I just started using it last week -- I think I remember something whereby each file has some type of key / checksum (I'm not too familiar with the nuances of encryption)........... but I could be wrong.
Ever since I read William Gibson's "Neuromancer" for the first time, invisibility has always been synonymous with the Panthers Modern's mimetic polycarbon suits. The graphic novel only served to burn this image into my mind even more by giving form to how it would look / work / be used.
Too cool. They should hand these out to Delta Force and snipers once they've been refined a few times over. Then they'll really be something to be afraid of -- living, heavily armed ghosts.
Perhaps you only meant to imply that WorldNetDaily was an example of a site that was properly coded to be scalable (insomuch as is possible with IIS/VBScript) -- this is what I assume, anyway. But you wouldn't be able to tell any of that just by going to the site..........
Major League Baseball is aiming for mlb.com to be a supper site that meets all baseball fan needs.
Haven't you ever considered what an MLB supper consists of? $3 pretzels, $5 hot dogs and $7 beers....... the sticker shock and nutritional value alone are enough to send a person into anaphylactic shock.
No thanks..... I'll stay home and cook my own meals.
Even thought we have no idea a) where this trailer is available for download, b) how to legally obtain the names of individuals who DO download the trailer, and c) whether the information is legit or not.
Actually, I don't really have any desire to see a crappy copy beforehand. The first film was good enough that I'd like the full-on experience of seeing it in the theater. But I will go ahead and see if I can find the trailer somewhere, just for kicks.
Listen, could we please refrain from making all these crazy-wack references within the article summaries from now on? I have a hard enough time remembering my own name, and have not the time or inclination to pop over to Dictionary.com, every time somebody smarter than myself decides to be clever and use anything besides monosyllabic words with less than 6 letters apiece.
I have to go now -- the doctors say it's time to take my medication again............
I agree, to an extent -- I recently went from a P1-200MMX CPU to a P4-600 box w/1Gb RAM. That's my desktop applications machine, and it runs all of my day-to-day apps beautifully.
Games are a definite reason to buy a CPU with a lot more go-juice. Of course, this doesn't really satisfy the question of what you really NEED a blazingly fast CPU for...... because AFAIK, games aren't something you really would ever need (even if there _are_ gamers out there who would crucify me for saying so). But it's definitely a practical example of what you could use that speed for........
In all of the jobs I've worked at, access to web-based mail systems that don't directly relate to work are blocked. Which is really how it should be anyway....... I waste enough time as-is putzing around on the Internet without compulsively checking my personal mail accounts every 15 seconds.
They've just stunted the growth of another potential consumer market by virtue of their ignorance. Who the hell is gonna pay anything for SMS without relatively secure guarantees that it'll be spam-free? Email is free, and people are already pissed off enough about that.
Is this the copy-proofing technology........
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Nope........ just a matter of preference, though.
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Seems my tastes happen to coincide with your own -- PA, MegaTokyo, PvP, SinFest, (the now defunct?) Flem In Your Face!, Mac Hall and Dilbert are all what I consider to be great comics. I did try to read User Friendly for a while, since it seemed / seems to have quite a following amongst the `Dotters, but its crude artwork and fairly straightforward topics never seemed to inspire much in the way of laughter, internal or external.
Then again, it seems that it's popular with a significant number of people, so more power to em. As long as it makes you laugh........
... I do wish colleges did _offer_ (not force you to take) something in the way of formal schooling in a particular proprietary technology.
Here's the beef -- my company is planning on migrating to Oracle sometime in the next 2 years, and they want me to slowly assume the position of DBA (after the consultants finish porting it over from 80s RDBMS technology). I've been able to pick up some basic stuff (HTML, JS, VBScript) just by reading books, but I've always learn best by having a mentor around to bounce ideas off of. College was a boon in this respect -- most of my hands-on programming courses in college (TurboPascal 7.0, Lisp) taught me a lot because I was able to ask the teacher why certain techniques were better than others.
That being said: since I've graduated, the only technical schooling I've had has been in those week-long certification courses my employers send me to. And while I do learn something, there's simply not enough time for me to absorb (and retain) it all. As such, I wish there was something in the way of a semester-long course that I could take in Oracle, SQL Server, even Linux........ I simply work better when I have a person who I can bounce ideas off of.
What about an alternate form of punishment?
