Botnets folding md5 between the 8-12 character spectrum for rainbow hacking are more of an imminent threat....between the estimated 4-10 million machines you could probably crack any unsalted hashes within a month.
The cellular data networks already have the coverage, the wifi will only be redundant. Pretty soon all phones will be HSPA compatible. Laptops already have it with (even if you don't count the crappy edge network).
I was assualted by a fanboi when I told him my Tapwave was cooler than his iPhone. Luckliy, I had a stylus as a weapon, while all he had was his finger. He didn't want to drop his iPhone either becuase it didn't have applecare.
In the end its all free and public anyways. Ebooks, software, music. Dosn't make it right, but I wouldn't worry about any ebook restrictions becuase people will always find a way to distribute if they have the will.
I'm not supporting copyright infrindgment, I'm just saying the licensing will have little effect on what's available in the public domain (legitimate or not).
I love how my tax money goes to fund an illegal war and gather private information about me. From this point on, I'm redirecting my income and keeping my earned US income below taxable rates. I refuse to finance this shit. Enough is enough.
We have been raped. THIS IS NOT THE COUNTRY WE SIGNED UP FOR. They are not holding their end of the Social Contract. This is just like the Red Scare 1 and Red Scare 2. Remember Sacco and Vanzetti? Remember Joseph McCarthy and all of his victims in the name of Communism? Terrorism is the new term used to scare citizens into compliance. We are on the fast-track to a police state, influenced by the UK. They say that they are protecting us in the name of 'National Security'. What they don't understand is if we had better foriegn policy everyone wouldn't hate us and we wouldn't "need" all this "national security".
This is just the last straw for me. I'm going to go outside and moon the eye-in-the-sky. I'm going to spam my phones with terrorist keywords like "bomb".
"Those who would trade essential freedom for temporary security deserve neither." (Citizen Ben)
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2gb+ is ridiculous. Vista comes bloated with services like Microsoft Tablet PC services on. After cutting the saturated fat, a normal vista system should run around 384 mb with nothing but the OS.
Further optimization can lower it to 172 MB, but if you need to do networking or use Wifi, you can forget about it.
Check out the study http://hypnosis.home.netcom.com/iq_vs_religiosity.htm about the above claim (it's pretty well-known if you google around to validate the source).
You forgot to include boring. Christian mythology is the least original and MOST boring mythology ever created.
That means the unintelligent dishonest people are so boring they are not even worth laughing at. Except for Bush, he was endowed with Will Smith ears. I chuckle.
genetic discrimination is near....sorry bob we cant hire you, your dna indicates you have a 70% chance of cancer...thats too expensive for our health care premiums
TV needs to change it's one-way media style to something more interactive in order to compete with media like the interent. I think in the furture we will see TV intergrated completly online almost in a p2p fasion where users can share their 'playlists'.
I hate to say this...but I think Microsoft is on spot. I think were heading into a Home Server type system where your TV recieves brodcasting streamed from a computer and supported by content you selected.
I stopped watching TV in 2003 becuase of the growth of video online with the likes of youtube and veoh. Many are in my same situation. The content on TV tends to be garbage anyways. If you compare news channel websites to the messages they broadcast on TV you will be shocked at the difference. I remember CNN broadcasting a story about Britney Spears all day while the website only mentioned Spears on a small column in the bottom right...
Furthermore, we see a trend in broadcasting networks to provide high definition content online for free. Take Faux On Demand (fox.com/fod), when I want to watch House, I stream it from FoD to my Xbox =)
Yeah agree...the offline web application made me laugh. Most of the applications I develop already leverage the web with HTTP parsing and MySql...It pisses me off when people start treating vitrual machines and web browsers as an operating system.
Pretty soon everyone will be programming for a browser built inside of another browser thats built on a virtual machine...
My fellow hackers do not give into centralized power as large as the military. Remember that the military is under the ultimate authority of the president, an individual you did not elect because you were given shitty choice over which member of congress to promote so you ended up not giving a shit because none of the candidates had a clear perception of technology anyways.
While the offer sounds tempting, the militarys obsession with procedure, lack of exceptions and its fixation on hierarchy will directly conflict with individuality. Theyll probably tell you that porn is not allowed on your machine. Theyll probably make you use a windows box and force you to change your background and tell you to stop watching so much damn anime.
We have a duty to preserve anonymity, data neutrality, information integrity, and a community service of information for up-and-coming generations. If you are a hacker, you are already enlisted in your own army. Your duty is whatever the hell you want to do. If youre not getting paid, its either because you hate cubicles, or have good morals. Keep your day job and continue to be under your own authority.
