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If people follow your advice to the lemmings, they'll pull their money out of all tech stocks, resulting in a severe NASDAQ crash...such advice just fuels the paranoia. If they wait several months, their (non-MS) tech stocks should rebound.
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If you didn't notice, they also make a little device that you just plug-in inline with a keyboard...now unscrupulous people at work can get your password, login as you, and send hate mail to the boss. I think I'm going to carefully check my keyboard cable all the time now. And no MS Natural Keyboard for me...my old one will do fine.
If you want to send something faster than light, take two particles, and get them to have some association with each other...then separate them...if you do something to one, it will affect the other, instantaneously.
Or theoretically anyways...an example of this can be done with diffraction slits.
An electric vehicle requires charging, and guess where most of that electricity comes from? Coal fired plants produce the bulk of electricity in north america... due to "green" resistance to nuclear power plants, most of the electricity is not generated in a clean fashion...which is worse, burning coal or gasoline? Probably coal, as it generally burns dirtier.
Many of the DMCA comments follow/. stories (within several days).. notable blocks are around Jan 21 and Feb 16...good work people -- you may have made a difference today.
I've heard that there's two in service right now (un-mothballed a couple years ago).
This is common stuff to do for the government when you don't see a need for a while for equipment. The WWII era battleships of the Iowa class have spent a lot of time since WWII in dry dock, however they have been brought out and refitted a couple times -- notably to shell the city of Beruit and for the Gulf War. It would have been inpractical to keep these ships in service during peace time, when instead they can just be retrofitted with modern equipment and brought into service when the need arises. --
Rent the place out for $$ to people playing Quake and other games.. They can do stuff like display finals on the big plasma screens. I bet it would command big $$ for that place, and I bet they could get enough customers (i.e. events) to justify it.
7.4.2 Collegiality and sharing demands that each user treat all other users as they wish to be treated. The following list indicates activities that improve the computing environment for everyone:
Deleting unneeded files and electronic mail to make disk space available for other users
Avoiding use of university computing and network facilities for tasks unrelated to academic or administrative activities particularly when the facilities are heavily used
Avoiding use of university dial-in communication facilities for tasks unrelated to academic or administrative activities particularly when the dial-in lines are heavily used
Avoiding use of computing and network facilities to peruse the Internet or chat with user groups when the facilities are being heavily used for academic and administrative activities
Refraining from using disk space for the storage of large sound or graphic files (e.g., pornography) that are not directly related to university activity
Refraining from consuming computing or network resources to play games (e.g., MOO's, MUD's, etc.) except when required for course assignments or research projects
If you are carrying a screwdriver, and someone breaks into houses nearby, you will be considered a suspect, whether or not you actually did the break-ins.
Although in this particular case it appears that the suspect probably was using L0phtcrack to breakin, and therefore it would be a burglary tool (if he is found guilty, of course)... These laws are often open to abuse--Laws on possession of burglary tools can be used, for example, to hassle transients or other "rif-raff" who are passing through a rich neighborhood, if for example, the guy in question happens to have a nail clipper with a nail file attached (i.e. nail file = potential lock pick).
Samba doesn't use netbeui -- it uses netbios on TCP/IP.
I have a home network with a bunch of windoze and linux boxes, and I use samba on the linux boxes and Windows file sharing (i.e. netbios) on the windows boxes, but I have only TCP/IP turned on--this is a 100% NETBEUI free zone.
I have fond memories of playing CTF in Quake 1---particularily the Expert CTF modification with the offhand grapple and the Thunderwalker version with the cartoon sounds---although Threewave was always good to play. Somehow CTF II always lacked the fun of Threewave CTF and friends.
Some of the levels in Threewave CTF were modifications of normal quake 1 levels.. I had many an excellent game in Gloom Castles (the two castle version of Gloom Keep, which is a quake 1 single player map). I remember madly firing the rocket at attackers in this map while our flag carrier swung around the room wildly desperately trying to avoid fire...and pursuing people through the air praying for a midair shot--this all changed in Quake2 where the attackers would just whip out the railgun and knock him out of the sky. There were other good maps, like McKinley Station, the Warzone, and a few others (like one with 3 windtunnels in each base) that have been so long that I can't remember. In mid-98 I got into Team Fortress, and people were leaving Quake1 CTF anyways, so I haven't really played it much since.
Quake3 CTF is probably more true to what CTF probably should be than Quake2 CTF. There shouldn't be a grappling hook in the first place -- Threewave CTF used it because the maps were taken at first from single player, and not suited otherwise for CTF play.
