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Wish I could find my C64 power supply, though..

It happened

(basically)

Posting anon 'cause it's not my work.

It sure would.

Obligatory fake Asterisk ad

I don't know why I happen to have a video clip of this handy.

Then someone has managed to send Microsoft Word 2003 (set to default margin, typeface, and font size) back in time to the Texas ANG.

Maybe he was confused, like this guy?

(Just so you know, the above is safe for work, and quite funny to boot.)

Typical Capture Ha Ha from long ago. What do you know, even a Windoze using lamer can be loved. I'm sure that this kind or rooting has been automated for a long time. The screen shots are more than two years old.

The Register article is short on details, but the trojan does pull paypal and other info from the machine. If they get enough info on you your headshot would be a nice piece of data to have to forge an picture ID.

I know you're kidding, but considering more than half of internet users in the US are always on broadband users and the number of webcams sold/bundled with PCs and you've got yourself quite a number of people to spy on.

Or they might just send wacky pop-ups to solicit expressions like the one this guy is sporting.

this. Ahhh, Back Orifice was fun (as someone else noted).

I remember doing something similar to my friends with an ICQ spoof program, my favorite went something like from UIN(666): "This is Satan, sell me you soul.", UIN(333): "This is God, don't listen to Satan.", UIN(1): "This is your mother, don't listen to either of them." It was even better if they tried to add the new UINs to their contact list and they all came back invalid. (The minimum is something like 1001)

Here you go. And yeah, that was a good one.

Here's a link to a mirror of it

Microsoft needs good weapons technologists to assist in their testing.

Bill Gates shows off his new pet project. I'm sure he does read Slashdot and pays many others to do the same, not that he pays them much. I wonder if he's offshored his trolling division. Steve Barkto was so embarasing AND expensive.

Back in the early libdream days, you had to write your own routines for 2D graphics (3D was still off-limits) by writing directly to video RAM. Today, KOS supports 3D acceleration via the PowerVR chip, as well as support for various other pieces of once-mysterious hardware. And the SDL port lets you take a break from writing directly to video memory if you're doing 2D.

dcQuad is another Dreamcast project which I started working on after finishing the DC version of robotfindskitten. I've been messing around with SDL in Windows a bit lately, and I look forward to getting up to speed on the KOS implementation for my next project.

Back in the early libdream days, you had to write your own routines for 2D graphics (3D was still off-limits) by writing directly to video RAM. Today, KOS supports 3D acceleration via the PowerVR chip, as well as support for various other pieces of once-mysterious hardware. And the SDL port lets you take a break from writing directly to video memory if you're doing 2D.

dcQuad is another Dreamcast project which I started working on after finishing the DC version of robotfindskitten. I've been messing around with SDL in Windows a bit lately, and I look forward to getting up to speed on the KOS implementation for my next project.

How about in a doctor's office? Don't tell me that wireless is of no use to doctors, that's short sighted. Wirelessly checking your mail with anthing other than a ssh connection on a university campus is a bad idea. Web browsing with passwords might is a bad idea unless you are 100% sure the website in question encrypts identifying information and anything else you might consider sensitive. Visiting, http://www.herpesrelief.com, on a campus or company wifi might also be a bad idea. While you might trust your company or your university, you should not trust that people are not data mining their network or just laughing at you. At home, the situation is much as you describe it - you are less likely to be embarassed by your neighbors or Osama in da Bushes than you are by Microsoft remote exploit.

Your chief concern, the overhead of encryption, is misplaced, but your dislike of ecryption at routers is not. The problems are mostly user control, quality control, updates and segregation of function. Like you say, it makes sense to encrypt sensitive information at the source. My idea of the source is the originating computer.

I use ssh internally for all my networking and don't see any difference over ftp and telnet. It may be paranoid, but it does not hurt. So I don't need hardware encryption, regardless of merit.

Lesser quality and rootable encryption at the router level is a waste. Even if China's standard has merit and is reasonably secure and free implementations are made, there are problems of updates and user control. How do you apt-get upgrade your network card? All I want my network cards and access points to do is transmit information. I'm not going to trust it and I'm going to keep using OpenSSH which I do trust.

