Perhaps they get their foot down a bit once they clear the M25. It's not deafening but anyone not screaming their lungs out has the choice of (a) doing so or (b) shutting up for a moment while it passes.
So how long before I can get one for the back of my car to get rid of those irritating tailgaters (by aiming at their tyres and giving them a blowout or something)?
Even better, one at the front as well so I can blast those lane hogs who won't get out of my way! Tailgating just doesn't seem to work, and (see above) may soon pose additional dangers...
Ok, publicity, and he'd probably run it at a loss, yada yada, but if anyone can make a profit from Concorde, Branson can. BA (or whoever) not wanting him to have it reeks of schoolyard childish logic - if I can't have it nobody can - and besides, it was the UK and FR *governments* that invested in it, not BA, so it should be the governments that decide if it should go to Branson.
And I don't see why crashes that kill people mean the whole thing has to be decommissioned. Motorbikes kill; they are still legal. Cars kill, and GM haven't been put down. 11/9/01 doesn't mean we all now live and work in bungalows. Smoking kills and it hasn't been banned. So what's the beef with Concorde?
Where in London exactly? I live in Reading and life stops for the minute or so when those booming engines drown out everyday noises as it flies out west. Absolutely no passing truck makes THAT much noise.
Then next time OBL decides it would be cool to fly a jumbo into the worlds tallest building, he'll get there and be like "dang, it's a two storey with a 5000m flag pole!"
If you check the gospels you'll see that Jesus never performed on demand - there were plenty of opportunities for him to demonstrate conclusively that he is God, and he never took any of them.
I haven't worked out yet what his algorithm was that started with "Miracle?" and ended with "Yes" or "No", but actual need, rather than want or perceived need, seems to play a major part, and "Perform for me, good doggy" always seemed to lead to "No." Yet there were plenty of miracles reported in the Gospels.
In my own experience God has given me enough proof for me that he exists. He hasn't given me the ultimate proof that will convince everyone I know, only the proof I myself need, and this followed my entering a trial period as a Christian rather than preceeding it.
So I can assert that it is true, and I can invite you to test for yourself whether or not it is true, but you will need to take the appropriate approach.
...several years ago (or should that be decades?) when I walked into a computer room and they showed me this massive blue cylinder about 8 inches high and a foot or more across, saying this is a Winchester drive and has an unbelieveable TEN MEGABYTES of space. Wow, what on earth can you do with all that space, said I. We don't know, said they.
300GB? Just give it a bit of time and we'll all have 300GB of static cache in our CPUs.
Changes colour according to the weather. Sigh. What about changing its waterproofness according to the weather? This is on a par with "So which car would go faster, a red one or a blue one?"
Well, as I remember date arithmetic 1st October 2003 plus three months equals 1st January 2004. October 12 2003 therefore seems a little premature for success stories, and that's assuming the story comes from someone who actually registered on Oct 1. How about coming back in January?
Not sure why scanning a blacklisted site is necessary.
Some spam in my inbox at the mo: increase your gas mileage 27%+ http://www.ew9j.net
So if we know that ew9j.net is a spam site, we don't need to hammer it - ok, the site gets hammered but so does everyone else's bandwidth, and our own bandwidth is wasted. We already know from the fact that ew9j.net is mentioned (and that it is blacklisted) that this is spam.
A whitelist would prevent a DOS attack on a non-spammer. Anything not on the blacklist or whitelist would be scanned, then when the site owner realises what's happening he gets himself whitelisted and the hammering stops. Of course the obvious problem with this is that the whitelist then becomes a list of "approved" sites which has its own problems.
Alternatively the software could report back to a suitable (fileshared?) repository when it scans a site and finds it to be ok; periodic ageing out of entries in the resulting autogenerated whitelist would keep it relatively clean, and sites confirmed to be spam sources either by multiple bad scans or manual intervention can be moved onto the blacklist.
