..get out a scripting book and script out a random clicking gizmo to run up the ad charges and ruin someone, I suspect I would just ruin someone who has no idea what's happening on these clicksites.
If only I could find a way to make the weezils pay for the clicks.
What are you smokin? All those examples resolve into the same domain. If you typo the 'support.' part of support.dell.com, well, dell.com answers and says 'moron...404'.
Now, if you owned delll.com. then going to supporrt.delll.com would get you something else. Not Dell.
Sheesh. Even/.'rs don't really get DNS. we are in serious trouble, folks.
And I think there's a way to answer *.dell.com with at least a 'wft?' page of your design. But if you go to weuriope.dell.com, you got to dell.com. Dell. Not the weezils.
That and your simole solution to a problem that really doesn't exist.
There is NO SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM with paper balloting that all-electronic voting solves:
- Speed of count. Not an issue. We have weeks before the Electoral College must meet. Plenty of time to count and recount paper ballots.
- Accuracy. Not necessary to be an issue. OCR or optical-scan ballots arte reliable, affordable, and paper; verifiable. We need not use punch ballots, though better punch technology would resolve most problems.
- Poor ballot design. Not an issue. This is not SOLVED by electronics. A bad GUI or poor layout on the screen would be the same problem.
What problem does an all-electronic balloting system solve that can't be solved with paper balloting? I say none.
ps- You've proven just how hard it can be to program a system with your silly example. Of course, yours would be easily detected upon inspection of the results, but by then it's too late. Elections should (and I propose MUST) be accurate the first time. We don't want to have to go back and re-run an election. The results would be unavoidably tainted by the other elections in other states.
Sheesh. It's really unfortunate that we are even having this discussion. This should never have come to this.
Yeah, but did you have to terminate everything while on a ladder, above the ceiling grid, no flashlight, and a defective flourescent ballast putting 80VAC on the metal, sweating away in 105 degree heat?
And make your own resistors out of tinfoil and old pencils?
Ah, those were the days. Vampire taps were a blessing!
I don't advocate 'do nothing because we know nothing'. I'm mindful of risk. We haven't tried a lot of biology, I hope just because the risk is too great.
Is there no risk in manipulating DNA in these ways?
"if you change ISPs or peers, you have to completely re-IP your servers"
I missed that the first time. Sounds like we got another IPv6-slam in TFA.
And this is different than IPv4 how? In the US, this is the norm. I know, my dear friends that manage my access like to change ISPs about 4 times more often than they change cell phone providers. And for even dumber reasons. They don't even geta free CSU/DSU most of the time, and of course the new provider needs us to use 'theirs', so they can manage it. And leave it to us to reboot it every month when it gets pissy about something that doesn't leave a log entry. grrr... But that's the wonderful world of T-1s and telcos.
IPv6 doesn't help you unless you're PI, and damned few of us are. We know it, when we are, too.
My list of hot girls I know that are way hotter than Kari - >50 I could name, >100 if I have a couple of days to think it over.
My list of hot girls I know that are way hotter than Kari AND on national TV - 3. If PBS counts.
Being able to think over the hottness of girls I bot know and don't know, and compare the two - priceless.
And all this means, what, nothing? Yeah... I want an SLI rig so I can be less useless in BFwhatever. Earth Girls are plentiful and currently cheaper than a slammin gaming rig. Wasn't always that way...
- Um, maybe that DNA that isn't seen in Nature isn't see for a reason? Like the last time it showed up, it killed everything else, and then went extinct to seal the deal?
- Um, like maybe DNA that doesn't show up in Nature is un-natural, and doesn't really work?
- Um, like DNA that doesn't show up in Nature is so dysfunctional that it doesn't last.
I like door number three, where it will just fade away. But we won't get to choose the door. Reality will choose the door.
I'm not at all in favor of trying to make up new life forms. We have no real idea what we are creating.