Am I the only one who sees a striking similarity between the Nintendo iQue and the Sega Dreamcast controller? Just wondering.

My guess is that sun lacks a mascot who stands for liberty, love and the pursuit of happiness all the while standing up for the little guy.

A mascot should enjoy being a super hero, fragging, and sports and should appeal to the geek, the freak, the n00b and those corporate types.

And no! Duke is not cool. Duke thinks that he is cool. But he only reaches cute. And cute is for sissies.

They could even allow planes to be hijacked from the ground if terrorists managed to take over air-traffic control sites.

Well, duh, if it works by radio, people will listen to it and figure out how to take control. If some big dumb company like Microsoft makes it, there will be a buffer overflow in some unnecessary chunk that gives complete control of the flight control system. I imagine a scenerio where a terrorist sends the "air-clippy" a specially crafted message that either renders the controls inoperable or gives control to terroist on the ground. Ha ha is not very funny in the air.

That's a nice screenshot, but it still doesn't top the best Slashdot contradiction ever.

Orwell predicted people would willing ebrace control. The only thing he got wrong was the requirement for nuclear warfare as a trigger. People, it seems, can be hyped up to pitch by blowing up a few buildings. Orwell only felt that would be usefull to keep the fevered pitch, not create it. Yet here we sit, filled with xenophobia, with the specialist warfare and readilly adopting all forms of spyware with less and less control. Gates has targeted the "obvious" groups, school teachers, union leaders, proffesional politicians, the military, like a true desciple of Orwell. The scary thing is not his intention, it's all the help he's getting.

This project is a plan to incorporate the three primary uses of the existing nationwide cable network, voice, data and video, into one convenient and easy-to-use package that will satisfy most consumers' communication needs at a fair price.

Business school translator: turn cable internet into propriatory equivalent of cable TV and pay per minute phone service. Don't believe me? Read on.

# A better infrastructure in the future that will act as a stronger barrier to entry for new and existing competitors.

No competitors, self explanatory. I suppose they mean monopoly rape when they say "fair price".

Also built into the new digital cable box is a small camera which would allow for video conferencing, perhaps with other cable customers, over the cable network.

Ha Ha we will be seeing more of these clowns, I'm sure.

Phone service will also be delivered through the cable network. The existing cable network can easily accommodate the added bandwidth for several voice-data devices, such as telephones, which currently operates over an RJ-45 line. With a nationwide network, the cost of providing long distance phone calls for consumers is greatly reduced. Essentially, calls to anywhere inside the US would essentially be "local calls" as it would not cost anymore on the side of cable companies to offer the service. However, cable companies can still charge competitive rates for local and long distance calling.

What a grasp of technology they have. Voice over IP paid by the minute, just like the expensive antiquated system it will replace. Let's pay for infrastructure we don't have!

Oh yeah, they want to own internet gamming too. I wonder if they recomend only letting xbox connect? No, not that smart, they recomend developing IR joy sticks.

I love their mathematical proof of profit. Was a large business venture ever launched without such promisses? As Ikaos pointed out, a total media monopoly would make money. It's just funny to see them write it out they way they did without considering operating costs! The great power point using brains who thought this up would probably recomend M$/intel to hit the estimated cost of $650/house. Way to go guys.

Here's a clue stick: all of the above services are available now at no additional cost besides privately owned equipment. Figure out ways to offer these services without fucking your customers, who you so deridingly call "consumers" of the shit you would like to push.

PS, Star Office can save your M$ presentation as HTML and your .DOC paper in PDF or HTML so that anyone can look at it and you won't have to rewrite your work in Front Page. It's cheaper than all that monopoly priced Micro$oft stuff too.

Exacly what features of the Nextstep does win95 offer? "windowblinds"? Sure, if you download a serious modification. 95 shipped with the clumsy three button junk from win3.1 plus an extra button and a pannel. A root menue anywhere on the screen? Nope. The way it resizes windows? Nope. Menues that you can leave up on the screen? Nope. Can you name one feature that is not simply part of any GUI? I'm not going to go into the tremendous difference in the unerlying systems but just look at the apearances alone.

Nextstep was made from MacOS and was better. Windoze never did much more than follow along the GUI path, never evolving much from the first one they made. The evolution and lines of influence are clear when you look at screen shots from each.

