Moore = Gordon Moore of Intel fame, who predicted that processor speed
would double every 18-21 months [Moore's Law], as opposed to Gates' Law:
software speed halves every 18-21 months.
It's going to happen one way or another. Of course, this means that once we
hit the 2GHz mark, Windows 2002 will be requiring 1.66GHz. The only thing
that'll really wind up being the boundary will be physics. I wonder when
we'll end up with a small fusion reactor on top of the processor (:
I remember gopher. It's a hell of a lot simpler and more efficient than the HTTPD-world of today
Some documentation has been found that indicates the original 13th amendment dissapeared some three or four years after its publication. It was replaced, of course, with the modern 13th amendment. I don't recall exactly what it was that it was about, so if anyone has heard about this, please update (:
w00h00!! if I could scrape up enough money, I'd be able to stop using this bicycle-powered turbine! Wishful thinking anyways. Oops, almost forgot I'm running Netscape *pedalling harder*
Microsoft vs. carbon compliance...why is it I got a giggle off that?
"Damnit, Word just locked up on me again!"
"It's 'cause you're a 'carbon based lifeform', and Office isn't carbon
compatible yet."
Nitpick (sorry)...POP3 = connections for reading mail already spooled on a machine. SMTP is mail sending, as well as a few other not-so-often used protocols.
IRCing en route to another location:
(Arm0nd): Damn, this flight sucks.
(H3lg4): what're they serving for the meal?
(Arm0nd): some kind of fish shit...nasty...
(Arm0nd): brb
* Arm0nd is away (crashing into a large mountain)
*** SignOff: Arm0nd(ping timeout for Arm0nd(user@americanairlines.net))
I got a couple of older terms w/those kinds of keyboards. I loved the damn things; they're ancient, but they refuse to wear out. Too bad there's the little matter of them being block devices, else I'd have them both connected up (Linux doesn't support these...they're the ones with the three-wire coax connectors. Damn.)
Of course, playing "Big Brother" is privacy. It's doublethink: war is peace,
slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength, and 2 + 2 = 5.
We've ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia, you know!
Lycanthrope K 75189. The telescreen is your friend.
Wild-haired variation on this theme (I thought this up a while back, but never got around to playing with it): Passworded private DNS server system, linking pseudodomains outside the standard DNS heirarchy. Hosting via dynamic IPs which update to these systems. Ok, here's the wild-haired part: the user sets DNS auth through Kerberos modelled auth, which works on the one-time ticket method. IP spoofing would come into play as a problem, but since none of the services are hosted via the generic DNS heirarchy, that would prevent someone from inadvertently logging on. Every communication must be encrypted [via ssl for general browsing, ssh for activity]. The only theoretical gateway (which would just serve as an info dropping zone for legitimate users) would be something to the effect of a gopher server with lots of "unauthorized access will be prosecuted"s all over the place. How it goes: DNS server IPs given out via encrypted communications. When you sign up, you get a password for the DNS system (this'll be a short hack if ever implemented) that you will change monthly (if not weekly) to a [verified] non-library password. DNS servers do not give errors on failed login, they only send to outside sites like, say, ftp.microsoft.com or something like that. Blind peer-to-peer transfers may be another portion of this, as most of the subversive projects do not typically require 10s of Ms of code. Every client is a server.
Kind of out of sorts, but I'm still not awake yet.
/me 's memory returns to him. Yeah, that's right, it was the setproctitle()
in OpenBSD. Thanks for the reminder (: I know it was somewhat of a small
item, but I dunno...I'm wary about everything these days so I refuse to care
lol
Good work on FreeBSD, BTW.
This isn't exactly a "non-issue" yet in those regards, it seems. I recall
Theo de Raadt commenting on format string problems when the news rolled out
about BitchX having format string vulnerabilities. They're a hell of a lot
more common than anyone thinks, and multi-platform; theoretically, fixing
them may mean breaking other stuff, so it's a point to step carefully around.
