Energy is probably the primary limited resource for replication and there just is not that much out there available to nano-scale machines or organisms.
Because they are so small, they don't need very much energy. Nanobots could possibly be able to get their energy from their environments. A little RF might be enough to power millions of nanobots.
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I believe that one time Rush also gave out Rosie O'Donnell's fax number on the air.
Hmmmm, I wonder, is it possible to slashdot someone's phone?
Not exactly, telephones are a circuit switched networ, unlike the internet's packet switched network. What can be done though is render it impossible for them to get the calls that they want. If you're used to taking a few thousand inbound calls per day and all of a sudden you're taking in 100 times that volume, you can't cope with it.
I used to work for a Satellite TV company, in a call center, whenever the "engineers" would fux0r a whole series of receivers with new software, call volumes would spike through the roof. What happens then is that people don't get to take their breaks/lunches when they want to. 3 or 4 days of that will cause a large number of people to just quit.
Imagine if every slashdotter would call SCO's sales line 4 or 5 times a day for the next week. Not only would Darl be unable to take those incoming calls from reporters who want to write his spin, but they'd miss out on untold sales possibilities. The people answering their phones would start quitting. That would only make the problem worse for them. Longer queues mean more frustrated people who are less likely to purchase your products.
A "telephone slashdotting" would be brilliant strategy to use against SCO.
What I want to know is how many people infected their computers on purpose and how man just didin't remove the virus after they found it? Most prople won't do a criminal act will but ignoring somebody elses?
And, as a side note, isn't it most interesting how the Prophet at the time that the people Utah of desired Statehood received a message from God that polygamy was now against His will, and that particular epiphany came shortly after the United States Congress told the Mormons that if they continued polygamy, they would be denied statehood?
I went to high school with a girl who is a mormon. The mormon religion forbids alcohol. So, I asked her if it's a sin to drink alcohol, why did Jesus turn water into wine and give it to people?
She didn't know. She went and asked the elders of her local church. The answer they sent her back with was that at the time, there may not have been enough potable water and it would have been safer to drink wine. Since we now have better access to potable water, it is a sin to drink alcohol.
If Jesus was the son of God. WHY THE HELL COULDN'T HE HAVE JUST MADE THE WATER SAFE?
Umm, no actually. There are people practicing illegal poligamy, but the church does not sanction it. Quite the opposite actually. That is something the church has zero tolerance for.
Perhaps he was not clear enough in his statement. There are people who call themselves Mormons, who read the Book of Mormon, and who follow the older tenets of the Mormon church who practice polygamy.
The PowerPC was an order of magnitude faster than 68k series. IIRC the 601 had twice the clock and was faster per clock than the 68040. There is no such advantage here.
The PPC was faster per clock cycle. In terms of actual clock frequency, the first PPCs were slower than the fastest 68040s. The PowerMac 6100/60 ran a PPC 601 at 60 mhz. The Quadra 840AV ran a 68040 at 80mhz (all IO to the logic board was done at 40mhz), near the end of the 68k's lifetime, Apple started to refer to such machines as 40/80 when talking about their speeds.
Running 68k code the Quadra 840 would pound a 6100/7100/8100 into the ground. When more Apps started to come compiled for the PPC, that was when they really started to shine.
Seriously, to me this sounds like sensationalism. Like, a good sound byte to attract attention. If you tell people that things are worse than they could ever imagine, you're not going to do much except scare people. And most of the time it's not that bad.
I disagree. I think things are far worse than most people realize. I have discovered virus infestations on my machine that my Anti-Virus did not catch. I am far more vigilant than the "average" computer user. I keep my Virus-defs up to date. On a weekly basis I update/run spyware checks. I know what to look for.
With virus writers having to do nothing more difficult than giving away a "Free Screen Saver" to entice new users to disable their antivirus software and install the malware, things are in bad shape.