For those of you not familiar with Next, check out this 1993 screen shot of the first web browser. The client was developed in 1990. There are many free implementations of the Nextstep such as Window Maker today. It still kicks any GUI Microsoft has ever made. After using a reasonable window manager on X, few people can go back to the M$ GUI confines.

For those of you fortunate enough to have missed Windoze 3.1, here is a little screen shot from 1993 or so when Netscape became one of the first available browsers for Windoze. 95 added the X button on the top right, so I suppose you could say it coppied Nextstep in one way. Here is a typical Win95/98 desktop. Windoze XP (screen shot to compare), is more of the same and annoying as all hell.

Please don't compare reasonable software, such as Nextstep or Sun's Common Desktop Environemnt, to junk from Microsoft. People might get the idea that one was better than it is or that the other sucks in ways it never did.

Exacly what features of the Nextstep does win95 offer? "windowblinds"? Sure, if you download a serious modification. 95 shipped with the clumsy three button junk from win3.1 plus an extra button and a pannel. A root menue anywhere on the screen? Nope. The way it resizes windows? Nope. Menues that you can leave up on the screen? Nope. Can you name one feature that is not simply part of any GUI? I'm not going to go into the tremendous difference in the unerlying systems but just look at the apearances alone.

Nextstep was made from MacOS and was better. Windoze never did much more than follow along the GUI path, never evolving much from the first one they made. The evolution and lines of influence are clear when you look at screen shots from each.

For those of you not familiar with Next, check out this 1993 screen shot of the first web browser. The client was developed in 1990. There are many free implementations of the Nextstep such as Window Maker today. It still kicks any GUI Microsoft has ever made. After using a reasonable window manager on X, few people can go back to the M$ GUI confines.

For those of you fortunate enough to have missed Windoze 3.1, here is a little screen shot from 1993 or so when Netscape became one of the first available browsers for Windoze. 95 added the X button on the top right, so I suppose you could say it coppied Nextstep in one way. Here is a typical Win95/98 desktop. Windoze XP (screen shot to compare), is more of the same and annoying as all hell.

Please don't compare reasonable software, such as Nextstep or Sun's Common Desktop Environemnt, to junk from Microsoft. People might get the idea that one was better than it is or that the other sucks in ways it never did.

There are only 200 blocks for user files when you format a Dreamcast VMU, but if you know which bytes to set in the directory track, you can get at least 241 blocks out of a standard VMU.

Oh yeah, Microsoft's woderful remote hardware control tools, such as the plug and play deamon that listens to an open port. I'm sure everyone's seen it before, but I must post the results of such weakenesses. View the sum of stupid, Ha-Ha. Don't worry Microsoft has issued the uber patch, had the month long security hug and changed their security model to include M$ rooting you at will! Dancing pet names and total lack of control of files on your hard drive should make you feel so much more secure. Oh yeah!

Here's some more info on Sega's GigaDisc format.

Big Brother is watching. All your posts are belong to US (TM).

Let's take a trip down memory lane. Me making a copy of a CD for a friend technically violates the copyright, but only the dumbest and most opperesive states would bother to enforce it. What monetary damage was done by my "perfect" seleveless, artless copy for my friend? Generally zero as my friend would never have bought the thing in the first place but has an inferior copy which might lead him to buy the "real" thing. We could walk further down that road to tapes where courts upheld your right to do just that. We could go even further back before acid paper and comercial pulp printing and find much weaker copyright laws. We could go back even further and find that for the majority of human history writers expected no finicial reward for their efforts and considered it an honor when others would publish their work.

What I see comming is some awful invasive world where others think they have a right to search my personal effects at will. They have screen shots of the victim's computers? They must have been windoze users, but the precident is disturbing. Suppose my ISP is pressured to not allow connection from "insecure" platforms that do not allow such spying? Well, screw that. I don't go places where people treat me like a criminal. I'm not intersted in RIAA music, I never ran Napster, nor have I ever fooled around with newer music sharing junk. I want to share my own work, not that of others. These jackasses seek to prevent others from publishing their own music. If they get away with it, soon other forms of publishing will be prevented. We are on the road to Tycho.

