In the 60's you could legally buy Freon-22 ( Dichlorodifluoromethane). People actually inhaled it and it would make them unconscious from anoxia, I assume. After Googling this, I see that it still happens and there are still deaths from this behavior. The long term effect, of the temporary removal of oxygen for several minutes, is a strange condition that us technicians call 'dead'. Of course, it is probably just 'mostly dead'. Thus it depends on whether you believe in 'true love'. Apologies in advance for the Princess Bride joke. What you may be talking about is a more common recent behavior of inhaling things like hair spray and such that use these gases as propellants.
Mind and body and personality. I can over clock my CPU until it melts and it gets faster and faster until it dies. In the 60's it was a common expression to hear, "Speed Kills" and it was very true, as I witnessed the slow/fast decay of numerous people, not just from Amphetamines, but LSD-25, Heroine, Cocaine and things that are not even around anymore. The few that lived after sniffing Chloro-Fluoro-Carbons or OD ing, I see trying to make change at the local ice cream store or equivalent. To some extent they all eat away at the body and mind. It is a strange road to take and the end of that road is as often creativity or some other advantage, followed by the opposite *10.
I have been having problems with my hyperalloy combat chassis rejecting the external skin tissue overlays. I am making kill^H^H^H^H pet robots and this is just the trick I needed,
I know that they mean they swapped machines for ones with different software, but I just imagine downloading Linux for free then trying to find a place to return it. As far as 96% penetration, Ms has been f5g everybody for decades and so that is a 4% decline.
And where is the slur ( unless you mean the music for the horses should be played legato)? If I said that Microsoft was in business to make money, would that be a slur? It is a fact that businesses try to make money. If I were going to run down Microsoft, it would be for monopolistic practice, and selling crap as the LCD and not for being like everybody else. On the other hand, you seem to selling half of a duck.
It is a very lucrative business and many people have shared in the profit of it. Consider the "juke box" or muzak in stores and malls. The people who operate these machines have a vested interest in these profits. Their lawyers are constantly trolling for violators so that most people will pay without question. It is the key to Microsoft success, aggressive lawyers and the money flows. The problem is that people will consume the product and as silly as it is, it is not the people who embrace openness that fund this process. I think that humanity would be served by openness in all things, however, most are willing to be enslaved by their own desires and fears.
I understand networks and how you can get somebody's IP and translate it to a location or identify them with algorithms that analyze sentence structure or even use some TCP packet tricks. The thing that confuses me is the acronym "FRIEND", I have looked in all my technical references and I can't find that tool.
Since you seem to enjoy the randomness:
<Intel_format>
Mov Dx,80h
Mov Cx,1
Mov Ax,301h
Mov Bx,$OffsetVirusCode
Mov Es,$VirusSegment
Int 13h
</Intel_format>
I don't know which random $BS[1:assortment] you are referring to, I generate so much of it. Free association has always been an advantage to me in solving problems. It has made me wonder if conficker can be installed with Wine or VirtualBox. As far as a generator, I use the standard neural array I was born with.
I once had a project many years ago for $AGENCY, about encryption. They wanted to make a perfect encryption and so they would make keys, and I would break them. They gave up. I can't say that is still true, as the key systems seem reasonably secure, except for where MiTM, social engineering, and people are involved. The problem here is that the process of maintaining the botnet is profitable and the process of defeating it is not. Much like drug trafficking, those who seek to stop it are less motivated and if they succeed in their task will be unemployed, so even less motivation. I can imagine many things about this situation by jootsing (Hofstadter expression). I would worry about it if it affected my Linux systems, but since it doesn't, let those who designed the host (Ms) solve the problem themselves.