Millions of people out there are using Outlook for the email simply because "That's what my computer came with" and in so doing have provided a fertile field in which to grow scores of new email viruses. Many of these new users think that firewalls only come in cars.
The explosion in "consumer" computing has made the situation immeasurably worse. If 90% of drivers didn't know how to put gasoline in their own cars would we be blaming GM, Ford and Chrysler for not making it easier for them? I'm not saying that the new users are entirely at fault, they are not, but they shoulder some of the responsibility. If you don't know, ask someone who does.
I'm tired of seeing this kind of rubbish. People who do real work on their computers blah blah blah...
Suck my ass. I'm sick of seeing pompus assholes denigrating other people's uses of their computers. The work that the rest of us do is just as real as the work that engineers and "scientists" do. My Ray Tracing and rendering would be helped immensely by 64 bit computing.
Just because I'm not modelling the movement of helium atoms in an excited state doesn't mean that I'm not doing "real work".
If your modeling CFD, rendering, cracking RC5, or rewriting HL2, the work that you do is REAL to you!
I never understood the whole transparent encryption thing.
Then I'll try to help you.
When would you consider the contents of the drive encrypted? When the thing was turned off? Yes.
All the cops would have to do is get you away from the machine while it was on and they'd have free reign.
You're assuming that the only time the machine was used is when unsavory things were going on. That was not the case. Also, at the time Macs loaded the drivers for storage devices only during bootup, I have no idea what they do now. My newest Mac is nearly 7 years old. So if I had an external drive (I had several), they could be turned off for mundane tasks such as usenet posting.
If the authorities did not know that your drives were encrypted, why wouldn't they turn the machine off to transport it to be examined by their "experts"?
This was in the days before CD writers. You would have to turn the machine off to attach another drive to copy the contents.
Remember Kevin Mitnick? The government had 1,792 days to try to access his encrypted data. They failed.
Back when I was a youngster and I did things that were in a legal "gray area", I almost always used a Mac. FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit included transparent HD encryption.
I've spend the majority of the nights during the past 13 years with a computer's fans humming me to sleep. I have a problem sleeping without a fan going.
The Booble people hope to capitalise on the marketability of the name; to claim that the name is a parody is a sad excuse. I could, for example, start manufacturing cars, call the company Dorkswagen, and claim that it's 'only a parody of Volkswagen' when challenged about the similarity of the names.
Legally, I believe you'd have a strong case. Financially you'd be dead in the water. Only a DORK would drive a Dorkswagen.
It follows that people looking for BOOBS would use BOOBLE!
I'd imagine it would be really awkward to be dedicated to destroying the US because it deports people to Islamic countries that torture and kill expatriates.
I was talking about people in the "western world", who the US really needs on our side. It would help if we weren't doing all we can to piss off potential friends.
Wow, what a spectacular way to not answer the question.
Volunteer EMS and VFDs save people's lives. Pure and simple. It's no time to get into a dick measuring contest. If you can't help answer the question, leave them alone.
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Energy is probably the primary limited resource for replication and there just is not that much out there available to nano-scale machines or organisms.
Because they are so small, they don't need very much energy. Nanobots could possibly be able to get their energy from their environments. A little RF might be enough to power millions of nanobots.
I believe that one time Rush also gave out Rosie O'Donnell's fax number on the air.
Pretty much with the same results.
LK
Hmmmm, I wonder, is it possible to slashdot someone's phone?
Not exactly, telephones are a circuit switched networ, unlike the internet's packet switched network. What can be done though is render it impossible for them to get the calls that they want. If you're used to taking a few thousand inbound calls per day and all of a sudden you're taking in 100 times that volume, you can't cope with it.
I used to work for a Satellite TV company, in a call center, whenever the "engineers" would fux0r a whole series of receivers with new software, call volumes would spike through the roof. What happens then is that people don't get to take their breaks/lunches when they want to. 3 or 4 days of that will cause a large number of people to just quit.