If you want to prove me wrong, go ahead - explain how we already know the DNA difference between manageable and toxic bacteria, how we know the difference between cancer-causing DNA and otherwise manageable DNA, and how we won't be creating something completely new and completely toxic. Include references and proofs. Especially the proofs against the unknown.
It just ain't smart. Let's hope we don't create a bacteria that eats the seals in the lab. Right next to the one that secretes acid and eats anything, and grows like crazy.
It just ain't smart, yet. We dunno what the hell we're doing. What could possibly go wrong? After all, DDT was great stuff.
Now I remember another of the reasons I don't much care for U2. I haven't even STOLEN any of their music.
From sanctimonius to self-righteous, to offensively condescending, and back to sanctimonious. The evolution of a decent, but now irrelevant pop band. Stick to the music, and they can go far.
Now we have this little &*@#$ telling us we're evil. Mostly because he thinks it's costing him money.
Sure enough, follow the money. It always leads you where the real motive is.
...when the packet you deliver to the datattackers is measured in kilotons, not kilobytes.
And that's not gonna happen any time soon.
It takes a lot to unravel an attack. More work than tracking down the source of a dirty bomb, or Avian Flu dose, or hallucinogens in the water supply.
More good reasons to not go hell-bent on integrating our utilities over the Internet. It cannot be secured. Only a matter of time before someone breaks into a SCADA access point and causes trouble here.
In the meantime, maybe Estonia's example is what we face. Temporary paralysis, expensive resolutions, and the awareness that this can and will happen again.
And in all this, ICANN wants to be independent of the U.S. Harrr... It would appear that the U.S. is not the source of the real trouble on the Internet. It's all the litle wannabees desperate to hurt someone/something else.
May they get a visit from a B-2 when they get caught.
Do you suppose M$ is already done this, in the lab?
Count on it. If the OOXML debacle isn't enough, imagine a Windows GUI for Linux. The disruption would be remarkable. Almost fatal.
Almost.
Actually, all said and done, the XP GUI works, and works fine. Porting it into Linux would be a big effort, but it would extend Windows hegemony into the OSS comunity more than anything else I can easily imagine.
And no, it's probably not a good idea, unless you see the efforts to make KDE look and work like Windows are a good idea.
All this time, I thought Linux was also about freedom. Not for everyone, I guess.
- KDE is in every way cooler and more useful than the Windows GUI (Explorer.exe doesn't need to run on my XP machine, so the GUI is a distinct environment to me. True, not much yuu can do).
- KDE might actually perform faster. Ya never know...
- And the standard argument in the Linux community: 'Because'.
...if they stopped sending me 12 fracking pieces of junk mail every month. Each.
I changed from Qwest to Cox for broadband, and ditched my Qwest landline. Since then I get not only the regular mail pieces begging me to take Qwest VOIP, or just POTS, or ANYTHING, PLEASE!
And I get Cox mail, both asking me to buy what I ALREADY HAVE, and of course to buy what I gave up from Qwest.
Seriously, they could cut their costs list a little with smarter mailing lists.
... seems to be that your oursourcing partner has you on the Merry-Go-Round. They work it like this...
1. Propose a WAN-based solution.
2. When that slows to a crawl, propose a branch server solution.
3. When that proves to be too expensive to administer, propose a centralized solution.
4. When that proves to be difficult, unproductive, or slow, propose a branch office solution with accelerators, DFS, and all the goodies.
5. When that proves too expensive to administer, propose a thin client/remote app solution.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 as needed, substituting current technology for at least three iterations.
7. If you still have this client, you may now feel free to propose ANYTHING, including cans and string, or gerbils. They will buy it. Change your technical onsite staff every 6 months, rotating in fresh and untrained candidates. Rotate out those who show promise to be re-deployed at newer clients who are at step 4 or earlier in the process.
It's kinda sad. Consulting outfits can rarely make a living by doing right for a large client. Sooner or later, they either get replaced when the client starts 'analysing' the operation, or get replaced when some other outfit has a stronger line of bull to offer management.