However, I find myself playing Unreal Tournament CTF. After looking at the UT and Q3A demos, I decided to buy UT -- with the extra maps and gameplay modes, there's no way UT is worth $10 less than Q3A, and so IMHO Q3A is way overpriced.. people use the excuse that id is just a "game engine" company and that "mod makers will make the game better" -- if this is the case why should I pay $70 (CDN) for the game? I don't like this possibly perceived freeloading off of mod makers in order to get a game out the door faster...quite frankly, I believe that Q3A should have been delayed 6 months while some better gameplay modes were added and more maps were made, or if that was not possible, more people should have been hired before to give more polish and features to the game (besides gameplay modes, an easier to use server browser and stats support like UT has built in). id is a fairly small shop compared to Epic (Epic has around 25 people), and it really showed in a comparison of their latest games.
In Glqwcl, ever tried using the numeric keypad in linux? / * - and enter were all bound to the same keycode (space). The non-gl version worked fine, so it was probably a simple change.
I had to work around this (since I use the keypad for fps games) by remapping the keyboard in svgalib's keymaps -- I mapped / to the regular / on the keyboard, * to the regular *, etc.... If you read rec.games.computer.quake.misc, I think there's an old post in there where I described how to do this (ah, here it is ), although it is probably fixed now in all the open source project versions of glqwcl.
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Don't get into the dilusion that it's going to help the common people.
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Some dictator or strongman gave it up, in exchange for money to buy more AK-47's, or more women.
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Well, the screenshots look pretty...
Quake I is a GPL engine..
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If people follow your advice to the lemmings, they'll pull their money out of all tech stocks, resulting in a severe NASDAQ crash...such advice just fuels the paranoia. If they wait several months, their (non-MS) tech stocks should rebound.
Disclaimer: I have no training in stocks or securities training, nor does this message proport to be giving investment advice.
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Some computations cannot be performed in parallel..
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I swear, that's right out of the Bastard Operator from Hell.
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FROM: sysop@internic.org
Internet Cleaning
DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET FROM MARCH 31st 23:59 pm (GMT) UNTIL 12:01
am (GMT) APRIL 2nd.
*** Attention ***
It's that time again! As many of you know, each year the Internet must be
shut down for 24 hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning
process, which eliminates dead email and inactive ftp, www and gopher
sites, allows for a better-working and faster Internet.
This year, the cleaning process will take place from 23:59 pm (GMT) on
March 31st until 00:01 am (GMT) on April 2nd. During that 24-hour period,
five powerful Internet-crawling robots situated around the world will
search the Internet and delete any data that they find.
In order to protect your valuable data from deletion we ask that you do
the following:
1. Disconnect all terminals and local area networks from their Internet
connections.
2. Shut down all Internet servers, or disconnect them from the Internet.
3. Disconnect all disks and hardrives from any connections to the
Internet.
4. Refrain from connecting any computer to the Internet in any wy.
We understand the inconvenience that this may cause some Internet users,
and we apologize. However, we are certain that any inconveniences will be
more than made up for by the increased speed and efficiency of the
Internet, once it has been cleared of electronic flotsam and jetsam. We
thank you for your cooperation.
Fu Ling Yu
Interconnected Network Maintenance Staff
Main Branch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sysops and others: Since the last Internet cleaning, the number of
Internet users has grown dramatically. Please assist us in alerting the
public of the upcoming Internet cleaning by posting this message where
your users will be able to read it. Please pass this message on to other
sysops and Internet users as well. Thank you.
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It'd be cool if there was an option, to display something like the +4 and above comments, when viewing slashdot from your phone.
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If you didn't notice, they also make a little device that you just plug-in inline with a keyboard...now unscrupulous people at work can get your password, login as you, and send hate mail to the boss. I think I'm going to carefully check my keyboard cable all the time now. And no MS Natural Keyboard for me...my old one will do fine.
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IIRC, there is an encrypted ext2fs that you can use, where you supply the password when you mount or something..
I wonder if it was this, or some Win32 based encrypted filesystem.
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IIRC, it's been said before that MI5 and MI6 spy on each other...
I think MI5 is domestic and MI6 is supposed to be international, but there is overlap.
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Just to clarify things, the agency is called MI5, not M15 .. another agency is MI6.
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Calling these "planets" is a little misleading...these are stars that never got big enough. They are giant gas giants...
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Okay, forget the patent...
If you want to send something faster than light, take two particles, and get them to have some association with each other...then separate them...if you do something to one, it will affect the other, instantaneously.
Or theoretically anyways...an example of this can be done with diffraction slits.
--
An electric vehicle requires charging, and guess where most of that electricity comes from? Coal fired plants produce the bulk of electricity in north america... due to "green" resistance to nuclear power plants, most of the electricity is not generated in a clean fashion...which is worse, burning coal or gasoline? Probably coal, as it generally burns dirtier.
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Many of the DMCA comments follow /. stories (within several days) .. notable blocks are around Jan 21 and Feb 16...good work people -- you may have made a difference today.
--
I've heard that there's two in service right now (un-mothballed a couple years ago).
