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Currently,.su domains cost $15,000 (.ru cost less than $30), so there are only about 28,000 registered.
That sentence is simply insane. $15,000 dollars per domain times 28,000 domains is nearly a half billion dollars. I simply can't imagine anyone buying even one of the oh-so-valuable.su domains for $15,000, much less any economy absorbing a half billion dollars worth of them.
What is the real story on the price? How much have most people really paid for their.su domains, and who got all the cash?
Yes, they don't have the same standards as the Police, but they do follow the laws and rules that govern them.
You're right -- I was being overdramatic in my post. I wasn't trying to imply that the US military was unaware of the constraints of Domestic Law Enforcement, or was unable to follow international law.
Quite the opposite is true, in fact -- overall, the US Military is pretty damned good at being aware of, and following, the rules of engagement for the situations they're in.
My point, though, was that the Military and Domestic Law Enforcement are two entirely seperate things, with two entirely seperate reasons for existing, and with two very different standards for behaviour. I thnk this is a good thing.
My opinion is that any erosion of the Military into a Domestic Law Enforcement role is ultimately bad for the Military, and bad for the citizens of the United States.
Military and Domestic Law Enforcement are two entirely different things.
The military exists for one reason, and one reason only -- to exert the threat (or action) of effective, lethal force on external states.
In an intact nation, the military must never be concerned about due process, or constitutional rights, or body of evidence, or taking extraordinary measures to protect civilians. Preponderance of evidence, working with prosecutors, trial by jury -- all of these things shouldn't mean anything to the military. Why? Because they're not law enforecement.
And, frankly, any amount of time spent training the military to do law enforcement takes away from time that they should be training to do their job, which has nothing to do with law enforcement.
I'm pretty sure you use an apostrophe when you're talking about a plurality of words or letters. For example, there are a lot of P's, Q's, and the's lying around in my house, drinking my beer. And, they keep calling me Mr. Well, they can all take their Mr.'s, and shove them where the sun don't shine.
But, I don't know if you use an apostrophe with acronyms, like PLC. I mean, it has P's, L's, and C's in it, but if you shove them all together, I think it just might make some PLCs.
I have no idea what the licensing is for the specification. If I did know, I would be legally barred from discussing them.
But assume, for arguments sake, that the license terms for the specification is incompatible with the GPL (again, I don't know if it is incompatible, and if I did know, it would be illegal for me to tell you). Now, assume that any member of the Samba team saw the specification, under any conditions.
What would happen? The license terms may be such that Microsoft could go to court and demand that the Samba team cease distributing Samba. If the court agreed, Samba would be pulled from all public servers, and any future development on Samba would cease.
Now, like I said, I have no idea if the license terms are written like this. And, if I did know, it would be illegal for me to tell you.
I'm just saying that it's possible that simply by anyone on the Samba team looking at the spec, Microsoft might have ammunition to shutdown Samba development. But just because it's possible, that doesn't make it true. But if it was true, it would be illegal for me to tell you.
Sigh... I think you've kind of missed the point. The joke is that
there is no plural for chickenpox
You see, it's funny. Ha ha.
There is no plural for chickenpox, flu, gold or dust in the english language, in exactly the same way that there is no plural for "virus" in latin. You see, It's complete nonsense to talk about such a thing as a "correct" latin pluralization for "virus", in the same way as it's nonsense to talk about the "correct" english pluralization for "water".
It's funny. Laugh. That's why we're talking about it slashdot -- the home of the nonsense conversation.
Wow. That article is incredibly lame, even by Slashdot standards. There's a lot of hand waving, some wild guesses, some downright wrong arithmetic, and nothing even approaching a verified fact.
I mean, the whole thing reads like this: "I read that you could make a lot of money with macros. I found a place that claimed it would sell me a macro to make money for $20. I have not purchased the macro. If I looked, I may have been able to find macros for free on the net, but I didn't. I have not used the macros. I have never seen the macros. I have no idea what the macros do, and I can't even really guess. So now we have checked our facts and found out that the EQ macro program IS in fact possible." Huh?
Or, my favorite is this: "... which comes to 12,000pp a play session... That's 60,000 pp a week, and then its 3 million PP a month!" Uhh... no. 12,000 per day x 30 days is 300,000, not 3,000,000.