If the trace amounts somehow did effect us (which I doubt), lets say certain trace amount of a combination of drugs effected birth rates in the regions with that combination present (over a very long period of time)....could be a source of subtle evolution? Like another user pointed out, it'd be better to associate the drugs with our bloodstream.
We can rule out government based mind-control conspiracy, since slipping anti-dep meds into the watersupply would go against the Nation's terrorist scare domestic policy program. Wait a sec....if that's true...then the terrorists must be the ones slipping the meds in the water so we don't catch onto their plots...now I'm scared, gonna grab some water.
What's with all the buzz about the RIAA tracking P2P users for illegal music downloading? I thought most of us were extracting music from websites like imeem.com. Fast load, no ads, preview songs, not to mention the RIAA could never catch you this way...I think that would make a great alternative for colleges to offer p2p users ^^
I use Mac OSX 10.4, Linux Fedora (on my laptop), and Windows Vista Business on my main desktop machine. From my personal experience, yes Vista does come bloated and you have to trim it down. This does not make it a BAD operating system. Vista is a great operating system, I have Opera, Visual Studio, and Outlook running and my machine is currently using 456 mb of memory. My Mac runs at about 520 mb memory and my Linux runs 382 mb memory. All on similar machines...this OS talk is just politics and people supporting their own preference.
If you want compare services running, applications running, OS imprint, benchmarks, you will find out that all the systems are identical. If youre too lazy to optimize Vista, use a minimalist distro of Linux. If you prefer a complete streamlined system and conformity with eye candy, use Mac. If you really think about it, Windows is the perfect balance between conformity and configuration. On Mac, everything follows a streamlined look, streamlined interface, and strict apple standards. On windows, there is a standard, but people sometimes follow them and sometimes not. On Linux, you get the ultimate configuration, so you pretty much define your own standard. This is a matter of preference.
Execution speeds are more or less the same. I really do not notice any difference between any of the systems after they are optimizedexcept my EFI enabled hackintosh has better benchmarks than my apple machine in every area except thread spawning.lol
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2 light years later that same asteroid crashes into earth and kills all the animals. Humans already killed each other by then.
Botnets folding md5 between the 8-12 character spectrum for rainbow hacking are more of an imminent threat....between the estimated 4-10 million machines you could probably crack any unsalted hashes within a month.
The cellular data networks already have the coverage, the wifi will only be redundant. Pretty soon all phones will be HSPA compatible. Laptops already have it with (even if you don't count the crappy edge network).
Cellular data networks will take over instead. Having both is not needed.
I was assualted by a fanboi when I told him my Tapwave was cooler than his iPhone. Luckliy, I had a stylus as a weapon, while all he had was his finger. He didn't want to drop his iPhone either becuase it didn't have applecare.
In the eyes of the government it seems that Terrorism is anything that is against government interest.
In the end its all free and public anyways. Ebooks, software, music. Dosn't make it right, but I wouldn't worry about any ebook restrictions becuase people will always find a way to distribute if they have the will. I'm not supporting copyright infrindgment, I'm just saying the licensing will have little effect on what's available in the public domain (legitimate or not).
I love how my tax money goes to fund an illegal war and gather private information about me. From this point on, I'm redirecting my income and keeping my earned US income below taxable rates. I refuse to finance this shit. Enough is enough.
We have been raped. THIS IS NOT THE COUNTRY WE SIGNED UP FOR. They are not holding their end of the Social Contract. This is just like the Red Scare 1 and Red Scare 2. Remember Sacco and Vanzetti? Remember Joseph McCarthy and all of his victims in the name of Communism? Terrorism is the new term used to scare citizens into compliance. We are on the fast-track to a police state, influenced by the UK. They say that they are protecting us in the name of 'National Security'. What they don't understand is if we had better foriegn policy everyone wouldn't hate us and we wouldn't "need" all this "national security".
This is just the last straw for me. I'm going to go outside and moon the eye-in-the-sky. I'm going to spam my phones with terrorist keywords like "bomb".
"Those who would trade essential freedom for temporary security deserve neither." (Citizen Ben)
I used to find slashdot delightful, But my feelings of late are more spiteful; My comments Sarcastic The Iconoclastic Keep Modding to Plus Five (Insightful)
2gb+ is ridiculous. Vista comes bloated with services like Microsoft Tablet PC services on. After cutting the saturated fat, a normal vista system should run around 384 mb with nothing but the OS.
Further optimization can lower it to 172 MB, but if you need to do networking or use Wifi, you can forget about it.
As former posters mentioned, lets not forget the vapochill powered pc platform. Starcraft 2 screen shots are brining back some good feelings...
