Klingon Google? I know this is off-topic - but what on earth would make a manager allow his developers to spend time translating their app into Klingon? I'm quite curios about the traffic on that section of Google...
I've got you beat. I'm on a p3 533 mhz w 512 megs of ram. But I run a vmware'd nt4 ws on this machine on top of Linux. And - it's working rather nicely. The amount of RAM was what required - it was rather slow at 128 megs. I've been upgrading the RAM on all the computers where my coworkers have been complaining about slowness (after establishing that the slowness was due to swapping). It has saved us quite a bit of money. Really - swap space is a backup to keep the computer from freezing if some process gulps a lot of memory all of a sudden. If you swap on a regular basis, upgrade the RAM.
Hey - what if this means the return of the good movie? It seems to me that CGI movies are a natural way to go for the blockbusters - the high-power actors demand so much money that you can distribute that amount into CGI and marketing and make more money that way. Interestingly enough - if you kill the actors, maybe people will stop going to the movies to see Ben Affleck in another mediocre movie, and rather go to see that awesome new movie about two kids bonding through some interesting adventure?
On the other hand, real-life actors will still exist in the indie/international tradition. The cost of making a good indie movie is so low it will take years for CGI to be good and cheap enough to replace real actors and a hand-held steadicam.
Pardon me for interfering with / analyzing your domestic policies.
What you are experiencing is quite normal. After a period of living out of touch with reality, you're falling out of the clouds. Gravity is a bitch.
Enron to me exemplifies that your power structure is far from ideal. Rather than having the people pay for the campaigns (through the national treasury), you have the corporations that care about profits and only profits buying influence in the political circles. Giving corporations a lot of power is generally a bad idea, since they care less about ethics and more about money.
Greed is essentially a destructive force. Greed fosters bad judgement and short-term benefits. The Enron and WorldCom people knew they were out of line, but the enormous payoffs kept them going even though their logic central must have been saying "you're way out of line, mister. this will collapse!". I would look really hard for executives who quit after the accounting fraud began. Some of them might have seen where this was going, and left the sinking ship with bloody hands - their common sense overpowering the greed.
As Aimee Mann sings - "it is not going to stop.. until you wise up". You really, really need to look at who you elect during the upcoming elections. Don't just look at the words, but examine the past. If you wish to come through this alive, you'll need wisdom and courage, not demagogues (sp?) and special interest representatives.
If this was not so damned serious, I would be experiencing some schadenfreude now, but this is too damn serious on a global scale. I really hope you'll learn your lessons and regain your balance.
However, it seems to be built around a company. That is bad news. This sort of service should be based on peer-to-peer technology, and should not be owned by someone who can be sued. There are of course problems involved in maintaining such a database within a p2p network (collision management, etc).
Unrelated : If a law enforcement official finds a piece of kiddie pr0n, they could use such a service to find others with the same piece under a different name. On the flip side, the Chinese government would use the technology to track down dissidents who share subversive literature by renaming the files.
We all complain about the amount of crap (incomplete & low quality files and such) that we receive through the p2p networks. How about someone created a DB where you send the hash, and it returned the actual contents. Maybe you could even send the textual request, and it would return the hashes of files that match - and then you can search for files matching the hash?
Would this be feasible at all, do you think? It would be an additional p2p distributed network (we gotta make sure the DB is accurate and relatively synchronized, so we can't give direct, universal write access). I'm thinking that you open a socket to the server, and just keep sending requests as you search for files, and as you open files. This way, we would also be able to blacklist files we don't want distributed, blocking those from being returned by the initial search.
You think the RIAA guy monitoring this discussion just choked?
If I really wanted to see a sci-fi movie on IMAX; it would be the 5th element. Honestly, I think it's still the sharpest looking sci-fi movie. Rather than concentrating on digital effects, they spent more time on the designs of sets and costumes. It shows.
Not to mention Milla. Say all you will about the beauty of Natalie Portman - she doesn't have the rawness and directness of Milla.
Quite a few philosophers of Science (most, IIRC), will argue that all scientific theories are wrong. They may be approximations that work most/all of the time, but history has shown that perfect prediction with current technology will be followed by new experiments with new technology that prove the old theory. We end up in a continuous situation where the correctness of our theories is limited by the sophistication of the supporting experiments.
Hold on. I'm not done yet.
