I think we got a sense of what we lost on 9/11, which is the closest recent experience to the Challenger disaster.
Some people may be forgetting that Columbia broke up on re-entry 3 years ago just a few days from now. That was far more devastating to me personally because it symbolized the end of the shuttle program. Discovery was a nice "pick me back up and dust myself off" attempt, but with so many people nitpicking the mission and the delays because of more foam falling off the external fuel tank I don't know if we'll ever launch another shuttle. It's sad really since there's nothing really as exhilarating as watching a shuttle power its way into space. Ah well, I guess we'll just have to wait 10 years for the CEV missions.
Actually if you read Rush's book (I forgot which one... I think his first) you'll notice he mentions volcanos put out more greenhouse gases than all of civilization combined. I'm not going to argue whether his point is valid or not since I don't really know, but that's what he used to say all the time back in the early 1990s.
That doesn't help when the root user creates a user account with the correct UID and then logs in as that user, does it?
Nope. That's how I used to update some web files on a central NFS server here long after the person left. I just added an account with his UID on my workstation, mounted the central NFS server's web share and voila. I could read/write his files just fine. Traditional NFS is HORRIBLE from a security standpoint since the only authentication involved is IP based and the only authorization is to rely on the UID/GID to prevent other users from munging with your files. This relies on only having trusted hosts having read/write access to your network. Newer versions of NFS add additional security mechanisms in place for both authentication and authorization, but they are rarely used from what I've seen since most people still use it the way NFS v2 behaved (relying on IP address and UID/GID) rather than Kerberos and certificates.
while the rest of us will have to use mass transportation and convert ASAP to a regimen of energy efficiency and renewable energy.
No thanks, I'll just buy an electric car and have it charge off the power grid via hydro/wind/nuclear/geo-thermal/waves, whatever. There's no way in hell you'll get Americans to use mass transportation outside of a handful of major densely populated cities.
WHY are you doing all of this grunt work IN ADDITION TO being the primary breadwinner of your household?
I thought it was pretty clear in her outline: she's a woman. Women do the cooking, cleaning, and raising of the children no matter how much money they make and the man of the house relaxes in front of the TV with a cold beer and waits for dinner to be ready. I'm so sick of "liberated" women that think just because we permit them to work outside the home that they can shun their responsibilities in the house.
Just imagine how horribly complex and hard to maintain and evolce the XP kernel has to be.
I imagine the wads of cold hard cash that Windows users bring those manufacturers makes dealing with the Windows APIs a little more tolerable. Face it, there's no return on investment to employing someone to write a Linux driver for most hardware. How many Linux users are really in the market for that specific wireless USB network adapter? Probably about 250 around the entire world if they're lucky.
Uhm, big Counter-Strike matches often gather several thousand spectators on a daily basis, and REALLY big lan events gather 20000~40000 spectators
Wow, that is incredibly lame. I used to love playing Counter-Strike and was downright addicted to it, but I could never imagine myself actually watching it passively as a non-player. What a complete waste of time! Why sit there and watch someone else play Counter-Strike when you can hop on and play it yourself!?
My Hotmail Inbox averages about 2 spams a week. However, my "junk mail" occasionally has a legitimate email dropped in there too. However all things considered, 2 spams a week in my Inbox isn't that bad.
That's not "solving" spam, that's masking it. My company uses RBLs at the external mail gateways to try and control the flow of spam into our network. 80% (200,000 of 250,000 daily messages) is directly blocked via this method... that bandwidth is still being used, but we halt the flood of the e-mail to our internal mail servers before it can be a burden to our users.
Of the mail that does get through, another 20% is still spam that didn't get blocked by an RBL so it has to pass through another anti-spam gateway (spamassassin) that does analysis and tagging of the message before passing it on to the internal mail server. Of the mail that gets through, roughly 5-10% is probably mismarked as not being spam when it is. That ends up being a shitload of mail that still gets through into a user's inbox that they have to review and delete. Spread that across thousands of users and you have a very real problem.
