According to the page here: on Gateway's site, it has built in home-phoneline networking. This is rather useful for many people, although lots of/. readers probably have cat-5 strung around (and/. readers probably wouldn't want to use this unless it could be hacked to not use AOL. although if it was just aol's browser, and not their service, it wouldn't be that bad for a device to give to family members to keep them off your PC).
In addition, it has optional ethernet, and dial up (V90). So I don't think you're too limited here for connectivity.
BTW, lots of PC's come with home phone line networking built in. My brother's Presario 7597 has a combo v90 modem/home phone line networking card plus ethernet built in. In any case, a lot of people will be able to plug these devices into their pc's pretty easily to share a broadband connection.
What I want to know, is, if it has optional ethernet, how about a wireless WaveLAN card? Then you could haul it around the house and make sure you get first post on/.
Although health care is subsidized in Canada, you cannot simply drive from the US to get an operation. You will still be billed if you're not a resident, although you're not going to be denied care (you pay later). You can accumulate a $20000 bill easily with a week's stay in intensive care, for example. Travellers normally purchase extra insurance for this reason.
Cable modem service (Shaw @Home or Videon @Home) or xDSL is available in Alberta in these places:
Calgary (including suburbs)
Edmonton (including suburbs)
Red Deer (including suburbs)
Lethbridge
Fort McMurray
Hinton
Population is about 3 million, and the cities above comprise about 80%. So add the other 400 000 in that this story is about, and you'd be pretty hard pressed to find a place without good net access.
Yeah! And if you're executed because your Texan defense attourney fell asleep during your cross examination, well, who's to say you wouldn't have been found guilty anyway?
That's right! Don't you know that only money can buy you an acquittal?
(Note: I don't believe this for a second, but even so, it's a nice conspiracy theory. Give me a couple of days and I'll work the Illuminati and the Knights Templar in as well...)
Don't forget the freemasons, NSA, WTO, NATO, the G-8, and for good measure the EU.;)
I love that illustration of the road sign near the bottom under "The Timultuous Intel-Rambus relationship", with a guy hitting his head on a bus mirror in frustration.
There's a bug in windows filesharing right now, where the client attempting to connect can specify the length of the password.. Okay, so they specify 1, and that's 256 max to try, 128 avg.
there's plenty of oxygen for that in your suit. In a methane atmosphere, you'd be more concerned about igniting the oxygen... just leak a little and you can have it happen.
I don't like SPAM, but when an ISP chooses to use MAPS RBL, they're censoring your email for you. Perhaps that's what you want, perhaps that's not what you want. But you never get the choice. Many ISPs that use MAPS RBL never state publically that they do.
It is rather hypocritical that/. clamors for one form of censorware, but fights against another, the forced censorship of internet connections in public schools and libraries, which is also a decision which is made without the input of the user, and which also supposedly protects the user from something which is bad for them.
What disturbs me most about MAPS RBL is the small number of people that make a decision to add a mail server to it, and the same small number that can make the decision to remove it in the future or retain it. If the government were doing this, there would be an outcry, but when a private company does it, it's fine.
Bottom Line: MAPS RBL is not voluntary for the user, just for the ISP.
Man, this would make one hell of a practical joke for some unsuspecting user. Just send some low noise, and have their mouse jump in their hands. Couple this with a message box like "Machine is not properly grounded, please shut down immediately to avoid electrocution", and you could really scare the crap out of someone.
Don't use low noise. Send a loud spark-gap type of sound.
I can just see people doing this through netbus (if these type of mice become commonplace), and watching the user's reactions via webcam (and/or microphone).
