You probably didn't do anything stupid when you were a kid, right?
The only difference now is that the same kids in a different era of technology are doing stuff with what they have on their hands. While I *DID* say that it shouldn't go unpunished... 5 years in jail at that age, you're SURE to bread criminals, think about it... spending 5 years in jail from 30 to 35 is NOT the same than before 20, while you're whipping their asses, some other kids will do the same shit because of the attention it gets.
Basically you're not fighting the problem, the problem is the SOURCE itself, and it's NOT the kids, it's the LACK OF SECURITY FEATURES in the software.
You're lucky this time it was kids doing a prank, when it's going to be a real hacker that will grab loads of credit card number by exploiting a similar flaw, you'll rethink twice and be glad some kid would have found it first.
Part of the process of being a kid is learning... While I do not approve destruction or paralizing IT infrastructures, this seriously bugs me depending on the seriousness of the punishment.
Meanwhile, LOADS of spammers are still clugging my Hotmail inbox at a rate of at least 20 spam a day, my ISP email account receives at *LEAST* 5 spams a day, multiply that by X amount of users, THERE'S a big bandwidth waste. These people are still running free and going stronger than ever!
Those lame virus lasts for about a week. If after that, anyone else gets caught, they need to *LEARN* the HARD WAY like "doing backup is a good idea because you never know when your system might fail", well the same should go with "Update that antivirus file, because you never know what might hit you". Heck, the antivirus programs offers to do it automatically, there's no excuses.
How many times did you fall on a web page that had that webring thing? Ok.
How many broken links? how how many times did you have to cache the original page in a different page, "lookup 5 sites" on another page, and go thru them one by one? (or always pressing back after a 404 error).
I guess the ringowners had better things to do than to maintain their lists, the concept was cool while it was working, but right now it's just a pain and time wasting. I agree, put this dog to sleep.
does that mean that if I sell my program I made on my amiga 8 years ago to record TV content with my DPS personnal video recorder, to my hard drive at a precise hour, I'll be breaking this patent?
Yet another stupid patent that shows that Patents are becomming stupid.COM's, you pay to get it and you can get screwed if you don't get all the little bits left and right (like domain.com, mydomain.com dom-ain.com), and even if you do, someone will workaround it (.net.whatever) and you'll have to finish this up in court (only lawyers win)same go if you're legit and if you're stepping on somebody else that can claims anything out of his little left and right bit, you get sued again...
While I do understand that technological patents are a pain to filter and there's no black and white yes/no approach to them, and that if you're not precise enough, people go around you, if you're overkill and patent every screws in your system, of course you're blocking anything else using the same screws so it's ridiculous, but c'mon... some people are actually PAIED to work this out and THINK about how to manage these issues, it's not our job, but then again, it seems like they aren't doing theirs and it's the rest of us that are penalized.
>Guy goes and invents something, and gets griped at non-stop.
>No wonder big companies don't try new ideas.
Do you know how many great ideas are out there that never come to surface because of lack of funding?
Do you know how many of them you could bring up to surface with 100M$?
If it wouldn't be for NDA, I could tell you quite a few good ones, using a FRACTION of that amount of money, that will probably change a lot more than IT (but not in the same field).
And the 100M$ is nothing right now, it still looks like a prototype, ramping a factory to build this thing and ramp it up to mass production will require a bit more capital if his cash flow is dried out.
IT's still a good idea, but what pisses the people here is probably the fact that they see ideas like that getting TONS of cash, while they get turned down on their personnal or cooperative projects, or venture capitalists are trying to eat 90% of the company's shares, almost killing them for a second round of financing. 100M$ in my opinion is a lot of money and a LOT of good projects would have seen the light with that kind of money, and while I don't have a crystal ball, I'd bet adding the succesful projects created with that 100M$ fund would outweight what IT has to offer.
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>Steve Jobs has seen it and he said it would change the world. Remember the last time he said that?
