Imagine you're the boss. You've got a few min to spare, why not watch an AIM conversation go by?
Lots of people get off on snooping in other people's business. This is why 'reality' TV shows are such a hit.
Now imagine you're the boss or the network guy, and there's an employee you don't like using AIM and you've got a few min to spare.
You don't think there's a real chance that people might casualy skim through your stuff?
And if the boss(or network guy) is out to get you fired then there's a serious chance people are going to look through your stuff.
The fungus is terrestrial in origin! That means that it came from Earth. The only reason it's called "space fungus" is because it's in space right now.
If Saddam really wanted some of this stuff he probably wouldn't have to look any farther then the nearest dumpster!
I'm more interested in why the space station is so infested. The article was very vauge on this point. Is it something unique about space stations that make them easy targets for fungi?
These are just regular earthly fungi. Why aren't earthbound sturctures showing the same problems as Mir?
They could make it very tough though. Just because my ear can successfully hear the music does not mean that it can be digitised as easy. Our ears work difeerently.
Example, My eyes have no prolem viewing one of those amazing certificates Microsoft ships with it's Windows disks. Or the back of one of my checks. But all but the best color scanners will choke. They'll come up with all sorts of interfierence.
What's stoping the record companies from doing something like this? Modifying the sound so that once it's 'decoded' they interfere wirh digitising?
Would it be possible to do this without making it sound diferent. OR at least with no more artifacts then MP3 creates?
Because if someone in your node has what you need there's no need to go outside for it. And you've saved quite a lot bandwidth and effort(for your computer).
Remember, the most popular files are also the ones that are most available.
Coupled with a spell-checker that would slap people in the face before they make useless searches average users would rarely need to communicate outside thier own node.
Look how well napster works and it doesn't have any communication between nodes. (I know it's not great for obscure stuff. But your average users don't want obscure stuff. That's obviously why they're still obscure.)
For-profit corporations are not my friend. My friends don't lie to me. They don't try to squeeze money out of me. When I do something for a friend I feel confident that he'll do something for me someday. If I do make a transaction with a friend both myself and my friend make sure we're both getting a fair deal(not just legal. But fair. In short, my friends care about me not just getting my money. If your friends aren't like that maybe you should try to meet new people.
At best we've got an unhappy alliance with the Big Corps. Definitely not a friendship.
I don't know about you, but just because someone has put an advertisement there doesn't mean I have to watch it. When I watch Farscape I shrink the window when an advertisement comes up. Am I stealing from Jim Henson? Or SciFi Network?
I have no problem with them putting ads in the shows, but on the other hand they're not coming to strap me down and pry my eyes if I decide not to watch them either. And I think we'd be more then a little upset if the did.
What if people just moved the window up a little so the ads were off-screen? Would that also constitute theft?
I would far rather read a good book then play most text-based adventure games. The problem isn't that I don't like to read. I enjoy a good book or short story. The problem is that text-based games rarely seem to smoothly combine literature and gameplay.
What I mean by this is that some games have very interesting and engaging text in them, But the game doesn't live up. Usually it's obvious that the author already has the story planed and my job is simply to thrash about until I stumble upon the same story he's already written. I don't feel like I'm in control. I feel as if someone's handed me a novel that requires me to solve a Rubic's Cube to turn the page. I'd eventually get very good a the Rubic's Cube but I wouldn't get the full value of the novel out of it.
The few where the game itself is fun and engaging usually have bad [textual] writing. If the text doesn't live up there's simply no point in having a text-based adventure now that we have the technology to go beyond that.
Gaim has had Oscar support since version 0.9.20. This means that they're unaffected by this recent change.
But now that there's an official Linux client, I 'm sure we'll see them attack the rest of the non-ad-showing clone clients very soon.
This is another case of the real world encroaching on something the geeks thought they already had under control.
Because it translates websites you could tell it to translate your favorite porn site. Then you'd be able to see porn even with the porn-blocker in place.
"Insightfull" doesn't mean "I agree with it". It meens it offers a new way of looking at a problem or issue that might otherwise not have been discussed.
OK, So I've got my new barcode reader, and I've got the drivers for my barcode reader in...uh...barcode format. All I have to do is...uh, read the barcodes with...uh... my barcode reader and....uh...Oh Crap!
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I don't think they have anything to worry about. I've never heard the term "Lego" to refere to anything other then Lego brand bricks.
Even the mostly compatable non-lego bricks are never called "Lego". People usualy say something like "It's not a lego, but it'll probably fit."
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This is cool. I never knew this before. Now I've got to go install win98 on an old machine and see if I can get it to run for 48 days!
-Andy
Imagine you're the boss. You've got a few min to spare, why not watch an AIM conversation go by?
Lots of people get off on snooping in other people's business. This is why 'reality' TV shows are such a hit.
Now imagine you're the boss or the network guy, and there's an employee you don't like using AIM and you've got a few min to spare. You don't think there's a real chance that people might casualy skim through your stuff? And if the boss(or network guy) is out to get you fired then there's a serious chance people are going to look through your stuff.