The creatonists evolution show what poor scientists they are by attempting to debunk evolution. Fine. Assume evolution is wrong. However, creatonists are continuously failing to show conclusive evidence that their theory is correct. We are then (given that the creatonists are right in some of their contrary evidence) in the situation where neither party is right, but both parties claim to be right. See - the creatonists are just as ulnerable. If we give conclusive proof that some of their theories are wrong, they would by their own reasoning be forced to abandon creationism altogether.
Hmm. This brings another very evil thing you can do with email addresses. Poison the spammers' databases with illegit someone@whitehouse.gov addresses. Watch the white house mail server crumble - and the spammers being attacked by the white house for conducting a terrorist attack!
In a previous position, I worked at an online travel agency. We sent out newsletters to the people who opted in. Whenever we sent out a newsletter, we could read the results in the web traffic report. People got in, and they sometimes ordered.
I should probably specifically mention that we did it right - the writing was at a level where it was actually nice to read. Oh - I think we also had a quick link at the bottom of the page to opt out of the newsletter.
Five years ago, Balan says, he would send 30 million messages in a day. Most would get through. He earned up to $10,000 in commissions for a good day's work. Now, even though Balan keeps a database with 240 million e-mail addresses, only a fifth or fewer get through the filters. An average mailing earns him a paltry $250.
I found this very encouraging. If we keep making life hell for them, we will not only stop recruitment, but also drive them out of business. Are we already making sure to poison their databases with non-existent but probable email addresses, btw?
What if the gcc/libc people made sure that the compiler issued big, loud warnings whenever sprintf() and other vulnerable functions were used/compiled? Would that explicitly break the standard?
The man page needs updating too, there is a mention of the overflow potential in the "bugs" section, but it's not explicit enough (IMHO).
If they could make the JVM work with both java2 and java3, I don't think backwards compatibility would be the big issue. We would still have access to java2 compilers, but most of us would want to use java3 since it would enable coders to produce more code per hour.
Java2 is awkward in some respects, not so awkward in other respects. It is certainly less clean now than it was when it was originally released - with all the bonus IO layers etc tacked on. Just look at the size of the source code for Java. All that backward compatibility needs to be maintained. I'd rather they cleaned things up and put their efforts into making Java3 work really well.
Can you say "Jump"? Remember, these are new capabilities. If an unmanned/remotely operated tank could just jump to the side, or plain upwards, it MIGHT be possible to dodge a significant percentage of incoming shells.
It MIGHT be possible, given sufficient systems for detecting the trajectory early enough on, and sufficient distance to the gun. Of course, the movement would be too jerky for humans, but the machines are becoming autonomous anyway. Secondly, if you dodge a direct hit, you will still suffer some damage when the shell hits the ground a few feet away.
Frankly, I'd rather have a set of specialized appliances. I have a PS2. If the game is made for it, it works - no annoying hardware requirements.
If I had a nice appliance for Office-type applications, and a communicator appliance that would do teleconferencing and email, I'd toss the computer away. Ugly, bloated. Not pleasurable, like a bag of chips and some friends fighting on the TV screen while yelling insults, or an appliance that would let you bring your office with you if you were so inclined.
Oh - and Linux just happens to be a good platform for building this technology!
while (true) do { wget --quiet -p 'http://www.riaa.org/' >/dev/null ; sleep 30; } done;
It will emulate an eager slashdotter hitting the "refresh" button every 30 seconds. However, if we all start one, I bet that'd be enough to overwhelm them!
Wake me up when they can teleport me, so that I don't have to go on those planes in the first place!
Ok. So, this is rather exciting, if it turns out to be true. It would implicate that energy is what really warps time-space, and that the high energy of mass has hidden that from us, wouldn't it? E=MC^2 could hide that it really is E that warps timespace.
On another note, the lazy among us could make sex less physically challenging, by reducing the gravity field. This could also enable new, exciting positions, although I'm a bit too gravity-bound to figure out which..
If all geeks were put in jail, vital infrastructure would fail. What keeps us from being a powerful group? All our damn infighting and lack of coordinated effort. Eschelon day must be the best coordinated geek effort for freedom (unless you count the OSS movement as a "geek effort").
That aside, I wish he would make a stronger point than the right to see foreign DVDs. The DMCA also has security implications that potentially can have a much greated impact on our lives than if the DVDs were five bucks cheaper.
Blimey! And the hardline right in the Netherlands was lead by a gay man, until some animal-friendly vegan shot 'im dead.. What's this world coming to, then?
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Klingon Google? I know this is off-topic - but what on earth would make a manager allow his developers to spend time translating their app into Klingon? I'm quite curios about the traffic on that section of Google...
