I was reading the summary and noted that the use of "elephantine" sounded both odd for a Katz article and strangely familiar.
From the New York Times review:
--- Like weary Brezhnev-era Muscovites, the American moviegoing public will line up out of habit and compulsion, ruefully hoping that this episode will at least be a little better than the last one, and perhaps inwardly suspecting that the whole elephantine system is rotten. ---
Secrets, eh? You better have some pretty serious anti-disassembly tricks up your sleeve because me, IDA and some free time will post your BS secret all over the 'net if you don't.
Who the fuck do you think is going to download this dumbass program if there's no source? You've got a 30 meg program with NO SOURCE for something that, by all indications, could be written in perl with a couple command line switches in 1000 lines?
How hypocritical is a guy who writes illegal programs to modify your cable modem so you can download more information but DOESN'T INCLUDE SOURCE HIMSELF? Fuck you and the mom you rode in on.
Also, I remember hearing about this good looking hacker chick who used extremely large fonts and a camoflaged computer. Due to Penn Jillette's incompetance he failed to notice this good looking individual's ability to literally fly through the network, superman style, before crashing into the garbage file. Teller had neglected to take out the trash and was summarily beaten. In the resulting hilarity, more large fonts are exchanged and a virus is disassembled via Matrix-style code-fu. Near the end of this caper one of the hax0rs in question has sex with another human being, possibly as a result of his cult following of thousands of IRC kiddies boasting knockoffs of his nick.
Because this isn't PoDunk Community College and Rib House we're talking about. MIT is the most respected technical college in the world. They don't accept idiots and they don't give PHD's to the incompetent. Say whatever you want about this guy's motivations, but don't question his abilities in the areas he has studied.
from your Neuromancer catalogue just yet.. Basically all this is is the ability to "train" the rats entierly through manipulating different sectors of their brains. They zap one portion, which cues the rat. The rat turns around. The rat's Reward Sector is stimulated. Next time when the rat gets the original zap he'll turn around automatically because he thinks he'll get a reward.
Woohoo. I do the same thing with my dog, but I use my voice and biscuits instead of aligator clips.
In the book he mentions how he was able to get his golden retriever to boot Slackware and tells a fascinating tale of how his great dane smuggled a turd Gator-style into his house and deposited it under the couch.
>You have to apologize for posting an ad with your moderator priviledges, disguised as Yet Another free expression anti-corporation blah blah article.
Seriously.. it's a BOOK about DOGS! Unless his dogs were cloned/implanted/digitized/running Linux/playing mp3's/putting spyware in Kazaa.. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT!
The new computer was formally dedicated last month, and the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center said yesterday that the machine had reached more than 87 percent of its theoretical peak speed.
my college, Polytechnic University (Worst College Ever) had, I'm not making this up, a NINE TO ONE guy to girl ratio. Yeah, that's bad, but you're thinking to yourself "get some girls elsewhere". The college was in.. LONG FUCKING ISLAND. The only other "school" around was Trailer Trash University, otherwise known as Amityville Middle School.
No one who matters actually ever believes that stories or capsules on Slashdot are accurate. As soon as I read this I knew it was BS. The article summary makes it sound like this guy walked up to another student and said
"Hey, did you use a sprintf() or two strcpy()'s to do merge those strings? sprintf()? Cool. Oh crap I just got expelled."
Meanwhile, I'm sure the conversation was more like
"Holy shit dude.. I haven't been to class in 6 weeks and I have some homework due tommorow or I'm going to fail. What's your advice? I see. I see. I don't understand what you're talking about, let me see your code."
"OK, thanks for the help! Oh crap, I got caught. Crap, I'm expelled, but at least my dad built the Dr. Herbert J. Furnsworth III Memorial Science Lab. Hey Dad, let's raise a stink."
"OK son. Maybe we can even get it posted on Slashdot, where even the most foul turd can be sprayed with enough perfume to make it smell like the cosmetics counter in Macy's!"
why do you even bother posting these? you're affecting maybe 1 in 20 people who load the page. Christ, you've been getting first posts with this stuff for days now. Don't you have a job? How pathetic is your life that the most enjoyable thing you can do is hit the reload button all day?
My theory: first posters, goatse trolls and wide posters are all quadraplegics on disability. This would explain why they never type more than a few words because they have to blink in a pre-arranged sequence to get their letters translated to the screen. For this reason, they typically only do copy/paste because it's much easier on the eyes and gives their nursemaids more time to clean the feces out of their shorts.
