It's quite possible to lose 15 pounds in 2 weeks. I wrestled in high school (Now THERE is a get-you-fit sport) and all your lightweights would be frantically trying to make weight come the day of a meet. We had one guy who managed to lose 9 pounds in 2 hours. Granted, it was probably all food weight and water, but he still did it. Every girl I've told about that wants to talk to him.
Sadly, people equate weight with fitness. It's fat percentage, people, not weight. I'm about 230 pounds, but I'm also about 8% body fat. I'm heavier than most people like. I guess I need to go lose weight...
We'd play the same thing with a racquetball and no gloves. If you touched the ball and it hit the ground, you had to run and touch the wall before someone retrieved the ball and pegged you. If you got pegged 3 times, you had to line up face towards the wall, spread eagle for an "executioner's shot". The person who got you the third time got a free shot at you.
Lemme tell you, the fear of that raqcuetball improved my hand-eye coordination much more than any video game ever did:)
Well, at ASU, the on-campus network has ports like 1213 throttled until after midnight on the weekdays for everyone. Morpheus would get 0.12 kb/s during the day, and hit midnight, your downloads would suddenly kick up to 90 kb/s. I think that the techs did it to show the administration "Yeah, we're restricting this software that people use to get MP3's!", and then went back to their dorms and downloaded to their heart's content. College students are always up past 12:00 anyway, while the administration isn't gonna be there to check it out.
Of course, everything is logged and tied to your UID, but as long as you're SSHing, firewalling, and doing as much secure tunneling as possible, you're ok. If they ask about my abnormally large bandwidth usage, I'll show them my Linux ISOs:)
However, Mozilla and IE play together a lot more nicely than, say Netscape 4.x and ANYTHING.
I'm a professional web developer. As such, I have to make sure my sites look pretty much the same, and function in IE, Netscape 4-6, Konq, etc. It's a royal pain. I've been pleasantly suprised by Mozilla so far - it's much better at not choking than some other browsers.
The problem with IE is that it is too forgiving. Mismatched tables? No problem. Quotes in CSS? Takes it like a champ. IE will render just nearly anything you throw at it, which is wonderful from a browser perspective, but sucks from a developer's perspective, because you have people writing broken code that IE manages to render, yet that same code looks like the crap it is in other browsers.
Bolo ruled. Especially when you're on those old 25 MHz Macs that NOTHING ELSE will run on.
Ah, the good old days, when it took you longer to compile that Codewarrior C++ app than it did to write it...
Of course, right after I'd taken all the CS classes I could at that school, they went and bought a whole new slew of Wintel machines. Kinda pissed me off. Now you go in the lab and everyone's playing UT or CS. Makes me want to complain about how we didn't have them fancy three-dee graphics in my day . We only had Bolo, and we liked it!
The first example is incorrect, but it quite nice when you're trying to eliminate the spaces that automatically surround a form. Quite helpful when you're strapped for screen real estate:)
That said, if you don't HAVE to do it that way, don't. It'll break in some future browser implementation.
Well...using something like Tiny Personal Firewall (or ip(chains|tables)), just deny their IP blocks before you open your filesharing port. They never see you. Whoop-de-do.
The blocks in question being: 65.118.41.192 - 65.118.41.223 63.148.99.224 - 63.148.99.255
Well...that's a rather borderline issue. Rape IS horrible, and it's very easy to say that abortion is ok under the circumstances of rape...but you're still making an innocent party pay for the crimes of another. Is it emotionally hard to carry the baby to term? I'm sure it is. However, what about the emotional breakdown that is often times caused by abortion? What about the guilt YOU have about killing an innocent kid?
I -was- addressing the matter of irresponsibility in my original post, but even with this exception, two wrongs don't make a right. The kid isn't his father, and shouldn't be punished as such. If you kill the kid to rid yourself of memory of his father, then you'd be just as justified in killing your (grown) children to rid yourself of all memories of your ex who cheated on you and left you for another woman. I don't think you'd argue that's right.
Killing the kid because it's a bother or a reminder isn't right. I still fail to see how people can justify it as such.
