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I think one of the workaround to this, is to make the publication of the source code necessary prior to granting any software patent
Oh great, I can see it now, pattens with very vegue discriptions, and the actual code in BF,INTERCAL and befunge
. Excellent, now we will all be able to follow what's going on. Can we get a law passed making it a capital crime to have a pattent with polyglot source in these languages?
PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP
10 DO >>[-<+]<,
COME FROM 10
PLEASE DO DIE NOW
(and no, that won't work. Unless I'm really lucky.)
Well, I had a K6/200 when they first came out. It didn't say PR in very many places, but I do remember some benchmark program giving me a "PR" number rather than the MHz. The interesting thing is that the thing was really unstable at 200MHz, and was fairly stable at 180MHz. When I switched to Linux, it was stable, but I never checked it in Linux at 200MHz. Also, I was using 70ns dram chips which may have been a problem.
Having recently been in pubic schools, This sounds like a bad idea. I was in a number of school districts across the country, and this is my take.
When I was in 9th grade, I was in history class doing "reasearch" on the 19th century america. We had a VERY restriced list of sites that we were to go to and a note on the board, also stated by the teacher, that if we went to any unrelated <b>sites</b> we were to be sent out of class. Now, Boise has(had?) it's whole school district sharing one 64kBit conenction. I was looking at a website, but it was loading VERY slowly. I opened up the MS Win calculator program to figure out how long the page was going to take to load. She saw it open, and sent me out of class. That's stupid because it's not a website as had been stated, and because it may not be directly related, but it's not malicous on any level.
In Florida, they let you check a laptop out of the library to do essays and such on. One day, the kid on the bus next to me had one. I knew him so I took a look at it. It was an old system, a 386 or 486, running windows 3.1. It had no non-school software on it, and it didn't allow access to the controll pannel or other such things. It had "Foolproof" running on it. It did prevent you from messing with too much while in windows, and didn't let you boot to dos, but all I needed to do was crash windows to get to dos. Needless to say that wasn't exactly hard to do, especially with their "special" drivers. I got a dos prompt that gave limited ablilities. Given a floppy disk, I could have "fixed the system." I was able to figure out the basic limitations of the system and get the prompt in about 5 minutes, then the guy had to get off the bus.
The advanced technoligy teacher (not the CS teacher) was pretty much incompetant. He did know some stuff, but was a burn out. He just had students follow exact instructions then he signed them off. He did no real work, as far as we could tell, he was plugging his laptop in to the T1 and was downloading movie clips or something. (No, AFAIK, no pr0n) He brought in a system one day that he was building but he couldn't get the system to work. He had me take a look at it. Quickly I realized that the newest drive was mis-jumpered. I put it as an IDE slave, and it worked fine.
Earlier on in the year, he decided to challange the class on computer terms. He wanted to look smart. He started with "How many bits are in a byte?" I of course answered "8" and he wanted to show superiority. We kept going up until something like the size of a disk. He didn't seem to know that disks have a physical size that is different than their formated size. He also stated that "1.44 Megabyte floppy disks hold 1.2 megabytes of data! Ha!" Because I answered the size they hold as 1.44MB. He got this idea because the video he was about to show us was unclear and he didn't watch closely. One last thing with him, on a test, he defined "Clockspeed" as the speed of a clock, and "Uses 2MB of memory" was a moniter.
In computer science, we had an OK teacher. The language of course is C++. She new (at least some) C++ and was always at least a week ahead of our lesson in the book "C++ how to program" or the AP test specs. In teaching C++, she wasn't familliar with C. She also didn't know about bitwise operators, and didn't know the difference between stderr and stdout. (Or for C++ people cout and cerr.) Granted *shutter* we were learning on System 8.6 iMacs with CodeWarrior, and she used CodeWarrior on her Win98 PC at home. Maybe the cerr stuff is excusable, but should she know about bitwise stuff?
So what then are my concerns? Well, you've got standard staff who are wildly incompantant or scared of the big bad internet. There are the "tech teachers" who are there coaching and trying not to do work. And the programming teachers are there learning the same langauge you are, but at least they know some stuff. With all of this, a good portion of the student body will be able to out do most of their teachers.
And in any event, in 7th grade if I had a lap top, I would have been writing QBasic programs to solve my math homework in class. Heck, maybe I'd have started on a better language and I'd be a better programmer now, who knows. I just don't see the benefits of this, but I do see where it's going to be more headaches and cost for school systems.
