For those of you who want to learn more about global warming in a non-scientific fashion, I suggest you check out Michael Crichton's novel (yes, novel) "State of Fear." While it mostly focuses on presenting global warming as a non-existant threat, it's still quite compelling--and Crichton spent 3 years researching all around the world for it.
Heeey, RX-1492. So err...I asked you yesterday to start filing information about the people you fine in our new database. If you could do that, that'd be just great. Great. Did you, err, happen to get the memo about that? Yeah...well, I'll just resend it to you ok? Oh and I see your right arm has a stapler...I might need that. Thanks. So, err...yeah...great, great.
Yes, yes you could. But if there were no invites, and you were a brilliant programmer who wrote a script to make a million accounts, what would be easier?
Exactly. You can ALWAYS make spam accounts, but the question is not if you CAN. The question is, how hard IS it. The harder it is, the less likely people are going to waste their time on it. Maybe someone has done this already. Maybe not. But the point is, I'm guessing there would be at least 5 or 10 times the amount of Gmail accounts there are now (most of them unused) if Google DIDN'T make Gmail invite only.
blkros, don't make comments like that without knowing what's going on. I suggest you read this page and this GoogleBlog post and then you'll understand what's going on. The "pack"'s goal is to provide an easy way to set up new PC's for people who don't fancy lavish and exquisite (like "Foxit", mentioned by an earlier reader) but just want the basic thing. You can also install as little/much as you want. Furthermore, Google has a small process that keeps everything in those packs updated. Finally, if it detects one of those is already installed, it won't install it.
In my opinion, the Google Pack is a great way to save time installing all these things, when you could do it all in five minutes.
But this is just ridiculous. I mean honestly, when was the last tsunami before this recent event? Does anyone honestly think their tiny human little heads will be perking up 2000 years later just as vividly, watching the GPS screens, when the next tsunami comes? Seriously, give it a break. There was nothing we could have done. And perhaps in the future we will be able to do something beforehand. But that's not worth reporting, because I'll bet you my two arms and three balls that we won't have a tsunami in the next 100 years. This is just another tiny scientific advancement which isn't really worthy of taking up our time, because we're not going to ever see it in use, and we're not going to care.
I'm guessing most of it is because many people use the RealPlayer program, and whenever it connects, it opens up the RealPlayer homepage in the player itself, so that probably accounts for at least 50% of their hits.
It HAS been adopted. In Japan at least. Most people in Japan have videophones now.
We Americans are just unwilling to adopt to new technology. ("I don't need any video--I got me good ol' phone righ' here")
What Google will do next with Google Talk.
"GTalk will log all your chats for you, and make them publically searchable! Never lose what you or one of your friends" (or your cheating girlfriend/wife) " said ever again!"
...that as technology grows more and more sophisticated, companies will start outsourcing more and more. It used to be affordable to hire a guy or two as permanent company staff to manage your website or network servers. But now you need to ask an entire different company to provide you the services necessary for network administration.
Hopefully, Nessus 3 will also solve some of the problems Nessus has been having. According to Wikipedia, "some of Nessus's vulnerability tests can cause vulnerable services or operating systems to crash." For those who are wondering, Nessus scans vulnerabilities mostly on the application and network layer. Usually it port scans open ports for vulnerabilities, and looks for various network problems such as computers on promiscuous mode, etc.
For any of you network admins out there, a friend of mine has a medium business LAN and has been using Nessus, and it's working very smoothly for him; however, I recommend looking more into it before making any quick decisions based on Slashdot articles.
This is the second delay, it turns out. It was initially delayed by 24 hours, and now it's been delayed again?
Company founder Elon Musk says "in order to facilitate preparations for a missile defense launch, the Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) has bumped the SpaceX Falcon 1 maiden flight from its officially scheduled launch date of 1 p.m. California time (9 p.m. GMT) on November 25. The new launch time is 1 p.m. California time (9 p.m. GMT) on November 26."
Right now it is 1:35PM California Time. If everything goes right, it's T-00:25:00
As was pointed out before, if someone in a conversation told you about, say, "sciam", then they'd need to say either "the website sciam", "sciam--the website that is", "sciam as a URL", or something else. If they said "sciam.com" (Scientific American's website) everything would be clear. In the long run, it would only make things more confusing and difficult.
Also, if you type in a string in Firefox's address bar and hit Ctrl+enter, it takes you to that string with.com attached. If you press Shift+enter it appends.net, and if you press Ctrl+Shift+enter it adds.org. So really, there's no need for something that, while seemingly makes things simpler, in the end complicates everything.
Slashdot Mirror
Where am I going to find that much porn?
No, but it's certainly the spine of the market.