I've got you beat. I'm on a p3 533 mhz w 512 megs of ram. But I run a vmware'd nt4 ws on this machine on top of Linux. And - it's working rather nicely. The amount of RAM was what required - it was rather slow at 128 megs. I've been upgrading the RAM on all the computers where my coworkers have been complaining about slowness (after establishing that the slowness was due to swapping). It has saved us quite a bit of money. Really - swap space is a backup to keep the computer from freezing if some process gulps a lot of memory all of a sudden. If you swap on a regular basis, upgrade the RAM.
Really - wouldn't this sort of vulnerablility be possible to extract by listening intently to the https behavior?
And is this OpenSSL-wide? Is that what Konqueror uses? And - how could this vulnerability exist in an open source library?
Hey - what if this means the return of the good movie? It seems to me that CGI movies are a natural way to go for the blockbusters - the high-power actors demand so much money that you can distribute that amount into CGI and marketing and make more money that way. Interestingly enough - if you kill the actors, maybe people will stop going to the movies to see Ben Affleck in another mediocre movie, and rather go to see that awesome new movie about two kids bonding through some interesting adventure?
On the other hand, real-life actors will still exist in the indie/international tradition. The cost of making a good indie movie is so low it will take years for CGI to be good and cheap enough to replace real actors and a hand-held steadicam.
Pardon me for interfering with / analyzing your domestic policies.
What you are experiencing is quite normal. After a period of living out of touch with reality, you're falling out of the clouds. Gravity is a bitch.
Enron to me exemplifies that your power structure is far from ideal. Rather than having the people pay for the campaigns (through the national treasury), you have the corporations that care about profits and only profits buying influence in the political circles. Giving corporations a lot of power is generally a bad idea, since they care less about ethics and more about money.
Greed is essentially a destructive force. Greed fosters bad judgement and short-term benefits. The Enron and WorldCom people knew they were out of line, but the enormous payoffs kept them going even though their logic central must have been saying "you're way out of line, mister. this will collapse!". I would look really hard for executives who quit after the accounting fraud began. Some of them might have seen where this was going, and left the sinking ship with bloody hands - their common sense overpowering the greed.
As Aimee Mann sings - "it is not going to stop.. until you wise up". You really, really need to look at who you elect during the upcoming elections. Don't just look at the words, but examine the past. If you wish to come through this alive, you'll need wisdom and courage, not demagogues (sp?) and special interest representatives.
If this was not so damned serious, I would be experiencing some schadenfreude now, but this is too damn serious on a global scale. I really hope you'll learn your lessons and regain your balance.
Yer right. Bitzi looks close to what I propose.
However, it seems to be built around a company. That is bad news. This sort of service should be based on peer-to-peer technology, and should not be owned by someone who can be sued. There are of course problems involved in maintaining such a database within a p2p network (collision management, etc).
Unrelated : If a law enforcement official finds a piece of kiddie pr0n, they could use such a service to find others with the same piece under a different name. On the flip side, the Chinese government would use the technology to track down dissidents who share subversive literature by renaming the files.
We all complain about the amount of crap (incomplete & low quality files and such) that we receive through the p2p networks. How about someone created a DB where you send the hash, and it returned the actual contents. Maybe you could even send the textual request, and it would return the hashes of files that match - and then you can search for files matching the hash?
Would this be feasible at all, do you think? It would be an additional p2p distributed network (we gotta make sure the DB is accurate and relatively synchronized, so we can't give direct, universal write access). I'm thinking that you open a socket to the server, and just keep sending requests as you search for files, and as you open files. This way, we would also be able to blacklist files we don't want distributed, blocking those from being returned by the initial search.
You think the RIAA guy monitoring this discussion just choked?
If I really wanted to see a sci-fi movie on IMAX; it would be the 5th element. Honestly, I think it's still the sharpest looking sci-fi movie. Rather than concentrating on digital effects, they spent more time on the designs of sets and costumes. It shows.
Not to mention Milla. Say all you will about the beauty of Natalie Portman - she doesn't have the rawness and directness of Milla.
Quite a few philosophers of Science (most, IIRC), will argue that all scientific theories are wrong. They may be approximations that work most/all of the time, but history has shown that perfect prediction with current technology will be followed by new experiments with new technology that prove the old theory. We end up in a continuous situation where the correctness of our theories is limited by the sophistication of the supporting experiments.
Hold on. I'm not done yet.
