The number I've been hearing from everywhere is $40,000. In Katz's (I think it was his) last article (the one where blair witch was going to revolutionize film making) he said $50,000. Now he says $30,000, average the two and you get $40,000 which seems to be the real number. I'm more impressed with "The Last Broadcast" a movie of similar nature, except it was the jersey devil and it came out a year and a half before blair witch did. It was made for only $900, hell, I could afford that.
Uhm...netscape was not ported using libwine. Netscape (mosaic) was written for unix way back when, windows and mac ports were done later. Also, netscape is older than libwine.
WRT the galaxy collisions: IIRC our galaxy is actually on a collision course with another galaxy as we both head towards the great attractor. This is still millions of years in the future, but it's pretty much gonna suck for anything living in either galaxy when it happens. As a side note, last i heard all we knew about the great attractor was that it was something with a whole butt-load of gravity sucking us, and many other things towards it. Anyone know anything else?
IIRC, it's pretty much been determined that there is no way to tell one way or the other. Whether the universe will collapse or not is based on the amount of matter in the universe. If it's above a certain point, it will collapse, if it's below that point it will expand forever. The amount of matter in the universe, however, MUST be very close to that amount to the point that we really have no way of measuring it with enough accuracy to tell. If the amount was too far below the point the universe would have expanded far too fast for any planets or anything else to exist. If it were too high above that point it would have collapsed during the initial moments of its existence. In short, we'll just have to wait and see. Not like it matters a heck of a lot, unless something really screwy happens and it collapses in the next 50 years or so.
Ok I'm not an expert on this but here's what I understood to be the situation. JP, or "gaypee" as he seemed to be refered to often (NOTE: i think this nick name is distastefull, it just shows what people thought of him), is the head of anti-online, a supposed security consulting site, or something along those lines. He claimed that packetstorm had several things about his wife and family, including personal information, and other offensive material, such as a nun covered in semen. Whether this material was there or not I really do not know. There were several pages that were very critical of him, with racist and other quotes of the sort. From what I understand to the security community JP is regarded as a fraud who really knows nothing about security, dimes on fellow (cr,h)ackers, and basically abuses the (cr,h)acking scene in anyway he can. Supposedly he also deals with any critisism very poorly. Some people have speculated that JP tried (and for a while succeeded) to shutdown PacketStorm because he saw the site as competition, and the worst kind at that, free competition (sound like a certain evil empire we all know and love?). From what I could gather from the situation before, JP is an all around dick. Anti-Online's site is here http://www.antionline.com/ but you won't be able to just click the link, they have blocked referals from slashdot, because apparently slashdot is a cracker site. Atleast this was true when the last story was posted, I don't know if it still is. Go figure.
You only have to aggresively defend patents. You can let trademarks go w/ no fear of losing the trademark. Look at "linux" for an example. Linus afaik does NOTHING to defend the trademark, yet it's still his.
Uhm...correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't aol trying to trademark "You've got mail" not "You have mail" AT&T has been using "You have mail" since the times when it wrote UNIX.
"You have mail." dates back to (possibly before) just about any UNIX out there. "You've got mail." is an aolism, however. I still don't think it should be trademarkable(it's a word now).
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What scared me was an article I read a few weeks ago that sugested parents check the milage(sp) of their children's cars to make sure that they are actually going where they say they are going. It really disgusts me at the lack of trust that parents show for their children anymore. Fortunately my mother was less than psychotic about issues such as these. She hasn't set foot inside my car since we test drove it before buying it, and she'll never go in my room when i'm not there, except to drop of laundry on the rare occasions she does mine (I usually do my own laundry, not because she won't, just because I prefer to do it myself) and even then she puts the laundry basket on the floor and walks out. She doesn't go hunting through my drawers or closet. She doesn't look at what's under my bed (a journal for all of you who might be wondering).
Spying on your children just teaches them how to hide things better. "Hrm, mommy found the pot in my sock drawer, maybe if I hide it in the heating duct. The porn under my bed got found, maybe if I hide it behind that large dresser over there." Parents need to trust their children more.
Don't forbid your children to drink, let them get piss drunk (under your supervison of course) and let them see just how bad a hangover really is. Even better, video tape them in this state so they can see exactly how much of an ass they were the next day.
If you find out your kids smokes, or is thinking about starting, tell them how hard it was for you to quit when you used to smoke, and how much healthier you felt after you finally kicked the addiction.