I have one word for you: Gmail
For those of you who want to learn more about global warming in a non-scientific fashion, I suggest you check out Michael Crichton's novel (yes, novel) "State of Fear." While it mostly focuses on presenting global warming as a non-existant threat, it's still quite compelling--and Crichton spent 3 years researching all around the world for it.
I believe you mean reassess?
Heeey, RX-1492. So err...I asked you yesterday to start filing information about the people you fine in our new database. If you could do that, that'd be just great. Great. Did you, err, happen to get the memo about that? Yeah...well, I'll just resend it to you ok? Oh and I see your right arm has a stapler...I might need that. Thanks. So, err...yeah...great, great.
They really mean it when they say ALL sites: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/siteadvisor.com
Yes, yes you could. But if there were no invites, and you were a brilliant programmer who wrote a script to make a million accounts, what would be easier? Exactly. You can ALWAYS make spam accounts, but the question is not if you CAN. The question is, how hard IS it. The harder it is, the less likely people are going to waste their time on it. Maybe someone has done this already. Maybe not. But the point is, I'm guessing there would be at least 5 or 10 times the amount of Gmail accounts there are now (most of them unused) if Google DIDN'T make Gmail invite only.
There you have it. You killed my mother, Bill Gates.
*cough* *cough* *cough* Gmail *cough*
Darn colds this time of winter.
Ah yes:
I, for one, DO NOT WELCOME our spam overlords. GTFO.
blkros, don't make comments like that without knowing what's going on. I suggest you read this page and this GoogleBlog post and then you'll understand what's going on. The "pack"'s goal is to provide an easy way to set up new PC's for people who don't fancy lavish and exquisite (like "Foxit", mentioned by an earlier reader) but just want the basic thing. You can also install as little/much as you want. Furthermore, Google has a small process that keeps everything in those packs updated. Finally, if it detects one of those is already installed, it won't install it. In my opinion, the Google Pack is a great way to save time installing all these things, when you could do it all in five minutes.
If DVD is dead, THIS is what's next. And we should be afraid. Very, very afraid.
Urge NT?
But this is just ridiculous. I mean honestly, when was the last tsunami before this recent event? Does anyone honestly think their tiny human little heads will be perking up 2000 years later just as vividly, watching the GPS screens, when the next tsunami comes? Seriously, give it a break. There was nothing we could have done. And perhaps in the future we will be able to do something beforehand. But that's not worth reporting, because I'll bet you my two arms and three balls that we won't have a tsunami in the next 100 years. This is just another tiny scientific advancement which isn't really worthy of taking up our time, because we're not going to ever see it in use, and we're not going to care.
Looks like someone forgot to scroll down...
I'm guessing most of it is because many people use the RealPlayer program, and whenever it connects, it opens up the RealPlayer homepage in the player itself, so that probably accounts for at least 50% of their hits.
It HAS been adopted. In Japan at least. Most people in Japan have videophones now. We Americans are just unwilling to adopt to new technology. ("I don't need any video--I got me good ol' phone righ' here")
What Google will do next with Google Talk. "GTalk will log all your chats for you, and make them publically searchable! Never lose what you or one of your friends" (or your cheating girlfriend/wife) " said ever again!"
I won't have to take piano lessons because my bionic hands will be programmable Mozarts!
...that as technology grows more and more sophisticated, companies will start outsourcing more and more. It used to be affordable to hire a guy or two as permanent company staff to manage your website or network servers. But now you need to ask an entire different company to provide you the services necessary for network administration.
Hopefully, Nessus 3 will also solve some of the problems Nessus has been having. According to Wikipedia, "some of Nessus's vulnerability tests can cause vulnerable services or operating systems to crash." For those who are wondering, Nessus scans vulnerabilities mostly on the application and network layer. Usually it port scans open ports for vulnerabilities, and looks for various network problems such as computers on promiscuous mode, etc.
For any of you network admins out there, a friend of mine has a medium business LAN and has been using Nessus, and it's working very smoothly for him; however, I recommend looking more into it before making any quick decisions based on Slashdot articles.
Can be found at Wikipedia.
There's an image of the Falcon 1 launch site. Let's hope this prospect is as promising as SpaceX's last endeavour.
48 meters of diameter? Damn, someone's going to be high from all that helium.
As was pointed out before, if someone in a conversation told you about, say, "sciam", then they'd need to say either "the website sciam", "sciam--the website that is", "sciam as a URL", or something else. If they said "sciam.com" (Scientific American's website) everything would be clear. In the long run, it would only make things more confusing and difficult. Also, if you type in a string in Firefox's address bar and hit Ctrl+enter, it takes you to that string with .com attached. If you press Shift+enter it appends .net, and if you press Ctrl+Shift+enter it adds .org. So really, there's no need for something that, while seemingly makes things simpler, in the end complicates everything.
Here's a picture of the momma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BlueGeneL-600x4 50.jpg