that run windoze will end up shutting down because of a DRM issue? THAT may spell the end of DRM, especially if some hospital loses a vip patient because the administrators insisted on going with the latest windoze.
Do you want to install windows? y/n (y)
Are you sure you want to install windows? y/n (y)
Are you really sure you want to install windows? y/n (@%&*@ Y!)
Are you absolutely positive you want to install windows? y/n (F*** it, where's the Linux livecd?)
Reminds me about something I read about EVE. The game's moderators were wondering how to deal with crime, for example, offering to trade X for whatever and luring that person to some remote corner of their galaxy, killing the character and making off with the dead character's ship and other computerly goods. Is this fraud to be prosecuted in real life....?
Sooooo, if you have nothing to hide, then I want your complete, COMPLETE medical history: super extensive/intrusive blood/fluid/serum tests, total genome sequencing, family history going back to the mid 1800s (including that crazy, institutionalized uncle and your cousin with AIDS...), whether you've ever been treated for STDs, whether you are at risk for Alzheimer's or cancer or Lou Gherig's... Just everything, okay?
So the government can torture, illegally search and seize and whatever else because it will never assent to being held accountable. Gee, no wonder impeachment is off the table, bush won't consent to it.
Let's print this decision up and spread it around the world
Total noob here. But if he can "disassemble[s] the BIOS", what's to stop him from reprogramming/reconfiguring it? Assuming of course he had the skills and the time. (not trolling, really, actually curious!)
"Steal a few grams here, a few grams there, eventually you have a few kilograms."
And how would you store it, as you walked through the metal detectors and past the Geiger counters? In you're pocket? It's just a few grams... Perhaps just "naked" in the palm of your hand.
A few grams of plutonium does not look like a lot, it being heavier than, say gold. Also there is the extreme hazard of its toxicity. Plutonium is one of the most toxic substances on the planet.
I don't think humans are currently responsible enough to use lots of nuclear fission plants. Check this site out, follow the links on the bottom of the pages to go to the next horror story after another.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/
Check out stuff written in English 200 years ago. There have been some changes. "S" looks like an f. 500 years ago English was significantly different. If we just went 50 years back in time, could we avoid using slang from our present and confuse the listener? "What's a PC?" "What is pc?" Given the context, WE know what we're talking about, but that context is rooted in OUR present.
As for 10,000 years in the future.... Would there even be Homo Sapiens? Would we have evolved into something subtly different, but still enough to qualify as another species? In building any such warning, the designers also have to consider how such beings think. You can tell what is important, some of the time, in other languages by how many synonyms there are for a particular thing/concept. How would we know what is important to a culture that would be radically different from any that currently exist? Even today, sure some symbols are "universal", such as a skull and crossbones, but that doesn't mean that using that for a message to be read 10,000 years in the will have the desired effect. Another interpretation for the skull and crossbones could be "Here lies the burial site of our long ago ancestors. We must find a way to visit their tombs." The answer, ultimately, is that there is no way we could design a message that would convey the meaning we intend for it and be intelligible, immediately upon discovery, thus giving incentive to run away quickly. Humans are naturally curious, and, assuming that trait doesn't evolve out of us, those further evolved humans might see such a thing as a challenge to be solved. "So forge ahead! Dig deeper! Bring on the drills!"
Did you miss the part about the elevators being accessible via the Internet? If something so "simple" as an elevator running windon'ts can be manipulated via a hacker on the net, then why can't a pipeline? Or other infrastructure? There was a recent/. article about an irrigation computer that was stolen that was recovered when the "new owner" logged on to the web. Anything one person invents to keep people out, someone will find a way through or around.
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that run windoze will end up shutting down because of a DRM issue? THAT may spell the end of DRM, especially if some hospital loses a vip patient because the administrators insisted on going with the latest windoze.
Falcon's Eye: a graphical version on Ubuntu!
8gb 64bit Ubuntu desktop is even cheaper! A lot cheaper!