No, it was a 3d wireframe projected over a table-like thing in the middle of the briefing room.
You've got a Lan that spans parsecs?
The fungus is terrestrial in origin! That means that it came from Earth. The only reason it's called "space fungus" is because it's in space right now.
If Saddam really wanted some of this stuff he probably wouldn't have to look any farther then the nearest dumpster!
I'm more interested in why the space station is so infested. The article was very vauge on this point. Is it something unique about space stations that make them easy targets for fungi?
These are just regular earthly fungi. Why aren't earthbound sturctures showing the same problems as Mir?
Yes, and we all know that Wired Magazine has one of the most extensive proof-reading proccesses in the industry.
IT's like the prisoner's dilema.
Any given individual is better off if he's dishonest. But if everyone is dishonest then everyone loses.
They could make it very tough though. Just because my ear can successfully hear the music does not mean that it can be digitised as easy. Our ears work difeerently.
Example, My eyes have no prolem viewing one of those amazing certificates Microsoft ships with it's Windows disks. Or the back of one of my checks. But all but the best color scanners will choke. They'll come up with all sorts of interfierence.
What's stoping the record companies from doing something like this? Modifying the sound so that once it's 'decoded' they interfere wirh digitising?
Would it be possible to do this without making it sound diferent. OR at least with no more artifacts then MP3 creates?
Because if someone in your node has what you need there's no need to go outside for it. And you've saved quite a lot bandwidth and effort(for your computer).
Remember, the most popular files are also the ones that are most available.
Coupled with a spell-checker that would slap people in the face before they make useless searches average users would rarely need to communicate outside thier own node.
Look how well napster works and it doesn't have any communication between nodes. (I know it's not great for obscure stuff. But your average users don't want obscure stuff. That's obviously why they're still obscure.)
For-profit corporations are not my friend. My friends don't lie to me. They don't try to squeeze money out of me. When I do something for a friend I feel confident that he'll do something for me someday. If I do make a transaction with a friend both myself and my friend make sure we're both getting a fair deal(not just legal. But fair. In short, my friends care about me not just getting my money. If your friends aren't like that maybe you should try to meet new people.
At best we've got an unhappy alliance with the Big Corps. Definitely not a friendship.
I don't know about you, but just because someone has put an advertisement there doesn't mean I have to watch it. When I watch Farscape I shrink the window when an advertisement comes up. Am I stealing from Jim Henson? Or SciFi Network?
I have no problem with them putting ads in the shows, but on the other hand they're not coming to strap me down and pry my eyes if I decide not to watch them either. And I think we'd be more then a little upset if the did.
What if people just moved the window up a little so the ads were off-screen? Would that also constitute theft?
This is why I'm running for president this year. I don't want to be pres. But If I don't run, they might not let me next time!
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I don't believe this.
I would far rather read a good book then play most text-based adventure games. The problem isn't that I don't like to read. I enjoy a good book or short story. The problem is that text-based games rarely seem to smoothly combine literature and gameplay.
What I mean by this is that some games have very interesting and engaging text in them, But the game doesn't live up. Usually it's obvious that the author already has the story planed and my job is simply to thrash about until I stumble upon the same story he's already written. I don't feel like I'm in control. I feel as if someone's handed me a novel that requires me to solve a Rubic's Cube to turn the page. I'd eventually get very good a the Rubic's Cube but I wouldn't get the full value of the novel out of it.
The few where the game itself is fun and engaging usually have bad [textual] writing. If the text doesn't live up there's simply no point in having a text-based adventure now that we have the technology to go beyond that.
-Andy
If AOL successfully shuts down the AIM clones you can bet your bottom [local currency] that they'll start shutting down ICQ clones next!
Why the hell is this flamebait? Don't people have a right to decide what thier own server is used for?
Gaim has had Oscar support since version 0.9.20. This means that they're unaffected by this recent change.
But now that there's an official Linux client, I 'm sure we'll see them attack the rest of the non-ad-showing clone clients very soon.
This is another case of the real world encroaching on something the geeks thought they already had under control.
Because it translates websites you could tell it to translate your favorite porn site. Then you'd be able to see porn even with the porn-blocker in place.
You're absolutly right. Start by selling your computer for food money. Then get back to us.
"Insightfull" doesn't mean "I agree with it". It meens it offers a new way of looking at a problem or issue that might otherwise not have been discussed.
Why didn't this show up on the main page?
Is there some special "Space Exploration" part of Slashdot that I'm missing?
"(which they always ask for when I buy resistors... they must really want to know which parts of town are buying the most resistors)"
Well, Big Brother always trys to keep track of The Resistance.
-Andy
OK, So I've got my new barcode reader, and I've got the drivers for my barcode reader in ...uh...barcode format. All I have to do is ...uh, read the barcodes with ...uh... my barcode reader and....uh...Oh Crap!
I don't think they have anything to worry about. I've never heard the term "Lego" to refere to anything other then Lego brand bricks.
Even the mostly compatable non-lego bricks are never called "Lego". People usualy say something like "It's not a lego, but it'll probably fit."
-Andy