But tell me why do I always get to hear/after/ such a "swift ordeal" on slashdot. Isn't there somesort of website that announces these kinds of contests way-back --infront-- or whatever?
Yes, I know that there's nothing new about exploiting another machine that's been hooked up by a company that's in desperate need of some cheap advertising (though some press-agencies seem to disagree), but $till I would be happy to be informed in front, if you know what I mean;
It plagues my mind sometimes to hear these things afterwards, it's a bad trend. I'm not the only one: some people are even writing basic scripts that r00t any vulnareble machine in case there's a contest running on it, they leave subtle hints inside their scripts so the people who had their contest machine r00ted know who to send the pricemoney to, you all know who I'am talking about!
actually I think gifs work under lynx and or w3m. A while back I ran an xwindows session and had to look up a page from a terminal and I saw some gifs/jpeg/png whatever they were in my little xterminal window.
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I say we all flee to Mars to escape persecution. It's not so bad; I hear they have water there now...
I say we all hold our horses untill they have coffee and decent broadband connections.
It seems that the ss40 & ss50 have a more powerfull little brother: anyone remember the Soviet ss20 nuclear missile? I bet that's a hell of a lot better fragging machine, it doesn't have USB though, but I guess it has a setting called USA.
You could turn lights on and off, mute the TV, or drive a car simply by thinking about doing so.
Sounds dangerous to me, you have to be carefull what you think instead of being carefull what you do, escpecially when these devices have lethal uses, like a car. What if you bionic arm would act on your impulsive first toughts after being annoyed or arroused by someone.Instead of pulling your middle finger to another roaduser, the car might try to hit this person.
Thinking is not a crime might not be true in such a future.
-you can train it to get you a new beer (with the robot arm), doesn't need any explanation. -you can train it to recognize places and objects: really handy if you drank too much of those beers. "where the hell is my bedroom? - please follow me sir.." or "what's the name of the broad in my bedroom?" -you can have it send email: "send got sick excuse email #34 to work" -you can have it play mp3's: it can also recognize people, combine those two and next time a skirt walks into your place it'll start playing your 70s-sweet-luvvin' mp3's (already did that, just clap my hands twice to start it)
basicly it can do a lot of things a girlfriend can do, some people will find this highly argueable and they will come up with things like sex and stuff. Well I suspect you can have handsfree pr0n-session with the thing as well. (Or with the thing and your girlfriend at the same time and even record at the same moment).
Tonight I was coincendently looking for good software for my own surveilance system. I remembered a rather impressive program I had seen demonstrated on cebit a couple of years ago: the software grabbed faces on the fly and it added them to a database then you could select "evil" people and an alarm would go off when they passed a camera. Also you could see stats on the people that were in the database about when they passed it for the last time and stuff like that. I was delighted to see there was an evaluation version available, too bad it's for nt-clones only, but if you also happen to have a video-capture system, I'd say it's worth try. The program is called Face It and you can download it here
I've been using matrox dualhead videocards for quite some time now on my studio machines. It's really handy for extending the cubase desktop on various screens, because there's too much information for one screen. It's very important that the computer runs rocksolid for high end audio-applications, even the chip-set on the motherboard can be the cause of a lot of problems, that won't show up during non-audio applications. Luckely the matrox drivers a really solid, compared to other brands. I was just ready to order a non-agp dualhead card in order to attach more screens to this machine, but now this card shows up and I will deffinately buy it as soon as it comes out.
on slashdot a year ago orso, I remember there was a big light, that consisted of multiple leds (thought about 100-300) that you could program with your pc. It could change color to all the colors you wanted. I believe the casing was black and it costed about $600. I was searching for this item last week, because I wanted it for my new house, but I couldn't really find it, perhaps someone bookmarked it, or knows a simular light?
Thanks in advance.
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you could put somesort of ultraviolet reflecting stuff behind, then you could have it lit up with ultraviolet light
Normally I just zap away during a commercial break. If they get what they want then I can imagine a future with digital tv, when you zap away the commercial break too long, you will be banned from watching the end of the show. There's going to be all kinds of irritating rules if we don't watch out.
There's no mod-chip available for the xbox which let's you play "backup" games. Many people are waiting for this, a plus is that by the time this chip comes out the price might have been dropped.
I'm not sure if such a chip will come, don't know how the copy-protection will work, but my guess is that it uses the same meganisms as the current pc games, which will probably mean that patched isos of games will soon be (or might already) be available on the net.
I don't want to buy an xbox, because I think most Japanese software companies will exclusively make games for the Japanese consoles and face it they make the most original games most of the time, that's what a console is about.
So they can't disclose this information anymore if all goes well.
Does this mean that they will still keep track of everybody and give the information to the goverment incase they ask for it, or use it theirselves? Or are do they have to do a "killall information_tracking_d" ? (or a manual ctrl+alt+del -> taskmanager -> information_... -> end process everytime they reboot their servers;)
Why does everyone allways accuse the scriptkiddies of performing DOS attacks - or worse they call it hacking a server with a DOS attack?