This may not be as easy as it seems, as the above test supposes Euclidean
space. If, per chance, the universe is more condusive to Reichenbach's
theorems, then there is no constant to test anything against properly (by
those standards), only perceived constants. Question: If light increased
its speed when trapped in the gravitational mass of a black hole, would
"light speed" still be a constant? I personally believe light to be the
same type of radiation as audio vibrations. Different frequencies and
amplitudes means different speeds of travel, and different maximum TTL
(for lack of a better term at the moment).
Wildly speculative consideration: An atomic bomb is, for all intensive
purposes, two uranium rocks slamming together at extremely high speed (over
simplified). If a collision of this nature of these elements can cause
a reaction on the atomic level, then wouldn't it also stand to reason
that less radioactive (or even stable) elements could, under an extremely
high-speed collision (approaching average light speed?) cause a reaction
on the atomic level?
When I was in elementary school, they were teaching the "new ice age" threat as being the "latest environmental terror" caused by our CFCs. Interestingly enough, the occurrences surrounding a volcanic explosion (and subsequent environmentalist "THE SKY IS FALLING!!!" hype) showed a cooling of the global temperature by approx. 1 degree centigrade, which would lend more evidence to two options: the "new ice age" theory is real, or the entire spectrum of global warming and ice age is nothing but a load of horseshit evidenced by horribly unscientific proof from pseudoscientists who don't realize that a terrestrial cycle of any kind can be more than 50 years in length. Since the "theory" [it's rather a hypothesis since there is no way of proving its existance until, say, 2500 ad] of the greenhouse effect is based on a maximum of fifty years of examination, I'll stick to the latter conclusion until there is more evidence supporting that this is different from a standard atmospheric cycle.
Actually, if I just downloaded sendmail 10.2.1 and started showing connections going to sendmail.com, I'd shit myself. Not so much because of the privacy issues, but remember how many of these "hidden features" have cause some serious problems as far as security goes? Now, taking for granted that some software applications do check for updates via the web. So what? Well, as evidenced by the recent DNS hijackings of www.nike.com and other moderately high-scale websites, it would be possible (not altogether trivial, mind you, but still highly possible) that someone could hijack the DNS of an update page and ship it over to www.evilhost.net to run a CGI script that would respond with "hey! you need to upgrade!" Since most people would be totally unaware of the server being incorrect, they would grab the update, and wham! you've just installed a trojan. Tough shit, that's what you should expect from software in the internet world, right? I'd sure as hell hope not.
In a return to the issue at hand, yes, it's a well known fact that Word can use URLs for objects. These can also be tinkered with to produce some nasty results. There have been a few incidents (usually practical jokes) that do illustrate this, but why should a standard document be connecting to the internet for anything? Unexpected behavior can really cause havoc if someone who likes the idea of these "e-mail viruses" and other destructive code finds a way to do some real damage.
"Our ancient ancestors seemed to have worshipped some goddess known as
Natalie Portman. It seems they poured something called ``hot grits'' on
the idols as a libation."
Not like anything from our own ancient history could have been mistaken
like this, nooooooooooo.
Actually, I'd like to take issue with you on one of your points. That point
is that MS isn't tied down to hardware. While not a hardware manufacturer
per se, they are tied to the 80x86 platform pretty heavily; thusly, their
commercial success is bound not only to the marketeering of their products,
but also to the i80x86 hardware. This symbiotic relationship has maintained
their half-assed backward-compatibility for years now.
