Think about it... with movies, there's a certain amount of hype going on. Ever go and see a movie it seems is great, and it was terrible? Ever do the same for a videogame?
I've known people salivating over the Nintendo DS for a while... not that I've actually done anything useful like a review, but going to the store and monkey'ing with it, it's nothing special. It's biggest asset is packing exsisting technology into a small package.
When you have alot of noise and little signal... it tends to draw money... you can hype anything. The current trend is just migrating to video games.
(Not that I'm knocking it... I still play UT2004 like a madman!)
Well probably because I looked at ARIN and found perkinscoie.com to have a/26 and/27 and they're Sprint IPs. First off, they would be in one of those two blocks if it was perkinscoie, (or a 3rd which you could easily look up).
Secondly, if someone wanted to make the scam complete, I don't know about you but, at the ISP I work at, a customer can't call up and request to have their IPs selected from a block *close to* another customers' block (for sake of making the scam look real.) The ISP usually picks the block so it's highly unlikely that it would be the same network.
Have the guy who recieved it look at the headers, grab the IP it originated from, and compare it to the lawyers office (or the ISP of the lawyers office) that it was appearently from in the email.
If it's a bot, it would be drastically different. Then it's case closed.
Good point... (too bad I don't have any mod points!)... but, I believe it's one of those things. When money is involved, up goes corruption and even bad ideas look good.
Could I convince you to cut off your little toe on your left foot? Probably not. Offer you a billion bucks, and the tune might change.
I personally was stuck in a warehouse job during the bubble. And was confused as how my cousin had a job making 3x as much as I did (choice quote from our childhood "computers is stupid") in a job I would have loved to have.
But I remember thinking some things just didn't make sense. When I had a rough time making ends meet while others my age were millionaires... maybe it was easy to see the BS from the outside.
Or is MS always looking for ways to "Keep People Stupid"? That should be their new slogan. They figure the less people really know, the more they can get away with telling them whatever they want and getting away with it. Their business model is one of what they would call "innovation" but on the other hand, keeping people dumb enough to not know the difference. Let's face it, the more you know about whats really going on (in this case something like computer specs), the more control you have over it, the more of your personal opinion you have... hmmm. I've seen the bar raised on general knowledge about computers and the internet in the last few years. This approach of "levels" seems sort of counter-productive, or somehow against normal evolution.
I live in a fairly large city, and have had someone break into my (old) car before, as well as in the house. I think when they broke into the house, they had just started... we came home from the beach at approx 10pm and no lights were on in the house... come to find out they came in through the back door (poor simple lock). We came home to find the back door wide open but noone in the house. After that, I got some nice 3" deadbolts and many more locks and changed some of our habits. (This was also before we had central air, and there was a nice $500 air conditioner in the front window, I believe they were after that. It would have taken them some time, there were 3 inch screws into the window casings).
Here's what I would recommend:
- lights, plenty of them, get a timer or sensor for when it gets dark.
- good locks on doors, alarms on your car (we since have new cars and have never been broken into)
- don't keep valuables in the car. My last car, the most they could take was a few pennies. They used to break into it all the time, but it wasn't really breaking in, because I never locked it.
- make the house/apartment do odd things to make people think someone is home (or many people are home). Put a timer on tvs and lights to come on at and go off at odd times. A dim lamp in the living room might think someone is home, and watching them. (My living room is about 10 ft from my driveway).
- the jerk factor... someone could probably break into my basement windows. But, firstly, they'd have a heck of a time and would have to break some glass, and secondly, there's large furniture/shelves/objects in front of them... the chances of them coming in through those windows safely is very small. If they break in and break their neck, you only have to call authorities to dispose of the body.
- ok here's the geek one. Setup a network of linux boxes, usb cams and motion. captures still pics only when motion is detected... I was playing with this at work one time, got a bunch of cleaning people working in our office.
You get that 386 running, I don't care if it has 4 megs of ram, an ISA video card and 120 megs of hard drive space! I need it going PRONTO! Got it? Or yer butt is outta here!
