Most people who have spyware installed, have no farking idea how it got there. If the computer forced them to have some active participation, they might at least try to be aware of what's going on, rather than just clicking okay. A system level alert box that proudly declares "You Are Installing Software On Your Computer" wouldn't stop most people from installing it, but for god's sake, at least they'd *know* they were installing something!
Well, if they manage to get to the geek code web page without having internet access, I suppose that makes them 1337 enough to deserve an IP, regardless of whether or not they agree with it.:)
I hate to sound like a troll, but I really don't care about all the MS security vulnerabilities. I've cleaned up a bunch of systems in the last week that were all virus and spyware infested, because the user clicked on things they shouldn't have. If Microsoft required a prompt for the root password whenever a program tried to install itself, similar to what OS X and many Linux apps do, it would make all the actual security vulnerabilities matter much more.
We need internet licenses. Nobody without a geek code should be granted an IP address. It's that simple.
Hah, you think you get some odd looks for "thrice!" Try convincing people that English still needs teh letter thorn, and we should adopt German/Latin style cases. To wherm are you going is necessary for language balance, I say! To whom, To wherm, etc.
Maybe this is why I always sit home alone at night?
A lot of people seem to be assuming that the guy is some sort of moron. AFAICT, he really was published, about ten years ago, and now is recreating his work on modern hardwrae by way of comparison. If all he wanted to do was make an interesting picture, then yes, there are lots of extant renderers that will make pictures. This guy is a graphics researcher. He is interested in techniques that haven't been adequately explored.
For the record - this is a CFM app, not a native one. So, if I don't have classic installed, I'm not vulnerable. If I have classic installed, I'm potentially vulnerable to old viruses. I don't have classic installed, so AFAICT, I couldn't run this virus on my Mac. This is as big a deal as a MS Office Macro Virus.
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Seriously, we need to stop treating version numbers as institutions! They never made a System VI UNIX because everybody got used to System V, so they did System V Release X (i.e. SvR4)
Then, SVR4 became what everybody was used to, so they went to decimals! SVR4.2 EGAD.
It is damn well time for X12. Think of the children!!!
IE in the navy... he he he. I am in the middle of cleaning about 30 viruses off a friend's computer as we speak. It looks like 2 were her fault, probably opened unsafe attachments. The rest used actual exploits.
As I understand it, the ship currently being discussed is chiefly a transporter, rather than an offensive combat platform with guns. It does have a remote control armed helicopter. Something with a role like this ship is probably exactly the sort of thing that would be first to get run by AI. Troop transport over water is probably easier than transport over land (witness the DARPA grand prix). I think I've just figured out a plausible progression for skynet.
The movies always have gigantic AI systems being installed to control all nukes, untested, with no previous deployments. Realistically, AI won't be tried at such a high level *first*. Simple noncombat transports and such seem almost like a no-brainer for going to AI. Once the military is accustomed to noncombat ships having AI, it makes sense to have an AI advisor working with the captain on larger combat vessels, ultimately the captain becomes just a supervisor to the AI. Then, the AI is given the authority to launch weapons without consulting the captain in the most extreme circumstances. Then, they realise there is a bug.
Indeed. Imagine if they guy who invented "sharpened rock" decided to invent patents first, and refused to share the invention with his tribe. The tribe would have been eaten by enraged gnu's or something.
My shop of Haberdasherers and Eurpoean Chapeautinists can design custom hats for you. Please send the fee of 1,000 USD, along with sizes, brain frequncy, style choice, and desired use, and we will get you taken care of. Also, we have a Nigerian haberdasherer who is looking to move some money out of his homeland. Anybody have a bank account they could share for this?
Besides, they can remotely control the ship through a Mozilla interface. How cool is that?
What's that you say? I can remotely control the ship with Mozilla. mmmmmm tasty.
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Well, first off, frequencies are continuous, so you can't count the number between 0 and 10. It's the same as between 10 and 100, or 10 and 10.25. Further, why do extra frequencies take up extra bits in a bit stream. A simple raw audio format, like you'd find on a CD is just a simple Intensity = sound (time) type setup. Lots of samples of what the voltage on the mic was at a particular instant. You'd need to do a Fourier Transform to see the frequencies.