What we really need are vigilantes to go out and kill the spammers. We have their names and their addresses on the ROKSO list. Kill those 200 spammers and it'll prove a powerful lesson to the remaining ones that haven't popped up on the radar yet. People need to learn that if they spam they will die. Without that threat I'm afraid spam will only become an ever-increasing problem until there will come a point where e-mail is a completely useless medium to use for communications without redesigning the protocol.
So, anyone got an ex-con brother who doesn't care whether he lands back in prison or not?;-)
/joking of course, please don't kill anyone... just break their hands.
Seriously, in one of the Star Trek:TNG novels (I forget which one), the businessman from that first season episode had been made the Federation Ambassador to the Ferengi.
The Neutral Zone. Reintroduction of the Romulans into Star Trek canon as the big bad guys of the series since the Klingons were friendly now.
Unless you have ADD and can't watch tv for more than 5 minutes, what the heck is wrong with that anyway?
TV is a big part of American life. We leave our TV on from the moment we get home at night until after we fall asleep. Eventually someone gets annoyed by the flashing or Conan O'Brien's monologue so we shut it off and wander up to bed. We have a nice view of the TV in the living room from our dining room table so we can watch the evening news, recorded shows on the DVR, or just channel surf while eating dinner. Now, we're not always paying attention to the TV, it's just there for background noise and light, but it is always on.
Does this really require an Ask Slashdot? For crying out loud, just go to Best Buy or Fry's and buy one. I'm sure the crazy fanboys will tell you to go out and buy a 40GB Video iPod to use as a bootable drive, but just save your money and buy a 100GB portable external firewire hard drive. Go to the MacMall website or something and you'll probably find a dozen different external firewire portable drives.
ITunes was one of the first to cater that and thats why it is a success but more needs to be done especially with files with DRM
IMHO iTunes Music Store would be a slam dunk if they had simply adopted Apple's Lossless codec as the standard format for downloaded music instead of the lossily compressed AAC files. If I'm going to pay the store price for an album on iTunes Music Store then I should be able to take the files I've downloaded and burn a CD that will be the exact same quality as if I had bought that CD from the store. I don't WANT to keep my music in DRM-protected AAC files, I want them to be cross-platform in MP3 or FLAC format but it's stupid to burn the AAC files to a CD and then rerip them since you lose too much audio quality.
It's just a small detour and actually it's just fair if you take into account that the.com URL always redirected you to.org (if you type in www.wikipedia.co.uk you end up on the English version directly on the other hand).
So, as long as they don't piss off the USA (which runs the DNS system) Wikipedia should be fine.. but as we saw with a certain lawyer who allegedly played a part in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Wikipedia is not untouchable.
So their release "date" is 2H 2007? Since when is a 6-month window considered a "date"?
It's extremely common in the software industry to target a half or quarter rather than giving a firm calendar date. I wouldn't fault Microsoft for this since everyone else does it as well. The main problem Microsoft has is this window constantly slips farther and farther back.
they sell on the idea of 'newness' and 'newness' would fade out with updating existing xp to an sp3.
Service packs aren't SUPPOSED to introduce new functionality, they're meant to roll up bug fixes so you don't have to install 50 patches after installing your software product. MS should be releasing a service pack every quarter or at most every half IMHO.
i think i read soewhere that notebooks are overtaking desktops in sales. where i work %75 of the people have notebooks. (out of 50)
What really makes that possible is USB IMHO. Up until a few years ago it was basically impossible to hook external disk drives up to a laptop if you wanted to expand your storage unless you bought SCSI disks and a SCSI PCMCIA card. Now you can just go home, hook into your USB hub with a single cable and you've got access to your printer, scanner, external hard drives, DVD-RW drives, mouse, keyboard, webcam, etc. The only place it really makes sense anymore to use a desktop is if you're a gamer or an avid upgrader and like to swap out your motherboard/CPU/memory/video cards every once in awhile. It's just so much more convenient to grab a laptop and go sit on the couch and work instead of being tied to my office's desk.
