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Members of the Cult of the Dead Cow, opon hearing the latter part of this outburst, are reputedly planning an IPO next week, proceeds of which will be used to sue the newly-merged MPAA-CO$ organization into oblivion on grounds of trademark dilution.

Wow, the idea of starting a company just to sue someone. Ingenious! Kinda like Caldera... (Well, the Caldera that makes OpenDos, not OpenLinux. They are seperate companies.(but have the same CEO))

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CIH came from taiwan...

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Cliffords comments on the other hand outline simply that Linux and *nix have much stricter file permissions and unless your log in as root, your pretty safe.

I log in as delmoi. I get a virus. All my stuff is now gone.

I would hardly call that safe

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Why couldn't someone simply write a userspace TTY program that interfaces with the TTY underneth it? So, to the user, it dosn't apear that there is anything wrong, when infact all the keystrokes go to the program?

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Well, he may be refering to the late nights spent by programers, or posibly the lower pay even. In any event, I'm going to be late for class...

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hrm... Generaly Republicans are more intrested in economic stablity, you'll note that in 1981, the economy was mostly the result of Jimmy Carter.

But, anyway, I think the decline of the arcade is in that it just can't keep up anymore with the home systems, as well as the fact that near-sighted arcade game makers made it imposible to get more then a few minutes at the system without plunking down more quarters (at the behest of the arcade operators) Thereby taking away the 'inexspensiveness' of the game.

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From the article :
My first exposure to modern console gaming was in 1989 when I first played Revenge of Shinobi on the Genesis, followed by hours of time lost to Tetris, and Golgo 13 for the NES.

One of the interesting, and really, sad things about old video games is how much they suck. A friend of mine had a Golgo13 NES game, and I played it for the first time a few months ago when he finally got his NES hooked up again. That game sucks, and sucks bad. (btw, has anyone here seen the Anime it's from? I thought it was pretty bad to, actually)

I think the most fun old games are the ones that didn't try and 'push' the system to far. By that I mean, games that didn't try to produce 'amazing' graphics, because by default those graphic will appear to suck to future generations. When you compare a game like "super Mario bros. 3" for the NES, to a game like "Batman 3" or something, witch was supposed to have lush graphics at the time, looks like crap.

Not that this has anything to do with anything, but...

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I'm sorry, what does this post have to do with anything? You cite a bunch of commonly known facts to back up your argument, but, you don't have an argument.

Yes, games used to be made by one person, now there made by lots (although, actualy the number of people who work full time on the game is usualy less then 10). Movies used to be cheap, now there not. But what does it mean?

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Um, there's not such thing as an 8-bit x86 CPU, the first the 8086 was a 16-bit word machine, on a 16 bit bus, and the second, the 8088 was a compatable 16-bit word macine on an 8-bit bus. If you've ever done any DOS assembly programing, as I have, you would know that DOS is entirely a 16 bit system.

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90% of desktop computers around today run on a dos kernel of some sort (this includes windows 95).

Windows 9x does not run on a dos Kernel, the main system controler is vmm32.vxd, I think and it is not based on anyway on Legacy dos code. NT has its own Kernel as well. Just being DOS compatable does not make an operating system a version of DOS. Infact Linux is probably more DOS compatable (with DOSemu) then NT.

Saying that windows95/98 runs on DOS is ether pure FUD or pure ignorance

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Normaly, a sig is on every post. If you click the little link that says 'user info' you will see that it is not on every post. Therefor it is not a sig.

The only conclusion I can draw here, is that you are an idiot

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The MFC maybe?

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The size of DeCSS for windows, with GUI and everything is exactly 32,768. It came with some DLLs, but it looks like my copy of windows already has the functionalty. The sorce itself is small enough to fit on a Teeshirt..

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This could be an opportunity for AOL to get some serious 'karma' in the Online community, now that they've merged with one of the studios and all

I would think that "the good will of the people" is probably worth a lot more to them now then the piracy of a few WB movies

Of course this morning, I thought that the lawsuit was completly idiotic to begin with...

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Once, and if they win this case they will have no trouble shutting down the sites. Most ISPs will comply, so getting it in the US won't be hard. I've got my copy from Sig11's mirror, And I'm keeping it. This does really not look good

The problem is, while to us the C code is as clear as english, most other people think of program code the way they think of macines, and they have had no trouble getting those banned, witness the DSS "test-card" issue, that's really only reprograming the small computer in a DSS satilite card, but it's illigal.

If judges feel that it's a device and not an idea then were fucked, and it becomes completly illigal. No, they won't beable to whipe it from the net, that's for sure, but they can kill effectively kill projects like LiViD. Red Hat isn't going to put illigal code in there main distro. SuSe isn't going to put somthing in that would get it banned in the US.

If the DVDCCA wins this, and they might, the effects will not be good...

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Right, but that's like saying "My PC which has no expansion slots has never been able to use anything more than the default hardware, but until I crack the case and start soldering stuff onto the traces on the motherboard, I'll never know." It's not that simple.

Hrm... The first time I read that statement, I thought you were saying that couldn't just do that with a computer. The second time I read it I thought you were saying that you could do it with a computer, but not with the brain. In any event, you probably could solder more stuff on to a computer motherboard if you really needed to (the memory interface would be a good place to start...)

Evolution is not kind to superfluous stuff.