Now, that said, I think I basically agree with you. There isn't any fundamental reason why one couldn't make a CD which is an hour long, and contains exactly 1/2 cycle. With only 16 bits, it'd be far from perfect. 65,536 individual steps means that you can have a little lower than 1/2 Hz (44 kHz sampling rate means a little over two seconds to go all the way down and all the way back up as a Triangle wave.) If you accept either doubled samples, or dithering, then you can stretch things out arbitrarily. If you did that, you could have the speaker moving so slowly you could see it plainly. OR, so slowly it would look at a glance to be perfectly still.
This would never happen on recorded music, as no mic will pickup 1 Hz very well, and the recording studio would probably just filter it out anyway, as it's probably just noise.
Fundamentally, I agree with you, and I've corrected many people in the past when they talk about "stealing music on the Intarweb." OTOH, would the following count as stealing: ?
I make a design for a reciprocating self sealing lub nut. It is my trade secret. I am the only one who knows how to make a reciprocating self sealing lug nut, and I am discussing with a lug nut manufacturer just how much they will pay me for the rights. The manufacturer makes a copy of my plans, and figures out the secret of the foo sprocket, and is able to design a slightly different self sealing unit. I don't have a patent on the use of foo sprockets in designing self sealing lug nuts.
All that the company has done is make a copy. But, I have clearly been deprived of real income from the deal I was making.
As a board certified Metallic Foil Haberdasherer, I should point out that Aluminium is an excellent conductor both of heat and electricity. It might do rather well against a visible frequency beam weapon, but against IR, it might not do so well. An electron beam, likewise, might be less than great. For this reason, anyone seekend to defend against weapons grade death rays with an AluFoil hat should get an insulated Abstract type hat. The abstract design permits the creator to use a honeycomb design, and an insulating layer would help keep you safe from electrical discharge.
Wow, coupled with the ATI Radeon 9600ASC, I'd be the ultimate in cool, whilst getting my Nethack on.
I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm all about benchmarks. I love fast kit. I own an Athlon64, so seeing it win even makes me feel good about myself. OTOH, the performance differences tend not to be huge, and Athlon64 doesn't win every benchmark. Wake me up when I can afford 8 GB of RAM. That's when Athlon 64 will really matter.
I had that game, too. Not well known, but it was cool. I never did really understand what the duck's special power was. He just sort of convulsed. Bucky, the rabbit, jumped real high with his special power. The cat chick had the flying ball o death. The kid did something, and the robot was gay.
What about all the places where there are already surveillance cameras? You probably get a few hours of recordings made of you every week already. You don't notice it now, and you wouldn't notice it if some random guy walking down the street had video footage of his walking down the steet, while you were also walking down the street. He'll probably never even look at the footage.
Or, maybe you will get shot exactly as he passes by, the shooter will be on video, and you can rest in peace, without having to come back as a vengeance zombie.
I tried that, too, but it didn't seem to be EBCDIC, so I just wrote a program on one of my ASCII boxen. Really, it should have been EBCDIC if it was supposed to be cool.
Mine is even worse. Can't have too much white space or repetition that is a shame, I hate slashdot, it is evil, mary's very excellent mother just served up nine pizza sauces. (can't forget sedna, now!) I like the girl who worked at the pizzeria by me. she was hot. maybe she is legal now...
iostream *and* cstring. It may be horrible, but it made perfect sense at the time...:) And, it worked on first compile! Apparently, I need less white space or less repetition. Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted. Cheese Fish is Moose, Poop Madoogly Schmap. Gurp Broodle.
The postercomment compression filter is completely evil. I hate it, it makes me ramble, just so I can share a tiny snippet of horrible C++, that wishes it was C. I couldn't have rewritten this program thrice in the amount of time I've spent adding babble, and the re-previewing this comment in an effor to get around the filter.
