Yea, and it also states in the article "The new virus, which is about to be tested on animals, should be lethal only to mice. Just like the introduction of rabbits to Australia shouldn't have any negative effects on the native ecosystem. When are we going to stop being so fucking stupid? So we create a lethal virus so we can develop cures for it. What, do you think we can develop and cure everything? The introduction of a different protein can negate any cure we develop. Seriously, think about it. All of you idiots who are going "Oh, it's ok, it's good cause it could help us develop a cure are fucking idiots. There is no cure now and it has a 100% fatality rate. Aren't mice used for research cause they are very simular to humans in their responses? Idiots.
Go ahead and mod this down as flamebait, it doesn't change the fact that this is really fucking stupid. There are enougth things out there that are lethal, we don't need to be making anything more. I wonder if it's been tested on humans yet, to see if it in fact is lethal. Who wants to be the first to test it out?
Oh, let's see, Name, Phone Number, E-mail address. I save my humorous.sigs for my private email. (Of course, this has something to do with the fact that I really couldn't be bothered to have a.sig for work email anyway.)
For all of us (myself included) who are seriously planning on getting this phone, can any current owners of the P800 sound off on who has the best plans and/or supports the most features of which service, etc?
yea, but then there is a written record of who voted for who. One thing about voting is that it is nessecary to insure anonomity, to protect the voters.
Whatever security mechanism you decide on, and I would probably recommend ssl or ipsec tunnels, remember to think in layers. Secure the host machine, and I would personally recommend the Bait and Switch Honeypot system. From the freshmeat entry, "The Bait and Switch Honeypot System combines the snort Intrusion Detection System (IDS) with honeypot technology to create a system that reacts to hostile intrusion attempts by marking and then redirecting all "bad" traffic to a honeypot that partially mirrors your production system. Once switched, the would-be hacker is unknowingly attacking your honeypot instead of the real data, while your clients and/or users are still safely accessing the real system." Monitor the IDS in real time, keep up on patches, you should be good to go. You can get it here.
In addition, the bacterium is rugged and stable, able to grow at temperatures ranging from four to 30 C (39.2 to 86 F), with 25 C (77 F) the optimum.
human body is roughly 98F.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of the battery or bateri-cell being encased within a structure, might be tricky with a artifictual heart, but as for powering artificial limbs, the idea might be workable. Just gotta figure out how to get the sugar to the battery.
I wonder how safe these bacteria are? Not in any fearful way, but could they be used to power an artificial heart, getting the sugar from the body? Perhaps power artificial limbs?
What about upgradablity? The nice thing about ext3 is that upgrading to a new version is a reboot away. With ReiserFS, you had to re-format the drive, in order to upgrade. Has this changed?
What's the potential for damage with these new drives? Don't get me wrong, hard drive space is good, but with more data being packed into smaller and smaller a space, surely any damage at all will cause more information to be lost. Raid is all good, but will these drives be durable or can I forget using my laptop in the car?
Imagine what would happen if one of the kids got their hands on a teacher's gun during a fight.
Not that I want to get drawn into this (pro-2nd amendment as well) but citing the Colombine incident, apparently kids don't have a problem getting their hands on their own guns, let alone someone else's. Plus, even tho it's been a while since I was in high school, teachers who had any kind of experience or brains didn't try to break up fights, that's what security is there for. Just a note, in junior high, a vice principle tried to break up a fight. He got tossed out of a second floor window for his trouble.
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Great job on the /.'ing guys...
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Way to go, nothing like kicking a cool website off the web.
Or you have tried it as a "normal" desktop type OS? Have any thoughts on it if so?
Yea, I tried it for a while, couple of weeks or so, just playing around with it. I thought it was pretty cool, it had a ports like software installation program, you clicked on what you wanted to install, and it took care of dependancies and the like, very nice browser, supported everything my test box had (Dell GX110) with an i810 video card. No problems, Solaris x86 gave me much more. I thought it was pretty cool. Felt *nixy, gui-wise, all in all, not bad at all. I have it running on a Audrey, as I said earlier, and I like it.
QNX most defiantly has USB support, as I have a Audrey that has it sitting in front of me. As for the "not meant for PCs", QNX runs extremely well on a PC, with just about everything you need. QNX also has 3d support, as evidenced in the FAQ here.
To quote:
Photon supports rapid animation, 3D graphics, and realtime trending
through off-screen memory, bypass mode, video overlay, and other
advanced features.
QNX also supports the following:
* XScale processors and boards * >4G address spaces on PowerPC boards * more video hardware * UDMA 66 chipset (high-speed disk interface) * Enhanced TCP/IP stack - includes IPv4, Unix domain sockets, multicast support * NFS v3 * Resource database for better device mapping * Bi-directional pipes * Block driver DMA * Enhanced support for shared memory, with full support for creation mode and ownership information
And SMP, which OpenBSD still hasn't included, for instance.
I recommend that anyone who is interested download the free ISO and install it on a spare computer you may have laying around and see for yourself. Get it here.
Don't rely on/. or me to give accurate information, go see for yourself.
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Yea, and it also states in the article "The new virus, which is about to be
tested on animals, should be lethal only to mice. Just like
the introduction of rabbits to Australia shouldn't have any
negative effects on the native ecosystem. When are we going to stop being so
fucking stupid? So we create a lethal virus so we can develop cures for it.
What, do you think we can develop and cure everything? The introduction of a
different protein can negate any cure we develop. Seriously, think about it.
All of you idiots who are going "Oh, it's ok, it's good cause it
could help us develop a cure are fucking idiots. There is no
cure now and it has a 100% fatality rate. Aren't mice used for research cause
they are very simular to humans in their responses? Idiots.