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I like the "Jay and Silent Bob" form of punishment -- two geeks from Jersey show up at the spammer's house, confirm his identity and then proceed to lay the smack down. From what I hear, it's a lot harder to use your computer with mangled hands, and a lot harder to see the screen if your eyes are swollen shut.
So now that the government (or maybe just this one particular individual) is realizing that their software isn't that secure, they want "hackers" to come foward and help them out? This, despite the fact that the DMCA subjectively outlaws this, and with the whole Tru64 thing fresh in one's mind?
If they want help, they have to make sure those who try and help out are protected by the law. You can't have it both ways.
All I want is self-cleaning underwear, for those really intense LAN deathmatches. Is that too much to ask for?
People are afraid of being proven wrong
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What is it going to take for people to realize that they need to lock down their systems -- the digital equivalent of 9/11? Honestly, it seems the government can't accept any criticism of its systems, or act on the information at all........ and instead of fixing the problem, they decide to prosecute instead.
Doesn't this all seem a little too cyberpunk-ish? A limited number of sprawling corporate zaibatsu dominating the commercial landscape; government effectively void in providing any kind of checks and balances to those who dwell within its borders; a massive, generally unaccounted-for population that ekes out a living by catering to the needs within their demesne; and a subculture of highly intelligent, pseudo-anarchic, technology-savvy hackers who cut their teeth by fighting the system, be it for fun, principle or profit.
At least, that's what I feel. Government now seems to be more of a career move than a principled institution; despite our economic power, our government pisses our cash away on pork barrel projects; the military isn't able account for trillions of dollars it's ostentsibly spent to protect the populace it was created to defend; and a business ideology that is both morally bankrupt and would seem omniscient, were it not for the efforts of individuals who make it their duty to rage against the machine.
Honestly, it all makes me think about expatriating. Maybe it's not a war in the conventional sense, but it's certainly an assault on one's sensibilities.
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I just started using it last week -- I think I remember something whereby each file has some type of key / checksum (I'm not too familiar with the nuances of encryption)........... but I could be wrong.
Ever since I read William Gibson's "Neuromancer" for the first time, invisibility has always been synonymous with the Panthers Modern's mimetic polycarbon suits. The graphic novel only served to burn this image into my mind even more by giving form to how it would look / work / be used.
Too cool. They should hand these out to Delta Force and snipers once they've been refined a few times over. Then they'll really be something to be afraid of -- living, heavily armed ghosts.
Perhaps you only meant to imply that WorldNetDaily was an example of a site that was properly coded to be scalable (insomuch as is possible with IIS/VBScript) -- this is what I assume, anyway. But you wouldn't be able to tell any of that just by going to the site..........
Major League Baseball is aiming for mlb.com to be a supper site that meets all baseball fan needs.
Haven't you ever considered what an MLB supper consists of? $3 pretzels, $5 hot dogs and $7 beers....... the sticker shock and nutritional value alone are enough to send a person into anaphylactic shock.
No thanks..... I'll stay home and cook my own meals.
Even thought we have no idea a) where this trailer is available for download, b) how to legally obtain the names of individuals who DO download the trailer, and c) whether the information is legit or not.
Actually, I don't really have any desire to see a crappy copy beforehand. The first film was good enough that I'd like the full-on experience of seeing it in the theater. But I will go ahead and see if I can find the trailer somewhere, just for kicks.
Listen, could we please refrain from making all these crazy-wack references within the article summaries from now on? I have a hard enough time remembering my own name, and have not the time or inclination to pop over to Dictionary.com, every time somebody smarter than myself decides to be clever and use anything besides monosyllabic words with less than 6 letters apiece.
I have to go now -- the doctors say it's time to take my medication again............
Please never utter those words again. I actually had to live through that decade -- once was enough. :P
I agree, to an extent -- I recently went from a P1-200MMX CPU to a P4-600 box w/1Gb RAM. That's my desktop applications machine, and it runs all of my day-to-day apps beautifully.
Games are a definite reason to buy a CPU with a lot more go-juice. Of course, this doesn't really satisfy the question of what you really NEED a blazingly fast CPU for...... because AFAIK, games aren't something you really would ever need (even if there _are_ gamers out there who would crucify me for saying so). But it's definitely a practical example of what you could use that speed for........
Can break bones -- all kids are taught that lesson / rhyme at a very early age!
