to the drug industry. After all they did say:
Peter Meyers, a professor of physics at Princeton University who was not part of the research team, said the finding is the "sort of crack" that "has been sought for many, many years."
I'm sure this will the ultimate crack that crackheads everywhere will be searching for and paying top dollar for.
Correction:
If a boy band plays and no one hears, does it still suck?
Re:Gotta change the name!
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I think it's pronounced 'Go be' as in the command 'Go be productive' implying one is not productive in other office suites *cough*msoffice*cough* so they should go be productive in their software. At least that's how I read it and it made sense to me.
Maybe CS just isn't for you. Not to be rude, but you get all psycked up about something and your enthusiasm dies after a short period, then maybe it just isn't for you. I've been doing CS stuff for 10 years and it's just as exciting or more so now than it was when I started. Maybe I'm just weak minded and easily amused, or maybe it's just what I was Meant To Do(tm). Some projects are more exciting than others, and some projects I get really excited about early on, but after a few weeks/months of it, I get bored and move on. The key for me seems to be change, I can't do the same thing for too long (more than 2 or 3 months straight).
If you're already bored after a few years, then maybe you should look at something else, because if it's what you were really meant to do, then it would be exciting forever.
This is a little off-topic, but I heard that the Episode 2 trailer was physically attached to the beginning of the reels of Monsters Inc. So, in essence, the teaser is the beginning of Monsters Inc. This was arranged by George Lucas and Pixar since 20th Century Fox and Disney didn't want the trailer in front of it and it's usually up to those companies and the theaters to put the trailers together before the film. Pixar used to be part of Lucasarts, but Lucas didn't want to go the whole CG'd route so they broke off, but they're still good friends with Lucas. So Lucas basically called them up and asked them to put his little teaser at the beginning of the prints for Monsters Inc.
I thought that was kind of interesting, but according to theforce.net the trailer isn't on all prints or some theaters are chopping it off so it's possible some people won't see it in front of Monsters Inc. Just thought some people might find that interesting.
did it really take only two minutes to compile the latest linux kernel? that's just insane, not that I compile kernels all that often, but still two minutes for a kernel compile is quite impressive. I forget how long it takes on my 1Ghz, probably 10 or 20 minutes and I thought that was fast.
If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft is not above the law, so why does they have to agree to the governments terms? The government should be able to set any terms they feel is necessary and then force Microsoft to obey. As long as Microsoft has to conceed to the terms then they will make sure the terms won't really hurt them such as the OEM agreements, do you really think that changing the OEM agreements will affect Microsofts monopoly? No!
Microsoft needs to open up their file formats and communication protocols so other products can play nice with Microsoft products which will foster competition since it will allow rival product makers the ability to work with Microsoft products and then consumers will be able to choose a product based on if they like it, not just be forced to choose Microsoft all the time. Also, opening up their file formats is not a significant hit to their intelletual property as they might suggest, but it is one of the corner stones of their monopoly so they probably won't give it up without a big fight.
Opening up a completely well-documented Windows API would be nice for projects like WINE, but I really doubt Microsoft will do it. I also don't think they should open their source code to office or windows, but just the file formats would be enough to actually give consumers choice.
Actually if you had that much RAM and 10+GB of MP3s, you could just cache the next several songs into the ramdisk so they won't skip while playing, and you would get the added benifit of being able to play more songs. Or you could just copy the currenly playing song to the ramdisk which would only hit the hard disk for half a second especially one with a fast bus and all would be skip free.
We don't actually administer our routers? Our company has some contract through UUnet and the router is actually property of UUnet we don't even have the password to get in and administer it. So if it's comprimised, the blame should be placed on UUnet even though the traffic will look like it's coming from our company.
Especially if the Uniting and Strengthening America Act of 2001 (S.1510) gets finalized today. Newsforge had a little article written by RMS about it. It's pretty scary, but you can read the link for more information. It will basically:
* Allow for indefinite detention of non-citizens, denying them the chance to defend themselves in court.
* Expand secret searches.
* Grant the FBI broad access to sensitive business records about individuals without having to show evidence of a crime. See http://www.aclu.org/congress/l100801a.html.
* Allow officials to designate domestic groups as terrorist organizations. Membership in such an organization would become a deportable offense; see http://www.aclu.org/congress/l100801d.html.