Infantry Q&A [loonyboi-12:42 AM EDT] - Post a Comment
GameAddicts has conducted an interview with Jeff Peterson, the lead programmer and co-owner of Harmless Games, the developers of Subspace and the upcoming game Infantry. The game was originally supposed to be funded and published by Brainscan, which is part of the Maximum Holdings, which was purchased by GameFan, which was purchased by Express.com (phew). With the recent turmoil at GameFan, Jeff says the publishing rights have been sold to another company, who will be making an announcement in the near future. --
Yeah, I remember the footage of the protests outside the whitehouse. A protestor holding up a sign that said "Our last sacred space" with a depiction of an alien head as commonly viewed in popular culture (X-Files). Perhaps they forget that uranium is a product of supernovas and is scattered throughout space. As I said, wackos.
A quick check on RedHats Bugzilla the day of the Slashdot post revealed something on the order of 120 bugs relating to RH7 directly. Most were low severity. Even today checking RedHat 7 with all packages only yeilds 269 bugs total (no enhancement or translation requests).
The 2500 bugs quoted in/. was including all apps, all versions, and included feature enhancement requests etc. Basically whoever did the search on Bugzilla didn't know how the search form worked and didn't bother to figure it out. (Giving the benefit of the doubt that they were not being malicious.)
The posting up there is relevant (if mis-sectioned maybe even belonging on scoop) because this whole episode shows that these community news/discussion sites have some pull in real world news and events. The story there did some real damage to Red Hat (at least PR wise) and it's basis was in inaccurate data that could have been easily checked (took me 2 minutes) If it had been checked at all (by the original poster or by the reviewer) it would have been prevented. It is something that must be considered when designing site review and submission issues as well as the whole culture bit. I think in this case slash should help Red Hat cover the PR damage done either via a story, interview or retraction.
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According to the page here: on Gateway's site, it has built in home-phoneline networking. This is rather useful for many people, although lots of /. readers probably have cat-5 strung around (and /. readers probably wouldn't want to use this unless it could be hacked to not use AOL. although if it was just aol's browser, and not their service, it wouldn't be that bad for a device to give to family members to keep them off your PC).
In addition, it has optional ethernet, and dial up (V90). So I don't think you're too limited here for connectivity.
BTW, lots of PC's come with home phone line networking built in. My brother's Presario 7597 has a combo v90 modem/home phone line networking card plus ethernet built in. In any case, a lot of people will be able to plug these devices into their pc's pretty easily to share a broadband connection.
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What I want to know, is, if it has optional ethernet, how about a wireless WaveLAN card? Then you could haul it around the house and make sure you get first post on /.
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Read the AP article that someone linked.
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Although health care is subsidized in Canada, you cannot simply drive from the US to get an operation. You will still be billed if you're not a resident, although you're not going to be denied care (you pay later). You can accumulate a $20000 bill easily with a week's stay in intensive care, for example. Travellers normally purchase extra insurance for this reason.
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Once the fiber is in, $40 should do it fine. $40 already is the normal fee in the cities in Alberta for cable or ADSL.
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Cable modem service (Shaw @Home or Videon @Home) or xDSL is available in Alberta in these places:
Calgary (including suburbs)
Edmonton (including suburbs)
Red Deer (including suburbs)
Lethbridge
Fort McMurray
Hinton
Population is about 3 million, and the cities above comprise about 80%. So add the other 400 000 in that this story is about, and you'd be pretty hard pressed to find a place without good net access.
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Yeah! And if you're executed because your Texan defense attourney fell asleep during your cross examination, well, who's to say you wouldn't have been found guilty anyway?
That's right! Don't you know that only money can buy you an acquittal?
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www.webcrawler.com vs. www.webcrawlre.com for example (one is an old search engine, one is pr0n, IIRC-trust me, don't give them the hits by checking).
they're both search engines now, but different ones.
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yeah, they're both domains that someone got for free at namezero.com, because they didn't think helping out Rob was worth paying $70 for.
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(Note: I don't believe this for a second, but even so, it's a nice conspiracy theory. Give me a couple of days and I'll work the Illuminati and the Knights Templar in as well...)
;)
Don't forget the freemasons, NSA, WTO, NATO, the G-8, and for good measure the EU.
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mod this guy up, he knows what he's talking about.
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I love that illustration of the road sign near the bottom under "The Timultuous Intel-Rambus relationship", with a guy hitting his head on a bus mirror in frustration.
