This one being from the NSA, I have no doubt in my mind that people are going to go over this with the finest-toothed comb there ever was, simply because of paranoia and that special NSA mistique.
That's a good thing, by the way. That review alone could improve Linux security to possibly surpass that secure BSD distro (netbsd?)
Wow. That is EXACTLY what the teacher saw me do that gave me the "evil genius" reputation with the staff. Type that in the messagebox and it would just go away. Guess it was a ubiquitous remedy.
The funny thing is that the teacher didn't have the slightest idea of the kind of stuff I was _actually_ doing behind her back. I made a script that installed a copy of itself onto her machine when I turned in my assignment and deleted the original from my disk, and then sat there grabbing passwords. She never found out about that one, or any of the hilarious but purposely non-destructive pranks. No, it was "close at ease" that struck fear into the school staff.
But the teacher erroneously told the kid that a software company was promising a reward. The kid was never led to believe that the school was giving out a reward.
If a guy sends you one of those messages that says "forward this and Microsoft will send you a check for $10 for every person you send it to" and you comply, Microsoft of course does not owe you money. But is the person that sent you the chain letter liable for the money? Are you, for making the same promise to all 109 people in your address book?
Of course not - senders of that chain letter should be put to death, naturally. But they're not liable for the money.
My eigth grade year in middle school, I was in a computer class where we did stuff with Hypercard. I did the normal assignments and used the rest of the time to program stuff that was more interesting. Because I had figured out some simple ways to bypass the security, the computer lab teacher was deathly afraid of me.
Some kind of rumor got started that I was working on a disk that could be inserted into any of the school computers and would then bring the entire district network down. The first I heard of it was when I was summoned to talk to the principal (and all the administrators who had also gathered in the office specifically to discipline me). My computer priveleges were revoked for a month because they didn't want to "take chances".
Not trying to brag, just saying the test was a joke.
"But you were probably a seasoned programmer, which the test wasn't designed for," you say. That's why I said I don't consider myself a good programmer. And I don't - I'm such a newbie I would get lost if I dove into a large project. Actually, I DID dive into a large project and I AM lost.
With that in mind, I was trying to say just how easy the test was. And that was on tests. I certainly hope grades don't mean jack because my grades in those same classes were for shit.
I took that test in spring of '99. That was the first year it was based on C++. Before that, it was Pascal.
The test was easy. Like really, really easy. I don't consider myself a particularly good programmer, but I doubt I missed a single point anywhere on the test, multiple choice or essay portion (the essay portion involved writing out programs/functions longhand).
I got a 5 on every AP test I took in high school (they're scored on a scale of 1 to 5) except economics, but the others were pretty challenging (especially physics C). Not comp sci. That one was so easy I could have aced it at the beginning of the year given an hour to prepare.
I wonder if the new reincarnation will add a little rigor.
Well when you use wording like "accident" or "monkey mutants", your opinion of evolution clearly shows through. I could also decide that the incredible odds against our showing up are miracle enough, and that I wouldn't want to squander such a rare opportunity by leading the next Nazi revolution or destroying the environment.
You seem to have the naive view that morality can only exist when based upon religion. Moreover, your particular religion.
Lest you object to the idea of athiestic morality, here's a site that should give you plenty to chew on.
I like BeOS and all, but if you want this NOW, you could check out the Audio ReQuest.
It's a home audio component with a big hard drive full of mp3s. It has an RJ45 in the back for your home ethernet. It transfers files to/from any computer on the same network with their branded software, and their next software update will make it do SMB.
It had audio quality problems, but an update on the soundcard made the quality much, much better. I hope they add digital outs in a future model.
It connects to a tv and has a remote to let you navigate your collection and sort by artist/album/whatever.
It has a CD drive that rips and encodes mp3, and I believe it also looks up titles from CDDB if on the internet. It also encodes from any input source you want to plug into the back of it. My dad is mp3ifying his LP collection this way.
It also has nifty visual effects it does on the tv while it plays, if you like.
My two wishlist items: ogg vorbis support (hopefully with multichannel) and 802.11b wireless networking.
you're older than you've ever been and now you're even older,
and now you're even older,
and now you're even older,
you're older than you've ever been and now you're even older,
and now you're older still...
