amd k62-300, 64meg ram, 10+4 meg hd, works just fine for vb/c coding, music sequencers etc.
dont play games on it so no 3d card, dont see any need to upgrade any time soon - was going to get a k62-500 for about uk£45 but they dont seem to be available anymore so screw it i`ll stick with what i`ve got!
"Maybe 1 out of a hundred would be good links. MAYBE."
Doesnt matter! I`m not suggesting people use the page/dbase as a place to just browse for links, simply that once a site has been allocated a number, it`d be there for you to lookup.
Really, the number thing is just a way to abstract the site from a url. The links site itself could be moderated, people could mirror just parts of it that prove useful... i mean, i`ve not thought about it too much, and there are probably better ways of doing it, but the idea of going to a site, or getting the links page from a linux distro or non-US site, and then looking up a number seemed a quick and easy way of avoiding having to `deal` in illegal links.
After all, drugs have been illegal so the police can arrest just about anyone for no reason (well, apart from possessing a plant). Now that the laws on drugs are going to go away soon (in uk we just had the first public backlash against tougher anti-drug laws), they need a new way to arbitrarily arrest people...
Pretty sure the average guy in the street will soon come to fear/hate/etc the guy who `broke into a website and stole thousands` as much as the `evil peddler of death, turning children into addicts of the evil reefer`...
Apart from the fact that it is completely futile to ban links, its probably time for a website to host a links database - just thousands and thousands of URLs, anyone can submit a link,no testing would be done to even ensure it was a link. then instead of saying `get your decss source here` you`d say `check out link #139523 from the links site`. the site would be mirrored, and you could submit the same site multiple times.
Anyone see any problems with this? It could be mirrored easily, would compress reasonably well, and i cant see how it could be the subject of a legal threat. `Your honour, we found the defendant openly passing on a single, 32-bit number!`
Actually you are close with the word `rule`...set a rule/filter etc so that all mail with the word "umbrella" (or whatever) goes through to your `its ok` folder, everything else gets trashed/stuffed into a `probably spam` folder.
get your friends to set up your email address as
"umbrella"
so they can email you without having to think about it.
mention it in your sig file so people can reply to your posts to usenet/slashdot.
Hmmm. I`m sure there are people who, upon hearing `you can `phone us on xxxx` record it on dictaphone and send it to their postal address.
Had a mate who worked in a motorbike shop, got a phone call from a guy who`d been told to send in a stamped, self addressed envelope if he wanted a price list. He was complaining that it arrived, but when he opened it there was nothing inside!
I read a review of a book about 5 or so years ago, it was about a book by some guy who may have been a scientist, it was sci-fi, and about people living inside a sun or something... i asked someone recently about this and he lent me Snowcrash, which was ok i guess but i dont think it was that.
Any ideas? It was supposed to have made sense from a scientific point of view, but the author wasnt anyone i`d heard of at the time (ie Asimov, Clarke etc)
It would be amusing if you could patch Bleem (or whatever) to the front of PSX disks, so you could just stick it in your pc if you didnt have a playstation!
"However it is curious that it was returned so easily "
According to the UK papers, a large-ish price was paid for it. The person who had it apparantly bought it not knowing it was stolen, and wanted to return it, but didnt want to lose all the money he`d paid for it.
There are a few dials missing - presumably they`ll get those back when he gets all the money.
Has anyone produced a file system that was essentially a version control system (MS SourceSafe, MKS SI etc)...you could delete a file, write a new version of a file etc, and be assured you could go back and get older versions if needed (ie each time you boot up your os you `label` the existing version numbers of all files so you could go back to that state if you screw up before the next `label`.
Do you follow me? Is this a good idea? Has it been done? Too slow? Etc..:)
The amusing thing is when you get cd-writer manufacturers going `look at our new product! No more buffer underruns!` and give it a trademark and shit. Oh, you`ve added a few k of ram and implemented.... a buffer?! You pioneers! You just dont care do you, thats proper blue-sky research that is!
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amd k62-300, 64meg ram, 10+4 meg hd, works just fine for vb/c coding, music sequencers etc.
dont play games on it so no 3d card, dont see any need to upgrade any time soon - was going to get a k62-500 for about uk£45 but they dont seem to be available anymore so screw it i`ll stick with what i`ve got!
"Maybe 1 out of a hundred would be good links. MAYBE."
Doesnt matter! I`m not suggesting people use the page/dbase as a place to just browse for links, simply that once a site has been allocated a number, it`d be there for you to lookup.
Really, the number thing is just a way to abstract the site from a url. The links site itself could be moderated, people could mirror just parts of it that prove useful... i mean, i`ve not thought about it too much, and there are probably better ways of doing it, but the idea of going to a site, or getting the links page from a linux distro or non-US site, and then looking up a number seemed a quick and easy way of avoiding having to `deal` in illegal links.