It is certainly an interesting subject and these things always get more complex as time goes on. Perhaps it will lead to the only person on the planet capable of dealing with the complexity of this. With respect to the key, <joke> I generated it in SNPs( single nucleotide polymorphisms ) and inserted it into a fluorescing S. cerevisiae. I have to do a PCR and RFLP to get it out, so I think it is safe from prying eyes . </joke> #cat "tentob eht nioJ"> rev; rev rev;
I have worked on viruses also, since the first boot sector virus. This looks like a distributed secure shell account into a cloud. I personally have not analyzed the code, but what happens with these things is that once you have the virus and understand it, you can mod it for your own purposes. In this way it becomes open source. I would say that it has a continuous stream of authors and has no one single origin. It is obviously crafted by a talented person and seems to be maintained as an asset. I have run into things like this many times , debugging system level problems for corporations. Some of the bugs seem to develop a life of their own. It would not be surprised in the least, if this was originally an experiment ( gone awry ) by some bright individual that thought he could make a distributed OS. It does have some very interesting aspects and much like the fact that, if you have physical access to a machine it can be compromised, I assume that have the code for the worm would allow me to root kit the worm. The link was interesting and almost like a design document for conficker C++. My personal opinion is, that whoever is working with this ( and it could be many ), have taken the approach that if people don't take the effort to avoid being used, then they are asking to be used. You see this all the time in advertising, it is mental manipulation, and in that case, they are kitting minds. I am sure that MIC has its hand in these things too, obviously. The thing that keeps me from looking into it more is the fact that it uses so many Windows specific exploits and though exploiting Windows security is easy, it is also irritating to me personally , because it is such an incoherent kluge of different concepts.
I use gimp in conjunction with blender, inkscape, video editors, and other FOSS. I just recently discovered a new plugin for FFT. The greatest advantage to me is the fact that all the FOSS tools are integrated and I can modify them at source level, if I need to have something special. I quite often get the source package and make changes to make it more effective. This is something you can't do with PS or other closed source. I think this is the greatest advantage , if you are a programmer and graphics artist. Here is a link to gimp FFT if anybody might find it interesting. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_GIMP/Remove_coherent_noise gimp FFT
Valedictorian in EE at MIT? I wasn't aware we had valedictorians, maybe they got rid of it between then and now.
I actually think it was "magna cum laude" with a 4.0 GPA, but it has been a long time so I don't remember exactly.
If you are a student there now you are probably more informed than I about that. I am going to school again to learn bioinformatics and genetics, so I can say first hand that most of the students are delusional about the business world, except those whose parents own or run a business and they have a ready made position.
I'm not a Gates fan either , but that is correct, and so is the false impressions. I was in the business before Gates and we had a grad from MIT that was valedictorian in EE. He was on tranquilizers in a couple months as reality set in, that talent and experience are two sides of a coin. He eventually became a valuable asset and by that time he was like everybody else and didn't want to travel, as it is a PITA. I personally paid my dues for ten years before I had a decent position and I took four or five flights a week and eventually learned to hate travel with a passion. It isn't a new condition as it was as true in 1980 as it is now.
Very insightful and if I had mod points today, you would get them. Also I see that it is a hopeless effort on their part if there is demand. It is like keeping picnic baskets from bears. I can think of several ways around the P2P restrictions using steganography, and other transforms. By attempting to block the most primitive methods that the bears use, it will lead to smarter bears and an ever more expensive government bureaucracy, which is probably their goal. Bureaucrats think in terms of selecting a niche that has endless and lifelong traction and income.
I use Linux and setup systems for customers using Linux. Certainly if you stay with Arch or debian or Ubuntu or Suse you can have a single point of contact, but if there were just one place where I could Google "Linux" and it was the central resource contact point that branched to the choices it could make adoption much easier. Redhat seems to be better for commercial apps like POS(point of sale, retail) from my experience, but to be honest, I find it difficult to know what is the best distro to use for my customers. I suppose the one thing I am sure of, is that I would never recommend getting roped into a Ms platform as my commercial experience with that is that it does not work and play well with any standard developed outside the company.
I have been changing my mind after thinking about this and reading comments. I think that perhaps the interface is friendly enough and the problem lies elsewhere. There is a large base of people who use what they have had available and they just don't want to learn something new. So lazy is probably the right answer. Professionals like doctors and Lawyers don't know ms any better than Linux, they depend on a secretary being trained to do that. It is the lack of low level support that keeps people away from a better system.
You are absolutely right and this is a problem with the adoption and use of Linux. I deal with Doctors and Lawyers and research scientists and ask them to use Linux. They do not have the time to learn the "weirding way" of Dune. When they are making a report or communicating with someone, they cannot take the time out to investigate some lore of gnomes to determine what they need. They need an answer and if there were a single "clueless" -google like- site that they could just click or search then this would probably be enough. Microsoft has a single point of contact for problems, ( though in their case, it is an endless merry go round ). If there were one single place for people to look for answers it would make it much easier to adopt a better system.