Ameritech? There is your problem right there. I've lived all across the country, and I have to say that their sevice is the biggest steaming pile of crap so far. If you're in Ann Arbor, or close, trust me, get a ComCast cable modem. Service was a bit better under MediaOne, but overall I'm
satisfied.
Ok, I don't really think I have anything useful to say...
I'm a slackware advocate. Sure sure, I recomend it. If someone is a newbie, I usually say something along the lines of "Well, I use slackware which is of course supposed to be the hardest to deal with. Most beginners try Mandrake or Redhat..." The thing is that recently some of my friends have started using linux. Two of them started with Mandrake and couldn't get stuff working and didn't like it too much. I had them try slackware, both of them love it. I have another friend who, like I did, is starting to learn on slackware.
There are some ease of use issues, but it does work. It gets out of your way and lets you change as much as you want to. As for all the crys of "But there is no package managment!!!" There are a few options. First, you can directly install RPMs if you want. (Why?) or you can get native slack packages. They are called package.tgz, and no, they are not source. You type installpkg package.tgz and it installs. removepkg package and it goes away. If you need the binary package and it's only in tgz format, then you can use rpm2tgz. Also there will soon be autoslack which is akin to apt-get. It automaticly downloads, promps for downloads, or informs you of new packages. I haven't checked if it's in Slack8.0 yet or not. It's at http://zuul.slackware.com/. There is also going to be a program (who's name escapes me ATM) that will let you get a source tarball and will do a package install for you.
I'm very excited about the new version, and will be installing promptly.
This page showed how a:Cue:Cat can be useful, I'm sure this audio thing can be used to a simular end. I, personally, found it useful learning how to Over Clock The:Cue:Cat. Pushing hardware like this to it's outer limits is very important to the geek comunity so I suggest you check out the link, and go through all the pages.
Intel will release it too. First it made multimedia come alive. Next it sped the internet up. Maybe with the Very Long Words it will make english reports better.
My computer was one of the computer inolved in the project. It was called PiHex. It is a formula called BPP which is based on Bellard's (sp?) formula. It represents Pi as a sequence. It only solves the one bit of Pi that you're solving for. When I read the document on it that came with PiHex, I didn't understand the math, I should read it again, last time I checked it was up on the PiHex site. The e-mail from Colin Percvil said that now that he had reached his goal, he was done.
The strange thing is I was talking to someone about this project today. I had a K6 at the time, and I was having errors from the latest version of the program, as were other people with K6's. I sent him the regester output when it crashed (I was running winblows at the time, yeah) and he replied and told me what the error was: the fpu was overheating the processor. I was impressed. The early versions of the program required you to e-mail him to get and send back work units. Later versions of the program connected to a server to send and recieve work units. IIRC he said that now he is concentrating on finding pi acuratly with a more standard aproach.
wasnt it selfish of your mom not to have one but 2 kids with this genetic disease?
Well, no. I'm glad to be here. So is my brother. With this disease, you get more quackery than anything. Everytime I see an opthamoligist, they ALWAYS want a photo of my retina, they ALWAYS want to look in there. It's so exciting for them to see a case of it. One guy sugested that I wear some kind of device to shrink the field of vision in front of me, then look around it when I want to see somthing.
I think you asume that all people have a good understanding of genetics, while you do not. Before my mom there is no family history of it. None. I've talked to leading reasearchers in retinal degeneration about the genitics of it. It's kind of bafeling of why I got it. The disease looks to be X linked recessive. If that is the case, none of my children would be effected with it. Any daughters I that may have would be a carrier. Any sons that I may have would be un-effected. In that case my mom should not be effected. If it is just recesive, then my mom's first husband (my brother's father) and my dad would have to both have the recesive trait. The odds of that with this disease are nill.
I think that the RP has helped me in some ways. There is no way for me to play sports effectivly. I was already intrested in science, and for about a decade, computers. I've probibly devoted more time to computers than I would have. I'd say that it is time well spent, I think that it's fun. I also had some learning disabilities when I was younger, should I not put my children through that? I have an above average inteligence level, and just had trouble learning that I learned to cope with. It becomes a matter of learning to cope. For RP, that means that I look around a lot, rely less on sight to navigate than most people do, and trying to avoid dark situations. I don't think that saying "don't breed" is a good thing. Isn't that what the Nazi's goal was? A master race with no genetic flaws. It'll never work.