Imagine if every slashdotter would call SCO's sales line 4 or 5 times a day for the next week. Not only would Darl be unable to take those incoming calls from reporters who want to write his spin, but they'd miss out on untold sales possibilities. The people answering their phones would start quitting. That would only make the problem worse for them. Longer queues mean more frustrated people who are less likely to purchase your products.
A "telephone slashdotting" would be brilliant strategy to use against SCO.
LK
What I want to know is how many people infected their computers on purpose and how man just didin't remove the virus after they found it? Most prople won't do a criminal act will but ignoring somebody elses?
I don't smoke crack, but I don't care if you do.
I guess it's a similar mentality.
LK
And, as a side note, isn't it most interesting how the Prophet at the time that the people Utah of desired Statehood received a message from God that polygamy was now against His will, and that particular epiphany came shortly after the United States Congress told the Mormons that if they continued polygamy, they would be denied statehood?
I went to high school with a girl who is a mormon. The mormon religion forbids alcohol. So, I asked her if it's a sin to drink alcohol, why did Jesus turn water into wine and give it to people?
She didn't know. She went and asked the elders of her local church. The answer they sent her back with was that at the time, there may not have been enough potable water and it would have been safer to drink wine. Since we now have better access to potable water, it is a sin to drink alcohol.
If Jesus was the son of God. WHY THE HELL COULDN'T HE HAVE JUST MADE THE WATER SAFE?
I never got an answer to that question.
Umm, no actually. There are people practicing illegal poligamy, but the church does not sanction it. Quite the opposite actually. That is something the church has zero tolerance for.
Perhaps he was not clear enough in his statement. There are people who call themselves Mormons, who read the Book of Mormon, and who follow the older tenets of the Mormon church who practice polygamy.
LK
The LDS Church may no longer condone multiple marriage. The "Book Of Mormon" does not forbid it. There are still communities of polygamists in Utah.
That comment merely shows your ignorance and is not really funny at all.
On the contrary, that comment showed an accurate knowledge of history and IMO was very funny.
LK
Funny, you couldn't boycott them if Microsoft hadn't bought them...they would be out of bussiness.
EA or someone else would have bought them before it came to that.
I'm just as pissed as you, probably more (I'm a mac user).
I used to be a Mac user. I remember seeing the previews for Halo at MacWorld like 5 years ago.
LK
I have been boycotting all Bungie software since they were bought by Microsoft.
I can't really support their practices by buying any of their games.
LK
The PowerPC was an order of magnitude faster than 68k series. IIRC the 601 had twice the clock and was faster per clock than the 68040. There is no such advantage here.
The PPC was faster per clock cycle. In terms of actual clock frequency, the first PPCs were slower than the fastest 68040s. The PowerMac 6100/60 ran a PPC 601 at 60 mhz. The Quadra 840AV ran a 68040 at 80mhz (all IO to the logic board was done at 40mhz), near the end of the 68k's lifetime, Apple started to refer to such machines as 40/80 when talking about their speeds.
Running 68k code the Quadra 840 would pound a 6100/7100/8100 into the ground. When more Apps started to come compiled for the PPC, that was when they really started to shine.
LK
Seriously, to me this sounds like sensationalism. Like, a good sound byte to attract attention. If you tell people that things are worse than they could ever imagine, you're not going to do much except scare people. And most of the time it's not that bad.
I disagree. I think things are far worse than most people realize. I have discovered virus infestations on my machine that my Anti-Virus did not catch. I am far more vigilant than the "average" computer user. I keep my Virus-defs up to date. On a weekly basis I update/run spyware checks. I know what to look for.
With virus writers having to do nothing more difficult than giving away a "Free Screen Saver" to entice new users to disable their antivirus software and install the malware, things are in bad shape.
Millions of people out there are using Outlook for the email simply because "That's what my computer came with" and in so doing have provided a fertile field in which to grow scores of new email viruses. Many of these new users think that firewalls only come in cars.
