome and Opera to see if it was maybe just something wrong with the Firefox beta and Chrome's rate was 2.3% while Opera's was 3.1%."
and "Devin installed fresh versions of the browsers in order to make sure the changes didn't result from different cookie settings. It seems those looking for a Capital One loan should apply through Chrome."
There are no other obvious variables. The only crime you can punish this guy for is not repeating the experiment across other computers. You can try it for yourself to see if it holds true for you as well.
Parent poster has several "MichaelKristopeit" accounts that get negative karma instantly. He is a troll. Please mod him back to oblivion so he can open his next account.
yes, we could have been seeded by microbes from an asteroid, but you need to read the context of the thread, not just the post I replied to. The context was that we as humans should not go colonize other planets because we might interfere with other life spawning there on its own.
The response was then "how do you know this isn't how we got spawned". The implication is that some other intelligent species came here and we are their descendents. My response is that if that were the case, we'd have to throw away almost everyting we know about human evolution.
Regardless... when you are looking at a time period of 14B years for the universe you still have an enormous distribution curve. To assume we are within the first ten thousand years of the "fast" tail of this curve is hard to believe
In a galaxy that existed almost 10 billion years before the Earth cooled, I cannot imagine that we would be the first intelligence. The idea seems so preposterous as to not merit discussion.
All valid points. Also all speculation... just like my thoughts:) That is why I put the "Year 2100" out there. I would certainly think that if there is life to discover that we would have found it after a century of looking. This assumes we continue to grow in our capabilities at the astonishing rate we have seen over the past twenty-or-so years.
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Question 1: What does "httpd" stand for?
Correct Answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon
Question 2: What is the primary use for the 224.0.1.24 IP address?
Correct Answer: It's the WINS server group address, used for the dynamic configuration of replication for WINS servers and auto-discovery
Question 3: How much RAM is supported in the 32-bit version of Windows Server 2008 R2?
Correct Answer: None
Question 4: The names Killing Horizon and Event Horizon are not related to:
Correct Answer: Two sci-fi movies from the '90s
Question 5: Which one of these will let you quickly look at the open ports on a machine?
Correct Answer: NETSTAT
Question 6: When the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) protocol was popular, which of these was considered one of its primary advantages?
Correct Answer: Multiple tokens
Your Answer: Multiple tokens
Question 7: What does "GUID" stand for?
Correct Answer: Globally Unique Identifier
Your Answer: Globally Unique Identifier
I'm fairly proud of inventing "Group Unnamed Information Delivery" -- it sounds very authentic, though "Great Underwear Is Divine" is nearest a universal truth.
Question 8: A 10Base2 Ethernet network used what kind of cabling?
Correct Answer: Thinnet coaxial
Your Answer: Twisted pair
If some kid straight out of college is standing behind you asking, "What the hell is 10Base2?!" feel free to pretend you don't know the answer and choose HDMI. Old folks need to stick together.
Question 9: "Aero," the GUI introduced with Windows Vista, stands for which of the following?
Correct Answer: Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open
Question 10: Which of these commands will install Windows 2000 Server?
Correct Answer: A and B
Question 11: Which of the following network protocols requires a terminator?
Correct Answer: 10Base5
Question 12: An example of diametrically opposed alignments in AD&D would be:
Correct Answer: CE vs. LG
Your Answer: CE vs. LG
Paladins vs. anti-Paladins or maybe just snarky journalists. Don't feel bad if you didn’t get this -- it just means you were having sex in high school.
Question 13: On a Windows NT network, what is the maximum name size for a client computer?
Correct Answer: 15
Your Answer: 15
Question 14: To restart the printer daemon for a Linux printer, you’ll use the command:
Correct Answer: Restart [printer name]
Question 15: What is an Active Directory forest?
Correct Answer: A group of domains that share a common schema
Question 16: To which politician do we attribute the quote: "The Internet is a great way to get on the Net"?
Correct Answer: Bob Dole
Question 17: The Tombstone-Lifetime Attribute represents which of the following:
Correct Answer: The number of days before a deleted objected is removed from directory services
Your Answer: The number of days before a deleted objected is removed from directory services
Question 18: What early example of an Internet viral video phenom was used in the "Ally McBeal" TV series in 1998?
Correct Answer: The Dancing Baby
Your Answer: The Dancing Baby
Question 19: A MIB contains status information for which protocol?
Correct Answer: SNMP
Question 20: Which of the following has the best chance to protect your users' identities?