Check out the study http://hypnosis.home.netcom.com/iq_vs_religiosity.htm about the above claim (it's pretty well-known if you google around to validate the source). You forgot to include boring. Christian mythology is the least original and MOST boring mythology ever created. That means the unintelligent dishonest people are so boring they are not even worth laughing at. Except for Bush, he was endowed with Will Smith ears. I chuckle.
genetic discrimination is near....sorry bob we cant hire you, your dna indicates you have a 70% chance of cancer...thats too expensive for our health care premiums
WTF? Our government did something right? Now if they can just fix the FCC, but thats too much to ask for I guess *sigh
TV needs to change it's one-way media style to something more interactive in order to compete with media like the interent. I think in the furture we will see TV intergrated completly online almost in a p2p fasion where users can share their 'playlists'. I hate to say this...but I think Microsoft is on spot. I think were heading into a Home Server type system where your TV recieves brodcasting streamed from a computer and supported by content you selected. I stopped watching TV in 2003 becuase of the growth of video online with the likes of youtube and veoh. Many are in my same situation. The content on TV tends to be garbage anyways. If you compare news channel websites to the messages they broadcast on TV you will be shocked at the difference. I remember CNN broadcasting a story about Britney Spears all day while the website only mentioned Spears on a small column in the bottom right... Furthermore, we see a trend in broadcasting networks to provide high definition content online for free. Take Faux On Demand (fox.com/fod), when I want to watch House, I stream it from FoD to my Xbox =)
Yeah agree...the offline web application made me laugh. Most of the applications I develop already leverage the web with HTTP parsing and MySql...It pisses me off when people start treating vitrual machines and web browsers as an operating system.
Pretty soon everyone will be programming for a browser built inside of another browser thats built on a virtual machine...
My fellow hackers do not give into centralized power as large as the military. Remember that the military is under the ultimate authority of the president, an individual you did not elect because you were given shitty choice over which member of congress to promote so you ended up not giving a shit because none of the candidates had a clear perception of technology anyways.
While the offer sounds tempting, the militarys obsession with procedure, lack of exceptions and its fixation on hierarchy will directly conflict with individuality. Theyll probably tell you that porn is not allowed on your machine. Theyll probably make you use a windows box and force you to change your background and tell you to stop watching so much damn anime.
We have a duty to preserve anonymity, data neutrality, information integrity, and a community service of information for up-and-coming generations.
If you are a hacker, you are already enlisted in your own army. Your duty is whatever the hell you want to do. If youre not getting paid, its either because you hate cubicles, or have good morals. Keep your day job and continue to be under your own authority.
If the trace amounts somehow did effect us (which I doubt), lets say certain trace amount of a combination of drugs effected birth rates in the regions with that combination present (over a very long period of time)....could be a source of subtle evolution? Like another user pointed out, it'd be better to associate the drugs with our bloodstream. We can rule out government based mind-control conspiracy, since slipping anti-dep meds into the watersupply would go against the Nation's terrorist scare domestic policy program. Wait a sec....if that's true...then the terrorists must be the ones slipping the meds in the water so we don't catch onto their plots...now I'm scared, gonna grab some water.
What's with all the buzz about the RIAA tracking P2P users for illegal music downloading? I thought most of us were extracting music from websites like imeem.com. Fast load, no ads, preview songs, not to mention the RIAA could never catch you this way...I think that would make a great alternative for colleges to offer p2p users ^^
I use Mac OSX 10.4, Linux Fedora (on my laptop), and Windows Vista Business on my main desktop machine. From my personal experience, yes Vista does come bloated and you have to trim it down. This does not make it a BAD operating system. Vista is a great operating system, I have Opera, Visual Studio, and Outlook running and my machine is currently using 456 mb of memory. My Mac runs at about 520 mb memory and my Linux runs 382 mb memory. All on similar machines...this OS talk is just politics and people supporting their own preference. If you want compare services running, applications running, OS imprint, benchmarks, you will find out that all the systems are identical. If youre too lazy to optimize Vista, use a minimalist distro of Linux. If you prefer a complete streamlined system and conformity with eye candy, use Mac. If you really think about it, Windows is the perfect balance between conformity and configuration. On Mac, everything follows a streamlined look, streamlined interface, and strict apple standards. On windows, there is a standard, but people sometimes follow them and sometimes not. On Linux, you get the ultimate configuration, so you pretty much define your own standard. This is a matter of preference. Execution speeds are more or less the same. I really do not notice any difference between any of the systems after they are optimizedexcept my EFI enabled hackintosh has better benchmarks than my apple machine in every area except thread spawning.lol