Of course, there's incompetence, but my former boss isn't involved. He's busy screwing people in a different business, when he's not busy screwing his employees.
In 1992, the IOC banned all beta-andrenergics. The NCAA classfied Clenbuterol as an 'anabolic sterioid' in 1993, but permits Albuterol so far as I know.
Not that far back.
Looking back into my notes, Albuterol must have been used for the muscle relaxing effect, or to overcome the exercise induced bronchospasm so common in cold-weather athletes. I sure notice it.
I think of Albuterol as a bronchodilator, which is not its primary effect. But overdosing, and Clenbuterol fits into this also, will cause tachycardia and all the other stuff a shooter would not want. It's just not that easy, I guess. Thanks for the clarifications.
First, why he uses prosthetics isn't the issue. It doesn't matter how you came across the advantage, or even *why*. An unfair advantage is unfair. When asthmatics started competing well in Biathalon, other competitors started coming down with asthma, and taking beta blockers to reduce attacks. And also slow the heart rate to improve shooting accuracy. Darned if those crazy asthmatics didn't ruin it for everyone else, huh? I wonder if an asthmatic can even compete any more, of if they need a lifetime record of their disease to get the IOC to accept them, Albuterol and all.
Second, while most anyone can get a set of limbs like this runner has, actually they can't without significant sacrifice, ie, amuptation. The IOC should, for the sake of decency, not permit that. Speed skaters only had to buy a pair of clapper skates - the barrier was either money or a willing supplier, neither of which was as expensive nor life-altering as amputation for sprinters. Cyclists go through this a lot, with new equipment and all. IIRC, the NBA may have banned a certain Nike sneaker because it assisted jumping too much. Yes, define 'too much'. the IOC has.
Now, if the running community can come up with a similar prosthesis designed for non-amputees that offers the same or nearly equal advantage, then the IOC has an interesting, but easy decision to make. No. The solution isn't to give everyone else some mechanical advantage. It's to resign ourselves to the reality that life is so unfair that a dual amputee needs to use a less effecient prosthetic to compete fairly. And that way lies so much trouble. It becomes some sad exercise in statistics, engineering, and the frustation of figuring out what 'fair' is.
We know fair doesn't include using drugs. And it may not even include using hypobaric chambers to enhance training, someday. It involves runners using the same basic equipment (their natural body, shoes available to all, etc).
I wish this guy could compete. No doubt he will go back and have the limbs redesigned to be more equal to natural limbs. Then he might get a fair shake from the IOC. I hope they let him compete on equal terms.
ps- If he got waxed by Olympic-caliber sprinters with the 'hot' limbs, that doesn't really change anything. It may be that he's not that good, but let him in and surely some runner will say they should be allowed to wear a prosthesis. And another. Chaos. Pure chaos.
Avatar on NovaNET. Then I lost access for a decade. Then I got it back, on the cyber1 system, starting over as a lowly pud.
But, darn, it's just so damned good. Barebones, but good.
Of course, I went through the whole CS/DoD thing until the hax0rs ruined it, then BF1942.
Nothing else in games has interested me. I still play Avatar.
Oh yeah, there was a 'game' we used to play on AOL... Dark Parking Garage. But I grew out of that fairly quickly. Same old thing over and over and over and...
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You buy your pep pills at a GAS STATION? Are you INSANE?
Next thing, you'll tell us you bought your Rolex from a guy on the street... And it was a really good deal.
Might as well buy your drugs from Puerto Rico
..get out a scripting book and script out a random clicking gizmo to run up the ad charges and ruin someone, I suspect I would just ruin someone who has no idea what's happening on these clicksites.
If only I could find a way to make the weezils pay for the clicks.
What are you smokin? All those examples resolve into the same domain. If you typo the 'support.' part of support.dell.com, well, dell.com answers and says 'moron...404'.
/.'rs don't really get DNS. we are in serious trouble, folks.
Now, if you owned delll.com. then going to supporrt.delll.com would get you something else. Not Dell.