This is common stuff to do for the government when you don't see a need for a while for equipment. The WWII era battleships of the Iowa class have spent a lot of time since WWII in dry dock, however they have been brought out and refitted a couple times -- notably to shell the city of Beruit and for the Gulf War. It would have been inpractical to keep these ships in service during peace time, when instead they can just be retrofitted with modern equipment and brought into service when the need arises.
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Rent the place out for $$ to people playing Quake and other games.. They can do stuff like display finals on the big plasma screens. I bet it would command big $$ for that place, and I bet they could get enough customers (i.e. events) to justify it.
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/ucs/polic y/comp_policy.html
7.4.2 Collegiality and sharing demands that each user treat all other users as they wish to be treated. The following list indicates activities that improve the computing environment for everyone:
Deleting unneeded files and electronic mail to make disk space available for other users
Avoiding use of university computing and network facilities for tasks unrelated to academic or administrative activities particularly when the facilities are heavily used
Avoiding use of university dial-in communication facilities for tasks unrelated to academic or administrative activities particularly when the dial-in lines are heavily used
Avoiding use of computing and network facilities to peruse the Internet or chat with user groups when the facilities are being heavily used for academic and administrative activities
Refraining from using disk space for the storage of large sound or graphic files (e.g., pornography) that are not directly related to university activity
Refraining from consuming computing or network resources to play games (e.g., MOO's, MUD's, etc.) except when required for course assignments or research projects
--
If you are carrying a screwdriver, and someone breaks into houses nearby, you will be considered a suspect, whether or not you actually did the break-ins.
Although in this particular case it appears that the suspect probably was using L0phtcrack to breakin, and therefore it would be a burglary tool (if he is found guilty, of course)... These laws are often open to abuse--Laws on possession of burglary tools can be used, for example, to hassle transients or other "rif-raff" who are passing through a rich neighborhood, if for example, the guy in question happens to have a nail clipper with a nail file attached (i.e. nail file = potential lock pick).
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Samba doesn't use netbeui -- it uses netbios on TCP/IP.
I have a home network with a bunch of windoze and linux boxes, and I use samba on the linux boxes and Windows file sharing (i.e. netbios) on the windows boxes, but I have only TCP/IP turned on--this is a 100% NETBEUI free zone.
--
I have fond memories of playing CTF in Quake 1---particularily the Expert CTF modification with the offhand grapple and the Thunderwalker version with the cartoon sounds---although Threewave was always good to play. Somehow CTF II always lacked the fun of Threewave CTF and friends.
.. I had many an excellent game in Gloom Castles (the two castle version of Gloom Keep, which is a quake 1 single player map). I remember madly firing the rocket at attackers in this map while our flag carrier swung around the room wildly desperately trying to avoid fire...and pursuing people through the air praying for a midair shot--this all changed in Quake2 where the attackers would just whip out the railgun and knock him out of the sky. There were other good maps, like McKinley Station, the Warzone, and a few others (like one with 3 windtunnels in each base) that have been so long that I can't remember. In mid-98 I got into Team Fortress, and people were leaving Quake1 CTF anyways, so I haven't really played it much since.
.. people use the excuse that id is just a "game engine" company and that "mod makers will make the game better" -- if this is the case why should I pay $70 (CDN) for the game? I don't like this possibly perceived freeloading off of mod makers in order to get a game out the door faster...quite frankly, I believe that Q3A should have been delayed 6 months while some better gameplay modes were added and more maps were made, or if that was not possible, more people should have been hired before to give more polish and features to the game (besides gameplay modes, an easier to use server browser and stats support like UT has built in). id is a fairly small shop compared to Epic (Epic has around 25 people), and it really showed in a comparison of their latest games.
Some of the levels in Threewave CTF were modifications of normal quake 1 levels
Quake3 CTF is probably more true to what CTF probably should be than Quake2 CTF. There shouldn't be a grappling hook in the first place -- Threewave CTF used it because the maps were taken at first from single player, and not suited otherwise for CTF play.
However, I find myself playing Unreal Tournament CTF. After looking at the UT and Q3A demos, I decided to buy UT -- with the extra maps and gameplay modes, there's no way UT is worth $10 less than Q3A, and so IMHO Q3A is way overpriced
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It does look like a ransom note, but don't let any kids click the link!
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In Glqwcl, ever tried using the numeric keypad in linux? / * - and enter were all bound to the same keycode (space). The non-gl version worked fine, so it was probably a simple change.
I had to work around this (since I use the keypad for fps games) by remapping the keyboard in svgalib's keymaps -- I mapped / to the regular / on the keyboard, * to the regular *, etc.... If you read rec.games.computer.quake.misc, I think there's an old post in there where I described how to do this (ah, here it is ), although it is probably fixed now in all the open source project versions of glqwcl.
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