Blacklisted entries could be periodically aged out/rescanned as well - this would prevent the theoretically-to-be-defunct ew9j.net from being a useless address forever.
With appropriate ageing out and rescanning of both black and white minstr^H^H^H^H^H^H^H -listed addresses, this could be made workable IMO.
young man, there's no need to feel down. I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground. I said, young man, 'cause your stock's going down there's no need to be unhappy.
young man, there's a law that'll wash; I said, young man, when you're short on your dosh. you can use it, and I'm sure you will find many kids who can't afford to be sued.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a. it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
they have everything for lawyers to enjoy, you can hang out with all the judges...
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a. it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
you can get your stock cleaned, you can have a good whinge, you can sue whoever you feel...
young man, are you listening to me? I said, young man, what do you want to be? I said, young man, you can make real your dreams. But you got to know this one thing!
no man does it all by himself. I said, young man, put your techs on the shelf, and just go there, with the d.m.c.a. Lawyers can help you today.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a. it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
they have everything for lawyers to enjoy, you can hang out with all the judges...
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a. it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
you can get your stock cleaned, you can have a good whinge, you can sue whoever you feel...
young man, I was once in your shoes. I said, stock was down and out with the blues. I felt no man cared I hadn't a yacht. I felt the whole world was so tight...
that's when someone came up to me, and said, young man, take a walk up the street. there's a lawsuit called the d.m.c.a. it can start you back on your way.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a. it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
"anything will be an improvement on the BBC series' special effects."
Oh come on, that's not very fair. It was made with the best effects available at the time, including some groundbreaking work. (Watch the extras on the DVD set for more info.)
LOTR was made with the best effects available, including new stuff. If the effects don't look primitive in 20 years time I'd be very surprised. That doesn't mean they're crap. If LOTR is remade in 20 years, it's highly likely that anything will be better than WETA's current abilities.
At the time nothing was better than the BBC special effects. Of course it could all be done now with a PC in half the time and looking 10 times better, but that's the nature of technology.
Sounds like the stuff you hear on Jerry Springer when a lardarse gets heckled for being fat - "Heat in winter, shade in summer, baby", like, as if those "suprising benefits" make it worthwhile.
They can't have patented gyroscopes. Or feedback loops. And they certainly can't have a patent on battery powered two wheelers. So apart from that, what else is there in a Segway?
Um, I've always wondered exactly what this means. Pictures sent back from probes that didn't confuse inches with centimeters suggest that Mars is strewn with rocks. So what happens? A rock is just sitting there one day, bored with the dual moonset, and decides to leave? With no fuel, or other way of defeating gravity? One minute it's just sitting there, the next it's hurtling through space?
It's probably a geeky backlash to the management pretty gui point and drool interfaces that get all the development budget cos those same managers can't use a lightning fast text only interface with hotkeys left right and centre.
Case in point - our internal system used to be a VERY fast, efficient, text-only program, black/white, lots of shortcut keys, anyone who knew what he was doing could move through it in very short order.
Problem: what do you click on? Where do you drool? You can't. Management don't understand it, can't use it, so they think it's crap and only give development time to the fancy GUI that only has buttons you can click on, takes ages for those buttons to respond because instead of spending the time saving the text to disk it's redrawing millions of stupid GUI gadgets. But it's eeeeeeeeasy. You don't need a brain to use a GUI (hence the success of Windows). But anyone with a clue finds GUIs slow, frustrating and inefficient, hence the proliferation of Linux users here.
It's a sad world when the ones who make the decisions are those least qualified to do so, trusting their own judgement instead of that of the people they themselves have hired to be experts. It's not about Real Men Using Crap Tools, it's about Real Men Using The Most Efficient Tools. If you prefer a slow GUI point and drool MUD client, use one. If you want a lighning fast client that spends its time doing the job instead of messing about drawing pretty pictures, use Telnet. Just because Notepad is basic doesn't mean it's crap - if all you want to do is type and use basic editing functions and have no need of column editing, Notepad is perfectly ok and there's no point in paying for UltraEdit, learning Emacs key sequences, or constantly trying to remember what mode you're in in vi so you don't destroy your work by typing in command mode (although admittedly you'd have to be typing something pretty weird if it contained 1GdG without an a or i behind it).