Do you want to install windows? y/n (y) Are you sure you want to install windows? y/n (y) Are you really sure you want to install windows? y/n (@%&*@ Y!) Are you absolutely positive you want to install windows? y/n (F*** it, where's the Linux livecd?)
write a bat script that wipes out windows and installs Linux. Offer it as a security patch.
Reminds me about something I read about EVE. The game's moderators were wondering how to deal with crime, for example, offering to trade X for whatever and luring that person to some remote corner of their galaxy, killing the character and making off with the dead character's ship and other computerly goods. Is this fraud to be prosecuted in real life....?
Finally a cure for my insomnia!
Wouldn't be too hard. Just make sure you apply for your visa in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. That's where most of the 9/11 hijackers got theirs.
Sooooo, if you have nothing to hide, then I want your complete, COMPLETE medical history: super extensive/intrusive blood/fluid/serum tests, total genome sequencing, family history going back to the mid 1800s (including that crazy, institutionalized uncle and your cousin with AIDS...), whether you've ever been treated for STDs, whether you are at risk for Alzheimer's or cancer or Lou Gherig's... Just everything, okay?
So the government can torture, illegally search and seize and whatever else because it will never assent to being held accountable. Gee, no wonder impeachment is off the table, bush won't consent to it. Let's print this decision up and spread it around the world
faux network has sunk to a new low....
What do you mean "when", as if they aren't already?
Total noob here. But if he can "disassemble[s] the BIOS", what's to stop him from reprogramming/reconfiguring it? Assuming of course he had the skills and the time. (not trolling, really, actually curious!)
Humans really know how to fuck shit up! Thanks for the links.
"Steal a few grams here, a few grams there, eventually you have a few kilograms." And how would you store it, as you walked through the metal detectors and past the Geiger counters? In you're pocket? It's just a few grams... Perhaps just "naked" in the palm of your hand. A few grams of plutonium does not look like a lot, it being heavier than, say gold. Also there is the extreme hazard of its toxicity. Plutonium is one of the most toxic substances on the planet.
I don't think humans are currently responsible enough to use lots of nuclear fission plants. Check this site out, follow the links on the bottom of the pages to go to the next horror story after another. http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/
Check out stuff written in English 200 years ago. There have been some changes. "S" looks like an f. 500 years ago English was significantly different. If we just went 50 years back in time, could we avoid using slang from our present and confuse the listener? "What's a PC?" "What is pc?" Given the context, WE know what we're talking about, but that context is rooted in OUR present. As for 10,000 years in the future.... Would there even be Homo Sapiens? Would we have evolved into something subtly different, but still enough to qualify as another species? In building any such warning, the designers also have to consider how such beings think. You can tell what is important, some of the time, in other languages by how many synonyms there are for a particular thing/concept. How would we know what is important to a culture that would be radically different from any that currently exist? Even today, sure some symbols are "universal", such as a skull and crossbones, but that doesn't mean that using that for a message to be read 10,000 years in the will have the desired effect. Another interpretation for the skull and crossbones could be "Here lies the burial site of our long ago ancestors. We must find a way to visit their tombs." The answer, ultimately, is that there is no way we could design a message that would convey the meaning we intend for it and be intelligible, immediately upon discovery, thus giving incentive to run away quickly. Humans are naturally curious, and, assuming that trait doesn't evolve out of us, those further evolved humans might see such a thing as a challenge to be solved. "So forge ahead! Dig deeper! Bring on the drills!"
So do all malicious hackers work for microsucks?
"creation of a million-plus machine botnet" Who on /. can out do that? Where's that X-prize man?
Okay, modded as funny for the last bit, but actually a really good idea in the first part!
Check out cheddarvision http://cheddarvision.tv/
Hasn't this "Warn the Future" thing been done to death?
No,no. Politicians are like diapers and need to be changed often for the same reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6pyzkaYD7A
Did you miss the part about the elevators being accessible via the Internet? If something so "simple" as an elevator running windon'ts can be manipulated via a hacker on the net, then why can't a pipeline? Or other infrastructure? There was a recent /. article about an irrigation computer that was stolen that was recovered when the "new owner" logged on to the web. Anything one person invents to keep people out, someone will find a way through or around.