In all of the jobs I've worked at, access to web-based mail systems that don't directly relate to work are blocked. Which is really how it should be anyway....... I waste enough time as-is putzing around on the Internet without compulsively checking my personal mail accounts every 15 seconds.
Dissent from within the Slashdot ranks will NOT be tolerated! No post for you!
This sounds like something straight out of "Minority Report"..... freaky.
They've just stunted the growth of another potential consumer market by virtue of their ignorance. Who the hell is gonna pay anything for SMS without relatively secure guarantees that it'll be spam-free? Email is free, and people are already pissed off enough about that.
.... that is able to outmaneuver my Sharpie pen?
mmmm..... everybody loves flautas.
Seems my tastes happen to coincide with your own -- PA, MegaTokyo, PvP, SinFest, (the now defunct?) Flem In Your Face!, Mac Hall and Dilbert are all what I consider to be great comics. I did try to read User Friendly for a while, since it seemed / seems to have quite a following amongst the `Dotters, but its crude artwork and fairly straightforward topics never seemed to inspire much in the way of laughter, internal or external.
Then again, it seems that it's popular with a significant number of people, so more power to em. As long as it makes you laugh........
Btw, just so I know what to use and what crap to avoid -- does Roxio EZCD Creator 5.0 have DRM stuff built in?
... I do wish colleges did _offer_ (not force you to take) something in the way of formal schooling in a particular proprietary technology.
Here's the beef -- my company is planning on migrating to Oracle sometime in the next 2 years, and they want me to slowly assume the position of DBA (after the consultants finish porting it over from 80s RDBMS technology). I've been able to pick up some basic stuff (HTML, JS, VBScript) just by reading books, but I've always learn best by having a mentor around to bounce ideas off of. College was a boon in this respect -- most of my hands-on programming courses in college (TurboPascal 7.0, Lisp) taught me a lot because I was able to ask the teacher why certain techniques were better than others.
That being said: since I've graduated, the only technical schooling I've had has been in those week-long certification courses my employers send me to. And while I do learn something, there's simply not enough time for me to absorb (and retain) it all. As such, I wish there was something in the way of a semester-long course that I could take in Oracle, SQL Server, even Linux........ I simply work better when I have a person who I can bounce ideas off of.
I like the "Jay and Silent Bob" form of punishment -- two geeks from Jersey show up at the spammer's house, confirm his identity and then proceed to lay the smack down. From what I hear, it's a lot harder to use your computer with mangled hands, and a lot harder to see the screen if your eyes are swollen shut.
So now that the government (or maybe just this one particular individual) is realizing that their software isn't that secure, they want "hackers" to come foward and help them out? This, despite the fact that the DMCA subjectively outlaws this, and with the whole Tru64 thing fresh in one's mind?
If they want help, they have to make sure those who try and help out are protected by the law. You can't have it both ways.
Cuz we all know that when nuble young women go to bars, they go there to play Battleship.
Panicware's "Pop-Up Stopper" is free and has been working just fine on my box for the past few months.
All I want is self-cleaning underwear, for those really intense LAN deathmatches. Is that too much to ask for?
What is it going to take for people to realize that they need to lock down their systems -- the digital equivalent of 9/11? Honestly, it seems the government can't accept any criticism of its systems, or act on the information at all........ and instead of fixing the problem, they decide to prosecute instead.
Pretty deranged, IMHO.
Doesn't this all seem a little too cyberpunk-ish? A limited number of sprawling corporate zaibatsu dominating the commercial landscape; government effectively void in providing any kind of checks and balances to those who dwell within its borders; a massive, generally unaccounted-for population that ekes out a living by catering to the needs within their demesne; and a subculture of highly intelligent, pseudo-anarchic, technology-savvy hackers who cut their teeth by fighting the system, be it for fun, principle or profit.
At least, that's what I feel. Government now seems to be more of a career move than a principled institution; despite our economic power, our government pisses our cash away on pork barrel projects; the military isn't able account for trillions of dollars it's ostentsibly spent to protect the populace it was created to defend; and a business ideology that is both morally bankrupt and would seem omniscient, were it not for the efforts of individuals who make it their duty to rage against the machine.
Honestly, it all makes me think about expatriating. Maybe it's not a war in the conventional sense, but it's certainly an assault on one's sensibilities.