"Cops" is one of those shows that makes America look like it's full of obstinate right-wing hicks that are looking for someone to punish and humiliate to make them feel better about themselves.
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Why find him guilty? Just throw him in his own jail pending trial.
For Great Justice!
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Sounds like a great form of deterrant to me.
Tough words. I wonder if you'd be so tough if someone unfairly accused you of a heinous crime such as rape or paedophilia and your booking is broadcast.
Like Amazon? Like Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and E*Trade? Like Autozone and DaimlerChrysler? Like the 60% of all websites, which are powered by open source software? (admittedly, some Apache servers run on commercial unix, freebsd, and some even run on windows).
Solaris is still a more stable platform that responds to load very well.
If I was asked what OS to run Oracle on in a large enterprise where rock-solid stability under load is the number one criteria, such as in a financial institution, I'd feel safer with Solaris but wouldn't see Linux as a particularly dangerous choice.
Solaris has had superior (in terms of stability) LVM and VM for instance. This stuff can be important in certain situations.
I have been very impressed thus far with Linux 2.6: it's the most stable and "polished" Linux Kernel series I've experienced. I haven't thrown it in production yet but plan to roll it out on a couple of the least business-critical machines in a few months time.
I think it's inevitable that Linux will surpass Solaris (and all other Operating Systems, for that matter) in almost every way but it's not there yet: Linux has evolved at a fast pace and often features have been merged that didn't turn out well at all, requiring band-aids, re-writes, bug fixes, etc. and causing unknown bugs, regressions and unmaintained code. This seems to have slowed down a lot though. Maybe it's just me but some of the Kernel devs seem a lot more quality-focused and critical now. Praise Andrew Morton.
If over the next year 2.6 keeps impressing me with it's stability, performance and responsiveness under load when I place it in production we could have a winner. Big time.
It's not 'terrible', but would have been a whole lot easier if you could say, strap the light onto your gun or similar and shoot at the same time.
Haha. That irked me a little about the game too: it's the year 2138 or something and we don't have lights on our guns and/or suits? Can't I hold my flashlight in one hand and handgun in the other?
For me, it added a kind of horror atmosphere to the game though. Kill monster. Get out the flashlight. Look behind you and in dark corners... Ahh monster! Get the gun out! Watching someone play it for the first time can be amusing: they genuinely seem shitscared. I think that's cool.
Every creature in the game can be killed by shooting with the shot-gun, running back behind the last corner, and then waiting for it to wander around and shooting it again.
I know what you mean but don't agree 100%
Ammo is fairly scarce. It helps to be an explorer. I tended to treasure my shotgun shells and only blast those worthy of them. Zombies weren't worth a shotgun blast: they can be killed easily with the handgun.
I don't believe you've played it. I'd ignore you if you weren't modded +5.
Doom 3 is not just killing monsters. There are a lot of little puzzles to keep you interested. It's more of an evolution than a revolution but it's done well. An example: often you need to click on computers and go through the menus to find something you need to access. You need to collect PDAs and read the emails and audio logs to get clues on what to do. You need to listen to your radio to get your orders.
Yes it's the same fundamental stuff as always but done with a lot more detail. The game is more organic than it's predecessors.
I'll certainly be buying it. It's an impressive piece of work.
You forgot about Innocent Sal Wise- you can tell the difference between normal Sal Wise and Innocent Sal Wise because the latter always writes in italics.
*poofy frodo voice* I want to hear more stories about Sal the Brave!
What is the point of paying this much for such an mundane object like a universal remote.
Hey man, some of us are excited. I thought of this idea about 15 years ago while investigating universal remotes and am happy that someone has done it.
It's not about controlling more stuff, it's about having less remotes and one standard method for operating all devices.
Or are you advocating the "Choice is Good" thing?
Just one more thing so we can sit on our big fat nerd ass.
Do we all share the same big ass? No wonder we have a reputation for being fat.
It's a kernel that doesn't even have proper source control
Most developers (including Linus) use BitKeeper but that's another flamewar;)
Others (who don't want/need BK) use CVS or just send patches to the mailing list where they're disseminated. If the patch is good it may get merged into someone's tree.
I have nothing against FreeBSD. You like it: more power to you. I hope that you actually know the code somewhat rather than just relay messages regarding code management that somehow makes everything great. Revision control is a tool, not a panacea.