Probably about in the same timeframe that Gates is claiming Innovation...
Well at least it *WILL* filter some of the bad content while leaving the good one clean, right now I receive 20 mails a day of spam in my hotmail inbox and the hotmail filter killed *VALID* messages! they keep junk for 2 weeks, I found that out 3 months later because my girlfriend posts would never reach me for the last few days.. and she's far from being a spammer.
There's not perfect solution for spam (aside from killing every single individuals that dare spamming people, which unfortunately is still illegal:) ).
Legislation is too busy removing our civil rights right now than to make our lives better (as they should do). So right now, I'd say, ANY technology helping us to reduce spam should be welcomed and helped in a productive way instead of bashing on it without even giving it a try. It's an open project and it means that if you can contribute in a POSITIVE way, you should. Else, people, please don't discourage programmers working on something that could eventually come out as being a very good solution.
We can't do it, we can be jailed by showing a proof of concept, we're called terrorists if we give out proof of concept code, but the same people jailing us and calling us terrorists are doing it on purpose....
That makes me think of alcoholic parents telling their kids not to drink while they are wasted 24hrs a day. Well even that's more logical, at least the kid CAN STILL make a choice, either be like his parent or be the total opposite..... whereas here...
Now with all this crap going around, gnutella will not only have porn, mp3 and DiVX-encoded movies and warez going around... it'll be jammed with blueprints and engineering stuff...
I'm sure it's all a big plot to clug the bandwidth so people stop leeching warez and vids and go buy them for all the trouble it'll take to get them for free...
Ok... seems like I didn't get the part with "it's a parody site":).. good thing I don't have that huge-ass ego:)
I must say, it's VERY well done got fooled big time, hehehe, but the serious part is: IT DID ITs JOB!... sensibilise the people to their cause... it worked 100% on me.
Either it shows how much I don't trust my leaders (by beleiving they could go that far for real), or I am a complete dumbass... or both:)
I'm reading the website... and now I am wondering is it defaced or it's the real thing? I mean I never really bothered with all that WTO stuff but when I read (on the front page):
>Brazilian AIDS drugs a sure path to economic sickness
>Today, however, another Holocaust is taking place: it goes by the name of "distrust of big business," and it is every bit as terrible as the last.
>Qatar saves the day Responding to the selfish and dangerous actions of special-interest forces at recent free-trade summits, the kingdom of Qatar has generously offered to host the next WTO Ministerial. In Qatar, the sort of lobbying seen in Seattle, Quebec, Davos, Prague, Barcelona, and elsewhere is strictly illegal and heavily punished,...
I mean... what the hell?? is that all real? I mean I'm used to lying politician, backstabbing authority figures, and all that stuff, but I mean, putting such things on a front page has really shocked me, I can't beleive people can be that openly materialistic and use historic stuff and lie without raising a LOT of opposition...
Especially the last part "we don't value your opinion, saying you dislike what we are working on is illegal so we will host our "democratic" process in a place you'll get shot in the head if you disagree"... wow... now I see why people are so upset...while I don't think people fighting police to disrupt the meeting is a viable option (policemen are people like you and me, just doing what they are told to, hitting them won't make things better), I do think it's bad to not let people express their opposition, afterall, these are the people these leaders are supposed to work for, they should give numbers and sensibilization if having a world-class economy system is such a good thing, not shutting the door off and smashing opponents, this shows only that these opponents might be right somewhere...
I can't beleive it, everyone should go take a look at that site, that gatt.org thing, anyone with a minimal sense of humanity and a bit of education will probably feel like I am right now, there's some stuff that is still true there, BUT it's stuff usually classified as "silent truth", you know it's right but you don't say it openly because it could backfire heavily (like the AIDS thing for example, of course if you copy a patented thing that took years and billion in research, it's stealing, but then again, selling it to make 100 of billions in profits (I did mention PROFITS not only recovering the cost of R&D and salaries) so that rich people can afford it and poor people can't, is it a more noble goal?