TIME (downbeat)...
is marching on, (downbeat)...
and TIME (downbeat)...
...
...
...
is still marching ON!!
Beautifully simple, but made me laugh. I played that song at my dad's last birthday. Nobody present had heard it before. It was great.
I would think the new audio format coming out (super cd audio? or something like that?) would satisfy even the most demanding analog purist, provided the mastering is done right. I believe it uses something like 24 or 32 bit resolution with 196khz or something ridiculous like that. And, of course, surround sound.
Anyone who can hear the loss in quality with a signal like that must be the the human auditory equivalent of a pentachromat, or something.
I think the excite people (second to last on the list) are pretty much in line with you and most slashdot people, probably. They are not the whiny asshole execs that ellison and billg are. They're smart tech guys from stanford that built a successful website and did a big part of the programming themselves. They just happen to like playing video games on a 7 foot screen with surround sound. who could argue?
Well, you never know when a technology could spawn something truely groundbreaking and useful.
Say, for instance, that the subwoofer company, having never had any requests before for something that would put out that much bass, does some research in the area of amplifier and woofer technology. Perhaps something they learn about the huge magnetic field which would drive such a beast turns out to have an application in medicine? Sure, it sounds stupid, but often this kind of unexpected cross-field discovery is how breakthroughs happen.
Granted, I abhor the materialistic culture we have today - especially its impact on the environment. But there is a positive side of it. With a culture that spends so much, it keeps the economy nice and healthy. What matters is that money is _moving_ around everywhere. Every time money changes hands, extra value is created for both parties (ok, not _every_ time). This net increase in wealth does trickle elsewhere a ceratin amount.
If we didn't have that kind of culture, I think the poor end of the spectrum would be far greater in number, and most would be worse off than they are now.
PEOPLE THAT USE CELL PHONES WHILE DRIVING SHOULD BURN IN HELL!!!
Seriously, I like the idea of converting all the phone numbers to IP addresses. If this can't be done, just do it for the new digital wireless phones. Those will just become more and more common.
You could dial a person by punching the IP of their phone, or have a way of fingering the phone company they're with. I suppose it would be good to use speed dial on these things, so that people you call often still use only one number.
Or here's another idea - stretch ICQ to include phones! It's practically designed for it!
I dunno, this obviously would take some thought and I'm just spouting ideas that surface.
I think the phone companys should go straight to IPv6 and give every phone an IP address. Any kind of plan involving a single identifier to reach a person anywhere would be accomplished through creative use of DNS, and could involve actual names and words. The accounts themselves might possibly use a email-like name@provider kind of system. But I dream.
Language is, and always has been, a living, breathing thing.
Take Latin - it used to be THE language for all things philosophical, scientific, or otherwise academic. If you were a preist, monk, doctor, or other learned member of society, you knew latin.
But it's spoken and everyday use waned until the language died - there are no more "latin speaking" parts of the world. Now, you learn it if you want to a) Learn roots of various words, b) Study languages in general, because language itself is your interest, or c) read through academic/religious material published hundreds of years ago.
But is there a group of people that are upset that latin died? Not that I'm aware of. People speak what they speak. If the internet pushes the world into a slang mixture of English (with usa, brit and aussie influence), spanish, and japanese, rife with L337 VVR171NG that will be what people will be used to and the english of today will look to them like the King James Bible (which sounded normal at the time it was translated).
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This one being from the NSA, I have no doubt in my mind that people are going to go over this with the finest-toothed comb there ever was, simply because of paranoia and that special NSA mistique.
That's a good thing, by the way. That review alone could improve Linux security to possibly surpass that secure BSD distro (netbsd?)
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Wow. That is EXACTLY what the teacher saw me do that gave me the "evil genius" reputation with the staff. Type that in the messagebox and it would just go away. Guess it was a ubiquitous remedy.
The funny thing is that the teacher didn't have the slightest idea of the kind of stuff I was _actually_ doing behind her back. I made a script that installed a copy of itself onto her machine when I turned in my assignment and deleted the original from my disk, and then sat there grabbing passwords. She never found out about that one, or any of the hilarious but purposely non-destructive pranks. No, it was "close at ease" that struck fear into the school staff.
