You may not be considered a disgusting slob on Slashdot, although the fact that you're posting anonymously indicates that you yourself realize how crappy that is.
Raves are all about having a place where people aren't judging you on every little thing you do, how you look, dance, dress, or talk. They are a place where geeks can have fun and not be judged by people with nothing better to do than worry about what's cool.
Please don't take your troglodytic views to any raves. Raves are a beautiful thing, don't ruin them by making them another place where coolness is the concern, not happiness.
problem is, lots of email clients by default add stuff like:
original message from [someone] on [some date]
---------------------------------
[blah blah blah]
So if you send someone an encrypted email, and they answer it, helpfully adding a reminder to you of what your original question was, your original message is as good as plaintext.
OK, I don't know much crypto, but I know youve got it bass ackward there.
The way it works is: Bob encrypts a message to Jill using Jill's public key. Jill decrypts it with her private key.
The other way around would be useless - if it can be decrypted with the public half of the key pair, Bob might as well send it in plaintext, and save the spies the two minutes it will take them to decrypt it
As for the implications here, read the postings that are rated 4 & 5.
Problem is, juries almost always introduce liberal doses of c.
And there's no way you'd get a jury of hackers - the MPAA's lawyers would get everyone with an ounce of technical knowledge thrown out as being prejudiced.
The thing is the flicker doesn't have to be visible to strain your eyes. If it flickers so that you're consciously aware of it, it's generally a bad tube, that's true.
You can't really "see" 60 Hz (unless your eyes are really sensitive), but it does take its toll. If it didn't, why do you suppose monitor designers bother to even offer refresh rates higher than 60 Hz?
I know I can't tell what the refresh rate on a monitor is by just looking at it, but after an hour or two, I really know. If I have a splitting headache, it's 60 or 70 Hz, if I have a mild headache, it's more like 75 Hz, if I'm fine, it's 80+.
Until, someone creates software which can accurately parse sentences and examine words in the proper context, it will continue to be very easy to bypass these filters.
You're forgetting one thing: trolls have lousy grammar. Although a filter that blocked bad grammar might not be a bad idea...
Is that just with x86 hardware? I know Apple hardware will boot without a KB just fine, but I don't really know about any of the other processor families out there.
Here's the problem though - Where do these stations get much of their war footage from? One monopolistic source, the governement.
With this technology, no rocket's eye view of a train full of Kosovar civilians getting blown up, since they can edit the train off the bridge before releasing anyghing to the media
Remember how throughout the Kososvo this-is-not-a-war, allegations of civilians killed by NATO would surface, NATO PR flaks would deny everything, often long past the point where anyone believed them, and then the footage would surface. Not going to happen anymore, is it?
Interesting that "incitement to riot" these days seems to mean inciting the cops to run riot. Their victims, of course, are the majority of people who are out there trying to participate actively in the political life of their nation/city/whatever (Yeah, activist is not a synonym for criminal).
Interesting also that it seems much easier to get cops to riot than the "rabble" that they're out trying to control.
I haven't seen the director's cut of Aliens, so I don't know exactly what you mean, but such technology has existed for a while now. FOr example, firing a missile at a plane, all the human ever sees is some dots on a screen. Hence the "friendly fire" problems.
A more similar example was what the U.N. used in (Argh! which recent Balkan war was it? Oh well). Basically, they had a device that could track automatic weapon fire back to its source, and return fire. So they left these devices set up in the streets, where snipers were shooting passing civilians from apartment windows. Then any snipers tended to get only one chance to hit anyone.
Granted, I haven't read the article, the link being dead...
On one hand, there's a clear benefit to this technology: it doesn't put human lives at risk
Cough! Splutter? Sorry, putting a gun on a robot, and hooking it up to the internet, doesn't put human lives at risk? Would you want your pacemaker on the internet for the 5cr1p7 k1dd13z to play with?
"Oh, don't worry, I'm running my left kidney as a honeypot." Sorry.
Perhaps one day we'll even be able to use robot soldiers to fight our wars instead of shepherding the poor and the minority into our military.
That was what the inventor of the machine gun was thinking. Seriously, he was a (misguided?) humanitarian.
At the time, disease was the major killer in war - like ten times the casualties of your average enemy army. So the thinking was, why don't we make this gun that can fire a hundred times the bullets, with maybe a tenth the accuracy, of one soldier? Then it can stand in for ten soldiers, a good four or five of whom would likely have died of [dysentery, malaria, tuberculosis, the local plague] by the time the army hit the field anyway.