The creatonists evolution show what poor scientists they are by attempting to debunk evolution. Fine. Assume evolution is wrong. However, creatonists are continuously failing to show conclusive evidence that their theory is correct. We are then (given that the creatonists are right in some of their contrary evidence) in the situation where neither party is right, but both parties claim to be right. See - the creatonists are just as ulnerable. If we give conclusive proof that some of their theories are wrong, they would by their own reasoning be forced to abandon creationism altogether.
Hmm. This brings another very evil thing you can do with email addresses. Poison the spammers' databases with illegit someone@whitehouse.gov addresses. Watch the white house mail server crumble - and the spammers being attacked by the white house for conducting a terrorist attack!
In a previous position, I worked at an online travel agency. We sent out newsletters to the people who opted in. Whenever we sent out a newsletter, we could read the results in the web traffic report. People got in, and they sometimes ordered.
I should probably specifically mention that we did it right - the writing was at a level where it was actually nice to read. Oh - I think we also had a quick link at the bottom of the page to opt out of the newsletter.
We didn't receive any complaints, either!
What if the gcc/libc people made sure that the compiler issued big, loud warnings whenever sprintf() and other vulnerable functions were used/compiled? Would that explicitly break the standard?
The man page needs updating too, there is a mention of the overflow potential in the "bugs" section, but it's not explicit enough (IMHO).
If they could make the JVM work with both java2 and java3, I don't think backwards compatibility would be the big issue. We would still have access to java2 compilers, but most of us would want to use java3 since it would enable coders to produce more code per hour.
Java2 is awkward in some respects, not so awkward in other respects. It is certainly less clean now than it was when it was originally released - with all the bonus IO layers etc tacked on. Just look at the size of the source code for Java. All that backward compatibility needs to be maintained. I'd rather they cleaned things up and put their efforts into making Java3 work really well.
Can you say "Jump"? Remember, these are new capabilities. If an unmanned/remotely operated tank could just jump to the side, or plain upwards, it MIGHT be possible to dodge a significant percentage of incoming shells.
It MIGHT be possible, given sufficient systems for detecting the trajectory early enough on, and sufficient distance to the gun. Of course, the movement would be too jerky for humans, but the machines are becoming autonomous anyway. Secondly, if you dodge a direct hit, you will still suffer some damage when the shell hits the ground a few feet away.
If you would like native look'n'feel for Max OS X, try Chimera. I don't have OS X, but it claims to be what you're looking for!
Frankly, I'd rather have a set of specialized appliances. I have a PS2. If the game is made for it, it works - no annoying hardware requirements.
If I had a nice appliance for Office-type applications, and a communicator appliance that would do teleconferencing and email, I'd toss the computer away. Ugly, bloated. Not pleasurable, like a bag of chips and some friends fighting on the TV screen while yelling insults, or an appliance that would let you bring your office with you if you were so inclined.
Oh - and Linux just happens to be a good platform for building this technology!
My take is slightly nicer:
/dev/null ; sleep 30; } done;
while (true) do { wget --quiet -p 'http://www.riaa.org/' >
It will emulate an eager slashdotter hitting the "refresh" button every 30 seconds. However, if we all start one, I bet that'd be enough to overwhelm them!
Wake me up when they can teleport me, so that I don't have to go on those planes in the first place!
Ok. So, this is rather exciting, if it turns out to be true. It would implicate that energy is what really warps time-space, and that the high energy of mass has hidden that from us, wouldn't it? E=MC^2 could hide that it really is E that warps timespace.
On another note, the lazy among us could make sex less physically challenging, by reducing the gravity field. This could also enable new, exciting positions, although I'm a bit too gravity-bound to figure out which..
I thought we supported this stuff for the other 64 bit processors? Aren't we fully 64-bit yet?
DivX movies, you ignorant punk! RIAA.com = MP3, MPAA = DivX. You should at least know who you are stealing from!
If all geeks were put in jail, vital infrastructure would fail. What keeps us from being a powerful group? All our damn infighting and lack of coordinated effort. Eschelon day must be the best coordinated geek effort for freedom (unless you count the OSS movement as a "geek effort").
That aside, I wish he would make a stronger point than the right to see foreign DVDs. The DMCA also has security implications that potentially can have a much greated impact on our lives than if the DVDs were five bucks cheaper.
Blimey! And the hardline right in the Netherlands was lead by a gay man, until some animal-friendly vegan shot 'im dead.. What's this world coming to, then?
Labour party, you know. Not the bloody Tories.