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But the teacher erroneously told the kid that a software company was promising a reward. The kid was never led to believe that the school was giving out a reward.
If a guy sends you one of those messages that says "forward this and Microsoft will send you a check for $10 for every person you send it to" and you comply, Microsoft of course does not owe you money. But is the person that sent you the chain letter liable for the money? Are you, for making the same promise to all 109 people in your address book?
Of course not - senders of that chain letter should be put to death, naturally. But they're not liable for the money.
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Nobody ever drops out of marketing because it's "too hard".
Also, although the liberal arts stigma is usually true, I know some very intelligent people in liberal arts. It depends on where your interests are.
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My eigth grade year in middle school, I was in a computer class where we did stuff with Hypercard. I did the normal assignments and used the rest of the time to program stuff that was more interesting. Because I had figured out some simple ways to bypass the security, the computer lab teacher was deathly afraid of me.
Some kind of rumor got started that I was working on a disk that could be inserted into any of the school computers and would then bring the entire district network down. The first I heard of it was when I was summoned to talk to the principal (and all the administrators who had also gathered in the office specifically to discipline me). My computer priveleges were revoked for a month because they didn't want to "take chances".
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maybe he is due the money from the school system.
??????
Are you nuts? The school system does NOT owe the kid money any more than the mysterious "security company" does. So sad.
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I don't want to sound like one of those "people who laughed" at a genius of the time, but...
No matter how good an idea it is, why is it even worth a try when the USA still has not gone metric? Do that first.
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But don't people tend to look at obstacles they wish to avoid? Is this just a habit they would have to unlearn quick?
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Not trying to brag, just saying the test was a joke.
"But you were probably a seasoned programmer, which the test wasn't designed for," you say. That's why I said I don't consider myself a good programmer. And I don't - I'm such a newbie I would get lost if I dove into a large project. Actually, I DID dive into a large project and I AM lost.
With that in mind, I was trying to say just how easy the test was. And that was on tests. I certainly hope grades don't mean jack because my grades in those same classes were for shit.
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I took that test in spring of '99. That was the first year it was based on C++. Before that, it was Pascal.
The test was easy. Like really, really easy. I don't consider myself a particularly good programmer, but I doubt I missed a single point anywhere on the test, multiple choice or essay portion (the essay portion involved writing out programs/functions longhand).
I got a 5 on every AP test I took in high school (they're scored on a scale of 1 to 5) except economics, but the others were pretty challenging (especially physics C). Not comp sci. That one was so easy I could have aced it at the beginning of the year given an hour to prepare.
I wonder if the new reincarnation will add a little rigor.
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Well when you use wording like "accident" or "monkey mutants", your opinion of evolution clearly shows through. I could also decide that the incredible odds against our showing up are miracle enough, and that I wouldn't want to squander such a rare opportunity by leading the next Nazi revolution or destroying the environment.
You seem to have the naive view that morality can only exist when based upon religion. Moreover, your particular religion.
Lest you object to the idea of athiestic morality, here's a site that should give you plenty to chew on.
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forgot to mention - it runs QNX
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I like BeOS and all, but if you want this NOW, you could check out the Audio ReQuest.
It's a home audio component with a big hard drive full of mp3s. It has an RJ45 in the back for your home ethernet. It transfers files to/from any computer on the same network with their branded software, and their next software update will make it do SMB.
It had audio quality problems, but an update on the soundcard made the quality much, much better. I hope they add digital outs in a future model.
It connects to a tv and has a remote to let you navigate your collection and sort by artist/album/whatever.
It has a CD drive that rips and encodes mp3, and I believe it also looks up titles from CDDB if on the internet. It also encodes from any input source you want to plug into the back of it. My dad is mp3ifying his LP collection this way.
It also has nifty visual effects it does on the tv while it plays, if you like.
My two wishlist items: ogg vorbis support (hopefully with multichannel) and 802.11b wireless networking.
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You sir have just sold me a HipZip. I've been waiting for that, and I'm going to buy one now.