You're right but have excluded the important cost factor.
When presenting a product to a business, the business isn't primarily interested in the technology but rather:
1. What does this thing provide? 2. How much does it cost?
As geeks we often get a caught up in the technology, probably due to it being where our interests lie and is the part of the operation we perform.
The decision-makers in the business world concentrate on operating costs, revenue and opportunities. Translating the product into something from that perspective will allow you to communicate with them effectively.
Netscape was a fine browser until MS started messing with the company. Real may be shitty, nut at least they are providing some badly needed competition in the streaming media area.
Netscape was a POS. I'm glad that it copped the competition. It was nasty stuff that MS did, sure but this is big boy games. If you're not up for it go sell ice-creams.
Real was - and still is - a _fantastic_ streaming media format, vastly superior to Windows Media WM9. WM9 has rolled many of Real's features into it but I haven't tested it extensively yet.
It's a similar situation to the OpenGL/DirectX thing.
But you're on the right side of the fence:) Microsoft ruthlessly embraces and extends every single technology and protocol they can, incorporating half-assed versions of their competitors features in an apparent "TODO list" fashion and making it incompatible with all but their own products.
The solution is for people to plan to gradually move away from MS Technologies. With certain deployments I can imagine that would be a challenging job, sometimes not worth the ROI. Ahh well. See what you can do, eh?
I find it Ironic that on Slashdot that it is considered good news that Microsoft has problems fixing security on peoples system.
Hmm? Who said that it was good news? It's just geek news.
Of course it's also a great opportunity to say lame geeky anti-ms jokes. Geeks tend to do that. We also give lame geeky jabs to unix, linux, apple, emacs, lotr, star wars, games, natalie portman... you get the idea.
I don't see anyone saying "This is good news! Time for us to capitalise on the bad situation and get more Linux into businesses!" but even if someone did, that would be just one dude...
I'm a little tired of these "Isn't it funny how everyone on Slashdot is biased?" posts. They seem to come up for *every* MS story, irrespective of what the other posts actually say.
I ran a sniffer on the BBC Microcomputer network in grade 6 or 7 iirc. I had little idea what I was doing but I wanted "staff" privs so I could play the games (Rocket Raid was an awesome game!). When I - showing off like a little prick - told a teacher his password, he gave me a look like he was going to punch me in the face. =) I'll never forget it.
At uni a friend of mine ran some dodgy novell-cracking program that gives the current account admin privileges. To avoid identification he ran it on the student guest account. We knew there was a big problem when students all over the labs started talking about heaps of new files that they hadn't seen before. Some dudes even thought that *they* had hacked the system by simply typing "dir".
Somehow someone accidently installed a virus on the network. It may have been a trojan built into the rootkit or an infection on one of the games our "privileged" group of friends had uploaded. We spent a good couple of hours tracking it down and stomping it. It's not a sport but boy were we sweating...
We wanted to have a bit of fun (well my mate did.. I wasn't particularly impressed by the whole exercise: I understood back then that _anyone_ can run a rootkit) but never meant to do any damage. So that's a bit of a cautionary tale for you young roister-doisters: if you hack a network you might find that you unintentionally damage it.
Ever since then I've been protecting networks. Hacking/cracking is brain-dead easy in most situations, especially if you're on a local LAN where policies are a lot more lax and many insecure/plain-text services are running (telnetd, anyone?). University LANs are known to be insecure: there's a certain amount of trust given to the students that they don't hack anything.
What were these two plonkers trying to prove? The bleedingly obvious?
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I couldn't agree more.
"Cops" is one of those shows that makes America look like it's full of obstinate right-wing hicks that are looking for someone to punish and humiliate to make them feel better about themselves.
Cheers
Stor
Why find him guilty? Just throw him in his own jail pending trial.
For Great Justice!
Cheers
Stor
Sounds like a great form of deterrant to me.
Tough words. I wonder if you'd be so tough if someone unfairly accused you of a heinous crime such as rape or paedophilia and your booking is broadcast.
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Like Amazon?
Like Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and E*Trade?
Like Autozone and DaimlerChrysler?
Like the 60% of all websites, which are powered by open source software? (admittedly, some Apache servers run on commercial unix, freebsd, and some even run on windows).