If this thing gets big enough, the record companies will have to adjust. I don't know about you, but I just bought 2 CDs, not so much because I care about the music, but because I a) want to see this model succeed, and b) want to see artists realize they don't have to get screwed over by the RIAA.
The RIAA is not the end-all be-all. There are alternatives. But the success of those alternatives depends on people who are willing to buy through them.
If nothing else, it'll piss the RIAA off, which always brightens my day.
If you're worried about brute force attacks, just set your passwords to ZZZZZZZZ
It's always the last one you try (Assumiung sequential attack...)
Easy to remember, O(n^8) to crack, all kinds of fun! Of course, it won't work that well against an intelligent mind...
On a different tack, we were discussing the use of high-ascii or 8-bit characters in a password. That would make it pretty much immune to brute force crackers, as those characters wouldn't be in its dictionary, and it would make it immune to someone snooping on you as you type, because chances are they're gonna miss that "Alt" keypress, thinking that instead the 0179 is a part of your password, and your password length will be different than the number of keypresses. Social engineering would be the only viable method of password retrieval...
I've ridden Goliath multiple times, and have never has said events happen to me. I'm also over 230 lbs (albeit in good shape), so the g-forces on me would not have been trivial. Guess it depends on who you are.
Last time I was at Six Flags, however, Goliath was shut down because some old lady had an anuerism burst on the ride a few weeks prior. G-forces, or bad health? I dunno.
Let's regulate everything, including people's choices to make decisions based on their own physical condition, why don't we?
So should the person who put together the phone book (1 source of info), switchboard.com (finding where the live), MapQuest (for giving them directions to their house), and any gun manufacturing websites that might be in their cache.
Get a clue, people. The crime is committed by the person who does the killing, not the people spreading info.
Now, if these people were offering incentives to kill the doctors, it'd be a different story. But theyr'e not, and if some twisted psycho kills one of these doctors, it's not the fault of the website operators.
Once again, you're placing blame for other people's actions on a third party, and punishing the third party. Kinda like abortion. Parents screwed up, so let's kill the kid. Everyone's happy, right?
The ironic thing about these people is that they hate abortions. But are more than willing to vote for more prisons and favor capital punishment.
The difference being that the people being sentenced to prison/capital punishment did something to deserve it. The baby did nothing. If people were going around advocating the execution of random people who others thought to be an inconvenience, your argument would fit. But, thankfully, that hasn't come to pass yet.
Having an abortion is one of the rare sacrifice that one makes. It is one of the clearest statement that "I AM NOT READY TO BE A PARENT!"
Try this sacrifice: don't have sex till you're ready to be one. Take responsibility for your own actions, instead of killing someone else for them.
Not to absolve the horny idiots who are irresponsible enough to be pumping out these kids when they weren't ready. But to friken encourage them to carry the baby to term is a huge mistake.
Why? If you're not ready to be a parent, give the kid up for adoption. But don't make a baby pay for your mistakes. It's analogous to me hitting you with my car and maiming you, and then killing you because I don't want the inconvenience that your lawsuit and medical bills and all that are going to cause to my life. You did nothing wrong, and are getting shafted in the penultimate sense because of it.
Take responsibility for your own actions. Don't give me this cop out about "I'm doing it for the KID'S sake! Really!" If you're that worried about their living conditions, give them up for adoption. At least the kid will have a life, and will have a family who loves them. That's more than you'd be giving them...
In my experience, college doesn't impart a "got to get this working" attitude. It's just that the people with that work ethic are going to do everything they can to ensure their success, which often means college. Those who are a little less proactive about their success are also going to be a little less tenacious about their work.
I'm a CS student at ASU. The higher-level courses are supposed to be good, but the required ones SUCK. Taught for the lowest common denominator.
That said, ASU is a great school - I love it! I just wish that my life didn't hang on a little piece of paper that certifies I've wasted X amount of my life learning things I already knew.
The degree is important, bubt it doesn't always matter what degree it is. My dad's successful in the tech field, and he has a music degree.
No matter the route you choose, though, always keep learning new things related to your field. Learn sysadmining here, programming there, networking here, etc. The more skills you have, the more valuable and sought-after you'll be. Which is a Good Thing (TM):)
I think I read a sequel book to Star Wars where a "clone" of one of some Dark Jedi Admiral was taking over what was left of the Empire... I assumed, or maybe read, that this was using the same techniques as in the Clone Wars?