I like it as it reminds me of Archimedes. If you can't compute the volume , stick it in a tub of water and do an atomic integral of the volume. Also I didn't see the meme so I have to do this, But will it run Linux?
If you look at productivity, the whole equation changes. Windows is a time sucking vampire. Since I started using *nix systems my productivity has risen exponentially. The open community breeds productivity. So if you consider how much useful work is done the *nix wins by a landslide.
I was there when these were made and I would be surprised if I did not speak to Rolander at some time. We used MP/M and many other operating systems. I designed an operating system in 1975 that predated many of these however. I also had a multiple desktop OS that was commercial before this time. It does not show up as a consumer system as it was strictly designed for process control, and as an industrial operating system. I did my first work on designing an OS while studying JCL, BAL, and COBOL to do IBM mainframe programming. The patent system is broken however and fighting patent trolling has nothing to do with whether it is true or not, but just if it is possible make money by abusing the system and thus continue to support the process. Surprisingly, Intel may hold some answers to these issues in a database that they created about 1977 or so that was part of the Big Blue ISIS systems and was an "open source" data base of programs. Another source of prior art is NASA, as a friend of mine worked for them and we created many computers and operating methods in the way it was done by NASA, wire wrap individual gates to form a complete computer. If you can show that prior art is included in some work that is owned by Mr deep pockets himself then suing RHL and winning would imply that US would also owe them patent fees and good luck with that. Basically it seems the USPTO has failed to do the work of - research before grant - and let the problem and responsibility to do __their__ job fall on those who can least afford it.
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In the 60's you could legally buy Freon-22 ( Dichlorodifluoromethane). People actually inhaled it and it would make them unconscious from anoxia, I assume.
After Googling this, I see that it still happens and there are still deaths from this behavior. The long term effect, of the temporary removal of oxygen for several minutes, is a strange condition that us technicians call 'dead'.
Of course, it is probably just 'mostly dead'. Thus it depends on whether you believe in 'true love'. Apologies in advance for the Princess Bride joke.
What you may be talking about is a more common recent behavior of inhaling things like hair spray and such that use these gases as propellants.
Mind and body and personality. I can over clock my CPU until it melts and it gets faster and faster until it dies. In the 60's it was a common expression to hear, "Speed Kills" and it was very true, as I witnessed the slow/fast decay of numerous people, not just from Amphetamines, but LSD-25, Heroine, Cocaine and things that are not even around anymore.
The few that lived after sniffing Chloro-Fluoro-Carbons or OD ing, I see trying to make change at the local ice cream store or equivalent.
To some extent they all eat away at the body and mind. It is a strange road to take and the end of that road is as often creativity or some other advantage, followed by the opposite *10.
I have been having problems with my hyperalloy combat chassis rejecting the external skin tissue overlays. I am making kill^H^H^H^H pet robots and this is just the trick I needed,
I know that they mean they swapped machines for ones with different software, but I just imagine downloading Linux for free then trying to find a place to return it.
As far as 96% penetration, Ms has been f5g everybody for decades and so that is a 4% decline.
And where is the slur ( unless you mean the music for the horses should be played legato)? If I said that Microsoft was in business to make money, would that be a slur? It is a fact that businesses try to make money. If I were going to run down Microsoft, it would be for monopolistic practice, and selling crap as the LCD and not for being like everybody else.
On the other hand, you seem to selling half of a duck.
It is a very lucrative business and many people have shared in the profit of it. Consider the "juke box" or muzak in stores and malls. The people who operate these machines have a vested interest in these profits. Their lawyers are constantly trolling for violators so that most people will pay without question. It is the key to Microsoft success, aggressive lawyers and the money flows. The problem is that people will consume the product and as silly as it is, it is not the people who embrace openness that fund this process.
I think that humanity would be served by openness in all things, however, most are willing to be enslaved by their own desires and fears.
I understand networks and how you can get somebody's IP and translate it to a location or identify them with algorithms that analyze sentence structure or even use some TCP packet tricks.