Isn't it about time we ditched floppy disks for something better? CD-RW iPod used as FireWire disk.
Isn't it about time we ditched IDE drives for something better? SATA Mmm... Tasty FireWire.
Isn't it about time we ditched x86 for something better? AMD PowerPC
Isn't it about time we ditched Microsoft Windows for something better? Linux Mac OS X
Isn't it about time we ditched CDs for something better? DVDs Depends on context. iPod fills many uses of CD's. (music storage, data backup) Not software distribution. That's what DSL is for.
Isn't it about time we ditched telnet for something better? SSH Yup. No argument here. I may be an Apple bigot, but I'm not *crazy.* No better way to convince somebody that things are okay than forwarding an X11 session over SSH, and using a web browser on your friend's computer. It buys you precious time until the local DNS servers refresh.
Isn't it about time we ditched CRTs for something better? LCDs Bigger CRT's. Better color than LCD's, better motion, better value. slightly blurrier. Cheap. I picked up a used 19" Dell for 35 bucks not too long ago. My 21" Sun was a gift from somebody who didn't need it any more.
Isn't it about time we ditched 20-year-old TV sets for something better? New TVs, available at your local stores. Dammit, the new TV's don't have wood panelling! I could always use a TV capture card, and watch TV on my 21" Sun monitor. Mmmmm 8 bit pallatted "Friends" on my Ultra1 over the network, using SSH forwarding, from my PPC box...
Isn't it about time we ditched COBOL for something better? Visual Basic.
Better than COBOL? WTF? Are you just stupid? None such exists! Maybe PL/1.
Isn't it about time we ditched BASIC for something better? Uhm... it's for beginners. We can't ditch the biginners... HyperCard. I don't care if it's dead. All your base are belong to HyperCard. HyperCard will make you its bitch in ways even Romero couldn't have. BASIC is the mind killer. GOTO poisons the brains of would-be programmers.
C for beginners without access to Hypercard. Something old. Starting newbies with Java is the worst idea in the history of the world. They have no idea what objects are, or how they work. With something like C, it's much easier to learn basic algorithms and data structures, and it's close enough to the machine that you get a sense that you know what's going on.
Isn't it about time we ditched SCO Unix for something better? Linux... we think. This is one of those trick questions, like "Isn't it about time we stopped killing infants, and beating our wives, and parading naked seven year olds down the street?" The only possible answer is either "mu" or "no." "Yes" requires that we were previously using SCO UNIX. If anybody were using it, the company wouldn't have gotten bored and started doing crazy shit.
Isn't it about time we ditched DOS for something better? Windows XP DOS kicks ass. If you ever need to do something with the parallel port in win XP, you need to write a kernel mode device driver and shit. Fuck that. All I want is god damned blinkenlights on my parallel port. All you need to do in DOS is outp(addr, data) to set the 8 data bits. Hell yeah. I'll take that shit any day.
Everybody buys a PC for making parallel port blinkenlights, right?
Isn't it about time we ditched Dubya for something better? John Kerry Steve Jobs!
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Most people who have spyware installed, have no farking idea how it got there. If the computer forced them to have some active participation, they might at least try to be aware of what's going on, rather than just clicking okay. A system level alert box that proudly declares "You Are Installing Software On Your Computer" wouldn't stop most people from installing it, but for god's sake, at least they'd *know* they were installing something!
Well, if they manage to get to the geek code web page without having internet access, I suppose that makes them 1337 enough to deserve an IP, regardless of whether or not they agree with it. :)
I hate to sound like a troll, but I really don't care about all the MS security vulnerabilities. I've cleaned up a bunch of systems in the last week that were all virus and spyware infested, because the user clicked on things they shouldn't have. If Microsoft required a prompt for the root password whenever a program tried to install itself, similar to what OS X and many Linux apps do, it would make all the actual security vulnerabilities matter much more.
We need internet licenses. Nobody without a geek code should be granted an IP address. It's that simple.