Anyways, I leave you with that quote:
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Protesters rich, study shows
A new study shows that the special-interest lobbyists attending the Seattle, Prague, Nice, Davos, and other demonstrations come from population sectors that have freedom and money to travel, putting them in a different class from those sectors of the developing world they pretend to defend.
--
Well if that system we all know is to make rich people richer, if people that are opposing it are already rich, I read this and I think "maybe there's really something wrong in there" and with everything else I just read on their website, I'm really beginning to think that there is.
Funny thing is when this happened in Quebec (where I live) I thought that these protestors were just a bunch of kids with too much hormones needing to hit at something just like a big heavy metal concert... like a big party... I'm scared now because while this might still apply to a bunch of the people that were there, now I realize that 10,000s of people can't all be wrong... scary...
Used for marketting hype, to curse companies into bankruptness, and to bring false hopes since about 6 years, and still in use in my 5 amigas at home:) Nothing beats a A1200 (unless it's a dell 8100 laptop with AmigaXL on it:) ).
Re:From the "Reminds me of this classic prose" guy
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>Nice to see one of my comments get a 5 rating *WHEN SOMEONE ELSE POSTS IT*.
>http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=2248277&si d=21 226 [slashdot.org] is my original comment.
Sorry to break it for you but don't aim too high, If you post only for Karma, you're in for a big surprise: Karma tops at 50, after that, you'll be like me, trying to find another reason to life for;)
If they would have DOCUMENTED the changes, and put a button in the control pannel (like where all the antialiasing on off, buffer level and all is) it would have been legit, they could have put it in their press release and send them around WITHOUT getting any flames.
There are ways to do things, you can bend the rules, but breaking it will only get fire back. I'm all for specific-engine optimization, and like carmack says, Conformance trade-offs shouldn't be made at the driver level in general, but to this I'll say, if it's documented and available as an OPTION somewhere, it won't apply only to techies, it can be applied to joe schmoe as well "if you click here, game will run faster with a small quality degradation (that you will probably not even notice because at the speed of events in quake 3)". Heck if they can put something like Quancun Aliasing in the Panel options, you can be sure people will understand specific game optimization as well.
Anyways forcing something to the users without their knowledge is just plain bad and lame. Of course people will end up finding out, and of course it will backfire... what is gain from doing that!? there sure is poor judgement at ATI, and there's probably a bunch of people there right now saying "see? told you so!". Management, you should listen to the people in the lower part of your food chain (i.e. QA testers), they might know more about the end-user market and hardware benchmarkarking scene (not the OEM of course) than you do!).
>every time you buy over the internet, an angel gets his wings
As long as you don't buy from a united states dealer and live in canada, and ship thru UPS.
Shipping cost
15% duty tax,
7% federal tax
7% Provencial tax
profit on the exchange rate on CC or paypal,
God... when you think about it, it's depressing from a production point of view, you're doing hardware, you must do everything to keep cost super low to get to that 300% mark to recuperate the r&d cost, normally you end up doing maybe what, 20% overall profit!?... in the end, the gov makes almost more profit with your stuff than you... no wonder we got so many people on wealthfare, maybe I've underestimated them and they are the genious:)
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You probably didn't do anything stupid when you were a kid, right?
The only difference now is that the same kids in a different era of technology are doing stuff with what they have on their hands. While I *DID* say that it shouldn't go unpunished... 5 years in jail at that age, you're SURE to bread criminals, think about it... spending 5 years in jail from 30 to 35 is NOT the same than before 20, while you're whipping their asses, some other kids will do the same shit because of the attention it gets.
Basically you're not fighting the problem, the problem is the SOURCE itself, and it's NOT the kids, it's the LACK OF SECURITY FEATURES in the software.
You're lucky this time it was kids doing a prank, when it's going to be a real hacker that will grab loads of credit card number by exploiting a similar flaw, you'll rethink twice and be glad some kid would have found it first.