I am glad to be here, losing site or not so don't call my mom selfish because I have trouble seeing.
Trust me, you DO NOT want retinitis pigmentosa. I have it. I'm almost totally blind at night. During the day, I'm totally blind in several areas of my field of vision. In 10-15 years I get to look forward to having around a 10% field of vision. You may think it's funny until you're trying to find somthing you dropped in a dimly lit area. I hate dark and crowded areas because the whole time I have to work really hard to not run over people, trip, etc.
RP isn't preventable. It is a genetic disease. My Mom and brother are also effected with this disease. Not all of the DNA patterns for RP causing mutations have been found. This could help more than just people with retinitis pigmentosa. It could also help people with macular degeneration, stargarts, or age related macular degeneration. AMD (the blindness, not the processor company) is the leading cause of retinal blindness. Retinal diseases in most cases are not related to you acuitive vison. I have pretty bad vision, but with correction I see 20/20, yet there are quite a few areas in my pariphial vision that are impared. My brother sees 20/20 with no correction, he has an about 5% field of vision. Let me put it this way: if somting pops up on his 17inch moniter, unless he is looking at it, he won't see it at all. Plus we get to look forward to cataracts which will have to be removed, my Mom has had them.
I hope this works out, I'd like to be able to use a 17 inch moniter in 14 years...
--Josh
I never knew this..but cool!
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MP3 = Illegal
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I think that you misinterperated this. That is acutally a typo that you're looking at. The writer is simply a C programmer who made a typo. That was supposed to read
MP3 == Illegal
Which of course evaluates to false. It was just an unwanted asignment operator...
I Know that this should probibly be with yesterday's discusion, but I thought of it today.
Let's say I have 3 computers:
A - Wants the information
B - Has the information
C - the people who don't like this's computer
Person A sends a ping to person B. The packet body says somthing like "DeCSS.c request". The echo-reply says somthing like "recieve computer.c.com:198.67.200.99". That is the hostname/IP of computer C. Then computer B sends pings with the source address of computer A to computer C. Computer A captures all of the packets from computer C which happen to be the file in 600b chunks or some such thing.
If the information was say DeCSS and computer C were the computer for MPAA.com then the MPAA would be giving out the source code. IANAL, so you'd probibly get screwed. Also I'm still learning to code, so don't expect this code from me. I don't even know that this would work (althought it sounds to me like it should.) Have fun!
Different company. They own part or eachother, but this company is Micron Technoligies, and the company selling PCs is called Micron Electronics. I got to see the fab facilities in Boise once. They're very cool.
IIRC in 1998, The US passed a law making them illegal if they are visable with the naked eye from earth. That at least takes care of
some of the major companies...
Sure with gamera you'll have AOL users who think they are l33t now that they run Linux. But if that worries you then you have self confidence issues you need to deal with on your own.
I wouldn't be woried that they think they're l33t because they use linux. I'm woried that they will get their boxen compromised, and then their system will be used by more script kiddies to take over more boxen. Then you've got issues with more DDoS attacks, "black hats" using those systems to take over a larger target without getting caught. Yeah, "black hats" can do that now, but the average AOLer doesn't have close to the same skills in securing their system as your average linux/*bsd/unix/etc user. This means there will be a lot more boxes to use to take over other, bigger targets with. Plus the fact that there are millions of AOL users makes it will be harder to find the orignator's PC, and to prove they are not a target themselves.
So maybe I am worried thet they think they are very 1337, becuase they'll more than likley be so 1337 that they can't put up a fire wall. Now otherwise, I think that this is a good thing. I know more people who are AOLers than regular ISP users IRL. For example, one of my friends was intrested in using Linux, but he was on AOL. His parents were the ones paying for the connection, so while he could D/L linux and install and boot it, he has NO way to connect to the internet. Yeah, Linux is fun, but it's a lot more fun on the internet. This would give him a chance to get used to linux while he is still using AOL. I think that it would increase the userbase a whole lot more more than you might think, that includes people who are technical/semitechnical users who want more, but don't want to give AOL up just yet.
