I predicted no problems from Y2K. Oh sure its not as if there weren't things that would have gone wrong, but every single apocolypse scenario was utterly absurd. Its not that the problem didn't exist its just that the majority of problems it could cause would not be system failures but rather simple annoyances. I did hear about problems with a heating system at a apartment complex in Seoul, Korea but other than that, my prediction was basically true.
You know its always suprised me how many people actually do pay 18 dollars per cd. I hate malls, I try to avoid them. But thats actually the standard charge in mall record stores. Places like Waves, Camelot, and Sam Goody actually charge these outrageous prices. Every time I go into one of these places I see them actually selling cds at this price. These people could go right across the street to Best Buy and buy the same cds for probably 5 or 6 dollars less per cd and usually no more than 13 bucks a cd for almost any cd. But then of course I guess they'd have to leave the mall, god forbid.
I've seen two or three multi-platform messengers, from jabber to even Microsoft's Instant messenger but there is a disturbing aspect here which has already been mentioned previously on slashdot and that is this: AOL blocks off access to all these other clients from AIM. They did it to MSN, and they did it to bantu.com. Once Mozilla's client is done, I suspect it will be the only one allowed to access AIM thus making it the only true multi-platform out there. Personally, I believe that AOL has crossed a line here. As a substution for now, I recommend the client at bantu.com, they have a java one that works on all platforms.
There is one purpose that is fully legal. I use such a cd-recorder to make copies of my cd's. One for the house, and one for the car. . . But besides that, I'm pretty sure the phillips drive is capable of making compilation cd's from other cd's you own.
The book has other, non-science fiction angles to be looked upon. Its actually got deep religios undertones (even if your not in to that stuff, and I'm not, its quite interesting).
Some of the symbolism is obvious, for instance all the snake symbolism in the start of the book and the Old jew (which is actually not just symbolism, it's literal: he is a character directly from the bible who was forced to roam the earth until the second coming of christ. Also, Joshua representing both Jesus (he walks on water, plus look at his name) and Moses (leads his people to the promised land) at the same time, and Rachel (the person growing out of hte old womans head) representing the immaculate conception.
In the last few pages of the book the symbolism all collides and becomes easily apparent to anyone (even those who aren't looking for it), but one part is a tad confusing. Rachel seems to represent something else besides the immaculate conception after she takes on life and begins to move around. Is she some sort of second jesus symbolism? Or Something else?
All in all, this story is a great story even if the whole religious aspect doesn't do anything for you (it doesn't really for me either but it does add some nice depth to the story). I recommend it to anyone interested in any type of literature at all.
I haven't seen a slashdot story on HD-Rom yet...
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Anyone care to find an article about HD-ROM? Its a pretty nifty technology that was talked about a few months ago in some technical journals. Basically, it takes the same approach to increased storage as DVD took. Smaller grooves and smaller laser == more data. In their case however, they couldn't get a laser small enough so they had to use an electron beam. The end result is an optical disk supposed to story 250GB. Very impressive.
I know many./er's and none fit any of those categories (that I know of, the third is a tad hard to tell). Especially the first one. With that in mind, I'm prompted ask "What kind of crazy disconnected logic are you using?".
A couple of problems spring to mind quickly: 1. Since the pen has the same type of ball as a normal mouse does, it should in theory gather dirt in the same manner. However, in this case, the ball is so very small that I wonder if cleaning would even be a remote possibillity. Perhaps a pen mouse with an electronic eye (such as the MS Explorer mouse). 2. The ball being so small would seem to cause problems. Wouldn't you have to either adjust the thing to be supersensative or go all the way around your house to move around your desktop. I suspect they would almost certainly have to do the former, and that could cause some annoying uncalled for mouse movements. Just my $.02
I work at a major computer retailer and this is more common than you might think, even among the larger manufacturers. The most constant offender is emachines who just pops whatever processor they feel the need to inside a computer. I've had numerous complaints from customers who got k6-2's instead of celerons and emachines response is simply "We use whatever parts we have on hand (often refurbished I might add) and if we substitute parts its for equivelants only."
