I've got wireless 11MBps Internet connectivity from my laptop. Unfortunately there's a bit of a bottleneck where it goes into my ISDN line upstream limiting me to 128KBps but hey though, I've still got 11Mbps wireless from my laptop!!! I bet the ISPs are lining up to turn up gigabit speeds from the ISP to the home for $40/month.. afterall, ISPs don't pay for their bandwidth right?:-)
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Amen! I was thinking about getting an SUV a couple of years ago until I just sat down and read up on them. Like you said, they're basically just a station wagon on a pickup truck frame. Why the heck would I want to drive around in a station wagon? I'd rather just get a mini-van if I really needed to hall my family around. How many mountains and boulders do you have to climb over on the way from the average suburban home to the mall?;-) In retrospect I'm glad I decided to just stick with a nice big car. Tons of room and still gets twice as many miles to the gallon that the average SUV does.
Is this suprising? During the Clinton administration we had to worry about those crazy "right wing" militias who wanted to blow up abortion clinics and overthrow the government. Now we have the crazy eco-terrorists running around blowing up SUV's and spray painting mink coats showing up in the news again. The media always concentrates on whatever group stands to raise the most interest with the present administration. All of these morons have always been out there, but Clinton wasn't likely to crack down on environment-nuts anymore than Bush is likely to crack down on gun nuts. So where does that leave the press but to rub a little salt in the wounds to stir up some news? William Randolph Hearst is attributed with saying "You supply the pictures and I'll supply the war." I think it fitting to know that the press hasn't changed much in the last century.
Maybe I missed it, but it seems the obvious answer to stupid passwords is to use non-reusable passwords and two-factor authentication. Either use something like OPIE or tokens like RSA's Securid cards. Then all the user has to remember is to carry their token with them and remember a simple pin number to unlock the passcode on their token. The only problem is it can get expensive with hardware tokens at about $50 a piece.
The bit that makes your debts to the online casinos nullified would also nullify any gains. Like someone else said, they do it by erasing the transactions from your credit card.
That's all Linus wants to remove from the boot messages, and I hope he gains support on this, because I want to use my computer, not read the full credits for the kernel 5 times a day.
Are you a kernel developer? If so, perhaps it would make more sense to just include some option to shut the messages off but leave them on by default. I don't mind people's names being credited on the modules and bits of code of the kernel they worked on when it loads. They're certainly not getting rich writing kernel code so they might as well get some fame out of it. Besides, like I said, unless you're a kernel developer, why are you rebooting 5 times a day?? This isn't Windows95.:-)
The Nazis in the German version will be replaced by big purple dinosaurs that sing children's songs and fluffy pink bunnies with menacing looking buck teeth. The guns will be replaced with bubble blowers and the sound effects will all be replaced with sounds of children giggling. The environment will be changed to be bright pastel colors and the mission will be to blow bubbles at as many pink bunnies and purple dinosaurs as you can before they grab you up and hug you to the point that all the joyous love bursts your heart. It's so cute. Castle Fluffenstein.
Transmeta didn't! Their stock price has plunged since they realized they had to distribute a copy of the design plans for the CPU's along with every one sold. The clone makers in Taiwan have been having a field day.;-)
Wire you up to where? I keep seeing this consistent quest for people to have fiber laid to their house. You know, they WILL do it if you're willing to pay the cost. Order an OC-3 from them and negotiate a contract with an ISP to supply you with 155Mbits/sec of bandwidth. I suppose you want really high speed Internet access over this magical fiber but only want to pay $50/month for it right?
Sounds like my cell phone. If you've got telemarketers calling your cell phone number all the time wanting to introduce you to the wonderful world of pay-per-play pornography over the phone don't you think you'd be a little perturbed as well considering you pay for calls you receive? Just like e-mail.
So these are the guys we can complain to whenever we hit one of those heavy flash ladden sites like Ford? Geez, I went to their site and the stupid background flash process was eating up 85% of my CPU time. I love when these companies add useless bullshit eye candy to a site.
MSFT is Fistandantilus? The gates of the Tower of High Socery will open for Bill *Gates*. I should have known. Now all he needs is a stupid muscle-headed brother and a virgin cleric of Paladine and he can take his place among the Gods.. or take the place of them. We must stop him before it is too late.
Well, it depends how much gold you have on you. It's pretty heavy so if you were to put it all in a sack of some sort and twirl it around above your head and use it as a morning star it might work. Then just leave a rock of gold as payment for the machine. Still, it might make more sense to just go down to the 7-11 and buy some.