It's simple, just create a cartoon/commercial kinda like disney did and show how all their devices are illegal or something. Hmmm, this isn't coming out very well, it was a lot better in my head, I guess it should stay there.
I suppose I won't post at +2 for this, too bad, because it was pretty funny in my head.
I agree, I wouldn't mind paying a small fee to slashdot. I've been a reader for several years and I would hate to see the site go away. I do think the subscription level should be tiered. Maybe a 'standard' fee to get rid of the advertising bannars, and maybe a 'deluxe' fee to get some cool moderator controls (or some more perks than just removing the ads), and a 'premium' fee for something else, I can't really think of anything, maybe ability to peak into the submission queue and flag some as better than others (kinda like voting on the stories to be posted).
I have no idea what the prices would be maybe $50/yr for standard (or maybe $5/mo=$60/yr), $10/mo=$120/yr deluxe, and $20/mo=$240/yr for premium.
I would definatly pay $50/yr to help slashdot out, and getting rid of the ads would be a bonus:). Well, I kinda like the thinkgeek adds, since I don't check the site often I just wait for ads on slashdot to see what's new and cool at thinkgeek.
Similarly, There is no warrantee of any kind. If it breaks, you have no one to complain to: "you get what you pay for."
And how is this different from closed source products? Sure, you can complain to the nebulas entity known as Microsoft if one of their products break, but not like they'll do anything or claim any sort of responsibility or liability. But with open source projects you can complain to the developer and let them know what broke and depending on how important you make yourself sound they might actually fix it promptly and send you a patch.
The point is that there is no warrantee on closed source products and likewise there is no warrantee on open source products so I think point 2 is null and void. However, with open source products you have a somewhat more personal contact (i.e. a developer), than a general vague contact (i.e. microsoft).
Actually for very large server farms that could cause a problem, namely from the electricity standpoint. A lot of businesses are billed based on peak electrical usage and most of those companies have their servers set to boot up sequentially to reduce the peak usage. Since the peak usage on computers tends to be on startup, large amounts of computers rebooting at the same time could make the person who pays the electrical bill unhappy.
Re:Linux to hackers: Don't publish code
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It was supposed to be humorous, especially after the recent slashdot article about Microsoft telling security companies to stop releasing code for exploits, and here we have a someone releasing code for linux exploits and no one cares or defames them for releasing code for the exploits.
Oh well, it was funny in my head, I thought someone else might appreciate it too. I certianly didn't intend it to be moderated 'Troll', now I'm at 49 Karma:(.
Linux to hackers: Don't publish code
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This week, Linus Torvalds, manager for Linux's security response center, published an essay on the company's site decrying the information and example code released by some companies and independent security consultants as "information anarchy."
"It's high time the security community stopped providing the blueprints for building these weapons," Linus wrote in the essay. "And it's high time that computer users insisted that the security community live up to its obligation to protect them."
"The state of affairs today allows even relative novices to build highly destructive (malicious software)," he wrote in the essay. "It's simply indefensible for the security community to continue arming cyber criminals. We can at least raise the bar."
"(We) don't purport to have the answer to the problem," he said in a Wednesday interview. "But we believe that these practices are harmful."
Linux has always needed a marketing machine behind it, but now I think it's absolutly vital for it's survival. Sure, there will always be slashdot readers who use linux and it should hopefully stay in the server market just fine.
I would propose the formation of the Linux Marketing Foundation that organized large marketing campaigns, commercials, etc to promote Linux and inform people about how their freedom is being stripped away by Microsoft. With an few articles on slashdot and a paypal donation account, they could probably get up quite a bit of cash to get started since I doubt they'd be able to get any sort of official VC.
IBM seems to be trying to promote Linux, but it's mainly on the server, and there's no information about how Microsoft is restricting their freedom which the public needs to know about. So far, every person I've told about Microsofts subscription model with Windows XP has vowed not to get it, and I'm sure that if the public knew about it, they would think twice too before running out and buying in next week.
Now is a critical time to start these kinds of promotions with all the heat that microsoft has been under from the DOJ, people are starting to be a bit suspicious of them and to think twice about what microsoft is doing. The seeds of doubt have been sown, now it's time to nurture them and soon we will reap the harvest.
So how do we get smaller than this? Smaller molecules? Atoms? Sub-atomic particles? Photons?
It just seems like there is a finite limit to how small we can make these things, and it looks like we're approaching that limit, so where to next? Get rid of transistors all together and use a different method? Optical matricies that perform switching functions? Who knows, but I know I'm excited to find out what happens next.