Beyond emachines, I do know that, according to intel, this is the reason they put in anti-overclocking measures (although I suspect thats a bunch of bunk). Intel has also quite a few times in the past put out utillities to discover what your cpu really is and then to assist you in reporting fraud to them.
Its not often that while reading slashdot I see something from the onion posted as a real news story. . . Lets try to denote things that are fake in advance so I know what I'm reading.
I wonder if this heralds an era in which a video accelerator has several processors dedicated to individual tasks(i.e. one for bump mapping, one for texture mapping, etc.) We could be on the virge of very fast graphics indeed.
Good encryption does you little good. TCP is a plaintext protocol, so is http, ftp, irc, and a good deal of other ones. So you can encrypt away, but if you want to download a file, they will be able to see what it is. If you have a conversation on irc, they can read it(unless the two of you have a prior encryption scheme agreed upon. If you log into a university telnet server, they now have your username and password and can log in and view all the pretty files(thats where the encryption *DOES* come in handy). Encryption is nice, but its not been implemented into most internet services yet.
Lets all keep in mind that there are two different methods for tapping communications over the internet.
Method one: Use a physical device attatched to the router in order to monitor traffic. However, keep in mind that this method requires no special hardware on the router side of things. Anyone could build a device to work with current routers to do this will little trouble. Remember: TCP is an unecrpyted protocol, everythings plaintext..even your passwords.
Method: A software based tap built into the software of the router than can be activated remotely. This is the one that would have to be "implemented" and it is the most scary because if it can be done remotely by the FBI, it can be done remotely by ANYONE. Just as long as someone is significantly motiviated enough to figure out a way to break the security (and I think its been proven time and time again that any security can be broken if there is reason enough to and with enough time).
If it's method two that they want to implement then we should all get off our asses and bitch like hell. This jepordizes what little security that tcp has besides just being a blatant violation of privacy.
Just wait till the first cracker figures out the scheme and starts watching.gov routers for telnet logins/passwords. I wonder if Big Brother will be too keen on this idea after that.
Sigh, when will governments learn? Privacy must be protected at all costs. This isn't much different than many bills in the US passed by congress but vetoed, or not passed by the Senate....It could happen here to... Btw, I think this is first comment:)
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I predicted no problems from Y2K. Oh sure its not as if there weren't things that would have gone wrong, but every single apocolypse scenario was utterly absurd. Its not that the problem didn't exist its just that the majority of problems it could cause would not be system failures but rather simple annoyances. I did hear about problems with a heating system at a apartment complex in Seoul, Korea but other than that, my prediction was basically true.
You know its always suprised me how many people actually do pay 18 dollars per cd. I hate malls, I try to avoid them. But thats actually the standard charge in mall record stores. Places like Waves, Camelot, and Sam Goody actually charge these outrageous prices. Every time I go into one of these places I see them actually selling cds at this price. These people could go right across the street to Best Buy and buy the same cds for probably 5 or 6 dollars less per cd and usually no more than 13 bucks a cd for almost any cd. But then of course I guess they'd have to leave the mall, god forbid.
I've seen two or three multi-platform messengers, from jabber to even Microsoft's Instant messenger but there is a disturbing aspect here which has already been mentioned previously on slashdot and that is this: AOL blocks off access to all these other clients from AIM. They did it to MSN, and they did it to bantu.com. Once Mozilla's client is done, I suspect it will be the only one allowed to access AIM thus making it the only true multi-platform out there. Personally, I believe that AOL has crossed a line here. As a substution for now, I recommend the client at bantu.com, they have a java one that works on all platforms.
There is one purpose that is fully legal. I use such a cd-recorder to make copies of my cd's. One for the house, and one for the car. . . But besides that, I'm pretty sure the phillips drive is capable of making compilation cd's from other cd's you own.
The book has other, non-science fiction angles to be looked upon. Its actually got deep religios undertones (even if your not in to that stuff, and I'm not, its quite interesting).
Some of the symbolism is obvious, for instance all the snake symbolism in the start of the book and the Old jew (which is actually not just symbolism, it's literal: he is a character directly from the bible who was forced to roam the earth until the second coming of christ. Also, Joshua representing both Jesus (he walks on water, plus look at his name) and Moses (leads his people to the promised land) at the same time, and Rachel (the person growing out of hte old womans head) representing the immaculate conception.
