Can anyone explain how much difference there is between the architecture of the G4 and G5? I was reading just yesterday that the theoretical limit on cycles for the G4 was 4 gigaflops -- will the G5 be just a faster version of the G4, or will there be much change in architecture?
Wish I knew of a few female linux enthusiasts in the DC area. I'd love to show them my box. (no alternate meanings implied;)
Seriously though... they took the Linux Expo from us; the least they could do is charter a LinuxChix around here, or hand out computer science scholarships or something... we need more geek grrls!
The company's web site displays no images, no logo-just a plain gray screen with this sentence: "This web page is not here yet!" In the source code for the page (which everyone has looked at in hopes of finding buried treasure), another sentence reads, "There are no secret messages in the source code to this web page."
I haven't used a web-browser that defaults the page background to that lovely gunmetal grey, in about 3 years!:) Does such an animal still exist?
Oh yeah. I forgot that I eventually modified the script to run under Windows' dialup networking, using the scripting feature under 95. Always struck me as kinda funny, dialing up to the freenet, using lynx, etc., without ever actually 'seeing' it being used (as there was the option to suppress text in the script).
I nearly pulled off a hack once, but could never get it to work fully. Had/have a freenet acct w/ no shell. However, it has lynx, and thus, I used lynx to telnet/rlogin into my remote shell, and run slirp from there. Wrote a script in Commo (speaking of old software!) to automate it all.
I managed to get it to work, partially -- I could access things via IP, but not DNS, and still couldn't get it to work after rtfm.
Incidentally, unless I missed it, I don't think I've heard anyone mention the fact that you could do load-balancing with SLiRP, if you ran it across two modems. I always thought that was damn cool, even if I never had the chance to test it out.
It's so strange, all the time I see posts on slashdot discussing the difference between hacker and cracker, yet out of the woodwork comes morons to defend this kid. If you're looking for the difference between hacker and cracker, take Davis as a prime example. Before cr/hacking even became the topic du jour, there was always the pretense that 'information should be free' (Ignore any parallels to some 2-bit movie).
Thus, early on, you had hackers who, did things because of their enthusiasm for all things electronic. Some of these had a quasi-political agenda, but they did what they did under a loose concept of 'knowledge'.
Today's crackers aren't of the same mindset, and thus can hardly be considered hackers or not, regardless of their 'computer enthusiast' aura. Any hacker ethos doesn't exist w/in the mind of a cracker.
This said, there are far more grounds, IMO, to punish Davis than Kevin Mitnick, Robert Morris, or anyone else who has/d even a glimmer of a true ethic. Script kiddiez give nothing to the hacker community, nor do they do anything to further society as a whole. They're just in it for the ego boost, and end up being parasites, dependent on their hosts (i.e., this world, the hacker community) -- and draining them.
Crackers do nothing that can be considered 'worthwhile' -- not even finding security holes (nevermind that hundreds before them have already 'found' them) -- because everything is still done under an exploitative pretense. If it's not done for the pretenses of knowledge or information, I could care less if the bloody bugger gets time.
:Get a FUCKING clue! Defacing a web site, like grafitti on a wall is hardly a major offence.
As far as I'm concerned, taggers can be thrown in with bubba, too. It's not a major offense until it's your house or car. Better yet, defend them all you want, after you spend a day scrubbing down, acid blasting their 'art'.
I revert the question back to you; how would you punish a grafitti vandal? You can't tell me that a kid is intimidated anymore, after one or two stern warnings from a judge.
Granted, I haven't looked at the site yet, which may answer this, but the first thing that jumped into my head is who retains the rights to the document? Does the website keep full rights? Do they revert back to the writer after x number of months?
Just things to keep in mind, people. Don't rush up and accidentally sell the rights to your potential Great American Novel(tm), that someone else may reap the rewards.
..that it was almost exactly a year ago that this exploit was discovered...
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With all this talk of pr0n, I went to take a look. I have to say, I was very dissapointed. Not one nude shrimp! Honestly! If you're going to do prawnography, do it right! Get some exotic crustateans, or something! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The article was interesting, but it looks to me like there was so much time spent making the article appear a la Suck (note the last URL, incidentally), that the real focus of the article is lost.
Suck manages to lightly pepper their columns with URLs. IMO, there are so many here that it makes it hard to track what's really being said.