And I don't want any whining, I want dual screen X11 running in 16 bit color, with apache and mysql and openldap, as well as samba.
And don't forget, no cdrom or network here, pal. WE'RE installing from floppies, and get plip going on your parallel port, real men don't have time for ethernet!
Oh and I also want it quad-booting... 4 distributions, Fedora Core, Debian, Slackware and FreeBSD (make everyone happy).
I don't see where there's a problem. The guy lives in Russia, right? You know, people go to work (non-tech people let's say, defnintely not slashdot-fodder), and gather around the watercooler and say "Hey, did you hear about that Russian guy who solved that math thing?".
No harm in that. Now if they said "Pinko May Have Solved..." or better yet "Whitey May Have Solved..." (or Honkey, etc), there could have been a slight problem. (No insult intended, perhaps I'm a white guy from Russia.)
Would it have been racist if it said "American May Have Solved..."? Probably not. I actually thought it was cool and hope it's true.
Sounds like Tom Ridge and GWB got drunk one night and put all the names of democaratic senators they could think of on that list. Bet Teddy was #1.... or not.
Slashdot Mirror
Size doesn't matter.
Gee, When I click on "Read More" I get:
...
"Nothing to see here, please move along."
Hmmm
Murphy should have a second law...
"The minute you install the latest software XYZ, XYZ 2.0 will be out."
This happens to me with kernels too.
Think about it ... with movies, there's a certain amount of hype going on. Ever go and see a movie it seems is great, and it was terrible? Ever do the same for a videogame?
... not that I've actually done anything useful like a review, but going to the store and monkey'ing with it, it's nothing special. It's biggest asset is packing exsisting technology into a small package.
I've known people salivating over the Nintendo DS for a while
When you have alot of noise and little signal... it tends to draw money... you can hype anything. The current trend is just migrating to video games.
(Not that I'm knocking it... I still play UT2004 like a madman!)
...are you from India?
...let's all call the FCC with complaints about viruses/worms/crackers/etc. They should be able to "regulate" it.
Man that would make a hell of a South Park episode.
(Watch, when they do it, I'll link back to this post!)
For confident, unwaverying reporting, I would try the Daily Show on Comedy Central or theonion.com.
Well probably because I looked at ARIN and found perkinscoie.com to have a /26 and /27 and they're Sprint IPs. First off, they would be in one of those two blocks if it was perkinscoie, (or a 3rd which you could easily look up).
Secondly, if someone wanted to make the scam complete, I don't know about you but, at the ISP I work at, a customer can't call up and request to have their IPs selected from a block *close to* another customers' block (for sake of making the scam look real.) The ISP usually picks the block so it's highly unlikely that it would be the same network.
Have the guy who recieved it look at the headers, grab the IP it originated from, and compare it to the lawyers office (or the ISP of the lawyers office) that it was appearently from in the email.
If it's a bot, it would be drastically different. Then it's case closed.
...will it run Linux?
h ere-dept" bit either)
(and don't give me that "of-course-it-will-you-idiot-linus-used-to-work-t
Because he dedicated enough of his skills and talent to offer his code and hard work for free, in the open for anyone to use, modify or distribute.
Personally, I believe every open source developer is a celebrity.
How would you feel if you found out he was a contributor to one of the software packages you use every day?
Unless of course, you run gtk2 which isn't supported.
Good point... (too bad I don't have any mod points!) ... but, I believe it's one of those things. When money is involved, up goes corruption and even bad ideas look good.
Could I convince you to cut off your little toe on your left foot? Probably not. Offer you a billion bucks, and the tune might change.
I personally was stuck in a warehouse job during the bubble. And was confused as how my cousin had a job making 3x as much as I did (choice quote from our childhood "computers is stupid") in a job I would have loved to have.
But I remember thinking some things just didn't make sense. When I had a rough time making ends meet while others my age were millionaires... maybe it was easy to see the BS from the outside.
You just reminded me that my path was incorrect for the codec dlls in xine/mplayer/aviplay. Thanks!