I think you're referring to Zahn's trilogy. The jedi was Joruus C'boath (sp?), and accordingto Zahn, he was cloned with technology left over from the close wars, so it seems that the clones would have been human. I haven't seen the movie yet (Seeing it tonight), but I'd think that they're real people.
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It's quite possible to lose 15 pounds in 2 weeks. I wrestled in high school (Now THERE is a get-you-fit sport) and all your lightweights would be frantically trying to make weight come the day of a meet. We had one guy who managed to lose 9 pounds in 2 hours. Granted, it was probably all food weight and water, but he still did it. Every girl I've told about that wants to talk to him.
Sadly, people equate weight with fitness. It's fat percentage, people, not weight. I'm about 230 pounds, but I'm also about 8% body fat. I'm heavier than most people like. I guess I need to go lose weight...
We'd play the same thing with a racquetball and no gloves. If you touched the ball and it hit the ground, you had to run and touch the wall before someone retrieved the ball and pegged you. If you got pegged 3 times, you had to line up face towards the wall, spread eagle for an "executioner's shot". The person who got you the third time got a free shot at you.
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Lemme tell you, the fear of that raqcuetball improved my hand-eye coordination much more than any video game ever did
Of course, everything is logged and tied to your UID, but as long as you're SSHing, firewalling, and doing as much secure tunneling as possible, you're ok. If they ask about my abnormally large bandwidth usage, I'll show them my Linux ISOs :)
I'm a professional web developer. As such, I have to make sure my sites look pretty much the same, and function in IE, Netscape 4-6, Konq, etc. It's a royal pain. I've been pleasantly suprised by Mozilla so far - it's much better at not choking than some other browsers.
The problem with IE is that it is too forgiving. Mismatched tables? No problem. Quotes in CSS? Takes it like a champ. IE will render just nearly anything you throw at it, which is wonderful from a browser perspective, but sucks from a developer's perspective, because you have people writing broken code that IE manages to render, yet that same code looks like the crap it is in other browsers.
Ah, the good old days, when it took you longer to compile that Codewarrior C++ app than it did to write it...
Of course, right after I'd taken all the CS classes I could at that school, they went and bought a whole new slew of Wintel machines. Kinda pissed me off. Now you go in the lab and everyone's playing UT or CS. Makes me want to complain about how we didn't have them fancy three-dee graphics in my day . We only had Bolo, and we liked it!
The first example is incorrect, but it quite nice when you're trying to eliminate the spaces that automatically surround a form. Quite helpful when you're strapped for screen real estate :)
That said, if you don't HAVE to do it that way, don't. It'll break in some future browser implementation.
Thanks. I've seen so many versions of it, I just picked one :)
What'd they do, remove IE?
The fact that it's going corporate is hardly a suprise. Dirtier tricks require more clever preventive measures :)
Well...using something like Tiny Personal Firewall (or ip(chains|tables)), just deny their IP blocks before you open your filesharing port. They never see you. Whoop-de-do.
The blocks in question being:
65.118.41.192 - 65.118.41.223
63.148.99.224 - 63.148.99.255
Laid?
Well...that's a rather borderline issue. Rape IS horrible, and it's very easy to say that abortion is ok under the circumstances of rape...but you're still making an innocent party pay for the crimes of another. Is it emotionally hard to carry the baby to term? I'm sure it is. However, what about the emotional breakdown that is often times caused by abortion? What about the guilt YOU have about killing an innocent kid?
I -was- addressing the matter of irresponsibility in my original post, but even with this exception, two wrongs don't make a right. The kid isn't his father, and shouldn't be punished as such. If you kill the kid to rid yourself of memory of his father, then you'd be just as justified in killing your (grown) children to rid yourself of all memories of your ex who cheated on you and left you for another woman. I don't think you'd argue that's right.
Killing the kid because it's a bother or a reminder isn't right. I still fail to see how people can justify it as such.
No, that would be a DDOS, ala the /. effect.
No, no. It's Attack of the Drones
I'm guessing they try to kill it.