Now, say Intel designed a chip that was 120x faster than the current 1GHz
chip, but could not possibly make it run the 80x86 instruction set. They
could:
1. sit on it for a while and giving the instruction set to MS, who would be
starting all over again in terms of code, but allow MS to have the advantage
of a "head start" at a risk of taking a loss, or
2. launch a prototype, drop a listing of instructions, and proceed to take
whatever the best offer is
I'd bank on #2 being the dominant choice, as they could potentially stand
to lose money otherwise.
actually, b.c. in this case isn't "before Christ" (or "before the common era"
if you prefer), but B'nai Cthulhu (Hebrew for the Cthulhu covenant, wherein
He promised, with the sign of the beached squids, that He would never again
destroy the Alpha-Centauri system with a deluge of Jell-o). Besides, everybody
knows that OOG isn't that old (:
p.s. Yes, you're right...I got them backwards because I was in-between VTs (:
They still missed the fact that UNIX was originally written by OOG_THE_CAVEMAN in about 120,000,000 bc. Evidence of this is the primatively structured attempts at natural language through such grunts and gutteral sounds as "grep", "awk", and "sed". "ls" and friends, while having theoretically unpronouncable natures, seem to stem from the language of Cthulhu himself, after He and His Spawn filtered down from deep space in 119,999,998 bc to create the Human race as a joke. In regards to a previous topic, research has shown that the first operating system was, in fact, OOG_THE_CAVEMAN; they beat the hell out of him with large, blunt objects until he became the hardware abstraction layer between the rock (the "processor") and the neanderthal ("user"). Thusly, the abacus was born in 119,999,999 bc.
One item that has been brought up before in this regard: open the engine, sell the game. With the engine libre, they will receive not only bug fixes, but someone with a bit of spare time could port the engine to another architecture (thus expanding the market share from, say, only x86 to z80, SPARC, Alpha, Mac, etc...). In this sense, the actual game (levels, graphics, sounds, etc...) is the selling point, and not the engine which displays it.
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Moore = Gordon Moore of Intel fame, who predicted that processor speed
would double every 18-21 months [Moore's Law], as opposed to Gates' Law:
software speed halves every 18-21 months.
It's going to happen one way or another. Of course, this means that once we
hit the 2GHz mark, Windows 2002 will be requiring 1.66GHz. The only thing
that'll really wind up being the boundary will be physics. I wonder when
we'll end up with a small fusion reactor on top of the processor (:
Microsoft.net is already somewhat a reality. MS owns a pretty good chunk :/
of shares in UU.NET. Not extremely unbelievable in that light
w00h00!! if I could scrape up enough money, I'd be able to stop using this
bicycle-powered turbine! Wishful thinking anyways. Oops, almost forgot I'm
running Netscape *pedalling harder*
Microsoft vs. carbon compliance...why is it I got a giggle off that?
"Damnit, Word just locked up on me again!"
"It's 'cause you're a 'carbon based lifeform', and Office isn't carbon
compatible yet."
Nitpick (sorry)...POP3 = connections for reading mail already spooled on
a machine. SMTP is mail sending, as well as a few other not-so-often used
protocols.
IRCing en route to another location:
(Arm0nd): Damn, this flight sucks.
(H3lg4): what're they serving for the meal?
(Arm0nd): some kind of fish shit...nasty...
(Arm0nd): brb
* Arm0nd is away (crashing into a large mountain)
*** SignOff: Arm0nd(ping timeout for Arm0nd(user@americanairlines.net))
I got a couple of older terms w/those kinds of keyboards. I loved the damn
things; they're ancient, but they refuse to wear out. Too bad there's the
little matter of them being block devices, else I'd have them both connected
up (Linux doesn't support these...they're the ones with the three-wire coax
connectors. Damn.)
Of course, playing "Big Brother" is privacy. It's doublethink: war is peace,
slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength, and 2 + 2 = 5.
We've ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia, you know!
Lycanthrope K 75189. The telescreen is your friend.
Wild-haired variation on this theme (I thought this up a while back, but
never got around to playing with it):
Passworded private DNS server system, linking pseudodomains outside the
standard DNS heirarchy. Hosting via dynamic IPs which update to these
systems.