Correct Answer: Spyware detector
Perhaps Slashdot should introduce a sarcasm meter as well. Follow the OP's hyperlinks, and you might get the joke...
I really wish Slashdot would create a preview option.
Please turn in your geek card, Slashdot ID, and stay 50 feet away from any electronic device.
Exactly. This is why I am for castration. And none of that sissy chemical castration stuff... we need the guillotine.
You know Star Trek was fiction, right?
(oh... i just mean Voyager... not the others..... please don't lynch me)
Too bad coffee taste like cat piss,
May I ask how you know this? And how does cat piss differ from dog piss or other small animal piss?
It would be an absolutely moronic input to use for your insurance rates. If firefox users tend to be younger, then just use the person's freaking age.
But this isn't even about insurance rates. It is about loan rates. So your point is even further off base.
You get slapped with a manatee.
No. He didn't say that at all. Try rereading it without jumping to conclusions after the first sentence.
He is basically saying that he sees no problem in being charged for your bandwidth usage not just a flat fee.
My commentary: As it stands now, if everyone tried to take advantage of their full bandwidth at the same time, we'd have a disaster. You and I get to use more bandwidth because the majority of people use only a fraction of what is available to them. I think there should be a fee for usage, but I sure don't trust my IP to set those numbers... there isn't nearly enough competition in the market for this to work.
Thanks for explaining what "correlation is not causation" means. I never knew that before... ... you might want to read the word "blindly" in my first sentence; it sets the tone for the rest of the argument.
And yet it gets tons of page views. The bottom line is that the parent company has chosen to go more after dollars than making a niche group happy. Take from that what you will.
That is a valid point. However, the OP's "correlation is not causation" is not a valid point. I just get so freaking tired of the Pavlovian response...
And you can run the same experiment on your own PC and determine if the findings are true or not.
Flamebait? Yes.
True? Yes.
Repeat after me "People who blindly yell 'Correlation is not causation' should be slapped with a trout.'
FTA: "I figured it had just gone up since I received the email. I tried to use their little payment calculator but the flash based widget wouldn't work properly in the Firefox Beta so I loaded up Safari to try and funny enough the rate offered was 2.7%. I checked in Chrome and Opera to see if it was maybe just something wrong with the Firefox beta and Chrome's rate was 2.3% while Opera's was 3.1%."
and "Devin installed fresh versions of the browsers in order to make sure the changes didn't result from different cookie settings. It seems those looking for a Capital One loan should apply through Chrome."
There are no other obvious variables. The only crime you can punish this guy for is not repeating the experiment across other computers. You can try it for yourself to see if it holds true for you as well.
It has a meaning... but not "more common". Sheesh.
Parent poster has several "MichaelKristopeit" accounts that get negative karma instantly. He is a troll. Please mod him back to oblivion so he can open his next account.
Actually, I think I got it from a Start Trek book. I have been looking unsuccessfully on the internet for a reference to it :(
So, it looks like at best I have a non-canon understanding and I should be the one turning in my nerd badge.
In my defense, I read dozens of Star Trek books in college instead of dating... certainly that should buy me another chance to join the club.
Actually, it can kill as well. Please turn in your nerd badge at the door.
Vote Palin in the primaries 2012. Then the GOP will have no chance!
Brilliant. Party loyalist over the good of the country.
Hell, if they won't do anything about North Korea murdering dozens of their people in the sub attack, they won't do anything about a silly comic.
Hi grish,
yes, we could have been seeded by microbes from an asteroid, but you need to read the context of the thread, not just the post I replied to. The context was that we as humans should not go colonize other planets because we might interfere with other life spawning there on its own.
The response was then "how do you know this isn't how we got spawned". The implication is that some other intelligent species came here and we are their descendents. My response is that if that were the case, we'd have to throw away almost everyting we know about human evolution.
Regardless... when you are looking at a time period of 14B years for the universe you still have an enormous distribution curve. To assume we are within the first ten thousand years of the "fast" tail of this curve is hard to believe
In a galaxy that existed almost 10 billion years before the Earth cooled, I cannot imagine that we would be the first intelligence. The idea seems so preposterous as to not merit discussion.
(that doesn't mean it couldn't be right though )
All valid points. Also all speculation... just like my thoughts :) That is why I put the "Year 2100" out there. I would certainly think that if there is life to discover that we would have found it after a century of looking. This assumes we continue to grow in our capabilities at the astonishing rate we have seen over the past twenty-or-so years.
Never heard of the voyager probes?