Punishments don't work. They just send the message that it's only bad if you get caught. Which do you think will be more effective in the long run? "Johny you're grounded for the next month for having porn!!!" or "Johny I am disapointed with your choising to watch pornography. I feel that porn is deragatory not only to women but also to men and that it's not appropriate for anyone to own. I hope you make the right descission in the future."
Wow! hippocrasy(sp) in the media. Shocking, ain't it? I can't recal all of the times i've seen "news" reports like this. I remember after the JFK Jr. thing that happened recently (he died in a plane crash for you non-USers out there) one station had someone saying how hard it must be for the family to deal with this tragic loss and the media attention they were getting, as the camera zooms out you see that they were live from their front lawn.
imho the faculty should have called the police and had all of the reporters removed from school property and charged them with trespassing. 99.9% of them deserve it.
Try going to a private school to see the 'disruption of class' issue very much abused. I know legally they can do any damned thing they want, it doesn't mean they should though. I went to school with a kid who got expelled for selling pot to another kid. Now that makes sense, *BUT* the transaction took place out side of school property (many miles away in fact), and outside of school hours. The kid who purchased the pot got caught smoking on school grounds during school, and got away with something along the lines of a week of detention, cuz his parents were financially well off enough to make a nice donation to the school.
Uhm...What exactly can't you do at 18 that you can do at 21 (other than drink)? I can buy a gun, buy cigarettes, vote, automatically get tried as an adult, sign a contract, get drafted for a war I most likely will not believe in, dogde the draft, work 80 hours in a week if I choose to, and so on. And the constitution says nothing about age. It was written with the intent of applying only to white male land owners over the age of 18 (or whatever the accepted adult age was at the time), but it's not in writing anywhere.
Exactly, if you think little johnny is spending too much time infront of the TV, grab a ball and glove and offer to have a catch with him. And while you are having said catch, you might even, *gasp* talk to your child. He'll then get comfortable talking to you about things, so when he sees two people having sex on tv he'll ask you, instead of that kid down the block who knows everything. Oh and here's another great idea, if your kid gets in trouble, sit him down, explain why what he did was wrong, and that it upsets you when he does it. Don't ground him for it, he'll only get better at avoiding being caught, where if you instill some morals in your child, he just won't do it. Just a thought from someone who was (legally) a kid not that long ago.
it's not a problem with.rpm files that you describe. It's a problem with the software. Why redhat hasn't written a better program for installing rpms is beyond me, but as far as i can tell.rpm and.deb are pretty much the same, just.deb uses a bunch of files to describe the package where redhat uses one, and imho which ever method is "better" is personal preference.
you could write something to restore to a different size hdd under linux too. Just make a huge tar.bz2 of the file system, then on the new box mke2fs then untar. Nice and simple.
From what I understand the USPS is essentially 100% separate from the govt. It receives NO tax money, and it is making a profit. The profit it makes doesn't go back to the government, the USPS gets to keep it, which IMHO is a Very Good Thing (tm). Also, the internet has created MORE postal mail. Sites like ebay are causing an increase in priority mail shippings (which is where the post office makes its real money). I'm fairly certain they actually take a loss on standard first class mail. Trust me, the USPS is not hurting financially. The government does not now, nor has it ever, seriously considered taxing email.
Or the bombings and terrorist acts that accompanied the release of "The last temptation of christ" in '88(i think). Or certain anti-abortion activists who are against killing unborn children, but fully support killing abortion doctors, or blowing up abortion clinics. Jihad is alive and well in christianity
As people figured out last time this link was posted the url is just a redirect to the server. Also, the server didn't appear to impliment any sort of true file system, since each of the links actually pointed to a different port, not to a different filename. I guess there wasn't room to fit a TCP/IP stack and file system on the chip. Also, this machine uses either 12 or 10 (i think it's 12) bit bytes, not 8. So 512 words is not 1024bytes but 1536bytes (in the 8bit sense) or 1.5KiB(see the power of two post from yesterday). Is that possible? probally. Extremely difficult? definately. I really would like to see the machine code for this posted. It would certainly be a truely beautiful hack.
Slot A also cannot be electrically compatible w/ Slot 1 because intel has a patent on slot 1 that would be violated if AMD made them electrically compatible.
Actually they did it for price reasons too. By making the slot physically compatible w/ slot 1 mb manufacturers could purchase the same parts they used for slot 1 and save a little money.
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The number I've been hearing from everywhere is $40,000. In Katz's (I think it was his) last article (the one where blair witch was going to revolutionize film making) he said $50,000. Now he says $30,000, average the two and you get $40,000 which seems to be the real number. I'm more impressed with "The Last Broadcast" a movie of similar nature, except it was the jersey devil and it came out a year and a half before blair witch did. It was made for only $900, hell, I could afford that.