Sheesh. Even
And I think there's a way to answer *.dell.com with at least a 'wft?' page of your design. But if you go to weuriope.dell.com, you got to dell.com. Dell. Not the weezils.
The typo pretty much nails it.
That and your simole solution to a problem that really doesn't exist.
There is NO SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM with paper balloting that all-electronic voting solves:
- Speed of count. Not an issue. We have weeks before the Electoral College must meet. Plenty of time to count and recount paper ballots.
- Accuracy. Not necessary to be an issue. OCR or optical-scan ballots arte reliable, affordable, and paper; verifiable. We need not use punch ballots, though better punch technology would resolve most problems.
- Poor ballot design. Not an issue. This is not SOLVED by electronics. A bad GUI or poor layout on the screen would be the same problem.
What problem does an all-electronic balloting system solve that can't be solved with paper balloting? I say none.
ps- You've proven just how hard it can be to program a system with your silly example. Of course, yours would be easily detected upon inspection of the results, but by then it's too late. Elections should (and I propose MUST) be accurate the first time. We don't want to have to go back and re-run an election. The results would be unavoidably tainted by the other elections in other states.
Sheesh. It's really unfortunate that we are even having this discussion. This should never have come to this.
Yeah, but did you have to terminate everything while on a ladder, above the ceiling grid, no flashlight, and a defective flourescent ballast putting 80VAC on the metal, sweating away in 105 degree heat?
And make your own resistors out of tinfoil and old pencils?
Ah, those were the days. Vampire taps were a blessing!
Lemme see. Reserve is 4.6B, bid is 4.3B. 6.5% difference, 300M. If I were buying a rusty old Duster for $600, this would be a difference of $40.
Obviously this is just gamesmanship.
I don't advocate 'do nothing because we know nothing'. I'm mindful of risk. We haven't tried a lot of biology, I hope just because the risk is too great.
Is there no risk in manipulating DNA in these ways?
"if you change ISPs or peers, you have to completely re-IP your servers"
I missed that the first time. Sounds like we got another IPv6-slam in TFA.
And this is different than IPv4 how? In the US, this is the norm. I know, my dear friends that manage my access like to change ISPs about 4 times more often than they change cell phone providers. And for even dumber reasons. They don't even geta free CSU/DSU most of the time, and of course the new provider needs us to use 'theirs', so they can manage it. And leave it to us to reboot it every month when it gets pissy about something that doesn't leave a log entry. grrr... But that's the wonderful world of T-1s and telcos.
IPv6 doesn't help you unless you're PI, and damned few of us are. We know it, when we are, too.
My list of hot girls I know that are way hotter than Kari - >50 I could name, >100 if I have a couple of days to think it over.
My list of hot girls I know that are way hotter than Kari AND on national TV - 3. If PBS counts.
Being able to think over the hottness of girls I bot know and don't know, and compare the two - priceless.
And all this means, what, nothing? Yeah... I want an SLI rig so I can be less useless in BFwhatever. Earth Girls are plentiful and currently cheaper than a slammin gaming rig. Wasn't always that way...
Gee, um, lemme think...
- Um, maybe that DNA that isn't seen in Nature isn't see for a reason? Like the last time it showed up, it killed everything else, and then went extinct to seal the deal?
- Um, like maybe DNA that doesn't show up in Nature is un-natural, and doesn't really work?
- Um, like DNA that doesn't show up in Nature is so dysfunctional that it doesn't last.
I like door number three, where it will just fade away. But we won't get to choose the door. Reality will choose the door.
I'm not at all in favor of trying to make up new life forms. We have no real idea what we are creating.
If you want to prove me wrong, go ahead - explain how we already know the DNA difference between manageable and toxic bacteria, how we know the difference between cancer-causing DNA and otherwise manageable DNA, and how we won't be creating something completely new and completely toxic. Include references and proofs. Especially the proofs against the unknown.