>Or directly, because they had really low blood >preassure, and the first joint they tried made >their blood preassure drop really low. There were >a few people there, all of which, except for me, >were stoned. I go "Hey, where's Tracy?" and they >all start giggling. "She fell asleep!". Well, she >didn't, she fainted and would have died if I >haden't made her eat a whole bunch of cofee and >salt.
The low blood-pressure was a pre-existing condition. Whatever caused her blood pressure to drop had nothing to do with the pot. Let's examine something here:
THC - a stimulant
Caffeine - a stimulant
So first you suggest she has low blood-pressure. Then you suggest that a STIMULANT LOWERED her blood pressure. Then you suggest that another STIMULANT RAISED it. Your lack of knowledge regarding the bare basics is frightening. Even I managed to learn something from old mother Reagan.
In any case, I'm no doctor, but that hardly sounded like a low blood pressure issue. If anything, it sounds suspiciously like a diabetic or hypoglycemic reaction. Now, the shock, in turn, might have been brought on by munchie food, who knows, that's all speculation. In any case, though, it wasn't the pot.
Also, again, I'm no MD, but the practise of giving does of salt to combat bouts of low blood-pressure seems highly suspect....
"people there except for me..."; "would have died if I hadn't made her eat..." Boy, does the virtue shine through here, eh?
well, the articles says it can detect breathing and heartbeats... seems to me that if the device detected highly elevated rates in one and/or the other, the obvious assumption might be made... ;)
Project Von Neumann is apparently some effort to create and artificial life game. Dunno much about it, doesn't look like much coding has been done. Take a look for yourself.
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Can anyone explain how much difference there is between the architecture of the G4 and G5? I was reading just yesterday that the theoretical limit on cycles for the G4 was 4 gigaflops -- will the G5 be just a faster version of the G4, or will there be much change in architecture?
...After all, what else would you expect redcoats to use? ;)
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Is 'OR' truly an appropriate operand in this case?
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eh? I said 'alternate', not 'alternative', heh.
Unless I misinterpreted your statement...
Wish I knew of a few female linux enthusiasts in the DC area. I'd love to show them my box. ;)
(no alternate meanings implied
Seriously though... they took the Linux Expo from us; the least they could do is charter a LinuxChix around here, or hand out computer science scholarships or something... we need more geek grrls!
pff.
I guess you're just waiting for them to IPO, too.
Is Transmeta taunting us?
The company's web site displays no images,
no logo-just a plain gray screen with this sentence: "This web page is not here yet!" In the source code for the page (which everyone has looked at in hopes of finding buried treasure), another sentence reads, "There are no secret messages in the source code to this web page."
I haven't used a web-browser that defaults the page background to that lovely gunmetal grey, in about 3 years!
hmm, interesting... I'd forgotten all about space.com -- isn't it the new venture that Lou Dobbs took up, after leaving Moneyline?
Oh yeah. I forgot that I eventually modified the script to run under Windows' dialup networking, using the scripting feature under 95. Always struck me as kinda funny, dialing up to the freenet, using lynx, etc., without ever actually 'seeing' it being used (as there was the option to suppress text in the script).
Yeah, I found SLiRP after someone told me that TIA was pay-software or something. Is this true?
I nearly pulled off a hack once, but could never get it to work fully. Had/have a freenet acct w/ no shell. However, it has lynx, and thus, I used lynx to telnet/rlogin into my remote shell, and run slirp from there. Wrote a script in Commo (speaking of old software!) to automate it all.
I managed to get it to work, partially -- I could access things via IP, but not DNS, and still couldn't get it to work after rtfm.
Incidentally, unless I missed it, I don't think I've heard anyone mention the fact that you could do load-balancing with SLiRP, if you ran it across two modems. I always thought that was damn cool, even if I never had the chance to test it out.
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so I guess Al Gore conceptualised this whole thing when he was about 15 years old, or so?
It's so strange, all the time I see posts on slashdot discussing the difference between hacker and cracker, yet out of the woodwork comes morons to defend this kid. If you're looking for the difference between hacker and cracker, take Davis as a prime example. Before cr/hacking even became the topic du jour, there was always the pretense that 'information should be free' (Ignore any parallels to some 2-bit movie).