For grown up security mistakes...
Part of the process of being a kid is learning... While I do not approve destruction or paralizing IT infrastructures, this seriously bugs me depending on the seriousness of the punishment.
Meanwhile, LOADS of spammers are still clugging my Hotmail inbox at a rate of at least 20 spam a day, my ISP email account receives at *LEAST* 5 spams a day, multiply that by X amount of users, THERE'S a big bandwidth waste. These people are still running free and going stronger than ever!
Those lame virus lasts for about a week. If after that, anyone else gets caught, they need to *LEARN* the HARD WAY like "doing backup is a good idea because you never know when your system might fail", well the same should go with "Update that antivirus file, because you never know what might hit you". Heck, the antivirus programs offers to do it automatically, there's no excuses.
How many times did you fall on a web page that had that webring thing? Ok.
How many broken links? how how many times did you have to cache the original page in a different page, "lookup 5 sites" on another page, and go thru them one by one? (or always pressing back after a 404 error).
I guess the ringowners had better things to do than to maintain their lists, the concept was cool while it was working, but right now it's just a pain and time wasting. I agree, put this dog to sleep.
Still hiring :)
http://www.zilog.com/jobs/
Genesis was a 68000... same chip as amiga 500/2000
http://www.zophar.net/tech/genesis.html
Illstickwithmycurentlongnametopreventlametrademark abuse.com
The Net alone is a real addiction, Gaming is just one branch of the tree.
Holography basics (aimed at Highschool students level).
Books and information on Holography
Some more holography Theory>
>You don't just jam a Unix kernel onto some hardware and suddenly the system serves web pages, crunches d.net keys, and makes coffee
And what about that SETI PCI card?
Oh... wait...
PVR are old like hell...
.COM's, you pay to get it and you can get screwed if you don't get all the little bits left and right (like domain.com, mydomain.com dom-ain.com), and even if you do, someone will workaround it (.net .whatever) and you'll have to finish this up in court (only lawyers win)same go if you're legit and if you're stepping on somebody else that can claims anything out of his little left and right bit, you get sued again...
does that mean that if I sell my program I made on my amiga 8 years ago to record TV content with my DPS personnal video recorder, to my hard drive at a precise hour, I'll be breaking this patent?
Yet another stupid patent that shows that Patents are becomming stupid
While I do understand that technological patents are a pain to filter and there's no black and white yes/no approach to them, and that if you're not precise enough, people go around you, if you're overkill and patent every screws in your system, of course you're blocking anything else using the same screws so it's ridiculous, but c'mon... some people are actually PAIED to work this out and THINK about how to manage these issues, it's not our job, but then again, it seems like they aren't doing theirs and it's the rest of us that are penalized.
>Guy goes and invents something, and gets griped at non-stop.
>No wonder big companies don't try new ideas.
Do you know how many great ideas are out there that never come to surface because of lack of funding?
Do you know how many of them you could bring up to surface with 100M$?
If it wouldn't be for NDA, I could tell you quite a few good ones, using a FRACTION of that amount of money, that will probably change a lot more than IT (but not in the same field).
And the 100M$ is nothing right now, it still looks like a prototype, ramping a factory to build this thing and ramp it up to mass production will require a bit more capital if his cash flow is dried out.
IT's still a good idea, but what pisses the people here is probably the fact that they see ideas like that getting TONS of cash, while they get turned down on their personnal or cooperative projects, or venture capitalists are trying to eat 90% of the company's shares, almost killing them for a second round of financing. 100M$ in my opinion is a lot of money and a LOT of good projects would have seen the light with that kind of money, and while I don't have a crystal ball, I'd bet adding the succesful projects created with that 100M$ fund would outweight what IT has to offer.
>Steve Jobs has seen it and he said it would change the world. Remember the last time he said that?
Probably about in the same timeframe that Gates is claiming Innovation...