Can you put regular mpeg-2 video on an iPod or does it have to be in a special format? Why not just record the shows with MythTV and then upload it to your iPod for free? You could even have scripts to cut out the commercials automatically for you. $2 per episode seems pretty steep.
Moreover, it's the only (legal) way I can watch Battlestar Galactica on a weekly basis.
Isn't it on the Sci-Fi network? You don't have cable TV? What the heck is wrong with you? For around $50/month you get sweet digital joy delivered to your television set 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can't beat that entertainment value.
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Some people may be forgetting that Columbia broke up on re-entry 3 years ago just a few days from now. That was far more devastating to me personally because it symbolized the end of the shuttle program. Discovery was a nice "pick me back up and dust myself off" attempt, but with so many people nitpicking the mission and the delays because of more foam falling off the external fuel tank I don't know if we'll ever launch another shuttle. It's sad really since there's nothing really as exhilarating as watching a shuttle power its way into space. Ah well, I guess we'll just have to wait 10 years for the CEV missions.
Actually if you read Rush's book (I forgot which one... I think his first) you'll notice he mentions volcanos put out more greenhouse gases than all of civilization combined. I'm not going to argue whether his point is valid or not since I don't really know, but that's what he used to say all the time back in the early 1990s.
Nope. That's how I used to update some web files on a central NFS server here long after the person left. I just added an account with his UID on my workstation, mounted the central NFS server's web share and voila. I could read/write his files just fine. Traditional NFS is HORRIBLE from a security standpoint since the only authentication involved is IP based and the only authorization is to rely on the UID/GID to prevent other users from munging with your files. This relies on only having trusted hosts having read/write access to your network. Newer versions of NFS add additional security mechanisms in place for both authentication and authorization, but they are rarely used from what I've seen since most people still use it the way NFS v2 behaved (relying on IP address and UID/GID) rather than Kerberos and certificates.
For a second there I thought you said Pixar felched Mickey Mouse. Ewww.
No thanks, I'll just buy an electric car and have it charge off the power grid via hydro/wind/nuclear/geo-thermal/waves, whatever. There's no way in hell you'll get Americans to use mass transportation outside of a handful of major densely populated cities.
I thought it was pretty clear in her outline: she's a woman. Women do the cooking, cleaning, and raising of the children no matter how much money they make and the man of the house relaxes in front of the TV with a cold beer and waits for dinner to be ready. I'm so sick of "liberated" women that think just because we permit them to work outside the home that they can shun their responsibilities in the house.
I imagine the wads of cold hard cash that Windows users bring those manufacturers makes dealing with the Windows APIs a little more tolerable. Face it, there's no return on investment to employing someone to write a Linux driver for most hardware. How many Linux users are really in the market for that specific wireless USB network adapter? Probably about 250 around the entire world if they're lucky.
Wow, that is incredibly lame. I used to love playing Counter-Strike and was downright addicted to it, but I could never imagine myself actually watching it passively as a non-player. What a complete waste of time! Why sit there and watch someone else play Counter-Strike when you can hop on and play it yourself!?
That's not "solving" spam, that's masking it. My company uses RBLs at the external mail gateways to try and control the flow of spam into our network. 80% (200,000 of 250,000 daily messages) is directly blocked via this method... that bandwidth is still being used, but we halt the flood of the e-mail to our internal mail servers before it can be a burden to our users.
Of the mail that does get through, another 20% is still spam that didn't get blocked by an RBL so it has to pass through another anti-spam gateway (spamassassin) that does analysis and tagging of the message before passing it on to the internal mail server. Of the mail that gets through, roughly 5-10% is probably mismarked as not being spam when it is. That ends up being a shitload of mail that still gets through into a user's inbox that they have to review and delete. Spread that across thousands of users and you have a very real problem.