Thus, early on, you had hackers who, did things because of their enthusiasm for all things electronic. Some of these had a quasi-political agenda, but they did what they did under a loose concept of 'knowledge'.
Today's crackers aren't of the same mindset, and thus can hardly be considered hackers or not, regardless of their 'computer enthusiast' aura. Any hacker ethos doesn't exist w/in the mind of a cracker.
This said, there are far more grounds, IMO, to punish Davis than Kevin Mitnick, Robert Morris, or anyone else who has/d even a glimmer of a true ethic. Script kiddiez give nothing to the hacker community, nor do they do anything to further society as a whole. They're just in it for the ego boost, and end up being parasites, dependent on their hosts (i.e., this world, the hacker community) -- and draining them.
Crackers do nothing that can be considered 'worthwhile' -- not even finding security holes (nevermind that hundreds before them have already 'found' them) -- because everything is still done under an exploitative pretense. If it's not done for the pretenses of knowledge or information, I could care less if the bloody bugger gets time.
:Get a FUCKING clue! Defacing a web site, like grafitti on a wall is hardly a major offence.
As far as I'm concerned, taggers can be thrown in with bubba, too. It's not a major offense until it's your house or car. Better yet, defend them all you want, after you spend a day scrubbing down, acid blasting their 'art'.
I revert the question back to you; how would you punish a grafitti vandal? You can't tell me that a kid is intimidated anymore, after one or two stern warnings from a judge.
Granted, I haven't looked at the site yet, which may answer this, but the first thing that jumped into my head is who retains the rights to the document? Does the website keep full rights? Do they revert back to the writer after x number of months?
Just things to keep in mind, people. Don't rush up and accidentally sell the rights to your potential Great American Novel(tm), that someone else may reap the rewards.
Thanks for the clarifications, and thanks for reminding us that four letter words don't really convince people to change their minds.
At the same time, this article certainly makes the voting question seem a little more relevant? Can I assume that Slashdot uses The GIMP?
:Will the new Slashdot automatically kill "First comment" postings?
No, just the posters.
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Oh, and btw...You're not.
..that it was almost exactly a year ago that this exploit was discovered...
With all this talk of pr0n, I went to take a look. I have to say, I was very dissapointed. Not one nude shrimp! Honestly! If you're going to do
prawnography, do it right! Get some exotic crustateans, or something!
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The article was interesting, but it looks to me like there was so much time spent making the article appear a la Suck (note the last URL, incidentally), that the real focus of the article is lost.
Suck manages to lightly pepper their columns with URLs. IMO, there are so many here that it makes it hard to track what's really being said.
>Or directly, because they had really low blood
>preassure, and the first joint they tried made
>their blood preassure drop really low. There were
>a few people there, all of which, except for me,
>were stoned. I go "Hey, where's Tracy?" and they
>all start giggling. "She fell asleep!". Well, she
>didn't, she fainted and would have died if I
>haden't made her eat a whole bunch of cofee and
>salt.
The low blood-pressure was a pre-existing condition. Whatever caused her blood pressure to drop had nothing to do with the pot. Let's examine something here:
THC - a stimulant
Caffeine - a stimulant
So first you suggest she has low blood-pressure. Then you suggest that a STIMULANT LOWERED her blood pressure. Then you suggest that another STIMULANT RAISED it. Your lack of knowledge regarding the bare basics is frightening. Even I managed to learn something from old mother Reagan.
In any case, I'm no doctor, but that hardly sounded like a low blood pressure issue. If anything, it sounds suspiciously like a diabetic or hypoglycemic reaction. Now, the shock, in turn, might have been brought on by munchie food, who knows, that's all speculation. In any case, though, it wasn't the pot.
Also, again, I'm no MD, but the practise of giving does of salt to combat bouts of low blood-pressure seems highly suspect....
"people there except for me..."; "would have died if I hadn't made her eat..."
Boy, does the virtue shine through here, eh?
ABC News has this article, as well; It mentions the old Clipper fiasco, too.
well, the articles says it can detect breathing and heartbeats... seems to me that if the device detected highly elevated rates in one and/or the other, the obvious assumption might be made...
;)
Project Von Neumann is apparently some effort to create and artificial life game. Dunno much about it, doesn't look like much coding has been done. Take a look for yourself.