Frankly, I have no idea what is going on in EverQuest. And, I have no idea what is happening to the economy in EverQuest. But, I didn't write a hysterical story about it and submit it to Slashdot, either.
Another guy at the UW has a page up for a demo he gives each year called "The Wonder of Physics." I remember going to this thing once when I was 12 or 13, and being extremely impressed.
Check it out -- I remembering him (and some graduate students) putting a lot more effort into the actual presentation than he does into the webpage...
I have to second this. When I rented the crappy, blurry, poorly translated VHS video many years ago, I was impressed by the animation, and interested by the story.
But, since I didn't have a clue what was going on, I was able to fill in the gaps with anything I wanted in my head. I imagined a damned awesome story in there, which stuck with me for a long time.
I picked up the new DVD recently, and I was blown away. The animation is truly fucking incredible. And the story actually made sense -- and it was a pretty decent story!
But, it wasn't an awesome story. It was a good story, but not an epic "peel back your brain like an onion, forever reworking your perception on the universe story." I watched it about 6 times in 3 days, hoping to find something awesome there, but it just never showed up.
I was extremely disappointed -- I'd spent the last 8 years thinking that Akira might have been a truly genre shattering story, and that I had simply not been smart enough to understand it. Instead, it discovered it was just a pretty danged good story, combined with beautiful sound and graphics.
I'm thinking of picking up the comic book at some point, just to see if there's more there that didn't make it into the movie. I'm afraid of being a little disappointed again, though -- it might just be another decent story with beautiful graphics. Perhaps I should simply adjust my expectations.
Anyhow, I'm not sure if I'd really appreciate a live-action version of Akira. If they didn't try to follow the previous movie too closely, like some sort of ill-concieved psycho remake, it might be pretty danged interesting. If it turns into the classic Hollywood movie, I probably won't spend any money to see it.
What was scary is that I stayed in a 5 star hotel, went to their "on-site" doctor, and he swabbed iodine over a bite that had been infected on my leg (andwas swollen 6 inches across) and thought that would take care of it.
Dude, you want to hear something really scary? I went to an American doctor with a cold, and he gave me an antibiotic! Is that insane, or what? Those american doctors are complete and total fucktards, I think.
That's the nature of the free market-- it provides goods and services when government can't, and when people need them most.
You better take some economics classes, dude. The free market is where people exchange or barter goods they own in return for goods they want.
If the world goes to hell in a handbasket, and there's no water coming out of the tap, and there's no electricity coming out of the wall outlet, and there's no gas down at the pump, then the free market is certainly still going to exist. In fact, you'll still be able to buy electricity, gas, and water. But there's no way in hell that anyone is going to be stupid enough to trade little green pieces of worthless paper for any of those things. They'll trade for something with value, instead -- maybe food, power, sex, or perhaps even gold.
But if you're stockpiling green pieces of paper against the coming apocolypse, may I suggest that you get a clue?
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If those wacko islamicists are targetting the economy like they say they are, then I know what I have to do. I have to save, save, save. I have to prepare for the day when the power goes out for good and there's no more water coming out of the tap.
Cool. Good thing you're saving up. When the world goes to shit, and there's nothing available on the free market, you'll be able to trade all of that valuable green paper you have for all the useful stuff available on the... uhh... free market.
I won't bother detailing the "obvious" issues with a plain XOR, especially for a multi-use pad (which is what we're talking about): I'll leave that to Google.
No, you were talking about encrypting against a large random pad. I assume that you are using the world "large" to compare the size of the random pad against something. In fact, since we're talking about encrypting data, I assumed you meant large compared to the size of the data to encrypt.
I apologize for not understanding your special new term "large", which apparently actually means "pink" or "Gnu Public License" or "coffee cup." I'm not sure how to apply one of these terms to random data, but I'm sure you'll educated me on it real soon.
Or, perhaps I'll look at google, which seems to be where you find the definition for most of the words you use.
You know, I just read your post again. I see now that you said "make a large, random digit file, XOR it against things that you want to encrypt."
I simply assumed that the "large" random file would be larger than the sum of the size of all the things you wanted to encrypt.