It just ain't smart. Let's hope we don't create a bacteria that eats the seals in the lab. Right next to the one that secretes acid and eats anything, and grows like crazy.
It just ain't smart, yet. We dunno what the hell we're doing. What could possibly go wrong? After all, DDT was great stuff.
And on that note;
You, sir, can bite my shiny metal ass.
Now I remember another of the reasons I don't much care for U2. I haven't even STOLEN any of their music.
From sanctimonius to self-righteous, to offensively condescending, and back to sanctimonious. The evolution of a decent, but now irrelevant pop band. Stick to the music, and they can go far.
Now we have this little &*@#$ telling us we're evil. Mostly because he thinks it's costing him money.
Sure enough, follow the money. It always leads you where the real motive is.
Pus.
...when the packet you deliver to the datattackers is measured in kilotons, not kilobytes.
And that's not gonna happen any time soon.
It takes a lot to unravel an attack. More work than tracking down the source of a dirty bomb, or Avian Flu dose, or hallucinogens in the water supply.
More good reasons to not go hell-bent on integrating our utilities over the Internet. It cannot be secured. Only a matter of time before someone breaks into a SCADA access point and causes trouble here.
In the meantime, maybe Estonia's example is what we face. Temporary paralysis, expensive resolutions, and the awareness that this can and will happen again.
And in all this, ICANN wants to be independent of the U.S. Harrr... It would appear that the U.S. is not the source of the real trouble on the Internet. It's all the litle wannabees desperate to hurt someone/something else.
May they get a visit from a B-2 when they get caught.
Do you suppose M$ is already done this, in the lab?
Count on it. If the OOXML debacle isn't enough, imagine a Windows GUI for Linux. The disruption would be remarkable. Almost fatal.
Almost.
Actually, all said and done, the XP GUI works, and works fine. Porting it into Linux would be a big effort, but it would extend Windows hegemony into the OSS comunity more than anything else I can easily imagine.
And no, it's probably not a good idea, unless you see the efforts to make KDE look and work like Windows are a good idea.
All this time, I thought Linux was also about freedom. Not for everyone, I guess.
You and others pointing out the VM, WINE, and other Windows-on-Linux solutions missed the point.
/. or some phishing site?
I was asking specifically if a Windows GUI for Linux could be coming - a full GUI, *replacing* Xanything, KDE, Gnome, etc.
Nobody gets the question right. Is this
Crap. I was on my phone posting the reply, and it got sent as an AC. Which I am not...
I got it right. Read the post. I was asking how long before the WINDOWS GUI runs on LINUX, not KDE-anything.
SO there.
Gee, maybe:
- KDE is in every way cooler and more useful than the Windows GUI (Explorer.exe doesn't need to run on my XP machine, so the GUI is a distinct environment to me. True, not much yuu can do).
- KDE might actually perform faster. Ya never know...
- And the standard argument in the Linux community: 'Because'.
...we can run a Windows GUI on Linux?
As if.
...if they stopped sending me 12 fracking pieces of junk mail every month. Each.
I changed from Qwest to Cox for broadband, and ditched my Qwest landline. Since then I get not only the regular mail pieces begging me to take Qwest VOIP, or just POTS, or ANYTHING, PLEASE!
And I get Cox mail, both asking me to buy what I ALREADY HAVE, and of course to buy what I gave up from Qwest.
Seriously, they could cut their costs list a little with smarter mailing lists.
As if.
... is the key to all this. Obviously, someone on the Vista team left the keys to the booze cabinet on their desk.
We can only hope this is rectified in the next release...
... seems to be that your oursourcing partner has you on the Merry-Go-Round. They work it like this...
1. Propose a WAN-based solution.
2. When that slows to a crawl, propose a branch server solution.
3. When that proves to be too expensive to administer, propose a centralized solution.
4. When that proves to be difficult, unproductive, or slow, propose a branch office solution with accelerators, DFS, and all the goodies.
5. When that proves too expensive to administer, propose a thin client/remote app solution.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 as needed, substituting current technology for at least three iterations.
