Why exactly would your pwned Mac be resistant to having the thunderbird address book scanned and having the trojan delivered to all your friends that think you're smarter about computers then they are, and would quickly install whatever you have recommended to them.
I was on a mailing list one time where someone recommended that everyone on the list should download "antivirus product X" which most people on this list (not computer related) had never heard of. I got flamed for pointing out that this looked very much like an email that a very cunning virus could have crafted, being as how it had proper punctuation and spelling. They users were very emphatic that "they trusted Dan" and I shouldn't be "using scare tactics." Funny stuff indeed. The antivirus company btw was Panda security who actually make a fine product (for those that need it).
AFAIK the date of the filing of the patent is not necessarily the date the invention was created. Once the patent is awarde, the prior art must be proven to have taken place before the inventor did it. If Amazon did it in 1994, then it predates all the other prior art, and since they have the patent, you guys are now screwed. IANAL
Windows has never been able to copy a large number of files. I've been trying to copy millions of files on windows boxes since 1997 and it never worked. Explorer usually just hangs, I guess OOM is an improvement.
Install cygin. Use rsync. Done.
Also should point out that you have to move folders like 5 times in vista before they finally move. No errors, source and destination remain partially copied over. Probably the same bug.
Ok let's throw out some odds... It's a three dimensional equation and we're on the losing end of every part of it. The universe is big and old, and we are young and small...
There are 10^20 observed stars http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton/askasci/1993/astron/AST014.HTM
The universe is 11 - 20 billion years old.
We have been "intelligent" for 10000 years (generous, not sure we're intelligent yet ) on 1 planet around 1 star.
10^20 * 10^9 / 10^4 = 10^25
These are the odds of intelligent life being on this planet in this 10,000 year period. Divide by a million stars and you have 1 in 10^19 probability of there being intelligent life around any of these million stars. If there are a million civilizations in the universe, the odds of them being in those million stars at this time is still 1 in 10^13. The odds of us being the most intelligent are still 1 in 10^25.
Ok, bunch of flaky math, but hey, the odds of *us discovering* alien civilizations is inversely proportional to the number of alien civilizations, and the more there are of them the more likely that they would *discover us*. The odds don't get better with more civilizations, they get worse.
The universe is a big place. Scary big. I mean, you think from here down to the drugstore is a long ways, but that's nothing compared to the size of the universe. -- misquoted hhttg
It's a whole have your cake and eat it too. What are the odds of there being other intelligent life? Pretty good. What are the chances of it being within 500 light years. Oh something around 1+10e-17.
That's my whole point. Assume that there are many other civilizations, why would they not already be looking for and find us? Hoping to find another civilization that has created radio technology within 500 light years is ludicrous. Hoping that another civilization in the universe has evolved technology that will allow them to find us is much more reasonable. Hoping to evolve technology which is able to find other civilizations more then 500 light years away is also much more reasonable. In 20 years, I'll be able to run the whole seti project of today on my PDA. Why waste the resources now when there are far better purposes, and it's a near certainty that nothing will come to light in the next 20 years, and even if it does we won't be able to really do anything. Notions of alien civilizations beaming us directions about how to make a time-jump gate indeed.
Of course I hope to eat all those words. But face the facts people. None of us are going to live to chat with aliens!
Hey, if one is going to use a tool to look for a needle in a haystack, I would choose a *magnet*. Consider the amount of radio energy we're spewing into space, we've got a great magnet already. And considering that if there is any other life, it's probably more intelligent then us, the best thing to do is just *wait*.
Let's not forget the fact that even if we did discover a radio emenation from 500 light years away, it would take *1000 years* for us to get a response. Surely in 1000 years we'll come up with something better then a stupid radio signal.
Folks, please concentrate your efforts on something more useful.
Let me guess, you're one of those users that leaves a neutral without even contacting the seller about your problem first. You don't realize that your neutral becomes part of their permenant history, and that they would certainly have worked with you to resolve any reasonable problem that you have. Like refunding you 45 cents difference in the shipping costs. Now I remember why I don't sell on ebay anymore.
The paypal shopping cart has a feature to allow you to specify shipping on a per-item basis. This feature was also broken on the same day. The very example on their website
Does not work, and adds the item with the default shipping.
I called to complain and got the typical run around, they send me to the example on that page, I'm like that's the example I'm using, oh can you please hold. What am I going to hold for. Well I need to check your website. What is the address of my website? Long pause. Can you please give your website address. Well why were you about to put me on hold if you didn't know my website name. Sir, if you would please just give me your website address then I can assist you further. Yeah right, you suck. Sir if you are going to use that type of language I am going to have to put you on... discontinue the call. Wait did you just almost say that you were going to put me hold if I used abusive language? Is that your company policy.
infinite loop, causing a memory error or buffer overrun or one of these other horrible things that languages without inbuilt memory management are susceptible to. WTF? You never seen java in an infinite loop sucking up all a machines resources? Who cares if it's a buffer overwrite or an Unhandled Exception?
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WHAT AS OPPOSED TO WHAT WE HAVE NOW? the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy lameness filter.
99% less pollution is the number I recall. This page is fun
Why exactly would your pwned Mac be resistant to having the thunderbird address book scanned and having the trojan delivered to all your friends that think you're smarter about computers then they are, and would quickly install whatever you have recommended to them. I was on a mailing list one time where someone recommended that everyone on the list should download "antivirus product X" which most people on this list (not computer related) had never heard of. I got flamed for pointing out that this looked very much like an email that a very cunning virus could have crafted, being as how it had proper punctuation and spelling. They users were very emphatic that "they trusted Dan" and I shouldn't be "using scare tactics." Funny stuff indeed. The antivirus company btw was Panda security who actually make a fine product (for those that need it).