I had two reasons for making this obviously very incorrect assumption when I read your post. First, I assumed that because you described it as "large" random file, I imagined that you mean "large in comparison to the stuff you want to encrypt" instead of "large in comparison to the size of a digital breadbox" or "large in comparison to the size of the Library of Congress." I did not realize that the data you would encrypt might be "very large", and this is where I made my first mistake.
Second, I made this assumption because otherwise you'd have to be using my special "dumb-as-a-fucking-rock" encryption method that I've recently patented. I've recently started a business to sue people who attempt to use my special patented encryption method, but my legal counsel keeps laughing at me.
Indeed. It sounds like an "XOR" encryption scheme : i.e. make a large, random digit file, and XOR it against things that you want to encrypt. It is incredibly week for obvious reasons...
I'm reasonably decent at math. Actually, I'm modest. I'm really, really, really fucking good at math. I can't see any reason the encryption method you describe would be "weak". I certainly don't see any "obvious" reasons.
Would you please elaborate on these obvious reasons?
Were you stealing bandwidth from MIT to do this? Or were you hacking into other people's boxes to get the bandwidth?
If you were stealing bandwidth, how much bandwidth do you think you stole from MIT? Did someone there have anything to do with the prosecution, either as a witness or as a whistleblower? Did you feel any moral qualms about stealing from a university?
If you mostly got your bandwidth through hacking, what do you imagine were the costs to the companies to repair the damage from the hacks? Did you feel any qualms about abusing other people's property?
Also, if you were hacking into other people's machines to open up Warez sites, what is the closest analogy to a physical property crime you can imagine? I envision going through the "house for sale" flyer to find unoccupied and poorly monitered homes in my neighborhood, using lockpick (or breaking a window) to get inside, and then "remodeling" it a little bit on the inside so that I could throw huge parties for hundreds or thousands of people. Is this an accurate description of the type of hacking being done, or would you compare it to something else?
Michael Keaton played THE BEST batman, everyone I know agrees... George Clooney? That was a cruel joke.
Being beat in the kidneys with a two-by-four until you piss blood is much, much better than being bashed in the skull with a hammer until you have epileptic seziures. Given that metric, being beaten in the kidneys is THE BEST, but I'll just stay home and read a book, thank you very much.
You think it's ok to cast chicks for their sex appeal and status in the film industry, and you have the nerve to accuse me of misogyny? Dude, I'd rather watch an ugly chick who can act -- unlike you, I think women have a lot more to offer me than just their ability to starve themselves and still have perky tits.
Personally I found Michael Keaton to be the better of the movie version Batmans.
Yes, objectively, Micheal Keaton was the least shitty movie Batman. But, paradoxically, he was also the worst cast. By the time Val Kilmer and George Clooney got the role, everyone already expected the Batman movies to really, really suck. There wasn't anything left to be disappointed about.
But when Keaton was cast, I was still young enough, and idealistic enough -- and the the Miller Batmans were still recent enough -- to believe it possible to make a Batman movie worth watching. Instead, Hollywood pulled a $100,000,000.00 cellulose tapeworm out of its collective anus.
Well, it certainly could have been worse. Suprisingly, Keaton turned out to be the only thing worth watching in that fetid turd of a movie. Watching Jack phone in his role for a huge paycheck was disappointing. Seeing Burton's overwrought, overmarketed, over hyped Gotham didn't help the movie at all. And, for the life of me, I can't recall which hideous "actress" they splashed on the screen to revolt us. Was that the one with Michelle Pfieffer, Kim Bassinger, or Alicia Silverstone? Oh lord, what demon did those shitbags have to sell their soul too to get on film?
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Currently, .su domains cost $15,000 (.ru cost less than $30), so there are only about 28,000 registered.
.su domains for $15,000, much less any economy absorbing a half billion dollars worth of them.
.su domains, and who got all the cash?
That sentence is simply insane. $15,000 dollars per domain times 28,000 domains is nearly a half billion dollars. I simply can't imagine anyone buying even one of the oh-so-valuable
What is the real story on the price? How much have most people really paid for their
Yes, they don't have the same standards as the Police, but they do follow the laws and rules that govern them.
