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Comment Re:Morphine doesnt stop pain (Score 1) 308

by avar on Sunday August 20, 2006 @09:13PM (#15946011) Attached to: Morphine Relief Without Addiction?

I had the same experience as he had without his drug history. Perhaps they didn't give me high enough a dosage but I still felt pain when I thought about it but not to any larger degree than one might feel something pressing against the skin (e.g. cloathes). Pain is too strong a word here anyway, what I felt at the time gave me a definite feeling that pain was going on at some level in the body, It just didn't feel any different than any other kind of sensory input, i.e. it didn't hurt.

Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? 414

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday June 25, 2006 @11:09AM from the hope-your-password-wasn't-important dept.

tmandry writes "The world's largest FOSS IRC network, FreeNode, was hijacked (for lack of a better term) by someone who somehow got a hold of the privileges of Robert Levin, AKA lilo, the head honcho of FreeNode and its parent organization, PDPC. To make matters worse, the passwords of many users may have been compromised by someone posing as NickServ, the service that most clients are configured to send a password to upon connecting, while they reconnected to the servers that hadn't been killed. Of course, if someone was able to nab lilo's password, every user password may have been ripe for the taking. The details are still unknown, but these events raise scary questions about the actual security of FreeNode and other organizations like it."

McNealy Created Millions of Jobs? 363

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday April 29, 2006 @09:57AM from the not-the-steve-variety dept.

cahiha writes "In his blog, Jonathan Schwartz argues that Scott McNealy is single-handedly responsible for making network computing a reality. His timeline is something like that in 1992, the industry was focused on 'Chicago' (Windows 95), while McNealy bravely went his own way-- 'the network is the computer.' He goes on to claim that 'There is no single individual who has created more jobs around the world than [Scott McNealy]. [...] I'm not talking hundreds or thousands of jobs, I'm talking millions.' I have trouble following his argument: client/server computing and distributed computing were already widely available and widely used in the early 1990s. The defining applications of the emerging Internet were, not Java, but Apache, Netscape, and Perl. Sun's biggest response to Chicago was to attempt to establish Java as the predominant desktop application delivery platform, something they have not succeeded at so far. So, what do you think: is Schwartz right in giving credit to McNealy for creating 'millions' of jobs? Or has Sun been a company on the decline since the mid-1990s, only temporarily buoyed by the Internet bubble?"

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