Ah, you must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot. You'll find all sorts of really interesting geeky stuff round here, like web servers made from pizza boxes, Rubik cube solvers made out of Lego and so on.
The answer to "Why?" usually takes the form "Because we can," rather than "Because it's commercially viable in Project X". If you consider any of these geeky pursuits a waste of time, there's a good chance posting on/. is wasting your time.
Then we'd see the/. headline "Plastic Bags May Spread Infections." The infections aren't coming from the cellphone itself, but from whoever touches it, therefore the same problem will exist however the cellphone is covered.
(Duh. I can't believe I have to explain that one. Still, it was modded +5 Interesting so I suppose some folks just haven't got the ability to think about things for a microsecond or two.)
Dunking the user in alcohol has a number of merits though...:-)
Here we go again. Fastest chip in the world; nobody, not even weather computer people could ever want faster, blah blah, bollocks bollocks; everyone knows in 12 months granny will want a PC with one in it and we'll all "need" something with a gazyllion terabytes of RAM and that runs at a googolplex hertz just to do some silly emails and stuff.
Was looking through a 1984 copy of Personal Computer World and it was saying exactly the same about the new 2MHz 8086 or whatever. Would've thought those crazy marketers'd have learnt by now that in IT there's a new "fastest in the world" every few months.
Still, I suppose some people will be new around here and be impressed by this sort of crap. I know I was, first time (probably in 1981 or thereabouts) I saw a front page "Fastest in the World!" story; second time round I thought hang on, haven't we been here before?
And yes, I know that's before some of you here were born, before any of you point it out and depress me even further.
Ok, I'm obviously missing something here. Microsoft not following standards must be subtly different from Moz not following standards. Mozilla not supporting a cross-platform framework for popup advertising must be ever so slightly different.
And leave my panties out of this. For your information they're fresh on this month, and I even ironed them. They're the little pink frilly....oh hang on, wrong forum.
So is popup blocking standard or not? If not, should it be in Moz or not?
I suspect it isn't in the standard, although IHNRTFS. So what happens when he, or someone else, starts jumping up and down saying Moz isn't standards compliant?
If Moz isn't standards compliant, it's because we the consumers want it not to be. If a litigious businessman can force MS to follow standards instead of what they have chosen to implement, there's nothing to stop him or another LB forcing Moz to follow the standard instead of what the consumers have decided is best.
"Dr. Doyle (Eolas) isn't trying to squash Mozilla or anything like that. What he was hoping to do would be to force Microsoft, Sun, etc. to join an organization where they would standardize their architecture."
Yeah. To HIS requirements. This is no better than Microsoft driving the market. This is supposed to be a FREE market, folks. That means the CONSUMER drives it, not the suppliers. Even if we all agree that supplier A driving the market is totally evil, the solution is not to have supplier B pop up and take their place.
Then what if he doesn't like something Moz does? Perhaps he's in bed with a spammer, who is losing cash because of the popup blocking. Does the standard specify popup blocking? If not then Moz isn't strictly following the standards.
"This guy isn't the bad guy."
No, this guy is ANOTHER bad guy. He doesn't like the way MS is driving the market, and wants to drive it himself. The problem is not which supplier is driving the market, it's that the market is being driven by a supplier in the first place.
"Lotus is dead"
Yeah, but it wasn't some years ago, when this patent was applied for. That's the whole point of the article, if I read it correctly. If Lotus could do it back then, then the patent is rubbish.
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Perhaps they get their foot down a bit once they clear the M25. It's not deafening but anyone not screaming their lungs out has the choice of (a) doing so or (b) shutting up for a moment while it passes.