You're right -- I was being overdramatic in my post. I wasn't trying to imply that the US military was unaware of the constraints of Domestic Law Enforcement, or was unable to follow international law.
Quite the opposite is true, in fact -- overall, the US Military is pretty damned good at being aware of, and following, the rules of engagement for the situations they're in.
My point, though, was that the Military and Domestic Law Enforcement are two entirely seperate things, with two entirely seperate reasons for existing, and with two very different standards for behaviour. I thnk this is a good thing.
My opinion is that any erosion of the Military into a Domestic Law Enforcement role is ultimately bad for the Military, and bad for the citizens of the United States.
Military and Domestic Law Enforcement are two entirely different things.
The military exists for one reason, and one reason only -- to exert the threat (or action) of effective, lethal force on external states.
In an intact nation, the military must never be concerned about due process, or constitutional rights, or body of evidence, or taking extraordinary measures to protect civilians. Preponderance of evidence, working with prosecutors, trial by jury -- all of these things shouldn't mean anything to the military. Why? Because they're not law enforecement.
And, frankly, any amount of time spent training the military to do law enforcement takes away from time that they should be training to do their job, which has nothing to do with law enforcement.
I'm pretty sure you use an apostrophe when you're talking about a plurality of words or letters. For example, there are a lot of P's, Q's, and the's lying around in my house, drinking my beer. And, they keep calling me Mr. Well, they can all take their Mr.'s, and shove them where the sun don't shine.
But, I don't know if you use an apostrophe with acronyms, like PLC. I mean, it has P's, L's, and C's in it, but if you shove them all together, I think it just might make some PLCs.
I have no idea what the licensing is for the specification. If I did know, I would be legally barred from discussing them.
But assume, for arguments sake, that the license terms for the specification is incompatible with the GPL (again, I don't know if it is incompatible, and if I did know, it would be illegal for me to tell you). Now, assume that any member of the Samba team saw the specification, under any conditions.
What would happen? The license terms may be such that Microsoft could go to court and demand that the Samba team cease distributing Samba. If the court agreed, Samba would be pulled from all public servers, and any future development on Samba would cease.
Now, like I said, I have no idea if the license terms are written like this. And, if I did know, it would be illegal for me to tell you.
I'm just saying that it's possible that simply by anyone on the Samba team looking at the spec, Microsoft might have ammunition to shutdown Samba development. But just because it's possible, that doesn't make it true. But if it was true, it would be illegal for me to tell you.
There is no plural for chickenpox, flu, gold or dust in the english language, in exactly the same way that there is no plural for "virus" in latin. You see, It's complete nonsense to talk about such a thing as a "correct" latin pluralization for "virus", in the same way as it's nonsense to talk about the "correct" english pluralization for "water".
It's funny. Laugh. That's why we're talking about it slashdot -- the home of the nonsense conversation.
Uhhh... yeah. What's the plural of "flu", then? While you're at it, would you mind telling me the plural of "water", "gold", and "dust" ?
chickenpoxen
It's chickenpoxii, you dumbass.
Wow. That article is incredibly lame, even by Slashdot standards. There's a lot of hand waving, some wild guesses, some downright wrong arithmetic, and nothing even approaching a verified fact.
... That's 60,000 pp a week, and then its 3 million PP a month!" Uhh... no. 12,000 per day x 30 days is 300,000, not 3,000,000.
I mean, the whole thing reads like this: "I read that you could make a lot of money with macros. I found a place that claimed it would sell me a macro to make money for $20. I have not purchased the macro. If I looked, I may have been able to find macros for free on the net, but I didn't. I have not used the macros. I have never seen the macros. I have no idea what the macros do, and I can't even really guess. So now we have checked our facts and found out that the EQ macro program IS in fact possible." Huh?
Or, my favorite is this: "... which comes to 12,000pp a play session
Frankly, I have no idea what is going on in EverQuest. And, I have no idea what is happening to the economy in EverQuest. But, I didn't write a hysterical story about it and submit it to Slashdot, either.
Another guy at the UW has a page up for a demo he gives each year called "The Wonder of Physics." I remember going to this thing once when I was 12 or 13, and being extremely impressed.