If this thing gets big enough, the record companies will have to adjust. I don't know about you, but I just bought 2 CDs, not so much because I care about the music, but because I a) want to see this model succeed, and b) want to see artists realize they don't have to get screwed over by the RIAA.
The RIAA is not the end-all be-all. There are alternatives. But the success of those alternatives depends on people who are willing to buy through them.
If nothing else, it'll piss the RIAA off, which always brightens my day.
Well...and then there's always ^D...
If you're worried about brute force attacks, just set your passwords to ZZZZZZZZ
It's always the last one you try (Assumiung sequential attack...)
Easy to remember, O(n^8) to crack, all kinds of fun! Of course, it won't work that well against an intelligent mind...
On a different tack, we were discussing the use of high-ascii or 8-bit characters in a password. That would make it pretty much immune to brute force crackers, as those characters wouldn't be in its dictionary, and it would make it immune to someone snooping on you as you type, because chances are they're gonna miss that "Alt" keypress, thinking that instead the 0179 is a part of your password, and your password length will be different than the number of keypresses. Social engineering would be the only viable method of password retrieval...
Last time I was at Six Flags, however, Goliath was shut down because some old lady had an anuerism burst on the ride a few weeks prior. G-forces, or bad health? I dunno.
Let's regulate everything, including people's choices to make decisions based on their own physical condition, why don't we?
The dialog in SW was some of the worst I've been subjected to. Ever. I've heard Ep II described as "a porno without the sex".
Yeah, that's about right.
Get a clue, people. The crime is committed by the person who does the killing, not the people spreading info.
Now, if these people were offering incentives to kill the doctors, it'd be a different story. But theyr'e not, and if some twisted psycho kills one of these doctors, it's not the fault of the website operators.
Once again, you're placing blame for other people's actions on a third party, and punishing the third party. Kinda like abortion. Parents screwed up, so let's kill the kid. Everyone's happy, right?
The difference being that the people being sentenced to prison/capital punishment did something to deserve it. The baby did nothing. If people were going around advocating the execution of random people who others thought to be an inconvenience, your argument would fit. But, thankfully, that hasn't come to pass yet.
Having an abortion is one of the rare sacrifice that one makes. It is one of the clearest statement that "I AM NOT READY TO BE A PARENT!"
Try this sacrifice: don't have sex till you're ready to be one. Take responsibility for your own actions, instead of killing someone else for them.
Not to absolve the horny idiots who are irresponsible enough to be pumping out these kids when they weren't ready. But to friken encourage them to carry the baby to term is a huge mistake.
Why? If you're not ready to be a parent, give the kid up for adoption. But don't make a baby pay for your mistakes. It's analogous to me hitting you with my car and maiming you, and then killing you because I don't want the inconvenience that your lawsuit and medical bills and all that are going to cause to my life. You did nothing wrong, and are getting shafted in the penultimate sense because of it.
Take responsibility for your own actions. Don't give me this cop out about "I'm doing it for the KID'S sake! Really!" If you're that worried about their living conditions, give them up for adoption. At least the kid will have a life, and will have a family who loves them. That's more than you'd be giving them...
In my experience, college doesn't impart a "got to get this working" attitude. It's just that the people with that work ethic are going to do everything they can to ensure their success, which often means college. Those who are a little less proactive about their success are also going to be a little less tenacious about their work.
That said, ASU is a great school - I love it! I just wish that my life didn't hang on a little piece of paper that certifies I've wasted X amount of my life learning things I already knew.
The degree is important, bubt it doesn't always matter what degree it is. My dad's successful in the tech field, and he has a music degree.
No matter the route you choose, though, always keep learning new things related to your field. Learn sysadmining here, programming there, networking here, etc. The more skills you have, the more valuable and sought-after you'll be. Which is a Good Thing (TM) :)
I think you're referring to Zahn's trilogy. The jedi was Joruus C'boath (sp?), and accordingto Zahn, he was cloned with technology left over from the close wars, so it seems that the clones would have been human. I haven't seen the movie yet (Seeing it tonight), but I'd think that they're real people.
But then, Lucas will do what he will...
Stream the movie to all your friends at home with your built-in webcam.