Thanks!

wtf? no WYSIWYG carriage returns at /.? 1995 just called - it wants its Web 1.0 formatting back...

Got any URLs for good tutorials on how to get the thing up and running? [Yeah, "Google is your friend", blah blah blah...] Thanks in advance!

Meet "Chimp 9". We gave him a gene therapy...

cameltoe

TTIWWP.

Just sayin'.

Sensors and the like are pretty awesome to have.

Indeed.

- BIG BROTHER

Anbody tried one of the eBay N900's from Hong Kong?

The price sure is nice, but I just can't help wondering whether they come with custom Red Army EEPROM.

/TIN_FOIL_HAT

in NT4 and later fonts are parsed in kernel mode

Sometimes I feel like I must be the only geezer remaining who actually had the opportunity to use NT 3.51, so let me tell you: It was a GLORIOUS operating system.

EVERYTHING was client/server, and all the client stuff ran in Ring 3/User Mode.

Heck, you could even kill Windows, and run it as a multi-user "DOS" box.

But, of course, that meant that the video/graphics subsystem also ran as a client service, in User Mode, which [I guess] the suits perceived as being "slow", and therefore as being an impediment to the gaming experience which would come with the impending merger of code bases that we now know as Windows XP [2001].

So in 1996, some genius at MSFT decided to throw out all of the beauty and elegance and stability and security that had been NT 3.51, and to serve up, instead, the great big steaming pile of sh!t which was NT 4.0 [with its video/graphics subsystem subsumed into the kernel].

And the world was never again the same...

Good-bye akamai....

Sorry I don't have mod points for you.

More generally, Amazon is showing some seriously large gonads in all of this.

They are simultaneously treading on various different territories which were [separately] once the exclusive province of Google, Apple, Facebook, Blackberry, Akamai, and many, many others [anyone remember the Sears & Roebuck catalog?!?].

It will be very, very interesting to see how all of this plays out.

It certainly shows that, if nothing else, they aren't satisified with standing still.

Steve Ballmer, are you paying attention?!?



PS: In honor of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, it should be noted that Akamai lost at least one top executive on American Airlines Flight 11.

[I don't know whether he was flying alone, or whether he had any Akamai assistants with him.]

If the form factor is correct, then plenty of recent Xeon/Opteron servers, with a free PCI slot, suddenly become AWESOME desktop platforms. Around here, you can get late model 4-core Xeons, with maybe 8GB of RAM, on Craigslist, from name-brand companies [HP, Dell, etc], for circa $500. And they will be of VASTLY higher quality [with esp. vastly better motherboards] than the consumer-oriented junk that those same companies are peddling.

Since the investigation in these countries tends to leak like a sieve, we got info that that particular country was paying someone mid-level in customer support dept. to give them data on customers.

All the corporate privacy/security policies [and, for that matter, government privacy/security LAWS] in the world aren't worth diddly squat in the presence of a determined mole.

I seem to recall that the key element of the plot of Dune involved a traitor at the heart of House Atreides...





PS: Wow, has it been almost 30 YEARS since Dune was released?!?

Yikes!!!

I feel old.

Old. Old. Old. Old. Old.

PPS: Man, you know that Virginia Madsen was a world-class piece of tail if she was as hawt in Sideways (2004) as she had been in Dune [if not even hawter?].

Whew.

by hiding data in content cached by certain ISPs transparent proxies

Okay, I'll say it: That's really evil.

Of course, if you miss even one of the 7 places the site hid the data, the other 6 are immediately restored from it next time you visit.

God, I'm starting to feel old.

7 places?!?

I think I might have just experienced a "get off my lawn" moment...

The Palin Hacker did far less than this, yet he's facing hard time in the federal pen; this case shouldn't be in the civil courts - it ought to be playing out in the CRIMINAL court system:



How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked Into Rival ConnectU In 2004
Mar. 5, 2010
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-connectu-2010-3

...At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address.

In this new, fake profile, he listed Cameron's height as 7'4", his hair color as "Ayran Blond," and his eye color as "Sky Blue." He listed Cameron's "language" as "WASP-y."

Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely...



Zuckerberg is a psychopath - the specter of him being one of the wealthiest [and most powerful] people on the planet ought to send a chill down your spine.

The Sarah Palin hacker did less than this, and he was sentenced to hard time:



How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked Into Rival ConnectU In 2004
Mar. 5, 2010
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-connectu-2010-3

...At one point, Mark appears to have exploited a flaw in ConnectU's account verification process to create a fake Cameron Winklevoss account with a fake Harvard.edu email address.

In this new, fake profile, he listed Cameron's height as 7'4", his hair color as "Ayran Blond," and his eye color as "Sky Blue." He listed Cameron's "language" as "WASP-y."

Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely...

My 53 year old uncle is a senior professor... his IBM monstrosity that cost $100K... an input-compatible version of his Fortran 70 compiler... an array as a stack in a for loop to make program flow clear... the faculty mainframe in '87... FORTRAN was designed BEFORE the compiler was invented... a huge fuck-you to 40 years of software research...

LMFAO!!!

You go, Uncle Professor Dude - you go girl!!!

Abso-fscking-lutely hilarious!!!

Man, I haven't chuckled that hard in a while...