Dude! You forgot google! =)
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I think it's on the internet...
If you get there, let me know. I'll be here on Slashdot. Thanks man.
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Hey, check it out dude:
Gentoo fan page
=)
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Solaris is still a more stable platform that responds to load very well.
If I was asked what OS to run Oracle on in a large enterprise where rock-solid stability under load is the number one criteria, such as in a financial institution, I'd feel safer with Solaris but wouldn't see Linux as a particularly dangerous choice.
Solaris has had superior (in terms of stability) LVM and VM for instance. This stuff can be important in certain situations.
I have been very impressed thus far with Linux 2.6: it's the most stable and "polished" Linux Kernel series I've experienced. I haven't thrown it in production yet but plan to roll it out on a couple of the least business-critical machines in a few months time.
I think it's inevitable that Linux will surpass Solaris (and all other Operating Systems, for that matter) in almost every way but it's not there yet: Linux has evolved at a fast pace and often features have been merged that didn't turn out well at all, requiring band-aids, re-writes, bug fixes, etc. and causing unknown bugs, regressions and unmaintained code. This seems to have slowed down a lot though. Maybe it's just me but some of the Kernel devs seem a lot more quality-focused and critical now. Praise Andrew Morton.
If over the next year 2.6 keeps impressing me with it's stability, performance and responsiveness under load when I place it in production we could have a winner. Big time.
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It's not 'terrible', but would have been a whole lot easier if you could say, strap the light onto your gun or similar and shoot at the same time.
Haha. That irked me a little about the game too: it's the year 2138 or something and we don't have lights on our guns and/or suits? Can't I hold my flashlight in one hand and handgun in the other?
For me, it added a kind of horror atmosphere to the game though. Kill monster. Get out the flashlight. Look behind you and in dark corners... Ahh monster! Get the gun out! Watching someone play it for the first time can be amusing: they genuinely seem shitscared. I think that's cool.
Every creature in the game can be killed by shooting with the shot-gun, running back behind the last corner, and then waiting for it to wander around and shooting it again.
I know what you mean but don't agree 100%
Ammo is fairly scarce. It helps to be an explorer. I tended to treasure my shotgun shells and only blast those worthy of them. Zombies weren't worth a shotgun blast: they can be killed easily with the handgun.
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Stor
I don't have a problem with the lights going out except that the flash-light is so fiddly to use
You realise the "F" key toggles between your flashlight and the last used weapon right?
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I don't believe you've played it. I'd ignore you if you weren't modded +5.
Doom 3 is not just killing monsters. There are a lot of little puzzles to keep you interested. It's more of an evolution than a revolution but it's done well. An example: often you need to click on computers and go through the menus to find something you need to access. You need to collect PDAs and read the emails and audio logs to get clues on what to do. You need to listen to your radio to get your orders.
Yes it's the same fundamental stuff as always but done with a lot more detail. The game is more organic than it's predecessors.
I'll certainly be buying it. It's an impressive piece of work.
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Stor
as in "I didn't punch you in the face. I was punching the air and your face got in the way"
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Nah, they only become litigious bastards when they actually start litigating.
*Maxwell Smart Voice*
Would you believe *potential* litigious bastards?
*silence*
An army of lawyers?
*silence*
Ten thousand monkeys on ten thousand typewriters?
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You forgot about Innocent Sal Wise- you can tell the difference between normal Sal Wise and Innocent Sal Wise because the latter always writes in italics.
*poofy frodo voice* I want to hear more stories about Sal the Brave!
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Stor
What is the point of paying this much for such an mundane object like a universal remote.
Hey man, some of us are excited. I thought of this idea about 15 years ago while investigating universal remotes and am happy that someone has done it.
It's not about controlling more stuff, it's about having less remotes and one standard method for operating all devices.
Or are you advocating the "Choice is Good" thing?
Just one more thing so we can sit on our big fat nerd ass.
Do we all share the same big ass? No wonder we have a reputation for being fat.
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Stor
If the Sith set up hidden cameras around Armadala's Palace I'm so there. ;)
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It's a kernel that doesn't even have proper source control
;)
Most developers (including Linus) use BitKeeper but that's another flamewar
Others (who don't want/need BK) use CVS or just send patches to the mailing list where they're disseminated. If the patch is good it may get merged into someone's tree.