No, nobody had to. If anything, the mandatory response to a kilochicken would be as follows:
A kill-a-chicken? Why would I want to plow a field with a wolf?
Or, possibly:
That killer chicken sounds dangerous.
Hah, you think you get some odd looks for "thrice!" Try convincing people that English still needs teh letter thorn, and we should adopt German/Latin style cases. To wherm are you going is necessary for language balance, I say! To whom, To wherm, etc.
Maybe this is why I always sit home alone at night?
A lot of people seem to be assuming that the guy is some sort of moron. AFAICT, he really was published, about ten years ago, and now is recreating his work on modern hardwrae by way of comparison. If all he wanted to do was make an interesting picture, then yes, there are lots of extant renderers that will make pictures. This guy is a graphics researcher. He is interested in techniques that haven't been adequately explored.
For the record - this is a CFM app, not a native one. So, if I don't have classic installed, I'm not vulnerable. If I have classic installed, I'm potentially vulnerable to old viruses. I don't have classic installed, so AFAICT, I couldn't run this virus on my Mac. This is as big a deal as a MS Office Macro Virus.
Goes to show you once again -- Rocket Science is Easy!. Rocket Engineering is Hard!. :)
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X11R6.7 X Window System III
X11R6.7 X Window System IV
X11R6.7 X Window System IV - B
X11R6.7 X Window System IV - C
X11R6.7 X Window System IV - D
X11R6.7 X Window System IV - D - Distribution One
Seriously, we need to stop treating version numbers as institutions! They never made a System VI UNIX because everybody got used to System V, so they did System V Release X (i.e. SvR4)
Then, SVR4 became what everybody was used to, so they went to decimals! SVR4.2 EGAD.
It is damn well time for X12. Think of the children!!!
He didn't comment on the number of votes cast. He said 1 in ten people. I think that lines up nicely with "Vote Early, Vote Often!"
IE in the navy... he he he. I am in the middle of cleaning about 30 viruses off a friend's computer as we speak. It looks like 2 were her fault, probably opened unsafe attachments. The rest used actual exploits.
As I understand it, the ship currently being discussed is chiefly a transporter, rather than an offensive combat platform with guns. It does have a remote control armed helicopter. Something with a role like this ship is probably exactly the sort of thing that would be first to get run by AI. Troop transport over water is probably easier than transport over land (witness the DARPA grand prix). I think I've just figured out a plausible progression for skynet.
The movies always have gigantic AI systems being installed to control all nukes, untested, with no previous deployments. Realistically, AI won't be tried at such a high level *first*. Simple noncombat transports and such seem almost like a no-brainer for going to AI. Once the military is accustomed to noncombat ships having AI, it makes sense to have an AI advisor working with the captain on larger combat vessels, ultimately the captain becomes just a supervisor to the AI. Then, the AI is given the authority to launch weapons without consulting the captain in the most extreme circumstances. Then, they realise there is a bug.
Indeed. Imagine if they guy who invented "sharpened rock" decided to invent patents first, and refused to share the invention with his tribe. The tribe would have been eaten by enraged gnu's or something.
My shop of Haberdasherers and Eurpoean Chapeautinists can design custom hats for you. Please send the fee of 1,000 USD, along with sizes, brain frequncy, style choice, and desired use, and we will get you taken care of. Also, we have a Nigerian haberdasherer who is looking to move some money out of his homeland. Anybody have a bank account they could share for this?
Besides, they can remotely control the ship through a Mozilla interface. How cool is that?
What's that you say? I can remotely control the ship with Mozilla. mmmmmm tasty.
Well, first off, frequencies are continuous, so you can't count the number between 0 and 10. It's the same as between 10 and 100, or 10 and 10.25. Further, why do extra frequencies take up extra bits in a bit stream. A simple raw audio format, like you'd find on a CD is just a simple Intensity = sound (time) type setup. Lots of samples of what the voltage on the mic was at a particular instant. You'd need to do a Fourier Transform to see the frequencies.