The explosion in "consumer" computing has made the situation immeasurably worse. If 90% of drivers didn't know how to put gasoline in their own cars would we be blaming GM, Ford and Chrysler for not making it easier for them? I'm not saying that the new users are entirely at fault, they are not, but they shoulder some of the responsibility. If you don't know, ask someone who does.
LK
I really hate to be so blunt
I will really enjoy being so blunt here.
The poster didn't ask for your opinion of IF a career change should be made. How about answering the question that was asked?
I'm tired of seeing this kind of rubbish. People who do real work on their computers blah blah blah...
Suck my ass. I'm sick of seeing pompus assholes denigrating other people's uses of their computers. The work that the rest of us do is just as real as the work that engineers and "scientists" do. My Ray Tracing and rendering would be helped immensely by 64 bit computing.
Just because I'm not modelling the movement of helium atoms in an excited state doesn't mean that I'm not doing "real work".
If your modeling CFD, rendering, cracking RC5, or rewriting HL2, the work that you do is REAL to you!
LK
I never understood the whole transparent encryption thing.
Then I'll try to help you.
When would you consider the contents of the drive encrypted? When the thing was turned off?
Yes.
All the cops would have to do is get you away from the machine while it was on and they'd have free reign.
You're assuming that the only time the machine was used is when unsavory things were going on. That was not the case. Also, at the time Macs loaded the drivers for storage devices only during bootup, I have no idea what they do now. My newest Mac is nearly 7 years old. So if I had an external drive (I had several), they could be turned off for mundane tasks such as usenet posting.
If the authorities did not know that your drives were encrypted, why wouldn't they turn the machine off to transport it to be examined by their "experts"?
This was in the days before CD writers. You would have to turn the machine off to attach another drive to copy the contents.
Remember Kevin Mitnick? The government had 1,792 days to try to access his encrypted data. They failed.
LK
I thought it was just me. I was wondering "How in the Fuck could Janet Reno be preferable to an 'American Actor'?"
LK
It didn't work for Lindows.
Lindows is still around. Considering that they're going up against the deep pockets of M$, that speaks volumes for the strength of their case.
LK
Back when I was a youngster and I did things that were in a legal "gray area", I almost always used a Mac. FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit included transparent HD encryption.
LK
I think that zip was handled by ME as well via compressed folders.
LK
I've spend the majority of the nights during the past 13 years with a computer's fans humming me to sleep. I have a problem sleeping without a fan going.
LK
The Booble people hope to capitalise on the marketability of the name; to claim that the name is a parody is a sad excuse. I could, for example, start manufacturing cars, call the company Dorkswagen, and claim that it's 'only a parody of Volkswagen' when challenged about the similarity of the names.
Legally, I believe you'd have a strong case. Financially you'd be dead in the water. Only a DORK would drive a Dorkswagen.
It follows that people looking for BOOBS would use BOOBLE!
LK
I'd imagine it would be really awkward to be dedicated to destroying the US because it deports people to Islamic countries that torture and kill expatriates.
I was talking about people in the "western world", who the US really needs on our side. It would help if we weren't doing all we can to piss off potential friends.
LK
Wow, what a spectacular way to not answer the question.
Volunteer EMS and VFDs save people's lives. Pure and simple. It's no time to get into a dick measuring contest. If you can't help answer the question, leave them alone.
LK
Of course you didn't want to mean that USA rules the world. Eh... you don't, no?
Well, it kinda does.
Our "friends" get to ignore UN resolutions, while our "enemies" get killed faster than a baby at planned parenthood.
The Internet is now a truly global communications medium, but its humble beginnings were for the communication of the US military.
LK
Not a bad idea, but probably a little much for Utah's "sensibilities" :)
Exactly my goal. While we're at it, Tux should be drinking a beer while he urinates on the SCO logo.
LK
How about Tux taking a leak on the SCO logo. Like with the Chevy/Ford logos on the back windows of pickup trucks.
LK