Uhm...netscape was not ported using libwine. Netscape (mosaic) was written for unix way back when, windows and mac ports were done later. Also, netscape is older than libwine.
Wine is BSD which is still open source. Just because it's not GPL doesn't mean it's not open source.
WRT the galaxy collisions: IIRC our galaxy is actually on a collision course with another galaxy as we both head towards the great attractor. This is still millions of years in the future, but it's pretty much gonna suck for anything living in either galaxy when it happens. As a side note, last i heard all we knew about the great attractor was that it was something with a whole butt-load of gravity sucking us, and many other things towards it. Anyone know anything else?
IIRC, it's pretty much been determined that there is no way to tell one way or the other. Whether the universe will collapse or not is based on the amount of matter in the universe. If it's above a certain point, it will collapse, if it's below that point it will expand forever. The amount of matter in the universe, however, MUST be very close to that amount to the point that we really have no way of measuring it with enough accuracy to tell. If the amount was too far below the point the universe would have expanded far too fast for any planets or anything else to exist. If it were too high above that point it would have collapsed during the initial moments of its existence. In short, we'll just have to wait and see. Not like it matters a heck of a lot, unless something really screwy happens and it collapses in the next 50 years or so.
Ok I'm not an expert on this but here's what I understood to be the situation. JP, or "gaypee" as he seemed to be refered to often (NOTE: i think this nick name is distastefull, it just shows what people thought of him), is the head of anti-online, a supposed security consulting site, or something along those lines. He claimed that packetstorm had several things about his wife and family, including personal information, and other offensive material, such as a nun covered in semen. Whether this material was there or not I really do not know. There were several pages that were very critical of him, with racist and other quotes of the sort. From what I understand to the security community JP is regarded as a fraud who really knows nothing about security, dimes on fellow (cr,h)ackers, and basically abuses the (cr,h)acking scene in anyway he can. Supposedly he also deals with any critisism very poorly. Some people have speculated that JP tried (and for a while succeeded) to shutdown PacketStorm because he saw the site as competition, and the worst kind at that, free competition (sound like a certain evil empire we all know and love?). From what I could gather from the situation before, JP is an all around dick. Anti-Online's site is here http://www.antionline.com/ but you won't be able to just click the link, they have blocked referals from slashdot, because apparently slashdot is a cracker site. Atleast this was true when the last story was posted, I don't know if it still is. Go figure.
Does anyone remember the name of the floppy controller from the original apples? Wasn't it something like the "Wozniac [something] Device"?
You only have to aggresively defend patents. You can let trademarks go w/ no fear of losing the trademark. Look at "linux" for an example. Linus afaik does NOTHING to defend the trademark, yet it's still his.
Uhm...correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't aol trying to trademark "You've got mail" not "You have mail" AT&T has been using "You have mail" since the times when it wrote UNIX.
"You have mail." dates back to (possibly before) just about any UNIX out there. "You've got mail." is an aolism, however. I still don't think it should be trademarkable(it's a word now).
What scared me was an article I read a few weeks ago that sugested parents check the milage(sp) of their children's cars to make sure that they are actually going where they say they are going. It really disgusts me at the lack of trust that parents show for their children anymore. Fortunately my mother was less than psychotic about issues such as these. She hasn't set foot inside my car since we test drove it before buying it, and she'll never go in my room when i'm not there, except to drop of laundry on the rare occasions she does mine (I usually do my own laundry, not because she won't, just because I prefer to do it myself) and even then she puts the laundry basket on the floor and walks out. She doesn't go hunting through my drawers or closet. She doesn't look at what's under my bed (a journal for all of you who might be wondering).
Spying on your children just teaches them how to hide things better. "Hrm, mommy found the pot in my sock drawer, maybe if I hide it in the heating duct. The porn under my bed got found, maybe if I hide it behind that large dresser over there." Parents need to trust their children more.
Don't forbid your children to drink, let them get piss drunk (under your supervison of course) and let them see just how bad a hangover really is. Even better, video tape them in this state so they can see exactly how much of an ass they were the next day.
If you find out your kids smokes, or is thinking about starting, tell them how hard it was for you to quit when you used to smoke, and how much healthier you felt after you finally kicked the addiction.
Punishments don't work. They just send the message that it's only bad if you get caught. Which do you think will be more effective in the long run? "Johny you're grounded for the next month for having porn!!!" or "Johny I am disapointed with your choising to watch pornography. I feel that porn is deragatory not only to women but also to men and that it's not appropriate for anyone to own. I hope you make the right descission in the future."
