There is also a history of slashdotters complaining about the use of "Hacker" instead of "Cracker" whenever the term Hacker is used (sometimes regardless of the context). Hence the taking the piss out of such slashdotters...
Don't forget about data outages, for example when the Sun is blocking the line of sight from Mars to Earth. Waiting for the line to clear is going to cause some major latency. The good news is that these outages should be forseeable.
I think you just reinforced his point. With Windows XP or Mac OS X, I've never needed to search for a step-by-step guide on a forum to set up a wireless connection. Nor did I need to work in the command line. Those who feel comfortable doing these things tend to have difficulty understanding why others find Linux too difficult to use.
Any chance you could post a step-by-step guide here for me then? I still can't persuade two XP laptops to form a wireless adhoc network with each other. I'm having serious trouble believing that XP is ready for home use because of problems like this.;o)
But the computer told us that encryption was only used by terrorists and pedophiles. The computer is our friend. You do trust the computer, don't you? <.<;;
The increase in video game play is linked to the increase in violence
The increase in video game play is linked to the increase natural desasters
The increase in video game play is linked to childrens IQ increasing
So what you're trying to say here is that video games cause children to grow up to be evil masterminds with darstardly plots to destroy civilisation using the latest disaster causing superweapon?
Damn, I should have played more console games as a kid...;o)
I'm getting sick of all the "They're only cartoons! feckin ragheads" comments, so:
With regards to the whole cartoons/muslim thing, lets be fair here. I fully expect that if the press made a public showing of doing something extremely disrespectful against the christians (wiping our asses on pages of the bible maybe? raping blow up jesus dolls?), the christians would be damn upset too, or at least the christians that still believe in christ. What? Cartoons are different from bibles and blow up dolls? Don't assume that just because it's not disrespectful to you that it isn't disrespectful to anyone else...
Once we've gotten a large group of people to the "being upset" stage, it's for the most part ringleaders who keep urging the masses to start burning embassies down and the like. Don't feel smug, because America and to a lesser degree the rest of us western countries had the same experiance after the twin towers. "My god we've been attacked by terrorists! Lets go bomb the first country our beloved leaders point us in the direction of".
Should innocent websites be caught in the crossfire and defaced because of this mess? No, but then again a lot of westerners could do with quitting the attitude of "Let's go piss off the ragheads! We can turn around and say that they're only cartoons afterwards." Overall this mess isn't the fault of any one side - it's everyone adding fuel to the fire.
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You have the formatting wrong. For the advertiser to believe that you're a/. reader, it should look something like this:
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Of course there are smart people that use AIM, but they're not the target of spam, scams, and viruses - the idiots are. My point was that whilst the CompSci types try to fool people into thinking a computer is human by making more advanced AI, the virus writers and the like just take the approach that there's plenty of stupid people in the world, and a simple virus will cope just fine.
Not only is Google trying to rewrite copyright law, it is also crushing creativity
We must keep in mind that this is a bad thing because... erm... the media corporations own the patents on "The rewriting of IP laws". Yes, that must be the point of the argument.
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"Well, at least I have chicken!"
It burns, it burns!
Use lubricant?
In a Wired Soviet Korea, old robots make you feel at home?
There is also a history of slashdotters complaining about the use of "Hacker" instead of "Cracker" whenever the term Hacker is used (sometimes regardless of the context). Hence the taking the piss out of such slashdotters...
All together now...
"It's Cracker, not Hacker!"
I'm more worried about the zombienet running on these.
There's something in the braaaiiinnnnnnnnzzzzzzzzzz
Even if one of these was implanted into the brain of a woman, you can still bet that no-one would be able to write a manpage for her. ;.;
Don't forget about data outages, for example when the Sun is blocking the line of sight from Mars to Earth. Waiting for the line to clear is going to cause some major latency. The good news is that these outages should be forseeable.
I think you just reinforced his point. With Windows XP or Mac OS X, I've never needed to search for a step-by-step guide on a forum to set up a wireless connection. Nor did I need to work in the command line. Those who feel comfortable doing these things tend to have difficulty understanding why others find Linux too difficult to use.
;o)
Any chance you could post a step-by-step guide here for me then? I still can't persuade two XP laptops to form a wireless adhoc network with each other. I'm having serious trouble believing that XP is ready for home use because of problems like this.
But the computer told us that encryption was only used by terrorists and pedophiles. The computer is our friend. You do trust the computer, don't you?
<.<;;
I guess the Mac & 'nix freaks are right, Windows really is a virus.
But aren't viruses meant to be small and efficient? O.o
The increase in video game play is linked to the increase in violence
;o)
The increase in video game play is linked to the increase natural desasters
The increase in video game play is linked to childrens IQ increasing
So what you're trying to say here is that video games cause children to grow up to be evil masterminds with darstardly plots to destroy civilisation using the latest disaster causing superweapon?
Damn, I should have played more console games as a kid...
I'm getting sick of all the "They're only cartoons! feckin ragheads" comments, so:
With regards to the whole cartoons/muslim thing, lets be fair here. I fully expect that if the press made a public showing of doing something extremely disrespectful against the christians (wiping our asses on pages of the bible maybe? raping blow up jesus dolls?), the christians would be damn upset too, or at least the christians that still believe in christ. What? Cartoons are different from bibles and blow up dolls? Don't assume that just because it's not disrespectful to you that it isn't disrespectful to anyone else...
Once we've gotten a large group of people to the "being upset" stage, it's for the most part ringleaders who keep urging the masses to start burning embassies down and the like. Don't feel smug, because America and to a lesser degree the rest of us western countries had the same experiance after the twin towers. "My god we've been attacked by terrorists! Lets go bomb the first country our beloved leaders point us in the direction of".
Should innocent websites be caught in the crossfire and defaced because of this mess? No, but then again a lot of westerners could do with quitting the attitude of "Let's go piss off the ragheads! We can turn around and say that they're only cartoons afterwards." Overall this mess isn't the fault of any one side - it's everyone adding fuel to the fire.
"RFID my Shiny Metal Ass!!!"
*beep*
You are 2674, ID# 661934.
You are an occasional poster to the news site "Slashdot".
We know where you live.
Thank you for participating in our RFID test.
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/. reader, it should look something like this:
/. story your advert appeared above was
You have the formatting wrong. For the advertiser to believe that you're a
The
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I thought everyone knew that Google prefers pigeons.
Don't worry, I'm sure **Beatles-Beatles will catch the dupe ;o)
Which meaning of "average" are you thinking of? Mean, median, or mode? ;o)
Of course there are smart people that use AIM, but they're not the target of spam, scams, and viruses - the idiots are. My point was that whilst the CompSci types try to fool people into thinking a computer is human by making more advanced AI, the virus writers and the like just take the approach that there's plenty of stupid people in the world, and a simple virus will cope just fine.
There's 2 ways to pass the Turing Test: make the program more intelligent, or pick examiners who are more dumb. Virus writers pick the later option.
I say we put all religous content under a .god address.
I'm a goddess worshipper, you insensitive clod!
Not only is Google trying to rewrite copyright law, it is also crushing creativity
We must keep in mind that this is a bad thing because... erm... the media corporations own the patents on "The rewriting of IP laws". Yes, that must be the point of the argument.
with its release, comes the obsolesence of the GNOME and KDE projects.
I was about to call that a gormless prediction, but then I realised that that was the whole point... -.-
It just had to be done ;o)
"Biometrics is a bad idea, if for no other reason than thieves will chop off body parts: Malaysia car thieves steal finger"
Brings a whole new meaning to the idea of hackers stealing your password.