Record companies are so stupid. They think that the reason we haven't bought 12 million copies of Britney Spears' latest album is because everyone is pirating it. Bullshit. People aren't buying it because their fanbase grew up and their tastes in music grew with them. Same thing happened 12 years ago with New Kids on the Block. In another decade expect another kiddie pop boom. In the meantime there's going to be a lull in sales until the young teens get a new obsession (after NKOTB it was Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the rest).
I don't think this is the case in the UK, where, from what I hear, the teeny bopper thing wasn't as big a deal as in the US. The level of piracy is the same, our "popular" music just sucks more.
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had a picture of a mushroom cloud, a well-drawn skull and crossbones and the equation
I probably would've clicked on a banner that said "BREAK DOWN WALLS WITH YOUR PENIS!". Now I know better, but back then I probably would've thought to myself "oh.. so THAT'S what it's for!"
Not to mention that he's got a 20k user number. As we all know, Slashdot didn't start attracting the evil hordes of trolls and hax0rs until the 100k's-120k's.
The difference is that the authorities can't use a computer to see into your pocket and get all your personal information (name, address, SS#, etc), however they can set up video cameras everywhere, even in public. and scan your face and have all that info and more.
Do you think the government should know where you are at all times? That's what they're shooting for.
"facts can be used to prove anything that's even remotely true"
This is especially true with consipiracy theorists and people who want to believe in archeological coverups, such as that the pyramids were built by aliens. Anyone can skew the facts in their own book to make it seem plausible.
I think it gets high points for being the first FPS for a console that didn't suck. I bought Q3 and it was _terrible_, just as DOOM was when I bought it for the n64. Tribes2 is a computer game, and benefits from having a mouse and keyboard for controls, not to mention $1000 worth of hardware behind it. Sure, it's not as good as CounterStrike or Tribes2, but if you want a FPS on your console it's the clear leader of the pack.
Not to mention "have other products on the market which are better than your own, and are free". I mean, how could anyone possibly pay for a piece of software that you can get for free? It's inconcievable!
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Nick: Riskable
Name: Dan McDougall
Birthday: 4/12/78
ICQ: 10161253
Phone Number: 978-590-95xx
Address: xxx Prince St, Beverly, MA 01915
You enjoy FPS's, you run BIND, you're a fairly poor shell scripter. Perhaps YOU should be more paranoid as well.
I was reading the summary and noted that the use of "elephantine" sounded both odd for a Katz article and strangely familiar.
From the New York Times review:
---
Like weary Brezhnev-era Muscovites, the American moviegoing public will line up out of habit and compulsion, ruefully hoping that this episode will at least be a little better than the last one, and perhaps inwardly suspecting that the whole elephantine system is rotten.
---
Very interesting..
Secrets, eh? You better have some pretty serious anti-disassembly tricks up your sleeve because me, IDA and some free time will post your BS secret all over the 'net if you don't.
Who the fuck do you think is going to download this dumbass program if there's no source? You've got a 30 meg program with NO SOURCE for something that, by all indications, could be written in perl with a couple command line switches in 1000 lines?
How hypocritical is a guy who writes illegal programs to modify your cable modem so you can download more information but DOESN'T INCLUDE SOURCE HIMSELF? Fuck you and the mom you rode in on.
Also, I remember hearing about this good looking hacker chick who used extremely large fonts and a camoflaged computer. Due to Penn Jillette's incompetance he failed to notice this good looking individual's ability to literally fly through the network, superman style, before crashing into the garbage file. Teller had neglected to take out the trash and was summarily beaten. In the resulting hilarity, more large fonts are exchanged and a virus is disassembled via Matrix-style code-fu. Near the end of this caper one of the hax0rs in question has sex with another human being, possibly as a result of his cult following of thousands of IRC kiddies boasting knockoffs of his nick.
Because this isn't PoDunk Community College and Rib House we're talking about. MIT is the most respected technical college in the world. They don't accept idiots and they don't give PHD's to the incompetent. Say whatever you want about this guy's motivations, but don't question his abilities in the areas he has studied.
I don't know about you, but I think I would notice that portions of my skull were missing when my hairbrush perforated my brain.
from your Neuromancer catalogue just yet.. Basically all this is is the ability to "train" the rats entierly through manipulating different sectors of their brains. They zap one portion, which cues the rat. The rat turns around. The rat's Reward Sector is stimulated. Next time when the rat gets the original zap he'll turn around automatically because he thinks he'll get a reward.
Woohoo. I do the same thing with my dog, but I use my voice and biscuits instead of aligator clips.
In the book he mentions how he was able to get his golden retriever to boot Slackware and tells a fascinating tale of how his great dane smuggled a turd Gator-style into his house and deposited it under the couch.
