About 10 years ago, I took a tour of one of the U.S. Navy's AEGIS cruisers. One of the interesting things I saw in the armaments room was a standard PC running Windows 3.11. I was a bit scared for our defenses. Alas, hopefully it wasn't networked,...;-)
Two cars leave two different cities heading toward each other at different speeds with different WiFi routers. When and where do they meet?
Car A, traveling 70 miles per hour (mph) with a 802.11b (11 MBPS) WiFi Hotspot, leaves Westford heading toward Eastford, 260 miles away. At the same time Car B, traveling 60 mph with a 802.11g (56 MBPS) WiFi Hotspot, leaves Eastford heading toward Westford. When do the two cars meet? How far from each city do they meet? When can a person in Car B pick up the WiFi signal of Car A, and when does interference cancel both out?
I wonder if Micro$loth is also including hits to windowsupdate.microsoft.com? Certainly, with all the windows PCs constantly hitting that server looking for updates, many of them automatically and without the user's active knowledge, it would rank quite highly.
Stock ticker PHYA belongs to Physicians Adult Daycare, Inc. They recently put out this announcement saying that they have nothing to do with the email spammers, and are trying to catch them.
Basically, the way this scam works is that the scammers buy a bunch of worthless stock (as in a few cents/share), then email fake stockbroker advice websites and fake advice emails to people, trying to get them to buy the stock. When the stock is worth a decent amount of money, the scammers sell and leave everyone else that bought into their so-called, "advice," with worthless stock.
Consumers won't get, "thousands more." From the article, "In addition, Sony BMG agreed to reimburse consumers whose computers were damaged while trying to uninstall the XCP software. Customers in both states can file a claim with Sony BMG to receive refunds of up to $175."
"Customers have 180 days to file claims, which must include a description of how their computer was harmed and documentation of repair expenses."
Granted, $175 is still a decent amount of money. So if you're computer was reasonably fscked, it would probably be a good idea to go through the paperwork. Unfortunately, Sony is probably betting that most people will probably decide it's not worth the hassle. Then, there's the fact that about half of the paperwork customers file will end up going to some overworked, incompetent paper-pusher office slave who will either take way too long to approve the request, or reject it for some bullsh*t reason,...
Never used AutoCAD, so I could care less whether it's got a proprietary file format or not. In drug design and molecular modeling, the two most commonly used software programs for 3-D modeling are Sybyl and Insight II. Sybyl's native file format is mol2, and Insight II's is car/mdf. Both programs also fully support the industry standard pdb format. All three files are simple text files, nothing proprietary about them. Insight II will write a mol2 file with no problems, and vice versa. There are also several third party applications that handle and read/write mol2 and car/mdf files. Nobody's really complaining.
Well, K9, the time traveling dog, made the list. And he's definitely a work of fiction. Heck, he's not even a real dog, but a robot. So, the absence of Tux from the list is definitely a scam! Was this list sponsored by Microsoft?
It's kind of sad to think that people are already worried about one corporation controlling ALL of the world's books. Let's still think about the reality of it. Google came to a handful (like 5 or so) of libraries (major ones at that), with a plan to digitize out-of-copyright books and put their content on the internet. They've got the search technology, they're trying to innovate. Now, if there were only five libraries in the entire world, yes, we could have a problem here. But in reality, there's A LOT more libraries than that. It's going to take a HUGE, MASSIVE effort by Google in order to digitize all the content of all the libraries in the world, and that will likely never happen anyways. More likely, some other libraries will probably partner with other companies in the future to digitize their content, and they'll be placed on the web. Yeah, Googlebot will probably spider that, so it will be searchable via Google. But so will the other spiders.
It would also be pretty nieve and stupid to only utilize reference from one source if you're doing research. You'd want to check out multiple sources to get the full picture. Of course, there is a growing problem that is quite common nowadays among an increasing number of college students that they believe that if it's not available on the web, it doesn't exist. Such students might find themselves somewhat, "enlightened," if they walked over to the library and cracked open a book or journal from, say, before 1995.
From the article: "Now that law, the Stored Communications Act of 1986, is being challenged in federal court in Ohio by Steven Warshak, a seller of "natural male enhancement" products who was indicted for mail fraud and money laundering after federal investigators sifted through thousands of his e-mails."
So, they guy sent out mass emails to more than recipient (probably millions), and he's complaining about lack of privacy. Heck, several people he sent the emails to probably work for some branch of the government! What a tool!