I have nothing against FreeBSD. You like it: more power to you. I hope that you actually know the code somewhat rather than just relay messages regarding code management that somehow makes everything great. Revision control is a tool, not a panacea.
Cheers
Stor
Don't open the fridge...
"XooooOOORRGG"
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Stor
You're right but have excluded the important cost factor.
When presenting a product to a business, the business isn't primarily interested in the technology but rather:
1. What does this thing provide?
2. How much does it cost?
As geeks we often get a caught up in the technology, probably due to it being where our interests lie and is the part of the operation we perform.
The decision-makers in the business world concentrate on operating costs, revenue and opportunities. Translating the product into something from that perspective will allow you to communicate with them effectively.
Cheers
Stor
Netscape was a fine browser until MS started messing with the company. Real may be shitty, nut at least they are providing some badly needed competition in the streaming media area.
:) Microsoft ruthlessly embraces and extends every single technology and protocol they can, incorporating half-assed versions of their competitors features in an apparent "TODO list" fashion and making it incompatible with all but their own products.
Netscape was a POS. I'm glad that it copped the competition. It was nasty stuff that MS did, sure but this is big boy games. If you're not up for it go sell ice-creams.
Real was - and still is - a _fantastic_ streaming media format, vastly superior to Windows Media WM9. WM9 has rolled many of Real's features into it but I haven't tested it extensively yet.
It's a similar situation to the OpenGL/DirectX thing.
But you're on the right side of the fence
The solution is for people to plan to gradually move away from MS Technologies. With certain deployments I can imagine that would be a challenging job, sometimes not worth the ROI. Ahh well. See what you can do, eh?
Cheers
Stor
I find it Ironic that on Slashdot that it is considered good news that Microsoft has problems fixing security on peoples system.
Hmm? Who said that it was good news? It's just geek news.
Of course it's also a great opportunity to say lame geeky anti-ms jokes. Geeks tend to do that. We also give lame geeky jabs to unix, linux, apple, emacs, lotr, star wars, games, natalie portman... you get the idea.
I don't see anyone saying "This is good news! Time for us to capitalise on the bad situation and get more Linux into businesses!" but even if someone did, that would be just one dude...
I'm a little tired of these "Isn't it funny how everyone on Slashdot is biased?" posts. They seem to come up for *every* MS story, irrespective of what the other posts actually say.
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Stor
So, what do you do when evil is fighting evil?
You break out the popcorn and caffeinated beverages.
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Oooh! Can we drop one of them on a spammer?
Multiple ones on a spammer?
Multiples ones on multiple spammers?
Man you've got me all excited.
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Stor
Heh.
I ran a sniffer on the BBC Microcomputer network in grade 6 or 7 iirc. I had little idea what I was doing but I wanted "staff" privs so I could play the games (Rocket Raid was an awesome game!). When I - showing off like a little prick - told a teacher his password, he gave me a look like he was going to punch me in the face. =) I'll never forget it.
At uni a friend of mine ran some dodgy novell-cracking program that gives the current account admin privileges. To avoid identification he ran it on the student guest account. We knew there was a big problem when students all over the labs started talking about heaps of new files that they hadn't seen before. Some dudes even thought that *they* had hacked the system by simply typing "dir".
Somehow someone accidently installed a virus on the network. It may have been a trojan built into the rootkit or an infection on one of the games our "privileged" group of friends had uploaded. We spent a good couple of hours tracking it down and stomping it. It's not a sport but boy were we sweating...
We wanted to have a bit of fun (well my mate did.. I wasn't particularly impressed by the whole exercise: I understood back then that _anyone_ can run a rootkit) but never meant to do any damage. So that's a bit of a cautionary tale for you young roister-doisters: if you hack a network you might find that you unintentionally damage it.
Ever since then I've been protecting networks. Hacking/cracking is brain-dead easy in most situations, especially if you're on a local LAN where policies are a lot more lax and many insecure/plain-text services are running (telnetd, anyone?). University LANs are known to be insecure: there's a certain amount of trust given to the students that they don't hack anything.
What were these two plonkers trying to prove? The bleedingly obvious?
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Stor
And you forgot "Halo: Beach Volleyball"
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What quailifies as circumvention these days?
Holding down the "shift" key.
Sad, isn't it?
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