You're right, of course, since there is no real infringement on anyones rights here. I used to be a Qwest customer, but as soon as I heard they signed a deal with MSN, I foresaw things like this taking place and I found a local ISP and I'm paying less than I did with Qwest. Local ISP's aren't hard to find and they're often cheaper than Qwest. If you don't like what a company is doing, find someone else, that's what an open market is all about. Corporate execs don't read slashdot, they read their bottom line and if they find enough people switching and their margins start slipping, they'll do something about their policies. I didn't like what Qwest was doing, so I stopped giving them my money (well, I still have to give them the money for the DSL line, but there's nothing I can do about that).
If anyone lives in the denver/boulder area, I would suggest netrack.net, they have reasonable rates and they don't care if you resell the bandwidth, so I've set up a wireless network in my area and I'm charging other people to use it, works like a charm:).
Couldn't this easily backfire on the RIAA? If I noticed a lot of DoS traffic coming to my site, couldn't I call their ISP and get them to shut down their internet connection since it's the source of a DoS attack? This idea would probably work better if they were DoSing a corporate firewall than the average joes computer. After all, if I was a network admin at a company and I noticed a lot of DoS traffic coming in from a specific ip address, I would try and contact the ISP and get them to turn them off temporarily, but maybe that's just me.
I'd have to agree that strategy games are the way to go. My gf and I play starcraft all the time on our home network. We always play cooperative against the computer and it's a lot of fun. But what's REALLY fun is when she came in to work to play with some of my coworkers (who are pretty good) in an 8 player free-for-all and she kicked all their arses multiple times, now THAT was fun:). We primarily did the match because they didn't believe that she could beat them.
We've also played WarCraft II together, but we both like StarCraft better.
Wow, that looks pretty cool. I've played the board game and I just love it, I didn't know there was a computer version. I'll have to try it out, thanks!
You must use an inferior Linux distribution. I know that on Slackware, the root user has an e-mail waiting for them after the system is installed to add themselves to the Linux counter.
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to the drug industry. After all they did say:
Peter Meyers, a professor of physics at Princeton University who was not part of the research team, said the finding is the "sort of crack" that "has been sought for many, many years."
I'm sure this will the ultimate crack that crackheads everywhere will be searching for and paying top dollar for.
Microsoft says it's "irresponsible" to expect them to get a patch out for a critical flaw within "a few days"
Funny, Open Source software can have a patch out within a few days, why can't Microsoft?
Correction:
If a boy band plays and no one hears, does it still suck?
I think it's pronounced 'Go be' as in the command 'Go be productive' implying one is not productive in other office suites *cough*msoffice*cough* so they should go be productive in their software. At least that's how I read it and it made sense to me.
Maybe CS just isn't for you. Not to be rude, but you get all psycked up about something and your enthusiasm dies after a short period, then maybe it just isn't for you. I've been doing CS stuff for 10 years and it's just as exciting or more so now than it was when I started. Maybe I'm just weak minded and easily amused, or maybe it's just what I was Meant To Do(tm). Some projects are more exciting than others, and some projects I get really excited about early on, but after a few weeks/months of it, I get bored and move on. The key for me seems to be change, I can't do the same thing for too long (more than 2 or 3 months straight).
If you're already bored after a few years, then maybe you should look at something else, because if it's what you were really meant to do, then it would be exciting forever.
This is a little off-topic, but I heard that the Episode 2 trailer was physically attached to the beginning of the reels of Monsters Inc. So, in essence, the teaser is the beginning of Monsters Inc. This was arranged by George Lucas and Pixar since 20th Century Fox and Disney didn't want the trailer in front of it and it's usually up to those companies and the theaters to put the trailers together before the film. Pixar used to be part of Lucasarts, but Lucas didn't want to go the whole CG'd route so they broke off, but they're still good friends with Lucas. So Lucas basically called them up and asked them to put his little teaser at the beginning of the prints for Monsters Inc.
I thought that was kind of interesting, but according to theforce.net the trailer isn't on all prints or some theaters are chopping it off so it's possible some people won't see it in front of Monsters Inc. Just thought some people might find that interesting.
did it really take only two minutes to compile the latest linux kernel? that's just insane, not that I compile kernels all that often, but still two minutes for a kernel compile is quite impressive. I forget how long it takes on my 1Ghz, probably 10 or 20 minutes and I thought that was fast.
