However, not all experts agree that the risk is severe. After all, there's never been a report of a foreign country or criminal outfit using such technology to steal information or commit sabotage. (The United States did successfully conduct such a mission against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.)
If I'm not mistaken, the mission they are referring to was in 1982, when the US let the Soviet Union "steal" software that helped run a natural gas pipeline. The Russians were in the habit of stealing US technology, so the US secretly embedded the software with code that would- when run- cause the pressure in the pipes and pumps to go sky-high.
The result:
"The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space."
Was this an act of war? Not really, since the code was stolen. Maybe sabotage. Terrorism? No, but it probably sent a message to the Kremlin that stealing foreign technology may not be a good idea...
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Hang on- I think I played this before!
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Wasn't this game around more than twenty-five years ago? I mean, I remember clearly that you'd--
Guys... Eisner proclaiming the strike over is just part of a PR effort to attempt to pressure writers to vote for the strike proposals by creating the wide expectation that the strike is over, that it's a done deal. That way, if the writers turn the proposal down, people feel let down.
The strike is NOT over.
If you watch the video where Eisner insists the strike to be over, he says quietly at the end that he is really just passing on a rumor. He also points out that the writers have to vote on the offer. He says the writers would be "insane" not to take it, but he also previously had stated that the entire strike was "insanity" so he's not the most unbiased person on this.
The strike is not over until the full WGA membership votes on the proposal. They may do so, but they may not. The terms of the contract proposal have not even been seen by the writers, so there's no way to know right now what's going to happen.
Oh, yeah. What did Commodore have at this time? The PET? I heard rumors it had games.
I can confirm that it did, in fact, have games. Unfortunately, you had to type them all in by hand from a book and included titles like "Hunt The Wumpus", "Lemonade Stand", and "Tic Tac Toe". If you did want to save them, and you were lucky, you had a tape recorder you could use...
You were also limited to the alternative special characters (two or three for each letter, a bit like the commodore 64). I kinda remember a version of space invaders that used the alternative character set.
Apple's HiRes mode kicked the crap out of this.
Early games on the Apple II:
Mystery House Wizard & The Princess (I hated that desert/maze) Evolution (kinda like an early Spore...?) Sneakers (a more-fun Space Invaders) EAMON (not graphical, but a very early RPG, although honestly it never worked right for me) Dung Beetles (pac man w/gigantic map & voice synthasizer that said "We Gotcha!") Castle Wolfenstein (parodied by "Castle Smurfenstein" by Silus S. Smurf)
When last I used GNOME, Sawfish was the default GNOME window manager. Before that, it was Enlightenment. I haven't followed GNOME for a while, maybe they've changed the WM again.
For a while now (since 2.2) the default WM has been Metacity.
If you want to sell your photo of the (trademarked) "Hollywood Sign" or include it in a movie, you'll have to write a check to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce...
Well, now I feel like an idiot......for buying one for my 2nd grader last November with the Give One Get One program.
So wait-- you spend $400 for one computer given to a kid in Afghanistan and one for your 2nd grader- who up until this announcement would have had almost no chance of finding anyone in his school to communicate/collaborate/share with (a major feature of the Sugar UI).
Now that some OTHER American kids will also have the opportunity to use an XO... how do you lose out exactly? How does your kid?
As I understand it "OpenMoko" is the software platform & base applications. The neo1973 is the name of the hardware (the phone), although I think the new incarnation has a new name "Freerunner".
The Neo whatever-its-called as hardware will be able to run OpenMoko-- but it can also run Trolltech's Qtopia software, which is further along, development-wise.
As far as Google's Android platform-- it's my understanding that it won't run on the Neo hardware due to some kind of lack of backwards compatibility with the ARM processor in the Neo.
Finally, I think there are some parts of neo1973/openmoko that are not fully open-- can't remember, but I think it's the GPS or GSM driver/daemon.
Do you think they really understand economic theory well enough to pass many of the laws they do? Do they understand health care? Do they understand military strategy?
Ah, an excellent point. Clearly an understanding of these things weren't required to have the sound economy, national health care, and peaceful society we enjoy today.