Yeah...terrorists...yawn...(snore)
So how long before I can get one for the back of my car to get rid of those irritating tailgaters (by aiming at their tyres and giving them a blowout or something)?
Even better, one at the front as well so I can blast those lane hogs who won't get out of my way! Tailgating just doesn't seem to work, and (see above) may soon pose additional dangers...
Ok, publicity, and he'd probably run it at a loss, yada yada, but if anyone can make a profit from Concorde, Branson can. BA (or whoever) not wanting him to have it reeks of schoolyard childish logic - if I can't have it nobody can - and besides, it was the UK and FR *governments* that invested in it, not BA, so it should be the governments that decide if it should go to Branson.
And I don't see why crashes that kill people mean the whole thing has to be decommissioned. Motorbikes kill; they are still legal. Cars kill, and GM haven't been put down. 11/9/01 doesn't mean we all now live and work in bungalows. Smoking kills and it hasn't been banned. So what's the beef with Concorde?
Where in London exactly? I live in Reading and life stops for the minute or so when those booming engines drown out everyday noises as it flies out west. Absolutely no passing truck makes THAT much noise.
Change the rules to include poles et al.
Then next time OBL decides it would be cool to fly a jumbo into the worlds tallest building, he'll get there and be like "dang, it's a two storey with a 5000m flag pole!"
No!!!!! Surely not!!!!!!!! Microsoft, investing in anti-Linux FUD???? I can't believe it, no, I WON'T believe it. La-la-la-la-I'm not listening.
Oops, that's get me modded -NaN Balrog.
.3 - seems a bit unstable. Crashed a few times doing basic stuff. Oh well, roll back to 0.1 and wait for .4...
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If you check the gospels you'll see that Jesus never performed on demand - there were plenty of opportunities for him to demonstrate conclusively that he is God, and he never took any of them.
I haven't worked out yet what his algorithm was that started with "Miracle?" and ended with "Yes" or "No", but actual need, rather than want or perceived need, seems to play a major part, and "Perform for me, good doggy" always seemed to lead to "No." Yet there were plenty of miracles reported in the Gospels.
In my own experience God has given me enough proof for me that he exists. He hasn't given me the ultimate proof that will convince everyone I know, only the proof I myself need, and this followed my entering a trial period as a Christian rather than preceeding it.
So I can assert that it is true, and I can invite you to test for yourself whether or not it is true, but you will need to take the appropriate approach.
...several years ago (or should that be decades?) when I walked into a computer room and they showed me this massive blue cylinder about 8 inches high and a foot or more across, saying this is a Winchester drive and has an unbelieveable TEN MEGABYTES of space. Wow, what on earth can you do with all that space, said I. We don't know, said they.
300GB? Just give it a bit of time and we'll all have 300GB of static cache in our CPUs.
Changes colour according to the weather. Sigh. What about changing its waterproofness according to the weather? This is on a par with "So which car would go faster, a red one or a blue one?"
Well, as I remember date arithmetic 1st October 2003 plus three months equals 1st January 2004. October 12 2003 therefore seems a little premature for success stories, and that's assuming the story comes from someone who actually registered on Oct 1. How about coming back in January?
Not sure why scanning a blacklisted site is necessary.
/rescanned as well - this would prevent the theoretically-to-be-defunct ew9j.net from being a useless address forever.
Some spam in my inbox at the mo:
increase your gas mileage 27%+
http://www.ew9j.net
So if we know that ew9j.net is a spam site, we don't need to hammer it - ok, the site gets hammered but so does everyone else's bandwidth, and our own bandwidth is wasted. We already know from the fact that ew9j.net is mentioned (and that it is blacklisted) that this is spam.
A whitelist would prevent a DOS attack on a non-spammer. Anything not on the blacklist or whitelist would be scanned, then when the site owner realises what's happening he gets himself whitelisted and the hammering stops. Of course the obvious problem with this is that the whitelist then becomes a list of "approved" sites which has its own problems.