> It looks gay
:)
Well if they use the same design I saw in southpark, it will ACT gay too
> As an 'IT', it is neither male nor female and is thus not capable of homosexual activity
How would you call the female IT version? SHE-IT?
oh wait...
My ex girlfriend is a cross beteen a human and a total cow... and she didn't have a heart,
:)
now not only will she get one, but she'll get shipped to japan since it's the only place it'll be legal. Everybody wins
Well at least it *WILL* filter some of the bad content while leaving the good one clean, right now I receive 20 mails a day of spam in my hotmail inbox and the hotmail filter killed *VALID* messages! they keep junk for 2 weeks, I found that out 3 months later because my girlfriend posts would never reach me for the last few days.. and she's far from being a spammer.
:) ).
There's not perfect solution for spam (aside from killing every single individuals that dare spamming people, which unfortunately is still illegal
Legislation is too busy removing our civil rights right now than to make our lives better (as they should do). So right now, I'd say, ANY technology helping us to reduce spam should be welcomed and helped in a productive way instead of bashing on it without even giving it a try. It's an open project and it means that if you can contribute in a POSITIVE way, you should. Else, people, please don't discourage programmers working on something that could eventually come out as being a very good solution.
We can't do it, we can be jailed by showing a proof of concept, we're called terrorists if we give out proof of concept code, but the same people jailing us and calling us terrorists are doing it on purpose....
That makes me think of alcoholic parents telling their kids not to drink while they are wasted 24hrs a day. Well even that's more logical, at least the kid CAN STILL make a choice, either be like his parent or be the total opposite..... whereas here...
>Bush may not know it, but these already exist in the form of SIPRNET, and INTELNET.
:)
>SIPRNET
>SECRET INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUTER NETWORK
Ok It's a secret, Shhhhh! only you and 2,000,000 more readers now knows about it
Now with all this crap going around, gnutella will not only have porn, mp3 and DiVX-encoded movies and warez going around... it'll be jammed with blueprints and engineering stuff...
I'm sure it's all a big plot to clug the bandwidth so people stop leeching warez and vids and go buy them for all the trouble it'll take to get them for free...
...brilliant...
heh
Ok... seems like I didn't get the part with "it's a parody site" :).. good thing I don't have that huge-ass ego :)
I must say, it's VERY well done got fooled big time, hehehe, but the serious part is: IT DID ITs JOB!... sensibilise the people to their cause... it worked 100% on me.
Either it shows how much I don't trust my leaders (by beleiving they could go that far for real), or I am a complete dumbass... or both :)
I am on gatt.org....
...
I'm reading the website... and now I am wondering is it defaced or it's the real thing? I mean I never really bothered with all that WTO stuff but when I read (on the front page):
>Brazilian AIDS drugs a sure path to economic sickness
>Today, however, another Holocaust is taking place: it goes by the name of "distrust of big business," and it is every bit as terrible as the last.
>Qatar saves the day Responding to the selfish and dangerous actions of special-interest forces at recent free-trade summits, the kingdom of Qatar has generously offered to host the next WTO Ministerial. In Qatar, the sort of lobbying seen in Seattle, Quebec, Davos, Prague, Barcelona, and elsewhere is strictly illegal and heavily punished,
I mean... what the hell?? is that all real? I mean I'm used to lying politician, backstabbing authority figures, and all that stuff, but I mean, putting such things on a front page has really shocked me, I can't beleive people can be that openly materialistic and use historic stuff and lie without raising a LOT of opposition...
Especially the last part "we don't value your opinion, saying you dislike what we are working on is illegal so we will host our "democratic" process in a place you'll get shot in the head if you disagree"... wow... now I see why people are so upset...while I don't think people fighting police to disrupt the meeting is a viable option (policemen are people like you and me, just doing what they are told to, hitting them won't make things better), I do think it's bad to not let people express their opposition, afterall, these are the people these leaders are supposed to work for, they should give numbers and sensibilization if having a world-class economy system is such a good thing, not shutting the door off and smashing opponents, this shows only that these opponents might be right somewhere...