In the last few pages of the book the symbolism all collides and becomes easily apparent to anyone (even those who aren't looking for it), but one part is a tad confusing. Rachel seems to represent something else besides the immaculate conception after she takes on life and begins to move around. Is she some sort of second jesus symbolism? Or Something else?
All in all, this story is a great story even if the whole religious aspect doesn't do anything for you (it doesn't really for me either but it does add some nice depth to the story). I recommend it to anyone interested in any type of literature at all.
Anyone care to find an article about HD-ROM? Its a pretty nifty technology that was talked about a few months ago in some technical journals. Basically, it takes the same approach to increased storage as DVD took. Smaller grooves and smaller laser == more data. In their case however, they couldn't get a laser small enough so they had to use an electron beam. The end result is an optical disk supposed to story 250GB. Very impressive.
I know many ./er's and none fit any of those categories (that I know of, the third is a tad hard to tell). Especially the first one. With that in mind, I'm prompted ask "What kind of crazy disconnected logic are you using?".
A couple of problems spring to mind quickly: 1. Since the pen has the same type of ball as a normal mouse does, it should in theory gather dirt in the same manner. However, in this case, the ball is so very small that I wonder if cleaning would even be a remote possibillity. Perhaps a pen mouse with an electronic eye (such as the MS Explorer mouse). 2. The ball being so small would seem to cause problems. Wouldn't you have to either adjust the thing to be supersensative or go all the way around your house to move around your desktop. I suspect they would almost certainly have to do the former, and that could cause some annoying uncalled for mouse movements. Just my $.02
I work at a major computer retailer and this is more common than you might think, even among the larger manufacturers. The most constant offender is emachines who just pops whatever processor they feel the need to inside a computer. I've had numerous complaints from customers who got k6-2's instead of celerons and emachines response is simply "We use whatever parts we have on hand (often refurbished I might add) and if we substitute parts its for equivelants only."
Beyond emachines, I do know that, according to intel, this is the reason they put in anti-overclocking measures (although I suspect thats a bunch of bunk). Intel has also quite a few times in the past put out utillities to discover what your cpu really is and then to assist you in reporting fraud to them.
Its not often that while reading slashdot I see something from the onion posted as a real news story. . . Lets try to denote things that are fake in advance so I know what I'm reading.
I wonder if this heralds an era in which a video accelerator has several processors dedicated to individual tasks(i.e. one for bump mapping, one for texture mapping, etc.) We could be on the virge of very fast graphics indeed.
Good encryption does you little good. TCP is a plaintext protocol, so is http, ftp, irc, and a good deal of other ones. So you can encrypt away, but if you want to download a file, they will be able to see what it is. If you have a conversation on irc, they can read it(unless the two of you have a prior encryption scheme agreed upon. If you log into a university telnet server, they now have your username and password and can log in and view all the pretty files(thats where the encryption *DOES* come in handy). Encryption is nice, but its not been implemented into most internet services yet.
Lets all keep in mind that there are two different methods for tapping communications over the internet.
Method one: Use a physical device attatched to the router in order to monitor traffic. However, keep in mind that this method requires no special hardware on the router side of things. Anyone could build a device to work with current routers to do this will little trouble. Remember: TCP is an unecrpyted protocol, everythings plaintext..even your passwords.
Method: A software based tap built into the software of the router than can be activated remotely. This is the one that would have to be "implemented" and it is the most scary because if it can be done remotely by the FBI, it can be done remotely by ANYONE. Just as long as someone is significantly motiviated enough to figure out a way to break the security (and I think its been proven time and time again that any security can be broken if there is reason enough to and with enough time).
If it's method two that they want to implement then we should all get off our asses and bitch like hell. This jepordizes what little security that tcp has besides just being a blatant violation of privacy.
Just wait till the first cracker figures out the scheme and starts watching .gov routers for telnet logins/passwords. I wonder if Big Brother will be too keen on this idea after that.
-Cyberllama
Sigh, when will governments learn? Privacy must be protected at all costs. This isn't much different than many bills in the US passed by congress but vetoed, or not passed by the Senate....It could happen here to... :)
Btw, I think this is first comment