7. If you still have this client, you may now feel free to propose ANYTHING, including cans and string, or gerbils. They will buy it. Change your technical onsite staff every 6 months, rotating in fresh and untrained candidates. Rotate out those who show promise to be re-deployed at newer clients who are at step 4 or earlier in the process.
It's kinda sad. Consulting outfits can rarely make a living by doing right for a large client. Sooner or later, they either get replaced when the client starts 'analysing' the operation, or get replaced when some other outfit has a stronger line of bull to offer management.
Of course, there's incompetence, but my former boss isn't involved. He's busy screwing people in a different business, when he's not busy screwing his employees.
In 1992, the IOC banned all beta-andrenergics. The NCAA classfied Clenbuterol as an 'anabolic sterioid' in 1993, but permits Albuterol so far as I know.
Not that far back.
Looking back into my notes, Albuterol must have been used for the muscle relaxing effect, or to overcome the exercise induced bronchospasm so common in cold-weather athletes. I sure notice it.
I think of Albuterol as a bronchodilator, which is not its primary effect. But overdosing, and Clenbuterol fits into this also, will cause tachycardia and all the other stuff a shooter would not want. It's just not that easy, I guess. Thanks for the clarifications.
First, why he uses prosthetics isn't the issue. It doesn't matter how you came across the advantage, or even *why*. An unfair advantage is unfair. When asthmatics started competing well in Biathalon, other competitors started coming down with asthma, and taking beta blockers to reduce attacks. And also slow the heart rate to improve shooting accuracy. Darned if those crazy asthmatics didn't ruin it for everyone else, huh? I wonder if an asthmatic can even compete any more, of if they need a lifetime record of their disease to get the IOC to accept them, Albuterol and all.
Second, while most anyone can get a set of limbs like this runner has, actually they can't without significant sacrifice, ie, amuptation. The IOC should, for the sake of decency, not permit that. Speed skaters only had to buy a pair of clapper skates - the barrier was either money or a willing supplier, neither of which was as expensive nor life-altering as amputation for sprinters. Cyclists go through this a lot, with new equipment and all. IIRC, the NBA may have banned a certain Nike sneaker because it assisted jumping too much. Yes, define 'too much'. the IOC has.
Now, if the running community can come up with a similar prosthesis designed for non-amputees that offers the same or nearly equal advantage, then the IOC has an interesting, but easy decision to make. No. The solution isn't to give everyone else some mechanical advantage. It's to resign ourselves to the reality that life is so unfair that a dual amputee needs to use a less effecient prosthetic to compete fairly. And that way lies so much trouble. It becomes some sad exercise in statistics, engineering, and the frustation of figuring out what 'fair' is.
We know fair doesn't include using drugs. And it may not even include using hypobaric chambers to enhance training, someday. It involves runners using the same basic equipment (their natural body, shoes available to all, etc).
I wish this guy could compete. No doubt he will go back and have the limbs redesigned to be more equal to natural limbs. Then he might get a fair shake from the IOC. I hope they let him compete on equal terms.
ps- If he got waxed by Olympic-caliber sprinters with the 'hot' limbs, that doesn't really change anything. It may be that he's not that good, but let him in and surely some runner will say they should be allowed to wear a prosthesis. And another. Chaos. Pure chaos.
Avatar on NovaNET. Then I lost access for a decade. Then I got it back, on the cyber1 system, starting over as a lowly pud.
But, darn, it's just so damned good. Barebones, but good.
Of course, I went through the whole CS/DoD thing until the hax0rs ruined it, then BF1942.
Nothing else in games has interested me. I still play Avatar.
Oh yeah, there was a 'game' we used to play on AOL... Dark Parking Garage. But I grew out of that fairly quickly. Same old thing over and over and over and...
The RIGHT URL:
http://www.dansdata.com/fkeyboard.htm
slashes. sheesh.
From Acer
And they SOLD these, man. Yeah!
Acer! Harrr....!