Ok, here's the wild-haired part: the user sets DNS auth through Kerberos
modelled auth, which works on the one-time ticket method. IP spoofing would
come into play as a problem, but since none of the services are hosted via
the generic DNS heirarchy, that would prevent someone from inadvertently
logging on. Every communication must be encrypted [via ssl for general
browsing, ssh for activity]. The only theoretical gateway (which would
just serve as an info dropping zone for legitimate users) would be something
to the effect of a gopher server with lots of "unauthorized access will
be prosecuted"s all over the place.
How it goes:
DNS server IPs given out via encrypted communications.
When you sign up, you get a password for the DNS system (this'll be a short
hack if ever implemented) that you will change monthly (if not weekly) to
a [verified] non-library password.
DNS servers do not give errors on failed login, they only send to outside
sites like, say, ftp.microsoft.com or something like that.
Blind peer-to-peer transfers may be another portion of this, as most of the
subversive projects do not typically require 10s of Ms of code. Every client
is a server.
Kind of out of sorts, but I'm still not awake yet.
/me 's memory returns to him. Yeah, that's right, it was the setproctitle()
in OpenBSD. Thanks for the reminder (: I know it was somewhat of a small
item, but I dunno...I'm wary about everything these days so I refuse to care
lol
Good work on FreeBSD, BTW.
Yeah, let's not forget the social and community interaction we had before
computers were the "in thing", and all the comp sci folks were uber-nerds.
Average uber-nerd: Hi, um...would you...um..like to go out for dinner
some time?
Hot ch1x0r: *slap*
Average uber-nerd: *picking up glasses* damnit.
Here's another fun scenario.
Jock-type: Hey look guys! It's one of the computer geeks!
* Angry mob approaches, hanging Average Uber-nerd by his underwear from a
flagpole.
Ah yes, the social interaction. I so miss those days *sigh*
This isn't exactly a "non-issue" yet in those regards, it seems. I recall
Theo de Raadt commenting on format string problems when the news rolled out
about BitchX having format string vulnerabilities. They're a hell of a lot
more common than anyone thinks, and multi-platform; theoretically, fixing
them may mean breaking other stuff, so it's a point to step carefully around.
This may not be as easy as it seems, as the above test supposes Euclidean
space. If, per chance, the universe is more condusive to Reichenbach's
theorems, then there is no constant to test anything against properly (by
those standards), only perceived constants. Question: If light increased
its speed when trapped in the gravitational mass of a black hole, would
"light speed" still be a constant? I personally believe light to be the
same type of radiation as audio vibrations. Different frequencies and
amplitudes means different speeds of travel, and different maximum TTL
(for lack of a better term at the moment).
Wildly speculative consideration: An atomic bomb is, for all intensive
purposes, two uranium rocks slamming together at extremely high speed (over
simplified). If a collision of this nature of these elements can cause
a reaction on the atomic level, then wouldn't it also stand to reason
that less radioactive (or even stable) elements could, under an extremely
high-speed collision (approaching average light speed?) cause a reaction
on the atomic level?
When I was in elementary school, they were teaching the "new ice age" threat
as being the "latest environmental terror" caused by our CFCs. Interestingly
enough, the occurrences surrounding a volcanic explosion (and subsequent
environmentalist "THE SKY IS FALLING!!!" hype) showed a cooling of the
global temperature by approx. 1 degree centigrade, which would lend more
evidence to two options: the "new ice age" theory is real, or the entire
spectrum of global warming and ice age is nothing but a load of horseshit
evidenced by horribly unscientific proof from pseudoscientists who don't
realize that a terrestrial cycle of any kind can be more than 50 years in
length. Since the "theory" [it's rather a hypothesis since there is no way
of proving its existance until, say, 2500 ad] of the greenhouse effect is
based on a maximum of fifty years of examination, I'll stick to the latter
conclusion until there is more evidence supporting that this is different
from a standard atmospheric cycle.