Now, that said, I think I basically agree with you. There isn't any fundamental reason why one couldn't make a CD which is an hour long, and contains exactly 1/2 cycle. With only 16 bits, it'd be far from perfect. 65,536 individual steps means that you can have a little lower than 1/2 Hz (44 kHz sampling rate means a little over two seconds to go all the way down and all the way back up as a Triangle wave.) If you accept either doubled samples, or dithering, then you can stretch things out arbitrarily. If you did that, you could have the speaker moving so slowly you could see it plainly. OR, so slowly it would look at a glance to be perfectly still.
This would never happen on recorded music, as no mic will pickup 1 Hz very well, and the recording studio would probably just filter it out anyway, as it's probably just noise.
Fundamentally, I agree with you, and I've corrected many people in the past when they talk about "stealing music on the Intarweb." OTOH, would the following count as stealing: ?
I make a design for a reciprocating self sealing lub nut. It is my trade secret. I am the only one who knows how to make a reciprocating self sealing lug nut, and I am discussing with a lug nut manufacturer just how much they will pay me for the rights. The manufacturer makes a copy of my plans, and figures out the secret of the foo sprocket, and is able to design a slightly different self sealing unit. I don't have a patent on the use of foo sprockets in designing self sealing lug nuts.
All that the company has done is make a copy. But, I have clearly been deprived of real income from the deal I was making.
It's an interesting muse.
As a board certified Metallic Foil Haberdasherer, I should point out that Aluminium is an excellent conductor both of heat and electricity. It might do rather well against a visible frequency beam weapon, but against IR, it might not do so well. An electron beam, likewise, might be less than great. For this reason, anyone seekend to defend against weapons grade death rays with an AluFoil hat should get an insulated Abstract type hat. The abstract design permits the creator to use a honeycomb design, and an insulating layer would help keep you safe from electrical discharge.
Please, people, the right hat for the right job!
Wow, coupled with the ATI Radeon 9600ASC, I'd be the ultimate in cool, whilst getting my Nethack on.
I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm all about benchmarks. I love fast kit. I own an Athlon64, so seeing it win even makes me feel good about myself. OTOH, the performance differences tend not to be huge, and Athlon64 doesn't win every benchmark. Wake me up when I can afford 8 GB of RAM. That's when Athlon 64 will really matter.
I had that game, too. Not well known, but it was cool. I never did really understand what the duck's special power was. He just sort of convulsed. Bucky, the rabbit, jumped real high with his special power. The cat chick had the flying ball o death. The kid did something, and the robot was gay.
Actually, I think you mean .5, not 1.05... ::evil grin::
What about all the places where there are already surveillance cameras? You probably get a few hours of recordings made of you every week already. You don't notice it now, and you wouldn't notice it if some random guy walking down the street had video footage of his walking down the steet, while you were also walking down the street. He'll probably never even look at the footage.
Or, maybe you will get shot exactly as he passes by, the shooter will be on video, and you can rest in peace, without having to come back as a vengeance zombie.
I tried that, too, but it didn't seem to be EBCDIC, so I just wrote a program on one of my ASCII boxen. Really, it should have been EBCDIC if it was supposed to be cool.
Mine is even worse. Can't have too much white space or repetition that is a shame, I hate slashdot, it is evil, mary's very excellent mother just served up nine pizza sauces. (can't forget sedna, now!) I like the girl who worked at the pizzeria by me. she was hot. maybe she is legal now...
0 11100000110010101100100001000000110000101110100001 00000010101000110100001101001011011100110101101000 11101100101011001010110101100100000011011110110111 00010000001000001011100000111001001101001011011000 01000000100011001101111011011110110110001110011001 00000010001000110000101111001001011000010000001100 00101101110011001000010000001100001011011000110110 00010000001001001001000000110011101101111011101000 01000000111011101100001011100110010000001110100011 01000011010010111001100100000011011000110111101110 10101110011011110010010000001110011011010000110100 1011100100111010000100001";
// insert code here...
:) And, it worked on first compile! Apparently, I need less white space or less repetition. Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted. Cheese Fish is Moose, Poop Madoogly Schmap. Gurp Broodle.