Wow! hippocrasy(sp) in the media. Shocking, ain't it? I can't recal all of the times i've seen "news" reports like this. I remember after the JFK Jr. thing that happened recently (he died in a plane crash for you non-USers out there) one station had someone saying how hard it must be for the family to deal with this tragic loss and the media attention they were getting, as the camera zooms out you see that they were live from their front lawn.
imho the faculty should have called the police and had all of the reporters removed from school property and charged them with trespassing. 99.9% of them deserve it.
Try going to a private school to see the 'disruption of class' issue very much abused. I know legally they can do any damned thing they want, it doesn't mean they should though. I went to school with a kid who got expelled for selling pot to another kid. Now that makes sense, *BUT* the transaction took place out side of school property (many miles away in fact), and outside of school hours. The kid who purchased the pot got caught smoking on school grounds during school, and got away with something along the lines of a week of detention, cuz his parents were financially well off enough to make a nice donation to the school.
Uhm...What exactly can't you do at 18 that you can do at 21 (other than drink)? I can buy a gun, buy cigarettes, vote, automatically get tried as an adult, sign a contract, get drafted for a war I most likely will not believe in, dogde the draft, work 80 hours in a week if I choose to, and so on. And the constitution says nothing about age. It was written with the intent of applying only to white male land owners over the age of 18 (or whatever the accepted adult age was at the time), but it's not in writing anywhere.
Exactly, if you think little johnny is spending too much time infront of the TV, grab a ball and glove and offer to have a catch with him. And while you are having said catch, you might even, *gasp* talk to your child. He'll then get comfortable talking to you about things, so when he sees two people having sex on tv he'll ask you, instead of that kid down the block who knows everything. Oh and here's another great idea, if your kid gets in trouble, sit him down, explain why what he did was wrong, and that it upsets you when he does it. Don't ground him for it, he'll only get better at avoiding being caught, where if you instill some morals in your child, he just won't do it. Just a thought from someone who was (legally) a kid not that long ago.
it's not a problem with .rpm files that you describe. It's a problem with the software. Why redhat hasn't written a better program for installing rpms is beyond me, but as far as i can tell .rpm and .deb are pretty much the same, just .deb uses a bunch of files to describe the package where redhat uses one, and imho which ever method is "better" is personal preference.
you could write something to restore to a different size hdd under linux too. Just make a huge tar.bz2 of the file system, then on the new box mke2fs then untar. Nice and simple.
From what I understand the USPS is essentially 100% separate from the govt. It receives NO tax money, and it is making a profit. The profit it makes doesn't go back to the government, the USPS gets to keep it, which IMHO is a Very Good Thing (tm). Also, the internet has created MORE postal mail. Sites like ebay are causing an increase in priority mail shippings (which is where the post office makes its real money). I'm fairly certain they actually take a loss on standard first class mail. Trust me, the USPS is not hurting financially. The government does not now, nor has it ever, seriously considered taxing email.
Then I download pine and remove the code for the auditing. It's 100% impossible.
Or the bombings and terrorist acts that accompanied the release of "The last temptation of christ" in '88(i think). Or certain anti-abortion activists who are against killing unborn children, but fully support killing abortion doctors, or blowing up abortion clinics. Jihad is alive and well in christianity
or:
while (1) {
fork();
malloc(1024);
};
Get a fork bomb going and eat all of the ram. I know that used to screw over a box nice and good, haven't tried it on 2.2.x though.
As people figured out last time this link was posted the url is just a redirect to the server. Also, the server didn't appear to impliment any sort of true file system, since each of the links actually pointed to a different port, not to a different filename. I guess there wasn't room to fit a TCP/IP stack and file system on the chip. Also, this machine uses either 12 or 10 (i think it's 12) bit bytes, not 8. So 512 words is not 1024bytes but 1536bytes (in the 8bit sense) or 1.5KiB(see the power of two post from yesterday). Is that possible? probally. Extremely difficult? definately. I really would like to see the machine code for this posted. It would certainly be a truely beautiful hack.
Slot A also cannot be electrically compatible w/ Slot 1 because intel has a patent on slot 1 that would be violated if AMD made them electrically compatible.
Actually they did it for price reasons too. By making the slot physically compatible w/ slot 1 mb manufacturers could purchase the same parts they used for slot 1 and save a little money.
I hadn't considered search engines. I think though the commonly used url naming schemes are pretty much solely alpha-numeric w/ .s and /s