Actually, if I just downloaded sendmail 10.2.1 and started showing connections
going to sendmail.com, I'd shit myself. Not so much because of the privacy
issues, but remember how many of these "hidden features" have cause some
serious problems as far as security goes? Now, taking for granted that some
software applications do check for updates via the web. So what? Well, as
evidenced by the recent DNS hijackings of www.nike.com and other moderately
high-scale websites, it would be possible (not altogether trivial, mind you,
but still highly possible) that someone could hijack the DNS of an update
page and ship it over to www.evilhost.net to run a CGI script that would
respond with "hey! you need to upgrade!" Since most people would be totally
unaware of the server being incorrect, they would grab the update, and wham!
you've just installed a trojan. Tough shit, that's what you should expect
from software in the internet world, right? I'd sure as hell hope not.
In a return to the issue at hand, yes, it's a well known fact that Word can
use URLs for objects. These can also be tinkered with to produce some nasty
results. There have been a few incidents (usually practical jokes) that do
illustrate this, but why should a standard document be connecting to the
internet for anything? Unexpected behavior can really cause havoc if someone
who likes the idea of these "e-mail viruses" and other destructive code
finds a way to do some real damage.
"Our ancient ancestors seemed to have worshipped some goddess known as
Natalie Portman. It seems they poured something called ``hot grits'' on
the idols as a libation."
Not like anything from our own ancient history could have been mistaken
like this, nooooooooooo.
I wouldn't exactly say that (: remember ZiLog? They're still going despite the "loss" on the PC market in the early 80s.
Some people value different things. It all depends on what area of the market you want.
Actually, I'd like to take issue with you on one of your points. That point
is that MS isn't tied down to hardware. While not a hardware manufacturer
per se, they are tied to the 80x86 platform pretty heavily; thusly, their
commercial success is bound not only to the marketeering of their products,
but also to the i80x86 hardware. This symbiotic relationship has maintained
their half-assed backward-compatibility for years now.
Now, say Intel designed a chip that was 120x faster than the current 1GHz
chip, but could not possibly make it run the 80x86 instruction set. They
could:
1. sit on it for a while and giving the instruction set to MS, who would be
starting all over again in terms of code, but allow MS to have the advantage
of a "head start" at a risk of taking a loss, or
2. launch a prototype, drop a listing of instructions, and proceed to take
whatever the best offer is
I'd bank on #2 being the dominant choice, as they could potentially stand
to lose money otherwise.
Don't forget, a large majority of Hollywood itself (including the corporations)
are liberal democrats.
actually, b.c. in this case isn't "before Christ" (or "before the common era"
if you prefer), but B'nai Cthulhu (Hebrew for the Cthulhu covenant, wherein
He promised, with the sign of the beached squids, that He would never again
destroy the Alpha-Centauri system with a deluge of Jell-o). Besides, everybody
knows that OOG isn't that old (:
p.s. Yes, you're right...I got them backwards because I was in-between VTs (:
They still missed the fact that UNIX was originally written by OOG_THE_CAVEMAN
in about 120,000,000 bc. Evidence of this is the primatively structured attempts
at natural language through such grunts and gutteral sounds as "grep", "awk",
and "sed". "ls" and friends, while having theoretically unpronouncable natures,
seem to stem from the language of Cthulhu himself, after He and His Spawn
filtered down from deep space in 119,999,998 bc to create the Human race as a
joke.
In regards to a previous topic, research has shown that the first operating
system was, in fact, OOG_THE_CAVEMAN; they beat the hell out of him with large,
blunt objects until he became the hardware abstraction layer between the rock
(the "processor") and the neanderthal ("user"). Thusly, the abacus was born in
119,999,999 bc.
HOLY SHIT!!! This could mean our astronauts could have an endless supply of
saline fluid for their contact lenses once they get out there! (:
One item that has been brought up before in this regard: open the engine,
sell the game. With the engine libre, they will receive not only bug fixes,
but someone with a bit of spare time could port the engine to another
architecture (thus expanding the market share from, say, only x86 to z80,
SPARC, Alpha, Mac, etc...). In this sense, the actual game (levels, graphics,
sounds, etc...) is the selling point, and not the engine which displays it.