The future is looking worse all the time. Someone will come up with realistic jamming I hope. Van De Graph generators for zapping them? EMPs to fry their little recievers? Firecrackers? Any good ideas? If they become pervasive, you won't know which ones are listening to your conversation from the ones that are reporting from your power meter. Will your new digital TV have feed back, ala 1984.

I thought it was bad at my last job when I found out that my new computer's internal microphone was on and imposible to disable, creepy. Ha Ha is not so funny when you start to consider all the closed source computers you have in your house that want to talk to the network.

because an error of type 84 occurred.

Here's the soundtracks to a few old 80s commercials I found on videotape. There are some video game commercials in there, but the most "unique" one by far is the one for Mister T Cereal.

Sure, why not? We've already got a picture to go along with it.

Check this one out if you end up with a Dreamcast some day.

Hey! Look at this! (And it was there since October 1998...)
Microsoft Linux 98

we'll soon see a video of Dan Rather singing Rocked by Rape?

Yep, they tell you, we will be very careful about turning you camera on and won't let anyone else do it, honest!

Give me one good reason I should ever let Macromedia look through my camera.

Microsoft has been very careful with your privacy for years. I doubt these advert pushing clowns will do any better than this: Ha-Ha

That's why I won't run anything but free software. Macromedia, fuck off!

Actually, now that you mention it...

What's this VNC buzzword? People have been able to do that and more with M$ platforms freaking forever, see this ancient page, HA HA!. I'm not sure what's really better than a screen capture like that.

All this is just another nail in the M$ coffin. M$'s VNC is good only for getting your machine cracked and peered into by your ISP, M$, and whoever. Why bother when free and technically superior alternatives like SSH and X are available? The DOS command line is a pain in the ass to use, so low bandwith utilization is impossible on that platform. Why oh why do people use this junk?

Sorry, I must have gotten confused with all those viruses like code red, nimida, sircam, and countless minor expoits for M$ OS. Ha Ha!

AOL IM and Netscape - Delete QuickLaunch, Delete IE toolbar button, delete Favorite, delete Try AOL shortcuts

Real - Unassociate it with all the media types, get rid of "notifications", delete Favorites and QuickLaunch

Clean? When I find a computer with IE on it, have to rebuild the computer with a real operating system. When I don't I leave myself open to Outlook, PNP, IE and other just don't work security risks. Please see ha-ha f for the end result of much bad judgement, that startsy by trusting your clean machine.

When you are angry about many things in the world, it is time for you to re-evaluate your priorities. Wife good, child good, me free, life is AOK.

For what it's worth, I just so happen to have a frame grab of that.

Bookmark this if you like falling-block games. (:

There is also a rumor that the spiral on the minidisc is in the reverse direction of any other disc in existance (normal CD and DVD drives recognize a disc is there, but cannot spin it up), so like I said good luck without some sort of hardware mod.

There is also a rumor that the spiral on the minidisc is in the reverse direction of any other disc in existance (normal CD and DVD drives recognize a disc is there, but cannot spin it up), so like I said good luck without some sort of hardware mod.

Like 3 years ago I wrote a script that'd import the most recent Slashdot stuff into INN, I seriously doubt it works anymore though. screenshot

Think of all the other problems you will get rid of. Bloated M$ formats that contain no no real information, you know, 12MB Power Point presentations, 2MB Word wastes and other usless stuff that takes 10 times as much space as needed. Inane calls over BSoD. Unintended video streams. Warez trolls and robots, and all sorts of other evil stuff fostered by comercial software.

You would do us all a favor by not catering to M$ users and the people who abuse them. Untill you do, you are just another piece of the problem. You should insist that your cracked clients take reasonable and free steps to solve their problems.

Anyone who usese IE is a fool. Oh wait, I'm at work and HAVE to use IE.

Let's think about how useful that makes web counters. I spend 10 hours a day at work, 8 hours sleeping, 2 hours getting too and from work. That leaves me with four hours each day to do things around the house, two of which are usually dedicated to eating and grooming. Two hours for everything else in the world. So what browswer is most likely to be used? M$IE by greater than ten to one.

Dreams of MSIE at my house are more like nightmares. That's not where I wanted to go yesterday!