Didn't take too long for that to go bad, did it? And in this case, you don't even have to look too far into the future to see how this could turn really, really nasty. Just wait till the NRA gets hold of it "There should be an armed robot in half the homes in Texas, with easy browser-based configuration, before it's too late and only the criminals have armed robots."
Now, do you want MS Attack Robot prowling around your yard at night, listening to all and sundry a dozen or two ports? Kinda freaks me out.
OS X Server is not intended to stick around long after OS X (which has full SMP support) comes out. Server was just there to fill in a gap, and to try to get some server base before they got the full deal out with OS X. So since there will only be a few months where they're selling both OS X Server and MP computers, it seems reasonable that instead of updating Server for the newer machines, they'd just make one big move to the full OS X.
That said, I have no inside dope on anything here, I'm just speculating.
Because the 128-bit registers in the G4, while powerful for certain stuff (like what you'd be doing on graphics workstations, exactly where they're talking about leaving them), don't add much to your performance in apps that don't need to do heavy duty number crunching.
The G4 is apparently (maybe by some antiquated standard) a supercomputer. That standard measures floating point opps/sec, but most people don't need a lot of floating point performance - a more responsive Quake game comes from improved integer performance. They'd be switching from a chip optimized for floating point to one that ramps up in clock speed better, for more integer performance.
The article claimed that they were going to leave the G4's in dual and quad processor boxes only - basically targetting them at people who are actually going to be seeing the performance boost that Altivec would give.
Could you tell me, does OS X have IPFilter built into it like some BSD's do? I only have the one computer, and it would be nice if I could just edit one file and have it do the firewalling for me, without needing to get more software, etc.
... is not that libertarianism is a philosophy of being a selfish bastard, but that libertarians (or at least "technolibertarians") are, by and large, selfish bastards, quite aside from their political beliefs.
I can't really comment on whether this is the case or not - I live in Canada, an pretty un-libertarian country, and don't really know anyone who would identify themselves as a libertarian. But from what I know of the ideas of libertarianism, it seems like a philosophy that would tend to attract a lot of selfish folks...
You're right, NetBSD doesn't support any NuBus Macs, just the PCI ones.
I'm pretty sure the Performa equivalent of a 6200 would be a Performa 6200. Not sure about the 5300 though, I was pretty sure that was a laptop only. (A really bad one too, probably the worst computer Apple ever released).
I also think that NetBSD doesn't support multi-processor machines - if you installed it on an Apple 9500/180MP (listed in its supported hardware) it would just run on one CPU. Anyone know how MKLinux would handle that?
Beer is open source in Germany! Under the Bavarian purity law of (I'm not sure when, couple hundred years ago) anything sold as beer in Germany must contain exactly the following four ingredients: water, barley, hops, yeast. Anything else is does not qualify as beer.
Now with the EU, the law has been repealed, but there's still no German brewery that makes a beer that doesn't follow the purity law, and no self-respecting German that would drink such a sludge either.
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Raves are all about having a place where people aren't judging you on every little thing you do, how you look, dance, dress, or talk. They are a place where geeks can have fun and not be judged by people with nothing better to do than worry about what's cool.
Please don't take your troglodytic views to any raves. Raves are a beautiful thing, don't ruin them by making them another place where coolness is the concern, not happiness.
original message from [someone] on [some date]
---------------------------------
[blah blah blah]
So if you send someone an encrypted email, and they answer it, helpfully adding a reminder to you of what your original question was, your original message is as good as plaintext.
The way it works is: Bob encrypts a message to Jill using Jill's public key. Jill decrypts it with her private key.
The other way around would be useless - if it can be decrypted with the public half of the key pair, Bob might as well send it in plaintext, and save the spies the two minutes it will take them to decrypt it
As for the implications here, read the postings that are rated 4 & 5.
And there's no way you'd get a jury of hackers - the MPAA's lawyers would get everyone with an ounce of technical knowledge thrown out as being prejudiced.
In this case, neither is true, but then the quotation in question also dates from an era when people knew what "each" meant...
You can't really "see" 60 Hz (unless your eyes are really sensitive), but it does take its toll. If it didn't, why do you suppose monitor designers bother to even offer refresh rates higher than 60 Hz?
I know I can't tell what the refresh rate on a monitor is by just looking at it, but after an hour or two, I really know. If I have a splitting headache, it's 60 or 70 Hz, if I have a mild headache, it's more like 75 Hz, if I'm fine, it's 80+.