Alternatively the software could report back to a suitable (fileshared?) repository when it scans a site and finds it to be ok; periodic ageing out of entries in the resulting autogenerated whitelist would keep it relatively clean, and sites confirmed to be spam sources either by multiple bad scans or manual intervention can be moved onto the blacklist.
Blacklisted entries could be periodically aged out
With appropriate ageing out and rescanning of both black and white minstr^H^H^H^H^H^H^H -listed addresses, this could be made workable IMO.
young man, there's no need to feel down. I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground.
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I said, young man, 'cause your stock's going down there's no need to be unhappy.
young man, there's a law that'll wash; I said, young man, when you're short on your dosh.
you can use it, and I'm sure you will find many kids who can't afford to be sued.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
they have everything for lawyers to enjoy, you can hang out with all the judges
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
you can get your stock cleaned, you can have a good whinge, you can sue whoever you feel
young man, are you listening to me? I said, young man, what do you want to be?
I said, young man, you can make real your dreams. But you got to know this one thing!
no man does it all by himself. I said, young man, put your techs on the shelf,
and just go there, with the d.m.c.a. Lawyers can help you today.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
they have everything for lawyers to enjoy, you can hang out with all the judges
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
you can get your stock cleaned, you can have a good whinge, you can sue whoever you feel
young man, I was once in your shoes. I said, stock was down and out with the blues.
I felt no man cared I hadn't a yacht. I felt the whole world was so tight
that's when someone came up to me, and said, young man, take a walk up the street.
there's a lawsuit called the d.m.c.a. it can start you back on your way.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
it's fun to sue with the d-m-c-a.
"anything will be an improvement on the BBC series' special effects."
Oh come on, that's not very fair. It was made with the best effects available at the time, including some groundbreaking work. (Watch the extras on the DVD set for more info.)
LOTR was made with the best effects available, including new stuff. If the effects don't look primitive in 20 years time I'd be very surprised. That doesn't mean they're crap. If LOTR is remade in 20 years, it's highly likely that anything will be better than WETA's current abilities.
At the time nothing was better than the BBC special effects. Of course it could all be done now with a PC in half the time and looking 10 times better, but that's the nature of technology.
Sounds like the stuff you hear on Jerry Springer when a lardarse gets heckled for being fat - "Heat in winter, shade in summer, baby", like, as if those "suprising benefits" make it worthwhile.
They can't have patented gyroscopes. Or feedback loops. And they certainly can't have a patent on battery powered two wheelers. So apart from that, what else is there in a Segway?
Um, I've always wondered exactly what this means. Pictures sent back from probes that didn't confuse inches with centimeters suggest that Mars is strewn with rocks. So what happens? A rock is just sitting there one day, bored with the dual moonset, and decides to leave? With no fuel, or other way of defeating gravity? One minute it's just sitting there, the next it's hurtling through space?
It's probably a geeky backlash to the management pretty gui point and drool interfaces that get all the development budget cos those same managers can't use a lightning fast text only interface with hotkeys left right and centre.
Case in point - our internal system used to be a VERY fast, efficient, text-only program, black/white, lots of shortcut keys, anyone who knew what he was doing could move through it in very short order.
Problem: what do you click on? Where do you drool? You can't. Management don't understand it, can't use it, so they think it's crap and only give development time to the fancy GUI that only has buttons you can click on, takes ages for those buttons to respond because instead of spending the time saving the text to disk it's redrawing millions of stupid GUI gadgets. But it's eeeeeeeeasy. You don't need a brain to use a GUI (hence the success of Windows). But anyone with a clue finds GUIs slow, frustrating and inefficient, hence the proliferation of Linux users here.