Exactly. Or some notation, like
(42)
as part of your sig, or even as part of your anti-spam obsfuscation :
bert@hot(42)mail.com
or whatever. Illegal email addresses...whatever next?!
After all, drugs have been illegal so the police can arrest just about anyone for no reason (well, apart from possessing a plant). Now that the laws on drugs are going to go away soon (in uk we just had the first public backlash against tougher anti-drug laws), they need a new way to arbitrarily arrest people...
Pretty sure the average guy in the street will soon come to fear/hate/etc the guy who `broke into a website and stole thousands` as much as the `evil peddler of death, turning children into addicts of the evil reefer`...
Apart from the fact that it is completely futile to ban links, its probably time for a website to host a links database - just thousands and thousands of URLs, anyone can submit a link,no testing would be done to even ensure it was a link. then instead of saying `get your decss source here` you`d say `check out link #139523 from the links site`. the site would be mirrored, and you could submit the same site multiple times.
Anyone see any problems with this? It could be mirrored easily, would compress reasonably well, and i cant see how it could be the subject of a legal threat. `Your honour, we found the defendant openly passing on a single, 32-bit number!`
Paragraph 2 there should have said
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get your friends to set up your email address as
"umbrella {name@domain.com}"
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where { =
plain text is apparantly processed in some way in SlashDot!
Actually you are close with the word `rule`...set a rule/filter etc so that all mail with the word "umbrella" (or whatever) goes through to your `its ok` folder, everything else gets trashed/stuffed into a `probably spam` folder.
get your friends to set up your email address as
"umbrella"
so they can email you without having to think about it.
mention it in your sig file so people can reply to your posts to usenet/slashdot.
Sorted!
...Crashing things in oceans...
Hmmm. I`m sure there are people who, upon hearing `you can `phone us on xxxx` record it on dictaphone and send it to their postal address.
Had a mate who worked in a motorbike shop, got a phone call from a guy who`d been told to send in a stamped, self addressed envelope if he wanted a price list. He was complaining that it arrived, but when he opened it there was nothing inside!
Some people still refer to a phone as a `phone. As if there`s any other sort of phone (monophone? Uniphone?)
"The terms of the challenge also allowed researchers to publish their findings if they decided to forgo the cash
prize. "
How would they have stopped anyone anyway?
Off-topic,-1,die etc... but...
I read a review of a book about 5 or so years ago, it was about a book by some guy who may have been a scientist, it was sci-fi, and about people living inside a sun or something... i asked someone recently about this and he lent me Snowcrash, which was ok i guess but i dont think it was that.
Any ideas? It was supposed to have made sense from a scientific point of view, but the author wasnt anyone i`d heard of at the time (ie Asimov, Clarke etc)
a.
...cos the one in the original article (cnn) isnt up...
http://www.2think.org/carlsagan.shtml
Hoped! Classic! Biggest chip manufacturer in the world basing its future on dreams...
With planning like that, i bet AMD are pissing themselves!
How can i filter stories so i dont see anything about wearable computers?
It would be amusing if you could patch Bleem (or whatever) to the front of PSX disks, so you could just stick it in your pc if you didnt have a playstation!
No its not.
...but i dont think it`ll last. He goes, or ICANN goes.
I give it 2 years.
There were loads of enigmas made - the one that was stolen was one of a rare pair though.
"However it is curious that it was returned so easily "
According to the UK papers, a large-ish price was paid for it. The person who had it apparantly bought it not knowing it was stolen, and wanted to return it, but didnt want to lose all the money he`d paid for it.
There are a few dials missing - presumably they`ll get those back when he gets all the money.
Has anyone produced a file system that was essentially a version control system (MS SourceSafe, MKS SI etc)...you could delete a file, write a new version of a file etc, and be assured you could go back and get older versions if needed (ie each time you boot up your os you `label` the existing version numbers of all files so you could go back to that state if you screw up before the next `label`. :)
Do you follow me? Is this a good idea? Has it been done? Too slow? Etc..
a.
What?
The amusing thing is when you get cd-writer manufacturers going `look at our new product! No more buffer underruns!` and give it a trademark and shit. Oh, you`ve added a few k of ram and implemented.... a buffer?! You pioneers! You just dont care do you, thats proper blue-sky research that is!
Looks like its staying for a bit!
Cheers again,
alex.
Simple! I just switched the second `a` in `cipherchallange` for an `e`... :)
(I dont normally complain about spelling!!)
I`m now waiting for egroups to email me the registration number. Its taking its time - hope i get it before the 15th!!
A.