So, if, "you," refers to the prevalence of online user-contributed sites, then, logically, "you," must also include, "Anonymous Coward." So this means that Anonymous Coward is the person of the year for 2006!
. . . as long as it doesn't involve either (a) a prequel to Stargate SG-1, (b) aliens with big, floppy ears and a jamaican accent, (c) weird time travel/space-time continuum plot lines, or (d) William Shatner!
If they are grossly factually incorrect, their career (at least in the big, large-pay markets) will be completely destroyed.
Not necessarily true. The whole Al Capone's Vault fiasco didn't exactly kill Geraldo Rivera's career. Granted, it didn't help, and it made him look like an ass on national tv. But he's found other roles in other areas.
On another note, it's a darn good thing we didn't send him into Iraq to look for WMDs,... or did we, and that's the real reason we didn't find anything there?
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It'll advance to midnight after the Chicago Cubs win the World Series in October of this year!
I live in Arizona, you insensitive clod!
I call shenanigans on this one! What would a slashdotter know about, "girlfriends," and, "sex?!?!"
About 10 years ago, I took a tour of one of the U.S. Navy's AEGIS cruisers. One of the interesting things I saw in the armaments room was a standard PC running Windows 3.11. I was a bit scared for our defenses. Alas, hopefully it wasn't networked,... ;-)
Car A, traveling 70 miles per hour (mph) with a 802.11b (11 MBPS) WiFi Hotspot, leaves Westford heading toward Eastford, 260 miles away. At the same time Car B, traveling 60 mph with a 802.11g (56 MBPS) WiFi Hotspot, leaves Eastford heading toward Westford. When do the two cars meet? How far from each city do they meet? When can a person in Car B pick up the WiFi signal of Car A, and when does interference cancel both out?
Yes. Google has 9,160,000 links right here.
I wonder if Micro$loth is also including hits to windowsupdate.microsoft.com? Certainly, with all the windows PCs constantly hitting that server looking for updates, many of them automatically and without the user's active knowledge, it would rank quite highly.
Also, in a bit of irony, did anybody catch the Avoid Scams link at the top of the PHYA info page that google links to?
Basically, the way this scam works is that the scammers buy a bunch of worthless stock (as in a few cents/share), then email fake stockbroker advice websites and fake advice emails to people, trying to get them to buy the stock. When the stock is worth a decent amount of money, the scammers sell and leave everyone else that bought into their so-called, "advice," with worthless stock.
Am I taking some serious hallucinogens today, or did I really read that on slashdot?
"Customers have 180 days to file claims, which must include a description of how their computer was harmed and documentation of repair expenses."
Granted, $175 is still a decent amount of money. So if you're computer was reasonably fscked, it would probably be a good idea to go through the paperwork. Unfortunately, Sony is probably betting that most people will probably decide it's not worth the hassle. Then, there's the fact that about half of the paperwork customers file will end up going to some overworked, incompetent paper-pusher office slave who will either take way too long to approve the request, or reject it for some bullsh*t reason,...
Hmm,... so that explains that one dot over the San Francisco Zoo on the sex offenders map!
Well, K9, the time traveling dog, made the list. And he's definitely a work of fiction. Heck, he's not even a real dog, but a robot. So, the absence of Tux from the list is definitely a scam! Was this list sponsored by Microsoft?
It would also be pretty nieve and stupid to only utilize reference from one source if you're doing research. You'd want to check out multiple sources to get the full picture. Of course, there is a growing problem that is quite common nowadays among an increasing number of college students that they believe that if it's not available on the web, it doesn't exist. Such students might find themselves somewhat, "enlightened," if they walked over to the library and cracked open a book or journal from, say, before 1995.
So, they guy sent out mass emails to more than recipient (probably millions), and he's complaining about lack of privacy. Heck, several people he sent the emails to probably work for some branch of the government! What a tool!
. . . as long as it doesn't involve either (a) a prequel to Stargate SG-1, (b) aliens with big, floppy ears and a jamaican accent, (c) weird time travel/space-time continuum plot lines, or (d) William Shatner!
Not necessarily true. The whole Al Capone's Vault fiasco didn't exactly kill Geraldo Rivera's career. Granted, it didn't help, and it made him look like an ass on national tv. But he's found other roles in other areas.
On another note, it's a darn good thing we didn't send him into Iraq to look for WMDs,... or did we, and that's the real reason we didn't find anything there?