It's a sad world when the ones who make the decisions are those least qualified to do so, trusting their own judgement instead of that of the people they themselves have hired to be experts. It's not about Real Men Using Crap Tools, it's about Real Men Using The Most Efficient Tools. If you prefer a slow GUI point and drool MUD client, use one. If you want a lighning fast client that spends its time doing the job instead of messing about drawing pretty pictures, use Telnet. Just because Notepad is basic doesn't mean it's crap - if all you want to do is type and use basic editing functions and have no need of column editing, Notepad is perfectly ok and there's no point in paying for UltraEdit, learning Emacs key sequences, or constantly trying to remember what mode you're in in vi so you don't destroy your work by typing in command mode (although admittedly you'd have to be typing something pretty weird if it contained 1GdG without an a or i behind it).
> why the **** are people wasting time on this?
/. is wasting your time.
Ah, you must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot. You'll find all sorts of really interesting geeky stuff round here, like web servers made from pizza boxes, Rubik cube solvers made out of Lego and so on.
The answer to "Why?" usually takes the form "Because we can," rather than "Because it's commercially viable in Project X". If you consider any of these geeky pursuits a waste of time, there's a good chance posting on
Then we'd see the /. headline "Plastic Bags May Spread Infections." The infections aren't coming from the cellphone itself, but from whoever touches it, therefore the same problem will exist however the cellphone is covered.
(Duh. I can't believe I have to explain that one. Still, it was modded +5 Interesting so I suppose some folks just haven't got the ability to think about things for a microsecond or two.)
Dunking the user in alcohol has a number of merits though...:-)
Here we go again. Fastest chip in the world; nobody, not even weather computer people could ever want faster, blah blah, bollocks bollocks; everyone knows in 12 months granny will want a PC with one in it and we'll all "need" something with a gazyllion terabytes of RAM and that runs at a googolplex hertz just to do some silly emails and stuff.
Was looking through a 1984 copy of Personal Computer World and it was saying exactly the same about the new 2MHz 8086 or whatever. Would've thought those crazy marketers'd have learnt by now that in IT there's a new "fastest in the world" every few months.
Still, I suppose some people will be new around here and be impressed by this sort of crap. I know I was, first time (probably in 1981 or thereabouts) I saw a front page "Fastest in the World!" story; second time round I thought hang on, haven't we been here before?
And yes, I know that's before some of you here were born, before any of you point it out and depress me even further.
Ok, I'm obviously missing something here. Microsoft not following standards must be subtly different from Moz not following standards. Mozilla not supporting a cross-platform framework for popup advertising must be ever so slightly different.
And leave my panties out of this. For your information they're fresh on this month, and I even ironed them. They're the little pink frilly....oh hang on, wrong forum.
So is popup blocking standard or not? If not, should it be in Moz or not?
I suspect it isn't in the standard, although IHNRTFS. So what happens when he, or someone else, starts jumping up and down saying Moz isn't standards compliant?
If Moz isn't standards compliant, it's because we the consumers want it not to be. If a litigious businessman can force MS to follow standards instead of what they have chosen to implement, there's nothing to stop him or another LB forcing Moz to follow the standard instead of what the consumers have decided is best.
"Dr. Doyle (Eolas) isn't trying to squash Mozilla or anything like that. What he was hoping to do would be to force Microsoft, Sun, etc. to join an organization where they would standardize their architecture."
Yeah. To HIS requirements. This is no better than Microsoft driving the market. This is supposed to be a FREE market, folks. That means the CONSUMER drives it, not the suppliers. Even if we all agree that supplier A driving the market is totally evil, the solution is not to have supplier B pop up and take their place.
Then what if he doesn't like something Moz does? Perhaps he's in bed with a spammer, who is losing cash because of the popup blocking. Does the standard specify popup blocking? If not then Moz isn't strictly following the standards.
"This guy isn't the bad guy."
No, this guy is ANOTHER bad guy. He doesn't like the way MS is driving the market, and wants to drive it himself. The problem is not which supplier is driving the market, it's that the market is being driven by a supplier in the first place.
"Lotus is dead"
Yeah, but it wasn't some years ago, when this patent was applied for. That's the whole point of the article, if I read it correctly. If Lotus could do it back then, then the patent is rubbish.