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
char text[] = "010010010010000001110011011010000110111101110000
int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
std::cout << "Hello, World!\n";
int length = strlen(text);
for(int i=0; i<(length/8); i++) {
unsigned char letter=0;
for (int j=0; j<8; j++) {
char digit[] = "1";
int binval;
digit[0] = text[8*i+j];
binval = atoi( digit );
letter = (letter << 1) + binval;
}
std::cout << letter;
}
return 0;
}
iostream *and* cstring. It may be horrible, but it made perfect sense at the time...
The postercomment compression filter is completely evil. I hate it, it makes me ramble, just so I can share a tiny snippet of horrible C++, that wishes it was C. I couldn't have rewritten this program thrice in the amount of time I've spent adding babble, and the re-previewing this comment in an effor to get around the filter.
Isn't it about time we ditched floppy disks for something better?
CD-RW
iPod used as FireWire disk.
Isn't it about time we ditched IDE drives for something better?
SATA
Mmm... Tasty FireWire.
Isn't it about time we ditched x86 for something better?
AMD
PowerPC
Isn't it about time we ditched Microsoft Windows for something better?
Linux
Mac OS X
Isn't it about time we ditched CDs for something better?
DVDs
Depends on context. iPod fills many uses of CD's. (music storage, data backup) Not software distribution. That's what DSL is for.
Isn't it about time we ditched telnet for something better?
SSH
Yup. No argument here. I may be an Apple bigot, but I'm not *crazy.* No better way to convince somebody that things are okay than forwarding an X11 session over SSH, and using a web browser on your friend's computer. It buys you precious time until the local DNS servers refresh.
Isn't it about time we ditched CRTs for something better?
LCDs
Bigger CRT's. Better color than LCD's, better motion, better value. slightly blurrier. Cheap. I picked up a used 19" Dell for 35 bucks not too long ago. My 21" Sun was a gift from somebody who didn't need it any more.
Isn't it about time we ditched 20-year-old TV sets for something better?
New TVs, available at your local stores.
Dammit, the new TV's don't have wood panelling! I could always use a TV capture card, and watch TV on my 21" Sun monitor. Mmmmm 8 bit pallatted "Friends" on my Ultra1 over the network, using SSH forwarding, from my PPC box...
Isn't it about time we ditched COBOL for something better?
Visual Basic.
Better than COBOL? WTF? Are you just stupid? None such exists! Maybe PL/1.
Isn't it about time we ditched BASIC for something better?
Uhm... it's for beginners. We can't ditch the biginners...
HyperCard. I don't care if it's dead. All your base are belong to HyperCard. HyperCard will make you its bitch in ways even Romero couldn't have. BASIC is the mind killer. GOTO poisons the brains of would-be programmers.
C for beginners without access to Hypercard. Something old. Starting newbies with Java is the worst idea in the history of the world. They have no idea what objects are, or how they work. With something like C, it's much easier to learn basic algorithms and data structures, and it's close enough to the machine that you get a sense that you know what's going on.
Isn't it about time we ditched SCO Unix for something better?
Linux... we think.
This is one of those trick questions, like "Isn't it about time we stopped killing infants, and beating our wives, and parading naked seven year olds down the street?" The only possible answer is either "mu" or "no." "Yes" requires that we were previously using SCO UNIX. If anybody were using it, the company wouldn't have gotten bored and started doing crazy shit.
Isn't it about time we ditched DOS for something better?
Windows XP
DOS kicks ass. If you ever need to do something with the parallel port in win XP, you need to write a kernel mode device driver and shit. Fuck that. All I want is god damned blinkenlights on my parallel port. All you need to do in DOS is outp(addr, data) to set the 8 data bits. Hell yeah. I'll take that shit any day.
Everybody buys a PC for making parallel port blinkenlights, right?
Isn't it about time we ditched Dubya for something better?
John Kerry
Steve Jobs!
Shit... I just sent in my resume. I guess I'll sign up for the email service now. I thought they were serious.