Go ahead and mod this down as flamebait, it doesn't change the fact that this
is really fucking stupid. There are enougth things out there that are lethal,
we don't need to be making anything more. I wonder if it's been tested on
humans yet, to see if it in fact is lethal. Who wants to be the first to test
it out?
SealBeater
Oh, let's see, Name, Phone Number, E-mail address. I save my humorous .sigs .sig for work email anyway.)
for my private email. (Of course, this has something to do with the fact that
I really couldn't be bothered to have a
SealBeater
Yea, I mean, who would have thought that there would be
computers on Microsoft's campus.
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They better lock this thing down tight...
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What are some good sites to check out to get an idea of what kind of software is available for this phone?
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For all of us (myself included) who are seriously planning on getting this phone, can any current owners of the P800 sound off on who has the best plans and/or supports the most features of which service, etc?
SealBeater
Man, you ain't kidding...
I'm for T-Mobile cause I heard they have a $45 a month plan that includes unlimited GPRS with unlimited nights and weekends.
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Maybe this would help.
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yea, but then there is a written record of who voted for who. One thing about voting is that it is nessecary to insure anonomity, to protect the voters.
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Who didn't see this coming?
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Will they, for one, welcome their "bags of mostly water" overlords?
The 4 oz. or so lump of C4 wired to their cpu that would be mandatory to be installed should do.
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One word. Unemployment.
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Whatever security mechanism you decide on, and I would probably recommend ssl or ipsec tunnels, remember to think in layers. Secure the host machine, and I would personally recommend the Bait and Switch Honeypot system. From the freshmeat entry, "The Bait and Switch Honeypot System combines the snort Intrusion Detection System (IDS) with honeypot technology to create a system that reacts to hostile intrusion attempts by marking and then redirecting all "bad" traffic to a honeypot that partially mirrors your production system. Once switched, the would-be hacker is unknowingly attacking your honeypot instead of the real data, while your clients and/or users are still safely accessing the real system." Monitor the IDS in real time, keep up on patches, you should be good to go. You can get it here.
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In addition, the bacterium is rugged and stable, able to grow at temperatures ranging from four to 30 C (39.2 to 86 F), with 25 C (77 F) the optimum.
human body is roughly 98F.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of the battery or bateri-cell being encased within a structure, might be tricky with a artifictual heart, but as for powering artificial limbs, the idea might be workable. Just gotta figure out how to get the sugar to the battery.
SealBeater
I wonder how safe these bacteria are? Not in any fearful way, but could they
be used to power an artificial heart, getting the sugar from the body? Perhaps
power artificial limbs?
SealBeater
The trick to installing mplayer is to use an RPM-based distro
No, the trick is to actually read the docs and have an idea of what you are
doing. And no, rpm -i *.rpm doesn't qualify.
Sorry, I just hate laziness of thought and not too fond of those who advocate
such.
SealBeater
What about upgradablity? The nice thing about ext3 is that upgrading to a new
version is a reboot away. With ReiserFS, you had to re-format the drive, in
order to upgrade. Has this changed?
SealBeater
I still don't know anyone who is planning on using .NET. Maybe they should try
giving it away for free?
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What's the potential for damage with these new drives? Don't get me wrong, hard drive space is good, but with more data being packed into smaller and smaller a space, surely any damage at all will cause more information to be lost. Raid is all good, but will these drives be durable or can I forget using my laptop in the car?
SealBeater
Imagine what would happen if one of the kids got their hands on a
teacher's gun during a fight.
Not that I want to get drawn into this (pro-2nd amendment as well) but citing
the Colombine incident, apparently kids don't have a problem getting their
hands on their own guns, let alone someone else's. Plus, even tho it's been a
while since I was in high school, teachers who had any kind of experience or
brains didn't try to break up fights, that's what security is there for. Just
a note, in junior high, a vice principle tried to break up a fight. He got
tossed out of a second floor window for his trouble.
SealBeater
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Way to go, nothing like kicking a cool website off the web.
SealBeater
nuf said. Tho I would love to see what they "allow" users to do with all that nice bandwidth.
SealBeater
Or you have tried it as a "normal" desktop type OS? Have any thoughts on it if
so?
Yea, I tried it for a while, couple of weeks or so, just playing around with it. I
thought it was pretty cool, it had a ports like software installation program,
you clicked on what you wanted to install, and it took care of dependancies and
the like, very nice browser, supported everything my test box had (Dell GX110)
with an i810 video card. No problems, Solaris x86 gave me much more. I
thought it was pretty cool. Felt *nixy, gui-wise, all in all, not bad at all.
I have it running on a Audrey, as I said earlier, and I like it.
SealBeater
I can't believe this got a +5 insightful.
/. or me to give accurate information, go see for yourself.
It's not made for PCs
You are mistaken, I'm afraid. See below.
What you won't find in QNX is USB support
QNX most defiantly has USB support, as I have a Audrey that has it sitting in front of me.
As for the "not meant for PCs", QNX runs extremely well on a PC, with just about everything you need.
QNX also has 3d support, as evidenced in the FAQ here.
To quote:
Photon supports rapid animation, 3D graphics, and realtime trending
through off-screen memory, bypass mode, video overlay, and other
advanced features.
QNX also supports the following:
* XScale processors and boards
* >4G address spaces on PowerPC boards
* more video hardware
* UDMA 66 chipset (high-speed disk interface)
* Enhanced TCP/IP stack - includes IPv4, Unix domain sockets, multicast support
* NFS v3
* Resource database for better device mapping
* Bi-directional pipes
* Block driver DMA
* Enhanced support for shared memory, with full support for creation mode and ownership information
And SMP, which OpenBSD still hasn't included, for instance.
I recommend that anyone who is interested download the free ISO and install it on
a spare computer you may have laying around and see for yourself. Get it here.
Don't rely on
SealBeater
I agree with you 100%.
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