So If AOL can get some good security on this producd, then it'll be very positive. Maybe if IP Chains is used, then it wouldn't be too bad. They also need to turn off inetd stuff, and they can turn them on themselves if they want them. If they can't figure out/read how to do it, then they'll more than likley be insecure anyways. The big question is "if there a security issue with the AOL client, then will AOL be able to release a patch fast enought?" I doubt it.
Does all the talk of product placement remind any one of Wanes World? Garth is decked out in all rebok geer saying "People are all sell out, it's ad, it's like all they want is money" The TV exec says "well it's your choice," then Wane says (while holding a pepsi) "and it's the choice of a generation." It's a blatent version of what every one is talking about, aside from the fact that it is hilarous.
At a local computer store, they're selling used PCs for $199 ($299 about 2mo ago) they're PPro/200's with 32 MB or 64 MB of ECC RAM, and 2GB or 4GB scsi disks. You can also put in another PPro if you want. $199 w/ a cheap moniter gets you close. Good luck on finding 64/4...
--Josh
You also have to keep in mind that ARIN, based in the US, allocates IPs, both for US-based entities and to overseas folks.
Thinking of which, there is (or was) a class A subnet (that's 4294967296 addresses) on a piece of CoAx in Imperial College, London. I think it's only a few tens of feet long, as well!
 
Well, close. Your thinking of 32 bits (x.x.x.x) where a class A subnet is 24 bits (c.x.x.x) where c is a constant, and x is a number 0-255. The actual number of addresses is then 24 bits, 2^24 = 16,777,216. So you were only off by 8 bits. (What's another 256x;-)
I checked the page linked, and the caffine FAQ, but the best drink in the world is missing: RC Edge. It has Caffine and some herbs, and that stuff'll getcha buzzed. Some one also mentioned red bull not being on the list. I'd like to know the amounts on those, and I'd like to know when the 72mg limit was set. Any one know the amount of caffine in the caffinated gum? It tastes like crap, but it works (I saw it and had to try it once.) What I like about the gum is that they have to put a warning on the pack, somthing like "Do not consume more than 2 sticks in less than 4 hours." Back to RC Edge... What I like about it is it tastes GOOD unlike some other high-caffine things.
Just a side note:: RC Cola is the official drink of the little league. I can just see the entire team bouncing up and down on the bench right now: "Come one coach!!!! PUT ME IN!!! I CAN DO IT COACH, COME ON PUT ME IN"
Disclamer: this post is probibly incoherent (if that's even spelled right) because I'm tired.
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Oh great, I can see it now, pattens with very vegue discriptions, and the actual code in BF, INTERCAL and befunge . Excellent, now we will all be able to follow what's going on. Can we get a law passed making it a capital crime to have a pattent with polyglot source in these languages?
PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP
10 DO >>[-<+]<,
COME FROM 10
PLEASE DO DIE NOW
(and no, that won't work. Unless I'm really lucky.)
Well, I had a K6/200 when they first came out. It didn't say PR in very many places, but I do remember some benchmark program giving me a "PR" number rather than the MHz. The interesting thing is that the thing was really unstable at 200MHz, and was fairly stable at 180MHz. When I switched to Linux, it was stable, but I never checked it in Linux at 200MHz. Also, I was using 70ns dram chips which may have been a problem.
--Josh
Take a look at plex86. It used to be called FreeMWare if that gives a hint.
Having recently been in pubic schools, This sounds like a bad idea. I was in a number of school districts across the country, and this is my take.
When I was in 9th grade, I was in history class doing "reasearch" on the 19th century america. We had a VERY restriced list of sites that we were to go to and a note on the board, also stated by the teacher, that if we went to any unrelated <b>sites</b> we were to be sent out of class. Now, Boise has(had?) it's whole school district sharing one 64kBit conenction. I was looking at a website, but it was loading VERY slowly. I opened up the MS Win calculator program to figure out how long the page was going to take to load. She saw it open, and sent me out of class. That's stupid because it's not a website as had been stated, and because it may not be directly related, but it's not malicous on any level.
In Florida, they let you check a laptop out of the library to do essays and such on. One day, the kid on the bus next to me had one. I knew him so I took a look at it. It was an old system, a 386 or 486, running windows 3.1. It had no non-school software on it, and it didn't allow access to the controll pannel or other such things. It had "Foolproof" running on it. It did prevent you from messing with too much while in windows, and didn't let you boot to dos, but all I needed to do was crash windows to get to dos. Needless to say that wasn't exactly hard to do, especially with their "special" drivers. I got a dos prompt that gave limited ablilities. Given a floppy disk, I could have "fixed the system." I was able to figure out the basic limitations of the system and get the prompt in about 5 minutes, then the guy had to get off the bus.