I can't beleive it, everyone should go take a look at that site, that gatt.org thing, anyone with a minimal sense of humanity and a bit of education will probably feel like I am right now, there's some stuff that is still true there, BUT it's stuff usually classified as "silent truth", you know it's right but you don't say it openly because it could backfire heavily (like the AIDS thing for example, of course if you copy a patented thing that took years and billion in research, it's stealing, but then again, selling it to make 100 of billions in profits (I did mention PROFITS not only recovering the cost of R&D and salaries) so that rich people can afford it and poor people can't, is it a more noble goal?
Anyways, I leave you with that quote:
--
Protesters rich, study shows
A new study shows that the special-interest lobbyists attending the Seattle, Prague, Nice, Davos, and other demonstrations come from population sectors that have freedom and money to travel, putting them in a different class from those sectors of the developing world they pretend to defend.
--
Well if that system we all know is to make rich people richer, if people that are opposing it are already rich, I read this and I think "maybe there's really something wrong in there" and with everything else I just read on their website, I'm really beginning to think that there is.
Funny thing is when this happened in Quebec (where I live) I thought that these protestors were just a bunch of kids with too much hormones needing to hit at something just like a big heavy metal concert... like a big party... I'm scared now because while this might still apply to a bunch of the people that were there, now I realize that 10,000s of people can't all be wrong... scary...
>Please explain this picture [myowntechie.com]
It's a black shoe held probably by the photographer, with a cool building in the background.
er..
Used for marketting hype, to curse companies into bankruptness, and to bring false hopes since about 6 years, and still in use in my 5 amigas at home :) Nothing beats a A1200 (unless it's a dell 8100 laptop with AmigaXL on it :) ).
>Nice to see one of my comments get a 5 rating *WHEN SOMEONE ELSE POSTS IT*.
;)
>http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=2248277&si d=21 226 [slashdot.org] is my original comment.
Sorry to break it for you but don't aim too high, If you post only for Karma, you're in for a big surprise: Karma tops at 50, after that, you'll be like me, trying to find another reason to life for
If they would have DOCUMENTED the changes, and put a button in the control pannel (like where all the antialiasing on off, buffer level and all is) it would have been legit, they could have put it in their press release and send them around WITHOUT getting any flames.
There are ways to do things, you can bend the rules, but breaking it will only get fire back. I'm all for specific-engine optimization, and like carmack says, Conformance trade-offs shouldn't be made at the driver level in general, but to this I'll say, if it's documented and available as an OPTION somewhere, it won't apply only to techies, it can be applied to joe schmoe as well "if you click here, game will run faster with a small quality degradation (that you will probably not even notice because at the speed of events in quake 3)". Heck if they can put something like Quancun Aliasing in the Panel options, you can be sure people will understand specific game optimization as well.
Anyways forcing something to the users without their knowledge is just plain bad and lame. Of course people will end up finding out, and of course it will backfire... what is gain from doing that!? there sure is poor judgement at ATI, and there's probably a bunch of people there right now saying "see? told you so!". Management, you should listen to the people in the lower part of your food chain (i.e. QA testers), they might know more about the end-user market and hardware benchmarkarking scene (not the OEM of course) than you do!).
>every time you buy over the internet, an angel gets his wings
:)
As long as you don't buy from a united states dealer and live in canada, and ship thru UPS.
Shipping cost
15% duty tax,
7% federal tax
7% Provencial tax
profit on the exchange rate on CC or paypal,
God... when you think about it, it's depressing from a production point of view, you're doing hardware, you must do everything to keep cost super low to get to that 300% mark to recuperate the r&d cost, normally you end up doing maybe what, 20% overall profit!?... in the end, the gov makes almost more profit with your stuff than you... no wonder we got so many people on wealthfare, maybe I've underestimated them and they are the genious