No, it's really not funny. It hasn't been funny the last 5,000 times people have done it. It's about as funny as "all your base are belong to us" is now. It's funny the first couple of times but then everyone starts to say it and then it becomes lame.
Umm, wrong. The US didn't supply Germany and Japan with war materials. I don't know where you get your history. I suggest you quit making shit up as you go along. The US was supplying WWI vintage equipment to England (mostly destroyers, munitions, etc.). England would NOT have lasted for long if we had not been supplying them. The merchants daring German U-boat infested waters were just as courageous as the people on the front line. Many men lost their lives delivering equipment and supplies to the English before the formal declaration of war.
Give me a break. The allied forces were less than a couple dozen miles from downtown Baghdad. Believe me, if they had wanted to conquer the entire country they could have. I'm sure there are stronger political pressures at work here than any of us could be made aware of. International politics is a very strange game. Sometimes the best way to win is to pack up and go home without wiping out your opponent. As for Saddam, having the best personal protection service in the world doesn't help much when your entire country is occupied by the enemy for years. Nobody will give a shit if you're holed up in some hidden bunker somewhere since the government would have been returned to the people. Personally I think all those little middle eastern dictatorships need to get slapped around a bit and replaced with a democratically elected government (hand picked by the US government of course.. gotta keep oil prices down you know).
why do you want/need a region-free player? I'm not familiar with that.
This better question is, why do the DVD producers need to make a region-based DVD's? Why should they care if someone in the USA sees some Japanese anime? Why do they care if someone in Europe wants to order a DVD of an American movie that came out on DVD before it hit the theaters there? Could it be.. oh.. I dunno.. GREED?
Well, if you want to get pedantic about it, the continent's name is "North America" not "America". I would think that most people understand that America=USA. When you refer to the continent use "North America" to avoid confusion.
DirecTV hackers have been fooling with them for years. I don't know if they've recovered from DirecTV's checkmate as described in a Slashdot article back in January here or not though. Personally I'd get tired of playing the constant game of cat and mouse just to be able to watch pirated television much less use my computer. Everytime a good thing comes along another guy has to come along with a way to copy protect it. "Uggg make fire." "Ooh ugg. Ogg make fire last night. Ogg have patent. Ogg sue Uggg." What a stupid crazy world we live in.
Ummm, there's NOTHING stopping you from starting up your magical company, gathering venture capital, building your own launch vehicle (or hitching a ride on a Russian or ESA rocket) and going at it. Go on, I dare you. The reason governments are the only ones funding research is because businesses don't have the balls it takes to put up so much money up front. Building a moon base would cost hundreds of billions of dollars. American businesses are too short-sited and devoted to short term profits to commit to the 10-15 year life cycle such an undertaking would require. So where does that leave us? NASA. Unfortunately they're always at the beck and call of whatever political party is in office that year. It's become a game of cat and mouse just to keep your funding much less get anything useful done on the research frontier. Woops.. a Democrat started that program? Sorry, we're going to scrap that and start an equally expensive program to do the same thing under a different name but you have to start from ground zero again. What this country needs is a strong revitalization and push towards science. I would really like to see just a tiny bit of that 400 billion dollars we spend on defending ourselves from other nations be put to good use in cooperation with our allies to do something USEFUL rather than building bombs and tanks. Politics is the worst disease the human race has ever contracted and it has proved to be hereditary.
"We'd really like the astronauts to cap off this experiment by enjoying a cool refreshing Budweiser while saying the line 'Houston, this Bud's for you!'
Hahaha, not to mention major experiments have been cancelled to fund cost overruns on building the station. Once they finally DO complete the station there's not going to be much to do on it either except watch astronauts do somersaults. With the cutbacks there's not enough power for the experiments, not enough habitat space for more astronauts, and generally no purpose to completing this atrocity. We should have spent the $100 billion on something else like going to the moon. At least that would attract attention rather than watching astronauts do what they've been doing for decades.. orbitting the earth endlessly. BORING.
The long term success rate of human civilizations aren't terribly high. There's no guarantee that the U.S. will be around multiple millenia from now. There's no guarantee that English will still be the predominant language in the U.S.