The advanced technoligy teacher (not the CS teacher) was pretty much incompetant. He did know some stuff, but was a burn out. He just had students follow exact instructions then he signed them off. He did no real work, as far as we could tell, he was plugging his laptop in to the T1 and was downloading movie clips or something. (No, AFAIK, no pr0n) He brought in a system one day that he was building but he couldn't get the system to work. He had me take a look at it. Quickly I realized that the newest drive was mis-jumpered. I put it as an IDE slave, and it worked fine.
Earlier on in the year, he decided to challange the class on computer terms. He wanted to look smart. He started with "How many bits are in a byte?" I of course answered "8" and he wanted to show superiority. We kept going up until something like the size of a disk. He didn't seem to know that disks have a physical size that is different than their formated size. He also stated that "1.44 Megabyte floppy disks hold 1.2 megabytes of data! Ha!" Because I answered the size they hold as 1.44MB. He got this idea because the video he was about to show us was unclear and he didn't watch closely. One last thing with him, on a test, he defined "Clockspeed" as the speed of a clock, and "Uses 2MB of memory" was a moniter.
In computer science, we had an OK teacher. The language of course is C++. She new (at least some) C++ and was always at least a week ahead of our lesson in the book "C++ how to program" or the AP test specs. In teaching C++, she wasn't familliar with C. She also didn't know about bitwise operators, and didn't know the difference between stderr and stdout. (Or for C++ people cout and cerr.) Granted *shutter* we were learning on System 8.6 iMacs with CodeWarrior, and she used CodeWarrior on her Win98 PC at home. Maybe the cerr stuff is excusable, but should she know about bitwise stuff?
So what then are my concerns? Well, you've got standard staff who are wildly incompantant or scared of the big bad internet. There are the "tech teachers" who are there coaching and trying not to do work. And the programming teachers are there learning the same langauge you are, but at least they know some stuff. With all of this, a good portion of the student body will be able to out do most of their teachers.
And in any event, in 7th grade if I had a lap top, I would have been writing QBasic programs to solve my math homework in class. Heck, maybe I'd have started on a better language and I'd be a better programmer now, who knows. I just don't see the benefits of this, but I do see where it's going to be more headaches and cost for school systems.
--Josh
Ameritech? There is your problem right there. I've lived all across the country, and I have to say that their sevice is the biggest steaming pile of crap so far. If you're in Ann Arbor, or close, trust me, get a ComCast cable modem. Service was a bit better under MediaOne, but overall I'm
satisfied.
Ok, I don't really think I have anything useful to say...
--Josh
I'm a slackware advocate. Sure sure, I recomend it. If someone is a newbie, I usually say something along the lines of "Well, I use slackware which is of course supposed to be the hardest to deal with. Most beginners try Mandrake or Redhat..." The thing is that recently some of my friends have started using linux. Two of them started with Mandrake and couldn't get stuff working and didn't like it too much. I had them try slackware, both of them love it. I have another friend who, like I did, is starting to learn on slackware.
There are some ease of use issues, but it does work. It gets out of your way and lets you change as much as you want to. As for all the crys of "But there is no package managment!!!" There are a few options. First, you can directly install RPMs if you want. (Why?) or you can get native slack packages. They are called package.tgz, and no, they are not source. You type installpkg package.tgz and it installs. removepkg package and it goes away. If you need the binary package and it's only in tgz format, then you can use rpm2tgz. Also there will soon be autoslack which is akin to apt-get. It automaticly downloads, promps for downloads, or informs you of new packages. I haven't checked if it's in Slack8.0 yet or not. It's at http://zuul.slackware.com/. There is also going to be a program (who's name escapes me ATM) that will let you get a source tarball and will do a package install for you.
I'm very excited about the new version, and will be installing promptly.
--Josh
This page showed how a :Cue:Cat can be useful, I'm sure this audio thing can be used to a simular end. I, personally, found it useful learning how to Over Clock The :Cue:Cat. Pushing hardware like this to it's outer limits is very important to the geek comunity so I suggest you check out the link, and go through all the pages.