AFAIK the date of the filing of the patent is not necessarily the date the invention was created. Once the patent is awarde, the prior art must be proven to have taken place before the inventor did it. If Amazon did it in 1994, then it predates all the other prior art, and since they have the patent, you guys are now screwed. IANAL
If you "Greak" is as bad as your English
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Yeah, but take the cover off the back of your monitor and there it is.
hey who let this guy on slashdot?
Windows has never been able to copy a large number of files. I've been trying to copy millions of files on windows boxes since 1997 and it never worked. Explorer usually just hangs, I guess OOM is an improvement. Install cygin. Use rsync. Done. Also should point out that you have to move folders like 5 times in vista before they finally move. No errors, source and destination remain partially copied over. Probably the same bug.
Ok let's throw out some odds... It's a three dimensional equation and we're on the losing end of every part of it. The universe is big and old, and we are young and small... There are 10^20 observed stars http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton/askasci/1993/astron/AST014.HTM The universe is 11 - 20 billion years old. We have been "intelligent" for 10000 years (generous, not sure we're intelligent yet ) on 1 planet around 1 star. 10^20 * 10^9 / 10^4 = 10^25 These are the odds of intelligent life being on this planet in this 10,000 year period. Divide by a million stars and you have 1 in 10^19 probability of there being intelligent life around any of these million stars. If there are a million civilizations in the universe, the odds of them being in those million stars at this time is still 1 in 10^13. The odds of us being the most intelligent are still 1 in 10^25. Ok, bunch of flaky math, but hey, the odds of *us discovering* alien civilizations is inversely proportional to the number of alien civilizations, and the more there are of them the more likely that they would *discover us*. The odds don't get better with more civilizations, they get worse.
The universe is a big place. Scary big. I mean, you think from here down to the drugstore is a long ways, but that's nothing compared to the size of the universe. -- misquoted hhttg It's a whole have your cake and eat it too. What are the odds of there being other intelligent life? Pretty good. What are the chances of it being within 500 light years. Oh something around 1+10e-17.
That's my whole point. Assume that there are many other civilizations, why would they not already be looking for and find us? Hoping to find another civilization that has created radio technology within 500 light years is ludicrous. Hoping that another civilization in the universe has evolved technology that will allow them to find us is much more reasonable. Hoping to evolve technology which is able to find other civilizations more then 500 light years away is also much more reasonable. In 20 years, I'll be able to run the whole seti project of today on my PDA. Why waste the resources now when there are far better purposes, and it's a near certainty that nothing will come to light in the next 20 years, and even if it does we won't be able to really do anything. Notions of alien civilizations beaming us directions about how to make a time-jump gate indeed. Of course I hope to eat all those words. But face the facts people. None of us are going to live to chat with aliens!
Hey, if one is going to use a tool to look for a needle in a haystack, I would choose a *magnet*. Consider the amount of radio energy we're spewing into space, we've got a great magnet already. And considering that if there is any other life, it's probably more intelligent then us, the best thing to do is just *wait*. Let's not forget the fact that even if we did discover a radio emenation from 500 light years away, it would take *1000 years* for us to get a response. Surely in 1000 years we'll come up with something better then a stupid radio signal. Folks, please concentrate your efforts on something more useful.
OMG Clayten a picture is so worth 10000s of words, this is totally my image of a reasonable ebay buyer http://www.kelora.org/images/2002-05-18%20-%20Reception/?view=Clayten%20and%20Tammie%20-%20Cutting%20Cake%2002.JPG
Let me guess, you're one of those users that leaves a neutral without even contacting the seller about your problem first. You don't realize that your neutral becomes part of their permenant history, and that they would certainly have worked with you to resolve any reasonable problem that you have. Like refunding you 45 cents difference in the shipping costs. Now I remember why I don't sell on ebay anymore.
Of course, that is kind of thwarted once one realizes that ebay OWNS cragslist! http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3394631
It has other features? Everything else seems as FU as ever. Oh, wait, tab completion is on by default, that's a good thing.
That might be your correct your correct form of you're but who cares what you're your using in you're days of yore.
Yeah, just think of all the poor homeless people that can no longer fly into chicago for lunch...
The paypal shopping cart has a feature to allow you to specify shipping on a per-item basis. This feature was also broken on the same day. The very example on their website
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https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_pdn
Does not work, and adds the item with the default shipping.
I called to complain and got the typical run around, they send me to the example on that page, I'm like that's the example I'm using, oh can you please hold. What am I going to hold for. Well I need to check your website. What is the address of my website? Long pause. Can you please give your website address. Well why were you about to put me on hold if you didn't know my website name. Sir, if you would please just give me your website address then I can assist you further. Yeah right, you suck. Sir if you are going to use that type of language I am going to have to put you on... discontinue the call. Wait did you just almost say that you were going to put me hold if I used abusive language? Is that your company policy.
obligatory sucks link
http://www.paypalsucks.com/
This is SWEET. I'm going to use it to Blackmail My Sysadmin!
Yeah sure fine, but first we gotta get vista to boot .
Friend that was at the colo says the diesel did not start and the wheel spun down.
Don't most of you bay area (bleeks) have web browsers on your phones? Just go to http://www.ktvu.com/baytrafficmap/index.html
seems suspicious