If that were true, we would all still be single celled organisms, I'd bet. I don't know why our brains would need to be so advanced as to be able to figure out things like relativity, integral calc or the structure of the atom.

Of course you know more about the brain then I do, obviously we wouldn't just be able to solder on new inputs for new senses. But what about "sidebanding" the data? I mean, when someone plays quake they don't have to think about there fingers or the monitor in front of them there just "there". In a Sci-Fi Novel I'm writing people interface with computers by 'co-opting' unnecessary nerves in the spinal cord. Would something like this work?

"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",

It doesn't have the scalability being boasted about, but it isn't meant to, either.

I'm just a gigabyte,
everywhere I go
people want to store
stuff on me

Toggle every bit
I don't care if it
is hard core porn or
MP3s

There will come a day
I lose a crucial save
then what will they say
about me

When the end comes I know
they'll say just a gigabyte
as life goes on
without me

'Cause I ain't got no parity
no parity, no parity, one plus one is three
I'm so slow and lossy
slow and lossy, slow and lossy
Won't some cheap coder
come and make a RAID with me
cause I ain't so bad.

The idea of making a portal out of it is interesting but BLAST has been around for some time...

True. There's A LOT of sites dealing with various facets of genetic information. Starting from databases containing 'raw' DNA sequences coming off various genome sequencing projects (no, it's not only human; genomes of twenty or so organisms have been or are being sequenced at the moment) all the way to servers trying to interpret the data. Just check Pedro's list or one of the mirrors in Germany or Switzerland. And note that this is not so current (in fact nearly 3 years old) but already pretty long list...

I don't know if this has changend, but for quite a while IE was the only browser with java 1.1 support, Netscape still only used 1.0. In order to even view some of the java on Sun's site, I needed to use IE.

I downloaded m10 tonight, and played with it a little. Pretty crazy stuff. I'll go back to netscape right away, once they reach beta, or somthing. I can't wait.

It wasn't able to render www.public.iastate.edu/~cokere/re correctly though :(


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The history of the CIA is a prime example of what happens, even in a democracy, when people are given tremendous power and little oversight. The sheer number of atrocities the CIA has been involved with is a testament to these dangers. Unfortunately, the NSA enjoys even less oversight.

I'd like to think most NSA'ers are good people who have the best interests of the country and the Constitution firmly in mind. Unfortunately, intentions aren't worth much. In a democracy, the people's best interests must be, fundamentally, decided by the people. The farther from democracy (read: oversight, representation, etc.) the system strays, the more the intentions of the powerful few will inevitably digress from the intentions of the majority.

Hey, I'm all for preventing terrorism and defending the country. But let's make sure we're defending the country, not just a few people's idea of it. IOW, let's keep it a country worth defending. There's more to life than survival, you know.

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DevStudio is a bloody good piece of software for developing anything.

heh, I use it to make websites. Just make a 'project' with all you're HTML docs, makes navigation easy, and the syntax highlighting kicks ass.

check out http://storms-168-12.res.iastate.edu/ho mepage (I'm running apache, so I'm still somewhat oppensource : )
"Subtle mind control? Why do all these HTML buttons say 'Submit' ?"

Abian presented the theory that time and mass are equivalent on sci.math and other scientific newsgroups. Basically, he thought that mass is consumed in creating time. Here is a summary of how he came up with this. (No real experimental data -- just a few necessary assumptions mathematically manipulated to make a coherent theory.) He extended his theories further to get the idea that:
1) We should make massive changes to the earth to make it a better place
2) We should bring Venus into a near-earth orbit so we can try out these changes on it first
3) Some of the changes we should make are getting rid of the moon and un-tilting the earth

He also had some non-crackpot mathematical writings on set theory.

For reasons known only to him, James "Kibo" Parry has collected some of Abian's postings, and his own responses to them.

Bug Recipes at the site I used to work on. For a minute, I thought Orkin had stolen some of our recipes, god knows other sites have.....

ENIAC WAS NOT THE FIRST COMPUTER!!!

Attanasof Berry developed the first computer at Iowa State University.
This is fact, and has even been fought in a court battle (Berry won, of course)

see http://www.iastate.edu/abc.html

No, it's not Abian. I regret to inform you that Alexander Abian died just last week. I looked, briefly, for an obit on the web, but couldn't find one. While many knew him only as "that crackpot who wanted to blow up the moon", it should be noted that he was also a well-liked professor of mathematics.

Since I couldn't find an online obit, here's a link to Abian's web page.

Don't know about separate soundcard but the guy here seems to have found a motherboard with integrated sound sporting an optical output. Couldn't hurt asking him I guess...

The effect was predicted by the Dutch physicist Hendrick Casimir in 1948

Casimr effect

I have a similiar project here

Digital optical outputs, and can play from just about any medium. There are actually a lot of these projects around the web.

How much would someone pay for one of these? I can make aluminum cases like this one (mind you JUST the case) for about $225. (lots of labor involved) but I don't think people would pay that.

Here you can find a good wavelet tutorial, "The engineer's ultimate guide to wavelet analysis". With it, in 2 hours I understood the essence of wavelets ; contrary to many wavelet books, done by mathematicians who spent their time showing how smart they are by detailing the demonstration of every single property of wavelets that uses sophisticated mathematics, instead of even parenthetically starting to suggest how wavelets could be used in real world ; and who use an excess of formalism instead of detailing the intuitive notions behind wavelets.