Oh come on now. Don't be silly. Civilizations are destroyed by invading barbarians. Don't you remember your history lessons? Unless the Canadians suddenly start dressing in furry animal skins and fashioning weapons and spearheads out of dead moose carcasses I'm not going to worry that the United States is going to go away anytime soon. At worst everyone in the world will nuke each other and we'll live in some weird ass post-apocalyptic world like something out of "Waterworld" or "The Postman". Kevin Costner is such a visionary.;-)
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I've got wireless 11MBps Internet connectivity from my laptop. Unfortunately there's a bit of a bottleneck where it goes into my ISDN line upstream limiting me to 128KBps but hey though, I've still got 11Mbps wireless from my laptop!!! I bet the ISPs are lining up to turn up gigabit speeds from the ISP to the home for $40/month.. afterall, ISPs don't pay for their bandwidth right? :-)
Amen! I was thinking about getting an SUV a couple of years ago until I just sat down and read up on them. Like you said, they're basically just a station wagon on a pickup truck frame. Why the heck would I want to drive around in a station wagon? I'd rather just get a mini-van if I really needed to hall my family around. How many mountains and boulders do you have to climb over on the way from the average suburban home to the mall? ;-) In retrospect I'm glad I decided to just stick with a nice big car. Tons of room and still gets twice as many miles to the gallon that the average SUV does.
Is this suprising? During the Clinton administration we had to worry about those crazy "right wing" militias who wanted to blow up abortion clinics and overthrow the government. Now we have the crazy eco-terrorists running around blowing up SUV's and spray painting mink coats showing up in the news again. The media always concentrates on whatever group stands to raise the most interest with the present administration. All of these morons have always been out there, but Clinton wasn't likely to crack down on environment-nuts anymore than Bush is likely to crack down on gun nuts. So where does that leave the press but to rub a little salt in the wounds to stir up some news? William Randolph Hearst is attributed with saying "You supply the pictures and I'll supply the war." I think it fitting to know that the press hasn't changed much in the last century.
Maybe I missed it, but it seems the obvious answer to stupid passwords is to use non-reusable passwords and two-factor authentication. Either use something like OPIE or tokens like RSA's Securid cards. Then all the user has to remember is to carry their token with them and remember a simple pin number to unlock the passcode on their token. The only problem is it can get expensive with hardware tokens at about $50 a piece.
The bit that makes your debts to the online casinos nullified would also nullify any gains. Like someone else said, they do it by erasing the transactions from your credit card.
That's all Linus wants to remove from the boot messages, and I hope he gains support on this, because I want to use my computer, not read the full credits for the kernel 5 times a day.
:-)
Are you a kernel developer? If so, perhaps it would make more sense to just include some option to shut the messages off but leave them on by default. I don't mind people's names being credited on the modules and bits of code of the kernel they worked on when it loads. They're certainly not getting rich writing kernel code so they might as well get some fame out of it. Besides, like I said, unless you're a kernel developer, why are you rebooting 5 times a day?? This isn't Windows95.
The Nazis in the German version will be replaced by big purple dinosaurs that sing children's songs and fluffy pink bunnies with menacing looking buck teeth. The guns will be replaced with bubble blowers and the sound effects will all be replaced with sounds of children giggling. The environment will be changed to be bright pastel colors and the mission will be to blow bubbles at as many pink bunnies and purple dinosaurs as you can before they grab you up and hug you to the point that all the joyous love bursts your heart. It's so cute. Castle Fluffenstein.
Transmeta didn't! Their stock price has plunged since they realized they had to distribute a copy of the design plans for the CPU's along with every one sold. The clone makers in Taiwan have been having a field day. ;-)
Wire you up to where? I keep seeing this consistent quest for people to have fiber laid to their house. You know, they WILL do it if you're willing to pay the cost. Order an OC-3 from them and negotiate a contract with an ISP to supply you with 155Mbits/sec of bandwidth. I suppose you want really high speed Internet access over this magical fiber but only want to pay $50/month for it right?
Sounds like my cell phone. If you've got telemarketers calling your cell phone number all the time wanting to introduce you to the wonderful world of pay-per-play pornography over the phone don't you think you'd be a little perturbed as well considering you pay for calls you receive? Just like e-mail.
So these are the guys we can complain to whenever we hit one of those heavy flash ladden sites like Ford? Geez, I went to their site and the stupid background flash process was eating up 85% of my CPU time. I love when these companies add useless bullshit eye candy to a site.
MSFT is Fistandantilus? The gates of the Tower of High Socery will open for Bill *Gates*. I should have known. Now all he needs is a stupid muscle-headed brother and a virgin cleric of Paladine and he can take his place among the Gods.. or take the place of them. We must stop him before it is too late.
Well, it depends how much gold you have on you. It's pretty heavy so if you were to put it all in a sack of some sort and twirl it around above your head and use it as a morning star it might work. Then just leave a rock of gold as payment for the machine. Still, it might make more sense to just go down to the 7-11 and buy some.
No, it's really not funny. It hasn't been funny the last 5,000 times people have done it. It's about as funny as "all your base are belong to us" is now. It's funny the first couple of times but then everyone starts to say it and then it becomes lame.