Check it out -- I remembering him (and some graduate students) putting a lot more effort into the actual presentation than he does into the webpage...
I have to second this. When I rented the crappy, blurry, poorly translated VHS video many years ago, I was impressed by the animation, and interested by the story.
But, since I didn't have a clue what was going on, I was able to fill in the gaps with anything I wanted in my head. I imagined a damned awesome story in there, which stuck with me for a long time.
I picked up the new DVD recently, and I was blown away. The animation is truly fucking incredible. And the story actually made sense -- and it was a pretty decent story!
But, it wasn't an awesome story. It was a good story, but not an epic "peel back your brain like an onion, forever reworking your perception on the universe story." I watched it about 6 times in 3 days, hoping to find something awesome there, but it just never showed up.
I was extremely disappointed -- I'd spent the last 8 years thinking that Akira might have been a truly genre shattering story, and that I had simply not been smart enough to understand it. Instead, it discovered it was just a pretty danged good story, combined with beautiful sound and graphics.
I'm thinking of picking up the comic book at some point, just to see if there's more there that didn't make it into the movie. I'm afraid of being a little disappointed again, though -- it might just be another decent story with beautiful graphics. Perhaps I should simply adjust my expectations.
Anyhow, I'm not sure if I'd really appreciate a live-action version of Akira. If they didn't try to follow the previous movie too closely, like some sort of ill-concieved psycho remake, it might be pretty danged interesting. If it turns into the classic Hollywood movie, I probably won't spend any money to see it.
What was scary is that I stayed in a 5 star hotel, went to their "on-site" doctor, and he swabbed iodine over a bite that had been infected on my leg (andwas swollen 6 inches across) and thought that would take care of it.
Dude, you want to hear something really scary? I went to an American doctor with a cold, and he gave me an antibiotic! Is that insane, or what? Those american doctors are complete and total fucktards, I think.
you know that the chinese word for computer translates to "electric brain," right? (dian nao) I wonder what the internals are called..
Wow! You know, the english word for computer translates to "computer", which is a person who does arithmetic computations all day.
And the english word for mother board translates to "mother board", which should be enough to give anyone pause about those very strange westerners...
That's the nature of the free market-- it provides goods and services when government can't, and when people need them most.
You better take some economics classes, dude. The free market is where people exchange or barter goods they own in return for goods they want.
If the world goes to hell in a handbasket, and there's no water coming out of the tap, and there's no electricity coming out of the wall outlet, and there's no gas down at the pump, then the free market is certainly still going to exist. In fact, you'll still be able to buy electricity, gas, and water. But there's no way in hell that anyone is going to be stupid enough to trade little green pieces of worthless paper for any of those things. They'll trade for something with value, instead -- maybe food, power, sex, or perhaps even gold.
But if you're stockpiling green pieces of paper against the coming apocolypse, may I suggest that you get a clue?
If those wacko islamicists are targetting the economy like they say they are, then I know what I have to do. I have to save, save, save. I have to prepare for the day when the power goes out for good and there's no more water coming out of the tap.
... uhh ... free market.
Cool. Good thing you're saving up. When the world goes to shit, and there's nothing available on the free market, you'll be able to trade all of that valuable green paper you have for all the useful stuff available on the
Oh, never mind.
I won't bother detailing the "obvious" issues with a plain XOR, especially for a multi-use pad (which is what we're talking about): I'll leave that to Google.
No, you were talking about encrypting against a large random pad. I assume that you are using the world "large" to compare the size of the random pad against something. In fact, since we're talking about encrypting data, I assumed you meant large compared to the size of the data to encrypt.
I apologize for not understanding your special new term "large", which apparently actually means "pink" or "Gnu Public License" or "coffee cup." I'm not sure how to apply one of these terms to random data, but I'm sure you'll educated me on it real soon.
Or, perhaps I'll look at google, which seems to be where you find the definition for most of the words you use.
You know, I just read your post again. I see now that you said "make a large, random digit file, XOR it against things that you want to encrypt."
I simply assumed that the "large" random file would be larger than the sum of the size of all the things you wanted to encrypt.