--Josh
*cough* .slk
:P
I wish I had something more relivent to say than my pro-slackware stance...
--Josh
hehe, thanks AC.
(Now this is a wasted post.)
A 2Ghz, 64bit, VLIW CPU would be very pimp.
Intel will release it too. First it made multimedia come alive. Next it sped the internet up. Maybe with the Very Long Words it will make english reports better.
My computer was one of the computer inolved in the project. It was called PiHex. It is a formula called BPP which is based on Bellard's (sp?) formula. It represents Pi as a sequence. It only solves the one bit of Pi that you're solving for. When I read the document on it that came with PiHex, I didn't understand the math, I should read it again, last time I checked it was up on the PiHex site. The e-mail from Colin Percvil said that now that he had reached his goal, he was done.
The strange thing is I was talking to someone about this project today. I had a K6 at the time, and I was having errors from the latest version of the program, as were other people with K6's. I sent him the regester output when it crashed (I was running winblows at the time, yeah) and he replied and told me what the error was: the fpu was overheating the processor. I was impressed. The early versions of the program required you to e-mail him to get and send back work units. Later versions of the program connected to a server to send and recieve work units. IIRC he said that now he is concentrating on finding pi acuratly with a more standard aproach.
wasnt it selfish of your mom not to have one but 2 kids with this genetic disease?
Well, no. I'm glad to be here. So is my brother. With this disease, you get more quackery than anything. Everytime I see an opthamoligist, they ALWAYS want a photo of my retina, they ALWAYS want to look in there. It's so exciting for them to see a case of it. One guy sugested that I wear some kind of device to shrink the field of vision in front of me, then look around it when I want to see somthing.
I think you asume that all people have a good understanding of genetics, while you do not. Before my mom there is no family history of it. None. I've talked to leading reasearchers in retinal degeneration about the genitics of it. It's kind of bafeling of why I got it. The disease looks to be X linked recessive. If that is the case, none of my children would be effected with it. Any daughters I that may have would be a carrier. Any sons that I may have would be un-effected. In that case my mom should not be effected. If it is just recesive, then my mom's first husband (my brother's father) and my dad would have to both have the recesive trait. The odds of that with this disease are nill.
I think that the RP has helped me in some ways. There is no way for me to play sports effectivly. I was already intrested in science, and for about a decade, computers. I've probibly devoted more time to computers than I would have. I'd say that it is time well spent, I think that it's fun. I also had some learning disabilities when I was younger, should I not put my children through that? I have an above average inteligence level, and just had trouble learning that I learned to cope with. It becomes a matter of learning to cope. For RP, that means that I look around a lot, rely less on sight to navigate than most people do, and trying to avoid dark situations. I don't think that saying "don't breed" is a good thing. Isn't that what the Nazi's goal was? A master race with no genetic flaws. It'll never work.
I am glad to be here, losing site or not so don't call my mom selfish because I have trouble seeing.
--Josh
Trust me, you DO NOT want retinitis pigmentosa. I have it. I'm almost totally blind at night. During the day, I'm totally blind in several areas of my field of vision. In 10-15 years I get to look forward to having around a 10% field of vision. You may think it's funny until you're trying to find somthing you dropped in a dimly lit area. I hate dark and crowded areas because the whole time I have to work really hard to not run over people, trip, etc. RP isn't preventable. It is a genetic disease. My Mom and brother are also effected with this disease. Not all of the DNA patterns for RP causing mutations have been found. This could help more than just people with retinitis pigmentosa. It could also help people with macular degeneration, stargarts, or age related macular degeneration. AMD (the blindness, not the processor company) is the leading cause of retinal blindness. Retinal diseases in most cases are not related to you acuitive vison. I have pretty bad vision, but with correction I see 20/20, yet there are quite a few areas in my pariphial vision that are impared. My brother sees 20/20 with no correction, he has an about 5% field of vision. Let me put it this way: if somting pops up on his 17inch moniter, unless he is looking at it, he won't see it at all. Plus we get to look forward to cataracts which will have to be removed, my Mom has had them. I hope this works out, I'd like to be able to use a 17 inch moniter in 14 years... --Josh
I never knew this..but cool!