You're forgetting one thing: trolls have lousy grammar. Although a filter that blocked bad grammar might not be a bad idea...
Is that just with x86 hardware? I know Apple hardware will boot without a KB just fine, but I don't really know about any of the other processor families out there.
With this technology, no rocket's eye view of a train full of Kosovar civilians getting blown up, since they can edit the train off the bridge before releasing anyghing to the media
Remember how throughout the Kososvo this-is-not-a-war, allegations of civilians killed by NATO would surface, NATO PR flaks would deny everything, often long past the point where anyone believed them, and then the footage would surface. Not going to happen anymore, is it?
Who will be the next Olly North?
A month or two ago I dismantled it completely, took out the hard drive and played with the guts. That sure was an expensive 500 MB hard drive!
Wherein the record companies sell music at a great profit, "without giving the artists who created it a cent in return".
Interesting also that it seems much easier to get cops to riot than the "rabble" that they're out trying to control.
A more similar example was what the U.N. used in (Argh! which recent Balkan war was it? Oh well). Basically, they had a device that could track automatic weapon fire back to its source, and return fire. So they left these devices set up in the streets, where snipers were shooting passing civilians from apartment windows. Then any snipers tended to get only one chance to hit anyone.
What's the moderation category for good poetry, anyway?
On one hand, there's a clear benefit to this technology: it doesn't put human lives at risk
Cough! Splutter? Sorry, putting a gun on a robot, and hooking it up to the internet, doesn't put human lives at risk? Would you want your pacemaker on the internet for the 5cr1p7 k1dd13z to play with?
"Oh, don't worry, I'm running my left kidney as a honeypot." Sorry.
Perhaps one day we'll even be able to use robot soldiers to fight our wars instead of shepherding the poor and the minority into our military.
That was what the inventor of the machine gun was thinking. Seriously, he was a (misguided?) humanitarian.
At the time, disease was the major killer in war - like ten times the casualties of your average enemy army. So the thinking was, why don't we make this gun that can fire a hundred times the bullets, with maybe a tenth the accuracy, of one soldier? Then it can stand in for ten soldiers, a good four or five of whom would likely have died of [dysentery, malaria, tuberculosis, the local plague] by the time the army hit the field anyway.
Didn't take too long for that to go bad, did it? And in this case, you don't even have to look too far into the future to see how this could turn really, really nasty. Just wait till the NRA gets hold of it "There should be an armed robot in half the homes in Texas, with easy browser-based configuration, before it's too late and only the criminals have armed robots."
Now, do you want MS Attack Robot prowling around your yard at night, listening to all and sundry a dozen or two ports? Kinda freaks me out.
But MS will still be able to say "Well, we tried, and people still stuck with Windows. Just goes to show it's a better OS"
And it makes sense to me that they have accepted that they will be split at the supreme court level, otherwise why the delaying tactics?
That said, I have no inside dope on anything here, I'm just speculating.
The G4 is apparently (maybe by some antiquated standard) a supercomputer. That standard measures floating point opps/sec, but most people don't need a lot of floating point performance - a more responsive Quake game comes from improved integer performance. They'd be switching from a chip optimized for floating point to one that ramps up in clock speed better, for more integer performance.
The article claimed that they were going to leave the G4's in dual and quad processor boxes only - basically targetting them at people who are actually going to be seeing the performance boost that Altivec would give.
They know they're going to lose the DOJ case. They are under no illusions at all that they have been doing anything but evil for the past X years.
I suppose there's nothing stopping me from making my own, aside from my lack of skill, and the poor availability of machine washable electronics...
Oh, yeah, that's why I have pockets. Never mind
Thanks in advance.
Why bother reading his rights, if you're not going to bother respecting them?
I can't really comment on whether this is the case or not - I live in Canada, an pretty un-libertarian country, and don't really know anyone who would identify themselves as a libertarian. But from what I know of the ideas of libertarianism, it seems like a philosophy that would tend to attract a lot of selfish folks...
I'm pretty sure the Performa equivalent of a 6200 would be a Performa 6200. Not sure about the 5300 though, I was pretty sure that was a laptop only. (A really bad one too, probably the worst computer Apple ever released).
I also think that NetBSD doesn't support multi-processor machines - if you installed it on an Apple 9500/180MP (listed in its supported hardware) it would just run on one CPU. Anyone know how MKLinux would handle that?
Now with the EU, the law has been repealed, but there's still no German brewery that makes a beer that doesn't follow the purity law, and no self-respecting German that would drink such a sludge either.