/usr/local/lib/ and the darn things want 'em in /usr/lib/win32 ... symlink did it.
;o)
I put em in
Oh and about the monitor... quit whining. Or call dell.
Or is MS always looking for ways to "Keep People Stupid"? That should be their new slogan. They figure the less people really know, the more they can get away with telling them whatever they want and getting away with it. Their business model is one of what they would call "innovation" but on the other hand, keeping people dumb enough to not know the difference. Let's face it, the more you know about whats really going on (in this case something like computer specs), the more control you have over it, the more of your personal opinion you have... hmmm. I've seen the bar raised on general knowledge about computers and the internet in the last few years. This approach of "levels" seems sort of counter-productive, or somehow against normal evolution.
...I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request... means no.
(j/k I use Linux).
I live in a fairly large city, and have had someone break into my (old) car before, as well as in the house. I think when they broke into the house, they had just started... we came home from the beach at approx 10pm and no lights were on in the house... come to find out they came in through the back door (poor simple lock). We came home to find the back door wide open but noone in the house. After that, I got some nice 3" deadbolts and many more locks and changed some of our habits. (This was also before we had central air, and there was a nice $500 air conditioner in the front window, I believe they were after that. It would have taken them some time, there were 3 inch screws into the window casings).
Here's what I would recommend:
- lights, plenty of them, get a timer or sensor for when it gets dark.
- good locks on doors, alarms on your car (we since have new cars and have never been broken into)
- don't keep valuables in the car. My last car, the most they could take was a few pennies. They used to break into it all the time, but it wasn't really breaking in, because I never locked it.
- make the house/apartment do odd things to make people think someone is home (or many people are home). Put a timer on tvs and lights to come on at and go off at odd times. A dim lamp in the living room might think someone is home, and watching them. (My living room is about 10 ft from my driveway).
- the jerk factor... someone could probably break into my basement windows. But, firstly, they'd have a heck of a time and would have to break some glass, and secondly, there's large furniture/shelves/objects in front of them... the chances of them coming in through those windows safely is very small. If they break in and break their neck, you only have to call authorities to dispose of the body.
- ok here's the geek one. Setup a network of linux boxes, usb cams and motion. captures still pics only when motion is detected... I was playing with this at work one time, got a bunch of cleaning people working in our office.
OK BUDDY!
... 4 distributions, Fedora Core, Debian, Slackware and FreeBSD (make everyone happy).
You get that 386 running, I don't care if it has 4 megs of ram, an ISA video card and 120 megs of hard drive space! I need it going PRONTO! Got it? Or yer butt is outta here!
And I don't want any whining, I want dual screen X11 running in 16 bit color, with apache and mysql and openldap, as well as samba.
And don't forget, no cdrom or network here, pal. WE'RE installing from floppies, and get plip going on your parallel port, real men don't have time for ethernet!
Oh and I also want it quad-booting
That should do it.
I don't see where there's a problem. The guy lives in Russia, right? You know, people go to work (non-tech people let's say, defnintely not slashdot-fodder), and gather around the watercooler and say "Hey, did you hear about that Russian guy who solved that math thing?".
No harm in that. Now if they said "Pinko May Have Solved..." or better yet "Whitey May Have Solved..." (or Honkey, etc), there could have been a slight problem. (No insult intended, perhaps I'm a white guy from Russia.)
Would it have been racist if it said "American May Have Solved..."? Probably not. I actually thought it was cool and hope it's true.
...it's called natural selection. Survival of the fittest... if people are that dumb to put stuff on the internet, so be it.
...with tkDVD and xcdroast. Had these both on my system for quite some time. Most likely require dvd+rwtools and growisofs.
I woulda called it something more interesting like Fugly-MoFO.32.
Sounds like Tom Ridge and GWB got drunk one night and put all the names of democaratic senators they could think of on that list. Bet Teddy was #1. ... or not.
...if you live on the *other* side of lake Ontario, as I do in Central NY, all you get is shitty weather.