>You have to apologize for posting an ad with your moderator priviledges, disguised as Yet Another free expression anti-corporation blah blah article.
Seriously.. it's a BOOK about DOGS! Unless his dogs were cloned/implanted/digitized/running Linux/playing mp3's/putting spyware in Kazaa.. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT!
hehe
>Did anyone see this coming?
I did, since there was a story about it last September on slashdot
The new computer was formally dedicated last month, and the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center said yesterday that the machine had reached more than 87 percent of its theoretical peak speed.
>And if you think I'm dumb enough to post using my real account, you're even stupider than you look.
you pussy.. grow a pair so that i may reflame you properly. my email is posted, if you dare
my college, Polytechnic University (Worst College Ever) had, I'm not making this up, a NINE TO ONE guy to girl ratio. Yeah, that's bad, but you're thinking to yourself "get some girls elsewhere". The college was in.. LONG FUCKING ISLAND. The only other "school" around was Trailer Trash University, otherwise known as Amityville Middle School.
No one who matters actually ever believes that stories or capsules on Slashdot are accurate. As soon as I read this I knew it was BS. The article summary makes it sound like this guy walked up to another student and said
"Hey, did you use a sprintf() or two strcpy()'s to do merge those strings? sprintf()? Cool. Oh crap I just got expelled."
Meanwhile, I'm sure the conversation was more like
"Holy shit dude.. I haven't been to class in 6 weeks and I have some homework due tommorow or I'm going to fail. What's your advice? I see. I see. I don't understand what you're talking about, let me see your code."
"OK, thanks for the help! Oh crap, I got caught. Crap, I'm expelled, but at least my dad built the Dr. Herbert J. Furnsworth III Memorial Science Lab. Hey Dad, let's raise a stink."
"OK son. Maybe we can even get it posted on Slashdot, where even the most foul turd can be sprayed with enough perfume to make it smell like the cosmetics counter in Macy's!"
why do you even bother posting these? you're affecting maybe 1 in 20 people who load the page. Christ, you've been getting first posts with this stuff for days now. Don't you have a job? How pathetic is your life that the most enjoyable thing you can do is hit the reload button all day?
My theory: first posters, goatse trolls and wide posters are all quadraplegics on disability. This would explain why they never type more than a few words because they have to blink in a pre-arranged sequence to get their letters translated to the screen. For this reason, they typically only do copy/paste because it's much easier on the eyes and gives their nursemaids more time to clean the feces out of their shorts.
Record companies are so stupid. They think that the reason we haven't bought 12 million copies of Britney Spears' latest album is because everyone is pirating it. Bullshit. People aren't buying it because their fanbase grew up and their tastes in music grew with them. Same thing happened 12 years ago with New Kids on the Block. In another decade expect another kiddie pop boom. In the meantime there's going to be a lull in sales until the young teens get a new obsession (after NKOTB it was Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the rest).
I don't think this is the case in the UK, where, from what I hear, the teeny bopper thing wasn't as big a deal as in the US. The level of piracy is the same, our "popular" music just sucks more.
had a picture of a mushroom cloud, a well-drawn skull and crossbones and the equation
bomb = big
this was later confirmed by small children.
I probably would've clicked on a banner that said "BREAK DOWN WALLS WITH YOUR PENIS!". Now I know better, but back then I probably would've thought to myself "oh.. so THAT'S what it's for!"
Not to mention that he's got a 20k user number. As we all know, Slashdot didn't start attracting the evil hordes of trolls and hax0rs until the 100k's-120k's.
The difference is that the authorities can't use a computer to see into your pocket and get all your personal information (name, address, SS#, etc), however they can set up video cameras everywhere, even in public. and scan your face and have all that info and more.
Do you think the government should know where you are at all times? That's what they're shooting for.
"facts can be used to prove anything that's even remotely true"
This is especially true with consipiracy theorists and people who want to believe in archeological coverups, such as that the pyramids were built by aliens. Anyone can skew the facts in their own book to make it seem plausible.
I think it gets high points for being the first FPS for a console that didn't suck. I bought Q3 and it was _terrible_, just as DOOM was when I bought it for the n64. Tribes2 is a computer game, and benefits from having a mouse and keyboard for controls, not to mention $1000 worth of hardware behind it. Sure, it's not as good as CounterStrike or Tribes2, but if you want a FPS on your console it's the clear leader of the pack.
Not to mention "have other products on the market which are better than your own, and are free". I mean, how could anyone possibly pay for a piece of software that you can get for free? It's inconcievable!
- BETA-Max Videotapes, Inc.
- Disco Ball factory
- Menudo
- 386 12mhz, 20mb HDD, 640k RAM and a copy of Commander Keen