..so feel free to mod me offtopic, but I submitted this same story with NASA as the news source and it was rejected. Perhaps my title was less interesting.
"Nursing or pregnant women should avoid the slashdot effect at all costs"
You must be new around here. The odds of a woman reading Slashdot is only about 1 in 100 as it is, but the odds that they've had sex too is even slimmer. Unless you're referring to the "Slashdot effect" as the effect a geek has on a woman, and in that case there's almost a 0% chance they'd end up nursing or pregnant from said geek.
I agree. I work with computers all day, and even though I don't program, I have to troubleshoot and do phone support most of the day. I bike to work in the Summer and Fall, and biking 6km a day helps me work off some energy to make room for supper and all of the sitting around I normally do. You can do lots while biking or running, including listening to an iPod [which isn't safe as having full hearing to detect approaching danger], or thinking over code you've just written.
This kind of Ask Slashdot reminds me of the story a few years back when a family was trying to recover email from either Yahoo or Hotmail of their departed dead family member. Yahoo wouldn't release the email because they argued it was private and had no obligation to release it to the third party. I don't know how the legal wranglings eventually worked out, but last I heard the family was stuck trying to guess the password.
My Dad a science teacher, once told me he heard a kid say something clever, so he tapped his own head with his finger knowningly and said, "You've got kidneys."
I read the headline " Cockroaches Make Group Decisions?" As " Cockroaches Make Great Soup " I can't imagine how bad that soup would taste. I wonder when Slashdot became a recipie site.
Actually I wasn't implying that the virtual system would be a generic version, it would actually BE the users' PC virtualized. vmware's P2V utility essentially, but running without intervention, and in the background. It might be many years away, but if it can happen, and bad people will profit from it, odds are it will happen unless some security method heads it off at the pass.
Using a fresh boot disk and known good bios, it should be possible to verify that the drive's BIOS and boot sectors are restored to factory defaults. No need to add to landfills, unless you were joking.
It may not exist yet in the wild [who could say if this isn't being worked on though] because Virtual PCs are relatively new and the power to operate one has come about only in the last few years. Also the Internet has provided a way to remotely manage such a network of rooted machines, and yesterday VMware and Microsoft announced developments in the Virtual PC world. This could take off at any time, all it takes is some bad people working on a way to hide behind what looks like your computer, but is really your PC running on a virtual PC.
If you're so skeptical, explain why this won't happen. You can't because it already happens, only the real system is modified to hide the malware from the OS, instead of the real PC being left alone while it runs on top of the malware OS with a virtual machine running the users' system.
Formating doesn't come close to elimination real malware though. The boot sector isn't overwritten first of all unless you specify/s Additionally, the malware could have virtualized your PC and whatever changes you make are to the virtual computer you are running on while the virus has real run of your hardware and resources. Even if that doesn't exist yet, one day it will because it is possible using software that is even freely available today, with some tweaks that bad people would only be too eager to implement. Talk about the mother of all rootkits eh? Your computer would be like The Matrix, a virtual world where you think you are in charge but are really running a pawn cause you're pwn3d.
Companies like Sony pushing rootkits onto unsuspecting customers is part of the trend toward stealth and aggressive rooting of machines. Once a serious worm that can spread quickly and hide deeply gets around, people will realize how serious an issue rootkits are.
I disagree. Watching downloaded movies is civil disobedience. It's Napster's masses that forced the music industry to come to a pay per song distribution method, otherwise today we'd still be without iTunes service and other big sources for "legal" music online.
Look at the article summary for this Slashdot posting. They are doing this to combat the civil disobedience of movie downloading. If it was simply to serve the customer base better, then they'd have not mentioned the piracy fighting angle of offering convenient online movie downloads available at the same time as the [currently more conveniently backed-up] DVD.
Another Slashdot mentioned pop band came out with a download-for-free album about 8 months ago. http://www.harveydanger.com/ is worth checking out, you've got nothing to lose and I liked it so much I PayPal'ed them some money for the album.
The best April foold's DAy joke that Slashdot ever covered was the . Wikipedia even talks about the evil bit. I hope Slashdot remembered to set the evil bit to on before posting their Pink style sheets. CSS now means Crippling Stye Sheets.