Sorry, like a week late here, but it's my understanding that some nations (Germany springs to mind) consider nmap to be a "hacker tool" and have banned it outright.
All the more reason to include this important security tool, IMO. Just cuz it debuted on Phrack (as an OS fingerprinting tool, if I remember right) doesn't mean it's not a legitimate means for ascertaining the security of your own machine/network.
Sorry, I was responding to the original article poster's concern about data loss. I forgot most people don't RTFA or even the quoted exerpt from TFA, so accept my apologies for failing to address your random concern about paperweights.
What if the data on the drive can be recovered? What if there are credit card numbers and other personal information on the drive? Source code? Trade secrets? Does Apple really want to treat their customers privacy so shabbily? For what? Don't they already make enough money off the $160 price for the new disk?
Here's another question for ya-- why didn't you use FileVault? Y'know apple throws it in OS X for ya for *free* for a reason...
Would it not be cheaper to print the movie using a more traditional archiving method (paper, microfiche, analog tape)? Plenty of digital->analog methods are available, and surely some more could be invented if necessary. Might be a lot of pages, but hey-- paper is cheap and may not degrade as quickly.
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Back when I was a youngin' we used ASCII and LIKED IT!
I see your ASCII and raise you an EBCDIC.
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Would you believe... MouseText? PETSCII?
I would wait. Macports is still 99.x also.
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Doesn't this really mean war, not terror?
I think it would depend on the context. From TFA:
However, not all experts agree that the risk is severe. After all, there's never been a report of a foreign country or criminal outfit using such technology to steal information or commit sabotage. (The United States did successfully conduct such a mission against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.)
If I'm not mistaken, the mission they are referring to was in 1982, when the US let the Soviet Union "steal" software that helped run a natural gas pipeline. The Russians were in the habit of stealing US technology, so the US secretly embedded the software with code that would- when run- cause the pressure in the pipes and pumps to go sky-high.
The result:
"The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space."
Was this an act of war? Not really, since the code was stolen. Maybe sabotage. Terrorism? No, but it probably sent a message to the Kremlin that stealing foreign technology may not be a good idea...
W
Wasn't this game around more than twenty-five years ago? I mean, I remember clearly that you'd--
Oh, wait... I guess there were some minor differences.
Whoops.
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Guys... Eisner proclaiming the strike over is just part of a PR effort to attempt to pressure writers to vote for the strike proposals by creating the wide expectation that the strike is over, that it's a done deal. That way, if the writers turn the proposal down, people feel let down.
The strike is NOT over.
If you watch the video where Eisner insists the strike to be over, he says quietly at the end that he is really just passing on a rumor. He also points out that the writers have to vote on the offer. He says the writers would be "insane" not to take it, but he also previously had stated that the entire strike was "insanity" so he's not the most unbiased person on this.
The strike is not over until the full WGA membership votes on the proposal. They may do so, but they may not. The terms of the contract proposal have not even been seen by the writers, so there's no way to know right now what's going to happen.
If you don't believe me, may I recommend this post by Joss Wheden, or this one, or this one.
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Oh, yeah. What did Commodore have at this time? The PET? I heard rumors it had games.
I can confirm that it did, in fact, have games. Unfortunately, you had to type them all in by hand from a book and included titles like "Hunt The Wumpus", "Lemonade Stand", and "Tic Tac Toe". If you did want to save them, and you were lucky, you had a tape recorder you could use...
You were also limited to the alternative special characters (two or three for each letter, a bit like the commodore 64). I kinda remember a version of space invaders that used the alternative character set.
Apple's HiRes mode kicked the crap out of this.
Early games on the Apple II:
Mystery House
Wizard & The Princess (I hated that desert/maze)
Evolution (kinda like an early Spore...?)
Sneakers (a more-fun Space Invaders)
EAMON (not graphical, but a very early RPG, although honestly it never worked right for me)
Dung Beetles (pac man w/gigantic map & voice synthasizer that said "We Gotcha!")
Castle Wolfenstein (parodied by "Castle Smurfenstein" by Silus S. Smurf)
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When last I used GNOME, Sawfish was the default GNOME window manager. Before that, it was Enlightenment. I haven't followed GNOME for a while, maybe they've changed the WM again.