I mean it takes some cunningness to 0wn a couple of hundred machines with a simple dail-up aol account..
Some companies hire blackhat people to DOS their competitors once in a while, think of mail-servers. Other groups DOS certain sites because of their ethical/political/religious backgrounds. So now all of a sudden every "malicious" computer user is a scriptkiddie?
The only scriptkiddies in these stories are the journalists that form their conclusions according to a certain script that's allways used when it's a story about something "evil" with computers.
Don't be a scriptkiddie yourself by making these hollow statements
United Virtualities calls the product "Ooqa Ooqa," the nickname of one of the cofounder's daughters. The firm's signature product is the "shoshkeles," named after another daughter of a co-founder.
Hello! What planet is this cofounder-dude from? I heard his dog is called "Melissa" and his goldfish is called "Mary-Anne".
Yup. The article primarely mentions about mobile devices like palmtops and mobile phones.
Well you must have a surface to write on, I don't want to carry a hell-of-a-large mobile phone with me, so I imagine you could also write on a table or whatever, most of the time I don't have a flat surface closeby when I need to put something in my phone, so that's not really handy.
With palmtops, I thought most of them already had this feature.
To replace a regular keyboard/mouse combo sounds quite stupid: I can't imagine writing myself a "4" everytime I want to switch to a rocket-launcher.
So how do they want to check if people are actually selling the product, are they going to buy everything that's being offered to them in the spam messages in order to check it out?
If that's the case, my spam to them will be something like: "buy ten addressess on a CD for only $1 million" and my mass spam could be somehing like "get rich fast by ripping off the USA government"
Not being from the USA I don't pay American taxes, American spammers are a big source of irritation for me as well. It's nice to see them fight this problem, while the money stays in my wallet.
This is one of the courses I followed at the university, during my artificial intelligence study. Lots of examples of this book, came back in our practicums, there are nice links to sites about this subject on the page and also the complete course is online for you to download (not sure if my professor is going to be happy about this, but who cares, I passed the grade:)
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't that a country where you can buy most new software packages in stores for about $1?
But tell me why do I always get to hear /after/ such a "swift ordeal" on slashdot. Isn't there somesort of website that announces these kinds of contests way-back --infront-- or whatever?
Yes, I know that there's nothing new about exploiting another machine that's been hooked up by a company that's in desperate need of some cheap advertising (though some press-agencies seem to disagree), but $till I would be happy to be informed in front, if you know what I mean;
It plagues my mind sometimes to hear these things afterwards, it's a bad trend. I'm not the only one: some people are even writing basic scripts that r00t any vulnareble machine in case there's a contest running on it, they leave subtle hints inside their scripts so the people who had their contest machine r00ted know who to send the pricemoney to, you all know who I'am talking about!
actually I think gifs work under lynx and or w3m. A while back I ran an xwindows session and had to look up a page from a terminal and I saw some gifs/jpeg/png whatever they were in my little xterminal window.
I say we all flee to Mars to escape persecution. It's not so bad; I hear they have water there now...
I say we all hold our horses untill they have coffee and decent broadband connections.
It seems that the ss40 & ss50 have a more powerfull little brother: anyone remember the Soviet ss20 nuclear missile?
I bet that's a hell of a lot better fragging machine, it doesn't have USB though, but I guess it has a setting called USA.
You could turn lights on and off, mute the TV, or drive a car simply by thinking about doing so.
Sounds dangerous to me, you have to be carefull what you think instead of being carefull what you do, escpecially when these devices have lethal uses, like a car.
What if you bionic arm would act on your impulsive first toughts after being annoyed or arroused by someone.Instead of pulling your middle finger to another roaduser, the car might try to hit this person.
Thinking is not a crime might not be true in such a future.
Sounds like the ultimate bachelors tool to me:
-you can train it to get you a new beer (with the robot arm), doesn't need any explanation.
-you can train it to recognize places and objects: really handy if you drank too much of those beers. "where the hell is my bedroom? - please follow me sir.." or "what's the name of the broad in my bedroom?"
-you can have it send email: "send got sick excuse email #34 to work"
-you can have it play mp3's: it can also recognize people, combine those two and next time a skirt walks into your place it'll start playing your 70s-sweet-luvvin' mp3's (already did that, just clap my hands twice to start it)
basicly it can do a lot of things a girlfriend can do, some people will find this highly argueable and they will come up with things like sex and stuff. Well I suspect you can have handsfree pr0n-session with the thing as well. (Or with the thing and your girlfriend at the same time and even record at the same moment).
so basicly this says: uncle sam wants PK's
Tonight I was coincendently looking for good software for my own surveilance system. I remembered a rather impressive program I had seen demonstrated on cebit a couple of years ago: the software grabbed faces on the fly and it added them to a database then you could select "evil" people and an alarm would go off when they passed a camera. Also you could see stats on the people that were in the database about when they passed it for the last time and stuff like that.