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This song is so cool:
you're older than you've ever been and now you're even older,
and now you're even older,
and now you're even older,
you're older than you've ever been and now you're even older,
and now you're older still...
TIME (downbeat)...
is marching on, (downbeat)...
and TIME (downbeat)...
...
...
...
is still marching ON!!
Beautifully simple, but made me laugh. I played that song at my dad's last birthday. Nobody present had heard it before. It was great.
That's all I wanted to say.
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I would think the new audio format coming out (super cd audio? or something like that?) would satisfy even the most demanding analog purist, provided the mastering is done right. I believe it uses something like 24 or 32 bit resolution with 196khz or something ridiculous like that. And, of course, surround sound.
Anyone who can hear the loss in quality with a signal like that must be the the human auditory equivalent of a pentachromat, or something.
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I think the excite people (second to last on the list) are pretty much in line with you and most slashdot people, probably. They are not the whiny asshole execs that ellison and billg are. They're smart tech guys from stanford that built a successful website and did a big part of the programming themselves. They just happen to like playing video games on a 7 foot screen with surround sound. who could argue?
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Well, you never know when a technology could spawn something truely groundbreaking and useful.
Say, for instance, that the subwoofer company, having never had any requests before for something that would put out that much bass, does some research in the area of amplifier and woofer technology. Perhaps something they learn about the huge magnetic field which would drive such a beast turns out to have an application in medicine? Sure, it sounds stupid, but often this kind of unexpected cross-field discovery is how breakthroughs happen.
Granted, I abhor the materialistic culture we have today - especially its impact on the environment. But there is a positive side of it. With a culture that spends so much, it keeps the economy nice and healthy. What matters is that money is _moving_ around everywhere. Every time money changes hands, extra value is created for both parties (ok, not _every_ time). This net increase in wealth does trickle elsewhere a ceratin amount.
If we didn't have that kind of culture, I think the poor end of the spectrum would be far greater in number, and most would be worse off than they are now.
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PEOPLE THAT USE CELL PHONES WHILE DRIVING SHOULD BURN IN HELL!!!
Seriously, I like the idea of converting all the phone numbers to IP addresses. If this can't be done, just do it for the new digital wireless phones. Those will just become more and more common.
You could dial a person by punching the IP of their phone, or have a way of fingering the phone company they're with. I suppose it would be good to use speed dial on these things, so that people you call often still use only one number.
Or here's another idea - stretch ICQ to include phones! It's practically designed for it!
I dunno, this obviously would take some thought and I'm just spouting ideas that surface.
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yeah... ok, what about _commercial_ hardware and software?
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If a year isn't brief, what would be short enough? A month? Does anybody who is halfway serious act as a VC for a month?
Also, I thought you were joking when you said you submitted it twice. Are you saying you really did submit it twice? You're freakin me out.
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There's an ad on just about every web page, including every page loaded from Slashdot. This just puts another one just a little outside the page.
It's like alladvantage, only it's a flat $50 up front, in a manner of speaking.
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Denver has had this for over a year. Big deal.
I think the phone companys should go straight to IPv6 and give every phone an IP address. Any kind of plan involving a single identifier to reach a person anywhere would be accomplished through creative use of DNS, and could involve actual names and words. The accounts themselves might possibly use a email-like name@provider kind of system. But I dream.
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Language is, and always has been, a living, breathing thing.
Take Latin - it used to be THE language for all things philosophical, scientific, or otherwise academic. If you were a preist, monk, doctor, or other learned member of society, you knew latin.
But it's spoken and everyday use waned until the language died - there are no more "latin speaking" parts of the world. Now, you learn it if you want to a) Learn roots of various words, b) Study languages in general, because language itself is your interest, or c) read through academic/religious material published hundreds of years ago.
But is there a group of people that are upset that latin died? Not that I'm aware of. People speak what they speak. If the internet pushes the world into a slang mixture of English (with usa, brit and aussie influence), spanish, and japanese, rife with L337 VVR171NG that will be what people will be used to and the english of today will look to them like the King James Bible (which sounded normal at the time it was translated).
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well there's yer anti-industry player :-)
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