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What about making the porn sites get rated here: RSAC?
Would that work better than word based filters?
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There's a bug in windows filesharing right now, where the client attempting to connect can specify the length of the password.. Okay, so they specify 1, and that's 256 max to try, 128 avg.
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Actually, since it's a methane environment, your suit doesn't have to leak much to start a fire -- the flame could be right at the point of the leak.
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doctors to fly to emergencies
Yeah, air scooter accidents.
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there's plenty of oxygen for that in your suit. In a methane atmosphere, you'd be more concerned about igniting the oxygen... just leak a little and you can have it happen.
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I don't like SPAM, but when an ISP chooses to use MAPS RBL, they're censoring your email for you. Perhaps that's what you want, perhaps that's not what you want. But you never get the choice. Many ISPs that use MAPS RBL never state publically that they do.
/. clamors for one form of censorware, but fights against another, the forced censorship of internet connections in public schools and libraries, which is also a decision which is made without the input of the user, and which also supposedly protects the user from something which is bad for them.
It is rather hypocritical that
What disturbs me most about MAPS RBL is the small number of people that make a decision to add a mail server to it, and the same small number that can make the decision to remove it in the future or retain it. If the government were doing this, there would be an outcry, but when a private company does it, it's fine.
Bottom Line: MAPS RBL is not voluntary for the user, just for the ISP.
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Remember the Dilbert Cartoon, where he had the new Cubicle 3000 (or something like that)....
"Whatever you do, don't get these two tubes mixed up..."
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Somewhere, someone from PETA is really pissed.
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Man, this would make one hell of a practical joke for some unsuspecting user. Just send some low noise, and have their mouse jump in their hands. Couple this with a message box like "Machine is not properly grounded, please shut down immediately to avoid electrocution", and you could really scare the crap out of someone.
Don't use low noise. Send a loud spark-gap type of sound.
I can just see people doing this through netbus (if these type of mice become commonplace), and watching the user's reactions via webcam (and/or microphone).
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They could be purple and yellow.
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Check this out:
Infantry Q&A
Infantry Q&A [loonyboi-12:42 AM EDT] - Post a Comment
GameAddicts has conducted an interview with Jeff Peterson, the lead programmer and co-owner of Harmless Games, the developers of Subspace and the upcoming game Infantry. The game was originally supposed to be funded and published by Brainscan, which is part of the Maximum Holdings, which was purchased by GameFan, which was purchased by Express.com (phew). With the recent turmoil at GameFan, Jeff says the publishing rights have been sold to another company, who will be making an announcement in the near future.
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Yeah, I remember the footage of the protests outside the whitehouse. A protestor holding up a sign that said "Our last sacred space" with a depiction of an alien head as commonly viewed in popular culture (X-Files). Perhaps they forget that uranium is a product of supernovas and is scattered throughout space. As I said, wackos.
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See this kuro5hin thread.
/. was including all apps, all versions, and included feature enhancement requests etc. Basically whoever did the search on Bugzilla didn't know how the search form worked and didn't bother to figure it out. (Giving the benefit of the doubt that they were not being malicious.)
Specifically:
A quick check on RedHats Bugzilla the day of the Slashdot post revealed something on the order of 120 bugs relating to RH7 directly. Most were low severity. Even today checking RedHat 7 with all packages only yeilds 269 bugs total (no enhancement or translation requests).
The 2500 bugs quoted in
The posting up there is relevant (if mis-sectioned maybe even belonging on scoop) because this whole episode shows that these community news/discussion sites have some pull in real world news and events. The story there did some real damage to Red Hat (at least PR wise) and it's basis was in inaccurate data that could have been easily checked (took me 2 minutes) If it had been checked at all (by the original poster or by the reviewer) it would have been prevented. It is something that must be considered when designing site review and submission issues as well as the whole culture bit. I think in this case slash should help Red Hat cover the PR damage done either via a story, interview or retraction.
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