A long-standing guideline for purchasing CPU's has been to buy 1 notch below the absolute latest in technology. That way, you can get about 80% of the performance that the newest product offers, at about 60% of the cost. That way, you can get the best price-to-performance ratio, and have some money left over for other computer components.
The "cutting edge" technology almost always has at least a 20% price premium attached to it, and should be avoided whenever possible. Save that money and spend it on something else, like more memory or storage.
"Or if you want to bash other people's editing, you can do that, and have the power to rate the story itself down, so it won't get posted, over at Kuro5hin - http://www.kuro5hin.org/"
I'd love to see this feature implimented at slashdot. It would hopefully fix Slashdot's biggest problems like...
Multiple posts of the same story
Horribly edited or just flat-out biased postings
JonKatz's paranoid and incoherant ramblings. Somehow, I doubt that most of his posts would survive more than 15 minutes!:)
Come on CowboyNeal! Get this feature coded quickly, so we can try it out on Banjo!
Well said! The only part that you forgot to mention is that this asshole is trying to profit off of breaking Adobe's encryption, by selling copies of his software for $99. That might not be illegal in Russia, but is sure as hell illegal here.
Dimitri certainly isn't this Robin-hood-like character that slashdot is trying to make him out as, he's just slimeball cracker and profiteer that deserves the prison time that he's getting. Let him rot for awhile longer, he'll make a great example for anyone that tries to screw over a big corporation.
Just wonderful... Now we'll have BOTH the government and the RIAA screaming at ISP's to block traffic from file sharing programs.
Many ISP's like Earthlink and Verizon have been good about ignoring the RIAA's pathetic demands, but it's MUCH harder to ignore a cease-and-desist order from the FCC. Goverment officals have more friends with guns on their side than the IP laywers do...
Well, OF COURSE she can speak Atlantian! We all know how what linguistic geniuses McDonalds drive-thru cashiers can be!
I'll bet that she can say "Do you want to super-size that combo?" in at least 12 languages, and yet still make sure that you can't understand a damned word that she's saying over the drive-thru speakers...
Yeah, I can think of a few old movie quotes that I'd like to put in, like "Die, you damned dirty ape!", or "You feeling lucky, punk?"
Unfortuately, I live in New York, so no prizes for me:-(
Since Hemos brought distributed.net up in a "subliminal message", it made me feel like doing a little ranting.
Seriously though, I'm still trying to figure out why so many people are still wasting their idle CPU cycles on the RC5-64 effort. So far, d.net has spent THREE YEARS working on cracking RC5, and they have only gotten through 30% of the keyspace! At the rate they are going, it will probably be at least another year before they find the magic key that unlocks the encrypted message.
And when that happens, so what? The whole idea of the project was to show how weak existing security encryption is, but instead, d.net will have ended up proving quite the opposite. Spending four years and using the resources of about 100,000 computers just to break a simple security key won't look very impressive in a press release, and it DEFINATELY won't scare the government into thinking that existing encryption is too weak.
It seems that this project has de-evolved into a bragging contest on who can crack the most keys. Gloating comments like "My computer can crack RC5 faster than yours" or "My team is higher in the rankings than yours" seem to be all that's left of this project. A major waste of time, if you ask me.
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A long-standing guideline for purchasing CPU's has been to buy 1 notch below the absolute latest in technology. That way, you can get about 80% of the performance that the newest product offers, at about 60% of the cost. That way, you can get the best price-to-performance ratio, and have some money left over for other computer components. The "cutting edge" technology almost always has at least a 20% price premium attached to it, and should be avoided whenever possible. Save that money and spend it on something else, like more memory or storage.
I'd love to see this feature implimented at slashdot. It would hopefully fix Slashdot's biggest problems like...
Multiple posts of the same story
Horribly edited or just flat-out biased postings
JonKatz's paranoid and incoherant ramblings. Somehow, I doubt that most of his posts would survive more than 15 minutes! :)
Come on CowboyNeal! Get this feature coded quickly, so we can try it out on Banjo!
Well said! The only part that you forgot to mention is that this asshole is trying to profit off of breaking Adobe's encryption, by selling copies of his software for $99. That might not be illegal in Russia, but is sure as hell illegal here. Dimitri certainly isn't this Robin-hood-like character that slashdot is trying to make him out as, he's just slimeball cracker and profiteer that deserves the prison time that he's getting. Let him rot for awhile longer, he'll make a great example for anyone that tries to screw over a big corporation.
Just wonderful... Now we'll have BOTH the government and the RIAA screaming at ISP's to block traffic from file sharing programs. Many ISP's like Earthlink and Verizon have been good about ignoring the RIAA's pathetic demands, but it's MUCH harder to ignore a cease-and-desist order from the FCC. Goverment officals have more friends with guns on their side than the IP laywers do...
Well, OF COURSE she can speak Atlantian! We all know how what linguistic geniuses McDonalds drive-thru cashiers can be! I'll bet that she can say "Do you want to super-size that combo?" in at least 12 languages, and yet still make sure that you can't understand a damned word that she's saying over the drive-thru speakers...
Yeah, I can think of a few old movie quotes that I'd like to put in, like "Die, you damned dirty ape!", or "You feeling lucky, punk?" Unfortuately, I live in New York, so no prizes for me :-(
You have to buy the "Livin' Large" expansion pack for that feature to work.. :-)
Since Hemos brought distributed.net up in a "subliminal message", it made me feel like doing a little ranting. Seriously though, I'm still trying to figure out why so many people are still wasting their idle CPU cycles on the RC5-64 effort. So far, d.net has spent THREE YEARS working on cracking RC5, and they have only gotten through 30% of the keyspace! At the rate they are going, it will probably be at least another year before they find the magic key that unlocks the encrypted message. And when that happens, so what? The whole idea of the project was to show how weak existing security encryption is, but instead, d.net will have ended up proving quite the opposite. Spending four years and using the resources of about 100,000 computers just to break a simple security key won't look very impressive in a press release, and it DEFINATELY won't scare the government into thinking that existing encryption is too weak. It seems that this project has de-evolved into a bragging contest on who can crack the most keys. Gloating comments like "My computer can crack RC5 faster than yours" or "My team is higher in the rankings than yours" seem to be all that's left of this project. A major waste of time, if you ask me.