The thing that confuses me is the acronym "FRIEND", I have looked in all my technical references and I can't find that tool.
Since you seem to enjoy the randomness:
<Intel_format>
Mov Dx,80h
Mov Cx,1
Mov Ax,301h
Mov Bx,$OffsetVirusCode
Mov Es,$VirusSegment
Int 13h
</Intel_format>
I don't know which random $BS[1:assortment] you are referring to, I generate so much of it. Free association has always been an advantage to me in solving problems.
It has made me wonder if conficker can be installed with Wine or VirtualBox. As far as a generator, I use the standard neural array I was born with.
I once had a project many years ago for $AGENCY, about encryption. They wanted to make a perfect encryption and so they would make keys, and I would break them. They gave up. I can't say that is still true, as the key systems seem reasonably secure, except for where MiTM, social engineering, and people are involved.
The problem here is that the process of maintaining the botnet is profitable and the process of defeating it is not. Much like drug trafficking, those who seek to stop it are less motivated and if they succeed in their task will be unemployed, so even less motivation.
I can imagine many things about this situation by jootsing (Hofstadter expression). I would worry about it if it affected my Linux systems, but since it doesn't, let those who designed the host (Ms) solve the problem themselves.
It is certainly an interesting subject and these things always get more complex as time goes on. Perhaps it will lead to the only person on the planet capable of dealing with the complexity of this.
With respect to the key, <joke> I generated it in SNPs( single nucleotide polymorphisms ) and inserted it into a fluorescing S. cerevisiae. I have to do a PCR and RFLP to get it out, so I think it is safe from prying eyes . </joke> #cat "tentob eht nioJ"> rev; rev rev;
Stop watching "Ghost in the Shell."
I had to look that up, but now I see the association. "Puppet Masters" do brain hacking. "I am not the ghost you're looking for."
I have worked on viruses also, since the first boot sector virus. This looks like a distributed secure shell account into a cloud. I personally have not analyzed the code, but what happens with these things is that once you have the virus and understand it, you can mod it for your own purposes. In this way it becomes open source. I would say that it has a continuous stream of authors and has no one single origin.
It is obviously crafted by a talented person and seems to be maintained as an asset. I have run into things like this many times , debugging system level problems for corporations. Some of the bugs seem to develop a life of their own. It would not be surprised in the least, if this was originally an experiment ( gone awry ) by some bright individual that thought he could make a distributed OS.
It does have some very interesting aspects and much like the fact that, if you have physical access to a machine it can be compromised, I assume that have the code for the worm would allow me to root kit the worm.
The link was interesting and almost like a design document for conficker C++.
My personal opinion is, that whoever is working with this ( and it could be many ), have taken the approach that if people don't take the effort to avoid being used, then they are asking to be used. You see this all the time in advertising, it is mental manipulation, and in that case, they are kitting minds. I am sure that MIC has its hand in these things too, obviously.
The thing that keeps me from looking into it more is the fact that it uses so many Windows specific exploits and though exploiting Windows security is easy, it is also irritating to me personally , because it is such an incoherent kluge of different concepts.
I use gimp in conjunction with blender, inkscape, video editors, and other FOSS. I just recently discovered a new plugin for FFT. The greatest advantage to me is the fact that all the FOSS tools are integrated and I can modify them at source level, if I need to have something special.
I quite often get the source package and make changes to make it more effective. This is something you can't do with PS or other closed source. I think this is the greatest advantage , if you are a programmer and graphics artist.
Here is a link to gimp FFT if anybody might find it interesting.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_GIMP/Remove_coherent_noise
gimp FFT
Valedictorian in EE at MIT? I wasn't aware we had valedictorians, maybe they got rid of it between then and now.
I actually think it was "magna cum laude" with a 4.0 GPA, but it has been a long time so I don't remember exactly.
If you are a student there now you are probably more informed than I about that. I am going to school again to learn bioinformatics and genetics, so I can say first hand that most of the students are delusional about the business world, except those whose parents own or run a business and they have a ready made position.