I once saw someone suggest that DVDs and movie memoribillia be sold at the theatre so parents can impluse buy a disney character stuffed animal or action figure.
Respected Slashdot users made a prediction today: DesktopBSD the desktop ready and user friendly port of FreeBSD is dying! The website, reportedly run on IIS, crashed at 3 minutes past being posted to Slashdot.org this afternoon.
Remember that Slashdot confirms DesktopBSD's site is DYING!
Explaining evolution to a fundamentalist bible literalist is like trying to convert an Afghani Muslim to Christianity, it'll never happen. -Abdul Rahman
What if it's your mode of contact for works sites though? Status messages don't keep everyone away, because it's about the same as sending an email, as long as the other person doesn't answer the message as soon as they get it.
My favourite quote from the article was this: "during our conversation, some auditory clues led me to ask her one more question. "Linda," I asked, "are you taking this interview while driving your car?" She admitted that she was. But as long as she didn't have to slam the brakes or dodge a pedestrian, I had her continuous partial attention."
I notice myself typing BRB a lot as soon as someone messages me through MSN. Usually it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's just that I was putting off something else I was going to do, and they've broken me out of what I was currently doing, so before I get attached in a new conversation I can leap over to what I should be doing.
Some days I just throw myself at one task and get it done, rather than dabbling in everything. Dabbling in everything is fun, and feels like a busy day, but it tends to produce a lot less than a dedicated day [which is usually away from the primary computer(s) I use].
Not only that, but you SEE the files in the FOLDERS. They generate a tiny preview of each document to flip though the File folder picture. And Alt Tab switching has the whole window come up in a rotating fan mini-preview.
Slashdot Mirror
..so feel free to mod me offtopic, but I submitted this same story with NASA as the news source and it was rejected. Perhaps my title was less interesting.
m ight-form-around-super-novaed-stars/
http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/04/05/planets-
"Real nerds just telnet to port 110"
Oh yeah? Well I have pigeons deliver my GMail packets and I hand decode the ones without the evil bit set to on.
"Nursing or pregnant women should avoid the slashdot effect at all costs"
You must be new around here. The odds of a woman reading Slashdot is only about 1 in 100 as it is, but the odds that they've had sex too is even slimmer.
Unless you're referring to the "Slashdot effect" as the effect a geek has on a woman, and in that case there's almost a 0% chance they'd end up nursing or pregnant from said geek.
I agree. I work with computers all day, and even though I don't program, I have to troubleshoot and do phone support most of the day. I bike to work in the Summer and Fall, and biking 6km a day helps me work off some energy to make room for supper and all of the sitting around I normally do. You can do lots while biking or running, including listening to an iPod [which isn't safe as having full hearing to detect approaching danger], or thinking over code you've just written.
This kind of Ask Slashdot reminds me of the story a few years back when a family was trying to recover email from either Yahoo or Hotmail of their departed dead family member. Yahoo wouldn't release the email because they argued it was private and had no obligation to release it to the third party. I don't know how the legal wranglings eventually worked out, but last I heard the family was stuck trying to guess the password.
My Dad a science teacher, once told me he heard a kid say something clever, so he tapped his own head with his finger knowningly and said, "You've got kidneys."
I must be VERY hungry.
I read the headline " Cockroaches Make Group Decisions?"
As " Cockroaches Make Great Soup "
I can't imagine how bad that soup would taste. I wonder when Slashdot became a recipie site.
Actually I wasn't implying that the virtual system would be a generic version, it would actually BE the users' PC virtualized. vmware's P2V utility essentially, but running without intervention, and in the background. It might be many years away, but if it can happen, and bad people will profit from it, odds are it will happen unless some security method heads it off at the pass.
Using a fresh boot disk and known good bios, it should be possible to verify that the drive's BIOS and boot sectors are restored to factory defaults.
No need to add to landfills, unless you were joking.
It may not exist yet in the wild [who could say if this isn't being worked on though] because Virtual PCs are relatively new and the power to operate one has come about only in the last few years. Also the Internet has provided a way to remotely manage such a network of rooted machines, and yesterday VMware and Microsoft announced developments in the Virtual PC world.