I was delighted to see there was an evaluation version available, too bad it's for nt-clones only, but if you also happen to have a video-capture system, I'd say it's worth try.
The program is called Face It and you can download it here
I've been using matrox dualhead videocards for quite some time now on my studio machines. It's really handy for extending the cubase desktop on various screens, because there's too much information for one screen.
It's very important that the computer runs rocksolid for high end audio-applications, even the chip-set on the motherboard can be the cause of a lot of problems, that won't show up during non-audio applications. Luckely the matrox drivers a really solid, compared to other brands.
I was just ready to order a non-agp dualhead card in order to attach more screens to this machine, but now this card shows up and I will deffinately buy it as soon as it comes out.
on slashdot a year ago orso,
I remember there was a big light, that consisted of multiple leds (thought about 100-300) that you could program with your pc. It could change color to all the colors you wanted. I believe the casing was black and it costed about $600.
I was searching for this item last week, because I wanted it for my new house, but I couldn't really find it, perhaps someone bookmarked it, or knows a simular light?
Thanks in advance.
you could put somesort of ultraviolet reflecting stuff behind, then you could have it lit up with ultraviolet light
Normally I just zap away during a commercial break.
If they get what they want then I can imagine a future with digital tv, when you zap away the commercial break too long, you will be banned from watching the end of the show.
There's going to be all kinds of irritating rules if we don't watch out.
There's no mod-chip available for the xbox which let's you play "backup" games.
Many people are waiting for this, a plus is that by the time this chip comes out the price might have been dropped.
I'm not sure if such a chip will come, don't know how the copy-protection will work, but my guess is that it uses the same meganisms as the current pc games, which will probably mean that patched isos of games will soon be (or might already) be available on the net.
I don't want to buy an xbox, because I think most Japanese software companies will exclusively make games for the Japanese consoles and face it they make the most original games most of the time, that's what a console is about.
So they can't disclose this information anymore if all goes well.
Does this mean that they will still keep track of everybody and give the information to the goverment incase they ask for it, or use it theirselves?
Or are do they have to do a "killall information_tracking_d" ?
(or a manual ctrl+alt+del -> taskmanager -> information_... -> end process everytime they reboot their servers;)
Why does everyone allways accuse the scriptkiddies of performing DOS attacks - or worse they call it hacking a server with a DOS attack?
I mean it takes some cunningness to 0wn a couple of hundred machines with a simple dail-up aol account..
Some companies hire blackhat people to DOS their competitors once in a while, think of mail-servers. Other groups DOS certain sites because of their ethical/political/religious backgrounds. So now all of a sudden every "malicious" computer user is a scriptkiddie?
The only scriptkiddies in these stories are the journalists that form their conclusions according to a certain script that's allways used when it's a story about something "evil" with computers.
Don't be a scriptkiddie yourself by making these hollow statements
United Virtualities calls the product "Ooqa Ooqa," the nickname of one of the cofounder's daughters. The firm's signature product is the "shoshkeles," named after another daughter of a co-founder.
Hello! What planet is this cofounder-dude from? I heard his dog is called "Melissa" and his goldfish is called "Mary-Anne".
Yup. The article primarely mentions about mobile devices like palmtops and mobile phones.
Well you must have a surface to write on, I don't want to carry a hell-of-a-large mobile phone with me, so I imagine you could also write on a table or whatever, most of the time I don't have a flat surface closeby when I need to put something in my phone, so that's not really handy.
With palmtops, I thought most of them already had this feature.
To replace a regular keyboard/mouse combo sounds quite stupid: I can't imagine writing myself a "4" everytime I want to switch to a rocket-launcher.
So how do they want to check if people are actually selling the product, are they going to buy everything that's being offered to them in the spam messages in order to check it out?
If that's the case, my spam to them will be something like: "buy ten addressess on a CD for only $1 million"
and my mass spam could be somehing like "get rich fast by ripping off the USA government"
I thought about this too. But aren't YOU spamming uce@ftc.gov that way? Or at least your mailserver?
No, he's right.
Not being from the USA I don't pay American taxes, American spammers are a big source of irritation for me as well.
It's nice to see them fight this problem, while the money stays in my wallet.
This looks really nice now, but imagine how wicked this is going to look like in svga-text mode.
And despite the the fact that both Taco and I are from Holland, MI, no, neither of us can speak/read Dutch - so don't ask us to translate.
Bluf maar..
It will probably remember the last gps location it picked up.
This is one of the courses I followed at the university, during my artificial intelligence study.
Lots of examples of this book, came back in our practicums, there are nice links to sites about this subject on the page and also the complete course is online for you to download (not sure if my professor is going to be happy about this, but who cares, I passed the grade:)