I guess.. if you like 500ms latency. :-) It uses a satellite connection.
Umm, wrong. The US didn't supply Germany and Japan with war materials. I don't know where you get your history. I suggest you quit making shit up as you go along. The US was supplying WWI vintage equipment to England (mostly destroyers, munitions, etc.). England would NOT have lasted for long if we had not been supplying them. The merchants daring German U-boat infested waters were just as courageous as the people on the front line. Many men lost their lives delivering equipment and supplies to the English before the formal declaration of war.
Give me a break. The allied forces were less than a couple dozen miles from downtown Baghdad. Believe me, if they had wanted to conquer the entire country they could have. I'm sure there are stronger political pressures at work here than any of us could be made aware of. International politics is a very strange game. Sometimes the best way to win is to pack up and go home without wiping out your opponent. As for Saddam, having the best personal protection service in the world doesn't help much when your entire country is occupied by the enemy for years. Nobody will give a shit if you're holed up in some hidden bunker somewhere since the government would have been returned to the people. Personally I think all those little middle eastern dictatorships need to get slapped around a bit and replaced with a democratically elected government (hand picked by the US government of course.. gotta keep oil prices down you know).
why do you want/need a region-free player? I'm not familiar with that.
This better question is, why do the DVD producers need to make a region-based DVD's? Why should they care if someone in the USA sees some Japanese anime? Why do they care if someone in Europe wants to order a DVD of an American movie that came out on DVD before it hit the theaters there? Could it be.. oh.. I dunno.. GREED?
Well, if you want to get pedantic about it, the continent's name is "North America" not "America". I would think that most people understand that America=USA. When you refer to the continent use "North America" to avoid confusion.
DirecTV hackers have been fooling with them for years. I don't know if they've recovered from DirecTV's checkmate as described in a Slashdot article back in January here or not though. Personally I'd get tired of playing the constant game of cat and mouse just to be able to watch pirated television much less use my computer. Everytime a good thing comes along another guy has to come along with a way to copy protect it. "Uggg make fire." "Ooh ugg. Ogg make fire last night. Ogg have patent. Ogg sue Uggg." What a stupid crazy world we live in.
It's spelled Linux but it's pronounced "guh-new lin-nucks".
Ummm, there's NOTHING stopping you from starting up your magical company, gathering venture capital, building your own launch vehicle (or hitching a ride on a Russian or ESA rocket) and going at it. Go on, I dare you. The reason governments are the only ones funding research is because businesses don't have the balls it takes to put up so much money up front. Building a moon base would cost hundreds of billions of dollars. American businesses are too short-sited and devoted to short term profits to commit to the 10-15 year life cycle such an undertaking would require. So where does that leave us? NASA. Unfortunately they're always at the beck and call of whatever political party is in office that year. It's become a game of cat and mouse just to keep your funding much less get anything useful done on the research frontier. Woops.. a Democrat started that program? Sorry, we're going to scrap that and start an equally expensive program to do the same thing under a different name but you have to start from ground zero again. What this country needs is a strong revitalization and push towards science. I would really like to see just a tiny bit of that 400 billion dollars we spend on defending ourselves from other nations be put to good use in cooperation with our allies to do something USEFUL rather than building bombs and tanks. Politics is the worst disease the human race has ever contracted and it has proved to be hereditary.
"We'd really like the astronauts to cap off this experiment by enjoying a cool refreshing Budweiser while saying the line 'Houston, this Bud's for you!'
Hahaha, not to mention major experiments have been cancelled to fund cost overruns on building the station. Once they finally DO complete the station there's not going to be much to do on it either except watch astronauts do somersaults. With the cutbacks there's not enough power for the experiments, not enough habitat space for more astronauts, and generally no purpose to completing this atrocity. We should have spent the $100 billion on something else like going to the moon. At least that would attract attention rather than watching astronauts do what they've been doing for decades.. orbitting the earth endlessly. BORING.
The long term success rate of human civilizations aren't terribly high. There's no guarantee that the U.S. will be around multiple millenia from now. There's no guarantee that English will still be the predominant language in the U.S.
;-)
Oh come on now. Don't be silly. Civilizations are destroyed by invading barbarians. Don't you remember your history lessons? Unless the Canadians suddenly start dressing in furry animal skins and fashioning weapons and spearheads out of dead moose carcasses I'm not going to worry that the United States is going to go away anytime soon. At worst everyone in the world will nuke each other and we'll live in some weird ass post-apocalyptic world like something out of "Waterworld" or "The Postman". Kevin Costner is such a visionary.