This could take off at any time, all it takes is some bad people working on a way to hide behind what looks like your computer, but is really your PC running on a virtual PC.
If you're so skeptical, explain why this won't happen. You can't because it already happens, only the real system is modified to hide the malware from the OS, instead of the real PC being left alone while it runs on top of the malware OS with a virtual machine running the users' system.
Formating doesn't come close to elimination real malware though. The boot sector isn't overwritten first of all unless you specify /s
Additionally, the malware could have virtualized your PC and whatever changes you make are to the virtual computer you are running on while the virus has real run of your hardware and resources. Even if that doesn't exist yet, one day it will because it is possible using software that is even freely available today, with some tweaks that bad people would only be too eager to implement.
Talk about the mother of all rootkits eh? Your computer would be like The Matrix, a virtual world where you think you are in charge but are really running a pawn cause you're pwn3d.
Companies like Sony pushing rootkits onto unsuspecting customers is part of the trend toward stealth and aggressive rooting of machines. Once a serious worm that can spread quickly and hide deeply gets around, people will realize how serious an issue rootkits are.
I disagree. Watching downloaded movies is civil disobedience. It's Napster's masses that forced the music industry to come to a pay per song distribution method, otherwise today we'd still be without iTunes service and other big sources for "legal" music online.
Look at the article summary for this Slashdot posting. They are doing this to combat the civil disobedience of movie downloading. If it was simply to serve the customer base better, then they'd have not mentioned the piracy fighting angle of offering convenient online movie downloads available at the same time as the [currently more conveniently backed-up] DVD.
Another Slashdot mentioned pop band came out with a download-for-free album about 8 months ago. http://www.harveydanger.com/ is worth checking out, you've got nothing to lose and I liked it so much I PayPal'ed them some money for the album.
The best April foold's DAy joke that Slashdot ever covered was the .
Wikipedia even talks about the evil bit. I hope Slashdot remembered to set the evil bit to on before posting their Pink style sheets. CSS now means Crippling Stye Sheets.
I once saw someone suggest that DVDs and movie memoribillia be sold at the theatre so parents can impluse buy a disney character stuffed animal or action figure.
Respected Slashdot users made a prediction today: DesktopBSD the desktop ready and user friendly port of FreeBSD is dying! The website, reportedly run on IIS, crashed at 3 minutes past being posted to Slashdot.org this afternoon.
Remember that Slashdot confirms DesktopBSD's site is DYING!
Thank you for posting the link to explain my humourous comment.
Don't forget the hot grits, or development might become petrified.
Explaining evolution to a fundamentalist bible literalist is like trying to convert an Afghani Muslim to Christianity, it'll never happen.
-Abdul Rahman
I was thinking the same thing. What kind of self respecting anti-westerner would use a James Bond Hollywood name as their online moniker.
What if it's your mode of contact for works sites though?
Status messages don't keep everyone away, because it's about the same as sending an email, as long as the other person doesn't answer the message as soon as they get it.
My favourite quote from the article was this:
"during our conversation, some auditory clues led me to ask her one more question. "Linda," I asked, "are you taking this interview while driving your car?" She admitted that she was. But as long as she didn't have to slam the brakes or dodge a pedestrian, I had her continuous partial attention."
I notice myself typing BRB a lot as soon as someone messages me through MSN. Usually it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's just that I was putting off something else I was going to do, and they've broken me out of what I was currently doing, so before I get attached in a new conversation I can leap over to what I should be doing.
Some days I just throw myself at one task and get it done, rather than dabbling in everything. Dabbling in everything is fun, and feels like a busy day, but it tends to produce a lot less than a dedicated day [which is usually away from the primary computer(s) I use].
My favourite online game from the mid 1980s is Sopwith 3. The old graphics honestly don't bother me.
,./
http://sopwith3.sourceforge.net/
Try it with a friend over the internet today. Keys are:
s h
zx
b spacebar
Not only that, but you SEE the files in the FOLDERS. They generate a tiny preview of each document to flip though the File folder picture. And Alt Tab switching has the whole window come up in a rotating fan mini-preview.