If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft is not above the law, so why does they have to agree to the governments terms? The government should be able to set any terms they feel is necessary and then force Microsoft to obey. As long as Microsoft has to conceed to the terms then they will make sure the terms won't really hurt them such as the OEM agreements, do you really think that changing the OEM agreements will affect Microsofts monopoly? No!
Microsoft needs to open up their file formats and communication protocols so other products can play nice with Microsoft products which will foster competition since it will allow rival product makers the ability to work with Microsoft products and then consumers will be able to choose a product based on if they like it, not just be forced to choose Microsoft all the time. Also, opening up their file formats is not a significant hit to their intelletual property as they might suggest, but it is one of the corner stones of their monopoly so they probably won't give it up without a big fight.
Opening up a completely well-documented Windows API would be nice for projects like WINE, but I really doubt Microsoft will do it. I also don't think they should open their source code to office or windows, but just the file formats would be enough to actually give consumers choice.
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....Hallelujah!!
Ack! Help! I've having flashbacks to Star Control II. Must...Play...As...Pkunk!
Actually if you had that much RAM and 10+GB of MP3s, you could just cache the next several songs into the ramdisk so they won't skip while playing, and you would get the added benifit of being able to play more songs. Or you could just copy the currenly playing song to the ramdisk which would only hit the hard disk for half a second especially one with a fast bus and all would be skip free.
We don't actually administer our routers? Our company has some contract through UUnet and the router is actually property of UUnet we don't even have the password to get in and administer it. So if it's comprimised, the blame should be placed on UUnet even though the traffic will look like it's coming from our company.
Especially if the Uniting and Strengthening America Act of 2001 (S.1510) gets finalized today. Newsforge had a little article written by RMS about it. It's pretty scary, but you can read the link for more information. It will basically:
* Allow for indefinite detention of non-citizens, denying them the chance to defend themselves in court.
* Expand secret searches.
* Grant the FBI broad access to sensitive business records about individuals without having to show evidence of a crime. See http://www.aclu.org/congress/l100801a.html.
* Allow officials to designate domestic groups as terrorist organizations. Membership in such an organization would become a deportable offense; see http://www.aclu.org/congress/l100801d.html.
It's simple, just create a cartoon/commercial kinda like disney did and show how all their devices are illegal or something. Hmmm, this isn't coming out very well, it was a lot better in my head, I guess it should stay there.
I suppose I won't post at +2 for this, too bad, because it was pretty funny in my head.
I agree, I wouldn't mind paying a small fee to slashdot. I've been a reader for several years and I would hate to see the site go away. I do think the subscription level should be tiered. Maybe a 'standard' fee to get rid of the advertising bannars, and maybe a 'deluxe' fee to get some cool moderator controls (or some more perks than just removing the ads), and a 'premium' fee for something else, I can't really think of anything, maybe ability to peak into the submission queue and flag some as better than others (kinda like voting on the stories to be posted).
:). Well, I kinda like the thinkgeek adds, since I don't check the site often I just wait for ads on slashdot to see what's new and cool at thinkgeek.
I have no idea what the prices would be maybe $50/yr for standard (or maybe $5/mo=$60/yr), $10/mo=$120/yr deluxe, and $20/mo=$240/yr for premium.
I would definatly pay $50/yr to help slashdot out, and getting rid of the ads would be a bonus
Similarly, There is no warrantee of any kind. If it breaks, you have no one to complain to: "you get what you pay for."
And how is this different from closed source products? Sure, you can complain to the nebulas entity known as Microsoft if one of their products break, but not like they'll do anything or claim any sort of responsibility or liability. But with open source projects you can complain to the developer and let them know what broke and depending on how important you make yourself sound they might actually fix it promptly and send you a patch.
The point is that there is no warrantee on closed source products and likewise there is no warrantee on open source products so I think point 2 is null and void. However, with open source products you have a somewhat more personal contact (i.e. a developer), than a general vague contact (i.e. microsoft).
Actually for very large server farms that could cause a problem, namely from the electricity standpoint. A lot of businesses are billed based on peak electrical usage and most of those companies have their servers set to boot up sequentially to reduce the peak usage. Since the peak usage on computers tends to be on startup, large amounts of computers rebooting at the same time could make the person who pays the electrical bill unhappy.