What we really need are vigilantes to go out and kill the spammers. We have their names and their addresses on the ROKSO list. Kill those 200 spammers and it'll prove a powerful lesson to the remaining ones that haven't popped up on the radar yet. People need to learn that if they spam they will die. Without that threat I'm afraid spam will only become an ever-increasing problem until there will come a point where e-mail is a completely useless medium to use for communications without redesigning the protocol.
So, anyone got an ex-con brother who doesn't care whether he lands back in prison or not? ;-)
The Neutral Zone. Reintroduction of the Romulans into Star Trek canon as the big bad guys of the series since the Klingons were friendly now.
TV is a big part of American life. We leave our TV on from the moment we get home at night until after we fall asleep. Eventually someone gets annoyed by the flashing or Conan O'Brien's monologue so we shut it off and wander up to bed. We have a nice view of the TV in the living room from our dining room table so we can watch the evening news, recorded shows on the DVR, or just channel surf while eating dinner. Now, we're not always paying attention to the TV, it's just there for background noise and light, but it is always on.
If only they made some kind of a strip that you could plug all that stuff into and shut off with a single flick of a switch.
I doubt the RIAA agrees with that when you steal their music unless you're paying about $18 per blank CD-R. ;-)
What are you talking about? Everyone here just uses BitTorrent to download Linux ISOs and public domain home movies.
Slashdot couldn't overwhelm their servers even if they wanted to. They get a LOT more traffic than Slashdot does.
95.23 pounds.
Does this really require an Ask Slashdot? For crying out loud, just go to Best Buy or Fry's and buy one. I'm sure the crazy fanboys will tell you to go out and buy a 40GB Video iPod to use as a bootable drive, but just save your money and buy a 100GB portable external firewire hard drive. Go to the MacMall website or something and you'll probably find a dozen different external firewire portable drives.
IMHO iTunes Music Store would be a slam dunk if they had simply adopted Apple's Lossless codec as the standard format for downloaded music instead of the lossily compressed AAC files. If I'm going to pay the store price for an album on iTunes Music Store then I should be able to take the files I've downloaded and burn a CD that will be the exact same quality as if I had bought that CD from the store. I don't WANT to keep my music in DRM-protected AAC files, I want them to be cross-platform in MP3 or FLAC format but it's stupid to burn the AAC files to a CD and then rerip them since you lose too much audio quality.
So, as long as they don't piss off the USA (which runs the DNS system) Wikipedia should be fine.. but as we saw with a certain lawyer who allegedly played a part in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Wikipedia is not untouchable.
It's extremely common in the software industry to target a half or quarter rather than giving a firm calendar date. I wouldn't fault Microsoft for this since everyone else does it as well. The main problem Microsoft has is this window constantly slips farther and farther back.
Service packs aren't SUPPOSED to introduce new functionality, they're meant to roll up bug fixes so you don't have to install 50 patches after installing your software product. MS should be releasing a service pack every quarter or at most every half IMHO.
What really makes that possible is USB IMHO. Up until a few years ago it was basically impossible to hook external disk drives up to a laptop if you wanted to expand your storage unless you bought SCSI disks and a SCSI PCMCIA card. Now you can just go home, hook into your USB hub with a single cable and you've got access to your printer, scanner, external hard drives, DVD-RW drives, mouse, keyboard, webcam, etc. The only place it really makes sense anymore to use a desktop is if you're a gamer or an avid upgrader and like to swap out your motherboard/CPU/memory/video cards every once in awhile. It's just so much more convenient to grab a laptop and go sit on the couch and work instead of being tied to my office's desk.
Can you put regular mpeg-2 video on an iPod or does it have to be in a special format? Why not just record the shows with MythTV and then upload it to your iPod for free? You could even have scripts to cut out the commercials automatically for you. $2 per episode seems pretty steep.
Isn't it on the Sci-Fi network? You don't have cable TV? What the heck is wrong with you? For around $50/month you get sweet digital joy delivered to your television set 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can't beat that entertainment value.
My iPod mini can only hold 4GB you insensitve clod.