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MP3 = Illegal
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I think that you misinterperated this. That is acutally a typo that you're looking at. The writer is simply a C programmer who made a typo. That was supposed to read
MP3 == Illegal
Which of course evaluates to false. It was just an unwanted asignment operator...
--Josh
You're a noname...he's Geccoman, I'm Hugonz and I run Slack
And I'm Kirkoff, and I run slack.
Let's say I have 3 computers:
Person A sends a ping to person B. The packet body says somthing like "DeCSS.c request". The echo-reply says somthing like "recieve computer.c.com:198.67.200.99". That is the hostname/IP of computer C. Then computer B sends pings with the source address of computer A to computer C. Computer A captures all of the packets from computer C which happen to be the file in 600b chunks or some such thing.
If the information was say DeCSS and computer C were the computer for MPAA.com then the MPAA would be giving out the source code. IANAL, so you'd probibly get screwed. Also I'm still learning to code, so don't expect this code from me. I don't even know that this would work (althought it sounds to me like it should.) Have fun!
--Josh
Different company. They own part or eachother, but this company is Micron Technoligies, and the company selling PCs is called Micron Electronics. I got to see the fab facilities in Boise once. They're very cool.
IIRC in 1998, The US passed a law making them illegal if they are visable with the naked eye from earth. That at least takes care of some of the major companies...
--Josh
I wouldn't be woried that they think they're l33t because they use linux. I'm woried that they will get their boxen compromised, and then their system will be used by more script kiddies to take over more boxen. Then you've got issues with more DDoS attacks, "black hats" using those systems to take over a larger target without getting caught. Yeah, "black hats" can do that now, but the average AOLer doesn't have close to the same skills in securing their system as your average linux/*bsd/unix/etc user. This means there will be a lot more boxes to use to take over other, bigger targets with. Plus the fact that there are millions of AOL users makes it will be harder to find the orignator's PC, and to prove they are not a target themselves.
So maybe I am worried thet they think they are very 1337, becuase they'll more than likley be so 1337 that they can't put up a fire wall. Now otherwise, I think that this is a good thing. I know more people who are AOLers than regular ISP users IRL. For example, one of my friends was intrested in using Linux, but he was on AOL. His parents were the ones paying for the connection, so while he could D/L linux and install and boot it, he has NO way to connect to the internet. Yeah, Linux is fun, but it's a lot more fun on the internet. This would give him a chance to get used to linux while he is still using AOL. I think that it would increase the userbase a whole lot more more than you might think, that includes people who are technical/semitechnical users who want more, but don't want to give AOL up just yet.
So If AOL can get some good security on this producd, then it'll be very positive. Maybe if IP Chains is used, then it wouldn't be too bad. They also need to turn off inetd stuff, and they can turn them on themselves if they want them. If they can't figure out/read how to do it, then they'll more than likley be insecure anyways. The big question is "if there a security issue with the AOL client, then will AOL be able to release a patch fast enought?" I doubt it.
--Josh
Does all the talk of product placement remind any one of Wanes World? Garth is decked out in all rebok geer saying "People are all sell out, it's ad, it's like all they want is money" The TV exec says "well it's your choice," then Wane says (while holding a pepsi) "and it's the choice of a generation." It's a blatent version of what every one is talking about, aside from the fact that it is hilarous.
--Josh
I moved from the Orlando area too early. I wonder how ol' Justin would like..... err, umm, never mine... :-)
Sorry, the area code for orlando is 407.
At a local computer store, they're selling used PCs for $199 ($299 about 2mo ago) they're PPro/200's with 32 MB or 64 MB of ECC RAM, and 2GB or 4GB scsi disks. You can also put in another PPro if you want. $199 w/ a cheap moniter gets you close. Good luck on finding 64/4... --Josh
 
Well, close. Your thinking of 32 bits (x.x.x.x) where a class A subnet is 24 bits (c.x.x.x) where c is a constant, and x is a number 0-255. The actual number of addresses is then 24 bits, 2^24 = 16,777,216. So you were only off by 8 bits. (What's another 256x ;-)
--Josh
Just a side note:: RC Cola is the official drink of the little league. I can just see the entire team bouncing up and down on the bench right now: "Come one coach!!!! PUT ME IN!!! I CAN DO IT COACH, COME ON PUT ME IN"
Disclamer: this post is probibly incoherent (if that's even spelled right) because I'm tired.