It was supposed to be humorous, especially after the recent slashdot article about Microsoft telling security companies to stop releasing code for exploits, and here we have a someone releasing code for linux exploits and no one cares or defames them for releasing code for the exploits.
:(.
Oh well, it was funny in my head, I thought someone else might appreciate it too. I certianly didn't intend it to be moderated 'Troll', now I'm at 49 Karma
In a recent article on CNet:
This week, Linus Torvalds, manager for Linux's security response center, published an essay on the company's site decrying the information and example code released by some companies and independent security consultants as "information anarchy."
"It's high time the security community stopped providing the blueprints for building these weapons," Linus wrote in the essay. "And it's high time that computer users insisted that the security community live up to its obligation to protect them."
"The state of affairs today allows even relative novices to build highly destructive (malicious software)," he wrote in the essay. "It's simply indefensible for the security community to continue arming cyber criminals. We can at least raise the bar."
"(We) don't purport to have the answer to the problem," he said in a Wednesday interview. "But we believe that these practices are harmful."
Linux has always needed a marketing machine behind it, but now I think it's absolutly vital for it's survival. Sure, there will always be slashdot readers who use linux and it should hopefully stay in the server market just fine.
I would propose the formation of the Linux Marketing Foundation that organized large marketing campaigns, commercials, etc to promote Linux and inform people about how their freedom is being stripped away by Microsoft. With an few articles on slashdot and a paypal donation account, they could probably get up quite a bit of cash to get started since I doubt they'd be able to get any sort of official VC.
IBM seems to be trying to promote Linux, but it's mainly on the server, and there's no information about how Microsoft is restricting their freedom which the public needs to know about. So far, every person I've told about Microsofts subscription model with Windows XP has vowed not to get it, and I'm sure that if the public knew about it, they would think twice too before running out and buying in next week.
Now is a critical time to start these kinds of promotions with all the heat that microsoft has been under from the DOJ, people are starting to be a bit suspicious of them and to think twice about what microsoft is doing. The seeds of doubt have been sown, now it's time to nurture them and soon we will reap the harvest.
So how do we get smaller than this? Smaller molecules? Atoms? Sub-atomic particles? Photons?
It just seems like there is a finite limit to how small we can make these things, and it looks like we're approaching that limit, so where to next? Get rid of transistors all together and use a different method? Optical matricies that perform switching functions? Who knows, but I know I'm excited to find out what happens next.
You're right, of course, since there is no real infringement on anyones rights here. I used to be a Qwest customer, but as soon as I heard they signed a deal with MSN, I foresaw things like this taking place and I found a local ISP and I'm paying less than I did with Qwest. Local ISP's aren't hard to find and they're often cheaper than Qwest. If you don't like what a company is doing, find someone else, that's what an open market is all about. Corporate execs don't read slashdot, they read their bottom line and if they find enough people switching and their margins start slipping, they'll do something about their policies. I didn't like what Qwest was doing, so I stopped giving them my money (well, I still have to give them the money for the DSL line, but there's nothing I can do about that).
:).
If anyone lives in the denver/boulder area, I would suggest netrack.net, they have reasonable rates and they don't care if you resell the bandwidth, so I've set up a wireless network in my area and I'm charging other people to use it, works like a charm
Couldn't this easily backfire on the RIAA? If I noticed a lot of DoS traffic coming to my site, couldn't I call their ISP and get them to shut down their internet connection since it's the source of a DoS attack? This idea would probably work better if they were DoSing a corporate firewall than the average joes computer. After all, if I was a network admin at a company and I noticed a lot of DoS traffic coming in from a specific ip address, I would try and contact the ISP and get them to turn them off temporarily, but maybe that's just me.
I'd have to agree that strategy games are the way to go. My gf and I play starcraft all the time on our home network. We always play cooperative against the computer and it's a lot of fun. But what's REALLY fun is when she came in to work to play with some of my coworkers (who are pretty good) in an 8 player free-for-all and she kicked all their arses multiple times, now THAT was fun :). We primarily did the match because they didn't believe that she could beat them.
We've also played WarCraft II together, but we both like StarCraft better.
Wow, that looks pretty cool. I've played the board game and I just love it, I didn't know there was a computer version. I'll have to try it out, thanks!
You must use an inferior Linux distribution. I know that on Slackware, the root user has an e-mail waiting for them after the system is installed to add themselves to the Linux counter.