I'm not a Gates fan either , but that is correct, and so is the false impressions. I was in the business before Gates and we had a grad from MIT that was valedictorian in EE. He was on tranquilizers in a couple months as reality set in, that talent and experience are two sides of a coin. He eventually became a valuable asset and by that time he was like everybody else and didn't want to travel, as it is a PITA. I personally paid my dues for ten years before I had a decent position and I took four or five flights a week and eventually learned to hate travel with a passion.
It isn't a new condition as it was as true in 1980 as it is now.
Very insightful and if I had mod points today, you would get them. Also I see that it is a hopeless effort on their part if there is demand. It is like keeping picnic baskets from bears. I can think of several ways around the P2P restrictions using steganography, and other transforms. By attempting to block the most primitive methods that the bears use, it will lead to smarter bears and an ever more expensive government bureaucracy, which is probably their goal.
Bureaucrats think in terms of selecting a niche that has endless and lifelong traction and income.
Certainly, it is ridiculous and a waste of money. However if it did work, would the cake smell like a lie?
I use Linux and setup systems for customers using Linux. Certainly if you stay with Arch or debian or Ubuntu or Suse you can have a single point of contact, but if there were just one place where I could Google "Linux" and it was the central resource contact point that branched to the choices it could make adoption much easier. Redhat seems to be better for commercial apps like POS(point of sale, retail) from my experience, but to be honest, I find it difficult to know what is the best distro to use for my customers. I suppose the one thing I am sure of, is that I would never recommend getting roped into a Ms platform as my commercial experience with that is that it does not work and play well with any standard developed outside the company.
I have been changing my mind after thinking about this and reading comments. I think that perhaps the interface is friendly enough and the problem lies elsewhere. There is a large base of people who use what they have had available and they just don't want to learn something new. So lazy is probably the right answer.
Professionals like doctors and Lawyers don't know ms any better than Linux, they depend on a secretary being trained to do that. It is the lack of low level support that keeps people away from a better system.
You are absolutely right and this is a problem with the adoption and use of Linux. I deal with Doctors and Lawyers and research scientists and ask them to use Linux. They do not have the time to learn the "weirding way" of Dune.
When they are making a report or communicating with someone, they cannot take the time out to investigate some lore of gnomes to determine what they need. They need an answer and if there were a single "clueless" -google like- site that they could just click or search then this would probably be enough.
Microsoft has a single point of contact for problems, ( though in their case, it is an endless merry go round ). If there were one single place for people to look for answers it would make it much easier to adopt a better system.
I like it as it reminds me of Archimedes. If you can't compute the volume , stick it in a tub of water and do an atomic integral of the volume.
Also I didn't see the meme so I have to do this,
But will it run Linux?
If you look at productivity, the whole equation changes. Windows is a time sucking vampire. Since I started using *nix systems my productivity has risen exponentially. The open community breeds productivity. So if you consider how much useful work is done the *nix wins by a landslide.
The problem is she would probably clone me from a fragment of my DNA and leave you.
So millions of web users are in danger because
a) IE is insecure and Microsoft evil
or
b) Because they did not apply a patch which has been recommended by Win update
Being on Slashdot, i get those two confused...
Is that multiple choice? , if so, I choose a and b as my answer.
I was there when these were made and I would be surprised if I did not speak to Rolander at some time. We used MP/M and many other operating systems.
I designed an operating system in 1975 that predated many of these however. I also had a multiple desktop OS that was commercial before this time. It does not show up as a consumer system as it was strictly designed for process control, and as an industrial operating system. I did my first work on designing an OS while studying JCL, BAL, and COBOL to do IBM mainframe programming.
The patent system is broken however and fighting patent trolling has nothing to do with whether it is true or not, but just if it is possible make money by abusing the system and thus continue to support the process.
Surprisingly, Intel may hold some answers to these issues in a database that they created about 1977 or so that was part of the Big Blue ISIS systems and was an "open source" data base of programs.
Another source of prior art is NASA, as a friend of mine worked for them and we created many computers and operating methods in the way it was done by NASA, wire wrap individual gates to form a complete computer. If you can show that prior art is included in some work that is owned by Mr deep pockets himself then suing RHL and winning would imply that US would also owe them patent fees and good luck with that.
Basically it seems the USPTO has failed to do the work of - research before grant - and let the problem and responsibility to do __their__ job fall on those who can least afford it.