I had two reasons for making this obviously very incorrect assumption when I read your post. First, I assumed that because you described it as "large" random file, I imagined that you mean "large in comparison to the stuff you want to encrypt" instead of "large in comparison to the size of a digital breadbox" or "large in comparison to the size of the Library of Congress." I did not realize that the data you would encrypt might be "very large", and this is where I made my first mistake.
Second, I made this assumption because otherwise you'd have to be using my special "dumb-as-a-fucking-rock" encryption method that I've recently patented. I've recently started a business to sue people who attempt to use my special patented encryption method, but my legal counsel keeps laughing at me.
Indeed. It sounds like an "XOR" encryption scheme : i.e. make a large, random digit file, and XOR it against things that you want to encrypt. It is incredibly week for obvious reasons...
I'm reasonably decent at math. Actually, I'm modest. I'm really, really, really fucking good at math. I can't see any reason the encryption method you describe would be "weak". I certainly don't see any "obvious" reasons.
Would you please elaborate on these obvious reasons?
Dude, the first time I saw the Beavis and Butthead movie I just about crapped my pants I laughed so hard.
Wait... you're talking about Frog Baseball, right? The second time I saw them in a theater, in that "Do America" thing, they weren't nearly as funny.
An Engineer is someone who can make for 10 cents what any damned fool can make for a dollar.
Yes, someday that damned fool will be entirely replaced by computer software. The engineer never will be.
Do you guys have a bowl of frogs for snacking next to your computer when you post?
Hell no. I eat blind albino squids dipped in chocolate.
They're lower in sodium, and not nearly as crunchy!!
Were you stealing bandwidth from MIT to do this? Or were you hacking into other people's boxes to get the bandwidth?
If you were stealing bandwidth, how much bandwidth do you think you stole from MIT? Did someone there have anything to do with the prosecution, either as a witness or as a whistleblower? Did you feel any moral qualms about stealing from a university?
If you mostly got your bandwidth through hacking, what do you imagine were the costs to the companies to repair the damage from the hacks? Did you feel any qualms about abusing other people's property?
Also, if you were hacking into other people's machines to open up Warez sites, what is the closest analogy to a physical property crime you can imagine? I envision going through the "house for sale" flyer to find unoccupied and poorly monitered homes in my neighborhood, using lockpick (or breaking a window) to get inside, and then "remodeling" it a little bit on the inside so that I could throw huge parties for hundreds or thousands of people. Is this an accurate description of the type of hacking being done, or would you compare it to something else?
Michael Keaton played THE BEST batman, everyone I know agrees... George Clooney? That was a cruel joke.
Being beat in the kidneys with a two-by-four until you piss blood is much, much better than being bashed in the skull with a hammer until you have epileptic seziures. Given that metric, being beaten in the kidneys is THE BEST, but I'll just stay home and read a book, thank you very much.
You think it's ok to cast chicks for their sex appeal and status in the film industry, and you have the nerve to accuse me of misogyny? Dude, I'd rather watch an ugly chick who can act -- unlike you, I think women have a lot more to offer me than just their ability to starve themselves and still have perky tits.
Personally I found Michael Keaton to be the better of the movie version Batmans.
Yes, objectively, Micheal Keaton was the least shitty movie Batman. But, paradoxically, he was also the worst cast. By the time Val Kilmer and George Clooney got the role, everyone already expected the Batman movies to really, really suck. There wasn't anything left to be disappointed about.
But when Keaton was cast, I was still young enough, and idealistic enough -- and the the Miller Batmans were still recent enough -- to believe it possible to make a Batman movie worth watching. Instead, Hollywood pulled a $100,000,000.00 cellulose tapeworm out of its collective anus.
Well, it certainly could have been worse. Suprisingly, Keaton turned out to be the only thing worth watching in that fetid turd of a movie. Watching Jack phone in his role for a huge paycheck was disappointing. Seeing Burton's overwrought, overmarketed, over hyped Gotham didn't help the movie at all. And, for the life of me, I can't recall which hideous "actress" they splashed on the screen to revolt us. Was that the one with Michelle Pfieffer, Kim Bassinger, or Alicia Silverstone? Oh lord, what demon did those shitbags have to sell their soul too to get on film?