For a while now (since 2.2) the default WM has been Metacity.
W
Dude, his dog just likes fresh air, that's all.
Who woulda thought he could hear NPR all the way from outside the car?
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Know anybody who's been hit?
Not personally, but the BBC does.
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They could have done something like the Stargate, except with controlled exit points rather than only to other gates.
GlaDOS wouldn't let them.
More ontopic, congrats to Doug Liman on his deal with the WGA.
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(the pastry is a mistruth?)
As Microsoft drops support for older Office file formats, it looks like Visual Basic for Applications is also going soon
Unless... what if there were only some alternative, open-source project that already supports it on Mac and a similar ongoing Windows/Linux project...
Oh well, I can dream.
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If you want to sell your photo of the (trademarked) "Hollywood Sign" or include it in a movie, you'll have to write a check to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce...
Same goes for a ton of famous landmarks.
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it costs too much and isn't being used in anyway that it keeps being promoted as being.
Rufus disagrees.
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Well, now I feel like an idiot... ...for buying one for my 2nd grader last November with the Give One Get One program.
So wait-- you spend $400 for one computer given to a kid in Afghanistan and one for your 2nd grader- who up until this announcement would have had almost no chance of finding anyone in his school to communicate/collaborate/share with (a major feature of the Sugar UI).
Now that some OTHER American kids will also have the opportunity to use an XO... how do you lose out exactly? How does your kid?
I don't get it. What are you complaining about?
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As I understand it "OpenMoko" is the software platform & base applications. The neo1973 is the name of the hardware (the phone), although I think the new incarnation has a new name "Freerunner".
The Neo whatever-its-called as hardware will be able to run OpenMoko-- but it can also run Trolltech's Qtopia software, which is further along, development-wise.
As far as Google's Android platform-- it's my understanding that it won't run on the Neo hardware due to some kind of lack of backwards compatibility with the ARM processor in the Neo.
Finally, I think there are some parts of neo1973/openmoko that are not fully open-- can't remember, but I think it's the GPS or GSM driver/daemon.
W
Actually, it's better than that...
What is the final tally of Give One Get One? 162,000, for $35 million.
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...here.
According to him, this was all about intel constantly disparaging XO despite agreements not to do so.
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Do you think they really understand economic theory well enough to pass many of the laws they do? Do they understand health care? Do they understand military strategy?
Ah, an excellent point. Clearly an understanding of these things weren't required to have the sound economy, national health care, and peaceful society we enjoy today.
W
Wait a second! Isn't the next Elephant's Dream-like open animated short (originally called "orange") going to be called "Peach"?
;)
Orange? Peach? Apricot?
I call nepotism!
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Seriously tho-- is the game related to the short?
Sorry, like a week late here, but it's my understanding that some nations (Germany springs to mind) consider nmap to be a "hacker tool" and have banned it outright.
All the more reason to include this important security tool, IMO. Just cuz it debuted on Phrack (as an OS fingerprinting tool, if I remember right) doesn't mean it's not a legitimate means for ascertaining the security of your own machine/network.
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I mean data privacy, not data loss. Too early in the morning to be posting I guess.
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What if I want it as a paperweight?
Sorry, I was responding to the original article poster's concern about data loss. I forgot most people don't RTFA or even the quoted exerpt from TFA, so accept my apologies for failing to address your random concern about paperweights.
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What if the data on the drive can be recovered? What if there are credit card numbers and other personal information on the drive? Source code? Trade secrets? Does Apple really want to treat their customers privacy so shabbily? For what? Don't they already make enough money off the $160 price for the new disk?
Here's another question for ya-- why didn't you use FileVault? Y'know apple throws it in OS X for ya for *free* for a reason...
W
Would it not be cheaper to print the movie using a more traditional archiving method (paper, microfiche, analog tape)? Plenty of digital->analog methods are available, and surely some more could be invented if necessary. Might be a lot of pages, but hey-- paper is cheap and may not degrade as quickly.
Just a thought.
W